WEBVTT - Training Camp Preview 2021 Offensive Line 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:15.280 Looking Down, Fail, Touchdown, Miami n What is up? Dolphans 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.720 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:18.720 --> 0:00:24.240 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:28.160 How's it going? Everybody? It is Monday. I am your host, 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.000 Travis Wingfield, and as always, I am here to bring 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.400 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:38.320 today's show, I hope you're enjoying these positional previews that 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:42.199 are packed with facts, stats and analysis, because we've got 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.240 a lot more where that came from, including today when 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.200 we get into the lengthiest position group that will cover 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.839 here on the roster, it's all things offensive line today 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.200 and nothing else will break down Lemuel John Pierre's room, 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.600 talk about the remade nature of the position over the 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:00.880 last couple of years, the Prince pulls of the room, 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.760 the individual notes, and a whole bunch more on this 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:09.800 edition of the Drive Time Podcast. And we are presented 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.640 by Auto Nation here on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:15.240 and we're talking all things offensive line. If you guys 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.240 have not been following along on Miami Dolphins dot com, 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:22.240 we have written elements of these podcasts available for you. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.360 They're a little bit easier to navigate the particular players 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:27.759 or statue you want to read about on that page, 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.160 So check it out Miami Dolphins dot com. We are 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.399 done with the offense and tomorrow we turned the page 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.360 to the defense, and these are gonna cover you every 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:38.480 single day or weekday, I should say, right up until 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.399 the start of training camp. And that again, as I 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.520 mentioned every day on the podcast, the last couple of 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.480 weeks my favorite time of the football calendar. But that's them. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.880 Let's go ahead and get into the offensive line now, 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.080 and as we have done on these podcasts, kind of 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.800 talking about the general makeup or some of the interesting 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:59.200 theories or ideas or thoughts about what this offensive line 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.200 is or what it might look like, or some of 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:04.560 the key principles of the room, or shared traits of 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.760 the players. And one of those shared traits goes back 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.800 to last season and we talked about it on the 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:14.000 podcast a lot with Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, Solomon Kinley, 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.960 Eric Flowers as the free agent acquisition that he was, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:21.480 and the size of each of those players. Now, Big 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.520 Rob Hunt was listed in the three thirties originally, but 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.840 he might have cut some weight or maybe the U 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:28.960 l L team would listen to him a little bit 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.639 heavier than he was. He checked in under three thirty 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.359 in the three range on the team official website last season. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:37.520 That's where he is again this year. But you also 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:41.040 look at Solomon Kinley over three d and thirty five pounds. 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:44.440 Austin Jackson comes in at three three. Eric Flowers was 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:46.920 in that range when he was signed last year, and 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.040 that theme kind of continued this season with the addition 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.079 of a d. J. Fluker, a plus three thirty pound guy. 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:57.000 Same deal with Jermaine Iluminoire. So these guys packed in 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:00.400 that size, that density, that strength, the a bill just 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:04.360 by by that sheer size to make it more difficult 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.400 for pass rushers to get around because you decrease the 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:09.640 size of those gaps and you make the wall in 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.000 front of t a tongue by loa significantly larger just 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:15.840 based on the pier size of those guys. Plus all 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.560 three of Matt Skura, Michael Dieter, and Cameron tom can 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.920 occupy space and play big inside as well. Part of 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.320 that is their sheer density and size, but also they 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:26.840 have the feet to kind of be able to shuffle 0:03:26.880 --> 0:03:29.359 back and forth between either guard to protect those a 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.959 gaps and prevent the quickest route to the quarterback from 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:37.400 becoming detrimental in the past protection game. And Brian Flores 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:39.880 talks about this a lot or he has this offseason 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.800 about the passing league. We played his soundclip for you 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:46.120 guys in the podcast on the Receiver edition the Receiver 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.200 Preview edition here of Draft Time brought to you by Automation, 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:52.600 where he talked about the direction of the league and 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.880 going after all these defensive backs and going after the 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:56.920 receivers and the draft to pair with their young quarterback 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.520 who they brought in last season, and how that jives 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.520 with the direction of the modern game. I mean, if 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.400 you're gonna beat a Patrick Mahomes led Chiefs team, or 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.880 a Josh Allen led Buffalo Bill's team, or a Tom 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.520 Brady led Tampa Bay team, you're probably gonna have to 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.640 score in the thirties on on most instances. Now, last year, 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.000 Miami held Tampa Bay or rather sorry, Kansas City to 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.120 thirty points in the game, and they held Buffalo to 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.160 thirty one in the first contest. The second contest was 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.919 a different story. But this defense can compete at that level. 