Drive Time - The Offensive Assistants Speak, Edge Defenders Preview

Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the training Camp Roster Preview series rolls on to the edge defenders and a bit of a remade group will break down those guys. The incumbents like Vince Beagel and Andrew Van Ginkel, as well as the newcomers and Kyle van Noy, Emmanuel Ogba, Shack Lawson, and Curtis Weaver. Plus we'll hear from some Dolphins offensive assistants who met with South Florida Media on Saturday morning, and as we do daily, get you caught

up on the latest here from Davey. All of that and more on this Saturday, August the eight edition of the Drivetime Podcast, and we have a few roster news and notes that came in late on Thursday evening to get to after the last publication of Drive Time as well as some updates from Friday last night some more roster news. First, on Thursday, the Dolphins released Javarus Davis, who was claimed off of waivers back on July. The Dolphins on Thursday placed a few more players on the

COVID nineteen slash reserve list. Defensive tackles Ray Kwon Davis

and Benito Jones on that list. Safety Brandon Jones, guard Solomon Kinley, Shack laws in the defensive end, free agent wide receiver Kirk Merritt were all placed on that list on Thursday, and then Friday, we got some turnaround on a few of those guys, as Shaq Lawson and Brandon Jones both come off the reserve slash COVID nineteen list, and Divon god Shaw was also activated off that same list after he was placed on the COVID nineteen reserve

list earlier in the week. Alright, we're gonna turn things over here and get to our media availabilities. From Saturday, we heard from each of the Dolphins as sistant offensive coaches,

six in total. We'll go ahead and roll those interviews right now and play the best clips and talk about what they said right here on the Drivetime Podcast, and we are going to kick things off here with new Dolphins offensive coordinator, a familiar face here in Miami, with Chan Gailey, and we'll go ahead and begin with a question towards Chan about the decision to come back and what that initial phone call from Brian Flora is like was like when he invited Coach to come back and

rejoin the Dolphins and be the offensive coordinator here in Miami right at the end of the season. He called, and I was, you know, kind of taken aback a little bit, and uh, but then we um we talked about it as a family and we just I had no idea, I didn't think so, but we just felt like we were being led to do this, and so something that we felt very very strong, and very excited

and very comfortable with. And of course, one of the pre existing relationships that Coach does have on the Dolphins current roster is working with quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick in two different stops. This will be their third marriage together here in Miami, all in the a f C East with

Buffalo and the Jets previously. Here's what Coach said about his relationship with Ryan Fitzpatrick and how big of a factor was that was in terms of him making the decision to come out of retirement and come back to Miami and coach the Dolphins. I can't say it was not a factor. It was knowing that I would be comfortable with the player that was here. UM, actually more than comfortable. UM, very excited about working with with fits Again, that was that was something that did play a part.

And get ready for a theme for a buzzword here throughout the course of all six of these press conferences with the Dolphins offensive staff talking about multiplicity, talking about being adaptable week to week. Here is what Shan Gailey had to say about what his offense wants to be from a schematic standpoint, and on that versatility, adaptability and being multiple. There's two things. One thing, we try to stay balanced that I want to be a balanced offense.

I want us to be able to run the football and throw the football effectively. Uh. That's that's really big in the way I see offensive football. And then the next thing is to meet you adapt to the players that you have. You have to adjust your schemes and and see who you have. And that sometimes is even on a week by week basis, and this year that may be more important than ever is to have a system in place that you can adjust to to make

the players that you have be successful. That's what I've always tried to be about, is putting them in position to be successful. And you're gonna hear Coach go back to this a few times later in some questions we have head here on the Drive Time podcast. But he talks a lot about how the quarterback play and the relationship and leadership of those quarterbacks really helps make that

multiple offense, that versatile offenses. They communicate things to the rest of the players on the offense and how that helps expedite some of those expectations, and really how beneficial it is that they have guys like Ryan Fitzpatrick to a tongue of Iloa and Josh Rosen who all excel in those areas. And so here is Chan talking again about his relationship with Fitzpatrick and how his team first mentality is super beneficial to this Dolphins offense. He is

a team player. He is a team player, and he is trying to be the best heat and be and be a great player. But at the same time, he he shares his knowledge and he shares his experience and that's what makes him a unique guy. And our relationship is um just like most other relationships. Um. There's times that it's very very good and then there's other times UM so um. Well, but through the years we communicate well, Uh,

