WEBVTT - Post Camp Twitter Mailbag and Trey Flowers Breakdown 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.360 To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami by tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:18.200 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.960 Podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.000 --> 0:00:27.360 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.920 Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, we're answering your mail 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.000 bad questions. We'll do the Apple reviews and then get 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.199 to the thread I posted on Twitter for your questions. 0:00:37.240 --> 0:00:40.680 And remember we're doing this weekly during the season as well, 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.680 so each week get those five star reviews up on 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.239 whichever platform you listened to, and also the mailbag on 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:50.520 Twitter at Wingfield NFL plus, I owe you a Trey 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:54.440 Flowers breakdown from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:00:54.440 --> 0:01:02.920 Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcasts. Let's go 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.760 ahead and start this thing off with some Trey Flowers 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.960 coverage as the Dolphins added him to the roster this week, 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.480 and I went through a few game tapes both of 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:14.759 the Patriots and the Lions and the Pro Football Focus 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.560 data to get a feel for his game. At this 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.200 stage of his career. Let's go ahead and start with 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:21.760 the Actually, you know what, let's go ahead and start 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.560 with the media from the last few days because we 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:27.360 have both had both John Manager Chris Greer and Mike 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:31.240 McDaniel discussing the Trey Flowers acquisition. Let's go ahead and 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.560 start here with Dolphins GM Chris Greer after the Dolphins 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.480 had signed Trey Flowers. Yeah, I think, you know, treys 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.560 familiarity with our our system and scheme helps. You know, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.840 he was with New England and Josh obviously and um 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:46.800 those guys so um e Rob and those guys that 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.640 he has, those guys here on on the roster, and 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.840 so we're kind of looking for someone with his skill set, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.280 the guy that can play you know, all along the 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.920 line of scrimmage, you know, his time in New England 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.200 and you could do some rush inside as well too, 0:02:00.240 --> 0:02:03.160 which is which will help. So I think his versatility 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.080 and what he's done, you know, he's still you know, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.200 twenty eight years old. You know, Um, we understand you 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:11.040 know that he's had you know, some bad luck with 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.480 injuries a couple of years, but here he's not asked 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.160 to come in here and be a star force. It's 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:17.320 coming here. Just be a good player and help us 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.760 like he is and and he's a great teammate, good person. 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.760 Everything we've heard about him is from people in New 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.320 England and Detroit, but what kind of character in person? 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.560 He was so um excited to add him here just 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:30.720 us being around him just for a few days, really 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.120 really good dude. UM so excited to for him and 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.720 looking forward to see how he fits in the scheme 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.800 here with our guys and Coach McDaniel was asked about 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.560 the reports of the Trey Flowers signing before it had 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.120 been made official, and he talked about how he couldn't 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.679 confirm it and was hopeful that the deal could put 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.280 potentially get done. Now we know that it is. So 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.960 here is Coach McDaniel on the new Miami outside linebacker. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.720 What I saw was a UM, a guy that's in shape, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.400 that's that's ready to play. A He's a consummate professional 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:06.080 UM with a lot of versatility to his game and 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:11.639 length UM and and plays uh. His style of football 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:17.360 UM is UH conducive to uh, you know, the style 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:21.799 we play. His versatility is attractive. So I think that 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.200 point off the top with Chris career there about how 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:26.880 Trey Flowers has had some bad luck with injury these 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.679 last two years three two snaps last year, three nine 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.920 back in and how we have you know, a role 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.920 here where he can come in and be a part 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:39.560 of that machine up front full of versatile, powerful guys 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.520 that can just control the point and execute these many 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.080 rush games of Josh Boyer. He's a guy who's done 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.120 it at a very high level within a very similar 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.880 defensive construction previously in his career. And I'm really excited 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.400 about that because while his one just wasn't up to 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.160 his usual standard of excellence, he's enjoyed so far in 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:00.480 his career. If you go back to his higher career 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:03.840 in New England, his rookie season was the only year 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.839 where he didn't have high, high volume production and very 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:11.160 very efficient production. Even in the injury shortened season with 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.240 the Detroit Lions. He was really effective that year. Pro 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.000 Football Focus certainly thought so they give him the second 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.400 highest grade of his career there, and I think it's 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.840 important to note that the one season the outlier in 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.240 terms of his PFF grades his pass rush productivity and 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:29.440 not really his runstop percentage, because that was still there, 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.279 but they both came when the Lions made a scheme change, 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.040 going from when Matt Patricia was the head coach there 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.240 to now Aaron Glenn as the defensive coordinator under Dan 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:43.359 Campbell and completely different defensive principles, rules and structures. In fact, 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:46.080 there's an article on lines dot com where Glenn talks 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.719 about shifting from that two gap hold the point style 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.880 to more of an aggressive, one gap up field attack. 