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Speaker 4: How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 4: And on today's show, we want to hear from you.
Speaker 4: It's a mail episode. We haven't answered your questions in
Speaker 4: a while, so we're gonna get to a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of them. Plus Raheem Moster and Jerome Baker had media
Speaker 4: availabilities on Tuesday. We'll recap those and talk about their
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Speaker 4: Caroline takes us right into it. We're gonna hear from
Speaker 4: both Raheem and Jerome Baker, but I want to hear
Speaker 4: from you guys right now. Let's go ahead and start
Speaker 4: with at Jason Underscore Sarny. You all know who he is,
Speaker 4: big time Dolphins fan. What's up Jason? With the Dolphins
Speaker 4: secondary very flexible with players who can play the boundary
Speaker 4: slot or even safety duties. Which defensive back is the
Speaker 4: ultimate Vic Fangio chess piece to me? I think the
Speaker 4: beautiful part about this question is that the answer is
Speaker 4: multi faceted, and that's what opposing offensive coordinators are going
Speaker 4: to have to try to figure out on a weekly basis.
Speaker 4: I look at this team both offensively and defensively, primarily
Speaker 4: defensively as really able to adapt their game plan to
Speaker 4: attack that specific opponent for that specific week, and man,
Speaker 4: there are bullets all throughout the chamber for different types
Speaker 4: of attacks you can potentially deploy. But I think about
Speaker 4: several names when you ask this question. The obvious answer
Speaker 4: is Jalen Ramsey, who think about Minka Fitzpatrick. I know
Speaker 4: we don't like thinking about him much on this podcast,
Speaker 4: but think about his role in the Alabama defense back
Speaker 4: when he was there under Nick Saban, where it basically was,
Speaker 4: let's put Minka in the most frequent position where.
Speaker 5: The ball is going to be.
Speaker 4: That's what you saw with Ramsey for the Los Angeles
Speaker 4: Rams last couple of years, where he would align basically
Speaker 4: on their best pass catcher, regardless of their position. And
Speaker 4: it kind of reminds me of like what the Patriots
Speaker 4: used to do, you know, with Darrell Reeves when they
Speaker 4: had him, or even you know j C. Jackson when
Speaker 4: he was in his prime with the Patriots, or all
Speaker 4: the great corns they've had there. Stefan Gilmour the obvious
Speaker 4: one that I forgot that for some reason, Like go
Speaker 4: cover Travis Kelsey, go cover Christian McCaffrey. That's how you
Speaker 4: dictate targets at your best guy. They're not going to
Speaker 4: ignore their best pass catcher, but to do it, you're
Speaker 4: gonna have to go through our best and throw at him.
Speaker 4: So Jalen Ramsey is the obvious answer. Plus he just
Speaker 4: he does so much so well from so many spots.
Speaker 4: I also think about cater Cooho playing both inside and outside.
Speaker 4: I don't know if he's the same mold in terms
Speaker 4: of that weapon you're talking about here, Jason, but I
Speaker 4: do believe that he can play both positions inside or outside,
Speaker 4: and his tackling down around the line of scrimmage is
Speaker 4: going to be a very, very valuable skill set for
Speaker 4: this defense. He's got versatility, he's got toughness. He is
Speaker 4: the right kind of kid for this Vic Fangio defense.
Speaker 4: And I know you're asking this out of curiosity, but
Speaker 4: I also know that you know that I know you
Speaker 4: know that I'm gonna mention your boy, Nick Needham super versatile,
Speaker 4: super valuable. I think he's the ultimate depth piece in
Speaker 4: a secondary called upon as a starter really throughout the
Speaker 4: course of his career, but in that like backup primary role,
Speaker 4: I think it's perfect for him because you don't get
Speaker 4: a huge drop off when you lose a guy like
Speaker 4: an Xaviing Howard or a Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 5: At those starting spots.
Speaker 4: Then you think about the safety position, and I think
Speaker 4: it really begins with just us having defensive backs, not
Speaker 4: necessarily corners and safeties like so many guys have these
Speaker 4: interchangeable skill sets, and what I keep thinking about and
Speaker 4: getting pumped up about is the possibility of like third
Speaker 4: and eight, and we're gonna go ahead and put Wilkins, Chubb, Phillips, Ogba,
Speaker 4: maybe David Long, maybe it's Zach Steeler, whatever you have
Speaker 4: up front as your rush package, and then your nickel
Speaker 4: or dime defense with five or six DB's. You just
Speaker 4: put all six of those guys at the sticks and
Speaker 4: have them key the quarterback and say, if you want
Speaker 4: to run by us, you can try that. It's gonna
Speaker 4: take you more time than you have with our pass rush.
Speaker 5: If you throw short, we're.
Speaker 4: Gonna try to jump arount and that's how we're gonna
Speaker 4: get takeaways on you with guys like X and Ramsey
Speaker 4: and Javon and Cam Smith with eyes in the quarterback,
Speaker 4: and then maybe someone like Cater and Brandon Jones to
Speaker 4: come up and help tackle on those short throws, like
Speaker 4: have Mercy Man.
Speaker 5: Let's go is this September yet? Great question, Jason.
Speaker 4: Normally we have a one question per customer rule, but
Speaker 4: I'll allow this here since it's almost exclusively a mailbag
Speaker 4: episode at Bluefin TUA. Let's just go ahead and rip
Speaker 4: through these. Number one, is Wilkins extension still in the works?
