Speaker 1: Practice traffic drowing huxtowner. What a win for this Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. Wow, What is up Dolphins? And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast
Speaker 1: network covering your Miami Dolphins. I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the combine
Speaker 1: has come and gone, but with four team picks. Before
Speaker 1: the compensatory picks are handed out later this month, it's
Speaker 1: going to be draft season each of these next seven
Speaker 1: weeks for your Miami Dolphins. Were welcoming in the creator
Speaker 1: of the Relative Athletics Scorecard to talk about the freak
Speaker 1: athletic profiles of these NFL hopefuls. Plus we'll talk about
Speaker 1: some current Dolphins players and there are a s scorecards
Speaker 1: from their respective draft years and some sound from Cal
Speaker 1: defensive back Ashton Davis on new Dolphins defensive backs coach
Speaker 1: Jerald Alexander. All of that and more on this Tuesday
Speaker 1: marks the third edition of the Drivetime Podcast and I'm
Speaker 1: thrilled to be joined here today on the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network by the creator
Speaker 1: of the Relative Athletics Scorecard. You can find him on
Speaker 1: Twitter at math bomb. He is Kent Platt Kent. Thanks
Speaker 1: for doing this, Man, appreciate it. Man, thanks for having me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really love your work. It's it's a pretty cool
Speaker 1: way to track the overall cumulative score of what happens
Speaker 1: on the field at the combine. And so first I
Speaker 1: want to ask you one how long you've been doing
Speaker 1: this for and also walk us through what the Relative
Speaker 1: Athletics Scorecard the r A S what is that and
Speaker 1: how did you ultimately develop the final product. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the eighth year that I've been doing this. I
Speaker 1: started doing REZ in earnest in two thousand and thirteen. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of players were coming out that year that
Speaker 1: that had quote end quote question marks where they had
Speaker 1: talked about one specific drill and it's the forty it's
Speaker 1: always the forty. UM where they didn't do that well
Speaker 1: in the forty. And I started notice thing that a
Speaker 1: lot of these guys were measuring really well in other
Speaker 1: drills and they were being called a poor athlete. And
Speaker 1: I didn't feel like that was fair. Um, So I
Speaker 1: started developing a system that would be a little bit
Speaker 1: more fan friendly. A little bit more understandable, easy to understand.
Speaker 1: So I centered on a zero to ten scale because
Speaker 1: everybody can understand that zero is bad, ten is good.
Speaker 1: UM and and you know, it just built a scale
Speaker 1: from there that that would measure player athleticism. I've refined
Speaker 1: it every year. The My current system has been in
Speaker 1: place since two thousand seventeen, and I don't see any
Speaker 1: reason to be changing it anytime soon. I'll change the databases,
Speaker 1: but not the actual data. UM. It looks at each
Speaker 1: individual metric. It looks at height and weight for size, obviously,
Speaker 1: it looks at the forty yard dash, twenty and ten
Speaker 1: yard splits for speed. It looks for at the bench
Speaker 1: press for strength, vertical and broad jump for explosion, show
Speaker 1: and cone for agility UM. And then it just compares
Speaker 1: the percentage the percenta out for those players all the
Speaker 1: way back to seven, so it includes combine and pro
Speaker 1: day UM, and it just gives you a number based
Speaker 1: on that, and then it takes all of those numbers,
Speaker 1: gets an a bridge, and then it compares the average
Speaker 1: for every player and gets a final score that's also
Speaker 1: a zero to tend score, So you can look at
Speaker 1: a player and say, okay, he's about a seven that's
Speaker 1: above average, is a pretty good athlete. Um, it just
Speaker 1: gives you a decent idea without having to dig through
Speaker 1: all the numbers to understand how athletic a person is. Obviously,
