WEBVTT - Dolphins Roster Construction, Rookie Report, Inside the Numbers 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:09.560 Factors Alpinsford touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.560 What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.480 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:25.040 your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.000 It is Monday. We are back. I am your host, 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:30.560 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.040 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.440 we are back to a game week. Did you all 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:40.040 enjoy your weekend off? I certainly did recharge the batteries 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.640 back home with my wife, daughter and two cats. It 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.480 was a great weekend. Some great NFL action to cover 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:48.159 as well. We'll talk about that on the podcast. Give 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.640 you a little glimpse into tonight's Monday Night football game. 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.519 As the Dolphins opponent next week place tonight. In this 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.080 particular Monday Night football game, Rams and Bears, we're gonna 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.560 talk about the Dolphins season rankings, both individuals and teams. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.600 We are also going to hear from Coach Flores, Mike Gasicki, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.319 Preston Williams, and Shack Lawson planning to come here on 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:15.560 this Monday October edition of the Drivetime podcasts and drive 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.000 Time is brought to you by Auto Nation. There are 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.640 so many reasons to drive pink, but for Auto Nation, 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.199 there's only one to finish the fight against cancer. In fact, 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.440 Auto Nation helped raise over twenty five million dollars to 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.440 help Drive out Cancer. To join the fight, visit the 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.200 Auto Nation store near you or drive pink dot com today. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.360 And I want to first recap the weekend that was 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.640 in the NFL because we had tons of action around 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.120 the league that really pertained to the Miami Dolphins as 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.120 we take a look at this team heading in to 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.920 the final ten games of the season, the final ten 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.480 weeks of the season, as the bye week is now 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.640 in the rear view, and we have a slate coming 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.360 up against a bunch of teams out West with the Rams, Cardinals, Chargers, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.800 Broncos all coming up. Road and home games involved there 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.760 as well. Dolphins get the Rams this coming Sunday and 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.080 the Rams on tonight's game. Tonight's Monday night football game 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.120 against the Chicago Bears could be an interesting matchup. But 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.560 I look at this game as a way for this 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:13.280 Brian Flores Dolphins team to really kind of get their 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.400 self scouting and get their self evaluation and try to 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.720 fix the things that they thought they were not doing correctly. 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:20.600 In the first half of the season. The first six 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.320 weeks of the season, we hear coach Flores, Coach Josh Bowyer, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.560 coach chan Gaily, all these guys talk about daily improvement 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.040 and stacking up these days where you make yourself a 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.360 better football player today than you were yesterday, and the 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.080 bye week is a great opportunity for that. We saw 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:37.760 this Dolphins team come out of the bye week last 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.360 year under Brian Flores, and that was when things really 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.880 began to shift for this Dolphins football team. Of course, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.000 we all know the results of the first four games 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.840 of the season last year, and they didn't get the 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.480 ws off the bye week in the Washington and in 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.240 the Buffalo games, but they started playing much better football, 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:55.320 much more competitive football. And you go back to last season. 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.480 I had Eric Rowe on the podcast a couple of 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.320 weeks ago and he mentioned that Buffalo game as when 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.320 things kind of began to shift for the team. They 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.280 kind of started to really understand the buy end process 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.960 of playing for Brian Flores and this coaching staff. And 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:09.680 I think that when you take a look at this 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.840 year's team, the improvements they've made through the first six weeks. 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.880 Obviously by the record, the point differential, we have guys 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:18.600 atop the leader board in some statistics. The defense is 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.760 the number two scoring defense in the NFL coming into play. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:23.760 We'll talk more about that here in just one second 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:26.160 as we review the numbers for the first six weeks. 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.600 But you look at this team and the applications you 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:30.600 can make as far as the bye week and benefiting 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:33.040 you going into the second half of the season. I 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:34.920 just think you have a good opportunity here to really 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.280 take the things you do well and improve those, but 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.800 also get better at the things you do not do well. 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:42.000 And you look at this week's opponent in the Rams, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.520 short week, six days of rest, in a Monday night 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.600 football game, you hope, you hope the Bears can make 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.520 it a physical, tight contested game, a high stress game. 