WEBVTT - Offseason Preview Part 1 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:16.919 Fail touchdown, Miami Drun. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.720 to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:25.960 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.600 It is Friday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:33.400 on today's show, our first big transaction of the off season. 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.440 I'll tell you why Jason Sanders is even more valuable 0:00:36.560 --> 0:00:39.160 to the Dolphins than his position as the first team 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.919 All Pro kicker in the NFL suggests. Plus we'll learn 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.320 a little bit more about the new quarterbacks coach in Miami, 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:48.680 coach Charlie Fry, and kick off the off season preview 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.040 with the quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers. Busy, Busy 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.440 show today. All of that and more on this Friday, February, 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:03.840 the nineteenth edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Alright, so 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.520 we're about a year into pandemic life, as it were. 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:10.559 The phrase new normal just kind of feels like normal 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.679 these days. And one of the things that I really 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.640 missed the most is going out to restaurants for dinner, lunch, 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.000 whatever it might be. I told my wife the other day, 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.040 I think the part of going out to eat that 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:21.920 I enjoy the most, and I didn't really realize this 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.720 until all of this happened. It is just the people 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.560 watching aspect of it. The food is great, the company 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.959 obviously is great, but those are things that you can 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:33.319 replicate in your own home. It's that social interaction that 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.240 really amplifies things and and makes going out going out. 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.480 And I say this because, and as most of you know, 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.679 I'm doing the podcast now from the Pacific Northwest, back 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:44.600 home with my wife and my daughter back up here 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.280 for the time being, and my part of the state 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.800 just entered phase two of pandemic reopening to allow for 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.720 restaurants to open of their indoor capacity. So we're going 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.720 to head out to a restaurant tomorrow, our favorite restaurant, 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.200 and I can't remember the last time I've been to one, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.440 and I'm just a little bit excited about I wanted 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:05.920 to open the show with that, talking about maybe getting 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:09.480 things back to to some normalcy one year after the fact, 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.959 after our lives all changed forever. But before we take 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:16.080 you into the weekend, some news, and it's our first 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.280 big transaction of the one off season. The Dolphins have 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.800 extended the contract of first team All Pro kicker Jason 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:27.240 Sanders through the six season. And we know about the 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.840 numbers by now. We covered this all season long. Thirty 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:33.360 six of thirty nine in field goals this season, twenty 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.280 of those from forty or more yards. He tied the 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:40.320 franchise record with the Lindo mari set back in with 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.600 one forty four points scored the most by a Miami Dolphin. 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.800 He and mare A successful on ninety two point of 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.720 his field goals, and he also rose his career percentage 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:52.160 to eighty six point five. Both of those are best 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.920 in franchise history minimum fifty career attempts there, and he 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.280 also made all thirty six of his p A t 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:02.040 attempts this season. But if you go further into the 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:05.280 context of the numbers, that did make Jason Sanders the 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:09.000 first team All Pro kicker in the NFL in it's 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.720 the complimentary aspect of a big time kicker with a 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.040 dominant defense that creates this recipe for closing out football games. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.680 You get a top five or six scoring defense, it's 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.480 gonna keep you in most games, and an accurate kicker 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.400 with the range that Jason Sanders has that's gonna go 0:03:24.440 --> 0:03:27.320 a long way anytime you're in a close football game. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.040 Go back to alone, a game winner against the Cardinals, 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.720 fifty yards hits, the field goal against the Chargers to 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:36.280 give the Dolphins a two score lead late in the 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.320 fourth quarter, forty nine yards out on that one. Four 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.480 field goals against the Bengals, four more against the Raiders, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.880 including the forty four yard game winner. This guy is 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.120 a weapon. And now he signed with Miami through the season, 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.240 and we talk about the range that Sanders has, and 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:55.000 there's a reason why this guy is the all time 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.800 franchise leader in field goal percentage because he makes his 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.280 field goals pretty much from everywhere. But when you think 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:03.520 of the phrase take the points, that's always assuming to 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.640 kick the field goal on fourth down because you're guaranteed 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.560 to get three points. Right. Well, in the case of 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.960 Jason Sanders, he is forty for forty one in his 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:15.280 career from under forty yards, so he doesn't miss in 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.440 the short range. He's extremely accurate in the long range. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:22.440 He's reliable on p A T s. He's a fantastic 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.480 kickoff specialist who can give you the touchback, who can 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:26.240 give you the pooch kick and give you good on 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:29.719 side kick attempts. He's part of a litany of trick 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:32.800 plays that have produced first downs and touchdowns and points 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.560 and and so much entertainment for this Dolphins fan base. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.200 Three years into this guy's career, seventh round draft pick 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:40.120 out of New Mexico, and this is the kind of 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.120 impact he's having, gets a big contract, gets the big extension. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:45.919 Congrats to Jason Sanders, man. This dude earned it, and 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.200 I love watching him kick the football. I mean I 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.560 talked about it all camp long last last season, right 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:53.039 at every single episode, I don't think I saw Jason 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.719 Sanders missed today and that was the That was the 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.160 case every single day, all the way up to the scrimmage. 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.560 He missed from like sixty two yards and let him 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:01.120 stretch one out and he missed it left like he 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.280 had the leg. He just like barely missed it left. 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.080 And then of course he misses three kicks in the 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:08.560 entire season. Jason Sanders well earned contract. I am glad 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.880 he's staying put here in Miami. Alright, And our third segment, 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.440 we're gonna get into the off season preview Part one, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.120 taking a look at quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.240 both on the Dolphins roster. In the draft and free agency. 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.280 But first I want to go back and talk about 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:25.200 new quarterbacks coach Charlie Fry, who got a chance to 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:28.039 see our I guess our first look at him during 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:31.360 the Senior Bowl practices that were televised on ESPN, You 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.480 and NFL Network. But as a player, his career spanned 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.000 five years three teams, Cleveland Brown, Seattle Seahawks, and the 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.440 Oakland Raiders. Took a bit of a break there before 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.120 he got back into the coaching ranks and he coached 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:44.880 high school football in the state of Florida for a 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:48.680 couple of years two different high schools. From then he 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.400 winds up in the college level with Florida a director 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:55.360 of player development for a couple of years there in seventeen, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.520 then goes on to Ashland where he coaches the wide receivers. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.839 So you see this pattern here to heveloping for Charlie 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:04.240 Fry's coaching career post playing career. A guy that's obviously 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.960 been in many NFL offensive meeting rooms, now high school 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:11.000 as well as the college level and coaching different positions 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.520 doing different things. Director of player personnel, offensive coordinator in 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.440 high school receivers, coach at the college level, and then 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:19.920 he moves on to his next big job in Central Michigan, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:23.359 the Chippawas as the O C and quarterbacks coach for 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.680 two years there twenty nineteen. And and that's where I 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.600 want to kind of focus on the production of the 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:34.000 Chippawas offense under the tutelage under the direction of Charlie Fry. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.440 And before we do that, you visit some of the 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.080 quotes and the things that his peers have to say 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.240 about him talking about his ability as a communicator as 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.960 a teacher. Bucky Brooks of NFL Network mentioned that on 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.919 Twitter back when the higher happened. Just these things that 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.359 have been consistent in the approach for Brian Flores to 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.880 develop his coaching staff, to round out his coaching staff 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:57.000 under that same umbrella, under that same singular vision of 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.960 guys that are teachers. And we heard, for instance, Andrew 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.120 and gink Will talk about Austin Clark's teaching ability in 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.760 the past rush game, and you know, Shack Laws and Emmanuela. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:07.719 A lot of the guys pointed to him as well 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:10.640 there too, the offensive line guys talking about Lemille John 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.920 Pierre and kind of the techniques and the player's perspective 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.720 that he has from that teaching aspect, saw some of 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.760 the similar things about Charlie Fry from his peers, from 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.520 people you know in the media coaching ranks, talking about 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.200 his ability as a teacher. So I mean that obviously 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.200 drives there. But going back to the Central Michigan offense, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.560 and I think it's always smart to kind of throw 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.000 in the disclaimer of look, you bring in a coach, 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:34.600 you don't know exactly what the level of impact, of 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.280 the level of influence a certain voice, or a certain 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:39.960 system or a certain idea will have. And that's why 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.480 I always kind of turn up, you know, turn up 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.120 my cheek at the idea that a certain coach had 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.800 a certain level of production from a certain position group. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:50.480 Therefore them going to a new spot will have the 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.960 same the same production or same ideas. Coaching is a collaboration. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.559 So at the at Central Michigan they had a staff 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.400 full of guys that work towards the same goal. The 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:01.440 same is true here in Miami the Dolphins. Brian Flores 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.640 has talked about it with the defense how Josh Boyer 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.200 and Anthony Campanelli and John Alexander and Austin Clark, the 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.440 assistance in those position rooms. Coach Kirk Kountz, who was 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.200 the directed the third down meetings, had an impact that 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.720 way as well. So here comes Fry, a quarterbacks coach 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.680 who has played quarterback in the league. Understands the you know, 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.560 pressures of of doing preparing for an opponent every week, 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.320 the pressures of media, the pressures of just being in 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.360 an NFL building, and kind of being in that quarterback world. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.120 As you know Ryan Fitzpatrick talked about back in October 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.360 whatever it was, how there are thirty two quarterbacks that 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.600 have this job that understand what it takes to be 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.160 in this position, and then the course the backups behind that. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:42.640 All things told, less than a hundred people on earth 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.720 that are doing this this particular job to understand what 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:49.359 the quarterback goes through. So Fry has that professional playing experience. 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.720 And I found this article up on Hustle belt dot 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.480 com taking a look. It's an sp nation faction of 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.000 the MAC ten conference that are the I'm sorry, the 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.000 Mid American Conference in college football and the central mission 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.360 again offense was told to be in twenty nineteen with 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.520 with Fry there on staff as well. More of an 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:09.679 RPO collegiate spread style offensive attack. Where then where they 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.199 played six games because of the COVID shortened season, they 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.400 installed a pro style, run heavy look that average five 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.640 yards per carry, that ran the ball forty yards per 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.280 game and went over two hundred yards rushing per games. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.199 So again, this idea of having a coach that has 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:25.440 been around the block, that has seen multiple systems, that 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:29.000 understands different levels of football at the college professional level, 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.320 different schemes, different ideas. That's the collaboration idea. Charlie Fry's 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.839 resume speaks to his ability to be versatile and to 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.560 adapt to whatever is throwing at him as far as 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.440 what the head coach wants to do offensive coordinator wants 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.400 to do. Charlie Fry has been under many systems and 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:46.240 seen plenty of football. So I wanted to go ahead 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.520 and put that out there for you here on the podcast, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.240 and I thought it was an appropriate time to cover 0:09:50.280 --> 0:09:52.680 the quarterbacks coach on the day. We're going to preview 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.360 the upcoming offseason now less than a month away. Man, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.000 the new league year coming around the corner just in 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:01.160 a few weeks, looking at the free agents free agency 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.000 coming up and then the draft after that as well 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.839 as the roster building portion of the off season picks up, 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.800 So a little bit of news on Charlie Fry there. 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.439 Let's go ahead and transition now into our C block 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.640 and get to the off season preview. Taking a look 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.080 at the three positions on offense, I guess the skill 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.600 positions with the quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers. Will group 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.560 up the tight ends and offensive line on the next 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.320 edition of this, and then transition onto the defensive side 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.840 of the football to wrap this thing up here on 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.720 the off season preview here on the Drive Time podcast, 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.400 and we start at the quarterback position, a couple of 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.480 pending free agents from last year's roster. Ryan Fitzpatrick is 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.560 an unrestricted free agent, Jake Rudoc is scheduled to be 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.800 a restricted free agent, and then of course the incumbents 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.720 on a futurist contract. Who was the backup to Ta 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.760 in the week's seventeen game this year read Senet And 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.760 then of course the number five pick in the draft 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:51.160 last year, rookie to a tongue of yloa. And that's 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:52.800 where we really get into this right here. We talked 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.760 about to a bit on the Tuesday podcast. I tweeted 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.760 out a deep ball statistic from tah over the week 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.920 from Jonathan Kinsley does the Deep Ball the Quarterback Deep 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.480 Ball Project every single year and saw some of the 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.920 accurate downfield shots. It was throws from a clean pocket 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.920 twenty or more yards down field to was eight of 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.280 twelve with accurate throws on those on those passes, and 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.840 that was tied for the second best percentage. Now, albeit 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.520 a small sample size, but you go back to his 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.080 college tape, and that's what he did at Alabama was 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.880 just a constant downfield threat. They would get defenses creeping 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:28.439 up on that strong running game, the quick the quick game, 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.720 the slant game, the rpo game, and then he would 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:33.319 unleash the deep ball, just hit these perfect long balls 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.720 and stride to streaking receivers down the football field. And 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:41.640 you know this offseason already, I've been grinding through draft 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.520 prospect tape, potential free agent tape. I've been looking at 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.920 the Dolphin's own roster as well, and recently I've gotten 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.080 back into to US tape and going back over his 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.280 starts and just even from the first game against the Rams, 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.240 the ball was coming out so quickly based upon you 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.440 would see a defender shift or rotate in one direction 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.480 and the ball would go in the vacancy left by 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.560 that defender quickly after there by Towah. So you continue 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.719 to see the way he kind of processes the defenses. 