Speaker 1: To on the move, Golan Deep Speedways, Peace do Peas
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my advans in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 3: we are covering the next two picks of your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: We have five more players to break down. We'll do
Speaker 3: players three through five on the next episode. But today
Speaker 3: running back Jalen Wright, outside backer edge defender Mohammad Kamara
Speaker 3: from Tennessee and Colorado State, respectively. We'll dive into the
Speaker 3: film there. On those guys, we'll take a look at
Speaker 3: the fit and the advanced metrics. As we do here
Speaker 3: on this podcast, we'll hear from the players as well
Speaker 3: as Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer from the Baptist Health
Speaker 3: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Heye, we got things started on Saturday with some fireworks,
Speaker 3: both with the trade up and the player selection. The
Speaker 3: Dolphins parlayed next year's organic third round draft choice. You
Speaker 3: cannot dip into the compensatory picks just yet. You can
Speaker 3: trade them down the road, but not just yet. They
Speaker 3: have to lock in half of the seasons over and
Speaker 3: they got themselves back into the fourth round to select
Speaker 3: an electric tailback in Tennessee's Jalen. Right, that's our second
Speaker 3: ja y l e N Jalen and our fourth overall
Speaker 3: Jalen Jalen, Jalen Jalen. Five best rappers of all time Dilon, Dielon, Dielon, Dielon,
Speaker 3: and Dialon. Before we get to that thought real quick,
Speaker 3: we heard from both Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and hear what they believe they achieved on
Speaker 3: Day number three in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft.
Speaker 4: I think we've filled like we've had good football players,
Speaker 4: Guys that you know, we had targeted at positions we
Speaker 4: felt good about the contribute, Guys that we feel have upside.
Speaker 4: And again the most important that we always talk about
Speaker 4: competitive guys that love ball and that won't blink coming
Speaker 4: in here and we'll jump into the fray and be
Speaker 4: good teammates and it'll be fun watching these guys battle
Speaker 4: it out during training camp.
Speaker 3: And we'll talk about this to go along in the
Speaker 3: podcast here. But all five players the Dolphins added on
Speaker 3: Day three across the board unanimously have a certain competitive
Speaker 3: spirit and toughness about them. And you read about that
Speaker 3: and all the scouting or the draft guides, all the
Speaker 3: anonymous scout quotes around the league, all that stuff kind
Speaker 3: of points to a certain type of player, which we
Speaker 3: know the Dolphins covid down here in Miami.
Speaker 2: How much does this draft help the team win?
Speaker 3: In twine twenty fourth, that was an important question and
Speaker 3: an important answer. Here's Chris Greer on just that.
Speaker 4: We always feel that way, but it mains to be
Speaker 4: seen like no one's given anything, you know. Here, we
Speaker 4: have some good players on the roster here, and these
Speaker 4: guys are gonna have to work to beat them out
Speaker 4: and earn spots. But yes, we selected them because we
Speaker 4: feel that they have a chance to contribute.
Speaker 5: But again, they have to earn it. Nothing's given.
Speaker 4: And I think Mike and the staff have shown that
Speaker 4: over their two years here that you earn your playing
Speaker 4: time here.
Speaker 3: We are going to get to the rest of the
Speaker 3: picks on Monday's podcast, Maleague Washington and Patrick mc morris,
Speaker 3: and then I have we haven't actually made the final
Speaker 3: pick yet I'm recording the podcast ahead of time, trying
Speaker 3: to get it out to you guys right at the
Speaker 3: conclusion of this draft.
Speaker 2: But I'll go ahead and fill you in at the
Speaker 2: end of the podcast.
Speaker 1: And who that is.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you know you'll listen to the Draft Time
Speaker 3: podcasts and you don't know that the draft picks. That's
Speaker 3: there's no way you're a podcast fan who doesn't know
Speaker 3: the Dolphins entire draft class so far, Well up, did
Speaker 3: you guys at the end of the podcast, for posterity's sake.
Speaker 3: And of course, we have the expectation, you know, going
Speaker 3: back to the Jalen Wright move to trade up into
Speaker 3: the fourth round of this year's draft, we have the
Speaker 3: expectation of third round compicks coming back next year. It
Speaker 3: always seemed to me like that cabinet of future third
Speaker 3: round picks was a good resource pool to dip into
Speaker 3: to go up and get a player they might like
Speaker 3: in this range of the draft. I'm surprised they pulled
Speaker 3: it off without giving up any picks this year. And
Speaker 3: so you add a pick this year when you only
Speaker 3: had six going in, so seven total players from the
Speaker 3: class from a draft pool in twenty twenty five, where
Speaker 3: with the projected pick in each of the seven rounds
Speaker 3: plus your three compicks, you're projected to get had ten picks.
Speaker 2: Now it's seven and nine in the.
Speaker 3: Next back to back years after a couple of years
Speaker 3: of four and five picks in the draft. So Miami
Speaker 3: getting more and more rookies filling out that pipeline deeper
Speaker 3: and deeper to kind of continue the idea of sustained
Speaker 3: success down the road while you also compete and win. Now,
Speaker 3: we'll come back to that topic here just second here
Speaker 3: in the podcast as well, and speaking of all of that,
Speaker 3: before we get to the analysis on Tennessee running back
Speaker 3: Jalen Wright. Here is Chris Career on the flexibility those
Speaker 3: third round picks gave the Dolphins in this year's draft.
Speaker 4: You can't use it into toy picks until this time
Speaker 4: next year. So those, uh, the ones we anticipated were
Speaker 4: all protected, but it gave us some flexibility to move around.
