Speaker 1: Practice, Alphs Factor throwing touchdown. What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and every day.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. And on today show Tuesday Player
Speaker 1: Day Off, we're gonna hear from a boatload of Dolphins coaches,
Speaker 1: including all three coordinators and the defensive assistance. On this
Speaker 1: particular episode of Drivetime, we're gonna get into Travis is
Speaker 1: Tuesday top ten, my top ten plays with a breakdown
Speaker 1: each of those from the young season so far through
Speaker 1: three games, and we'll start getting into some little Seattle
Speaker 1: Seahawks details, a few nuggets and notes about that football team.
Speaker 1: All of that and more on this Tuesday, September twenty
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Speaker 1: at auto nation dot com, and so far through three games,
Speaker 1: the appraisal of Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has been a
Speaker 1: darn good one. This guy has been playing out of
Speaker 1: his mind unconscious all season long. He is the top
Speaker 1: passer on Pro Football Focus and Attacking Deep, vertically down
Speaker 1: the Field Passer Rating QBR, whatever you want to measure
Speaker 1: him up against. He's pretty much a top the statistic leaderboard.
Speaker 1: And what I find most interesting about the fact that
Speaker 1: this guy has fourteen touchdown passes and with four touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in each of the first three games, he's the
Speaker 1: first player to ever do that in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: on track to break Patrick mahomes a touchdown pass record,
Speaker 1: and he has zero turnovers in those three games as well,
Speaker 1: so fifth or fourteen rather touchdown passes and zero turnovers
Speaker 1: for the c quarterback. He's also only thrown twenty four
Speaker 1: incomplete passes on the entire season, so only a few
Speaker 1: more in completions than he has touchdown passes, computing seventy
Speaker 1: six point seven percent of his passes, and the Seahawks
Speaker 1: are three and no because of that offensive production between
Speaker 1: he dk Metcalf Tyler Lockett. Because you look at their
Speaker 1: defense right now, they have surrendered a league high fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety two yards against and a league highs
Speaker 1: six point six yards per play against them. To kind
Speaker 1: of put that into context, last time this year, after
Speaker 1: three weeks, the Dolphins defense had allowed fourteen hundred and
Speaker 1: nine eight yards on the season, So just six few
Speaker 1: yards allowed for the Seahawks defense this year compared to
Speaker 1: Miami last year in nineteen on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the football. So interesting matchup coming here to South Florida.
Speaker 1: We know about all the intricate details of this matchup.
Speaker 1: A West Coast team coming east and if you look
Speaker 1: at the Seahawks passed, they start games slower. But even
Speaker 1: with you have Russell Wilson in the game in the lineup,
Speaker 1: he's gonna come out and give you at least one
Speaker 1: quarter if not too three or four and get that
Speaker 1: team back in the game. So it's gonna be crucial
Speaker 1: if that is the case in this game for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to not let the Seahawks kind of get their
Speaker 1: momentum and get carried back into the game if they do.
Speaker 1: When facts start off slow, as teams in the West
Speaker 1: Coast region coming over to the East coast one o'clock
Speaker 1: kickoff due so many times before. The Seahawks defense also
Speaker 1: played eighty snaps on Sunday against Dak Prescott and that
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense, So they're conditioning going to be put to
Speaker 1: the test coming into a game with the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: who had the extra three days off with the benefit
Speaker 1: of the Thursday night game, and Jacksonville Seahawks also going
Speaker 1: to be in those dark blue jerseys on the far
Speaker 1: side of the field or where the bench is gonna
Speaker 1: be on the portion of hard rock stadium that is
Speaker 1: exposed to the sunshine in those dark blue uniforms with
Speaker 1: Miami in the home white. So very interesting matchup here
Speaker 1: between the Dolphins and the Seahawks. Will get more into
Speaker 1: that on tomorrow and Thursday's podcast taking a look at
Speaker 1: this game at this preview, A big test, a big
Speaker 1: challenge for this Dolphins team hoping to get back to
Speaker 1: five hundred at two and two against one of the
Speaker 1: NFL's best quarterbacks, best players in Russell Wilson, and a
Speaker 1: good team in the Seattle Seahawks. Before we go ahead
Speaker 1: and get into the Coaches Meet Availability today. I want
Speaker 1: to get into Travis's top ten something I want to
Speaker 1: do on the podcast here on Tuesdays. And since we're
Speaker 1: doing it first here, let's go ahead and make it
Speaker 1: the top ten plays of the season so far for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. And we start here with number ten,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna make it. Jerome Baker's strip and force
Speaker 1: fumble out of the back of the end zone in
Speaker 1: Week one at New England. I love the hustle he
Speaker 1: showed almost particular play because he's lined up over the
Speaker 1: Patriots right tackle, but there is a tight end in
Speaker 1: the formation and a receiver in tight to the formation
Speaker 1: as well, so Jerome Baker has lots of trash to
Speaker 1: work through. As Cam Newton does a play action rollout,
Speaker 1: the running back releases to the same side. Baker is
Speaker 1: outflanked at that point and has to catch up from behind.
Speaker 1: He gets back in there, finds the past catcher, the
Speaker 1: ball carrier, punches that thing out, gets a big takeaway,
Speaker 1: a big momentum shift in that game at the time.
Speaker 1: That's play number ten so far on this season. Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker's hustle to get a forced fumble in week number one,
Speaker 1: play number nine. Let's go ahead and make it another
Speaker 1: linebacker forced fumble and go to Week two against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills and Kyle Van Noy sprinting down the field him.
