WEBVTT - Training Camp Preview 2021 Edge Defenders 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:15.760 Looking cuts down Miami un What is up, Dolphans And 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.560 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.960 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:29.120 it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.600 as always I am here to bring you your daily 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:35.239 dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:38.000 are cooking with gas now as we are onto the 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.720 defense and the edge defenders in this defense, will break 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.559 down the Miami pass rush, the scheme that produced the 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.960 tenth most sacks in the National Football League one year ago, 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:51.720 the idea of pressure above all the individuals that make 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.400 it happen, and much much more. Plus another roster move 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.800 this week ahead of training camp. All of that in 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.760 a heck of a lot more here on this edition 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:06.320 of the Drive Time Podcast. So just before we dive 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.000 into one of the the real glamour positions in the 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.640 NFL and one of the positions that gets the marquee 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.240 as kind of build as a premium position, so to speak, 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.320 we have an addition upfront at a position that is 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.240 there to attempt to thwart the edge rushers into mown paris. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:25.640 He is now a Miami Dolphin. The team announced on 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.040 Monday they have signed the offensive tackle. He's six ft six, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:33.920 fifteen pounds. He was undrafted in out of Stony Brook 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.959 with Washington. He played there for two years and then 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.959 with the Falcons, Browns and Washington football team last season, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.560 and now he's here in Miami. He's played pretty sparingly 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.880 in his career. Didn't get any reps last season with 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.520 an NFL club, just a handful of snaps over his 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.520 first two years on special teams. But he will come 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:56.000 in and compete in a deep offensive line. All right. 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.440 So we're talking about edge rushers today, and I feel 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:04.920 like amid a roster or a system or offense or 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.760 defense that is maybe misunderstood by a large percentage of 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.160 the casual observer. And I like to use that term 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:14.079 a lot here on the podcast too. I suppose kind 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.560 of set up an explanation of something that might be 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:21.079 considered a little more esoteric to the fan that likes 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:22.600 to just go ahead and crack a beer and watch 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.600 the game on Sunday and not get much deeper into 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:26.720 it than that. If that's you, and you come to 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:29.960 this podcast for educational purposes because you can learn the 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:31.640 game while you drive to work, while you get your 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.600 workout in, while you go for your walk, whatever the 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.360 case may be. That's kind of my thought process on 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.360 the podcast is to help give you more inside without 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:41.240 forcing you to go do the work yourself. So here 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.480 we are, and I think that one of the reasons 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.840 this defense can be so misunderstood is that it's you know, 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.320 the NFL in general is a far cry from what 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:52.240 it used to be in terms of, you know, used 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.160 to have a four three defense, and that meant you 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:57.359 played four down linemen every single play with three linebackers 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.440 every single play, and the only time you went to 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:01.160 a nickel defense where you had to sub out one 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.920 of those linebackers for a defensive back was when it 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.839 was third and eight and the team brought their third 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.840 receiver onto the field, or a situation where those four 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.200 guys up front, they did not leave the field unless 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.480 they got injured. So if you were a backup nose tackle, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.079 you only played snaps if the guy in front of 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.400 you went down. So defense has evolved tenfold from that point, 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:25.079 and Brian Flores and Josh Bowyer and this Dolphins defensive 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.480 staff have kind of taken that to another level. In 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.040 terms of the mix of coverages and fronts and blitzes 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.200 and different calls. They have different formations. I mean, I've 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.200 seen the argument on Twitter so many times about is 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.400 this a base four three or three four? It's neither 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:40.040 of those two things, because in the NFL today, your 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.000 four three and three four defenses are never based because 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:44.960 that means you don't have your nickel cornerback on the 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.560 field or nickel safety whatever it might be, your big nickel. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.000 And if that's the case, I mean we're running five 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.440 defensive backs in the National Football League at a clip 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.280 better than six, So that's gonna be your base. And 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.720 then there are variations up front off of that, because 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.920 it's never just a three four or a four three. 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.880 You can go to four, you can go oh four, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:03.600 you can go five, oh like there are. There are 0:04:03.720 --> 0:04:07.280 endless combinations up front, and I think that gets lost 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.000 on a lot of fans that again just want to 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:11.080 enjoy the game on Sunday and kind of check out 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:12.880 the rest of the week. That's why we're here for 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:17.640 you on the podcast. So this defense has so many 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.279 different fronts that I mean, if I were to go 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:20.800 through and list them all and try to go off 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:23.120 the lineups of each of the different possibilities they have. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.000 That would be a whole podcast in and of itself, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:27.520 but I want to go ahead and just start here 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.159 and talk about how ideally, or I guess kind of 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.880 philosophically and the in football, your coverage typically dictates the front, 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.360 so you go coverage first, then your your front, and 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:40.880 this defense has been built kind of according to that philosophy. 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:43.039 In terms of where the money has been allocated. We 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.320 talked about this, how the secondary has or the cornerback 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.039 position has the highest pay rate in the NFL, like 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.839 the receivers do on offense the passing league. We covered 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.240 that on the Receiver podcast, and then you kind of 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.599 round out the rest of the defense with some of 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.520 these guys are high resource expenditures. You know, Ray Kuan 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.080 Davis is I around draft pick Christian Wilkins a first 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:04.279 round draft pick. That's not to say they don't value 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.839 the positions. There's just a little bit of of allocation 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.920 in terms of where the money is on this defense, 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.640 and you can kind of read it accordingly. And I 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.280 saw one tweet from I think it was a Pro 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.640 Football Focus account. I can't remember exactly which one. It 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.960 was one of the individuals who had a comment saying 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:22.320 that you can manufacture rush, you cannot manufacture coverage. That 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:25.120 was met with some backlash, but I kind of understood 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:27.839 where he was going because Brian Floores and Josh Bowyer 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.640 last year did such a great job of creating pass 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.440 rush and pressure on quarterbacks through the scheme and getting 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.960 quarterbacks uncomfortable with a variety of guys that can come 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.880 and bring that pressure on the podcast. Now, we'll cover 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.200 more about the salary allocations later here on the Cornerback 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.280 Podcast later this week, but I want to talk more 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.599 about this front here because it's not just guys that 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:53.280 can go through and or rather line up and run 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:55.479 through an offensive tackle, or a guy that can run 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.000 right around that offensive tackle like Cameron Wake for instance, 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.120 was a guy that just on one on one matchups repeatedly, 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:03.720 over and over again. And that's great to have on 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:07.640 your defense, but it just isn't the way this defense functions. 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.560 Not to say those guys can't do that, but that's 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.599 just not the calling card that guess it's gonna be 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.320 something different. Coach Flores loves to mix things up. He's 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.479 talked about it and So with that in mind, you 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.839 talk about games up front, loopers, stunts, twist slants, and 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.359 that's all kind of generated to force the protection to 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.159 get lost on a certain body, free up somebody for 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.960 a free run on the quarterback, and that can often 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.640 generate not just pressure or sacks, but big plays and takeaways, 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.599 as we saw last year. So I think you come 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.920 into year three under Brian Flores and now Josh Boyer 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.680 as the d C and his second season here in 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.159 Miami under that position, and I think it's safe to 0:06:45.200 --> 0:06:47.839 assume that even though there has been some more turnover, 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:49.920 it was nothing close to what we saw last year 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.520 in terms of the roster and the fact that there 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.400 is a full off season of work on field with 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:57.800 the O, T A s and all the stuff the 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.159 Dolphins people do this offseason that they were not to 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.680 do last season. I have to imagine that helps a 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.120 team that is so multiple, is so versatile, and has 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:06.760 so many different calls. I mean, shoot, we saw it 0:07:06.839 --> 0:07:10.320 last year. It was about I guess Week five ish 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.480 was when the defense really took off in that San 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.080 Francisco game when they just beaten better than Niner's quarterbacks 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.200 who went from Garopplo to then Nick Molin's later in 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.200 the game. The Dolphins just did so well or was 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:20.880 it C. J. Bethard, I think it was Betther third, 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.520 But the Dolphins did so well in that game to 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.560 kind of come together. And we even had a Dolphins 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.720 defender on the podcast last year who said that trip 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.080 to San Francisco and staying out there for a couple 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.679 of days kind of helped galvanize the team and create 0:07:31.720 --> 0:07:34.640 that camaraderie and get the defense playing at the level 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.840 that we grew to know the basically the last eleven 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.040 weeks of last season. So when you look at this position, 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.360 I mean, there's so many things that can be valued 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.640 in this defense. Lateral agility, I think is one of 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.760 the top ones, because guys have to be able to 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.960 work not just forwards and backwards, but side to side 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.840 on those stunts, because often the stunt is gonna be 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.280 a defensive tackle who slants out and then the defensive 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:57.280 vent comes up over the top of him and works 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.480 inside trying to get the quickest route to the quarterback 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.080 through at a gap. It's not just about creating those 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.440 one on one situations as much as it is putting 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.280 more bodies on one particular part of the offensive line 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.080 that they can block with their slide protection or trying 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.160 to get them to blow a protection call, which happens. 