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Speaker 3: Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time podcast, part of
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Speaker 3: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: And on today's show, we are dropping by the defensive
Speaker 3: back room at Corners and Safety's go under the microscope
Speaker 3: today for the training camp preview series with practice now
Speaker 3: just two days away. Plus we'll hear from Dolphins standout
Speaker 3: rookie in twenty twenty two, entering his sophomore year, cater
Speaker 3: Co Who all of that more from the Baptist Health
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Speaker 1: Maya Caffish flash.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and kick this thing off with my
Speaker 3: walk and talk with Dolphins cornerback Cater Cooho. What's up, guys,
Speaker 3: Travis playing field here again for one hundred yards with
Speaker 3: Dolphins cornerback cater coo. Who So go ahead and start
Speaker 3: moving down the field here, cater out here at this
Speaker 3: practice field. All I can think about for you is,
Speaker 3: you know, going back to this time last year, You're
Speaker 3: a rookie trying to find your way. You have an
Speaker 3: awesome rookie season out here, you are going into your
Speaker 3: number two. Have you had a chance to kind of
Speaker 3: like look back and reflect on where you've been this
Speaker 3: last year?
Speaker 1: Nae was definitely surprising because I mean, just coming from
Speaker 1: the level I came from, it's hard to make it
Speaker 1: the NFL, no matter how.
Speaker 2: Good you think you are, hard is gonna be hard.
Speaker 1: So just reflecting on that and is just seeing that
Speaker 1: I made my Drene Heaving, It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Your dreamp coming through is awesome. One of those things
Speaker 3: is I'm sure going up against like Tyreek Hill, and
Speaker 3: I'm wondering, you know again coming out here for last spring, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: rookie minie camps, whatever might have been O Tas. Did
Speaker 3: you have a moment where it was like, Okay, this
Speaker 3: is the NFL, it's say in Texas, am commerce.
Speaker 2: Yea, now almost definitely.
Speaker 1: When I saw we did rookie minicicamp and then we
Speaker 1: came in at Monday, I saw him in the locker
Speaker 1: room and stuff, I like, Don, that's really tired, heel.
Speaker 2: But then you kind of have to just let that
Speaker 2: go for a little.
Speaker 1: Bit because you arch on to earn a spot, So
Speaker 1: you just have to go out there and just compete
Speaker 1: just against him like he's everybody else.
Speaker 3: Because fast forward a few months later, you're starting a
Speaker 3: playoff game for the Mighty Dolphins taking players. Do you
Speaker 3: think about that about how far you came in that process? Not?
Speaker 2: Almost definitely.
Speaker 1: I feel like when I was here for OTA's their
Speaker 1: rookie that rookie season, I was like kind of drawn
Speaker 1: and water like everything was like moving a little too
Speaker 1: fast and stuff.
Speaker 2: And then we took that month off.
Speaker 1: I went home kind of regrouped, and then came back
Speaker 1: and but nah, that was crazy I was starting the
Speaker 1: playoff game going from Washington on TV as you're playing
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 3: If you had to give a piece of advice to
Speaker 3: an undrafted rookie bow to be uh.
Speaker 2: Just compete, do all the low things right.
Speaker 1: You know you're already undrafted, so you don't have really
Speaker 1: have him to like on stuff like being laid not
Speaker 1: knowing your play book and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Definitely getting to know coach Crossman too, right, YEA special team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, Oh god, yeah, special teams big.
Speaker 3: So you play with under cornerback coach Sam Madison. I
Speaker 3: don't know, he's royalty around here. What's like learning under him?
Speaker 2: Nah?
Speaker 1: Sam, I feel like he's He's a big part of
Speaker 1: my success, Like not even just from the coaching standpoint,
Speaker 1: but like him just being kind of like a mentor.
Speaker 1: He's always hyped me up, like before games, before plays,
Speaker 1: and you know he played the position, so listening to
Speaker 1: anything he has to say is like it's like golden.
Speaker 3: You gotta have that. So you know, were too here
Speaker 3: you look upon you know, rookie year, great year if
Speaker 3: you obviously great year for the team. What are your
Speaker 3: goals heading into the second season for yourself and for
Speaker 3: the team.
Speaker 1: Uh, I think I'll be said myself short if I said,
Speaker 1: we're not trying to win the super Bowl with that
Speaker 1: much the talent that we have on the team.
Speaker 2: I think that's like a team goal.
