Speaker 1: Factors, Patrick Draw What a win for this Miami Dolphin tea? Wow?
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Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, we continue the Rookie Film Study series
Speaker 1: with the first look at the tape of Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: ray Kwon Davis, and Brandon Jones. Plus Danny Clark of
Speaker 1: The Ringer has the Dolphins as a big draft winner
Speaker 1: over the weekend. Will welcome him in to tell us
Speaker 1: why all of that and more on this Wednesday, April
Speaker 1: nine edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins. And We're gonna
Speaker 1: first start this thing off by jumping into an interview
Speaker 1: that I had with Danny Clark of a Ringer. Let's
Speaker 1: not waste any more time and get right to that interview.
Speaker 1: And joining me now on the Drive Time Podcast is
Speaker 1: Danny Kelly. He's a staff writer at The Ringer, co
Speaker 1: host of the Dantasy podcast Dannasy Football podcast rather, an
Speaker 1: author of The Ringer, NFL draft guy, Danny, welcome in.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having me on. You mentioned
Speaker 1: you're from my neck of the woods on the Pacific Northwest.
Speaker 1: I know you're right for the ringer, but being a
Speaker 1: a website writer, a person that can work remotely, has
Speaker 1: the whole shutdown and the quarantine change the way your
Speaker 1: job works. Or how's that been going? Um? I mean
Speaker 1: I had a head start on kind of the what
Speaker 1: it's like to work from home and how to be
Speaker 1: disciplined and all that from working from a home office,
Speaker 1: but um, it's definitely changed, like the schedule of everything.
Speaker 1: I have a ten month old son and he requires
Speaker 1: around the clock attention, so we've had to kind of
Speaker 1: like figure out a way to take care of him
Speaker 1: and without having any childcare. So that's that's been the
Speaker 1: main challenge. It's also been kind of fun to get
Speaker 1: to spend so much time with him. But yeah, um,
Speaker 1: over all, you know, I'm pretty used to working for mom,
Speaker 1: so it hasn't been a massive, massive shift. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: the same story for me and my my wife is
Speaker 1: actually gonna be giving birth any day now, and so
Speaker 1: we're kind of trying to figure all this. Thank you,
Speaker 1: We're trying to figure out how that's all gonna work,
Speaker 1: and just trying to get as much draft content out
Speaker 1: as we can before that happens, so I can take
Speaker 1: a few days off and be dad for a few days.
Speaker 1: So that's what you're here for, Danny, And I want
Speaker 1: to ask you because every year you author your Draft Awards,
Speaker 1: and first I want to comment on the format and
Speaker 1: the language and the style of all this because it's
Speaker 1: such a fun read every year, and especially when your
Speaker 1: team is in the winner's category, like the Dolphins are.
Speaker 1: We'll get to that in just one second before we
Speaker 1: dive in. I'm curious to ask you how do you
Speaker 1: outline this because all these storylines are so fascinating to me,
Speaker 1: Like the storyline behind the draft is almost more intriguing
Speaker 1: than the actual draft itself. And I have to imagine
Speaker 1: that you're watching the draft with an eye towards either
Speaker 1: the really good you can point out or the really
Speaker 1: bad that you can point out. Right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's you have to be a little bit creative with
Speaker 1: the awards. And the nice part about doing awards and
Speaker 1: or superatives, which we do sometimes too, is um, you
Speaker 1: can kind of make up stuff like all these awards
Speaker 1: are kind of silly, like how to support your Aging
Speaker 1: Quarterback Award was one of them for the Colts and Buccaneers. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's just kind of an idea of like laying
Speaker 1: out the different storylines that developed over the draft, things
Speaker 1: that I think are the most important takeaways, I guess,
Speaker 1: and then you can kind of just make up categories.
Speaker 1: So it is it's kind of an easy way to
Speaker 1: you don't have to pigeonhole teams into like best worst
Speaker 1: or whatever. Um. You can kind of have a little
Speaker 1: more nuance and things like that. So it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of fun to do it that way. And every year
Speaker 1: I have slightly different awards. You know, some of them
Speaker 1: are repeats, but for the most part I try and
Speaker 1: kind of just make up new ones as we go.
Speaker 1: You can find a way, even when you're critical, do
Speaker 1: the compliment sandwich where you start with maybe some constructive
Speaker 1: criticism and then come back around the back end and
Speaker 1: uh and get the and get the compliment back in there.