Speaker 4: As we talked about us being active trying to move
Speaker 4: up in the draft previously. So but for us, we
Speaker 4: had jailing in on a visit here thirty visit, enjoyed
Speaker 4: spending time with him here. We spent a lot of
Speaker 4: time getting to know him. Uh and obviously you know
Speaker 4: his explosiveness on the field and what he does is
Speaker 4: running back, his toughness. Again, it's another guy that you
Speaker 4: know it. Mike started really watching him, he was excited
Speaker 4: for you know, as well as our scouts identifying him.
Speaker 4: So again, it was the ability to add a good
Speaker 4: football player. And everything's about competition. It's a good group
Speaker 4: of guys, they understand that. So for us to add
Speaker 4: a good football player that we really liked and valued
Speaker 4: there on the board was an opportunity we couldn't pass.
Speaker 2: I knew it.
Speaker 3: I knew that was gonna happen as part of the
Speaker 3: draw of being so particular about protecting those conpensient with
Speaker 3: players that were cut with signing contracts under the threshold
Speaker 3: that would qualify towards a compensatory formula. I thought it
Speaker 3: was kind of a master stroke in terms of how
Speaker 3: this was managed because those third round picks, yeah, they're valuable,
Speaker 3: top one hundred picks to get players on your roster,
Speaker 3: but the ability to be flexible with how they could
Speaker 3: give you that ammunition to go up in this year's
Speaker 3: draft or next year's draft, it's so valuable to me
Speaker 3: as part of that with you know, losing the key
Speaker 3: parts we did lose in Christian Wilkins, Robert Hunt, Andrew
Speaker 3: Van Ginkel, replacing those guys with aggregate number of players
Speaker 3: and cheaper players and maybe some draft picks down the road,
Speaker 3: but also the idea of just creating more flexibility in
Speaker 3: the draft to give yourself the opportunity to identify a
Speaker 3: player you love and go up and get them.
Speaker 2: There's value to all of that. So it's not just
Speaker 2: lost X, didn't gain Z.
Speaker 6: Like.
Speaker 3: There's a lot more nuance that goes into it than that,
Speaker 3: and I thought Miami did a good job of managing
Speaker 3: that and massaging what would ultimately become an additional draft
Speaker 3: pick that did not cost them any future picks in
Speaker 3: this year's draft, just in next year's draft. So we
Speaker 3: move on now to the twentieth pick of the fourth round,
Speaker 3: number one twenty overall Tennessee running back Jalen Wright, And
Speaker 3: wouldn't you know it, another player who was absolutely dying
Speaker 3: to come to Miami.
Speaker 5: So I had a thirty visit with Miami. I mean,
Speaker 5: I make the whole style. It was cool.
Speaker 7: I mean, as a team, I really wanted to go to,
Speaker 7: which is crazy. It's the best visit I had. I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm just glad, you know what I'm saying, just to
Speaker 7: have that eppistunity too, you know what I'm saying, come
Speaker 7: out in South Beast, you know, just to help make
Speaker 7: a difference in the team, you know, help add the
Speaker 7: exposive element.
Speaker 2: So I plugged on the film of Jalen Right.
Speaker 3: I watched him live this year, but didn't do tape
Speaker 3: on him until today because full transparency. The shortcut that
Speaker 3: I took, or one of them this year's draft class
Speaker 3: was at the running back position. That's why you never
Speaker 3: do that, because you never ever know what could possibly
Speaker 3: happen in the draft. And so I pull up the
Speaker 3: All twenty two from the Georgia game, and on the
Speaker 3: very first snap, the volunteers go duo, and what duo
Speaker 3: is is double teams from two players or there's two
Speaker 3: double teams, I should say. On the offense, if line
Speaker 3: one isolation block and then from there you catch and
Speaker 3: climb to the second level and try to get up
Speaker 3: to the second level to hit secondary blocks to spring
Speaker 3: your back into that second level of the defense. And
Speaker 3: from there they had split flow action which is the
Speaker 3: tight end going across the formation against the flow of
Speaker 3: the zone or the blocking scheme you have inside, and
Speaker 3: that's something Miami does tons and tons of and you
Speaker 3: can often look like those players can often look like
Speaker 3: inside zone something else. The Dolphins do a whole heck
Speaker 3: of a lot of here under head coach Mike McDaniel
Speaker 3: and George's in man coverage in the corner running across
Speaker 3: the formation with the split flow tight end blocker over
Speaker 3: pursues this gap and there's this massive window for right
Speaker 3: to step into, and he.
Speaker 2: Does just that. But it's not just stepping into that gap.
Speaker 3: But what I love about his running style is that
Speaker 3: he presses this hole and forces the cornerback to be
Speaker 3: late on the decision or just to have the information
Speaker 3: as late as he possibly can, because he doesn't which
Speaker 3: way he's gonna cut because of pressing that hole, and
Speaker 3: I love that he's able to draw that cornerback inside
Speaker 3: and get a false step downhill from the last line
Speaker 3: of the defense the post safety in this case, which
Speaker 3: creates a poor angle and an opening play seventy five
Speaker 3: yard touchdown on the to start the game against the
Speaker 3: team the number one team in the entire country, so
Speaker 3: very impressed by all of that. And speaking of you know,
Speaker 3: show him your tail lights type of speed, how about this.
Speaker 3: Wright scored a nine to seventy five on his relative
Speaker 3: athletic scorecard out of ten points. That's basically measuring all
Speaker 3: the measurements at the scouting combine in your pro day,
Speaker 3: and he's nearly perfect in the athletic measurements in that regard.
