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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we have some catching up to do.
Speaker 1: We're gonna drop the podcast on Sunday afternoon here for
Speaker 1: you guys to give you a head start heading into
Speaker 1: the week. We're gonna take this week to keep you
Speaker 1: getting introduced to all the newest members of your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Today we're doing the skill players. Braxton Barrios and Eric Saubert,
Speaker 1: will have Malik Read, We'll have Deshaun Elliott, will have
Speaker 1: Dan Feenie and Jake Bailey on a future episode here,
Speaker 1: but today we're covering Sabert Barrios, as well as the
Speaker 1: introduction Jalen Ramsey press conference. Almost said podcast. We'll do
Speaker 1: all of that in the latest news and notes from
Speaker 1: around the National Football League from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 1: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime
Speaker 1: podcast by fash So. I mentioned the Malik Read acquisition
Speaker 1: we heard about over the weekend. That is, of course
Speaker 1: a reported signing. We will get to that on a
Speaker 1: future episode once it becomes official. But man, his tape
Speaker 1: is very good. His production in this defense under this
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator is good. I cannot wait to break down
Speaker 1: his tape for y'all when that becomes official. Also, just
Speaker 1: saw across the wire Larry me Tunzil is once again
Speaker 1: the highest paid left tackle in the history of the
Speaker 1: National Football League. Good for him as moves have been
Speaker 1: coming and going really fast and furious. Here over the weekend,
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki winds up in New England the Patriots on
Speaker 1: I think a one year, four and a half million
Speaker 1: dollar deal. So they get both Gasicki and Parker, two
Speaker 1: guys that fit really with the previous quarterback in my opinion,
Speaker 1: not as much here with the current iteration of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. So that's some news around the league. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and get into what is a fun time
Speaker 1: of year. Man free agency seems to get picked clean
Speaker 1: faster and faster each year. But don't get that twisted.
Speaker 1: There are plenty of quality players in the second tier,
Speaker 1: second phase, second window, whatever you call it, in this
Speaker 1: free agency period of the calendar, and there's bargains out
Speaker 1: there to be had. I know that first sentence tends
Speaker 1: to get fans anti about the perceived needs. I've heard
Speaker 1: all the tweets about right tackle and whatever your opinions
Speaker 1: are of that position. But I say the same thing
Speaker 1: every year. Can we wait until August before we start
Speaker 1: to think about what the fifty three man roster might
Speaker 1: look like? The draft still is more than a month away, Like,
Speaker 1: let's chill a little bit because last I remember last year,
Speaker 1: there was full fledged panic and then they dropped to
Speaker 1: Ron Armstead on you, and then they dropped Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: on you. In pretty short order. Didn't you feel pretty
Speaker 1: silly after calling for Chris Greer's head after four hours
Speaker 1: of free agency, and then he goes and gets the
Speaker 1: best receiver in the NFL and arguably the best left
Speaker 1: tackle in the NFL. I mean, that's two All Pro
Speaker 1: type of players and it wasn't immediately in the free
Speaker 1: agency window, So just keep that in mind. On top
Speaker 1: of that, March madness. What a fun opening weekend that
Speaker 1: was Opening Day in baseball with the World Baseball Classic
Speaker 1: going on is less than two weeks away, the Master's
Speaker 1: coming up. This is the best time of year for
Speaker 1: sports outside of the regular football game schedule that September
Speaker 1: through early February mark this is the best time in
Speaker 1: my opinion, before we get into the newest wide receiver
Speaker 1: and tight end Braxton Barrios and Eric Sobert for your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Just wanted to give you a programming update
Speaker 1: here and kind of talk about I guess where I've
Speaker 1: been so admittedly, this is the first free agency and
Speaker 1: my boss told me you've done more episodes last week
Speaker 1: than you do in a regular week in the offseason,
Speaker 1: Like no one's gonna know you were gone. I just
Speaker 1: want to be transparent about why we're a little bit
Speaker 1: later on these and I typically have been in the past.
Speaker 1: This is the first free agency. It's been tough on
Speaker 1: your boy. I always say that your job, especially if
Speaker 1: you're lucky enough like I am, that your job is
Speaker 1: also your passion or your hobby or something that you
Speaker 1: would do for free. And I did it for free
Speaker 1: for a long time, for twenty bucks a month for
Speaker 1: a long time. I always say, there's lots of times
Speaker 1: that that's kind of where you find your sense of purpose, right,
Speaker 1: And I've been doing this covering this team on daily
Speaker 1: basis since the twenty sixteen season. When we sign a player,
Speaker 1: it makes my skin crawl to not get to my
Speaker 1: computer and plug in the All twenty two immediately. It
Speaker 1: makes me anty. A funny story about that last summer,
Speaker 1: the late great Jason j Ankins took our social department
Speaker 1: out for a dinner and Brickle. I'm sure you South
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Speaker 1: I had submitted my podcast that day for training camp
Speaker 1: a little before dinner. The approval and edits got put
Speaker 1: brought back and it was good to go, and on
Speaker 1: my email notification, I saw it when we were getting
Speaker 1: sitting down for drinks, and he knew. Jason knew this
Speaker 1: about me. He knew that sitting on a podcast it
Speaker 1: was ready to go gave me the most anxious feeling imaginable.
