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Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a
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Speaker 2: Bye for a second time.
Speaker 1: Don knew where he was going right away.
Speaker 3: I want to hit that man.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna help you.
Speaker 1: Someone will keep on your man.
Speaker 2: Away Wattle, Wattle to a shotgun, back to throw, looking
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Speaker 3: It's Waddle his sixth touchdown.
Speaker 4: Pats the King.
Speaker 3: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
Speaker 1: Now, let me check your pulse if you're not for.
Speaker 3: What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 2: And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: And on today's show, we got a special one for you.
Speaker 2: Fitz is in the house. Ryan Fitzpatrick joins us from
Speaker 2: Prime Video to talk about the Dolphins two games that
Speaker 2: were released on Wednesday. The Dolphins will travel to Germany
Speaker 2: to take on the Kansas City Chiefs. They also will
Speaker 2: go to New York or Jersey to face the Jets
Speaker 2: on Black Friday. The primetime game the first ever Black
Speaker 2: Friday game, Dolphins at Jets.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk about that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about two a tongueo by Lowa, Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 2: Vick Fanju and much much more with the former quarterback
Speaker 2: of your Miami Dolphins, plus a signing. We'll break down
Speaker 2: Tyler Croft's game. We'll also hear from the players that
Speaker 2: spoke to the media on Tuesday, May the ninth, that
Speaker 2: was chosen Anderson and Javon Holland. Busy Busy episode from
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Drivetime podcast.
Speaker 2: Maye Jeffish, Let's go ahead and jump right into my
Speaker 2: interview with former Dolphins quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick. And joining us
Speaker 2: today is the former quarterback of your Miami Dolphins. Now
Speaker 2: he's part of the NFL on Prime Video Thursday Night
Speaker 2: Football on some Well, it's Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 4: It's been a long time, fitz How are you man?
Speaker 1: I am good. You were looking good, Travis, You're beautiful man.
Speaker 4: How do I follow up with that?
Speaker 2: I wanted to work in the Isaiah Schwartz or Isaiah
Speaker 2: Ford Shorts at practice and in my opening here, but
Speaker 2: I didn't know how to do it, but you kind
Speaker 2: of went there just now, So I guess I'll compliment
Speaker 2: you in the same way you just did with me.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Do you still have those? I gifted those
Speaker 1: to you?
Speaker 4: I think did you leave my locker? I didn't see
Speaker 4: him in there?
Speaker 1: Oh okay, that was That was a pretty It was
Speaker 1: a sad day because Isaiah was gone, but a funny day.
Speaker 1: How that kind of caught fire a little bit.
Speaker 2: Maybe I stopped by Joe Chamio's Neck of the Woods.
Speaker 2: I'll pick some of those up for myself as well.
Speaker 2: You know, I did want to tell you, man, because
Speaker 2: like we did that Isaiah Ford feature podcast with talking
Speaker 2: about his foundation, and you jumped in there and put
Speaker 2: him over his goal for the donation. I never got
Speaker 2: a chance to thank you for that. That was really cool, man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean there are just certain people you run
Speaker 1: into that I've run into throughout my career that you know,
Speaker 1: I absolutely love him, do anything for. And Isaiah fits
Speaker 1: into that one where he's just a really special human being.
Speaker 1: So it was happy to help him out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he definitely was.
Speaker 2: He'd always asked me how the family was and stuff
Speaker 2: in between, you know, walking between meetings and things like that.
Speaker 2: So just a unique guy and really cool to be around.
Speaker 2: And it was cool to experience that with both you
Speaker 2: guys and see you drop that donation in there and
Speaker 2: get him to his goal. So we wanted to talk
Speaker 2: about the twenty twenty three NFL schedule since we released
Speaker 2: on Thursday at eight pm across NFL Network, ESPN, all
Speaker 2: the major networks. But we already know about two of
Speaker 2: the Dolphins games here on the slate and fits. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and start with the first ever Black Friday
Speaker 2: football game on Amazon Prime, Dolphins at Jets. The rivalry
Speaker 2: renewed there on Black Friday. Now you played on both
Speaker 2: sides of this rivalry. Can you kind of forecast what
Speaker 2: you expect the environment to be for Dolphins and Jets
Speaker 2: the day after a holiday Black Friday in New York.
