Speaker 1: Practice are as Fatric drawing. What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphans? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and every day.
Speaker 1: How's it going, everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, I am
Speaker 1: back and ready to talk some football. It's great to
Speaker 1: be back in the saddle once again. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have any planned segments or really any
Speaker 1: order to the show. It's been a wild two weeks
Speaker 1: for me, adjusting to fatherhood and balancing my schedule in
Speaker 1: between feedings, diaper changes, and just general sleep deprivation. I've
Speaker 1: been studying up on some football, so I'll unload the
Speaker 1: notebook I've packed full of thoughts and we'll play some
Speaker 1: sound from some interviews I did for the draft for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins Virtual Draft Party. All of that and
Speaker 1: more on this Monday, June eight edition of the Drivetime Podcast.
Speaker 1: So for new listeners to the program here that aren't
Speaker 1: on Twitter or following me at Wingfield NFL, and if
Speaker 1: you're wondering where the show has been, the Dolphins were
Speaker 1: kind enough to give me as much time as I
Speaker 1: needed before jumping back on the microphone. And of course,
Speaker 1: with things being a little bit upside down right now,
Speaker 1: not a whole lot of football to talk about, I
Speaker 1: took some time away and in that time I learned
Speaker 1: a lot, mostly about fatherhood. More on that in just
Speaker 1: one moment, but man, I learned just how much this podcast,
Speaker 1: how much this sport and this team really are my
Speaker 1: personal identity. I talked with my wife all the time
Speaker 1: about the possibility of her making a career change or
Speaker 1: maybe even becoming a stay at home mom. She's been
Speaker 1: a teacher for about a decade now, and I'm not
Speaker 1: just saying the because she's my wife, but she is
Speaker 1: like the Dan Marino of teachers. She's flat out elite
Speaker 1: and she loves to do it. I tweeted about it once.
Speaker 1: I love listening to her take these zoom calls from
Speaker 1: her students because right now she has a couple of
Speaker 1: hours every day where she's required to make herself available
Speaker 1: in case the kids her students have questions about the
Speaker 1: homework packet that they collectively send out as a grade
Speaker 1: and they rarely ever call in, but when they do,
Speaker 1: it puts her right in her element and the kids
Speaker 1: love her. It reminds me of that Brian Flores to
Speaker 1: player relationship, where he and she are demanding but definitely
Speaker 1: have that love from their players and or students. In
Speaker 1: case of my wife, it absolutely warms my heart to
Speaker 1: watch that. So when we talk about a career change
Speaker 1: for her, she talks about how teaching really became her
Speaker 1: identity over the last ten years. And I think that's
Speaker 1: okay to feel that way. You want to love your work, right, well, man,
Speaker 1: you're not going to find a human being on this
Speaker 1: earth that loves their work more than I do. And
Speaker 1: now as I'm living to serve my beautiful new daughter,
Speaker 1: there's a bit of an identity loss when it comes
Speaker 1: to the individual there. So I can't tell you how
Speaker 1: great it feels to be back in the saddle, to
Speaker 1: be back behind the microphone recording the Drivetime podcast once again.
Speaker 1: The notes I have for my episodes are usually bullet points.
Speaker 1: I've got some research facts in there. I'll go back
Speaker 1: over tweets and then I just kind of do my thing.
Speaker 1: But this thing has pages of notes because for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks, I've been preparing for this show.
Speaker 1: In particular, even when I'm not working, I'm usually watching
Speaker 1: game pass or college tape or something that teaches me
Speaker 1: anything about football. I just love it. I love this job,
Speaker 1: I love this team. I love all of you, and
Speaker 1: especially I love little Caroline Faye Winkfield and a little
Speaker 1: bit of a snap foo on social media when she
Speaker 1: was born, and I guess a little bit of a
Speaker 1: peek behind the curtain, a laville magnifico, if you will.
Speaker 1: I posted on social media that her middle name, Faye
Speaker 1: was spelled f A y e be because that's my
Speaker 1: wife's middle name. But I messed that up. There's no
Speaker 1: e on the end of it. But Caroline Faye Wingfield
Speaker 1: was born May one at seven thirty two pm. She
Speaker 1: measured in at seven pounds eight ounce is long, and
Speaker 1: I think she clocked a four five five in the
Speaker 1: forty yard dash, so not the time that we were
Speaker 1: looking for, but she did pick it up on the
Speaker 1: explosive measurements in the broad and vertical jumps, so I
Speaker 1: think that probably solidifies her day two stock for us.
Speaker 1: It was three days at the hospital, me glued to
Speaker 1: the dad couch. Really not a whole lot for me
Speaker 1: to do. You've got doctors and nurses pouring in constantly,
Speaker 1: no visitors allowed because of COVID, and that was tough,
Speaker 1: especially for my wife. I don't have a big family,
Speaker 1: so it doesn't really bother me that much, but she does,
Speaker 1: and so I'm just kind of sitting there without much
Speaker 1: to do most of the time. And since we had
Speaker 1: popped into the hospital a day earlier and were sent
Speaker 1: home because she just wasn't ready to go into labor yet,
Speaker 1: I decided I need something to do, so why not
Speaker 1: rewatch twenty nineteen Dolphins season. I never rewatched any of
Speaker 1: those September games for obvious reasons outside of my All
Speaker 1: twenty two breakdowns, but I wanted to experience the entire
Speaker 1: season again from the broadcast version, and we know the
Speaker 1: season gets better as it goes along, and it kind
Speaker 1: of reminds me of you know when you have a
Speaker 1: song where you love like a solo or maybe this
Speaker 1: bridge part at the very end of the song, but
Speaker 1: it only slaps the same way when you listen to
Speaker 1: the song all the way through it. It was kind
Speaker 1: of like that so I wanted to appreciate the first
Speaker 1: part of the season. Right now, I'm about nine games
Speaker 1: into the season and I have a ton to talk about.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that football stuff here in just one second,
Speaker 1: but back real quick to fatherhood. Man. Everyone tells you
Speaker 1: how much it's going to change you, how special it's
Speaker 1: going to feel, and all the things that experienced Dad's
Speaker 1: understand and otherwise you don't understand. And I'll say this,
Speaker 1: they were right, every single one of them, and in
Speaker 1: every single way. Dude, I was a freaking water works
Speaker 1: right after she was born. I couldn't handle it. I
Speaker 1: could not keep those motions and check the whole first week.
Speaker 1: She'd be awake or even sleeping, it didn't matter, and
Speaker 1: I would just hold her and feel so much pride
Speaker 1: and so much joy that I just couldn't contain it. Man,
Speaker 1: Like those pregnancy hormones must have been transferred from my
Speaker 1: wife to me. I was just a wreck. Like every
Speaker 1: couple of hours it seemed like I would break down.
