WEBVTT - Dolphins Roster Review Part 2 | Offense 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:09.840 Factors drawing high. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.400 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime podcast 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.639 part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.639 Miami Dolphins each and every day. How's it going everybody? 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.079 I am your host, Travis Winkfield, and as always I 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:29.240 am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.400 Dolphins football. And on today's show, part two of the 0:00:32.520 --> 0:00:35.680 roster review, taking a look at the offensive side of 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:39.280 the ball. We did defense yesterday. Today we'll go to 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:42.040 the offensive side and look at the traits that make 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.120 Miami who they are on that side of the football. 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.879 We'll talk about jersey numbers and really get into the 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:51.239 weeds of the x's and ohs, all of that and 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.200 more on this Tuesday, May the twelfth edition of the 0:00:54.320 --> 0:01:01.400 Drivetime Podcasts. And yesterday we talked about the defensive makeup 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.240 of this team. Will get to the offensive side here 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.920 real quick, but first I want to read off these 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:10.400 notes from Daniel Jeremiah which he shared a while back 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.399 on his Twitter account at Move the Sticks. It was 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.560 a scouting notebook on the type of players preferred at 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.200 each level. Now it comes from Bill Belichick, but what 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.000 we know about his background spans all the way back 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:25.960 to the Bill Parcels era with those New York Giants 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.320 defenses of the eighties as well as the nineties. You've 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.520 got some Nick Saban fingerprints on this and Brian Flores, 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.560 who still technically was the last person to hold the 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:38.679 defensive coordinator title there in New England. So you've got 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.039 fingerprints from coaches all around the football landscape on these 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.720 particular notes from Daniel Jeremiah, and he shared these on Twitter. 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:47.280 I want to say it was about a month ago, 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.520 so it's not like it's a secret or anything. They're 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.680 out there for you to consume. But he says this 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.080 defense middle of the field. First, pressure up the middle 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:58.960 better than running outside the quarterback, third down cover linebacker 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:03.400 or six defensive back. Size, power, quickness, inside size over 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.320 speed on the outside, outside linebacker, big range, e guy 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.959 if you can get them. Usually first round picks. Settle 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.320 for guys who can stay on the line, long arms, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:17.080 quick hands, size, speed, athletic ability inside linebacker, play in 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.040 close quarters, Instinctive explosive tacklers that face up and can 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:25.400 knock guys back. Play zone, good blitzers, smart players need 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:30.079 instincts over intelligence at safety. Tacklers two hundred pounds four 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.840 five to four six forty range need range deep don't 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.200 need mental giants. Size speed guys have to be able 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:40.960 to cover man to man. Former corners moved inside ideally 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.400 if they have size. Ball skills and judgment are essential 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.800 more than speed and athleticism. Cornerback tackle and force guys 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.799 to the ground. Need a pure cover corner five ten 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.320 and up. Small cover guy is a liability. Intelligence on 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.239 defense not a great factor. And then defensive back in 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.680 total have to work together like a great offensive line. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:06.079 Teamwork and unselfishness, cohesive trust. So you just go back 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.880 over that list we talked about. The safety is moving inside. 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.760 That's Eric Row in a nutshell right there. A good 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.400 cover guy that has the speed that can condense inside 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.880 and cover guys up and play and tight to the box. 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.239 The linebacker position, I was thinking of the land and 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.799 Roberts and ray Kwa McMillan for guys that can line 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.679 up and knock dudes in the mouth. The cover linebackers 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:28.040 like Jerome Baker and Commu Gruge a hill, physical long 0:03:28.120 --> 0:03:30.960 cornerbacks on the outside. You just see so many notes 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:33.080 about this defense that kind of fit that model and 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:35.520 fit that making of some of the best defensive minds 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.200 across football really going back over the last two or 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.080 three decades now. There's an article up on NFL dot 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:44.200 com and this all leads to the same idea written 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.520 by Greg Rosenthal and I talked about it on the 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:49.760 show yesterday. You look at any potential package you might 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.920 want to run the four to five variations off that 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.360 with big Nickel, three three five variations off that with 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.560 bear fronts, and several other front options you have. There 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.120 are front looks up front and all of these are 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:05.400 gonna refer to the alignment and the assignment and the 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.080 job of each player rather so stay with me here 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.360 while we get into the weeds for just a moment. 