Mike McDaniel Reportedly Is Bullish On Miami Dolphins Offensive Line This Year

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Jeff Darlington isn't holding back on the Joe Rose show. He says Mike McDaniel is BSing about the offensive line. Is McDaniel dodging the real issues?

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00:00mike mcdaniel this was him yesterday he talked about uh the team or this was a couple days ago

00:07excuse me and he was talking about uh is this a reset season for the miami you ask somebody that

00:15nobody has ever in as long as you've been around sports yep how many times has a coach said yeah

00:22it's a reset no that's why you gotta ask nobody's ever said it here's what mike mcdaniel had to say

00:29about it we are trying to maximize our opportunity and uh i think we have um a good amount of young

00:38players uh that are very very football focused and um their approach every day gives them the chance

00:47uh to be um productive nfl players early i think um the days of you know just the way that i i see

00:57patterns of of roster construction um the the days of uh uh putting rookies on uh our entire rookie

01:06class on ice i think are are over you have to have guys that um are uh have the appropriate mindset

01:14um that they they will do what needs to be done um to do right by their their teammates

01:23what what do you mean you didn't get that

01:27my stomach brendan says my stomach starts bubbling when he speaks

01:34what the

01:36i thought that was very clear what did he say he's saying that they're not there this there's there's

01:43no handholding there's no not letting the rookies play the rookies are gonna play

01:46so he's anti-spot it seems like it or we're gonna get anti cam smith who you know didn't

01:53do much his rookie year and then patrick paul kind of got his feet wet got his feet wet last year

01:59i told you and now he's got the uh the starting gig

02:02i would have taken patrick paul and played him at guard right next to teron armstead

02:11because if you play next to the guy it would have been a lot easier for him to then take that position

02:18i don't hate that but they didn't do you think so do you think it's going to be there's still

02:27going to be adjustments for him no or do you think he'll be okay he still had to run in the room

02:32he's a giant yeah but being a giant doesn't mean anything better be what it doesn't dude what

02:40think about this some of the guys he's defending

02:45or six four six five two sixty two seventy and run four four four five

02:51that's a different beast than he has ever had to deal with you don't think he got that with the

02:58houston coogs

02:59really now jeff darlington credible guy right espn long time ties to miami saved scotty

03:11scheffler's life no he did he saved his life no he didn't we don't know what would have happened

03:16scotty scheffler without jeff darlington he would have went to jail and he would have gotten bailed

03:22out what if the the what if he would have gotten bludgeoned

03:29like the cop takes out a billy club and starts whacking at scotty scheffler he didn't do that

03:34because jeff darlington was there too much i apologize jeff darlington almost got arrested he did

03:40it's a good friend uh jeff darlington was on joe rose's show this morning he said mike mcdaniel

03:49very bullish on this offensive line

03:53don't do that don't let jeff darlington speak listen if the offensive line to me is the key to

04:02this whole season yeah i personally think that if that offensive line protects it changes everything

04:08uh i i think to it is a easily a top 10 quarterback in the league if that line protects him gives him

04:16the proper time to make the throws and keeps him healthy yeah i i truly believe that and i also will

04:22tell you that from talking to mike he is very bullish on this offensive line like well he should be he

04:29should be yeah yeah he thinks this is this is the this is quietly going to be um like behind the

04:36scenes i i know that he thinks that this offensive line is underrated he thinks they're a bunch of

04:41dogs they are in there grinding this offseason in a way that he hasn't seen before uh i'm with you

04:48i i do understand that the pressure is on i think he knows that but uh i also think you can flip the

04:57switch we've seen it in this league plenty of times i mean look at like the commanders last year yes

05:01it was because of jayden daniels but they made some key changes at positions that we don't talk

05:08about all the time and as a result they ended up in the playoffs there you go jeff donaldson this

05:14morning on the joe rose show why are you dude come on what why isn't that good news

05:23mike mcdaniel's fired up now listen and i'm i just want to put things in perspective

05:32if somebody comes to you

05:36and complains and tells you about

05:42your inefficiencies as a team yeah and then that season ends and then you come back the following

