Drive Time - Cornerbacks Preview and the Premier Dolphins Camp Matchup

you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, the defensive backs are gonna get there go on the training camp roster preview series, will break it down into cornerbacks and safeties. Safeties tomorrow, Corners up. Today we'll talk about separation created stats among white outs and corners and the value of contestant catches. And we'll put those two together and look at one of the premier matchups at Dolphins Camp. I'll give you some of the

best quotes from Jerome Baker's Reddit. Asked me anything from Tuesday morning, and I'll get some thoughts on last Chance You and a food delivery service app that did me wrong on Monday night. All of that and more on this Tuesday, August the eleventh edition of the Drive Time Podcast.

One of my favorite things about doing the podcast and having the kind of open line of communication with the fans of the team and listeners of the show, is that when something comes across my timeline or across my desk, whatever you want to call that, that's good enough for an entire show topic. And we're gonna get into the cornerback preview here in just one moment on the podcast. And I'm still for that because I have tons of

good nuggets on these guys in that room. And I've also tweeted before about some of the potential matchups we're gonna see at Dolphins training camp practice. These are the guys that will go up against the cornerbacks, the wide receivers, and about the importance of separation created It's a long form study produced by five thirty eight dot com. It was written by Josh Hermsmeyer and it was brought to my attention on Twitter by user at d Wildermouth, Thank you,

Mr Muth. And they created and measured a stat called separation over expected, a stat that accounts for the number of variables like distance of target route ran, the coverage, the quarterback's arm strength, and anticipation skills. A multitude of statistics went into this idea, and of course, as we do here on drive time, I wanted to relate it

to the dolphins and their receivers. So the first graph in the story is a cumulative average separation chart by distance or yards of the target, and it dates back to seen So it's a three year study. And they differentiate between play action and non play action passes, which of course makes sense because that deception on the play call can create some hesitation by even a step or two by the defensive back and that changes the idea

of the study. So using nonplay pass the average separation on a pass at zero yards right at the line of scrimmage is about four yards of separation. Essentially, your screen calls right and that distance stays similar up through about eight to nine yards off the line. Then it starts to tell off. By the time you're down the field twelve yards, that average separation created has already dropped to a full yard down to three yards of separation.

Get to twenty yards downfield, it's at two and a half and by thirty yards it's all the way down to two yards of separation. So where am I going with this? Well, you listen to the show, you know there's always an end destination to what we're talking about here. I'm heading for the forest, to the forest to find some trees, and those trees are called DeVante Parker and

Preston Williams. And the Dolphins don't have any players on the highest separation verse expected or the worst s o E list on the short targets, the quick targets under ten yards, and that's primarily gonna be your inside guys like slot receivers, tight ends, running backs, and that makes sense, right, the guys that uncover the quickest inside there closest to the quarterback. And we also don't have anybody on the best or worst list for intermediate passes, and that further

you get into the study. That's where my point starts to really resonate about what this list means for contestant catches and separation of the receivers in the NFL. And you look at the list of the worst separation over expected in the intermediate portion of the field, DeAndre Hopkins, who for my money is the best damn receiver in the league, is on the bottom of that list. Not only his twenty nineteen season ranks dead last eighteen season

is third from bottom. You've got t Y Hilton, Kenny Golladay twice on the list, Allen Robinson, Julio Jones is on that list. So let me get to the deep balls. And we do have a dolphin on one of the lists. It's Devonte Parker and it's on the bottom of the list. He's surrounded by the likes of Odell Beckham, Mike Evans, Larry Fitzgerald, Jarvis Landry, even Tyler Lockett, who is known for his vertical exploits down the football field. All of

those guys are on this list. Now I may have lost you again as you wonder, Travis, where the hell are we going here? We'll just buckle up and let me drive us there. When scouting players at the college level, I've seen the debate about contested catches. I remember Tee Higgins last year from Clemson making play after play after play.

Eventually he goes to the thirty third overall pick to the Cincinnati Bengals, and I came across a comment one time, and I forget who it was from draft Twitter is a va vast place, saying that those contested catches make said scout wary because he should be creating more consistent separation at the college level. But the other side says, at a certain point, that's just who a player is, a guy that can outrebound everybody at any given time.

