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Former Miami Dolphins WR Oronde Gadsden believes Dolphins backup QB Kyle McCord can lead the Dolphins to a win Sunday in Indianapolis
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00:00Aranda Gadsden, he was a Dolphins receiver for many seasons.
00:03Still a Dolphins fan.
00:06Still a Dolphins supporter.
00:08His son Aranda II is a tight end for the Chargers.
00:13So the teams Aranda roots for are a combined 1 and 15.
00:20It has not been, I would imagine, a fun football season for Aranda Gadsden.
00:25He is on the Toyota of Hollywood hotline.
00:28Have you had any fun this season, OG?
00:32Absolutely not.
00:33Absolutely not.
00:34I'm currently in football rehab.
00:36I'm in football rehab right now.
00:38Has there been a moment of fun during your football season this entire season?
00:45Not one.
00:46Not one.
00:47Not one.
00:48Not one.
00:49Not one.
00:49Not one.
00:50I can't think of one.
00:51I can't think of one that I've had that's been fun.
00:55And listen, even worse, Winston-Salem State, my college is 1 and 9.
01:01That's terrible.
01:04Hey, do you know anything about this Kyle McCord, the new Dolphins quarterback?
01:09Because he was the Syracuse quarterback.
01:11Absolutely.
01:12Kyle McCord is my guy.
01:14That's my guy.
01:15He was there when OG II was there?
01:17Yeah.
01:18When we beat Miami, he was the quarterback.
01:19So, is he anything?
01:22Like, is he good?
01:23Yeah.
01:24I mean, as long as they got a system in place, he's a system quarterback.
01:28I mean, can he improvise and make things happen?
01:30He can.
01:31But he runs the plays.
01:34He knows the reads.
01:36He can make the throws.
01:37So, I'm confident that he's going to propel the team to victory on Sunday.
01:45And I've got all the confidence in the world in Kyle McCord.
01:48So, when OG said he can make the throws, can he make a check down?
01:51Or can he put it out there 55 if he needs to?
01:55I think he can do both.
01:5855, you know, but I think he can do it.
02:02He did it in Syracuse.
02:04You know, listen, we were inside, so that might not count as much.
02:07But I think he can make all the throws he needs to make.
02:14Checkdowns are great.
02:15But he wants to push the ball down the field.
02:17Remember, he's a run-and-shoot guy.
02:19He's from up there in New Jersey, Philly area.
02:24I think he played at St. Joe's, I think.
02:26And, you know, he was at Ohio State.
02:29I think, you know, before he came to Syracuse, he lost like one game, right?
02:32And so, I'm excited to see him.
02:36I know his parents real well, and they're excited.
02:38And so, nothing but good things about Kyle McCord, and I'm excited to see him start.
02:42Wow.
02:43Are you being, like, at first I thought you were doing, like, the Crowder thing when Joey
02:47Harrington took over as the Dolphins quarterback, and he was like, oh, we've got all the confidence
02:52in the world in this guy.
02:54No, no, no.
02:56We won 13 games with Kyle McCord that year.
02:59Like, I think we, you know, I think he can do it.
03:02You think he can hold his own in an NFL game?
03:04Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely, absolutely.
03:07Just like anybody else.
03:09If you don't have the blocking, you don't have the blocking.
03:10Like, he, you know, he's not, you know, he's not Lamar Jackson.
03:15You know what I mean?
03:16He's not going to make it happen like that.
03:19But you block him up and ask him to run your offense, he can run the offense.
03:22You know, and I got full confidence in him.
03:25Nothing but confidence in Kyle McCord.
03:28You know, I think they'll do great.
03:29As long as he, you know, as long as Douglas and everybody's, you know, out catching the ball
03:33and Gordon's running the ball and the defense is playing well, I got all the confidence
03:38in Kyle McCord can pull off the victory.
03:39So, yeah, so I was going to ask you, OG, you think the Dolphins have a legitimate chance
03:43to win this week?
03:44Then, I mean, Indy's not very good.
03:46We expected them to go through a fire sale.
03:48They didn't, but they're definitely not in a position where they're going to win a lot
03:53of games.
03:53Do you think Kyle McCord could step in there and win a football game this Sunday?
03:57Absolutely.
03:58The way the defense has been playing and, you know, the wide receiver room took a hit.
04:02And so, obviously, you got to stack the blocks, obviously, against Johnson Taylor.
