Speaker 1: Factors Alpinsford touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: It is Monday. We are back. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are back to a game week. Did you all
Speaker 1: enjoy your weekend off? I certainly did recharge the batteries
Speaker 1: back home with my wife, daughter and two cats. It
Speaker 1: was a great weekend. Some great NFL action to cover
Speaker 1: as well. We'll talk about that on the podcast. Give
Speaker 1: you a little glimpse into tonight's Monday Night football game.
Speaker 1: As the Dolphins opponent next week place tonight. In this
Speaker 1: particular Monday Night football game, Rams and Bears, we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the Dolphins season rankings, both individuals and teams.
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Speaker 1: And I want to first recap the weekend that was
Speaker 1: in the NFL because we had tons of action around
Speaker 1: the league that really pertained to the Miami Dolphins as
Speaker 1: we take a look at this team heading in to
Speaker 1: the final ten games of the season, the final ten
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, as the bye week is now
Speaker 1: in the rear view, and we have a slate coming
Speaker 1: up against a bunch of teams out West with the Rams, Cardinals, Chargers,
Speaker 1: Broncos all coming up. Road and home games involved there
Speaker 1: as well. Dolphins get the Rams this coming Sunday and
Speaker 1: the Rams on tonight's game. Tonight's Monday night football game
Speaker 1: against the Chicago Bears could be an interesting matchup. But
Speaker 1: I look at this game as a way for this
Speaker 1: Brian Flores Dolphins team to really kind of get their
Speaker 1: self scouting and get their self evaluation and try to
Speaker 1: fix the things that they thought they were not doing correctly.
Speaker 1: In the first half of the season. The first six
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, we hear coach Flores, Coach Josh Bowyer,
Speaker 1: coach chan Gaily, all these guys talk about daily improvement
Speaker 1: and stacking up these days where you make yourself a
Speaker 1: better football player today than you were yesterday, and the
Speaker 1: bye week is a great opportunity for that. We saw
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team come out of the bye week last
Speaker 1: year under Brian Flores, and that was when things really
Speaker 1: began to shift for this Dolphins football team. Of course,
Speaker 1: we all know the results of the first four games
Speaker 1: of the season last year, and they didn't get the
Speaker 1: ws off the bye week in the Washington and in
Speaker 1: the Buffalo games, but they started playing much better football,
Speaker 1: much more competitive football. And you go back to last season.
Speaker 1: I had Eric Rowe on the podcast a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago and he mentioned that Buffalo game as when
Speaker 1: things kind of began to shift for the team. They
Speaker 1: kind of started to really understand the buy end process
Speaker 1: of playing for Brian Flores and this coaching staff. And
Speaker 1: I think that when you take a look at this
Speaker 1: year's team, the improvements they've made through the first six weeks.
Speaker 1: Obviously by the record, the point differential, we have guys
Speaker 1: atop the leader board in some statistics. The defense is
Speaker 1: the number two scoring defense in the NFL coming into play.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that here in just one second
Speaker 1: as we review the numbers for the first six weeks.
Speaker 1: But you look at this team and the applications you
Speaker 1: can make as far as the bye week and benefiting
Speaker 1: you going into the second half of the season. I
Speaker 1: just think you have a good opportunity here to really
Speaker 1: take the things you do well and improve those, but
Speaker 1: also get better at the things you do not do well.
Speaker 1: And you look at this week's opponent in the Rams,
Speaker 1: short week, six days of rest, in a Monday night
Speaker 1: football game, you hope, you hope the Bears can make
Speaker 1: it a physical, tight contested game, a high stress game.