Speaker 1: It's going to be so incredible. We're so fired up
Speaker 1: about having the first ever Black Friday game. Obviously big
Speaker 1: shopping day of the year, but to be in New York,
Speaker 1: to have that game with Miami in New York, to
Speaker 1: have Aaron Rodgers in the game, you know, all the
Speaker 1: excitement surrounding Miami. What Tua was able to do in
Speaker 1: healthy last year. To have another year in this system,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, another year as a head coach, another years
Speaker 1: of play caller. It's going to be such an amazing
Speaker 1: environment and we're really looking forward to it. But that
Speaker 1: being in that part of the country, being in New
Speaker 1: York City, you know, the day before Macy's Day Parade
Speaker 1: all that, it's going to be a pretty unreal atmosphere.
Speaker 2: Have you thought out your on set uniform, your retire
Speaker 2: yet for what you're gonna wear that night?
Speaker 1: Not yet? You know what, Ironically, it's my birthday as
Speaker 1: well on that day, so right now birthday suit is
Speaker 1: in the running. But I don't know if Amazon's going
Speaker 1: to go for that or not.
Speaker 4: Well, we'll see.
Speaker 2: Maybe you can pitch it, see what they come back with,
Speaker 2: and then maybe we can go with a compromise there,
Speaker 2: because I think everyone wants to see that, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what they came for.
Speaker 1: Really fits yeah, I mean everybody wants access to that.
Speaker 4: So very good.
Speaker 2: Well, you touched on a few things I want to
Speaker 2: fall up here in just in a second, But first
Speaker 2: we want to talk about the other announcement here for
Speaker 2: the Dolphins schedule, they will travel to Germany to take
Speaker 2: on the Kansas City Chiefs in a marquee matchup there
Speaker 2: and fitting enough, you played in an international game once
Speaker 2: upon time, and it was beforementioned Jets and Dolphins rivalry. Now,
Speaker 2: I don't really want to talk about what happened to
Speaker 2: that game fits because I'm.
Speaker 4: Sure you remember it pretty well wasn't good for us, But.
Speaker 2: I do want to get your perspective on playing in
Speaker 2: the International Series and how electric that scene is going
Speaker 2: to be over there in Frankfurt. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, I do want to say I was on the
Speaker 1: winning side, but that was when I was with the Jets,
Speaker 1: not when I was with the Dolphins. But it's really
Speaker 1: cool as players to go over there, to experience a
Speaker 1: different culture, to see how excited these fans get about
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, the thing was, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of different jerseys in the stands, and maybe not any
Speaker 1: of the players playing in the game, but you can
Speaker 1: tell that there are NFL fans and there's excitement over there.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of whistling, which is a little bit
Speaker 1: strange as well. But I was I had the good
Speaker 1: fortune being able to play in Wembley and just walking
Speaker 1: out to that stadium. It gave me chills to be
Speaker 1: able to do that in that environment, which was neat
Speaker 1: so for Miami to be able to do it, to
Speaker 1: be able to go to Frankfurt. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be an incredible game and obviously the storylines number
Speaker 1: one probably being Tyreek and the Chiefs. It's going to
Speaker 1: be a great game to watch.
Speaker 2: So when you would get the schedule, you know, being
Speaker 2: the dream in that you work, if it's going across
Speaker 2: so many teams in the NFL, when you got the schedule,
Speaker 2: we would you ever look back to I can't wait
Speaker 2: to see that former team or this former team or
Speaker 2: that former teammate or coach. Would you kind of do
Speaker 2: some of that when you were playing?
Speaker 1: Well? It happened so many times. I think for me,
Speaker 1: the only one I really really remember and remember circling
Speaker 1: and being like, all right, I gotta do well in
Speaker 1: this game is when I was with Houston and we
Speaker 1: played the Bills. It was the first time I'd played
Speaker 1: the Bill since being there. I was there for four years,
Speaker 1: so that was the probably the one time in my career.
