Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami by tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time
Speaker 1: Podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, we're answering your mail
Speaker 1: bad questions. We'll do the Apple reviews and then get
Speaker 1: to the thread I posted on Twitter for your questions.
Speaker 1: And remember we're doing this weekly during the season as well,
Speaker 1: so each week get those five star reviews up on
Speaker 1: whichever platform you listened to, and also the mailbag on
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Speaker 1: Flowers breakdown from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcasts. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start this thing off with some Trey Flowers
Speaker 1: coverage as the Dolphins added him to the roster this week,
Speaker 1: and I went through a few game tapes both of
Speaker 1: the Patriots and the Lions and the Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: data to get a feel for his game. At this
Speaker 1: stage of his career. Let's go ahead and start with
Speaker 1: the Actually, you know what, let's go ahead and start
Speaker 1: with the media from the last few days because we
Speaker 1: have both had both John Manager Chris Greer and Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel discussing the Trey Flowers acquisition. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start here with Dolphins GM Chris Greer after the Dolphins
Speaker 1: had signed Trey Flowers. Yeah, I think, you know, treys
Speaker 1: familiarity with our our system and scheme helps. You know,
Speaker 1: he was with New England and Josh obviously and um
Speaker 1: those guys so um e Rob and those guys that
Speaker 1: he has, those guys here on on the roster, and
Speaker 1: so we're kind of looking for someone with his skill set,
Speaker 1: the guy that can play you know, all along the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, you know, his time in New England
Speaker 1: and you could do some rush inside as well too,
Speaker 1: which is which will help. So I think his versatility
Speaker 1: and what he's done, you know, he's still you know,
Speaker 1: twenty eight years old. You know, Um, we understand you
Speaker 1: know that he's had you know, some bad luck with
Speaker 1: injuries a couple of years, but here he's not asked
Speaker 1: to come in here and be a star force. It's
Speaker 1: coming here. Just be a good player and help us
Speaker 1: like he is and and he's a great teammate, good person.
Speaker 1: Everything we've heard about him is from people in New
Speaker 1: England and Detroit, but what kind of character in person?
Speaker 1: He was so um excited to add him here just
Speaker 1: us being around him just for a few days, really
Speaker 1: really good dude. UM so excited to for him and
Speaker 1: looking forward to see how he fits in the scheme
Speaker 1: here with our guys and Coach McDaniel was asked about
Speaker 1: the reports of the Trey Flowers signing before it had
Speaker 1: been made official, and he talked about how he couldn't
Speaker 1: confirm it and was hopeful that the deal could put
Speaker 1: potentially get done. Now we know that it is. So
Speaker 1: here is Coach McDaniel on the new Miami outside linebacker.
Speaker 1: What I saw was a UM, a guy that's in shape,
Speaker 1: that's that's ready to play. A He's a consummate professional
Speaker 1: UM with a lot of versatility to his game and
Speaker 1: length UM and and plays uh. His style of football
Speaker 1: UM is UH conducive to uh, you know, the style
Speaker 1: we play. His versatility is attractive. So I think that
Speaker 1: point off the top with Chris career there about how
Speaker 1: Trey Flowers has had some bad luck with injury these
Speaker 1: last two years three two snaps last year, three nine
Speaker 1: back in and how we have you know, a role
Speaker 1: here where he can come in and be a part
Speaker 1: of that machine up front full of versatile, powerful guys
Speaker 1: that can just control the point and execute these many
Speaker 1: rush games of Josh Boyer. He's a guy who's done
Speaker 1: it at a very high level within a very similar
Speaker 1: defensive construction previously in his career. And I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about that because while his one just wasn't up to
Speaker 1: his usual standard of excellence, he's enjoyed so far in
Speaker 1: his career. If you go back to his higher career
Speaker 1: in New England, his rookie season was the only year
Speaker 1: where he didn't have high, high volume production and very
Speaker 1: very efficient production. Even in the injury shortened season with
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. He was really effective that year. Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus certainly thought so they give him the second
Speaker 1: highest grade of his career there, and I think it's
Speaker 1: important to note that the one season the outlier in
Speaker 1: terms of his PFF grades his pass rush productivity and
Speaker 1: not really his runstop percentage, because that was still there,
Speaker 1: but they both came when the Lions made a scheme change,
Speaker 1: going from when Matt Patricia was the head coach there
Speaker 1: to now Aaron Glenn as the defensive coordinator under Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell and completely different defensive principles, rules and structures. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's an article on lines dot com where Glenn talks
Speaker 1: about shifting from that two gap hold the point style
Speaker 1: to more of an aggressive, one gap up field attack.