Speaker 1: You watch this play developed, he's kind of hanging out
Speaker 1: in that hook zone, keeping down on the quarterback Josh
Speaker 1: Allen because of how dangerous he is with his legs.
Speaker 1: Van Noy sees the past go up over his head
Speaker 1: and he turns and runs immediately, gets all the way
Speaker 1: downfield on that tight end on Dawson Knox and punches
Speaker 1: that thing out from behind and stops a drive there
Speaker 1: from the Bills before it can get started. Very good
Speaker 1: job of hustling, getting after the play and not giving
Speaker 1: up on a play once it gets behind you. Both
Speaker 1: Dolphins linebackers Jerome Baker and Kyle Van Noy get into
Speaker 1: the top ten with those hustle efforts so far. And
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and stay there with Kyle Van Noy
Speaker 1: on play number eight and his strip sack of Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew and Thursday Night's victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars. As
Speaker 1: you see Van Noy line up over the Jaguars left
Speaker 1: guard and he's gonna work upfield, come back inside and
Speaker 1: kind of sort of pick for Zach Seeler, and that
Speaker 1: knocks off the Jaguars right guards. He works across the
Speaker 1: formation and it also opens up a hole for van Noy,
Speaker 1: who closes down the quarterback and because of pressure off
Speaker 1: the edge from Emmanuel Ogba, van Noy can get to
Speaker 1: Minshew who steps up into the pocket right into his face,
Speaker 1: and he gets him for the old trifecta, the old
Speaker 1: triple play. There for Kyle van Nou the sack, the
Speaker 1: strip and the scoop didn't quite get the score because
Speaker 1: he had to dive on the football to get the recovery,
Speaker 1: but the Dolphins would score a few plays later on
Speaker 1: the next offensive possession play number six so far here
Speaker 1: in Travis's top ten. It's gonna be the past to
Speaker 1: Mike Gisicki at the end of the first half in
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game to set up a long Jason Sanders
Speaker 1: field goal. The Dolphins only had a few seconds left
Speaker 1: on the clock and only or didn't have any time
Speaker 1: outs rather, and they threw a past to Mike Gasicki
Speaker 1: after a nice Miles gas Can run where Kasicki gets
Speaker 1: into the second level of the defense, Fitzpatrick has to
Speaker 1: step up and out of round pressure, and he climbs
Speaker 1: up the pocket and throws the ball before Ghazicky covers.
Speaker 1: From uncovers rather from the linebacker in that second level,
Speaker 1: Kisiki makes the catch, gets upfield twenty seven yards. Dolphins
Speaker 1: come to the line, spiked the ball and get three
Speaker 1: points at the end of the half because of some
Speaker 1: really nifty work from both the quarterback and tight end
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Mike Gisicky. We're gonna hear more from
Speaker 1: them here in just one second play number five on
Speaker 1: this season for the Miami Dolphins. How about like good
Speaker 1: old times, an old fashioned Xaviing Howard interception on Thursday
Speaker 1: night against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Dolphins are a too deep
Speaker 1: safety look. Brandon Jones is gonna roll back into the
Speaker 1: single high position and Bobby McCain is looking at the
Speaker 1: cross was coming from the other side of the formation
Speaker 1: as he kind of sits in that little area and
Speaker 1: allows Exaviing Howard to go one on one here up
Speaker 1: against Chris Conley. He's impressed coverage on the outside. He
Speaker 1: gets the inside hand jam forces Conley into the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Up against the sideline, using that sideline as an extra defender,
Speaker 1: and he just runs the route for him. But the
Speaker 1: ball comes out of Gardner Minshew's hands, Chris Conley is
Speaker 1: on the hash marks on the sideline. That's not where
Speaker 1: you want to be as a receiver because you give
Speaker 1: your quarterback a very limited window to throw that football
Speaker 1: in there. So Howard gets him out to that area,
Speaker 1: turns around, locates the football. By the time of the
Speaker 1: ball gets there, he looks like he is the receiver
Speaker 1: on the play. That play was vintage xaviing Howard and
Speaker 1: our number five play so far on the year for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins, play number four. How about some touchdowns
Speaker 1: we haven't covered any of those so far. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo the touchdown against the Buffalo Bills to
Speaker 1: Mike get Sick from Ryan for Patrick. It's an eight
Speaker 1: yard touchdown pass from Fitzpatrick to Gassicki and the Bills
Speaker 1: are kind of walling off the end zone. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have four defensive backs all up on the goal line
Speaker 1: on this particular play trying to keep Miami out of
Speaker 1: the end zone, and Ghasicki runs in between two of
Speaker 1: those defenders after fighting through some trash by the way,
Speaker 1: and we talked about this earlier in the week about
Speaker 1: his ability to kind of fight through the contact and
Speaker 1: get himself into position to make plays and not get
Speaker 1: rerouted at the line of scrimmage. Here he is working
Speaker 1: through some trash, gets into a position where he can
Speaker 1: pivot inside and show his numbers to the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick's kind of reading the full field, so the ball
Speaker 1: doesn't come right at the time that he pivots to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, but because it's a little bit late, he
Speaker 1: has to jam that thing in there, and he throws
Speaker 1: an absolutely perfect pass off the numbers of Gassicky away
Speaker 1: from the defense. It gives Ghasicki a chance to box
Speaker 1: out on the defensive back, reach out and make the
Speaker 1: catch away from his frame as he has wanted to
Speaker 1: do so far in his young career. A big time
Speaker 1: touchdown there from Ryan Fitzpatrick to Mike Gasicki, play number three.
