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Speaker 1: going everybody? It is training camp week. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and as always I am here to bring
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Speaker 1: today's show, we are onto the final part of the
Speaker 1: eleven part preview series, finishing up here with the back
Speaker 1: end of the defense, the safeties, the importance of instincts
Speaker 1: and range, the newcomers, how Miami works to limit big plays,
Speaker 1: and a recap of the coaches and players in this group.
Speaker 1: Plus we finish up another series of ours with an
Speaker 1: NFL preview, wrapping up with the eighth and final division,
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Speaker 1: and we're talking about the safety position. If you guys
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Speaker 1: You can find those written pieces as well. And we
Speaker 1: conclude here today with the safeties. And you know a
Speaker 1: lot of the stuff we covered on the Cornerback podcast
Speaker 1: in terms of the philosophy of the defense, the strong
Speaker 1: play on the perimeter to go ahead and press and
Speaker 1: disrupt timing for a defense that generates pressure and under
Speaker 1: three seconds a lot of the time, how all that
Speaker 1: kind of marries up together. And I think you look
Speaker 1: at this position as kind of the signal caller or
Speaker 1: the what's the word I'm looking for here. The last
Speaker 1: line of defense definitely kind of stirs the drink, I
Speaker 1: think in terms of what this defense brings and the
Speaker 1: importance of vision and instincts and seeing the football in
Speaker 1: front of these players and the ability to counter the
Speaker 1: spacing the opposition tries to create based upon how these
Speaker 1: safeties not just move themselves, but the way they move
Speaker 1: their teammates, because they are kind of the proverbial eye
Speaker 1: in the sky, you know, when the coaching staff can't
Speaker 1: be on the field to communicate that stuff, the safety
Speaker 1: who can kind of see all that in front of
Speaker 1: him and get a feel for what the offense is
Speaker 1: doing in their priest napp alignment how to combat that.
Speaker 1: On defense, the safety is responsible for a lot of that,
Speaker 1: and we heard coach Flores' talk about that in the
Speaker 1: addition of Javon Holland with his communication and his leadership
Speaker 1: ability and how he might be able to kind of
Speaker 1: take on some of that role as a rookie. But
Speaker 1: once again, of course, the role that Javon Holland and
Speaker 1: all these players inevitably find themselves in will be what
Speaker 1: they make of it and how they put themselves in
Speaker 1: position to take on those roles and one of the
Speaker 1: players that you know, to kind of toot my own
Speaker 1: horn here a little bit, the safety position has been
Speaker 1: one of my better ones in terms of evaluating I mean,
Speaker 1: big Buddha Baker fan, big Chauncey Gardner, Johnson fan. I
Speaker 1: was a huge, huge proponent of Derwin James. Of course,
Speaker 1: the injuries kind of, you know, have lessened his career
Speaker 1: at this point, but when he's on the field, he's
Speaker 1: been a very productive player. Just something about this position
Speaker 1: that I enjoy watching, especially when you get the All
Speaker 1: twenty two angle and you can actually see them on
Speaker 1: the field. One of the guys I was huge on
Speaker 1: was Jesse Bates out of Wake Force now with the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals, and what I loved about him was you
Speaker 1: could see the fact that he was a baseball player,
Speaker 1: a center fielder in college as well, because of the
Speaker 1: way he kind of could flip the hips and clothe
Speaker 1: and click and clothes and drive out of his back
Speaker 1: pedal and anticipate things in the way a center fielder
Speaker 1: has to off the bat. You know, you see a
Speaker 1: slider on the outside corner to a right handed hitter,
Speaker 1: you kind of have to cheat over to the right
Speaker 1: in our field gap, because if a player pulls that ball,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna roll over it and hit a ground
Speaker 1: ball to the shortstops. So you anticipate if they drive
Speaker 1: the ball, it'll be into that right center field gap.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of the same thing as playing safety.
Speaker 1: I think there's lots of comparisons to safety and playing
Speaker 1: outfield in baseball. And the instincts to know the same
Speaker 1: thing as the slider on the outside corner, to know, Okay,
Speaker 1: these these two guys on this side of the formation,
Speaker 1: they look like, based upon my film study, they're gonna
Speaker 1: run a scissors concept or a switch concept or a
Speaker 1: slant flat or a slugo or not slog I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: a smash concept with a corner route and the and
Speaker 1: the hitch route like whatever it is. You anticipate what
Speaker 1: routes you might see, and that allows you to shorten windows,
Speaker 1: not just with your range, but with those instincts. And
Speaker 1: when you shorten windows and you bait quarterbacks into throws
Speaker 1: into those short windows, which he did in college, that's
Speaker 1: why I loved him so much. And he's brought that
Speaker 1: right over to the NFL. I thought he had an
Speaker 1: all pro level season last year with the Bengals, because
Speaker 1: he's doing the exact same things. When you do that,
Speaker 1: it can generate big plays in terms of interceptions, tip balls,
Speaker 1: and all that stuff we focus on here in camp
Speaker 1: with Gerald Alexander in this offensive backfield. And so you
Speaker 1: might be asking yourself, Travis, why in the hell are
Speaker 1: you talking about the Cincinnati Bengals and their safety because
Speaker 1: when I watched Javon Holland on tape, I noted a
Speaker 1: lot of the same things that made me attracted to
Speaker 1: Jesse Bates is game. And I go to the great
Speaker 1: Brett Coleman of the NFL Film Room, who we referenced
Speaker 1: here on the podcast. He's been on the podcast, really
Speaker 1: good friend of line, and he had a great video
Speaker 1: clip of Javon Holland in the PAC twelveth Championship game
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. And Brett pulls this clip
Speaker 1: against the Stanford Cardinal where Holland comes down and plays
Speaker 1: about eight or nine yards off the slot receiver and
Speaker 1: he's playing the low shoulder, which means the shoulder closest
Speaker 1: to the offensive line of scrimmage, knowing he has the
Speaker 1: safety help up over the top in the post and
Speaker 1: so on this play, he basically engages contact with the
Speaker 1: receiver at the five yard mark, peeks at the quarterback,
Speaker 1: and because they're running a mesh concept where two receivers
Speaker 1: are going to cross in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: Javan peels off of his man and gets a pass
Speaker 1: break up on the other side of the field. The
Speaker 1: other side of the formation, a player who had created
Speaker 1: a ton of separation on his man, and Javan not
Speaker 1: only locks up his guy, comes off of him and
Speaker 1: breaks up a pass to somebody else from the X
Speaker 1: receiver coming from the opposite side of the formation. Javan
Speaker 1: playing the field the wide side of the field, he
Speaker 1: goes over to the short side of the field, the boundary,
Speaker 1: and makes a play on the football. Brett writes in
Speaker 1: his tweet, I'm no dB coach, but I bet they
Speaker 1: don't teach that. Some guys just do it. And that's
Speaker 1: the kind of instincts that I came to know and
Speaker 1: love when watching Javon Holland on tape. I don't want
Speaker 1: to put words in coach his mouth, but he did
Speaker 1: say this is one of his fair players to watch
Speaker 1: on tape, and I have to imagine those instincts and like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is why I know ball and ball takes me
Speaker 1: to this particular spot on the field. I have to
Speaker 1: imagine that was an influence for coach and this Dolphin
Speaker 1: staff in the front office when they watch this kid play,
Speaker 1: because he can do that stuff and it's very innate
Speaker 1: and it's very rare to have those level of instincts.
