Speaker 1: Touchdown, Miami Quote drawn. What is up, Dolphans And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it
Speaker 1: going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on
Speaker 1: today's show, we've got about three million giver take topics
Speaker 1: to cover workouts are underway in Davy, will touch on
Speaker 1: the few notes that stood out from week one of
Speaker 1: those air quote practices, will play some audio from some
Speaker 1: of the guys, and we are going to get into
Speaker 1: the absolute weeds, taking a look at this roster, the
Speaker 1: different plausible offensive and defensive packages, and assigned some snap
Speaker 1: count guest amits all of that and more on this
Speaker 1: very busy edition of the Drive Time Podcastime and So
Speaker 1: I came back up to Washington State to finalize my
Speaker 1: family's move down to South Florida for good, permanently, me,
Speaker 1: my wife and my daughter, and I could be I
Speaker 1: could not be more excited for all that to happen.
Speaker 1: Over the weekend, my daughter turned one on Friday. We
Speaker 1: had a great, great birthday party with some family and
Speaker 1: friends here at the house, fully vaccinated among the crowd.
Speaker 1: So it felt good to be normal in that sense,
Speaker 1: And we got to go out to lunch on Friday,
Speaker 1: me and my daughter. We went and bought her a
Speaker 1: birthday gift, which I think is going to be an
Speaker 1: annual tradition. Now go out and get lunch, and I'll
Speaker 1: pick her up from school when she's in the future
Speaker 1: or when she's in school in the future, and go
Speaker 1: out and get a birthday gift for her as well.
Speaker 1: So very excited about starting a family tradition there. And
Speaker 1: over the weekend and over the week and on the
Speaker 1: flight here, I spent some time doing lots of classroom work,
Speaker 1: trying to improve my knowledge of the game and learn
Speaker 1: more about the schematics offensively and defensively, and otherwise to
Speaker 1: help make a better podcast. So we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: all of that stuff here on this edition of Drive Time.
Speaker 1: But I did come upstairs to the office, the man cave,
Speaker 1: the media center, the lab as I used to always
Speaker 1: call it back in the early days when I was
Speaker 1: first starting out, and my white boards up here that
Speaker 1: so many of you I'm sure familiar with. We used
Speaker 1: to do the white board breakdowns where we had color
Speaker 1: coding players and and who where they fit on the
Speaker 1: roster and what their potential was to make the roster
Speaker 1: and how many snaps they were gonna play that particular season.
Speaker 1: And I got up here and I forgot about this
Speaker 1: since I went back down to South Florida for a
Speaker 1: month or so around draft time. And one fun little
Speaker 1: nugget that I have was that I had players grouped
Speaker 1: by position for the draft into different tiers. And I
Speaker 1: had listed the positions of need for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: as I saw it before the draft, and I listened
Speaker 1: to them in color categories based upon what tier I
Speaker 1: thought they were of the draft, and just looking at
Speaker 1: it right now, you know, post draft is a fun exercise.
Speaker 1: I had three blue chip players in the receiver slash
Speaker 1: tight end group. They were Jalen Wattle, Kyle Pitts, and
Speaker 1: Davante Smith. I had one blue chip player at the
Speaker 1: defensive end position the edge position, Jalen Phillips. I had
Speaker 1: one safety in the blue category on my list in
Speaker 1: the blue chip category, Javon Holland. So how about that
Speaker 1: that Dolphins getting three of my blue chip players in
Speaker 1: this year's draft. You gotta love to see that. And
Speaker 1: speaking of the white board, as I sit here and
Speaker 1: contemplate remaking the whiteboard post draft here in the month
Speaker 1: of May to kind of get a better feeling for
Speaker 1: where the roster is for my own personal reasons to
Speaker 1: give a better podcast. Once again, just looking at the
Speaker 1: different position groups we have here in the personnel we
Speaker 1: have here in Miami, I don't know that even the
Speaker 1: expanded version of the classical or traditional position groups really
Speaker 1: works for this roster because there are so many guys
Speaker 1: to just do so many different things and fulfill different roles.
Speaker 1: And you know, I know you'll you'll hear the term
Speaker 1: four three defense or three four defense like that has
Speaker 1: been beyond antiquated for like ten years now in terms
Speaker 1: of what teams actually play, because those are two of
Speaker 1: the least packages you play on defense. And so just
Speaker 1: looking at all the different variations and options, you know,
Speaker 1: three to six, two to seven, whatever your defensive package
Speaker 1: might be, man, Miami has options for all that. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna cover that here on this podcast. But first,
Speaker 1: a couple of notes we've kind of not neglected, just
Speaker 1: haven't gotten to on the podcast. The last week. We
Speaker 1: had three phenomenal guests on the podcast last week and
Speaker 1: those were all pre recorded, so we haven't been up
Speaker 1: to date with some of the goings on in South
Speaker 1: Florida and the football world. Want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: touch on a couple of topics before we get to
Speaker 1: our main event here and the ideal lineups and positional
Speaker 1: snap projected snap counts by position, I should say. And
Speaker 1: the first thing was some of the two a tongue
Speaker 1: of by Lowa offseason stuff that continues to pile up,
Speaker 1: both negatively from certain media outlets, but also the positive
Speaker 1: stuff that we love to see, and a lot of
Speaker 1: that comes from his own camp in terms of the
Speaker 1: training videos he's been showcasing. And I know all of
Speaker 1: you out there have seen the videos of you know,
Speaker 1: the new arms. He's got absolute arm definition. Now he's
Speaker 1: training for sport opposed to rehabbing like he was last offseason.
Speaker 1: And there was a great video clip. I forget the podcast,
Speaker 1: and I apologize that I don't have it off the
Speaker 1: top of my hand here even know how to look
Speaker 1: up what the podcast is, but it was a podcast
Speaker 1: episode with two US trainer who went on the podcast
Speaker 1: and talked about added confidence in two of this year
Speaker 1: from you know a lot of that workout stuff, the
Speaker 1: added reps and the mental reps and the physical reps
Speaker 1: he gets to go to the emphasis on mobility. There's
Speaker 1: a great, great clip of him going through a drill
Speaker 1: where they have a couple of hula hoops on the
Speaker 1: ground and he has to work around those and slide
Speaker 1: and get his open the hips and close the hips,
Speaker 1: and he used torque to fire the football down the field.
Speaker 1: Shows a good strong arm and the the ability to
Speaker 1: clear those hips and the accurate passes are a result
Speaker 1: of the really refined mechanics on those throws. But the
Speaker 1: thing I really took away from those videos was just
Speaker 1: how light his feet are. Man like. That's the number
Speaker 1: one thing that I look for when I first started
Speaker 1: watching quarterback. How does he move around on the balls
Speaker 1: of his feet. It's why I was obsessed with Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray coming out. It's why I was in that same
Speaker 1: category with two a tongue of by low because although
Speaker 1: they are very different players in the way they do that,
Speaker 1: they are so white on their feet and that creates
Speaker 1: so many opportunities to be mobile, And as to a
Speaker 1: trainer says, big plays come from mobility. When you can
Speaker 1: go off script, you can erase those free rushers. As
Speaker 1: we saw two ado throughout his college career and last
Speaker 1: season as well. That is the foundation for creating big
Speaker 1: plays on offense outside of the script of the offensive
Speaker 1: play or the call when you have to get basically
Speaker 1: coverage bust or just out and out wins in the
Speaker 1: coverage or that the concept I should say against that defense.
