WEBVTT - Training Camp Preview 2021 Cornerbacks 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:15.760 Looking touchdown Miami drown. What is up, Dolph Fans? And 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:19.280 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.520 Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:27.920 is it going? Everybody? It is the last show of 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:31.360 this week, the final week before we get into training 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.600 camp next week. I am your host, Travis Winfield, and 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.480 as always, I am here to bring you your daily 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.479 dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.840 saved perhaps the best for last, with the secondary coming 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:49.040 on the next two podcast. Here one today, one next week. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:51.919 Today we stopped by the Cornerbacks room to discuss Miami's 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:55.520 talent both on the field but also in the coaching ranks. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:01:00.520 Experience accomplished, resumes, promising youngster. This group as a little 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.320 bit of everything as we dive into one of the 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:06.640 true driving forces of this football team. All of that 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.720 and a heck of a lot more on this edition 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:15.240 of the Drivetime Podcast. Drive Time, as always, is brought 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.959 to you by Auto Nation, and we have just two 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:21.120 more position groups to go in this preview series. And 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:27.040 I guess funny enough, I tend to the series approach 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.360 for podcasting and writing always follows the same arc for me, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:32.640 maybe it's the same for other content creators out there. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.039 Super pumped in the beginning, you hit a bit of 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:36.920 a lull in the midia in the middle, and then 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.679 you finish very strongly because you can see the end 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.280 of the tunnel finally. And not to say I don't like, 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.720 dislike any of the position group we covered, It's just 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:47.600 eleven part series can be a lot to take on, 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.200 and I'm happy to do it. It really educates me 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:52.960 as far as the roster right before training camp, with 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.760 all of the final details and notes and film I 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:58.600 do so I really appreciate doing the series, but I 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.680 let's just say I'm excited to them to the end 0:02:00.880 --> 0:02:03.320 and get to practices on the field and bring you 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.800 fresh new content for twenty one. Two more groups to 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.160 go in the preview series and the penultimate group here 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:13.639 brings us to the cornerbacks. And I wrote about this 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:17.120 a lot last year on Top News, on the Blitz, 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.880 on the post game stories, on inside the Numbers, on 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.359 the features, whatever it was we wrote about it last 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.680 year how the secondary really helped to set the table 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.200 for this defense, and of course the defense helped drive 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.880 the team to the ten victories last season finishing atop 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.960 the league and two of the very most important categories 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.400 you can you can finish atop the league in in 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.560 the National Football League takeaways and third down defense under 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.400 on third down and twenty nine takeaways a year ago. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.360 What a season it was. You have to scrap all 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.399 that and start all the way over again, because that's 0:02:50.400 --> 0:02:53.080 how this league works. You don't get to resume your start, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.839 your spot from last season. You go back to level one, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.240 regardless of how it finished, and you have to get 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.679 to the ultimate boss at the end every single year 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.080 and play the entire game on the way. Enough of 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.799 the video game analogies to finish out that thought. This 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.480 defense also finished near the top, and two other very 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.760 important categories to six and points allowed entered week seventeen 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.760 number one in points allowed, and then ten and sacks. 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:20.320 Of course, but how important are sacks? I think that's 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.760 a great argument to be had from football savants and 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.320 the like, because they are very important, Do not get 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:30.000 me wrong. Negative plays helps set the pace or the 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.240 tone or dictate the call on the following play and 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.600 really take command of that particular series if you're on defense, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.400 and it puts you in a big bind if you're 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.880 on offense, especially when you get six or seven or 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:43.960 eight yard losses, I mean six second and sixteen. That's 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.600 a tough, tough down on distance to overcome. But I 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.000 think the impacting the quarterback is even more important than that. 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.720 And the way all of this came together for the 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:59.000 Dolphins was a variety of fronts, blitzes and rushes and 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.640 ways with different and guys that can do multiple things, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:06.080 and the general goal is to just make the quarterback uncomfortable, 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.720 make him feel you. Coach Flora's talked about that a 0:04:08.760 --> 0:04:11.360 lot last year as well, and that was driven in 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:15.080 large part by what the Dolphins secondary was able to 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:17.240 do and the faith the coaching staff had in the 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.760 back end to really call up some of the aggressive 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.880 calls and the zero blitz and the zero pressure. We 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.960 talked about it on the podcast. This Dolphins secondary and 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:28.640 the conversion from former cornerbacks to safeties are guys that 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.400 play slot and safety, guys that can play outside inside. