Speaker 1: Hey, Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
Speaker 2: Now let me check your pulse if you're not far though.
Speaker 3: What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 4: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: How's it going? Everybody?
Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show,
Speaker 4: a fun episode coming your way, Zach Seeler extension, updates
Speaker 4: from coach McDaniel on the injuries, and some other stuff
Speaker 4: from Sunday's press conference. We'll also took a look at
Speaker 4: the All twenty two and put a review on the
Speaker 4: a bo I should say with the review on the
Speaker 4: exhibition season, plus some words for one of the best
Speaker 4: people I ever met my entire life. From the Baptist
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Speaker 3: This is the Draft Time Podcast, Maggie Gaffe.
Speaker 4: Before we get to the podcast, let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: list off the fourteen cuts that were announced on Monday
Speaker 4: ahead of Tuesday's deadline to get the roster down to
Speaker 4: fifty three players. Of course, you'll see all kinds of
Speaker 4: moving and shaking across the league over the next week
Speaker 4: or so as teams finalize their fifty three man rosters
Speaker 4: for opening day. And remember all the veterans or players
Speaker 4: in general, I should say, that are on that opening
Speaker 4: day roster, that salary becomes guaranteed for the year. So
Speaker 4: there's all kinds of different ways of getting different players
Speaker 4: cut and brought back and practice squad. It's just kind
Speaker 4: of a cavalcade of chaos over the next ten or
Speaker 4: so days. So the Dolphins initial wave of cuts here,
Speaker 4: they have released tackle Jeron Christian, wide receiver Kiki Kuti,
Speaker 4: and linebacker aj Johnson. Of course, Kuti and Johnson recent
Speaker 4: acquisitions here, but the release means they don't have to
Speaker 4: pass through waivers. They can sign with any team immediately.
Speaker 4: Players that do have to pass through waivers linebacker Mitchell Lagude,
Speaker 4: quarterback James Blackman, defensive lineman Josiah Bronson and Randy Charlton,
Speaker 4: wide receiver Chris Coleman, linebackers Aubrey Miller and Garrett Nelson.
Speaker 4: Safety Kedrin Smith tackled James Tunstall in then back to
Speaker 4: d tackles Jalen Twyman and Jamal Woods who was just
Speaker 4: signed earlier this week as well. So team moves ahead
Speaker 4: of the deadline. We'll have more coming for you guys tomorrow.
Speaker 4: Let's read off some injury updates here from coach McDaniel,
Speaker 4: who said on Sunday, Savon Achmed is not in the
Speaker 4: concussion protocol. He will be day to day. Elijah Campbell,
Speaker 4: they were fearing it could be a potential acl but
Speaker 4: they found out it is not and that is fortunate. However,
Speaker 4: they're assessing the extent of it and they feel there's
Speaker 4: a chance that could go into the season for him.
Speaker 4: He did avoid one thing, but there was a substantial
Speaker 4: injury that coach said will take him into the season.
Speaker 4: So thinking about Elijah there, he was having a great camp,
Speaker 4: in a great preseason and looking forward to getting a
Speaker 4: look at him on the defensive side of the football
Speaker 4: in addition to what he offered on special teams. Mike
Speaker 4: White cleared concussion protocol on Friday. Coach said the quarterback
Speaker 4: two announcement will come next Monday, so.
Speaker 3: Keep it locked for that. Leam Meikenberg.
Speaker 4: He practiced all week and dressed in case of emergency,
Speaker 4: but was held out of the game because he was
Speaker 4: not one hundred percent and coach did not think it
Speaker 4: was fair to make him compete for that job with
Speaker 4: others in the can condition that he was in. And
Speaker 4: then Jeff Wilson's similar story. He mentioned both he and
Speaker 4: Liam Eichenberg were doing some pain management throughout the course
Speaker 4: of the week and if it was up to both guys,
Speaker 4: they would have both gone. But he is happy with
Speaker 4: how both guys are progressing in their rehab from those injuries.
Speaker 4: Also contract extension. Zach Sealer. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 4: from coach on the value of Zach Sealer. Man.
Speaker 1: I was fired up, and so were a lot of
Speaker 1: his teammates just because you know Zach has Zach epitomizes
Speaker 1: such an important, such an important thing within the journey
Speaker 1: of the NFL player.
Speaker 2: You know, you're talking about a guy that.
Speaker 1: Has has earned every cent that he's paid. He's been
Speaker 1: cut twice, and you know, I think the timing, as
Speaker 1: far as it relates to the team couldn't be better.
Speaker 1: For so many guys in the in the next forty
Speaker 1: eight hours that you know.
Speaker 2: Aren't able to make the final fifty three.
Speaker 1: I think that is something that's real and can feel
Speaker 1: in the moment like your dream's over. And I think
Speaker 1: he's an exemple exemplary example. He's a great example. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll just do a great example of worrying about what
Speaker 1: you can control. And you know he's we're happy to
Speaker 1: get that, get that done as as well as the
Speaker 1: locker room's happy for him too.
Speaker 4: And from the word go, Zach has been a hit
Speaker 4: down here, hasn't he. Somebody asked me on Twitter? Is
Speaker 4: he the best waiver wire claim in team history? And
Speaker 4: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: I don't have the.
Speaker 4: I guess the well, this is probably the thing I
Speaker 4: know the most about is this franchise. But I don't
Speaker 4: know waiver wire specific additions like Cam Wake. I know
Speaker 4: he wasn't a waiver wire guy, but being undrafted, just
Speaker 4: random free agent signing from the CFL after it didn't
Speaker 4: work out in the NFL with several teams, that's like
Speaker 4: the go to the gold standard. But Zach Seeler as
Speaker 4: far as waiver wire claims, unless somebody else knows one
Speaker 4: from before my time that I'm not aware of, he's
Speaker 4: got to be it. Remember the Bengals game back in
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, it was like his third game with the team,
Speaker 4: where he had six pressures and five run stops and
Speaker 4: two batted passes on like twenty five snaps and he
Speaker 4: was one of the first players I ever interviewed after
Speaker 4: that game, and he was nice as I'll get out,
Speaker 4: and very respectful of my time and Kevin durn who
Speaker 4: was with me there at the time, and you could
Speaker 4: just see it from that opening couple of games. I
Speaker 4: think where his best traits are exemplified are on short
Speaker 4: yardage plays when they jam their heavy twenty three personnel,
Speaker 4: two backs, three tight ends, no wide receivers, extra offensive linemen.
Speaker 4: We bring all the linebackers and safeties under the field
Speaker 4: and everyone just sells out. In the running game, you
Speaker 4: get hat on hat and Zach wins those so damn frequently.
Speaker 4: He and Landon Roberts the last couple of years were
Speaker 4: fourth and third and one merchants man cutting that stuff down,
Speaker 4: just brute strength to take the guy where he wants to.
