WEBVTT - Training Camp Preview 2021 Interior Defensive Line 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:08.760 That's roll, looking down, Fail cuts Down, Miami Quarter Drawn. 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.320 What is up? Dolphans? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:22.440 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:26.960 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:30.840 Travis Winkfield, and as always, I am here to bring 0:00:30.880 --> 0:00:34.199 you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.480 today's show, we roll right on with our training camp 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.320 preview series as we flip this thing over to the 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.600 defensive side of the football, starting with the interior defensive line. 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:47.600 We'll talk about the depth, the production, the youth. To me, 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:51.640 this group exemplifies what this roster is shaping up to 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.840 be in year three under Brian Flora's and Chris Greer, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:58.120 arguably more than any other group on the roster. I'll 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.160 discuss that, will preview our se EVENTH Division in our 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:06.639 eight division preview of NFL season stopping by the NFC 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.959 East today, and finally some roster activity will jump into 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:15.640 that on a busy, busy edition of the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.800 And I come in today pretty charged up because I'm 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.959 recording on Sunday during the F one race and I 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:27.040 just watched the first lap intended to watch the entire 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.759 race then recorded the podcast, but there was a pretty 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.760 big accident on the first lap with Lewis Hamilton's and 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.280 Max first Staff and number one and number two in 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.480 the Driver's Championships, So that was exciting to watch, but 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.040 for stepping out of the race right away, I had 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:43.120 to come record the podcast while they're kind of fixing 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.360 stuff up and getting the red flag session stops. So 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.080 here we are talking football, and just before we get 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:52.240 started on the Training camp preview series, some news from 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.680 Friday that we have yet to cover here on the podcast. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.800 A few roster moves, first time we've seen said that 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.880 in what months now, And I will say I've been 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.880 very appreciative this run up to training camp that there 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.400 has been a very quiet couple of weeks here because 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:11.480 last year seemingly every day up before training camp. But 0:02:11.520 --> 0:02:13.680 it was unique last year because camp was kind of 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.640 into late August. We didn't know what it was gonna 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.959 look like, but there was always a move every day, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.760 a steamed like some defensive back coming in, someone going out, 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.040 and it made for plenty of podcast and article editing 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.560 as a result. But now here we are at ninety 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:31.079 men on the roster at center Tyler Gothier and safety 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:34.600 Brian Cole were waived and Isaiah Afford, the receiver that 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.720 we all know, was added to the roster on Friday. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:41.440 You might be asking yourself, Travis, one minus two does 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.320 not equal zero, So how do they have nine men 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.120 on the roster? Well, Derval kires Netto still has practice 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.760 squad exemption from the roster as part of the International 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:56.280 Player Pathway program, so Miami were afforded the opportunity for 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.120 players with him holding that exemption. But as we and 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.120 today we are at ninety. And as for Isaiah Ford, 0:03:03.400 --> 0:03:06.239 I've talked about this at length on the podcast, how 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.120 he's been such a pleasure to get to know in 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.720 my short time here with the Miami Dolphins. And I'll 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.560 say this about Isaiah. He's coming into an incredibly deep 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.200 wide receiver room. But here's what he does for you 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:21.400 in the interim. Here's what I guarantee you. He's gonna 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:24.600 show up and do at Dolphins camp later this month. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.600 He's gonna come in and learn every position in the offense. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:30.280 He's gonna learn the site adjustments from every route, every 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:32.440 combination he can, and he's going to learn how to 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.720 communicate that to his teammates and help accelerate the acclamation 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:39.520 process of learning a new system with new offensive coordinators. Here, 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.400 that's the kind of player he is, that's the kind 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.360 of professional he is, and the room is better for 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.200 having him inside of it. And one last quick nugget 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.720 here before we get into the defensive side of the football. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.680 On the Training Camp preview series, something that I came 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.840 across that came across my desk that I had kind 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.640 of forgotten about over the offseason. But there are different 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.360 tiers of cut down day this year, Like we three 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.360 weeks in a training camp are gonna go from five players, 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:04.720 and a couple of weeks after that we go down 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.839 to eight and so forth and so on. And as 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.920 always on Miami Dolphins dot Com as well here on 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.000 the Drivetime podcast, we'll have you covered for every single 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:15.760 step of the way all the way up to the 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:19.040 season opener in New England in Foxborough, and of course 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:20.839 beyond that once the year gets here as well. But 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.359 that is another day. But today, however, we are on 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.840 to the defense. If you missed any of the last 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.560 five episodes, we have covered the entire offense to date, 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.240 here on the training camp preview series. Last Tuesday was 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.240 quarterbacks running backs Wednesday, receivers Thursday, tight ends Friday, and 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:39.760 the offensive line yesterday on Monday, and we're gonna take 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.000 you all the way up to the start of training camp, 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:45.600 covering each position on the defense. So please subscribe to 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.160 the Drivetime podcast if you have not done so already. 