Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by Waddle snucked into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolph fans and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it is the Channing
Speaker 1: tin Doll episode, the one second pick of this year's draft.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Channing about making the jump from
Speaker 1: Kirby Smarts Georgia defense to the NFL, the role that
Speaker 1: speed plays in his game, and so much more. Plus
Speaker 1: we're grinding the tape, will look at a handful of
Speaker 1: his games, breakdown some plays and tell you what really
Speaker 1: stands out to me on the All twenty two and
Speaker 1: we'll get some reaction from the draft community on the
Speaker 1: pick from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast, so we
Speaker 1: are focusing on the Dolphins new linebacker out of Georgia,
Speaker 1: the one second pick in this year's draft, Channing Tyndall,
Speaker 1: and all he did for that Loaded Bulldogs defense, and
Speaker 1: the more I get through the tape here, the more
Speaker 1: I'm just having a blast seeing his game, his upside
Speaker 1: and some of the things I think he could bring
Speaker 1: to this defense. Now, of course, this level requires ultimate discipline,
Speaker 1: work ethic, and a drive and just going off of
Speaker 1: what Chris Greer said in his press conference about the
Speaker 1: conversations he had with Kirby smart people around the program
Speaker 1: and what they heard about the way he works, and
Speaker 1: what we heard from some of the scouting reports I
Speaker 1: talked about on the Saturday Drive Time podcast. A guy
Speaker 1: who didn't shy away from competition on that Loaded u
Speaker 1: g A defense, but instead stayed there and competed, and
Speaker 1: not only competed, but he carved out a significant role
Speaker 1: for one of the greatest college defenses we've ever seen
Speaker 1: at that level. And there was a great commentary by
Speaker 1: the great Lewis Riddeck on ESPM on Tin Doll's game
Speaker 1: after he was selected. Quote, his measurables are just stupid
Speaker 1: four four seven in the forty in vertical eleven foot
Speaker 1: broad This guy, if he does make a mistake with
Speaker 1: his initial footwork, he's gonna make up for it because
Speaker 1: he can absolutely fly. These Georgia linebackers, they get off blocks.
Speaker 1: He can blitz, he can cover, he can play the mic,
Speaker 1: he can play the sam. Well, they don't play the
Speaker 1: sam anymore because they play sub. He can play the will,
Speaker 1: he can blitz. Riddick later in the segment, talked about
Speaker 1: how he didn't understand why he didn't start on the
Speaker 1: Georgia defense, and I think this point here speaks to
Speaker 1: what he meant to that Bulldogs defense and the upside
Speaker 1: he has coming into the league. And this notion, I mean,
Speaker 1: starting is it is what it is. It's not like
Speaker 1: the most important thing. If you play a lot, you
Speaker 1: play a lot like Tyler Hero for instance, in the
Speaker 1: NBA sixth Man of the Year, he's one of the
Speaker 1: most important pieces. Doesn't start the games. It's about how
Speaker 1: you finish. And that's what you learned about Tindall and
Speaker 1: the Georgia defense as this year went along. His three
Speaker 1: highest snap totals came in the SEC title game, the
Speaker 1: Orange Bowl against Michi against Michigan, and then back again
Speaker 1: the National Championship Game against Alabama again forty six and
Speaker 1: then a career high forty eight snaps in the biggest
Speaker 1: game of the year and all he did in those games.
Speaker 1: It combined forty seven pass rush reps, eleven QB preussures,
Speaker 1: four hits, and a sack which was in the National
Speaker 1: Championship game. Also, he was in coverage on fifty four
Speaker 1: snaps and PFF had him with just three yards allowed
Speaker 1: on those fifty four coverage snaps. It reminds me of why,
Speaker 1: like Alabama with the running backs for so long, it
Speaker 1: was like rotation committee for the first pretty much until
Speaker 1: the Auburn game. Right then we get to the championship
Speaker 1: season where you play the SEC title game, now a
Speaker 1: second college football playoff game, and then the National Championship,
Speaker 1: and that's when it becomes time to ride your horse
Speaker 1: like a Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, A Damien Harris, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Saw the same thing there with Tindall at the Georgia
Speaker 1: linebacker position. Let's go ahead and play the audio of
Speaker 1: nf All Networks coverage of the draft and the second
Speaker 1: pick in the draft, Daniel Jeremiah here talking about Channing Tindall.
Speaker 1: That's odd, Channing Tindall, big time speed, four four speed. Again,
Speaker 1: we thought all these linebackers off the ball linebackers would
Speaker 1: roll off the board today and they have. It wasn't
Speaker 1: a full time player there at George As you can
Speaker 1: imagine all the mouths defeat on that defense so much talent,
Speaker 1: but you could see his range. His speed is real.
