Speaker 1: To us bars touch stops. Waddle snucked into the end
Speaker 1: zone of Miami boyd tight froll type window. They had
Speaker 1: to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphans And Welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, it's right back
Speaker 1: to the two season preview, but back to being exclusively
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. On this our next largest room after the
Speaker 1: offensive line room, the linebackers inside and outside. We'll hear
Speaker 1: from coach Campanelli and talk about new addition and o
Speaker 1: LB coach Tim mackenzie. Will also hear from GM Chris
Speaker 1: Greer on the Dolphins linebacker room and approached this offseason,
Speaker 1: including their first pick in the third round, Channing Tindal
Speaker 1: this April, and we'll break down the group as a whole,
Speaker 1: as well as the individual analysis of stats, film, and
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot more from somewhere in Central Washington.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcasts. Pick it right back up
Speaker 1: here after the d Line Podcast. On the previous edition
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Podcast with the second level of the
Speaker 1: defense and the linebacker group, and some changes to the
Speaker 1: group this year, some nice addition, starting off with veteran
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram coming over from the Kansas City Chiefs and
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers last year. You also wind up with Channing
Speaker 1: Tindal in the third round of the Georgia defense. Who
Speaker 1: you know, with Kuay Walker and Nakobe Dean and Channing
Speaker 1: tindall all going off the board in the first three rounds,
Speaker 1: a lot of folks talking about which one might have
Speaker 1: the most upside, which one might be the best player,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. All really good players, but there
Speaker 1: are some votes for Tindal in that group. Also in
Speaker 1: the draft cameraon good from cal in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: Followed that with a U d F A and DeAndre
Speaker 1: Johnson out of the University of Miami, and then a
Speaker 1: signing over the summer or I should say was it
Speaker 1: late spring either way, Porter Gusts and formerly of the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns and USC Trojans. The departures Vince Beagel went
Speaker 1: to the Baltimore Ravens and went to McManus. A late
Speaker 1: season addition wound up with the CFL this offseason. Also,
Speaker 1: the incumbents in the room Jalen Phillips, Darius Hodge, Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkl, Duke, Riley sam Egi, Von Calvin Munson, Landon Roberts,
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, and Brennan Scarlett. So once again, this room
Speaker 1: features a lot of guys coming back and a lot
Speaker 1: of continuity in this linebacker room including linebackers coach coach
Speaker 1: Anthony Campanelli, and much like the three Michigan Wolverine linebackers
Speaker 1: that he coached back in twenty nineteen, he made the
Speaker 1: jump to the National Football League in the professional ranks,
Speaker 1: and no linebacker room in the NFL has generated more
Speaker 1: quarterback pressures than the two D and twenty eight compiled
Speaker 1: compiled by Miami since the same year of Campanelli's arrival.
Speaker 1: And if you isolate strictly off ball linebackers a PF
Speaker 1: distinction between edge off ball often referred to as inside linebackers,
Speaker 1: I suppose the Dolphins QB pressures from that group is
Speaker 1: second only to Tampa Bay. We'll here Coach Campanelli here
Speaker 1: in just one second talking about how this linebacker room
Speaker 1: and defense wants to play. And I talked about this
Speaker 1: also on the D line podcast about the names in
Speaker 1: versus the names out and the continuity of the defense.
Speaker 1: It really is remarkable. So coach Campanelli talked about that
Speaker 1: continuity a little bit in a May eleventh press conference
Speaker 1: this offseason, but he also talked about getting a land
Speaker 1: in Robert's back, about having Baker in the middle of
Speaker 1: the defense, the value of that leadership of those leaders
Speaker 1: and how it benefits the defense and the way they
Speaker 1: want to play. Here's coach Campanelli. I think that's I
Speaker 1: kind of made mention that just a few seconds ago.
Speaker 1: But honestly, UM, having guys who know this system, UM,
Speaker 1: know the way we want to play, UM, and especially
Speaker 1: a guy like a Landon who has those type of
Speaker 1: leadership qualities, UM, I think he gives an opportunity to
Speaker 1: take a step, you know, from where we left off.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm probably most excited about. I think
Speaker 1: that's what we're almost excited about, UM, the continuity, the
Speaker 1: opportunity to do things again UM. And I think any
Speaker 1: time you do things over a period of time, the
Speaker 1: more reps you get at it, the better you're gonna get.
Speaker 1: And hopefully that's what we see this year, UM, and
Speaker 1: in this off season. I think they've done a tremendous job. Um,
Speaker 1: even in the you know, the days where we've been
Speaker 1: out here have been able to be together really working
Speaker 1: technique and kind of excelling and developing from where we
Speaker 1: were at the end of the year last year in January,
Speaker 1: it's where we are right now. I'm I'm pleased with that.
Speaker 1: You know, they've been working. These guys been working tremendously hard.
