Paul Soliai: Blessed and Thankful

00:00:00 Speaker 1: You're now diving sitting down with Seth living Oh Jay, And this is strictly but I'm a true fans number one of course, y'all this and other never sports talk welcome back to the fish tank right here at the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, Seth Lovitt and the man with the best hands in the podcast business, O J McDuffie. Juice. We got a big one today. We do have a big one. A First of all, I'm back to having the best hands. Huh. I mean you always have. It fluctuates you, Seth. It depends on my move. We do have a big one though. Man, it's a great one. It is a great one. I'm excited about it. And we had to go all the way to Utah to track the big fellow down. Paul Soli I dives into the fish tank. Paul, how you feeling, man, I'm feel great, man, excited, blessed to be on this show. We're blessed to have you. No doubt about it. Man, it's a big catch, man, Yeah, it is. It's a big catch. That's right. So Paul, connect the dots for us, man, if you can with your background me you're born and raised in California. But then you moved to American Samoa for your senior in high school. How was that that adjustment? Was it a big adjustment for you? There was a big adjustment just born in California but raised in American some more coming back to the US, trying to learn the language. Really could speak good English, and until I got to comfort your Kanjas, you know, big culture song as JC and then turning back to Utah, still trying to me to this day. There's some words that may stay, but I don't know if I'm staying it right. Wow, that is a big adjustment, man, And I can only imagine now in California. But Coffeeville, Kansas, we'll talk about that coffee. That's interesting that that's where English became, Like you were able to grasp it in Coffeeville. So your family, even though you were born in California, growing up you did English was not the language that was spoken in the home. Yeah, it was, but I considered that the culture was more strong than try to learn English. Try to learn more of the culture, knowing that I was only a half someone, because I wasn't really born in someone. Only my parents were full of some one. So I'm still half. So I wanted to take you advantage and learn the culture and their language. But wait a second, you're saying half both your parents were Samoan. You're saying so people there are like, nah, if you weren't born here, you're not whole. Now, full somemon is when you're born at home. You know, in my heart, I'm still full of someone. Careless what people saying about me. My culture told me strong. But at the end we kind of claim to full someone. Even if your parents and if you're also born in some who's gonna argue with them? You're full of Samoan in my eyes? Like yeah, So, so as you said, you went to from high school, you go to Coffeeville, Kansas for JUCO for a couple of years, and then you go to the Utah and have you know, have a great career there, and then the two thousand and seven draft rolls around. You get picked in the fourth round. Samtus to Telli gets picked in the second round, Reagan Mawia gets picked in the sixth round. So what was that like for you to get drafted? You know, culture obviously is very important to you. To have a couple of other guys that shared at least to some degree. You know, I know they were in Hawaii first, but you know there's some similarities culturally. I mean, I was just blessed and just that believed in the skill that I have. You know, playing one year defensive learning at the University of Utah, wasn't expected to get drafted. Coming to a big league to learn how to play nose tackle was a totally challenge for me. Every year where I was there never played the nose tackle, you know, a play a two gap. I played one year defensive line for Gary then that got drafted knowing that, you know, Miami wanted me to play a big role as a nose tackle. Challenge myself and learned the position in the NFL, and you have these other privileged athletes in front of me that get drafted to an organization have a better opportunity already play the position, and me come in to learn her to play nose and that in National Football League. There's a big challenge for me. But did that help having these other guys, Like, did you connect with those guys right away? With sam Son and Reagan? Did you did you guys connect right away or are we just making that assumption. Yeah, it was kind of funny, kind of maybe, kind of happy that had a couple of other parts and players with me and says I'm being by myself. Yeah, no doubt, guys that I trained with them. I trained with them the whole time in Houston before the draft, so we had the same agent and everybody. Paul, you know, we talked about a couple people in the draft class, but we can't go anywhere without talking about Cam Cameron. I mean, your team in Utah is in decent years, one of one of the munch games, very competitive, but you show up here as a rookie. In locker room, you got the Jason Taylor's