WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 14 Variety Show with Louis Riddick 0:00:00.640 --> 0:00:05.240 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:10.560 your pulse if you're not for those What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:13.640 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:18.920 Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:20.200 How's it going, everybody? 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.640 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am fired 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.639 up for this one. We got about twenty five minutes 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.280 with the great Lewis Riddick of ESPN. We're gonna run 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.240 that in its entirety, and then we're gonna go ahead 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.720 and get to the my cause, my Cleat's testimonials here 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.800 from Bradley, chud River, Craycraft, Blake Ferguson. 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Thanks for having me. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:10.399 I wanted to start here, Lewis. 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.720 And You've been adamant that the Dolphins are more than 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.600 just a flashy team, and I'm wondering what you've seen 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.240 in terms of the progression of this Dolphins from physicality 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.600 standpoint and the run game, and how you think that 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:23.119 that can serve this team down the critical stretch into 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:23.760 the playoffs. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:29.800 Yeah. I think it was very noticeable last week against Washington, 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.720 like kind of where they're moving to in terms of 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.040 what they really want this identity of his football team 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:39.880 to be. It'll always the NFL will always be about 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:44.440 situational football. Third down, red zone, fourth quarter, two minute 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.200 chunk plays. I mean, that's really the kind of situations 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.160 that we all care about and we know ultimately can 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:56.240 flip games in your favor against you. But I think 0:01:56.320 --> 0:02:01.560 also what are the things that really separates teams down 0:02:01.560 --> 0:02:04.320 the stretch in the month of late November and December 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:08.160 and January is just how physical you can still play 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.560 the game and how you can own the line of 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:16.280 scrimmage in cold weather, adverse weather conditions, and just simply 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:21.200 from a mental standpoint, you see where like a team 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.200 like San Francisco, once they get inside your head from 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:29.200 a competitive standpoint in terms of like you don't know 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:31.400 whether or not you can handle the kind of physical 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.040 whooping they're putting on you, it really lets makes everything 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.280 else easier. And I think Miami is starting to do that. 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:43.239 I think Miami, you're starting to see the tempo, the pace, 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:47.640 the physicalness with which they play is starting to show up, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:49.280 and it shot up last week. I thought on the offense, 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.840 a line in particular, and I think, if they can 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:57.560 have their best five healthy, if they can have Tront healthy, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.720 if they can have Liam healthy, and Connor's healthy, and 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:03.880 Robert Hunts, you know he's back in Austin stays, that 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:07.960 group of five right there can put a hurting on 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.639 you now with the run game. And I thought Austin 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.679 Jackson stood out in particular to me because look, I 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.200 remember I really liken Austin when he was at USC 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.880 and I knew that he was very young. Then when 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.560 he got drafted, you I think believe he's still only 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:22.359 twenty years old, when he came out nineteen or twenty 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:26.080 years old, and then hearing about all the crap that 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.920 he went through and that Touur went through in terms 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.000 of like maybe having doubt put into his head about 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.680 whether or not he could really be the kind of 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.400 pro that he's ultimately turned out to be, just makes 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.120 me look at him now and look at his performance 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:41.320 last week, and then see the contractor sensience they gave 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.240 him with like almost this like weird sense of pride 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.720 that these guys are starting around in the form individually 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.600 and collectively right now in a way that the NFL 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:53.480 don't want to see this now. And I'm saying opponents 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.800 don't want to see this because we already know that 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:57.360 they can go ahead and flip the game on its 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.840 head in a moment's notice, whether passed the jailen or 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.960 but if they can start owning the line of scrimmage 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.760 like this, especially in the run game, with the way 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.120 that Raheem runs and the way that Jeff runs, and 0:04:09.200 --> 0:04:11.200 even Devaughon, I mean, look he we saw it at 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.160 A and M, and we've seen it already this year 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.000 for smaller guys, you know, in stature, this dude has 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:21.360 this ridiculous contact, bounce Julian Hill with the like with 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.440 the way he's blocking at the point of attack, as 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.560 a why, as a move why, or on the line, 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:29.080 on the line of scrimmage. Miami. Miami is going to 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.000 be a problem, man, if they can really keep this 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.920 kind of developmental art going, which I don't see any 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.760 reason why they don't. And I think Mike Michael handle 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.000 it right. And I know I'm going on and on 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:40.919 and on about this, but I've really thought about this 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:43.080 and really looked at this, you know, getting ready for 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.000 this game. If he can get these guys peeking at 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.000 the right time, there is no reason for me to 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.919 believe any differently than what I believe at the beginning 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.719 of the season, which was they will win the East 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:59.360 and that they will be a legit contender to represent 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.559 the AFCs. I don't see any reason why that doesn't happen. 