Speaker 1: Practice practorck drowing high Parker Tuxtower. What a win for
Speaker 1: this Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins Official podcast network covering your Miami Dolphins. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield, and as always, I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, the coaching staff is complete once more.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the promotion of Josh Grizzard and the
Speaker 1: subsequent coaching staff alterations. Plus Flores proposes a rule change
Speaker 1: to the competition committee. What that tells us about him?
Speaker 1: And finally, finally we've got compensatory picks. The Dolphins fourteen
Speaker 1: picks are now tangible. We'll get into those picks and
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins got to this war chest of draft picks,
Speaker 1: and will jump back into free agency with five under
Speaker 1: the radar players from Charlie Casserley as well as players
Speaker 1: number sixty on through eight on Pro Football Focuses list
Speaker 1: of the top one three agents available this March. All
Speaker 1: of that and more on this Wednesday, March eleventh edition
Speaker 1: of the Drive Time Podcast, and we start today's podcast
Speaker 1: with coaching news as Miami had one more position to
Speaker 1: fill after the vacancy left by Carl Durrell taking the
Speaker 1: head coaching job at the University of Colorado, And if
Speaker 1: you didn't catch that a couple of weeks ago on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and Flores talked in Indianapolis about the loss
Speaker 1: of coach Durrell going to a Power five program to
Speaker 1: be a head coach, but he also lamented the fact
Speaker 1: that Durrell absolutely deserved that honor and that distinction to
Speaker 1: earn a head coaching job in the college ranks and
Speaker 1: said he wants to empower his coaches to always be
Speaker 1: able to take that next step to the next level
Speaker 1: and better their selves and their careers in the coaching industry.
Speaker 1: So with Darrell's departure, we have a new receiver's coach
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins elect to promote from within. Assistant wide
Speaker 1: receivers coach Josh Grizzard will now become the head of
Speaker 1: the wide receiver's room as he enters his fourth year
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins. He got here back in seventeen
Speaker 1: as offensive quality control and was recently promoted to that
Speaker 1: assistant wide receivers coach. Prior to Darrell's departure and this
Speaker 1: higher This promotion is not unique to the Dolphins coaching
Speaker 1: staff because Grizzard his college resume includes plenty of work
Speaker 1: with highly touted draft picks and versatile options about the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, whether it's working with quarterbacks or wide receivers
Speaker 1: on the offensive staff, assisting in game day decisions and
Speaker 1: game planning. He did plenty of that on Duke's staff
Speaker 1: as a graduate assistant and quality control coach from through
Speaker 1: but he primarily worked with quarterbacks and had two seasons
Speaker 1: with number six overall pick in the twenty nineteen draft,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, So he worked on developing Jones during his
Speaker 1: red shirt season and his red shirt freshman season. Prior
Speaker 1: to Jones arriving, he worked with quarterback Thomas Sirk, who
Speaker 1: became just the third a C C quarterback to throw
Speaker 1: for better than yards and rush for more than eight
Speaker 1: hundred yards. Grizzard worked at Duke, one of the biggest
Speaker 1: prestigious programs in terms of academia on the college landscape
Speaker 1: as far as the college he attended as a student
Speaker 1: was Yale in the IVY League. So this guy clearly
Speaker 1: has the smarts required to be a coach on Brian
Speaker 1: flores staff. Teaching, smart, tough, determined, hard worker. We had
Speaker 1: great endorsements from Davon god Shaw and DeVante Parker. Parker
Speaker 1: obviously breaking out last season with twelve two yards, which
Speaker 1: was fifth in the National Football League and nine touchdown catches,
Speaker 1: ranking fourth in the NFL. He had positive praise for
Speaker 1: Josh Grizzard and this promotion to receiver's coach, and Devon
Speaker 1: Godshaw went even further on that a defensive lineman praising
Speaker 1: the receiver's coach, talking about how he worked his rear
Speaker 1: end off to get himself into this position. So smart, teaching, work, ethic,
Speaker 1: all those things aligned with all these coaches under Brian Flores.
