Drive Time - Snap Counts For a Versatile Team

We are going to hear from Brian Flores and three more Dolphins players on this Thursday. Plus we'll get into snap counts and who fills them on this team this season. All of that and more on this Thursday, September, the third edition of the Drivetime PODCASTAMI Dolphins. As we start daily here, we're gonna go ahead and hear from coach Flora's and just one moment, but some late roster news. On Wednesday night, the Dolphins released receiver Chester Rogers, who

of course signed earlier this month. He has now been released. The Dolphins roster getting closer down to that league man dated fifty five man roster or fifty three man roster with two call up players this year, and of course the six team practice squad players cut down day coming on Saturday. We're gonna have you guys covered here on the Drivetime podcast on Miami Dolphins dot com. And then

we get into the regular season next week. We are one week away from Chiefs and Texans and calling those games on the Miami Dolphins Radio Network is going to be Hall of Fame defensive and Jason Taylor, who joins Kimbo Camper, Jimmy Cephalo and Joe Rose in the Miami Dolphins Radio broadcast booth this year. So Jason Taylor, welcome in to the Miami Dolphins broadcast booths. Big news there

for your Dolphins. Let's go ahead and get back to today's action here and here from coach Flores, who showed up wearing a red Miami Heat shirt and of course was asked about Game two last night, the Heat taking down the Milwaukee Bucks to take a two oh lead in the Eastern Conference Semis. Here's coach on the game and the Miami Heat. I mean, I thought the game was fantastic last night. You know, he went down to the wire, got a great situational basketball at the end.

He came down a free throw, so it was good. You know. Obviously I'm a fan of Coach Spo and that team and the way they played that tough there, physical, they grind things out, the play smart smart basketball. Hopefully we we we we can kind of learn from a lot of things they do and emulate a lot of

the success that they've had over there. It's just too perfect Coach Flow and Coach Spow your South Florida head coaches down here for the professional sports teams, I can just imagine watching that game with Flora's and seeing him stress out over the miss free throws, will simultaneously loving diving for loose balls and playing strong defense, passing the ball all around the ark and finding the best shot. Really fun to watch that heat team play. I think

Coach Flora's appreciates that as well. Let's get back to football here, and here from coach Flora's on his quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick and the value he brings to the quarterback room and the rest of that team. Well from a leadership standpoint, but from an experience standpoint, I think he brings a lot to the team and for two us specifically and josh Um, you know, to kind of talk through in the game situations and to have situations third down too, you know red mike points in a run game,

defensive structures and all those things. Uh, they're very helpful to the to the young players. It's the same for defensively. So the defensive guy can go to fits and say, hey, what did you see on that that made you make that throw versus another throw? So and he's more than willing to take on that role and answer questions. And

you have think he brings a lot. You just can't replicate the value of a strong veteran leader at quarterback that can, like Flora says, not only lead the quarterback room, but help the defense and show them things they might not have recognized in the coverage or in the particular progression for the quarterback, in the route concept of the offense.

Just invaluable stuff. Ryan Fitzpatrick brings to this team. And we stay on topic there as coach was asked if he had a pre existing relationship with Fitzpatrick before he brought him here to Miami and to describe the affinity that he feels for Fitzpatrick. And although he loves Fitzpatrick, he disagrees with that usage that description of the relationship. I don't if anyone has ever said used the word affinity uh with me and in any player, but you know,

uh fits. I'm absolutely coached against him. UH watched them, you know, playing this league for a long long time, hadn't met him, but but but knew of him from you know, I want to vc he was at Harvard, so UH knew of him. But I think what you hear about him as a person, um, you know that was that was all true. And we're seeing that he's all the things that you know I'm looking for in a player. He's tough, he's smart, he's competitive, he loves

he loves to play, he's a great teammate. Um, he's coachable. I think there's I would say he and I probaly have a lot of similarities from the lasting point about you know, the way we approached the game, and you know, I think it's it's been a good good fit affinity probably you know, I don't know if I'd use those words,

