Speaker 1: Practice traffic drowing high into the Parker Tuxtown. What a
Speaker 1: win for this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network covering your Miami Dolphins. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, here to bring you your daily
Speaker 1: dose of Miami Dolphins football. With draft season nearing and
Speaker 1: the Underwear Olympics in the books, draft pundits are beginning
Speaker 1: to finalize their big boards and we're gonna talk with
Speaker 1: one of the very best in the business today. Jordan
Speaker 1: Reed of the Draft Network joins us will get his
Speaker 1: biggest risers from Indianapolis. We'll talk some quarterbacks, and of
Speaker 1: course talk about his updated top two hundred big board.
Speaker 1: All of that and more here on this Wednesday marks
Speaker 1: the fourth edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins, and I'm
Speaker 1: very pleased to be joined today by the senior draft
Speaker 1: analysts for the Draft Network, the host of Locked On
Speaker 1: College Football and former North Carolina Central quarterback. He is
Speaker 1: Jordan Read. Jordan, thanks for joining me, man, thank you
Speaker 1: for having me on. Travis. Yeah, it's good to meet
Speaker 1: you down in Indianapolis. Your first combine, my first combine
Speaker 1: and with that, that's kind of the theme of the
Speaker 1: week here on the Drivetime podcast and across all kinds
Speaker 1: of podcast out there in the podcast universe. And so
Speaker 1: I wanted to first ask you which players out there
Speaker 1: that really did well for themselves, whether it was the
Speaker 1: interviews or the on field workouts or the measurements, who
Speaker 1: really made the biggest strides last week in Indianapolis on
Speaker 1: your big board. Um, there was quite a few guys
Speaker 1: that really did bump themselves up. Um. You know, it's
Speaker 1: just different getting to see these guys in person, just
Speaker 1: because you can watch all the film in the world
Speaker 1: and you can read all about these guys, but it's
Speaker 1: just different being in front of him actually talking to him.
Speaker 1: But one guy that really did imprence me was claib
Speaker 1: and Song, the defensive end from L s U. And
Speaker 1: would impress me so much about him? Is that actually
Speaker 1: got the first question into him and I just said, man,
Speaker 1: just go and said, like, addressed the run defensive issues
Speaker 1: that everybody has with you and he was just said
Speaker 1: he just said that, you know, whenever you're hiring somebody,
Speaker 1: do you want to hire somebody that speaks one language
Speaker 1: or three languages? And he said, I'm the guy that
Speaker 1: can speak three languages. And he said he can rest
Speaker 1: the pastor he can drop in coverage, and also he
Speaker 1: can play the run. So I thought that was a
Speaker 1: really impressive answer. And then I thought the tackle class.
Speaker 1: I thought it definitely lived up to the hype. We
Speaker 1: saw what Tristan Works did with his forty times and
Speaker 1: his vertical running four eight five, which is incredible, and
Speaker 1: then jumping thirty six and the offenses at six ft
Speaker 1: four three twenty pounds just remarkable. McKay Beckton was unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and Andrew Thomas and Jigrick Wills performed really well, but
Speaker 1: they were a bit overshadowed by what Tristan Worst and
Speaker 1: back and did. So I thought the top tier the
Speaker 1: offensive tackle class really lived up to the hype. Well,
Speaker 1: I want to kind of go around our rundown we
Speaker 1: have here that are prepared with you, Jordan, because you
Speaker 1: made a good point there about this tackle class. But first,
Speaker 1: real quick, you mentioned the three languages of Calaban Chason,
Speaker 1: and I saw a stat that in the Alabama game
Speaker 1: he had twenty one apps going backwards and coverage and
Speaker 1: only eighteen as a rusher. So that speaks to his
Speaker 1: versatility very very well in that regard. But to get
Speaker 1: back to the tackle class you mentioned, the Dolphins traded
Speaker 1: Laramie tons Al last year for two first round picks
Speaker 1: and a second round pick, and the next season, in
Speaker 1: my opinion, Jordan's this draft class is pretty much loaded
Speaker 1: at the top of the offensive tackle position as well.
