WEBVTT - Drive Time: OTA Things to Watch 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:12.440 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.720 I am your host, Travis Winfield, and on today's show 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.800 a little bit of a Hodgepodge episode here as we 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.880 tether the draft and schedule release into the actual football 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.000 and the OTAs and try to bridge that gap. I 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.240 want to talk a little bit about our newest signings 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.720 in Kendall Sheffield and Matthew Butler, who has claimed off waivers. 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:33.000 I want to touch on some of the veteran media 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.200 from last week, and then with practices just around the corner, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:37.840 I want to talk about a few of the things 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.440 I'm looking for in this year's OTAs. From the Baptist 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.400 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is 0:00:45.440 --> 0:00:50.520 the Draft Time Podcast. Two new players to talk about, 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.520 and I've been kind of waiting on this and maybe 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:54.880 waiting for more down the road, but I've been wanting 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.600 to talk about some new players in their film and 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.680 we got two of them on the defense, Matthew Butler 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.640 from the Las Vegas Raiders and Kendall Sheffield who's been 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.120 in the league for a while but most previously was 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:08.520 with the New York Jets. And I came away from 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.679 these film watches really impressed by one of these two players, 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.080 and that was Matthew Butler. So the way I watch 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.520 the tape is I start with the highlights, I sort 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:17.800 through pressures and run stuff. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:19.839 So you can do that now through some of the. 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.240 What's the word, I'm looking for the filter features that 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:26.479 we have on the websites that we have available to us, 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.160 and you can see like all the good and then 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:29.640 you can kind of, you know, peel it back and 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.160 go watch a full game and maybe a poorly graded 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.360 game and a highly graded game and kind of mix 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.839 all that together. And when I watched Matthew Butler's highlights, 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:40.840 it took two plays for me to be like, oh, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.680 I can see what the thinking is here with bringing 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.679 him to Miami and the theme we've seen really across 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.080 the entire Front seven since Anthony Weaver arrived. He's explosive 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.200 off the football and he has some of the most 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.120 violent hands I've seen in a cut up in quite 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:55.559 some time. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:56.760 Like watch this. 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:58.560 You know, I hadn't looked up. I wrote this in 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.280 the copy, so I know what it's going to happen here. 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.880 But this was a surprise to me, as I did 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.240 in real time, and I think I tweeted about it too. 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.600 I hadn't looked up his relative athletic scorecard, but I 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.920 guaranteed you it was eightieth percentile and the vertical in 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:13.160 broad jumps and the ten split, and yep, there it is, 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.839 as I pulled up, eighty fifth percent vert eighty nine 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.359 percent tile broad jump, and a ninety second percent ten split. 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.239 He gets off the football quickly and he is explosive 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:26.919 in his movement. I would be pretty surprised if he 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.440 were not to find his way into the rotation upfront, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.680 and you never know, things can change. I was a 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.080 big I was a big believer in Tier Tart last year, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.160 and he was cut pretty early in camp, and then 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:38.119 he would want to have a good year for the Chargers. 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.680 But I think this guy is an NFL contributor, and 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.800 I'm kind of like, I was really curious why he 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.360 was cut loose in Vegas after watching his tape, and 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.440 I even text Crab someone and I was like, what 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.560 am I missing here? Why did they cut this guy? 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:52.960 And he said, well, new regime, and that's kind of 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.919 what I would guess too. And as I pull up 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.440 the Raiders coaching staff, I had kind of forgotten that 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.280 Pete Carroll retained Patrick as the DC, and so Pete 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.680 Carroll has his method, and I thought like, well, they 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.160 would play four down, one gap, get up field and 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.480 seattle on those cover three days. But Patrick Graham, as 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:14.560 you guys might recall from twenty nineteen, remember the the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.480 longtime locked on Dolphins listeners will remember this, remember the 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.600 breakdowns of the bear fronts with Devon Godshaw, Shoot, who 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:22.799 the hell was it was? 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:22.920 It? 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:26.080 Vincent Taylor part of that rotation as well, Christian Wilkins, 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.560 I suppose part of there as well, but it was 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:28.880 always no. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.320 John Jenkins was the nose tackle in those looks. 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.119 So it would be a head up nose tackle over 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.880 the center and then head up defensive tackles over the 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.000 two technique. As a two technique over the guard, it 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.960 would be a two zero two look a'ts a bearfront. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.600 That's what Patrick Graham loves to run. And when you 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.200 run those types of fronts, you're two gapping, so you're 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.640 more about power drop the anchor stack and shed and 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.080 Butler on tape is a one gap penetrator with a 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.960 wickedly quick first step. So to me, that's why you 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.040 had a chance to get him, and being a waiver 0:03:58.160 --> 0:03:59.960 claim tells me Miami was like, he's a vail. 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.520 I would like to get me some of that. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.400 And he was part of a six man cut down 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:06.640 they did to continue to reshape that roster for a 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.880 new staff, so it wasn't just Butler that got cut. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.440 My favorite thing I saw was his ability to create 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.160 space between he and the guard. And what I mean 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:18.520 by that is you're rushing in a very a vacuum, right, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.960 and a very small condensed amount of space, and so 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.400 anytime that you can essentially reset him the offensive lineman, 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:28.160 because once you engage, they want to stay locked right. 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.320 But if you can knock him back and force him 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.000 to lose that grip in that punch, and he has 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:34.839 to rethrow that punch from a position where he's not 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.120 able to kind of load up into it and explode 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.520 from the lower half up through the upper half, he's 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.679 playing on his back foot, and then you can really 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.680 get some silly reps where you long arm the guy 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.880 and you basically dump him to the ground with a 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.560 one steady push, and then you can angle around him 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.000 and route to the quarterback for a big play. So 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.719 he can really displace in the hand fighting and keep 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.400 guys at bay while he unfurls that quickness around the 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.400 edge and the way he can kind of, you know, 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.360 get them a technique off balance where they're out over 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.640 their skis and then he can access that quick first step. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.280 That's how he wins. 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.599 You see, guys you know went back and have to 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.360 rethrow their punch a lot against him. The hand usage 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:14.559 just keeps getting better that I watched with each rep 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.800 and on his pressure reel, it's not him collecting a 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.520 bunch of sacks, but he's creating opportunities for Max Crosby 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:23.800 to get cleanup sacks off double teams where he has 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.000 to like kind of you know, find his angle and 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.920 shed and rework and try to anticipate where the new 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.400 launch point from the quarterback is going to be. I 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.560 saw a couple of sacks that Crosby had last year 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:38.200 where he got those cleanup sacks on double teams because 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.640 of the work of Matthew Butler forcing the quarterback off 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.600 the spot and kind of wrecking the entire protection plan 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:45.200 because he beat the guard so badly. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:46.600 The motor runs hot. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:48.560 There's a lot of effort plays on his tape he 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.080 made a tackle on a screen versus Pittsburgh last year 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.640 where he rushed his man into the backfield and then 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.440 retrace the screen and just walloped the ball carrier. I 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.880 think it was two years ago. I forget who was against, 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:04.000 but Christian Wilkins had a peelback tackle on a screen 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.560 where he retraced and just destroyed the guy and it 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:09.800 was a very violent collision. It reminded me of that. 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.919 So he's got that. He's a he's a collision wiging 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.960 to happen. He hits guys and it looks violent and 0:06:16.000 --> 0:06:20.200 the body pliability and natural leverage leverage, like, I don't know, 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.400 it's it's a limited collection of snaps because he didn't 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.560 play a ton. He got hurt in twenty twenty three 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:26.680 and just played like fifty snaps and last year was 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.320 actually his career high after a rookie season where he 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.839 only played like seventy snaps. Last year at one hundred 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.280 and one reps was the career high. So I look 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.240 at it and say, like, it's a regime change. That's 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:40.320 why he's not with the Raiders anymore. I think sometimes 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.680 because the question I'll get and push back to this, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.200 Brady and sorry for getting really bad with that, but 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:50.640 I like it kind of annoys me because, like, I'm 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.359 just watching the film and telling you what I see, 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.640 and sometimes teams make mistakes, sometimes guys slipped through the cracks. 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.720 Might I remind you that Zach Seeler was once a 0:06:58.760 --> 0:06:59.320 waiver claim. 0:06:59.360 --> 0:06:59.800 I'm not going that. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.120 I don't think anyone's gonna be as good as zac 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:04.480 Seilery time soon, but I think this guy can play 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.800 Kendall Sheffield. I didn't come away from the tape with 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.560 the same impression. He looks the part, six foot tall, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.080 two hundred and ten pounds. He was a slot for 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.960 the Jets. He would come in with Michael Carter. The 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.400 second was down last year with those injuries. He played 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.160 starter snaps his first two years in Atlanta. He was 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.960 a slot as a rookie, a perimeter guy his second year. 