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Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's episode,
Speaker 3: I get allowed to requests from more offensive line talk.
Speaker 3: This is the episode for all those requests that have
Speaker 3: been put in over the years. We're gonna talk to
Speaker 3: Austin Jackson, We're gonna talk to Isaiah Win, and we're
Speaker 3: going to preview the entire offensive line room. As we
Speaker 3: are now just one week out from the first day
Speaker 3: of Miami Dolphins training Camp twenty twenty three. All of
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Speaker 4: Maggie Jeffy First.
Speaker 3: Go ahead and Sandwich the O line preview with a
Speaker 3: couple of walking talks. One hundred Yards with a couple
Speaker 3: of really big dudes that were drafted in the first round.
Speaker 2: Once upon time.
Speaker 3: Austin Jackson, Isaiah win Let's kick it off with Austin Jackson.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Isaiah on the back end of the podcast.
Speaker 3: Here's my talk with Austin Jackson.
Speaker 2: What's up, guys.
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield back here again for another edition of one
Speaker 3: hundred Yards with Travis Wingfield, Dolphins offensive lineman. Here, Austin
Speaker 3: Jackson joins me, let's get going down the field here, Austin, So,
Speaker 3: it's been a long time since last year in the
Speaker 3: football field. I know your issuing to get back. I'm
Speaker 3: just curious how your approach has been this off season
Speaker 3: looking forward to getting back on the field for games.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well you said, I'm definitely looking forward to
Speaker 5: get back. Dealing with last year's injury. I think dealing
Speaker 5: with that kind of helped me to get more of
Speaker 5: a focus kind of my daily routine in the NFL.
Speaker 5: Being away from the game gave me a lot of
Speaker 5: time to kind of see, you know, just what kind
Speaker 5: of impact I wanted to make on the game, and
Speaker 5: you know, look at more resources and you know, just
Speaker 5: get more advice and just kind of add to the
Speaker 5: hunger that I already had for playing the game.
Speaker 3: What does that look like your routine like in terms
Speaker 3: of I guess daily approaching the off season, what does
Speaker 3: a day look like for you?
Speaker 6: Well, first things first, you know, definitely wake up and.
Speaker 5: I try to watch as much film as I can,
Speaker 5: so I'm definitely first things first to studying, understanding my
Speaker 5: playbook that I have to utilize all year to the
Speaker 5: best of my ability, so then when we start game planning,
Speaker 5: I can be as efficient as possible. And then my
Speaker 5: body is the probably the second biggest thing to mental
Speaker 5: taking care of myself, making sure you getting my daily
Speaker 5: cardio stretches, getting as flexible as possible, and doing it
Speaker 5: over and over again. That's where you see improvements and
Speaker 5: consistency and just focusing on doing it over and over
Speaker 5: and being consistent.
Speaker 7: Repetition kind of gets it exactly second nature.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 3: So, speaking of that second year and a new offense
Speaker 3: that I've heard from different players and coaches, people are
Speaker 3: on the leg that that's typically when things have to
Speaker 3: click in to become second nature.
Speaker 7: How have you kind of envisioned, or.
Speaker 3: I should say, how have you noticed the second nature
Speaker 3: of being in year two of this offense?
Speaker 6: I definitely feel like my play can be faster.
Speaker 5: This is my first off season not grasping a whole
Speaker 5: new play, but going into the season, so with having
Speaker 5: a little bit of knowledge and experience from some of
Speaker 5: the certain plays we had last year. Definitely it's allowing
Speaker 5: me to play faster and you know, focus on some
Speaker 5: other things as well that I need to get better at.
Speaker 7: Can you believe it's your four already?
Speaker 3: You?
Speaker 6: No, I can't. It's just like that.
Speaker 5: That's where I was twenty years old in Miami first
Speaker 5: round pick, and now I'm here. But it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's everything I wanted, you know, and I'm very happy
Speaker 5: to be here.
Speaker 3: How do you think you've changed as a person? Because
Speaker 3: I have to you mentioned being twenty years old. Remember
Speaker 3: you and Noah like two of the three youngest players.
Speaker 3: I think when you guys came in right now, I mean,
Speaker 3: I don't want to say old head, but you've been
Speaker 3: around for you know, a minute.
Speaker 7: Now you're a vet. How do you think you've changed
Speaker 7: a person since then?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 5: I definitely just matured, you know, knowledge is everything. I've
Speaker 5: learned so much, and the organization of my teammates have really,
Speaker 5: you know, showed me a lot of love and.
Speaker 6: Taking care of me and allowed me to grow.
Speaker 5: And I'm just looking forward to being the best version
Speaker 5: of myself on and off the field, you know.
Speaker 6: Going forward.
Speaker 7: You're pretty much it at all. Thanks Austome forrety sure
Speaker 7: your time. Austin Jacksons trevs.
