Drive Time: Malik Reed, DeShon Elliott, Dan Feeney and Jake Bailey Evaluations

touchdown padout of just two. Drivetime with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if you're not part of what is up? Dolphins? 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 continue examining the free agent class with a four spot of new player

breakdowns long episode today. Safety to Shaun Elliott, offensive lineman Dan Feeney, outside linebacker Malik Reid, and punter Jake Bailey are all here. They are all official. We'll look at their tape, the telling stats, and their respective fits inside the Dolphins program from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime podcast maya Gaffe f and right before we get into player breakdowns, it is official. From Monday, the Dolphins exercise two A

Tongue Blois fifth year option. He is the first player under the new CBA and one of the first players ever to have that option picked up in the month of March. That deadline, of course, comes in May with the Dolphins. Wasted no time here, and it's a no brainer for a quarterback who led the NFL in passer rating, was number two, against pressure number one, and average depth of target top three to five and every quarterback metric used by the most renowned football writers, analysts and pundits

out there. Our own head coach has told you many, many times how much he loves this guy's game, whether you talk about EPA adjusted yards per attempt. Feel free to look at the leaderboards and you won't have to scroll very far to find TWA Tongablo's name up on those leaderboards. I know I've mentioned this a few times.

The last couple of weeks. I've been rewatching the broadcast copies of our games from this past season, and I had kind of forgotten about the commentary on TA during a pair of home games, and going to the home games, I don't watch the broadcast as much on those ones because I don't watch it live and don't pick those things up to go back and rewatch to listen for them.

But Adam Archiletta and Jay Feeley, and you might recall Archiletta back in the season opener was Dogginta, but he wound up waxing poetically about how Tah saw the field, the accuracy he throws with, and I mean, I just encourage all y'all to go back and watch it again, because any way you want to see your quarterback win, TA was doing it during that stretch of play at a high, high leveling around pressure, throwing on the move, anticipating.

There's a play in the Bears game before the I think it was the waddle touchdown in Chicago where he gets away from an immediate pressure like somebody wins their past rush rep and is in on twa In two seconds, he side steps away from the hit and throws the ball away in the back of the end zone survive the play gets a third down, then throw a touchdown

pass on third down. I get so descriptive about all of it because I've been watching every throw by Dolphins quarterbacks on tape on the All twenty two, over and over multiple times since I wrote the book on Tannehill, which was an in depth film study of every single throw in his career beginning back in twenty twelve. And that's ten years. It's a decade, and I have not seen anything close, anything anywhere near what to a tongue of Valoa did this past season, and that was year

one in the offense. I positively cannot wait to see what it looks like for him with some continuity coming

back in year number two. When I asked Daniel Jeremiah about that and explained to him that he had the same play caller for the first time now in consecutive years since high school, DJ had a genuine wow reaction like that's crazy it is, DJ, like as if to say, Yeah, this is kind of a player who can really benefit from returning to the same offense and the same play caller who knows how that quarterback ticks and what makes him successful. It's like going back to high school. Your

sophomore year. You know the campus, you know where to find your locker, all that good stuff that comes with familiarity. Everybody operates a little more efficiently when you're familiar with your surroundings. So what exactly is the fifth year option. There are some stipulations, but the bones of it is this. It allows a team to extend a fifth year on top of a first round draft picks original rookie contract of four years. Pro Bowl appearances boost the cost of

that option. There's also playing time escalators, which is where TWA lands in that category. So for his fifth year, he earns a guaranteed one year salary That is the or average per year of the third through twentieth highest paid players at your respect position obviously here quarterback over the previous five years. That number comes around twenty three million dollars. For the twenty twenty fourth season, which when you look at the quarterback contracts right now, Daniel Jones

got over forty million dollars per year. It's pretty good bargain there for a top five quarterback. Last season two was on the fourth year of that rookie contract he signed back in twenty twenty, so this year still relatively or even cheaper than what the fifth year is. So pretty straightforward, got it good? Speaking of continuity, I wanted to begin here because we're evaluating one former New York

