Speaker 1: To us byres touch style by Waddle snuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy tight pro tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? 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, we welcome in not
Speaker 1: one but two new Miami Dolphins, two household names in
Speaker 1: this league, to proven free agent veteran additions to keep
Speaker 1: improving and bolstering this roster edge. Melvin Ingram is going
Speaker 1: to join us. He's new to the Miami Dolphins. Will
Speaker 1: also break down his game and talk to the newest
Speaker 1: edge defender on this Dolphins defense. Plus we already broke
Speaker 1: down his game on a prior podcast, but now we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk to the man himself, new Dolphins running back,
Speaker 1: so Michelle from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Every
Speaker 1: single time I think there might be a little bit
Speaker 1: of content lull, some information we don't have to talk
Speaker 1: about here on the podcast, which I always appreciate because
Speaker 1: I can then get into my bag of ideas and
Speaker 1: bag up tricks. But then we get blessed with some
Speaker 1: new content material here. And what a great gift this
Speaker 1: is on this Friday to be able to talk to
Speaker 1: two very proven, very good veteran players in this league
Speaker 1: now new Miami Dolphins, and we start with edge defender,
Speaker 1: you know, outside linebacker defensive, then kind of a little
Speaker 1: bit of both of those two positions. Melvin Ingram a
Speaker 1: decorated free agent on this year's list, and this is
Speaker 1: a free agent crop that kind of continues to have
Speaker 1: an impressive list of available players. One thing I saw
Speaker 1: Greg Rosenthal of Around the NFL Network talk about Around
Speaker 1: the NFL podcast on the NFL Network talk about is
Speaker 1: how you know we'd spend so much time talking about
Speaker 1: the draft, but this year, for whatever reason, there's this
Speaker 1: unique circumstance where there are a lot of really good
Speaker 1: players available in free agency, and Rosenthal said, you know,
Speaker 1: I think that we're gonna wind up talking about the
Speaker 1: guys that signed post draft. A lot more are guys
Speaker 1: that should have a bigger impact than your second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth rounders in the NFL draft. On balance, you can
Speaker 1: have a lot more impact from guys that are signed
Speaker 1: in the post draft process compared to guys that were
Speaker 1: actually drafted, as those rookies take time to come along
Speaker 1: and develop. And he might be right there with Miami.
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram and Sony Michelle certainly could have a nice
Speaker 1: impact on this Dolphins roster. And you know, looking at
Speaker 1: the five Things piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com,
Speaker 1: I frequently joke about tropes. Right, you can never have
Speaker 1: enough this, and I feel like that's every position now
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. You can never have enough corners,
Speaker 1: you can never have enough pass rushers, you can never
Speaker 1: have enough weapons, you can never have enough running back.
Speaker 1: Your offensive line can never be deep enough. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: it's true because deep rosters are good rosters. Attrition occurs
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and having guys that can do multiple things,
Speaker 1: and you can be deep with guys who can do
Speaker 1: multiple things, three four or five six deep at that position, well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna benefit you. So the Dolphins signed Pro three
Speaker 1: time Pro bowler Melvin Ingram to a defense that retained
Speaker 1: every single member of the front seven from a year ago.
Speaker 1: You know that ranked five in the National Football League
Speaker 1: with forty eight sacks, and the addition of Ingram gives
Speaker 1: Miami a fourth edge defender, that outside linebacker defensive end
Speaker 1: who finished inside the top forty in QB pressures last year.
Speaker 1: We'll get to Ingram's number here in just one second,
Speaker 1: but ogbab with his fifty seven, Andrew van Ginkl with
Speaker 1: his thirty four, and Jalen Phillips with his forty. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead now and get into the five things to
Speaker 1: know about this newest member of this Dolphins defense, Melvin Ingram,
Speaker 1: who just gives Miami another weapon off the edge in
Speaker 1: the front seven, as a rusher, as a run defender.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want him to do, Melvin has done it
Speaker 1: in his professional football career. And that's where we start here.
