WEBVTT - Offseason Program Mailbag Questions 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.360 To US buyers touch style by waddle stuck into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boyd tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:19.800 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:24.120 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.520 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.080 Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, it's exclusively a Twitter 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:35.599 mail bag episode. I put out the call for your 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.479 questions via Twitter. You right in with your thoughts and 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.520 questions and we flesh them out here on the podcast. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.080 Mostly football today, so not a lot of television or 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.120 better call saw whatever. We're gonna talk about a lot 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.360 of Dolphins stuff in there. From somewhere in South Florida. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:58.680 This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. So when I 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:02.160 recorded this episode, I was in South Florida, but now 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.399 as you're hearing it, I'm back in the Pacific Northwest 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:09.319 and I found a beach front condo for two hundred 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.320 and fifty dollars a night in Lincoln City on the 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.920 Organ Coast, which is the region that my wife and 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:19.039 I hope to one day retire to someday, hopefully if 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.480 you've not been to the Organ Coast, I cannot recommend 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.319 it enough and maybe nostalgia plays a role there, but 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:26.840 I just think it's the best place on earth in 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.600 the summertime. That's where I'm gonna be for a week 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.280 late in June. But for now, we are in the 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.600 central part of Washington State, seeing families, seeing friends, and 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:40.200 soaking up some not so humidly hot summer days. But 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.920 let's go ahead and get to the flavor of the hour. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:45.760 You guys wrote in with your questions. I have the answers, 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:48.040 at least I think I do, and I want to 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:49.640 do as many of these as we can. I believe 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.120 there is twenty one in there. I'm hoping to get 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.080 to as many of those as they possibly can. And 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.520 we start here from at Yo SOI to a Papa 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:03.400 great Twitter name what would be deemed a successful SEASONO 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.280 Miami Dolphins. I'm gonna go back to what Coach McDaniel 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.200 said in the fish Tank, because I think he said 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.960 it best there and I've been saying, you know, something similar. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.600 I'm not gonna say anywhere close to the level of 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:18.080 Coach McDaniel, but something similar since really twenty nineteen and 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.840 even before that. I mean it's process over results because, 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.160 as coach said, so many variables can go against you 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.160 in this game. Whether it's just lucky things that have happened, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.720 like a missed field goal, a bounce of the football 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:34.680 in a punt, a call you might not agree with 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.840 the wrong holding call to take a big play off 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.919 the board. What if you finally get the defensive look 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.919 you've been hoping for to exploit all game long, and 0:02:44.200 --> 0:02:47.200 someone gets an early start, false start and you never 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.520 see that look again. There are so many variables that 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.840 play into the results in this game. It's a very 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.560 fine it's a fine line between victory and defeat. When 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.680 you only have seventeen games, those records and playoff berths 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:03.480 can be fleeting, they can be not lucky, but there 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.880 can be things that happen that don't necessarily tell you 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:11.120 which team was better or worse. So to me, competing 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.360 consistently showing growth in areas that you need to show 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:17.560 growth and showing this offense can match the personnel that 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:21.560 was acquired to Ron Armstead to re kill Cedric Wilson Jr. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.480 You guys get growth at quarterback. Look we know the 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:27.160 narratives out there, how nice would it be to get 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.880 the offense humming at a level that those daily debates 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:33.040 are looked back upon in a year from now and mocked. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.120 That's that would be great for me personally. And then 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.560 with the defense, well, if they play like we know 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.120 they're capable of, then I think everything takes care of 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:45.320 itself there. So a successful season to me equals similar 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:49.360 defensive production, a jump from the offense, some tangible growth 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:53.400 at the quarterback position. Those would be great successes and 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.320 the results of that if that process plays out, well, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.040 you think it would be pretty good too. But I 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.360 don't think it's fair to say the final result is 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.640 necessarily who you are, like you are what your record 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.400 says you are. I've never agree with that, because we 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.600 talked about this and like a lot of the wins 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:12.720 that year were you know, opponent opponent's missing field goals 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:16.000 or just things of that nature, or even you know, 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:19.080 even last year some of the bounces that went against 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.680 the Dolphins three straight walk off field goals, and then 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.840 that in those three games the Dolphins missed their own 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.120 field goals, just things that you know, you play sixty 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.400 minutes of football it comes down to a kick. I'm 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.520 not gonna, you know, disown the left guard because the 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:32.800 field goal didn't go in. You know what I mean. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.640 It makes sense so process over results. But I think 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.479 those things about the offense showing growth, defense showing you 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.200 similar production, and getting a really good definitive answer at 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.640 quarterback would be great signs of growth in a good season. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.840 At Paul con McGuire. Rebuilds don't happen overnight, Travis, And 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.360 with so many new players and skill possessions on offense, 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.159 what are the chances of making the playoffs this season? Well, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.240 the Dolphins need to lean on the defense the first 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.840 six to eight games of the year until the offense 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.200 can reach its full potent. Chill. It's a good question, 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:04.120 and I wouldn't call it a rebuild because I think 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:06.640 that began back in twenty nineteen. And you can look 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.560 at how far the roster has come since that nineteen 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.200 roster where you set a record for most players used 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.600 U d F as guys off the street, you know, 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.440 coming and signing on Tuesday, playing on Sunday. And now 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:22.040 where the roster is with cornerstone pieces, quality starters, adequate starters, 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:27.120 good depth, good balance of youth and veteran players and 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:31.000 how successful this team has been since that time at 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.520 utilizing the resources that came from that undertaking. Since that time, 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.159 you've hit on draft picks, you've acquired good young talent, 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.400 you have cornerstone players up and down the roster, and 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.520 then your idea, Paul about the defense kind of carrying 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.200 the way early on. That would have been probably preferable 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.320 last year because the one is heaven start. The defense 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.240 wasn't playing like we know it can. And it could 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.359 be that way, It's possible, but it could also be 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.280 the McDaniels version of his offensive system that he talks about, 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.400 right Like, we know the system that he from. He 0:06:00.440 --> 0:06:02.880 talks about working in that system for seventeen years. But 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.440 it's gonna have a McDaniel twist on it, McDaniel flavor 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.880 on it. Maybe that little wrinkle or flavor is a 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:10.600 bit of a shock to the rest of the NFL, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.800 and it takes them four or five games to catch 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.800 up to the Dolphins offense. You just never know. That's 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:18.000 why we watch, right. I can't freaking wait for this 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.839 football season. It should be a lot of fun at 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.479 Born Frown. What a great name that is who looks 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.280 most improved out of the young offensive lineman. Well, it's 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.960 tough to really get a beat for me without pads on, 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.840 and really at practice in general. I mean, I'm sure 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:34.479 if I had the tape and could get to the 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:37.400 tight copy the end zone behind the play copy and 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.240 run back each place several times, I could tell you, hey, look, 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.640 seventy four is consistently getting the strike zone with his punch, 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:47.360 or sixty eight is doing an excellent job of coming 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.840 off the ball with a low pad level. Seventy three 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.440 is really moving out there and hitting his blocks in 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.000 space in a controlled manner. But I don't have that. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:58.200 And that said, Ikenberg's name has come up next to 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.240 a lot of the second and level runs in my 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.560 O t A notebooks I have. I think he can 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:05.440 really play with some power on the phone booth and 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:09.920 turn guys out and his his his traits transition to 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.600 I think a lot of positions on the offensive line, 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.600 but in particular inside I think where the biggest advantage 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.600 is is just understanding the art of offensive line play. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.040 Like you go back to his college tape and the 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:24.440 scouting reports, super high floor total technician rarely beat by 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.840 counter moves. I think Liam has has had a nice 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.120 spring camp so far, and just because I want to 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:32.040 make it perfectly known, I think Rob Hunt is a very, 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.000 very very good player, and I think we've seen that 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.400 so far through his first two years here and into 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:41.960 spring CAMPO. Next question from at I, sweetheart, currently, who 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.440 is your under the radar player? That's tough. I think 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.680 there are some good options based upon them. Maybe the 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.960 national coverage is for this team, right, Like Zack Seeler, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.920 for instance, is an incredible player. We know that, but 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:58.240 does John in Oklahoma? Does Joe and South Dakota know 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:02.880 about that? Or? Shoot, there was a weakest per position 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:06.680 per team article out there this spring or earlier the 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.280 spring that talked about the Dolphins safety is being a 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.560 position they had to address. It was the weakest position 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.480 on the team. Well, then I'd like to introduce you 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.320 to Javon Holland because that's laughable. Let's do it from 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.880 the Dolphins fan perspective, though, if you're on this podcast, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.560 you know all about Javon Holland and Zach Seler. So 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:25.880 I'm gonna take receiver Trent Sherfield. I think he's gonna 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.400 give you fifteen and twenty special team snaps every game 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.480 and give you insane effort on those. He's gonna run 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:34.480 his routes on offense in a way that best helps 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.400 open up space and create chances for either himself or 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.080 his teammates. And I think he's an exceptional, exceptional run blocker. 