Speaker 1: Maybe you get over time, maybe you get a fifth
Speaker 1: quarter like we had in that insane Seahawks and Cardinals
Speaker 1: game onto Sunday night, which was the best football game
Speaker 1: I've seen in quite sometimes time as far as entertainment
Speaker 1: value goes. But that's what you always root for in
Speaker 1: your in your previous week matchup right, play as long
Speaker 1: as you can play as many plays as you can
Speaker 1: get those guys tired, especially on a short week, especially
Speaker 1: coming across the country on a five hour flight, in
Speaker 1: that early window, the ten am West Coast time window
Speaker 1: for the Rams against the Dolphins team coming off of
Speaker 1: a bye week, and we're gonna preview this game later
Speaker 1: on in the week, but I have one more stat
Speaker 1: I want to go ahead and run by you guys
Speaker 1: that I saw and I talked about it on the
Speaker 1: podcast a little bit last week as we kind of
Speaker 1: started to do the preview for the Rams and and
Speaker 1: just kind of get some nuggets here and there. I
Speaker 1: talked about the condensed nature of the Rams offensive formations,
Speaker 1: and that's what they do. They think they bring things
Speaker 1: in tight, they run tight splits, they bring the receivers
Speaker 1: inside the numbers. They don't really spread things out and
Speaker 1: go the horizontal spread game. In fact, next gen NFL
Speaker 1: stats has the Rams as the tightest formation in terms
Speaker 1: of average width of their offensive formation at twenty point
Speaker 1: four yards per snap. The team that has the widest
Speaker 1: formation comparatively is your Miami Dolph at thirty point one
Speaker 1: yards of width. Now, obviously the two offenses don't go
Speaker 1: up against each other, but you see the contrasting styles
Speaker 1: there of the Rams offense and the Dolphins offense in
Speaker 1: terms of how they split the field, how they spread
Speaker 1: the field pre snap. So I'll be taking a look
Speaker 1: at that throughout the course of the week. We'll come
Speaker 1: back on Thursday and have the preview podcast for you
Speaker 1: guys taking a look at this Los Angeles Rams football
Speaker 1: team and get you the matchups, the highlights, all that
Speaker 1: fun stuff before we turn this over to media to
Speaker 1: get sound from coach Flora's Preston Williams, Mike Kisiki, and
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson. Let's go ahead and run through some Dolphins
Speaker 1: numbers through the first six games of the season. And
Speaker 1: remember this does not include the Monday night football games
Speaker 1: that was going on maybe as you listen to this
Speaker 1: podcast or recorded it before that game happened. Dolphins offensively
Speaker 1: points per games still twenty six point seven. All those
Speaker 1: numbers are still the same, but the rankings have changed. Obviously,
Speaker 1: twelve and points scored twenty second, total offense twenty second
Speaker 1: and rushing eighteen passing offense, they second, third down conversion
Speaker 1: rate at and they have allowed the ninth fewest sacks
Speaker 1: with ten acts allowed this season. I haven't used Football
Speaker 1: Outsiders very much this season, but they have a d
Speaker 1: v O rating Defensive Adjusted Value over Average rating they
Speaker 1: use to grade offense defense special teams, and they have
Speaker 1: the Dolphins as the third best special teams in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. The dolphins fifteen successful field goals by
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders are the most in the league without a
Speaker 1: miss kick, and the net punt average of forty two
Speaker 1: point four by Matt Hawk is the twelveth best in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And the Dolphins have twenty eight penalties assessed
Speaker 1: against them for two hundred and twenty eight yards this season.
Speaker 1: That's the fourth least in both those categories across the
Speaker 1: National Football League. So once again a very discipline team
Speaker 1: here under Brian Flores. Defensively, the points per game eighteen
Speaker 1: point eight. Man, you look across the league, how many
Speaker 1: games are thirty four forty thirty? I mean there's points
Speaker 1: golore this year in the National Football League, Miami allowing
Speaker 1: eighteen point eight points per game. That's second in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Total defense is seventeenth, rushing defense is nineteenth,
Speaker 1: Passing defense is sixteenth and the third down conversion rate
Speaker 1: of just thirty one point three percent against his first
Speaker 1: tops in the National Football League. We fall down the
Speaker 1: sack chart because we didn't get you sacks on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We didn't play a game, so we have seventeen sacks.
Speaker 1: That's tied for the eleventh most in the NFL. Some
Speaker 1: individual metrics here. Miles Gaskin has three hundred forty rushing
Speaker 1: yards and eighteen first downs. Both of those stats are
Speaker 1: twenty three in the NFL. He also has two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty five yards after initial contact and the averages
Speaker 1: two point seven four yards per carry after initial contact.
Speaker 1: Both of those ranked eighteenth among running backs who have
Speaker 1: forty or more carries this season. Davante Parker is twenty
Speaker 1: second among receivers with at least twenty past targets in
Speaker 1: his yards per route run at one point nine nine.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams is twenty in the league and touchdown receptions
Speaker 1: with three, and Mike get Sicki is six among all
Speaker 1: tight ends and receiving yards with two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: two yards. At this tide, imposition up on the offensive
Speaker 1: line on the interior, solemn and Killy and Eric Flowers
Speaker 1: both have allowed just eight pressures each. That's tied for
Speaker 1: eleventh eleventh fewest among all guards in the NFL. Per
Speaker 1: pff and Ted Carriss is one of fourteen NFL centers
Speaker 1: without a sack allowed this season. With minimum two hundred
Speaker 1: pass blocking snaps at both guard and centers, so a
Speaker 1: good job there for those guys. Emmanuel a Ball off
Speaker 1: the edge is tied for eleventh among edge defenders with
Speaker 1: twenty quarterback pressures. His five sacks are tied for seventh
Speaker 1: most in the NFL, and he has eleven run stops.