Speaker 1: So he said, it's killing you, isn't it. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and go out to your car, fire up that hot
Speaker 1: spot and published the podcast. Now, luckily I was able
Speaker 1: to reach out to one of our great admins, the
Speaker 1: great Barbara Ogontola, who works on the website, and she
Speaker 1: was able to log in and publish it for me,
Speaker 1: so I didn't have to miss that dinner. But Jason
Speaker 1: knew that if there's Dolphins news to be talked about,
Speaker 1: to be put into the universe, I want to do it.
Speaker 1: So I tell you all this to let you know
Speaker 1: that I was on paternity leave on Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 1: My wife went back to work for the first time
Speaker 1: since before Cameron was born about four months ago, and
Speaker 1: since her leave expired two days before spring break, next
Speaker 1: man up, and next man up in the situation was daddy,
Speaker 1: so didn't really have a chance to work on the podcast. Thursday, Friday,
Speaker 1: spent the weekend doing that, watching Brackson Barrios and Eric
Speaker 1: Sobert will do the exact same thing with Elliott, Malik Reid,
Speaker 1: Jake Bailey and Dan Feene coming up here. I'm telling
Speaker 1: you this because that's why we are a few days
Speaker 1: behind these signings. And again we were going to get
Speaker 1: to him eventually anyways. But I don't know if you've
Speaker 1: ever tried to work while watching a three month old,
Speaker 1: but I promise you that working in a creative environment,
Speaker 1: a creative role is about the hardest thing you can
Speaker 1: do because ideas flow, he interrupts, and the product suffers.
Speaker 1: Because to me, like you have to be inspired, you
Speaker 1: have to be in a certain frame of mind to
Speaker 1: be able to create quality content. I just am not
Speaker 1: like that when interrupted every twenty minutes. So I was
Speaker 1: very happy with the Ramsey White and Long episodes. Thought
Speaker 1: they were some of the best work you've done here.
Speaker 1: If you haven't checked those out, go back and give
Speaker 1: them a run. Our guests we interviewed were fantastic, Jordan
Speaker 1: Rod Reid, Grett Brian and Antoine Staley. But now here
Speaker 1: I am tinking cranking out some tape on a Saturday
Speaker 1: morning to get you some analysis on the Monday Podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get into those players, Braxton Barrios
Speaker 1: and Eric Saubert Barrios. I think we start with his
Speaker 1: return game because he's been one of the best in
Speaker 1: the business since he came into the NFL. The receiving
Speaker 1: production has not been great, but he's a role player
Speaker 1: in that role, and a big role he has or
Speaker 1: he fulfills, is the return game, and that was one
Speaker 1: area that the Dolphins were really not great in last year.
Speaker 1: Just never got it going. I thought Cedric Wilson had
Speaker 1: a nice rhythm late in the year, finding his groove
Speaker 1: in that department, but that obviously wasn't what he was
Speaker 1: signed for. I just kind of fell into that role.
Speaker 1: But Barrios, that is what he does. He has twenty
Speaker 1: one point returns a year ago. It was eighteenth most
Speaker 1: in the NFL. His two hundred and forty return yards
Speaker 1: were fourteenth best among returners who averaged at least one
Speaker 1: per game. Seventeen returns, his eleven point four average was
Speaker 1: sixth best in the NFL. He also brought kickoffs out
Speaker 1: at the one of the highest rates in the NFL,
Speaker 1: tied for seventh most kickoff returns with twenty six. Most
Speaker 1: Art actually had twenty five, and I will never try
Speaker 1: to determine the depth chart here in March. We can
Speaker 1: talk about what we believe we have in the roster
Speaker 1: in terms of strengths and positional value. But if Barrios
Speaker 1: can take that duty off of most Art's plate, man,
Speaker 1: give me Raheem a bigger workload in the running game
Speaker 1: or in the offense, I should say and let Brackson
Speaker 1: Barrios do the returning. That just makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: I think that Moster It's going to get even better
Speaker 1: as a runner in this offense, So taking away those
Speaker 1: twenty five reps and giving it to him on offense,
Speaker 1: to me makes sense because you get better in the
Speaker 1: return game and your running back positions better with more
Speaker 1: Raheem mosters. I think that bodes well for the offense
Speaker 1: without losing any production in the return game. In fact,
Speaker 1: you improve because most It was twenty point one yards
Speaker 1: per kickoff return last year and Barrios was twenty three
Speaker 1: point one. His six hundred yards on kickoff returns for
Speaker 1: Barrios was ninth best in the NFL, and his average
Speaker 1: was eighth best among the qualifying kickoff returners. And a
Speaker 1: fun fact, because I clicked on this category on Pro
Speaker 1: Football Reference, did you know the Dolphins had the top
Speaker 1: two players in terms of all purpose yards among players
Speaker 1: who returned to punter kickoff. Now, tygreek Hill had two
Speaker 1: returns for negative four yards, which is funny to me,
Speaker 1: but he had seventeen hundred ninety five all purpose yards
Speaker 1: and Raheem Mostert was second with fifteen hundred ninety five
Speaker 1: all purpose yards. So back to Barrios, that's been his
Speaker 1: game man since he came into the NFL as a
Speaker 1: sixth round draft pick. To who else besides the Wingland Patriots?