Speaker 1: But on the topic of the good awards, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: get your the Understanding Positional Value Award, And first off,
Speaker 1: let me just go head and give you applause right there, sir,
Speaker 1: because I just love that comment alone. Modern day football
Speaker 1: coming into Miami finding ways to supplement floors is defense,
Speaker 1: helping build the line around the quarterback and really putting
Speaker 1: an emphasis on stopping the past in today's NFL. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned the premium positions with quarterback, offensive line, and
Speaker 1: corner in those first five picks. Walk us through your
Speaker 1: thinking there if you can. Yeah, So, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: the Dolphins had to give up some pretty valuable pieces
Speaker 1: to kind of build all the draft capital that they
Speaker 1: had this season. Um, and you hope that they use
Speaker 1: it really smartly and on the most important, I guess,
Speaker 1: foundational pieces for a franchise in the long term. Then
Speaker 1: you kind of see like how the NFL tends to
Speaker 1: value these guys. Box safeties are generally one of the
Speaker 1: more lower, lower paid defensive positions in the NFL. That
Speaker 1: might change kind of over the years as guys become
Speaker 1: more versatile against the past. So it was really good
Speaker 1: to see the Dolphins go out and kind of recognize that,
Speaker 1: like you were, offensive tackle one of the highest paid
Speaker 1: positions in the NFL. UM. Robert Hunt and Austin Jackson,
Speaker 1: I think both have really high ceilings. I really, um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that was a really smart way
Speaker 1: to do it. Build from the trenches. You don't have
Speaker 1: to have, you know, an elite running back, Um, if
Speaker 1: you're rebuilding, and even if they're even if they're like
Speaker 1: going to surprise us and maybe not, they're not a
Speaker 1: rebuilding team anymore. Um, having that elite offensive line or
Speaker 1: at least a very strong offensive line, you can pretty
Speaker 1: much plug any running back in back there and you'll
Speaker 1: you'll get quality, you know, production from him. So to me,
Speaker 1: that made a lot of sense. I love the fact
Speaker 1: that they built a strength on a strength by grabbing
Speaker 1: the cornerback. And I'm not even gonna try to stay
Speaker 1: his name. Do you know how to say his name? Yeah,
Speaker 1: well we'll call him Igbo, but it's Noah ig Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was practicing before the pot and then I freaked
Speaker 1: out just now trying to I was going to be
Speaker 1: able to say it, But um, yeah, iig Bow. I
Speaker 1: like him. He's a very feisty, you know, high upside guy. Man.
Speaker 1: There's so much talent in that secondary right now. You
Speaker 1: build the past defense first and worry about the ask
Speaker 1: rush a little bit later. If you have lockdown type corners.
Speaker 1: They can do a lot of things for your defense
Speaker 1: and make it very very difficult on the quarterback. So anyways,
Speaker 1: I thought that the way that they went about it,
Speaker 1: and obviously to we can't forget about tackle tumblefla another
Speaker 1: tough tough to uh pronounce last name. Um he You know,
Speaker 1: I thought that was a great pick for them. I
Speaker 1: was really really hoping that would be the pick. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think if you're I think fortunate favors the bold,
Speaker 1: especially at the quarterback position. His ceiling is so much higher.
Speaker 1: I just think it makes so much more sense to
Speaker 1: grab him. So I thought that was a really good
Speaker 1: pick for them. Very exciting, potential franchise turning around type player.
Speaker 1: So all in all, you know, I think you can
Speaker 1: look at what the Dolphins gave up and what they
Speaker 1: got in this first round, and it's really really strong return.
Speaker 1: I think of what they you know, the picks that
Speaker 1: they were to a mass for the first round. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the way they built that defense sort of
Speaker 1: back to front. I really compliment what they did in
Speaker 1: free agency with Flora's going out and getting guys that
Speaker 1: really suit his defense and a Hyle van Noy shack Lawson.
Speaker 1: You've got Emmanuel Ogball down there, Land and Roberts, Commo,
Speaker 1: grouge Hill, all these players that can do multiple things
Speaker 1: in that front seven. But you also mentioned the running
Speaker 1: back position, how you maybe can plug in guys that
Speaker 1: come later in the draft, maybe even undrafted guys that
Speaker 1: can run behind the solid scheme, behind a solid offensive line.
