Channing Tindall Joins Drive Time

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Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast, so we are focusing on the Dolphins new linebacker out of Georgia, the one second pick in this year's draft, Channing Tyndall, and all he did for that Loaded Bulldogs defense, and the more I get through the tape here, the more I'm just having a blast seeing his game, his upside and some of the things I think he could bring

to this defense. Now, of course, this level requires ultimate discipline, work ethic, and a drive and just going off of what Chris Greer said in his press conference about the conversations he had with Kirby smart people around the program and what they heard about the way he works, and what we heard from some of the scouting reports I

talked about on the Saturday Drive Time podcast. A guy who didn't shy away from competition on that Loaded u g A defense, but instead stayed there and competed, and not only competed, but he carved out a significant role for one of the greatest college defenses we've ever seen at that level. And there was a great commentary by the great Lewis Riddeck on ESPM on Tin Doll's game

after he was selected. Quote, his measurables are just stupid four four seven in the forty in vertical eleven foot broad This guy, if he does make a mistake with his initial footwork, he's gonna make up for it because he can absolutely fly. These Georgia linebackers, they get off blocks. He can blitz, he can cover, he can play the mic, he can play the sam. Well, they don't play the sam anymore because they play sub. He can play the will,

he can blitz. Riddick later in the segment, talked about how he didn't understand why he didn't start on the Georgia defense, and I think this point here speaks to what he meant to that Bulldogs defense and the upside he has coming into the league. And this notion, I mean, starting is it is what it is. It's not like the most important thing. If you play a lot, you play a lot like Tyler Hero for instance, in the NBA sixth Man of the Year, he's one of the

most important pieces. Doesn't start the games. It's about how you finish. And that's what you learned about Tindall and the Georgia defense as this year went along. His three highest snap totals came in the SEC title game, the Orange Bowl against Michi against Michigan, and then back again the National Championship Game against Alabama again forty six and then a career high forty eight snaps in the biggest game of the year and all he did in those games.

It combined forty seven pass rush reps, eleven QB preussures, four hits, and a sack which was in the National Championship game. Also, he was in coverage on fifty four snaps and PFF had him with just three yards allowed on those fifty four coverage snaps. It reminds me of why, like Alabama with the running backs for so long, it was like rotation committee for the first pretty much until

the Auburn game. Right then we get to the championship season where you play the SEC title game, now a second college football playoff game, and then the National Championship, and that's when it becomes time to ride your horse like a Derrick Henry, Josh Jacobs, A Damien Harris, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Saw the same thing there with Tindall at the Georgia

linebacker position. Let's go ahead and play the audio of nf All Networks coverage of the draft and the second pick in the draft, Daniel Jeremiah here talking about Channing Tindall. That's odd, Channing Tindall, big time speed, four four speed. Again, we thought all these linebackers off the ball linebackers would roll off the board today and they have. It wasn't a full time player there at George As you can imagine all the mouths defeat on that defense so much talent,

but you could see his range. His speed is real. It shows up and when he arrives he's an explosive tackler as a blitzer right here, these off the ball linebackers all were outstanding blitzers and NA Kobe Dean as good as it gets. You also see it here with Tindall asked him to spy the quarterback again. This is where that speed, this was a big factor in that game against Alabama, is able to just close down on

Bryce Young. It was a big play in that game, a forced Obama offense off the field and the field goal unit onto the field. I want to play or about play, but read to you guys. A couple of texts I got here over the weekend after the Tin Dall pick from some friends in the draft community. People have done the podcast that type up a thing. This one here quote by the way, Tindall is my LB two from someone I really respect their draft opinion. Another one of those folks said, my favorite of the Georgia

linebackers does the old school dirty work. Doesn't just beat blocks, he puts them on the ground, then meets the back with even more force. Runs like a guy who weighs two twenty hits like one who goes to fifty. I think that's a good spot for our first break. When we come back, we'll break down some plays, taking a look at all the tape here. Drivetime Podcast Travis Winfield brought to you by Auto Nation. What's Up Dolphins? Travis Winkfield here, the host of the Drivetime Podcast on the

Miami Dolphins podcast network. And I'm joined today by our first draft pick this season, new Dolphins linebacker Channing Tindall. Channing, Welcome in Many How are you doing today? We're very good. May excited to have you and I know it's been a long day, but we're happy to have you here on the podcast. And you know, first of all, welcome to Miami. You got the call last night, get here today.