Speaker 1: So the quarterbacks ability to go off script and make
Speaker 1: those plays was a big point of emphasis. And the
Speaker 1: way he glides around on the on the balls of
Speaker 1: his feet, and the way he again mitigated past rush
Speaker 1: pressure last year against free rushes with the ball fakes,
Speaker 1: the simulated step backwards where he kind of throws the
Speaker 1: ball back and then steps up and slides away from
Speaker 1: the pressure and escapes either direction. I think you saw
Speaker 1: plenty of that on display in the video, and it's
Speaker 1: super encouraging. One other thing I noticed was one of
Speaker 1: these videos he shared was at like two o'clock in
Speaker 1: the afternoon, And this goes back to what the trainer
Speaker 1: had said about two his offseason regiment is that he
Speaker 1: meets up with him in the morning. They get some
Speaker 1: weights and some cardio and some conditioning and all that
Speaker 1: fun stuff in they go meet at the field and
Speaker 1: he throws and then to a goes back home and
Speaker 1: gets back into the film. He's not out there, you know,
Speaker 1: live in the South Beach life. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: call it that. He's in the playbook. He's you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is what he does. He even told
Speaker 1: us last year in season that I don't do anything
Speaker 1: man like. I just I go to practice, I go home,
Speaker 1: I look in the playbook, and I just I prepare
Speaker 1: for football. His whole life revolves around football. It always has.
Speaker 1: And in this trainer video I'm talking about, they're out
Speaker 1: there on the same day Miami had walked throughs and
Speaker 1: you know, had to be in the building for certain
Speaker 1: you know, team organized activities or it's not O t s,
Speaker 1: but it was a team a team organized event. And
Speaker 1: afterwards two was out there throwing. And it reminds me
Speaker 1: of the Trent Dilford video back from the Elite eleven
Speaker 1: camp days when he talked about how they had those
Speaker 1: practices at the Elite eleven camp and then to with
Speaker 1: his dad would go out after practic just and rep
Speaker 1: the things that Trent dilfordth trying to coach him until
Speaker 1: he got it down. Muscle memory, repetition, all that fun stuff,
Speaker 1: and so it's cool to see that element of his
Speaker 1: game and his life and his approach translate over to
Speaker 1: the professional level. And that's what it takes to be great, man.
Speaker 1: So I can't wait to see what this kid can
Speaker 1: do in year number two. There was also a great
Speaker 1: video of Jerry Judy the receiver Alabama a couple of
Speaker 1: years back in Trayvon Digs the cornerback also a couple
Speaker 1: of years back, where they spoke about two U's leadership
Speaker 1: and his impact in the community and the impact of
Speaker 1: his voice when he speaks up and how guys listen,
Speaker 1: and how he just has a certain or a certain
Speaker 1: gravitational pull to him where guys want to rally around
Speaker 1: him and be around him. We heard Ryan Fitzpatrick talked
Speaker 1: about that last year, about the ups and downs of
Speaker 1: the NFL schedule, the difficulty of this unique position in
Speaker 1: sports and in in the you know, just the working
Speaker 1: environment of the world that there's only thirty two NFL
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that play on Sundays, and how unique that brotherhood
Speaker 1: is and there's only so many guys that understand and
Speaker 1: the pressures and the roller coaster and all that stuff
Speaker 1: and Fitzpatrick talked about how to a spirit was such
Speaker 1: a special element coming into work on Monday morning after
Speaker 1: a tough loss or even after a big win, the
Speaker 1: same consistent spirit. That stuff goes a long way. It's
Speaker 1: a quarterback trade, it's a leadership trade, and I just
Speaker 1: think Twa has it in spades. And then to kind
Speaker 1: of finish up that point, I go back to a
Speaker 1: question I had for Xavier McKinney last year at the
Speaker 1: combine of Alabama, the safety, who was I think their
Speaker 1: highest pick defensive back in that year's class, maybe after
Speaker 1: Trayvon Digs I forget, but he was a highly regarded
Speaker 1: safety prospect, potential first round pick prospect at the safety position.
Speaker 1: And I asked him about two And they're kind of
Speaker 1: back and forth in the practice field and how they
Speaker 1: work together and how they speak to each other in
Speaker 1: terms of what you saw in that practice, what I
Speaker 1: saw on this player, this coverage, and so it's just
Speaker 1: this ultimate dedication to the craft, to the game, love
Speaker 1: of the game. If TA doesn't work out in Miami,
Speaker 1: it will not be for lack of trying. The kid
Speaker 1: has all of the intangibles and work habits you want
Speaker 1: to see and he surrounds himself with the game. That's
Speaker 1: what you want to see. Speaking of that, that's a
Speaker 1: reflection of this Dolphins roster really in total. And if
Speaker 1: you get sick of hearing tough, smart, physical, disciplined team
Speaker 1: first you know, we not me and guys it's important
Speaker 1: to them. It matters to them. If you get sick
Speaker 1: of here and that, well you shouldn't anymore because now
Speaker 1: you're beginning to see the fruits of that labor kind
Speaker 1: of here and your number three come to fruition. Ian
Speaker 1: Rappaport at rap Sheet on Twitter, NFL Network how to
Speaker 1: tweet And this was a while ago, guy, So I
Speaker 1: again apologize with timing of it. I think last early
Speaker 1: last week about Miami having seventy plus players on the
Speaker 1: roster in camp for that voluntary practices whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call them, and that's the result of getting guys
Speaker 1: who football is important to them, who live and breathe
Speaker 1: and want to be on the football field and work.
Speaker 1: We heard Andrew Van Ginkle talk about in his media
Speaker 1: last week. We'll get to that here in one second.
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson talked about it. To a man, all these
Speaker 1: guys talk about how much they love being on the
Speaker 1: football field and working in the job element of it. Lee,
Speaker 1: Mike and Burgh for instance, like guy, all he wants
Speaker 1: to do is play football. And when you get seventy
Speaker 1: plus of those guys rowing in the same direction, man,
Speaker 1: that boat gets a lot lier, doesn't it. So I'm
Speaker 1: excited to watch this thing come together. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a common theme of podcast me talking about how excited
Speaker 1: I am for the season. A couple of other things
Speaker 1: from that practice I noticed just from our social media videos,
Speaker 1: which how great are those to see? And again, they
Speaker 1: do such great work out there in the social to
Speaker 1: earn the video department, I should say, so many talented
Speaker 1: talents of people we have here in the building. I
Speaker 1: love watching what they come up with. I pitched an
Speaker 1: idea the other day to one of our video producers
Speaker 1: with the schedule, and it was like, it was like
Speaker 1: five minutes after the schedule came out. I had the idea.
Speaker 1: You know that video I keep playing, you know recently
Speaker 1: where the guy would you just look at that? Just
Speaker 1: look at that car. The first thing I do is
Speaker 1: I look at it and I told him, hey, that's
Speaker 1: that'd be a cool idea for the schedule. Just look
Speaker 1: at the schedule, right. He was like, hey, man, no,
Speaker 1: stay stay in your lane. I was like, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: go back to the podcast. I'll leave you alone. So
Speaker 1: they do great work, and watching these videos it's just
Speaker 1: like a little glimpse, a little fix into what we
Speaker 1: all crave and love in the door and the football,
Speaker 1: the game of football and on the football field. And
Speaker 1: obviously I can't wait to get back at the training camp,
Speaker 1: but getting these little glimpses of videos. You know, there
Speaker 1: was one clip of two around some RPO stuff or
Speaker 1: you know, some action at the mesh point with the
Speaker 1: running back and Miles gas him and you see Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt's head pop up next to him, with Eikenberg on
Speaker 1: the opposite on the right shoulder of Robert Hunts. So
Speaker 1: your right guard, right tackle on that particular play. Who
Speaker 1: knows if that was first team, second team, whatever it
Speaker 1: might be, but it was good to see those guys
Speaker 1: getting work. That's a right side of the offensive line
Speaker 1: that I would love to see. How much push and
Speaker 1: power and just nastiness they can get more on that
Speaker 1: here in just a minute with Austin Jackson again. Another
Speaker 1: thing from last week, Brian Flores dolphense head coach, went
Speaker 1: on the Joe Rose Show on five six w q A. M.