And something of a sidebar that I think factors into the conversation was on Twitter again earlier in the week and Lance Zerline, who we reference on this podcast all the time, from NFL dot Com, was showing off some Rondale More clips, the perdue wide receiver who will enter the draft next year, about how he patiently attacks the cornerback and gets the corner to commit his play side or boundary side hip and then cross his face accordingly, and a former NFL player in that thread, I think

it was Darius Butler said the cornerback has to know that in a four by one formation, the backside receiver the one of the four by one. He has to know the likelihood of that route being a slant is a very very high likelihood. And some other NFL guys replied in the conversation turned into how tough it is to create consistent separation at the NFL level. Cornerbacks just do not let you get wide open at this level, and that's where this entire point comes to its climax.

If Mike Evans, DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, the game's premier receivers are creating minimal separation, then how do we think they are catching one hundred balls for dred yards and ten touchdowns every single year? Because they catch contested footballs. And that was DeVante Parker's game last year. It's been

his game since forever. I broke this down on the Wide Receiver Pod a couple of weeks back, talking about his ability to use his frame to force the defender to try to play through him, and that can cause either a lack of play on the ball or a past interference call. We saw in Devonte's rookie year. We saw it with Tannehill, Cutler, Matt Moore. We saw a

ton last year with Ryan Fitzpatrick. The passes against the Eagles, the touchdown in the Jets game at home, the touchdown against the Giants, the flee flicker against the Bengals, that post route in the opener against Baltimore. It's become his signature play, skying above the defensive back and pulling the football down contested, the signature play that created the second most yards on contested catches in the NFL last year, according to rohto baller dot com, he had four hundred

yards that was second to Kenny Golladay in Detroit. He was fourth on player profile dot COM's completed air yards that's attacking vertically down the football field fifth and total distance of target number five in terms of volume deep targets and fourth in the NFL. And yards gained on passes thrown twenty plus yards downfield with four hundred and seventy eight yards there and second and touchdowns on those

deep passes with five. And he was eight in the league in contested catch rate at fifty one point four percent. How tough does that have to be on defensive back who's in prime position with no separation whatsoever, and Davante is still pulling down more than half of those balls even when the coverage is good. It's like in baseball, you do your job right, you hit a line drive into the gap and the right fielder comes over and

dives and makes a great catch. You hit the balls hard as you could, but it just went right to a It's the same idea here. Preston Williams was tenth and average target distance per player profile dot Com. He was fourteenth and contested catch rate, pulling down forty seven point six percent of those contested footballs. He was fifty seven in yards on passes throwing twenty yards or more down the field with one forty three, but that was

from half of a season. You pro orate that to two six yards, doubling it up, and he's in the top twenty there as well. So vertical passing threats with that height who excel in a game where the average separation is less than two yards that far down the field.

That is an exciting development that we had in and hopefully continues on into and back to Parker here real quick, as a little transition into our cornerback preview, I want to start adding in some camp battles that I'm super intrigued by over the next couple of days here on the Drivetime Podcast part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network.

And to clarify, not actual position battles like who's gonna win the slot cornerback job or who wins the right tackle, right guard, whatever offensive line position is up for grabs, but the best matchup that we get with regards to the one on one matchups or in the team periods going against each other, and it's got to be Devanta

Parker on Byron Jones. I like the idea of doing something of a tale of the Tape on these And since we already gave you the rundown on Devanta Parker's data and what led to him being the fifth leading receiver in the entire National Football League, fourth among all wide doubts and this battle of contested catches that I can't wait to see on the field, let's talk about Byron Jones, who was near the top of the leader

board and so many big time advanced metric categories. Player Profile had him at number two and yards per target allowed number seven, and total cumulative yards allowed on the season number nine and receptions allowed, and he was fourth in catch rate allowed, so that tells you that he too, is frequently in good position. But as we learned from Devanta Parker stats, that doesn't always matter because when UNC

wants the ball, Unk's gonna go get it. And I'm not much for fantasy football, but they do have Jones at number one and fantasy point allowed per coverage snap number five and points allowed per target number three and total fantasy points allowed and fourth and catch rate and fourth in their stat that they call a coverage rating. So top five across the board there in terms of permitting fantasy guys from going off against him on the