Jet here on the podcast. We've done too previously. Go back and check those out if you have not heard those episodes of the Drivetown podcast. And I really harped on this with Mike White, not as much on Braxton Barrios on the Monday podcast, but coming from the Jets offense is akin to players who came from the Niners a season ago. Mike Lafleur was the offensive coordinator there the last two years. He spent the first seven years of his NFL career working under Kyle Shanahan and by

proxy of that, Mike McDaniel as well. And while no offense will ever be the same as far as an exact replica, the same concepts and rules will have some carry over when you've spent seven years working with the same boss or bosses. Right, So then Mike White, Braxon Barrios, and Dan Feenie get to be introduced to a concept in OTA's, they'll be able to say, oh, yeah, we did that and say that was like eighty five percent

of the way we did it previously. I can work on that fifteen percent opposed to saying this is all new one and have to work on that. So it's nice to have that familiarity almost in the same sense that you had last year with Moster Sherfield and Craycraft coming over from San Francisco and coach McDaniel knows what his offense needs right, he knows how to make it successful.

I mean sixth and total offense eleventh and scoring. Despite not having QB one for the better part of five regular season games and not having the backup finish a game until the Week eighteen game, shouldn't we trust that guy? I feel like you should. So with that, let's go ahead and get into Dan Fiene, who was a third round pick out of Indiana and you locked on Dolphins. Faithful's know how much I loved his tape as a Hoosier.

He spent the first four years of his career, the entirety of that rookie deal with the Los Angeles Chargers before signing to the Jets and playing there the last two seasons. Last year, we were fortunate enough to get Connor Williams to one hundred percent of the offensive snaps, so we never had to see what life was like without him. But Phoene gives you a very dependable option

behind Williams. Not to mention the guard flexibility, and if you look at what the reports are on that contract, I don't think it's ruled out that he could be the potential starting left guard this year. He screams top into your bench. Off the guy to me though, ideally, and hey, if he wins that job, great, that gives you better depth. Better competition is always a good thing. And he's a veteran who's seen everything this league has

to offer. Experience and a very similar system, and a guy who's well thought of by his coaches and teammates. The Jets. Lafleur of the OC said of Phoenie when he signed with the Jets, He'll just dust off some old books, referring to the offense the Indiana and I ran and the similarities to Lafleur's outside zone scheme. Hey, there it is again with the firing off the ball and athletic ability. Because what are the two things we always point to here in the pivot with regards to

this Dolphins offense. It was a thing all last offseason prior to the Williams acquisition, and then move inside to the pivot at center and Daniel Jeremiah for the forty fifth time referencing this conference call ahead of the draft on what McDaniel looks for at center, football, intelligence, and athleticism. Do you want to talk athleticism? Phoene lettered volleyball in high school. I've never seen an offensive line with the chops to play a sport that's all about quickness, reaction

and leaping ability, and I guess just general balance. But I guess all those traits also carry over to playing offensive line, don't they, Especially in this offense where we continue to cover. That's right, firing off the football. I've even got his high school measurables here, six foot four, two hundred and eighty pounds on a volleyball court. That is a unicorn out there. Especially we had the bullet

mustache two. How about the smart part? I found an interview with Tom Tolesco, a former Argers GM who was interviewed after they selected Fienie in the third round of twenty seventeens draft. The traits that he said the Chargers liked in Poenie, smart, tough, athletic, bing bang Bong. He even touched on the positional flexibility, saying Feenie was a guard tackle in college, but they see him as a guard with traits first center down the road, so really

ultimately the position flexibility. In fact, he played four games last year and played at three positions, both guards and left tackle. Hasn't actually logged any time at center, but you can see where they would probably want to go the same route as Connor Williams and teaching him that position as he goes along here to potentially be the backup center and have roles elsewhere on the offensive line. He just hasn't played all that much as a Jet, at least he stared seven games with the Jets over

two years. He totaled two hundred and ninety four snaps, and on those nearly three hundred snaps just seven pressures, allowed only one hit that was a sack, so six of those were hurries. And that's a pressure every forty two snaps, which is less than one point five per game if you pro rate that to a full sixty ish snap per game on offense in a given contest. But back to the football, IQ and situational awareness. Man.