he understands what we're trying to get done. We try uh put him in position to be successful and allow him to use what he does to help us win football games. And uh, I respect him as a competitor, as a person and certainly as a player. And staying in that quarterback room. The next question post a Chan was referring to the skill set that to a tongue of Voloa displayed on tape there in college that made the Dolphins attracted to his game and eventually select him

with the fifth pick in this last April's draft. You look at the success he's had the obviously he's a very good leader, and you take all those great players that they had at Alabama, it's got to come together on the field. You can do all the coaching you want, but when they walk out there on the field, the players play, and obviously his leadership and is ability to

throw the football, is touch game management. All of that type of stuff, and then of course the quarterbacks coach is going to be in that room with Rose and tongue of Voloa and Fitzpatrick every day and how he can help develop that room. Here's what Shan Gilly had to say about what made Robbie Brown, new Dolphins quarterbacks coach the right guy to be in that room to

help the development of those quarterbacks. Well, I was fortunate enough to be Robbie's college coach, and um I knew then how intelligent he was and that he wanted to coach. And he's been He's been a coordinator in small college, He's called plays, he's been successful. Um I have a great deal of respect for Robbie and his understanding of

football and more importantly, his understanding of people. He really understands, um the inner workings of a person and and how to get the best out of him and how to relate to him. He's excellent at that. I think it's a very valuable trait to have him among the coaching staff is the ability to relate to different players and coach guys differently. You're gonna hear that throughout the course

of these media availabilities. Up next, Chan was asked about the evolution of his offense and what White looked like schematically from his years pass in the NFL now to the Dolphins. Has it changed. The terminology is the same, but and some of the plays are the same. But it I think it changed from Buffalo to New York because of personnel we had, and it's gonna make another change because of the personnel we have here. So uh, if you ask fits, is the terminology the same? Um?

It's a yes. Um. Are the thought some of the thought processes the same? Yes, But we will be adjusting and adapting to what the type of personnel we have. So it may not look the same to John Q Public but there are some similarities, but there will be things that are different because of the personnel that we

have and how we're gonna go about using them. And speaking of utilizing that talent on the offensive side of the ball, Coach was asked about how he plans to get the most out of this receiver corps and what he has with Davanta Parker, Preston Williams and replacing the two guys who did opt out in Alan Hearns and Albert Wilson. Here's Shanghiley on his wide receiver room. There's obviously some talent on the field. They made a lot of big plays the last half of the season, and

it wasn't just one or two. We all know about Davante, but there's there were several people that made big, big plays. And here next, I think is my favorite response to any question of all these coaches in this particular media availability. I'll go ahead and play the question and the answer because I was the one that asked the question. Hey, good morning, coach. I wanted to go back to a comment both Fitzpatrick and Joachim made recently about the freedoms

that receivers have in your offense. Could you expand on that, maybe talk about how that benefits guys here like Davante and Preston Jachim and Isaiah Ford, the great receivers I've been fortunate to be around through my years, and I've been doing this for forty something years now. Um, they're artists.

They don't. They run a route and they never paint the same picture twice because of the way the defender is, because of the route they're running, because of whatever it might, you know, the coverage they paint a different picture every time. And if you if you take an artist who knows how to get open and who knows what he's doing versus a defender, and you try to fit him into a box, that's where you make the guy less of

a player than he really is. I want guys to be able to go out and be creative that I tell him, you gotta be where you're supposed to be when you're supposed to be there, But how you get there, that's up to you. So we give them the freedom to go get open and then we we think we have talented enough quarterbacks they can see that and and get them the football. I have a thing I'm going to be going back to that, painting the picture differently

every time. Quote there from chan Gailey, What a great quote, What a great insight into how he views offensive football at the wide receiver position. Now we heard from the rest of the positional coaches on offense, starting here with running backs coach Eric Studiesville. And again another theme you're gonna hear is guys saying that we don't quite know what we have yet because we haven't got on the

field for practice yet. But here is coach talking about the additions of the running back room, starting with Jordan Howard. You know, we're excited about the addition of Jordan Howard. Um, you know, his experience being in two different places and what he brings here. He's he's a smart guy. He's he's been able to pick things up so far and what we're talking about teaching concepts. Um. You know, you love his size. He's got good feet for a big

