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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and
Speaker 1: every day. How's it going everybody, It's Wednesday. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Winkfield, and as always I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, the last of the position preview series,
Speaker 1: we conclude this thing with the safety's. Last year's starters
Speaker 1: Eric Row and Bobby McCain changed positions, plus another rookie
Speaker 1: in the room who can do both play the slot
Speaker 1: and play safety in the third round of this year's
Speaker 1: draft in Brandon Jones. And we are going to hear
Speaker 1: from the Texas product here on the podcast to give
Speaker 1: his experience early on as a professional here with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I'll give my thoughts on the debut episode
Speaker 1: of Hard Knocks as well. All of that and more
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday, August the twelfth edition of the Drivetime Podcast.
Speaker 1: And we start this podcast off with some news the
Speaker 1: Dolphins made in addition to the roster on Wednesday morning,
Speaker 1: adding Brandon Bryant to the roster defensive tackle out of
Speaker 1: f a U six ft pounds. He came out of
Speaker 1: college back in He got signed in ten with the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks, spent some time on the practice squad there,
Speaker 1: went to the Jets as well. He also had a
Speaker 1: stint up north in the Canadian Football League, one year
Speaker 1: with the Winnipeg Blue Blue Bombers and one year with
Speaker 1: the Montreal Alouettes. Last year he made his NFL debut
Speaker 1: with the Cleveland Browns. He played in four games and
Speaker 1: notch three tackles there as well. So Brandon Bryant new
Speaker 1: defensive lineman here in Miami. He also is a co
Speaker 1: owner of a company down here in Davy called Merry Maids.
Speaker 1: So Brandon Bryant, well entrenched in the South Florida community,
Speaker 1: is now a Miami Dolphin, and Brian is in And
Speaker 1: where we go next here on our premier matchups is
Speaker 1: in that same spot up front in the trenches. And yes,
Speaker 1: we do need pads to come on before we can
Speaker 1: even begin to discuss this, But I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: the man who led Pro Football Focus interior defensive lineman
Speaker 1: and run stops last year that of course, as tackles
Speaker 1: within two yards of the line of scrimmage to Von
Speaker 1: god Show up against the Miami Native and New Dolphins
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and Eric Flowers. Now this is not to
Speaker 1: say they're gonna match up regularly on the practice field
Speaker 1: every single day or anything like that, but they do
Speaker 1: play positions that really do come across each other quite often,
Speaker 1: as Devon can play anywhere from the nose tackle one technique,
Speaker 1: two two I three, three eye technique all the way
Speaker 1: out to the four technique, which can get yourself engaged
Speaker 1: with the guard playing all those spots that range basically
Speaker 1: from the center all the way out to the guard
Speaker 1: and the outside shoulder of the guard on the defensive
Speaker 1: line out there, and just the pure power of these
Speaker 1: two guys in the way they match up together. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at matchups when we talk about this that pit
Speaker 1: strength versus strength of the players, And like yesterday, for instance,
Speaker 1: we talk about Davonte Parker on contested catches and balls
Speaker 1: that are in tight windows, and how Byron Jones created
Speaker 1: the most tight window throws of any cornerback in the
Speaker 1: NFL last season. Well, god Show is one of the
Speaker 1: premier run stuffers in the NFL, and it really goes
Speaker 1: beyond the numbers in that department. He's so strong. I
Speaker 1: asked him last year at camp about two gapping in
Speaker 1: this defense for Brian Flores, which is more of a
Speaker 1: read and react type of defense, hold the point style
Speaker 1: of play compared to the quick upfield penetration. Thought of
Speaker 1: a one gap defense, and on the surface, it does
Speaker 1: tell you you're either responsible for one gap or for
Speaker 1: two gap in that defense. And Devon said that he
Speaker 1: played a lot of two gapping back in college, so
Speaker 1: he's well versed there after a couple of years here
Speaker 1: under Chris Kusarec, who was the coach on the defensive
Speaker 1: line for a couple of years in Miami, who of
Speaker 1: course now is with the forty nine in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: and that aggressive front fork, with that one gap style
Speaker 1: of play out there by the bay, lying in some hey,
Speaker 1: maybe even use some clay maybe one day and happy
Speaker 1: Gilmour references aside. Devon did talk to me last year
Speaker 1: at training camp about playing in this defense and how
Speaker 1: you want to be more aggressive with the hands. We
Speaker 1: just playing we on you know, more hands and uh,
Speaker 1: I guess in this you know, reading reading our blocks
Speaker 1: the right way, you know, reading our keys, you know,
Speaker 1: and you know that's about it is said the same
Speaker 1: thing Stiff Bart. The end of the day, you're enjoying
Speaker 1: the two gap over one gapperl Uh. We did some
Speaker 1: gap in around my last my last year, I think,
Speaker 1: I think the last year we did we did to gaps.