and Zach Thomas and the Joey Porter's in there. But then the unthinkable happens with this team. We talked about a lot with so many guys. Big said about, you know that season in itself, but what do you think, man, I mean, you get drafted, you realize in your dream. But then that talk about that that year and everything, I mean to me, it was expected. We had. I think we had a legit team. It's just coming here as a rookie. I just stayed my rookie Road really didn't say that. Just put my head down, just keep practicing, you know, still try to learn the position. This is a season that I want to start my rookie year. No, I'm going undefeated in the preseason. This might be there, yeah, you know, but you learn from it. You know, preseason is not every starters and everybody going against But see how good the team was in the preseason was kind of I was kind of lifting. Okay, we got something going this year. And then when the season went through, it just everything just turning. The best thing I could do is just keep working. I didn't want none of my vestments down on me what I did all in off the field. So let's talk about those vets, right. So just just mentioned JT. Keith Traylor was in that room, Vonnie Holliday was in that room. Matt Roth was in that room. There are some characters in that room. Talk about those guys man, good good guys man. At the time. As a lot of people know me now, how pawns is very humble, quiet because sometimes you gotta have you got you gotta show, you gotta do a lot to get respect from these vents. As me being a rookie day and you know, yeah, everybody was different. J T. Matt, Rob Varney. All they had to do is yeah, what do they need? What I gotta do? They're telling me a lot how to become a better a professional player, And to me, I always wanted to say, Simmer said, well, I wish I had the same roy as you guys coming into the league and paying position that you play. For me, coming as a rookie, I was forced to go, Paul, be afraid, you gotta hold up to the center. I had no idea how to play that playing nose tackle. Then I watched a vet. Keith learned a lot from him. How they keep doing it? It wasn't easy, It was a lot easy. What was that like to have Keith as a mentor? I mean he was very well respected in his locker room? Was he? You know? How helpful was here? Was there anybody else that kind of help you learn the position? I mean a lot of them As a year went by, you know, Keith training, He helped me with little stuff here because you know, I always told him, I said, I always see your name. Did you go to Coffeeville? He said yes, I said, okay, So I told him where I came from from Coffeeville, So I learned. I learned some stuff majority like on the field and off the field a little bit. But I think majority of the guy that really pushed me was Casey Rogers when he came in. We've heard a lot of people talk about Ksey, that he was an amazing coach. Well he's He's somebody that I'll never forget. I take some year, call him here every day. You know, I always telling me, you know, the way I'm living is because of you. I know I put all the work in there, but you gave time to help me with my talent, and you know how to become a real professional player, how to become a good nots temple. So everything I always get it to Casey Rogers. I love that, man, I love that. Now you said that that truck asked you about Coffeeville. Did he play there as well? No, I asked him because I seen the name Keith Trainer. And then when I asked him, he's said, yes, he did go to come from yourself. Oh cool, I didn't know. Yeah, we might have to adjust start to that's a small world. Very cool. Yeah, no doubt about it. Man. You know, Paul, your friendship wasn't just on the defensive side of football either though. And in your second year, we took a chance on an undrafted free agent wide receiver out of Hawaii, as you know this is, and you guys came pretty close. How did you and Devon Best become so close? And what makes you guys bond so well? I think when he came in, I kind of took him, you know, my wishing how to do this, how to do that, A little bit about his background. A lot of my family knows him from Oakland, so and then just just some just somebody just trying to get away from from what he grew up in, trying to get a better life. And I saw him, man, we just always had that. I only just be here by our families, and I always tell them you can do better, and it starts with yourself. That's how you can change stuff in the future for you. You You know what I always thought the connection was because he played in Hawaii and that that, you know, I for some reason, I just thought that was the connection. But I didn't realize because you're from California, so that was really you guys bonded more on the Oakland piece. Yeah, I had no idea, a lot of a lot of his good families and friends, a lot of my family from from the Bay Area and a family from what I already do. Well, you know, he came from a long way. He came went you any other conscience, but he choose some