Speaker 1: It shows up and when he arrives he's an explosive
Speaker 1: tackler as a blitzer right here, these off the ball
Speaker 1: linebackers all were outstanding blitzers and NA Kobe Dean as
Speaker 1: good as it gets. You also see it here with
Speaker 1: Tindall asked him to spy the quarterback again. This is
Speaker 1: where that speed, this was a big factor in that
Speaker 1: game against Alabama, is able to just close down on
Speaker 1: Bryce Young. It was a big play in that game,
Speaker 1: a forced Obama offense off the field and the field
Speaker 1: goal unit onto the field. I want to play or
Speaker 1: about play, but read to you guys. A couple of
Speaker 1: texts I got here over the weekend after the Tin
Speaker 1: Dall pick from some friends in the draft community. People
Speaker 1: have done the podcast that type up a thing. This
Speaker 1: one here quote by the way, Tindall is my LB
Speaker 1: two from someone I really respect their draft opinion. Another
Speaker 1: one of those folks said, my favorite of the Georgia
Speaker 1: linebackers does the old school dirty work. Doesn't just beat blocks,
Speaker 1: he puts them on the ground, then meets the back
Speaker 1: with even more force. Runs like a guy who weighs
Speaker 1: two twenty hits like one who goes to fifty. I
Speaker 1: think that's a good spot for our first break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll break down some plays, taking a
Speaker 1: look at all the tape here. Drivetime Podcast Travis Winfield
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. What's Up Dolphins? Travis
Speaker 1: Winkfield here, the host of the Drivetime Podcast on the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network. And I'm joined today by our
Speaker 1: first draft pick this season, new Dolphins linebacker Channing Tindall. Channing,
Speaker 1: Welcome in Many How are you doing today? We're very good.
Speaker 1: May excited to have you and I know it's been
Speaker 1: a long day, but we're happy to have you here
Speaker 1: on the podcast. And you know, first of all, welcome
Speaker 1: to Miami. You got the call last night, get here today.
Speaker 1: How's it feeling taking it all in yet? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just a surreal feeling, honestly, just getting that call
Speaker 1: and being here and literally the next day and then
Speaker 1: meeting everybody here. Everybody is so nice, just a great feeling.
Speaker 1: I can't really explain it. So you clock a four
Speaker 1: four seven forty at the combine this year, that's like
Speaker 1: a wide receiver speed. And I read you through the
Speaker 1: shot put and the discus in high school, but it
Speaker 1: sounds that they could have used us a sprinter on
Speaker 1: the track team. Oh yeah, My coach didn't want us
Speaker 1: to run though we had. Our started running back pulled
Speaker 1: his hamstring in high school. They didn't after that. Our
Speaker 1: coaches like, no everybody, ye for everybody. So speaking about
Speaker 1: the speed, how does that speed? How do you use
Speaker 1: that speed to your advantage? On the football field? Everything's
Speaker 1: about angles, honestly, inside zonner, outside zone. So once I
Speaker 1: see I know what I'll capable of. Once I see
Speaker 1: the angle, I just uh project the perfect angle to
Speaker 1: get wherever I need to go. It works for you,
Speaker 1: pretty good thirdbound draft pickre for the Miami Dolphins. Channing, Tendle, speed, explosiveness,
Speaker 1: versatility are the words that I see associated with your
Speaker 1: name and your game the most. Why do you think
Speaker 1: versatility is so important in modern football? Just the new
Speaker 1: age of linebacker that's coming in. They have to blitz,
Speaker 1: they have to play off the edge they have to cover,
Speaker 1: they have to do it all and at the same
Speaker 1: time might be there like the play callers, so like
Speaker 1: you have to be versus the quarterback of that going
Speaker 1: on exactly. Yeah, so you talked about playing that middle
Speaker 1: part of the defensive Georgia there. How do you think
Speaker 1: your time at Georgia and playing in Kirby Smarts defense
Speaker 1: prepared you to play a linebacker at this level? Just
Speaker 1: being we had a certain standard at Georgia and just
Speaker 1: being with all those guys, I feel I played with
Speaker 1: the best guys in the nation at all positions, especially
Speaker 1: at the linebacker when the Kobe, Dean and Quay Walker.
Speaker 1: So it's just like iron sharpening iron. So just outside
Speaker 1: of the coaches pushing and pushing us, it was almost
Speaker 1: self motivation too, because we all all wanted to be
Speaker 1: better than one another. Did you guys compete, like not
Speaker 1: just on the football field, but imagine like ping pong
Speaker 1: games another thing. You guys just compete all the time?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, if you're competitive, like, I don't care who
Speaker 1: you are, Like, it doesn't just stop with football, all
Speaker 1: the goals and everything. So yeah, especially pulling me and
Speaker 1: the Kobe had a big pool competition thing going before
Speaker 1: we left ball there you go perfect. So you opted
Speaker 1: to stay there at Georgia for your senior season. What
Speaker 1: went into that decision? And then also I have to
Speaker 1: imagine winning the national championship. That payoff had to be
Speaker 1: pretty great season to stay at Georgia for your senior season. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's just uh did the best guys I knew were
Speaker 1: at George's? So I want to be with the best guys.
