Speaker 1: Practice Rolphins Patricks touchdown. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and every day.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday. 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 continue preparations for the Patriots and roster cut down
Speaker 1: day coming up on Saturday. We have to get down
Speaker 1: to fifty three and sixty nine in total if you
Speaker 1: include the practice squad extended rosters. This year, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are back on the practice fields the wool here from
Speaker 1: coach Flora's and another trio of Dolphins players. Plus I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you my top five newcomer performers of Dolphins
Speaker 1: training camp. All of that and more on this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: September the first edition of the Drive Time Podcast, and
Speaker 1: we'll jump into Brian Flores is Tuesday morning. Media availability
Speaker 1: here in just one moment, But first, some roster news
Speaker 1: to get too off the top. Yesterday, the Dolphins announced
Speaker 1: the release of linebacker James Crawford and in his place
Speaker 1: on the roster a familiar face, nice rhyme and wide
Speaker 1: receiver Andy Jones. Jones is back after two prior stints
Speaker 1: with the team as he attempts to carve out a
Speaker 1: role on this Dolphins football team. In as we are
Speaker 1: just twelve days away from the season opener, and speaking
Speaker 1: of being twelve days away, I feel like the closer
Speaker 1: we get to actual football games, you're gonna see more
Speaker 1: of Coach's personality comes out. Because this guy is all football.
Speaker 1: It's all he's known his entire life. He just loves
Speaker 1: the game. He was all smiles, all jokes, and all
Speaker 1: laughing during his Tuesday morning media availability, busting the chops
Speaker 1: of guys like Cam Wolf and Joe Schad and like
Speaker 1: you and I, it just seems like the excitable meter
Speaker 1: gets cranked up a couple of are notches with games
Speaker 1: and the forecast with coach Flora's And with that, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with a general evaluation of this
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie class from coach himself. Yeah, I think given
Speaker 1: a situation, I think they've they've worked hard, they've improved
Speaker 1: over the course of training camp. But you know, the
Speaker 1: big thing with the rookies, you know, on our team
Speaker 1: and really across the league is without you never really
Speaker 1: know about a player until there's live action. Um, some
Speaker 1: guys get tight when it's live actions. Some guys play
Speaker 1: better when there's live actions. So you just don't if
Speaker 1: it's hard to know, so that we're gonna go into
Speaker 1: the unknown. Uh this season. Um, you know a little
Speaker 1: bit more in the preseason, but even that isn't a
Speaker 1: regular season game, you know. I think you know, I'm
Speaker 1: pleased with our rookie class, all of them really, you know,
Speaker 1: from the guys who we drafted early to the undrafted guys.
Speaker 1: I think they're all working hard. I think they're all
Speaker 1: they're all bought in. But um, there's a there's a
Speaker 1: lot of unknown here. Uh. As you guys can imagine,
Speaker 1: there's you know, playing and NFL game. It's this is
Speaker 1: the speed of it, the pressure that's involved in playing
Speaker 1: in the game. The players are playing against me. He's
Speaker 1: guys are big, the physical, they're strong, they're they're tough,
Speaker 1: they're they're angry. So when you get and put in
Speaker 1: that situation, pressure bus pipes is a phrase that's been
Speaker 1: used and used for a long time and we'll see
Speaker 1: and it's it's not just that that's every team. And
Speaker 1: I'm one of the few people that probably actually really
Speaker 1: enjoys the preseason. For me, it's like the ultimate evaluation
Speaker 1: opportunity for someone that just enjoys taking a look at
Speaker 1: how football players perform and how you can project their
Speaker 1: performance into the regular season. And I've always kind of
Speaker 1: found it fastening to discover which players performances in the
Speaker 1: preseason actually stick as legitimate looks into what they could
Speaker 1: be in the future. Like I always go back to
Speaker 1: Victor Cruz of the New York Giants from like two
Speaker 1: thousand eight or whatever year that was when he kind
Speaker 1: of broke out and Rex Ryan had the famous Hard
Speaker 1: Knocks scene saying, who the hell is number three? Can
Speaker 1: we stop down for three? That was the greatest example
Speaker 1: of a guy that really made a name for himself
Speaker 1: in the preseason across the league for my money. But
Speaker 1: it also works the opposite way. Like last year, for instance,
Speaker 1: I recalled Nick Needham having a tough preseason, and here
Speaker 1: he was in Week six contributing to the Dolphins football
Speaker 1: team in a rookie season as an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1: So like Flora says, you don't really know until you know,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna find out in twelve days opening day
Speaker 1: up in New England. Up next, coach was asked we
Speaker 1: value with the offensive line and what goes into the
Speaker 1: decision to pick five guys to start and when we'll
Speaker 1: know who goes five? Might be everything you mentioned goes
Speaker 1: into the decision and conditioning, best, best overall, But I
Speaker 1: would say, you know the number one things, the the
Speaker 1: overall group. Um, we're talking about five guys. We need
Speaker 1: to get on the same page from a communication standpoint,
Speaker 1: and I think you know, the three rookies Austin, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: Simon Kinley all played well at times during training camps
Speaker 1: have all made mistakes as well, So you know, these
Speaker 1: are tough decisions that we have to make. And look,
Speaker 1: things change over the courses season, you know, like I
Speaker 1: was telling Josh earlier, we may feel a certain way
Speaker 1: now put a group out there, and look if a
Speaker 1: player freezes up and we gotta make an adjustment. I
Speaker 1: think we all we all know that. So um, but
Speaker 1: I like where they're they're at. I think they're all working.