Speaker 1: And that's what we saw with the new Dolphins running
Speaker 1: back and Matt Brita in San Francisco. Because that backfield,
Speaker 1: as good as it was under Kyle Shanahan going into
Speaker 1: the season, I don't think anybody would say that, you know,
Speaker 1: Matt Brita or tell Uh Telvin, Tevin Coleman or Mara
Speaker 1: he most at our superstar running backs. They produced like it,
Speaker 1: but they didn't have the name recognition going into the season.
Speaker 1: And in the article you praise Miami for the resisting
Speaker 1: that urge to go tailback early on. Do you think
Speaker 1: they really got it right with that Brita trade? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. I think. You know, like I mentioned, if
Speaker 1: you have a good run scheme, you have a good
Speaker 1: um offensive line, you're gonna get production from the running
Speaker 1: man group. Obviously, it's nice, it's it's almost like a
Speaker 1: lecture to have a really really good running back. But
Speaker 1: it is nice, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's not going to change the overall you know, like
Speaker 1: identity of your offense. It's not one of those players.
Speaker 1: It's not one of those positions really that can have
Speaker 1: the biggest impact. So um, to me, it made a
Speaker 1: lot of sense. You know, I think it was a
Speaker 1: fifth round pick right that they swapped for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: three overall. Yeah, And at that point those picks are
Speaker 1: those picks are dart throws. So that's not a big
Speaker 1: price to pay for a guy who's proven in the
Speaker 1: NFL that he can be effective. He's you know, very
Speaker 1: very fast, very very explosive, you know. Putting him in
Speaker 1: kind of like a committee with you know, maybe Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard whoever ends up kind of coming out on top
Speaker 1: in that group, it just makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: Gives you that speed element, and it's it's such a
Speaker 1: such a good bargain, I think to do it that
Speaker 1: way rather than kind of investing in a luxury pick earlier.
Speaker 1: It just I just think that that line of thinking
Speaker 1: made a lot of sense. And you mentioned in the
Speaker 1: article about taking possession and maybe don't have as much
Speaker 1: impact on the overall football team early in the draft.
Speaker 1: And I'm curious to get your thought because you know,
Speaker 1: this positional value idea I think is somewhat commonplace, but
Speaker 1: not across the league entirely. Do you think that this
Speaker 1: type of thinking ever will become commonplace? And if not,
Speaker 1: why are teams still resistant to it. I feel like
Speaker 1: it's getting it's it's slowly glacially changing. And the reason
Speaker 1: they say that is, yeah, there was a first round
Speaker 1: running back, um Clyde Edwards layer snuck into the first round,
Speaker 1: but he is so good in the passing game that
Speaker 1: I think that is a big factor to take into account, Like,
Speaker 1: you know, your positions that you want to take early
Speaker 1: in the draft help you're passing and help you defend
Speaker 1: the past, and you know, grabbing a guy. So the
Speaker 1: other thing that I kind of that comes to mind here,
Speaker 1: And I don't know if this is just an indictment
Speaker 1: of the guy, like an indiatment of him as a prospect,
Speaker 1: but to me, if you look at a guy like
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor, he is one of the best running back
Speaker 1: prospects in years. Like he's on the level I think
Speaker 1: as a prospect in terms of his speed, size, um, production, everything,
Speaker 1: like Ezekiel Elliott type player, Leonard Fournette type player. You look,
Speaker 1: not even a few years ago, those guys are going
Speaker 1: in the top five and he fell into the second round.
Speaker 1: So is that an indication that the NFL is kind
Speaker 1: of like changing its opinion and changing its value system
Speaker 1: on the running back position, or is it just mean
Speaker 1: maybe they didn't think that Jonathan Taylor was as good
Speaker 1: of a prospect. I can't really tell you. I think
Speaker 1: he's a very very good prospect um. But I thought
Speaker 1: that was very fascinating. I thought that maybe that signaled
Speaker 1: kind of a changing of the guard, changing of philosophy.
Speaker 1: We've seen some some running backs over the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, a couple of seasons not get the types
Speaker 1: of deals that they wanted to get. Melvin Gordon comes
Speaker 1: to mind. You know, he just didn't. He didn't his
Speaker 1: holdout didn't work. He didn't get the deal he wanted.
Speaker 1: It looks like the Jags are trying to change trade
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nett overall. Maybe that maybe that that thinking
Speaker 1: is shifting a little bit. Yeah, you mentioned some of
Speaker 1: those top five picks like Zeke, like larn Fournett, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, who I want to say it was eighth overall.