Speaker 1: The touchdown on Thursday night at Jacksonville to Preston Williams
Speaker 1: is going to be our number three play of the season.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams talked about the inside release he got on
Speaker 1: the defensive back, the outside leverage of the defensive back
Speaker 1: and if he's gonna give me that space inside, go
Speaker 1: ahead and just take it. And Preston did just that.
Speaker 1: He took the inside cheese got open and Fitzpatrick had
Speaker 1: to throw an absolute seed like he did all night
Speaker 1: long in that game, and he does just that, puts
Speaker 1: the ball right on target. Again. Using the tall frames
Speaker 1: of these bodies, the tall bodies, the long frames to
Speaker 1: box these guys out, create opportunities for your receivers, for
Speaker 1: your quarterback to throw that ball in there and get
Speaker 1: the ball away from their frame so they can reach out,
Speaker 1: box out with their body and use their hands to
Speaker 1: catch the football. Preston Williams does just that. The ball
Speaker 1: is right on target from Ryan Fitzpatrick. Touchdown Dolphins, and
Speaker 1: number two on the year is gonna be another touchdown
Speaker 1: for your Miami Dolphins. And it's gonna be a one
Speaker 1: yard touchdown rush from Jordan Howard. And you might say, Travis,
Speaker 1: that's not the most exciting play in the entire league.
Speaker 1: You should expect to score from one yard out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that's the case, But I love the way they
Speaker 1: got these guys moved defenders off the football. You had
Speaker 1: so many well executed blocks on this play. Really beautiful
Speaker 1: execution from the Dolphins offensive line. Tight End and fullback
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheen closes down the edge. Solom McKinley pulls out
Speaker 1: and seals off the edge on the other side, and
Speaker 1: then you have Chandler Cox leading that thing up there.
Speaker 1: He wipes out of Jacksonville linebacker and Jordan Howard just
Speaker 1: follows those guys and plows it in. Jesse Davis also
Speaker 1: got himself involved and move some guys off the football there.
Speaker 1: So just good overall team execution. Got to give it
Speaker 1: up to those guys for the number two play of
Speaker 1: the year, and play number one is the touchdown pass
Speaker 1: from Fitzpatrick to Mike get Sick. In the same game,
Speaker 1: you might have seen Mark Scofield, who writes for USA
Speaker 1: Today are the USA Today Wire for the NFL. He
Speaker 1: broke this play down about how the Dolphins saw a
Speaker 1: previous play going up against Jacksonville, up against rookie C. J. Henderson,
Speaker 1: where they had a Cover three look the defense falling
Speaker 1: back into deep thirds on the defense, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: went after that approach by running off c. J. Henderson
Speaker 1: showing him a deep route to the post route to
Speaker 1: Davante Parker going into the post, he takes one step
Speaker 1: the wrong direction. You sneak Mike Gisicky right in behind
Speaker 1: him on the out route. The ball is perfectly on target,
Speaker 1: on time, and Gassicky makes a lunging catch because Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: knows he has all that space to work with with
Speaker 1: that large catch. Radio So number one on the year
Speaker 1: so far from my money is the throw from Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick to Mike Asicky. And let's go ahead and jump
Speaker 1: now into our media availability from Tuesday. We had plenty
Speaker 1: of action here from Chan Gailey, Danny Crossman, Josh Boyer,
Speaker 1: Mary and Hobby, Anthony Campanelli, Austin Clark, and we also
Speaker 1: had Gerald Alexander on this particular podcast and Tuesday Coaches.
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Speaker 1: ahead and first here from Chan Gailey and go right
Speaker 1: back to Mike Asiki, who made the number one play
Speaker 1: of the year so far for your Miami Dolphins on
Speaker 1: my personal top ten list. That's my list, nobody else's.
Speaker 1: You can't take that from me. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: here from Shan Gailey right here on how they create
Speaker 1: opportunities for this Dolphins, uber athletic tight end and Mike Asicki.
Speaker 1: You want to create situations where he has creases in
Speaker 1: zen owns when the zone defense, and then you want
Speaker 1: to get him in a position where he can win
Speaker 1: one on one because most of the time he's gonna
Speaker 1: line up against a strong safety or a linebackers. So
Speaker 1: you're trying to create as many positions um or places
Speaker 1: for him to line up and to execute the things
Speaker 1: he does best. And that is a challenge week to
Speaker 1: week because defenses are different different So now we have
Speaker 1: to we have to go out and see how the
Speaker 1: defense is playing and then get it situated and in
Speaker 1: some weeks it works out, in some weeks it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Gotta love chand they're kind of corroborating my talk about
Speaker 1: Mike A. Sicki there on that particularly touchdown against the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in that zone. Look where he just finds
Speaker 1: those creases, finds those soft spots, sets usself down and
Speaker 1: has that big frame to throw to. But also those
Speaker 1: situations up against man coverage where he can use the
Speaker 1: athletic ability and speed to get vertical on guys and
Speaker 1: win matchups that way. How about what Chan learned from
Speaker 1: Thursday night from US offense and what they're capable of doing.
