Drive Time: Braxton Berrios and Eric Saubert Evaluations, Jalen Ramsey Presser Recap

of the two. Drivetime with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check your pulse. If not furt of what is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, we have some catching up to do. We're gonna drop the podcast on Sunday afternoon here for you guys to give you a head start heading into

the week. We're gonna take this week to keep you getting introduced to all the newest members of your Miami Dolphins. Today we're doing the skill players. Braxton Barrios and Eric Saubert, will have Malik Read, We'll have Deshaun Elliott, will have Dan Feenie and Jake Bailey on a future episode here, but today we're covering Sabert Barrios, as well as the

introduction Jalen Ramsey press conference. Almost said podcast. We'll do all of that in the latest news and notes from around the National Football League from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime podcast by fash So. I mentioned the Malik Read acquisition we heard about over the weekend. That is, of course a reported signing. We will get to that on a future episode once it becomes official. But man, his tape

is very good. His production in this defense under this defensive coordinator is good. I cannot wait to break down his tape for y'all when that becomes official. Also, just saw across the wire Larry me Tunzil is once again the highest paid left tackle in the history of the National Football League. Good for him as moves have been coming and going really fast and furious. Here over the weekend, Mike Gasicki winds up in New England the Patriots on I think a one year, four and a half million

dollar deal. So they get both Gasicki and Parker, two guys that fit really with the previous quarterback in my opinion, not as much here with the current iteration of the Miami Dolphins. So that's some news around the league. Let's go ahead and get into what is a fun time of year. Man free agency seems to get picked clean faster and faster each year. But don't get that twisted.

There are plenty of quality players in the second tier, second phase, second window, whatever you call it, in this free agency period of the calendar, and there's bargains out there to be had. I know that first sentence tends to get fans anti about the perceived needs. I've heard all the tweets about right tackle and whatever your opinions are of that position. But I say the same thing every year. Can we wait until August before we start to think about what the fifty three man roster might

look like? The draft still is more than a month away, Like, let's chill a little bit because last I remember last year, there was full fledged panic and then they dropped to Ron Armstead on you, and then they dropped Tyreek Hill on you. In pretty short order. Didn't you feel pretty silly after calling for Chris Greer's head after four hours of free agency, and then he goes and gets the best receiver in the NFL and arguably the best left

tackle in the NFL. I mean, that's two All Pro type of players and it wasn't immediately in the free agency window, So just keep that in mind. On top of that, March madness. What a fun opening weekend that was Opening Day in baseball with the World Baseball Classic going on is less than two weeks away, the Master's

coming up. This is the best time of year for sports outside of the regular football game schedule that September through early February mark this is the best time in my opinion, before we get into the newest wide receiver and tight end Braxton Barrios and Eric Sobert for your

Miami Dolphins. Just wanted to give you a programming update here and kind of talk about I guess where I've been so admittedly, this is the first free agency and my boss told me you've done more episodes last week than you do in a regular week in the offseason, Like no one's gonna know you were gone. I just want to be transparent about why we're a little bit later on these and I typically have been in the past. This is the first free agency. It's been tough on

your boy. I always say that your job, especially if you're lucky enough like I am, that your job is also your passion or your hobby or something that you would do for free. And I did it for free for a long time, for twenty bucks a month for a long time. I always say, there's lots of times that that's kind of where you find your sense of purpose, right, And I've been doing this covering this team on daily

basis since the twenty sixteen season. When we sign a player, it makes my skin crawl to not get to my computer and plug in the All twenty two immediately. It makes me anty. A funny story about that last summer, the late great Jason j Ankins took our social department out for a dinner and Brickle. I'm sure you South Florida residents know this place at the top shelf place called sexy Fish down there in the heart of Brickle. I had submitted my podcast that day for training camp

a little before dinner. The approval and edits got put brought back and it was good to go, and on my email notification, I saw it when we were getting sitting down for drinks, and he knew. Jason knew this about me. He knew that sitting on a podcast it was ready to go gave me the most anxious feeling imaginable. So he said, it's killing you, isn't it. Go ahead and go out to your car, fire up that hot

spot and published the podcast. Now, luckily I was able to reach out to one of our great admins, the great Barbara Ogontola, who works on the website, and she was able to log in and publish it for me, so I didn't have to miss that dinner. But Jason knew that if there's Dolphins news to be talked about, to be put into the universe, I want to do it. So I tell you all this to let you know that I was on paternity leave on Thursday and Friday.