Speaker 1: But the common thread there for him was that you
Speaker 1: mentioned with Clyde Edwards Hilary the first round pick, that
Speaker 1: those guys are really big contributors in the passing game.
Speaker 1: So it does seem like there's a little more credence
Speaker 1: going towards the aerial assault more so than the ground game.
Speaker 1: You write a draft guide every year, Danny talking about
Speaker 1: some of these players, and you mentioned to me on
Speaker 1: an email chain that we can get into the weeds
Speaker 1: on what some of these guys can do. Are there
Speaker 1: any other player breakdowns you want to give us here
Speaker 1: before I let you go? Um, yeah, there's a couple
Speaker 1: that I thought were very interesting. Um. I think Hunt
Speaker 1: is he came into the class very kind of under
Speaker 1: the radar because he played for a smaller school. Um.
Speaker 1: I think he's he's very interesting, fun player to watch
Speaker 1: on tape. I think he brings guards, guard end, tackle versatility,
Speaker 1: so that's very interesting. I think the ray Kawon Davis
Speaker 1: pick out of Alabama is an intriguing one. He is,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of going along Clow. We're just saying
Speaker 1: I think he's a first round talent that fell out
Speaker 1: of the first round. You know, early on in his
Speaker 1: career he started getting talked about it as a first
Speaker 1: round for prospect because he had a very strong season
Speaker 1: where he was like affecting the past, you know, pushing
Speaker 1: the pocket all that. His stats kind of fell off
Speaker 1: over the last two seasons and that kind of like
Speaker 1: hurt his stock. But um, if he can unlock that
Speaker 1: pass rush potential, I mean, he's got incredible length, very
Speaker 1: like unreal size, Like he's one of the he's gonna
Speaker 1: be like one of the biggest interior defenders in the
Speaker 1: NFL like day one. So he's just really really intriguing.
Speaker 1: But if he can unlock that pass rush, um, have
Speaker 1: that three down skill set, this is gonna end up
Speaker 1: looking like a massive, massive steel And that's that's a
Speaker 1: that's an if. Obviously, that's not something that you can
Speaker 1: necessarily project, but I think that is exactly the range
Speaker 1: you want to take a player like that, where, um,
Speaker 1: you know, you can maybe coach him up, get him
Speaker 1: some more of a bigger repertoire moves, and you could
Speaker 1: potentially have him just being a game record from the
Speaker 1: inside UM. I thought that the Curtis Weaver pick was
Speaker 1: really smart too. He he was a guy who fell um.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty hard to ignore honestly, the production and
Speaker 1: like I was mentioning earlier, these fifth around picks are
Speaker 1: just dark throws, and so grabbing a guy with that
Speaker 1: kind of production, UM, that profile, that skill as a
Speaker 1: pass rusher UM makes a lot of sense to me.
Speaker 1: I think he could be the type of guy that
Speaker 1: you could have in the rotation early on if you
Speaker 1: could use him as a subject like a sub package
Speaker 1: pass rusher UM, where he's just like lining up and
Speaker 1: going forward. I think that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: So he was another interesting pick late in the late
Speaker 1: in the draft that I think could have kind of
Speaker 1: an early impact. I found it really intriguing that Chris
Speaker 1: Greer got three players in the fifth round and Jason Strowbridge,
Speaker 1: Curtis Weaver, and Matt Breeder through the trade and that
Speaker 1: has just kind of been the sweet spot for those
Speaker 1: franchise for such a long time, going all the way
Speaker 1: back to Rashaw Jones in two thousand and ten, and
Speaker 1: the fifth round you get ja Agi, Bobby McCain, Tony
Speaker 1: Lippet all in the same fifth round. All those guys
Speaker 1: contributed the next season, Devon Gage Shaw very recently and
Speaker 1: now with Strowbridge, Weaver and Matt Breeda. You mentioned ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis. There was a great shot of the draft
Speaker 1: feed from ESPN NFL Network where Brian Flores is at
Speaker 1: his desk and he's showing him how he can lock
Speaker 1: out and throw guys. As you can tell, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what ray Kuan Davis does. When I watch him play,
Speaker 1: it reminds me of Calias Campbell Man because he just
Speaker 1: towers over these other guys who were also huge human beings,
Speaker 1: and he towers over a man. It's it's fun to watch,
Speaker 1: but that's that's great, Danny. We appreciate it. We appreciate
Speaker 1: your time. The article is up on The Ringer. It's
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft Awards by Danny Kelly of The Ringer,
Speaker 1: co host of the Dannasy Podcast, and you can find
Speaker 1: his NFL Draft guide on the Ringer dot com as
Speaker 1: well and at Danny B. Kelly on Twitter. Danny, thank
Speaker 1: you for joining Drivetime Man. Absolutely, thanks so much for
Speaker 1: having me on and so away he goes. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and check out that article on The Ringer. Before we
Speaker 1: check out here today, I want to go over some
Speaker 1: notes I wrote down on the Dolphins three Day two
Speaker 1: picks Robert Hunt, Ray Kwon Davis, and Brandon Jones because
Speaker 1: I had a chance to watch all their reps over
Speaker 1: the last season, and just start here with the thirty
Speaker 1: nights pick in the draft, the massive offensive lineman from
Speaker 1: Louisiana Lafayette, Robert Hunt, and to pick the Dolphins get here.
