WEBVTT - Dolphins Versatility and the Twitter Mailbag 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:04.640 What is Up, Dolphins, And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.880 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network covering your 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:13.160 Miami Dolphins. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always, 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.040 I am here to bring you your daily dose of 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.480 Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we're gonna talk 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.520 about some of your favorite Dolphins memorabilia, will answer your 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.120 questions via the Twitter mail bag, and we'll talk about versatility, 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:29.280 both on the field and on the sidelines. All of 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.400 that and more on this Thursday, March the fifth edition 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:39.120 of the Drive Time Podcasts. And I wrote an article 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:42.400 that's currently up on Miami Dolphins dot com and in it, 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:45.879 I discussed the versatility of the Dolphins coaching staff, and 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:47.640 we'll come back to that here in just a moment, 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:49.760 but I want to start with the aspect of the 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:53.640 versatility that Brian Flores and the coaches really throughout the 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.760 league are talking about right now. The more a player 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.160 can do, versatility the buzzword of the entire week of 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.520 the combine. We talked about this on yesterday's podcast with 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:07.399 Jordan Reid, Christian Wilkins, Divon gard Shaw, John Jenkins, a 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.240 lot of those big defensive lineman who have the makeup 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.080 and look of a classic defensive tackle playing out wide 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.840 at the defensive end position, and I don't have any 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.640 data on those specific lineups and snap counts at those spots. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.000 Will get to the defensive backs and linebackers here from 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.760 Pro Football Focus in just one second, but you essentially 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.400 have these three guys playing in the Dolphins odd front 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:31.560 packages across the d line, and that will often require 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.360 one of them to kick all the way out to 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.320 a base five technique or a four eye technique, and 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.919 that's not something trackable through PFF or any other outlet 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:43.280 that I'm privy to. But you can track the defensive backs. 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.520 So I went to Pro Football Focus and took a 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.320 look at where these guys lined up on a snap 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.120 by snap basis throughout the course of the season, and 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:56.520 they track defensive line snaps, box snaps, slot, cornerback, perimeter corner, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.760 and deep safety, the free safety position. And you've got 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.280 several guys in here that played all over the defense 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.440 in that regard. For the Dolphins. Rashad Jones up first 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:08.320 played forty nine snaps up on the defensive line. That 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:11.120 essentially means he's on the ball the box count for 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.639 him was seventy eight, and that means more of an 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.120 off ball linebacker position, playing where you might see Jerome Baker, 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.200 Ray Kawab McMillan those types of guys. Thirty three snaps 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.120 in the slot, twelve out wide as a corner, and 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.799 seventeen as the deep safety. Monterrey Hardage played limited snaps 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:29.320 last year. Came up off the practice squad, but he 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.200 played five snaps on the defensive line, twenty two in 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.600 the box, nine in the slot, three out wide, and 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.000 fifty nine as your Dolphins deep safety. Nick need Um 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.959 had a lot of range and versatility as well, playing 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.919 five on the line, forty six in the box, one 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:47.680 fifty seven in the slot, and then of course his 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.320 most prominent position the wide corner five hundred and thirty 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.080 one snaps last season. He also played four as a 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.280 deep safety. Eric row is the primary example of this, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.120 and we heard Chris Greer bring it up on the 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.240 Move the Sticks pod cast talking about the versatility and 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.960 how it gives you more roster flexibility if you have 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.400 a guy like Eric Rowe who can play in multiple spots, 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.360 because then you don't have to activate X number of 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.800 defensive backs and maybe you can put an extra body 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.320 in the lineup for game day on the offensive line 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.480 or wherever you see fit. So Eric Row played sixty 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.280 snaps on the defensive line, played four hundred and forty 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.680 six in the box as that quasi linebacker see gap 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.520 run defender type, two hundred and twenty six snaps in 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.959 