Speaker 1: So you hear him talking a little bit there about
Speaker 1: the difference between one gap and two get. But like
Speaker 1: he said, at the end of the day, it's all football.
Speaker 1: You have to win either way, whatever scheme you are playing.
Speaker 1: And the one thing God Show has is that strength
Speaker 1: that just never goes away, It never quits. He can
Speaker 1: send that initial punch and really shocked the guy across
Speaker 1: from him. Anytime you watch offensive line verse defensive line,
Speaker 1: they want to knock that guy backwards right. You want
Speaker 1: to move bodies on the line of scrimmage, and that
Speaker 1: can help disrupt the entire play, not just for the
Speaker 1: guy that he knocks back, but for the entire offensive lines.
Speaker 1: They try to find their gaps and find their blocks
Speaker 1: and find their landmarks. He does a real nice job
Speaker 1: of staying in his gap and creating opportunities for those
Speaker 1: guys around him. Now in the other corner, Eric Flowers
Speaker 1: his job is to make Devon move the other direction.
Speaker 1: So he signed here to play guard after a damn
Speaker 1: good twenty nineteen season up in Washington, his first playing
Speaker 1: guard in the NFL, and from Week nine at Buffalo
Speaker 1: to the season finale in Dallas for Washington last year,
Speaker 1: Flowers was in the green and blue territory. That's where
Speaker 1: you want to be on Pro Football Focuses grades in
Speaker 1: the run blocking grades on PFF, he was impenetrable. He
Speaker 1: moved guys off the spot and it makes sense right
Speaker 1: he's listed at three thirty pounds. He can bend exceptionally
Speaker 1: well for a guy that size. He's often the low
Speaker 1: man off the snap, has that pop in the hips
Speaker 1: that you hear about from scouts all the time. That
Speaker 1: really helped him engage and turn out the man across
Speaker 1: from him. And he's also no slouch in the upper
Speaker 1: body strength either. Actually kind of makes me curious who
Speaker 1: might win in an arm wrestling contest or maybe even
Speaker 1: a bench press contest, because both he and Devon are
Speaker 1: super strong in that upper body. He's got big, powerful
Speaker 1: arms that he uses to help gain position and leverage
Speaker 1: on the block across from him or the defensive lineman
Speaker 1: across from him, I should say, and he can really
Speaker 1: really finish blocks with a temperament he plays the echo
Speaker 1: of the whistle. Love watching him on combination blocks as well,
Speaker 1: and that's where Devon has his work cut out for
Speaker 1: him in this matchup, simply because it's just a tough
Speaker 1: thing to do against one body, not to mention to
Speaker 1: hold that point against the double team, and Flowers is
Speaker 1: a more than formidable opponent in that regard. So watching
Speaker 1: these two dudes clash the pads will be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun and just another one of these premier matchups.
Speaker 1: Will detail throughout the next couple of Drivetime podcast here
Speaker 1: leading up to practice next week and leading up to
Speaker 1: that practice, something we've been doing here for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks on the Drivetime Podcast is previewing the training
Speaker 1: Camp Roster series and this is our last one of
Speaker 1: the series. Will have the written component up on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com as well as a written piece for
Speaker 1: the specialists on Friday. I think it is. But if
Speaker 1: you missed any of these, go back and check out
Speaker 1: a podcast check out the article. Tons of detail on
Speaker 1: each player on your Miami Dolphins roster, and we finish
Speaker 1: up here with the safety group, and among them are
Speaker 1: several guys who have played some cornerback in the NFL
Speaker 1: have that good coverage background in their back pocket. And
Speaker 1: we start with the guy that came over as a
Speaker 1: cornerback last season in Eric Row. He has five accrued
Speaker 1: seasons in the National Football League, his second now with
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, fresh off a new contract extension number
Speaker 1: twenty one out of Utah. He's twenty seven years old
Speaker 1: on opening day, and he did sign that contract back
Speaker 1: in February, a one year deal. Comes in to Miami's
Speaker 1: a cornerback and then switches to safety after the Week
Speaker 1: five by and he really had a breakout campaign from
Speaker 1: that point forward. Twenty four receptions allowed on forty five targets.
Speaker 1: That's fifty pc completion for two hundred and twenty seven yards.