Speaker 4: Chris Greer has said many times that yes, they are
Speaker 4: in communication with Wilkins representation. Number two, how will the
Speaker 4: offense adapt to how teams were playing in the middle
Speaker 4: of the field last year? I can't wait to find
Speaker 4: out myself, because I don't know. I'm I'm not devising
Speaker 4: the you know, the offensive game plans. But it's not
Speaker 4: like they're just gonna stop doing it. They dominated that
Speaker 4: area of the field last year except for like two games.
Speaker 4: But run game and more short yardage options in the
Speaker 4: passing game really help expand the field and force you
Speaker 4: to play more blades of grass on defense and play
Speaker 4: closer to the line of scrimmage, which accomplishes what you're
Speaker 4: talking about. I think a better run game and having
Speaker 4: guys like Higgins, having Azukama, having Barrios having a chain
Speaker 4: in the passing game will go a long way towards that.
Speaker 4: Number Three, Will Jason Sanders have any competition for his job?
Speaker 4: Guests will find out as of this taping he's the
Speaker 4: only kicker on the roster, and I still believe in
Speaker 4: Jason Sanders. Number four, how are Brandon Jones and Nick
Speaker 4: need him doing with their recovery.
Speaker 5: Don't have access to that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4: Sorry about that, but I did see both guys have
Speaker 4: shared their workouts.
Speaker 5: On Instagram and they look good. So there you go.
Speaker 4: At Fince Fan forty seven, A Chang's the highest drafted
Speaker 4: running back for Miami since Kenyan Drake. What's your view
Speaker 4: on his role his first year here in Miami. The
Speaker 4: way I see it is you have a luxury at
Speaker 4: that position where if he gets it right away, that's
Speaker 4: great because to me, he has I think the most
Speaker 4: talent in the running back room from a vision and
Speaker 4: speed and find the cutback laying skill set and the
Speaker 4: ability to bounce off tackles even at his size. But
Speaker 4: I think you have the luxury to let him kind
Speaker 4: of grow into a role here and define what that
Speaker 4: role might be for himself as we go along, because
Speaker 4: you have Raheem Moster, who I think is a really
Speaker 4: good fit in this offense. Because you have Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 4: who this coaching staff obviously loves. Savon Achmed is a
Speaker 4: really good special teams and third fourth running back option
Speaker 4: you have here as well, and then Miles Gaskin's back too.
Speaker 4: But I think that while a Chanin kind of figures
Speaker 4: out you know what the NFL is all about, you
Speaker 4: have that luxury of waiting on him. I do think
Speaker 4: it'll be Raheem and Jeff early on, and then I
Speaker 4: think if a go along, I could see a chain
Speaker 4: not just becoming like a one B option, maybe even
Speaker 4: your one A option as the year goes along. Plus
Speaker 4: his prowess in the passing game could be a factor
Speaker 4: as well. I think he could play some potential receiver
Speaker 4: positions for you.
Speaker 5: He also returns kick.
Speaker 4: So he has all the ability in the world to
Speaker 4: carve out whatever role he wants in his rookie season.
Speaker 4: Next one at Sobel Cards is a chain A zone
Speaker 4: scheme fit did he run in that system in college?
Speaker 4: Here are his pro football focused career splits. Two fifty
Speaker 4: one runs in zone schemes and one hundred and eighteen
Speaker 4: runs in gap schemes, So he's got more experience running
Speaker 4: zone and just watching the tape, there's lots of inside
Speaker 4: zone on that A and M tape. Of course, my
Speaker 4: favorite run on his entire college tape is the first
Speaker 4: touchdown run against LSU last year. It's a prime example
Speaker 4: of him hitting a big play against outside zone.
Speaker 5: I put it on my Twitter timeline.
Speaker 4: A few posts ago. Go check it out. That is
Speaker 4: like to me, that play is why you drafted him
Speaker 4: here in Miami. That creates so much more attention. I
Speaker 4: talked about in the previous question in the short area
Speaker 4: of the field to open up space for guys like
Speaker 4: Tyreek and Jalen. Next question at j twin seventeen, I'm
Speaker 4: intrigued by the signing of UDFA punter Michael Turk. Did
Speaker 4: you have any experience in college as the holder on
Speaker 4: field goals. Want to make a quick note first off,
Speaker 4: that we do not have any official signings jet from Udfa's.
Speaker 4: None of those contracts are done in signed s.
Speaker 5: He'll delivered.
Speaker 4: All that fun stuff got to go through physicals and
Speaker 4: all that things. All that stuff as well, so reported
Speaker 4: punter acquisition Michael Turk. So I had to go look
Speaker 4: this up because quite frankly, it's never something I would
Speaker 4: have thought to ask. But most punters do handle the
Speaker 4: holding duties and the reason for this if you didn't
Speaker 4: know where it used to be quarterbacks, the second quarterback
Speaker 4: on the roster of the depth chart, you used to
Speaker 4: do the holding for the kicking. A long time ago,
Speaker 4: coaches became smart in this regard and decided to have
Speaker 4: their quarterback spending time holding kicks was a waste of time,
Speaker 4: a waste of resources. And since specialists have all that
Speaker 4: downtime during practice in between special teams, you know, portions
Speaker 4: of practice, why not have the guy who's chilling with
Speaker 4: the kicker and the long snapper be the one that
Speaker 4: makes up the battery. So usually it's that way. I
Speaker 4: went to YouTube and found a I looked up Oklahoma
Speaker 4: field goals on YouTube, and sure enough, there is Michael
Speaker 4: Turk flipping the ball to the kicker on a fake
Speaker 4: field goal, so he has a touchdown pass on the
Speaker 4: resume in addition to punting and holding field goals. Next
Speaker 4: one at tominik one, when is Emery Hunt going to
Speaker 4: tell us about the UDFAS and the podcast?