Speaker 1: Just a great group of guys, and uh, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about where we can go. And when I talked to
Speaker 1: Coach Campanelli about channing Tindall's acquisition and the draft and
Speaker 1: how he can kind of maximize his skill set, he
Speaker 1: just talked about the reps and the seasoning, and so
Speaker 1: I followed up and said, well, you have plenty of
Speaker 1: guys in the room that kind of, you know, can
Speaker 1: help show him along as far as that conduit on
Speaker 1: the field of the coaching staff and having that on
Speaker 1: field player that can really help him get accelerated in
Speaker 1: that way. And Coach talked about how he couldn't think
Speaker 1: of about a room of guys that can really help
Speaker 1: Tindall become a go from a college player to a
Speaker 1: pro player. And and be effective hopefully sooner rather than later.
Speaker 1: And just looking at the coaching position, we have a
Speaker 1: new addition there as well, outside linebackers coach uh former player,
Speaker 1: former linebacker of the Patriots, Bucks and Vikings, Tyrone mackenzie.
Speaker 1: After a four year career that was spent largely on
Speaker 1: special teams, he joined the Rams special team staff in
Speaker 1: a year where they produced three whole pros with their putter, kicker,
Speaker 1: and return man. And then following that stop, he coached
Speaker 1: linebackers with the Titans. Rashaun Evans and Jalen Brown had
Speaker 1: big steps for in their careers there as well as
Speaker 1: the Detroit lines for a year, and then also was
Speaker 1: with the Colts last season. And this group at a
Speaker 1: glance you heard coach talk about there what they ask
Speaker 1: of this position group right inside, outside, on ball, off ball,
Speaker 1: moving all over the formation whenever you want to call it.
Speaker 1: Playing linebacker for the Dolphins requires a lot like versatility,
Speaker 1: two way players. Guys can go forward and backwards in
Speaker 1: addition to pursuit outside as well obviously run defense, coverage,
Speaker 1: pass rush. These players they have to do it all
Speaker 1: and at the head of it all is Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: whose vast skill set shines, absolutely shines in this defense.
Speaker 1: I had Channon Crowder on a podcast I think back
Speaker 1: in the off season of might have been before the
Speaker 1: pandemic even and he was talking a lot about how
Speaker 1: much Jerome Baker does in this defense that doesn't go
Speaker 1: goes a little bit unseen to the casual fan. It
Speaker 1: was a great conversation. You want to go back and
Speaker 1: check that out from I think it was March. But
Speaker 1: you have to locate fifty five on every snap, kind
Speaker 1: of like a game of Where's Waldo? I mean, only
Speaker 1: one player on this Dolphins defense, Xavian Howard, has played
Speaker 1: more defensive snaps from Miami these last two seasons than
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker, and he plays special teams to quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and he's missed only one game as a pro since
Speaker 1: getting drafted in the third round by the Dolphins. Back
Speaker 1: and the reason I give you a background on Bakers,
Speaker 1: I think that his skill set and versatility kind of
Speaker 1: exemplifies what coach Campaielly talked about there in terms of
Speaker 1: eyes that can just do everything and really be a
Speaker 1: vocal and tone setting by example type of player on
Speaker 1: that defense. Because his speed, his explosiveness, the quick angles
Speaker 1: of the quarterback is such a critical element to the
Speaker 1: Dolphin's multiple defense. The situational rushers and special teams aces
Speaker 1: that can give Jerome Baker a breath here and there
Speaker 1: when he does come off the field rarely these last
Speaker 1: couple of seasons, guys like Sam eg Van and Duke
Speaker 1: Riley who have been so good and excelled in their
Speaker 1: roles on special teams and on defense here with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: not to mention, they all pair well with a land
Speaker 1: and Roberts who sets that tone of physicality and breaks
Speaker 1: through the line on occasion as a pass rusher as
Speaker 1: his in his own right, but also has the four
Speaker 1: teen tackles for lost since joining the Dolphins too, so
Speaker 1: he kind of has that thumping downhill mentality. Then you've
Speaker 1: you sprinkling rookie Channing Tindall, who adds another layer of
Speaker 1: rare speed, athletic ability and thump to an already deep
Speaker 1: intriguing group. And then flanking that core group is a
Speaker 1: deep cast of outside lineback or I should say linebackers
Speaker 1: who I suppose primarily play off the edge, because all
Speaker 1: these guys can play so many positions and spots that
Speaker 1: it's hard to really quantify. We'll just go exactly with linebacker,
Speaker 1: and these guys also specialized in a variety of skills,
Speaker 1: strengths and statistical accumulation over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Jayalen Phillips a Dolphins rookie record with eight and a
Speaker 1: half sacks last year, despite in his own words, just
Speaker 1: scratching the surface on what he believes he can do
Speaker 1: because he thinks he wants to be a more well
Speaker 1: round and more polished, more prepared player in his second year.