Speaker 1: once you start looking at that data, you can dig
Speaker 1: a little bit further and find out, you know, the
Speaker 1: more granular information, but just having that that upfront picture
Speaker 1: is always helpful to have. Yeah, so when you see
Speaker 1: like a you know, a player jumps a hundred and
Speaker 1: on the broad jump and maybe you don't know how
Speaker 1: to correctly apply that, you can just look here at
Speaker 1: Kent's rass score and it gives you a general consensus
Speaker 1: about where that player stacks up against other players in
Speaker 1: the class in the athletic testing. And for me on
Speaker 1: this podcast, in my work in general, can I love
Speaker 1: the film stuff, and so to get the athletic profiles
Speaker 1: paired with that, I think it's a great cumulative measure
Speaker 1: of what a player looks like heading into the draft
Speaker 1: and maybe where their draft stock might check in that
Speaker 1: come draft day. So before we get into the athlet
Speaker 1: like Marvel's here, I do want to talk about the
Speaker 1: athletic freaks that are already in Miami. But before we
Speaker 1: do that, even I want to ask you, because the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have fourteen draft picks this year, if you've been
Speaker 1: doing it for eight year, about where does this class
Speaker 1: check in terms of their overall RAS score sheets. This
Speaker 1: class has been fantastic. It's as you mentioned, I've been
Speaker 1: doing this for eight years. It's been so much fun
Speaker 1: this year getting ready for the draft crep and getting
Speaker 1: ready for the combine. Um, I've still got the entire
Speaker 1: pro day circuit to work, but the combine was fantastic.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun. You always come in with
Speaker 1: different storylines with players that that need to do well
Speaker 1: in a certain drill. They have to show that they're fast,
Speaker 1: they have to show that they're explosive. Most of those
Speaker 1: players did those things in this combine. All of those
Speaker 1: storylines that you get every year, I can't remember a
Speaker 1: time in the eight years I've been doing this where
Speaker 1: so many players have hit those benchmarks and accomplished what
Speaker 1: they needed to do coming into the combine. It's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I'm really excited for this draft class.
Speaker 1: And let's go ahead and go back to the most
Speaker 1: recent draft here in reference the Miami Dolphins players and
Speaker 1: their rast scores over the last several years. I want
Speaker 1: to start first with last year's first round draft pick
Speaker 1: and Christian Wilkins. And if you watch him in any setting,
Speaker 1: you can tell he's an athlete. The guy that did
Speaker 1: the splits after Clemson won the National Championship game. Clearly
Speaker 1: a man that size bending that way is not natural.
Speaker 1: But where does Christian Wilkins come in on the RASH
Speaker 1: score sheet? His combined workout from the twenty nineteen NFL combine,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins came in with an eight point five five
Speaker 1: out of ten, which is really good. Anything over eight
Speaker 1: is considered elite. It's actually color coded on the cards,
Speaker 1: so anything anything over eight is in green, anything below
Speaker 1: five is in red, everything else is yellow. So he
Speaker 1: had an eight point five five, which is a really
Speaker 1: good score. It's funny because it's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: types of cards, where where none of his other metrics
Speaker 1: were in that elite range, but he still had an
Speaker 1: elite score. Um, it just shows you that he doesn't
Speaker 1: have any real athletic flaws. There aren't really really any
Speaker 1: holes to who he is as an athlete, and I
Speaker 1: love seeing guys like though. It's just just great overall
Speaker 1: athletes like that, and going back one year prior to that,
Speaker 1: I think this is the guy, in my opinion, that
Speaker 1: probably popped on your score sheet more than anybody else.