Speaker 3: It's forty fourth going back to thirty six years of
Speaker 3: NFL scouting combines. That's out of over seventeen hundred running backs,
Speaker 3: he's forty fourth overall, and his eleven foot two broad
Speaker 3: jump was the second longest ever by a running back.
Speaker 2: Explosive explosive player. But how about this?
Speaker 3: You know, we called Devon ah Chan flat Stanley on
Speaker 3: the podcast last year, and I can't take credit for
Speaker 3: that because somebody else mentioned it on Twitter.
Speaker 2: I forgot who it was.
Speaker 3: But I think it's perfect because of his ability to
Speaker 3: hit tiny creases and explode through the other side unfazed.
Speaker 3: It's not that dissimilar for Jalen Wright and his skill.
Speaker 2: Set that he features.
Speaker 3: He told us that he the fastest time or the
Speaker 3: fastest speed he ever recorded, on GPS was twenty three
Speaker 3: point seven miles per or let me say that again
Speaker 3: for effect.
Speaker 2: Twenty three point.
Speaker 3: Seven miles per hour twenty two point three was the
Speaker 3: fastest NFL speed last year. Tyreek's fastest was twenty two
Speaker 3: point zero one and eight chance was twenty one point
Speaker 3: nine to three. This dude can flat out scoot, and
Speaker 3: he's also incredibly patient while also gaining ground towards the
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. He knows how to press and scrape
Speaker 3: almost like a linebacker who does the exact same thing
Speaker 3: on the other side of the ball. They want to
Speaker 3: get in tight to the blocker in front of them
Speaker 3: it's stacked up in a engage in a block and
Speaker 3: stay in tight to that so they can scrape off
Speaker 3: of that block and not catch the blocker on a
Speaker 3: catching climb or a double team. He does the same
Speaker 3: thing as like a running back or like a linebacker
Speaker 3: does at the running back position, and a lot of
Speaker 3: the runs for big gains were him hitting a gap
Speaker 3: and just running past guys in close quarters.
Speaker 2: Getting off those arm tackles.
Speaker 3: So he has the power and strength requisite to hit
Speaker 3: those explosive.
Speaker 2: Runs in those tight areas.
Speaker 3: He reminds me a bit of Raheem Moster and the
Speaker 3: way he blazes past guys and the way this run
Speaker 3: game springs runs where it's basically, here's some space, use
Speaker 3: your speed and your vision and your urgency and your
Speaker 3: decision making to go hit it at full speed, make
Speaker 3: guys miss at the second and third level. That's Jalen
Speaker 3: Wright's entire game. What a fun tape this was to
Speaker 3: watch man. He also had twenty two catches. And this
Speaker 3: is where I like pairing him with Tua, because Tennessee
Speaker 3: would scheme up these quick throws like rail routes or
Speaker 3: flat routes or flares or swings where they would just
Speaker 3: flare it out to him on a dead sprint and
Speaker 3: essentially get him on the perimeter. But via the passing game,
Speaker 3: and that also crosses over with the screen game, and
Speaker 3: Tua is so damn adept at putting the ball on
Speaker 3: the upfield shoulder right in line to keep you moving
Speaker 3: that you don't want to slow guy like Jalen right down.
Speaker 3: I don't think that that's going to be a problem
Speaker 3: for Tua at any point with this player the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: The fit with the Dolphins is fantastic.
Speaker 3: Because if you go to Sports infos Illusions, the ultimate
Speaker 3: statistical website, the Dolphins FAST twenty one personnel grouping, which
Speaker 3: is two backs, one tight end. But typically in that
Speaker 3: grouping it's a running back and a full back. Fast
Speaker 3: twenty one means it's two half backs, two tailbacks, two
Speaker 3: running backs, ah Chan and Moster or a Chan and Right,
Speaker 3: and that package last year for the Dolphins, albeit not
Speaker 3: ran with a great abundance of frequency, was the most
Speaker 3: productive at over seven yards per play when they had
Speaker 3: that grouping on the field, that was largely most Are
Speaker 3: and eight Chan together, and of course we had several
Speaker 3: games where one of those guys was not available. So
Speaker 3: now with Jalen Wright, you protect your most productive grouping
Speaker 3: in the event that you don't have most or a
Speaker 3: Chan for a game or even you know, knock on
Speaker 3: wood an extended period of time, he had more runs
Speaker 3: right did with five or fewer defenders in the box
Speaker 3: than he did seven plus. And that's what you're gonna
Speaker 3: get down here with the speede how in the perimeter.
Speaker 3: And that's because the Tennessee offense, much like Miami, stretched
Speaker 3: the field as well as anybody in the last two years,
Speaker 3: especially two years ago when they had Jalen Hyatt, a
Speaker 3: I think third round pick of the New York Giants. Well,
Speaker 3: you know who's faster than the Tennessee volunteers the Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins from the same grouping in the passing game. His
Speaker 3: speed to stretch the defense, but also the presences you
Speaker 3: have that can occupy that space in the middle of
Speaker 3: the field were two excels as much as any quarterback
Speaker 3: in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Right the middle of the field. Now you've got multiple angle.
Speaker 3: Slash Texas route options, guys that can widen the linebacker
Speaker 3: and cross face and hit big plays on short passes
Speaker 3: over the middle. You have a tried and true productive
Speaker 3: spot up tight end as it were in John hus Smith.