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:52.760 Maybe you get over time, maybe you get a fifth 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.040 quarter like we had in that insane Seahawks and Cardinals 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.480 game onto Sunday night, which was the best football game 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.040 I've seen in quite sometimes time as far as entertainment 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.240 value goes. But that's what you always root for in 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:06.320 your in your previous week matchup right, play as long 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.040 as you can play as many plays as you can 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.280 get those guys tired, especially on a short week, especially 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.800 coming across the country on a five hour flight, in 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.600 that early window, the ten am West Coast time window 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.520 for the Rams against the Dolphins team coming off of 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.599 a bye week, and we're gonna preview this game later 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.359 on in the week, but I have one more stat 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:25.040 I want to go ahead and run by you guys 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:26.760 that I saw and I talked about it on the 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.000 podcast a little bit last week as we kind of 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.320 started to do the preview for the Rams and and 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.279 just kind of get some nuggets here and there. I 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.800 talked about the condensed nature of the Rams offensive formations, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:38.960 and that's what they do. They think they bring things 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.760 in tight, they run tight splits, they bring the receivers 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.120 inside the numbers. They don't really spread things out and 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:47.920 go the horizontal spread game. In fact, next gen NFL 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.160 stats has the Rams as the tightest formation in terms 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.400 of average width of their offensive formation at twenty point 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.080 four yards per snap. The team that has the widest 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:01.240 formation comparatively is your Miami Dolph at thirty point one 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.919 yards of width. Now, obviously the two offenses don't go 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:06.960 up against each other, but you see the contrasting styles 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.000 there of the Rams offense and the Dolphins offense in 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.200 terms of how they split the field, how they spread 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.320 the field pre snap. So I'll be taking a look 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.520 at that throughout the course of the week. We'll come 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.880 back on Thursday and have the preview podcast for you 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.560 guys taking a look at this Los Angeles Rams football 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.800 team and get you the matchups, the highlights, all that 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.599 fun stuff before we turn this over to media to 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:29.039 get sound from coach Flora's Preston Williams, Mike Kisiki, and 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.360 Shack Lawson. Let's go ahead and run through some Dolphins 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.600 numbers through the first six games of the season. And 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.279 remember this does not include the Monday night football games 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.359 that was going on maybe as you listen to this 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:42.280 podcast or recorded it before that game happened. Dolphins offensively 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:44.600 points per games still twenty six point seven. All those 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.400 numbers are still the same, but the rankings have changed. Obviously, 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:51.159 twelve and points scored twenty second, total offense twenty second 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.640 and rushing eighteen passing offense, they second, third down conversion 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:59.400 rate at and they have allowed the ninth fewest sacks 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.560 with ten acts allowed this season. I haven't used Football 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.000 Outsiders very much this season, but they have a d 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.680 v O rating Defensive Adjusted Value over Average rating they 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.640 use to grade offense defense special teams, and they have 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.040 the Dolphins as the third best special teams in the 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:17.440 National Football League. The dolphins fifteen successful field goals by 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.120 Jason Sanders are the most in the league without a 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.800 miss kick, and the net punt average of forty two 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.560 point four by Matt Hawk is the twelveth best in 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.679 the NFL. And the Dolphins have twenty eight penalties assessed 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.520 against them for two hundred and twenty eight yards this season. 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.599 That's the fourth least in both those categories across the 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.400 National Football League. So once again a very discipline team 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:41.560 here under Brian Flores. Defensively, the points per game eighteen 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.080 point eight. Man, you look across the league, how many 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:49.000 games are thirty four forty thirty? I mean there's points 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:52.160 golore this year in the National Football League, Miami allowing 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:55.760 eighteen point eight points per game. That's second in the 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.520 National Football League. Total defense is seventeenth, rushing defense is nineteenth, 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.480 Passing defense is sixteenth and the third down conversion rate 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.000 of just thirty one point three percent against his first 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.120 tops in the National Football League. We fall down the 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.240 sack chart because we didn't get you sacks on Sunday. 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.800 We didn't play a game, so we have seventeen sacks. 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.520 That's tied for the eleventh most in the NFL. Some 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.840 individual metrics here. Miles Gaskin has three hundred forty rushing 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.720 yards and eighteen first downs. Both of those stats are 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.640 twenty three in the NFL. He also has two hundred 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.680 and twenty five yards after initial contact and the averages 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.160 two point seven four yards per carry after initial contact. 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.160 Both of those ranked eighteenth among running backs who have 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:40.360 forty or more carries this season. Davante Parker is twenty 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.240 second among receivers with at least twenty past targets in 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.800 his yards per route run at one point nine nine. 