Speaker 1: With a decade of dominance, and there are no signs
Speaker 1: of slowing down, at least not that he's showing right
Speaker 1: now against the run, pass, or un coverage. He has
Speaker 1: impacted a ton of football games throughout the course of
Speaker 1: his storied NFL career over ten years in the league,
Speaker 1: fifty one sacks, seventy four tackles for loss, and fifteen
Speaker 1: force fumbles. He's played a hundred and twenty eight career
Speaker 1: games for a career that began with some injuries early on,
Speaker 1: but since he missed a few games early in his career,
Speaker 1: he's played in one hundred of a possible one hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve games. Since the start of the season. He's
Speaker 1: logged a hundred nineteen QB hits, three eight five total tackles,
Speaker 1: intercepted three passes, defended twenty nine more, and recovered seven
Speaker 1: fumbles in his pro career. And he also showed off
Speaker 1: his explosiveness way back in twelve at the NFL Scouting Combine,
Speaker 1: ranking in the ninety percentile or better among edge defenders
Speaker 1: all time in his ten yards split, his twenty yards split,
Speaker 1: short shuttle, and three cone drills. He also checked in
Speaker 1: in the eighty percentile or better in both the forty
Speaker 1: yard dash and the vertical jump. What does that all mean.
Speaker 1: It means explosiveness, and you see it in his game
Speaker 1: on the tape. I'm gonna be tweeting out some links
Speaker 1: of some reps of his just getting after people with
Speaker 1: the spin move, with the long arm, with the chop,
Speaker 1: with every move that he possibly has in features he's
Speaker 1: he's really excels in that regard. But age thirty three,
Speaker 1: just no signs of slowing down upon his November arrival
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs. Last year at the trade deadline, he
Speaker 1: logged twenty four quarterback pressures in his first eight games
Speaker 1: with a team, three pressures per game, and during that
Speaker 1: stretch he never had fewer than two pressures in a
Speaker 1: game and recorded four pressures in four different games. He
Speaker 1: added nine more pressures and two sacks in three playoff games.
Speaker 1: So playing, you know, beyond seventeen games at thirty three,
Speaker 1: still getting the job done into January, you know, at
Speaker 1: age thirty three. Impressive stuff. And since he is eighth
Speaker 1: among edge rushers with four dred and eighteen total QB
Speaker 1: pressures and nineteenth and sacks with forty nine of them.
Speaker 1: And you want to talk about consistency in every facet
Speaker 1: of his game, I put up on Twitter a little
Speaker 1: thread saying you're going to read a lot about his
Speaker 1: pass rush production, his ability to come into sub packages
Speaker 1: and help Miami get that third down rush package. Oh contrary,
Speaker 1: my friend, there was much more to his game than
Speaker 1: just rushing the pass or The volume of his career
Speaker 1: is very impressive, but the consistency, to me is rather
Speaker 1: jaw dropping. For his career. Here are his quarterback pressure rates,
Speaker 1: which have never dipped below ten point seven percent. I
Speaker 1: was back in one eleven point one percent. Anything over
Speaker 1: eight percent is really good. Eleven point one percent, eleven
Speaker 1: point nine percent, twenty nineteen, twelve point five, eleven point two, seventeen,
Speaker 1: fourteen point five, twenty sixteen fifteen percent than twelve point
Speaker 1: nine percent, eleven point nine percent, ten point seven, and
Speaker 1: eleven point seven his rookie year. Always double digit percentage
Speaker 1: in career pressure rate. For context, Emmanuel Ogba, who finished
Speaker 1: seventeenth last year in total QB pressures, he had an
Speaker 1: eleven point six pressure rates. That gives you an idea
Speaker 1: about what a good pressure rate is. Og Ball is
Speaker 1: very good at eleven point six. Ingram's in that category
Speaker 1: that territory or better his entire career. His run stop rate,
Speaker 1: it's in similar territory from a volume standpoint. He was
Speaker 1: top twenty five in the league from through nineteen, never
Speaker 1: having fewer than thirty two run stops. What's a run stop, Travis,
Speaker 1: It's a Pro Football Focus metric that measures running down
Speaker 1: tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage. So
Speaker 1: you stopped the play with your tackle on a running game.