the slot as a corner. He also played to fifty 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.960 four as the perimeter corner and then eighty six way 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.720 back off the ball as a deep safety. Some other 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.000 guys that played a little more to find roles. Bobby 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:41.120 McCain had four snaps on the line, fifty in the box, 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:44.320 twenty in the slot, ten out wide, and four forty 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.400 six as the free safety. Up until his injury, he 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.000 was the team's free safety in the single high press 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.000 man looks they run. Stephen Parker got some run at 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.120 that same position, three snaps on the line, fifty six 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:59.440 in the box, fifteen on the slot, six out wide, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.080 and two fifty nine as the deep free safety. And 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.560 then Adrian Colbert factored in in the second half of 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:08.160 the season as well, one seventeen, seven one and then 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.160 three thirty five as your deep safety. And these stats 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.560 are also trackable at linebacker, and I was already planning 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:17.159 on talking about this before I went to Pro Football 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.280 Focus and looked up the numbers. But I think ray 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:22.760 Kawan McMillan, third year Dolphins linebacker last year heading into 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.640 his fourth season this year, is a great example of that. 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.320 Ray Kuon was really good that first year coming off 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.000 the A c L from seventeen, especially as the season 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:35.359 went along in team, but he was always a stack 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.280 linebacker and what that means you're playing off the ball, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.240 probably behind somebody on the defensive line and kind of 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.919 picking and choosing your gaps that way. At Ohio State 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.560 into his first year in eighteen, he was off the 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.560 ball every snap. Seemingly he played just two snaps up 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.800 on the ball, which is fine. That's who he was, 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.040 That's what he did well. But you know what complacency breeds. 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:59.240 It breeds stagnant trajectory and keeps the player on a 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.280 plateau and doesn't give them the opportunity to grow their 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.359 game and just get even better. And that's not to 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.919 say that ray Kuon wasn't great in that role. He was. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.440 He was one of Pro Football focus Is top run 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.000 defending linebackers all year in. But you know what a 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.159 great role for a good run defending linebacker is and 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.160 one that can get him on the field for even 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.280 more work playing on the ball as a sam backer 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:24.200 in the even fronts four down lineman and ray Kuan 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.120 got some seasoning in that regard his total jumps from 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.479 two snaps on the ball all the way up to 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.000 ninety three last year, and that was out of six 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.440 hundred and eighty seven total snaps played. An increase from 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.560 point oh two percent on ball all the way up 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.920 to thirteen point five percent, so basically from nothing all 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.200 the way to thirteen point five percent. It's about recognizing 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.320 a player's strengths and creating roles for that player. We 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.000 played you that sound clip from Ashton Davis the other day, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.440 the Cal safety talking about Gerald Alexander, who now of 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.279 course takes over the defensive back room this year on 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.640 flows staff and Ashton Davis talked about a coach not 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.360 being stuck in his ways or stuck in his schemes 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.479 and always trying to find a way to get better. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.599 Every single day is an opportunity for the player, for 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.520 the coach, for everybody in football to get better. And 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.320 that's the approach here. It might sound obvious, but there 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.760 can still be some pretty rigid thinking out there. But 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.080 Gerald Alexander fits that mode, fits that role. And again 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.320 we'll talk more here in just one second about the 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.279 versatility of this Dolphins coaching staff, but I want to 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.240 go ahead and get to the rest of the housekeeping 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.440 here as far as the on ball and off ball 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.040 snap counts of the Dolphins linebackers. Again, this data available 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.520 through Pro Football Focus. Jerome Baker played one hundred and 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:40.520 forty eight snaps on the ball, eight hundred and seventy 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.160 off the ball, and there's even some slots some perimeter, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:47.200 corner and safety distinctions in their thirty three, eleven, and eighteen. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.280 The guy just plays everywhere, wearing that green dot call 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.520 on the Dolphins defense on the back of his helmet. 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:56.120 Very important player in the Dolphins defense. Vince Bagel who 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.960 arrived with the team on September one and just hit 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:02.719 the ground running produce using immediately for Miami five hundred 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.719 and seventy six snaps on the ball compared to forty 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.840 five snaps off the ball, So he's one of your 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.840 more true edge players on the defense. Last year, Sam 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:14.640 Aguavin two hundred and seventy eight snaps on three four 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.400 off and Andrew van Ginkl was almost primarily on the 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:21.560 ball to three snaps off the ball. And so if 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.040 you ask your players to be multiple, why not ask 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.880 your coaches the exact same thing. And just real quick 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:29.600 before I dive into the article up on Miami Dolphins 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.840 dot com, there was a quote on the Move the 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.320 Sticks podcast with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks a couple 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.720 of weeks back where they talked about that being one 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:41.000 of these new age adaptations of the NFL, but not 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.760 every team has caught on. But the Dolphins have four 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.840 of the nine new coaching hires have experienced on both 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.360 sides of the ball, or whether it's coordinating the offense 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.680 and having analytics in your background or scouting background. They're 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:55.080 finding these guys that have been all over the football 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:59.120 operations in the National Football League, in college football, and frankly, 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.600 the guys that don't have that bowl type side of 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:03.760 the ball experience are guys that are new in their 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:07.040 coaching career, like, for instance, Lemieux Jean Pierre, who's been 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:09.800 coaching now in his third season heading down to Miami 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.920 as the assistant offensive line coach. So we start here 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:15.520 in the article up on Miami Dolphins dot com with 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.200 Brian Flores himself the ultimate jack of all trades. You 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:21.720 go over his resume with the Patriots and now with 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:26.840 the Dolphins, scouting assistant, pro scout, special teams assistant, offensive assistant, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:31.360 defensive assistant, safety's coach, linebackers coach, and then defensive play 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.320 caller in the Super Bowl, limiting the Los Angeles Rams 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:37.000 to three points the number one, number one offense rather 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.920 that season in the Super Bowl to just one field goal. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.280 Those eight positions served as a prelude to Flora's taking 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.880 over the big chair here in Miami and his staff 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.200 welcomes plenty of new faces here in your number two. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.600 Of the seven coaches departed from Flora's rookie season, four 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:55.200 of those guys received promotions throughout professional and college football. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.160 You know about Carl Durrell, the former receiver's coach and 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.240 assistant head coach, accepting a head coaching job at the 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.240 University of Colorado. Jerry Shoplinsky goes from assistant quarterbacks coach 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.840 to full time quarterbacks coach with the Giants. Former offensive 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.840 quality control coach Tae Kwon Underwood, who used to play 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.679 in the league is now the wide receivers coach at Rutgers. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.320 So already and you're number one. Brian Flores, his coaching 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:21.200 trees beginning to root itself and provide some fruit off 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.920 the other end for some college programs and some other 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.120 organizations across the NFL. But to get back into the 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.280 first coach on this entire import of new coaches that 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.480 have versatility, we start with the O G of versatility 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.160 and Chan Gailey. This was a quote from Brian Flores 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:40.120 at the combine. Quote. Having coached against him gaily in 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.200 the past, he was always tough to deal with schematically 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:48.040 end quote. And Gailor's versatility really has that diverse nature 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.560 about it, both in the titles he held and the 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.600 systems he implemented as a coach, both in college and 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.040 the NFL. He of course, was the first coach to 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.080 really transport a true spread offense from college to the 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.520 pros with Kansas City Chiefs and Tyler Thigpen way back 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:06.080 in two thousand eight. He also coached on offense. On defense, 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.439 he's been a head coach five different times. Defensive coordinator 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.560 Josh Bowyer was here last year, but his promotion will 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:15.760 elevate him to a level of constant collaboration with Flores 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.640 in the defensive backfield and on the defensive side of 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.880 the football in general. His specialty, of course, was working 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:25.360 that position group safeties and corners and dbs with Brian Flores. 