offensive side of the ball. And let's do one more here for good measure, here's a next gen stat the details tight window throws as created by NFL next Gen Stats. Fifty percent of throws to Byron Jones last year to his man and coverage wound up being what they considered tight window throws. As I put air quotes on a podcast, has never worked in the history of podcasts, but I'll keep on doing it. But fifty percent of throws at Byron jones man last year were tight window throws. That

was by far the best in the NFL. Number two was Jamale Dean of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He forced forty eight percent of throws at his man to be into tight windows. Trey Herndon and Casey Hayward were next on that list, and for good measure, the two all Pro cornerbacks and staff On Gilmour and Trey White were in that stat respectively, So some good company there for

Byron Jones to be in. So when it is Jones versus Parker, there's gonna be tight coverage because they're almost always is in the NFL, especially going up against the cornerback like Jones who can stay in that hip pocket so well, there's gonna be an all out, no holds bar battle, a cage match, only instead of trying to go up and get a championship belt off the top of the cage, they're trying to pull footballs down. And that satisfies my wrestling reference quota here on the podcast

for the rest of the entire season. Let's go ahead now and transition up to the piece on Miami Dolphins dot Com as we continue on as we have for a couple of weeks now taking a look at every position on this Miami Dolphins roster with the training camp roster preview series, and today we do go in to the cornerback room that was coached last year by Josh Boyer. This year, Jeral Alexander takes things over as Boyer gets

the promotion to defensive coordinator. And there's so many cool stats in this group from Pro Football Focus and otherwise. I want to go ahead and go through some of that stuff for you guys here on this edition of Drive Time, we start again in order of jersey number, which means number twenty two. Tay Hayes is up first.

His first recruit season last year in the NFL, entering number two with the Miami Dolphins, Appalachian state product number twenty three on the jersey, and he was really thrust, as some of these guys were late in the season into that sinker swim situation. Get on the field, how can you perform? And he did really well from the metric standpoint. The December waiver claim was targeted sixteen times in two games, one and seven snaps on defense, twenty

on special teams. So he got here and he played right away, and on those sixteen targets, he allowed three completions. That's eight teen point eight percent completion for fifty five yards three point four four yards per target. And just for a reference point on that last step, the best guys in the league are usually up around nine yards per target, the best receivers, and that kind of Mendoza line where it's like above average or below, it's right

around seven seven and a half yards per target. So tay Hayes, although on a very short sample size three point four or four yards per target, with two pass breakups and a path star rating against of just forty one point four. He also chipped in with seven tackles, three of those for run stops. He earned comprehensive praise for his coverage and tackling from Brian Flores last year, who said, quote, t jumped right in and played a significant amount of snaps last week in his first game

against Cincinnati. He made a few plays and was competitive on most of the coverage. I thought he tackled well. It's a good start. I think we need to build on that in practice meetings and walk throughs and hopefully duplicate that type of performance again. And quote up next. We talked about him already a little bit. The Dolphins free agent signing in the off season at the position Byron Jones five seasons there in Dallas, coming over for

his first in Miami, number twenty four. He was thirty one in Dallas, twenty four here out of Connecticut, twenty seven years old on opening day. Is still a very young player, and there are many traits to point to Byron Jones really as the quintessential cornerback. He's durable, he missed one game in five years. He's physical and effective against the run, three d and forty nine career tackles.

He's versatile two thousand and sixty seven career snaps as a corner, two thous an eight hundred thirty six as a safety, and most importantly, he is a blanket and coverage. Since switching to cornerback full time and eighteen, Jones has allowed seventy six catches on one D and thirty six targets at a completion rate of just fifty five point

eight percent. And we heard Flores talk about Jones on his Monday media availability earlier in the week, talking about a smart, tough player, guy that can tackle, good coverage skills, good length, good leadership qualities, a talented player that we're happy to have. And speaking of that toughness, there was a play a couple of years back. I forget the game, I forget which year, exactly where they showed Byron Jones knee kind of pop out of place. There, he pops

