June 7, 2026
Why Malik Willis Is Miami's Starting QB (And It Isn't Close)
The Miami Dolphins quarterback conversation is heating up.
On this Fish Tank x DolphinsTalk crossover, O.J. McDuffie, Seth Levit, and Mike Oliva tackle one of the biggest debates surrounding the 2026 Dolphins: Are you Team Malik Willis or Team Quinn Ewers?
With Malik Willis brought in by the new regime and Quinn Ewers showing flashes late last season, Dolphins fans are already picking sides. The guys break down Willis' upside, Ewers' performances in limited action, what Jeff Hafley and Jon-Eric Sullivan's investment in Willis really means, and why the backup quarterback is always the most popular player in town.
Is there actually a quarterback competition in Miami? Or is this already Malik Willis' team?
• Fish Tank x DolphinsTalk Crossover
• Featuring O.J. McDuffie, Seth Levit & Mike Oliva
The Fish Tank is presented by:
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Full video available on the DolphinsTalk YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5MARwaLqBo&t=20s
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a fish tank dolphins talk crossover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is starting to become a habit fellas set live in here with Ojemik Duffy and Michael Leave of dolphins talk.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of like this crossover thing we've got.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's nice, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We bring Mike into the situation man, like, you know, I love having Mike on that because Mike is so, you know, got so much knowledge about everything, man, he spends his whole life on thinking big stuff, talking about he's damn dolphins, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's damn dolphins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's loved that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, guys, it feels like a long life thinking about these dolphins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, or maybe we've lost a few.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, we have to reevaluate my life, I feel like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it's her gut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I need to look.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I told him he's morning set, you know, we were 10.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm old.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember all the teams in the 80s.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember the teams in the 90s when you put, you know, I got a little bit of history here, followed on this team and hopefully things are going to turn around here in the next few years and we're more happy shows.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, you know, it's nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be nice for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we had a happy show last night at this tank live.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was lively to say the least.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a lot of control off the rails, but we survived it, and I think we had a good time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there was a topic that we tapped into, but really didn't get into the way I had hoped to and just kind of lost my way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's the quarterback, right, and, you know, of course, always, what team and the league is talking about the quarterback right now for one reason or the other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: what I wanted to discuss is I'm starting to see if you start looking at comments a little bit in some of the media members and the things that they're saying or reporting the questions that they're asking Jeff Halfley is
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's might be like team Malik and maybe there's team quit and I don't even know if that should be a thing right now But I feel like the way that to had that fall from grace last year and everybody loves to back up quarterback I went out there and put a case of mountain do on this thing and said there's no way Quinn yours is gonna be the starter at any point as long as to a healthy
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[SPEAKER_01]: and it ended up costing me that we did see coin viewers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We get the report from whether it was Darren Waller, whoever else that Mike McDaniel before he was relieved of his duties thought he was looking forward to 2026 and was ready to roll with coin viewers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's now these
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Jeff Hafelie and John Erick Sullivan, of course, bringing a quarterback that they're familiar with, he was the prized quarterback of free agency and Malik Willis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They signed him to a, you know, not a crazy contract, but they invested in him for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, to me, he's the starter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know that this is a question, but maybe because he has one era at pass or one intersection in a mini camp, people now are starting to raise these questions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your first sentence called him last week?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your first sentence called him last week?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, that was my first sentence.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Way like past.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's like doing this a little bit too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't help that Perk came on here and said, and nobody tells you somebody played like asked the way Chris Perk has done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's something about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that Chris Perkins accent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to ask you guys, are you team Malik?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you team Quinn?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Should there even be teams right now?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like is this a ridiculous conversation?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, yeah, there's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to digest there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, of course, you know, we, we did love what 20 years did last year at the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't see a lot, you know, he, he wasn't spectacular, but it wasn't awful, you know, to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he got some meaningful snaps for the football team with limited amount of starts, but he still fresh out of the league out of college, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, being a fresh out of college, there's still some learning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's your for quarterbacks, quarterbacks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to take them a year or two to be able to go out there and be effective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, of course, there can be a fun all season and, you know, I think Coach Hathley talked about the other day about, you know, being 7 on 7, everybody thinks that, you know, you were fewer, when you were just looking nice about it, you know, 7 on 7 as Coach Hathley said, isn't real football, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so what happens with things break down?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What happens when things aren't right, you know, things are perfect right now when you're doing 707 zero past rush, you know, zero, you know, nobody on the line is getting beat right away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Things like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Quinn is going to go out there and he's going to shine those situations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just like it'll probably shine in one-on-one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like it'll shine, you know, against air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can throw the ball, you can spin it, you really can't spin it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he didn't get all those yards in college for no reason, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, over 9,000 yards in college, that tells you you can throw the rock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he's had a lot of talent around him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, to go out there and make some plays for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when we talk about Malette, the exact, I mean, come on, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me this, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to guide that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be great for us off schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I like about what Malette's done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we've seen it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we've seen them off schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen, it's ability to run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen this ability to throw the ball, you know, different platforms like they always do when it comes to green and they quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you see, it was a green, they quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that it's really, people need to pump their brakes when they're talking about Quinn right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Quinn's going to be a great and valuable backup for this football team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, Elite Willis is going to be a guy that's, you know, with the few stars that he's had, I get that part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, though, he's had some big time starts with that football team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when they need him, needed him most, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I just feel like, no matter what, you know, we won't know anything about either one of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen something quen, but we won't know anything until, you know, it gets really live out there, but the ability from a leak willus to go out there and throw the rock, be able to move out the pocket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas quen yours is really a pocket passer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I think the day and age of a pocket passer or the dead to me, dead to me, I think guys have to get out and about and be able to do their thing, you know, all script, and that's going to be great for, look, as a wire receiver, I would love a quarter back that if you go all script.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, all right, I didn't, I didn't win this dig route.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I can retrace and now I'm open while my quarterback is slowing my way, you know, now my DD is going the other way and I'm coming back now why I don't put it again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you stack up numbers right there, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might not win it to be getting, but you got to quarterback that can extend the plate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, week will us can do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I don't want to take up all the time talking about this, but my vote in my, my, my good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably right, except I'm gonna pat myself It's gonna be Malik Willis You know, I mean you sound pretty Malik for sure Yeah, he brings he brings something He brings something to our quarterback position that we haven't seen at a long time Like I know, I'll tell you, you know, I thought Ryan to be, you know, more of a You know athletic and mobile quarterback But I'll think of like a J-feather type of guy That can also, that has a bigger arm and that will probably be your talent
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Mike, where are you because that sounded a whole lot like team Malik to me?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm coming in the same place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First, if I am team Miami Dolphins, first and foremost, before I was in four months, first and foremost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, I quit, I quit, I quit, oh, it's not orange and I quit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I quit orange.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, no, I'm the same way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I just called up this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Quinniers came in at the end of the lecture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He started three games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was fine for a seventh run pick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's be honest, there was no pressure on him to seize a one's over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's not and I'm people talking about him like he was like the second coming here and I'm looking at these stats to make sure I'm not losing my mind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Patriots at last game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was 16 to 237 yards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One touchdown one in a reception, you know, that wasn't, and that was a bad game for the offense overall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The last 38.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The second start for his tamp was his best start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 172 yards, two touchdowns done on our saptions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, 14 to 22.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tampa Bay wasn't, they didn't have a shot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, fine, it was a fight start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the first start against Cincinnati, no touchdowns,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't get it and it can again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Two things can be true at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I think Quanyor's is probably a career second string quarterback and he doesn't Ronald it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Those guys make a lot of money He's got a lot of money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No robes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of what he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get TV jobs everything, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, if he turns out to be more than that, I'm wrong, and that's great for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I didn't do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think with Willis, there's a chance he could be a middle of the pack and a fell starter maybe even a little bit higher than middle of the pack.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we don't know, I don't know, but I think there's a chance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, you're right, O.J.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In this modern era, in the state of 1985, there's an even 1992.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You've got to make plays for their lives if you're a quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not necessarily if you got your rods or view guys who scrambles, you're going to be able to move around a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can't just be a statue anymore the last guy we had whose name I won't say couldn't move at all That was part of the problem.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Atlanta's in for a rude awakening By the way, I hear he looks really good in seven Sorry, thank you, sorry time jobs and don't worry about he's some fall back and I guess
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every guy on that roster wants to hear.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm putting my body on the line for you, but that's a part time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's another story for another minute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but no, I mean, you got to move a little bit and let's see what the Willis here's a deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Willis plays great, we're going to be fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because we got this guy at a fair market price and we have him for another few years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it doesn't work out this year, because he really only does have six NFL stars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it doesn't work out, we're probably going to be picking really high in the draft, where there's a lot of quarterback next year, that can't go back to school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They actually have to come out this time, because they've used all their ultra-building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's kind of a win-win for Miami, but yes, I would say put me in team well as because I think he brings more to the table, and I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's because I'm old, I don't care what he does it may in June if he's so that that's the time where you should be working on things So take a risk if it gets swatted down if it's far in the lab if it gets picked off it's May in June who cares talk to me comes September week one in Las Vegas That's when he gets judged this stuff people read to I think look I know everyone's so thirsty for NFL content And they want to stop every day and they don't want to wait they have no patience
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, man, it's Mayan June.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First off, none of us are even there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We can't see it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're having five or six people telling us what's happening, which they do great work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's saying they don't put truly on the edge of climate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're not seeing everything either by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's Mayan June.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot get worked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's enjoy the summer for part 2.
