Best Trait By Dolphins Player

and twenty one is a hot topic. I'll tell you my Madden playing experience and the ultimate cheat code I

used in every single Big Spot. Plus, in honor of the Fish Tank Podcast releasing their top ten episodes in show history, will do a top ten salute to Juice and Seth and inspired by Benjamin Slack of the Draft Network, I want to take a look at the best skill, or the best move or best trait of a lot of players year on the Dolphins roster and we'll close it up by paying tribute to the great Jim Kick. All of that and more on this Monday during the

two edition of the Drive Time Podcast. And the summer solstice is one of the most beautiful times of year, the beautiful occurrences of year. I don't know what it is about this time of year when the weather starts to really really get hot. And remember, for me currently still until next month at least. I'm up in the Northwest where it's not one hundred degrees until late June or into July deep into August as well. But there's just something about being in the pool or on the

lake or on the river. Apparently it has to be a body of water, probably enjoying a couple of adult beverages and listening to some football podcast with your friends or music, whatever it might be. I think it has more to do with the fact that football is near more than anything else. But we always wind up talking about football when you are out in the summer events, and I just love it. So we are here in the peak of the summer solstice. We just put a

bow on Father's Day. I hope everybody enjoyed their Father's Day and a happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there. And I think a good place to start for this first time Father's dayre and myself is to go back to when I wasn't thinking about celebrating Father's Day. It was the furthest thing from my mind back in my youth when I was a full blown addict to

the Madden video games. The midnight release every year, going down to game Stop was an event in and of itself, and it always ruined the rest of the week for me because I was staying up till four or five o'clock in the morning. You would get up at you get home around twelve thirty after the midnight release, fired up on franchise mode, and then from there you can't just quit a couple of hours later. You have to get five six games into your first season done. And

that's what I did every single year. But then at a certain point, I think it was like Madden oh seven, I discovered online play and that was the addiction got full fledged at that point. And again this was back in two thousand seven, two thousand eight, that era of PlayStation two. There something about the mapping and player movement once they made the jump to the PS three that just didn't do it for me. And I even see it now the type of gameplayer they have on the

newer consoles, And that's just me. I suppose I'm more partial to more old school games. I just don't like the way it moves, or something about the moving and the mapping on those new school consoles. And so, in honor of Lamar Jackson deservedly getting the Madden cover this year and the fact that it seems like we're seeing Madden all over social media this past week, the timeline and the like, I wanted to share some of my Madden experiences from a decade ago, a decade plus ago.

And first the play that I went to when I had to have it every single game I think you play in Madden, there's a moment, a third down, a crucial drive. You have to get that drive into the end zone. And let's be real, this was cheating. My brother hated it more than anything else. He always said I was cheating when I ran this play. And I saw the question pose online on Twitter, who was the greatest Dolphins Madden player in the history of the game,

And there was no other answer. I had one answer in my mind that just trumped everything else, and that was Ted Gain. Why well, one vertical routes speed took care of everything in that game. You didn't even have to have skills in the receiver set, just as long as they ran speed. They were a good player, but playing with those oh A O nine era Dolphins, and I would bench Henning Pennington to go to Chad Henny.

I know, I know, sacrilege, but because of the arm strength, I wanted to have the vertical game, so it had to be Henny. So there was this play and I want to say it was called jailbreak screen, but as I say that out loud, it doesn't sound right. I know that was the name of the blitz, the jail break blitz. Maybe it was just a bubble screen, that's all they called it. It was out of eleven personnel receiver to the left side of the formation and the

right defense. There was one correct defense that could thwart this play, but the opponent never actually did that to get this done, to get the screen pass taken care of, and if you just fanned out the defensive line, I think there was a some sort of check you can make on the defensive side of the ball where you fanned out the defensive line, so the ends would rush out and then come back in and kind of hook

around the offensive tackles. And if you had them run that hook, they really put a stop to this play. But they just never ran that play I recalled Julius Peppers with the Panthers was a tremendous pen in the ass, not just for that play, this play in general, but pass rushing in general off of your right tackle because and this era that was back when your right tackle was not as good as your left tackle like it is in today's NFL, where tackle positions are basically agnostic.