Speaker 1: By the way, met Joe Rose for the first time
Speaker 1: at the draft party. You want to talk about a
Speaker 1: gem of a human. My goodness, he is just elite
Speaker 1: and everything he does. I love Joe Rose. And one
Speaker 1: of the things they talked about was when coach Flora
Speaker 1: has mentioned the addition of Jason mccordy, who's like our
Speaker 1: twelve really good defensive back on the roster at this stage.
Speaker 1: He mentioned him among the safety group and now he
Speaker 1: did say he's gonna have to you know, whatever his
Speaker 1: role is will be what he makes of it. These
Speaker 1: guys put the work in. We're gonna find out what
Speaker 1: they want to be or how they want to approach things,
Speaker 1: or how the best eleven on the field are going
Speaker 1: to turn out through the course of training camp. But
Speaker 1: I found this interesting stat on the you know later
Speaker 1: in the week on Jason mccordy that he made forty
Speaker 1: two tackles in with just one missed tackle per Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus, and that was good for a two point
Speaker 1: three percent missed tackle rate, and that was tops among cornerbacks. Now,
Speaker 1: he was a cornerback last year. So if he isn't
Speaker 1: the safety group, I don't know where that ranks, but
Speaker 1: I know it would be very good because McCain and
Speaker 1: Row were both high up on that list last year,
Speaker 1: and they were significantly lower than that rate for Jason mccordy.
Speaker 1: So you know, I won't tell you again. This goes
Speaker 1: back to the idea of training camp and making roles
Speaker 1: for what these guys making their own roles. I won't
Speaker 1: tell you that he will or won't play either position
Speaker 1: because it would be an out right guess. I don't
Speaker 1: think even you know, coaches might have plans for things,
Speaker 1: but certain circumstances and elements occur that change plans and
Speaker 1: you wind up, you know, making adjustments. That's why we
Speaker 1: get on the field, that's where there's practice. That's why
Speaker 1: there is this whole build up to the season so
Speaker 1: you can evaluate, an assess, and even from there you
Speaker 1: continue that process into the season. So one trap I
Speaker 1: think that fans can fall into, and I used to
Speaker 1: do this a lot and probably still do sometimes. I
Speaker 1: think everyone's guilty of it is thinking that you have
Speaker 1: to have everything ironed out by this point of the
Speaker 1: off season, and I think this is a benefit of
Speaker 1: you know, being so close to the team and knowing
Speaker 1: this team and roster so intimately in the way they
Speaker 1: do things, and watching the games. I mean, I've seen
Speaker 1: all sixteen games from last season, probably three or four
Speaker 1: times in the broadcast, probably four or five times on
Speaker 1: the all twenty two. You get very close to a project.
Speaker 1: You start to really become the project. But we will
Speaker 1: learn about the roster and the construction of those different
Speaker 1: packages at training camp, the preseason, and as the regular
Speaker 1: season goes along. But as we'll get to here in
Speaker 1: just one second, as we're gonna go over the possible lineups,
Speaker 1: you get a bunch of what you believe are quality options,
Speaker 1: and you'll be wrong on some of those. That's how
Speaker 1: this game works. And so when you bat let's just
Speaker 1: call it five hundred, half the moves work, half of
Speaker 1: them don't. And when you bat five hundred, after you
Speaker 1: put yourself in a position where each position a group
Speaker 1: has three, four, and even five options, you can exhaust
Speaker 1: well flipping a coin at three, four or even five times,
Speaker 1: Eventually it's gonna land on heads or tails, depending on
Speaker 1: your preference. The idea is you get five coin flips
Speaker 1: in a row, you're gonna win one of those, most likely.
Speaker 1: And that's what I discovered while going through this exercise
Speaker 1: ideal lineups for this Dolphins team. And you've certainly heard
Speaker 1: me beat this drum for years on this podcast and
Speaker 1: before this podcast with Lockdown Dolphins, that there's really no
Speaker 1: such thing as starters and backups, not in today's NFL,
Speaker 1: especially not in this defense. Now, granted your quarterback, your
Speaker 1: offensive line, maybe your perimeter corners, and your safe would
Speaker 1: be like one safety. Maybe there are some of the
Speaker 1: guys that don't leave the field ever, they play a
Speaker 1: percent of your snaps every game, but the fifty three
Speaker 1: from top to bottom has never been more important than
Speaker 1: it is now in today's NFL. And there are different
Speaker 1: roles that need to be satisfied. And then, of course
Speaker 1: there's the war of attrition that is the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And doing this exercise even just two years ago was
Speaker 1: kind of a chore because there just weren't enough quality
Speaker 1: options for that potential doomsday scenario where option one and
Speaker 1: two and three all fail. I mean there were names
Speaker 1: and bodies in those positions, no doubt, but we're talking
Speaker 1: undrafted rookies minimum contract tryout type of players. Even last year,
Speaker 1: there were some areas where you could say, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a bit thin there. And so when you know,
Speaker 1: Vince Beagle, for instance, goes down in training camp with
Speaker 1: the season ending injury, all of a sudden, you're playing
Speaker 1: on ball and lost of the snaps every single week.
Speaker 1: Because the depth beyond that is a fifth round rookie
Speaker 1: who needs some seasoning. Things like that. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start with some defensive schemes. And I want
Speaker 1: to start here with them was complex element first. Now,
Speaker 1: there are a couple of great videos available on YouTube.
Speaker 1: The channel is just called coach VOSS. That's v A. S. S.
Speaker 1: He's a high school football coach who's been doing it
Speaker 1: for two decades and just oozes knowledge. And you you
Speaker 1: watch these videos and you realize, even as we've kind
Speaker 1: of been learning and growing the game on this podcast
Speaker 1: on my platform for the better part of five years,
Speaker 1: you realize just how much you still have to learn
Speaker 1: from these great football minds across the world. And I
Speaker 1: love doing this this time of year in the summer,
Speaker 1: when it's time to kind of increase your knowledge and
Speaker 1: and utilize coaching clinics and videos and the like, and
Speaker 1: I've been doing that this offseason and I just get
Speaker 1: a chance to learn more football. And so that's kind
Speaker 1: of what I relate to you guys here and bring
Speaker 1: it back to the Miami Dolphins. But coach Voss was
Speaker 1: looking at the dime package, which is six defensive backs.
Speaker 1: Nicolas five dime is six half dollars, seven dollars, eight
Speaker 1: defensive backs. You're gonna hear those terms on this podcast
Speaker 1: a lot. And he started with what he calls you know,
Speaker 1: there's different variations. Obviously in the front he was looking out,
Speaker 1: you're talking about your front, your down lineman, the odd
Speaker 1: mac zero front, which is a dime defense. So six
Speaker 1: defensive backs. That gets a bare front onto the field.