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.320 And you know this Dolphins team has guys that can 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.560 do both of those things. Certainly, I mean, Christian Wilkins 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.080 makes a living off of playing a billion snaps, a 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:05.280 billion different roles. But it's for the most part, it's 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.640 typically been you know, hold your blocks, hold your gap, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.840 and and you know, get your eyes in the right spot, 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.200 come off those blocks and stack things up and allow 0:05:12.279 --> 0:05:14.200 guys like Jerome Baker to run all over the place 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:17.080 and make plays. So Trey Flowers takes on blocks with 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.400 the best of them and can move all over the formation, 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.920 which we know how critically important that is down here 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:24.880 as well, specifically on some of those sub rush packages, 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.640 like on the particular instances where you want to get 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.160 like a NASCAR package where sometimes you've had a ball 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.039 and Phillips on the same side. Add Trey Flowers to that. 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.480 That's your you know, your past rush front. If you 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:38.159 want to go into a deep half dollar package where 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.320 you have seven defensive backs in the field and you 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.520 only want to bring three or four guys like that 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:44.800 might be your solution. You have so many different options 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.120 within this defense for how guys can find their way 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:48.839 onto the field. And then you just go look at 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:50.839 his tape. It's full of a lot of the same 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.280 type of winds that you'll see from Emmanuel Ogba and 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:56.960 Jalen Phillips, but it's also a mix of what guys 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.000 like Zack Seeler and Christian Wilkins do because he's very, 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.240 very very adept at playing through his man and playing 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.440 the run on the way to the quarterback. Those long 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:07.800 arms and powerful hands, they show up a lot on 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.560 his tape. His sacks tend to be where he'll rush 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:14.800 upfield and put the tackle under some sort of urgency 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.919 to get to a specific landmark and then change direction. 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.080 And you know, if the guy if the tackle cuts 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.560 off his speed rush, he can then throw the hands 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.960 and kind of take control from there because at that 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.120 point the offensive tackle has to you know, redirect and 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.200 shift their body weight, and his heavy hands and length 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:35.200 allows him to make first contact but also you know, 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.520 movable contact because he is so powerful, and a lot 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.680 of his sack production is where he engages and discards. 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.640 He's also just a terrific second, third, fourth effort type 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.920 of rusher where you know, got to go around this 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:49.760 side quarterback moves a little bit. You know, we have 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.400 lots of plays in this defense where there's good coverage 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.159 and quarterbacks have to kind of extend, extend plays and 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.760 make plays that way. Think about Josh Allen, who loves 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.840 doing that and it's very effective at doing that. He 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.919 the kind of guy that can, you know, not just 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.680 blow by the quarterback with that bad habit of just 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:06.919 being on the wrong the absolute worst spot of the 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.600 field behind the quarterback, but rather play with his eyes 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.240 up and kind of track the quarterback and used, like 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.120 I mentioned, that length and really good grip strength and 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.200 heavy hands to defeat those secondary and third you know, 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.240 pass sets and pass block situations. So he's valuable in 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.680 that regard and the terrific balance that he has to 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.680 fight through some doubles and also kind of angle to 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.240 the quarterback, you know, not really that dissimilar to what 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.720 my camp report was on Christian Wilkins and how he's 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.880 able to squeeze through those tight gaps without losing his 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.920 feet and almost gaining acceleration like a good running back 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.600 does to the quarterback. I've been a big fan of 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.400 his game for a while. I remember back in twenty 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.880 nineteen and free agency with all the reports that he 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.480 was big on the Dolphins radar. I was pretty bummed 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.200 when he landed with the Lions because I thought he 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:52.720 was going to be a kind of a defensive cornerstone 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.440 type of acquisition. But I don't think it's at all 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.000 a bad consolation price to get him three years down 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.080 the line, where obviously, you know, things changed a lot 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.880 in three years, but I think this guy can still play. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.080 And you heard Chris Career talk about the shape that 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.239 he's in, you know, at age twenty nine, that's plenty 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:08.760 good enough for me. It sounds like a guy that 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.680 was hungry to get back on the roster, and what 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.920 a landing spot for him to return to this system, 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.080 because when you look at his production within the system, 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:21.240 going from seventeen through his past rush protactivity took a 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.400 bit of a drop in seven point one percent to 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.560 three years prior, thirteen point nine percent, thirteen point eight percent, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:32.200 and twelve point eight percent. That is pressures per pass 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:37.240 rush reps, so effectively impacting the opposing team's passing game 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.640 on your past rush opportunities. And then his run stop percentage, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:42.280 there's not really much of a change at all. I 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.840 mean it's been better in certain years, but in eleven 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:50.400 point nine percent, thirteen point nine percent, and eighteen it 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.520 was fifteen point two and then twenty seventeen to ten 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.360 point eight, so better than ten percent every single year 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.520 his last four years in the system in terms of 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.439 per rundown snap making a tackle within two yards of 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.160 the line of scrimmage. It's a big part of his 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.200 game as well, so plays the past, plays the run, 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.480 and hell, even last year in the scheme change, he 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.000 was still at ten point five percent run stop right, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:18.040 So you know between nineteen he played over dred snaps 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.079 and total a hundred and eighty six pressures and a 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.480 hundred and one run stops. And now you pair him 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.040 with Wilkins, Seeler, Ray Kwon, Davis, Emmanuel Ogba, Jalen Phillips, 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.960 Andrew Van Gekl, Melvin Ingram, John Jenkins. My goodness, that 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.840 is some real depth upfront. So that's your crash course, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.880 Entrey Flowers. Let's do the mailbag next. But first we 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.559 have some new Apple reviews. I want to go ahead 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.640 and get to you guys. I put out the call 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.120 a couple of podcasts ago, and all of a sudden, 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:44.880 the Apple reviews got flooded. So I want to go 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.400 ahead and read those guys. Thank you very much for 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.520 making that happen. Lightning Lou, the fourth I believe is 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.280 the name, uh just writes a five star review. Thanks 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.640 first listen of the day. Love the positive energy and knowledge. 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.320 Love the depth and knowledge you give. Then he has 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.040 a question about Alex Leatherwood and know igbanogeny and potential 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.160 trade situation. Well, we know that Leatherwood was released and 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.719 claimed by the Chicago Bears and No Bogs and the 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.079 Dolphins roster, so I guess that kind of answers the 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.080 question right away. But I appreciate that the question and 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.520 the review, Lightning Loo, I hope you enjoyed listening to 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:19.439 this podcast and more going into the season. Up next 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:23.640 from Kevin Reynolds twenty seven, He writes, Travis is really 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.680 the first podcast right I ever listened to. I've been 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.200 a Dolphins fan for over thirty five years my whole life, 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.600 and his knowledge and passion for the Miami Dolphins has 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.200 helped me become an even bigger fan. That's like, that's 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:36.040 the goal, man. I appreciate that, Kevin. That's what we're 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.800 going for here, trying to you know, I find more 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.679 enjoyment through more knowledge of the game, which is kind 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.800 of the approach here. He says, I became a fan 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.120 unlocked on Dolphins days and couldn't be happier for him 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.439 to transition to the Dolphins official podcast. Talks about following 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:52.319 to throughout his college career. That was a fun year 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:55.120 in twenty nineteen track and all the college players with 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:58.440 that loaded drafts capital the Dolphins had in twenty My 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.840 biggest takeaways that even though Travil has all the football 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:03.439 knowledge and scouting information, he still comes across as a 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.360 huge fan of the team, just like one of us. 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.199 If you're a Dolphins fan, you have to listen to 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.400 this podcast. Thank you very much, Kevin. I appreciate that 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.599 taking the time to write in next here from I 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.439 like this name the Master and Margarita good stuff, five stars. 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.680 He writes, born in nineteen seventy nine, fan my entire life, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.840 listen to the podcast with my eighty year old dad. 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.800 Admittedly this is a team's podcast, but he provides honest 0:11:24.800 --> 0:11:28.439 and entertaining commentary. Thank you for that and entertaining that 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.600 certainly is the next biggest aspect in terms of informative 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.560 that we're going for trying to accomplish here on this podcast. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.800 So I really appreciate that. And also my apologies for 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.920 all the obscure kind of early mid late two thousand's 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.360 early odds references that I make that probably missed the 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.480 demographic that you're referring to their with you and your father. 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.000 But thank you again so much that that really means 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:51.520 a lot. I think Alway signed it John at the end. 