Vic Fangio Introduction Press Conference and Twitter Mailbag

out of this thing. Drivetime with Travis Winfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if not fart of what is up? Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. Every your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, introduce option press conference for new Dolphins defensive coordinator Vic Fangio just wrapped up.

We're gonna go ahead and break down the entirety of that press conference from a new Dolphins DC, plus your questions via the Twitter mail bag. You want to hear about coach Fangio the offseason and a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is we've heard from coach Fangio and coach McDaniel on Monday morning at the introduction press conference for Vic Fangio. We streamed it live on YouTube

on the social channels for your Miami Dolphins. If you want to go back and check out the whole press or in its entirety, just get over to that YouTube channel, go ahead and hit that subscribe button and watch the video. But you're here because you want to hear clips from the press conference and my analysis on the press conference. Let's go ahead and dive right in here first, starting with an opening statement from head coach Mike McDaniel. Was

great to hear from him once again. We'll also hear from him next week in Indianapolis at the scouting Combine. I believe coaches scheduled to talk on Tuesday afternoon, so we'll have that for you guys on the Wednesday podcast. But for now, he was simply introducing his new defensive coordinator, Vic Fangio. Let's hear it. Go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on the Dolphins new DC. Yeah. I just

wanted to introduce UM coach Vic Fangio. Exciting day for the Miami Dolphins organization, the fan base really, UM, you know since the season ended, you know, really tried to attach you know in the journey for looking towards the future. Okay, you know who can we entrust to continue to develop the players, to maximize all people in the building in that regard, to do right by the organization and chase UM what we're trying to chase and building building a winner.

So it was a very easy UM decision when when giving the opportunity, I was very excited about the opportunity. It was really pumped that he he joined in the in the vision UM and and couldn't couldn't be happy, couldn't be any happy really for the organization and and uh you know really a guy that takes UM professional

football uh serious. But also the obligation to continue evolve and get better and you don't UM have a sustaining career UM for you know, longer than I've been alive, really, UM, like like Vic has without that that fearless UM chase of continually continuing to evolve and uh and get better UM and be your best version of yourself. Um as you age with grace, So without further ado, um, Vic

Fangio defensive coordinator for the Miami. It's always nice when you identify something that you want, that you desire and that thing becomes I guess easy to capture or easy to obtain. And it kind of sounds like that's where Coach was going towards this whole thing. And I love hearing the fact that Vic Fangio obviously was the first choice for McDaniel. You hear him talk about how easy of a decision it was and how pumped he was when he learned that Fangio really shares and rebels in

that same vision they have for the organization. I think that makes all the sense in the world. I think you look for someone with experience like Vic Fangio, what he brings the defensive side of the ball, and his capability of really just kind of being the head coach of the defense in that way, and then for Mike McDaniel to have his fingerprints all over the offense and as the head coach of the entire operation, the entire organization.

It just seems to me like there is like what coach McDaniel talked about there that shared vision of excellence, shared idea of the potential, and the teaching aspect to get those guys to grow and live up to the potential they believe they can play. We're gonna hear from Coach Fangio on that just one second. But first we're gonna go back to Fangio and his first question was asked, what made the Miami Dolphins the right fit for you? Here's coach Well, I think the Dolphins have a good

thing going here. I like the Mike and his staff that he already has in place here. I think there's good components to the coaching staff led by Mike that made it in intriguing to join that. I think there's a good nucleus of players here and the lure of South Florida. And then, as promised him talking about the importance of maximizing the players under his tutelage, here's Coach Fangio on how to maximize the players or the potential I should say of the players they have on the defense.

I love the last part he talks about here with players with room for potential. Well, I've always believed to just try and improve every player as an individual, and then hopefully you do that well enough to where their position group improves, and if their position group improves, than the defense has improved. So you really do it from the ground up. And there's a lot of good young players here that I think have room to grow, and

hopefully myself and the staff will get that done. Coach Fangio also discussed the relationship between he and Mike McDaniel, saying really didn't have one prior to this hiring, but he was asked about his first impression of Mike McDaniel after getting the job, and McDaniel was on vacation last week and now he's here in the buildings. They're both working together this week. Here's coach Fangio on his first

impression of head coach Mike McDaniel. Yeah, well it's been very little because I got here last Tuesday and Mike was on vacation, so today's the first day we're in here together. Now we did some zoom interviews together from where he was last week. But you know everything I thought. You know, he's energetic, genuine, obviously good, got a good football mind, puts good offensive football out there, and hopefully we can compliment that, and y'all heard on my podcast

