WEBVTT - Dolphins 2020 Defensive Review with Brett Kollmann 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:15.280 Actually you're looking field touchdown, miamis water drawn? What is up, 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.400 Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:23.560 the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your were, 0:00:23.640 --> 0:00:27.360 Miami Dolphins, each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.000 It is Tuesday and I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.199 and as always, I am here to bring you your 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:37.239 daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. On today's show, we 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:40.120 are going to welcome in the venerable my guest today, 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:43.720 Brett Coleman, the host of the Film Room on YouTube. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.640 We're gonna talk to him about this Dolphins defense, the personnel, 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.280 the coaching, the scheme and all that married up to 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.240 make a top six scoring defense this year in the 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.760 National Football League. We'll talk about that, get a little 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.200 bit into the Shrine Bowl. Dolphins will be coaching at 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.880 that with a few coaches, as well as the Senior Bowl. 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:02.520 All of that and more on this Tuesday, January the 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:09.720 nineteenth edition of the Drive Time Podcast, and the Senior 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.520 Bowl starts next week. As rosters are being finalized with 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:16.440 Jim Naggy, the director of the Senior Bowl. He has 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.600 been tweeting out position groups for both teams, one of course, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.640 that the Dolphins will be coaching in that game on Saturday, 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.760 January thirty one, the other for the Carolina Panthers, who 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.240 also coached the Senior Bowl. Plus, since we last talked, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.080 it was announced the Dolphins defensive backs coach Gerald Alexander, 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.240 linebackers coach Anthony Campanelli, and Brendan Farrell and assistant coaching 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:39.720 staff up on the defensive line will be coaching this 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.920 week at the Shrine Bowl. And I just can't get 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.679 enough of that type of news as we continue to 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.680 get good up close looks at prospects with projections in 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.160 all rounds of this coming April's draft, and it's especially 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.400 beneficial in an off season that promises to, like last offseason, 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.640 be a bit different than we're used to. We're looking 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:02.600 at the Ryan Bowl roster go back. Every single year 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.120 you can point to one or two guys on that 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.079 list that winds up in Pro Bowls perpetually each season, 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.280 So there's definitely some players to keep an eye on 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:13.960 at that Shrine Bowl. Of course, last year we drafted 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.560 Malcolm Perry in the seventh round, who had one touch 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:18.760 in the Shrine Game and ran it for fifty two 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:20.480 yards for a touchdown, So keep an eye on that 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.440 coming up this weekend. Speaking of the Senior Bowl and 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.000 the Combine, the different looks of getting a look at 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.200 prospects this offseason, Albert Brier wrote a story over the 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.200 weekend about some potential changes to the Combine that we 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.680 could see this year, with the biggest one being the 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.840 absence of a central gathering place, i e. Indianapolis, So 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.680 check that out up on Sports Illustrated dot com. Albert 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.160 Brier wrote the story, and before we get to my guest, 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.680 how about that Divisional round weekend I think dubbed the 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.680 best football weekend for the National Football League of the 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.640 season because you typically get four pretty good games, at 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.680 least three or two really good games. I thought we 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.320 had too that were just you know what I'm gonna say. 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.480 There were three game games that I was really cluded on, 0:03:01.760 --> 0:03:05.560 the defensive battle between Buffalo and Baltimore. I can watch 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:08.560 a seventeen thirteen game every single day of the week 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.520 and leave the fifty to forty battles somewhere else. Those 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.120 are not for me. I love the fact that every aspect, 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.760 every element, every play is important. Defense, special team's offense, 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.919 coaching decisions, all that stuff. I love when every single 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.120 play is magnified to the utmost importance, and I think 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.440 you only get that in those defensive battles. As the 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.880 Buffalo Bills take that one and wind up heading to 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.000 the a f C Championship game where they're gonna face 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.600 the Kansas City Chiefs, who pulled off that late when 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.480 there without their starting quarterback in the lineup. Chad Henny 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.480 man on that third and fourteen rush where he picked 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.720 up thirteen and a half yards before the fourth and 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:43.800 one conversion that are Tyreek Hill, which was the same 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.240 looking play the Chiefs ran against the Dolphins back in 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.360 Week fourteen to convert and move the chains and eventually 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:51.360 get that field goal that put us down by two 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.560 scores in that game. But man, that was a fun 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.720 game to watch because with with Henny and they're making 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.600 those big plays, and the and the Browns offense, you 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.640 just kind of always thought that ba Aaker Mayfield is 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:02.280 going to find a way to get that offense into 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.360 the end zone and get that late lead, get that 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.440 late steal of the victory there. It didn't happen. Now 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.160 we have Kansas City and Buffalo in the a f 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.520 C Championship game. Over on the NFC side, that game 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:15.800 from the Packers and Rams just never really felt like 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.760 it was in danger for the Packers, who right now 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.320 at this point to me seemed like not a flawless team. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.800 Nobody's a flawless team, but man, they are clicking on 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.800 all cylinders. And then the Tampa Bay and New Orleans game. 0:04:26.160 --> 0:04:28.440 What a career for Drew Brees if this is the 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.160 end for him. Of course, he said he's gonna make 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.520 his decision at a later date and announced that when 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:34.640 he has that decision for us, But that was some 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.280 of the speculation beforehand. And if this is the end 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:40.240 for Drew Brees, what a frigging career it was for him. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.960 As Tom Brady and the Buccaneers go on to face 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.640 the Packers in that NFC championship game. That's a good 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.840 looking slate of championship games next Sunday, let's go ahead 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:50.880 and finish up here and get to my guest for 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:53.520 this podcast. It is, after all, a Dolphins podcast here, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:57.120 the Drivetime podcast on the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. Let's 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.000 go ahead and welcome him, Brett Coleman and writing show 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:02.760 gunn Now on the Drive Time Podcast is one of 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.039 the best analysts in the game. You can find his 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.040 work on his YouTube channel. It's called The Film Room. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.040 Over a quarter million subscribers, getting close to three hundred 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:14.400 thousand subscribers. That's crazy. Make sure you hit that subscribe 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.119 button after this. On his YouTube channel, he is Brett Coleman. Brett, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.240 what's up man? Long time no talk? Yeah, happy to 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.839 be back. I haven't talked Dolphins in a while. I 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.480 think it was it might have even been before last 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.640 draft we last talked. I think, I think so somewhere 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.680 around there. I think we were talking about to a lot. Ironically, 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:34.839 that was our guy. That was definitely our guy, and 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.000 we we got him. He's here, he's signed, sealed, deliver. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:38.840 But we're gonna talk about the other side of the 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.479 football here today because and before we get into this, 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.839 you had a tweet back in early September that was perfect. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.800 It was it was absolutely perfect. We're gonna cover that 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:48.800 here in just one second. But first I want to 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.800 have the the audience here kind of get to know you. 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.359 I think we're gonna hopefully have you on more, Brett. 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:54.760 I would love to talk to you more because I 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.560 really respect what you do. He does these these full 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:00.800 feature episodes where he goes into and breaks it down 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:02.680 and gives you both sides of the story. It's very 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.400 very analytical, very objective. It's the film Room on YouTube, Brett. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.200 It's it's my favorite YouTube channel there is personally. I 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.200 mean I watched, I watch them all. I learned a lot. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.000 That's the number one thing I look for, and football 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.640 content is learning. So I'm curious, Brett, where, like tell 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.160 me your origin story because I know you told me 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.200 a little bit about you know, how the channel got 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.279 popular and what you were doing before that. Like, just 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:23.760 give us a little bit of background to who you 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.560 are and where you got or how you got to 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.440 the stage of your career. Yeah. I actually, um, I 0:06:29.560 --> 0:06:34.120 started out working in the production side over at NFL Network. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.520 I was there for five years, and the channels started 0:06:37.520 --> 0:06:40.120 out as kind of a proof of concept for my 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:44.880 producers there. I was not intending to actually be, you know, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.320 the presenter of it. I wanted to produce basically these 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.880 kinds of segments, but you know, for La Dati and 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.440 Tomlinson or you know, Willie to get any any one 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:57.200 of those, uh, you know, established Hall of fame, you know, 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:00.120 NFL players. I wanted to just basically, like you're was 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.200 the film here, the stats, you know, let's do deep 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.520 dives into topics A, B, and see and how they 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.000 all relate to each other, you know, fifteen minutes segments 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.120 and stuff like that. Um. And the feedback that I 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.560 got there was absolutely true, which is that format is 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:19.880 not great for television, which is more bite size type content. Uh. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:23.480 And so but these episodes that I was making just 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.560 show my producers like, hey, here's kind of what I'm thinking, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.000 so you can kind of visualize it. Those ended up 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:32.400 getting popular out of nowhere. Uh. And I would only 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:34.280 put one out maybe every two or three months. If 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.360 I had an idea that I wanted to pitch and 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.720 then all of a sudden I had eleven thousand subscribers 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.800 or something. I barely even did. And my wife looked 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:44.200 at me one day at least my Now, why if 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:46.040 she wasn't my wife at the time, and she said, 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.920 you know, you're not even trying here, and you're building 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.240 a following, what would happen if you actually tried and 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:55.560 did this full time? Uh? And Uh? I spent three 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.320 months building up you know, a catalog of content to 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.920 release in draft season. I think it was seen draft. 