Speaker 1: Is he fits the Patriots to a t? He's not.
Speaker 1: He's now three quarters of the way through the AFC East.
Speaker 1: He played for the Patriots and Jets, and he'll obviously
Speaker 1: know Buffalo as well now being a Miami Dolphin back
Speaker 1: where it all began for him. So what makes a
Speaker 1: good returner? And that's kind of where I look at
Speaker 1: the film here for Barrios. That really translates between special
Speaker 1: teams and the offensive side of the football. Make the
Speaker 1: first man miss, set up your blocking and freegan go
Speaker 1: no hesitation. He who hesitates is lost in the return game,
Speaker 1: and Barrios doesn't do that, and you see that in
Speaker 1: his game as a wide receiver. Also, he averaged five
Speaker 1: point one yards after the catch last year, and that
Speaker 1: was a career low, a really good career low at
Speaker 1: five point three and one, five point eight and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty and fourteen point five and twenty nineteen. But that
Speaker 1: was on six receptions. And it should be noted that
Speaker 1: a player that catches the football where he does typically
Speaker 1: has a bigger yak because he catches a lot of
Speaker 1: balls behind the lines scrim mention. But that tells you
Speaker 1: about his strength. He's quick in a foam booth that
Speaker 1: produces a frequent first tackler missing. In fact, four hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight of his one thou eighty five receiving yards.
Speaker 1: What is that it's a little less than fifty percent
Speaker 1: or before the catch. That means six hundred thirty seven
Speaker 1: percent or after the catch, and look at me, I
Speaker 1: did the math here. That's fifty nine percent of his
Speaker 1: yardage is on yak, which is a way bigger chunk
Speaker 1: than what Tyreek Hill and Jill and Waddle had last year.
Speaker 1: But they are so damn good at pushing up, you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen yards down the field. Just different style the players,
Speaker 1: but that to me creates chances for those guys. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that here in just one second. Not to
Speaker 1: mention for Barrios. Back to the point that he had
Speaker 1: nineteen rushes for a buck six and four touchdowns. That's
Speaker 1: a touchdown every four point seven five carries. He also
Speaker 1: had nine first downs on those nineteen runs. That's really good.
Speaker 1: And you see, you kind of see that role that
Speaker 1: he fulfills in the offense. He's extremely valuable as the
Speaker 1: motion man. He led the Jets last year in pre
Speaker 1: stap motion by more than fifteen percent. You always move
Speaker 1: Barrios back and forth across the formation. They got him
Speaker 1: moving parallel to the line of scrimmage through him. Now
Speaker 1: routes which is catch rock throw through him, screens and
Speaker 1: swings and speedouts and tunnel screens coming back to the formation,
Speaker 1: and then he's just a punt returner from there. I
Speaker 1: know we typically talked about the speed of a wattle
Speaker 1: or a hill in those spots, but man, it's very
Speaker 1: very nice to be able to manufacture yardage and manipulate
Speaker 1: the down and distance when you get behind the sticks,
Speaker 1: or even on first and ten like this offense thragged
Speaker 1: on like second and threes last year. So let's say
Speaker 1: you are first and ten, or let's say it's second
Speaker 1: and twelve after a negative run, it's so nice, Bill
Speaker 1: just stand up and throw the ball to a shifty
Speaker 1: who doesn't have the attention of ten or seventeen and
Speaker 1: typically has to make one man miss to spring a
Speaker 1: nice gain to then navigate those crowded pockets and move
Speaker 1: the pile forward. And what I mean by that in
Speaker 1: manipulation of the down distance. Again, you lose two yards
Speaker 1: on first down. Maybe you get a favorable look where
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, Burris is one on one, and then
Speaker 1: we have our blocker to the strength over there. It
Speaker 1: means alec Ingold, we can just stand out field the
Speaker 1: ball to Braxon Barrios, he breaks a tackle, and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's third and five. After you know,
Speaker 1: we lost two yards on first down. That skill set
Speaker 1: translates to short yardage conversions as well. Let's say we're
Speaker 1: in eleven personnel. It's three receivers right, one tight end,
Speaker 1: one back Tyreek Jalen, Braxon Burrios. Let's say it's third
Speaker 1: and three. For the sake of this argument, Tyreek, Jalen
Speaker 1: and Braxon lineup, who do you think is getting single
Speaker 1: coverage there? It's not ten and it's not seventeen. So
Speaker 1: go to one of the shiftiest players in the game
Speaker 1: in a three yard box. And by the way, you
Speaker 1: have a three way go. What's that called an inside leverage,
Speaker 1: outside leverage? Possibility of a takeoff. As far as where
Speaker 1: you're responsible for no help, three way goes are to cover,
Speaker 1: especially against a player that has the shiftiness of Brax
Speaker 1: and Barrios probably why he has this in his corner.
Speaker 1: Sample size a small, but he's been throwing thirteen passes
Speaker 1: over his career in third or fourth down and short,
Speaker 1: and the Jets converted eight of those thirteen for first downs.