with Coach about the year off he spent. Here's Coach talking a little bit more about what he did during that, you know, professor on sabbatical as he described it here on the Drivetime podcast. Go back and check out the Friday episode if you have not heard that one yet with Coach Fango, an exclusive his first as a member of the Miami Dolphins here on the Drivetime podcast. But he also talked about a few of the players here on the roster and that's what I really wanted to

show you guys. Here's Coach Fangio. Well, you know, I didn't study the Dolphins defense per se that much basically what I did with all my time, you know, I kind of treated it like a college professor on a sabbatical and was watching a lot of NFL tape more from a situational standpoint rather than studying a team per se.

So I actually never actually studied the Dolphins in its entirety. Now, obviously their games would come across these situational studies that I was doing, and I think there's some good young talent there obviously, you know, just from two years ago in the draft with Phillips and Holland, and those are two really good players that I really liked in the draft. You know, Bradley Chubb is here, who obviously I know about,

and several other guys. You know, Christian Wilkins is here, who another guy liked in the draft, who you know. Christian's greatest honor is the Bill Campbell Award Trophy, which is the academic heisman, and Bill Campbell was a good friend of mine, so he'll always when I see him, I always think of that. But there's a good nucleus of players here for me to give you a great answer schematically, you know, i'd be stretching it. You also heard coach on the Draft Time podcast talk about some

of the new coverages. He's excited to get a chance to come out here and put to some pen to paper, if you will, and try him out during ot Is in camp. He was asked about that, but again more context behind that. He talks a little bit about the philosophy of tailing the defense to what you do. Well, Yeah, there's a few things that that I came up with that I'm anxious to try. You know, we'll try him and OTAs at some point and in training camp, and you know, as a good fit for the other things

we do. But what's going to be most important is tailor and what we do to our players and to the opponent that we're playing for that week. So you know, there may be things that we did at previous stops that we won't do much here because it doesn't fit our players, and vice versa. You know, we might do something a lot that we didn't do other places because

it's a better fit for our players. So and sometimes it's a better You might think it would be great to do something because it fits a certain player really good, but you really have to think about how it fits all eleven and what's the best way to stop somebody from scoring too many points. Really interesting stuff there from coach in terms of sometimes you blitz a lot, sometimes you don't blitz. You know, just a multitude of things

you do based upon the personnel you have. Next, he was asked about Bradley Chubb and he talked about him a little bit and basically said that Chubb had some injury issues when he was back there in Denver that didn't really allow him to get into the full groove

except for one portion of that second season. Now Here he is talking a little bit about Bradley Chubb, but also the combination of he and Jalen Phillips, who, of course you heard him mentioned earlier as a player in that twenty twenty one draft class that he was a big fan of. Here he is talking about the makeup and tools of Bradley Chubb and Jaylen Phillips coming off the edge. And this Vic Fangio defense sounds good, doesn't it.

They have great potential, but you know, potential, we gotta see it, you know, we're talking about it is easy projecting, it is easy, but we got to see it. And I'm confident knowing those two guys work ethic that they'll do everything they can to put a good product out there on the field from the both of them. But they both have the tools, both have the makeup to be really good players on the edges for us. How

about your defensive philosophy, coach, would that be? Well? Pretty simple stuff here, but it makes a lot of sense. Here's coach Fangio and what he hopes to accomplish here in Miami with a defense. You know, we're in charge of not letting the other teams score and we will do anything and everything to do that. You know that I've been places in the past where we pressured a lot.

I've been places where we didn't pressure very much. You know, you got to fit the scheme to the players that you have while also factoring in the opponents that you're playing. So hopefully we'll be a team that will keep the points down, make it hard for teams to score a lot of points, and put our offense in position to score points for us. So you know, I'm not a buzzword guy as far as that goes, other than we want to play good defense, and what's good defense? Keep

mind of the end zone. Next one here, I thought was really interesting from coach talking about young coaches across the NFL working for a coach who was basically born around the same time you got into coaching. All these offensive whizzes that have these brilliant football minds that make it so challenging for the defense to attack in the

modern NFL. Here's coach, fans, you're talking about the Super Bowl, those two teams, those two offenses, those two quarterbacks, and the way you stop them evolution, but also talking about the running game here, really good stuff here from one of the most experienced minds, one of the smartest defensive mindsman football, your new defensive coordinat Vic Fangio talking about the modern game. Yeah, the game's evolving, you know it. You know, since I got in the league, the evolution

of the game is just continued. And I mean, I think we saw it firsthand. And the Super Bowl, I guess it was nine days ago, eight days ago. You know, two really good, two great quarterbacks, two great offenses, and they had their way with the both defenses in that game. There was like, I believe, seventeen possessions in that game, and I think fourteen of them resulted in scores. And we've got to find a way to slow that down.

