DeShon Elliott get emotional about his time with the Miami Dolphins on "Punch Line" podcast

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DeShon Elliott gets a little too emotional about his time with the Miami Dolphins on the Marlon Humphrey "Punch Line" podcast... something wrong with the Miami Culture?

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00:00So, this has been making the rounds on Finn's Twitter, Leroy.

00:07You remember Dolphins safety Deshaun Elliott?

00:11Last year's there's one of their starting safeties, plays for Pittsburgh now.

00:14Oh.

00:15What?

00:16I said Pittsburgh.

00:17What?

00:18So he's, he's in teamed up with Minka.

00:24That's right.

00:25That's right.

00:27So he was on a podcast with Marlon Humphrey, Marlon Humphrey has a podcast from Baltimore

00:35and they used to be teammates in Baltimore, right?

00:39So Deshaun was talking about how excited he is to face Marlon because the Steelers are

00:47playing the Ravens this week, Slugfest.

00:51And he had a little comment that he stuck in there, it was pretty biting.

00:56This is what Deshaun Elliott had to say on Marlon Humphrey's podcast.

01:00So this, this will be fun.

01:01This will be very fun.

01:02I haven't been, I haven't been able to play against Baltimore the way I wanted to because

01:06last year I played up for a team that was soft as, I mean, oh my God, I can't put that

01:10on there.

01:11That was pretty soft.

01:12The guys on the team, but there were some guys who were tough, but like for the majority,

01:15the majority of the team, there was not mentally tough individuals.

01:21So to be on a team with the full team of mentally tough guys going against another mentally

01:26tough team and AFC North ball, you know, this is going to be, it's going to be fun, man.

01:31It'll be fun.

01:32I can't wait to see Marlon again.

01:35Okay.

01:36Salt as bleep.

01:37Now it seemed like a little bit of a slippy slip.

01:41He didn't mean to get so emotional about it.

01:44Let me, let me, let me explain what happens in sports is that any team that you have that

01:57has a lot of speed sometimes gets misconstrued with soft because they so fast and they run

02:08offense accordingly, right?

02:13But they did lead the league in rushing, which is one of the more, I mean, he's a, I mean,

02:20maybe he's talking about the defense though, cause he's, I think he's probably referring

02:23to his side of the football.

02:25I want him to go tell Christian Wilkins that, okay.

02:28You see what I'm saying?

02:31So, and, and keep in mind credibility though, like, you know, but, but, but let's, let's

02:37think of it this way.

02:38Sometimes guys are playing positions where they aren't very good and you misconstrued

02:45that as soft.

02:47One of the biggest challenges for this team has been able to find those physical linebackers

02:56that, you know, come up and, and not to snide, but to be able to find those physical linebackers

03:04that, you know, come up and, and not to snide out of you, right?

03:10They just, they haven't had those guys because, you know, their guys are more cover guys.

03:18So I get why somebody would say that I do just based on the scheme of their team.

03:28The other thing is, is keep in mind the defense as a whole had a problem with the defense

03:34that big Fangio was running.

03:35They hated it.

03:36Right.

03:37And so mostly guys in the secondary too.

03:40Right.

03:41So, so what role does that play in it?

03:43I don't know.

03:44Well, he had a little bit more insight cause I thought, oh, that's just a slip.

03:48Well, no, no, he doesn't.

03:50He had more to say about his time with the Miami dolphins.

03:54This was Deshaun Elliott.

03:56They're starting safety last year, discussing this on Marlon Humphries, a podcast.

04:01And he says there's something wrong with the Miami culture, these, you know, gritty

04:07cities, but then in the right in the middle, you have Miami.

04:10What was it like being in Miami as a, as a worker?

04:14And then, you know, I feel like it would be easier going to work in Baltimore, Pittsburgh

04:18and Detroit than it might be when Miami's around.

04:21Was that a problem for anyone?

04:23I would say it was way easier to do those things in other cities, but Miami is, it's

04:28a distract.

04:29I would say that we already didn't hang out much as a team because there's so much to

04:35do in Miami.

04:36So guys were dispersed so much and everyone thought they were somebody because of the

04:41mindset of, oh, I'm in Miami.

04:43I can be somebody different, you know?

04:46And then we go into that city and I felt like we were, we were a really good team.

04:51And then the injury bug hit us.

04:52And then after the injury bug hit us, we played the Titans.

04:56We played Tennessee and lost in Tennessee.

04:59You can tell the heart and soul for that team disappeared.

05:03We didn't have any more guys that are going out more guys, a lot of guys that are going

05:07to the shirt clubs throughout the week.

05:10Guys are showing up to meetings late.

05:11You can just tell like the Miami culture is a reason why Miami will never be good.

05:16Like Miami will never be a good football team.

05:18And I was, I don't care.

05:19They will never be good because of the Miami culture.

05:22I think they have great players, but the culture is not going to be there.

05:27I don't care what anyone says.

05:30I do love Miami's food.

