Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and as always I am here to bring
Speaker 1: you your semi daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, I've been working on this one for
Speaker 1: a few weeks and it's gonna be lengthy. You probably
Speaker 1: saw the time on this episode already, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: be as informative as any Dolphins podcast You're gonna find
Speaker 1: out there as we keep adding to the roster and
Speaker 1: keep seeing this team get better, even in the month
Speaker 1: of May, it's required updating. It's the post draft roster review.
Speaker 1: We take a look at the roster position by position,
Speaker 1: give you an interesting staff about each guy, talk through
Speaker 1: the tape a little bit, and also cover some interesting
Speaker 1: storylines and facts about the position group as a whole.
Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and jump right in from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast, alright, so the warning is out there.
Speaker 1: This is a longer edition of the Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Felt okay about it because we are right in the
Speaker 1: middle of the off season, coming up on the dregs
Speaker 1: of the off season. Love an o t a coverage
Speaker 1: podcast for you guys on Wednesday and then again down
Speaker 1: the road in a couple of weeks. But why don't
Speaker 1: we go ahead and just kick this thing off here
Speaker 1: with the quarterback position, and just real quick before we
Speaker 1: do that, a quick disclaimer. These are my particular breakdowns,
Speaker 1: my film study analysis. And also we are going in
Speaker 1: order of jersey number, so when you hear a certain
Speaker 1: player at a certain spot, don't freak out. We're going
Speaker 1: in order of jersey number because we want to let
Speaker 1: these guys compete on the field and find their spot
Speaker 1: on the depth chart. That way, Let's get to the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and darting off with number one too, a tungo
Speaker 1: viola as we go over our nine d man roster.
Speaker 1: And you guys know by now the traits that I
Speaker 1: think make him stand out, the ability to get off
Speaker 1: the spot, not just in a hurry when he sees it,
Speaker 1: but with anticipation to feel that rush and to find
Speaker 1: new avenues, recognizing where the weak spots might be against
Speaker 1: a particular defensive look a rush package, and how to
Speaker 1: find that vacant space where he can then get to
Speaker 1: to operate from. And the numbers bear that out too,
Speaker 1: and we'll touch on that here in just a second.
Speaker 1: And then also obviously the ball placement. Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: has a quarterback accuracy measurement where they chart not just
Speaker 1: completion percentage, but they chart location over actual completions and
Speaker 1: the completions and two was top twelve and accuracy on
Speaker 1: balls leading his guys as well as settling them down
Speaker 1: into soft spots where you come back down the stem
Speaker 1: where you go between his zone and also back shoulder location.
Speaker 1: And we see that in practice too. Talked about it
Speaker 1: on Wednesday last week on the podcast the Tuesday Practice
Speaker 1: Recap addition which then earned to the Orange Jersey in practice,
Speaker 1: and we always talk about what makes a quarterback stands
Speaker 1: out to me. It's third down passing, where to a
Speaker 1: last year was fifth in the National Football League last
Speaker 1: year among all quarterbacks, and moving the stick conversion rate,
Speaker 1: moving the sticks conversion rate, the four contemporaries of his
Speaker 1: on that list who finished higher than him with a
Speaker 1: better conversion rate Matt Stafford's Super Bowl champion, Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: m VP and Super Bowl MVP Justin Herbert and Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: And those third and fourth spots were within one percent
Speaker 1: conversion of each other, so you get one more conversion
Speaker 1: from TWA and he's top three in the National Football
Speaker 1: League last year, and he was top ten in a
Speaker 1: lot of important categories like completion percentage over expected which
Speaker 1: measures ball placement, total QBR, escape rate, and sack rate surrendered.
Speaker 1: But the smaller sample size with some games missed made
Speaker 1: it pretty volatble, and that bad run kind of put
Speaker 1: him behind the median in a few of these categories,
Speaker 1: like passer rating nineteenth, average yards or drop back nineteenth.
Speaker 1: But then completion percentage seventh c p o E sixth,
Speaker 1: sack percentage tied for fifth pressures turned to sacks. He
Speaker 1: was six in that regard, which is a measure of
Speaker 1: pocket presents, and then big time throws, which is a
Speaker 1: pro football focused stat for excellent location and timing, generally
Speaker 1: down the field or into a tighter window. He had
Speaker 1: six of them, and that was twenty two. But I
Speaker 1: find it interesting the group right ahead of him was Mayfield, Cousins,
Speaker 1: and Herbert with seven two is five point one percent.
Speaker 1: Big time throw percentage was higher than all those guys.
Speaker 1: And how about some of the Going back to the
Speaker 1: third down stat Ray, I want to look at the
Speaker 1: four guys ahead of two on that list and consider
Speaker 1: what their running game and pass protection ranks were a
Speaker 1: season ago. This is going off Pro Football Focus in
Speaker 1: terms of how they graded the offensive line and the
Speaker 1: rushing ranks in terms of total yards rushing last season
Speaker 1: for Matt Stafford ranked running game, the number one pass
Speaker 1: protection offensive line in the NFL, Patrick Mahomes sixteenth ranked
Speaker 1: running game, the sixth ranked pass protection in it last
Speaker 1: year in the NFL, Justin Herbert twenty first ranked run game,
Speaker 1: sixteen ranked pass pro, Joe Burrow twenty three ranked run game,
Speaker 1: twenty ninth pass protection. Pretty damn impressive to a tongue
Speaker 1: of Byalo of fifth place, thirty ranked run game, thirty
Speaker 1: second ranked and pass pro. I think perhaps the craziest stat,
Speaker 1: not just for Miami but the entire NFL last year
Speaker 1: was the two was sacked on just four point nine
Speaker 1: percent of his dropbacks. That was eighth best in the
Speaker 1: NFL last year. But Travis, isn't that just because the
Speaker 1: ball comes out so fast? Well, when Jacoby was the quarterback,
Speaker 1: it was a seven point eight percent sack right twenty
Speaker 1: six in the NFL. And like we did with the
Speaker 1: third down numbers, how about the guys who finished ahead
Speaker 1: of twa and sack percentage and the total pressures. Tom
Speaker 1: Brady for the Buccaneers a hundred and fifty six QB
Speaker 1: pressures last year, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes one seventy nine,
Speaker 1: same number for Justin Herbert one seventy nine. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: was fifth, and sack percentage she had the second highest
Speaker 1: on this list with two hundred and eleven pressures against him.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott one fifty four, Matt Stafford one forty four.
Speaker 1: The Miami Dolphins last year allowed two thirty five Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus recorded pressures. That was twenty four more than
Speaker 1: the next highest and thirty seven more than the third highest,
Speaker 1: And to it was just point one percent behind Cousins,
Speaker 1: Prescott and Stafford, so one tenth of a percentage point
Speaker 1: from being the fifth best sack right behind a line
Speaker 1: that set the record for most pressures allowed in the
Speaker 1: PFF era. That's your Tishpiel. Teddy bridgewiret number five. Fortunate
Speaker 1: to have this kind of depth at the position. I
Speaker 1: like to note his intelligence and feel for the position.
Speaker 1: It's akin to tow Ah and the way he can
Speaker 1: navigate some of those overload blitzes and create with his
Speaker 1: pocket mobility. I think he's just wired perfectly for this
Speaker 1: role because he is a He's gonna know the system
Speaker 1: inside and out and be he understands managing a football game.
Speaker 1: And I hate that that term can be misconstrued as
Speaker 1: a negative. It's a quarterback's job to manage situations, calculate risk,
Speaker 1: and play accordingly. Think Teddy as as well served in
Speaker 1: that regard. Is anybody a fund stat on him one
Speaker 1: hundred twenty point three passer rating last year when blitzed
Speaker 1: two for one even eight yards, nine touchdowns to just
Speaker 1: two picks. When teams blitz Teddy Bridgewater other quarterback in
Speaker 1: the room in a nineteen rookie Skyler Thompson. You heard
Speaker 1: him on the podcast. You heard coach McDaniel talk about
Speaker 1: it to the passion for the sport, the willingness to
Speaker 1: do whatever role the team needs him to do to
Speaker 1: win football games, He's got a great room to learn from.