Speaker 1: So where do you kind of place the value of
Speaker 1: that Laramie Tonsil trade And do you think the draft
Speaker 1: classes we have the next two years really make it
Speaker 1: even more impressive for the Dolphins. Yeah, definitely. Anytime you
Speaker 1: can get a treasure trove with picks, I think it's
Speaker 1: always a good thing. Now, the hard part for Chris
Speaker 1: Greer and Brian floor is is just turning those speaks
Speaker 1: into actual players. And it's always easy getting rid of
Speaker 1: these guys, are you know, trading them for something, But
Speaker 1: turning them into actual players that's really where the hard
Speaker 1: part really comes for them. So it's gonna be really challenging,
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited to see what they do. But
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm really I don't want to say I'm
Speaker 1: glad that they made the trade for Tunsil, but I
Speaker 1: thought it really made sense for them, just because especially
Speaker 1: to that's going through a rebuild and a guy that
Speaker 1: was really going to be asking for a contract here
Speaker 1: soon by the time he really was hitting his stride
Speaker 1: and in this prime, it really didn't make sense to
Speaker 1: keep him here in Miami. So I thought they did
Speaker 1: a really good job of getting value for Tunseil. Now,
Speaker 1: if they do want to take a tackle, whether that's
Speaker 1: at five, eighteen or twenty six, we'll see what does
Speaker 1: happen with that, or if they want to wait till
Speaker 1: I haven't actually dug into the offensive tackle class in one,
Speaker 1: of course, just because it's a year away. We know
Speaker 1: when they sewed from Oregon is one name that's already
Speaker 1: out there. But we'll see what does happen with Miami
Speaker 1: how they decide to attack the offensive tackle position going forward.
Speaker 1: And Chris Career has gone on a record on the
Speaker 1: Move the Sticks podcast and otherwise saying that they do
Speaker 1: view this as kind of a two year approach, a
Speaker 1: two year snapshot. Is that common for you in terms
Speaker 1: of scouting circles to kind of have an idea about
Speaker 1: what you might be looking at next season? You mentioned
Speaker 1: you haven't looked at the offensive tackle class, but is
Speaker 1: that kind of rare to do that. Well, sometimes you
Speaker 1: get teams that really look ahead, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of fans get caught up in doing that, like
Speaker 1: Drevor Lawrence and just to feel is everybody's already looking
Speaker 1: forward to that quarterback class for next year. But I
Speaker 1: think fans kind of get a little bit caught on
Speaker 1: the hype a little bit more than what teams do,
Speaker 1: just because teams take a year by year approach, and
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins are just fixated on exactly what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do with this treasure travel picks that they
Speaker 1: have this year, and they have to understand exactly how
Speaker 1: they're gonna attack. They have to treat these things because
Speaker 1: that you to your operation. And I think that's exactly
Speaker 1: what Chris Greers taking. That's the approach that he's taken.
Speaker 1: And we talked about your risers up the board for
Speaker 1: the combine. You just updated your two hundred big board
Speaker 1: on the Draft Network again. Jordan Reed here joining me
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime podcast, and I just want to kind
Speaker 1: of get your general consensus from that two hundred big board,
Speaker 1: like what stands out from Jordan Reads big board compared
Speaker 1: to some other pundits out there and just kind of
Speaker 1: talk about the activity of your big board the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. Um. I think what really stands out
Speaker 1: about it is just the guys at the top, and
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of shuffling going on just because
Speaker 1: you're seeing guys really makes stand out performances, whether that's
Speaker 1: at the combine or you know, some of the other
Speaker 1: things they that did down the back stretch of the year.
Speaker 1: And I mean, Chase Young is a guy that's been
Speaker 1: at the top for me since the summertime, but Jeffer
Speaker 1: Coute and Isett Simmons, the guys that have skyrocketed up
Speaker 1: the board just because the Kudo was basically a one
Speaker 1: year starter coming into the year. He's i should say,
Speaker 1: only started three games coming into the year. This is
Speaker 1: his first year in two thousand nineteen where he was
Speaker 1: a full time starter, and I mean he's just been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: As Simmons, we know what he's done and how well
Speaker 1: he performed at the combine, and then it means you
Speaker 1: get the quarterbacks that have skyrocketed up the board. Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow is a guy that was basically relatively unknown coming
Speaker 1: into the year. He was seen as a midground pick,
Speaker 1: but he went out and probably had arguably the best
Speaker 1: football season that we've seen from a college quarterback and
Speaker 1: quite some time, and possibly ever, and then the offensive tackles.
Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't know about a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of these guys coming into the year outside of Andrew Thomas.
Speaker 1: But I think they've done a really good job of
Speaker 1: performing up to part and really competing with the excuse me,
Speaker 1: competing with each other. And you mentioned that quarterback class.
Speaker 1: We of course have you know, four or five, maybe
Speaker 1: even six quarterbacks value in that first round based upon
Speaker 1: what the draft network says, and always that bump you
Speaker 1: get from the quarterback class in terms of teams going
Speaker 1: up after the quarterback sooner than expected because of the
Speaker 1: value they offer your team. So can you kind of
Speaker 1: sort this quarterback class for us? How do you rank them?
Speaker 1: And also what does each guy do at top of
Speaker 1: the class that separates that player from the rest of
Speaker 1: his peers in this year's class. Yes, so I'll just
Speaker 1: start with Joe Burrow. He's pretty much seen as the
Speaker 1: consistent top guy, and I mean he's probably gonna end
Speaker 1: up being if all signs point to exactly what is
Speaker 1: expected to happen with him being a number one overall big,
Speaker 1: him being an understenter and Cincinnati, and I mean the
Speaker 1: production speaks to herself. He was phenomenal. Sixty touchdowns over
Speaker 1: five thousand yards passing this year. He had a season
Speaker 1: quite like anything we've ever seen before. And you know,
Speaker 1: they had to plit the real weapons down there and
Speaker 1: he was able to use them properly. So Burrow was
Speaker 1: just fantastic. But I think the thing that makes him
Speaker 1: stand out it's just his pocket movability, maneuverability, I should say,
Speaker 1: it's just his improvisation and accuracy and just awareness of
Speaker 1: where to go with the ball at all times, no
Speaker 1: matter which platform he has to throw phone, whether that's
Speaker 1: within the pocket or being able to create and play
Speaker 1: a little bit of sandlot football outside of the pocket.
Speaker 1: I think that's where he does thrive. So, uh, Cincinnati
Speaker 1: is gonna get a really good player with him if
Speaker 1: they do elect to take him at the top of
Speaker 1: the draft. And then this guy we have to attack
Speaker 1: of by lower. I don't want to say he's the
Speaker 1: consensus second guy, but amongst the most boards, he's the
Speaker 1: second quarterback to right now, it should take QP two
Speaker 1: amongst most boards right now, But durability, that's the one
Speaker 1: thing that is always going to be circled on his
Speaker 1: resume and the big question mark that he has to answer.
Speaker 1: On April ninth, that is the pro day that he's
Speaker 1: gonna have. He's gonna have a separate workout from everybody
Speaker 1: else to where he's just gonna have a throwing session.
Speaker 1: I'm sure that is an event that pretty much every
Speaker 1: team in the league is gonna want to be at
Speaker 1: just because they want to see how healthy too. It
Speaker 1: is going into the draft before a team ultimately has
Speaker 1: to make a decision on where to draft him. And
Speaker 1: I know there has been a popular name of being
Speaker 1: linked to the Dolphins, so I'm sure Chris Career and
Speaker 1: Brian floor Is will definitely have some interest in what's
Speaker 1: going on April ninth. Then after that, I think you
Speaker 1: get into a lot of guys that really have some
Speaker 1: question marks. And Justin Herbert, I'll just start with him,
Speaker 1: a guy that came back for a senior year and
Speaker 1: a lot of people were expecting a little bit more
Speaker 1: from him, but I thought he played really well down
Speaker 1: the backstretch of the year and the big thing that
Speaker 1: Herbert has done this year, I think that had separated
Speaker 1: himself from some of these other guys is that he
Speaker 1: went down to the Senior Bowl. He was fantastic, he competed.