but I like the guy a lot. If you guys hear any strange sounds in the podcast, I think the receiver's room next door got a basketball hoop, and that's the sound you're hearing this morning, So I do apologize for that, but we press on here as coach was asked next about when the team transitions from camp mode into preparation mode, as we are just one week away from the kickoff here of NFL season Kansas City and Houston of course pulling for Kansas City there with the

draft pick of the Houston Texans, and just ten days away from our own opener in New England. I mean it's a little bit of both right now. Camp it's you know, we were we obviously started in preparation on and then trying to get familiar with their personnel that

that's some new players, uh, the quarterback situation obviously. But at the same time, I'm gonna use today and work on some things that we may not have seen, um from our offense, our defense today of course the training camp, not necessarily England, UM, just different books that we haven't seen offensively, defensively really, you know, on training camp, you work against whatever your defense does, that's what you're gonna see.

Offensive whatever their offense does, we're going to see. Defensively, whatever you know you do in a kicking game, that's what you see. Like some other teams are a little bit different, and there's some other concepts that we need to see, we need to see more of. So that's what we're going on today, and then you know, we'll get into the game plan a little later in the week. Probably that response was music to my football loving ears,

just here and talking about different concepts and approaches. He obviously didn't get into any of those concepts. But you know, we have so many different unique styles of offense around the NFL today, Like, for instance, what the Jacksonville Jaguars were under Tom Coughlin. I know he's not there anymore,

but that physical, grinded out type of team. Then the very next week, you could find yourself playing Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid and the Kansas City Chiefs and have to deal with that spread out attack that has so many different wrinkles and variations to it, and you have to defend a quarterback that has so much talent in his arsenal that you just have to defend every blade of

grass on the field. And then you might find yourself going up against the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and that quarterback lead heavy offense and the read option and all the misdirection they do in the running game, throwing the ball to the tight ends over the middle of the field. There are just so many variations of offense in this league, and it does seem to stand a reason that you would face challenges without having preparation or game plans in

place from the previous four preseason games. You don't have that this year, so you have to make up for it in the short period of time. And luckily you've got some options this year for the scout team offense. For instance, a former quarterback in college that did a bunch of running on his own. Right up next, coach was asked about his own improvement going into your number two things he's looking to improve on as a coach in his second year here in Miami. Well, I'm still

working on everything. I try to improve on a daily basis and every area of my life coaching, you know, fatherhood, in a husband, friendships, and I try to get better really at everything. But yeah, I mean there's there's experience that experiences that I had last year, think about as I'm trying to make decisions and uh this season, conversations that I've had, experiences, situations, you know, in practice and games. I certainly don't have all the answers. I don't think

I ever will. Um, So I still lean on a lot of the you know, I lean on our coaching staff Danny Croftsman to Chant, to Josh Boyer, uh, to Eric steus Villion that there's I feel I feel very comfortable with our group. I'll lean on those guys. But as far as the relationships with the players, all the guys who were here a year ago, they kind of know how I'm wired. Uh, they know what I expect. That's been good, I mean as far as your comfortability

from that standpoint. But at the same time, we also have a lot of new players, but we're still get to know them as well. They're getting to know me, and that's kind of that's a football in general. It's start how how and try to build a team. Here's always some new guys and make everyone feel comfortable, but at the same time, coaching hard and and we'll go ahead and finish up here with coach talking about three players and their progress coming back from injuries, Jachim Grant