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:49.400 Preston Williams is twenty in the league and touchdown receptions 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.520 with three, and Mike get Sicki is six among all 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.680 tight ends and receiving yards with two hundred and eighty 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.520 two yards. At this tide, imposition up on the offensive 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:01.120 line on the interior, solemn and Killy and Eric Flowers 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.920 both have allowed just eight pressures each. That's tied for 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.840 eleventh eleventh fewest among all guards in the NFL. Per 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:11.160 pff and Ted Carriss is one of fourteen NFL centers 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.840 without a sack allowed this season. With minimum two hundred 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.320 pass blocking snaps at both guard and centers, so a 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.120 good job there for those guys. Emmanuel a Ball off 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.720 the edge is tied for eleventh among edge defenders with 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.280 twenty quarterback pressures. His five sacks are tied for seventh 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.080 most in the NFL, and he has eleven run stops. 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:31.040 Those are tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage, 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.680 and that's tied for sixteenth best in the NFL. At 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:38.320 edge positions, Christian Wilkins is eleventh eleventh among interior defensive 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:42.040 lineman with thirteen run stops. Linebacker Jerome Baker has forty 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.400 six tackles that leads the team. It's twenty eight in 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.360 the NFL, and Kyle van nois twelve QB pressures are 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.160 second among all off ball linebackers, where a land and 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:53.400 Roberts is tied for thirteen with his five QB pressures 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:57.440 from that same position. In the defensive backfield, safety Bobby McCain, 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.240 who we're gonna talk to you later this week on 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:02.200 Drive Time has a passer rating against a zero point 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.600 zero that according to Pro Football Focus, he's the only 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.960 dB with more than one hundred snaps who can say that. 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.560 And Eric Row has five pass breakups that's tied for 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.400 second among all NFL safeties. And cornerback Xavien Howard has 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.280 a passer rating of forty nine point oh that second 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.040 best among corners with at least twenty past targets, and 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:22.040 of course he is tied for the league lead with 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.280 four interceptions. And then Jason Sanders once again is one 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.679 of three kickers with double digit makes without a missfield goal, 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.200 and punter Matt Hawk has ten points down inside the 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.160 twenty yard line that's tenth best in the National Football League. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.800 So Miami well well represented across the leaderboard in the 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:41.360 National Football League. And before we turn this thing over, 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:44.240 real quick to coach Flora's and the players for their 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.840 Monday media availability. The Buffalo Bills did beat the New 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:49.800 York Jets. Man I was hoping the Jets can pull 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.679 that game out. Help us pulled the within a half 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.880 a game of the Bills, but they do not. The 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:56.280 Bills get to win. They move to five and two 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.320 on the seasons of the Dolphins, one and a half 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:00.640 games back in the a f C East. The Dolphins 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:02.840 did jump over the Las Vegas Raiders in the a 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:05.160 f C wild card picture. Right now at three and three, 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:07.280 the Dolphins are just one game back of the Colts 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.880 for that seven seed. The Dolphins currently your eight seed 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.040 in the a f C. So everything is in front 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.640 of us right now. Talks about the Rams, the Cardinals 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.559 coming up, a couple of tough teams from the best 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:19.120 division in the NFL for my opinion, on the docket 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.760 there the Chargers and Broncos, couple of young quarterbacks they're 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:23.880 coming to the pike as well. So plenty of good 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:26.160 action coming your way from the Miami Dolphins as they 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.000 have a chance to really put themselves in a prime 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.640 position down the stretch of the season with a good run, 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:33.440 a good month here in November, and one more way 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.600 you can really get that improvement in the second half 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.640 of the season that the coaches and the players talk 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:40.679 about here in Miami is to get more production out 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.320 of your young players, in particular out of your rookies. 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.120 And we know this Dolphins team has eleven rookies that 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.959 were either drafted or traded, four who were drafted from 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:52.240 some other team, Las Vegas Raiders, and Lynn Boone Jr. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.760 We had Benito Jones make his NFL debut on Sunday, 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:58.440 the undrafted free agent out of Old miss And I 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.800 want to touch on those eleven rookies and how they've 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.320 performed for the first six games and maybe a forecast 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.840 for the final ten games of that rookie season. But 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.480 it got me thinking about the construction of this Dolphins 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.240 roster and where the players on this Dolphins roster have 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.120 come from. And that got me thinking about previous draft classes, right, 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.040 because we look at this team and think there are 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.280 plenty of first and second year players, but there are 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.560 also players who have been here for three, four or 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:27.080 five years that are now considerable contributors, significant contributors, guys 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:29.920 that are very, very important to this football team. And 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:33.800 we start in pick