Speaker 1: That's a first down rate of sixty two percent. What's
Speaker 1: the Jets third and short rating average for their whole
Speaker 1: team over that same time, spam forty eight point three percent,
Speaker 1: So nearly fourteen percentage points better on average when going
Speaker 1: to Barrios compared to everybody else. In his career, fifty
Speaker 1: one first downs on one hundred and seven catches, he's
Speaker 1: got one oh seven for one eighty five and five touchdowns. Again,
Speaker 1: he's a role player, averages ten point one yards per catch,
Speaker 1: six point six per target, and a drop rate of
Speaker 1: just five percent. That's six drops compared to one or
Speaker 1: seven in the catch department. The advanced numbers, the best
Speaker 1: one to me is one point five seven yards per
Speaker 1: route ran. That's a great figure for a metric that's
Speaker 1: pretty damn reliable and charting receiver performance. And again for
Speaker 1: your third, fourth, maybe even fifth receiver who's gonna have
Speaker 1: a spot duty guy. It's a great number. Tyreek led
Speaker 1: the NFL last year. He's a unicorn. That number was
Speaker 1: three o seven. Not something you should aspire for if
Speaker 1: you want to be really good. Two is a good
Speaker 1: number for literally anybody. But a good comparison here like
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk who had a really good year for the Jaguars,
Speaker 1: one point seven five for him. So Barrios productive in
Speaker 1: that role that he was asked to perform. He aligned
Speaker 1: in the slot seventy percent of the time, but typically
Speaker 1: where you're going to find him out wide twenty six
Speaker 1: percent of the time, and then elsewhere backfield in line
Speaker 1: four percent of the time. He's played fifteen hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty seven career snaps on offense and special teams. He's
Speaker 1: forced eight career miss tackles as a wide receiver, two
Speaker 1: as a runner. That's ten on one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: nine touches. Again, he makes guys miss a lot. He
Speaker 1: also just brings a certain level of grit, which is
Speaker 1: a word that I don't typically use in this podcast,
Speaker 1: but he defines it twelve of twenty and contested catches
Speaker 1: For a guy who's five foot nine, it's really good.
Speaker 1: He's tough, he'll do the dirty work, and he'll be
Speaker 1: a great teammate. Tyreek Hill's pretty fired up about the addition.
Speaker 1: You can see why he called westwelko or two point oh.
Speaker 1: Tyreek's a little more bullish on that than I am,
Speaker 1: but hey, why not? Quick separators inside are only going
Speaker 1: to help Cheetah and penguin do their thing. Fun competition
Speaker 1: in that wide receiver room. We know about one A
Speaker 1: and one B, but Barrios gives you some more value there.
Speaker 1: I'm super high on eric as Ukama. River Craycraft is back, Baby,
Speaker 1: Go Kogs. We'll see about Cedric Wilson here in year two,
Speaker 1: and then whoever else can step up whether it's new additions,
Speaker 1: Braylan Sanders, Freddie Swain. Fun position to watch in camp,
Speaker 1: especially against those two cornerbacks, three cornerbacks Kater Kogul on
Speaker 1: the other side. All right, that's Barrios. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our first break and come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and do Eric Saubert's breakdown. Pretty pumped on
Speaker 1: the first four games of his that I watched. That's
Speaker 1: next Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Idle Nation, part two of a film study
Speaker 1: you breakdown skill players, my favorite positions to watch. We
Speaker 1: added another newcomer over the last few days at a
Speaker 1: skill group spot, and that is Broncos or former Broncos
Speaker 1: tight end Eric Saubert. This guy's played around the league
Speaker 1: quite a bit. This is a player you probably haven't
Speaker 1: heard a ton about, but to me, he's really intriguing
Speaker 1: on tape from the physical attributes that he offers. If
Speaker 1: you think about it. It's the first veteran we've acquired
Speaker 1: under John Embry at the tight end position. Tanner Connor
Speaker 1: was the only newcomer in the room last year, and
Speaker 1: Embry got pretty fired up talking about his room at
Speaker 1: various points last year, So I'm thinking Eric Saubert has
Speaker 1: a chance to really kind of carve out a role
Speaker 1: in this offense. And at the risk of highlight scouting,
Speaker 1: there's a touchdown that he scored against the Texans last
Speaker 1: year where I think you can kind of extrapolate that
Speaker 1: as far as what you can see his potential being
Speaker 1: because it's an example of what you get with him,
Speaker 1: and frankly, it's a ball thrown by Russell Wilson that
Speaker 1: two A really excels with. So they go unbalanced twelve personnel.
Speaker 1: That means you have one back, two tight ends, two receivers,
Speaker 1: and your two tight ends unbalanced means they're on the
Speaker 1: same side of the formation, a heavier side of the formation, right,
Speaker 1: a clear strength declaration, both tight end attached to the
Speaker 1: same side of the line. Then they run four verts,
Speaker 1: which is one of the most popular route concepts. Four
Speaker 1: verticals take the defense the top off the Typically you
Speaker 1: have a back who comes underneath for the checkdown in
Speaker 1: case your pass pro is good and the coverage is good.
Speaker 1: But in this particular instance, when you run that, you
Speaker 1: cannot cap every route, which means no help on every route.
