WEBVTT - Training Camp Preview 2021 Off Ball Linebackers 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:17.360 Bown Miami Run. What is up, Dolph Fans? And welcome 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.560 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:25.560 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How is 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.440 it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield and 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:32.840 as always in season, I am here to bring you 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.920 your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.520 presented by Auto Nation, day eight of training camp previews, 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.880 we are on to the off ball linebackers Jerome Baker, 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.680 e Landon, Roberts but Nardrick McKenney, Duke Riley, Sam Aguavin, 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.960 Calvin Munson, and Kyle and Johnson, as well as the 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.000 coach of the unit, Anthony Campanelli. They all go under 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.400 the microscope today. Plus we'll talk about the theme of 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:02.560 the week with not just versatility, but balance and yet 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.200 another position group on this roster. We're gonna give you 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.200 the stats, the facts, intriguing nuggets, and finish up with 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:12.039 a bonus as we get into the specialists on the roster. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.720 And finally, we're also gonna tell you some details of 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.919 the Dolphins new training facility, which had its ribbon cutting 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.520 on Tuesday. All of that and a heck of a 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:24.440 lot more here on this edition of the Drive Time podcast. 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.319 And we had the grand opening of the new facility 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.200 out in Miami Gardens, just adjacent to hard Rock Stadium, 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.880 and what an absolute gem, what a beauty she is 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:39.800 out there. Let's go ahead and talk about some of 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:42.119 the facts from this new facility. Before you do that, though, 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.240 head over to the Miami Dolphins Twitter handle, Instagram, Facebook, 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.400 whatever it might be, and check out the video that 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.920 showed you a great little montage or a clip of 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.800 the different traits and characteristics of the facility, and also 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.800 a great photo thread up on Twitter as well. And 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.680 here's some facts on the building. The Auto Torium holds 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.640 a hundred and seventy six people, The Offense and Defensive 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:08.000 room respectively holds sixty four people. The shaded spect spectator 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:12.000 seating for training, camp practices two hundred, burn seating has 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.280 up to eight hundred, and the dining room sits a 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.560 hundred and fifty eight people. There are three fields outdoor 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.840 grass outside synthetic turf. Inside, there's parking for two hundred 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:25.480 and twenty staff, fifteen visitors, twenty three management, twenty spots 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.639 for spectator, A, d A, all kinds of sprawling numbers 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.240 for taking on staff guests, all the fun stuff you 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.680 want there at the facility. There are two hundred and 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:39.840 nine televisions in the facility. There are four hundred twenty 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:44.200 seven inch monitors, seven miles of Ethernet cabling and audio cable, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.680 as well nine two speakers that will provide for some 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:51.320 great music and training camp practice during stretching in individual periods. 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:55.560 Fifteen thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight different flowers and shrubs, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.280 sixteen different species. You come here for your flower and 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.760 shrub species talk on this podcast. Two d ten palm trees, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.600 nine different species of those, A hundred twenty eight trees 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:07.960 and eight different species of those. There are two plunge 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.560 pools for hydrotherapy, one hot and one cold, a hydro 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.560 works pool, a lap pool, a slide, physical therapy room, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:20.000 indoor sauna, indoor steam room, cryotherapy rooms, and of course 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.079 we have all the amenities for the players and for 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.399 the staff coming in the lobby players round, there's a barbershop, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:29.240 dart games, lounge, areas, dining hall, auditorium, and the content 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.240 studio where your boy's gonna spend a lot of his time. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.200 Air conditioning dedicated FP and l value to feed the 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:38.160 training camp facility and the number of toilets. I know what, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.240 y'all came here for one hundred and eighty three toilets 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.480 inside that building. It is an absolute palace. Again, if 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:45.600 you haven't seen the thread on Twitter of the video 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.640 or the photos, go check that out. It is a 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:53.080 really magnificent piece of architecture and the building is glorious. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:55.800 Big ups to Mr Ross and Mr Garfinkel forgetting that 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.720 thing put together, this project complete ahead of the season 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.520 a actually when a lot of the construction occurred during 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:04.960 the pandemic. A great job by the Miami Dolphins organization 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.160 to get that done, to give us our new home, 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.320 and I can't wait to start there here coming up 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.280 very very shortly ahead of training camp next week. All right, 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.880 we're gonna get into the positional preview here at number 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:18.120 eight on the Drivetime podcast. Go back and check out 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:20.599 all the previous episodes. Listen to them twice. Do us 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:22.680 a favorit, get us more downloads, help us out in 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.479 that way. We're talking about the linebackers today, in particular 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:30.080 off ball linebackers. We covered the edge position on Wednesday's podcast, 0:04:30.120 --> 0:04:32.440 and that kind of takes into account some linebackers as well, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.440 like Jyalen Phillips, for instance, a linebacker on the Dolphins roster. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.960 We're talking about guys who primarily lineup off the football 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.560 on this podcast and in Getting Ready for this pod 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.920 and and the piece up on Miami Dolphins dot Com 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.040 as well the coinciding linebacker preview. You know, I was 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.280 looking at the makeup of this position and it kind 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.600 of got me thinking about the makeup of the rest 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.920 of the roster. And I recently heard a quote and 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.200 I heard it from the Bootleg Football podcast with E. J. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.919 Snyder and Brett Coleman, who referenced a Saban quote, and 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.039 I went and found it on Google. You just happened 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:04.479 in Google. You can find it in plenty of articles. 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.240 But Nick Saban once said that boxing has weight classes 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.000 for a reason because over the course of a fight 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:13.800 or a game in the instance of football, the heavier 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.720 guys going to lean on the lighter guy and it's 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.000 gonna wear that lighter guy down. And I was looking 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:20.279 at the weights of some of these players that Dolphins 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:24.240 have on this roster, and man, certain positions just have 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.600 guys that are much bigger than the average at those 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.280 positions like on the offensive line with d J. Fluker 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.520 at three fifty Germaine Illuminois at three forty five, Solomon 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.720 Kiley three thirty six, Austin Jackson five with Robert Hunt 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.320 three twenty seven. I mean, these guys are big, even 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.120 in a position full of big guys. Then you look 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.000 at the ends and tackles. We talked about the last 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:47.000 couple of podcasts here with Seiler and Wilkins and Ledbetter 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:52.040 and Strowbridge among others, pushing to seventy pounds and above 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.600 for guys like Wilkins and Seiler there. Then you get 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:57.000 to the linebackers and you see e. Robbie Land and 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.720 Roberts two and forty five pounds. Then you've got bernardick 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.280 mckin the two fifty seven. All these teams in the 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.280 NFL today are kind of going towards the small and 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.680 fast model, and why Miami does have a lot of 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.000 electricity and speed on this football team. They've put together 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.240 a nice blend of the two with the size and 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.560 the speed, but also the big thumpers that can help 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:18.960 you win those physical, slug it out type of games, 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.359 especially once you might get down here in Miami in 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.080 September and October and that hot, hot heat. But as 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:28.880 for the balance on body type, it's no more evident 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.720 here than at this position with the off ball linebackers 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:35.359 McKinney and Baker mixed together like spaghetti and meatballs, peanut 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.600 butter and jelly, lamb and tuna fish. However you want 0:06:37.600 --> 0:06:39.880 to put those comparisons together, and when you want to 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:41.880 mug up the A gaps, which what that means when 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.480 you hear that phraseology is the A gaps are either 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.960 gap on either side of the center on the offensive line, 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:49.480 and when you mug them up, that means you bring 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.039 your linebackers up into those gaps on the football. And 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:53.680 we saw plenty of that last year obviously with your 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.000 own Baker and all the sacks that he produced rushing 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.039 inside at that position. And that's just a lot to 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.000 deal with you have now when you add but nargerik 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:04.359 McKinney to that mix, especially when you can PLoP I 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.240 don't know Adam Butler and his explosive self and at 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:09.600 the get off he has in that position Christian Wilkins, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:11.640 who can just knock bodies around but also win with 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.560 penetration or a Zach Steeler, who is as long as 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.640 they come as far as defensive tackles go, and speaking 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:20.200 of length and power at defensive tackle pound, ray Kwon 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.360 Davis has a word to say there as well. I 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.920 just keep looking at these fronts with the myriad of 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:28.320 options and combinations of players they have, and I think 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.840 you have a true a gap pressure type of roster 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:36.600 that the threats you have at that position can rival 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.200 pretty much any team across the league with what the 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:42.360 Dolphins have done this offseason last offseason, to go ahead 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:44.800 and round out the central of your football team, the core, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.960 building that thing up the middle. Brian Flores has talked 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.640 about this before about building up the communicators, the guys 0:07:50.800 --> 0:07:53.600 that are signal callers, your safety, your linebacker, your center, 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.160 your quarterback obviously, and kind of building up the strength 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.240 of the middle of the football team. We've seen that 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.480 take place the last couple of years and kind of 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:03.080 come to fruition here with Bernardrick McKinney as the addition 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:05.560 this offseason in the trade with Shack Lawson from the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:09.440 Houston Texans, and both McKinney and Baker have been guys 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.280 that have played you know, they're one thousand snaptakers. That's 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.520 kind of the baseline average for how many snaps a 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.920 