Speaker 1: But that has faded a little bit now. I'm just
Speaker 1: overly infatuated with that little girl. Yeah, it's frustrating at times,
Speaker 1: especially at two am when the only goal I have
Speaker 1: in life at that moment is keeping the baby somewhat
Speaker 1: silent so my wife can get some much needed and
Speaker 1: much deserved shut eye, and then she's just crying relentlessly.
Speaker 1: That part is tough, but the tradeoff is insanely worth it.
Speaker 1: You lose several hours in the day just basically doing
Speaker 1: mundane stuff like eating lunch and halfing to take a
Speaker 1: break in between that because well, she needs a diaper
Speaker 1: change or she's crying. It's just stuff that you learn
Speaker 1: to appreciate, the small moments of quiet, the small moments
Speaker 1: of individuality. I think that's part of having a kid.
Speaker 1: And I definitely have a new appreciation for people that
Speaker 1: do have kids and when they show up to places late,
Speaker 1: because I already understand how difficult it is to have
Speaker 1: to get someone else ready. In addition to yourself, the
Speaker 1: benefit one of the benefits is the excuses you have
Speaker 1: to tell people. Now you can just tell them no,
Speaker 1: because if you have somewhere they want you to be
Speaker 1: and you have a kid, you can just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we're on parent duty, we're out. It's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: Already used that once or twice. The first couple of
Speaker 1: days were brutal. Then we had some easy ones, and
Speaker 1: that roller coaster has pretty much continued on that track
Speaker 1: as I talked to you. Now, I'm waiting any moment
Speaker 1: for her to wake up and possibly have to go
Speaker 1: take care of her, so we might have a pause
Speaker 1: in the middle of this podcast. But all things told,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I feel so lucky to be in this position.
Speaker 1: I am so thrilled and excited to raise her in
Speaker 1: a place like South Florida, where diversity is both rich
Speaker 1: and celebrated, and give her a better life than the
Speaker 1: one that I had. It truly does change you. It
Speaker 1: has changed me, and part of that change has been
Speaker 1: the challenge of finding time to work when you do
Speaker 1: work from home. Last week I had a chance to
Speaker 1: write a story about the Miami Dolphins food relief program
Speaker 1: and chip in my contribution. They're really cool thing that
Speaker 1: Mr Ross, Tom Garfinkel, Jason Jenkins, all those guys are
Speaker 1: getting done right now. Ross donated two million dollars and
Speaker 1: will match up to another million of our contributions, so
Speaker 1: make sure you check that out. The donations come with
Speaker 1: gifts depending on the amount you want to give, So
Speaker 1: let's do our part to help those at need right
Speaker 1: now in our own backyard, as we will provide at
Speaker 1: least one thousand meals per day for the next year plus,
Speaker 1: which is just awesome, because, as Garfinkel said, this isn't
Speaker 1: a problem that's just gonna go away. We got to
Speaker 1: continue to lend that helping hand. So I wrote the
Speaker 1: story about that. I was there for Flores as presser
Speaker 1: on Thursday, which was a nice surprise as he filled
Speaker 1: in for the originally scheduled Ted Harriss and Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and he opened up by saying he thought it was
Speaker 1: important to be the first one to talk about the
Speaker 1: current climate, and since football wasn't really on people's minds
Speaker 1: at the time, I just thought that was a really
Speaker 1: cool move by an excellent leader in coach Flores. As
Speaker 1: for the presser, I stand with coach there and echo
Speaker 1: his thoughts. So I put together a little note packet
Speaker 1: on one of the guys that was supposed to talk
Speaker 1: on Thursday and was going to be part of a
Speaker 1: coinciding podcast, but those plans obviously changed, and that was
Speaker 1: last year's first round pick in twenty nineteen, Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: And that's where we're gonna start with the football notebook today.
Speaker 1: And I think this quote is so important from Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: It was last December after the win over the Bengals,
Speaker 1: and Flores was asked what it is about Wilkins that
Speaker 1: he's always the first one to run down and celebrate
Speaker 1: with his teammates, whether it's a touchdown and interception, whatever
Speaker 1: it is, he's the first guy out there to celebrate
Speaker 1: a positive play. This is coaches quote quote. It just
Speaker 1: says he's a team guy, which we knew when we
Speaker 1: drafted him. He's selfless. He understands the different roles and
Speaker 1: how important each guy's role is. Again, says he's selfless.
Speaker 1: He's a team guy. And I think we have a
Speaker 1: lot of guys like that on the team who really
Speaker 1: appreciate the horror work that everybody in that locker room
Speaker 1: puts in each week, into each practice, into each meeting.
Speaker 1: And I think he should celebrate. I tell those guys
Speaker 1: all the time, we work hard. When we make a
Speaker 1: good play, we should celebrate it. Nothing crazy, but as
Speaker 1: long as we don't get a penalty, I'm good. We
Speaker 1: should celebrate good plays. And quote and put aside Wilkins
Speaker 1: on field production just for a moment, because I think
Speaker 1: that was obviously the feather you want in his cap
Speaker 1: from last year, a good rookie season on the field.
Speaker 1: But remember this was the first draft pick of the
Speaker 1: Brian Flores Chris career marriage, the regime of the two
Speaker 1: of those two men, It's set the precedent and the
Speaker 1: message for who they want to be in this football
Speaker 1: team in multiple ways. You heard it in that quote.
Speaker 1: You've heard it countless times from Brian Flores teammates, guys
Speaker 1: that are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be great.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's lost on anybody. Go back
Speaker 1: to when Christian was drafted. I was with Locked on
Speaker 1: Sports at the time, and I did my huge deep
Speaker 1: dive on both the player and the person and learned
Speaker 1: that Wilkins was the substitute teacher during his time at Clemson,
Speaker 1: and he referenced his ability to make an impact on
Speaker 1: the lives of young people. He specifically referenced the importance
Speaker 1: of a role model for those children that was a
Speaker 1: person of color, and damn it, he's right. I got
Speaker 1: a chance to ask me about that job when I
Speaker 1: interviewed him back in early March. Actually, my first Dolphins
Speaker 1: player I interviewed here on the Drivetime podcast really resonated
Speaker 1: with the fact that you did a substitute teaching spot
Speaker 1: or some substitute teaching jobs back in your time at Clemson.
