WEBVTT - Potential 2021 Snap Counts and Lineups and Dolphins Veterans Meet with the Media 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:16.960 Touchdown, Miami Quote drawn. What is up, Dolphans And welcome 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:20.119 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:25.159 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:28.920 going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.839 today's show, we've got about three million giver take topics 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.239 to cover workouts are underway in Davy, will touch on 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.640 the few notes that stood out from week one of 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:42.000 those air quote practices, will play some audio from some 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:44.280 of the guys, and we are going to get into 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.760 the absolute weeds, taking a look at this roster, the 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:52.040 different plausible offensive and defensive packages, and assigned some snap 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:54.680 count guest amits all of that and more on this 0:00:54.920 --> 0:01:02.120 very busy edition of the Drive Time Podcastime and So 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.200 I came back up to Washington State to finalize my 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:09.200 family's move down to South Florida for good, permanently, me, 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.800 my wife and my daughter, and I could be I 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.119 could not be more excited for all that to happen. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.120 Over the weekend, my daughter turned one on Friday. We 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:20.360 had a great, great birthday party with some family and 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.919 friends here at the house, fully vaccinated among the crowd. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.560 So it felt good to be normal in that sense, 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:28.880 And we got to go out to lunch on Friday, 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.160 me and my daughter. We went and bought her a 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:32.960 birthday gift, which I think is going to be an 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.640 annual tradition. Now go out and get lunch, and I'll 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:37.320 pick her up from school when she's in the future 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.120 or when she's in school in the future, and go 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.080 out and get a birthday gift for her as well. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.560 So very excited about starting a family tradition there. And 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:46.640 over the weekend and over the week and on the 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:50.520 flight here, I spent some time doing lots of classroom work, 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:53.160 trying to improve my knowledge of the game and learn 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.800 more about the schematics offensively and defensively, and otherwise to 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.960 help make a better podcast. So we're gonna get to 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.240 all of that stuff here on this edition of Drive Time. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.760 But I did come upstairs to the office, the man cave, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.480 the media center, the lab as I used to always 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.640 call it back in the early days when I was 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.560 first starting out, and my white boards up here that 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:16.600 so many of you I'm sure familiar with. We used 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.920 to do the white board breakdowns where we had color 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.360 coding players and and who where they fit on the 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.480 roster and what their potential was to make the roster 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.400 and how many snaps they were gonna play that particular season. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:28.680 And I got up here and I forgot about this 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.560 since I went back down to South Florida for a 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.720 month or so around draft time. And one fun little 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.160 nugget that I have was that I had players grouped 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.360 by position for the draft into different tiers. And I 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.040 had listed the positions of need for the Miami Dolphins 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.440 as I saw it before the draft, and I listened 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:49.720 to them in color categories based upon what tier I 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.040 thought they were of the draft, and just looking at 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.640 it right now, you know, post draft is a fun exercise. 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.160 I had three blue chip players in the receiver slash 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.200 tight end group. They were Jalen Wattle, Kyle Pitts, and 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:04.720 Davante Smith. I had one blue chip player at the 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:08.680 defensive end position the edge position, Jalen Phillips. I had 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.160 one safety in the blue category on my list in 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.400 the blue chip category, Javon Holland. So how about that 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.440 that Dolphins getting three of my blue chip players in 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:19.920 this year's draft. You gotta love to see that. And 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.600 speaking of the white board, as I sit here and 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.800 contemplate remaking the whiteboard post draft here in the month 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:27.680 of May to kind of get a better feeling for 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.080 where the roster is for my own personal reasons to 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:32.639 give a better podcast. Once again, just looking at the 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.960 different position groups we have here in the personnel we 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:39.040 have here in Miami, I don't know that even the 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.480 expanded version of the classical or traditional position groups really 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:45.880 works for this roster because there are so many guys 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.160 to just do so many different things and fulfill different roles. 