Speaker 1: But by the end it was the running joke, you know,
Speaker 1: every game was a revenge game, just like now with Amazon,
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, every week, Oh, this is fits his
Speaker 1: former team. Oh fits his former team. So by the time,
Speaker 1: I mean, the NFL is so incestuous, everybody knows everybody,
Speaker 1: and by the time my career was nearing its end,
Speaker 1: I had pretty much played for everybody. I guess, so
Speaker 1: no more revenge games.
Speaker 2: Well, I know Tyreek was fired up to try to
Speaker 2: score a touchdown back and everyone. That's not going to
Speaker 2: happen for him this time around. Hopefully he does find
Speaker 2: the end zone over there in Germany. But you touched
Speaker 2: on this earlier, throwing the ball at the tyren because
Speaker 2: the guy that you played for or played with, I
Speaker 2: should say, four year into a tongue Bai Lowa, who
Speaker 2: enjoyed that breakout season last year in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: I was curious, you know, your quarterback perspective, your quarterback's mind,
Speaker 2: what you noticed about tous growth and where his game
Speaker 2: is now heading into year four.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's the perfect system for him because
Speaker 1: it is a system that relies on accuracy, the catch
Speaker 1: and run ball and really focusing in between the hashes
Speaker 1: over the middle of the field, and that's something that
Speaker 1: Tua really thrives on, using his anticipation, using his accuracy,
Speaker 1: and then just having speed all over the field, you know,
Speaker 1: at the running back position, the wide receiver position. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's like a track team basically with the guys that
Speaker 1: have out there. So you saw last year when Tua
Speaker 1: was healthy, that offense was really buzzing. And a lot
Speaker 1: of that is because it's not just him being able
Speaker 1: to make the right decisions and being able to anticipate,
Speaker 1: but it's the ball placement and putting it in a
Speaker 1: place where Tyreek can catch and run or a Watta
Speaker 1: can catch and ron. So there is not a better
Speaker 1: system or place for Tua to be than in Miami
Speaker 1: right now with Mike mcdanie.
Speaker 2: So one of the questions I've been asking all my
Speaker 2: interview subjects of this offseason because I went backfits and
Speaker 2: looked at you know, Mike McDaniel and Kyle Shanahan together
Speaker 2: in the second year in a new system for each
Speaker 2: stop they went to always had a big increase, a
Speaker 2: big trajectory in terms of their production, and so I
Speaker 2: was curious from your perspective, you know, year two with
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins here from Mike McDaniel's system, and not
Speaker 2: just two with the entire offense. How that familiarity for
Speaker 2: year two in your words, how much can that benefit
Speaker 2: an offense to have that familiarity coming back from you know,
Speaker 2: the off season, going into camp and just already having
Speaker 2: the groundwork from the first year, and how much you
Speaker 2: can kind of grow in that second year of the system.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you should expect to see a really
Speaker 1: big jump, And really it starts with coach McDaniel. I mean,
Speaker 1: first time head coach, first time play caller, So just
Speaker 1: being more comfortable a year later, Tua, being able to
Speaker 1: know his cadence a little bit, being able to anticipate
Speaker 1: play calls, and then just the rapport of Tua and
Speaker 1: his receivers and the things that they know they can
Speaker 1: expect from each other. But all of that, there's going
Speaker 1: to be less learning this year and more just chemistry growth.
Speaker 1: I mean, the chemistry is going to be so much
Speaker 1: better with those guys having another year under their belt,
Speaker 1: So I expect a big jump out of them, and
Speaker 1: definitely at a coach McDaniel as well, and just his
Speaker 1: comfort level.
Speaker 2: So speaking of coach McDaniel, you know, we love our
Speaker 2: characters and this sporting down here, and you were certainly
Speaker 2: loving for us here for a while fits and Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel has kind of become that in addition to the
Speaker 2: football intellectual. So I kind of wanted to ask you
Speaker 2: a two part question about coaches. One, what do you
Speaker 2: think it would be like to play for him? You know,
Speaker 2: a guy like yourself that likes to have fun but
Speaker 2: can lock it when you have to. And then too,
Speaker 2: just talk about if you can the offense that you
Speaker 2: see from him and what he showed that first year
Speaker 2: as a play caller, first time head coach, and the like.
