Speaker 1: Looking cuts down Miami un What is up, Dolphans And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's
Speaker 1: it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
Speaker 1: as always I am here to bring you your daily
Speaker 1: dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we
Speaker 1: are cooking with gas now as we are onto the
Speaker 1: defense and the edge defenders in this defense, will break
Speaker 1: down the Miami pass rush, the scheme that produced the
Speaker 1: tenth most sacks in the National Football League one year ago,
Speaker 1: the idea of pressure above all the individuals that make
Speaker 1: it happen, and much much more. Plus another roster move
Speaker 1: this week ahead of training camp. All of that in
Speaker 1: a heck of a lot more here on this edition
Speaker 1: of the Drive Time Podcast. So just before we dive
Speaker 1: into one of the the real glamour positions in the
Speaker 1: NFL and one of the positions that gets the marquee
Speaker 1: as kind of build as a premium position, so to speak,
Speaker 1: we have an addition upfront at a position that is
Speaker 1: there to attempt to thwart the edge rushers into mown paris.
Speaker 1: He is now a Miami Dolphin. The team announced on
Speaker 1: Monday they have signed the offensive tackle. He's six ft six,
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds. He was undrafted in out of Stony Brook
Speaker 1: with Washington. He played there for two years and then
Speaker 1: with the Falcons, Browns and Washington football team last season,
Speaker 1: and now he's here in Miami. He's played pretty sparingly
Speaker 1: in his career. Didn't get any reps last season with
Speaker 1: an NFL club, just a handful of snaps over his
Speaker 1: first two years on special teams. But he will come
Speaker 1: in and compete in a deep offensive line. All right.
Speaker 1: So we're talking about edge rushers today, and I feel
Speaker 1: like amid a roster or a system or offense or
Speaker 1: defense that is maybe misunderstood by a large percentage of
Speaker 1: the casual observer. And I like to use that term
Speaker 1: a lot here on the podcast too. I suppose kind
Speaker 1: of set up an explanation of something that might be
Speaker 1: considered a little more esoteric to the fan that likes
Speaker 1: to just go ahead and crack a beer and watch
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday and not get much deeper into
Speaker 1: it than that. If that's you, and you come to
Speaker 1: this podcast for educational purposes because you can learn the
Speaker 1: game while you drive to work, while you get your
Speaker 1: workout in, while you go for your walk, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. That's kind of my thought process on
Speaker 1: the podcast is to help give you more inside without
Speaker 1: forcing you to go do the work yourself. So here
Speaker 1: we are, and I think that one of the reasons
Speaker 1: this defense can be so misunderstood is that it's you know,
Speaker 1: the NFL in general is a far cry from what
Speaker 1: it used to be in terms of, you know, used
Speaker 1: to have a four three defense, and that meant you
Speaker 1: played four down linemen every single play with three linebackers
Speaker 1: every single play, and the only time you went to
Speaker 1: a nickel defense where you had to sub out one
Speaker 1: of those linebackers for a defensive back was when it
Speaker 1: was third and eight and the team brought their third
Speaker 1: receiver onto the field, or a situation where those four
Speaker 1: guys up front, they did not leave the field unless
Speaker 1: they got injured. So if you were a backup nose tackle,
Speaker 1: you only played snaps if the guy in front of
Speaker 1: you went down. So defense has evolved tenfold from that point,
Speaker 1: and Brian Flores and Josh Bowyer and this Dolphins defensive
Speaker 1: staff have kind of taken that to another level. In
Speaker 1: terms of the mix of coverages and fronts and blitzes
Speaker 1: and different calls. They have different formations. I mean, I've
Speaker 1: seen the argument on Twitter so many times about is
Speaker 1: this a base four three or three four? It's neither
Speaker 1: of those two things, because in the NFL today, your
Speaker 1: four three and three four defenses are never based because
Speaker 1: that means you don't have your nickel cornerback on the
Speaker 1: field or nickel safety whatever it might be, your big nickel.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, I mean we're running five
Speaker 1: defensive backs in the National Football League at a clip
Speaker 1: better than six, So that's gonna be your base. And
Speaker 1: then there are variations up front off of that, because
Speaker 1: it's never just a three four or a four three.
Speaker 1: You can go to four, you can go oh four,
Speaker 1: you can go five, oh like there are. There are
Speaker 1: endless combinations up front, and I think that gets lost
Speaker 1: on a lot of fans that again just want to
Speaker 1: enjoy the game on Sunday and kind of check out
Speaker 1: the rest of the week. That's why we're here for
Speaker 1: you on the podcast. So this defense has so many
Speaker 1: different fronts that I mean, if I were to go
Speaker 1: through and list them all and try to go off
Speaker 1: the lineups of each of the different possibilities they have.