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.960 Even Byron Jones has played all over the formation in 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:36.279 his career. And so I go back to this post 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.039 I wrote up on Miami Dolphins dot Com last December 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:43.479 that coincided with a radio appearance NFL Networks Brian Baldinger 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:47.520 made on twelve forty a m KFG Sports radio and 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.599 the spot linked to an article on the station's website 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.760 where Baldy said that Miami were ahead of schedule in 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.000 year two under coach Floras and Chris Greer. And then 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.800 back to my piece, I titled it kind of working 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:04.000 off of that the Byron Jones effect, because I think 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:09.520 Byron's style of play comes with a significant degree, a 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:14.640 significant degree of misunderstanding from what his actual role and 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:17.960 responsibility and production has been here so far through one 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.880 season in Miami, And it doesn't necessarily make for the 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:23.200 highlight reel, you know, where you have the hype music 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.880 over the top and you clip that one percent of 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:29.839 a player's game to use the uses evidence to justify 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.160 his skill set. I mean, you go through the course 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.640 of Byron jones career. Two picks last year was a 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:38.279 career high. And hell, even coach Flores's touched on that 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.039 several times last year with regards to how great the 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.279 splash plays are, like don't get it, don't get it 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.360 twisted Saxon interceptions and fumbles and all that stuff are 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.280 fantastic and you have to have that as a football team. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.640 But he is more concerned about the other nine and 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:54.919 nineties snaps a player takes over the course of a 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.440 sixteen game season, and the approximate one thousand snaps per 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.440 every position you have on the field. So guys that play, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.120 you know, outside corner or your your best pass rusher 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:07.080 who plays eight hundred snaps, if they're getting ten sacks 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:10.200 or five picks, that's a very small percentage of their 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.560 overall workload. And so with Byron Jones, and this goes 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.839 back to his time in Dallas where their defense was 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:20.359 so often at least to my somewhat trained eye, the 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.440 classics Sam Madison quote and those that haven't heard Channing 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.040 Crowder on the Fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:28.080 where he talks about his first year as a pro 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:32.240 with Sam Madison, the Dolphins former All Pro cornerback. Uh 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:34.320 Sam was coming towards the end of his Dolphins career 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.800 in OH five and Channing's first year with Miami was 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:39.640 OH five and how they played ten on ten because 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:42.240 Sam would break the huddle, get out there and yell 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.200 ten on ten, ten on ten, and Channing does this 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.039 in Sam's high pitched voice, which I will not try 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.320 to emulate, but I'll save you the grief there and 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.719 let Channing take care of the comedy for you on 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.560 the Fish Tank podcast. But that was a good comparison 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.320 to Byron Jones and Dallas. And you see this in 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.880 a lot of tea is where sometimes the corner who 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.760 just matches up with and takes the best receiver on 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.039 the other side doesn't even join the huddle. He's just 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.200 out there on the island kind of peeking in because 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.200 he knows his job. And it can often be the 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.200 loneliest place in football if that matchup doesn't go well, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.200 Like cornerbacks have it so tough. If you play sixty 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.280 good snapped and the sixty fet nap, a guy gets 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.000 behind you and scores a touchdown, that's all anybody's going 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.679 to remember. So it can be the loneliest place in football. 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.400 But for Byron that island was very rarely a deserted 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.000 situation in Dallas and here in Miami, he was the 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.680 premier corner in the league with the Cowboys doing just that. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.440 Like you go back to his coverage numbers, the the 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:44.360 GPS tracking, the windows that he created for quarterbacks on 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.560 throws throughout the course of his career has been among 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.440 the league's best among cornerbacks. And that's how you wind 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.280 up with this following data from that season. The I 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:56.880 research and wrote about in the Byron Jones free agent 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.560 acquisition piece two marches ago, and these were some of 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.400 the matchups that Byron had between and nineteen, going back 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.400 off the previous two years of work in that article, 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.960 Michael Thomas two times, two catches for twenty one yards 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.120 in one game, not of the next goose egg to 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.640 al Shan Jeffrey goose egg for Odell Beckham Jr. Stefon 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.720 digs from the Vikings before the Bills one catch eleven yards, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.640 John Brown one catch for six yards. He matched up 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.640 with both Brandon Cooks and Robert Woods. Robert Woods against 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.520 the Rams because they do so much different formations swapping 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.960 and condensed formations, and they forced Byron Jones to come 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:31.640 in and play a bit of a different role against 