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Speaker 2: And on today's show, the Training Camp Preview series rolls
Speaker 2: on as we broach the defensive side of the football.
Speaker 2: After we finish the offense, running backs and linebackers go
Speaker 2: under the microscope. Today, Plus, we're gonna hear from new
Speaker 2: Dolphins linebacker David Long and my one hundred yards walk
Speaker 2: and Talk chat with the new Miami linebacker from the
Speaker 2: Baptist Hell studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 2: is the Draft Time podcast.
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Speaker 2: Off the top here, I want to go ahead and
Speaker 2: mention to a tongue of I loois trip to Edison
Speaker 2: High the Red Raiders football program, which he teamed up
Speaker 2: with Gatorade to donate sixty five thousand dollars for gear
Speaker 2: and equipment towards both the men's football team and the
Speaker 2: women's flag football team there and had some really inspiring
Speaker 2: words for the kids and just really cool to see
Speaker 2: QB one out in the community doing his thing and
Speaker 2: really kind of putting his print here in print, i
Speaker 2: should say, on the South Florida community and really kind
Speaker 2: of taking ownership of that star power and really making
Speaker 2: an impact. So you love to see stuff like that.
Speaker 2: You also love to see the fact that training camp
Speaker 2: is less than a week away in terms of getting
Speaker 2: back on the pre field, and we're going to go
Speaker 2: back to the offense here for the last offensive position
Speaker 2: preview here on the training camp preview, the running backs,
Speaker 2: and that's kind of the position analog on offense to linebackers,
Speaker 2: so we'll also do off ball.
Speaker 3: Linebackers on this episode tomorrow.
Speaker 2: The Edge with Emmanuel Ogba and Jalen Phillips both on
Speaker 2: the podcast and then Monday d Beats with Cater Kohu
Speaker 2: on the show, and then the twenty fifth Tuesday Specialist
Speaker 2: and Interior Defensive Line with Jake Baile. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and talk about running backs right now though, and number
Speaker 2: twenty three Jeff Wilson Junior. I like the way Seth
Speaker 2: said it on Seth Levitt on The Fish Tank podcast.
Speaker 2: On Jeff Wilson's episode of The Fish Tank. This dude
Speaker 2: has some shit to him, and that's all I can
Speaker 2: think of when I watch him run the football. He's
Speaker 2: also a little bit of a different runner than the
Speaker 2: rest of the backfield from a stylistic standpoint, I think
Speaker 2: you value that in short yardage. I look back to
Speaker 2: the regularskusing game in Buffalo when we struggled on third
Speaker 2: downs five for fourteen total, two for six on third
Speaker 2: and four or less, which was kind of a problem
Speaker 2: all year long, and I just keep saying that seems
Speaker 2: like a really quick fix that you can make with
Speaker 2: a couple of adjustments. You have to go out and
Speaker 2: execute it, but it seems like that is I'd rather
Speaker 2: be have to repair third and four or less, then
Speaker 2: you know, figure out our third and eight offense, which
Speaker 2: is one of the best in the NFL. Last year,
Speaker 2: Jeff Wilson forced sixteen miss tackles on ninety four attempts.
Speaker 2: I think he keeps you flexible in terms of three
Speaker 2: down play calling because you can trust him in pass
Speaker 2: pro and as a receiver. Just a guy that I
Speaker 2: think you find on a lot of great rosters in
Speaker 2: terms of his makeup and skill set combination. Number twenty
Speaker 2: six Savon Ahmed. You guys know what I think about
Speaker 2: Savon's game by now, explosive and big playability. He hits
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage with conviction, some good tackle breaking
Speaker 2: ability evident on that run in Buffalo last year for
Speaker 2: a touchdown. He offers special teams value, and I think
Speaker 2: he allows you to not go to major drop off
Speaker 2: from the guys we've seen get more run ahead of him.
Speaker 3: For instance.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes you play your third or fourth guide position,
Speaker 2: that guy can be maybe just a special team type
Speaker 2: of player only. But with Savon, when we were without
Speaker 2: Jeff in that Buffalo game, you can give Savon carries
Speaker 2: and he can make a difference like he did on
Speaker 2: that touchdown. Run number twenty eight, Devon A.
Speaker 4: Chain.