04:06But if the defense play the way they've been playing, I mean, how many points do they give
04:10up to Detroit?
04:11I mean, Detroit can score points, but they gave up 16, 19 points.
04:16Like, you know, if they do the same thing against India, I think Kyle McCord definitely
04:21can pull off the win.
04:23Now, OG, speaking on that, because we ain't talked to you in a couple weeks, and now watching
04:26a 1-17, it's not much to brag about.
04:29But people ask me about Halfley.
04:30Well, I kind of tell them, bro, he, like you're saying, Detroit, that was a single-digit,
04:34you know, single-digit game for a long time.
04:37Winning the half, I think, 9-6, whatever.
04:39They hung with KC, single, you know, one touchdown game in the fourth.
04:42Right.
04:42They've hung with some teams.
04:44I'm impressed by how he is getting a team with a lot of less guns, a team with some
04:52peace shooters to play with some of the big boys.
04:54Am I off on that?
04:55Am I trying to just look at the glass half full?
04:58Well, you always look at the glass half full.
05:00So, I think that's what it's about.
05:04I think he's a defensive guy, right?
05:07And so, he's played, we played him, Syracuse played Boston College when he was a coach,
05:12barely beat them there.
05:15And so, he goes to Green Bay and does an outstanding job coaching the defense at Green Bay, right?
05:22Got them to play off wins.
05:24And so, him coming, you know, is calling Carter's defense.
05:26So, if he can hold the teams down, which he's been doing, you just need to get some points.
05:31You know, just need to get some backup for some offense.
05:34I think that's what he's been doing.
05:36So, you know, you got to give him the benefit of the doubt.
05:40He's doing his part.
05:42You know, he has to trust whoever's calling the offense, can call the offense pretty good.
05:48And so, I think if you get some points, he can win some games.
05:52You know, listen, I played on a team that won a bunch of games 12-6.
05:56So, 12-9 and 19-15.
06:00So, I got confidence they can do it.
06:03But, you know, hey, you know, just like having confidence, like if you talk to my son right now,
06:11he'll tell you if we win nine games in a row, we still can get to the playoffs.
06:17Last week, he was like, if we can win 10, we can go 10-7, and then we can go
06:23to the playoffs.
06:23So, you know, I guess it could happen.
06:27You're saying there's a chance.
06:29I'm not looking to get you in trouble at all, but you have to be surprised.
06:36Like, I don't think a lot of people are surprised that the Dolphins are 1-7.
06:39You have to be beyond surprised that that Chargers team is winless.
06:46With beyond, beyond that, with beyond that, you know what I mean?
06:50Like, what's the planet we don't have anymore?
06:53Like, I don't want that planet.
06:54Like, what planet did we get rid of?
06:58Didn't we get rid of a planet?
06:59Yeah, I think there's been debate about whether Pluto's actually a planet or not.
07:04Like, yeah, so that's where I am.
07:06That's where they're having Mike McDaniel call the offense, right?
07:10This week, this week, this week, he called the players from Pluto.
07:15And guess what?
07:16They don't be the same players he called when he was on the sideline with the joggers.
07:20There's not going to be any different.
07:21You know, like, it's just crazy.
07:25Like, we haven't – we've got one pass in the year over 25 yards.
07:33It's just bananas to me.
07:35Like, bananas.
07:36Like, it's so crazy.
07:37Like, we've gone full wide 4% at a time this year.
07:43Like, I can't believe that he's sleeping good at night saying, yeah, you know what I mean?
07:48Can't wait to get to work tomorrow.
07:50You know what I'm saying?
07:51Like, but it's the same thing I've been saying for the last four years here.
07:55There is no plan B.
07:56He's calling the same players.
07:58He's like, it's going to work.
07:59First player of the Seattle game, he run two tights, a fullback,
08:04and only two people in the route is O'Rondé and Trey Harris.
08:07Pick.
08:08Like, I don't get it.
08:11Like, O'Rondé run a deep out, and Trey Harris run a dope route.
08:15They got six DBs back then.
08:16Like, I don't understand it.
08:20But, you know, I guess Jim Harbaugh is like, it's going to break sooner or later.
08:26I think, I really do think it's self-preservation at this point.
08:30He's just going to win a game and say, see, we just stay patient.
08:34This is how the offense should be.
08:35This is how we should win a game.