Speaker 1: Tight end Mike get Sicky coming out in that NFL draft,
Speaker 1: the basketball superstar back in high school. We saw his
Speaker 1: video highlights on the Miami Dolphins social account where did
Speaker 1: Mike A. Sicky check in with his workouts at the
Speaker 1: combine and eighteen Mica Sicky checked in with a nine
Speaker 1: point nine six out of ten. He was the I
Speaker 1: think the third most athletic tight end in my entire
Speaker 1: database since seven, which is you know, I guess that's
Speaker 1: pretty good, right, that's the year I was born, so hey,
Speaker 1: good company. He jumped out of the gym with at
Speaker 1: vertical he had a six point seven six cone time,
Speaker 1: which is just insane for a two forty seven pound guy,
Speaker 1: and then of course he ran that four point five
Speaker 1: four which teams love. Uh. It's it's an elite athletic
Speaker 1: pro profile. It's hard to find tight ends or any
Speaker 1: position that that's z athletic um. The idea with picking
Speaker 1: a guy like that is getting that upside as early
Speaker 1: as you can. Tight ends is one of the most
Speaker 1: athletically demanding positions in the NFL. So getting one of
Speaker 1: the best athletes that's ever come out of the draft,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong there. So I skipped over something
Speaker 1: I wanted to say you in response to the Christian
Speaker 1: Wilkins rast score and kind of how we can apply
Speaker 1: these score sheets of their tape and what it produces
Speaker 1: on the field on Sundays. You mentioned that Wilkins. You
Speaker 1: said a great quote there, Kent that he really doesn't
Speaker 1: have any athletic flaws, and I think that shows up
Speaker 1: on Sundays because he plays multiple positions across the defensive line.
Speaker 1: He can penetrate as a pass brusher, he can hold
Speaker 1: the point against the running game, So that checks out
Speaker 1: in that way, and then Mike get SICKI attacking the
Speaker 1: football down on the red zone. The leaping ability, the
Speaker 1: speed to get on top of linebackers, the quick movement
Speaker 1: at the top of routes to transition and get off
Speaker 1: the top of that route and get off the coverage
Speaker 1: and create separation that way. So both of those things translate.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead now to a linebacker from Ohio State
Speaker 1: in the twenty seventeen NFL Draft checked that Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: the linebacker. I have a feeling that he too, is
Speaker 1: pretty high on your score sheet. Oh absolutely. Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: came in with a nine point two six out of ten,
Speaker 1: which is again and in that elite range. Um. He
Speaker 1: was undersized when he measured in, but his his forty
Speaker 1: yard dash was fantastic at four point five three. He
Speaker 1: had elite UH explosion drills, he had a lead, agility, drills.
Speaker 1: Everything you want from an athlete Jerome Baker had. And
Speaker 1: you want to get a guy like that on the
Speaker 1: field because you've got guys like Ghaziki out there, those
Speaker 1: super super athletic tight ends. You gotta have somebody that
Speaker 1: can run with him in coverage. So picking somebody that's
Speaker 1: got that speed, that explosive explosiveness and that agility, that's
Speaker 1: exactly what you want a out of a linebacker. And
Speaker 1: that's exactly what we got with Jerome Baker last season.
Speaker 1: Basically never left the field as long as he was
Speaker 1: healthy and ready and active to play. And you see that,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned, with the ability to run down the pipe,
Speaker 1: to run twenty forty yards downfield with a tight end,
Speaker 1: but also to chase sideline to sideline in the running game,
Speaker 1: sniff out screens, that type of stuff. So again, this
Speaker 1: all matches up for Jerome Baker as well, the next
Speaker 1: player on my list. Here. We're going back to slot cornerback,
Speaker 1: and we heard Dion Sanders and the NFL network crew
Speaker 1: talk a lot about the importance of the slot position,
Speaker 1: and McCain transitioned this year back to safety, playing a
Speaker 1: little bit of both, maybe going forward safety and slot cornerback.
