Speaker 1: Factors Alpha touchdown. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What's up Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. How is it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, it is back to business. The Dolphins
Speaker 1: are back on the field and we've got you covered.
Speaker 1: We are going to hear from Brian Flores and three
Speaker 1: more Dolphins players on this Thursday. Plus we'll get into
Speaker 1: snap counts and who fills them on this team this season.
Speaker 1: All of that and more on this Thursday, September, the
Speaker 1: third edition of the Drivetime PODCASTAMI Dolphins. As we start
Speaker 1: daily here, we're gonna go ahead and hear from coach
Speaker 1: Flora's and just one moment, but some late roster news.
Speaker 1: On Wednesday night, the Dolphins released receiver Chester Rogers, who
Speaker 1: of course signed earlier this month. He has now been released.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins roster getting closer down to that league man
Speaker 1: dated fifty five man roster or fifty three man roster
Speaker 1: with two call up players this year, and of course
Speaker 1: the six team practice squad players cut down day coming
Speaker 1: on Saturday. We're gonna have you guys covered here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast on Miami Dolphins dot com. And then
Speaker 1: we get into the regular season next week. We are
Speaker 1: one week away from Chiefs and Texans and calling those
Speaker 1: games on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network is going to
Speaker 1: be Hall of Fame defensive and Jason Taylor, who joins
Speaker 1: Kimbo Camper, Jimmy Cephalo and Joe Rose in the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins Radio broadcast booth this year. So Jason Taylor, welcome
Speaker 1: in to the Miami Dolphins broadcast booths. Big news there
Speaker 1: for your Dolphins. Let's go ahead and get back to
Speaker 1: today's action here and here from coach Flores, who showed
Speaker 1: up wearing a red Miami Heat shirt and of course
Speaker 1: was asked about Game two last night, the Heat taking
Speaker 1: down the Milwaukee Bucks to take a two oh lead
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference Semis. Here's coach on the game
Speaker 1: and the Miami Heat. I mean, I thought the game
Speaker 1: was fantastic last night. You know, he went down to
Speaker 1: the wire, got a great situational basketball at the end.
Speaker 1: He came down a free throw, so it was good.
Speaker 1: You know. Obviously I'm a fan of Coach Spo and
Speaker 1: that team and the way they played that tough there, physical,
Speaker 1: they grind things out, the play smart smart basketball. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we we we we can kind of learn from a
Speaker 1: lot of things they do and emulate a lot of
Speaker 1: the success that they've had over there. It's just too
Speaker 1: perfect Coach Flow and Coach Spow your South Florida head
Speaker 1: coaches down here for the professional sports teams, I can
Speaker 1: just imagine watching that game with Flora's and seeing him
Speaker 1: stress out over the miss free throws, will simultaneously loving
Speaker 1: diving for loose balls and playing strong defense, passing the
Speaker 1: ball all around the ark and finding the best shot.
Speaker 1: Really fun to watch that heat team play. I think
Speaker 1: Coach Flora's appreciates that as well. Let's get back to
Speaker 1: football here, and here from coach Flora's on his quarterback
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and the value he brings to the quarterback
Speaker 1: room and the rest of that team. Well from a
Speaker 1: leadership standpoint, but from an experience standpoint, I think he
Speaker 1: brings a lot to the team and for two us
Speaker 1: specifically and josh Um, you know, to kind of talk
Speaker 1: through in the game situations and to have situations third
Speaker 1: down too, you know red mike points in a run game,
Speaker 1: defensive structures and all those things. Uh, they're very helpful
Speaker 1: to the to the young players. It's the same for defensively.
Speaker 1: So the defensive guy can go to fits and say, hey,
Speaker 1: what did you see on that that made you make
Speaker 1: that throw versus another throw? So and he's more than
Speaker 1: willing to take on that role and answer questions. And
Speaker 1: you have think he brings a lot. You just can't
Speaker 1: replicate the value of a strong veteran leader at quarterback
Speaker 1: that can, like Flora says, not only lead the quarterback room,
Speaker 1: but help the defense and show them things they might
Speaker 1: not have recognized in the coverage or in the particular
Speaker 1: progression for the quarterback, in the route concept of the offense.
Speaker 1: Just invaluable stuff. Ryan Fitzpatrick brings to this team. And
Speaker 1: we stay on topic there as coach was asked if
Speaker 1: he had a pre existing relationship with Fitzpatrick before he
Speaker 1: brought him here to Miami and to describe the affinity
Speaker 1: that he feels for Fitzpatrick. And although he loves Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: he disagrees with that usage that description of the relationship.
Speaker 1: I don't if anyone has ever said used the word
Speaker 1: affinity uh with me and in any player, but you know,
Speaker 1: uh fits. I'm absolutely coached against him. UH watched them,
Speaker 1: you know, playing this league for a long long time,
Speaker 1: hadn't met him, but but but knew of him from
Speaker 1: you know, I want to vc he was at Harvard,
Speaker 1: so UH knew of him. But I think what you
Speaker 1: hear about him as a person, um, you know that
Speaker 1: was that was all true. And we're seeing that he's
Speaker 1: all the things that you know I'm looking for in
Speaker 1: a player. He's tough, he's smart, he's competitive, he loves
Speaker 1: he loves to play, he's a great teammate. Um, he's coachable.