Speaker 1: Well, I finally had the chance to meet him at
Speaker 1: the owners meetings down here in Arizona and just talk
Speaker 1: to him for a little bit. He's a very interesting guy,
Speaker 1: as you know, pretty quirky guy. Definitely remind me of
Speaker 1: an Ivy leaguer and a lot of my buddy's college.
Speaker 1: But I think the guys, they really get them, understand them,
Speaker 1: and like them. You know, I think, as a player,
Speaker 1: as long as you see that your coach is consistent,
Speaker 1: as long as you see that your coach is putting
Speaker 1: in the work and really cares about winning and really
Speaker 1: cares about putting his players in the best position possible.
Speaker 1: Then that's the makeup of a good coach and somebody
Speaker 1: you can respect. And I think he's a guy that
Speaker 1: has done that and will continue to work on it
Speaker 1: and do it more. But his scheme, I mean, this
Speaker 1: is kind of the this is the go to scheme
Speaker 1: right now in the NFL. You know, with the way
Speaker 1: that you're able to run the ball, the way that
Speaker 1: you're able to plug and play all these different types
Speaker 1: of running backs and just consistently be able to run
Speaker 1: the ball, then play action and find those tight windows
Speaker 1: over the middle for the catch and run balls. It's
Speaker 1: been so successful in San Francisco, you know, they're leading
Speaker 1: the league every year in yards after catch. So to
Speaker 1: be able to develop those explosive plays, but also to
Speaker 1: have a rhythm and be able to exploit kind of
Speaker 1: what defenses are doing now and getting smaller and faster,
Speaker 1: this is the in vogue offense right now. And he's
Speaker 1: a guy that is is pretty brilliant in terms of
Speaker 1: the schemes and what it takes to be successful.
Speaker 2: So it sounds like you keep up with you know,
Speaker 2: your film watching, you know, post playing career because you're
Speaker 2: talking about, you know, the different systems and schemes here.
Speaker 2: Do you notice a big difference in the way you
Speaker 2: watch tape when you were playing compared now as an analyst.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's different. I mean part of it is when
Speaker 1: I speak on a pregame show or a halftime or
Speaker 1: post game show, I mean it's in a ten second SoundBite,
Speaker 1: you know, So there's not I can't get real deep
Speaker 1: into the weeds with some of this stuff. So a
Speaker 1: lot of it, you know, fortunately or unfortunately, is surface
Speaker 1: level analysis this but uh, just as a fan of
Speaker 1: the game, loving football, that was what was so much
Speaker 1: fun for me last year, especially guys like Sherman Witt,
Speaker 1: who are just off the field. I mean, these guys
Speaker 1: are obsessed with football, and so it's so much fun
Speaker 1: every week to go on the road with these guys
Speaker 1: and to talk about what we're seeing and feeling and
Speaker 1: the different relationships we have. And I just think that's
Speaker 1: what's part of what's so fresh with what we do
Speaker 1: at Amazon is you've got these guys that are right
Speaker 1: off the field that absolutely love football. You've got Tony Gonzalez,
Speaker 1: who's a Home Hall of Famer, Sherman Witt are probably
Speaker 1: going to be Hall of famers, and then in my mind,
Speaker 1: you know, I've always been a Hall of Famer. So
Speaker 1: but yeah, I just we enjoy each other and enjoy
Speaker 1: talking ball.
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame, Beard, hall of Fame. Here, hall of Fame. Look,
Speaker 4: I mean you've really got the whole package. Man.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Now, you guys do a great job. It's fun
Speaker 4: to watch.