Speaker 1: And you know this Dolphins team has guys that can
Speaker 1: do both of those things. Certainly, I mean, Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: makes a living off of playing a billion snaps, a
Speaker 1: billion different roles. But it's for the most part, it's
Speaker 1: typically been you know, hold your blocks, hold your gap,
Speaker 1: and and you know, get your eyes in the right spot,
Speaker 1: come off those blocks and stack things up and allow
Speaker 1: guys like Jerome Baker to run all over the place
Speaker 1: and make plays. So Trey Flowers takes on blocks with
Speaker 1: the best of them and can move all over the formation,
Speaker 1: which we know how critically important that is down here
Speaker 1: as well, specifically on some of those sub rush packages,
Speaker 1: like on the particular instances where you want to get
Speaker 1: like a NASCAR package where sometimes you've had a ball
Speaker 1: and Phillips on the same side. Add Trey Flowers to that.
Speaker 1: That's your you know, your past rush front. If you
Speaker 1: want to go into a deep half dollar package where
Speaker 1: you have seven defensive backs in the field and you
Speaker 1: only want to bring three or four guys like that
Speaker 1: might be your solution. You have so many different options
Speaker 1: within this defense for how guys can find their way
Speaker 1: onto the field. And then you just go look at
Speaker 1: his tape. It's full of a lot of the same
Speaker 1: type of winds that you'll see from Emmanuel Ogba and
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, but it's also a mix of what guys
Speaker 1: like Zack Seeler and Christian Wilkins do because he's very,
Speaker 1: very very adept at playing through his man and playing
Speaker 1: the run on the way to the quarterback. Those long
Speaker 1: arms and powerful hands, they show up a lot on
Speaker 1: his tape. His sacks tend to be where he'll rush
Speaker 1: upfield and put the tackle under some sort of urgency
Speaker 1: to get to a specific landmark and then change direction.
Speaker 1: And you know, if the guy if the tackle cuts
Speaker 1: off his speed rush, he can then throw the hands
Speaker 1: and kind of take control from there because at that
Speaker 1: point the offensive tackle has to you know, redirect and
Speaker 1: shift their body weight, and his heavy hands and length
Speaker 1: allows him to make first contact but also you know,
Speaker 1: movable contact because he is so powerful, and a lot
Speaker 1: of his sack production is where he engages and discards.
Speaker 1: He's also just a terrific second, third, fourth effort type
Speaker 1: of rusher where you know, got to go around this
Speaker 1: side quarterback moves a little bit. You know, we have
Speaker 1: lots of plays in this defense where there's good coverage
Speaker 1: and quarterbacks have to kind of extend, extend plays and
Speaker 1: make plays that way. Think about Josh Allen, who loves
Speaker 1: doing that and it's very effective at doing that. He
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that can, you know, not just
Speaker 1: blow by the quarterback with that bad habit of just
Speaker 1: being on the wrong the absolute worst spot of the
Speaker 1: field behind the quarterback, but rather play with his eyes
Speaker 1: up and kind of track the quarterback and used, like
Speaker 1: I mentioned, that length and really good grip strength and
Speaker 1: heavy hands to defeat those secondary and third you know,
Speaker 1: pass sets and pass block situations. So he's valuable in
Speaker 1: that regard and the terrific balance that he has to
Speaker 1: fight through some doubles and also kind of angle to
Speaker 1: the quarterback, you know, not really that dissimilar to what
Speaker 1: my camp report was on Christian Wilkins and how he's
Speaker 1: able to squeeze through those tight gaps without losing his
Speaker 1: feet and almost gaining acceleration like a good running back
Speaker 1: does to the quarterback. I've been a big fan of
Speaker 1: his game for a while. I remember back in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen and free agency with all the reports that he
Speaker 1: was big on the Dolphins radar. I was pretty bummed
Speaker 1: when he landed with the Lions because I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to be a kind of a defensive cornerstone
Speaker 1: type of acquisition. But I don't think it's at all
Speaker 1: a bad consolation price to get him three years down
Speaker 1: the line, where obviously, you know, things changed a lot
Speaker 1: in three years, but I think this guy can still play.