Speaker 4: And then over his time here, I thought he's really
Speaker 4: developed that counter move to the bull rush that he
Speaker 4: really puts guys on their heels with where they have
Speaker 4: to be prepared to absorb that, and when they either
Speaker 4: absorb it or they go and try to attack him aggressively,
Speaker 4: then he can just use those long arms, those heavy
Speaker 4: mits and good grip strength to grab on and then
Speaker 4: utilize a swim move that I think he's really developed
Speaker 4: over four years here, which when you have that fastball
Speaker 4: and then the I guess the circle change to work
Speaker 4: off of that to go from Felix Hernandez's cabinet of pitches.
Speaker 4: You're tough to hit man, You're tough to block for
Speaker 4: these guys, and he can hold blocks as the one shade,
Speaker 4: which is kind of what Rakwon Davis plays most frequently.
Speaker 4: A two technique over the guard, a three tech on
Speaker 4: the outside of the guard. He can kick out to
Speaker 4: the five tech on the outside shoulder of the tackle
Speaker 4: and penetrate inside with slants and twists and stunts and
Speaker 4: be the pick man. He has some pass rush to
Speaker 4: his capability that shows up when you need it. Just
Speaker 4: one of the more underrated players of the last few
Speaker 4: years across the National Football League, and no more as
Speaker 4: he gets his payday in his recognition, and I just
Speaker 4: think that his trajectory is phenomenal. He played five hundred
Speaker 4: and thirty two snaps back in twenty twenty, his first
Speaker 4: full year here in Miami. I always thought he should
Speaker 4: have played more than he did those first couple of years.
Speaker 4: Josh Boyer was the first one to give him like
Speaker 4: full you know, Christian Wilkins level snap counts. It decreased
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one for whatever reason, to five hundred
Speaker 4: and eighteen snaps, but he increased his pressures and run
Speaker 4: stops marginally there even with fewer snaps, that just showed
Speaker 4: you he was getting better and better. And then in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two gets the big jump in playtime eight
Speaker 4: hundred and seventy four snaps. All he does is sets
Speaker 4: career best across the board with thirty one quarterback pressures
Speaker 4: forty one run stops, was sixth most among interior defensive linemen.
Speaker 4: He also finished top ten each of the last two
Speaker 4: years with batted passes four and three respectively. And as
Speaker 4: for his counting stats, last year, three and a half sacks,
Speaker 4: seven tackles for lost, twelve QB hits, he forced two fumbles.
Speaker 4: Over his career, he has ten sacks, twenty five tackles
Speaker 4: for lost, twenty eight quarterback hits, three forced fumbles, and
Speaker 4: nine passes defense. But you just watch this tape and
Speaker 4: you know he's a productive player based on the tape.
Speaker 4: Watch him every single week, every Dolphins fan will tell
Speaker 4: you every national pundit will say Zach Seedler's a guy
Speaker 4: that makes stuff happen, and his durability and versatility are
Speaker 4: hallmarks of what makes this defense what it is, isn't
Speaker 4: it first? You know, he and Christian do such a
Speaker 4: good job of keeping our linebackers clean to hunt for
Speaker 4: plays down around the line of scrimmage. And I think
Speaker 4: that David Long was a perfect addition to going behind
Speaker 4: those guys alongside Jerome Baker. But Zach allows you to
Speaker 4: get to multiple fronts because anytime you need to adjust
Speaker 4: your alignments, and it can be after you've even you know,
Speaker 4: ran your personnel out there, you know that Zach is
Speaker 4: capable of taking on several of those roles at any
Speaker 4: given time and not just go out there and be
Speaker 4: a body, but dominate in that capacity. He's a great player.
Speaker 4: I'm glad we got to keep him around here for
Speaker 4: a few more years. Three year extension for Zach Sealer.
Speaker 4: He's not going anywhere, all right. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: take our break after a short segment there and come back.
Speaker 3: We have a lot to get to here.
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Speaker 4: the All twenty two here next on the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 4: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auntnation, our
Speaker 4: last All twenty two review of the exhibition. The next
Speaker 4: time we do one of these podcasts, it will be
Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Chargers and hopefully I think will be
Speaker 4: a big Dolphins win on opening Day. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and start with the big plays. I only have three
Speaker 4: this week. The opening play of the game Tua to
Speaker 4: the Tyreek for thirty one yards. It happened on the
Speaker 4: first play of the game, fourteen to fifty five to
Speaker 4: play in that first quarter, and my takeaway from this
Speaker 4: was that Tua has the best feet mechanics in the game,
Speaker 4: and I don't think it's all that close. All those
Speaker 4: reps on Ewa beach Beck with Pops sure paid off
Speaker 4: as a child man. He's drilled it so much that
Speaker 4: muscle memory is just in grain for the guy. And
Speaker 4: we actually saw Skyler Thompson execute something later in the game,
Speaker 4: and I thought he did.
Speaker 3: A good job of it.
Speaker 4: But I think that it showed you the discrepancy between
Speaker 4: two and most quarterbacks and the footwork because it took
Speaker 4: Skyler two extra steps based upon what Tua did, and
Speaker 4: I'll explain it to you right now. It looks easy,
Speaker 4: I know it does. It seems innocuous, and I'll get
Speaker 4: called out by casual fans saying that, you know, whatever
Speaker 4: the take is about, you know, the Sunshinea rainbow stuff.
Speaker 4: But I'm trying to explain football in a nuanced way.
Speaker 4: I think that I don't think a lot of outlets
Speaker 4: give you. So he comes out from under center and
Speaker 4: fakes the toss towards the unbalanced twelve personnel side. So
Speaker 4: twelve personnel's two tight ends. You have two why's attached
Speaker 4: to the line of scrimmage when they're on the same side.
Speaker 3: That means it's unbalanced.
Speaker 4: So you have the weak sides where we're passing the football,
Speaker 4: showing the run to the strength to get that flow
Speaker 4: and the action going that way. Which, by the way,
Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel creating fall steps for linebackers. It's peanut butter
Speaker 4: and jelly man. It's a match made in heaven. The
Speaker 4: right foot drop, the first step he takes is also
Speaker 4: the plant leg. So in addition to you know, putting
Speaker 4: himself in position to make this throw, all this action
Speaker 4: happens in one fluid motion. It's very rare that you
Speaker 4: see that you understand what that means. It means that
Speaker 4: we're going to spend a full three sixty on that
Speaker 4: pivot point. I'm telling you pause the podcast right now
Speaker 4: and go out in your backyard with your kid or
Speaker 4: your buddy and face him straight up and do a
Speaker 4: three to sixty as fast as you can, and then
Speaker 4: see how accurate you are throwing the ball when you
Speaker 4: get back squared up to him ten yards down the field.