Speaker 1: You know, we're still in a little bit of an
Speaker 1: evaluation phase here, UM got a practice today, UM, a
Speaker 1: couple of practice later in the week, So no official
Speaker 1: decisions have been made, and honestly, you guys will probably
Speaker 1: want know till opening day. So and we did here
Speaker 1: coach last week talk about the possibility of using rotations
Speaker 1: and trying to find ways to get guys up to speed,
Speaker 1: conditioning wise in a season where they might not be
Speaker 1: ready to play sixty or seventy snaps from the jump
Speaker 1: in their first game. So interesting decisions that have been
Speaker 1: made all across the National Football League in the strange,
Speaker 1: strange year heading into the weirdest week one we have
Speaker 1: ever seen as far as the off season and lack
Speaker 1: of preseason goes here in the National Football League. Up next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked a two parter. First up the land
Speaker 1: and Roberts he played some fullback year in New England.
Speaker 1: Is that on the table? And Coach also divulge his
Speaker 1: thoughts on the quarterback room with Fitzpatrick to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Byloa and Josh Rosen. Obviously, Atlant has played full
Speaker 1: back in the past and look he's he's someone who's
Speaker 1: willing to play wherever we We asked him to play. Um,
Speaker 1: but we got a lot of guys that way, so
Speaker 1: it's definitely a possibility. You know, it's not something that
Speaker 1: we're gonna make any definitive decision on right now. Um,
Speaker 1: we've still got twelve days. So that's where we're at,
Speaker 1: where they land in. UM, as far as two A Rosen,
Speaker 1: you know, and might as well throw Fitzpatrick in there
Speaker 1: as well. UM, that's still a lot of competition at
Speaker 1: that position. So you know, we're not saying somebody's one,
Speaker 1: two three. It's still a competition. UM. And Uh, obviously
Speaker 1: fitz has played well. Uh, you know, they've all played
Speaker 1: well in spurts and they've all made mistakes. Still got
Speaker 1: a few days here. I think that, you know, we
Speaker 1: like where all three of them are, and we will
Speaker 1: continue to leave that as a competition moving forward. Up next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked to talk about the roster and how
Speaker 1: he feels about who the top fifty three might be
Speaker 1: for now, who the top sixty nine might be on
Speaker 1: the practice squad as we have an extended practice squad
Speaker 1: for this season. Here's Coach talking about how he views
Speaker 1: the roster at this point in time. On September one, again,
Speaker 1: twelve days away from the open era. So in the
Speaker 1: fifty three, I mean, look, we've got, you know, a
Speaker 1: lot of competition on this team, various positions. So I
Speaker 1: mean it's probably let's call it sixty players vying that
Speaker 1: you know, we feel good about, you know, to include
Speaker 1: and probably a little bit more than that when you
Speaker 1: when you start talking about practice squad spots as well,
Speaker 1: they're being sixteen um practice squad spots this season. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of I think we got some some
Speaker 1: talented players, some guys we can develop. So as far
Speaker 1: as forecasting, you know what, who the best players are,
Speaker 1: who the guys we think can develop? You know that
Speaker 1: that becomes a little bit of a a longer conversation
Speaker 1: we say, at least camp Um. As far as who
Speaker 1: the fifty three are, UM, I kind of look at
Speaker 1: it is who the sixty nine are to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, UM, and you know we're gonna have to
Speaker 1: release some of those guys and hope that we get
Speaker 1: them back so on the practice squad. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I've got a pretty good, you know, the idea
Speaker 1: of who the that's called sixty nine players are. The
Speaker 1: next question was QB one when would we like to know?
Speaker 1: Um as soon as possible. When you guys know, probably
Speaker 1: as late as as possible, is you know where I'll
Speaker 1: leave it. So you've got to get this thing down
Speaker 1: to sixty nine players and then from there, of course,
Speaker 1: you can always lose guys that you release and try
Speaker 1: to get them back on the practice squad if they
Speaker 1: clear waivers twenty four hours later. So start thinking of
Speaker 1: your list, start making your predictions who might be on
Speaker 1: this roster come opening day. We have plenty of decisions
Speaker 1: to be made from the coaching staff and the like.
Speaker 1: Here at Dolphins training camp. Up next, coach was asked
Speaker 1: about the possibility of the injury that to a tongue
Speaker 1: Boloa suffered back last October. How much of an impact
Speaker 1: that could have on the decision to who was active
Speaker 1: on opening Day at that quarterback position. Here is coach
Speaker 1: talking about tongue, about Lowe's injury and the quarterback spot
Speaker 1: in general for opening day. That is definitely part of
Speaker 1: the conversation for sure. I mean, I think you know,
Speaker 1: we're at ten months. It was a pretty serious injury.
Speaker 1: Uh he looks good, though, I mean, you guys have
Speaker 1: seen him. Uh, he looks good. He looks healthy. He's
Speaker 1: moving around to his right, to his left. But yes,
Speaker 1: that's that's that's part of the conversation. He's a great kid.
Speaker 1: I care about him, you know, I want what's best
Speaker 1: for him. Um, And that's definitely part of the conversation.
Speaker 1: And we start with the quarterbacks there and end on
Speaker 1: this Brian Flores Tuesday morning media availability with the guys
Speaker 1: that catch the passes from the quarterbacks as coach kind
Speaker 1: of evaluates his wide receiver room here so far through
Speaker 1: training camp and again twelve days away until the season opener.
Speaker 1: You know, guys like Ford, Hollands, Rogers obviously you too.
