Offensive Line, 2022 NFL Season Preview Series

two season preview. With a little slight change to the programming, We're only going to cover the Miami Dolphins offensive line room today, no NFL preview because it's a very large group. And I also want to talk a little bit about my trip to the Northwest and just get you guys call up more. We're going this summer so far, but this offensive line room, some changes in both the veteran free agency acquisitions and in the U d f A class, a new man in charge with coach Matt Applebaum here

from Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel as well. And if there is some time, we'll talk about some golf, some new music this summer, airplane etiquette, and a few things I jotted down in my notebook from somewhere in central Washington. This is the Drive Time Podcast. So we are on part five, I think it is now of this series and our final one on the offensive side of the footballs.

We take a look at the offensive line if you're just catching up quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends have come off the board in that order, and we've also previewed the entire NFC Conference East, South, North, and West in those series. Today we're talking about just the offensive line, and we start with the personnel changes

and the roster as a whole. It's an even five for five swap here going off of the new acquisitions and those that have departed, and a couple of the names here you're gonna have to go into the memory bank to recognize because some of these guys were practice squaw are guys that just didn't play on actual Sundays

for the Dolphins. But the new acquisitions you know by now about Tehron Armstead, one of the game's very best left tackles, and Connor Williams one of the best interior offensive lineman coming over from the Saints and Cowboys, respectively. Cole Banwart comes over from the Vikings last year and then two U d f A s Kellen Dish from Arizona State and Blaze Andrei's from Minnesota. We'll talk about

their games as well. The departures. Jesse Davis is now with the Vikings, Greg Mans is now with the Buffalo Bills. Roderick Johnson signs the Chiefs, and then Cameron tom and Spencer Pulley are both free agents at press time. And just to kind of wrap up the room as a whole, the incumbents you know about, Michael Dieter, Robert Jones, Solomon Kinley is back. A lot of names back on this offensive line, Robert Hunt, Austin Jackson, Liam Eichenberg, Greg little

Keyan Smith, Adam Panky, and Larnel Coleman. A good group of incumbents there. In terms of some of the continuity upfront on this offensive line, you and act to those veterans. You get a couple of U d f as to help compete in that spot, and all of a sudden you have more depth and you're probably better up top

as well on the offensive line. And speaking of up top, we go to the coaching staff change first, and Matt apple Bomb comes over from Boston College where he helped the Eagles earned Pro Football Focuses number two overall grade across an entire offensive line last year and all of college football, and that was led by first round draft pick Zion Johnson, who was just one heck of a player and had very very high praise for Coach apple

Bomb at the scouting Combine. In fact, BC also produced two more guys that will get a chance to fight for jobs this year in training camp with Alec Lyndstrom and Tyler Rabel. Lynstrom is the brother of Chris Lyndstrom, former first round pick of the Atlanta Falcons. And Tyler Rabel, I know, you know that name, the son of head coach of the Tennessee Titans, Mike Rabel. They'll be with

the Cowboys and Falcons and camp this summer, respectively. And the reason I bring those guys up is because they just had so much praise for Coach apple Bomb during the scouting Combine interviews. And of course, you know you see a guy that played for a Dolphins coach, or you know someone attached to the Miami Dolphins, and you see the usual suspects kind of flocked to that scrum.

I think it was myself and David Farona's were front and line with a couple of these guys, you know, Alan Poopar hal Habib and just a bunch of the guys that are there at the combine covering the Dolphins, getting a bunch of questions for them. So it's beneficial for us to have those multiple Dolphins resources there because

we get more Dolphins content out of those interviews. And to a man Zion Johnson, Tyler Rabel, and Alec Lyndstrom referenced staying after practice and just hammering technique and watching film and being in the classroom and how how almost borderline obsessed coach apple Bomb was with the finer points of technique of putting in the work and just being you know, getting yourself as prepared as you possibly can.