But anyway, you take the snap and immediately sprint all the way to the right. You draw the rush all the linebackers over to the quarterback and chase him where he's obviously not going to be a threat to run

to the wrong side of the field. But it didn't matter if the defense was in man or in zone, because the play got so scattered from the sprint right anyway, and then once you got all the way clear, you would just throw the screen all the way back to the other side of the field to Teddy Gain, who's

sitting there with speed open field. He's got maybe one or two guys out in front of him, but he's got a wall of lockers because the offensive line bailed out that way, and your quarterback took care of the pass rush by going the other way. It worked every single time. SAMs Julius Peppers, and I was pretty damn good at Madden despite the cheap play I ram. I think my online record was eighty five and twelve or

something like that. That's just spitballing. When I eventually hung it up because they went to the later platforms, the PS three, I ran like six plays. I just hot checked out whatever the defense was showing, would check it out and make my checks from there and attack relentlessly. Had a good running game with Ronnie Brown as well. And speaking of the Panthers, I actually had a game

one time. I think it was Madden oh nine. It was one of the later games in my Madden Online career where I eventually found out that I was playing against Panthers quarterback Chris Gamble. Through a series of questions, he told me that he was Chris Gamble. He grew up in South Florida. Wasn't a fan of the Dolphins, and I asked him why because he grew up there. He told me he was a Panthers fan, and eventually he said he was a Panthers fan because he played

for the Panthers. And so a little thirteen year old me starts quizzing him on certain plays about Chris Gamble's career. The Ohio State Miami National Championship game. I'm sure a lot of you Dolphins and Kanes fans out there don't want to think back about that one. So I played against Chris Gamble, and of course your boy got the W in that game. Madden was a lot of fun

back in my youth. I just don't play anymore. But we do have Lamar Jackson on the cover of Madden this year, and that will be the last time I talked about Madden on this podcast, because we're not a video game podcast. So that was Ted gains Most Dangerous trait, the flat out Speed, And I saw a tweet I think it was on Friday by Benjamin Soliac and a quick funny story about Benjamin so like really good guy.

I actually met him in Indianapolis this year at the Scouting Combine and we chatted for a solid half hour about football in between player media availabilities, and he followed me on Twitter on I think it was Thursday or Friday, and I sent him a d M saying that hey is in the bar and baby, we got you, and he goes I have no idea why I wasn't following you this whole entire time. I thought that I was. I went to your timeline, saw that I wasn't, and

felt really stupid. So he followed me back. I always wondered why, because we were friends. I enjoy his content, he enjoys my content. He didn't throw me that follow

but he finally did, so Ben, I appreciate that. And in honor of Ben, I'm gonna go ahead and steal the idea that Ben had on Twitter talking about what aspect of a player's game one of your favorite players do you think that most fans more casual so fans are not aware of And his inspiration was the hump move inside for Saints interior defensive lineman David anya Metta. And it really got me thinking about which Dolphins fall

into that category. And rather than calling it an elite move, I just want to go over some of the best moves for some, not all, of the Dolphins roster because I just don't have the scouting depth on all ninety guys to give you that. But let's just go ahead and start here and go buy position. Will start at

the quarterback position with Ryan Fitzpatrick. To me when I first watched his tape when the Dolphins signed him last year, it was the trust in his eyes, the ability to see what he lie and to trust that he saw the processing both post snap and pre snap to make that read, to make that throw, and to fit that thing in there. And I think we saw that time and time again last year. There's a touchdown pass in

the Giants game to Davante Parker up the seam. Parkers in the slot runs a straight vertical seam route and Fits sees it pre snap, knows he has a tight window with his cornerback underneath safety over the top, and he rips that thing and fits it in there for a gorgeous, gorgeous touchdown past. I think if you search my name on Twitter at Wingfield, NFL and Fitzpatrick and Parker, I think that play comes up as a video if