How's it feeling taking it all in yet? Oh yeah, it's just a surreal feeling, honestly, just getting that call and being here and literally the next day and then meeting everybody here. Everybody is so nice, just a great feeling. I can't really explain it. So you clock a four four seven forty at the combine this year, that's like a wide receiver speed. And I read you through the shot put and the discus in high school, but it sounds that they could have used us a sprinter on

the track team. Oh yeah, My coach didn't want us to run though we had. Our started running back pulled his hamstring in high school. They didn't after that. Our coaches like, no everybody, ye for everybody. So speaking about the speed, how does that speed? How do you use that speed to your advantage? On the football field? Everything's about angles, honestly, inside zonner, outside zone. So once I see I know what I'll capable of. Once I see the angle, I just uh project the perfect angle to

get wherever I need to go. It works for you, pretty good thirdbound draft pickre for the Miami Dolphins. Channing, Tendle, speed, explosiveness, versatility are the words that I see associated with your name and your game the most. Why do you think versatility is so important in modern football? Just the new

age of linebacker that's coming in. They have to blitz, they have to play off the edge they have to cover, they have to do it all and at the same time might be there like the play callers, so like you have to be versus the quarterback of that going on exactly. Yeah, so you talked about playing that middle part of the defensive Georgia there. How do you think your time at Georgia and playing in Kirby Smarts defense

prepared you to play a linebacker at this level? Just being we had a certain standard at Georgia and just being with all those guys, I feel I played with the best guys in the nation at all positions, especially at the linebacker when the Kobe, Dean and Quay Walker. So it's just like iron sharpening iron. So just outside of the coaches pushing and pushing us, it was almost self motivation too, because we all all wanted to be

better than one another. Did you guys compete, like not just on the football field, but imagine like ping pong games another thing. You guys just compete all the time? Oh yeah, if you're competitive, like, I don't care who you are, Like, it doesn't just stop with football, all the goals and everything. So yeah, especially pulling me and the Kobe had a big pool competition thing going before we left ball there you go perfect. So you opted to stay there at Georgia for your senior season. What

went into that decision? And then also I have to imagine winning the national championship. That payoff had to be pretty great season to stay at Georgia for your senior season. Oh, it's just uh did the best guys I knew were at George's? So I want to be with the best guys. Like I don't care what type of adversity I might have been facing during the time. I'd rather hit that wall now than hit it later, Like iron sharpens iron.

So like I really think who I think I am, Like I'll be able to succeed where I'm at, so like I don't want to prove it to myself that belong here. And then you win the national championship. That payoff had to have been incredible. Oh yeah, it was the best thing ever. So Chris Greer told us that you played off the edge in high school, more of an edge rusher. I also read you played offensive line back in your pee wee days and in middle school. That is what I read is that that's accurate. So

even at you know, such an early age. Do you think your experience on offense maybe kind of helps you see the game for a different lens as far as the defender goes a little bit. I played a little bit full back on my POT one of days too, so just hitting those gaps, I kind of know what the back is looking for, so we just go to cloudy to clear and I cadn't see that from the linebacker position as well. So it kind of helped transition,

but it wasn't a big thing. Yeah, college is completely but you first you do fast forward to college and you got that ring. You know what about that championship season? What did it teach you about the game and just being a professional in general? That championship game where it all started. With the SEC championship game, we went in I felt like our heads was a little too hot and we had, just as linebackers, bad communications, so that