Speaker 1: That's five point oh four yards per target. He worked
Speaker 1: manning up tight ends, backs, playing the deep half, playing
Speaker 1: in the slot, covering receivers even at some points. It
Speaker 1: earned him a contract extension last December, and which Flora
Speaker 1: has had this to say about Row after the extension.
Speaker 1: He's a versatile player. Obviously, he's played multiple positions this year.
Speaker 1: He's got good length, he's a good matchup for tight
Speaker 1: ends and coverage. He's played some deep half, middle of
Speaker 1: the field safety, played corner safety again. Kind of understands
Speaker 1: the run fits now, that versatility helps, will help us
Speaker 1: defensively and hopefully just continues to improve. And we expect that.
Speaker 1: We expect him to improve. And we wouldn't have done
Speaker 1: the deal if we didn't think that end quote from
Speaker 1: coach Flora's there and you hear him talk about the
Speaker 1: run fits there with Eric Rowe, one of the prominent
Speaker 1: fixtures of that position, and you saw it last year
Speaker 1: is Roe coming down into the mess, into the slop
Speaker 1: and getting involved in the run defense and really at
Speaker 1: sometimes lining up inside of the outside linebacker, the force
Speaker 1: defender out there and really getting involved against the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and row tough enough as he is, gets in there,
Speaker 1: gets his nose dirty and play some tough football against
Speaker 1: the run down there as that safety. So playing different
Speaker 1: positions in the secondary. And we talked about the completion
Speaker 1: rate over the final twelve game of the season, well,
Speaker 1: his entire season completion rate was just fifty eight and
Speaker 1: a half percent allowed in the passing game. He also
Speaker 1: made eighty one tackles twenty three run stops, and from
Speaker 1: the Week two game onward, he missed just five tackle opportunities.
Speaker 1: So from Week two to Week seventeen had a tackle
Speaker 1: percentage of ninety three point three percent successful tackle rate.
Speaker 1: Very good year last year for Eric row Up next
Speaker 1: another safety, more of a true safety here and Stephen
Speaker 1: Parker his first season last year, second in Miami, now
Speaker 1: number twenty six out of Oklahoma, twenty four years old
Speaker 1: on opening day. He arrived in Miami on September one,
Speaker 1: like so many players did, and had a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to acclimate. Then, after the first two games, playing
Speaker 1: just thirty three snaps in those games combined, his workload
Speaker 1: jumped up to one hundred and five snaps in the
Speaker 1: following two contests. He played three hundred and thirty nine
Speaker 1: snaps on defense last year, seventy four on special teams,
Speaker 1: and he made arguably for my money, the highlight real
Speaker 1: play of the Dolphins season with that touchdown saving effort
Speaker 1: in the win over Indianapolis. Eric Ebron, the tight end
Speaker 1: tries to make the catch and he hasn't initially but
Speaker 1: Parker stays with the play, continues to fight, continues to
Speaker 1: show the effort, and took the ball right out of
Speaker 1: Ebron's arms, as even the announcers on the play call
Speaker 1: were confused by who actually had the football. Here is
Speaker 1: the sound from Stephen Parker's interception against the Colts in
Speaker 1: Week ten last year. Player over the middle, touchdown. Now,
Speaker 1: let's see what the call is is the officials conferred
Speaker 1: it's Stephen Parker who came away with the football. Well,
Speaker 1: they're saying touchback, they're saying intersection. An interception. We were
Speaker 1: talking to the Colts on Friday, as we get announced,
Speaker 1: is an interception that results in a touchback. First of now,
Speaker 1: and just watching the play again, you see Stephen Parker
Speaker 1: has one arm in there on the football and he's
Speaker 1: able to pull it away from Ebron as he hits
Speaker 1: the ground, rolls over. Really good looking play there from
Speaker 1: the Dolphins safety. Here's a quote from coach Flores, who
Speaker 1: talked about Parker's acclamation after his September arrival. Quote, he
Speaker 1: works really hard. He spent a lot of time with
Speaker 1: our younger coaches getting up to speed on what we're doing.
Speaker 1: He's a lot more comfortable now than he was when
Speaker 1: he got here. He's obviously played a little bit the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks, and I like what I've seen.
Speaker 1: I like what I'm seeing in practice. Again, this is
Speaker 1: another guy who football is important to him and he
Speaker 1: wants to take advantage of his opportunities. I think he'll
Speaker 1: do that in the safety room. Also another guy who's
Speaker 1: kind of a newcomer at the position, played a little
Speaker 1: bit of everywhere without the course of his NFL career.