Speaker 1: I mean, my goodness, coach bev to and Teddy the
Speaker 1: frequent Dan Marino cameos, and my fun stat here on
Speaker 1: Skyler was the three nine nine rushing yards on designed
Speaker 1: runs last year at Kansas State. And how about the
Speaker 1: overall room as as a whole. I just like the
Speaker 1: way these guys can mitigate pressure, get off the spot,
Speaker 1: and the way they're wired to compete at this level.
Speaker 1: The storyline here is, I think, can you foster an
Speaker 1: environment to capitalize on what to of strengths are kind
Speaker 1: of an emphasis this offseason. Strong running game, hopefully improved
Speaker 1: offensive line play. We know about the new weapons on offense.
Speaker 1: The sky to me is the limit here. You shore
Speaker 1: up those two things, and I think we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a ton of fun this season, maybe too much fun.
Speaker 1: You can't battle here. There isn't one at running back.
Speaker 1: Nine guys on the roster, and we start with number two,
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds, three down player. You can flex him out.
Speaker 1: He can run routes, has big playability, can get to
Speaker 1: that second and third level and make fast guys missed
Speaker 1: and run past fast guys. The fun stat on him,
Speaker 1: there's a couple of them. He had the third best
Speaker 1: rushing e p A. That's expected points added the analytics
Speaker 1: storks out there, and I'm partially an analytics stork. Love
Speaker 1: that stat and running backs in the last in the
Speaker 1: NFL last year, his twenty three point three percent of
Speaker 1: total runs reaching fifteen plus miles, Prower was first among
Speaker 1: all running backs with at least a hundred carries, next
Speaker 1: to second year pro Jared Okes Number twenty three. Love
Speaker 1: what he does in pass pro. I thought he showed
Speaker 1: some medal last year in the preseason in his short
Speaker 1: yardage work. I'm excited to get a look at this
Speaker 1: guy in year number two. A fun stat on him
Speaker 1: his final year in Cincinnati with the Bearcats, no drop passes,
Speaker 1: catch rate and zero pressures allowed on thirty one pass
Speaker 1: blocking reps. Also forced miss tackles on one and forty
Speaker 1: four rush attempts. That's one every five point seven six
Speaker 1: and it kind of spells out to you a physical
Speaker 1: back that can play all three downs. Number twenty six
Speaker 1: savan Akhmed going back to the speed thought we saw
Speaker 1: it in the preseason last year, catching that touchdown pass
Speaker 1: on the wheel route against the Bears. We see in
Speaker 1: the explosive runs, had that big one twenty two yard
Speaker 1: game back in his rookie season and a couple of
Speaker 1: our another hundred yard performance before that as well, and
Speaker 1: he can sure his heck hit the big run the
Speaker 1: home run hitter. Speaking of home run hit res number
Speaker 1: thirty one, where Hee moster another newcomer here. Speed speed, speed,
Speaker 1: patient runner who can capitalize on the plays where you
Speaker 1: blocked it perfect and hit the home runs. Not just
Speaker 1: a fift twenty yard that's what's blocked, that's what we're getting.
Speaker 1: We're talking sixty sev yr runs where he makes guys
Speaker 1: in the second and third level miss and he's by
Speaker 1: him for long touchdowns. Fund stat on him recorded the
Speaker 1: two fastest speeds with the football in his hands back
Speaker 1: in and they only played one game last year one
Speaker 1: and had two carries for twenty yards on those runs.
Speaker 1: Number thirty four. Sony Michelle packs an absolute punch and
Speaker 1: gets to full speed quickly after making his initial move.
Speaker 1: Really strong vision to find lanes as they open up.
Speaker 1: The fun staff for me on Sony Michelle is the
Speaker 1: way he's been a big part of championship runs last
Speaker 1: year six games. They elevate his role with the Rams
Speaker 1: runs for five hundred and forty yards as they go
Speaker 1: five and one on their way to an NFC West title,
Speaker 1: and then back in three playoff games and the Patriots
Speaker 1: three thirty six rushing yards and six touchdowns for that
Speaker 1: championship winning team Number thirty seven. Miles gaskin passing game
Speaker 1: prowess all the way and the ability to catch the
Speaker 1: football from any route in any alignment, whether you want
Speaker 1: to put him condensed in a nasty split, put him
Speaker 1: back in the backfield, flex him out wide, haven't take
Speaker 1: a go off run a takeoff route like he did
Speaker 1: last year against the Bucks for a touchdown. Then against
Speaker 1: the Jets he catches that hook up route from two
Speaker 1: on that game winning drive and that soft spot of
Speaker 1: the zone took a big shot, but hung on on
Speaker 1: the third down catch for not just a conversion but
Speaker 1: a touchdown to help the Dolphins get that victory. Also,
Speaker 1: like the way he creates when the quarterback goes off
Speaker 1: script and tends to find the vacancies created by that
Speaker 1: scrambling of the quarterback fund stat for him last year
Speaker 1: he tied for the team lead with seven touchdowns with
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle and his twelve touchdown since lead the Dolphins
Speaker 1: over that span. Finishing up here at the running backs.
Speaker 1: Number forty seven is a quadree White. His vision to
Speaker 1: get from front side press, that front side of the
Speaker 1: run to the back side of the formation with that
Speaker 1: fold back run against the grain, against the flow after
Speaker 1: showing patients to kind of create that over pursuit by
Speaker 1: what he does. That's impressive. So is the contact balanced
Speaker 1: to stave off arm tackles, and you see it with
Speaker 1: the fund stat four point six one yards after contact.
Speaker 1: I was impressed by him last week in camp. Excited
Speaker 1: to look at him tomorrow as well as the rest
Speaker 1: of O T A s and in the training camp.
Speaker 1: Full back talk baby number thirty alec ingled smooth hands
Speaker 1: from that full back position, big plays in college at Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: and some really good tape there with the Raiders as well,
Speaker 1: paving the way for Brandon Jacobs, Kenyan Drake and some
Speaker 1: pretty damn good rushing attacks. Fund stat on him receiving
Speaker 1: touchdown every year as a pro and seven point oh
Speaker 1: two yards per target in his career. That's that's actually
Speaker 1: top three or top five rather I should say among fullbacks,
Speaker 1: number forty six, John Lovett, the quarterback tape on him
Speaker 1: in college is so much fun, a versatile guy, not
Speaker 1: unlike Ingold, taking some wildcat snaps. But then with the
Speaker 1: Packers had some real get out of your chair highlight
Speaker 1: type of blocks played mostly on special teams there. The
Speaker 1: storyline here is how does the workload get shared. Who's
Speaker 1: gonna be the third down option? How will they cycle
Speaker 1: through third down options? How many snaps does each guy take?
Speaker 1: Who's the odd man out? Do they keep five or six?
Speaker 1: Do they keep four? How many is it? How do
Speaker 1: they keep two fullbacks one fullback? Whatever? It looks like
Speaker 1: lots of options there for the Dolphins in this running
Speaker 1: back room, and you have to think that's by design
Speaker 1: to give them as much options as they need to execute.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, Frank Smith, all those guys running scheme on
Speaker 1: offense and the camp battle. It's really the entire room
Speaker 1: who gets the carries. But I'm also curious to see,
Speaker 1: you know, we have an idea about who enters with
Speaker 1: I should say the most past resume success us and gravitas,
Speaker 1: who kind of winds out that role at the back
Speaker 1: end of the roster and special teams as a guy
Speaker 1: that can come off the bench. Curiously how that works
Speaker 1: out as well. Wide receivers. There are eleven of them
Speaker 1: on the roster, and we start here in order of
Speaker 1: jersey number with number three Lynn Bowden. Multiple skill skeat.