Speaker 1: Now you've probably heard me say bare front before too,
Speaker 1: because there are two different variations of bare front. There
Speaker 1: is the classic three three stack them up where you
Speaker 1: go nose tackle and then cover up both the guards,
Speaker 1: so you cover up guard, center guard, and then you
Speaker 1: stack three linebackers and behind those guys. But then there's
Speaker 1: also the five O front where you bring mugged up
Speaker 1: linebackers into the A gaps and you stretch out the
Speaker 1: defensive line a little bit here. So there are so
Speaker 1: many different options you can do, but the odd MAC
Speaker 1: zero is cover one that gives you flexible gap control
Speaker 1: because of player versatility. You want to have all five
Speaker 1: of those guys that come up and show pressure because
Speaker 1: you're six defensive backs, five of them are in coverage
Speaker 1: and man coverage with a matchup responsibility um to handle
Speaker 1: the five skill players on offense, five eligible guys in
Speaker 1: the route with five guys up front, and then you
Speaker 1: have your deep safety who kind of patrols the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. That's your Cover one and the five
Speaker 1: oh is your five guys up front. So what I
Speaker 1: mean by the gap control and the versatility is that
Speaker 1: you ideally want all five guys to be able to
Speaker 1: play all five positions up front, because that's how you
Speaker 1: get that Amba package where guys are picking different gaps,
Speaker 1: and it gives you the opportunity to pick matchups and
Speaker 1: alter who attacks what gap and what game you run
Speaker 1: up front with stunts or twist to try to create
Speaker 1: the most confusion and the most problems for the quarterback
Speaker 1: and the protection call up front. And we saw Brian
Speaker 1: Floores and Josh Boyer execute this time and time again
Speaker 1: last year. But looking at this front basically, so essentially
Speaker 1: your your base out of this front is a three
Speaker 1: to six three down line with two linebackers and six
Speaker 1: defensive backs. And of course all five of those guys
Speaker 1: in the front seven, the front five are up on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. You've got a nose tackle who
Speaker 1: covers up the center, and then you've got a pair
Speaker 1: of three techniques or sometimes there are two techniques, but
Speaker 1: ideally you want to be on the outside shoulder of
Speaker 1: the guard attacking that gap, and those tend to be
Speaker 1: mugged up lineback or so like Jerome Baker and Bernardrick
Speaker 1: McKinney for instance. And then you have your two five techniques,
Speaker 1: which is your traditional defensive end position. Think Emmanuel Ogba,
Speaker 1: think Shack Lawson last year. So this package is ideally
Speaker 1: for passing situations. Obviously third and long. And if you
Speaker 1: go back to the game against the Chargers last year,
Speaker 1: the I'll call it a game winning interception of Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert when we had a third and long and they confused, uh,
Speaker 1: they confused Herbert with what looked like a man look
Speaker 1: on defense. It turned out to be a zone call.
Speaker 1: And he throws the ball right into the best intercepting
Speaker 1: cornerback in the NFL, and Xavien Howard he picks it,
Speaker 1: takes it back to it, takes it down for a
Speaker 1: field goal, and that puts Miami up by two scores
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. Very similar idea five man up front,
Speaker 1: six guys in the defensive backfield and altering you know
Speaker 1: which gap you rush to create that confusion, to create
Speaker 1: a poor throw, and to create an opportunity for a takeaway.
Speaker 1: So you look at the options here. So those two
Speaker 1: five technique positions, Jalen Phillips and Andrew Van Ginkle off
Speaker 1: the edge and kind of maybe a possible quasi two
Speaker 1: point stance or three point stance to rush the edge
Speaker 1: or even if they have to drop into coverage, they
Speaker 1: can do that too. We saw Emmanuel Ogball play plenty
Speaker 1: of three technique last year and Zach Steeler plays that
Speaker 1: very well as well. So maybe both those guys are
Speaker 1: your three techniques with Adam Butler that new nose tackle
Speaker 1: pass rushing option, because my goodness, this guy is so explosive,
Speaker 1: he's so powerful, he can too gap in the running games.
Speaker 1: If you want to call a draw he can handle
Speaker 1: that too, but he also can get up field and
Speaker 1: displace that center in the middle of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: which then creates a flurry of problems for the guards
Speaker 1: picking up both those linebackers who were mugged up in
Speaker 1: those A gaps. And when I look at Bernardic McKinney
Speaker 1: and I watched this video, it all kind of clicked, Oh, okay,
Speaker 1: that's why he's here. Among many other reasons, his great
Speaker 1: B gap to B gap run defending among them. But
Speaker 1: this guy, when you talk about the term pick stunt,
Speaker 1: where you basically set a pick like in basketball and
Speaker 1: then you have a looper work off the back side
Speaker 1: of that, McKinney is so explosive himself, like Butler, and
Speaker 1: also huge in his frame the two d and sixty
Speaker 1: pounds that it creates again more space for a guy
Speaker 1: like Jerome Baker to fly in clean or a guy
Speaker 1: like Andrew Van Ginkole to loop and clean and get
Speaker 1: a free run on the quarterback with the shortest distance.
Speaker 1: And the Patriots used this back and this is the
Speaker 1: video was looking at the defense, which of course was
Speaker 1: called by Brian Flores. You've got your Mac and buck
Speaker 1: linebackers that was Dante Hi Tower and Kyle Van noy.
Speaker 1: So I think Bernardick McKinney, Andrew Van Ginko, maybe some
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips in that mix with Jerome Baker as well. Again,
Speaker 1: multiple options. You have different options from there that you
Speaker 1: can flip guys that play different sides. It gives you
Speaker 1: the opportunity to maximize your matchup potential. And that's why
Speaker 1: looking at the five options I have, I just gave
Speaker 1: you seven guys because I'm not sure how they all
Speaker 1: fit in there. Because there are so many options, and
Speaker 1: it gives you a chance to just create matchups win
Speaker 1: one on ones. And I think Miami now even more
Speaker 1: so than last year, has so many more guys that
Speaker 1: can go out there and execute and win one on
Speaker 1: one matchups when we create them for them. Now, based
Speaker 1: off of the same package, there are different variations like
Speaker 1: for instance, he looks at Coach Voss does the dollar
Speaker 1: which is too to seven. They take the nose tackle
Speaker 1: off the field. This is a Viking front. It's called
Speaker 1: they take the nose tackle off the field and drop
Speaker 1: a third safety in there to play a linebacker role
Speaker 1: quasi over the middle eight of the of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: so it's like a nosebacker. And that was Patrick Chung
Speaker 1: that did that role, and I watched a lot of
Speaker 1: the stuff that he did up close to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage and I see, oh my goodness, that's what
Speaker 1: Javon Hallin excels at. So you have this multiple package
Speaker 1: defense that just revolves around versatility and multiplicity and confusing
Speaker 1: opposing offenses like what happened in that Rams game last year,
Speaker 1: and you start to plug guys in that fit those
Speaker 1: roles opposed to changing your scheme to adapt to the personnel.
Speaker 1: Now the perfect marriage comes together where the scheme matches
Speaker 1: the vision and the draft picks match the vision, and
Speaker 1: it could be a lot of fun to watch. So
Speaker 1: Coach Boss, in these videos, you know, every player learns
Speaker 1: all five positions, and they learn each stunt call from
Speaker 1: up front or the twist to get those best matchups.
Speaker 1: And you know, the primary idea here is that there
Speaker 1: are just countless permutations that are kind of a little
Speaker 1: bit impervious to possible injury bugs because they are so
Speaker 1: deep and the ability to be weak to week in
Speaker 1: terms of how you match up with certain teams. I
Speaker 1: love both those possibilities. I love the possibility of Bernardrick
Speaker 1: McKinney up in those a gaps, moving bodies off the line.
Speaker 1: I love the addition of Adam Butler up over that nose.
Speaker 1: But there are some fronts where they move Adam Butler
Speaker 1: for the Patriots back in to a shade off the
Speaker 1: nose tackle because and coach Voss says this, because he's
Speaker 1: such a good pass rusher that you're almost wasting a
Speaker 1: pass rush when you put him straight up over a rusher.
