WEBVTT - The Audible Ep. 119 | Breaking Down The Running Backs 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:08.719 Well, welcome back to the Audible of John K. Jemmy. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.720 I can see you, John, I know this is great. 0:00:11.920 --> 0:00:15.000 Almost forgot what you look like. It's nice to see 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:16.960 that your clean shaven. I thought maybe you'd have one 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:19.360 of those COVID beards going on like a lot of 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:21.960 other people. I like your your choice and shirt though. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.919 Bo yeah, yeah, well, you know, I only wear what 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:31.319 they give me free for us comes to buying, I 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:33.960 who knows what I'm wearing, but if that's that's what 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:37.360 I'm wearing. So anyway, good, We're back with the Audible. 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:40.280 It's nice to be on the air. It's nice to hope, 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.879 I hopefully have our fans see us, and hopefully as 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.200 we go along we can have more interaction with them 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:48.040 as we move along with this kind of video version 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.520 of the Audible back being on in front of people. 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:52.080 And sure there's a lot of people who don't want 0:00:52.080 --> 0:00:54.320 to see our our pusses on the on the air, 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:56.840 but that's that's too bad. It's you're gonna have to 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.040 see us, and that's just the way it is. You 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:02.720 know what. It's actually fun to to correspond with somebody 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:06.360 and talk about football. Seems like we've been on, uh, 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.080 you know, out of out of the media spotlight for 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:13.600 about four or five months now and talking with friends 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.000 and families. You see people in public, you've got a 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.560 mask on, you're you're trying to talk through your masks. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:20.880 So this is this is much better for you. And 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.160 I guess no, no doubt about it. And then we've 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:25.600 got a good show lined up today. We're gonna start 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.679 off with kind of news around the league. You know, 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.240 normally we would have guests right now, but you got 0:01:31.240 --> 0:01:35.760 the rookies in being tested prior to training camp started starting. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:39.200 Training camp starts in July for everybody in the league. Now, 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.680 I just saw moments earlier that I think it's the 0:01:41.720 --> 0:01:44.440 San Francisco forty Niners have pushed their start date back 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.680 a couple of days. And I think depending on where 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.840 teams are, John, you may see a little shift, a 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.720 little movement here and there with how things go. I 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.000 don't I don't think anything right now, he said in Stone. No, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.680 And I think that's pretty fluid for every football team, 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.200 you know, whether you go from college football to the 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.520 NFL to locally at high school levels. Everybody's kind of 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:11.120 in that flux right now where you're not sure where 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:13.480 you're gonna start, when you're gonna start, how long you're 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.200 gonna go. But the good thing is, I think each 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.760 at every level, uh, they've given themselves a little bit 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:23.280 of PAD in terms of time with the NFL, especially 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.519 now that they've eliminated what would be four preseason games 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.760 down to two now zero preseason games, I think they're 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.120 gonna have a little bit of a blend of O 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.720 T A sh learning via Skype, learning in meeting rooms, 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:40.320 getting in shape, and then finally putting helmets on and 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.800 going out in practice. I think that gives each NFL 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.320 team plenty of time to get to know you yourself 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.680 as a team, get to know your assignments, get to 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.080 know and be more acclimated to being an NFL football 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.280 player if you're a rookie number one, and then for 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.040 the veterans to mix in, uh, kind of get their 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:00.480 schemes down on both sides of the football, and then 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.639 after probably a good eighteen to twenty days, finally get 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:08.200 into the rigors of a regular practice with pads. So 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:11.000 I think that the planning on the NFL in terms 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.480 of time and the way they're gonna go roll out 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.360 in into September when the regular season starts. It gives 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:20.680 them some flex there with with the scheduling. Yeah, you know, 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.840 you know, the preseason games to me, if to me 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.240 over the years have gotten to be more. You know, 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:31.040 two would be enough, especially if you did those pre practices. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.480 We practice against those teams for a few days the 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.640 play and but this is forced to to to really 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:39.240 no preseason games. And I think really, you know, with 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:43.000 no preseason games, it gives them a lot it kind 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.080 of before that, before those eighteen or twenty days of 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:50.320 padded practices that they're gonna have leading into the start 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.960 of the regular season. I think it'll give them time 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.040 to make up for what they lost in the off season. 