Speaker 1: Those are tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and that's tied for sixteenth best in the NFL. At
Speaker 1: edge positions, Christian Wilkins is eleventh eleventh among interior defensive
Speaker 1: lineman with thirteen run stops. Linebacker Jerome Baker has forty
Speaker 1: six tackles that leads the team. It's twenty eight in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and Kyle van nois twelve QB pressures are
Speaker 1: second among all off ball linebackers, where a land and
Speaker 1: Roberts is tied for thirteen with his five QB pressures
Speaker 1: from that same position. In the defensive backfield, safety Bobby McCain,
Speaker 1: who we're gonna talk to you later this week on
Speaker 1: Drive Time has a passer rating against a zero point
Speaker 1: zero that according to Pro Football Focus, he's the only
Speaker 1: dB with more than one hundred snaps who can say that.
Speaker 1: And Eric Row has five pass breakups that's tied for
Speaker 1: second among all NFL safeties. And cornerback Xavien Howard has
Speaker 1: a passer rating of forty nine point oh that second
Speaker 1: best among corners with at least twenty past targets, and
Speaker 1: of course he is tied for the league lead with
Speaker 1: four interceptions. And then Jason Sanders once again is one
Speaker 1: of three kickers with double digit makes without a missfield goal,
Speaker 1: and punter Matt Hawk has ten points down inside the
Speaker 1: twenty yard line that's tenth best in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: So Miami well well represented across the leaderboard in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And before we turn this thing over,
Speaker 1: real quick to coach Flora's and the players for their
Speaker 1: Monday media availability. The Buffalo Bills did beat the New
Speaker 1: York Jets. Man I was hoping the Jets can pull
Speaker 1: that game out. Help us pulled the within a half
Speaker 1: a game of the Bills, but they do not. The
Speaker 1: Bills get to win. They move to five and two
Speaker 1: on the seasons of the Dolphins, one and a half
Speaker 1: games back in the a f C East. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: did jump over the Las Vegas Raiders in the a
Speaker 1: f C wild card picture. Right now at three and three,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are just one game back of the Colts
Speaker 1: for that seven seed. The Dolphins currently your eight seed
Speaker 1: in the a f C. So everything is in front
Speaker 1: of us right now. Talks about the Rams, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: coming up, a couple of tough teams from the best
Speaker 1: division in the NFL for my opinion, on the docket
Speaker 1: there the Chargers and Broncos, couple of young quarterbacks they're
Speaker 1: coming to the pike as well. So plenty of good
Speaker 1: action coming your way from the Miami Dolphins as they
Speaker 1: have a chance to really put themselves in a prime
Speaker 1: position down the stretch of the season with a good run,
Speaker 1: a good month here in November, and one more way
Speaker 1: you can really get that improvement in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season that the coaches and the players talk
Speaker 1: about here in Miami is to get more production out
Speaker 1: of your young players, in particular out of your rookies.
Speaker 1: And we know this Dolphins team has eleven rookies that
Speaker 1: were either drafted or traded, four who were drafted from
Speaker 1: some other team, Las Vegas Raiders, and Lynn Boone Jr.
Speaker 1: We had Benito Jones make his NFL debut on Sunday,
Speaker 1: the undrafted free agent out of Old miss And I
Speaker 1: want to touch on those eleven rookies and how they've
Speaker 1: performed for the first six games and maybe a forecast
Speaker 1: for the final ten games of that rookie season. But
Speaker 1: it got me thinking about the construction of this Dolphins
Speaker 1: roster and where the players on this Dolphins roster have
Speaker 1: come from. And that got me thinking about previous draft classes, right,
Speaker 1: because we look at this team and think there are
Speaker 1: plenty of first and second year players, but there are
Speaker 1: also players who have been here for three, four or
Speaker 1: five years that are now considerable contributors, significant contributors, guys
Speaker 1: that are very, very important to this football team. And
Speaker 1: we start in pick fourteen of the first round. Devanta
Speaker 1: Parker is a bona fide number one receiver in this
Speaker 1: NFL and he's been playing consistently throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this season. We talked about it on an earlier podcast,
Speaker 1: playing through the nicks and bruces and kind of taking
Speaker 1: it upon himself to make sure he's out there for
Speaker 1: all sixteen games. And the talent has always been there,
Speaker 1: so the production catching up there as well. For Davanta
Speaker 1: Parker that same draft class, in the fifth round, pick one,
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, who we're gonna feature on the podcast later
Speaker 1: this week out of Memphis. He was a quarterback when
Speaker 1: he was drafted, now playing safety. We talked about his
Speaker 1: numbers in the open, zero point zero passer rating against
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain this season. He's a captain on this defense,
Speaker 1: a almost never leaves the field type of player, a
Speaker 1: ninety plus percent player in terms of snap counts. Those
Speaker 1: two guys back in the draft still here and having
Speaker 1: a huge impact on your Miami Dolphins. You go ahead
Speaker 1: to ten, second round pick thirty eight, Xavian Howard. I mean,
Speaker 1: we talked about him too, one of the lowest passer
Speaker 1: ratings against tire from league lead and interceptions this year,
Speaker 1: most interceptions in the NFL back to December. He was
Speaker 1: a home run pick there in the second round for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. The first pick that year turned into
Speaker 1: multiple draft picks in the future. We wound up with
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley and Noah Ignogeny in this year's draft from
Speaker 1: that trade. We also have two more picks next year,
Speaker 1: a first rounder and a second rounder, looking like two
Speaker 1: top forty picks right now currently from that trade. So
Speaker 1: that draft provide you with plenty of value as star
Speaker 1: player a good looking rookie guard to a very toolsy
Speaker 1: and trades the youngest player in the NFL cornerback out
Speaker 1: of that trade as well, and then two more future
Speaker 1: premium picks next season currently on this roster and in
Speaker 1: future rosters for your Dolphins seventeen draft class, though he
Speaker 1: is on injured reserve right now. Devon god Show in
Speaker 1: the fifth round, pick one eight, in the seventh round,
Speaker 1: pick two thirty seven, Isaiah Ford that year. Both have
Speaker 1: been contributors on this football team this year, one on defense,
Speaker 1: one on offense, some big catches for Ford, some big
Speaker 1: run stops for Devon god Show on defense as well.