Speaker 1: I think there's I would say he and I probaly
Speaker 1: have a lot of similarities from the lasting point about
Speaker 1: you know, the way we approached the game, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's it's been a good good fit affinity
Speaker 1: probably you know, I don't know if I'd use those words,
Speaker 1: but I like the guy a lot. If you guys
Speaker 1: hear any strange sounds in the podcast, I think the
Speaker 1: receiver's room next door got a basketball hoop, and that's
Speaker 1: the sound you're hearing this morning, So I do apologize
Speaker 1: for that, but we press on here as coach was
Speaker 1: asked next about when the team transitions from camp mode
Speaker 1: into preparation mode, as we are just one week away
Speaker 1: from the kickoff here of NFL season Kansas City and
Speaker 1: Houston of course pulling for Kansas City there with the
Speaker 1: draft pick of the Houston Texans, and just ten days
Speaker 1: away from our own opener in New England. I mean
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of both right now. Camp it's
Speaker 1: you know, we were we obviously started in preparation on
Speaker 1: and then trying to get familiar with their personnel that
Speaker 1: that's some new players, uh, the quarterback situation obviously. But
Speaker 1: at the same time, I'm gonna use today and work
Speaker 1: on some things that we may not have seen, um
Speaker 1: from our offense, our defense today of course the training camp,
Speaker 1: not necessarily England, UM, just different books that we haven't
Speaker 1: seen offensively, defensively really, you know, on training camp, you
Speaker 1: work against whatever your defense does, that's what you're gonna see.
Speaker 1: Offensive whatever their offense does, we're going to see. Defensively,
Speaker 1: whatever you know you do in a kicking game, that's
Speaker 1: what you see. Like some other teams are a little
Speaker 1: bit different, and there's some other concepts that we need
Speaker 1: to see, we need to see more of. So that's
Speaker 1: what we're going on today, and then you know, we'll
Speaker 1: get into the game plan a little later in the week.
Speaker 1: Probably that response was music to my football loving ears,
Speaker 1: just here and talking about different concepts and approaches. He
Speaker 1: obviously didn't get into any of those concepts. But you know,
Speaker 1: we have so many different unique styles of offense around
Speaker 1: the NFL today, Like, for instance, what the Jacksonville Jaguars
Speaker 1: were under Tom Coughlin. I know he's not there anymore,
Speaker 1: but that physical, grinded out type of team. Then the
Speaker 1: very next week, you could find yourself playing Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs and have to
Speaker 1: deal with that spread out attack that has so many
Speaker 1: different wrinkles and variations to it, and you have to
Speaker 1: defend a quarterback that has so much talent in his
Speaker 1: arsenal that you just have to defend every blade of
Speaker 1: grass on the field. And then you might find yourself
Speaker 1: going up against the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and that
Speaker 1: quarterback lead heavy offense and the read option and all
Speaker 1: the misdirection they do in the running game, throwing the
Speaker 1: ball to the tight ends over the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: There are just so many variations of offense in this league,
Speaker 1: and it does seem to stand a reason that you
Speaker 1: would face challenges without having preparation or game plans in
Speaker 1: place from the previous four preseason games. You don't have
Speaker 1: that this year, so you have to make up for
Speaker 1: it in the short period of time. And luckily you've
Speaker 1: got some options this year for the scout team offense.
Speaker 1: For instance, a former quarterback in college that did a
Speaker 1: bunch of running on his own. Right up next, coach
Speaker 1: was asked about his own improvement going into your number
Speaker 1: two things he's looking to improve on as a coach
Speaker 1: in his second year here in Miami. Well, I'm still
Speaker 1: working on everything. I try to improve on a daily
Speaker 1: basis and every area of my life coaching, you know, fatherhood,
Speaker 1: in a husband, friendships, and I try to get better
Speaker 1: really at everything. But yeah, I mean there's there's experience
Speaker 1: that experiences that I had last year, think about as
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make decisions and uh this season, conversations
Speaker 1: that I've had, experiences, situations, you know, in practice and games.
Speaker 1: I certainly don't have all the answers. I don't think
Speaker 1: I ever will. Um, So I still lean on a
Speaker 1: lot of the you know, I lean on our coaching
Speaker 1: staff Danny Croftsman to Chant, to Josh Boyer, uh, to
Speaker 1: Eric steus Villion that there's I feel I feel very
Speaker 1: comfortable with our group. I'll lean on those guys. But
Speaker 1: as far as the relationships with the players, all the
Speaker 1: guys who were here a year ago, they kind of
Speaker 1: know how I'm wired. Uh, they know what I expect.
