Miami's Masterful Special Teams with Mack Holllins, DeAndre Washington Breakdown, Tua Talks

Plus will dive into the tape on DeAndrea Washington to trade details there and the details of the Isaiah Ford trade. And we're gonna spend some time talking about the Dolphins special teams you know today with Mac Hollins. All of that and more on this Wednesday, November the fourth edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Support for Drive Time comes from Auto Nation, where Dolphins fans drive pink and helped raise over twenty five million dollars for cancer treatment and research.

Auto Nation, where every vehicle sold in service is sanitized keep driving safe at auto nation dot com. We're gonna get into Brian Flores media from Wednesday morning here in just one second. But first some housekeeping. The Dolphins traded Isaiah Ford to the New England Patriots for draft pick. Ford played in sixteen games in his Dolphins career, catching forty one passes for four hundred and twenty eight yards.

He had one carry for eleven yards. He was a seventh round draft pick number two thirty seven overall in that two thousand seventeen draft class. And Isaiah Ford. Let's go ahead and hear what coach Flora's had to say on Wednesday morning about Isaiah Ford. Look, I have a lot of respect and admiration for Ford at the Keys. You know, a kid who worked extremely hard, made a lot of place for us. His work ethic and team oriented, put the team first, just great attitude and he was

just really enjoyed working with him. But you know, at the end of the day before, like you know, the best thing for for us was to make make that particular trade. So Isaiah Ford traded here in his fourth season the Dolphins, like Coach Flora says, that trade was in the best interests of the Dolphins, as is going to be the case with any trade they make or any roster move they make throughout the course of time. Really and the other trade they made on Tuesday was

the trade for DeAndre Washington. The Dolphins pick up the former Kansas City Chiefs running back for a swap of conditional draft picks. And I always start, too, I like to start with the workout metrics of a player when I want to go back and kind of look at what I what I thought of them previously, or what I do think of them now as far as their on field production, because I think that gives you a good clue into what type of player you're dealing with

from a movement from appliability explosive standpoint. And you look at Washington's combine metrics back when he was draft eligible, a four or for nine forty yard dash, a thirty four and a half inch vertical, nine oh eight on the broad jump, a four two shuttle, and a seven

oh three three cone time. All of those, except for the broad jump measurement, measure out in the elite category on the r A S the Relative Athletics Scorecard, which measures a collective score of every combine workout dating back to by Kent Lee Platt, and he scored a seven point six to Washington did out of ten, and that ranks to one out of one thousand, two hundred and eighteen running backs that Mr. Platt has scored, so he's up there in the upper echelon. Then you pair that

with the offensity came from. He played in that wide open throw the football seven hundred and thirty three times per game there at Texas Tech along with jakeem Grant. He caught the football a lot. He had one hundred and twenty four catches for one thousand ninety one yards. And you see that in a variety of ways, whether it's the Texas route, which can be called Texas or angle or arrow, where you basically widen the linebacker from

the backfield and cross face. It's a it's a to the right and then back to the left, or to the left and back to the right. You want to cross that linebacker's face. Routes, wheel routes, the whole running back route, tree, gamut. He ran it nice rhyme, nice rhyme. And you jump to his NFL career and he's caught eighty three of his targets for an average of five

point seven four yards per target. I pulled up his reception real from last season in Oakland, where he caught thirty six out of forty one passes there and gained two hundred and ninety two yards on those receptions, So that's a nice bump from his career yards per target up to seven point one two and early you noticed he's often used to stay in and chip and then release out into the route, so he's in that third down mold where you can keep him in and trust

him to pick up the additional pressure or get that chip on a defensive end, like you see with some of the monsters the Raiders face in that division, like a Joey Bosa for instance. When watching him up against the Chargers and in his career, Pro Football Focus has him in pass protection for seventy four snaps. He's allowed one hit and one hurry. That's it, no sex, just two pressures allowed. He's also shifty enough to make a

man miss in space. They'd get him the ball on those screens and swings out on the edge where he gets squared up with one defender in space, and he does have some wiggle out there. Pro Football Focus had him last year with seventeen four Smiths tackles on one and eight carries and two hundred and ninety one of his three hundred and eighty seven rushing yards came after

