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Speaker 1: Down that, of course, the National Championship game winning throw
Speaker 1: in overtime from your new Miami Dolphins quarterback to a
Speaker 1: tongue of viola and I want to start with that
Speaker 1: play in the National Championship, the game winner over Georgia
Speaker 1: in overtime, second down and and two delivers a forty
Speaker 1: one yard strike to DeVonta Smith where he looks off
Speaker 1: the safety and comes back to the boundary and just
Speaker 1: puts an absolute dime on his speeds to receiver to
Speaker 1: win the game, to win the national championship and rescue
Speaker 1: a thirteen point deficit. And going back to what Brian
Speaker 1: Flores has spoken about in terms of what traits he
Speaker 1: wants in a quarterback, going back to his first scout
Speaker 1: in combine and twenty nine team and also this past year,
Speaker 1: he talked about four traits among other things. But fourth
Speaker 1: and I really want to highlight here on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and this play right here alone, I in checks off
Speaker 1: the first box, the it factor, rising all tides, making
Speaker 1: plays when the chips are down, getting the best out
Speaker 1: of your teammates and your players, and not being afraid
Speaker 1: of the big moment. What bigger moment for a true
Speaker 1: freshman to come off the bench at halftime and rescue
Speaker 1: a third team point deficit and punctuating it with a
Speaker 1: forty one yard touchdown passing overtime after he had taken
Speaker 1: a sack the previous play that lost sixteen yards and
Speaker 1: not only put Alabama out of field goal range to
Speaker 1: potentially tie the game in the first overtime, but gets
Speaker 1: it all back on the next play with the big
Speaker 1: touchdown strike that to me defines having that it factor
Speaker 1: that you're gonna beat me over my dead body on
Speaker 1: this football field. Number two, the leadership aspects, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna get into more quotes on this here in just
Speaker 1: a second, but this one from Ken wizzen Hunt quote.
Speaker 1: He just has a personality people gravitate to because you
Speaker 1: can feel that he cares about you. You notice that quickly.
Speaker 1: He's genuine. He cares about you, his teammates, his coaches.
Speaker 1: He makes them feel import him. And a again going
Speaker 1: back to Brian floress comments, whether it was training camp,
Speaker 1: in season, the scouting combine, he's been consistent in his
Speaker 1: message that he prefers a quarterback that can command the
Speaker 1: locker room, has great huddle etiquette, communicate the play calls,
Speaker 1: and be a guy that guys rally around, a guy
Speaker 1: that galvinizes a locker room. And we'll talk more about
Speaker 1: that as well here in just one second, because we
Speaker 1: have several accounts of Tah doing just that. The third
Speaker 1: trade the accuracy. We've heard Mike Leach talk about it
Speaker 1: in the past. Pretty much any quarterback coach says quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are born with natural accuracy or at least developed at
Speaker 1: a young age with repetition, and we know how hard
Speaker 1: to have worked in that area, growing up as a youth,
Speaker 1: as a high school player, as a college prospect, and
Speaker 1: now into the pros. His career completion percentage sixty nine
Speaker 1: at Alabama and going off of the Ian Wharton at
Speaker 1: NFL film study on Twitter, off of his catchable passes
Speaker 1: charting project two or through one percent of his passes
Speaker 1: last year on target according to that pretty accurate. And
Speaker 1: then fourth and I can't really just play this to
Speaker 1: you guys via a video outlet because we're on an
Speaker 1: audio platform. But the escapability, the mobility, the ability to
Speaker 1: manage the pocket and escape pressure when it arrives quickly,
Speaker 1: erasing free rushers. There are multiple examples of that pretty
Speaker 1: much anywhere you look onto us tape, including several of
Speaker 1: my tweets I've putting out there in the universe. So
Speaker 1: to up mobility, accuracy, leadership, and the IT factor, checking
Speaker 1: all four of those boxes. And so, with the fifth
Speaker 1: pick in the NFL Draft on Thursday night, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: land their quarterback of the future, and college football's all
Speaker 1: time passing efficiency leader is now a Miami Dolphin. He
Speaker 1: also had the highest qb R in two thousand eighteen
Speaker 1: since ESPN began charting that stat back in two thousand
Speaker 1: four in the history of college football, So the efficiency
Speaker 1: metrics are there. Six ft tall, two seventeen pound quarterback
Speaker 1: National champion played in another national championship game. He went
Speaker 1: twenty two and two as a starter for the Crimson Tide,
Speaker 1: seven touchdown passes to just eleven interceptions as a collegiate
Speaker 1: seven thousand, four hundred forty two yards. That's ten point
Speaker 1: nine yards per pass in his career with the aforementioned
Speaker 1: sixty nine point three percent completion percentage, and those totals
Speaker 1: one point four career passer rating, second to nobody in
Speaker 1: the history of college football. And all those statistics and
Speaker 1: accolades and individual accomplishments are all fantastic, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1: That and the winning pedigree, But it's Tugue by Lois, character, work, ethic,
Speaker 1: and spirit that adored the quarterback. To Alabama head coach
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, who said this quote, He's a fantastic human
Speaker 1: and forget just too on the field. It's who he
Speaker 1: is off the field that I think is probably more impressive.