Speaker 1: He obviously has a type and those guys have to
Speaker 1: be able to work just as hard as Brian Flores
Speaker 1: has throughout the course of his career to get in
Speaker 1: this position. To round out the coaching staff, and in
Speaker 1: the absence of Carl Darrell, the Dolphins will not name
Speaker 1: an assistant head coach under Brian Flora's but they will, however,
Speaker 1: promote special teams coordinator Danny Crossman and tight ends coach
Speaker 1: George Gatzie into more increased duties, including heavy involvement in
Speaker 1: game management as well as throughout the week. The game
Speaker 1: day management stuff comes down to challenges, time outs, helping
Speaker 1: Flora's manage the substitution packages, everything that happens on a
Speaker 1: game day. Flora's will have his contingency there to help
Speaker 1: him in Danny Croftsman as well as George Godzi, and
Speaker 1: they also will be involved throughout the week and establishing
Speaker 1: game plans and assisting Flora's anyway they see fit for
Speaker 1: the head coach. A couple of quick notes on Crossman
Speaker 1: and Godzi. Crossman's unit last year converted several trick plays
Speaker 1: as we all saw, including Mountaineer shoot a touchdown past
Speaker 1: thrown by punter Matt Hawk to kicker Jason Sanders, and
Speaker 1: that touchdown was named the NFL's bridge Stone Play of
Speaker 1: the Year. For the nineteen season. Under Godzi, we saw
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki enjoy his breakout sophomore campaign in which he
Speaker 1: ranked twelve among tight ends in both receiving yards receptions
Speaker 1: with five hundred and seventy yards and fifty one receptions,
Speaker 1: and he was fifth and touchdowns among tight ends with five,
Speaker 1: including this one against the Patriots. It's trip down my GASSICKI. Well,
Speaker 1: the stadium got real quiet, real quick. GASICKI lined up
Speaker 1: to the right, all three receivers out to the left.
Speaker 1: Bryan Fitzpatrick plants it and fires it. He just works
Speaker 1: through the outside, does a little stick somethan can't get
Speaker 1: his left arm in there to knock it away. I
Speaker 1: can't say enough without the way Ryan Fitzpatrick has stayed today.
Speaker 1: He stayed in there taking heat all day. With the
Speaker 1: hits he's taken. Continue to fire away over yards passed. Now,
Speaker 1: maybe that went on a little bit too long, but
Speaker 1: I wanted to let that sound marinate there because hearing
Speaker 1: Gillette Stadium, That's island is a thing of beauty for
Speaker 1: Dolphins fans. Fitzpatrick tookasiki for the game winner in Week
Speaker 1: seventeen to beat the Patriots at seventeen and a half
Speaker 1: point underdogs, the biggest spread differential in thirty years in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and the Dolphins came out victorious that day
Speaker 1: at Gillette Stadium. The best part of that clip you
Speaker 1: watch the video, Brian Flores is over there clapping and
Speaker 1: high fiving and given fist bumps, huge smile across his face.
Speaker 1: You love seeing that from coaching his rookie year getting
Speaker 1: that signature whim in year number one. Other Dolphins news
Speaker 1: from Tuesday. Seven rule changes were submitted to the Competition
Speaker 1: Committee on Tuesday. The Dolphins were authors of one of
Speaker 1: those proposed rule changes. First from the Philadelphia Eagles. They
Speaker 1: want to modify the blindside block rule to prevent unnecessary fouls.
Speaker 1: They want to make permanent the expansion of automatic replay
Speaker 1: reviews to include scoring plays and turnovers negated by a foul,
Speaker 1: and any successful or unsuccessful try attempt. They'd like to
Speaker 1: provide an alternative to onside kicks that would allow a
Speaker 1: team who was trailing in the game with an opportunity
Speaker 1: to maintain possession of the football after scoring. It's the
Speaker 1: old fourth and fifteen from the kicking team's own twenty five.
Speaker 1: You have to convert or you turn it back over
Speaker 1: deep in your own territory. They also want to restore
Speaker 1: the preseason and regular season overtime to fifteen minutes and
Speaker 1: implement rules to minimize the impact of the overtime coin toss.
Speaker 1: The Baltimore Ravens and Los Angeles Chargers together submitted the
Speaker 1: idea to add a booth umpire as an eighth game
Speaker 1: official to the officiating crew, and they also want to
Speaker 1: add a senior technology advisor to the referee to assist
Speaker 1: the officiating crew. Now, the Dolphins rule proposal is very
Speaker 1: much a game day management, a very situationally aware. Understand
Speaker 1: the parameters of the scoreboard, the down and distance, all
Speaker 1: that stuff on every single play. That's how you get
Speaker 1: smart players that make good decisions within the situation of
Speaker 1: the game. The rules this provide the option to the
Speaker 1: defense for the game clock to start on the referee
Speaker 1: signal if the defense declines an offensive penalty that occurs
Speaker 1: late in either half. So if the offense is trying
Speaker 1: to mount a comeback and let's say the quarterback takes
Speaker 1: a sack and there's a holding call, they would stop
Speaker 1: the clock in that situation, even though the defense declines
Speaker 1: the holding and accepts the sack as the result of
Speaker 1: the play. So Miami is proposing a change and they
Speaker 1: wants the clock to keep winding and provide the defense
Speaker 1: with the proper advantage it earned by making a play
Speaker 1: in accordance with the offensive penalty. So when we find
Speaker 1: out about the acceptance or rejection of those rules, will
Speaker 1: have you covered here on the Drive Time podcast, and
Speaker 1: a new development across the league today, the NFL announced
Speaker 1: the thirty two compensatory picks that were awarded two teams
Speaker 1: across the NFL, and the Dolphins were a beneficiary of
Speaker 1: two additional selections. A couple of teams got four, several
Speaker 1: teams got three, the Dolphins and Ravens got two picks,
Speaker 1: and a few other teams got one pick. In the
Speaker 1: compensatory formula. The Dolphins pick up by fourth and seventh
Speaker 1: round draft pick in accordance with the departures of Juwan
Speaker 1: James and Brandon Bolden slash Frank Gore last offseason. That
Speaker 1: brings the club's total to a league high fourteen selections
Speaker 1: this year. I want to run down the Dolphins draft
Speaker 1: picks with you, as we do have official placement of
Speaker 1: those draft picks now from the league office, and we'll
Speaker 1: have an article up on Miami Dolphins dot com covering
Speaker 1: all this information and detail about the Dolphins draft picks.