Because if you can take care of that something you have complete control over, you maximize your opportunity for your talents to show through and to become a good player at that level and then to hopefully make a career out of it in the National Football League. And that's kind of what apple bamb does here and makes a jump back to the NFL with fourteen years of coaching experience, ten of those in college four of those in the NFL with Jacksonville and Washington his first O line job

here in the NFL. But man, he did some really impressive stuff with that BC group. Helped them transition between new systems from a kind of more traditional power running type of scheme to a more spread it out offense or modern day passing attack. I should say, so Apple Bama arrives here in South Florida. We'll hear from him here in just one second, and I want to take a look first before we do that, at the group at a glance and just touch on what this room

looks like now compared to a season ago. And it starts with the two additions of two proven veterans, I mean, Connor Williams one of the very first players to sign for the Dolphins when the new league year kicked off, and then to run Armstead took a little bit more time, but man, he sure talked about it in some of the videos he's produced from his own YouTube pay or YouTube channel, I should say, his own production team, talking about how my he was just such a good fit

for him for so many reasons, and one of those being the scheme that kind of suits his skill set. We'll get into that here in just one second. With this Dolphins O line group, it's like the rest of the roster really, I mean a mixture of experience and youth.

Up in the trenches. You know four players drafted in the third round or higher between twenty nine and one, and a fifth player if you count Solomon Kinley in the fourth round if you go back to the fourth to four rounds on that, but first two day draft picks, there's four of those guys over the last three drafts. And that's with zero this past season in the draft.

So really through two years you had four guys that were had first, second, or third round picks, top two day picks invested into them, and the Dolphins have rounded

out the group with depth and talent. I mean the additions you make with all the incumbents just makes you deeper, right, makes you better up top as well when you go get an armst now Williams, but between Michael Dieter, Austin Jackson, Robert hunt Leam Eikenberg, a third rounder in twenty nineteen, a first rounder and second rounder, and another second round

have all shown flashes and accruede valuable experience. Starting with or I should say with starts scattered across that quartet, and head coach Mike McDaniel expressed his excitement for the group and the physical talents offered by the many highly drafted members of this unit, as he went very in depth.

We're gonna play a long answer for you here from him on a press conference from May sevent taught seventeenth Geez Travis talking about coaching that particular position and how it is the toughest to kind of get aligned with the system, but how he's very excited about both the personnel and the staff that he has to get this

group ready to play. Because you'll hear in this diet tribe some stuff that he's hit on a few times in various press conferences, talking about athletic ability and the way these guys work, and how if you can get those two things up to snuff with an offensive coaching staff beyond Matt Applebaum and himself, with Frank Smith and with John Embrey involved and Eric Studisville across the offensive

group there. I mean, you've got guys that have tons of experience in the run game coordination and offensive line play, running the football, and I think it's going to have a big impact on these guys who again we'll touch on this here in just one second that really excel in the athletic department. In fact, let's go ahead and play coach McDaniel's audio because he talks about it in

terms that I just can't replicate. Here's Coach McDaniel. The most drastic disparity from you know, whatever you'd call quote traditional. You enter it when you're coaching players. You're very aware of their past coaching. You make yourself aware of that so that you can best articulate, Hey, this is like

this or this is not like this. The biggest disparity from a traditional standpoint is the offensive line, without a doubt, UM that and and it and it is a full scale commitment to UM certain principles and ownership of fundamentals that we ask them to do in a major in UH and So as far as the off season program is concerned, it's it's almost built for our offensive alignement in terms of how to approach things, because you need about two weeks of you know, an hour and half

or hour and forty five minute meetings, which is what Phase one allows you to digest. Hey, we're asking you to UM, run off the ball. We're asking you to have these landmarks. We're asking you not to hesitate UM.

And then phase two you can kind of drill it UM that I think in terms of uh, you know, Johnny don't know his name coming on the team and then all of a sudden being thrown into the mix, I think that it's the hardest position UM because we are so committed UM to to our fundamentals and technique and UM you know offensive alignement or like uh oh or like officials it's ay where like you're not talking about them and that's a good thing, and they have

scars from when they are talked about. So to get them to just let go and let all that stuff UM, let the past be the past and move forward. Is is the most deliberate and intentional thing that as a coaching staff we have to do. UM. One of the reasons that kind of shaped my whole vision for UM