Speaker 1: Here's a staff from Trey Wingo on ESPN during the draft.
Speaker 1: For the last two seasons, Robert Hunt allowed just five pressures,
Speaker 1: not sacks or quarterback hits. Five pressures on five hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy four pass blocking reps and had no blown
Speaker 1: blocking assignments on two hundred sixty sixteen running play assignments.
Speaker 1: That's from the Louisiana Lafayette coaching staff. So five pressures
Speaker 1: on five hundred and seventy four pass block reps and
Speaker 1: no blown blocking assignments on two hundred and sixteen running plays.
Speaker 1: And when you watch his tape, it just makes sense
Speaker 1: because I legitimately struggled to find him losing reps in
Speaker 1: the Sun Belt Conference, utter dominance in that conference, just
Speaker 1: tossing bodies all over the field. He's able to coil
Speaker 1: and unleash the power behind that big frame in his
Speaker 1: hips and really pop guys and square them up. Whether
Speaker 1: or not he's pulling play side, getting out in front
Speaker 1: for a screen pass or in a phone booth, he
Speaker 1: can roll those hips and then square them up and
Speaker 1: really makes for some explosive, highlight level blocks. I mean,
Speaker 1: how often do you see a right tackle or a
Speaker 1: right guard make the highlight reel over and over again,
Speaker 1: and he just does it consistently. There is a thread
Speaker 1: that I put up on Twitter at Wingfield NFL where
Speaker 1: I broke down his work against Georgia Southern. I didn't
Speaker 1: really break it down because the tape does the work
Speaker 1: for you. But it's the entire series from the first
Speaker 1: play of the drive to the touchdown, and Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: destroys a person on every single play, and just go
Speaker 1: check it out if you haven't seen it yet. It's
Speaker 1: a thirty three second video. The first play, he gets
Speaker 1: into a pass set from the right tackle position, the
Speaker 1: five technique tries to rush up his outside shoulder and
Speaker 1: he throws him over. The guy winds up basically doing
Speaker 1: that running trip move where you can't get your feet
Speaker 1: because you're off balance. Hunt just completely discards him initially
Speaker 1: and immediately in the past set there as a pass
Speaker 1: blocker at right tackle. It's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Then he comes back on the next snap, it's a
Speaker 1: running play and he just completely displaces the exact same
Speaker 1: player from the exact same technique on a screen the
Speaker 1: other direction. He moves him out from the inside hash
Speaker 1: on the left part of the field all the way
Speaker 1: to the other side of the hash. It's kind of
Speaker 1: ridiculous how far and how much movement he gets there.
Speaker 1: And then the next play, another running down, he works
Speaker 1: on the same player in the same technique and just
Speaker 1: completely collapses him inside on an inside run out of
Speaker 1: the pistol where he gets movement about three or four
Speaker 1: yards again across the hash mark and then buries him
Speaker 1: with a pancake block. And then finally the touchdown rum
Speaker 1: the run from Louisiana, he has the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: bowls over a guy into the end zone for the
Speaker 1: touchdown run. Four consecutive snaps where I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: struggle to find anybody being that dominant on four plays
Speaker 1: back to back to back to back with Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: against Georgia Southern on that particular drive. And you often
Speaker 1: hear people talk about how well a guy moves for
Speaker 1: his size, and Robert Hunt is very nimble, and you
Speaker 1: might hear that he is nimble for a guy his size,
Speaker 1: but toss out that that disclaimer altogether. He's just a
Speaker 1: nimble dude. He can hit reach blocks like all the time,
Speaker 1: very regularly. And what a reach block is is when
Speaker 1: you're outflanked by a defensive lineman. So if you're a
Speaker 1: right tackle, he's gonna be lined up off your left
Speaker 1: shoulder and you have to get across him and make
Speaker 1: that reach block. It's a very difficult block to ask
Speaker 1: for guys because quickness, you're just outflanked from the start.
