WEBVTT - Drive Time - Snap Counts For a Versatile Team 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:09.320 Factors Alpha touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:13.760 What's up Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:13.920 --> 0:00:18.120 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:22.680 Miami Dolphins each and every day. How is it going everybody? 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:25.560 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.960 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:31.600 on today's show, it is back to business. The Dolphins 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:34.440 are back on the field and we've got you covered. 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.520 We are going to hear from Brian Flores and three 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.320 more Dolphins players on this Thursday. Plus we'll get into 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.200 snap counts and who fills them on this team this season. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:47.000 All of that and more on this Thursday, September, the 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:54.320 third edition of the Drivetime PODCASTAMI Dolphins. As we start 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.240 daily here, we're gonna go ahead and hear from coach 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:59.240 Flora's and just one moment, but some late roster news. 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:03.560 On Wednesday night, the Dolphins released receiver Chester Rogers, who 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.760 of course signed earlier this month. He has now been released. 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.840 The Dolphins roster getting closer down to that league man 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.000 dated fifty five man roster or fifty three man roster 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.240 with two call up players this year, and of course 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:18.120 the six team practice squad players cut down day coming 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.480 on Saturday. We're gonna have you guys covered here on 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.720 the Drivetime podcast on Miami Dolphins dot com. And then 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:26.320 we get into the regular season next week. We are 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:29.280 one week away from Chiefs and Texans and calling those 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.080 games on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network is going to 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:35.319 be Hall of Fame defensive and Jason Taylor, who joins 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.199 Kimbo Camper, Jimmy Cephalo and Joe Rose in the Miami 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.520 Dolphins Radio broadcast booth this year. So Jason Taylor, welcome 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.880 in to the Miami Dolphins broadcast booths. Big news there 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.040 for your Dolphins. Let's go ahead and get back to 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.400 today's action here and here from coach Flores, who showed 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.320 up wearing a red Miami Heat shirt and of course 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.680 was asked about Game two last night, the Heat taking 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.920 down the Milwaukee Bucks to take a two oh lead 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.800 in the Eastern Conference Semis. Here's coach on the game 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.320 and the Miami Heat. I mean, I thought the game 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.640 was fantastic last night. You know, he went down to 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:09.720 the wire, got a great situational basketball at the end. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.440 He came down a free throw, so it was good. 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 You know. Obviously I'm a fan of Coach Spo and 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.040 that team and the way they played that tough there, physical, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.680 they grind things out, the play smart smart basketball. Hopefully 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.040 we we we we can kind of learn from a 0:02:24.040 --> 0:02:26.400 lot of things they do and emulate a lot of 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.919 the success that they've had over there. It's just too 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.440 perfect Coach Flow and Coach Spow your South Florida head 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.919 coaches down here for the professional sports teams, I can 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.000 just imagine watching that game with Flora's and seeing him 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.320 stress out over the miss free throws, will simultaneously loving 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.799 diving for loose balls and playing strong defense, passing the 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:43.680 ball all around the ark and finding the best shot. 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.639 Really fun to watch that heat team play. I think 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.520 Coach Flora's appreciates that as well. Let's get back to 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.320 football here, and here from coach Flora's on his quarterback 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:53.919 Ryan Fitzpatrick and the value he brings to the quarterback 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:56.200 room and the rest of that team. Well from a 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:59.040 leadership standpoint, but from an experience standpoint, I think he 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.200 brings a lot to the team and for two us 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.560 specifically and josh Um, you know, to kind of talk 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.840 through in the game situations and to have situations third 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.359 down too, you know red mike points in a run game, 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.840 defensive structures and all those things. Uh, they're very helpful 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.639 to the to the young players. It's the same for defensively. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.600 So the defensive guy can go to fits and say, hey, 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:22.120 what did you see on that that made you make 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.520 that throw versus another throw? So and he's more than 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.080 willing to take on that role and answer questions. And 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:30.200 you have think he brings a lot. You just can't 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.440 replicate the value of a strong veteran leader at quarterback 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.360 that can, like Flora says, not only lead the quarterback room, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.760 but help the defense and show them things they might 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.280 not have recognized in the coverage or in the particular 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.120 progression for the quarterback, in the route concept of the offense. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:48.360 Just invaluable stuff. Ryan Fitzpatrick brings to this team. And 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.680 we stay on topic there as coach was asked if 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.760 he had a pre existing relationship with Fitzpatrick before he 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.560 brought him here to Miami and to describe the affinity 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:00.000 that he feels for Fitzpatrick. And although he loves Fitzpatrick, 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.640 he disagrees with that usage that description of the relationship. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:05.240 I don't if anyone has ever said used the word 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:09.440 affinity uh with me and in any player, but you know, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:15.200 uh fits. I'm absolutely coached against him. UH watched them, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.559 you know, playing this league for a long long time, 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.039 hadn't met him, but but but knew of him from 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:22.800 you know, I want to vc he was at Harvard, 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:27.440 so UH knew of him. But I think what you 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:31.120 hear about him as a person, um, you know that 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:34.440 was that was all true. And we're seeing that he's 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:36.240 all the things that you know I'm looking for in 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.880 a player. He's tough, he's smart, he's competitive, he loves 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:43.280 he loves to play, he's a great teammate. Um, he's coachable. 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:45.760 I think there's I would say he and I probaly 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.400 have a lot of similarities from the lasting point about 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.560 you know, the way we approached the game, and you know, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.880 I think it's it's been a good good fit affinity 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:56.119 probably you know, I don't know if I'd use those words, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.360 but I like the guy a lot. If you guys 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.560 hear any strange sounds in the podcast, I think the 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.000 receiver's room next door got a basketball hoop, and that's 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:05.880 the sound you're hearing this morning, So I do apologize 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.680 for that, but we press on here as coach was 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.960 asked next about when the team transitions from camp mode 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.520 into preparation mode, as we are just one week away 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:16.040 from the kickoff here of NFL season Kansas City and 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.240 Houston of course pulling for Kansas City there with the 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.840 draft pick of the Houston Texans, and just ten days 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.320 away from our own opener in New England. I mean 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:25.320 it's a little bit of both right now. Camp it's 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:29.160 you know, we were we obviously started in preparation on 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:34.080 and then trying to get familiar with their personnel that 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.719 that's some new players, uh, the quarterback situation obviously. But 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.520 at the same time, I'm gonna use today and work 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.520 on some things that we may not have seen, um 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.039 from our offense, our defense today of course the training camp, 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:52.919 not necessarily England, UM, just different books that we haven't 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.600 seen offensively, defensively really, you know, on training camp, you 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.560 work against whatever your defense does, that's what you're gonna see. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.640 Offensive whatever their offense does, we're going to see. Defensively, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.560 whatever you know you do in a kicking game, that's 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.600 what you see. Like some other teams are a little 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:10.159 bit different, and there's some other concepts that we need 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.000 to see, we need to see more of. So that's 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:14.760 what we're going on today, and then you know, we'll 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.839 get into the game plan a little later in the week. 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.320 Probably that response was music to my football loving ears, 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:23.800 just here and talking about different concepts and approaches. He 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:25.919 obviously didn't get into any of those concepts. But you know, 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.840 we have so many different unique styles of offense around 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:32.000 the NFL today, Like, for instance, what the Jacksonville Jaguars 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.080 were under Tom Coughlin. I know he's not there anymore, 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.880 but that physical, grinded out type of team. Then the 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.680 very next week, you could find yourself playing Patrick Mahomes, 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:42.000 Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs and have to 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.800 deal with that spread out attack that has so many 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.039 different wrinkles and variations to it, and you have to 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:49.039 defend a quarterback that has so much talent in his 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.159 arsenal that you just have to defend every blade of 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.960 grass on the field. And then you might find yourself 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.160 going up against the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and that 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.800 quarterback lead heavy offense and the read option and all 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:01.320 the misdirection they do in the running game, throwing the 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.159 ball to the tight ends over the middle of the field. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.080 There are just so many variations of offense in this league, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.240 and it does seem to stand a reason that you 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.640 would face challenges without having preparation or game plans in 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:14.440 place from the previous four preseason games. You don't have 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:15.920 that this year, so you have to make up for 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.520 it in the short period of time. And luckily you've 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.600 got some options this year for the scout team offense. 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:23.000 For instance, a former quarterback in college that did a 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.360 bunch of running on his own. Right up next, coach 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.480 was asked about his own improvement going into your number 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.600 two things he's looking to improve on as a coach 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.480 in his second year here in Miami. Well, I'm still 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.760 working on everything. I try to improve on a daily 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:40.600 basis and every area of my life coaching, you know, fatherhood, 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.680 in a husband, friendships, and I try to get better 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.680 really at everything. But yeah, I mean there's there's experience 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.520 that experiences that I had last year, think about as 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:55.920 I'm trying to make decisions and uh this season, conversations 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.320 that I've had, experiences, situations, you know, in practice and games. 