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.960 But you round out the offense to compete with their firepower. Man, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.600 you put this defense with an explosive offense, all of 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.200 a sudden, you're cooking with gas. And so the idea 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.640 I'm having here with these guys as you go over 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.360 the status and we'll talk about it here in a minute, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:43.800 but to a man, their past protection numbers hold up, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:48.440 and especially on the interior, you'll notice the pressure numbers 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:50.240 on the interior are going to be lower than what 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.640 you have either tackle position. And it makes sense, right 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:54.760 there's more room to work with. You have a two 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.200 way go where you can get outside of the guy 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.159 and kind of work up field. But you also have 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.680 your better pass rushers in the league, typically on the 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.400 outside except for a few guys like Aaron Donald and 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:06.080 the like. So you're gonna see more pressure number from 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.560 the tackle position, but in general on that interior when 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.080 you do have that, for lack of a better term, 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:15.360 thickness upfront, man, it makes it tough to collapse the 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.600 pocket from the interior because one with that size and 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:20.919 that base, you're gonna have a hard time bull rushing 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:22.440 and putting those guys in their back. So when you 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.719 have three of them, that kind of condense the space 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.520 between one another. You have to go through them, and 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.080 that's a tough, tough ask, especially in an offense under 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.720 two of last year that consistently got the football out 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.600 of his hands one of the quickest rates in the 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:39.159 National Football League per NFL next Gen Stats. And so 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.800 where to a really shines in the passing game, really 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.279 shines in terms of what these receivers and pass catchers 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.360 and quarterback can do is play off that RPO game. 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:52.039 Hit those quick hitters, accentuate too short area accuracy to 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.320 help those receivers like a Will full or a Jalen 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.599 Waddle DeVante Parker catch the football, get into open space 0:05:57.640 --> 0:05:59.800 and make place after they have the ball in their 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.400 hand ends and I think the offensive line with that 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:06.600 size really kind of capitalizes on that idea. Another thing 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.040 about this room that I like is, you know, last 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:13.160 year we saw rookies play two thousand, three hundred fourteen snaps. 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:14.440 I have the stating here we'll get to in just 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.800 one second, but Jackson, Kinley and Hunt played a lot 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.799 of snaps last year, more than any other rookie offensive 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:22.920 line group in the National Football League, And of course 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.679 Miami had the most rookie snaps in the NFL in general. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:29.480 And while you had Eric Flowers and Jesse Davis and 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.560 Ted Carriss playing a lot of reps on the offensive 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.479 line too, you had Julian Davenport who got reps also 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.839 and those guys who have since departed. But what Miami 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.640 did was bring in some more veteran experience, more guys 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:44.239 that have not just versatility at multiple positions, but guys 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.760 that have played thousands of reps in the National Football League. 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.720 And so with that, ideally you think with the experience 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.680 one they can rub off on your young players and 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.120 kind of teach them how to work like a pro, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.840 how to pick up certain things, certain site adjustments. You 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.320 put them on the field next to a young player, 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:03.000 maybe it helps that inside post of a young tackle 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.960 on the outside, for instance, with that experience next to him. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.560 But also just balancing the roster is always a good practice. 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.440 And this Dolphins team, you've got seven young guys that 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:14.960 were added to the roster within the last couple of years, 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:16.560 and then the other eight guys in the roster on 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:19.360 the offensive line combined for a whole bunch of snaps. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.200 I like that balance of you put Flucker Illumino or 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.800 Scura up front with those young players, with a Liam Eichenberg, 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.600 with the undrafted Brookies, like a Robert Jones. You make 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:32.360 a good compliment of age and experience and youth all 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.960 in that room. And it also creates a fun, diverse 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.520 work environment within the classroom setting of the offensive line. 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.040 So that's the construction of the roster. We've talked to 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.840 Eikenberg and Jackson and Hunt and Kimdley and some of 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.880 the other cast members upfront on the offensive line, as 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.400 well as our offseason media with Lemiel John Pierre, and 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.440 they talked about their three principles and each of those pressers, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.680 and we kind of continued that theme of asking the 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:02.160 players after lem talked about being detailed, disciplined, and nasty. 