Training Camp Begins Feat. Bob Baumhower | Episode 159

Published Jul 29, 2021, 7:17 PM
Kim and John discuss the start of the Miami Dolphins 2021 training camp and cover the latest team news. Then, former Miami Dolphins Defensive Tackle Bob Baumhower joins the show to talk about his playing days, memories of training camp as a rookie and more (starts at 6:30).

All right, welcome back the Audibo Kimbo Camper John Jemmy with your football seasons of Honest, I'm gonna let you know that the Audible is presented by Auto Nation, America's largest and most recognized automotive retailer. You're gonna say on a hundred thousand vehicles right now at automnation dot com. Remember, you can watch the Audible each and every Saturday night, seven thirty pm on w f R CBS four in Miami, and you can download the podcast from all your favorite streering platforms and Miami Dolphins dot com with John. Earlier this week, the Dolphins open training camp, bring people in on Tuesday, get things going on Wednesday, and some some news out of training camp. They finished signing all their rookies. Leam Miichenberg, the tackle out of Notre Dame, who's gonna compete for that right tackle spot with Jesse Davis and uh and and maybe d J. Fluker, some of those guys out there. He signed on on Tuesday. And and one little bit of a disappointment, Preston Williams back in the fold. However, he's on physically under able to perform and UH won't won't be working with the team for a while until he gets ready, so still kind of getting getting retarded from that injury had last season. Yeah, that's a big part of the offense. You know. If you can have Preston Williams on the outside opposite uh DeVante Parker, and then you add that speed with William Fuller on the inside with Jalen Waddle, there's a lot of good things for to a tongue of ioloa, a lot of options at his disposal. So you hope that Preston is gonna be able to get back. You know, if it's if it's the first week or ten days, okay, uh, you know, get into the second preseason game, maybe a couple of plays in the third, or maybe he doesn't even have to play in the third. Get him ready for um. You know that that September date to open up in New England. So you're you're hoping that it's not gonna last the entire training camp because I think Preston is one of those guys we've seen in the past. Training camp kind of carries over into the regular season. You want him to be positive, have some positive plays going into the regular season. Well, let's talk a little bit about expectations. You know, we've talked all offseason and talk about different positions and everything, But when you look at this football team, if you could just pick three things that you're gonna look at that you expect from this Miami Dolphin football team, I would say Number one, aggression and being aggressive on offense, meaning with tempo, getting in and out of the huddle, maybe going some no huddle uh trying to get on and and tire out of defense Number one and make them identify where all that speed is coming from, because the Dolphins have plenty of it this year. I think that's probably something I would look for. Secondly, can they build upon what they started on defense last year? I think Josh Bowyer was onto something with moving guys around and being able to be multiple not only with your players, but with your position. And now you have McKinney at linebacker, you you have Aga coming off of a huge year. You have Van Ginkle that's ascending opposite him. You had better play on the inside. Can those guys build upon what they did and make the guys behind them even better? I think that they were the beneficiaries of that. And then I think third you know, you have to look at the quarterback position. You have to look at how to is going to be, how he's gonna play early, how he's going to, you know, kind of get into the fire early. Can he lead the team? Can he start that team and be a leader, you know through the first month of September, where the Dolphins aren't kind of looking up at everybody else going into October and November. Can they start fast? I think that's probably the word I'm looking for. Can to ignite a fast start for the Miami Dolphins, especially on that side of the football. I think this offensive line is going to be a very, very key component and a good component to the football team. You look at Austin Jackson, Solomon Kenley, Robert Hunt, look at all the snaps that those guys got last year, valuable snaps. They're all big guys. They're all athletic guys that can move your kick. Hunt down into that right guard right guard position, which I think is a more a better position for him. He's working in a tighter space and a bigger body. I think that's gonna help. And then the battle for that right tackle spot with the Jesse Davis, the incumbent and Leah Mikenberg coming in. D J. Fluker is gonna battle for that tackle position, maybe that guard position. But I just think with the way those those guys played last year, in the number of snaps that they got, in particular those three rookies, that they're gonna come back and be stronger and better and better equipped to be a put in John