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:02.880 I certainly don't have all the answers. I don't think 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.400 I ever will. Um, So I still lean on a 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.120 lot of the you know, I lean on our coaching 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:13.640 staff Danny Croftsman to Chant, to Josh Boyer, uh, to 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.600 Eric steus Villion that there's I feel I feel very 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.320 comfortable with our group. I'll lean on those guys. But 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.840 as far as the relationships with the players, all the 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.280 guys who were here a year ago, they kind of 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.200 know how I'm wired. Uh, they know what I expect. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.640 That's been good, I mean as far as your comfortability 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.160 from that standpoint. But at the same time, we also 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:37.200 have a lot of new players, but we're still get 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:38.800 to know them as well. They're getting to know me, 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.800 and that's kind of that's a football in general. It's 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.240 start how how and try to build a team. Here's 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.920 always some new guys and make everyone feel comfortable, but 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.200 at the same time, coaching hard and and we'll go 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.560 ahead and finish up here with coach talking about three 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.840 players and their progress coming back from injuries, Jachim Grant 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.280 Davante Parker. He said they're working hard to get back 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.200 every day getting better and mentioned the injury report will 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.920 come out next week for that Patriots game. Hopefully they're 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.079 not on it, but he says, we'll see. And then 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.440 he was asked to evaluate your performance so far of 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.800 exaving Howard, who's been back now for one full week. Yeah, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.560 he's made a lot of progress. I mean he's looks 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.520 he's look, he's looked good out there. I mean he's fast, quick, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.000 you know, he's he's just gotta work on you know, 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.679 the techniques to fundamentals of stattle com Uh, but is 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.760 a good conditioning and those that you know, those are 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.840 things that you work on a mon a daily basis 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.800 and to get better. So yeah, he's he's trending in 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.839 the right direction. I would say that again, not a 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:38.480 competition at that position as well. And we'll see, we'll see, uh, 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.840 we'll see how it shakes out. And so there goes 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.439 coach ahead of Thursday morning's practice again, just ten days 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.040 away from the start of the season four your Miami Dolphins, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.720 and with the season so close, let's go ahead and 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.800 talk about this roster, the construction of this roster, and 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.280 some snap counts as when they do take the field, 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.360 they're gonna have plenty of options out there. Is be 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.360 kind of sandwich this podcast with Ryan Flores and Player 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:05.080 Media Availability together here in the middle on this Thursday, September, 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:10.240 the third edition of the Drive Time podcast. We've heard coaches, players, myself, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.160 anybody attached to this Dolphins operation talk about the importance 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.120 of being multiple on defense and on offense too. It 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.319 goes both ways. A staple of what it takes to 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:23.120 be a Miami Dolphins that you are tough, smart, physical player, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:25.680 but also the more you can do, the more value 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:28.760 you have around this building. And that's true of every 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.680 employee here in the building. Hell, I've even learned some 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.440 graphics work since I've been here for the articles up 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:36.839 on Miami Dolphins dot com. So the more you can do, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.320 the more self reliant you can be, the more value 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.840 you have in this organization. So I want to take 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.280 a look at snap counts and package deployment from last 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.839 year from Pro Football Focus and try best to apply 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.040 that to this year's team. And by now we are 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.880 very familiar with the multiplicity of the defense. We had 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.280 Eric Rowe talking about the man based defense on the 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.120 podcast a while back. Only the Lions and the Patriots 0:10:57.160 --> 0:10:59.880 played more man coverage last season in the NFL that 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:04.040 according to Pro Football Reference, we saw even odd three man, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.960 four man, five man fronts. We saw linebackers come down 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:09.160 on the ball in the A to B the C gap. 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:11.680 We saw Eric Rowe come down in that marble point 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.800 front where he aligns inside the force defender on the outside. 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.479 You have your outside linebacker or defensive end aligned outside 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.000 of the formation as Row comes down to be privy 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.360 both of the tight end releasing into the pattern, but 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.760 also to fit the C gap in the running game. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.640 Not an easy job. But back on topic here, why 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.120 don't we go ahead and just start there with the 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.040 defensive backs. It's easy at the top here because, barring injury, 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.160 you're gonna roll the same four players on the field 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.440 pretty much every snap in a perfect world. And again 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.280 there's no perfect world in the NFL. But if there was, 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:46.120 Byron Jones, Xavian Howard, Eric Row, and Bobby McCain, your 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.800 two perimeter corners and your two safeties, they don't leave 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:53.400 the field in an ideal world, that's four snaptakers there. Now. 