There's a lot of tape here as a jet and as a charger of him getting into the protection slide and then finding additional work like go help your teammates, go get a rack of rabs, Go put a rusher on the ground when he is trying to work his pass rush move against your friend alongside you. I like the way he functions as far as a five man unit opposed to working as an individual. To me, he looks very coachable and like a quick study, smart guy.

I think that Holster's both value as a starter and as potential depth coming into the game off the bench. You know, to play offensive line cold can be really tough, but he demonstrated with the Jets that he could do that pretty well. I think the best tape to look at for Feeni is the twenty twenty one game against the Buccaneers. He went up against Vita Vea, and between Veya's quickness and power, I just don't think there's a better test for an interior offensive lineman outside of Aaron

Donald in the NFL. But his ability to get wide off the snap and really kind of hem Veia's inside for those outside zone runs really jumps off that tape, and in that twenty twenty one season, he came into the game as the sixth offensive lineman in seven games, so you have that flexibility as well. And then started the last three games and in those three games, one hundred and sixty six snaps and just four pressures allowed.

It's on ninety three pass blocking snaps. That's a great, great figure, and Pro Football Focus really likes his run blocking to a seventy nine point three grade. Again, I don't care about their grades, but I'm giving you the full platter here and not to mention a stat I do like ninety eight pass block efficiency means there's two percent of the time that he's allowing pressures, which would have been right in line with Hunt and William's production

a year ago. So really intriguing player. Another guy on this offense that I think really goes along with what we talked about with Jeremiah at the combine. To bring this all full circle, the Dolphins have really locked in on their foundational pieces and now you round out the margins with guys like Feeny and Barrios and Saber. Another valuable addition here that doesn't get plastered up on the marquee. But your roster is going to be better for having

somebody like Dan Foene on it. They're not all going to be the splash, home run hits guys. You have to get valuable quality, depth, veteran presence, things like that. That, to me is what Dan Foene is. All right, one player breakdown, We got three more to go Segment two. Next, I'm very excited to talk about Deshaun Elliott. We'll do that here next well as Jake Bailey. That's next Draftime Podcast your host Travis Springfield, brought to you by AutoNation.

Segment two on a free agent film breakdown edition of the Draftime Podcast. We give so much attention to the offense and defense on the show, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't know a lot about the mechanics of kicking, or punting, or long snapping, really anything in that third phase of the game. It's why I like to ask Danny Croftsman those questions at press conferences and just kind of get him to educate me on special teams. This is all to say we have

a new punter in town. Jake Bailey comes down from New England, a first team All Pro back in twenty twenty, which was the same year Jason Sanders won his All Pro honors. Bailey spent the first four years of his career with the Patriots as their punter and kickoff man, and frankly a punter drafted in the fifth round by Belichick and the Patriots a team who values special teams as much as anybody. You just know that's a lively

talented leg that Jake Bailey possesses. Not to mention, he's a ridy and for the Patriots, for as long as I can remember, they've always had a left footed punter, but not Jake Bailey. But he was injured last year and their Week nine win over the Colts and did not finish the season wound up on ir In his nine games, he averaged forty two point zero eight yards per punt with a thirty two percent inside the twenty yard line rate. On his thirty seven punts one hundred

and fifty seven return yards. That's an average of four point two four yards per return and a gross of thirty five point one yards, and that came with a higher than usual touchback rate for his career thirteen point five percent. Last year was a big jump over what we had this season ago with Miami with Thomas Morestead, but just nine point nine percent over his four year career. Without watching the punts. It's difficult to say what caused that because the kicks are the coverage. You have to