Speaker 1: So the first safety off the board comes to Miami
Speaker 1: at the top of the second round. There then you've
Speaker 1: got Eric Rowe who just has so many roles that
Speaker 1: he fulfills. Run fitting, you know, the assignment to get
Speaker 1: an extra gap in the run game with your safety,
Speaker 1: to come down and really get in the muck and
Speaker 1: get in the box and really show the physical side
Speaker 1: of the game. I think we look personally at rushing
Speaker 1: statistics in the National Football League and football in general
Speaker 1: all wrong. Average yards per carry is one thing, and
Speaker 1: it's it's great for fantasy and for the stats and
Speaker 1: all that stuff, But I want to know how many
Speaker 1: run wins and run down losses you had, because if
Speaker 1: a team rushes the ball for let's say, fifteen yards
Speaker 1: on first down from their own twenty five yard line,
Speaker 1: gets it out to the minus forty. Yeah, it's field
Speaker 1: possesion you want back. But that's a fifteen yard run.
Speaker 1: Let's say their next two runs go for two yards each.
Speaker 1: That's three runs for nineteen yards. So you're talking about
Speaker 1: I don't know a mathematician, but over six yards per carry.
Speaker 1: But you got yourself into a third and six, so
Speaker 1: you get that stop. That means you had to run
Speaker 1: wins and one run loss in the fifteen yard run.
Speaker 1: I want that. I'll take the defensive side of the
Speaker 1: equation when it comes to those three running plays. And
Speaker 1: so I thought the Dolphins last year and Eric Rose,
Speaker 1: a big part of this, did so well to get
Speaker 1: run wins on those rundowns, to put themselves in position
Speaker 1: to queue up second down and long or even better,
Speaker 1: a third and long that creates a passing situation, a
Speaker 1: must pass spot. And I thought Eric rose work in
Speaker 1: the run game not just got better from twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: when he made that transition from playing on the outside
Speaker 1: and corner to safety and then event into the box
Speaker 1: and really getting up in the face of tight ends
Speaker 1: who are attached to the line of scrimmage. I thought
Speaker 1: that the improvement there was a big, big, deal from Miami,
Speaker 1: and I thought it only got better as the year
Speaker 1: went along. So kind of the projection there from Eric
Speaker 1: rose trajectory at this position that's somewhat new to him.
Speaker 1: It really points up to me in terms of a
Speaker 1: guy that can just continue to get better because of
Speaker 1: the way he works and because of the willingness to
Speaker 1: do That's a tough ask for safeties down that area
Speaker 1: to play, and Eric rohad does it without any questions asked.
Speaker 1: We talked about the communication as a whole on this
Speaker 1: defense and how Gerald Alexander really harped on the big
Speaker 1: place coming from the back end and how mistakes in
Speaker 1: that area of the field lead to the big explosive
Speaker 1: plays that essentially can decide football games most of the time.
Speaker 1: And you know, we talked about this off the top,
Speaker 1: but coach Flora has also mentioned that signal callers are
Speaker 1: the ones kind of down the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: the linebackers, the safety is your center and your quarterback.
Speaker 1: How they help align the defense, how they are a
Speaker 1: big part of defending the deep portion of the field,
Speaker 1: and how again as much as that is range and
Speaker 1: like you'll see the you know ed Reid's of the
Speaker 1: world they don't grow on trees. Obviously, the greatest safety
Speaker 1: of all time. For my money, the range was great,
Speaker 1: but the instincts is what took him to another level.
Speaker 1: And you pair the athletic ability that Javon Holland and
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones and Eric Row and the guys that can
Speaker 1: play this position have with the knowledge and the instincts
Speaker 1: to go over the top of routes to cap routes,
Speaker 1: and maybe you come down and you double a certain
Speaker 1: portion on the inside of the field, like if you
Speaker 1: got Tyreek Hill or Travis Kelsey inside and you want
Speaker 1: to double that guy while your two cornerbacks play sticky
Speaker 1: man coverage on the outside. You have that flexibility, You
Speaker 1: have those options. You have guys that can come down
Speaker 1: and match up in the slot outside man coverage against
Speaker 1: bacts and tight ends because a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: have cornerback experience or slot experience in addition to their
Speaker 1: prowess and their exploits aft the safety position. So I
Speaker 1: am very excited about the veterans and Eric Row and
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy, but also the young guys with Javon and Brandon,
Speaker 1: plus the two special teams missiles in Nate Holly, and
Speaker 1: Clayton Fedulin. And speaking of these six guys, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get to the piece up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. The personnel changes. You got. Jason McQuary and
Speaker 1: Javon Holland are the income or newcomers, I should say,
Speaker 1: incoming talent, and Bobby McCain and Cavon Frazier are off
Speaker 1: to Washington and Cincinnati, respectively. As for the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: we covered g A a little bit on the Cornerbacks podcast,
Speaker 1: talking more about Charles Burke's who is the cornerbacks coach?
