The Fish Tank: Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep A South Florida native, Twan Russell played football and ran track at St. Thomas Aquinas High School before playing college ball at the University of Miami and ultimately having the opportunity to play professionally in his hometown as a member of the Miami Dolphins, where he was a special teams standout. Following a seven-year career that also included stints in...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   A California native, Manny Fernandez went undrafted out of the University of Utah, signing with the fledgling Miami Dolphins franchise in 1968 under then head coach, George Wilson. Fernandez was voted the Dolphins Outstanding Defensive Lineman his first five seasons with the team but his game began to raise to another level in 1970 as Don Shula took the helm. H...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep For the past 30 years, Dave Hyde has covered sports for the South Florida Sun Sentinel, providing perspective on everything from Little League Baseball to Dwyane Wade lead championship runs with the Miami Heat, and of course, Miami Dolphins football. This year, Hyde was named one of the top 10 sports columnists in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep The Miami Dolphins had high hopes for Richmond Webb when they selected him out of Texas A&M with the ninth overall pick of the 1990 draft and the left tackle not only met, but greatly exceeded all expectations. Charged with protecting Dan Marino’s blindside, Webb was an instant starter on the Dolphins offensive line. He played every offensive snap during his...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   One of the more outspoken and boisterous players to don a Dolphins uniform in the past 25 years, Ray Lucas’ story always comes back to his native Harrison, New Jersey. A heavily recruited high school athlete, Lucas turned away the suitors to stay home and attend Rutgers University. From 1992-95, Lucas became one of the most prolific Scarlet Knights signal calle...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   A two-sport athlete at Dartmouth College, Jay Fiedler set school records for touchdown passes (58), passing yards (6,684), and total offense (7,249) with the Ivy League program while receiving his degree in Mechanical Engineering. His National Football League journey didn’t start quite as smoothly, however, with a five-year quest featuring stints with four diff...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Larry Izzo overcame long odds as an undersized linebacker from Rice University who landed an opportunity as an undrafted free agent with Jimmy Johnson’s Miami Dolphins in 1996. Izzo not only made the roster that year, but he quickly became a fan favorite and leader of the Dolphins special teams unit over the course of his five-year tenure in South Florida, culm...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   The decorated football career of Ricky Williams is the stuff of legend, featuring an NCAA career rushing record, the 1998 Heisman Trophy, becoming the first player ever to represent a National Football League team’s entire draft class in 1999, and an NFL rushing title in 2002. It is Williams’s enigmatic personality, however, that has often stood out even more t...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   There simply aren’t enough words to describe the magnitude of Don Shula’s impact on the Miami Dolphins, South Florida, and the entire National Football League, but leave it to The Fish Tank to give it a shot. As no single individual has been discussed more in The Tank, Juice and Seth look back on some of their favorite stories ever told about the winningest coa...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Joy Taylor’s quick wit and sharp tongue serve her well as co-host of one of the top-rated sports talk shows in the country, The Herd, on FOX Sports Radio and FS1. When she’s not joining Colin Cowherd in the studio, you can also catch her unique takes on the world of sports through her weekly podcast, “Maybe I’m Crazy.” Prior to becoming a fixture on the nationa...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Armando Salguero has covered the Miami Dolphins and the NFL since 1990, longer than many players on the current roster have been alive, and since many coaches on the team were in middle school. He is one of 48 Pro Football Hall of Fame selectors and is an Associated Press All-Pro and awards voter. Salguero has covered Dolphins games in London, Berlin, Mexico Ci...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   There were many factors that contributed to the 1972 Miami Dolphins perfect 17-0 record. One reason was their fearsome rushing attack that helped Miami become the first team in NFL history to feature two backs who each rushed for 1,000 yards in the same season. Those two backs were Pro Football Hall of Fame fullback Larry Csonka and the electric Mercury Morris....