Speaker 1: We'll see what the Dolphins decided to do there. But
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, as well as the other guys we talked
Speaker 1: about previously, could he check out pretty well? Bob mc
Speaker 1: cane an elite score. He had an eight point four
Speaker 1: year out of ten. But what was really interesting with
Speaker 1: him is that he ran a three point eight to
Speaker 1: shuttle time, which is just insane from any player that's
Speaker 1: ninety nine point seventh percentile for cornerback seven. That's insane
Speaker 1: to have have that level of a Julie that that
Speaker 1: start and stop ability for a cornerback is what you
Speaker 1: want to see when you have somebody that can cover
Speaker 1: the slot those shift year receivers. You want somebody that
Speaker 1: can plant their foot and change direction quickly. So having
Speaker 1: a guy that can do that and put up a
Speaker 1: score like that, that's perfect. Yeah, and you definitely, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned covering a guy in the slot. All these quick,
Speaker 1: agile guys that can win in a phone booth like
Speaker 1: a Julian Edelman in New England for instance, you have
Speaker 1: to have that quick twitch ability to be able to
Speaker 1: win in the slot from a defensive perspective. Let's stay
Speaker 1: in that draft class. And a guy that really broke
Speaker 1: onto the scene this year with twelve receiving yards nine
Speaker 1: touchdowns out of Louisville, Davante Parker. Where does he come
Speaker 1: in on the rast score sheet? DeVante Barker came out
Speaker 1: of the nine point seven five out of ten when
Speaker 1: he came out of Louisville. Uh, he came in with
Speaker 1: of no another guy with no athletic flaws. Um he did.
Speaker 1: He came in with good size, He came in with
Speaker 1: great speed, great explosiveness. He didn't test in the agility drills,
Speaker 1: but every other measurement that he had was either above
Speaker 1: average were good. I think his lowest percentile was still
Speaker 1: seventy three percentile. It was just one of his splits.
Speaker 1: Everything was fantastic for him. He has great get off. Um.
Speaker 1: I think you can see it right on tape. His
Speaker 1: explosiveness off the line, his his leaping ability, and his
Speaker 1: ability to separate at the top of his routes. That's
Speaker 1: what makes him win in the NFL. He does a
Speaker 1: great job of that. Yeah, I don't think anybody was
Speaker 1: better at contested catches this year across the NFL than
Speaker 1: Davante Parker. Then we get into Week seventeen against Defon Gilmour,
Speaker 1: who wins the Defensive Player of the Year award, and
Speaker 1: Parker goes off for something like seven catches for a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty yards on the best cornerback in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So very impressive work there. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: back now into this year's combine and start here with
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks and just go position by position and talk
Speaker 1: about some of the things that stood out to you
Speaker 1: in terms of the RAS score sheet. With the quarterbacks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert was one of the one of the top
Speaker 1: three quarterbacks for most people in this draft, and I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody was expecting to have the type of
Speaker 1: athletics showing that he had. We all know that he
Speaker 1: can throw, but Justin Herbert ended up coming out with
Speaker 1: a nine point six nine r s, which is not
Speaker 1: common for a player that's six six. You know, a
Speaker 1: six six guy shouldn't be able to run of four
Speaker 1: six eight, He shouldn't have those. You'd hope he has
Speaker 1: that elite hops. He's a tall guy, played basketball probably,
Speaker 1: but you know he had great agility or great explosiveness scores,
Speaker 1: he had great speed. He came out with the highest
Speaker 1: score in the class. I don't think anybody really expected that.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts another guy that a lot of people like.
Speaker 1: He's very athletic in Alabama and Oklahoma. He came up
Speaker 1: with a nine point six, just behind Herbert. That's a
Speaker 1: really good score. You really like to see stuff like that. Um.
Speaker 1: The other guy was Jordan's Love out of Utah State,
Speaker 1: another guy that he uses that athleticism on the on
Speaker 1: the field. He has a big arm, he can run,
Speaker 1: he can move. He came out with that eight point
Speaker 1: five eight. So the guys that did measure at the quarterback,
Speaker 1: obviously Joe Burrow and to a tong of Bloa didn't.