Speaker 1: And you heard Chris Career talk about the shape that
Speaker 1: he's in, you know, at age twenty nine, that's plenty
Speaker 1: good enough for me. It sounds like a guy that
Speaker 1: was hungry to get back on the roster, and what
Speaker 1: a landing spot for him to return to this system,
Speaker 1: because when you look at his production within the system,
Speaker 1: going from seventeen through his past rush protactivity took a
Speaker 1: bit of a drop in seven point one percent to
Speaker 1: three years prior, thirteen point nine percent, thirteen point eight percent,
Speaker 1: and twelve point eight percent. That is pressures per pass
Speaker 1: rush reps, so effectively impacting the opposing team's passing game
Speaker 1: on your past rush opportunities. And then his run stop percentage,
Speaker 1: there's not really much of a change at all. I
Speaker 1: mean it's been better in certain years, but in eleven
Speaker 1: point nine percent, thirteen point nine percent, and eighteen it
Speaker 1: was fifteen point two and then twenty seventeen to ten
Speaker 1: point eight, so better than ten percent every single year
Speaker 1: his last four years in the system in terms of
Speaker 1: per rundown snap making a tackle within two yards of
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. It's a big part of his
Speaker 1: game as well, so plays the past, plays the run,
Speaker 1: and hell, even last year in the scheme change, he
Speaker 1: was still at ten point five percent run stop right,
Speaker 1: So you know between nineteen he played over dred snaps
Speaker 1: and total a hundred and eighty six pressures and a
Speaker 1: hundred and one run stops. And now you pair him
Speaker 1: with Wilkins, Seeler, Ray Kwon, Davis, Emmanuel Ogba, Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Gekl, Melvin Ingram, John Jenkins. My goodness, that
Speaker 1: is some real depth upfront. So that's your crash course,
Speaker 1: Entrey Flowers. Let's do the mailbag next. But first we
Speaker 1: have some new Apple reviews. I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to you guys. I put out the call
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Speaker 1: Love the depth and knowledge you give. Then he has
Speaker 1: a question about Alex Leatherwood and know igbanogeny and potential
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Speaker 1: claimed by the Chicago Bears and No Bogs and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins roster, so I guess that kind of answers the
Speaker 1: question right away. But I appreciate that the question and
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Speaker 1: your questions about this Dolphin's football team. The twitter in
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Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Alright,
Speaker 1: putting this podcast together at a time where I see
Speaker 1: thirty six questions in the Twitter and mail bag. My
Speaker 1: apologies if I did not get to yours. We simply
Speaker 1: can't do that many. And Pat Perk, Hey, limit one
Speaker 1: per customer, sir, Just firing off seven doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: Pat's a friend of mine, don't wear I'm not roasting
Speaker 1: our stranger on the podcast here at jaffe x y
Speaker 1: already putting my pronunciation deficiency in action here. Jaffee x
Speaker 1: y asks, how do you feel the old line will
Speaker 1: develop with Torn Armstead coming in? Well, I'm glad you asked,
Speaker 1: because those guys like Torn arms that are easy to
Speaker 1: talk about when they are that good at football. Toron
Speaker 1: is the kind of player that makes every single person
Speaker 1: around him better. He's gonna have answers for you know,
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg when he has questions about how to best
Speaker 1: handle Hey, what do you want on your inside posts?
