Training Camp Preview 2021 Off Ball Linebackers

your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, presented by Auto Nation, day eight of training camp previews, we are on to the off ball linebackers Jerome Baker, e Landon, Roberts but Nardrick McKenney, Duke Riley, Sam Aguavin, Calvin Munson, and Kyle and Johnson, as well as the coach of the unit, Anthony Campanelli. They all go under the microscope today. Plus we'll talk about the theme of the week with not just versatility, but balance and yet

another position group on this roster. We're gonna give you the stats, the facts, intriguing nuggets, and finish up with a bonus as we get into the specialists on the roster. And finally, we're also gonna tell you some details of the Dolphins new training facility, which had its ribbon cutting on Tuesday. All of that and a heck of a lot more here on this edition of the Drive Time podcast.

And we had the grand opening of the new facility out in Miami Gardens, just adjacent to hard Rock Stadium, and what an absolute gem, what a beauty she is out there. Let's go ahead and talk about some of the facts from this new facility. Before you do that, though, head over to the Miami Dolphins Twitter handle, Instagram, Facebook, whatever it might be, and check out the video that showed you a great little montage or a clip of the different traits and characteristics of the facility, and also

a great photo thread up on Twitter as well. And here's some facts on the building. The Auto Torium holds a hundred and seventy six people, The Offense and Defensive room respectively holds sixty four people. The shaded spect spectator seating for training, camp practices two hundred, burn seating has up to eight hundred, and the dining room sits a hundred and fifty eight people. There are three fields outdoor

grass outside synthetic turf. Inside, there's parking for two hundred and twenty staff, fifteen visitors, twenty three management, twenty spots for spectator, A, d A, all kinds of sprawling numbers for taking on staff guests, all the fun stuff you want there at the facility. There are two hundred and

nine televisions in the facility. There are four hundred twenty seven inch monitors, seven miles of Ethernet cabling and audio cable, as well nine two speakers that will provide for some great music and training camp practice during stretching in individual periods. Fifteen thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight different flowers and shrubs, sixteen different species. You come here for your flower and

shrub species talk on this podcast. Two d ten palm trees, nine different species of those, A hundred twenty eight trees

and eight different species of those. There are two plunge pools for hydrotherapy, one hot and one cold, a hydro works pool, a lap pool, a slide, physical therapy room, indoor sauna, indoor steam room, cryotherapy rooms, and of course we have all the amenities for the players and for the staff coming in the lobby players round, there's a barbershop, dart games, lounge, areas, dining hall, auditorium, and the content studio where your boy's gonna spend a lot of his time.

Air conditioning dedicated FP and l value to feed the training camp facility and the number of toilets. I know what, y'all came here for one hundred and eighty three toilets inside that building. It is an absolute palace. Again, if you haven't seen the thread on Twitter of the video or the photos, go check that out. It is a really magnificent piece of architecture and the building is glorious.

Big ups to Mr Ross and Mr Garfinkel forgetting that thing put together, this project complete ahead of the season a actually when a lot of the construction occurred during the pandemic. A great job by the Miami Dolphins organization to get that done, to give us our new home, and I can't wait to start there here coming up very very shortly ahead of training camp next week. All right, we're gonna get into the positional preview here at number eight on the Drivetime podcast. Go back and check out

all the previous episodes. Listen to them twice. Do us a favorit, get us more downloads, help us out in that way. We're talking about the linebackers today, in particular off ball linebackers. We covered the edge position on Wednesday's podcast, and that kind of takes into account some linebackers as well, like Jyalen Phillips, for instance, a linebacker on the Dolphins roster.