Speaker 1: That would be a whole podcast in and of itself,
Speaker 1: but I want to go ahead and just start here
Speaker 1: and talk about how ideally, or I guess kind of
Speaker 1: philosophically and the in football, your coverage typically dictates the front,
Speaker 1: so you go coverage first, then your your front, and
Speaker 1: this defense has been built kind of according to that philosophy.
Speaker 1: In terms of where the money has been allocated. We
Speaker 1: talked about this, how the secondary has or the cornerback
Speaker 1: position has the highest pay rate in the NFL, like
Speaker 1: the receivers do on offense the passing league. We covered
Speaker 1: that on the Receiver podcast, and then you kind of
Speaker 1: round out the rest of the defense with some of
Speaker 1: these guys are high resource expenditures. You know, Ray Kuan
Speaker 1: Davis is I around draft pick Christian Wilkins a first
Speaker 1: round draft pick. That's not to say they don't value
Speaker 1: the positions. There's just a little bit of of allocation
Speaker 1: in terms of where the money is on this defense,
Speaker 1: and you can kind of read it accordingly. And I
Speaker 1: saw one tweet from I think it was a Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus account. I can't remember exactly which one. It
Speaker 1: was one of the individuals who had a comment saying
Speaker 1: that you can manufacture rush, you cannot manufacture coverage. That
Speaker 1: was met with some backlash, but I kind of understood
Speaker 1: where he was going because Brian Floores and Josh Bowyer
Speaker 1: last year did such a great job of creating pass
Speaker 1: rush and pressure on quarterbacks through the scheme and getting
Speaker 1: quarterbacks uncomfortable with a variety of guys that can come
Speaker 1: and bring that pressure on the podcast. Now, we'll cover
Speaker 1: more about the salary allocations later here on the Cornerback
Speaker 1: Podcast later this week, but I want to talk more
Speaker 1: about this front here because it's not just guys that
Speaker 1: can go through and or rather line up and run
Speaker 1: through an offensive tackle, or a guy that can run
Speaker 1: right around that offensive tackle like Cameron Wake for instance,
Speaker 1: was a guy that just on one on one matchups repeatedly,
Speaker 1: over and over again. And that's great to have on
Speaker 1: your defense, but it just isn't the way this defense functions.
Speaker 1: Not to say those guys can't do that, but that's
Speaker 1: just not the calling card that guess it's gonna be
Speaker 1: something different. Coach Flores loves to mix things up. He's
Speaker 1: talked about it and So with that in mind, you
Speaker 1: talk about games up front, loopers, stunts, twist slants, and
Speaker 1: that's all kind of generated to force the protection to
Speaker 1: get lost on a certain body, free up somebody for
Speaker 1: a free run on the quarterback, and that can often
Speaker 1: generate not just pressure or sacks, but big plays and takeaways,
Speaker 1: as we saw last year. So I think you come
Speaker 1: into year three under Brian Flores and now Josh Boyer
Speaker 1: as the d C and his second season here in
Speaker 1: Miami under that position, and I think it's safe to
Speaker 1: assume that even though there has been some more turnover,
Speaker 1: it was nothing close to what we saw last year
Speaker 1: in terms of the roster and the fact that there
Speaker 1: is a full off season of work on field with
Speaker 1: the O, T A s and all the stuff the
Speaker 1: Dolphins people do this offseason that they were not to
Speaker 1: do last season. I have to imagine that helps a
Speaker 1: team that is so multiple, is so versatile, and has
Speaker 1: so many different calls. I mean, shoot, we saw it
Speaker 1: last year. It was about I guess Week five ish
Speaker 1: was when the defense really took off in that San
Speaker 1: Francisco game when they just beaten better than Niner's quarterbacks
Speaker 1: who went from Garopplo to then Nick Molin's later in
Speaker 1: the game. The Dolphins just did so well or was
Speaker 1: it C. J. Bethard, I think it was Betther third,
Speaker 1: But the Dolphins did so well in that game to
Speaker 1: kind of come together. And we even had a Dolphins
Speaker 1: defender on the podcast last year who said that trip
Speaker 1: to San Francisco and staying out there for a couple
Speaker 1: of days kind of helped galvanize the team and create
Speaker 1: that camaraderie and get the defense playing at the level
Speaker 1: that we grew to know the basically the last eleven
Speaker 1: weeks of last season. So when you look at this position,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things that can be valued
Speaker 1: in this defense. Lateral agility, I think is one of
Speaker 1: the top ones, because guys have to be able to
Speaker 1: work not just forwards and backwards, but side to side
Speaker 1: on those stunts, because often the stunt is gonna be
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle who slants out and then the defensive
Speaker 1: vent comes up over the top of him and works
Speaker 1: inside trying to get the quickest route to the quarterback
Speaker 1: through at a gap. It's not just about creating those
Speaker 1: one on one situations as much as it is putting
Speaker 1: more bodies on one particular part of the offensive line
Speaker 1: that they can block with their slide protection or trying
Speaker 1: to get them to blow a protection call, which happens.