Speaker 1: That's been good, I mean as far as your comfortability
Speaker 1: from that standpoint. But at the same time, we also
Speaker 1: have a lot of new players, but we're still get
Speaker 1: to know them as well. They're getting to know me,
Speaker 1: and that's kind of that's a football in general. It's
Speaker 1: start how how and try to build a team. Here's
Speaker 1: always some new guys and make everyone feel comfortable, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, coaching hard and and we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up here with coach talking about three
Speaker 1: players and their progress coming back from injuries, Jachim Grant
Speaker 1: Davante Parker. He said they're working hard to get back
Speaker 1: every day getting better and mentioned the injury report will
Speaker 1: come out next week for that Patriots game. Hopefully they're
Speaker 1: not on it, but he says, we'll see. And then
Speaker 1: he was asked to evaluate your performance so far of
Speaker 1: exaving Howard, who's been back now for one full week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's made a lot of progress. I mean he's looks
Speaker 1: he's look, he's looked good out there. I mean he's fast, quick,
Speaker 1: you know, he's he's just gotta work on you know,
Speaker 1: the techniques to fundamentals of stattle com Uh, but is
Speaker 1: a good conditioning and those that you know, those are
Speaker 1: things that you work on a mon a daily basis
Speaker 1: and to get better. So yeah, he's he's trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction. I would say that again, not a
Speaker 1: competition at that position as well. And we'll see, we'll see, uh,
Speaker 1: we'll see how it shakes out. And so there goes
Speaker 1: coach ahead of Thursday morning's practice again, just ten days
Speaker 1: away from the start of the season four your Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and with the season so close, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk about this roster, the construction of this roster, and
Speaker 1: some snap counts as when they do take the field,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have plenty of options out there. Is be
Speaker 1: kind of sandwich this podcast with Ryan Flores and Player
Speaker 1: Media Availability together here in the middle on this Thursday, September,
Speaker 1: the third edition of the Drive Time podcast. We've heard coaches, players, myself,
Speaker 1: anybody attached to this Dolphins operation talk about the importance
Speaker 1: of being multiple on defense and on offense too. It
Speaker 1: goes both ways. A staple of what it takes to
Speaker 1: be a Miami Dolphins that you are tough, smart, physical player,
Speaker 1: but also the more you can do, the more value
Speaker 1: you have around this building. And that's true of every
Speaker 1: employee here in the building. Hell, I've even learned some
Speaker 1: graphics work since I've been here for the articles up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com. So the more you can do,
Speaker 1: the more self reliant you can be, the more value
Speaker 1: you have in this organization. So I want to take
Speaker 1: a look at snap counts and package deployment from last
Speaker 1: year from Pro Football Focus and try best to apply
Speaker 1: that to this year's team. And by now we are
Speaker 1: very familiar with the multiplicity of the defense. We had
Speaker 1: Eric Rowe talking about the man based defense on the
Speaker 1: podcast a while back. Only the Lions and the Patriots
Speaker 1: played more man coverage last season in the NFL that
Speaker 1: according to Pro Football Reference, we saw even odd three man,
Speaker 1: four man, five man fronts. We saw linebackers come down
Speaker 1: on the ball in the A to B the C gap.
Speaker 1: We saw Eric Rowe come down in that marble point
Speaker 1: front where he aligns inside the force defender on the outside.
Speaker 1: You have your outside linebacker or defensive end aligned outside
Speaker 1: of the formation as Row comes down to be privy
Speaker 1: both of the tight end releasing into the pattern, but
Speaker 1: also to fit the C gap in the running game.
Speaker 1: Not an easy job. But back on topic here, why
Speaker 1: don't we go ahead and just start there with the
Speaker 1: defensive backs. It's easy at the top here because, barring injury,
Speaker 1: you're gonna roll the same four players on the field
Speaker 1: pretty much every snap in a perfect world. And again
Speaker 1: there's no perfect world in the NFL. But if there was,
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, Xavian Howard, Eric Row, and Bobby McCain, your
Speaker 1: two perimeter corners and your two safeties, they don't leave
Speaker 1: the field in an ideal world, that's four snaptakers there. Now.
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus has a league average of five defensive
Speaker 1: backpackages in the NFL at five percent. But there's a
Speaker 1: very very important carrot in there to recognize. You might
Speaker 1: assume that five means five or more, but it doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's just five defensive backs. So six defensive backs in
Speaker 1: the NFL is twelve pc. So you call that, what
Speaker 1: does it carry the one? Sixty percent of the time,
Speaker 1: I know there's no carrying the one there, I just
Speaker 1: second math making a joke. But sixty six percent of
Speaker 1: the time you're in nickel or dime defense. So again,
Speaker 1: I know you'll hear this out in the Twitter sphere,
Speaker 1: even from people that have covered this game for a
Speaker 1: long long time, talking about based defense, based defense four
Speaker 1: three three four. It's just it's not just stop. It's
Speaker 1: not your base defense. Those are sub packages. In today's NFL,
Speaker 1: sub is the new base. And so back to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: They used five defensive backs thirty five percent of the
Speaker 1: time last year compared to that pent league average. Pretty
Speaker 1: big gap, right, However, they used dime defense six defensive
Speaker 1: backs of the time. That is a seventeen percent increase
Speaker 1: on league average of twelve percent. So there you go.
Speaker 1: You get your six right there from the Dolphins with
Speaker 1: five or six defensive backs on the field, just two
Speaker 1: percent less than the league average. But that's not it
Speaker 1: because also on Pro Football Focus, we've got quarter and
Speaker 1: half dollar defense. Yep, it just keeps going with that trend.
Speaker 1: Seven defensive backs, eight defensive backs. They made up just
Speaker 1: short of ten percent last year of the combined snaps,
Speaker 1: and these all come with different variations of fronts. The
Speaker 1: description only refers to the number of defensive backs on
Speaker 1: the field, So if this is getting too wordy for you,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and slow it down. Nickel defense means
Speaker 1: five defensive backs, dime means six, quarter means seven, and
Speaker 1: half dollar means eight defensive backs, so you get about
Speaker 1: a ten percent bump from quarter and half dollar. Bring
Speaker 1: our five or more defensive back packages on the field
Speaker 1: to a grand total of seventy four percent of the time,
Speaker 1: so three fourth of the time you have five or
Speaker 1: more defensive backs on the field. We all clear on that. Okay, cool?