Speaker 1: So Saubert obviously going to be the one that catches
Speaker 1: that single coverage kind of like we talked about earlier
Speaker 1: with bracks and burials. So you need guys that can
Speaker 1: beat single coverage when you have tyreek and jailing, because
Speaker 1: you're gonna get it all game long. And this is
Speaker 1: not a Texans linebacker. So that's a matchup where if
Speaker 1: I'm a quarterback break in the pocket, Hey, pretty athletic
Speaker 1: tight end against a linebacker who can't run as fast
Speaker 1: as him might be something I look at. And so
Speaker 1: you see Saubert on this play stack the linebacker, which
Speaker 1: means put him on the back, don't let him over
Speaker 1: the top, elevate for a pass and pull it in.
Speaker 1: And you also pick up the functional strength, which is
Speaker 1: the next part of his game that stands out to me,
Speaker 1: the contact balance. The linebacker tries to reroute him beyond
Speaker 1: five yards, which is a foul by the way, didn't
Speaker 1: get called, and he fights it off without slowing his
Speaker 1: pace or drifting up the stem. Recall the twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: podcast Locked on Dolphins talking about Mike Asiki. Back then,
Speaker 1: that functional strength and getting bounced off the route was
Speaker 1: a big problem. He improved it over his career. But
Speaker 1: that was like, you can't play if you can't do that,
Speaker 1: And Saubert really really excels in that regard. And again
Speaker 1: two loves throwing that exact ball, that little touch fade
Speaker 1: at the back of the end zone where he just
Speaker 1: kind of pops it with that risk flick that he has.
Speaker 1: And two has big, strong hands that he allows him
Speaker 1: to really put tight spirals and good touch throws in
Speaker 1: those spots. He damn near completed the one he threw
Speaker 1: to Jalen Waddle in the Baltimore game just before the
Speaker 1: game winning touchdown. That's the kind of players talking about here.
Speaker 1: So Saubert has these massive hands and you can see
Speaker 1: it on this catch. It reminded me of why they'd
Speaker 1: throw these balls to Gronk, and like, even though it
Speaker 1: looked like it wasn't gonna get caught because there was
Speaker 1: just too much traffic, he just found a way to
Speaker 1: haul it in because he has freaking oven mits for hands.
Speaker 1: So the tell of the tape is that Gronk has
Speaker 1: ten and three quarter inch hands. Eric Saubert is the
Speaker 1: next cloth measurement ten and five eighth inches. Those are
Speaker 1: two things that you can glean from that one snap,
Speaker 1: massive hands which also helps in blocking right grip strength,
Speaker 1: attacking the guys better. But also how about this, like
Speaker 1: he's got green marks in every RAS category. Just about
Speaker 1: those the relative athletics scorecard that measures shiftiness, explosiveness, suddenness,
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But think about that a tight end
Speaker 1: who has the biggest hands in this year's draft class
Speaker 1: of anybody besides Darnell Washington if he were a part
Speaker 1: of it. Also from Drake Earns his invite to the
Speaker 1: Shrine Bowl, does so well there that he gets the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl on invite and then winds up being one
Speaker 1: of the nineteen tight ends going to the Combine, and
Speaker 1: from there a seven to six six relative Athletics scorecard
Speaker 1: that was one hundred and sixtieth out of six hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty tight ends to that date from nineteen eighty
Speaker 1: seven good year my birth year to twenty seventeen, so
Speaker 1: a thirty year stretch the top. I don't know math
Speaker 1: one sixty out of six to eighty that's number. His
Speaker 1: percentiles are as follows among tight ends for the former
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick. Out of Drake, his height was
Speaker 1: the sixty ninth percentile. Nice weight was fifty eight percentile.
Speaker 1: So he's not massive, but he's a little bit bigger
Speaker 1: than your average tight end. But here's where the numbers pop.
Speaker 1: Forty yard dash eighty first percentile, great twenty split eightieth,
Speaker 1: ten split eightieth awesome, bench press seventy six. That functional strength.
Speaker 1: That's not a great measure of strength, but it won't
Speaker 1: use it. Vertical jump sixtieth and then broad jump eighty
Speaker 1: ninth percentile among all tight ends. That broad jump and
Speaker 1: ten split paired with the strength that he's displayed on
Speaker 1: his tape and at the bench press. What does McDaniel
Speaker 1: always say about this offense? We prioritize firing off the
Speaker 1: football and that's what Sawbert does. Man, he's quick to
Speaker 1: eat up yards in a hurry. It plays in the
Speaker 1: red zone big time. Not to mention, he's a good
Speaker 1: blocker that allows you to play with your tendencies. He's
Speaker 1: not a tight end you put in the game and
Speaker 1: automatically No, all right. This is a pass because that
Speaker 1: guy can't block right, or the converse, it's a run
Speaker 1: because that guy can't pass receive. See where we're going here.
Speaker 1: There was another touchdown he scored that I thought offers
Speaker 1: immense value in an area of the field that you
Speaker 1: just don't see that often, but executing there can be
Speaker 1: the difference in winning and losing down in the low
Speaker 1: red zone. You might run four plays in the low
Speaker 1: red zone, but they'll be the four most important plays
Speaker 1: you run in a given game. So this one's third
Speaker 1: and goal from the two Broncos. Dial up twenty three personnel.