we talked about before. One thing that we've seen with his football team, uh since uh, since Brian Flores and his staff has been here, They've been able to get people to get to become better the second year than they were the first year. Growth every year we see out of these team. This this this coaching staff for these players, and I think that is going to be a key point on this football team. But I think you I can speak for you here. If we don't talk about the offensive line this year, it's a great thing. As we've been talking, We've been talking about him for about I don't know, ten years now, and you want to be able to talk about him as an afterthought. You know, the offensive line play well again today. They you know, they really did. They provided some gaping holes for the running game. They gave two tons of protection. Uh, and they moved people off the line of scrimmage and short yardage and on the goal line. If you can say those things with any kind of consistency, the Dolphins offense is gonna have a pretty good year. And that's that's where it starts, and that's where it ends sometimes, is that offensive line. And as you said, the young guys got a lot of valuable experience last year. You had a couple more new pieces. Let's see how it all shakes out, because at the end of the day, you want the five best playing every Sunday at whatever position may be suited for them. It's it's gonna be ah. It's gonna be a fun start to the season. It's gonna be a uh. It's gonna be nice to get back and and watch training camp and see these guys have a true training camp where they get through and get ready to play the games. The next thing, you know, John, they're gonna be heading to Chicago to practice against the Bears for a couple of times, a couple of times before their first preseason game, and then then we're gonna be up to our next in it as we go on for the next one eighteen nineteen weeks, Sir, hopefully it goes, hopefully goes a little go a lot long, a little little bay stick around. We come back from talk to my former teammate, Bob bam Hower defensive tackle for the Miami Dolfins from seventy seven to eighty seven or how long you're played ten years and then Alabama guy, we'll talk to with Bob bomb Now where we come back, Well, welcome back to Auto presented by Automation. Time now for our sit down. Amplify my hard rock hotel. We're playing to have a Bob bomb Hower with us, say, five time Pro Bowlers, defensive tackle for the Miami often defensive player of the year, UH Annie and Alabama guy, second round draft pick out of Alabama in the nineteen seventy seven Bob, thanks for joining us here on the audible today. Hey, good to be here. Bob's good to see your buddy. I'm now known as uh head Fried cook these days, you are their head fried Cooking. You've been way for a while. I know in the restaurant you. I think you own the restaurant business. And in Alabama from Gulf Shores to UH as far west as you can go, aren't you. Yeah, we've been uh we've been doing this for a while, what you know, and um and uh got Spencer involved now my oldest. So we're we're just uh try still trying to figure it out, but we're having a good time up here doing our thing in uh in the business. Well it's that time of year. Training camps are open to Miami Dolphins open training camp this week. They came in on Tuesday, started practicing on Wednesday, Uh and got after it. And uh, I don't know about you, but it's always enjoyable when when training camps open up, especially when we don't have to go through it again. Yeah, it's best that last part. Um. Yeah, I agree with you. And it brings back so many memories and uh, you know, you and I have a lot of memories from that seventy seven training camp. There's a lot going on back then. And uh, um it's funny how clearly uh you your you can recall a lot of things that happened during training camp. You know, it's one of those things that uh, you don't ever forget. Bob. I wanted to ask you a little bit about some of those memories. Uh, you know, had such a prolific ear on the defensive side. Uh, not only you know, with multiple tackles and multiple plays along the line of scrimmage, but behind the line of scrimmage. How how much is that? How much do you take with with you when you run into guys like kim Bo Camper, or you see an A. J. Doe, or you see somebody that brings back a memory that make puts a smile on your face. Oh definitely, it's uh we I really feel blessed to have had those experiences and have been able to have those relationships, still have those relationships. I mean I I called Bob. I just called bo Um a couple of days ago, just to catch up. Talk to a J, talked to Duck Bettors, talked to a lot of guys and Um, whether it's the memories from back in the day when we were all playing together and doing our thing, or the memories I have from our relationships as we've grown a little older. Um, it's just special. And I'm feel blessed to have those type of relationships. And you know, they all started for me back in uh seventy seven, my rookie year in Miami. Hey, Bob, let's talk a little bit about Two. You you've had up. You had the opportunity to watch him