WEBVTT - Training Camp Preview 2021 Tight Ends 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:15.600 That's booking cutsdown, Miami Ute Run. What is up, Dolph Fans, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.079 and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:24.840 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:29.040 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.159 and as always now in the month of July, I 0:00:32.200 --> 0:00:35.360 am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami 0:00:35.440 --> 0:00:38.600 Dolphins football. And on today's show, it is part four 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:41.800 of the training camp preview series. As we wrap up 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:46.120 the quote unquote skill players, every player at this level 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.120 is a skill player. We're talking Dolphins tight ends, the 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.680 unique facts about this group, the individual skill sets, Coach 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.320 god sees, influence, and a whole lot more. Plus, we 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.640 continue our NFL season preview with Part six Are you 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.360 keeping those tallies on the parts of these series will 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.200 take a look at the a f C North, which 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.200 features one team that Miami will see this season in 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.480 the Baltimore Ravens. All of that and a heck of 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:15.319 a lot more on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.680 So we jumped into the tight end position here for 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.520 the fourth part of our preview series. We have already 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.560 covered the receivers, running backs, and quarterbacks, and now we 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.000 get to the guys that play really in all three 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:30.000 phases of the offensive part side of the game, with 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.679 past protection, route running, and in the running game. And 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:37.840 this rate here, I mean these podcasts, these episodes, this 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:41.080 time of year, this is really my wheelhouse, my bread 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:43.600 and butter, if you will, because I love the draft, 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:46.200 Don't get me wrong, It's probably the best part of 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.240 the year outside of the actual NFL or the NFL season. 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.840 I'm also a big fan of free agency and watching 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.520 the tape to see how new parts kind of factor in. 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:57.440 But with the season on the horizon, I can feel 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.360 the football coming down the pike. And this prep work 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.680 it does wonders for your season knowledge heading into the 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:08.200 upcoming season. It gives me a chance to sharpen up 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:09.920 on some of the numbers I may have missed from 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.520 the previous season, plugging in the all twenty two to 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.720 get your final work from the previous year's tape done, 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:19.040 and then working to memorize the jersey numbers, because nothing 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:23.200 is more important for training camp than memorizing everybody's numbers. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:24.519 You have to know the numbers if you want to 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.280 have any chance of getting quality constructive notes on a 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.160 snap by snap basis because it happens so fast out 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.120 there on the practice field with ninety one guys given 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:37.040 the Dolphins exemption with derv All Cires netto players on 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:40.200 their nine roster. So we roll on here on part four, 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.679 and I find this group of Dolphins tight ends interesting 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.720 for a few reasons. And this is basically the entire roster, 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.600 so you know, I'm not trying to just say it 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.400 to hype up every episode, but genuinely, I think each 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.679 group has a lot of intrigue to it. And with 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.720 this one, first they set the franchise record and then 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.120 they weren't complacent as are as numbers go in past catching. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.840 I love the way the position was invested in, like 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.799 we talked about with the receiver position, in terms of 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:12.000 giving yourself a myriad of options, not just for one 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.040 but beyond that as well. Because you draft Mike get 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:17.560 Sicky and Derham Smith in the same class, that obviously 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.680 means they come up as far as their contracts go 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.440 in the same year. This season is the last of 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:27.079 their rookie four year contracts, and so while not losing 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.320 any of the four incumbents on the roster, the Dolphins 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:34.519 went out and made additions in three completely different avenues, 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:38.480 three different pipelines as far as bringing talent into the building. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:42.560 Number one Seethan Carter the free agent route, a pretty 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:46.680 common route and accomplished player with regards to special teams 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.800 and as a blocker in the running game. He has 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:50.560 some receptions too, but it hasn't been the bread and 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.560 butter of his career so far. You spend a premium resource, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.120 I think eighty first pick in the draft as a 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:57.880 premium resource, what would you say that cut off of 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.560 his I'm gonna say top one hundred picks are where 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.360 the premium cut off is. Either way, you get Hunter 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.720 Long at pick one, and man, he has been high 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.840 functioning in both the run and the past game in 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:12.880 college at Boston College. Then you give yourself something of 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:16.159 a low risk, potentially high reward with the U d 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.960 f A and Jibrey Blunt. IM not sure that you 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.400 can expect a basketball player to pick it up right 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.440 away in year one, but that's a nice project to 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.560 work on. A guy that can work on developing his 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.200 game and getting used to the game of football because 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.800 he was a basketball player in college. Especially when you 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.480 consider the track record of Hooper's turned into not just 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.839 you know, good players in the league, but some some 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:38.760 of the star tight ends in the Hall of Fame. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:41.320 Tight ends in this league started their career that way 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.040 on the basketball court. And Jibrey is pliable, athletic as 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.400 hell and has all the length in the world, and 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.320 they slid two forty five pound frames, so he's intriguing 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:54.400 that way from the on paper look with that player. Finally, 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.880 you look at the ages of these players. Hunter Long 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.560 is the newcomer who turns twenty three prior to opening day, 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.880 Jimbrey Blunt is twenty four, then everybody else is basically 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.039 the same age and the range with birthdays that come 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.960 close to each other. All of those guys either twenty 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:13.120 five or twenty six years old. So in total, all 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.760 seven guys in this room would be in a hypothetical 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.680 high school at the same time between proverbial seniors and 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:24.279 Adam Shaheen and Durham Smith and Sethan Carter, with Hunter 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.640 Long as the freshman at twenty three years old, and 0:05:26.640 --> 0:05:29.120 then Gisicky and Maya Rick are both twenty five years old, 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.080 I guess they would be your juniors on this four 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.599 year analogy, with Blunt as the sophomore, so to speak. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.120 So Tree twenty six, all these guys in that same 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.080 age range. And additionally, we talked about this in the 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:43.799 receiver's Preview, how Mike Gisicky has the alignment, the snaps 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.400 and the production of a good slot receiver in the 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.160 National Football League. Now, he can play anywhere, and he 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:52.479 has out wide, in the slot or in line. And 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:55.360 I remember the twenty nineteen Jets game when they flexed 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:58.000 him out because the Jets were insistent on covering him 0:05:58.000 --> 0:06:00.520 with linebackers throughout the course of that game game and 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:02.720 they just couldn't do it. So the Dolphins put him 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.159 out wide and he took advantage of those matchups and 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.880 had the biggest day of his career to that point 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:10.880 in twenty nineteen. So you can capitalize on his abilities 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.640 as an outside receiver when the situation calls for it. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:16.479 But I love the red the way the rest of 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.039 this room really compliments what Mike does well. And he 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.080 was the most accomplished player on the roster last year 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.760 at the position. You look at the workloads of Shaheen 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:27.400 and Smythe they have accomplished pass and run blocking numbers 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.080 and resumes in this league, not from college in the 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.680 National Football League. So, for instance, when you go to 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.000 tight ends, which is your twelve personnel set, or it 0:06:35.000 --> 0:06:37.760 could be two personnel, the second number and the two 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.360 number phrase for personnel is your tight ends. It goes 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.760 running backs then tight ends. So when you do go 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.960 twelve personnel, two tight ends, you can call on one 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:48.200 of those guys to stay in for more of a 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.280 max protection type of look while you let Mike a sicky. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.919 When typically you go match protect, it's two routes, but 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:55.800 you can use Mike as either one of the two. 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:58.080 You can use them for a third player in the route. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.160 Either way, it helps give you my Gisiki's route running 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:04.000 ability and the past blocking ability of those other two 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.039 tight ends with how they complement one another. Now Hunter 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.960 Long can do that too, but also has the receiving 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.320 resume coming in out of college and we'll see if 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.360 he can continue that as a pro. But his last 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.080 year at Boston College led college football or tight ends 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:19.320 and all of college football and receptions. Last year he 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.680 was the focal point of the offense. You saw it 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.320 when they played good team or bad team, whatever it was, 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.400 the offense ran through Hunter Long at BC in the 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:31.200 passing game when he was prior to that mostly an 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:34.640 inline blocking tight ends. So all that being said, we 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:38.480 should remember this with Ghisicky and Smith too. Learning tight 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.520 end is a tough task in this league, all three 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.680 phases of offense with a past game, the running game 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.520 as well as past protection. But Hunter is a sharp kid. 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.520 You know about the fact that he builds computers and 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.640 can solve a rubricks cube and like the snap of 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.840 a finger, he's a sharp kid that has done it all. 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.000 So hopefully that process for him because of the intel, 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.600 the intellect or intelligence what do you want to say there? 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.080 Because of that, maybe he can be a bit accelerated 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:05.240 in his process. Then again to mention the development opportunity 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.200 for a guy like Blunt, Carter's ability to play the 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:11.520 up back, an h back, in line and on special teams. 