player takes in a given season. Now, with an extra game, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.640 I guess you call it one thousand sixty because the 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.400 average snaps per games right around sixty two and a half, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.040 give or take per game. And you know these guys 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.640 are capable of playing all three phases of run defense, 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:31.680 pass rush, and drop into coverage. Then you've got a 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:35.160 guy like Duke Riley who can keep you flexible on 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.560 all your sub packages because he can act as that 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.240 coverage linebacker but can come down to the box and 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.400 help you stay flexible in late game situations in terms 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.720 of playing back in coverage or down in the box 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.800 when the offense goes hurry up and they want to 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:50.040 change things up on you. Having a player like a 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:51.679 Duke Riley who can do a little bit of both 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.839 really helps you stay flexible when you cannot substitute when 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.840 the opposition is in no huddle offense. And that's being 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.320 Sam Aguabin's game, going back to the cf L and 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:03.719 college at Texas Tech as well past game disruptors to 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.160 give Miami great depth in those sub packages as well 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.360 as a terrific special teamer in Sam Oguabin, but guys 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.719 that can disrupt the passing game, both in coverage and 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.760 as blitzers. Then you've got Calvin Munson, who again more 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.840 back to that balance. He's coming to the lineup a 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.680 few times and a pinch over the last couple of 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.040 seasons and served as kind of a banger in between 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:24.120 the tackles. He came off the bench last year for 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.160 Eland and Roberts a couple of times when he was 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.360 banged up in game. And then you've got kyl and 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:31.720 Johnson looking to further develop his game and not to 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:33.800 mention the rob once again, who does a lot of 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.560 that in terms of the big physicality in the middle. 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.640 The leadership role he's taken on his players really gravitate 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.920 towards his guidance. More on that here and just one second. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.160 But this position group really just teams well, I think 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:47.240 with what you have in the front seven in general, 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.239 with those down linemen, because it's all really so fungible, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:54.320 and it allows Flores and Bowyer to get deep into 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.160 their playbook and keep the whole playbook open, and I 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.560 think any coach will want to be able to say 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.319 that they had apt the scheme to fit the players 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:04.040 they have on the roster, and that's great, you have 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:07.400 to have that. But when you start dropping players into 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.800 the organization that really excel at what you want to 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.760 ideally do, that's when you begin to really cook with gas, 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:14.400 because then you can get the most out of the 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.240 best system you have. And I think this position group 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.680 has seen that transformation over the last two years really 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.720 as much as any group on the field. With McKinney, 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.680 with Robert, you get Duke Riley in here talking about 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:28.800 the guys off the edge with Jalen Phillips, as well 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.920 as Andrew Van Ginkel Brand Scarlett coming over this offseason. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.640 You continue to see this roster kind of fit the 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.280 mold and the vision of coach Flora's and coach Boyer 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:39.720 and Chris Career up in the GM's office. All Right, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.240 So the article up on Miami Dolphins dot Com taking 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.400 a look at the off ball linebackers personnel changes on 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.679 this particular episode or this particular position group, I should say, Bernardick, McKinney, 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.880 Duke Riley in commu gruge a hill out to the 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:55.920 Houston Texans. Riley comes over from the Eagles, McKinney comes 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.319 over from the Texans as well. And we've talked about 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.760 the coaching staff and how so many of the coaches 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:06.040 on coach floor as a staff have experienced on either 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.800 side of the ball in multiple roles, some guys in 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:14.160 the capacity of personnel or doing work within the front 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.520 office or something of that capacity, and then their on 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.640 field work as a coach as well. And for coach Campanelli, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:21.880 the story is the exact same. He began his career 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.240 in the high school ranks, where he was once a 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.320 defensive coordinator and then flipped over to the offensive side 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.880 of the football a legendary Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.440 before he made the jump in town there or in 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.320 local area to the collegiate ranks at Rutgers, where he 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.400 was a defensive assistant, a tight ends coach, a wide 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.559 receiver's coach, before taking his role as the defensive backs 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:45.760 coach at Boston College. So pretty much every position group 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.040 he's been around, and then he was later promoted to 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:52.079 core co defensive coordinator at Boston College that he then 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.360 took the linebacker's job with the Dolphins after a year 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:58.480 in the same position at the University of Michigan. He 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.880 brings energy in a very passionate voice to the position, 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.160 to the coaching staff, and to the organization. I think 