hiring a coaching staff. I wanted to make sure that the guys that were touching those players, we would be able to see the results of the of the scheme and people really UM dive in and invest understand where they're coming from. Some of the stuff that they have in their past and let that go and move forward. UM. And I feel very very comfortable and confident and happy with what UM. You know, start with Matt Applebaum and um and and and Lamb has been doing an outstanding

job understanding everything that we're trying to do. Mike person and then uh Frank Smith obviously the offensive coordinator. So it's it's exciting too because you, UM, you get to see guys at that position. UM. I feel like we're kind of it's liberating to a degree because they're uh, listen the guys that UM. If I were to tell you that UM on this team and this is my

seventh team. UM been in a lot of different places, but this is the uh as athletic and capable of any group that might you might be like, huh are you great? UM? But they they really are, and they're hungry and committed, and it's been really really UM rewarding to watch them works, see the benefits. And then more than that, UM, you know what's gonna happen with your first adversity because this just in offensive linemen have adversity,

They live in adversity. UM, and they how are they going to respond to a run play where they're short and their aiming point and Christian makes you pay in the backfield or um uh sailor or whoever um and and that's the fun part of this part of the year is you get to h focus on them and not not an opponent. I just find that answer. So, I mean, obviously very instructive, but so interesting for a

few reasons. Because talking about the physical talents of this group, and obviously when you put high draft picks into guys, they typically tend to excel with the athletic ability and

obviously some fundamentals and technique and that stuff too. But when you get these guys that are, you know, the elite of their class in terms of the testing metrics, in the build it to move and all that that stuff that pairs together that ultimately is what you're trying to harness and get production out of as a coach.

This group has that in spades. I think you hear that excitement from coach McDaniels discussion they're talking about the offensive line and you go back to the ground game with the forty nine ers that he was the run game coordinator of before being the o C. It favored athletic ability, the ability to operate in space, and you talk about the additions made this offseason, like to Hron Armstead doesn't just give the Dolphins, you know, a three

time Pro bowler, it also injects the fastest forty time ever recorded by an offensive lineman into the Dolphins front five. And so you're gonna hear Chris Career right here on March talk about how excited to Ron Armstead was to join the scheme. Here is the Dolphins GM. You know, Mike has assembled a really good staff and it's very heavy offensive line coach, you know, coaches. I think he's done, um, a great job in terms of communicating that vision for

what he wants. And so I think for us, you know, we feel good about the young players we have, as does Mike and the staff talk about them. You know, um, they understand they need to play better and and can get better. But I think the scheme also very friendly for offensive lineman and I think Toronto had mentioned that as press conference and wanted to play in the scheme.

And Connor Williams is another one that we felt excited about because that we think he's a very good run player and it's also he's very athletic and can pass rock luck and I think um like anything, they all keep working and proving it better and and so we're

very excited about the group overall. And just a further touch on that idea of athletic ability, and you know, want something I reference on the podcast here all the time is the r AS the Relative Athletics Scorecard, which comprehensively measures each player's pre draft workout, whether it's a the scouting Combine or the individuals Pro Day, and the additions of Armstead and Williams gives Miami four lineman with scores that measured in the five percent tilent or better

among all time offensive lineman going back to seven is when Kent Lee plasts are attracting the stuff. But to Ron arms And out of ten was a nine five eight, Austin Jackson was a nine four five, Cornor Williams was a nine one five, and Liam Eichenberg and eight five three just with recent Dolphins editions their draft picks or

free agency. But next Gen stats would put Robert Hunt in that category as well because he didn't have workouts in his pre draft run up, but he had a high speed per next gen of nine team miles per That's that's not far off from the twenty three mph that Raheem Mostart hit to lead the NFL a couple

of years ago. But again no no pre draft workouts, no r s. But Michael Dieter had a seven three five Laarnel Coleman at eight five eight, and then finling this year, the two U d f as the Dolphins had were number one and number two in Missioner's offensive line class at rs Blaze Andrews from Minnesota with nearly a perfect nine eight one the best on the team and second best on the team is Kelln Dish from