Speaker 1: What can you tell us about teaching and what it
Speaker 1: taught you about kind of being a professional in that regard. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: first of all, um, you're you're right on point. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm just so blessed to be able to play this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's literally a kid's game when I get
Speaker 1: to play it as a job, and it's something I
Speaker 1: love and I'm so passionate about and I'm just straining
Speaker 1: best to be able to play the game. Um. But
Speaker 1: it was awesome when I was at Clemson to be
Speaker 1: able to teach, Uh, you know, I was able to
Speaker 1: be the substitute teacher pretty much the home spring of
Speaker 1: my senior senior seeing the senior year. Um, and it
Speaker 1: was just it's just it was it was actually pretty
Speaker 1: cool to see how many of the things I learned
Speaker 1: in football I translated to the professional world. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: that was pretty cool to see, just like time, menationment,
Speaker 1: being organized, having a plan, having a routines that come
Speaker 1: up there and just you know, just trying to be
Speaker 1: your best because other people are counting on you. So
Speaker 1: that's that was kind of like what was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: But I I thought it was important for me uh
Speaker 1: to be a substitute teacher when I was at Colluption
Speaker 1: just because one of it was it was my senior year.
Speaker 1: I wanted a little extra money, so I was able
Speaker 1: to do that at a job here, So that was cool.
Speaker 1: And I felt like those also something I'd be good at.
Speaker 1: Two and the book was cool for me. Uh And
Speaker 1: when I thought the cool the kids, that was pretty
Speaker 1: cool was that, um, when you're when you're a young kid,
Speaker 1: you are just throughout your school career in general, you
Speaker 1: don't typically uh get to have a male teacher a
Speaker 1: lot of time as females. So I thought that was
Speaker 1: cool and not only to be mail, but to be
Speaker 1: a black male teachering and stuff and being and being
Speaker 1: trying to be a positive role model on positive figure
Speaker 1: for a lot of us, because that was that was
Speaker 1: an awesome experience for me and I I learned so
Speaker 1: much from the kids, just as much as even more
Speaker 1: than I was going to teach them. So a look,
Speaker 1: none of us know how the on field product is
Speaker 1: going to turn out. That is the beauty of sports.
Speaker 1: And you know, I'm as bullish on this team and
Speaker 1: their ability to win games as anybody out there, and
Speaker 1: I've laid out those reasons countless times. But beyond that,
Speaker 1: you just have to be proud of the organization for
Speaker 1: who we are, both in the words of leadership and
Speaker 1: the actions of those same leaders. It's so inspiring. It
Speaker 1: makes me very prideful. As far as on the field,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, this from Pro Football Focus, actually had the
Speaker 1: second most pressures with thirty by a rookie interior defensive
Speaker 1: lineman since two thousand sixteen, per Pro Football Focus. And
Speaker 1: I took that tweet from them and took the opportunity
Speaker 1: to post some clips of Christian Wilkins. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I think is so important with Christian and
Speaker 1: from that podcast back in March, he even mentions it
Speaker 1: about the more things you can do, the better chances
Speaker 1: you have of sticking around this league longer. And I
Speaker 1: think above his ability to lead and have that infectious
Speaker 1: personality and the ruboff that work ethic has onto other guys,
Speaker 1: is who he is on the football field. And if
Speaker 1: you go back to Clemson's tape, you're gonna see him
Speaker 1: winning a lot with quickness, and that's certainly an element
Speaker 1: of his game. There's very much there as a professional.
Speaker 1: But where I was so impressed was his ability to
Speaker 1: hold the point and play with power and to really
Speaker 1: read and react accordingly, because that is too gapping, right,
Speaker 1: And we know there's more of that from last year's defense,
Speaker 1: and you saw a lot of it. Duo is a
Speaker 1: blocking scheme that's very common a run play where you
Speaker 1: basically get to double teams on the interior trying to
Speaker 1: wipe out the beef of the defensive line. Then the
Speaker 1: running back can make linebackers in the second level miss
Speaker 1: on his own right. So you'll see some reps where
Speaker 1: Wilkins has to absorb a double team and the primary
Speaker 1: goal is just to park his butt in that gap.
Speaker 1: They want to move you out of that gap, you
Speaker 1: have to stop them from doing so. And my goodness,
Speaker 1: he's so strong in the way he can just anchor
Speaker 1: on one foot, doesn't need both of them, just one
Speaker 1: ft power foot, lock it out, stop the momentum, and
Speaker 1: that's when the hand fight really begins. And he's so
Speaker 1: crafty that way. So if you have a game plan
Speaker 1: that calls for a lot of two gapping, he can
Speaker 1: do that. If you want to penetrate upfield and one gap, yep,
Speaker 1: he can do that too. And part of the idea
Speaker 1: we want to be able to be flexible in our
Speaker 1: game plan week to week depending on the opponent. Right,
Speaker 1: that's the plan. That's what he fits very well. But
Speaker 1: even further, his position versatility helps Brian Flores do the
Speaker 1: other thing that he's just as known for multiple fronts,
Speaker 1: and that's something I recognized in the rewatch and going
Speaker 1: back to camp and even preseason. There was a lot
Speaker 1: more variety early on, but I think as the year
Speaker 1: goes along, for whatever reason, be at injuries, maybe the
Speaker 1: flexible personnel you need for it is just not quite
Speaker 1: there yet. A lot of the stuff kind of went
Speaker 1: by the wayside, and we saw a lot more bear fronts,
Speaker 1: for instance, And that's how you wound up with both
Speaker 1: he and Devon god Shaw alternating so much between big
Speaker 1: end where they're playing that four technique head up over
Speaker 1: the offensive tackle and every position from that spot all
Speaker 1: the way inside, all the way to the zero technique
Speaker 1: head up over the nose tackle over the offensive center,
Speaker 1: and this is true really for the entire defense. Are
Speaker 1: you guys as familiar with my white board I have
Speaker 1: in my office locked on listeners? Certainly are, But if
Speaker 1: you're new, I maintain my own white board here for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. It's a cheat sheet. It's got every player
Speaker 1: of their number. I try to color coordinated based on
Speaker 1: how I think snap counts might go for that season.
Speaker 1: And I used to do it with the following distinctions
Speaker 1: on defense line, linebackers, corners, and safety, but we now
Speaker 1: know that's not going to give you an accurate depiction
Speaker 1: of this defense. So now I've got down lineman, edge
Speaker 1: off ball backers, and defensive backs. Because let's face it,
Speaker 1: if you're a dB in this defense, you can probably
Speaker 1: come down and play some true cover corner as well. McCain,
Speaker 1: row and rookie Brandon Jones all have done that as
Speaker 1: recently as last year with their exceptional cover skills, but
Speaker 1: are also safeties on the roster. But in this exercise,
Speaker 1: I really had a hell of a time figuring out
Speaker 1: where I had to put guys. Jason Strowbridge and Curtis
Speaker 1: Weaver I think are good examples two rookies in the
Speaker 1: fifth round. You'll read some tweets or whatever out there
Speaker 1: that say so and so is a five technique, But
Speaker 1: that's really selling a player short, especially these two guys.