Davante Parker. He said they're working hard to get back every day getting better and mentioned the injury report will come out next week for that Patriots game. Hopefully they're not on it, but he says, we'll see. And then he was asked to evaluate your performance so far of exaving Howard, who's been back now for one full week. Yeah, he's made a lot of progress. I mean he's looks

he's look, he's looked good out there. I mean he's fast, quick, you know, he's he's just gotta work on you know, the techniques to fundamentals of stattle com Uh, but is a good conditioning and those that you know, those are things that you work on a mon a daily basis and to get better. So yeah, he's he's trending in the right direction. I would say that again, not a competition at that position as well. And we'll see, we'll see, uh,

we'll see how it shakes out. And so there goes coach ahead of Thursday morning's practice again, just ten days away from the start of the season four your Miami Dolphins, and with the season so close, let's go ahead and talk about this roster, the construction of this roster, and some snap counts as when they do take the field,

they're gonna have plenty of options out there. Is be kind of sandwich this podcast with Ryan Flores and Player Media Availability together here in the middle on this Thursday, September, the third edition of the Drive Time podcast. We've heard coaches, players, myself, anybody attached to this Dolphins operation talk about the importance of being multiple on defense and on offense too. It

goes both ways. A staple of what it takes to be a Miami Dolphins that you are tough, smart, physical player, but also the more you can do, the more value you have around this building. And that's true of every employee here in the building. Hell, I've even learned some graphics work since I've been here for the articles up on Miami Dolphins dot com. So the more you can do, the more self reliant you can be, the more value

you have in this organization. So I want to take a look at snap counts and package deployment from last year from Pro Football Focus and try best to apply that to this year's team. And by now we are very familiar with the multiplicity of the defense. We had Eric Rowe talking about the man based defense on the podcast a while back. Only the Lions and the Patriots played more man coverage last season in the NFL that according to Pro Football Reference, we saw even odd three man,

four man, five man fronts. We saw linebackers come down on the ball in the A to B the C gap. We saw Eric Rowe come down in that marble point front where he aligns inside the force defender on the outside. You have your outside linebacker or defensive end aligned outside of the formation as Row comes down to be privy both of the tight end releasing into the pattern, but also to fit the C gap in the running game.

Not an easy job. But back on topic here, why don't we go ahead and just start there with the defensive backs. It's easy at the top here because, barring injury, you're gonna roll the same four players on the field pretty much every snap in a perfect world. And again there's no perfect world in the NFL. But if there was, Byron Jones, Xavian Howard, Eric Row, and Bobby McCain, your two perimeter corners and your two safeties, they don't leave

the field in an ideal world, that's four snaptakers there. Now. Pro Football Focus has a league average of five defensive backpackages in the NFL at five percent. But there's a very very important carrot in there to recognize. You might assume that five means five or more, but it doesn't. It's just five defensive backs. So six defensive backs in the NFL is twelve pc. So you call that, what does it carry the one? Sixty percent of the time, I know there's no carrying the one there, I just

second math making a joke. But sixty six percent of the time you're in nickel or dime defense. So again, I know you'll hear this out in the Twitter sphere, even from people that have covered this game for a long long time, talking about based defense, based defense four three three four. It's just it's not just stop. It's not your base defense. Those are sub packages. In today's NFL, sub is the new base. And so back to the Dolphins. They used five defensive backs thirty five percent of the

time last year compared to that pent league average. Pretty big gap, right, However, they used dime defense six defensive backs of the time. That is a seventeen percent increase on league average of twelve percent. So there you go. You get your six right there from the Dolphins with five or six defensive backs on the field, just two percent less than the league average. But that's not it because also on Pro Football Focus, we've got quarter and

half dollar defense. Yep, it just keeps going with that trend. Seven defensive backs, eight defensive backs. They made up just short of ten percent last year of the combined snaps, and these all come with different variations of fronts. The description only refers to the number of defensive backs on the field, So if this is getting too wordy for you,

let's go ahead and slow it down. Nickel defense means five defensive backs, dime means six, quarter means seven, and half dollar means eight defensive backs, so you get about a ten percent bump from quarter and half dollar. Bring our five or more defensive back packages on the field to a grand total of seventy four percent of the time, so three fourth of the time you have five or more defensive backs on the field. We all clear on that. Okay, cool?