kind of make a determination there. But you're certainly looking to get more towards that career average opposed to what it was a year ago. Like his production dipped the last couple of years here, so it would be curious if he can find that again. For his career, he averages forty five point nine yards per punt and a

gross of forty one point five. The year that he was all pro it was forty five point six, which was the highest since Johnny Hecker had at forty six point zero in twenty sixteen, So we're talking about all time punting performances. But since twenty nineteen, his eighteen point two rate inside the ten yard line ranks second behind only Tommy Townsend in Kansas City, who just got a

big contract for punters. It's among punterers with at least one punt per game sixty six total punts over those four years inside the twenty yard line he was third with forty five point three percent. Then how about this one. Opponents starting field possession after a punt. Since twenty nineteen, which Bailey's rookie year, the Patriots opponents starting field position after punts was the minus twenty one yard line their own twenty one yard line. That's the best in the game,

this time topping Tommy Townsend by point three yards. So you want to flip the field, Jake Bailey has been doing that for a long long time. How about the guys who helped get the ball back to the offense after punts? Well, always to Sean Elliott, new Dolphins safety if you listen to the Lions preview podcast from back in October, he was a player we highlighted quite a lot.

He was on the injury report and was a guy that I was tracking because to me, it was a big swing if he played or not in the secondary that needed his skills back there, and it was uncertain if he would as kind of a jenga piece of the Lions defense. And he did not play in Miami's offense. I don't think punted in that game, and they didn't get stopped very much for touchdowns either. But then he returned, and not to say that he was the reason, but

that's when the Lions defense turned things around. Last season. They held Rogers and the Packers to nine points. I can't imagine what would happen for our quarterbacks public perception if he scored just nine points in a game against the Lions had a shootout with Justin Fields and the Bears for thirty points. Then the Giants scored eighteen, Bills

twenty eight, Jags fourteen. So the defense figured it out after that Miami game when Deshaun Elliott came back into the lineup, and the snap counts for Elliot in those games the Bears thirty points stands out right. He only played twenty nine snaps in that game versus seventy four against the Packers, seventy six against the Giants, seventy six against the Bills. And if you watch that Thanksgiving game against the Bills, they gave Alan fitz through three quarters

and Elliott was a big part of that. But first, the counting stats here, forty two games, thirty five starts. He has two career picks, ten passes defense, he's forced three fumbles. We'll talk about that more in a second, recovered one three and a half sacks, eleven QB hits, and two hundred and five career tackles. He was the Ravens starting free safety in twenty twenty, the only year of his career where he was a full time starter

and healthy. He started the first six games to twenty twenty one before an injury, and then the Ravens added two safeties of that year, Kyle Hamilton and Marcus Williams, which led to Elliott's departure and then arrival, of course in Detroit. But there he played fourteen games last season, started thirteen of them. But that twenty twenty season was a big one for him. Five QB hits, two and a half sacks, four passes defense, and two forced fumbles.

And Pro Football Reference has a stat called approximate value where they kind of give you one number to judge your overall value. His career high was seven, which is above replacement value starter and in Miami, that's I mean, we already have two really good starting safeties, so that's really good for your third safety. How about the advanced metrics, Well, the Pro Football Focus grades have this dude as literally the most consistent player I've ever seen in terms of

their grading. Again, I don't care about the grades, but for posterity sixty six five, sixty five six, sixty nine six sixty nine seven, like within three points variation all four years is pretty wild. But how nice is that to have a player in your secondary that you can pretty accurately forecast what he's going to give you. We know what we have an X we know we have in Jelen Ramsey, ker Cohu, Nick Needham. Really, I mean,

you know what you're gonna get with him. And this is not like saying you're getting great play all the time, but you know what to expect. Javon holland Brandon Jones to meet. Elliott slotted into that mold. He was really impressive in that big nickel third safety sub package role

before he became a full time starter. So on top of quality depth, if you need somebody to step in on an every down basis in the instance that we lose Javon or Brandon for a game or two or the whole season, then you can have a trustworthy person in that role, which is nice, right, And we'll get more into his tape in a moment, But back to the numbers. Let's go ahead and start with snaps and alignment over twenty three hundred snaps over four years, and

