Speaker 1: Factors drawing high. What a win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow?
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins official podcast network, covering your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins each and every day. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Winkfield, and as always I
Speaker 1: am here to bring you your daily dose of Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins football. And on today's show, part two of the
Speaker 1: roster review, taking a look at the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. We did defense yesterday. Today we'll go to
Speaker 1: the offensive side and look at the traits that make
Speaker 1: Miami who they are on that side of the football.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about jersey numbers and really get into the
Speaker 1: weeds of the x's and ohs, all of that and
Speaker 1: more on this Tuesday, May the twelfth edition of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcasts. And yesterday we talked about the defensive makeup
Speaker 1: of this team. Will get to the offensive side here
Speaker 1: real quick, but first I want to read off these
Speaker 1: notes from Daniel Jeremiah which he shared a while back
Speaker 1: on his Twitter account at Move the Sticks. It was
Speaker 1: a scouting notebook on the type of players preferred at
Speaker 1: each level. Now it comes from Bill Belichick, but what
Speaker 1: we know about his background spans all the way back
Speaker 1: to the Bill Parcels era with those New York Giants
Speaker 1: defenses of the eighties as well as the nineties. You've
Speaker 1: got some Nick Saban fingerprints on this and Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: who still technically was the last person to hold the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator title there in New England. So you've got
Speaker 1: fingerprints from coaches all around the football landscape on these
Speaker 1: particular notes from Daniel Jeremiah, and he shared these on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I want to say it was about a month ago,
Speaker 1: so it's not like it's a secret or anything. They're
Speaker 1: out there for you to consume. But he says this
Speaker 1: defense middle of the field. First, pressure up the middle
Speaker 1: better than running outside the quarterback, third down cover linebacker
Speaker 1: or six defensive back. Size, power, quickness, inside size over
Speaker 1: speed on the outside, outside linebacker, big range, e guy
Speaker 1: if you can get them. Usually first round picks. Settle
Speaker 1: for guys who can stay on the line, long arms,
Speaker 1: quick hands, size, speed, athletic ability inside linebacker, play in
Speaker 1: close quarters, Instinctive explosive tacklers that face up and can
Speaker 1: knock guys back. Play zone, good blitzers, smart players need
Speaker 1: instincts over intelligence at safety. Tacklers two hundred pounds four
Speaker 1: five to four six forty range need range deep don't
Speaker 1: need mental giants. Size speed guys have to be able
Speaker 1: to cover man to man. Former corners moved inside ideally
Speaker 1: if they have size. Ball skills and judgment are essential
Speaker 1: more than speed and athleticism. Cornerback tackle and force guys
Speaker 1: to the ground. Need a pure cover corner five ten
Speaker 1: and up. Small cover guy is a liability. Intelligence on
Speaker 1: defense not a great factor. And then defensive back in
Speaker 1: total have to work together like a great offensive line.
Speaker 1: Teamwork and unselfishness, cohesive trust. So you just go back
Speaker 1: over that list we talked about. The safety is moving inside.
Speaker 1: That's Eric Row in a nutshell right there. A good
Speaker 1: cover guy that has the speed that can condense inside
Speaker 1: and cover guys up and play and tight to the box.
Speaker 1: The linebacker position, I was thinking of the land and
Speaker 1: Roberts and ray Kwa McMillan for guys that can line
Speaker 1: up and knock dudes in the mouth. The cover linebackers
Speaker 1: like Jerome Baker and Commu Gruge a hill, physical long
Speaker 1: cornerbacks on the outside. You just see so many notes
Speaker 1: about this defense that kind of fit that model and
Speaker 1: fit that making of some of the best defensive minds
Speaker 1: across football really going back over the last two or
Speaker 1: three decades now. There's an article up on NFL dot
Speaker 1: com and this all leads to the same idea written
Speaker 1: by Greg Rosenthal and I talked about it on the
Speaker 1: show yesterday. You look at any potential package you might
Speaker 1: want to run the four to five variations off that
Speaker 1: with big Nickel, three three five variations off that with
Speaker 1: bear fronts, and several other front options you have. There
Speaker 1: are front looks up front and all of these are
Speaker 1: gonna refer to the alignment and the assignment and the
Speaker 1: job of each player rather so stay with me here
Speaker 1: while we get into the weeds for just a moment.
