Does Mike Florio from Pro Football Talks have it out for the Miami Dolphins?

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Does Mike Florio from Pro Football Talks have it out for the Miami Dolphins? "Special Senior Molehill Correspondent" gets the target flipped on him!

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00:00Wanted to get your thoughts on this Leroy.

00:01So this is a story from Mike Florio, who I think could best be described

00:05as a Miami Dolphins snitch.

00:08Like, I just always feel like everything he's always got something

00:11that he's trying to, like, expose the Dolphins on, you know?

00:14No, he's on with Joe every Friday and he tries to play the good guy.

00:17But something going on with that pro football talk blog

00:20where that just reeks of Miami Dolphins snitch.

00:24I get to the story.

00:26He says.

00:27Cheat motion is now officially cheating.

00:32And he has gone out here and he has said last year,

00:37a new pre snap technique began to spread throughout the NFL this year.

00:42The NFL is trying to end it.

00:45Some call it speed motion.

00:47Some like 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan call it cheat motion

00:52because it's cheating and officially now it is cheating.

00:57Here is the key sentence added by the NFL rule this year.

01:00Article four, a rule seven article for section two of the official playbook.

01:05Any eligible backfield player who changes his stance

01:08does not have to come to a complete stop prior to the snap,

01:11as long as his actions are not abrupt, false or forward.

01:15Per a source with knowledge of the situation that directly is aimed

01:18at the split second forward motion movement by players in motion.

01:22The Dolphins, 49ers and Rams used this last year.

01:27Um, here, here's the deal.

01:32It's always been a rule.

01:34They just never called it.

01:37When you go in motion.

01:39If you start a forward move.

01:43Then you're in illegal motion, right?

01:45You can always go lateral.

01:48But they would cheat on it by turning up.

01:52So when the inside receiver would go outside,

01:55he would start turning before the ball was snapped.

01:58You never were allowed to do it.

02:00They just never called it.

02:01So now all of a sudden you're making it sound like it's a new rule

02:04when it never was.

02:06All he had to do was go to every team and say, stop doing it.

02:08We're going to start calling.

02:10End of discussion.

02:11It's not cheating. It's not nothing.

02:13They weren't calling it.

02:15Tobacco.

02:16That's where he says Florio.

02:17Typical rat behavior.

02:19So so basically when you notice. Right.

02:24What teams are starting to do is.

02:26You never did.

02:28You never did motion to the same side. Right.

02:31Now that inside guy does that quick motion outside of the receiver

02:35or the outside guy does that quick motion inside. Right.

02:40All they're eliminating is that gentle move forward.

02:44So when he starts to turn his body forward. Right.

02:48Or he moves forward.

02:49That's. That's the only difference.

02:53All they're doing is saying, hey, guys, it's like holding.

02:57We're going to pay more attention to this.

02:59That's all that is.

03:00And it was always a rule.

03:03That's a quote from Kyle Shannon says it looks hard to stop people

03:06like Tyreek Hill and Debo with and stuff with a running start.

03:10It usually is only in the CFL, so it's cool to get them running sideways

03:14and still find a way to hit it vertically.

03:15Kyle Santana had said last October.

03:18Tyreek Hill says it definitely allows us to get the defense off guard in many ways.

03:22He says Flora writes that advantage is now gone.

03:25In theory, the challenge becomes officiating it when it's executed properly.

03:30It happens in a split second before the snap.

03:31Officials have to spot an act before the nanosecond of the moment passes.

03:36The officials presumably will be told to watch for it.

03:38They'll presumably warn the teams about it.

03:40It's frankly surprising that the first sign of change

03:43is coming from the official rule book and not from the coaches players

03:46either complaining about it in new language or celebrating the fact

03:49that they no longer have to defend against it.

03:51That's nasty.

03:51Where it's just it's basically the quick motion.

03:54So the inside guy going quick out, the outside guy coming quick in.

03:58And what they would do is is they start off two yards and turn to one yard.

04:02Right. So that not only is your guy chasing the receiver,

04:08but you can't just get in chase mode because he'll square up.

04:11Right. And that's the whole thing.

04:13It's always been a rule.

04:16To put them to go through all this.

04:19To go through all this.

04:22Just to say, hey, we're enforcing that, enforcing that rule,

04:25that's always been a rule and make it sound that way is ridiculous.

04:30You know what's going to happen, right?