Speaker 5: Great question.
Speaker 4: I think we're gonna have Emory on the March rather
Speaker 4: is it March May sixteenth episode? We have an episode
Speaker 4: on Tuesday, May sixteenth with him and the UDFAS.
Speaker 5: I believe media availabilities.
Speaker 4: We're going to recap rookie Minniecamp on the Monday episode
Speaker 4: in the fifteenth, So my plan is to record that
Speaker 4: podcast with Emory here soon and then roll it out
Speaker 4: for you guys on Tuesday, May the sixteenth.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take a break right there and
Speaker 4: come back on the other side and get to more
Speaker 4: of your questions ahead of hearing from Raheem Moster and
Speaker 4: Jerome Baker. That's Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 4: noon here recapping media availabilities. Coming up here in just
Speaker 4: a second, but I want to go ahead and get
Speaker 4: right back into your questions here on the Twitter Meilbag,
Speaker 4: I put out the call at Wingfield NFL.
Speaker 5: You guys respond.
Speaker 4: I put a whole bunch of questions in this week,
Speaker 4: including this one here from at Miguel Bahamas. I know
Speaker 4: it's early, but are there any clear avenues to pick
Speaker 4: up extra twenty twenty four draft capital At the moment
Speaker 4: we do not have third and fourth round selections. That's
Speaker 4: an interesting question, and we obviously won't know, you know,
Speaker 4: much until probably around cut down time. You could get
Speaker 4: summer activity, It's not very frequent that it happens. OTAs
Speaker 4: can I suppose can create some activity, but the roster
Speaker 4: is always a work in progress. So rest assured that
Speaker 4: Chris Career, if there's a move being made, is gonna
Speaker 4: make it. But what I look at here is the
Speaker 4: fact that this is going to be the toughest roster
Speaker 4: to make, and sometime for the Miami Dolph and I
Speaker 4: talked about them being the second best roster in the
Speaker 4: NFL on the show yesterday. It was tough to make
Speaker 4: last year. I think it's even better this year. But
Speaker 4: when you get into those early September days and you're
Speaker 4: finalizing the fifty three man roster, like we see this
Speaker 4: every year, right, guys make the team, then you get
Speaker 4: veteran acquisitions, and all of a sudden, the original fifty
Speaker 4: three man roster changes. So with that in mind, I
Speaker 4: think you look at the positions of depth and there,
Speaker 4: to me, there are two right now for the Dolphins,
Speaker 4: actually probably three, to be honest with you. Wide receiver
Speaker 4: is a super crowded room, right, and that's a good thing,
Speaker 4: a good problem to have.
Speaker 5: It's not a problem at all.
Speaker 4: Actually, maybe that's a move you make down the line
Speaker 4: where you can add some draft compensation and return because
Speaker 4: you know, let's say, obviously Ty Greek and Jalen one
Speaker 4: two is pretty well spoken for. What if Azuokama clearly
Speaker 4: establishes himself as a three and Barrios is a good
Speaker 4: four for your returns, you know, specialist stuff and also
Speaker 4: the uh, you know, one on one matches we talked
Speaker 4: about in terms of shortyards and just being a guy
Speaker 4: that can win those one on ones inside, what if
Speaker 4: you know chosen Anderson Crow has had a role for himself.
Speaker 4: You have options there at the receiver position, so maybe
Speaker 4: a guy like Cedrick Wilson can bring back a draft pick.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that's just an option I can
Speaker 4: think about when you talk about that spot, I think
Speaker 4: the cornerback position. If Camp Smith hits the ground running
Speaker 4: in the way that you hope he does as a
Speaker 4: second round pick. Like, let's say you come out of
Speaker 4: training camp saying I need Cam Smith on the field
Speaker 4: for sixty snaps a game. That would make the cornerback
Speaker 4: group pretty deep. And maybe a team needs a you know,
Speaker 4: I don't know who. It might be a Nick need him,
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a Trill Williams. What if it is an
Speaker 4: Xaving Howard, Like what if you decide that that's the
Speaker 4: move you can make because you don't feel a drop
Speaker 4: off from him to camp Smith, Like I'm just spitballing.
Speaker 5: There are options out there. Those are some of the
Speaker 5: ones I think you think about.
Speaker 4: And then at the edge group two, that position is
Speaker 4: so deep, you know the obvious name there would be
Speaker 4: like an Emmanuel Ogba if Phillips and Chubb are gonna
Speaker 4: play all your damn snaps off the edge and you
Speaker 4: feel good about Malik Reid and Andrew van Ginkel, and
Speaker 4: you can get a you know, a high draft pick
Speaker 4: for Emmanual Ogba because he's a great player.
Speaker 5: That would make some sense too.