Speaker 1: He can catch it, he can run it, he can
Speaker 1: even throw it. That's why you call a skill sket
Speaker 1: like I just called it. He's shifty as I'll get out.
Speaker 1: He can create after the catch. The FUND stat on
Speaker 1: him back in over the final five weeks twenty eight
Speaker 1: grabs for two d and twelve yards. Didn't play last
Speaker 1: year with the injury number ten, Tyreek Hill. I'll be
Speaker 1: repeating this for Jalen Waddle in a minute, and since
Speaker 1: there's two of them, I'm not sure if you can
Speaker 1: still say it, but this guy just moves differently than
Speaker 1: those around him. Urgency, suddenness, speed. I saw one practice
Speaker 1: of the sky already and he's just shaking off defenders
Speaker 1: with his route running and coming back down the stem.
Speaker 1: Electric player, electric personality. The FUND stat on him Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl all six years of his career. One of the
Speaker 1: most productive receivers in NFL history through their first six
Speaker 1: seasons ranks top and explosive touchdowns from forty plus all
Speaker 1: that fun stuff and touchdown scored from those distances since
Speaker 1: his arrival back in sixteen. He is gonna be not
Speaker 1: just creating for himself, but creating chances for other guys.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be fun to watch Number eleven Cedric Wilson Jr.
Speaker 1: His ability to stretch the defense paired with his size,
Speaker 1: it's such a nice combination. And the versatility to play
Speaker 1: inside and outside. I think it's gonna help not just
Speaker 1: open up things for Waddle and Hill, but the space
Speaker 1: that he gets from Waddle and Hill even more is
Speaker 1: going to be exponentially greater for this Dolphins uh you know,
Speaker 1: one to three option attack here this season. He was
Speaker 1: a major threat on slot fades last year in Dallas.
Speaker 1: And the ability to get deep from that position at
Speaker 1: that size, it's kind of this new age thing. You
Speaker 1: see it in college slot fades. Get the ball down
Speaker 1: the field to a guy like last year Arkansas trailing
Speaker 1: Burkes for instance, is a good example. Put a big,
Speaker 1: rocked up guy in that slot position and watch him
Speaker 1: go out physical slot cornerbacks or safeties, whatever they draw.
Speaker 1: It's a nice Combo Fund staff for him six point
Speaker 1: two yards after the catch last year from Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus that was tied for tenth most among NFL receivers.
Speaker 1: He was fifth in the NFL among qualifying receivers with
Speaker 1: eight team point four yards per target on pass us
Speaker 1: throwing twenty plus yards, and he also had a plus
Speaker 1: eight team point six catch rate over expected on targets
Speaker 1: of ten plus yards that was third best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I know, that's a bunch of stats I'm throwing at you.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you he's really good after the catch. He's
Speaker 1: really good on deep balls, and he was exceptional on
Speaker 1: intermediate passes a season ago. Number seventeen, Jalen Waddle, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys know, I talked about this guy
Speaker 1: as much as anybody. The release package, the concentration at
Speaker 1: the catchpoint, the blazing speed where he just moves at
Speaker 1: a different speed than everybody else except for maybe number
Speaker 1: ten out there. It's every time I see him play,
Speaker 1: it's just it's pure excitement, pure adrenaline. It's like a
Speaker 1: F one race. Those things paired with his understanding of
Speaker 1: the position, the way he attacks blind spots and then
Speaker 1: enters the spin cycle once he puts defensive backs in
Speaker 1: that shoot which way need to go? Position fund stat
Speaker 1: on him just one game of sixteen is a pro
Speaker 1: last year with less than three catches, and he had
Speaker 1: at least fifty receiving yards and all but four games
Speaker 1: as a rookie. I expect Waddle have a monster monster
Speaker 1: here and pop off he is. He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a really nice one for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: team for a long time. Uh, whoop, scot a little
Speaker 1: bit out of order. Let's go ahead and go back
Speaker 1: to trent sherefield number fourteen. Here, I put him on
Speaker 1: the wrong spot behind in front of Wattle. Physical and
Speaker 1: everything he does at the lion of scrimmage on routes
Speaker 1: as a blocker on special teams, it translates across all phases.
Speaker 1: Gonna be tough to outwork this guy. Fun PF stat.
Speaker 1: He had run blocking grades of eighty point one, seventy
Speaker 1: one point one, and eighty one point over the last
Speaker 1: three seasons. Seventy plus is above average, eighty is like
Speaker 1: your upper echelon, so he's in that regard. And run
Speaker 1: blocking he finished in the top fifty each of the
Speaker 1: last three years, and special teams tackles total on seven
Speaker 1: forty one snaps. And we'll talk about this with Zoo
Speaker 1: Kama as well. The ability to play in some tight
Speaker 1: areas down on the red zone and factor is a
Speaker 1: real good blocker off the edge, are condensed and tight
Speaker 1: and give you an extra hat at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and the count in the box count. I think
Speaker 1: those valuables are gonna those traits are gonna be invaluable
Speaker 1: for these bigger body receivers. Number eight Team Preston Williams
Speaker 1: like the combo size and speed. He sinks the hips
Speaker 1: as a route runner, big red zone target, evident by
Speaker 1: his touchdown numbers his first two years. Sinking the hips
Speaker 1: is where you don't have to have wasted movement up
Speaker 1: top or down below when you get off the top
Speaker 1: of the route. It's it's how you sink into the
Speaker 1: route and make everything look the same. Could be a takeoff,
Speaker 1: could be a stutter, could be a comeback, could be
Speaker 1: an in brake outbreak. That's what you want to see
Speaker 1: when you see guys sink their hips into the routes.
Speaker 1: Number eighty three Davante Deadman play his college ball at
Speaker 1: William and Mary and A fun fun part about that
Speaker 1: was his offensive coordinator. There was Brendan Marion, who was
Speaker 1: the pit receiver coach last year coached up uh Jordan Addison.
Speaker 1: I had look that up. I forgot it right there
Speaker 1: on the spot. Good job, Travis Jordan Addison, last year's
Speaker 1: bullet in the cough Winner. He's now at Texas coaching
Speaker 1: receivers there. But Davante Deadman earned a p f F
Speaker 1: grade of eighty two point eight, or better than three
Speaker 1: of his last four years there at William and Mary
Speaker 1: Number eighty five. River Cracraft go coug's intelligent route runner,
Speaker 1: understands leverage and sauce Boston how to defeat them. Our
Speaker 1: Washington State offense was like third team plays in the Napkin,
Speaker 1: and he was so at dept at adjusting to the
Speaker 1: defense and finding ways to win that route regardless. He
Speaker 1: you know, your route needs to look the same every time,
Speaker 1: or I should say every route should look the same,
Speaker 1: but also every route should look different every time, Like
Speaker 1: you want to find out how to run that route
Speaker 1: against that defense. Craivecraft is your guy. Eighty six U
Speaker 1: d f A. Braylon Sanders from Old Miss really talented
Speaker 1: deep ball route runner there could get on top of guys,
Speaker 1: stack them, and stay there. The fund stat here twenty
Speaker 1: one point one yards per catching his career on sixty
Speaker 1: eight grabs. Number eighty seven Eric Azoo com a big, tough,
Speaker 1: physical receiver, excellent contact balance, can snatch the ball with
Speaker 1: strong hands away from his frame and pull it into
Speaker 1: himself and protect that thing and help move the chains
Speaker 1: and defenders bounce off him after the catch average seven
Speaker 1: point eight yards after the catch in one that was
Speaker 1: sixteenth best among all receivers in college football. Number eighty
Speaker 1: nine Cody core big frame, capable of boxing out defenders,
Speaker 1: and it shows in our fund stat. Hasn't played since
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen in a regular season game, when he did
Speaker 1: those six grabs on eleven contested catch opportunities. Storyline here
Speaker 1: to me is just how good can Waddle and Tyreek
Speaker 1: be together? How quick does it kind of jell together
Speaker 1: in terms of their speed and how it plays off
Speaker 1: of each other. I think the sky is an then
Speaker 1: I think both these guys are gonna have really nice years.
