WEBVTT - Welcome to Miami Terron Armstead 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.360 To us buyers touch style by waddle stuck into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:20.160 What is up? Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.239 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.360 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:32.120 host Travis Wingfield And on today show, we have another 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:36.720 free agent signing. Tehron Armstead, formerly of the New Orleans Saints, 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:40.000 has agreed to a deal with the Miami Dolphins. We're 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.280 gonna talk to Tehron on this podcast. We're also going 0:00:42.320 --> 0:00:45.479 to get into his stats, his data, the advanced metrics, 0:00:45.520 --> 0:00:48.760 all the fun stuff that he has accomplished over the 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:53.320 course of a brilliant, brilliant nine year career. All of 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.200 that and the whole heck of a lot more from 0:00:55.240 --> 0:00:58.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:07.200 This is the Drive Time Podcast. To Ron Armstead, the 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.360 number one ranked player on Pro Football Focus, is best 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:13.760 player available free agent list, and the number four overall 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:17.080 player on NFL dot Com before the franchise tags. He 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.000 became the number one player after those went down, so 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.640 the overall consensus number one player available from Pro Football 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.320 Focus NFL dot com. To Ron Armstead is a Miami 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.040 Dolphin three time Pro bowler, giving the Dolphins pffs top 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.240 ranked free agent tackle less than a week after adding 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.680 the third ranked guard on Pro Football Focuses list and 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:41.200 number thirty one overall and Connor Williams. Here are a 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.280 couple of things to look at with to Ron Armstead, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.679 because there are a lot We're gonna play some audio 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.880 here from to Ron himself obviously, but also from some 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.400 instructional videos and different clinics he has done with the 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.600 offensive line masterminds and Duke manny Weather, and there's so 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.160 much good content out there on this guy. Can't wait 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:00.040 to bring it to you. Guys. Let's go ahead and 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.440 jump right in first up here. Nine year career. Over 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.480 those nine years, just a hundred and forty three quarterback 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.280 pressures and twenty four sacks from Pro Football Focus on 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:14.600 three thousand, eight hundred twenty nine pass blocking snaps. That's 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.959 a three point seven percent pressure rate and a point 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.959 six percent sack rate, both of those figures best among 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:30.080 all NFL tackles. Between those numbers landed Armstead eight swon 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.760 on Pro Football Focus is top one dred and one 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:36.640 players of the decade for and during that decade, only 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.040 Cleveland's Joe Thomas and Andrew Whitworth of the Rams and 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.920 Bengals surrendered pressure late rates at a lower rate than 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.520 the four point one percent granted by Armstead. So you 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.720 hear a difference in those two numbers. Those last two 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.640 seasons project a Whitworth light trajectory into his late thirties 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:58.160 because the aforementioned pressure number, ranking third among tackles for 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.320 the decade, has been reduce used by point four percent 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.120 over the last two seasons. Armstead's played ninety seven career games, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:08.320 he started ninety three of them, being an offensive stalwart 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.880 for the Saints for a long long time that produced 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.240 division titles, deep playoff runs, and numerous top five offensive 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.799 attacks in his time there with the Saints. The Saints 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:22.000 finished no worse than fifth and points scored between two 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:26.440 thousand sixteen two thousand twenty. Over that spam, Armstead anchored 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.520 the left edge for fifty six games while surrendering just 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:33.280 seventies six quarterback pressures. That's a rate of one point 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:36.040 three six pressures allowed per game. That's the best among 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.360 all tackles over that five year spam and after playing 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.480 on an offense that finished top three in passing each 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.720 of his first four years in the National Football League, 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:49.200 Armstead also blocks for a three top six rushing offenses 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.760 over the last five years. He's done everything in this 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:56.200 league so far. He's also revered by his peers and 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.760 by film gurus alike. How about former Super Bowl champion 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.280 and Old bawlguard Shawn O'Hara, who had quite the monologue 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.120 last week on Good Morning Football talking about who he 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:09.360 believed was the top free agent available into Ron Armstead. 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.080 Let's go ahead and play that audio. When you say 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.200 monster from one monster to to another in Toront Armstead, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.360 that's a term of endearment coming from you like that. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.080 I think when you look at torontarms said on the show, 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.400 he's such a nice guy. And and you know, the 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.920 other day I called him Mr T and I feel 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:28.040 like he is Mr T. And on Sundays he turns 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.240 into Clumber Lane. And right now, when you say, what's 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.000 the prediction for this game? And I think when you 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.560 look at that, look at Toron, say, he's not just 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.840 blocking defensive ends, He's mauling them like Clumber Lane did 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.880 to Rocky Balboa. All right, here he is as a 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.240 left tackle right here. Okay, this is gonna be a twist. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.839 All right, this is gonna be an e t twist. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.039 He meaning the end goes first tackles the looper. Now, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.240 as a tackle in the guard, it's always about, Hey, 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.520 you've got to shut off the penetrator, pass him off 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.960 to your guard, and then wait for the looper toron 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.200 arms and says, look, I'm gonna handle this by myself. 0:05:01.240 --> 0:05:03.480 All right, I'm pity the fool they're trying to run 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.880 a stunt on me. Look what he does to Benson 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:11.680 Maoia right here, the defensive end, I mean, just told him. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:13.560 You want to talk about Monster's ball right here? Look 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.240 at him, just ragged him, throw him on the ground. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:17.720 They didn't even bother to block the defensive tackle that's 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.560 looping around because he's just too busy toying with this 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.560 defensive end. Look, I mean, that's a grown man. This 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.680 is the NFL, right here. This is not like, hey, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:28.240 Division one Double A going up against some B squad 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:31.120 right here. All right, how about in the run game, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.960 let's talk about moving people at the point of attack. 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:37.880 I want you to watch him. He's on the back 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.720 side of his play right here, but Alviut Camara cuts 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.200 it back and look, you know what Mr t has 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:44.720 right here. He's got what I call a coupon. He's 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.839 got a two for one. He's gonna block two guys 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.560 on this. Look at what he does on the back 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.720 side of his play, basically three guys right there. He's 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.880 gotta buy two get one free coupon to go along 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.760 with that. I mean, look at that that wall right here, 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.840 that Toronto Armstead creative for Alvin Camarre. Okay, you can 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.000 run through that hole right there. I mean that's a 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.400 lot of green right there. Ron Armstead on the back 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.880 side of that play. I know you, I know you're quick. 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.200 You've got a great burst screen acceleration. All right, So 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:15.279 let's go on to the third play right here. Remember 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.400 that touchdown, that six game touchdown alvi Camara hand on 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.080 Christmas Day. This is a big part of it right here. Now, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.600 this defensive end right here is in a k M 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.359 A technique right now, which stands for kick my rror. 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.960 On St. Patrick's Day, we can say that look at 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.120 the movement right here. He gets on this defense event 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:32.800 and I want you to watch the finish right here. Watch. 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.440 I mean this is going belly to belly sup lex 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:38.080 right here, and this defensive end right now is on 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.080 one leg. He is until right here and Tehron is 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.039 taking up for a ride on the Armstead train. And 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:46.239 look at this. I mean you want to talk about 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.680 posterizing a defensive end for offensive linement. This is the 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:53.480 epitome of Scottie Pippen dunking on Patrick Ewing right here 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.080 posterizing the defensive end. I think he took his helmet 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:57.800 off right there so that he gets smile to the 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.359 fans and let everybody know what he's just into that 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:05.320 Vikings defensive endge Ron Armstead. Look, he is super athletic. 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:07.680 Everybody remembers him running a four seven one still the 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:11.280 fastest time at the combine from an offensive linement. His 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:15.800 athleticism is only outdone by how physical he actually is. 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.840 He's got great feet, but you could see the strength 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.600 and the power right there. Look, Toront Armstead still out there. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.679 If you are a team that is struggling to protect 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:29.239 your quarterback, where you want an injection of run game brutality, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.360 This is the guy that will bring it home. I look, 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.960 I would love for my gma to bring him in, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.760 but he's he's out there okay, and I'm sure you'll 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.480 be out there much longer. So there you go. I'm 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:38.960 not gonna be out there much longer. He was not. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.200 He is now a Miami Dolphin. Again. That's Good Morning Football. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.000 You can watch that week days, every single day, Monday 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.400 through Friday on the NFL Network. So we're gonna have 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.320 a bunch of video clip I'm gonna put with guys 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.200 that I've are from folks. I have found clips of 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.840 Toron Armstead doing some of the stuff Shanahara talked about 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:58.720 their Brandon Thorne as well as Ben Finel, Fennel and 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.480 Brian Baldinger. Plenty of guys putting great content out there 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.040 with all the work this guy's this guy does, and 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:08.560 Brandon Thorne, who owns the Trench Warfare news stack and 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.440 has a podcast that's really good about offensive line play. 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.400 He says that Tehran Armstead has PhD level tackle play here. 