Speaker 1: But g A is the defensive backs coach, And he
Speaker 1: interned at Dolphins camp in twenty nineteen where and he
Speaker 1: was coaching at Cal and one year later, sure enough,
Speaker 1: he takes over as the DBS coach here in Miami
Speaker 1: once Josh Boyer was promoted to the defensive coordinator position,
Speaker 1: and he just produced immediate dividends. G A did in
Speaker 1: terms of getting this secondary communicating I thought so much
Speaker 1: better last year and and playing at a such a
Speaker 1: higher level, and getting all the talent that defensive secondary
Speaker 1: had with all the substitutions you see on that back
Speaker 1: end of the defense. He got it all coordinated in
Speaker 1: a way that got Miami to really help lead the
Speaker 1: league in takeaways with twenty nine last year. Do in
Speaker 1: large part to his emphasis on the football and training camp,
Speaker 1: but also, of course, the talent on the field and
Speaker 1: the big plays allowed were significantly decreased upon Alexander's arrival
Speaker 1: in I mean, this is a team that it seemed
Speaker 1: like some of the backbone of this team for the
Speaker 1: past couple of decades was always the big play. Like
Speaker 1: you go back to the twenty eighteen Thursday night football
Speaker 1: game against the Houston Texans where that game was close,
Speaker 1: and then Deshaun Watson would find Will Fuller or DeAndre
Speaker 1: Hopkins or one of the big play receivers they had
Speaker 1: there in Houston for a long touchdown and that's how
Speaker 1: that game kind of got away from Miami. It seemed
Speaker 1: like there was always one or two plays a game
Speaker 1: back in those days that just got away and it forced,
Speaker 1: you know, a one or two score game to to
Speaker 1: get away from Miami. But last year that was not
Speaker 1: the case, and the Dolphins stayed in football games and
Speaker 1: they won those close football games. So you decrease those
Speaker 1: big plays that really puts you in position to compete
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter. And here's what coach g
Speaker 1: A has to say about how you limit big plays
Speaker 1: and how communication is the key quote. Communication is a
Speaker 1: must in our defense. All guys have to be on
Speaker 1: the same page, especially at that safety position. We have
Speaker 1: the depth of the defense and we're responsible to really
Speaker 1: get everybody in line. So it's very important that whether
Speaker 1: you're young or an older vet, that the communication is
Speaker 1: on point. We know that big plays always run through
Speaker 1: the secondary, whether it be in the past game or
Speaker 1: the run game. The easiest way to give up an
Speaker 1: explosive play in the back end is lack of communication.
Speaker 1: What I tell those guys is lack of communication leads
Speaker 1: to disaster. And quote, what a great way to kind
Speaker 1: of put a bow on that great quote there from
Speaker 1: g A. And you listen to any of his media.
Speaker 1: He's always a great quote machine, is g A? When
Speaker 1: talking to the media. This group at a glance again,
Speaker 1: I mean versatility. What do you want to know about that?
Speaker 1: That ad here that term here in Miami, it's the
Speaker 1: adage the more you can do, and the safety position
Speaker 1: in Miami typically comes with what I call a side hustle,
Speaker 1: so to speak. Because Eric Rowe. You know, he made
Speaker 1: that switch from cornerback mid season in twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: really enjoyed the success in that new role. But he
Speaker 1: also comes down and covers tight ends and defends the
Speaker 1: run and just plays multiple roles. And he can even
Speaker 1: flex out wide and play cornerback in a pinch because
Speaker 1: well he's done it before. But since he made that
Speaker 1: switch to safety, he's allowed just sixty nine point eight
Speaker 1: passer rating against in his coverage area. We talked about
Speaker 1: rookie Javon Holland and the fact that he and second
Speaker 1: year pro Brandon Jones, who earned considerable playing time as
Speaker 1: a rookie. Both these guys had a kind of combination
Speaker 1: role of slot and safety in college, with snaps coming
Speaker 1: basically in every pre snap alignment you could want, man coverage,
Speaker 1: zone coverage off the football, second level, up on the line,
Speaker 1: special teams, returning kicks. They did it all and both
Speaker 1: are just instinctive sponges who soak up all the knowledge
Speaker 1: this Dolphin secondary has to offer. I told you guys
Speaker 1: back in O. T A S there was two guys
Speaker 1: that ran extra laps or extra sprints at the end
Speaker 1: of practice. It was Javon Holland and Brandon Jones out
Speaker 1: there in that downpour getting the extra work in and
Speaker 1: again just soaking up all the knowledge of the players
Speaker 1: and coaches in this particular portion of the team have
Speaker 1: to offer. And a significant portion of that knowledge comes
Speaker 1: from new arrival Jason mccordy. If you have not seen
Speaker 1: it or heard it or read it, check out the
Speaker 1: YouTube the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel the media availability of
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy. Uh in the second to last O t A.
Speaker 1: I think it was early in June man the way
Speaker 1: he spoke and the way he communicated about service and leadership.