Speaker 1: When they slant at the end in here on the
Speaker 1: on the past rush or tips for Austin Jackson on
Speaker 1: the other side about how to handle Hey, I faced
Speaker 1: you know Karl Lawson back in two thousand nineteen. He
Speaker 1: has this go to move, keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: And on top of that, the impact he had was
Speaker 1: so tangible when he got into team drills at practice,
Speaker 1: like you can slide protection away and just trust him
Speaker 1: against literally anybody in the world one on one. I
Speaker 1: would put him in past pro against any rusher healthy
Speaker 1: pound for pound, torn arms aid one on one. That's
Speaker 1: what he did for the Saints constantly. That's who he's
Speaker 1: been here in practice so far. And when I say
Speaker 1: there isn't a weakness in his game, that's the truth. Man.
Speaker 1: The one thing that he has been a bugaboo for
Speaker 1: him is just the injury bug. That's that's really it,
Speaker 1: which is obviously just kind of a random thing that
Speaker 1: sometimes occurs in a guy's career. Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes
Speaker 1: it happens a lot, sometimes never at all. You know.
Speaker 1: That's for the rest of the offensive line. I just
Speaker 1: think this system is great for the types of athletes
Speaker 1: they have. We heard a lot of support and trust
Speaker 1: from Chris Career and Mike McDaniel and the rest of
Speaker 1: the staff really in terms of how they feel about
Speaker 1: the recent draft picks along the offensive line. I think
Speaker 1: you've seen that come to fruition this camp in preseason.
Speaker 1: You gotta do when the lights come on here in September, obviously,
Speaker 1: but I think it's super encouraging. Like Rob Hunt to me,
Speaker 1: has a chance to make really really big strides this year,
Speaker 1: and I think be a damn good football player. He
Speaker 1: looks really good. Let's go ahead and get to one
Speaker 1: of Pat's questions here. You're crazy guy at Patty Perk
Speaker 1: asks Travis, when are you gonna lace him up and
Speaker 1: actually do something good for this team? You claim to love? Pat?
Speaker 1: My man me, lacing them up would be the worst
Speaker 1: decision this team could make. Now. Maybe if you didn't
Speaker 1: get lost and drive home through the night when you
Speaker 1: were supposed to come fly down here for training camp,
Speaker 1: you could have seen that I'm about a hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty pounds soaking web, but you decided to sleep in
Speaker 1: Detroit and drive back to Columbus for some reason. You know,
Speaker 1: I look skinny next to kicker, sir, so not a
Speaker 1: good idea. Next at d Hicks double oh two zeros asks.
Speaker 1: Do you think keeping five tight ends, two of which
Speaker 1: can run so well adds to the element of surprise
Speaker 1: from an offensive perspective? Yeah, absolutely, in the way that
Speaker 1: this defensive front has so many different roles and variations
Speaker 1: of what guys can do. You know, one with a
Speaker 1: certain front, two with a certain different type of call
Speaker 1: like a rush game, three a certain matchup where you know,
Speaker 1: player X in week two is different than player Y
Speaker 1: in week three in terms of their skill set and
Speaker 1: you want to exploit maybe a particular weakness. It's not
Speaker 1: that dissimilar on offense. And I think that's where the
Speaker 1: importance of this camp at the skill groups on offense
Speaker 1: rotating through with different quarterbacks and among one another. You know,
Speaker 1: one rep, you'd have Tyreek with Waddle in Cidrick Wilson,
Speaker 1: and then you'd have Tyreek with you know, Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and Lynn Bowden for instance. And this offense does a
Speaker 1: good job of exposing vulnerabilities and a defense and attacking
Speaker 1: them relentlessly. So let's say one week you have a
Speaker 1: defense that refused to go to their base package and
Speaker 1: wants to keep a nickel back on the field. Ball game,
Speaker 1: you know, not matching personnel. Well, okay, then you can
Speaker 1: line up in a twelve personnel package with two tight
Speaker 1: ends and run the football because now you have two
Speaker 1: five pound tight end blocking a you know, two hundred
Speaker 1: pounds safety or better one eight five pound nickel cornerback.