05:52you and everybody starts asking you questions about that same unit yeah

05:58based on nothing you're going to celebrate what you've done at that that's how you keep your job

06:06that's called keeping your job you know right he doesn't have to sell his job wait darlington

06:10that's just like when a company you think he's selling jeff darlington a bill of goods when a company

06:15gets caught up in something and their sales drop tremendously because of whatever a bad

06:22product or whatever and then they come out and say new management we've uh

06:28no i don't appreciate it i'm just telling you yeah but you don't do that to jeff darlington

06:32okay let me let me ask you a question

06:34last year when there was questions about the offensive line what happened

06:42what happened you got laughed at well that was we all knew that was a mistake in the that was that

06:50was direct from the horse's mouth okay so why so why is this jeff does until they play yeah no he

06:57was talking about somebody else being bullish he said mike mcdaniel was bullish not him no he's not

07:02no i understand jeff darlington didn't say that he said he passed away somebody else yeah he said mike

07:09mcdaniel is very bullish what else is he gonna be i don't know why say anything well name a coach

07:15that gets up there and say hey coach what do you think about the offensive line a little man no but

07:20like if i don't think like i think if he was me you wouldn't be bullish you'd just be like oh see no

07:26you'll be just like chris greer was last year no i don't think so not to jeff darlington he knows

07:32where the bodies are buried again i'm not saying this for any other reason other than

07:41you're basing opinions on no football being played i don't do that mike mcdaniel is yeah but maybe he

07:50thinks no patrick no no you can't possibly think anything of what your team's going to be without

07:57playing football mike mcdaniel knows hold on he knows what football he's been around football a long time

08:02he knows at this time of year what he should be bullish on and what he should not be bullish on

08:06i'll tell you what he should not be bullish on guys who haven't hit anybody

08:11just a fair assessment okay hold on though hold on all right he doesn't have to deal with old

08:20mr potato head falling apart okay he's gone retired eichenberg bench warmer all right

08:26eichenberg is here i told you why eichenberg is here okay i don't i don't want you want i don't

08:31want to talk about him because he's to me bench warmer so that's starting we know that okay okay

08:36go all right so you replace you got a rookie patrick paul you got james daniels hopefully he's a

08:42killer that's all right oh there we go there we go all right we got abram brewer had a great year

08:48last year all right we got a rookie in jonah savainaya i like it all right and then austin jackson's

08:56back back healthy baby and austin jackson i've heard a number of good things about austin jackson

09:00so like okay that's all fine and great okay but listen

09:04i ain't buying in until i see him play some football sorry all right they earned that

09:11not me i agree i'm not like why do i have to believe anything they tell me about because guess what

09:19the offensive line may still look like trash if the coach calls plays and sweeps all the time

09:30but listen faith is a free investment i don't understand what the problem is

09:33it's not a free investment it's a free investment no you don't want to invest in something and then

09:39have bubble guts all year because it costs nothing here okay well believe no baby nope nope nope i believe

09:47it when i see it you know why that's what they earned humble and kind which is an interesting

09:53handle right did they not earn what i say when i say i'll give it i'll give it is your skepticism

10:03earned huh yes your skeptic their skepticism towards them is deserved and it has and and keep in mind

10:09my skepticism has less to do with the players and more to do with the play calling you can't expect

10:19a player to be physical and aggressive and you're calling passive and run fast plays you can't so

10:31when i see this offense in this offensive line that has the right frame of mind

10:36to get in the trenches get a little bit dirty and be physical

10:41then i'll say something grab the wrenches but until then it's the same thing as long as the same

10:47plays are being called thank you all right that's it but maybe he feels like he's fixed the trenches

10:52no maybe i don't care what he says i don't care what he thinks why not they're not playing football

10:57right now and sometimes when you panic you go revert to your old stuff so who's to say how physical

11:05mike mcdaniel wants to be when he gets into the heat of battle and starts running all those damn

11:10sweeps again i will wait until i see for my with my own eyes if the mentality of this team offensively

11:20has changed until then i ain't buying it and you earned it take a break

11:27sorry

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