WEBVTT - Drive Time: Malik Reed, DeShon Elliott, Dan Feeney and Jake Bailey Evaluations 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.600 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:15.840 looking gives at dolta water dolpen touchdock ton rick Hill unbelievable. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.120 Just flue fire for a second time to know where 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.320 he was going right away, hit of that man. I 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.360 want to help you soon up on his band away 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.880 he waddle, waddle to a shotgut back to the throw 0:00:28.000 --> 0:00:32.880 looking stups up fires, touchdop again it's waddle. It's six 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:38.920 touchdown padout of just two. Drivetime with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:41.640 Now let me check your pulse if you're not part 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:48.040 of what is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.400 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.040 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:56.160 --> 0:00:59.840 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we continue examining the 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:03.200 free agent class with a four spot of new player 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.040 breakdowns long episode today. Safety to Shaun Elliott, offensive lineman 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.919 Dan Feeney, outside linebacker Malik Reid, and punter Jake Bailey 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:13.960 are all here. They are all official. We'll look at 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.479 their tape, the telling stats, and their respective fits inside 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.960 the Dolphins program from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:26.600 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime podcast maya 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.920 Gaffe f and right before we get into player breakdowns, 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:35.400 it is official. From Monday, the Dolphins exercise two A 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.559 Tongue Blois fifth year option. He is the first player 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:41.320 under the new CBA and one of the first players 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.480 ever to have that option picked up in the month 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.080 of March. That deadline, of course, comes in May with 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.320 the Dolphins. Wasted no time here, and it's a no 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.160 brainer for a quarterback who led the NFL in passer rating, 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.880 was number two, against pressure number one, and average depth 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.280 of target top three to five and every quarterback metric 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.800 used by the most renowned football writers, analysts and pundits 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.560 out there. Our own head coach has told you many, 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.960 many times how much he loves this guy's game, whether 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:11.320 you talk about EPA adjusted yards per attempt. Feel free 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.760 to look at the leaderboards and you won't have to 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.919 scroll very far to find TWA Tongablo's name up on 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.480 those leaderboards. I know I've mentioned this a few times. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.120 The last couple of weeks. I've been rewatching the broadcast 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.679 copies of our games from this past season, and I 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.720 had kind of forgotten about the commentary on TA during 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:29.880 a pair of home games, and going to the home games, 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.720 I don't watch the broadcast as much on those ones 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:34.600 because I don't watch it live and don't pick those 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.880 things up to go back and rewatch to listen for them. 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:40.600 But Adam Archiletta and Jay Feeley, and you might recall 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:44.200 Archiletta back in the season opener was Dogginta, but he 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.959 wound up waxing poetically about how Tah saw the field, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.880 the accuracy he throws with, and I mean, I just 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.079 encourage all y'all to go back and watch it again, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.440 because any way you want to see your quarterback win, 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.520 TA was doing it during that stretch of play at 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:03.000 a high, high leveling around pressure, throwing on the move, anticipating. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.880 There's a play in the Bears game before the I 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.280 think it was the waddle touchdown in Chicago where he 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:11.800 gets away from an immediate pressure like somebody wins their 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.280 past rush rep and is in on twa In two seconds, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.760 he side steps away from the hit and throws the 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:18.720 ball away in the back of the end zone survive 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.960 the play gets a third down, then throw a touchdown 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:23.560 pass on third down. I get so descriptive about all 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:27.080 of it because I've been watching every throw by Dolphins 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.799 quarterbacks on tape on the All twenty two, over and 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.960 over multiple times since I wrote the book on Tannehill, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.160 which was an in depth film study of every single 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.240 throw in his career beginning back in twenty twelve. And 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.440 that's ten years. It's a decade, and I have not 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.760 seen anything close, anything anywhere near what to a tongue 0:03:45.760 --> 0:03:47.920 of Valoa did this past season, and that was year 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.480 one in the offense. I positively cannot wait to see 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.680 what it looks like for him with some continuity coming 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.360 back in year number two. When I asked Daniel Jeremiah 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.240 about that and explained to him that he had the 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:01.160 same play caller for the first time now in consecutive 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.040 years since high school, DJ had a genuine wow reaction 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:08.160 like that's crazy it is, DJ, like as if to say, Yeah, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.440 this is kind of a player who can really benefit 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:12.880 from returning to the same offense and the same play 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:15.400 caller who knows how that quarterback ticks and what makes 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.720 him successful. It's like going back to high school. Your 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:21.440 sophomore year. You know the campus, you know where to 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:25.200 find your locker, all that good stuff that comes with familiarity. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:29.240 Everybody operates a little more efficiently when you're familiar with 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.279 your surroundings. So what exactly is the fifth year option. 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.480 There are some stipulations, but the bones of it is this. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.840 It allows a team to extend a fifth year on 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.680 top of a first round draft picks original rookie contract 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.120 of four years. Pro Bowl appearances boost the cost of 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.600 that option. There's also playing time escalators, which is where 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:51.480 TWA lands in that category. So for his fifth year, 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.840 he earns a guaranteed one year salary That is the 0:04:55.279 --> 0:04:58.279 or average per year of the third through twentieth highest 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:03.400 paid players at your respect position obviously here quarterback over 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:06.520 the previous five years. That number comes around twenty three 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:09.240 million dollars. For the twenty twenty fourth season, which when 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.080 you look at the quarterback contracts right now, Daniel Jones 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:15.240 got over forty million dollars per year. It's pretty good 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.320 bargain there for a top five quarterback. Last season two 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:20.600 was on the fourth year of that rookie contract he 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.800 signed back in twenty twenty, so this year still relatively 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.280 or even cheaper than what the fifth year is. So 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.720 pretty straightforward, got it good? Speaking of continuity, I wanted 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.720 to begin here because we're evaluating one former New York 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:35.360 Jet here on the podcast. We've done too previously. Go 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.240 back and check those out if you have not heard 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.440 those episodes of the Drivetown podcast. And I really harped 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.320 on this with Mike White, not as much on Braxton 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.119 Barrios on the Monday podcast, but coming from the Jets 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.719 offense is akin to players who came from the Niners 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:54.240 a season ago. Mike Lafleur was the offensive coordinator there 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.039 the last two years. He spent the first seven years 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.840 of his NFL career working under Kyle Shanahan and by 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:03.120 proxy of that, Mike McDaniel as well. And while no 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.240 offense will ever be the same as far as an 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.800 exact replica, the same concepts and rules will have some 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.560 carry over when you've spent seven years working with the 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.440 same boss or bosses. Right, So then Mike White, Braxon Barrios, 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.440 and Dan Feenie get to be introduced to a concept 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.720 in OTA's, they'll be able to say, oh, yeah, we 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.919 did that and say that was like eighty five percent 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:26.960 of the way we did it previously. I can work 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.600 on that fifteen percent opposed to saying this is all 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.000 new one and have to work on that. So it's 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.400 nice to have that familiarity almost in the same sense 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.240 that you had last year with Moster Sherfield and Craycraft 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.480 coming over from San Francisco and coach McDaniel knows what 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.560 his offense needs right, he knows how to make it successful. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.480 I mean sixth and total offense eleventh and scoring. Despite 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.760 not having QB one for the better part of five 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.480 regular season games and not having the backup finish a 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.320 game until the Week eighteen game, shouldn't we trust that guy? 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.240 I feel like you should. So with that, let's go 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.279 ahead and get into Dan Fiene, who was a third 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.679 round pick out of Indiana and you locked on Dolphins. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:06.200 Faithful's know how much I loved his tape as a Hoosier. 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.920 He spent the first four years of his career, the 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.320 entirety of that rookie deal with the Los Angeles Chargers 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.520 before signing to the Jets and playing there the last 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.440 two seasons. Last year, we were fortunate enough to get 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:21.240 Connor Williams to one hundred percent of the offensive snaps, 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.120 so we never had to see what life was like 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.280 without him. But Phoene gives you a very dependable option 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.840 behind Williams. Not to mention the guard flexibility, and if 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:31.600 you look at what the reports are on that contract, 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.360 I don't think it's ruled out that he could be 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.880 the potential starting left guard this year. He screams top 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.080 into your bench. Off the guy to me though, ideally, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.080 and hey, if he wins that job, great, that gives 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.080 you better depth. Better competition is always a good thing. 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.000 And he's a veteran who's seen everything this league has 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.760 to offer. Experience and a very similar system, and a 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.240 guy who's well thought of by his coaches and teammates. 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.680 The Jets. Lafleur of the OC said of Phoenie when 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.760 he signed with the Jets, He'll just dust off some 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.120 old books, referring to the offense the Indiana and I 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.600 ran and the similarities to Lafleur's outside zone scheme. Hey, 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.520 there it is again with the firing off the ball 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.120 and athletic ability. Because what are the two things we 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.760 always point to here in the pivot with regards to 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.880 this Dolphins offense. It was a thing all last offseason 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.800 prior to the Williams acquisition, and then move inside to 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.960 the pivot at center and Daniel Jeremiah for the forty 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.600 fifth time referencing this conference call ahead of the draft 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:27.120 on what McDaniel looks for at center, football, intelligence, and athleticism. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.360 Do you want to talk athleticism? Phoene lettered volleyball in 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.480 high school. I've never seen an offensive line with the 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.040 chops to play a sport that's all about quickness, reaction 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:38.360 and leaping ability, and I guess just general balance. But 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.040 I guess all those traits also carry over to playing 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.040 offensive line, don't they, Especially in this offense where we 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.839 continue to cover. That's right, firing off the football. I've 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.280 even got his high school measurables here, six foot four, 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.719 two hundred and eighty pounds on a volleyball court. That 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:55.160 is a unicorn out there. Especially we had the bullet 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.440 mustache two. How about the smart part? I found an 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.199 interview with Tom Tolesco, a former Argers GM who was 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.040 interviewed after they selected Fienie in the third round of 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:07.160 twenty seventeens draft. The traits that he said the Chargers 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.880 liked in Poenie, smart, tough, athletic, bing bang Bong. He 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.599 even touched on the positional flexibility, saying Feenie was a 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:16.000 guard tackle in college, but they see him as a 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.960 guard with traits first center down the road, so really 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.920 ultimately the position flexibility. In fact, he played four games 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.719 last year and played at three positions, both guards and 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.079 left tackle. Hasn't actually logged any time at center, but 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:30.880 you can see where they would probably want to go 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.360 the same route as Connor Williams and teaching him that 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.640 position as he goes along here to potentially be the 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.440 backup center and have roles elsewhere on the offensive line. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.719 He just hasn't played all that much as a Jet, 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:43.920 at least he stared seven games with the Jets over 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:46.520 two years. He totaled two hundred and ninety four snaps, 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.600 and on those nearly three hundred snaps just seven pressures, 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.439 allowed only one hit that was a sack, so six 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:54.800 of those were hurries. And that's a pressure every forty 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:56.839 two snaps, which is less than one point five per 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.360 game if you pro rate that to a full sixty 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.360 ish snap per game on offense in a given contest. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.719 But back to the football, IQ and situational awareness. Man. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.160 There's a lot of tape here as a jet and 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.920 as a charger of him getting into the protection slide 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.800 and then finding additional work like go help your teammates, 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:15.680 go get a rack of rabs, Go put a rusher 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.400 on the ground when he is trying to work his 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.240 pass rush move against your friend alongside you. I like 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.280 the way he functions as far as a five man 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.240 unit opposed to working as an individual. To me, he 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.160 looks very coachable and like a quick study, smart guy. 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.880 I think that Holster's both value as a starter and 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.520 as potential depth coming into the game off the bench. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.800 You know, to play offensive line cold can be really tough, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.439 but he demonstrated with the Jets that he could do 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.839 that pretty well. I think the best tape to look 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.040 at for Feeni is the twenty twenty one game against 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:50.120 the Buccaneers. He went up against Vita Vea, and between 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.559 Veya's quickness and power, I just don't think there's a 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.920 better test for an interior offensive lineman outside of Aaron 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.679 Donald in the NFL. But his ability to get wide 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.559 off the snap and really kind of hem Veia's inside 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.440 for those outside zone runs really jumps off that tape, 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.520 and in that twenty twenty one season, he came into 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.520 the game as the sixth offensive lineman in seven games, 0:11:10.600 --> 0:11:13.920 so you have that flexibility as well. And then started 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.960 the last three games and in those three games, one 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:18.680 hundred and sixty six snaps and just four pressures allowed. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:21.600 It's on ninety three pass blocking snaps. That's a great, 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.640 great figure, and Pro Football Focus really likes his run 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.400 blocking to a seventy nine point three grade. Again, I 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:29.280 don't care about their grades, but I'm giving you the 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.079 full platter here and not to mention a stat I 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:35.400 do like ninety eight pass block efficiency means there's two 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.520 percent of the time that he's allowing pressures, which would 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.320 have been right in line with Hunt and William's production 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.000 a year ago. So really intriguing player. Another guy on 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.319 this offense that I think really goes along with what 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.040 we talked about with Jeremiah at the combine. To bring 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:50.959 this all full circle, the Dolphins have really locked in 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.839 on their foundational pieces and now you round out the 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.160 margins with guys like Feeny and Barrios and Saber. Another 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.960 valuable addition here that doesn't get plastered up on the marquee. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.440 But your roster is going to be better for having 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.840 somebody like Dan Foene on it. They're not all going 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:06.679 to be the splash, home run hits guys. You have 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:11.360 to get valuable quality, depth, veteran presence, things like that. That, 0:12:11.480 --> 0:12:13.559 to me is what Dan Foene is. All right, one 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.800 player breakdown, We got three more to go Segment two. Next, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:19.640 I'm very excited to talk about Deshaun Elliott. We'll do 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.160 that here next well as Jake Bailey. That's next Draftime 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.600 Podcast your host Travis Springfield, brought to you by AutoNation. 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.559 Segment two on a free agent film breakdown edition of 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.719 the Draftime Podcast. We give so much attention to the 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:41.319 offense and defense on the show, and I'll be the 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.360 first to admit that I don't know a lot about 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:47.120 the mechanics of kicking, or punting, or long snapping, really 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.600 anything in that third phase of the game. It's why 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.880 I like to ask Danny Croftsman those questions at press 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:54.599 conferences and just kind of get him to educate me 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.319 on special teams. This is all to say we have 0:12:57.400 --> 0:13:00.280 a new punter in town. Jake Bailey comes down from 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:03.040 New England, a first team All Pro back in twenty twenty, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.080 which was the same year Jason Sanders won his All 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.800 Pro honors. Bailey spent the first four years of his 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:10.640 career with the Patriots as their punter and kickoff man, 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.400 and frankly a punter drafted in the fifth round by 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.720 Belichick and the Patriots a team who values special teams 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.280 as much as anybody. You just know that's a lively 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:23.040 talented leg that Jake Bailey possesses. Not to mention, he's 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.400 a ridy and for the Patriots, for as long as 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.800 I can remember, they've always had a left footed punter, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.480 but not Jake Bailey. But he was injured last year 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.280 and their Week nine win over the Colts and did 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.280 not finish the season wound up on ir In his 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.240 nine games, he averaged forty two point zero eight yards 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.280 per punt with a thirty two percent inside the twenty 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.040 yard line rate. On his thirty seven punts one hundred 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.079 and fifty seven return yards. That's an average of four 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.679 point two four yards per return and a gross of 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.199 thirty five point one yards, and that came with a 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.480 higher than usual touchback rate for his career thirteen point 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.839 five percent. Last year was a big jump over what 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:00.480 we had this season ago with Miami with Thomas Morestead, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.720 but just nine point nine percent over his four year career. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.280 Without watching the punts. It's difficult to say what caused 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.040 that because the kicks are the coverage. You have to 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.760 kind of make a determination there. But you're certainly looking 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:13.800 to get more towards that career average opposed to what 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.719 it was a year ago. Like his production dipped the 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.559 last couple of years here, so it would be curious 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.760 if he can find that again. For his career, he 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.200 averages forty five point nine yards per punt and a 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.720 gross of forty one point five. The year that he 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.600 was all pro it was forty five point six, which 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.560 was the highest since Johnny Hecker had at forty six 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.080 point zero in twenty sixteen, So we're talking about all 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.800 time punting performances. But since twenty nineteen, his eighteen point 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.320 two rate inside the ten yard line ranks second behind 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:44.960 only Tommy Townsend in Kansas City, who just got a 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.200 big contract for punters. It's among punterers with at least 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.280 one punt per game sixty six total punts over those 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.920 four years inside the twenty yard line he was third 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.760 with forty five point three percent. Then how about this one. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:59.720 Opponents starting field possession after a punt. Since twenty nineteen, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.280 which Bailey's rookie year, the Patriots opponents starting field position 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:06.120 after punts was the minus twenty one yard line their 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.640 own twenty one yard line. That's the best in the game, 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:12.120 this time topping Tommy Townsend by point three yards. So 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:14.600 you want to flip the field, Jake Bailey has been 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.560 doing that for a long long time. How about the 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:19.760 guys who helped get the ball back to the offense 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:24.240 after punts? Well, always to Sean Elliott, new Dolphins safety 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.560 if you listen to the Lions preview podcast from back 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:29.160 in October, he was a player we highlighted quite a lot. 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.040 He was on the injury report and was a guy 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.240 that I was tracking because to me, it was a 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.520 big swing if he played or not in the secondary 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.760 that needed his skills back there, and it was uncertain 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.680 if he would as kind of a jenga piece of 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.480 the Lions defense. And he did not play in Miami's offense. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.880 I don't think punted in that game, and they didn't 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:49.080 get stopped very much for touchdowns either. But then he returned, 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.320 and not to say that he was the reason, but 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.040 that's when the Lions defense turned things around. Last season. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.800 They held Rogers and the Packers to nine points. I 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.640 can't imagine what would happen for our quarterbacks public perception 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:02.520 if he scored just nine points in a game against 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.920 the Lions had a shootout with Justin Fields and the 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.960 Bears for thirty points. Then the Giants scored eighteen, Bills 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.560 twenty eight, Jags fourteen. So the defense figured it out 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.560 after that Miami game when Deshaun Elliott came back into 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.000 the lineup, and the snap counts for Elliot in those 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.080 games the Bears thirty points stands out right. He only 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:21.800 played twenty nine snaps in that game versus seventy four 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.080 against the Packers, seventy six against the Giants, seventy six 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.680 against the Bills. And if you watch that Thanksgiving game 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.400 against the Bills, they gave Alan fitz through three quarters 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.680 and Elliott was a big part of that. But first, 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.400 the counting stats here, forty two games, thirty five starts. 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.680 He has two career picks, ten passes defense, he's forced 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.840 three fumbles. We'll talk about that more in a second, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.400 recovered one three and a half sacks, eleven QB hits, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:46.920 and two hundred and five career tackles. He was the 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.280 Ravens starting free safety in twenty twenty, the only year 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:52.280 of his career where he was a full time starter 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.880 and healthy. He started the first six games to twenty 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:57.440 twenty one before an injury, and then the Ravens added 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:01.360 two safeties of that year, Kyle Hamilton and Marcus Williams, 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:04.080 which led to Elliott's departure and then arrival, of course 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.000 in Detroit. But there he played fourteen games last season, 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.119 started thirteen of them. But that twenty twenty season was 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:12.080 a big one for him. Five QB hits, two and 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:15.040 a half sacks, four passes defense, and two forced fumbles. 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:18.400 And Pro Football Reference has a stat called approximate value 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.000 where they kind of give you one number to judge 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:24.240 your overall value. His career high was seven, which is 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:29.919 above replacement value starter and in Miami, that's I mean, 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.120 we already have two really good starting safeties, so that's 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.239 really good for your third safety. How about the advanced metrics, Well, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.000 the Pro Football Focus grades have this dude as literally 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.320 the most consistent player I've ever seen in terms of 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.359 their grading. Again, I don't care about the grades, but 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:48.400 for posterity sixty six five, sixty five six, sixty nine 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.680 six sixty nine seven, like within three points variation all 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.080 four years is pretty wild. But how nice is that 0:17:55.359 --> 0:17:57.320 to have a player in your secondary that you can 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.040 pretty accurately forecast what he's going to give you. We 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.920 know what we have an X we know we have 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.840 in Jelen Ramsey, ker Cohu, Nick Needham. Really, I mean, 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:06.639 you know what you're gonna get with him. And this 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.840 is not like saying you're getting great play all the time, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.480 but you know what to expect. Javon holland Brandon Jones 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.280 to meet. Elliott slotted into that mold. He was really 0:18:14.320 --> 0:18:17.600 impressive in that big nickel third safety sub package role 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.160 before he became a full time starter. So on top 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.879 of quality depth, if you need somebody to step in 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:24.960 on an every down basis in the instance that we 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.280 lose Javon or Brandon for a game or two or 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.760 the whole season, then you can have a trustworthy person 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.560 in that role, which is nice, right, And we'll get 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:34.879 more into his tape in a moment, But back to 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.040 the numbers. Let's go ahead and start with snaps and 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:41.280 alignment over twenty three hundred snaps over four years, and 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.919 those are split as follows. Eight hundred and twelve snaps 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:46.560 against the run, he has forty four run stops, and 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.200 he missed tackle rate under ten percent. That's where you 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.560 want to be, right around eight nine. I mean, nobody 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:54.240 makes every single tackle, but nine point one for his 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.159 career is a really good rate, especially when you factor 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:59.480 in that he plays in space a lot like coming 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:01.800 from depth. We'll talk about this more a minute, but 0:19:01.960 --> 0:19:03.920 check out the hit he put on Dereck Henry for 0:19:04.040 --> 0:19:06.760 a forced fumble back in twenty twenty one. He comes 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:09.080 from fifteen yards of depth to make that play, which 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:11.240 is I mean, it's not easy to do. It's like, 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.200 you know, it's hitting a hundred mile on our fastball. 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.800 One hundred and three pass rush snaps, which is a 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.840 lot for us safety, and we have three guys that 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.879 can do that. Now twenty one pressures. That's better than 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:24.159 one of every five rush attempts we get home. He 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:26.360 gets home rather and gets to the quarterback. The sack 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.600 productions there, but just the threat of the ability to 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.080