Speaker 1: Everyone that's big, get your ass in the game. Two backs,
Speaker 1: three tight ends, no receivers. They sneak Sawbert out to
Speaker 1: the corner and he's open, but Bridgewater had pressure and
Speaker 1: has to avoid the rush first, which he does. So
Speaker 1: you see Sawbert work to space, keep his eyes in
Speaker 1: the quarterback, find a window and gives Teddy his target
Speaker 1: right at the sideline and makes the catch. It's back
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, obviously, but he can flat out
Speaker 1: roll with the ball in his hands. I mentioned that
Speaker 1: functional strength as a route runner on tape. It translates
Speaker 1: in the way tacklers bounce off this guy. Actually look
Speaker 1: at the data there and they'll go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to his run, block and pass pro game. So he's
Speaker 1: played one thirty five career snaps on offense, four hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty one of those as a receiver eighty three
Speaker 1: in pass pro but five to thirty one and run block.
Speaker 1: So really that's a fifty fifty split in terms of
Speaker 1: what's eighty three plus four to twenty one. Actually I
Speaker 1: can do that one. That's five hundred and four compared
Speaker 1: to five hundred and thirty one run blocks, So a
Speaker 1: little more run block heavy, but not by much. His
Speaker 1: alignment twenty eight percent slot, seven percent wide, so he
Speaker 1: does flex out about thirty five percent of the the time,
Speaker 1: which gives you sixty five percent attached to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage averages point seven one yards per route rand.
Speaker 1: That's not a great number. One for three uncontested catch
Speaker 1: or one for six, I should say in contested catches.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that's that low. It has to get better.
Speaker 1: And then a career six yards average depth of target.
Speaker 1: I think there are two things to Sabert's game that
Speaker 1: makes him not just an adequate blocker, but someone that
Speaker 1: I think you can count on to win his assignment
Speaker 1: as one of the keys working against the forced defender
Speaker 1: or client to cut off that scraping linebacker. We're talking
Speaker 1: about not just getting your blocks set up at the
Speaker 1: first line or the first wave, the first level of defense,
Speaker 1: but get into that second level and that's where the
Speaker 1: explosive plays come into play. He does a really good
Speaker 1: job of engaging but also being able to detach and
Speaker 1: get off those blocks. I'm just so impressed with his
Speaker 1: balance through contact. A lot of the time you see
Speaker 1: a smaller player and he's not smaller, but two fifty three. Again,
Speaker 1: it's like fifty fifth percentile in terms of tight end
Speaker 1: size standards. It's actually right in the middle. But for
Speaker 1: a guy that's not some hulking run game exclusive player,
Speaker 1: he has a really smooth ability to attach and then
Speaker 1: disengage to work up to that next level. Lots of
Speaker 1: times you see tight ends try to disengage off that
Speaker 1: spot and they don't have the fundamentals or just the
Speaker 1: footwork to put themselves in position to stay on balance
Speaker 1: and go make an effective block at the second level.
Speaker 1: We've had that issue here for a long time. I
Speaker 1: think his footwork in the blocking game is fantastic. His
Speaker 1: balance will, I think give you the best run blocker
Speaker 1: you have on the roster currently today that I expect
Speaker 1: more to come to the roster, but today I would
Speaker 1: take Sobbert over anybody. I think that's where his entire
Speaker 1: game centers the balance, both as a mover off the snap,
Speaker 1: but also through contact, be it with the football in
Speaker 1: his hands, as a runner, in leaning on a defender,
Speaker 1: generating leverage in the blocking game, or running routes through
Speaker 1: those reroute attempts. His counting stats in his career thirty
Speaker 1: three grabs, two hundred and eighty yards, two tuddies. That's
Speaker 1: on fifty two targets, five point four yards per target,
Speaker 1: eight point five per catch. Again, these none of these
Speaker 1: blow you away, but situational football, he's a guy you
Speaker 1: think about. He has a sixty three point five percent
Speaker 1: catch rate and fifty one percent of his receiving yards
Speaker 1: come after the catch. He can roll a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think from watching him, he's very a very
Speaker 1: quality asset that you insert in those roles specific situations,
Speaker 1: like I think he'll help your short yardage game a lot,
Speaker 1: which Miami was bottom in the NFL last year. Him
Speaker 1: em Barrios, I think could give you some help there.
Speaker 1: And if they see it the way I do with
Speaker 1: he em Barrios, clearly that's an emphasis because frankly, that's
Speaker 1: just one of the areas of Miami was not very
Speaker 1: good on on offense last year like that, if they
Speaker 1: improve that, they'll go from six to first in the
Speaker 1: NFL offense next year. That's just how I see it.