Speaker 4: Add a two hundred and fifty pound human, unblocked, running
Speaker 4: full speed at you. Best of all, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: this is a sight adjustment for him because the slot
Speaker 4: corant to that side comes down on the line of
Speaker 4: scrimmage when they motion Alec away from the play. So
Speaker 4: it's actually not twelve personnel by the way, it's twenty
Speaker 4: one because Aleck is part of the double whys, which
Speaker 4: be explained already quick education. The fastest way to tell
Speaker 4: a dB is blitzing is if he's capped, another defender
Speaker 4: is right behind him. Typically that guy will blitz and
Speaker 4: that cap defender will fill the coverage assignment, so he
Speaker 4: converts to this blitz and that safety is now covering
Speaker 4: Tyreek twelve yards off the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: Throw it to him now, right makes sense.
Speaker 4: So Tua fakes the toss, the little pivot toss to
Speaker 4: Tyreek and now he's loose. These plays are so damn
Speaker 4: good to have.
Speaker 3: In the back pocket.
Speaker 4: The ball is out in like half a second, no
Speaker 4: threat of pressure because you know Tua can manage that
Speaker 4: unblocked man when he knows he has the hot at
Speaker 4: his disposal. And the reason the pivot is so deadly
Speaker 4: just again, look at the flow of those linebackers. You
Speaker 4: get two or three fall steps and total displacement out
Speaker 4: of all of them, and that's what puts tyreeg in
Speaker 4: open space. Chosen gets a good block outside and Tyreek
Speaker 4: damn near takes it for six. But we'll settle for
Speaker 4: thirty one yards with twenty five after the catch. These
Speaker 4: small details are things that you're never going to see,
Speaker 4: you know, big pundits talk about in Tua game, but
Speaker 4: they show up frequently and they really really matter. A
Speaker 4: forty one yard run for savon Akma two three seven
Speaker 4: to play in the first quarter. We're going to get
Speaker 4: in some takes. I have on the offensive line and
Speaker 4: run game in a moment. But man, this play is
Speaker 4: just a snapshot of textbooked football across the board. Essentially,
Speaker 4: you have six key moments on this play. And what's
Speaker 4: nice you have Durham and said and what essentially functions
Speaker 4: as double wise to the strong side or really triple
Speaker 4: since you've already got true double wise with both Craft
Speaker 4: and smythe attached to that unbalanced twelve personnel your right tackle,
Speaker 4: tight end, tight end, those are whys when they're attached
Speaker 4: like that. First, Craft absorbs the edges, attempt to dent
Speaker 4: and no luck, so good rep there. From Croft, you
Speaker 4: get Austin Jackson with a really tough assignment to reach
Speaker 4: an offset mike linebacker. He's aligned outside of Austin's shoulder,
Speaker 4: so Austin has more ground to go than the linebacker
Speaker 4: does to get to the spot.
Speaker 3: It's a tough ask.
Speaker 4: He's five yards off the ball too, which the more
Speaker 4: space for an offensive lineman, the tougher. But Austin gets
Speaker 4: out there and gets enough of a piece of him
Speaker 4: to slow him up, and then Savon auchmed to beat
Speaker 4: that defender. He was the guy that we're kind of
Speaker 4: keying on with the speed, and he does because Savon
Speaker 4: has plenty of it. The other keys are Rob Hunt
Speaker 4: walling off a three technique who has him outflanked aces
Speaker 4: rep he he really or shoots that punch across the
Speaker 4: bow and then gets his hips and his butt flipped
Speaker 4: around to wall him off. Connor Williams has to climb
Speaker 4: and execute the same thing he mentioned with Austin, and
Speaker 4: he goes out there and completely erases the man. But
Speaker 4: then the reason this goes for forty one yards and
Speaker 4: not just some five or six yard carry is Durham
Speaker 4: Smyth and Cedric Wilson. Smyth has the toughest ask in
Speaker 4: my opinion. He has to creep slowly down on the
Speaker 4: nickel and kind of let him, you know, slowly play
Speaker 4: into it to not oversell the run action. And because
Speaker 4: of this it allows that nickel to old run the
Speaker 4: play and give Akmed the alley he has, and then
Speaker 4: he takes him out completely, which executes perfectly, just a
Speaker 4: great understanding of timing of the play and when to
Speaker 4: go really attack your block and be patient with it.
Speaker 4: And then Cedric works off that same patience, working right
Speaker 4: behind Durham, who then seals the safety outside. What a
Speaker 4: freaking play. And then how about Savon just going you know,
Speaker 4: drake on Gronk on that middle of the field safety.
Speaker 4: He is twenty yards off the ball and Savon blows
Speaker 4: past him for an extra twenty two yards. Speaking of
Speaker 4: Savon Akhmed, forty two of his forty three rushing yards
Speaker 4: were after contact in this game. It's gonna make for
Speaker 4: a nice average ten point five yards after contact on
Speaker 4: average for Savon Akmed. The last big play I have
Speaker 4: to break down is the Javon halland forced fumble and
Speaker 4: recovery with six twenty to play in the first quarter.
Speaker 4: Just a great all around play here. And first it
Speaker 4: starts with Cater Coo who playing the run and screen
Speaker 4: game down around the lion of scrimmage is maybe my
Speaker 4: favorite thing to watch on this entire football team.
Speaker 3: With number four. He is such a dog. So they
Speaker 3: pull their right tackle.
Speaker 4: Out in space and if Cater doesn't do what he does,
Speaker 4: that tackle has a clim I'm on Jerome Baker and
Speaker 4: he's got seventy five eighty pounds on Baker. It's never
Speaker 4: gonna happen if he gets to Jerome Baker. But Cater
Speaker 4: goes downhill as the force defender, which is your last
Speaker 4: lab of defense to set the edge and funnel things
Speaker 4: back inside.
Speaker 3: And he not.
Speaker 4: Only beats the tackle to the upfield shoulder, and that
Speaker 4: color flash for the running back is his indicator to bang.
Speaker 4: So bang means you're going to stick it right in
Speaker 4: the gap that you're aiming for. Bounces to go wide,
Speaker 4: and bend is to go back the other direction. He
Speaker 4: has to bang because of the way that Cater plays
Speaker 4: this and not just that, but Cater goes in and
Speaker 4: takes the tackle out of the hip so that he
Speaker 4: can't climb, and it allows Jerome Baker to flow freely
Speaker 4: over there and arrive with a huge stick. And then
Speaker 4: Javon taking on a block and he's not just gonna
Speaker 4: accept this block into his chest. He goes and initiates
Speaker 4: the contact which allows him to control the blocker and
Speaker 4: that allows him to disengage with his long arms right
Speaker 4: in front of the play just as the ballcarrier is
Speaker 4: coming in and as he's bracing for contact with the ground,
Speaker 4: halland throws the paw on the football finds the ball
Speaker 4: falls on at great play and honestly, I think both
Speaker 4: guys forced to Javon got the credit, but I think
Speaker 4: that Bake's hand was on the football as well. Just
Speaker 4: a great, great all around play. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: get to Travis his top tapes, top tapes to a
Speaker 4: tongue of I LOOA. Just love the footwork and the
Speaker 4: timing and the rhythm he played with. The Jags played
Speaker 4: the same soft coverage that we did, and just like
Speaker 4: you to expect the pros to do. You know, Tua
Speaker 4: and Lawrence were on point with the short intermediate passing game.
