Speaker 1: Practice as Patrick growing touchdown. What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: and every day. How's it going, everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we're gonna hear from a whole heap of Dolphins coaches,
Speaker 1: the coordinators and defensive assistance met with the media on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: We'll get you the latest there. Plus we'll continue talking
Speaker 1: about the Rams as we prepare for Sunday's game at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. I'll talk about closers and their coffee too.
Speaker 1: And yesterday we did the rookie Report, Well, today we'll
Speaker 1: do the same for the Dolphins free agent class. Of
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Speaker 1: coming up for you guys today. I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and first start with Monday Night football in the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, and just a few notes on these guys.
Speaker 1: As again, we're gonna kind of preview this game throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the week before the big mega preview
Speaker 1: on Thursday's podcast. But you watch that offense operate, it's
Speaker 1: there's no real tricks or bells and whistles. They want
Speaker 1: to run that wide zone offense, get the ball on
Speaker 1: the edge like Kyle Shanahan and that forty Niners offense does.
Speaker 1: Get the running game on the edge and play the
Speaker 1: the the bootleg play action game off that off the
Speaker 1: other side and the way you really defeat that And
Speaker 1: they talked about it in the broadcast on Monday Night
Speaker 1: with the Chicago Bears is set. Those wrong edges get
Speaker 1: knocked back on the interior. So Christian Wilkins and Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler and ray Kwon Davis and those big boys inside
Speaker 1: have to help control the interior of that Rams offensive
Speaker 1: line while on the outside, Aug Ball and Lawson and
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle and Van Noy and all those guys help
Speaker 1: set that strong edge and then from there they want
Speaker 1: to run those crossing routes from that condensed formation. Right.
Speaker 1: We talked about it on the Monday podcast. No team
Speaker 1: runs tighter formations, tighter splits, and you saw it on
Speaker 1: Monday night. Both receivers aligned to either side inside the numbers.
Speaker 1: Nobody runs tighter formations than the Rams consistently, and they
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and run those crossing routes and
Speaker 1: try to outpace you from there. We saw Robert Woods
Speaker 1: get free on a couple of those, and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: will have to do well to help pass those off
Speaker 1: or run under those in man coverage whether they're in
Speaker 1: man and zone, and you can basically combat that with
Speaker 1: different zone coverages or man coverage. You can drop into
Speaker 1: that cover three so that you have three deep players
Speaker 1: over the top and when they run that crossing route,
Speaker 1: they go from one third to the next third and
Speaker 1: get picked up. That way, you can run that six
Speaker 1: is look where you have a quarter half quarter where
Speaker 1: you have one player in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: take in the half part of the field, and then
Speaker 1: two deep players taking a quarter each to take up
Speaker 1: the four fourth of the field. There as well different
Speaker 1: options you can do to do that. And then as
Speaker 1: far as trying to combat that bootleg, look, maybe you
Speaker 1: peel the backside defensive end off and put a body
Speaker 1: in Jared Goff's face, because when he runs that peel back,
Speaker 1: he's not expecting pressure in his face. If you can
Speaker 1: just kind of collapse on that and give up the
Speaker 1: backside and put pressure right in the face of Jared Goff,
Speaker 1: that can really disrupt that. So it would be fun
Speaker 1: to watch the way Flores verse McVeigh Part two goes.
Speaker 1: The last time they called plays against each other was
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, a thirteen three victory for Flora's
Speaker 1: and the Patriots in that game. Another thing you look
Speaker 1: at here is Johnny Hecker and Matt Hawk right the
Speaker 1: punning game. Johnny Hecker was awesome on Monday night pinning
Speaker 1: a billion punch down into the ten yard line. He
Speaker 1: has a powerful leg and a good a punch that
Speaker 1: really checks up inside the five yard line and bounce
Speaker 1: a straight up into the air. So those guys the
Speaker 1: special teams battle would be very, very important. And then defensively,
Speaker 1: you have to get that guy blocked in the middle,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. He gets double teams pretty much every single
Speaker 1: snap so far, and he still finds a way to
Speaker 1: win with that arm over, that swim move, that quickness.
Speaker 1: And it's okay that he wins, but you have to
Speaker 1: find a way to prevent those immediate wins where he
Speaker 1: completely destroys the play and under two seconds and gets
Speaker 1: into the backfield and it's just there on the quarterback
Speaker 1: or the running back, the mesh point, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: They played a lot of two high looks last night
Speaker 1: in the game. I noticed and a goobody can bat
Speaker 1: that is throwing the ball to the middle of the
Speaker 1: field split those two high safeties. And so with Vante
Speaker 1: Parker and Preston Williams, you like their options there on
Speaker 1: those end breaking routes. Maybe some RPO action, as Daniel
Speaker 1: Jeremiah called to a tongue of Bloa, the best rpo
Speaker 1: quarterback college football has ever seen. Maybe you incorporate some
Speaker 1: of that run the ball wide off the edge yourself,
Speaker 1: help put Donald and those linebackers in a bit of
Speaker 1: a bind. We'll go ahead and cover this game more
Speaker 1: in depth on Thursday, but I wanted to drop those
Speaker 1: notes I took down on the game. On Monday night,
Speaker 1: I wrote an article up on Miami Dolphins dot com
Speaker 1: called the Winning Edge, and this piece really kind of
Speaker 1: illustrates sometimes the beauty of riding to me, where you
Speaker 1: start off with one con in scepter, one idea and
Speaker 1: it evolves into something else. Because on Monday we heard
Speaker 1: from Shack Lawson and he talked about the impact of
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba and how he's helped free up Shack to
Speaker 1: make some plays and vice versa. The book ends, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hear coach Hobby talk about that here in just
Speaker 1: one second. But I started off with this quote where
Speaker 1: Shack Lawson called Emmanuel Ogba beast, a guy who works hard,
Speaker 1: a guy that gets the job done, a dominant force.