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[SPEAKER_01]: right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, the business that produces some of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we got team of league and team of league and I don't even think that there is really a conversation or discussion here and I said, although we just had one for the last 11 minutes, but the reality is this, there is no way that walking into.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the worst cap situation in national football league history with a first time general manager a first time head coach who both are are very self-aware and have made it very clear that they understand that that is their circumstance that they are going to just take a flyer on somebody and invest I mean that's the biggest investment that they've made financially was was in
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the first one that they made, and it's a guy they were around for two years, they had to sit down and say, this is the guy we believe in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They clearly have attached their name to Malik Willis, and that doesn't mean that if it doesn't work out that they're all going to have to start getting the resumes polished up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they have invested.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in this quarterback and they believe that he's the guy that will be the starting quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know, there's no quarterback competition here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's, you know, they want to get the best out of coin years, but I just to your point, Mike, I don't know what people saw in a quarterback that went one and two to end the season and had moments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other than the fact that he wasn't the guy they didn't want in there and that's what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that is the big thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is he a capable player that belongs in the national football league to play quarterback at first ring second strength?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I mean, I think it's proven that that he belongs on an NFL roster right beyond that I don't know what we're talking about here and if he has a couple of good throws and Malik has a couple of misfires And maybe we don't even know that these young receivers have run a route to short or the wrong way or whatever things might be
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[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't mean that all of the sudden we have to say that Quinn you are never got a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because he's not going to get a chance to start right now unless there's an injury or something dramatic happens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see how these guys would invest in Malik and go in a different direction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless Malik just showed up looking like to a tongue of I low in 2020.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, right, and that's not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see how professional he is about his body, his work ethic, off script, you know, off the way from the premise of, you know, coming into OTAs or rookies, you know, this guy's on a whole different level when it comes to one leadership.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, which is always important, you know, we've had some guys that, you know, you see some other quarterbacks, older quarterbacks, the league that did nothing with their teammates, did nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What they do is want to show up, you know, and then leave and not, you know, and they built no report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see Malik Wilson's doing that report, and I'm not saying that Quint Youers hasn't done the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it's, you know, how he hangs out with guys or whatever, I'm sure he's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like a really cool guy, you know, but like we talked about them, and you look at Quint's numbers
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at that, 622 yards, three interceptions, three touchdowns, you know, one or two record like you said, they said, come on man, everybody said, pump your brakes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is, this is very canceled, OTAs, you know, way to we get some joy practices.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll, they'll we can start talking a little bit about how it does against some other opponents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then definitely, you know, definitely, definitely, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's gonna get a lot of snaps and preseason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure we go from there, but Malik Willis for sure is got to be the guy because they don't make this And we talked about it right when we got Malik Willis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't make this investment and Mike said it best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a killer monetary situation But it is a monetary situation where we've been investing in this guy, but they've seen he then you know don't take that, you know If they thought that way about a friend don't even go and get Malik
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, but in God getting what was time going to get Malik if you know But you know what you got in Malik will is so go out there and get him like they did and see what he can do for its football team man So that's that's how I feel about it and you know, and I hope I hope there's a great competition I hope there's a great competition in every single position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do not hope he gets better
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope it's a great competition because they're both playing well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not because we got to the side, which one, you know, my God.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's say two E was not, that's a bad situation, but they're both playing very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the fact that we've got guys that are up in their game, raising their level, and they get an opportunity to go out there and compete.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want that every single position out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also you guys said this last night, I've been saying that for months, these guys, they came here, they don't care about anyone who is already here, no, they want their own guys, they didn't have cool yours, they didn't draft cool yours, they don't, I mean, I'm sure they're happy to have my roster, she was like a nice enough guy, but we didn't draft you're here for now and but we know this guy, we traded for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in Green Bay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is a big part of this, too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They hand picked this guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't have to go out there and do what they hand picked him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the bottom line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Quinn Ewers was just one of the guy like, and it ain't just Quinn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of these guys.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care where you are drafted.