Speaker 1: Every year he was in that range, giving him the
Speaker 1: sixth most run stops two d and thirty three among
Speaker 1: all edge defenders since. From an efficiency standpoint, again, consistency
Speaker 1: is the way career run stop rates nine point five
Speaker 1: percent went down to five percent, but twelve point seven
Speaker 1: or cent nine point nine, nine point four, nine point one,
Speaker 1: eight point five, eight point one, it dipped to five
Speaker 1: point seven and team and there was eleven point one
Speaker 1: his rookie season. It's just rushing the passer, defending the run.
Speaker 1: How about the coverage grade? Well, in his career, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: have a passer rating of eighty two point four when
Speaker 1: going against Melvin Ingram and coverage it's he does all
Speaker 1: three phases. And how that translates to Miami. Well, in
Speaker 1: the five Things piece, I put a clip or some
Speaker 1: clips up on there of Ingram's game. I'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and tweet those out as well, both as a rusher
Speaker 1: and a run defender. Again, even with a new team
Speaker 1: mid season, in a new scheme, he flashed the ability
Speaker 1: to transition midplay from penetrating run defender to ferocious quarterback
Speaker 1: hunter against play action and in this clip, I put
Speaker 1: up there you can see the patented spin move that
Speaker 1: he has on display, which he pairs with that quickness,
Speaker 1: sheer strength, heavy hands, and a very devastating long arm
Speaker 1: move which is used to kind of keep offensive lineman
Speaker 1: at bay and help you control the rep and it
Speaker 1: prevents them from getting your hands off their chest plate.
Speaker 1: And that ability that he has to kind of shock
Speaker 1: pass protectors in a variety of situations makes him an
Speaker 1: ideal fit for most of the game packages you want
Speaker 1: to run as a defense, stunts and twists and slants
Speaker 1: loop guys around. He can do it with the strength,
Speaker 1: the speed, the quickness, the lateral agility. It's all on display,
Speaker 1: and his run tape is equally impressive. There's there's a
Speaker 1: beauty of the signing and the multitude of roles that
Speaker 1: he could conceivably occupy. Last season, Van Ginko played eight
Speaker 1: hundred and one snaps, Ogba played seven five and Philip
Speaker 1: six oh three. Ingram played seven thirty one and showed
Speaker 1: that he could be a valuable sub package rusher or
Speaker 1: a true three down player either way you want him
Speaker 1: to fill. Whatever role here, he could help the Dolphins
Speaker 1: front stay fresh weekend and week out. He himself could
Speaker 1: stay fresh with a limited role in pass rushing. He
Speaker 1: can do whatever you want him to. He's that good
Speaker 1: of a football player, and he also with ten years experience,
Speaker 1: can really have an impact in his leadership role. Here's
Speaker 1: what he had to say about his leadership roll back
Speaker 1: with the Steelers when he was briefly there for a
Speaker 1: little bit. My leadership I display it by my work
Speaker 1: ethic what I do on the field. I don't try
Speaker 1: to be super vocal because I feel anybody can do that.
Speaker 1: You can pick anybody off the streets to be vocal,
Speaker 1: but it takes a special leader to do it by
Speaker 1: work ethic, going out there and leading by example. And
Speaker 1: he talked about how young players will perceive what he
Speaker 1: does and take that and put into their own game.
Speaker 1: He said, they're definitely going to be looking at you.
Speaker 1: I know when I was a younger guy, I definitely
Speaker 1: looked at every older player just to try to steal
Speaker 1: something away from them that they did on a daily
Speaker 1: basis or how they went about their work. That's why
Speaker 1: I try to go about mine the right way. And
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey talked about what his inclusion into that chief's
Speaker 1: locker room did for them last year. Quote the swag
Speaker 1: chat Man. You bring a guy in with that much
Speaker 1: juice and that much swagger about himself, a perennial All
Speaker 1: star throughout his entire career, that makes everybody play better.