Speaker 1: Having him on the other side helping opening things up
Speaker 1: for Shock, a guy that's bawling, guy that's been incredible.
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure to work with him, said Lawson
Speaker 1: of Ogba. And I started thinking about the emphasis on
Speaker 1: the edge position on defense this year for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and again coming up soon, we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: free agent acquisitions this offseason and give you something of
Speaker 1: a progress report on those guys, and I started thinking
Speaker 1: about the emphasis on the edge position, and you go
Speaker 1: back to August, Coach Flores has said, yeah, we kind
Speaker 1: of remade this position, and that was kind of a
Speaker 1: focal point throughout the course of the off season was
Speaker 1: the length and the size these two defense events who
Speaker 1: are much bigger than your two hundred forty pound NASCAR
Speaker 1: speed rusher, so to speak. Guys that could hold the edge,
Speaker 1: play the run, work inside, condensed, inside, operate all the
Speaker 1: games that coach Flora's and coach hobby and and coach
Speaker 1: Bowyer loved to call up front there, and I was
Speaker 1: thinking about the emphasis on the edge position and how
Speaker 1: the past rush for this Dolphins team has really helped
Speaker 1: put games away, And this kind of was sparked for
Speaker 1: another idea on Sunday that I watched so many NFL
Speaker 1: games across Week seven where teams built these two, three,
Speaker 1: sometimes even four score leads and the opposition just closes
Speaker 1: that gap in a flash. The Titans overcame a twenty
Speaker 1: point deficit and had a chance to tie the game
Speaker 1: there on a forty five yard field goal at the end.
Speaker 1: It went wide and they did not get the w
Speaker 1: but they did essentially erase that twenty point deficit to
Speaker 1: the Steelers. The Cardinals down by ten points to Seattle
Speaker 1: at halftime. Seattle had won forty one consecutive games with
Speaker 1: a double digit halftime lead heading into that moment. Well,
Speaker 1: now that streak is at zero because the Cardinals erase
Speaker 1: that in a wash and they went to overtime and
Speaker 1: compete it with the CTLL Seahawks. Earlier in the week,
Speaker 1: on Thursday Night, the Eagles down by eleven points with
Speaker 1: six minutes to play, they overcome that deficit. I saw
Speaker 1: a stat for the Falcons, who have lost three games
Speaker 1: this year where at one point or another they had
Speaker 1: achieved better than ninety eight point win probability. It's tough
Speaker 1: to close games out. It's tough to finish games in
Speaker 1: the NFL. And the point of this entire message is
Speaker 1: that I think it really illustrates how this Dolphins team
Speaker 1: plays for sixty minutes. Coach Flora's talks about it. We
Speaker 1: saw earlier in the year they were in some tough
Speaker 1: games of the Patriots, the Bills, and the Seahawks, and
Speaker 1: they just couldn't quite close it out against three good
Speaker 1: football teams. But then when they had a chance to
Speaker 1: close it out with the lead and play from ahead.
Speaker 1: They showed you that sixty minute drive, that sixty minute
Speaker 1: focus and emphasis to finish the game that way. And
Speaker 1: you might say, well, Travis, they only outscored the opposition
Speaker 1: in the second half of those games by three points
Speaker 1: two times. And that's my entire point, because you go
Speaker 1: into a halftime break with a four team point lead
Speaker 1: in one instance, with the twenty one point lead in
Speaker 1: another instance, twenty three points in the San Francisco game,
Speaker 1: what's that? What's what does the focus of that game
Speaker 1: or what does the lens of that game now look like?
Speaker 1: You have one team that wants to basically kill a
Speaker 1: half an hour of game clock, and you want you
Speaker 1: have one team that has to kind of pick up
Speaker 1: the pace and pick up the tempo and try to
Speaker 1: score quickly to get more possessions out of the game
Speaker 1: and give themselves more opportunities to come back and win
Speaker 1: that game. But the Dolphins are having none of it.
Speaker 1: In these three games with fourteen, twenty one, and three
Speaker 1: point leads, the Dolphins won the second half in that
Speaker 1: element where one team is trying to kill the clock
Speaker 1: and one team is trying to hurry up the tempo
Speaker 1: and pace. So I think it really speaks well with
Speaker 1: this Dolphins team's ability to get pressure from multiple guys
Speaker 1: to come in waves, to show different different looks and
Speaker 1: different pressure packages on that defensive front, the relentless aggressive approach.