Speaker 1: But for me, just you know, building on what I
Speaker 1: did my first year and then correcting like a lot
Speaker 1: of mistakes. Uh me personally, Like I feel like I
Speaker 1: had a lot of penalties and stuff, so limiting that
Speaker 1: and just making a lot more players getting like more interceptions,
Speaker 1: uh stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Was it pretty neat to pick off Aaron Rodgers on
Speaker 3: the en zone right back here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Was definitely Christmas Day? Yeah, exactly Christmas gift.
Speaker 3: Did your family talk about that at all with fear? Like,
Speaker 3: what was that conversation like your family after the pick?
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I.
Speaker 1: Don't think my parents even know who Aaron Rodgers is.
Speaker 1: So it was more so like conversation I had with
Speaker 1: like friends and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's good stuff.
Speaker 3: So you number two here a new defensive corner to
Speaker 3: Vic Fangio, you talk about sam Asmon being a legend
Speaker 3: mixed the legend of his own right, what's been like
Speaker 3: kind of getting to know him and has a new
Speaker 3: defense here.
Speaker 2: Uh, the defense is gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: It's exciting, like we all have eyes on the ball
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, and just learning it from mc godfield,
Speaker 1: Like everywhere he's been, like his defense have been in
Speaker 1: the top five.
Speaker 2: So hopefully that's what we can do here.
Speaker 3: We're getting close to the end zone here. Hopefully one
Speaker 3: of your picks that sure goes back for six.
Speaker 2: If you do.
Speaker 3: Have you got a celebration plan for us?
Speaker 1: Uh, not of right now, but as the closer we
Speaker 1: get to the season, I'm gonna have to come up
Speaker 1: with something because last year I feel like I was
Speaker 1: selling myself with the celebrations I had.
Speaker 3: Who do you think has so we got cheated? Does
Speaker 3: the backflip Wattle has? That's my pick the wild I
Speaker 3: think Raheem maybe has the most underrated touchofs on the NFL.
Speaker 3: Who do you thin he has the best one on.
Speaker 2: The team on the team, Uh, either Waddle?
Speaker 1: I like Javon's it's not a verget, but when he
Speaker 1: pulls the thing out, yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: It's a pretty good stuff. Kay. I appreciate time, yes,
Speaker 2: of course.
Speaker 3: And away he goes really fun. Interviewed there with Cater
Speaker 3: let's go ahead and come back on the other side.
Speaker 3: We'll do We'll split the room in half. We'll go
Speaker 3: in order of jersey number. We'll talk about the corners
Speaker 3: and safeties. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by Auto Nation. We have two more
Speaker 3: groups to go after today. It's the interior defensive line
Speaker 3: and the specialists. And we're gonna go ahead and conclude
Speaker 3: the back end of the defense here with the defensive backs.
Speaker 3: And we start with the guy we just talked to you,
Speaker 3: number four, Cater Koho. You guys know what I think
Speaker 3: of Cater Cooho's game. And now he's wearing the number
Speaker 3: that I wore my entire childhood all the way up
Speaker 3: through college, between baseball and basketball twenty five combined seasons,
Speaker 3: number four, which makes me like it even more. He
Speaker 3: was the sixth best tackler against the screen among corners
Speaker 3: when it comes to volume, twenty eight runs twenty eight
Speaker 3: plays that were defensive wins against. I guess it's not
Speaker 3: just runs, it's against total stops. But you get the idea.
Speaker 3: He was six among all corners in that category. And
Speaker 3: it wasn't just how he got ball carriers to the ground,
Speaker 3: which is great, but he always found a way to
Speaker 3: just read out those screens like it showed to me
Speaker 3: his film study and preparation for understanding what pre snap
Speaker 3: alignments and what formations and what motions most often lent
Speaker 3: themselves to screenplays because he was always playing faster than
Speaker 3: the guy's reacting in front of him, and that helps
Speaker 3: him to go blow up a block and create the
Speaker 3: chance for somebody else to have a free run at
Speaker 3: the ballcarrier. So if he's not making the play himself,
Speaker 3: he's usually helping somebody else make the play on the perimeter.
Speaker 3: He showed exceptional man coverage skills, change of direction, The
Speaker 3: way he played that underneath trail technique was so impressive
Speaker 3: all year. It did kind of, you know, spurn some penalties,
Speaker 3: which is one area of his game he can clean up.
