WEBVTT - Humble and Hungry: The Brian Flores Story 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:06.720 Practice Rolphs, Fatrick throwing high, Parker Tuxtower. What a win 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:12.719 for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:15.760 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:21.000 Miami Dolphins official podcast network covering your Miami Dolphins. I 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:24.160 am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always, I am 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.040 here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.760 And on today's show, some roster news with tendered exclusive 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.080 free agents, an option declined on a veteran lineman, and 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:38.000 some options in free agency and the draft, Pro Day 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:41.320 updates from Clemson and Oregon, the top one free agents 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.720 number twenty one through forty, and Brian Flores Humble and Hungry. 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.720 All of that and more on this Friday, March thirte 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:55.880 edition of the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins and up first 0:00:55.920 --> 0:01:00.000 on today's show Thursday, the Miami Dolphins announced exclusive rights 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.040 free agent tenders on three players that finished the twenty 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.280 nineteen season very strong. And first, we start with wide 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.160 receiver Isaiah Ford, who had a career high twenty three 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.120 catches for two hundred forty four yards and the majority 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:15.039 of that production came in December, the final four games 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.000 of the year. For Ford. He caught six, three, five, 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.920 and seven passes for a total of twenty one catches 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.480 in those four games, and also picked up two hundred 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:26.200 and thirty five of his two hundred forty four receiving 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:28.760 yards in those games. He was also praised by head 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.160 coach Brian Flores for his leadership and practice habits at 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:35.080 the end of last season. Zack Seiler, a defensive lineman 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.720 who was rewarded to the Dolphins off waivers in Week 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.720 fifteen from the Baltimore Ravens, had a massive close out 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.400 to the year with plenty of quarterback pressures and hits. 0:01:43.560 --> 0:01:47.480 In that Cincinnati game alone, Seiler had three pressures, one sack, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.080 and two hurries, seven total tackles, five run stops which 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.000 again are tackles within two yards of the lion of scrimmage, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:57.360 and two pass breakups. He was utterly dominant on that day, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:01:59.880 and he does it with length and strength and just 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.880 overpowering guys like he did in the Patriots game in 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.400 the season finale, taking offensive lineman and just walking him 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.680 right back into the lap of the quarterback, who of 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.720 course was Tom Brady on that day. And speaking of 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:14.600 Tom Brady, the third player on our exclusive rights free 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.200 agent tender list. Here is Trent Harris, the outside linebacker 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.320 slash edge player who goes six ft two to five, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.720 and he got Tom Brady down for a sack in 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.880 that season finale. Harris last year played in eleven games, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.280 he started three of them, had to force fumble, one 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.720 and a half sacks and twenty two tackles. And you 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.240 go back to that sack against Brady. It's a really 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.400 good dip and rip move which showcases Harris's ability to 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:40.079 kind of bend that arc and get underneath the offensive 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.600 lineman and work back to the quarterback. He has enough 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.600 athleticism to do that, enough strength to hold the edge 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.160 against the run. An exciting arrow up player here for 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.960 the Miami Dolphins. On the other side of the ledger. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.560 The Dolphins declined to pick up the option for veterans 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.359 center Dan Kilgore's contracts, and he will now hit free 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.520 agency when the new league year opens on Wednesday. There 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.600 are some options out there to find a potential replacement 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:05.600 at the center position. First in free agency, the top 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.440 center on nfl dot COM's Top one hundred free agents 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.320 list is Ted Carriss, formerly of the New England Patriots. 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.160 This is a smart, tough, durable player. He filled in 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.560 for David Andrews very well last year in New England, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.519 and you definitely want a smart communicator at that center position. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:23.640 And an interesting story about Ted Carriss, he was told 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.600 to not answer every question on the Wonderlick way back 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.919 coming out of the draft, and he only answered thirty 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.200 nine questions and he got thirty nine of them right. 