Speaker 1: He says, confidence is the number one takeaway from that victory. Um,
Speaker 1: I learned that, I learned this, and I thought this
Speaker 1: all wrong, But I think the players got a better
Speaker 1: sense of confidence of what we're capable of. That That's
Speaker 1: what I wanted. I want them to come out of
Speaker 1: that game with, is this is what we're capable of. Guys, Now,
Speaker 1: if we go execute and we do the little things. Um,
Speaker 1: we were capable of putting points on the board and
Speaker 1: going down there at three straight times. There's no rule
Speaker 1: against that. You know you can do that. So let's
Speaker 1: let's keep that confidence level and and prepare for this
Speaker 1: week and get ready to go to the next. Plenty
Speaker 1: of good stuff from Chan in that press availability. He
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Malcolm Perry and Lynn Bowden,
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt, Solomon Kinley, and Austin Jackson. He talked about
Speaker 1: how they're trying to get Robert Hunt up to speed
Speaker 1: a little bit more into the game with those extra packages,
Speaker 1: the heavy offensive line. He has six snaps on the
Speaker 1: offensive line so far down around the goal line. He
Speaker 1: spoke very highly of Solomon Kiley and Austin Jackson. He
Speaker 1: talked about two a tongue of Byaloa having one of
Speaker 1: the greatest minds and all of football to kind of
Speaker 1: bounce ideas off of to talk about defense, talk about protection, calls,
Speaker 1: all the stuff in the NFL you don't really get
Speaker 1: in college with that complete In addition into the NFL game,
Speaker 1: talked about a little bit of quarterback and relationship there
Speaker 1: between Fitzpatrick and Toa. We also talked to Dolphin special
Speaker 1: teams coordinator Danny Croftsman, let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 1: Crossman to hear about a couple of guys that he
Speaker 1: thinks have stood out so far on his coverage units.
Speaker 1: I think Sam has done a nice job. M I
Speaker 1: think we've got to be more consistent as a whole.
Speaker 1: At the Andrew Van Ginkles has shown up, um, but
Speaker 1: I think just overall, and you look at the whole,
Speaker 1: the Holy Unit, you know, we just got to be
Speaker 1: more consistent and everything we do, and that's gonna come
Speaker 1: with time. And I think you talked to any coach
Speaker 1: and no matter what phase it is, h you know,
Speaker 1: getting that consistent and that you know that come and
Speaker 1: where we're not as much uh sort of playing the play,
Speaker 1: we're playing the scheme, and then we're going to be
Speaker 1: in better shape. I made that mistake again where I
Speaker 1: was typing right into the microphones, and my apologies for that.
Speaker 1: I did learn a few coaches into this not to
Speaker 1: do that again. So we'll get some better audio quality
Speaker 1: here in just one second. But Danny Crossman also had
Speaker 1: a question about d v O Football Outsiders. D v
Speaker 1: O A Football Outsiders has the Seahawks and Dolphins is
Speaker 1: the number one and number two special teams ranked in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Here's coach Crossman on what makes a special
Speaker 1: teams unit good and in particular seattles, Well, I think
Speaker 1: they do. They do a really nice job. You know
Speaker 1: when you look at you know, when you look at
Speaker 1: their special teams, I think it's a it's a it's
Speaker 1: a small fracture of fraction of what they are as
Speaker 1: a team and how they played the game, and they
Speaker 1: played fast, they played physical, they're aggressive, um and they
Speaker 1: got a good nucleus of players. Um, I think anytime
Speaker 1: you talk about, you know, playing well in the kicking game,
Speaker 1: that always arts with your specialists, you know, And I
Speaker 1: think obviously you know the punters having an outstanding year
Speaker 1: and it has the ability to flip the field when
Speaker 1: they've been stalled backed up and put them in a
Speaker 1: good field position going forward. And then you know they
Speaker 1: only had to kick one field goal because of how
Speaker 1: they're playing on offensively. But then you know they since
Speaker 1: done a nice job with his kickoffs, get two quality
Speaker 1: return players. And then the biggest thing, they've got a
Speaker 1: nice nucleus of veteran and young core players, which when
Speaker 1: you put that all together, it gives you an opportunity
Speaker 1: for success. But they're they're well coached, they aggressive, It's
Speaker 1: going to be heck of challenge. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish us up. For the coordinators with Dolphins defensive cordinat
Speaker 1: or Josh Boyer, who I thought just called one hell
Speaker 1: of a game on Thursday against the Jacksonville Jaguar. Is
Speaker 1: good mix of zone man, different fronts, different rushes. Like
Speaker 1: Brian Flores talked about, here's Josh talking about the challenges
Speaker 1: he has this week with a little bit of extra
Speaker 1: time to prepare for Russell Wilson and the Seattle Seahawks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would I would say he presents an immense challenge. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and he seems to be getting better each year,
Speaker 1: which which is hard to do because he's played at
Speaker 1: a high level for for a long time. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he's very good at reading defenses. He's very
Speaker 1: good at making all the throws. H He's very good
Speaker 1: at extending plays and making things happen that way, whether
Speaker 1: he runs or throws. Um, it's a huge challenge. And
Speaker 1: he's got a good cast around him. He's got a
Speaker 1: solid old line, he's got a good group of skill players,
Speaker 1: the receivers, the tight ends, his backs. And then you know,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, coach Schottenheimer does a good
Speaker 1: job of mixing his play calls, and you know, he
Speaker 1: could definitely dial up some calls against you know, certain fronts,
Speaker 1: certain coverages that you know, I think, I think it's
Speaker 1: all all rolling for him, which obviously, you know, they've
Speaker 1: produced a lot of points in these first three weeks
Speaker 1: in the season. We'll here coaches talk about Russell Wilson's
Speaker 1: ability both to escape pressure with his feet and then
Speaker 1: create plays with his arms down the field. That's the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge this guy presents is that you never know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna do it with his arm or with
Speaker 1: his legs. He is certainly more than capable of doing
Speaker 1: either of those things. I just we're gonna have, you know,
Speaker 1: a profession of Russell Wilson love on this podcast, because
Speaker 1: he's so damn talented and so damn special, and I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch how this defense defends them and how
Speaker 1: they call this game against one of the best players
Speaker 1: in the national football likee one of the best quarterbacks
Speaker 1: of all time. Frankly for my money. Up next here
Speaker 1: from Josh, we're gonna hear about a question that was
Speaker 1: asked about the way he went into the season to
Speaker 1: prepare for these three quarterbacks he faced off the top,
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, Josh Allen, Russell Wilson, with Gardner Minshew go
Speaker 1: Coog's sprinkled in there. A tough challenge for him to
Speaker 1: the first four games of the year and the first
Speaker 1: week of October obviously, but I thought he had an
Speaker 1: interesting quote here about how September is for improvement, because
Speaker 1: you know, last year's team got better as the year
Speaker 1: went along, finished out five and four over the final nine,
Speaker 1: finished out three and two over the final five, almost
Speaker 1: four and one if not for a dicey last minute
Speaker 1: there in the game against the Jets. But the Dolphins
Speaker 1: improved as the season went along. And with Brian Flora
Speaker 1: and Josh Boyer, we know about their roots, their patriots past.