Speaker 1: And look at all the good blockers we haven't receiver
Speaker 1: to like Trent Sherfield is a great blocker. Eric a
Speaker 1: zoo Commasher's hell can do it, Cedric Wilson can, and
Speaker 1: then Waddle and Hill aren't the biggest guys, but they'll
Speaker 1: they'll do it to their best of their abilities, which
Speaker 1: a lot of times in that position is enough out
Speaker 1: there on the perimeter. Uh, if they make a decision
Speaker 1: to slide one of those safeties down and that package,
Speaker 1: maybe you say, all right, well, now we'll put Tyreek
Speaker 1: or Jalen in there, and all of a sudden they're
Speaker 1: thinking about the run, and now we expose that vacancy
Speaker 1: and the vertical element of their defense. So it's a
Speaker 1: matchup based league in Miami has skill groups, as coach said,
Speaker 1: where they knew they'd have to cut NFL ready players
Speaker 1: at both running back and wide receiver. So it's a
Speaker 1: great question but this is this skill group is it
Speaker 1: looks pretty damn good out there so far? In the
Speaker 1: month of August at Darren Hersman, Hersman asks how much
Speaker 1: does the final preseason game impact roster cuts? Do coaches
Speaker 1: have a pretty good idea prior to the game based
Speaker 1: on the entire camp or does the final preseason game
Speaker 1: really move the needle. That's a really good question, and
Speaker 1: allow me to preface it with this, I don't have
Speaker 1: intimate knowledge of that, but I do think it's a
Speaker 1: team by team case. Like did you catch the last
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks episode on Tuesday? Dan Campbell sure as hell
Speaker 1: sent the message to the team that this is like
Speaker 1: your chance to make a play and make it hard
Speaker 1: on us as a coaching staff. He had this speech
Speaker 1: about the balance between talented players who make mistakes and
Speaker 1: guys who maybe aren't as talented but do everything right.
Speaker 1: And they even discussed how the loss of a certain
Speaker 1: player in the locker room might anger other guys on
Speaker 1: the team, just about how it's a delicate ecosystem that
Speaker 1: requires very delicate attention to detail, a very tough job. Now,
Speaker 1: coach did allude to the final spots on a to
Speaker 1: the last final spots on a roster at a recent
Speaker 1: press conference. So if I were forced to paint with
Speaker 1: a broader brush, I would say that most of the time,
Speaker 1: teams have an idea about a good chunk, maybe somewhere
Speaker 1: between forty five and fifty players. But a good example
Speaker 1: is a guy like Kater co who you know his
Speaker 1: level of competition at Texas A and M commerce. Now
Speaker 1: he's well built, athletic as hell, but you just can't
Speaker 1: know how he's going to handle the step up on competition, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he had the good All Star season this you know,
Speaker 1: back in January February, and handled that step up in competition.
Speaker 1: But this is the NFL. That's a These are the
Speaker 1: best players on the planet. So when a guy like
Speaker 1: that sticks and the coaches are like, Okay, we've got
Speaker 1: something here, that's why I think some of those quote
Speaker 1: unquote surprises can come into play. And to finish it off,
Speaker 1: coach has been adamant about not short changing the process
Speaker 1: and letting everything play out before coming to a conclusion.
Speaker 1: So that last game on matters, So does the entire
Speaker 1: body of work too. So I hope that I hope
Speaker 1: that makes sense. Let's go to our last break here
Speaker 1: and come back with some more male bad question And
Speaker 1: I want to tell you another Jason Jenkins story. I
Speaker 1: just can't stop thinking about the guy, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep talking about him here on the Drivetime podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's
Speaker 1: keep the mail bag rolling here with Paul McGuire at
Speaker 1: Paul Kwan con McGuire at Paul con McGuire, Hey, Travis,
Speaker 1: this is my thirty eighth season following the team from
Speaker 1: Afar from Scotland. Wow, this is me now talking. I
Speaker 1: always marvel at the international fan base because of the
Speaker 1: time of our games in your homeland. It's crazy. Back
Speaker 1: to Paul here. This is the most excited I've been
Speaker 1: about our roster and years great to hear season tickets
Speaker 1: have sold out. What do you sense the general feeling
Speaker 1: within the building about the team's chances are this year?
