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Dolphans 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.720 and welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:53.600 Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:56.520 it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Winfield. And 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.480 on today's show we finish up our combine coverage twenty 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.680 twenty three. We have a long interview here with the 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:04.640 ringers Benjamin Solac. Cannot wait for you guys to hear that. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.080 Plus I'll give you my thoughts and takeaways from the 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:09.800 week that was here in Indianapolis. All of that and 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.880 a heck of a lot more from the Indiana Convention 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:21.400 Center in Indianapolis. This is the Drivetime Pop. Let's go 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.200 ahead and first get to my interview with the Ringers 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.240 Benjamin Solac What's Up? Doll Fans? Back here once again 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.479 at the Scouting Combine in Indianapolis, twenty twenty three edition, 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.000 and joined today by Ben Solacs from The Ringer Ben, 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.000 What's up, Man, dollphans? That's a good one. That's nice. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.120 It's always find whatever you do these teams sites, because 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.119 everybody's got to call in, everybody's gotta wait to bring 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.600 it in doll fans, And one of the best ones 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.479 I've heard. I kind of troll with that one because, 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.640 like I would say, twenty five percent of the fans 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.160 hate it, and they tell me we're not dolls, and 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.280 I'm like, look, I've been doing this same tagline for 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.040 ten years. It's not twenty five percent of fans hate it. 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:52.120 It's a good bit, you know what I'm saying. He 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.240 gets engagement. We're all right, yeah, that's right. I play 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.520 both sides. I'm playing both sides here, Ben. And now 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.640 we got Ben Soulac here. He's a bit of a 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.040 quarterback guru. Grill from the draft that was kind of 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.160 you your bread and butter coming up, But now you're 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.200 doing a lot more features, more NFL scheme stuff. So 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.320 when I get to that here in just a second 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.480 talking about McDaniel's offense, But first, I think it's an 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:12.960 interesting year for the Dolphins because you know, back in 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.840 twenty nineteen they kind of reset the books, draft capital, 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.320 free agent spending, and you know, kind of reloading the 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.880 contracts and how they went about things, got all those 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.560 draft picks in. Then you go aggressively last year after 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.359 Tyreek Hill, you get to Ron arms at a bunch 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.320 of big free agent and veteran players. What's next for 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:29.920 this team in terms of team building and what's the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.720 next approach for them? So it's interesting, right you're starting 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.160 to transition out of that stage of like, let's get 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.600 our cornerstones and into that stage of how do we 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.840 fill in the margins around the cornerstones? Right? Like, you 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.000 could tell me the Dolphins do anything and freeze in 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.400 the draft this year, does anyone here expect the offense 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:47.560 cannot be let's throw out to Tyreek and jam and 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.720 Wall like that's gonna be the offense no matter what 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.000 they do. Right to. Your cornerstones are in place, You 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:54.120 have your identity, you have your pillars. Now it's filling 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:55.639 in the background. Now you ask the questions. I'm like, 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.400 all right, Mike, asiki didn't get used as large, probably 0:02:58.480 --> 0:02:59.919 gonna leave. What do we want our tight them to 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:01.840 as to look? Like? How do we get more juice 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.440 out of that than we did? You look at your 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.840 backfield and the changes you made, you ad Jeff Wilson reheamost, 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.359 You go, okay, these are all San Francisco guys. Is 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.160 that what we need? Do we want to do something different? 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.160 So you start to like figure out the margins offensively, defensively. 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.360 I think you're probably have fewer cornerstones, right you went 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.560 and God Bradley Chob, I think your safety room is 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:23.280 Jones and Javan Holland that's cornerstones. Corner back is probably 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:24.960 a bit of a weird situation right now. I don't 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.360 know what's going on there, mammy. So you don't have 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.560 as many cornerstones, but still, like Mike mcdano knows Vic 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:31.760 Vic knows how to run a defense, you kind of 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.200 understand what your identity is going to be. Now it's okay, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.080 you know do we want to go Draymond Jones or 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:37.480 do we like we can get that guy in round three? 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.400 Like you kind of start to fill in the gaps 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.080 and what already you kind of know what your offensive 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:44.080 defensive identity is. That's really interesting because the podcast earlier 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.760 I talked about how like this year, I'm not really 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.720 sure what like the offseason kind of projection looks like 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.640 we're in years past, like you kind of knew like okay, 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.360 when your cornerstones at premium spots, but now those premium 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.240 spots are pretty much filled ups. Like you mentioned, you know, 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.800 tight end running back like off ball linebacker might be 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.000 a spot. You mentioned cornerbacks in the trition that happens there. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.880 I'm gonna jump to a different portion of the interview 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:04.760 here because you kind of touched on something that I 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.520 really want to dive into because like the cornerback position, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:10.200 you know that was this defense had been built back 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.800 to front for so long. I'm curious how you see 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.080 the scheme shift and how the personnel we currently have 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.000 matches that scheme shift. So it's important to frame this correctly. 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.239 Vic Fangio's defense relies on corners less than the Flores 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.200 and and Jock Boyer defense, they're not as important. With 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.400 that said, there's no defense in the league in which 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.520 outside corner is it really, really, really important. So you 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.920 don't want to go like, oh, we don't need to 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.680 be a seriout out of Cornell. You do. You've got 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.599 to be really serious. There's no way to not be 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.280 serious about that position. It's just Flores was all of 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.720 that islands right, and and for Vic Fangio and that 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.880 defensive approach, you want to definitely have that that start 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.840 outside guy, but you can help them in different ways. 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.440 You can run a greater variety of coverages you got. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.040 You have a lot more tools in your tool kit 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.479 against wide receiver ones as well. Like Flores's response was 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.440 pretty typically like press them, blitz, press them, and blitz 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.040 like they have a star guy where it's gonna make 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.560 the quarterbacks life hell and then that way the star 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.560 guy's not gonna activate. There's a lot of more answers 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.800 in Fangio's toolbox like that sort of an issue, and 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:08.240 that's where safety is really important. You look at how 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.680 when this defense has been successful. Fangio in Denver, Kareem 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.359 Jackson and Justin Simmons Brandon Stanley when he's with the Rams. 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.400 Josh Johnson right, this the idea of having this Fangio 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.560 safety is really important. That's why, like what the play 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.400 you've gone from Javon Holland and Brandon Jones makes you 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.880 feel so, so so good about the transition of this 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:27.680 defense in you still need to figure out what exactly 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:29.680 outside corner is it gonna look like. You still need 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.359 that corner one heed that pats or Tan right that 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:33.720 Fangio took top ten when he was with the Broncos. 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.400 But altogether you can move away from that position a 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:38.159 little bit in terms of focus. You're gonna put more 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.560 on the play to the safeties, and the Dolphins are 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:41.279 really well suited for that because the person they already have. 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.080 We've had a lot of folks talk about Javon Holland 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.839 and this defense every single years. It's awesome because like 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.440 every person I talked to it to a man. That's 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.200 why I always mes Brandon Jones because people forget Jones 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:53.120 could play. Yeah, he's going to hold his water and 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.240 his preparation in the way he kind of communicates makes 0:05:55.279 --> 0:05:56.640 me think it's a good fit there because it is 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.800 a complex defense. To kind of get down, especially you know, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.839 installing it from day one. So I think your answer 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:03.520 might be the guy we just talked about, number eight. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:05.520 I'm thinking, but I just want to ask you who 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.719 do you think stands to gain the most from the 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.080 scheme shift in the Dolphins defense. Collins definitely up there. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.560 I would say Chubb also gains a lot, just Vic 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:18.159 knows him and Chubb like, Chubb's a really, really good rusher, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:21.279 and I think that it's a it's a mercurial position. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.880 It's gonna have hot and cold runs. Like I think 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:24.799 Chubb's really good. I don't think there should be panic 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:26.320 by the trade and about the value for it. You 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.360 got a really good adge rusher with the first overall pick, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.440 like that's our first round picks usually that's just how 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.200 the NFL works, you know what I'm saying. Like he 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.440 might be a little bit older, but I feel good 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:35.800 about that train. I feel good about the future for 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:38.200 the Dolphins. So I think that that Fangio change helps 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:41.600 him out a lot. I got questions about interior defensive line, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:44.080 and I questions about linebacker, and I would be curious 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.400 toe how those positions shake out. But still like there's 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.800 talent bit right, Wilkins, Rake One who's awesome, and Jerome Baker. Like, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.240 you got guys just a matter of like figuring out 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:53.080 how the public pieces it comes together. That makes that 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.760 makes perfect sense. And you know, talking about the edge 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.920 rushing position. Jayalen Phillips had a big breakout year last year, 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.920 and yeah, it's funny because like the sack total was 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.520 kind of the same from the rookie year, but the 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.159 impact on tape was just so much more substantial. What 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:05.560 do you see from his game in year two? Yeah, 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.360 he always likes Jaylen Phillips always like it was a 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:09.239 good player and he pairs nicely with Chubb. You got 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:10.680 size it, you got guys who can handle the run, 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.560 and it's going to be important for this defense. Uh. 