Speaker 3: I always love my conversations with guys that came in
Speaker 3: the same year as I did twenty twenty. So that's Tua,
Speaker 3: that's Austin, That's Noah, that is Rob, that's Ray Kwan,
Speaker 3: Brandon Jones, and then I think the rest of that
Speaker 3: draft class is now elsewhere, but another one of these
Speaker 3: draft classes that produced, you know a handful of guys
Speaker 3: that have been big time producers here and hopefully Austin
Speaker 3: can really kind of get back to being healthy and
Speaker 3: make that big step in his career because that would
Speaker 3: be a huge boon for this team and of course
Speaker 3: for a guy that I'm rooting for in a big,
Speaker 3: big way. Super nice, always cordial around the building, and
Speaker 3: as you could tell, they're really really easy to talk
Speaker 3: to and always really analytical in the way he answers,
Speaker 3: you know, press conference questions and talks about scheme and
Speaker 3: just the intricacies of playing offensive line. And he once
Speaker 3: upon time told me that Martin Stadium in Pullman was
Speaker 3: the toughest road environment he ever played in. But he
Speaker 3: did tell me later on that the reason that he
Speaker 3: said that wasn't necessarily because it was the toughest place
Speaker 3: to play, but the game they played on a Friday
Speaker 3: night once upon a time up in Pullman, number five
Speaker 3: ranked USC goes down to number fifteen ranked Washington State.
Speaker 3: With your boy in the building, they strip sacked Sam
Speaker 3: Darnold to end that game, and we've stormed the field
Speaker 3: in Pullman. Mike Leach got the old mustache slapped across
Speaker 3: his face there with Gardner Minshew. A really really fun time.
Speaker 3: So go Koog's Austin Jackson appreciate the love for the
Speaker 3: Cougs there and really fun interview there with him. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and take our first break right here and
Speaker 3: come back on the other side. We'll talk about Austin
Speaker 3: and Isaiah in the offensive line preview.
Speaker 2: A very extensive room.
Speaker 3: I think it has the most players besides maybe DB's
Speaker 3: in the O line rooms. Allowed to be a busy,
Speaker 3: meaty portion of the podcast here talking offensive lineman seems fitting.
Speaker 2: We'll do that.
Speaker 3: We'll come back on the other side after that, and
Speaker 3: here if Isaiah win. All of that and more next
Speaker 3: on the Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by Auto Nation. On this hump day, we
Speaker 3: kick it inside to the offensive line, talk about the
Speaker 3: big uglies, the people movers, the guys that don't get
Speaker 3: the credit but deserve as much of the shine as
Speaker 3: all the guys that touch the football and visit the
Speaker 3: end zone and score the points. It's the offensive line.
Speaker 3: And we started off with the guy who, in his
Speaker 3: first year with the Miami Dolphins, really demonstrated how valuable
Speaker 3: good quality center play can be and just how valuable
Speaker 3: he was to this Dolphins front, Connor Williams, number fifty eight.
Speaker 3: And I say it all the time, it seemed pretty
Speaker 3: obvious based on McDaniel's track record and the investment the
Speaker 3: teams that he was a part of that they made
Speaker 3: at the center position, that it was important to him.
Speaker 3: And of course Connor had largely been a guard with
Speaker 3: the Cowboys. He played tackle at Texas and some of
Speaker 3: the pros as well. But then he comes here and
Speaker 3: has his best season as a pro in the pivot,
Speaker 3: and what does that all tell me? It tells me
Speaker 3: that he's a smart player who's capable of training his
Speaker 3: body for different muscle memory and has the ability to
Speaker 3: do it rather quickly. And you know, last training camp,
Speaker 3: my biggest pet peeve was the trope of the Beat
Speaker 3: reporters and tweets and fans talking about high snap. Because
Speaker 3: you probably ran about five hundred reps in a single
Speaker 3: training camp, about a half of a season worth of plays,
Speaker 3: and I think there was maybe four snaps that were high.
Speaker 3: I think maybe two that got away from Tua. So
Speaker 3: we're talking about a fraction, and I understand why it happens,
Speaker 3: because there's tangibility to it. You know, I don't think
Speaker 3: there's a lot of folks calling out, you know, that's
Speaker 3: a good reach block right there by Connor Williams. Good
Speaker 3: job getting to the second level. Nice combo there on
Speaker 3: that duo play. Not a lot of that going on,
Speaker 3: so I think that there's a bit of you know, oh,
Speaker 3: I can tell what happened to the ball didn't get
Speaker 3: to the quarterbacks. I'm gonna go ahead and report that
Speaker 3: and make it a big deal. It was never a
Speaker 3: big deal. It wasn't a big deal in season. There
Speaker 3: was a couple of high snaps, but ultimately it never
Speaker 3: really impacted the offense. So I just wanted to get
Speaker 3: that out in the open and with the knowledge of
Speaker 3: how this system really favors good center play. I asked
Speaker 3: about that during the run up to the draft, what
Speaker 3: do you think McDaniel will like in his center and
Speaker 3: who fits that mold in the draft? And you know,
Speaker 3: to a man, but really the one that matter most
Speaker 3: to me was Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network When I
Speaker 3: asked that question in his pre draft press conference, he said,
Speaker 3: it was a player who is smart and a player
Speaker 3: who can move, and that's exactly who Connor Williams is.