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.200 where you saw that best was during the Senior Bowl 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.560 practices when they miked up coach during some of the 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.120 linebacker drills where he was stacking, shedding and getting clean 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.320 with those guys, and they were really kind of really 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.000 bringing the juice on that drill, and you could hear 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.040 the bag getting popped by the guys slapping with their 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.320 hands and just working hard and getting and getting some 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.800 sweat equity out there on the field. Fun to watch 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:24.760 him do his job the group in a glance. We 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.240 kind of covered that already, but let's go ahead and 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.600 go through this here real quick. And again, these are 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:32.000 guys that aligned primarily off the line of scrimmage. Jerome 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.880 Baker was a menace in that role for opposing quarterbacks 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.600 last year. He finished second in the NFL among all 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.840 off ball linebackers with seven sacks. Devin White and Tampa 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.040 Bay had nine, and McKinney, a pro bowler back in team. 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.880 He is no stranger either to really accelerating the urgency 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:51.280 of the opposing offense. His quick first step behind that 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.880 two d and fifty seven pound frame puts the middle 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:57.000 of the offensive line in decision time and conflict mode, 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.240 our favorite word on the podcast here, right, conflict. You 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.200 have to decide it's gonna beat me with speed or 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.480 do I have to really drop the anchor and prepare 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.920 myself for a run up of two hundred and fifty 0:13:05.920 --> 0:13:08.280 seven pounds coming at me. And he helped that Texans 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.640 defense collapse collapse the interior of pockets for years while J. J. 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.280 Watt went to work on the outside. A great combination there. 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:17.520 Hopefully he can replicate some of that here in Miami 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.599 and give Miami some more well rounded pass rush that 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.120 they get from that position as well. He landed Roberts 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.880 was really performing at a consistently high level when he 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.760 went down for that season ending injury in Las Vegas 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.120 right around week four. So it seems like he just 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.760 kind of showed up and began making one or two 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:35.800 of those big plays in the backfield every single week 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:38.480 where number you know, big number fifty two's closing down 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:40.199 and I guess he was forty four last year, but 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.400 big number fifty two comes down the pike and just 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.320 blows up the running back right at the mesh point 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.559 seemed to happen every single week from like the Seahawks 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.320 game on last season. He also on a per game basis, 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.720 had career highs and tackles, sex and TFLs. We talked 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.600 about Duke Riley. He was also a special teams captain 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.000 in each of his previous two stops with the foul 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.400 Plkins and the Eagles, and when he was in Philly, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.280 he arrived mid season via a trade and he earned 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.160 captain ship. That's not a word. He earned a captain's 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.480 patch in Philadelphia after arriving mid season. That tells you 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:15.120 about his leadership and the work he puts in in 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.560 regards to how to be a professional and how to 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.480 work the right way. He also offers a great deal 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.600 of coverage specialty and a field for cowboage and finding 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.720 those spots on his spot drops or finding man and 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.200 man coverage, whatever it might be. That's kind of his bag. 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.960 Calvin Munson returns after playing all sixteen games last year 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.680 after playing just two the year before with Miami, and 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.520 he was primarily a special teamer in and then again 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.840 kyl and Johnson back with his second year with the 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:42.680 club as a U d F A for Miami last season. 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.520 He was on the practice squad the entire year. A 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.560 little bit of a deeper dive on each individual. Calvin 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.480 Munson starts us off because he has the lowest jersey number, 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.280 number forty eight. Three seasons in the NFL out of 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.640 San Diego State, twenty six years old, and he played 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.000 the two hundred and sixty two total snaps last year, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.480 two fourteen of those coming on special teams. He made 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:06.280 three tackles as part of Miami's coverage units and also 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:09.120 finished with nine total tackles on defense. When you watch 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.240 him out there on run defense, man, he can bang 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.080 between the B gaps, just kind of filling up either 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.680 of those gaps and fit in the run and really 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.880 laying the wood on the interior of the defense and 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.880 the interior of the offensive line. You go to the 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.960 next player on this list, Sam maguavin. Forty nine is 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.640 his jersey number. Two seasons of experience in the National 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:29.640 Football League by way of the CFL. He went to 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.880 Texas Tech. He'll be twenty eight years old on opening day, 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.840 and you might recall him kind of popping off immediately 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.680 in training camp in ten where he carved out a 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.960 nice role for himself upon making the jump from the CFL, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.760 where he was an absolute phenom defending the past and 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.000 