it back in, stands back up, doesn't miss a snap. Tough, durable player and Byron Jones and he is an athletic marvel to the t blew the doors off NFL combine. He paced all dbs and several categories like the vertical jump at forty four and a half inches, the broad jump which is still a world record to this day at one forty seven inches, three cone six point seven eight seconds, twenty yard shuttle under four seconds, a sixty

yard shuttle under eleven seconds. He has rare length and athletic combination, and that makes him a difficult task for receivers to earn clean releases on when he lines up in that press man coverage. He has the relative athletics scorecard of near perfection kent Lee Platts r a S scorecard out of ten, which takes all athletic testing at the combine, protas and stuff and puts it into an ultimate score out of ten. He ranked nine nine six

on that scorecard. Again, that world record broad jump and the forty four and a half inch vertical just ridiculous testing metrics there for Byron Jones and player profile dot Com to reference them once more. Has him ranked second

and yards per target allowed at five point one. Last season, he allowed the ninth fewest receptions per game and two point two and the fourth fewest yards with three fifty one, and he ranked fourth in both coverage rating and catch rate allowed last year among all National Football League cornerbacks. Up next on our list, another guy that locks things down on the outside, Xavian Howard four more seasons here in Miami, entering number five, number twenty five out of Baylor.

Twenty seven years old on opening day, so both he and Byron Jones twenty seven years old. Since x entered the league back in twenty sixteen, he has as many interceptions thirteen as touchdowns allowed per Pro Football Focus. He's limited opposing quarterbacks to a seventy five point three passer rating and a completion rate of just fifty five point

four percent. Playing the football and disrupting the timing of the passing game are two of the Feathers and Howard's cap But he's also a very efficient tackler one d forty tackles, twenty four missed opportunities, so five percent tackle rate very good numbers out there on the edge. He plays the game with physicality and confidence. Nothing is easy

when facing twenty five and aqua. He will challenge receivers every step of the way on the route at the line, at the top of the stem, at the catch point. I thought the interception last year in the Pittsburgh game, going up against Juju Smith Schuster was a great example of how physical and how challenging he can be to a receiver every step of the way, making you earn everything you get. Dolphins extended Howard in the spring of twenty nineteen, and Brian Flores had this to say about

the abilities of X. Quote. He's got good length, he's got good strength at the line of scrimmage, He's got really good ball skills. He tackles well. I think he's just a good overall player. Again, he doesn't have all the answers. He's not the perfect player. I don't think there is one. Obviously, it's an imperfect game. But he does a lot of the things that we like and he's a team player. End quote. Up next on the

cornerback preview jersey number thirty for the Miami Dolphins. Nate Brooks another one of these guys that came in late last year and had some pop his first season in the NFL last year, second entering here with the Dolphins out of North Texas. Twenty four years old, he signed as an undrafted free agent with the Cardinals in twenty nineteen, found his way onto the Patriots practice squad. Then on December tenth, the Dolphins signed Brooks and elevated him to

the active roster. He played three games for the Dolphins, total nine one snaps on defense and fourteen on special teams. He started the Week seventeen win in New England and played the third most snaps among Dolphins cornerbacks. In that game, he permitted only two catches on five targets, playing twenty eight of his thirty snaps as a perimeter corner. He broke up one pass, didn't miss a tackle on eleven attempts all season long, and also chipped in with a

run stop. So some late season success there for Nate Brooks. Tay Hey some of the guys that got called up late in the year and performed well down the stretch for the Miami Dolphins. Another guy that got called into the lineup after not playing much early on is Ken Webster.

His first accrued season last year, entering number two with the Miami Dolphins, number thirty one out of Old Miss twenty four years old on opening day, and again he played sparingly through the first three games of the season, just nine snaps on defense and then he was called up for two hundred and seventeen snaps. The rest of the way, he made nineteen tackles and didn't miss one

one percent tackler on the edge. He was terrific at getting ball carriers to the ground, wrapping, squeezing, pulling him down, and four of those tackles were run stops within two yards of the line of scrimmage. And among some other young cornerbacks, he earned some praise from coach Flores for what they bring to the table. I think those guys play hard. Talking about Ken Webster, they worked the techniques, they try to be physical at the line of scrimmage.