Speaker 1: You saw it immediately how much the guys were having
Speaker 1: fun with it. End quote. So production, the leadership, what
Speaker 1: he can do in all facets of the game. The
Speaker 1: last thing here on the Five Things piece is his
Speaker 1: rap game. I'm not gonna detail here at all because
Speaker 1: I want to hear from Melvin. We'll do that net
Speaker 1: here on the Drivetime Podcast. You can find the five
Speaker 1: Things piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com, as well
Speaker 1: as all the free agent acquisitions five Things on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com, as well as my sit down video
Speaker 1: chats with all these new players up on the team
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. But next we'll hear from Melvin Ingram. After that,
Speaker 1: we'll have Sonny Michelle on here on the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: What's Up Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here the host of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast on the Miami Dolphins podcast network, and today
Speaker 1: I am joined by new Dolphins linebacker Melvin Ingram, what's up, mel?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great good. It's good to see you. Good
Speaker 1: to have you in here. Welcome to Miami. How's it
Speaker 1: filled to be a Dolphin? Man? I feel great. Man.
Speaker 1: If you're like something that's meant to be. Man, it's
Speaker 1: a blessing to be here and had its opportunity, he said,
Speaker 1: it's like it's meant to be. So you're as a
Speaker 1: free agent, you had your pick of where to go.
Speaker 1: Why Miami and why now? Just because me and Miami
Speaker 1: got so much history. So it's a great young team
Speaker 1: that's that's on a rise and and and and got
Speaker 1: a chance to do something special. So it's just it's
Speaker 1: just that I wanted to be a part of. So
Speaker 1: you like the roster coming in here. Obviously, had a
Speaker 1: chance to meet with coach McDaniel Yett. First impressions the
Speaker 1: coming man and I love him. Man, high energy guy,
Speaker 1: and I love it man. He brings. He bring the
Speaker 1: energy and that's what creates the atmosphere and every single
Speaker 1: thing he does, media with the players, everything he does
Speaker 1: it so much up temple, high energy stuff. It's fun
Speaker 1: to be around. How about the defensive staff, Coach Boyer,
Speaker 1: you had chance to meet him and his staff. Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Speaker 1: And I feel like they got a great staff they
Speaker 1: got they got a bunch of great coaches who know
Speaker 1: exactly what they're talking about and components in the right duration.
Speaker 1: So we know about the past rush production through your career.
Speaker 1: A story ten your career so far. Also a hell
Speaker 1: of a rundefender. I think kind of gets lost in
Speaker 1: the the sauce little bit there, But I was curious,
Speaker 1: what mentality is it required to play strong in the
Speaker 1: running games, had a hard edge off the outside on defense.
Speaker 1: It's just a football mentality, really, man. I think in
Speaker 1: this game you have to be a complete player and
Speaker 1: and sometimes people get lost in the past rush, but
Speaker 1: it also goes with stopping the run. So the complete
Speaker 1: ones and the great ones they do both. And I
Speaker 1: try to pat it myself after that. That's why I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring it up. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: big part of your game and aviously what you bring
Speaker 1: here obviously also a new face on this team bringing
Speaker 1: ten years of experience to this club. How do you
Speaker 1: approach your role as kind of this veteran leader here
Speaker 1: on this team while getting to know this locker room
Speaker 1: and building those relationships as you go along. Here. I
Speaker 1: just come in and work, man. That's been That's been
Speaker 1: my emo since the first day I stepped in this league,
Speaker 1: and I'm always do that. Just come in and working
Speaker 1: and try to lead by example. I ain't really gonna
Speaker 1: do all the talking, because I feel like anybody can
Speaker 1: just talk. To be a leader, you got to go
Speaker 1: out and put the work in it. And people see
Speaker 1: you putting the work in, they see how long you've
Speaker 1: been doing it, they naturally gonna follow you for example, right,
Speaker 1: So that's way to do it. So, speaking of that
Speaker 1: position group, you've got guys that are productive. The last
Speaker 1: several years in the NFL, Manual aug bought great pressure
Speaker 1: rates Jalen Phillips, a young guy coming up, Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle as well. What do you think about those guys
Speaker 1: and what they bring to your position group? Man, I
Speaker 1: think they're great players, man, and I'm I'm I'm excited
Speaker 1: to work with my thing. I think that the future
Speaker 1: is bright and I think the way they work in
Speaker 1: the in the potentition, their head is only gonna get better.