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.520 Your name is John, so the master and Margharita is 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:58.440 in fact John. Rob Wilson nine two writes love the show, Travis, 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.439 uh perfect, love it, Thank you very much. Next one 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.000 is from John s h S. Great show, give it 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.559 a listen to five stars perfect. We like those short 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.640 and sweet to the point, and we will take those 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.520 five stars any day. Next one here from Alkaline B. 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.760 He writes, Travis was awesome at Locked On, even better, 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.120 uh even better here with improved audio quality and backing. 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.040 He is my source for all things fins. Thank you 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.880 so much, Alkalne. It is funny, you know. The football 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.240 stuff was always easy because it was such a passion, 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.040 so it's more like second nature. But the improvement of 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.839 the audio engineer skills was certainly a labor of love. 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:35.440 But I'm so glad to become a second nature skill 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:37.280 of mine. Now, certainly you know a big part of 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.880 this podcast. Um, these aren't all positive. I appreciate the 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.800 ones that are and the ones that aren't as well. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.320 Here's one that I've seen several times before, often updated, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.320 which means us to listen to the podcast, which is 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.920 always interesting to me. One star fan boy, same old Travis, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:57.040 no honesty. Well I appreciate your honesty. Ghost Sons five four, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.719 three to one. You know I've seen that name in 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.760 there you time, so keep on updating them. One star, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:04.959 five star. They still help the algorithm to get the 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:06.880 podcast out to more listeners, which is the goal. So 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.440 appreciate y'all. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.760 and come right back to two mail Bag segments here 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.439 your questions about this Dolphin's football team. The twitter in 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.000 boxes packed full. That's next here on the Drivetime podcast, 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:28.680 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Alright, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.920 putting this podcast together at a time where I see 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:34.439 thirty six questions in the Twitter and mail bag. My 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:38.240 apologies if I did not get to yours. We simply 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.120 can't do that many. And Pat Perk, Hey, limit one 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:45.960 per customer, sir, Just firing off seven doesn't work that way. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:47.839 Pat's a friend of mine, don't wear I'm not roasting 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:51.200 our stranger on the podcast here at jaffe x y 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:55.560 already putting my pronunciation deficiency in action here. Jaffee x 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.600 y asks, how do you feel the old line will 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:01.280 develop with Torn Armstead coming in? Well, I'm glad you asked, 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.600 because those guys like Torn arms that are easy to 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:05.880 talk about when they are that good at football. Toron 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:08.760 is the kind of player that makes every single person 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.439 around him better. He's gonna have answers for you know, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.880 Liam Eichenberg when he has questions about how to best 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.360 handle Hey, what do you want on your inside posts? 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.360 When they slant at the end in here on the 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.720 on the past rush or tips for Austin Jackson on 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.080 the other side about how to handle Hey, I faced 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:26.560 you know Karl Lawson back in two thousand nineteen. He 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.600 has this go to move, keep an eye on that. 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.160 And on top of that, the impact he had was 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.800 so tangible when he got into team drills at practice, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.560 like you can slide protection away and just trust him 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.920 against literally anybody in the world one on one. I 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.480 would put him in past pro against any rusher healthy 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:45.320 pound for pound, torn arms aid one on one. That's 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.280 what he did for the Saints constantly. That's who he's 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:50.040 been here in practice so far. And when I say 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:53.120 there isn't a weakness in his game, that's the truth. Man. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.920 The one thing that he has been a bugaboo for 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.960 him is just the injury bug. That's that's really it, 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.320 which is obviously just kind of a random thing that 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.240 sometimes occurs in a guy's career. Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.200 it happens a lot, sometimes never at all. You know. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.880 That's for the rest of the offensive line. I just 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.160 think this system is great for the types of athletes 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.400 they have. We heard a lot of support and trust 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.000 from Chris Career and Mike McDaniel and the rest of 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.640 the staff really in terms of how they feel about 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.800 the recent draft picks along the offensive line. I think 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.080 you've seen that come to fruition this camp in preseason. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.360 You gotta do when the lights come on here in September, obviously, 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.000 but I think it's super encouraging. Like Rob Hunt to me, 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.200 has a chance to make really really big strides this year, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.200 and I think be a damn good football player. He 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.600 looks really good. Let's go ahead and get to one 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.440 of Pat's questions here. You're crazy guy at Patty Perk 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.520 asks Travis, when are you gonna lace him up and 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.920 actually do something good for this team? You claim to love? Pat? 