Speaker 1: That's what those teams did for so long. They would
Speaker 1: come out of the gate two and to two, and one,
Speaker 1: one and two sometimes, and by the end of the
Speaker 1: year you looked up and they were thirteen and three
Speaker 1: a f C East champions going to the a f
Speaker 1: C Divisional Round with the home game, win that game
Speaker 1: into the a f C Championship game eight years in
Speaker 1: a row. Improvement throughout the course of the season is
Speaker 1: the focus, and that's what Josh Boyer talks about here
Speaker 1: with what he wants to do as the season goes along.
Speaker 1: What is September all about and Josh Bowyer's mind improvement, Well,
Speaker 1: I would say for for me individually, I mean it starts,
Speaker 1: you know, with the same thing that we ask for
Speaker 1: players to do. I just try to take, you know,
Speaker 1: the day that's at hand and try to get the
Speaker 1: most work and um, improvement that I can in that day. Um. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, we look, we look at the schedule obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, we go through UH teams in the you know,
Speaker 1: offseason of what you think it could be, what it
Speaker 1: might be. UH. And they again, like I said, you know,
Speaker 1: really September is for improvement. And I mean I I
Speaker 1: start with myself. You know, I need to continue to
Speaker 1: get better. Our coaching staff, those guys are working hard
Speaker 1: to continue to get better. Our players, those guys are
Speaker 1: working hard. UM. Different opponents, you know, they bring up
Speaker 1: different challenges. I think it's it's hard in this league
Speaker 1: to win UM on a week to week basis. You know,
Speaker 1: so UM, all those things you know, you take into consideration.
Speaker 1: But I think it all starts with you know, your work,
Speaker 1: your effort, and your ability to improve over time because
Speaker 1: things don't stay the same. I mean, they either get better,
Speaker 1: they get worse. So you know, and I think all
Speaker 1: of our effort, energy and time is you know, at
Speaker 1: the day at hand, and like this week, it it
Speaker 1: happens to be Seattle, So that's where our time and
Speaker 1: energy spent. Um, you know, and then next week it
Speaker 1: will be somebody else. Hey, coach want to go to
Speaker 1: a couple of questions ago referring to Jerome Baker. He's
Speaker 1: played one and seventy seven snaps this year roughly of
Speaker 1: the reps. He's one of two guys that has over
Speaker 1: of the snaps on the defense. I'm curious what is
Speaker 1: the common thread between those types of players that can
Speaker 1: play that much and what does Jerome do in your
Speaker 1: opinion to warrant that many reps. Well, I would I
Speaker 1: would say that the first thing is he's in good
Speaker 1: physical condition. UM. So he's he's able to take his
Speaker 1: his many reps as we can give him, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's he's been productive for us. Uh, he works hard.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been all over the field. We've asked him.
Speaker 1: And you know he's got the mental capacity that he
Speaker 1: can handle multiple roles. UM. So you know that with
Speaker 1: the physical condition, we think we're putting him in positions
Speaker 1: to succeed. Um. And he's shown the ability to make plays.
Speaker 1: So that kind of that's all the culbination of him
Speaker 1: being out there as much as he is. Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: playing and seven point to five of the Dolphins snaps
Speaker 1: for the numbers on that one seventy seven out of
Speaker 1: one eight two, So he's missed. Was it five snaps
Speaker 1: on the entire season? Really impressive work there from Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker to just be so versatile, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: that theme thout the course of this podcast, as well
Speaker 1: as a story up on Miami Dolphins dot Com taking
Speaker 1: a look at what Jerome Baker brings to this football team. Next,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get to Dolphins defensive line coach
Speaker 1: Mary and Hobby, who first was asked about the performance
Speaker 1: of Zack Seiler the other night, also had a little
Speaker 1: bit of ray Kuan David sprinkle into this question. So
Speaker 1: here's coach Hobby talking about both Rey Kwon Davis and
Speaker 1: Zack Seeler on that Dolphins defensive line. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: he's getting better each game. You know, he's getting better
Speaker 1: every day in practice. Um he is a big, pretty specimen,
Speaker 1: that's for sure, and UM, I think he's getting better.