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.720 He phelps the quality of his play. Just like you 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.240 said the sack and never say about the same You're 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.880 going to look at how the sacks are created, like 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.280 how do you generate them? He's doing a lot more work. Uh, 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:22.960 a big explosive guy is always going to be able 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:25.080 to find success in the outside rush. But like the 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.360 work with his hands right and critically, the ability to 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.440 stay healthy, get reps right when he came out like 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:31.880 he'd been banking w UCLA. You know, do Miami transfer. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.360 He had missed the time and considered retiring from football. 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.200 He was just spotty with how long he was committed 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.720 to the game, the periods of time that he missed, 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.760 and kind of that halts your development. It kind of 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.160 put some bumps and some starts in there. Now he's 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.080 he's been a much more available and you can see 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.160 him kind of putting pieces together. So he's coalescing the 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.200 way I think that the Dolphins expected he was, the 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:51.000 way I hope he would go a good little player 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.920 without that journey he had in college. There's no way 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.000 he's available to pick eighteen back in twenty twenty one. 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.200 It benefits Miami in a big way. I told you 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:58.600 we're jumping around and ball. I want to go back 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:01.080 to the offense here, and just on the way McDaniel 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.440 installed this this offense in year one. We were talking 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.120 on the walk over here. It's been a long time 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:08.160 since the offense top ten offense, the shot number sixth overall. Yeah, 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:09.840 just give us the bird's eye view on how that 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.480 offense was created, and we'll talk about Tybreek and Jalen 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:13.880 in a second, but just like kind of from a 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.280 scheme standpoint, how it was put together, McDaniel is the 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.000 preeminent offensive mind right now in the league in terms 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.360 of ingenuity, in terms of creativity, in terms of cutting 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:23.920 edge right like Andy re like Sean mcvathy. Guys are 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:26.480 still like more foundational, but in terms of right now 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.640 a guy doing cool new things, other people are going 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.360 to hobby and follow. Yeah, Like, I mean, Daniel is 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.000 one of one. M really like the impact that he 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.000 had on this offense was extremely reminiscent of the impact 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.400 that Sean McVay had on the Rams office of twenty seventeen, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.160 which he took that over because he came in and 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.000 ran one thing one player. We literally called it like 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.400 the play Capital Tea, Capital Pay where they're setting the 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:51.360 receiver in jet motion. He becomes the new wide receiver 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.320 one and then they run him on the wheel and 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.440 the outside runs that curler runs that post and they 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.080 run little split zone fake. He ran that twelve times 0:08:58.080 --> 0:08:59.600 a game. I mean, like it's all they ran when 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:01.400 they when the Chargers beat him, there was the only 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:03.559 play the Chargers were trying to stop anytime they ran 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.240 anything else the Dolphins got him. It was you gotta 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.559 take away this one play, right, So that was very 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.920 similar to how McVeigh came in twenty seventeen helps Jared 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:12.240 Goff and kind of revitalize the Ram's offense. It was 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:17.480 totally in nert previously, that understanding, that that ability to 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:19.600 get to such a similar bucket, right, I think about 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.720 a shooter getting to the elbow in a variety of 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.040 ways against a variety of coveragers. Just get to one 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.480 spot and get two into that one spot. That's that's 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:30.200 the hallmark of just a really really really good offensive mind. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.559 Like that's the guy who just fully gets it. Now 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.640 comes part two. Everybody's seen it, right, and now it 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.440 becomes okay, you have to have new plays. You have 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:38.600 to have new stuff that you go before. We have 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.240 to have new ways to stretch the defense. If you're 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.000 gonna be a cutting edge guy, you don't get to 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.319 sleep very much. You have to stay a step ahead. Right. 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:45.960 It's gonna be an interesting thing to see, is is 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.599 how this thing continues to evolve. But the dawn of 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.800 McDaniel was unbelievable. It was it was it was it 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.319 was foundation. I was thinking, like run the football and 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.800 zone or whatever. They're pulling guards. You know what I'm saying. 