All those guys can run pretty well. We're trying to develop everyone on the team. I think you can kind of see some progress in the back end with those guys. Look, they're all hard working kids. It's very important to each one of them. They listen, they're attentive, and they've had a little bit of production and quote he was talking about Nick need Hum and Ken Webster in that quote right there, and on the topic of young cornerbacks on

this Dolphins roster. Jamal Perry is up next first season in the NFL entering number two here with the Miami Dolphins. I should say, first a crude season, he was on practice squads prior to that, and first up, he was Jamal Wills last year and the name spelling of his first name was j O m A L. It is now j A m A L. As he made that name change and honoring his stepfather. And Jamal wears number thirty three out of Iowa State, twenty five years old

on Opening Day. He was signed by the Eagles before making his way to the Patriots practice squad as an undrafted free agent in seven team. That's where he played under defensive Coordina there for the Patriots and Brian Flores. He had fifty eight tackles, two tackles for loss, and a pick last season. His versatility was what most intrigued Dolphins to go ahead and bring Wilts down here to Miami.

As Flora's discussed what made the Dolphins want to go after a couple of Patriots like Eric Row and Jamal Wilts and now Jamal Perry. Of course, here's what Flora's had to say. Quote. I think they're both smart. I think they both played discipline football. I think they work hard.

And they tackle. They're pretty good cover guys. I think they're versatile, they can play multiple positions, and again, they have familiarity with how we do things, and I think that's helped some of the other guys here on the roster end quote up next, we talked about him already. Nick need Um first season last year, undrafted out of UTEP Texas l passo entering year number two as a

pro here with the Miami Dolphins. He wears number forty, twenty three years old on opening day, and the evolution of Nick Needham's season last year really was one of the more intriguing storylines individually on this twenty nine team Miami Dolphins team. He starts that preseason opener and then began the year on the Dolphins practice squad and didn't get the call up until Week six, but he never

looked back from that point forward. In that NFL debut, he pitched a coverage shutout with no catches allowed on three targets and playing seventeen coverage snaps. Also had a pass break up in that game, and his workload would then increase each week for the next month as he settled into a starting position on the outside at cornerback, he allowed only a completion percentage of fifty nine and a half. He picked off two passes, made fifty four

tackles with just seven missed attempts. As a tackler. He also made seventeen run stops, very involved up around the line of scrimmage, and he registered five quarterback pressures on just fifteen pass rush reps. That's easy for me to say, including one sack last year, So thirty percent of the time getting home as a rusher and then one time

getting that sack as well. Flores talked last November about Nick Needham after a two game stretch where he held quarterbacks to a fifty percent completion rate and a four point oh six yards per target and the initial impression that Needham gave the Dolphins Brian floor Us and Josh Boyer. Flora says, quote Josh Boyer, it's March, and he says, I think I've got a kid from UTEP who's pretty decent. And when he says pretty decent, that means he's probably

pretty good. We brought him as a free agent and he did some good things and O t a s he had some struggles like most rookies, doing the preseason and wasn't quite ready, so he put him on the practice squad. This is the National Football League. That's the journey of a lot of guys in the NFL. It's part of their journey. I should say he spent a

few weeks on the practice squad. I think getting released and going through the process took him through a little bit of the reality of what the NFL could be. It could be over in a heartbeat. He embraced that challenge and turned things around quickly. And I would say he took everything a little bit more seriously meetings, practices,

walk through his weightlifting, nutrition and quote. And I think that that type of work ethic and that type of mentality and that type of story and journey that Flora's talks about there can really resonate in the locker room and kind of have an impact on other guys, Like he talked about with Eric Rowe and Jamal Will it's kind of helping guys get acclimated, and a story like this can really provide some backdrop for some guys that want to, you know, cut out a role in this

league and cut out a role on this team and work their way into it. If you work hard enough and make enough plays, you can get out there too. And up next on our list here is Picasso Nelson Jr. No accrued seasons, entering his first with the Miami Dolphins, number forty five out of Southern Miss, Gonna be twenty four years old on opening day. He was added to