Speaker 1: In terms of just knowing what to expect as an
Speaker 1: NFL player, I think he's more than capable of handling
Speaker 1: all that. Another fifth round find of Chris career, and
Speaker 1: Andrew Van Ginkle enjoyed a breakout campaign, finishing second on
Speaker 1: the team with forty five QB pressures. Then you go
Speaker 1: out and get new linebacker Melvin Ingram, just another Dolphins
Speaker 1: acquisition that adds experience and a veteran with a penchant
Speaker 1: for serving as that same thing we talked about Elandon
Speaker 1: Roberts that on field conduit of the coaching staff, and
Speaker 1: he can still, by the way, flat out dominate the
Speaker 1: run and pass game by the numbers which we will
Speaker 1: explore in his individual portion of this podcast, it's difficult
Speaker 1: to find a front seven in the league with a
Speaker 1: better pairing of skills with regards to the system the
Speaker 1: front matching the linebacker's abilities, and how it all comes
Speaker 1: together for a defense that has finished in the top
Speaker 1: ten and takeaways, sacks, QB, hits, and pressures each of
Speaker 1: the last two seasons, and allows an average of twenty
Speaker 1: one point five points per game over those thirty three games.
Speaker 1: Before we meet the entire room, Chris Career was asked
Speaker 1: on draft night April about the selection of Channing Tindal
Speaker 1: and the makeup of the linebacker room as the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were able to retain Roberts and Riley and then go
Speaker 1: and and egone, I should say, and then go add
Speaker 1: to the room with Tindal. Here's Chris Career. You know,
Speaker 1: when we decided to you know, sign the inside linebacker
Speaker 1: groups and then bringing guys back like you know, Duke
Speaker 1: and e rob etcetera. UM, it was because those guys
Speaker 1: are good players. UM, they know our system, UM, and
Speaker 1: we know what they are on and off the fee
Speaker 1: and how they contribute to this team. So we're excited
Speaker 1: to have add them back and then Uh, in terms
Speaker 1: of of channing. Uh, he was a player that we
Speaker 1: had been targeting throughout the process. We met with him
Speaker 1: in Indie, UM and really enjoyed our time with them,
Speaker 1: brought him down here on a thirty visit, spend a
Speaker 1: lot of time with them here as well. And um,
Speaker 1: and just for us, it's the versatility. The speed is
Speaker 1: what we like. You know, he can play. He has
Speaker 1: the ability to play all three downs and play special
Speaker 1: teams as well. And uh. And talking to Kirby smart
Speaker 1: Um the other day again about him. Um, he was
Speaker 1: just talking about what tremendous the speed and toughness and
Speaker 1: and the character of the kid, and how Kirby really
Speaker 1: loved and thinks he's gonna be a really good player
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So we're really excited to get him.
Speaker 1: We're kind of holding on hoping he would be there.
Speaker 1: And Uh, we tried to move up a couple of
Speaker 1: times too, Um make a move and those things were
Speaker 1: um uh, people wanted to make their picks. So UM,
Speaker 1: it was a long wait for us, long day and
Speaker 1: you know, not picking until eleven twenty or whatever it
Speaker 1: was since on day two. So it's been a long
Speaker 1: couple of days haven't been used to that. I love
Speaker 1: when we get some of that behind the scenes detail
Speaker 1: of draft night and how the process plays out there
Speaker 1: from Chris Greer. You also heard him hit on that
Speaker 1: buzzword talking about continuity in the room. So good stuff
Speaker 1: there from the g M and the Dolphins linebackers coach
Speaker 1: and Anthony Campanelli, as well as Tyrone mackenzie. Real quick though,
Speaker 1: before we get to the cast, a big congrats to
Speaker 1: Mike Greer, Chris Greer's brother. He's the new general manager
Speaker 1: of the San Jose Sharks in the NHL, the first
Speaker 1: black GM in the NHL's history. Absolutely awesome, And I
Speaker 1: kept thinking about this when the news broke last week,
Speaker 1: the discussion over the more impressive creature, right, because like,
Speaker 1: the shark has the big teeth and the ability to
Speaker 1: rip you the shreds, but dolphin is like the smartest
Speaker 1: animal maybe besides you know, monkeys. I guess out there
Speaker 1: that debate might take center stage at the Greer family
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner table this year, Sharks versus Dolphins. So all right,
Speaker 1: back to football. I don't know I'm talking about anymore.
Speaker 1: Let's get into this cast of players here, and it
Speaker 1: starts an order of jersey number with number fifteen Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 1: The eight and a half times that he dumped the
Speaker 1: opposing quarterback gets the headlines, But to me, it was
Speaker 1: the improved marks in efficiency and just the overall potential
Speaker 1: that he flashed in terms of the tape last year
Speaker 1: that I think that should really excite Dolphins Nation because
Speaker 1: he amassed the second most sacks by a rookie in
Speaker 1: one behind Michael Parsons and defensive player or defensive Rookie
Speaker 1: of the Year could have been deep point too. And
Speaker 1: thirty nine total QB pressures on just four two pass
Speaker 1: rush reps. That's good for a pressure every ten point
Speaker 1: three snaps you play, give or take thirty pass rushes
Speaker 1: per game. That's three pressures per game. Do that seventeen
Speaker 1: times I was better at with sixty fifty one total
Speaker 1: QB pressures, that would be a great number every year.