Speaker 1: Because when you rush through the middle of an offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: it's really difficult to gain ground, so you want to
Speaker 1: rush half the man and that creates more opportunities there
Speaker 1: as well. Again, the Amiba package, it all comes into
Speaker 1: play here. Patrick chung at the nose for possibly Javon
Speaker 1: Holland maybe it's Brandon Jones, maybe even Eric Rowan some situations.
Speaker 1: And he also talked about the idea of putting your
Speaker 1: best corner on the oppositions number two receiver and you
Speaker 1: double and bracket the number one receiver, and then that
Speaker 1: creates a position where you have to beat our number
Speaker 1: three corner with your number three receiver. That's a matchup
Speaker 1: you'd like because of how deep Miami is right now
Speaker 1: with Justin Coleman, Nick need him know what Imogen. The
Speaker 1: list goes on and on and on. So some of
Speaker 1: these packages I looked at here. Let's run through this
Speaker 1: real quick. The base four to five Nickel defense OG
Speaker 1: bab Butler, Davis and Phillips upfront, because I like the
Speaker 1: pass rush opportunity you have with Butler there and then
Speaker 1: Davis against the run was so stout last year. That's
Speaker 1: kind of your base package with Baker and McKinney as
Speaker 1: the linebackers, Xavian Howard, Byron Jones, Justin Coleman, Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: and Eric Rowe I think right now would be my
Speaker 1: top five in terms of the defensive backfield as we
Speaker 1: go forward. But again Camp can change a lot of
Speaker 1: that stuff, and that's just my own prediction. At this point.
Speaker 1: You look at a possible four three, look you can
Speaker 1: maybe you go ogg ball here off the edge again
Speaker 1: with Wilkins coming into the game for possible you know,
Speaker 1: a breather for one thing, but also the added element
Speaker 1: of both run and past defense with ray Kwon Davis
Speaker 1: out there again. Then Zach Seeler comes onto the field
Speaker 1: because he can kind of play tackle inside as well
Speaker 1: as you're outside. Rush might bring the third linebacker onto
Speaker 1: the field as Baker McKinney with Van Ginkle. And then
Speaker 1: my secondary with only four guys back, there will be
Speaker 1: x Byron Jones, Javon Holland, and Eric Rowe. Your three
Speaker 1: four up front, Wilkins, Davis and Seiler. Again, these are
Speaker 1: guys that I think can play. All three of them
Speaker 1: can play the two technique over the guard, They can
Speaker 1: play the nose tackle over the center, or they can
Speaker 1: even stretch out and play five technique. Like all three
Speaker 1: of those guys reversatile. I like them in that three
Speaker 1: four look. With Baker, McKinney, Roberts, and Van Ginkel as
Speaker 1: your linebackers and the same four dbs ex Jones, Holland,
Speaker 1: and Row, your big nickel package is the same as
Speaker 1: the nickel only I reverse this because big nickel means
Speaker 1: a third safety, a post to a third cornerback. That's
Speaker 1: how you get Brandon Jones onto the field over your
Speaker 1: potential slot corner. Again, who could be need Um, could
Speaker 1: be Coleman, could be Bigbo, could be any number of guys. Right,
Speaker 1: There's so many options here. Then we look at some
Speaker 1: options that are more defensive back heavy, like a two
Speaker 1: three package for instance, which is the reverse of that
Speaker 1: three two sex we talked about where I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and go with Emmanuel Ogba and Christian Wilkins again
Speaker 1: because they both can play so many spots and they
Speaker 1: both can rush the passer with my more past defense
Speaker 1: oriented linebacker group on the field. So Jerome Baker, Andrew
Speaker 1: van Ginkel, and Duke Riley gets onto the field for
Speaker 1: this package because of his coverage prowess. With the six
Speaker 1: defensive backs ex. Jones, Holland Brandon Jones, Eric Rowe, and
Speaker 1: Noah Eganogeny my two two I went Ogba and Wilkins
Speaker 1: again with Baker and Van Ginkel, and I just put
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy onto the defensive backfield he comes into the
Speaker 1: game for Duke Riley. How about a three one look
Speaker 1: that happens sometimes in the defense Ogba, Phillips, and Butler.
Speaker 1: I think my three best pound for pound pass rushers
Speaker 1: as far as like variety goes with size and length
Speaker 1: and inside ability. Jerome Baker's the loan linebacker because he
Speaker 1: just does everything well. And then you've got your dollar
Speaker 1: defensive back seven defensive backs, the same guys I just listed,
Speaker 1: and again all of these have different variations of different
Speaker 1: fronts and rush combos and stuff like that. So there
Speaker 1: are so many things you can do in terms of
Speaker 1: the variety you have in the different fronts and the
Speaker 1: different packages and who plays what position. It is vast offensively.
Speaker 1: How about eleven personnel. I went Will Fuller, Jalen Battle,
Speaker 1: Davante Parker with Miles Gaskin and Mike Gasicky. I think
Speaker 1: it's kind of your base level offense right now. When
Speaker 1: it's twelve personnel, I brought Davante Parker off the field
Speaker 1: and brought Hunter long on is my second tight end.
Speaker 1: I want Fuller and Wattle in this package because of
Speaker 1: the conflict it creates with added gaps in the running
Speaker 1: game with speed on the perimeter, that is a tall
Speaker 1: order for defenses to cover. When I go third team personnel,
Speaker 1: Parker comes back onto the field, Wattle and Fuller come off.
Speaker 1: Because this is my big package. Parker, Gazicky, Hunter Long,
Speaker 1: Adam Sheheen, and I put Malcolm Brown into the game
Speaker 1: for the first time here with Myles Gascon coming off
Speaker 1: the field. The ten personnel packages four receivers, that's pretty basic.
Speaker 1: I think Fuller, Wattle, Parker, and I went with Albert
Speaker 1: Wilson here. That could be Preston Williams, that could be
Speaker 1: Lynn Bowden, that could be any number of guys. I
Speaker 1: brought Sevan Akmed onto the field for this to give
Speaker 1: Miles Gascon a breather, and I think that Akmed's ability
Speaker 1: to get to the outside on those ten personnel packages
Speaker 1: is a nice addition to have their My OO personnel
Speaker 1: my five receivers is Fuller, Wattle, Parker, Wilson, and Williams.
Speaker 1: My twenty one package Fuller, Wattle, Long, and then in
Speaker 1: my backfields together are Miles Gasking with Malcolm Brown. But
Speaker 1: when I say fullback, I'm going Miles Gaskin with Carl Tucker,
Speaker 1: the undrafted free agent. My twenty two package is Parker Long, Shaheen,
Speaker 1: Gaskin and Brown. That's two running backs, two tight ends.
Speaker 1: So Gascon and Brown together in the backfield with Long
Speaker 1: and Shaheen in that kind of heavy run personnel package.
Speaker 1: When I go heavy on the offensive line, my six
Speaker 1: offensive lineman is DJ Flucker. When I go heavy plus,
Speaker 1: it's Fluker with Jesse Davis. Because my starting five are
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Solomon Kinley, Matt Skura, Rob Hunt, and Liam Eikenberg.
Speaker 1: And so you know, I also came up with this
Speaker 1: on my lovely six hour flight that I've made so
Speaker 1: many times this past year. And this is such a
Speaker 1: rough copy of the idea. But the idea here is
Speaker 1: to explain the depth of this roster through a potential
Speaker 1: snap count projection because in doing this exercise, I just
Speaker 1: didn't have enough snaps to give, you know, to give
Speaker 1: all the guys I want to give snaps every position,
Speaker 1: all the snaps I wanted to give them, So one
Speaker 1: thousand snaps per position. That's eleventh snap, eleven thousand snaps
Speaker 1: on each side of the football, five thousand on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, five thousand at running back, and then defensively.