Speaker 3: He talked about that in the interview. But aside from that,
Speaker 3: I don't know what you look at in this guy's
Speaker 3: game that doesn't have you pumped up, because he kind
Speaker 3: of reminds me of Zach Seeler. You know now that
Speaker 3: Zach is kind of getting that shine that he deserved
Speaker 3: for a couple of years in that I'm not so
Speaker 3: sure how many folks around the league are familiar with
Speaker 3: just how good he was as a rookie. He was
Speaker 3: really really good last year coming into camp, you know,
Speaker 3: a udfa just trying to make the team. But how
Speaker 3: would that banged up cornerback room have looked last year
Speaker 3: if we didn't have Coohu playing at the level he
Speaker 3: played at seven hundred and eighteen yards allowed on six
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty coverage snaps, playing all over the formation,
Speaker 3: going from Texas A and M Commerce to you know,
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs like it's a major jump in competition. He
Speaker 3: did not back down from it at all. You'll hear
Speaker 3: this in the Walk and talker. You did hear it
Speaker 3: in the Walk and talk. The penalties is the one
Speaker 3: area that he can help clean up. Besides that, have
Speaker 3: to just be thrilled about where he is in his
Speaker 3: game right now. I think he's going to be a
Speaker 3: staple in the secondary for a long time. Speaking of Staples,
Speaker 3: number five, Jalen Ramsey the only cornerback in the NFL
Speaker 3: for PFF to get a top ten grade each the
Speaker 3: last three seasons, and frankly, I think calling him a
Speaker 3: cornerback is short changing his impact. He's played star, he's
Speaker 3: played the post, He's played down on the last scrimmage, buck, linebacker,
Speaker 3: slot perimeter, you name him. He can do anything on
Speaker 3: a football field. He's one of the smartest players you'll
Speaker 3: ever see. We had Jordan Rodrigan when we acquired Jalen.
Speaker 3: She talked about how it's important to challenge him and
Speaker 3: to make him feel engaged and have him be a
Speaker 3: part of the defensive install I think that's what Vic
Speaker 3: Fangio is going to do to a tea here. I
Speaker 3: think having him Javon Holland and Xavier and Howard, who
Speaker 3: understand passing attacks and route concepts and quarterback process and
Speaker 3: kind of the things they're looking for, as well as
Speaker 3: any defensive back not just on the team but in
Speaker 3: the game, makes this a dangerous as hell secondary to
Speaker 3: try to throw against. I cannot wait to see how
Speaker 3: they deploy Ramsey week to week. This is the best
Speaker 3: possible new shiny toy for coach Fangio and the one
Speaker 3: that he could have gotten. The numbers are absurd. It's
Speaker 3: across the board. Like we've talked about corners and tackling
Speaker 3: in this defense, and Coho's twenty eight run stops well,
Speaker 3: Ramsey had twenty seven. Last year he had twenty six
Speaker 3: and twenty twenty one. He also has eight picks in
Speaker 3: that time span two years combined, he's got seventy two
Speaker 3: career pass breakups with twenty picks. He never really blitzed
Speaker 3: until he got to Los Angeles, but over those three years,
Speaker 3: fifty seven rush attempts and seventeen pressures with a couple
Speaker 3: of sacks in there as well. We know he's one
Speaker 3: of the premier shutdown corners or dbs and can match
Speaker 3: up on Travis Kelce or you know, Christian McAffrey if
Speaker 3: he has to. I talked about being around one yard
Speaker 3: per coverage snap allowed as being good. Well, when you
Speaker 3: factor in his entire career, which usually rookies have a
Speaker 3: bit of a learning curve or you know whatever, a
Speaker 3: new team, maybe forty six hundred career coverage snap for
Speaker 3: Jayalen Ramsey. He's allowed forty seven hundred yards, like, barely
Speaker 3: over one yard per snap, fifty eight percent receptions allowed,
Speaker 3: nearly as many picks as touchdowns twenty six to twenty.
Speaker 3: Just crazy to get Tyreek one year and then Jalen
Speaker 3: the next. Sure is fun, isn't it. Number six Trill Williams.