Speaker 1: And we start in the first round, where the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have possession of three draft picks, their own number five overall,
Speaker 1: the organic draft pick in accordance with Miami's finish in
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, the eighteenth pick as part of the Mega
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick trade and the third pick in the first round
Speaker 1: being number twenty six overall from the Houston Texans and
Speaker 1: the Laramie Tunsel and Kenny Stills trades. In the second round,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins on the thirty ninth pick that is their own.
Speaker 1: They also have a New Orleans draft pick, number fifty
Speaker 1: six overall, and that came from the twenty nineteen Draft
Speaker 1: day trade down in the second round last season. The
Speaker 1: third round, the Dolphins have one pick, number seventy overall.
Speaker 1: In the fourth round, the compensatory pick for Juwan James
Speaker 1: comes in here. That pick checks in at number one
Speaker 1: forty one overall. The Dolphins have three draft choices in
Speaker 1: the fifth round, number one fifty three overall from the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers and that was part of the late round
Speaker 1: draft picks swap. There in accordance with at trade, we
Speaker 1: also have the one hundred and fifty fourth overall pick,
Speaker 1: so back to back picks there in the fifth round,
Speaker 1: This one comes from the l A. Rams and the
Speaker 1: akeep to Leave trade. The Dolphins also have one seventy
Speaker 1: three overall in the fifth round as part of the
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake trade with the Arizona Cardinals in the sixth round.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins make one draft pick, number one eight five overall,
Speaker 1: and they'll have three picks in the seventh round, number
Speaker 1: two twenty seven overall, number two forty six overall, and
Speaker 1: number two fifty one overall. Those all aligned with Robert
Speaker 1: Quinn trades, the Jordan Lucas trade from eighteen in September
Speaker 1: finally comes home to roost here in twenty and a
Speaker 1: compensatory draft pick for Brandon Bolden and Frank Gore's departures
Speaker 1: last off season. So it's fourteen picks in total. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins have three in the first round, two in the second,
Speaker 1: one in the third, one in the fourth, three picks
Speaker 1: in the fifth round, one in the sixth, and three
Speaker 1: picks in the seventh round. A lot to account for,
Speaker 1: as many of these picks have traded hands multiple times.
Speaker 1: A pair of September first trades an acquisition of Danny
Speaker 1: Isadora and Evan Bam last season, and saw late round
Speaker 1: picks exchanged. The East of Dora trade sent a seventh
Speaker 1: round pick to Minnesota, while the Dolphins and Colts made
Speaker 1: a trade of conditional picks in the sixth and seventh
Speaker 1: rounds for the offensive lineman in Evan Bam. There were
Speaker 1: multiple mid round picks exchanged as part of those two
Speaker 1: Markeee trades made with both Houston and Pittsburgh. First, the
Speaker 1: Tunzel and Stills trade brought back two first round picks,
Speaker 1: a second round pick an offensive tackle Julian Davenport. Also
Speaker 1: part of that trade, we sent our own fourth round
Speaker 1: pick in twenty twenty and a sixth round pick next
Speaker 1: year to Houston in one. The Minka Fitzpatrick trade in
Speaker 1: addition to the eighteenth pick this year in twenty twenties draft,
Speaker 1: also brought back a round pick and one sixth round
Speaker 1: draft pick. The Dolphins sent over with the safety a
Speaker 1: fourth round pick this year and a seventh round pick
Speaker 1: in one to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Ryan Tannehill was a
Speaker 1: trade to the Titans last offseason. Right around this time
Speaker 1: of year. The Dolphins sent Tannehill and a twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: sixth round draft choice to the Titans. In return, Miami
Speaker 1: got a seventh round draft pick last season and round
Speaker 1: pick in this year's draft, but that pick was sent
Speaker 1: off in the Minca Fitzpatrick trade over to Pittsburgh. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins also get a fifth round draft pick in accordance
Speaker 1: with the Kenyan Drake trade that sent him over to
Speaker 1: Arizona at last year's deadline, giving Miami a total of
Speaker 1: fourteen draft picks this year. We're sitting on nine draft
Speaker 1: picks next year. And if the compensatory formula confuses something
Speaker 1: out there, it's a pretty simple process. It essentially accounts
Speaker 1: for what goes out from your team as far as
Speaker 1: assets and what comes in. So if you lose more
Speaker 1: players than you gain in terms of free agent contract value,
