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Dec. 19, 2023

Dan Marino: Pick a Guy and Let it Fly

Dan Marino: Pick a Guy and Let it Fly

In 1983, Dan Marino brought a lightning quick release and unprecedented confidence to the Miami Dolphins huddle, and the game of football would never be the same. Reflecting upon his Hall of Fame career, Marino dives into The Fish Tank to discuss his relationship with Don Shula, his magical 1984 season, Mark Duper and Mark Clayton, and much more. Contributors to this episode include Sevach Melton and Dolphins Productions. Theme song created and performed by The Honorable SoLo D. The Fish Tank is Presented by iHeart Radio.

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00:00:00 Speaker 1: You're now diving straight down with Seth living O, Jay, and this is strictly for them true fans Number one of course, y'all, this and the other never sports talk, welcome back to the fish tank right here on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, Seth Levitt and the toughest podcaster Damn Marino ever played with, and Dan freaking Reno. Yeah we made it U. Okay, Man, he's the man. He's the man. Man now, Danny, Dan, He's the man. You know that big step. But you know what though I always say this all the time, Man, Danny never put me in tough positions out there on the football, so I can be as tough as I wanted to be. But he always he always took care of me when he threw me rock, That's for sure. The one. I'm sure there was a couple of times. Every I'm sure there was definitely a couple of times. But I try to do that. I tried as much as I could, you know, look out for guys. I love it. So there's so much to talk about. It was kind of hard to say, Okay, how do we take Dan Marino's career and compress it? To do this interview. But before we get into any of that, my partner here has been telling a story for five years since we started a Fishnak. Literally on the first episode he told his story, I ain't know if you don't know where you're going here, that's okay, that's okay, we'll catch up. But I need some validations. So he claims. In his rookie year in nineteen ninety three, a rumor starts to go around the locker room that he can throw the ball seventy yards and you need to find out. And so you approached him. You're like, bro, I don't think you can do it, and you and you guys place a wager and make him go out to the field. And he did it. So this is true, throw a lot further than I could. But the only difference is this, Oh, Jay, you got a minute, I could hit what I'm throwing. That's right. So he did know. It's amazing. Like I mean, there was other guys too. There were certain guys like I mean, like remember Charles Jordan, he could throw it a long way too, Yeah, but not like OJ But I mean, yeah, yeah, it's just so you but did you not think he could do it? And then I want to see it. No. Look, if you're working with guys that are like at the level of OJ and the other guys were around at that time, if they said they could do it, usually they can't. You know what I'm saying, right, I just wanted to see it. Yeah, absolutely, well, I appreciate the thousand dollars I want. The gambling part was easy back then. So good. You know, Danny Man, I knew right away, Man that you had this confident that you're a confident person, one of the most confident people I've ever been around. And that was fun. In fact, you know, your confidence is legendary. It's important for people to know that. We actually just had Scott Mitchell one and Scott Mitchell was talking to he was when he came on. He was talking about there was the three three rules that you know that that Danny Marino told him about when he was a rookie. One. We always know, we always talk about you pick a guy and let it fly. That was always something that we all we talk about, and uh, we'll talk about that a little bit. But what he got this was one of the rules he said was and he said, you were born and you don't notice because you weren't born yet. You told Scott Mitchell your mom cried all day because you weren't. Damn Marino, you've got a whole catalog. Yeah, you got someone liners now. No, I know this is it sounds messed up, but I used to do Duper and Clayton the same way. Like I just say, like, you know, your mother wanted you to grow up to be just like me, right, just for you know, for ships and giggles and fun, you know what I mean. So that I mean, it's it's over the top arrogant a little bit, but I mean put you back it up to man. You what else? What? Ice, because that's inside stuff. You know you're talking you know at the time. Yeah, but now now don matter, right, doesn't matter. Yeah, it's far from inside right now, I think at this point, Ice love when you say, you know, I treat DB's like credit cards. I pull them out and use them whenever I want to. Yeah, that was the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah with Sam. You know it was coaching there with Sam, who I love. He is awesome, right, I tell them all the time. We used to. Yeah, I used to say, dude, I just use you like a credit card. Just swipe it and keep going. Yeah. So we're yeah, so there was all those things that were you know, it just hits my head in the middle of the night. I told you my favorite So okay, nineteen ninety six is my internship here, and this is back when you know, they didn't have the tablets or whatever. So we would do the headshots right and Harber sent me down there and everybody has to approve their head shot. Dave Cross would take three pictures. Everybody would