Speaker 1: Did you know anybody on the team before you signed here? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know a couple of people and getting here. It's
Speaker 1: been dope to be here with him. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. It's not a bad area too, you know that.
Speaker 1: Going to the Heat games and now you said, we're
Speaker 1: gonna make fans very happy about that. Hopefully here a
Speaker 1: peppos early in the fourth quarter. But being in the
Speaker 1: Link for ten years, you've accomplished a lot. What do
Speaker 1: you hope to accomplish next in this next phase of
Speaker 1: your career? Of course, your your goal is always the
Speaker 1: one to ring and and and first you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta get there. You gotta get to the playoffs. You
Speaker 1: gotta win those games and make it to that big dance.
Speaker 1: But those of my goal is the one ring absolutely
Speaker 1: hopefully can make that happen for you here in Miami.
Speaker 1: Had a chance to prouse your Instagram a little bit.
Speaker 1: Saw some really cool posts with you and your boys.
Speaker 1: I have a two year old daughter, is the very
Speaker 1: best thing in the world. What's something you can't wait
Speaker 1: to do with your family down here now that you're
Speaker 1: in South Florida. I don't know. It's probably just me
Speaker 1: and the kids and the fam just just going to
Speaker 1: the beach man, getting on the beach. My kids and
Speaker 1: my family loved to beaching. We get out there with
Speaker 1: the kids on the beach and just have fun. The
Speaker 1: smile said, Is there a particular beach you like down here? No,
Speaker 1: not a particular any beach. My kids don't. They don't
Speaker 1: care as long as the beach as long as you're
Speaker 1: standing water, right, I recommend Dania. It's right by the
Speaker 1: airport down there, but it's a little bit low key.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of people go there, so I like
Speaker 1: the fact that it's not so hustle and you've got something. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Something else I saw was was your involvement in the
Speaker 1: sneaker game. I know some folks around here'll be pretty
Speaker 1: excited about a potential pop up sneaker shop. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have any of those? Yeah, we we We definitely, me
Speaker 1: and my staff, we're definitely working on it because I
Speaker 1: own a mobile sneaker store right now where we just
Speaker 1: we just pull up places and and and let people
Speaker 1: come on and buy shoes and and and see the
Speaker 1: trump So it's definitely it's definitely a potential. You might
Speaker 1: have some business to do here, I mean employers and
Speaker 1: the employees doing here into the shoe game. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be to let you out of here without asking you
Speaker 1: about the Rap Game. Any new albums in the work,
Speaker 1: any collaborations, and yeah, no, no, no, we're working on
Speaker 1: I'm working on finishing the album right now. We uh,
Speaker 1: we're probably about eight finish and we're working on it.
Speaker 1: It's it's a dope project though, very cool. I asked
Speaker 1: Tony Michell earlier. He said he's retired from the rap games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm still in it all right, And I also mentioned
Speaker 1: toront Arms said you know about his Yes, definitely, I
Speaker 1: definitely heard his music and me and him talk from
Speaker 1: day one about doing some stuff together. So we definitely
Speaker 1: gonna get in and do some stuff. Go. Let's go ahead.