Speaker 1: I mean, even as a football fan or a non
Speaker 1: football fan, it grabbed me. It was gravitating. And he's
Speaker 1: the most experienced player on this roster. Again, He's played
Speaker 1: perimeter corner, played in the slot, played some safety over
Speaker 1: the course of a twelve year career. And then Clayton
Speaker 1: Fedgerland was a special teams captain his first year here
Speaker 1: in Miami and including some spot duty on defense, just
Speaker 1: a handful of snaps on defense. And then Nate Holly
Speaker 1: from the Canadian Football League who came to Miami for
Speaker 1: training camp, was released. And then signed back to the
Speaker 1: practice squad and got his call up late in the season,
Speaker 1: playing largely on special team. So, just to kind of
Speaker 1: go over this cast again real quick, six seasons as
Speaker 1: a pro. Number twenty one, Eric Rowe coming out of
Speaker 1: Utah didn't change Jersey numbers. You know who he is
Speaker 1: now twenty eight years old opening day and expanding from
Speaker 1: the numbers we talked about. His coverage numbers really rival
Speaker 1: any safety in the NFL over his last twenty eight
Speaker 1: games play. That goes back to when he made the
Speaker 1: switch in nineteen to safety, the first four games at cornerback,
Speaker 1: the final twelve at safety, and then sixteen games played
Speaker 1: last year, which, by the way, he's played thirty two
Speaker 1: games with the Miambi Dolphins. That was kind of the
Speaker 1: reason that he bounced around a little bit was because
Speaker 1: he had trouble staying healthy. He's found that, uh, that
Speaker 1: proper plan and nutrition and diet and regimen that's gotten
Speaker 1: him healthy thirty two games played. I'm very happy for
Speaker 1: him that happened, because it couldn't have happened to a
Speaker 1: better guy. But since that midseason switched twenty nineteen to safety,
Speaker 1: he's allowed fifty nine point seven percent of passes and
Speaker 1: tended for his man to be completed for an average
Speaker 1: of six point one eight yards per target. At seventy
Speaker 1: one completions on one nineteen passes for seven hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five yards. He was charged with one touchdown, allowed,
Speaker 1: three interceptions, and a passer rating again of sixty nine
Speaker 1: point eight. The completion percentage, yards per argut, and passer
Speaker 1: rating are all top ten among NFL safeties according to
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. And this is a guy and he
Speaker 1: talked about it last year in training camp because it
Speaker 1: was a big, big topic for him to cover, the
Speaker 1: switch of positions. How he did play safety in college
Speaker 1: at Utah, but it was mostly the deep middle of
Speaker 1: the field guy, the free safety way away from the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. And he emphasized his work in the
Speaker 1: running game the last two seasons, and I thought that
Speaker 1: helped him get better and improven. Again, that trajectory pointing upwards,
Speaker 1: as you see forty eight combined run stops tackles within
Speaker 1: two yards of the line to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He comes up there and makes plays around the l os.
Speaker 1: He also set career highs with seven quarterback pressures as well.
Speaker 1: As nine pass breakups last season. What a great year
Speaker 1: for Eric Rowe. Javon Holland number twenty two, the rookie
Speaker 1: out of Oregon. He'll be twenty one years old opening
Speaker 1: day and one of these young Dolphins players. And again
Speaker 1: you watch his tape and you wonder, there's like he
Speaker 1: is he living in a dimension where he's three seconds
Speaker 1: ahead of everybody else because he seems to see things
Speaker 1: before they happen with his instincts, and man, he hacksa
Speaker 1: when the lights go on. He's a gamer. He hit
Speaker 1: a pick six against W s U a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago and that was a difference in the ball game.
Speaker 1: And I still think about that late at nights sometimes.
Speaker 1: But his instincts, ball skills and leadership and communication skills
Speaker 1: are what attracted Coach Flora's and Chris Career to this
Speaker 1: very smart, instinctual good player out of the University of Oregon.
Speaker 1: Chris Greer said, he's a very smart, instinctive player that
Speaker 1: has been a very productive player. It was his football
Speaker 1: intelligence and getting to know the kid that stood out
Speaker 1: as well. And then Coach said, this Javon was one
Speaker 1: of honestly my favorite players to watch, very versatile, played inside,
Speaker 1: played safety, punt return a lot of ball production, so
Speaker 1: we're excited to get him and work with him. And
Speaker 1: you hear coach talking about those ball skills that produced
Speaker 1: nine interceptions over the nineteen seasons combined, that was tied
Speaker 1: for the fourth most in all of college football. He
Speaker 1: registered twenty four run stops in that final college season
Speaker 1: and also posted a career passer rating allowed of just
Speaker 1: sixty one point one. The production is all over the
Speaker 1: place there in terms of good, good, all over the
Speaker 1: place for Javon Holland. Brandon Jones number twenty nine last
Speaker 1: year was his first as a pro out of Texas,
Speaker 1: twenty three years old. We did a great deep dive
Speaker 1: on Brandon Jones last summer where I interviewed his mother
Speaker 1: and some coaches of Texas there, Tom Herman, as well
Speaker 1: as Brandon, and they had some fun stories to tell
Speaker 1: about Brandon growing up with his brothers and the competition
Speaker 1: of playing football in the backyard and basketball and everything
Speaker 1: in between. I highly highly recommend that podcast from I
Speaker 1: think it was the middle of last summer during the
Speaker 1: dead period. But back to Brandon Jones, I mean, he
Speaker 1: made the headlines at the combine and when he revealed
Speaker 1: that he asked every team for their defensive film and
Speaker 1: their defensive playbook, and he made his way through four
Speaker 1: games of each of the thirty two defenses. And I
Speaker 1: thought that preparation showed up as a rookie to the
Speaker 1: tune of sixty two tackles three for a loss, of sack,
Speaker 1: of pass breakup, as well as a forced fumble. And
Speaker 1: there was a play against the Jaguars where he kind
Speaker 1: of played almost a Rashad Jones type of role where
Speaker 1: he was buzz in the middle of the field or
Speaker 1: robbing the middle of the field on that call and
Speaker 1: lavisca channel comes free over the middle in the curl
Speaker 1: zone and he jumps it and almost gets a pick,
Speaker 1: just kind of misses it. It went to a Donald's reception.
