WEBVTT - Kyle Van Noy's Value to a Multiple Defense 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:06.680 Factors were alps Patrick drawing high park textole what a 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:12.560 win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow, What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:12.640 --> 0:00:15.720 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:20.639 Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.040 and every day. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.640 Travis Winfield, and I am here to bring you your 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.080 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:35.239 some tangible evidence about versatility and flexibility. How Christian Wilkins 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:38.400 and Kyle Van Noy set the table from the defensive 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:42.440 line and linebackers, a proclamation from a well respected analyst 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.199 that Miami's defense could be not just top ten, maybe 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.320 even as high as top six or seven. Plus a 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.840 note on two a tongue of Vloa and the quarterbacks. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:54.560 And with my former hobby turning into a full time 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.240 job these last couple of years, I think I may 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.560 have finally found a new hobby to be place my 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:02.920 old one. All of that and more on this Monday, 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:10.120 June the fifte edition of the Drive Time Podcast. And 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.440 it's the middle of June, kind of the dearth of 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.400 the off season, particularly when we're in the midst of 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.000 an exclusively virtual offseason program. So we kind of make 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.360 our own news and our own topics here in the 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.640 sports world on the Miami Dolphins Drive Time podcast and 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:28.440 working off some recent news or recent items. Is how 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.480 we're gonna do this episode on this Monday. Another weekend 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.600 is in the books. I was able to get back 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.440 to the links for the second time in as many weeks. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.880 And I have two very close friends that love golf 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:42.440 with June birthdays, so that's typically the annual get together 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.679 we all do. And what's funny about it is that 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.040 I've spent the last few years as the d D 0:01:47.319 --> 0:01:50.200 on the course. And no that doesn't mean designated driver. 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:52.560 I pretty much just hop in the car with a 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:54.800 case of beer and another one of my non golf 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.400 playing friends is out there with me to have a 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.840 good time on the course. Now, don't gets twisted. I 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.960 know I serve in this role as a nerdy football 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.240 analyst that works out of his quote unquote parents basement. 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.120 But pretty much from the time I could walk, I 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.040 played sports growing up. I'd run home from school and 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.600 grab my basketball and go shoot hoops or get my 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.560 glove and throw the baseball up as high as I 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.040 could over and over and over again and catch it 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.040 on its descent. We're talking hours and hours of doing 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.560 this my entire life, at least up through junior college. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.920 And all of that is to say, and with a 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.040 little bit of a pat on my own back, that 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.880 your boy can swing, whether it's a baseball bat, is 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.800 more natural. And the plaque I have somewhere in my 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.200 garage that denotes my for a All State Washington Honorable Mention, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:45.240 All State second baseman distinction from Camiake in high school 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.120 two thousand and six does sit in that box somewhere 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.280 in my shed in my garage. And not to go 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:53.520 completely Uncle Rico here on you, but a golf swing 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.440 is also natural for me. So three years between playing 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.320 a round of eighteen, I was able to get back 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.760 out there. And I'm really more of a drink a 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.239 few beers, enjoy the sunshine, enjoy the pristine look of 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.760 a professional golf course, and just grip it and rip it, baby, 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.840 Just get out there and play. I'm not out there 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.720 measuring up shots and requesting quiet at the t block. 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.160 In fact, quite the opposite. The happy Gilmour let's make 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.360 some noise type of golfing and so because my long 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.320 layoff between rounds, I typically go last in these two 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.480 man teams of four drafts that we have and they 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:31.960 assign me with the worst possible handicap imaginable. Then I 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.519 show up and knocked down the third or fourth lowest 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.160 score among the entire group. And through all of this, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.160 I'm kind of catching a little bit of the golf bug. Man. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.720 I really enjoy playing all of a sudden, and I 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:45.160 think that when I move to South Florida, which is 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.840 just one month from today, I'm gonna get myself a 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.360 nice set of clubs. And right, there's another note. I 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.920 don't even own my own golf clubs and really really 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.880 dive into the sports. So that was my weekend, on 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.720 top of watching the movie Blue Chips on Friday night, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.720 which I tweeted about as having the best live action 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.040 sports scenes for any sports movie out there. And that's 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:08.720 because they use some actual game play. But they also 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.320 shot at for Hollywood, or at least somebody told me 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.320 they did, where they would wrap up those games and 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:16.200 then shoot some scenes afterwards, and of course having Shack 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:19.440 and Anfrenny Hardaway certainly helps that. But man, the way 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.560 they edited those scenes together, the sideline shots, with the 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.159 strategizing from the coaches like Bobby Knight, Rick Patino on 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.920 the sidelines on those timeouts, and the way they tracked 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.919 the flow of the game. I just thought it was 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.000 so well done and again to go back to my 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.400 high school prowess, the coaching points are spot on all 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.360 things I've heard before and huddles, practices, locker rooms, you 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.000 name it. And I saw plenty of other submissions out there. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.520 My guy Rashad Butler, you've heard him here on the 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:49.680 Drivetime podcast. He suggested the program as tops. No real 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.800 argument there, but I do want to point out the 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.719 sleeper of the group. Pat Perk on Twitter talks about 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:58.359 the Replacements with Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman. That's a 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:03.000 highly underrated suggest, Jen, because despite having Keanu Reeves as 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.279 your quarterback, the gameplay in that movie is actually really, 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:09.920 really good. I always enjoyed Jon Favreau as Danny Bateman, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.400 the linebacker on the Replacements, So some of the best 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.560 movies out there. I want to hear your suggestions. We 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.520 had plenty in there. For Love of the Game is 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.440 a good one. I saw somebody suggest Major League and 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.159 don't get me wrong. That's not only far and away 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.320 my favorite sports movie of all time both one and two, 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.160 but forget about three. Get out of Here with Back 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.599 to the Minors. Major League is one of my favorite 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.080 all time movies just period, not just sports movies, but 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:36.880 the gameplay in it. I have to give some pushback 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:39.559 on that suggestion, because I thought the gameplay was always 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.880 atrocious in that movie. The actor that plays Jake Taylor, 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.520 I think it's Tom Berenger has likely never swung a 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.400 baseball bat before in his life. And Harris the picture, 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.520 come on, you and I both know that any of 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.599 us are taking those pitches he throws yacht sie in 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.400 real life. So I did really enjoy the debate on 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.080 Twitter for which movie does have the best live action 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.880 sports scenes within it. I think this has a chance 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.279 to be a good running bit on the show going forward. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.960 The way who is the best basketball player on the 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.599 team from the players themselves was so maybe I'll start 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.000 asking some of the guys their opinions on this. And 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.800 speaking of asking the players, let's go ahead and turn 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.680 to football now. And you know. On Thursday's podcast, we 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.640 talked to both Teddy Carriss and Christian Wilkins. I have 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:22.560 a couple more notes I want to get to on 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.960 those guys that we didn't get to on the podcast, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.359 And I had mentioned last Sunday. Two Sundays ago, the 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.680 NFL network was re airing the team playoffs and I playoffs, 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.840 and I made it a point to get back and 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.480 watch the Chiefs and Patriots a f C title game, 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.760 as well as the Super Bowl Patriots and Rams from 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.520 that season, which, by the way, we've become so accustomed 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.560 to great Super Bowl games that one without the offensive 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.240 firepower really didn't seem like a super Bowl when I 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.039 rewatched it. Compared to all the pageantry and all the 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:54.839 fireworks on the field and off of the other ones 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:58.000 we've seen, especially all the late game drama, that one 0:06:58.080 --> 0:06:59.839 just kind of went along. It was quick, it was 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.960 or not a lot of offensive firepower. Just seemed different 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:04.719 than a lot of the Super Bowls we've had in 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.120 the past. But the one constant in that game was 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.680 the Patriots defense turning it up on that side of 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:11.680 the ball. But to go back to the point here, 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:16.160 that Super Bowl those playoff games coincided with a tweet 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.360 from my personal favorite football analyst out there. He used 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.000 to work for the NFL Network as a production assistant, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.720 and he told me he would just hang out with 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.240 the players offset and talk football and learn football. He 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.440 is Brett Coleman, friend of the podcast, been on Drivetime 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.720 a couple of times, been on Lockdown Dolphins a few 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.160 times as well. He's the host of the Film Room 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.280 on YouTube. And he had a tweet about Miami's defense 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.560 and the expectations this season in and that dove tailed 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.760 into some points about Kyle van Noy and the Dolphins 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:48.880 linebacker corps in general. So I'll touch on that with 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.680 some thoughts and just real quick as we prepare for 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:53.680 the start of training camp a little bit more than 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.960 one month away, and how this Dolphins team, this Dolphins offense, 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.560 all these players, particularly in the quarterback room, helps set 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.400 the table with providing that extension of the coach on 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.720 the football field and really setting the table for how 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.440 to work as a member of the Miami Dolphins. And 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.080 based on reports and history, it sounds like the Dolphins 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.600 have four guys that can really execute that message and 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.360 relay it to the rest of the team. And you 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.320 go back to a lot of full as his audio 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.480 when he speaks to the media about the way the 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.760 three quarterbacks on the roster last year, and Ryan Fitzpatrick, 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.520 Josh Rosen, and Jake Rudoc the group that to a 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.640 tongue of voloa now joins, and how Fitzpatrick helped so 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.400 much with his experience and the ability to quickly digest 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:35.319 the playbook and to communicate the stuff to his teammates. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:38.160 About the growth of Josh Rose and how much he 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.960 grew from the time he got to Miami and minicamp 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.240 all the way up through December, and working on the 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.559 mental aspect of the game, getting his physical aspect, his leadership, 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.600 his work in the classroom, all that stuff improving throughout 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:51.920 the year. And of course the hard work that Jake 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.040 Rudoc put in. You'll recall my training camp reports last 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.760 year if you were with me on the Lockdown Dolphins podcast, 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.880 how Rudoc would get out there early every day at 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.240 camp for extra work. So this entire quarterback room, the 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.640 way they work, the way they prepare themselves, it's a 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.240 hard working room. It kind of sets the table because 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:10.959 quarterbacks are an extension of the coaching staff. They are 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:14.280 the guys that are basically natural born leaders from their position. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.280 That's what's called upon four quarterbacks to be leaders and 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.360 you have four guys that's had a really good example 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.600 in that quarterback room for how to work in South Florida, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.280 and on that topic, two guys that also set a 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.120 leadership example for how to work and for how to 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.880 be a pro. We had them available to us last 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:34.200 week for the media availability on Thursday. It was Ted Carress, 0:09:34.240 --> 0:09:36.640 it was Christian Wilkins. And in the spirit of the 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:39.640 TNT that takes no talent Wall, something that became a 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:43.400 little bit of a popular legend in Miami last summer. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:46.040 If you go back to his college career, Ted Carress 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.240 for the final two seasons has had eight penalties over 0:09:49.280 --> 0:09:52.240 eighty five games with forty five starts. He was also 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.960 Pro Football Focuses number two overall graded past blocking center 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:59.200 from weeks twelve to week seventeen. So down the stretch 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.840 in December, really played his best ball, and we know 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:03.760 that's when you want to play your best ball in 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.520 this league. And then Christian Wilkins, I left some stats 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:09.000 on the table. I tweeted about it on Friday because 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.920 I was doing a bit more of a deep dive 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.760 on Christian Wilkins and kind of looking at his season 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.640 long splits how his his growth was from week one 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.360 through week seventeen. And I put this threat up on Twitter, 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:24.120 talking about Christian wilkins growth and talking about the interesting 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.160 dynamic of kind of the turning point of his season 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.520 in that Week seven game in Buffalo when he only 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.480 played one snap, and I tweeted that I'm fascinated by 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:36.920 Wilkins for many reasons, the really outgoing personality that really 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.719 just kind of attracts everybody to him and makes him 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.240 such a likable guy. There was the story last I 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.360 think training camp talking about his frugal spending habits that 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.280 he has where he doesn't even turn the air conditioning 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.200 on because he wants to save money. And then of 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.240 course you have the little shimmy and splits dance he 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.720 did after Clemson's national title. Just a very well rounded 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.199 guy and a very interesting person, and he really came 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.120 on strong mid season after that game in Buffalo. So 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.000 I went back and looked at it. You go through 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:05.120 six games last year, Wilkins this of courtesy of Pro 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.360 Football Focus, only have five run stops on the season 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:12.040 and six quarterback pressures. But then over the final ten games, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.679 he racks up twenty four run stops and twenty four 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.520 quarterback pressures, and that sixth game was kind of the 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.520 turning point. He was ejected from that game, and Brian 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.160 Flores was asked about the penalty that did result in 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.480 the ejection and if maybe it had something to do 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.000 with a penalty he drew two weeks earlier against the 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.520 Chargers for a personal foul and if those two plays 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.599 were tied together. He was asked about it at a 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.520 media availability, and this was Flora's response, quote, Wilkins is 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.000 a young player trying to play aggressive, trying to play 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.960 with a fight and a vigor and a quote. I'm 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.880 not backing down from any one type of attitude end quote, 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.760 but you've gotta play with poise. It's just losing your 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.320 starting defensive tackle for an entire game. That's a tough 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.320 loss for any defense. I think our guys fought through it. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.440 Christian was upset about it. Look, he's a good kid, 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:00.280 There's no doubt about that. He works hard. This is 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.400 important to him. But again, there are consequences in our actions. 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.160 I think that's something we all need to understand on 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.160 the field and off the field. Aside from football, as 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.959 a coach, that's what you're teaching these guys or trying 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.520 to teach them. There's consequences for your actions. If you 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.960 throw a punch in the game, you're gonna get kicked out. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.040 If you miss a meeting or you have an issue, 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:23.040 there are consequences for your actions. That's not just an 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.880 on the football field thing. That's life. We need to 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.120 learn that and learn a lot of life lessons in 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.880 this game. That's part of coaching as well. And the 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:32.840 reason I bring that up is because I think that 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.640 that coaching point, that opportunity for Flora's to kind of 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.520 get that message across to his team and to Christian, 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:42.240 really took hold with Christian himself because the next two games, 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.480 Wilkins has seven run stops and four quarterback pressures, almost 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:48.440 matching his total through the first six games. A nice bit, 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:52.040 a nice display of accountability and really rising to the 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.920 challenge of taking that personally and being better from their forward. 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:58.480 And he was much better from there forward. From weeks 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.240 seven through seventeen, he was twenty among all interior defensive 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:06.080 lineman in the NFL and pressures and eight and run stops. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.440 And I keep going back to this twenty nineteen season, 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:10.840 and I really took notice of his work stacking and 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.920 shedding against the Steelers in that Monday night game, which 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.480 of course was the game after the Buffalo game, and 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.440 he has plenty of work where he's working as a 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.480 four eye technique or a four technique basically lined up 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.720 in the realm of the inside shoulder of the tackle 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.480 outside shoulder of the guard. We'll talk more about that 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.360 in just one second, where he has to kind of 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.079 stack up, read the play, disengage the block, and make 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.560 a tackle. And there were a few examples of that 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.360 in that game. So with that, knowing that he played 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.760 a lot of tackle inside as well in addition to 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.600 that end position as the four five technique, I wanted 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:43.600 to go back and look at his run stops on 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.040 film and try to chart them and find out which 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.960 positions they came from. Now, before I do that, I 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.040 want to make this perfectly crystal clear. I used game 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.120 Pass and Pro Football Focus to sink this little mini 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.360 project together. Pro Football Focus has n't for a total 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:01.080 of twenty nine run stops in the season, so I 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.280 searched each of wilkins tackles within two yards of the 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.440 line of scrimmage and I came back with thirty. So 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.880 maybe there's a little bit of a distinction there about 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.560 combined tackles. Who gets credit from Pro Football Focus probably 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.680 a little bit subjective, but I think that it doesn't 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.440 matter for this particular subject because we're just trying to 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.760 find out how effective he is in different positions. So 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.640 there was nine different positions in which he made a 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:25.680 run stop. Let's go ahead and start with the most 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.240 down to the least amount. As a three technique, he 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:31.480 had eight run stops. That's the outside shoulder of the guard, 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.280 so more of a true defensive tackle position. As a 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.480 four eye technique, that's the inside shoulder of the tackle, 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.520 so kind of the same spot really just a slight 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.120 shade of a gap over. He had six run stops, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.640 so fourteen of those run stops came from that three 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.040 or four eye position. As a one tech, now this 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:51.560 is more the beefier guys inside playing on the outside 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.680 shoulder of the center. This includes work both as the 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:58.040 back and front side one technique, and those distinctions are 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.280 important because they mean different roles in terms of pursuit 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.480 and in terms of trying to hold the point. He 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:06.640 had three run stops from those two positions, two as 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.160 the backside, and both of those were in pursuit on 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.000 runs away from him, which again shows you the effort 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.160 that Flora has talked about. And one of those was 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.320 the one tech on the front side where he has 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.960 to hold the point. Three plays run stops from the 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:21.720 one tech position. He had two run stops at the 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.200 nose tackle and that is head up over the center. 