Speaker 1: Strode Bridge played a little bit of everything up front
Speaker 1: at North Carolina, and then he gets the Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: and they talk about maybe playing him more off the
Speaker 1: end position because he played a little more inside at
Speaker 1: North Carolina, probably needing a few more pounds to stock
Speaker 1: up and play a true nose tackle or defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: So one week he does one thing, the next he
Speaker 1: might do another. And the same is true of Curtis Weaver,
Speaker 1: but probably working inside out compared to the converse with
Speaker 1: strode Bridge going outside in. And what I mean by
Speaker 1: that is strode Bridge probably plays the five technique, maybe
Speaker 1: the wide five and condensed his inside, whereas Weaver starts
Speaker 1: at the five technique and works outside to the edge
Speaker 1: position and maybe more of a stand up on ball
Speaker 1: type of linebacker. And that really is true of the
Speaker 1: entire roster. Where do I put loss in an og ball?
Speaker 1: The two free agents they can offer the same flexibility.
Speaker 1: How the hell do I classify Vince Beagle and Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle? These are good questions to have to find
Speaker 1: solutions for because the more guys you have, the better, right,
Speaker 1: So if you have to figure it out, then what
Speaker 1: do you think the opponent has to do? They have
Speaker 1: to spend their week figuring out what you want to
Speaker 1: do as well. And so because of that, I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the kitchen sinc this year from Flores
Speaker 1: in every look he has in his playbook and adventure
Speaker 1: to guess that playbook is the size of a phone book,
Speaker 1: is on the table, odd front, even front, under bear, marble, Amba, radar.
Speaker 1: I can rattle off all these different names for you,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure they're probably in the thought process of
Speaker 1: being in that playbook and that man, that fact I
Speaker 1: am very excited about. In all right, what else here? Okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I tweeted yesterday about the NFL network re airing the
Speaker 1: a f C Championship Game and the Super Bowl Patriots
Speaker 1: and Chiefs and Patriots and Rams. Those games played in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, but for the season where Flores called the
Speaker 1: plays against the Chiefs and Rams and really did a
Speaker 1: hell of a job limiting two of the best offenses
Speaker 1: in football that year, save one half where Mahomes got
Speaker 1: loose because well, that's what he does. He's Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: fifty touchdown passes and VP that year, but he was
Speaker 1: under fifty complete in that first half, and they shut
Speaker 1: the Chief's offense out and just generally had the Chief's
Speaker 1: offense off balance with the contained rush scheme and good
Speaker 1: coverage on the back end. And I see the parts
Speaker 1: we have here in Miami. Guys that can occupy blockers,
Speaker 1: execute games up front with stunts and pick stunts, twists,
Speaker 1: maintain their particular gap to help free up rushers to
Speaker 1: delay blitz maybe just to hem the quarterback inside the
Speaker 1: pocket so he has to stand stationary and make a
Speaker 1: play from that spot, opposed to breaking the pocket and
Speaker 1: getting outside, which then causes the coverage to really spread
Speaker 1: out and basically become impossible to defend, especially when you've
Speaker 1: got Tyreek Hill and Nicole Hardman, Sammy Watkins all of
Speaker 1: that absurd speed the quarterback gets outside, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're in chase and catch up mode. And then in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, just putting the absolute clamps on what
Speaker 1: was the highest scoring offense and football that year. Nobody
Speaker 1: had figured out the Rams offense that season until that game.
Speaker 1: So that's I think what I'm most excited about for
Speaker 1: camp this season just to see the variety of looks
Speaker 1: we get and who is playing which spot in each
Speaker 1: of those different packages, and who's playing a multitude of
Speaker 1: roles across several different packages. This is the kind of stuff, man,
Speaker 1: that gets me excited. It is in the weeds of football,
Speaker 1: and this team gives us a good chance to take
Speaker 1: a look at that. And you know what, this is
Speaker 1: true on offense as well. It's not just a defensive thing.
Speaker 1: I think we get a little bit narrow with our
Speaker 1: focus in regards to who plays where on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. And it helps that both Parker
Speaker 1: and Williams looked like straight up problems for defenses last
Speaker 1: year on the outside. But both those guys can play
Speaker 1: inside too, and you look at their frames and think
Speaker 1: maybe the shiftiness required to play inside might be a problem,
Speaker 1: but that's where looks are deceiving. Williams can absolutely sink
Speaker 1: his hips, drop his pads and get in and out
Speaker 1: of breaks, and Parker can flat out bully the opposition
Speaker 1: with his size and power. And that was my favorite
Speaker 1: part about watching him this year was the way he
Speaker 1: really used that frame as a blockout mechanism and those
Speaker 1: long arms to attack the football and make hands catches.
Speaker 1: That's all I should say. Secondary to the way he
Speaker 1: would drop his shoulder and run through tackles on defensive
Speaker 1: backs last year. I love watching that. So both of
Speaker 1: those guys can play inside. I tweeted out a photo
Speaker 1: on Saturday from the Buffalo game where the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: in a two back twenty one personnel set. That's Chandler
Speaker 1: Cox is the fullback, and I think it was Drake
Speaker 1: at running back with Kasiki the tight end. They flex
Speaker 1: the fullback out to a plus split as the one,
Speaker 1: and so are you're talking about offensive formations, your widest
Speaker 1: split receiver is the one, next guy insides two, the
Speaker 1: next guy inside that is your three, and so forth
Speaker 1: and so on. So they had Cox out wide as
Speaker 1: the one, then Williams inside as the two, and Parker
Speaker 1: the furthest inside as the three. And what that does
Speaker 1: is creates a void in the middle of the field
Speaker 1: because you have to send a linebacker or somebody. In
Speaker 1: this case, it was a linebacker because Buffalo wasn't a
Speaker 1: four three look. You have to send them out wide
Speaker 1: to account for Chandler Cox. Because You can't just leave
Speaker 1: that guy alone. Somebody has to go at least for
Speaker 1: him up in man coverage, so he gets all the
Speaker 1: way out there, lines up across from Cox. Then you
Speaker 1: get inside access on a slant route with no one
Speaker 1: there to challenge it or to reroute, and you have
Speaker 1: a natural rub route from Devonte Parker and they do
Speaker 1: a little switch release where you just cross at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and that does the trick. It's easy
Speaker 1: schematics to get a guy open in the football game.