My wife went back to work for the first time since before Cameron was born about four months ago, and since her leave expired two days before spring break, next man up, and next man up in the situation was daddy, so didn't really have a chance to work on the podcast. Thursday, Friday, spent the weekend doing that, watching Brackson Barrios and Eric Sobert will do the exact same thing with Elliott, Malik Reid,

Jake Bailey and Dan Feene coming up here. I'm telling you this because that's why we are a few days behind these signings. And again we were going to get to him eventually anyways. But I don't know if you've ever tried to work while watching a three month old, but I promise you that working in a creative environment, a creative role is about the hardest thing you can do because ideas flow, he interrupts, and the product suffers.

Because to me, like you have to be inspired, you have to be in a certain frame of mind to be able to create quality content. I just am not like that when interrupted every twenty minutes. So I was very happy with the Ramsey White and Long episodes. Thought they were some of the best work you've done here. If you haven't checked those out, go back and give them a run. Our guests we interviewed were fantastic, Jordan

Rod Reid, Grett Brian and Antoine Staley. But now here I am tinking cranking out some tape on a Saturday morning to get you some analysis on the Monday Podcast. Let's go ahead and get into those players, Braxton Barrios and Eric Saubert Barrios. I think we start with his return game because he's been one of the best in

the business since he came into the NFL. The receiving production has not been great, but he's a role player in that role, and a big role he has or he fulfills, is the return game, and that was one area that the Dolphins were really not great in last year. Just never got it going. I thought Cedric Wilson had a nice rhythm late in the year, finding his groove in that department, but that obviously wasn't what he was signed for. I just kind of fell into that role.

But Barrios, that is what he does. He has twenty one point returns a year ago. It was eighteenth most in the NFL. His two hundred and forty return yards were fourteenth best among returners who averaged at least one per game. Seventeen returns, his eleven point four average was sixth best in the NFL. He also brought kickoffs out at the one of the highest rates in the NFL, tied for seventh most kickoff returns with twenty six. Most Art actually had twenty five, and I will never try

to determine the depth chart here in March. We can talk about what we believe we have in the roster in terms of strengths and positional value. But if Barrios can take that duty off of most Art's plate, man, give me Raheem a bigger workload in the running game or in the offense, I should say and let Brackson Barrios do the returning. That just makes sense to me.

I think that Moster It's going to get even better as a runner in this offense, So taking away those twenty five reps and giving it to him on offense, to me makes sense because you get better in the return game and your running back positions better with more Raheem mosters. I think that bodes well for the offense without losing any production in the return game. In fact, you improve because most It was twenty point one yards per kickoff return last year and Barrios was twenty three

point one. His six hundred yards on kickoff returns for Barrios was ninth best in the NFL, and his average was eighth best among the qualifying kickoff returners. And a fun fact, because I clicked on this category on Pro Football Reference, did you know the Dolphins had the top two players in terms of all purpose yards among players

who returned to punter kickoff. Now, tygreek Hill had two returns for negative four yards, which is funny to me, but he had seventeen hundred ninety five all purpose yards and Raheem Mostert was second with fifteen hundred ninety five all purpose yards. So back to Barrios, that's been his game man since he came into the NFL as a sixth round draft pick. To who else besides the Wingland Patriots? Is he fits the Patriots to a t? He's not. He's now three quarters of the way through the AFC East.

He played for the Patriots and Jets, and he'll obviously know Buffalo as well now being a Miami Dolphin back where it all began for him. So what makes a good returner? And that's kind of where I look at the film here for Barrios. That really translates between special teams and the offensive side of the football. Make the first man miss, set up your blocking and freegan go no hesitation. He who hesitates is lost in the return game, and Barrios doesn't do that, and you see that in

his game as a wide receiver. Also, he averaged five point one yards after the catch last year, and that was a career low, a really good career low at five point three and one, five point eight and twenty twenty and fourteen point five and twenty nineteen. But that was on six receptions. And it should be noted that a player that catches the football where he does typically has a bigger yak because he catches a lot of balls behind the lines scrim mention. But that tells you

about his strength. He's quick in a foam booth that produces a frequent first tackler missing. In fact, four hundred and forty eight of his one thou eighty five receiving yards. What is that it's a little less than fifty percent or before the catch. That means six hundred thirty seven percent or after the catch, and look at me, I did the math here. That's fifty nine percent of his yardage is on yak, which is a way bigger chunk than what Tyreek Hill and Jill and Waddle had last year.