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:35.079 that team. Two catches for nineteen yards together against Byron 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.520 Jones and coverage Julio Jones one for nineteen, t Y 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:43.040 Hilton one for twenty three And there aren't any interceptions 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:45.360 in that list. But when your mission is to lock 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.960 down the opposing number one receiver. You take that and 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.280 you never ever ever turned back. That's a way bigger 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.400 impact on a game for sixty snaps, a game to 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.320 eat race of true difference maker on the offense, way 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:59.120 bigger difference than just getting one takeaway and giving up 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.640 eight catches for ninety yards and a touchdown, whatever it 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:03.640 might be. So we saw more of that this year, 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.720 But the Dolphins defense was more complex than just saying, hey, 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.960 buyer in ten on ten, you're out there, more well 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.240 rounded than to just to say you go do this 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.400 and worry about nothing else. That's just not how this 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.440 defense works. You have to play his zone, you have 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.240 to play man, you have to tackle, you have to 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.840 be a little bit of everything. And that's not a 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.520 bad approach to have your ten on ten. It worked 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:24.640 for Miami back in the early two thousand's with Sam 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.800 Madison and then of course Patrick Surtam later, but Miami 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.920 just had a lot of talent in this part of 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:33.440 the team at that cornerback position. So again, he's he's 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:37.240 playing man coverage, he's pressing, he's zone turning, falling off 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.120 into the curl, he's coming up to the flat and 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:43.200 challenging underneath receivers. He's defending the run. He's playing a 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.599 crucial part of what made the Dolphins defense tick to 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:48.480 the tune of the top ten production and sax points, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:52.640 takeaways and third down defense. So Brian Baldinger last year 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.400 had this to say in that interview, Brian Flores has 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.680 a clear vision for how he wants to play defense, 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.240 and it starts with guys that can lock down on 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.959 the outside. That's the foundation pass rush. It's not about sacks. 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.199 It's about pressure and what that pressure does to other 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.840 teams quarterbacks and offenses wherever you heard that before. And 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.640 then of course that sped up process for the quarterback 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.600 is compounded by the fact that you have sticky coverage 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.160 that loves to challenge receivers at the line and make 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:21.720 them earn every engine. That's not just necessarily, you know, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.480 an individual trade. We've been talking about Byron Jones because 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.920 I just love the way Byron approaches the game, and 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.000 I do think that his production and skill set and 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.560 value I think is a little bit underrated for this 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.800 Miami Dolphins team based upon what I see on social 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.360 media and otherwise. But the Dolphins defensive backfield. And we'll 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.440 talk about this in the coaching section. I mean, you 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.560 go back to twenty nine team coach Flores with Josh 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:48.439 Bowyer then as the defensive backs coach. They were pulling 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.520 guys off the street. And then literally five days later, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.880 like we had a Tuesday signing. I think it was 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:58.000 Tay Hayes before the Bengals game in twenty nineteen, the 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.960 Week sixteen game where Fitzpatrick through for eight thousand yards 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.280 and the Bengals came back and it went to overtime 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.120 and Isaiah Ford had the big catch and then Jason 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.560 Sanders wins the game with the field goal at the 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.439 end there. But in that game, and this was the 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.160 deal throughout the entire season, right But in that game, 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:16.679 Tay Hayes, I believe signed on Tuesday and then went 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.040 out and played like thirty snaps on Sunday. And the 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.760 Dolphins got production from guys like that all season long. 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.160 Like Ken Crawley comes over from the Saints that year, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.400 uh Adrian Colbert signs late in the airs of safety 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.920 and produces the final month of the season as Miami 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.880 goes three and two with two wins over division champions 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:39.280 that season. So This is not like something new, and 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.800 I don't expect it to be, you know, new to one. 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.600 It's something they've just done. They've curated success and they've 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.800 curated production from that position. And again to go back 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.280 to the New England days with Josh Boyer and Brian Flores, 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.440 I mean j C. Jackson, undrafted free agent, Malcolm Butler, 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.520 undrafted free agent. They brings to Fon Gilmore and who 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.040 was a first round draft pick of the Bills and 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.240 played really well for of Bills. Then he gets to 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.360 New England and he becomes like the best cornerback in 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.320 the National Football League. I mean, these guys just coach 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.000 up defensive backs. It's the proof is in the pudding. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:11.599 Like I can talk about it until I'm blue in 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.360 the face, but the production is there. The evidence is 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.040 there on tape and the stats and and these guys, 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.080 they continue to curate more talent at the position and 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.640 that only continues to make the production go up and 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:24.960 up and up. And that pairs so well with the 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.319 past rush scheme you have upfront that just makes the 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:30.640 quarterback uncomfortable enough into decisions that puts the ball in 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.319 tight windows and that's how you wind up leading the NFL. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.480 In takeaway, so I wrote about the Byron Jones effect 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:40.120 and how he missed the Buffalo game, the first Buffalo 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.000 game last year, SAMs the first series and ironically he 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.120 makes a tackle short of the sticks in that first 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.160 series and then an incomplete pass goes in his direction 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:49.960 on that first series to get a three and out 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.000 and force the Bills to punt. But on that third 0:12:52.000 --> 0:12:54.079 down play, he comes up kind of limping and holding 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:56.360 the growing and it made him miss that that game, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.199 the rest of that game, the Jacksonville game on Thursday night, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.760 and the Seattle game in Week four, And so you 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.720 take all three of those games and consider that he 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.800 did play the first one, but you consider it three 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:09.120 miss games because it was literally three snaps but with 0:13:09.240 --> 0:13:11.520 Byron on the field and without Byron on the field. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.480 At the point of this article was points per game 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:18.719 allowed without him and sixteen point three points per game 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.600 allowed with him in the lineup. And that leads into 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.440 the second point about the ability to mix coverage and 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.520 further confuse the quarterback. And this coincides with something we're 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.880 gonna cover more on Monday's Safety Preview podcast and Gerald 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.400 Alexander preaching communication and how bad communication leads to mistakes, 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.079 and mistakes at that level of the defense leads to 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.560 big plays. And again just trying to get a feel 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.120 for what I'm seeing on tape. It's a lot with 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:46.600 this Dolphins defense, and I can't possibly know exactly what 0:13:46.720 --> 0:13:48.760 the call is when I'm not part of the meetings 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.280 or the install or any part of that process. But 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.280 you look for indicators, right Like a cornerback backs out 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.559 before the snap and turns his butt to the sideline. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.200 That's gonna be zone coverage. That's a zone turn versus 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.440 a man turn. And you know the difference in what 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.920 you're looking at if you study the game enough to 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.720 not have a call but understand what the defense is doing. 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.920 So there's this fun coverage where I went back into 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.240 the classroom to kind of teach myself for I guess 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.800 the lab as g A would say, and taught myself 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.000 this coverage I wasn't very familiar with because I think 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.880 that's I think that's what I saw on a particular 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.520 play in the Chargers game, a buzz six, And to 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.840 break it into Layman's terms, it's quarter half quarter and 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.760 that basically defines your deep part of the field. You 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.600 have one man that falls back into a quarter portion 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.720 of the field, a man in the middle of the field, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.280 typically your free safety who plays the half, and then 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.120 the other portion of the deep part of the field 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.240 is covered by another quarter player. So two quarters and 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.120 a half makes a fool. You have the entire back 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.560 end of the coverage. Round it out and the beauty 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.400 of this defense and what I think Byron Jones showcased 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.360 in that regardless that he can get to all those 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:54.000 different looks while everything looks the exact same at the snap, 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.440 he's up in your face. He's gonna show challenging as 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:58.720 far as pressing at the line, He's gonna show mere technique. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.000 He's gonna bail techniques. Sometime you can mix it up 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:02.920 in the way that pass rushers mix it up and 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.720 what they throw at posing offensive lineman. So the quarterback 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.320 is dealing with pressure packages. He has to get his 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.800 protection right to afford him that valuable two and a 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.720 half seconds, and then he has to hope his receivers 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.160 can uncover in that time against some of the best 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:18.720 sticky cover corners in the National Football League and even 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.600 safeties that you have to come down to challenge routes 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.640 at the line to take out your tight end or 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.000 you're running back. It's just a lot to deal with. 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.080 So that's why you get some of these games last 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.080 year where Miami just completely destroyed the quarterback stat line, 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.440 uh compared to what they were doing previously in that season. So, yes, 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:37.640 the Dolphins did rank near the top of the league 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.920 in terms of man coverage played via you know, Pro 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:44.120 Football Focus, Football Outsiders, Sharp Football, a lot of publications 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:47.120 can verify this for us. But even then, the top 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.080 three teams where the Dolphins, Patriots, and Lions, and even 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:53.120 their man coverage rates are just a smidge over fifty, 0:15:53.560 --> 0:15:55.520 so you're still going to be in zone half the time. 