initial contact. That's good for a two point six nine average yards after contact that would lead this Dolphins team currently and just a smidge under his career average of two point seven two yards after initial contact. And you see that a lot in the passing game as well. Again back to the swings and screens where he gets out on the perimeter and makes that first guy miss. He also has played three hundred and eighty one special teams reps in his career, to which is obviously something

you want from a back. It's on the roster to give you add a depth, as coach Flora says, here was part of the purpose of the trade. Here's coach on Gaskin in the running back room after the Washington trade. Okay, Miles, and Miles is thinged up a little bit. Um. We'll see he's a tough kid, he's a competitive kid, and we'll see where this goes here. So, what like, I want to add some depth there at the running back position. So DeAndre is a good player, an opportunity to get

one and try to take advantage of it. Up next, we'll kind of hear a bit of a fun, lighthearted moment here from coach Flora's but also serious as well, as he was asked about the past receiving prowess of defensive tackle Christian Wilkins. It's gonna be a hard no, hard no on the you know, pass catching opportunities. Hard hard no. I mean, we've got other guys we would

like to rather see what the balls Christian. He's yes, he's got some athleticism as a defensive tackle and we'll try to use him a variety of ways, you know, stunts games in the past rush. But he does a good job, really really in all areas. And he's he's he's somebody who's improved, i would say from year one of year two, and it's important to him. And he's got leadership and energy and he's been he's been fun

to coach. But I don't really the pass catching future form On the topic of past catching futures for Christian Wilkins, who did catch a touchdown past last year, obviously had the snap but fullback this past Sunday where he helped clear a lane four Miles gaskin touchdown run You here Coach Flora's talk about the athletic ability and how it creates opportunities for him and stunts and games upfront kind of twisting and working down the last grimmage to help

create opportunities for other guys in the game. Christian Wilkins been a very good player here for two years here with the Dolphins. Speaking of past catchers and speed on offense, Coach Flores was asked how speed can affect a defense and how important it is to have it on the offense with guys like Antonio Callaway friends is coming back off the suspension list, or a Malcolm Perry Lynn bowed and getting more active playing time as they have in

recent weeks here for the Dolphins. Here's Coach Flora's on speed on the offense. Speeds hard to deal with defensively and in the kicking game. So anytime you can add you know that element, you know forces defenses to deal with. That worse thing that can happen is you know you allow that speed it um you know, create a big play defensively. Obviously offensively you want to create big plays. You could use that type of speed to your advantage.

So we've got some guys um who can run. But again there's a lot more that goes into no planing receiver position than just speed. Um, you know, blocking route route running, catching football and then getting open. There's a lot of fast defensive backs as well. So up next, coach was asked about the defensive structure or the exotic blitz looks of Vance Joseph and the Arizona Cardinals. They'll

come to find out on the preview podcast tomorrow. This Cardinals defense blitzes at one of the highest frequencies in the NFL. We're gonna talk about how you can mitigate that and work around that. Here's Coach Flora's on the blitzing game of the Cardinals defense. Yeah, I mean Vance does a does a very nice job over there. Um, Cliff doesn't. I mean, they got they got good coaches over there, and they do a good job really offensively, defensive leading in a kicking game. It's a good team.

And just kind of watching the film and watching what they do defensively. Yeah, there there's a lot of looks. So and I'm sure I'm sure he's over there cooking something up that we haven't already seen on film as well. So I think, you know, at the end of the day, with the exotics. It's about following your rules, um and playing good with good technique and fundamentals because oftentimes, well it looks like it's a game plan to game plan Russia game planned scheme. And he does a good job

from that standpoint, a really a really nice job. Create some confusion. We're gonna have to do a good job, like I said, following our rules, reading our keys. Really they do that in really all three phases, offense, defense, and special teams. So go ahead and finish up with Coach Flora is here on a Wednesday morning, with a good segue into our next segment. Talking about special teams.

Coach was asked about jakeem Grant, the electric return ability of Jachem and what it means to be able to flip the field on special teams with his return unit, not just with Jachim but the guys that contribute, the other ten guys on the field as well. We talk about field position, you know, really on a weekly basis, how important import and that is. Um. I think Jakim

has donna really Uh. He's worked extremely hard just um really in all areas of his game as a receiver, as a returner, and you can kind of see some of that starting to manifest itself on the field. Look, we all know he's an explosive player. UM, but I'm I'm proud of the ways of working kind of seeing some of that. But we need to continue and I think he knows that he's in here continuing to work.

