WEBVTT - Drive Time - Ereck Flowers: Quiet and Quality 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:07.840 Practice factric part Touchdown. What a win for this Miami 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:13.360 Dolphin team? Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:13.440 --> 0:00:17.240 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.439 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins, each and 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:24.960 every day. How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday. I 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.639 am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:30.800 bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.880 on today's show again, it is Wednesday, hump Day, turn 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.680 the page day here in Davy. We're gonna hear from 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:40.080 Coach Flora's and his Wednesday morning media availability as well 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.559 as some other Dolphins players after practice. 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We 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.759 start this Wednesday Drivetime podcast with Brian Flores as Wednesday 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.360 morning media availability as the team heads out for San 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.520 Francisco on Friday. So we have three days of practice 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.800 ahead of us before the flight to San Francisco, with 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:32.800 injury reports for every single one of those days media availabilities, 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.680 and we'll have a feature on today's podcast with Eric Flowers, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.039 and tomorrow we'll get into the game preview with the 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.720 flashback coming up on Friday. Let's go ahead and kick 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.000 this podcast off with the Wednesday injury report, and we'll 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.000 go ahead and include the forty Niners on tomorrow's podcast 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:48.960 as we did last week with the Seahawks because they 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.440 are on the West Coast. Those come out late. Podcast 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.400 comes out before those injury reports are available, but if 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.880 you check top news on Miami Dolphins dot com, we'll 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.120 go ahead and have that updated for you as soon 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:02.280 as the Niners make their Wednesday injury report available. But 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.440 for the Miami Dolphins on Wednesday, three players listen on 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:09.359 the report were full participants. On Wednesday xaviing Howard, Clayton Federlam, 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:12.880 and Cavon Frasier. We had three players who were limited 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.000 in practice cornerback Byron Jones, guard Solomon Kinley, and receiver 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.800 Davante Parker. And then three more players who did not 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:24.000 practice on the report, tackle Austin Jackson, defensive end Shack Lawson, 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:27.520 and tight end Durham Smith did not practice on Wednesday. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.400 We'll have the Niners Wednesday report on tomorrow's podcast and 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.720 have the up to date report on Friday for you guys. 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.520 A little bit tricky again with the West Coast being 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.280 out there, but we'll have an updated for you guys 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.480 here on the Drivetime podcast. End up on Miami Dolphins 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.880 dot com in the top news, the game preview as 0:02:41.880 --> 0:02:44.400 well as countdown to kickoff. And we start here with 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.200 a question for Coach Flora's on Wednesday morning about the 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.840 quarterbacks that San Francisco, Fort and Nyers have to offer 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.560 right now. They played both Nick Mullins and C. J. 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.639 Bethard in the game on Sunday night, the victory over 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:59.040 the Philadelphia Eagles. Obviously, Jimmy Garoppolo, their normal starter, has 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:01.600 been missing some time with an ankle injury. We'll see 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.040 who starts the game on Sunday among those three. Here's 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.080 Coach Flora's talking about preparing for each quarterback the Niners 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.040 have on that roster. You know, all three of them 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:14.799 are good players. Um, so look, we there's film on 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:17.239 all of them who we are pretty much gonna have 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.600 to watch them all. I think we've done that as 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.400 a staff already and we're going through that with the 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.600 players already this morning. Um, all three good players. But 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.520 it's I want, I wouldn't say it's just the quarterback. 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:30.880 It's really it's every It's everyone in offense. Obviously, the 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.200 old line, the tight ends, they got good backs, they 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.440 got good receivers, so they got a good scheme. So, um, 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:42.000 the quarterbacks just one one part of that. And but 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:45.240 we're really preparing for the entire the entire group. It's 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.520 a good group. And we'll go ahead and preview this 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.320 game on a tomorrow's podcast here on Drivetime, but just 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.280 taking a look as as Flora's mentions, there are the 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.839 three quarterbacks. Nick Bollins came in a couple of years 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:59.640 ago in relief of CJ. Bethred in that season, and 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:01.600 he is off the bench and goes three and five 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.680 and eight starts with thirteen touchdown passes an eight point 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.240 three yards per attempt and that was after Beth had 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.000 got injured that season, and he had eight touchdown passes 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.160 of his own with an average of seven point four 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.160 yards per attempt in that season. And then of course 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:16.799 that was the year they went out and acquired Jimmy 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.520 Garoppolo in the trade with the New England Patriots. So 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.440 you hear him talk about the scheme and the offense 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:24.160 and the different things that forty offense does have to 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:26.719 feature with George Kittle, all those running backs, the good 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:30.279 offensive line, the outside zone, the different run concepts they have, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.880 the jet sweep, the motion, all the misdirection they offer. 