WEBVTT - Drive Time: Anthony Weaver Hired as Dolphins Defensive Coordinator 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on remove Golan Deep Speedways Peas Doll Pad from 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.640 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.440 He's got my hands in the playoffs. 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:26.920 What is up? 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.680 Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:33.680 your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, a break 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:37.199 in our regularly scheduled action here on the podcast, a 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:41.640 pause on the twenty twenty three season review, as we 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.320 can tell you about a big hire in the organization. 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.919 Anthony Weaver has been named the newest defensive coordinator of 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.320 your Miami Dolphins. We're going to do a comprehensive look 0:00:50.320 --> 0:00:53.040 at his career, where he's been, what he's done, the 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.680 impact of his hire, his aligned vision with Coach McDaniel. 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:58.920 We'll get testimonials and a whole heck of a lot 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:02.000 more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:02.880 Training Complex. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:03.520 This is. 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:10.760 The Drive Time Podcast. I think we start here with 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:13.920 the statement from head coach Mike McDaniel, who issued this 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.280 to say about Anthony Weaver on Saturday. I am excited 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.399 to add Anthony to our staff, not only for what 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.400 he will bring to the Dolphins as a teacher and coach, 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.880 but even more so who he is as a leader 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.040 of men. He has a proven resume of success built 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.360 on his personal investment in his players. Most importantly, he 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.120 shares our belief that player development is the cornerstone to 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:37.399 both team building and sustained excellence. Through conversations with him 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.440 and those who have worked with him, it became clear 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:43.960 that we have aligned values in football philosophies and coaching 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.960 end quote. So I want to make sure that I'm 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:53.560 not just spewing blind positivity and just telling you this 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:55.520 is a great hire for reasons X, Y, and Z, 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:57.400 and that this will make everything right in the world 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.240 and the Dolphins once again here in February, we can 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.200 champion them as real title contenders because of the moves 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.920 they make. Right, That's what we kind of buy into 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.800 whenever you make a move of any sort. And my 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.280 coverage has always been that way, even before the team, 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.720 that I try to identify what I think could work, 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.960 what I think will work with people, coaches or players, 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.160 and attack it accordingly and bring up and address the 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:24.680 potential negatives without harping on them too much, because I 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.560 think that's the best way to do this, because you're 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.640 all fans of a team that you have no control over, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:36.200 and why would you volunteer your emotions to something in 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:40.200 a way that you're going to constantly dredge up negativity. 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.359 I just never have understood that. So let me go 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:42.959 go ahead. 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:45.600 And be perfectly clear here that this entire concept of 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.960 this episode is to give you here's what it could 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.440 look like in the ideal scenario. We'll also talk about 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.360 some of the negatives that come along with the resume 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:56.720 of a coach that gets hired here. So I just 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.200 want to go ahead and put that out there and 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.639 lead in with this because this line or rate here 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.000 he shares our belief that player development is the cornerstone 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.679 to both team building and sustained excellence. And it's time 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:09.200 for me to die a tribe off of that a 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.040 little bit because I was referred back to Stephen Ross's 0:03:12.160 --> 0:03:16.280 end of twenty eighteen press conference when the whole organizational structure, 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.519 the whole approach and mission statement in philosophy of the 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.120 Miami Dolphins kind of got flipped on its head, right. 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.280 It used to be patch it up. 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:29.400 TJ McDonald, Robert Quinn, Andre Branch Kiko Alonso, sign him 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:30.959 Uplet's go ahead and extend this thing and get a 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.760 little bit better at the cost of our entire future. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.440 And they went from Chris career as you know, a 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.880 kind of co GM. So I know he was named 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.720 the GM in twenty sixteen, but he didn't have the 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.040 president of Football Operations who signed all those bad contracts, right, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:49.320 Mike Tannebaum from sixteen through eighteen. In nineteen he became 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:52.720 the man like the Grand Pooba. And at that press conference, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:56.440 Ross referred to the idea of sustained success mission statement 0:03:56.480 --> 0:04:00.000 of the undertaking of a rebuild heading into a miserable 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.280 Bowl twenty nineteen season where we had all kinds of 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.560 big money contracts tied up into bad players who were 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.600 on the wrong side of thirty and we're no longer 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.880 performing anywhere near the level of the compensation they were paid, 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.760 were they ever? Like Keiko's contract, like TJ's contract, like 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:15.960 Andrea Branch's contract. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.960 Got rid of that type of thinking, and the mission statement. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:22.560 Here carried over the last five years, but in earnest 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.080 you call it four years, since the first year of 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:28.119 that was really taking your medicine right again. Trading Robert 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.159 Quinn for was it a fifth round pick just to 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.080 get his money off the books? Or Ryan Tannehill for 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.360 fifth and sixth round picks to get their moneys off 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.839 the books. You take your medicine that one year, you 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:38.960 don't bring in new assets, you move your assets to 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.120 the future. You get your high draftick by losing a 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.120 bunch of games, and then you go after in your 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.360 number two. And since then, only four teams have more 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.400 wins over the last four seasons than your Miami Dolphins. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.200 And now we have not enjoyed the playoff success we 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:53.599 would all love to have had over that time, not 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.080 even close, not even one. But I think that there 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.599 should be some appreciation for the fact that this team 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:03.200 has played made one game in the last four seasons 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:07.760 that was meaningless, right in terms of playoff viability Week 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.920 eighteen versus the Patriots in twenty twenty one is the 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.760 only team this game, only game this team whoops has 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.560 played since the pandemic season that didn't count. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.520 I mean it counted, but it didn't matter, right, That's it. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.680 Every other one of the sixty eight games that includes 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.919 two postseason games, have had meeting within the standings in 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.880 the NFL. How many other teams can say that. Buffalo 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.160 Can the Ravens have the exact same number as US. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.640 Their twenty twenty one finale also did not matter in 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.720 playoff contention that year. Funny how that mirrors us. Pittsburgh, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.760 Kansas City, Green Bay, and Tampa Bay are the teams 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:45.600 that have had that. Seven teams can can say they've 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:50.800 played zero or one meaningless games over the last four years. 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.560 So there has been sustained success, even if the tip 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:57.560 of that success has not been reached yet yet. But 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.920 I think that's where you start. That's the mission statement, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.760 and then from there you have variables good and bad bounces, 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.640 and then of course the ability to overcome the next obstacles. 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.040 For us, the bad bounces outweighed the good. Neither of 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.920 our top two quarterbacks available for the playoff game last year, 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.200 and a defense full of brand new players and an 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.279 offense that were struggle together by duck tape and bubble 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.920 gum in the playoffs this year, on top of bad 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.920 performances from a couple of your key players. But by 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:25.720 consistently putting yourself in contention, that's the only way you're 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.600 going to ever potentially break through, right Because We've seen 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.520 a lot of most of the greats struggle to break 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.279 through more than once or twice. I think about the 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:36.360 Farv led Packers all the time, the Manning led Colts, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.440 the Breeze led Saints teams that combined for thirty two 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:44.239 playoff appearances. With those teams and just three rings combined, 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:46.680 the Saints had Breeze for fifteen years, and they made 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:49.960 the playoffs nine times, won a single championship, the only 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.520 one they went to a nine and nine mark in 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.520 the postseason. The Colts had Peyton Manning for thirteen years, 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.440 made the playoffs eleven times and one one championship, went 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.760 to another one lost that one to Drew Brees's Saints. 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:03.520 They were nine to ten in the playoffs. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.560 Isn't it weird? How? 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.880 Not just the fact that his second ring, he won 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.000 with a was with a negative touchdown interception ratio and 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.160 the lowest cumulative production for a Super Bowlinning quarterback ever 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:16.200 in the history of the Super Bowl, but also how 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.000 the Broncos lost twice in the divisional round at home, 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.280 both as number one seeds. Food for thought there about 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:25.280 Manning's playoff success and his perception as an all time 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.680 great for the Packers, they had far for sixteen years, 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:32.240 made the playoffs twelve times, won a single championship, the 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.560 only one they went to a twelve to ten mark 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:36.480 in the postseason. For him and the Packers, this is 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.160 a roundabout way to describe how difficult it is to 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.760 not just win championships, but how hard it is to 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.840 win once you get into the postseason, and it shows 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.120 you how alien like Mahomes is and Brady was right. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:48.920 But the point of. 