Speaker 1: End quote. A very great example of that. After an
Speaker 1: injury cut Tunguo by Lois junior season short, Nick Saban
Speaker 1: said he called his quarterback in the hospital and hopes
Speaker 1: of lifting the perpetually smiling twenty two year old spirits.
Speaker 1: And this is how that phone call went, according to
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, quote, I called him to cheer him up.
Speaker 1: He cheers me up. This is a guy that has
Speaker 1: great spirit. He's very positive about everything he does and
Speaker 1: the effect he has on other people. I think he's
Speaker 1: a great ambassador for college football in terms of the
Speaker 1: class that he shows and the way he goes about
Speaker 1: what he does and quote, and that was evident even
Speaker 1: from a young age with the way that Ta was
Speaker 1: able to impress coaches and authority figures alike and to it.
Speaker 1: Will always attribute that to the way he was raised
Speaker 1: back in Hawaii by his parents and the loving discipline
Speaker 1: that they instilled into a from a young age, and
Speaker 1: that was really shown pretty much throughout his entire football career,
Speaker 1: going back even to his high school days. As the
Speaker 1: co host of the Move the Sticks podcast, Bucky Brooks,
Speaker 1: who also serves as a camp counselor at Nike's Elite
Speaker 1: eleven passing camp, here's his thoughts on two a tongue
Speaker 1: of Valoa quote. His humility is genuine. His ability to
Speaker 1: connect with people from all different backgrounds is impressive. Like
Speaker 1: an NFL locker room. When you think about franchise quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and all the things that are thrust upon a franchise
Speaker 1: QB to be the ultimate leader, to be the spokesperson,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever seen a kid that's
Speaker 1: more prepared to handle those responsibilities. End quote. And so
Speaker 1: you hear Brooks talk about Towah's ability to galvanize different
Speaker 1: walks of life and different types of people and connect
Speaker 1: to all of them on a personal level. Well, that
Speaker 1: also applies to his football acumen, because he played in
Speaker 1: three different offensive systems at Alabama under three different offensive coordinators.
Speaker 1: Last season was under Steve Sarkisian, who spent the previous
Speaker 1: two years in the NFL, ushering in the NFL based
Speaker 1: passing offense to the college ranks at Alabama, and sark
Speaker 1: had this to say about his quarterback quote, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter if it's the training room, the locker room, the
Speaker 1: practice field, the equipment room, the coach's office. That guy
Speaker 1: is a true leader. Everybody knows the work ethic, the desire,
Speaker 1: and the competitiveness Tongua Voloa has end quote. And another
Speaker 1: counselor or I guess head coach that Tongue by Loah
Speaker 1: had at the Nike Elite eleven camp was Trent Dilfer,
Speaker 1: who also was working with two and his preparations for
Speaker 1: the draft, had this to say about his time with
Speaker 1: two of back at the Elite eleven camp quote, this
Speaker 1: is maybe the best thing that I can say about Two.
Speaker 1: He's a one rep guy. He can change in one rep.
Speaker 1: You can ask him to do anything you want and
Speaker 1: he can change it in that one rep. That coach ability,
Speaker 1: that trainability is what made me know at the time
Speaker 1: that he wasn't just going to have a good college career,
Speaker 1: he was going to have a great college career end quote.
Speaker 1: We talked about him working with Tongue of Voloa in
Speaker 1: the lead up to the draft, but the two relationship
Speaker 1: really spanned back to the high school days for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins new quarterback quote. I have never seen a kid
Speaker 1: since I've been doing this change more in two weeks,
Speaker 1: he said of his lefty protege. Quote. I told him, hey,
Speaker 1: to a the way you play the position, even though
Speaker 1: it looks great, doesn't translate to the next level. It
Speaker 1: lacks discipline, It doesn't benefit you the way that you
Speaker 1: move in the pocket. You can't throw in tight spaces.
Speaker 1: You have to work on this end quote and a
Speaker 1: nineteen year old tongue of Voloa accepted the coaching and
Speaker 1: made sure those improvements were readily tangible for his Elite
Speaker 1: eleven coach to see. Dilford had this quote after the
Speaker 1: fact quote he shared with us in our interview that
Speaker 1: he would go to a football practice and then him
Speaker 1: and his pops would go to the park and set
Speaker 1: up cones that we talked about in Oakland to retrain
Speaker 1: his instincts and play from under center. Noticed he played
Speaker 1: more under center and seven on seven this past weekend
Speaker 1: than he played in the gun, and obviously that's why
Speaker 1: we were also impressed and why he has a legitimate
Speaker 1: chance to be the m v P of the Elite
Speaker 1: eleven camp and quote, and that chance became a reality
Speaker 1: as Tannguo Valoa took home the m v P Trophy
Speaker 1: of Elite eleven that year. A five star recruit out
Speaker 1: of high school going to Alabama obviously, and then just
Speaker 1: a short eight months later, tongue Valoa captures an even
Speaker 1: more prestigious piece of hardware, down thirteen zip at halftime.