kind of humbled us. And so just going in like we had to play every game like it was our last game, especially with being the national championship game. That is the last game. Everything we worked for, we would we didn't want it to be for nothing. So we came in with the right mindset. We've been doing this all year, all the hard work, everything we put in all year, like we weren't gonna lose again. Since I've been to Georgia and we lost the band, we couldn't

do it again. There was some friendly trash talk here, some bamas from Georgia folk here. So it was a big game for us here in the Dolphins building as well. And I'm glad to see you guys pulled out, especially now that we got you here in South Florida. So after that, you go to the All Star Games, right, the Senior Bowl? How was your Senior Bowl experience? Bowl was wonderful. I had a great time meeting all the different players. They're just taking all the different culture from

all the different coaches that I met there. Uh uh, just being there in the atmosphere, just being with the different players and meeting different people. That's having the same opportunity to meet with just something special. So you talked a little bit about, you know, Dolphins linebackers and how you think you're fit in the system here, and Chris Berre talked about how you fitting Josh Boiler scheme, the defensive coordinator. Have you had a chance to meet Josh

Boiler yet? I have. I haven't taught to him much about schematics and things like that, but that matter. But I felt like all the linebackers here, like I know how they play. They play them on the line, off the ball, on the edge, kind of the same way I played in Georgia. So I feel like I fit right there and just be Just have to keep iron sharpening iron be the best ways to me. You see some Jerome Baker tape, ever, he's he's pretty fast and

blitz the quarterback pretty well. Till you watching his game, Oh yeah, yeah, he gets out of it, all of them. Honestly, what something you want to want? You don't want to ask Jerome about the game? Like, if you had one question you could ask Jalma would be how did the game? I know the game is faster NFL, so how did he slow it down? Honestly, that's probably the biggest question I have for You made plays on defense, but you're also all over the Georgia Special teams tape as well.

Why is that third phase of the game so important to you? Just said Georgia. But before you go in, you can't be a starter at Georgia without without playing any type of special teams, So like special teams could like be like give you momentum. It could make or break the game. You learned that while you're in college, So just taking the special teams around, you could know all of those a serious uh possessions downs, all of that.

Every single thing football is a game of inches. Put it like that, and so like every little moment in the game counts. You talk about energy coach Danny croftsman special teams coach here, You're gonna get to know him pretty well. He's got a lot of energy in his own right. So talking to about your college experience, you played against both two a tongue of Blowa and Jeel and Waddle at Alabama. What do you remember most about preparing for those guys when as a defender going against

them out offense? I remember Jayla Waddle was super fast. I remember specifically on a special team's rep. I was covering down on the right side and he brung everybody to the right side and went all the way left and score detection And I was like, wow, yeah, like he's a real deal. And then to the same way, just the accuracy he has throwing the ball, It's just amazing. We love to hear a great scouting report. One more question for you here, Channing, to get you out of here.

What are you most looking forward to about your opportunity here in Miami? Uh? Just become the best version of me. Honestly, I feel like everybody here believes in me, and I believe in myself, and I just wanna with this opportunity I have. I just want to take this uh, take this program with this organization, and bring it as high as I can, just like everybody else to do to

appreciate changing the new Dolphins linebacker. Appreciate it. Man. Thanks a lot back here on the Channing Tin Doll episode of the Drive Time podcast, it has made the second I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I got into some games watching the tape here on Channing Tin Doll Dolphin's third round draft pick number one or two overall, and I thought I might poke around the schedule and

find some different games. But you know, I think the three championship type games against fellow NFL competition, big stage, big moments makes the most sense. And for a fourth, why don't we go ahead and incorporate Tennessee back in November because he had a high snap count in that game as well. So I started with Michigan and the Orange Bowl, and he wound up not getting much time late in that game. As you might recall, it became