you want to go check that out. So for fits definitely the trust and his eyes and the trust in his preparation pre game to go ahead and attack the defense accordingly. For to a tongue of Valoa, there's plenty of options here. I would say the trust in his eyes also was there. I love the way he manipulates

rush angles when past protection breaks down. But I think you would be foolish to not say ball placement because of his downfield accuracy all throughout his college career, just laying handoffs to guys that run f or three, four or four forties, putting the ball right and stride for

long touchdowns. You go back to Alabama eighteen tape, they were just an aerial show unlike anything college football had ever seen, and a lot of those big touchdowns and big production numbers for that offense was a result of

elite level ball placement throwing down the football field. Josh Rosen, I think just his sheer arm strength and the way he can layer certain throws, like I love the backside crossing route, the deep over route where they come in behind the line, behind the linebacker and in underneath the safety, and he can kind of layer those throws out there. He can definitely hit every blade of the grass with

his arm strength. At running back, Jordan Howard, I think that his vision and you kind of can compartmentalize this into his sheer vision. But there are certain aspects of zone running or even gap running that a player has to have certain vision for and on these zone reads with that Chicago Bears scheme with the Eagles last year.

The way he can press the whole that the play is designed to go to and then make his decision based upon the flow of the linebackers, the level of the defensive line, to bounce it outside, to bang it inside, or to cut back backside. His vision in that way is elite. We had Brett Coleman of The Inside or the Film Room show on YouTube. He came on the

podcast and broke down Jordan Howard's game. I think it was back in March, I want to say maybe early April, but he has a YouTube episode on Jordan Howard where he breaks that down very in depth, very very quality content there from Brett Coleman with Matt Brita. I mean, what else is it? His flat out speed, that ted gain speed, that speed he can flat out burn and he is an ultimate angle eraser in the second level at receiver Davanta Parker. There's a lot of options here

for Davante. I think you take his contested catch ability, but I don't want to just throw that blanket out there, because that's really kind of a generic statement. More So, the way he uses his frame to his advantage. We've seen him by the way he leaps down the football field and even when he missed times his jumps, he can still kind of it seems like, suspend himself in

mid air and still pluck that thing down. So much fun to watch the way he attacks the football in the air, but just the way he uses the frame to create separation when he is a little bit tightly guarded, the way he can box out, like on slant routes

or square and routes. He catches the ball away from his frame with his hands, and that serves a double purpose because when you catch the football that way, typically those types of guys don't have high drop numbers, and Devanta is pretty solid in that regard catching the football when it's on his body. So the way he uses the frame his frame to box out and make catches and those contested areas love that about Devant's game. For Preston Williams, the way he stacks. We saw it throughout

training camp, preseason into the season. There's a catch up against I think it was Levi Wallace in the Buffalo game in Buffalo where the cornerbacks playing outside leverage, so Preston releases inside and then gets back on top of an armbar and stacks the cornerback. And once they're stacked on the on the receiver's back, they have to go through the body to get to the football. That's what you want to do. You want to stack the defensive back,

and Preston Williams is really good in that area. For Jacheem, easy as pie his release off the line of scrimmage, I just if I've seen if someone's jam Jachim, I don't think I've seen it yet. He's tough to jam because of the size and release and quickness that he has. For Albert Wilson, obviously, the tackle breaking, the ability to start and stop in the open field and make guys miss that house of a lower half he has just

built like a brick house. He is so good after the catch with the football in his hands along the offensive line. Austin Jackson, the control that he has out in space. I love watching his USC tape for the way he gets out in open space and makes crucial blocks on screen games or whether it's outside run plays him in space. He is so controlled and so athletic. Fun to watch that guy do his work out in the open field. For Eric Flowers, the sheer power and

a phone booth. You watch the way he strikes the hand fight, the way he can really shock the defensive line when they first get to him and make that first contact because he is so big and so powerful. With Ted Carriss at center the intelligence and communication, you always see him passing off and knowing when to double one, to fall off, when to find extra work, the way he communicates the calls of the quarterback. Love what Ted Carriss does from a leadership standpoint on the interior of