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.439 They're spreading it out like they're shotgun the RPO. This 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.800 was a guy who's been waiting for a long time 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:03.400 and Takeover's offense, taking over and absolutely killing it. Now 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:04.880 I gotta stay ahead. Yeah, we saw a lot of 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.160 those fun concepts. Like one one week, Tyreek Hill on 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.079 that rail route up the sideline hits a big game. 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:10.760 The next week he get Trent Sure filling a little 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.920 hook route in the middle of a seventy five touchdown. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:14.560 That was the play. Yeah, that first slashdown with that 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.640 was the play. Big catch against the Bills was the play. 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.280 There was a catch agains the Lions Jaylen Waddle on 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.160 third down. That was the play. A lot of good 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.160 plays for the Dolphins this year. Was no play you 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.839 mentioned Jalen Waddle. I'm the biggest Yian Waddle fan there is. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.080 He ran from from about nine yards per catch to 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.120 eighteen this year, doubled his total league leader and yards 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.600 per catch. We obviously know about Tyreek Hill. How do 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.920 Tyreek and Jalen make what you just talked about go? 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.679 So I always I go back and forth on this 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.679 Tee Higgins, Brandon you, Davante Smith. But if you made 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:46.240 me pick who the best receiver in the league is, 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:47.720 who's not the wises year one on his team, I 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.680 think I would take Waddle me too. I might change 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.719 my opinion on that top it's really really hard. A 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.120 lot of good wid resverteas uh. Waddles just is so 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:59.200 uniquely quit because it's a jitterbug and Dabbie kills the 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:00.839 same way but tough, and they'll catch up with the 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:04.079 middle of field and they're willing to take hits. You cannot, 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.199 Like I said, McDaniels is an incredible offense. It's one 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.600 of one. You cannot do this unless you have as 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.480 terrifying of a speed threat. Like if you think about 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:16.520 all those intermediate windows that they generated, just just fifteen 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.040 yard cro routs, fifteen yards top route, fifteen yard digs 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.440 in yard posts. It's because the safeties are further back 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.160 when they face the Dolphins than any other the offense. 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.160 And they're not doing that because McDaniel frows the ball 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.959 vertical at two throws the ball vertical lot. They're not 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.960 doing ex The Dolphins throw the ball teeth. They really 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.679 don't like like to a leather league in a lot 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:34.920 of like twenty plus yard throws, twenty five plus yard throws. 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.760 When you look at those alls, all breaking throws, they 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.520 didn't really throw vertical like nine balls. They just didn't 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:41.160 do it that much. So why are the safeties that 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.040 far back? The ten and seventeen and you're just terrible. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.120 You just terrified of the idea of these guys getting 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.319 on top of you if you decide to get aggressive, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.199 just once it's a lion started down to Tyreek Hill. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.120 I think you try to step up, they're gonna get 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.320 on top of you, and so you have to sit 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.640 back there. You have to let those intermediate windows open up. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.840 So the Dolphins get, because of Wattle, because of Tyreek Hill, 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:01.880 more real estate than any other offense does. It's that simple. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.800 They're the other offense we're working with fifty three yards 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.600 across in forty yards deep. The Dolphins are working with 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.400 fifty There's just more room between the zones and anybody 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.560 else gets and like for a quarterback as accurate as 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.400 too to then get that on that amount of space 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.920 on top of just his natural accuracy is natural timing. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.520 That's why you see those drives or the Dolphins offense 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:23.560 is just effortless. It's just so so so easy. Eighteen 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.560 yards they playing against a college team. It's because they 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.120 get so much more room than the other NFL offenses too. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:30.880 It was funny because in training camp I was like, 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.920 am I a homework? Because every play it was like, oh, 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.199 fifteen yards to waddle eighteen yards of tyreek. Oh, there's 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:37.680 get Sicky for twenty more. It was just constantly like, Okay, 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.080 that's the offense we're gonna get. I guess in September. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.360 So I want to ask you this as a kind 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.560 of a follow up to that last part and then 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.880 we'll get into draft prospect talk here just because I 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.000 have you here. So we saw that nine Ers game. 