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Just to let you guys know a few things.

First off Ethan Skolnick (formerly of the Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel, Bleacher Report, etc) along with Walter Villa (formerly of the Miami Herald) have been given charge of Dolphins Maven (https://footballmaven.io/dolphins).

Dolphins Maven is going to run similarly to what you're seeing now from the Miami Herald, Sun Sentinel, The Athletic, Palm Beach Post, etc.

Ethan recruited Harvey Fialkov and Craig Davis (both formerly of the Sun Sentinel), Andy Kent (formerly a writer for MiamiDolphins.com), and Antwan Staley (USA Today) to cover the Miami Dolphins beat.

We are talking the whole nine yards: media credentials, practice attendance, game previews, game reviews, videos; every bit of the coverage you've come to expect from a local news organization covering the Miami Dolphins beat.

But in addition, since Ethan and I already work together, as 3 Yards Per Carry is on the 5 Reasons Sports Podcast Network, he has asked Simon Clancy, Alf Arteaga, and myself to contribute on Dolphins Maven.

He has also asked The Fish Tank (O.J. McDuffie and Seth Levitt) to participate, as well as Josh Houtz ( Twitter: @houtz) to participate.

The goal is to complement the classic Miami Dolphins beat writing that you would get from any local news organization following the Dolphins, with the sort of fresh analysis, commentary, and story telling you'd expect from our podcasts or radio shows as well as our social media activities.

So before long, you will see a 3 YPC Corner on Dolphins Maven. We will be putting up videos, commentary, play analysis, analytics, and podcast episode recaps.

Specifically the podcast episode recaps are going to be interesting, in my opinion, because our idea is to transcribe the material we go over on the show in a way that better fits a different medium (print, as opposed to radio).

On the podcast, we can't SHOW YOU the plays we're talking about, or the analytics to which we're referring. On a recap, we absolutely can. And we can also make it entertaining and easy to digest.

The following are our first two EPISODE RECAPS from Episode 1.21, which we taped after the Buccaneers preseason game and before the Panthers preseason game:

Part I (Offense)
https://footballmaven.io/dolphins/n...an-com-week-in-review-ZIj8axg6XUOdSb5NWgoyww/

Part II (Defense & Dolphins-Panthers Preview).
https://footballmaven.io/dolphins/n...an-com-week-in-review-5Mo25m5LaEinqIza2QQOfQ/

We will be taping our latest episode of 3 Yards Per Carry tonight, releasing tomorrow, and then we will put out the episode recap series in the days following.

Enjoy!
 
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I forgot the best part.

You don't have to deal with the MASSIVE ego of some lead personality telling everyone how stupid they are and acting like they need to be paid to reply to you.

So you get the BEAT WRITING (Harvey Fialkov, Antwan Staley, Craig Davis, Andy Kent, Josh Houtz), you get 3 YARDS PER CARRY (Simon Clancy, Chris Kouffman, and Alf Arteaga), you get THE FISH TANK (O.J. McDuffie and Seth Levitt).

But you don't get the INSUFFERABLE ATTITUDE of some toxic internet/radio personas.

I truly do look at that as the advantage over all of the other competing organizations.
 
I am just curious, how did you select three yards a carry? Was it just a fanciful name that is easy to remember like any business would use to enhance the identification of the product?

I don't know if Nathan is interested in protecting the intellectual property, but he could try to trademark some of the names he's using.
 
Austin Tatious said:
I am just curious, how did you select three yards a carry? Was it just a fanciful name that is easy to remember like any business would use to enhance the identification of the product?

I don't know if Nathan is interested in protecting the intellectual property, but he could try to trademark some of the names he's using.
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Partly what you describe, easy to remember, enhanced identification and memory.

Partly because sticking the number 3 in there is significant to us, as we are a trio, and we want to be known as a trio.

Partly (in our minds) it signals that we're not the sort of die hards that think it's always sunny in Davie.

Partly because we 'grew up' during an era of constant lamentation about the lack of a ground game to complement Dan Marino, or the great defense that Jimmy/Wanny built (excepting one brief year with Ricky).

Partly because Dolphins fans have collectively taken on a jaded identity. So you ask, why 3 Yards Per Carry instead of 4 Yards Per Carry or 5 Yards Per Carry? If our answer is, "Because we're Dolphins fans"...I think that is something a Dolphins fan would just naturally "get" on some level.
 
Thanks for the explanation, Chris. Makes sense. I missed out on the podcast until around the draft time, so if you laid that out at the beginning, I missed it.

You guys as a group all do a tremendous job.

I enjoyed the French Toast discussion. Good one. Simon has a powerful personality that's very engaging.

And, by the way, it looks like Bobby McCain ends up at the CB2 spot on the boundary. You were the first one I heard talking about that, even before I heard anything by the team or the beat guys. In fact, since McTyer and Tank (and Lippett to a degree) were getting run early, I bet the staff came around to accepting it even after you were talking about it in the face of naysayers and public discourse generally being skeptical on that point. So, good for you.
 
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Sometimes it's really hard to guess what a coach is thinking. There are some things that have happened this preseason that would have me absolutely giddy if I were the coach, provided that I plan on taking advantage of them. But does Adam Gase plan on taking advantage of them. Just how stubborn IS he?
 
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