And the only way you do that is to evolve your philosophy, what you're teaching, what you're playing to fit stopping what they're doing. Though, you know, to line up and play what you did ten fifteen years ago, although you're still doing some of that, you have to adapt it to today's NFL game. And you know, when it was years ago, you know, every team had a fullback. Now hardly any teams have a fullback, and the fullback has been replaced by a third wide receiver or a

second tight end who's like a third wide receiver. That in and of itself has changed the game. But teams are still running the ball. You know, everybody likes to say it's a past happy league, but percentage wise, from forty years ago to now, the runs have decreased only about four percent. And Chris Greer told me, because he's on the Competition Committee, they had a graphic last week in a meeting, this is the most runs in the NFL this past year, in the last twenty five years.

So you still have to be able to stop the run and play physical. Two more here from coach, and I just love what he talked about there with a running game and the biggest percentage of run to pass differential in the last twenty five years per Chris Greer, who's on the Competition Committee. Really good stuff there and obviously a big part of this game. And you have

to be able to defend the run. And we've talked a lot about you know, Coach's system with Sean Sayed and on the podcast after that as well in terms of playing those you know, two high structures ultimately get into two and three high and having to sacrifice from

a player in the box. But when you have guys like Seeler and Wilkins that can help control line scrimmage, it's going to help you in that run game, defending the run despite being you know, light in the box as it were, so really fascinating stuff there from coach. Let's go ahead to this penultimate question for coach about why come back to the NFL right now? A lot of coaches that have hate your accomplishments and you know, reach a certain age, want to go ahead and right

off into the sunset. Why come back? Coach? Why? Yeah, I just because that's who I am. That's what I do, That's what I like to do. I still have a lot of coaching left in me, and I don't you know, it's not like I'm thinking about retirement or anything. Somebody asks how much long are you going to do this? I don't know, because it might be ten years. If they'll have me here for ten years. It's just who I am, what I do, what I enjoy doing, Like

the competition. I like teaching players. I like to see players improve as into visuals and putting something together is challenging and fulfilling. And let's go ahead and get to the last one here yet. Well, if you want to be here ten years, I would be pretty sweet to have him and Mike McDaniel here for a decade on your coaching staff. Finishing up with our tenth one speaking of a decade here, talking about Javon Holland, Coach talked about his prowess and what makes him a good player.

You can find the entirety of this interview up on the team YouTube channel. Let's go ahead and go to coach for the last one here on safety Javon Holland. Well, I haven't studied him enough since he's got in the NFL as far as what can I teach him, But I do know I really liked him the year he came out in the draft. I like his physical ability, his combination of size, speed, quickness. He's got good instincts.

I think he's smart from a football standpoint, And you're right, we've had some good luck with safeties over the years and the last few stops, and I'm hopeful and confident that he can be one of the top safeties in the great stuff there from Coach and Coach in their Monday Morning introduction press conference. Let's go ahead and pick this up as the laptop fires up with your mail bad questions. I put the call out on Twitter on Thursday.

I think it was I wanted to give you all plenty of time to get those questions in, and let's go ahead and answer some of those questions right now here on the podcast. First one from at fins fan X. Which players do you think can benefit the most from Fangio's coaching. Where I think you stand to see a big potential change and perhaps better production is with the

ability for Miami to pressure with just four guys up front. Now, if you go back and look at the list of reported candidates for the DC job, they all had something in common blitz rates in the fifteen to twenty percent rage, which is a significant reduction from what we've seen here

in the past. Now, that's obviously not a guarantee that it just automatically improves your defensive numbers, but I do think that the personnel is more suited for that style of defense, particularly after the Bradley Chubb trade last season.