for a big back. Um, he's got good vision. I think he'll be you know, bring it, have a chance to be a physical presence for us um as well as you know, effective in in the past game worth what we're asking for. Matt Breda obviously with his experience, his speed, you see his burst and quickness early on as soon as he touches the field. So we're excited

about him. But UM, you know, we don't know what these guys will be able to do a contribute yet because we don't even have all our installs in as far as what we've done with them on the field as a whole group, as a veteran group, and we certainly haven't done it in pads yet. So it's right now, it's kind of exciting because the potential is is really out there for what we can see, what they can do and what we can build for him. So you're here and talk about Jordan Howard and Matt Brita there,

how about incumbent running back Klein Blanche. I'm going forward with Klin. I think you know, Kalin is a smart guys. He's he's passionate about this. He wants to be good and I know he wants to improve from that performance, and that's what we're focusing on going forward. Um, he's buying into what we're doing. He's given great effort and meetings and on the field, So we just got to see how it plays out. I don't I'm I think you know. I think we'll take it as what he

demonstrates he can do going forward. And we finish up here with coach with a question from yours truly, Hey, coach, good morning. I wanted to ask you about your rotation and when you put that thing together. Do you like to have guys that can fulfill specific rule les or is it more beneficial to have guys that can do a little bit of everything? And how does that approach shape the way this running back room was put together?

This offseason. Yeah, I think that the question as far as what we do for roles, we talk about this all the time in our room. I coach these guys to be complete backs, that they all have to be able to have the entire skill set, whether that's running, blocking, catching the ball, evading people, running routes, whatever those things are. They're all coach that way. Now they all do a

different lead and at a different level. However, they're all the expectations that we can do that because you never know when you're gonna need one of these guys to step in. Last year is a perfect example, you know, with Miles Gaston and Patrick Laird. Then you know our primary backs at the end of the year, and so they're all coached that way. They determine what their role is in the offense and what's going to happen. Um. You know, certainly we we have third down thoughts, you know,

back thoughts, first and second down thoughts. But at the end of the day, whatever combination of those players and what they've demonstrated to us during the week and in preparation that gives us the best chance to win, those are the roles that we're going up next. We had offensive line coach Steve Marshall new to the Miami Dolphins

this year, well over forty years of coaching experience. The first question for coach Marshall was about the difference between the zone and man gap scheme and what the Dolphins want to do offensively up front on the offensive line. We're gonna be multiple. Uh, you know, we've got we've got good football players up there, and so we're that's where I see it. You know right now, we will

will We haven't really even answered that question yet. We just walk throughs and meetings, but uh, we'll see what direction we go when we start getting the pads on and things like that, as far as as far as schematically and things like that, and uh, we will be multiple in the things we do. It's just when we get right now, we're in the we're in the kind of the mental phase of it, and then we'll go

from there. And The Dolphins used the thirty eighth pick in the draft back and April to select Robert Hunt out of Louisiana Lafayette. Played some guard, played some tackle there in college. Here's a little bit of a scouting background of what coach thinks about Robert Hunt's progression so far the first week here at Strength and Conditioning, Well, Rob Hunt, you know, he's a he's just he's a he's a great young kid. He's uh, he's got you know,

he's learning the NFL game, you know, coming from Lafayette. Uh. Uh, he's been a productive player in college and uh, you know, he's day every day, he's it's a new adventure for him mentally and what we're asking him to do. And so you know, I like the heck out of him, and he's he's competing his tail off for what week we're asking him to do right now? And uh again that's uh, well it's kind of a question. We'll see

where it all goes. But I really like Rob is a Rob's got a lot of character and he's smart guy. We'll see where it all comes down, where it all plays out. And the last one here for coach was a pretty expected question to come across his way with regards to a left hand quarterback versus a right handed quarterback now that Miami has a lefty on the roster.

I love his answer here about how you have to have two good tackles regardless of which hand your quarterback throws the football with saying, you know, there's been a theory saying that you know, if you have a left hander, you know you need the right tackle is the backside guy, And that's absolutely obviously that's the truth. But at the end of the day, it's you know, we're looking for the best five guys and uh, you know fits into one's right hand and one's left handed. How our scheme

all fits? Uh, you know what kind of answer that question as we go schematically? Um? And will you know that that would be the only difference. You know, the theory is is that the right tackle now is the facts is the proverbial left tackle when you have a left hand quarterback. But at the end of the day, you gotta have good too, good tackles and post spots. So it's it's, uh, you know, it's workable. Okay, I lied.