Speaker 4: The throw to Chosen was before he came out of
Speaker 4: the break ball was right where he needed to be.
Speaker 3: That's pitch and catch.
Speaker 4: Those are layups, but Tua is so adept to hitting
Speaker 4: those layups. A clean rub on the mesh on that
Speaker 4: third and goal play would have been a touchdown for Chosen.
Speaker 4: The pick was that Smythe's drag creates gave them what
Speaker 4: they wanted, but I thought Chosen got caught on it,
Speaker 4: and I probably should have ran that crosser like he
Speaker 4: ran at the pick. Man like run under him. Just
Speaker 4: go use your speed because two is going to find you.
Speaker 4: And that allowed the defender playing off of Chosen to
Speaker 4: work around the pick. Just in time to recover and
Speaker 4: he made the play and Tua put the ball right
Speaker 4: on the mark, but it wasn't going to go anywhere
Speaker 4: anyway because it was too slow developing from that side.
Speaker 4: The rail by Raheem is the first read on that mesh,
Speaker 4: goes rail back to the mesh over the middle, and
Speaker 4: then you work to the backside of the formation. It's
Speaker 4: a right to left right on this particular play, and
Speaker 4: that rail paired with the rub By smyth creates this
Speaker 4: pocket you want on the mesh, but you have to
Speaker 4: get through your route clean.
Speaker 3: It did not happen.
Speaker 4: Tuoa was one for one under pressure, two for two
Speaker 4: win blitzed, which means he didn't miss a pass under
Speaker 4: pressure or when being blitzed this preseason, which is that's perfect.
Speaker 4: Tiny sample size but still pretty nice. My second favorite
Speaker 4: top tape River Craycraft, just so dependable. The first catch
Speaker 4: was motion onto the rail and he really pressed the
Speaker 4: dB to convince that dB of the takeoff. And look,
Speaker 4: this is not going to be a slight at River Craycraft.
Speaker 4: But when you don't have four to four speed, you
Speaker 4: have to be precise with that detail. And that's why
Speaker 4: River gets open because he is so precise. Austin Jackson
Speaker 4: I thought had a really good game. I've been saying
Speaker 4: this about Austin showing progress as we go along, and
Speaker 4: I think that's to be, you know, expected for a
Speaker 4: guy who missed, you know, a good chunk of time
Speaker 4: last year with the injury. Kind of getting his first
Speaker 4: real action in this offense, but just eight snaps, eight
Speaker 4: past block snaps, I should say, no pressure allowed. And
Speaker 4: he kind of gave Josh Allen the business Allen never
Speaker 4: got near to. And I thought Austin's weight transfer and
Speaker 4: awareness was really really good, two things that have kind
Speaker 4: of plugged him in pass protection. You get that out
Speaker 4: of him consistently with the run blocking hig gives you.
Speaker 4: I thought I'd make a lot of folks eat some words,
Speaker 4: including me, on that topic. So keep killing them, Austin,
Speaker 4: do your thing man. Cedric Wilson, I've been so impressed
Speaker 4: by him this entire month. The throw that Craycraft had
Speaker 4: to pull down from Skallar Thompson to begin the half,
Speaker 4: you see Cedric run what we call a for love
Speaker 4: of the game route where Craycraft gets access to his
Speaker 4: dig inside purely because Cedric runs this post route where
Speaker 4: he removes the middle of the field safety who Otherwise,
Speaker 4: if he has no responsibility, he can come down and
Speaker 4: buzz that dig route. But because said takes that route
Speaker 4: seriously and runs at full capacity to hold that safety,
Speaker 4: it creates that space. I thought he ran another great
Speaker 4: route on the fourth down conversion to Miles Gaskin where
Speaker 4: he crossed face to clear out the flat for Miles
Speaker 4: to have a room service pitch and catch first down conversion.
Speaker 4: Doesn't impact the box score on those plays, but man,
Speaker 4: that's the good stuff, and it tracks with the selfless
Speaker 4: minds that we heard about from Cedric all last year.
Speaker 4: And then finally he did get his on the backside
Speaker 4: two big plays. I like the way he times his
Speaker 4: routes where he throttles down on the soft spots and
Speaker 4: then sprints to go get them when he's not in them.
Speaker 4: It maximizes the time that he has in those windows.
Speaker 4: I thought it was very beneficial for Skyler in this game.
Speaker 4: Chris Brooks Man talk about putting your best foot forward.
Speaker 4: He had no business scoring on that first touchdown, even
Speaker 4: though Keon Smith and Julian Hill wiped out the edge.
Speaker 4: Penetration from the nose had him dead to rights two
Speaker 4: yard shy, but he would not be denied. Runs behind
Speaker 4: his pads very very effectively. He's also got no time
Speaker 4: to waste. He ripped off a thirteen yard run right
Speaker 4: before the end of the third quarter where he saw
Speaker 4: a tiny crease and just hit it, no hesitation, no surrender, thundergun.
Speaker 4: He forced four miss tackles in the game, good for
Speaker 4: twenty two yards after contact and an average of three
Speaker 4: point six seven yards after contact per rush. My final
Speaker 4: favorite tape the last player on here as a defender,
Speaker 4: Cater Kohu. He broke down his work on the fumble,
Speaker 4: had that great reperen coverage and first he makes attack
Speaker 4: on the perimeter before that play earlier on that drive
Speaker 4: where he's covering the slot, he peeks back at the
Speaker 4: quarterback and sees the balls out, So like having knowledge
Speaker 4: of where the quarterback is thinking while you're doing your
Speaker 4: job is like multitasking. And he comes off his guy
Speaker 4: and goes and makes the tackle. And then that deep
Speaker 4: shot that he broke up was even better on tape.
Speaker 4: Cool design as they run their clear out route first,
Speaker 4: which Jacksonville put a lot more.
Speaker 3: On tape in the Miami deal.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you to talk about that here in a
Speaker 4: moment on the defensive side of the football. But I
Speaker 4: like the design of this because they ran that clear
Speaker 4: out route, which gives Cater an indicator that they're gonna
Speaker 4: go ahead and throw that screen.