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.600 So pretty smart guy up front. As far as the 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.240 top centers in the draft class, according to the Draft 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.720 network dot Com, Caesar Ruise of Michigan is a pure 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.840 power player and absolute brawler, throw them out of the 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.080 club type of guy who can just whip guys around. 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:48.080 But he also has the athleticism that makes him scheme 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.240 diverse across gap in man schemes or zone schemes, a 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.840 good looking player there. Out of Michigan, he's number thirty 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.240 eight overall on the Draft Networks big Board. Lloyd Cushionberry 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:59.840 out of l s U He's number thirty nine overall 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.520 and the second center on that board, so obviously they 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.600 had a hard time separate and those two guys. He 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.280 takes terrific angles in the running game, has a great 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.960 low center of gravity that gives him a very powerful 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.000 and strong anchor to hold up against past protection plays. 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.520 With an exceptional pad level as well. Was a big 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.719 part of the L s U offensive system there in 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.760 the National Championship season. Number three on t d n's 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.680 centers list, Matt Hennessy out of Temple an excellent technician 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.960 and supreme football i Q. He has the mental makeup 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.760 you want at the center position. He's number sixty four 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:33.720 overall on the Draft Networks Big Board. On the topic 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.480 of the draft. We had some more pro days on Thursday, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.760 including Clemson and Oregon, and we start there in Clemson 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.960 with Isaiah Simmons. The linebackers slash safety, slash cornerback, slash 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:47.160 slot slash, edge rusher, slash flies the team plane. This 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.680 guy does everything. He did the bench press at his 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.360 pro day because he didn't do it in Indianapolis, and 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.080 that was the only test that he did, and he 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.560 got twenty reps of two five pounds. But that actually 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.000 knocked his relative athletics score. If we recall the podcast 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:03.520 from last week with Kent Platt going over the r 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.120 A S scorecards and knocked him from a perfect ten 0:05:06.480 --> 0:05:09.400 down to a nine seven. I know, crazy, right. He's 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.599 the most versatile player in this class probably ever for 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.640 my money, at least for as long as I've been 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:18.080 scouting players for roughly ten years now or so. Tee Higgins, 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.560 the receiver there, is thought to be a first round 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.040 pick by some. He's number forty seven on the Draft 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.760 Networks big board. But he was a highlight reel catching 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.120 football's there at Clemson, plucking balls off of defender's helmets. 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.320 A big play threat down the field, excellent at the catchpoint, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.039 really good and contested catches. He ran at his pro 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.880 day after opting not to run at the combine, and 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.360 he checked in with a four or five four forty 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.839 and at one verte inches on the broad and he 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.080 goes six ft four to sixteen. A big, big body 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.360 receiver there at Clemson going in to the NFL. Oregon 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.840 was on the field for their pro day, and that workout, 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.520 of course, was spearheaded by the Draft Networks number three 0:05:55.560 --> 0:05:59.680 overall quarterback and the number thirteen overall player, Justin Herbert. 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.880 You guys know the racket by now on Herbert, big quarterback, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.800 really big arm. He excels in the play action game, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.000 turning his back to the defense and coming back and 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.320 whipping that football with velocity. He also has the athletic 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.680 ability to make plays with his legs and did I 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:16.320 mention that arm. There's a video of him on the 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.760 NFL Networks televised event of the Organ Pro Day showing 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.800 Herbert standing flat footed on his own goal line, his 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.320 toes facing the opposite goal line on the other end 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.520 of the field, and he torques his body with no 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.680 stride or no motion, throwing the football and flat footed, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:34.520 he chucks the thing sixty three yards. Powerful, powerful arm 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.080 on the Organ product. And since Herbert did all of 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.360 this testing at the Combine, he didn't go through any 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.440 of it at the Pro day and Organ. He just 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.599 threw on the field drills. And I love the draft 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:46.919 as much as anybody. But first we have to get 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.720 through free agency, and we