We have one more answer here from coach Marshall. A question pose once again by me asking coach about getting guys to gel up front on the offensive line. Hey, coach, good morning. I wanted to talk to you about kind of jelling that on the how's it going on the front of the offensive line and jelling those guys up front, what's your approach to getting the best five out there and getting them to Jael quickly in this truncated offseason. Well,

that's a nice word, truncated. I would assume you're saying from Zoom and things like that, but uh, it's certainly a challenging it's completely different. You know, I've coached football for forty years, so I uh, um, there's a lot of ways to do it. And again, uh, you know that is a challenge that will be a challenge as we as we start these these walkthroughs and things like that.

That's one of the things that we're doing is making sure that we're communicating with each other, not not only on the field, but off the field, and guys getting to know each other where you know, it was uh, you know, instead of meeting him through Zoom, they finally get to kind of meet him in person. So yeah, that's Uh, jelling is is the is a big, big term and really the term jelling is communicating and it's

communicating together as a group. And and uh that's what these move meetings are and Zoom and the and these laws of these walkthroughs we're having. We're making strides in that in that regard. And up next we had quarterbacks coach Robby Brown, who I had the pleasure of asking the first question to and his media availability. Hey coach,

good morning. Uh. My question here is about the collaboration of kind of the diverse backgrounds of the offensive staff and the experiences you guys have both at the college and pro level, as well as different position titles and

different groupings on the offensive side. Is that kind of the same line of thinking with the coaching staff that coach Flores has for his players and guys that are versatile and multiple Well, I think if you have a ton of experience, different experiences, I think that helps you in anything that you do, no matter what line of work you're in. UM as as players, Yeah, that helps. If a guy can do two things, it always does. Um you know, some guys can and some guys can't,

But yes, it does help. If you can do more than one thing too. I guess keep what you're trying to do away from everybody. I think it's different for every guy. It's different for every position. You know, Like me, I came in as a quality control in New York and then went back to West Virginia last year. So

it's different for every single position. UM. If I had come in from uh, you know, college and try to jump jump straight to the quarterbacks, in terms of what offense I had been in, UM, that would have been different. So it's good for me to go through the quality control process. I don't think that's the same at every position. So I think every guy is different, Every position is different, and some people can make the jump better than others. But it definitely is a transition, or it was for me.

You can't speak for them, but it was for me in two thousand fifteen when I made that transition and we heard from Chan Gailey about his relationship with Robbie Brown. Let's go ahead and hear the reverse of that perspective and Coach Brown talking about his relationship with Chan Gailey. I have known I've known coach for a long time. UM,

so I've gone through the whole process with him. I was a walk on quarterback for him and toward the TECH and then I stayed there for a little while as a volunteer type g A person because it wasn't a spot on the field. Then I got a g A job. Then I worked for him as a quality control so I've kind of lived the whole professional life with him. Uh. He's been a mentor mind and in a lot of ways he's he's never changed as a person. Uh. I had no clue uh that that that was a possibility,

and I um so I was. UM. I wouldn't say shocked because he is a football guy. He's always loved I loved the first down, you know, but I wouldn't say shocked. But I wasn't. I did. I had no idea that it was coming or that he was going to do that. And so there's your quarterbacks coach up next, the receivers, the guys the quarterbacks to the football too, and the coach of that room, Josh Grizzard, who was promoted this offseason after Carl Drell took the head coaching

job at Colorado. And we start with a question for coach about Davante Parker's emergence last season. It's a new year, you know, we start over at square one, especially a new offense. So we're excited for those guys. But whatever happened last year is last year, and it's about getting on the same page and meshing and again going through the walkthroughs and getting accustomed to the new bourbage and depths and things like that. So it's we're excited about it.

But whatever happened then was in We just looking forward to this season up next. Another question from me, Hey, coach, congrats on the promotion. Um being an assistant here in the room and having an established relationship and bond with some of the guys, how does that kind of help you understand how to coach each of them and communicate with each of them. I appreciate it, man, It's um, it's good being around some of these guys for for

three or four years. Um, there's a level of knowledge of what they're like, what they're like on a day to day basis, and then you're able to, uh just compare things on this is a similar route or whatever it might be. So it's been nice. Um, like I said, really enjoyed being around these guys and they all work from day to day. It's uh, it's a group that brings energy. So it's been fun to be around and look forward to continuing that as we get more time

with these guys. Later on, Coach was asked up to evaluate some of the other players in the room outside Davante Parker talking about Gary Jennings, Kirk Merritt, Matt Cole, some of those guys. Here he is talking about the depth in his receiver room. Yes, like you said, Gary was only with us for a short amount of time, so didn't a great look at it last year. But now we're just back at square one with these guys.