And then there are a handful like less than one percent total of snaps played with less than four defensive backs on the field, called your heavy package, and the

rest will be your four defensive backpackage. So three fourths of the time you're gonna be in five dbs or more, and one quarter of the time, you're gonna be with four defensive backs on the field, so five guys are gonna play a ton, six will play a lot, seven will play some And in reality, you need about ten guys active on game day you feel good about in the secondary based upon injuries. Special teams help guys to fill in for a series or two if someone gets

nicked up. So many variations go into this, and if you want to be multiple and you want to execute your quarter half dollar dime nickel sub package defense, you have to have about ten guys. So x Byron Rowe, McCain. Again, ideal world doesn't exist, but in that world, they play of your snaps last year is not a good indicator for individual snap counts because all those guys went on injured reserve except for Eric Rowe, and obviously Byron Jones wasn't here, but he always plays. At least in Dallas

he did. So It's Dolphins are not a great indicator. But in New England, for instance, Stefond Gilmour play of their snaps. See not a perfect world, couldn't play all of their snaps. Devin mccordy played there for them, and Patrick Chung played of the snaps of the games in which he was active for Again, injuries happen. You need these bodies. Deron Harmon played sixty as the third safety. J C. Jackson, one of the better cornerbacks in the

league across the board, played sixty. Jonathan Jones played You get it, You need bodies. Then we've got work there from Noah Igmnogeny, who probably ideally fits in that seventy plus percent range, and the same is probably true of Brandon Jones, the safety who comes down and plays multiple roles on this defense as well. With depth looking really really damn good behind those guys in Nick Needham, Jamal Perry,

Tay Hayes, Cavon Frasier. So that's the ten that I feel Frankly, I feel really good about that group of ten defensive backs here for the Dolphins, and obviously there are more eyes that could factor in to that equation as well. At the next level. I think you've got two guys that probably rarely exit the field, and they are Kyle van Noy and Jerome Baker. We've seen Bake

exceed one thousand snaps here even just last season. We know what k v n is and how valuable his role in this defense is both of those guys do seriously everything you can ask from a linebacker, rush the quarterback, run fit, get yourself in the proper gap, drop and cover and communicate the defense. What did Matt Brita tell us on the podcast, run, hit and cover. Well, that's Jerome Baker, that's Kyle van Noy. You can kind of think of them in that way as Flora's as Van

Noy and high Tower in that sense. But then we've got a bunch of guys who played in various roles to like Sam Eg von Vince Beagle. They both played roughly six last year Ray Kawadon McMillan played. He did miss some time with injury though, so that number is probably higher on a games played basis. And then there are plenty of packages that do call for three linebackers on the field, so it's not just Baker and Van Noy. Three three fronts and nickel are common about two hundred

and fifty snaps roughly. You get another one hundred plus snaps from your base or heavy defense with three or even sometimes four linebackers on the field. You can go to four as well, so that accounts for another additional hundred snaps or so, So you're getting close to about four hundred, four fifty, maybe even five hundred snaps with three or four linebackers on the field. And don't you just feel good about the rest of this roster's ability to make that up as well? Because the Land and

Roberts had an awesome training camp. I think it's pretty clear a pretty part for part plug and play there for Ray Kwadon McMillan in that role, and those are a few hundred snaps there for him. Andrew Van Geinkle does a little bit of everything the way Vince Beagle did coming down off the edge. Commu grug A Hill has that run hit cover skills that we talked about as well. So honestly, if anything, there probably aren't enough snaps to go around for everybody here on this team

that deserves the reps there. So coach even said it himself in his press conference after the scrimmage on Saturday, the depth in the room, the linebacker room was one of many factor is going in to that Ray Kwan McMillan trade, So depth at linebacker feels pretty good there too. Finally, we go up front and the story just feels the same here for me. You know how I feel about Emmanuel Ogba. He is just a monster in training camp