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.839 We are presented by the folks at Auto Nation And 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.720 if you want to give back to the podcast, all 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.440 we ask for is a five star rating and a 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.279 nice little review wherever you get your podcast from. That 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.440 helps the podcast grow, get up the charts, and get 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.840 out to more Dolphins fans. We appreciate you doing that, 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.800 taking the minute it takes to do that for us 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.919 here on the podcast. Let's get to one of my 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.360 favorite position groups on the entire roster, the big boys 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.400 on the defensive line. And a real quick disclaimer here. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.320 You can cover this thing defensive line, linebacker, defensive back 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.480 if you want. That's just not how I'm gonna do it, 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:26.240 because I think it's disingenuous too. Really lump a lot 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.320 of these guys into any positional category. Now they're gonna 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.400 have distinctions on the roster. But so many of these 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:35.080 guys play so many different positions that I wanted to 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.040 go ahead and clarify it in terms of what their 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.599 overall versatility was, so as as far as interior defensive 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.679 line goes, because again you know Zack Seeler, Christian Wilkins, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.640 some of these guys can play multiple spots inside, outside, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.880 But the disclaimer here is the majority of their reps 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.320 coming from the four technique position or in, so the 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.080 four technique is gonna be head up over your offensive 0:05:57.120 --> 0:06:00.440 tackle any position from there, going in towards the center. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.040 If the majority of your reps come from that position, 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:07.520 you're in this group, or essentially if you're two plus pounds, 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:10.000 you're in this group. The reason we need the disclaimer 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:12.679 is because again, all of these guys can play pretty 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.359 much anywhere, and it's not just Sailer and Wilkins, although 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.359 both those guys did get plenty of reps off the 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.160 edge last season and as pros in addition to their 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.160 exploits inside. But we start here with last year's triumvirnt 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.120 those two guys, the trio of Seidler, Wilkins, and rookie 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.160 ray Kwon Davis. All three of those guys finished out 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.119 the second half of the season graded in the top 0:06:35.320 --> 0:06:38.480 twenty of the position group on Pro Football Focus from 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.320 weeks ten through seventeen. It started with the Chargers game 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:46.000 against against the Charges here in Miami, and it it 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:50.320 makes me think about perception of football, perception of rosters. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.440 I spoke to a media member here down South Florida 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.560 or former South Florida media member not that long ago, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.440 and he was talking about the names that draw national 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.479 attention and how maybe there's three or or guys on 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:03.279 a roster, and I just kept thinking, like, that's not 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.960 what wins you football games. Like it's great to have that, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.120 it's fun for the TV ratings, it's great to get 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.840 your name on the marquis, for the talking heads to 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:13.120 dispose of every single day on their shows, on their podcast, 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.760 on their articles, But since when does that win football games? 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:19.239 Like it's good to have those players, don't get me wrong, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.600 but if you have that and not much else, you're 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.440 a top heavy roster, things can go south in a hurry, 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.880 like the War of Attrition that is the NFL. This 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:30.040 depth and this spread out kind of fifty three man 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:32.000 roster that can all do a job. That to me 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.480 is what you want. And this group is the quintessential 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.040 example of how the team is kind of coming into 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.920 focus under Brian Floors and Chris Career. Here in your 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:45.000 number three versatility, obvious off the top, flexible players that 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.720 can help keep each other fresh, specialize in particular traits, 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.640 but also keep the defense interchangeable with their calls. For instance, 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.640 how often do you see a three pound defensive tackle 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.360 like Christian Wilkins dropping into coverage into the hook zone 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.960 and getting himself an interception. Doesn't happen very often, but 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.320 he did it last year because that's what those defense did. 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:06.240 They have so many multiple looks that they can confuse 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:10.280 the quarterback and confuse the way the offense operates because 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.520 of the versatility and the flexibility and the mysterious nature 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.000 of the defense. And they all play with so much 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.320 power and there's so much length on this defensive line. 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.440 Ray Kwon Davis has the pterodactyl wingspan, Zack Steeler not 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.960 far behind him in that regard. It helps them stack 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:28.160 up bodies and create chances for the linebackers behind them. 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.920 All of this stuff is cyclical. Coach Flora's talks about it. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.040 Josh Bowyer talks about it. It's never one thing, and 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.720 you even hear coach talk about it when maybe there's 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.720 a glaring example where it might be one particular unit 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.320 on the football field. Like we talked about this with 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.760 coach Flores this offseason about deep passing and how you 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:48.200 limit the big plays in this league and how that's 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.920 that's kind of the crux of playing good defense in 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:53.480 the National Football League. And he did say, well, you know, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.199 there are three sides or three elements of the defense, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.240 three levels of the defense, but I can't really get 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:00.960 on a nose tackle for a fifty passed down field. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:03.760 But then he reverted back to saying it all matters, 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:05.679 it's all impactful, and so when you watch the way 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.240 this team plays, it's not about a guy winning a 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.400 one on one matchup and that is the play. That's 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.520 not what wins you to play. It's about eleven guys 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.360 executing a role, executing a job because each of those 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.720 roles is dependent on the guy next to you doing 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.760 their role, and that helps you get production from so 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.720 many players. We talked about this top twenty grades among 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.600 those three guys on PF Wilkins, Davis and Seiler over 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.400 the second half of the season. The linebacker unit had 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.199 three players with more than five sacks last year. That's 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.000 the first time in franchise history that three players with 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:38.520 LB in front of their name got at least five sacks. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.360 And it wasn't just they're doing I mean everyone on 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:45.040 this roster contributes to that coverage rush, stacking up bodies 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.600 up front, whatever it might be. Plus the fact that 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.319 all of these guys can do multiple things again allows 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.680 Flores and Boyer to get really creative and help confuse 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:55.920 opposing quarterbacks. That's part of the reason why you leave 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.959 the NFL, and takeaways part of the reason why you 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.880 leave the NFL. In third down defense, then you go 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.360 out and you drop in Adam Butler, and my goodness, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.280 his film might be the most fun of all to 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.240 watch for me. He's got an explosive first step that 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.440 really forces the line to declare their protection immediately. If 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.880 you want to slide or find protection for Adam Butler, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.079 you better get there fast because he is getting to 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.280 that back field quickly. And then if you mug up 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.120 a pair of linebackers alongside him, like a Jerome Baker, 0:10:22.160 --> 0:10:25.040 like a Bernardrick McKinney, whoever it might be. That is 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.960 a lot to deal with. That's both size, that speed, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:31.480 that's explosiveness, that's mystery for the quarterback. Not to mention 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.680 that Butler has largely been a five hundred snap player 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:37.760 in his career, which just helps keep everybody fresh on 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.760 a bigger, longer, deeper rotation. And these guys aren't just 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:44.960 stack and penetration players either. They all come equipped with 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:48.000 the requisite I discipline to really help them stay in 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.000 their gap, do that job, attack the correct part of 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.240 the man. You go inside, you go outside. You can 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.440 readjust throughout the rep to help off of a stunt, 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.440 off of a looper, off of a pick, whatever it 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.920 might be. All of these guys have all those traits. 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.480 The construction of this room is just chef's kiss. It's 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.960 choice young players that are under contract for the foreseeable future, 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.880 interchangeable pieces, position diverse, and the competition only serves to 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:13.920 make them better. So as far as our article up 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.000 on Miami Dolphins dot com, again, each of these podcasts 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.440 coincides with a written piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com. 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:24.240 You can find the interior defensive lineman later on this afternoon, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.600 or if you hear this podcast late on Tuesday. It's 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.559 already up there live for you, and we start with 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.400 the personnel changes. We talked about Adam Butler coming in. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.640 John Jenkins, a familiar face, also added to the room 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.240 this offseason, and a U d F A and Jerome 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:40.680 Johnson out of Indiana was added to the room. The 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.079 loan departure was divon Godshaw heading up to the Patriots 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.320 are week one opponent the coaching staff after one season 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.960 as an outside linebackers coach and one of the guys 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.920 that was part of that linebacker room having three players 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.840 with five or more sacks. Austin Clark is taking over 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.880 a familiar position from his career on the defensive line, 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.560 the same title he held with the University of Illinois 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:06.640 from nineteen and Under Clark's tutelage, Miami improved from thirty 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.920 second to tenth and sacks from twenty with forty one 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.080 sacks last year, number ten in the NFL. And prior 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.240 to his topic at Illinois, Clark coached the d line 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:21.359 and outside linebackers at USC where he had some relative 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.120 high success as far