It's a new offense UM Again, it's only been walked throughs and things of that nature, so it's ever evolving in terms of how we see these guys best fits UM. And then the character is just through the processes watching college tape and and getting a feel for what his skill set was and and things that he had done at the college level that might be able to h

translate to to what we do. But to get into the scheme of it or what he does is is still a little premature, again because we haven't seen these guys do much outside of walk around and really for the first two or three months he has only seen him through a lens of a camera. So it's just nice to be impersonal to hear. And we finished this

thing up with Tight Ends coach George Gadzi. He was hired at the start of last season So he's coming back for a second year with Brian Flores on this Miami Dolphins staff, and he was asked about the changes on the coaching staff and how those guys have been able to jail in this offseason. Well, well, it's it's something that every year and you know, we have to

deal with. But it's definitely good observation. Um. You know, the players go through their chemistry, We as coaches go through our chemistry too, So uh, putting everybody on the same page as far as you know what day to day operations are, but also the communication. You know, for example at the tight end position, there's communication with the line coach. Obviously with the coordinator, you know how he sees things through his lens. Um. So we've had our

share of meetings, um, and you know it's been good. Um. You know, we can't high five each other, but we've gotten enough information. We've taken a lot of notes, um, and we've had a lot of good feedback back and forth. So yeah, it's a it's a it's an obstacle not being there to maybe go to have a two minute meeting in the hallway, but we've definitely put some time invested throughout the day to get on that same page.

And up next, coach was asked, we evaluate the talent of new Dolphins tight end Adam Shaheen, who came over last month in a trade from the Chicago Bears. Yet so Adam, you know, we we try to evaluate all of the tight ends, or at least I have just throughout my career, and um, you know, I was in Detroit for a little bit, so I was able to see him. But also you know, he's got great range from a length stamp standpoint in size. UM, and you know he's had his issues, uh, trying to stay on

the field. I think that's part of the NFL. So he's a young prospect that that is ascending. UM, he's very motivated in these meetings. We've had some extra time too to make sure that that he's getting caught up. You know, ideally with a new player, we go through the spring portion and then now we're into the fall portion and it's kind of just maybe the second or third time he's heard things. So he's got some work cut out to him, are cut out for mentally, but

he's up for the challenge. UM. Guy has been productive in the past game and like I said, like his length against NFL defensive ends or outside backers that are on the line of scream. It is like that that's a valuable piece to have. So we can't catch that part, but we can definitely catch him up to speed and and then it's up to him to get open in the passing game. And you know, we had to discuss Mike Asiki and his big second half of the season.

Here's coach talking about Gassicki's the emergence last year and what he brings to this Dolphins offense. You know, he he put an emphasis on his practice habits UM. You know, we say practice execution UM is more game reality. So if you can get out there and practice at a high level UM and go against high level competition. So going against that first team defense, maybe taking a show team rep UM, I would say, you know, dropping the shield.

So to say, as a pro, like get out there, be a show team guy and go against a good competition. You know, and he and he put time into that, got some extra time with Fitzy as far as seeing you know, running routes so that he could see it the same way as a quarterback. UM. That's a hard thing. To do too, especially where he is in his career. UM, every quarterback sees things differently, UM, and so making sure you're on the same page with them. It's not necessarily

the same thing, um as just running around. Hey, I caught it, that may still not be the correct way that he's looking at it or the actual detailed way. So UM, he became more of a communicator with the quarterbacks, and I think that was part of his UM you know, production increase, how to look at it that way from

a passing game standpoint. And we finish up here with Coach talking about two more tight ends in his room, both last year's undrafted free agent Chris Myrick, who was in the practice squad for the twenty nineteen Miami Dolphins, and this year's undrafted position convert Bryce Stirk, who will go from defense in college to tight end here with the Dolphins. Okay, first with Chris, Uh, Chris is a very good pro. He comes into work um and and

is prepared. UH. He's a physical player. He's worked to maintain a higher weight UH to be more productive as a point of attack tight end. But he also has some of those off the line characteristics to be able to do some two back stuff, whether it's you know, slicing back on the defensive end or insert for backer or even pass protection. UM. You know, he runs through his mistakes, but he's uh, he corrects him and moves on.