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.240 That's how he describes the abilities that really serve in 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:23.240 dual functionality. Not only does Armstead's mastery of the craft 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.320 make him one of the NFL's sturdiest offensive lineman. It 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:31.400 has that ripple effect and augmenting other players across the 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.199 offensive line, like you heard O'Hara talk about there with 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.720 some of those stunts in games he picked up helping 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.760 clear out too defensive lineman on a cutback run by 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.920 Alvin Kamara to spring him for a big run. Not 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.480 only is he easing the load of the left guard 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.200 next to him, he's taking pressure off the opposite side 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.400 of the offensive line. Where there's a clip that I'm 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.600 gonna share with you guys on Twitter by Duke manny 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.120 Weather at Big Duke fifty where he comes all the 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.760 way across the formation and picks up an overload blitz 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.679 from the right side of the offensive line. He comes 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.800 all the way over the vision, the awareness, the understanding 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.680 of the rush scheme of the defense and how to 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.520 get there, the athletic ability to get there, that's only 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.040 going to help the entire offensive line play better football. 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:16.520 And then from there, the ability to slide protection like okay, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.880 let's go ahead and get their best pass rusher out 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.800 there isolate Armstead, slide everybody else over and double and 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.600 help and chip and help pick up the overload pressure 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.800 they might throw, and you can let to Ron Arms 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:29.680 that go out there and block the other team's best 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.400 because he's capable of doing that, and you can still 0:09:32.440 --> 0:09:34.800 count on him to lock that down to come across 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.520 the formation pick up the overload blitz. That's the PhD 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.360 level comparison that you're talking about there. Speaking of helping 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.600 his teammates, just ask the guards who have played alongside 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.160 to Ron Armstead. Jerry Evans made back to back Pro 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.840 Bowls in his first in Armstead's first two seasons, but 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:52.000 to be fair, Evans was already a four time Pro 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:55.839 bowler prior to Armstead's arrival. But then the Saints needed 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.719 to replace Evans when he hung up his cleats. Enter 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.319 Larry Warford, who didn't coproble his first four years in 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.560 the NFL, each with the Detroit Lions. Then he comes 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.800 to New Orleans. What does he do? Three straight years 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.360 three straight Pro Bowl seventeen nineteen, never missing the All 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.240 Star Game in those three years. In the second year 0:10:13.280 --> 0:10:16.680 of Warford's tenure in New Orleans, their other guard, Andrew's Pete, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.800 became the next man in the middle to earn a 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:23.360 Pro Bowl nod in three consecutive seasons through and then 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:26.480 finally the other book nd Ryan Ramcheck was drafted was 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:29.760 great right away. Wasn't a Pro Bowl selection his sophomore season, 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:32.960 but he was voted to a p All Pro second team, 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.560 which is a better distinction in my opinion. So Armstead 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:38.120 and ram Check combined for the fewest pressures allowed per 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:42.120 pass blocking rep of any tackle that year. Ineen, and 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.880 you heard O'Hara talk about the four which still stands 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.600 as the best forty yard dash time from an offensive 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.959 tackle in NFL history. Look, elite physical traits are always 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.200 gonna get a player's foot in the door. Perhaps it 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.679 was that skill set that got Armstead on the NFL's radar. 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.400 His four seven one forty yard dash the asked us 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.960 ever by a tackle remains that way going back, and 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:07.000 the entirety of Armstead's workout put him in rarefied air. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.000 From a physical standpoint nine point five eight ranks twenty 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.600 second all time on the Relative Athletics scorecard, that, of course, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.360 is the cumulative combined workout scorecard, twenty second all time 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:22.439 of over sevent offensive tackles. The movement skills make him 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:24.640 a match made in heaven for his own scheme that 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.680 asks you to get out wide, get out in space, 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:29.720 and inflict that will off the edge. And he also 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:34.200 pairs those eye popping physical traits with a true mastery 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.319 of the game. Again, his ability to mix up his sets. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.440 You'll see these videos I post on Twitter, and the 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.320 punches he throws in pass pro it can derail even 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.559 the best pass rushers the entire National Football League has 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:47.800 to offer. He has this way of drawing out the 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:51.040 oppositions move early in the in the rep, which gives 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.120 him the advantage even if his quick set or his 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.600 quick his shorten the distance set puts him at a 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:01.160 momentary disadvantage. His ability to mix up his set and 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.600 shorten those angles is achievable without consequence because of the 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.040 balance and smoothweight transfer and the typewriter feat he has. 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.360 Man go, there's a clip I put out there of 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:11.840 him in practice where he's just working against a Patriots 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.200 pass rusher and joint practices and the feet. Man, it's 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.560 it's like Laramie Tunsel was when he was when he 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.640 was coming out. It's it's better than that. It's really 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.480 really good. And you just watch his consistent hand placement. 