Speaker 1: We saw the fake punt on fourth down to Clayton
Speaker 1: Federalum in the San Francisco game, and aggressive mindset, a
Speaker 1: sixty minute mindset, and I think it's awesome to see
Speaker 1: that with this team in those three victories. So that
Speaker 1: was the piece, the top news piece up on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com. Go ahead and check that out when
Speaker 1: you get a chance. We have today's top news piece
Speaker 1: coming ups here shortly as well, taking a look at
Speaker 1: what the coaches said, and we're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: here in just one second on the podcast. But before
Speaker 1: we do that, I want to go ahead and do
Speaker 1: another quick review because by week we have some more
Speaker 1: content time to cover. Here, know all twenty two from Sunday,
Speaker 1: as we didn't have a game, but we've gone over
Speaker 1: the rams, we've gone over the winning edge and the
Speaker 1: closing out of football games. I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and just do a quick primer on the free agent
Speaker 1: signings this offseason, and start with Kyle van Noy, who
Speaker 1: you guys all know how I felt about him when
Speaker 1: he signed here. I think this was a perfect fit
Speaker 1: for this defensive system of perfect guys to help communicate
Speaker 1: and implement Brian Floors and Josh Bowyer's defense. A guy
Speaker 1: that's familiar with them both in terms of personnel on
Speaker 1: the football field or calls in the football field, but
Speaker 1: also how they communicate and how they want to run
Speaker 1: their program. He has twelve quarterback pressures. That's number two
Speaker 1: among off ball linebackers on Pro Football Focus, not your
Speaker 1: Von Miller on ball types, your off ball linebackers. He's
Speaker 1: so gap sound. He's an aggressive blockbeater, He's assignment based.
Speaker 1: He's a leader, a tone center, part of that quiet,
Speaker 1: confident mentality we have here in Miami. I think Kyle
Speaker 1: van Noy is a focal point of the system, of
Speaker 1: the program, and of that defense. But a good signing
Speaker 1: so far Byron Jones, just sensational, absolutely terrific from camp
Speaker 1: through what you see now working between drills and practice.
Speaker 1: The way he was communicating and getting other guys to
Speaker 1: join him in between drills to get extra work during practice.
Speaker 1: The communication you're gonna hear Jerald Alexander talk about that
Speaker 1: here in just one second. The leadership, the production, shutting
Speaker 1: down multiple different receivers throughout the course of his career
Speaker 1: that have had big time careers. The long speed, it
Speaker 1: helps you with your coverages. That helps him kind of
Speaker 1: play one side of the field and play that trail
Speaker 1: technique underneath. How smart he is and how capable he
Speaker 1: is of running multiple different looks press man, offman, zone looks.
Speaker 1: He really just does it all. You can't say enough
Speaker 1: about Byron Jones. Ted Carriss up on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Five pressures allowed in six games. He's been a he's
Speaker 1: been a stone wall up there, zero sacks allowed. He's
Speaker 1: got three different offensive lineman he's played with, and they
Speaker 1: really haven't had communication gaps or free rushers coming clean
Speaker 1: on Ryan Fitzpatrick and the quarterback position. I think last
Speaker 1: week the Jets came clean almost like a delay slash
Speaker 1: like Looper coming inside. And that was the first time
Speaker 1: I really recall a breakdown up front where they just
Speaker 1: didn't get a guy block. And they've been consistently solid
Speaker 1: and both Steve Marshall and Shan Gilly credit Ted Carriss
Speaker 1: for his communication and kind of the anchor in the
Speaker 1: middle of the offensive line. Eric Flowers, for my money,
Speaker 1: been the best player on the offensive line all season long.
Speaker 1: Brian Flores talked a couple of weeks ago about flowers energy,
Speaker 1: the way he chases down plays and goes down to
Speaker 1: pick up us running back or his receiver and congratulate them,
Speaker 1: get the hands clap, and you see it all the
Speaker 1: time when you watch him on ALL twenty two. We've
Speaker 1: covered the bands and the harness that he brought to
Speaker 1: practice after training camp every day to get the young
Speaker 1: guys working extra the production, playing pool side, hooking and
Speaker 1: sealing and blowing guys off the football. Guys try and
Speaker 1: hump moves on him in the pass rush game and
Speaker 1: going nowhere. He's exactly what you've been looking for at
Speaker 1: that left guard position for quite some time now. Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogba tied for seventh in the NFL and SEX top
Speaker 1: ten and pressures per pass rush attempt for edge players.
Speaker 1: Myles Garrett has a pressure every seven point four pass
Speaker 1: rush reps. He's at seven point eight, just behind the
Speaker 1: guy who right now probably is the defensive player of
Speaker 1: the year. He rushes the edge, loops as a stunter,
Speaker 1: condenses inside as the three technique. He's long. He holds
Speaker 1: the point and the edge in the running game, and
Speaker 1: that's again gonna be a key in this Rams game.
Speaker 1: He's been an absolute boon to this Dolphins defensive line
Speaker 1: of defense in general. Shack laws him, same deal here,
Speaker 1: same strength against the run on the other side, really
Speaker 1: helping hold up that edge and turn things back inside
Speaker 1: to your help. The past rush numbers haven't been at
Speaker 1: a bas level, but he talked about it yesterday about
Speaker 1: how he's hopeful it opens things up for him. These
Speaker 1: guys really complement each other so well. They both placed
Speaker 1: so gap sound, they adhere to the rush lane integrity
Speaker 1: and helped execute the system. It truly is an eleven
Speaker 1: guy type of defense, and I think both lost in
Speaker 1: the OGA have been big parts of that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from Mary and Hobby and just one second about
Speaker 1: how these book end ends have to complement each other well.
Speaker 1: I think as a good comment there from coach. We'll
Speaker 1: get to that just one second. E Land and Roberts.