Speaker 3: Back to my point about the depth of the roster
Speaker 3: offering so much upside. Trill was having an awesome camp
Speaker 3: last year before his injury. Long physical player. He's got
Speaker 3: really good man coverage skill sets where he would just
Speaker 3: get on top of the receiver at Syracuse and smother
Speaker 3: them and work back down the stem too. He's got
Speaker 3: to be itching to get back out there on the
Speaker 3: football field because he was again having a great camp
Speaker 3: before he got hurt. High upside player and I really
Speaker 3: hope he comes back healthy and gets that chance to
Speaker 3: make an impact this year. We are just what five
Speaker 3: players in or four players in, and you already have
Speaker 3: like three guys that have been awesome at this level.
Speaker 3: Number eight Javon Holland. People around the league buzz about
Speaker 3: this guy, and it's so easy to see why. I
Speaker 3: think the best thing you can say about a safety
Speaker 3: is that he can hold down his rules on a
Speaker 3: given snap but then also create outside of structure to
Speaker 3: go find the ball. And to me, that's Holland's calling card.
Speaker 3: We praise Christian Wilkins, and we'll do it on tomorrow's
Speaker 3: episode for doing just that but for a safety, you know,
Speaker 3: for Christian that results in more TFLs and more stuff
Speaker 3: at the last scrimmage for Javon Holland to peel off
Speaker 3: of his man in coverage or floating outside of his
Speaker 3: zone because he recognizes what's going on in the backside
Speaker 3: of the formation. You go back to Oregon, his tape
Speaker 3: was littered with plays like that where he comes off
Speaker 3: his respect onsibility and makes a play on the football
Speaker 3: and it changes the game that way. Hit a pick
Speaker 3: six against the Cougars in a game against Washington State
Speaker 3: a few years back that basically won the game for them,
Speaker 3: and I still haven't forgiven him for that. One of
Speaker 3: the more cerebrally sound, instinctive players I've seen since I
Speaker 3: got here, really since I've been watching this game in
Speaker 3: league for you know, so intently for the last twenty
Speaker 3: five years. He can play in the post, he can
Speaker 3: have around the line of scrimmage, he can match up inside.
Speaker 3: He's kind of like Ramsey in that way. He splits
Speaker 3: one hundred and two times in his career twenty five pressures.
Speaker 3: I think twenty five percent is pretty damn good. Twenty
Speaker 3: eight run stops even from that post position so frequently
Speaker 3: last year. Remember that spy rep he had in Buffalo
Speaker 3: bringing Josh Allen down to the ground an open space
Speaker 3: on third down, backed up in their own zone or
Speaker 3: their own end. I should say big plays just happened
Speaker 3: when Number eight's involved. He also picked them off in
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Pro Football Focus has him with the same
Speaker 3: number of touchdowns allowed as picks in his career five apiece. Frankly,
Speaker 3: I don't think the numbers do is tape justice. I
Speaker 3: think he's one of the best players in the game today.
Speaker 3: Number nine, Noah igbinoghany. I feel like Noah has really
Speaker 3: been on the cut for a while here where he's
Speaker 3: showing flashes, just hasn't quite put it all together. I
Speaker 3: think that the awareness and instincts and understanding when you
Speaker 3: know your rules are this, but the play went differently,
Speaker 3: So go, you know, match that guy and don't just
Speaker 3: cover grass. That's kind of the next step for him.
Speaker 3: But I mean, he clinched a win for the Dolphins
Speaker 3: last year with that pick against Pittsburgh. Maybe we don't
Speaker 3: make the postseason without that play. Has the physical tools,
Speaker 3: just kind of has to put together from the mental
Speaker 3: side of things and he's still just twenty three years old.
Speaker 3: I'm excited to get a chance to watch him here
Speaker 3: in camp with a clean slate. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: take our last break right there and come back on
Speaker 3: the other side and do the rest of the room.
Speaker 3: That's next Draft Time Podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by Bouto Nation, Continuing here on the Defensive
Speaker 3: Back Preview edition of the training camp preview series. Here
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three on the Draft Time Podcast, and
Speaker 3: we start in the twenties here with number twenty, Justin Bethel,
Speaker 3: who just kept making plays last year when called upon
Speaker 3: with all those defensive back injuries. Then he'd turn around
Speaker 3: and go, you know, cover a punt and down it
Speaker 3: at the four yard line. I having Justin Bethel here
Speaker 3: is just, like I'd say, a comforting feeling. You know
Speaker 3: you're getting special teams production from him. He's proven that
Speaker 3: he's a quality depth piece in the defensive backfield as well.