But they are so damn good at pushing up, you know, fifteen yards down the field. Just different style the players, but that to me creates chances for those guys. We'll talk about that here in just one second. Not to mention for Barrios. Back to the point that he had nineteen rushes for a buck six and four touchdowns. That's a touchdown every four point seven five carries. He also had nine first downs on those nineteen runs. That's really good. And you see, you kind of see that role that

he fulfills in the offense. He's extremely valuable as the motion man. He led the Jets last year in pre stap motion by more than fifteen percent. You always move Barrios back and forth across the formation. They got him moving parallel to the line of scrimmage through him. Now routes which is catch rock throw through him, screens and swings and speedouts and tunnel screens coming back to the formation,

and then he's just a punt returner from there. I know we typically talked about the speed of a wattle or a hill in those spots, but man, it's very very nice to be able to manufacture yardage and manipulate the down and distance when you get behind the sticks, or even on first and ten like this offense thragged

on like second and threes last year. So let's say you are first and ten, or let's say it's second and twelve after a negative run, it's so nice, Bill just stand up and throw the ball to a shifty who doesn't have the attention of ten or seventeen and typically has to make one man miss to spring a nice gain to then navigate those crowded pockets and move the pile forward. And what I mean by that in manipulation of the down distance. Again, you lose two yards

on first down. Maybe you get a favorable look where it's like, oh, Burris is one on one, and then we have our blocker to the strength over there. It means alec Ingold, we can just stand out field the ball to Braxon Barrios, he breaks a tackle, and all of a sudden, it's third and five. After you know, we lost two yards on first down. That skill set translates to short yardage conversions as well. Let's say we're in eleven personnel. It's three receivers right, one tight end,

one back Tyreek Jalen, Braxon Burrios. Let's say it's third and three. For the sake of this argument, Tyreek, Jalen and Braxon lineup, who do you think is getting single coverage there? It's not ten and it's not seventeen. So go to one of the shiftiest players in the game in a three yard box. And by the way, you have a three way go. What's that called an inside leverage,

outside leverage? Possibility of a takeoff. As far as where you're responsible for no help, three way goes are to cover, especially against a player that has the shiftiness of Brax and Barrios probably why he has this in his corner. Sample size a small, but he's been throwing thirteen passes over his career in third or fourth down and short, and the Jets converted eight of those thirteen for first downs.

That's a first down rate of sixty two percent. What's the Jets third and short rating average for their whole team over that same time, spam forty eight point three percent, So nearly fourteen percentage points better on average when going to Barrios compared to everybody else. In his career, fifty one first downs on one hundred and seven catches, he's

got one oh seven for one eighty five and five touchdowns. Again, he's a role player, averages ten point one yards per catch, six point six per target, and a drop rate of just five percent. That's six drops compared to one or seven in the catch department. The advanced numbers, the best one to me is one point five seven yards per route ran. That's a great figure for a metric that's

pretty damn reliable and charting receiver performance. And again for your third, fourth, maybe even fifth receiver who's gonna have a spot duty guy. It's a great number. Tyreek led the NFL last year. He's a unicorn. That number was three o seven. Not something you should aspire for if you want to be really good. Two is a good number for literally anybody. But a good comparison here like Christian Kirk who had a really good year for the Jaguars,

one point seven five for him. So Barrios productive in that role that he was asked to perform. He aligned in the slot seventy percent of the time, but typically where you're going to find him out wide twenty six percent of the time, and then elsewhere backfield in line four percent of the time. He's played fifteen hundred and sixty seven career snaps on offense and special teams. He's forced eight career miss tackles as a wide receiver, two as a runner. That's ten on one hundred and twenty