your offensive line. And for Robert Hunt, it's similar to Eric Flowers with a sheer strength and power, and I love watching the way they hit their combo blocks and the way they can rag doll defenders. My gosh, it's fun to watch. To me. Offensive line tape for a lot of people probably isn't very much fun to watch. But when you watch guys physically just move someone against their will, that to me is football on a nutshell

and I love watching that stuff. And Robert Hunt, Solomon Kinley, and Eric Flowers can all get that done because of

that seer, sheer size and strength. Jesse Davis, I like the way he uses his hands to help redirect and to help get himself back into a position if he has to recover to work back inside on a spin move or whether it's a speed to power move off the outside, he tends to find a way to get his hands in the right place and that helps his feet get a line and stay on balance as he works back to counter whatever type of rush move the defensive end the past rusher is going to throw at him,

both inside and outside. And Michael Dieter I like the way he works in combo blocks. He can catch and climb get to the second level, first hit that initial chip on the defensive lineman and then climbed to the linebacker and hit that second level block on the other side of the football, on the defensive side and on the line In particular, Christian Wilkins. This is one of the toughest ones because I just like so much about Christians game and he's so well rounded and so versatile.

But I have to just say, the quickness off the snap and the penetration, that's what he was known for in college. He won with that a lot in the National Football League last year in his rookie season, and it's a testament to him how he's able to round out the rest of his game. But man, that speed, quickness and penetration off the line, it's really what I think makes him stand out above his peers. Divon god Shaw,

the sheer strength in his hands. I'm curious if that dude can crack you know, if he doesn't even need a nutcracker. He can probably crack a walnut and his bare hands. Because the way he can grip and lock out and then disengage, it's so fun to watch. It led to the most run stops last year on Pro Football Focus, with thirty three of any interior defensive lineman because of the way he stacks up and disengages because

of the strength in those hands. And Zach Seeler, we don't talk about this guy enough, I don't think, but his hand usage and the length that he displays and the ability to keep his eyes up over his hands when he does lock out and make the read make the play accordingly. We saw that plenty down the stretch last season. Emmanuel Ogba. His length and the ability to

convert speed to power off the outside. It really benefits the rush contained scheme when you have that type of length and then to go ahead and throw that speed off the edge because he is athletic enough to throw a speed rush. But then to convert that two hundred and seventy five pound frame and that length in that wingspan into sheer power. It can reset the right tackle.

We talked about this on previous podcast. How you reset those guys and it creates one on one opportunities for the linebackers, for the edge rushers, for the games you want to run for all the blitz is so his ability to overwhelm with that speed, to power and length, I think is Emmanuel ogbas best I da Shack Lawson. The way he dents the edge and the tenacity he plays with attacking guys trying to pull, whether it's a backside pulling guard, whether it's a split zone tight down

coming across the formation. The way he goes after those guys and initiates the contact and controls the rep and resets the line of scrimmage and the running game. Love the way Shaq Lawson plays off the edge out there in the run game as the edge players go van Noy just his past rush refinement. Man, this guy is so refined and the way he gets after the quarterback, and I think in particular the way he can dip

off the edge. You see him throw the initial hand usage and then dip underneath the outside shoulder of the tackle. He is well versed in so many pass rush moves, but I love the way he runs the arc with that dip. For Vince Bagel, he was kind of the inspiration for the initial tweet for me on this thread. His spin move that he throws your work upfield, you force the vertical set of the tackle spin back across their face. He is deadly with that move. Just ask

his brother Andrew Van Giggle. The way he processes routes and coverage loved at Wisconsin. Loved it in the preseas season. Then he goes on I R comes back late in the year and we see the exact same thing. I have videos of him doing this in the Patriots game. Again. If you just type in my name on Twitter at Wingfield NFL and the player's name, you're probably gonna find