those are split as follows. Eight hundred and twelve snaps against the run, he has forty four run stops, and he missed tackle rate under ten percent. That's where you want to be, right around eight nine. I mean, nobody makes every single tackle, but nine point one for his career is a really good rate, especially when you factor in that he plays in space a lot like coming from depth. We'll talk about this more a minute, but check out the hit he put on Dereck Henry for

a forced fumble back in twenty twenty one. He comes from fifteen yards of depth to make that play, which is I mean, it's not easy to do. It's like, you know, it's hitting a hundred mile on our fastball. One hundred and three pass rush snaps, which is a lot for us safety, and we have three guys that can do that. Now twenty one pressures. That's better than one of every five rush attempts we get home. He

gets home rather and gets to the quarterback. The sack productions there, but just the threat of the ability to change the way the offense plays with that safety providing pressure. More on that in a moment. From a coverage standpoint, Obviously, at safety you play a lot more of these than anything else. Fourteen hundred and thirty eight snaps in coverage. What I like most is what I saw from him

in his zone match standpoint. Starting off in zone, as the routes declare themselves, you follow your rules to attach to a man. My high school basketball coach always harp on this, like, we're just because we're playing zone, doesn't mean you stay in your zone. I'm like, find a man. You're not covering court, you're not covering grass and zone. But the rule, like an example, a banjo call, something you might have heard of before, it's where, hey, you

got first, inside move, I got next. Stuff like that is common in defense, where you have to read the play and then be on the same page as your teammate and react as your role changes post snap. Potentially, but his numbers bear this skill set out a career passer rating against him of eighty nine point three two picks just two touchdowns allowed. He's only drawn three flags in a four year career, only one hundred and eighty one yards of yak yards after catch, and that's out

of five hundred and thirty four yards in coverage. That's a tremendous percentage. Like we said, a very good striker, very good tackler. And then the stat always go to you, yards allowed per coverage snap. Five hundred and forty three yards on fourteen hundred and thirty eight coverage snaps is

really really good. To illustrate his versatility, twelve hundred and sixty seven snaps in the post, five hundred eighty in the box, another two hundred and thirty nine down on the line, two thirty three in the slot, thirty four out wide. I'm throwing lots and numbers at you. All that tells you is he plays all over the defense and also two hundred and thirty two snaps on special teams. The tape is fun, man, especially when you think about

the fit down here. We talked a lot about what Fangio has ran traditionally, and without trying to delve into the finer points of the playbook and responsibilities, we know that typically it's lighter boxes, high safeties, challenge the offense to run the football and take it out of Patrick Mahomes's hands, take it out of Josh Allen's hands, and those safeties have to have interchangeability and the versatility to align and all the varied positions and responsibilities that safeties

can conceivably play. We saw Javon Holland play the post probably too often, rush the edge, spy the quarterback, do everything right. Brandon Jones too, who, for my money, is the best blitzing safety in football, but also can match up on tight end. He had great coverage I think it was against the Vikings, like a good pass rush rep and then two good coverage snaps like bang bang bang. Just shows you the entire skill set does it all

covers the slot. I think he watched the tape back last year and losing him was such a blow because of how it allowed the fence to flip pre snap with a simple adjustment call, because both he and Holland were so adept at running any type of route that comes from that safety position. And I say all of that because I found this cut up that somebody did. It's called huddle up films, and they did it before last season when Elliott was a free agent leaving Baltimore.