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.680 So that's my little tutorial on coverage, how it works, 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.400 some kind of explanation of this defense and what makes 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.960 it unique and what makes it productive in terms of 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.640 that portion of the field. And I hope that pairs 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.480 well with the breakdowns we did on the line and 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.840 at the second level of the linebackers. But it all 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.000 works together, Like Bo Burnham says, everything works when everything 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.240 works together. And when you consider how many sub packages 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.280 of Dolphins go with you know, six, seven, even sometimes eight, 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.200 defensive backs on the field late in games. You need 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.000 depth in this group, and that's why you see so 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.200 many transactions at this position. We saw it all lash 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.320 training camper, the run up to training camp, bringing in 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.720 guys for a look like a Javarros Davis or a 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:36.920 Tino Ellis for instance, Davis came went and then came 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.360 back last year. Now he's here on a futures contract. 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.040 Then this year you're getting even more considerable investment with 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.480 Justin Coleman, Jason mccordy, and then on the back end 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.800 with Javon Holland as well, after getting Byron Jones and 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:52.040 Brandon Jones, and you can just never have enough defensive backs. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.880 And coach Flora's Chris Career, Josh Boyer, all these guys 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.520 have made an emphasis on routing out this group with 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.200 talent to execute the scheme. So I asked coach was 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.720 about that on draft weekend and he said, yeah, it's 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.119 a passing league. And he and Chris Career have shown 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.680 their commitment to the position and to the crux of 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:11.240 the defense by investing into the position the highest dollar 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:15.760 amount in terms of salary of any NFL team. And 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.720 look at the dividends you get. It just speaks to 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.399 the larger vision, the plan to execute that vision, to 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.560 kind of take it day by day and figure out 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:24.399 what you have to do to get to that final point, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.639 and then you see it all play out. That is 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.920 one of my favorite aspects of this team that I've 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.640 seen play out really in my twenty five plus years 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.480 of watching Dolphins football. Like, you told me what you 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.679 were gonna do, you did the move to make it happen, 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.280 and then you produced it on Sundays. Like, what more 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.280 could you want as a fan than that? To me? Nothing? 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.639 So we get to the piece here on Miami Dolphins 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:46.359 dot com taking a look at the Dolphins cornerback room 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.800 and getting you kind of your training camp guide here 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:52.240 ahead of Wednesday's first practice. Go ahead and follow me 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:55.480 on Twitter at Winfield NFL and follow the team at 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:58.520 Miami Dolphins for all the live training camp updates. And 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.520 also go ahead and just completely obliterate that subscribe button 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.840 on your podcast at because we're gonna have daily podcast, 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.000 daily stories, We're gonna talk to players and have coaches interviews. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.919 In terms of the press conference, is gonna be great, 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:14.640 great Dolphins coverage for you here on the Drive Time 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.879 podcast podcast presented by Auto Nations. Let's go ahead and 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:20.800 meet the cast, but first some of the changes and 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.560 staff notes here. Justin Coleman comes over from the Lions, 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.639 and Shrill Williams another new addition. He was with the 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.119 Saints originally as a U d f A. He is 0:18:29.160 --> 0:18:31.360 now here with the Miami Dolphins and there weren't any 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:35.280 departures at the cornerback position and entering his third season 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.720 now with the Miami Dolphins new cornerbacks coach Charles Burke's 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.440 he is in his first season at the cornerbacks coach position. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:45.800 He has a very interesting route to getting here in 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:49.280 Miami and before serving as a Dolphins defensive assistant for 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.520 twenty so he was here for both those years. In 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:55.239 terms of seeing the groundwork laid Burk's was the d 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.679 C at Southeastern Oklahoma State. At the time of his 0:18:58.760 --> 0:19:01.600 higher he was the youngest coordinator in the Great American 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.240 Conference at the age of twenty six, and after his 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:08.119 first coaching job, which was at his alma mater, East 0:19:08.200 --> 0:19:12.480 Central University in Oklahoma, Burks took a Texas to step 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:15.280 pardon the pun there with stops at Texas A and 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:18.359 M Commerce and West Texas A and M and working 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.080 primarily with the cornerbacks in Burke's name often came up 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.199 in player press conferences as an integral force for the 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:27.960 success of the room. Here's what Byron Jones had to 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.679 say in practice, And this is my question for Byron, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:33.760 because Byron is always doing something, like he's always getting 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.880 into his stance or doing a back pedal, or working 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.360 on his hips, whatever it might be. He's just always 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:40.600 doing something. I love to watch him practice. And so 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:43.280 he told me this in response to that question. And practice, 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.000