firsthand when he came in. U you came in and lit things up in Alabama and the type of player he was. But but talk a little bit about the character. You know. I know that there's been talk about two and can he be the guy or was he a bus in this and that? And and a lot of guys would maybe take that and say, well, you know, I'm I'm gonna show the fans. But Bob, I think from me looking at two from a distance, UM, I don't think his mind works that way. I think his mind works his Look. I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna work to be the best player that I can be. And I think the way he was brought up, I think that his character is really something that that that's on the forefront when you watch him, you've seen him more than I have. How do you see him stepping from where he was in Alabama, what he went through last year to what we may be expect to see from him. Knowing the personality of the of the character we're talking about, I think you're spot on, you know. I I don't know his parents, well, but I had the opportunity to meet him and spend some time with him when they were in Alabama. They are wonderful people, wonderful family. And you know when we played, but we had good people on that team. When you and I came to Miami, there were good folks on that team, starting with the coaching staff and then the players that we played with, and two of his good people. He's good people. Mom and dad are great. He's a winner. Um, he is exactly what you say is as far as his attitude about being the best he can be. He's gonna do what's necessary and he's going to keep working to get better at the pro game. And then with what coach for us and coaches are doing, the decisions you're making, you know, with both defense and offense. It's uh, like I said, I got really really good feeling about what's going on down there. Bob. Really appreciate you taking some time out to join us. And uh, it's been a long time since we since we joined together with the Miami offense and still to this day, Still to this day, Bob, I'm gonna tell you right now and up tell it on TV. I know Sandosey's State could have beat you, guys in where we're gonna beat you if you, if you, if your team had the guts to plants, but you wouldn't step up and put us on your on your schedule. So it's gonna have to be left up in the air from now on. We're gonna have to have a talk with coach Saban about that and get to get the Spartans on the schedule. Huh. There you go. Last times the sparts were on the schedule for Alabama, I think they only lasted a half a quarter until I tell you, guys got into triple or double digits or something. Bob. Always a pleasure, you know, is I know there's a lot of fans that enjoy having the opportunity to see you again out here and talking a little off. I'm looking forward to you being down for a couple of games this season and we'll see yousuming. Bo. It's great, just great, great to see and thanks for having me on. I appreciate your buddy, all right. Pleasure do you want us to say, like check it out? Yeah, let's see how it goes. What Savon I met wentning back from Mommie Dolphins, Like Ferguson, long snapper for the Miami Dolphins. We're having some fun today. Today's media day, so we want to mess with our teammates a little bit. See who we can get into. I have a little fun, you know, I can't about to start. We gotta get into it. Get a little last See what my dad talking about? Keep going into Jordan's He's find of like, why is everybody in my shots? I'm still on't kind of like that. But with me doing that and you just like standing over there, I had to get him out of the picture for one of them. Ain't doing that? You ain't doing that? Yeah? Yeah watching Let men see that. You should have moved a little closer. Yeah, I can do it. Let me show you how to do this thing. Yeah, I'll think you like that. I'm gonna get the angles because I actually I took the photography in high school. You probably get an angle over here too. We should get you should get you should move over a little bit. Yeah, point that Toto? Am I here? Why? Hello? Oh? Yes, so I see you. We got tryouts. Listen. Oh who's that? Who's Oh it's Nick. You couldn't get a haircut for media day, dude, you couldn't get a haircut. I'll teach you how to flex. I will teach you how to flex. So what you gotta do. It's all on the it's all on the feet. Get some adrenaline going big yell. That's that's there. You go, there, you go. Um, I say, we go football, but he doesn't. I don't know if he'll ever have the football in his hands, so I don't. We can get him. We can get him catching the balls. Catching the ball. All right, Sorry, that was my bad. Just one more working these catches. I've been my gun this whole time, trying to scurring. I'll actually give you some good tosses for the content. I think that was all right. Welcome back to the audible Kimbo Camper. John consam me with your training camps open. Baptist Health training complexes is wide open. Players are there, John, And uh well, I tell you what a facility that Steven Ross is putting together. And he se million dollars or whatever, but I'll tell you what what a gym it is. And NFL is getting