WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Assistant Coaches Media Round Up 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:12.320 What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:15.760 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.400 we heard from Dolphin's assistant coaches. Tons of content to 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.400 get to here. I'm gonna touch on some of the 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.680 highlights from Coach Weaver, Embry, Coach Frank Smith, Bobby and 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:30.520 Ryan Slowick, Joe and Butcher Berry, and maybe some more 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.280 as we go along from the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:37.839 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.080 So as I type this segment out or this podcast 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.920 out and I stare at a blank document, I have 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:47.199 a note on my notepad app on my phone that 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.120 was going over the questions I asked to the coaches 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.080 and things that stood out to me as interesting. And 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.840 I tell you guys this because I never know exactly 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.560 how these quick turnaround SoundBite podcasts will come out, because 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.800 I kind of go. I just take them in and 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.520 post them into the podcast as I go, and then 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.760 give you my thoughts on them as I plug them in. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.200 And I know we'll get to Anthony Weaver, we'll get 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.280 to both coach Berry's, we'll get to the Slowick brothers, 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.480 We'll get to John Embry and Frank Smith. I have 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.520 to listen to all the other ones before I can 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.640 tell you whether or not I'm going to run audio 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.959 on those guys to see if I want to discuss 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.520 something that came up in their press conferences. So what 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.920 I'm gonna do is start with the ones that I 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.320 asked questions or was at there and kind of go 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:29.680 from there. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:30.480 Does that sound good? 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.440 And I want to start with coach Anthony Weaver because well, 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.560 for one, I just love picking his brain in all 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.039 things football and the way he communicates it with us 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.840 and articulates it. But he also had some really good 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.440 commentary on a few things, and the question that I 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.560 was most excited to hear him talk about brought back 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.600 perhaps my favorite answer of the day. And just before 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.640 I get to that, here real quick, this is one 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.360 of those things. And you longtime fans of the podcast, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:57.960 you know I can kind of fixate on some things 0:01:58.000 --> 0:02:01.400 and spend months like I you know, I remember coming 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:03.800 off of McDaniel's first year, I was really fixated on 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.440 the idea of the second year in the Kyle Shanahan 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:10.440 offenses previously and the eruption of those teams, And sure enough, 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.640 the twenty twenty three Dolphins went on to set records 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.000 and score points and at a clip we hadn't seen 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:17.720 in a long time here in Miami. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:19.880 That was one thing I fixated on. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.480 I forget what it was last year, but this year, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.560 I'm really kind of stuck on this concept of spring 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.440 football and the value of it and having high attendance 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.880 and hearing all the players. You know, they have spoken 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.280 to us in their veteran media availabilities about the chemistry 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.799 they're building and having everybody here and how everyone's hungry 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.000 to go out and play ball and really kind of 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:44.400 you know, right some of the wrongs from twenty twenty 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.560 four where this team they feel like they came up 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.000 short on expectations and felt like they could have you know, 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:51.000 been about our team and won more games and gone 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.360 to the postseason for a third straight year. And I 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.800 am so focused on this as I'm listening to one 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:59.720 of my favorite podcasts, the Heed the Call podcast, and 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.520 Jesse Palmer is a guest on their show, and he 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.079 used to be on the NFL Network and he alluded 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.520 to this Kyle Shanahan comment as they were doing a 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:11.480 Brock Purdy segment about the value of getting higher attendance 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.560 at OTAs because in the past, you know, they were 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:17.440 a veteran heavy team that would have either Brandon Ayuk 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:21.200 or Deebo Samuel or Trent Williams holding out for a 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.320 new contract potentially, or guys that were injured coming off 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.600 the previous season, like a Nick Bosa for instance, or 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:29.480 two years ago when Brock Purdy had that elbow injury 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.120 in the NFC Championship game and wasn't really a full 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.360 participant until like midway through training camp, and it just 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:38.920 got me curious. I went around in some googling, some searching, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.920 and I found this article on Kyle Shanahan on the 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.480 Athletic and I'm going to read some urbs here for 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:46.960 you going into the season, going into OTAs, going into 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.240 training camp, I do feel there will be as much 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.640 competition on our team for starting spots as there has 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.400 been in a while, especially on defense, Shanahan said to 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.840 the media there