Speaker 1: Leave on that right there, and there he goes New
Speaker 1: Dolphins linebacker Melvin Ingram fund chat with him. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our last break and come back on
Speaker 1: the other side and catch up with new Dolphins running
Speaker 1: back Sony Michelle. What's up Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here the
Speaker 1: host of the Drive Time podcast on the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast Network, and I'm joined today by new Dolphins running
Speaker 1: back Sony Michelle. Sony, welcome in, man, appreciate it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for having me. We're happy to have you down here.
Speaker 1: So has it hit you yet the fact that you're
Speaker 1: back homeward all began? Um? I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: setting in now, you know. I mean week two, UM,
Speaker 1: getting activated with everything, Um, getting into a routine. So
Speaker 1: it's going good so far. So I saw you were
Speaker 1: in the number thirty four. I grew up a diehard
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan. My favorite player of all time as Ricky Williams.
Speaker 1: Is that a coincidence or did you pick that number
Speaker 1: for a reason? Um? I didn't pick that number. Um,
Speaker 1: I'll say it was one of the numbers. I mean
Speaker 1: I initially picked it, but and there was only like
Speaker 1: four number is available for me. So knowing the history
Speaker 1: behind the number, I picked it, you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of set the bar high. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: looking I said, like thirty four and running back, what's
Speaker 1: better than that? There's so many legendary backs that were
Speaker 1: thirty four. So aside from the homecoming here, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously coming back a form American heritage products. What attracted
Speaker 1: you to come to the Miami Dolphins and play your
Speaker 1: ball here? I'm seeing the foundation that they're trying to
Speaker 1: build the players they had coming in, the players that
Speaker 1: was here already, seeing these guys work, playing against them, Um,
Speaker 1: knowing what they're about, and you know, coming here to
Speaker 1: try to be a part of it, to try to
Speaker 1: do something special, you know, was something I had in mind.
Speaker 1: Was part of that. The coaching staff and coach McDaniel
Speaker 1: getting to those guys a little bit. Oh yeah, definitely
Speaker 1: knowing him, knowing a little bit about his background, the
Speaker 1: schemes he run, the you know, the way his players
Speaker 1: talk about him. So knowing a little bit. I like
Speaker 1: that he brought you Raheem and Chase up here from
Speaker 1: the NFC West guess, guys that were close in his
Speaker 1: backyard there, right, Yeah, he knows what he's got there.
Speaker 1: So Also, running backs coach Eric Studisville has been in
Speaker 1: this business for a long time, been here for a
Speaker 1: long time. I'm how excited you to work with him
Speaker 1: and kind of absorb some of that wisdom that he
Speaker 1: can offer you. Oh man, I'm excited. Um, knowing a
Speaker 1: little bit about his background, knowing you know, some of
Speaker 1: the backs that he's coached, some of the wisdom that
Speaker 1: he can shed on the room on me. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I like to you know, pick his brain a little
Speaker 1: bit so I can add to my game. So he's
Speaker 1: been pretty cool so far. He's coached a bunch of
Speaker 1: really good backs. And you know, we talked about you
Speaker 1: coming here to Miami. What would you say the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are getting in Sony Michelle as a player, Oh man,
Speaker 1: they're getting you know, I would say me being me,
Speaker 1: a high character guy, the guy that's gonna come in,
Speaker 1: you know, put the team first and just work hard.
Speaker 1: I touched on your your teammates here in the backfield
Speaker 1: a little bit. We also, I gotta add Miles Gascon,
Speaker 1: savan ak Met, Jared Dukes and the whole crew. What
Speaker 1: do you think the Dolphins have here in the stable
Speaker 1: with those guys, adding you and Raheem as well as
Speaker 1: Chase Um. That was one of the reasons why I came,
Speaker 1: you know, knowing that they had an elite group of backs. Um.