Speaker 1: You know, the story leads the comeback, leads the charge,
Speaker 1: taking over for Jalen Hurts at quarterback at halftime and
Speaker 1: coming back from downt zero. Brian day Ball, Alabama's offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator in that game, featured a pretty run heavy offense
Speaker 1: that really catered to Jalen Hurts and Bama's loaded stable
Speaker 1: of running backs and the running game. That's evident by
Speaker 1: the fact that tongue Valoa in just that one half
Speaker 1: alone carried the football twelve times, mostly out of zone
Speaker 1: read and that was the highest single game total of
Speaker 1: ru shows and Tunguavaloah's entire career that rookie season that
Speaker 1: freshman year, his first game off the bench in considerable time,
Speaker 1: because he was working mostly spot duty in other games
Speaker 1: that year. But it was tongue Bo's passing prowess, however,
Speaker 1: that really resurrected the Crimson Tides hopes of winning that
Speaker 1: second national championship in three years. He tossed a pair
Speaker 1: of touchdowns and regulation to get the Crimson Tide tied
Speaker 1: with Georgia and then the game winner and overtime obviously
Speaker 1: to Devonte Smith. A takeoff route from the boundary Georgia
Speaker 1: has two split safety's fifteen yards off the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage at the snap, really trying to play safe because
Speaker 1: they had twenty six yards between the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and the first down chains, but that didn't matter for
Speaker 1: tongue Voloa. He takes the snap, holds the safety on
Speaker 1: the hash mark and you can see that safety staying
Speaker 1: on that hash mark near DeVonta Smith and looking in
Speaker 1: his direction. That creates just a sliver of a window
Speaker 1: and two launches a perfectly placed, arcing fifty yard ball
Speaker 1: through the air for the win and for the championship trophy.
Speaker 1: And when they flash to the end zone angle on
Speaker 1: that play, it shows that boundary side safety flip his
Speaker 1: hips and run towards Smith, but then he follows tongue
Speaker 1: by Lowa's eyes back to the post and that gives
Speaker 1: him just that sliver of a window to drive the
Speaker 1: dagger through the heart of his sec rival. And despite
Speaker 1: not starting a single game as a freshman, tongue Bylowa
Speaker 1: finished the college football season with one of the more
Speaker 1: memorable throws in the storied history of the sport. He
Speaker 1: finished that year with six thirty six passing yards on
Speaker 1: seventy seven throws. That's sixty three point six percent completion,
Speaker 1: eleven touchdowns, and just two picks. From that championship winning
Speaker 1: moment onward, Alabama fans knew something special was in their possession.
Speaker 1: But even with the championship winning medal tongue by Loah
Speaker 1: had to compete against the incumbent starter his sophomore year
Speaker 1: and close friend Jalen Hurts the following fall camp at Tuscaloosa.
Speaker 1: This quote from an anonymous Alabama graduate assistant that was
Speaker 1: on staff with Tunga Byla and Jalen Hurts quote, to
Speaker 1: has an ability to get guys to rally around him
Speaker 1: differently than anyone I've ever seen. One thing that stood
Speaker 1: out to me was how he handled playing behind Jalen Hurt.
Speaker 1: He didn't complain or sulk, He just worked. Even after
Speaker 1: the three touchdowns in the National Championship, he was asked
Speaker 1: to compete for the job the next season, and he
Speaker 1: never wavered end quote, and To of course won the
Speaker 1: camp competition and started opener against Louisville playing under a
Speaker 1: new offensive coordinator in Mike Locksley and tongue Voloa transformed
Speaker 1: the Crimson Tide offense from a traditional smash mouth style
Speaker 1: into a record breaking vertical aerial display. And here was
Speaker 1: a quote from Old Miss head coach Matt Luke ahead
Speaker 1: of the team's meeting in ten with Alabama and tongue
Speaker 1: Vola quote, they can stretch you really vertically with the
Speaker 1: R P O game, which adds a dimension. It puts
Speaker 1: a lot of pressure on you because you know you
Speaker 1: have to stop the run, but with that added dimension,
Speaker 1: it makes it very, very tough when it does break
Speaker 1: down to Ah is able to extend the play, keep
Speaker 1: his eyes downfield, and keep his composure. For a young quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty special. End quote. Tongue Voloa started
Speaker 1: all fifteen games that year, setting a single season school
Speaker 1: record in passing yardage and touchdowns. The sublemish to his
Speaker 1: win loss record in college came in the National Championship
Speaker 1: game against Dabo Swinney and the Clemson Tigers. The sophomore
Speaker 1: quarterback finished that year with a sixty completion percentage. He
Speaker 1: threw for three thousand, nine hundred sixties six yards. That's
Speaker 1: eleven point two yards per attempt forty three touchdown passes
Speaker 1: and six interceptions, and was the runner up in the
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy voting and heading into that twenty nineteen title game, Swinney,
Speaker 1: now a two time national champion head coach, was blown
Speaker 1: away by the oppositions quarterback. Quote. He's got a little
Speaker 1: bit of Brett Farve to him, a little bit of
Speaker 1: Michael Vick and him. He's got that stuff that you
Speaker 1: think you've got him, and he's got eyes in the
Speaker 1: back of his head. He spins out and the next
Speaker 1: thing you know, it's a big play. He's so accurate
Speaker 1: in the pocket and he's incredibly accurate on the move.