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.200 It's a lot to prepare for us coach mentions there. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.400 So whoever the quarterback is, it's gonna be a big 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.719 test on Sunday against this forty nine team that is 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.040 so well coached. We're just gonna prepare well this week, 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:47.120 practice well this week, flats California, and try to win 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.679 a football game against a good group. And next, coach 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:54.080 was asked about well, multiple things here, a multi prompt 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.839 question here. First about the difficulties of getting players into 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.080 the building for a workout during this strange season. And 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:02.320 let's just go ahead and roll the auto audio here 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:05.279 from coach Flores. So, yeah, it's harder to get somebody 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.760 in obviously. UM. So there's we've already kind of gone 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.520 through the thought and planning if we're gonna do something 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.600 really for next week. And I think every team is 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:18.600 kind of going through that same process, um as far 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:22.120 as you know, the meetings with the coaches, uh, from 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.719 a playing time standpoint. And but we're like every team, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.839 we want to play our our best players, our most 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:32.000 dependable players. UM. We talked about, you know, situations where 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.080 we want to play goud different guys and you know, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.479 maybe we want to play some guys more, play some 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.800 guys less. Um, And we're gonna try to you know, 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:44.520 probably practice that way this today, in this week and 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:48.640 then you know see how how I think shake throughout 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.840 the course of the week. Um. But we always want 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.400 to get our best guys out there, our best group 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.159 of guys, our most dependable players. And that last portion 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:59.400 of the question there was about taking an evaluation of 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.640 the team to the first four games of the season 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:04.799 and trying to figure out who maybe earns less snaps, 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.160 who's earned more snaps, that type of thing. So coach 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.560 Flora's talking about snap counts and workloads heading into the 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.560 second quarter of the season now with the kickoff of 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:16.760 that quote unquote second quarter Sunday in San Francisco. Up next, 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.000 coach was asked about Dolphins receiver second year receiver out 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:23.120 of Colorado State Preston Williams coming off the a c 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.839 L injury a season ago and where he is right now, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.800 four games into a second year and still less than 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.920 twelve months removed from the a c L surgery. Well, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.680 I think, you know, coming off an injury, it's you know, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.280 you never know how how things are gonna shake out. 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.919 I think he's doing well from a physical standpoint. Uh, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.400 the press is a hard working kid. Um, he's obviously talented. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.680 I think he's you know, they're physically, we just gotta, 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.280 you know, find different ways to get him the ball 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.920 and uh, you know, he's gotta, he's gotta, he's gotta, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:55.080 he's gotta come through for us when we do thrown 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:58.440 the ball. So um, again, you know, we're four weeks 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.200 into the season. That's something now discussed. Uh, A part 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.360 of the discussion with with the coaching staff how to 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.400 get him more involved and hopefully we we do that 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.240 in the coming weeks up. Next, coach gives us an 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.679 update here on the left tackle situation with Austin Jackson, 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.960 who exited the game on Sunday, return and exited again, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.800 and the player that played in his place, Julian Davenport 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.480 at that left tackle spot. Yeah, I thought Julian played 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.080 well last week when you when you went in there, 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:29.560 Uh went in there for Austin. Um, you know, I 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.480 thought I thought he played well. I thought he did 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:35.360 a really good job. Austin. You know, as far as practice, 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:39.000 you know, you won't see he won't be out there today. Um. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.040 You know, hopefully he's still kind of working through some things, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:46.880 but hopefully, you know, tomorrow or hopefully tomorrow we'll see. Um. 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.880 So just from that standpoint, you won't see him today, 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.200 But Julian played well. Um. Yes, we'll always try to 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:56.080 play the five best guys. UM. So you know, obviously 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:57.920 Julian will be part of that. Rob Hunt will be 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.040 part of that conversation. So, uh, again, we'll see how 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.560 this goes throughout the practice week, and uh we'll take 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:05.720 it from there. You heard coach say that that Julian 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:08.520 Davenport played well in place of Austin Jackson. Here's the 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.560 numbers on that to back that. Pro Football Focus has 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:15.000 Davenport with zero pressures allowed on twenty five pass blocking 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.680 snaps and in fact gave him an eighty five point 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.920 six pass blocking grade in the game. So Julian Davenport 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.440 comes off the bench fecting experience. There a six ft 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.520 seven three, twenty five pound guy, plenty of experience in 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.280 this league playing that position. So he comes in and 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.400 does a fine job in place of Austin Jackson. Up next, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.760 coach was asked about another player who's the backup right 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.280 now quarterback to a tongue of Valoa and what he 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:41.600 has to do to push starter Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's gotta 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:43.880 keep doing what he's doing. I think he's I mean, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.240 he's in here every day, he's working, he's practicing. Well. 