Speaker 1: Well again, Paul, thank you for your support Mowether in Scotland.
Speaker 1: The excitement is certainly palpable, although you know we have
Speaker 1: heavy hearts the last week or so here on the building.
Speaker 1: But once things get going, I'm sure football will help
Speaker 1: kind of ease that grieving process. But We've heard this
Speaker 1: from both Chris and coach about the decisions to trim
Speaker 1: the roster to fifty three and how tough that was.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyreek certainly brings a different energy and a
Speaker 1: definitive energy, I should say that you can feel throughout
Speaker 1: the entire building. And then obviously with coaches positivity, it's
Speaker 1: hard not to have that rub off on you. People
Speaker 1: are pumped, man, but we also know that additions don't
Speaker 1: equal success, and they gotta go out there and earn it.
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to watch them, you know, right
Speaker 1: the story of the season with their play on the field.
Speaker 1: Uh at Patty Perk, one question per customer, sir, stay
Speaker 1: out of here. At Socks Fans seventy, why haven't they
Speaker 1: sought to bring in a veteran corner They have. They
Speaker 1: brought him Mackenzie Alexander. He was at it after true
Speaker 1: Williams went down and also in dirt his own injuries.
Speaker 1: So it happens. Then at the Tuesday press conference, Chris
Speaker 1: Career told us they're searching the waiver wire all night
Speaker 1: after Tuesday, and I can promise you that has not
Speaker 1: stopped shoot by the time you hear this podcast, we
Speaker 1: probably will have some changes as pertains the practice, squad
Speaker 1: announcements and things of that nature. I would just urge
Speaker 1: the same message I did back in March. When there
Speaker 1: are you know, widespread social media panic about the team
Speaker 1: not being active enough before for agency is even kicked off.
Speaker 1: Like the tampering period, this isn't a process that ends
Speaker 1: in one hour. So if there's a chance to make
Speaker 1: the team better, Chris, Mike and Brandon Shure are going
Speaker 1: to do it. So just bottom line that at gave
Speaker 1: GENO thirteen what's up game? Long time man gave asks
Speaker 1: we have been Uh, we have to be prepared for defense.
Speaker 1: Defense is to play us like they did the Chiefs
Speaker 1: last year. Right. Therefore, not as many deep shots as
Speaker 1: some might be expecting. I'm already preparing for the outrage
Speaker 1: when two goes deep one or two times the first
Speaker 1: few games, when in reality he just takes what he
Speaker 1: was given. Well, there's a lot to unpack your game,
Speaker 1: but it's all very good. First, if you're hoping to
Speaker 1: find resolution and logic on social all Borrow coaches quote
Speaker 1: from Tuesday's presser, if you hold your breath on that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pass out. So don't do that. In fact, tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I'm bringing back the scain the social segment. My whole
Speaker 1: stick is that it's not gonna change like goal posts
Speaker 1: will always be moving, moving, and whatever gets the people
Speaker 1: talking and clicking is gonna be selling it and driving.
Speaker 1: That's just how it is done nowadays, unfortunately. But uh,
Speaker 1: mental gymnastics two proofs one is right is more important
Speaker 1: than educating one self for the most part. So I digress.
Speaker 1: But now is for the defensive looks. We'll see it's
Speaker 1: a great point. That's the Still the craziest thing to
Speaker 1: me about that Tyreek deep ball against the Eagles. They
Speaker 1: were in a too hish shell and they played quarters,
Speaker 1: which gives you, you know, four defensive backs gaining depth
Speaker 1: and each playing a quarter of the field. And Cheetah
Speaker 1: still you know, got on top of that. I got
Speaker 1: is a deep ball limiting type of defense and he
Speaker 1: just ran by dudes. And the thing I love about
Speaker 1: this offense is that I think they have several routes
Speaker 1: to playing winning football within the capabilities and the arsenal
Speaker 1: they have. If you want to play with a pair
Speaker 1: of safety is off the ball, fine, we'll run the
Speaker 1: ball until they change it, use the screen game and
Speaker 1: force him to come from that depth and make open
Speaker 1: field tackles on those freaky fast dudes out Why there
Speaker 1: are many ways to attack with the weapons you have
Speaker 1: and the skin in the system that you have, in
Speaker 1: the quarterback that you have. You want to play zero
Speaker 1: or cover one. Then we got you know, stretch the legs. Guys,
Speaker 1: get ready to take take it deep. You go to
Speaker 1: the deep part of the field, Go intermediate, go quick game.