Speaker 3: He's so adept at getting out in space and cutting
Speaker 3: off second level linebackers who have him outflowed to the snap,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't just overrun the play like you often
Speaker 3: see it. And frankly, if alignment's outside the numbers on
Speaker 3: the field, like you know, the ten twenty thirty forty
Speaker 3: yard line numbers in the field and simply forces the
Speaker 3: defender to hesitate or change directions, that's a good job.
Speaker 3: But Connor is so adept in this area that he
Speaker 3: can square up those blocks and take those guys entirely
Speaker 3: out of the play and give a guy like Raheem
Speaker 3: Moster a free track a runway to go. And if
Speaker 3: he gets that, we've seen what he can do with
Speaker 3: it in terms of you know, not just chunk gains,
Speaker 3: but sixty plus yard runs.
Speaker 2: That changes a football game. So Connor's a big part
Speaker 2: of that.
Speaker 3: I thought he was excellent getting everything all aligned up front.
Speaker 3: His pass protection numbers speak for themselves. A ninety eight
Speaker 3: point four PBE. That's pass block efficiency, which takes your
Speaker 3: snaps divided by pressures or maybe vice versa.
Speaker 2: I don't know math.
Speaker 3: And yeah, centers do post higher numbers than guards and
Speaker 3: tackles there, but Connor was number six among all centers
Speaker 3: last year in pb E per PFF. That's Pro Football
Speaker 3: Focus is past block efficiency. Connor Williams ranked sixth among
Speaker 3: all NFL centers. Speaking of centers, Number sixty two Alama
Speaker 3: Ulave from USC the UDFA, Sorry not USC. Why do
Speaker 3: I keep saying that? I keep confusing him with Brandon
Speaker 3: Peeley for some reason. Maybe it's the Polynesian aspect of it.
Speaker 3: But first team All Mountain West his senior year at
Speaker 3: San Diego State.
Speaker 2: Again, apologize for that.
Speaker 3: He did that with just six pressures allowed on three
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty seven pass blocking snaps. He's got the
Speaker 3: same makeup that we discussed with Connor regarding the foot quickness.
Speaker 3: You can definitely see that on his tape, good flexibility
Speaker 3: in a fast first step. He was a team captain there,
Speaker 3: and I really think that this camp is a chance
Speaker 3: for him to potentially earn a role on the roster.
Speaker 3: I mean, there are some cross trained centers here on
Speaker 3: the roster, but Ulave has some of the most experience
Speaker 3: as a true center on the entire roster. And that
Speaker 3: goes even with Connor Williams in the fold. So keep
Speaker 3: an eye on him, Nuver six when you get out
Speaker 3: here for training camp. Practice Number sixty five Robert Jones
Speaker 3: one of my favorite guys in the entire building. He's
Speaker 3: a microcosm of this offensive line.
Speaker 4: To me.
Speaker 3: He's young, he's positioned flexible, and he showed you flashes
Speaker 3: at those multiple positions, and he has a big opportunity
Speaker 3: here to earn a role for himself because you look
Speaker 3: at the makeup of this offensive line and you have
Speaker 3: a couple of spots where you don't really know quite
Speaker 3: what you have, and you have these variety of players
Speaker 3: that have, like I mentioned, position flexibility and have played
Speaker 3: at multiple spots and have experience and really have tape
Speaker 3: that says maybe there's something there with that guy. You know,
Speaker 3: you'd like to see more confirmed confidence. But you take
Speaker 3: enough cracks at it with those types of players and
Speaker 3: you think that, you know, improved coaching can you know,
Speaker 3: increase the floor, maybe even the ceiling of those players
Speaker 3: within that group, Then all of a sudden, you're cooking
Speaker 3: with gas. And I think that he's been the best
Speaker 3: Robert Jones in those two guard spots, most notably last
Speaker 3: year filling in for Liam Eichenberg after his injury up
Speaker 3: in Detroit. Thirteen total pressures allowed on three one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty three pass blocking snaps. It's really damn good.
Speaker 3: It's a PBE of ninety seven point five. If you
Speaker 3: go back to his final four games, you know, down
Speaker 3: the stretch at Buffalo home for the Packers and Jets,
Speaker 3: then at Buffalo in the playoffs again, three pressures on
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty eight snaps.
Speaker 2: That's really good. PFF love those games.
Speaker 3: One elite score and three plus scores in their arbitrary
Speaker 3: grading system that I don't understand. But when it benefits else,
Speaker 3: we talk about it right now. I'm just kidding, but
Speaker 3: I thought it was worth mentioning because I thought the
Speaker 3: tape verified that as well. I don't like using PFF
Speaker 3: grades for other teams when I don't watch every single
Speaker 3: play of every single tape, but for the Dolphins, when
Speaker 3: I know what I'm looking at, the PFF grades can
Speaker 3: sometimes sometimes verified that. Sometimes it can tell me that
Speaker 3: they're not doing it right. With all that said, I
Speaker 3: think his best asset is in the run game, where
Speaker 3: he can swallow up second level blockers, not blockers, defenders
Speaker 3: with his sheer mass, good knee bend, and ability to
Speaker 3: catch and climb on double teams. We've seen this offense
Speaker 3: run plenty of duo's two double teams up front. I
Speaker 3: like the way that he goes shoulders shoulder, hip to
Speaker 3: hip and then detaches and gets up to that second level.