Speaker 1: Like I don't care what type of adversity I might
Speaker 1: have been facing during the time. I'd rather hit that
Speaker 1: wall now than hit it later, Like iron sharpens iron.
Speaker 1: So like I really think who I think I am,
Speaker 1: Like I'll be able to succeed where I'm at, so
Speaker 1: like I don't want to prove it to myself that
Speaker 1: belong here. And then you win the national championship. That
Speaker 1: payoff had to have been incredible. Oh yeah, it was
Speaker 1: the best thing ever. So Chris Greer told us that
Speaker 1: you played off the edge in high school, more of
Speaker 1: an edge rusher. I also read you played offensive line
Speaker 1: back in your pee wee days and in middle school.
Speaker 1: That is what I read is that that's accurate. So
Speaker 1: even at you know, such an early age. Do you
Speaker 1: think your experience on offense maybe kind of helps you
Speaker 1: see the game for a different lens as far as
Speaker 1: the defender goes a little bit. I played a little
Speaker 1: bit full back on my POT one of days too,
Speaker 1: so just hitting those gaps, I kind of know what
Speaker 1: the back is looking for, so we just go to
Speaker 1: cloudy to clear and I cadn't see that from the
Speaker 1: linebacker position as well. So it kind of helped transition,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a big thing. Yeah, college is completely
Speaker 1: but you first you do fast forward to college and
Speaker 1: you got that ring. You know what about that championship season?
Speaker 1: What did it teach you about the game and just
Speaker 1: being a professional in general? That championship game where it
Speaker 1: all started. With the SEC championship game, we went in
Speaker 1: I felt like our heads was a little too hot
Speaker 1: and we had, just as linebackers, bad communications, so that
Speaker 1: kind of humbled us. And so just going in like
Speaker 1: we had to play every game like it was our
Speaker 1: last game, especially with being the national championship game. That
Speaker 1: is the last game. Everything we worked for, we would
Speaker 1: we didn't want it to be for nothing. So we
Speaker 1: came in with the right mindset. We've been doing this
Speaker 1: all year, all the hard work, everything we put in
Speaker 1: all year, like we weren't gonna lose again. Since I've
Speaker 1: been to Georgia and we lost the band, we couldn't
Speaker 1: do it again. There was some friendly trash talk here,
Speaker 1: some bamas from Georgia folk here. So it was a
Speaker 1: big game for us here in the Dolphins building as well.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad to see you guys pulled out, especially
Speaker 1: now that we got you here in South Florida. So
Speaker 1: after that, you go to the All Star Games, right,
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl? How was your Senior Bowl experience? Bowl
Speaker 1: was wonderful. I had a great time meeting all the
Speaker 1: different players. They're just taking all the different culture from
Speaker 1: all the different coaches that I met there. Uh uh,
Speaker 1: just being there in the atmosphere, just being with the
Speaker 1: different players and meeting different people. That's having the same
Speaker 1: opportunity to meet with just something special. So you talked
Speaker 1: a little bit about, you know, Dolphins linebackers and how
Speaker 1: you think you're fit in the system here, and Chris
Speaker 1: Berre talked about how you fitting Josh Boiler scheme, the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Have you had a chance to meet Josh
Speaker 1: Boiler yet? I have. I haven't taught to him much
Speaker 1: about schematics and things like that, but that matter. But
Speaker 1: I felt like all the linebackers here, like I know
Speaker 1: how they play. They play them on the line, off
Speaker 1: the ball, on the edge, kind of the same way
Speaker 1: I played in Georgia. So I feel like I fit
Speaker 1: right there and just be Just have to keep iron
Speaker 1: sharpening iron be the best ways to me. You see
Speaker 1: some Jerome Baker tape, ever, he's he's pretty fast and
Speaker 1: blitz the quarterback pretty well. Till you watching his game,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, he gets out of it, all of them. Honestly,
Speaker 1: what something you want to want? You don't want to
Speaker 1: ask Jerome about the game? Like, if you had one
Speaker 1: question you could ask Jalma would be how did the game?
Speaker 1: I know the game is faster NFL, so how did
Speaker 1: he slow it down? Honestly, that's probably the biggest question
Speaker 1: I have for You made plays on defense, but you're
Speaker 1: also all over the Georgia Special teams tape as well.
Speaker 1: Why is that third phase of the game so important
Speaker 1: to you? Just said Georgia. But before you go in,
Speaker 1: you can't be a starter at Georgia without without playing
Speaker 1: any type of special teams, So like special teams could
Speaker 1: like be like give you momentum. It could make or
Speaker 1: break the game. You learned that while you're in college,
Speaker 1: So just taking the special teams around, you could know
Speaker 1: all of those a serious uh possessions downs, all of that.