Speaker 1: He is the most tenured player on the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: five accrued seasons, entering number six here in Miami, number
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Bobby McCain out of Memphis, twenty seven years
Speaker 1: old on opening Day. He was a team captain last year,
Speaker 1: his first year in Brian Flores defense, and he selflessly
Speaker 1: made the switch from safe from cornerback rather to safety.
Speaker 1: He had that team first mindset. He's a sure tackler,
Speaker 1: good communication skills on the back end, and those will
Speaker 1: always go a long way with coach Flores, who said quote,
Speaker 1: I think Bobby can do a lot of things from
Speaker 1: a communication standpoint, from a tackling standpoint, from a playmaking standpoint.
Speaker 1: He's been very good so far. He's smart enough to
Speaker 1: definitely move around. He can play corner, he can play safety,
Speaker 1: he can play nickel, he can play a variety of positions.
Speaker 1: He's a smart player and a guy who's made a
Speaker 1: lot of plays in this league. We're looking forward to
Speaker 1: working with him and over those five years with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain has three thousand, seventy one snaps on his resume.
Speaker 1: He's made two eight tackles, nine for a loss. He
Speaker 1: has fifty run stops, four sacks, six interceptions, and twenty
Speaker 1: five pass breakups in his Dolphins career. Up next here
Speaker 1: rookie Brandon Jones out of Texas, number twenty nine. He'll
Speaker 1: be twenty two years old on opening Day, and he
Speaker 1: made a really unique request to all thirty two teams
Speaker 1: last year, or rather earlier this year in the run
Speaker 1: up to the draft. You guys probably know the story
Speaker 1: by now. He was recovering from a shoulder nge ree
Speaker 1: and unable to work out at the combine. He inquired
Speaker 1: about each team's nineteen defensive film. He went back and
Speaker 1: watched four games of every team, a hundred twenty eight
Speaker 1: games of defensive film and put together a big binder
Speaker 1: with all the notes. He made a hundred nine tackles
Speaker 1: in his three seasons as a starter at Texas last year,
Speaker 1: picked off two passes, broke up seven others. He made
Speaker 1: four and a half tackles for a loss last year
Speaker 1: with one sack and a forced fumble. And you watch
Speaker 1: him on tape the way he's all when you watch
Speaker 1: Texas play, He's always around the football. He's always getting
Speaker 1: involved in the run game, in the passing game. You
Speaker 1: always see him late to the pile if he is
Speaker 1: on the other side of the football field, always pursuing,
Speaker 1: always chasing, trying to get after the ball carriers. And
Speaker 1: he plays all over the field on multiple units. He
Speaker 1: has a blocked punt in his career returned touchdowns on
Speaker 1: his resume. Played all over Texas special teams units, but
Speaker 1: also everywhere on defense. Per Pro Football Focus, Jones played
Speaker 1: two dred and eighty five snaps last season at free
Speaker 1: safety one and fifty four and the box, but his
Speaker 1: most frequent possition was in the slot, with three hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy one snaps, so well versed in all three
Speaker 1: of those spots. In total. In three years at Texas,
Speaker 1: Jones played two thousand, three hundred and thirty three snaps,
Speaker 1: with one thousand, two hundred and eighty five of those
Speaker 1: plays coming in pass coverage. Chris Greer talked about what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins saw in Brandon Jones when they made the
Speaker 1: decision to draft the Texas Longhorn, saying, quote, it's his
Speaker 1: whole game. He's a good football player. He's smart, he tackles,
Speaker 1: he covers, he can play special teams. We met him
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, and the coaching staff and Brian
Speaker 1: Flores felt really good about him. The more that we
Speaker 1: got to spend time, they showed that thing about him
Speaker 1: watching every team's defensive plays. He's a really good football
Speaker 1: player and an all around football player. The coaching staff
Speaker 1: is always looking for. So Brandon Jones new Dolphins safety. Here,
Speaker 1: another newcomer on the roster via free agency, number thirty five,
Speaker 1: Formerly of the Dallas Cowboys, he went to Central Michigan,
Speaker 1: going to be twenty six years old on opening day.
Speaker 1: Cavon Frasier had four years there with the Cowboys, played
Speaker 1: in forty four games in Dallas, started two of them
Speaker 1: the teen season, and his career, he has sixty seven
Speaker 1: tackles a sack of force fumble and made four tackles
Speaker 1: for loss on four hundred and sixty one career defensive snaps.