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.400 Pro Football Focus has a league average of five defensive 0:11:57.440 --> 0:12:01.520 backpackages in the NFL at five percent. But there's a 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:06.120 very very important carrot in there to recognize. You might 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:09.160 assume that five means five or more, but it doesn't. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:12.560 It's just five defensive backs. So six defensive backs in 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:15.080 the NFL is twelve pc. So you call that, what 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.240 does it carry the one? Sixty percent of the time, 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:19.960 I know there's no carrying the one there, I just 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.560 second math making a joke. But sixty six percent of 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.400 the time you're in nickel or dime defense. So again, 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:27.760 I know you'll hear this out in the Twitter sphere, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.240 even from people that have covered this game for a 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.560 long long time, talking about based defense, based defense four 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.120 three three four. It's just it's not just stop. It's 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.720 not your base defense. Those are sub packages. In today's NFL, 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:44.280 sub is the new base. And so back to the Dolphins. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.040 They used five defensive backs thirty five percent of the 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.240 time last year compared to that pent league average. Pretty 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.720 big gap, right, However, they used dime defense six defensive 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:59.520 backs of the time. That is a seventeen percent increase 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.880 on league average of twelve percent. So there you go. 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:05.160 You get your six right there from the Dolphins with 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.680 five or six defensive backs on the field, just two 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:10.480 percent less than the league average. But that's not it 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.080 because also on Pro Football Focus, we've got quarter and 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.200 half dollar defense. Yep, it just keeps going with that trend. 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.600 Seven defensive backs, eight defensive backs. They made up just 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.680 short of ten percent last year of the combined snaps, 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.040 and these all come with different variations of fronts. The 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.400 description only refers to the number of defensive backs on 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.640 the field, So if this is getting too wordy for you, 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.160 let's go ahead and slow it down. Nickel defense means 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.800 five defensive backs, dime means six, quarter means seven, and 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:42.440 half dollar means eight defensive backs, so you get about 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.800 a ten percent bump from quarter and half dollar. Bring 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:49.160 our five or more defensive back packages on the field 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.400 to a grand total of seventy four percent of the time, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.240 so three fourth of the time you have five or 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:59.400 more defensive backs on the field. We all clear on that. Okay, cool? 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:01.920 And then there are a handful like less than one 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.120 percent total of snaps played with less than four defensive 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.600 backs on the field, called your heavy package, and the 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.360 rest will be your four defensive backpackage. So three fourths 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.520 of the time you're gonna be in five dbs or more, 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.040 and one quarter of the time, you're gonna be with 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:17.720 four defensive backs on the field, so five guys are 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.400 gonna play a ton, six will play a lot, seven 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:22.880 will play some And in reality, you need about ten 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.200 guys active on game day you feel good about in 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.040 the secondary based upon injuries. Special teams help guys to 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:30.880 fill in for a series or two if someone gets 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.600 nicked up. So many variations go into this, and if 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.760 you want to be multiple and you want to execute 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.840 your quarter half dollar dime nickel sub package defense, you 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:43.280 have to have about ten guys. So x Byron Rowe, McCain. Again, 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.320 ideal world doesn't exist, but in that world, they play 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.760 of your snaps last year is not a good indicator 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:52.680 for individual snap counts because all those guys went on 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.880 injured reserve except for Eric Rowe, and obviously Byron Jones 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.560 wasn't here, but he always plays. At least in Dallas 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:02.080 he did. So It's Dolphins are not a great indicator. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.720 But in New England, for instance, Stefond Gilmour play of 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:07.960 their snaps. See not a perfect world, couldn't play all 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.560 of their snaps. Devin mccordy played there for them, and 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:16.160 Patrick Chung played of the snaps of the games in 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.920 which he was active for Again, injuries happen. You need 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:23.560 these bodies. Deron Harmon played sixty as the third safety. 