Speaker 1: That's right where he was as a rookie before he
Speaker 1: even can take that second year jump hopefully. But his
Speaker 1: multifaceted skill set and pension for adding his in game
Speaker 1: pass rush plan to counter what his opponent throws at him,
Speaker 1: I think really showcases the upside of phillips game that
Speaker 1: made him the eighteenth overall pick in that draft. The
Speaker 1: aspect of pairing that with the physical skills, which we
Speaker 1: know are are abundant with this player. If those two
Speaker 1: things come together, you can watch out because his speed
Speaker 1: to power move is positively lethal. His long arm to
Speaker 1: win the edge as a rusher but also hold outside
Speaker 1: contained against the run. I mean sixteen run stops on
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty three run down snaps, and I
Speaker 1: think you see the crossover between run defense and pass
Speaker 1: rushing for Phillips, and just the technique in the form
Speaker 1: and the ability to win different types of looks against
Speaker 1: different types of players that makes him special. It's just
Speaker 1: a display on that long arm move of the rare
Speaker 1: combination of I said upper body strength in my notes here,
Speaker 1: but really it's full body strength, but also the ability
Speaker 1: to stay on balance because you're holding off a three
Speaker 1: and twenty pound man with one arm and trying to
Speaker 1: keep your eyes in the Backfield's not an easy task.
Speaker 1: It is not for the faint of heart, and he
Speaker 1: does a good job of that. He's long a determined worker,
Speaker 1: athletic as hell. I mean, was that not evident? By
Speaker 1: his nine point eight seven relative athletics scorecard at his
Speaker 1: UM Pro day workout back in the pre draft process,
Speaker 1: one which by the way, ranked nineteen all time among
Speaker 1: one thousand three d seventy one defensive ends, which is
Speaker 1: how they had him listed in r as he played
Speaker 1: more d ND at A at college. Plays that outside
Speaker 1: linebacker role for the Dolphins here and that dates back
Speaker 1: to nine eight seven, my birth year. Crazy crazy athletic.
Speaker 1: He drew double teams, even triple teams at times during
Speaker 1: his rookie season. And finally he fits right in with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins way and that he can condense inside and
Speaker 1: help rush from there. He can execute rush games and
Speaker 1: help free up space for his teammates, sub package versatility,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. I can't wait to watch Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips this second season. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: first break here right around the fifteen minute mark. Will
Speaker 1: come back on the other side and get to the
Speaker 1: rest of this Dolphins linebacker room. I'll tell you about
Speaker 1: your boys new hobby. Have something I'm really into right
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Speaker 1: Picking it back up here on the Linebacker Preview edition
Speaker 1: of the Drive Time Podcast. We have done the entire
Speaker 1: offense and defensive line so far. We have the secondary
Speaker 1: and Specialist, as well as three more divisions to preview,
Speaker 1: the a f C, North, South, and East. We don't
Speaker 1: have a division preview on this episode because there are
Speaker 1: fourteen linebackers in this room, too many to do both with.
Speaker 1: And we pick it back up here with number forty
Speaker 1: one Darius Hodge, who came into the league in one
Speaker 1: as a U d f A to the Cincinnati Bengals
Speaker 1: and his season the end of the season last year,
Speaker 1: I should say with the Dolphins. He's played just six
Speaker 1: career snaps, but his athletic ability was on display at
Speaker 1: his combined workout It's going to be a theme in
Speaker 1: this room, in which he jumped a thirty eight and
Speaker 1: a half inch vert ten seven on the broad and
Speaker 1: he also clocked a four six seven forty yard dash
Speaker 1: at two forty eight pounds. No less than than one
Speaker 1: of these guys can cruise and can hit in his
Speaker 1: physical all that fun stuff. Number forty three Andrew Van Ginkel.
Speaker 1: He's his career has been one of constant upward trajectory,
Speaker 1: and I loved his game out of Wisconsin. His twenty
Speaker 1: seven wasn't or eighteen tape at Wisconsin was so much
Speaker 1: fun to watch. That pick six he had in the
Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship game was so indicative of his spatial awareness,
Speaker 1: his ability to play forward backwards, all that good stuff.
Speaker 1: And he was placed on I R ahead of the
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen season after he had a stellar rookie camp
Speaker 1: or I should say training camp as a rookie, but
Speaker 1: then he returned down the stretch to produce against the run,
Speaker 1: in coverage and as a pass rusher in that rookie season.