Speaker 1: His last two games were great, playing super fast, aggressive.
Speaker 1: He's a tone setter type of player on that defense,
Speaker 1: a physical presence, a good communicator, a leader of the defense.
Speaker 1: He's been a goodbye so far. Commu grug Hill. The coverage,
Speaker 1: the blitzing we saw the minshoe sac in the Jacksonville game.
Speaker 1: The closing speed that he has and how fast he plays,
Speaker 1: the toughness, the broken finger last game playing through that,
Speaker 1: the special teams acumen, A four phase type of player,
Speaker 1: he's been a plus there. Clayton Federlum Special Teams missed
Speaker 1: a couple of games earlier, but comes right back and
Speaker 1: gets into this top ranked Dolphins special teams unit. According
Speaker 1: to Football Outsiders and d v o A, he had
Speaker 1: the fake punk conversion. He's playing that personal protector role.
Speaker 1: There's been no blocked kicks, Our coverage teams have been
Speaker 1: stout and he's made a couple of plays in that
Speaker 1: area as well. And the same is true of Cavon Frasier,
Speaker 1: a guy that really just really plays hard, really gets it.
Speaker 1: He's big, he's physical, he can come on defense and
Speaker 1: play that kind of big nickel role for you as well.
Speaker 1: But he's been so stout. And the special teams unit
Speaker 1: that just has five, six, seven guys like a Mac Hollands,
Speaker 1: Commu Gruge Hill, Clayton Federalum Cavan Frasier. If I'm leaving
Speaker 1: anybody out, I apologize, But so many guys that have
Speaker 1: meant so much to a special teams unit that's one
Speaker 1: of the tops in the NFL with a specialist and
Speaker 1: the coverage units as well. And then Jordan Howard. It's
Speaker 1: not exactly an easy thing to punch the ball in
Speaker 1: down around the goal line. And Jordan Howard has scored
Speaker 1: three touchdowns this year for the Miami Dolphins. So plenty
Speaker 1: of contributions from each of the Dolphins free agent signings
Speaker 1: this offseason. Got to continue putting that good work together
Speaker 1: and continue going forward and getting improvement out of these guys.
Speaker 1: But so far through six games, you have to love
Speaker 1: what you've seen from the Dolphins and free agency this
Speaker 1: past off season. So now I'll go ahead and turn
Speaker 1: this thing over to the Dolphins coaches and coordinator's offensive assistance.
Speaker 1: Chan Gaily, Josh Boyer, and Danny Croftsman on this Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: go ahead and play some sound here from Chan Gailey.
Speaker 1: We talked about the r p O game, the run
Speaker 1: pass option game, the quote from Daniel Jeremiah the best
Speaker 1: the college game has ever seen in two a Tongue
Speaker 1: of Valoa and the r p O game. So we
Speaker 1: start here with Chan Gailey with the question about the
Speaker 1: r p O game. Well, he did, uh a decent
Speaker 1: amount of that in college. And well, there's different types
Speaker 1: of r p O s. There's pre snap r p
Speaker 1: O s, there's post snap r p os UM, and
Speaker 1: we use you know, some of both, but mostly pre
Speaker 1: snap r p os is what we have done. And
Speaker 1: he's what I remember him doing in college was he
Speaker 1: was good at reading and seeing that. And UH, as
Speaker 1: time goes on, UM, we we can adjust and maybe
Speaker 1: use a few more of those, uh to fit into
Speaker 1: what he has done in the past. And two will
Speaker 1: of course the only starting left handed quarterback in the
Speaker 1: NFL on Sunday when he makes that start. Here, coach
Speaker 1: was asked about the difference between going from a right
Speaker 1: handed quarterback to a left handed quarterback, and he had
Speaker 1: a good answer here that I hadn't really thought about myself,
Speaker 1: but of course Chin the footballs are tells you about
Speaker 1: how a defense wants to make a quarterback scramble a
Speaker 1: certain direction. The number one thing I would think about
Speaker 1: that if somebody's trying to make um right in a
Speaker 1: quarterback scramble, they would want him to scramble to the left.
Speaker 1: They probably have to change that thought process to make
Speaker 1: a left handed quarterback scramble to his right. That would
Speaker 1: be one of the first things I would think about.
Speaker 1: And for us, UH, we practice things both left and right,
Speaker 1: so um, it doesn't change a lot for us. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, when if we've had a bootleg that's been
Speaker 1: to the right for uh fits, then it's been on
Speaker 1: to his wristband every week that he runs it to
Speaker 1: the left. So we've practiced it all both ways, so
Speaker 1: nothing really changes for us. And when you face Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Rams, you're gonna have to deal with that man
Speaker 1: number ninety in the middle. How does coach Gailey deal
Speaker 1: with a player with that dominant presence on the interior
Speaker 1: of the defensive line. Here's coach uh. Somebody made a statement.