Speaker 1: He's built like a tank, six ft tall, two hundred
Speaker 1: twenty pounds cut up a special team standout in college,
Speaker 1: and that prowess continued into the professional ranks. He played
Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty eight special teams reps over those
Speaker 1: four years in Dallas. His participation in that third phase
Speaker 1: of the game as widespread hundred and fifty six on
Speaker 1: kick return to twenty nine on kick coverage, hundred forty
Speaker 1: punts punt return reps, and a hundred forty five on
Speaker 1: punt coverage. He also has sixteen reps on field goal
Speaker 1: block and he made seventeen tackles as a Cowboys special
Speaker 1: teams ace up next number thirty six. Another in season
Speaker 1: acquisition last year, Adrian Colbert, formerly of the University of Miami.
Speaker 1: He'll be twenty six years old on opening Day. Has
Speaker 1: three seasons in the NFL, entering number two here in Miami,
Speaker 1: and he came in after Bobby McCain was lost for
Speaker 1: the season with an injury and filled that free safety role.
Speaker 1: Coming over from the Seattle Seahawks, practice squad. The former
Speaker 1: Miami Hurricane stepped right in and contributed immediately. He played
Speaker 1: sixty four snaps at free safety in the team's Week
Speaker 1: thirteen come from behind when over the Eagles. That was
Speaker 1: his second game with the team, already getting sixty four reps.
Speaker 1: Learning quickly, he would go on to play four ten snaps,
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty one of those on defense, forty
Speaker 1: nine on special teams. Started every of the five December
Speaker 1: Dolphins games last year, made twenty two tackles, broke up
Speaker 1: two more, and he showed the range and closing speed
Speaker 1: to play free safety. He can get sidelined the sideline
Speaker 1: back on that back end playing that free roaming safety position,
Speaker 1: and Flores was impressed with Colbert's energy and as well
Speaker 1: as his ability to acclimate to the defense quickly, saying quote,
Speaker 1: he brings a lot of energy on a day to
Speaker 1: day basis. He's got some leadership qualities. He's been here
Speaker 1: for three weeks and it feels like he's been here
Speaker 1: all year. He's smart, He's a really good teammate. It's
Speaker 1: important to him. He works extremely hard from a preparation standpoint.
Speaker 1: He's here early, stays late, trying to get the information correct.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who brings people together. It's been good
Speaker 1: having him and Quote and finishing out our safety position preview.
Speaker 1: Here is another newcomer of free agent from the Cincinnati Bengals,
Speaker 1: Clayton Federalum four crude seasons, first in Miami, now number
Speaker 1: forty two out of Illinois. He too, will be twenty
Speaker 1: seven years old on opening Day. Another captain on the
Speaker 1: Bengal special teams unit. Last year they ranked six on
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus and he was the captain of that unit,
Speaker 1: and he bawled out in the kicking, coverage and units
Speaker 1: of that Bengals special teams group. He played one thousand,
Speaker 1: four hundred thirty five career snaps on special teams and
Speaker 1: his fourteen tackles on that unit in seventeen alone was
Speaker 1: second in the entire National Football League and his average
Speaker 1: career special teams grade at Pro Football Focus is seventy
Speaker 1: three point seven. Right there in that nice green territory.
Speaker 1: He has six hundred ninety four career snaps on defense
Speaker 1: on his resume, two hundred seventy eight against the run,
Speaker 1: three two and coverage. He has six quarterback pressures on
Speaker 1: twenty four pass rush reps, fifteen run stops and a
Speaker 1: passer rating against of just eighty one point three. He
Speaker 1: i'll so had a big fumble return for a touchdown
Speaker 1: against the Colts back on Week one. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna be a sound tackler for you. You You
Speaker 1: can play with those sub packages on defense and let
Speaker 1: him just rally and tackle and get guys to the ground. Again,
Speaker 1: you see that on special teams in open space on defense,
Speaker 1: a physical player that loves to play a hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour and get out there and wrap up guys
Speaker 1: and bring them to the ground. So those are your safeties,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins safety group. Again. That's every player on
Speaker 1: the roster now except for the specialist. We'll get to
Speaker 1: them on Friday. Let's go ahead now and play some
Speaker 1: audio from an interview I did a while back with
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie safety Brandon Jones and writing Shotgun here on
Speaker 1: the Drive Time podcast is Dolphins rookie safety Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: and Brandon First, I want to just start here and
Speaker 1: ask you about this off season and how different it
Speaker 1: has been for you as from a player's perspective and
Speaker 1: kind of dealing with the virtual offseason all the adjustments
Speaker 1: you've had to made. What's it been like for you
Speaker 1: this offseason. It's been a lot different. Um, still being
Speaker 1: able to see phases, spaces. I think that's a big thing,
Speaker 1: just getting to know your teammates so you kind of
Speaker 1: you know, you can put a pace to the voice
Speaker 1: that you hear throughout meetings. It's a lot different, especially
Speaker 1: for the type of person I am. Just when it
Speaker 1: comes to overall learning new things, I'm big on going
Speaker 1: through walk through is actually seeing stuff in person. It
Speaker 1: helps me kind of you know, keep my cost to
Speaker 1: stand there and just helps me learn a lot easier.