Speaker 1: Then late in after some spot duty and good situational
Speaker 1: pass rush ability from Andrew Van Ginkel, he saw more
Speaker 1: opportunities down the stretch, finishing the final two games with
Speaker 1: seven quarterback pressures seven run stops in two sex. That's
Speaker 1: absurd production and it carried over right into one where
Speaker 1: he enjoyed a breakout season, finishing second on the team
Speaker 1: with forty five QB pressures. He was third and run
Speaker 1: stops with twenty six, which also led all Dolphins linebackers.
Speaker 1: He was behind only the two guys in the middle,
Speaker 1: Wilkins and Seedler and his instincts Ginkles van Gingles, I
Speaker 1: keep writing ginkle Uh. We call him that a lot
Speaker 1: around the building. Feel an explosive first step, constantly put
Speaker 1: him an advantageous situations like he wins quickly and like
Speaker 1: the rest of his game, his ability to take on
Speaker 1: a defeat blocks and his strength something that he and
Speaker 1: Austin Clark, something that he and coach Camponelly and eventually
Speaker 1: tym Kinzie I'm sure we'll talk about have talked about
Speaker 1: the efforts he's made to just get bigger and stronger
Speaker 1: as a pro. And he has and it shows on tape.
Speaker 1: Because players like him and Phillips off the edge. Not
Speaker 1: only do they play both aspects of pass and run
Speaker 1: very well, their flexibility and multiplicity increase Miami's ability to
Speaker 1: be multiple tenfold and Melvin Ingram part of that as well,
Speaker 1: as he can play multiple roles in that linebacker room
Speaker 1: number forty five. Duke Riley, speaking of multiple roles, a
Speaker 1: core piece of the Dolphins special teams unit. He made
Speaker 1: his biggest play in twenty one with a blocked punt
Speaker 1: turned Dolphins touchdown, but he made the most of his
Speaker 1: rare defensive opportunities because he provided seven QB pressures on
Speaker 1: thirty five pass rush reps one and every five that
Speaker 1: number gets inflated and sub package rolls a little bit more,
Speaker 1: but it's still a great number. Nine run stops on
Speaker 1: seventy four rundown snaps, and he a lot of completion
Speaker 1: percentage of just fifty four point five percent, so everybody
Speaker 1: sliced it. He had a good first year with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and by the way, he was exceptional in
Speaker 1: O T A S. He made so many plays around
Speaker 1: the line was coming off the pile, or I should
Speaker 1: say the kind of stack him up because you're not
Speaker 1: going to the ground, and O T A S. He
Speaker 1: would come off of that chirping a lot. So he
Speaker 1: he felt he made a lot of plays. I felt
Speaker 1: he did as well. Number forty nine, Sam eg von Man.
Speaker 1: These two guys are are really not identical. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: say that about any player, but they play a lot
Speaker 1: alike and they both have a lot of fire egg
Speaker 1: Vaughan and Duke Riley, and he came south from the
Speaker 1: Great White North back in twenty nineteen and had that
Speaker 1: exceptional training camp in twenty nineteen, and he's quietly enjoyed
Speaker 1: a very nice career in the NFL. That first season
Speaker 1: as a full time linebacker, he was fourth among PFF's
Speaker 1: off ball linebacker distinction with twenty three QB pressures. He
Speaker 1: did that on two d thirty four pass rush reps,
Speaker 1: but since then he's recorded eighteen quarterback pressures on a
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five pass rush reps, giving him a
Speaker 1: pressure every seven point nine eight snaps of his career.
Speaker 1: He's very fast, very quick, and he knows how to
Speaker 1: get around those blocks as a blitzer. He's another key
Speaker 1: piece of the Dolphins special teams with occasional sub package
Speaker 1: snap where he can use his speed to hunt quarterbacks
Speaker 1: or fall back into coverage. It's a nice piece of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins defense. Number fifty Calvin Munson a lunch pale
Speaker 1: style player who packs a punch. Munson typically finds the
Speaker 1: football on running downs. His his running downs outweigh his
Speaker 1: pass coverage reps and his career by quite a lot.