Speaker 1: But I thought that instinct and that understanding of where
Speaker 1: to find the landmarks in terms of your coverage, but
Speaker 1: also the man you're looking for. I thought we saw
Speaker 1: that at times from Brandon Jones. I expected to get
Speaker 1: even better here in your number two, Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: chartered Jones with three hundred and sixty one snapped in
Speaker 1: the box, four in the slot, eight out wide, and
Speaker 1: nine two is a deep safety. In addition to two
Speaker 1: d and thirty eight snaps on special teams, he made
Speaker 1: fifteen run stops and recorded six quarterback pressure. So he
Speaker 1: really did everything for this team last year, and I
Speaker 1: expect that role to continue to expand and to kind
Speaker 1: of follow up on, you know, the makeup of the
Speaker 1: safety position, like I think they're even more suited this
Speaker 1: year to be able to rotate between two high and
Speaker 1: single high. Safety. Last year was a lot of single high,
Speaker 1: but I think you can get a multitude of combinations
Speaker 1: of these guys to play too high if you want
Speaker 1: to pull back and go three high as well. Plenty
Speaker 1: of options there, and especially when you think about the
Speaker 1: possible big nickel packages where you have a third safety
Speaker 1: on the field side of your third cornerback, there are
Speaker 1: just options galore, and players like Brandon Jones and their
Speaker 1: versatility really make that a possibility. Jason mccordy number thirty
Speaker 1: twelve years NFL experience, thirty four years old, opening day
Speaker 1: out of Rutgers, and I think he's really here to
Speaker 1: not only give the Dolphins a solid option in the
Speaker 1: secondary when it comes to playing, but also help accelerate
Speaker 1: the growth of the youth in the room, and he
Speaker 1: talked about the the wealth of experience that he has
Speaker 1: developed in all the football minds he's been around to
Speaker 1: develop this leadership and the mindset of service to his
Speaker 1: teammates and his coaches in the defensive backfield. He said
Speaker 1: this back in that media availability. I think a part
Speaker 1: of leadership is listening and serving, and you can't know
Speaker 1: how to do that until you get to know the
Speaker 1: guys around you. This is a really good time for
Speaker 1: myself to be down here, this is back in the summer,
Speaker 1: to get to know the guys in the locker room
Speaker 1: and get to know not only them, but the support staff,
Speaker 1: the people in the cafeteria, just everybody in the building
Speaker 1: and quote and like that. That's like one of my
Speaker 1: how I live my life, like my pillars of life.
Speaker 1: How do you treat people that? And I hate this term,
Speaker 1: but are perceived as less important than you, like the
Speaker 1: French of the support staff. I hate they put it
Speaker 1: that way, but the perception is that they are you know,
Speaker 1: you can you're you're more important to anybody is BS
Speaker 1: But I can see where that perception comes from. How
Speaker 1: do you treat those folks? And that's really where your
Speaker 1: character shines through the most, I think, and I really
Speaker 1: pride myself on that. And Jason mccordy knocks it out
Speaker 1: of the ballpark with that quote. But in his twelve
Speaker 1: year career, he posted a passer rating allowed of under
Speaker 1: ninety in a single season six times. He's pulled down
Speaker 1: eighteen career picks and made one run stops. So again,
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything from the guys in this
Speaker 1: position group. Jason McCory listed as a safety on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins roster. Nate Holly thirty six one year experience out
Speaker 1: of Kent State, twenty six years old. He comes over
Speaker 1: from the CFL. He actually was released from his contract
Speaker 1: from the CFL to pursue NFL options and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: came calling. He got the call up from the ACT
Speaker 1: from the practice squad to the active roster in December
Speaker 1: and contribute with forty four reps on and three special
Speaker 1: teams tackles, all on special team. He was the CFL's
Speaker 1: most Outstanding rookie in twenty nineteen. He made a hundred tackles,
Speaker 1: twenty two of those on special teams. And that feels
Speaker 1: like a square, so it's even harder to make tackles
Speaker 1: on special teams. He also had a sack and a
Speaker 1: pick on defense that one year in the CFL. And
Speaker 1: we finish up our roster review here with Clayton Fedgerlove,
Speaker 1: number forty two in the defensive backfield. Five years of
Speaker 1: professional experience out of Illinois. He'll be twenty eight years
Speaker 1: old come opening day. He signed with Miami last March
Speaker 1: and earned the honor of the Captain patch on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins number six overall ranked special teams unit. That's according
Speaker 1: to Football Outsiders. He played three nineteen total snaps, but
Speaker 1: three oh five of those were on special teams. In
Speaker 1: addition to the six tackles he made, he played a
Speaker 1: crucial role as the PP, the personal protector on the
Speaker 1: punt team, and you saw him carry the football twice
Speaker 1: for a pair of first downs and twenty three total yards,
Speaker 1: including a big run in that Las Vegas game to
Speaker 1: helps up a scoring drive for your Miami Dolphins. And
Speaker 1: as we finish up one series here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: check out all the written work up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. If you're going to camp, bring it along
Speaker 1: with you. Get your phone out. You can go ahead
Speaker 1: and scroll through and find these stats and facts and
Speaker 1: which number of guys are wearing. Plenty of stuff for
Speaker 1: you in these pieces. Let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: another series we started a couple of months ago here
Speaker 1: on the podcast NFL Preview, and we finish up with
Speaker 1: the best for last, our own division, the a f
Speaker 1: C East. Will make some predictions later on on the
Speaker 1: podcast closer to the season, but I want to finish
Speaker 1: up the comprehensive review just talking about every team, giving
Speaker 1: you an idea of what teams did this offseason, a
Speaker 1: reminder for you about how the off season played out
Speaker 1: across the national football landscape. Should we do Miami? I
Speaker 1: mean you've you know the Dolphins by now if you
Speaker 1: listen to this podcast. Let's go ahead and do Miami.
Speaker 1: Because I am a completist. Let's get to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissette and Malcolm Brown and Jared Oakes with the
Speaker 1: additions in the backfield this offseason will Fuller, Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: Hunter Long, Liam Eichenberg, Matt Scura, d J. Fluker, and
Speaker 1: Jermaine Illuminois round out your notable offensive acquisitions. Adam Butler
Speaker 1: and Jalen Phillips with Bernardrick McKinney, Brandan Scarlett, Justin Coleman,
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy, and Javon halland some of your offseason Hall
Speaker 1: there for your Miami Dolphins and the storylines for this team,
Speaker 1: as we have done on the podcast for every other team.
Speaker 1: You know, year two for two a tongue of voloa.
