WEBVTT - Best Trait By Dolphins Player 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:07.040 Factors are alpins, fatrics, drawing, park textole What a win 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:12.520 for this Miami Dolphin team? Wow, What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:12.560 --> 0:00:15.640 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:20.800 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.800 and every day. How is it going, everybody? I am 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.840 your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.920 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:34.000 today's show, a grab bag of summer offseason topics. Mad 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.440 and twenty one is a hot topic. I'll tell you 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.000 my Madden playing experience and the ultimate cheat code I 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.800 used in every single Big Spot. Plus, in honor of 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.600 the Fish Tank Podcast releasing their top ten episodes in 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.760 show history, will do a top ten salute to Juice 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:54.960 and Seth and inspired by Benjamin Slack of the Draft Network, 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:56.960 I want to take a look at the best skill, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.480 or the best move or best trait of a lot 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.200 of players year on the Dolphins roster and we'll close 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.039 it up by paying tribute to the great Jim Kick. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.480 All of that and more on this Monday during the 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:14.199 two edition of the Drive Time Podcast. And the summer 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.720 solstice is one of the most beautiful times of year, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.120 the beautiful occurrences of year. I don't know what it 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.759 is about this time of year when the weather starts 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.000 to really really get hot. And remember, for me currently 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.600 still until next month at least. I'm up in the 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.959 Northwest where it's not one hundred degrees until late June 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.399 or into July deep into August as well. But there's 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.520 just something about being in the pool or on the 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.039 lake or on the river. Apparently it has to be 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.520 a body of water, probably enjoying a couple of adult 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:47.360 beverages and listening to some football podcast with your friends 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.480 or music, whatever it might be. I think it has 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.560 more to do with the fact that football is near 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.160 more than anything else. But we always wind up talking 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.680 about football when you are out in the summer events, 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.840 and I just love it. So we are here in 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.360 the peak of the summer solstice. We just put a 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:04.440 bow on Father's Day. I hope everybody enjoyed their Father's 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:06.639 Day and a happy Father's Day to all the dad's 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:08.840 out there. And I think a good place to start 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:12.160 for this first time Father's dayre and myself is to 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:15.000 go back to when I wasn't thinking about celebrating Father's Day. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.520 It was the furthest thing from my mind back in 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:20.240 my youth when I was a full blown addict to 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.680 the Madden video games. The midnight release every year, going 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.400 down to game Stop was an event in and of itself, 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.400 and it always ruined the rest of the week for 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.280 me because I was staying up till four or five 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.360 o'clock in the morning. You would get up at you 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.720 get home around twelve thirty after the midnight release, fired 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.000 up on franchise mode, and then from there you can't 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:39.680 just quit a couple of hours later. You have to 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.440 get five six games into your first season done. And 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.320 that's what I did every single year. But then at 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.960 a certain point, I think it was like Madden oh seven, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.240 I discovered online play and that was the addiction got 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:55.320 full fledged at that point. And again this was back 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.160 in two thousand seven, two thousand eight, that era of 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.160 PlayStation two. There something about the mapping and player movement 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:04.600 once they made the jump to the PS three that 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.000 just didn't do it for me. And I even see 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.200 it now the type of gameplayer they have on the 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.400 newer consoles, And that's just me. I suppose I'm more 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.200 partial to more old school games. I just don't like 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.160 the way it moves, or something about the moving and 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.120 the mapping on those new school consoles. And so, in 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.840 honor of Lamar Jackson deservedly getting the Madden cover this 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.000 year and the fact that it seems like we're seeing 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.560 Madden all over social media this past week, the timeline 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.840 and the like, I wanted to share some of my 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.960 Madden experiences from a decade ago, a decade plus ago. 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.480 And first the play that I went to when I 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.680 had to have it every single game I think you 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.120 play in Madden, there's a moment, a third down, a 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.840 crucial drive. You have to get that drive into the 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.200 end zone. And let's be real, this was cheating. My 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.560 brother hated it more than anything else. He always said 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.720 I was cheating when I ran this play. And I 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:56.120 saw the question pose online on Twitter, who was the 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.120 greatest Dolphins Madden player in the history of the game, 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:01.960 And there was no other answer. I had one answer 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.840 in my mind that just trumped everything else, and that 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.720 was Ted Gain. Why well, one vertical routes speed took 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.000 care of everything in that game. You didn't even have 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:13.880 to have skills in the receiver set, just as long 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.159 as they ran speed. They were a good player, but 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.440 playing with those oh A O nine era Dolphins, and 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.400 I would bench Henning Pennington to go to Chad Henny. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.600 I know, I know, sacrilege, but because of the arm strength, 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.680 I wanted to have the vertical game, so it had 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.839 to be Henny. So there was this play and I 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.160 want to say it was called jailbreak screen, but as 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.280 I say that out loud, it doesn't sound right. I 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.520 know that was the name of the blitz, the jail 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:40.240 break blitz. Maybe it was just a bubble screen, that's 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:42.520 all they called it. It was out of eleven personnel 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.880 receiver to the left side of the formation and the 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.120 right defense. There was one correct defense that could thwart 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.080 this play, but the opponent never actually did that to 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:53.680 get this done, to get the screen pass taken care of, 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:55.720 and if you just fanned out the defensive line, I 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.920 think there was a some sort of check you can 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:00.120 make on the defensive side of the ball where you 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.840 fanned out the defensive line, so the ends would rush 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.760 out and then come back in and kind of hook 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.279 around the offensive tackles. And if you had them run 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.880 that hook, they really put a stop to this play. 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.520 But they just never ran that play I recalled Julius 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.599 Peppers with the Panthers was a tremendous pen in the ass, 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.240 not just for that play, this play in general, but 0:05:18.400 --> 0:05:21.279 pass rushing in general off of your right tackle because 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.640 and this era that was back when your right tackle 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.480 was not as good as your left tackle like it 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.880 is in today's NFL, where tackle positions are basically agnostic. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.480 But anyway, you take the snap and immediately sprint all 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.640 the way to the right. You draw the rush all 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.640 the linebackers over to the quarterback and chase him where 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.440 he's obviously not going to be a threat to run 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.640 to the wrong side of the field. But it didn't 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.320 matter if the defense was in man or in zone, 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.200 because the play got so scattered from the sprint right anyway, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.479 and then once you got all the way clear, you 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.279 would just throw the screen all the way back to 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.679 the other side of the field to Teddy Gain, who's 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.680 sitting there with speed open field. He's got maybe one 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:59.120 or two guys out in front of him, but he's 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.919 got a wall of lockers because the offensive line bailed 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.880 out that way, and your quarterback took care of the 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.360 pass rush by going the other way. It worked every 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:11.520 single time. SAMs Julius Peppers, and I was pretty damn 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.200 good at Madden despite the cheap play I ram. I 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.080 think my online record was eighty five and twelve or 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.159 something like that. That's just spitballing. When I eventually hung 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.720 it up because they went to the later platforms, the 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:25.680 PS three, I ran like six plays. I just hot 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.159 checked out whatever the defense was showing, would check it 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.640 out and make my checks from there and attack relentlessly. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.880 Had a good running game with Ronnie Brown as well. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.960 And speaking of the Panthers, I actually had a game 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.760 one time. I think it was Madden oh nine. It 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.320 was one of the later games in my Madden Online 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.480 career where I eventually found out that I was playing 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:47.440 against Panthers quarterback Chris Gamble. Through a series of questions, 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:49.560 he told me that he was Chris Gamble. He grew 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.080 up in South Florida. Wasn't a fan of the Dolphins, 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.120 and I asked him why because he grew up there. 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.120 He told me he was a Panthers fan, and eventually 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.400 he said he was a Panthers fan because he played 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:00.760 for the Panthers. And so a little thirteen year old 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.200 me starts quizzing him on certain plays about Chris Gamble's career. 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.320 The Ohio State Miami National Championship game. I'm sure a 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.640 lot of you Dolphins and Kanes fans out there don't 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.600 want to think back about that one. So I played 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:13.880 against Chris Gamble, and of course your boy got the 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.360 W in that game. Madden was a lot of fun 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.640 back in my youth. I just don't play anymore. But 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.200 we do have Lamar Jackson on the cover of Madden 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.280 this year, and that will be the last time I 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:25.960 talked about Madden on this podcast, because we're not a 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.680 video game podcast. So that was Ted gains Most Dangerous trait, 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.360 the flat out Speed, And I saw a tweet I 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:36.000 think it was on Friday by Benjamin Soliac and a 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.840 quick funny story about Benjamin so like really good guy. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.080 I actually met him in Indianapolis this year at the 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.560 Scouting Combine and we chatted for a solid half hour 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:48.160 about football in between player media availabilities, and he followed 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.800 me on Twitter on I think it was Thursday or Friday, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.720 and I sent him a d M saying that hey 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:54.680 is in the bar and baby, we got you, and 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.640 he goes I have no idea why I wasn't following 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.680 you this whole entire time. I thought that I was. 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:01.760 I went to your timeline, saw that I wasn't, and 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.440 felt really stupid. So he followed me back. I always 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.200 wondered why, because we were friends. I enjoy his content, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.760 he enjoys my content. He didn't throw me that follow 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.880 but he finally did, so Ben, I appreciate that. And 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:14.960 in honor of Ben, I'm gonna go ahead and steal 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.560 the idea that Ben had on Twitter talking about what 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.560 aspect of a player's game one of your favorite players 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.480 do you think that most fans more casual so fans 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.640 are not aware of And his inspiration was the hump 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.840 move inside for Saints interior defensive lineman David anya Metta. 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.360 And it really got me thinking about which Dolphins fall 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.800 into that category. And rather than calling it an elite move, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:40.640 I just want to go over some of the best 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.880 moves for some, not all, of the Dolphins roster because 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.080 I just don't have the scouting depth on all ninety 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.240 guys to give you that. But let's just go ahead 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.400 and start here and go buy position. Will start at 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.880 the quarterback position with Ryan Fitzpatrick. To me when I 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.480 first watched his tape when the Dolphins signed him last year, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.040 it was the trust in his eyes, the ability to 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.559 see what he lie and to trust that he saw 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.440 the processing both post snap and pre snap to make 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.720 that read, to make that throw, and to fit that 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:08.839 thing in there. And I think we saw that time 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.199 and time again last year. There's a touchdown pass in 0:09:11.240 --> 0:09:14.360 the Giants game to Davante Parker up the seam. Parkers 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.040 in the slot runs a straight vertical seam route and 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.640 Fits sees it pre snap, knows he has a tight 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.440 window with his cornerback underneath safety over the top, and 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.520 he rips that thing and fits it in there for 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.520 a gorgeous, gorgeous touchdown past. I think if you search 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:31.160 my name on Twitter at Wingfield, NFL and Fitzpatrick and Parker, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.440 I think that play comes up as a video if 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.480 you want to go check that out. So for fits 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.320 definitely the trust and his eyes and the trust in 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.760 his preparation pre game to go ahead and attack the 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.600 defense accordingly. For to a tongue of Valoa, there's plenty 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.520 of options here. I would say the trust in his 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.119 eyes also was there. I love the way he manipulates 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:51.200 rush angles when past protection breaks down. But I think 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.839 you would be foolish to not say ball placement because 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.480 of his downfield accuracy all throughout his college career, just 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.600 laying handoffs to guys that run f or three, four 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.000 or four forties, putting the ball right and stride for 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.640 long touchdowns. You go back to Alabama eighteen tape, they 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:09.679 were just an aerial show unlike anything college football had 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.120 ever seen, and a lot of those big touchdowns and 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.960 big production numbers for that offense was a result of 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:19.240 elite level ball placement throwing down the football field. Josh Rosen, 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.560 I think just his sheer arm strength and the way 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.479 he can layer certain throws, like I love the backside 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:26.920 crossing route, the deep over route where they come in 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.400 behind the line, behind the linebacker and in underneath the safety, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:32.320 and he can kind of layer those throws out there. 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.959 He can definitely hit every blade of the grass with 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.160 his arm strength. At running back, Jordan Howard, I think 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.320 that his vision and you kind of can compartmentalize this 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.360 into his sheer vision. But there are certain aspects of 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.040 zone running or even gap running that a player has 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.640 to have certain vision for and on these zone reads 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.760 with that Chicago Bears scheme with the Eagles last year. 