Speaker 1: A lot of people want to know where a safety
Speaker 1: is or where a linebacker is. You want to know
Speaker 1: where he is is he lined up on the left
Speaker 1: or the rioties he lined up and on the tackle
Speaker 1: or on the guard. Uh, you know, you want to
Speaker 1: know where he is and you want to scheme some things,
Speaker 1: um to help out whoever's got him. At the same time,
Speaker 1: you can't change everything you're doing. You gotta depend on
Speaker 1: our good players playing well against him too, and we
Speaker 1: gotta depend on that a little bit from offense to
Speaker 1: special teams. Up next, we had coach Danny Croftsman here
Speaker 1: talking to the media, and I first asked him a
Speaker 1: question about Cavan Fraser and then he was later asked
Speaker 1: about mac Hollins and what those two guys have meant
Speaker 1: to the special teams just so far through the first
Speaker 1: six games. Uh, done a really nice job. Was it
Speaker 1: was a good pick up for us. Has good experience
Speaker 1: and a lot of position flexibility and has really been
Speaker 1: a good addition for us. You know, he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys that's really settling in on one of those
Speaker 1: four phase core players for us. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and those guys need to play well and we need
Speaker 1: to keep playing better and better as the season progresses.
Speaker 1: So that was Fraser here he is on mac Hollins, Yeah,
Speaker 1: doing a good job really on on on each of
Speaker 1: the phases. You know another guy that plays on all
Speaker 1: four for us. I think the biggest thing is is,
Speaker 1: you know, Max got a great personality that you know,
Speaker 1: his upbeat personality really transcends and really brings a lot
Speaker 1: of guys along when you look at him in the
Speaker 1: locker room, in the meeting room, out of the practice field.
Speaker 1: Has really got a great demeanor and his approach of
Speaker 1: how he works, and I think that has a lasting
Speaker 1: impact on a lot of the younger guys. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and here next from the third and final Dolphins
Speaker 1: core Nader Josh Boyer on the defensive side, and we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the rams and the open
Speaker 1: and one of the things they do in in their
Speaker 1: offenses run tempo and get that quick huddle, that quick count.
Speaker 1: We saw it on the Sunday night football game if
Speaker 1: you watched Cardinals and Seahawks, and if you didn't, what
Speaker 1: do you do? And always watched the Seahawks in primetime football,
Speaker 1: But there was a shot where they showed Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: smiling and laughing about getting a quick count from from
Speaker 1: their quick cadence on DeAndre Hopkins and getting him open downfield.
Speaker 1: If you listen to the podcast last week, we played
Speaker 1: the audio and to talked about a play in college
Speaker 1: where he quit counted the LSU defense and caught Derek Stingley,
Speaker 1: one of the best cornerbacks in the entire country, kind
Speaker 1: of off guard with a quick count. Here is Josh
Speaker 1: Boyer on the Rams ability to go quick, to go
Speaker 1: with cadence, to go with tempo. Here's coach on the
Speaker 1: RAMS offense, and the challenge is prevented or presented rather
Speaker 1: by Sean McVeigh. Well, I would say coach McVeigh does
Speaker 1: a tremendous job using tempo UM and they use it
Speaker 1: numerous different ways. Uh, it doesn't always show up at day.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't know exactly when it's coming. You
Speaker 1: have to be ready for it on every snap. Um.
Speaker 1: They they you know, they got a good skill group,
Speaker 1: they got a good offensive line, and they meshed well
Speaker 1: together as a group and a unit, and you know,
Speaker 1: and they're really really good at changing it up on you.
Speaker 1: And not just with the tempo of the pace that
Speaker 1: they're doing. It's the same thing they change the cadence UM.
Speaker 1: So you know, they get a lot of guys on
Speaker 1: hard accounts. Um, they do a very very good job.
Speaker 1: They put a lot of pressure on the defense. And
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna have to do a great job
Speaker 1: this week of our communication, UH, to make sure that
Speaker 1: the calls are in, Guys know what we're doing, getting
Speaker 1: lined up quickly and being ready to go and handling
Speaker 1: if the ball is snap quick or if they come
Speaker 1: out survey what we're in, change their call and go.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a lot of multiples this week. Coach
Speaker 1: McVeigh does a tremendous job with that has for years. UH,
Speaker 1: and he puts a lot of pressure on the defense.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go went to do a feature on Bobby
Speaker 1: McCain here this week, and I wanted to ask Coach
Speaker 1: Boyer kind of to follow up on Brian Floores's comments
Speaker 1: on Monday's pressor about the way Bobby is willing and
Speaker 1: accepting of his assignment as a communicator, as a leader,
Speaker 1: as a guy that kind of captains that defense and
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that defense. I followed up with Josh Boyer the
Speaker 1: same question. Here's coach on Bobby McCain. I would say Bobby,
Speaker 1: Bobby number one is a great communicator um. And he
Speaker 1: has a unique ability to get along with all types
Speaker 1: of personalities and um, you know, which in turn helps
Speaker 1: him on the field handle you know, uh, multiple communications
Speaker 1: with uh different individuals. So Bobby has been everything that
Speaker 1: you could want in a communicator. He really quarterbacks our defense, um,
Speaker 1: so you know, and and he continues to work hard
Speaker 1: at that. So and he's a really diligent worker. And
Speaker 1: that's just part of his game and part of what uh.
Speaker 1: You know. We've really benefited from Bobby being able to
Speaker 1: one nurture those relationships and to be able to handle
Speaker 1: communications to numerous individuals. And we move on now to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defensive assistance. And I tease this earlier in
Speaker 1: the show talking about marrying Hobbies comments on Emmanuel Ogba
Speaker 1: and Shack Lawson playing off either end that book and
Speaker 1: defensive end group. Here's Coach Hobby on the impact of
Speaker 1: those two guys, those two free agent signings off either
Speaker 1: edge for your Miami Dolphins. Well, you know, we always say,
Speaker 1: if you're any good as a defensive vand or defensive
Speaker 1: if you're getting the old team, Um, that's a credit.