Speaker 1: He's very conscientious about his game, so I think eventually
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a really good football player. But you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's not make White this yet. I gotta love
Speaker 1: the Reggie White comment there. I talked a lot of
Speaker 1: positive stuff about Emmanuel aug Ba Shack laws and Zack Seeler,
Speaker 1: Rake One Davis, Christian Wilkins, von Gotga throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the off season. Up front, here is coach talking
Speaker 1: about the improvements and the pride the Emmanuel Oddbon Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson showed from weeks one up three weeks three. Well,
Speaker 1: we talked about the very first game, and I think
Speaker 1: they you know, we actually grade themselves a lot of
Speaker 1: times before we ever great them, you know, so you
Speaker 1: can be your what your worst, your worst creatic sometime
Speaker 1: comes from we inside out. I don't think they were
Speaker 1: happy with the way they played the first game of
Speaker 1: the year, and I think they took some pride in
Speaker 1: and I decided they're gonna play better and it's sure
Speaker 1: helped us out. Hey, Coach wanted to ask you about
Speaker 1: I know Jerome Baker is a linebacker, but he spends
Speaker 1: plenty of time up on the line of scrimmage as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher. Just wanted to ask how involved you
Speaker 1: are and working on his pass rush game and what
Speaker 1: you've seen from him in that area. Well, I think
Speaker 1: everybody knows that Baker has been a playmaker around here
Speaker 1: for a long time, you know. Uh, and in the
Speaker 1: offensive line to see Baker on the line of screamers.
Speaker 1: They all know he can really run. So it's a
Speaker 1: lot of times he's you know, he's stretching offensive linement
Speaker 1: now and getting better every day with his pass rush
Speaker 1: um and sometimes he's calling the playe force. So he
Speaker 1: is like a coach on the field force in the
Speaker 1: situations without his speed is evidence in nose situations as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher and penetrated. Yeah, that speed certainly sticks
Speaker 1: out when you look at the way Jerome Baker plays
Speaker 1: the game as a pass rusher, in pass coverage and
Speaker 1: defending the run. And you know, asking a defensive line
Speaker 1: coach about a linebacker, usually you might say, well that's
Speaker 1: a question for Anthony Campanelli or Austin Clark. But you
Speaker 1: can hear Marion Hobby, they're very welcome to answer that
Speaker 1: question about what Jerome Baker offers. We had Channing Crowder
Speaker 1: on Drive Time back in March, and he talked about
Speaker 1: the defense kind of taking advantage of Baker's defense the
Speaker 1: or biger speed rather with his ability to kind of
Speaker 1: come down and run freely, keep him unblocked and use
Speaker 1: that speed really spearhead your defense. It's a big reason
Speaker 1: why this guy plays the snaps. He can just do
Speaker 1: a lot of things for you on that Dolphins defense. Next,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to his coach in the position room
Speaker 1: at linebacker with coach Anthony Campanelli, and we'll get to
Speaker 1: his quote about Jerome Baker here in just one second.
Speaker 1: But first let's talk about his teammate Cammu Gruge Hill
Speaker 1: and what coaches seeing from the Dolphins new linebacker coming
Speaker 1: over from the Eagles and free agency this offseason. UM,
Speaker 1: I think he's just done a very good job and
Speaker 1: a couple of different facets. UM, I think he's done
Speaker 1: a really good job openfield tackling. I think that was
Speaker 1: evident the other night. I thought he did a good job, uh,
Speaker 1: in that element of the defense for us. UM, he's
Speaker 1: got past rush ability and like I said earlier, you know,
Speaker 1: last time we had talked in the summer, UM, he
Speaker 1: just got a pretty diverse skill set. Be honest with
Speaker 1: you love coaching him and you can do a lot
Speaker 1: of things for us. So I've been really happy with him. Hey, coach,
Speaker 1: we just had Marion hobby On talking about Jerome Baker's
Speaker 1: work calling out plays and helping communicate the defense. Now
Speaker 1: that you've been in the meeting room with him for
Speaker 1: you know, a few months and three regular season games
Speaker 1: now and being around him every day, what can you
Speaker 1: say about the way he approaches the film study and
Speaker 1: the way he communicates what he sees on tape to
Speaker 1: the rest of the guy is in that room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bake Um is a very cerebral guy, UM, very high
Speaker 1: football i Q. I think sees things pretty well. I
Speaker 1: think he's done a very good job communicating through the summer,
Speaker 1: uh and through the beginning of the season. So in
Speaker 1: the in that room, honestly, it's it's a great room
Speaker 1: to be in because there's a lot of dialogue UM,
Speaker 1: and the players are always asking good questions, giving good
Speaker 1: insight UM, and that is UH, that's fun to watch
Speaker 1: the guys communicate with each other, you know, whether that's
Speaker 1: Kyle and land In bakem Uh, you know, Calvin Muntz
Speaker 1: and Sam and Blob and everybody, UM, you know kind
Speaker 1: of contributes to that conversation. And that's just another one
Speaker 1: of those guys who I think that's a very good
Speaker 1: job of that. UM. I think at Landon Roberts has
Speaker 1: a great job of that too. It's become a theme
Speaker 1: here with coach Campanelli to ask him about his food
Speaker 1: taste or his food habits are cooking or whatever it
Speaker 1: might be. Here he is talking about cold cuts, and
Speaker 1: you can almost hear the evolution of his Jersey coming
Speaker 1: out him as he gives this answer about his favorite
Speaker 1: cold cut he's ever had. That's a that's a tough
Speaker 1: question because my buddy used to own a great place
Speaker 1: in Jersey. And then, uh, cold cut sandwiches is a
Speaker 1: little tough because like you could go to Fiories and
Speaker 1: Hoboken and get to roast beef once Adell with the
Speaker 1: hot peppers on on a Thursday and they'll probably just
Speaker 1: change your life. You know, you're gonna have some different
Speaker 1: feelings about the world after you had that sandwich. So um.