Speaker 1: And then you skip ahead to in the first selection
Speaker 1: that year, turned into Austin Jackson this year, who was
Speaker 1: having a damn fine season before he wound up on
Speaker 1: injured reserve. You wound up with Mike Gatsicki in that
Speaker 1: draft class, who is one of the top tight ends
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now in production as a receiver,
Speaker 1: catching touchdowns, yardage, all that fun stuff. And the third
Speaker 1: round Jerome Baker, who's playing almost every snap at linebacker
Speaker 1: for you. He blitzes, he covers, he defends the run,
Speaker 1: does a little bit of everything on the defense. In
Speaker 1: the fourth round, Durham Smith been one of the best
Speaker 1: run blocking tight ends in the game for my money
Speaker 1: this season. In the seventh round, Jason Sanders, who has
Speaker 1: not missed a field goal this year, been the best,
Speaker 1: most accurate, most consistent kicker in the NFL this season.
Speaker 1: Jump ahead to twenty nineteen, Christian Wilkins, one of the
Speaker 1: top leaders in run stops this year for the in
Speaker 1: the NFL. For your Miami Dolphins. In the seventh round,
Speaker 1: Chandler Cox, playing snaps at fullback Miles Gaskin one pick later,
Speaker 1: leads the team in rushing eighteen in the NFL in
Speaker 1: rushing yards. In the fifth round that year, Andrew van Ginkl,
Speaker 1: linebacker out of Wisconsin, giving you sack production, coverage production,
Speaker 1: run stop production, playing well so far in his second season.
Speaker 1: Michael Dieter on the bench hasn't played this season, but
Speaker 1: as a quality interior backup on the offensive line. Still
Speaker 1: in the fold there you also had Preston Williams as
Speaker 1: a U d f A that year and Nick Needum,
Speaker 1: who both are playing plenty of snaps this year for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. And then we jump ahead to this year.
Speaker 1: And this is the point of this entire diet tribe
Speaker 1: here so to speak, to talk about the rookie progress
Speaker 1: report so far through six games. I wrote about it
Speaker 1: on this morning's blitz up on Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: And we start with the first pick for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: number five overall, to a Tongue of Valoa. He threw
Speaker 1: only two passes for nine yards in the NFL so far,
Speaker 1: will make his NFL debut, starting debut, I should say
Speaker 1: this Sunday against the Rams. You go back to what
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker said about how he asked for advice on
Speaker 1: what he can work on, what he can see, whatever
Speaker 1: it is that he can do to get better. And
Speaker 1: that was the thing that Jerome said really stuck out
Speaker 1: to him was how he truly wants to get better,
Speaker 1: how he wants to make this Dolphins football team win games,
Speaker 1: So not much of a progress update there on to
Speaker 1: a but in a few weeks time, we'll be able
Speaker 1: to get back to this and talk about to and
Speaker 1: some starts he has under his NFL belt as he
Speaker 1: gets more playing time in his NFL career. The next pick,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, we talked about him, hasn't allow of sack
Speaker 1: this season per Pro Football Focus, and coach Steve Marshall
Speaker 1: talks about how fierce these guys are on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: how they're intrigued and engaged to learn and get better
Speaker 1: every single day, and the competitiveness of those guys. And
Speaker 1: we've seen Jackson's true talents the sweet feat. He is
Speaker 1: so nimble, so athletic and can get into those pass
Speaker 1: sets so quickly. We saw that on display through the
Speaker 1: first four games before he got injured and headed to
Speaker 1: i R. We'll see if we can get Jackson back
Speaker 1: here this season shortly at the cornerback position Noah Igbogen.
Speaker 1: He got thrown to the fire there for Byron Jones,
Speaker 1: playing the same position as Byron when he got hurt.