Speaker 1: The camp battle, I think you look at what you
Speaker 1: go into the season with. You have the editions of
Speaker 1: Hill and Cedric Wilson Jr. And what Waddle did this
Speaker 1: season ago, What's what's after that? A Zukama Sherfield Blend
Speaker 1: bowed and Preston Williams. The rest of the guys, I
Speaker 1: think special teams prowess we'll have a big impact for
Speaker 1: the next pieces on the roster here, but also the
Speaker 1: run game too. We talked about that with some of
Speaker 1: the bigger body guys a big part of this offense.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break here and
Speaker 1: continue on this extended edition of the Drivetime Podcast, Drinking
Speaker 1: through a fire hose on the ninety man roster. Your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, coming back here on the other side
Speaker 1: of the tight Ends offensive line before the defense. Drivetime
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Speaker 1: the post draft, and we extended it into late May edition,
Speaker 1: the Comprehensive roster Review edition of the Drift Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll come back in preview training camp here at the
Speaker 1: end of July, but this kind of serves as a
Speaker 1: a roster guide going into the summer months and into
Speaker 1: O T A S and into the summer break, eventually
Speaker 1: picking up here with a tight end position. Six guys
Speaker 1: on the roster under the tight end tag, and we
Speaker 1: start with rookie U d f A number forty eight,
Speaker 1: Tanner Connor. He was a receiver in college who ran
Speaker 1: a great time, a high hurdle champion in high school
Speaker 1: as well, super athletic. And that's your fund stat four
Speaker 1: three seven thirty nine and a half inch vert tight end. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's like the motorcycle guy, and I think you should
Speaker 1: leave the motorcycles with four wheels two. Okay. Number eighty
Speaker 1: Adam seen one of the more physically get to tight
Speaker 1: ends in the room, can overpower guys and get on
Speaker 1: top of the speed and separation thought. We saw that
Speaker 1: with his touchdown production, and then also our fund stat
Speaker 1: he makes place when he catches the ball career high
Speaker 1: twelve point five yards per catching uh and then ten
Speaker 1: point two in his career number eighty one. Durham Smith
Speaker 1: can play so many roles in this Dolphins offense and
Speaker 1: special teams, but that's where I think that his biggest
Speaker 1: impact comes in terms of just how good he is
Speaker 1: at that particular role. Been doing it on the core
Speaker 1: special teams since his rookie season, and we don't need
Speaker 1: advanced metrics for his fund stat career highs and receptions
Speaker 1: and yards last year thirty four and three fifty seven
Speaker 1: number eighty two, seeth and Carter similar be a special
Speaker 1: team's ace his entire career since he came into the league,
Speaker 1: and a lot about what I said about Durham doing
Speaker 1: multiple things, that's what he can do as well. And
Speaker 1: the fund stat akin to Trent Sherfield, the only time
Speaker 1: he wasn't top fifty in the league and special teams
Speaker 1: tackles since he came into the league was eighteen when
Speaker 1: he missed most of the year due to injury. Number
Speaker 1: eighty four. Hunter long dual functionality I think can help
Speaker 1: keep your offensive personnel disguise with what he can do
Speaker 1: as an attached why tight end or a detached F piece,
Speaker 1: a move piece, and that's what he was at the
Speaker 1: college level, really the best in both of those regards
Speaker 1: and back to back seasons because you go to Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus and we talked about what Boston College did
Speaker 1: in terms of going from a traditional I back power
Speaker 1: running offense with a J. Dillon lineup in the I
Speaker 1: formation run the ball every time. He was the highest
Speaker 1: graded run blocking tight end in college football by PFF
Speaker 1: that year. The next year they transition to a more
Speaker 1: modern passing, spread it out attack, and he goes to
Speaker 1: be the highest graded receiving tight end in that class.
Speaker 1: And I think that we see tight ends make big jumps,
Speaker 1: and your number two all that time saw it with
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicky. Hopefully Hunter Long can follow a similar trajectory.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Mike GASICKI number eighty eight contested catch mayven
Speaker 1: and a true matchup problem put a linebacker put a
Speaker 1: smaller safety on him. Good luck. And it's not just that,
Speaker 1: but I think the nuance of his creativity and his
Speaker 1: route running has really shown the last few years and
Speaker 1: just keeps getting better. Knows how to set his guy
Speaker 1: up and use that frame and length and just enough
Speaker 1: wiggle at the top to create that separation, and he
Speaker 1: doesn't create separation. He has forty five career contested catches
Speaker 1: on ninety opportunities. With that much volume, you won't see
Speaker 1: that very frequently. He's also top ten last year and
Speaker 1: the year before among tight ends and receiving yards. Storyline,
Speaker 1: how many do the Dolphins keep? They have capable guys
Speaker 1: up and down this position. Here, five veteran guys. Tanner Connor,
Speaker 1: the rookie there obviously, but with deep backfield and receiving positions,
Speaker 1: do we see lots of twelve personnel thirteen personnel who
Speaker 1: gets the next most snaps after Mike? A lot of
Speaker 1: questions here that there will be unpacked in training camp.
Speaker 1: Can't wait to watch that and they can't battle tight
Speaker 1: end too. I hope hunter long season can be upon
Speaker 1: us here, but their dolphins are covered if if it
Speaker 1: takes a little longer than that offensive line fifteen guys,
Speaker 1: let's go through these guys here quickly. Fifty eight Number
Speaker 1: fifty eight. Connor Williams tough as hell, just does not
Speaker 1: miss time. Positional flexibility, mentioned athletic ability and intelligence as
Speaker 1: kind of key factors on the offensive line throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the off season. Williams checks both those boxes
Speaker 1: big time and a big time get this offseason. His
Speaker 1: past blocking efficiency was third best among NFL guards last
Speaker 1: year point five. That means that something how many times
Speaker 1: he does not allow a pressure. He was also the
Speaker 1: tenth best run blocking graded guard per Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: number sixty one. Cole Banwart one of the newer guys
Speaker 1: and added to the roster here. PFF had him with
Speaker 1: just thirteen career pressures allowed over four years and five
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy two pass blocking snapps at Iowa a
Speaker 1: very good number. They're similar pbe to what Connor Williams
Speaker 1: done has done as a pro, but you get the idea.
Speaker 1: Spent time last year the Titans, Giants and Vikings. Number
Speaker 1: sixty three. Michael Dieter. His length for a center really
Speaker 1: stands out. He can latch onto guys and turn them
Speaker 1: at the point of attack, get his butt in the
Speaker 1: gap and wheel him out of there, and he can
Speaker 1: also get in space to and show some work out
Speaker 1: in the open field. Was an iron man in college
Speaker 1: starts on the offensive line at Wisconsin History at the time.
Speaker 1: Had a fluke injury, as Chris Career described it last season,
Speaker 1: but came back and was good after that was good
Speaker 1: before the injury as well. The fund stat on him
Speaker 1: ten QB pressures on three five pass blocking snaps top
Speaker 1: half the league at the center position. Number sixty four.