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:13.880 And then maya Rick is definitely in that mold of 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.240 a dirty work type of tight end. He did his 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.720 entire career at Temple. So we mentioned the additions to 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.400 the to the tight end room. Nobody left Sethan Carter, 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.240 Hunter Long and Jibbrey Blunt are the additions. Nobody out 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.920 the door on the other side and coaching these guys 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.360 up is George Godzy, Miami's tight ends coach last year, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.960 has been promoted to co offensive coordinator and under his 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:39.160 watch last year, collective receptions and one thousand and sixty 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:41.880 one yards spread among the Dolphins tight ends. Both of 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.640 those were franchise records among Dolphins tight ends, and eleven 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:48.920 touchdowns tied the franchise mark. So what a great year 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:52.599 for George Godzie's position room. And this will be Godzie's 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.480 third year with Miami, and you look at his track 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.600 record across a couple of decades of coaching football. He's 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:03.960 coached every position on offense besides the offensive line, receivers, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.160 tight ends, running backs, quarterbacks. He was even the contingency 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.160 planned quarterback last year. We heard coach Flora's talk about this, 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.520 all the contingencies of Dolphins team had in the COVID 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.720 protocol year and what a weird, weird year that was. 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.080 And we saw a coach Godz get some I guess 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.960 double duty there to get elevated to quarterbacks coach when 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.360 Robbie Brown was not available. And the first game that 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.680 he was available as the quarterbacks coach, George Gotzi was 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.760 the Arizona game went two or three for over three 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.120 hundred yards and the offense was clicking big time in 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:34.599 that game. So we talked this. We've talked about this 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:36.319 on every podcast so far, and it's going to be 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.480 a theme on the defensive positions as well. This Dolphins 0:09:39.520 --> 0:09:42.080 coaching staff, these guys, it's it's not like I talked 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.480 about on the podcast with the receivers. It's not just 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:47.560 the players on the field. The entire organization under Brian 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.480 Flores calls for versatility and wearing multiple hats, the more 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:54.680 you can do in this league. And coach Godzi he 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.360 was even a defensive assistant and slash special projects with 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.800 the lines. He was the tight ends coach back for 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.400 the Patriots in the early odds back when they had 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:08.160 the Gronkowski Hernandez dual threat there, which was, you know, 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:10.720 kind of revolutionary at the time in the NFL. So 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:13.240 all this is to say that god Sees resume his 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.080 track record, his experience. It all lends itself to the 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.400 idea why he would get this promotion and be in 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.839 a position to be an offensive coordinator co offensive coordinator. 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:24.959 And if you if you've heard George talk at all 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:27.960 on the press conferences, we had him bi weekly last year. 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.240 I believe it was he just goes so in depth 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.040 and talks about the differences between how you attack certain alignments, 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:37.360 certain personnel packages, certain route concepts. He just is very 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.400 good at communicating what he what's in his head and 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.400 getting on a paper and teaching it that way. He 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.520 taught me as much as any coach last year in 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:46.720 those press conferences, So you can see kind of why 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.800 he has earned curried favor here in Miami. We talked 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.880 about the group already, the seven guys all kind of 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.400 in that same age range. Mike at Sicky up top 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.160 with finishing the top ten among tight ends and catches 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.160 and touchdowns and and yardage seven hundred and three yards 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.000 six touchdowns. Last year, Smith had career highs and all 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.840 three categories as well, twenty six to awight and two 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.240 and Shaheen matched his reception in touchdown total twelve and 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.840 three and his one and twenty seven yards was a 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:15.680 career high. And then Chris Myerick made his NFL debut 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.640 last year, appearing in three games as a practice squad 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.720 call up. And then of course the newcomers, as Sethan 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.600 Carter was a special teams captain with the Bengals Jibri 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.200 Blow We talked about his length and athletic ability and 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:30.079 Hunter long among the most productive tight ends in all 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.480 of college football last season. As far as some more 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.920 in depth talk on these individuals, we start here going 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:38.080 in order of the jersey number. Adam Shaheen's up first. 