Speaker 1: But of the guys that did, they exceeded expectations. They
Speaker 1: did really well at the combine. It almost feels like
Speaker 1: a a statement for the modern times of Football's players
Speaker 1: are just getting faster and stronger every single year. It's
Speaker 1: fun to watch. And I thought this year we might
Speaker 1: have a receiver break John Ross's record, and I was
Speaker 1: hoping he would because I think that Henry Ruggs will
Speaker 1: be a really good player at the next level. I
Speaker 1: assume that he kicks off your receiver measurements here. Henry Ruggs,
Speaker 1: his overall score was still in the elite range, but
Speaker 1: it's mostly just that speed, right, He's he's all speed um,
Speaker 1: which is fine. Uh. He came in with elite explosive
Speaker 1: in scores. He had a forty two in vertical, which
Speaker 1: at five eleven you don't you don't usually see guys
Speaker 1: that can jump that well. Uh, he came one inch
Speaker 1: shy of getting eleven foot broad, had ten eleven on
Speaker 1: his broad and of course you mentioned that four point
Speaker 1: to seven. You know, the only reason he didn't have
Speaker 1: a higher score is because size is factored in and
Speaker 1: he is five eleven and eight pounds, So he ended
Speaker 1: up getting a nine point six six, which that's like,
Speaker 1: that's fifth in the class. To tell you how athletic
Speaker 1: this this draft classes that's fifth. Uh. The number one
Speaker 1: guy was Chase Claypool out of Notre Dame. He came
Speaker 1: very close to Ake and Calvin Johnson's RAZ record. Calvin
Speaker 1: Johnson currently holds the ten the ten spot for RAZ
Speaker 1: for REZ. If you're at ten, that's the most athletic,
Speaker 1: the highest average athleticism score of any player ever. UM.
Speaker 1: Chase Cleypool tied it at ten. Because I have so
Speaker 1: many receivers, there's two guys at the top. Because is
Speaker 1: just behind Calvin Johnson. Just to give you the idea
Speaker 1: of the type of athlete, he is six four two
Speaker 1: thirty eight runt of four four two and jumped out
Speaker 1: of the gym. An extremely talented athlete. UM. And then
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson was at People were worried about being athletic,
Speaker 1: and he came in second in the class at a
Speaker 1: nine point eight four r as great speed, great explosiveness,
Speaker 1: good size. You know, as I said, everybody's exceeding expectations
Speaker 1: this year. It was a lot of fun to watch
Speaker 1: those guys. Yeah, you pair Jefferson's athletic ability with the
Speaker 1: fact to me that he is just one of those
Speaker 1: dudes like he goes out there, he can run routes,
Speaker 1: he competes, plays with hair on fire. A lot of
Speaker 1: fun to watch him play. How about the tailbacks this year,
Speaker 1: I think that maybe some of the times weren't what
Speaker 1: people expected. We saw Jonathan Taylor have the great forty time,
Speaker 1: But what did you get out of the running backs
Speaker 1: of this year's combine. Yeah, it was a little unfortunate
Speaker 1: that Jonathan Taylor only ran a four point three nine.
Speaker 1: I mean, I really expect him to do a lot
Speaker 1: better than that. He's two and twenty six pounds, but
Speaker 1: people didn't realize that. They see that Wisconsin uniform and
Speaker 1: maybe they think that he's just that big, bruising guy
Speaker 1: they've been been churning out year after year. But Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor is a burner. He can fly, He's a big
Speaker 1: dude that can move. He came in with a nine
Speaker 1: point five seven r e s. He didn't have any
Speaker 1: scores below average except his his bench was barely below average.
Speaker 1: But really great athlete um uh Levante Bellamy was the
Speaker 1: guy that everybody expected to to contend with that that
Speaker 1: sub four three um he ended up getting injured on
Speaker 1: his forty so I wasn't able to do so. Um.
Speaker 1: We had Cam Acres from Florida State. I'm sure you're
Speaker 1: familiar with him. He came with a nine point three one.