Speaker 1: The numbers are adjusted slightly to kind of favor the
Speaker 1: secondary because of all those sub packages we just talked about.
Speaker 1: But here's what I come up with and the challenges
Speaker 1: I faced. Quarterback to a talk about one thousand snaps.
Speaker 1: Ideally he doesn't leave the field. Running back Myles Gaskin
Speaker 1: six hundred, fifty, savan Achman two hundred, Malcolm Brown two hundred,
Speaker 1: and then I just put the rest with one hundred,
Speaker 1: like there are enough staffs are to go around. I
Speaker 1: wanted to give Gasking Moore, I wanted to give Akman more.
Speaker 1: I wanted to give Brown more. At receiver, Will full
Speaker 1: Or nine hundred, Wattle eight hundred, Davante Parker seven hundred,
Speaker 1: and the rest three hundred. The rest with three hundred
Speaker 1: is the hardest thing I had to do on this
Speaker 1: whole project, because there are so many guys on this
Speaker 1: roster that I think are worthy of five hundred snaps
Speaker 1: this year. So it's a great problem to have at
Speaker 1: tight end. Mike Kasicki, Hunter Long, Adam Shaheen combined for
Speaker 1: a thousand snaps. I gave Kisiki seven hundred of those,
Speaker 1: and then a combination of Long, Shaheen and Smythe with
Speaker 1: four hundred and fifty of those snaps. Of course, they're
Speaker 1: starting five offensive lineman ideally. Of course it's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen that way, but ideally they all play every snap
Speaker 1: on defense. My interior defensive line Christian Wilkins five hundred,
Speaker 1: Zach Seedler five hundred, Raight Kwon Davis five hundred. How
Speaker 1: can I give those guys more or less. I only
Speaker 1: have so many to give Adam Butler three hundred reps.
Speaker 1: I even gave John Jenkins their fifty reps because I
Speaker 1: think all these guys are good players, and I'm trying
Speaker 1: to find snaps for him off the edge. Emmanuel Ogbas
Speaker 1: seven hundred. Kind of reduce his work a little little bit,
Speaker 1: give him some more pass rush opportunities where he's more fresh,
Speaker 1: because we have more depth there. Jalen Phillips five hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty I think is a good number as a rookie.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's more than that. I don't know. It easily
Speaker 1: could be. Andrew Van Ginkle five hundred could be more
Speaker 1: than that. Vince Bagal hundred, Brennan Scarlett a hundred snaps
Speaker 1: at linebacker, Jerome Baker seven hundred and fifty. That's even
Speaker 1: a reduction from what he's done the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: But Argik McKinney seven fifty. I could justify giving him more.
Speaker 1: Duke Riley two hundred, Landon Roberts two hundred. I want
Speaker 1: to give both those guys more too. In the defensive
Speaker 1: back Philli Xavien Howard one thousand, snaps Byron Jones one thousand,
Speaker 1: Eric row one thousand, and then Javon Holland got seven fifty,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones got six hundred, Justin Coleman got four fifty,
Speaker 1: egg Bagny got three hundred, and Jason mccordy got to fifty.
Speaker 1: Do you get the idea here? Why I'm telling you
Speaker 1: this because there are so many players on this roster
Speaker 1: that I think are deserving of snaps. I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna wind up having some guys that This is how
Speaker 1: it goes when I think you have a good football team,
Speaker 1: You're gonna cut guys that have to go on somewhere
Speaker 1: else and get jobs and play well somewhere else. That's
Speaker 1: that's the price of being talented. I think this Dolphins
Speaker 1: team is very talented. Again, a great problem to have.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and close up this podcast with a
Speaker 1: couple more things. Have we got plenty to cover here.
Speaker 1: I want to get to a couple of the media
Speaker 1: availabilities real quick as we have had Miles Gaskinny Land
Speaker 1: and Roberts Austin Jackson and Andrew Van ginkle On since
Speaker 1: I last spoke to you guys here on the podcast. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what, Let's go ahead and do this let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and just recap the media availabilities and if
Speaker 1: you guys want to go back and watch them in
Speaker 1: their entirety, which I would suggest because they have been very,
Speaker 1: very good, you can do that on Miami Dolphins dot
Speaker 1: com or the team YouTube channel. And when you were there,
Speaker 1: to go ahead and subscribe for us on that channel
Speaker 1: only forty five thou subscriptions. We have way more fans
Speaker 1: of let's go subscribe to our YouTube channel. So Miles
Speaker 1: Gascon first spoke with confidence, spoke with brevity, spoke with
Speaker 1: just a demeanor you see from a guy that has
Speaker 1: ultimate confidence in himself in this team, in this process,
Speaker 1: in this coaching staff. And he talked about takeaways from
Speaker 1: last season, how he was proud of how the team
Speaker 1: finished as a team despite all the adversity and the
Speaker 1: attrition of that season. How he handled the recovery of
Speaker 1: his injury. He talked about, but how that's a big
Speaker 1: focus for himself this year, and being available to the
Speaker 1: team to not, as he said, to hurt the team
Speaker 1: in his own eyes, So working to stay healthy, taking
Speaker 1: care of his body, and what he mentioned specifically when
Speaker 1: it came to working on his body was knee health,
Speaker 1: ankle health stability to be more refined around those small muscles.
Speaker 1: He talked about doing pilates, about going back to Seattle
Speaker 1: and really kind of helping his body in terms of
Speaker 1: small muscles, awkward movements and moving the body and directions
Speaker 1: you're gonna simulate on a game day field in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. And of course another running back here
Speaker 1: in my ammy that went to you dub with Miles
Speaker 1: was Savan Akhmed, and they talked about the or He
Speaker 1: talked about rather their relationship together, how much they work
Speaker 1: out together, because he said that it's nice having a
Speaker 1: brother who can compete with you, not just on the field,
Speaker 1: but when you get away from the field, like when
Speaker 1: we go back to the apartment at night, we will
Speaker 1: open up the playbook and have conversations and quizzy quiz
Speaker 1: each other on stuff like that. What a great relationship
Speaker 1: that is. And again back to the to thing and
Speaker 1: seventy plus players. These guys live, sleep, and breathe football man,
Speaker 1: It's great to see. He also talked about having to
Speaker 1: get out of Seattle to go back to South Florida
Speaker 1: to work out this offseason, and I made the reverse
Speaker 1: trip this this just this last week and I went
Speaker 1: from eighty degrees and sunny and nice warm weather to
Speaker 1: wendy and stormy and wet and just kind of miserable
Speaker 1: weather out here. So I'm with you on that, Miles.
Speaker 1: He also talked about living in his parents house, knowing
Speaker 1: he had to get out of there. He said, it's
Speaker 1: all cool until they want you to clean the bathroom
Speaker 1: or something, and then he laughed, and I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about, like, imagine being a guy that basically piled
Speaker 1: up over a thousand yards from scrimmage and you're back
Speaker 1: at home cleaning the bathroom at your parents house. Like,
Speaker 1: we don't care that you're an NFL stud at this point, Miles,
Speaker 1: you still gonna clean the bathroom. I thought that was awesome.
Speaker 1: He talked about the benefit of being back in the
Speaker 1: facility and people being with or the players having a
Speaker 1: great turnout at the facility, and just talking about how
Speaker 1: it's nice to go from a different type of setting
Speaker 1: from a zoom or flash cards or you know, the classroom,
Speaker 1: to being on the field, even as slow paced as
Speaker 1: it is, just getting in the huddle hearing somebody else
Speaker 1: call the play. He said that was a very refreshing
Speaker 1: thing to have He also touched on the playbook. He said,
Speaker 1: just kind of seeing the playbook, it has changed, it's
Speaker 1: much different than last year's and how exciting it is
Speaker 1: to kind of get that installed down with the walkthroughs
Speaker 1: and just knowing where you have to line up, because
Speaker 1: you can't play if you can't line up, he said.