Speaker 1: He played just nine snaps last season, but two of
Speaker 1: those resulted in Munson tackles within two yards of the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage run stops. He's recorded twenty four of
Speaker 1: those run stops on two one reps against the run
Speaker 1: dating back to his twenty seven debut with the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. He's also played three forty four special team
Speaker 1: snaps from Miami since number fifty one rookie Channing Tendal, few,
Speaker 1: if any linebackers in this class had more. I just
Speaker 1: wrote down quote, so I'm into the finger air quotes
Speaker 1: for you, guys, jump out of your chair tape than
Speaker 1: Channing Tendaal, a national champion one tendall enters the league
Speaker 1: with the nineties six or I should say among the
Speaker 1: ninety six percent TILE and NFL scouting combines by all
Speaker 1: linebackers dating back to my birth year. Again in the
Speaker 1: forty forty yard dash, the vertical jump, the broad jump,
Speaker 1: and his hand size and all of those traits are
Speaker 1: evident when you plug on the tape. He flies all
Speaker 1: over the field with rare speed that can erase false
Speaker 1: steps if he takes one, and lead to explosive collisions
Speaker 1: when he is and he's a threat to rush off
Speaker 1: the edge, mug up in the A gap and threaten
Speaker 1: the past game that way, or bluffing and backing out
Speaker 1: and falling into the hook zone, the curl zone, all
Speaker 1: the way out to the flats. Go back and watch
Speaker 1: his Michigan tape. He shows you like every trait you want,
Speaker 1: uh you know, off ball stack middle linebacker to play
Speaker 1: with and also condenses inside and comes off like he
Speaker 1: does everything. And he also can do that with really
Speaker 1: rare chase and pursuit speed to the outside in the
Speaker 1: running game as well. And then you talk about his
Speaker 1: grip strength and why is that important because you control
Speaker 1: your man with your hands, and the way he can
Speaker 1: do that get off blocks and arrive with force just
Speaker 1: makes him adept at deconstructing blocks, like he has multiple
Speaker 1: chances to get off the block because if he hits
Speaker 1: you and strikes you, your your hands are going to
Speaker 1: stay attached. And then after they do get attached, he
Speaker 1: can use his own hands to detach because he is
Speaker 1: so strong with those very very big hands. He was
Speaker 1: among the leaderboard among all college linebackers last year in
Speaker 1: a variety of advanced stats. He finished second in college
Speaker 1: football with just seventy two yards allowed in coverage QB
Speaker 1: pressures and tenth and pass rush win rate at twenty
Speaker 1: three point three, and he also had the twenty five
Speaker 1: lowest miss tackle rate at seven point two, so coverage rush,
Speaker 1: pass rush pastor rush win rate and doesn't miss law tackles.
Speaker 1: Some good stuff there for Chang Tendall number fifty two
Speaker 1: a land and Roberts from a rookie to one of
Speaker 1: the most experienced leaders on this defense. We talked about
Speaker 1: his statistics and penchip for finding the football around the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage at the group at a Glance section.
Speaker 1: But I cannot urge you enough to check out his
Speaker 1: episode of the Fish Tank because Seth and o j
Speaker 1: as they want to do. I had a great conversation
Speaker 1: with him, and my big takeaway from that interview was
Speaker 1: just how intangible his leadership and presents are on this
Speaker 1: defense and on this team, and also that he loves
Speaker 1: coffee more than anybody I think I've ever met. But
Speaker 1: the definition of a thumper is that Roberts is the
Speaker 1: author of the biggest collisions year after year with this
Speaker 1: Doll Friends defense. Last year, he played the second highest
Speaker 1: snap total of his career six twenty on defense and
Speaker 1: produced to the same effect second best pressure total ten
Speaker 1: of his career run stops twenty eight was also second best,
Speaker 1: and completion percentage also second best. At seventy two point seven.
Speaker 1: He also picked off Derek Carr and returned to eighty
Speaker 1: five yards for the first defensive touch out of his career.
Speaker 1: Remember he caught a touchdown against US back in nineteen
Speaker 1: off of Tom Brady, off the hand of Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: number fifty three. Back to a rookie here, Cameron Good,
Speaker 1: and his tape is full of playing the run on
Speaker 1: the way to the quarterback. He's not going to cheat
Speaker 1: and jump a gap or try to, you know, make
Speaker 1: a play outside the system. He knows how to stay
Speaker 1: within himself and make plays that way. But he also
Speaker 1: plays the game very physically. Like I talked about, you
Speaker 1: talk about playing the run on the way of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: That means just staying true to your man and like
Speaker 1: playing through him rather than around him. A fun staff
Speaker 1: for him as that he was fourth in quarterback pressures
Speaker 1: in the pack twelve since he got there, and all
Speaker 1: other of the three guys were draft picks that were
Speaker 1: higher than can We're Good, including this year's number five
Speaker 1: overall pick in Cavon Thibodeau out of Oregon, number fifty five.
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker the straw that stirs the drink in the
Speaker 1: middle of that Miami defense. And even though the stats
Speaker 1: they really do jump off the page, for Jerome Baker,
Speaker 1: it's difficult to truly quantify and appreciate. Like we talked
Speaker 1: about the Training Crowdery episode of the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: all that he does in the middle of this Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: He is as reliable as any player in football. He
Speaker 1: wears as many hats as in a linebacker in the game,
Speaker 1: and his speed and reaction speed allows the Dolphins defense
Speaker 1: to really get I think, as creative as it is.
Speaker 1: His fifty quarterback pressures the last two seasons combined our
Speaker 1: second in the NFL among PFF's off ball linebacker distinction
Speaker 1: only the Tampa Bay's Devin White, who was taken with
Speaker 1: the fifth pick in the draft a few years back.
Speaker 1: Baker's ability to explode through the line with a quick
Speaker 1: first step, take exceptional angles of the quarterback and just
Speaker 1: cut that thing down two seconds. You're gonna have that
Speaker 1: football out because five five is gonna be in your face.