the roster earlier this month, back on August three. He spent last season with the Colts practice squad after signing as a U d f A. He played fifty games in college at Southern Miss, picked up two hundred two tackles, fifteen pass breakups, five picks, and a forced fumble. He also earned academic All conference honors and the Southern Miss Best Male Citizen Award in eight team. He ran a four eight at his pro day back in twenty nineteen and had a thirty nine inch vertical and one twenty

eight inch broad jumps. A very explosive player there in those testing metrics. Finally, speaking of explosion, another rookie here. First round draft pick number thirty overall out of Auburn, He's number forty six on the roster. He's been wearing number twenty three out there in practice, but that's not quite official just yet. So he's going up here on the piece as forty six Noah IgG Banogny iig Bonogny

for those of you trying to get that down. Still twenty years old on opening day, this guy is still a pup. His coaches at Auburn could not say enough about his passion for the game and competitive toughness on Saturdays. Here's what Gus Malson had to say. He's one of the defensive leaders. He has a presence about him. He played with a lot more confidence this spring. He plays with an edge that carries over for a lot of people.

And quote talking about the impact you can have in your will and your desire and how it impacts your teammates. Here's what Auburn defensive backs coach Wesley McGriff had to say about Iggy's attitude. It's phenomenal. There were times we had to run him out of the building and quote talking about him putting in the extra work and then saying, hey, dude, go home, go be a kid, go like, relax and enjoy the rest of your night. And he was in there working and that work ethic pair as well with

some very eye popping athletic traits that he has. A former high school triple jump national champion, ig Banogny displayed rare athletic ability at this year scouting combine four four eight in the forty thirty seven in vertical, one inches on the broad that checked in and the percentile among cornerbacks.

Chris Career talked about the draft pick after the Dolphins made the selection on the first round back in April, talking about the five ft eleven one nineties seven pound corner He was the best player on the board for us. We felt really good about Noah. We got to know him. This is a passing league, as everyone says, you can never have enough cornerbacks. Brian Flores came from a really good defensive team when we hired him, and they had

a lot of corners as well. At the end of the day, the way this league is offensively, it's a premium position and the more you have, the better it breeds competition. He's a competitive kid that we really liked in the process. And Ignogeny was a receiver convert played the first two years there Auburn at receiver, moved over to cornerback and he posted an impressive stack going up against some of the country's best receivers. There in the SEC.

You know about Jamaar Chase and Justin Jefferson. There l s U, you know about DeVonta Smith and Jerry Judy, Henry Ruggs and Jalen Waddle. At Alabama, this guy went tote toe with some of the best, and on eight hundred and seventy nine coverage snaps in his college career, he surrendered just three touchdowns over the course of almost

nine coverage snaps. So noagnogamy rounds out our cornerback room, a good, deep looking room here in Miami, and that leaves us with just the safeties and the specialist to get to. On tomorrow's podcast, we'll cover the safeties and play some sound for you guys on that podcast as well. Very excited for all that. Some more content coming your

way this week. We also had Jerome Baker do a Reddit a m A asked me anything earlier on Tuesday morning, and he really covered a variety of topics, including some of the funniest players in the Dolphins team. The energy source that was Christian Wilkins. That is Christian Wilkins, So go check that out. I'm gonna read back three answers for you guys right here that I thought were the

best from his entire thing. Up first, talking about what Coach Flora's and playing for Coach Flora's is like compared to other coaches. Here's what Jerome had to say. Coach Flow is a unique coach. What I mean by that is he learns you, the players, and he tries in any way to get you a play at the maximum level. If it's challenging you with words, if it's challenging you mentally, he does everything to get you to be the best player you can be. He does a great job establishing

trust with guys. Once you established that, you can really push guys to their limits so they can be their best. I really appreciate that about about Coach Flow. He does a great job with that. And we've heard that before, right from a couple of the Patriots guys, the McCarty twins and mccordy brothers, talking about how he's tough but or demanding but also loving in that same regard, so

Jerome Baker kind of echoing those sentiments. Another question that was asked to Jerome was the best part about playing in Miami, and he said he loves the Miami temperature, the Miami weather. How of the year, he wakes up and the sun is just beaming on his face and it gives him the energy that I need to get up. I just love the weather. Just waking up with the sun in your face, it really gets your day going.