Speaker 1: We saw it last year with those guys because of
Speaker 1: their flexibility on offense, and that's what this offense can
Speaker 1: be just based on those parts alone. You can put
Speaker 1: the defense in a package that does not match up
Speaker 1: well because they have to pick one idea and defend that,
Speaker 1: and then from there you can check to something completely
Speaker 1: different within that same personnel grouping. I think that's where
Speaker 1: Gaily can really show his salt by having an easily
Speaker 1: communicatable system that can be so adaptable on the fly.
Speaker 1: And it's not just Williams and Parker. Albert Wilson can
Speaker 1: play inside, obviously, he can also play the backfield. He
Speaker 1: can aligns a h back, he can take wildcat snaps.
Speaker 1: He can operate as the jet sweep guy. Sam is
Speaker 1: true of Jachem Grant backfield wildcat jet sweep slot. And
Speaker 1: I still think he's the best when he's outside where
Speaker 1: he can really stretch the defense with that vertical speed.
Speaker 1: And I know you've seen Jachim's workout videos he's been
Speaker 1: posting on Instagram and Twitter. This dude's looking sharp, he's
Speaker 1: looking fresh, he's looking healthy this offseason. Here's a fun
Speaker 1: tidbit you won't get anywhere else. We talked for about
Speaker 1: twenty minutes Jachim and I for the Virtual Draft Party interview,
Speaker 1: and one of the questions I asked him was about
Speaker 1: when he was on the NFL Network show titled Undrafted,
Speaker 1: and he talked a lot about how challenging it was
Speaker 1: to film that stuff because his kids were obviously in
Speaker 1: the house, and it made that show and doing that
Speaker 1: show a little bit harder for mom and dad. And
Speaker 1: he also talked about how parents sometimes just gotta bite
Speaker 1: the bullet and eat whatever the kids are gonna be
Speaker 1: eating themselves, so chicken nuggets and mac and cheese, all
Speaker 1: that processed food. But he's making better nutrition choices and
Speaker 1: the best part was how he told me he stays
Speaker 1: in shape. I asked him about a second sport he
Speaker 1: might play, because most guys talk about basketball, and I
Speaker 1: bet each and every one of you will never guess.
Speaker 1: I'll give you five seconds. What was Jachem Grant's second sport? Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're a sport. But before I
Speaker 1: started doing, before I started playing football, I was speed skater.
Speaker 1: Which is it like in line speed skates. I actually
Speaker 1: got my own, uh inline speed skates and I usually
Speaker 1: go out and work out in those actually, like go
Speaker 1: for miles and with my little brother and we just
Speaker 1: skater escape for miles and miles and miles. So speed skating.
Speaker 1: Did anybody have that? No? I bet you didn't imagine
Speaker 1: that guy, that aerodynamic, that fast, just ripping up the track.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's got to be a gold medal
Speaker 1: contender if he did speed skating full time. But back
Speaker 1: to the football field man, he was deadly in camp
Speaker 1: last year. The way press role works at the Dolphins
Speaker 1: practice facility is it's tucked away up in the upper
Speaker 1: corner and that's usually where the receivers do their one
Speaker 1: on one drills in the pre practice portion. Quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: another spot of the field offensive lines on the other side,
Speaker 1: down in the corner by the TNT wall. And at
Speaker 1: one point I was keeping track of how many times
Speaker 1: the crowd would oh and awe when something happened, but
Speaker 1: I lost track because Jachim was such a damn jitterbug
Speaker 1: off the line. The guys simply could not get a press,
Speaker 1: could not jam him off the line. So he uncovers quickly,
Speaker 1: and he does it by a wide margin, a good
Speaker 1: chunk of separation. I am pumped to see that guy
Speaker 1: healthy and ready to roll again. Isaiah Ford, he too
Speaker 1: plays inside and outside. Alan Hearns does as well. How
Speaker 1: about the running backs, Jordan Howard, you talk about scheme
Speaker 1: diverse players, He's as scheme diverse as they come. Matt
Speaker 1: Brita did a whole bunch of different things, and that
Speaker 1: wide Kyle Shanahan offense, flexing out as a receiver, as
Speaker 1: a slot, a flanker, getting outside zone, stretch zone, split zone.
Speaker 1: In San Francisco, Malcolm Perry does everything under the sun.
Speaker 1: Calin Blass was the Wildcat trigger man at times. Patrick
Speaker 1: Laird caught a million balls in college and showed his
Speaker 1: skills there last year as well, Miles Gascon a production
Speaker 1: machine through his vision, patients and his own versatility. Then
Speaker 1: there's height end, where Mike Gassicki might just be the
Speaker 1: best slot receiver on the entire team. Man. He showed
Speaker 1: major strides last year playing in line, getting off press,
Speaker 1: getting into the route. And then there's that gorgeous body
Speaker 1: control and ability to make plays vertically for Mike Gasicki.
Speaker 1: So back to the idea of playing the slot position,
Speaker 1: Let's just go ahead and check the numbers from Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus. Devonte Parker plays one nine out of nine
Speaker 1: five snaps in the slot. Jachem Grant plays ninety six
Speaker 1: out of to eighteen one thirteen out wide, so he
Speaker 1: split almost evenly with one thirteen out wide in the slot.
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson plays three thirty two out of his four
Speaker 1: thirty nine in the slot position, so his primary spot
Speaker 1: is in fact, slot fifteen in the backfield one at
Speaker 1: quarterback as a wildcat trigger man. Preston Williams just eighteen
Speaker 1: out of four oh four, the smallest amount, but I'm
Speaker 1: curious to know how they count that in twin formations,
Speaker 1: when you have two receivers to one side and twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: you put double wise to one side, double tight ends
Speaker 1: to one side, two receivers to the other, so you
Speaker 1: have a split receiver out wide and one in the slot.
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki four sixty one out of seven oh one
Speaker 1: one of us were in line as a true tight end,
Speaker 1: seventy eight all the way out wide as a plus
Speaker 1: souped up receiver, and four in the backfield. Alan Hearns
Speaker 1: had two fifty four with two fifty nine out wide,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah Ford played sixty eight in the slot and
Speaker 1: one fifty two out wide. So when you ask who's
Speaker 1: playing the slot, the answer is everybody. All of them
Speaker 1: do it. And so while Williams has the fewest reps,
Speaker 1: he was among the most active when playing in the slot.
Speaker 1: He was targeted twenty six point seven percent of the
Speaker 1: time according to PFF, and that was the highest on
Speaker 1: the team over Albert Wilson's nineteen point four percent. A
Speaker 1: small sample size, but you move him in there when
Speaker 1: the matchup calls for it and take advantage. He also
Speaker 1: had one point six yards per route rund from the slot,
Speaker 1: that was best on the team, ahead of Davante Parkers
Speaker 1: one point four seven and just for comparison's sake. For
Speaker 1: my money, the best slot receiver in football is Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen from the charger, and he had a average of
Speaker 1: one point nine one yards per route run and the slot.