at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.920 in the owner's meetings. Back to the quote, but we 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.560 want to create that everywhere. We haven't had that for 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.280 a while. End quote, and the story he continues to 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.760 write that Shanahan insisted he's optimistic about the upcoming season 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.520 despite all the roster building that still must occur, all 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.680 the overchange in the roster. At multiple points during his 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.599 Tuesday session, he drew a distinct a distinction rather between 0:04:21.680 --> 0:04:24.520 previous aprils when the forty nine ers were beat up 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:29.480 recuperating during the spring practices, excuse me and ruining a 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.880 devastating playoff loss, with the off season program that began 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.120 in three weeks after the playoff loss right, and he 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:36.719 said it reminds him of how he felt back in 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.159 twenty nineteen, back to a quote, I want to go 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.080 to work now more than I have in a long time. 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:43.000 I can't wait for our players to get back. I 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.080 feel like I've been away from them for too long. 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:46.839 I think we'll have a hell of a turnout with 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.359 all of our guys end quote. And this is me 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:52.640 talking again now. I think that's applicable to the Dolphins, 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.680 because you know we've been over this. You know last 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.800 year there wasn't a ton of unknown going into training camp, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.000 Like there was a couple of positions up for grabs 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.039 and really depth spots across the roster, but like you 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.120 knew about Tron Armstead you knew about Aaron Brewer, you 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:10.279 knew about Austin Jackson, you knew the quarterback, and Tyreek 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.680 and Waddell and John wu and you knew about a 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:15.320 Chan and like you just kind of knew where guys 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.160 were going to slot in for the most part. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.240 And that was a big part of this. 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.320 Offseason and what coach McDaniel talked about at his own 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.840 owners beating press conference discussing setting your culture through the 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.800 draft and you know, kind of going more of the 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.159 youth route. And we saw the Dolphins really go back 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.080 to having one of the older rosters in the NFL 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.520 a season ago, to scaling things back to being a 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:39.000 younger roster, and they entered the draft, excuse me, with 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.000 the seventh youngest roster in the NFL. And then what 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.039 do they do besides have the youngest draft in the 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:46.599 entire league by quite quite a big margin. There was 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.200 a graft that got put up the other day. I 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.279 forget exactly where it was or what it read, but 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.479 essentially Miami's average age of their draft picks was like 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.120 a full year lower than the next youngest team in 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.040 terms of their draft. So, you know, in going back 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.200 to last year, we had various absences throughout spring and 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.920 into camp, much like those Niners teams, and that that's 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.760 gonna happen sometimes, especially as you kind of build something 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:11.159 year over year and you know put together a program 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.800 that is used to winning, Like you go deeper into 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:18.000 the season, you I guess endure more injuries and players 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.200 play well enough to you know, renegotiate their contracts because 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.600 they've performed at a level that is requisite with that 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:27.000 and you're not going to avoid that every off season. 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.440 But it kind of feels like this year is a 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.799 bit of a reprieve back to like what Shanahan mentioned 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.920 there with like everyone kind of chomping at the bit 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.160 and you know having the taste of last year in 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.600 their mouth and it fueling their off season preparation. And 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:42.560 you know not to say that guys ever take the 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:45.359 off season lightly and don't train properly, but there's you know, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.719 certain levels of motivation and factors that can I suppose 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.120 produce a bigger chip and and maybe give you that 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.240 one extra rep in this hot weather that maybe you 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.560 didn't do a year ago. It's it's something that I 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.479 think there's there's value to that. So I asked coach Weaver, 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.960 you know when you've got everybody here and you can 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:04.560 get this stuff installed in the spring, especially in the 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:06.560 second year of the system, right, Because that was what 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.800 we heard from coach McDaniel when I had him on 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:12.400 the podcast back at the combine, was he was talking 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:15.440 about that kind of mid season shift where the defensive 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.720 philosophy and structure kind of settled and took hold with 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.840 the players in terms of their secondhand under or their 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.640 second nature understanding of the defensive system. And so I 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.760 asked Coach Weave, like, you have the second year in 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.920 the defense now, and you've got really good attendance throughout 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.320 the course of spring practices, and the guys have talked 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.160 a lot about how valuable that is as a coach 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:39.480 when you get these guys out here in May. How 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:44.160 does that I suppose you know, ease the installation process, 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.920 come camp, come game plan time in September. And as 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:49.440 he is wont to do, Weaver did not disappoint with 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:51.960 this answer, talking about the value of having such good 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.520 attendance here and Dolphins Ota is twenty twenty five. 