We're talking about guys who primarily lineup off the football on this podcast and in Getting Ready for this pod and and the piece up on Miami Dolphins dot Com as well the coinciding linebacker preview. You know, I was looking at the makeup of this position and it kind of got me thinking about the makeup of the rest of the roster. And I recently heard a quote and I heard it from the Bootleg Football podcast with E. J. Snyder and Brett Coleman, who referenced a Saban quote, and

I went and found it on Google. You just happened in Google. You can find it in plenty of articles. But Nick Saban once said that boxing has weight classes for a reason because over the course of a fight or a game in the instance of football, the heavier guys going to lean on the lighter guy and it's

gonna wear that lighter guy down. And I was looking at the weights of some of these players that Dolphins have on this roster, and man, certain positions just have guys that are much bigger than the average at those positions like on the offensive line with d J. Fluker at three fifty Germaine Illuminois at three forty five, Solomon Kiley three thirty six, Austin Jackson five with Robert Hunt three twenty seven. I mean, these guys are big, even in a position full of big guys. Then you look

at the ends and tackles. We talked about the last couple of podcasts here with Seiler and Wilkins and Ledbetter and Strowbridge among others, pushing to seventy pounds and above for guys like Wilkins and Seiler there. Then you get to the linebackers and you see e. Robbie Land and Roberts two and forty five pounds. Then you've got bernardick mckin the two fifty seven. All these teams in the NFL today are kind of going towards the small and fast model, and why Miami does have a lot of

electricity and speed on this football team. They've put together a nice blend of the two with the size and the speed, but also the big thumpers that can help you win those physical, slug it out type of games, especially once you might get down here in Miami in September and October and that hot, hot heat. But as for the balance on body type, it's no more evident here than at this position with the off ball linebackers McKinney and Baker mixed together like spaghetti and meatballs, peanut

butter and jelly, lamb and tuna fish. However you want to put those comparisons together, and when you want to mug up the A gaps, which what that means when you hear that phraseology is the A gaps are either gap on either side of the center on the offensive line, and when you mug them up, that means you bring your linebackers up into those gaps on the football. And we saw plenty of that last year obviously with your own Baker and all the sacks that he produced rushing

inside at that position. And that's just a lot to deal with you have now when you add but nargerik McKinney to that mix, especially when you can PLoP I don't know Adam Butler and his explosive self and at the get off he has in that position Christian Wilkins, who can just knock bodies around but also win with penetration or a Zach Steeler, who is as long as they come as far as defensive tackles go, and speaking of length and power at defensive tackle pound, ray Kwon

Davis has a word to say there as well. I just keep looking at these fronts with the myriad of options and combinations of players they have, and I think you have a true a gap pressure type of roster that the threats you have at that position can rival pretty much any team across the league with what the Dolphins have done this offseason last offseason, to go ahead and round out the central of your football team, the core,

building that thing up the middle. Brian Flores has talked about this before about building up the communicators, the guys that are signal callers, your safety, your linebacker, your center, your quarterback obviously, and kind of building up the strength

of the middle of the football team. We've seen that take place the last couple of years and kind of come to fruition here with Bernardrick McKinney as the addition this offseason in the trade with Shack Lawson from the Houston Texans, and both McKinney and Baker have been guys that have played you know, they're one thousand snaptakers. That's kind of the baseline average for how many snaps a

player takes in a given season. Now, with an extra game, I guess you call it one thousand sixty because the average snaps per games right around sixty two and a half, give or take per game. And you know these guys are capable of playing all three phases of run defense,

pass rush, and drop into coverage. Then you've got a guy like Duke Riley who can keep you flexible on all your sub packages because he can act as that coverage linebacker but can come down to the box and help you stay flexible in late game situations in terms of playing back in coverage or down in the box when the offense goes hurry up and they want to

change things up on you. Having a player like a Duke Riley who can do a little bit of both really helps you stay flexible when you cannot substitute when the opposition is in no huddle offense. And that's being Sam Aguabin's game, going back to the cf L and college at Texas Tech as well past game disruptors to give Miami great depth in those sub packages as well as a terrific special teamer in Sam Oguabin, but guys that can disrupt the passing game, both in coverage and

as blitzers. Then you've got Calvin Munson, who again more back to that balance. He's coming to the lineup a few times and a pinch over the last couple of seasons and served as kind of a banger in between the tackles. He came off the bench last year for Eland and Roberts a couple of times when he was

banged up in game. And then you've got kyl and Johnson looking to further develop his game and not to mention the rob once again, who does a lot of that in terms of the big physicality in the middle. The leadership role he's taken on his players really gravitate towards his guidance. More on that here and just one second.