Speaker 1: Raz that that's a guy that people were saying was
Speaker 1: going to have some trouble at the combine, and he
Speaker 1: blew blue expectations out of the water. He ran really well,
Speaker 1: he jumped really well. You know he again, guys are
Speaker 1: just beating expectations this year. It's a lot of fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would echo the sentiments on Jefferson with Cam Maker
Speaker 1: in the competitiveness and just the fire that he plays with,
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch on Saturdays. How about
Speaker 1: tight ends? We talked about Mike Asiki. I have a
Speaker 1: feeling nobody came close to him in that regard. But
Speaker 1: who did check in out of the tight end class?
Speaker 1: At the top of your score sheets? We only had
Speaker 1: three guys come in with a RAS over eight. We
Speaker 1: usually see a little bit more than that. I think
Speaker 1: the lowest was like six a few years ago. But
Speaker 1: the guy at the top of the charts was Dalton
Speaker 1: Keene from Virginia Tech came in with a nine point
Speaker 1: three three. Um, he's not gonna be your your Day
Speaker 1: one guy. I'm not sure that we have a Day
Speaker 1: one tight end. Um. If we did, though, it would
Speaker 1: either be Cold Comet out of Notre Dame or Adam
Speaker 1: Troutman out of Dayton. And those are the next two
Speaker 1: guys with a nine point one seven and eight point
Speaker 1: two four. Uh. They both measured really well. Adam Troutman.
Speaker 1: I actually did an entire threat on him on Twitter.
Speaker 1: But Adam Troutman came with a six point seven eight
Speaker 1: three cone drill. I mentioned before that those those agility drills,
Speaker 1: those are really hard to do well in. He came
Speaker 1: with a six point sevent eight at two d and
Speaker 1: fifty five pounds. That's ridiculous. A guy like that that
Speaker 1: can move that well in space. So I'm sure that
Speaker 1: NFL teams will find a way to use him. He
Speaker 1: is coming out of Dayton. I don't know how the
Speaker 1: small school is tough works, but um, a great athletic profile,
Speaker 1: A guy that can move in space, guy that can catch,
Speaker 1: guy that can block. That's what you want from your
Speaker 1: tight ends. Yeah, I'm surprised that that he didn't play
Speaker 1: basketball Dayton, concerning the fact that it is a basketball
Speaker 1: school and the athletic profile certainly does check out on
Speaker 1: the hardwood. Let's move now to the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: one of the meat portions of this clash. You and
Speaker 1: I spoke a fair about how good the offensive line
Speaker 1: class is heading into and Tristan Worth's blewed up. I
Speaker 1: imagine that he starts off the top of your scorecards here.
Speaker 1: Tristan Worse is one of the top tackles in this class,
Speaker 1: and he's considered one of the best athletes in this class,
Speaker 1: so it's no surprise he had a nine point seven
Speaker 1: four out of ten. He actually had two of the
Speaker 1: best explosion drills in the entire combined history at a
Speaker 1: thirty six point five inch vert um. I have pro
Speaker 1: days in my database, so it's not the best in
Speaker 1: my database, but for a tackle at the combine, that's
Speaker 1: his best, the best you can get elite explosion ran
Speaker 1: a four eight five at three twenty pounds. That's insane,
Speaker 1: but it speaks to the strength of this class that
Speaker 1: that's only the third highest score in this class. McKay
Speaker 1: Beckton got a big bump because he's so huge um
Speaker 1: and he ran a five one, which is an elite
Speaker 1: score four a tackle, and he did that at three
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty pounds, that's nuts. Um I got that.