Speaker 1: End quote. It's been fifteen months since when he made
Speaker 1: those comments, but he shared his feelings on Miami's new
Speaker 1: quarterback earlier this month on ESPN's First Take, and that
Speaker 1: tune hasn't changed. Quote. I love too. I'm on record
Speaker 1: with that. I wouldn't pass up on to I think
Speaker 1: he is a big time winner. He's a great person
Speaker 1: and a great teammate. End quote. Finally, this past year
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen, at Alabama, they took on a new
Speaker 1: offensive approach, more pro style under Steve Sarkisian the closest
Speaker 1: replica to an NFL scheme the Tongue of Valoa has directed,
Speaker 1: and boy did he make it go. Operating in that
Speaker 1: run first system as a freshman, then transitioning into a
Speaker 1: vertical game that produced teens most accurate downfield thrower, Tongue
Speaker 1: Valoa completed fifty seven percent of his throws twenty plus
Speaker 1: yards down the field, according to Sports Info Solutions. The
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen system evolved under the former Atlanta Falcons play
Speaker 1: caller and sark and Bamma receiver Jerry Judy had this
Speaker 1: to say about the new offense. Quote, I feel like
Speaker 1: we're more play by play. You know. Last year we
Speaker 1: were more like score fast, score fast, big play score fast.
Speaker 1: This year we're taking it slow, play by play end quote.
Speaker 1: And Sarkisian is well known for his offense steep and
Speaker 1: West Coast principles, but the presence of Tongue Valoa kept
Speaker 1: the scheme open for multiple approaches to attacking opposing defenses
Speaker 1: on any given day. Quote. When you can run the football,
Speaker 1: you can play action pass. The play action pass games
Speaker 1: the quarterback's best friend. To where defenses are trying to
Speaker 1: stop the run, and now you can create throwing lanes
Speaker 1: down the field for explosive plays. And then the quarterback
Speaker 1: prefers and efficient passing game high percentage completion type passing
Speaker 1: game where you can get the ball and your playmaker's
Speaker 1: hands in space to go out and create plays and quote.
Speaker 1: And after the record breaking ten season, Tonga Blois somehow
Speaker 1: manages to post even better numbers and twenty nine team
Speaker 1: all the way across the board. He completes seventy one
Speaker 1: percent of his passes. He threw for two thousand, eight
Speaker 1: hundred forty yards. That's eleven point three yards per attempt,
Speaker 1: so every pass attempt is a first down on average
Speaker 1: and thirty three touchdowns with only three picks throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the entire season. Three seasons, three schemes. Diligence
Speaker 1: excellence in the same core components of Towa's game allowed
Speaker 1: him to be effective in each of those three systems.
Speaker 1: And that starts with the feet, which are the foundation
Speaker 1: of all athletic movements, especially for a quarterback. To his
Speaker 1: feet are smooth, they're urgent, they're twitchy. He expedit. It's
Speaker 1: the entire process of taking a snap by getting quickly
Speaker 1: into the top of his drop, staying the line with
Speaker 1: his feet under his hips, hips under his shoulders. He
Speaker 1: can fire off that spot quickly and remain in a
Speaker 1: position to threaten the defense, either with a throw or
Speaker 1: taking off as a runner. Then you pair that with
Speaker 1: the ability to process the defensive rotation at the same
Speaker 1: rate that his feet move, making for a danger dangerous,
Speaker 1: deadly combination. Tongue of Vola is able to get through
Speaker 1: progressions on full field reads and get the ball out
Speaker 1: on time and on target. And that ladder part throwing
Speaker 1: on target is where Ta has been blessed, both naturally
Speaker 1: but also by repetitive work habits. His throwing motion is natural,
Speaker 1: he can manipulate spin and touch with an easy flick
Speaker 1: of the wrist, and he can drive the ball with
Speaker 1: extra velocity when asked to. Tongue of Voloa is a
Speaker 1: master of deception at the position. He can manipulate coverages
Speaker 1: and passing lanes accordingly, whether it's going downfield or short
Speaker 1: in the slant r P O game. His feel for
Speaker 1: leverage and placement often keeps his receivers out of harm's way,
Speaker 1: as he'll throw a has to intentionally settle a receiver
Speaker 1: down in a soft spot of the zone with that
Speaker 1: intentional location, and he can put the ball on his
Speaker 1: man and stride for big run after catch opportunities plug
Speaker 1: on any Alabama highlight tape. It is just deep strike
Speaker 1: after deep strike after deep strike, and finally you have
Speaker 1: the sense of coverage rotation, which is compounded by tongue
Speaker 1: Vola's inherent ability to sense and get away from pressure.