Arizona State nine seven five. So, in simpler terms, the Dolphins offensive line is incredibly talented with plenty of natural talent. Let's go ahead and finish up this first set it here by hearing audio from coach Matt Applebaum, who talked about the group he inherits here in a press conference or a meet with the media back in the month of May. I was encouraged. I mean, um, I see, I see negative plays like everyone else does, but I see a lot of positive plays too, and I like

to focus on the positive. And then when you just focus in on one guy or another guy, and you ignore what's happening with the play or where in the game that play is occurring, and you're just studying what that guy is doing. You see a lot of skill sets, and then when you get to know these guys on a more insident basis, you're like, Wow, these are really good dudes. They're hard working on top of their talent,

and they want to be good. And I mean, I'm really encouraged up to this point, but I was coach talking about what he saw on tape after getting the job in the alignment he inherited talking about seeing the positive and trying to harness that and get the most out of that going forward. All right, let's go ahead and take our first break. We'll come back and talk about the entire cast, a deep Dolphins offensive line group plans to cover here on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast.

Your host, Travis Wingfield. We are brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on this post holiday edition of the Drive Time Podcast. I am still coming to you from Central Washington. Our summer break extends here right into the month of July, but we are just three weeks away a little more than three weeks from the start of training camp, will get a chance to look at this new made Dolphins offensive line, which again is the group that has, besides tight ends, the least amount of

turnover and change in two on the offense. And we start here with one of the big changes in order of jersey number number fifty eight, Connor Williams. And whether it's the film, the counting stats, or the advanced metrics, they really all kind of lend themselves to the same story. For Connor Williams. He's tough, he's productive, and he's reliable. Point five pass block efficiency score ranked third best among

all qualifying guards. Last year. He allowed just thirteen quarterback pressures that was second fist among all guards left or right with at least two hundred past blocking snaps. And we're using guards because that's where he played in one but this guy can play any position on the offensive line. Going back to his days at Texas with the Cowboys the last two years, he played two thousand, one hundred

and seventy five snaps. That was each of the cowboys thirty four games, including the one playoff game last year, so eighteen last year sixteen. The year prior an average nine hundred and thirty point five snaps per season over four years with the Dallas Cowboys. Among guards who had at least two hundred run blocking snaps. Last year, Williams was tenth highest graded guard on Pro Football Focus. He was back and again talking about things that get repeat

run here on the podcast. In the off season. We talked a lot about Daniel Jeremiah's comment during the pre combine conference call when he talked about things to look for in a system like what the Niners have run with the Dolphins could run under Mike McDaniel is offensive lineman who are smart and can move, and that's Connor Williams to a t. He's very athletic, talking about the r S score earlier, and then also the fact that he was a three point five student of Texas and

actually got into the Texas Macombs School of Business, which from my understanding of my research, is a very difficult thing to do in a really exclusive group that you have to have a lot of good extracurriculars and good g p A to get into. So Connor Williams checks those boxes and he'll come out and compete his butt off and make this defense offensive line better. Number sixty one cole band were spent time the last year with the Titans, Giants, and Vikings. He arrived from one of

the country's premier offensive line factories at the University of Iowa. There, he was charged with just thirteen quarterback pressures over four years. That's on five hundred and seventy two pass blocking snaps, so very good college career. Has not yet played in

an NFL game. Number sixty three Michael Dieter talked about how well he scored on r A s, but his length at center I think really stands out because again, another one of these guys that played tackle, guard and center in college and now has played guard and center in the NFL actually played tackle a couple of games back in twenty nineteen two. I think that Cowboys game.

He played some left tackle in that game. But his length at center is that's the position where it really stands out because it helps him gain leverage and latch onto his man in space, and that's only going to help him in pass protection as well, which last year he was tagged with just ten quarterback pressures on three hundred and thirty five pass blogging snaps, and I thought we saw consistent growth and progress out of Michael Dieter

a year ago, number sixty four kelln diash. The aforementioned athletic ability is it's immediately evident when you turn on the tape, and it's not just the fact that he fires off the ball and can unlock his hips and climbed to the second level in the blink of an eye or get wide. He was the highest graded Pack twelve offensive line between one due to the fact that his tape was good as numbers were good. I mean Pro Football Focus had him with twelve pressures his career

on five hundred and career pass blocking snaps. That does say point seven pass block efficiency rate. That was the same pbe pass block efficiency rate that d scored in one season, which was an accomplishment only fifteen tackles in all of college football with what was the two hundred something teams only fifteen tackles achieved that metric a season ago. But turn the tape on, man, he's getting into space.