Speaker 1: You you always anticipated nice jump there from your second
Speaker 1: year quarterback. Two years we moved from the hip surgery
Speaker 1: and the flashes we saw last year with the ability
Speaker 1: to move the defense with body positioning in his eyes
Speaker 1: and and some of the ball fakes and the ability
Speaker 1: to get off the spot with the quick twitch we
Speaker 1: saw those flashes. Can he put it all together and
Speaker 1: be more consistent and play at a higher level for
Speaker 1: longer this season? He talked about kind of being hard
Speaker 1: on himself last year at some point. I'm sure there
Speaker 1: are certain games he'd like to go back and and
Speaker 1: correct some things in. But for the most part, I
Speaker 1: thought most of his games you saw the flashes that
Speaker 1: made him look like the number five overall picking the
Speaker 1: draft and one of the top college quarterbacks. Really to
Speaker 1: ever spin it, and the other kind of sub story
Speaker 1: of of TWA is the pieces the Dolphins went out
Speaker 1: and acquired to really help complement his skill set. We've
Speaker 1: talked about on the podcast at length. Will Fuller and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, I think are both just really quintessential to
Speaker 1: a tongue of by lower level players to help further
Speaker 1: strengthen that receiver corps with Vante Parker, Preston Williams, Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: Lynn Bowe, and Jachem Grant, Robert Foster, on and on
Speaker 1: and on and on with that loaded group of receivers. Also,
Speaker 1: how does the offensive line shakeout? I mean, the veteran
Speaker 1: acquisitions are a bit of a uh, not a departure,
Speaker 1: but a pivot from last season where it was mostly
Speaker 1: youth upfront. But you go out and you add some
Speaker 1: reliable either depth or starters, and guys like Matt Skura,
Speaker 1: DJ Fluker, Jermaine Iluminoire. You go out and you find
Speaker 1: a very polished, technically sound Liam Eichenberg, and he cracked
Speaker 1: the starting lineup. Much of the young guys takes the
Speaker 1: next step between Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, Solomon Kinley and
Speaker 1: Leam Eichenberg for instance, how do those guys develop and
Speaker 1: continue to grow here in years one and two. And
Speaker 1: then on defense, how much more pressure can you generate
Speaker 1: with Adam Butler, with Bernardick McKinney, with Jalen Phillips to
Speaker 1: go along with the pieces you have in Emmanuel Ogba,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker and Zach Seeler and Christian Wilkins and ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis and Andrew Van Gink, going on and on
Speaker 1: and on. I'm curious see how that works out and
Speaker 1: how those new pieces are incorporated. And then can Miami
Speaker 1: repeat two things that are tough to repeat in this league?
Speaker 1: Number one, the kicking performance thirty six of thirty nine
Speaker 1: field goals last year is sensational by Jason Sanders, one
Speaker 1: of the best kickers in the game. And then twenty
Speaker 1: nine takeaways? Can they repeat that again? Going back to
Speaker 1: nine team with twenty two straight games with a takeaway?
Speaker 1: Those are big elements of what this Dolphins team can
Speaker 1: do on defense and to make big plays to set
Speaker 1: the offense up for points. The Buffalo Bills are up next.
Speaker 1: We go to the reigning division champions. Here it's finally
Speaker 1: someone new. It's not New England, it is Buffalo. Their
Speaker 1: off season was Mitch Drabinsky at quarterback at backup to
Speaker 1: kind of help with Jake from there. Behind Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: Matt Brida goes from Miami to Buffalo. Emmanuel Sanders one
Speaker 1: of my favorite players in the NFL over the last decade.
Speaker 1: I think one of the most underrated receivers in all
Speaker 1: the National Football League. Spencer Brown was a guy I
Speaker 1: had my eye on at the Senior Bowl out of
Speaker 1: Northern Iowa and this year's draft run up, he comes
Speaker 1: to Buffalo. Gregory Risso was their first round draft pick,
Speaker 1: Carlos Basham in the second around f a Obada formerly
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers there signs a free agent contract and
Speaker 1: they wind up with the mar Hamlin, the safety from
Speaker 1: pit in the back end of the draft as well.
Speaker 1: So some storylines here for Buffalo that when a quarterback
Speaker 1: has that breakthrough season, how do they follow up the
Speaker 1: following year? Because Josh Allen was damn near perfect, can
Speaker 1: he do it again? And does the mix or the
Speaker 1: swap out from John Brown to Emmanuel Sanders doesn't make
Speaker 1: doesn't make a difference because John Brown was pure speed
Speaker 1: and can just fly. Also was a good route runner,
Speaker 1: but his speed was the main element of his game.
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders is not. He's way more technically sound and
Speaker 1: crafty and a great route runner, and he can't take
Speaker 1: the top off the defense, but not the way John
Speaker 1: Brown did. Does that make a difference. I'll be curious
Speaker 1: to see that how that plays out. Can they defend
Speaker 1: the run a little bit better, because that was one
Speaker 1: area of their defense or their team that just wasn't
Speaker 1: on par with the other really explosive elements of the team.
Speaker 1: And can they get more pass rush upfront. I think
Speaker 1: that's where you start to think about Carlos basham and
Speaker 1: and Greg Russo and f a Obada. I loved Boogie
Speaker 1: Bashum at Wake four, so I'm not thrilled about him
Speaker 1: going there, one of my favorite players in those draft classes.
Speaker 1: But getting these final pieces to go along with a
Speaker 1: secondary that is absolutely loaded and was essentially built in
Speaker 1: one offseason there with Jordan Poyter, Micah Hyde, Trey White
Speaker 1: all coming over in the same offseason. The second second
Speaker 1: cornerback position is where you start to wonder if that's
Speaker 1: where you go to attack, because there's a competition there
Speaker 1: between Levi Wallace and Anthony Aver and some guys they
Speaker 1: joined or they added to the position there to compete
Speaker 1: alongside Trey White with te Ron Johnson and that slot.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a key area of focus for this
Speaker 1: Bill's team. Who is that number two quarterback on the outside.
Speaker 1: But you've also got Tremaine Edmunds, one of the best
Speaker 1: young linebackers in the NFL, Matt Mlana one of the
Speaker 1: most underrated linebackers in the NFL. There just really aren't
Speaker 1: any holes on this team, so you have to just
Speaker 1: try to beat them at their own game, like you
Speaker 1: have to compete with this team. They're very, very, very
Speaker 1: good football team. I think the big storyline here with
Speaker 1: regards to the Dolphins is A, how do they stop
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and b how do they replicate the success
Speaker 1: they had against them last year outside of quarters to
Speaker 1: through four and weeks sevent team because those were bad.