Speaker 1: You mentioned Davante and Preston and Jakin. I think they're
Speaker 1: all I like the that they're all working. Um, they
Speaker 1: all understand kind of their role in the offense. You know,
Speaker 1: malcom Parry's part of that as well. They all have different,
Speaker 1: uh and unique um skill sets. So I liked it that,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think you know they're rolling the
Speaker 1: kicking game, Will Will Will. We'll also play a role
Speaker 1: in you know, that evaluation, whether it's Chime as a
Speaker 1: point return er, mccollins as a gunner. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Perry, you know, in his roles as a point
Speaker 1: return or as a peeping upon. Isaiah Ford, you know,
Speaker 1: who can move around and play multiple positions. Um. I
Speaker 1: like the depth. It's it's a hard working group. You know,
Speaker 1: they all block. It's important to him. And so there
Speaker 1: goes coach for his Tuesday morning media availability. We just
Speaker 1: got back off the practice field taking a look at
Speaker 1: the Dolphins getting loose in the early portions of practice,
Speaker 1: and as we are about to get some players here
Speaker 1: for their availabilities on this Tuesday afternoon. Again, just twelve
Speaker 1: days away from the regular season. I feel like I've
Speaker 1: said that twelve times on this podcast, but I can't
Speaker 1: believe it's already September one. We talked about it on
Speaker 1: the podcast yesterday, how this just kind of snuck up
Speaker 1: on us, without the benefit of the preseason, without a
Speaker 1: full training camp, without all the O, T A. S.
Speaker 1: It just feels like I saw this on I think
Speaker 1: it was Mark Sessler of the NFL Network on his
Speaker 1: Twitter he mentioned that his body clock right now feels
Speaker 1: like it's still June four because we're just getting back
Speaker 1: into the football mood of things, so to speak. And
Speaker 1: I'm with him. It feels like we still have a
Speaker 1: long way to go before the season, but just twelve
Speaker 1: days away. And speaking of the NFL network, I think
Speaker 1: I have to mention it here on the podcast made
Speaker 1: my national television debut on Monday. A little bit of
Speaker 1: nerves going into it, but for the most part, new
Speaker 1: that I had multiple takes to get it done. Flobbed
Speaker 1: a couple of takes to the guy who honked on
Speaker 1: the third take, which was going very very well, sir,
Speaker 1: I'm not your biggest fan. I don't appreciate that we
Speaker 1: had to do about four more takes after that, but hey,
Speaker 1: it's all good. We got done, we got taken care of,
Speaker 1: and I love and appreciate all the support we got
Speaker 1: on social media. I didn't see a negative comment out there,
Speaker 1: which is so rare to see that. So all the
Speaker 1: love and support you guys continue to give me for
Speaker 1: the podcast, for the video work, for the written content.
Speaker 1: I'm just in a place right now in my life
Speaker 1: where I cannot be happier. The only thing that would
Speaker 1: make me happier is if my wife and my daughter
Speaker 1: were down here with me in South Florida. They are
Speaker 1: still back home and say to Washington. I missed them
Speaker 1: like crazy every single day. But from a professional standpoint, man,
Speaker 1: you work hard enough at something, and you want something enough,
Speaker 1: and you take enough pride and enough joy and something,
Speaker 1: I really do believe that you can accomplish pretty much anything. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I was never gonna be able to accomplish being an
Speaker 1: NFL wide receiver because five ft ten and sixty pound
Speaker 1: guys just don't cut it at that spot in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. But if there's something within your capabilities
Speaker 1: of your talent level, that I think you should pursue
Speaker 1: it as hard as you possibly can, because that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the message I tell my kids one day, if
Speaker 1: you work hard enough, you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And uh, it's it's just I couldn't be more were
Speaker 1: thrilled and more grateful for the Miami Dolphins and really
Speaker 1: helping me, you know, achieve my dreams and achieve where
Speaker 1: I want to go. And that's not to say that
Speaker 1: we're necessarily done here, because you always should be reaching
Speaker 1: for something higher and setting new goals too. So I've
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, re shaped my goals going forward.
Speaker 1: I think that the four or five years ago I
Speaker 1: talked to my wife about wanting to be a college graduate,
Speaker 1: wanting to work in the National Football League. Both of
Speaker 1: those two things have been accomplished, So time to set
Speaker 1: new goals and develop that next sort of five year plan,
Speaker 1: so to speak, and and hopefully it's something here with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins and staying in this organization, because so
Speaker 1: far I've been here with the team virtually for six
Speaker 1: months and in person six months in total. I was
Speaker 1: hired at the end of February and it's been just
Speaker 1: nothing but great since then. And then when I got
Speaker 1: down here in August, my goodness, it's just I mean,
Speaker 1: being here every day, being on campus, I just couldn't
Speaker 1: ask for more. So super appreciative all the folks that
Speaker 1: gave me an opportunity along the way and the ones
Speaker 1: that put me in this position, and of course all
Speaker 1: of you guys out there, the fans and the support,
Speaker 1: I mean, the support of social media and kind of
Speaker 1: having a recognizable name on there. I mean that that
Speaker 1: has to go a long way in the eyes of
Speaker 1: decision makers because you want to bring someone that has
Speaker 1: an audience built in, and I've certainly had that. So again,
Speaker 1: just so grateful for everybody, Super super appreciative of that. Now,
Speaker 1: I built up a segment idea here based on the
Speaker 1: most prevalent comment I saw on that NFL Network hit
Speaker 1: as we filmed that right outside the Dolphins facility. Now,
Speaker 1: in a typical year, I think you can shoot on
Speaker 1: the field. I'm sure we'd have the NFL network guys
Speaker 1: out on the field. As again, the NFL continues to
Speaker 1: take all the precautions necessary to make this season go off.