He's like swatting down these these uh polished pass rush moves and getting the hands off of him and burying guys and not just anybody like Cavon Thibodeaux, Bradley and I at Utah a couple of years ago. Just a really good college career for dish number sixty five, Robert Jones. Do you want to talk about an ideal base with powerful just striking ability. This guy is so wide and has such powerful hands that it just pairs up well with the fact that he bends at the knees and

can stay square in front of his guy. It's it's really impressive to watch just the physical prowess of Robert Jones, and he displayed these skills sparingly in limited playing time as a rookie. Is the d f A. He got his first start last year in Week eighteen, and he played twice seven pass blocking snaps and allowed just two pressures in those twenty seven pass blocking snaps, and I thought he impressed along the way in the preseason and in the spot duty in the regular season before that

first start. Curiously about Robert Jones here and your number two, number sixty six. Solomon Kinley started fifteen games as a rookie back in twenty but saw spot duty last year to the tune of eighty six pass blocking snaps and on those eighties six reps. Killey was charged with just six QB hurries without a sack or quarterback hits, so he kept this QB upright during his time in number sixty eight. Robert Hunt perhaps the incumbent I'm most excited

to see in this new Dolphins offense. He talked a little bit about playing under Billy Napier in college and an offense that really emphasized athletic ability, the movement skills, all of that, and if you can recall Big Rob's tape back at U L, it was straight up comical and the best way possible, Like I clipped a few of them off. If you want to search at Wingfield, NFL Robert Hunt, go to the videos tab on Twitter.

There was this opening drive of a game and I forget the opponent and you can like and you'll find it when you go back where he just did every single thing that like you want to see pop on tape.

For alignment, like driving guys out of the play, you know, hitting those duo Blocksbury climbs the second level and squares a guy up and punches and puts him on the ground, get into a vertical set and pass protection and just basically wiping out the edge of any potential threat on the quarterback, and as a pro, I love the way he improved both those first two years. He was one of the game's best right tackles in terms of pressure rate and grade over the final six games. Then the

same thing happened at right guard last year. Shut out after shutout in the past protection uh stats and he showed a real aptitude for both you know, speed and one gap type of rushers, but also guys that try to hit him with power, Like he really refined his game.

I thought in a way that could spill over into a third year where that late season production maybe gets started a little bit earlier and just really picks it up and hits the ground running, because the way the way he plays is just I think a really good fit for the system and a fun stat on him was over those last six games last year just three quarterback pressures allowed and no quarterback hits in that time.

He really found his rhythm late in the season. Number seventy one and Blaze Andrey's position versatility, even playing multiple positions within some games last year for the Gophers. His ability to climb to the second level really stands out on tape and obviously a knowledge of the game to

play all those spots. Just five sacks allowed in career pass blocking snaps at Minnesota for Andrew's and also had a chance to talk with him about SKA you moth the Minnesota Gophers rally cry or is that what it's called the war cry over there, and he explained what all that means to me, and it was really insightful, really fun talking about the p. J. Fleck era and how they have kind of injected, you know, some enthusiasm and production and victories into that program there under Fleck

and under Blaze. Andrew's number seventy two to Ron Armstead. His impact on the Dolphins offensive line figures to extend beyond his on field production, which should really excite all fans of the Dolphins. I wrote, fans of the Finned. That's something I'm trying to get catch to catch on, remember the movie Major League, Uh, fans of the Feathered, he called him fans of the finn Just kind of my play on that. But we'll see if it catches on.