some video work. And with Van Ginkle, the way he can process the curl flat area and that's basically the short pass like a hitch or a little square and route a quick dig inside from a receiver or out to the flat. The running backs, the tight ends running those flat routes. He does so well to process those route combinations and make the play accordingly. As far as off ball linebackers go, Jerome Baker, his range and trigger are two things that really stand out to me, and

those are basically byproducts of his speed. The way he can get sidelined to sideline, but also the way he triggers going forward as a blitzer in pass rush. Love watching how fast he explodes out of his initial stance. His former Ohio State teammate ray kuatic Millan very simple here, the way he defeats blocks, but not just the physicality,

because we know that about fifty two is game. I love watching this guy pop the pads in practice, but the diagnosis, diagnostics, diagnosis, the keys he has there, the way he can key a fullback and where he's aligned or reading the backside guard, and the way he fits his gap in the run game. He has so much fun to watch old school linebacker, I feel like we have to get that guy a neck roll and the land and Roberts is a similar in a lot of

those same ways, but he has intelligence. The way McMillan does, paired with that physicality. I think that's what makes those two guys such good football players, such good linebackers. Is the intelligence and physicality. What more do you need in a football player than that? And then Cammu gruge Hill, similar to Van Ginkle, the coverage processing, the way he knows where to get to his landmarks and coverage, and then the process from there and closed down and make

plays accordingly. This is a guy last year at Eagles camp that had heads turned. We talked about it in his podcast, how when he went down with the injury, you could hear a nail drop because there was so much expectation and so much excitement about Commu Gruge Hill. I cannot wait to see him get back on the field here now with the Miami Dolphins, and only in the defensive backfield at safety Eric Row. There's a lot of options here too. I want to pick something for

his run defense because he's so solid there. But I've been watching these games, like I talked about every single podcast, it seems, and there are so many examples where he has to get in trail and kind of gets in behind the crossing receiver or crossing tight end on these mesh concepts and his ability to close on the ball while the balls in flight and get that outside hand around and punch the ball out. I love the closing speed on the ball in flight from Eric Row, Bobby McCain,

change of direction, oily hips, and ball skills. All that pairs together. The way he can kind of flip those hips and turn and run. Very good usage inside for coverage and also helps him back deep at safety as well. That's why he's so versatible for this football team. Noah I Manogamy another first round draft pick for your Miami Dolphins. The athletic ability shows up every damn time you watch

this guy. When I watch him play, I simply do not believe that he only played a cornerback for two years. And when you sprinkle more seasoning onto this guy is gonna be so much fun to watch him play football. So his sheer athletic ability. He is a freak. The son of two Olympians there at Auburn, and he showed that day in and day out at Auburn. Also, the coaching staff there said he was the most competitive player that ever been around. That's Gus Malson. He's been around

the block a few times. They said this guy was so competitive and he brought that to practice every single day. For Nick need Hum, the footwork. He has so such sweet feet. The way he can transition in and out of breaks really serves him well in the short areas and the quick hitting routes where there's just a couple of steps you break it off the top of the stem. He can really help transition and flip and run with those guys. For Adrian Colbert, the hitting and the physicality.

He's a real tone center on your defense. And he just looks big on the football field. First off, the bus type of guy. I love the way he flows downhill and hits people. Another rookie, Brandon Jones, his play speed and instincts. When you watch Texas tape he wore nineteen in college, you can really see this guy show up every single rep. He flies to the football. He's so active and just so involved. Fun to watch him

play football. And speaking of Brandon Jones, we have a long form interview WOLL with both Brandon himself and coach Tom Herman in Texas, and we'll talk to Brandon's mom. Get to know the kid off the field. On the field, do not miss that podcast coming out sometime this week. I'll go ahead and let you guys know when that podcast is out. And I saved this little bit for last because Byron Jones as kind of the reason I

wanted to get into this topic. I mentioned Vince Bagel, but Byron Jones, Yeah, he's not going to be the underrated elite traits guy because everybody knows who Byron Jones is, because he's one of the NFL's elite cornerbacks. By now. You've heard me talk about his ability to lock down top end receivers in the National Football League. But one of the reasons he comes up here is because I've been watching these NFL Network re airs, which, by the way,

just show us all the games. I want to see every game you've got in the vault there, and really enjoying watching these old football games. But Byron Jones with the Dallas Cowboys, they've been showing games from team and number thirty ones consistently on the field in these games, and I watched the way he plays, and they mostly keep him on one side of the field in Dallas there. But one thing that I really like to watch about him is the way he varies his coverages and his looks.