0:10:25.600 --> 0:10:28.840 Up in New England, his titles have ranged from defensive assistant, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:33.160 defensive backs coach, cornerbacks coach, passing game coordinator, and now 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:36.920 defensive coordinator. Shows his pensant to climb up the ranks 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.280 in the NFL as a coach. New linebackers coach Anthony 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:43.160 Campanelli chose this position to come here and coach in 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:46.960 Miami despite being rumored and being connected to several defensive 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.080 coordinator jobs at multiple Power five schools. That was a 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:52.760 report that came from Yahoo's Pete Famil, and that could 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:56.120 have been Campanelli's first ever solo coordinator job. Beyond the 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.079 high school ranks, where he was an offensive and defensive 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.440 coordinator at on Bosco Prep in New Jersey, He's also 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.600 been a defensive assistant, coached wide receivers and tight ends, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.280 defensive backs, linebackers, and he was a co defensive coordinator 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.959 at Boston College. In new quarterbacks coach Robbie Brown returns 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.200 to the NFL after a brief stint at West Virginia. There, 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.520 Brown worked closely with the head coach on analysis and 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:24.160 had direct oversight of the Mountaineers offensive game plans, whereas 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.920 prior to that he was with the Jets and Chan Gailey. 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:29.160 On the offensive side of the ball, his title was 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.360 offensive quality Control, but he spent two seasons there as 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.160 a defensive assistant. He worked with wide receivers, outside linebackers, 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:39.720 and was involved in in game management responsibilities on game day. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.920 He also coached quarterbacks and running backs at the collegiate level, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.959 some more versatility for him there. New assistant defensive backs 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.000 coach coach Kirk Kuntz made the jump from Struthers High 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.280 School in Ohio to the NFL. It will be his 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.160 first job in the NFL. And here's what Brian Flora 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:58.559 said in reference to Koons making the jump to the NFL. Quote, 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.280 there are good coaches and pop owner high school college 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:04.000 NFL level. I think there's this idea that because it's 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:06.160 a high school coach, he's not ready to coach in 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.559 the NFL. I just don't agree with that. I think 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.200 good teachers are good teachers are good teachers. And quote 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.959 and rounding out the new coaching hires Gerald Alexander, Austin Clark, 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:18.559 and Lemil John Pierre, guys we talked about earlier in 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:21.559 the podcast. They don't have that diverse background, but again 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.319 they're very early in their coaching careers, and the reputations 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.040 these guys have already earned early on in their coaching 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.240 careers really speak positively about their ability to grow and 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.959 take the next steps in their coaching careers. Again from 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:37.240 Ashton Davis, who called Gerald Alexander the best coach he's 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.800 ever had, very driven to be the best that he 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.080 can be. He was taking trips in the off season 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.160 to visit NFL teams and get nuggets from anybody he can, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.000 So he speaks very highly of coach Gerald Alexander. Austin Clark, 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.840 who worked at Illinois last season, took a five star 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:55.439 transfer from USC in olah Wali Bettakou Jr. Who was 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.120 struggling at USC early in his career and then goes 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.400 to Illinois and really turned it on, became a sack master, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:05.360 and he really praised Clark's ability to teach and explain 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.800 his expectations for his players. Betteku says that Clark would 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.680 pause the film reviews and explain why a play was 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:15.080 designed a specific way and how betteck Who's contributions fit 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.240 within the scheme. And finally, new offensive line assistant Lemile 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.800 Jean Pierre trades in his cleats for a whistle. A 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:23.680 couple of years back, he was a player with the 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.720 Seahawks and Lions. Most recently coached the Raiders and the 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.880 Seahawks before that, and in that stop in Oakland, he 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.840 was praised by undrafted rookie free agent Andre James, who 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.120 was thrust into the lineup for All Pro center Rodney Hudson, 