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.480 It happens. I mean, look at the Emmanuel aug Basch 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.880 trip sack last year against the Rams, the Andrew van 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.400 gink Wil touchdown. I mean, he comes clean from the 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.160 C gap. That's not supposed to happen, like you are 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.760 supposed to block that gap on defense, Like you can 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.320 see corners or safety's coming off the edge buzzing that 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.240 go unblocked because they didn't get picked up with a 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.280 defensive end. That's not supposed to happen like ever, So 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:35.520 it creates those opportunities for this defense, and that lateral 0:08:35.559 --> 0:08:38.280 agility and flexibility to play inside outside from so many 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.640 of these guys helps contribute to that defense. Now, however, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.440 I think you look at the addition of a Jalen 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.760 Phillips with the eighteenth pick in Miami got that pick 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.120 in very quickly. Were we were there on Draft night 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.719 at hard Rock Stadium to pick before goes off, and 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.400 all of a sudden, Miami's up and the pick is 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.920 already in on the ESPN telecast, and I think that 0:08:57.960 --> 0:08:59.440 kind of gives you the idea of how they felt 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.960 about Jalen Phillips. That's a great answer to me, Phillips 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.120 is to the problem that so many defenses have run 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.439 into with the likes of a Patrick Mahomes or a 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.160 Josh Allen and Russell Wilson, those types of quarterbacks that 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.800 are just elusives. I'll get out and can extend and 0:09:14.840 --> 0:09:17.000 make the big play that really burns you in the 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.360 end because you can send the house and it can work, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.880 and it does a lot of the time. But those 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:24.079 guys are so adept at extending and making plays otherwise 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.080 that all it does when they do break the tackles 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.880 and get free of that of that pressure and of 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.240 that rush, is it puts bodies behind the quarterback. Lessons 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.719 the number of bodies you have downfield and coverage. And 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.080 that's when the big plays downfield happened, because you can 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.000 bottle up Russell Wilson for an entire game, but then 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.880 he can, you know, make the big play down the 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.520 field at the end of the half that put seven 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.080 points on the board and that winds up being the 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.880 difference in the ball game. So granted, you know this 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.840 mixture of rush and coverage and all that fun stuff 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:56.200 was very successful at just about every juncture last year 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:58.679 for Miami and this defense they were. They were really 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:01.160 productive throughout the course of this season. Heck, they even 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.520 turned over Patrick Mahomes three times. They had a chance 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.600 on two or three occasions already called the the Van 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:08.440 Noy one that kind of went off the fingertips. And 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.920 then there was one down the field to Xavien Howard 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:12.800 late in that game that he had hands on that 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:15.880 just couldn't quite squeeze. That interception off Josh Allen in 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.040 the September game, you get two or three of those 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.800 dropped interceptions. That game changes all of a sudden too. 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:23.000 So it's not like they just want to go away 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:25.880 from what they were. I'm not saying that whatsoever at all. 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.560 But the more you can do, right, So, now you 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:31.520 pair those two things together, you can incorporate the ability 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:36.120 to rush for effectively and play coverage with the confusing 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.840 blitz is the stunts, the twist the games and different 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.160 guys dropping whether it's a Christian Wilkins or a Zach 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.240 Seeler at times. Then you add another element that the 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.920 offense has to account for. So you know, let's say 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.880 you get a protection call blown and it creates a 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.840 one on one chance for both Agba and Phillips off 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.280 the edge with seven men in coverage. Man, you have 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.880 to love your opportunity there to make a big play 0:10:57.920 --> 0:10:59.719 on defense to get a stop, whatever it might be. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:01.880 And a good example of mixing it up in terms 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.200 of how you go from one look to another to 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:06.960 confuse the opposing quarterback would be that Chargers game. The 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:09.440 Xavian Howard pick at the end of that game on 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.280 Justin Herbert to close that thing out, because there was 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.440 a lot of man calls in that game throughout the 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:16.600 course of that game in Miami did so well to 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.480 blanket those receivers that the Chargers have, and that's a 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.560 good receiving corps. And this Dolphin secondary got after in 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.679 that game. But playing a lot of man, lots of 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:26.880 Cover zero as we saw last year, the zero blitz 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.760 zero pressure, bringing guys with no safety over the top 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.000 and playing man coverage on the back end. Then in 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.839 that very crucial spot you see the cornerbacks drop out 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.160 and the safety kind of take the middle of the 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:40.200 field that indicates Cover three. The quarterback throws it maybe 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.800 anticipating some man coverage out there, and all of a sudden, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.400 your cornerbacks in a back pedal where he has eyes 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:47.880 on the quarterback, not the man, which indicates his own. 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.320 He drives on it. He's breaking on the ball before 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.080 the ball even comes out, and you get yourself a 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.400 game ceiling interception. Great execution, but the call was just 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.520 flat out brilliant there from Josh Boyer and Brian Flores. 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.720 I think another thing you see is the inclusion in 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.240 this defense at this position, for for instance, of guys 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.760 that can play both forward and backwards. Andrew Van Gekl 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.960 is a great example. I loved his tape at Wisconsin, 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:12.280 and he brought that right into the NFL, even in 0:12:12.360 --> 0:12:15.280 his preseason tape from twent nineteen where he's he's chipping 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.280 a guy that runs to the flat, he's locating the 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.960 slant in and behind him on that combination. Just recognizing 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.880 the route combinations, getting depth and playing forward and closing 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.400 down on those guys. Jalen Phillips can certainly do that 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.400 as well. Vince Bagel has done some of that. Some 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:29.560 of the guys on this roster have done that again 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.480 and again and again, broken record. The more you can 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.800 do right, So let's go ahead and get into this preview. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.319 You can find the written copy up on Miami Dolphins 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.400 dot com as well as our our training camp preview 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:44.200 rolls right along here. Not very many personnel changes at 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.000 this position, and the quick disclaimer here is that we're 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.320 talking about edge defenders today. We did interior defensive lineman 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.679 on Tuesday, and that's basically your bigger body guys. You're 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.160 you're heavy ends that work inside from the four technique 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.720 going inward. This position is the opposite just war technique 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:04.240 guys defensive lineman, but typically the more lean builds that 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.320 go outward towards the five, six, seven, eight nine technique, 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.920 So you get the idea there. Additions to this group, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.280 Brendan Scarlett comes over from the Houston Texans, Jalen Phillips 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.000 the eighteenth pick in the draft, and the loan departure 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:18.120 from this group was Kyle van Noy, who goes back 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.960 to New England after one season in Miami. The coaching staff. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.439 You know, you gotta put Austin Clark in here too, 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.520 because we talked about him on yesterday's podcast. But he 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.880 is the defensive line coach, so he worked with both 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.679 groups obviously, but that's kind of a combination of Dolphins 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.920 have of guys that work with multiple coaches at this position. 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.880 They talked about it last season with Robb with Rob Leonard, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.839 with Austin Clark as well, and we detailed Austin Clark 0:13:40.920 --> 0:13:43.000 on the Tuesday podcast and go check that out if 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.479 you have not heard it yet. But the outside linebackers 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.080 coach is Rob Leonard, so go ahead and focus on 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:50.960 him here today. He's entering his third season in Miami. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.480 He served as a defensive line assistant last year and 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.160 prior to Miami. This is pretty rare for a coach. 0:13:57.320 --> 0:13:59.160 He spent the first six years of his career with 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.840 the New York Giant, where he worked as a defensive assistant, assistant, 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.959 defensive line coach and the outside linebackers coach, so he's 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.400 in familiar territory there here in Miami. This group, at 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:13.040 a glance, look, they filled up the stat sheet the 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.680 production chart pretty well last season forty one sacks that 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.800 was tenth best in the NFL. You know who the 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.800 players are. Emmanuel Aga had a career year with nine sacks. 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.680 He made six tackles for loss force three fumbles, and 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.200 bad down five passes. Second year linebacker Andrew Van Gigel 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.960 also force three fumbles in route to his five and 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.640 a half sack season with nearly double the tackles for 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.040 lost from his rookie year, going from four and twenty 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.120 nine team up to seven. Vince Bagel comes back from 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:43.680 a torn achilles injury that robbed him of a promising 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.800 start of his Dolphins tenure in twenty nine team. He 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.960 misses out on twenty altogether, but he is back this season. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.600 He actually led Miami and quarterback pressures in twenty nineteen 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.560 with thirty four, and that was after he arrived one 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:58.120 week prior to the season via trade with the New 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.120 Orleans Saints for linebacker Kiko alons Oh and then newcomer 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.840 Bernand Scarlett. Has played fifty six career games, both on 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.000 the edge of the defense for the Houston Texans and 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:09.320 as an ACE special teamer. We talked about Jalen Phillips. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.600 He was the first edge defender selected either outside linebacker 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.360 or defensive end in this year's draft, and that comes 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.680 off the heels of a very dominant season at the 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.040 U for Phillips, where he notched eight sacks, fifteen and 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:23.160 a half tackles for loss and had to pick and 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.640 three passes defense, and he gets that length that we 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.640 talked about with Ogball with the rest of this front. 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.040 These guys are long and strong with powerful hands. They're 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.880 crafty pass rushers with the lateral agility. He fits right 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.240 into that mold. Jason Strowbridge can play inside outside. Coach 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:38.480 Flores talked about that from the moment they drafted strow 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.360 Bridge out of North Carolina. He got himself fifty five 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.920 snaps last year on defense as a rookie and eleven 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.120 more on special teams. And then a couple of other 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.320 players here. Second year Tyshan Render out of Middle Tennessee 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:52.560 played eight snaps as a rookie while Nick co was 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.200 a member of the Dolphins practice squad much like Render 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.040 was for most of the season. So that's the group 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.640 at a glance. The individuals here as we go forward, 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.400 Jalen Phillips number fifteen. That was a bit of a 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.800 curveball for me as I prepared the written piece, because 0:16:05.800 --> 0:16:08.680 I go in order of jersey number, and usually you 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.080 start sometimes you get in the seventies, every once in 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.280 a while in the forties, and we'll get to hear linebackers, 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.960 but thinking about defense events and edge players like fifteen 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.680 was not on my radar, but that's what he wears. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.440 So check out fifteen on the field on practice or 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.960 a training camp on the practice field. He's a rookie 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:26.720 out of Miami twenty two years old opening day, and 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:28.920 this guy's looks like something built out of the lab. 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.200 I mean the prototypical look and athletic measurements to really 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.160 play the part of a true edge defender in the NFL. 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.000 Sky was the number one rated high school prospect coming 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.720 out of high school back in his day, just edging 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:45.080 out Nagy Harris back then. He led a very destructive 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.920 Miami Hurricanes defense last season and then blew the doors 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:49.800 off his pro day. What a great final season it 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.080 was for Phillips, leading him up to the eighteenth pick 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:56.640 in the NFL Draft. He measured in the percentile or 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.120 better in the forty yard dash four five six at 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:03.280 two hundred and sixty five pounds. That's that's absurd. He 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.840 also ran four one three shuttle ones on the broad 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.840 jump and a ten yard split of one five nine. Again, 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:12.880 all of those percent tient or better. At six ft five, 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.879 two hundred and sixty five pounds, so you have the 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.800 straight line speed, the change of direction, your lateral agility, 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.520 your explosive lower half, and ten yards split and the 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.640 broad jump there to measure how he can get off 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.240 the ball and really put the tackle in a bind 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:27.879 from the minute the ball is snapped. In addition to 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:31.800 the sack production, Phillips registered forty quarterback pressures via Pro 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:35.400 Football Focus on just two hundred and eighty six pass 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:39.120 rush reps. That is a pressure every six point eight 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:41.480 drop backs. And he's more than just a rusher. He 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:43.800 had eighteen run stops last year. Those, of course, are 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.840 tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage that 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:50.800 landed in the ninety percent tile among college edge defenders 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.600 on PFF last season. We go on to Andrew Van 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:56.320 Ginkle speaking of the forties Jersey numbers number forty three 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.800 out of Wisconsin. He's got two years in the bag 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.880 so far, entering his third twenty six years old come 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.760 opening day, and since he came back off the i 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.000 R in week number twelve because he was having a 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.080 great camp his rookie year. Then he got injured, missed 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.640 the first eleven weeks of the season. He comes back 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.760 and starts making, starts producing right away for this Dolphins defense, 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.800 and as he goes deeper into his career, his production 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:22.159 per snaps play continues to impress me. I mean, he 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.160 recorded one sack, six QB pressures, and seven run stops 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.520 with four tackles for a loss as a rookie, and 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:29.560 then he had that big year to jump We've talked 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.080 about on this podcast a lot, and he did it 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.400 with five and a half sacks. He picked up nine 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:37.080 team pressures on two hundred and twelve pass rush reps. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.359 That's one every eleven point two reps. And he talked 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.760 about this as well as Coach Clark and Coach Leonard 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.040