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.760 I think that's he just continues to do what he's 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:53.640 been doing. Um, he's learning every day, he's getting better 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.960 and approven every day. If he just continues to do 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:58.760 what he's doing, he's on the right, on the right path, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.160 on the right trajectory. Again, like, we're not gonna get 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.720 an opportunity. We didn't have any preseason games, Like that's 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.240 not gonna happen, you know, as far as getting a 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.920 different way, a different look at this. Um. So for him, 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.240 the only thing he can do is come in, do 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:16.719 a good job of meetings, do a good job in 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.280 the walks, was do a good job in practice, and 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:22.120 then um, you know, when his opportunity presents itself, which 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.440 you know, you know, as the backup could be at 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.680 any point you know, in the game. You know, I 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.480 think the four Honors are a great example of that. 0:09:30.120 --> 0:09:32.560 Having played three guys already, then he's just gotta be ready. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.400 So that's really, that's really it. And you hear a 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:37.840 coach talk about the fact that there was no preseason, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.679 no off season programs here, you know, the o t 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.280 A s that you have four or five of those 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.199 weekends in the off season you can get together for 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.440 two or three practices and really get to work and 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.600 installing and playing, and then you can apply that in 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.280 the training camp and apply that in the preseason games. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.640 And we've talked about, you know, some of the rookie 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:57.160 stats here on this podcast, or rookie expectations going into 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.680 a season where there wasn't an off season or preseason. 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.560 And you look at the fact that the Dolphins have 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.400 gotten production on some rookies, you know, several rookies on 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.559 this team. It's pretty impressive to get that turnaround this 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.160 quickly in an off season where there was no rail 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.040 off season. So four games into this new season for 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:15.120 the Miami Dolphins, getting a bunch of new people, new faces, 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.840 young players worked in to the lineup, into the rotation 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.439 and on the field on Sundays, and speaking of new players, 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.480 coach was asked to evaluate where Dolphins running back Matt 0:10:23.559 --> 0:10:27.280 Brita is four games into his Miami Dolphins career. Yeah, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.559 I think he uh made some good, good plays the 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.160 other other day. Um, look, he's explosive, kid fast. Um, 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:40.840 it's practiced well, you know, getting a few more touches. Um. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.880 So I think he's playing well. I hope hopefully continues 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.400 to play well. Um. He's a hard working guy and 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.240 you know it's important to him. So I think he's 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:50.040 doing he's doing a good job. Let's go ahead and 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.040 finish up here with the question for coach that I 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.480 actually find pretty intriguing because it gave him a chance 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.960 to talk about the versatility of the the players along 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.560 the offensive line. Because you think about you know, let's say, 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.280 if Austin Jackson isn't available for the game, then you 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.560 have a left tackle you have to replace. Does that 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.360 become Jesse Davis who slides over from right tackle? Does 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.120 it become Julian Davenport. Do you put Robert Hunt in 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.439 the game? Where does he go? And it makes the 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.520 gears in your head kind of turn and kind of 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:19.360 crank thinking about, man, all these Dolphins backups, all these 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:23.200 Dolphins starters for the most part, have experience at multiple positions. 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.240 I mean, we knew that coming into the season, right 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.439 We talked about it on this podcast at nauseum. I 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.600 mean it was over and over again about how many 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.360 of these guys can play multiple spots. We've seen Jesse 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.599 Davis play four spots along the offensive line in his 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.200 NFL career. Ted Carriss has played three spots on the 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.280 interior there. Eric Flowers has played tackle and guard. We've 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.880 got Solomon Kindley can play both guard positions as well, 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.280 Robert Hunt guard tackle combination. It's just it's endless with 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:49.200 this group. Michael Dieter throw him in there as well, 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:52.760 guard center, tackle combination at Wisconsin with the Dolphins as well. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.640 With this group, there's so much versatility. Here's coach on 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.160 how they make the adjustment to shift if they are 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.480 down one player, do you move multiple guys? Do you 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.920 just call up one guy a primary backup into that role. 