So we like how Chris practice last year. UM, and he practiced with good effort and that those are the things that we look for. UM. And then on Bryce's from price standpoint, UM, you know this is a physical guy. I mean, he's a he's a strong, heavy handed guy. That UM. Obviously there's some tech technique things that we're working on, and we're trying to have the attitude to improve every day. UM. And we know that uh no spring for a rookie that's transitioning is a very difficult

uh position to be in. UM. But he's he's open to learning. Being a offensive player that played defense, there's a good perspective. They're just like from a coaching standpoint, if the coach defense, you know, coaching on offense. So, UM, those things can help him with his blocks, knowing exactly, hey, this defensive end is not going to rip inside. He's gonna be a contained player. So uh, those are subtle things that can help him. UM. And like I said,

he's a bigger, bigger tight end that that. You know, We're going to emphasize technique, especially starting with the blocking. Uh First, Alright, let's go ahead and jump into the next edition of the training camp preview taking a look at each position group on this Miami Dolphins roster. We have blown through the offensive side of the football. We

did the interior defensive lineman on Thursday's podcast. Now let's go ahead and talk about the edge position, a group that Brian Flora said and his previous media availability has been somewhat remade. And Kyle van Noy, Emmanuel Ogba, and Shack Lawson among those free agent signings in the off season. We also had the fifth round draft pick there and Curtis Weaver. We talked about Jason Strowbridge on yesterday's podcast, so plenty of a did sans on the defensive front

for the Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and start here with the first incumbent in order of jersey number number forty three, Andrew Van Ginkel. As he enters year number two here in Miami out of Wisconsin. He'll be twenty five years old on opening day, and he started off last summer with a very strong training camp in preseason, as Brian Flores had mentioned, and then he spent the first eleven weeks on injured reserve, but he did return for the final six games of the season, and he

did what he did at Wisconsin. Played in a multiple capacity of roles on the defense, did really well processing routes underneath and kind of playing both that Curl Flatten hook zone two distinctions there for the underneath area of coverage a linebacker typically finds himself in. He rushed the passer a little bit, played the run, showed some physicality.

I love the way in that Patriots game a couple of times he knocked some blockers that were pulling place out on him and really knocked him back and created some chaos back there in the defensive backfield. But processing the routes in the passing game was something that I really noticed he did at Wisconsin and again last year with Miami. He had two big picks back in college, one in Big Ten Championship game that was a really

nice play doing just that. He also produced ten yards allowed on twenty coverage snaps last year as a rookie. Here is a quote from Brian flores On Andrew Van Ginkle. When we drafted Van Ginkle, we thought we were getting a young, physical, smart, tough player. He can play a few different roles and has some pass rush, has some set edge ability, has some special teams value. He did

a good job early in training camp last year. Van Ginkl made fifteen tackles, four of those for a loss and seven of them coming within two yards of the line of scrimmage. He also put pressure on the quarterback six times and notched his first career sack in that Week fourteen game at the Jets. Speaking of Wisconsin linebackers, up next on our list is another one of them. Vince Beagle has three accrued seasons in the NFL, entering

number two with Miami. You'll see him out there in the jersey, number forty seven out of Wisconsin, twenty seven years old on opening Day, and he was picked up on September one last year and turned out to lean the offense in quarterback pressures with thirty four. He was a quick study in limited time. He had a sack against the Patriots in Week two, getting back into the backfield in that game so quickly, making an impact and really for a defense that features so many multiple fronts.

That was important for Beagle to kind of have that time to grow and learn in the defense, and he did just that, getting an expanded role from week six on. He played five hundred and seventy six snaps last year with a little bit of a differentiation there between being a down lineman or in a two point stance and forty five snaps off the ball as a true off ball linebacker where he's standing up away from the line of scrimmage. Here's a quote from coach Flores, Vince brings

great effort, great intensity, great attention to detail. He's smart, It's very very important to him. He practices hard, all things you want out of your players. And I think he's a young player that's developing, and I think there's something to develop there. He's got a long way to go as far as just learning overall defense, our defense, and then how offenses play. Week to week. His role could be very different, it could be very multiple. He could he could drop, he could get involved in some