Speaker 1: You know that will that will really make an impact
Speaker 1: on you for the rest of your life. That's a
Speaker 1: great one. Then there's another great place up in artur
Speaker 1: Revenue with one of my favorite places that's up my
Speaker 1: dad's own neighborhood. So you gotta go a little for
Speaker 1: shoot once adel and uh and then the roast of
Speaker 1: red peppers with some bosaic on the top. That's phenomenon.
Speaker 1: That's uh, that's a great that's a collaborate ports store.
Speaker 1: That's a great place. That sounds amazing, man, thing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is amazing. You just you just ruined my day
Speaker 1: on because I wish I could go get one of
Speaker 1: those right now. But but but you know whatever, he
Speaker 1: kept going on about those cold cuts. Man, it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Love talking to coach Campanelli. He keeps it real of
Speaker 1: the time. Let's go ahead and here from the other
Speaker 1: linebackers coach, the outside linebackers coach. Here in Austin Clark,
Speaker 1: who first was asked about Kyle van Noy and what
Speaker 1: he brings to this defense. Yeah, Kyle's you know, his versatility,
Speaker 1: uh is something that makes him really special. And I
Speaker 1: think he played hard as hell and I think he
Speaker 1: elevated everybody's game around him this week and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: saw his help, his production and he's been doing a
Speaker 1: great job. Vannoy had himself a sack on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: so did Andrew Van Ginkel. Here's coach on Van Ginkel.
Speaker 1: I think Van Gink put an emphasis this offseason on
Speaker 1: getting stronger, and I think the way he uh uses
Speaker 1: speed uses some of his finesse moves uses his counters
Speaker 1: and then he mixed in a power move there late
Speaker 1: and paid dividends for him. He's been working his ass
Speaker 1: off and uh, I think last week it showed up
Speaker 1: for him in the game and that was good to see.
Speaker 1: And before we get schooled, here from coach Alexander to
Speaker 1: finish up this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. One
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Speaker 1: some football, get your notepad, your pen out, and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead. And here from coach Alexander up first, talking
Speaker 1: about Bobby McCain and his transition to the safety position
Speaker 1: a year ago and now three games into a second
Speaker 1: year at the spot. I think Bobby's transition to safety
Speaker 1: is actually going great. You know, one thing about that
Speaker 1: position and that responsibility that we put him in. A
Speaker 1: lot of the great things that Bobby does for us
Speaker 1: as a free safety sometimes isn't represented on the stat
Speaker 1: sheet you so, in that respect, I think Bobby has
Speaker 1: done a great job in regards to what we're ask
Speaker 1: him to do, and that's communicating first and foremost, making
Speaker 1: sure that all ten guys in front of them have
Speaker 1: the understanding of what the responsibilities are, what the adjustments are,
Speaker 1: what the call is, Um, you know, being a leader
Speaker 1: and playing with the passion that he needs to play
Speaker 1: that also will generate the energy that are that his
Speaker 1: teammates need to play with as well. Um In being
Speaker 1: able to do that in the role that he's he's in,
Speaker 1: I thought he's done a great job. I think he's
Speaker 1: done a great job so far, and those opportunities to
Speaker 1: make splash plays within our defense are gonna are gonna
Speaker 1: present itself where he's gonna be able to make those
Speaker 1: plays when the opportunities come. Hey, coach, I'm curious if
Speaker 1: a player like Jerome Baker the linebacker spot and all
Speaker 1: the athletic ability that he has and his ability to
Speaker 1: kind of get depth on those drops into the hook zone,
Speaker 1: does that like having a linebacker like that, does that
Speaker 1: change the way you do things or does it help
Speaker 1: your group and coverage at all? I think it helps
Speaker 1: us in coverage with with guys like you know, Bake
Speaker 1: who has the floss and to get the depth Um
Speaker 1: in his own coverage and have the speed to really
Speaker 1: break down Um on checkdowns, to be able to make
Speaker 1: open field tackles, as well as be able to do
Speaker 1: some things athletically when we want to play a man
Speaker 1: and man and match it up on certain guys. UM
Speaker 1: I think that that's a weapon force defense of being
Speaker 1: able to utilize his skill set. And how about what
Speaker 1: he sees from Dolphins rookie safety Brandon Jones when he
Speaker 1: plugs on the tape. I'm just looking at the things
Speaker 1: on tape. You know, there's a lot of things that
Speaker 1: he can continue to do better in his development, whether
Speaker 1: it be in man coverage from a technical standpoint and
Speaker 1: being able to win with leverage, are also from a
Speaker 1: zone perspective, really being able to understand the threats and
Speaker 1: having vision and break on the quarterback. So, you know,
Speaker 1: regardless of what he did in his past, as far
Speaker 1: as Texas is concerned, UM, I think that he's a
Speaker 1: He's a developing player that has the tools and he
Speaker 1: has a great skill set that we're continuing to build
Speaker 1: on on the day to day. And how about defending
Speaker 1: Dk metcalf, a player that coach Alexander coach against a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago when he was at Cow one.