Speaker 1: You didn't really hear a lot about. He was starting
Speaker 1: to get a little a little buzz Right before the
Speaker 1: combine was Ezra Cleveland at a Boise State. Um I
Speaker 1: I was wise to him because people have been saying, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta watch him, he's gonna ow it up. Um
Speaker 1: I didn't expect this kind of a performance. He put
Speaker 1: up a nine point nine four out of ten. Every
Speaker 1: single metric that he did, with the exception of size,
Speaker 1: was in elite range, overent out. That's nuts. To have
Speaker 1: a guy that's three eleven pounds that can be elite
Speaker 1: in every way, elite agility, elite explosion, elite strength, all
Speaker 1: of those. That's awesome. And it's great that we finally
Speaker 1: do have these athletic profiles on the offensive lineman, because
Speaker 1: the guys they have to block on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball, the defensive lineman. It is. It's become
Speaker 1: just flat out ridiculous how athletic these guys are. And
Speaker 1: so let's go ahead and talk about those guys. The
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. In your RAS score sheets, the guy that
Speaker 1: had the highest rasp for a defensive end was Jabari's
Speaker 1: Aniga from Florida UM. He came up with a nine
Speaker 1: point seven four. He had some early hype and started
Speaker 1: to wane a little bit as the season went, but
Speaker 1: it's he's a Florida defensive lineman who can run a
Speaker 1: four six four two and sixty four pounds. He has
Speaker 1: great explosion drills, he put up a good bench. He's
Speaker 1: just the kind of guy that you want to plug
Speaker 1: and play on defensive end to rush the passer. We
Speaker 1: also had James Mimith Williams out of North Carolina State.
Speaker 1: He came with a nine point zero one. Another guy,
Speaker 1: great speed and night rand and nine four six flat
Speaker 1: at two d and six pounds. Big dude, explosive and fast.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to have guys that are
Speaker 1: either really strong and really powerful or really fast. So
Speaker 1: when you get an explosive guy who's also big and
Speaker 1: can run, that's really valuable for a pass rush because
Speaker 1: you can you can power past the bigger tackles and
Speaker 1: you can get around the more athletic guys on the edge.
Speaker 1: And the next possession group has the guy that can
Speaker 1: do everything in terms of size, speed and power. I'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and let you introduce the top linebacker, Isaiah Simmons. Wow,
Speaker 1: what a combine performance. I didn't entire threat and Isaiah Simmons.
Speaker 1: He actually measured out as a ten point oh, which
Speaker 1: again is the highest score that you can get for
Speaker 1: five different positions. That's nuts, U and one of him
Speaker 1: was cornerback. He would be he would be the most
Speaker 1: athletic cornerback in my database if if he had come
Speaker 1: out as a cornerback and not a linebacker. That's nuts.
Speaker 1: You don't usually have guys that come in at two
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight pound owns and run a four
Speaker 1: three nine. We talked about Jonathan Taylor running back here
Speaker 1: that that was what fifteen sixteen pounds lighter than what
Speaker 1: what Isaiah Simmons did. He didn't even run his second forty.
Speaker 1: They were like, do you want to run a second one?
Speaker 1: He's like, no, I'm good, I don't need to. He
Speaker 1: just missed out on a forty inch verty thirty nine
Speaker 1: inch vertical and broad jumped eleven feet, which is again
Speaker 1: just insane numbers. This doesn't make sense. This is the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that you talk about is being created
Speaker 1: in a lab because the type of that type of
Speaker 1: athleticism doesn't make sense for a normal person. Isaiah Simmons
Speaker 1: is a fast guy. He can cover, he can rush
Speaker 1: the passer, and he can blitz. He's really good at
Speaker 1: setting the edge. There's there's almost nothing the guy can't do.
Speaker 1: He plays linebacker and free safety and nickel cornerback and
Speaker 1: strong safety and moves all over the place. He's nuts.
Speaker 1: I think it was the South Carolina game where he
Speaker 1: comes off the edge one play, sets the edge and
Speaker 1: cuts down the ball carrier for a TfL. Then he
Speaker 1: blitzes gets a sack, and then on third and long
Speaker 1: he runs forty yards down the field and stays in
Speaker 1: phase and coverage. It's it's so fun to watch that
Speaker 1: guy play football. And speaking of that coverage, we end
Speaker 1: here with the defensive backs. You said that maybe he
Speaker 1: wasn't the best defensive back class in terms of athletic
Speaker 1: testing compared to other classes, But who did shine at
Speaker 1: dB C J Henderson from Florida was a guy that
Speaker 1: has a lot of athletic potential. Um and this is
Speaker 1: another Florida guy, so I'm sure you're you're you're very
Speaker 1: familiar with him. He came in with a ten point. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's another position where we have two guys at the top.