Speaker 1: And again to that note right there, I mean the
Speaker 1: number of positive cases right now across so many tests
Speaker 1: among the National Football League. It's just it's been so
Speaker 1: impressive the way they've handled this so far. So it's
Speaker 1: great to see football kind of trending in that positive
Speaker 1: direction to get to the season and to have games
Speaker 1: and to really help us just hopefully finally pushed beyond
Speaker 1: this whole COVID nineteen coronavirus thing, because it's a strange, strange,
Speaker 1: weird year, and I do think the return of the
Speaker 1: National Football that is going to help tremendously in terms
Speaker 1: of people's just psyches and people's well being because it
Speaker 1: does bring back a sense of normalcy when you have
Speaker 1: football on your TV on Sundays in the fall. Nothing,
Speaker 1: nothing for me, is better than that. But to go
Speaker 1: back to this kind of long speech here, so to speak,
Speaker 1: one of the comments I saw on Twitter was about
Speaker 1: the cars buzzing by on the street out there, so
Speaker 1: he couldn't film on the practice field, had to come
Speaker 1: out to the street across from the facility. And it's
Speaker 1: I think it's thirty five miles an hour on that street.
Speaker 1: But if you live in Florida, you know that thirty
Speaker 1: five really means seventy. I mean, you can pretty much
Speaker 1: go as fast as you want down here. I haven't
Speaker 1: seen anybody pulled over for a speeding ticket. The only
Speaker 1: time I see cops on the road is when or
Speaker 1: in action, I should say, is when there's been an
Speaker 1: accident and they have to get out there and assess
Speaker 1: the damage and kind of, you know, decide who was
Speaker 1: at fault, that type of thing. But there's not really
Speaker 1: speed limits and so on that main road. It sparked
Speaker 1: to this idea for a segment because I've been thinking
Speaker 1: about this when I go out and I drive in
Speaker 1: public down here in South Florida. When you get to
Speaker 1: the line at the front of the intersection and you
Speaker 1: pull up first, people getting off that line. I would
Speaker 1: like in that to Cam Wake getting off the snap
Speaker 1: count in the fourth quarter against the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: It is the ultimate first step quickness explosive in that
Speaker 1: wide nine rush. You gotta get from zero to six
Speaker 1: and get after that quarterback and make a play for
Speaker 1: your team. That's the approach the driver's take down here. Now,
Speaker 1: when you're coming in behind those people, maybe you're the
Speaker 1: rush linebacker coming off a second level. You want to
Speaker 1: kind of pick and choose your spots based upon the matchup. Right,
Speaker 1: If you've got a bit of free reign to rush,
Speaker 1: what gap you want to rush? Are you gonna pick
Speaker 1: the minivan lane or you're gonna go behind a German car.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just a pretty obvious decision there. But
Speaker 1: sometimes you'd be surprised because sometimes that Honda Pilot flies
Speaker 1: off there, like Jason Taylor and his prime where the
Speaker 1: sports car at times can kind of have some of that.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're a draft bus. Maybe they don't have the
Speaker 1: urgency of the later round pick I e. The Han
Speaker 1: to pilot, whereas the BMW maybe has a little bit
Speaker 1: of complacence. He's setting in this podcast, this topic is
Speaker 1: getting off the rails anyway, I was safe out on
Speaker 1: the side of the street. The cars do drive insanely
Speaker 1: fast down here, but we're still alive. We're still trucking.
Speaker 1: And again, thank you for all the support for the
Speaker 1: NFL Network hit on Inside Training Camp Live. My favorite
Speaker 1: part about that was Rhet Lewis throwing it to me
Speaker 1: because I'm a huge Rhett Lewis fan on the Move
Speaker 1: the six podcast when he anchors shows on NFL Network
Speaker 1: his college football work. Big Rhet Lewis fans would to
Speaker 1: hear him call my name and throw a report to me.
Speaker 1: That was probably the coolest thing for me from my perspective.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go ahead and get to our sandwich
Speaker 1: segment here to go ahead and kind of put the
Speaker 1: Brian Flores media to the player availability after practice here
Speaker 1: on this Tuesday, September the first edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time podcast on the Miami Dolphins podcast network, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to get into who have been the top five
Speaker 1: training camp performers who were not here a year ago,
Speaker 1: because we know very well about what guys like for instance,
Speaker 1: de Vante Parker, Ryan Fitzpatrick, or even Preston Williams for
Speaker 1: that matter, what those guys offer. But I wanted to
Speaker 1: go over the top five guys who have who were
Speaker 1: imported here this offseason, whether it was a draft pick
Speaker 1: or a free agent signing or what have you, and
Speaker 1: how they've performed so far in training camp. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go off a top five newcomers here that I saw
Speaker 1: through the course of ten practices and one scrimmage on
Speaker 1: the football field. And we're gonna start with number five,
Speaker 1: who was here only because he suffered a bit of
Speaker 1: a nick in practice at one point and missed a
Speaker 1: couple of the team portions and did not participate in
Speaker 1: the scrimmage on Saturday. It's outside linebacker, slash off ball linebacker, slash,
Speaker 1: pass rusher, slash a gap B gap rusher. Kyle van Noy.
Speaker 1: This guy, to me, was the straw that stirred the
Speaker 1: drink up in New England. He was the guy that
Speaker 1: played so many positions. You could play him off the
Speaker 1: edge like they did almost exclusively in twenty nineteen, or
Speaker 1: you can play him in a fifty fifty split off
Speaker 1: the ball or on the edge again coming down in
Speaker 1: different gaps to rush the quarterback as a stand up
Speaker 1: linebacker at as they did in eighteen under Brian Flora's
Speaker 1: there as the d C in New England. He plays
Speaker 1: special teams, He covers kicks, he makes tackles. He is
Speaker 1: so fundamentally sound in his run fits, acting as both
Speaker 1: the forced defender and as a guy that comes down
Speaker 1: and beats blocks on his way to the ball carrier.
Speaker 1: He's so consistent and so sound in his run defense.