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:04.720 My last day NFL Network was the day before the 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.560 Patriots Falcon Super Bowl. Dove into YouTube full time after that, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:11.840 and it's it's steadily grown ever since then. So you 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.320 said something there that is really intriguing to me, and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:15.960 we're getting, you know, kind of into the weeds here. 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.760 But you said that your wife or then girlfriend, now 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:21.360 wife was kind of saying, hey, look you might have 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:24.840 something here. I think for most people in our positions, Brett, 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:27.880 maybe the wife was not so on board. Like, for instance, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:30.400 I used to have a website where I evaluated every 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.800 pass from every quarterback, every drop back, and I built 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:34.320 this thing. I designed it and put it all up 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:36.760 and it was like a six month long project. And 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.000 I would go upstairs into my little office and get 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.040 to work, and my wife is like, there he goes 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.240 for three wasted hours. We're not gonna ever get that 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.720 time back again, or you know whatever. Maybe it wasn't 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.600 as encouraging. That's that's awesome to hear that you had 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:49.960 that and it worked out for you successful, And like 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:52.440 I said, man, best in the game. I I learned 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.400 so much from watching your stuff. And that's why I 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.200 wanted to bring you on here today to talk about 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.720 this Dolphins defense because I think I referred to a 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.000 video you made last year regarding some free agent acquisition 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.320 or some draftable player, and you broke it down in 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:07.440 a way that was so beyond what we normally see 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.559 from just the box score or like what you know, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:14.320 generic ESPN level, like mainstream type of you know, scouting 0:09:14.360 --> 0:09:17.920 Prognosis might say you gave us factual inside looks at 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:19.520 the stuff. So I wanted to to bring you on 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:22.440 talk about those Dolphins defense because if you go back 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.680 to September Bright, I've got the tweet right here, it 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:28.040 was September seventh at two o'clock and you said it 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.080 was you retweeted somebody who asked, what's your possibly most 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:34.800 out there prediction for NFL season that you're actually half 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.640 confident in, and you said, Dolphins have a top seven 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.480 or eight defense and have a winning season. And in 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:42.440 this threat, I was looking at it just now, and 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.960 you actually got some more positive feedback than I was expecting. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:47.640 Of course, there was something that called you crazy and 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.280 an absolute ludotic for saying that, But it turns out 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.680 Miami had the sixth ranks scoring defense one ten games 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.120 this year. How did that prediction come into your mind? 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:57.200 And how do you think it played out that the 0:09:57.200 --> 0:10:01.760 course of the season. It just to seemed logical to me, 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.960 because when you looked at their last offseason, Uh, you know, 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.719 they're coming off the first year under Flores, who ran 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:12.400 a very Patriot style defense, a lot of man coverage, UM, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.600 you know, a lot of really nice creative inventor invented 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:20.680 pressure packages. UM, a lot of multiple multiplicity in his fronts, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.240 but mostly sticking to odd fronts rather than even fronts, 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.120 with a lot of three down stuff with linebackers moving 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.400 all over the place and dbs and man coverage. And 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.480 I looked at that and I was like, Okay, it works, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:35.040 but a it takes a while for a defense to 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:38.240 really hit its stride in that kind of system because 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.079 you need the right talent to run it. Next thing, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.320 you know, you know your Parsavian, who I think was 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.920 hurt in the first year pretty significantly. You pair him. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.800 You bring in Byron Jones. Uh, you draft a kid 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.160 out of Texas, Brandon Jones. I believe his name is that. 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.360 I really like, you know, you bringing in Kyle van 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.520 Noy knows this kind of system backwards and forwards, and 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.680 they you know, they had some other young draft picks 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.960 that I really really liked, um Strowbridge. I saw him 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:05.800 down to the Senior Bowl last year. Venito Jones saw 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.880 him the Senior Bowl. I like both of them a lot. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.320 Ray Kwon Davis out of Bamba. I thought it was 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.959 an absolute animal. And they got him to play their 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:15.319 nose position that turned out to, you know, kind of 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:16.760 picked up where he left off this year. He was 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:19.480 phenomenal for them. Uh. And then they still had Wilkins 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:21.400 from the year before, who I think is a really 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:24.679 good three technique but actually overperformed what I what I thought. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.080 But he ended up being a very good addition as well. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.480 And so I looked at this defense and I'm like, Okay, 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:32.520 you got really good corners, they could play man coverage. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.800 You have a front seven that can bring pressure and 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.560 wave after wave after wave in a system that is 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:41.720 going to emphasize those two things. What's the missing piece here? Nothing? 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.040 So I was like, this is gonna be a top 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:46.680 ten defense just on talent and scheme fit alone. And 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.240 if you put Tua or Ryan whoever was playing quarterback 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.760 with some of the weapons that they had that I 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:55.920 really liked. When there was Parker Gaziki, any of those guys, 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.800 I was like, there's really not a whole lot of 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:00.640 holes on this team. Plus there in a your division 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:04.480 this year, it just seemed completely logical to me that 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.880 they were gonna be a great defense and overall really 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.400 good team. And lo and behold they were. I had 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.280 Miami down for ten and six. But of course if 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.360 I say that, then you know it can't be trusted 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.520 because I'm wearing a dolphin's hat right now as I 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:18.360 talked to you on this podcast. So that's why we 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.160 got trying to get someone else maybe a little more 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.880 objective here on the podcast. And I felt the same 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:25.880 way you did, especially defensively, with the things they wanted 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.000 to do on defense and the pieces they had to match. 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:29.880 And I think, like you mentioned off the top, that 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.559 all started with xaviing Howard, who was an All Pro 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.200 pretty much any publication you look at, and the one 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.680 that actually counts the a p AL Pro First Team 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.360 All Pro out their cornerback. But man Brett I thought 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.160 Byron Jones was you know, he was damn good in 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:45.040 his own right and doesn't have the ball production of 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.080 xaviing House. That's why he doesn't get the maybe the 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.959 big time publicity. But when you have those two cornerbacks 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.679 that can play that way on the outside, like to 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:54.960 explain to the fans what that does as far as 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.480 how it frees up the ability to zero pressure. Maybe 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.800 it frees up more flexibility for Bobby can Eric Roe, 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.880 who were pretty much interchangeable at times this year. What 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:06.480 is those two cornerbacks being on the field pretty much 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.600 every snap do for the rest of the defense. You know, 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.960 if you have at least two corners that you know 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.120 can hold up for two seconds, and you're throwing a 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.760 zero pressure at someone, meaning you got no safeties, the 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:21.960 no matter what, you're gonna be overwhelming the past protection 0:13:22.000 --> 0:13:23.880 of one extra guy who's going to get there in 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.240 two seconds. As long as the dvs can hold up 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.440 in that window, you're either gonna force to throw away, 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.679 You're gonna you're gonna force the quarterback to try to 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:35.360 run to create something off schedule, or he's gonna have 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.160 to throw a ball perfectly under pressure deep down the field, 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.480 which is easier said than done. It's it's very hard 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.280 to beat that look unless you have something special for it. 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.160 We saw the Bills had something special for it. I 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.839 think it was weeks seven team where they brought in 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:52.600 a wide receiver and protected with eight. Uh, and then 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:54.560 you had John Brown one on one and I think 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:56.720 it was Byron that gave up a touchdown on it. 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.280 But to be fair to him, he was squatting on 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.199 the route as if was gonna be thrown in two seconds, 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:03.400 because that's what they're used to. And then John Brown 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:05.440 just kept running. So there's ways to beat it, but 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.560 you have to have a specific, perfect play call for it. 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.800 Most teams did not. That's why they kept forcing turnovers, 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:15.480 that's why they kept picking guys off, forcing fumbles. Was 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.920 getting all these crazy sacks just because he was coming 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.320 on blocks because they schemed a butt for him. And 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:25.200 it's such a nasty defensive look that, honestly, most teams 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.000 don't know how to handle. Uh. And they just did 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.040 it week after week after week, and then as we 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.960 saw the season go on, they started to show it 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.440 and then drop out of it and like and then 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.840 they kind of forced teams into Okay, well now we're 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.040 just gonna protect with seven or eight. Then you drop 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.760 out have seven and coverage against two receivers, there's nothing 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.280 there and that ends the play by itself as well. 