jump back into Part four 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.320 of our free agency preview. We'll get back to this 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:55.919 on Tuesday with players one through twenty because we have 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.920 Channing Crowder coming up on Monday's podcast and you won't 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:00.880 want to miss that. But we start here today with 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.440 part four with player number forty, and we'll get all 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.400 the way down to twenty one and then again top 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:08.560 twenty on Tuesday's podcast. But here number forty from the 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:12.520 Patriots edge slash linebacker Kyle van noy Long. He can 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.640 do everything in the game in terms of dropping into coverage, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:18.160 playing against the run, and getting after the quarterback. Has 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.280 been the Patriots best pass rusher now in terms of 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.239 pressures for a few years running. He had sixty pressures 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.440 last year, eight sacks, nine quarterback hits, and forty three 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.840 hurries and he did that on four hundred and sixty 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.880 four rushes, so a great pass rush percentage in terms 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:35.560 of getting home. Number thirty nine on Pro Football Focuses 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.480 Top one hundred free agents list is running back Melvin Gordon. 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.200 We saw Austin Ekeler get a contract from the Chargers 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.320 most recently, and Gordon now might test the market. And 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.840 this is a scheme diverse back who can go outside, 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.520 he can go inside, he can contribute in the passing game. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.520 Had a monster, monster career in college at Wisconsin, which 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.360 of course got him drafted in the first round. Had 0:07:55.360 --> 0:07:58.480 a breakout season back in and he has a knack 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:00.920 for finding short yards. Converge is both down around the 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.200 goal line and in third or fourth down, and short 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.360 when the offense has to stay on the field. Number 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.040 thirty eight receiver Breshad Perriman found resurrection this past year 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.400 in Tampa Bay. He's a big body receiver with elite speed. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:14.800 That combination, of course, made him a first round draft 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.200 pick once upon a time. He dropped just one pass 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:20.080 on sixty five targets last year for the Buccaneers and 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.800 a quarterback rating of ninety four point seven when throwing 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.720 his direction. Paraman should have an interesting market this coming 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.960 off season. Number thirty seven tight end Austin Hooper of 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.600 the Atlanta Falcons, who recently announced that they would not 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:34.200 have a contract offer for him in place before the 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.280 free agency window opened up on Wednesday. He's a very 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.120 solid receiving option, as last season was his best as 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.079 a pro, catching six touchdowns, move the chains forty one 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.120 times on seventy five catches, also piled up seven hundred 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.400 and eighty seven yards at an average of ten point 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.280 five per clip. He also gives you some flexibility in 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:54.319 terms of complimentary football and playing the receiving game and 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.880 helping out in the running game. He can condense down 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:59.200 inside and help you as an inline blocker as well. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.080 Number thirty six on pffs Top one hundred free agents. 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.680 As safety Jimmy Ward of the forty nineteen was his 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.079 best season. He ranked eighth among safeties with an eighty 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:12.080 four point two overall grade there on Pro Football Focus. 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.679 He plays some slot play, some outside play, some deep safety. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.040 Ward was once a first round draft pick, and you 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.280 really saw that playmaking ability to show up on tape 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.840 this year for the Super Bowl runner up San Francisco 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:25.640 forty Niners. Number thirty five on this list. The Titans 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.800 running back Derrick Henry. He was the rushing champ this year. 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.720 Absolutely bold teams over late in the season and in 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.280 the playoffs, has a physical brand of football Downhill can 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.520 really build the offense around that kind of guy, and 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.040 he just ran over teams and really helped the Titans 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.760 get all the way to the a f C Championship 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.640 Game as he really really got rolling in Week ten. 