fourteen of the first round. Devanta 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.040 Parker is a bona fide number one receiver in this 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:40.200 NFL and he's been playing consistently throughout the course of 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.040 this season. We talked about it on an earlier podcast, 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.439 playing through the nicks and bruces and kind of taking 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.600 it upon himself to make sure he's out there for 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.400 all sixteen games. And the talent has always been there, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.959 so the production catching up there as well. For Davanta 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:55.920 Parker that same draft class, in the fifth round, pick one, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.480 Bobby McCain, who we're gonna feature on the podcast later 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:02.160 this week out of Memphis. He was a quarterback when 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.920 he was drafted, now playing safety. We talked about his 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.480 numbers in the open, zero point zero passer rating against 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.600 Bobby McCain this season. He's a captain on this defense, 0:12:10.720 --> 0:12:13.480 a almost never leaves the field type of player, a 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.280 ninety plus percent player in terms of snap counts. Those 0:12:16.320 --> 0:12:18.800 two guys back in the draft still here and having 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.920 a huge impact on your Miami Dolphins. You go ahead 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:26.840 to ten, second round pick thirty eight, Xavian Howard. I mean, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:28.959 we talked about him too, one of the lowest passer 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.920 ratings against tire from league lead and interceptions this year, 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:36.280 most interceptions in the NFL back to December. He was 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.200 a home run pick there in the second round for 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:41.280 your Miami Dolphins. The first pick that year turned into 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.920 multiple draft picks in the future. We wound up with 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.040 Solomon Kinley and Noah Ignogeny in this year's draft from 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.280 that trade. We also have two more picks next year, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.760 a first rounder and a second rounder, looking like two 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.840 top forty picks right now currently from that trade. So 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.920 that draft provide you with plenty of value as star 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.440 player a good looking rookie guard to a very toolsy 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.319 and trades the youngest player in the NFL cornerback out 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:06.360 of that trade as well, and then two more future 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.560 premium picks next season currently on this roster and in 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.520 future rosters for your Dolphins seventeen draft class, though he 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.040 is on injured reserve right now. Devon god Show in 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.880 the fifth round, pick one eight, in the seventh round, 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.080 pick two thirty seven, Isaiah Ford that year. Both have 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.120 been contributors on this football team this year, one on defense, 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.720 one on offense, some big catches for Ford, some big 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.080 run stops for Devon god Show on defense as well. 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:34.400 And then you skip ahead to in the first selection 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.920 that year, turned into Austin Jackson this year, who was 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.240 having a damn fine season before he wound up on 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.800 injured reserve. You wound up with Mike Gatsicki in that 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:43.760 draft class, who is one of the top tight ends 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.240 in the NFL right now in production as a receiver, 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.520 catching touchdowns, yardage, all that fun stuff. And the third 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.840 round Jerome Baker, who's playing almost every snap at linebacker 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.360 for you. He blitzes, he covers, he defends the run, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.880 does a little bit of everything on the defense. In 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.840 the fourth round, Durham Smith been one of the best 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.600 run blocking tight ends in the game for my money 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.559 this season. In the seventh round, Jason Sanders, who has 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.760 not missed a field goal this year, been the best, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.080 most accurate, most consistent kicker in the NFL this season. 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.960 Jump ahead to twenty nineteen, Christian Wilkins, one of the 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:16.319 top leaders in run stops this year for the in 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.800 the NFL. For your Miami Dolphins. In the seventh round, 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:23.920 Chandler Cox, playing snaps at fullback Miles Gaskin one pick later, 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:26.800 leads the team in rushing eighteen in the NFL in 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.200 rushing yards. In the fifth round that year, Andrew van Ginkl, 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.920 linebacker out of Wisconsin, giving you sack production, coverage production, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:37.720 run stop production, playing well so far in his second season. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.400 Michael Dieter on the bench hasn't played this season, but 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.080 as a quality interior backup on the offensive line. Still 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.800 in the fold there you also had Preston Williams as 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.840 a U d f A that year and Nick Needum, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.920 who both are playing plenty of snaps this year for 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.360 your Miami Dolphins. And then we jump ahead to this year. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.960 And this is the point of this entire diet tribe 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.680 here so to speak, to talk about the rookie progress 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.480 report so far through six games. I wrote about it 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.160 on this morning's blitz up on Miami Dolphins dot com. 