Speaker 1: Then he went down at the Comboy and he did
Speaker 1: exactly what he needed to do. So I thought the
Speaker 1: competition aspect is showing that he can be a leader.
Speaker 1: I thought he I think he checked two big question
Speaker 1: marks with two big boxes, I should say, going into
Speaker 1: the pre drift process for him. So he's done a
Speaker 1: really good job of answering some questions out there that
Speaker 1: we're out there about him. And then Jordan loved a
Speaker 1: guy that that opinions are kind of all over the
Speaker 1: place a little bit about him, just because he had
Speaker 1: a very productive eighteen season thirty two touchdowns, six interceptions,
Speaker 1: and he comes back he has a precipitous drop off
Speaker 1: in his production twenty touchdowns to seventeen ye interceptions, But
Speaker 1: there was a lot of changing variables around him, had
Speaker 1: a new head coach, new offensive coordinator, and he lost
Speaker 1: his top three weapons as well. So that's something that
Speaker 1: he does have to his disposal. And outside of that,
Speaker 1: you're getting into some other guys Jalen Hurts from Oklahoma,
Speaker 1: another guy that a lot of teams are kind of
Speaker 1: mixed on right now, just because uh he I showed
Speaker 1: some progression as a pastor, but a lot of teams
Speaker 1: still thinking they're some for growth there. And he's a
Speaker 1: guy you really have to invest all in on, similar
Speaker 1: to Lamar Jackson situation, with the type of offense that
Speaker 1: you're gonna run with him, and then you're getting into
Speaker 1: some third and fourth to your guys like Jacob Bison
Speaker 1: from Washington and then some other guys along the lines
Speaker 1: of that as well. Anthony Gordon from Washington State. There's
Speaker 1: another late round name to have a lot of teams
Speaker 1: excited as well. And I always have to put an
Speaker 1: obligatory go Coog's and they're talking about the Washington State
Speaker 1: players because I of course went to Washington State and
Speaker 1: you mentioned some of the later round draft picks there
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. I do want to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts here, Jordan's on who are some good value buys
Speaker 1: kind of by round, because this Dolphins Draft, you're gonna
Speaker 1: see that logo up on the TV pretty much every
Speaker 1: five or ten minutes. It seems like with all these
Speaker 1: draft picks they have, and I know we talked about
Speaker 1: Sleepers being a Day three pick, maybe late on Day
Speaker 1: two even, but I want to get your feelings for
Speaker 1: who could be some good value picks by round, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be the second round, like it
Speaker 1: could be picked eighteen or pick twenty six. Who are
Speaker 1: some of the best value guys you might be able
Speaker 1: to get along each step of the way in this
Speaker 1: year's class. Uh So, I think one guy really liked that.
Speaker 1: What that I think really fits with Brian Flores wants
Speaker 1: to do as far as defensively and just having an
Speaker 1: ultimate chess piece on the back end. Antoine Winfield Jr.
Speaker 1: The safety from Minnesota. I think he's one guy that
Speaker 1: really fits with Brian Flores wants to do as far
Speaker 1: as a guy that can really move all over the place.
Speaker 1: And I know position this prospect has been a very
Speaker 1: common phrase for a lot of prospects around this time
Speaker 1: of year. I know Isaiah Simmons, that has been commonly
Speaker 1: pigged as a phrase used to describe him. But I
Speaker 1: think you definitely can use that phrase also with antoinain
Speaker 1: Field Junior. Just because he's not just the safety, you
Speaker 1: can use him as a blitcher. He can play in
Speaker 1: nicole corner. He's even had some some players where he's
Speaker 1: played outside corner. Now, he's not gonna be able to
Speaker 1: survive consistently out there just because he's not a super
Speaker 1: big guy, but that just goes to show you just
Speaker 1: the type of type of versatility that he does bring
Speaker 1: to the table. And that's exactly what Brian Flores talks
Speaker 1: about all the time that he just wants these guys
Speaker 1: to be interchangeable, and he wants to be able to
Speaker 1: use some guys in certain areas and he's he's a
Speaker 1: very creative mind. So getting a guy like an Antoine
Speaker 1: Winfield junior, he can move him all over the place.