And you know, watching the film on the punters and the kickers and their walk offs and you know, any kind of tell he can he can get um so you can get a better read on the ball give and put himself in position to to get himself going UM. And then I think our team, especially in the kicking unit, you know, let's call it the return units, that they understand that UM block. If we you know, finish, if we finish our blocks and we got a chance to creet Big Blaze, that's always good. So he's he's done

a he's done a nice job. I'm happy he won that award. I know his focus is on Arizona. That award, of course, being Special Teams Player of the Week going to Dolphins receiver slash return man Jachem Grant. So congratulations Jachim for winning that award. And on the topic of special teams that's going to be our Wednesday feature here on the Drive Time Podcast, as well as an article up on Miami Dolphins dot com taking a look at the impact of this Dolphins special team's unit has had

under Coach Flora's and on this team this season. And you start here by this quote the coach said a while back, quote, I started in the kicking game. That's where I got my coaching break. I know and understand how important those guys in those possessions are, whether it's kicker, punter, long snapper, returners, ball security and things of that nature. And you'd be hard pressed to go a week or so without hearing Coach Flora's speak about the importance of

the kicking game. And it really shows. Nobody in the NFL right now has more punt return yards than Jachem Grants two and twenty seven. Jason Sanders is the only kicker with ten made field goals who hasn't missed one. He's fifteen of fifteen. Also has not missed a point after try and Matt Hawk is ninth in punting average net punting average at forty two point three yards and fourth with fifteen punts down inside the twenty yard line. Last month, Jason Sanders took home a f C Special

Teams Player of the Month. Jachem Grant wins it this week after breaking a franchise record eighty eight yard punt return and resetting his own record with his fifth return touchdown. In the story history of these Miami Dolphins, and you think back to how some of these players were acquired, guys that were brought here to really help not just on offense and defense, but to round out the special

teams units. A guy like Clayton Federlum signed in the off season, a guy like Camu grug Hill who plays some reps on defense but has been crucial as Danny Austin will tell us on special teams as well. A guy like Blake Ferguson drafted in the sixth round to be a long snapper. The operation has been crisp this year, no bad snaps or or failed exchanges between he and

Matt Hawk as a punter and as a holder. We saw Mac Hollins acquired in season last year, and we heard Danny Crossman talk about his strength as a gunner, crediting both he and Jamal Perry as really being guys that kind of at the table as those gunners, saying that you cannot have a good special teams unit without

having your gunners down the field. If your gunners are not downfield disrupting things, at minimum, you're going to have a hard time, Coach says, So plenty of factors going into why the special teams unit right now is playing so well, and the Dolphins on Football Outsiders d v o A a metric we've talked about a couple of times over the last couple of weeks. It's defensive adjusted

value over metric. Essentially, what they're trying to do with that metric is removed outside factors in d v o A and using their percentage points, the Dolphins are a ten point five percent d v o A on special teams. That trails only Baltimore, who's at twelve point three percent. Third place is Seattle at six point one percent, So Miami is four point four points higher than third place

and almost double them. In fact, the Dolphins are double the fifth highest ranked special teams unit in the NFL,

the New Orleans Saints at four point seven percent. So not only is Miami a top of the class with Baltimore up there, they're well ahead of the rest of the group in terms of special teams d v o A, and we mentioned mac hollands work as a gunner on the punt team and being one of those core special teamers along with so many other players on this roster that have helped contribute in that third phase of the game.

On Tuesday, I had a chance to ask Coach Grazzard about mac Hollins and the impact he has as a worker in the receiver room but also on special teams. Yeah, he works incredibly hard in terms of being in the meeting room. He's also really good for some of these younger guys because he's been around and he really he grinds for everything that he gets, and and that came through special teams, even from the time that he was

at Carolina. So to see that and show that you can carve out a roll and get you on the field and make plays on special teams and come in and do things we asked me to do on offense as well, I think it's a great example for everybody really to see in the room. And he just brings juice every day. It's a great personality and great teammate. Speaking of that juice, I saw Mac do a back hand spring like misty twist spin move after the team got done stretching on practice on Wednesday. So talking about

bringing that juice. You also heard coach reference his time at North Carolina and he was a fourth round draft pick of the Eagles out of U n C. And I recall back to that draft year when Daniel Jeremiah of The Around of the Move, the Sticks podcast and NFL Network and NFL Media said that he doesn't think that there's a better gunner, a better punt coverage guy, a day one core special teamer in this draft than Mac Hollins. And I think you're kind of seeing that

here with Hollands in Miami. And with that, why don't we go ahead and hear from the man himself as we welcome in Mac Collins to the Drivetime Podcast. And I am thrilled to be going now by Dolphins wide receiver slash gunner, slash special team's core component. I mean, I don't know how many jobs this guy has he is Mac Hollins, Mac, welcome into the Drift Time Podcast. Thank you, trys to really appreciate you having me. I saw you at practice as I do some form and