Speaker 1: And then there are a handful like less than one
Speaker 1: percent total of snaps played with less than four defensive
Speaker 1: backs on the field, called your heavy package, and the
Speaker 1: rest will be your four defensive backpackage. So three fourths
Speaker 1: of the time you're gonna be in five dbs or more,
Speaker 1: and one quarter of the time, you're gonna be with
Speaker 1: four defensive backs on the field, so five guys are
Speaker 1: gonna play a ton, six will play a lot, seven
Speaker 1: will play some And in reality, you need about ten
Speaker 1: guys active on game day you feel good about in
Speaker 1: the secondary based upon injuries. Special teams help guys to
Speaker 1: fill in for a series or two if someone gets
Speaker 1: nicked up. So many variations go into this, and if
Speaker 1: you want to be multiple and you want to execute
Speaker 1: your quarter half dollar dime nickel sub package defense, you
Speaker 1: have to have about ten guys. So x Byron Rowe, McCain. Again,
Speaker 1: ideal world doesn't exist, but in that world, they play
Speaker 1: of your snaps last year is not a good indicator
Speaker 1: for individual snap counts because all those guys went on
Speaker 1: injured reserve except for Eric Rowe, and obviously Byron Jones
Speaker 1: wasn't here, but he always plays. At least in Dallas
Speaker 1: he did. So It's Dolphins are not a great indicator.
Speaker 1: But in New England, for instance, Stefond Gilmour play of
Speaker 1: their snaps. See not a perfect world, couldn't play all
Speaker 1: of their snaps. Devin mccordy played there for them, and
Speaker 1: Patrick Chung played of the snaps of the games in
Speaker 1: which he was active for Again, injuries happen. You need
Speaker 1: these bodies. Deron Harmon played sixty as the third safety.
Speaker 1: J C. Jackson, one of the better cornerbacks in the
Speaker 1: league across the board, played sixty. Jonathan Jones played You
Speaker 1: get it, You need bodies. Then we've got work there
Speaker 1: from Noah Igmnogeny, who probably ideally fits in that seventy
Speaker 1: plus percent range, and the same is probably true of
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, the safety who comes down and plays multiple
Speaker 1: roles on this defense as well. With depth looking really
Speaker 1: really damn good behind those guys in Nick Needham, Jamal Perry,
Speaker 1: Tay Hayes, Cavon Frasier. So that's the ten that I
Speaker 1: feel Frankly, I feel really good about that group of
Speaker 1: ten defensive backs here for the Dolphins, and obviously there
Speaker 1: are more eyes that could factor in to that equation
Speaker 1: as well. At the next level. I think you've got
Speaker 1: two guys that probably rarely exit the field, and they
Speaker 1: are Kyle van Noy and Jerome Baker. We've seen Bake
Speaker 1: exceed one thousand snaps here even just last season. We
Speaker 1: know what k v n is and how valuable his
Speaker 1: role in this defense is both of those guys do
Speaker 1: seriously everything you can ask from a linebacker, rush the quarterback,
Speaker 1: run fit, get yourself in the proper gap, drop and
Speaker 1: cover and communicate the defense. What did Matt Brita tell
Speaker 1: us on the podcast, run, hit and cover. Well, that's
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, that's Kyle van Noy. You can kind of
Speaker 1: think of them in that way as Flora's as Van
Speaker 1: Noy and high Tower in that sense. But then we've
Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys who played in various roles
Speaker 1: to like Sam Eg von Vince Beagle. They both played
Speaker 1: roughly six last year Ray Kawadon McMillan played. He did
Speaker 1: miss some time with injury though, so that number is
Speaker 1: probably higher on a games played basis. And then there
Speaker 1: are plenty of packages that do call for three linebackers
Speaker 1: on the field, so it's not just Baker and Van Noy.
Speaker 1: Three three fronts and nickel are common about two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty snaps roughly. You get another one hundred plus
Speaker 1: snaps from your base or heavy defense with three or
Speaker 1: even sometimes four linebackers on the field. You can go
Speaker 1: to four as well, so that accounts for another additional
Speaker 1: hundred snaps or so, So you're getting close to about
Speaker 1: four hundred, four fifty, maybe even five hundred snaps with
Speaker 1: three or four linebackers on the field. And don't you
Speaker 1: just feel good about the rest of this roster's ability
Speaker 1: to make that up as well? Because the Land and
Speaker 1: Roberts had an awesome training camp. I think it's pretty
Speaker 1: clear a pretty part for part plug and play there
Speaker 1: for Ray Kwadon McMillan in that role, and those are
Speaker 1: a few hundred snaps there for him. Andrew Van Geinkle
Speaker 1: does a little bit of everything the way Vince Beagle
Speaker 1: did coming down off the edge. Commu grug A Hill
Speaker 1: has that run hit cover skills that we talked about
Speaker 1: as well. So honestly, if anything, there probably aren't enough
Speaker 1: snaps to go around for everybody here on this team
Speaker 1: that deserves the reps there. So coach even said it
Speaker 1: himself in his press conference after the scrimmage on Saturday,
Speaker 1: the depth in the room, the linebacker room was one
Speaker 1: of many factor is going in to that Ray Kwan
Speaker 1: McMillan trade, So depth at linebacker feels pretty good there too. Finally,
Speaker 1: we go up front and the story just feels the
Speaker 1: same here for me. You know how I feel about
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba. He is just a monster in training camp
Speaker 1: so far, and he should play a lot. He averaged
Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty eight snaps per year through four
Speaker 1: years with both the Browns and the Chiefs, even though
Speaker 1: he got injured last year about halfway through the season.