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:04.880 Well, you never have to apologize for going along on 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.360 that stuff with us here, because why I wanted to 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.440 have you on was a little bit more nuanced breakdown 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.320 of where this team is and where they're going. And 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.320 you mentioned the offensive line the last couple of weeks, 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.000 like you talked about in the Washington game, but the 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.800 Jets game as well. They had drives in the fourth 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.200 quarters of both those games where they almost exclusively ran 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.400 the football and went down the field for touchdowns and 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:22.840 asserted their will on the opposition. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.440 So we've we've enjoyed watching it down here. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.000 You mentioned Austin Jackson, but it goes beyond him, Lewis, 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.000 because you know, Liam Eichenberg's having the best run of 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:30.919 his career right now. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:32.760 Rob Hunt's a great right guard. 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.040 Connor Williams does things that I'm not sure there's more 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:36.600 than three or four centers in the league that can 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.240 do what he does. You mentioned Toron Armstead, Kendall Lamb, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.760 Keon Smith, Lester Cotton. All these guys have come off 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:44.240 the bench and performed. So I'm curious what you think 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.279 is the secret, Sauce to pretty much, it doesn't matter 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.440 what the offensive line combination looks like. You mentioned the 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.279 starting five, which is great to have those guys, but 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:53.680 they've been able to plug and play guys consistently down here. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.359 What's the reason for that, do you think? 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.520 Yeah, well, I think it's a number of things. I mean, obviously, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.600 you start, we'll just start bought them up all right, 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.120 these guys individually are wired the right way. They obviously 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.520 want to improve and they want to buy into this 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:16.200 system and improve. Number two. Obviously, I think outside the coordinators, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.760 when you're talking about a staff, offensive line coach is 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:23.360 the most important individual coach on a coaching staff. And obviously, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.920 Butch Barry has done something and been able to connect 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.680 with these guys in a way that transcends just teaching 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.480 them plays, teaching them footwork, teaching them hand placement, half 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.920 placement finished it. It goes beyond that. It becomes personal, 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.560 It becomes about personal relationships. And clearly, if you take 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:41.520 it a step further, clearly that's something that Mike McDaniel 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:45.040 really really really does believe in and emphasizes. In this 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:50.720 world of instant gratification fantasy football, you either suck or 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.440 you're at all pro mentality that we have. We forget 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:57.960 all this stuff in between, We forget about what incremental 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:00.719 improvement really looks like in the value over relationships and 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.440 connection and synergy and all this other and all the 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:07.160 other stuff, and it's it's really kind of annoying, quite honestly, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.600 because I think it's kind of dumbed down. The evaluation 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.680 that's going on in terms of football at all levels. 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:14.520 There's a lot of people who think they know what 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.520 they're talking about as far as this game is concerned, 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.800 and they don't know. Quite honestly, it's part of my language. 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.080 They don't know about what they're talking about. And this 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.880 team is the perfect example of it. People are ready 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.240 to throw Austin Jackson out, you know, on his rear end, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.280 and say, look, you can't play hell. There were obviously 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.680 there were coaches down there in Miami who are ready 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.360 to do that and people down here in Miami who 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.560 are ready to do that. The TUA and the way 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.480 these guys were jerked around, you know, and when you 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.000 just oppose that to what is happening with them now, 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:44.200 when you're asking why is this happening? I think it's 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.800 the human element. It's the connection that's happening down there, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.240 on top of the fact that these guys are just 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:51.120 very talented. Look, Robert Hunt was kicking people's behind in 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:55.840 college show that missed nothing new, Okay, Connor Williams, you're 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.280 right for for a guy who's as big as he is, 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.160 you're talking about the dude who's six 's five, a 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.520 guy who has tack who played tackle, now he's playing center. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.800 I mean, not too many guys can go from playing 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:08.520 out on the left side, on the on the edge 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.400 in college and now becoming a guy who you could 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.600 consider an all pro caliber center at this point. And 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.880 I've seen the same thing as you see and look 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.040 and when you see a guy like Kean Smith come 0:08:18.080 --> 0:08:20.640 in for Tehran at left tackle and you're sitting there going, well, 0:08:20.640 --> 0:08:23.080 who the hell's that guy? And that guy's playing with 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.000 the same kind of pace in Temple and trying to 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.880 finish like just like you see with Austin And yeah, 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.080 you have seen it with Robert Hunt. You have seen 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.440 leam Meikenberger all of a sudden settled in at guard 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.719 and you're going, Okay, this guy was a tackle, he's 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.679 played center, he can play guard, he played left side, right. Yeah, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.600 that's the reason why that happens is one because these 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.280 guys are talented, but two, they believe in what they're 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.000 being told. And there's that there's that extra like a 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.200 coach told me that once this fall already, you know, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.480 like football is about finding the inches, especially when you're 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:55.880 talking about a league that has parody. That is that 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.599 emphasizes parody. It's about finding those inches. Well, one of 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.440 the ways that you find those inches is the human element, 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.200 is the connection, is the relationships, and Mike really does 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.040 believe that. See, some people don't really believe that. Some 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.080 people just believe, well, you're a pro, you get paid money, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.640 so you should automatically just be at your very best 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.520 every single week. I don't want to hear about your life. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:17.839 I don't want to hear about how you feel. I 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.280 don't want to hear about whether you like your coach 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.560 or not. You can pay millions of dollars, I'd put 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:23.400 my arm off to do that. It's like, first of all, 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.720 you're not talented enough to do that. Number two, don't 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.360 even talk to me about that. See. That's the beauty 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.959 of this football team that I know that's going to 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:34.800 be a large part of besides documenting the game, breaking 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.720 down the x's and o's, that I know I'm going 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:40.800 to emphasize on Monday Night is that there's a little 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.880 something special going on here. And that's why I sensed 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.320 it last year in the NFC. I sense it with 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.960 a team like Seattle, although Seattle's in the division. You know, 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.760 with a behemoth in San Francisco. But see San Francisco 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:59.000 has that. See that's why they not only are they good, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.679 they try to like teach you a lesson in physicality 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.760 every single time they play. And Mike's bringing that a 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.960 little bit of that over to Miami and man, oh man, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:10.800 it's kind of exciting. 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.720 I mean for us, it's the most exciting thing. And 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.000 did you touch on two things that I want to 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.160 follow up? And I'll start here with with McDaniel. You 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.040 talk about putting his arm around guys and just the 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.439 impact of you know, carrying on them and loving on them. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.760 How they can you know, get better performances as a 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.360 result of that better connection like you. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:26.040 Talk about there. 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.559 But what I want to ask you about is in 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.000 the exces and No's element here and the sequencing of 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.600 building the pass game off the run and really vice versa, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.079 because he kind of does a good job of both 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.960 of it. I think I'm curious to get your take 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.600 on how one impacts the other. How does the Dolphins 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:40.880 run game help the pass and the pass game help 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:41.280 the run? 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.480 Yeah, thinks back to the San Francisco game last year 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:51.119 and how Demico defended this offense. You could see structurally 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.160 what they were trying to do. They were they didn't 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:57.679 believe at that point that McDaniel would commit to running 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.560 the running the football, and they wanted to defend the 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:04.679 field in old Bill Bill Belichick way, which makes total sense. Okay. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.320 They wanted to defend the field inside out, and they 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.640 wanted to defend it top down and make you prove 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.520 that you were willing to go the hard way and 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:14.960 make you make you prove that one you could capture 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.680 the line of scrimmage and then go the hard way. 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:22.959 So if you saw Drake Greenlaw and these guys were 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.080 we never line it up like like if you typically 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.400 line up at about plus six from the ball. These 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.440 guys were lining up at like plus seven plus eight, 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.040 and they were really packing the field and saying, heay, 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.040 go ahead and run it. Prove to us that you will, 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.880 because we'll just try and come downhill and smack it in. 