Speaker 1: His preparation makes him privy to a variety of defensive
Speaker 1: calls and blitzes. He often knows where protection could be vulnerable,
Speaker 1: and not only that, but how to work around those
Speaker 1: obstacles and make the offense work with those vulnerabilities, whether
Speaker 1: it's attacking vertically with anticipation or moving an unblocked defensive
Speaker 1: linemen with ball fakes and foot positioning. Tongue of Vola
Speaker 1: can displace defenders in multiple ways, and playing quarterback is
Speaker 1: an imperfect science. Plays are drawn up for the ideal situation,
Speaker 1: but with twenty two moving bodies on the field, clutter
Speaker 1: and chaos often turns a game of xs and oh's
Speaker 1: into a game of Jimmy's and Joe's. And tongue of
Speaker 1: voy low U is adept at processing the chaos, whether
Speaker 1: it's a free rusher or a unique defensive call, and
Speaker 1: getting himself into a position where he can make a
Speaker 1: play all the while the platform and arm angle must
Speaker 1: be recalibrated in a fraction of a second, and Tanga
Speaker 1: Vla routinely makes chicken salad out of those situations. This
Speaker 1: from NFL dot COM's lancerline. Quote. He has the release,
Speaker 1: accuracy and touch needed to work all three levels successfully
Speaker 1: and can become more disciplined full field reader to appease
Speaker 1: the puzzle together against NFL coverages. His escapability not only
Speaker 1: moves the chains, it creates chunk plays in the air
Speaker 1: and on the ground. Talented dual threat quarterback with winning background,
Speaker 1: explosive production, and loads of experience and high leverage games
Speaker 1: and quote, and Tanga Bola's teammates, just like the scouts,
Speaker 1: provide glowing reports on Miami's new signal caller. I got
Speaker 1: this quote from Xavier McKinney, Alabama safety at the scouting combine,
Speaker 1: who talked about practicing against two every single day. Quote.
Speaker 1: He's helped me a lot. We've had talks after a
Speaker 1: practice where he tells what he sees because he's looked
Speaker 1: me off several times. So many times I got to
Speaker 1: a point where I started to get frustrated because I'm like,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you're doing this. End quote. And
Speaker 1: ESPN's lead college football color commentator, Kirk Herbstreet referenced a
Speaker 1: particular moment where he saw the way Crimson Tide receivers
Speaker 1: lit up when they saw to enter the huddle at
Speaker 1: an Alabama practice during his freshman season before that National
Speaker 1: Championship game. Quote. The night before the National Championship, I
Speaker 1: was allowed into practice with my access, and when to
Speaker 1: A came in, you could almost just feel the receivers
Speaker 1: like here we go. And I was standing next to
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, who wasn't practicing, and after watching to A
Speaker 1: go down the field boom, boom, boom in a two
Speaker 1: minute drill, Jacob said to me, he's been doing that
Speaker 1: all year. End quote. And Tongue Byla's success that night
Speaker 1: on college football's biggest stage was the start of a
Speaker 1: trend of elite production. In his two years as a starter,
Speaker 1: Tongue of Valoa earned Pro Football Focus grades of better
Speaker 1: than ninety that's the publications cut off for the territory
Speaker 1: of elite elite players quote, one of the most interesting
Speaker 1: things about Tongue Byloa, when compared to some of the
Speaker 1: other top quarterback prospects in recent memory, is that we've
Speaker 1: never really seen him play bad football and quote that's
Speaker 1: PFFS lead draft analyst Mike Renner. In twenty nineteen, Tunga
Speaker 1: Byloa was efficient throwing the ball to all three levels
Speaker 1: of the field. Per Pro Football Focus, his passer rating
Speaker 1: was third in college football on throws twenty plus yards
Speaker 1: down the field, fourth on intermediate throws in the ten
Speaker 1: to nineteen yard range, and second on passes nine yards
Speaker 1: and in He took the fewest sacks among quarterbacks, had
Speaker 1: the seventh best adjusted completion percentage with the third fewest
Speaker 1: turnover worthy plays in college football, and Tungua Byloa the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are getting a good football player and a better
Speaker 1: person as two. As Miami bound, he's not coming alone.
Speaker 1: He believes in the three pillars that make up his life, faith, family,
Speaker 1: and football. Now, the highest rated passer in the one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty year history of college football will join
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins as the fifth pick and Thursday Night's
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, and the Dolphins were not on on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: taking their second selection number eighteen overall, with USC offensive
Speaker 1: tackle Austin Jackson. And in a game that has predicated
Speaker 1: on sacrifices, and especially in a program like the one
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins want to run that has built upon
Speaker 1: the vision of tough, smart, dependable football players, nobody embodies
Speaker 1: a selfless mentality like the newest Miami Dolphin here along
Speaker 1: the offensive line in Austin Jackson, the left tackle from
Speaker 1: the University of Southern California, heard his name called by
Speaker 1: the commissioner on Thursday night, serving as a bookend for
Speaker 1: a wild year for Jackson and his family. Jackson and
Speaker 1: his younger sister, Autumn, are inseparable. She suffers from a
Speaker 1: rare bone marrow deficiency that robs her body of producing
Speaker 1: red blood cells. It's called diamond black fan anemia, and
Speaker 1: it has been causing her complications for a number of years.
Speaker 1: The impact of those treatments had been deteriorating ever since
Speaker 1: she began them, leaving Autumn with limited options, the best
Speaker 1: of which was a bone marrow transplant. And as fate
Speaker 1: would have it, Austin, the newest Miami Dolphin, and his
Speaker 1: sister were a perfect blood match across twelve different criteria. Quote,
Speaker 1: it was a godsend. Austin said, she's a fighter. She's
Speaker 1: really tough end quote and Austin, because of that, spent
Speaker 1: most of the nineteen summer in Phoenix and anticipation of
Speaker 1: the transplant. Finally, the family received word that it was
Speaker 1: go time and a successful three and a half hour
Speaker 1: procedure later, Austin, nearly immobilized for the next week with
Speaker 1: throbbing pain in his lower back, was put on a couch.