Speaker 3: One hundred and two coverage snaps were his most since
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen with the Cardinals, and teams were just twelve
Speaker 3: of twenty with one hundred and seven yards and touchdown
Speaker 3: and a pick. Targeting him. It's a seventy point two
Speaker 3: passer rating. Every time he came off the bench and
Speaker 3: stepped into the game, he made plays like it was.
Speaker 3: It was fun to watch. Number twenty one Deshaun Elliott.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you've all seen the walk and talk by now.
Speaker 3: An absolute character for the locker room. Witty as hell,
Speaker 3: funny as all get out. He's got jokes on top
Speaker 3: of jokes, but once the whistle sounds, it becomes all business.
Speaker 3: He plays the game the way you want to see it.
Speaker 3: I was a Reds fan. My buddy Kevin Dermill appreciate this.
Speaker 3: I was a Reds fan when Griffy got traded there
Speaker 3: and they had a player named Ryan Friel. He was
Speaker 3: like a utility player that got a lot of playing
Speaker 3: time because injuries happened, and he just kind of plugged
Speaker 3: into every spot. And he would like do the Derek
Speaker 3: Jeter full on sprint into the wall and jump into
Speaker 3: the stands and make a diving catch. It's kind of
Speaker 3: how sewn Elliott plays the game. Pedal to the floor
Speaker 3: at all times. Have you seen his force fumble when
Speaker 3: he was went with Baltimore on Derrick Henry. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: two hundred and fifty pound Derek Henry who got decleted
Speaker 3: by a two hundred and ten pound Deshaun Elliott. It
Speaker 3: tells you about the force and the conviction he plays
Speaker 3: the game with. What's best is I think he's kind
Speaker 3: of a blend in terms of play style between both
Speaker 3: Javon and Brandon Jones and gives you tons of flexibility
Speaker 3: within those big nickel packages three safety looks on defense,
Speaker 3: and I love the idea of going into super heavy
Speaker 3: dB packages, you know, dime, half dollar dollar six, seven
Speaker 3: eight defensive backs and putting guys like Javon and Deshaun
Speaker 3: and then you know, Jalen Ramsey and Cater Coohu at
Speaker 3: the sticks and saying, all right, it's third and nineteen.
Speaker 3: We're gonna unleash, fill up some chubb and ogbad Wilkins
Speaker 3: at you. And then if you can complete a past,
Speaker 3: you know, ten yards down the field, now you have
Speaker 3: to break the tackle of four of the best tackling
Speaker 3: defensive backs of the National Football League. Just put up
Speaker 3: a wall and don't let him get past it there
Speaker 3: and get off the field. On third long. He made
Speaker 3: twenty run stops last year on three hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: one run defensive plays, playing them majority of his snaps
Speaker 3: in the post. It was pretty evenly split, but majority
Speaker 3: means the most three sixty four versus two seventy nine
Speaker 3: post in box. Teams have a passer rating of eighty
Speaker 3: nine point three been targeting him in his career and
Speaker 3: he's got twenty one pressures on one hundred and three
Speaker 3: pass rush rips. Like Deshaun Elliott's game a lot number
Speaker 3: twenty two. Elijah Campbell another good tackler with special team's
Speaker 3: pelts on the wall. Got some action last year in
Speaker 3: the back half of the year with all the injuries
Speaker 3: and had some ups and downs, but there's some good
Speaker 3: defensive tape there, the way he plays screens and kind
Speaker 3: of impacts passing lanth windows in the short passing game.
Speaker 3: It's a tough secondary to crack. But I do think
Speaker 3: that Elijah Campbell is gonna have a job somewhere, whether
Speaker 3: it's here or somewhere else. Like it's such a deep room,
Speaker 3: but I don't think he'd have trouble finding work if
Speaker 3: he was like the last man out of the room,
Speaker 3: because there's a physical skill set where teams need guys
Speaker 3: like him with a length and explosiveness he has down there,
Speaker 3: a thumper with good change of direction, which I think
Speaker 3: shows up the most on his special teams tape. PFF
Speaker 3: had him with three hundred and ten special team snaps
Speaker 3: last year. It's a core guy for you, twenty four
Speaker 3: Camp Smith. I feel I feel as though it's getting
Speaker 3: ridiculous at this point in terms of the talent in
Speaker 3: this room. Cam Smith is a natural for the position.
