For the Dolphins’ pair of rookie tights ends now charged with learning a complex playbook, the workday hardly ends when they leave the facility.
Mike Gesicki and Durham Smythe transform the Broward County hotel room they’re sharing this month into a mini class-room, complete with a whiteboard that Gesicki borrowed from the team facility.
It has become a near-nightly ritual. Gesicki quizzes Smythe about a bunch of things they learned that week, and Gesicki draws up the plays on the whiteboard. Then they switch positions.
“Me and Durham get in the hotel room, and he’s calling out a play and calling it out quick [so I can] draw it up,” Gesicki said.