He'll show you press, he'll bail, he'll show off coverage and then come down and cover up tight and pressed. He just does so much things. He's so versatile, he mixes it up so well. And I watched the way he processes things, and this is part of playing off coverage where he can kind of see the play developed

in front of him. He's so impressive and the way he processes and he really is kind of the captain of that defense, at least recently he was, and the way he communicates the coverage, the structure of the coverage, the structure of the defense. He's a lot of fun to watch. And I just think that pairs so incredibly well with the guy you have on the other side of the football field, who, for my money, is the best press man, press cover cornerman in the National Football League.

And he, of course Xavien Howard has the best inside hand jam of anybody in the NFL. Those two guys working together, with the way they kind of pair off each other and the skill sets they offer, I just think that those two cornerbacks together, my goodness, you're gonna

be tough. It's gonna be tough for anybody else in the national football like the top the skill sets the Dolphins have with Jones on one side and Howard on the other side, those two together has to be one of the most fun things to watch this entire year for the Dolphins. And on the topic of things that are fun to watch and listen to, O J McDuffie did his dad Joke of the Day on Twitter on Sunday to help celebrate Father's Day and in honor of O J and the Fish Tank Podcast here on the

Miami Dolphins podcast Network. I had this clip cut off the day before my daughter was born when they released the episode for Ricky Williams, but I want to go ahead and play it for you now because I think it's just fun as a Dolphins fan. And the way I worked into this podcast was that they have their top ten episodes out a couple of episodes with Channing Crowder.

I think Joy Taylor was one of the episodes Jeff Darlington, but Ricky Williams remains the number one episode in the history of the Fish Tank Podcast, and in preparation for this top ten list, I went back and looked as much content as I could with Ricky Williams making those

runs throughout the course of his Dolphin's career. And the thing that you noticed about most of these runs from Ricky was that most of the time it came from some form of counter action where you fake one direction a little bit of misdirection and come back the other way. You're gonna get a counterstep from the running back. The quarterback pivots to the backside before twisting around play side

for the handoff. And this is kind of a natural timing mechanism that helps power or helps you in the power run game when you have pulling action from the back side. And my god, was Jamie Nails devastating on those blocks in the open field. There's a play in the game against Indie in two thousand two where Nail's Polls play side. That's a tongue twister, but Nail's Polls play side and just wipes out two potential tacklers. Man, that was fun to watch. With Ricky back there as

the ball carrier behind that good offensive line. His most unique trait for me was the way he squared up to the line of scrimmage in the A gap or the B gap to get the defender to come down and close and break down, because they always tell you, even from high school, to up warn or whatever it was, breakdown, make the tackle right. So he would force these defenders

to break down in the box. Then he has that lateral hop step, which is unmatched in NFL history in my opinion, and then from there the acceleration to hit the gas and go zero to sixty, and the way he finished those runs with both speed and power. Just the best man. He was the best I've ever seen. I know I'm only in my young thirties early thirties, but for my money, he's the best running back I

ever saw. So top ten Ricky runs as a Dolphin, and there were more than enough, so I had to cut a few of them out of this list because there were just some runs like, for instance, the fifty four yard touchdown run against Seattle in two thousand eight. It was a big run in a big game that we had to get, but he was the play was well blocked and he just raced through the whole untouched.