look at I don't like this one. I like the way I look. I hand it to you and you take a look. You're sitting in the training room. You're like, it don't matter, bro, I don't take a bad picture. That's the fun point. I was like, all right, and the whole training room was like, damn, that's fun. That's a fun stuff though. You know, it's just like you get to a point, you know, you're in the locker room, you're in the training room. It's okay to kind of love it, have that, you know, camaraderie with your teammates and the people you work with, which makes it really cool. Yeah. Yeah, and where's that comes come from? Man? Where's that? I love it. Man, where's that conference comes from? You know? I think it's just something like you would know this and a lot of you know, great players would know. It just comes over time and and your ability to perform at a high level and how you want to perform, and and then you just trust yourself and you trust the people around you, and it's just something that's that's there. You know, that's going to be there, you know, for as long as you want. Yeah, well, I know we always had a lot of yeah, yeah, a lot of confidence. We got one three one trade. Of course, there was a lot of confidence. OJ. I mean, look, I depended on you so much for so many years, like just that third down or going in the middle, doing all that stuff, and it would be pretty much I'll be called playing like OJ, just make sure you're open love it. Throw you because it's third fifteen or it's third and twelve whatever. I know, I could count on this. We had a thirtd coach that was mad about him throwing the ball to me too much. We won't go there. Yeah, go around, talk talk about it. We'll get there and we won't get bogged down yet. I'm gonna go. So we just talked about Juice's rookie year. I'm gonna go back to your rookie year. Okay, so nineteen eighty three expected to be drafted higher. Speaking to those confident things, I love the interview where you're like, I guess I'll go down to Miami work on my tan. You know what, you did a great job. But how quickly, right, so you get out there. You hear everybody who was on the team at that time, they're like, yo, as soon as he started through on the ball, we knew this was something different. How quickly did you know? Again, you're a confident guy, but how quickly did you get out there and start to say, oh, I got you know? So it's uh, it's crazy. It's like anything like when you go from high school. You're in high school and you're playing those guys like, okay, I got this, and then you go to college and it's kind of the same way. And then I, you know, when I the mini camp, I got to the mini camp, you know, And then we had Clayton who came in he was drafted that year two and Duper was there and all the guys, you know, Tony, Nathan Cephalo, Nott Moore, all of them, and I was like, you know what, I got a chance to be to start here pretty quick, you know, and uh, I just felt it and it was like the first mini camp and it was one of those things that you know, you're out there and you're thrown and you have a you have a communication, just instincts all that stuff with the guys with the receivers, and it was pretty natural, pretty quick. Wow. You know. So that that's what kind of made me feel like I was gonna be able to play early. Yeah, yeah, and well yeah, can you talk about your relationship with coach Sula. I mean, he put his trust in you at a very early age. We're talking about that right now. You guys developed something really really special together. And most of the time Coach Sula was intimidating everybody, but you guys seem like you guys could you know, really go at each other or talk about each talking to each other, you know, with a maturity but a confidence also that I was afraid to approach him, but you might. You guys had such a great relationship man, and where he intimidated most other people, well, for I mean, first of all, when you're you know, the head coaches in your meeting rooms and quarterback room and all that. All the time. I spent a lot of time with Coach Sula, like we really did. We spent a lot of time watching film, talking about games, all those kind of things, and he just u I remember him telling me when I came in when I was a rookie, like I want he gave me the playbook. You know, we came down in our mini camp and all that stuff. Give me a playbook. He said, go home. I want you to come back. He said, I want you to come back thinking that you're going to be the starter, right and I want you to work as if you're going to be you know, And that just got me all pumped up. So he knows, you know, he knew how to push the right buttons and do that and you know that too, like he and he always had a way of like in practice practice just going okay, Like he would just say a little comment to me like man, that was a shitty throw or something right like, and it just I'm like what that I mean? Come on, and I just boost everything went to the next level. Man, let's go, you know. And that's that's kind of he had that knack that he was really really good at that with all all the players. But he always uh, you know, I feel good about he trusted me. And it also I mean give credit to Don Strock, you guys. You know everybody knows Don Strock and he he was like my coach, Like he was my quarterback coach. When I first came in, he was eleven years in the league. We didn't have a quarterback coach. Now then there's twenty some coaches, some coaches. I think we had like set eight nine maybe nine coaches, and he was he