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.240 You talked about that fifteen yard box and Fred Warner 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:54.120 just changed the way that offense worked because of his size, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.319 his length, his athletic ability to get that depth in 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.640 those hook zone drops. How does Miami combat? I know 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.760 not teams have Fred Warner to make that happen, But 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.960 how would you combat if you play the Niners again 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:05.720 and Fred Warner? Yeah? One team you got Fred. That's 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.520 a nice relief conference. Yeah. The other thing that the 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.480 Niners did, which is really important because you saw the 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.719 Chargers started to take advantage this with Michael Davis. Is 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.520 they pressed right? Because it's very counterintuitive. I just told 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:19.719 you Tyreek and James the water terifuning you gotta go, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.880 you gotta be so worried about that speed pressing them 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.400 sounds insane, exactly what are you thinking? But the Dolphins 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.400 offense is so timing basic. Particularly two Uh lives on 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:30.480 timing right, like he needs it to be like three 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.760 step out three step out. Two is very, very very 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:35.360 dependent on the timing in his pocket, such that if 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.480 you press these guys and just hassle them a little bit, 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.200 just throw off the geometry, throw off the trigonometry, whatever 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.120 the telemetry, you're gonna put a grain of sand in 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.040 the watch right in the cogs and it'll kind of 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:46.920 bust the whole thing open. So Fred takes me in 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.760 the middle of the field. But they also brought corners 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.520 up and press. Just saw the Chargers do that. Bills 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.880 did a little bit, not too much, but you see 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.000 that that starts to indact some of those timing throw 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.559 some of those third down throws, and it lets you 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.439 get a couple more punts out of the Dolphins. That's 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.360 that's what you need to do. That offense stop it 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:04.000 a couple of times. Yeah, So when when McDaniel's trying 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.400 to handle this, you'll see him throw to the motion 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:07.880 man more. A lot of times they use the motion 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:09.319 man to screw with people and then they throw to 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:11.079 somebody else, throw to the motion manks. It's hard to 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.040 press the motion man. He's the guy that's running around. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:14.719 You can't really get the line of scrimmage and press him. 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:16.839 And then you see them throw more outbreaking stuff. With 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.800 two of kems were outbreaking stuff. He just throws them 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.080 more like shallow five to ten yards as opposed to 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.840 their intermediate stuff, which is all inbreaking that's like fifteen 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:25.680 to twenty yards. You'll live with that as a defense. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.600 They're throwing speed outs. It's a relief, right, We've don't 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.360 have thrown all this stuff that breaks over the middle. 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.000 So you'll see more throw to the motion man. They'll 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.840 see more outbreaking stuff. All that's gonna be well and good. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:38.920 The number one thing that will help being able to 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:42.920 run the football functionally. Right. It's just the they had 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.680 moments of it. You saw stretches where they would rely 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.760 on the running game and it would sustain for them, 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:49.720 But then they get a turnover, they have a bad 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:50.920 possession out of a drop, and then all of a a 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.680 sudden they're down by ten, and then you just gotta 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.480 throw the football, right, You gotta final way to fight 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.320 back into this game. We have two of them, an 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.040 Entyreek and Waddle. It makes sense, but in general, when 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.320 when teams are gonna to vote this many resources to 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.040 stopping the pass, if you just had the ability or 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.680 run the football for six yards consistently, you could pull 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.560 the scales back in your balance. And that's why, like, 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.560 if I'm guessing what they do offensively, it's looking at 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.360 the back, looking at the tight end, and then also 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.400 looking among the offensive lines and seeing how can we 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.400 figure out to improve this running game and make a 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:20.800 little things a little more balanced. Perfect transition to the 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.040 last thing I want to talk to you about here, 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.320 some potential Day two fits at those spots, because talk 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.720 about offense. You know, probably not in the quarterback market, 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.800 probably not wide receiver market. You know that early in 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.280 the draft you mentioned offensive line, tight end, running back. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:32.800 All of our running backs, all four of our guys 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.200 we rousted last year are scheduled to be free agents. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:36.960 Will see what happens there. But who do you like 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.560 in Day two? It's a spot you just mentioned for 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:41.280 Dolphins draft is it's a great running back class, and 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.240 it's a great running back class to get a big fella, 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.400 which I would encourage, right. I think like mcnatio is 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:48.200 gonna watch them on a chains the track star from 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.720 Texas A and M was one hundred and niney pounds 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.160 and like lose his mind. I'm gonna, you know, put 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.040 put our temptations away for a second and focus. There 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:56.480 are some big backs in this class, and I think 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.360 size is going to benefit the Dolphins because it's nice 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:00.520 to be able to when your speech here a small 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.320 team like this to get a little bit bigger if 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.920 you need to. Eric Gray at Oklahoma is an option 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.480 for you there, Zach Charbonnet at the UCLA. Both of 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.240