nine touches. Again, he makes guys miss a lot. He also just brings a certain level of grit, which is a word that I don't typically use in this podcast, but he defines it twelve of twenty and contested catches For a guy who's five foot nine, it's really good. He's tough, he'll do the dirty work, and he'll be a great teammate. Tyreek Hill's pretty fired up about the addition. You can see why he called westwelko or two point oh. Tyreek's a little more bullish on that than I am,

but hey, why not? Quick separators inside are only going to help Cheetah and penguin do their thing. Fun competition in that wide receiver room. We know about one A and one B, but Barrios gives you some more value there. I'm super high on eric as Ukama. River Craycraft is back, Baby, Go Kogs. We'll see about Cedric Wilson here in year two, and then whoever else can step up whether it's new additions,

Braylan Sanders, Freddie Swain. Fun position to watch in camp, especially against those two cornerbacks, three cornerbacks Kater Kogul on the other side. All right, that's Barrios. Let's go ahead and take our first break and come back on the other side and do Eric Saubert's breakdown. Pretty pumped on the first four games of his that I watched. That's next Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Idle Nation, part two of a film study

you breakdown skill players, my favorite positions to watch. We added another newcomer over the last few days at a skill group spot, and that is Broncos or former Broncos tight end Eric Saubert. This guy's played around the league quite a bit. This is a player you probably haven't heard a ton about, but to me, he's really intriguing on tape from the physical attributes that he offers. If you think about it. It's the first veteran we've acquired

under John Embry at the tight end position. Tanner Connor was the only newcomer in the room last year, and Embry got pretty fired up talking about his room at various points last year, So I'm thinking Eric Saubert has a chance to really kind of carve out a role

in this offense. And at the risk of highlight scouting, there's a touchdown that he scored against the Texans last year where I think you can kind of extrapolate that as far as what you can see his potential being because it's an example of what you get with him, and frankly, it's a ball thrown by Russell Wilson that two A really excels with. So they go unbalanced twelve personnel.

That means you have one back, two tight ends, two receivers, and your two tight ends unbalanced means they're on the same side of the formation, a heavier side of the formation, right, a clear strength declaration, both tight end attached to the same side of the line. Then they run four verts,

which is one of the most popular route concepts. Four verticals take the defense the top off the Typically you have a back who comes underneath for the checkdown in case your pass pro is good and the coverage is good. But in this particular instance, when you run that, you cannot cap every route, which means no help on every route. So Saubert obviously going to be the one that catches that single coverage kind of like we talked about earlier

with bracks and burials. So you need guys that can beat single coverage when you have tyreek and jailing, because you're gonna get it all game long. And this is not a Texans linebacker. So that's a matchup where if I'm a quarterback break in the pocket, Hey, pretty athletic tight end against a linebacker who can't run as fast

as him might be something I look at. And so you see Saubert on this play stack the linebacker, which means put him on the back, don't let him over the top, elevate for a pass and pull it in. And you also pick up the functional strength, which is the next part of his game that stands out to me, the contact balance. The linebacker tries to reroute him beyond five yards, which is a foul by the way, didn't get called, and he fights it off without slowing his

pace or drifting up the stem. Recall the twenty eighteen podcast Locked on Dolphins talking about Mike Asiki. Back then, that functional strength and getting bounced off the route was a big problem. He improved it over his career. But that was like, you can't play if you can't do that, And Saubert really really excels in that regard. And again two loves throwing that exact ball, that little touch fade at the back of the end zone where he just kind of pops it with that risk flick that he has.

And two has big, strong hands that he allows him to really put tight spirals and good touch throws in those spots. He damn near completed the one he threw to Jalen Waddle in the Baltimore game just before the game winning touchdown. That's the kind of players talking about here. So Saubert has these massive hands and you can see

it on this catch. It reminded me of why they'd throw these balls to Gronk, and like, even though it looked like it wasn't gonna get caught because there was just too much traffic, he just found a way to haul it in because he has freaking oven mits for hands. So the tell of the tape is that Gronk has ten and three quarter inch hands. Eric Saubert is the

next cloth measurement ten and five eighth inches. Those are two things that you can glean from that one snap, massive hands which also helps in blocking right grip strength, attacking the guys better. But also how about this, like he's got green marks in every RAS category. Just about those the relative athletics scorecard that measures shiftiness, explosiveness, suddenness,