was amazing too to help me, you know, just dealing with Coach Sula too and all that is at a young age. Yeah, you know. So it's so strange because it seemed like Coach Sula changed from the seventies to the eighties and then of course to the nineties. You had him in the eighties and the nineties. Seemed like everybody talks about he's a different coach in the different decades. You know, if you had those eighties, what were those eighties like compared to the nineties. When it came to coach well, I think he like he saw right away the talent that he had after the Super Bowl that they had lost to the Redskins, and then they you know, I got drafted, Clayton got drafted, some of the other guys that played for a long time on the team, and I think he saw the talent and how the league was going and how it's not going to be just like run first all the time, and you know, you know, empty backfields and all that. We were doing that stuff back in like day when no one was doing it. So yeah, yeah, So it was like, uh, he just just committed to it because he knew the talent he had, and that's the best thing about him is just adjusting to the talent that you have, you know. And in the nineties was kind of the same way. I mean it was you know, we were we were rolling, man, the guys we had, you know, with Jackson yourself and Irving and oh Terry Kirby and mark Ingram and we were just yeah, yeah, we were rolling. Well I remember going five wide, we did that and no one does that now, know, just five wide receivers in the game, empty backfield. Let's go keep keep the backs on the sidelines. I'll just give me all that it happened. You said there should be fifty something wide out, fifty three man roster, all wide out, that's what. Okay, everyday, man, I love, Oh, that's so good. Unless you got to take a knee. That's the only time. So I promise we're not going to go one year at a time and keep you here all day. But I have to talk about nineteen eighty four. Okay, okay. The things you guys did had never been seen before. And when you go back and look at it, forty eight touchdowns, five thousand, eighty four yards, you would be MVP today with those numbers, with all the rule changes, the extra game, that's all they would be talking about it. It was like watching a video game in a lot of ways, and it was just you know, they talk about the Lakers in showtime. That's who you guys were on the football field. In my opinion, my question is, when you're in the middle of all that, was there ever a moment where you were like, man, weren't doing something really special? Like could you understand the magnitude of what you were doing? Or were you just too in the moment and too young to have that perspective seth To be honest with you, we were just rolling right. We didn't. We weren't thinking about, oh, we're going to break records, We're going to do all this. It was all about winning football games. That's what our team was about and coach Ula was about that. And the thing is is, you know, towards the end of the season, we had to win some games and we were just you know, and it just happened to kick in. It was one of those things that I didn't think about forty eight touchdowns. Now I knew about the thirty six, right right, because break the record, and that's part of you know, everybody's talking about it. Harvey Green's talking about it. It's your boy, Harvey. He's coming up with me with all the stats. But we're just trying to win, man, and that that year was really special. And if you think about the end, you know, Mark Clayton needed three touchdowns in the Dallas Cowboys games on Monday Night football to break the touchdowns single season touchdown record, not thinking about it like we're just playing because we have to win that game to keep home field advantage. Right. So it ended up that he caught three touchdowns and the one was at the end where he caught it like an eighty arder. It was with two minutes left he hit We hit a square and we call it now or whatever they call it now, but as square in and he just split the safeties and scored. And then, you know, didn't know about the five thousand yards. I mean I remember Harvey saying that that earlier in that week. Yeah, he said, you know, if you get over three hundred something whatever it was, that you're going to throw for five thousand. Sure, didn't know about it until after the game. He goes, Oh, he threw for three eighty something and you got five thousand yards and we won too. So that's that's you know, that's what made it really cool. Yeah, you know, And not to go to off script here, Juice, but hearing you say Harvey saying that, as a PR person, I wonder like how much of that is? Yo. Just don't don't get in my head with that. Let me just go out and okay, how much do you want to know what? You know? What? It's okay to know, there's nothing wrong with that as long as you keep in perspective. And Juice knows this is it's about winning the football game, right, I mean, no matter what I mean It's like you could throw for one hundred and fifty yards if you win, and that's fine, you know. I mean it's look, you throw for three eighty and break an all time record. It's okay too. That's okay too if it happens naturally, which it did, like it wasn't. And then and I you know, I tell people all the time, and if you talk to our guys, our receivers from that time, they will tell you that, like nowadays, they don't take guys out of the game, so they're still throwing the ball, and they would take us out of the game, and we could have put up even