Speaker 1: Last year, Tyreek Hill was just ahead of him at
Speaker 1: one point nine three. So you get a feeling for
Speaker 1: these guys stack up against the best in the league.
Speaker 1: Then you've got Mike Asiki and check out this production
Speaker 1: from the slot. Kasicki among tight ends, was fourth in
Speaker 1: yards behind only Mark Andrews, Jared Cook, and Travis Kelsey.
Speaker 1: He was second in receptions behind just Mark Andrews, and
Speaker 1: third in touchdowns behind only Andrews and Cook. So consistently
Speaker 1: top four in the three major categories. So while the
Speaker 1: words versatility, flexibility, the more a guy can do all
Speaker 1: of it might sound cliche, it might act as lip
Speaker 1: service sometimes across the league, but here in Miami it's
Speaker 1: what they do and the numbers back that up. Alright,
Speaker 1: what else we got here? One more from the defensive backfield.
Speaker 1: This tweet resurfaced over the weekend taking a look at
Speaker 1: Byron Jones against top receivers in the NFL the last
Speaker 1: two years. Up against Michael Thomas two catches for twenty
Speaker 1: one yards. There from last year's leading receip eiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL in terms of catches, Alshon Jeffrey got blanked
Speaker 1: zero for zero. Stefon Diggs had one catch for eleven
Speaker 1: yards on Byron Jones. John Brown from Buffalo had one
Speaker 1: catch for six yards. Robert Woods and Brandon Cooks in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles back in ten had two catches total for
Speaker 1: nineteen yards total. Also in Odell Beckham for the Giants
Speaker 1: at the time went zero for zero, got blanked out
Speaker 1: by Byron Jones. Julio Jones had one catch for nineteen yards.
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas another time here zero for zero he gets blanked,
Speaker 1: and t Y Hilton of the Colts one catch for
Speaker 1: twenty three yards. So Jones gets himself a lot of
Speaker 1: big wins against a lot of big receivers. Cannot wait
Speaker 1: to watch what he can do. And two more guys
Speaker 1: in that backfield that I noticed that I also think
Speaker 1: really exemplify what this defense does on the back end,
Speaker 1: because Jones can play safety, can play slot, can play outside,
Speaker 1: he does everything are Eric Row and Bobby McCain. Let's
Speaker 1: start with Roe, who I had tweeted out a week
Speaker 1: or two ago that we just don't talk enough about
Speaker 1: how productive he was season. His pick six in Week
Speaker 1: seven team was pretty much the difference in that game,
Speaker 1: at least on the scoreboard, those seven points with the
Speaker 1: difference and winning and losing for that big w But
Speaker 1: from the time he moved into more of a safety role,
Speaker 1: his impact was more immediate. And I don't want to
Speaker 1: say he was just a safety again because he does
Speaker 1: so much, but from Week six on, when he began
Speaker 1: covering up more tight ends, more running backs, playing more
Speaker 1: in the box, he allowed just twenty four catches on
Speaker 1: forty five targets. That's complete for two hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: seven yards. That's five point oh four yards per target.
Speaker 1: And for reference, Davante Parker's yards per target last year
Speaker 1: was nine point four and at tight end, Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: the best in the league was at nine point oh
Speaker 1: top tight end who has wide receiver stats was almost
Speaker 1: double what Eric Row allowed covering primarily tight ends. But
Speaker 1: that's not to say he's just doing that. I tweeted
Speaker 1: out two clips. One was against Paul Richardson and Washington
Speaker 1: and the other against Dawson Knox and Buffalo. One a
Speaker 1: receiver won a tight end, and the beauty of this
Speaker 1: was there the same type of plays a mesh concept,
Speaker 1: and all of meshes as two receivers crossing trying to
Speaker 1: create confusion for the hook defender, the linebacker, the safety
Speaker 1: whoever happens to be covering that spot on the defense.
Speaker 1: And so Rowe has to fight through a pick, and
Speaker 1: he was more than capable of working through that traffic
Speaker 1: and showing the closing speed, not to mention the ball
Speaker 1: skills to get his hand in there and poke it away.
Speaker 1: You can find those clips on my Twitter at Winkfield,
Speaker 1: NFL under the media tab. And oh yeah, he's also
Speaker 1: a really damn good tackler and one of the favorite
Speaker 1: defensive looks. Will often bring the safety down inside your
Speaker 1: overhang linebacker. You've seen Patrick Chung do it in New
Speaker 1: England for years, and Rowe did a bunch of it
Speaker 1: last year to the tune of nineteen run stops over
Speaker 1: the final twelve games since that switch. Those are tackles
Speaker 1: within two yards of the line of scrimmage and Bobby
Speaker 1: mccame he acts similar in a lot of ways by
Speaker 1: how he's able to come down and cover up close.
Speaker 1: I mean we knew that from his time at Memphis
Speaker 1: and into the NFL early on in his career, earning
Speaker 1: that extension primarily as a slot guy. But he wasn't
Speaker 1: exclusive to the slot in those days either. He played wide,
Speaker 1: he played some safety, and now he does a lot
Speaker 1: of the same thing. Tons of range and instincts on
Speaker 1: the back end to fly around from that single high look.
Speaker 1: But I just love how you can bring him down
Speaker 1: to the point over trips. He can help redirect, he
Speaker 1: can match up, he can defend the run, he can
Speaker 1: blitz the quarterback. Bobby has a real knack for knifing
Speaker 1: his way through the inside as a blitzer and a
Speaker 1: quick aside, Real quick, I have two more players I
Speaker 1: want to talk about on this Dolphins defense. Speaking of
Speaker 1: instincts and knifing through. We'll get back to the DBS
Speaker 1: here in just one second. But man, you watch Ray
Speaker 1: Kawa McMillan diagnosed and trigger. My goodness, he can get
Speaker 1: where he needs to go in an absolute hurry and
Speaker 1: he arrives with force. That was one of the things
Speaker 1: I really had kind of forgotten about prior to this
Speaker 1: rewatch project. I'm doing just how well he played against
Speaker 1: the run last year. He keeps pulling guards where the
Speaker 1: fullback is in formation, and he's so quick to diagnose
Speaker 1: and hit his run. Fit one of my favorites on
Speaker 1: the team to watch in that regard. And then also
Speaker 1: a linebacker, you have his college teammate and NFL teammate
Speaker 1: in Jerome Baker, and he can flat out explode from
Speaker 1: zero to sixty when he's pursuing downhill when he's blitz
Speaker 1: in the quarterback. I saw him put Josh Allen down
Speaker 1: on a blitz last year where he arrived almost instantly
Speaker 1: at the snap. In the radar package, you got guys
Speaker 1: standing up all over the place. They picked their gaps
Speaker 1: at the snap, and I think this defense, with the
Speaker 1: size they now have upfront, particularly off the edge, and
Speaker 1: the rush contained scheme that creates avenues for those linebackers
Speaker 1: to really find and exploit, are really going to serve
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker and his speed and his explosiveness very very well.