Speaker 1: With his family taken care of, it was time to
Speaker 1: get back to football for the six ft five twenty
Speaker 1: two pound blind side protector there at USC in the
Speaker 1: Pac twelve and turning one years old, very young player
Speaker 1: next month and without the benefit of an offseason program
Speaker 1: in Jackson's upside could just be coming to fruition at
Speaker 1: this point of his life and of his football career.
Speaker 1: This from NFL Networks Daniel Jeremiah. Quote, he's got a
Speaker 1: great knee bend, which is a technique for blocking, and
Speaker 1: he can really move. Latterly, he's only going to get
Speaker 1: better and quote and Jackson blaze a five oh seven
Speaker 1: forty yard dash at the NFL Scouting combine for his
Speaker 1: on field workout, he measured at least in the top
Speaker 1: eighty four percentile among all offensive lineman since with the
Speaker 1: forty time as well as a vertical jump and broad
Speaker 1: jumps coming in at thirty one and one fifteen inches respectively,
Speaker 1: it's the athleticism that catches the scouts eyes when they
Speaker 1: cut the tape. This from Lance zer Line of NFL
Speaker 1: dot com. Jackson has loads of athletic ability and play talent.
Speaker 1: He scheme diverse with potential guard flexibility and could become
Speaker 1: an early starter. And quote you hear Brian Flores talk
Speaker 1: about versatility all the time, guys that can play multiple
Speaker 1: spots and Jackson because of that. With what z Line says,
Speaker 1: the ability to play tackle maybe some guard inside helps
Speaker 1: keep your game day active, roster options open, but also
Speaker 1: it keeps you in flexibility in terms of man zone scheme,
Speaker 1: running game plot pass blocking in the screen game. He
Speaker 1: can do all that stuff at a plus level, and
Speaker 1: Zerline men since Jackson's nimble feet as a strength for
Speaker 1: his ability to cover a lot of ground quickly on
Speaker 1: his initial kick, slide and pass sets. That's when the
Speaker 1: offensive line first gets off the line. Because of that
Speaker 1: length and quick feet, he can really get into a
Speaker 1: set and set up his set pretty early for the
Speaker 1: pass rusher, who then has to make a decision to
Speaker 1: go inside or outside, and that athletic profile helps Jackson
Speaker 1: to get speed rushers both running the opposition around the
Speaker 1: quarterback and out of the play altogether and working to
Speaker 1: redirect against counter moves underneath. Those sweet feet benefit Jackson
Speaker 1: getting to the second level and in space in the
Speaker 1: run game and the screen game. As their line notes,
Speaker 1: he's rangey on long polling plays and wide receiver screens,
Speaker 1: and particularly adept at hitting cut off blocks at the
Speaker 1: second level. Where you climb to the linebacker, you turn
Speaker 1: your seal, you create a gap for your running back.
Speaker 1: Jackson's athletic ability was on display at the combine and
Speaker 1: at left tackle in college, but also on the field
Speaker 1: goal block team. The big lineman used that leaping ability
Speaker 1: the thirty one inch vertical fifteen inch broad jump to
Speaker 1: reject not one but two field goals during his career
Speaker 1: in college at USC. The Dolphins vision under Chris Greer
Speaker 1: and Brian Flores calls for smart, tough discipline players that
Speaker 1: are hungry and ready to embrace the grind, something Jackson
Speaker 1: describes and himself quote, I'm passionate and competitive. I want
Speaker 1: to win, line up with my teammates, my guys, and
Speaker 1: I played a win, compete, and dominate end quote. He's
Speaker 1: the youngest tackle in this draft class, and because of that,
Speaker 1: Jackson acknowledges both his room for growth and the path
Speaker 1: to becoming the player that Greer and Flores want him
Speaker 1: to be or envision quote. I have a work ethic
Speaker 1: unlike any other. I see what needs to be fixed
Speaker 1: within myself, and I'm able to correct it and improve
Speaker 1: and quote. And Jackson played one thousand, seven hundred forty
Speaker 1: eight snaps last two years, all of those that left tackle.
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus notes his smooth movement and urgent pass
Speaker 1: sets as the best two traits he offers as an
Speaker 1: NFL tackle. His twenty seven bench press reps, which ranked
Speaker 1: eightieth percentile by the way, are even more impressive considering
Speaker 1: his length with a thirty four and a half inch arms,
Speaker 1: It's not easy to bench press when you have to
Speaker 1: go that far with your was being thirty four and
Speaker 1: a half inches long. Jackson is ready to embrace the
Speaker 1: lifelong dream that was fulfilled on Thursday, night. But the
Speaker 1: real work has just begun. In Jackson's eyes. Quote, I'm confident.
Speaker 1: I come from a family of football players. This is
Speaker 1: what I've been working for. This was my dream since
Speaker 1: I was a kid, since I started playing football, and
Speaker 1: I am ready end quote. And the Dolphins were not
Speaker 1: done adding parts to their roster on Thursday with a
Speaker 1: third pick in the first round after a trade down
Speaker 1: brought the Dolphins from pick down to thirty, where they
Speaker 1: selected Auburn defensive back Noah Igbanogeny. And if you want
Speaker 1: to talk about pure athletes, it starts with igbanogen We
Speaker 1: know the Dolphins added Byron Jones this offseason and he
Speaker 1: really tested through the roof at the scouting combine in Indianapolis.