Speaker 1: I think you can run it. There are always that
Speaker 1: complement each other as well. Look look at where he
Speaker 1: most are on that first drive against the Eagles. All
Speaker 1: three pass plays were play action and just look at
Speaker 1: the flow of that second level trying to contend with
Speaker 1: getting width against those wide run looks and then trying
Speaker 1: to recover to get back effective speed. Can do that
Speaker 1: with vertical stretch, but it's just as important that they
Speaker 1: can do it with the horizontal stretch. I think they
Speaker 1: did a fantastic job of constructing this thing for that, Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, an offense that wants to really
Speaker 1: chew up yak for Tyreek and jalen Man and Eric
Speaker 1: and Zukama's a beast in that department Cedric Wilson had
Speaker 1: great success with it. Last year. We saw what you know,
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds can do after the catch where heam has
Speaker 1: that big play speed. Uh, it's it's all the way
Speaker 1: across the roster. I just think the way to recap
Speaker 1: this answer is to say that the offense is constructed
Speaker 1: to have answers for the adjustments and to go to
Speaker 1: a secondary, third, or fourth route to victory on any
Speaker 1: given Sunday, which is something every team that wants to,
Speaker 1: you know, win double digit games, make the playoffs, win
Speaker 1: a division, and be a factor in January. They all
Speaker 1: have to have that alright, good spot to call it
Speaker 1: right there. I appreciate all the questions about which vets
Speaker 1: we should look out for, understand the questions, but I
Speaker 1: just can't get into that about who I think should
Speaker 1: be available to sign a It's not It's just not
Speaker 1: something I do here. So let's end with this. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do a quick Jason Jenkins story today as I
Speaker 1: continue to battle with you know, how to grieve with
Speaker 1: this um you know, losses, I guess not is a
Speaker 1: case by case basis as a football term would be.
Speaker 1: And you know, part of me says, keep it to yourself.
Speaker 1: Part of me, says the human experience is sharing it
Speaker 1: with others for empathy and understanding is the best way
Speaker 1: to do it. And also I love spreading memory of
Speaker 1: a great person. So with that, my wife is a teacher.
Speaker 1: When she first moved down here, she asked if the
Speaker 1: team could potentially give her some dolphins themed classroom supplies
Speaker 1: and I said, I think I might just know a
Speaker 1: guy that can help us with that. So Jason and
Speaker 1: I had a meeting schedule together later that week. Are
Speaker 1: you know bi weekly thirty minutes and I'm gonna miss
Speaker 1: so so very much. I learned more in those thirty
Speaker 1: minutes than really, you know, anything else, And um, you know,
Speaker 1: think about that who looks forward to a half hour
Speaker 1: with their boss. That's just who Jason was man. So
Speaker 1: in this meeting, after you know, our pleasant trees and
Speaker 1: his trash talk about my marriners, and as he always did,
Speaker 1: he asked about Caitlin and Caroline, and I said, well,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned Mrs Wingfield because um, she has
Speaker 1: a favor to ask of you. And I explained to
Speaker 1: him that she was trying to score some points with
Speaker 1: her new students and before I could finish the asks.
Speaker 1: The ask he said, you know, say less, say less,
Speaker 1: fam And he goes to his computer and fires off
Speaker 1: an email. And that same week, I get home one
Speaker 1: day and there's a box full of hundreds of Dolphins
Speaker 1: pencils and rulers and stickers for the kids, all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff. But it was the smile that stretched across
Speaker 1: his face when he processed this was an ask to
Speaker 1: give back to the community in a way. There was
Speaker 1: nothing he loved more so again, Jason Jenkins, We're gonna
Speaker 1: miss you man. That sets my That's my time today.
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