Speaker 1: And I think you also get a guy that's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be part of your core special teams. I think
Speaker 1: you can trust him with chipping and helping your tackles
Speaker 1: on the game's premier rushers. I think he can handle
Speaker 1: some guys in one on one situations, especially with how
Speaker 1: quickly this quarterback gets the football of his hands. To
Speaker 1: be frank about it, I just think you can trust
Speaker 1: him to not fold up immediately and produce a pressure
Speaker 1: they get your quarterback whacked. I think he can do
Speaker 1: some of the pre snap movement across the formation, the
Speaker 1: way you'll see alec Ingold or even Durham Smith come
Speaker 1: across to help dig guys out of that backside. I'm
Speaker 1: really curious to see how you work with him and
Speaker 1: Ingold as part of that equation, because I think they
Speaker 1: both excel in that regard. And again, he's been a
Speaker 1: reserve special teams guy his entire career and to me
Speaker 1: has the look of an ideal tight end to so
Speaker 1: hopefully a big time tight end one's coming, but we'll
Speaker 1: see about that. But we'll find out what role he
Speaker 1: winds up coming in August. Back to his special teams,
Speaker 1: you're a twelve hundred and eighty four snaps on teams
Speaker 1: PFF has him with twelve tackles. Six of those were
Speaker 1: last year where we had a career high three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty three special team snaps that earned him a
Speaker 1: Special Team's Great of eighty three, which ranked fourteenth in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So I can see how both coach Embry
Speaker 1: and coach Crossman wanted this guy on the roster. These
Speaker 1: are the kinds of signings that don't hit the marquee,
Speaker 1: but man, they can be valuable. We talked with Benjamin
Speaker 1: Solak of The Ringer back at the combine talking about
Speaker 1: filling in the margins. You've built your cornerstones, which is great.
Speaker 1: The margins is the easier part. A guy like Sobert,
Speaker 1: to me, is part of that equation fifty percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps and we increase our third down numbers, you know,
Speaker 1: in goal to go numbers with him in the game,
Speaker 1: that would be a massive acquisition to not break the
Speaker 1: bank and get better in those two critical critical areas
Speaker 1: of the game. That's what I see watching this player
Speaker 1: and four posterity four for five converting in those short
Speaker 1: yard situations third and fourth or goal or third and
Speaker 1: fourth or in short or goal to go situations. So
Speaker 1: there you go, very us and Sobert, we'll do I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we'll do a couple more of the guys tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll have more podcasts for you this week, breaking down
Speaker 1: all of the newest free agents here in Miami. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up this podcast. Almost had a
Speaker 1: press conference with the Jalen Ramsey press conference. In the
Speaker 1: highlights from that from last week. That's next Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. So
Speaker 1: I was not able to catch the Jalen Ramsey press
Speaker 1: conference in person because, like I mentioned, was on leave.
Speaker 1: Didn't like that, but sometimes you gotta make do with
Speaker 1: what you got. So let's go ahead and play some
Speaker 1: of the highlights here from the Ramsey press conference. Working
Speaker 1: a little bit from behind again, so let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and jump into that first thing. I start with his
Speaker 1: opener because I think it displays both his confidence and
Speaker 1: a word that we like to use around here the
Speaker 1: standard and Ramsey's only going to help you enforce the
Speaker 1: standard that we saw established by veterans like Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: I still have not seen anything like in NFL practice
Speaker 1: with Tyreek Hill. He does it better than anybody else.
Speaker 1: But m gives you some of that. On the other
Speaker 1: side as well. I like how he says here, being
Speaker 1: great on paper doesn't do anything. You have to prove it.
Speaker 1: But here he is talking about the Miami Dolphins secondary
Speaker 1: and whether or not they can be one of the
Speaker 1: best in the NFL. Not the defense. He was asked
Speaker 1: about the secondary in particular. Here is Miami star cornerback.
Speaker 1: I believe. So that's just as a type of energy
Speaker 1: our brain. That's the confidence that I always have. On paper,
Speaker 1: you know, this is the best group that I've been
Speaker 1: a part of. And I feel like I've been a
Speaker 1: part of some good groups, you know in Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: also in LA But on paper, I feel like this
Speaker 1: is the best one. Obviously with me and X on
Speaker 1: the outside, and then you got the young guys. You know,
Speaker 1: you got your mind. We just got to shine Elliott
Speaker 1: Brandon Kater, So I think we gotta we have a
Speaker 1: good secondary on paper if you look at it. But
Speaker 1: we got to put the work in, and I mean,
Speaker 1: we can speak it as much as we want to,
Speaker 1: but we don't have to go out there and prove it.
Speaker 1: And that's what we're planning to do. But it's not
Speaker 1: just about us, you know, it's a whole defense and
Speaker 1: the whole team. I think we can do something special
Speaker 1: if we put that work in and be as one.