But this position group really just teams well, I think with what you have in the front seven in general, with those down linemen, because it's all really so fungible, and it allows Flores and Bowyer to get deep into their playbook and keep the whole playbook open, and I think any coach will want to be able to say that they had apt the scheme to fit the players they have on the roster, and that's great, you have

to have that. But when you start dropping players into the organization that really excel at what you want to ideally do, that's when you begin to really cook with gas, because then you can get the most out of the best system you have. And I think this position group has seen that transformation over the last two years really

as much as any group on the field. With McKinney, with Robert, you get Duke Riley in here talking about the guys off the edge with Jalen Phillips, as well as Andrew Van Ginkel Brand Scarlett coming over this offseason. You continue to see this roster kind of fit the mold and the vision of coach Flora's and coach Boyer

and Chris Career up in the GM's office. All Right, So the article up on Miami Dolphins dot Com taking a look at the off ball linebackers personnel changes on this particular episode or this particular position group, I should say, Bernardick, McKinney, Duke Riley in commu gruge a hill out to the Houston Texans. Riley comes over from the Eagles, McKinney comes

over from the Texans as well. And we've talked about the coaching staff and how so many of the coaches on coach floor as a staff have experienced on either side of the ball in multiple roles, some guys in the capacity of personnel or doing work within the front office or something of that capacity, and then their on field work as a coach as well. And for coach Campanelli,

the story is the exact same. He began his career in the high school ranks, where he was once a defensive coordinator and then flipped over to the offensive side of the football a legendary Don Bosco Prep in New Jersey, before he made the jump in town there or in local area to the collegiate ranks at Rutgers, where he was a defensive assistant, a tight ends coach, a wide receiver's coach, before taking his role as the defensive backs

coach at Boston College. So pretty much every position group he's been around, and then he was later promoted to core co defensive coordinator at Boston College that he then took the linebacker's job with the Dolphins after a year in the same position at the University of Michigan. He brings energy in a very passionate voice to the position,

to the coaching staff, and to the organization. I think where you saw that best was during the Senior Bowl practices when they miked up coach during some of the linebacker drills where he was stacking, shedding and getting clean with those guys, and they were really kind of really bringing the juice on that drill, and you could hear the bag getting popped by the guys slapping with their hands and just working hard and getting and getting some sweat equity out there on the field. Fun to watch

him do his job the group in a glance. We kind of covered that already, but let's go ahead and go through this here real quick. And again, these are guys that aligned primarily off the line of scrimmage. Jerome Baker was a menace in that role for opposing quarterbacks last year. He finished second in the NFL among all off ball linebackers with seven sacks. Devin White and Tampa Bay had nine, and McKinney, a pro bowler back in team. He is no stranger either to really accelerating the urgency

of the opposing offense. His quick first step behind that two d and fifty seven pound frame puts the middle of the offensive line in decision time and conflict mode, our favorite word on the podcast here, right, conflict. You have to decide it's gonna beat me with speed or do I have to really drop the anchor and prepare myself for a run up of two hundred and fifty seven pounds coming at me. And he helped that Texans defense collapse collapse the interior of pockets for years while J. J.