I'm going to butcher the name of this. But like a backhands, a backhand spring, or like a misty flip? Is there a gymnastics background there for you? Oh no, it's just a little round off I'll do. I'll do it right after you stretch. It kind of gets me, um, I don't know. It reminds me to be a kid, to have fun with with what I'm doing. So I do a little round off right after stretching to whatever drill we're going into, and then I, uh, start the day.

That's awesome. So you do it every day? Then, yeah, right after stretch. Yeah, I didn't even notice it. That's I guess a bad job on my part there do not notice it? But I did notice it today. And you know, out there at practice it was windy and and not not the best South Florida weather, but you guys still got after and worked hard. I'm curious to ask you, Mac, because I think a lot of folks

and myself and fluded. Maybe you don't really know how the week goes for a player who plays both an offensive or defensive position but also has such a significant role on special teams. What does that week look like for you? Trying to prepare for both elements of the game. Um, I mean, it's just it just adds an element of you know, being able to manage your time and manage

what what you're studying and what you're looking at. You know, if you look at offensive or defensive starter, you know, main guy, they're going to study the defense or offensive opponent really well. Whereas for me, I have to study special teams really well, but then also offense defense for any opportunity that I get in in that component of the game. So it's a it's a it's just about time management and knowing how to how to make the best decision that's going to make the team and yourself

the most successful on game day. I have to imagine you learned quite a bit of that from your time back in college. And you know, I fancy myself an amateur draft guy, and I followed Daniel Jeremiah on the NFL network, and I never forgot when you were coming out North Carolina, he said, this guy might be the

best gunner slash special teamer in the entire draft. So it's something you've kind of always taken pride in, right, Oh yeah, I mean especially this is how I you really made it in college because I walked on in North Carolina especially is how I got really to make the team and then my role developed as a receiver. But yes, special teams has always been my my roots. Can you tell us more about that with walking on it and see and how you wound up there? I mean,

I know it's a bit of a basketball school. I've heard you play basketball next door. Did you have hoop dreams? Like? How did you get in that spot? Uh? So, I coming out of high school, was on a visit to North Carolina with my older brother who was applying there and other schools. He went ended up going to Stanford. But I was there and went to the football facility and was talking and ended up meeting guy named Marcus Barry who suggested going to for Kenyan Military Academy, which

is a prep school's coming out of high school. So I end up going to the prep school. Still didn't get an offer from anywhere, but I ended up emailing like a hunter coaches of schools that I you know, I would like to play at whatever and macollins, this is my highlight tape, this and that from high school,

this and that from Kenyon. I just want to chance and ended up getting a whole bunch of people hitting me back for UM, it's just like opportunities to walk on, And then North Carolina was one of them, so walked on, actually walked on as a defensive back because that's where

the spot was. I got into the school and they had a spot at defensive back, So I was a defensive back at the start, and then transition transitioned over the receiver because of a bunch of injuries, and guys had seen me play basketball and they knew I was athletic, so they're like, why not just try Mac at receiver and I guess the rest of the system. That's awesome. Do you ever talk to know what I banogay about that? Because he started off as a receiver Auburn and made

the switch to cornerback there in college. You ever talked to him about that? Um? I actually haven't, Um, but you can tell, I mean know it was a great athlete, so you can. You know, most guys that can transition have good hips are usually from the offense side of my opinion, Yeah, yeah for sure. Selfish, Well, maybe he can come over and join some of the some of the hoop action and the receiver's amoute in the suburbs now as we're gonna call him here on the Drivetime podcast.