Speaker 3: And again the sheer mass really allows him to kind of,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: It gives him more marchin for air.
Speaker 3: He's six foot four, three hundred and thirty five pounds
Speaker 3: and really moves well.
Speaker 2: At that size.
Speaker 3: And also this is a bonus, just one of the
Speaker 3: easiest going, funniest dudes you'll meet. He always has a
Speaker 3: comment when I see him talking about what's for lunch
Speaker 3: down in the kitchen.
Speaker 2: So just love that guy.
Speaker 3: Robert Jones number sixty six Lester Cotton a pretty crazy
Speaker 3: career arc to this point.
Speaker 2: For Lester.
Speaker 3: Undrafted out of Alabama in twenty nineteen, similar bill to
Speaker 3: Rob Jones. He's six foot four, three thirty five didn't
Speaker 3: play a game until twenty twenty one, when he saw
Speaker 3: five snaps for there he is. Then last season, he
Speaker 3: comes on in relief in Week one for twenty three snaps,
Speaker 3: starts Week two and plays all sixty seven snaps, then
Speaker 3: doesn't see the field again until he comes to Miami
Speaker 3: and plays a playoff game. A career high seventy one
Speaker 3: snaps and you see that happen. You know, you see
Speaker 3: a guy that has minimal experience, hasn't found a home
Speaker 3: in his first four years as a pro. And for
Speaker 3: that guy to not stand out in a negative way
Speaker 3: in that game says a lot about the performance. Like
Speaker 3: it's almost like an umpire, right, if you don't hear
Speaker 3: about him, that's a good performance. Did any of you
Speaker 3: watch in that game feel like left guard was costing
Speaker 3: us plays and possessions?
Speaker 2: I didn't. He actually played pretty damn well.
Speaker 3: PFF had him with four pressures allowed, but again that
Speaker 3: was on fifty three pass blocking snaps, and it's a
Speaker 3: good tape that shows you how he's another one of
Speaker 3: these guys with a chance to earn a role on
Speaker 3: this team. And among those pressures, a lot of that was,
Speaker 3: you know, the quarterback holding the ball for a long time.
Speaker 2: So I just think there's options here.
Speaker 3: Speaking of options, number sixty seven, Dan Feenie, I mentioned
Speaker 3: center experience. He's probably the next guy in line in
Speaker 3: terms of you know, Connor Williams and then Dan Feenie
Speaker 3: in terms of playing experience at center. I think if
Speaker 3: I had to pick one guy to kind of have
Speaker 3: that mid career breakout campaign.
Speaker 2: It might be.
Speaker 3: A boy meets World reference. I was a huge fan
Speaker 3: of his coming out of Indiana. It didn't work out
Speaker 3: with the Chargers, but when he was called upon with
Speaker 3: the Jets, that tape was pretty damn good. Seven quarterback
Speaker 3: pressures allowed one hundred and sixty eight pass blocking snaps.
Speaker 2: He can play all.
Speaker 3: Three interior positions, and I think that his skill set
Speaker 3: is really suited for this offense. Just like I said,
Speaker 3: better tape with the Jets. That's a branch of the
Speaker 3: Shanahan system, right. We talked about a lot of the
Speaker 3: ten splits on this podcast in terms of seems to
Speaker 3: be an area of priority for this scouting staff and
Speaker 3: coaching staff. Feenie at three hundred and ten pounds was
Speaker 3: a one eight to one ten split guy that was
Speaker 3: seventy second percentile among all offensive linemen at the combine
Speaker 3: dating back to my birth year nineteen eighty seven. This
Speaker 3: offense really suits his skill set. Number sixty eight Robert Hunt,
Speaker 3: I think was a Pro Bowl guard last year. You
Speaker 3: guys know how I feel about his play. I thought
Speaker 3: it was some of the best guard play in the NFL.
Speaker 3: Some punishing key blocks the point of attack. A lot
Speaker 3: of those big runs we saw came behind number big
Speaker 3: sixty eight opening up lanes. He's got position flexibility obviously,
Speaker 3: he plays through the echo of the whistle. Super smooth
Speaker 3: feet that allow you to call a variety of different techniques.
Speaker 3: He can scoop, catching, climb, he can pull, he can pin.
Speaker 3: If he can cut down the penalties a little bit,
Speaker 3: I think the Pro Bowl is definitely within reach this year.
Speaker 3: Typically it's a build up, and I kind of told
Speaker 3: him that too. I was like, you know, sometimes it
Speaker 3: takes a year or two for you know, Pro Bowl
Speaker 3: voters to catch on to an offensive lineman just because
Speaker 3: you know, they.
Speaker 2: Don't know what I'm talking about most of the time.