Speaker 1: All these guys are starters, you know, potential starters, and
Speaker 1: coming here, I knew that at iron sharpens iron, If
Speaker 1: I want to be the best version of myself, I
Speaker 1: gotta compete against the best. So that kind of helped
Speaker 1: made the decision. I've heard that phrase a lot on
Speaker 1: this team this year. I'm looking forward to that. In
Speaker 1: your opinion, what makes you know what what what creates
Speaker 1: a really quality not running back by committee, but you
Speaker 1: mentioned having so many guys that are capable. What's the
Speaker 1: key to having that all kind of click together and
Speaker 1: working together? Um, you know, ultimately you're on the same team.
Speaker 1: You know, number one, you want to compete, and then
Speaker 1: you know being being being the biggest fans for you know,
Speaker 1: rooting for the guys that's in the same room, you know,
Speaker 1: wanting them to succeed, wanting the best for themselves. UM,
Speaker 1: And ultimately, you know, building a bond and once that
Speaker 1: bond is created, it kind of it kind of set
Speaker 1: the bar high and everybody kind of understands the standard
Speaker 1: and that will that's what carries us through the season.
Speaker 1: That's a great answer. You talk about those guys being
Speaker 1: in that room together. You've been here for two weeks now.
Speaker 1: You mentioned has there been some competition, some good camaraderie
Speaker 1: building in that room? UM, I would say right now,
Speaker 1: just more bonding and I'm getting to know each other,
Speaker 1: getting around the guys and and and doing you know
Speaker 1: a little stuff. You talked about Coach mc daniel little
Speaker 1: bit earlier. What about the system that his staff and
Speaker 1: him have been installing here, A, you're pretty excited about
Speaker 1: what's to come here with the running game in Miami, definitely.
Speaker 1: You know, they're big on explosive plays. We have explosive
Speaker 1: guys on the outside, um, and they're committed to running
Speaker 1: the football. Can ask more than that, right, That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: So you've been I talked to you a little bit
Speaker 1: about the my favorite college football playoff game of all
Speaker 1: time that you played in a Georgia that against Oklahoma
Speaker 1: and the Rolls Bowl a few years back. You've been
Speaker 1: on two super bowl teams, the College Football Playoffs, the
Speaker 1: National Championship Game. What have you learned throughout the course
Speaker 1: of your career to kind of, I guess what can
Speaker 1: those experiences in those big time games kind of teach
Speaker 1: you about being a pro and how you can kind
Speaker 1: of impart that wisdom on the rest of the guys here. Um,
Speaker 1: it's all about stick into the process, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and part of the processes. You know, all the different phases.
Speaker 1: I miss phase one. I came towards the end of
Speaker 1: phase two, and now I'm an O T A S.
Speaker 1: And you know, creating those habits so we can you know,
Speaker 1: go into the season with with good habits, hopefully you know,
Speaker 1: putting my head down working and me being leader, one
Speaker 1: of the leaders in the group that you know, guys
Speaker 1: can can watch and hopefully they can follow. I can follow,
Speaker 1: I can learn from them. We can pick each other's brains.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the most important part is um,
Speaker 1: you know, sticking to the process, learning from it and
Speaker 1: kind of building that core foundation so we can carry
Speaker 1: through the season. You talk a little bit about work
Speaker 1: ethic and just you know, putting in the work that's
Speaker 1: required this time a year to be productive. Come September
Speaker 1: and going back to your college days, I read some
Speaker 1: some testimonials from a pair of your former college and
Speaker 1: then Patriots teammates, and David Andrews and Isaiah Win and
Speaker 1: they both really praised the way you work in the
Speaker 1: way you go about things. Where does that come from? Like,
Speaker 1: where does that the way you learn how to be
Speaker 1: such a pro? Where did that come from? For you? Um?