Speaker 1: that awards compensatory picks to the team. So it's the
Speaker 1: teams that are inactive in free agency and lose players
Speaker 1: to get the comp pics. I'll get you updated on
Speaker 1: the exact order of those picks on an article up
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot com, as well as tomorrow's Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 1: which will also feature a dive into free agency and
Speaker 1: contracts and how the deals are done. You don't want
Speaker 1: to miss that podcast. And speaking of how free agency
Speaker 1: is done, let's jump now back into part two of
Speaker 1: our free agency preview. Here on the Drivetime podcast, we
Speaker 1: went over players eighty one through one hundred on Pro
Speaker 1: Football focuses list of the top one hundred available free
Speaker 1: agents this offseason. Today, we're gonna talk about player sixty
Speaker 1: one through eighty. But first, Charlie castro Ley, friend of
Speaker 1: the Drive Time podcast, went on the NFL Network and
Speaker 1: talked about his five under the radar free agents. So
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and go over those real quick, and
Speaker 1: Charlie stayed in the trenches, listing an offensive lineman, four
Speaker 1: defensive players in the front seven, with three on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, and one linebacker. We start with the tackle
Speaker 1: from the Seahawks, George Fan, and he's an interesting player
Speaker 1: because he was a college hooper, super athletic, but he
Speaker 1: is also a massive, massive human being at six ft five,
Speaker 1: three hundred and thirty pounds. He's really been playing football
Speaker 1: for less amount of time than I've been doing the
Speaker 1: whole podcast thing, just four or five years now, and
Speaker 1: he was a backup in Seattle for the most part,
Speaker 1: but he got plenty of playing time because of some
Speaker 1: injuries to the tackles on that offensive line, whether it
Speaker 1: was Dwayne Brown or Jermaine Effetti. But he played swing
Speaker 1: tackle left right side. Gives you an agnostic presence in
Speaker 1: that way. But he also played plenty of heavy packages
Speaker 1: as the sixth offensive lineman coming into the game, so
Speaker 1: he gives you experience, he gives you flexibility on either
Speaker 1: side of the offensive line, and he can blow people
Speaker 1: off the football as the sixth offensive lineman in the game.
Speaker 1: We'll see what kind of contract he gets, but he's
Speaker 1: not gonna be in that tier. One of the tackles
Speaker 1: at the top of the class, like the Jack Conklin's
Speaker 1: of the world. Number two was DJ Reader, a defensive
Speaker 1: tackle from the Houston Texans. This dude defines a space
Speaker 1: eater three seven pounds. Put him up over the nose.
Speaker 1: He can just PLoP in there and hold up the
Speaker 1: point of attack and free up your linebackers. He's also
Speaker 1: a super high motor, super high effort guy that wins
Speaker 1: with that quite a few times. Javon Hargrave also on
Speaker 1: their defensive linem from the Pittsburgh Steelers. This guy is
Speaker 1: a damn good football player. He has position flexibility, can
Speaker 1: play the nose, can play all the way out to
Speaker 1: the five tech, and everything in between. Great pass rusher,
Speaker 1: consistently productive, thick built lower half, smooth feet that are
Speaker 1: tiger than you would expect from a guy that size.
Speaker 1: He can stunt, twist and slant from those variable positions.
Speaker 1: He can play across the defensive line. We stay on
Speaker 1: the defensive line and go to the Saints for David
Speaker 1: anya Mata. He's a rotational player the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: but really shined kind of like George Fan when he
Speaker 1: got his chances to play because of injuries. Ridiculous ridiculous
Speaker 1: power from on your Mata. Finally, Bud Dupree eleven and
Speaker 1: a half sacks. I'm not sure I would call him
Speaker 1: and under the radar guy because he was a first
Speaker 1: round pick and has the production to go along with
Speaker 1: that first round draft pick. He's a built in a
Speaker 1: lab type of player, height, weight, speed, explosiveness, really good
Speaker 1: edge rusher off the outside part, and he probably plays
Speaker 1: more of a traditional linebacker role in a two point
Speaker 1: stance on the ball on the edge as your linebacker
Speaker 1: out there. So fan reader, Hargrave, on your Mata and
Speaker 1: Dupree round out cast release five under the Radar free
Speaker 1: agents he talked about on Tuesday on NFL Network, and
Speaker 1: now we shift our focus back to the list from
Speaker 1: yesterday's podcast, taking a look at players one through one
Speaker 1: hundred on Pro Football Focus, his top one hundred free
Speaker 1: agents available this coming off season just one week away.