It's actually posted by a fan of the Bears who does a podcast, and he was hoping they'd bring Elliott to the Windy City. And this clip shows Elliott fitting the run from depth in a two high structure, then lining up off the edge and rushing against a tackle, which makes the rest of the protection slide vulnerable. Say we come back to that. That's how you can change protection schemes by getting those good rushing safeties down on the line. We saw Brandon Jones get a big force

woman for a touchdown in the opener. We saw Javon Holland in week three put the ball on the turf with Josh Allen that led to a quick Dolphin's touchdown. If your right tackles blocking a safety, it probably means you got an edge rusher on a tight end somewhere else, or a similar mismatch, or you just don't block them at all, like the Patriots and Bills didn't do. And then eight or twenty just runs through your quarterback and gets the ball on the ground. Excuse me. He plays

down in the box as the forced defender. He plays down the pipe and coverage against the three to the strength, which is the slot receiver, essentially to the strong side of the formation. A very important and tough coverage responsibility, and he covers crossing routes and go like he does a lot of different things. When you can trot out three safeties who have that type of versatility and interchangeability, it allows the defense to create those aforementioned looks where

you dictate the matchups. Does that make sense? Like, if I'm looking at a big nickel package as a quarterback and any of those three guys can do any of the roles that come with that position, then I am way more likely to make a mistake in my hot in my protection call, or my general read of the defense. Maybe I misidentify the coverage because they change, they disguised. That's kind of what you get here. Fangio is the ultimate master at creating disguise in the back end, and

that's how you get those matchups. That's how you get Jalan Phillips matched up against a tight end. You're gonna win that every time. It's how you get Christian Wilkins one on one verse is a UDFA rookie who's wet behind the ears. Again, it's a fun tape. He arrives with force as a striker from what I can tell in limited pass rush opportunities. He has a feel for rush land integrity and man, there's a clip of him rushing and mirroring Daniel Jones on a clip where he

tries to escape. And since I think the hardest thing to do in defense defensive football in twenty twenty three is to defend the four four speed a quarterback has once he escapes initial pressure, That's where I think Elliott gives you another answer to facing a Josh Allen justin Fields, etc. Etc. But of those quarterbacks who are big, big human beings, you know, and if you need any validation on Elliott bringing big humans to the ground, just go watch the

hit he put on Derek Henry. Like I mentioned earlier, he lays him out for a force fumble, puts him on his knees. I mean, his tape was full of stuff like that. I referenced the force fumble production. Two of those. One of the Henry hit are results of where he just makes a big hit and rakes at the football to get it out. The other was a stick he put on Travis et And against the Jaguars last year. You're gonna fune when you watch just tape. Go check him out to Sean Elliott. We have one

more to go. We'll dive into Malik Reid's tape. That's next here on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Three of the latest free agent acquisitions accounted for. Let's go ahead and do the fourth here as we roll on with the analysis of all these new Miami Dolphins. A nice mix of marquee talent, big time starters every snap players, but also valuable role players in depth here, let's go ahead and get to the most recent one and yet another piece

for Vic Fangio to incorporate into this defense. Is there any question about where Miami thought they had to get better this year on the defense side of the football. Malik Reid is here. Undrafted out of Nevada in twenty nineteen, he earned the admiration of Fangio's Broncos staff by making the club out of camp and then going on to have a really good three year run with the Denver Broncos that includes an eight sack campaign in twenty twenty.

In fact, he told fifteen sacks over his three years there. That's great production for a sub package rusher man. And he was traded last offseason to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Now Fangio was let go by the Broncos, right, and then Reid got traded on August thirtieth, that's thirteen days before they went to they play in the Opena. I forget.

Steelers played oh the Bengals, and they destroyed the Bengals in that game, But he had to go learn a completely new defense with just twelve days in a prep time. He played fourteen games and started two for the Steelers. One sack, twenty five tackles, two passes defense, four QB hits. Just wasn't the year you've come to expect from his production. He's played almost exclusively off the edge. Not a guy

who's gonna kick inside. He's two hundred and thirty five pounds you're not gonna get, you know, two hundred and sixty five pound Jaland Phillips or two hundred and seventy pound Manual Augbas sliding inside. But he is flexible in the sense that he can rush either edge effectively, and that might not seem like a big deal, but it is. That's the hallmark of a great first guy off the bench, Like hey, Chub needs a blow Jalen got nicked up for a few snaps, we need to write outside linebacker