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.480 And you know, I know you'll you'll hear the term 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.520 four three defense or three four defense like that has 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.240 been beyond antiquated for like ten years now in terms 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.600 of what teams actually play, because those are two of 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.880 the least packages you play on defense. And so just 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.120 looking at all the different variations and options, you know, 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.560 three to six, two to seven, whatever your defensive package 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.080 might be, man, Miami has options for all that. So 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.560 we're gonna cover that here on this podcast. But first, 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.080 a couple of notes we've kind of not neglected, just 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.479 haven't gotten to on the podcast. The last week. We 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:21.320 had three phenomenal guests on the podcast last week and 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.520 those were all pre recorded, so we haven't been up 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.239 to date with some of the goings on in South 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.359 Florida and the football world. Want to go ahead and 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:30.159 touch on a couple of topics before we get to 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.880 our main event here and the ideal lineups and positional 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:37.240 snap projected snap counts by position, I should say. And 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.760 the first thing was some of the two a tongue 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.160 of by Lowa offseason stuff that continues to pile up, 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.960 both negatively from certain media outlets, but also the positive 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.919 stuff that we love to see, and a lot of 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:49.760 that comes from his own camp in terms of the 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.520 training videos he's been showcasing. And I know all of 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.880 you out there have seen the videos of you know, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.360 the new arms. He's got absolute arm definition. Now he's 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.640 training for sport opposed to rehabbing like he was last offseason. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.960 And there was a great video clip. I forget the podcast, 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:06.640 and I apologize that I don't have it off the 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:08.560 top of my hand here even know how to look 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.280 up what the podcast is, but it was a podcast 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:13.840 episode with two US trainer who went on the podcast 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.440 and talked about added confidence in two of this year 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.400 from you know a lot of that workout stuff, the 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.520 added reps and the mental reps and the physical reps 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.400 he gets to go to the emphasis on mobility. There's 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:25.920 a great, great clip of him going through a drill 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.400 where they have a couple of hula hoops on the 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.200 ground and he has to work around those and slide 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.320 and get his open the hips and close the hips, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.359 and he used torque to fire the football down the field. 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:37.000 Shows a good strong arm and the the ability to 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.359 clear those hips and the accurate passes are a result 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:44.160 of the really refined mechanics on those throws. But the 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.120 thing I really took away from those videos was just 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.960 how light his feet are. Man like. That's the number 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.640 one thing that I look for when I first started 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.480 watching quarterback. How does he move around on the balls 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.960 of his feet. It's why I was obsessed with Kyler 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.080 Murray coming out. It's why I was in that same 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.480 category with two a tongue of by low because although 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.560 they are very different players in the way they do that, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.880 they are so white on their feet and that creates 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.400 so many opportunities to be mobile, And as to a 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:10.640 trainer says, big plays come from mobility. When you can 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.800 go off script, you can erase those free rushers. As 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.520 we saw two ado throughout his college career and last 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.800 season as well. That is the foundation for creating big 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.600 plays on offense outside of the script of the offensive 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:23.920 play or the call when you have to get basically 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.240 coverage bust or just out and out wins in the 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.320 coverage or that the concept I should say against that defense. 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.560 So the quarterbacks ability to go off script and make 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.800 those plays was a big point of emphasis. And the 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.479 way he glides around on the on the balls of 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.200 his feet, and the way he again mitigated past rush 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.520 pressure last year against free rushes with the ball fakes, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.800 the simulated step backwards where he kind of throws the 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.760 ball back and then steps up and slides away from 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.440 the pressure and escapes either direction. I think you saw 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.560 plenty of that on display in the video, and it's 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:53.400 super encouraging. One other thing I noticed was one of 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.159 these videos he shared was at like two o'clock in 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.960 the afternoon, And this goes back to what the trainer 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.320 had said about two his offseason regiment is that he 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:03.880 meets up with him in the morning. They get some 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.120 weights and some cardio and some conditioning and all that 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:08.480 fun stuff in they go meet at the field and 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.520 he throws and then to a goes back home and 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.880 gets back into the film. He's not out there, you know, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:15.640 live in the South Beach life. Let's go ahead and 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.120 call it that. He's in the playbook. He's you know, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.080 this is this is what he does. He even told 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.840 us last year in season that I don't do anything 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.880 man like. I just I go to practice, I go home, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.840 I look in the playbook, and I just I prepare 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.400 for football. His whole life revolves around football. It always has. 