all that stuff. But think about that a tight end who has the biggest hands in this year's draft class of anybody besides Darnell Washington if he were a part

of it. Also from Drake Earns his invite to the Shrine Bowl, does so well there that he gets the Senior Bowl on invite and then winds up being one of the nineteen tight ends going to the Combine, and from there a seven to six six relative Athletics scorecard that was one hundred and sixtieth out of six hundred and eighty tight ends to that date from nineteen eighty seven good year my birth year to twenty seventeen, so a thirty year stretch the top. I don't know math

one sixty out of six to eighty that's number. His percentiles are as follows among tight ends for the former fifth round draft pick. Out of Drake, his height was the sixty ninth percentile. Nice weight was fifty eight percentile. So he's not massive, but he's a little bit bigger than your average tight end. But here's where the numbers pop. Forty yard dash eighty first percentile, great twenty split eightieth, ten split eightieth awesome, bench press seventy six. That functional strength.

That's not a great measure of strength, but it won't use it. Vertical jump sixtieth and then broad jump eighty ninth percentile among all tight ends. That broad jump and ten split paired with the strength that he's displayed on his tape and at the bench press. What does McDaniel always say about this offense? We prioritize firing off the football and that's what Sawbert does. Man, he's quick to eat up yards in a hurry. It plays in the red zone big time. Not to mention, he's a good

blocker that allows you to play with your tendencies. He's not a tight end you put in the game and automatically No, all right. This is a pass because that guy can't block right, or the converse, it's a run because that guy can't pass receive. See where we're going here. There was another touchdown he scored that I thought offers immense value in an area of the field that you just don't see that often, but executing there can be the difference in winning and losing down in the low

red zone. You might run four plays in the low red zone, but they'll be the four most important plays you run in a given game. So this one's third and goal from the two Broncos. Dial up twenty three personnel. Everyone that's big, get your ass in the game. Two backs, three tight ends, no receivers. They sneak Sawbert out to the corner and he's open, but Bridgewater had pressure and

has to avoid the rush first, which he does. So you see Sawbert work to space, keep his eyes in the quarterback, find a window and gives Teddy his target right at the sideline and makes the catch. It's back in twenty twenty one, obviously, but he can flat out roll with the ball in his hands. I mentioned that functional strength as a route runner on tape. It translates in the way tacklers bounce off this guy. Actually look at the data there and they'll go ahead and get

to his run, block and pass pro game. So he's played one thirty five career snaps on offense, four hundred and twenty one of those as a receiver eighty three in pass pro but five to thirty one and run block. So really that's a fifty fifty split in terms of what's eighty three plus four to twenty one. Actually I can do that one. That's five hundred and four compared to five hundred and thirty one run blocks, So a

little more run block heavy, but not by much. His alignment twenty eight percent slot, seven percent wide, so he does flex out about thirty five percent of the the time, which gives you sixty five percent attached to the line of scrimmage averages point seven one yards per route rand. That's not a great number. One for three uncontested catch or one for six, I should say in contested catches. I'm surprised that's that low. It has to get better.

And then a career six yards average depth of target. I think there are two things to Sabert's game that makes him not just an adequate blocker, but someone that I think you can count on to win his assignment as one of the keys working against the forced defender or client to cut off that scraping linebacker. We're talking about not just getting your blocks set up at the first line or the first wave, the first level of defense, but get into that second level and that's where the

explosive plays come into play. He does a really good job of engaging but also being able to detach and get off those blocks. I'm just so impressed with his balance through contact. A lot of the time you see a smaller player and he's not smaller, but two fifty three. Again, it's like fifty fifth percentile in terms of tight end size standards. It's actually right in the middle. But for a guy that's not some hulking run game exclusive player, he has a really smooth ability to attach and then

disengage to work up to that next level. Lots of times you see tight ends try to disengage off that spot and they don't have the fundamentals or just the footwork to put themselves in position to stay on balance and go make an effective block at the second level. We've had that issue here for a long time. I