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:47.320 So just kind of the mind games and how they 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.800 built around those blitzes specifically because they had the corners 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:54.160 to make them work. I thought was just fantastic to watch, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.680 a lot of fun. Like you mentioned the disguise and 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.440 the coverage, and you mentioned that, you know, forcing them 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.360 in the match for textion and then you drop out 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.880 seven in coverage. The best example of that was a 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:05.880 pick that Xavian he had tended this year so that 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.520 you can pick your poison there, but he picked against 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.160 the Chargers and Justin Herbert where you know, they played 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:12.960 man coverage a lot in the game and then they 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.520 flip it and go cover three and he's squatting reading 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.320 the quarterback jumps out of that or drives out of 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.280 that zone and gets a big time pick there in 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:21.760 the fourth quarter, and you know, you look at Justin Herbert, 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:24.400 Jared Goff, Jimmy Garoppolo, I'm probably missing a couple of 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:28.240 others had their worst statistical days against this Dolphins defense, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.520 and you know, is that something that is sustainable? Do 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:33.880 you build upon that? Like if the scheme is what 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:36.720 the scheme is, how do you as a coach continue 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.560 to kind of revamp that or update that, are build 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.200 on that and continue to have that success. Like it's 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.520 you know, I don't want to like get to two 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.280 ahead of myself here, but as their ways where an 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.480 offense can say, oh, they do this, here's how we 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.000 counter that and beat that, and how does Miami continue to, 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.160 like you mentioned, build on top of that and keep 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:57.520 it going. It's really all about self scouting, which luckily 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.960 for Dolphins fans, you have a coaching staff that's very, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:03.840 very good at that in terms of, Okay, assuming they're 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:05.720 gonna keep most of the talent going in the next year, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.600 which I think they are just looking at contracts and 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.400 personnelverything like that, they're probably gonna return most, if not all, 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:13.880 of the the same guys for next year. So you need 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:16.480 to have a coach that's very good at looking at 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.400 their trends of what they called last year. So they 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:22.560 were at man coverage at which was tops in the league. 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:26.120 Their blitz rate was also top five. I believe it 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:30.240 was fifth at forty. So if they look at those trends, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.840 they know that offensive coaches around the league are gonna 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.200 look at those trends too, and so they need to 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.800 start building in other looks off of when they were 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.800 showing Blitz, off of when they were showing Man and 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.400 then kind of introduced those next season to make people 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.560 think that they're gonna just keep rolling out the same 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.640 old stuff. And then you hit him with the CounterPunch. 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.760 You mentioned the pick from Zavian against Herbert, exactly the 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.680 same thing. You know, you show one thing, next thing, 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.280 you know, Zavians popping out over you know, out of 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:02.480 nowhere in the seam area, picking off justin, uh, completely 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.520 out of left field. I remember that because I watched 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.240 the ends up version of the All twenty two on 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.119 it and I was like, wow, he just literally popped 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:11.160 in out of nowhere. He didn't even see him. So 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.720 it's it's that kind of stuff. It's about self scouting, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.679 recognizing the trends of the types of coverages they use, 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.560 the types of fronts they use, the blitz percentages, and 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:25.280 then just building in little things that show that and 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:29.000 then do something else to make offensive staffs second guests themselves. 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.880 And then you can also build in some more flexibility 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:35.040 on top of that based upon the type of I 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:37.160 guess the type of front seven the Dolphins had this year, 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.199 and that's kind of where I want to go with 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:40.760 this next question for your Brett, because you mentioned, you know, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.840 bringing in new pieces this year. We had Kyle van 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.359 Noy was a free agent import, Jerome Baker was in 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.920 his third season with the Dolphins, Andrew van Gigle his 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.680 second season. We Addie Land and Robert to get Shack 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.560 Lawson and Emmanuel Ogball into that mix as well. What 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.160 did you make of this remade linebacker corps and their 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:59.760 ability to show that pressure in multiple gaps and in 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:01.480 his or anybody that does it better in terms of 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:05.680 how this Dolphins defense gives simulated pressure looks in every 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.160 single gap with a quarterback basically having no idea where 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:12.240 it's coming from. Am I Crazier? Did Van Ginkle make 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.400 at least one great play every single game? Like he 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.320 was always good for one? You know, I remember in 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.880 the in the Chiefs game, you know, he accidentally got 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.600 knocked down and then stood up and then you know, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.320 just threw his hands in the air and tipped and 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.720 that was a pick, one of the three picks they 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.000 had on the day. But he was always in the 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:33.680 right place, always at the right time, very rarely made 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:35.840 mental mistakes, and in this kind of defense, that's really 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:37.720 what it's about, you know, that whole do your job 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:40.119 mentality of like, hey, just do what we tell you 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.160 to do and don't miss up your assignment and we're 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.840