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:06.040 And we start with the first pick for the Dolphins, 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.840 number five overall, to a Tongue of Valoa. He threw 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:12.040 only two passes for nine yards in the NFL so far, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:15.320 will make his NFL debut, starting debut, I should say 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.840 this Sunday against the Rams. You go back to what 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.120 Jerome Baker said about how he asked for advice on 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.440 what he can work on, what he can see, whatever 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:23.960 it is that he can do to get better. And 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.760 that was the thing that Jerome said really stuck out 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:27.720 to him was how he truly wants to get better, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.760 how he wants to make this Dolphins football team win games, 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.600 So not much of a progress update there on to 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.680 a but in a few weeks time, we'll be able 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.680 to get back to this and talk about to and 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:38.880 some starts he has under his NFL belt as he 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.680 gets more playing time in his NFL career. The next pick, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.520 Austin Jackson, we talked about him, hasn't allow of sack 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:47.680 this season per Pro Football Focus, and coach Steve Marshall 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.120 talks about how fierce these guys are on the offensive line, 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.960 how they're intrigued and engaged to learn and get better 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.000 every single day, and the competitiveness of those guys. And 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.320 we've seen Jackson's true talents the sweet feat. He is 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:01.880 so nimble, so athletic and can get into those pass 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.240 sets so quickly. We saw that on display through the 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.640 first four games before he got injured and headed to 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.560 i R. We'll see if we can get Jackson back 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:12.120 here this season shortly at the cornerback position Noah Igbogen. 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.640 He got thrown to the fire there for Byron Jones, 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.320 playing the same position as Byron when he got hurt. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.920 Played two six snaps, plenty of good experience there, made 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.120 ten tackles, he did force nine incomplete passes on twenty 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.520 five pass targets. But the biggest thing that I took 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.600 away from Noah's first six games of his career was 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.960 what Byron Jones said about him. He's probably one of 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.160 the most impressive young guys I've seen in a very 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:37.360 long time, Jones says of Imogen. The way he approaches 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.680 the game. This kid is here early. He's here early, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.080 looking at film with the coaches. He's there late. The 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.840 way he practices and the way he really approaches practice 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.000 is really impressive for a young guy to understand that. 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.880 So big praise there from the Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:55.480 for rookie cornerback Noah Igbogny in the second round. Tackle 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.440 Robert Hunt, who has started two games, played plenty as 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:01.560 that kind of six off nds of linemen and heavy packages, 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.160 and he has surrendered just six quarterback pressures this year 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:06.240 and all of those are hurried, so no sacks, no 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.879 hits on the quarterback from Robert Hunt, who's been playing 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.679 right tackle for the last two games. Ray Kwon Davis 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:15.480 has a hundred eighteen snaps through six games, three QB pressures, 0:17:15.520 --> 0:17:18.439 seven total tackles, two run stops, and we've seen a 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.720 bit of increase in playing time from him since the 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.119 Von Godshaw went down, so we'll see more of ray 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.560 Kwon Davis here in the second half of the season. 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.000 Safety Brandon Jones has played two d thirty five snaps 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.480 at five defensive positions and a member of four special 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:35.080 teams units, so he's playing plenty in his rookie season, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.879 plenty on his plate. He's tied for fifth on the 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:40.240 team and total tackles with one and he had that 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.040 big tackle for loss on third and two in the 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:44.680 Jets game to help preserve the only shutout this year 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:47.119 in the National Football League. In the fourth round, we 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.760 talked about Solomon Kindley three nine two snaps this season. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.679 He's been credited with just eight pressures allowed on the 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.840 quarterback through six games on two hundred and thirty nine 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.639 pass blocking snaps. He averages a quarterback pressure on just 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.720 three point three of his pass blocking snaps. That's one 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.600 every twenty nine point three snaps in past protection, so 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.560 basically right around one per game, a little bit more 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.600 than one per game for Solomon Kinley. Jason Strowbridge has 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.080 not made his debut just yet, but Coach Hobby has 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:16.320 talked about how he had a really good camp. Coach 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.800 Hobby said back in September that he thinks that Strobridge 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.920 is getting better every day, thinks he has a role 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:23.120 on this team. It's a long season. I think we're 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:25.399 going to need him to end that quote from Coach 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.760 Hobby on Jason Strowbridge, fifth round draft pick for the 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.800 Miami Dolphins at long snapper. I mean, can you complain 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.120 to God about Blake Ferguson If the field goal kicker 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.840 hasn't missed, if the punter is top ten with punts 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.680 down into the twenty yard line top ten and punt average, 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.640 Blake Ferguson putting the ball on the money key details. 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.119 Special teams focus on these very important minute details to 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.200 some people, but important details here. Long snapping one of 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.440 those details, and Blake Ferguson has done a good job 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.240 so far his rookie season. We haven't yet seen Malcolm 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:55.600 Perry this year. I thought he was really impressive and 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:58.240 camp chan Gailey had this to say about him. Malcolm 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:00.399