Speaker 3: And then you know how Tyreek and Wada stressed the
Speaker 3: middle of the field as well. I'm so pumped for this.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hear from Jalen Wright on how
Speaker 3: his time in Knoxville at Tennessee and the versatility they
Speaker 3: had there prepared him for coming to the NFL and
Speaker 3: one of the more diverse complex running systems under Mike
Speaker 3: McDaniel in the National Football League.
Speaker 7: Rusty my sophomore year, junior year, I mean, we have
Speaker 7: receivers in space out of the field. I mean, that's
Speaker 7: just something that Dolphins really good. You know, just space
Speaker 7: out the field, you know, get defenses to get out
Speaker 7: of Cover more and Cover three, you know, get THESS to.
Speaker 5: Play cover two and cover four. I mean, it's she's
Speaker 5: doing great.
Speaker 7: Bigger opportunities for the running backs, bigger it's supposed to play.
Speaker 5: That's a lot.
Speaker 7: That's what I really a lot of I had a
Speaker 7: lot of a lot of things like that happen in Tennessee,
Speaker 7: and I feel like that's gonna be good in Miami.
Speaker 3: So let's go ahead and pause right there, take our
Speaker 3: first break of this episode, come back and talk about
Speaker 3: new Dolphins running back Jalen right more. On the other side,
Speaker 3: We're also going to talk about Mohammed Kamara, the edge
Speaker 3: from Colorado State, and give you some more general draft thoughts.
Speaker 3: We'll hear more from McDaniel and Chris Careeer, including how
Speaker 3: they feel this year's class has nothing to do.
Speaker 2: With or not nothing to do with. Is all about winning.
Speaker 3: This year and the idea of being a sustained winner
Speaker 3: for a long time. All of that, more, all of
Speaker 3: that and more next here on the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 3: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 3: Picking it back up here recap the first two picks
Speaker 3: of Day three of the twenty twenty four NFL Draft
Speaker 3: for Miami Dolphins. We're talking about new running back Jalen Wright,
Speaker 3: and from.
Speaker 2: Pro Football Focus. Here's what their scouting report read.
Speaker 3: I forget who the lead draft analyst is there now,
Speaker 3: but his calling card is his explosiveness. His first step,
Speaker 3: lateral or linear, is eye popping. He pairs that with
Speaker 3: the NFL level top gear to eat up open space,
Speaker 3: good hands as a receiver, and his explosiveness makes him
Speaker 3: a sharp route runner. He was one of the best
Speaker 3: backs in the country in pass protection due to his
Speaker 3: size and strength.
Speaker 2: What's the hang up here, guys.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying you guys have one, but like three
Speaker 3: down player pass, pro pass game, physical, home run speed,
Speaker 3: what's not to like?
Speaker 2: The data on him.
Speaker 3: PFF had him in the ninety eighth and ninety six
Speaker 3: percent Tile in zone running game grade and gap running
Speaker 3: game grade. Those are the two schemes you run man
Speaker 3: and gap or man in zone I should say, I mean,
Speaker 3: what do we.
Speaker 2: Say about scheme versatility?
Speaker 3: How about a ninety two percent tile in average yards
Speaker 3: after contact as well. That four point three five yards
Speaker 3: after contact on average was third in college football. Last season,
Speaker 3: he hit ten plus yard runs on twenty four point
Speaker 3: eight percent of his runs.
Speaker 2: That was tops in college football.
Speaker 3: He forced forty three mess tackles last season. That was
Speaker 3: tied for thirtieth among backs in college football. We know
Speaker 3: this team can run to the perimeter, but here's a
Speaker 3: crazy one for you guys, and this might satisfy some
Speaker 3: of the what are you going to do on third
Speaker 3: and one situations? Or the power game? Here are Jalen
Speaker 3: Wright's attempts and yards per gap in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: We know the gaps are the A gap is the
Speaker 3: one between the center and guard, the B gap between
Speaker 3: the guard and tackle, and the C gap between the
Speaker 3: tackle and tight end, and runs on the perimeter.
Speaker 2: The D gap beyond that is the wide outside run.
Speaker 3: So in the A gap right down the middle, fifty
Speaker 3: rushes for four hundred and ninety eight yards round up
Speaker 3: to two yards to give him five hundred ten yards
Speaker 3: per rush on inside zone and duo. That's a great
Speaker 3: CounterPunch to Miami's outside zone running game. With eight han
Speaker 3: and moster it's fantastic. B gap twenty eight for one
Speaker 3: to eighteen. It's not eye popping, but it's still over
Speaker 3: four yards per rush. See gap twenty six for one
Speaker 3: to ninety eight. That's up to about eight yards per
Speaker 3: rush a little bit less than that, and off the
Speaker 3: perimeter thirty two for one to ninety six, so he
Speaker 3: can run it everywhere, but gosh, those big home run
Speaker 3: wins on the inside just can continue to Look at
Speaker 3: the way the Dolphins have built this offense in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four, they're gonna stress even more.
Speaker 2: Space than they did in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: In my opinion, he's just twenty one years old, only
Speaker 3: one year as a full time starter, and significant workload.
Speaker 3: In fact, he has under three hundred touches or four
Speaker 3: hundred touches, I should say as a collegian, so plenty of.
Speaker 2: Tread on the tires.