Speaker 1: Played two six snaps, plenty of good experience there, made
Speaker 1: ten tackles, he did force nine incomplete passes on twenty
Speaker 1: five pass targets. But the biggest thing that I took
Speaker 1: away from Noah's first six games of his career was
Speaker 1: what Byron Jones said about him. He's probably one of
Speaker 1: the most impressive young guys I've seen in a very
Speaker 1: long time, Jones says of Imogen. The way he approaches
Speaker 1: the game. This kid is here early. He's here early,
Speaker 1: looking at film with the coaches. He's there late. The
Speaker 1: way he practices and the way he really approaches practice
Speaker 1: is really impressive for a young guy to understand that.
Speaker 1: So big praise there from the Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones
Speaker 1: for rookie cornerback Noah Igbogny in the second round. Tackle
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt, who has started two games, played plenty as
Speaker 1: that kind of six off nds of linemen and heavy packages,
Speaker 1: and he has surrendered just six quarterback pressures this year
Speaker 1: and all of those are hurried, so no sacks, no
Speaker 1: hits on the quarterback from Robert Hunt, who's been playing
Speaker 1: right tackle for the last two games. Ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: has a hundred eighteen snaps through six games, three QB pressures,
Speaker 1: seven total tackles, two run stops, and we've seen a
Speaker 1: bit of increase in playing time from him since the
Speaker 1: Von Godshaw went down, so we'll see more of ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis here in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Safety Brandon Jones has played two d thirty five snaps
Speaker 1: at five defensive positions and a member of four special
Speaker 1: teams units, so he's playing plenty in his rookie season,
Speaker 1: plenty on his plate. He's tied for fifth on the
Speaker 1: team and total tackles with one and he had that
Speaker 1: big tackle for loss on third and two in the
Speaker 1: Jets game to help preserve the only shutout this year
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. In the fourth round, we
Speaker 1: talked about Solomon Kindley three nine two snaps this season.
Speaker 1: He's been credited with just eight pressures allowed on the
Speaker 1: quarterback through six games on two hundred and thirty nine
Speaker 1: pass blocking snaps. He averages a quarterback pressure on just
Speaker 1: three point three of his pass blocking snaps. That's one
Speaker 1: every twenty nine point three snaps in past protection, so
Speaker 1: basically right around one per game, a little bit more
Speaker 1: than one per game for Solomon Kinley. Jason Strowbridge has
Speaker 1: not made his debut just yet, but Coach Hobby has
Speaker 1: talked about how he had a really good camp. Coach
Speaker 1: Hobby said back in September that he thinks that Strobridge
Speaker 1: is getting better every day, thinks he has a role
Speaker 1: on this team. It's a long season. I think we're
Speaker 1: going to need him to end that quote from Coach
Speaker 1: Hobby on Jason Strowbridge, fifth round draft pick for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins at long snapper. I mean, can you complain
Speaker 1: to God about Blake Ferguson If the field goal kicker
Speaker 1: hasn't missed, if the punter is top ten with punts
Speaker 1: down into the twenty yard line top ten and punt average,
Speaker 1: Blake Ferguson putting the ball on the money key details.
Speaker 1: Special teams focus on these very important minute details to
Speaker 1: some people, but important details here. Long snapping one of
Speaker 1: those details, and Blake Ferguson has done a good job
Speaker 1: so far his rookie season. We haven't yet seen Malcolm
Speaker 1: Perry this year. I thought he was really impressive and
Speaker 1: camp chan Gailey had this to say about him. Malcolm
Speaker 1: is converting to wide receiver, so he has a lot
Speaker 1: of things to learn yet about the game. I think
Speaker 1: he has a chance to be a good player end
Speaker 1: quote there, and then the draft or the trade from
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. Who was drafted in the third
Speaker 1: round this past season. Why receiver Lynn Bowden played a
Speaker 1: little bit of quarterback and receiver in college. He was
Speaker 1: on the Bulletina cough Watch list the last season there
Speaker 1: at Kentucky before the quarterback gets injured, so he takes
Speaker 1: over at QB and just goes on to set sec
Speaker 1: rushing records for most rushing yards in a game from
Speaker 1: a quarterback, things like that. Very impressive college career for him,
Speaker 1: and the coaches had this to say about him. Shanguilly
Speaker 1: did rather, he has some natural route running ability, has
Speaker 1: some natural athletic talent. He's still just in the process
Speaker 1: of learning everything the nuances of playing at this level.
Speaker 1: It's not the athletic talent, it's just learning the nuances
Speaker 1: of being able to compete and quote and you know,
Speaker 1: he came in after the install had all occurred. Shanguilly
Speaker 1: also talked about this. He came in after the offense
Speaker 1: was installed, so he kind of has been working through
Speaker 1: certain packages and trying to get up to speed in
Speaker 1: the base general install of this Dolphins offense. And he
Speaker 1: also has a few carries and Wildcat had a nice
Speaker 1: block last week well, So plenty of contributions from Dolphins
Speaker 1: young players, from Dolphins rookies, from guys that were drafted
Speaker 1: here in the past five or six years in Miami.