Speaker 2: I think everyone's excited about this rookie from Texas A
Speaker 2: and M. Game changing speed, explosive plays in college as
Speaker 2: a runner, receiver and return man, a true four down
Speaker 2: player there for the Aggies. I'm just so curious to
Speaker 2: see how quickly he can get acclimated to the pro game.
Speaker 2: For most there's an adjustment period, and I think once
Speaker 2: he sees the game slow down a little bit and
Speaker 2: maybe it happens right away, he could be a super
Speaker 2: valuable asset to the backfield. I always think about that
Speaker 2: show All or Nothing, the first year of it with
Speaker 2: the Cardinals and they went to the NFC Championship game
Speaker 2: and got waxed by the Panthers, but David Johnson was
Speaker 2: enjoying a breakout rookie season. And I'll never forget Bruce
Speaker 2: Arian's talking about what they saw in the running back
Speaker 2: and he was like, you know, right now, we're going
Speaker 2: to just kind of work him into the fold. But
Speaker 2: come Thanksgiving, he's going to have a big role in
Speaker 2: the football team. And I wonder if that could be
Speaker 2: a similar you know, what's the word I'm looking for here?
Speaker 2: Trajectory for Devon a chain. Maybe it's sooner, maybe it
Speaker 2: doesn't happen until year two, like you never know. But
Speaker 2: I just think about that because I think you have
Speaker 2: the opportunity with the way the rest of the backfield
Speaker 2: has been constructed to ease Devon in or to put
Speaker 2: him in right away. You know, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: I just love the way he's wired too, like the
Speaker 2: theme in this room and on this team really loves
Speaker 2: the work, loves the grind in the film room, the
Speaker 2: weight room, practice field. These guys are going to go.
Speaker 2: They're gonna do the right things right And knowing coaches
Speaker 2: background with run game coordination, I have a hard time
Speaker 2: thinking the plan was anything less than coach and detailing
Speaker 2: what he could do with Devon's talent before the draft
Speaker 2: and making the case for drafting him based on those possibilities.
Speaker 2: I just love the makeup of the room and the
Speaker 2: sense that you pretty much know what you have with
Speaker 2: running it back, but then you inject this shot of
Speaker 2: speed and play making potential and energy with a guy
Speaker 2: who is as talented as they come in Devon a
Speaker 2: chain number thirty. Are only not only our first fullback
Speaker 2: alec Ingold, what more can you say about alec Ingle,
Speaker 2: remember that fake counter throwback pass we.
Speaker 3: Had to him. I want to say it was the
Speaker 3: Baltimore game.
Speaker 2: I still think about that in the sense that he
Speaker 2: just opens up your playbook in a way that so
Speaker 2: few players in the league can really do. He was
Speaker 2: so valuable in those Buffalo games going up against that
Speaker 2: exclusive nickel defense they run it's like ninety four percent
Speaker 2: of the time and drawing those lead block matchups on
Speaker 2: defensive backs, most notably their star nickel corner tarn Johnson.
Speaker 2: But even a great nickel corner try to take on
Speaker 2: blocks by a fullback is going to be outmatched. Then
Speaker 2: the ability to threaten in the passing game. When teams
Speaker 2: play you in base, which is typically how you have
Speaker 2: to defend two back sets, right you get twenty one
Speaker 2: personnel or twenty two personnel, you better get linebackers in
Speaker 2: there to help, you know, defend the run. And then
Speaker 2: from there, if we have a speed at receiver, you
Speaker 2: can also make the team the defense pay for not
Speaker 2: having the correct personnel on the back end.
Speaker 3: It's just a conflict that you create for the defense.
Speaker 2: I legit think you've got Kyle Hueschek and you've got
Speaker 2: Alec Ingle. In terms of players with this type of
Speaker 2: skill set. Patrick Ricard and CJ. Hamm are both awesome players,
Speaker 2: but different types of players at the position. We are
Speaker 2: very fortunate to have Alec Ingle down here. Number thirty one.