Speaker 1: Every single thing football is a game of inches. Put
Speaker 1: it like that, and so like every little moment in
Speaker 1: the game counts. You talk about energy coach Danny croftsman
Speaker 1: special teams coach here, You're gonna get to know him
Speaker 1: pretty well. He's got a lot of energy in his
Speaker 1: own right. So talking to about your college experience, you
Speaker 1: played against both two a tongue of Blowa and Jeel
Speaker 1: and Waddle at Alabama. What do you remember most about
Speaker 1: preparing for those guys when as a defender going against
Speaker 1: them out offense? I remember Jayla Waddle was super fast.
Speaker 1: I remember specifically on a special team's rep. I was
Speaker 1: covering down on the right side and he brung everybody
Speaker 1: to the right side and went all the way left
Speaker 1: and score detection And I was like, wow, yeah, like
Speaker 1: he's a real deal. And then to the same way,
Speaker 1: just the accuracy he has throwing the ball, It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: We love to hear a great scouting report. One more
Speaker 1: question for you here, Channing, to get you out of here.
Speaker 1: What are you most looking forward to about your opportunity
Speaker 1: here in Miami? Uh? Just become the best version of me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody here believes in me, and I
Speaker 1: believe in myself, and I just wanna with this opportunity
Speaker 1: I have. I just want to take this uh, take
Speaker 1: this program with this organization, and bring it as high
Speaker 1: as I can, just like everybody else to do to
Speaker 1: appreciate changing the new Dolphins linebacker. Appreciate it. Man. Thanks
Speaker 1: a lot back here on the Channing Tin Doll episode
Speaker 1: of the Drive Time podcast, it has made the second
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I got into
Speaker 1: some games watching the tape here on Channing Tin Doll
Speaker 1: Dolphin's third round draft pick number one or two overall,
Speaker 1: and I thought I might poke around the schedule and
Speaker 1: find some different games. But you know, I think the
Speaker 1: three championship type games against fellow NFL competition, big stage,
Speaker 1: big moments makes the most sense. And for a fourth,
Speaker 1: why don't we go ahead and incorporate Tennessee back in
Speaker 1: November because he had a high snap count in that
Speaker 1: game as well. So I started with Michigan and the
Speaker 1: Orange Bowl, and he wound up not getting much time
Speaker 1: late in that game. As you might recall, it became
Speaker 1: a runaway. But he made a big impact in the
Speaker 1: first half, starting on the very first drive against the
Speaker 1: Michigan Wolverines. And there's eight minutes to go in the
Speaker 1: first corpse when the notes here start. It's a fourth
Speaker 1: down and he scrapes off of an offensive lineman as
Speaker 1: a blitzer and just completely resets the guard into the
Speaker 1: lap of the quarterback with a bull rush. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is something you're gonna hear consistently throughout my tape
Speaker 1: notes here. Later in the first quarter, first and ten,
Speaker 1: he keeps himself inside on run action and sprints to
Speaker 1: the flat to take away a pass out into the flat.
Speaker 1: And what I mean by this is the quarterback has
Speaker 1: a mesh point with the running back, so he has
Speaker 1: to kind of keep eyes on that and make sure
Speaker 1: it's on a running play up the middle, and this
Speaker 1: gives the tight end leaking to the flat time to
Speaker 1: get to that spot before Channing could sprint out there himself.
Speaker 1: But he's so fast and has such recovery speed like
Speaker 1: we talked about with Lewis Riddick in the first part
Speaker 1: of the podcast here from his ESPN coverage that even
Speaker 1: if he takes a false step or has eyes that
Speaker 1: are late, he can make up for that because of
Speaker 1: his speed. And I'm not saying he was here, because
Speaker 1: that's just part of the responsibility. You gotta go through
Speaker 1: your checks. It allows him to do that stuff so
Speaker 1: much quicker. And so the more he plays, a more
Speaker 1: experience he gets, and you're gonna hear him answer a
Speaker 1: question about Jerome Baker here in just one second about
Speaker 1: one question he would ask Bake and he answers about
Speaker 1: speed of the game. I'll leave it to let you
Speaker 1: guys hear it when it comes up. But the more
Speaker 1: experience he gets, it's just gonna get better, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna make that speed look even better. In the second
Speaker 1: quarter of this game, I thought he showed the full
Speaker 1: compliment of his skill set where he can go downfield
Speaker 1: and coverage as well. Copper route is a corner post,
Speaker 1: go to the pylon with the head fake or one
Speaker 1: step jab back to the post and try to get
Speaker 1: some separation that way. And it's in the seam or
Speaker 1: in the slot. I should say down the seam to
Speaker 1: the slot receiver, and he carries this thing twenty five
Speaker 1: yards down the field to the goal post in the
Speaker 1: red zone. Like carries, it means he stays step for
Speaker 1: step and matches with him. So I just it's it's
Speaker 1: rare some of the things that he can do. Next
Speaker 1: up the National Championship giving its Bama. My notes are
Speaker 1: more full here. I had the Michigan game on I
Speaker 1: recorded the All twenty two version of the game on
Speaker 1: my TV, and my kid was with me watching the game,
Speaker 1: so I had to write notes on my phone. These
Speaker 1: are more descriptive notes. So first quarter of the National
Speaker 1: Championship game. It's very early the impact and it's a
Speaker 1: third and one toss to Brian rob and send the
Speaker 1: big running back there who was drafted over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and Tindall stacked up over the zero tech, which is
Speaker 1: the nose tackle up over the center, and he's outflanked
Speaker 1: to the side of the formation that Robinson's on. Now
Speaker 1: at the toss, he pulls the trigger, but he's already out.