A great run, no no doubt about that. Speed definitely kills, but he's got better ones like for starters are number ten Ricky Williams run as a Miami Dolphin second and four ups two. I'm gonna try I sell race. I'd stayed away from him because I can't sticked up, but he knocked. He knocks him into the end zone in the two yard line, and I made he knocks him towards this folks. That was square Bay And it was just a ten yard touchdown run. But the tone that that run set in that game, it was such a

physical game. We talked to a Ronde Gaston on the Fence Flashback podcast a few weeks ago about that contest and how physical it was, and Gadsden told me that was probably the top two or three games in terms of physicality he ever played. But Ricky just brought the punch and really got some tough yards in that game. It set the tone. It got the Dolphins on the board. It was a very Ricky run, speed and power and

just bowling through a guy on the end zone. Number ten two thousand two touchdown run against the Denver Broncos. Run Number nine is a twenty four yard touchdown run on Sunday Night football back in two thousand three. It was at the time a go ahead touchdown. It would serve as the game winner on Sunday Night against Washington

Drive safe score Ricky before the win touchdown. And there's no play by play of that particular game as far as the audio call, but Ricky makes him moving the gap on a third and one play and races to vic to the end zone, shows matel lights and races the Dolphins to victory in that game. Run number eight

in the top ten Ricky Williams Miami Dolphins runs. We stay in primetime and head out to Charlotte four or five to go Ricky Williams chase by Martin Ricky Williams touchdown And that was a forty six yard touchdown run against the Carolina Panthers on a Thursday night football game, a short turnaround there on the road. Always a difficult ask to go on the road on a short week and get a victory, especially when Ronnie Brown went down

the previous week. So Ricky was the man at that point, and he bust out a one hundred yard rushing game, scored three touchdowns in the Dolphins win. And the biggest reason I chose that runs number eight was because Ricky was in the later stages of his career in two thousand nine, but he ran right by two defensive backs. That speed never went away. That speed never quit Ricky from the first day he was on the NFL. In the NFL to the final year, he always had the

speed power combination like nobody else. And speaking of that speed and power, we go back for run number six to two thousand two on a snowy day in Buffalo touchdown. That was a big two hundred yard day for Ricky there, although in a losing effort. That particular run put the Dolphins up by four with just five minutes to play in the third quarter, his first of back to back

two hundred yard rushing days. Of course, the snow out there in Buffalo, he had the head mask on, the thing that goes over the top of his head, so his dreads were all tucked up in there, almost unrecognizable until he got the football and did what he does best. A little tiny hole opens up and from there Ricky saw the daylight and he ran to it for a long touchdown there against the Buffalo Bills in two thousand two. Run number six is gonna take us in state in Florida,

but up north in Jacksonville. Back in two thousand three. We have a sound clip here from NFL Prime Time Chris Berman, Tom Jackson, and Man, if you want to talk about nostalgia, nothing will do it like those two. On NFL Prime Time. Ricky has a serpentine run where he goes back and forth, crosses field and catches a nice block from J feel Ricky waits coming to round for the Verst Grove the clock and we've seen him

doing this many time. J Feeler from Dmouth and watch this, watch Fever and this is the thing I love about Fever. He's not just trying to get in a guy who's way. This block is on. Tony Bracken is one of the best players in the league, and he clears the way for Rickey Wools. The vision to wind that thing back and find that whole, of course, helps Feedler get himself in position to make a huge block for a touchdown run in that Week six, two thousand three game against Jacksonville,

run number five. We go back to two thousand two, and all five of these top five runs could have been number one in any order. I went with this one because it wasn't a touchdown and the other ones were, So we go to play number five in two thousand two in Kansas City. For run number five on the top ten, Ricky Williams runs in Miami. Rickyanhould be holding the right side of his lower back. It ought to

be right there. Wesley meets him in the whole year and says, see you later by and here's the twenty pounds wider Miami. I mean, just runs a dude over in the gap and then gets the second level and throws a defensive back onto the ground. He did get Ricky down with a trip. That's all he was able to do to get him to the ground. But you see the physical impressive statue there of Ricky Williams to run through tacklers and to throw bodies off of him