Speaker 1: The numbers should likely go up from there for Ogbah,
Speaker 1: and the same is true of Shack Lawson. So what
Speaker 1: we call that about fifteen hundred snaps or so for
Speaker 1: those guys, maybe even a little bit more a meaty,
Speaker 1: meaty chunk of defensive end work there from those two
Speaker 1: studs on the defensive line in general? Do we call
Speaker 1: it four thousand snaps? Because you're gonna base this on
Speaker 1: one thousand snaps per position. So you've got what is
Speaker 1: that eleven hundred snaps to give out on defense with
Speaker 1: eleven guys a hundred thousand snaps, I should say, eleven
Speaker 1: thousand snaps to go around with four thousand on the
Speaker 1: defensive line. So if those guys eat up fifteen hundred snaps,
Speaker 1: you've got twenty hundred to go around. Both Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: and Devon god Shop played about seven hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: ish Snapskiver take last year for this Dolphins defense. But
Speaker 1: we did hear Coach Hobby on Wednesday's podcast talk about
Speaker 1: the importance of rotation and how badly you need to
Speaker 1: keep those guys up front fresh. I don't think that's
Speaker 1: at all an issue for Christian Wilkins. He never left
Speaker 1: the field of Clemson. He did the same thing last
Speaker 1: year here in Miami. Plus, he can play inside as
Speaker 1: the one shade up over the center, that three technique,
Speaker 1: in those four man fronts, he can kick out over
Speaker 1: the tackle and your odd bear fronts upfront. So his
Speaker 1: versatility really goes a long way for him. And I
Speaker 1: would say that workload feels fitting for Christian with maybe
Speaker 1: a little bit dialed back for god Chow there, because
Speaker 1: we have to account for this big rookie who had
Speaker 1: a hell of a camp in Rae Kwon Davis, the
Speaker 1: absolute bowl that he is he factors in akin to
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, and that he can play a lot of
Speaker 1: positions and in that too, four we saw sometimes last
Speaker 1: year with Wilkins and god Shaw, or Wilkins and John Jenkins,
Speaker 1: or even like Wilkins and Charles Harris or or Taco Charleton.
Speaker 1: You would then fill in linebackers like Van Ginkel and
Speaker 1: Beagle and Baker and McMillan up front, so you get
Speaker 1: that to four look with Wilkins and Davis as those guys.
Speaker 1: That gives you multiple rush gap options with not just
Speaker 1: your defensive lineman but also your linebackers, and Van Noy
Speaker 1: and Baker and grouge Hill and Van Ginkel as your
Speaker 1: two four speed package. I guess we can call it
Speaker 1: because all those guys can flat out scoop. Like if
Speaker 1: the offense goes into eleven personnel, which is one back,
Speaker 1: one tight end, three receivers, and it's third down and nine,
Speaker 1: so you know it's a passing down, but they don't
Speaker 1: have four or five receivers in the formation. You keep
Speaker 1: that Nickel package together to account for the receivers and
Speaker 1: tight ends in the back, and then you've got legitimately
Speaker 1: six guys who can rush multiple spots, and four of
Speaker 1: them are also good in coverage as well. Not to
Speaker 1: slight Christian Wilkins here, because we know he can play
Speaker 1: the hook zone when he peels off, I'm just not
Speaker 1: going to ask him to kick out over the slot
Speaker 1: and cover up Julian Edelman. But in that package you
Speaker 1: have guys that can rush and cover, so you can
Speaker 1: confuse the protection call with showing guys in different gaps
Speaker 1: and left those blitzes and back out accordingly how you
Speaker 1: see fit. So Wilkins and Davis upfront eating up another
Speaker 1: what is it, fifteen hondo snaps? God Shap plays another
Speaker 1: five hundred six hundred or so. Then you've got Zack Seeler,
Speaker 1: who I think is just a damn good football player,
Speaker 1: Jason Strowbridge, one or two other guys out there to
Speaker 1: round out the other four to five hundred snaps or so.
Speaker 1: Sounds good to me. Man, Let's go on offense. Your
Speaker 1: quarterback doesn't leave the field, or at least he shouldn't,
Speaker 1: so there from that position at running back, I think
Speaker 1: it's a hot hand type of deal. We heard coach
Speaker 1: Studentsville mentioned how they want to expose these guys to
Speaker 1: every role possible and then just see who fits from there.
Speaker 1: And you do want that mystery factor of being able
Speaker 1: to say, well, Howard Brita Gaskin, all these guys can
Speaker 1: function as runners, pass catchers, and pass blockers. So when
Speaker 1: we put one of them on the field. The defense
Speaker 1: isn't privy to any particular call or play structure based
Speaker 1: upon who they're running back and the game is and
Speaker 1: like Hobby mentioned, on the defensive line, keeping these guys
Speaker 1: fresh can be vital. I heard someone the other days
Speaker 1: suggests that some team, and suddenly I'm blanking on it.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was the Chiefs, but that
Speaker 1: kind of feels wrong because it almost seemed like a
Speaker 1: slight to Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who you guys know I'm
Speaker 1: infatuated with. Actually, yeah, I think it was the Chiefs
Speaker 1: because the comment was they could sign Leonard four Nette
Speaker 1: to fulfill their Lendelle White role. They talked about Chris
Speaker 1: Johnson runs to get you a lead, Lendell White runs
Speaker 1: to close the game out, and who better of a
Speaker 1: closer than Jordan Howard. Not to make that comparison for
Speaker 1: apples to apples, but just talking about Howard's ability to
Speaker 1: close games down here in this Miami heat. It's no
Speaker 1: freaking joke, but Howard just a freaking bowl. Brita looks
Speaker 1: explosive as hell, and Gascon had a damn good camp.