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:09.200 And I'm not gonna sit here and tell you I 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.839 know the calls of the offense or what his progression is, 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.400 but it jives with this stat that he had the 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:18.720 eighth quickest time from snap to release this year in 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:20.960 the National Football League. And we go back to the 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.800 comment Daniel Jeremiah of the NFL Network said about what 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.760 Too reminds him as in terms of his like, you know, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.559 off the football field analogy, and he always called him 0:12:30.559 --> 0:12:34.640 a blackjack dealer. Just ball comes out quick, super super 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.760 good with the ball handling and detail oriented in that 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.040 in the ball fakes and the play fakes and and 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.760 getting defenders kind of you know, out of the passing 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:45.839 lanes and shifting their their launch point in their momentum 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.640 to create throwing lanes for himself. And I thought we 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.360 saw that consistently throughout the year on tongue of by 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:54.040 Lowe's tape. And I just continue to be impressed by 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.680 the location of the football, his ability to put the 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.800 ball on on location with awkward platform like for instance, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.880 back to that Rams game the touchdown passed to DeVante 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.120 Parker where there's a six man rush coming. The Dolphins 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.880 slide the protection away from a rusher off the left 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.760 and a cat blitz a cornerback coming on the blitz, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:14.960 and you see two of his eyes start first to 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.520 the right and the free rush coming off the left. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.520 As soon as he moves his head back at all 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:22.960 excuse me, to the middle of the field, he's he 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.080 then just flips that thing out because he picks up 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.640 that free rusher with a kind of side glance and 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.240 then flips that thing out without even getting his feet set. 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.240 He just has that quick release that can help you 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:36.480 mitigate free rushers, can help you mitigate immediate pressure. And 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:38.839 to me, that's the name of quarterback. The name of 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.520 the game at the quarterback position in one is how 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.320 can you mitigate pressure and how can you get the 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.760 football out quickly? And we saw, you know, all year 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:49.520 long to a did well against the blitz. Pro Football 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.760 Focus had him with seven touchdown passes compared to just 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:56.360 one interception when the defense sent five or more rushers. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.800 He was also eleventh among quarterbacks in PFFS quarterback and 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:04.000 will this massive, massive data collection piece of you know, 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:07.080 post season content they produced every single season. They have 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:09.400 a metric that kind of measures the level of accuracy 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:11.280 whether or not you lead the receiver, you through the 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.360 ball on body, whether it was high or low or 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:17.320 behind and in the accuracy plus metric tongue Bylowa was 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.840 eleventh and National Football League there for PFF. So, you know, 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.240 we've heard coaches x, you know, executive people in the 0:14:24.280 --> 0:14:27.040 media talk about how the biggest jump for a player 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.520 can often come from year one to year two. Field 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.040 Yates referred to I believe it was Bill Parcel saying 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.800 that back on the Drivetime podcast a couple of weeks ago, 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:36.600 and I just think if you get that jump, you 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.920 get some of those the you know, learning the way 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.360 the NFL game works. The first year, rookie season, you 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:43.920 get that second year jomb. I think we could be 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:46.520 in for a special season here for the Dolphins quarterback. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.880 So now it kind of circles back to what does 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.880 the rest of the position look like. We talked about 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.520 Red Senette being here. We talked about two possible free 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.760 agents in Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jake RUDOC and just to 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.720 get a disclaimer on the air here before we go 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.560 into us any further, none of these views expressed are 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.880 the opinion of the football team. This is me putting 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:07.880 together a list of players based upon Pro Football Focus 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.400 on the Draft network, and they're big boards according to 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:14.520 free agents and draft draft eligible players alike. So if 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.000 you look at Pro Football Focuses Top one hundred and 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.680 fifty free agent list, and there are so many of 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.200 these publications that have these. NFL dot Com usually does 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.280 Top one oh one. I believe the Touchdown Why Are 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.720 USA Today has their Top one hundred as well, so 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.120 you can get your variety of lists. Pro Football Focus 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.880 has one d and fifty and on that list, twelve 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.880 of the names their quarterbacks. Dak Prescott obviously at the 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:39.000 Cowboys starting quarterback big time. Uh, you know, top line 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:43.840 