Speaker 1: But he does it all the time because of his
Speaker 1: nimble athletic ability, just an utter wall in past protection.
Speaker 1: We've read the stat for you guys, five pressures on
Speaker 1: five hundred and seventy four pass blocking reps. He has
Speaker 1: the length, the anchor, the punch, all those things are
Speaker 1: effective and it combines together for that great production he
Speaker 1: gave you in college position flexibility, the length off the edge.
Speaker 1: But you look at his density and the way he
Speaker 1: can really anchor that, which could be could make him
Speaker 1: effective as a guard or a tackle because he has
Speaker 1: the width, the length, and the ability to throw that
Speaker 1: punch and stun guys. Initially, I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a good player wherever he plays on this offensive line. Now,
Speaker 1: we talked about ray Kwon Davis a little bit or more,
Speaker 1: I should say, with Danny than anybody else, and he
Speaker 1: talked about the upside there, and you heard me talk
Speaker 1: about his size and how big he looks. It reminds
Speaker 1: me of Calais Campbell because they're both about three hundred
Speaker 1: and five pounds. They both go about six seven. They
Speaker 1: both have wingspans that stretched from here to Sarah Soda,
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about Zilla Washington, not my me Florida.
Speaker 1: They have huge wingspans and they just tower over these
Speaker 1: other players who were huge people to height, weight wing span.
Speaker 1: There is a rep against Georgia in the National Championship
Speaker 1: game way back in eighteen in January that year where
Speaker 1: he finally gets a single block. Because you watch this
Speaker 1: guy's tape, it's two guys blocking him, three guys blocking him.
Speaker 1: When guys aren't engaged and they don't have anybody in
Speaker 1: their pass blocking assignment, they're looking to locate where is
Speaker 1: because he's such a force and can reach such havoc.
Speaker 1: And he finally gets the single block opportunity, he locks
Speaker 1: the guy out, just like Flores is showing us in
Speaker 1: that draft day video where he's locking and swatting flies.
Speaker 1: Is what it looked like to me. He locks him
Speaker 1: out and jerks the guard and just pulls him straight
Speaker 1: to the ground. Makes the kid look absolutely helpless. And
Speaker 1: to pull the quote from Daniel Jeremiah here on draft day,
Speaker 1: it looked like Billy Madison on the playground catching the dodgeball.
Speaker 1: Now you're all in big, big trouble. That's how he
Speaker 1: plays the game. He's just so physically dominant. And I'd
Speaker 1: be curious to ask Flow and I'll probably do this
Speaker 1: at some point, to ask him if that was the
Speaker 1: play that he was acting out when the NFL draft
Speaker 1: cameras were on him, because it looked like he was
Speaker 1: talking about stacking and shedding, and there was no more
Speaker 1: impressive example of it than on that play. And in
Speaker 1: that game, you saw the past rush ability, you saw
Speaker 1: the run defense ability. He picked off a past that
Speaker 1: got deflected because his eyes are up and Marrying Hobby
Speaker 1: talks about that all the time, playing with your eyes up,
Speaker 1: over your hands and using your hands and your eyes
Speaker 1: to take you to the football and then from there
Speaker 1: used the pure strength and pure athletic ability to make
Speaker 1: plays he did all the time that freshman season at Alabama.
Speaker 1: I think there's tons and tons of talent to work
Speaker 1: with here in ray Kwon Davis. And who better than
Speaker 1: Marrying Hobby and Brian Flores and Josh Boyer and that
Speaker 1: defensive staff to get it out of him? Now? Speaking
Speaker 1: about Josh Boyer and Brian Flores and will go Gerald
Speaker 1: Alexander to the new defensive backs coach. This safety out
Speaker 1: of Texas, Brandon Jones. He has so much fun to
Speaker 1: watch play. We talked to him about getting every NFL
Speaker 1: team's playbook and going through four games of defensive tape
Speaker 1: to learn everybody's defense. He showed us the binder that
Speaker 1: he has the cover zero, cover one, cover two. Here's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna blitz. We're gonna fire hot right here.