08:37Yeah, I just think that's the only reason Jim Harbaugh is.
08:41I think at this point he just can't be wrong, you know?
08:45And, OJ, if you watch it, because I can't watch offense the way you do,
08:49but I watch defense.
08:50And, like, it's kind of funny you said it where I look and be like,
08:53oh, you still just going to rush four over and over again, huh?
08:55That's not going to work.
08:57You're watching week to week, and you're watching the formation and saying,
09:00okay, this is the same crap you did last week, huh, Coach?
09:05Right, right.
09:06Like, when you bring in two tight ends and a fullback, I mean,
09:12and the running back is Amarian Hampton.
09:15Like, the odds of you passing is, like, slim to none.
09:19Like, slim to none.
09:20Like, slim to none.
09:21Like, jam the middle.
09:23Everybody jam the middle.
09:27Like, at Heritage D.P., the Al Porter got a defense.
09:31We have the quarterback going to center.
09:32Everybody blitzing.
09:33There's zero.
09:34They go straight to zero.
09:35Like, he blitzed them.
09:37It was high school.
09:38He got one option.
09:40He throwing the slant to his best player.
09:41That's it.
09:42Wow.
09:43I just don't think it's – I don't know.
09:46I don't see it like – you know, the player is just not the same.
09:49I think that's the whole thing.
09:52Like, Amarian Hampton is not Devon Achan and Quentin Johnson is not Tyreek Hill
09:58and Ladd McConkie is not Waddle.
10:01And I just think it's not working that way.
10:05You know what I mean?
10:06Like, because, you know, how I look at it is last year we didn't have the two tackles.
10:11Last year both running backs got hurt in the first two weeks.
10:16Najee Harris went down and Amarian Hampton went down the first two weeks of the season.
10:20So, we didn't have a running back.
10:21We played with Vidal, who was the third.
10:24And the quarterback had a broken hand for eight games.
10:26But we won 12 games.
10:30I don't get it.
10:31It's not working this year.
10:35You got to go out and go out on a limb on that one.
10:37Yeah.
10:38My take is it's not working.
10:41Yeah, it's not working.
10:43It's not working.
10:45Sometimes you just got to sit back and enjoy.
10:47Boy, sometimes you just got to sit back and let things happen.
10:50It's Thanksgiving time of year.
10:51You give thanks for the abundance of the feast.
10:56So, Arande, I wanted to tell you the Hockmans are back to having the traditional Thanksgiving meal because of you.
11:07Oh, fantastic.
11:08You remember the last two years, I decided that I was done with, you know, turkey and stuffing and potatoes.
11:15I remember that.
11:15I remember that.
11:16Yeah, I wanted to do something that we enjoy more than that stuff.
11:19And I think we did Italian food or steak maybe.
11:25Lasagna.
11:25The first year.
11:26Well, I talked about lasagna, but I don't think we did it.
11:29And then last year.
11:30Did you do Flanagan's one year?
11:32Oh, man.
11:33We went to a nice restaurant in Tampa.
11:36Yeah, last year we went up to Tampa and we went to a nicer restaurant.
11:41But anyway, Arande, after Thanksgiving last year, you came on the show with us and you were like,
11:48but what about leftovers?
11:50You're not going to sit down in front of the football game at night and have cold lasagna.
11:56And the next day, you're not looking forward to a plate of cold lasagna or whatever it is.
12:03And it really got me thinking that you're right.
12:07There is something about a dinner roll with some turkey on it and even a little stuffing.
12:16You put a little mayo on that bad boy and just sitting down and having the cold Thanksgiving leftovers.
12:24And I missed it for the last two years.
12:27And so we are back to it.
12:29It's fantastic.
12:31Fantastic.
12:31I'm so glad I could have some inspirational, motivational pitch to help you go back to Thanksgiving.
12:40Because I'm telling you, nothing – now, the nighttime for the night football game that we have now is nice.
12:46But when you watch that Auburn-Alabama Iron Bowl on Friday and you get that cranberry sauce from out the
12:55can
12:55that you're going to heat up again with the gravy.
12:59Yep.
13:00So you put gravy on everything the second day.
13:02You don't even care.
13:03Just put gravy on everything.
13:05Can't beat that.
13:06Just can't beat it.
13:07Can't beat it.
13:07Can't beat it.
13:08Can't beat it.