Speaker 1: It happens. I mean, look at the Emmanuel aug Basch
Speaker 1: trip sack last year against the Rams, the Andrew van
Speaker 1: gink Wil touchdown. I mean, he comes clean from the
Speaker 1: C gap. That's not supposed to happen, like you are
Speaker 1: supposed to block that gap on defense, Like you can
Speaker 1: see corners or safety's coming off the edge buzzing that
Speaker 1: go unblocked because they didn't get picked up with a
Speaker 1: defensive end. That's not supposed to happen like ever, So
Speaker 1: it creates those opportunities for this defense, and that lateral
Speaker 1: agility and flexibility to play inside outside from so many
Speaker 1: of these guys helps contribute to that defense. Now, however,
Speaker 1: I think you look at the addition of a Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips with the eighteenth pick in Miami got that pick
Speaker 1: in very quickly. Were we were there on Draft night
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium to pick before goes off, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Miami's up and the pick is
Speaker 1: already in on the ESPN telecast, and I think that
Speaker 1: kind of gives you the idea of how they felt
Speaker 1: about Jalen Phillips. That's a great answer to me, Phillips
Speaker 1: is to the problem that so many defenses have run
Speaker 1: into with the likes of a Patrick Mahomes or a
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Russell Wilson, those types of quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: are just elusives. I'll get out and can extend and
Speaker 1: make the big play that really burns you in the
Speaker 1: end because you can send the house and it can work,
Speaker 1: and it does a lot of the time. But those
Speaker 1: guys are so adept at extending and making plays otherwise
Speaker 1: that all it does when they do break the tackles
Speaker 1: and get free of that of that pressure and of
Speaker 1: that rush, is it puts bodies behind the quarterback. Lessons
Speaker 1: the number of bodies you have downfield and coverage. And
Speaker 1: that's when the big plays downfield happened, because you can
Speaker 1: bottle up Russell Wilson for an entire game, but then
Speaker 1: he can, you know, make the big play down the
Speaker 1: field at the end of the half that put seven
Speaker 1: points on the board and that winds up being the
Speaker 1: difference in the ball game. So granted, you know this
Speaker 1: mixture of rush and coverage and all that fun stuff
Speaker 1: was very successful at just about every juncture last year
Speaker 1: for Miami and this defense they were. They were really
Speaker 1: productive throughout the course of this season. Heck, they even
Speaker 1: turned over Patrick Mahomes three times. They had a chance
Speaker 1: on two or three occasions already called the the Van
Speaker 1: Noy one that kind of went off the fingertips. And
Speaker 1: then there was one down the field to Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: late in that game that he had hands on that
Speaker 1: just couldn't quite squeeze. That interception off Josh Allen in
Speaker 1: the September game, you get two or three of those
Speaker 1: dropped interceptions. That game changes all of a sudden too.
Speaker 1: So it's not like they just want to go away
Speaker 1: from what they were. I'm not saying that whatsoever at all.
Speaker 1: But the more you can do, right, So, now you
Speaker 1: pair those two things together, you can incorporate the ability
Speaker 1: to rush for effectively and play coverage with the confusing
Speaker 1: blitz is the stunts, the twist the games and different
Speaker 1: guys dropping whether it's a Christian Wilkins or a Zach
Speaker 1: Seeler at times. Then you add another element that the
Speaker 1: offense has to account for. So you know, let's say
Speaker 1: you get a protection call blown and it creates a
Speaker 1: one on one chance for both Agba and Phillips off
Speaker 1: the edge with seven men in coverage. Man, you have
Speaker 1: to love your opportunity there to make a big play
Speaker 1: on defense to get a stop, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: And a good example of mixing it up in terms
Speaker 1: of how you go from one look to another to
Speaker 1: confuse the opposing quarterback would be that Chargers game. The
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard pick at the end of that game on
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert to close that thing out, because there was
Speaker 1: a lot of man calls in that game throughout the
Speaker 1: course of that game in Miami did so well to
Speaker 1: blanket those receivers that the Chargers have, and that's a
Speaker 1: good receiving corps. And this Dolphin secondary got after in
Speaker 1: that game. But playing a lot of man, lots of
Speaker 1: Cover zero as we saw last year, the zero blitz
Speaker 1: zero pressure, bringing guys with no safety over the top
Speaker 1: and playing man coverage on the back end. Then in
Speaker 1: that very crucial spot you see the cornerbacks drop out
Speaker 1: and the safety kind of take the middle of the
Speaker 1: field that indicates Cover three. The quarterback throws it maybe
Speaker 1: anticipating some man coverage out there, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: your cornerbacks in a back pedal where he has eyes
Speaker 1: on the quarterback, not the man, which indicates his own.