Speaker 1: Patrick Laird certainly as a role as a pass catcher
Speaker 1: and special team. We're on this team. Chandler Cox really
Speaker 1: helps clear things up as a lead blocker and twenty
Speaker 1: one personnel. He is very fun to watch the way
Speaker 1: he invites contact and blows things up. Options are a
Speaker 1: plenty there, and Malcolm Perry is certainly certainly an intriguing option.
Speaker 1: He has had a very good camp as well out
Speaker 1: of Navy. On the offensive line, the story is the
Speaker 1: same as it is at quarterback. You hope you get
Speaker 1: for five guys, but that's just not realistic in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. That's why you find value in a
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis who was an adequate right tackle or right guard.
Speaker 1: On top of the position flexibility that really expands that value.
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss can play all three interior spots. Michael Dieter
Speaker 1: is the same in that regard. Austin Jackson, Solomon Kiley,
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt have all had good days, as the coaches
Speaker 1: have talked about some bad days, but they've shown you
Speaker 1: their ability on those good days. You have Eric Flowers,
Speaker 1: who is just a rock stolid, rock solid guard guy
Speaker 1: that has played tackle in his career as well. So
Speaker 1: I think your lineup comes out of there somewhere and
Speaker 1: you feel good about your swing tackle, even if it
Speaker 1: means you have to shuffle the line up a bit
Speaker 1: and your swing interior guy, because you have six or
Speaker 1: seven guys that you feel comfortable putting in the lineup
Speaker 1: on Sundays. Now. Obviously, attrition can set in at any
Speaker 1: point in the season. For instance, we saw Philadelphia already
Speaker 1: go down Andre Dillard go coogs. They also lost Brandon
Speaker 1: Brooks for the season. So when that stuff starts to happen,
Speaker 1: when you get your depth really tested. But for now,
Speaker 1: going into the season, you feel good about the starters
Speaker 1: as well as a couple of guys behind them. They
Speaker 1: give you that depth and give you that flexibility as well.
Speaker 1: At tight end, I think we all expect get Sicki
Speaker 1: to continue that trajectory from the end of last year.
Speaker 1: He's playing super fast and confident and strong on the
Speaker 1: practice field. We've heard a fusive praise for Dirham Smith
Speaker 1: from the coaching staff, namely George Godzy, And those guys
Speaker 1: were your twelve personnel package last year. You're one back
Speaker 1: two tight ends Dolphins of the time. We'll see how
Speaker 1: it looks this year under chan Gailey, and we'll also
Speaker 1: see how it looks with Adam Sheheen factored in because
Speaker 1: he is massive man. He's a big dude. He can
Speaker 1: block and he can move pretty well for a guy
Speaker 1: that size. Then we finished out wide and this is
Speaker 1: kind of like the defensive back room for the offense.
Speaker 1: You've got Davonte Parker and Preston Williams, who you hope
Speaker 1: to get ninety plus percent workloads out of. Isaiah Ford
Speaker 1: is so reliable and dependable, I think it makes sense
Speaker 1: that his workload really goes up and reflects what we
Speaker 1: saw last year in December compared to obviously what we
Speaker 1: saw in September when he's on the practice squad, especially
Speaker 1: with that comfort level that he and Fits have developed
Speaker 1: over the last two years. Jachim is kind of wild card.
Speaker 1: He's all gas, all explosion and definitely changes the way
Speaker 1: defenses defend. You. We mentioned Perry, and you've got Mac Hollins,
Speaker 1: who's a damn good special teamer and a guy that
Speaker 1: I think can fill in behind Parker and Williams adequately
Speaker 1: on the outside. So it's basically those top two guys
Speaker 1: and then different roles for different packages and different offensive
Speaker 1: calls you want to make for the rest of the position.
Speaker 1: There's definitely more to analyze and to play with and
Speaker 1: try to figure out the rosters and the lineups on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. Then there is with the offense with
Speaker 1: regards to snap counts and that sort of thing. But
Speaker 1: a fun exercise on the list gives you an idea
Speaker 1: of the depth and how this team might look come
Speaker 1: game day on Sunday again, just ten days away. And
Speaker 1: with that, we spent it forward to Jordan Howard, Dolphins
Speaker 1: running back, who spoke to the media on Thursday first.
Speaker 1: He was asked to evaluate the offensive line place so
Speaker 1: far through training camp, I feel like a line of
Speaker 1: coming along pretty well. We got some young guys again,
Speaker 1: the feet and stuff like that. So again, even though
Speaker 1: when I have preseason games, I feel like begin a
Speaker 1: lot of rep um just growing as you see him
Speaker 1: growing each and every day. So I feel like the
Speaker 1: more cards would be the better. Gonna get it to
Speaker 1: seize and goes, Hey, Jordan, how's it going, man? Um?
Speaker 1: I'm curious to get your take, now that you've been
Speaker 1: here for a few weeks and kind of grinded in
Speaker 1: the Miami heat, how much you're looking forward to playing
Speaker 1: down here in the September October weather and how much
Speaker 1: of an advantage you think your style gives you with
Speaker 1: this temperature down here. Um yeah, used trained down here,
Speaker 1: but just practicing down here and as he is, there's
Speaker 1: a lot different, but it's definitely gonna be advantage for us.