Speaker 3: Just twenty four pressures on seven hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 3: pass blocking snaps, that's incredible. A ninety eight pass block
Speaker 3: efficiency mark is fantastic, Absolutely fantastic. Also consistent, great grades
Speaker 3: and the run blocking, which we can confirm through the tape.
Speaker 3: Number seventy Kendall Lamb another guy who saw some work
Speaker 3: last year as his offensive line dealt with attrition that
Speaker 3: comes with an NFL season, but then as it goes
Speaker 3: he winds up with an injury of his own. He
Speaker 3: gave you thirty two really damn good snaps that left tackle,
Speaker 3: no pressures allowed on fifteen pass blocking snaps before he
Speaker 3: had to exit that Week seventeen game against the Patriots.
Speaker 3: I remember the discourse about not having tarn Armstead, and look,
Speaker 3: Toron's a great player. I think he's a Hall of
Speaker 3: Fame left tackle. I remember reading stories about how his
Speaker 3: loss was more impactful than.
Speaker 2: Tuas in LOL.
Speaker 3: But in this game, I remember the discourse happening around that,
Speaker 3: you know, the left tackle position and not having him
Speaker 3: for the Patriots and a really good pass rush the
Speaker 3: Patriots have, and Kendall Lams stepped in and played really
Speaker 3: well until he got injured. But I think it's a
Speaker 3: nice piece to take into camp. With his experience, He's
Speaker 3: played just short of two thousand snaps in his career,
Speaker 3: got a practice against JJ Watt every day for his
Speaker 3: first four years in the league. Then he goes to
Speaker 3: Cleveland to get work against Miles Garrett. Now he's got
Speaker 3: Bradley Childburn, Jalen Phillips fits the size, pro type, plays fast.
Speaker 3: It's a theme here with the offensive line number seventy one.
Speaker 3: Key on Smith, entering his third year here, joined the
Speaker 3: practice squad back in twenty twenty one after being released
Speaker 3: by the Falcons as a UDFA out of Fayetteville, yet
Speaker 3: to make an NFL debut. But I look at this
Speaker 3: profile and the same thing sticks out to me here
Speaker 3: one eight to one ten split for Keon Smith number
Speaker 3: seventy two to Ron Armstead. One else needs to be
Speaker 3: said about Tea stead Man. He's one of the smartest,
Speaker 3: most thoughtful, best mentors at the position we've ever seen.
Speaker 3: For sure, the best I've been around in my short
Speaker 3: time in the league. The way that he communicates the
Speaker 3: technique and the nuances of the position. He knows how
Speaker 3: to attack each opponent's skill set differently. He'll break it
Speaker 3: down for you. It does a lot of good stuff
Speaker 3: with offensive line masterminds and Duke manyweather one or on
Speaker 3: top of like flawless technique and some elite foot quickness.
Speaker 3: I think what makes to Ron to Ron is his
Speaker 3: ability to make the defense play on his term. Like
Speaker 3: you'll see a wide nine hope to get that runway
Speaker 3: and get that track to make a move on him,
Speaker 3: and he just goes out there and shortens it by
Speaker 3: playing up the track, but not getting out over his
Speaker 3: skis and not giving up the inside post. It's it's
Speaker 3: uncanny how quick he processes and his body reacts accordingly,
Speaker 3: especially you know, being in the league for ten plus years.
Speaker 3: Sixteen QB pressures last year on four hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: two pass blocking snaps. You know, I lauded Robert Hunts
Speaker 3: ninety eight PBE, which is a great metric.
Speaker 2: Well for tackles.
Speaker 3: That number is supposed to be harder to achieve because
Speaker 3: you have the best pass rushers. You don't have help
Speaker 3: on your outside post unless you have a tight end chipping,
Speaker 3: but that's not much hope. Taran had a ninety eight
Speaker 3: point one PBE last year. Ninety eight is great for
Speaker 3: a guard. Ninety eight one for a tackle is elite.
Speaker 3: It's his fourth year over ninety eight. In addition to
Speaker 3: ninety seven point four, ninety seven point eight, ninety seven
Speaker 3: point five, ninety seven point nine, ninety seven point one,
Speaker 3: those are the scores he's registering in his career. Bottom line,
Speaker 3: when he's in the field, he's one of the best
Speaker 3: left tackles in the NFL.
Speaker 2: Number seventy three. Austin Jackson.
Speaker 3: One of the first things I noticed about Austin this
Speaker 3: camp was how he reworked his body composition, only down
Speaker 3: about five pounds, but he just looks more well rounded,
Speaker 3: not as much you know, in the neck and face area.
Speaker 3: And it makes sense. Every time I went to get
Speaker 3: lunch this offseason, I saw Austin out in that practice
Speaker 3: field working on his conditioning.
Speaker 2: He works his butt off, he gets after it.