05:31Oh, well, thanks Deshaun.

05:32You know what?

05:33First of all, first of all, Jesus, thank you, Captain obvious.

05:43Yes.

05:44This British, this beautiful, great city has a lot of distractions, but don't start snitching

05:49on your former teammates, telling me that after the Tennessee game, guys decided teammates

05:53anymore though.

05:54They're not as teammates anymore to me.

05:57Well, where are you, Mr. Leader?

05:59Aren't you part one of the 52 members of the team?

06:02Why can't you speak up and say, Hey guys, you know, after this Tennessee loss, we still

06:05got the playoffs.

06:06We still got to do though, Vlad, what is he supposed to do in that case?

06:10He'd be like, let's have Bible study tonight.

06:13Not Tootsie's study.

06:14No, no, no.

06:15I'm not saying that, but don't start dropping diamonds saying that after the loss of Tennessee

06:19guys decided to go to the strip club a little bit more.

06:21Come on, man.

06:22What if it's the truth though?

06:24I got families.

06:25I got families.

06:26I don't know that I've been going to the strip club a little bit, a little bit more than

06:29I used to.

06:30I mean, like you think, you think he's Javon Holland's worried about the snitching going

06:34on?

06:35You snitch it.

06:36Excuse me.

06:37It's December.

06:38Okay.

06:39When I'm telling, I think, I think we know he's not talking about Zach Sealer.

06:41Zach Sealer of course was, was, was hunting this.

06:44If I tell my wife as a player, Hey, you know, playoffs are coming.

06:47We got to study and put in a little bit more tape, you know, film study.

06:52And I'm out Tootsie's, you know, getting cheeks, you know, thrown at me.

06:57I don't need that to be thrown out there.

06:59I don't need him to do that part Leroy, it was going to the strip clubs before they lost

07:08attendance.

07:09That's what I'm saying.

07:10I'm acting like, like, but, but, but again, but, but again, mucho again,

07:17it's funny.

07:20It's funny how, let me give you another example of how this could go, right?

07:30The white house in Dallas.

07:32Yeah.

07:33Okay.

07:34They was winning Superbowls.

07:36That's it.

07:37You went to Superbowl, but, but, but, but, but nobody was questioning any of that.

07:43Cause they was winning.

07:44Yeah.

07:46When you're losing.

07:47See, I give you a perfect example.

07:48When we were three and 13, right?

07:52Somebody said we got young guys sleeping in the, in the meeting room and you know what

07:58I replied?

07:59I ain't never made a mistake on the football for you.

08:03What's your problem?

08:06Now you see, did you go see boobies the night before?

08:09Yeah.

08:10No, no.

08:11Then you go.

08:12I just, I just, in general, in general, I'm in general meetings, me sitting, listening

08:24to a person talk about stuff that we already do.

08:30Right.

08:31Um, it was like a tranquilizer gun to me.

08:34I understand.

08:35But it's always been that way.

08:36I understand.

08:37But how many means did you show up late for?

08:39None.

08:40Well, except for the.

08:42The syrup incident.

08:43See, he's got syrup.

08:44Wait, what?

08:45He had to go get, so I, so I, I was responsible as a rookie to get like 10 guys breakfast

08:54on Saturday morning, but the breakfast day morning from one place.

09:00So I had to go to friendlies.

09:01I had to go to like three different breakfast places.

09:05So I would get up in the morning, call the order in at like six 30, go pick it up at

09:10like seven 30, put it at the day desk or whatever, and get ready.

09:16One morning I did it and Kevin Mack say, Hey, Brooke, I ain't got no syrup for my pancakes.

09:22Might as well not have pancakes.

09:25And I looked and I looked and I looked and I looked and then everybody turned and looked

09:32and he said, Brooke, I ain't got no syrup for my pancakes.

09:37So I got up and I drove back and got syrup.

09:42When I came in, the head coach was having his meeting and he fined me $500 for being

09:49late.

09:50But when I got to my desk, it was $500 at my desk.

09:55So it was just a test.

09:58You see what I'm saying?

09:59Because every rookie got it.

10:01Like you got to earn your way.

10:04So this isn't this isn't the tale of a rookie, though, this is this is a this is a guy who's

10:10trying to talk about the demise of a season that went really, really bad.

10:13Now, I would say, like, yeah, probably the biggest thing was, yeah, they weren't healthy

10:16by the end of last year, which he did say, which he did throw in there.

10:21But he also but he also said guys are starting to show up late.

10:23You could just tell the commitment wasn't right there, like the way that it was.

10:27Is that a knock on the players or is it kind of feels like a knock on the coach?

10:31Yeah, that's what I'm right.

10:34Um, I would say this.

10:39That there's a fine line between.

10:42Being stern and being a player's coach, right?

10:49Yeah, I would say Denny was a player's coach right now.

10:55He's got he didn't play well, this these were his coaches the last three years.

11:00Dan Campbell, Mike McDaniel, Tomlin.