Speaker 1: We're getting there. The new league year is almost here,
Speaker 1: Almost time for football once again, ahead of the actual
Speaker 1: football on the field. We start with number eighty linebacker
Speaker 1: Josh Bines. He was once an undrafted free agent of
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens back in tleven and he's made the
Speaker 1: most of his career and his opportunities. He's played for
Speaker 1: three different organizations, with two stints in Baltimore, the first
Speaker 1: two years of his career there with the Ravens, and
Speaker 1: then last season resigning with the Ravens, where he had
Speaker 1: five total pressures, one sack, one hit, and three hurries.
Speaker 1: He only played forty two pass rushed down so more
Speaker 1: of a coverage linebacker in that regard. In fact, he
Speaker 1: only has two hundred and eighty seven pass rush reps
Speaker 1: in his career, seventeen oh one coverage snaps and fifteen
Speaker 1: thirty six run defense snaps, so that's kind of his game.
Speaker 1: You take a look at his run defense grades on
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus in the green every single year, and
Speaker 1: if you didn't hear yesterday's podcast, first go back and
Speaker 1: check it out. But also the green category means you're
Speaker 1: playing above average starter at that particular role at your
Speaker 1: particular position, So Josh Bonds gets it done in the
Speaker 1: running game. Twenty one run stops last year, thirty four
Speaker 1: the year prior. Had forty three run stops in twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: his best year as a pro, when he played eight
Speaker 1: hundred and nineteen snaps with the Lions. Number seventy nine
Speaker 1: on Pro Football Focus this list of the top one
Speaker 1: hundred free agents is former Bengals defensive lineman Andrew Billings,
Speaker 1: a fourth round draft pick in twenty sixteen out of Baylor,
Speaker 1: and his production last year was nineteen pressures. Fourteen of
Speaker 1: those were hurries. He had twenty four pressures of the
Speaker 1: year prior. He's played six hundred and fifty seven snaps
Speaker 1: last year, six thirty two the season before, with the
Speaker 1: majority of that coming on the interior defensive line. Number
Speaker 1: seventy eight on this list. A familiar name we just
Speaker 1: talked about him, David Anyamato from the Saints. He was
Speaker 1: a Canada product, a fourth round pick out of Manitoba,
Speaker 1: six ft four, three hundred pounds, and he gets it
Speaker 1: done in the running game as well. He made twenty
Speaker 1: run stops on just two hundred and six run down
Speaker 1: plays on that Saints defense, so about ten percent run
Speaker 1: stop percentage. And again, and run stops are tackles within
Speaker 1: two yards of the line of scrimmage. He also had
Speaker 1: thirty seven pressures in ten thirty one last year and
Speaker 1: thirty one in seventeen, so a pretty well rounded player
Speaker 1: that rushes the passer and plays the run. There for
Speaker 1: the Saints. You can see why Charlie cast really liked
Speaker 1: his game as an under the radar free agent number
Speaker 1: seventy seven on the defensive line as well. A lot
Speaker 1: of these players on the defensive line. Timmy Journe, again
Speaker 1: from Philadelphia. He was second round pick of the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles six ft two to roughly giver take. He hasn't
Speaker 1: played nearly as many snaps last two seasons with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: He was a big snap getter early on with the
Speaker 1: Ravens where he was drafted, and then twenty seventeen as
Speaker 1: a free agent acquisition of the Eagles. He had green
Speaker 1: and blue grades across the board those couple of years,
Speaker 1: where he had twenty four total pressures in seventeen as well,
Speaker 1: as seventeen run stops, and he really won with quickness
Speaker 1: and size, a good height, weight speed combination. Four Timmy
Speaker 1: Journ again played six hundred thirty one snaps in five
Speaker 1: hundred eighty six snaps in seen, but just one hundred
Speaker 1: and three hundred and six snaps last season with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Number seventy six is a fun player from the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 1: Matthew Judean. He was a fifth round draft pick of
Speaker 1: the Ravens back in sixteen and really helped the Ravens
Speaker 1: linebackers carry the water last year after they lost c. J.