Speaker 1: I played down here like two or three years agoing
Speaker 1: out and my team we were we were dead. So
Speaker 1: I know the advantage of it is playing down here
Speaker 1: with this heat and this practicing, we're gonna be in
Speaker 1: shapely and so Jordan Howard believes this heat and humidity
Speaker 1: down here puts the Dolphins in good position to be
Speaker 1: in shape and ready conditionwise for the opener and for
Speaker 1: the season up next. As we often do, we asked
Speaker 1: Jordan to evaluate the play of rookie quarterback to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Valoa. Here's his evaluation on the rookie. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like two we can get the job done.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's moving around very well. Um me, person,
Speaker 1: I can't tell that he's he was injured before. Um
Speaker 1: I feel like he's he's getting comfortable and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: I feel like, just next up for him as his
Speaker 1: recovery process is just playing the game and actually getting hit.
Speaker 1: But for what I'm saying, I feel like you could
Speaker 1: He'll be ready when his time is up, and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and stay on the offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Here and here from New Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen,
Speaker 1: who of course came over in a trade in the
Speaker 1: summer from the Chicago Bears. Here are Shaheen answering my
Speaker 1: question about the acclamation into the offense here early on
Speaker 1: as he gets a foothold in Miami. Uh. Kind of
Speaker 1: on that same train of thought there, Adam, I'm just curious,
Speaker 1: coming over this late in the process and that you
Speaker 1: know was a late July trade, how has it been
Speaker 1: for you acclimating to the new system and how do
Speaker 1: you feel you've kind of grown into the new role
Speaker 1: you have here? Well, you know, I think I probably
Speaker 1: would have felt a little more behind if you know,
Speaker 1: everybody here had kind of had the regular O, T
Speaker 1: A s and they actually had practiced together, built those
Speaker 1: you know, those connections. But I think, you know, be
Speaker 1: in being traded, you know, two days or whatever it
Speaker 1: was ended up being before training camp. But obviously I
Speaker 1: had to rush to learn and still learning. But as
Speaker 1: far as actually an non field time like this first
Speaker 1: time for Thost guys that they were, you know, on
Speaker 1: the field together as this new team. So I don't
Speaker 1: feel like I was too far behind in that aspect,
Speaker 1: which has been good. So and here is Adam reflecting
Speaker 1: on the previous three years in Chicago and his number
Speaker 1: one priority at this point of his career just staying healthy.
Speaker 1: You know, the last three years has just kind of
Speaker 1: been you know, they've been I've enjoyed them, but you know,
Speaker 1: I've had injuries, and really the biggest thing for me
Speaker 1: is always stay healthy. And I can stay healthy that
Speaker 1: I can do you know whatever. You know, I think
Speaker 1: whatever they need to be asked for me. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a kind of the attitude is, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever role that I can earn and and carve out
Speaker 1: for myself is something that I'll be happy with. And
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and finish up here with the youngest
Speaker 1: player in the National Football League on the other side
Speaker 1: of the football, cornerback Noah Ignogny, who was first asked
Speaker 1: where he thinks his game has come along the further
Speaker 1: so far in his rookie training camp. Um, just my
Speaker 1: overall technique and just learning the game. The game has
Speaker 1: kind of slowing down to me. Um, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's been hard for a lot of rookies and his
Speaker 1: classes because we didn't have a preseason and I have
Speaker 1: like a mini Kevin nothing like that. So um, I
Speaker 1: really had to progress and just just in the meeting room, honestly, Um,
Speaker 1: the practice has been limited and so um so I
Speaker 1: just feel like just mentally, I've really grown physically as well,
Speaker 1: just as far as my technique and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: just little details of the game and it's mentally overall.
Speaker 1: So and for the twenty year old cornerback, you always
Speaker 1: want to rely on the help of the veterans around you. Here,
Speaker 1: Noah was asked about the veteran experience and help having
Speaker 1: exaviing Howard back now that he's been with the team,
Speaker 1: with the cornerbacks on the field for the past week
Speaker 1: now back off pup and the COVID nine team reserve list,
Speaker 1: it's a bus. It's a huge Um, it's a huge Uh.
Speaker 1: He's somebody I looked up to before coming to the league,
Speaker 1: and it's crazy that I'm playing besides guys like Byron
Speaker 1: and him, and so it's it's crazy. I just see
Speaker 1: him work on the field of him being right next
Speaker 1: to me is is a dream come true. I'm just happy,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to see him on the field
Speaker 1: and healthy and everything, and was ready to see see
Speaker 1: how he does in the season. Earlier, Noah talks about
Speaker 1: playing anywhere the coaches would accept him on the field.
Speaker 1: He's down to just play wherever he can. On the defense.
Speaker 1: Here he talks about the differences between playing inside and outside.
Speaker 1: Really interesting answer here about how inside it's mental, outside
Speaker 1: it's physical. They both challenge you in different ways. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I would say that the receiver can go on many
Speaker 1: different ways on the side, playing corner or playing outside,
Speaker 1: you have to sideline as your help and so you
Speaker 1: can really use that as to an advantage. Inside you
Speaker 1: don't really have it have the sideline, so we can
Speaker 1: really go anywhere you want, depending on coverage you're in.