Speaker 1: He's got more room to go than the running back
Speaker 1: has to go right and the force defender does a
Speaker 1: good job of forcing Robinson back inside and then here
Speaker 1: comes Tindall with a clean up shot. Man. He Robinson's
Speaker 1: a big, big dude, but he felt that hit. And man,
Speaker 1: that type of speed really helps you contend with offenses
Speaker 1: that can spread things out and use all the spacing
Speaker 1: we have, you know, with the modern athlete, and obviously
Speaker 1: the size of the football field fifty three yards wide.
Speaker 1: You know, play out of that ten personnel package like
Speaker 1: Buffalo leads that the league in that package every year
Speaker 1: by a substantial amount, and that can then create matchups
Speaker 1: on the outside, but also makes you light in the
Speaker 1: box on the inside to give the offense favorable run counts.
Speaker 1: A player like tin doll skill set, ideally, if he
Speaker 1: realizes the full potential, I think, can erase that type
Speaker 1: of threat or counter that at least and give you
Speaker 1: a fighter's chance. Later on in this game, in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, right towards the end of a three to
Speaker 1: play second and ten, it's a spot drop. So working
Speaker 1: through man coverage, zone coverage, rushing, the quarterback set in
Speaker 1: the edge, and the running game and Bama runs these
Speaker 1: mesh crawings, these concepts uh on this particular player of
Speaker 1: shallow crossing routes that are designed to you know, get
Speaker 1: the linebackers caught up set natural picks, natural rubs, and
Speaker 1: you see him working through with the eyes the helmet,
Speaker 1: kind of darting back and forth. And look, I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna sit here and tell you his responsibility on the
Speaker 1: play because I don't have the playbook with his rules
Speaker 1: in front of me. But what I see was active
Speaker 1: feat that moved with his eyes. That's something we talk
Speaker 1: about in quarterbacks all the time, right, It's important for
Speaker 1: the feat to be hardwired to the eyes because you
Speaker 1: see it, you go, well, if they're working together, there's
Speaker 1: no see it. Okay, now get the feet and go.
Speaker 1: It's see it and go at the same time. So
Speaker 1: allows you to play faster. And they had so many
Speaker 1: dudes on that defense that played a lot of roles,
Speaker 1: but you really saw him flexed out like outside the box,
Speaker 1: in the slot, like by the hash marks, or you know,
Speaker 1: out of the tackle box a lot more than a
Speaker 1: lot of those guys. Speed has its benefits, and there's
Speaker 1: you know, the versatility creates a lot of options for you.
Speaker 1: Later on in the second quarter, another first and tent
Speaker 1: place starts as an off ball linebacker position, and Bama's
Speaker 1: gonna motion and you see the Georgia front shift. They
Speaker 1: go from an even front to an odd front. But
Speaker 1: then he slides down as that off the off ball
Speaker 1: linebacker that comes up down off the edge, and he's
Speaker 1: in a wide nine position out wide of the tight end,
Speaker 1: and he beats the right tackle with speech from that
Speaker 1: alignment and gets there so quickly that the running back
Speaker 1: who took one step ahead to kind of help inside,
Speaker 1: you go inside, out right, scan protection, get inside, get
Speaker 1: back out wide. He can't. He doesn't have time to scan.
Speaker 1: He's stuck inside because the rush is so fast. And
Speaker 1: then he dips that shoulder and gets a hit on
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Another theme we're gonna talk about here throughout
Speaker 1: the course of this podcast. Third quarter, mid third quarter
Speaker 1: five three, third and two. The Bama offense converts, but
Speaker 1: he's playing a mic linebacker position, uncovered in an even front,
Speaker 1: and the center has a catching climb with a clean
Speaker 1: release to the second level on his uh second level
Speaker 1: block on Tindall, but Tindall shocks him with the hands
Speaker 1: to the chess plate, disengages and stops it right into
Speaker 1: three or four yard game. It's a first down, but
Speaker 1: a successful down block, and they might have gotten out
Speaker 1: the gate on that one for double digits, if not more.
Speaker 1: Very quickly after that, the third quarter, three and eleven,
Speaker 1: he stunts from the five technique position, which is your
Speaker 1: classic defensive end, right off the outside shoulder of the tackle.
Speaker 1: And I mean we see this in Miami all the time.