Speaker 1: He drives on it. He's breaking on the ball before
Speaker 1: the ball even comes out, and you get yourself a
Speaker 1: game ceiling interception. Great execution, but the call was just
Speaker 1: flat out brilliant there from Josh Boyer and Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: I think another thing you see is the inclusion in
Speaker 1: this defense at this position, for for instance, of guys
Speaker 1: that can play both forward and backwards. Andrew Van Gekl
Speaker 1: is a great example. I loved his tape at Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and he brought that right into the NFL, even in
Speaker 1: his preseason tape from twent nineteen where he's he's chipping
Speaker 1: a guy that runs to the flat, he's locating the
Speaker 1: slant in and behind him on that combination. Just recognizing
Speaker 1: the route combinations, getting depth and playing forward and closing
Speaker 1: down on those guys. Jalen Phillips can certainly do that
Speaker 1: as well. Vince Bagel has done some of that. Some
Speaker 1: of the guys on this roster have done that again
Speaker 1: and again and again, broken record. The more you can
Speaker 1: do right, So let's go ahead and get into this preview.
Speaker 1: You can find the written copy up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com as well as our our training camp preview
Speaker 1: rolls right along here. Not very many personnel changes at
Speaker 1: this position, and the quick disclaimer here is that we're
Speaker 1: talking about edge defenders today. We did interior defensive lineman
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, and that's basically your bigger body guys. You're
Speaker 1: you're heavy ends that work inside from the four technique
Speaker 1: going inward. This position is the opposite just war technique
Speaker 1: guys defensive lineman, but typically the more lean builds that
Speaker 1: go outward towards the five, six, seven, eight nine technique,
Speaker 1: So you get the idea there. Additions to this group,
Speaker 1: Brendan Scarlett comes over from the Houston Texans, Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: the eighteenth pick in the draft, and the loan departure
Speaker 1: from this group was Kyle van Noy, who goes back
Speaker 1: to New England after one season in Miami. The coaching staff.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta put Austin Clark in here too,
Speaker 1: because we talked about him on yesterday's podcast. But he
Speaker 1: is the defensive line coach, so he worked with both
Speaker 1: groups obviously, but that's kind of a combination of Dolphins
Speaker 1: have of guys that work with multiple coaches at this position.
Speaker 1: They talked about it last season with Robb with Rob Leonard,
Speaker 1: with Austin Clark as well, and we detailed Austin Clark
Speaker 1: on the Tuesday podcast and go check that out if
Speaker 1: you have not heard it yet. But the outside linebackers
Speaker 1: coach is Rob Leonard, so go ahead and focus on
Speaker 1: him here today. He's entering his third season in Miami.
Speaker 1: He served as a defensive line assistant last year and
Speaker 1: prior to Miami. This is pretty rare for a coach.
Speaker 1: He spent the first six years of his career with
Speaker 1: the New York Giant, where he worked as a defensive assistant, assistant,
Speaker 1: defensive line coach and the outside linebackers coach, so he's
Speaker 1: in familiar territory there here in Miami. This group, at
Speaker 1: a glance, look, they filled up the stat sheet the
Speaker 1: production chart pretty well last season forty one sacks that
Speaker 1: was tenth best in the NFL. You know who the
Speaker 1: players are. Emmanuel Aga had a career year with nine sacks.
Speaker 1: He made six tackles for loss force three fumbles, and
Speaker 1: bad down five passes. Second year linebacker Andrew Van Gigel
Speaker 1: also force three fumbles in route to his five and
Speaker 1: a half sack season with nearly double the tackles for
Speaker 1: lost from his rookie year, going from four and twenty
Speaker 1: nine team up to seven. Vince Bagel comes back from
Speaker 1: a torn achilles injury that robbed him of a promising
Speaker 1: start of his Dolphins tenure in twenty nine team. He
Speaker 1: misses out on twenty altogether, but he is back this season.