Speaker 2: It's it's definitely a different a different approach to it
Speaker 2: than you see on most networks. And I really enjoy
Speaker 2: what you guys put out there. I have to ask
Speaker 2: you this because you know, we look at the skill
Speaker 2: positions this Dolphins team has, and it's been a long
Speaker 2: time since they had, you know, top line receivers and
Speaker 2: explosive playmakers like they had the last last year. Now
Speaker 2: going into twenty twenty three, man, how much would you
Speaker 2: love playing in this offense with that has Tyreek Hill
Speaker 2: and Jalen Waddle And you mentioned the speed in the
Speaker 2: running back position. Do you kind of look back it's
Speaker 2: like I wish I had that one point in my career.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you, just just watching Tyreek play, I mean,
Speaker 1: my goodness, there's it's just so rare that you see
Speaker 1: a guy in the NFL that is that much more
Speaker 1: explosive and athletic than everybody else on the field, And
Speaker 1: you know, it's almost you kind of got to see
Speaker 1: it in person to really believe it. But I know
Speaker 1: you got a lot of it last year were you
Speaker 1: able to watch him. And he plays so much bigger
Speaker 1: than he is as well. He can go up there
Speaker 1: and grab a ball for you in a fifty to
Speaker 1: fifty you know, contested situation. But I think that's part
Speaker 1: of the growth we're going to see this year. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of times he doesn't look open because
Speaker 1: he's not open yet on some of those deep routes,
Speaker 1: but he will outrun everybody in the league. So that's
Speaker 1: going to be some of the growth with TUA two
Speaker 1: is being able to figure out, you know, in the
Speaker 1: when when am I taking those shots? What moments are
Speaker 1: we doing these things? But then to throw in waddle
Speaker 1: in the chemistry they have already. I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: watch this offense this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not if he's even he's leaving it.
Speaker 2: If he's five yards ahead of you, he's it's he's
Speaker 2: already even, right like he has. It's five more yards
Speaker 2: of cushing. You have to give that guy fits. The
Speaker 2: way the way this guy practices in Ota is like
Speaker 2: in the month of May. Like I remember when you
Speaker 2: were here, we had the whole like birthday cake was
Speaker 2: it March or May? And all the birthdays forget what
Speaker 2: that was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got three in January, three in March, and
Speaker 1: one in April.
Speaker 4: So yeah, okay, yeah, so we had like those discussions.
Speaker 2: But you watch the way this guy goes o Ta's
Speaker 2: it is. It is full throttle all the time. So
Speaker 2: it's it's a lot of fun to watch. I have
Speaker 2: one more for you here, Fits, And I hate to
Speaker 2: do this to you, man, but you are pretty familiar
Speaker 2: with coach BC Fangio. I did some digging here and
Speaker 2: I looked at your stats against coach fangio defenses, and
Speaker 2: you made one career start against coach You appeared in
Speaker 2: three other.
Speaker 4: Games four total.
Speaker 2: And again, like I said, I hate to do this
Speaker 2: to you here, but thirty seven for sixty five, three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty nine yards, no touchdowns, three picks. My
Speaker 2: question is what makes the defense is so tough? You know?
Speaker 1: I did some digging as well, Travis and I believe
Speaker 1: that Vick was the defensive coordinator in Houston my rookie year.
Speaker 1: When I came off the bench and we won, we
Speaker 1: were down twenty one. I threw three touchdowns and we won.
Speaker 1: So you know what you're digging, I'll tell you about journalism.
Speaker 1: Had a hard time with a vig Fangio defense. So
Speaker 1: much of what I did was based off of anticipation,
Speaker 1: getting the ball out quick, me being able to recognize
Speaker 1: what a defense is doing and trying to exploit it,
Speaker 1: but getting the ball out of my hand, and so
Speaker 1: a vic Fangio defense what's difficult and why I think
Speaker 1: some of these guys, especially an x and a Jalen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: are really going to thrive. It's so much about the defense,
Speaker 1: having the secondary, especially having eyes on the quarterback, being
Speaker 1: able to recognize patterns and doing certain coverages by the
Speaker 1: way that the offense reacting to the way the offense
Speaker 1: is running their patterns. So for me, for them to
Speaker 1: have their eyes on me all the time, when my
Speaker 1: biggest thing was I'm getting the ball out as quick
Speaker 1: as I can. I'm going to try to explete this
Speaker 1: defense and get it in my athlete's hands, they had
Speaker 1: the ability to watch me. They didn't have their back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. They were able to recognize and study
Speaker 1: what an offense does and the patterns they were going
Speaker 1: to expect. And so as long as they can generate
Speaker 1: pressure with four guys, his defenses have always been very,
Speaker 1: very successful. So I think it's a great pickup. I
Speaker 1: think he's well respected in the league. You know, Sean
Speaker 1: Payton really wanted him, you know, and obviously Miami had
Speaker 1: already locked him down. But I think it's going to
Speaker 1: be awesome. I think there will be some growing pains
Speaker 1: because it's so different from what Miami had done the
Speaker 1: last few years with Flores and then with Boyer. It
Speaker 1: is so different, But in the end, I think we're
Speaker 1: going to develop in a pretty good defense. Obviously, historically
Speaker 1: for him, he's had a pretty good track record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my dude, diligence only back twenty ten there when
Speaker 2: he was working for the forty nine ers, So I
Speaker 2: should have known better than trying to get one up
Speaker 2: on you there.