Speaker 1: Kellen Diach play with tremendous fire. He can unlock those
Speaker 1: hips and get out in space, and he wants to
Speaker 1: bury guys into the turf, and he did it plenty
Speaker 1: of times at Arizona State. In fact, he was the
Speaker 1: highest graded pack twelve offensive lineman comprehensively between one could
Speaker 1: be a guy that has has some say on the
Speaker 1: final roster. Here come August. Number sixty five Robert Jones.
Speaker 1: The way he stays square and plays low and patients
Speaker 1: with that wide frame, that good stance, the hands and
Speaker 1: the feet to mirror together. I thought he was strong
Speaker 1: in the preseason last year as well as that Week
Speaker 1: eight teen game, and the fund stat on him two
Speaker 1: pressures on thirty pass blocking snaps in that season finale
Speaker 1: one every fifth team. If it's a hurry, you'll take that,
Speaker 1: and that's what it was. Number sixty six Solomon Kinley.
Speaker 1: Sheer mass blocks out the cell when he squares guys
Speaker 1: up some of the funnest blocks you'll see. Uh. When
Speaker 1: he hits it right, it's it's fun to watch that.
Speaker 1: No quarterback hits her sacks and eighties six pass blocking
Speaker 1: snaps a season ago after starting most of his rookie season.
Speaker 1: Number sixty eight Robert hunt Love the way he improved
Speaker 1: both of his first two years, one of the rest
Speaker 1: the best right tackles in terms of pressure rate and grade.
Speaker 1: The last six games then the same exact thing happened
Speaker 1: last year at right guard. Shut out after shutout in
Speaker 1: a real aptitude for both speed slash one gap type
Speaker 1: rushers or two gap guys that want to play physical
Speaker 1: and and come off the ball and come off their blocks.
Speaker 1: He can do both of that, but guys that try
Speaker 1: to hit him with power or speed, he just handles
Speaker 1: it both and the way he also hits combo blocks
Speaker 1: and climbs to the second level. He sure is fun
Speaker 1: to watch. Fund stat on him from weeks twelve through
Speaker 1: eighteen last year just three QB pressures and it was
Speaker 1: all hurries. No QB hits number seventy one. You d
Speaker 1: f a blaze Andrews from Minnesota. Positional versatility even played
Speaker 1: multiple positions within the same game at times, and his
Speaker 1: ability to climb to the second level I thought really
Speaker 1: stood out on his tape and obviously a knowledge of
Speaker 1: the game to play all those spots. Allowed just five
Speaker 1: sacks on one thousand two career pass balking snaps at Minnesota.
Speaker 1: It's a very low number. I mean, four year starter
Speaker 1: and just five sacks number seventy two to Ron Armstead,
Speaker 1: one of the crown jewels of the off season, one
Speaker 1: of the best left tackles in the NFL, for my money,
Speaker 1: the very best left tackle. You can't fool him. Don't
Speaker 1: try to draw out his punch or run a game
Speaker 1: to expect, expect to fool him. He's so technically and
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound. The impact is going to have when the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys in the offensive line is also
Speaker 1: going to be tangible. Typewriter feat Man, we talked about
Speaker 1: how quickly you can slide and get over and wall
Speaker 1: off and mirror and cut guys off in their pass
Speaker 1: rush plan. He can redirect, he can pick up games,
Speaker 1: and he's also a steam roller in the running game.
Speaker 1: Fund stat on him three point seven percent pressure rate
Speaker 1: and point six percent sack rate since are best among
Speaker 1: all NFL tackles. He's been doing at a high level
Speaker 1: for a long long time. Number seventy three Austin Jackson.
Speaker 1: I love him the way he gives a pressure, because
Speaker 1: of the way he can articulate, the way he sees
Speaker 1: the game. Studious player, athletic as hell, he's hungry as hell,
Speaker 1: as coach McDaniel calls it, and I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: what year three has in store for him. I think
Speaker 1: it's best balls ahead of him at his best. He's
Speaker 1: a punishing athlete that can play multiple spots. Kind of
Speaker 1: a nasty temperament too, and a fund stat. Upon moving
Speaker 1: to guard last season, He's appeared in ESPN's top ten
Speaker 1: run blocking win rate on three occasions. Big Rob was
Speaker 1: there almost all season last year. Only eight pressures last
Speaker 1: year over the final six games. A good improvement for
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson. Number seventy four. Liam Eichenberg technique kick slide
Speaker 1: in hands, it was all beautiful and perfect and Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we can get that continuing going here at the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins and your number two, those were things that
Speaker 1: really popped off the college tape in the last year.
Speaker 1: He played a bunch of positions, has that flexibility in
Speaker 1: it and the we talked about Austin Jackson's approach. Same
Speaker 1: thing with Liam too focused, hungry, smart guy fund stat.
Speaker 1: Just one QB hit allowed the last seven games last season.
Speaker 1: Number seventy five, great little super athletic. Covers a ton
Speaker 1: of ground on his kick slide, and hopefully he can
Speaker 1: put that all together and become an effective player here
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. Same with number seventy six, key
Speaker 1: On Smith length and at the risk of sounding like
Speaker 1: a broken record, just another guy with really good athletic ability.
Speaker 1: Knee bender, wide base and those are good places to start.
Speaker 1: Number seventy eight Adam Panky played some extra offensive line
Speaker 1: packages in the last couple of years and gets good
Speaker 1: push in those roles as well as in the run
Speaker 1: game as a true tackle. Number seventy nine Larnel Coleman.
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how he looks in your number two.
Speaker 1: A superb athlete with tremendous length. The storyline here, what
Speaker 1: do we see from the incumbents and the jumps they
Speaker 1: can potentially take under a new system. Austin Jackson, Leam
Speaker 1: Mike and Brig Michael Dieter. Can they take the next step?
Speaker 1: It would go a long way to the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: line solidifying and taking a big step collectively. The camp battle,
Speaker 1: same storyline. Who the heck are the starting five? We'll
Speaker 1: find out in training camp. Can't wait to see where
Speaker 1: it is and where they wind up. On the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football, Let's go defensive lineman first. We're
Speaker 1: going off the Dolphins roster here. I recognize that these
Speaker 1: positions they're almost position lists at times, especially like in
Speaker 1: your five oh package or whatever the different calls might be.
Speaker 1: But let's just go ahead and go down the roster.
Speaker 1: In terms of D lineman, Adam Butler primarily plays inside,
Speaker 1: but he can play all over the defensive line. That's
Speaker 1: why it's hard to identify what truly positions these guys play.
Speaker 1: They're multiple guys. They don't have a position defensive line though.
Speaker 1: Adam Butler consistent penetrader over his career. Often the first
Speaker 1: guy off the football creates immediate urgency on the interior,
Speaker 1: which can create chances for the Dolphins and a delay,
Speaker 1: a green dog, a looper coming over on a stunt.
Speaker 1: It creates opportunities and the fund stat for him. He's
Speaker 1: so damn consistent pressure number since seventeen twenty eight. It's
Speaker 1: a really good number for an interior D lineman who
Speaker 1: plays kind of a six hundred, seven hundred snaps per
Speaker 1: season type of role. Number seventy seven. John Jenkins experience,
Speaker 1: knows the systems. He can deconstruct one on one blocks
Speaker 1: and make a play. Nine of his sixteen tackles last
Speaker 1: year where for run stops, those were tackles within two
Speaker 1: yards of allign scrimmage it's a very high frequency. Number
Speaker 1: ninety u d F a Ben Still from Nebraska. Also
Speaker 1: one of these heavy handed edge guys or end guys
Speaker 1: I should say, whose position flexible can kick inside as well.
Speaker 1: He's a consistent penet trader in his college career and
Speaker 1: twenty three pressure numbers the last four years off the
Speaker 1: outside edge, but also plays inside to number Manual Augma.
Speaker 1: The swipe, the cross chop, the speed to power, the
Speaker 1: ability to get off the edge and angle after leaning
Speaker 1: into the offensive tackle and kind of breaking them down.