Speaker 3: It fluid, easy glider with length that jumps off the
Speaker 3: practice field. When you watch him, like, you can just
Speaker 3: see like that guy looks different down there. I remember
Speaker 3: seeing him defend a hitchback in Ots against Jalen Waddle
Speaker 3: and it was just textbook inside hand. Jam got depth,
Speaker 3: stay on top of the route, recognized that you know
Speaker 3: Waddle throttling down and drove on the play. Hits that
Speaker 3: back foot and makes a play on the football against
Speaker 3: one of the best receivers in the NFL. Last year,
Speaker 3: teams tried Smith thirty eight times and combined for just
Speaker 3: eighteen completions for a two hundred and eleven yards. We
Speaker 3: always say like seven and a half yards per attempt
Speaker 3: for a quarterback is pretty good. Eight is really good.
Speaker 3: Seven needs to be better, So seven point five makes sense,
Speaker 3: right quarterbacks against camp Smith last year in college where
Speaker 3: there's even more space and you know, opportunity to get
Speaker 3: beat just five point five five five five five point
Speaker 3: five to five yards per attempt. Last year against cam Smith,
Speaker 3: he plays, you know, mix plays in the football, seven
Speaker 3: one of them compared to two touchdowns allowed. He had
Speaker 3: six career picks in college. Plays with confidence and a
Speaker 3: bravado that Shane Biemer name drop told me comes from
Speaker 3: his preparation and work ethic heading into the game on
Speaker 3: Saturdays and now eventually Sundays, Number twenty five, Xavian Howard
Speaker 3: To do all this raving about the roster and before
Speaker 3: you even get to X seems a little bit crazy,
Speaker 3: but you guys know the deal. The longest tenured Dolphin
Speaker 3: All Pros, Pro Bowls, premier guys as he came into
Speaker 3: the league in terms of taking the football away. He
Speaker 3: played through a couple of groin injuries last year that
Speaker 3: proved I thought his toughness and dedication to the team.
Speaker 3: Did you guys hear his episode of the Fish Tank.
Speaker 3: I just would love to see X get that postseason
Speaker 3: dub or maybe two or three or four. This year.
Speaker 3: He deserves it. Thirty career picks when you include the postseason,
Speaker 3: he is an all time Miami Dolphin number twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Key on crossing pressed into some duty last year on defense.
Speaker 3: It wasn't always good, but I thought the special team's
Speaker 3: prowess was definitely his feather in the capre or four
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five snaps on defense last year where
Speaker 3: a career high. He did at the second lowest passer
Speaker 3: rating aloud of his career, but I think a few
Speaker 3: too many penalties. That was ninety eight point one on
Speaker 3: special teams, two hundred and twenty nine snaps and eight
Speaker 3: combined tackles is pretty damn good. Number twenty nine Brandon Jones,
Speaker 3: I think his loss had a bigger impact than was
Speaker 3: assumed by the general football cognacenti last year. His ability
Speaker 3: to disrupt the timing and the passing game as a
Speaker 3: rusher and hook zone dropper, and the flexibility he created
Speaker 3: for the defense I thought was sorely missed. Like he
Speaker 3: and Javon playing interchangeable roles really gave offense his fits.
Speaker 3: You know, Brandon produced a force fumble that led to
Speaker 3: our first touchdown of the year in that Patriots game.
Speaker 3: Then in Week three, he didn't make the play, but
Speaker 3: I thought he had an impact on it because you know,
Speaker 3: he showed blitz against Buffalo backed up in their own
Speaker 3: end and they motioned to go pick him up, and
Speaker 3: that converts Jevon Holland to a one on one free
Speaker 3: rush off the end and he gets that force fumble
Speaker 3: that Miami converts into a touchdown a couple of plays players,
Speaker 3: So three games in he was a big part of
Speaker 3: two touchdowns scored. On defense. He's the most productive blitzing
Speaker 3: safety and the NFL wings out there. Twenty eight career
Speaker 3: pressures in three seasons. That's one hundred and seventy nine
Speaker 3: pass rush reps. He did not surrender a touchdown las
Speaker 3: via PFF, and he had three pass breakups and a
Speaker 3: passer rating allowed just eighty nine point three. Makes a
Speaker 3: ton of run stops forty seven over his first three years.
Speaker 3: Number thirty two. Veron McKinley the third, just a football player.