so far, and he should play a lot. He averaged six hundred and thirty eight snaps per year through four years with both the Browns and the Chiefs, even though he got injured last year about halfway through the season. The numbers should likely go up from there for Ogbah, and the same is true of Shack Lawson. So what we call that about fifteen hundred snaps or so for those guys, maybe even a little bit more a meaty, meaty chunk of defensive end work there from those two

studs on the defensive line in general? Do we call it four thousand snaps? Because you're gonna base this on one thousand snaps per position. So you've got what is that eleven hundred snaps to give out on defense with eleven guys a hundred thousand snaps, I should say, eleven thousand snaps to go around with four thousand on the defensive line. So if those guys eat up fifteen hundred snaps,

you've got twenty hundred to go around. Both Christian Wilkins and Devon god Shop played about seven hundred and fifty ish Snapskiver take last year for this Dolphins defense. But we did hear Coach Hobby on Wednesday's podcast talk about the importance of rotation and how badly you need to keep those guys up front fresh. I don't think that's at all an issue for Christian Wilkins. He never left the field of Clemson. He did the same thing last

year here in Miami. Plus, he can play inside as the one shade up over the center, that three technique, in those four man fronts, he can kick out over the tackle and your odd bear fronts upfront. So his

versatility really goes a long way for him. And I would say that workload feels fitting for Christian with maybe a little bit dialed back for god Chow there, because we have to account for this big rookie who had a hell of a camp in Rae Kwon Davis, the absolute bowl that he is he factors in akin to Christian Wilkins, and that he can play a lot of positions and in that too, four we saw sometimes last year with Wilkins and god Shaw, or Wilkins and John Jenkins,

or even like Wilkins and Charles Harris or or Taco Charleton. You would then fill in linebackers like Van Ginkel and Beagle and Baker and McMillan up front, so you get that to four look with Wilkins and Davis as those guys. That gives you multiple rush gap options with not just your defensive lineman but also your linebackers, and Van Noy and Baker and grouge Hill and Van Ginkel as your two four speed package. I guess we can call it

because all those guys can flat out scoop. Like if the offense goes into eleven personnel, which is one back, one tight end, three receivers, and it's third down and nine, so you know it's a passing down, but they don't have four or five receivers in the formation. You keep that Nickel package together to account for the receivers and tight ends in the back, and then you've got legitimately six guys who can rush multiple spots, and four of

them are also good in coverage as well. Not to slight Christian Wilkins here, because we know he can play the hook zone when he peels off, I'm just not going to ask him to kick out over the slot and cover up Julian Edelman. But in that package you have guys that can rush and cover, so you can confuse the protection call with showing guys in different gaps and left those blitzes and back out accordingly how you see fit. So Wilkins and Davis upfront eating up another

what is it, fifteen hondo snaps? God Shap plays another five hundred six hundred or so. Then you've got Zack Seeler, who I think is just a damn good football player, Jason Strowbridge, one or two other guys out there to round out the other four to five hundred snaps or so. Sounds good to me. Man, Let's go on offense. Your quarterback doesn't leave the field, or at least he shouldn't, so there from that position at running back, I think

it's a hot hand type of deal. We heard coach Studentsville mentioned how they want to expose these guys to every role possible and then just see who fits from there. And you do want that mystery factor of being able to say, well, Howard Brita Gaskin, all these guys can function as runners, pass catchers, and pass blockers. So when

we put one of them on the field. The defense isn't privy to any particular call or play structure based upon who they're running back and the game is and like Hobby mentioned, on the defensive line, keeping these guys fresh can be vital. I heard someone the other days suggests that some team, and suddenly I'm blanking on it. I want to say it was the Chiefs, but that kind of feels wrong because it almost seemed like a slight to Clyde Edwards Hilaire, who you guys know I'm

infatuated with. Actually, yeah, I think it was the Chiefs because the comment was they could sign Leonard four Nette to fulfill their Lendelle White role. They talked about Chris Johnson runs to get you a lead, Lendell White runs to close the game out, and who better of a closer than Jordan Howard. Not to make that comparison for apples to apples, but just talking about Howard's ability to close games down here in this Miami heat. It's no