Speaker 4: And then you know, the running back position maybe is
Speaker 4: one where you can get a late round draft pick
Speaker 4: if someone you know beats somebody out and you have
Speaker 4: a really good competition there all summer long, Like look
Speaker 4: at the roster, anyone any spot, there's a first or
Speaker 4: second year player that pushes for time. If they earn
Speaker 4: that time, all of a sudden, you could have a
Speaker 4: decreased workload from a veteran, which could then spark I
Speaker 4: guess a trade market. But those are some guys that
Speaker 4: I would look at as potential options at Morisante from
Speaker 4: an analytics point of view, who what do you think
Speaker 4: are the best free agents available for the positions of need? Well, again,
Speaker 4: what are the positions of need? I think offensive lines
Speaker 4: is where you start. That's really it to me that
Speaker 4: in defensive line depth. So seventh round offensive tackle means
Speaker 4: you could still explore that area, right like Ryan Hayes
Speaker 4: does not come in here and solidify a position for you,
Speaker 4: just like any seventh round draft pick would not do that.
Speaker 4: I like a couple of guys out there. Cameron Irving.
Speaker 4: We heard about the visit he had with the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: He's an intriguing player. He only played fourteen snaps last year,
Speaker 4: played three hundred and forty eight pass block snaps in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty one, and allowed thirty one pressures, So not great.
Speaker 4: Isaiah Wim is another guy whose name jumps off the
Speaker 4: free agent list to me. He's been pretty consistent with
Speaker 4: a career ninety four point five pass block efficiency, seventeen
Speaker 4: pressures last year on two hundred and twenty nine pass
Speaker 4: blocking snaps. Also has guard flexibility. He could be an
Speaker 4: option there. Again, Devin Ah change the third round. Imagine
Speaker 4: he's gonna have a decent role on the team.
Speaker 5: This year. Smith in the second round.
Speaker 4: Same thing with dB, So I just don't know if
Speaker 4: those are needs anymore after the draft. And then defensive
Speaker 4: line is the one that I really think you know.
Speaker 4: Poona Ford is a name that really leaps off the page.
Speaker 4: He's a monster. He has over three thousand career snaps
Speaker 4: in five seasons and that comes to one hundred and
Speaker 4: twelve run stops and one hundred and three QB pressures.
Speaker 4: Really good player, and at linebacker. I never really got
Speaker 4: that one, to be honest with you, Guys, like between Long, Baker, Riley,
Speaker 4: and Tindall, I think you're pretty well set there. Next
Speaker 4: one from at Southwest Florida underscore Fince Fan outside of
Speaker 4: Fleming and Lewan, Are there any other free agent offensive
Speaker 4: lineman out there you want target well for the sake
Speaker 4: of the shout out, and I wanted to get your
Speaker 4: name out here. You mentioned, I mentioned Irving and when
Speaker 4: you mentioned Lawan and Fleming. Eric Fisher is out there.
Speaker 4: He was with the Dolphins last year. So was Brandon Shell,
Speaker 4: who I thought played really admirably considering he was an
Speaker 4: in season acquisition.
Speaker 5: George Fan is a guy I've always liked, really good.
Speaker 4: Athletic and sized profile there and played in a similar
Speaker 4: system with the Jets last season.
Speaker 5: So those are some names to look at.
Speaker 4: Isaiah Win I think is top my target list there
Speaker 4: for the Miami Dolphins at GS camp. Great work finding
Speaker 4: out Ryan Hayes won Basketball Player and Pitcher of the Year.
Speaker 4: That's a worthy nugget. Yeah, you bet. I think those
Speaker 4: multi sport athletes, that's the way to go for me.
Speaker 4: I think it teaches you more muscle, memory, more flexibility,
Speaker 4: just more overall athletic ability that winds up benefiting you
Speaker 4: and whatever sport you go in. And how about the
Speaker 4: fact that his mom's a Hall of Fame hooper at
Speaker 4: Central Michigan University. Pretty cool. His dad played ball and
Speaker 4: so did his brother too. So a family of athletes
Speaker 4: there with the Hayeses. Next one here, last one here.
Speaker 5: CJ.
Speaker 4: Crosta. What is the Dolphins vision at tight end? I
Speaker 4: thought they wanted to draft a tight end who can block,
Speaker 4: But confused on the draft pick. Are we strictly going
Speaker 4: to be running three wide receiver sets? Well, the Dolphins
Speaker 4: didn't tell you that. I know that for sure, so
Speaker 4: I'm not sure where that comes from, but we'll find
Speaker 4: out I think Eric Sober has a chance to be
Speaker 4: a good blocker at Jerrema Smith has been adequate in
Speaker 4: that role for a couple of years now. I love
Speaker 4: the idea of having Higgins and Connor as these potential
Speaker 4: high upside conversion guys. I'm a huge fan of Higgins's
Speaker 4: tape and I think that Connor had a great camp
Speaker 4: last year. So between both those guys, I feel like
Speaker 4: one's gonna hit, And to me, I think Higgins is
Speaker 4: gonna hit, man.
Speaker 5: I'm really into his game.
Speaker 4: As for the three wide receiver sets question, maybe maybe not.
Speaker 4: I mean last year they ran three receiver sets at
Speaker 4: the fourth lowest rate in the NFL, just forty five percent,
Speaker 4: And so we'll see. I mean they have they have
Speaker 4: depth at all, really, receiver and running back as so
Speaker 4: deep that you could you could argue, you know, going
Speaker 4: out there and plenty of sets that have two of
Speaker 4: each three receivers, two backs, like you've got options man.