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:59.240 It's huge in a game. That's what communication and coordination obviously, 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.120 which I'm in charge of is so critical. I don't 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.960 know how you get that done without being around one another. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.520 And then when you just talk about great teams that 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:12.040 genuinely care for one another, which which often transcends right 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:15.400 just just being a teammate. You have to invest time. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:16.840 If I want to get closer to God, I got 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:18.600 to spend time in the work. If we want to 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.080 get better at football, we got to spend time on 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.800 the football field. We want to be better teammates, we 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.320 need to spend time together. So all these guys that 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:28.400 have been here in a voluntary period are truly investing 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:28.920 in this team. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.000 And in the process, you're going to hear this theme, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:34.160 or rather I went back to this theme frequently as 0:08:34.480 --> 0:08:38.360 throughout my questions about intentionality of you know, roster construction 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.439 and building out these rooms, and it just seems, you know, 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.600 we talk about guys that are smart players on offense, 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.839 that can digest things quickly and understand side adjustments, that 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.040 can deal with motion and the changing landmarks and all 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.560 that fun stuff, and then defensively, like the same thing 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:56.199 is applicable there. But what I thought was interesting to 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.240 kind of tie this next answer in was here, as coach, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:02.760 we were talking about the defensive tackle group and the 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.280 buy in and the effort both being on film and 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.439 then how they approach, you know, being Miami Dolphins for 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.280 the last month plus here so or I guess a 0:09:09.280 --> 0:09:11.040 little less than a month. But you're going to hear 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.520 something that ties back to our Wednesday episode talking about 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.800 Coach Clark. You're going to listen to Weaver here to 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.760 talk about whatever his potential is with Kenneth Grant, he's 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:20.800 going to reach that because of his hard work, but 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.760 also because the coach he has in that defensive line room. 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.960 Oh thrilled about the draft process. It was a collective 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.480 work of so many just targeting the guys that we did. 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.560 Really excited about Kenneth Grant and what he brings to 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.719 them to that defense and him just being in here, 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.360 have the opportunity to work with Benito and Zach Steeler 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.840 and obviously Coach Clark whatever he's supposed to be at 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.440 the end of the day, I promise you he will 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.360 reach every bit of God given potential. Potential I really 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.360 have at Jordan Phillips. God was kind of under the 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.720 radar a little bit, but the way he plays on 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:53.960 film and just the person that he is, it's the 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.960 same thing. He's going to reach that ceiling. And actually, 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:59.120 I have really high hopes for it for both those kids. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.559 And I don't know how he got Zick Figgers in 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.600 the seventh A guy with that size, that link, that 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.200 mass to play as hard as he plays, he could 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.240 end up being a steal for us too. So really 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.240 happy about those three. They've been putting the work in 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.640 since they've gotten here, and just I know we'll lift 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.840 for some growing pains early, as you do with all rookies, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.439 but the one thing I do know is that it's 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.959 going to click faster for them then, just because of 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:22.719 the work they put in. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.720 Coach also talked about the drive and chip on the 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:29.000 shoulder collectively in the cornerback room when he was asked 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.120 about that group. And I want to play this part 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.079 of the SoundBite for you where he kind of not 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.080 tails off, that's the wrong term, but he transitions his 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.000 answer to talk about the front. And we've covered this 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.560 in the podcast you Know at length about how teams 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.800 that run this style of defense. We saw four either 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.080 you know coaches leave or retain there in Baltimore to 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.559 run the system that was basically ran in twenty twenty 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.720 three under Mike McDonald, with him with Weaver, with Ronaldo Wilson, 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:02.200 and then Zach Or staying there in Baltimore, and the 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:06.600 emphasis on like linebackers and defensive tackles and being versatile 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.920 upfront and how that can kind of help you get 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.120 some protection on the back end because of how you 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.920 play up front. And so coach went into that and 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.480 talked about the front and talking about guys coming back 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.800 off injury with Phillips and Chubb and all that stuff. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.400 So I wanted to just play this audio about how 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:22.559 they feel about the front and how that can kind 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.160 of really have a net impact on the entire defense. 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:28.000 I also think we're going to be strong up front 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.240 if God's grace were fortunate that Jalen Phillips can stay 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:34.040 on the field. Bradley Chubb chopped coming in a year two. 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:36.920 The addition we've made on the defensive line, as zactually 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:39.120 or obviously, I think we can help them too by 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:42.480 being more disruptive and creating more chaos for the quarterback. 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.760 And I try my best to not, you know, like 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.920 I have my own intrigue with questions in terms of, like, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:50.880 you know, tell us about the scheme and everything you 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:53.360 want to do, but also like you know, the coaches 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.520 aren't going to tell you their plan, like McDaniel famously says, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.000 you want to give the entire game plan to the 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.760 New York Jets, like joking when you ask a question 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.120 rest conference, it's maybe too close to the sun. And 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:04.120 so I wanted to ask coach, Like, you know, last year, 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.160 you guys had this situation where your edge group got 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.400 so depleted early on, and luckily you had Zach and 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.520 Kalais who could both play some variations of defensive end 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:13.199 in the system. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.120 But it also kind of you know, stretched, you guys 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:16.000 thin at that position. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.760 And we talk about the intentionality of the off season 0:12:18.800 --> 0:12:21.680 and going after you know, these linebackers and edges and 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.760 the youthful, the youth movement at defensive tackle, Like it 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.120 seems like you saw that as not necessarily a total 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.040 hindrance last year, but you almost went and protect yourself 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.920 from that happening again by the way you approached the 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:39.000 off season. What's your take on how last year impacted 0:12:39.000 --> 0:12:40.720 the way you called this defense and how can being 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.040 deeper at that spot really open up the menu of 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:44.960 the playbook defensively whenever. 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.839 You're you're faced with those obstacles, right, usually like the 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:49.480 obstacles away, So you got to you got to find 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:51.720 a way through them. I thought as a stash that 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.400 you did a good job of whatever deficiencies we were 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.560 trying to hide a masking notes that that to me 0:12:57.679 --> 0:12:59.280 is that's that's why we had the coach tag on 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.120 our chests. Right. A lot of guys can get up 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.240 here and complain about personnel. I promise you we will 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.640 never do that. Ultimately, we're going to find a way 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.800 with a bunch of guys that are volunteers and not hostages, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.680 right that that want to get better. And if we 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.640 do that and we can find a way to play 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:16.360 as one collective unit, which is what we're always chasing, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.840 we're going to play good defense. Whichever combination of eleven 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.480 however this shakes out. We will play good defense because 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.280 of the conviction and the trust that they'll have one. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:27.040 And we'll close our long anthem Weaver segment here, which 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.720 is going to take up the entire first segment of 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.800 the show, with this really cool Q and A from 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:34.520 cam Wolf who asked him about what are some of 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.240 the things maybe you saw on tape about how teams 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.720 attacked your defense and how can they maybe you know, 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:40.920 get a full year of your defense on tape and 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.840 change the way they attack your defense now, And Coach 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.680 talked about how that happened towards the end of the year. 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.520 I'll let him do that and give you the rest 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.520 of the answer right here one more time, Coach Weaver, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:50.319 I think we. 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:51.559 Saw it a little bit towards the end of the year. 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.720 Right we played with a lot of air unneeds, so 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.560 people screen us, we're trying they're trying to force, you know, 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:59.760 our under coverage up, so then create those thrown lanes 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:02.240 behind them. Any safeties, people are going to try to 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.520 run the ball. We've tried to address that, but I 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:05.599 know the one thing that we have to do is 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.320 we have to find a way to take them all day. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.559 As well. As I think we played defensively at times 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.719 a year ago, think of how much better it could 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.079 have been if we could have had six less possessions 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:18.720 because eternals can takeaways. So that's been a point of 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.760 interest for us, and we'll continue to. 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.160 Be all off since I gotta tell you, man, we 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.360 are lucky, lucky to have that man here. 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:26.320 On this coaching staff. 