Speaker 3: Everybody loves his pass pro and receiving game in terms
Speaker 3: of scouts and expert analysis out there, which means he
Speaker 3: offers true three down ability, and if he hits with
Speaker 3: Devon Acham, you could arguably have one of the game's
Speaker 3: most dynamic one to two punches down the road. Maybe
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty five, and you're gonna have a cham
Speaker 3: for two more years and right for three more years
Speaker 3: on mid round rookie contracts essentially minimum type of cash
Speaker 3: you owe those players. You can get away from having
Speaker 3: to really pay running backs anything and have two of
Speaker 3: the best if that works out that way, like sign
Speaker 3: me up, dude. Dame Brugler wrote this about his ability
Speaker 3: to cut away from pursuit angles at full speed to
Speaker 3: create misstackles is more impressive than his track speed. At
Speaker 3: five foot ten and a half two hundred and ten pounds,
Speaker 3: really good size for a back, especially at that speed.
Speaker 3: He had a compact build and muscular frame six point
Speaker 3: two yards per rush career on four hundred touches or
Speaker 3: a little bit less than four hundred touches, seven point
Speaker 3: four yards per carry last season as the starter, and
Speaker 3: he had three runs of fifty plus yards, all touchdowns.
Speaker 3: If there's one thing to clean up, it's the ball security.
Speaker 3: Five fumbles over the last two years. And Wright told
Speaker 3: us he wanted to be here. Patrick Paul told us
Speaker 3: the exact same thing. Chop Robinson was stoked to be here,
Speaker 3: Kamara was fired up. Malik Washington said he cannot wait
Speaker 3: to join the best wide receiver ruin all of football.
Speaker 3: So I asked Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer, like, it
Speaker 3: seems obvious the benefit here, but can you, guys, in
Speaker 3: your perspective, tell us the benefit of guys that want
Speaker 3: to be here. And I think this answer speaks to
Speaker 3: what the organization has done to put this sanctuary in
Speaker 3: place that the tracks, not just draft prospects, but players
Speaker 3: around the league agents are aware of how loved this
Speaker 3: place is. Here's Chris Career and Mike McDaniel on guys
Speaker 3: wanting to play from Miami.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 4: I think our whole point has been trying to create
Speaker 4: someplace that's is a winning culture, winning environment, the place
Speaker 4: the players want to come to to.
Speaker 5: Play and win and be developed.
Speaker 4: And you know, it all starts to the top from
Speaker 4: Steve Ross and what he's done here with the facilities
Speaker 4: and everything he's provided us. You know, the multiple agents
Speaker 4: and players even in the free agency process or the
Speaker 4: pros that mentioned being the number one in the NH NFL.
Speaker 4: You know, NHL don't think of my brother, sorry, NFL PA.
Speaker 4: He's a great family of rankings about being number one
Speaker 4: and everything. So and that's been brought up multiple times
Speaker 4: just from people that are paying attention to what doing
Speaker 4: and and I think Mike deserves a lot of credit
Speaker 4: for the environment that's been created here by the coaching staff,
Speaker 4: you know, and what they've done and how they've handled
Speaker 4: players and the development they've done.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's cool, we've had more Like you guys.
Speaker 4: Heard John who when he signed here said it was
Speaker 4: hard Knocks he watched and it was you thought it
Speaker 4: was cool watching seeing how close the players were and
Speaker 4: and everything we did. So yeah, it's it's it's it's important,
Speaker 4: and I think it's when you hear players that want
Speaker 4: to come play here and do it, it's I think
Speaker 4: it says a lot for Mike and with the coaching
Speaker 4: staff as well as mister Ross.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 8: It was kind of revitalizing too in terms of just
Speaker 8: today the last couple of days. You know, each and
Speaker 8: every player that we talked to, the the emotional exuberance
Speaker 8: and you could feel the passion every single one of
Speaker 8: these guys voices.
Speaker 5: It was. It was pretty cool. So I think that
Speaker 5: speaks to.
Speaker 8: You know, what you guys are going to be presented
Speaker 8: with when you're in front of those guys in the
Speaker 8: near future.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins come back a round later with pick one
Speaker 3: fifty eight overall, the twenty third selection in the fifth round,
Speaker 3: and they go right back to the edge spot with
Speaker 3: Colorado States Mohammed Kamara and he goes by Mo. And
Speaker 3: when the Dolphins came into this draft, we knew about
Speaker 3: two and fifteen, you know, Chubb and Phillips and Shaq Barrett.
Speaker 3: We knew about Cam Good as really the only depth
Speaker 3: slash developmental guy on the roster who also has experienced snaps.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, Quinton Bell and Zeke Vanderberg, like,
Speaker 3: you know, you might think highly of them, but they
Speaker 3: haven't played in the NFL and we don't know what
Speaker 3: they are. We needed some replenishment of the youth at
Speaker 3: that position. Not to mention, coming off a playoff game
Speaker 3: where you played with three street free agents who were
Speaker 3: having the damn up opposition in the locker room after
Speaker 3: the game like that always really pissed me off, and
Speaker 3: I never wanted to have to do that again. So
Speaker 3: that's kind of what I'm thinking here with this. In fact,
Speaker 3: we had depth and or attrition problems. I guess they
Speaker 3: kind of go together at edge O line and running
Speaker 3: back and receiver. And that's all we drafted this year,
Speaker 3: wasn't it. I mean, come on, and now you've hit
Speaker 3: well safety as well. We had Patrick Moore. Patrick mc
Speaker 3: morris was a draft pick as well. But now you've
Speaker 3: hit all those spots. You've hit edge twice, receiver twice
Speaker 3: in this class. And let's go ahead and get to
Speaker 3: know Mohammed Kamara. He's six one and a half, a
Speaker 3: little bit less.