Speaker 1: I have to check the average just to see if
Speaker 1: he's the number one of the number two. But marsha
Speaker 1: On Lattimore is the guy that was right at the top. Um,
Speaker 1: that's Darrell Reevas type of athleticism. And C. J. Henderson
Speaker 1: showed that at the combine. Jeff Akuta, out of a
Speaker 1: house state, came with a nine point five six out
Speaker 1: of ten. He jumped out of the gym, he ran
Speaker 1: a really good forty, just what you wanted to do.
Speaker 1: He shut it down after that he had he had
Speaker 1: banged his head or something. But um, fantastic athleticism scores. Um.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of really talented guys that that
Speaker 1: maybe need a little bit more refinement. Once they get
Speaker 1: into the NFL, they get a good enough coach, they
Speaker 1: can start coaching that stuff out of him. But the
Speaker 1: guys that are technically silid, they've already got that athletic talent.
Speaker 1: We didn't have anybody that came out and put up
Speaker 1: a put up a stinker in this one. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so they are dubbed the underwear Olympics, and no one
Speaker 1: covers them better than you. Can we really appreciate your
Speaker 1: time here on the Drivetime podcast. You can find him
Speaker 1: on Twitter. He's at math bomb. He writes for Pride
Speaker 1: of Detroit, Kent, we appreciate it. Thanks for having me
Speaker 1: appreciate it. And there he goes. And one player I
Speaker 1: was hoping to hear about from Kent was Cal's Ashton Davis.
Speaker 1: Because here's a question that I wanted to play for
Speaker 1: you guys, or a response to a question I should
Speaker 1: say on yesterday's Defensive Back audio, because he had some
Speaker 1: great things to say about new Dolphins defensive backs coach
Speaker 1: Gerald Alexander. And we'll go ahead and just play it
Speaker 1: for you here at the answer, because you can't really
Speaker 1: hear the reporter's question. But the question was, what can
Speaker 1: you say about Gerald Alexander's coaching style and what he
Speaker 1: meant to you at CAW. I don't know he's the best.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he's got, all kinds of stuff,
Speaker 1: but he's just he's very german like means and to
Speaker 1: be the best that he can be with um U
Speaker 1: t in theonas and just trying to get nuggets from
Speaker 1: anyone who can get better, and I can. I can
Speaker 1: definite relate to that as as a player. Some of
Speaker 1: us trying to prove all the time, and it's it's
Speaker 1: refreshing to have a coach that's doing the same thing
Speaker 1: and not just setting their systems, setting their ways. And
Speaker 1: that last little nugget there about adaptability and not being
Speaker 1: set in their system or setting their ways great to hear.
Speaker 1: Basically the theme of Brian Flores's coaching staff hires this offseason,
Speaker 1: finding guys who were versatile, finding guys who are hungry,
Speaker 1: and finding guys with a like minded mentality of coach
Speaker 1: Flora's who was a guy that came up from the
Speaker 1: very bottom. We heard about Jim Naggy talking about this
Speaker 1: on Friday in the interview I had with him about
Speaker 1: how Flora's was a scouting assistant in New England and
Speaker 1: just worked his way up into a positional coach, into
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator and now for us, luckily the head coach
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins. Alright, that is going to be
Speaker 1: my time for this edition of the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Jordan Reed of the Draft Network on
Speaker 1: tomorrow show. You don't want to miss that one of
Speaker 1: the very best in the business. He was out there
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis on the field for the workouts, and everywhere
Speaker 1: I went, I saw that guy just working and grinding.
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to get his opinion on this
Speaker 1: draft class. As for today, you all please be sure
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