white so he could be something better for his life. Yeah, for sure. Did he know, Like, did you went and put your arm around him or did he come to you? Did? Like, how did you guys figure out that there was that connection? No, it was easy. We met the first day. He came to the the locker room, introduced myself, somebody I know, some of my family, my family know some of his families, and then we just went from there. I bet that meant the world to him. Yeah, trying to figure it all out as an On dragon. Yeah, he talked a little bit about that, you know, in terms of like when he got there, and it's answering all those guys were in the locker over at the same time. So it's always nice to have somebody come up to you or familiar faith or you know, that's that's important for young guys coming all the way across the country as well, right, and everything that Devon had overcome to get that far for sure. So we actually reached out to him for this, just like I reached out to you years ago. When Devon was on the show and he says, what's up. He's like, tell big p I said, what's up. So so definitely wanted to shout out that, but I said, give me something. I need something good about Paul. And everything that he talked about came down to food, Like he just kept talking about food. One of the things he talked he said, you guys like to kick it a little bit. You guys like to get out, and then after a night of partying, everybody would go back to your place and you would make homemade fried rice. So like, tell us about this fried rice, you know. He said, you would make homemade fried rice. And then he said it didn't stop there, that you would throw these barbecues. And then the more people we talked to Paul, everybody start talking about everybody the barbecues, right, I mean pig roasts. And he Devon said, you got him on the kava. That that was that was a little crazy. Maybe Plantation police might have called Weinstein every now and then to say, hey, it's getting a little rowdy over here. Tell us about these barbecues. Man, the barbecue is like something I grew up back Homing Islands is bringing your families together, just bringing the bonding. So I try to why not do something different with the Dolphins, you know, especially starting with the defensive side. Every Friday, I invited all the defense you know, not only then with their spouse and family over for me and my favorite. Basically it's like a luau every Friday. You come, you know, just be yourself. You know, we have bodies, your food, any type food, So we'll cook. Always tell the boys you know, notice you know we don't have really that bonding he at that good part. Were only bomb when we're at practice. But we have the same bondie on the field and off the field. I think we have a really good team. So I started just kept cooking, kept cooking, and then people just kept coming. Yeah, there's a lot of call for Stu Weinstein. A couple of those nights. Still got to know that Stull get this around. Have a little Sometimes the cars would just come, you know, Yeah the music was now, but they covering back. I'll feed them. I'll give them some plates, I know, Zach stayed three houses down from my house and then yeah, right around the corner, Yeah yeah, right around the corner. I didn't smell it. I didn't call the police. Pa problem. It was not me though, and that was the problem. Yeah. But it became a thing where the police would just come. They just come. They wouldn't adopt. They just come on inside of my house, sit down and have a couple of food, take some food home, and then they're shit there because the people have come because either there's too much cars. So I ended up doing a Vale eight thing where I parked all the players card by the park that's on Sunrise was a little park volunteer every Friday night every fight, just just secon at the bottle with other players. Wow, you could come. We had we had card games. Of course, what a lot of guys do you know, like to watch some of the college game from some guys there. But it's just the bomb stuff, having food together, just like Thanksgiving that sounds, you know, and then eventually the Vaughan damn Son and then these guys start bringing their offensive players. So I always had bounties. I have the pounties there so given in the off season, we had guys that come to my house from different teams, the Pouncy brothers. You know, we had all this. We got to go postitive. If he's in town Friday, he's cooking. Trust me. So you were actually doing the cooking? Yes, me and my family. Where did you get those skills from? Back home? The man do the cooking? He looked up my cultures, The man do the cookie I missed out. Man, Yeah, you know I was right there. Man, you didn't know. No, you're not heard about it. Man. You know I'm an older guy, you know, one of the current players, and stuff sounds like you what's your what was your signature? This? Like, what was the one thing that if I went to the cookout that and get an invite to? But if I went to the cookout, what would be the