Speaker 1: But the first quarter of that game and then in
Speaker 1: the Week two game, there were a lot of moments
Speaker 1: in favor of the Dolphins defense. We talked about it
Speaker 1: on the podcast. I think at the linebacker spot, Miami
Speaker 1: had two or three drops picks in that game that
Speaker 1: could have swung that contest in the other direction and
Speaker 1: made a big difference in the standings in the playoff
Speaker 1: race ultimately, But how do they find a way to
Speaker 1: do that? Can they replicate those moments of success and
Speaker 1: build upon what they didn't do in the moments where
Speaker 1: Buffalo got up and down the field on this defense,
Speaker 1: Buffalo is one of the most talented teams in the NFL,
Speaker 1: one of the best coach teams in the league. This
Speaker 1: is a tough tough out to have in your division.
Speaker 1: Speaking of tough outs, the Patriots are back, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: after a bit of a down year for them. You know,
Speaker 1: they still won seven games, but they were not the
Speaker 1: same Patriots we have known the last twenty years in
Speaker 1: terms of the win lost total. But Bill Belichick went
Speaker 1: out and made made a bunch of changes this offseason
Speaker 1: to make sure that wouldn't happen again. Mac Jones is
Speaker 1: drafted in the first round, Ramandre Stevens in the backfield
Speaker 1: as well a fourth round draft pick out of Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: They go out and they get Nelson Aguilar and Kendrick
Speaker 1: Born in free agency as school as Hunter Henry and
Speaker 1: John who Smith talk about remaking your skill possessions. My goodness,
Speaker 1: the options Cam Newton and mac Jones now have They're
Speaker 1: compared to last year. Ted Carriss comes back. Love Ted's game,
Speaker 1: loved Ted as a person. Best of luck to him there.
Speaker 1: And then Devon godshat another guy formerly the Miami Dolphins. Again,
Speaker 1: best of luck to Devon up in New England. Just
Speaker 1: on the two times here you play us. Christian Barmore
Speaker 1: the draft pick from Alabama. They add Henry Anderson and
Speaker 1: free agency and Ronnie Perkins out of Oklahoma. Love that
Speaker 1: draft pick to Matt Judon is a great, great fit there.
Speaker 1: They get Kyle van noyback, Dante high Towers back after
Speaker 1: opting out Cameron Mcgroner's are late roun draft pick Jalen
Speaker 1: Mills and Adrian Colbert are new auditions in the secondary
Speaker 1: as well. And I gotta be honest, just going over
Speaker 1: this list, they got so much better at way better
Speaker 1: than I even remembered, you know, back in the draft
Speaker 1: and back in March when free agency was going crazy,
Speaker 1: I had kind of forgotten about bar Moore and Perkins
Speaker 1: up front. That's a great couple of additions there. On
Speaker 1: your defensive line, you get the two tight ends that
Speaker 1: really help you go against the grain of the modern
Speaker 1: day league potential deadly twelve personnel packages to run the
Speaker 1: football with Cam Newton in that deep backfield they have,
Speaker 1: maybe that package never leaves the field and becomes their base.
Speaker 1: We'll see if they can get Johnny Smith and Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry acclimated that quickly. But to me, there are two
Speaker 1: real storylines with this club. The quarterback. It just wasn't
Speaker 1: good enough last year. I still I'm a big believer
Speaker 1: in what Cam Newton can do, but his game was
Speaker 1: just a little bit off last year. You saw that.
Speaker 1: I think in the statistics more interceptions than touchdowns throwing.
Speaker 1: That's kind of rare and stays NFL. But I just
Speaker 1: don't think it all kind of came together and click
Speaker 1: for that Patriots team the way it could after a
Speaker 1: full offseason for Cam Newton. There this guy has been
Speaker 1: one of the best quarterbacks in the league for a
Speaker 1: long time, like in my opinion of top all time quarterback,
Speaker 1: and frankly, I think that those people that are hard
Speaker 1: on Cam Newton are akin to those that are hard
Speaker 1: on Lamar Jackson, and that they kind of discount the
Speaker 1: running ability like it all counts the same yards or yards,
Speaker 1: and both those guys are two of the very best
Speaker 1: to do it of all time, and it was the
Speaker 1: reason the Dolphins and Patriots split last year. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just leaned on us in that Week one game game,
Speaker 1: and the levy eventually broken the fourth quarter. Now, Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker's force fumble on the goal line kept that game
Speaker 1: a lot closer than it was because it was fourteen
Speaker 1: to three. The Patriots are going in about one three,
Speaker 1: We get the strips stack and get a touchback. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins go down to score the next drive and make
Speaker 1: it fourteen to eleven. But then New England came right
Speaker 1: back down and ran the ball again down their throats,
Speaker 1: and we're able to get a touchdown on that drive
Speaker 1: and put that game again back out of reach. So,
Speaker 1: I mean it's Cam Newton's running threat is definitely something
Speaker 1: you have to account for. As far as the other quarterback,
Speaker 1: you know, I wasn't a huge Mac Jones fan coming
Speaker 1: out of college. So the competition, I think Bear is
Speaker 1: watching because the Patriots said they're going to have an
Speaker 1: open competition in training camp. We'll see how it shakes out.
Speaker 1: I wonder if maybe we see Cam Week one Mac
Speaker 1: Jones Week eight team. That's typically how it goes with
Speaker 1: the first round quarterbacks. Usually takes them about four or
Speaker 1: five games to get onto the field. But that said,
Speaker 1: that's usually teams that are picking at the top of
Speaker 1: the draft, And are you know, starting off oh and
Speaker 1: three or one and four and they go to the
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. This is a good teams they might not
Speaker 1: have to go to the rookie early on. Then you
Speaker 1: ask how how all these new acquisitions fit in. How
Speaker 1: quickly does it click, and how quickly do they acclimate
Speaker 1: because even during the height of the Patriots two decade run,
Speaker 1: if there was ever a time to catch them, it
Speaker 1: was typically early in the season before they became their
Speaker 1: unstoppable force that they became every year, right around Halloween
Speaker 1: or so. And so I wonder if maybe this is
Speaker 1: a good time to catch them, the best time to
Speaker 1: catch them before they get accoliated with all those new pieces.