Probably not, but he has one of He's been one of the game's best left tackles for a decade into addition to his constant mentorship, like go look up his name on Twitter and just type the videos. He's all over offensive line masterminds, just spreading the knowledge to the younger folks in the game, and he really knows how

to communicate it very very well. But he also comes with three Pro Bowls to his name, a three point seven percent pressure rate since coming into the league back in and a zero point six percent sack rate, both of those ranked best among all NFL tackles during that span. This dude is really really good. I mean coaching guys

up on the on the clinic videos. You see it in practice two so far back in o t a s the PhD level understanding of the position to pick up dunce, to come across the formation, to get a green dog blitzer and wipe that guy out. Just total knowledge of the protection scheme and the ability to help weaknesses or vulnerabilities because of his knowledge within that system.

Like there are players where you see him just the entire protection or offensive line should say slides away and he stuck on an island with some of the game's most premier pass rushers handling two way goes inside outside, redirecting he's bruising a hell on the running game, despite the fact that he plays faster than just about anybody in the league at that position. His past sets, his landmarks, his patients. The typewriter feat to redirect and change directions.

I can't say enough great things about Toron often. He is a tremendous football player. Let's go ahead and take our last break here and come back and finish up with the rest of the Dolphins offensive line, and I'll tell you a funny story on the airplane on the trip over here that next here on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield. We are brought to you by

Auto Nation. Picking it back up here in the third segment of this offensive line preview edition of the Drive Time Podcast, found a way to get up to a half an hour again. Here, we're gonna go ahead and keep this thing rolling with number seventy three, Austin Jackson. And the first thing I wrote down is how much I love his press conferences because the way he can

articulate the way he sees the game. I asked him once earlier this offseason about playing both tackle and guard and how that can help widen his perspective and widen his lens. He had a great answer about that. Very studious, athletic as hell. He's hungry as hell, plays the game chippy with the right kind of attitude. I just think about Austin Jackson a lot when I think about the things that coach McDaniel has said about the hunger and the approach to the game he talks about with this

offensive line. Him and him and Liam Eichenberger two guys that really stand out to me in the way they approached the game with how McDaniel talks about that, And I'm excited to see what he looks like here and your number three in this system, because at his best, he's a punishing athlete that can play multiple spots. And last year, upon moving inside to guard, he appeared in ESPN's top ten run blocking win right on three occasions.

Only eight pressures allowed over the final six games for Austin Jackson as well, so improvement was there at that

guard position. He showed some flashes of tackle in his career as well, and I think that, again, the system that can benefit a guy like this, and I think that his run game tape last year was actually pretty good A lot of the time, like I don't think that he got that type of pub and that vibe from uh, you know what you might see on social media, but when you go and watch every game on tape, like there are lanes he's clearing out. He's hitting some

good combo blocks, some good second level blocks too. So I think we can see I hope to see some more of that here from Austin Jackson. Two number seventy four. Liam Eichenberg. Just the way that he wins with technique pops off the tape all the time. His kickslide solid, his hands are good, the punch, the way he kind of plays, you know, hips above the knees, knees above the feet, shoulders above the hips, all that staying in line. Those things popped off on tape at nore Dame and

I talked about, you know, Austin Jackson's approach. You see it with Leam Eichenberg too focused and hungry, and he allowed just one quarterback hit in the last seven games of last season. Hopefully he can have a similar trajectory to what he didn't nore Dame when he had a couple of sacks credited to his name in freshman season and then never allowed a sack again in college number

seventy five. Greg Little. I have referenced on here many times the great presser from when he was in San Francisco when coach McDaniel detailed the construction of that Niner's offensive line and how ideally if he could engineer alignment, they'd all be seven ft tall, four hundred pounds and no one is that but Little, and ironically with the name, is a massive body. He's got exceptional length and he's quick off the football, which we've heard that phrase a

lot too so far this offseason. You see it in the kickslide, which also happens to cover a ton of ground. His testing times out of the combine didn't jump off the page, but man, the on field movement spells some

really good athletic ability. He's a knee bender, he has quick feet, a strong, fast punch, and if you go back to Lance Zerlines nfl dot com report on him when he was drafted back in twenty nineteen, he wrote a about the athletic traits to stand out when watching him on tape, and of course the benefits of having some good competition in a position room is typically it spells quality depth for the year, and Greg Little also excited to get a chance to watch him compete in