think his footwork in the blocking game is fantastic. His balance will, I think give you the best run blocker you have on the roster currently today that I expect more to come to the roster, but today I would take Sobbert over anybody. I think that's where his entire game centers the balance, both as a mover off the snap, but also through contact, be it with the football in his hands, as a runner, in leaning on a defender, generating leverage in the blocking game, or running routes through

those reroute attempts. His counting stats in his career thirty three grabs, two hundred and eighty yards, two tuddies. That's on fifty two targets, five point four yards per target, eight point five per catch. Again, these none of these blow you away, but situational football, he's a guy you think about. He has a sixty three point five percent catch rate and fifty one percent of his receiving yards

come after the catch. He can roll a little bit, and I think from watching him, he's very a very quality asset that you insert in those roles specific situations, like I think he'll help your short yardage game a lot, which Miami was bottom in the NFL last year. Him em Barrios, I think could give you some help there.

And if they see it the way I do with he em Barrios, clearly that's an emphasis because frankly, that's just one of the areas of Miami was not very good on on offense last year like that, if they improve that, they'll go from six to first in the NFL offense next year. That's just how I see it. And I think you also get a guy that's probably gonna be part of your core special teams. I think you can trust him with chipping and helping your tackles

on the game's premier rushers. I think he can handle some guys in one on one situations, especially with how quickly this quarterback gets the football of his hands. To be frank about it, I just think you can trust him to not fold up immediately and produce a pressure they get your quarterback whacked. I think he can do some of the pre snap movement across the formation, the way you'll see alec Ingold or even Durham Smith come

across to help dig guys out of that backside. I'm really curious to see how you work with him and Ingold as part of that equation, because I think they both excel in that regard. And again, he's been a reserve special teams guy his entire career and to me has the look of an ideal tight end to so hopefully a big time tight end one's coming, but we'll see about that. But we'll find out what role he

winds up coming in August. Back to his special teams, you're a twelve hundred and eighty four snaps on teams PFF has him with twelve tackles. Six of those were last year where we had a career high three hundred and twenty three special team snaps that earned him a Special Team's Great of eighty three, which ranked fourteenth in the NFL. So I can see how both coach Embry and coach Crossman wanted this guy on the roster. These are the kinds of signings that don't hit the marquee,

but man, they can be valuable. We talked with Benjamin Solak of The Ringer back at the combine talking about filling in the margins. You've built your cornerstones, which is great. The margins is the easier part. A guy like Sobert, to me, is part of that equation fifty percent of the snaps and we increase our third down numbers, you know, in goal to go numbers with him in the game, that would be a massive acquisition to not break the bank and get better in those two critical critical areas

of the game. That's what I see watching this player and four posterity four for five converting in those short yard situations third and fourth or goal or third and fourth or in short or goal to go situations. So there you go, very us and Sobert, we'll do I'm not sure we'll do a couple more of the guys tomorrow. We'll have more podcasts for you this week, breaking down all of the newest free agents here in Miami. Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast. Almost had a

press conference with the Jalen Ramsey press conference. In the highlights from that from last week. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. So I was not able to catch the Jalen Ramsey press conference in person because, like I mentioned, was on leave. Didn't like that, but sometimes you gotta make do with what you got. So let's go ahead and play some

of the highlights here from the Ramsey press conference. Working a little bit from behind again, so let's go ahead and jump into that first thing. I start with his opener because I think it displays both his confidence and a word that we like to use around here the standard and Ramsey's only going to help you enforce the standard that we saw established by veterans like Tyreek Hill. I still have not seen anything like in NFL practice with Tyreek Hill. He does it better than anybody else.

But m gives you some of that. On the other side as well. I like how he says here, being great on paper doesn't do anything. You have to prove it. But here he is talking about the Miami Dolphins secondary and whether or not they can be one of the best in the NFL. Not the defense. He was asked about the secondary in particular. Here is Miami star cornerback. I believe. So that's just as a type of energy

our brain. That's the confidence that I always have. On paper, you know, this is the best group that I've been a part of. And I feel like I've been a part of some good groups, you know in Jacksonville and also in LA But on paper, I feel like this is the best one. Obviously with me and X on the outside, and then you got the young guys. You know, you got your mind. We just got to shine Elliott Brandon Kater, So I think we gotta we have a