Speaker 3: In the mental aspect of the game, we know about
Speaker 3: the physical talents that made him the eighteenth pick in
Speaker 3: the draft. Such a bummer last year that he got
Speaker 3: hurt in a really flukey way, tried to come back
Speaker 3: and it just wouldn't click for him. Fresh late this
Speaker 3: year for Austin Jackson, year number four, I'm excited to
Speaker 3: see what he can do. He's played a lot of
Speaker 3: snaps and there have been some flashes. I thought the
Speaker 3: best run of his career was the first, like a
Speaker 3: couple of months of his career. I liked his run
Speaker 3: game work in twenty twenty one at left guard out
Speaker 3: the first part of his you know that rookie year
Speaker 3: was was actually really good. It tapered off after the injury.
Speaker 3: But can he put together the whole package in year four?
Speaker 3: What a boon that would be to this ball club
Speaker 3: if he can remember he just turned twenty four in May,
Speaker 3: so Austin, let's go baby, number seventy four. Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 3: on top of you know, it's one of my top
Speaker 3: performers in OTAs and it jives with the trajectory we
Speaker 3: saw him on a year ago. Like Liam is, it
Speaker 3: just doesn't make sense to me that it hasn't worked
Speaker 3: out for him so far, because he's too damn mechanically sound,
Speaker 3: too damn tough, and too damn smart to not find
Speaker 3: a role that suits him in the NFL. I think
Speaker 3: he played a lot of different positions his first two years,
Speaker 3: which I think was a detriment to its development. I
Speaker 3: think a second year in the system and playing the
Speaker 3: same spot, although you know, we'll see what works out
Speaker 3: for him in terms of where he winds up, could
Speaker 3: go a long way. And look, the numbers have shown
Speaker 3: the struggles, but there are reps in there that show
Speaker 3: you where he was such a valued prospect in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one. I remember the entire discourse was safest pick
Speaker 3: you can make at the offensive line this Draftlee miken
Speaker 3: Berger hasn't gone that way. But if Liam and Austin.
Speaker 3: You know, their for sure the two guys that I'm
Speaker 3: most intrigued to watch because I think they probably have,
Speaker 3: you know, a little bit of a head start in
Speaker 3: terms of the starting spots there at left guard and
Speaker 3: right tackle. Plus I love the idea of continuity and
Speaker 3: bringing the entire offensive line back. Man, if either of
Speaker 3: those guys make a bit of a jump, If one
Speaker 3: of those guys makes a jump, it's a different game,
Speaker 3: I think. So hopefully that's what we see happen this year.
Speaker 3: Number seventy five James Tunstall, one of the udfas I'm
Speaker 3: most excited about. Some really good tape there with the
Speaker 3: Bearcats up in Cincinnati. Again fits the theme, it plays
Speaker 3: with his hair on fire from the snap. Really technically sound,
Speaker 3: three year starter for a very good Bearcats team that
Speaker 3: gave him some valuable experience, violent hands, stays square to
Speaker 3: his man. Really looking forward to seeing his camp in preseason.
Speaker 3: This is the kind of guy that I love watching
Speaker 3: the second half of preseason football for James Tunstall, Go
Speaker 3: make a name for yourself. Also number seventy six A
Speaker 3: draft pick. Number seventy six Ryan Hayes. Again, sorry first
Speaker 3: handing redundant here, but ten split times. Man plays with
Speaker 3: exceptional quickness and has a bit of a mean streak
Speaker 3: to him. Part of that two time Jim Moore Award
Speaker 3: winning Michigan offensive line, that power spread system that allows
Speaker 3: him to play behind his pads but also get out
Speaker 3: in space. He's a multi sports star in high school
Speaker 3: and you see that natural flexibility and lean in his game.
Speaker 3: A Conference Pitcher of the Year in baseball and an
Speaker 3: All Conference player in basketball back in high school. Number
Speaker 3: seventy seven Isaiah Whim. The more I watch Isaiah's tape,
Speaker 3: the more I think he's right in the running to
Speaker 3: compete for a starting job this year. I mentioned, you know,
Speaker 3: Liam and Austin, but this is like probably my pick
Speaker 3: to win one of those spots.
Speaker 2: Off the top.
Speaker 3: I think he has a very good shot of being
Speaker 3: the second best left tackle on the roster and an
Speaker 3: actual legit backup to Tront Armstead, which was a bit
Speaker 3: of a struggle last year. Now he's also got the
Speaker 3: left guard experience to try to win.
Speaker 2: That job too.
Speaker 3: A former first round pick with loads of talent, he
Speaker 3: was awesome coming out of Georgia. He was awesome early
Speaker 3: on with the Patriots. Six career pressures allowed in eleven
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty five pass blocking snaps. That's ninety six
Speaker 3: point six pbe. It's pretty good. And PFF loved his
Speaker 3: run blocking work up until last year when the Patriots
Speaker 3: scrapped their famous you know man gap system that would
Speaker 3: basically run the ball down team's throats and tried to
Speaker 3: install the Shanahan system despite the fact that no coaches
Speaker 3: or players had ever been a part of that system,
Speaker 3: and then they scrapped it like in Week two, and
Speaker 3: the whole offense was rough. But he was a heco
Speaker 3: player pretty much right away for them, So I think
Speaker 3: I would I would stake that you're probably more likely
Speaker 3: to see pre twenty twenty two Isaiah win than twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two Isaiah win Number seventy eight. Jiron Christiansen joined
Speaker 3: up with the Finns last January, heading into that Week
Speaker 3: seventeen game, and then re signed with US back in March.