Speaker 1: So back to the defensive backs watching the game against Washington,
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain has a really nice pass breakup in the
Speaker 1: end zone that forces a field goal in that game
Speaker 1: and help the Dolphins get back into that game late.
Speaker 1: He was outflanked pre snap and Chris Thompson, one of
Speaker 1: the better receiving backs in the NFL going back several years,
Speaker 1: has a little option where he fakes the block and
Speaker 1: then leaks out into the pattern and case Keenem tries
Speaker 1: to get the ball to him, and McCain, because of
Speaker 1: his priest nap alignment, is already out of position on
Speaker 1: the matchup, but he fights like hell to get back
Speaker 1: into good shape and plays the ball to force the PBu.
Speaker 1: You just love to see that effort, and you know
Speaker 1: that's what you're always going to get from Bobby in fact,
Speaker 1: in that game, and this is the reason I like
Speaker 1: to rewatch the broadcast version so much. You get so
Speaker 1: many tidbits from the broadcast crew that you otherwise wouldn't
Speaker 1: get from the all twenty two version. They asked Bobby
Speaker 1: in the production meeting before the game how he gathered
Speaker 1: the defense and talked about how this early season struggle
Speaker 1: it just wasn't gonna fly under his watch. He exudes
Speaker 1: that leadership that goes so far in that locker room,
Speaker 1: and in fact, you guessed it. We have a clip
Speaker 1: from Dolphins safety Bobby McCain about how important his leadership
Speaker 1: role is on this Dolphins defense. When you have when
Speaker 1: when you got goals in mind, when you got a
Speaker 1: team that wants to win, Uh, somebody I gotta step
Speaker 1: up with somebody, I say something regardless if you're eight
Speaker 1: year ved can be a rock, you know. And I
Speaker 1: feel like just with the guy with the guys, we
Speaker 1: just we picked up a lot of good free agents,
Speaker 1: got the draft coming up. We are, you know, and
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of good guys, good players on
Speaker 1: the team. And uh, but just knowing everybody, getting to
Speaker 1: know everybody, get to be around everyone. That's how you
Speaker 1: figure out personalities, and that's how you figure out who
Speaker 1: can who can, who can be talked to like you can't.
Speaker 1: You might not be able to talk to Xavian Howard
Speaker 1: the same way you can talk to Byron Jones, Like
Speaker 1: it just may not be able to happen ma talking.
Speaker 1: And you gotta learn that it takes time and takes
Speaker 1: the industry, and it takes just um just competing and
Speaker 1: being together. I think those are the tangible or intangible
Speaker 1: things rather you don't often think about as a football fan,
Speaker 1: how important us to find ways to lead in the
Speaker 1: proper way to lead each player, and Bobby understands that.
Speaker 1: I think that goes a long long way on a
Speaker 1: football team, especially a young team like the Dolphins. Alright,
Speaker 1: one more name I have here on my list stays
Speaker 1: in the defensive backfield. He is the second year cornerback
Speaker 1: out of you tep Nick need him and he didn't
Speaker 1: start getting considerable work until about mid season last year,
Speaker 1: and he really showed some skill there. I talked about
Speaker 1: Noah Ignogamy, this year's first round draft pick, number thirty overall,
Speaker 1: and his ability to change direction and the athletic ability
Speaker 1: with those sweet feet we call him, and man that
Speaker 1: too is Nick need Um. I had a tweet clip
Speaker 1: of Igbo a while back against Kyle Pitts and the
Speaker 1: Florida tight end. He's the early favorite for tight end
Speaker 1: one in draft class. Where Igbo back pedals, pivots, and
Speaker 1: drives off the same foot all in one fluid motion.
Speaker 1: There's a rap against Buffalo the first game in Buffalo
Speaker 1: at the end of the first quarter where Needham does
Speaker 1: pretty much the exact same thing going up against John Brown.
Speaker 1: You love to see that because it translates really well
Speaker 1: to those quick hit or routes ones you primarily see
Speaker 1: more inside. He was more exclusive last year on the
Speaker 1: outside Needham was. But I don't think it's out of
Speaker 1: the realm of possibilities to line him up to cover
Speaker 1: pretty much anywhere. Super active feet, smooth hips, and the
Speaker 1: kid can flat out compete and hold his own salt.
Speaker 1: I think that's why we saw him earning so much
Speaker 1: time last year with the first team early in camp.
Speaker 1: He just works the right way. So when I think
Speaker 1: about this defense in total man they can all cover.
Speaker 1: They built the front seven in a way that can
Speaker 1: really capitalize on how the on how they want to
Speaker 1: rush the quarterback, and they can disguise the rushers and
Speaker 1: most of all, they can disguise who might be covering who,
Speaker 1: whether you play man zero, one, two three, it's all
Speaker 1: fluid within this defense because of that flexibility. And that's
Speaker 1: it from my notebook. I have a couple more things
Speaker 1: I do want to touch on before we get out
Speaker 1: of here on a longer edition of the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 1: A couple other notes from the Brian Flores presser on Thursday,
Speaker 1: talked about how the coaches could return to the facility
Speaker 1: on Friday, June the five, as things start to open
Speaker 1: up a little bit more slowly. By slowly, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: will flesh out the plan for how to get people
Speaker 1: back in the building under Brian Flores call. There the
Speaker 1: Dolphins can return their coaching staff to the facility now
Speaker 1: as allowed by the National Football League. And also in
Speaker 1: that press conference, another question that really provides a good
Speaker 1: segue and for the off season program being virtual and
Speaker 1: how much coach wants to get his hands on the players.