Speaker 1: And then we finished the presser with a question I
Speaker 1: had for Miles about the growth from where he was
Speaker 1: at this time in year one, when he was, you know,
Speaker 1: eventually became a practice squad player, to being kind of
Speaker 1: the lead dog in the backfield right now. And he
Speaker 1: talked about the game slowing down for him in the
Speaker 1: Buffalo game in Week two last year and how that
Speaker 1: was a big jump for him, and then each week
Speaker 1: seeing the game just kind of slowed down and being
Speaker 1: more eye opening for him. He talked about being better
Speaker 1: this year physically, knowing what he's looking for, knowing his
Speaker 1: strengths and his weaknesses so he can get to those
Speaker 1: strengths and make those strengths stronger, but also work on
Speaker 1: the weaknesses. He said that when he first came in
Speaker 1: he was wide eyed, but now he's got a more
Speaker 1: focused or more I guess narrowed focus on what he
Speaker 1: wants to do, and I thought that was just a
Speaker 1: great way. And the presser very very impressive press conference
Speaker 1: from Miless, Gas, CA, and go check it out. We
Speaker 1: got a land In roberts On after him, and he
Speaker 1: landed is a great character too. Man. He was having
Speaker 1: some phone with some of the beat writers and the
Speaker 1: reporters talking about his position on the team and coming
Speaker 1: back from the injury last season. He talked about where
Speaker 1: he is in the rehab and the recovery and getting
Speaker 1: himself ready. But I also had a chance to ask
Speaker 1: him about the growth a defense can expect in year
Speaker 1: number two because of all the changes of defense had
Speaker 1: last year with all the new personnel, and of course
Speaker 1: there were changes this year too, but a nice bulk
Speaker 1: of that core is back, and so I asked e
Speaker 1: Landon how that can kind of help the defense get
Speaker 1: out to a faster start because one in three last
Speaker 1: season just was a little bit not good enough to
Speaker 1: get that playoff push at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: And he agreed that's very valuable for a defense to
Speaker 1: have those reps together and to have that camaraderie together,
Speaker 1: and how they were able to build that last season.
Speaker 1: He said that he feels like the energy around the
Speaker 1: building since he's been here has always been good. You've
Speaker 1: got players and coaches that love football, they love the
Speaker 1: grind and stuff like that. If there's a problem, we
Speaker 1: try to fix it and we don't care how long
Speaker 1: we take. That's the good thing about the building is
Speaker 1: there's no complacency and stuff like that. You've just got
Speaker 1: to understand that we're all going to do that. We're
Speaker 1: all going to try to get better and better every
Speaker 1: single day. Great attitude to have. He also talked about
Speaker 1: Jason McQuary said, he's funny. That's my guy. A great leader,
Speaker 1: a great guy, a great person to learn from off
Speaker 1: the field. He's the type of guy that gives great
Speaker 1: advice on and off the field. And then j Mac
Speaker 1: that's my guy, he says once again. Later in the week,
Speaker 1: we got Austin Jackson and Andrew Van Ginkl and they
Speaker 1: too were fantastic interviews. Man Andrew van Giggle first off,
Speaker 1: he's expecting his I believe a son, his first child
Speaker 1: with him and his wife. Congratulations on that. Andrew a
Speaker 1: chance to tell him, hey man, the first couple of
Speaker 1: months are rough, but after that it gets fantastic. It's
Speaker 1: the best thing in your life, and it's always fun
Speaker 1: to have that level of, you know, non football stuff
Speaker 1: to talk about the players with. Then we got to
Speaker 1: the football and I asked him, you know, last year
Speaker 1: your goal was to get stronger. You and your coach
Speaker 1: just talked about that, and I think you achieved that
Speaker 1: goal at least to that level you want to last season.
Speaker 1: What was your goal this year? And he said the
Speaker 1: same thing, keep adding strength, to get faster, but then
Speaker 1: to just have better knowledge of the playbook this being
Speaker 1: my third year in it, to be able to be
Speaker 1: more assertive with my calls and my adjustments. I think
Speaker 1: that's a huge part that I'm trying to improve on
Speaker 1: my game with play speed and thinking less and just
Speaker 1: playing looser and faster. So Van Ginkle covering that pretty
Speaker 1: well in terms of how he wants to make the
Speaker 1: adjustment this season and your number three, I think another
Speaker 1: jump can be expected because of that comfort level and familiarity.
Speaker 1: And again, to go back to the seventy plus guys
Speaker 1: at camp right now, he had this to say, the
Speaker 1: mood has been great. Anytime you can get around the
Speaker 1: guys and just catch up and spend quality time with
Speaker 1: them and build friendships and relationships. It's a blast. The
Speaker 1: energy is always up on the first few days whenever
Speaker 1: you're around each other, so it's good. And just being
Speaker 1: able to soak in everything as well. So again that
Speaker 1: same theme. Man, guys that love football, guys that want
Speaker 1: to be here. It's fun to hear him talk about that.
Speaker 1: And then he was asked the same question again later
Speaker 1: about areas to improve that. He gave a different handswer
Speaker 1: this time, so he wanted to work on his pass rush.
Speaker 1: Whenever I can get my win percentage or be able
Speaker 1: to be a tackle cleaner or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: Quicker and faster is the biggest thing. Just being able
Speaker 1: to explode off a line and be able to bend
Speaker 1: the edge or get stronger and counter inside. I'd say
Speaker 1: that's the biggest part of my game I would like
Speaker 1: to improve. And then he spoke about the defense in
Speaker 1: general taking a big jump last year and what that
Speaker 1: required as far as going from thirty second to six
Speaker 1: and scoring defense. He said he thinks that everybody's believing
Speaker 1: in the coaching and everybody buying in. Everybody was doing
Speaker 1: their specific job, and nobody was trying to do anything extra.
Speaker 1: If you take care of your business and make sure
Speaker 1: your grass is green, everything will be fine. You don't
Speaker 1: need to be worrying about your neighbor's grass. Just take
Speaker 1: care of your grass and everything will take care of itself.
Speaker 1: And as a defense, you'll come together and you'll be
Speaker 1: a darn good defense for sure. He also touched on
Speaker 1: the level of coaching he gets from multiple guys coach Campanelli,
Speaker 1: Austin Clark, as well as Rob Leonard, the defensive line
Speaker 1: linebackers and outside linebackers coach collectively. There talked about how
Speaker 1: all three of those guys bring different things the table
Speaker 1: at different viewpoint in different perspectives, so each of these
Speaker 1: guys just a massive team wide collaboration. Is the overall
Speaker 1: sense I get from a bunch of guys that just
Speaker 1: love football, like Brian Flores vision to the tea. We
Speaker 1: finished up with Austin Jackson, who, again four for four
Speaker 1: now was a fantastic interview with the media. I started
Speaker 1: off by asking him kind of the same question, where
Speaker 1: would you say you are today compared to where you
Speaker 1: were at this time last year. He said the pandemic
Speaker 1: was a big part of that and you know, having
Speaker 1: the resources available to you this year a post to
Speaker 1: last year was a big change. And you know this
Speaker 1: is me speaking now. The Dolphins had over four thousand
Speaker 1: snaps among rookies last season, and so to come into
Speaker 1: a year where they led the NFL with rookies taking
Speaker 1: snaps with over four thousand, and an off season where
Speaker 1: they didn't have a chance to get together and have
Speaker 1: this camaraderie and build up this offseason relationship and all
Speaker 1: the stuff that Van Ghinkle covered. To me, it's a
Speaker 1: big deal to have these guys back in there and
Speaker 1: get ahead of the game this year opposed to kind
Speaker 1: of playing catch up with all those young guys. And
Speaker 1: again that one on three start might be able to
Speaker 1: be attributed to that unique offseason with so many new
Speaker 1: parts and so many young players. But he talks about
Speaker 1: getting his feet set, having more knowledge and knowing what
Speaker 1: to expect is a big difference for him in that
Speaker 1: Year to Jump. Somebody also asked him about the Year
Speaker 1: to Jump, and that's kind of what people say, that
Speaker 1: that's the biggest jump you'll make in your career from
Speaker 1: year one to year two, and he said that he
Speaker 1: believes that and agrees with that he's heard that. He said,
Speaker 1: the offensive line wants to be tough, discipline detailed to nasty,
Speaker 1: and you don't just show up and be nasty. It's
Speaker 1: in the way you practice every day. It's a mentality.