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:13.480 You're probably used to having two defensive formations drilled into 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.080 your head as a football fan. I mean even the 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:18.800 video games like Madden, for instance, they're gonna tell you 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.120 for three or three four, and that's pretty much it. 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.160 But the fact of the matter is, in today's sub 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.679 package world, those formations are really pretty antiquated. You'll still 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.880 see them, but they have become the subbast of sub packages. 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.720 If you will if that's even a word, So we 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.440 know how much nickel defense is played. That's been the 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:39.960 base defense for quite some time now. In the last 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.920 four or five years, teams have began to utilize more 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.720 dime packages and even dollar packages, which is seven defensive 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.359 backs on the field. So if you have six or 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.279 seven dbs out there, that means what you only get 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:55.680 four bodies up front, right, so you've got seemingly countless 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.840 variations of three two or two three. Even on the 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.040 Rosenthal article, he has the Patriots starting projected lineup listed 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.840 as a to four based defense. You've got three three, 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:08.360 You've got four too, You've got five one. I mean 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.440 literally any combination you want to think about, you can use. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.560 So stay with me here again, this is all gonna 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:17.000 come back to be Dolphins related, I promise. And then 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.240 within each of those packages you can have any variation 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.039 of alignment assignment, and then also the coverage on the 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:25.760 back end. But that's not something we're concerned about right now. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.599 With all the moving parts. For the sake of this argument, 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.320 for the sake of this idea, and the reason I 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.919 want to make this stuff clear is you're probably gonna 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.360 see depth charts or starting lineup projections from now until 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.080 the season starts, and wonder why player X isn't listed there, 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.880 but rest assured a lot of players are going to 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.240 play a lot in this defense. It's a sub package league, right, 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:49.480 lots of guys coming off the bench and getting fresh 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.000 or staying fresh rather and getting in the game. And 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.440 Flores preaches multiplicity. Maybe didn't have the parts he wanted 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.560 to be as multiple as he could have been last year, 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:00.320 but now he does have those parts, and I think 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.720 that the good will he built up by his coaching 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:06.080 performance last season, you understand why you'd be willing to 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:08.360 listen when he tells you this is what I want 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.719 for the defense that I want to run. So, for 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:14.160 the sake of entertaining podcast purposes, I won't run down 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.640 a list of all the different defensive fronts you can run. 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.200 But there are a variety of different looks you can 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:22.080 give opposing offenses, and all it really boils down to 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.559 is different guys playing different positions across the defensive line. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.200 We all know about techniques and positions, right The zero 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.920 plays up over the nose, that's your zero technique. The 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.320 widest position you can play is the nine that's what 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:36.159 Cam Wake used to rush from here the wide nine technique, 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:39.200 and then every single alignment inside of those two positions 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:41.919 refers to the number three, five, whatever it might be. 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:44.880 You've got zero technique all the way through nine technique, 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.520 and you have so many different options where a safety 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.279 comes down and joins that group, or a linebacker comes 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.960 down off the edge, or you mirror it called twins 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.160 packages where you have two of the same technique alignments 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.400 on either side. You've got bigger, heavier defensive ends playing 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.520 in more bear fronts where you might have a head 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.080 up person lined up over the center as well as 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:07.240 two big defensive ends lined up over each guard as 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.960 two techniques, so you have multiple fronts, you can run 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.400 multiple different defensive alignments, and that's why you need so 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.240 much depth and so many different parts that can rotate 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.080 into the defense and play in this sub package league. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.680 All of this is to say Miami's active offseason, adding 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:26.200 a premium price free agent cornerback, and then another cornerback 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.560 in the first round, then another defensive back in the 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.920 third round of the draft. Then you signed two more 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.280 dbs in Clayton Federalum and Cavon Frasier. Then you go 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:37.840 out and you get Kyle van noy A, Landed Roberts, 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:41.480 and Commu gruge a Hill when Baker, McMillan, Beagle all 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:44.360 showed some bite last year, on top of Andrew Van 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:47.160 Gigel and Trent Harris giving you some solid work down 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.840 the stretch as well, or adding Curtis Weaver and Jason 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:55.320 Strowbridge after you signed Emmanuel Ogba and Shack Lawson. Again. 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.960 All of this is to say, there are a lot 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:01.320 of jobs on this defense and ability to pull out 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.600 whichever package you see fit for that particular week, for 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.120 that particular opponent, and you alter your snap counts accordingly, 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:12.480 your calls, your assignments, your expectations for each player each 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:18.000 week accordingly. That flexibility is invaluable in this defensive scheme. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.720 And that, my friends of the find is my long 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:24.280 winded segue into part two of the roster review as 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.120 we take a look at what the offense wants to 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.400 be for your Miami Dolphins under Chan Gaily. And look, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.560 I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to know exactly 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.000 what gaily system or plan is going to be for 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.520 the season. We just don't have the evidence to go 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.720 ahead and make those guesses and projections, and who the 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.120 hell are we to do that in the first place. 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:44.920 But he's operated under quite literally every system under the 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:49.200 sun created in the football landscape across several decades. And 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.640 he was the original pioneer of the spread game, incorporating 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.440 into the professional ranks back in two thousand eight with 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.520 the Chiefs when he coached up Tyler Thigpen into a 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:02.160 passable quarterback that sees him. He then later, of course, 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:06.040 brought that same system to Buffalo with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.520 then again to the Jets a few years after that, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.840 again with fits. And what's the one thing Chan Gailey 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.000 teams have done consistently well over his entire career really 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:19.720 run the football. He had the unenviable task of creating 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.920 an offense in the post Dan Marino era here in Miami, 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:26.000 and all he does is get one thousand, one hundred 0:09:26.080 --> 0:09:29.360 thirty nine yards out of Lamar Smith and nineteen hundred 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:32.200 rushing yards out of that team in two thousand and 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.280 then seventeen hundred yards in two thousand one. That, of course, 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.680 the two years prior to Ricky Williams arrival and Chan's 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:41.679 departure from the Dolphins and just so we're clear on this, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:45.160 Lamar had one thousand, one hundred thirty nine rushing yards 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.040 and nine hundred sixty eight rushing yards those two years. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.040 His next highest totals in an eight year career seven 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.280 thirty seven, six eighty and four fifty seven. So chan 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:57.560 Gailey got mega production out of Lamar Smith compared to 0:09:57.600 --> 0:09:59.800 the rest of his career. And if you can add 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.480 some rushing production to the offense this year based upon 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.720 what they did last year with Ryan Fitzpatrick, DeVante Parker, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.280 Preston Williams, Albert Wilson, Isaai Afford, on and on and on. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.800 Mike Kasicki at tight end, don't forget him there either. 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.600 If you get some rushing production as well, man, you've 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.800 got a balanced offense and you become infinitely more difficult 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.160 to deal with. Because Fitzpatrick was the leading rusher of 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.360 the team last year and a lot of that, and frankly, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.679 a lot of the offensive production will scratch that. Most 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.160 of it was from Fitzpatrick creating or getting the football 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.880 out quick enough to where the rush was pretty much irrelevant. 