He's probably the first guy that comes to mind him and Jalen Phillips Off the edge, Fangio was a long time outside linebackers coach, and he had a as you heard on the Friday podcast with Fangio on the pod and then hearing from Brandon Staley and other people that kind of gave us some testimonials there. You know, the Dome Patrol defense the New Orleans Saints back in the late nineties that Fangio was a coach of. It's just kind of to get a nickname at a position group

means a lot. And so I think that when you look at the guys he's coach, the Khalil Max, the Bradley Chubbs, the von Miller's now he gets Chubb again and Jalen Phillips, I just think that that's a big area that can really benefit from his tutelage. And I say that because one of the things I've come to learn and really admire about this defense and how coach Fangio is perceived by film gurus, and simply just what the tape shows is that you're not going to find

many defenses that disguise things better. The piece I mentioned on the Friday pod from Ted Wynn and The Athletic had a quote from an anonymous player who said, you're going to get very little pre snap from Fangio's defense. You just don't get a lot of information based upon what he shows. And let's actually go ahead and dtour from that point here real quick, because two players I think could see a nice little jolt as well are the two young studs we have at safety in Javon

Holland and Brandon Jones. The way those guys prepare, the way they communicate, how fast they play. As a result of all that, I think they are quintessential pieces to

maximize the defense's ability to disguise what it does. And with all the hybrid coverage and variety you get on the back end from man match and zone match principles, it puts more eyes in the quarterback and for Javon Holland, you know him keying quarterbacks and playing more robber roles and buzzing crossers and coming down as a spy, you know, slash, hook, convert, blitzing at the line of scrimmage off the edge. Look at all the defenses Fangio has run and there is

always a safety with massive production. Justin Simmons was a four or five interception per year guy in Denver under Fangio Eddie Jackson in Chicago had a breakout ca pain when Fangio got there to Sean Goldson and Dante Whitner in San Francisco. I see no reason that you don't

see Javon Holland doing just that. The guy had three picks last year and a strip sack that produced a touchdown a few plays later in a defense that had him twenty yards off the ball, just basically patrolling the deep vertical shots, and he did a good job of that.

But more opportunities to make plays will maximize his skill set. Obviously, back to the front though, those safeties and their ability to maximize disguise, paired with the simulated rushes and fire zone calls, those are designed to not just confuse the quarterback, but confuse the production or the protection rather and generate

one on one matchups. I mean, if you get thirty five drop backs in a game and we can get twenty of those reps where either Chubb or Jalen is one on one outside, they're going to make a big

impact in the game. But then you also look at a lot of the guys that had major production under coach Fangio upfront, and it's players with body types and placed a lot like Christian Wilkins and Zach Seeler, those defensive tackles with inside outside flexibility, you know, great quickness, length and power and that two hundred and ninety pound a three hundred and ten pound range like they had Draymont Jones and Denver. And he was a consistent five

six seven sacks per year type of player. There Akeem Hicks in Chicago a little bit more of a nose, but had outside flexibility as well. He was very productive

with the Bears under coach Fangio. Then finally, the corners tend to get takeaway chances as well, which is a product of those confusing post nap rotations, playing more coverage that has eyes in the quarterback opposed to eyes on your man like I remember when Byron Jones signed here, the big conversation was around his you know, takeaways or lack thereof that he generated, and like he was a great player because he was so good at man coverage, but that style of play just did not suit you know,

take It wasn't conducive for a takeaway style defense. But if you play more zone when your eyes are on the quarterback and you're not, you know, chasing a man. There's going to be more chances to capitalize on those mistakes. And that's a big area of focus for me because how many times did I say on the podcast last year, we have to finish chances that we create, because there were so many we did create in the Buffalo games. You know, they got them in the playoff game, and

that's why that game was close. Despite the fact that the offense just couldn't get anything going all day long, it was close because of three turnovers, one for six and one that puts you right in scoring range and one that led to a field goal. If you can do that consistently throughout the year, this team's going to be unbeatable. Man. So I think that that scheme and style of defense is more conducive to taking the football away and capitalizing on those chances when you do get them.

A good example of this is Patrick Peterson, you know, a first ballot Hall of Fame corner for my money, who had a bit of a late career resurgence playing for the Vikings under Ed Dontel, one of Fangio's longtime assistants this past season here with the Vikings for Peterson and a lot of that was zone turns with good route concept recognition and who's better at that exact trait

in football than Xavian Howard. In fact, Mike Tannenbaum's site in the thirty third team to the series where they had x pros build out the perfect players at their specific position groups and they had Ron day Barber do the perfect dB and he listed Xavian Howard as the best route and past concept recognition corner in the NFL. So there you go, And finally we touched on this and the Shan said podcast. Fangio has traditionally operated with

primarily nickel defenses in all teams. Do again, for the five thousandth time I've said this since doing podcasts back in twenty sixteen. Four to three and three four is not your base defense. It's a sub package that you run a fraction of the time. Got it. Most time they spend in sub packages like defense half dollar defense dollar that just means more defensive backs. But nickels are primary. But all of that makes tackling a very desired trait for a defensive back. And that's why I think cater