Speaker 1: He knows all these calls, all these checks, all these
Speaker 1: different coverage responsibilities. And when you watch him play at Texas,
Speaker 1: you see the way that pops on the tape every
Speaker 1: single game, because every game you put on, he's gonna
Speaker 1: make seven or eight plays that really changed the course
Speaker 1: of the game. And I'm not talking like an interception
Speaker 1: or a fumble return or something like that, just to
Speaker 1: play where he is isolated in a one on one
Speaker 1: situation and has to make a play a big third
Speaker 1: and six where it comes down to him versus like
Speaker 1: say Justin Jefferson, and he makes the play seven or
Speaker 1: eight times a game. You'll see it. There's a great
Speaker 1: clip in the Oklahoma State game where Cuba Hubbard, who
Speaker 1: I think was gonna run like a four three four
Speaker 1: four in that range of the forty yard dash, but
Speaker 1: he decided to go back to college. You watch his tape.
Speaker 1: He has a billion fifty plus yard touchdown runs where
Speaker 1: he just runs away from the defense. Oklahoma State tries
Speaker 1: to condense everything inside and run a little toss sweep
Speaker 1: off the outside, and who else besides Brandon Jones, all
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine pounds of him, to go ahead
Speaker 1: and get in there and jack the tight end and
Speaker 1: display some four or five yards into the backfield. It
Speaker 1: forces Chuba Hubbard to bubble, and what bubble means if
Speaker 1: you ever see a team run an end around, the
Speaker 1: goal of the defensive end is to force the player
Speaker 1: that gets the football to bubble, and that means rather
Speaker 1: than taking the handoff and running straight down the line,
Speaker 1: you want to disrupt the tackle or the tight end
Speaker 1: and push him backwards so that receiver has to go
Speaker 1: backwards before he can get up field and make a play.
Speaker 1: It just disrupts the timing of the play and throws
Speaker 1: everything off of the offense. Well, he makes Chuba Hubbard
Speaker 1: bubble on this outside run, and from there he doesn't
Speaker 1: clean the tackle up, but he gets back in there
Speaker 1: and forces Hubbard to change direction and make a move,
Speaker 1: and that allows his teammates his friends to rally and
Speaker 1: make the tackle and get a huge third down and
Speaker 1: goal stop. And he does that all the time. Reset
Speaker 1: in the line of scrimmage, there are so many plays
Speaker 1: like the L s U game, for instance, where they
Speaker 1: run that tight bunch, and what that means is you
Speaker 1: take your receivers from the outside part of the field
Speaker 1: where the numbers are on the field, and you can
Speaker 1: dense them inside tight into the height end into the
Speaker 1: offensive tackle position. It's called a nasty split, a tight
Speaker 1: split by some teams. It just depends on the verbiage look,
Speaker 1: go ahead and condense that entire formation and tight. And
Speaker 1: when Brandon Jones sees that, it's like he takes it
Speaker 1: as a personal challenge. He gets himself in there and
Speaker 1: wants to jack up the point man and again and trips.
Speaker 1: The point man is the guy at top. You're gonna
Speaker 1: have two receivers behind him. Your point man is the
Speaker 1: one that kind of dictates the flow of that route.
Speaker 1: And so Brandon Jones gets himself in there and just
Speaker 1: throws his hands and plays behind his pads and disrupts
Speaker 1: the entire timing of a past play or gets himself
Speaker 1: involved in the running game. He had several examples of
Speaker 1: that in that L s U game. I posted videos
Speaker 1: of it on my Twitter timeline. Again at Wingfield, NFL,
Speaker 1: you see his instincts again, the story about taking the
Speaker 1: NFL binders, the NFL film and going over all that.
Speaker 1: You see those instincts and those studious habits on the
Speaker 1: football field. By the way he anticipates route combinations, there's
Speaker 1: a slot fade against him where you have to know
Speaker 1: because there are when you talk about receiving formations the
Speaker 1: player furthest out is the one, the next player ends
Speaker 1: the two, and then the course further in from that
Speaker 1: is the three. There are combinations where you kind of
Speaker 1: have an idea of what one guy does is gonna
Speaker 1: dictate what the other guy does. And a lot of
Speaker 1: times on smash concepts, your one receiver is gonna run
Speaker 1: a hitch or a curl or something breaking inside, and
Speaker 1: then they'll work in behind that throwing something over the top,
Speaker 1: like a corner route or a fade route. And there's
Speaker 1: a play against Justin Jefferson, a big third down play
Speaker 1: where he recognizes that and sees the end breaking route
Speaker 1: and sees the way the slot fade wants to press
Speaker 1: his toes with speed going right at him, and then
Speaker 1: you want to widen that route to the outside, and
Speaker 1: he recognizes all that, gets himself in phase, gets in
Speaker 1: the hip pocket and makes a really good play there.