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.840 Then he got hurt in twenty twenty one and missed 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:28.640 most of that year as well as the twenty twenty 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.480 two season, and played just twenty four snaps for the 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.880 Niners back in twenty three. So it basically two year starter, 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.600 gets hurt and is gone for three years and then 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.000 comes back for the Jets. The next year, which was 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.119 last year, and plays ninety two snaps. His Special Team's 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.240 tape I thought was his best work. He had some 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.000 good work as a gunner. I think that's his ramp, 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.000 his entrance, if you will, onto the freeway, that is 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:55.280 the roster to make the team good speed, good tackler. 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:57.840 But when I watched him in coverage, it was panicky. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.640 It was late reactions. It was see it and then react, 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:02.680 not anticipate and kind of have a feel for things. 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.720 I didn't think it was great technique where he'd often 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.160 be kind of like out of off balance and over 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.920 his skis. I don't think the thought here, from what 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:11.840 I saw on tape is that this is a fix 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:15.600 on defense more so special teams competition. And with that, 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:18.520 we'll get a look at Kendall cheff Field and Matthew 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.600 Butler for the first real time here in like nine days. 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.640 I think our next our first practice that the whole 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.920 thing is available to the media, I believe is next Wednesday. 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:29.560 I'll have to check back on that for you guys, 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.960 but we get our first practice here. And I've been 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:35.080 kicking around these ideas for a little bit, and I 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.040 wanted to talk about a couple of things that to me, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.040 you know, it's always the biggest draw of OTAs and 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:42.839 even camp. And look, we aren't going to divulge the 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:44.520 entire playbook or even tell you what they're going to 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:46.200 run in practice, because that's not allowed. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:47.480 And that's how I would prefer it. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:50.360 And reminder, if you come to training camp practices and 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.520 put the entire thing on Twitter so people can like 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.000 your video, you're a bad fan because you're giving out 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.839 our place and the Chargers or the Colts rather are 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.400 watching them and you're giving them our offense. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.000 So please don't do But every team does this every year. 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.559 Where the season ends, you self scout and you try 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:08.440 to find ways to strengthen the things that you were 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.120 good at. But what fans mostly want to see, and 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.560 I think both of these have the same value is 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.120 attacking the things that you came up short with, and 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.040 that can be through any number of avenues. Right. You 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.960 can do it with redoing your personnel, you can alter 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.640 your schematics, you can alter the way you teach it. 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.320 Sometimes it's just not communicated effectively. And sorry to do 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.720 this again, but here we go. It's kind of like 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.480 a golf swing. If you know you're slicing the golf ball. 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:40.000 That's the result. Great, what's the cause, what's the symptom 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.800 that's causing that? What's the no, what's causing the bad swing? 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.839 I just ruined the whole thing. But like the cause 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:49.400 to a slice can be an over the top down 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.480 swing where you come across the ball from the outside 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.200 in and it has this like boomerang effect where you're 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.640 creating side spin that causes the ball to go fifty 0:09:56.679 --> 0:09:59.320 yards shorter and way to the right. It could be 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.200 that your club you're losing it too far in on 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.680 your takeaway. It could be a lack of body rotation. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.280 The cause could be any number of variables. And when 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.760 I go back and look through the comments of coach 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.400 of Chris of the assistance from the end of the season, 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.199 and I look at the offseason and how that played out, 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.120 and the shape of the draft and how free agency 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.040 played out. I mean, it's not a mystery, right. Teams 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.119 tell you all the time what they think of themselves 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:23.960 by well, like they tell you what they think of 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.920 their quarterback based upon how they call their plays on 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:27.839 third down. But they also tell you what they think 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.720 of themselves of how they approach their off season and 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.600 their changes, and when I look at the defense, shoot 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.200 like to nobody's fault. But the edge group was just 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.920 decimated before it really ever even got going, And I 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.040 worked these show notes kind of backwards. So later on 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:42.720 in the episode, I'm going to come back and have 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.600 a bit of a conversation about the linebacker and edge 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.320 position groups towards the end of the show. But it's 