Speaker 1: And hopefully that natural progression continues here in year one
Speaker 1: for these rookies as they continue in their first season,
Speaker 1: and if they give you more than they've been giving
Speaker 1: you so far, that's a good sign this year for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins and beyond. Speaking of the rookies, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and jump into the Monday media availability and
Speaker 1: we'll start here with Dolphins tight end Mike Asiki, who
Speaker 1: was asked about the quarterback change to a tongue of
Speaker 1: Valoa and how ghasick. He says he is perceived by
Speaker 1: his teammates in the locker room and what makes him
Speaker 1: special as a person. As we've heard so many times before,
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I mean two us one. A phenomenal job
Speaker 1: with you know, just being a just being a guy
Speaker 1: in the locker room. You know, um, you know everybody, um,
Speaker 1: you know has phone in there around him. He's a
Speaker 1: funny guy, He's he's a good time to be around
Speaker 1: and then when he's out on the field, Um, he
Speaker 1: does he has that you know where he can kind
Speaker 1: of flip the switch and you'll make it serious, but
Speaker 1: also you know, still have fun with it. Uh. So
Speaker 1: I think that that's something that you know, I look
Speaker 1: forward to, you know, getting out on the field with
Speaker 1: him and you know, seeing him in the huddle and
Speaker 1: you know, making a big play because you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know it's eventually coming, and you know how he
Speaker 1: reacts to that. And I think it's it's it's exciting
Speaker 1: to you know, be part of that that chapter that
Speaker 1: you know that that next phase. Um. And I think
Speaker 1: that he's done a you know, a phenomenal job kind
Speaker 1: of earning everybody's respect in the locker room and then
Speaker 1: obviously you know everybody's respect outside of the locker room,
Speaker 1: you know upstairs, you know, um, you know, giving him
Speaker 1: this opportunity, uh and you know he's earned it, and
Speaker 1: you know, I'm excited for him. Up next, Mike was
Speaker 1: asked about how he might see his role changing in
Speaker 1: the offense or how the offense in general changes with
Speaker 1: the change at the quarterback position. Um, I'm not really sure, honestly,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't. I don't know how you know
Speaker 1: the game plan is or is not going to change. Um,
Speaker 1: you know what I will say is that, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: to has you know, I think he's got every throw
Speaker 1: in the book, and I think he's got you know,
Speaker 1: the intelligence to make all the reads, and he's got
Speaker 1: the you know, the lay eggs to be able to
Speaker 1: you know, escape pressure and you know, make some plays
Speaker 1: with his feet. So you know, I don't really know
Speaker 1: if you're gonna take any plays out or you know
Speaker 1: that he's going to do something that you know Fitz
Speaker 1: wasn't doing or anything. I don't. I don't think that
Speaker 1: that's what it really comes down to. I think it
Speaker 1: just comes down to, you know, our coaching staff and
Speaker 1: you know kind of what they've done this season is
Speaker 1: put guys in position to be successful, and I think
Speaker 1: that that's gonna be you know, a common Trenjent moving forward.
Speaker 1: One comment he made there that I want to touch
Speaker 1: on was the ability to make plays with your feet.
Speaker 1: And we see it across the National Football League pretty
Speaker 1: much unanimously right now. Besides a few of the old
Speaker 1: veteran gun slingers that are still getting it done. The
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's, the Ben Roethlisberger's, the Drew Breezes of the world.
Speaker 1: For the most part, most of these quarterbacks coming into
Speaker 1: the league these days have to have that athletic trade,
Speaker 1: the ability to get off script and make plays outside
Speaker 1: the structure. And it just reminds me of so many
Speaker 1: plays up to us back in college, Like, for instance,
Speaker 1: in the Old Miss game last year, when he had
Speaker 1: pressure right away, did a little bit of a ball fake,
Speaker 1: stepped up, slid around, got outside the pocket, made the
Speaker 1: completion on third down for the first down. Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: do a plenty of times as well. The ability to
Speaker 1: get off the spot and make plays outside the structure
Speaker 1: going to be crucial for any quarterback. And I think
Speaker 1: that Mike Sicky talks about there. I think we've seen
Speaker 1: plenty of that from tah in his college days. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and here now from Dolphins receiver Preston Williams,
Speaker 1: another player who will be catching passes from tongue Bylowa
Speaker 1: on Sunday, as he was asked, what are two of
Speaker 1: strength that he has noticed so far in practice? You know,
Speaker 1: I was, you know, throwing, you know, taking plays. Everything
Speaker 1: you on the quarterback, you know you've seen his tape.