Speaker 1: No was like I knew that I never did well
Speaker 1: against him, so I was so happy to see, you know,
Speaker 1: five he was with the Texans, so I could say
Speaker 1: that because it was always he was always tough to
Speaker 1: go against for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're excited to have him done. Here great stuff
Speaker 2: fits again. You can see the Dolphins at the Jets.
Speaker 3: A three pm kickoff on Black Friday.
Speaker 2: On Prime Video with Ryan Fitzpatrick and the entire crew.
Speaker 4: There fits.
Speaker 2: Thank you again so much, man, it was great to
Speaker 2: catch up with you again. I hope you're doing well.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: All right, great seeing you and.
Speaker 2: Away he goes one of those moments in this career
Speaker 2: that's just like, all right, man, that was really really cool.
Speaker 2: So there you go, Ryan Fitzpatrick. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: take our first break right here and come back on
Speaker 2: the other side. We'll talk about the Tyler Croft signing
Speaker 2: as well as here from Javon Holland Chosen Anderson. That's
Speaker 2: all next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 3: By Auto Nation. It is tough to follow up fits.
Speaker 2: We're gonna try that here with talking about a new
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphin, going from a former Dolphin to a new
Speaker 2: one with the signing tight end Tyler Croft is here,
Speaker 2: and I'll tell you what. He's probably immediately the best
Speaker 2: true why tight end on the Dolphins. Roster now, as
Speaker 2: they now have five heading into rookie Minicamp this weekend
Speaker 2: with the additions of Elijah Higgins and the udfair report
Speaker 2: of Julian Hill from Campbell. The group of tight ends
Speaker 2: we have here is full of F's right, the guys,
Speaker 2: the Mica Sicki role, the move piece, even a little
Speaker 2: bit of h back role in there as well. What
Speaker 2: you'll see Durham smyth do. You'll even see Tyler Croft
Speaker 2: do some of that as well. He has some versatility
Speaker 2: in that sense, but he aligns in that true why
Speaker 2: position the most, just under eighty percent last year in
Speaker 2: the why position.
Speaker 3: He makes his hay as a blocker man.
Speaker 2: I think his best tape was a twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: Jets game against the Bengals. He runs a stick nod
Speaker 2: route which we'd broke down Jalen Waddle's ability to run
Speaker 2: that route in the Ravens game for a massive run
Speaker 2: after catch and this play he's the three to the strength.
Speaker 3: What does that mean?
Speaker 2: You know? The one receiver is the furthest out, the
Speaker 2: two is the next one closest in, and the three
Speaker 2: is the closest one to the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 3: Is closest one of the quarterback.
Speaker 2: The strength is the wide side of the field, so
Speaker 2: he is the essentially furthest and slot receiver to the
Speaker 2: open side of the field, and he runs a stick
Speaker 2: route which basically draws a linebacker up and then pivots
Speaker 2: off of that route to the nod back to the
Speaker 2: goalpost and leaves a linebacker completely in the dust for
Speaker 2: an easy walk in room service touchdown off the hand
Speaker 2: of quarterback Mike White now Miami Dolphin as well. But
Speaker 2: my favorite play in that game, and my favorite play
Speaker 2: that I've seen on his tape in general, was a
Speaker 2: great block in space, and to me, it was akin
Speaker 2: to the role you saw Trent Sherfield fulfilled last year
Speaker 2: as that jet sweep lead blocker where Croft escorts the
Speaker 2: back right into the end zone by perfectly squaring up
Speaker 2: a defensive back at the point of attack off the edge,
Speaker 2: the force defender right that the key player off the
Speaker 2: edge on an outside run. He aligns in essentially what
Speaker 2: is looks like a trap play almost where both a
Speaker 2: tight end and tackle pull play side and just widen
Speaker 2: the line of scrimmage and you know, get bigger bodies
Speaker 2: out wide on dbs and you take care of the
Speaker 2: interior guys with the speed of the back. We've seen
Speaker 2: that here many many times. We're going to see more
Speaker 2: of that with Devon a chain joining the running back room.