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:50.240 His rushing tolls from week ten on one, one oh three, 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:53.360 eighty six, and two eleven. Then in the playoffs one 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.960 eight two against the Patriots, one against the Ravens, and 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.360 then in the Kansas City loss had sixty nine yards 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.800 as the Titans had passed the ball more in that game, 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.560 but he ended the regular season with fifteen hundred and 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:07.800 forty yards and sixteen rushing touchdowns. In the playoffs in 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:10.560 the three games, four hundred forty six yards and two 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.200 rushing touchdowns there as well. Number thirty four on the list, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:18.120 defensive interior lineman Leonard Williams, former sixth overall draft pick 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:20.600 of the Jets, was recently traded back to the New 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.559 York Giants. He had fifty five total pressures this last 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.920 year and a Pro Football Focus grade of eighty one 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.400 point four. As you really saw the talent that made 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.040 him the number six pick in the draft. He is long, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.160 he is strong, has great athleticism, can cross face and 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.560 work in the stunt and twist game. Just does everything 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.960 in the middle of a defensive line for you, and 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.040 does it with elite athletic traits on that d line. 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.200 Staying on the defensive line, Pittsburgh Javon Hargrave comes in 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.760 at number thirty three right here, and his PF grade 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.800 has improved every single year of his career, and he's 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.640 a two fact type of player on the interior line. 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.079 He can stuff up the run game. He's really virtually 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:58.880 immovable as a big body in the middle of that defense. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.199 He can play a multiple food of fronts, whether it's 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.440 odd even two man fronts, three man fronts, four man fronts. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.760 Did it all for the Pittsburgh Steelers last year. Played 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.120 two hundred more snaps this year than any other year 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.760 of his career and had forty nine total pressures and 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.840 was a top ten figure among interior defenders in terms 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.880 of Pro Football focus is grading on the interior defensive 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:20.439 line for the third strade. Player number thirty two, DJ 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.040 Reader of the Houston Texans. You want to talk about 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.920 a true nose tackle three hundred and thirty pounds. You 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:27.840 PLoP that guy in the middle of your defense and 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:30.400 it's impossible to run between the a gaps because he 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.480 eats up blocks for breakfast every single day. He also 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.480 had a career best PF grade of eighty five point five, 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.120 picked up thirty six pressures on the quarterback, so not 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.680 just a run defender, and in the running game, made 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.600 thirty five run stops playing over six hundred snaps for 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.600 the Texans defense last year. Number thirty one a safety 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.000 Tray Boston who's bounced around a little bit but been 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:53.640 a very productive player in his career eleven interceptions, six 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.240 team pass breakups over the last three years. You see 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.920 the playmaking ability and the ball skills. He tracks it 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.679 very very well on that back end and definitely fits 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.360 the role of a single high free safety. Number thirty 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.000 on Profitball Focus his Top one hundred free agents list. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:10.160 Tight End Eric Ebron had a big, big year back 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.160 in eighteen, his first with the Colts. He was once 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.280 the eleventh pick in the draft of the Detroit Lions. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:18.319 But you go back to eighteen seventy four grabs, eight 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.840 hundred and twenty seven yards and fourteen touchdown, just massive, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.160 massive production from a tight end position. He's still in 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.400 his prime at twenty seven years old, and he's really 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.520 an elite seambuster up the middle at the tight end position. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.640 Number twenty nine on the list. Safety ha Ha Clinton Dix. 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.640 He began his career with the Packers, moved to Washington, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.400 and most recently last year was with the Chicago Bears. 