Speaker 1: Uh I speak for us. So uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: we said that tour and get his started, you know,
Speaker 1: just like everybody else on the site of to see
Speaker 1: him in his first game age and gets the Rams up. Next,
Speaker 1: Preston was asked about the challenge of facing this Rams defense,
Speaker 1: who has star talent all over the place, including a
Speaker 1: cornerback and Jalen Ramsey. Uh. You know, I know the
Speaker 1: range is a couple. The Rams at good. It's a
Speaker 1: good team. Uh. Now they're gonna They're gonna come ready
Speaker 1: to play. We're gonna come ready to play. You know.
Speaker 1: You gotta beating a DV in there like that, you know,
Speaker 1: usually to each other game saying we're gonna take some
Speaker 1: shots out of my believe So you're gonna see. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up with the players here with
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive and Shock Lawson, who first was asked about
Speaker 1: the combination and playing on the defensive line there with
Speaker 1: fellow pass rusher, fellow edge defender Emmanuel the main beast man.
Speaker 1: He's been going crazy these last six six seven games
Speaker 1: or we don't play man. He's been a dominant force
Speaker 1: and having him on the other side. Hopefully it's open
Speaker 1: New York now. Man, see he's been balling like that
Speaker 1: and things like that. But that guy has been a
Speaker 1: credible man. Has been a pleasure to work with him.
Speaker 1: You know, we both came in the league the same year.
Speaker 1: Uh so we we we kind of uh kind of
Speaker 1: had a relationship before we got him, knew each other.
Speaker 1: But man, that guy's has been bothering. Man's credible. You've
Speaker 1: been playing. Let's go ahead and check in with Shack
Speaker 1: on his perception of what he's seen from two A
Speaker 1: toggle by Lower in practice, who of course makes his
Speaker 1: first start Sunday against the Rams. I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: going out there and play with the Sunday. I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of him in practice. Uh, athletic
Speaker 1: year is how incredible player years. So to get to
Speaker 1: see you on Sunday this week, man, it's gonna be incredible. Man.
Speaker 1: He's gonna leave his team in the right way. As
Speaker 1: advice being to lead, just tell the guy just continue
Speaker 1: to work hard and continue get better, man, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna follow your league man, and just just embrace brace
Speaker 1: every moment of And he as a guy has been
Speaker 1: seeing him, he's been doing that every day. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy who always have a smile on his face,
Speaker 1: a great kid, and always he always want to talk
Speaker 1: to vests and things like that. I want to learn
Speaker 1: new things for that guy. He learned a lot and
Speaker 1: like to learn too. So we've heard that now from
Speaker 1: Shock Loss and Bobby McCain and Jerome Baker, three of
Speaker 1: the veteran players on this Dolphins defense. And that last
Speaker 1: question there was directed towards Shock about the advice he
Speaker 1: would give too for how to embrace his first start?
Speaker 1: How do approach us first start? This, of course a
Speaker 1: guy who saw the Buffalo Bills go from a vectrin
Speaker 1: quarterback to Josh Allen and saw the transformation of Alan
Speaker 1: Khan developing his first couple of years there in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: So Shack's been around rookie quarterbacks before. He knows what
Speaker 1: it looks like. He's positive about the way he sees
Speaker 1: two in practice every single day. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up this podcast by hearing from coach Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: who spoke to the media this afternoon, and we'll start
Speaker 1: with coaches expectations for what tour should look like this week.
Speaker 1: His first week as a starter for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And I think he's just got to do a good
Speaker 1: job of preparent um you know throughout the week. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't like to put expectations on on on anyone.
Speaker 1: I think we just need to go out there, um
Speaker 1: really not even go out there. But you know, have
Speaker 1: a good day today, have a good meetings, have a
Speaker 1: good walk to will, have a good practice, you know,
Speaker 1: put it. Put together a good week, um, and just
Speaker 1: trying to play a good football game come Sunday afternoon
Speaker 1: and gets a good opponent. Uh to team effort. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: it won't be just two of you know, he is
Speaker 1: gonna have to do his part as far as uh,
Speaker 1: you know, communication, getting us lined up, um, you know,
Speaker 1: making good decisions. I mean we were saying specific to
Speaker 1: to tour, but you know this is anyone you know
Speaker 1: who steps on the field when we need them to
Speaker 1: do a good job or a communication. We need them
Speaker 1: to play with good fundamentals technique and we need him execute.
Speaker 1: So um, I mean we're asking of him or we
Speaker 1: would ask anyone on the steps on the field. But
Speaker 1: again he's young. There's there's um. But yeah, we we
Speaker 1: would expect him to to go out there, play with
Speaker 1: the fundamentals, technique and execute. We'll go over to the
Speaker 1: defensive side for a couple of questions on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football here for coach, starting with some
Speaker 1: injury updates on a couple of Dolphins linebackers, and Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy and Andrew Van ginkle Um. You know, just
Speaker 1: you know, speaking talking about Van Noy, I mean it's look,
Speaker 1: there's only sixteen games, so you know, we don't you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not precautionary. I don't know if that's the word
Speaker 1: out use. He couldn't go m I felt like that
Speaker 1: was the best decision for him. Uh, And you know
Speaker 1: he's doing everything he can to get back out there.