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.880 Like you talk about O t s, you know, get learning, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.000 get some of these young guys and John, I think 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.240 one of the other things it's important, and it's you know, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:06.560 it's important. I think it's helpful, but it's also disappointing 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.560 is that they've taken rosters and dropped them from ninety 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.000 players to eight players. Now I understand it, because you 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.600 can get more reps for the guys that are gonna 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.599 be playing, you can accelerate the pace at of learning 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.560 and how and how things go. Um. But you know, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:26.600 there's thirty two teams out there, ten guys, ten guys 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:29.120 per team that aren't going to get the opportunity to 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:33.000 to fulfill their NFL dream. So three guys out there 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:35.120 that aren't gonna be able to go to training camp 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.000 because of of the COVID virus that we're all dealing with. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.360 Uh and and it's unfortunately because John, you know that 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.480 some of those guys in that three, three and twenty 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.560 player group would would would make a team, and who knows, 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:50.200 one or two of those guys may become a Pro bowler, 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:52.680 some of them may become Hall of famers. We've seen 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.200 it before over the course of the NFL. But well, 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:56.920 it's just a it's a tough time when you've got 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.960 guys that have worked, prepared and hope to get an 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.640 to an NFL camp after their college season, only to 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.279 find out that they're gonna be in the outside looking in. 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:09.280 And it really is a shame lost opportunity for a 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:13.000 lot of guys that have NFL caliber talent. I think 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.960 that's what it comes down to. Look at the way 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.160 the Miami Dolphins built their roster last year. There were 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.080 a lot of guys that no one knew who their 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.760 names were, what they what college they attended, what their 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.760 level of expertise was as a corner, as a linebacker, 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.480 as an offensive lineman, and they ended up playing and 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.520 playing significant snaps for the Miami Dolphins. And now they've 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:37.120 turned there are no names into into into resources that 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.080 are gonna be dependent upon. In two thousand and twenty, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.520 you lose that opportunity for three twenty guys. And I'm 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.800 not saying that of those guys are gonna make rosters, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:49.800 but that tend to twelve or fifteen percent. Uh. It 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.680 maybe not have made the Miami Dolphins roster, but they 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.640 may have been good enough to make the Cincinnati Bengals, 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.720 or they may have been able to, you know, go 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.200 to Seattle and be able to fit a niche that 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.279 Pete Carroll was looking for. So there's a lot of 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.520 lost opportunity. Let me look at Preston Williams, the prime example. 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.080 Here's a guy that we really came into training can 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.599 it really wasn't on anyone's radar, so to speak. But 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.880 then as soon as he started playing, all of a sudden, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.640 you know, you you start to see something and you 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.400 got in a preseason game. So yeah, it's unfortunate, but 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.400 look that's the way it is. And uh, you know, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.760 it's it's it's life this year, and who knows how 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:30.520 it's gonna go. But um, you know, it's just nice 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.720 to see that they're getting started, uh and getting going. Now. Uh, 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.560 we're into our exes and bows. We're gonna talk about 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:38.680 the running backs a little bit of the Dolphins of 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.479 all their rookies signed. Robert Hunt just signed, uh, the 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.920 last guy to sign his contracts. They've got all their 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:48.800 rookies under under contract, which is a good thing to 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.960 a talk of Viola has been here. Um, he's ready 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.480 to get to work. He's talks about him being healthy. 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.159 So I think as we go into training camp, John, 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:02.080 with this roster and I've this training camp and coming 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.280 out of this training camp and playing the way that 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.320 the coaching staff wants, the fans want they want, it's 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.920 gonna be difficult on this team, John a little more 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.800 because man, it's just been so much turnover in this 0:07:14.880 --> 0:07:18.560 football team, beginning with last year where they just kind 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.800 of you know, took a lot of starters, a lot 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:23.640 of you know, a lot of big time players, jettison 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:26.680 off to other teams via trade or whatever. Uh, and 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.120 brought in a lot of it that a lot of 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:30.760 people coming in out of the door last year during 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.440 the season, and you had a big change in this 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.400 roster during the off season. So there's a lot of 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:38.640 new faces, a lot of people that haven't met met 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.600 each other yet, a lot of people haven't been with 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.960 each other. You got whole offensive line to reshuffle, You've 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.840 got almost a whole defense that looks quite different than 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.520 it did last year. Um. And other than probably the 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.080 wide receiver position and tight end, you got a lot 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.040 of changes being made on the offense. So, UM, there's 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.040 a lot of work to be done for this football 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.400 team for them to get off to start that they 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:04.120 want to when they face New England in September. I 0:08:04.160 --> 0:08:06.240 think there is a lot of workbode But but I 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.640 do think this team starts ahead of where the Miami 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.320 Dolphins started last season because of the way they strengthened 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:15.640 this roster in free agency and in the draft. Now, 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.400 in the draft, you feel like you've you've improved your 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.360 offensive line on paper. We're hoping that that happens quickly enough. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.160 In training camp that week one that some of those 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.200 rookies are are up to play and can't play a 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.920 full NFL season, But especially on the defensive side, I 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.400 think we're much better at defensive end. You've got guys 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.160 that have NFL experience. Were much better at the linebacker position. 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.920 With Kyle van noy I mentioned, you know on the 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:43.199 edge you have od bun Loss and that that are 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.319 two guys that you know can just put a Miami 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:48.880 Dolphin uniform on and play, and if they play up 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.520 to their expectation or even close to it, it's going 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.480 to be years better than what it was last year. 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.000 At the beginning of the year. At corner, you're gonna 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:58.959 have two of the most dynamic corners in the league, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.120 hopefully play for the Miami Dolphins in tandem. So that 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.960 strengthens your defense. So I think when when you started 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.880 with the x's and bow and you talk about running backs, 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.920 I think that's where the Dolphins have to find a 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.320 way to use that nucleus to to match what they 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.200 did on defense and free agency to kind of match 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.920 what they're hoping to get at the offensive line in 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:24.360 the running back uh and the wide receiver corps. Because 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:27.000 you've got two guys in in Jordan Howard and in 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.520 Matt Brita that give you a little bit of something different. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.360 And I think you haven't really scratched the surface with 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.680 a guy like a big guy like cal Blange. You 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.880 don't know really what he is and how he's gonna 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.960 fit now in this in this season in two thousand 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:44.000 and twenty, and you still have two young guys on 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:47.720 the roster in Layard and Gascon and Perry you know, 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.120 you you draft in the seventh round that are a 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.880 little bit different. But they're all dynamic in their own way. 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.160 They all have speed, they all can catch it. You're 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.440 hoping Perry can kind of catch on and and be 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.240 something in special teams. So I think there's a good 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.320 one to punch at the top of that list with 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.080 experience and speed and power that can do a little 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.360 bit of everything. But you still have a lot of 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.959 question marks out there and how each guy is going 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.080 to fit their role and who's gonna be the odd 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.800 guy out. You know, one of the previous shows, we uh, 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.359 we went over the offensive line of Nexus and Bows, 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:21.200 and we're going over the running backs now, and they 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:23.880 couldn't be more tied together, and they couldn't be more 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:28.480 closely associated with the two. The success or failure there 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.440 within with both of those units they're equally is important. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.040 And John, when you look back at this football team 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:38.440 last year and and what the season was, probably the 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:42.480 most the two most glaring numbers that jump out to 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:46.320 me were the lack of sacks. I think it was 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:50.960 twenty three twenty three sacks by the Dolphins as a team, 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.800 and the lack of yardage from the running backs. When 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:59.040 you've got um, Ryan Fitzpatrick, You're you're leading rusher to 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:04.199 forty three, Caleb Blage, Um, you know, really didn't give 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.679 you much of anything. Uh, Mark Walton two hundred yards, 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.800 Patrick Laird hundred sixty eight yards. This team didn't have 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.319 seven hundred yards or eight hundred yards in total yards 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.880 for your entire running back group. And John, that that 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:23.920 is a very very unacceptable and very very disappointing number. 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.840 That is gonna take this offensive line and this running 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.520 back You know they're gonna have to get a big 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.760 effort out there to get it done. But but I'm 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.200 with you, and I like the addition to Jordan Howard. 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.960 He gives you experience, he gives you carries He's been 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:42.040 on a number of teams, and I just remember watching 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.360 the forty Niners early last year and watching Matt Breda, 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:48.520 and you know, this guy is maybe as fast as 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:51.280 anybody in the National Football League. Uh. He can break 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.880 it from anywhere. Uh. You know, he's got he's got 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.360 a he's got a quick get to the hall and 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.160 if he gets to that second level, he can really 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.040 do some good things. So I think those to really 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:05.040 add a punch. Now. That the the one guy that 0:12:05.120 --> 0:12:08.400 I look at. And I'm not sure if last year 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.719 was the real thing or if we can expect more 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.120 out of Kalin Blage, but you know, you saw some 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:18.240 sparks of him prior to last year. But boy, last 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.920 year was I think any garage wo under two yards 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.600 per rush. Uh, and that's not gonna get it done. 