Speaker 1: So it's it's been a challenge for the most part.
Speaker 1: It's kind of weird to say that this is our
Speaker 1: normal now, you know, and you never would expect to
Speaker 1: be in virtual meetings throughout the whole offseason. But we
Speaker 1: definitely as a team, I think we made the best
Speaker 1: of it. Um, I'm still being able to you know,
Speaker 1: have have and make relationships with a lot of the
Speaker 1: guys on the team. Which, yeah, it's just with these
Speaker 1: crazy times, you know, you gotta do what you gotta
Speaker 1: do at the end of the day, and we're definitely
Speaker 1: making the most of what we have and what we
Speaker 1: can do. Well, maybe your experience is a little bit
Speaker 1: easier for you since you did go through the situation
Speaker 1: at the on bind where you couldn't work out because
Speaker 1: last year and I talked was about that shoulder injury
Speaker 1: that prevented you from working out and doing on field stuff.
Speaker 1: So you went out and that story I had you
Speaker 1: tell on the podcast then was when you procured all
Speaker 1: the film, all the playbooks from all thirty two teams
Speaker 1: and watched four games of everyone's defense. I want to
Speaker 1: get your perspective here, three months or so removed from
Speaker 1: that process, how has that benefited you this offseason heading
Speaker 1: into your rookie season. I think that it just gave
Speaker 1: me a kind of an overall site on how the
Speaker 1: NFL works. I think if a lot of people don't
Speaker 1: have any experience or no kind of what to expect,
Speaker 1: you assume that its NFL is the best of the best.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be getting all this complicated stuff. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, football's football. You know from
Speaker 1: you know, from Peeweet to all the way to the NFL.
Speaker 1: Like Covered three is gonna be covered three. Everybody has
Speaker 1: a different version in a different way of getting to
Speaker 1: certain things. But like I said, football is just football
Speaker 1: at end of the day. But I was able to
Speaker 1: just kind of get an idea not only of how
Speaker 1: the Dolphins run defense, but just get a view on
Speaker 1: certain players on offense. You know, just how different certain
Speaker 1: teams attack, um, a certain key guy on a team,
Speaker 1: and just kind of put my eyes on um, just
Speaker 1: players and schemes and and all that stuff. So I
Speaker 1: definitely think it's it's benefited me obviously. Now with the playbook,
Speaker 1: it's a whole different story trying to get that down
Speaker 1: and trying to learn all of that. But I'm just
Speaker 1: giving you a sense of football. It's really just build
Speaker 1: my Q and I think it's definitely correlated to me
Speaker 1: being able to pick up the playbook. Now. The good
Speaker 1: part about having this conversation this time of year compared
Speaker 1: to in April when you hadn't met anybody yet at
Speaker 1: least virtually, is that you have had a chance to
Speaker 1: meet your coaches and your teammates now a little bit.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious to get your take here because the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are unique for a defensive back like yourself, because
Speaker 1: we have defensive backs Coach Gerald Alexander who obviously coaches
Speaker 1: defensive backs. You've got Josh Boyer, Dolphins defensive coordinator whose
Speaker 1: background last year was with defensive backs, and Brian Flores
Speaker 1: himself as well also has coach defensive backs at one
Speaker 1: point in his career. What have you taken from those
Speaker 1: three guys? And is there a little bit extra tutelage
Speaker 1: there because there is so much defensive back knowledge on
Speaker 1: this team and on the staff. I think it's just
Speaker 1: you could feel just the overall experience that they have
Speaker 1: and that's huge, especially when it comes to trust, you know,
Speaker 1: the based off of their resume, what they've been able
Speaker 1: to do in the past, and and even coach you
Speaker 1: know him getting up here. They just have so much
Speaker 1: knowledge and it's I literally can pick their brains all
Speaker 1: day just about defense. They literally have an answer for
Speaker 1: every question that you give, and you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff is at the end of the day gonna
Speaker 1: be situation we're just like it is for for college
Speaker 1: or for NFL. So, um, it's it's a little different
Speaker 1: right now because we are just installing our defense, getting
Speaker 1: to learn our stuff. Um, it's obviously gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot different once we're getting a training camp and in
Speaker 1: the season, and I'm really curious and interested to see
Speaker 1: like how it changes versus when we have an opponent
Speaker 1: and we have these guys that we have the key
Speaker 1: in and this is what we have to run based
Speaker 1: off of certain formations and stuff like that. But it's
Speaker 1: definitely been super interesting just to see the knowledge that
Speaker 1: they all have. It's funny you mentioned the Brian Floor
Speaker 1: isn't kind of knowledge they have because he's known for
Speaker 1: kind of doing those on field practice quizzes where he'll
Speaker 1: put you in a situation and say, what's your answer here?