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.240 who suffered an injury in a game in Tighten, and 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.720 James played well in that game, earning the praise of 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:46.319 both John Gruden and Lemile Jean Pierre, and James credited 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.240 John Pierre with quote thousands and thousands of practice reps 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.200 working on the footwork and body weight to block interior 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.960 rushers and quote, so this coaching staff, versatility and teaching, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.520 that's the idea, that's the thought, and that's what Brian 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:02.720 floors out and got this offseason Okay, I want to 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.280 go ahead and pivot now to some more fan interaction 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:07.520 on Twitter. Of course, you guys can find me there 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.960 at Wingfield, NFL, the Miami Dolphins at Miami Dolphins, and 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.440 I put out a mail bag segment on the timeline 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.640 today and we'll get to that here in just one second. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.400 But I also put up a request for your best 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.880 or most treasured Dolphins memorabilia, and I said I was 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.280 gonna call out one person that got the most likes 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.920 on Twitter for their memorabilia, but there really are two 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.160 that stand out above the rest in terms of how 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.800 many people clicked the heart and favorited those particular tweets. 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.520 And we start here with what looks like a arcade 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.800 gaming console that has the Dolphin logo across it. It 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.040 looks absolutely gorgeous. It's from Reboric at Referic on Twitter. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.560 Go check it out. It looks awesome. I'm sure a 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.000 lot of us old school gamer fans out there would 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:51.920 love to get our hands on something like that. And 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:53.640 then the other one that got a lot of love 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.640 is from Big Mike at m I a fins one. 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.640 It's a nineteen seventy two helmets signed by eighteen of 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.640 the players on that perfect team. It's pretty cool. In fact, 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:07.760 I would almost go as far to say, yeah, the 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.400 mad Dog definitely has to weigh in on that one. 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.920 And let's go ahead and stay in that same lane 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.440 here and continue to interact with the fans on Twitter 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.200 and fans here of the Drivetime podcast, part of the 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.120 Miami Dolphins podcast network. Also go ahead and check out 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.800 the Audible and the Fish Tank podcast, rounding out our 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.800 three shows here on the new updated Miami Dolphins podcast Network. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.920 So excited to jump in this season, get more access 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.720 and get even more content for you guys than before. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.400 And we start here with this question from a Rod 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.480 the Finn fan at the Great finsby Travis. First Off, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.800 congrats on joining the Dolphins. I'm proud of you. Well, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.800 thank you very much. Second, now that you're much closer 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.640 in the news buzz about the Fins, what's your best 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:51.560 assumption about these smoke screens to Herbert or anyone else. Well, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:54.040 I can't speak to the players specifically, but I'll tell 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.560 you this, the Dolphins are gonna tell you what's going on. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.440 Chris Career and Brian Flores, they talk pretty openly in 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.240 their press conferences and they're gonna tell you what they're thinking, 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:06.120 what they're doing, and they're very transparent in that way. 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.480 So when Brian Flores and Chris Greer bull say we 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.600 haven't met with quarterback X or quarterback why yet, they're 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:14.480 being honest about it. It does nobody any good to 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.920 go out and tell your plans and your information and 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:19.240 to play your hand on the process early. So that's 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.480 what they're gonna do. Everything stays in the house and 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.920 that's the way it should be. So my best advice there, 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:25.680 if you want to get the truth, listen to what 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.440 Flow says and listen to what Chris Greer says. Next 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.800 one here from Will at Underscore. Will Reeves Underscore, what 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.360 linebackers outside of Simmons do you think are a good 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.760 fit for Miami in the draft? What we talked about versatility, right, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.080 so players that can do multiple things. We talked to 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.040 Jim Naggie down at the Combine, the executive director of 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.960 the Senior Bowl, and he talked about Josh CH's ability 0:16:46.080 --> 0:16:47.960 to play off the ball, to come down and rush 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.840 the quarterback play in coverage. Jordan reads to the same 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.040 thing on yesterday's podcast as well, that he offers that versatility. 