Speaker 2: Raheem most of my favorite people on the roster, one
Speaker 2: of the best touchdown celebrations in the entire business, and
Speaker 2: one of the fastest dudes on the planet on the
Speaker 2: earth or or I should say on land or by
Speaker 2: sea because he's a great surfer. I think Raheem is
Speaker 2: one of the more valuable pieces on the roster, and
Speaker 2: the reason is threefold. Number one, the way this passing
Speaker 2: game and play pass game stretches defenses and this goes
Speaker 2: back to the receiver preview both vertically and horizontally and
Speaker 2: specialized in displacement at that second level, Raheem's experience in
Speaker 2: the offense with that speed compliments that to a tee
Speaker 2: experience speed pass game compliment. He really offers the total
Speaker 2: package in those departments. I loved how he ran the
Speaker 2: football down the stretch some real as against seth Levitt
Speaker 2: calls him grown ass man runs where he dragged tacklers
Speaker 2: down the field and refused to go down. Some of
Speaker 2: those runs in the first three quarters of that finale
Speaker 2: against the Jets helped us maintain field position in a
Speaker 2: game where neither offense could do much, you know, backup
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the whole like where we desperately needed it
Speaker 2: in a defensive struggle, and eventually eleven to six win,
Speaker 2: one thousand, ninety three yard from scrimmage, five touchdowns, thirty
Speaker 2: nine miss tackles forced, one hundred and eighty one rush
Speaker 2: attempts in three point five two yards after contact on average. Awesome, underrated, awesome, awesome.
Speaker 2: Player number thirty three Chris Brooks, the rookie from BYU.
Speaker 2: The things I said about Jeff Wilson's play style appeal apply,
Speaker 2: I should say to the rookie here from the What's
Speaker 2: BYU the Cougars Ron Couger's he is a pile pusher man.
Speaker 2: Go watch his college tape and he is typically the
Speaker 2: one doing doling out the punishment. It's a deep room here,
Speaker 2: a tough roster to crack. But Brooks will have to
Speaker 2: reply upon his physicality and his pass game prowess to
Speaker 2: hope to make waves in camp. Number thirty seven Miles Gaskin.
Speaker 2: You'd be hard pressed to find a better professional in
Speaker 2: this game than Miles Gaskin. I remember my first year
Speaker 2: here going out on Tuesdays at work and seeing him
Speaker 2: get extra working on the player day off every single day,
Speaker 2: never complains, works his butt off, learns new systems, and
Speaker 2: really has fulfilled every role imaginable since being a seventh
Speaker 2: round draft pick back in twenty nineteen. Good vision, reaction
Speaker 2: back who's carried a load, been a spell guy, and
Speaker 2: been that teammate who helps give good looks to the
Speaker 2: defense and scout team. I don't think you'd find anyone
Speaker 2: that would have anything but ultimate praise for Miles in
Speaker 2: this building. Remember as recently as twenty twenty one, he
Speaker 2: scored seven touchdowns and tied the team lead that year
Speaker 2: with Jalen Waddle. Number forty six, John Lovett, the last fullback,
Speaker 2: the last riding back here. He's been fun to watch
Speaker 2: out here at practice, a former Wildcat quarterback at Princeton,
Speaker 2: and you see that skill set in terms of his
Speaker 2: ability to get out in the pattern. It's tough to
Speaker 2: gauge a fullbacks impact and tag off practice, but when
Speaker 2: you see forty six, when it comes to the passing game.
Speaker 2: You can see him pop out here. If you come
Speaker 2: to these practices, look fun. Group as a whole. Like
Speaker 2: I said, I love the security you have in terms
Speaker 2: of depth, proven talent up and down and then dropping
Speaker 2: the dynamic rookie in and seeing how that ingredient changes
Speaker 2: the room. I just think every position group here makes
Speaker 2: up one of the best rosters in the NFL. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and take our first break right there and
Speaker 2: come back on the other side and here from Dolphins
Speaker 2: linebacker David Long, and then on the third segment of
Speaker 2: the show, we'll preview his position group of the linebackers
Speaker 2: all that. Next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis wing Fiel,
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Speaker 1: What's up, guys. Travis wingfoldre one hundred yards with Travis s.
Speaker 2: Wingfield back with new Dolphins linebacker David Long Junior.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and make a weight on the field. David, So,
Speaker 1: how's it. How you feeling coming back into camp and
Speaker 1: get ready for a new season.
Speaker 4: It feels good, man. You know, different team, different you know, sad,
Speaker 4: you know, but the same game, same player you know,
Speaker 4: just ready to get back to it.