04:32It's going to be a primetime game involved in Miami Dolphins.

04:36They're going to score and they're going to get penalized because of that rule.

04:40Yeah. Or people are going to say, hey, I thought this was

04:43going to get and then they'll complain about it for a week and then it'll get.

04:47It's going to happen. No, it's going to.

04:49I'm going to tell you what, it's going to happen in two plays.

04:50They're going to score a touchdown to play early in the game.

04:52And the coach of the opposing team is going to be drilling it into the referee's

04:56head that, hey, you should call a penalty on that.

04:59And you know what's funny about this, though?

05:00It happened late in the game.

05:01This is one of those situations where if you don't have the talent to do it.

05:06Then your feelings get hurt, right?

05:09Yeah. Doing that to us because you can't do it to them.

05:12If you got cheetah and a chan, I don't know how like.

05:15So so that's what it's going to look like.

05:17That's all it is.

05:18And you kind of and and I kind of would watch a game

05:22and wonder why it wasn't a period of penalty before. Right.

05:26So I know exactly the reason why I've asked myself that a lot.

05:30So I know exactly what it looks like.

05:33Well, it did feel like the first year of McDaniels.

05:35It felt like they were getting called for a legal procedure all the time.

05:38And then they stopped calling it.

05:40So it's it's right.

05:42So so it but less here, let's not make a mountain out of a molehill.

05:48All they should have said was we're going to be enforcing it.

05:52They do it in a lot of sports where they say we've been let you get away with this.

05:56We're not doing it anymore.

05:58And that's all that needed to be said.

06:01That's where Mike Florida would have to write a whole article on.

06:04It is ridiculous.

06:05That's what Florio's website shouldn't be called.

06:08It should be called Mountain out of a molehill.

06:10That should be the name of his website.

06:12Mountain out of a molehill.

06:13And you're a contributor.

06:14You can do like what he put because who does he put on the article?

06:19Like special correspondent.

06:22That's not fair.

06:23That's not fair.

06:26Correspondent down in Miami.

06:28Brenda Tobin.

06:29Let's give us our information on the Mount Arbol.

06:32He is a statement game.

06:35Mike, me.

06:38We do it again.

06:40That's not the mountain out of the sea.

06:44No, no, no, no.

06:44We do is a mountain, dude.

06:46That is not a molehill.

06:47Hey, back to you.

06:49Don't don't don't don't.

06:51As an aside, when you say molehill, is that actually a hill made out of a mole?

06:55Like, does he like make little dirt?

06:57What does that mean?

06:58I guess it's a molehill or an hill is still smaller than a mountain.

07:03Dade South says Tobin has his face carved in molehill mountain.

07:08Yeah, I just don't like it.

07:13Witcher, you are like the special correspondent from football.

07:18I'm not the only one.

07:20I'm not the only one that thinks you.

07:22Oh, my goodness.

07:24He goes out there and he puts a picture of Towa.

07:28That's the picture on this tweet.

07:30And then it's like the revised rule book has language

07:32ending pre-snap CFL style cheat motion by teams like the Dolphins and 49ers.

07:38Oh, yeah. Well, is it?

07:40So basically it's saying the same guy, right?

07:43The same offense.

07:45They run the same offense. Yeah.

07:48So so yeah, let's a special

07:53special molehill correspondent, a special molehill correspondent.

07:58Wait, we don't know.

08:00Leroy, he's the top senior correspondent.

08:02Oh, senior correspondent, a special molehill correspondent.

08:09Hey, soon as he starts telling one of those stories.

08:12Leroy, you know what week two is.

08:14He's like, hold on, let me get my meal.

08:18Dade South says could be something, could be nothing.

08:21It's literally making literally.

08:25Oh, my goodness.

08:28That is so right.

08:30Nothing. Oh, wait.

08:36Guess what? You know, it's funny.

08:37You can do it on a reflorio and in reverse.

08:39Now we got back on him.

08:41You could you could do that.

08:42But laugh because you're like, oh, damn, that's right.

08:45No, that's not fair.

08:46I'm trying to roll with the punches, but this story has got it out for it.

08:49Now you don't got it out.

08:50You got it out for us.

08:52In fact, I'm telling Joe Demar's that your first question,

08:54you got it out for the Dolphins.

08:57That's special correspondent.

08:58That's a. Oh, my goodness.

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