Speaker 1: He's so solid in coverage, finding passing lanes, getting to
Speaker 1: his landmark on those pass drops, and as a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: to me, one of the most underrated pass rushers in
Speaker 1: the entire National Football League because he kind of has
Speaker 1: that lengthy looking build his his torso looks a little
Speaker 1: bit elongated compared to what more of a stout, true
Speaker 1: powerful edge rusher might look like. But he used that
Speaker 1: to his advantage in the way he creates leverage and
Speaker 1: creates bend around that edge. He has active, active hands.
Speaker 1: He knows how to keep himself clean off those blocks
Speaker 1: and get into the offensive lineman then create space and
Speaker 1: from their work in that small amount of space to
Speaker 1: bend that edge to cross face to use the arsenal
Speaker 1: of rush moves. He has to get after the quarterback
Speaker 1: and he's been so efficient rushing the quarterback in this
Speaker 1: exact scheme that you just think that's going to be
Speaker 1: the exact same translation over here to Miami. He had
Speaker 1: fifty eight pressures on four forty nine pass rush reps
Speaker 1: back in eighteen. He had a gaudy twelve point nine
Speaker 1: percent pressure rate that season, and his versatility in terms
Speaker 1: of directional rushing is completely there as well. He had
Speaker 1: a sheriff a gap pressures. His pass pass rush productivity
Speaker 1: off the right side was nine point two that was
Speaker 1: eleventh from that position in and seven point five p
Speaker 1: rpen as well. In the running game, he had thirty
Speaker 1: run stops that year. Those are tackles within two yards
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage, and he missed five tackles
Speaker 1: on the entire season. He was the fifth highest graded
Speaker 1: run defender that year for the Patriots in team playing
Speaker 1: in this system under this head coach. He allowed eighty
Speaker 1: six receiving yards on eighty six pass coverage reps. So
Speaker 1: pretty easy math there. One yard per coverage snap on
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy that earned him the eighth best coverage
Speaker 1: grade of outside edge defenders back in teens. You go
Speaker 1: across the entire board there in Pro Football Focus or
Speaker 1: just in the signature stats they have, he grades highly
Speaker 1: across all of them. I can't say enough about Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy what I think he brings this defense and
Speaker 1: all three phases of the defense, in the communication, in
Speaker 1: the leadership, in the veteran example, He's gonna set on
Speaker 1: this defense. Very very stoked to have Kyle van Noy here,
Speaker 1: who's been working out on the field every day, by
Speaker 1: the way, with the injury that he had last week
Speaker 1: in practice. So tough guy as well, going to be
Speaker 1: available for you when you need him on game day.
Speaker 1: My number four newcomer training camp performance for the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins here in twenty has been shack laws in the
Speaker 1: defensive and signed over from the Buffalo Bills. You look
Speaker 1: at the athletic measurements that he has, he was an
Speaker 1: eight point three nine score on the Relative Athletics scorecard
Speaker 1: courtesy of Kent Lee Platt math Bomb on Twitter does
Speaker 1: great work. We reference him all the time on this podcast.
Speaker 1: This guy has been consistently on the football field. Two
Speaker 1: pass rush reps and forty pressures last season with the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. That's a third team point four percent rush
Speaker 1: rate or successful rush rate. Four lawson seven sacks equated
Speaker 1: to a two point three percent sack rate and twenty
Speaker 1: one quarterback hits gives him an impressive seven percent hit
Speaker 1: rate on quarterbacks last season. He had a pressure in
Speaker 1: sixteen of buffalo seventeen games last year, that of course
Speaker 1: includes the wild card game, and in weeks eleven through seventeen,
Speaker 1: he had twenty two total quarterback pressures. That's three point
Speaker 1: six seven per game. He committed just three fouls on
Speaker 1: the entire season and his only drawn of flag eight
Speaker 1: times in his four year career. So discipline, athletically built,
Speaker 1: good pass rusher, very good run defender. He had twenty
Speaker 1: four run stops last year. That's an eight point four
Speaker 1: run stop percentage that ranks seventh best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And he was also in the top ten on tackles
Speaker 1: for loss with thirteen TFLs among all d ns. Now,
Speaker 1: as far as his performance in training camp, again very
Speaker 1: impressed with his second week here. He was getting constant
Speaker 1: pressure on the quarterback. He has a really good way
Speaker 1: of playing with power through the tackle to get that
Speaker 1: upfield rush. He leans into the tackle and resets the
Speaker 1: lion of scrimmage, resets that pass set and forces the
Speaker 1: quarterback off the spot, and then he uses the arms
Speaker 1: and the hands to get himself free. We saw him
Speaker 1: working with Emmanuel Ogball on that clip at Dolphins camp.
Speaker 1: So just two guys that are powerful, strong, long, and
Speaker 1: can get after the quarterback that way and also play
Speaker 1: the run as they get to the quarterback, so they
Speaker 1: can be three down run defenders and get after guys.
Speaker 1: Mary and Hobby loves this guy. Brian Flores loves this guy.
Speaker 1: Shaq Lawson has been as advertised through training camp, my
Speaker 1: number four newcomer here in Miami Dolphins camp. My number
Speaker 1: three newcomer is a rookie and he's the only one
Speaker 1: on this list that is a rookie Ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: and at six ft seven three and thirty pounds, this
Speaker 1: guy is an absolute monster. He has one of the
Speaker 1: longest wingspans and all of the National Football League. I
Speaker 1: have compared his body composition in the past to Klaas Campbell.