Speaker 1: So many moves in his bag in the length and
Speaker 1: ability to corner just puts tackles in a bind consistently,
Speaker 1: and he can condense inside and cause problems there too
Speaker 1: and help create chances. Sets a hard edge in the
Speaker 1: run game. A complete player fund stat for him. Too
Speaker 1: many to list here, but how about a hundred twenty
Speaker 1: seven QB pressures the last two seasons. That's seventh best
Speaker 1: among PF's edge classification the last two years. Number ninety
Speaker 1: two Zach Seeler. The sheer strength is on to display
Speaker 1: every single snap. Sheer strength single snaps that five times fast.
Speaker 1: He's so tough to move. He's has very surprising movement
Speaker 1: ability for a guy that plays at that size, the
Speaker 1: length is measurable or immeasurable. He's like Christian and the
Speaker 1: way he controls the point of attack, and he's flexible
Speaker 1: across the entire line, playing inside to outside. FUND stat
Speaker 1: on him seventy run stops on two four rundowns last
Speaker 1: two years. That has top twenty five in the National
Speaker 1: Football League among interior d lineman and forty eight pressures
Speaker 1: on five hundred and fifty two pass rush reps is
Speaker 1: top thirty. So he's right in that. You know one
Speaker 1: two guys per team that make the top whatever list
Speaker 1: if you're in that position. Dolphins have several guys. He's
Speaker 1: one of the guys that are in that position. Number nine,
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins. The list is long. Here to gap, one gap,
Speaker 1: double team, stretch, run pursuit, controlling his man at the
Speaker 1: point in power schemes, setting picks, executing games, the retrace
Speaker 1: against screens, and busting his butt to get back to
Speaker 1: the outside. Selfless mindset, leader, infectious attitude. I love this player.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite players in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: FUND stat eighty nine tackles was a franchise record last
Speaker 1: year by any defensive lineman in Dolphins history, rolling along
Speaker 1: with number nine Benito Jones, plays low and with power.
Speaker 1: A squatty body type can move his man and play
Speaker 1: through his man with that lower half explosion, and he'll
Speaker 1: have a chance for the third straight year to carve
Speaker 1: out a role on this Dolphins defensive line. Number ninety
Speaker 1: six day Shawn Hall was a big fan of his
Speaker 1: game at Texas A and m the length, jumps off
Speaker 1: the tape, thirty five and five eight inch arms, his
Speaker 1: entire athletics skill set. That's our fund stat four seven
Speaker 1: six forty at two hundred and sixty six pounds, and
Speaker 1: he scored in the green category year upper echelon your
Speaker 1: eighty five percent taller better, including a thirty six in
Speaker 1: vertical and nine oh five broad. He was a tester
Speaker 1: across the board in every metric and r A S
Speaker 1: number Jordan Williams heavy handed and control the point of attack.
Speaker 1: He's one of those heavy edge guys that can get
Speaker 1: condensed inside as well. Had a career high twenty five
Speaker 1: pressures last year at Virginia Tech. Number Ray Kuan Davis
Speaker 1: our last guy here on the d line. Length, power
Speaker 1: and get off that you wouldn't expect from a man
Speaker 1: his size, that terra dactyl wingspan that can help occupy blockers,
Speaker 1: and he just he creates so much chances for other guys,
Speaker 1: which is a big kind of theme of this defensive line, right,
Speaker 1: but the flexibility to play all over the line and
Speaker 1: two gap in one gap. He's a big time player.
Speaker 1: The fund stat with ray Kuana is without him last
Speaker 1: year a hundred and thirty six point eight rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game with him one oh one point five. The
Speaker 1: storyline here, how do you divvy up these reps because
Speaker 1: they're so deep one of the group's deeps on the
Speaker 1: team and of the league. That's I'm curreys see a
Speaker 1: playoff this year with guys even getting better Seiler, Wilkins
Speaker 1: rate ray Kwan, they all just can't keep getting better.
Speaker 1: You can't battle. I think you're pretty good with the
Speaker 1: one through four we talk about last year and into
Speaker 1: the season, and then after that, what what is? I
Speaker 1: don't know, you keep more guys in the interior, off
Speaker 1: the edge. Who are the guys that can kind of
Speaker 1: give Ogba and our outside backers a break as well?
Speaker 1: Curiously how that works out? Speaking of linebackers fourteen of
Speaker 1: the guys, and again these positions, it's it's murky, but
Speaker 1: that's what they're listed on the roster as his linebackers
Speaker 1: number fifteen, Jalen Phillips speed to power move is just
Speaker 1: chef's kiss. It's so nice. He's affecting opposing passing games
Speaker 1: even more than his numbers suggest last year, a guy
Speaker 1: who's garnering double teams and chips before the sack production
Speaker 1: really took off his length, his rush arsenal coupled with
Speaker 1: the overall rush plan Mega Mega upside, and of course
Speaker 1: the FUND stats set the Dolphins rookie record for eight
Speaker 1: and a half sacks this season ago Number forty one
Speaker 1: Darius Hodge just six career snaps played, but the evaluation
Speaker 1: of him is the FUND stat thirty eight and a
Speaker 1: half inch vertical ten oh seven broad four six seven
Speaker 1: for a guy that was two and fifty pounds of
Speaker 1: his workout. Number forty three Andrew Van Gikle three facet
Speaker 1: player rush run game coverage finds ways to defeat blocks,
Speaker 1: whether it's with quickness or physicality. I thought that the
Speaker 1: ladder of that was something that really came along the
Speaker 1: first two or three years of his career. I love
Speaker 1: the way he recognized backside play action or I should
Speaker 1: say poll action, whether it was a guard or a
Speaker 1: tight end coming across the formation and split zone, and
Speaker 1: how he can find a way to just make their
Speaker 1: block fail, which is often the key block on the
Speaker 1: force defender, the furthest outside defender him and he wins
Speaker 1: that so often. I also thought his quickness took another
Speaker 1: step as a rusher this year. The ability to bend
Speaker 1: the arc and flatten while dipping that inside shoulder and
Speaker 1: gives the tackle a small target to shoot at. The
Speaker 1: fund stat forty five pressures thirty eight run stops a
Speaker 1: year ago. Those are both really good numbers. Number forty
Speaker 1: five Duke Riley first step quickness as a rusher, had
Speaker 1: that blocked punt as well, great depth on defense, really
Speaker 1: good special teamer. And again that that the ability to
Speaker 1: come off the bench on defense. Seven QB pressures on
Speaker 1: thirty five pass rush reps. That's one per five. It's
Speaker 1: really good even in the sub package role. Nine run
Speaker 1: stops on seventy four snaps also a good number and
Speaker 1: just fifty four point five percent completion. Really a nice
Speaker 1: depth piece, nice special teamer as well. Number forty nine
Speaker 1: Sam maguav exact same storyline there. I mean his skills
Speaker 1: have translated to a really nice sub package linebacker so
Speaker 1: far in his career. We know he can get downhill
Speaker 1: and put the heat on opposing quarterbacks. My favorite all
Speaker 1: time preseason performance with four sacks in a safety last
Speaker 1: August against the Falcons, core special teams guy and back
Speaker 1: in team. He's a full time player. He had three
Speaker 1: QB pressures, was third most among all off ball linebackers
Speaker 1: that season according to Pro Football Focus, and a nine
Speaker 1: point eight percent pressure rate that year. This last season
Speaker 1: sixteen point five in that sub package role. A bit
Speaker 1: of a different type of linebacker. Number fifty Calvin Munson.