Speaker 1: He actually led Miami and quarterback pressures in twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: with thirty four, and that was after he arrived one
Speaker 1: week prior to the season via trade with the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints for linebacker Kiko alons Oh and then newcomer
Speaker 1: Bernand Scarlett. Has played fifty six career games, both on
Speaker 1: the edge of the defense for the Houston Texans and
Speaker 1: as an ACE special teamer. We talked about Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 1: He was the first edge defender selected either outside linebacker
Speaker 1: or defensive end in this year's draft, and that comes
Speaker 1: off the heels of a very dominant season at the
Speaker 1: U for Phillips, where he notched eight sacks, fifteen and
Speaker 1: a half tackles for loss and had to pick and
Speaker 1: three passes defense, and he gets that length that we
Speaker 1: talked about with Ogball with the rest of this front.
Speaker 1: These guys are long and strong with powerful hands. They're
Speaker 1: crafty pass rushers with the lateral agility. He fits right
Speaker 1: into that mold. Jason Strowbridge can play inside outside. Coach
Speaker 1: Flores talked about that from the moment they drafted strow
Speaker 1: Bridge out of North Carolina. He got himself fifty five
Speaker 1: snaps last year on defense as a rookie and eleven
Speaker 1: more on special teams. And then a couple of other
Speaker 1: players here. Second year Tyshan Render out of Middle Tennessee
Speaker 1: played eight snaps as a rookie while Nick co was
Speaker 1: a member of the Dolphins practice squad much like Render
Speaker 1: was for most of the season. So that's the group
Speaker 1: at a glance. The individuals here as we go forward,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips number fifteen. That was a bit of a
Speaker 1: curveball for me as I prepared the written piece, because
Speaker 1: I go in order of jersey number, and usually you
Speaker 1: start sometimes you get in the seventies, every once in
Speaker 1: a while in the forties, and we'll get to hear linebackers,
Speaker 1: but thinking about defense events and edge players like fifteen
Speaker 1: was not on my radar, but that's what he wears.
Speaker 1: So check out fifteen on the field on practice or
Speaker 1: a training camp on the practice field. He's a rookie
Speaker 1: out of Miami twenty two years old opening day, and
Speaker 1: this guy's looks like something built out of the lab.
Speaker 1: I mean the prototypical look and athletic measurements to really
Speaker 1: play the part of a true edge defender in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Sky was the number one rated high school prospect coming
Speaker 1: out of high school back in his day, just edging
Speaker 1: out Nagy Harris back then. He led a very destructive
Speaker 1: Miami Hurricanes defense last season and then blew the doors
Speaker 1: off his pro day. What a great final season it
Speaker 1: was for Phillips, leading him up to the eighteenth pick
Speaker 1: in the NFL Draft. He measured in the percentile or
Speaker 1: better in the forty yard dash four five six at
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five pounds. That's that's absurd. He
Speaker 1: also ran four one three shuttle ones on the broad
Speaker 1: jump and a ten yard split of one five nine. Again,
Speaker 1: all of those percent tient or better. At six ft five,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five pounds, so you have the
Speaker 1: straight line speed, the change of direction, your lateral agility,
Speaker 1: your explosive lower half, and ten yards split and the
Speaker 1: broad jump there to measure how he can get off
Speaker 1: the ball and really put the tackle in a bind
Speaker 1: from the minute the ball is snapped. In addition to
Speaker 1: the sack production, Phillips registered forty quarterback pressures via Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus on just two hundred and eighty six pass
Speaker 1: rush reps. That is a pressure every six point eight
Speaker 1: drop backs. And he's more than just a rusher. He
Speaker 1: had eighteen run stops last year. Those, of course, are
Speaker 1: tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage that
Speaker 1: landed in the ninety percent tile among college edge defenders
Speaker 1: on PFF last season. We go on to Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle speaking of the forties Jersey numbers number forty three
Speaker 1: out of Wisconsin. He's got two years in the bag
Speaker 1: so far, entering his third twenty six years old come
Speaker 1: opening day, and since he came back off the i
Speaker 1: R in week number twelve because he was having a
Speaker 1: great camp his rookie year. Then he got injured, missed
Speaker 1: the first eleven weeks of the season. He comes back
Speaker 1: and starts making, starts producing right away for this Dolphins defense,
Speaker 1: and as he goes deeper into his career, his production
Speaker 1: per snaps play continues to impress me. I mean, he
Speaker 1: recorded one sack, six QB pressures, and seven run stops
Speaker 1: with four tackles for a loss as a rookie, and
Speaker 1: then he had that big year to jump We've talked
Speaker 1: about on this podcast a lot, and he did it
Speaker 1: with five and a half sacks. He picked up nine
Speaker 1: team pressures on two hundred and twelve pass rush reps.