Speaker 1: But k double team everybody. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: situation man and that you know, most of the time,
Speaker 1: if you talk in the world of book ends, those
Speaker 1: guys really have to play well together. You know, pressure
Speaker 1: from one side equals pressure from the other. You know,
Speaker 1: just over the history of football, you can number the
Speaker 1: number of book innds that played together. Definitely complement each
Speaker 1: other as well. And one of the guys that Shack
Speaker 1: Lawson will he on Sunday is Andrew Whitworth Rams left tackle.
Speaker 1: And we talked about Drew Brees and Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger, all these quarterbacks on either the wrong side
Speaker 1: of forty or approaching age forty that are still a
Speaker 1: productive in the NFL at the quarterback position. That's mind blowing.
Speaker 1: But what's more mind blowing to me is Andrew Whitworth
Speaker 1: playing left tackle for what seventy eight years now and
Speaker 1: holding that thing down, still playing really good football at
Speaker 1: left tackle for the Rams. I didn't know this, but
Speaker 1: coach actually has a history with with Andrew Whitworth. Here's
Speaker 1: coach on the Rams left tackle. Well, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: He's been a great player in his whole career. Now
Speaker 1: he went through his college day, he's playing against him.
Speaker 1: Oven He's a I was at Old Miss, so I've
Speaker 1: watched his career go through college into the pros man,
Speaker 1: he's a pro. You know, he's a savvy VETU. He
Speaker 1: doesn't make a lot of mistakes. You know, you can
Speaker 1: tell he gained plans for each opponent. He has a plan.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what he He is one of the
Speaker 1: best players in this league, has been in them for
Speaker 1: a long time. Go ahead and finish up with coach
Speaker 1: Hobby here with his comments about Dolphins rookie defensive tackle
Speaker 1: Benito Jones, who was elevated last week and made his
Speaker 1: NFL debut in the win over the Jets. I tell
Speaker 1: you one thing he's probably he is that you know,
Speaker 1: he can tell he comes from a good program and
Speaker 1: coming out of Old Miss, and I think the coach
Speaker 1: Roach and coach McIntyre and those guys on defensive, they
Speaker 1: did a great job with Um. He understands the position.
Speaker 1: You know. Inside you know he's done multiple things coming
Speaker 1: out of that package. You know, different allotments and stuff.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, you know, you gotta like Benito. You
Speaker 1: know his work happ happits are really good. You know,
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's a He's not very he's not tall,
Speaker 1: he don't like to say not very tall, but I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what. He's got good good twitch, he's got
Speaker 1: good power, and he understands the position. We move now
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins second level of the defense and linebackers,
Speaker 1: coach Anthony Campanelli, who is always a great interview. If
Speaker 1: you don't watch these press conferences on Dolphins YouTuber dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com, I highly recommend you do that and check
Speaker 1: out coach Campanelli first because he always has a food
Speaker 1: take or something just something off the wall that you're
Speaker 1: gonna laugh at. He's a fun, loving guy, fun to
Speaker 1: talk to. But I went ahead and asked him something
Speaker 1: a little bit more, I guess in depth about Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker's personality and character, because Jerome had a tweet other
Speaker 1: night about perseverance, and I really wanted to ask coach
Speaker 1: Campanelli about how he sees Jerome and such a young
Speaker 1: man that has a positive mindset and kind of a
Speaker 1: broad world worldly view of leadership and perseverance and all
Speaker 1: these important traits to you know, overcome adversity and and
Speaker 1: how football kind of really reflects life. I've always thought
Speaker 1: sports with the ultimate reflection of life, so I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask coach Campanelli, someone who's around Jerome Baker every
Speaker 1: single day, what he sees in this guy. Here's coach
Speaker 1: on Jerome Baker. No, the only thing I would say
Speaker 1: about Baking is he's a great person. UM, really a
Speaker 1: great guy to be around. UM has a great energy.
Speaker 1: The players on our team love him. I think he's
Speaker 1: a really good teammate, UM, and he'll do anything that
Speaker 1: you ask of him, not just as a player, but
Speaker 1: as a as a man, as a person, He's one
Speaker 1: of the people I enjoyed being around every day. To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, I'm pretty fortunate that way. My
Speaker 1: room is filled with guys like that, UM, and that's
Speaker 1: really a great thing. We need to come to work
Speaker 1: and you feel like you're gonna be around people who
Speaker 1: are gonna make you better, create a great energy, and
Speaker 1: have a great spirit about him. So, just on every level,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, he really uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: has a great way, and and there's a really really
Speaker 1: good teammate. Great out of coach, And one of the
Speaker 1: guys I think that has been a little bit overlooked
Speaker 1: in recent weeks has been linebacker Sammguavin He certainly offers
Speaker 1: a lot of things you like in this defense from
Speaker 1: my speed and coverage ability, brushing the passer. Here's coach
Speaker 1: on what he's seen from Aguavin so far. We had
Speaker 1: a big increase in snap count the last couple of games. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Sam. I want to say I said this
Speaker 1: earlier in the season when when we're all speaking. Um,
Speaker 1: I think he's really got He's got a very multiple
Speaker 1: skill set. Um. He could play off the ball, in
Speaker 1: the box, you know, physical and the run game. UM,
Speaker 1: has some pass rush ability. UM, excuse me, does a
Speaker 1: does a very good job in terms of coverage because
Speaker 1: he can run and he has some good change in direction. UM.