a runaway. But he made a big impact in the first half, starting on the very first drive against the Michigan Wolverines. And there's eight minutes to go in the first corpse when the notes here start. It's a fourth down and he scrapes off of an offensive lineman as a blitzer and just completely resets the guard into the lap of the quarterback with a bull rush. I mean, this is something you're gonna hear consistently throughout my tape

notes here. Later in the first quarter, first and ten, he keeps himself inside on run action and sprints to the flat to take away a pass out into the flat. And what I mean by this is the quarterback has a mesh point with the running back, so he has to kind of keep eyes on that and make sure it's on a running play up the middle, and this gives the tight end leaking to the flat time to get to that spot before Channing could sprint out there himself.

But he's so fast and has such recovery speed like we talked about with Lewis Riddick in the first part of the podcast here from his ESPN coverage that even if he takes a false step or has eyes that are late, he can make up for that because of his speed. And I'm not saying he was here, because that's just part of the responsibility. You gotta go through your checks. It allows him to do that stuff so

much quicker. And so the more he plays, a more experience he gets, and you're gonna hear him answer a question about Jerome Baker here in just one second about one question he would ask Bake and he answers about speed of the game. I'll leave it to let you guys hear it when it comes up. But the more experience he gets, it's just gonna get better, and it's

gonna make that speed look even better. In the second quarter of this game, I thought he showed the full compliment of his skill set where he can go downfield and coverage as well. Copper route is a corner post, go to the pylon with the head fake or one step jab back to the post and try to get some separation that way. And it's in the seam or in the slot. I should say down the seam to the slot receiver, and he carries this thing twenty five yards down the field to the goal post in the

red zone. Like carries, it means he stays step for step and matches with him. So I just it's it's rare some of the things that he can do. Next up the National Championship giving its Bama. My notes are more full here. I had the Michigan game on I recorded the All twenty two version of the game on my TV, and my kid was with me watching the game, so I had to write notes on my phone. These are more descriptive notes. So first quarter of the National

Championship game. It's very early the impact and it's a third and one toss to Brian rob and send the big running back there who was drafted over the weekend, and Tindall stacked up over the zero tech, which is the nose tackle up over the center, and he's outflanked to the side of the formation that Robinson's on. Now at the toss, he pulls the trigger, but he's already out.

He's got more room to go than the running back has to go right and the force defender does a good job of forcing Robinson back inside and then here comes Tindall with a clean up shot. Man. He Robinson's a big, big dude, but he felt that hit. And man, that type of speed really helps you contend with offenses that can spread things out and use all the spacing we have, you know, with the modern athlete, and obviously the size of the football field fifty three yards wide.

You know, play out of that ten personnel package like Buffalo leads that the league in that package every year by a substantial amount, and that can then create matchups on the outside, but also makes you light in the box on the inside to give the offense favorable run counts. A player like tin doll skill set, ideally, if he realizes the full potential, I think, can erase that type of threat or counter that at least and give you

a fighter's chance. Later on in this game, in the first quarter, right towards the end of a three to

play second and ten, it's a spot drop. So working through man coverage, zone coverage, rushing, the quarterback set in the edge, and the running game and Bama runs these mesh crawings, these concepts uh on this particular player of shallow crossing routes that are designed to you know, get the linebackers caught up set natural picks, natural rubs, and you see him working through with the eyes the helmet,

kind of darting back and forth. And look, I'm not gonna sit here and tell you his responsibility on the play because I don't have the playbook with his rules in front of me. But what I see was active feat that moved with his eyes. That's something we talk about in quarterbacks all the time, right, It's important for the feat to be hardwired to the eyes because you see it, you go, well, if they're working together, there's no see it. Okay, now get the feet and go.

It's see it and go at the same time. So allows you to play faster. And they had so many dudes on that defense that played a lot of roles, but you really saw him flexed out like outside the box, in the slot, like by the hash marks, or you know, out of the tackle box a lot more than a lot of those guys. Speed has its benefits, and there's you know, the versatility creates a lot of options for you.