Speaker 4: And then also I think Sober and Smith will play
Speaker 4: a lot. I think Higgins could play a lot as
Speaker 4: well as a rookie. So we'll see good stuff.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our last break rate there
Speaker 4: and come back and talk about Raheem Moster and Jerome
Speaker 4: Baker and hear from them at their media availabilities. That's
Speaker 4: next on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 4: brought to you by Auto Nation. So I have some
Speaker 4: material here before we hear from both Raheem and Jerome
Speaker 4: that I want to discuss the two players that we've
Speaker 4: got here on the podcast, And first we start with
Speaker 4: Raheem Moster, and going back to last season, it was
Speaker 4: my opinion that Chase Edmonds would be the guy I
Speaker 4: love that signing. I thought his explosiveness, his passing game, prowess,
Speaker 4: the way he operates. I just thought they were all
Speaker 4: great fits. And I thought that we saw plenty of
Speaker 4: flashes of that, the drop passes notwithstanding, but the more
Speaker 4: the year went on, and of course the decision to
Speaker 4: bring in Jeff Wilson when Chase was traded, we saw
Speaker 4: Raheem really take ownership of the offense and be that
Speaker 4: really top back. It's part of what makes me so
Speaker 4: excited for a chain. The combination of speed and decisiveness,
Speaker 4: I think really maximizes how this passing game operates. The
Speaker 4: speed to the perimeter stresses the defense so much and
Speaker 4: it truly does become a pick your poison type of deal,
Speaker 4: Like do I crash the edge and sell out to
Speaker 4: make sure Raheem can't open it up and get twenty
Speaker 4: yards on us? Or do I hesitate and make sure
Speaker 4: that I see that neither ten nor seventeen Tyrek and
Speaker 4: Jalen is about to replace my vacated space when I
Speaker 4: go all out to get thirty one to the ground.
Speaker 4: It's a conflict. Defenders have to ask themselves on every
Speaker 4: single play where the run and pass are both in play.
Speaker 4: How about this running around the edge for Raheem most
Speaker 4: or last year either end or tackle. From Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 4: eighty eight rush attempts four hundred and fifty one yards.
Speaker 4: That's five point one to three yards per carry. Since
Speaker 4: I brought him up and we're still inside of a
Speaker 4: week post draft. Devon a chain last year in college
Speaker 4: one hundred and nine attempts around either edge for seven
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty nine yards. That's good for seven point
Speaker 4: oh six yards per carry. And when I look at
Speaker 4: these runs, I think the best part about them is
Speaker 4: that it puts fast players in one on one situations
Speaker 4: in space.
Speaker 5: Right, It's not jamming.
Speaker 4: It between guard and center and asking your back to
Speaker 4: power through a two hundred and fifty pound linebacker or
Speaker 4: the potential three hundred and thirty pound nose tackle who
Speaker 4: just sh shed a block. You isolate the forced defender
Speaker 4: off the edge, often in a position where they are
Speaker 4: full speed and our back is full speed. And trying
Speaker 4: to hit one hundred millions hour fastball with a full
Speaker 4: swing is tough, and that just tends to lead to
Speaker 4: more misstackles.
Speaker 5: And I have the number to prove it on those
Speaker 5: edge runs.
Speaker 4: Last year, a chain one hundred and nine attempts right
Speaker 4: of his fifty three missed tackles forced thirty nine came
Speaker 4: off runs from the edge. That's seventy four percent of
Speaker 4: his miss tackles forced. For Raheem Moster, twenty one of
Speaker 4: his thirty nine is good for fifty four percent. Put
Speaker 4: your guys in position to succeed. That's what we're talking
Speaker 4: about here. Let's go ahead and talk about Jerome Baker.
Speaker 4: They'll go come back and do Raheems media and then
Speaker 4: Jerome's as well, you know, looking at his career to date,
Speaker 4: the usage what Broncos linebackers were asked to do three
Speaker 4: years under Fangio.
Speaker 5: I wanted to look at that because while.
Speaker 4: Yes, there is a bit of a pattern, you also
Speaker 4: got a big curveball in twenty twenty one that demonstrates
Speaker 4: the utilizing players to their strengths over just shoe horning
Speaker 4: your scheme into the pieces and hoping it works. So
Speaker 4: Bronco's off ball linebacker usage under Vic Fangio from twenty
Speaker 4: nineteen to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: Looks like this.
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty one, Alex Johnson blitzed forty three times,
Speaker 4: he played coverage one hundred and sixty one times. In
Speaker 4: twenty twenty, he was the top blitzer again with one
Speaker 4: hundred and forty five pass rush naps, one hundred and
Speaker 4: two more than the previous season, and Josie Jewell also
Speaker 4: had eighty.
Speaker 5: Jewel was the top coverage guy that year.
Speaker 4: With five hundred and forty five snaps, a huge departure
Speaker 4: those two years completely different approaches and attacks. Twenty nineteen
Speaker 4: was more like twenty twenty. Johnson had one hundred blitzing
Speaker 4: snaps and Todd Davis led the team in coverage from
Speaker 4: linebackers with five to twenty five, and AJ also played
Speaker 4: three hundred and seventy seven. So for Jerome Baker the
Speaker 4: last three years, here are his pass rush snaps. One
Speaker 4: hundred and twelve last year, one hundred and fifty six
Speaker 4: the year prior, one hundred and thirty five the year
Speaker 4: prior to that. In coverage last year more coverage, right
Speaker 4: because a less pass rush five to seventy seven. Twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one he played four hundred and fifty coverage snaps
Speaker 4: and in twenty twenty four hundred and thirty coverage snaps.