Speaker 1: That's one every eleven point two reps. And he talked
Speaker 1: about this as well as Coach Clark and Coach Leonard
Speaker 1: and coach Hobby last year as well. Adding strength was
Speaker 1: a point of emphasis for Van Ginkl and his coaches.
Speaker 1: In the result was twenty two run stops on one
Speaker 1: d and ninety six run defense snaps. Eleven point two
Speaker 1: percent of the time he's making a run stop on
Speaker 1: that defense. So I mean, you consider that even half
Speaker 1: the runs come in your direction, he's making one fifth
Speaker 1: of those plays two yards or less of the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. And the third year linebacker has also displayed
Speaker 1: the ability to win his one on one pass rush situations.
Speaker 1: We saw him do that last year in the Vegas
Speaker 1: game and then playing backwards and coverage. Talked about it
Speaker 1: off the top. His ability to recognize route concepts has
Speaker 1: always been a favorite trait of his of mine. He
Speaker 1: defeats blocks and route to the ball carrier. I've got
Speaker 1: clips on Twitter at winkol NFL Andrew Van Ginkle. Click
Speaker 1: on that video link. You're gonna see plenty of clips
Speaker 1: of him going in there, knifing in, flattening the edge,
Speaker 1: bowling up a guard, pulling guard or a fullback or
Speaker 1: a tight end, coming over and split zone and getting
Speaker 1: his hands into the trash and tripping up running backs
Speaker 1: and making plays that way. And how about the ball production.
Speaker 1: I mean three forced fumbles last year on five and
Speaker 1: a half sacks. He also blocked a punt that turned
Speaker 1: into immediate points for the Dolphins. And you go back
Speaker 1: to college, there's no fluke or no small sample size,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, because he had six
Speaker 1: force fumbles in college, a couple of picks, passes broken up.
Speaker 1: He was just a monster of finding the football at
Speaker 1: Wisconsin as well. And you go back to last year
Speaker 1: trying to project these guys as they finished out the
Speaker 1: season and what that might mean going into the new
Speaker 1: season for them. From week twelve to seventeen last year,
Speaker 1: he ended up as PFF number twelve overall graded edge defender,
Speaker 1: picking up three sacks and ten run stops over that time.
Speaker 1: What a year Van Ginkle had to close out last season.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Wisconsin, Van Ginkel's Wisconsin teammate Vince Bagels back
Speaker 1: number forty seven four years in the NFL so far,
Speaker 1: twenty eight years old on opening day and again thirty
Speaker 1: four quarterback pressures in twenty nineteen led the team. He
Speaker 1: also led the way with seven tackles for lost. That
Speaker 1: was tied with sam eeg Van, who will be on
Speaker 1: tomorrow's Off Ball Linebacker podcast. By the way, and Bigle
Speaker 1: achieved those feats despite playing just forty nine snaps over
Speaker 1: the first four games of that season because he was
Speaker 1: September arrival coming over in that trade for Kiko Alonso.
Speaker 1: His season comes to an end in training camp with
Speaker 1: the achilles injury, but over the final twelve games of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, after he kind of got his feet wet
Speaker 1: got acclimated to the defense, he recorded at least two
Speaker 1: pressures and nine of those twelve of games and piled
Speaker 1: up twenty one run stops over that same period. He
Speaker 1: added a pick plus. You watch his highlight reel or
Speaker 1: his his all twenty two reel. There are so many
Speaker 1: hustle plays where he's chasing down guys from the back side.
Speaker 1: There was a great clip against the Colton twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: where Brian Hoyer uh gets in trouble and has to
Speaker 1: leak out the other side of the formation after Beagle
Speaker 1: was the one that kind of disrupted the play front side,
Speaker 1: and Hoyer tried to escape backside, and Beagle just runs
Speaker 1: him all the way down across the formation and gets
Speaker 1: a big stop. He also has some really nice pass
Speaker 1: rush moves when on one against quality upon It's go
Speaker 1: watch the Monday night football game that year against the Steelers.