Speaker 1: Loop inside with the you know, big Christian Wilkins or
Speaker 1: Zack Seeler, ray Kwon Davis, one of these guys sitting
Speaker 1: a pick outside and then that backer or that edge
Speaker 1: of loops back inside around the center and he sees
Speaker 1: that the center does, but tindals so fast to the
Speaker 1: spot that he can only get arms on him as
Speaker 1: he runs by. And that's not gonna stop him. He's
Speaker 1: a freight train. I think this is where you see
Speaker 1: the real impact in his game. Everything he does set
Speaker 1: the table for this third and long, show an exotic
Speaker 1: rush scheme and utilize the speed and confusion of it
Speaker 1: to heat up the quarterback before the routes can uncover
Speaker 1: you know, eleven yards. It takes a minute to get
Speaker 1: down there. If your rush scheme gets home before that,
Speaker 1: good luck. You know, that's that's how it goes. That's
Speaker 1: how turno what's happened? And Bryce Young has to throw
Speaker 1: it away and took a big hit from Tindall on
Speaker 1: that spot too. I thought his best pass rush of
Speaker 1: the night came in the fourth quarter at to fifty
Speaker 1: eight to play on a crucial third and four leading
Speaker 1: or tilling I should say, by eight points, and he
Speaker 1: goes speed to power and takes the right tackle right
Speaker 1: into the quarterbacks lap. You see him brace for contact
Speaker 1: and anchor when Channing gets in there, and then it's recover, recover, recovery, treat,
Speaker 1: get those feet going. They go from planted the chopping
Speaker 1: real fast because that's a lot of force you have
Speaker 1: to contend with. And you just watch him consistently play
Speaker 1: fast and behind his pads, which generates that level of force.
Speaker 1: It's not just about the biggest guy out there, you know.
Speaker 1: I read that text earlier runs like he's two twenty hits,
Speaker 1: like he's two fifty. Technique Football's technique. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. When you compare elite level
Speaker 1: athletic ability with technique, that's when you're cooking with gas.
Speaker 1: So back to the regular season here, against the Tennessee Volunteers.
Speaker 1: First quarter, twelve forty play early and often this guy
Speaker 1: makes plays first and ten. He goes outside the hash
Speaker 1: of the boundary pre snap, So the boundaries the shorts
Speaker 1: out of the field outside the hash. You guys know
Speaker 1: what that means. The hash marks in the middle of
Speaker 1: the field, and they pull the backside guard to seal
Speaker 1: the edge, and then there's an h back that scrapes
Speaker 1: off of that and the only man left is Tindal.
Speaker 1: So you guys, it's basically like the was it the
Speaker 1: rushing attack drill? And in the game of Madden, you
Speaker 1: have a fullback coming into block, a linebacker and the
Speaker 1: running back behind that. And if you guys know how
Speaker 1: you played that game, if you have full back is
Speaker 1: clear and has a round the linebacker, the running back
Speaker 1: should have a pretty good chance of making that linebacker missed.
Speaker 1: It's well blocked everywhere except for that blocked hindill beast.
Speaker 1: The block disengages, makes the stop, just consistently shows up,
Speaker 1: cutting down plays that could be a lot bigger and
Speaker 1: holds them to modest games. Quickly after that, nine ten
Speaker 1: to play in the first quarter. Another first down in
Speaker 1: ten just an outrageous display of speed. He stacked behind
Speaker 1: the two technique to the field. Two technique is your
Speaker 1: defensive tackle lined head up over the guard, and they
Speaker 1: throw a now route which is catch the ball, get
Speaker 1: it out right now. And it's literally three yards away
Speaker 1: from the sideline to the perimeter. So he has to
Speaker 1: get beyond the hash over the numbers and all the
Speaker 1: way out to the perimeter, and boy does he. The
Speaker 1: field is fifty three and a half yards wide right
Speaker 1: or something like that, and he covered half of it
Speaker 1: and the receiver only gained eight yards in the play
Speaker 1: by the time he covered twenty six and a half yards.
Speaker 1: I don't know math, you guys, what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: just unreal speed. Two plays later, lines up uncovered off
Speaker 1: ball over the left guard and scrapes off the left
Speaker 1: side of engaged tackle who's you know, blocking someone else
Speaker 1: and meets the back right in the backfield. Just the
Speaker 1: more you can do. It's it's bullyball is a gap
Speaker 1: filler speed to the sideline, all on display early in
Speaker 1: this game. This whole game for him as a clinic
Speaker 1: on retracing screens and showing his hustle, which is great too.
Speaker 1: Obviously they just kept throwing the ball to the perimeter
Speaker 1: and blocking up, blocking it up pretty well outside. But
Speaker 1: then here would come forty one from out of frame
Speaker 1: on the film, you know, the end zone angle out
Speaker 1: of frame and just put a pop on someone. It
Speaker 1: was fun to watch. Man In the third quarter of
Speaker 1: this game, first and fifteen eleven thirty to play, Tennessee
Speaker 1: gets themselves a numbers advantage in the running game, to
Speaker 1: the point that Tindall, who's lined up sta behind the
Speaker 1: left guard, is the furthest outside defender. So he is
Speaker 1: and he's got a long way to go, and they
Speaker 1: get that snap off quick because they see it. And
Speaker 1: not only does he beat the back outside, but when
Speaker 1: he sticks his foot in the ground tries to cut up,
Speaker 1: it's not so fast. My friend Tindall hits the brakes,
Speaker 1: reaches back in and makes the tackle. You you praise
Speaker 1: this play if the only thing he does is turns
Speaker 1: it back in the fact that he makes the play
Speaker 1: too is exceptional. Later on this game, second or third quarter,
Speaker 1: I should say, two minutes to play second and five,
Speaker 1: and he gets home with his rush off ball well
Speaker 1: disguised blitz because he's not coming until the snap goes off.