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Someone like Chopra Robinson, you're like, look, they're on notice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You better perform this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to bring in more of their own guys because they'll prep these guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cut you off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was just going to say building on that and one other point, two things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One, we're not bagging on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is no conversation here in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the second thing to your point, Mike, they don't have to have any loyalty to any of these players that they inherited.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't mean that they are looking to just make their mark and only play players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just pay Devon H and who they inherited.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they were very happy to inherit him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they talked about a couple other guys and I'm sure they're very glad to have on this roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they might be very glad to have Plinyur and says a capable back up in a young guy that they
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[SPEAKER_01]: to get paid to go somewhere else or take over whatever it might be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when it comes to the quarterback position and the 2026 Miami Dolphins football team, it's team Malik.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It reminds me of one thing real quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: because we say it all the time, but sometimes until you see it like this, the backup, quarterback is the most popular guy with the fans and everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you're a rookie hero, Jay 1993, who happens to Danny, he gets hurt.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Scott Mitchell comes in and plays a few great games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There were people talking, maybe we should keep Scott.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have him down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: serious about that and then he gets hurt Scott and look Scott had a nice career made a lot of money with a lion this stuff but you know he's the most popular guy so right now the people who are a little bit uneasy about well as you don't know maybe we pay too much quit the ears of my guy I love quitting that's a lot of it I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, great stuff here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Excited for more crossovers throughout this season and we'll catch on the next live and we do have a great fish tank episode coming up with Toronto Armstead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that one's going to be coming up here in a few days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can find all of it on Apple Spotify or if you're looking for it on YouTube right here in the Dolphistalk YouTube channel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, here we are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is a fish tank dolphins talk crossover.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This is starting to become a habit fellas set live in here with Ojemik Duffy and Michael Leave of dolphins talk.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of like this crossover thing we've got.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's nice, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We bring Mike into the situation man, like, you know, I love having Mike on that because Mike is so, you know, got so much knowledge about everything, man, he spends his whole life on thinking big stuff, talking about he's damn dolphins, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's damn dolphins.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's loved that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, guys, it feels like a long life thinking about these dolphins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, or maybe we've lost a few.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, we have to reevaluate my life, I feel like.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it's her gut.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, I need to look.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I told him he's morning set, you know, we were 10.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm old.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember all the teams in the 80s.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I remember the teams in the 90s when you put, you know, I got a little bit of history here, followed on this team and hopefully things are going to turn around here in the next few years and we're more happy shows.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, you know, it's nice.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That would be nice for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we had a happy show last night at this tank live.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was, it was lively to say the least.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a lot of control off the rails, but we survived it, and I think we had a good time.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But there was a topic that we tapped into, but really didn't get into the way I had hoped to and just kind of lost my way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's the quarterback, right, and, you know, of course, always, what team and the league is talking about the quarterback right now for one reason or the other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: what I wanted to discuss is I'm starting to see if you start looking at comments a little bit in some of the media members and the things that they're saying or reporting the questions that they're asking Jeff Halfley is
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's might be like team Malik and maybe there's team quit and I don't even know if that should be a thing right now But I feel like the way that to had that fall from grace last year and everybody loves to back up quarterback I went out there and put a case of mountain do on this thing and said there's no way Quinn yours is gonna be the starter at any point as long as to a healthy
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[SPEAKER_01]: and it ended up costing me that we did see coin viewers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We get the report from whether it was Darren Waller, whoever else that Mike McDaniel before he was relieved of his duties thought he was looking forward to 2026 and was ready to roll with coin viewers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so there's now these