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.560 very much in the same vein of how the Ravens 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:55.240 defense was constructed when Weave was there previously. Anthony Weaver 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.120 and I talk about the twenty twenty three Ravens backers 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.920 and the twenty twenty five Dolphins, but even in twenty 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:04.120 twenty four, I mean we brought in Jordan Brooks and 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.360 Anthony Walker with David Long already here, so there was 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:10.080 an an emphasis on being three deep at linebacker. And 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.360 we've been over the stuff with the edge group getting 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:16.560 decimated and how these defensive tackle additions more reflect what 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.520 the Ravens had in that area with their big body 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.680 athlete and you know Kenneth Grant being the Michael Pierce analog, 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:23.559 the do. 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.040 It all all Star which is Zach Seeler for. 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:31.040 NOMDIU Madawueke and then a bunch of guys with different 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:33.559 variable traits to round out a deep rotation, which I 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.440 think you kind of went for that last year, but 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.559 you went more of the bargain route with Jonathan Harris, 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.520 with Neville Gallimore, with Tierra Tart and I think now 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.000 it's like, well, let's get Austin Clark, one of the 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.320 best defensive line coaches in football, a bunch of talented 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.480 youngsters twenty twenty one year olds that are hungry and 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:52.400 want to learn from this guy. Let's get them in 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.480 the rotation. And now Travis Jones for the Ravens, who 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:58.680 was a very good rotational piece, can be reflected by 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:02.640 Jordan Phillips Washington. That could be your Zeke Biggers. You 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.280 want Brent Urban, Well, maybe Matthew Butler is that guy 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.680 as well. And I say all this because I think 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:12.080 there's a vastly deeper menu of fronts that Anthony Weaver 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:17.680 can get to. And it's more than four down and 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.240 three down, you know, for four to three three four. 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.160 That's you're gonna hear about that from other podcasts and 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.480 other sources. That just is not how it works anymore. 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.239 It's when we talk about fronts. We're talking about alignments. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.600 How a four man front can be an overfront and underfront. 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.000 It can be even, it can be odd. The way 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.360 you can shift guys around to create different matchups and 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.359 different gaps and runs fit run fits to create opportunities 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:40.679 for linebackers and safeties. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.559 It's more than just four three three four. It's what 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:43.280 I'm trying to tell you. 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.920 And I think the deeper menu that we can get 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.400 to from all that stuff. I think some of the 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.480 injuries and shuffling of the guys inside last year, you know, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.959 with with Phillips and Chubb and Barrett just piecing out 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.120 before the season starts, caused you to lose some of 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:00.960 your defensive tackle snaps from Zack Seiler and Campbell, and 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.679 that reduced the versatility and the depth of the playbook, 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.240 especially now that we have more linebackers in the rotation 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.000 as well. I don't know that we need to go 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.920 through every front known to football, but rather let's just 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:14.880 do it this way. So Zach Steeler has proof of 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.800 concept in literally every position, from the zero technique right 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.640 over the center to the five technique off the outside tackle, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.600 off the outside shoulder of the tackle, I've got film 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.200 I can show you where he clogs the a gap 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.400 is a nose tackle, and where he's used a pulse 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.560 wipe move to get a sack as a true end 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.560 as a five technique Kenneth Grant, I think his best 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:35.760 as a three, two and two I, which is basically 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:39.200 from the outside shoulder of the guard to the inside 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:39.959 shoulder of the guard. 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:42.200 That's like, I think those alignments are his best. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.800 But I do think he's more than capable, like more 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.320 than capable of playing the zero and the one, and 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:49.600 the same is true of Jordan Phillips, though Marylynd used 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:50.560 him plenty on the nose. 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.720 Matthew Butler, we talked about his versatility. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:53.960 He can play all the way out to the three 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.240 technique and kick inside for some one shade as well. 