freaking joke, but Howard just a freaking bowl. Brita looks explosive as hell, and Gascon had a damn good camp. Patrick Laird certainly as a role as a pass catcher and special team. We're on this team. Chandler Cox really helps clear things up as a lead blocker and twenty one personnel. He is very fun to watch the way he invites contact and blows things up. Options are a plenty there, and Malcolm Perry is certainly certainly an intriguing option. He has had a very good camp as well out

of Navy. On the offensive line, the story is the same as it is at quarterback. You hope you get for five guys, but that's just not realistic in the National Football League. That's why you find value in a Jesse Davis who was an adequate right tackle or right guard. On top of the position flexibility that really expands that value. Ted Carriss can play all three interior spots. Michael Dieter

is the same in that regard. Austin Jackson, Solomon Kiley, Robert Hunt have all had good days, as the coaches have talked about some bad days, but they've shown you their ability on those good days. You have Eric Flowers, who is just a rock stolid, rock solid guard guy

that has played tackle in his career as well. So I think your lineup comes out of there somewhere and you feel good about your swing tackle, even if it means you have to shuffle the line up a bit and your swing interior guy, because you have six or seven guys that you feel comfortable putting in the lineup on Sundays. Now. Obviously, attrition can set in at any point in the season. For instance, we saw Philadelphia already go down Andre Dillard go coogs. They also lost Brandon

Brooks for the season. So when that stuff starts to happen, when you get your depth really tested. But for now, going into the season, you feel good about the starters as well as a couple of guys behind them. They give you that depth and give you that flexibility as well. At tight end, I think we all expect get Sicki to continue that trajectory from the end of last year. He's playing super fast and confident and strong on the

practice field. We've heard a fusive praise for Dirham Smith from the coaching staff, namely George Godzy, And those guys were your twelve personnel package last year. You're one back two tight ends Dolphins of the time. We'll see how it looks this year under chan Gailey, and we'll also see how it looks with Adam Sheheen factored in because he is massive man. He's a big dude. He can block and he can move pretty well for a guy

that size. Then we finished out wide and this is kind of like the defensive back room for the offense. You've got Davonte Parker and Preston Williams, who you hope

to get ninety plus percent workloads out of. Isaiah Ford is so reliable and dependable, I think it makes sense that his workload really goes up and reflects what we saw last year in December compared to obviously what we saw in September when he's on the practice squad, especially with that comfort level that he and Fits have developed over the last two years. Jachim is kind of wild card. He's all gas, all explosion and definitely changes the way

defenses defend. You. We mentioned Perry, and you've got Mac Hollins, who's a damn good special teamer and a guy that I think can fill in behind Parker and Williams adequately on the outside. So it's basically those top two guys and then different roles for different packages and different offensive calls you want to make for the rest of the position. There's definitely more to analyze and to play with and try to figure out the rosters and the lineups on

the defensive side. Then there is with the offense with regards to snap counts and that sort of thing. But a fun exercise on the list gives you an idea of the depth and how this team might look come game day on Sunday again, just ten days away. And with that, we spent it forward to Jordan Howard, Dolphins running back, who spoke to the media on Thursday first. He was asked to evaluate the offensive line place so far through training camp, I feel like a line of

coming along pretty well. We got some young guys again, the feet and stuff like that. So again, even though when I have preseason games, I feel like begin a lot of rep um just growing as you see him growing each and every day. So I feel like the more cards would be the better. Gonna get it to seize and goes, Hey, Jordan, how's it going, man? Um?

