 And the first thing we have to ask you coach first congratulations gays or gays. I say God's day What's it depends who you're talking to if it's Peyton? He's he added a Z to my name Okay, I don't know how that happened, but it's gays gays case with a G Right, so he would always say gays all the time, but you didn't mind because it was Peyton I was just like whatever They didn't get paid to talk although he does the commercials great. He does them great I saw a lot of commercials. What's it feel like? I mean you weren't out of work for so long That's got to be a real nice. It felt like a long time did it? Yeah Yeah, it's a long time to stay at home when you don't sit at home, right? It's a long time for your wife It's a long time. So like get out. Did you expect you'd get a job this quickly? I'm obviously you hoped it you know, I Went through the process. I went Arizona and then I went here I came here and then I Green Bay came to Florida And then there was like a little bit of a dead period there, and I wasn't really sure Really what was gonna happen, you know, you're my agents calling me saying like they if this doesn't go down There's coordinator jobs available. Do you want to sit out a year? And I was like, there's no way I can sit out a year So you would have been a coordinator. I would have done something. I would have done something really absolutely Because you love it so much you just couldn't stand being away that long. Yeah, I mean it's just this is all I know I mean I've been doing this since I was 18 years old, so I don't know anything else So this is what I love doing. This is I love being around it and Working with players and trying to help guys get better. How are you a better coach now? Then you were the day you were hired by Miami. Well, I think I look at Like even just with the coaching search, you know, you're there's so many moving parts to it because You might have got fired like a staff like I'll take my old staff as an example Those guys haven't been released from their contracts They're waiting to see when the new head coach come in some guys they want to talk to so I mean you can't talk to those guys and It's it's goes on that like that with a lot of other teams too So it's you just have to be patient where before it was like we gotta get this done We gotta get this done. We gotta get this you know, you got time You know, you might have to interview guys So you just you're a little more patient in the process I read this long story in the New York Post over the weekend kind of the story of your life Well, it's tough to do that in two pages. Yeah, but goose. That's your nickname. Where's that come from? Yeah, that was just that was something from high school. Mm-hmm. And was it from Top Gun? I don't know what it was from if they started some guys started calling me that and next day I know I just caught on and then the whole that's what the whole town was calling me. Well, I mean, it wasn't it's not a big town Why so and then I ended up When I went to Michigan State I room with two guys that I went to high school with so they just kept going yeah Now you have a good good relation with Nick Saban talk about that a little bit and how he has influenced your life Well, he's I was able to watch him for a long period of time. I mean seven years is a long time So he took you to LSU the only guy that that one from Michigan State LSU. I think I was the only one that just went I don't know if you really took me Had a job available so I took it right so Going down there that was big because I got a song I got to see him do it from scratch and start over I think they have they were like four and eight or something the year before three and eight and We end up getting a bowl game have a winning record And then he just won the SEC championship the next year and I left the year before they won the national championship Smart move All right You talked a few times during the press conference about the most important thing right now is getting your staff together In a perfect world would do you wish you had the complete say or you you comfortable with it being a process that the whole Organization will be involved in I love the fact that we're collaborating. I mean that's what you want to do You don't we that never happened in Miami. We talked through so much stuff I mean that's what you have to do whether it's players coaches things that you do post game I mean, there's a lot of people that have been around a lot of football and you want those discussions to happen because you might learn something from that You know, it's interesting That you said during the press conference has kind of jumped out of me You didn't want any personnel control let somebody else do it a lot of coaches. It's kind of an ego thing Wasn't an ego thing with you that you just pushed aside. Well, I mean it was The way Miami was structured. I mean everybody kept asking about the 53 53 I never saw it like that because we did everything as a group, right? Like there was never a time where I was like we're doing this like we didn't do it that way it was Between Chris Greer, Mike Tannenbaum and myself. We always just said hey Everybody has to check their box for us to do something. So I mean it might be two against one So the other two were really working the other guy Mm-hmm, and you know we felt like we made the right decisions For what we needed to do for our football team at that time Where do we stand with Greg Williams a lot of reports a lot of rumors? What's the conversation been I mean right now like I'm doing this today, okay? So I mean really anything with any of the coaches that we've been talking to is really kind of on hold There's guys that are looking at other places like guys that are visiting places So I'm just trying to get guys to come here and visit, you know our facility in this area I just don't think they know what what's here cuz you've never if you've never been here You don't know pretty nice. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, how much more conversation and thought is there around Media and dealing with the media when it comes to this job versus the consideration for other jobs. Yeah, I mean It's one thing when people talk about it like personally, but I've been a head coach for three years You know doing coordinator stuff in Chicago and Denver. It's we were we were pretty good in Denver So we actually had pretty good coverage there. So I don't know it's not something that I'm Thinking about a lot. I know that I have certain obligations that I have to do and but that's part of being a head coach All right, let's ask you some of the questions that are out there right now and you're sitting in front of us So Adam Gase is very prickly with the media He doesn't want to be questioned on things because he knows he's smarter than you true or false. I think that's false I don't know. Do you feel like I'm I don't right now aggressive. No, but you've heard it, right? Yeah, I mean everybody else the only time I've heard it is probably, you know, maybe Jared told me So you didn't you don't feel that way. No, I mean, you know, there's there's things that happen within a three-year span where You can get upset about stuff You sometimes you you get tired of taking all the bullets and sometimes you want to give it back a little bit, right? Which is fine. I mean it happens. Yeah, he's arrogant. That's the other one that I hear five died disagree with that. I Talked to somebody in Denver that I know and they say Super smart super bright could border on cocky, but not in a way that really offends you Do you feel that at times? I think of it this way I work as hard as I can to try to learn as much as I can, you know, if people want to say Smart and tell all the same I always look at it as if I want to learn something I have to I have to study the game hard I have to do a lot of work to prepare myself for Situations in a game and thing like that. I don't I don't look at it like that Mm-hmm. I know there are guys that are a lot smarter than me I guess I've been around them where I'm like that guy is he is really smart because they could get it like that Like I have to study. I have to make sure I have everything lined up toward to our learn I I also announced the Yankee games and buck show Walter was the Yankee manager and he never played in the big leagues And that was always something that he said he felt he had to work harder You never even played in college. So you obviously didn't play in the NFL Do you feel you have to work twice as hard as everybody else to convince these guys? Hey, I know what's going on. That was something Early really early in my career because I had a lot of college coaches tell me Hey, you never play college football. You should go in personnel I had a lot of people direct me and that's why I went to personnel because I was like maybe they're right Right, so I started doing it and I probably was on the job three months. I was like, I don't like this Like I just had no effect on helping players I mean when I was at LSU Ryan Clark was when the first person people that I try to help and he kept coming back to me And I was like, I like this. I like this feeling of being able to help him on game day Mm-hmm, and then when I got to Detroit I just kept trying to get involved and then when Tom Raffling gave me a shot was one of his guys and said hey You need to help this guy learn this now. You were a wide receiver in high school. Was it a horrible? Was it a right? You didn't play in the big in the college. No, I mean I could you play this terrible? No, it was awful. I was slow. I pride. I probably thought I could catch better than what I could I mean I was bad What were you or are you able to learn from Peyton the year that he was absolutely just ungodly and threw for like 750 touchdowns? We never the thing I appreciate and see you don't appreciate it when you're going through it. You're in your mind like we would win 51 21 or something like that and we're in there and we're going crazy in our meetings saying like we should have won But we should have scored 70 and we screwed this up and this up I mean just the way that he wanted to press and it was all of us We were all doing that and that's how we felt we Couldn't win by enough and I loved that feeling and it was just a challenge of trying to make sure that he was He just was so hungry to be dominant and great that year and we tried the same thing like the next year But it was just a different feel God is that a feeling Jets fans who would love to have we're not winning by enough How much pressure or not how much credit should you get at him? Tim Tebow, I Don't know. I mean he won a playoff game with you I know this he did a great great job adjusting to What we wanted to do he executed what we were asking to do the the defensive players that year were awesome And Elvis doomerville Was the key to the whole thing because he just he stuck with us He goes he would we'd get to the fourth quarter. He's like you guys need to start doing something He would tell us because we would be We would be bad for Three and a half quarters and then all of a sudden it just it would turn on and we'd start moving the ball and scoring touchdowns and Figuring out a way to win the game the three of us always debate this coach case that you know Mike McCarthy was supposedly also up for this job. How much credit does he get for for for Rogers? How much credit do you get for Peyton Manning? How much credit does an offensive coordinator earn when their quarterback does well or is it the quarterback? The great quarterbacks are great quarterbacks. You're there to help Guide them put them in the best position possible Help the rest of the guys get on the same pages as that player. Are there little tiny things you may be able to help them with? Yes, but a lot of times