Speaker 1: And one sleeper name that I think really fits what
Speaker 1: Miami wants to do, and he's probably gonna be a
Speaker 1: third or fourth round pick. His name is Kali Kareem
Speaker 1: from Notre Dame and he's more of a four eye
Speaker 1: or four technique, meaning that he's probably gonna be head
Speaker 1: up over the tackles for the most part, and that's
Speaker 1: a common position and Brian floor as his defense. Now,
Speaker 1: he's not a speedy edge dresser or anything like that,
Speaker 1: but if you're looking for a player that can two
Speaker 1: gap and really hold at the point of attack. I
Speaker 1: think he's a player that definitely could sit and what
Speaker 1: Brian Flores wants to do in his defensive scheme. And
Speaker 1: they had plenty of guys running multiple possitions across the
Speaker 1: defensive line last year. Davon Gadha and Christian Wilkins pretty
Speaker 1: much played anywhere from the nose of the zero tech
Speaker 1: all the way out to the five like you mentioned there.
Speaker 1: So that versatility always goes along with with this football team,
Speaker 1: both on the field and on the sideline with the
Speaker 1: coaching staff. And I just wanted to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: on just some more Dolphins targets here late in this draft,
Speaker 1: because again, they're gonna have so many draft picks beyond
Speaker 1: just those top three rounds, maybe into that third round,
Speaker 1: some of the smaller school guys, some of the sleepers
Speaker 1: in the back half of the draft. You got any
Speaker 1: of those guys for me here? Jordan's um, some small
Speaker 1: school guys. Maybe they're looking for an interior offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: Now he's not gonna be a late round guy. Maybe
Speaker 1: Day two, late day two, early day three. Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: from Louisiana Lafayette and also his teammate given Dots, and
Speaker 1: I think either one of those guys definitely can be
Speaker 1: a value pick, whether that's in the third or even
Speaker 1: the fourth round. I definitely think either one of those
Speaker 1: guys definitely will be really good pickups. And then we
Speaker 1: also have a quarterback said situation coming into the off season,
Speaker 1: but we do know that Ryan Fitzpatrick is the quarterback
Speaker 1: currently holding down the starting position heading into and I
Speaker 1: put a piece up on Miami Dolphins dot Com kind
Speaker 1: of talking about how he's aged better at the back
Speaker 1: end of his career now in year fifteen and really
Speaker 1: statistically speaking on the film analytics, everywhere you look, he's
Speaker 1: improved late in his career. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick as the quarterback next season for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I love him. Whenever you're thinking about a guy that
Speaker 1: is an ideal bridge gap type of quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: is definitely one of the top names that comes to mind,
Speaker 1: just because what I love about Fitzpatrick is that he
Speaker 1: always understands his role when he never complains about it,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna give you a ten percent every time
Speaker 1: he's out on the field, and he also generates some
Speaker 1: excitement while doing it. And he's the ultimate leader, I
Speaker 1: like to say, just because guys are gonna play hard
Speaker 1: for him, just because they see the effort that he's given.
Speaker 1: And I mean, he was the team's leading rusher last year,
Speaker 1: So that just goes to show you, like how well
Speaker 1: he played last year and just how much he lays
Speaker 1: it all out on the line and team and teams
Speaker 1: are seeing that, and guy, his teammates are seeing that
Speaker 1: that he lays it all out on the line every
Speaker 1: time he's after on the field, and he welcomes competition
Speaker 1: and he embraces it and he runs with it. So
Speaker 1: that's something I've always enjoyed with this Patrick, no matter
Speaker 1: where he's been throughout his career. Yeah, I can always
Speaker 1: talk about the ability for the Dolphins offensive score points
Speaker 1: late in the season. They had a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five first downs in December last year. Just to make
Speaker 1: a reference point to that, the Baltimore Ravens in the
Speaker 1: month of December, the number one offense in the NFL,
Speaker 1: only had a hundred and twelve first down. So Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick definitely got that offense cranking towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year, Jordan read the Draft Network Lockdown College Football podcast.