Speaker 1: Sure do you like the way he answered that. We
Speaker 1: saw Ramsey expressing his gratitude on social media before landing
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins. Why did he want Miami? Let's
Speaker 1: go back to number five? I think to work five
Speaker 1: a lot of reasons. Um, I mean he just he
Speaker 1: just made me answer one. This defense, this secondary you
Speaker 1: look at it on paper, it's something that you would
Speaker 1: definitely want to be a part of. I know, I'm
Speaker 1: not the only person who wanted to be a part
Speaker 1: of it, and we'll want to be a part of
Speaker 1: it in the future. Being back in Florida, that's a
Speaker 1: great thing for me, closer to my family. You know,
Speaker 1: my pops he about to retire, he gonna move down here,
Speaker 1: He's gonna enjoy life. Um, obviously I got my daughters
Speaker 1: and my kids that we love a warm weather. Um,
Speaker 1: that's always a plus. The taxes, that's a plus. Right. Um,
Speaker 1: that's a good young team on the on the up
Speaker 1: and up. I feel like I can bring something to
Speaker 1: help them, you know, just be another piece to that
Speaker 1: puzzle here. And there was a lot that went into
Speaker 1: me thinking about you know, Miami, and a lot of
Speaker 1: praying that went into it, you know, Mom and Grandma
Speaker 1: praying over me. But super excited. I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: necessarily think like, oh, I'll be traded. But once it
Speaker 1: kind of started to be reality. Um, you know, me
Speaker 1: and my team, we sat down and we we kind
Speaker 1: of wrote pros and cons of different situations going on,
Speaker 1: and we um, we wrote down teams and pros and
Speaker 1: cons like which teams may be needing in need of
Speaker 1: a corner, which teams may be interested, which teams do
Speaker 1: I like as well, which teams will I fit, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever they got going on. And I remember writing down Miami,
Speaker 1: and Miami stayed at the top of my is from
Speaker 1: the jump. So yeah, then I just started praying about
Speaker 1: it and it all started to visualize for me. So
Speaker 1: I'm ready. I hope, I hope it was. You know,
Speaker 1: it's everything that I dreamed of and prayed about, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is, so I'm excited. I mean, who
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be here? Next, he was asked about
Speaker 1: his role in this defense. I have to imagine this
Speaker 1: question came as a product of listening to our Jordan
Speaker 1: Rodrigue episode. Don't think this question gets asked without hearing
Speaker 1: that first very similar scheme. So that's a blessing. I
Speaker 1: might have to learn, like some new terminology and how
Speaker 1: he names things and stuff like that, but I'm very
Speaker 1: familiar with the scheme, love the scheme. It's different ways
Speaker 1: to play it, right, and that just depends on how
Speaker 1: the floor of our team and exactly what he wanted
Speaker 1: me to do. But because I have that versatility, I
Speaker 1: can do whatever that he asked me. If if he
Speaker 1: wanted me an extra lock up the outside, that's what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do and then they're gonna do their job
Speaker 1: everywhere else. If he wanted me to move around a
Speaker 1: little bit, going and Nickel going to dime blitz, you know,
Speaker 1: cover tight ends, running whatever it is, I'd be able
Speaker 1: to do all of it. Um. I think everybody know
Speaker 1: that though, like y'all know me, like y'all know, y'all
Speaker 1: know how I get down, y'all know what I do.
Speaker 1: So being able to bring that in this in this
Speaker 1: uh to this defense, in this secondary gonna be cool
Speaker 1: for sure. I really think that Ramsey's presence is going
Speaker 1: to force a lot more balls into covered windows by
Speaker 1: xaviing Howard, by Javon holland, by Kater Cohu And to me,
Speaker 1: that's like the true value is that he will force
Speaker 1: the football to more talented players across the formation, opposed
Speaker 1: to last year when we had so many injuries, the
Speaker 1: ball was going at players that were, you know, our fifth, sixth,
Speaker 1: and seventh cornerbacks up. Next span up. Mentality, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up here. He was asked about his
Speaker 1: first impression of coach Mike McDaniel. Always a good answer here.
Speaker 1: He cool, cool coach. Cool. Coach is different, he'd be cool,
Speaker 1: he'd be chilling. He um young, like got some energy
Speaker 1: about him. You know what I'm saying, Say what's on
Speaker 1: his mind? When you want to, we can have just
Speaker 1: like real conversations. They don't feel like player talking to
Speaker 1: my coach. It kind of feels like, oh, this is
Speaker 1: my homie a little bit, which is which is dope. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, he had the authority, but that's a dope
Speaker 1: dynamic to have with your coach. Um. He keeps telling
Speaker 1: me that he's gonna be the best head coach I've
Speaker 1: ever had. That's a little you know, he nudge and
Speaker 1: shine on that a little bit because Sean was great
Speaker 1: in la Hey. But I you know, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: tough because Shine the man. But I believe him though, um,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna hold him to that. It's been but
Speaker 1: it's been cool. Man. He's real chill, real fun, real cool.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited and I know all the guys speak
Speaker 1: very highly of him too. So there you go. To
Speaker 1: watch that press conference in its entirety, head over to
Speaker 1: our YouTube channel. We'll also have some fun content with
Speaker 1: all the guys coming your way here soon. That is
Speaker 1: gonna be my time though. We'll come back tomorrow again.
Speaker 1: Not sure exactly who I'm gonna have as far as
Speaker 1: breakdowns to Sean Elliott. Can't wait to watch his tape.
Speaker 1: Dan Feeney, Jake Bailey, Malik read. I believe we'll have
Speaker 1: some media availabilities with you with these guys for you
Speaker 1: all at some point for the Thirst Show this week,
Speaker 1: perhaps twining with the idea of doing a mailbag as well,
Speaker 1: I'll do a roster review episode. I think next week.
Speaker 1: We have plenty of content coming your way here in
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