everyone back in the fans back. It's back together is the theme of the NFL. And fans are getting back to get to get to watch the training camp and and for the Dolphin fans, not only gonna just see the new new look Dolphins, they're gonna get to check out that new Baptistelf facility which is which is out of control, Johnny, it's beautiful. And for any NFL player that is a free agent, I think the Miami Dolphins just became that much more attractive because not only do you get to come to South Florida, but you get to come to a brand new, uh, state of the art training facility and you know, two grass fields. You have the indoor facility, the weight room is phenomenal, the training room looks spectacular. For the players, they have everything that uh that your heart would desire. I guess bo as a player. No more wooden stools for these guys that they could probably camp out in their locker for about a week and a half and not need anything. So uh, it's good for the players, it's great for the fans. They have a huge canopy uh to watch. You know, today fans were all over the Baptist Health training facility and it was great to see so um. Hats off to Stephen Ross and the organization for for building a world class facility. You know, first opportunity Phillis fans to get back and watch training camp today, and I know it was special for all them, and John I go, I go back to you know, I go back to where we were complaining, moaning about we ever did that practice facility and how rad it was. And then they moved to the new Davy facility and we're like, oh my gosh. The stated, look, I can't believe these and now the now other guys that moving there go jeezs were out of that old Davy, outdated facility into the new State garden. We have times have changed from from the two by four with a for ten years, I hung my clothes up on a on a tenpenny nail nailed into a two by four. Now I don't think there's any two by fours and tenpenny nails hanging around in the Dolphins training facility anymore. So, you know the problem is both for for me personally, I always bring it back to you know, your own personal experience. My friends at Grand Oaks say, my handicap is gonna go from a three to about a ten because I have to drive all the way down to Miami gardens down from practice in the in and every day instead of just going across the street and hit balls at the driving range, just bring us up. Just get a matt and bring it and you can pick out the practice field hit some balls there. See how long that last? For years? Yeah, I'm not gonna try that, not not this year for sure. Alright, important training camp and it's it's again great to have the fans back at at training camp who saw him there today, And it's gonna they're gonna have their opportunities that go on and and remember the first preseason game is in Chicago and August fourteen, they'll go ahead and have dual practices against the Bears for two days and then take Friday off. And John we talked about this. I love those practices and I love to I think we're I think that's you in lieu of a fourth preseason game. I think having practicing, practicing against two different teams prior to those games really is is a is a wise thing for this organization to do. I totally agree. Bo. You know, you get that opportunity to go on the road, get your team acclimated to that practice against the Bears, come home practice against the Atlanta Falcons then play them, which could be in the dress rehearsal because there's only three as you said, so the guys that are starters may get extended time in that second preseason game. But you're right, you build those practices into many games, situations on offense, on defense, on special teams. Even though there might not be that much live contact, You've got new bodies flying around, different colored jerseys. The competition levels increased because you want to win each drill, you want to win each play, and I think that heightens the uh, the preseason for a young football team that have high expectations, no doubt. All right, John's but a pleasure be in with you, and uh, look we're we're going now. So it's uh, you know, the brakes are off and we're rolling down the hill and it's gonna be a about a twenty some odd week, a little run force and looking forward every minute of it. Yeah, I am too, But hopefully we're smiling each and every week as much as we can because these Dolphins, they're a young team but with a lot of high expectations as we talked about, and we can't wait to watch him win in two thousand and twenty one at an Upside no doubt. For John, k Jemmy, I'm Jim bo Camper. This is the Audible presented by Auto Nation, America's largest and most recognized automotive retailer. You can save on a hundred thousand vehicles right now at automnation dot com. And remember, you can watch Audible every Saturday night, seven thirty pm right here w f R CDs four TV, and you can download the podcast from all your favorite streaming platforms and of course Miami Dolphins dot com for John, for John con Jemmy and myself, Kim Bokamper, have a good week. We'll talk to you next time.

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