Speaker 2: Than six one and a half.
Speaker 3: He's six zero one to three and two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty eight pounds, so he's very short for an edge rusher.
Speaker 3: In fact, he's in the five percent tile of tight
Speaker 3: for outside outside linebackers four point five seven forty Our
Speaker 3: dash is cooking a one to five seven ten split.
Speaker 3: That number falls just short of Chop Robinson's one point
Speaker 3: five to four ten split, which that number never fails.
Speaker 3: You have to have a good tensil to play in Miami.
Speaker 3: But thirty four and a half inch vert ten foot
Speaker 3: three broad The film on him a quick film watch,
Speaker 3: because I didn't have a chance to put his tape
Speaker 3: on this this draft process, as is kind of the case.
Speaker 2: For the Day three guys.
Speaker 3: Although I did watch my Leake Washington because I was
Speaker 3: a big fan of his game. But the first thing
Speaker 3: that stands out is him just crawling out of his skin,
Speaker 3: fired up to play. He's like pulling at this his
Speaker 3: chinch straps, He's like slapping his face mask. He's just
Speaker 3: on ten all the time, and that matches his first
Speaker 3: step again. The ten split times shows up on the
Speaker 3: very first rep. You watch this guy play. The speed
Speaker 3: and explosiveness has conversion ability into power. He loves that
Speaker 3: bull rush move and he can kind of get caught
Speaker 3: a little bit with the short arms or the lack
Speaker 3: of a counter move to run that bull rush. But
Speaker 3: we talked about how chop Robinson can really flatten an
Speaker 3: angle to the quarterback once you run the arc. This
Speaker 3: guy does that so well, and his urgency off the
Speaker 3: line forces early declarations and forces the offensive line to
Speaker 3: be right with their sets, with their punches, with their
Speaker 3: redirect with their slides. It just creates urgency on the
Speaker 3: offensive line. He played Kamara did a combination of stand
Speaker 3: up and then also three and four point stances. Is
Speaker 3: more of a six technique opposed to the out wide
Speaker 3: nine technique.
Speaker 2: He played both weak and strong side.
Speaker 3: You see that first quick step, but also the ability
Speaker 3: to slip off blocks with a spin move, with a
Speaker 3: swipe or just a lateral step that allows him to
Speaker 3: attack half the man and not get glued to the block.
Speaker 3: I do think it gets glued to blocks a little
Speaker 3: bit too much, but there's reps out there where he
Speaker 3: gets off those initial blocks, and just like Chock Robinson,
Speaker 3: he flattens the quarterback so well. Watching these college tight
Speaker 3: end trying to get a piece of him when they
Speaker 3: help a tackle, like it never happens. He's so good
Speaker 3: at the crossover step in the cross face of a
Speaker 3: tackle and slice inside of that b gap and reduce
Speaker 3: that edge and basically take the tackle out of that gap.
Speaker 3: I get the feeling that Weaver and Crow and Clark
Speaker 3: watch this guy and think, man, we can get some
Speaker 3: production out of him from running games, from having him
Speaker 3: dent the edge and then loop a defensive tackle back
Speaker 3: around the outside, maybe a tier tartan all of his
Speaker 3: explosiveness and get a free run on a shortened angle
Speaker 3: to the quarterback. For a guy like tier Tart. He
Speaker 3: had a rep against Boise where he splits a double team.
Speaker 3: The running back steps up and chips him and it
Speaker 3: actually gets him.
Speaker 2: To the ground. He loses his balance and falls to
Speaker 2: the ground.
Speaker 3: But I've never seen a human being pop up off
Speaker 3: the ground faster and fast he gets. So he gets
Speaker 3: up off the ground so quick that he goes in
Speaker 3: and clobbers the quarterback, looking like one.
Speaker 2: Of the infected.
Speaker 3: And I am legend going out after will Smith like
Speaker 3: he has that type of urgency to the way he
Speaker 3: runs down guys from the backside. He's very adept at
Speaker 3: getting tackles to overset wide and then stab back inside
Speaker 3: where he kind of gets that hand and grabs a
Speaker 3: jersey full and then uses the momentum to pull himself
Speaker 3: through and get inside that b gap. Now you're gonna
Speaker 3: hear about him being undersized, but to me, that's more
Speaker 3: about his height, and the lack of height sometimes gives
Speaker 3: you natural leverage advantages in terms of getting under guys's pads,
Speaker 3: but it also creates an issue with length and not
Speaker 3: getting off blocks. But I think the two hundred and
Speaker 3: forty eight pounds and the way he impacts people when
Speaker 3: he hits them that measures up to me. But again,
Speaker 3: just six foot one and the arm length is probably
Speaker 3: a part of that. That's most applicable as well thirty
Speaker 3: two to three eighth inch arms, which limits a little
Speaker 3: bit of what a rusher can do in the push
Speaker 3: pull aspect.
Speaker 2: But man, he has definitely.
Speaker 3: Learned how to use what he has and a big
Speaker 3: part of that is just outworking people. Brugler at the
Speaker 3: Athletic rights that he relies a little bit too much
Speaker 3: on effort over technique, but again, that's what we have
Speaker 3: coaches for, right I think Ryan Crow is very well
Speaker 3: thought of down here.
Speaker 2: He's gonna get most out of these guys.
Speaker 3: The last thing he didn't drop in coverage in college
Speaker 3: at all, and we know that in the past Chubb
Speaker 3: and Phillips and those guys have done that. Here We'll
Speaker 3: see what happens with coach Weaver's defense, but he just
Speaker 3: doesn't have the experience doing that on tape so far.