for a few snaps. We need to left outside linebacker for the rest of the game until he gets back in. It's nice when that player can be the same guy. And there was too much of a drop off last year when fifteen and two were not in the game. I think that Malik Reid gives you some more of that. That's sort of what his role was as a rookie in Denver playing with Bradley Chubb, and then last year in Pittsburgh. But he was a full time guy in

year two and year three in Denver. Seven hundred and eighty five snaps seven hundred and thirty seven snaps in those two years, respectively. Let's go ahead and look at the numbers pass rushing. He's got almost thirteen hundred pass rush snaps in his career and ninety three pressures, sixteen sacks, and thirty four quarterback hits. I love his first step, his explosives off the edge. We'll talk about that more

in just a second. Run defense nine hundred and twenty eight snaps, sixty seven run stops, and sixteen tackles for loss and That's where my ears really perk up, because again we know, but the sub package rushing consistent rely production that allows you to not suffer that drop off when you go away from Phillips and chub or By

when he's healthy as well. And you see it in his tape too, like you think that two hundred and thirty five pounds, his game has to be more finesse, right, But manus tape is full of playing with rush lane integrity, playing the run on the way to the quarterback. And that doesn't just help him make plays, it's doing his job to help secure production from his teammates and they're

executing of their job. Maintaining gap integrity and the way you run to the football are the two best ways you can measure the love you have for your teammates. And Read offers both of those in spades. He'll fit right in in that department. As far as coverage, just one hundred and seventy one snaps there, one hundred and twenty yards on those snaps, one touchdown, allowed, no interceptions. But he does have six passes defense in his career

for the Steelers. I'm not sure there's a defense that asks more of their linebackers and coverage, and that's what you really see where you really see Malik Reid's athletic ability come into play. To demonstrate that he was in coverage on nine percent of his snaps with Pittsburgh compared to just five point five with the Broncos. So we'll see what it is here, but probably somewhere closer to

the Broncos number. But how about this played the AFC East last year against all four teams, three pressures against the Patriots and a season best four pressures against the Jets. We'd love to hear that. I think from watching his tape that there are two traits where he consistently wins,

and they are translatable across any type of scheme. Number one, I mentioned it earlier, that super quick first step and then the ability to threaten the edge with speed, a little ghost move up and undermove or under an upmove to get the outside shoulder of that tackle opened up. It stressed out the offensive line in a way that opens up that B gap right. It creates space for a Zach Seeler or a Christian Wilkins, or you know,

a David longblitzing inside. But sometimes when guys do this, they can fly by and wind up behind the quarterback, which is the worst place on the field. You can't do anything from back there. It makes the game eleven on ten. But I swear this past year this idea became so common with eyes the quarterback to change your rush path to mirror his. And this is where I

really think Malik Reid is very, very good. Whether he has to sneak back in side or just keep playing through and run around the arc, he gets some good rush production and ball production when he does get around the edge because that quarterback flees and he can kind of turn the corner and get to the arm, the right arm and get the football on the ground. And that speed with his eye discipline is a really, really

really good pairing. So all in all, I just think that this free agent class continues to really round out some specific needs roles margins on the team. We talked about how close this team was from taking that nine and eight record and improving it with just one or two plays and several of the games we had last year.

Better health can certainly get Miami in better position to capitalize on those opportunities and on those plays, But so does the addition of players like Malik Reid, Brax and Barrios, Eric Sauber and these signings that don't dominate the scroll on ESPN or whatever, but are so critical for teams who want to make a run each year. All right, our next show, I think will be Thursday, maybe tomorrow afternoon,

I'm not really sure yet. We'll do a mailbag and hear from all the guys in their introduction mediavailabilities we have, like all of them coming on the pipe. We'll come back the following week and do a recap slash reset of the roster where it is with free agency slowing down here a little bit in the second and third wave, but it never stops. We'll also start getting into more draft content as the calendar turns to the month of April. Plenty to do it here with Ota starting up in

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