Later on in the second quarter, another first and tent place starts as an off ball linebacker position, and Bama's gonna motion and you see the Georgia front shift. They

go from an even front to an odd front. But then he slides down as that off the off ball linebacker that comes up down off the edge, and he's in a wide nine position out wide of the tight end, and he beats the right tackle with speech from that alignment and gets there so quickly that the running back who took one step ahead to kind of help inside, you go inside, out right, scan protection, get inside, get back out wide. He can't. He doesn't have time to scan.

He's stuck inside because the rush is so fast. And then he dips that shoulder and gets a hit on the quarterback. Another theme we're gonna talk about here throughout the course of this podcast. Third quarter, mid third quarter

five three, third and two. The Bama offense converts, but he's playing a mic linebacker position, uncovered in an even front, and the center has a catching climb with a clean release to the second level on his uh second level block on Tindall, but Tindall shocks him with the hands to the chess plate, disengages and stops it right into three or four yard game. It's a first down, but a successful down block, and they might have gotten out the gate on that one for double digits, if not more.

Very quickly after that, the third quarter, three and eleven, he stunts from the five technique position, which is your classic defensive end, right off the outside shoulder of the tackle. And I mean we see this in Miami all the time.

Loop inside with the you know, big Christian Wilkins or Zack Seeler, ray Kwon Davis, one of these guys sitting a pick outside and then that backer or that edge of loops back inside around the center and he sees that the center does, but tindals so fast to the spot that he can only get arms on him as he runs by. And that's not gonna stop him. He's a freight train. I think this is where you see

the real impact in his game. Everything he does set the table for this third and long, show an exotic rush scheme and utilize the speed and confusion of it to heat up the quarterback before the routes can uncover you know, eleven yards. It takes a minute to get down there. If your rush scheme gets home before that, good luck. You know, that's that's how it goes. That's how turno what's happened? And Bryce Young has to throw it away and took a big hit from Tindall on

that spot too. I thought his best pass rush of the night came in the fourth quarter at to fifty eight to play on a crucial third and four leading or tilling I should say, by eight points, and he goes speed to power and takes the right tackle right into the quarterbacks lap. You see him brace for contact and anchor when Channing gets in there, and then it's recover, recover, recovery, treat, get those feet going. They go from planted the chopping real fast because that's a lot of force you have

to contend with. And you just watch him consistently play fast and behind his pads, which generates that level of force. It's not just about the biggest guy out there, you know. I read that text earlier runs like he's two twenty hits, like he's two fifty. Technique Football's technique. That's that's that's what it comes down to. When you compare elite level athletic ability with technique, that's when you're cooking with gas. So back to the regular season here, against the Tennessee Volunteers.

First quarter, twelve forty play early and often this guy makes plays first and ten. He goes outside the hash of the boundary pre snap, So the boundaries the shorts out of the field outside the hash. You guys know what that means. The hash marks in the middle of the field, and they pull the backside guard to seal the edge, and then there's an h back that scrapes off of that and the only man left is Tindal. So you guys, it's basically like the was it the

rushing attack drill? And in the game of Madden, you have a fullback coming into block, a linebacker and the running back behind that. And if you guys know how you played that game, if you have full back is clear and has a round the linebacker, the running back should have a pretty good chance of making that linebacker missed. It's well blocked everywhere except for that blocked hindill beast.