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:34.400 And in this trainer video I'm talking about, they're out 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.600 there on the same day Miami had walked throughs and 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.600 you know, had to be in the building for certain 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.200 you know, team organized activities or it's not O t s, 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.600 but it was a team a team organized event. And 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.880 afterwards two was out there throwing. And it reminds me 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:52.400 of the Trent Dilford video back from the Elite eleven 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:55.520 camp days when he talked about how they had those 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.360 practices at the Elite eleven camp and then to with 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:00.920 his dad would go out after practic just and rep 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.400 the things that Trent dilfordth trying to coach him until 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:06.160 he got it down. Muscle memory, repetition, all that fun stuff, 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.760 and so it's cool to see that element of his 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.320 game and his life and his approach translate over to 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.880 the professional level. And that's what it takes to be great, man. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:15.240 So I can't wait to see what this kid can 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.880 do in year number two. There was also a great 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.720 video of Jerry Judy the receiver Alabama a couple of 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.760 years back in Trayvon Digs the cornerback also a couple 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.960 of years back, where they spoke about two U's leadership 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.640 and his impact in the community and the impact of 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.559 his voice when he speaks up and how guys listen, 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.400 and how he just has a certain or a certain 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.160 gravitational pull to him where guys want to rally around 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.160 him and be around him. We heard Ryan Fitzpatrick talked 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.480 about that last year, about the ups and downs of 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.280 the NFL schedule, the difficulty of this unique position in 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.319 sports and in in the you know, just the working 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.080 environment of the world that there's only thirty two NFL 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:57.719 quarterbacks that play on Sundays, and how unique that brotherhood 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.080 is and there's only so many guys that understand and 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:02.240 the pressures and the roller coaster and all that stuff 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.280 and Fitzpatrick talked about how to a spirit was such 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.000 a special element coming into work on Monday morning after 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.960 a tough loss or even after a big win, the 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:13.120 same consistent spirit. That stuff goes a long way. It's 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.520 a quarterback trade, it's a leadership trade, and I just 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.640 think Twa has it in spades. And then to kind 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:19.600 of finish up that point, I go back to a 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.360 question I had for Xavier McKinney last year at the 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.320 combine of Alabama, the safety, who was I think their 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.160 highest pick defensive back in that year's class, maybe after 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.000 Trayvon Digs I forget, but he was a highly regarded 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.880 safety prospect, potential first round pick prospect at the safety position. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.199 And I asked him about two And they're kind of 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:38.960 back and forth in the practice field and how they 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.280 work together and how they speak to each other in 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.480 terms of what you saw in that practice, what I 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.760 saw on this player, this coverage, and so it's just 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.360 this ultimate dedication to the craft, to the game, love 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.720 of the game. If TA doesn't work out in Miami, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.920 it will not be for lack of trying. The kid 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.360 has all of the intangibles and work habits you want 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.520 to see and he surrounds himself with the game. That's 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.120 what you want to see. Speaking of that, that's a 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.600 reflection of this Dolphins roster really in total. And if 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:10.400 you get sick of hearing tough, smart, physical, disciplined team 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.920 first you know, we not me and guys it's important 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.440 to them. It matters to them. If you get sick 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.719 of here and that, well you shouldn't anymore because now 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.960 you're beginning to see the fruits of that labor kind 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:22.960 of here and your number three come to fruition. Ian 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.480 Rappaport at rap Sheet on Twitter, NFL Network how to 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.559 tweet And this was a while ago, guy, So I 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.800 again apologize with timing of it. I think last early 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.360 last week about Miami having seventy plus players on the 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:39.640 roster in camp for that voluntary practices whatever you want 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.800 to call them, and that's the result of getting guys 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.800 who football is important to them, who live and breathe 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:47.880 and want to be on the football field and work. 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.559 We heard Andrew Van Ginkle talk about in his media 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.200 last week. We'll get to that here in one second. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.719 Austin Jackson talked about it. To a man, all these 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:56.720 guys talk about how much they love being on the 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.920 football field and working in the job element of it. Lee, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.160 Mike and Burgh for instance, like guy, all he wants 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.920 to do is play football. And when you get seventy 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.280 plus of those guys rowing in the same direction, man, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:09.480 that boat gets a lot lier, doesn't it. So I'm 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:11.640 excited to watch this thing come together. It's gonna be 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:14.080 a common theme of podcast me talking about how excited 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.760 I am for the season. A couple of other things 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:20.040 from that practice I noticed just from our social media videos, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.199 which how great are those to see? And again, they 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.080 do such great work out there in the social to 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.840 earn the video department, I should say, so many talented 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.120 talents of people we have here in the building. I 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.920 love watching what they come up with. I pitched an 0:11:32.960 --> 0:11:35.080 idea the other day to one of our video producers 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.200 with the schedule, and it was like, it was like 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.760 five minutes after the schedule came out. I had the idea. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.120 You know that video I keep playing, you know recently 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.360 where the guy would you just look at that? Just 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.280 look at that car. The first thing I do is 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:47.720 I look at it and I told him, hey, that's 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.319 that'd be a cool idea for the schedule. Just look 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.320 at the schedule, right. He was like, hey, man, no, 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:53.679 stay stay in your lane. I was like, yeah, I'll 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:55.679 go back to the podcast. I'll leave you alone. So 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.880 they do great work, and watching these videos it's just 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.760 like a little glimpse, a little fix into what we 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.120 all crave and love in the door and the football, 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.720 the game of football and on the football field. And 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:08.600 obviously I can't wait to get back at the training camp, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.960 but getting these little glimpses of videos. You know, there 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:13.520 was one clip of two around some RPO stuff or 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.640 you know, some action at the mesh point with the 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.040 running back and Miles gas him and you see Robert 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.680 Hunt's head pop up next to him, with Eikenberg on 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.199 the opposite on the right shoulder of Robert Hunts. So 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.320 your right guard, right tackle on that particular play. Who 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.319 knows if that was first team, second team, whatever it 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.240 might be, but it was good to see those guys 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.680 getting work. That's a right side of the offensive line 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.520 that I would love to see. How much push and 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.520 power and just nastiness they can get more on that 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.880 here in just a minute with Austin Jackson again. Another 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.520 thing from last week, Brian Flores dolphense head coach, went 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.600 on the Joe Rose Show on five six w q A. M. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.280 By the way, met Joe Rose for the first time 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.680 at the draft party. You want to talk about a 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.640 gem of a human. My goodness, he is just elite 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.360 and everything he does. I love Joe Rose. And one 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.360 of the things they talked about was when coach Flora 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.880 has mentioned the addition of Jason mccordy, who's like our 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.960 twelve really good defensive back on the roster at this stage. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.080 He mentioned him among the safety group and now he 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:10.920 did say he's gonna have to you know, whatever his 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.480 role is will be what he makes of it. These 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.360 guys put the work in. We're gonna find out what 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:17.640 they want to be or how they want to approach things, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.160 or how the best eleven on the field are going 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.320 to turn out through the course of training camp. But 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.680 I found this interesting stat on the you know later 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.280 in the week on Jason mccordy that he made forty 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.520 two tackles in with just one missed tackle per Pro 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.160 Football Focus, and that was good for a two point 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:37.719 three percent missed tackle rate, and that was tops among cornerbacks. Now, 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.600 he was a cornerback last year. So if he isn't 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.680 the safety group, I don't know where that ranks, but 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.640 I know it would be very good because McCain and 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.480 Row were both high up on that list last year, 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:49.880 and they were significantly lower than that rate for Jason mccordy. 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.600 So you know, I won't tell you again. This goes 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.440 back to the idea of training camp and making roles 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.000 for what these guys making their own roles. I won't 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.080 tell you that he will or won't play either position 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:00.760 because it would be an out right guess. I don't 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.640 think even you know, coaches might have plans for things, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:08.120 but certain circumstances and elements occur that change plans and 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.680 you wind up, you know, making adjustments. That's why we 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.400 get on the field, that's where there's practice. That's why 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.360 there is this whole build up to the season so 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.160 you can evaluate, an assess, and even from there you 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.280 continue that process into the season. So one trap I 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.600 think that fans can fall into, and I used to 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.440 do this a lot and probably still do sometimes. I 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.040 think everyone's guilty of it is thinking that you have 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.120 to have everything ironed out by this point of the 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:32.880 off season, and I think this is a benefit of 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:34.440 you know, being so close to the team and knowing 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.080 this team and roster so intimately in the way they 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.440 do things, and watching the games. I mean, I've seen 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.800 all sixteen games from last season, probably three or four 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:44.080 times in the broadcast, probably four or five times on 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.560 the all twenty two. You get very close to a project. 