Speaker 1: So why Miami. Why did you choose the Dolphins?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: Man, really the fit. It just chose me really, Like,
Speaker 4: you know, I prayed on the situation. I really didn't
Speaker 4: stress too much about it. You know, I just believed
Speaker 4: in myself or wherever you know, I landed, I was
Speaker 4: gonna make the most of it. End up being here,
Speaker 4: you know, with some guys already know. You know Vic
Speaker 4: and you know my head coach. He's one of the
Speaker 4: coolest persons I ever met. Uh, but you know, just
Speaker 4: the whole fit. Man, it just has been good.
Speaker 1: Tell me about you mentioned Vic Fangil there. Tell me
Speaker 1: about incorporating his defensive system and kind of getting getting
Speaker 1: it down.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm I'm glad. I'm so glad. I already know
Speaker 4: a little bit of it because you know, it's a
Speaker 4: different type of defense, but you know it's it fits me. Well,
Speaker 4: you know, I'm able to excelate it. Well, you know
Speaker 4: that type of player I aim, you know, just to
Speaker 4: be around that influence. You know, He's taught so many
Speaker 4: players that I've watched, like Navar Obama was just here,
Speaker 4: so you know, just being able to you know, just
Speaker 4: to learn from experience, you know, just to build on that.
Speaker 2: Bowman and Patrick Willis is a pretty goodo ouf there
Speaker 2: in San Francisco for a while.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, just just going up watching those guys. So
Speaker 4: it was cool to you know, just to meet him,
Speaker 4: you know, just get some game from him as well.
Speaker 1: You mentioned having some friends already here on the team.
Speaker 1: I always like to ask guys are new, like how
Speaker 1: you're fitting in? Said, you already do. Some guys on
Speaker 1: the team though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know David my agent, Moigether, he has
Speaker 4: the whole team basically, so you know, just coming in
Speaker 4: here already knowing some guys made the transition you know,
Speaker 4: way more easier and you know, comfortable, because that's what's
Speaker 4: going to you know, make us a team, you know, uh,
Speaker 4: building it on it off the field.
Speaker 1: You also mentioned coach McDaniel.
Speaker 2: Have to ask you about that because everyone has their
Speaker 2: own unique experience with coach McDaniel.
Speaker 1: How's it been getting to know him so far? It's
Speaker 1: been good.
Speaker 4: It's been fun, you know, just to pick up on
Speaker 4: his little mannerism and his sayings and stuff and how
Speaker 4: he you know, he interacts with the players.
Speaker 2: Is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. So you come here from Nashville by way
Speaker 1: of Cincinnati. So you got a kids camp coming up
Speaker 1: here this summer with tell us about that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, man, well I'm from Cincinnati Day area. You know.
Speaker 4: Just being able to be that guy that came on
Speaker 4: and influenced these kids and you know how that impact
Speaker 4: on them was great for me. So I started the
Speaker 4: camp like three years ago. Yeah, and it's been roland man.
Speaker 4: The kids that are excited to come every year. You know,
Speaker 4: I just plan to keep on building on that and
Speaker 4: just incorporating things to help my community.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. David long Jinger, thank you, man, Appreciate you appreciation.
Speaker 2: There he goes short and sweet one hundred yards. It's
Speaker 2: tough to walk slow and get more than a few
Speaker 2: minutes out of those, but we really appreciated the guys
Speaker 2: taking time with us and giving us some fun summer
Speaker 2: content here. And I know it was supposed to be
Speaker 2: a little more evergreen, so I apologize if some of
Speaker 2: those questions are outdated, but we'll do better on that
Speaker 2: next time.
Speaker 3: But still I think pretty fun.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 2: and come back on the other side and preview the linebackers.