as draft picks go and guys 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.520 that produced in the PAC twelve and the biggest feather 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.400 in his cap was Ola Walle Betaicou Jr. Who went 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:32.320 from USC a five star recruit out of or rather 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.240 coming to the States into his high school career. He 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.400 comes over becomes a five star recruit because he's a 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.439 unique physical build. It just didn't happen for him at USC, 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:43.840 but he followed Coach Clark to Illinois and wound up 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.920 posting nine sacks his final season and really helped turn 0:12:46.960 --> 0:12:50.840 around that fighting a line I defense. So Coach Clark's impact, 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.280 as we've heard from Andrew Van Ginkle, from Jerome Baker, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.679 from plenty of players on this roster, they say they 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.360 love the way he teaches them pass rush techniques, especially 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.240 Van Ginkle. He's touched on that a few time, enmes 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.480 with how Coach Clark was attributable to some of the 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:06.000 jump that Van Ginkl saw last year with his production 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.640 and with his game. So this group on the defensive 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.720 line as a whole, again, versatility's the name of the game. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.200 The majority of these guys have played reps off the edge, 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:18.760 worked inside, and again that flexibility just helps keep things versatile, flexible, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.520 and mysterious for the offense. Christian Wilkins was the first 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:24.280 draft pick of the Chris Career Brian Flora's regime, and 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:27.920 he's been, as advertised, the bubbly personality who's helped establish 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.960 a culture while producing a hundred and three tackles, seven 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.360 of those for loss, an interception, three and a half sacks, 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:36.400 seven passes defense in his two seasons, and of course 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.800 he likes to come down to the end zone and 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.480 celebrate with the offense. He's caught a touchdown pass, He's 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.080 been the fullback on lead blocks on touchdown runs. He 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.680 does a little bit of everything. And rookie ray Kwon 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.439 Davis came on like gangbusters in his first season. He 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.319 finished up with forty tackles, while Zack Steeler made forty 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:54.079 eight tackles, eleven for loss, and he recorded three and 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.520 a half sacks, the most among this position group. The 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.800 guys are going to cover here. Talked about Adam Butler 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:01.400 a little, but he comes down here with fifteen sacks 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.880 in four seasons as a pro, playing all over the 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.400 defensive line. John Jenkins the other veteran acquisition, coming back 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:10.440 to his twenty nineteen stomping grounds where he notched thirty 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.800 nine tackles, the second most in his career with Miami. 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.680 Second year tackle Bonito Jones played in six games last 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.719 year as a rookie and then one. Undrafted free agent 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.520 Jerome Johnson enters his first training camp as a pro, 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.920 and we start there with Jerome Johnson in order of 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.640 jersey number sixty seven. So bring you're out there at camp, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.440 taking a look at number sixty seven, the rookie out 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:32.600 of Indiana, twenty three years old on opening day. He 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.440 finished his college career with a hundred and eleven tackles, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.960 thirteen and a half sacks, and twenty one tackles for loss. 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.480 He also forced a pair of fumbles, blocked a field goal, 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:44.640 and got himself an interception. PFF credited Johnson with sixty 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.880 one quarterback pressures on eight hundred and seventy four career 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.120 pass rush refs with sixty run stops. Those are tackles 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.480 within two yards of the line of scrimmage. If you're 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:56.040 new to the podcast, get used to run stops. I 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.600 love using that stat and that came on seven hundred 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:01.120 and seventy six rundown snap. So he's big, he's powerful 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.320 and has that explosive first step kind of like the 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.320 rest of this defensive line. We go back to Adam Butler, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.000 number seventy. That's easy to spot on the defensive line. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.520 Not very many seventies and that group four years as 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.120 a pro out of Vanderbilt, twenty seven years old on 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.240 opening day. And again, just the plethora of traits this 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:20.720 guy offers. The consistency might be the best of all. 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:24.080 PFF has the following pressure numbers for Adam Butler and 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:28.760 his four years and seven right down the pike. You 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.960 know what you're getting with Adam Butler. He's also averaged 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.400 thirteen and a half run stops over the four year 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.240 career in just four hundred and eighty nine total run 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:38.800 snaps on defense, so eleven percent of the time he 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.680 gets a tackle within two yards of the line. Again, 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.080 the brute strength, he's got, active hands, he can go 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.360 arm over, he can swim, he knows how to attack 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:48.440 and control one side of the body when you shade 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.840 off either side of the center. And a super super 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.440 explosive first step. We talked to Adam on the Free 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.600 Agent Podcast when he first signed here about this, and 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.920 he said that his first step and his explosiveness is 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.040 what he brings. But he also can lock out and 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.080 engage and kind of keep his eyes in the quarterback 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.360 help read zone read help read Jet sweeps in misdirection 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.200 because he can engage and then shed his block en 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.200 route to a tackle or to create space for a 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.520 linebacker as part of a two gap defense. So penetrator 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:17.720 but also a discipline to gat tackle with position flexibility. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.120 Sounds like a Miami dolphin if I ever heard one. 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.120 We jump from the seventies up to the nineties and 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:27.160 number ninety himself, John Jenkins eight years NFL experience out 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.960 of Georgia. He'll be thirty two years old on opening Day. 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.920 Had that career year really in twenty nineteen with Miami, 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.720 goes down to Chicago rather up to Chicago for a 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.160 season and has another productive season. Three twenty seven pound 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:42.240 DT has fifty five tackles over the last two seasons, 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:44.560 with two tackles for loss and a sack. And there's 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.080 some good tape of him in that twenty nineteen season, 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.640 both pressuring the quarterback, collapsing the pocket, holding up the 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.960 point of attack. You type in my name at Winfield, 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.760 NFL and John Jenkins and go to videos, you'll see 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.280 plenty of clips from that nineteen season where he was 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.400 getting after it. He added seventy QB pressures over the 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.960 last two seasons for the eight year veteran Number nine two. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:08.600 Zach Seeler got himself a contract extension last season three 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.280 years NFL experience, a seventh round draft pick out of 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.240 Fairish State number. He'll be twenty five years old come 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.320 opening Day, and you might recall back to twenty nineteen. 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.600 He was a waiver claim off the Ravens in the 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:23.399 last month of that season, and what a success story 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.320 he's become since that time. He really parlayed the end 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.760 of nineteen a very strong close out to that year. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:32.320 I'll never forget that Bengals game. I was there covering 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.960 that game with Lockdown Dolphins, and he had like seven 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.679 quarterback pressures, five run stops, two passes defense, one and 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.280 a half sacks TfL's. He was unblockable in that game. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:44.640 And he just kind of continued that into training camp 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.000 into the season, and after about two or three weeks, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.959 got a big jump and playing time last year and 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.439 really took off from there. He comes with freaky measurables, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.879 one of my favorite fact toys on the entire roster 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.760 since two thousand three players have posted the following combination 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.720 of workout numbers slash measurements in the run up to 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.880 the draft. The first two guys were at the combine. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.040 Zack Seiler was at his pro day at Faris State. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:12.920 Six ft five two five plus pounds, a sub four 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.199 eight five forty yard dash, thirty plus reps on the 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.280 bench at two twenty five pounds, a hundred and fifteen 0:18:19.320 --> 0:18:22.040 plus inches on the broad jump, and a three cone 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:28.240 time under seven one five. Those three players are Mario Williams, J. J. Watt, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.600 and Zach Seiler. He is freaky long, athletic and flexible 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.840 and powerful. He can do all the stuff up front 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.399 you want on this defensive line. He finished last season 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.400 with twenty five QB pressures, thirty two run stops, three 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.159 and a half sacks, forty eight total tackles, eleven of 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:44.920 those for loss. And I'll never forget his big production 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:47.199 on the fourth down stop in the Arizona game. That 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.720 was a key key play in that game. He and 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.760 Landed Roberts were crucial on that particular rep. Also inside 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:57.320 number ninety four, Christian Wilkins two years experience out of Clemson. 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.840 He'll be twenty five years old come opening Day, and 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.439 since he entered the league, he's been one of the 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.920 most productive defensive tackles from that draft class, a draft 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.760 class that featured Quentin Williams, at Oliver Dexter Lawrence, and 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:11.480 Jeffrey Simmons, possibly one of the best defensive tackle draft 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:14.960 classes we've seen really ever. He's registered a hundred and 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:17.280 three tackles in two years, three and a half sacks, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.720 the seven passes defense to pick, forty eight quarterback pressures, 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:23.520 and fifty nine run stops. He's been consistent. He shows 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.320 up every week and gives you constant pressure and run defense. 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:29.480 And to me, the conditioning allows him to not just 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.439 play a significant workload, like one thousand, three hundred and 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:35.040 sixty seven snaps in two years for a guy that 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:38.040 missed two games last year from COVID in twenty nineteen 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:40.800 on the COVID protocol list. I should say in twenty 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.080 nineteen he missed the entire Buffalo game because he was 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.600 ejected after the very first series. So you take away 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.000 three games, you extrapolate that to about thirty four snaps 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:51.720 a game. We're talking about, you know, seven eight hundred 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:53.880 snaps a year. For this guy at his peak, and 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:59.480 in addition to the occasional touchdown reception or the lead 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.800 block for a touchdown that he allowed, that he helps 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:04.440