Watt went to work on the outside. A great combination there. Hopefully he can replicate some of that here in Miami and give Miami some more well rounded pass rush that they get from that position as well. He landed Roberts was really performing at a consistently high level when he went down for that season ending injury in Las Vegas

right around week four. So it seems like he just kind of showed up and began making one or two of those big plays in the backfield every single week where number you know, big number fifty two's closing down and I guess he was forty four last year, but big number fifty two comes down the pike and just blows up the running back right at the mesh point seemed to happen every single week from like the Seahawks game on last season. He also on a per game basis,

had career highs and tackles, sex and TFLs. We talked about Duke Riley. He was also a special teams captain in each of his previous two stops with the foul Plkins and the Eagles, and when he was in Philly, he arrived mid season via a trade and he earned captain ship. That's not a word. He earned a captain's patch in Philadelphia after arriving mid season. That tells you about his leadership and the work he puts in in regards to how to be a professional and how to

work the right way. He also offers a great deal of coverage specialty and a field for cowboage and finding those spots on his spot drops or finding man and man coverage, whatever it might be. That's kind of his bag. Calvin Munson returns after playing all sixteen games last year after playing just two the year before with Miami, and he was primarily a special teamer in and then again kyl and Johnson back with his second year with the club as a U d F A for Miami last season.

He was on the practice squad the entire year. A little bit of a deeper dive on each individual. Calvin Munson starts us off because he has the lowest jersey number, number forty eight. Three seasons in the NFL out of San Diego State, twenty six years old, and he played the two hundred and sixty two total snaps last year, two fourteen of those coming on special teams. He made three tackles as part of Miami's coverage units and also

finished with nine total tackles on defense. When you watch him out there on run defense, man, he can bang between the B gaps, just kind of filling up either of those gaps and fit in the run and really laying the wood on the interior of the defense and the interior of the offensive line. You go to the next player on this list, Sam maguavin. Forty nine is his jersey number. Two seasons of experience in the National Football League by way of the CFL. He went to

Texas Tech. He'll be twenty eight years old on opening day, and you might recall him kind of popping off immediately in training camp in ten where he carved out a nice role for himself upon making the jump from the CFL, where he was an absolute phenom defending the past and blitzing the quarterback and playing special teams up there up North, he comes to South Florida and kind of takes on a similar role in terms of playing the past and

going after the quarterback, because you know, he's agile, he's active, He gets in the passing lanes, and he can certainly play downhill as a blitzer, but all whole work backwards and coverage. In twenty nineteen, he finished fourth on Pro Football Focus and quarterback pressures among off ball linebackers. He did blitz a lot, but he got home a lot with those twenty three pressures. Last year, his role really

shifted more towards special teams. He played two hundred and seventy five of his three hundred and fifty nine snaps on special teams, that unit that ranked number six in the NFL via Football Outsiders. He made three special teams tackles as well, and nine total tackles on defense, the same numbers there as Calvin Munson, but he also had a tackle for loss and a p BU on defense last season. We get to McKinney now number fifty on

your training camp guide here. He'll be entering his seventh season, so six years experience in the NFL out of Mississippi State, twenty eight years old on opening day, and man, you watch him direct traffic out there in the middle of the Texans defense on tape. You you kind of watched the the end zone angle of the All twenty two copy and you see a number fifty out there for Houston.

He's looking off to the side, he's picking up motion, he's signaling his hands to you know, hands and us to his defenders to kind of get guys a line in the right spot. He's triggering and keying and pulling the trigger before the balls even snapped as he anticipates what's happening. Because of the film study. I love love watching players with those anticipatory skill sets like McKinney has, and he basically was the center of that Texas defense

since he was dropped in there six years ago. He brings that run defending prowess, the penchant for those well time blitzes, and really unrivaled on field communication and prior to missing twelve games last season, and he has some nice tape on on tape before he went down in

Game number five. McKinney average nine snaps played over the previous four years combined, that's an average per season, and in those four seasons he was tied for fifth, he finished eight and tied for seventeenth and QB pressures, so typically among the top of the leaderboard and rushing the

quarterback from off ball linebacker position. He also finished inside the top twenty five among his positional contemporaries in total run stops in three of those four years, so again rushing the quarterback, defending the on he can do a little bit of it all, causing pile ups in the proverbial car crash in the running game. He's a tone

center man. He's thick, he's got a quick first step to put opposing quarterbacks under instant arrest, but also the interior of the offensive line as he fires the gun and gets in there on the running game. And you go to the tape or his workout numbers back at the NFL Combine team that really showcase the explosive nature of his game. He finished in the ninety three percentile among his class at linebacker in both vertical and broad jumps.