bigger numbers. I think every week Due man, you know, dude, yeah, targets all the time. And he he gets me too. Man, He's like this says, dude, you only get me five targets in a game or six targets. Like they're throwing them thirteen balls. They're throwing them twelve balls. I'm like, okay, I mean go back and play. Tell you you know, that's the easy Dan. You guys put the league on notice. Man. You know right the center was you know, Mark Clayton and Mark Duper and you know these guys are always you guys always go back and forth with you know, the Marx brothers always say we made Dan Marino, andno says I made the Marx brother You know who made who Danny? I mean, that's the question. So this is like just old guys now, you know, talking junk. That's where we were talking junk on each other. But you know it, I was blessed to have those two and Jimmy Sephalo not more, not especially he's like the godfather and that like he taught those guys actually basically how to play the position, wide receiver, run routes, you know, all the things that you need to know when you're coming as a young guy. And and so I'm going to tell them. I'm gonna tell me right here, like I made them doubt and I don't care what they say. I love them to death forever. And we were Yeah, it was it was so good. Yeah, those guys were special man. They could roll like when no one was doing that stuff. They are doing it really special. They're very special, man. How are they not in the Hall of Fame? I don't know. They you know, Clayton had more catches than Douper, more touchdowns and now you tell you he was a little more versatile because he'd played inside outside and do kind of line up at X most of the time. That was just it. But you know, the numbers are so different now that you know, cats are catched, like a thousand catches is like it's like norm yeah, you know, for if you have a decent career, like in the league. So and that's what they you know, nowadays they look at all that stuff, and those guys had over five hundred catches. But still at the same time, but the like, especially with Clayton, the number of catches compared to a number of touchdowns crazy like seven maybe less. And the thing that gets me is, I have to look it up. I don't know that there's another quarterback in the Hall of Fame that never threw a touchdown pass to a Hall of Fame teammates. I don't know that. I don't know. And actually it's interesting about that because I didn't even think about that and so, but so that does tell like, what do you mean all these other guys there's receivers who are going in. It's like, why are they penalized because you were great? They were also, you know, and clay they shouldn't be penalized. I mean, look at I. I love them both and they bosh to me should be there. But the way the world is now and it's just you know, and Mark Mark should be in the Hall of Fame. He should. Richmond Webb should be another example. Richmond Webb soon should be someone that gets put in the Hall of Fame. And when I think back to my rookie year, man, I didn't know where I was going being a kid from Cleveland, I didn't know where I was going to go. When I got drafted by the Dolphins, I was like, shit, yeah, I got Damn Marino. You know, that was that was huge, man, real talk, I said. I always talking, Yeah, yeah, I always said I wanted to go close to home, you know, Cleveland. I'm from Ohio area. You know. I went to school in pennsylvani and your you know, pitt Pittsburgh or Pennsylvania or Philadelphia or go warm. I got warm, I got Damn Marino, I got Don Sula, you know, so that was that was really really awesome for me, man. And so we can go back and play in Cleveland my rookie year, and the unthinkab what happens yeah, I think you know we're talking about and I saw, yeah, I saw hard you work man, off the field, you know, and on the field. And I know because in Cleveland Stadium, I obviously grew up there. The locker room was bad. We had to I think we had to get draw offense go first, and you had to share lockers to two players. You know, you're a two locker guys. Lockys, you never know what you need to put in the other one, right, right, But then you know how hard you came back and how hard you worked after that, after your your your injury. But then there was a lot of people, I mean, you think about it, man, there were a lot of stuff and a lot of rumors going around about you know, where they can come back and be the same damn you know that he once was. The media was talking about it, the league was talking about it. You know. Did the outside noise ever get under your skin at all about that stuff? Man? And did you ever feel like, well, you hear it? Yeah, you definitely hear it, like everybody does. I mean, it's normal, like any any player would hear that. And I didn't know, to be honest with you, I didn't know I was because that camp, that summer camp, I mean, it wasn't good. Like I was worried about how my ankle was gonna come back, the Achilles, the whole thing. I remember having to take shots because I was getting pain in the front of my ankle, and then they end up going in and shaving it because it was too loose. You know, it was too loose. And we went through a lot of stuff and in the preseason wasn't that good. It really wasn't. And then we played that first game against New England and then lights come on and we lit them up. It's like, you know, it just is one of those things. It's like, yeah, bam, it was perfect. Let's talk about that season opener in ninety four, actually doing kind of a real deep