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Jeff Hafelie and John Erick Sullivan, of course, bringing a quarterback that they're familiar with, he was the prized quarterback of free agency and Malik Willis.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They signed him to a, you know, not a crazy contract, but they invested in him for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, to me, he's the starter.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know that this is a question, but maybe because he has one era at pass or one intersection in a mini camp, people now are starting to raise these questions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your first sentence called him last week?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's your first sentence called him last week?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, that was my first sentence.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Way like past.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's like doing this a little bit too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It didn't help that Perk came on here and said, and nobody tells you somebody played like asked the way Chris Perk has done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's something about that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that Chris Perkins accent.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I want to ask you guys, are you team Malik?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Are you team Quinn?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Should there even be teams right now?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like is this a ridiculous conversation?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, yeah, there's a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot to digest there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, of course, you know, we, we did love what 20 years did last year at the end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We didn't see a lot, you know, he, he wasn't spectacular, but it wasn't awful, you know, to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he got some meaningful snaps for the football team with limited amount of starts, but he still fresh out of the league out of college, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, being a fresh out of college, there's still some learning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's your for quarterbacks, quarterbacks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to take them a year or two to be able to go out there and be effective.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, of course, there can be a fun all season and, you know, I think Coach Hathley talked about the other day about, you know, being 7 on 7, everybody thinks that, you know, you were fewer, when you were just looking nice about it, you know, 7 on 7 as Coach Hathley said, isn't real football, you know?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so what happens with things break down?
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[SPEAKER_00]: What happens when things aren't right, you know, things are perfect right now when you're doing 707 zero past rush, you know, zero, you know, nobody on the line is getting beat right away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Things like that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, Quinn is going to go out there and he's going to shine those situations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just like it'll probably shine in one-on-one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like it'll shine, you know, against air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can throw the ball, you can spin it, you really can't spin it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he didn't get all those yards in college for no reason, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, over 9,000 yards in college, that tells you you can throw the rock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, he's had a lot of talent around him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, to go out there and make some plays for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when we talk about Malette, the exact, I mean, come on, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me this, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to guide that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be great for us off schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I like about what Malette's done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we've seen it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we've seen them off schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen, it's ability to run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen this ability to throw the ball, you know, different platforms like they always do when it comes to green and they quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, you see, it was a green, they quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I think that it's really, people need to pump their brakes when they're talking about Quinn right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Quinn's going to be a great and valuable backup for this football team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But, Elite Willis is going to be a guy that's, you know, with the few stars that he's had, I get that part.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, though, he's had some big time starts with that football team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when they need him, needed him most, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I just feel like, no matter what, you know, we won't know anything about either one of them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen something quen, but we won't know anything until, you know, it gets really live out there, but the ability from a leak willus to go out there and throw the rock, be able to move out the pocket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whereas quen yours is really a pocket passer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, and I think the day and age of a pocket passer or the dead to me, dead to me, I think guys have to get out and about and be able to do their thing, you know, all script, and that's going to be great for, look, as a wire receiver, I would love a quarter back that if you go all script.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, all right, I didn't, I didn't win this dig route.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now I can retrace and now I'm open while my quarterback is slowing my way, you know, now my DD is going the other way and I'm coming back now why I don't put it again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you stack up numbers right there, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You might not win it to be getting, but you got to quarterback that can extend the plate.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like, week will us can do.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's important.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, I don't want to take up all the time talking about this, but my vote in my, my, my good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably right, except I'm gonna pat myself It's gonna be Malik Willis You know, I mean you sound pretty Malik for sure Yeah, he brings he brings something He brings something to our quarterback position that we haven't seen at a long time Like I know, I'll tell you, you know, I thought Ryan to be, you know, more of a You know athletic and mobile quarterback But I'll think of like a J-feather type of guy That can also, that has a bigger arm and that will probably be your talent