The block disengages, makes the stop, just consistently shows up, cutting down plays that could be a lot bigger and holds them to modest games. Quickly after that, nine ten to play in the first quarter. Another first down in ten just an outrageous display of speed. He stacked behind the two technique to the field. Two technique is your defensive tackle lined head up over the guard, and they throw a now route which is catch the ball, get it out right now. And it's literally three yards away

from the sideline to the perimeter. So he has to get beyond the hash over the numbers and all the way out to the perimeter, and boy does he. The field is fifty three and a half yards wide right or something like that, and he covered half of it and the receiver only gained eight yards in the play by the time he covered twenty six and a half yards. I don't know math, you guys, what I'm talking about,

just unreal speed. Two plays later, lines up uncovered off ball over the left guard and scrapes off the left side of engaged tackle who's you know, blocking someone else and meets the back right in the backfield. Just the more you can do. It's it's bullyball is a gap filler speed to the sideline, all on display early in this game. This whole game for him as a clinic on retracing screens and showing his hustle, which is great too. Obviously they just kept throwing the ball to the perimeter

and blocking up, blocking it up pretty well outside. But then here would come forty one from out of frame on the film, you know, the end zone angle out of frame and just put a pop on someone. It was fun to watch. Man In the third quarter of this game, first and fifteen eleven thirty to play, Tennessee gets themselves a numbers advantage in the running game, to the point that Tindall, who's lined up sta behind the

left guard, is the furthest outside defender. So he is and he's got a long way to go, and they get that snap off quick because they see it. And not only does he beat the back outside, but when he sticks his foot in the ground tries to cut up, it's not so fast. My friend Tindall hits the brakes, reaches back in and makes the tackle. You you praise this play if the only thing he does is turns it back in the fact that he makes the play

too is exceptional. Later on this game, second or third quarter, I should say, two minutes to play second and five, and he gets home with his rush off ball well disguised blitz because he's not coming until the snap goes off. So it's not like he's mugged up in the A gap or B gap and you see nineties six for U G A Georgia, it's my abbreviation. He twists inside and the left guard he follows him, but and he sees Tindal coming and kind of gets back outside to

fill that gap. But by the time he does, and it happened fast, it's too late. Ten dollars buy him then. One of the parts I love most about his game is how he sinks that inside shoulder because obviously it's a great place to throw the hands try to get that chess play and drive you past the quarterback out

of the play. He just continuously gives the offensive lineman and usually guards in these blitz uh you know, bi gab blitz is obviously a tiny target to shoot for, and he doesn't really lose acceleration when he does it, and he maintains his balance around that arc, around that corner right into the quarterback in this instance for a sack SEC title game again against Bama, first quarter four eight teen, second and eight, it's a blitz and he gets a one on one opportunity versus the right guard.

This is the first time I saw this on the four tapes I watched. It's a four man rush. As one of the down lineman drops out and Nakobe Dean, who's mugged up it's a dummy blitz. He backs out, so tin Dall hits the guard with a crossover step.

You know he's he's coming from depth and there's a little bit of space to either the left of the right two way go, and he goes crossover step to the inside and rushes the inside half of his man, and that guard has to lunge out and try to recover, and he can't do it, and he winds up turning and chasing, and eventually you see his numbers which from

the end zone angle behind the defense. Don't want to see the offensive line's name on the back of his jersey, and he winds up on the ground as Tindal puts a big stick on the Heisman Trophy winner. First play, the second quarter, first and ten Bama runs zone read action left with split zone going right. That's the motion man going opposite direction of the way you're going to run the football, and he'll seal the backside if you do run the football. In this case, they kept it

and Tindal blitzes the quarterback kept it. Tindal blitz is off the right side and usually the motion man comes under and then here comes the rusher. But he got there before the motion man, like if he was a little bit later, he would have collided with him and it would have been not a good scene for that wide receiver coming in the split zone motion. He just

he comes in. Obviously that's fast, right, so he gets right in there and wacks the quarterback and Bryce Young has to kind of spike the ball under the turf to avoid the sack, and the ball falls well short of that target to the flat to the motion man. This burst as shows up time and time and time again. But I keep going back to his ability to operate in tight spaces and make himself small, dip that shoulder

and not lose acceleration. In the third quarter, about midway through six forty three second and two, they had to get backs helping him in this game because he was putting so much pressure on the quarterback, and the both games against Bamma this year, and they did it here because again his speed is just too much coming from that second level, scraping off that block and angling towards the quarterback. Brian Robinson often located forty one first and

foremost in pass pro. Then there's two separate places in the third quarter where he presses the issue on some of those Bama zone read looks where Brish Young can keep it or give it, and man, when forty one is barreling down on you, you can't give that thing off to the back soon enough. That speed forces a certain level of urgency in the decision making. In total, it was a lot of the same on those tapes.