Speaker 2: That's next Draft Time podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield brought
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Speaker 2: for the third and final segment here on this edition
Speaker 2: of the Draft Time podcast, talking all things off ball linebackers,
Speaker 2: and you do have defensive line and then basically linebackers,
Speaker 2: but I like to break it up into more specific groups,
Speaker 2: even though you'll see some crossover here for guys that
Speaker 2: play different positions here, I mean that's how the entire
Speaker 2: NFL goes, but especially in a Vic Fangio defense. We
Speaker 2: start with number forty one, Channing Tindall, and the thing
Speaker 2: I like again about this roster so much, you know,
Speaker 2: I think it's hard to not say the explosive nature
Speaker 2: of the offense, but maybe more the esoteric aspect of
Speaker 2: how each position group seems to have what I like
Speaker 2: to call proven NFL resumes and then depth that features
Speaker 2: a ton of upside. And that's how I feel about
Speaker 2: Channing in this linebacker room. Like Bake and Long have
Speaker 2: had really good careers. We saw Duke get more time
Speaker 2: on defense last year and really carve out a role
Speaker 2: for himself than Tindall. From a physical skill set standpoint,
Speaker 2: you could make the case that he leads the room
Speaker 2: in that regard he's fast as hell. He played without
Speaker 2: explosive nature at Georgia as a rusher in the running game.
Speaker 2: You know his ten split jumps off the tape has
Speaker 2: broad his vertical jump eightieth plus percentile in all of
Speaker 2: those categories. Saw a handful of snaps on defense a
Speaker 2: year ago, had a really good spy rip against Justin Fields,
Speaker 2: had one that wasn't so good after that. But now
Speaker 2: he'll have a chance to car about a bigger role
Speaker 2: in this new defense in his second year. Remember he's
Speaker 2: just twenty three years old. Didn't have a lot of
Speaker 2: game experience at Georgia and that loaded Bulldog's defense before
Speaker 2: his final year, and even then he only played like
Speaker 2: four hundred and twenty snaps. So excited to see how
Speaker 2: he grows in year two and how he attacked the
Speaker 2: offseason Number forty five Duke Riley. I thought the game
Speaker 2: where Duke really showed you his value as the most
Speaker 2: as far as defense goes. And we always knew that
Speaker 2: he was good on special teams, right was the twenty
Speaker 2: twenty one game against Baltimore on a Thursday night down
Speaker 2: here when they had Bake come down off the edge
Speaker 2: Moore and play Duke inside. We've seen him run the
Speaker 2: pipe and go step for step with some of the
Speaker 2: speediest number three receivers up the seam. He's blocked a
Speaker 2: punt in that Panthers game a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: He's been part of the core special teams, and he
Speaker 2: can really play all three Mike Salmon will positions off
Speaker 2: ball linebacker. Plus he might have the best hair in
Speaker 2: the game, which goes a long way to twelve run
Speaker 2: stops last year on just seventy six rundown snaps, nine
Speaker 2: pressures on thirty three pass rush snaps, and then just
Speaker 2: zero point six eight yards allowed per coverage snap and
Speaker 2: that was on two hundred and seventy one snaps in coverage.
Speaker 2: So he can do a little bit of everything for you.
Speaker 2: Kind of a nice utility man, jack of all trades.
Speaker 2: I like him in that first man off the bench,
Speaker 2: like a six man role, but also start them in
Speaker 2: a pinch. I know you're going to be fine there
Speaker 2: as well. Number fifty one David Long Junior Look. Regular
Speaker 2: listeners of the podcast know how fired up I am
Speaker 2: about this player. My favorite trait in a football player
Speaker 2: is the mental acumen to anticipate and make plays because
Speaker 2: of the work you put in on Wednesday through Friday,
Speaker 2: which makes sense how I feel about our quarterback, right.
Speaker 2: He's really really good in that regard, But linebacker is
Speaker 2: kind of the analog on defense of that in terms
Speaker 2: of studying the flow of of you know what the
Speaker 2: offense's tendencies are. That's what made me fall in love
Speaker 2: with Zach Thomas, and I think David Long is one
Speaker 2: of the best processors at the linebacker position in the game.
Speaker 2: Today on the Free Agent Breakdown, I talked about the
Speaker 2: play against the Raiders where he dictated the running backs
Speaker 2: read before ultimately shutting off the lane that he flashed
Speaker 2: to him because he knew how to influence the action
Speaker 2: of the read based upon the blocking scheme. At least
Speaker 2: that's what my amateur scouting I took from the snap.
Speaker 2: But just really really instinctive and plays, you know, ahead
Speaker 2: of the game more so than his counterparts. He's productive
Speaker 2: in all three aspects of the position, run, blitz, or cover.