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:49.680 You start to really become the project. But we will 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.200 learn about the roster and the construction of those different 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:55.280 packages at training camp, the preseason, and as the regular 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:57.920 season goes along. But as we'll get to here in 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.920 just one second, as we're gonna go over the possible lineups, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.440 you get a bunch of what you believe are quality options, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.800 and you'll be wrong on some of those. That's how 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.800 this game works. And so when you bat let's just 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.440 call it five hundred, half the moves work, half of 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:16.080 them don't. And when you bat five hundred, after you 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.600 put yourself in a position where each position a group 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:22.120 has three, four, and even five options, you can exhaust 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.280 well flipping a coin at three, four or even five times, 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.680 Eventually it's gonna land on heads or tails, depending on 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.320 your preference. The idea is you get five coin flips 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:34.760 in a row, you're gonna win one of those, most likely. 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.520 And that's what I discovered while going through this exercise 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:41.080 ideal lineups for this Dolphins team. And you've certainly heard 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.240 me beat this drum for years on this podcast and 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:46.400 before this podcast with Lockdown Dolphins, that there's really no 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.720 such thing as starters and backups, not in today's NFL, 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.800 especially not in this defense. Now, granted your quarterback, your 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.240 offensive line, maybe your perimeter corners, and your safe would 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.120 be like one safety. Maybe there are some of the 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.200 guys that don't leave the field ever, they play a 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.320 percent of your snaps every game, but the fifty three 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.600 from top to bottom has never been more important than 0:16:07.640 --> 0:16:10.600 it is now in today's NFL. And there are different 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.920 roles that need to be satisfied. And then, of course 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:16.200 there's the war of attrition that is the National Football League. 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.040 And doing this exercise even just two years ago was 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:23.320 kind of a chore because there just weren't enough quality 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:27.280 options for that potential doomsday scenario where option one and 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.720 two and three all fail. I mean there were names 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.520 and bodies in those positions, no doubt, but we're talking 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:38.240 undrafted rookies minimum contract tryout type of players. Even last year, 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.480 there were some areas where you could say, I don't know, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.960 it's a bit thin there. And so when you know, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.480 Vince Beagle, for instance, goes down in training camp with 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.920 the season ending injury, all of a sudden, you're playing 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.240 on ball and lost of the snaps every single week. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.000 Because the depth beyond that is a fifth round rookie 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.880 who needs some seasoning. Things like that. So let's go 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.240 ahead and start with some defensive schemes. And I want 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:01.920 to start here with them was complex element first. Now, 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.760 there are a couple of great videos available on YouTube. 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.919 The channel is just called coach VOSS. That's v A. S. S. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.639 He's a high school football coach who's been doing it 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.919 for two decades and just oozes knowledge. And you you 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.760 watch these videos and you realize, even as we've kind 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.840 of been learning and growing the game on this podcast 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.520 on my platform for the better part of five years, 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.200 you realize just how much you still have to learn 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.040 from these great football minds across the world. And I 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:29.879 love doing this this time of year in the summer, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.359 when it's time to kind of increase your knowledge and 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.880 and utilize coaching clinics and videos and the like, and 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:38.240 I've been doing that this offseason and I just get 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.360 a chance to learn more football. And so that's kind 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:41.920 of what I relate to you guys here and bring 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.359 it back to the Miami Dolphins. But coach Voss was 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.240 looking at the dime package, which is six defensive backs. 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:51.400 Nicolas five dime is six half dollars, seven dollars, eight 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.960 defensive backs. You're gonna hear those terms on this podcast 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.439 a lot. And he started with what he calls you know, 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.240 there's different variations. Obviously in the front he was looking out, 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:02.879 you're talking about your front, your down lineman, the odd 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.320 mac zero front, which is a dime defense. So six 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.160 defensive backs. That gets a bare front onto the field. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.040 Now you've probably heard me say bare front before too, 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.600 because there are two different variations of bare front. There 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.159 is the classic three three stack them up where you 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.760 go nose tackle and then cover up both the guards, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.240 so you cover up guard, center guard, and then you 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.560 stack three linebackers and behind those guys. But then there's 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.840