Speaker 1: You're probably used to having two defensive formations drilled into
Speaker 1: your head as a football fan. I mean even the
Speaker 1: video games like Madden, for instance, they're gonna tell you
Speaker 1: for three or three four, and that's pretty much it.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is, in today's sub
Speaker 1: package world, those formations are really pretty antiquated. You'll still
Speaker 1: see them, but they have become the subbast of sub packages.
Speaker 1: If you will if that's even a word, So we
Speaker 1: know how much nickel defense is played. That's been the
Speaker 1: base defense for quite some time now. In the last
Speaker 1: four or five years, teams have began to utilize more
Speaker 1: dime packages and even dollar packages, which is seven defensive
Speaker 1: backs on the field. So if you have six or
Speaker 1: seven dbs out there, that means what you only get
Speaker 1: four bodies up front, right, so you've got seemingly countless
Speaker 1: variations of three two or two three. Even on the
Speaker 1: Rosenthal article, he has the Patriots starting projected lineup listed
Speaker 1: as a to four based defense. You've got three three,
Speaker 1: You've got four too, You've got five one. I mean
Speaker 1: literally any combination you want to think about, you can use.
Speaker 1: So stay with me here again, this is all gonna
Speaker 1: come back to be Dolphins related, I promise. And then
Speaker 1: within each of those packages you can have any variation
Speaker 1: of alignment assignment, and then also the coverage on the
Speaker 1: back end. But that's not something we're concerned about right now.
Speaker 1: With all the moving parts. For the sake of this argument,
Speaker 1: for the sake of this idea, and the reason I
Speaker 1: want to make this stuff clear is you're probably gonna
Speaker 1: see depth charts or starting lineup projections from now until
Speaker 1: the season starts, and wonder why player X isn't listed there,
Speaker 1: but rest assured a lot of players are going to
Speaker 1: play a lot in this defense. It's a sub package league, right,
Speaker 1: lots of guys coming off the bench and getting fresh
Speaker 1: or staying fresh rather and getting in the game. And
Speaker 1: Flores preaches multiplicity. Maybe didn't have the parts he wanted
Speaker 1: to be as multiple as he could have been last year,
Speaker 1: but now he does have those parts, and I think
Speaker 1: that the good will he built up by his coaching
Speaker 1: performance last season, you understand why you'd be willing to
Speaker 1: listen when he tells you this is what I want
Speaker 1: for the defense that I want to run. So, for
Speaker 1: the sake of entertaining podcast purposes, I won't run down
Speaker 1: a list of all the different defensive fronts you can run.
Speaker 1: But there are a variety of different looks you can
Speaker 1: give opposing offenses, and all it really boils down to
Speaker 1: is different guys playing different positions across the defensive line.
Speaker 1: We all know about techniques and positions, right The zero
Speaker 1: plays up over the nose, that's your zero technique. The
Speaker 1: widest position you can play is the nine that's what
Speaker 1: Cam Wake used to rush from here the wide nine technique,
Speaker 1: and then every single alignment inside of those two positions
Speaker 1: refers to the number three, five, whatever it might be.
Speaker 1: You've got zero technique all the way through nine technique,
Speaker 1: and you have so many different options where a safety
Speaker 1: comes down and joins that group, or a linebacker comes
Speaker 1: down off the edge, or you mirror it called twins
Speaker 1: packages where you have two of the same technique alignments
Speaker 1: on either side. You've got bigger, heavier defensive ends playing
Speaker 1: in more bear fronts where you might have a head
Speaker 1: up person lined up over the center as well as
Speaker 1: two big defensive ends lined up over each guard as
Speaker 1: two techniques, so you have multiple fronts, you can run
Speaker 1: multiple different defensive alignments, and that's why you need so
Speaker 1: much depth and so many different parts that can rotate
Speaker 1: into the defense and play in this sub package league.