Speaker 1: So it's not like he's mugged up in the A
Speaker 1: gap or B gap and you see nineties six for
Speaker 1: U G A Georgia, it's my abbreviation. He twists inside
Speaker 1: and the left guard he follows him, but and he
Speaker 1: sees Tindal coming and kind of gets back outside to
Speaker 1: fill that gap. But by the time he does, and
Speaker 1: it happened fast, it's too late. Ten dollars buy him then.
Speaker 1: One of the parts I love most about his game
Speaker 1: is how he sinks that inside shoulder because obviously it's
Speaker 1: a great place to throw the hands try to get
Speaker 1: that chess play and drive you past the quarterback out
Speaker 1: of the play. He just continuously gives the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: and usually guards in these blitz uh you know, bi
Speaker 1: gab blitz is obviously a tiny target to shoot for,
Speaker 1: and he doesn't really lose acceleration when he does it,
Speaker 1: and he maintains his balance around that arc, around that
Speaker 1: corner right into the quarterback in this instance for a
Speaker 1: sack SEC title game again against Bama, first quarter four
Speaker 1: eight teen, second and eight, it's a blitz and he
Speaker 1: gets a one on one opportunity versus the right guard.
Speaker 1: This is the first time I saw this on the
Speaker 1: four tapes I watched. It's a four man rush. As
Speaker 1: one of the down lineman drops out and Nakobe Dean,
Speaker 1: who's mugged up it's a dummy blitz. He backs out,
Speaker 1: so tin Dall hits the guard with a crossover step.
Speaker 1: You know he's he's coming from depth and there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of space to either the left of the
Speaker 1: right two way go, and he goes crossover step to
Speaker 1: the inside and rushes the inside half of his man,
Speaker 1: and that guard has to lunge out and try to recover,
Speaker 1: and he can't do it, and he winds up turning
Speaker 1: and chasing, and eventually you see his numbers which from
Speaker 1: the end zone angle behind the defense. Don't want to
Speaker 1: see the offensive line's name on the back of his jersey,
Speaker 1: and he winds up on the ground as Tindal puts
Speaker 1: a big stick on the Heisman Trophy winner. First play,
Speaker 1: the second quarter, first and ten Bama runs zone read
Speaker 1: action left with split zone going right. That's the motion
Speaker 1: man going opposite direction of the way you're going to
Speaker 1: run the football, and he'll seal the backside if you
Speaker 1: do run the football. In this case, they kept it
Speaker 1: and Tindal blitzes the quarterback kept it. Tindal blitz is
Speaker 1: off the right side and usually the motion man comes
Speaker 1: under and then here comes the rusher. But he got
Speaker 1: there before the motion man, like if he was a
Speaker 1: little bit later, he would have collided with him and
Speaker 1: it would have been not a good scene for that
Speaker 1: wide receiver coming in the split zone motion. He just
Speaker 1: he comes in. Obviously that's fast, right, so he gets
Speaker 1: right in there and wacks the quarterback and Bryce Young
Speaker 1: has to kind of spike the ball under the turf
Speaker 1: to avoid the sack, and the ball falls well short
Speaker 1: of that target to the flat to the motion man.
Speaker 1: This burst as shows up time and time and time again.
Speaker 1: But I keep going back to his ability to operate
Speaker 1: in tight spaces and make himself small, dip that shoulder
Speaker 1: and not lose acceleration. In the third quarter, about midway
Speaker 1: through six forty three second and two, they had to
Speaker 1: get backs helping him in this game because he was
Speaker 1: putting so much pressure on the quarterback, and the both
Speaker 1: games against Bamma this year, and they did it here
Speaker 1: because again his speed is just too much coming from
Speaker 1: that second level, scraping off that block and angling towards
Speaker 1: the quarterback. Brian Robinson often located forty one first and
Speaker 1: foremost in pass pro. Then there's two separate places in
Speaker 1: the third quarter where he presses the issue on some
Speaker 1: of those Bama zone read looks where Brish Young can
Speaker 1: keep it or give it, and man, when forty one
Speaker 1: is barreling down on you, you can't give that thing
Speaker 1: off to the back soon enough. That speed forces a
Speaker 1: certain level of urgency in the decision making. In total,
Speaker 1: it was a lot of the same on those tapes.
