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Dolphans and welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:53.880 of the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:57.680 Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.720 Travis Wingfield. And on today's shoot show, Shoe, it's part 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.800 two of the Shoe of the Roster Review. We're gonna 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:08.280 look at the defense, including how one roster evaluator says 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.320 on paper, this is the top defense in the NFL. 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:13.240 Pass will talk a little bit about Opening Day in 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.320 baseball and my golf game, which I know you guys 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.320 are all here for from the Baptist Health Studios. Check 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:23.760 that from somewhere in South Florida. This is the Drivetime podcast. 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:28.960 Maya Gaffe Fish A little bit of a rocky start there, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.360 but you know, give your boy a break. I've recording 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.399 this on a Thursday here, March the thirtieth, ahead of 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.720 Opening Day in baseball and ahead of Witness podcast drops 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.120 on a Friday. And two things I want to discuss 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.200 real quick is the opening day in baseball and just 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.440 how fired up I am this year. I tweeted about 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.200 it on Thursday and morning that the Mariners have a 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:51.280 player who I was born in nineteen eighty seven and 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.120 Kikerfree Junior made his debut in nineteen eighty nine, and 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 I got to grow up with that every night on 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.840 Fox Sports Northwest Kinkerfree Junior or seven ten pm in 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.640 my living room, me doing the wiggle every single night. 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.840 It's how I fell in love with baseball. It's kind 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:08.000 of how I modeled my swing after and that's kind 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.200 of how my baseball swing led to what is now 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:13.560 my golf swing, which talk about here in just one second. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.680 But I think it's really cool that my kids now 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:18.280 are all Manors. Fans of a certain age got to 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.720 watch King Gerfie Junior for their entire childhood. Now get 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.800 the benefit of watching Julio Rodriguez. And in that tweet 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:28.360 I put out from the Player's Tribune a story that 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.200 Julio wrote. He also was featured in GQ. He's also 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.079 the Sports Illustrated cover athlete for the season preview this year. 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:36.880 Everyone expects this guy to be a multiple time MVP, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:40.280 and he just has the charisma and superstar traits that 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:43.160 you look for across the board in a ball player. 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:45.640 I think it's super cool that my kids get to 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.079 grow watching that guy, and I'm so fired up. Man, 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.120 He's gonna hit like, probably thirty five home runs this year, 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:52.840 probably still fifty basses, probably gonna have an OPS around 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.280 a thousand, probably gonna win a Gold Glove. He is 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.760 special and I cannot wait. Speaking of special, you're boy 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:00.800 in the golf course. I'm just kidding. I do have 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:02.720 a round tonight that I'm very excited to go play. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.560 I've mentioned it several times that I am in fact 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.040 on leave right now. Cameron was nice enough to fall 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.640 asleep for a little bit for me to record this 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.480 podcast and get it in. But my wife feels bad 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.359 for me because Cameron just kind of cries all day 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.160 and I've been getting my ass kicked all day by 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.280 this kid. So she said, go ahead and get out 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.360 of here for a few hours and I and go 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.680 play golf. I'm gonna go play the Grand Palms in 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.520 Pembroke Pines. I'm just curious. Has anybody ever really started 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.080 golf at age thirty five and made the PGA Tour, 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:32.680 because I feel like that's kind of where I'm going. 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.320 That's a joke, but I've mentioned that natural baseball swinging, man, 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.840 I feel it, and I'm consistently getting the driver about 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:42.440 two eighty off the tea most of the time straight. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.000 Sometimes I got a bit of a snap hook that 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:46.280 it just turns a little bit left more than I 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:50.680 wanted to hitting the greens, and regulation is a fifty 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:53.040 fifty prop position. You never know what's gonna happen. But 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.200 i feel like I'm putting myself in position on most 0:03:55.200 --> 0:03:58.320 holes to hit from about eighty to one twenty, and 0:03:58.360 --> 0:03:59.840 I'm just not getting the ball close enough to The 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.800 putting is very up and down as well, so I 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.560 feel close. I feel like I'm close to becoming someone 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.160 that just began golf who was consistently in the one hundreds. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.560 And I feel like getting a eight as a first 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.600 number on my card is very close. In fact, I 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:16.120 shot a ninety the other day, and I think even 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.160 beyond that, I feel like I'm not far away, maybe 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.839 a couple of years from potentially being able to get 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:25.440 under double digits in terms of being overpar like plus nine. 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.359 I think it's very possible for you a boy in 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.000 the near future. But I want to play as much 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.360 golf as I can this summer. So, like I said, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:32.800 if you're trying to get out there, let me know, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:35.560 let's go play some golf. Let's talk some football, shall we. 