Speaker 1: He had a lot of good reps in that game
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. Moving on to the fifties, another
Speaker 1: newcomer here Brandon Scarlett, number fifty seven, five years in
Speaker 1: the NFL, all with Houston. He played at Stanford, Cal
Speaker 1: before that the crazy Cal Stanford transfer there twenty seven
Speaker 1: years old opening day, and during his five years in Houston,
Speaker 1: he played one thousand, three hundred sixty nine snaps on
Speaker 1: defense and nine hundred and sixty two more on special teams,
Speaker 1: and his career has been interesting one to track. He's
Speaker 1: kind of had the best. He had the best start
Speaker 1: of his career in ten with two QB hits and
Speaker 1: five run stops and interception and a pass breakup, really
Speaker 1: checking off the stat sheet there, but then he got
Speaker 1: hurt prematurely with an injury or a season ended prematurely,
Speaker 1: I should say with the injury and had to cut
Speaker 1: that season short. Then nineteen picks up where he left
Speaker 1: off by posting a career year with nineteen QB pressures,
Speaker 1: nineteen run stops, three tackles for a loss. Is kind
Speaker 1: of rotational edge in that defense. He missed five games
Speaker 1: but posted four QB pressures and eleven run stops. He's
Speaker 1: been a when he was healthy, five hundred snaptaker other
Speaker 1: years to three hundred snaps in those range when he
Speaker 1: misses time. But he is big and posing and he
Speaker 1: loves the physical element of the game. He hits people.
Speaker 1: He sets a strong edge and they can feel it
Speaker 1: when he gets when he gets their hands on him
Speaker 1: because they conally kind of have that knock back you
Speaker 1: look for on the defensive line, and tight ends are
Speaker 1: gonna have to work to access a clean release off
Speaker 1: the line when he's out there, because he will reroute
Speaker 1: you until you're blue in the face. Scarlett's motor is
Speaker 1: perhaps the most evident on actial teams, where he's recorded
Speaker 1: fourteen tackles on coverage teams over his career. Jason Strowbridge,
Speaker 1: number fifty eight. He's in his second season out of
Speaker 1: North Carolina. He'll be twenty five years old on opening day.
Speaker 1: He had a great Senior Bowl back in playing some
Speaker 1: three TEX and five tech different positions up front on
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Very versatile defensive lineman who plays you
Speaker 1: know he can play multiple spots. Coach Floors has talked
Speaker 1: about that in his final year at UNC QB pressures
Speaker 1: and thirty run stops via Pro Football Focus most of
Speaker 1: his time last year on the practice squad, got about
Speaker 1: fifty five reps on defense. Will get a better look
Speaker 1: at Jason Strobridge here this training camp and then number
Speaker 1: Emmanuel five seasons as a pro out of Oklahoma State,
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old. A great blend of length and
Speaker 1: power and heavy hands and the lateral agility we talked about.
Speaker 1: He condensed in size of three technique a lot last
Speaker 1: year in addition to playing off that edge, and he
Speaker 1: enjoyed that breakout season with sixty six quarterback pressures that
Speaker 1: was third among all edge defenders via Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: and his twenty six run stops checked in inside the
Speaker 1: top twenty as well. He was a consistent snap eater
Speaker 1: who played both off the edge and inside and filled
Speaker 1: up that stat suet with the five batted passes, three
Speaker 1: forced fumbles, including two that were scooped up and scored
Speaker 1: by his teammates. And he's got a great variety of
Speaker 1: past rush moves, but none better than the patented deadly
Speaker 1: cross chop. We go ahead and go back to the
Speaker 1: February podcast with the Manual where he talked about that move.
Speaker 1: Some good inside there from a Dolphins defensive end at
Speaker 1: that particular job, and you know, Ogba really kind of
Speaker 1: embodies what made this group so so special last year
Speaker 1: in terms of the fact that a lot of these
Speaker 1: guys played, you know, forty fifty snaps a game and
Speaker 1: and they didn't really have to challenge their depth that
Speaker 1: often on this particular position group. But this year I
Speaker 1: think the group is deeper, so maybe you get even fresher,
Speaker 1: you get some more reps. We'll see how it plays
Speaker 1: outcome camp, come preseason, and come the regular season. How
Speaker 1: about a guy that maybe you haven't heard a lot
Speaker 1: from in a while. Jonathan led Better Number had one
Speaker 1: game his rookie season out of Georgia a U d
Speaker 1: f A. He'll be twenty four years old opening day,
Speaker 1: and he went from U d f A where you
Speaker 1: have to climb the depth chart to start her on
Speaker 1: opening day of that rookie campaign, and he had a
Speaker 1: health of a game against the Ravens and that opener
Speaker 1: fifty one snaps in that game, he had a sack,
Speaker 1: he had two more quarterback pressures and four run stops
Speaker 1: in that game. And if he can recover from the
Speaker 1: knee injury that cost him last year when he was
Speaker 1: working out in the off season after missing fifteen games
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. But he's an intriguing player because of
Speaker 1: what he offers from a physical skill set standpoint. He's
Speaker 1: big and posing. He's long, he's two two pounds six
Speaker 1: ft four, can condense inside, play the edge a little
Speaker 1: bit too, so he has some pop in his game
Speaker 1: and a couple more guys here, Tyshan Render number ninety six.
