WEBVTT - Free Agent Report Cards, Closing Games, Rams Thoughts and Assistant Coaches' Media 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:07.480 Practice as Patrick growing touchdown. What a win for this 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:13.600 Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:17.360 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:21.680 official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.200 and every day. How's it going, everybody? I am your host, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.040 Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:31.520 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:34.320 we're gonna hear from a whole heap of Dolphins coaches, 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:38.599 the coordinators and defensive assistance met with the media on Tuesday. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.640 We'll get you the latest there. 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We have a busy show 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:25.960 coming up for you guys today. I want to go 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.680 ahead and first start with Monday Night football in the 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.560 Los Angeles Rams, and just a few notes on these guys. 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.520 As again, we're gonna kind of preview this game throughout 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.240 the course of the week before the big mega preview 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:39.759 on Thursday's podcast. But you watch that offense operate, it's 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.319 there's no real tricks or bells and whistles. They want 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.800 to run that wide zone offense, get the ball on 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:48.120 the edge like Kyle Shanahan and that forty Niners offense does. 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.720 Get the running game on the edge and play the 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.520 the the bootleg play action game off that off the 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.600 other side and the way you really defeat that And 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.760 they talked about it in the broadcast on Monday Night 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.160 with the Chicago Bears is set. Those wrong edges get 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.480 knocked back on the interior. So Christian Wilkins and Zach 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.400 Seeler and ray Kwon Davis and those big boys inside 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.440 have to help control the interior of that Rams offensive 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.480 line while on the outside, Aug Ball and Lawson and 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.080 Van Ginkle and Van Noy and all those guys help 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.440 set that strong edge and then from there they want 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.120 to run those crossing routes from that condensed formation. Right. 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.760 We talked about it on the Monday podcast. No team 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.800 runs tighter formations, tighter splits, and you saw it on 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.840 Monday night. Both receivers aligned to either side inside the numbers. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:34.720 Nobody runs tighter formations than the Rams consistently, and they 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.480 want to go ahead and run those crossing routes and 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:39.120 try to outpace you from there. We saw Robert Woods 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.080 get free on a couple of those, and the Dolphins 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:42.840 will have to do well to help pass those off 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.400 or run under those in man coverage whether they're in 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.040 man and zone, and you can basically combat that with 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.160 different zone coverages or man coverage. You can drop into 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.560 that cover three so that you have three deep players 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.400 over the top and when they run that crossing route, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.440 they go from one third to the next third and 0:02:57.440 --> 0:02:59.760 get picked up. That way, you can run that six 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.399 is look where you have a quarter half quarter where 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:03.799 you have one player in the middle of the field, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:05.400 take in the half part of the field, and then 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.120 two deep players taking a quarter each to take up 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.680 the four fourth of the field. There as well different 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.560 options you can do to do that. And then as 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.400 far as trying to combat that bootleg, look, maybe you 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.840 peel the backside defensive end off and put a body 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.760 in Jared Goff's face, because when he runs that peel back, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:22.840 he's not expecting pressure in his face. If you can 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:24.320 just kind of collapse on that and give up the 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.720 backside and put pressure right in the face of Jared Goff, 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.480 that can really disrupt that. So it would be fun 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.120 to watch the way Flores verse McVeigh Part two goes. 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.440 The last time they called plays against each other was 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:37.080 in the Super Bowl, a thirteen three victory for Flora's 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.280 and the Patriots in that game. Another thing you look 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.320 at here is Johnny Hecker and Matt Hawk right the 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.160 punning game. Johnny Hecker was awesome on Monday night pinning 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.520 a billion punch down into the ten yard line. He 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:49.400 has a powerful leg and a good a punch that 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.520 really checks up inside the five yard line and bounce 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.080 a straight up into the air. So those guys the 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.760 special teams battle would be very, very important. And then defensively, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.680 you have to get that guy blocked in the middle, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.560 Aaron Donald. He gets double teams pretty much every single 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:03.640 snap so far, and he still finds a way to 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:06.240 win with that arm over, that swim move, that quickness. 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.280 And it's okay that he wins, but you have to 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.760 find a way to prevent those immediate wins where he 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.360 completely destroys the play and under two seconds and gets 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.680 into the backfield and it's just there on the quarterback 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:18.039 or the running back, the mesh point, whatever it might be. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.000 They played a lot of two high looks last night 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.760 in the game. I noticed and a goobody can bat 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:23.360 that is throwing the ball to the middle of the 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.200 field split those two high safeties. And so with Vante 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.880 Parker and Preston Williams, you like their options there on 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.040 those end breaking routes. Maybe some RPO action, as Daniel 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.600 Jeremiah called to a tongue of Bloa, the best rpo 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.960 quarterback college football has ever seen. Maybe you incorporate some 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.400 of that run the ball wide off the edge yourself, 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.279 help put Donald and those linebackers in a bit of 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.360 a bind. We'll go ahead and cover this game more 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.640 in depth on Thursday, but I wanted to drop those 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.120 notes I took down on the game. On Monday night, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.400 I wrote an article up on Miami Dolphins dot com 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:55.480 called the Winning Edge, and this piece really kind of 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.560 illustrates sometimes the beauty of riding to me, where you 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.760 start off with one con in scepter, one idea and 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.800 it evolves into something else. Because on Monday we heard 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.280 from Shack Lawson and he talked about the impact of 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.880 Emmanuel Ogba and how he's helped free up Shack to 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.760 make some plays and vice versa. The book ends, we're 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:14.960 gonna hear coach Hobby talk about that here in just 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.680 one second. But I started off with this quote where 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.920 Shack Lawson called Emmanuel Ogba beast, a guy who works hard, 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.279 a guy that gets the job done, a dominant force. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.800 Having him on the other side helping opening things up 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.680 for Shock, a guy that's bawling, guy that's been incredible. 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.160 It's been a pleasure to work with him, said Lawson 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:34.640 of Ogba. And I started thinking about the emphasis on 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.640 the edge position on defense this year for the Miami Dolphins, 0:05:37.880 --> 0:05:40.039 and again coming up soon, we're gonna talk about the 0:05:40.040 --> 0:05:43.159 free agent acquisitions this offseason and give you something of 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.040 a progress report on those guys, and I started thinking 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.600 about the emphasis on the edge position, and you go 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.120 back to August, Coach Flores has said, yeah, we kind 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.680 of remade this position, and that was kind of a 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:55.839 focal point throughout the course of the off season was 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.360 the length and the size these two defense events who 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:02.200 are much bigger than your two hundred forty pound NASCAR 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.920 speed rusher, so to speak. Guys that could hold the edge, 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.680 play the run, work inside, condensed, inside, operate all the 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.120 games that coach Flora's and coach hobby and and coach 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.320 Bowyer loved to call up front there, and I was 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.839 thinking about the emphasis on the edge position and how 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.520 the past rush for this Dolphins team has really helped 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.640 put games away, And this kind of was sparked for 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:25.920 another idea on Sunday that I watched so many NFL 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:30.360 games across Week seven where teams built these two, three, 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.560 sometimes even four score leads and the opposition just closes 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.200 that gap in a flash. The Titans overcame a twenty 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.520 point deficit and had a chance to tie the game 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.159 there on a forty five yard field goal at the end. 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:44.240 It went wide and they did not get the w 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.800 but they did essentially erase that twenty point deficit to 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.839 the Steelers. The Cardinals down by ten points to Seattle 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.240 at halftime. Seattle had won forty one consecutive games with 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.200 a double digit halftime lead heading into that moment. Well, 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.640 now that streak is at zero because the Cardinals erase 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.240 that in a wash and they went to overtime and 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.760 compete it with the CTLL Seahawks. Earlier in the week, 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.480 on Thursday Night, the Eagles down by eleven points with 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.640 six minutes to play, they overcome that deficit. I saw 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.760 a stat for the Falcons, who have lost three games 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.880 this year where at one point or another they had 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:19.640 achieved better than ninety eight point win probability. It's tough 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.640 to close games out. It's tough to finish games in 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:25.880 the NFL. And the point of this entire message is 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.440 that I think it really illustrates how this Dolphins team 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.600 plays for sixty minutes. Coach Flora's talks about it. We 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.800 saw earlier in the year they were in some tough 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.880 games of the Patriots, the Bills, and the Seahawks, and 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.200 they just couldn't quite close it out against three good 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.320 football teams. But then when they had a chance to 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:42.880 close it out with the lead and play from ahead. 