quarterback Jamis Winston, Cam Newton, Andy Dalton, Tyrod Taylor, Mitchell Rabiskie, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:48.120 Jacoby Brissette, Joe Flacco, Mike Glennon and C. J. Betha 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.720 as well as Ryan Fitzpatrick all made that top one 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:53.200 fifty list. And you have to kind of make that decision, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:55.120 do you want to go and try to draft and 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.120 develop a quarterback to maybe Groom as a long term 0:15:58.120 --> 0:16:00.560 backup or a long term understudy or a long term 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:03.400 development behind Tungo Bylowa. Do you go out and sign 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.440 the veteran quarterback that can come in and the pinch 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:07.440 and spark, you know, a couple of drives and get 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:08.880 you a win late in the game if you're starting 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:11.320 quarterback goes down in the game or you know, has 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.280 to play a couple of games because he is in 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:15.760 fact injured. Do you go that route? Do you try 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.560 to go the route of the type of career resurgence 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.440 like we saw, for instance with Ryan Tannehill and Tennessee. 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.760 Do you go after a guy like a Mitchell Robinsky 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.360 on this list who was drafted highly and kind of 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.000 you know, fell out of favor there in Chicago. Do 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.080 you go that route? There are so many options you 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:33.840 can choose here, both between free agency and the draft. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.560 And the interesting part about the draft prospects here from 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:39.280 the Draft Network is they have five quarterbacks in the 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.120 top forty three, and there's kind of a tier gap 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:44.560 in the next tier after that for them. Trevor Lawrence, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.160 Justin Fields, Zack Wilson, and Trey Lance. All four of 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.120 those guys are in their top eleven. They have Mac Jones, 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:53.480 the alimenta quarterback at number forty three. Then you drop 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.080 off to Kyle Trask, who's number one and thirty five 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.640 overall player for them on their draft board out of Florida, 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.520 Advis Mills out of Standford, Jamie Newman out of Georgia, 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.119 Sam Ellinger out of Texas and Kellen mont At of 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:06.720 Texas A and M who was the m v P 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.240 of the Senior Bowl, albeit in a losing effort on 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.320 the American team thought he had a good game. They're 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.359 in an interesting career at Texas A and M. So again, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.000 do you go back into this day three area and 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.040 try to find a quarterback in that range the free 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.159 agency market. It will be very interesting to see what 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.760 the Dolphins do at that position to help support that 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.520 quarterback room and support or starting quarterback into a tongue 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:29.520 by loa. They also can help the quarterback room at 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.520 every position. You can do this, but of course with 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.680 having a stronger running game, and that's where we look 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.040 at the running back position. But first we take a 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:39.080 look at the Dolphins incumbent running backs with some guys 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:41.000 that had a really nice season last year and starting 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.120 off there with Miles Gaskin, the I guess bell cow 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.240 of the group. He played plenty of ball when he 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:49.159 was healthy and available for the Dolphins. Damn near average 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.200 one hundred yards from scrimmage. That was a top eleven 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.200 finish in the NFL in terms of yards per scrimmage 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.560 yards from scrimmage per game if you played enough games 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.480 to qualify for that. But Gaskin showed you the patients, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.679 the running, the vision, the speed to get to that 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.760 second level and to to create poor angles for tacklers 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:09.399 at that second level and make guys miss and bounce 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:11.919 off them. Also showed you as the impact he can 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.720 have in the passing game, had that long touchdown against 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.399 the Raiders, got out the gate a couple of times 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.280 on some screen passes and would flex out wide run 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.800 routes that way. Good versatile multiple back Miles Gaskin that 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:25.360 can really be kind of scheme diverse for you. Has 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.920 that excellent backside vision where he can press front side, 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.480 get to the backside quickly and work against the flow 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.280 of the defense. And then the savan Akhmed the fellow 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.840 you dub former you Dub running back, I should say 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.760 along with Miles Gaskin. And we talked to UH coach 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.680 Keith bonoffa from you Dub the running backs coach there. 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:45.159 He talked about how Gaskin was more smooth jazz and 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:48.119 Ahmed was more hip hop, in your face, gonna get 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.520 to the whole right now, very explosive. And we saw 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.919 him have success with a hundred yard day late in 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.159 December and a big Dolphins win over the Patriots in 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.119 that game and contributing, you know, in multiple ways on 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:00.919 special teams, in the running game and with that speed 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.280 to burn had a big long thirty one yard run 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.040 in that game against the Patriots as well. So the 0:19:05.040 --> 0:19:09.840 explosive element there with Savon Akhmed. Patrick Laird also excuse 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.200 me returns as an incumbent on the Dolphins roster, have 0:19:12.200 --> 0:19:15.280 been a very valuable special teams piece. Has again contributed 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:17.359