Speaker 1: All of this is to say Miami's active offseason, adding
Speaker 1: a premium price free agent cornerback, and then another cornerback
Speaker 1: in the first round, then another defensive back in the
Speaker 1: third round of the draft. Then you signed two more
Speaker 1: dbs in Clayton Federalum and Cavon Frasier. Then you go
Speaker 1: out and you get Kyle van noy A, Landed Roberts,
Speaker 1: and Commu gruge a Hill when Baker, McMillan, Beagle all
Speaker 1: showed some bite last year, on top of Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Gigel and Trent Harris giving you some solid work down
Speaker 1: the stretch as well, or adding Curtis Weaver and Jason
Speaker 1: Strowbridge after you signed Emmanuel Ogba and Shack Lawson. Again.
Speaker 1: All of this is to say, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of jobs on this defense and ability to pull out
Speaker 1: whichever package you see fit for that particular week, for
Speaker 1: that particular opponent, and you alter your snap counts accordingly,
Speaker 1: your calls, your assignments, your expectations for each player each
Speaker 1: week accordingly. That flexibility is invaluable in this defensive scheme.
Speaker 1: And that, my friends of the find is my long
Speaker 1: winded segue into part two of the roster review as
Speaker 1: we take a look at what the offense wants to
Speaker 1: be for your Miami Dolphins under Chan Gaily. And look,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and pretend to know exactly
Speaker 1: what gaily system or plan is going to be for
Speaker 1: the season. We just don't have the evidence to go
Speaker 1: ahead and make those guesses and projections, and who the
Speaker 1: hell are we to do that in the first place.
Speaker 1: But he's operated under quite literally every system under the
Speaker 1: sun created in the football landscape across several decades. And
Speaker 1: he was the original pioneer of the spread game, incorporating
Speaker 1: into the professional ranks back in two thousand eight with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs when he coached up Tyler Thigpen into a
Speaker 1: passable quarterback that sees him. He then later, of course,
Speaker 1: brought that same system to Buffalo with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and
Speaker 1: then again to the Jets a few years after that,
Speaker 1: again with fits. And what's the one thing Chan Gailey
Speaker 1: teams have done consistently well over his entire career really
Speaker 1: run the football. He had the unenviable task of creating
Speaker 1: an offense in the post Dan Marino era here in Miami,
Speaker 1: and all he does is get one thousand, one hundred
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards out of Lamar Smith and nineteen hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards out of that team in two thousand and
Speaker 1: then seventeen hundred yards in two thousand one. That, of course,
Speaker 1: the two years prior to Ricky Williams arrival and Chan's
Speaker 1: departure from the Dolphins and just so we're clear on this,
Speaker 1: Lamar had one thousand, one hundred thirty nine rushing yards
Speaker 1: and nine hundred sixty eight rushing yards those two years.
Speaker 1: His next highest totals in an eight year career seven
Speaker 1: thirty seven, six eighty and four fifty seven. So chan
Speaker 1: Gailey got mega production out of Lamar Smith compared to
Speaker 1: the rest of his career. And if you can add
Speaker 1: some rushing production to the offense this year based upon
Speaker 1: what they did last year with Ryan Fitzpatrick, DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: Preston Williams, Albert Wilson, Isaai Afford, on and on and on.
Speaker 1: Mike Kasicki at tight end, don't forget him there either.
Speaker 1: If you get some rushing production as well, man, you've
Speaker 1: got a balanced offense and you become infinitely more difficult
Speaker 1: to deal with. Because Fitzpatrick was the leading rusher of
Speaker 1: the team last year and a lot of that, and frankly,
Speaker 1: a lot of the offensive production will scratch that. Most
Speaker 1: of it was from Fitzpatrick creating or getting the football
Speaker 1: out quick enough to where the rush was pretty much irrelevant.
Speaker 1: Fits with that quick processor and the fact that he's
Speaker 1: a good ball handler, that bodes well for the r
Speaker 1: p O game, the run pass option game, and the
Speaker 1: quarterback Miami drafted. I think most of you have heard
Speaker 1: of him by now. To a tongue. Vloa has been
Speaker 1: lauded almost universally as the best RPO quarterback the college
Speaker 1: game really ever saw. We've heard that from analysts, coaches
Speaker 1: that coached for him, coaches that coached against him, players
Speaker 1: that played with him, and guys that played against him.
Speaker 1: It's pretty well owing out there. Type into a tongue
Speaker 1: of bloa, rp O into Google, you're gonna get some
Speaker 1: glowing praise. Josh Rosen and Jake Rudoc have seen r
Speaker 1: p O in their careers as well. And then the
Speaker 1: r p O game, you've got an offensive line that
Speaker 1: blocks for the run and the past is the quarterbacks option.