I've got Mac Hollins here on the Drivetime podcasting and speaking of the suburbs and the receiver's room. UM coach Gizard on his Tuesday media availability talked about you kind of accepting this leadership role and being a good example for the younger guys on this team, and Mac, you're not necessarily a grizzled vet at this point. You're still in your mid twenties and and you've you've been around the block for a few years, but still a pretty

young guy. But you came to this team last year and I assume you know pretty quickly took on that leadership role. Can you talk about about how quickly you were able to get yourself in a position where guys started to look up to you here in Miami? I think I think it's a mixture of the situation I

came into and the situation I'm coming from. So, you know, when I got here last year, there was a bunch of injuries in the receiver room and a lot of young players, and I was coming from, you know, a team where I had won a Super Bowl, and I had been to the playoffs every year, so I had that type of experience. You know, I was privileged enough to have that, so to be able to bring that to the table of guys. Can guys can usually tell the guys that have, you know, experienced a lot, and

usually experience is the best way to lead somebody. They don't make the same mistakes you do. So you know, I was lucky enough to be able to try and lead these guys. I mean, I wouldn't say I'm a leader of the group by any means, but I tried the best I can to you know, teach the young guys the mistakes that already made so they don't end up making it. That's, I think, in an invaluable asset on any any team or any place of employment in

any industry. So that's cool to hear. But I want to you mentioned you're not the only leader on that group. I'm curious to get your take on on the rest of the kind of the core guys, the glue guys, and that special teams, you know, because there are so many of them, whether it's Clayton Federal in the Personal Protector,

Cavan Fraser and Cammu, Gruza Hill, Andrew Van Geek. Well, I mean, i know I'm leaving names off, but I'm curious if you guys have this general kind of mindset or is it like a mantra that you guys work together off of you take a lot of pride in with the special teams or or is it just something you can talk about with that entire group collectively and how they kind of approached the game. I think one thing about special teams is that it's it's more of

a decision than offensive defense. Offense and defense. You know, you can have a good play design that will end up being the success, whereas in special teams are either going to decide that you're gonna give it your all and go make a play, or you're gonna decide to take a playoff and something bad might happen. Um. So for for our group, I think we just have a lot of fun and we really enjoyed being out there.

When we're out there, you know, we don't look at his like, ah, dang, here coming here comes another special team snap. It's who's who's gonna make the play. We're arguing over who's gonna make the tackle and who's gonna make the touchdown, making block and stuff like that. So we just have a lot of fun with it and

we enjoy being out there. I want to go ahead and transition back just maybe some more lighthearted stuff here and ask you first, coach Croftsman during training camp this year, I set up in the media row, so I'm about as far from the fields you can be, but I can hear him from up there because he can yell. Man. I want to know what's it like to be on the other end of a of a crossman uh, a shouting event there. I mean, you definitely don't want to

be the recipient of it by any means. Nobody likes that. Uh. But as like an older player, it's you know, you kind of laugh because you've been in the in the shoes of younger guys or rookies that they're getting yelled at. You've been in those shoes before, so you kind of laugh on the inside. But he'll he'll fix it and be a better player because because of it. Obviously not gonna laugh out out because it is serious and whatever

he's yelling asked for a reason. But you know, you know that player is going to learn from it, and I promise you who won't make that same mistake again because of the chewing out. He just got that that's exactly right. And they always say right if you're not and yelled at, then the coaches if it's better to be yelled at than it is to be ignored, because they actually care about you and think there's something there. Um One more question for you about the coaching stuff.

I want to go back to last year with the Mountaineer shot. I'm sure you've talked about it plenty of times. Uh, just the general vibe of how the special teams was so adaptable to to making to taking chances and getting big plays out of it. I'm curious for you guys, does that give you more confidence that the coaches are willing to put so much trust in you guys to execute in big moments like that. Yeah, I mean, as

as players, we don't. I mean it's rare, but you don't find so many players who are analyzing the percentages of getting first downs and on fourth down and stuff like that. And when do you use trick play? So for us, any time it's fourth down and five or less, or any time the game is close and we feel like we can do it, like a player is gonna say, let's run a fake, and and in this league, it's

such a conservative league, it rarely happens. So to be on a team we're we're able to run fakes and not just practice them, but actually run them, it's a It gives the players just a little bit more confidence to go out there and go really hard on the places where we're not running fakes so that they set up the fakes later on. Yeah, that's that's uh. You mentioned right there, the analytics aspect of it. I'm sure every player throws those out the window and says, let's