as he's racing down the sideline. Run number four or in the top ten, Ricky Williams runs. We go to two thousand two again on a Monday night, another two hundred yard performance, this time against the Chicago Bears. Weird deal if you gain fey things. Williams inside the ten first to a t and he into the textab he just creadit, reporters should put the end of the way,

and goes fifteen yards to the end. You just got to feel he spelled that end zone and the last time you saw hermack Or knocked that ball out of there. This stuff. When I can't close again, that thing's going to go in. But he starts in the middle, and now he can do this. He can found it. He started in like the the two holes, found them all the way to the outside to the eight hole, and then got into the end zone. He actually has a

longer touchdown run in that game. But I chose this particular run because I thought that it showcased what really made Ricky so spec show. I talked about it at the top of this list. His ability to get defensive backs and linebackers to commit to the wrong gap and then to bounce it and win with his speed to the corner, and then use that stiff farm, that strength, the agility, and the speed, all of it working together to create just a special special running back. Run number three,

and this one's gonna be a short one. These next two runs are going to be short ones, but they're both are touchdowns where he jukes out two of the better safety's in the NFL over the last couple of decades. One a Hall of Famer and one potentially someday a Hall of Famer. We start with number three against the Baltimore Ravens, where he gets the best of Ed Reid back to the game. Will come to the left side of your street. Help be the blurb he was on

the reverse. He comes in unblocked into the backfield of Ricky has to make a move as he takes the football at the mesh point from the quarterback. He puts the spin move on the spin cycle, gets out of that tackle and walks into the end zone for a Dolphin's touchdown run. Number two is going to be the one again. It's Rodney Harrison. It's a twelve yard touchdown run. It put the game away. Dolphins seven, Chargers three after

this particular play late in the third quarter. But again, like that run against the Bears, I think this one really showcases just what made him special, getting defensive backs to commit and then bouncing outside and beating them with his speed. Had some more tool in here, kIPS outside touchdown. Did he go right around Rodney Harrison if he thinks he can take it outside, There's no hesitation And that was really terrific. A little scudder step. All these impressive runs.

We're gonna go ahead and finish you here with number one. I think we all know what it is. Bye bye, Ricky, Bye bye streak against the Jets in two thousand two,

Rickie Williams touchdo you can very very jazz dup? I think it was Pro Player Stadium at the time, as Bricky goes into the end zone to put to rest an eight game losing streak against the New York Jets there in Week three as a Dolphins improved to three and o. It was his third straight game to begin his Dolphins career with one hundred yards, A fifty three yard strike from Ricky Williams, a big touchdown run there. Those are my top ten Ricky Williams runs as a

Miami Dolphin. You let me know on Twitter which ones you think I missed, where you think I got it right? Let us know all of that on Twitter. And to close out this podcast, I want to do that with a salute to another Dolphins running back, a great Dolphins running back, Jim Kick. We lost Jim over the weekend at age seventy three. He had a brilliant nine year NFL career, including the first seven of that career with the Miami Dolphins. This guy was as we liable as

they come. Missed just one game in those seven seasons, only one game missed. In a tough, brutal type of run heavy offense in the seventies NFL, which we know was not an easy time to play football from a physicality standpoint, those guys got after it. They were tough, physical players. He rushed for twenty eight touchdowns in Miami, including a career high nine touchdowns in nineteen sixty nine.

He was a Pro Bowler his first two years, and then he was very selfless in the way he allowed the Dolphins to develop that trio of running backs which would become the best trio of running backs in the history of the National Football League with Kick, with Larry Sanka and Mercury Morris, the best backfield in the history of the game. Kick rushed for three thousand, seven hundred

fifty nine yards in his career. He also caught a ton of footballs two hundred twenty one catches for the Dolphins for two thousand, two hundred and ten yards, So it really versatile back that gave the offense that added dimension from the backfield. He also had four hundred one rushing yards and one hundred and fifteen receiving yards in eleven playoff games, including touchdowns in each of Miami's Super Bowl victories. So Jim Kick Gone too soon at the age of seventy three,