Speaker 1: So the quarterback has to make that snap decision because well,
Speaker 1: if he holds the ball, then you're liable for an
Speaker 1: ineligible man down field penalty. And once again, to go
Speaker 1: back to the Move the Sticks podcast, both DJ and
Speaker 1: Bucky have talked at length on their show about defensive
Speaker 1: oriented coaches like Brian Flores having a preference towards the
Speaker 1: type of quarterbacks that they find most difficult to defend against.
Speaker 1: So last year with fits constantly creating against difficult situations,
Speaker 1: and with two demonstrating that regularly in college, you can
Speaker 1: see the thinking there. Because RPO is designed to get
Speaker 1: false steps out of the defense. You move people against
Speaker 1: their will with that sheer power which we'll talk about
Speaker 1: here in just one second, and have that success running
Speaker 1: the football. Then all of a sudden you get linebackers
Speaker 1: taking a step forward and that creates lanes in the
Speaker 1: passing game. Creating indecision in this league is the best
Speaker 1: way to have offensive success. We saw it with the
Speaker 1: Rams back in their Super Bowl year when Sean McVeigh
Speaker 1: condensed a lot of those packages and formations in tight
Speaker 1: That creates natural rubs, it creates communication issues, and zone
Speaker 1: just gives teams the whole fits of situations to deal with.
Speaker 1: Then you've got last year with the forty Niners and
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan's Super Bowl team that used pre snap motion
Speaker 1: and tons of window dressing to move the defense and
Speaker 1: create passing lanes that way. Just go look at their
Speaker 1: playoff game against the Vikings. It was constant a guy
Speaker 1: that would short motion, real quick move a linebacker and
Speaker 1: they throw right in behind that linebacker. It all sounds
Speaker 1: super complex, but it's all done with the same idea
Speaker 1: in mind, deception to open up lanes. That's what r
Speaker 1: PO is and that's something the Dolphins I think are
Speaker 1: well equipped to do this year. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why the offensive line is so equipped to excel in
Speaker 1: that package here in just one moment. But first, that's
Speaker 1: not the only thing this offense can be. We've got
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have played under center in a play action
Speaker 1: heavy game. We've ran out of the pistol, We've seen
Speaker 1: just about everything. This offensive line can run. Power. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get backside polls, typically a pin and pull idea
Speaker 1: where the front side pins the backside polls and tries
Speaker 1: to get a down block on a linebacker or a
Speaker 1: defensive end and just run it down the team's throat.
Speaker 1: With Jordan Howard, who was an absolute load to bring down,
Speaker 1: but he also has the vision and patients to make
Speaker 1: zone systems work. And if you want to zone back,
Speaker 1: we'll look no further than Matt Brita, who was a
Speaker 1: serious home run hitter in the world renowned zone scheme
Speaker 1: of Kyle Shanahan and those forty niners last year, a
Speaker 1: third teen and three team who mowed through the playoffs
Speaker 1: and had a two touchdown lead I think it was
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. He's also a dangerous pass catching back,
Speaker 1: and Howard is very well versed in that area as well.
Speaker 1: So you have two backs that can flex out and
Speaker 1: run for run routes into the pattern. You've got a
Speaker 1: tight end and Mike Asiki who can play in line.
Speaker 1: He can play why the slot, he can line up
Speaker 1: as your ex into the boundary. You see where this
Speaker 1: is going here. You've got skill players that allow you
Speaker 1: to play from a variety of formations from the same
Speaker 1: personnel grouping. So the defense sees one back, one tight end,
Speaker 1: and three wide receivers on the field. That's eleven personnel
Speaker 1: by the way, one back, one tight end, and typically speaking,
Speaker 1: you match that with nickel personnel five defensive backs to
Speaker 1: match up accordingly with those three receivers. But if we
Speaker 1: condense it, suddenly you've got a tight end blocking a
Speaker 1: defensive back and a power back in Jordan Howard to
Speaker 1: run against a light box. Or you go the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: You can flex Howard or Matt Britta out into the
Speaker 1: pattern and now you've got empty five wide against a
Speaker 1: nickel defense who is underman to cover five routes. And
Speaker 1: the permutations here are really limitless in their own right.