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:44.280 The impact guys like him and Eric and Zoo Kama 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.760 could have down on the red zone in the running game, 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.240 I think could be a big boon that not a 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.320 lot of folks are talking about heading into the season. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:56.640 Next question from at Ricardo bunch of numbers, He asks 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.400 how concerned should we be with the offense is not 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.080 fully clip king right now? Not at all, not at all. Also, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.240 we have seen a lot of things click on offense, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.360 Like I guess my question would be, where have you 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:10.520 heard that from? Because consider the source, I'm not entirely 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.160 sure I agree with the idea in the first place. 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.480 But the defense has won their days, the offense has 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.520 had their's, the offense has hit a bunch more explosives, 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.080 and the run game looks blocked up pretty good more 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.840 often than not than a year ago, I would say. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.120 But still man not to go full iverson here, but 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.360 it's practice practice. I remember a great quote from I 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.640 think it was Keenan Allen from the Chargers, but I 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:35.440 could be wrong there, but he talked about evaluating practices 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.480 for some grand takeaway is a very risky proposition when 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:41.920 you're considering the outside source, like not about players and 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.240 coaches who were doing it. And that's in training camp 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.760 much less o t a s when you're in shorts 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.120 and shells installing basic principles of your offense and defense. 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.800 We talked about He talked about I should say how 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.000 different guys have different goals at various stages of the 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.839 off season. The veteran might be working on something new 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.400 that requires him to take some lumps before he perfects it, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.960 Like when you fix your golf swing. It's not pretty 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:06.120 in the beginning, but when you get the result on tour, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.920 that's what you see. Right. Maybe a rookie is doing 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:10.800 the same thing, trying to get his technique to go 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.120 from what his college coaches asked him to do to 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.920 what his pro coaches asked him to do. This does 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.960 feel like an age old question. Is it good for 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.520 the defense when they play well or is it bad 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.720 for the offense and the defense plays well a little 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.800 bit of both vice versa on that. My final point 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:27.960 is that sweating what happens on a football field in 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:31.160 May and June, it's not healthy if you are. I 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.559 go back to the early recommendation. Just go ahead and 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:37.240 go outside, touch some grass, and enjoy the summertime. All right, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:39.000 let's go ahead and take our first break. Will come 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.080 back on the other side with more of your questions 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.720 here on the Drivetime Twitter Mailbag edition of the podcast, 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.920 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.000 Back here on a Friday edition of the Drive Time podcast, 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.200 answering your questions via the Twitter mail bag. We are 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.680 brought to you by Auto Nation. I am your host, 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.040 Travis Wingfield, and we pick it back up here from 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:07.319 the Twitter mailbag. I put the call out for questions. 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.600 You guys right in with your answers. We talked about 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.480 them here. Your questions, I should say, my answers on 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:17.520 the podcast at not Underscore, Mr Underscore Delecto, who are 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.679 your top three off the radar breakout candidates mentioned this 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.679 a little bit earlier, but I think the term breakout 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.480 does make this question difference. We'll go ahead and take it. 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:29.880 I'm taking big rob Hunt for one of them. I 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.480 think his skill set matches what this system can ultimately 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.680 do for him. And he talked about playing under Billy 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:39.600 Napier at u L University of Louisiana Lafayette UH in 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:44.280 an offense that really prioritized spacing, athletic ability outside zone UH, 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.160 some vertical sets, things that are going to happen in 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:48.840 the spaced out offense. Two things I think can that 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:50.839 he can do and has shown he can do are 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.640 those two things getting out in space, controlled duo combo blocks, 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.440 climbing to that second level. I like this scheme change 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.880 for him a lot. Jalen Phillips is my second guy. No. 