Speaker 1: So that's why I feel like slot is is probably
Speaker 1: I feel like slot is harder just mentally physically. I
Speaker 1: think corner is harder, but mentally it's a inside you
Speaker 1: have to know a lot of things. Next he might
Speaker 1: be a rookie, but he has a veteran mindset. Here
Speaker 1: here he talks about the confidence level and the short
Speaker 1: memory you have to have because all great cornerbacks, all
Speaker 1: cornerbacks rather even the great ones, will get beat at
Speaker 1: some point or another. Here is no egnalogady on his
Speaker 1: mental approach, his mental makeup, and his belief he's gonna
Speaker 1: dominate every single rep. I'm honestly, I'll proach the game
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna dominate every single game. This is the
Speaker 1: mentality I have. Like you said before, corner playing corner
Speaker 1: in this league, in any league, they're gonna get beat. Okay,
Speaker 1: who you are, you're gonna get beating. And so even
Speaker 1: the greatest gid beating. And so it's only about the
Speaker 1: next place. That's all the coaches preach just and so
Speaker 1: I feel like you wouldn't be able to build this
Speaker 1: level if you didn't have the mentality, because stuffing's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I'm just like life as well, And so I approached
Speaker 1: like that. I approached like any game, I'm gonna dominate
Speaker 1: who I'm going against. And so I'm I've never changed that.
Speaker 1: Oh No, I want to ask you about special teams,
Speaker 1: So what you're expecting and what your comfort level is
Speaker 1: as a potential return man in the NFL. Uh. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable doing anything my coaches asked me. I did
Speaker 1: return in in college at Harvard, and so with something
Speaker 1: I've been doing. I've been the kicking time for a
Speaker 1: very long time. So it's something I'm very comfortable with.
Speaker 1: That's the point. Whatever special Since they wanted to play
Speaker 1: on I'm willing to play and so I'm just ready
Speaker 1: to get out there. Hey, no, I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about your possession. Coach and Gerald Alexander. We pat
Speaker 1: chance to talk to him a few times, and he
Speaker 1: seems very direct and but also intense and very to
Speaker 1: the point that way. I'm just curious what your experience
Speaker 1: has been like with him so far and what you've
Speaker 1: taken away from him, both on the field and in
Speaker 1: the classroom. He's taught me him in my in my dB,
Speaker 1: in my cornerback. Coach Charles Burst has saw me a
Speaker 1: lot about this game. Um, it's really um there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things I didn't know coming in that I
Speaker 1: thought I knew. There's really a lot of things about
Speaker 1: this game that I didn't know with me both sat
Speaker 1: down and had many conversations to me in the summer. Um,
Speaker 1: it was one of one meetings. Really, um, I feel
Speaker 1: like really got me right lensly just just to come
Speaker 1: in and and I'll be a step ahead, I would say.
Speaker 1: And so I appreciate them at the bottom of heart
Speaker 1: and just be telling me a lot of um beside
Speaker 1: football as well, just in life and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And so, um, I can't wait for the future most
Speaker 1: for all of us. So and here is Egnogamy once
Speaker 1: again on the comfortability and the willingness to play anywhere
Speaker 1: on the field anywhere his coaches asked him to, and
Speaker 1: do any assignment the coaches ask him to, on the
Speaker 1: field defensively or on special teams. M I'm a balling
Speaker 1: our hard So I feel I can play anything and
Speaker 1: on the field and so well that's offense. Defense is
Speaker 1: if we're not gonna do anything, and so I'm coable,
Speaker 1: I'm comfortabling anything. Up next, Noah was asked about his
Speaker 1: initial meeting with the Miami Dolphins back in Indianapolis at
Speaker 1: the scouting combine, the meeting with Brian Flores and Josh Boyer,
Speaker 1: and what his initial impression was of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, after that, Um, how I really did I
Speaker 1: wanted to play for play for Miami, and that was
Speaker 1: one of the teams I really wanted to play for.
Speaker 1: It just just everything we're trying to do here because
Speaker 1: Brian Flores just um his mentality. As as far as
Speaker 1: the team, I really feel like we relate just mentality wise,
Speaker 1: and so UM, like you said, I really UM, I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed that meeting when they came with their armor
Speaker 1: and off pro day and stuff. And so it's crazy
Speaker 1: that stuff works out. And we finish up here with
Speaker 1: an evaluation from the rookie on the receivers across from him.
Speaker 1: At first he was asked which receiver has been the toughest.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't give us an answer, of course, good teammate there,
Speaker 1: But he was asked what individual traits those guys had,
Speaker 1: And here he is kind of grouping that thing together
Speaker 1: talking about this Dolphins receivering corps as a whole. There's
Speaker 1: one word in here that made me want to put
Speaker 1: this response in here, talking about the Dolls receivers size
Speaker 1: because it's paramount UH speed, physicality, UM cut size, got craftiness. UM.
Speaker 1: It's just today we have every single person like to
Speaker 1: match UM, to match what you want in the offense.
Speaker 1: And so I really fly. We're gonna be a very
Speaker 1: special offense this year. Like I said before, we have
Speaker 1: ever receiver for any category you want, and so um,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what they do this year.
Speaker 1: And so there you have it. Dolphins running back Jordan Howard,
Speaker 1: Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen, and the rookie cornerback Noah
Speaker 1: egg Manogamy all speaking on this podcast, as well as
Speaker 1: head coach Brian Flores. We're gonna come back tomorrow and
Speaker 1: do it all over again here on the Drivetime podcast.
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