Speaker 3: But it doesn't take debate.
Speaker 4: He stays in shape, he loses phase, but gets back
Speaker 4: into phase, then reads the hands of the receiver and
Speaker 4: just separates them right at the catch point. It's patient,
Speaker 4: it's good job playing the football. It's reading the receiver
Speaker 4: to know when the ball is going to arrive. Just
Speaker 4: textbook man coverage. We've praised his work and zone all
Speaker 4: summer day at the office for caterkohu Man, one of
Speaker 4: my favorite players in the damn league. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and take our last break right there and come back
Speaker 4: and finish up the offensive notes, also the defensive notes,
Speaker 4: and then my words for the great Jason Jenkins. All
Speaker 4: that's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 4: to you by Auto Nation. More notes on the offensive
Speaker 4: side from the dolphins thirty one eighteen loss to Jacksonville. Okay,
Speaker 4: we're gonna talk about the offensive line of the running game,
Speaker 4: the one that finished third this preseason the one that
Speaker 4: finished with fifty yards more than the average team this preseason,
Speaker 4: and how I thought they were good. I think those
Speaker 4: numbers backed that up pretty well.
Speaker 3: But I could be wrong.
Speaker 4: Maybe I am just shilling for the team here. I
Speaker 4: don't know, but I thought the surge of the offensive
Speaker 4: line was consistently very good. And I didn't really realize
Speaker 4: this watching the broadcast, but man, it just consistently put
Speaker 4: guys on their back feet, on their heels and created
Speaker 4: space for the running backs. Though the running backs didn't
Speaker 4: have the best game to find those creases, but they
Speaker 4: were there. And Kendall Lamb and Isaiah Winn haven't made
Speaker 4: a habit of losing one on ones this entire August.
Speaker 4: I think those are really really valuable under the radar
Speaker 4: free agent signings the last two years. You know, Win
Speaker 4: started at left guard last two games and I see
Speaker 4: no reason for that to change. And then with Lamb,
Speaker 4: go look at the rest of the NFL rosters and
Speaker 4: tell me how many really quality swing tackles there are.
Speaker 4: What a value he looks to be in year number
Speaker 4: nine for him? And the icing on top of all
Speaker 4: that is the way it marries up with the play
Speaker 4: action game for how this offense runs. And you know,
Speaker 4: going back to the the the big play from two
Speaker 4: to tyreek and all the play action and all the
Speaker 4: surgeis offensive line gets two operated essentially from play action
Speaker 4: in this game exclusively, and the flow of the defense
Speaker 4: made life so much easier on him. His ball handling
Speaker 4: adds another layer of how this team gets teams thinking
Speaker 4: one way and then pulling out the proverbial rug on
Speaker 4: them on the back end after the completion to chose
Speaker 4: and go look at the next handful of plays.
Speaker 3: Push push push.
Speaker 4: Gives you that room service first down the fourth and
Speaker 4: one conversion to alec even the runs down low red zone.
Speaker 4: We were just one assignment away from popping both of
Speaker 4: those runs for touchdowns in my opinion. And it starts
Speaker 4: with Connor Williams, who after the bad snap goes out
Speaker 4: and hits a block from the far hash to the
Speaker 4: opposite numbers and five yards down the field. He carries
Speaker 4: this block five more yards and nearly to the perimeter,
Speaker 4: almost like Michael Orr in the blind side and Sandy
Speaker 4: Bullet getting fired up on the sidelines for him taking
Speaker 4: a guy all the way into the high school stands
Speaker 4: over there just really good throws them too the ground
Speaker 4: for a pancake a couple of plays later. Let's just
Speaker 4: do all the offensive line here for pro football focus,
Speaker 4: because the numbers back up what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: They were very good.
Speaker 4: Allowed five pressures all night, and Cedric Kubwayi and Keon
Speaker 4: Smith had two a piece of those, So four of
Speaker 4: those are guys that we'll see if they're here in
Speaker 4: a couple of days. And then one for Robert Hunt
Speaker 4: the second interception. And Rob had a rough night in
Speaker 4: pass protection. Just really the awareness wasn't there that We'll
Speaker 4: talk about the pick here in a second thought. He
Speaker 4: made some poor reads and just let guys into his
Speaker 4: frame a little bit too much.
Speaker 3: But in the run blocking game he was phenomenal.
Speaker 4: His work is just up there with the best guards
Speaker 4: in football for my money. Both Rob and Win finished
Speaker 4: out the first half and continue to put a clinic
Speaker 4: on in that running game. He carried a two technique
Speaker 4: on a run moving left where he rode the wave
Speaker 4: a couple of gaps.
Speaker 3: And then put him on his butt. Just a menacing
Speaker 3: presence in the running game. Again. Back to Win and
Speaker 3: Lamb really good nights.
Speaker 4: I thought Kendall lost a block on the second down
Speaker 4: run before the sanders Field goal. But one lost rep
Speaker 4: is pretty good. He did allow a pressure or not
Speaker 4: a pressure, but you know he got beat on a
Speaker 4: pass rush earlier in the game. But he has some
Speaker 4: of the most patient hands I've seen from a Dolphins
Speaker 4: tackle not named to Ron Armstead, and win is so
Speaker 4: strong with the grip strength and has the sweet feet
Speaker 4: to match. He looks every bit of a first round
Speaker 4: talent to me. He latches onto guys and when they
Speaker 4: try to change course, he beats them to the spot
Speaker 4: with his lower half and then slows them down with
Speaker 4: the upper strength.
Speaker 3: He looks like a guard to me. Where he was in.
Speaker 4: College, they kick him out. The tackle as a pro
Speaker 4: didn't work. I think we might have found out left
Speaker 4: guard here. I think he found your swing tackle and
Speaker 4: Kendall Lamb too. Come at me if you want, but
Speaker 4: we'll see how the season plays out this year. I'm
Speaker 4: pretty confident in my take there. He did blow a
Speaker 4: protection on the timing from Skyler there to River at
Speaker 4: the end of the half, but chase the looper inside
Speaker 4: with the Blitz behind him, which that's gonna happen time
Speaker 4: the time. But good night overall Skaler Thompson. The play
Speaker 4: before the first I and T is where I just
Speaker 4: get so damn annoyed. It's a perfect snap shot of
Speaker 4: play action, but he waits, double clutches and waits until
Speaker 4: he sees it open before he throws the football, and
Speaker 4: that never ever works. Luckily, Chosen didn't get blasted there
Speaker 4: because they kind of pulled up. But that's a hospital ball.
Speaker 4: The first pick wasn't out and out miss, just like
Speaker 4: the way Cedric Wilson peeled back to go back into
Speaker 4: broken scramble play mode and give his quarterback an option.