Speaker 1: Every day you train. You have to be aggressive with intent.
Speaker 1: It definitely starts now and how we train ourselves going
Speaker 1: into battle. He also talked about adding good way and
Speaker 1: trimming bad way. So I asked him because the great
Speaker 1: ice cream question from last training camp when he said
Speaker 1: that one of his favorite things pregame college wise on
Speaker 1: Friday nights was the ice cream bar the team had
Speaker 1: the team hotel or the team facility, and I asked him,
Speaker 1: so you're trying to add good weight and drop bad way?
Speaker 1: Does that mean no more ice cream? And he said
Speaker 1: that was the case a long time ago. He quit
Speaker 1: the ice cream Fridays a long long time ago. So
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson working hard to get his body ready. He
Speaker 1: also talked about building camaraderie and and uh working out
Speaker 1: with Liam Eichenberg. Said the Eichenberg's technique is really good.
Speaker 1: He looks like a great player at Notre Dame and
Speaker 1: one of you know, many guys from that college to
Speaker 1: come in and have an impact right away. He also
Speaker 1: joked about two having a beard this year and having
Speaker 1: more base in his voice compared to last season. And
Speaker 1: he also talked about working on his knee bend getting lower,
Speaker 1: working on his flexibility, strength and conditioning, torque power, turn power,
Speaker 1: all that stuff something we work on as an offensive
Speaker 1: line every single day. So again, these media availabilities are
Speaker 1: available in their entirety up on the YouTube channel as
Speaker 1: well as Miami Dolphins dot com. Before I get out
Speaker 1: of here, a couple more things. I had a question
Speaker 1: in the Reviews on Apple podcast. If you put a
Speaker 1: question there, I'm gonna answer it. So go ahead and
Speaker 1: do that if you want to hear your question answered
Speaker 1: here on the podcast. This one comes in from our
Speaker 1: Burg six. He says, Hey, Travis, big fan, you mentioned
Speaker 1: on the last podcast that Waddle will likely be a
Speaker 1: candidate to return punts. Why would we want the numbers
Speaker 1: six pick to risk injury when it happened to Preston
Speaker 1: Williams back in twenty nineteen. Do you think options such
Speaker 1: as Holland, Iigbo or Grant would make for a safer option.
Speaker 1: I think that all three of those guys have great
Speaker 1: return abilities, But I don't believe that returning punts puts
Speaker 1: an increased number on the likelihood of injuries. Now, what
Speaker 1: it does do is it adds snaps to a player's workload,
Speaker 1: and the more snaps you're on the field, the more
Speaker 1: likely you are to sustain an injury. Because of basic math, right,
Speaker 1: more snaps equals more hits, more chances to get hurt.
Speaker 1: So the way I see it, the question can really
Speaker 1: be peeled back to do you want Jalen Waddle on
Speaker 1: the field for seventy five snaps compared to say sixty
Speaker 1: five snaps? What if that reduction came in offensive usage.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure there are some instances of load
Speaker 1: management and in the attempt to keep guys fresh across
Speaker 1: the league, really, but aside from normal rotation and different
Speaker 1: packages that maybe Jalen is not a part of. Like,
Speaker 1: for instance, he's not going to be on the field
Speaker 1: when you go heavy plus twenty one personnel because that's
Speaker 1: seven offensive linemen, two running backs in one tight end.
Speaker 1: So you get a reduction and snaps organically that way.
Speaker 1: But I'm not pulling my best option off the field
Speaker 1: if that's what he turns out to be, and for
Speaker 1: my money he is. I'm not pulling my best option
Speaker 1: off the field because I'm worried he's gonna get hurt. Scared.
Speaker 1: Money don't make money. And when this kid was a
Speaker 1: threat to score every time he touched the football in
Speaker 1: college and average something like twelve yards per pumpt return,
Speaker 1: that's a skill set that I want on my team.
Speaker 1: All right. A couple of things before we get out
Speaker 1: of here, South Florida's sports Man, How good of a
Speaker 1: time of year has this been? With the hockey and
Speaker 1: the basketball playoffs, the Heat and the Panthers, that phenomenal
Speaker 1: Coach Flora's pump up video for Game two, even though
Speaker 1: the Panthers dropped that one to follow O two in
Speaker 1: the series. And we'll get to the Heat and Panthers
Speaker 1: here just one second. But the NBA play in week Man,
Speaker 1: that was a lot of fun. I love that tournament.
Speaker 1: Throughout the course of the week, I had a kind
Speaker 1: of nt double a tournament field, even though a couple
Speaker 1: of games were bad. But I still think I'm conflicted
Speaker 1: here because I think the way you get a better
Speaker 1: regular season is to shorten the playoff field. So maybe
Speaker 1: six teams per conference, maybe even four, I'm not sure,
Speaker 1: but even that might be too much. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think the NBA could be great at all. A
Speaker 1: two regular season games had that playoff level intensity, but
Speaker 1: I dream so the heating Panthers, well, it was not
Speaker 1: a great weekend for South Florida sports as the heat
Speaker 1: fall on Saturday, as you the Panthers to go to
Speaker 1: three one, I think the Panthers and they might be
Speaker 1: cooked with the heat. To me, they're a better team
Speaker 1: than then Milwaukee Bucks and had every chance to win
Speaker 1: that game, but all those miss threes from Jimmy and
Speaker 1: just his cold game in general. Had the great buzzer
Speaker 1: beater just send the game to overtime. But man, I
Speaker 1: thought Jimmy would be the one to pull that out
Speaker 1: late in that game. But Miami just comes up short.
Speaker 1: I think the one that series. Still let's go six,
Speaker 1: maybe seven games, but I think Miami is the better team.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of
Speaker 1: here for this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. We
Speaker 1: have plenty of content coming your way throughout the rest
Speaker 1: of the course of the summer, including some big time,
Speaker 1: heavy hitting guests. In the coming weeks. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: coaches media available for you on the next podcast, as
Speaker 1: well as talk about some of the players we haven't
Speaker 1: covered as far as their film goes from the new
Speaker 1: free agent acquisitions. Will cover all of that and much
Speaker 1: much more the rest of the way, taking you all
Speaker 1: the way up to opening kick in September for your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. As for today's podcast, that is gonna be
Speaker 1: my time you all. Please be sure to subscribe, rate,
Speaker 1: review the podcast. If you have a question for the podcast,
Speaker 1: put it in the reviews. Five stars will get you
Speaker 1: read for sure here on the podcast, Follow me on
Speaker 1: Twitter at Wingfield NFL. Follow the team at Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: check out the fish Tank and the Audible podcast, and
Speaker 1: of course Miami Dolphins dot com. Until next time, fins Up.