Speaker 3: Just twelve total snaps with the Chiefs last year, but
Speaker 3: played five hundred and eighty eight snaps in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one with Houston. That was a career high. He began
Speaker 3: his career with Washington a third round pick from Louisville
Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen, and he has a career pbe ninety
Speaker 3: five point nine and then finally number seventy nine.
Speaker 2: Cedric A. Bway.
Speaker 3: He first round pick back in twenty fifteen. A boy,
Speaker 3: he spent his first four years there. He was a
Speaker 3: starter in sixteen and seventeen, then was injured in eighteen
Speaker 3: and has since moved around a bit. Jacksonville, Seattle and
Speaker 3: then last season with the Jets, where you played two
Speaker 3: hundred and eighty six total snaps and allowed fourteen pressures
Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy six pass blocking snaps. He is
Speaker 3: super athletic, agile player who operates well in space. And
Speaker 3: I look at the way the Dolphins constructed the offensive
Speaker 3: line this offseason and look obviously like the injuries that
Speaker 3: happened last year.
Speaker 2: The overall production wasn't great. It was good.
Speaker 3: I thought you had three like tremendous players, and one
Speaker 3: of those guys had injury issues. You know, I'm talking
Speaker 3: about Tron and then Connor and Rob were all very solid.
Speaker 3: Left guard was up and down. Right tackle was very
Speaker 3: up and down. You know, brand Shell gave me some
Speaker 3: good snaps. But look, every football team has to make
Speaker 3: choices on where you you know, prioritize, and the offensive
Speaker 3: line's got a lot of high draft picks on it,
Speaker 3: and Toront Armstet and Connor Williams were big free agent acquisitions,
Speaker 3: So I wouldn't even necessarily say that this is the case.
Speaker 3: But the priority for this offense is the skill positions
Speaker 3: and maximizing twoa's accuracy and ball placement and quick you know,
Speaker 3: decision making and processing. Because we saw what that can
Speaker 3: do with Tyreek and Jalen Waddle like it made the
Speaker 3: offense one of the most electric, toughest to defend offense
Speaker 3: as the National Football League. And Tua's game helps mitigate
Speaker 3: you know, pass protection issues, and there's not necessarily a
Speaker 3: need for tons of true drop back passing because of
Speaker 3: how the system operates, because of how this quarterback operates,
Speaker 3: because of how the running game intertwines with the passing game.
Speaker 3: And we saw, you know, the running game was very efficient.
Speaker 3: Didn't have the volume last year. But what I'm trying
Speaker 3: to say is that you pick your spots where you
Speaker 3: think you can maximize the to allocate the resources you have,
Speaker 3: and offensive line clearly is an area they believe that
Speaker 3: they can kind of pick up with the rest of
Speaker 3: the offense and the quarterback play and the play calling.
Speaker 3: And we saw that for long stretches of play last year,
Speaker 3: this offensive line did a fair enough job. Now, of course,
Speaker 3: again injuries and some of those third long situations where
Speaker 3: you need more true drop back passing, and you know
Speaker 3: that Houston game was was brutal. The Niners got after
Speaker 3: us pretty good too, without Testad in that game. So
Speaker 3: I get it, But I just think the offensive line
Speaker 3: stuff has really overblown. I think there's lots of talent
Speaker 3: on the offensive line. I think the guys they added
Speaker 3: tell you about the idea of talent and coaching it up,
Speaker 3: because there's plenty of former first round draft picks here.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's my biggest question.
Speaker 3: Of course it is, it should be, but I just
Speaker 3: think it's being overblown a little bit in terms of
Speaker 3: the grand scheme of is this Dolphins seem a contender?
Speaker 3: Because this offensive line has plenty of talent and plenty
Speaker 3: of guys that I think can get the job done.
Speaker 3: And I cannot wait to see it all play out
Speaker 3: this year. Come check it out training camp starting next
Speaker 3: week next Wednesday, it's our first practice. I think it's
Speaker 3: Sunday is the first practice for fans though, So we'll
Speaker 3: see y'a out here next week. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: take our last break and hear from one of the
Speaker 3: players on this offensive line, Isaiah Win. That's next Draft
Speaker 3: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield.
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Speaker 3: What's up, guys, Travis Pinfield here back for another edition
Speaker 3: of one hundred Yards with new Dolphins offensive lineman Isaiah Win.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and get on the move here. Isaiah,
Speaker 3: So you signed to Miami Dolphins this year after was
Speaker 3: it four or five years New England?
Speaker 7: Five years up in New England?
Speaker 1: Why the fens it's home.