Speaker 1: But then also retrace his steps because a lot of
Speaker 1: guys can fly by the quarterback and you know, the
Speaker 1: Josh Allens of the world, the Patrick Mahomes, the Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's you, Lamar Jackson, you name it can spin out
Speaker 1: of that and then all of a sudden you're down
Speaker 1: a man. But the way Baker retraces his tracks, like
Speaker 1: speaking of Mahomes, go back to his sack on Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes that cost the Chiefs thirty yards on that loss,
Speaker 1: it just speeds up everything the offense wants to do
Speaker 1: because of his ability to make him do that. There
Speaker 1: was a play in the finale where he got on
Speaker 1: his horse down the pipe and interrupted a passing lane
Speaker 1: twenty yards downfield on a dig route to Nick kill
Speaker 1: Harry right after he got the quarterback to the ground
Speaker 1: on a pressure like that kind of range and versatility
Speaker 1: at that position is so incredibly rare. And he's a
Speaker 1: terrific leader. He's tough, he contributes on special teams, does
Speaker 1: whatever they asked him to do, and he turns twenty
Speaker 1: six to share on Christmas. He's a marvel. I love
Speaker 1: Jerome Baker. Let's go ahead and take our last break
Speaker 1: here and come back on the other side and get
Speaker 1: to the rest of this Dolphins linebacker room. Plus a
Speaker 1: hobby I'm really into right now that I think will
Speaker 1: last me for a Lifetime. We'll see that's next on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Back here on the Drivetime Podcast, the
Speaker 1: Linebacker Preview Edition, I'm your host, Travis Wingfield. Still out
Speaker 1: in Central Washington, coming back to South Florida on the
Speaker 1: nineteenth of July. I believe it is. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit homesick. I want to come home and get back
Speaker 1: to where I live. To South Florida, Sunny South Florida.
Speaker 1: Can't beat it. Picking it up here at the rest
Speaker 1: of the Linebacker Room, number fifty six U d f A.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Johnson out of Miami had a breakout your last
Speaker 1: year after transferring from Tennessee, and he did it at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. Twenty five pressures and eighteen run stops.
Speaker 1: His last year at the U number fifty seven, Brandan
Speaker 1: Scarlett with his season cut short, and he came back,
Speaker 1: but he missed a few games in the middle of
Speaker 1: the season. He was off to one of the better
Speaker 1: starts of his career. Big physical edge, presence in the
Speaker 1: running game and a fixture on every special teams unit
Speaker 1: during his entire six year pro career. He pairs excellent hands,
Speaker 1: with vision and decision making to get outside for contain
Speaker 1: then the ability to get off blocks and make a
Speaker 1: play inside or out. The sixty career run stops on
Speaker 1: seven forty eight rundown reps are evident by his ability
Speaker 1: or of his ability. I should say PFF graded his
Speaker 1: first season as a Dolphin at seventy six point nine.
Speaker 1: That was the second best of his career eighty nine
Speaker 1: point nine back in a injury short and twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: season with the Houston Texans. Another guy that came back
Speaker 1: we talked about Riley edg Vaughan Robert's brand. Scarlett Dolphins
Speaker 1: really made an emphasis to bring this room, this room
Speaker 1: back together, and they produced last year. Why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: number Porter Gustin a new addition here? He was an
Speaker 1: absolute menace at USC Actually had a game where he
Speaker 1: was the difference between my Washington State Coupers winning the
Speaker 1: Pack twelve North and not. So I'll never forget him
Speaker 1: for that. But he entered the league an undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent to the Saints, but would go on to play
Speaker 1: seven defensive snaps and another two hundred thirty three on
Speaker 1: special teams for the Browns over the last three seasons.
Speaker 1: Twenty five pressures on four career pass rush reps via PFF.
Speaker 1: He played under Austin Clark are d line coach at
Speaker 1: USC which checks out, considering Clark is a high energy,
Speaker 1: absolutely in your face type of coach and Gustine's motor
Speaker 1: has never stopped running since his college days. He is
Speaker 1: an impressive and there's a crazy story about the way
Speaker 1: he approaches football and going back to his college days
Speaker 1: with nutrition and workout. Go check it out. Just type
Speaker 1: in Porter Gustin like nutrition or or workout and you'll
Speaker 1: find it. Finally, aging like a find wine. We don't
Speaker 1: have a number here yet, but Melvin Ingram, this guy
Speaker 1: continues to produce at a highly efficient level for a decade.
Speaker 1: It's insane. His game is one of suddenness, physicality, and
Speaker 1: agility that requires the opponent to prepare for really anything.
Speaker 1: Much like a lot of his new linebacker teammates, he
Speaker 1: can line up in any position in any front without
Speaker 1: sacrificing any area of his game, rush or run game.