I'm curious to get your take, now that you've been here for a few weeks and kind of grinded in the Miami heat, how much you're looking forward to playing down here in the September October weather and how much of an advantage you think your style gives you with this temperature down here. Um yeah, used trained down here, but just practicing down here and as he is, there's a lot different, but it's definitely gonna be advantage for us. I played down here like two or three years agoing

out and my team we were we were dead. So I know the advantage of it is playing down here with this heat and this practicing, we're gonna be in shapely and so Jordan Howard believes this heat and humidity down here puts the Dolphins in good position to be in shape and ready conditionwise for the opener and for the season up next. As we often do, we asked Jordan to evaluate the play of rookie quarterback to a

tongue of Valoa. Here's his evaluation on the rookie. I mean, I feel like two we can get the job done. I feel like he's moving around very well. Um me, person, I can't tell that he's he was injured before. Um I feel like he's he's getting comfortable and stuff like that. I feel like, just next up for him as his recovery process is just playing the game and actually getting hit.

But for what I'm saying, I feel like you could He'll be ready when his time is up, and let's go ahead and stay on the offensive side of the ball. Here and here from New Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen, who of course came over in a trade in the summer from the Chicago Bears. Here are Shaheen answering my question about the acclamation into the offense here early on

as he gets a foothold in Miami. Uh. Kind of on that same train of thought there, Adam, I'm just curious, coming over this late in the process and that you know was a late July trade, how has it been for you acclimating to the new system and how do you feel you've kind of grown into the new role

you have here? Well, you know, I think I probably would have felt a little more behind if you know, everybody here had kind of had the regular O, T A s and they actually had practiced together, built those you know, those connections. But I think, you know, be in being traded, you know, two days or whatever it was ended up being before training camp. But obviously I

had to rush to learn and still learning. But as far as actually an non field time like this first time for Thost guys that they were, you know, on the field together as this new team. So I don't feel like I was too far behind in that aspect, which has been good. So and here is Adam reflecting on the previous three years in Chicago and his number one priority at this point of his career just staying healthy.

You know, the last three years has just kind of been you know, they've been I've enjoyed them, but you know, I've had injuries, and really the biggest thing for me is always stay healthy. And I can stay healthy that I can do you know whatever. You know, I think whatever they need to be asked for me. So I think that's a kind of the attitude is, you know, whatever role that I can earn and and carve out

for myself is something that I'll be happy with. And let's go ahead and finish up here with the youngest player in the National Football League on the other side of the football, cornerback Noah Ignogny, who was first asked where he thinks his game has come along the further so far in his rookie training camp. Um, just my overall technique and just learning the game. The game has

kind of slowing down to me. Um, I feel like it's been hard for a lot of rookies and his classes because we didn't have a preseason and I have like a mini Kevin nothing like that. So um, I really had to progress and just just in the meeting room, honestly, Um, the practice has been limited and so um so I just feel like just mentally, I've really grown physically as well, just as far as my technique and stuff like that, just little details of the game and it's mentally overall.

So and for the twenty year old cornerback, you always want to rely on the help of the veterans around you. Here, Noah was asked about the veteran experience and help having exaviing Howard back now that he's been with the team, with the cornerbacks on the field for the past week now back off pup and the COVID nine team reserve list, it's a bus. It's a huge Um, it's a huge Uh. He's somebody I looked up to before coming to the league, and it's crazy that I'm playing besides guys like Byron

and him, and so it's it's crazy. I just see him work on the field of him being right next to me is is a dream come true. I'm just happy, you know, I have to see him on the field and healthy and everything, and was ready to see see how he does in the season. Earlier, Noah talks about playing anywhere the coaches would accept him on the field. He's down to just play wherever he can. On the defense. Here he talks about the differences between playing inside and outside.