Speaker 1: Ginko not quite out of the protocol yet, but getting closer.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's doing everything he can, but you know,
Speaker 1: not officially out of the protocol yet. So he's he's uh,
Speaker 1: looks like he's he was in all weekend and doing doing, uh,
Speaker 1: trying to do everything to get back. Plenty of questions
Speaker 1: about the quarterback position. On this Monday, October Brian Flores
Speaker 1: media availability. I wanted to ask coach about a possible
Speaker 1: quarterback on the defense. I asked him if it's fair
Speaker 1: to call Bobby McCain that, and what is it about
Speaker 1: the way McCain communicates specifically that really makes him fit
Speaker 1: into this Brian Florest defense, into this program and not
Speaker 1: that safety position. Fair to say that he's he's a
Speaker 1: quarterback of the defense. He's a good communicator. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of that's uh, you know, tied into his
Speaker 1: relationships that he has with other players on the team. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, his willingness and well I would say, his uh,
Speaker 1: his his production on the field, his and just his
Speaker 1: overall uh wanting to communicate and make sure we're all
Speaker 1: on the same page. UM. I think he's taking that
Speaker 1: role on um and been successful in it. You need
Speaker 1: someone to kind of remind guys, hey, watch this, watch
Speaker 1: that it's third down, watch the sticks. You know, I
Speaker 1: think we all kind of need reminders. Um. He's he's
Speaker 1: taken on that role and and really embraced it. I
Speaker 1: would say, and let's go ahead and flip back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback on the other side of the ball, the
Speaker 1: actual quarterback on this press conference for Brian Flora's and
Speaker 1: reference a question for two of last week and his
Speaker 1: media availability about meetings on Tuesdays with Brian Flora's here's
Speaker 1: coach on those meetings. What they go over game film,
Speaker 1: practice film, all the like. Here's coach, it's game film,
Speaker 1: is practice, film is situations. He's a young player. There's
Speaker 1: a lot, We've got a lot to learn. He tries
Speaker 1: to be a sponge. Um. I think everyone you know
Speaker 1: kind of can see that, uh, players, coaches, his team,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's it's it's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: he wants to learn so as much and he wants
Speaker 1: to see it from all different aspects. So UM, I
Speaker 1: might give him a defensive aspect, he gets it from
Speaker 1: chant obviously from the offensive side of all. Yes, you know,
Speaker 1: you know defensive players, you know what things that they saw.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is um the type of kid he is,
Speaker 1: and it's a good thing. And he tries to learn
Speaker 1: as much as he can. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's you know, as a as a teacher, as a coach,
Speaker 1: I think that's you know, that's what you're looking for, UM.
Speaker 1: And I try to watch as much or as many
Speaker 1: different things as as possible. But you know, obviously you
Speaker 1: don't want to overload the kid. And I know he's
Speaker 1: getting a lot of information from a lot of different places,
Speaker 1: but our meetings are more I would say, me giving
Speaker 1: him the defensive perspective. And I think when you're as
Speaker 1: an offensive player, if you understand kind of the thought
Speaker 1: process from the other side of the ball, it can
Speaker 1: make you a better player. I know that's the case. Defensively,
Speaker 1: we can think of how they're trying to attack us offensively. So, um,
Speaker 1: that's what those those conversations you're like. And we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up the podcast on that point there
Speaker 1: from coach and you guys have heard me reference a
Speaker 1: hundred times maybe more the Move the Sticks podcast with
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks, and a while back, I
Speaker 1: think it was before this draft season, they referenced the
Speaker 1: idea of having that defensive minded coach not only benefiting
Speaker 1: you for what it does to your defense, which Dolphins
Speaker 1: eight teen point eight points per game, second rank scoring
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL, but what that can do for
Speaker 1: a young quarterback in your program, for the way you
Speaker 1: can kind of tell him, hey, here's what I think defensively,
Speaker 1: here's how we want to attack you and your your
Speaker 1: perceived weaknesses and maybe some of the vulnerabilities of that
Speaker 1: offensive call. Here's how you can react to us, to
Speaker 1: beat us where we might be weaker, where you might
Speaker 1: be strong and can attack our vulnerabilities. So a very
Speaker 1: cool balance that are to think about with Brian Flores
Speaker 1: to a Tonga Valoa. Two guys who eat, sleep and
Speaker 1: breathe up ball just there at the facility working this
Speaker 1: thing out. It's a fun thought for a Dolphins fan,
Speaker 1: I think across the entire Dolphins nation. Alright, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be it for my time today on this podcast. We'll
Speaker 1: come back and be with you guys again tomorrow for
Speaker 1: coordinators and defensive assistant coaches. Until next time, that's gonna
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