Speaker 1: Have you gotten that yet? Oh? I get it every day,
Speaker 1: even virtually we get from not only defense, from special teams. Man,
Speaker 1: it'll put you on a spot real quick, and you
Speaker 1: just have to take it up by yourself and to
Speaker 1: be a pro at the end of the day and
Speaker 1: really really study of notes, because yeah, they'll they'll come
Speaker 1: with the question to real quick. It's pretty a pretty
Speaker 1: high stressed moment. Oh yeah, I mean I'm usually prepared
Speaker 1: for the most part, you know, but sometimes they'll you know,
Speaker 1: throw some stuff that, say, like four weeks into it,
Speaker 1: they'll throw in something from day one just to see
Speaker 1: if you could kind of get your mind back to,
Speaker 1: oh that, this is what we did, this is what
Speaker 1: we talked about. So that's been the most shown the things,
Speaker 1: just getting back to that. Yeah, you're still in school, man,
Speaker 1: You're always going to be learned on this organization and
Speaker 1: this profession. So that's that's good to hear. Brandon. We
Speaker 1: really appreciate your time today. Man. It's it's it's nice
Speaker 1: to talk to you and get to know you a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Brandon Jones, your newest safety for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins NFL Draft class. Again, appreciate it. Best of
Speaker 1: luck this season, stay healthy and we'll see you down
Speaker 1: there for camp. Man. I can't wait to watch you play, sir.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, man. And so there he goes Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: Dolphins rookie safety here on the Drivetime podcast. We didn't
Speaker 1: meet the rookie series back in July, maybe late June.
Speaker 1: Talking to Brandon himself, there's more in depth stuff there
Speaker 1: on his background, on his upbringing, on his high school,
Speaker 1: college career, his brothers, talked to his mom as well.
Speaker 1: We also talked to Tom Herman, the Texas head coach there.
Speaker 1: So go back and check that stuff out I'll conclude
Speaker 1: our safety preview here on the Drivetime podcast. Our training
Speaker 1: camp preview series is a rap. And before we go
Speaker 1: on this podcast, it is the middle of August, and
Speaker 1: you know what that means this time of year on
Speaker 1: the football calendar. Let's go ahead and talk about the
Speaker 1: first episode of the new Hard Knocks Los Angeles. And
Speaker 1: first up, for me, I'm always about the laughs, and
Speaker 1: nothing made me laugh harder. By the way, we're gonna
Speaker 1: spoil some Hard Knocks episode one detail here on the podcast,
Speaker 1: so if you haven't seen the episode and you want
Speaker 1: to watch it, probably go ahead and turn the podcast
Speaker 1: off right now. We're gonna talk about episode one of
Speaker 1: Hard Knocks Los Angeles and talking about the laughs. Nothing
Speaker 1: made me laugh harder last night watching that episode than
Speaker 1: Sean McVeigh confidently and I mean confident swaggy strut when
Speaker 1: he emerged for that team meeting for the first time
Speaker 1: rocking one of those face shields. And listen, I think
Speaker 1: he's got valid points across the board with the non
Speaker 1: verbal communication, the cues of looking at somebody's face and
Speaker 1: the potential efficacy of those shields as they block away
Speaker 1: you know what, ever is leaving your mouth when you speak.
Speaker 1: But Holy crafted his entire ensemble just look absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 1: And I think that's where the comedy presides because the
Speaker 1: first responders, the heroes out here, they're doing the testing
Speaker 1: and doing a wonderful job of making sure everybody in
Speaker 1: the building is healthy, and we know they're health status
Speaker 1: going into every day with testing. That looks normal. That's
Speaker 1: a completely normal outfit. So maybe if McVeigh rocked the
Speaker 1: white lab coat and had some surgical glows, then maybe
Speaker 1: that would look normal. But you give my man some
Speaker 1: jim shorts, a muscle tea, and a very prominently displayed
Speaker 1: headband that attaches that shield to the head. I lost
Speaker 1: it at that point, just because it looks It looked hilarious,
Speaker 1: and how could it not. It's just a unique thing,
Speaker 1: the headband attached to that face shield. It cracked me
Speaker 1: a big time. That was a big laugh. The other
Speaker 1: big one that got me was in the credits scene
Speaker 1: at the very end of the episode when they made
Speaker 1: it abundantly clear that the rules state there are no
Speaker 1: number two's in the porta potty, none whatsoever, and that's
Speaker 1: a valid rule, and the players make a great point.