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.200 Zack Bond from Wisconsin another one of those guys, a 0:16:57.320 --> 0:17:00.440 really refined pass Russia with heavy hands. They can get 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:03.200 his hand placement initially and then swipe and double arm, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.200 rip and club and chop and do all the things 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.639 you have to do to get off contact in the NFL. 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.760 But I think both those guys have been mentioned by 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:12.359 some of our draft experts here on this podcast, like 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:14.720 Jordan Reed for instance. So we'll go with those two. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:18.600 Next one to hear from Stephen f at sp F Underscore. Rip. 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:21.439 Greer has a history of going best player available. Do 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.320 you think there's a chance he keeps that approach. Yeah? Absolutely, 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.080 I think they want to get the best player. Brian 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.760 Flores and Chris Greer both talked about doing whatever they 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.159 can to add the best players to make the Miami 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.240 Dolphins a better football team. Whether it's trades, whether it's 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.880 free agency, whether it's the draft. They want to make 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.199 the best selection, the best choice for this team to 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:42.040 get better in that instance on that day, and that's 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.720 how they'll approach this thing going forward. Next one here 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:47.920 from Roggie Roj at Rogie Roj on Twitter. How many 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.359 retakes have you had to do while recording due to 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.399 mentioning the wrong podcast name. Well, for the sake of 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.840 full transparency, I haven't messed up the podcast name yet, 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.480 but where I do kind of stumbles after the introduction 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.760 where to talk about subscribe rate and review and where 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:04.520 I'm from and who I am and how you should 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.240 listen to me, and so after that intro I would say, 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.959 but first before any of that. There have been several 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:12.720 instances where I said that on this podcast and had 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:14.840 to go back and correct it. So not too bad 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:17.439 so far. It's been a good transition. Next one here 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:20.800 from Ryan Hving at Dolphin Underscore Spartan. If we agree 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.160 the Fins will take either to a Herbert or Love 0:18:23.400 --> 0:18:25.879 with the fifth pick, would you trade the eighteenth and 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:28.360 twenty six picks to get back into the top ten 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:31.680 and take someone like Simmons or Beckton? And I hate 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.959 to sound like a broken record here, but the truth is, 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.200 any presumptive measures we make probably will take us down 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:40.400 a path that just is peer speculation. If we don't 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:44.440 have any concrete evidence or concrete proof that comes from 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.719 the mouth of Chris Career and Brian Flora's, then we 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.640 just don't know. But as far as being flexible, that's 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:51.760 part of the idea of gathering as many picks as 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.320 you can. It allows you to control the draft and 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.920 put yourself in a position where if you decide that 0:18:57.000 --> 0:19:00.320 player provides us a way bigger value by at that 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.320 spot compared to this player who is available later on, 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.280 then you can pull the trigger and go up there 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:07.720 and trade the draft picks accordingly, or you can go 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.640 back and restock draft picks next year by trading back 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.400 down the board. So to answer your question about Simmons 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.480 and Beckton, both those guys are really really good players. 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.600 Isaiah Simmons is really unlike any player I think that's 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:22.040 in this year's draft class or plenty of draft classes 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:26.800 before this. McKay Beckton just that rare size and athletic 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.199 combination you just don't see on an offensive lineman. So 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.199 both those guys are really really good football players. This 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.600 one from Mike Conso at Conso five. What is the 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:37.960 biggest transition you've had to make going from Locked on 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:41.640 Dolphins to drive Time? I'd probably say just being more 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.560 receptive to having people help me, because with Locked on 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.760 Dolphins that was a one man band operation. Every single 0:19:47.800 --> 0:19:49.800 thing that went into that outside of the network and 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.720 the platform was all me. But now I have this 0:19:52.800 --> 0:19:55.560 world class audio team, when world class video team and 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:58.479 graphics team, and all the folks at Miami Dolphins dot 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.879 com that put the articles together there and tweet it 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:03.879 out and run the social accounts. It's it's really really 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.000