Speaker 3: Man like the athletic testing, is not going to jump
Speaker 3: off the page a U. But he found a way
Speaker 3: to find the football at Oregon, saw that playing time
Speaker 3: as a rookie last year and got that pick against
Speaker 3: Houston as well. One of the best ballhawks in college football,
Speaker 3: though prior to that rookie season was in on thirteen
Speaker 3: tackles on two hundred and fifty two snaps, had two
Speaker 3: QB pressures, including a hit, and on teams were just
Speaker 3: one for three going after him in coverage because he
Speaker 3: played that post safety role when Javon wasn't back there,
Speaker 3: so almost all of his snaps in the deep post
Speaker 3: number thirty four ten o Ellis. He hasn't made his
Speaker 3: NFL debut yet. He came in undrafted with the Saints
Speaker 3: back in twenty twenty. Before landing here, he went to
Speaker 3: the USFL with the Michigan Panthers and then returned with
Speaker 3: US at the start of last camp. He was a
Speaker 3: standout in Maryland, where he allowed just fifty three percent
Speaker 3: completion on one hundred and twenty career targets. Number thirty
Speaker 3: five at Williams, another organ duck in the secondary, he
Speaker 3: played seventeen one hundred and seventy two snaps in a
Speaker 3: five year career, first two with Illinois before going up
Speaker 3: to Oregon last year. He had a monster year with
Speaker 3: twenty four run stops, two picks, and seventy two combined tackles.
Speaker 3: Number thirty six Kedrin Smith. I'm sure you've seen the
Speaker 3: pick the clip of him with a pick six against
Speaker 3: the number four pick in this year's draft, Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3: Back to the house for that fun Wildcats defense. Emery
Speaker 3: Hunt I think also mentioned him as a UDFA who
Speaker 3: he likes with a chance to crack the fifty three
Speaker 3: man roster six foot two, two hundred and one pounds,
Speaker 3: and there is a theme here man with physical good
Speaker 3: tacklers under coach Fangio PFF had him with the lowest
Speaker 3: missed tackle rate among corners in the SEC last year,
Speaker 3: just seven point two percent on top of seven career
Speaker 3: picks and fifty five run stops. That was his first
Speaker 3: year in Kentucky, first four years in college at Old Miss,
Speaker 3: but twenty twenty two by far his best season. Number
Speaker 3: thirty eight Ethan Bonner might be the dark horse pick
Speaker 3: here if the team had a roster wide foot race
Speaker 3: four to four, which was ninety seven percentile among safeties
Speaker 3: in that metric, although he played cornerback and college or
Speaker 3: safety in college, going to play cornerback here scored a
Speaker 3: nine to two four a total rast that's ninety second
Speaker 3: percentile of combined workouts. Again, Listen as a cornerback but
Speaker 3: played free safety at Stanford fits the position flexibility theme
Speaker 3: and the number forty Nick Needham. I cannot wait to
Speaker 3: see Nick get back on the field. I thought we
Speaker 3: really missed him last year, especially with all the injuries
Speaker 3: at that position. All Nick has done since coming up
Speaker 3: in twenty nineteen is exceed expectations. Really, his entire football
Speaker 3: career right outside is a rook check hey, move inside
Speaker 3: to the slot, no problem. Just goes out there and
Speaker 3: matches up against the likes of Keenan Allen and Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup and Tyler Boyd that year and put some great
Speaker 3: numbers up doing that. In twenty twenty saw his rollo
Speaker 3: expand to more various roles, including a game at free
Speaker 3: safety that year in twenty twenty one when Javon Holland
Speaker 3: was on covid IR for a week. Just does a
Speaker 3: little bit of everything. He's good in zone, good and man,
Speaker 3: sound tackler, and can play on teams. And the number
Speaker 3: forty two. Bryce Thompson, former Seattle Seed Dragon, after going
Speaker 3: undrafted to the Saints in twenty twenty one, made his
Speaker 3: NFL day against us. That you're that Monday night football
Speaker 3: game in New Orleans. Left the XFL back and made
Speaker 3: a sign here. I think it was the last day
Speaker 3: of practice at OTA's snagging a pick to close out
Speaker 3: spring works. That's your defensive back room. We have one
Speaker 3: more preview to go. Plus we might have some media
Speaker 3: vels on tomorrow's podcast. I'll keep you all posted on that,
Speaker 3: but in the meantime, that's gonna be my time. You
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Speaker 3: Caroline Camran Daddy