The lower half explosion. You kind of check that box there, speaking of big physical presences inside a land and Roberts number fifty two changed his jersey number this year from forty four five years NFL experience. He comes out of Houston and it's twenty seven years old an opening day

and again from weeks four through sixteen last year. I swear there was one or two plays a game where you saw Roberts just destroy a play for a three, four or five yard loss where he flies in there and the ball carrier is just swarmed by an aqua or white jersey before he can even make that first move out of the backfield. He is a football seeking

missile and just shot out of a cannon. Evident by his twenty five run stops in thirteen games played last year and a career best eight tackles for lost sixty one tackles one and a half sacks. Those were both on pace for his personal best without missed games played. He also matched his career high and forced fumbles with one on the season. Roberts was elected a team captain

last year. I thought Jerome Baker really detailed what Robert springs to the locker room, to the film room, to the classroom, to the practice field, and a press conference back on December twenty one where he said, e Rob he's been around long enough. You can just tell he's all about putting the work in when nobody's looking. He doesn't care who's around. He doesn't care if it's coaches, if it's players, whoever it is. He's just gonna put the work in and get better. Speaking of Jerome Baker,

he's up next. We go from fifty two to fifty five on the jersey number here in your program. He's got three years NFL experience out of Ohio State. He's still just twenty four years old. Does that kind of blow you away? Twenty four years old for Baker, who seems like he's been here forever. And the reason that seems ways because he never misses a damn snap or a game. He has not missed a game in his career.

A key cog in the middle of this Dolphins defense that finished tops and takeaways and third down defense a year ago. He's fast as I'll get out. He can cover backs, cover tight ends, play the flat, play the hook,

play the curl zone. He can rush the quarterback quite obviously, just an integral ingredient in Miami swarming defense and third down defense especially, and despite playing more snaps than any other Miami Dolphins, since he's got forty eight games played in three years, that's the maximum number he's tallied two thousand, one hundred and twenty two snaps on defense and special teams cumulatively over the last two seasons. That's a great

workload there. Thirty three quarterback pressures, eight and a half sacks, two hundred and thirty eight tackles, ten tackles for loss, a pick, and seven passes defense and four forced fumbles over the last two seasons. You ask yourself where that contract attention comes from production, work habits, ultimate team player Jerome Baker. You cannot say enough about number fifty five.

Well deserved contract extension for Jerome Baker. We finished up here with Kylan Johnson, number fifty nine in your programs. He has one year experience all on the practice squad. He came out of pit. He'll be twenty four years old opening day. He transferred from Florida where he played more of an off ball kind of coverage and run defense role with the Florida Gators, and he transfers to Pittsburgh for a grad transfer season, and he records six

and a half sacks. He had a half sack at Florida, so six and a half sacks in one season and a hundred and thirty two total tackles with eleven for loss. So he kind of lived in the backfield there in the A C. C back in twenty nineteen, and like a handful of his fellow Dolphins, he has that quick, explosive first step, kind of a calling card for his game. I'm excited to watch him develop here in year number two.