Speaker 1: A member of the media asked about the development of
Speaker 1: quarterback to a tongue of byloa, how that's gone remotely,
Speaker 1: and coach said, quote the rookies in general, I think
Speaker 1: they've all based on what we can do. They've all
Speaker 1: done a good job. They're all in meetings, they're all learning,
Speaker 1: they're all doing everything they possibly can do to pick
Speaker 1: up the information to train. Quite honestly, it's hard not
Speaker 1: to have your hands on them. Specific to Touh, he's
Speaker 1: working hard, he's picking up the information, but you want
Speaker 1: to get your hands on them. Quite honestly, I think
Speaker 1: they're all doing a great job. I think they all
Speaker 1: have a long way to go. And so you can
Speaker 1: hear it in Flora's his tone when he speaks about
Speaker 1: it and just the text there that I read back
Speaker 1: to you. This guy is a football coach man. He
Speaker 1: wants to be out there teaching guys day in and
Speaker 1: day out, coaching them up, seeing little things in their game,
Speaker 1: helping them get things corrected, get things fixed, teaching them
Speaker 1: new things about their position, about the defense. That's just
Speaker 1: what a football coach wants to do. So I'm sure
Speaker 1: all these guys can't wait to get back out there
Speaker 1: and get their hands on the players and work with
Speaker 1: them up close and personal and get to get back
Speaker 1: on the football field and do some live in person
Speaker 1: coaching as all these guys I'm sure cannot wait to
Speaker 1: execute and get done. And on the topic of the
Speaker 1: rookies trying to get onto the football field as pros
Speaker 1: for the first time, one of these segments I wanted
Speaker 1: to cover on a podcast that came out right before
Speaker 1: my wife went into labor and we had to put
Speaker 1: a scrap on all. That was Ryan Fitzpatrick on the
Speaker 1: Eric Would What's Next podcast and that was back in
Speaker 1: I believe May seventeenth was the date on the episode,
Speaker 1: and Eric Would asked Ryan Fitzpatrick about his approach to
Speaker 1: his role in Miami and what he can offer with
Speaker 1: so much experience at the position. And I just thought
Speaker 1: his answer was so great and so intuitive and so
Speaker 1: just valuable for the Dolphins to have as an organization
Speaker 1: that I wanted to play it for you guys here
Speaker 1: on the podcast. When asked about his role in Miami
Speaker 1: and what they see in Ryan Fitzpatrick, well, I I
Speaker 1: think part of it is they have to take the
Speaker 1: back seat and have to watch. They had to watch
Speaker 1: how I operate. Not to say that what I do
Speaker 1: is perfect, but there are gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: things that they can pull for me that they like,
Speaker 1: and there's gonna be some things they can pull for
Speaker 1: me that they don't like, and they don't want that.
Speaker 1: But I think I have enough qualities that Miami has
Speaker 1: seen that they like and they would like another quarterback
Speaker 1: to have in them. Um. The other thing and bringing
Speaker 1: a new guy in that I always try to impress
Speaker 1: right away on these guys is like I am here again,
Speaker 1: zero ego, Like I have so much knowledge. I've made
Speaker 1: so many mistakes in this league in terms of the
Speaker 1: term decisions and throws, and I've learned how to prepare.
Speaker 1: I've learned so much about offenses and defenses and the
Speaker 1: way that guys operate. They ask questions like I'm an
Speaker 1: open book, ask me whatever you want. And so sometimes
Speaker 1: it's up to the younger guy to encourage might not
Speaker 1: be the right word, but have the courage to come
Speaker 1: up and ask questions and do not feel like he's
Speaker 1: a bother or a pain in the butt. And I
Speaker 1: just try to be open and honest with everything that
Speaker 1: they want to talk to me about, because I talked
Speaker 1: to my wife about this all the time. When I'm
Speaker 1: done playing football, Like, if I exit that world and
Speaker 1: don't either do what you're doing or transition into another
Speaker 1: role around football, I have so much knowledge in my
Speaker 1: mind that I've built up that like then just goes
Speaker 1: to waste, you know. So I want to pass on
Speaker 1: all these experiences and lessons and things that I've learned
Speaker 1: two younger guys, because when I came in, I had
Speaker 1: the same thing. I had guys that taught and showed
Speaker 1: me the way. So, um, I'm really excited. I'm excited
Speaker 1: that they drafted him, Like I'm excited because in Washington
Speaker 1: played Alabama, Like he looks like he's a pretty dynamic
Speaker 1: talent just in medium um a few times. Like he
Speaker 1: seems like an unbelievable kid, great head on his shoulders,
Speaker 1: like says the right things, wants to do the right things.
Speaker 1: So like, for me, I'm his biggest cheerleader right now,
Speaker 1: but I also want to be out there to play,
Speaker 1: and you know, I also want to be on the field,
Speaker 1: And that's kind of why I'm still doing it, because
Speaker 1: I still enjoy playing the game. UM, So hopefully some
Speaker 1: of the lessons I'm able to teach him or him
Speaker 1: watching me play. But if it's the other way around,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm going to do my best to help
Speaker 1: him succeed in the best way that he can. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any comment that needs to be
Speaker 1: made on that comment, because he hit it out of
Speaker 1: the park, an absolute grand slam of a comment. He
Speaker 1: then went on the Dolphins media or South Florida media
Speaker 1: availability later that week. It was actually the day my
Speaker 1: daughter was born, so I was not available for it,
Speaker 1: but he had a similar question where he basically said,
Speaker 1: So for me, I've been in this situation before a
Speaker 1: little bit. I just try to go in every day
Speaker 1: and be myself, even in the Zoom meetings. Right now,
Speaker 1: I just be myself. I'm an open book, and I
Speaker 1: try to make sure that they know and are comfortable
Speaker 1: with coming with to me with questions. I'm also going
Speaker 1: to express my opinions and thoughts on plays that we
Speaker 1: are watching in two minute drives. We're gonna be going
Speaker 1: over some stuff and my mind and the process and
Speaker 1: how I think through it right or wrong, just to
Speaker 1: provide some perspective. I'm excited for him to be here.
Speaker 1: I love watching him play in college. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be an awesome addition to the team for
Speaker 1: a long time. So just just an ideal set up
Speaker 1: there for Ryan Fitzpatrick, the exact right guy you want
Speaker 1: to have at the top of the quarterback room for
Speaker 1: a young player like two a tongue of vloa for
Speaker 1: Josh Rosen and Jake Rudoc in that quarterback room. Alright,
Speaker 1: So there you have it. That is the long extended
Speaker 1: edition here of the Monday, June eighth podcast Back on
Speaker 1: Drive Time. We are back and ready to full go ahead.
Speaker 1: This week, we're gonna have a Malcolm Perry deep dive
Speaker 1: character profile. Talk to Malcolm himself and three of his
Speaker 1: coaches there at Navy. That should be up tomorrow, I believe,
Speaker 1: if not sometime this week, we're gonna get to Know
Speaker 1: the Enemy series, gonna invite some of my friends from
Speaker 1: different media outlets around the country from the Dolphins thirteen
Speaker 1: opponents this year, we're gonna have I believe, the Patriots
Speaker 1: and Bills on this week. We'll do some positional previews
Speaker 1: heading up to training camp and how much I love
Speaker 1: writing those things up, getting to know each and every
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