Speaker 1: He just looks big among big guys out there. And
Speaker 1: you talk about the position of versatility. Last year for
Speaker 1: the Crimson Tide, three snaps as a B gap defender.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be between your guard and your tackle, one
Speaker 1: two up over the nose, straight over the center, sixty
Speaker 1: three reps outside the tackle, and fifty nine reps in
Speaker 1: the a gap that of course, between the center and
Speaker 1: guard on the interior there. This guy has earned good
Speaker 1: grades from Pro Football Focus throughout his college football career
Speaker 1: eighty four point nine, eighty one point nine, and eighty
Speaker 1: three point two. He had one thousand, eight hundred forty
Speaker 1: nine snaps there at Alabama, made ten career sacks at Alabama,
Speaker 1: also had sixty six pressures over three years and seventy
Speaker 1: five run stops. He's a pocket collaps or a run
Speaker 1: game penetrator, uses that length and power to reset the
Speaker 1: point of attack. His PFF run grade last year was
Speaker 1: eighty seven point nine and ninety point four and twenty
Speaker 1: eight team, both of those in that Elite blue category
Speaker 1: on Pro Football Focus. He also had a one hundred
Speaker 1: and eleven inch broad jump at his scouting combines. This
Speaker 1: guy can blow off the tape as far as his
Speaker 1: power explosiveness. You see it in the athletic testing metrics
Speaker 1: as well, and that has translated onto the field here
Speaker 1: at Dolphins camp. He has been a tough block for
Speaker 1: anyone across from him, consistently collapsing the interior of the pocket.
Speaker 1: He can go up and down the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and it's the same story over and over again, resetting guys,
Speaker 1: pushing them back into the backfield, resetting the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and showing that power and strength both against the run
Speaker 1: and against the past. Rae Kwon Davis has looked damn
Speaker 1: good on the field and training camp so far. Number
Speaker 1: two newcomer at training camp has been cornerbacked Byron Jones.
Speaker 1: And again I'm a process over results guy. And you
Speaker 1: might see some highlights on the five or six clips
Speaker 1: you've seen from practice out of a thousand snaps of
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, where Preston Williams Davanta Parker makes a one
Speaker 1: handed catch. Let me tell you those are few and
Speaker 1: far between, because Jones is consistently in great position. He
Speaker 1: is so smooth at running guys into the boundary, into
Speaker 1: the perimeter, forcing them into that fit portion of the field.
Speaker 1: You might see a red line on the practice field,
Speaker 1: that is the fit between the red line and the
Speaker 1: perimeter of the football field. You want to condense guys
Speaker 1: as far as you can towards that perimeter and the
Speaker 1: receiver wants to stay on that red line. But Jones
Speaker 1: does so well with his just kind of veteran sav
Speaker 1: vness and his physicality of his game and the way
Speaker 1: he challenges routes all the way from the press all
Speaker 1: the way to the top of the route and the
Speaker 1: catch point. He can force guys into that perimeter and
Speaker 1: really narrow that window for the quarterback. And we've seen that.
Speaker 1: We've also seen Fitzpatrick and Williams and Parker make plays
Speaker 1: in that tight window. But that's why he was number
Speaker 1: one last year in yards per target allowed. To check
Speaker 1: that number two in the NFL. With five point one
Speaker 1: yards per target. He allowed the ninth fewest receptions per
Speaker 1: game and the fourth fewest yards per game across the
Speaker 1: entire National Football League. He was fourth in both player
Speaker 1: profile dot COM's coverage rating and catch rate allowed. He
Speaker 1: also forced better than fifty percent tight window throws according
Speaker 1: to NFL Next Gen Stats. The next closest cornerback on
Speaker 1: that list was so better than a ten percent drop
Speaker 1: off from number one down to number two. This guy
Speaker 1: can play all over the formation. He's missed one game
Speaker 1: in his career has nine team pass breakups over the
Speaker 1: previous two seasons. He just continuously makes plays. He locks
Speaker 1: guys down on the perimeter, he can condems inside in
Speaker 1: the slot, he can play safety. This guy is a
Speaker 1: pros pro. He's out there working on the craft every
Speaker 1: single day, working on things tracking the football, getting his
Speaker 1: pressed down, getting his jam, his handwork, his feet work,
Speaker 1: all the technical traits that Brian Flores loves in the cornerback.
Speaker 1: He's out there working on those every single day. This
Speaker 1: guy has just been so impressive and his career so impressive.
Speaker 1: Here with Miami, I have the list of Michael Thomas, Alshon,
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Stefon Diggs, John Brown, Brandon cooks Odell Beckham, Julio Jones,
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas again with zero catches, and t Y Hilton,
Speaker 1: these guys that he held the two or less catches
Speaker 1: over the previous two years in those matchups. Byron Jones
Speaker 1: has looked the part of a lockdown cornerback here in
Speaker 1: training camp in Miami, number one training camp newcomer for
Speaker 1: me is gonna be Emmanuel Ogba. You just look at
Speaker 1: the makeup of this guy back in at his combine
Speaker 1: a four six three forty yard dash, thirty five and
Speaker 1: a half inch vert hundred twenty one inches on the
Speaker 1: broad for a guy that goes six four, two hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy three pounds with thirty five and a half
Speaker 1: inch arms. Those arms ranked at ninety four percentile in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, as does his broad jump and
Speaker 1: vertical jump better than percentile across defensive ends. To talk
Speaker 1: about that thick, powerful frame. The broad shoulders helps him
Speaker 1: hold up the point against the run, helps him detached
Speaker 1: from blockers. As a pass rusher, he had five and
Speaker 1: a half sacks last year, playing a career low two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty one pass rush snaps. He does have
Speaker 1: eighteen snap sacks over the course of his career, and
Speaker 1: he plays an average of six hundred thirty one snaps
Speaker 1: per season hundred twenty five pressures across his four seasons.