Cohu stands to benefit from it. A tremendous tackler down in the box and at the line scrimmage all year long in twenty twenty two. I know it's like more than half a lot. That's what great coaches do, right, They maximize the strengths of your players, and coach has a lot of talent that he's inheriting here in Miami. Great question. I hope I answered that thoroughly. Next up from at Navy ninja ninety nine, do you see a potential draft prospect that Fangio could want or would fit

in his scheme? Do you see any free agent pickups that we would pick up due to the same reason? Why not go all the way and ask the same question for the offensive side of the football too, So yeah, let's go ahead and look at free agency. I'm gonna go ahead and bypass the draft portion of that question because I haven't gotten far enough into it yet. Let's start with free agency here though, and I'm sure this list will get picked clean by the time we get

to the new league year. But just looking at the list of expiring contracts, man, there's a lot of guys out there. I wonder if that's the result of shorter term deals becoming more commonplace across a league the last few years. You know, the Albert Haynesworth deals don't really happen that much anymore. Offense will be though, if you're looking up front, I think it starts with Mike McGlinchey

from the forty nine ers. He's been a stalwart at right tackle in this exact offense for his entire career. Fires off the ball, gets great leverage in the running game, and did a good job keeping four different Niners quarterbacks upright all year long. They were they missed him when he was not available this past season. Excuse me. The other name that really pops off the screen on the offensive lines Philadelphia, Isaac Somalu. What a year he had

on the best offensive line in the NFL. Similar style in terms of how he plays at a certain speed, total ass kicker on the run game. And it'll be interesting to see who shakes free on that team because Philly has a bunch of free agents that they have to pay this year, so he could be one of them. Chomps Gardner Johnson could be another one if he gets free. One of my favorite players in the National Football League.

They did just trade for him, though, so maybe he gets brought back, But we're not really discussing that, just scheduled free agents whose games I like. On that same defense, t J. Edwards is a really, really good three down linebacker, he asked here in the mailbag. Some linebackers I might like TJ. Edwards as near the top of that list. So was David Long of the Titans. Those guys are really intriguing to me. Back to Philly, James Bradberry, the cornerback,

is scheduled to be a free agent. Always been a big fan of his game. Like again, I'm excited, man, there are options. Oh and one more tight end, Hayden Hurst. I love his game. There's a great tight end class this year too, by the way, talking about draft, but I loved Hurst's game out of South Carolina. And a cool story from twenty twenty one. Every Sunday at home games, you know, I go behind the goalpost on the north end of hard Rock Stadium and snap a photo of

the field to promote the podcast for that week. When we played the Falcons, I saw four people right in front of me wearing hurst jersey. So I asked, I'm

guessing you guys might know Hayden Yeah, whereas family. They told me so, I mentioned to them how much I loved the feature story the Falcons did on him earlier that year on mental health, because there was a really good deep dive on Hayden Hurst getting drafted to play baseball in the first round and like kind of lost his fastball as a picture and it got to him.

It made him pretty depressed, and so he wound up leaving baseball and going back to college and playing football and then went up being a first round draft pick there against They did a great feature on the Falcons thing, and I just told him, A huge fan of your son, a huge fan of your brother, and maybe one day we can see him down here and we can do another piece on him with that. But he's a scheduled to be a free agent. We'll see if the Bengals

bring him back. On top of the fact that I just you know, I think that he got better in terms of being a two way tight end, pass game and blocking game. I'm a huge Hayden Hurst fan and what he brings the table. Next question here, Let's go ahead and next you take our last break. We'll come back on the other side and finish up the mailbag. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by a donation. Picking it back up on the