dive into that game. And so with all of the doubt and the things you're going through and now you're doing deep well, okay, all right, I got too che So but with that that game, all the things that were going on surrounding that game, you know, and everything you just talked about, the doubt, the injuries and trying to figure out and I can I get up on my toes and all of those things. I know, what kind of competitor you are? Was that more than just one game? Is that more than you know, every game counts. I know you want to win every game, but was there more? Was there a heavier emphasis as you were heading that game? Did you feel like you had something to prove? That's good question. Yes, to myself mostly, you know, and to my teammates who you know, we all work together, we love each other, all that thing, and so yeah, to prove that I'm going to be able to play at a high level and all that. Yeah, I was definitely thinking about that. It worked out that, you know, we won late and through a lot of yards and touchdown on fourth and ten. I think it was And yeah, pretty cool. You know, Danny, we have to talk a little bit about this current Miami Dolphins team. I mean, you sit in some meetings, definitely sitting some quarterback meetings, and you're out of practice. You're around every day, which I love. Man. How much do you almost every day? Well? I get it, get it, you got what you got, you know, Yeah, I still gotta be f other places. Still I get it. Man. How much do you enjoy, you know, staying connected to football and into the Dolphins and the way that you are right now. Yeah. I enjoyed a lot actually, you know, to be around you know, the team, being around the players and coaches, all of it, you know, Steve Ross, our owner, Tom Garfinkle, you know, everybody, Chris Career or guys. I mean, I just enjoy being around all of them and being a part of something you know that I think is could be very special, right, And and that's what we were here for, right, I mean, that's what that's why we're here because you want to see everybody do well, and you want to see the team do well, and all the fans. I'm a fan, you know. Also I'm you know, around a lot, but I'm still a fan, so I want him to do well. So I mean I I really enjoy it. Yeah. And what about to what's your relationship Mike? Very good to Yeah, very good? What about him and him personally? And what about his game? What stands out to you about him? I think he's really competitive, He understands the game very well, and his abilities are you know, his instincts are there like that, you could tell instincts as far as reading the coverages, throwing the ball, getting the ball out on time, all that stuff. So he's been great. Man. I think that we just got to you know, we had a tough one this last week, but you know, you just keep going and you go from there. And we've done a lot of great things so far this year and in the past years, and and I think we have a chance. We have a real chance. You know, Danny, I know you're a Pittsburgh guy through and through roots you they run the stay here always jo my favorite Penn State person ever. Don't tell yeah, yeah, you know what. Okay, So you and Jimmy, I'm sorry, no, man, Jimmy, I'm sorry, Jimmy. If you're watching, Man, I'm always telling people. I said, Man, Danny went throw me the ball at first. Man, it was this Penn State thing. We couldn't get over. It couldn't go over to Hep. I know, no, I joke about it. We have fun with it. Man. But you've been to South Florida most of your adult life. Man, what does this community mean to you? Yeah? You know, you know, well, you know, first of all, just coming here as a young person twenty one years old, coach Sule of the Dolphins, being the rookie quarterback, all that was amazing, but just getting to learn the community, you know, and learn from someone like coach Sley example that he gave all of us, the players, like you mentioned Jimmy Cefalo doing struck all those guys. Not more the community service and doing things and and I've been blessed because I've had so many friends here that have helped me in so many ways. With our foundation, you know, we do things for autism, you know, kids with the developmental disabilities, and that's been something that we have been blessed with for over thirty some years, raised a ton of money. And it's because of the people that you meet in the community and all that, and that's such it's been exceptional for me. Love that, you know, fans love to hear you. Yeah, well, yeah, it's true. I mean it's like, I mean, it's that's your part of it. But that's the thing, Like it's one thing to see a guy and he throws a bunch of touchdowns and everything, but then when you feel like he's part of your own community and it's a big deal. It's a big deal with people. Well, I'm not going anywhere, so yeah, I'm good to know that all the time. While I'm never going back. Wow, I won't say on a vacation, I go there, I went through the given, I came back real quick, right, and make sure that that's a round trip. So we're going to get you out of here in just a second from my deep dive. But I would be remiss if I didn't ask you this because this team's about to face the New York Jets. You had a lot of great memories, a lot of great battles against that team. But there's one that I'm sure you've talked about a million times. We even had the chance to watch that game. Remember during the COVID year, we watched the game with you. It's oh yeah, yeah, we fake spike the clock, play whatever you want to call it. Again, do