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.120 J C. Jackson, one of the better cornerbacks in the 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:31.800 league across the board, played sixty. Jonathan Jones played You 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:35.240 get it, You need bodies. Then we've got work there 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:39.200 from Noah Igmnogeny, who probably ideally fits in that seventy 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.760 plus percent range, and the same is probably true of 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:44.600 Brandon Jones, the safety who comes down and plays multiple 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.800 roles on this defense as well. With depth looking really 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:51.320 really damn good behind those guys in Nick Needham, Jamal Perry, 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:54.200 Tay Hayes, Cavon Frasier. So that's the ten that I 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.040 feel Frankly, I feel really good about that group of 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.600 ten defensive backs here for the Dolphins, and obviously there 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.040 are more eyes that could factor in to that equation 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.400 as well. At the next level. I think you've got 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.440 two guys that probably rarely exit the field, and they 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.120 are Kyle van Noy and Jerome Baker. We've seen Bake 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.320 exceed one thousand snaps here even just last season. We 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:16.000 know what k v n is and how valuable his 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.520 role in this defense is both of those guys do 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.480 seriously everything you can ask from a linebacker, rush the quarterback, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.600 run fit, get yourself in the proper gap, drop and 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.080 cover and communicate the defense. What did Matt Brita tell 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.720 us on the podcast, run, hit and cover. Well, that's 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:34.360 Jerome Baker, that's Kyle van Noy. You can kind of 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.880 think of them in that way as Flora's as Van 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.600 Noy and high Tower in that sense. But then we've 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.040 got a bunch of guys who played in various roles 0:16:42.080 --> 0:16:44.920 to like Sam Eg von Vince Beagle. They both played 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:49.240 roughly six last year Ray Kawadon McMillan played. He did 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.560 miss some time with injury though, so that number is 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.240 probably higher on a games played basis. And then there 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:57.320 are plenty of packages that do call for three linebackers 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.480 on the field, so it's not just Baker and Van Noy. 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.560 Three three fronts and nickel are common about two hundred 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:06.119 and fifty snaps roughly. You get another one hundred plus 0:17:06.119 --> 0:17:08.800 snaps from your base or heavy defense with three or 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.560 even sometimes four linebackers on the field. You can go 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:14.000 to four as well, so that accounts for another additional 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.520 hundred snaps or so, So you're getting close to about 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.600 four hundred, four fifty, maybe even five hundred snaps with 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.679 three or four linebackers on the field. And don't you 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:25.040 just feel good about the rest of this roster's ability 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.080 to make that up as well? Because the Land and 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.840 Roberts had an awesome training camp. I think it's pretty 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.880 clear a pretty part for part plug and play there 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.119 for Ray Kwadon McMillan in that role, and those are 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.680 a few hundred snaps there for him. Andrew Van Geinkle 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:39.840 does a little bit of everything the way Vince Beagle 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.440 did coming down off the edge. Commu grug A Hill 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.680 has that run hit cover skills that we talked about 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:48.320 as well. So honestly, if anything, there probably aren't enough 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:50.680 snaps to go around for everybody here on this team 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:52.920 that deserves the reps there. So coach even said it 0:17:53.040 --> 0:17:56.200 himself in his press conference after the scrimmage on Saturday, 0:17:56.440 --> 0:17:59.199 the depth in the room, the linebacker room was one 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:01.480 of many factor is going in to that Ray Kwan 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:05.560 McMillan trade, So depth at linebacker feels pretty good there too. Finally, 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:07.600 we go up front and the story just feels the 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.720 same here for me. You know how I feel about 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.960 Emmanuel Ogba. He is just a monster in training camp 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.240 so far, and he should play a lot. He averaged 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.680 six hundred and thirty eight snaps per year through four 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.320 years with both the Browns and the Chiefs, even though 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:22.560 he got injured last year about halfway through the season. 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.280 The numbers should likely go up from there for Ogbah, 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:27.879 and the same is true of Shack Lawson. So what 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.679 we call that about fifteen hundred snaps or so for 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.000 those guys, maybe even a little bit more a meaty, 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.880 meaty chunk of defensive end work there from those two 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.760 studs on the defensive line in general? Do we call 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.720 it four thousand snaps? Because you're gonna base this on 0:18:41.720 --> 0:18:44.720 one thousand snaps per position. So you've got what is 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.879 that eleven hundred snaps to give out on defense with 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:50.840 eleven guys a hundred thousand snaps, I should say, eleven 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.359 thousand snaps to go around with four thousand on the 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:57.200 defensive line. So if those guys eat up fifteen hundred snaps, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.320 you've got twenty hundred to go around. Both Christian Wilkins 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.479 and Devon god Shop played about seven hundred and fifty 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.280 ish Snapskiver take last year for this Dolphins defense. But 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:11.440 we did hear Coach Hobby on Wednesday's podcast talk about 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.359 the importance of rotation and how badly you need to 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.720 keep those guys up front fresh. I don't think that's 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.680 at all an issue for Christian Wilkins. He never left 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:22.720 the field of Clemson. He did the same thing last 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.359 year here in Miami. Plus, he can play inside as 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.000 the one shade up over the center, that three technique, 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.120 in those four man fronts, he can kick out over 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.320 the tackle and your odd bear fronts upfront. So his 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:35.879 versatility really goes a long way for him. And I 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.840 would say that workload feels fitting for Christian with maybe 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.240 a little bit dialed back for god Chow there, because 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.719 we have to account for this big rookie who had 0:19:43.720 --> 0:19:46.080