one thing that I couldn't leave without having first? So I know, my wife would make sure everybody has a plate to go already set up, so you would have a so no matter what you eat or whatever, everybody's gonna go. We had guys that come and I made up a rule that they have to come and stay for two hours, at least two hours. Some of them they might go clubbing do whatever, but before they leave, they would have a plate in their car. My wife was, hey, don't drive. So was the two hour rule because you didn't want them drunk coming in and just going through the food line and then bouncing. Was that what the two hour rules for? Yeah? It was basically for the rookies like go leave you a verdant, I go leave it in them shelby. A lot of them cats that underneath me. I just try to tear by, said you guys, and they teach them a little bit how what a good rookie could do? You know something that I went through. So basically from after my years from two thousand and a night, every guys that came underneath me, they're always in my house. I taught them everything I said before they didn't act you to say hey for the season started say. They like, just get it before they ask. That's the best thing you can do. Love that. No wonder why everybody's talking about it's been hid. I want to go back a little bit. And you mentioned the whole deep best and big Paul. They like to get after it every now and then. That's what we're here, you know, other than the cooking and Paul Mtape. I'm one of those guys that love to get after it as well. Man. I like to work hard on the field, but I also played hard down here in South Florida at times. Man, But there can also be a challenge. It's also be a challenge making sure we get back in time for meetings the next day. So I understand you guys, you and the best might have had a nice little night out hard rock and they have pretty much have a search party for small there's worried about you not being able to make it to walk through. Man, tell us about that, because I know I used to go straight from some places and go straight to the training room and lay down because I didn't want to be missing any meetings or late or whatever. Yeah, my first two years, I tell you, I mean it was an experience that I'll never forget. You know, you think stuff closes and you stay in there in hard rock, and I'm just there. Just they must have a time'll be good right when they close, will go yeah, you know. And I always tell people, I say, you know, and that's why I wish the guys that came underneath me, how I tea stuff. I wish I had a mentor like that coming into the league. You know John Gambo did a good job. But like off the field, like the invite me to their home. But if you just do this this, if you're going to party, make sure you go straight to the stilly do this, do that. But you know I tell people, I said, you know, I was one of the lucky. You know, I was like a little cat with night lives. I could have got cut a long time ago, like didn't got released. But you know what, that's when things just came to when after I said, yes, said this thing is, you will stop. You know, there's gonna be a change. And that's when I started doing that stuff. Just I never went out again. Only if it's one of the boy's birthday or especially event, I'll go out. And all the way to this day, I still live there. I stay at home. I take care of my business and people come over, cook whatever it needs to be done tomorrow about and I be living that life a way to know, I don't really do all that party life. Right now, I'm coaching my son's little need team. That's great. Hey, what kind of squad you guys got there? Tell me about that squad. They are twelve. You all right, you know, I try to just make them enjoy. I speak to someone, I said, you gotta have fun, you know, if you know, if you're forced to play this sport, don't do it. You know, because a lot of kids in the area I coached there, they look at my son and see all those are your down in the NFL. Why why does your dad with all these duty yourself my son? My dad don't like jewelry. The majority as you can see the areas like a lot of little rich kids. And sometimes you know, they look at my son, Oh, you don't do My son said no, my dad told me, you know, take care of my grades and with all the trip stuff will come along later like that. Well, you had to learn those lessons kind of the hard way. Yeah, and then they to your own house. I guess that's the way to do it. Definitely, definitely. How do I love that? Well, clearly Miami and your experience here was important to you, and I think seven years of your career here. But then this is a league where things change, right, and life took you to Atlanta. You finished up your career in Carolina and so twenty sixteen you retire two years later, you actually sign a one year contract or a one day contract. You sign a one day contract with the Dolphins to retire as a Miami Dolphin. How did that come about? And why was that important to you? Because they're the one that made me a person am