go ahead and go for it right here. Two more questions for you, mac one. It goes back to a touchdown celebration. I recall you having in Philadelphia. Were ever going to see the floss here in Miami? Oh, we'll see. Usually I just make up dances. Um, I'm kind of spontaneous. That was That was a spontaneous one. But I got all types of moves the guys are. The guys have seen a little glimpses of each of them, but you

never know what. It all depends on how I'm feeling that day and if I'm lucky enough to get an end zone. Oh I want to correct me if I'm wrong here, But didn't you wind up on the jumbo tron there at a Sixers game because of that? Oh? Yeah, that was It was like the week after I had scored, I ended up going to a six Years game and I was told by a veteran, hey, go up there and dance when the camera comes over. So, as a rookie, I did what I was told to do. There you go,

smart move. Last question for you here. I mentioned the wind earlier today I saw that the hair was was looking rather magnificent. How long is that going to go? For? Um? I'm not sure. It's kind of just just living its own life. I do need to get a trim I needed. I need to cut a few split ends off. But yeah, I've had fun with it. I let it, let it live its life. And now it's cooling down a little bit. It's not as hard to deal with. It's not as hot,

so I can actually manage it. But it's been fun to have because I always had short hair in my whole life, so this is a new bonus. Yeah, there you go, heading into the I guess cooler months here in South Florida as we pressed onto the second half of the season. Dolphins receiver Mac Hollins Dolphins Special Teams Days, Mac Collins, appreciate your time today, Man's that's a great to talk to you. Thank you so much, and there he goes Mac Hollins, What a fun interview that was.

Look forward to seeing if we can get some flossing here in the near future in Miami. Let's go ahead and finish up this podcast with our Wednesday player media availability before we get to the injury report here on this Wednesday podcast, and start with Dolphins quarterback to a Tongue Violoa, who was first asked about his individual goals this season, now that he's got a game under his belt and what might be realistic goals for himself and of course to have brought it back to the Miami

Dolphins because team over the individual. Well, I think it's hard to speak individually, um, because this is a team sport. You know, we play we play this together. You need all eleving guys on the offense. Are e leving guys on the defense, now you leving guys on special teams and in order for you to win and accomplish your individual goals. It contributes everyone. Everyone needs to contribute and do their part. Um, you know, and and that's what

we're hopefully looking to improve on as an offense. Um. You know, this upcoming week and this upcoming week features a quarterback that to has played against before, actually in hard Rock Stadium this Sunday, they'll be at State Farm Stadium there in Glendale, Arizona. But going up against Kyler Murray, another player who wears Gregy number one saw M in college. Here's two were talking about the Heisman Trophy presentation, being there with Kyler Murray and his family and what he

thinks about the Cardinals quarterback. I'm very excited to go up against them, I would say. First impressions when I when I met him, he's, you know, he's pretty jacked up, you know, for for as you know, short as he is, he's he's I mean, this guy's rocked up. Um. But he he's very competitive. Um, you know, he's very personable too. I got to meet his parents as well at the Haysland ceremony. Very good family, um, you know, but against going against guys like that who are very competitive and

you know, you're gonna get their best. UM. I think that's gonna be a fun one. And with the Cardinals coming up and the Rams game in the rear view, it's all about making corrections and getting things applied for the following week. So two of us asked, what are some things he looks back on the he think he did well and some things he thinks he can work on. I I think there's there's room for improvement every day

for me, UM, you know. I I feel like I'm getting more comfortable in the huddle, talking to the guys, giving the plays out and kind of seeing where everyone needs to go. UM. I think the biggest thing for me is pocket presence UM, being able to just step up into you know what feels slight pressure. UM. And then also just just making the throws that I need to UM, you know, give the receiver's good run after

catch up. Next two was asked about the comments from chan Gailey about how the Dolphins were ahead and had a different game plan because of being so far ahead in that game and the restrictive nature of the game plan for the quarterback and really trying to play more of a conservative approach. Gailey had those comments on Tuesday, Here's two, A tong about Lows reaction to Gailey's comments with the game plan, I believe my job is to is to you know, do whatever play call where we're given.