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Mike, where are you because that sounded a whole lot like team Malik to me?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'm coming in the same place.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First, if I am team Miami Dolphins, first and foremost, before I was in four months, first and foremost.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, I quit, I quit, I quit, oh, it's not orange and I quit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I quit orange.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, no, I'm the same way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I just called up this.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Quinniers came in at the end of the lecture.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He started three games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was fine for a seventh run pick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, let's be honest, there was no pressure on him to seize a one's over.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's not and I'm people talking about him like he was like the second coming here and I'm looking at these stats to make sure I'm not losing my mind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Patriots at last game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He was 16 to 237 yards.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One touchdown one in a reception, you know, that wasn't, and that was a bad game for the offense overall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The last 38.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The second start for his tamp was his best start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: 172 yards, two touchdowns done on our saptions.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, 14 to 22.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Tampa Bay wasn't, they didn't have a shot.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, fine, it was a fight start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then the first start against Cincinnati, no touchdowns,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just don't get it and it can again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Two things can be true at the same time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I think Quanyor's is probably a career second string quarterback and he doesn't Ronald it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Those guys make a lot of money He's got a lot of money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No robes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's kind of what he is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Get TV jobs everything, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's true.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, if he turns out to be more than that, I'm wrong, and that's great for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I didn't do that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think with Willis, there's a chance he could be a middle of the pack and a fell starter maybe even a little bit higher than middle of the pack.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we don't know, I don't know, but I think there's a chance.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And yes, you're right, O.J.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In this modern era, in the state of 1985, there's an even 1992.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You've got to make plays for their lives if you're a quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not necessarily if you got your rods or view guys who scrambles, you're going to be able to move around a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You can't just be a statue anymore the last guy we had whose name I won't say couldn't move at all That was part of the problem.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think Atlanta's in for a rude awakening By the way, I hear he looks really good in seven Sorry, thank you, sorry time jobs and don't worry about he's some fall back and I guess
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[SPEAKER_02]: Every guy on that roster wants to hear.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm putting my body on the line for you, but that's a part time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's another story for another minute.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, but no, I mean, you got to move a little bit and let's see what the Willis here's a deal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If Willis plays great, we're going to be fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Because we got this guy at a fair market price and we have him for another few years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it doesn't work out this year, because he really only does have six NFL stars.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it doesn't work out, we're probably going to be picking really high in the draft, where there's a lot of quarterback next year, that can't go back to school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They actually have to come out this time, because they've used all their ultra-building.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's kind of a win-win for Miami, but yes, I would say put me in team well as because I think he brings more to the table, and I don't care.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe it's because I'm old, I don't care what he does it may in June if he's so that that's the time where you should be working on things So take a risk if it gets swatted down if it's far in the lab if it gets picked off it's May in June who cares talk to me comes September week one in Las Vegas That's when he gets judged this stuff people read to I think look I know everyone's so thirsty for NFL content And they want to stop every day and they don't want to wait they have no patience
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, man, it's Mayan June.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First off, none of us are even there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We can't see it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're having five or six people telling us what's happening, which they do great work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's saying they don't put truly on the edge of climate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're not seeing everything either by the way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's Mayan June.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I cannot get worked.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's enjoy the summer for part 2.
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[SPEAKER_01]: right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, you know, the business that produces some of that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So we got team of league and team of league and I don't even think that there is really a conversation or discussion here and I said, although we just had one for the last 11 minutes, but the reality is this, there is no way that walking into.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the worst cap situation in national football league history with a first time general manager a first time head coach who both are are very self-aware and have made it very clear that they understand that that is their circumstance that they are going to just take a flyer on somebody and invest I mean that's the biggest investment that they've made financially was was in
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[SPEAKER_01]: But the first one that they made, and it's a guy they were around for two years, they had to sit down and say, this is the guy we believe in.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They clearly have attached their name to Malik Willis, and that doesn't mean that if it doesn't work out that they're all going to have to start getting the resumes polished up.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But they have invested.