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:28.840 I just have full trust and conviction and what he 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.600 does and how he creates things and how he'll get 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.320 these guys to get the most out of their own 0:14:33.360 --> 0:14:35.800 individual games. Let's go ahead and take a break right there, 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.440 come back. I talked to John Embry, Ryan and Bobby 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:41.600 Slowick both coach Barrys Butch and Joe and plenty more 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.560 here on the Draft Time podcast brought to you by 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:50.960 Auto Nation. As my great friend and longtime co host 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:54.160 on postgame radio show seth Levitt would say, no one 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:57.480 loves getting their own ideas or thoughts confirmed by the 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.560 coaching staff more than Travis Wingfield, he would say myself 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.320 in this case, speaking in third person, of course. And 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.880 Frank Smith was asked about Nick Westbrook Akine and what 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:09.920 do we keep talking about? You know, guys that know 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:12.280 exactly where they're supposed to be when they're supposed to 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.480 be there. What stands out most about NW? I Frank, well, 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:16.200 here you go, coach. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.080 Ultimately it goes to kind of who he is as 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.200 a man, and you can see it's a very detailed, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.160 very processed or andy guy is going to be extremely reliable. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.040 Like I think, ultimately, if you talk to the guys 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:32.160 that new in of Tennessee and our exposures so far, 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.080 it is going to be consistent at work ethic. I 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.440 think that's ultimately where he puts himself in positions to 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:42.360 be successful, is because he really is a student of 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.040 the process, making sure he's on the little things. So 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.280 therefore on Sundays he can rely on full the quarterback 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.360 and really arrest the offense. 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:51.480 And if I can link this back to the opening 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.480 segment talking about using the end of twenty twenty four 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:57.520 is feel for twenty twenty five. I mean, you know 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:01.840 the attendance, the work habits, and I guess the intentionality 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.480 of the work. Like here's Frank Smith, you know, once 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:05.920 again confirming for us so. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.560 Far, buying with the guys and everyone collectively and trying 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:12.480 to use the way last season wins our motivation to 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.200 make sure we maximize each day. And you don't look 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.360 into the forward, you don't look. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:18.640 To the past. You see what do we need to 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:19.280 get done right now? 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.240 And I think Technique and all the guys are really 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:21.720 embracing that. 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.120 From one offensive cordator to one that was an offensive 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.800 cordnator very recently in this league in Bobby Slowick. He 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.400 was asked, why are you and Ryan your brother on 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.640 opposite sides of the football, And I just thought this 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:33.640 answer was a lot of fun. 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:37.280 We used to be. That's a great question, defensive family, 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.840 without a without a doubt, I was always the black sheet. 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.120 I was a guy who played offense, you know. And 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:47.360 then actually when I got into coaching, I started in 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:51.560 Washington as a defensive coach, as a defensive QC. Mike Shanahan, 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.240 who's a head coach at the time in Washington, knew 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:58.880 I wanted to coach offense, and he had said every 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:02.320 good offensive coach to learn and start with defense. So 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.080 he put me on defense. So I was back with 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:07.080 the family and everyone liked me. And then eventually I 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.160 got sick of being on offense or on defense, Kyle 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.760 Shanahan and San Francisco pulled me back over to offense, 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.280 and then now I'm the black sheep again. 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:16.719 So this stuff was some of my favorite content from 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.720 the entire day. And I wanted to ask Bobby because 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.600 we've heard I talked to coach about this. McDaniel back 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.640 in shoot February, is that when the combine is march 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.679 about like adding coach Slowick to the staff, and he 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.919 talked about like the lens of seeing things in a 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.639 similar lens for lack of a better term, and to 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.120 come back to Bobby Slowik three months later and ask 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:41.040 the question and like, if if you had any question 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.960 about like the authenticity of the answer, then this should 0:17:45.040 --> 0:17:47.639 quell that because he says the exact same thing the 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.320 coach McDaniel said, and you just you can't possibly fake that. 0:17:50.400 --> 0:17:52.600 So that's why I wanted to run this back for you, guys. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.159 I asked him about how excited he is or what 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:57.680 he thinks about when he lets himself, you know, peer 0:17:57.680 --> 0:18:00.119 into the future four months down the road when you 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:01.920 have a game and we have to game plan for 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.320 that game, Like what comes to mind when you think 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.280 about your time with McDaniel in the past game planning 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:09.440 and how that might help you guys this time around 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:09.960 in Miami. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.159 It's funny because the more you talk to me, the 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:13.920 more you're gonna realize I say the same thing a lot, 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:16.119