you think about that, like every time the Jets are coming into town or that we're facing the Jets. Is it brought to your attention? Do you think about that? I get reminded, that's the word, right, reminded about it a lot from just fans in general, and just the fact that you know, it comes up because of what it was like it was, you know, it was it was pretty cool when it happened, and no one's really done that. Since then, I've tried. Yeah, yeah, I love the interview you did with Peyton where his attempt at doing the fake spike Peyton Manning. Oh yeah, it didn't work out as well as you No, no, no, but you know that was that was a special a day because you know we sent the Jet fans home, right and yeah, yeah we won that game. Give Bernie Cozar a lot of credit because that was kind of his idea from the beginning. We would practice it all the time. I mean for like a year and a half we practiced that thing. We ever wondered like what the hell am I doing? No, I could see that it could you know, I saw it that could happen in the right situation. And it was and and and Bernie was the one that brought that from well, he went to from Cleveland, but then he went to Dallas for a year and they won that Super Bowl, and then he came over here. He said he pitched it. He was on the show, and he said he pitched it to every coach he ever, and finally somebody was like, oh yeah, definitely he said my idea. And thankfully Dan Marinos exactly. I look, I give Bernie credit, but I threw it right, he may not have been able to pull it off. So that's funny. Well, Danny, we end every episode of this podcast with the fish Tank two minute drill. Okay, over the course of your story career, you had thirty seven fourth quarter comeback, so I think, juice, I'm expecting the best too minute drill we've ever had here. I mean, who can run a two minute drill like damn marine? Danny never won? No kicker ever. Nope, we're not kicking it. We're not kicking Joe. We're gonna score a touchdown unless we have to kick. We don't start off with that. So Mike's gonna put two minutes up on the clock. Yeah, you want any timeouts because if you need him, you got him. No, that doesn't need time. We're just gonna go with this thing. So here's what we're gonna start it with. Just some quick, short routes to move the sticks. We're gonna call this word association. I just need one word responses to the names that I throw out to you. We got to start with Don Shula, Okay, one word, one word, Don Sula, tough, Mark Clayton, badass, Mark Cooper, he's a badass too, Bruce Smith in the wrong kind of way. Yeah, well, hearing all that, he used to take care of me a little bit, you know. Yeah, hit Actually it actually hit me and actually picked me up. I don't think he did that from many people. No, that's pretty good. And that's that's not one word. No, it's not. But that's all right. Oh. J mcduffy, tough as it gets. Yeah, badass too, Joe Rose. I appreciate that. Oh he's I want to get away. Yeah, I'm going to bad man. Joe Rose soft a tissue coming out of the Oh, I love it. Oh, this is so good. We're going to open up the offense a little bit. The clock is still running, all right, use a quick release. But your answers can be more than more one word here, all right, Ace Vents are a pet detective. We know how you made Jim Carrey's career on that movie, one hundred million dollar film when that was a big deal back then. It's an absolute classic. But there were three things to me that I thought were incredibly unrealistic. But what was the most unrealistic? So was it that someone stole a living dolphin from the stadium? Was it that a spent caught a bullet with his teeth? Or was it the idea that you would actually be the holder on a field goal at time? Yeah? Yeah, it was. It's all three of those, actually, you know, I mean and and everything about that movie is unrealistic. Matter, But I want to say that that's probably the best work I ever did. Agree, So we all know that there's no defense of a perfect throw. Yeah, but which which defender had the best job of stopping you? As far as a corner corner corner man, I mean, there were some guys real real dudes have played against over the years, and Dion was really good, really good. Mike Haynes, Mike Haynes, that group, Leicester, Mike Haynes, Albert Lewis, rod Woodson, like those cats, like all those cats had a little bit there. Yeah, no, we I mean, it wasn't like, you know, we got our guys, got our dudes, You got your dudes. I feel pretty good about our guys. So I'm gonna throw on you. I'm not. It's not like I'm not going to throw on you. But those those cats are real, real deal, no doubt. All Right, final question here, this is a mystery that all dolphins have wanted solved for quite some time. Jeez, did the director of that commercial just get under your skin or was it really a flub? Which one? Oh uh, it might have been a flub, but it was. We were doing those commercials all day, like it was all day and it was in Orlando, you know, Quarterback Club and all the guys are there and we're going from one spot to the other. It was the last one and it was a young kid. And I'll be honesty, I mean, if he's watching somehow, I'm sorry. I was just I was just over all of it. And uh so it was. It was no that is a two minute drill. Marino finds himself in the end zone. Sure you wanted me to say that, Just make sure you bleep it out. Everybody wanted you to say that, Danny, this was great. This was worth a five year weight to get you to that. 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