11:04Oh, so he's been around.

11:06There's one that's going to be a little different than the other two.

11:09I mean, if you're if you're if you're doing a tale of the tape.

11:13Yeah, right.

11:14Well, and keep in mind, the other two are way more extreme.

11:22And Campbell does something a certain way.

11:25And Mike Tomlin been doing it for 17 years.

11:29But also, Leroy, if you listen to them, when one when both when Dan Campbell talks, you

11:34understand who's talking.

11:37When Mike Tomlin talks, you understand who's talking.

11:40When Mike McDaniel talks, you kind of like, where's he leading us right now?

11:44Like, where are we going?

11:45Poor Brittany was like, God, Brittany was working with us.

11:47He's like, Yeah, what is he saying?

11:49Like, sorry, I'm sorry.

11:50We have to put you through that.

11:51Like, he's putting me to sleep right now.

11:53Like, it's hard.

11:54It was just a simple question about too many interceptions.

11:56And it was a one minute, 37 second diatribe.

12:00Fancy tickled 305 says, didn't the Vikings have a boat sex party scandal in the 2000s?

12:05That was post Leroy.

12:06That was post Denny.

12:09That was post Denny.

12:10Was that was that that that that scalper?

12:13Yeah, that was the tight end.

12:16Who's this?

12:17I didn't coach and then Mike Tice.

12:19Mike Tice.

12:20Yes.

12:21Yeah.

12:22Mike Tice was a player's coach.

12:23Oh, yeah.

12:24He put on the uniform.

12:26Yeah, Mike, Mike Tice, he started he was the offensive line coach when I was there.

12:33So that is a you got met for a cup for a player that is quite a contrast from going to man

12:40Campbell to going to my yeah, but I went I went to from Bill Belichick.

12:47Then I had Ted Marchabrota, who was closer to Mike McDaniel.

12:53Then I went to who was in Carolina, Dom Capers.

12:58And then I went to Denny Green.

13:01So I had everybody went about it a certain a certain way.

13:07Like when I was in Carolina, they didn't even like you couldn't even be loud in the locker

13:11room.

13:12Right?

13:13It was like you could hear a pin drop in the locker room.

13:16Yeah, it was crazy.

13:18That's just how they did business there.

13:20Just like, how could you just come out there?

13:22You're like, never going to happen.

13:24Never.

13:25Never is a long time to Sean.

13:27Never.

13:28Well, he knows things.

13:32It's easy.

13:33This is easy.

13:34It's easy to say that.

13:36When you are where you are now, yeah.

13:40You know what I mean?

13:41Jesus.

13:42I know.

13:43What the hell?

13:44He's so savage.

13:49Coaches have a number of ways to do things, right?

13:55Like Denny very rarely talked to the players.

14:00He empowered the coaches.

14:01If he has something to say, he would go through your coach, your position coach.

14:06And when he did say something or get mad, you could hear a pin drop because he didn't

14:13do it very often.

14:14I kind of want to know more about what Deshaun is saying.

14:19Is he trying to say that maybe there's coddling of players or something like that?

14:24I think there's for sure coddling of players.

14:28I would say this.

14:29I would say this.

14:31That sometimes coaches come in and they build these relationships without setting boundaries

14:42of how things are going to be done and demand that they're done a certain way.

14:46You can still be a player's coach and do that.

14:50Like Dan Campbell cries after certain games, but his players know Dan Campbell is not playing.

15:01You see what I'm saying?

15:03Yeah.

15:04But he's so big.

15:05When a big man like him cries, you're uncomfortable.

15:08You're going to cry.

15:09All right.

15:10I'm just saying there's a lot of different ways.

15:14There's a lot of different ways.

15:15I mean, what my coach in college, everybody was terrified of, and he was five foot eight.

15:20Spoke kind of look like he was on the verge of tears last night.

15:22Well, he had his own doing.

15:24I know.

15:25That's terrible.

15:26So if you're Spoe, when you go back to the hotel room, because you're spending three

15:30days in Detroit, which is God awful.

15:32I'm sorry.

15:33No disrespect to Detroit.

15:34No, they're going to Indiana.

15:35Oh, they got another game with Detroit.

15:36No, no.

15:37Another game in Indiana.

15:38Okay.

15:39There's two games in Indiana.

15:40Not that that's any better.

15:41Indianapolis sucks.

15:42Let me tell you guys.

15:43Do you go to Louisville?

15:44Maybe get some bourbon?

15:45I don't know what it does.

15:46Drink that.

15:47Drink that pain away.

15:48Why?

15:49That ain't close.

15:50Indiana, Kentucky.

15:51Yeah, it's not that far.

15:52No.

15:53Indy, Louisville.

15:54Not that far.

15:55There's a whole nother state in between them.

15:56Indy, Louisville.

15:57It's not that far.

15:58Dude.

15:59Indianapolis and Louisville is.

16:00It's closer than you think.

16:01It's closer than you think.

16:02It's closer than you think.

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