Speaker 1: Mosley and Zadarius Smith in free agency. Judon had a
Speaker 1: bunch of pressures last year, sixty three pressures, ten sacks, hits,
Speaker 1: quarterback hurries. He did that on four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: pass rush snaps. So a really really productive pass rusher
Speaker 1: off the edge in that Ravens defense, which is multiple
Speaker 1: in terms of how many even in odd fronts they
Speaker 1: play coming off the edge as an on ball linebacker,
Speaker 1: but also playing in those A and B gaps as
Speaker 1: an interior rusher in that Ravens defense. Number seventy five
Speaker 1: is another linebacker, Nick Kwatowski, from the Chicago Bears. He
Speaker 1: was a fourth round draft pick of the Bears. He's
Speaker 1: six ft two, two hundred and forty two pounds. He
Speaker 1: ran a four point seven three forty yard dash at
Speaker 1: the combine. He had a really big breakout season last
Speaker 1: year for the bear Is, playing his highest snap count
Speaker 1: at five hundred and twelve snaps. He had thirteen pressures
Speaker 1: on just thirty nine pass rush reps, so he was successful,
Speaker 1: though the Bears did not ask him to rush the
Speaker 1: quarterback all that often. He played two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: two coverage snaps and one run defense snaps, and he
Speaker 1: was pretty much just good across the board. Had a
Speaker 1: very high pass rush grade because of the frequency with
Speaker 1: which you got out for the quarterback. He also checked
Speaker 1: the green boxes and coverage and run defense as well.
Speaker 1: Number seventy five on this list. Check that number seventy
Speaker 1: four is Ronald Darby of the Philadelphia Eagles. He was
Speaker 1: a second round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills. He's
Speaker 1: five eleven one. He can flat out run. Ran at
Speaker 1: four point three forty at his combine back in, but
Speaker 1: he had some really good grades for the Bills early
Speaker 1: on in his career, including a rookie season where he
Speaker 1: graded out in the green seventy six point sixth grade
Speaker 1: on Pro Football Focus. Last year, played five hundred and
Speaker 1: six snaps, and he allows a career reception percentage of
Speaker 1: just fifty eight percent completion when quarterbacks target him in coverage.
Speaker 1: And of his five five hundred and six snaps on
Speaker 1: defense last year, four sixty one were out wide as
Speaker 1: a perimeter corner, so he's a guy to play on
Speaker 1: the outside, not likely to kick inside as a slot corner,
Speaker 1: where he played just eight snaps last season. Number seventy
Speaker 1: three on Pro football focus dot COM's Top one hundred
Speaker 1: free agents to be next week as a new league
Speaker 1: year kicks off. Graham Glasgow I center and guard from Detroit.
Speaker 1: He was a third round draft pick and he plays
Speaker 1: a lot of different positions across the offensive line. He
Speaker 1: didn't allow any sacks last year for the Lions, only
Speaker 1: committed three foul so he is pretty clean across the
Speaker 1: board in pass protection and the penalty game. And he
Speaker 1: has been consistent and durable and reliable the last four years,
Speaker 1: really playing eight hundred and seventy two snaps last year.
Speaker 1: The year prior to that, one thousand seventy six the
Speaker 1: year prior one thousand, forty two and his rookie year
Speaker 1: played seven hundred and fifty eight snaps. The last three years,
Speaker 1: his offensive grade, pass blocking grade, and run blocking grades
Speaker 1: are all in the green on Pro Football Focus. Checking
Speaker 1: in at number seventy two on the Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: Top one hundred free agents list is wide receiver Randall Cobb.
Speaker 1: He played last year with the Dallas Cowboys. Came out
Speaker 1: of Kentucky as the Green Bay Packer second round draft
Speaker 1: pick in eleven. He has produced pretty consistently throughout his
Speaker 1: career in the NFL. Last year, had fifty five catches,
Speaker 1: which was a seventy catch rate, eight hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards, and he scored three touchdowns for the Cowboy offense.
Speaker 1: Number seventy one on this list. As Buffalo edge shack
Speaker 1: Lawson a first round draft pick back in sixteen, and
Speaker 1: he really had a breakout season last year for the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, having the most pressures of his career as
Speaker 1: well as run stops. He had forty total pressures, seven sacks,
Speaker 1: fourteen hits, and nineteen hurries, made twenty five run stops
Speaker 1: in that department, only played five hundred and twenty snaps,
Speaker 1: but he was efficient across the board on run defense
Speaker 1: as well as rushing the quarterback for the Bills defense
Speaker 1: last season. Number seventy on the list as safety. Adrian Phillips,
Speaker 1: formerly of the Los Angeles Chargers, was an undrafted free
Speaker 1: agent out of Texas back in He's five eleven two
Speaker 1: hundred ten ounds, and he has the highest overall grade
Speaker 1: of the players we've discussed so far through the top
Speaker 1: sixty five or so players on this list. He played
Speaker 1: just two hundred eighty two snaps last year, but earned
Speaker 1: an overall defensive grade from Pro Football Focus of eighty
Speaker 1: seven point five due in large part to his run defense.