Speaker 1: I would say, you know the foundation that my parents built,
Speaker 1: you know, it started inside the house. UM, you know,
Speaker 1: working hard for whatever you want, you know, understanding where
Speaker 1: my parents come from They came from Haiti, you know,
Speaker 1: they they were immigrants that came over dropped everything and
Speaker 1: they had to start from scratch. They had to work
Speaker 1: for everything that they wanted. UM. And me seeing a
Speaker 1: little bit of that because I was so young, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of I feel like I grasped
Speaker 1: some of that energy, some of that you know, information
Speaker 1: that was going on around me and kind of applied
Speaker 1: it to you know, the different levels that I played
Speaker 1: on with whether it's little league, high school to college
Speaker 1: and now in the pros of you know, trust in
Speaker 1: the process and not really trying to cheat it, learned
Speaker 1: pretty quickly how to how to work under your your
Speaker 1: parents grown up a little bit. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's the stuff I read about was just how even
Speaker 1: in high school you were a big time you know,
Speaker 1: prospect of American heritage there, legendary school here, but I said,
Speaker 1: they always went back to the way you work. So
Speaker 1: just the way you kind of came up was what
Speaker 1: started all that. I guess it makes most sense. So
Speaker 1: also did some research on your Instagram and I saw
Speaker 1: you just celebrated was it your daughter's third birthday? Birthday? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I've got a little princess back at home myself.
Speaker 1: Her second birthday is on Saturday. And I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you right now, the tantrum stage has hit us. And
Speaker 1: I was just curious if you had any advice for
Speaker 1: how to deal with these meltdowns that come up every
Speaker 1: couple of hours. That seems like for me, no advice
Speaker 1: because I'm learning it as it go, so I can't like,
Speaker 1: I know, Um, I just try to just try to
Speaker 1: be there for h just try to, you know, make
Speaker 1: them as comfortable as possible, hopefully, you know, teach a
Speaker 1: little bit the little that I know, try to tea
Speaker 1: and then, um, you know, just watch him grow. That's
Speaker 1: all you can do. Yeah, that's the best, man, It's
Speaker 1: it's the hardest thing but also the best at the
Speaker 1: same time. It's funny how that works. A couple more
Speaker 1: questions for you here. We got Melvin Ingram coming next
Speaker 1: to the podcast here. I know he's pretty musically inclined.
Speaker 1: I was told you are a little bit as well.
Speaker 1: What you got in the hop in the hopper for
Speaker 1: music coming up here. Um, I retired, okay, the X rapper,
Speaker 1: I retired. I kind of put the mutes aside. More
Speaker 1: of you know, diving deep into some of some of
Speaker 1: my favorite artists, um and kind of just using that
Speaker 1: to you know, keep me in the right headspace. So
Speaker 1: no collaborations with you and Melvin and toront Arms. That
Speaker 1: also wraps a little bit too, No collapse. Those boys
Speaker 1: are good man. I don't know if as good as
Speaker 1: those guys, No, no problem. Last question for you here, Sony,
Speaker 1: what do you look looking forward to most about your
Speaker 1: return here to South Florida, whether it's football away from
Speaker 1: the field, what are you most excited about here about
Speaker 1: coming back home. I'm excited, you know, to one, you know,
Speaker 1: getting the opportunity to compete and try to make the
Speaker 1: team and winning some football games. I can't take more
Speaker 1: than that, Sony Michelle, new Dolphins running back, appreciate your
Speaker 1: time today, Thank you, thank you, and away he goes.
Speaker 1: The free agent addition interviews keep rolling on. You guys
Speaker 1: can find those video elements up on YouTube on the
Speaker 1: team YouTube channel, as well as all the veterans sitdowns
Speaker 1: we've done and rookie sit downs as well with the
Speaker 1: four draft picks up on the Miami Dolphins YouTube channel
Speaker 1: coming your way on Monday, we have one of my
Speaker 1: favorite podcasts every year that we do the comprehensive oster
Speaker 1: review following the what should I say, the primary portion
Speaker 1: of the off season. I know, we just got Melvin
Speaker 1: and Sony in here, which is a great get in
Speaker 1: the month of May, but typically after the draft it
Speaker 1: winds down a little bits. We cover the roster in
Speaker 1: its entirety. It's a lengthier edition of the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: coming your way on Monday. In the meantime, that's gonna
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Speaker 1: daddy's coming home and happy second birthday, sweetheart. I Love you,
Speaker 1: HM