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:51.960 All this is that I think the results based expectations 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:56.160 you should operate under is the presence in contention, How 0:07:56.200 --> 0:08:00.800 often do you have an opportunity to go into the 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.560 postseason and make some noise. And like, I'm not talking 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.400 about Steelers contention, Like they were never a threat to 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.320 win the championship over the last two or three years, right, 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.160 but they were there because they would get their wins 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.160 over in battle teams late in the year and make 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.120 a push into the postseason. But like for us, we 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:18.480 thought we had a championship caliber team this year until 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:19.560 things got kind of wonky. 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:20.560 I want that. 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.520 I want that every single year going into Christmas thinking 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.480 there's a chance that we're playing in the Super Bowl 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.640 in a month and a half from now and extrap 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.720 ledding results beyond that, I think can get into insufficient 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.680 practice because you're holding those expectations against an unsatisfiable standard. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.520 One championship in an average of eleven years for those 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.600 previous three quarterbacks. If the Dolphins do that, if they 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.120 win one championship in the next twelve years under Tua 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.640 and McDaniel, you're gonna look back in this era as 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.559 the most successful as franchises has had besides a blip 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.439 on the Raidar on the seventies. Right, And to tie 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:56.439 it back to this idea of player development and consistent contention. Well, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.560 that's what coach Weaver had to say about his time 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.200 in Baltimore and why I put together this entire nearly 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.760 ten minute die trib right here about his time in 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.040 an organization that shares the exact same philosophical approach that 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:07.520 we hold. 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:08.800 Here's coach Weaver on. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:10.720 Why he wanted to get back to Baltimore after being 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.680 a player for the Ravens, but then as to continue 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.840 his or begin, i should say, his coaching career with 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.880 that same team, and just real quick a heads up, 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.920 this audio is incredibly low. I could not find any 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.880 other version of it that was better quality. I bumped 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.319 it all the way upon my ends. So go ahead 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.120 and turn your speakers up for the next two minutes 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.679 or so here because Anthony we We talks about his 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.960 philosophy about sustained success and how you create that. Here's 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.000 the new Dolphins DC on just that again. Turn the 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.680 speakers up and they'll go back down after his audio ends. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.439 So Ever since I left Baltimore as a player, I've 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.600 always I've always wanted to find my way back there, 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:49.920 just to as we talked about, you you want to 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:51.880 see you want to see how the dinner's name right, 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.600 You want to see why they've been able to have 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.160 such sustainable success for a number of years. It became 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.400 incredibly clear once I got back within those walls. There's 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.840 always been some alignment issues in some of these other organizations, 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.480 and that's why they have the ups and downs and 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.640 fluctuations through time, because in a lot of ways, you 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.120 have too many like chefs in the kitchen that all 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:18.240 have different ideas. When you get to Baltimore, because essentially 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.520 the hierarchy and has been there for a very long time, 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.959 they have a very shared vision and shared belief system. Right, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.160 they know exactly what they're looking for in players, they 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.880 know exactly the type of coach that they want to 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.160 identify and bring him to help develop those guys, and 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.960 then they know exactly how to acquire them without essentially 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:43.079 putting you in cap purgatory. And once you see that alignment, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:46.880 that is what I realized is like, oh, okay, Like 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.640 this is how you do it. You find a bunch 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.360 of people that ultimately care about service and want to 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.920 want the best for the team and their guys, and 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.200 then have a shared approach on how to get there 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.960 and then stick to it. Yeah, are you gonna adapt 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.560 and adjust and evolve a long way? 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:05.000 Sure? 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:06.000 And they have right. 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:10.080 They've changed GMS from Ozzie Newsom to Eric DaCosta, they've 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.000 had different head coaches, but along the way, the fabric 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.960 of who that team is hasn't changed. They know what 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.880 they want on defense, they know what they want on offense, 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.760 they stay true to it, and they're always in contention 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:26.400 year after year after year. And I think ultimately, whether 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.120 you're a coach or in any organization, that is what 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:35.280 you're chasing, right, the opportunity year in year out to 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:37.440 not only be relevant but to give yourself a. 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:38.280 Chance to win it all. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.520 I mean that could have been written by coach McDaniel himself, right, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.880 shared vision. You know, Fangio worked out the players that 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:46.760 he wanted and they didn't sign him, and that was 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.280 not necessarily a culture fits is well I kind of 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.720 assume it to be because McDaniel talks all the time 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.319 about the carefully curated locker room and the personality and 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.480 how pieces fit in that locker room. We had the 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.280 whole agenda about non negotiables for Cam Smith and Channing Tyndall. Like, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.959 that's not a collaborative, you know, open door type of 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.120 philosophy that the head coach has. So if your DC 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.040 doesn't have that, it's conflicting messages. That's why I like 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.800 the idea of getting a guy that sees the game 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:13.720 the way you do, and it sees the modern approach 0:12:13.720 --> 0:12:15.680 for athletes the way that you do, because we're going 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.480 to hear some testimonials here on the third segment, and 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.360 I just don't think that old school way of doing 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.439 it works anymore, and we have guys that can tell 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.040 you proof of that. Let's go back to twenty twenty 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.640 when with the Houston Texans coach Weaver again more talk 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.160 here about his philosophy as a football coach. 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:35.000 Everybody that's here, we are compelled to try not to 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:39.360 waste this season. And for me, it's all about these players. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.320 And I've been in their shoes, and they have such 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.800 a short window in their careers and you never know 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.719 how long it's going to last. So I understand that 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:50.360 for a lot of people this is it's a game. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.520 I get it, and we're held to a high standard. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.680 It's entertainment. I understand that. But for these players in 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.880 this locker room, their careers are finite. So I understand 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.160 what we're at. Run four. We got to do better, 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:06.199 but there's twelve games left to play, and these players 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.120 in our staff, we're gonna do everything in our power 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:10.079 to try. 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:10.600 To win that. 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.160 Of course, after a four game losing street to open 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.800 the twenty twenty season, the finite window and maximizing their 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.280 earning and playing potential, it's like word for word what 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.679 McDaniel has talked about here since he got here. How 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.280 about an added element of toughness. It's a mindset right. 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.559 Here's coach we run how he defines toughness on a 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:28.200 football team. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.440 In this game of football, you hear coaches talk a 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.040 lot about toughness, and to me, the toughness of a 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.800 football team is measured by when your ability to run 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.240 the ball on offense and then your ability to stop 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:42.720 the run on defense. So we are we are determined 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.000 and impassion to go out there and make teams one 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.920 dimensional and be tough and physical of the line of scrimmage, 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:51.480 get those guys on a second level, swarming and knocking 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.760 people down because you want to. You want to make 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:55.960 the team one dimensional and know that you're not going 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:57.680 to come here and push us around and try to 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.880 bully us. Where the bullies you better put the ball 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:00.320 in the year. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.280 So it's a little bit of the thinking, the philosophy, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.800 the presence that coach Weaver brings to the table. I've 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.080 gotten text from people around the league or the content 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:11.040 transpeer who say, dude, you're gonna love coach Weaver. So 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.480 I can't wait to meet him personally that first press 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.240 conference and just hear him talk some football. I'm betting 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.080 I'll get more words from him when I see him 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.640 in the hallway than the four wards I got from 0:14:19.640 --> 0:14:23.760 coach Fangio over the eleven months that he was here, 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.080 over the twenty five passings in the hallway, the courtesy 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.240 of the sub coach and just a grumble back to me. 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.920 I look forward to getting actual human responses from that. 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.040 Let's go ahead and take our first break right there. 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:36.000 Come back on the other side, explore coaches history, the 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:40.360 schemes I think he might institute here in Miami, personnel usages, 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:42.000 all of that, and a heck of a lot more. 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.960 Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:51.720 by Auto Nation. Dolphins hire a defensive coordinator, Anthony Weaver, 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.000 formerly of the Ravens, Houston Texans and a few other 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:56.640 clubs as well. I want to go ahead and break 0:14:56.640 --> 0:14:58.520 this portion here as we take a look at these 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.120 schemes and systems and I ideas of what it might 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.240 look like here under Anthony Weaver in Miami. Let's go 0:15:04.280 --> 0:15:07.880 ahead and start with a broad introduction into coach's career. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:11.480 Who developed six Pro Bowl players serving as their particular 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.200 position coaches with said teams. So in Buffalo in twenty thirteen, 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.520 Mario Williams, Kyle Williams, and Marcel Darius all those guys 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:23.240 had it happen under the tutelage of Anthony Weaver and 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.640 Darius might recall was a bit of a miss early 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:27.880 on in his career and developed beyond that into the 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:29.680 stud that he was supposed to be. Kyle Williams was 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.920 always awesome, and then Mario Williams kind of had a 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.160 little bit of an up and down time, but he 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.640 played some of his best ball there in Buffalo as well. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.640 And then he goes to Houston, where Mario came from, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.400 and has Jadevian Clowney go to three consecutive Pro Bowl sixteen, seventeen, 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.800 and eighteen, and JJ Watt in twenty eighteen as well, 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.800 and most recently justin Matdoweke in Baltimore this past season 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.400 at Mattawik was a third round draft pick who started 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.080 off kind of slow, but really developed him to the 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.240 player that he has become with Anthony Weaver as his 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:57.360 position coach. And so I look at him, I look 0:15:57.360 --> 0:15:59.400 at Javian Clowney's evolution as a player, and it is 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.440 certainly an interesting study because the ultimate feather in the 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.560 cap of Weaver, I think is Clowney, who came into 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.720 the league with more expectations than almost anybody at that position. 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.280 Ever had, and it didn't start off that way for him, 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:15.080 But then he gets under coach Weaver and gets back 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.880 to back Pro Bowl years, and then Weaver leaves and 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.880 then Clowney joins him years after that after a couple 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.920 of down seasons and ties his career high this past 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.040 year in Baltimore under Anthony Weaver with nine and a 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.160 half sacks. In fact, the three years with Weaver nine 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.800 and a half, nine and nine and a half. He 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:35.400 did have nine sacks with the Browns in twenty twenty one, 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:38.280 but the next highest total was six, and besides that 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.800 four and a half. So Weaver always means more sacks 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.280 for Clowney. Why, what's what's the reason that happened? Right? Like? 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.960 And I swear I just accidentally stumbled upon this. Maybe 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:50.440 I should even admit this and just say it was 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.480 all playing for the theme of the show, and that 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.000 theme being that Weaver is a natural piece that slots 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:55.680 in perfectly. 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:57.200 Remember all year. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:58.960 On the show, how I would talk about these teams 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.320 that are tops and sacks, and how all the other 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.399 teams that were up there had either a Miles Garrett, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.960 A Micah Parsons, TJ. Watt Well Miami and Baltimore were 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:10.800 the teams that didn't have that. They had it spread 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.000 across guys that had eight, nine, ten sacks, right and 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.679 check this out from Baltimore beatdown dot com. The difference 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.639 in Jadevian Clowney in other places is that he's developed 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.159 his skill move but also add inim he has the 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:25.720 complimentary pieces around him that he's not Jadevian Kline, the 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.040 first round pick, the number one guy. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:28.919 He just became Jadavion. 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:31.959 The Ravens have fifteen different defenders who also recorded at 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:34.240 least a half of the sack and six players who 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:36.760 had three or more Clowney ranks. Second on the team 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.280 was seven and a half sacks. That was before the 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.600 year ended, obviously, and was on pace to he eclipse 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.720 his career high of nine and a half and record 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.680 double figures for the first time. Now he ended with 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:46.200 nine and a half, so it didn't quite happen. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.520 But you get the idea. He's just Jay. 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:51.800 So he's not treated any different than Mike p Michael Pierce. 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.359 He's not treated any different than Tavius Robinson when it 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:56.479 comes to the overall how we look at the structure 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.960 of the defense. He comes in with a learning attitude 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.239 and he's using his moves. It's from Rokwan Smith there 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.199 who talked about the versatility of the Ravens defense and 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.040 the widespread production. So Weaver did a good job. It 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.720 sounds like of cultivating the team mindset that we have here, 0:18:09.760 --> 0:18:12.280 is what I'm trying to say, especially in that defensive 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.520 line room with coach Austin Clark, who just loves his 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.080 guys to death, and they reciprocate that by working their 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.840 butts off for him. Now, we've spent the past three 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.159 seasons or twenty one through twenty three with the Ravens 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.240 where he served one year as the run game coordinator 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.280 defensive line coach and two years as an assistant head 0:18:29.320 --> 0:18:32.480 coach slash defensive line, but was still doing run game coordinations. 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:35.359 So in twenty twenty three, the Ravens led the NFL 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.879 in scoring defense. They went thirteen to four, they were 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.200 in the top seed in the AFC playoffs, and Weavers 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:43.480 three years they allowed ninety five point three rushing yards 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.600 per game. That ranks third in the NFL over that span, 0:18:45.920 --> 0:18:48.040 and their four point h six yards per carry was 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:50.720 fourth during that span. So run defense, he kind of 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.600 brings that with him most of the places that he goes. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.159 I love the idea that we now have one of 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.720 the game's most innovative run game designers on offense. Like 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.240