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.960 He had two run stops as the five technique that's 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.400 the outside shoulder of the tackle. He had two more 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:32.240 run stops as a two technique that's head up over 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.200 the offensive guard, two more as a four tech that's 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.640 head up over the tackle, a two eye position. He 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.600 had one stop there that's the inside shoulder of either guard. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:42.920 And as a seven technique that's all the way out 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.760 to the strong side of the formation, on the inside 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.040 shoulder of the tight end. If there is a tight 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.800 end there your seven technique. He had one run stop there. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.760 So nine positions with run stops. You see him work 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:57.040 the stack, the shed, the quickness, the pursuit, the will 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.040 to get out there and make plays, and he just 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.600 had a lot of fun in those games making plays, 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:03.920 celebrating the big plays he did make. We heard the 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.680 trash talk on the inside the or the mic up 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.760 edition of him in the Bengals game. He was being 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.440 really playful and colorful with the Bengals players. And Wilkins 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.000 really is one of a variety of players that are 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.280 combo type players, guys that can play multiple spots. And 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:22.080 on that topic, on my lazy Sunday, I was able 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.160 to really watch some football and digest some football, and 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.400 it got me into this rabbit hole on the Dolphins 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:31.040 linebacker unit and some tangible examples of how this defense 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.240 can truly be adaptable on a week by week basis. 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:37.240 And so with a DVR full of playoff games to 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:39.840 watch and really some Kyle van Noy action to watch, 0:16:40.000 --> 0:16:42.480 and the best part of those playoff broadcasts is you 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.920 always get tremendous secondary angles replays with all the camera 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.760 work they have on top of Tony Romo on the commentary, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.920 So really an elite production from CBS on both these 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:58.680 two broadcasts I watched from the team playoffs, and this 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.400 flame was really all still by a tweet sent out 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.200 again by Brett Coleman. He's at Brett Coleman. That's k 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.480 O L l M. A n N on Twitter, and 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.399 the tweet was this quote, Miami is gonna have a 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:14.080 top six or seven defense in in my opinion, the 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:18.000 only real weakness. And he does put those in quotation 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.679 marks to really dispel himself for even calling it a 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.240 weakness in the first place. And he does go on 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.320 to explain that in a follow up tweet just in 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.560 one second, we'll get to that. And I think that 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.560 distinction is very important. But back to Brett's tweet, the 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.800 one weakness is not having a true alpha rusher. But 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:37.320 that's about it. He says. Their rotation overall is pretty 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.840 damn deep. They can stop the run and play man 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:43.000 all day. You don't need much more than that and tweet. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.879 So I replied to Brett because well, I love talking 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.760 ball and it always sparks a good football conversation when 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.960 I reach out to him. So I said the following. 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.240 The depth at every position on defense is really impressive 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.399 quality rotational candidates and guys that can fill in and 0:17:57.440 --> 0:17:59.600 do the job in the event of potential nix and 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.160 bruises throughout the course of a season if a guy 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:04.480 has to miss a game or two. I'd also say, 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.639 and this is still from that tweet. The lack of 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.159 a true edge rusher is made up for by the 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.280 skill set. So many guys have to execute the multiple 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.040 games that Flores calls on defense. And so what do 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.080 I mean by that? Well, when you watch the way 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.120 we generated pressure last season, or the calls Flora has 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:22.479 made in those playoff games, for instance, you're gonna get 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.359 a lot of games twist stunts, slants, delayed pressure. And 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.600 who was the guy that really really made that style 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.920 possible in those playoff wins. It was Kyle van Noy 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:36.200 and his flexibility on top of his vastly, vastly underrated 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:39.879 rush skill set, in addition to his own flexibility playing 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.240 the hook zone, playing the curl flat. And that's just 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.760 coverage responsibilities with linebacker has to find landmarks, has to 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.440 find route combinations and get himself involved in pass coverage. 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:51.520 He also fits the run as well as anybody I've 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.439 seen on tape. It's just all chefs. Kiss babe. I 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:56.760 love watching him play football. So we start in that 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:59.760 Kansas any game and you get look at his impact instantly. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.680 There is a mesh concept play, and all mesh means 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:05.400 it's college, pro, high school, wherever you're gonna play football, 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.200 you're gonna see mesh. It's just two guys crossing trying 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:10.760 to create conflict for the linebackers in the middle of 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.160 the field. Or it can also set a natural rub 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.560 route when you're in man coverage, so trying to find 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.000 a way to cross guys up by just crossing two 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.520 routes from opposite sides of the formation. So they have 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:22.919