Speaker 1: But then, of course you see him in Week eight
Speaker 1: team where you're gonna get that well oiled version of
Speaker 1: the Patriots. Last year they were well oiled machine out
Speaker 1: of the gates in Week one, So maybe this is irrelevant.
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of thinking out loud here. With the Patriots,
Speaker 1: I think are gonna be an even tougher out this
Speaker 1: season than they were last year. And then the New
Speaker 1: York Jets, the final team here in the division, another
Speaker 1: team that went after the offseason with a lot of moves,
Speaker 1: and it starts with the really peak of the off
Speaker 1: season and they rebuild here for the Jets with Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson out of b y U. They add Corey Davis
Speaker 1: and Elijah Moore and Keelan Cole love Corey Davis and
Speaker 1: I love Elijah more. Pretty bummed out about more going
Speaker 1: there because I liked his aim and now I don't
Speaker 1: get roof form because the New York Jet Tyler Croft.
Speaker 1: The tight end signs there are Morgan Moses and Elijah
Speaker 1: Vera Tucker. With Dan Feeney on the offensive line, Sheldon
Speaker 1: Rankins on the interior d line. That's a great combination
Speaker 1: there with Quinn Quinnin Williams, the former number two overall
Speaker 1: pick out Alabama. Karl Lawson is a great pass rusher.
Speaker 1: They got a good deal getting him over there to
Speaker 1: the Jets. Vinny Curry, Jared Davis from the Lions, and
Speaker 1: LaMarcus Joiner. A couple more free agent acquisitions, and the
Speaker 1: big thing I look at here is the investment in
Speaker 1: the offensive line, because yeah, I think you know, Beckton
Speaker 1: looks like possibly one of the best tackles in the
Speaker 1: league already when he's healthy and playing. He was dominant
Speaker 1: when he was on the field. Last year. You got
Speaker 1: out and get Eli Ja, Vera Tucker and Morgan Moses.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you are starting to have a
Speaker 1: good piece of the offensive line. But the knock I
Speaker 1: saw during the draft process was he traded a couple
Speaker 1: of third round picks to go up and get Vera Tucker,
Speaker 1: who could be the best guard in the class. But
Speaker 1: you had more a lot more holes to fill on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. So with still having some kind of
Speaker 1: uncertainty at certain spots on the offensive line that could
Speaker 1: you have six of a great offensive line. Those two
Speaker 1: week spots can still denigrate your performance overall, because if
Speaker 1: those guys are getting beat, the other stuff doesn't matter. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that's gonna happen, but can they get
Speaker 1: players to fulfill those roles. That's my question mark here
Speaker 1: with the storyline for the Jets heading into the season,
Speaker 1: and then of course Zach Wilson, this is a tough
Speaker 1: division for rookies to come into. With Flores and Belichick
Speaker 1: and and McDermott. And for Wilson last year, the one
Speaker 1: ranked team they played in that Coastal Carolina game was
Speaker 1: his was his worst tape of the season. And he
Speaker 1: really came onto the scene in after not really being
Speaker 1: in the draft discussion before that. And if I had
Speaker 1: a concern, it would be that he had the one
Speaker 1: big year in a year where there were no fans
Speaker 1: and a strange, strange season. He's got all the armed
Speaker 1: talent in the world. The kid can spin it from
Speaker 1: anywhere on the field is impressive. But is he going
Speaker 1: to be wired right? That's something you're gonna find out
Speaker 1: quickly in New York and that's gonna make or break him.
Speaker 1: Will keep a close eye on that here as Dolphins fans.
Speaker 1: Also Robert Sala and the schemes they bring over from
Speaker 1: the fort because he's obviously from that defensive system with
Speaker 1: the one gap, quick penetration, get upfield and put pressure
Speaker 1: on the quarterback. Coach Chris Kusaick, formerly the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: was there coaching the defensive line there and he believes
Speaker 1: in playing with your hair on fire. And then also
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the football with Mike Lafleur
Speaker 1: and that kind of run heavy offense. Who are the
Speaker 1: backs and the offensive line is going to create that
Speaker 1: same system that the Niners have that made them so successful.
Speaker 1: On the defensive side. We talked about the d line.
Speaker 1: They had plenty of waves of pass rushers there with
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa and Deforce Buckner previously, and they go out
Speaker 1: and get Javon Kin, lot of replace Buckner in the middle.
Speaker 1: They had so many weapons on that front. Can they
Speaker 1: replicate that with Quentin Williams, Carl Lawson and Sheldon Rankins.
Speaker 1: Do they need more? I'll be keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: And then the defensive backfield was an area that probably
Speaker 1: gonna have to be heavily invested in next offseason. They
Speaker 1: got some nice pieces there, but the depth will We'll
Speaker 1: see how it shakes off for them of the course
Speaker 1: of the season. But I think if they have one
Speaker 1: big question mark, it might be in that defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: I think they're probably a year away from that vision
Speaker 1: kind of coming together for them with the Jets and
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas. But speaking of Joe Douglas, he has made
Speaker 1: some absolute banger moves for the New York Jets. The
Speaker 1: best player in the division right now. It's got to
Speaker 1: go to Josh Allen because of what he did last year.
Speaker 1: I think offensively, the best non quarterback would be Stefon Diggs,
Speaker 1: defender Xavien Howard and the running for the deepoyt last year,
Speaker 1: so he gets that nod. My favorite rookie, well, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a Jalen Waddle. While the best coach I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give a I'm gonna give it to Bill Belichick
Speaker 1: here because of the hardware he has. I think Florzim
Speaker 1: McDermott are coming. And then intriguing team, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: us the Dolphins. What do we look like this year too?
Speaker 1: And year two? I'm very excited for all that, but
Speaker 1: also the Paths and Jets are very intriguing. I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like I know who the Bills are. There
Speaker 1: just a damn good football team and the champion. We're
Speaker 1: gonna go with Buffalo because you gotta beat them before
Speaker 1: we can start saying we will do it. Miami has
Speaker 1: to beat Buffalo and has to get to that part
Speaker 1: before we can predict that. And that's going to conclude
Speaker 1: our preview are training camp preview series and the next
Speaker 1: time we talk to you, it'll be recapping a Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins one practice at training camp. I cannot wait for that.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, it's gonna be my time. You all.
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