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.679 To me, it's like watching I told you guys, I 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.760 was really into solo climbing a few months ago on 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.320 Netflix in the different documentaries, it reminds me of a 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.480 solo climber. Once those hands click in and they engage, 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.040 they click into place, it's onto the next rep because 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.160 his grip strength is so good he's not going to 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:42.360 get beat from there. Finally, the mentorship and advocacy for 0:12:42.600 --> 0:12:46.560 HBC use historically black colleges and universities because Armstead nine 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.040 years of pro came out of Arkansas Pine Bluff. There 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.160 was a great clip of him talking to Cameron Wolf. 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.200 We all know Cam with the NFL Network does great 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:55.360 work for them, and here in Miami. He had a 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:59.719 great interview with Toron Armstead talking about his origins and 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:01.920 give thing back to the players that were trying to 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.480 follow his footsteps. He said, I dedicate a lot of 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.640 my success and makeup of who I am or who 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:08.439 have become as a man and as a player to 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.959 my experience in Arkansas Pine Bluff being that HBCU player 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.680 that kind of get out of the mud mentality. So 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:16.439 coming to the NFL, just having that chip on my 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.559 shoulder of being a small school guy and then he 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.199 also talked about the mentorship of the younger guys. Quote. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.880 I sat with a large amount of players yesterday for 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.439 about an hour and a half, and we talked about finances, 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:29.320 we talked career, we talked everything. It was great. Those 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:31.840 guys were so locked in. I think they clenched onto 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.880 every word. It was an amazing time. End quote. How 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.120 about in Miami, Armstead joins the Miami offensive line room 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.520 with an average age of twenty four point six years old. 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.520 In addition to his on field performance, the wealth of 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.800 wisdom that arms said has to offer a young line, 0:13:45.840 --> 0:13:49.199 a line that started five players in week Gate team 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:51.720 last year that season finale went over, the Patriots started 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.560 five players who were either drafted or undrafted, acquired within 0:13:55.600 --> 0:13:59.800 the last three years through the draft through college in 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.160 a victory. It's quantifiable the amount of experience and wealth 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.240 that he can inflict or in part I should say 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.400 on the rest of the offensive line and whether with 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.960 NFL teammates are mentoring college players looking to follow his 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:13.520 career path. The book on Armstead's character, it's just it 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.360 remains untarnished compared to what I've seen out there. I mean, 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.280 here's a great quote Torn arms that exemplifies everything that 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.160 is great about HBCUs. We thank him for his generous 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.160 support and commitment. That was Doug Williams Super Bowl twenty 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.520 two m VP. So tons of good stuff. Let's go 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.400 ahead and take our first break here on this edition 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.480 of the Drivetime Podcast, the Tahrn Armstead. Welcome to Miami 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.600 edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Next, I want to play 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.880 some clips I found from those offensive line masterminds, clinics 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.400 and all the stuff he offers. And then the third segment, 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:43.400 we're gonna get the big fellow on the podcast. Here 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.360 to Ron Armstead joining us on Drivetime. Coming up next 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:51.720 with Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. So 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.400 we talked about in the opening segment there the impact 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:57.840 that Torn Armstead could have on younger players on the 0:14:57.920 --> 0:15:00.600 offensive line and the work he does with Duke manny 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.760 Weather and the offensive line masterminds. Here's what Duke manny 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.480 Weather tweeted about the Dolphins addition of Torn Armstead. The 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.760 Dolphins just got a culture changer that can do it 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.880 all in the past, protection and the run game, but 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.000 we'll also bring the young guys along with him. And 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.280 because of that, you win games because of Tahrn Armstead, 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.240 very very high praise. They're from, in my opinion, the 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.240 best offensive line mind out there right now outside of 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.040 the game itself. The guy on the outside that doesn't 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.840 work with these guys and gets these young guys ready. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.000 Duke Manu weathers as good as it gets. Let's go 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.400 ahead and hear this one minute clip of Armstead addressing 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:34.840 people or that the the offensive talent as well as 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:38.320 coaches and and scouts alike at the offensive line masterminds 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.120 clinic urt yourself to lane to gay on my salf 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.000 train is great to had account. But the whole thing 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:46.960 about development, it's fun in that the blueprint is out there, 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.040 all the families, every technique is out there. Just stop 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.360 a role out of stuff there. Everything evolves and development plint. 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.480 Once you put like I watched the train and I 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.160 take something from training. I watch Ja Jason Peter jumpson. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.200 I feel like mutasames of my camp. So I took 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:04.720 his jump set. I watched Tweran like its forty five 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.480 degree set. It's consistent, is the same. He squeared he's 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.440 strong at his base, so I took that from him. 