today, how my family is, how I'm living today, you know everything, everything I got to do for my parents, my siblings, especially my kids. Yeah, people think, you know, it's just a blessing. So I couldn't played more. You know the real secret to audist retiring. I had teams for the West Coast that wanted me to play for three or four more. Ye I said no, if I can't get the Dolphins to sign me back, I'm retiring. Really, it was my and you were gonna play for the Dolphins and nobody else. After the Caroline patern we had some other contact us. I said no. I told David, maybe know what the dolphin thing? After the Dolphins did come back, so I decided, what was that? What was the reason that you wouldn't go somewhere else? Because I didn't want to go nowhere West Coast. I thought Miami was home. I made it. I made enough money. I didn't care about the money. I mean two big contracts with the Dolphins, big one with Atlanta. I thought, I wantn't trying to be I just wanted to go back to where I started. All I was asking for it was one more year. Whatever it be a backup or what, but just give me the opportunity one more year, just to shine one more time as a Dolphin. Yeah. And it wasn't gonna happen. No, by that that whole ceremony they did, I don't know if you guys do add more than forty fifty of my families that flew in just just come and celebrate me that one day. Wow. Man for the retirement day. Yeah, the one day contract. Yes, and then that that's just half of the people that but the O the rest were all at my house. They were ready for the bottom. Yeah. So at the whole thing, like people I know the student at I think twenty of my family in I know Dan Marino and all them. They canna tell you, we can't. We came because it's one of a lifetime. I'm gonna get to show that, you know, show my family my work area. I'd actually thank all my family for the support. But Student I see Dan Marino a lot of guys that year that we all did the one day they go, if they can tell you the whole story, how many people in my family came because that's how big it was started. So then what was the party like that night? There's a party to remember, man. Then after after that they actually left Miami. Then I came to Utah and finished school. Wow, I left the following weekend. I came to you tell my family. My family and them stayed in mind. I came back to get my degree. Yeah, we're gonna talk about that, man. And that's an important point right there. Man. I love the whole Miami Dolphin part of it all. Had a hell of a career here that talked about the place that went. But one more year here that you know you didn't get, but you signed that contract. Miami meant a lot to you, didn't it. It really meant a lot to you, paul A lot. Yeah, because, like I said, the opportunity they stuck with me a kid to the ever play nose tackle and still give me the opportunity, believed in me the talent that I won't catch on to that nose type of position, and I'll do my best at it. You know, a lot of these other places I see they don't get the opportunity. But I was thankful it blessed I got the opportunity. But coaches believed in me kept sticking in the park. You just got to do this, and I mean a different man for myself too. You know, you say, right after that party, pretty much you moved back to Utah and you went back and got your degree after a ten year career. You've been you know, Pro Bowl. I saw the All Pro the Pro Bowl hat in the background there, and you know you you have the money, but you decided to get your degree. Why was that so important to you? Because you really have to write, Why was that so important for you? There's a challenge, a challenge my son, especially my kids, and I told them, I said football, it was a hobby. Is we have fun? You know? And then what a way to have fun? And I've got something to support you. And that's what every gay to my kids. You can play whatever sport you want. I don't force my son to play football until he comes to actual help that he wants to play football, then I'll do my best. But I don't force none of my kids in any sports. I think education is more important, especially where I come from. You know, we got all the money, but the money comes and go, the education stays and keep any more. Do you play by the way he's a big make a little baby. That is funny. At what point did you realize that you knew you wanted to go back. I mean, it sounds if education was that important. It sounds like that had been on your mind. You didn't just retire and say, you know what, I think I'm gonna go back to school. That had been on you. Because I used to tell my son, and in my sense, what degree is this right here? And there was my associate degree by AA, that's my age. He was like, oh, you didn't get your back street. It's like what I So I was like, okay. So after the retirement thing at Miami, I left the following weekend so I could be a student coach and start my e to finish up year by degree at Utah while all my family was still in Miami. Party when I came to Utah. But