good secondary on paper if you look at it. But we got to put the work in, and I mean, we can speak it as much as we want to, but we don't have to go out there and prove it. And that's what we're planning to do. But it's not just about us, you know, it's a whole defense and the whole team. I think we can do something special if we put that work in and be as one. Sure do you like the way he answered that. We saw Ramsey expressing his gratitude on social media before landing

with the Miami Dolphins. Why did he want Miami? Let's go back to number five? I think to work five a lot of reasons. Um, I mean he just he just made me answer one. This defense, this secondary you look at it on paper, it's something that you would definitely want to be a part of. I know, I'm not the only person who wanted to be a part of it, and we'll want to be a part of it in the future. Being back in Florida, that's a

great thing for me, closer to my family. You know, my pops he about to retire, he gonna move down here, He's gonna enjoy life. Um, obviously I got my daughters and my kids that we love a warm weather. Um, that's always a plus. The taxes, that's a plus. Right. Um, that's a good young team on the on the up and up. I feel like I can bring something to help them, you know, just be another piece to that

puzzle here. And there was a lot that went into me thinking about you know, Miami, and a lot of praying that went into it, you know, Mom and Grandma praying over me. But super excited. I didn't. I didn't necessarily think like, oh, I'll be traded. But once it

kind of started to be reality. Um, you know, me and my team, we sat down and we we kind of wrote pros and cons of different situations going on, and we um, we wrote down teams and pros and cons like which teams may be needing in need of a corner, which teams may be interested, which teams do I like as well, which teams will I fit, you know, whatever they got going on. And I remember writing down Miami, and Miami stayed at the top of my is from the jump. So yeah, then I just started praying about

it and it all started to visualize for me. So I'm ready. I hope, I hope it was. You know, it's everything that I dreamed of and prayed about, and I'm sure it is, so I'm excited. I mean, who wouldn't want to be here? Next, he was asked about his role in this defense. I have to imagine this question came as a product of listening to our Jordan Rodrigue episode. Don't think this question gets asked without hearing

that first very similar scheme. So that's a blessing. I might have to learn, like some new terminology and how he names things and stuff like that, but I'm very familiar with the scheme, love the scheme. It's different ways to play it, right, and that just depends on how the floor of our team and exactly what he wanted me to do. But because I have that versatility, I

can do whatever that he asked me. If if he wanted me an extra lock up the outside, that's what we're gonna do and then they're gonna do their job everywhere else. If he wanted me to move around a little bit, going and Nickel going to dime blitz, you know, cover tight ends, running whatever it is, I'd be able to do all of it. Um. I think everybody know that though, like y'all know me, like y'all know, y'all know how I get down, y'all know what I do.

So being able to bring that in this in this uh to this defense, in this secondary gonna be cool for sure. I really think that Ramsey's presence is going to force a lot more balls into covered windows by xaviing Howard, by Javon holland, by Kater Cohu And to me, that's like the true value is that he will force the football to more talented players across the formation, opposed to last year when we had so many injuries, the ball was going at players that were, you know, our fifth, sixth,

and seventh cornerbacks up. Next span up. Mentality, let's go ahead and finish up here. He was asked about his first impression of coach Mike McDaniel. Always a good answer here. He cool, cool coach. Cool. Coach is different, he'd be cool, he'd be chilling. He um young, like got some energy about him. You know what I'm saying, Say what's on his mind? When you want to, we can have just like real conversations. They don't feel like player talking to my coach. It kind of feels like, oh, this is

my homie a little bit, which is which is dope. Like, you know, he had the authority, but that's a dope dynamic to have with your coach. Um. He keeps telling me that he's gonna be the best head coach I've ever had. That's a little you know, he nudge and shine on that a little bit because Sean was great in la Hey. But I you know, it's gonna be tough because Shine the man. But I believe him though, um, and I'm gonna hold him to that. It's been but

it's been cool. Man. He's real chill, real fun, real cool. So I'm excited and I know all the guys speak very highly of him too. So there you go. To watch that press conference in its entirety, head over to our YouTube channel. We'll also have some fun content with all the guys coming your way here soon. That is gonna be my time though. We'll come back tomorrow again. Not sure exactly who I'm gonna have as far as breakdowns to Sean Elliott. Can't wait to watch his tape.

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