Speaker 2: With how much speed that group has. And so when
Speaker 2: you can basically displace the lion of scrimmage and move
Speaker 2: it out wide and go from two hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: pound guys blocking two hundred and fifty pound guys to
Speaker 2: two hundred and fifty pound guys blocking one hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety pound guys, advantage offense, right. I just keep looking
Speaker 2: at this tight end group with thinking about the roles
Speaker 2: they all can play. You know, I saw some bickering
Speaker 2: on social which get off social Travis, it's bad for
Speaker 2: your mental health. But about the tight end position, and
Speaker 2: I just wonder if that bickering comes from a position
Speaker 2: of knowledge of what this offense wants to be, because
Speaker 2: you don't need a one hundred target tight end when
Speaker 2: you've got Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, you just don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, the ball should go there three hundred times, right.
Speaker 2: Not to mention Raheem Moster, Devon a change, Braxon Barrios
Speaker 2: Chose and Anderson Seasac Wilson, and on and on and on.
Speaker 2: I think you've now got a pretty well rounded tight
Speaker 2: end room, and this gives you a capable body. Why
Speaker 2: while you sort out, you know which of the young
Speaker 2: guys can contribute right away, whether it's Tanner Connor, Elijah
Speaker 2: Higgins or Julian Hill. But I mentioned that sherfield role, right,
Speaker 2: I just think we have to stop thinking about apples
Speaker 2: for apples and positional comparisons and thinking about more of
Speaker 2: the roles you can fulfill from various positions. It doesn't
Speaker 2: have to be receiver, does this tight end? Does that
Speaker 2: it can be we have this role. It's adaptable to
Speaker 2: a receiver tight end. A running back doesn't have to
Speaker 2: be a carbon copy. And so for Croft, he's been
Speaker 2: in the league for a minute now. He began with
Speaker 2: the Cincinnati Bengals back in twenty eighteen, went to the
Speaker 2: Jets or sorry, twenty seventeen, went to the Jets and Bills,
Speaker 2: and spent last year with the forty nine ers. So
Speaker 2: you know that he knows the offense from almost that
Speaker 2: Trent Shirfeld, River Creycraft type of addition, in the sense
Speaker 2: that they can be the conduit between the staff and
Speaker 2: the players when it comes to communicating things out on
Speaker 2: the football field. And again the year prior being with
Speaker 2: the New York Jets. I mean that's mich Lafleur's offense.
Speaker 2: So he basically was in this offense for the last
Speaker 2: two years. He now will head into his third variation
Speaker 2: of it. But the third season within this offense, he's
Speaker 2: not gotten many targets. And honestly, again, do you want
Speaker 2: the ball going away from ten to seventeen when you
Speaker 2: don't have to?
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: The blocking numbers are very very good, positive round blocking
Speaker 2: grades really since he came into the league back in
Speaker 2: twenty seven team and just fifteen pressures allowed on three
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty six career pass blocking snaps. Good tight
Speaker 2: end depth, fulfills a role that we didn't have prior
Speaker 2: to the signing. I compare it kind of to Cody
Speaker 2: Zeller for the Miami Heat, a valuable player in a
Speaker 2: certain role off the bench. So Tyler Croft, your new
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins tight end. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 2: last break right there and come back on the other
Speaker 2: side and hear from Chosen Anderson and Javon Hall, and
Speaker 2: that's next on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis.
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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and conclude this podcast here in the
Speaker 2: third segment with some media availabilities. From Tuesday, May the ninth,
Speaker 2: we heard from wide receiver Chosen Anderson and safety Javon Holland.