Speaker 1: Not to mention Uncle Vante, who can play any position
Speaker 1: on your offense at receiver. Preston was getting work as
Speaker 1: both the X and the Z last year. Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: by the way, restructured to stay here. How about them apples.
Speaker 1: He can play literally any position on offense besides well,
Speaker 1: the line, he can play slot, X, Z, H back, tailback, wildcat, triggerman.
Speaker 1: And Jachim Grant, well, he's in the same boat because
Speaker 1: he's electric as I'll get out. And in those two guys,
Speaker 1: you've got two really good options as your jet sweep
Speaker 1: guy on some wildcat action. And speaking of wildcat, what
Speaker 1: about Malcolm Perry in that formation? Isaiah Ford does a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. Alan Hearnes plays inside outside, so
Speaker 1: you've got flexibility all over the offense too. You can
Speaker 1: be a power run team one week, you can be
Speaker 1: an r PO team the next, and a spread attack
Speaker 1: the following week, just depends on who you're playing. So
Speaker 1: those are the core tenants of the skill spots. We
Speaker 1: have the running back acquisitions to go off of, and
Speaker 1: I think you just look at both those guys as
Speaker 1: scheme diverse players. The only wide receivers added were undrafted
Speaker 1: free agents, so not a lot to glean there, But
Speaker 1: I mean the versatility at that position is quite apparent.
Speaker 1: We know what the quarterbacks can do. How about the
Speaker 1: idea behind the offensive line, Well, I mean it's beef,
Speaker 1: that's what's for dinner. Let's just run down the weights
Speaker 1: of these offensive lineman. Austin Jackson three seventeen, and mind you,
Speaker 1: he didn't have an off season last summer. I am
Speaker 1: sure he can gain more way on top of that
Speaker 1: frame if they ask him to, and if he has to.
Speaker 1: Eric Flowers three twenty nine, that's a big dude. Ted
Speaker 1: Carris three oh five inside, Jesse Davis three, Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: three twenty three, Solomon Kinley three thirty nine, Hercules Hercules,
Speaker 1: Julian and Davenport three nine, Michael Dieter three ten, Adam
Speaker 1: Panky three thirteen, Danny Is Sadorra three oh six, Keaton
Speaker 1: Sutherland three sixteen, Shot Calhoun three ten. And how about
Speaker 1: the undrafted center this year in Don L. Stanley. That's
Speaker 1: massive for a center and we rounded out with the
Speaker 1: other two undrafted free agents and Nick Kultmeyer who goes
Speaker 1: three thirteen and Jonathan Hubbard who goes to two on
Speaker 1: the scales, and again position flexibility is there. Flowers has
Speaker 1: played four offense of line spots throughout his college and
Speaker 1: pro career. Jesse Davis is in the exact same boat.
Speaker 1: He actually flipped back and forth from right and left tackle,
Speaker 1: depending on strong side in college there at Idaho, Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt has played tackle and guard. Ted Carriss has played
Speaker 1: guard and center. Michael Dieters played everywhere, including two spots
Speaker 1: last year on the Dolphins offensive line. Solomon Kindley was
Speaker 1: a right guard at first than a left guard his
Speaker 1: last two years there at Georgia. That sheer size, that
Speaker 1: dense frame and lower body explosion works the same way
Speaker 1: it does on the other side of the ball. We
Speaker 1: talked about yesterday on Defense one Volume and just by
Speaker 1: basic science, yeah science, Mr White creates less space to
Speaker 1: rush from, especially on the interior. Watch teams try to
Speaker 1: bowl rush Solomon Kinley at Georgia, for instance, They've got
Speaker 1: nowhere to go because he takes up the whole damn gap.
Speaker 1: A sturdy anchor certainly helps there too. But they've got
Speaker 1: those leaping metrics and pure power to drive people off
Speaker 1: the football power run game RPO gap scheme. But to
Speaker 1: make it even more flexible. What did pretty much every
Speaker 1: pundit say about each of these Dolphins editions up front
Speaker 1: on the offensive line? Quote for a big man, he
Speaker 1: is quite nimble and quote And I think that's kind
Speaker 1: of a slight because big or not, these guys are athletic.