Speaker 1: His fifty one QB pressures one would have been second
Speaker 1: on the team behind Emmanuel ogbas sixty one, and the
Speaker 1: volume of Ingram's resume is so impressive, but the consistency
Speaker 1: is jaw dropping. I'm just gonna read these career pressure
Speaker 1: rates for you guys over his decade. Last year eleven
Speaker 1: point one percent. That was just a shame below Ogbas
Speaker 1: by the way, eleven point nine percent, twenty nineteen twelve
Speaker 1: point five percent, eighteen eleven point two percent, seventeen fourteen
Speaker 1: point five percent, twenty sixteen fifteen percent, twelve point nine,
Speaker 1: eleven point seven, ten point seven, eleven point seven. It's
Speaker 1: it's outrageous. He's been so good for so long. His
Speaker 1: run stop rate is in similar territory. From a volume standpoint,
Speaker 1: he was top twenty five in the league from twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen through twenty nineteen and never had fewer than thirty
Speaker 1: two run stops every year, giving him the sixth most
Speaker 1: run stops two hundred and thirty three among FF's edge
Speaker 1: defenders since. And he can play stack, he can come down,
Speaker 1: mug up a gaps, he can play wherever you want
Speaker 1: him to. From an efficiency standpoint, consistency is the way again.
Speaker 1: Nine point five percent run stop rate last year a
Speaker 1: dip and five percent, but twenty nineteen twelve point seven percent,
Speaker 1: nine point nine nine point four nine point one. It
Speaker 1: goes on one five seven eleven point one percent, so
Speaker 1: all but two years he's been exceptional in terms of
Speaker 1: the run stop efficiency rate. To complete his toolbox, he
Speaker 1: has a career passer rating against a two point four,
Speaker 1: so it's it's pretty good. In my five things piece,
Speaker 1: there are three clips that showcase the nuance to Ingram's game,
Speaker 1: both as a rushier and run defender, even with a
Speaker 1: new team mid season. In the new scheme, he flashed
Speaker 1: the ability to transition midplay from penetrating run defender to
Speaker 1: ferocious quarterback hunter against play action. There's a clip on
Speaker 1: that where his patented spin moves on display. He pairs
Speaker 1: that quickness with sheer strength, heavy hands, and a devastating
Speaker 1: long arm move to put opposing tack goals in peril.
Speaker 1: That ability to kind of shock pass protectors in a
Speaker 1: variety of situations makes Ingram a really good fit for
Speaker 1: most game packages stunts, twist and slants. And the beauty
Speaker 1: of his signing is that the multitude of roles he
Speaker 1: could conceivably occupy just almost gives you like a utility effect,
Speaker 1: and that if someone goes down, all right, we'll plug
Speaker 1: it in this way and last season, Van Ginko played
Speaker 1: eight hundred one snaps, Age Phillips six oh three and
Speaker 1: Ingram played seven thirty one, showing that he could be
Speaker 1: a valuable sub package rusher, true three down player. Whatever
Speaker 1: you need, He's gonna help you stay fresh and get
Speaker 1: used production with this Dolphins linebacker group. Also, his teammates
Speaker 1: across the board, from the Chargers to the chief days
Speaker 1: will tell you how great of a locker room guy
Speaker 1: in locker room presence he is with Melvin Ingram. So
Speaker 1: there are your Dolphins linebackers, your entire room. We have
Speaker 1: the secondary and specialists still to get to. Will do that.
Speaker 1: I think corners are later this week, safeties and specialists
Speaker 1: next week, and on that specialist podcast will be our
Speaker 1: a f C East pre you and then it's training camp.
Speaker 1: So I hope you all are enjoying your summer. I
Speaker 1: certainly am. I picked up a new hobby. I don't
Speaker 1: think I'm making much of a secret about it, but
Speaker 1: golf is like my new jam, pretty decent natural swing.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out a way to get that
Speaker 1: thing dialed. I played my first round in a year
Speaker 1: at my buddy's wedding back on Memorial Day weekend. I
Speaker 1: didn't even finish. I played really poorly, but it was
Speaker 1: a bachelor party type of golf situation, so I didn't
Speaker 1: expect to play well. But I never had shot under
Speaker 1: a hundred. And then I went to the range a
Speaker 1: couple of times and played two more rounds since I
Speaker 1: got back to Washington State, from the Tips at a
Speaker 1: pretty nice course, shot at three, and then went to
Speaker 1: a tougher course and from the Whites the tip that
Speaker 1: I was told playing Tips is stupid, but my friend
Speaker 1: was really good. I wanted to play there. I wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna make him drive up further for different te spot,
Speaker 1: so why not playing the Whites at a different course
Speaker 1: and shot so two times under a hundred. Feeling pretty
Speaker 1: good about that, Feeling pretty good about the new Coheed
Speaker 1: and Cambria album. For you prog rock fans out there,
Speaker 1: I think it's one of their best ones I've ever done.
Speaker 1: Twenty two years into making music. It's pretty crazy how
Speaker 1: bands can have that kind of longevity. All right, that's
Speaker 1: enough of my time here on this edition of the
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