13:09Can't beat it.
13:09Yeah, I am now the spokesman for a traditional Thanksgiving meal because I deviated for two years.
13:16And it was nowhere near as satisfying as I thought it was going to be.
13:20But you really – you set me straight last year.
13:23You never know what you got until you miss it.
13:26So it's gone.
13:27So it's gone.
13:28And you went and got, you know, ribs from Flanagan's.
13:32The next day, the ribs hard.
13:34You don't know what to put it on.
13:36Right.
13:36You know, you put it on like four minutes and you're like, oh, too much.
13:39And then you come back and put it on two minutes.
13:41You're like, oh, not enough.
13:42See, Thanksgiving leftovers, you'd know exactly.
13:45Two minutes and 30 seconds to heat up the whole plate and you can go to work.
13:49Go to work.
13:50Go to work.
13:51Go to work.
13:52Run the two-minute offense on that plate.
13:56Exactly.
13:58And guess what?
13:59I can tell you one thing.
14:01I can tell you one thing that is undefeated.
14:05The trip to fan in that turkey is going to put you down.
14:07It's going to put you down.
14:09That's what I'm looking forward to again.
14:12I need that.
14:13I was wide awake the last two Thanksgiving's after my meal.
14:17I was wide awake.
14:19And I was missing, so I couldn't get the nap in nothing.
14:24That super sucks.
14:24That super sucks.
14:25That super sucks.
14:26You wake up about mid-wake and you probably ate, you know, early because, you know, the
14:32Hockmans and Boca probably use it at 1230, 1 o'clock.
14:35If I'm not too forkfuls deep into the stuffing by 1230, I'm pissed.
14:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
14:44So, 1 o'clock, you take into your nap about third quarter to destroy a game, right?
14:49So, you wake up, the Dallas game will be on.
14:52You'll be good to go.
14:53See, Channing and I, we probably going to eat about halftime at a Dallas game.
15:00Oh, that's crazy.
15:01That's crazy.
15:02We eat at about 430, 5 o'clock.
15:06I don't know if you know about African-American, but some people don't be on time, right?
15:11So, they probably come.
15:13Hey, OG, them greens ain't soft yet.
15:17Yeah, they're still a little hard.
15:19That piece in the middle is still a little hard.
15:23Get out the kitchen, man.
15:25Y'all better let me in this kitchen.
15:26I'm hungry.
15:29I got a cowboy game on, man.
15:32Come on, bro.
15:33Yeah, I was sitting there.
15:34I was wide awake.
15:36Yeah.
15:37You need me wide awake.
15:38Yeah, no.
15:39You need me wide awake on lasagna.
15:41Oh, man.
15:41Yeah, yeah.
15:42No, really.
15:43You need more tryptophan in your life.
15:45Yeah, you need tryptophan.
15:46I want to be the spokesman for that.
15:48I want to be the spokesman for more tryptophan because I've seen the life.
15:52Well, tryptophan and MSG.
15:56I'm with you.
15:56I'm the spokesman for it.
16:00Thursday.
16:02I'm glad we could laugh during this football season, OG.
16:05You perked up talking about tryptophan and food after our depressing conversation about
16:12Dolphins and Chargers football.
16:14So depressing.
16:16So depressing.
16:17Well, it's a Jeremiah Smith sweepstakes.
16:20Here we go.
16:20Well, tell OG we're rooting for him.
16:22We hope they get it turned around.
16:24Let's rattle off nine in a row.
16:26Yeah, I'll be up there Monday night to see what's happening.
16:29I get a firsthand look of what's going on, even though the joggers will be in the box.
16:34Oh, that's right.
16:35It's Baltimore on Monday night, right?
16:37Yeah.
16:37Yeah.
16:38I mean, they can't flex it because it's not game 12 yet.
16:46We've petitioned the NFL to flex that game, but they have not.
16:49Locked and loaded.
16:50It'll be Monday night football.
16:51All the Ravens and the winless Chargers.
16:56Listen, I don't even think Justin Herbert played.
16:59Like, he's out.
17:00Like, he's out.
17:02I don't think him, Derwin James, and Labacombe.
17:05They're like, there's a red shirt here for us.
17:07There's a red shirt.
17:08We're rooting for him.
17:10We'll see you, OG.
17:11We'll talk to you again before Thanksgiving.
17:13Bye-ya.
17:13There we go.