Speaker 1: His career PRP pass rush productivity is eight point three
Speaker 1: percent hit a ten point seven percent pass rushure pressure
Speaker 1: rate last season, I should say, which surpassed his career
Speaker 1: best nine point four seen with the Browns. Eighty three
Speaker 1: run stops, which are tackles within two yards of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage on nine hundred and sixty five running
Speaker 1: down reps. That's a career run stop rate of eight
Speaker 1: point six percent, and among players with ten or more
Speaker 1: games play, og bast ten point six run stop rate
Speaker 1: last year was fourth best in the National Football League
Speaker 1: among defensive ends. And we've seen that on the field
Speaker 1: here and training camp so far. The length, the strength,
Speaker 1: the power, the ability to work off of blockers, to
Speaker 1: go inside, to go up the field and run the arc,
Speaker 1: to get in the passing lane and bat passes down
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. He has sacks, he has
Speaker 1: p bus, he has run stops, he has pressures. He
Speaker 1: has done it all here at Dolphins training camp. So
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy, Ray Kwon Davis, Byron Jones, Shack Lawson,
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba my top five newcomers who performed well in
Speaker 1: training camp this year for the Miami Dolphins, and we
Speaker 1: spent it forward. Now for a little bit Dolphins media availability.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start here with kicker Jason Sanders, who first
Speaker 1: was asked about being in a situation where other teams
Speaker 1: across the NFL, because you have the three specialists, will
Speaker 1: use their kicker as the emergency punter in an event
Speaker 1: where the punter goes down. Here's Jason Sanders on his
Speaker 1: ability to punt should something happen in game. To Matt Hawk,
Speaker 1: we'll mess around every once in a while and at practice, UM,
Speaker 1: I would say that I'd be a good name ergency putterer.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be an NFL putner in the league,
Speaker 1: but the emergency putter, I'll be there. And entering a
Speaker 1: year number three here for Jason Sanders, he was asked
Speaker 1: to evaluate year one versus year two and what he
Speaker 1: looks forward to here in year number three. The first season, UM,
Speaker 1: I felt like I didn't have as many kicks where
Speaker 1: I definitely didn't have as many kicks as I did
Speaker 1: last year. UM first years, I think it was a
Speaker 1: rather short year where we didn't we didn't back it
Speaker 1: out very far. But when the second year came around,
Speaker 1: it was good to see the confidence that that coach
Speaker 1: Florida's and Cross Manhattan me and to throw me out
Speaker 1: there when we needed three points. And reflecting back, I mean,
Speaker 1: I like as as low as my percentage was last year,
Speaker 1: I liked the things I did. I had a lot
Speaker 1: of big kicks. It was a slow start, but I
Speaker 1: had a lot of big kicks and in a couple
Speaker 1: of big plays. We'll go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 1: with Jason Sanders on a question regarding on side kicks
Speaker 1: and how different that play has become under the new
Speaker 1: rules of how you can only get a certain amount
Speaker 1: of yardage run up to the ball on on side kicks.
Speaker 1: Here's Jason Sanders talking about the challenges of the nuancede
Speaker 1: kick rules. Every kickoff on side kick, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot harder. You don't get that running start as
Speaker 1: you would two or three years ago. So I mean
Speaker 1: it changes the kicks. It changes what somebody was good
Speaker 1: at they can no longer do because it's it's harder
Speaker 1: to get the ball back. So, um, I think having
Speaker 1: a kicker that they can do a different variety of
Speaker 1: on site kicks is is going to have that kickoff
Speaker 1: return team. Guess you know what's going to happen. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what I might give you an edge
Speaker 1: on the kickoff team that to get that ball back. Next,
Speaker 1: we hear from Jesse Davis, another fellow Pacific Northwesterner, always
Speaker 1: wears his manor hat here around campus. So go ends
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis. Let's start with a question from me to
Speaker 1: Jesse about the availability throughout the course of his career,
Speaker 1: playing in forty seven out of the possible forty eight games. Jesse,
Speaker 1: how's it going? Man? Um, You've played in forty seven
Speaker 1: of a possible forty eight games over the last three
Speaker 1: years at a position that's not exactly easy to show durability.
Speaker 1: Yet I'm just curious, what is it about your regiment
Speaker 1: that makes you available for this team every Sunday? Staying
Speaker 1: healthy is probably the biggest one, you know, and then
Speaker 1: playing through the little things which everybody does. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, I just want to be, you know, for
Speaker 1: anything this team needs me to be. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna be. And I think that's why, you know,
Speaker 1: we kind of extended in the off season, but I
Speaker 1: mean before the season last year. But you know, I
Speaker 1: love I love being you know, the wanted feeling, and hey,
Speaker 1: we you know, we can put this guy anywhere and
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully you can succeed there, and I, you know,
Speaker 1: I take a lot of pride in doing that for
Speaker 1: this organization. And here is Davis talking about moving across
Speaker 1: the offensive line, playing multiple spots in his career. Here
Speaker 1: he is on the strength that he provides the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: whether it's right guard, right tackle, wherever he might play.
Speaker 1: Here's Davis on his strengths. Um, you know, I kind
Speaker 1: of bring a lot to table in both those positions.
Speaker 1: But you know, playing next to um, either Ted Carress
Speaker 1: or you know, rookie Solomon Kinley or Rob Hunt, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't really matter to me where they
Speaker 1: where they stick me. But next we get an evaluation
Speaker 1: from Davis on a couple of the rookies on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and Solomon Kinley and Robert Hunt, how they
Speaker 1: like they're you know, they're big guys that can move people.
Speaker 1: You know they're smart, you know they're they're very coachable people.
Speaker 1: On the differences, I'd probably just say, you know, the
Speaker 1: heights them, but you know they're they're two good rookies.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I'm glad we have my our team.