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Speaker 1: He is not Jordan Reid of the Washington Redskins the
Speaker 1: Draft Network Jordan, We appreciate your time so much, man,
Speaker 1: thanks a lot for doing this. Thank you as always, Dravis,
Speaker 1: the pleasure being here. And one of the things Jordan
Speaker 1: did so brilliantly there for me and probably unintentionally, was
Speaker 1: he teamed me up to get into my next segments
Speaker 1: here talking about a couple of pieces on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot Com. And I want to parlay this right into
Speaker 1: the Ryan Fitzpatrick peace talking about how he has improved
Speaker 1: with age, and we actually heard him talk about that
Speaker 1: last year and his first mini camp way back in April,
Speaker 1: just a month after he signed with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And there are some age perceptions that are out there
Speaker 1: in the NFL and football world in general, and obviously
Speaker 1: being old and football is much different than being old
Speaker 1: in real life, but typically right around the thirty mark,
Speaker 1: that's kind of when conventional wisdom says, maybe the clock
Speaker 1: starts on this player. And I've always made the argument
Speaker 1: that for quarterbacks, the more they see the game with
Speaker 1: their mind, and especially as we get further and further
Speaker 1: into this modern day era of the National Football League,
Speaker 1: that quarterbacks get sharper upstairs, and maybe even if the
Speaker 1: physical skills are not what they were at age twenty five,
Speaker 1: that they can play even better football, because playing quarterback
Speaker 1: is all about how you beat teams with your mind.
Speaker 1: And that's why you see guys like Tom Brady winning
Speaker 1: super Bowls post forty birthday or Drew Brees throwing for
Speaker 1: a billion yards every year in his thirty eight, thirty nine,
Speaker 1: age forty seasons. And Ryan Fitzpatrick's career is basically on
Speaker 1: a similar trajectory as that, and he mentioned it last
Speaker 1: year at the Minicamps, saying, quote, I think in the
Speaker 1: last four or five years, I've really gotten better every year.
Speaker 1: And I think, as funny as it sounds, I think
Speaker 1: my best football is still ahead of me. And although
Speaker 1: the box score is not the end all be all,
Speaker 1: the data does agree with Ryan Fitzpatrick that he's trending
Speaker 1: upwards in his career. If you go back over the
Speaker 1: past six seasons, his numbers have improved from the first
Speaker 1: nine years of his career post thirty second birthday, a
Speaker 1: sixty point eight completion percentage that's up by a full
Speaker 1: point a seven point four yards per attempt average that's
Speaker 1: up almost a full yard point nine points better than
Speaker 1: what it was the first nine years of his career.
Speaker 1: A four point eight touchdown percent compared to four point
Speaker 1: one in the first stanza of his career, a three
Speaker 1: point one interception rate compared to three point six, and
Speaker 1: an eighty six point three passer rating compared to seventy
Speaker 1: seven point five. Now, if you narrow that focus even more,
Speaker 1: just the last two seasons with Tampa Bay and Miami respectively,
Speaker 1: it's been the best two year stretch of Fitzpatrick's fifteen
Speaker 1: year career. Sixty three point five completion percentage, seven point
Speaker 1: nine yards per pass, four point nine percent touchdown rate,
Speaker 1: three point three interception rate, and a ninety point four
Speaker 1: passer rating. And the most recent sample size. To even
Speaker 1: narrow that focus more and take a look at the
Speaker 1: final twelve games of the season, when he came back
Speaker 1: into the lineup off the bench in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: of the Washington game. Since that time, he threw nineteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns compared to nine picks. He completed sixty three point
Speaker 1: one percent of his passes, and he rushed for two
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine yards and four touchdowns on fifty
Speaker 1: two carries. That twelve games stretch right there. With twenty
Speaker 1: three total touchdowns nineteen passing four rushing, that gives him
Speaker 1: a rate of one point nine two touchdowns per game produced.