Speaker 4: So what does that all mean. It means that Jerome
Speaker 4: has played in a similar defensive scheme for the last
Speaker 4: three years, well four. Actually, it means that he's a
Speaker 4: three down player who plays ford and back, and it
Speaker 4: typically means that he can run. A guy with that
Speaker 4: type of responsibility can usually run. And so I'm wondering
Speaker 4: how are the best ways they can utilize Jerome's speed
Speaker 4: That I can't give you an answer on just yet,
Speaker 4: but I think that we need the tape before we
Speaker 4: can make and he claims there, but I do think
Speaker 4: that David Long really compliments Jerome Baker and that he
Speaker 4: can open up that speed that Long can be the
Speaker 4: one that goes in there and cleans up the mess
Speaker 4: and gets through all the muck. I thought the twenty
Speaker 4: twenty season was Jerome's best and a lot of that
Speaker 4: was created lanes and free runs of the quarterback based
Speaker 4: upon the scheme creating those chances for him, or having
Speaker 4: him operate in space out in the curl flat where
Speaker 4: he can diagnose and play downhill out wide. I think
Speaker 4: Long is exceptional at wading through all the trash on
Speaker 4: a given play, and I think the more he can
Speaker 4: do that, the more that Jerome's freed up to run
Speaker 4: and chase really good stuff there. I think for Jerome's
Speaker 4: long term future here, or I should say for this
Speaker 4: season with his usage. And then Raheem, obviously he and
Speaker 4: a chain makes an exciting backfield tan to me, all right,
Speaker 4: let's go ahead and go back to the medi availabilities
Speaker 4: and start here with running back Raheem moster, just want
Speaker 4: to give you guys a heads up here off the
Speaker 4: top these press conferences today, who are really really good.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and start here with Raheem being asked
Speaker 4: about why did you return back to the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 4: after last year's one year contract expired.
Speaker 1: One of the biggest things for me is my family.
Speaker 1: So you know, I plan my roots here as you
Speaker 1: may know. But also you know, I just want to
Speaker 1: be back with the team. You know, as far as
Speaker 1: we've gone along last year, you know, I'm I'm itching
Speaker 1: and ready, especially the pieces that we've added, you know,
Speaker 1: during the offseason as well as in the draft. Man,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a great time to be a Dolphin
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to you know, help helps as much
Speaker 1: as I possibly can to get to where you know,
Speaker 1: we need to get to.
Speaker 4: Raheem also touched on the mentorship of Devon a chan
Speaker 4: a little bit. I'll go ahead and leave that off
Speaker 4: the podcast here. You can find these press conferences in
Speaker 4: their entirety up on the team YouTube channel. And I'm
Speaker 4: going to come back with a later question where I
Speaker 4: followed up with Raheem asking about what can Devon do
Speaker 4: to really you know, I guess win coach students fille
Speaker 4: over in that running back room. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: go forward here though to how nice was it to
Speaker 4: see Jeff Wilson brought back in addition to having you
Speaker 4: come back your former teammate with the Niners and last
Speaker 4: season and really just having the whole running back room
Speaker 4: in general, all back together.
Speaker 2: It was honestly, that's the most exciting thing.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: I was having talks with UH with student's about, you know,
Speaker 1: the before free agency, and I was like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: you know what will be nice is if we're able
Speaker 1: to get everybody back in in this in this building,
Speaker 1: in this room, because you know, the chemistry is just
Speaker 1: unmatched to any other place that I've been a part of.
Speaker 2: You know, it's there's.
Speaker 1: A lot of guys in this room that, you know,
Speaker 1: really really want to be great. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that want to go out there and put their
Speaker 1: best foot forward. And that just makes you and I'm
Speaker 1: talking speaking in regards to me, it makes me want
Speaker 1: to go out there and play my best and put
Speaker 1: my best foot forward. So to be able to have
Speaker 1: you know, Jeff Savonne, Miles, John Lovett and Alex we're
Speaker 1: all in this thing together.
Speaker 2: You know, it's definitely exciting and and I just can't wait.
Speaker 4: And as promise from the previous question, what piece of
Speaker 4: advice would you give devon a chain about how to
Speaker 4: get on coach students feels good side?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, the easiest way to get on stud's
Speaker 1: good side is uh, just be present, you know, when
Speaker 1: he asked you questions, make sure that you understand the
Speaker 1: question thoroughly and then and give a good response. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's what you want to do in regards to
Speaker 1: getting on you know, Stu's good side. But you know
Speaker 1: it's all about patients in time too. You know, you
Speaker 1: got time and patience right now to understand this offense.
Speaker 1: And that's what that's what he needs right now is
Speaker 1: a little bit of time to get used to everything,
Speaker 1: get acclimated on being a pro and everything like that.
Speaker 4: Followed up with Raheem on that question about your number
Speaker 4: two in the offense for a lot of these guys,
Speaker 4: and it's been my theme this offseason right to talk
Speaker 4: about how continuity can really benefit this offense heading into
Speaker 4: year number two and for moster, a guy who has
Speaker 4: played in pretty much the same system for the last
Speaker 4: several years, going back to the Niners. I wanted to
Speaker 4: ask Rahim, for a guy like you, how can the
Speaker 4: offense you know, slow down even more when it comes
Speaker 4: to reading blocks behind what was last year a new
Speaker 4: offensive line for him and now pretty much the exact
Speaker 4: same guys coming back.