Speaker 1: He has one year experience so far, mostly on practice
Speaker 1: squad out of Middle Tennessee. Twenty four years old on
Speaker 1: opening day and he made the debut with most of
Speaker 1: his work coming on special teams on defense. Didn't play
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but as final year in college, he
Speaker 1: had ten TFLs, three and a half sacks, he forced
Speaker 1: two fumbles, had an interception, and he also won mts
Speaker 1: US Defensive Player of the Week six times and won
Speaker 1: the team's Grinder Award for his work in the program
Speaker 1: spring practices. So you know he's going to come willing
Speaker 1: and ready to work every single day when he shows
Speaker 1: up out their great hustle players saw it last year
Speaker 1: at camp every single day hustles but around special teams
Speaker 1: on defense and otherwise. We finish up here with one
Speaker 1: more player who spent the entire year on the Dolphins
Speaker 1: practice squad, Nick co out of Auburn. And if you
Speaker 1: notice the theme here, a lot of these guys can
Speaker 1: play that big heavy end position, two eight pounds at
Speaker 1: that spot. Number one year experience, all on the practice
Speaker 1: squad out of Auburn and played alongside Marlon Davidson and
Speaker 1: Derrick Brown and that really disruptive front of the Auburn
Speaker 1: Tigers a couple of years back. He'll be twenty four
Speaker 1: years old come opening day, and he did rex shop
Speaker 1: in college, twenty one TFLs and nine sacks rushing all
Speaker 1: over the formation there at Auburn. He finished his college
Speaker 1: career with fifty five QB pressures and fifty run stops,
Speaker 1: and again on the practice squad the entire year for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. So again, this group just like the
Speaker 1: in your defensive line, just like the receivers, just like
Speaker 1: the offensive line, every position we've talked about so far,
Speaker 1: depth competition skill at the top that you know you
Speaker 1: can count on for the way they've produced on their
Speaker 1: previous resumes in the NFL, but also upside intrigue and
Speaker 1: competition abound. Man Training camp is almost here. We are
Speaker 1: one week away from practices. Next Wednesday, we have a
Speaker 1: Dolphins practice on the field at the new facility. I
Speaker 1: cannot wait. We're going to have training camp notes up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com Travis's notebook, as well as
Speaker 1: daily updates on the podcast here, So keep it locked
Speaker 1: right here. The Drive Time podcast. We are with you
Speaker 1: every single day throughout the rest of the football season,
Speaker 1: and if the Dolphins are practicing, we have a podcast.
Speaker 1: You might recall last training camp we were six days
Speaker 1: a week. Some day some weeks we had the scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and this year will have preseason games and crossover joint
Speaker 1: practices plenty to come here on the podcast. You do
Speaker 1: not want to miss any of it. That time of
Speaker 1: year is coming right around the corner. And one last
Speaker 1: note before we get out of here. The NFL Network
Speaker 1: a now earlier this week they're going to air a
Speaker 1: record twenty three live preseason games, So you're August has
Speaker 1: already booked in full full of football games, especially to
Speaker 1: national television games. The Dolphins will have. Out of their
Speaker 1: three this season, the Week one game against the Bears
Speaker 1: will air on NFL Network. That's gonna be August fourteenth
Speaker 1: at Saturday at one o'clock Eastern at Soldier Field. The
Speaker 1: Week two game will not be nationally televised, will be
Speaker 1: local here in Miami CBS four against the Falcons and
Speaker 1: the Week three game, and all these will be on
Speaker 1: CBS four for you guys here locally in South Florida,
Speaker 1: but The Week three game will be on the CBS
Speaker 1: National broadcast. That's a four o'clock kickoff against the Bengals
Speaker 1: on August twenty nights. So that's your preseason information. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for those games. Man. It's been a long
Speaker 1: time since we had preseason football and I love it.
Speaker 1: I know I'm rare in that sense, but preseason ball
Speaker 1: coming on the pike, just by training camp practices, just
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