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.520 I can say nothing from we work well. He's building 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.000 when he played, it's not it's not my comp So 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.200 just building that that whole and then I found my 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.680 my game. But then all those players, like people that's 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.720 been doing it well for a long time, all my 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:26.840 young guys in New Orleans, I make them do that, 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.480 like watch them take two guys, write them up to 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.560 see how it compares, what do you do well, and 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.400 try to implement it. Given out homework to the young 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.600 guys there are in New Orleans. I love that thought 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.920 process of finding guys that have similar skill sets and 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:42.080 similar traits as you and then find a way to 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.560 implement what they do well into your game. That's great 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.600 stuff there from Toronto Armstead. And then you know Duke 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:48.360 many Weather talks about the impact you can have in 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.040 the young guys. You hear it right there. Let's go 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.440 back to the offensive masterminds here in a post that 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.120 Duke manny Weather put up back in teen talking about 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:58.600 when you really deep dive into the thought process and 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:02.080 the mental of very slash elite players, you find that 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.280 they have mastered the fundamentals which allows them to see 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.720 and do things differently than most. Here's to run Armstead 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:12.159 talking about that an offensive line masterminds back in. That's 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.280 that's the biggest that's the biggest key to the whole 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.960 things is to to get there under control. I'm more 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:23.520 comfortable with a type five, So regards where he originally 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:28.960 lines up, I want them earned him. Duke started the 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:30.840 type of this is this is my compass on the 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:32.400 right here, and I can get my hands on them. 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:35.840 Now we started that line. I'm gonna take the necessary 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.760 footwork to get him mad to this type. And it's 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.000 all about the small steps to be a show. So 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:46.080 get go back. I just beauties when I gotta come. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.960 You know, he does a big, small level, big conso 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.920 with the right, but by the time to get back, 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.080 he's back in his big He just turned that one 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.440 too far. He's up in front of the class teaching 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.879 them about how to how to attack different techniques and 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.359 different leverages, how to shorten a nine technique into a 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:07.639 five technique by your footwork and coming in under control again. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:11.000 Just a guy that's gonna serve in so many positive ways, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:12.639 both on the field, but also on the way he 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.440 coaches and the way he sees things and the way 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.679 he gets guys prepared. Going to be a big asset 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.680 there to Frank Smith, to Matt apple Bomb, to Mike McDaniels, 0:18:19.680 --> 0:18:22.240 to the entire offensive line and the entire offense. Just 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.479 the way this guy works, it's such a big impact. 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.119 And you can get a guy like that into your building. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.000 So to Ron Armstead here in Miami, let's go ahead 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.159 and hear him talking about bringing the hands in the 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.120 running game and the and the power of your hands 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:37.399 as an offensive lineman to help dictate reps um with 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:46.359 staring and staring with a strong, sane man against both 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:55.000 of them. He just understood the letters. Where how did 0:18:55.040 --> 0:19:00.280 you guys? Uh? He always telling from you buck my 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.280 hands and running can get his hands in a lot 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.840 of time, no under but as he worked his speed. 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.880 He's president. He's president. And again it's like a guy 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:12.240 he one way. So you get a guy that would 0:19:12.280 --> 0:19:19.440 be and reached many time he accelerated into the ground. Yeah, 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.239 So I don't put you about the hands and run 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.359 game president a lot and back especially outside if you 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.800 gotta be ship running understanding the bass from the club, 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:34.119 he's got to go back face having a lot that 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.760 lot it is, I won't be impressively. Don't forget about 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:41.200 your hands in the running game was the message there again, 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.040 I'm not gonna play all these for you guys. There 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.600 are so many of them. He's just he's made his 0:19:45.760 --> 0:19:48.480 rounds on social media because he has so many impressive clips, 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:52.080 both as a mentor, as a teacher, but especially and 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.880 more importantly as a player on the field. Man, he's 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:57.160 so impressive. I can't wait any more to get him 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:58.680 on here. I'm sure you guys are sick of hair 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:00.800 and me talk and you want to hear to Ron himself. 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:02.680 Let's go ahead and do that. Take our last break 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.440 here on the torn Arms and edition of the Drivetime podcast. 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.720 Welcome to Miami, Big fella, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.720 What's up? Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here, the host of the 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:15.000 Drift Time Podcast, and I am joined today by new 0:20:15.040 --> 0:20:18.160 Dolphins offensive tackle to Ron Armstead. To Ron, what's going on? Man? 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:21.320