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.000 Fits with that quick processor and the fact that he's 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.640 a good ball handler, that bodes well for the r 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:41.280 p O game, the run pass option game, and the 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.959 quarterback Miami drafted. I think most of you have heard 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.559 of him by now. To a tongue. Vloa has been 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:50.760 lauded almost universally as the best RPO quarterback the college 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.920 game really ever saw. We've heard that from analysts, coaches 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.120 that coached for him, coaches that coached against him, players 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.040 that played with him, and guys that played against him. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.600 It's pretty well owing out there. Type into a tongue 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:04.000 of bloa, rp O into Google, you're gonna get some 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.360 glowing praise. Josh Rosen and Jake Rudoc have seen r 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.800 p O in their careers as well. And then the 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.200 r p O game, you've got an offensive line that 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.400 blocks for the run and the past is the quarterbacks option. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.439 So the quarterback has to make that snap decision because well, 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.040 if he holds the ball, then you're liable for an 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:24.440 ineligible man down field penalty. And once again, to go 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.400 back to the Move the Sticks podcast, both DJ and 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.920 Bucky have talked at length on their show about defensive 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.880 oriented coaches like Brian Flores having a preference towards the 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.400 type of quarterbacks that they find most difficult to defend against. 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.840 So last year with fits constantly creating against difficult situations, 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.520 and with two demonstrating that regularly in college, you can 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.520 see the thinking there. Because RPO is designed to get 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.640 false steps out of the defense. You move people against 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.000 their will with that sheer power which we'll talk about 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.520 here in just one second, and have that success running 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.760 the football. Then all of a sudden you get linebackers 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.679 taking a step forward and that creates lanes in the 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:07.280 passing game. Creating indecision in this league is the best 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.920 way to have offensive success. We saw it with the 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:12.920 Rams back in their Super Bowl year when Sean McVeigh 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:16.080 condensed a lot of those packages and formations in tight 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.839 That creates natural rubs, it creates communication issues, and zone 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.960 just gives teams the whole fits of situations to deal with. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.280 Then you've got last year with the forty Niners and 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:28.600 Kyle Shanahan's Super Bowl team that used pre snap motion 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:32.080 and tons of window dressing to move the defense and 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.440 create passing lanes that way. Just go look at their 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:37.360 playoff game against the Vikings. It was constant a guy 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.240 that would short motion, real quick move a linebacker and 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.920 they throw right in behind that linebacker. It all sounds 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.760 super complex, but it's all done with the same idea 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.960 in mind, deception to open up lanes. That's what r 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:52.040 PO is and that's something the Dolphins I think are 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:54.160 well equipped to do this year. And I'll tell you 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.880 why the offensive line is so equipped to excel in 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.199 that package here in just one moment. But first, that's 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.120 not the only thing this offense can be. We've got 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:05.800 quarterbacks that have played under center in a play action 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.400 heavy game. We've ran out of the pistol, We've seen 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:12.080 just about everything. This offensive line can run. Power. You're 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.520 gonna get backside polls, typically a pin and pull idea 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.280 where the front side pins the backside polls and tries 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.640 to get a down block on a linebacker or a 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.440 defensive end and just run it down the team's throat. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.920 With Jordan Howard, who was an absolute load to bring down, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.400 but he also has the vision and patients to make 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.880 zone systems work. And if you want to zone back, 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:34.880 we'll look no further than Matt Brita, who was a 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.200 serious home run hitter in the world renowned zone scheme 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.320 of Kyle Shanahan and those forty niners last year, a 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.679 third teen and three team who mowed through the playoffs 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.000 and had a two touchdown lead I think it was 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.360 in the Super Bowl. He's also a dangerous pass catching back, 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.439 and Howard is very well versed in that area as well. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.720 So you have two backs that can flex out and 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.640 run for run routes into the pattern. You've got a 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.319 tight end and Mike Asiki who can play in line. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.600 He can play why the slot, he can line up 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:04.920 as your ex into the boundary. You see where this 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.280 is going here. You've got skill players that allow you 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.520 to play from a variety of formations from the same 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.480 personnel grouping. So the defense sees one back, one tight end, 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.720 and three wide receivers on the field. That's eleven personnel 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.520 by the way, one back, one tight end, and typically speaking, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.880 you match that with nickel personnel five defensive backs to 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.040 match up accordingly with those three receivers. But if we 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.880 condense it, suddenly you've got a tight end blocking a 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.760 defensive back and a power back in Jordan Howard to 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:36.440 run against a light box. Or you go the opposite direction. 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.080 You can flex Howard or Matt Britta out into the 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:42.480 pattern and now you've got empty five wide against a 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.040 nickel defense who is underman to cover five routes. And 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:49.000 the permutations here are really limitless in their own right. 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.600 Not to mention Uncle Vante, who can play any position 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:55.240 on your offense at receiver. Preston was getting work as 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.840 both the X and the Z last year. Albert Wilson, 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:01.160 by the way, restructured to stay here. How about them apples. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.400 He can play literally any position on offense besides well, 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:09.640 the line, he can play slot, X, Z, H back, tailback, wildcat, triggerman. 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.200 And Jachim Grant, well, he's in the same boat because 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.160 he's electric as I'll get out. And in those two guys, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.800 you've got two really good options as your jet sweep 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.840 guy on some wildcat action. And speaking of wildcat, what 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.280 about Malcolm Perry in that formation? Isaiah Ford does a 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.360 little bit of everything. Alan Hearnes plays inside outside, so 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.800 you've got flexibility all over the offense too. You can 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.880 be a power run team one week, you can be 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.400 an r PO team the next, and a spread attack 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.560 the following week, just depends on who you're playing. So 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.080 those are the core tenants of the skill spots. We 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.480 have the running back acquisitions to go off of, and 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.720 I think you just look at both those guys as 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:49.520 scheme diverse players. The only wide receivers added were undrafted 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.960 free agents, so not a lot to glean there, But 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.920 I mean the versatility at that position is quite apparent. 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:57.400 We know what the quarterbacks can do. How about the 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:02.120 idea behind the offensive line, Well, I mean it's beef, 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.840 that's what's for dinner. Let's just run down the weights 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.600 of these offensive lineman. Austin Jackson three seventeen, and mind you, 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.000 he didn't have an off season last summer. I am 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.800 sure he can gain more way on top of that 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.120 frame if they ask him to, and if he has to. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.360 Eric Flowers three twenty nine, that's a big dude. Ted 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.680 Carris three oh five inside, Jesse Davis three, Robert Hunt 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:28.120 three twenty three, Solomon Kinley three thirty nine, Hercules Hercules, 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:32.280 Julian and Davenport three nine, Michael Dieter three ten, Adam 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:36.240 Panky three thirteen, Danny Is Sadorra three oh six, Keaton 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:40.360 Sutherland three sixteen, Shot Calhoun three ten. And how about 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:45.000 the undrafted center this year in Don L. Stanley. That's 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.480 massive for a center and we rounded out with the 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:51.000 other two undrafted free agents and Nick Kultmeyer who goes 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:54.760 three thirteen and Jonathan Hubbard who goes to two on 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:59.000 the scales, and again position flexibility is there. Flowers has 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:01.600 played four offense of line spots throughout his college and 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.320 pro career. Jesse Davis is in the exact same boat. 