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.080 The way he can press the whole that the play 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.680 is designed to go to and then make his decision 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.280 based upon the flow of the linebackers, the level of 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.800 the defensive line, to bounce it outside, to bang it inside, 0:11:03.840 --> 0:11:06.600 or to cut back backside. His vision in that way 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.480 is elite. We had Brett Coleman of The Inside or 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.920 the Film Room show on YouTube. He came on the 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.680 podcast and broke down Jordan Howard's game. I think it 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.120 was back in March, I want to say maybe early April, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.920 but he has a YouTube episode on Jordan Howard where 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.400 he breaks that down very in depth, very very quality 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:25.560 content there from Brett Coleman with Matt Brita. I mean, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.080 what else is it? His flat out speed, that ted 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:31.880 gain speed, that speed he can flat out burn and 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.360 he is an ultimate angle eraser in the second level 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.319 at receiver Davanta Parker. There's a lot of options here 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:41.439 for Davante. I think you take his contested catch ability, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.480 but I don't want to just throw that blanket out there, 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:46.240 because that's really kind of a generic statement. More So, 0:11:46.320 --> 0:11:49.440 the way he uses his frame to his advantage. We've 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.520 seen him by the way he leaps down the football 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.080 field and even when he missed times his jumps, he 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.679 can still kind of it seems like, suspend himself in 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.199 mid air and still pluck that thing down. So much 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.440 fun to watch the way he attacks the football in 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.720 the air, but just the way he uses the frame 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.079 to create separation when he is a little bit tightly guarded, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.400 the way he can box out, like on slant routes 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.920 or square and routes. He catches the ball away from 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.920 his frame with his hands, and that serves a double 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.199 purpose because when you catch the football that way, typically 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.760 those types of guys don't have high drop numbers, and 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.640 Devanta is pretty solid in that regard catching the football 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:25.559 when it's on his body. So the way he uses 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.360 the frame his frame to box out and make catches 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:31.600 and those contested areas love that about Devant's game. For 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:34.480 Preston Williams, the way he stacks. We saw it throughout 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:37.760 training camp, preseason into the season. There's a catch up 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.520 against I think it was Levi Wallace in the Buffalo 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.240 game in Buffalo where the cornerbacks playing outside leverage, so 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.000 Preston releases inside and then gets back on top of 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:50.200 an armbar and stacks the cornerback. And once they're stacked 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.760 on the on the receiver's back, they have to go 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.680 through the body to get to the football. That's what 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:56.560 you want to do. You want to stack the defensive back, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.760 and Preston Williams is really good in that area. For Jacheem, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:03.120 easy as pie his release off the line of scrimmage, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.679 I just if I've seen if someone's jam Jachim, I 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.920 don't think I've seen it yet. He's tough to jam 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.600 because of the size and release and quickness that he has. 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.920 For Albert Wilson, obviously, the tackle breaking, the ability to 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.920 start and stop in the open field and make guys 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.800 miss that house of a lower half he has just 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.040 built like a brick house. He is so good after 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.560 the catch with the football in his hands along the 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.880 offensive line. Austin Jackson, the control that he has out 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.600 in space. I love watching his USC tape for the 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.120 way he gets out in open space and makes crucial 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:36.000 blocks on screen games or whether it's outside run plays 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.960 him in space. He is so controlled and so athletic. 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.199 Fun to watch that guy do his work out in 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.000 the open field. For Eric Flowers, the sheer power and 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.280 a phone booth. You watch the way he strikes the 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.720 hand fight, the way he can really shock the defensive 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.560 line when they first get to him and make that 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.679 first contact because he is so big and so powerful. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.439 With Ted Carriss at center the intelligence and communication, you 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.160 always see him passing off and knowing when to double one, 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.400 to fall off, when to find extra work, the way 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:04.959 he communicates the calls of the quarterback. Love what Ted 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.960 Carriss does from a leadership standpoint on the interior of 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.040 your offensive line. And for Robert Hunt, it's similar to 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.080 Eric Flowers with a sheer strength and power, and I 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.640 love watching the way they hit their combo blocks and 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.440 the way they can rag doll defenders. My gosh, it's 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.000 fun to watch. To me. Offensive line tape for a 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.240 lot of people probably isn't very much fun to watch. 