games and some stunts that changes week to week. He's got a lot to learn. He's got something to learn every week. And quote there from coach Flora is really good in sight there into the defense of Brian Floors and how they wanted to attack teams on the defensive side of the ball. So Beagle played forty eight defensive snaps through Week five and then became a permanent fixture

on the defense. He logged five hundred and seventy seven snaps with at least one quarterback pressure in each game except for a Week fifteen game at the Giants, and in that game he picked off a pass. So he was productive every week out there, and he did more than just rush the passer. He made twenty two run stops and only twenty four yards allowed on seventy one coverage snaps. He was targeted four times, so again contributing in all three phases of defense, rush, pass coverage, and

playing the run. He wins with a crafty arsenal of pass rush moves and a motor that just never quits as far as the pass rush goes. Go back and look at his Twitter timeline from earlier this summer when he took his brother out on the farm and just whipped him in a pass rush drill. His brother used to play offensive line in the Big Ten. Really funny video on his Twitter back. I think it was in June or maybe July, but also the motor that never quits.

Go check out the play on my Twitter timeline against Brian Hoyer and the Indianapolis Colts where he chases down the quarterback from the backside of the play and saves a third down conversion. Really really good hustle, really really good effort play there from Vince Bagle, And to me, that's the kind of player he is. Up next Kyle Van Noy, the free agent signing and the off season

coming over from the Patriots. He has six accrued seasons, his first of course in Miami, number fifty three out of b y U twenty nine years old on opening Day, and this reunion here of Kyle Van Noy and Brian Flora's really makes a perfect, perfect sense from a schematic standpoint. That's where the Dolphins go out and get him. He's an accomplished linebacker in all three phases of the game. He's capable of aligning all over the formation, and he's

willing to contribute in the kicking game if called upon. Again, we know how important that is to coach Flora's and last season with the Patriots, Van Noy played seven hundred and seventies six of his defensive snaps on the ball compared to nine snaps off of the ball. But back in when Flores was the play caller there for Van Noy, his workload was way different, way more evenly split, with five hundred and sixty three snaps on the ball and

five hundred and sixty four snaps off the ball. And actually Pro Football Focus had him as a defensive edge last year but had him as a linebacker, so differentiation

there in terms of snap counsel where he aligns. He also played one hundred and forty seven snaps on special teams back in under coach Flora's And here's an interview from on the Sports Hub in Boston, and Vanny talked about the relationship Flora's has with his players after he got the promotion there to defensive coordinator in New England and the two way street communication between Flora's and his players.

Van Noy said, quote, I think it's just that he's able to communicate with everybody on defense, so he's able to get after guys when needed, and he compliments them when needed. He brings a different element to the table and we enjoy it, we embrace it, and we just want to play hard for him and quote and Kyle Van noy talked about that on the Drivetime podcast back when we interviewed him in March after he signed. A really good relationship there between Van noy and coach Flores.

And again last year he was classified as an edge defender on PFF, picked up sixty quarterback pressures. He was eighteen among edges there and thirty three run stops and only allowed ninety five yards on nine two coverage snaps. Really good numbers there from Van noyen though he rushed the pastor one and fifty nine fewer times than he did in twenty nineteen. Classified as a linebacker, he finished second among linebackers with thirty six pressures. And that veteran presence.

You hear coach talk about the different roles of Vince Bagele on defense, doing some stunts and some different things, playing coverage, rushing the quarterback. His veteran presence, van noise and consistent work fit in the run game. You talked to the Patriots fans or Patriots beat writers, they'll talk about how consistent he was fitting the run. We had Evan Lazar on the podcast a while back, Patriots Beat Writer.

He really praised van Noy for that ability to get into the right gap and defend the running game and again and playoff those stunts, those twists, those slants, the pass rush department. He's gonna help provide production and create more opportunities for his teammates here in Miami. Up next, Titshan render the rookie out of Middle Tennessee State, undrafted free agent, where's number sixty four, three years old? On opening Day and to go back to the criteria here

to play for the Miami Dolphins. Tough, smart players that love the game. Again, going back to a story from the Point five the Sports Hub in Boston, they had a quote from a coach that coach Titan rendered down there at Middle Tennessee State, and he said this quote, Big Rent is a guy that you can throw on Tuesday practice tape in the dog days of the season and witness him on the back side of a play run down the opposite direction from him, and he would turn and bust his butt to make a save the