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.360 Any way, Well, when you run the football and you 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.199 go okay, so you're daring me to do that, then 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.000 if you're if you're telling me like you think you're 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.760 good enough to like, if we can get Raheem or 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.000 Devon on to the second level. At about four or 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.320 five yards you think you can actually tackle these guys 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.520 in the open field. So now that they're able to 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.160 do that, what happens now is, well, now these linebackers 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:01.320 have to come back down. They have to start coming 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.640 back down a little bit. Now, play action pass works, now, 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.840 urpos work because these guys are frozen because they're going, hey, look, 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.800 I don't want to try and tackle these guys at 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:11.800 plus five plus six from the line of scrimmage when 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.080 they got ahead of steam going on. So now what 0:12:14.160 --> 0:12:16.640 winds up happening is the second level just gets stretched 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.800 and it gets opened up. And now all of a sudden, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.760 Now then when you when you match that with well, 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.800 let's integrate some motion onto this. Let's integrate some of 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:27.920 you know tours, you know, some of their fancy little 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.920 ball handling that they do. Let's give them some false 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.840 keys as far as pullers are concerned. Maybe how TUA 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:35.440 reverses out of the pot all that. Then what happens 0:12:35.400 --> 0:12:37.760 is everything just starts building off of that, simply because 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.760 of the fact that now you know that you cannot 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.480 really take a I dare you to run the football 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.960 type of approach. And when they start running it like 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:53.760 they are. Now the whole field becomes available for them 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:58.320 to attack. And that's what's scary. That's what I would 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.520 be scared of as a defender with them, that if 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.120 he's going to commit to doing it, and he's okay 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.600 with doing it, because you know, look, some offensive coordinators 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:07.920 want to show you just how just how good they 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.679 are with drawing up fancy pass plays. And look, I 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.720 understand i'd want to get the ball to Tyreek as 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.000 much as possible. I'd want to throw it to jail 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.200 On as much as possible too. But man, with the 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.760 way these guys are coming off the rock, now, that's 0:13:21.920 --> 0:13:25.520 that's set up for coach McDaniel. Man, that just makes 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:29.199 I believe the possibility possibility is infinite. 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.800 It's a perfect segue to my next question about Tua 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.240 here because you incorporate you mentioned Tyreek the vertical stretch, right, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.080 but all that run game on the outside zone incorporates 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.720 the horizontal stretch that creates all that spacing like you're 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.960 talking about there. And who better than tow a tongue 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:45.640 by Low with the mechanics and the operation just getting 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.000 the ball out quickly. I'm curious to dive into the 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.240 why behind why he's able to do that, Like what 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:54.000 is required for Tua from a preparation and skills standpoint 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.600 to be able to play as fast and odd schedule 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.360 and all these great anticipation rips. 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.360 What puts him in position to be able to do that. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:08.400 Well, I think one is his belief in what coach 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.520 McDaniel is telling him is going to be there if 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.559 he just executes it in the way in which he 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.080 implements it. Number One, I think there's total trust, so 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:22.000 he's not second guessing how the play is going to 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:25.120 ultimately wind up manipulating and affecting the defense. And then 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.560 obviously there's his own instinctive reaction ability to react to 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.360 you know, the unscouted looks or rather the unscouted reactions 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.800 that he gets when they're happening happening in a moment's notice. 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.160 So there's trust in the play and how it's drawn 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.360 up and how it's put in, just trusting himself and 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:45.400 his ability to then go ahead and make adjustments based 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.560 off of again, like I said, the unscouted look or 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.520 the unanticipated look, and then the fact that he's able 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:53.400 to be on the same look. You heard Tyreek and 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.200 him talking about the fact, you know the long pass 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.080 that he had last week that to Or threw it 0:14:57.160 --> 0:14:59.480 where it was supposed to be thrown in Tyreek. Thought 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.560 that Tom, you're thrown at the wrong spot. But then 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.360 you looked at the tape and then he realized, hey, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:04.600 you know what, you actually put it in the place 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:07.320 that you were supposed to. There's that that connection, right, 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:10.680 So there's that trust also. And then like the last 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.080 thing as to why he's able to play this quickly 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.440 throw the football with this