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.800 And I look at some of the acquisitions this offseason, 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.720 like Matt Skura, for instance, almost never gets flagged. He 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.320 has like four flags over the last three seasons from 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:14.000 Pro Football Focus. Also the nasty element of it. Boy, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.600 you watch all of the three rookies from last year, Jackson, 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:20.720 Kinley and Hunt, but especially Solomon Kinley punishing jumpers. If 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.040 you want to get your hands up and try to 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.720 swap the football down at the line. We're gonna put 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.400 you on your back and make sure you don't want 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:27.800 to do it again. You might try it, but you're 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:29.480 not gonna want to because it's gonna hurt you get 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.600 put on your back. There's plenty of great clips from 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.839 Brandon Thorne, who does fantastic work charting and grading and 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.040 and evaluating offensive line play. He's a big Solomon Kindley 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.559 fan because of the way Solomon plays through the whistle 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.800 and because he puts those jumpers on their back and 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:45.840 again that short rhythm passing game that goes a long 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.880 way in that type of offense. And then also Robert 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.920 Hunt's college tape. I mean, I tweeted out a clip 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.160 that I have shared back when he was drafted, just 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.320 to kind of remind folks about what he looked like 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.880 on tape in college and why he was the thirty 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.600 nine pick and the draft despite playing the Sun Belt, 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 which is a you know, ah, not Power five or 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.400 Group of five conference in college football, lower level competition 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.400 usually tougher to get drafted higher. But Robert Hunt's tape 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.400 was so good that he wound up going thirty nine 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.640 in that draft, and you saw that kind of bear 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.560 out late in the season. With that, you know that 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.839 promise of a young player showing upward trajectory like a 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:21.680 ray Kwon Davis last year, for instance, like a Robert Hunt. 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:24.040 You show that trajectory, you feel pretty good about that 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.600 player going into year two. But his tape in college 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.680 and in the pros full of those three things, detailed, discipline, 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.520 and very nasty. So those are the ideas of the 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.960 offensive line. The personnel changes. The Dolphins add Matt Skura 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:39.400 and d J. Fluker Bowl from Baltimore, Jermaine Illuminoire from 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.120 New England, Liam Eichenberg and Larnel Coleman are draft picks, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.600 and then Robert Jones, an undrafted free agent out of 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:49.360 Middle Tennessee State. And then you have Cameron tom who 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.400 spent the last four years of his career, all four 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.040 years of his career with the New Orleans Saints. The 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:57.360 coaching staff we mentioned Lemill John Pierre another one of 0:09:57.400 --> 0:09:59.920 these guys on Brian floores his staff, whether it's Jaw 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.640 Bowyer or Charles Burke's or Josh Grizzard, and if I'm 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:05.800 freating a name, forgive me for that. But another one 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:08.240 of these guys that has been promoted from an assistant 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.120 positional coach to getting their own room under head coach 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.280 Brian Flores. Development does not stop with the personnel on 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:17.800 the roster. It's all throughout the organization. And lem had 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.480 a six year playing career with the Seahawks before he 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.240 then swapped out his helmet for the headset to coach 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.040 again with Seattle, and that was with Tom Cable, and 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:28.480 then he followed Tom Cable to Oakland where he served 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:30.960 as offensive line assistant for a couple of years before 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:34.400 taking that same title with Miami last year under Steve Marshall. 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.760 And now here he is in position and the players 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.120 have talked about the value of having an ex player 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:40.800 in the room to kind of teach him about some 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.400 of those finer tricks of the trade. And John Pierre 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.880 has that experience, he's been in the league recently to 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.600 know how kind of pass rushers work in the modern game. 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.520 So having him in their corner in that room to 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.200 help them with their experience, with what they see, with 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.400 their checks, with their development, all that stuff could prove very, 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.640 very valuable for Lemuel, John Pierre his group At a 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.480 glance here we talked about this at the top I 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.920 mean they have reshaped the offensive line arguably more than 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.480 any other position group under the three years here of 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:11.319 or I guess two and a half years under Brian 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.520 Flores and Chris Career, the three picks inside the top 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:18.760 one hundred and eleven with Austin Jackson eighteen, Robert Hunt 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:22.880 thirty nine, and Kinley won eleven and that Triumvirent combined 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.480 for two thousand, three hundred and fourteen snaps, and all 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.480 of those guys have a chance to earn a starting role. 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.520 But I think the competition this year is going to 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.840 be even stiffer and camp because of all the additions 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.080 made up front on the offensive line. Also joining those 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.760 those second year players as rookies Leam Eikenberg the forty 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:41.160 second pick in the draft, Larnel Coleman the two dred 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:43.120 and thirty first pick in the draft, and then Robert 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.640 Jones and Jonathan Hubbard were signed as U d F 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:50.679 A one, respectively. That gives Miami seven first or second 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.520 year players on the offensive line at an average age 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.320 of twenty two point nine. You gotta love that upside there. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.840 And then the veteran group of incumbents, Jesse Davis Michael Dieter, 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.960 Adam Panky, and Dervall cires Netto to go along with 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:07.240 the new acquisitions and veterans Germaine, illuminoires, DJ Fluker, Matt Skura, 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.800 and Cameron tom That collection of players has combined for 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.000 two hundred and thirty one starts in their career. So 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.000 plenty of experienced, plenty of youth, plenty of upside, and 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:20.800 plenty of versatility and flexibility on the offensive line. And 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.400 we start here in order of jersey number, taking a 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.560 look at each of these players. Matt Skura is up first. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.040 We've talked about him a lot this offseason because we 0:12:28.040 --> 0:12:29.959 wrote a piece on him, We did a podcast on him, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.520 had him on the podcast, a very fun interview. If 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.040 you haven't heard that, go back and check out the 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:37.280 Drivetime archives to listen to those free agent interviews with 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:40.040 the players that signed here in Miami Hill were number 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.959 sixty two. He's got five years experience of the National 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:45.680 Football League out of Duke, twenty eight years old on 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:47.920 opening day, and I go back to a quote from 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.160 Greg Roman, who was an O C for the Ravens 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.280 there when Matt Scurro was their center. After Ryan Jensen 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.760 left for the Buccaneers, and he talked about his intelligence 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.880 and his communication and how it really helped the ball 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.320 to more offensive line kind of have seamless communication with 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.440 checks and protection slides and all that fun stuff up front. 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:08.240 And of course, being a duke guy, you know, he's 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.760 a pretty smart guy too. So he's played one thousand, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.679 eight hundred and twenty four reps in his four years 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.720 in past protection and allowed just five sacks and nine 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.120 QB hits. He's pretty solid in that area. We talked 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.760 about this on the tape that I watched back in March, 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.200 that there's some really impressive work against guys like the 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.320 Steelers and Cameron Hayward and stefond to it upfront, getting 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.560 outside and hitting a block to steal off t J. Watt. 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.080 I mean, we're talking about some of the best defenders 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.800 in the league, and he goes toe to toe with 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:35.200 those guys. And then we talked about the discipline up top. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.920 Just eleven penalties over three thousand, three hundred and seventy 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.280 four career reps. That's one every three hundred and six 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:45.040 snaps in his career. Up next, another interior offensive line, 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.520 although he's played tackle as well. Michael Dieter, number sixty three, 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.120 has two years of NFL experience out of Wisconsin, and 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.760 he's gonna be twenty five years old opening Day, and 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:57.959 he has a phenomenal record that I don't think it's 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.280 enough credit in the college football landscape. Fifty four consecutive 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.640 starts he started from his first game to his last 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.280 game at Wisconsin, never missed one in between. That's a 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.840 record at at you dub there and the other you 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:13.319 dub and that's a place that turns out professional offensive 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.920 lineman and basically every season. And then he rolled that 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.400 right into playing fifteen games as a rookie and got 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.720 himself almost a thousand reps nine ninety six worth of 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.640 experience played garden center going back to his time as 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.680 a collegian. Played some tackle as well, twenty three snaps 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.360 last year as a kind of a interior backup off 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.560 the bench. But head coach Brian Flores talked about him 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.560 this offseason and talked about his place on the team, 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.560 and I thought he had an interesting quote talking about 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.960 Michael Dieter about how quote, I think when you get 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.640 into year two or year three, there's a sense of urgency, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.560 which he Michael Dieter has and you can see that 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.600 to earn a bigger role on the team, He's definitely 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.360 worked towards that, but he knows there will be a 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:55.360 competition there and the best man will win. So I'm 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:57.320 curious to get a look at Michael Dieter this training camp, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:58.880 see him kind of come back in year three and 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.480 see if he can seize a job upfront. Another guy 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:04.160 he's gonna be competing with upfront is Cameron tom number 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:07.000 sixty four, four seasons in the NFL out of Southern 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.720 miss twenty six years old on opening Day. He was 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.120 a U d f A with the Saints back in seventeen, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.080 and he's had an interesting career where he kind of 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:15.800 goes to the practice squad, gets called up for a 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.040 handful of games, goes back to the practice squad. He 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:21.360 missed eighteen or the majority of it on i R. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.240 He's six ft four, three hundred pounds, has just a 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.880 hundred eighty one reps of professional experience, but he's allowed 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.560 just four pressures on those reps and no QB hits 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.120 in the seventies six pass blocking reps, so no sacks 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.640 are hits allowed. On a small sample size, he played 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:39.480 both guard positions and center with the Saints. Robert Jones, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.120 number sixty five, another rookie upfront, middle Tennessee State, twenty 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.760 two years old on opening Day. He's six ft four 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.280 three twenty two pounds, And if you listen to the 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.080 Emery Hunt podcast where he broke down the undrafted free 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.400 agent class of the Miami Dolphins, this was the guy 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.360 he pointed to as his favorite out of that group, 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.280 saying that he has a chance to develop and be 0:15:57.320 --> 0:15:59.560 a starter in this term, in this league. Long term, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.600 I should a but of course he has to kind 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.520 of earn his way up there and stack up good 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.040 days on top of good days before we get to 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.280 that point. But it's cool to hear a respected analyst 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.280 like Emery Hunt talked about his upside and what he 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:12.440 was at college and earning his way to the Senior Bowl, 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.120 because this is a guy that didn't start playing football 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.200 until his junior season of high school. He was a 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.920 basketball player and didn't make his varsity team, and they said, hey, 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:21.840 why don't you go try football? And what a great 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.640 idea that was because he winds up becoming one of 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.760 the top tackles and Juco and junior college, gets flipped 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.880 inside to guard at Middle Tennessee State, and then here 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.120 he is a year in his final year of college, 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.400 he gets an invite to the Reese's Senior Bowl and 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.400 winds up on an NFL roster for training camp, number 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.960 sixty six on the roster of Solomon Killy. You guys 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:43.440 know him. He's a fun, fun fan favorite who has 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:44.880 a lot of great things to talk about on his 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:48.760 press conferences, as podcasts and otherwise. One year experience out 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.480 of Georgia, twenty four years old on opening day, a 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.920 fourth round pick last year, he opened up training camp 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.920 with the first team and held that spot through Week 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.960 twelve last season. Now, injuries cost him some time late 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.920 in the year, but three hundred thirty five pound absolute 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.880 people mover can blow people up. In the blocking game, 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.080 was charged with just seventeen pressures allowed on four D 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.679 forty eight pass blocking reps. That stat and all these 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.640 pressure stats courtesy at Pro Football Focus. He played both 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:17.240 guard positions and developed a reputation as that nasty finisher 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.679 who plays through the whistle, which I don't think you 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.480 can pay an offensive lineman a higher compliment than that, 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.159 and in eleven of the fifteen games Kiley played, he 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.800 allowed one or fewer QB pressures. You might recall the 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:30.719 inside the Numbers piece we published on was it Mondays 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.080 or Tuesdays? Last year? I forget breaking down all the 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.880 stats from every single game. There was so many instances 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.760 where Kiley was pitching clean sheets or allowing just one pressure. 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.439 So that's the you go, eleven out of the fifteen 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.879 games he played in one or fewer pressures allowed. Also 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.960 in that rookie class with Solomon Kinley, Robert Hunt number 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:51.840 sixty eight, the one year experience out of Louisiana Lafayette 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.800 twenty five years old on opening day and especially last 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:57.600 season when there was no off season to kind of 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.000 work through the O T A s and get the 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.320 you know, the cond ning and the mental side of 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:03.600 the game down with your team on field. I mean 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:06.400 they had the zoom sessions in the classroom sessions about 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.840 just working with a team on the field. I think 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:11.640 it was expected that maybe there would be less rookie production, 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:14.359 or at least rookies might run into that proverbial rookie 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.840 wall towards the end of the season. But Robert Hunt 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:18.760 saved his best for last, and perhaps it was because 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:20.960 he came into the lineup late, but either way, he 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.600 played pretty well in his rookie year. From week eleven 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:26.920 on he was PFS number six overall ranked tackle and 0:18:27.080 --> 0:18:30.720 run blocking, and he was just behind Tehran Armstead of 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.359 the Saints, who's been an All Pro tackle in this league. 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:37.119 His four team pressures allowed Robert Hunts were good for 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:41.639 a consequent nineties seven point three pass blocking efficiency metric, 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.600 which also checked in just a tenth of a point 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.120 below to Ron Armstead. So that's great company to keep 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.399 there for Robert hunt down the stretch of the season. 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.080 And he was also Miami's highest graded run blocker last 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:55.240 year on PF and had a cumulative pb E pass 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:59.800 blocking efficiency rates of nineties six point nine. Up next 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.680 on our list, number sixty nine derv All Kiras netto 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:06.040 two seasons experienced so far, all on the Dolphins practice squad. 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:10.440 He arrives via Brazil and the International Pathway Program International 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:13.480 Player Pathway Program. My apologies. He'll be twenty nine years 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.399