Speaker 1: Playing run defense, downs had eight run stops on those plays,
Speaker 1: he made twenty six total tackles, He had one quarterback
Speaker 1: pressure a hurry on four pass rush reps, and he
Speaker 1: also played a hundred and eighty reps in coverage. The
Speaker 1: year prior to that with the Chargers, he played on
Speaker 1: eight hundred and three snaps on defense and made sixty
Speaker 1: five tackles and allowed completion percentage of just fifty six
Speaker 1: point seven on balls targeted in his direction. Nelson Aguilar's
Speaker 1: next on the list at number sixty nine of the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. Six ft tall one blazes the forty time
Speaker 1: at four point four two back in, earning him the
Speaker 1: right to be a first round draft pick of the Eagles,
Speaker 1: number twenty overall that year. Last year, he caught thirty
Speaker 1: nine balls for three hundred and sixty three yards and
Speaker 1: scored three touchdowns. Breakout season was seventeen ranking green across
Speaker 1: the board on Pro Football Focus, with nine hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty five yards on seventy seven catches, eight of those
Speaker 1: going for touchdowns back in that Super Bowl year for
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. Number sixty eight is cornerback Jimmy Smith
Speaker 1: of the Baltimore Ravens. Really good player out of Colorado,
Speaker 1: first round draft picks, six ft two, two ten pounds,
Speaker 1: plays physical, loves to play that press style on the
Speaker 1: outside out there. He's gonna be thirty two when the
Speaker 1: season starts, but he has a career full of production
Speaker 1: there in Baltimore, with fifteen career picks compared to just
Speaker 1: seventeen touchdown catches allowed and just a fifty seven point
Speaker 1: one career completion percentage on passes thrown into his coverage area.
Speaker 1: With a career best last year at actually checked that
Speaker 1: he was a smidge under that his rookie season at
Speaker 1: forty eight point six percent, so two seasons under fifty.
Speaker 1: Several seasons on this list right around in terms of
Speaker 1: completion percentage on balls thrown into his area. Up next,
Speaker 1: another cornerback on this Pro Football Focus Top one hundred
Speaker 1: free agent list, number sixty seven. Eli Apple was the
Speaker 1: tenth pick in the draft back in sixteen of the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. Was then traded to the Saints. At
Speaker 1: six ft one, two hundred and three pounds, super athletic,
Speaker 1: he can flat go. He ran a four four forty
Speaker 1: back at his scouting combine in sixteen. Last year was
Speaker 1: his best. Had a really good run defense grade with
Speaker 1: twelve run stops off the edge, so you know he's
Speaker 1: a willing tackler out there. He's got two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighteen career tackles in four years, an impressive number for
Speaker 1: cornerbacks out on the edge. He had his best coverage
Speaker 1: season playing for both the Giants and the Saints that year,
Speaker 1: allowing just fifty nine percent of passes to be completed
Speaker 1: into his coverage area. We stay in the secondary with
Speaker 1: number sixty six safety Rodney McLeod, although you can pretty
Speaker 1: much call him a defensive player because he plays everywhere.
Speaker 1: He had twelve hundred and ten snaps last year, about
Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty of that on special teams the
Speaker 1: rest on the Eagles defense, six sixty one at free safety,
Speaker 1: the position he played the most, but he also was
Speaker 1: down in the box seventy two snaps on the defensive
Speaker 1: line one in the box, so about two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty two snaps down close to the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: played the slot a hundred and forty four times as well,
Speaker 1: and even wide corner on six occasions last year for
Speaker 1: the Eagles, and he was productive. He goes five ft
Speaker 1: ten one undrafted free agent, and he's got green grades
Speaker 1: pretty much every single year dating back with the Eagles.
Speaker 1: Plenty good run defense numbers, twenty one run stops last year,
Speaker 1: and he allowed just sixteen of thirty two targets to
Speaker 1: go complete in his coverage area, So he got done
Speaker 1: on the field, and he's also a very well thought
Speaker 1: of character and leader in the locker room. Number sixty
Speaker 1: five on this list is rams Edge Dante Fowler, who
Speaker 1: did play with Marion hobby for a year back in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: current Dolphins defensive line coach. He was the number three
Speaker 1: overall selection and of the Jacksonville Jaguars. More recently with
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Rams after a trade, and he had
Speaker 1: a nice year last year. Sixty seven total pressures, fifteen sacks,
Speaker 1: three hits fort quarterback Hurries, So that weighted pass brush
Speaker 1: productivity leans more towards the set acts than it was
Speaker 1: just Hurries, So he's not only hitting the quarterbacks, he's
Speaker 1: getting them down impacting the game that way. Had a
Speaker 1: career high eight hundred and eighty snaps last year. Thirty
Speaker 1: four run stops. Really had an elite season last year
Speaker 1: for the Los Angeles Rams on that defense under Wade Phillips.