Speaker 1: And the same is true for Noah, who moonlighted as
Speaker 1: a track star at Auburn in both the long jump
Speaker 1: and the triple jump events for the Auburn track team,
Speaker 1: and that gave him an opportunity to really kind of
Speaker 1: skate by in the spring practice portion of the football season.
Speaker 1: But Noah was having none of that. His coach in
Speaker 1: the defensive backfield, Wesley McGriff, knew that there was a
Speaker 1: possibility he might not have egg Banogeny during the spring
Speaker 1: practices because two sport athletes are given some leeway with
Speaker 1: regards to practice time during the overlap between the two sports,
Speaker 1: and that was a leash that Iggy was not at
Speaker 1: all interested in exercising. This quote from a griff quote
Speaker 1: that kid's attitude is phenomenal. You have to run him
Speaker 1: out of the building. And quote and that love for
Speaker 1: the game is nothing new for Igbanogeny. He fell in
Speaker 1: love with football in the second grade and never looked back.
Speaker 1: And that genuine passion for the sport really caught the
Speaker 1: attention of coaches throughout the Auburn Tiger staff. Last year. Quote,
Speaker 1: Noah came over and got fifteen days of spring practice
Speaker 1: lack back in then he's basically a starting cornerback in
Speaker 1: the SEC from the start. He played very well last year,
Speaker 1: but it was his first year on defense. A lot
Speaker 1: of it was all new to him, and he progressed
Speaker 1: each game. And quote that's from defensive coordinator Kevin Steel
Speaker 1: of the Auburn Tiger's football team. Gus mals On is
Speaker 1: the head coach and he's also the play caller, so
Speaker 1: you know his backgrounds on the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: but he still recognizes Igbogen's leadership from the other side
Speaker 1: of the football. Quote. He's one of the defensive leaders.
Speaker 1: He has a presence about him, and he played with
Speaker 1: a whole lot more confidence this spring. He plays with
Speaker 1: an edge and that carries over for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: End quote. And that edge is really one of Noah's
Speaker 1: most prideful traits. He began his career at Auburn and
Speaker 1: acknowledged during his interview on the Drivetime podcast, which is
Speaker 1: available now interviews with two a Tongue of Valoa, Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson and Noah Igbanogeny that his experience dealing with feisty
Speaker 1: corners really inspired him to become just that the guy
Speaker 1: that was a nuisance for opposing receivers. This quote from
Speaker 1: his teammate at Auburn, Javarus Davis. He's so athletic and
Speaker 1: it's in his genes. He's just so good. A lot
Speaker 1: of people can't do what he can do. End quote,
Speaker 1: and Davis is right. Igbanogny was a national champion in
Speaker 1: high school in the triple jump event, and that showed
Speaker 1: this year in the scouting combine, where he ran a
Speaker 1: four four eight forty yard dash and posted a thirty
Speaker 1: seven inch vertical jump and a one twenty eight inch
Speaker 1: broad jump the ladder checking in at the eight percent
Speaker 1: tile of the broad jump testing metric in Indianapolis. And
Speaker 1: those athletic traits don't fall far from the tree. Igbogwens
Speaker 1: parents were both Olympians for their native country in Nigeria,
Speaker 1: and this isn't just track speed. It translates to the
Speaker 1: football field. He just started playing cornerback back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eighteen and a lot of completion percentage of
Speaker 1: just forty one nine percent on ball's target for his
Speaker 1: man that first year. He added a pick and broke
Speaker 1: up eighteen passes in his two years at Auburn. This
Speaker 1: quote from PFFS Mike Renner. He heard him on the
Speaker 1: podcast earlier this week. He'll be in hip pockets all day,
Speaker 1: even in the NFL. He loves to get physical at
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage with opposing wide outs and he
Speaker 1: never let them leave arms length and quote. The fluidity
Speaker 1: of Ignogwens game is apparent on tape. He's a smooth
Speaker 1: operator when you watch him man, whether working out of
Speaker 1: a back pedal, playing a zone turn, or matching up
Speaker 1: man on man. He's thickly built, a properly play that
Speaker 1: physical brand of football he wants to play and shows
Speaker 1: patients with this technique. Per Pro Football Focus, Igbogeny played
Speaker 1: the second most press coverage reps in twenty nineteen of
Speaker 1: any cornerback and all of college football. So you get
Speaker 1: the fit there. Igbanogene allowed an impressively low fifty completion
Speaker 1: rate last year, and on passes that were deeper than
Speaker 1: nine yards, he allowed a completion on just fourteen out
Speaker 1: of thirty seven passes. A sticky man cover corner, he
Speaker 1: also embraces the tackling aspect of the position. This quote
Speaker 1: again from the d C at Auburn. He's got a
Speaker 1: tremendous skill set, a great defensive temperament, and he's very knowledgeable.
Speaker 1: Put that with the toughness, just in innate toughness, and
Speaker 1: you'll see a guy that progresses and progresses end quote.