Speaker 2: So there's always work to do.
Speaker 3: No player as a complete product, and a fifth round
Speaker 3: player will certainly have work to do, just as any
Speaker 3: Ricky does coming into the league. But there's something to
Speaker 3: be said about the college reps he has because he
Speaker 3: seems to be perfectly in tuned with his body, like
Speaker 3: the control of his body to stay on balance and
Speaker 3: know where his next move is going to be. It
Speaker 3: really helps him measure out his steps, accelerate, decelerate.
Speaker 2: I'm a fan of this player.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a quick break right there,
Speaker 3: come back on the other side, talk about.
Speaker 2: The fit here in Miami.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Mohammad Kamara and some more from McDaniel
Speaker 3: and Chris Career. That's all next Drive Time podcast, your
Speaker 3: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you.
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Speaker 3: How does Mohammed Kamara fit in the Dolphins defense under
Speaker 3: new defensive coordinator Anthony and Weaver. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: get into that rate here. I just love when you
Speaker 3: see the theme or a plan or of how to
Speaker 3: build this team kind of come together here and again
Speaker 3: from Brugler's Draft guide. He was described by coaches and
Speaker 3: teammates as a no nonsense player who inspired his teammates
Speaker 3: with this intense work ethic. I asked him about that
Speaker 3: and his introduction press conference to the South Florida media.
Speaker 6: Make practice super super hard, so you know the games
Speaker 6: are easy. You know, be relentless in practice. So when
Speaker 6: you get to the games, is you just letting yourself free?
Speaker 6: You know, fail, succeed, mess up, in practice, so when
Speaker 6: you get to the game, it's easy and you know,
Speaker 6: you just you know, doing what you have to do.
Speaker 6: So that's just how I look at it. So I'm
Speaker 6: always going to be relentless in practice. That's just how
Speaker 6: I am.
Speaker 3: And there was a follow up about him talking about
Speaker 3: falling to the fifth round, and he wasn't bashful at
Speaker 3: all about how frankly pissed off he was that he
Speaker 3: went that late in the draft.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 6: To be honest, I'm very excited, but I also am
Speaker 6: very very angry going the round that I did. You know,
Speaker 6: that's just that's from that's just my personality. I knew,
Speaker 6: I knew I could have went higher, and I wanted
Speaker 6: to go higher. But you know, the lovely, the lovely
Speaker 6: team of Miami pick me up and I'm going to
Speaker 6: give them. I'm going to give them that burning desire,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. I have a chip on
Speaker 6: my shoulders, so I just got even greater. You know,
Speaker 6: So everybody else, all thirty one of the teams look
Speaker 6: out because the way the way I'm about to play
Speaker 6: against these guys, you should have picked me before, you
Speaker 6: know what I mean.
Speaker 5: That's just that's just the type of.
Speaker 6: Person I am, so you know, you know, respect to
Speaker 6: those guys, and you know, I'm grateful for Miami for
Speaker 6: picking me up. But I know what I'm going to
Speaker 6: bring to the I know what I'm going to bring
Speaker 6: to the field, and every other team has to have
Speaker 6: to see me.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's just across the board.
Speaker 3: Guys who were doubted, like our own head coach, right,
Speaker 3: you can't coach because you're too small or whatever. Guys
Speaker 3: that love football, Guys who embraced the grind, Guys who
Speaker 3: are high character. I know I say this a lot,
Speaker 3: but I can attest to it being here, this group
Speaker 3: of players that embraces people in the organization from the
Speaker 3: podcaster to the videographers or the kitchen staff, the custodial staff.
Speaker 3: Kamara just kind of has that same vibe that to
Speaker 3: me tracks as far as on the field, I think
Speaker 3: it was pretty clear that Miami needed to replenish the
Speaker 3: youth and development aspect of.
Speaker 2: That edge position group.
Speaker 3: Again, you know, Quentin Bell and Zeke Vanderberg the only
Speaker 3: guys in the roster that are not Chubb and Phillips,
Speaker 3: who are twenty eight and twenty five years old by
Speaker 3: the time the season kicks off, but beyond that, it
Speaker 3: was Shaq Barrett thirty one when the season kicks off.
Speaker 3: Then Cam go to his twenty six, and you know,
Speaker 3: they just needed more youth in that position. So they
Speaker 3: get Kamara after getting Chop Robinson, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: this room was full.
Speaker 2: It's deep.
Speaker 3: And speaking of Chop, Kamara did tell us that he
Speaker 3: worked together with Chop Robinson the entire draft process, so
Speaker 3: that's cool. They already have that pre existing relationship heading
Speaker 3: into their rookie seasons here in South Florida. And Chris
Speaker 3: Greer also alluded to the fact that Kamara was a
Speaker 3: little bit salty on his Zoom call. He just heard
Speaker 3: they were talking about going in the fifth round and
Speaker 3: said that was part of the makeup they loved about him.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hear from the Dolphins brass on
Speaker 3: this fifth round on Edge Traffic.
Speaker 5: We were kind of surprised he was there.
Speaker 4: It's just how physical and how fast, and I mean,
Speaker 4: the guy has a tremendous motor and I think someone
Speaker 4: showed us a quote he's.
Speaker 5: A big moon tomorrow guy. I can tell.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that was the set up.
Speaker 5: I told you so sweet right there.