training camp. A couple more guys here, number seventy six. Keyon Smith at the risk of stallion like a broken record. He's just another guy with really good athletic ability. The nfl dot Com report on him said good knee bender, wide base, and those are great places to start for an offensive lineman. It helps you stay square. A fun fact on him is he didn't allow a sack in his final year of college ball at Fayetteville State. Number

seventy eight. Adam Panky played in some extra offensive line packages the Cup last couple of years, jumbo packages, heavy packages. He gets good pushing those roles and helps wipe out the edge for some of those goal line touchdown runs you've seen. And in the run game as a true tackle, I mean he's he's been pretty good in that role. He didn't play last year, but six quarterback pressures on a eight pass blocking snaps back in twenty I should

say some good numbers. We finished up here with number seventy nine Larnel Coleman. Again, can't we see how guy looks at your number two? Because he's a superb athlete with tremendous length. Was a high school basketball stand down. He talked about that and his ability to play great defense and basketball and how that compares to pass pro because the quarterback is the hoop and you gotta stay between your man and the hoop. Right. He had exceptional

vertical and broad jumps. There's the basketball influence thirty one vert nine oh five and the broad to help out that eight five eight raths score. And he does that with thirty five and a half inch arms in an eight four inch a four and seven eight inch wingspan. I'm excited for the coaching to have to get their hands on him because that's the ball of clay you want to work with. So that is your Dolphins offensive

line group. Let's go ahead and finish up here with one quick story before I got out of here, talking about air travel, and one thing I told my wife on the flight down here was people forgot how to fly because we were lining up for the for the plane or they were starting to line up like thirty minutes before boarding, and the line was it was substantial, it was huge. They had to actually get on the speakers and say like, hey, let's go sit down until

your boarding group is called. We don't want to clog this hallway up. But no one listens to that. And so you know, coming back to the Pacific Northwest has been nice. I really do miss South Florida, and primarily right now because our internet connection has not been great out here and I want my my good, solid, high speed internet back. But back to the flight. F l

L two C tech. They did a seat change the night before and moved me away from my wife and daughter and the one boon to flying with a two year old. As you get the whole road to take over, right, and this is real thirties, so I think we're five rows from the back of the plane. My my new seat is row. Both our window seats thirty A and five F. That's that makes the whole sense, right, A

is one F is six. We get onto the plane before the potential trade partner emerges, We're gonna ask you ot to switch seats because why wouldn't he want to change, and obviously I want to change. But he comes back and says, hey, you're in my seat. Yeah, that's correct, man. And now at this point I make the ask, hey do you mind switching seats. This is my family. Uh, pretty easy swap, right. His first response was, no, I

really want the window. Oh okay, Well I got good news for you, because twenty five is a window seat. Oh well, you want me to carry my luggage all the way back up there? Five rows? Man, doesn't seem like it's that whole much. That's where the polite switch kind of you know, by default, I always have it on, but that's where it flipped off. And I simply asked, I can carry the five steps that helps you, man, that this would be really helpful to me if you

don't mind. And this shot across the bow rendered him speechless. So let's make another point. You can see with my family if you want, I'll go ahead and go up there. And this was the point where he accepted the trade and took and he muttered a few f words at me as he walked away. And here's where I know I'm not wrong. If I get into a conflict like that, my wife will typically tell me where my behavior was off. But she said that I was no way in the wrong,

So I felt pretty good about that. Was that a common thing refusing to change seats in order to sit next to a toddler. I was very taken back by that, Like, hey, if you want to sit by her for six hours, have fun. She unbuckled and buckler seat belt probably six hundred times. That's fun to watch. We didn't sleep at all. And mind you, it's a six o'clock Eastern flight and Caroline's bedtime is top quickly eight o'clock. So a delirious toddler finding her to fighting to keep her wits about her.

I was pretty blown away by that. So change seats with someone that has a kid and wants to be with their families. That seems like a given to me. All right, let's go ahead and wrap this podcast up. It's gonna be my time. We'll have the defensive Line later this week, and we'll get back into the divisional previews on the Linebacker Podcast next week. I do believe you all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast. Leave us a rating, leave us a review.

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