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.839 Patrick Laird late in the season showed you a couple 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.960 of flashes of doing some things. But you know, I 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.000 think it's gonna take a lot for him to really 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:35.920 become part of a rotation in that running game unless 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.840 there are some injuries. And the guy, I think that's 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.760 that's that's that should interest everybody, whether you're looking for 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.880 a slot receiver when you're looking for a running back wherever, 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.600 where you're looking for a kick returner is is Malcolm 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:51.559 Perry the rookie out of out of the Navy who 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.480 can do a lot of different things And it might 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.679 be a guy that can be uh, you know, can 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.240 can show you a lot of different things. Put use 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.240 him and put him in a lot of mismatch is 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.600 whether it's at the slot, whether it's at the running 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.199 back coming out of the backfield and doing some different 0:13:05.240 --> 0:13:07.679 things like there as well as running the football. If 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:09.400 you want to create some kind of a little option 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.560 package with what he's come when when he's coming out 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:15.800 of from the midshipment, and what they've done during their 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.000 their time there. Well, I agree with you. It was 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.520 highly disappointing what the Miami Dolphins did last year, and 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.000 it starts it stems from that offensive line with Caleb 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.320 Blaje getting hit behind the line of scrimmage before he 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.720 could even get going. It seemed like he was going 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:33.160 sideways instead of forward and pressing the whole So I 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:36.160 think there's a combination in that. And you're hoping, uh, 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:39.040 we're all hoping that the offensive line improvement will help 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.760 the running game. So that Ryan Fitzpatrick does not have 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.360 to be the leading rusher of the Miami Dolphins. That 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.880 I think that's a a statistic and something he wants 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.920 to take off of his back and shoulders this year 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.800 in two thousand and twenty. I do believe that combination 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:55.840 though at the top of the list Howard and Brita. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:59.040 Brita gives you that explosiveness. He gives you, uh, that 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:01.240 lightning in a bottle. He can hit, you know, a 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.880 home run from sin yards away. And I think Howard's 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.199 more of the consistent plot or that's really good in 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.600 the red zone. Good and short yardage can get you 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:13.440 yards after contact. But I don't think we we quite 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.840 know what we have in calin balage. But it was 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.120 disappointing last year. Whether that's on him, the offensive line, 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.000 or a combination of both. It just wasn't good enough 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:27.160 to sustain and help out with play action, to help 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.800 out with the passing game that you're looking for to 0:14:29.880 --> 0:14:33.880 offset what you need balance, or just take some pressure 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.920 off the passing game to be able to get some 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:39.080 yards after contact. And with the other guys, I thought 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.440 they were pretty good. I thought Gaskin came along late. 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.520 I thought Laird came along late. They have some flashes 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:47.800 of what they can do. It's all how they mesh 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.800 with the guys that are at the at the top 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.760 of the food chain right now in the backfield. And 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.200 that's the two guys with experience. So somehow this team, 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.280 whether it's one guy or whether it's four guy, is 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:04.320 somehow out of that offensive, out of that running back room. 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:08.040 They've got to get fifteen hundred plus yards on the ground. 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:10.680 I mean, you know, whether it's you know, it's you know, 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.000 whether someone's gets someone gets a thousand, or two guys 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.240 get five hundred, another couple of guys in both. I 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.480 would even say, you know, throw in run after catch, 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.520 opportunities on screens and dump backdowns and all that stuff 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:24.120 that it has to add up, you know, to being 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.720 much more productive than it was last year year. You 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.160 know this, It doesn't need to be a team that's hey, 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:32.200 it's gonna be Jordan Howard's our starter. And you know, 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.640 they put put them both in the backfield, put gas 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.840 you know, mixed, you know, and I would expect this 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.200 offense under chan Gay, we should do some of that. 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.680 Put them in situations where you've got a Jordan Howard 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.960 or a Matt Greed and Malcolm Perry in the backfield 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.280 and send them out and do different things. I know 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.560 one thing that's got to happen with these guys, John, 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:55.240 It's gotta happened pretty quickly, especially with if two are 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:58.080 depending on what his you know what, what what his 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.960 starting day is going to be, whether he's gonna start 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:04.200 at all this season, whether he's gonna start later in 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.200 the season, whether they go through training camp and he 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.920 beats out Ryan fitzpatrickin is to start at the beginning 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.680 of the season. Whenever that happens, you know, that offensive 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:18.600 line or that offensive line in conjunction with that, with 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.440 that that group of running backs, you know, they've got 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.000 to protect. They've got to be better protecting the blitz. 