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.920 Here's coach on shifting the offensive line in case somebody 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.320 can't go on a Sunday, Robert can play left tackle. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.559 I would be comfortable playing Jesse and left tackle. I'm 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.559 also comfortable playing Julian and left tackle. Uh So, look, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.880 let's just see how the week goes. You know, thankfully, 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.720 we've got a couple with some guys that we we 0:12:18.720 --> 0:12:23.280 we feel good about going in and you know, playing 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.680 left right. I think, uh, all guys, all those guys 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:29.120 have played both positions. So but at the same time, 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.359 look that we're going up against a very uh aggressive 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.320 defensive line UM and a very very very good defense. 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.000 So it's will be a tough, tough challenge and but 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.120 you know, we'll see how this goes over over the 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.840 course of the week. UM. I'm not saying Austin's out 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.600 of the out of the I have a question either. Um, 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.760 So let's just you know, take it one day at 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.079 a time. But yeah, I'm comfortable with all those guys 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.520 playing you know, really left all right, they're all they're 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:56.400 all uh, you know, I think Steve will do a 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:58.560 good job of getting them ready. We're gonna we're gonna 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.679 need to play well from from in the old line 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.960 and really a team standpoint against his team. They're they're 0:13:02.960 --> 0:13:05.280 they're very good. I almost jumped in their cut coach 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.760 off mid sentence. I apologize for that coach, but he there, 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.000 he is going ahead and finish up his Wednesday morning 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:12.760 press conference availability. You heard him talk there about the 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.800 aggressiveness of this forty nine front and we kind of 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:17.720 saw that in the Jacksonville game a little. But those 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.679 guys were getting upfield and penetrating immediately, and there was 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.880 a lot of good wine back runs from Miles Gascon 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.599 in that game where they were able to kind of 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.200 take advantage of the aggressiveness and work against that aggressiveness, 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:30.480 against that flow of the defense. And it reminds me 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.720 that their defensive line coach there, Chris Kusarek, the former 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.080 Dolphins defensive line coaches now in San Francisco, and despite 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:38.760 the fact that they're going to be down Nick Bosa, 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.400 d ford ezekiel An Saw who signed there after those injuries, 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:45.360 is also now down, they still play that one gap, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.080 aggressive get up field mentality, play with your hair on 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.280 absolute fire. We saw Cam Wake really excel in that 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.680 system here in Miami under coach Chris and I'm curious 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.760 see how that works out, how they adapt to that 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.000 aggressive play style, how they kind of try to combat that. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.080 Should be a good match up front between a Niners 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.000 line who's down a few bodies but still can get 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:06.920 production out about defensive line up against this Dolphins offensive 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.440 line that's played really well so far through four games. 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.760 Speaking of playing well on the offensive line, the Wednesday 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.160 feature up on Miami Dolphins dot com covers Dolphins left 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:19.400 guard Eric Flowers, who of course signed this offseason in 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.840 free agency with his hometown team. And the story is 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.200 called quality and Quiet because his coaches claim he doesn't 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.440 say much, but Eric flowers play on the field speaks volume, 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.400 especially through four games here with the Miami Dolphins. And 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.760 I talked about in this story how football is a 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:39.200 game of routine each season, each week, each day. These 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.280 are all carefully crafted schedules down to the minute, down 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.160 to the fifteen minute block, whatever it might be, whether 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.920 it's weights, film, study, meals, or practice. All the day's 0:14:48.960 --> 0:14:52.080 events here in Davy are scheduled into these time blocks, 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.080 and the off season program looks different than the regular season, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.520 which evolves from the training camp workload. And at training 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.400 camp this past summer a Dolphins camp, whether it was 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:03.840 ten O one, ten or ten o two, maybe ten 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.960 or three on some days, the morning onlookers there at 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.720 the practice field here in Davy would observe the double 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:13.040 doors at the Dolphins training facility opening wide and emerging 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.920 from that was the Dolphins new three d and forty 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.720 three pound offensive lineman Eric Flowers. At some point during 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:23.080 the fifteen minute period or so that predates practice, you 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:25.720 have Fitzpatrick and two out there passing the ball back 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.840 and forth. You've got some of the offensive line guys 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.120 working on some sets, some of the dbs working on 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:33.880 ball tracking and receivers catching the football, getting stretched, getting loose. 