then you never came back. It was hard for me. Even when I sold the house, I never came back, and so the family came ultimately moved out with it. The rest of my family stayed there. The day after, I mean the day after I signed the retirement. The final week I came, I came back to Miami. Ever since, you have not been back. You have have you visited nothing? When are you coming back? Yeah, we gotta get your back ball. I think I didn't like for me. I just like because for me with the memories and stuff. So don't get wrong with the Audi games, on the missing other games, that training camps, all you guys shows. I enjoy watching Oliver them. I just you can never tell which one which one am I because I'm always coming with a fake name. I love it. We gotta get him back. We're gon, We're gonna do you. You know, it was never hard. It's just hard for me because you know, like Miami felt like home, like back home. We're originally from Simore. It's always hot, it's humid, and at the end I had I had to think about it. You know. Then it's still a business, you know, And I learned that by going to Atlanta. Yeah, I was I happy. I wasn't, you know, because I when I went to Carolina thought I was like, you know, like I said, after my tenth year playing. I was like, let me give one more t you know, I know, because I said I'll take less to play one year with the Dolphins, just to give me one more opportunity to go out with the real go like this going the right way, go out with the bags and shay. Yeah, I'm done. I started with these guys are gonna ended with you. Yeah. So is the fact that you've never been back and you're saying it's hard for you? Is it? Is it the fact that you didn't get re signed or I'm sensing that you are so connected, like like you talk about Samoa, you get so connected to a to a place. It's not just a place where you live, like you get connected to the culture, to the people, to the and so is it like it's too hard to come back because you've already made that decision to leave and you don't want to get pulled back by the deep connection. Oh no, I left because I thought you don't come here with education. Miami is always gonna be my home no matter what. You know, I know majority of my family year we have our little fantasy. They get mad because you don't want to play shit. Why you know, I'm good? You know, what's of my family. You're a Niners fan, you know, we all we all grew up Niners fan. But you come to my house is our Dolphins. They know how it is. No matter what I said, that's a childhood treat you going for a team, But when you actually play for the team, it's it hits you different then. Just not just going for them, but you know how how them boys work during the hot summer days. I always tell it to my persons. Now, you guys got it easy. You guys never went through two days, you know right? And I was playing thankful and I can say stuff because I play through the big partial area the rest of the Peace Coach Final. You know, two days. I would never want to go through two days. Not bad, Hey, Paul, I always joke with what I'm serious about. There's only two fun days in football, and that Sundays and paydays. You know what I mean. They can have the rest of that, right, the rest of them and the guy like this, but when it comes to football itself, Sundays and pay days, that's about it. Yeah, it's true. It's just like when when the Dolphins used to travel to Oakland when we play Okay, Oakland, Friscal, San Francisco. You guys, anybody that works in the office. I buy eighty tickets every time we travel to it to the West coast because I told my family that said, if you guys come there, I got you. And that was probably one of my things to my family. They don't come to all the games. They couldn't come all in the back after the game because it still got thee. You had to work hard to get a big contract. It a game, no doubt. Well then you need to you need to come back at some point visit. Man, we gotta you gotta No, I'm definitely gonna come back. I want to come back with my when I know my son is ready, you know, because there's this stuff I want. I always tell my son. I was like, man, you know I missed my house. I sold my house. Yeah, we gotta get you back. Yeah for sure. All right. Paul, So, as a six four three and thirty five pound defensive tackle, you probably weren't in a lot of two minute drills. But we're gonna put you in the two minute drill here in the fish tank. We end every episode, we put two minutes up on the clock. We're gonna throw some fast paced questions at you. You can read, react and try and get off the field. You just you know, you answer him as you see fit and we'll have a little fun. Does that sound good? You can't see it. But JT. Not the JT you played with, but JT we played with here in the fish tank. He's got two minutes on the clock. We're gonna go ahead and get this thing started. Juice, you could kick it off, all right, you're ready? All right? You spent two years in Coffeeville, Kansas, playing for the Coffeeville community