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.880 They showed you that sixty minute drive, that sixty minute 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:49.360 focus and emphasis to finish the game that way. And 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.440 you might say, well, Travis, they only outscored the opposition 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.560 in the second half of those games by three points 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.160 two times. And that's my entire point, because you go 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.320 into a halftime break with a four team point lead 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.680 in one instance, with the twenty one point lead in 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:06.000 another instance, twenty three points in the San Francisco game, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.720 what's that? What's what does the focus of that game 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.560 or what does the lens of that game now look like? 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.640 You have one team that wants to basically kill a 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.720 half an hour of game clock, and you want you 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.160 have one team that has to kind of pick up 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.320 the pace and pick up the tempo and try to 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.200 score quickly to get more possessions out of the game 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:23.960 and give themselves more opportunities to come back and win 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:25.960 that game. But the Dolphins are having none of it. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.080 In these three games with fourteen, twenty one, and three 0:08:29.120 --> 0:08:32.560 point leads, the Dolphins won the second half in that 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.760 element where one team is trying to kill the clock 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.319 and one team is trying to hurry up the tempo 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.319 and pace. So I think it really speaks well with 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.320 this Dolphins team's ability to get pressure from multiple guys 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:45.439 to come in waves, to show different different looks and 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:50.360 different pressure packages on that defensive front, the relentless aggressive approach. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.640 We saw the fake punt on fourth down to Clayton 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.320 Federalum in the San Francisco game, and aggressive mindset, a 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.040 sixty minute mindset, and I think it's awesome to see 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.720 that with this team in those three victories. So that 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:03.920 was the piece, the top news piece up on Miami 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.000 Dolphins dot com. Go ahead and check that out when 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.200 you get a chance. We have today's top news piece 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.480 coming ups here shortly as well, taking a look at 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.360 what the coaches said, and we're gonna get to that 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.840 here in just one second on the podcast. But before 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:16.640 we do that, I want to go ahead and do 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.120 another quick review because by week we have some more 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.800 content time to cover. Here, know all twenty two from Sunday, 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:24.679 as we didn't have a game, but we've gone over 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.560 the rams, we've gone over the winning edge and the 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:28.600 closing out of football games. I want to go ahead 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.360 and just do a quick primer on the free agent 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:33.600 signings this offseason, and start with Kyle van Noy, who 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.360 you guys all know how I felt about him when 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.600 he signed here. I think this was a perfect fit 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.720 for this defensive system of perfect guys to help communicate 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.679 and implement Brian Floors and Josh Bowyer's defense. A guy 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.880 that's familiar with them both in terms of personnel on 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.280 the football field or calls in the football field, but 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.480 also how they communicate and how they want to run 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.360 their program. He has twelve quarterback pressures. That's number two 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:56.800 among off ball linebackers on Pro Football Focus, not your 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.880 Von Miller on ball types, your off ball linebackers. He's 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.600 so gap sound. He's an aggressive blockbeater, He's assignment based. 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.520 He's a leader, a tone center, part of that quiet, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.240 confident mentality we have here in Miami. I think Kyle 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.720 van Noy is a focal point of the system, of 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.160 the program, and of that defense. But a good signing 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:18.760 so far Byron Jones, just sensational, absolutely terrific from camp 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.760 through what you see now working between drills and practice. 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.000 The way he was communicating and getting other guys to 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:27.360 join him in between drills to get extra work during practice. 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.120 The communication you're gonna hear Jerald Alexander talk about that 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.720 here in just one second. The leadership, the production, shutting 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.720 down multiple different receivers throughout the course of his career 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.320 that have had big time careers. The long speed, it 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.560 helps you with your coverages. That helps him kind of 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.280 play one side of the field and play that trail 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.600 technique underneath. How smart he is and how capable he 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.280 is of running multiple different looks press man, offman, zone looks. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.480 He really just does it all. You can't say enough 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:55.640 about Byron Jones. Ted Carriss up on the offensive line. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:58.920 Five pressures allowed in six games. He's been a he's 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.640 been a stone wall up there, zero sacks allowed. He's 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.360 got three different offensive lineman he's played with, and they 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.760 really haven't had communication gaps or free rushers coming clean 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.720 on Ryan Fitzpatrick and the quarterback position. I think last 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.920 week the Jets came clean almost like a delay slash 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.440 like Looper coming inside. And that was the first time 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.240 I really recall a breakdown up front where they just 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.840 didn't get a guy block. And they've been consistently solid 0:11:22.040 --> 0:11:24.840 and both Steve Marshall and Shan Gilly credit Ted Carriss 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.000 for his communication and kind of the anchor in the 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.920 middle of the offensive line. Eric Flowers, for my money, 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.440 been the best player on the offensive line all season long. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:35.480 Brian Flores talked a couple of weeks ago about flowers energy, 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:37.640 the way he chases down plays and goes down to 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.520 pick up us running back or his receiver and congratulate them, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.360 get the hands clap, and you see it all the 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.640 time when you watch him on ALL twenty two. We've 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:47.280 covered the bands and the harness that he brought to 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.720 practice after training camp every day to get the young 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.280 guys working extra the production, playing pool side, hooking and 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.920 sealing and blowing guys off the football. Guys try and 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.920 hump moves on him in the pass rush game and 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:01.000 going nowhere. He's exactly what you've been looking for at 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.079 that left guard position for quite some time now. Emmanuel 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.880 Ogba tied for seventh in the NFL and SEX top 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:10.079 ten and pressures per pass rush attempt for edge players. 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.280 Myles Garrett has a pressure every seven point four pass 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.160 rush reps. He's at seven point eight, just behind the 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.160 guy who right now probably is the defensive player of 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.800 the year. He rushes the edge, loops as a stunter, 0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:24.720 condenses inside as the three technique. He's long. He holds 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.040 the point and the edge in the running game, and 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.040 that's again gonna be a key in this Rams game. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.120 He's been an absolute boon to this Dolphins defensive line 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:35.839 of defense in general. Shack laws him, same deal here, 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.520 same strength against the run on the other side, really 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.240 helping hold up that edge and turn things back inside 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.320 to your help. The past rush numbers haven't been at 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.840 a bas level, but he talked about it yesterday about 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.079 how he's hopeful it opens things up for him. These 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:51.120 guys really complement each other so well. They both placed 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.040 so gap sound, they adhere to the rush lane integrity 0:12:54.040 --> 0:12:56.840 and helped execute the system. It truly is an eleven 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.000 guy type of defense, and I think both lost in 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.960 the OGA have been big parts of that. We're gonna 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.960 hear from Mary and Hobby and just one second about 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.720 how these book end ends have to complement each other well. 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:07.520 I think as a good comment there from coach. We'll 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.720 get to that just one second. E Land and Roberts. 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:12.760 His last two games were great, playing super fast, aggressive. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.400 He's a tone setter type of player on that defense, 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.720 a physical presence, a good communicator, a leader of the defense. 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:21.960 He's been a goodbye so far. Commu grug Hill. The coverage, 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.920 the blitzing we saw the minshoe sac in the Jacksonville game. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.960 The closing speed that he has and how fast he plays, 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.880 the toughness, the broken finger last game playing through that, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.720 the special teams acumen, A four phase type of player, 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:37.440 he's been a plus there. Clayton Federlum Special Teams missed 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.480 a couple of games earlier, but comes right back and 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:42.840 gets into this top ranked Dolphins special teams unit. According 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:45.360 to Football Outsiders and d v o A, he had 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.480 the fake punk conversion. He's playing that personal protector role. 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.920 There's been no blocked kicks, Our coverage teams have been 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:52.760 stout and he's made a couple of plays in that 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.720 area as well. And the same is true of Cavon Frasier, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.440 a guy that really just really plays hard, really gets it. 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.880 He's big, he's physical, he can come on defense and 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.040 play that kind of big nickel role for you as well. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.320 But he's been so stout. And the special teams unit 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.320 that just has five, six, seven guys like a Mac Hollands, 0:14:08.360 --> 0:14:11.920 Commu Gruge Hill, Clayton Federalum Cavan Frasier. If I'm leaving 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:14.440 anybody out, I apologize, But so many guys that have 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.560 meant so much to a special teams unit that's one 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.960 of the tops in the NFL with a specialist and 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:21.760 the coverage units as well. And then Jordan Howard. It's 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.800 not exactly an easy thing to punch the ball in 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.160 down around the goal line. And Jordan Howard has scored 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.200 three touchdowns this year for the Miami Dolphins. So plenty 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.440 of contributions from each of the Dolphins free agent signings 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:35.080 this offseason. Got to continue putting that good work together 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.880 and continue going forward and getting improvement out of these guys. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.000 But so far through six games, you have to love 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.200 what you've seen from the Dolphins and free agency this 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.800 past off season. So now I'll go ahead and turn 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.520 this thing over to the Dolphins coaches and coordinator's offensive assistance. 