So I really appreciate that. I'm from Cleveland. So that's why L O L and I hear that, Jerome, because the other day, on the way to work, I was driving in the thought, Man, I know it's August right now, It's gonna be this way anywhere around the country. But those December and January days driving to work, you know, at six, seven, eight o'clock in the morning, when the sun is barely coming up and it's still very, very frigid and cold out there, and you have to go

warm your car up. We're not gonna have that down here. So I feel that one. Jerome could not agree more. Never have to scrape the ice off my windshield again, and I am so thankful for that fact. So go check that out for yourself. It's on Reddit, the r Miami Dolphins subreddit. Jerome Baker asked me anything they have it pinned to the top of the page. There he talks about players that he studied growing up, the hardest running backs to tackle. Tons of good content in that

story or that asked me anything up on Reddit. And let's go ahead and get into this real quick because I want to talk about two more things in this podcast before we jet out of here. Who else is a big fan of the show? Last Chance You? This season with John Beam, which every time I say that name, I can't help but mispronounce it like the whiskey. But it is what it is, and I think he's the reason this season. I'm only three episodes in, but this

season is by far the best one in the entire series. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about the villain on TV shows. My favorite character and Silicon Valley is Gavin Belson by a mile. My favorite character in the Office is Ryan, which I know everyone hates that answer. I love the character that causes the conflict in the show. But when you go to Jason Brown and Buddy Stevens,

the previous two coaches, that wasn't really coaching. It was more just yelling and cursing at players and demeaning them. And that was something else entirely. It's great to see the mutual respect that beam here at Laney College and the fifth season of Last Chance You and his players share and how cool is that the heat coached to Von Bess, former Dolphins receiver back in high school and

three episodes in. I'm sure I'll get some mentions here on Twitter that serve as spoilers, But who else can you talk about besides Dior Walker, the receiver slash quarterback, sleeping in his car, a very fractured relationship with his father, a position change, and still he balls out. And that's kind of the entire roster to this point in the show. A bunch of kids that just have these gut wrenching

stories but somehow turned out to be great kids. And that's the definition of compelling television for me, and with my wife and daughter back home in the state of Washington, miss you guys, I'm watching plenty of Netflix. I'm gonna go ahead and pump out a bunch of these Netflix Last Chance You episodes probably this week and finish this thing up. And I can't pronounce his name and I won't even try. With the Polynesian kid with the two kids himself and watching him be a father to those

little girls. That kind of stuff just hits me differently these days, and I really really enjoy that storyline as well. Highly highly recommend the show, like make it the next show in your queue, And if you haven't seen any of the previous seasons, you don't have to go back and watch it in order, but I would. I would start with number one just so you can see the

evolution of the coaches. The show covers at the three different programs there at East Mississippi Community College and UH Independence there in Kansas I think it is, and now at Laney College in Oakland, and by the way, in season one a current Miami Dolphins in there, and wide receiver Kirk Merritt. Let's go ahead and close this podcast up with the customer complaint of the day. I won't say which one it is, but I tried using a food delivery service app for the first time last night.

Second time last night. Checked that second time I used this app and things did not go well. Is it always like this when you order food to your place? I put the order when I left the facility right around six thirty or so. It says the food will be at my place at seven fifteen. That's absolutely perfect. Let's go. The heat are playing. I'm all set for the night I get home. It updates to say my new delivery time is seven thirty five to seven forty five.

Not great, but not a big deal either. Finally, at seven forty and the app changes to arriving soon. Boom baby, where you're flying. Food is gonna be here any second now, Only it wasn't. It stayed there on the Arriving Soon up until eight fifteen, and I finally started to get a little bit concerned that maybe it wasn't coming, so I called the restaurant and they said, the order never came in. So why is the app update in the status if the order never came in? Like, what is

in the program that's causing this? So they take my order, it gets to my house an hour later. You want talk about the Hungrys? Oh buddy, never again with that app. I will take your recommendations on which of the food delivery service apps as best. Please let me know because I need it. I am Bachelor lifestyle right now. I'm not gonna cook every night. I'll cook sometimes, but I'm not a big fan of cooking, So let me know which of the food service delivery apps is the very

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