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:36.560 Everyone's out there working on their own thing, and in 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.320 that fifteen minutes it's kind of up to your own 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.120 accord what you want to do, but every single player 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:44.400 does eventually emerge from the building, this nice cool air 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:47.720 conditioned building into the scorching South Florida sun for a 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.600 two hour practice with pre work and post work and 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.240 everybody's got their pads on, everybody has their helmet in 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.920 their hand. But Eric Flowers came equipped with extra accessories. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:59.200 We tweeted about it. He had a harness and band 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.840 apparatus to signed to help increase resistance and workouts and 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:06.320 after the grueling practices are over, extra instruction with Eric 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.000 would begin. The three rookie draft picks, Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.240 and Solomon Kinley, they were all in those bonus sessions 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.920 working out with Eric Flowers. And here's what Austin Jackson 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:18.200 had to say about Eric Flowers and his leadership back 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:21.480 in September. He's entering his six year in the league, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.360 so he's definitely somebody I looked up to. You know, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.680 he has a lot more knowledge about things and how 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.720 things goes, and he's just really helpful. And he's definitely 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:32.680 somebody you know, I look up to on the whole 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.360 line and we look up to and it helps, you know, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.360 him playing right next to me, so you know, just 0:16:37.360 --> 0:16:40.680 getting to work with him and pick his brain about stuff, Um, 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.720 it's really helpful. And he's one of those four new 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:46.880 starters along the Dolphins offensive line and the most veteran 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.320 among them. Flowers quickly took that leadership role bestowed upon 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:52.960 him and flew with it, but his coaches claimed that 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.720 even though he is a leader, he's more of a 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.640 by example kind of guy rather than that raw rock 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:02.320 cheerleader type and offense offensive courting or chan Gailey talked 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.879 about what it is that makes Eric Flowers productive and 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.160 the type of season he's having so far through these 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.159 first four games. He's having a very good start to 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:15.040 the season. He is a calming influence on on the 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:19.600 line for us. He's very competitive on game day, but 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:23.600 very quiet during the week and very calm and really 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:27.160 very professional about the way he goes about his business. 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:32.520 So I've been very happy with what he's brought to us, 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:37.000 not only on the field playing block in run game, 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:40.960 pass game, but what he brings as a as a 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.920 leader to our offensive line. And on that topic of 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:46.840 being a leader on the offensive line, coach Steve Marshall, 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:49.600 the offensive line coach here in Miami, further at that 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:53.840 point and talked about the quiet nature of Eric Flower's leadership. Well, 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.920 Eric Flowers is a quiet man, uh you know from talking, 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:01.080 but you know when he does talk, he's you know 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.280 he's an experienced player. Uh, he's been through some ups 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:08.080 and downs in his career and uh he's you know, 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.399 Ted and Jesse and Eric. You know, you guys have 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.440 asked a lot about the young guys, but the real 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:17.840 credit goes to those guys, you know, as far as 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:22.120 helping young guys, and Eric is certainly leadership wise. Uh, 0:18:22.400 --> 0:18:24.800 and he's he doesn't with his play. He has played. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.800 He has played very well his first four games. I 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:31.200 mean we played four uh first four games, and uh 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:35.400 I think he's uh uh you know he he's done 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.280 well and done. He's exceeded expectations and uh we can 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.160 you know, we're gonna count on him moving forward as 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.119 we are the rest of the guys. And we know 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.560 that Eric Flowers was drafted as a tackle back in 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.680 with the Giants, played there a little bit with New York, 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:53.200 played there with Jacksonville, but he made the switch last 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:56.639 season with the Washington football team inside to guard, and 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.920 he took to that new position right away. He played 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.120 five hundred and eighty eight snaps and pass protection, with 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.359 only four of those past protection snaps resulting in a 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.240 hit on the Washington quarterback from that left guard position, 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.399 that was rarefied Air. Only one other guard in the 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.000 National Football League that had more than five hundred pass 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:17.840 blocking snaps allowed fewer QB hits than Flowers, and that 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:21.720 was Dallas Cowboys four time All Pro guard Zack Martin. 0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.040 That per Pro Football Focus, and Flowers now comes to 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:27.600 a new city, but the results through four games they've 0:19:27.640 --> 0:19:30.920 been similar, including the praise heaped on the former Miami 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:34.280 Hurricane and current Miami Dolphin from his offensive line coach 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:37.000 in Washington, Bill Callahan, who said over the course of 0:19:37.040 --> 0:19:39.760 the off season, I think the world of Eric Flowers. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.920 I just like the way he works, how he goes 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.600 about his business. He's physical, He's been really good in 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.880 past protection. He's a strong square force in that respect. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.879 And he also went on to talk about Flowers his 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.159 leadership and how he's kind of a quiet guy that 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:54.480