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.000 Wednesday we did the offensive side of the ball, and 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.400 now we turn our attention to the defense. And frankly, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.680 I think you could argue which side of the ball 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.719 looks better on paper for your Miami Dolphins. And that 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.040 certainly makes for a fun training camp, doesn't it. I 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.919 do Matchup of the Day, Matchup, Matchup, Matchup of the 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:56.359 day every single day on the Great Training Camp Practice 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:01.320 podcast reviews or recaps, and like you know, in the past, 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.799 I had to try to manufacture Shack Lawson versus Austin Jackson, 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.120 a couple players that were certainly fun to watch, But 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.120 now I got like Jalen Ramsey versus Jalen Waddle, I 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.040 got Tyreek Hill versus Xavier Howard. I've got to Ron 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.200 Armstead versus Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips like who Buddy. 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.760 There are matchups up and down the board that I 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.040 cannot wait to get into. And before we look at 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.839 our first position group, this podcast will not be as 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:30.680 long as the Thursday Behemoth or Wednesday Yeah, Wednesday Behemoth. Um, 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:32.920 it probably will because I'm talking about baseball and golf now, 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:35.680 but a lot. I think I had four thousand words 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:37.280 for that one. I got about twenty five hundred for 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.600 this one. But before we get into that, there's a 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.080 guy at ESPN. He's a fantasy football expert, which I 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:46.320 don't think translates to actual football. And I've actually gotten 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.599 into debate to this guy on Twitter in the past. 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.480 You know, I have a hard time value in an 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.080 opinion from someone that doesn't like, you know, the great 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.640 So the great Mike McDaniel interview with Mike Silver. How 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.720 great was that? By the way, the process of talking 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.320 about how we don't just have this quarterback in two 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.640 like Mike with that film session he talked about in 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:06.720 that story, we're gonna build the entire program around two 0:06:06.720 --> 0:06:09.320 of strengths. Because I believe he's that good. How freaking 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.440 cool is that? But when you had to explain to 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:16.240 him what a field side out route was, Oh, I 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.560 just I can't understand. Like doing this profession and not 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.960 knowing the very basics, it's very weird to me. That's 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:25.200 how I feel about this particular pundint. But each year 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.960 he does his positional grading chart and puts a heavier 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:31.320 emphasis on certain positions, like we talked about last episode 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.040 with more premium spots. But he has the Dolphins is thirteenth. 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.760 Offensively the hell you're talking about so already kind of 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:42.880 discrediting my own source here, But defensively number one he 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.480 has Miami and that lands the Dolphins is the number 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:48.279 three overall roster, behind just Philly and Dallas. And to 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.080 give you an idea of the rest of the teams 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.800 in the top ten, they are the Bengals, Bills, Chargers, Chiefs, Broncos, Browns, 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.160 and Jets. This is under the assumption that Jets get 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.320 Aaron Rodgers. Teams three through ten in the AFC is brutal, 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.720 but it's goot Miami better than the Bengals and Bills. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.640 Those are two teams I think most folks will pick 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.159 to compete with the Chiefs this year, who are even 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:10.480 lower for potential AFC supremacy in a trip to the 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:12.920 Super Bowl. Let's go ahead and get to the defense, though, 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.040 And as you look at this roster, you can see, 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:18.320 you know Mike Clay's point, each group has starters and 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.880 I use air quotes around that who are really premier 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.760 type of players. And I use the term starter loosely 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.920 because starter just doesn't mean the most snaps. In the 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:32.440 era of specialization and sub packages, there just isn't as 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.080 much emphasis on that phrase anymore. And a prime example 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.360 of that is our first position group here on the 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:43.160 interior defensive line. You get, I guess, a mix of 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.960 starters and guys that contribute in different packages, and the 0:07:46.040 --> 0:07:48.440 game can dictate how many snaps they play based upon 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.600 is it a guy that comes in for pass rush? 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.040 Are you behind early like the Detroit game last year 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.960 when Miami fell behind by fourteen points and didn't recapturely 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:58.760 until the fourth quarter, it's a passing game or I 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.360 should say a running game in that one, and then 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:03.920 late when they get the football back down, it becomes 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.000 more of a passing game. Right. But you have this 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.360 front for the Dolphins where we talk about starters versus 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:12.560 sub packages. This group is so versatile and so flexible. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.480 If you're in an even front, you could have like 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:19.280 Christian Zach and then like Emmanuel Ogball and Jillian Phillips 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.040 as you're four down, but you go odd front incomes 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.160 ray Kwon Davis, outgoes Amanual or whoever. But you get 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.800 the idea of how this group and the depth this 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.960 position group has can make this defense really go this year. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.520 As we you know, assumed going into the offseason, you 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.000 might see a bit of a shift from focus of 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.959 building back to front to more front to back because 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.720 Vic Fangio's defense, we know the principles of it. Play 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:47.520 lighter boxes, play a lot of two high structures. There's 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:51.560 lots of disguise that requires smart, quick processing really across 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.840 the defense, but primarily in that defensive backfield. And that's 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:59.400 where you know Javon Holland and Brandon Jones to me 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:01.560 stand to make a big jump, and that's why you 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.160 go out and get a David Long, who was one 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.240 of the best processing linebackers in my opinion, in the 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:09.000 entire National Football League. We break this thing down in 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.280 terms of the front on interior, defensive line, and edge, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.600 and so let's just go ahead and talk about the interior. 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.240 To me, a blue player and Christian Wilkins, one of 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.040 the best defensive tackles in the NFL, should have been 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.960 a Pro Bowler last year. If he had just been 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:24.160 listed defensive tackle, he probably would have gone. Zack Steeler 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:26.440 to me is a plus starter of the green category 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:29.680 the seventy five percent criteria. If you didn't catch those 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.680 from If you don't know what that means, go back 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.760 to Wednesday's episode. We explained that pretty in depth. On 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.199 the offense, Ray Kuan Davis I have as a gold 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:41.080 replacement level and then Josiah Bronson and Julan Twyman, two 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.040 players looking to make their way in the league as 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.760 guys in the practice squad futures contracts. But Wilkins has 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.920 been on this type of trajectory that you want from 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.880 a player truly gets better every single year arrived as 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.240 a premier player last season. I think he wasn't twenty 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.000 twenty one as well, but last year pretty much undeniable. 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.520 I think what you have here is Coach Clark's group 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.240 is a pair of really dominant, multifaceted players who are 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.760 so well versed in their craft that they are both 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:10.920 capable of cheating the scheme a little bit. And what 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.560 I mean by that is they can play within the 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.640 rules of their job, but they're so smart and talented 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.079 that they can go outside the scheme a little bit 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.840 and take themselves into great plays. And we saw that 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.040 with Christian Wilkins really frequently. I'm talking, of course about 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.360 he and Zach Seiler, and that's the benefit of having 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:30.320 those two guys be so durable, so dependable, and be 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.599 in some of the best condition on your entire football team. 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.200 I'm amazed every single week when I pull up the 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:40.120 snaps on a Monday morning and it says, Christian Wilkins played, 0:10:40.240 --> 0:10:43.240 you know, sixty five snaps that was nine of the workload, 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.880 and Zach Seeler played sixty three snaps. Like it's a 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:51.920 crazy amount of basically going through a full workout every 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.000 snap between you know, your arms and your shoulders and 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:55.800 your core and your legs, and how you engage every 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.199 muscle on every single snap. It's a testament to their conditioning. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.679 And to me, it's built around those two guys who 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.360 can cheat the scheme, who are smart enough to anticipate 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.360 and understand what their keys say and where it takes 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:10.880 them in a given play. If this guard down blocks 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.920 the center, I know I can shoot that gap and 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.160 get in there and possibly, you know, shut down a 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.800 front side run or pursue a backside run because I 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.640 know we're going to set a strong edge on the 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.920 opposite side. We saw Wilkins do this time and time again, 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.160 backdoor a two gap responsibility and get the running back 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.240 to the ground for a loss. He's just so technically sound, 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.640 and if you watch the way he plays, he just 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:33.319 keys off the guy in front of him. It's it's 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.720 so cool to watch him process the play from pre 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.400 snap to when he makes the play in the backfield, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.640 like his head's on the tackle, his eyes and the 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.000 tackle or the guard, and he makes his reactions based 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.760 upon that. It allows him to hold the point or 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:49.920 penetrate and just consistently be underneath his man, which leads 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:52.440 to stops in the backfield. It leads to record setting 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.440 tackle numbers, it leads to interior pressure from the pass 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.960 rush situation. It leads to a great, complete player who 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.000 I'd be surprised if we see go into the season 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:04.000 without a new contract. For Christian Wilkins. Both he and 0:12:04.080 --> 0:12:06.800 Zach Seiler are capable of playing all the way inside 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.880 the one technique, which is your outside shade off the 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:13.040 center's shoulders, all the way out to that wide position 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.760 at the five technique where you're off the outside shoulder 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.839 of the tackle, And that type of versatility is so 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.640 damn important to know that you can draw up any front, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.000 any technique, and you're gonna have these two guys like 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.360 you don't have to worry about scheming up this system 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.120 for your players, Like, hey, we're gonna draw us up 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.040 ninety four and ninety two have got it. They're fine. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.920 They're gonna play fifty sixty snaps a game invaluable with Seeler. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.480 To me, it's the strength and length the fourth down 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:41.800 and short production from Seiler describes his game in a 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.560 nutshell to me, the plower that he plays with often 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.120 puts guys in their heels, and it doesn't just lead 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.960 to production. It can disrupt the timing of the opposition's 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.439 play to the point that it impacts other people from 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.839 doing their job. Like I took this guard and ran 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:56.680 him back into the up back and now he can't 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.319 go make his blocks. It has a ripple effect as 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.559 this position group tends to do. Ray Kwon Davis is solid. 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.640 I think there could be more plays made at that 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.080 position off the nose, but it's a thankless job and 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:09.040 he does a good job of eating up double teams. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.520 Sometimes they do get movement on him, but that wingspan, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:15.360 sheer size when it clicks for him, it really shows 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.480 up on those plays. But more consistency and more playmaking 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.839 there would be nice at that nose tackle position. I 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:22.959 think ray Kuan is capable of that, and then Bronson 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:25.199 and Twineman can push the roles. But you kind of 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:27.199 see where there's a route here to add more players, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.840 more depth. I thought last year they missed the presence 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.079 of Adam Butler. Finding a guy like that. I think 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.920 a veteran nose tackle would be a big addition for 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:36.800 this Dolphins defense if they can find it. You know, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.120 I don't know if a Keem Hicks is a guy 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.000 that I keep thinking of that if he's gotten more 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:42.880 on the tank, could be a good addition here. I'm 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.720 still bummed about Ben Stilly getting plucked off the practice squad. 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.600 Thought he had some good skills to work with and develop, 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.920 but sometimes that happens. Let's go ahead and take our 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.200 first break right there, come back on the other side 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.640 and talk about the edge, the linebackers, the dbs, and 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:57.000 the specialist. I guess the podcast is going to go 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.560 along today. That's next to Drift Time podcast, your host 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:04.680 Travis Field, brought to you by Auto Nation. If we 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:09.800 think that interior defensive line position, gosh, the edge, if 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:13.240 that's impressive. This edge group is to me one of 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.920 the best position groups, not just on the football team, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:17.920 but in the entire National Football League. Because I have 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.160 one blue player, a blue chip, top of the line 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.160 caliber player to meet that, Chelan Phillips. I think the 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.880 next two guys have been in that blue category as 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.120 recently as one or two years ago. Bradley Chubb and 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.480 Emmanuel Ogba to me are in the green category, the 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:35.440 plus starters, and then I've got I've got above average 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.240 players as well, and Malik Reed and Andrew Van Ginkl 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:41.040 in my orange category, my third and one of the 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.520 three categories that if you've got that guy, you're happy 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.640 you have him and you feel good about their role 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:48.000 in the football team. And then Cameron good goes in 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:50.760 the incomplete category. Hasn't made his NFL debut yet, but 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.280 he has some traits to develop there. But this position group, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.560 but it's embarrassment of riches. Phillips enjoyed that breakout year 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.360 where he was good for several pressures a game, a 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.120 couple of run stops every game, give him a sack 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.520 every other game, a hit on the quarterback or two 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.480 per game, some ball production here and there. We talk 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:11.240 about Wilkins and Seeler's inside outside versatility. There are not 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:15.560 many guys in the league do what Jyalen Phillips does 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.160 from a pass, rush and run game perspective that can 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.960 then also kind of not kind of but kick inside 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:24.920 and produce and just impact the game from in there 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.400 as well. And it's again more of a thankless job 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.640 to rush a guard. He can't get production from there, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.800 but typically when he kicks in there, it's to free 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:34.400 up another edge outside of him. And if we do 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:37.400 