Speaker 4: But it was just, you know, when you watch him play,
Speaker 4: you know he just plays hard and he's kind of
Speaker 4: a relentless his motor and just loves football. And someone
Speaker 4: showed Mike and I some quote he was talking about
Speaker 4: after with you guys, and you feel that passion, and
Speaker 4: I'm just like, this guy loves football and he's very
Speaker 4: prideful and he feels he's better than some people that
Speaker 4: were selected in front of him, and he made it
Speaker 4: known and he's very excited to be here that he
Speaker 4: took the chance on.
Speaker 3: Some numbers for you on Mo Kamara thirty and a
Speaker 3: half career sacks is the second most in Colorado state history.
Speaker 3: Has forty five and a half tackles for loss, were
Speaker 3: third most is school history. He also forced five fumbles
Speaker 3: and had one hundred and eighty total tackles. He was
Speaker 3: All American last year and Mountain West Defensive Player of
Speaker 3: the Year. He played the following snap totals last three
Speaker 3: years twenty twenty one, three seventy three, twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: five ninety five, and then he played six hundred and
Speaker 3: twelve snaps last season. That includes fourteen sacks on three
Speaker 3: hundred and forty two pass rush snaps last season, he
Speaker 3: earned a ninety nine grade from Pro Football Focus on
Speaker 3: pass rush versus true pass set grades, non play action
Speaker 3: and also in critical moments. Was the number one graded
Speaker 3: pass prusher in fourth and third downs as well. Also
Speaker 3: scored a ninety five grade and pass rush win rate.
Speaker 3: He was tied for fourth in the country in sacks.
Speaker 3: He was tied for tenth in QB hits with twelve.
Speaker 3: He was ninth in hurries with thirty eight. He had
Speaker 3: twenty one pass rush wins list of his other giving
Speaker 3: him sixty four total pressures on three hundred and forty
Speaker 3: two pass rush reps. That's a pressure rate of eighteen
Speaker 3: point seven percent. Pretty damn impressive to come away with
Speaker 3: those guys. We also got a few more players on
Speaker 3: this Saturday, final day of the twenty twenty four NFLD Draft.
Speaker 3: Maleik Washington, the receiver from Virginia. I just I can't
Speaker 3: say enough good things about him. I think he's the
Speaker 3: best pick of the entire draft of the Dolphins. I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna come in and have an impact right away.
Speaker 3: More on that on the next podcast here. Patrick McMorris
Speaker 3: from California, the safety need to watch some more tape
Speaker 3: on him, which I will do this weekend before we
Speaker 3: get to the Monday podcast.
Speaker 2: And then seventh round pick was TODJ.
Speaker 3: Washington, the receiver out of Southern cal So again two
Speaker 3: more receivers and the team. There are some West Coast
Speaker 3: guys as well, so we'll have all that for you
Speaker 3: guys on Monday.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and finish up with this though from
Speaker 2: Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3: They were asked about the idea of being this competitive
Speaker 3: team that can win games and coming off of two
Speaker 3: playoff seasons in a row. But how do you measure
Speaker 3: up this analysis on the outside saying that both Chop
Speaker 3: Robinson and Patrick Paul are not yet ready to play.
Speaker 3: How do you balance in that and how's that mindset
Speaker 3: play out. I love these answers from both Greer and McDaniel.
Speaker 4: Well, we don't really worry about what other scouts and
Speaker 4: other people say. It's about dealing for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 4: and how we feel where the players at the stage,
Speaker 4: and what he needs to do to develop as a
Speaker 4: player and what he can contribute and do. And we're
Speaker 4: always talking about how we think the player fits in
Speaker 4: and what he can contribute this year possibly. You know,
Speaker 4: there's no guarantees or absolute but we feel strongly in
Speaker 4: the players and believe in them. And this isn't you know,
Speaker 4: We're still trying to win this year. This is not
Speaker 4: about worrying about two three years down the line. This
Speaker 4: is We're all about having the best team possible to
Speaker 4: win games this season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and just because the player has an upside, you
Speaker 8: know that we had a very deliberate approach to the
Speaker 8: entire draft on getting guys on the team that would
Speaker 8: compete and make us better right now. And you know,
Speaker 8: some guys are determined by other people that they have
Speaker 8: a higher ceiling or whatever. We just get the guys
Speaker 8: in the building and let them prove that themselves.
Speaker 3: Man, what a fun weekend. I have more to go
Speaker 3: back and watch on these. Uh, Patrick McMorris and Todge
Speaker 3: Washington's all go ahead and do that for you guys
Speaker 3: before the next podcast, but fire up to bring that
Speaker 3: to you guys, think Monday morning is my aim. On
Speaker 3: the release of that one. We'll also go ahead and
Speaker 3: I think Wednesday have a holistic look at the draft
Speaker 3: and roster, kind of a roster reset series here, so
Speaker 3: plenty to come your way from this draft. We'll also
Speaker 3: have the UDFA podcast with Emory Hunt that we do
Speaker 3: every single year when those signings happen. Probably going to
Speaker 3: do a mail bag here in the near future as well,
Speaker 3: So just want to do some more deep dives akin
Speaker 3: to the thread I put on Twitter. Also looking at
Speaker 3: the offensive line developmental timelines, like things like that we're
Speaker 3: going to do on the podcast.
Speaker 2: It's a fun time of year.
Speaker 3: And by the way, rookie manikamp and OTAs player pressers like,
Speaker 3: it's all coming up here and football is going to
Speaker 3: be on the menu for the next couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: and we're gonna have you covered as always right here
Speaker 3: on the Draft Time Podcast.
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