Speaker 1: I mean that's a Brian Flores cornerback through and through
Speaker 1: right there, knowledge of the position, former receiver, so the
Speaker 1: ball skills are there and he can come up and tackle.
Speaker 1: That's what you want in a cornerback right there, Man
Speaker 1: and Brian Flores certainly loves his four down players, guys
Speaker 1: that are willing to contribute on special teams, something that
Speaker 1: Iggbanogeney makes a lot of pride in. He's a dynamic
Speaker 1: return man and can get down the field on coverage
Speaker 1: teams quickly and make a tackle. NFL dot COM's Lancserline
Speaker 1: notes those special traits special teams traits rather and his
Speaker 1: scouting report on NFL dot Com quote stocky but explosive
Speaker 1: receiver turn cornerback. He's extremely physical from snap to whistle,
Speaker 1: with the strength to alter route timing from press. He's
Speaker 1: a good athlete with a plus burst to close. He's
Speaker 1: naturally aggressive to ambush catch tries. He's good and run
Speaker 1: support and offers early special teams help. End quote, and
Speaker 1: he joins free agent acquisition Byron Jones to give Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: Josh Bowyer, and Gerald Alexander another talented defensive back in
Speaker 1: this room, a room the rookie defensive back is already
Speaker 1: familiar with. If you heard the other Drivetime podcast, the
Speaker 1: interview with Noah Igmanogeny, he said, quote, I've looked up
Speaker 1: to Jones and Xavien Howard for a while now, just
Speaker 1: because of the way they play. I've been watching those
Speaker 1: guys from Afar ever since i switched to cornerback end
Speaker 1: quote and so that is a rap to a tongue
Speaker 1: of by low Austin Jackson and Noah Igbonogamy. The three
Speaker 1: Dolphins draft picks on Thursday night, we still have plenty
Speaker 1: more to go, though. The Dolphins acquired yet another draft pick,
Speaker 1: bringing their total up to fifteen and today on Friday's
Speaker 1: portion of the NFL Draft, the Dolphins are scheduled to
Speaker 1: pick number thirty nine overall in the second round, fifty
Speaker 1: six overall also in the second round, and then one
Speaker 1: more time in the third round with pick number seventy
Speaker 1: and then Saturday ten more picks. We get number one
Speaker 1: thirty six from the Green Bay Packers in that trade back.
Speaker 1: We still have one forty one as part of the
Speaker 1: comp pick for Juwan James last year, three picks in
Speaker 1: the fifth round number one fifty three, one fifty four,
Speaker 1: and one seventy three, and then one more pick in
Speaker 1: the sixth round one five, and three picks in the
Speaker 1: seventh to seven, to forty six, and to fifty one.
Speaker 1: Some of the best players available on the Draft network
Speaker 1: dot COM's Big Board the number seven team player and
Speaker 1: eighteen and nineteen for that matter, are still on the
Speaker 1: board in Xavier McKinney, j K. Dob Bins, and Christian Fulton.
Speaker 1: McKinney is the top safety on the Draft Networks big board,
Speaker 1: Dobbins is the top running back on their big board,
Speaker 1: and Fulton is the number three cornerback on the Draft
Speaker 1: Networks big board. We still have another big time producing
Speaker 1: running back in college and Jonathan Taylor out of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: He's on the board. Safety Grant del Pits still up there.
Speaker 1: In fact, all the safeties are on the board still
Speaker 1: Ashton Davis, Antoine Winfield, Xavian McKinney, Grant Dell put all
Speaker 1: these guys still available. Top four safeties on the Draft
Speaker 1: Networks Big board. A j Epanessa the edge yet tear
Speaker 1: gross models. Both those guys still on the board. Receiver
Speaker 1: Lavisco Channault number thirty one overall, he's up there. Zack
Speaker 1: Bond the edge from Wisconsin, number thirty two overall. Denzel Mims,
Speaker 1: the receiver out of Baylor, number thirty five. He's up there.
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire came off the board number thirty two.
Speaker 1: He was the first and only running back taken. So
Speaker 1: every running back besides Edwards Hilaire still up there a
Speaker 1: position to look at, maybe back in that defensive secondary,
Speaker 1: maybe at another rusher and a defensive lineman. Plenty of
Speaker 1: options available for the Dolphins on day number two, and
Speaker 1: of course with those ten picks on day three, the
Speaker 1: flexibility again to quote Chris Career, to really do whatever
Speaker 1: the hell we want. And I added the hell in there,
Speaker 1: because they've done a great job of really keeping themselves
Speaker 1: flexible and available to go up or down the board
Speaker 1: to go and attack their needs or players that just
Speaker 1: fit the system, that fit the scheme, and so they
Speaker 1: have an opportunity. If they want to target a player
Speaker 1: and go up, they can do that. And if they
Speaker 1: want to fall back and pick up draft picks later
Speaker 1: on this year, maybe even next year, they have the
Speaker 1: ability to do that again. Ultimate flexibility. That was the
Speaker 1: plan for the draft. Fifteen total picks. Three in the
Speaker 1: bag to a tongue of Byloa, Austin Jackson and Noah Igbanogeny.
Speaker 1: The cornerback, the offensive tackle, and the quarterback all in tow.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to you guys again tonight. Do it all
Speaker 1: over again, and then we'll do it all over again
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