Speaker 5: Here's Raheem on that question. Was it a good question?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's a great question, Dravis. You know
Speaker 1: the fact that we have this old line that you know,
Speaker 1: they they started hitting their stride towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year and then moving into the off season, getting
Speaker 1: his second year up under them. I mean, prime example,
Speaker 1: I look at Connor, you know, Connor Williams. To take
Speaker 1: a take a guy like him, you know, he moved
Speaker 1: from being a left guard out in Dallas to you know,
Speaker 1: moving to center for the first time in his career
Speaker 1: and then having to learn his offense, making their right calls.
Speaker 1: And now I just feel like he's gonna he gonna
Speaker 1: take himself up to another notch just simply because he
Speaker 1: understands the offense a lot better.
Speaker 2: So you got that chemistry right there. Everything starts up front.
Speaker 1: If that those guys up front, you know it can
Speaker 1: make it happen, then we're gonna be in good hands.
Speaker 2: And as as of right now, they're just they're.
Speaker 1: All locked in, especially with Frank being being there to
Speaker 1: help him. And then we also got Butch as well,
Speaker 1: So I know Butch. I'm very familiar with Butch out
Speaker 1: in San France. So he's gonna have them boys over there.
Speaker 1: You know he's gonna get them right.
Speaker 4: You probably saw the tweet about the camaraderie and the
Speaker 4: atmosphere and the energy in the locker room and throughout
Speaker 4: the team and the camaraderie. How it's been unmatched here
Speaker 4: for Raheem in his entire nine year NFL career. Here's
Speaker 4: a follow up for him on that, the importance of
Speaker 4: having that type of friendship with so many players on
Speaker 4: the team and it being like one big family, one
Speaker 4: big brotherhood. Here's Raheem on the benefits of a tight
Speaker 4: knit locker room.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean that that helps, you know, tremendous amount simply
Speaker 1: because you know, we were and when I said we,
Speaker 1: I mean I'm also alluding to, you know, Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: when we were headed to the Super Bowl down here
Speaker 1: in hard Rock in twenty nineteen. The camaraderie on that
Speaker 1: team was unmatched. You know, it was something that was
Speaker 1: very special because everybody was hanging out with everybody. So
Speaker 1: that's what you know, Mike is trying to do with
Speaker 1: this team now, is just trying to make sure that
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page, you know, trying to get
Speaker 1: to know your teammate is because you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: need him at some point during the season, so we'll
Speaker 1: better way than to start that early on.
Speaker 2: And that's what we're able to do right now.
Speaker 4: So I would just say the general theme here for
Speaker 4: Raheem's media availability and go back and check it out
Speaker 4: if you have not seen the whole thing.
Speaker 5: He's so good, he's so gracious.
Speaker 4: He says thank you, and how's it going to every
Speaker 4: single person that asks him a question here on these calls.
Speaker 4: The last thing that I didn't put in the sound here,
Speaker 4: but I want to mention, was that he said he
Speaker 4: talked to five different doctors looking for somebody to sign
Speaker 4: off on allowing him to play in the playoff game,
Speaker 4: and they all said, no, your season's over, Raheem. You're
Speaker 4: gonna have to go to the shelf for the rest
Speaker 4: of the season. And I would say the theme behind
Speaker 4: all of this was just the excitement and how geared
Speaker 4: up these guys are for the new season.
Speaker 5: Here. You can feel it.
Speaker 4: It's palpable inside the building, inside these press conferences.
Speaker 5: When you hear the players talk to us.
Speaker 4: Let's go next here to Jerome Baker, who spoke a
Speaker 4: lot about vic Fangio's defense David Long his teammates here
Speaker 4: on this defense. Let's go ahead and start here with
Speaker 4: a question for Jerome about what excites him the most
Speaker 4: with the X of know's from vic Fangio's defense.
Speaker 6: It gives me some freedom to just go out there
Speaker 6: and just play ball. I mean it's sometimes you know,
Speaker 6: I ask like what's the rule or this, and you
Speaker 6: kind of giving me like it's not really a rule.
Speaker 3: It's kind of you know, they'll play ball.
Speaker 6: So things like that for a player, you know, just
Speaker 6: to have that freedom. You know, I've been playing ball
Speaker 6: for a long time, so it's one of those things
Speaker 6: is you know, I know what I'm doing is kind
Speaker 6: of giving the freedom to make it play.
Speaker 3: I'm excited for that.
Speaker 4: Great follow up here from hal Habit about can you
Speaker 4: give us an example about what exactly that means more
Speaker 4: freedom in the defense to go make plays. Here's your
Speaker 4: room respond to that great follow up question from how Habit.
Speaker 6: Yeah, a quick example is just simple things like alignment.
Speaker 6: You know, there's something instance. It's not just an exact thing.
Speaker 6: It's kind of however you feel you can get your
Speaker 6: job done. You know, that's like a quick example you know,
Speaker 6: little things like that for a player, it gives your
Speaker 6: freedom of you know, you don't have somebody looking over
Speaker 6: your back or try to make sure everything is correctly right.
Speaker 6: Some guys play a different way and just that little
Speaker 6: freedom definitely helps.
Speaker 4: This next one here might be my favorite answer so
Speaker 4: far I've gotten in this off season from Jerome Baker.