Speaker 4: I thought he was open earlier than the throw was,
Speaker 4: and then the throw was just high on Scalar took
Speaker 4: off on him.
Speaker 3: A bad pick.
Speaker 4: The second interception, though, I thought, was thoroughly explained by
Speaker 4: coach McDaniel.
Speaker 1: You know, I think another caveat to that story that
Speaker 1: you know made me happy about the way he responded
Speaker 1: was the second interception was something that pretty much I
Speaker 1: don't put on him at all.
Speaker 2: There was a protection misassignment, So in those situations, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm most.
Speaker 1: Worried about a quarterback recognizing people that aren't accounted for
Speaker 1: in a protection when they aren't accounted for. You have
Speaker 1: to make split second decisions. And you know, when he
Speaker 1: let the ball go, he didn't see that defender. That
Speaker 1: that's something that if if I have a quarterback chasing
Speaker 1: ghosts on jobs that we were expecting to be done
Speaker 1: by other players, then they're going to be very effective.
Speaker 2: So I was very worried about him. Uh naturally.
Speaker 1: That snowballing and affecting his play, and and what I
Speaker 1: was able.
Speaker 2: To talk to him about was, hey, listen.
Speaker 1: He immediately came to sidelines and it was like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: didn't even see that guy. Uh we we busted the protection.
Speaker 1: I was like, perfect, Okay, So if that's the case,
Speaker 1: should that that play, that last specific play factor into
Speaker 1: anything as far as the next drive, the next play,
Speaker 1: the next assignment, read foot work and decision?
Speaker 2: Said no. So he.
Speaker 1: To me that that shows mental fortitude at a high degree.
Speaker 1: He went out and responded and and and.
Speaker 2: And made some good plays.
Speaker 1: We you need to minimize turnovers on offense, always with
Speaker 1: the turnover differential being the number one indicator of wins
Speaker 1: and losses.
Speaker 2: But that goes.
Speaker 1: That's with everyone, and sometimes it's not as simple as
Speaker 1: the quarterback through an interception that the second the second
Speaker 1: play or the second interception, for sure, I don't really
Speaker 1: give I don't put on him and I was glad
Speaker 1: that he didn't put it on himself.
Speaker 3: So you heard it from coach there.
Speaker 4: But on that play, both Rob and a boay he
Speaker 4: jumped outside for the four technique, which is the guy
Speaker 4: that lines up on right over the center of the tackle,
Speaker 4: and then the stacked linebacker behind him behind that defender
Speaker 4: blitzes the A gap and Rob was not able to
Speaker 4: get back inside to cut him off. And based on
Speaker 4: that type of information, it's totally understandable for a quarterback
Speaker 4: to assume that the will linebacker came to since the
Speaker 4: protection slide to pick that up. They slid for the
Speaker 4: wrong thing. They slid for the outside guy to come,
Speaker 4: not the interior pressure that B gap linebacker. And that's
Speaker 4: completely on Rob Hunt in my opinion. Coach talked about
Speaker 4: the protection bust. That's what it was. We've seen that
Speaker 4: a couple times, but not too frequently. I actually think
Speaker 4: the way the passing off has been executed has been
Speaker 4: really good. You saw it throughout the night, whether it
Speaker 4: was Connor and Rob, Rob and Feeney, Isaiah in either center.
Speaker 4: They seem to have a good feel for what's coming
Speaker 4: before it arrives, which just tracks with the second year
Speaker 4: progress we've talked about with coach to myself and Frank
Speaker 4: Smith and all these guys.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: He also came back with some really good throws to
Speaker 4: Craig Craft to drive the field on the ensuing series
Speaker 4: after that second pick. Good timing taking with the Jags
Speaker 4: offer with their off coverage a kin what we talked
Speaker 4: about for the Dolphins offense or with Tua. The throw
Speaker 4: on second and ten with a minute to play in
Speaker 4: the half was the best I've seen Scalar make. Well
Speaker 4: before Craig Craft comes out of the break, pressure in
Speaker 4: his face, anticipates it and locates it. Pro Football Focus
Speaker 4: had him four for six against the Blitz with forty
Speaker 4: five yards and a pick, three for five under pressure
Speaker 4: with twenty two yards and a pick I Like Braxson Burrios,
Speaker 4: like the way he doesn't run into traffic. Like we
Speaker 4: talked about Cedric understanding feel for soft spots, he is
Speaker 4: very good at that. The catch he had, a zone
Speaker 4: defender buzzed the flat and got right into the way
Speaker 4: of his route, but he adjusted and stayed on the
Speaker 4: stem for a good chunk gain.
Speaker 3: Good timing on that throw from a scalar two.
Speaker 4: Something clicked for a scalar timing wise, in the second half,
Speaker 4: it was a lot better. I thought Feenie had a
Speaker 4: really really good night both center and left guard. He
Speaker 4: found extra work, passed off and pass pro, caught some
Speaker 4: bodies no pressures allowed, had a really nice snatch and
Speaker 4: trap rep on the third quarter. I thought Lester Cotton
Speaker 4: quietly had a very good night in the best way
Speaker 4: possible possible, just handled his business. And I wrote this
Speaker 4: down before the second Brooks touchdown. And of course on
Speaker 4: that play he pulls playside and whacks the linebacker out
Speaker 4: of the gap, so it goes from a good night
Speaker 4: to a great one. I mentioned a boy he and
Speaker 4: Keon Smith. I thought they both really struggled in this game.
Speaker 4: I love Miles Gaskin's third down skills, both as a
Speaker 4: pass catcher and then pass pro. And then Julian Hill
Speaker 4: been in really nice development to watch how he's gotten
Speaker 4: a feel as a blocker from those wide positions. Tanner
Speaker 4: O'Connor two man he stood out to me in this game,
Speaker 4: even had some.
Speaker 3: Really good lead blocks. From a full back alignment.
Speaker 4: I talk all the time about alec Ingold's role opening
Speaker 4: up so many things on offense if we lose him.
Speaker 4: I kind of like Tanner the most as far as
Speaker 4: his athletic ability to keep some of that open, not all,
Speaker 4: but some of it. I would put Tanner on the
Speaker 4: fifty three minter roster if it was me. Aszukama had
Speaker 4: a really nice whip route where he got opened, but
Speaker 4: the ball was on his back shoulder and he had
Speaker 4: to go back into the contact otherwise I think he
Speaker 4: might have had a big play. He ran a route
Speaker 4: later with a headfake while he was engaged with the
Speaker 4: contact window in the five yard window, and the dB
Speaker 4: reacted the way we see Tyreek get reactions from guys
Speaker 4: where they get turned all the way around. Just infinitely
Speaker 4: intrigued by ee smoothness. I think we're kind of sitting
Speaker 4: on something there that we haven't seen yet. Let's conclude
Speaker 4: the offensive notes with this analysis from coach, who was
Speaker 4: asked about the prevalence of the screen game and trying
Speaker 4: to find things to counter what defenses took away last year.