kind of anticipation, like you know, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.040 like I know, I've seen, like I have numerous examples 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.360 where I was watching, like how they throw these what 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:26.040 I call the bang age, the short posts, whatever you 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:27.960 want to call them, and how too it will throw 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.640 them when the receiver is still like about to hit 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.360 the break point and come inside and look for it, 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.080 and the ball is long gone and the window it 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:38.640 doesn't even look like the window is there yet. You 0:15:38.640 --> 0:15:40.080 know who else can do that? You know who else 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.600 is doing that? Rock Purty's doing that on the same 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:47.120 routes to Brandon, not you, the same things. It's a 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.760 function of the system because it you know, because they 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.120 rep it and rep it and rep it and they 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.240 get it against the looks that they want. And it's 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:57.640 trust as far as the quarterback trusting the system. And 0:15:57.640 --> 0:16:01.120 then it's the individual talent. You know that these quarterbacks possess. Man, 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.440 I mean, because not everybody could do that, not everybody 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:05.200 would be able to put it right there. And I 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:09.360 think for Tua, Tua's in his zone right now. Tua 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.960 believes in himself. Right now, Tua believes that he can 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.680 put the ball wherever he needs to put it. And 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.480 then again going back to the run game, with the 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.040 way that the run game is putting people in conflict, 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.720 anything that involves any kind of play action look or 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:27.480 any kind of ball handling where there's the possibility that 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.760 he can potentially hand the ball off is causing people 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.600 to freeze for just a second to where now a 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.760 window goes from here to here, and it just And 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.680 I can tell you as a defender, there's nothing worse 0:16:39.720 --> 0:16:42.760 to be in that position to know that every play, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.640 especially as a second level defender, as a linebacker or 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.680 a down safety, that you're in conflict because you're scared 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.960 to death because you don't want to be at a 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:56.000 position against a run. But at the same time, you 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:57.960 know that if I'm at a position against the pass 0:16:58.000 --> 0:16:59.640 and they hit one of these quick slants of under 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:01.240 these banks so as they call him the Tyreek, he 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.520 gets splitch and be out the gate. Next thing you know, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:05.640 he's hitting his head on the goal post and they're 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:08.760 playing the fight song and it's just not a good 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:10.480 it's not a good thing. So I think all those 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:15.840 things are why you're seeing to a play. It's such 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.800 a highly, highly uh efficient level. 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.399 There was a play last week against Washington where they 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.040 had split flow action, a jet sweep one way, a 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.359 fake give inside rpo action off the other side. It's 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.600 a lot for defensive defensive players to get ready for 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.000 every single week. Let's go ahead and take a quick 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:33.919 break right there. Come back on the other side with 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.399 my guest today from ESPN, Lewis Riddick, on the Draft 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:41.800 Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. My guest today, 0:17:41.880 --> 0:17:44.639 Lewis Ridck of ESPN, speaking of defense. Lewis, let's go 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.840 ahead and flip the script there and talk about this 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.199 Dolphins defense. It's in a really good zone right now, 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:50.520 just like you mentioned there with two a tongue of 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.640 biloa and nobody gave us more runway on the breakout 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.520 season for Jalen Phillips than you did this offseason. And 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:58.359 before we get to see you guys on Monday night, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.320 I just wanted to ask you, you know what you 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.880 saw on his gay because I know Lewis you only 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:05.720 take your emphatic takes to television when you're absolutely convicted 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:07.920 in them. What was the cause for your conviction behind 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:09.439 number fifteen down here in Miami. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.159 Well, it goes back to his tape when he was 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.960 at when he was at Miami, when he was in college. Still, 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:20.360 he is a he is a He's just a fantastic, 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:26.199 fantastic athlete, number one, who plays with the kind of twitch, 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:32.080 bend instinct power that you ideally would want in the 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.639 thirty four outside linebacker or a four to three end, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.600 although you know, I don't know if you necessarily want 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.200 to have him in six technique alignments all the time 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.760 and getting banged on or five technique alignments getting banged 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:43.320 on by tackles and tight ends and stuff like that. 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:46.360 But if you keep him on an edge, he has 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.840 just got absolutely stupid get off flex the competitive motor. 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.600 He's got power in his hands. I mean, he can 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:57.840 do it all he can drop, he can play in 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:59.720 the two point. I mean, how many more things you 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:01.560