I mean, I usually have a four tape rule, but I don't think I needed all of them to see what I needed to see in terms of the movement skills, the way he shocks people when he hit some the prowess in the rush games from multiple positions, very very intriguing skill set, and you can really see why the Dolphins were so intrigued by his skill set, and so just looking at the potential fit and the things that he does well that jive with the things that Dolphins

defense have done well with the pressures, the sub packages, the multiple fronts, the multiple looks just kind of drives with Channing tin Doll's game. I mean just look at the things he did at Georgia working off of stunts. Delayed blitz is green dog in which is where you can have him match up with someone in the backfield.

If they stay into block, you send him on a blitz and take care of it that way, because like Louis Riddick talked about, if there's a false step, if there's a late key, his athletic ability allows him to make up for that, and when he gets it right, well then you're really cooking with gas and his ability to kind of squeeze into tight spaces and scrape off of the angles of the blocks and the stunts and the picks to get set and then angle back to

the quarterback. It just fits so well with what we've see and work so well here for a couple of years now. And of course he can come and bring that pressure. He can zero blitz and green dog blitz him because of the acceleration he just he can do all that where he works downhill. But then you think about up a sential crutch to the zero blitz. For instance, if the quarterback escapes that initial wave, it can be

trouble for your defense. Right think about Josh Allen, he gets out of that first initial pressure, steps up, and then he has all room to run for thirty forty yards like he is wont to do. But if that happens with Tyndall, he has the speed to keep that eye on the quarterback and go hunt him and again, just to go back to the play in the Bama game against Bryce Young, but it's more than that, Like defeating blocks is a big part of his game as well.

We've seen guys up front play that two gap. Lots of bear fronts and two gaps when you're responsible for multiple gaps to your right to your left. That's why when you watch those drills against the blocking sled, you see guys peak left, peak right, get off that block and find out which gap the ball carrier is going to.

That's two gapping. A bare front is where you cover up the center with your nose tackle and the two guards with your defensive ends, and then you can bring an off ball linebacker down off the edge to be on the ball at that linebacker position. And if you're on a bare front, that means you're stack, which means you're off ball. Linebackers in the middle are behind those two two techniques playing behind the two ends over the front of the guards, if that will make sense for

you guys. So if you play him stacked, great, he can run free and use the athletic ability. And this is kind of the ideal situation here for Jerome Baker, that you can truly unlock that athletic ability he has because of all he does to kind of run around and make plays in the middle of the defense. But when you want to pull a guard or swing the ball out in space, Tim Dall can square up, drop

the shore pads and take on those blocks too. So he's really transferable across the odd fronts where he might be stacked. You're even fronts where you can afford to play him your front even more aggressive and attack because you're not quite as worried about lineman clearing that first wave and climbing to the second level of the defense.

I mean, this is a dude who would key tunnel screens coming back inside from the outside patiently seek and destroy the guy where it looks like he's taking on a block, but he's knocking the helmet off some poor soul at wide receiver. I think you should be able to compete right away in sub backages on special teams, and I think as we go along with him, it would be it would just get harder and harder to keep him off the field and more of your many,

many defensive packages that you run. The fit here, to me is brilliant, the match mobility of the speed. There's just not much to say in the other direction about this pick. And you got him at pick one oh two, So this isn't our first first round pick we're talking about here, So the third round fantastic stuff. All right, Let's go ahead and here from man himself, Channing Tindal up next here on the Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield,

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