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:27.360 But when you watch guys physically just move someone against 0:14:27.360 --> 0:14:29.560 their will, that to me is football on a nutshell 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.760 and I love watching that stuff. And Robert Hunt, Solomon Kinley, 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.240 and Eric Flowers can all get that done because of 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:39.240 that seer, sheer size and strength. Jesse Davis, I like 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.840 the way he uses his hands to help redirect and 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.040 to help get himself back into a position if he 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.160 has to recover to work back inside on a spin 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.320 move or whether it's a speed to power move off 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.640 the outside, he tends to find a way to get 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.680 his hands in the right place and that helps his 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.840 feet get a line and stay on balance as he 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.240 works back to counter whatever type of rush move the 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.600 defensive end the past rusher is going to throw at him, 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.720 both inside and outside. And Michael Dieter I like the 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.120 way he works in combo blocks. He can catch and 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.800 climb get to the second level, first hit that initial 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.320 chip on the defensive lineman and then climbed to the 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:15.280 linebacker and hit that second level block on the other 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.080 side of the football, on the defensive side and on 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:21.040 the line In particular, Christian Wilkins. This is one of 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.440 the toughest ones because I just like so much about 0:15:23.480 --> 0:15:26.360 Christians game and he's so well rounded and so versatile. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.480 But I have to just say, the quickness off the 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.840 snap and the penetration, that's what he was known for 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.240 in college. He won with that a lot in the 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.560 National Football League last year in his rookie season, and 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.800 it's a testament to him how he's able to round 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:40.720 out the rest of his game. But man, that speed, 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.680 quickness and penetration off the line, it's really what I 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.960 think makes him stand out above his peers. Divon god Shaw, 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.760 the sheer strength in his hands. I'm curious if that 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:51.720 dude can crack you know, if he doesn't even need 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.840 a nutcracker. He can probably crack a walnut and his 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.320 bare hands. Because the way he can grip and lock 0:15:56.400 --> 0:15:58.960 out and then disengage, it's so fun to watch. It 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.960 led to the most run stops last year on Pro 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:05.320 Football Focus, with thirty three of any interior defensive lineman 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.000 because of the way he stacks up and disengages because 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.880 of the strength in those hands. And Zach Seeler, we 0:16:10.920 --> 0:16:12.760 don't talk about this guy enough, I don't think, but 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.880 his hand usage and the length that he displays and 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.120 the ability to keep his eyes up over his hands 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.200 when he does lock out and make the read make 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.760 the play accordingly. We saw that plenty down the stretch 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.680 last season. Emmanuel Ogba. His length and the ability to 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:30.040 convert speed to power off the outside. It really benefits 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.200 the rush contained scheme when you have that type of 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.400 length and then to go ahead and throw that speed 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:37.120 off the edge because he is athletic enough to throw 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.640 a speed rush. But then to convert that two hundred 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.680 and seventy five pound frame and that length in that 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.160 wingspan into sheer power. It can reset the right tackle. 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:47.800 We talked about this on previous podcast. How you reset 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.200 those guys and it creates one on one opportunities for 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.960 the linebackers, for the edge rushers, for the games you 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:54.920 want to run for all the blitz is so his 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.760 ability to overwhelm with that speed, to power and length, 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.320 I think is Emmanuel ogbas best I da Shack Lawson. 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.680 The way he dents the edge and the tenacity he 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.399 plays with attacking guys trying to pull, whether it's a 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:09.160 backside pulling guard, whether it's a split zone tight down 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.960 coming across the formation. The way he goes after those 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:15.239 guys and initiates the contact and controls the rep and 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.640 resets the line of scrimmage and the running game. Love 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.800 the way Shaq Lawson plays off the edge out there 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.320 in the run game as the edge players go van 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.719 Noy just his past rush refinement. Man, this guy is 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.040 so refined and the way he gets after the quarterback, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.800 and I think in particular the way he can dip 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:32.880 off the edge. You see him throw the initial hand 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.719 usage and then dip underneath the outside shoulder of the tackle. 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.399 He is well versed in so many pass rush moves, 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:40.400 but I love the way he runs the arc with 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:42.800 that dip. For Vince Bagel, he was kind of the 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.359 inspiration for the initial tweet for me on this thread. 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:48.399 His spin move that he throws your work upfield, you 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:51.000 force the vertical set of the tackle spin back across 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.600 their face. He is deadly with that move. Just ask 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.879 his brother Andrew Van Giggle. The way he processes routes 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.280 and coverage loved at Wisconsin. Loved it in the preseas season. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.159 Then he goes on I R comes back late in 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.080 the year and we see the exact same thing. I 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.159 have videos of him doing this in the Patriots game. Again. 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.160 If you just type in my name on Twitter at 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.800 Wingfield NFL and the player's name, you're probably gonna find 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:14.240 some video work. And with Van Ginkle, the way he 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.480 can process the curl flat area and that's basically the 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.080 short pass like a hitch or a little square and 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.000 route a quick dig inside from a receiver or out 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.320