Speaker 1: But he's another guy that brings great energy. You know,
Speaker 1: I think when you watch him from Afar just as
Speaker 1: a fan. UM, that's one of the things that he radiates.
Speaker 1: He's really a guy that plays with great emotion, great energy,
Speaker 1: has a lot of pride in who he is, you know, UM,
Speaker 1: where he's from. He's just he's got a lot of
Speaker 1: great qualities and really another great dude, a great got
Speaker 1: to be around every day. He will do anything that
Speaker 1: that we asked him him. So love coaching that guy
Speaker 1: and another coach who operates with the linebackers as coach
Speaker 1: Austin Clark, And I wanted to ask coach this question
Speaker 1: because in recent weeks I've asked certain pass rushers or
Speaker 1: defensive ends or linebackers, whoever is it comes after the quarterback,
Speaker 1: it's this whole damn defense. I've asked those guys about
Speaker 1: some of the coaching in the room, and they all
Speaker 1: refer back to coach Clark, who, if you recall, in
Speaker 1: his college days at Illinois, really got a lot out
Speaker 1: of a Wally Betakou Jr. A player who went undrafted
Speaker 1: this past April, who started his career at USC as
Speaker 1: a five star recruit, transferred to Illinois with coach Clark,
Speaker 1: and he turned him into a or help turn him
Speaker 1: in to a big time production sack machine out there.
Speaker 1: And he credited Coach Clark for his emphasis on technique,
Speaker 1: on this is how you do it and why we
Speaker 1: do it, and explain certain things about the pass rush game.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask coach Clark about his teaching
Speaker 1: process and how he gets the most out of guys.
Speaker 1: Is a uniform across multiple players, does everybody get the
Speaker 1: same coaching point? Do you have different things you work
Speaker 1: on different guys. I asked coach Clark about that. Here
Speaker 1: was his well thought out, great answer. I thought on Tuesday. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I definitely would say, like there, you obviously
Speaker 1: have some core principles like anything else, you know, in
Speaker 1: terms of uh your get off, your stance, your alignment,
Speaker 1: all those basic things that get you gone. But then yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, uh, you know, it's kind of like you
Speaker 1: have your toolbox, you know, you everybody's got different tools
Speaker 1: and you never know one which one, uh you know,
Speaker 1: you need to use in certain situations. And then there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some guys that just don't have those tools
Speaker 1: or they're better at something else. You know. I think
Speaker 1: if you take like emmanual odd versus say like a
Speaker 1: Van Ginkl, like they got two different kinds of tools,
Speaker 1: and then you throw a Van Noyan there, who's a
Speaker 1: savvy guy that's played so much ball that he's gone
Speaker 1: against a bunch of different guys different times. So I
Speaker 1: think it's, um, you know, you've got your core principles,
Speaker 1: but then it is specific and uh, I think the
Speaker 1: guy has done a great job so far this year.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast with coach
Speaker 1: Gerald Alexander, who first answered my question about Bobby McCain
Speaker 1: and that ability to nurture relationships, the communication, his role
Speaker 1: in this defense, and how important he is to that
Speaker 1: defensive back room, not just on the step on the
Speaker 1: box score in the stats, but otherwise as well. I
Speaker 1: think Bobby has accepted the responsibility of what we want
Speaker 1: ont of the free safe the position, and being a
Speaker 1: primary communicator. UM. What allows him to do so is,
Speaker 1: obviously is understanding of the defense, is understanding of not
Speaker 1: just his one eleven but everybody and you know, getting guys,
Speaker 1: you know, getting guys where they need to be in
Speaker 1: in positions to make plays. And so UM, he's done
Speaker 1: a great job at that. I mean, those are the
Speaker 1: things that aren't reflected on the stat sheet, but it's
Speaker 1: a very important piece for us to be able to
Speaker 1: operate defensively. So UM, that's a huge emphasis that he
Speaker 1: takes pride in, UM and he does a really good
Speaker 1: job for us. And we'll go ahead and pick it
Speaker 1: up with a question for coach here about xaviing Howard
Speaker 1: and how his ball hawking helps create opportunities for other
Speaker 1: players on the defense. I think anybody, anybody on our
Speaker 1: defense or anybody that has the knack for getting turnovers.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's our job as a defense is
Speaker 1: to get the ball back for offense and possibly even
Speaker 1: score ourselves. So um, what he does, um, and not
Speaker 1: just from getting a turnover. Um. You know, there's been
Speaker 1: various games that guy hasn't had a ball call on them,
Speaker 1: and so just the fact that he's you know, back
Speaker 1: there and doing a great job, and when they do
Speaker 1: try to test him, he's coming down with the ball.
Speaker 1: It makes us very opportunistic and obviously feeds our defense
Speaker 1: and or for other guys to be able to possibly
Speaker 1: get turn ups as well. Let's go ahead and have
Speaker 1: coach keep rolling along here talking about Nick need Um
Speaker 1: playing the slot versus perimeter corner. The different leverage, the
Speaker 1: different help. Always a good insight answer here from coach Alexander.