Speaker 1: You can look at testing metrics and that will help
Speaker 1: the cause a little bit. But man, the tape does
Speaker 1: the work for you. Kiley rolls up on dudes at
Speaker 1: the second level. They're in college, so does Austin Jackson.
Speaker 1: Watch that freak of nature out in space. You get
Speaker 1: the same sense that Larry Little told me on Friday's
Speaker 1: podcast about his mentality on defensive backs and how bloodthirsty
Speaker 1: he gets seeing those guys out in open space. And
Speaker 1: then Robert Hunt's college tape as about as silly as
Speaker 1: it comes down there at Louisiana Lafayette. Ted Carriss does
Speaker 1: a good job getting out in space in his own right.
Speaker 1: We talked about that way back on his Free Agent
Speaker 1: podcast interview where he said those plays out in space
Speaker 1: where his favorite along the offensive line, so flexible, malling
Speaker 1: athletes upfront position list receivers that can uncover quickly, Smart
Speaker 1: quarterbacks with good ball handling and process who can vacate
Speaker 1: the spot and make plays under pressure. Backs that keep
Speaker 1: the entire playbook open on all three downs. Flores and
Speaker 1: company have no problem telling you what they want to be,
Speaker 1: and they are turning over every stone to try to
Speaker 1: become that vision they have for this football team. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get out of the weeds now. We
Speaker 1: went through forty two players on the roster on defense yesterday.
Speaker 1: There are forty three on the offense and three guys
Speaker 1: on the special teams, giving you a grand total of
Speaker 1: eighty eight players on the current roster. And real quick
Speaker 1: on those specialist Matt Hawk, Jason Sanders, and Blake Ferguson.
Speaker 1: We talked about versatility, and this might sound like a
Speaker 1: branch too far, but I mean, how many trick plays
Speaker 1: to those guys execute last year? Just the more you
Speaker 1: can do, man like, It's a theme all the way
Speaker 1: from the top down to the bottom, even me, like
Speaker 1: I worked for the team and I do video, I
Speaker 1: do podcast, I write. The more you can do the
Speaker 1: better right. That's the entire vision of the Miami Dolphins organization.
Speaker 1: So even the specialist have that working for them in
Speaker 1: their back pocket. The quarterback position, we go Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: to a Tongue Vola, Josh Rosen, and Jake Rudock obviously
Speaker 1: tongue of Byloa the only edition of the off season,
Speaker 1: a rookie the fifth overall pick in the draft. We
Speaker 1: talked about what we have in this position, group, smart guys,
Speaker 1: a good quarterback room that can really learn and grow
Speaker 1: from one another. I think that's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: factor going forward, especially in this virtual offseason. We have
Speaker 1: at the running back position again just flexibility and versatility.
Speaker 1: Man Jordan Howard, Matt Brita can run out of any scheme,
Speaker 1: Miles gaskin random power scheme there at you dub but
Speaker 1: also caught passes. He can do multiple things. Malcolm Perry
Speaker 1: on that list as well. You want to talk about versatility,
Speaker 1: he is versatility to find Klein Balage and Patrick Laird
Speaker 1: to Lance Turner and Chandler Cox the fullback. A bunch
Speaker 1: of guys in that room that can do multiple things.
Speaker 1: There's eight backs on the roster. Four quarterbacks, five tight
Speaker 1: ends Mike get Sicky and Durham Smith. Draft picks. Michael
Speaker 1: Roberts was a free agent addition before the combine. He's
Speaker 1: on that list. Chris meyer Rick mostly on the practice
Speaker 1: squad last season out of Temple, and Bryce Stirk, an
Speaker 1: undrafted free agent there on the tight end group. Wide
Speaker 1: receivers Davante Parker, Preston Williams, Albert Wilson, Joachim Grant, Isaiah Ford,
Speaker 1: and Alan Hearns. Those guys remain unchanged from a year ago.
Speaker 1: I think you really have to love the progress and
Speaker 1: the upside of that group from a year ago. And
Speaker 1: then Mac Hollands, Gary Jennings, and Ricardo Lewis were all
Speaker 1: on the roster at one point or another last year.
Speaker 1: Injuries knocked some of them out preseason and in the season.