Speaker 1: Number sixty four is the Vikings former second round draft
Speaker 1: pick out of Clemson, the five ft ten one pound
Speaker 1: cornerback Mackenzie Alexander, and he plays primarily on the outside
Speaker 1: in the Minnesota defense. Five dred and thirty four snaps,
Speaker 1: four sixty eight of those out wide as a perimeter cornerback.
Speaker 1: Another one of these guys that's a good tackler out
Speaker 1: off the edge. He had zero missed tackles last season,
Speaker 1: and he has allowed just three touchdowns in his career
Speaker 1: in coverage a bit of an off the chart stat.
Speaker 1: Four sacks back in on just twenty one pass rush snap,
Speaker 1: so every fifth snap as a pass rusher, he was
Speaker 1: sacking the quarterback. That's rare for a defensive back, much
Speaker 1: less a perimeter cornerback. And the last three guys on
Speaker 1: this list are going to be in the trenches. We
Speaker 1: go back to Carolina for Gerald McCole, the defensive lineman
Speaker 1: number three overall selection back in of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: and you want to talk about reliable presence on your
Speaker 1: defensive line. In his ten year career, he has seventy
Speaker 1: three hundred snaps as a defensive player. He had two
Speaker 1: hundred eighteen snaps and an injury shortened year back in tleven.
Speaker 1: But besides that, his lowest snap total was six seventy two.
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be out there, down in and down
Speaker 1: out for you. Last year, had forty two quarterback pressures,
Speaker 1: eight sacks, and eight hits on the quarterback, made twenty
Speaker 1: five run stops. The Bucks cut him after twenty eight team,
Speaker 1: but he was still a productive player last year for
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panther defense. Number sixty two was a player
Speaker 1: who replaced Jeryal McCoy on that Buccaneers defensive line last year.
Speaker 1: Former Miami Dolphin and Doma Qansou six ft four, three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen pounds once upon time was the second
Speaker 1: pick in the NFL draft. You know about the athleticism,
Speaker 1: the sheer strength, and just those broad shoulders that he
Speaker 1: plays with to really move guys around. Last year with
Speaker 1: the Bucks, had thirty nine total pressures. He has five
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty nine quarterback pressures. With the course of
Speaker 1: a ten year career, he's been a great pro for
Speaker 1: a long time. Green check marks all over his board here.
Speaker 1: Back in eighteen, had fifty seven quarterback pressures, seven sacks,
Speaker 1: and made thirty seven run stops for that NFC champion
Speaker 1: Rams team. And to close out our number sixty one
Speaker 1: through eight players list here on Pro Football Focus is
Speaker 1: top one hundred free agents. We go back to the
Speaker 1: offensive line and another player in that draft class, another
Speaker 1: first round draft pick from the Packers, Brian Bulaga, has
Speaker 1: spent his entire ten year career there in Green Bay
Speaker 1: with the Packers and it's been a great one. We
Speaker 1: talk about snaps logged. He has played seven thousand, six
Speaker 1: hundred and seventies snaps and exactly half of his career.
Speaker 1: Five of the ten years he has graded out in
Speaker 1: the top ten tackles on Profittball Focus. Very good player
Speaker 1: in Brian Bulaga. Alright, that concludes our free agency preview
Speaker 1: Part two. A quick late add on here. Reports say
Speaker 1: the Dolphins will release safety Rashad Jones, and we'll have
Speaker 1: more on that news on tomorrow's podcast and cover Rashad's
Speaker 1: career in Miami. We'll come back to sorrow and get
Speaker 1: two players number forty one through sixty for you Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans out there, But as for today, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: my time on that episode tomorrow as well. We're gonna
Speaker 1: go deep inside free agency in the process and explain
Speaker 1: how contracts are done. Very excited about that one, as
Speaker 1: we are just now seven days away from the new
Speaker 1: league year, just five days away from the opening of
Speaker 1: the legal tampering period, and the NFL has pushed back
Speaker 1: the day also to Monday on the deadline for franchise
Speaker 1: tags in accordance with the cb A discussion and that
Speaker 1: deadline pushing back to Saturday, so it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: busy weekend, a busy week next week, and ahead of that,
Speaker 1: on Monday's podcast, we'll have Channing Crowder, former Dolphins linebacker,
Speaker 1: current radio personality, and all time Dolphins fan favorite Channing
Speaker 1: Crowder on Monday show. You definitely don't want to miss
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