Speaker 1: It was definitely a Hard Knocks crew member who did
Speaker 1: that because they were not allowed inside the building. So
Speaker 1: that was a good laugh at the very end of
Speaker 1: the episode. And now on this podcast on the Drivetime
Speaker 1: podcast here with your host Travis Wingfield on the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins Podcast Network, we stand Dante Dion. He was the
Speaker 1: one flexing up on Aaron Donald, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: mother of God, what kind of a specimen is Aaron Donald.
Speaker 1: But to go back to mcveigh's confidence, you gotta give
Speaker 1: it up for Dion because soaking wet, he might weigh
Speaker 1: a hundred and forty pounds. Well the Rams list him
Speaker 1: at one and how about that. I guess I'm big
Speaker 1: enough to play a position besides kicker or putter and
Speaker 1: that's where I clock in at. But back to Dion,
Speaker 1: I absolutely loved his review of the locker rooms, showing
Speaker 1: his over and what he called the good projects, especially
Speaker 1: when he got over to what he called the suburbs
Speaker 1: and the shock and his voice the absolute surprise when
Speaker 1: he saw that Jalen Ramsey had a bench seat at
Speaker 1: his locker that he could lift up for extra storage
Speaker 1: under where he sits blew my man's mind. That was great.
Speaker 1: To see. And speaking of Jalen Ramsey, am I the
Speaker 1: only one that was on his side during that little
Speaker 1: dust up with the media. I mean three answers of
Speaker 1: the same question over and over again. That would annoy
Speaker 1: me too personally. I thought it was awesome on the
Speaker 1: Chargers side of things when they did the digital roundtable
Speaker 1: discussing protesting and social injustices, all those things that are
Speaker 1: going on right now. And the one guy I forget
Speaker 1: his name who wanted some insight on the anthem protest,
Speaker 1: they provided some perspective the rest of his teammates did.
Speaker 1: He takes it and stride and learned from it, And
Speaker 1: that was a thing of beauty if you ask me.
Speaker 1: That's what social discourse is all about. And good on
Speaker 1: the Chargers for facilitating that conversation. And finally, back to
Speaker 1: the funnies. Although I'm sure the player watching it didn't
Speaker 1: find it funny when they showed Andrew Vahler being released
Speaker 1: and he was completely blindsided by the news, And yeah,
Speaker 1: he probably didn't handle it all that well, but I
Speaker 1: love the way that Anthony Lynne handled it. That frustration
Speaker 1: was a sign of of did it means something to him?
Speaker 1: For the player, and he and Tom to let's go,
Speaker 1: you acknowledge that. I love the conversation they had with
Speaker 1: Anthony Lynn there and Tom to LESCo, especially when he
Speaker 1: told to let's go. Look, I like the fire, but
Speaker 1: come on, you're not Antonio Gates was one of the
Speaker 1: best parts of the episode. Two good for a bunch
Speaker 1: of lass Another good episode Hard Knocks always knocks out
Speaker 1: of the park. All in all, I thought it was
Speaker 1: a great episode, as good as it can be without
Speaker 1: actual football. I will say early on the overarching theme
Speaker 1: of showing the protocols and the precautions that are being
Speaker 1: taken or there are a great example for how the
Speaker 1: virus can be combated and the job the NFL is
Speaker 1: doing on that front. But I couldn't help but take
Speaker 1: it as a reminder that things are just so different
Speaker 1: right now under COVID on top of being a deadly virus,
Speaker 1: that it's just been kind of an overall bummer here
Speaker 1: for the last few months with coronavirus going across our
Speaker 1: entire country here. But we do have the return of
Speaker 1: football coming up soon and that'll be a good look
Speaker 1: into some normalcy hopefully here in the near future. As
Speaker 1: for today's podcast, let's go ahead and get out of here.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow We're gonna have some fun audio for you guys
Speaker 1: on this show. I'll go ahead and say the biggest
Speaker 1: name we've had on any podcast I've ever done, so
Speaker 1: keep an eye out for that. We'll continue cranking out
Speaker 1: the content as the season gets closer and closer. We
Speaker 1: are within one month as of tomorrow, so exciting times
Speaker 1: down here from Davy signing off. That's gonna be my time.
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