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.880 Chan Gaily, Josh Boyer, and Danny Croftsman on this Tuesday, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.160 October edition of the Drivetime podcast, brought to you by 0:14:56.240 --> 0:14:59.880 Auto Nation, where every vehicle sold and service is sanitized. 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.040 Keep driving safe at auto nation dot com. We're gonna 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:04.920 go ahead and play some sound here from Chan Gailey. 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:07.200 We talked about the r p O game, the run 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:10.480 pass option game, the quote from Daniel Jeremiah the best 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:12.800 the college game has ever seen in two a Tongue 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.520 of Valoa and the r p O game. So we 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.960 start here with Chan Gailey with the question about the 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:21.000 r p O game. Well, he did, uh a decent 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.880 amount of that in college. And well, there's different types 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.920 of r p O s. There's pre snap r p 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.720 O s, there's post snap r p os UM, and 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:35.960 we use you know, some of both, but mostly pre 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:40.760 snap r p os is what we have done. And 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:45.440 he's what I remember him doing in college was he 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.520 was good at reading and seeing that. And UH, as 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:54.400 time goes on, UM, we we can adjust and maybe 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.120 use a few more of those, uh to fit into 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:59.480 what he has done in the past. And two will 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.160 of course the only starting left handed quarterback in the 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:05.600 NFL on Sunday when he makes that start. Here, coach 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.760 was asked about the difference between going from a right 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:09.880 handed quarterback to a left handed quarterback, and he had 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:12.080 a good answer here that I hadn't really thought about myself, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.640 but of course Chin the footballs are tells you about 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.080 how a defense wants to make a quarterback scramble a 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.880 certain direction. The number one thing I would think about 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:24.080 that if somebody's trying to make um right in a 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:28.120 quarterback scramble, they would want him to scramble to the left. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:31.280 They probably have to change that thought process to make 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.600 a left handed quarterback scramble to his right. That would 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.360 be one of the first things I would think about. 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:41.640 And for us, UH, we practice things both left and right, 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:46.320 so um, it doesn't change a lot for us. Um. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.400 You know, when if we've had a bootleg that's been 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:55.080 to the right for uh fits, then it's been on 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.600 to his wristband every week that he runs it to 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.880 the left. So we've practiced it all both ways, so 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.920 nothing really changes for us. And when you face Los 0:17:05.920 --> 0:17:07.880 Angeles Rams, you're gonna have to deal with that man 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.880 number ninety in the middle. How does coach Gailey deal 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.440 with a player with that dominant presence on the interior 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.480 of the defensive line. Here's coach uh. Somebody made a statement. 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:19.800 A lot of people want to know where a safety 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:22.639 is or where a linebacker is. You want to know 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.080 where he is is he lined up on the left 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.719 or the rioties he lined up and on the tackle 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.520 or on the guard. Uh, you know, you want to 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.679 know where he is and you want to scheme some things, 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:39.920 um to help out whoever's got him. At the same time, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:44.919 you can't change everything you're doing. You gotta depend on 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:48.200 our good players playing well against him too, and we 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.399 gotta depend on that a little bit from offense to 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.960 special teams. Up next, we had coach Danny Croftsman here 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.080 talking to the media, and I first asked him a 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.680 question about Cavan Fraser and then he was later asked 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:01.760 about mac Hollins and what those two guys have meant 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:03.960 to the special teams just so far through the first 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.000 six games. Uh, done a really nice job. Was it 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.359 was a good pick up for us. Has good experience 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.679 and a lot of position flexibility and has really been 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.919 a good addition for us. You know, he's one of 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.119 those guys that's really settling in on one of those 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.119 four phase core players for us. And uh, you know, 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.000 and those guys need to play well and we need 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.280 to keep playing better and better as the season progresses. 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:27.320 So that was Fraser here he is on mac Hollins, Yeah, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:30.399 doing a good job really on on on each of 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:33.000 the phases. You know another guy that plays on all 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.720 four for us. I think the biggest thing is is, 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:39.000 you know, Max got a great personality that you know, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:44.640 his upbeat personality really transcends and really brings a lot 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.159 of guys along when you look at him in the 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.320 locker room, in the meeting room, out of the practice field. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.760 Has really got a great demeanor and his approach of 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.959