WEBVTT - Drive Time: Everything You Need to Know About Devon Achane 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.720 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.399 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:10.720 a looking whips about. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:17.319 A wide open touchdown, tyrequel, uncelievable, just blue fire for 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:18.240 a second time. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.919 Don't know where he was going right away. I want 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.080 to hit that the man. I want to help you. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.239 Someone will keep on his man away Wattle, Wattle to 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:29.000 a shot gut back to throw looking at them up 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:34.800 myers touchdown. It's Waddle his sixth touchdown pass. This ka 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:39.000 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.519 Now we check your pulse if you're not for. 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:44.839 What is up? 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:45.680 Dolphins? 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.519 And welcome to the Draft Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:53.479 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:54.720 How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.640 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.720 Night two is now officially in the book and it's 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:04.280 Devon a Chain joining camp Smith for your Miami Dolphins. 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.040 The Dolphins get even faster with the Texas A and 0:01:07.160 --> 0:01:09.600 M running back. We're breaking down his game. Plus we'll 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.360 hear from a Chain and Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer's 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.479 end of night press conference. All of that and much 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.360 more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:18.240 Training Complex. 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.720 This is the Draft time podcast Heye Cam. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.760 With the eighty fourth pick into twenty twenty three NFL Draft, 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:35.960 the Miami Dolphins select Devon a Chain running back Texas 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.480 A and M. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:42.160 This shouldn't be a surprise, big time track speed going 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:42.720 to Miami. 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.880 If they aren't fast enough already, they just got even faster. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.360 If you thought the camp Smith podcast was a little 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.120 bit unhinged coming off of not one, not two, not three, 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.640 but four consecutive cappuccinos, I've had a long day on 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:57.200 this Friday. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.600 I've been up since early. I didn't sleep last night. 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.360 I've out doing stuff all day, did radio with Juice 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.160 and Seth before the draft started. And it's about eleven 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:08.200 forty five on a Friday night recording this podcast for y'all, 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:11.040 just at the end or the conclusion of Day two 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.160 of the twenty twenty three NFL Draft. Those four cappuccinos 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.080 got me through the evening because I was pretty tired 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:19.520 at that point. But now this draft pick has me 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:21.880 fired up to do this last podcast here of the day, 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.639 And just like that night, twos a rap man, one 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.520 more day left of the draft. It goes by faster 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:31.080 every year, it feels like, and somehow someway, the Miami 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.400 Dolphins got even faster on their offense with Devon a 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:36.480 chain from Texas A and m the running back. Let's 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:38.400 go ahead and run this thing back with the background, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.519 the stats, the tape, the fit, the presser, including McDaniel 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:42.920 and Greer's end of night presser. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:45.760 He's five foot eight and a half one hundred and 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:46.440 eighty eight pounds. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.120 At the combine, he ran a four to three to 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.639 two forty yard dash with a one four to nine 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:53.720 ten yard split. He also posted four to three six 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.919 in the short shuttle, thirty three inch vertical jump, and 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:59.280 a nine foot three broad jump. And by the time 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.600 we set all of that, a Chaan already ran too 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:04.040 that mountain and back over there. That's a SpongeBob reference 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.880 for all you old heads out there. This is one 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.040 of my draft crushes this year. Man, a player that 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.400 I thought could add the speed element to this offense, 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.960 that matchup element to another position on the field. We 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.799 know about Tyreek and Jalen, and then you've got Raheem 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.120 speed at the running back position too. Now, you go 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:22.040 out thirty add a four to three to two guy, 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.120 a guy that some people thought Mike Clip the all 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.040 time forty yard dash record. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.080 He has that kind of speed. And you look at. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.680 Different comps out there, shorter backs and stature that can 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:35.080 really run. He looks like you know some of the 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.360 guys that have made it happen at that size in 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.720 this league, in a pretty pretty low cut frame. Good 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.320 contact balance, keeps that center of gravity ground, which allows 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.400 him to drop the pads and run on through tackles 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.960 in that second level with exceptional start stop quickness. And Travis, 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.320 you said you weren't going to do tape just yet. 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.920 That's right, and I'm talking to myself here now, eleven 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.240 forty seven on the East Coast. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.600 Let's go ahead and talk about a. Chanin's background. Grew 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:00.520 up in Houston. 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.400 Actually told me in the press conference today that he 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.960 was friends with Jalen Waddle playing AAU basketball when they 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.040 were younger. Can you imagine trying to defend that team 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:11.040 in transition with a Chane and Waddle. He became the 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.760 starting running back at Thirdgod Marshall High School in Missouri, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:17.039 City of Texas his sophomore year Missouri City in Texas. 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.159 How come these different states have cities that are in 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:20.920 different states like Kansas City and Missouri. 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:21.960 What the hell is that all about? 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:25.240 He ran for twelve hundred yards on an eighties comedian, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:28.719 What's the Dude with their airline food? Twelve hundred yards, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.159 eighteen touchdowns, and picked off a pass on defense. That 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.520 was his sophomore year. As a senior, he went for 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:36.760 two two hundred and sixty six rushing yards that's eleven 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.120 point three per clip, forty total touchdowns, and that included 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.839 thirty eight grabs for seven hundred and sixty eight yards 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.640 and ten more tuddies. He was named the twenty nineteen 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:47.800 Offensive Player of the Year, and they went to back 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.600 to back state title games, although they lost both times 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.280 to the same team in Texas. All things told, he 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.360 finished his high school career with forty eight hundred and 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.440 twenty three rushing yards, two thousand and four receiving yards, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.400 hundred and sixteen touchdown. That's Reggie Bush production in the 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.240 high school level. He was also named the twenty twenty 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.080 I put two thousand and two right here, which would 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:08.400 be impressive because he was born in two. 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:08.760 Thousand and one. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.359 The twenty twenty Gatorade Texas Track and Field Athlete of 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.200 the Year, posting the best four by one hundred relay 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:17.840 time nationally. That's forty point four. I don't know what 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:20.280 that means, but it sounds pretty good. He also placed 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:22.960 first in the two hundred meters at the twenty nineteen 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.479 five A State Championship. That was the best time in 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:27.960 the nation, and he also posted a personal best in 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.000 the one hundred meters at ten five to three. He 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.320 was the number four overall all purpose back in that 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.760 twenty twenty recruiting class, and he chose Texas A and 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:41.120 M with offers from Georgia, Texas, USC, Bama, Florida State, LSU, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:43.840 and Houston Wow. His personal best at Texas A and 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.320 M included ten point one four one hundred meters, twenty 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.400 point two two hundred meters, and six point sixty three 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:53.640 sixty meters. And to put those numbers in perspective, and yes, 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.560 I am repeating this from my previous podcast because I 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.320 talked about a Chane a lot. The standard two hundred 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.920 meter time for Olympic trial qualifiers is twenty point twenty four. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.600 He's under that we have Olympic speed in the backfield. 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.279 Now back to football. He posted two thousand, three hundred 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.320 and seventy six rushing yards and twenty one touchdowns in 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.560 his college career, averaging six point four per rush. He 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.840 also added sixty five for five point fifty four and 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:20.360 five touchdowns. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:20.680 Catching the football. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.200 He also had a kickoff return and back to back 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:26.599 seasons there at College station. He ran for seven hundred 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.640 and five yards last season after the initial tackler missed 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.719 him or they bring him down but he falls forward 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.840 for extra yards. That's an average of three point six 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:37.200 yards after contact per rush. And if you guys watched 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.360 A and M last year, not a very good run 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.320 blocking team. There was lots of trash he had to 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.800 navigate his way through and PFF had him with one 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.800 hundred and seventeen runs on zone scheme and seventy nine 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.039 in gap man scheme. Very diverse usage in terms of 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.000 his pre snap alignments, which caters to his ability to 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.680 catch the football. He is so smooth transitioning from receiver 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:59.799 to runner once he secures the football. He forced fifty 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.000 three missed tackles this year on one hundred and ninety 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.839 six rushing attempts. Again, no math guy here. That's better 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.320 than one for every four attempts, and when he makes 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.440 you miss, it's usually a lot more yard d after 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.480 the fact because of the speed and the way he 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.800 opens up from a really stationary position and how quickly 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.400 he can get up to top speed. So fun player, man, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.200 Let's go ahead and talk about the tape here. Next 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.360 we'll do that on the other side and hear from 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.120 DeVaughn as well. That's the next Draft Time podcast. Your 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:27.720 host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:39.320 Spending time with you, getting to know you here. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.080 Coach is probably. 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:55.800 Hey, you're still fast, right hey, buddy, congrabs man, you 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.320 earned it. Celebrate Okay, this is uh, this is the 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:01.600 start of something real cool. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.120 Congratulations yeay man, you got two happy guys that we 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:06.480 got you. 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.120 Yeah, so I would afford to meet you, and you 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.200 gotta bring your speed. Baby. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.000 There you hear the call from a very fired up 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.880 Mike McDaniel, who was fist pumping in the war room 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.840 here at the Baptist Health Studios, not the Baptist Health Studios, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.240 the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:24.960 He don't come back to the studios. This is my territory. 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.040 But those that have heard the podcast and the run 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.840 up to the draft know how much I like this player. Gosh, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.960 I love speed in the backfield. Gosh, I love hitting 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:34.320 home runs in the ground game. 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:35.559 And that's what a change do. 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.720 Baby. He had eighteen runs of fifteen yards or more 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:41.640 each of the last two years. That's thirty six total, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:46.200 eighteen times thirty six runs. Instant offense in the ground game, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:48.720 and when you plug on his tape, he created so 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.480 much from nothing. I talked about the an M offensive 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:53.720 line in the previous segment. They lost two players in the 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.680 NFL last year, including first round pick Kendrick Green to 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.120 the Houston Texans, and the blogging took a hit, but 0:08:59.160 --> 0:09:01.960 the running production it did not. I think that speaks 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.760 to a Chain's vision and his ability to find tiny creases, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.920 his agility, and his ability to take off for big 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:10.560 gains when he did find those creases. I think you 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:13.800 see that lateral agility and pure speed really open up 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.480 on those long runs where he scorts through. But also 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:19.360 as a wide receiver, the attention that he commands when 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.800 the offense catches the defense in a base look, and 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.120 he can get himself isolated on a linebacker or a 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:27.400 safety to follow him out in motion. That generates so 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.720 much to think about from a vertical stretch standpoint, but 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.520 also the other element of the offense that can be 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.080 forgotten sometimes the horizontal stretch. And we saw ten and 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.680 seventeen Tyreek Hill Jalen Waddle eat in the middle of 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.079 the football field last year. And this is a player 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:45.720 who would help create even more space with the speed 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.040 on the perimeter as a route runner, but also on 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.679 the play action looks where you stretch that thing out 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:52.760 and you have to a sprint to a spot and 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.160 show that football and show the defense that we could 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.880 potentially run this ball off tackle. You better get your 0:09:57.880 --> 0:09:59.800 butt out there because if you don't, I want to 0:09:59.840 --> 0:10:01.520 hand this thing off and he's gonna get you to 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.480 the edge. He's gonna win that edge, and he's gonna 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.240 be off to the races and it's gonna be up 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:06.480 to your safety to give him to the ground and 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.240 what's a touchdown? And then we can put the ball 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.120 back into his hands and then turn around and flip 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:14.480 it into the vacancy created behind those linebackers because of 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.560 that outside zone stretch. I think you saw that with 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.040 Raheem Mostert last year, and that's when I began to 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.360 really truly understand his value and appreciate what Raheem brought 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:22.960 to this offense. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:24.280 Because of the speed that he. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.040 Brings and the way you threaten the perimeter in the 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.480 ground game, it forces defense to have to commit and choose, 0:10:30.559 --> 0:10:31.520 like pick your poison. 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.160 You can't give up the edge. 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.600 In the running game because if you do that, teams 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.400 are gonna take it all day long and they can 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.160 safely hit twelve fifteen eighty yard runs because you're playing 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.280 the pass like we never have to go to that. 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.800 And then once you start to commit to the run game, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.800 that's when the pass starts coming to play too, and 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.280 vice versa. So it just gives you even more on 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:54.160 those stretch or those toss plays running wide. All of 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.360 that over commitment was always bad news for the pass defense. 