colleagues Red Ravens, and it turns out you are the third, the third Dolphin Miami Dolphin to play there. You already know one, Keith Traylor. You know who the other one was. Any kicking today? You know your Coffeeville. I had never heard the word Coffeeville. Te was. I was like, oh man, Paul went to Coffeeville too. I love it all right. Earlier we talked about the legendary fried rice. Can you tell us the recipe or what was it that made guys? They just couldn't. Fifteen years later, they're still talking about the fried rice? Are you willing to share a secret? Yes? Right, you know, Cha sauce sauce and spam and A's and then Kim cheese sauce in it. And that's the Tony right there. That's it. That's we gotta write that one down. The Kim cheese sauce is the one that throws it off. Is the Kim cheese sauce. Remember that that right, It's just a Kim cheese sauce. I got it all right. Speaking of cooking skills, we know you had a special connection to historic South Florida Paul Diesea restaurant Makai, which I loved as well. If you were to open your own restaurant, what would your signature just be? Remember probably the clue up pig and a barbecue chicken, pig hungry the barbecue chicken. They're about to open. I think they're going to reopen the Macai Final Good. I think they got some investors going to reopen that thing. Good. Yeah, Okay. A. J. Francis, who is now also known as w w E Superstar Top Dollar, was recently here on the show and we asked him which Miami Dolphin in the history of the team, which Miami Dolphin would make a great professional wrestler and he, without skipping a ba, said, Paul Soli, have you ever considered professional wrestling? And if you were to do it, what would be your wrestling name? That's the two minutes it's sad to get off the field. Oh man, that's so that's so good. I feel like you've thought about that before. You know, I'm a big wrestling fan too. You know, I see a he's very blessed with you. I know he's trying to get a hold of me for his podcast. Have you been out to see him in the ring? No. The fighters I ever left my house is to to my son's football field. Back. That's it. You're a real homebody. Huh, homebody just trying to learn how to fix stuff around my house. Wow? Wow? YouTube man? YouTube? Yeah yeah, YouTube is my best friend, you know, especially with this winter. I messed up this past year. I was supposed to chain out the water out of my speakers and got cold over here. I left them all, and then when the summer came, I went into all my pipes and said, Paul, did you said? Dope? I didn't know how. You know, he's from Samoa and lived in Miami. What does he know about pipes? Freezing over. I don't blame it. I don't know about it either, Paul Hey, but Aj said that you had his back man that when he was here, that you did the vet move and let him take a lot of those reps in camp. But that really helped him get first team reps against real guys that he would not have gotten otherwise. I mean, AJ's been there, you know, I know he'll probably notice this. I always telling me a lot of guys that came up, even at the nose cycle Jarrett at Atlanta right now, guys that were hardy getting reps. And that's something I wish I could I did when I was coming. So what I did as an event with a lot of these young guys, I knew how many plays I was gonna be in there. I just gonna let them take the rest so they can see how it feels going up a real center, real bars. So I'll tell them when you see me buck on my helmet, I bumper, that MEANSNA come out. But I want you to see and they'll come at They'll come at me after that. Bad that's different, I said. That's what I'm telling you. Going again to your own team is different until you're gonna gainst another professional player that's watching you. You know you're not going you don't know what plays are winning well, he said it meant a lot to him, you know, for his development, for him to get six years in there now. But we got to get you guys together. You got to see top dollar in the ring. We're waiting for you down here. Absolutely, Paul, this was amazing. I didn't realize that you don't even leave the house. So the fact that you not only responded to the text in the day. I don't know what David's talking about. You got back to us in twenty four hours for you to dive into the tank. It means a lot. Man. Yeah, David Harry's telling me and now he's just a frame on my agent. So you don't have to get back there right away, right Yeah, So you know I tell him anything. I'll do anything for the Dolphins, no matter what they ask you. Is what I need to do is the podcast of one of the people. I'll do it. I mean, it's not like I'm busy running around to say at home, we appreciate it. Hey, thanks for diving in bath. Thank you guys. You're now diving just like Ju said, thanks for diving into the fish Tank presented by iHeartRadio. Be sure to follow us on whatever streaming platform you're using, and don't be afraid to rate the show or leave us a comment. 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