Speaker 1: And then we have two U d f as the
Speaker 1: only additions to this group this offseason, and Kirk Merritt
Speaker 1: and Matt Cole on the offensive line. You've got fifteen
Speaker 1: guys here to make up the rest of the forty
Speaker 1: three players on the offensive roster. Austin Jackson was a
Speaker 1: first round draft pick. Eric Flowers I think he was
Speaker 1: the Dolphins first free agent acquisition, if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: Ted Carriss another signing on the offensive line. So all
Speaker 1: three of those guys brand new to the team this year.
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis really the veteran incumbent of the group who
Speaker 1: got that contract extension last summer. He really embodies what
Speaker 1: they want these guys to be in terms of toughness,
Speaker 1: smart players, guys that communicate well, guys that lead by example,
Speaker 1: and guys that keep their head down and work. Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt also a draft pick, the thirty ninth pick in
Speaker 1: this year's draft. Michael Dieter, he was a draft pick
Speaker 1: last year in the third round. Julian Davenport on the roster,
Speaker 1: came over in the Tunsil and Stills trade. Solomon Kinley
Speaker 1: your rookie guard, drafted in the fourth round. Adam Panky
Speaker 1: wasn't in season signing last year. Danny Isadora a trade
Speaker 1: acquisition before the season. Keaton Sutherland was signed in training
Speaker 1: camp as well. Shot Calhoun was an undrafted rookie last year.
Speaker 1: And then the three U d f as Don l Stanley,
Speaker 1: Nick Koltmeyer, and Jonathan Hubbard round out your offensive line
Speaker 1: and your offensive roster. And let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up this podcast with some jersey numbers in case you
Speaker 1: missed it. And every year after training camp concludes and
Speaker 1: guys have been cut, you're gonna see jersey numbers changed.
Speaker 1: So we'll probably see more of that this year. And
Speaker 1: we actually saw four jersey number changes when all this
Speaker 1: got handed out last week. Ryan Lewis the cornerback, goes
Speaker 1: from twenty four to twenty nine, Patrick Laird goes from
Speaker 1: forty two to thirty two to Lance Turner goes from
Speaker 1: thirty four to forty one, and James Crawford goes from
Speaker 1: fifty one to fifty seven. So those are the four
Speaker 1: changes ahead of the season. We also have plenty of
Speaker 1: rookie and veteran numbers for all the draft picks and
Speaker 1: veteran acquisitions. The veterans Byron Jones Hill were twenty four,
Speaker 1: Matt Breed is gonna wear twenty, Jordan Howard's gonna wear
Speaker 1: thirty four, Cavon Fraser number thirty five, Clayton Federalum forty two,
Speaker 1: Eland and Roberts forty four, Commu Gruge Hill fifty one,
Speaker 1: Kyle van Noy fifty three, Ted Caris sixty seven, Eric
Speaker 1: Flower seventy five, Michael Roberts eighty nine, Shack laws In
Speaker 1: ninety and Emmanuel Ogba ninety one. As FO your rookies
Speaker 1: quarterback to a tongue of Byaloa Gonna wear jersey number one,
Speaker 1: Malcolm Perry wearing ten, Brandon Jones will weare forty five,
Speaker 1: Noah Igbonogamy will wear fifties forty six rather Blake ferguson'll
Speaker 1: wear fifty, Jason Strowbridge fifty eight, Kylan Johnson wearing fifty
Speaker 1: Tyshan Render, the undrafted defensive lineman, will wear sixty four.
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley were sixty six, Robert Hunt sixty eight, and
Speaker 1: then Jonathan Hubbard will wear seventy one. Don L. Stanley
Speaker 1: seventy two, Austin Jackson seventy three, Ray Lema seventies six,
Speaker 1: Nick Kltmeyer were seventy nine, and then Matt Cole eight
Speaker 1: two and Kirk Merritt the two receivers he'll wear eighty
Speaker 1: three the rookie tight end brace. Stirk will wear eighties seven,
Speaker 1: Benito Jones will wear nine. On the defensive line, Curtis
Speaker 1: Weaver wears ninety six, and second round draft pick Ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis will wear. So those are your jersey numbers.
Speaker 1: That's your offensive and defensive breakdowns here on this week's
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