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.480 Zeke Biggers is primarily a nose but he does move 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:00.920 well enough, so I think you can get him out 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.000 to the two technique and some of those bare fronts 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.240 or two I and some of those tight fronts and 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.640 basically maybe get some three technique reps. But I've got 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.720 like four guys I like better than him in those spots, 0:14:10.920 --> 0:14:12.840 and then I would say that's very true. Of Benito 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:14.840 Jones exactly what I just said about Zeke Biggers. So 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.880 you are two sometimes three players deep, and I think 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.880 quality players in terms of guys that you can roll 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.560 out on the nose in those varied roles, Guys that 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.920 can kick outside as a five technique defensive end, and 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.040 true three techniques that kind of have that wiggle and 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.000 pass rush flair. And that's what we heard about Jordan Phillips, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.680 despite not a lot of sack production in college, the 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.880 Dolphins pass rush metrics that they value was something that 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.480 he shined in. And we saw that with Bradley Chubb 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:43.440 a couple of years ago. It's not about sacks to 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:45.160 value how you get after the quarterback, and to me, 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.400 Jordan Phillips's tapes as he can get after the quarterback 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:49.800 as one of those three techniques. And that's before we 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.320 even get to Jalen Phillips or Bradly Chubb, who were 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:56.320 both incredibly adept at kicking inside and playing three techniques 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:58.840 and giving you Chop Robinson off of JP or off 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.600 Beachubb or with Jordan Brooks or really gay coming down 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.800 off the edge like you've got so many options in 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.480 the front seven. Is what I'm trying to say, and 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:10.440 with those big bodies inside, remember Miami played the seventh 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.960 most nickel defense in the NFL last year. They want 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.200 to play too high, two safeties up in the you know, 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.480 in the post, with five defensive backs and create disguise 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:21.440 through those similar presentations. And as we've been over and 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.600 over and over, getting the big body nose tackle allows 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.960 you to play the run better from those traditionally invite 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.640 the run packages, not run defense packages. And from there 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.280 you can do more to get a better presence off 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.760 the edge without losing juice inside because of a bigger body. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:38.600 So I can get. 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.360 More freedom for Jalen Phillips or for Chop Robinson because 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.120 of what Kennith Grant can do inside in those lighter boxes. 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:48.000 Like rather than have a nose tackle, you have a 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.400 you play a four down front with a five technique 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.560 off the weak side, a two eye technique off the 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.680 weak side, and then your strong sides are three and 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:58.960 a wide nine. So that's a player off the weak side, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.680 ta wheat side tack outside shoulder, a defensive tackle on 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.240 the inside shoulder of the weak side guard, and you 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.320 get a backer to fill with that gap in between there, 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:10.040 and then another defensive tackle on the outside shoulder of 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.000 the strong side guard, and then a nine technique who's 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.040 way out to the strength beyond the tight end. And 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:16.880 I think you can get to these fronts where you're 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:20.040 too gapping with these big defensive tackles, set a strong 0:16:20.120 --> 0:16:22.640 edge on the preimiter with j Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb, 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.840 and then you've got two way goes because of the 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.640 stoutness stoutness. I try to say strength and stoutness, the 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.080 strength and the stoutness of Kenneth Grant and Zach Seeler 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.240 and the guys we just talked about. Now I got 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.680 two way goes where Jordan Brooks and Tyrrel Dotson and 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:40.160 Willie Gay have free runs. You know, we're sort of 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:42.400 into the weeds here, but there's another fifty feet of 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.360 depth we can discuss. I don't want to go any 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.120 further than that. I want to take our last break 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.640 right here. But I think this effectively communicates how much 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.840 more playbook we have to get to on the defensive side. 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.280 For a guy that, in my mind, is one of 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.800 the best defensive coordinators in football and is going to 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.560 be a head coach next year, Let's go ahead and 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.480 take a break right there, come back and talk about 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.840 the offensive things I want to see in OTAs. That's 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.919 Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:12.800 you by automation. That was kind of a weird spot 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.920 for a show break, but I didn't really know where 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:16.560 else to do it, so it comes in right there. 0:17:16.880 --> 0:17:18.720 I did want to touch on the offense, and it'll 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.760 be much quicker, and that's why I think it was 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.679 a weird spot to have the break. But I'm not 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:27.280 even sure where exactly to go with this. I do 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.480 look forward to seeing what they cook up to start 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.000 the year, and I think one of the biggest disappointments 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.959 for me last year was opening the season kind of 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:39.920 stuck in the mud offensively. And you know, I think 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:43.159 you can attribute that to guys not practicing and holding 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.800 out for for money and not being here throughout the 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:47.920 whole course of the summer and the practice of maybe 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.080 not being as demanding as they possibly could have been. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.000 But the year before that, I mean, I'll never forget 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.240 when I went out to practice like one day before 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.240 the Chargers game and Tool was hitting everything. It looked 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:00.800