Really interesting answer here about how inside it's mental, outside it's physical. They both challenge you in different ways. Honestly, I would say that the receiver can go on many different ways on the side, playing corner or playing outside, you have to sideline as your help and so you can really use that as to an advantage. Inside you don't really have it have the sideline, so we can really go anywhere you want, depending on coverage you're in. So that's why I feel like slot is is probably

I feel like slot is harder just mentally physically. I think corner is harder, but mentally it's a inside you have to know a lot of things. Next he might be a rookie, but he has a veteran mindset. Here here he talks about the confidence level and the short memory you have to have because all great cornerbacks, all cornerbacks rather even the great ones, will get beat at some point or another. Here is no egnalogady on his mental approach, his mental makeup, and his belief he's gonna

dominate every single rep. I'm honestly, I'll proach the game like I'm gonna dominate every single game. This is the mentality I have. Like you said before, corner playing corner in this league, in any league, they're gonna get beat. Okay, who you are, you're gonna get beating. And so even the greatest gid beating. And so it's only about the

next place. That's all the coaches preach just and so I feel like you wouldn't be able to build this level if you didn't have the mentality, because stuffing's gonna happen. I'm just like life as well, And so I approached like that. I approached like any game, I'm gonna dominate who I'm going against. And so I'm I've never changed that. Oh No, I want to ask you about special teams, So what you're expecting and what your comfort level is as a potential return man in the NFL. Uh. I'm

I'm comfortable doing anything my coaches asked me. I did return in in college at Harvard, and so with something I've been doing. I've been the kicking time for a very long time. So it's something I'm very comfortable with. That's the point. Whatever special Since they wanted to play on I'm willing to play and so I'm just ready to get out there. Hey, no, I wanted to ask

you about your possession. Coach and Gerald Alexander. We pat chance to talk to him a few times, and he seems very direct and but also intense and very to the point that way. I'm just curious what your experience has been like with him so far and what you've taken away from him, both on the field and in the classroom. He's taught me him in my in my dB, in my cornerback. Coach Charles Burst has saw me a lot about this game. Um, it's really um there's a lot of things I didn't know coming in that I

thought I knew. There's really a lot of things about this game that I didn't know with me both sat down and had many conversations to me in the summer. Um, it was one of one meetings. Really, um, I feel like really got me right lensly just just to come in and and I'll be a step ahead, I would say. And so I appreciate them at the bottom of heart and just be telling me a lot of um beside football as well, just in life and stuff like that. And so, um, I can't wait for the future most

for all of us. So and here is Egnogamy once again on the comfortability and the willingness to play anywhere on the field anywhere his coaches asked him to, and do any assignment the coaches ask him to, on the field defensively or on special teams. M I'm a balling our hard So I feel I can play anything and on the field and so well that's offense. Defense is if we're not gonna do anything, and so I'm coable,

I'm comfortabling anything. Up next, Noah was asked about his initial meeting with the Miami Dolphins back in Indianapolis at the scouting combine, the meeting with Brian Flores and Josh Boyer, and what his initial impression was of the Miami Dolphins. Oh yeah, after that, Um, how I really did I wanted to play for play for Miami, and that was one of the teams I really wanted to play for. It just just everything we're trying to do here because

Brian Flores just um his mentality. As as far as the team, I really feel like we relate just mentality wise, and so UM, like you said, I really UM, I really enjoyed that meeting when they came with their armor and off pro day and stuff. And so it's crazy that stuff works out. And we finish up here with an evaluation from the rookie on the receivers across from him. At first he was asked which receiver has been the toughest.

He wouldn't give us an answer, of course, good teammate there, But he was asked what individual traits those guys had, And here he is kind of grouping that thing together talking about this Dolphins receivering corps as a whole. There's one word in here that made me want to put this response in here, talking about the Dolls receivers size

because it's paramount UH speed, physicality, UM cut size, got craftiness. UM. It's just today we have every single person like to match UM, to match what you want in the offense. And so I really fly. We're gonna be a very special offense this year. Like I said before, we have ever receiver for any category you want, and so um, I can't wait to see what they do this year.

And so there you have it. Dolphins running back Jordan Howard, Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen, and the rookie cornerback Noah egg Manogamy all speaking on this podcast, as well as head coach Brian Flores. We're gonna come back tomorrow and do it all over again here on the Drivetime podcast. But as for today show, that is going to be my time you all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever get your podcast from.

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