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.080 The running backs in particular, they've got to have you know, 0:16:27.160 --> 0:16:28.360 you know how it is, John. You can have a 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.280 guy that can give you some nice yards every now 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.960 and then, but if he can't step up and protect 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.440 your quarterback in the blitz, he's really not that good. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.040 They're not not very good for you. So along with 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:41.320 the running game, along with trying to give this this 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.080 team opportunity to be second and four second and three 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.000 second and six those types of situations. You know they're 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.960 gonna have to run the football well, but they're gonna 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.400 have to do their job when it comes to protecting 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.480 on blitz blitz pickups, and they've got to stick their 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.240 head in there and prove that they want to get 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.840 the job done. Yeah. Well, rounded at the running back position, 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:04.480 you have to do a little bit of everything, and 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:07.320 that includes stepping up sometimes and taking on a safety 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.880 or a linebacker. And it doesn't have to be dominant 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.200 all the time. You just have to be able to sustain, 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:13.840 to be able to be in the right place at 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:16.600 the right time, and give your quarterback that room in 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.280 the pocket just to be able to move and maneuver 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.040 and find some room within the pocket, be able to 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.000 get rid of the football and get it out on time. 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.560 And I would expect Howard to take the majority of 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.679 that stuff, Brita as your third down kind of scatback, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:33.560 doing some things like that, but all of them at 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.679 some point are gonna be asked to step up and 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.840 do that job. So I'm quite sure with with the 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.199 limited time and pads and without preseason, those guys are 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.080 gonna have to get real proficient in protecting the quarterback. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.359 Deeper into training camp, a lot a lot of a 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:51.880 lot of communication between that offensive line and what they're 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:54.680 doing in these guys, and and you know, it's just 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.679 you know, these guys don't now I've all played in 0:17:57.800 --> 0:17:59.840 like Brita and how are they've all played in this 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.240 r p O you know, run pass option type of offense, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.960 spread offense, so they know what to do. Maybe some 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.760 of those offensive line and some of the young guys 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:10.720 need to kind of get gonna take them a while. 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.399 But you know, I'm excited about the group. I'm excited 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.960 about both groups on paper. I just hope that after 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:20.320 four weeks of training camp, I'm still as excited about 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.440 because I am right now because I think I think 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.919 from a personnel standpoint, I think this team has done 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.879 a good job both in free agency and the draft 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.520 when it comes to running backs. And they've done the 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.160 same thing on the offensive line, adding adding free agents 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:38.280 and then peppering in those those those young guys that uh, 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:40.800 you know you've got you know you got a first 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:45.280 round first round guy contribute your starting left tackle. Uh, 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.000 you've probably got at least one more hunt or one 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:50.679 of these other guys that's gonna start either at the 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:54.240 left guard or left tackle. Uh, and then some other 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.320 guys to compete. So uh, you know, I think with 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.560 Austin Jackson in that group coming in and the with 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:03.880 the veterans so that they've signed in free agency, Uh, 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:07.520 there's no reason that that offensive line shouldn't be much 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:12.560 better and and I would be disappointing this offensive this 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.640 group group of running backs is a lot more productive 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.600 than what we saw last year. Well, I think so bo. 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:21.000 I think that there's only one way to go with 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.960 with both groups, and that's up because the Dolphins can't 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:28.080 win with any consistency if they're going to be as 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.800 poor as they were on a consistent basis weekend and 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:35.920 week out. With the running yards per carry, yards after 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.280 first contact and being able to protect your quarterback and 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.960 lastly be able to create a crease and the offensive line, 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.760 you know, somewhere along the line of scrimmage where those backs, 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.960 whether it's Brita hitting it quickly or Howard bouncing off 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.840 a couple of people, or you know it's Millage kind 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.960 of getting going without getting hit behind the line of scrimmage. 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:58.359 I mean that those two units work in unison and 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:00.320 it's not going to work at the guy's up front 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:04.360 can't do it with any more consistency. So you're right there, 0:20:04.359 --> 0:20:06.800 tied at the hip both offensive line and running back. 0:20:06.840 --> 0:20:09.240