Speaker 4: I love this comment because once again in a firms
Speaker 4: we've been talking about for the last six months.
Speaker 1: Well, I think you're always trying to find ways to
Speaker 1: you know, it comes down to the base principle of
Speaker 1: taking advantage of overplay. So there's different mechanisms and in
Speaker 1: year two that you're able to kind of get to
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty, uh details of how to execute the plays.
Speaker 1: There there's you're you're very correct in that that did
Speaker 1: fall in the off season assessment of things that we
Speaker 1: could improve upon, and that's taken advantage of the space
Speaker 1: created when when you when you are able to engender
Speaker 1: some explosive plays. So you know that whether those show
Speaker 1: face in the regular season, but you know, I think
Speaker 1: that the more things that defenses have to think about,
Speaker 1: the more advantageous it is.
Speaker 2: For the offense.
Speaker 4: Defensive notes are going to be quick because very first
Speaker 4: things first, we've discussed being down specific personnel in the
Speaker 4: middle of the defense in that game. No Christian, no Zach,
Speaker 4: no Deshan hand whatever. But to entuate the run game
Speaker 4: performance of the Jags on the night, the entire first
Speaker 4: part of the game was our nickel defense against twelve
Speaker 4: personnel packages.
Speaker 3: That's not personnel matching.
Speaker 4: You're not calling guys onto the field to adjust what
Speaker 4: the offense is doing. And just to be baseline clear,
Speaker 4: you will never ever, ever, ever, ever ever see that
Speaker 4: in a regular season NFL game.
Speaker 3: You won't to.
Speaker 4: Extend that, Miami played with a front that had two
Speaker 4: three techniques and two nine techniques. Three techniques play off
Speaker 4: the outside shoulder of either guard, and nine's play outside
Speaker 4: the tight end or where the tight end would be
Speaker 4: if you had one to that side of the formation.
Speaker 4: If you have your game on DVR or game pass
Speaker 4: or wherever, go watch the Jags third play of the game.
Speaker 4: It's a seven yard round from Travis etn and you'll
Speaker 4: see what I'm talking about because of alignment pre snap,
Speaker 4: the Jags bring over split flow action from the tight
Speaker 4: end to wall off JP, which is a pretty easy
Speaker 4: block to hit. And then you get two down blocks
Speaker 4: on Brandon Peelee in that three technique, and this gives
Speaker 4: you a river to run through. If David Long was
Speaker 4: not an awesome football player, that play might still be
Speaker 4: running down here down the coast Jupiter. A one on
Speaker 4: one chance for Deshaun Elliott is there in space about
Speaker 4: fifteen yards down the field, but if he can't make
Speaker 4: that tackle, it's out the gate. But both the tackle
Speaker 4: and guard are able to seal pee Lee. It's like
Speaker 4: there's no way Peel can get over the top of
Speaker 4: that block. And I've been critical of Peelee because I
Speaker 4: think he's been on the ground too much and had
Speaker 4: a very rough preseason. But it was pretty simple for
Speaker 4: ETN to find that gap. That's why I like to
Speaker 4: watch the tape. I never agree that preseason means nothing.
Speaker 4: That to me is like the shortcut that people use
Speaker 4: and they don't want to do the work themselves. Of
Speaker 4: just dismissing a college prospect against whatever the lower level
Speaker 4: school is because well he did it against a bad school.
Speaker 4: You can still find stuff within that context. I'm just
Speaker 4: trying to provide context for you guys to understand that
Speaker 4: this is not a game where you're scheming up a
Speaker 4: play to stop the Jaguars attack. Just like training camp,
Speaker 4: you've got what you want to work on. Apparently Jacksonville
Speaker 4: wanted to work on their twelve personnel offensively, and as
Speaker 4: a result, you're just outmanned the entire game. Then in
Speaker 4: the passing game, it was tons of off coverage. We
Speaker 4: got no disguise, no post nap rotation. This was day
Speaker 4: one install stuff from fangios played. Look, I hope you
Speaker 4: guys understand that. Maybe you don't, but I.
Speaker 3: Hope you do.
Speaker 4: Look, I know the popular thing when I try to
Speaker 4: do this is for some of y'all to say that
Speaker 4: I work for the team in Sunshine at Rainbows, And
Speaker 4: clearly it bothers me and been talking about it all day.
Speaker 3: But whatever.
Speaker 4: Just understand the game and how it works if you're
Speaker 4: going to have that statement, because if you did, you'd
Speaker 4: understand how this all comes together. It's a nonsense statement
Speaker 4: and that's all. So with that, let's talk about some
Speaker 4: individuals and do that expeditiously. Rayquon made some big strides
Speaker 4: with his hands this year.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: There's a play where he was able to kind of
Speaker 4: reposition himself in a way that I didn't think he
Speaker 4: could do last year, to disengage better than he has
Speaker 4: in the past. Been making good progress there. So impressed
Speaker 4: by Bradley Chubb had the pressure hit on a free
Speaker 4: run on Lawrence, but that's anyone can do that. But
Speaker 4: he made a play on second and one, a running
Speaker 4: play on that JAG's first drive where he's in that
Speaker 4: nine alignment and his nearest help inside is Rayquon as
Speaker 4: the three technique.
Speaker 3: This means there are.
Speaker 4: Two blockers to deal with and three gaps. For Chubb,
Speaker 4: that's three gaps. Is not what anybody ever wants to do.
Speaker 4: But he has to be concerned with all three of
Speaker 4: these gaps, and he beats the tackle inside with a
Speaker 4: quick crossover step and cuts down et and it's a
Speaker 4: hell of a play and something we've seen all camp
Speaker 4: long where he's getting to his fit before the offensive
Speaker 4: line can react and chopping down run plays before they start.
Speaker 4: I thought Long and Baker were very impressed in this
Speaker 4: game by their limited action, but both played super fast,
Speaker 4: stayed tight to blocks to be able to scrape and
Speaker 4: make plays, and made some critical tackles where the converse
Speaker 4: of them making that play is a huge run at
Speaker 4: the backside, and the force fumble of Holland was a
Speaker 4: great play by Baker. Two. I've made no secrets about
Speaker 4: how I feel that Jaln Phillips will fair this year.
Speaker 4: I think's going to challenge for Defensive Player of the Year,
Speaker 4: and this holding call is.
Speaker 3: One of the reasons.