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.040 Former first round draft pick might have had his best 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.400 year of his career last year with the Bears. Played 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.120 one thousand and sixty six snaps and had good grades 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.640 in both run defense and coverage as well as overall 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:52.600 in coverage. He allowed just a passer rating of sixty 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.080 nine point two on balls thrown in his direction. He 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.160 made fifteen run stops and had sixty five total tackles 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.280 on the season. Number twenty eight on this list, defensive 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.679 interior slash edge plays everywhere on the defensive line from 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.520 the forty Niners Eric Armstead, And if you watch the 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.600 Super Bowl this year, you saw how much of a 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.679 monster this guy was, and he was that way throughout 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.760 the course of the entire season. He has extreme length 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.760 at six ft seven two pounds, but his wingspan spans 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:20.760 from the Atlantic Ocean all the way to the Gulf 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.040 Coast across the entire state of Florida. First round draft pickback, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.880 and he picked up seventy three pressures last season, thirteen sacks, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.640 ten hits, and fifty hurries on the quarterback also pitched 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.360 in with forty two run stops, almost doubling his previous 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.320 high of twenty three. So arrow up on Eric Armstead, 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.040 the number twenty eight player on this Pro Football Focus list. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.520 Number twenty seven. We stay in the Bay Area with 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.880 wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who gave that forty Niners passing 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:50.200 offense a bit of a boost mid season when he 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.439 got traded from the Denver Broncos. He's one of the 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:55.040 best slot receivers in the game. He gives you elite 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.200 speed from that slot position, fantastic route running. He could 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.760 even go out wide and play a perimeter spat anywhere 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.600 on your offense. Veteran that understands route running, understands leverage, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:08.880 understands coverage. Just a true pro. Emmanuel Sanders number twenty 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.520 six on this list is edge rusher from the Jaguars, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.319 Yannique and Gockway. And you want to talk about pass 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:17.160 brush production, few guys do it better than in Gookway 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.120 has in Jacksonville since he arrived back in sixteen. He 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:24.400 had fourty seven pressures that year, eighty two seventeen, sixty 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.920 four pressures, eighteen and fifty one pressures last year. He's 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.600 never gone below seven hundred reps as a pro, and 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:32.280 that's due in large part to the fact that he 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.920 plays both facets of the game, both the run and 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.360 the pass, and he always does well to get the 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.760 football out. Fourteen career force fumbles in just four years 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.640 for Inockway, number twenty six on this list. Check that 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:46.600 number twenty five on this list edge Shaquille Barrett of 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.360 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, staying at the same position, had 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.160 a breakout season last year. Was undrafted free agent of 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:56.160 the Denver Broncos. He goes six ft two to fifty 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.520 and he had major production for the Buccaneers last year 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.240 with eighty two pressures. Twenty of those were sacks, eighteen hits, 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.800 and forty four quarterback hurries. And what gets lost in 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.960 his major production last year was that he was a 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.480 good player throughout the course of his career with Denver 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.840 since twenty fifteen, getting green grades on his overall defensive 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:17.160 grade each year so far as a professional. Number twenty 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.720 four on the list is guard Joe Tuney of the 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.840 New England Patriots, and this guy is a consummate professional 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:25.880 that almost never misses a snap. He played eleven hundred 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.880 forty snaps last year and allowed just one sack, earning 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.880 an elite pass blocking grade of eighty seven point four, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:35.520 barely topping his twenty eighteen pass blocking grade of eighty 0:15:35.520 --> 0:15:38.440 five point three. Here's his season stat totals in terms 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.840 of snap counts. We talked about thirteen o four last 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:45.040 year thirteen seventy one eighteen, thirteen fifty four and twenty 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.080 seventeen and thirteen fifty four again his rookie year in 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:51.000 twenty sixteen. Doesn't miss games, doesn't miss snaps there for 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:53.880 the Patriots offense. Number twenty three on this list is 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:57.000 Devin mccordy, staying in New England, the safety. He made 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.920 five interceptions last year that was second among all safeties, 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.840 and he plays every position on that New England defense, 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.000 combining defensive line and box snaps. He played over four 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.320 hundred in that regard snaps in the slot and four 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.480 sixties six as your single high deep safety off the football, 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:14.760 and we talk about green and blue grades here on 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.320 Pro Football Focus, you have to go back to eleven 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:19.480 for the last time mccordy did not have a green 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.320 or a blue grade. He also has three individual seasons 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.200 with grades better than ninety on Pro Football Focus. One 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.520 of the best safeties in the recent history of the game. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.360 Number twenty two on this list on the offensive line, 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:32.480 and that's where will finish atwenty one as well is 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:36.600 guard Brandon Schurf from Washington first round draft pick, might 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.080 hit the market, might get tagged. We'll see what happens. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.480 Suf like Joe Toney, allowed just one sack all season, 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:45.520 and he's a consistent run blocker and pass blocker. He 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.200 really moves guys off the football as a true road 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.160 grader at that right guard position, a true power player 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.360 that just has elite traits in both aspects of the game. 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.560 And we finish up here with number twenty one on 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.440 Pro football Focus is top one hundred free agents available 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.920 with at Conklin, the right tackle from the Tennessee Titans. 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.520 He finished twelve among tackles last year on his Pro 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.639 football Focus grade UH seventy eight point three, he was 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.280 fifth and run blocking, so a true road grader off 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.280 the edge out there as well. He can really get 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.760 into space, he can really displace guys off the football, 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:17.760 and he's good at getting on the upfield shoulder and 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.760 angling guys out of the particular gap. According to Pro 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.600 football Focus, he was number six on zone runs and 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.080 number fourteen on man gap runs. So scheme diverse really 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.840 blows guys off the football. That's twenty one through forty. 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.400 We've now covered eighty of the players on this list. 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:35.479 On Tuesday's podcast will have one through number twenty four. 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:38.000 You guys, because on Monday we have Channing Crowder. But 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.080 to finish up this edition of the Drivetime Podcast, part 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.800 of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, I want to talk 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.480 about the story up on Miami Dolphins dot com as 0:17:46.520 --> 0:17:49.160 well as the video that you can find on any 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:54.600 Dolphins channel, whether it's our YouTube channel, Miami Dolphins dot com, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:57.320 wherever you look, go check out Humble and Hungry the 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.119 Brian Flores story. And I wrote an article up on 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.879 Miami Dolphins dot com that tracks Flores and this incredible 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.920 journey he's taken from Brooklyn, New York, and the neighborhood 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.560 of Brownsville, and that environment those people that were around 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.000 Brian Flora's there in Brownsville really helps shake the shape 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.119 the character and the man that we know today is 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.520 the head coach of the Miami Dolphins, and he says 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.280 himself quote, You've got to be tough to grow up here, 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:24.600 referring to Brownsville, New York. And so Floras loaded up 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.000 with some of the Dolphins social media team and Dolphins 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:29.639 personnel to go back to Brownsville and to film a 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.280 short documentary film. It's about sixteen and a half minute. 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:34.760 You guys can find it again anywhere the Miami Dolphins 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:37.880 post on social media, on the official site, or on YouTube. 0:18:38.160 --> 0:18:40.879 And it wasn't just the environment that Flora's talks about 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:43.119 that really helped shape him into who he is about 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.159 the people that were around him, including his mother, his wife, 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.560 and his high school football coach who really thinks of 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.320 Brian Flora's as a son. And I really don't want 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.520 to spoil too much of it with the quotes from 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:56.159 the article and especially from the video, which is just 0:18:56.280 --> 0:18:59.320 so well done, a fantastic five star video that was 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.120 shot on a rainy day there in Brooklyn. But Flores 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:05.320 talked about his mother, how she was extremely tough and stern, 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:07.800 but he always knew that they that she loved him 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.000 and his brother. There was never a doubt about that 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:12.399 in his mind. And that's kind of where Flora shaped 0:19:12.440 --> 0:19:15.760 his personality, his temperament, what makes him a good football 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.800 coach here with the Miami Dolphins to get tough, smart, 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:22.120 discipline players, because that's what he knows and that's who 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:24.679 he is and he wants to be the genuine article, 0:19:24.760 --> 0:19:27.480 which in this video you quickly learned where he came 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:29.639 from and how he got developed into the man that 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.120 he is. But Brian's wife, Jenny talked about the best 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:36.200