That's not the end of the podcast. We have another position group we're gonna get to here, since this was our shortest position to cover sands, the quarterbacks specialist, your special teamers. Now, the corresponding written piece won't be available up on Miami Dolphins dot com until I think next week sometime, So consider this an early sneak peek here on the Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by Automation. Subscribe, rate and review for us please that helps the podcast

get out to more Dolphins fans, and we appreciate them. Alright, So the specialist number one here, we're starting off with the long snapper. I just want to make a note here because long snapping is one of those things that I mean, I suppose people are capable of scouting it and doing it. I don't really know what that entails, but I do know that when you snap the football, if the holder has to really raise his hands up or drop his hands down, that's not a great snap,

not a perfect snap. Right. And so last year the Dolphins didn't have any failed exchanges on punt on p A T on field goals. They were really good in that regard, and I placed a lot of that credit on Blake Ferguson in addition to the holder and the kicking operation just a really solid battery a year ago. The high field goal percentage, no blocked kicks all year long, and no miss p A T s. How valuable is

that all of those for a special team's unit. Danny Crossman got his promotion to assistant head coach, And there was a great moment on the podcast last year during the Mike Leets or Mike Cleats My Cause with the NFL Foundation there and we had Sammguavin and Blake Ferguson on the podcast talking about their cleats and Sam's cause with the Epilepsy Foundation and Blake with j d r F the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation. Just really good stuff from

both those guys. And we talked to them about Danny Crossman, and you know, you can kind of hear Coach Crossman get folkal out there sometimes. He's a passionate coach. And I asked him when was the last time you got a ear full from Coach Crossman? And Sam said about a half hour ago in the practice field. And then I told Blake the same thing and he said, what did Sam say? I said, thirty minutes ago? He said about forty five minutes ago. Then I heard from coach

Crossman on the practice field. He gets his guys going, and you can see that really the passion to coach has when he talks about his field goal kicker and Jason Sanders talking about his approach the way he does at the mental makeup really cool to hear him talk about his place kicker. And you know there's an emphasis on this football team on guys that are not just good in these spots, but guys that are willing to be out there, starters who were willing to go play

special teams reps. Because it's kind of a dirty job, like you have to fly down that, you've gotta hit guys, you gotta take on blocks. It's not glamorous, but it's very necessary for a football team to have that, and the Dolphins do so well in that arena, big thanks to coach Croftsman as well as coach Flora's who really got his start and special teams as a coach, so

he really really values that side of the football. But I think that that focus and that philosophy of no detail too small is a big reason why Miami has really taken that big leap and special team performance the last couple of years and really really been well, just well disciplined and well coached and performed well on that side of the football. And then my last note here before we get into the actual personnel is some of the strategy you see with this team. I mean, they

convert some fake punts at times. They've got the pump blocks from Andrew Vankinkle based on a site adjustment pre snap where you see guys moving and you see the gunner or the jam or out, why kind of flip inside and the someone go from the middle of the formation out. Why that's a check. They have at the line. It turned into a pump block in that Chargers game a quick seven points as it puts the ball on the on the plus one yard line of the Chargers. Well,

that strategy works in all facets of the game. Of course, we've seen all the tricker ration to the last two years from coach Crossman. But how about on kickoff when they do a pooch down around the goal line and force a return to get you know, returned on to

the fourteen or fifteen yard line. The Dolphins were near the top of the league in terms of kick return average last season and the start position of kickoffs now the majority you're still gonna be touchbacks, but every once in a while you can pin that team, you know, at the fifteen yard line. Ten yards is a big deal. It's a big position to flip there in terms of

field position. The Dolphins play the numbers. They take advantage what is presented to them and make the according calls and checks, not just on offense and defense, but special teams as well. The additions this offseason, it's punter for punter Michael Pollardy in from Carolina. Matt Hawk goes up to the Buffalo Bills and we talked about Coach Crossman

the number six ranked special teams. You know on Football Outsiders, they have a first team All Pro and kicker Jason Sanders, as well as a second team All Pro in return specialists. Achem grants last receiver for him, but for Crossman's effort

his two years in Miami, he gets that promotion. And he spoke about the duties that come with that promotion this offseason, saying that he and coach Flora's have a very similar philosophical belief on a lot of things, some of the things that have been going on for a couple of years during the season and on game day, and then there are some things we've added. And he concludes that quote by saying, I'm just very fortunate to be in an organization where top down, I feel like