Speaker 4: You see him start his rush upfield and the right
Speaker 4: tackle jumps way out over sets overset is when you
Speaker 4: open up your inside post and the moment that JP
Speaker 4: changes course, he recognizes this. Once he sees the right
Speaker 4: tackle open up, he changes inside, cross his face and
Speaker 4: dips that inside shoulder. And once you get that inside
Speaker 4: shoulder on the upfield arm of the tackle, it's like
Speaker 4: a receiver getting past a jam. Once you do that,
Speaker 4: it's over. He achieves that position and he has two options.
Speaker 4: You can either let him go kill your quarterback or hold,
Speaker 4: and he chose the latter.
Speaker 3: Wisely.
Speaker 4: Noah inbanogany I thought he played that deep shot to
Speaker 4: really very well. Just didn't get his head back, gets
Speaker 4: your damn head back.
Speaker 3: Man stayed in face. Didn't think it was a catch.
Speaker 4: Tough break there, but it's been kind of the story
Speaker 4: of his career so far. Deshaun Elliott. Just love how
Speaker 4: active he is. He flies to the football, He was
Speaker 4: good in coverage and had a really good PBu challenging
Speaker 4: a slot step for step, was very fluid out of
Speaker 4: the back pedal. Just love watching him run the alley
Speaker 4: and the running game. Two That rat in the whole
Speaker 4: role is a good fit for him. Cam Smith not
Speaker 4: much to break down. He just saw a pick six
Speaker 4: in the double move and it wound up being six
Speaker 4: the other way. I love the bounce back PBu though
Speaker 4: the wide receiver tried to push off at him at
Speaker 4: the sticks, but he absorbed the contact, stayed in the
Speaker 4: hip pocket and got his hands in there for that breakup.
Speaker 4: And then Jamal was the first play that he played,
Speaker 4: which I'm sure he was gonna get the entire fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: but we didn't finish the game obviously. But he absorbs
Speaker 4: a double team, there's trash around his feet, he stays
Speaker 4: up and then goes.
Speaker 3: And makes the play.
Speaker 4: He's going to be on this football team. And then
Speaker 4: three things that stood out negatively. It's just a rough
Speaker 4: day for pee Lee. I mentioned Bronson and Twineman. I
Speaker 4: thought all those guys kind of had rough days against
Speaker 4: the run, but they were putting spots. But Peeley on
Speaker 4: the ground getting rid multiple gaps just on a good
Speaker 4: night for him. I thought Duke Riley over ran several plays,
Speaker 4: not in good shape there. I thought Gink got lost
Speaker 4: in coverage a couple of times as well.
Speaker 3: So that's it.
Speaker 4: That's the last of your notes. I want to finish
Speaker 4: up with this statement from coach McDaniel on the great
Speaker 4: Jason Jenkins who are were celebrating today and I'll go
Speaker 4: ahead and tell you guys a story and try to
Speaker 4: not cry.
Speaker 1: I'd like to start today recognizing August twenty seventh and
Speaker 1: what it means to the Miami Dolphins. It was a
Speaker 1: year ago today that we lost such a valuable member
Speaker 1: that you know that I think the the people that
Speaker 1: Jason touched in this organization, in the community, you know,
Speaker 1: it's so visceral and.
Speaker 2: Real that it would it would be uh, I'd.
Speaker 1: Be short changing, you know the reality of a lot
Speaker 1: of people in this building and a lot of people
Speaker 1: and early across America that that lost someone someone so
Speaker 1: dear to them. So you know their prayers and you
Speaker 1: know with the family that they they continue to progress
Speaker 1: and while morning and.
Speaker 2: You know, it's a it's a it's a day that's
Speaker 2: not lost.
Speaker 1: On anyone Miami Dolphin or all the other people who's
Speaker 1: touched in the National Football League across the country.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm one of those people, one of
Speaker 3: the main ones. Really.
Speaker 4: I think of myself directly as one of the main
Speaker 4: people that Jason struck up a relationship with and really
Speaker 4: fast tracked in a short amount of time. A relationship
Speaker 4: and really became one of the most important people in
Speaker 4: my entire life. I didn't really have a father figure
Speaker 4: as a child. My dad was out of the picture
Speaker 4: pretty early on. And boy, when I was greeted by
Speaker 4: the warmth and passion and nurturing nature of Jason Jenkins, Gosh,
Speaker 4: I latched onto it. And my main goal here was
Speaker 4: to make him proud like nothing. Nothing was better than
Speaker 4: when he would call me into his office for our
Speaker 4: annual year look back. And look, this is going to
Speaker 4: sound like self promotion, but it's not the point of
Speaker 4: the story. Drivetime does very well and across in house
Speaker 4: NFL podcasts, and the two times that he called me
Speaker 4: in for my year review to tell me then the
Speaker 4: drive Time podcast was number one in the NFL. I
Speaker 4: mean the pride that I would feel from that. And
Speaker 4: I know I've told you guys countless Jason stories on here,
Speaker 4: but here's one for you guys that I think really
Speaker 4: sets the tone for just how he was when I
Speaker 4: first interviewed for the job. And I used air quotes
Speaker 4: there because Jason had already had a sight set and
Speaker 4: was really just meeting with me to tell.
Speaker 3: Me the good news.
Speaker 4: But I thought it was an interview, so I dressed up,
Speaker 4: I was nervous. I was my best behavior, and the
Speaker 4: whole time we ate. The conversation wasn't really about the job,
Speaker 4: or podcasts or football. It was about our families, our
Speaker 4: careers to date, our childhoods. That was where our bond
Speaker 4: was developed forever, I think was that that breakfast at
Speaker 4: Deli Tower and Davy. We both discovered that day our
Speaker 4: shared love of baseball. And you guys know what he
Speaker 4: called the manors, the palate cleansers. They would always go
Speaker 4: to Houston and get just smoked by the astros, and
Speaker 4: I would find any trash can I could have around
Speaker 4: the building to celebrate his astro championships. You know, Bang
Speaker 4: Bang Jason. But come to find out, we were both
Speaker 4: just baseball nerds. We collected the same figurines as kids,
Speaker 4: the Headliner figurines. I told him about my backyard fo
Speaker 4: Football League and showed him the famous photos of the
Speaker 4: backyard back in Kendallack, Washington. At the end of that breakfast,
Speaker 4: he just said, so you're ready to do this or
Speaker 4: what gosh?
Speaker 3: What a moment.
Speaker 4: That was a smile on his face like he knew
Speaker 4: he just made my dream come true, and he did.
Speaker 4: It was I have Jason to thank for all that.
Speaker 3: So I got through that.
Speaker 4: I'm glad I pre wrote that because I don't think
Speaker 4: I would have gotten through if I just winged it.
Speaker 4: But uh, I guess you know. Rest in peace, boss man.
Speaker 4: We miss you so much. Let's get out of here. Subscribe, rate, review, follow,
Speaker 4: fish Tank all that stuff, YouTube channel, Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 4: Until next time, fins up Caroline and Cameron Daddy's Coming Home.