Speaker 1: Just love watching him hit. A true lunch pill type
Speaker 1: of guy. Got in for nine run run down raps
Speaker 1: last year and made two run stops. That's really hit
Speaker 1: the strong fooit of his game. I think Number fifty
Speaker 1: one rookie Chenning tindall range, acceleration, pier speed, collision maker,
Speaker 1: takes excellent angles of the quarterback and can flatten and
Speaker 1: can really match up in coverage. I think all that's
Speaker 1: gonna get better with every rep that he sees in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. He was in the nine percentile
Speaker 1: or better all time among linebackers in they are dash,
Speaker 1: vertical jump, broad jump, and his hand size. Number fifty
Speaker 1: two Landon Roberts a tone center, a leader on defense,
Speaker 1: a signal caller and communicator. Absolute thumber who was a
Speaker 1: crucial part of Miami's short yarde defense which always seems
Speaker 1: to make fourth down stops every single year a couple
Speaker 1: of times a year, and it feels like he's always
Speaker 1: the first one on the scene. Him and Zach Seler,
Speaker 1: I feel like you're always there for fourth down stops.
Speaker 1: Fund stat on him scored his first career defensive touchdown
Speaker 1: last year. He did score on offense back in twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen with the Patriots against the Dolphins. Number fifty three
Speaker 1: rookie Cameron Good. His tape is full of playing the
Speaker 1: run on the way to the quarterback. Plays the game
Speaker 1: very physically, strong, smart player. He was fourth in QB
Speaker 1: pressures in the pack twelve since he got there, and
Speaker 1: all other three guys were draft picks higher than him
Speaker 1: in recent drafts. Number fifty five Jerome Baker. The angles
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and the timing of the of the
Speaker 1: snap count as a rusher and his speed, all that
Speaker 1: stuff never sleeps. And there was a play in the
Speaker 1: finale where he got on his horse down the pipe
Speaker 1: and interrupted a passing lane twenty yards down the field
Speaker 1: on a dig route from mac joneson to kill Harry.
Speaker 1: One play before or after I forget where he put
Speaker 1: a big hit on the quarterback. So that type of versatility,
Speaker 1: that type of range is pretty rare at that position.
Speaker 1: Fund stat for him he led all Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: linebackers and quarterbacks quarterback pressures with thirty one. That's off
Speaker 1: ball guys, not the you know your edge players can
Speaker 1: be linebackers too. That's the guys that don't land up
Speaker 1: on the edge of all the time. Number fifty six
Speaker 1: DeAndre Johnson, although Baker can do that too. Fifty six
Speaker 1: DeAndre Johnson had a breakout year last year after transferring
Speaker 1: from Tennessee and did it a hard rock stadium with
Speaker 1: the Miami Hurricanes. Twenty five pressures in eighteen run stops
Speaker 1: a year ago in college with a seven hundred or
Speaker 1: so reps. Number fifty seven Brand Scarlett. He goes and
Speaker 1: gets contact in the run game, he seeks it out
Speaker 1: physical defender violent striker, good hands, makes his presence fell
Speaker 1: and a really good special team player as well. Number
Speaker 1: and Carney undrafted rookie. Huge final year for him there
Speaker 1: in Illinois with thirty seven pressures on three thirty five
Speaker 1: pass rush snaps and we finish up with no number.
Speaker 1: Melvin Ingram will find out his number soon, I'm sure.
Speaker 1: And he can rush from anywhere. He can play any package,
Speaker 1: he can play the run, play the past, and he
Speaker 1: just blows guys up with his physicality, but also has
Speaker 1: the lateral agility to win with speed and explosiveness. We
Speaker 1: broke his game down on the Friday podcast. Go back
Speaker 1: and check that out for more detail. But he's a
Speaker 1: three facet player who's gonna bring invaluable experience and a
Speaker 1: fun stat on him. His past rush rate never went
Speaker 1: below ten point seven and ten years of his career,
Speaker 1: and it was around twelve percent most of those years.
Speaker 1: Context last year Emmanuel Ogba eleven point nine percent. That's
Speaker 1: really good numbers for a guy that's been top ten
Speaker 1: and past rushing the last couple of years. Storyline here,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's another deep group. How do you figure
Speaker 1: out the snaps? I mean, we know guys like Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker can play multiple spots. Your edge players can play
Speaker 1: multiple spots. How do those snap counts get divvied up?
Speaker 1: And I'm curious about beyond Phillips, Van Ginkle, Melvin Ingram,
Speaker 1: what the snap counts look like for Scarlett or for
Speaker 1: Cameron good Day, Shawn Hall, Darius Hodge, the U d
Speaker 1: f as. Can those guys push for playing time? That's
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on training camp. And then
Speaker 1: the with the more the other group of linebackers, how
Speaker 1: quickly can changing tend to I'll get up to speed.
Speaker 1: The earlier he can, the sooner. I think you can
Speaker 1: get him and Jerown Baker together and deploy them across
Speaker 1: all sub packages and see this defense really hum they
Speaker 1: can't battle. I'm curious about their egg Von and Riley
Speaker 1: similar skill sets, similar packages, and both really valuable. What
Speaker 1: they do they both on the roster they get does
Speaker 1: someone else not make the roster? Curious? See what happens there?
Speaker 1: Defensive backs, eighteen of them must go through this real quickly.
Speaker 1: Here Number eight Javon Holland his instincts and natural football skills,
Speaker 1: the route recognition, the versatility to play on the lion
Speaker 1: scrimmage one snap and then in the deep post the
Speaker 1: next led all NFL safeties and pressures second and sacks
Speaker 1: and hits third highest coverage grade among all safeties, not
Speaker 1: just rookies, all of them, and the fourth highest graded
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus safety last year, not just rookies, all
Speaker 1: of them. He's a tremendous, tremendous football player. Number six
Speaker 1: Trill Williams. I just realized again I messed up my order,
Speaker 1: but it is what it is. Talk about long press
Speaker 1: corners with long speed. Trills got the skills fund stack
Speaker 1: going back to college six nine career coverage snaps and
Speaker 1: seven one yards allowed playing primary on the outside. That's
Speaker 1: tough to do, and it shows in the seventy nine
Speaker 1: point one career passer rating allowed by Trill Williams. Number nine. Nonogamy,
Speaker 1: the way he transitions out of his back pedal and
Speaker 1: the lateral agility, super super athletic, twitchy at just a
Speaker 1: pure athlete who can who ran track back in high
Speaker 1: school as well, and the way he competes for the football.
Speaker 1: He's got so much damn talent. One of the guys
Speaker 1: I'm most excited to watch in camp and last year
Speaker 1: limited playing time, but fifty five coverage snaps in just
Speaker 1: sixty four yards against him. That's a good number to
Speaker 1: be at small sample size. That's where you want to be.
Speaker 1: Number twenty Sheldrick RedWine good range for a safety and
Speaker 1: that shows on special teams and his Hurricanes tape. His
Speaker 1: Brown's tape as well, has some fun examples of him
Speaker 1: coming from depth and supporting the run game. He had
Speaker 1: twelve run stops and two years of the Browns on
Speaker 1: just twenty run down reps. Every other play he's making
Speaker 1: a run stop from from depth. Number one Eric Rowe.
Speaker 1: I love the way he took it upon himself to
Speaker 1: get better every year at battling down in the box.
Speaker 1: A former cornerback who moves to safety and takes on
Speaker 1: blocks like a linebacker at this stage of his career.
Speaker 1: He also finds the football. Three force fumbles last year,
Speaker 1: tied end to Racer in his coverage the last couple
Speaker 1: of years here, and really just top notch at the catchpoint.
Speaker 1: Knows how to separate the hands and separate the football
Speaker 1: due to the position. In twenty nineteen, his run stop
Speaker 1: totals the last three years and twenty three. And that's
Speaker 1: a guy that playing cornerback, you get three or four.