we see things very similar. End quote there. For Coach Crossman his group. At a glance again, the kicking operations on point Jason Sanders. You look at the Dolphins kicking record book, it's pretty much Jason Sanders and Alunda Mari up and down that thing, as well as Pete Stoyanovich. And of course we have the loan change at the position group this offseason. We start here with Michael Pollardi number five, has seven years NFL experience out of Tennessee,

twenty nine years old opening Day, another lefty punter. He missed last season after playing the previous four with Carolina. Fifty five career games played three forty two points for a net of over eleven thousand yards. It's a forty point three net hunting average. His forty six yards per punt in twenty nineteen was tied for thirteen in NFL that season. Jason Sanders number seven, he has three years

NFL experience out of New Mexico. He'll be twenty five years old opening Day, and he got that contract extension this offseason. Thirty six successful field goals last year on thirty nine attempts. That ninety two point three percentage was the best single season rate in club history. He made twenty two consecutive kicks going back to twenty nineteen through

the Charger game. Last year. We had his first miss of the season in week number ten, but thirty six made field goals was the second most in team history, also second most in the NFL. Last year, his one hundred and forty four points scored tied the Dolphins all time mark last season. He also converted twenty field goals of forty or more yards that led the league, and finally it was perfect on p t s thirty six

of thirty six. He also made a pair of game winning kicks inwenty A fifty yard kick in the final minute proved to be the difference in Miami's thrilling thirty one win in our Zona, and that forty four yard boot with one second on the clock in the dramatics in Las Vegas gave Miami their tenth victory of the season in Week sixteen last year. And that dependability really earned Jason Sanders a five year contract extension with the club.

And what a weapon this guy is. Because you get yourself on the plus side of the field, you start thinking like, we're pretty close to being in range for three points here. Because Sanders, he's not just accurate for men short. He can make him from deep about you know, you watch him kicking practice sixty yards. He's putting that thing through the uprights. He's got a nice range there and he converts those fifty plush yards in games more

often than not. It's a great weapon to have when you have such a strong defense to really help compliment that team and the way they play in those close games, especially when you can turn the ball over to your kicker and tell him to go make a fifty six yard to get you on the board, and then put the defense back on the field to hold those leads.

It's a great complimentary style of football. Blake fergus In the long snapper number forty four one season out of l s U twenty four years old opening Day, So yes, he did change his jersey number, but he played all sixty games as a rookie, and he was a long snapper for each of those record breaking field goals by Jason Sanders, and again the Dolphins punt team had no field exchanges, no block kicks, and Ferguson also had a couple of tackles to boot a six round draft pick

back in really earning his weight there on the roster last season as a rookie, and then Rex Sunahara number sixty one year NFL experience last year he signed and was on the practice squad thout the course of the season out of West Virginia. He'll be twenty four years old on opening Day, and he was a finalist in twenty nineteen for the Patrick Mannelly Award, given annually to the nation's top long snapper. He then signed a futures contract with Miami after spaying the entire season last year

on the practice squads. So those are your linebackers, those are your specialists. We've got a couple more of these things to go with the cornerbacks and the safety's. We're gonna come back on the podcast next week as well and wrap this thing up for before training camp starts and do a mail bag in a f C East Prediction episode. You don't want to miss that before Wednesday, when we go live from the Dolphins practice facility at Heart or at Miami Gardens right next to hard Rock

Stadium there in Miami Gardens. We cannot wait to get going and bring you guys the best Miami Dolphins coverage. One more note before I get out of here, because we've been dealing with with us for about a week now. Any suggestions out there on a teething toddler, because Caroline is teething right now and these nights have been along while every hour she wakes up crying, So we're dealing with that right now. I will take any and all

advice to you. Fathers and mothers and parents out there are willing to give us because we're at the end of our rope and we're trying to get acclimated to the new time change and it's been very tough with the little girl and teething. All right, that's gonna be my time on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. You all please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple podcast, Spotify, Google Play, tuned in, wherever you

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