Speaker 4: It's home, and definitely once I got a chance to
Speaker 4: meet the staff and some of the players, they building
Speaker 4: something special here, so no doubt I wanted to be
Speaker 4: a part of it.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned, you know, being for the Patriots playing
Speaker 3: here as a visitor. Now you're going to play here
Speaker 3: as a home member of the home team. How does
Speaker 3: that kind of factor into the decision? Or I guess
Speaker 3: the familiarity here is that kind of help you make
Speaker 3: the decision?
Speaker 1: Yeah? For sure.
Speaker 4: You know, again, the Florida is home and being that
Speaker 4: we played here and at least once a year.
Speaker 1: It's just this feels similar to home. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying.
Speaker 7: All those Georgia Bulldogs and the pr staff too.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, for sure, go dogs. There you go.
Speaker 3: So you come down here, you know, first first time
Speaker 3: moving off to a new team here, playing with the
Speaker 3: new coaching staff. How have you kind of gotten to
Speaker 3: new new new coaching staff, new teammates. How has it
Speaker 3: been kind of getting to know the new guys and
Speaker 3: incorporate yourself into the building.
Speaker 1: That's been real good man.
Speaker 4: I've been embraced with open arms, and the coaching staff
Speaker 4: is phenomenal as well as the guys in the locker room.
Speaker 4: They're willing to help me along the way too. Also,
Speaker 4: get in the playbook and get better.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned the playbook. You also mentioned a previous
Speaker 3: press conference.
Speaker 7: You you're a big reader. Books you've been getting.
Speaker 1: Too lately not lately more it's been more of the playbook.
Speaker 1: So that's been the only reading.
Speaker 3: That's a good book to read. Yeah, pretty long reading.
Speaker 3: Speaking of the playbook, So this is a new system
Speaker 3: for you. How do you think the system kind of
Speaker 3: suits what you do well? As an offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: I'm of an athletic type of lineman. So being able
Speaker 4: to run, Uh, that's that's what what is good for me.
Speaker 4: So the system allows me to do just that and
Speaker 4: kind of highlight the showcase of my talent.
Speaker 3: So you're a pretty funny guy. I've gotten to know
Speaker 3: you a little bit here. Coach mc daniel, pretty funny
Speaker 3: guy as well. Have you guys had any jokes back
Speaker 3: and forth an fun conversations we should know about.
Speaker 4: I haven't had too many jokes, but but just his commentary,
Speaker 4: I mean, he keeps you on your toes all times.
Speaker 3: Right, Oh yeah, you got to be sharp with him,
Speaker 3: get your wits about you. Like So, so do you
Speaker 3: ever come in pre playing like all r if coach has
Speaker 3: this from me, I'm gonna I'm gonna start back with that,
Speaker 3: Like you got not.
Speaker 4: Too many now, I'm more a fly top top of
Speaker 4: the dude, So but they will come to mind.
Speaker 1: I kind of you know, shoot it at that time.
Speaker 7: Yeah, this makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: How about your offensive line, coach, but Berry, if you
Speaker 3: wanted to make a good impression on Coach Barry, what's
Speaker 3: the one thing you gotta do?
Speaker 4: Uh, listen the way he saying give him feedback, you know,
Speaker 4: because he's big on on receiving feedback and the communication aspect,
Speaker 4: which is good.
Speaker 1: It's real good for sure.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and finish here. So you mentioned Miami
Speaker 3: has always been home. Now it's the ultimate home base.
Speaker 3: What's the one thing you gotta do when you get
Speaker 3: suf for Like, if someone comes down here for a
Speaker 3: game on Sunday, what do they gotta do on Saturday
Speaker 3: before they get.
Speaker 6: To the game.
Speaker 4: Oh man, before they get to the game. Uh see,
Speaker 4: I'm still trying to figure it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd probably say that the beach or you know,
Speaker 1: do something with fishing. You know, it's a lot of water.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of beautiful water down here.
Speaker 7: So yeah, did you get for fence weekend?
Speaker 1: I didn't make it this week?
Speaker 7: Now where do you go fishing at?
Speaker 1: Back at home? I'll be off the same peak.
Speaker 7: Okay, that's good stuff? Isai want to for sure?
Speaker 3: Times it's a pretty interesting cat man. I like talking
Speaker 3: about guys and their interests in their hobbies. Anyone that
Speaker 3: reads books is really interesting to me because typically think
Speaker 3: you're smarter if you read books, and I think Isaiah's
Speaker 3: a pretty smart dude, and I'm looking forward to him
Speaker 3: kind of getting a second chance here with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: All right, let's go ahead and get out of here today.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow we have running backs and linebackers and we're gonna
Speaker 3: hear from David Long.
Speaker 2: I don't want to miss that.
Speaker 3: And then Friday's going to be a fun episode man
Speaker 3: the edge position and Emmanuel Ogba and Jalen Phillips on
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 2: You do not want to miss that.
Speaker 3: Jalen's chat with me was was really really good and
Speaker 3: we had some good commonality there that I didn't know
Speaker 3: we had. So, you know, our body builds pretty similar,
Speaker 3: our NFL abilities pretty similar. Obviously, me and Jaylen Phillips
Speaker 3: built from the same cloth, cut from the same cloth.
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