Speaker 1: He has just countless effort plays that you're gonna see
Speaker 1: him make when you turn the tape on. Going back
Speaker 1: to the Oklahoma State game, there was a little play
Speaker 1: action half role where the defense kind of gets out
Speaker 1: of sorts and he comes up and has to recover
Speaker 1: and go back against the tight end and the quarterback
Speaker 1: floats it. It's a little bit under thrown, but because
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones never gives up on the play, he gets
Speaker 1: himself in on it, gets his hands on the football
Speaker 1: and breaks it up as they're going to the ground.
Speaker 1: Just a pure, pure effort play. You have to love that.
Speaker 1: Back to the l s U game, he blitz off
Speaker 1: the edge quite a lot too, and he can really
Speaker 1: arrive with force and reset an offensive lineman with that
Speaker 1: speed to power move. There's a play against LSU where
Speaker 1: he blitz is the left guard who I want to
Speaker 1: say is Adrian McGee, who goes about three hundred and
Speaker 1: forty pounds, and he moves Adrian McGee off the football
Speaker 1: with his pressure. So he's outweighed by two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty pounds on that or a hundred and fifty pounds
Speaker 1: rather on that rep, and he resets that guy. He
Speaker 1: has a big sack of Joe Burrow in that game
Speaker 1: where he comes off the edge, and you know how
Speaker 1: slippery Joe Burrow is, can step around pressure, can make
Speaker 1: moves out of the pocket and really break things down
Speaker 1: against the free rusher. He gets burrowed to the ground
Speaker 1: and you can see Burrow kind of slammed the ball
Speaker 1: in frustration because he knew or he thought that he
Speaker 1: should have gotten out of that sack. Not against Brandon Jones.
Speaker 1: This guy plays everywhere on your defense, does a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything. Off the edge, in the box, you
Speaker 1: can stack him against the point or the point man
Speaker 1: and that bunch formation. You can play him off the football,
Speaker 1: play him in the slot. He played some coverage outside
Speaker 1: out wide as well. There's another fun play on the
Speaker 1: tape that I put on Twitter where someone picks off
Speaker 1: a pass and he comes down field for the lead
Speaker 1: block and he lays an offensive lineman out decletes him
Speaker 1: and you can hear the pop on the tape. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch. I just it's he's
Speaker 1: one of those players that just invokes energy in the
Speaker 1: fan base and the team, and he's always around the football.
Speaker 1: You turn on Texas tape, you're gonna see the number
Speaker 1: nineteen out there running around making plays. It's so obvious
Speaker 1: why they love this guy. His versatility, his toughness, his
Speaker 1: willingness to get his face involved in the running game.
Speaker 1: He just does a lot of things that Brian Flora's
Speaker 1: likes and it's really fun to watch him play football.
Speaker 1: All these guys have just unique traits about them that
Speaker 1: really makes so much sense of the vision. And I
Speaker 1: wrote about that in the article up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. We talked about it on the podcast yesterday.
Speaker 1: If you haven't seen it, the article is published up
Speaker 1: there right now. Dolphins Offseason reinforce his team's vision. Just
Speaker 1: talking about how Chris Career and Brian Flora has developed
Speaker 1: this vision and they're making moves to reinforce that vision.
Speaker 1: Go check that out. Go check out Danny Kelly's NFL
Speaker 1: Draft Awards. The Miami Dolphins got themselves in there. On
Speaker 1: tomorrow's podcast, we're gonna have Steve Wish of NFL dot Com.
Speaker 1: He's gonna talk about his relationship with two a tongue
Speaker 1: of Byloa. We're gonna have Shelley Smith of ESPN. She
Speaker 1: did a piece on Austin Jackson and the bone marrow transplant.
Speaker 1: Plenty of good stuff coming your way here. We have
Speaker 1: plenty of character detail stories we're gonna do on all
Speaker 1: these draft picks, film study, all the fun stuff ahead
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