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:01.839 He talked about or he had the eight and a 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:03.440 half sacks last year, and you go back and listen 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.960 to the fish Tank episode with Chillan Phillips on it, 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.600 you'll hear him talk about how much he thinks he 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.920 can grow and trying to be a guy that can 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.200 be on the field for all three downs, you know, 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.880 on any given particular series. He's been damn good in 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.200 the off season program. I think the pressure numbers and 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.880 the pass rush kind of arsenal got rat ratcheted up 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:23.000 last year, late in the season, I think he can 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.200 continue that and put it all together and really take 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:27.520 off in your number two and man, I feel like 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.520 we could do ten players here, because yeah, there's a 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.439 lot of them. But I'll just go ahead and take Well, 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.439 you said off the radar, so that removes Waddle Holland 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.079 probably Phillips too, but already talked about him, so it's 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:41.960 too late. Two was not off the radar. That would 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:43.520 be my number one pick. Let's go ahead and do 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:46.480 Brandon Jones. He talked about getting better at every area 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.560 of his game the last time we spoke to him, 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.240 and was even asked about shaking this idea of being 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.960 you're just a blitzing safety, right. That's not accurate. It 0:12:54.000 --> 0:12:55.679 does a lot more than that. And I go back 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:57.680 to his Texas tape when he was very good and 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.840 a lot of coverage roles. They're playing that slot star position, 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.560 off coverage, press coverage, rotating into his own. I think 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.959 you'll see his entire game take another step this year, 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.440 especially as he in Holland keep getting more and more 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.800 time together, like that play against the Ravens where he 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:16.000 strung out the jet sweep too. I think it was 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.640 Devin Duvernet and just basically kept him behind the line 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.920 so Holland could scrape around and make that play in 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.720 the backfield. There's a lot to that on Brandon Jones's tape, 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.280 So it's a lot more than just blitzing for him 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:30.600 at MERSA Nova. What was the Porters signing all about? 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:32.800 What do you see his fits or attributes to the 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:35.640 team as sure? Yeah, I'd love to talk about that. 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.680 He was a nightmare at USC. I remember that he 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.839 definitely ruined a ten and two season. Didn't ruin this season, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.640 but he ruined one of the two losses the Cooks 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:46.840 had that year when they went on to beat Oklahoma 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.920 State in the Alamo Bowl. That season lost in like 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.960 week number three to USC and then the Apple Cup, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.760 which we lose every year except for this last year. 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.719 Go Coog's. But he had to play in that game 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.599 where he had put a pressure on Gardner Minshew that 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.080 forced incomplete pass. I still think his hands were up 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.320 high to the helmet, but I digress because he was 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.520 all over the backfield that game. I remember that, remember 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.840 him being that nightmare for opposing teams. Every time I 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:14.480 watched USC play back and before that, He's got a 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.920 great combination of build and speed. Look at his relative 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:21.040 athletics scorecard nine point six seven. That's out of ten 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:25.000 in the green categories, the elite categories, the ninety percent 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.720 tile of your position group. He was in that category, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.320 and the shuttle, the three cone, the bench, the vertical jump. 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.400 Really good agility for a linebacker. He's got seven hundred 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:37.240 forty nine career snaps on defense as a prow pressures 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.440 on four hundred and twenty pass rush reps, which is 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:42.680 one for every eight or nine pass rush snaps. Not 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.680 too bad. Twenty four run stops on three eighteen rundown reps. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.040 He only played eleven snaps in coverage, so off the 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.240 edge come after the quarterback has had a hard edge 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.520 in the running game. He did give Cleveland a hundred 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:55.920 and five snaps over the final four games of last year, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.000 so he's played some football here recently. His greatest impact 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.720 has been on specialty though two hundred and thirty three 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.080 snaps in his career, and his pro football focus great 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:07.040 has improved each of the three years on special teams, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.520 culminating in a score over seventy, which is a quality 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.920 production score. But you go back to his scouting report. 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:16.240 First step explosiveness pops off the tape and that's not 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.800 just athletically. He plays with this certain level of fire 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.880 and intensity. If you just go back to the college tape, 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:24.520 I'd have to pop on the pro tape to give 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.600 you the same level of analysis there. But he is 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.160 a master at clean up sacks. When it comes to effort, 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:33.280 and we do talk about what are we talking about, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.440 I should say this defense does here all the time 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.160 right like create chances, set picks. Being part of a 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:42.560 selfless rush lane, integrity pass rush plan that doesn't always 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.320 pay off your effort in terms of the sack numbers. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.520 You have to be very selfless. Coach Austin Clark. Tyrone 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.760 McKenzie is talked about two since his arrival, but Austin 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.040 Clark worked with both linebackers and defensive line over the 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.080 last couple of years, and he has talked about how 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.720 this is the most selfless group he's ever been a 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.440 part of. You have to be willing to basically go 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.520 set the pick for the pick and roll right. And 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.480 Gustin as a prospect was great at redirecting and find 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:07.880 the football and cleaning up broken place and when you 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.640 run rush games up front and you have great lockdown 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.480 caybrads on the back side, there's gonna be a lot 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.120 of those opportunities. So maybe as a sub package rusher 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:17.720 he can come in and make an impact that way. 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:20.480 He shocks guys in the running game with a hard edge, 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.600 a very strong punch that helps him control that outside arm, 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.840 stay on the upfield shoulder and make a play that way. 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:27.640 And the last thing, and I picked this up from 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:32.920 researching him, was that he has a very legendary workout 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.760 slash nutritional plan where he eats ten thousand calories a day. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.800 He's always eating quick digestion. He works his butt off 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:40.880 because I guess he was a in The word that 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.440 I saw in the article was scrawny, A scrawny high 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:46.520 schooler who wound up at six ft two sixty five 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.360 pounds by the time he was done at USC You 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.120 know what, I went ahead and tweeted the link out 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.240 on my timeline just now, so I go ahead and 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.240 check that out. The story on Porter gust and how 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:58.880 he had to work to get himself into football shape 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.000 and eventually become a pfessional football player. Let's go ahead 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.920 and go here to at thought smasher who would win 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.719 in a fight one medium sized grizzly bear or Ray 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:12.760 Kwan Davis. Well, unlike Dwight Shrewd, I do not have 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.159 a catalog of bare knowledge at my disposal. I do 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:20.120 know that grizzlies are the biggest, most ferocious of the bears, 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.480 so maybe I do Black bears are definitely not best, 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.119 But I think we've gotta take the grizzly here because 0:17:26.160 --> 0:17:28.760 of the advantage of claws and teeth, right, that's really it. 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:32.600 Bare hands for Rake one equipped hands and abiding mechanism 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:36.360 for the bear, because I think strength, length and size 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:40.480 is all pretty comparable. And that's sounds funny, but it's 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.720 probably not that far off. You put a bear through 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:45.040 the combine. Can he change directions like ray Juan Davis. 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.119 Can he take on a lead blocking fullback like ray 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.040 Kuan Davis? Can he eat up a double team like 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.080 ray Kuan Davis? Can he uh pinch and condense and 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.399 stack and shed and get off blocks like Rake je Davis? 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.200 I don't think so. So I think that if you 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.600 removed the aspect of the claws and teeth, we have 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:02.040 a fair right, but otherwise not very fair that's your 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.560 bare analysis here. Let's go ahead and take our last break. 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:06.760 We have two more questions here on the Twitter mailbag. 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:09.640 Your host, Travis Wingfield Drive Time Podcast brought to you 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:18.960 by Auto Nation. Back here on the Friday edition of 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:22.240 the Drivetime Podcast. My name is Travis Wingfield. I am 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.639 your host, and we have a lot to get to 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.680 this summer. We're gonna preview every possession group. We're gonna 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.760 do some coaches audio, some analysis, some stats to get 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.200 you guys ready for training camp, which if you have 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.600 not done so in the past, highly recommend coming out 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:38.960 to practice and watching these guys get after it. It's 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.960 my favorite time with the football calendar. You can't lose games. 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.240 You're gonna be evaluated football. You get a watch football 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:45.880 for a couple of hours. It's a lot of fun. 0:18:46.160 --> 0:18:48.000 So come on out to training camp and get ready 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.640 with your training camp preview series up on Miami Dolphins 0:18:50.640 --> 0:18:54.639 dot Com as well here on the Drivetime Podcast, and 0:18:54.680 --> 0:18:57.480 I'll take you right up into the regular season and 0:18:57.520 --> 0:19:00.640 then we're full go ahead into two. It's almost here, 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:03.560 But first a couple more questions before those Training Camp 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.080 Preview podcast, where we also will take a look at 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.159 the entire NFL, division by division and talk to some 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.040 other team's gotta get to know everyone else, because if 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.159 you don't have knowledge of the other thirty one teams, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:17.440 you can't properly assess your own team. At showtime, Underscore 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.840 Miami asks how's the progress of the offensive line so 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.880 far compared to this time last year? First of all, showtime, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:26.920 what's up? Man? He does a lot of Twitter spaces 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:29.399 out there, and they're always informative and most of all 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.200 hard to find. This respectful check him out at showtime, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:36.399 Underscore m i A and check out his Twitter spaces. 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.800 I mentioned earlier the pockets that have been afforded to 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.639 the quarterback for for Tua and Teddy and Skyler to 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.040