Twitter mailbag. I put out the call for questions. You guys ask him, I answer them here on the podcast from Hoover Underscore twenty three at eight after the eight and three start, I think another year without a playoff wins to disappointment. Why will twenty twenty three be different? Well, I always have a hard time articulating this, so I'll

just be straight up with it. Like football, sample sizes are small and the results don't always reflect a team's true ability or capabilities, or however you want to phrase that. It's why I'm so big on the concept of process over results. I know the thing that goes around social these days or that all teams have injuries, and they do,

but not all injuries are created equally. The Dolphins just had them pile up at the same positions, key positions, I would argue three of the top five most important positions of the National Football League. You know, by now the quarterback deal, I mean to have four games of the backup starting backup quarterbacks starting the game and not having said quarterback finished the game until the regular season finale game number four of that stretch, that's just not

something teams deal with very often. How about using seven offensive tackles and Brandon Shell getting the most snaps of any tackle on the entire roster and in seasons signing that's attrition. And then at cornerback no Byron Jones all year, Nick Needham goes down Week six. Brandon Jones, I know he's on a Quarny's a safety, but he goes down in week seven. Xavian Howard misses a couple of games, you know, two division losses to teams that were inferior

to Miami this year. If you have X and those games, do those swing a little bit? Maybe Trull Williams injured in training camp, McKenzie Alexander signs and then gets injured in training camp. So that's my main reason I'm awfully bullish on this team heading into the offseason. I would say my other two are this number two, getting to know Mike McDaniel and what makes him tick and how

he conducts himself. To me, he's a guy that's willing to accept where things didn't go his way and actively work to fix them like ego lists right, and I think fangio Hire speaks volumes to that we know that there were, you know, too many pre snap issues, too many timeouts in the first quarters of games. I think that's something that he'll take a long, hard look at and work to get the entire communication operation better and improved.

In his second sees him and then part three ties into that this is an extremely complex offense and even if weren't, all the great quarterbacks say that it's typically year two where you begin to feel like a new system then becomes second nature to you, and two a playing even more instinctive, even more in tune with this system. I mean, he led the NFL and passer rating largely because of his ability to play fast in every aspect

of the position and of the game. So if he's even more dialed, and this was the first time since high school with the same play caller in back to back years, then I think about what coach mentioned with Jalen Waddle and the big jump he took from the offseason program last year to training camp. Well, what does

that look like from year one to year two? Has to be exponential, And on that topic, coach talked about the offensive line and playing in this system and sort of retraining a lot of what you had learned through your entire football life. What does that look like for year two for toront Armstead, for Robert Hunt, for Carna Williams, for the development of Austin Jackson, Leam Wickenberg and Robert Jones. Does Brandon Shell kind of find a a second gear

if he gets resigned here? I think you have continuity on an offense that has proof of concept, and not just that stretches of record setting pace of proof of concept. I think you have tons of talent on defense that is now coached by arguably the best defensive coordinator, certainly one of the smartest and most experienced in the game. I think that injury accumulation benefits not just the offense

and defense, but special teams in a big way. You start pulling depth up to play sixty snaps on defense and they get a reduction in playing time on special teams. You're liable to take a hit there as well. So I hope that adequately defines why I think this team is well positioned. I think they've drafted well with Chris Greer and his staff. I think they've often sought a person and finished the job getting them with coach McDaniel

to Ron Armstead, Tyreek Hill coach Fangio. I think brianon Shore kills it in the way that he manages the cap and keeps the team flexible from a salary cap standpoint. I think the coaching staff is really damn good. I think the quarterback's really damn good. I think we have a very very good roster, and I think it's a roster that plays for each other and has a great culture they've established here as well. So those are my reasons.

The caveat nothing is one until Sundays. Bad luck is not automatically as chewed because you had it last year. I think it was a good team who is fully capable of buttoning up things that went wrong a year ago. Let's go ahead and finish up here with at Oh boy, how do I pronounce this g stat work? How do the team know Connor Williams would be such a good fit at center? I think there's a few traits that really translate here. Smart, quick off the football, incredibly athletic.

We saw him get wide on several blocks this year. We saw him execute reach blocks where you're outflanked and the guy has you out leveraged based upon his pre snap alignment. You have to win anyways, and he did that with regularity. Very tough block to execute and just does it so well all the damn time. So that really expands what you can do in the pivot. But I think the athletic ability paired with his intelligence is where it really differentiates Connor Williams from you know, I

guess the other twenty seven centers in the league. I think he's better than recognition of fronts, getting calls communicated, the protections sorted. These are just keys to the position. And I'm sure they felt that he was like a level requisite with having the offense operate like they want to, because remember we had that sit down with Connor Williams last year and the five thankspiece I wrote from Miami

Dolphins dot com. He went to Texas and he qualified for their business school, which is like very very tough program to get into. I think Eddie like a three seven five and GPA and some you know, extracurriculars as well. So smart athletic essentially, the traits we saw in Alex mac when Shanahan and McDaniel brought him from Cleveland to Atlanta to San Francisco. I think Connor has similar traits. So there you go. That's the Twitter mailbag. I appreciate

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