day play. As he puts that in quotations, he consistently had the effort that we would use as an example of how to play defensive football and quote. He had ten tackles for lost last season, three and a half sacks, forced, two fumbles, and an interception in his final year there in college. He won the Middle Tennessee Eights Defensive Player of the Week six times last season and won the team's Grinder Award for his work in the program spring

practices in the off season. Up next on our list here Shack Lawson, a four year veteran of the Buffalo Bills, previously a first round draft pickback in sen enters year number one with Miami. He wears number ninety out of Clemson. Gonna be twenty six years old on opening Day. So many free agents here signing in that twenty seven years old range, and like Van Noy, this is also a reunion for Shack Lawson after that four year stint with

the Bills. The new Dolphins edge defender will team back up with Marion Hobby, Dolphins defensive line coach who was there at Clemson with Shack Lawson and helped recruit him there. At Clemson, Lawson brings size, strength and disruption as a

pass rusher off the edge. He also notched career highs last year in sacks with six and a half, quarterback pressures with forty and run stops twenty five tackles for loss with third team and snaps played at five thirteen TFLs where twenty one in the entire NFL last year and third teenth among defensive ends in the NFL, and his eighteen quarterback hits ranked sevente among all defensive ends last season. Up next on our list, another free agent

acquisition and Emmanuel Ogba. Four seasons in the NFL, entering his first here in Miami, number out of Oklahoma State, twenty six years old on opening day. And this guy has built like something you would see in some type of football player manufacturing lab. He's an absolute tank, six ft four two seventy three pounds with thirty five and a half inch arms vines hanging off his torso there

in the mid section. Og Ball comes equipped with the length, strength, and athletic profile to really help the Dolphin's edge defense this year. He has the heavy hands and that production translated to Ogbas NFL tape, an effective contained rusher that can overwhelm tackles with power and really dent the edge considerably to help free up a linebackers and make plays

in the running game that way. We heard coach Floress talk about how players can have a big game without any stats, and that's kind of what you see when he helps occupy blockers and hold the point right there off the edge. Hit a career high in sacks last year with five and a half, even though he just played ten games for the Chiefs and had a career low two hundred and fifty one pass rush reps. Through four years, Agba has eighteen sacks and has played two thousand,

five hundred and twenty seven reps. That's an average of six hundred and thirty one reps per season, and the pressure data from Ogba's career has been consistent one hundred and twenty five pressures spread across his four seasons. His career pass rush productivity is eight point three percent. Last year at Kansas City, he produced a ten point seven percent pressure rate, topping his career best nine point four from back in his rookie year in twenty six team

with Cleveland. His run defending numbers have also been consistent eighty three run stops. Those are tackles within two yards of the line of scrimmage on nine hundred and sixty five running down reps. His career run stop rate is eight point six percent, and among players with ten or more games played, oug bust ten point six percent run stop rate last year was fourth best among defense events

in the NFL. Finally, a number ninety six, Curtis Weaver, the rookie out of Boise Stay opening day age of twenty two, the all time sacks leader in the Mountain West Conference with thirty eight. His production matched the football makeup that scouts say he exhibits. Nfl dot COM's lands Zerline notes the athletic ability and football i Q in his report of Curtis Weaver the rookie, quote, Weaver is a naturally instinctive counter rusher who uses synchronized hands and

feet to attack both inside and outside edges. As a rusher, he plays with football intelligence, His hands and feet work in unison, and he plays past the blockers with his eyes and quote. That slippery arsenal of moves and play recognition didn't just produce sacks for Weaver at Boise State, he was a regular in the backfield against the run. Again with the heavy hands and the balance and the

body control and enough power to collapse the edge. Weaver wrapped up forty seven and a half tackles for loss in three years. So thirty eight sacks, forty seven and a half tackles for lost. Big time production at college for Curtis Weaver. And so there you have it. Really fun podcast getting to hear from each of these coaches. Love the insight we get from those guys as far as talking about being multiple, the schemes they want to run,

what they exp from each of these players. Again, you can hear kind of an aligned vision on those terms, on those keywords, on those buzzwords. We would expect nothing less from a Brian Flores coach football team. So you hear from each of those six coaches on the offensive staff. You guys can find those videos up on the Dolphins YouTube page, social media wherever we are. You can find those those press conferences and those interviews as well as

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