“Things Might Be Too Far Gone With The Dolphins…” – JJ Watt On The Pat McAfee Show

“Things Might Be Too Far Gone With The Dolphins…” – JJ Watt On The Pat McAfee Show

Do the Dolphins have a ping pong table? I don’t know. Not enough of those to get out of the locker room, brother. I don’t know if that’s going to help them. They uh stink at football down there in Miami. We don’t love that. What are your What are your thoughts on that situation? Go ahead, Todd. Yeah, I mean, now that you brought it up, Jage, and you know, you’re thinking about retirement, man, wouldn’t that be a great place to go back for you this year? Maybe come in, save the Dolphin season. Uh listen, it’s not great. It gets worse every single week. They’ve said, “Hey, listen. We’re not going to fire Coach McDaniel anytime soon. It’s not imminent.” Steven Ross doesn’t really care, it seems like. And boy, he’s going up to the podium postgame and saying um a lot. And that’s really people have kind of met their threshold with that, too. Is throwing people under the bus. He’s throwing two under the bus. Just kind of what’s your uh what’s your whole view of this entire Dolphin situation? Uh this is this is far past ping pong table territory. um when you are doing it as publicly as they’re doing it and and hiding it as little as they’re hiding it, uh it just makes you wonder what it’s like behind the closed doors. Um because it’s pretty wild how much stuff they’re saying publicly. And when you sit there and watch it and you just think to yourself, you didn’t have to say any of that. Like Tu didn’t have to say what he said the other day. The coach doesn’t have to say what he says at the podium. like it it’s you can stand at that podium and give coach speak and player speak answers. People do it all the time and you can handle stuff behind closed doors. So when it gets to the point where you are discussing these types of things in public generally that means it has been pretty bad behind the scenes for a while. Uh and clearly it has to be at that point there. I mean, we all saw this team as a legitimate playoff team a few years ago and potential for bigger bigger things and unfortunately it just seems to have unraveled quickly. Yeah, I think it has unraveled pretty quickly and their fans have certainly witnessed it all kind of unravel in real time alongside Gumpy watching this team. Will anybody ever be able to win in Miami? Why not? Because wow, have you been I mean obviously you’re JJ Watt, so I think you probably live and move a little bit differently than some people, but whenever you talk about a football team and the sum of its parts and everything that is available in Miami, I I think it’s I think it’s a tough I think it’s going to be a tough place to win. 72. I mean, that’s true. Before the merger. Yeah, you’re right. 1972. I didn’t even think about But you could say that about like LA. LA’s got a lot going on. No, it does. No, I don’t think so. Actually, I I think that’s a little different story. like Miami aunt, Florida, and Cal just never sleeps. Miami never sleep. A lot of opportunities. Yeah. A lot of opportunities. And a lot of places you think are nightclubs, they’re not nightclubs. They’re actually adult ballets. And then you walk in there, they’re also serving you steak. And they’re telling you he can be here till 7:30 a.m. And guys are like, “Well, I don’t got a meeting till 8:00 a.m. So why don’t I why don’t I do I think there’s just a lot of options down in Miami. I don’t know. And I know the Miami Heat have been able to win.” And obviously we’ve learned that Gilbert Gilbert Arainus just gave a great quote to Neon, I believe, about what the lifestyle is of an NBA player and everything like that. Talking a little too, a little chatty. Oh, I got to see that. A lot of stories. A lot of stories coming. It was a lot. He he he said a lot. I’m sure there’s a lot of people. Yo, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop. But he’s just telling we’re learning from outside looking in. I think Miami is going to be tough to win. And then we go back to what Tyreek Hill said after the season last year. Tyreek was done with this [ __ ] last year. Yeah. And everybody like kind of buried Tyreek for it and then now the season’s happening and Tyreek’s like that’s what I was saying. This this place sucks. It might be a reverse Dan Campbell situation too. I mean obviously they never knew what he was going to turn into but like he was their interim head coach a couple years ago. Like he was in their building. They could have I mean if he gets that job to things change, you know, and do they stay the course a little bit more? But they were like this guy’s a [ __ ] [ __ ] Get him out of here, you know? Let’s bring him in. I don’t know man. Detroit and Dan Campbell were the perfect marriage perfect time and everything like I don’t know if it maybe does maybe but I do think you have to have the right mentality and infrastructure for that to happen and we always have to remember what happened in his first year like you had to be able to weather that storm. Uh and I I just tough I don’t know if it’s the same situation in Miami if he is able to do that. You you mentioned Miami and the Miami Heat in particular. One of the first things you think about when you think about the Miami Heat is Pat Riley and the Heat culture. And that’s why even being so opposite of what most NBA franchise, at least from the outside in, look, it’s like, hey, I mean, [ __ ] ran LeBron out of town because some damn cookies, you know what I mean? Like that’s ri we heard UD talk about every time he came on the show. So that type of structure obviously was going on uh with the Panthers. Obviously a very different culture just in hockey in general, but that style of leadership from the top down, coach Maurice, Zo, all those guys. So you definitely have to have the structure from the top down. And you look at coach, once again, we’re not in the building day in and day out. But you hear a lot of people that have been around football for a long time and they talk the way they talk about Mike, you know, Mike McDaniel, they’ll be like, “Hey, that’s the complete opposite of what you need, especially in a place like Miami.” So yeah, it’s a lot of it’s going to be tough to win. He would have had to have won a lot.

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