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   A multi-sport star in his native New Jersey, Jim Kiick went on to lead the Wyoming Cowboys in rushing from 1965-67 becoming the first player ever to earn first-team All-WAC honors three times. Kiick was selected by the then-AFL’s Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 1968 draft. He quickly forged a bond with Larry Csonka that lead to the duo being dubbed “Bu...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Following a standout career at the University of Kentucky, running back Mark Higgs wasn’t selected until the eighth round of the 1988 NFL Draft, in part due to his small stature, standing only 5 feet 7 inches tall.  Higgs moved on to Philadelphia after only one year in Dallas, and then a year later joined the Miami Dolphins where he climbed the depth chart to e...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Now at the midway point of the 2019 NFL season, OJ and Seth highlight some of their favorite moments from Season II. Hear Jason Taylor vividly detail his fight against former Dolphins offensive lineman and Fish Tank guest, John Bock.  ESPN reporter, Jeff Darlington, shares some of the trade secrets he perfected while covering the Dolphins during his days as a M...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Morlon Greenwood ultimately moved to Freeport, NY where he excelled at soccer and was a state championship wrestler before being convinced to try out for the Freeport High School football team. Greenwood’s talents on the gridiron did not go unnoticed as he received a scholarship to Syracuse University where he played along side Dwight F...

William Judson was drafted by the Miami Dolphins out of South Carolina State in the eighth round of the 1981 NFL Draft. Originally a long shot to even make the team, Judson went on to start in 106 of the 115 games he played for Miami over eight seasons, hauling in 24 interceptions, including two he returned for touchdowns. In The Tank, William talked about the eye opening differences from playing...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Kendall Newson’s story is a different one than that of previous guests in The Tank. Newson was a seventh round draft choice of the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2002 and chased opportunities with the Jaguars, Titans and Rhein Fire before landing with the Dolphins in 2003. Newson worked his way from practice squad player to the 53-man roster before injuries and coachi...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   A Warren, Ohio native, Ralph Stringer put together an All-American resume at NC State as a defensive back and kick returner before a freak injury derailed his playing career. After hanging up his cleats for good, Stringer began another all-star career, this time in the sports marketing industry. It was during this new journey that a young Ralph Stringer met a y...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   A Georgia native, Randy McMichael was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft following a standout career with the University of Georgia Bulldogs. McMichael quickly made an impact in Miami, hauling in a 16-yard touchdown pass from Jay Fiedler in his first regular season game. In five seasons with the Dolphins, McMichael started e...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   **We apologize for the technical challenges we experienced with this episode. The sound quality does not meet our standards, but Larry's stories are as fantastic as ever**   Larry Seiple was a seventh-round draft choice of the Miami Dolphins in 1967 and went on to play 11 seasons with the team as a punter, halfback and tight end. Seiple led the Dolphins wit...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Miami native, Randal Hill, stayed home after a standout career at Miami Killian High School to help the University of Miami capture National Championships in 1987 and 1989. Two years later, the Miami Dolphins made Hill their first-round draft choice, selecting him number 23 overall in the 1991 Draft. Randal’s eight-year NFL career included three seasons in Miam...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Bobby Monica joined the Miami Dolphins as a member of the team’s Equipment Staff in 1980. After four seasons as an assistant, he was named the head man and for the next nine years, established himself as one of the most popular and most memorable characters in the organization of all time. Stints in Jacksonville and Cleveland followed Monica’s tenure in Miami a...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   One of two first-round draft choices by the Miami Dolphins in 1976, Kim Bokamper spent his entire 10-year NFL career in aqua and orange, including a Pro Bowl bid in 1979. Bokamper started at defensive end for the Dolphins in two Super Bowls and was widely known as a member of the famed Killer B’s defense. In The Tank, “Bo” recalls joining a Dolphins roster fill...

Miami Dolphins Tales From The Deep   Following a standout career at the University of Wisconsin, Chris Chambers left his snow boots and winter coats behind, as he became the Miami Dolphins second-round draft choice in 2001. Chambers averaged 18.4 yards per reception and hauled in seven TDs as a rookie, setting the tone for things to come. Over the next five years, Chris became one of the Dolphins...