Speaker 1: I mean, I usually have a four tape rule, but
Speaker 1: I don't think I needed all of them to see
Speaker 1: what I needed to see in terms of the movement skills,
Speaker 1: the way he shocks people when he hit some the
Speaker 1: prowess in the rush games from multiple positions, very very
Speaker 1: intriguing skill set, and you can really see why the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were so intrigued by his skill set, and so
Speaker 1: just looking at the potential fit and the things that
Speaker 1: he does well that jive with the things that Dolphins
Speaker 1: defense have done well with the pressures, the sub packages,
Speaker 1: the multiple fronts, the multiple looks just kind of drives
Speaker 1: with Channing tin Doll's game. I mean just look at
Speaker 1: the things he did at Georgia working off of stunts.
Speaker 1: Delayed blitz is green dog in which is where you
Speaker 1: can have him match up with someone in the backfield.
Speaker 1: If they stay into block, you send him on a
Speaker 1: blitz and take care of it that way, because like
Speaker 1: Louis Riddick talked about, if there's a false step, if
Speaker 1: there's a late key, his athletic ability allows him to
Speaker 1: make up for that, and when he gets it right,
Speaker 1: well then you're really cooking with gas and his ability
Speaker 1: to kind of squeeze into tight spaces and scrape off
Speaker 1: of the angles of the blocks and the stunts and
Speaker 1: the picks to get set and then angle back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback. It just fits so well with what we've
Speaker 1: see and work so well here for a couple of
Speaker 1: years now. And of course he can come and bring
Speaker 1: that pressure. He can zero blitz and green dog blitz
Speaker 1: him because of the acceleration he just he can do
Speaker 1: all that where he works downhill. But then you think
Speaker 1: about up a sential crutch to the zero blitz. For instance,
Speaker 1: if the quarterback escapes that initial wave, it can be
Speaker 1: trouble for your defense. Right think about Josh Allen, he
Speaker 1: gets out of that first initial pressure, steps up, and
Speaker 1: then he has all room to run for thirty forty
Speaker 1: yards like he is wont to do. But if that
Speaker 1: happens with Tyndall, he has the speed to keep that
Speaker 1: eye on the quarterback and go hunt him and again,
Speaker 1: just to go back to the play in the Bama
Speaker 1: game against Bryce Young, but it's more than that, Like
Speaker 1: defeating blocks is a big part of his game as well.
Speaker 1: We've seen guys up front play that two gap. Lots
Speaker 1: of bear fronts and two gaps when you're responsible for
Speaker 1: multiple gaps to your right to your left. That's why
Speaker 1: when you watch those drills against the blocking sled, you
Speaker 1: see guys peak left, peak right, get off that block
Speaker 1: and find out which gap the ball carrier is going to.
Speaker 1: That's two gapping. A bare front is where you cover
Speaker 1: up the center with your nose tackle and the two
Speaker 1: guards with your defensive ends, and then you can bring
Speaker 1: an off ball linebacker down off the edge to be
Speaker 1: on the ball at that linebacker position. And if you're
Speaker 1: on a bare front, that means you're stack, which means
Speaker 1: you're off ball. Linebackers in the middle are behind those
Speaker 1: two two techniques playing behind the two ends over the
Speaker 1: front of the guards, if that will make sense for
Speaker 1: you guys. So if you play him stacked, great, he
Speaker 1: can run free and use the athletic ability. And this
Speaker 1: is kind of the ideal situation here for Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: that you can truly unlock that athletic ability he has
Speaker 1: because of all he does to kind of run around
Speaker 1: and make plays in the middle of the defense. But
Speaker 1: when you want to pull a guard or swing the
Speaker 1: ball out in space, Tim Dall can square up, drop
Speaker 1: the shore pads and take on those blocks too. So
Speaker 1: he's really transferable across the odd fronts where he might
Speaker 1: be stacked. You're even fronts where you can afford to
Speaker 1: play him your front even more aggressive and attack because
Speaker 1: you're not quite as worried about lineman clearing that first
Speaker 1: wave and climbing to the second level of the defense.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a dude who would key tunnel
Speaker 1: screens coming back inside from the outside patiently seek and
Speaker 1: destroy the guy where it looks like he's taking on
Speaker 1: a block, but he's knocking the helmet off some poor
Speaker 1: soul at wide receiver. I think you should be able
Speaker 1: to compete right away in sub backages on special teams,
Speaker 1: and I think as we go along with him, it
Speaker 1: would be it would just get harder and harder to
Speaker 1: keep him off the field and more of your many,
Speaker 1: many defensive packages that you run. The fit here, to
Speaker 1: me is brilliant, the match mobility of the speed. There's
Speaker 1: just not much to say in the other direction about
Speaker 1: this pick. And you got him at pick one oh two,
Speaker 1: So this isn't our first first round pick we're talking
Speaker 1: about here, So the third round fantastic stuff. All right,
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and here from man himself, Channing Tindal
Speaker 1: up next here on the Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield,
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Speaker 1: of the Dolphins draft picks, Eric is Zukama still to come,
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