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.080 He actually flipped back and forth from right and left tackle, 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:10.879 depending on strong side in college there at Idaho, Robert 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.520 Hunt has played tackle and guard. Ted Carriss has played 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:17.119 guard and center. Michael Dieters played everywhere, including two spots 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:20.399 last year on the Dolphins offensive line. Solomon Kindley was 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.760 a right guard at first than a left guard his 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.720 last two years there at Georgia. That sheer size, that 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:29.280 dense frame and lower body explosion works the same way 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.080 it does on the other side of the ball. We 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:35.520 talked about yesterday on Defense one Volume and just by 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:39.440 basic science, yeah science, Mr White creates less space to 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:42.960 rush from, especially on the interior. Watch teams try to 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.600 bowl rush Solomon Kinley at Georgia, for instance, They've got 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.399 nowhere to go because he takes up the whole damn gap. 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.120 A sturdy anchor certainly helps there too. But they've got 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.600 those leaping metrics and pure power to drive people off 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.399 the football power run game RPO gap scheme. But to 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.359 make it even more flexible. What did pretty much every 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.800 pundit say about each of these Dolphins editions up front 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.679 on the offensive line? Quote for a big man, he 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.280 is quite nimble and quote And I think that's kind 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.399 of a slight because big or not, these guys are athletic. 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:16.680 You can look at testing metrics and that will help 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:19.200 the cause a little bit. But man, the tape does 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.399 the work for you. Kiley rolls up on dudes at 0:18:22.440 --> 0:18:25.120 the second level. They're in college, so does Austin Jackson. 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.720 Watch that freak of nature out in space. You get 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.200 the same sense that Larry Little told me on Friday's 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.160 podcast about his mentality on defensive backs and how bloodthirsty 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.840 he gets seeing those guys out in open space. And 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.280 then Robert Hunt's college tape as about as silly as 0:18:39.320 --> 0:18:42.719 it comes down there at Louisiana Lafayette. Ted Carriss does 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:44.840 a good job getting out in space in his own right. 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:47.080 We talked about that way back on his Free Agent 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:49.840 podcast interview where he said those plays out in space 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.680 where his favorite along the offensive line, so flexible, malling 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:58.119 athletes upfront position list receivers that can uncover quickly, Smart 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.760 quarterbacks with good ball handling and process who can vacate 0:19:01.800 --> 0:19:05.240 the spot and make plays under pressure. Backs that keep 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.520 the entire playbook open on all three downs. Flores and 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.399 company have no problem telling you what they want to be, 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.080 and they are turning over every stone to try to 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.840 become that vision they have for this football team. Let's 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.679 go ahead and get out of the weeds now. We 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:23.280 went through forty two players on the roster on defense yesterday. 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:26.479 There are forty three on the offense and three guys 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:28.919 on the special teams, giving you a grand total of 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.000 eighty eight players on the current roster. And real quick 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.600 on those specialist Matt Hawk, Jason Sanders, and Blake Ferguson. 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.439 We talked about versatility, and this might sound like a 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.640 branch too far, but I mean, how many trick plays 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.320 to those guys execute last year? Just the more you 0:19:44.359 --> 0:19:46.560 can do, man like, It's a theme all the way 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:48.800 from the top down to the bottom, even me, like 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.800 I worked for the team and I do video, I 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:53.000 do podcast, I write. The more you can do the 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:56.560 better right. That's the entire vision of the Miami Dolphins organization. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.199 So even the specialist have that working for them in 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:03.880 their back pocket. The quarterback position, we go Ryan Fitzpatrick 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:07.400 to a Tongue Vola, Josh Rosen, and Jake Rudock obviously 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.960 tongue of Byloa the only edition of the off season, 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.639 a rookie the fifth overall pick in the draft. We 0:20:12.680 --> 0:20:15.399 talked about what we have in this position, group, smart guys, 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:17.880 a good quarterback room that can really learn and grow 0:20:17.920 --> 0:20:19.720 from one another. I think that's gonna be a big 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.159 factor going forward, especially in this virtual offseason. We have 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:26.960 at the running back position again just flexibility and versatility. 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.720 Man Jordan Howard, Matt Brita can run out of any scheme, 0:20:29.920 --> 0:20:32.440 Miles gaskin random power scheme there at you dub but 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:35.840 also caught passes. He can do multiple things. Malcolm Perry 0:20:35.920 --> 0:20:38.440 on that list as well. You want to talk about versatility, 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.400