Speaker 1: And this Dolphin's offensive line has been remade pretty significantly
Speaker 1: with Ted Carress, Eric Flower's, Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, Solomon Kinley,
Speaker 1: you have the undrafted Jonathan Hubbard here as well, plenty
Speaker 1: of guys new to this offensive line. Here's Davis evaluating
Speaker 1: the differences between this time last year on the offensive
Speaker 1: line and now this season, going into camp and into
Speaker 1: the regular season just twelve days away, I feel like
Speaker 1: we're more solidified positions than last year. You know, we
Speaker 1: had a lot of guys coming in we didn't know
Speaker 1: exactly where they're gonna be, including myself. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of changing, a lot of moving parts as
Speaker 1: it was all season. But you know, this season has
Speaker 1: been i'd say a lot more solidified in the position
Speaker 1: you know, specific spots, and so I think guys have
Speaker 1: you know, learned technique a lot better and how this
Speaker 1: offense has been running. So it's been nice to see.
Speaker 1: And one more from me. Yeah, we saw a clip
Speaker 1: on social media of Shack loss and complimenting Emmanuel Ogba's big,
Speaker 1: heavy hands. I'm just curious, going up against og Ball
Speaker 1: as much as you have in practice, what are some
Speaker 1: of the challenges that that length and power that he
Speaker 1: offers presents to you as alignment? Yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 1: the one thing I've noticed, as well as how long
Speaker 1: his arms are. You know, it's kind of hard to
Speaker 1: get a punch on him. Um in passtro you know,
Speaker 1: and we've had our our vows there in practice and
Speaker 1: he's a good good Dan. I'm glad he's on our team.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's very strong, warm, heavy hand guy. And
Speaker 1: I guess the social media references would be the theme
Speaker 1: of the day for me and my questions. As next,
Speaker 1: we turn it forward to running back Matt Brita and
Speaker 1: my question to him about something I saw on Twitter. Hey, Matt,
Speaker 1: we saw a clip of you kind of john with
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker a bit during the scrimmage. I just want
Speaker 1: to kind of get your side of not only that battle,
Speaker 1: but just in general talking about the challenges these Dolphins
Speaker 1: linebackers present to you, both in coverage and defending the run.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're all very fast, very physical, and they
Speaker 1: all can cover it and run and hit. So uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it's new. It's a very unique situation. We
Speaker 1: have a lot of guys on the team that can
Speaker 1: do all that and uh, you know, it's just fun.
Speaker 1: Pie gets a guy because they're making me better, um,
Speaker 1: you know every day and uh iron, like I say,
Speaker 1: Iron Shoppers Lion, and uh, it's just great having those
Speaker 1: guys out that they compete and you know, I can
Speaker 1: talk a little bit trash to and next, something Brita
Speaker 1: had talked about previously, I think in his previous media availability.
Speaker 1: Here he is again talking about some of the impressions
Speaker 1: he's gotten from the Dolphins locker room, again making the
Speaker 1: comparison to the first time he arrived in San Francisco
Speaker 1: to now here in Miami. Uh, you know it's awesome. Uh,
Speaker 1: Like I to tell people for this locker room kind
Speaker 1: of minded you a little bit of you know, San
Speaker 1: fran when I first got there. Um, how's got a
Speaker 1: lot of young guys, Um, guys who've got big eagles
Speaker 1: on the team. You know, I think a lot of
Speaker 1: guys flight. They got a lot to prove in the league,
Speaker 1: and you know that's only gonna help our chemistry as
Speaker 1: the season goes on, and we're just gonna build on that.
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of guys who love to compete,
Speaker 1: and I'm just very happy to be here. Next, Breeda
Speaker 1: was asked about the absence of live tackling and practice
Speaker 1: and how it might translate the way it did in
Speaker 1: college According to a reporter to ask this question, how
Speaker 1: there's been more miss tackles in the first week of
Speaker 1: college football this past week and how that might affect
Speaker 1: the NFL and the Miami Dolphins, uh College a little
Speaker 1: different the NFL. I mean, we we still are able
Speaker 1: to practice tackling without actually having to, you know, go
Speaker 1: to the ground or actually hurt each other. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: that's one thing I feel like, you know, we do
Speaker 1: a great job of. Coachload does a great job in
Speaker 1: sizing every day is tackling ball, security, turnovers and work
Speaker 1: on every day. So I don't think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of miss tackles. And we'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up here with a question that always is gonna
Speaker 1: get on the podcast if you get a player talking
Speaker 1: about scheme and breaking down some stuff on the offensive
Speaker 1: defensive side. Here is Matt breed To talking about running
Speaker 1: not just outside but also in between the tackles and
Speaker 1: how he prides himself on that physicality of the game
Speaker 1: and the quickest way to the end zone is right
Speaker 1: up the gut. I love it. I mean that's one thing,
Speaker 1: you know, since I was a little kid. I love it,
Speaker 1: just you know, the high information, getting the ISOs running
Speaker 1: up the middle. Um, that's quickly hands on the meat. Um.
Speaker 1: You know said, the outside zone is great, but I
Speaker 1: love going straight down because you know, I can just
Speaker 1: burst through the line, get to the second level, and
Speaker 1: like I said, it's fast away to the end zone,
Speaker 1: all right, And there you have it. Matt Brita, Jesse Davis,
Speaker 1: and Jason Sanders talking to us here today as well
Speaker 1: as coach Flora's tomorrow. On the podcast, we're gonna cover
Speaker 1: coaches media availability, I believe, look at the offensive coaches
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, player Day off, and then we get full
Speaker 1: force into things over the weekend ahead of cut down
Speaker 1: Day on Saturday. We're gonna have all that covered for
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