blitzing the quarterback and playing special teams up there up North, 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.960 he comes to South Florida and kind of takes on 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.240 a similar role in terms of playing the past and 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.720 going after the quarterback, because you know, he's agile, he's active, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.000 He gets in the passing lanes, and he can certainly 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.840 play downhill as a blitzer, but all whole work backwards 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.840 and coverage. In twenty nineteen, he finished fourth on Pro 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.200 Football Focus and quarterback pressures among off ball linebackers. He 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:09.960 did blitz a lot, but he got home a lot 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.720 with those twenty three pressures. Last year, his role really 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.640 shifted more towards special teams. He played two hundred and 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:19.520 seventy five of his three hundred and fifty nine snaps 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:22.320 on special teams, that unit that ranked number six in 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.960 the NFL via Football Outsiders. He made three special teams 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:28.520 tackles as well, and nine total tackles on defense, the 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.200 same numbers there as Calvin Munson, but he also had 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.720 a tackle for loss and a p BU on defense 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.560 last season. We get to McKinney now number fifty on 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.920 your training camp guide here. He'll be entering his seventh season, 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.320 so six years experience in the NFL out of Mississippi State, 0:16:43.360 --> 0:16:46.400 twenty eight years old on opening day, and man, you 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.440 watch him direct traffic out there in the middle of 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.840 the Texans defense on tape. You you kind of watched 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.080 the the end zone angle of the All twenty two 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.240 copy and you see a number fifty out there for Houston. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.360 He's looking off to the side, he's picking up motion, 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.120 he's signaling his hands to you know, hands and us 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:01.800 to his defenders to kind of get guys a line 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:04.399 in the right spot. He's triggering and keying and pulling 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.040 the trigger before the balls even snapped as he anticipates 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:09.920 what's happening. Because of the film study. I love love 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:14.360 watching players with those anticipatory skill sets like McKinney has, 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:17.479 and he basically was the center of that Texas defense 0:17:17.480 --> 0:17:20.040 since he was dropped in there six years ago. He 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:22.640 brings that run defending prowess, the penchant for those well 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.800 time blitzes, and really unrivaled on field communication and prior 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.159 to missing twelve games last season, and he has some 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.119 nice tape on on tape before he went down in 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:36.399 Game number five. McKinney average nine snaps played over the 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.879 previous four years combined, that's an average per season, and 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.960 in those four seasons he was tied for fifth, he 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.879 finished eight and tied for seventeenth and QB pressures, so 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.920 typically among the top of the leaderboard and rushing the 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:52.600 quarterback from off ball linebacker position. He also finished inside 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.080 the top twenty five among his positional contemporaries in total 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:58.720 run stops in three of those four years, so again 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.840 rushing the quarterback, defending the on he can do a 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.159 little bit of it all, causing pile ups in the 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.280 proverbial car crash in the running game. He's a tone 0:18:06.280 --> 0:18:08.480 center man. He's thick, he's got a quick first step 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.280 to put opposing quarterbacks under instant arrest, but also the 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.440 interior of the offensive line as he fires the gun 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:16.080 and gets in there on the running game. And you 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:18.359 go to the tape or his workout numbers back at 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:22.280 the NFL Combine team that really showcase the explosive nature 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.919 of his game. He finished in the ninety three percentile 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.440 among his class at linebacker in both vertical and broad jumps. 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.200 The lower half explosion. You kind of check that box there, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.920 speaking of big physical presences inside a land and Roberts 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:37.560 number fifty two changed his jersey number this year from 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.520 forty four five years NFL experience. He comes out of 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:43.040 Houston and it's twenty seven years old an opening day 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.919 and again from weeks four through sixteen last year. I 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.240 swear there was one or two plays a game where 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.600 you saw Roberts just destroy a play for a three, 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:53.200 four or five yard loss where he flies in there 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:56.040 and the ball carrier is just swarmed by an aqua 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.080 or white jersey before he can even make that first 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.520 move out of the backfield. He is a football seeking 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:03.160 missile and just shot out of a cannon. Evident by 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.640 his twenty five run stops in thirteen games played last 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.800 year and a career best eight tackles for lost sixty 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.040 one tackles one and a half sacks. Those were both 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:14.520 on pace for his personal best without missed games played. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.119 He also matched his career high and forced fumbles with 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:20.359 one on the season. Roberts was elected a team captain 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:24.159 last year. I thought Jerome Baker really detailed what Robert 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.639 springs to the locker room, to the film room, to 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.400 the classroom, to the practice field, and a press conference 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.560 back on December twenty one where he said, e Rob 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:34.200