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:41.240 He wears number eighty. He's got four years NFL experience 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.480 out of Ashland. You might recall he got a contract 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.280 extension last year so he doesn't have to deal with 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.080 going into free agency twenty six years old on Opening Day, 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:51.200 and remember he was acquired not on the eve of 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.000 training camp, but a couple of weeks before training camp 0:11:54.080 --> 0:11:56.719 kicked off down here in Miami. And he made it 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.120 a point talking to us in the media about some 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.719 of his career goals and personal goals, and one of 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:03.400 the things that he wanted to do was to stay 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.800 healthy because it was a problem for him in Chicago 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:07.880 where he'd only get a few games and every season 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:10.320 he'd have to go to the injured reserve or injured list, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.440 whatever it might be, and he wasn't available for the 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.000 Bears in those games. So he made a point of 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.360 emphasis to make sure that he worked on his body 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.800 to get himself ready for a season, and he wound 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.720 up playing all sixteen games last season, again matching career 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.680 best and touchdown and receptions, and that forty three yard 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.160 catching run in Week six against the Jets, and that 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:31.120 shutout victory was the longest of his career, and I 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:32.960 thought was really the moment that kind of turned that 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.760 game because it was ugly early on. The Dolphins defense 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.120 was getting after it, but they also were having problems 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:41.280 putting points on the board offensively, and then Adam Schaheen 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.360 hits a big run down the middle, down into the 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.800 five yard line. Dolphins punched in and from that point 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:48.640 you kind of felt like with the way the defense 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.840 was playing, the Jets had their backup quarterback in, you 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.400 felt like the game was kind of not locked away, 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.040 but you felt good about it at that point. So 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.840 a big play there from Adam Schaheim. He also allowed 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.880 just one quarterback pressure on thirty nine hass blocking reps, 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.040 and he also cleared the land some big runs from Miami, 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.560 particularly off the edge as the end man on the 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.440 line of scrimmage. I love the way he runs the 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.600 football after he catches it. He was a nominee for 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.480 Kyle Brandt on Good Morning Football his Angry Runs segment, 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.280 he drops the shoulder and has enough juice to win 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.240 the edge on those flat routes where it's a race 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:20.439 between a tight end and a linebacker. He's got the 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.640 juice to win that edge, turn that thing up and 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.920 turn a five or six yard game into a twelve 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.760 or thirteen yard game. And he also with the way 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:29.959 he's used so much in the blocking game and kind 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:33.160 of ceiling and cracking down, that creates opportunities to throw 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:35.199 to guys like him as well as Dirham Smith. We'll 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:37.200 talk about here in just one second, to throw to 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:40.520 those guys on kind of some tendency breakers down around 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:42.040 the red zone and they can catch the football and 0:13:42.040 --> 0:13:44.520 put that thing away and put six points on the board. 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.520 Speaking of Drham Smith, number one three years NFL experience 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.920 out of Notre Dame, he too will be twenty six 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.440 years old come opening Day. In addition to setting career 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.280 best in the major receiving categories, he has been a 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.000 core special teams ACE from Miami since his rookie sees 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.800 and playing better than two hundred snaps every single year 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.480 so far of his career two hundred twenty four snaps 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.400 last year on Danny Croftsman's special teams unit and played 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.000 a key part in a unit the ranks number three 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.680 on Football Outsiders in terms of special teams overall rankings. 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.120 He did not allow a single hit on his quarterback 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.960 in sixty six pass protection reps and was on the 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.680 field for two hundred thirty one run blocking plays. And 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.000 when you watch him in the running game, he functions 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.600 in multiple capacities as a blocker, whether he's climbing to 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:31.080 the second level, hitting that second level block on a linebacker, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.520 ceiling off the edge for a c gap run or 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.280 an outside run even or coming across the formation to 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:39.240 dig out the backside defender. That's my favorite thing that 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.640 Durham does so well. That there was a play against 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:45.160 the Patriots in eighteen. Yeah, it was the miracle game 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:47.680 when Brandon Bolden had a long touchdown run for Miami 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:49.560 the one year Bolden was here in Miami, And if 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.000 you look at that play, Durham Smith had the key 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.720 block in the hole coming across the formation. So I 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.280 like watching him get that work done again, the dirty 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.440 work that no one really appreciates as far as the 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.600 You know, watching the game on Sundays on your big 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:03.520 screen TV, you kind of have to go back through 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:06.320 the film to really appreciate what Durham does so well. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:08.200 And it's the same deal as Shaheen where you talk 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.920 about his usage can create chances down in the red 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.080 zone because he's such a good blocker that a lot 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.560 of times down there in those thirteen personnel packages with 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.160 heavy offensive line, you expect a running play, You pull 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.840 that thing back out of the belly and you toss 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.080 it to a wide open tight end. Just see Durham's 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.360 touchdown against the Chargers where there was nobody within you know, 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.240 they were over in in in Broward County and we 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.080 were down on Dade County at hard Rock Stadium. So 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.200 that's what both those guys can do for you in 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:35.360 the red zone. Seethan Carter the next guy up on 0:15:35.400 --> 0:15:38.080 our list here, number eighty two, four years experience all 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.720 with the Bengals. He played in Nebraska at college twenty 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.360 six years old on opening day and again operated in 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.800 a multiple roles for the Bengals the last three years. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.800 He missed eighteen, so he's played three seasons, has been 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.440 in the pros for four years. But he aligns all 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:55.960 over the offensive formation, but use largely in a blocking role, 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.840 and you really love the way he wins with technique 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.680 but also also effort, and that was evident on a 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.520 sixty two yards screen pass to Joe Mixon. And this 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.360 is going way back. I went and watched a lot 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.040 of his tape when we first signed him in seventeen 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.560 where Carter sprints twenty five yards down the field for 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.120 a key block on a huge screen pass for the 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.480 Bengals on that particular game. He also finished top fifty 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:20.840 in the NFL. All three years that he has played 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.040 in special teams tackles, he had twenty four tackles on 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.320 eight hundred ninety six career special teams reps while earning 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.240 a career best grade last year from Pro Football Focus 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.280 at eighty two point one. So captain in Cincinnati on 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.240 special teams, he can get the job done that way. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.680 Hunter Long our next player up here at the rookie 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.320 number eighty four out of Boston College, twenty three years 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.240 old on opening day. The fifty seven catches he made 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.720 lad all college tight ends and again, just another one 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.600 of these well rounded guys you add to the room. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.880 And he talked about this. With the first couple of 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.920 years of his career, they were a sixty six to 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.400 thirty three run heavy team Merry call A J. Dillon 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:58.920 and those Boston College games like he would get thirty 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.160 forty Kerry and they would win games seventeen to thirteen. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:03.920 And Hunter Long was a big part of that as 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.960 the end men on the line of scrimmage, getting the 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:08.239 dirty work done as a run blocker. But then this 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.600 last year they became a passing team and it was 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.960 more fifty five in favor of the past and Hunter 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.840 said this. I asked him about that after he was 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.600 drafted him he said, I always say that I feel 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.840 like I got the best of both worlds at BC 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:23.119 with both offenses. Obviously it was more run heavy offense, 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.240 and then this past year we really opened up the 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.600 past game. I think it allowed me to become a 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:30.680 well rounded tight end and work at all aspects of 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.720 the position. And as a catching tight end. He caught 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.879 sixty seven percent of his passes an average fourteen points 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:38.919 six yards per catch. It's a big figure for a 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.000 tight end might get sick. He had thirteen point three 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:42.919 this year and he was in the top ten in 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.840 the National Football League and the fourteen point six yards 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.000 per catch came along with nine touchdown catches at BC 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.640 for Hunter Long And when I watched his tape in college, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.440 I like the way he understands the nuance of route 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.960 running in terms of how you attack defenders to put 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.520 them at a disadvantage because he has that big frame, 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:02.840 that big body, and when you use the body to 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:06.439 accomplish creating that leverage on the defender, you really have 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.160 to use your hands away from the frame to kind 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:09.800 of catch the football, and he can do that. But 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.400 he also has the ability to kind of explode off 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:15.040 the top of that route with some quickness at the 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.320 top of the route, and with a big catch radius 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.240 and those trusty hands, you create another, you know, half 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.680 yard of separation in that particular arena that could make 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.720 all the difference in the world. Throwing the ball to 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.399 his direction, but he uses his arms his hands to 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.240 create windows for his quarterback and to to get the 0:18:31.240 --> 0:18:33.679 defender kind of off balance as they try to shoot 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.440 to jam him or press him or to reroute him. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.760 He's really good at just kind of staying within his 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:42.439 framework and staying consistent and staying on track on speed 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.040 off the stem of his route to get to the 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:45.840 top of the route before he breaks that thing off. 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.879 So I really enjoyed watching him play. We saw that 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:49.879 at rookie mini camp into O T A S and 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:51.280 we'll get a chance to see that here at training 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:54.399 camp coming up in just a couple of weeks. Chris Myrick, 0:18:54.520 --> 0:18:57.399