Speaker 2: That's where we'll start here with Javon, who was asked
Speaker 2: about Vic Fangio's defense and what he's seen so far.
Speaker 1: Rams is ahead of a player clearly.
Speaker 5: He's just got so much knowledge that's you know, put
Speaker 5: us in a position to be able to put me
Speaker 5: in a position to be able to like develop more.
Speaker 5: And he's a he's a great guy, funny dude, so
Speaker 5: you know he's he's very nice for the locker room.
Speaker 2: So you hear him close there with the comment about
Speaker 2: the locker room. He was asked next, Javon was about
Speaker 2: why this defense in the secondary works so well together
Speaker 2: here's a dolphin safety.
Speaker 5: I think we got a lot of easy going personality.
Speaker 5: I think everybody in the in the room enjoys each
Speaker 5: other's presence, so we're willing and able to, you know,
Speaker 5: maneuver around any kind of difficulty that we have together.
Speaker 5: We come to a common ground and they're able to
Speaker 5: work through it. And I think, you know, we make
Speaker 5: sure between guys who are extremely talented, guys who are
Speaker 5: extremely smart, guys who are both people who are vocal,
Speaker 5: people who are quiet, everybody kind of knows each other's
Speaker 5: personalities so that we can, you know, kind of balance
Speaker 5: off and basically, you know, be successful.
Speaker 1: So yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Ahead and finish here with Chosen Anderson. I was going
Speaker 2: to run a bunch more of these Q and a's
Speaker 2: because he was really good. So I encourage you all
Speaker 2: to go over to the YouTube channel and check it out.
Speaker 2: He talked a little bit about his earliest childhood Dolphins'
Speaker 2: memories of Zach and JT and Chris Chambers and going
Speaker 2: back to Joe Robbie Stadium when it was called that
Speaker 2: the Wildcat offense with Ronnie Brown. Talked about Wes Welker
Speaker 2: and how thankful he is to be coached by a
Speaker 2: guy who played the position at such a high level.
Speaker 2: Talked about his efforts in the community, how it was
Speaker 2: a dream come true to become a Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 3: Talked about how much.
Speaker 2: He respects Tua because of how he makes you feel
Speaker 2: like part of the family immediately, which I thought was
Speaker 2: really cool to hear that. I'll go ahead and play
Speaker 2: this last bit of audio for you guys here about
Speaker 2: his first impressions of coach McDaniel. And this just tells
Speaker 2: me about how special of a coach we have. Here
Speaker 2: is the way that he the way that Chosen talks
Speaker 2: about Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 6: I was very you know, honestly, it was a conversation
Speaker 6: that it was very honestly fulfilling for me because I
Speaker 6: felt that over the years, a lot of things that
Speaker 6: he's noticed about my game, what I've gone through, what
Speaker 6: I've been working towards, He's noticed that and made that
Speaker 6: very evident, and it felt, you know, felt good to
Speaker 6: find me. You know, have hear that from a coach,
Speaker 6: a great coach, to a coach that's had a lot
Speaker 6: of success and knows what it takes to be successful.
Speaker 6: And you know, our conversation that we really connected, We
Speaker 6: had like instant chemistry and pretty much was on the
Speaker 6: same It was on the same page about everything. And
Speaker 6: you know, I pretty much told them before I left,
Speaker 6: you know my decision has made you know, they told me,
Speaker 6: you know, just still sess things, but you know my
Speaker 6: heart led me to, you know, get here, and you
Speaker 6: know I took my time with making this decision, and
Speaker 6: you know made sures now with my purpose in life
Speaker 6: and what truly matters and then my ultimate goals of
Speaker 6: what I'm here to accomplishing playing football.
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I'm roote for that guy. That was a
Speaker 2: fun review. All right, go ahead and get the heck
Speaker 2: out of here. In the meantime, you all please be
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Speaker 2: these media availabilities in their entirety, and of course, last
Speaker 2: but not least, Miami Dolphins dot com. Until next time,
Speaker 2: Finns Up, Caroline Cameron, Daddy, He's coming.
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