Speaker 1: That's the franchise's highest single season rate since Dan Marino
Speaker 1: in nine, who was at one point nine three, so
Speaker 1: one of a touchdown per game better. And Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: this last season? What about advanced metrics and Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: From Week six on, he was the tenth highest graded
Speaker 1: passer on Pro Football Focus. He was the twelfth overall
Speaker 1: quarterback on PFF. He ranked second and first downs over
Speaker 1: that stretch and eleventh in touchdowns. Cumulatively, he was Pro
Speaker 1: Football focuses sixteenth grade quarterback on the nineteen season, and
Speaker 1: among quarterbacks with at least twenty throws downfield that's twenty
Speaker 1: yards or more, he ranked ninth in passer rating and
Speaker 1: on throws in which the ball came out in less
Speaker 1: than two and a half seconds, Fitzpatrick's fourteen touchdown passes
Speaker 1: on that particular instance was sixth best in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, And how about player profile dot Com. They
Speaker 1: have the Dolphins quarterback as the seventh most completed air
Speaker 1: yards in football last year and thirteen in completion percentage
Speaker 1: when throwing under pressure. He finished eighth among all quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in rushing yards per game and fourth among quarterbacks and
Speaker 1: touchdowns via the ground game. And one thing I never
Speaker 1: want to do is just to use stats to tell
Speaker 1: the whole story. I think they need context. And when
Speaker 1: you look at the tape of Ryan Fitzpatrick, there is
Speaker 1: context littered all the way out throughout his tape that
Speaker 1: shows you that he has clinical, teaching level tape that
Speaker 1: he's putting out there every single Sunday. There was a
Speaker 1: play in the Washington game again to go back to that,
Speaker 1: where they're operating from eleven personnel, which is one back,
Speaker 1: one tight end, three receivers and emotions. Mike get Sicky
Speaker 1: into the backfield to aligne next to him along with
Speaker 1: the tailback, and Devonte Parker runs a post against press
Speaker 1: man with one of the two split safeties. It was
Speaker 1: Landing Collins in this instance hanging out over the top,
Speaker 1: and Fitzpatrick's job, He's the one that has to move
Speaker 1: that safety. So what does he do. He shoots his
Speaker 1: hips and his feet and his eyes over to the
Speaker 1: flat and that makes Landing Collins bite on that route.
Speaker 1: It displaces the safety and creates a throwing window, and
Speaker 1: then Parker wins off the line of scrimmage, beats his
Speaker 1: man and press coverage, and Fitzpatrick throws a shot for
Speaker 1: a touchdown to put the Dolphins within one point with
Speaker 1: ten seconds to go in that game. You go way
Speaker 1: later in the season into December, the week fifteen game
Speaker 1: at the meadow Lands, he drills us gorgeous seam route
Speaker 1: a touchdown again to Devanta Parker once again and eleven
Speaker 1: personnel a two by two alignment. You have Isaiah Ford
Speaker 1: come across the formation to even up the alignment, and
Speaker 1: the Giants are in a hybrid coverage, which is zone
Speaker 1: on one side, man on the other, with a single
Speaker 1: high safety reading Fitzpatrick's eyes and once again with a
Speaker 1: favorable matchup with Devanta Parker in that slot, Fitzpatrick had
Speaker 1: to move the safety, which again he does. He locks
Speaker 1: on the one side of the field, taking a look
Speaker 1: at a corner route to Mike Gasiki, which gets that
Speaker 1: safety to turn his hips just for a beat of
Speaker 1: a second, and that one false step into the boundary
Speaker 1: opens up the field and Fitzpatrick throws a frozen rope
Speaker 1: twenty five yards right on the button for a touchdown
Speaker 1: to Devanta Parker. So stats data, the film, it all
Speaker 1: adds up to what Jordan Reid said, the perfect quarterback
Speaker 1: for this team right now, and Brian Flores imitates those thoughts. Quote.
Speaker 1: I think Ryan is a great leader. He's shown that already.
Speaker 1: He's been in the league for a long time. He's smart,
Speaker 1: he works hard, he embodies a lot of the qualities
Speaker 1: that we're looking for in our players, not even our players,
Speaker 1: everyone in the organization. That leadership is something that I
Speaker 1: think this team needs. We need that from not just
Speaker 1: one player, but we need that from everyone on the
Speaker 1: roster end quote alright, that will about do it for us.
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