Speaker 1: This isn't anything that surprises me. I actually uh saw
Speaker 1: DK at Old Miss when I was at Cow I
Speaker 1: first ship there, So him doing what he's doing now,
Speaker 1: it's not a surprise to me at all, um, you know,
Speaker 1: but definitely for us defensively, we have to be aware
Speaker 1: of that, not only DK and his vertical presence out
Speaker 1: there on the field. Um. You know, sometimes it's not
Speaker 1: just as easy as saying, exco cover. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things that go beyond that, because
Speaker 1: I think Tyler Lockett also needs attention as far as
Speaker 1: the coverage is concerned. So, you know, they have weapons,
Speaker 1: they have guys like that. They obviously have a great
Speaker 1: guy who's engineering the offense. But with Russell Wilson, so
Speaker 1: we have to be smart with what we're doing coverage wise.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think first and foremost for us
Speaker 1: to be effective in the past game, we have to
Speaker 1: stop the run. You know, we have to at least
Speaker 1: uh not allow the run game to get going. That
Speaker 1: also kind of generates their play action package. Um. And
Speaker 1: then when it is time to for for Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: to drop back and throw the ball, we got to
Speaker 1: do a good job in coverage kind of mixing in
Speaker 1: some of the calls. And how about that other stud
Speaker 1: receiver the Seahawks have on the other side, and Tyler Luckett.
Speaker 1: I think you have to have awareness where he is.
Speaker 1: You know, a guy like that, they utilize his skill
Speaker 1: set and his vertical speed and really put him really everywhere.
Speaker 1: You know, he can line up on the outside and
Speaker 1: do some things on the inside, and he can really
Speaker 1: stretch a defense. So as a secondary, we have to
Speaker 1: be aware of where he is, you know, and if
Speaker 1: that's uh, if that's coverage where we have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to get hands on them in the slot or obviously
Speaker 1: on the outside, and we have to make sure that
Speaker 1: we definitely have depth of the defense and zone coverage
Speaker 1: and um even in the same high stuff so um
Speaker 1: and and he has the ability to do some things
Speaker 1: not just vertically. You know, they get them things on
Speaker 1: crossing routes and catch and run situations, and those are
Speaker 1: the opportunities where we are plan zones and we're dropping
Speaker 1: off and stand back for the intermediate stuff. UM, we
Speaker 1: have to have vision a break on the quarterback and
Speaker 1: be able to uh swarm them and be able to
Speaker 1: leverage them and be able to get them down on
Speaker 1: the ground and not allow those checkdowns to become rewards
Speaker 1: for the offense where they go for twelve to fifteen
Speaker 1: yards when they were really designed to get tackled at
Speaker 1: five or six. So um for us, we just gotta
Speaker 1: be aware of all those threats, you know, whether it
Speaker 1: be Tyler Lockett who does a good job for him
Speaker 1: d K and obviously the backfield of the Backs mean
Speaker 1: we know we we know it. Accept the challenge that
Speaker 1: we have coming in on Sunday, and through preparation, we
Speaker 1: hope the Ready go ahead and finish up here with
Speaker 1: the coach. A question other for coach g A about
Speaker 1: Noah egon Algady and a bounce back game for him
Speaker 1: on Thursday in Jacksonville, Well, we knew that. That's no surprise,
Speaker 1: you know, I think no one's a competitor. We we
Speaker 1: knew that as a as as his evaluation throughout the
Speaker 1: draft process. We know that this is a guy who
Speaker 1: again as a developing player, but he's a he's a competitor,
Speaker 1: you know, and you know you're gonna have days. There's
Speaker 1: not a guy in the league and his career that
Speaker 1: hasn't had a rough day at the office, you know.
Speaker 1: So um, looking at it, evaluating it, figuring out what
Speaker 1: we can do to continue to get better throughout the week,
Speaker 1: and accepting the challenge of a new opponent and also
Speaker 1: looking at the things that we can continue to do
Speaker 1: to get better throughout the week day to day allowed
Speaker 1: him to have what is quote unquote, I guess bounced
Speaker 1: back day. But regardless of what the result of Jackson
Speaker 1: go us for him individually, we got to use this
Speaker 1: week to go back to work. This is a new opponent,
Speaker 1: a new challenge, a new thing that's going to be
Speaker 1: presented to him in his rookie years. So um, you know,
Speaker 1: and we knew that it's no surprise just for the
Speaker 1: mentality of the kid that we knew what would geting
Speaker 1: the make up the mentality here coach talk about it
Speaker 1: there with Noah Igbonogeny. A theme this offseason for your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins and acquiring players, and the theme is gonna
Speaker 1: be going forward under Brian Flores and Chris Queer. They
Speaker 1: have clearly established the types of players, the competitive makeup
Speaker 1: of these guys, the mental toughness, the smart football like you,
Speaker 1: these guys all display going to be the theme of
Speaker 1: this team going forward and so far, given the performance
Speaker 1: of rookies like Austin Jackson, Solomon Keiley on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Noah Egnogny showing the mental fortitude last week on a
Speaker 1: short way to come back and allow just one reception
Speaker 1: for two yards in the entire game. You have to
Speaker 1: love the direction they're going with that regard with these
Speaker 1: young players and some of the bite these guys are
Speaker 1: showing so far early on in their rookie season, second season,
Speaker 1: and this very young Miami Dolphins football team. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and call that a day here on
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