get this roster with Phillips, Chubb and Ogba. I think 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.400 you're gonna see a lot of that, like these pass 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.880 rush packages with those three guys. Put and put my 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.720 league read out there, like come on, man, how you're 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:48.200 gonna block that stuff? But the fact that Phillips can 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.800 threaten the edge, force the quarterback to flee to the 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.720 other side of the field and then chase him down 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.120 from the back allah Aaron Rodgers. We saw it with 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.520 Kenny Pickett. There was another game he didn't I forget 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.640 which one it was, but to do that and then 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.440 one snap later, kick inside to the three technique, which 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:05.040 is the outside shoulder of the guard and rush and 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.280 get knocked back and create a laying against a three 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:09.640 d and twenty pound man to open up space for 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:12.800 somebody else. This dude's rare. Now. We saw his Pro 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.360 Day workout at Miami back when there was no combine 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.160 that year, paired with the Brett Coleman video where he 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.920 compared on both the Watt Brothers, like watch out. This 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.600 guy is a I think this guy's Defensive Player of 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.640 the Year candidate material in terms of his ability, the 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.440 way he works and the way he puts it all together. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:31.400 It just has his head screwed on the right way. 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:34.200 He's freaking Walter Peyton, Man of the Your nominee, won 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.800 the or Not the d Block Award, the Nat Moore 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:41.760 Community Service Award his Rookie Season Special Special Player. His 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:45.160 hustle and effort paired with rare rare traits like the burst, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.400 the pass rush arsenal, the mental processing where he can 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.160 attack an opponent one way, see the way the opponent 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.680 refutes that attack, and then adjust his game. His pass 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.160 rush production last year, by the metrics say that he 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.080 could have had a lot more sacks. And now with 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.680 Ramsey joined X and Cater, you get Brandon Jones back 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.720 Vic Fangino. Opposing quarterbacks should have to hold the ball 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.480 for a little bit longer. And if that happens and 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.600 JP stays in the same trajectory we saw last year, 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.719 I think he's gonna get double digit sacks. I think 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:17.639 he's gonna threaten for a sack per game. Talking about 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.240 seventeen sacks, I think he'll be in discussion for Defensive 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.160 Player of the Year. I think very highly of this team. 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.639 I think highly this defense, and this is a player 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.639 that I think could get national recognition for a potentially 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.840 big award like that. And that's just the first guy, 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:32.719 because next you've got Bradley Chubb, who was the first 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.399 i think defender taken off the board in that loaded 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.800 twenty eighteen class. How did that one go? It went 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:44.800 Darnald or rather, I'm sorry Mayfield, who went second? Who 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.960 went second after me, oh Saquon Barkley and then Darnald 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:50.919 and then Denzel Award was fourth, so he was the 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.679 second defender off the board. There's some live podcasting for you, 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.080 but he's one of the best pass rushers in the NFL. 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.240 His speed and counter moves put tackles on an island 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:02.439 in such peril. And if you want double phillips like 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:05.400 Bradley Chubb, one on one is not a fun matchup. Frankly, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.960 having these two guys together is going to force offenses 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.040 on every single play to leave a premier pass rusher 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:12.600 one on one. And that's how even accounting for what 0:18:12.640 --> 0:18:15.679 happens inside on the interior. And if you go deeper, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.800 how about a guy who had eighteen sacks in two 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:21.560 fully healthy seasons here in Emmanuel Ogba went down with 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.280 a triceps injury last year, but he's been the closer 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.520 for this team for a while now, Like any end 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:28.760 of game situation like go to the Buffalo win. Last 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:31.159 year Week number three, it was his pass rush that 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:34.040 caused the hold that really put Buffalo in that position 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:37.520 where they got tackled in bounds, the clock expires, Dolphins win. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.399 He's also one of the better run defending edges in 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.320 the NFL. I think where this group could get a 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:45.280 little better is I saw it with Chubb a lot 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.719 last year. They jump inside sometimes and that kind of 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:49.600 is something you give and take with pass rush. I'm 0:18:49.600 --> 0:18:52.320 curious to see how much that rushland integrity is part 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.840 of this defense and the core principle of this defense. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.080 I think it will be, But I wonder how much 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:58.800 you might be willing to give up in terms of 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:00.880 and maybe I give up my yap here to get 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.360 better pass rush production. I don't know. I'm just kind 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.879 of speculating. But we'll see, Kerry's see if that changes 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.760 this year, because there were too many instances last year 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.560