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[SPEAKER_01]: in this quarterback and they believe that he's the guy that will be the starting quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know, there's no quarterback competition here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's, you know, they want to get the best out of coin years, but I just to your point, Mike, I don't know what people saw in a quarterback that went one and two to end the season and had moments.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Other than the fact that he wasn't the guy they didn't want in there and that's what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, that is the big thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is he a capable player that belongs in the national football league to play quarterback at first ring second strength?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, I mean, I think it's proven that that he belongs on an NFL roster right beyond that I don't know what we're talking about here and if he has a couple of good throws and Malik has a couple of misfires And maybe we don't even know that these young receivers have run a route to short or the wrong way or whatever things might be
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[SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't mean that all of the sudden we have to say that Quinn you are never got a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because he's not going to get a chance to start right now unless there's an injury or something dramatic happens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't see how these guys would invest in Malik and go in a different direction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless Malik just showed up looking like to a tongue of I low in 2020.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, right, and that's not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You see how professional he is about his body, his work ethic, off script, you know, off the way from the premise of, you know, coming into OTAs or rookies, you know, this guy's on a whole different level when it comes to one leadership.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, which is always important, you know, we've had some guys that, you know, you see some other quarterbacks, older quarterbacks, the league that did nothing with their teammates, did nothing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What they do is want to show up, you know, and then leave and not, you know, and they built no report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I see Malik Wilson's doing that report, and I'm not saying that Quint Youers hasn't done the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it's, you know, how he hangs out with guys or whatever, I'm sure he's amazing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like a really cool guy, you know, but like we talked about them, and you look at Quint's numbers
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[SPEAKER_00]: Look at that, 622 yards, three interceptions, three touchdowns, you know, one or two record like you said, they said, come on man, everybody said, pump your brakes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is, this is very canceled, OTAs, you know, way to we get some joy practices.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then we'll, they'll we can start talking a little bit about how it does against some other opponents.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then definitely, you know, definitely, definitely, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's gonna get a lot of snaps and preseason.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure we go from there, but Malik Willis for sure is got to be the guy because they don't make this And we talked about it right when we got Malik Willis.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't make this investment and Mike said it best.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's not a killer monetary situation But it is a monetary situation where we've been investing in this guy, but they've seen he then you know don't take that, you know If they thought that way about a friend don't even go and get Malik
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, but in God getting what was time going to get Malik if you know But you know what you got in Malik will is so go out there and get him like they did and see what he can do for its football team man So that's that's how I feel about it and you know, and I hope I hope there's a great competition I hope there's a great competition in every single position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really do not hope he gets better
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope it's a great competition because they're both playing well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not because we got to the side, which one, you know, my God.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's say two E was not, that's a bad situation, but they're both playing very well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the fact that we've got guys that are up in their game, raising their level, and they get an opportunity to go out there and compete.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I want that every single position out there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And also you guys said this last night, I've been saying that for months, these guys, they came here, they don't care about anyone who is already here, no, they want their own guys, they didn't have cool yours, they didn't draft cool yours, they don't, I mean, I'm sure they're happy to have my roster, she was like a nice enough guy, but we didn't draft you're here for now and but we know this guy, we traded for him.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in Green Bay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So that is a big part of this, too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They hand picked this guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They didn't have to go out there and do what they hand picked him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the bottom line.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Quinn Ewers was just one of the guy like, and it ain't just Quinn.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a lot of these guys.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't care where you are drafted.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Someone like Chopra Robinson, you're like, look, they're on notice.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You better perform this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to bring in more of their own guys because they'll prep these guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Cut you off.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was just going to say building on that and one other point, two things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One, we're not bagging on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on, on
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[SPEAKER_01]: There is no conversation here in my opinion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's number one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then the second thing to your point, Mike, they don't have to have any loyalty to any of these players that they inherited.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't mean that they are looking to just make their mark and only play players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They just pay Devon H and who they inherited.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they were very happy to inherit him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they talked about a couple other guys and I'm sure they're very glad to have on this roster.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they might be very glad to have Plinyur and says a capable back up in a young guy that they
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[SPEAKER_01]: to get paid to go somewhere else or take over whatever it might be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when it comes to the quarterback position and the 2026 Miami Dolphins football team, it's team Malik.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No good stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It reminds me of one thing real quick.
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[SPEAKER_02]: because we say it all the time, but sometimes until you see it like this, the backup, quarterback is the most popular guy with the fans and everything.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And you're a rookie hero, Jay 1993, who happens to Danny, he gets hurt.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Scott Mitchell comes in and plays a few great games.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There were people talking, maybe we should keep Scott.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll have him down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: serious about that and then he gets hurt Scott and look Scott had a nice career made a lot of money with a lion this stuff but you know he's the most popular guy so right now the people who are a little bit uneasy about well as you don't know maybe we pay too much quit the ears of my guy I love quitting that's a lot of it I think
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, great stuff here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Excited for more crossovers throughout this season and we'll catch on the next live and we do have a great fish tank episode coming up with Toronto Armstead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that one's going to be coming up here in a few days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can find all of it on Apple Spotify or if you're looking for it on YouTube right here in the Dolphistalk YouTube channel.