Speaker 2: He's the type of player that makes those around him
Speaker 2: better and I think that, plus his range, is why
Speaker 2: I consider him a perfect fit for the Fangio system.
Speaker 2: Made forty run stops last year on two hundred and
Speaker 2: sixteen rundown snaps. I put this on Twitter and you'll
Speaker 2: hear on the Defensive Tackles episode next week. On twenty
Speaker 2: four percent of our defense's plays against the run last year,
Speaker 2: Wilkins or stealer made a run stop, not a tackle,
Speaker 2: a run stop, which is a defensive win. You know,
Speaker 2: short amount of yardage allowed compared to the down on
Speaker 2: distance of the play. You add David Long to this group,
Speaker 2: and now you've got a triumvirate. He alone made run
Speaker 2: stops on twenty percent of Tennessee's right defensive plays in
Speaker 2: just eleven games last year. An absolute beast number fifty two.
Speaker 2: Aubrey Miller Emery Hunts picked for the UDFA that makes
Speaker 2: a squad this year, or at least one of them.
Speaker 2: I think it was you want speed, you want explosiveness,
Speaker 2: Here you go, six foot two, twenty nine.
Speaker 3: We saw that at the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: My first look at him was in that game because
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 2: Watch a lot of Jackson State football, but big hitter
Speaker 2: just built to play football. If I showed you his tape,
Speaker 2: you know, in motion like running it, you wouldn't say
Speaker 2: you would say, I should say that's a two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty pounds thumper because he just plays that way,
Speaker 2: but he has the speed that you wouldn't expect from
Speaker 2: a player that big. Of course, he's only two hundred
Speaker 2: and thirty pounds physicals. Hell loves the game. Jim Naggy,
Speaker 2: the director of the Senior Bowl, raved about his love
Speaker 2: of the game and how teams felt about it. In
Speaker 2: the run up to the draft, he was treating running
Speaker 2: backs like speed bumps and one on one blitz, pick up,
Speaker 2: drill down on a mobile. There's a clip of him
Speaker 2: steamrolling Taj Spears at one point. Definitely a guy I'm
Speaker 2: watching deep into the defense when we see the units
Speaker 2: two and three go out there twenty two pressures last
Speaker 2: year on ninety pass rush snaps and forty nine run
Speaker 2: stops on three hundred and twenty three. Rundown plays very
Speaker 2: effective player in college Number fifty five, Jerome Baker. You
Speaker 2: all know about double Nichols at this point. I think
Speaker 2: what makes Jerome such a special fit in this defense
Speaker 2: and player here for so long is that he's seen
Speaker 2: his role evolve really each year. I go back to
Speaker 2: my first year doing the podcast here at the Dolphins
Speaker 2: and Channing Crowder raved about all that Jerome Baker takes on.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line is that he's always responsible for
Speaker 2: just so much. He's also so incredibly durable, never miss
Speaker 2: us a game. He's been a green dot guy called
Speaker 2: the defense. He's been a rush specialist as a rookie.
Speaker 3: He's been the.
Speaker 2: Focal point of a blitz happy, dominant defense back in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty. He's played on and off the football, down,
Speaker 2: off the will and the mic positions, does a little
Speaker 2: bit of everything. I just hope Aubrey Miller kind of
Speaker 2: takes to his tutelage because they've got similar makeup and
Speaker 2: that fast first step, eighty three career pressures on five
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty three pass rush snaps, had that seven
Speaker 2: sack year a couple seasons ago, one hundred and ninety
Speaker 2: seven run stops in his career, and how about just
Speaker 2: shy of forty seven hundred snaps in years. He doesn't
Speaker 2: leave the field very often. And then, of course you
Speaker 2: guys probably saw the news earlier this week. Zeke Vandenberg
Speaker 2: was placed on injured reserve at the start here, or
Speaker 2: I should say, before training camp, so he is not
Speaker 2: going to be on the active roster here during training camp.
Speaker 2: So you go shorter episode today running backs and linebackers,
Speaker 2: but that's okay. We have a longer one tomorrow for
Speaker 2: you with Emmanuel Ogba and Jalen Phillips on the edge position,
Speaker 2: and that'll wrap up the week, and then we have
Speaker 2: two more preview episodes and then we're talking about practice
Speaker 2: next Wednesday, July twenty six, So keep it locked right here.
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