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.040 When Tua pulled the ball back in last year. I 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.319 think that a Chain carries the one hundred and eighty 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.240 pounds very well. He can absorb contact and squeeze through, 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.480 and that's in rare instances where tacklers actually get a 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:11.000 clean shot on him. He rarely takes a squared up 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:14.560 shot because of his shiftiness. He's got such smooth hands 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.200 catching the football out of the backfield. PFF only had 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.560 him with two drop passes all year last year, and 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:21.400 he can really set defenders up when he gets those 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.040 two wig gos. So it's not just flexing out to 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.800 run a route. But think about the space this offense 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.240 creates from its wide receivers, and you've got another home 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.160 run threat who kind of replaces that displacement. It's a 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.160 really good way for two to have quick options in 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:39.360 the passing game and to mitigate blitzes and unfavorable box 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.160 counts against the rush or just out and out whiffs 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.480 and pass protection. I think adding Barrios and then adding 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.560 a chain and how having those two quick outlet options 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.480 can really be a boost to pass protection in its 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:54.480 own right. It doesn't always have to come from an 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:57.319 insular aspect of how you improve things. I think our 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.440 thoughts about how teams create solutions. 0:11:59.880 --> 0:12:00.880 For those issues. 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.440 I think that we get too narrow minded in those thoughts, 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:05.920 and I think this is a great example of that. 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.040 We heard Chris Greer. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:09.320 So the team is not done adding and we are 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.760 currently looking at a similar line that helped generate the 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.120 number six offense in football. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:13.520 Last year. 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.600 I said that on the first podcast tonight because I 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:19.080 just don't understand why we have folks that believe this 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:20.880 offense can't function with the way it is. Right now, 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.080 you already have the important pieces. You have the quarterback, 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.160 you have the two receivers, you have you know, three 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.320 guys that performed really well on the offensive line. 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:28.400 We'll see about the rest. 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.680 And now you have a backfield just chock full speed 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.840 and guys that can hit home runs and help you 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.880 generate the run game that has the passing game that 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:38.320 plays off of it. And now Tua has even more 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:41.240 weapons at his disposal to help one of the quickest 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.000 time to throw quarterbacks in the NFL do what he 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.920 does best and process and distribute the football quickly, because 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.560 now you have Barrios, who can you know, get cornerback 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.040 three or four on him. He can beat that guy 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.360 quickly in a two way go situation and post up 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:55.880 in that four or five yard range to. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:57.160 Help convert your third and short. 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.160 Or you can have a chain do it where you 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.320 get a Texas route on on a linebacker. Or you 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.920 have the receivers who have displaced you know, space in 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:06.640 the middle of the field and all of a sudden, 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.120 Tua is gonna say, I'm happy to take a check 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.760 down to a chain because I know he's gonna run 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:12.520 for eight yards before anybody. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:13.520 Gets to him, because he's that fast. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.160 I think the vision that a Chain has is what 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.000 allows him to maximize that speed because in the route 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.880 running the wiggle, he just sees it. 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:22.439 And from a. 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.120 Running perspective as well, how he presses it, how he 0:13:25.160 --> 0:13:27.640 feels the flow of the play and then hits that thing. 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:29.960 He forces that over a commitment I talked about a 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.320 lot because of how aggressive he is impressing the gap. 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:35.240 So when you have a run as a running back, 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.280 you have a certain gap or a certain target you're 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.720 shooting for, and you want to press that lane as 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.520 fast as you can because that forces the second level 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.360 defenders to commit to their gap, or even a defensive 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.480 lineman who's playing two gap to shed his block one way. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.479 And if you've pressed it in a certain way. 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.360 And then you can anticipate him, you know, coming off 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.360 of his block in the wrong gap, you bounce that 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.400 thing back the other way. All of a sudden, you've 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.880 got a vacant gap, and with this guy getting all 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.079 the way back to the to the bend back lane. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:02.920 And you look at a lot of his big runs 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:04.880 the bend back lane. So again let's do some more 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:07.920 explanation here. So you have your bounce, your bang, and 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.560 your bend bounces when you kick it outside your banks, 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.160 when you drop your shoulders and run to the gap 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.240 that you're supposed to go to. And your bend is 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:16.559 when you get backside to the backside of the formation 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.559 after over pursuit. And if you look a lot of 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:20.760 his big runs, it's when he forces that over pursuit 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.320 by the aggressive pressing of that gap, then gets all 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.240 the way to that bend back lane and you're out 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.640 the back gate. And once again, you better have some 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.240 four to three corners that can run this guy down 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.840 because once he gets in space, he got The best 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:34.680 part about all of this is you can utilize the 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.440 passing game skills because he's plenty good in pass pro 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:40.520 as well. He drops his pads on guys and that 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.440 will you know to do that as a testament to 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.120 his football character and love of the game. And I 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.720 found this great blur from the Dane Brugler athletic, the 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:53.040 beast that the the the jew. Why am i making 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.400 good noises the draft guy that he offers from the 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.640 athletic and first of all, he never fumbles. A Chain 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.000 does just two in his career. He covered some punts 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.800 and didn't ask questions about that, like why is my 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:05.240 start running back gunning on punts? Because he can and 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.520 exhibited strong football character by his actions. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:08.320 This is from the Beast. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:11.360 Here. A Chain suffered a foot injury in twenty twenty two, 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.200 and rather than shutting it down for the year and 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.360 going to the NFL Draft, he said that he owed 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.160 it to his teammates to get back for the season 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:19.720 finale against LSU, where he rushed for two hundred and 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:22.960 fifteen yards and forced sixteen missed tackles in that game. 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.040 And that left Jimbo Fisher to say this about a Chain, 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:29.480 He's a tremendous human being, player, leader, competitor and has 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:32.600 nothing but heart and toughness about him and everything he does. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.880 I am fired up about this, dude. Let's go ahead 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.000 and hear from the man himself, devon a Chain, and 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:40.320 start here with this question that was asked by you boy. 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.400 I asked him, how did how was that thirty visit 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.320 you took down here? We heard from Chris Greer, which 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.040 she'll hear just in a second, who spoke about having 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:49.080 a chain down here for a visit. So I wanted 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.360 to know, what did you think of Miami? The building, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.080 the people down here, here's a chain. 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.520 It was great, like you said, Amy Grave around the building, 0:15:56.600 --> 0:16:00.160 facility was nice. When I came down there, it was 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.320 a little rightey, so I guess, you know, it was, 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.040 you know a little look that I came down there 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:05.960 on that day. Everybody was saying, you know, done ray 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.920 down here. But you know, it still was a pretty 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:10.280 fun visit, you know, Like I said, me and Samuel 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:12.120 Wad you know, we're really good friends, so you know, 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.960 we communicate. So I feel like, you know, me being 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.440 there and the visit that I took in an international 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.600 coach was great as well. So I just like I 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:20.960 was able to, you know, be myself and I was 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:21.560 very really come. 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.520 Next question here was can you run between the tackles? 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:28.080 Which is an interesting question, but I liked his answer. 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:30.400 Let's go ahead and hear from the new Miami Dolphins 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:30.920 running back. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.640 Oh yeah, sir, I like I can run in between 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.760 the tackles outside like when I was I feel like 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:39.200 most of my rus in between tackles. I mean, everybody 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.120 see me as a fans guy, so they think, you know, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.000 he just wanted to run outside. But most of my 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.560 roles and my two thoughts or between tackles. So I 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:45.960 feel like. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:47.720 I'm right anywhere. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.240 If the bars in my head, I feel like I'm 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.080 capable to do great things with it. And me running 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:53.640 between tackle, it's not a problem that I have. 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.440 I always love hearing this next answer. What was it 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:59.640 like meeting coach McDaniel. Everyone's got their own unique story. 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:01.600 It was great man. You know, he had a great 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:03.720 coach that got a funny sense of humor. You know, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.040 he always keeps you on your toes and like, so 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:07.560 I'm a very fast guy. So here come up and 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.480 ask me like this funny question, like are you still fast? 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.280 Like he just you know, great coach out there around 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.080 so you know me, you know, having a coach as 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:17.840 such as him, I'm just thinkingful, blessed that he's my 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.879 he's my coach, and I can't wait to get out 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.840 there and just see what he has the store for me. 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.520 One last one here I mentioned the relationship that Jimbo 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.440