Speaker 1: It was a year and a career low yards per
Speaker 1: reception last year of eight point seven. So Eric Row
Speaker 1: kind of slept on, I think a little bit, but
Speaker 1: don't don't sleep on Eric Row. Good damn good football player.
Speaker 1: Remember twenty two. Elijah Campbell loved his work on special
Speaker 1: teams last year and made a handful of plays and
Speaker 1: just busted his butt in the third phase. What more
Speaker 1: can you want? Didn't miss any tackles in two years
Speaker 1: of special teams play seventy four career snaps on coverage
Speaker 1: teams Number twenty four Byron Jones. The long speed, the
Speaker 1: recovery speed, the ability to impact the receiver's release at
Speaker 1: the line, the intelligence for route concept recognition, his ability
Speaker 1: to mix things up. You know, Cover three and Cover
Speaker 1: six can look similar, and he does such a good
Speaker 1: job of selling those different coverage packages. He and Exhavian
Speaker 1: Howard's skill sets drives with this defense can do with that,
Speaker 1: mixing with the confusing, with marrying Russian coverage. The fund
Speaker 1: stat for him. He plays such good man coverage that
Speaker 1: you don't get a lot of the highlight level plays.
Speaker 1: But his second double digit season with pass break ups
Speaker 1: was last year he had ten of them, an excellent number,
Speaker 1: especially with how little he's targeted. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about pass breakups and passes defense Number aving Howard, same deal,
Speaker 1: the mixing coverages, like against the Patriots last year, for instance,
Speaker 1: when it looks like he's gonna take off and coverage
Speaker 1: down the field, he comes off that look and that's
Speaker 1: Javon Holland range over to cover the top of that
Speaker 1: route and jumps the slot inside for a big pick
Speaker 1: six and dives into the end zone. Gets the crowd
Speaker 1: pumped up. He excels in in both man and zone.
Speaker 1: He's physical at every phase of the route, especially at
Speaker 1: the line. Elite elite level ball skills. He can come
Speaker 1: up and make a tackle, the inside hand jam, the
Speaker 1: trail technique, the able to debate quarterbacks into throws they
Speaker 1: shouldn't make, so damn crafty. And talk about press coverage
Speaker 1: since in press coverage Pro Football Focus thirty nine completion
Speaker 1: rate and a forty two point to passer rating. What
Speaker 1: a what a great player? Number twenty seven key on Crossing.
Speaker 1: Just love his energy players like lightning the bottle on
Speaker 1: defense and special teams. Flies all over the field and
Speaker 1: He's always been into the top sixty four in the league,
Speaker 1: and special teams tackles lots of players there. He also
Speaker 1: wants clock twenty four miles run at his pro day
Speaker 1: back in college. Number twenty RS Davis, a guy that
Speaker 1: was really good in camp last year. I thought showed
Speaker 1: his ability to compete through the entire route down the
Speaker 1: field with some of these Dolphins speed receivers we've seen
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. Fund staff for him. Great
Speaker 1: college numbers fifty seven point six career passer rating allowed
Speaker 1: at Auburn with nine twenty five yards allowed on eleven
Speaker 1: and seventy coverage snaps back to safety number twenty nine
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones. The timing of his blitzes and the ability
Speaker 1: to play and anticipate with that play speed that comes
Speaker 1: up with that. It shows up all the damn time.
Speaker 1: His preparation puts him in advantageous positions and he has
Speaker 1: primed to finish those plays to get the quarterback down
Speaker 1: on sack opportunities and whether it's you know, the sacks,
Speaker 1: the force defender on the running game, sticking his face
Speaker 1: in the fan at the point when a hight end
Speaker 1: or his man in general condenses inside a good look.
Speaker 1: Employer led all safeties last year in sacks and QB pressures.
Speaker 1: Number three two of Verona McKinley, the third makes those
Speaker 1: plays when you're thinking he had no business being over
Speaker 1: there around the football, but he came off his route
Speaker 1: and found the ball. Smart, studious player who's always going
Speaker 1: to prepare a maximum effort. Eleven career picks from Ackinley
Speaker 1: at Orgon. Number thirty three Elijah Hamilton, another long physical
Speaker 1: dB PFF had him with eight teen special teams tackles
Speaker 1: the last three seasons at both law Tech and Vandy.
Speaker 1: Thirty five D'Angelo Ross, sure tackler who's never been tabbed
Speaker 1: with a miss tackle from Pro Football Focus in his
Speaker 1: pro career, and that includes sixty eight snaps on defense
Speaker 1: and seventeen on special teams. Number thirty six Quincy Wilson,
Speaker 1: a former second round picks super aggressive and physical plays
Speaker 1: like a six ft pound quarterback. That's what he goes.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played a whole lot of the last two years,
Speaker 1: but his first two years of the Colts eighty eight
Speaker 1: point five and ninety one point seving passer ratings against
Speaker 1: Number thirty eight Kater Caho exceptional play speed finds the football.
Speaker 1: Emery Hunt was a big fan on the U d
Speaker 1: f A podcast that was two weeks ago. Go back
Speaker 1: in last Monday, I should say, go back and check
Speaker 1: that out. But here in a four or four or
Speaker 1: five in his pro day Number forty Nick need him
Speaker 1: sticky coverage and continues to get better every single year.
Speaker 1: Played safety for the first time in his career when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were shorthanded, and this after moving inside in
Speaker 1: twenty having never played their fantastic example of a guy
Speaker 1: that just gets his work done and the fund stat
Speaker 1: with with him down to just eleven point five yards
Speaker 1: per catch last year in a pass A rating of
Speaker 1: eighty one point four. He gets better every year. Number
Speaker 1: forty two Clayton Federalum. So many guys on the team
Speaker 1: like him in terms of their valuable special teams contributions.
Speaker 1: Helps to stay strong in all three phases and his
Speaker 1: his PFF Special Teams grade has never gone outside the green.
Speaker 1: That's above league average, top ten special teams grade back
Speaker 1: in and top fifty last year. Storyline here in the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield, what does what do your sub packages look like?
Speaker 1: We know the X and Byron need hum, Javon holland
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones probably all gonna play a lot. Eric Rowe,
Speaker 1: what's after that? Who's the Who's the dime and half
Speaker 1: dollar and dollars sub package dbs? Who can compete on
Speaker 1: special teams? Between you know, Noah Trill Coho and young
Speaker 1: guys stepping up and the battle in camp it's the
Speaker 1: same situation. Where's that six, seven, eight defensive back? Where
Speaker 1: they coming from? Who is it? Can't wait to watch
Speaker 1: this group? And then four specialists Jason Sanders number seven
Speaker 1: All Pro, accurate, good mindset kicker. Number four Thomas Morristead,
Speaker 1: a leader type can have positive impact on the entire
Speaker 1: special teams. Kicked in every building, every type of weather
Speaker 1: and kicked well. Also a good holder in that regard.
Speaker 1: Number forty four Blake Ferguson, the long snapper. His arrival
Speaker 1: coincided with Sandersy first team All Pro campaign and he
Speaker 1: busts but to get down the field and special teams
Speaker 1: had a fumble recovery last year and we finished with
Speaker 1: number fifty nine Tommy Heatherly, really cool story about him
Speaker 1: getting to f i U and be kind of one
Speaker 1: of the top collegiate punters. After weighing over three pounds
Speaker 1: at one point in his life. Cool story there for him.
Speaker 1: Storyline here is Sanders canna get back to when he
Speaker 1: missed just three kicks hit the game winners and was
Speaker 1: money from fifty plus. It's a valuable weapon and I
Speaker 1: have little doubt we'll get that again. The camp battle,
Speaker 1: I suppose punter, I guess Miami Heat Baby up two
Speaker 1: games to one, hopefully can get game number four to
Speaker 1: nine in Boston. If we do that, I feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about going to the finals. That's gonna do it.
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