Speaker 1: Here he is talking about Nick Needham and a nickel
Speaker 1: quarterback position in your defense. I think for that position,
Speaker 1: you know, the nickel position against different than playing the
Speaker 1: perimeter corner like Nick has experienced. To the data back
Speaker 1: to last season. UM, for him to continue to develop,
Speaker 1: you know, they're gonna be multiple things. We're gonna ask
Speaker 1: him to do he was gonna ask him play man coverage,
Speaker 1: gonna ask him to play zones, We're gonna ask him
Speaker 1: to pressure, and a lot of it really has to
Speaker 1: deal with playing great discipline because you know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of space when you go inside, you know, and
Speaker 1: understanding where your leverage is. Especially in man coverage, you're
Speaker 1: a little bit closer to your help us in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field as present um than you are
Speaker 1: when you're on the perimeter. And now when you have
Speaker 1: you know, offenses like the RAMS will kind of present
Speaker 1: a lot of pre snap movement that's going to test
Speaker 1: your eye discipline and making sure that your alignment and
Speaker 1: your eyes are in the correct place for you to
Speaker 1: be able to execute George signment. And we talked about
Speaker 1: this RAMS offense already on this podcast, talking about the
Speaker 1: condensed nature of the offense. Coach was asked about defending
Speaker 1: a screen heavy game. I mean, we saw the Jets
Speaker 1: last Sunday. They run as much screens as anybody else.
Speaker 1: But talking about the Rams and in particular just the
Speaker 1: screen game and how you defend a good screen game
Speaker 1: on defense, I would say said great edges and maximum
Speaker 1: efforts to the football. Um, you can never assume that
Speaker 1: one guy is gonna have the guy on the ground.
Speaker 1: They do have a lot of really good players, skill
Speaker 1: guys who can catch and run, whether it be from
Speaker 1: the receiver position to the tight end position. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: they do a really good job, you know, in regards
Speaker 1: to that. But guys who are setting the edge have
Speaker 1: to set the edge, especially on the perimeters, to not
Speaker 1: let the ball get down on the sideline. And then
Speaker 1: all the other individuals have to run relentlessly to the football,
Speaker 1: even if you're the backside corner or if you're the
Speaker 1: further sky away, you have to run with the intention
Speaker 1: that everybody in front of you may miss a tackle.
Speaker 1: And you saw kind of a great picture of that
Speaker 1: in the Seattle game that's too long ago. Last one
Speaker 1: here for coach about Byron Jones and having both he
Speaker 1: and xaviing Howard in that back end and what it
Speaker 1: does for your defense. Coach says, it's all about their
Speaker 1: experience that lends you the ability to make plays in
Speaker 1: that defensive backfield. Is obviously an experienced player, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure really about the numbers, but I know
Speaker 1: when Viyron's in there, Um. Obviously, the the level of
Speaker 1: communication increases, you know, because of his experience, and it
Speaker 1: really helps us all out as a secondary. And so
Speaker 1: you know, having him and having X and having experienced
Speaker 1: guys um at the perimeter position, you know, it allows
Speaker 1: us to you know, you know, eventually just played good defense.
Speaker 1: You know, guys are covering guys and they have the
Speaker 1: skills to be able to do so. And and we're
Speaker 1: talking about different things that may present themselves offensively that
Speaker 1: we prepare for, and we're communicating the things pre snap,
Speaker 1: getting getting everybody on the same page. And it was
Speaker 1: not just Bobby McCain, it was also our corners as well. Um.
Speaker 1: It allows us for that snap to play good football. Alright,
Speaker 1: I think that is going to do it. On this
Speaker 1: edition of the Drive Time Podcast. It is Tuesday. Game
Speaker 1: Day is now just five days away. Man, I can't wait.
Speaker 1: It's feel like it's been forever since we last saw
Speaker 1: a football game. It was great to recharge the batteries
Speaker 1: over the weekend, got to go home, see my wife,
Speaker 1: see my daughter, and man, nothing is better than that, guys.
Speaker 1: It was it was something special this last weekend and
Speaker 1: coming back to South Florida feeling awfully refreshed. I will
Speaker 1: say Monday, I just feel like there's I subscribe to
Speaker 1: the idea, there's that yin and yang of life, right like,
Speaker 1: if something is going to be this good, there has
Speaker 1: to be a sacrifice or something that bad on the
Speaker 1: other end. And I felt like Monday, the universe was
Speaker 1: telling me like, hey man, you had a great weekend,
Speaker 1: but here's gonna We're gonna go ahead and give you
Speaker 1: a bad day. Because my microphone took a crap. I
Speaker 1: had to replace my microphone at my home studio. Here
Speaker 1: I told you guys, I got rear ended the other day. Uh,
Speaker 1: coming home from work in the middle of traffic at
Speaker 1: a red light, someone brand in the back in my cars.
Speaker 1: They were texting and driving and drove away. So not
Speaker 1: a fun situation dealing with a hit and run, but
Speaker 1: I do have that handled. And then coming back from
Speaker 1: the airport using the trunk of my car, I popped
Speaker 1: the trunk and now it won't close again. So just
Speaker 1: one of those days where it's like, hey man, it's Monday.
Speaker 1: Back to life, back to reality. So a little bit
Speaker 1: of a tough situation coming back, but we're happy to
Speaker 1: be here. Back on the podcast on Drivetime and man,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for Sunday. It's coming up quick. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have a fun week of content for you guys,
Speaker 1: and of course recap that game on Sunday from hard
Speaker 1: Rock Stadium. But until next time, that's gonna be my time.
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