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.440 My man me, lacing them up would be the worst 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.280 decision this team could make. Now. Maybe if you didn't 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.720 get lost and drive home through the night when you 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.960 were supposed to come fly down here for training camp, 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:55.720 you could have seen that I'm about a hundred and 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.840 sixty pounds soaking web, but you decided to sleep in 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.360 Detroit and drive back to Columbus for some reason. You know, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.360 I look skinny next to kicker, sir, so not a 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.840 good idea. Next at d Hicks double oh two zeros asks. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.240 Do you think keeping five tight ends, two of which 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.320 can run so well adds to the element of surprise 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.440 from an offensive perspective? Yeah, absolutely, in the way that 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:19.000 this defensive front has so many different roles and variations 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:20.720 of what guys can do. You know, one with a 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.640 certain front, two with a certain different type of call 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:27.200 like a rush game, three a certain matchup where you know, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.640 player X in week two is different than player Y 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.640 in week three in terms of their skill set and 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.640 you want to exploit maybe a particular weakness. It's not 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.840 that dissimilar on offense. And I think that's where the 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.600 importance of this camp at the skill groups on offense 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.640 rotating through with different quarterbacks and among one another. You know, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.440 one rep, you'd have Tyreek with Waddle in Cidrick Wilson, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.560 and then you'd have Tyreek with you know, Preston Williams 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.880 and Lynn Bowden for instance. And this offense does a 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.400 good job of exposing vulnerabilities and a defense and attacking 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.120 them relentlessly. So let's say one week you have a 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:03.840 defense that refused to go to their base package and 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.080 wants to keep a nickel back on the field. Ball game, 0:17:06.320 --> 0:17:09.040 you know, not matching personnel. Well, okay, then you can 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.440 line up in a twelve personnel package with two tight 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.080 ends and run the football because now you have two 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:20.000 five pound tight end blocking a you know, two hundred 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:23.560 pounds safety or better one eight five pound nickel cornerback. 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.639 And look at all the good blockers we haven't receiver 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.280 to like Trent Sherfield is a great blocker. Eric a 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.800 zoo Commasher's hell can do it, Cedric Wilson can, and 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.159 then Waddle and Hill aren't the biggest guys, but they'll 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.640 they'll do it to their best of their abilities, which 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.640 a lot of times in that position is enough out 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.480 there on the perimeter. Uh, if they make a decision 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.880 to slide one of those safeties down and that package, 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.320 maybe you say, all right, well, now we'll put Tyreek 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.360 or Jalen in there, and all of a sudden they're 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.720 thinking about the run, and now we expose that vacancy 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:52.359 and the vertical element of their defense. So it's a 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.720 matchup based league in Miami has skill groups, as coach said, 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.560 where they knew they'd have to cut NFL ready players 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:01.080 at both running back and wide receiver. So it's a 0:18:01.080 --> 0:18:04.439 great question but this is this skill group is it 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.520 looks pretty damn good out there so far? In the 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:11.400 month of August at Darren Hersman, Hersman asks how much 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.560 does the final preseason game impact roster cuts? Do coaches 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.000 have a pretty good idea prior to the game based 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.840 on the entire camp or does the final preseason game 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.119 really move the needle. That's a really good question, and 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.760 allow me to preface it with this, I don't have 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.760 intimate knowledge of that, but I do think it's a 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.440 team by team case. Like did you catch the last 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.720 Hard Knocks episode on Tuesday? Dan Campbell sure as hell 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:35.600 sent the message to the team that this is like 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.840 your chance to make a play and make it hard 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.720 on us as a coaching staff. He had this speech 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.720 about the balance between talented players who make mistakes and 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.960 guys who maybe aren't as talented but do everything right. 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.680 And they even discussed how the loss of a certain 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.840 player in the locker room might anger other guys on 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.359 the team, just about how it's a delicate ecosystem that 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:58.640 requires very delicate attention to detail, a very tough job. Now, 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:02.119 coach did allude to the final spots on a to 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:03.880 the last final spots on a roster at a recent 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:06.720 press conference. So if I were forced to paint with 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:08.880 a broader brush, I would say that most of the time, 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:12.320 teams have an idea about a good chunk, maybe somewhere 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.080 between forty five and fifty players. But a good example 0:19:15.119 --> 0:19:17.240 is a guy like Kater co who you know his 0:19:17.359 --> 0:19:19.960 level of competition at Texas A and M commerce. Now 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:22.480 he's well built, athletic as hell, but you just can't 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.400 know how he's going to handle the step up on competition, Like, yeah, 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.359