Speaker 4: He was asked about how simple it's been to integrate
Speaker 4: so many big names, so many superstar players into the
Speaker 4: locker room. And you know, we've praised on this podcast
Speaker 4: countlessly for the number of big time names and big
Speaker 4: time contributors and star talent that puts the Dolphins in
Speaker 4: the marquee and puts them in the win column more
Speaker 4: frequently than the lost column. How do you integrate those
Speaker 4: big personalities into the locker room or Traditionally it's been
Speaker 4: thought that that's maybe difficult to do, but Jerome Baker says,
Speaker 4: it's the type of guy they bring in, not necessarily
Speaker 4: the fact that they're just a star player.
Speaker 3: I always said this.
Speaker 6: I never told them this, but you know, mister Greer
Speaker 6: and Mike, they do a great job of just getting
Speaker 6: guys that's just like they a great teammate you know,
Speaker 6: outside of great players, they're just great people. I had
Speaker 6: my initial thoughts of like, oh, we're getting the quote
Speaker 6: unquote superstar. You know, how is he gonna fit in
Speaker 6: the locker room where you know, we all push each other,
Speaker 6: no matter who you are, we all push each other. Man,
Speaker 6: It's there no complaints at all, like even like going
Speaker 6: back to last year, but Tyreek King, it was like
Speaker 6: he pushed us to hang out with each other more,
Speaker 6: you know, having the Halloween party, you know, those little
Speaker 6: things of just getting their team together. He pushed it
Speaker 6: and he was all for it. He was the first
Speaker 6: one to say, let's play ping pong. He you know
Speaker 6: guys like that, Yeah, you know they come into locker room,
Speaker 6: they really help us. You know the same thing with Chab,
Speaker 6: Like these guys come in and they just really want
Speaker 6: to be a part of the team that really want
Speaker 6: to win, and you know, it truly just helps the
Speaker 6: locker room as a whole.
Speaker 4: A couple more here for Jerome Baker, I wanted to
Speaker 4: ask him about playing behind guys like Ray Kwan and
Speaker 4: mostly Zach and Christian, how they make his job easier.
Speaker 4: Speaking of the freedom to play in the defense, how
Speaker 4: do those guys make the job for Jerome Baker a
Speaker 4: lot easier.
Speaker 6: I mean, those guys they're tough, their team players, and
Speaker 6: they have the ability to make plays on their own.
Speaker 6: You know, playing behind those playing behind those guys for
Speaker 6: a few years now, you kind of know what each
Speaker 6: player strengths are with some things that they don't really do.
Speaker 6: You know, when I play behind Kwan, it's a lot
Speaker 6: different when I play behind Christian. When I play behind
Speaker 6: Christian it's a lot different than either. Like those guys
Speaker 6: are kind of different in their own way and just
Speaker 6: being just like with any sport, being around the guy
Speaker 6: and playing with the guy for so long, you kind
Speaker 6: of figure out what they like and what they like
Speaker 6: to do. I know, sometimes Christians just gonna shoot the
Speaker 6: gap and make the play.
Speaker 3: You know, ra Kuan is just going to clog it up.
Speaker 6: Like all these guys have different roles and different ways
Speaker 6: they play the game, and you know it's my job
Speaker 6: as a linebacker to make him right. And definitely getting
Speaker 6: a great feel for that in this defense, it allows
Speaker 6: me do you know other things now.
Speaker 3: So definitely excited.
Speaker 4: I think y'all are going to love this one. What
Speaker 4: are your early impressions of new teammate David Long.
Speaker 6: Man, he fits right there, and you know his personality,
Speaker 6: everything he does, he gets right in. I'm excited he
Speaker 6: came in and he just strictly just wanted to work,
Speaker 6: just get each other better. And man, he's been doing that.
Speaker 6: Communication has been on the point. So I'm excited. You know,
Speaker 6: right now it's easy. There's no nobody's playing against us,
Speaker 6: so but you know, for now, it is definitely working out,
Speaker 6: and I'm excited. Man, he's one of those guys that
Speaker 6: it is not this or that. It's kind of let's
Speaker 6: just talk through it and figure it out. And it's
Speaker 6: definitely working out.
Speaker 4: If My theme this offseason for the offense was second
Speaker 4: year continuity and the improvement that comes from the incumbents
Speaker 4: for the secondhand nature knowledge of the offense. On defense,
Speaker 4: it's the shift to more eyes in the quarterback and
Speaker 4: a secondary full of ballhawks. So Jerome Baker was asked
Speaker 4: about how playing a little more zone looks how this
Speaker 4: defense in general can maximize the talent they have here
Speaker 4: from a personnel standpoint.
Speaker 6: I think the main thing is it gives us a
Speaker 6: chance to really disguise and kind of make place. I'm
Speaker 6: not going to say our last defense I've been on.
Speaker 6: We can make plays, but it was a lot of
Speaker 6: rules like this is what you have to do, this
Speaker 6: is what it has to be.
Speaker 3: This matchup has to be this matchup. There's no.
Speaker 6: You know, switching with the guy or talking some about
Speaker 6: it's more this is what it is, and this is
Speaker 6: what we're gonna do in this defense.
Speaker 3: It's kind of you.
Speaker 6: Know, players figure it out. You know, there's not no
Speaker 6: set rules on how far your drop are. You know,
Speaker 6: this guy got to cover this guy. It's you know,
Speaker 6: you really know the defense and apply the defense of
Speaker 6: what the offense is doing. So it's a lot more freedom.
Speaker 6: There's definitely a lot more freedom. For the looks of it,
Speaker 6: It's definitely work out for us.
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