If it's a run twenty times and it's a past one time, I gotta make it work at one time. You know, the past is given, and I got to carry out my fakes those twenty times. UM. But I you know, I I trust, and I think our offense trust. You know what Chand has planned for us offensively. Um. And we go into the to the week knowing the game plan, what we're gonna do, and you know how

we're going to try to attack their defense. Um. But you know, we have full trust that whatever chance calls, we gotta go out there and you know, do good with it. And we'll go ahead and finish up with my question for two, I asked him, since I previously spoke to about learning behind Fitzpatrick and getting the mental reps, how important it is for him to have actual NFL tape he can go back and look at and make improvements and make corrections. Here's two on having his first

NFL tape to dissect. I think that's that's almost the best way. I would say that's that's pretty much the best way I think for anyone in the NFL to learn. You can sit down and anyone can watch film, really, but being able to go in and get some actual game wraps, seeing actual rotations of the defenses, and you've got to make actual mic points, UM, and do things like that. I think those things go a long way.

And sticking in your head and knowing, Okay, if this comes up, I know what my answer is, UM, and then just being comfortable UM. You know, as the games go on, you you just get a good feel of the game. UM. And then you can also get into a good rhythm and from the guy in the middle of the offense to one of the guys in the

middle of the defense. We next hear from Dolphins linebacker Jerome Baker, who first was asked by yours truly about the challenges and offense will see with taking care of a pass rush that has so many different looks and so many different ways they can come and put pressure on the quarterback. Here's Jerome on the Dolphins pressure packages and our defense. Anybody can come, so you got to prepare it like that, and it's it's hard to really prepare for, you know, anybody else field to come. So

that's pretty much how we do it. Just we kind of make it that anybody can come and their different looks and that's how we get a few open runs to the quarterback. Up Next, the Miami linebacker was asked about how he feels about how the Dolphins statistical rankings are right now in the NFL being the number one scoring defense in the National Football League. We don't know all the you know, citasis, we are part of whatever, but I can tell you it doesn't feel like whatever

it says. Um. I mean, one thing about our defense is, you know, we we're pretty hungry. So every snap, every rep we have, you know, we're definitely getting on each other. We hold each other accountable to to do better. So it doesn't feel like whatever it's read on papers. You gotta keep it up and keeps taking one rep and getting better, you know. As a deference, And we heard to talking about Kyler Murray, Cardinals quarterback. How about the guys that have to defend Kyler Murray. Here's your I'm

talking about the challenges that quarterback presents in Arizona. Um, how we preform it's hard to tell you that. It's very hard. Um, he's one of those quarterbacks that's he's young, but he's definitely dynamic. So um, we just gotta do a lot of different things, um, you know, to make it harder. He's throwing different looks, just throwing pressure as whatever it is in our coach had to do a great job. I'm doing that and getting this you know ready for that. Guys like that, it's it's hard to

stop them pretty much. Just had to contain them. So uh, that's that's our game plan. We're just gonna to contain them. And I shouldn't play as the defense page Rome again, just just curious. You guys had four takeaways in the game Sunday, but a couple of opportunities for more. I'm just curious if there's any like rising that goes on between you guys and like for instance, Eric wrote who had a chance and maybe a pick six there, or or Van Gigel who almost had that pick on the

on the ball he batted up. Do you guys give those guys a hard time for that type of thing? Yes, very very hard. Like it's uh, it's it's not just okay just to get the interception and pick up a humble. Um, well, we pretty much and this is all players. We hold each other accountable. So if that's uh, you pick up the fumble, and we respect you to score, but not just score. We respect everybody to block for you. We get the interception. We we just hold each other accountable.

And it's not just you have to do it as a defense. We have to uh work together as to score points. So um, that's what's cool about our defense. We hold each other accountable. We we want each other to get better. And uh that makes it, you know, more enjoyable when the coaches don't have to say anything. And Jerome continued that thought with a follow up question about Kyle van Noya getting down to the one yard line on his peal recovery, just one yard short of

that elusive defensive touchdown. The one thing I say about Kyle, if you look at the video, I was the first one on them. Uh. I definitely got on about that. Uh. You know, we watched each other in high school highlights as a linebacker court and U. Everybody score touchdown. Everybody do their thing, so we all bring it up. You score all these touchdowns and all this why you didn't do that, but no, it's just a fun way just to get on each other and just have fun with it.

But you know, I definitely I don't know about that. Uh and the shorts you get, I was my black but it's part of business. But uh, you know, we definitely gonna miss it. So there you have it. To a Tongue by lower Jerome Baker. We heard from mc collins and Brian Flores on this podcast as well, a very busy one. As for today's podcast, that is going to be my time you all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, leave us a rating, leave us a review, give me a follow. On Twitter.

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