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special Alec Eagle, the fullback. We're gonna break down his game and get him in here to talk some football and about the decision to join the Miami Dolphins, and a whole heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcasts. So Alec Ingle, fullbacks, you love them?

You got one now? Actually you have to. John Lovett signed last month here with the Miami Dolphins as well, and now an accomplished fullback the last three years with the Las Vegas Raiders will join the Miami Dolphins to give them a fullback of their own here. And the first thing I noticed upon looking up some details and some stats and some highlights and some film of Alec ingold is that there is a community of football junkies who absolutely love the classic fullback, and why wouldn't they.

It's one of the funnest positions, most fun positions to watch in the entire National Football League. It's one of the more rare and kind of less existing positions in the league compared to what it was you know, ten, certainly thirty years ago. But there are clips of him torpedoing drilling out holes as a lead blocker for for Josh Jacob's touchdown runs there with the Raiders. There's a clip of him running a switch release from a UH wide split as a receiver and running a wheel route

and getting a step on a cornerback. There is a play where he hurdles a Giants defender and clears him by what looks like a couple of feet. Then the final cope I put on the piece up on Miami Dolphins dot Com is a good old fashioned couple of b gap blocks where he clears out linebackers courtesy of the great Brandon Thorne, who does so much work on the offensive line, showcasing one of the top run blocking

fullbacks in the National Football League. By by way of Alec Ingle, the last couple of years, and you look at his numbers ingolds. I mean, fullbacks almost never touched the football, but he has made it count when he's earned that opportunity. We should. We talked about that tweet earlier showing him his ability to play multiple roles and stretch the field. For you know, if a matchup calls for if you get a linebacker on him out wide, maybe he can get a step on that guy we

talked about doing with a cornerback. Certainly a linebacker might have a better chance, but his ability to flex out why is paramount. So is his ability to catch the football in short areas and turn the corner and pick up yard that way. And his career twenty eight catches two thirty nine yards and three touchdowns, and that's an eighty two point four percent catch rate and eight point five yards per reception. He also averages six point three

yards after the catch from that fullback position. Now on fifteen carries just twenty two rushing yards. But if you watch football, you know how fullbacks get the ball. They take it on a short dive from the up back position, and they lunch forward and try to move the chains. Because all fifteen of his runs came with three or fewer yards to gain to move the chains, and most of those were two or one, and frankly most of

them are one yard. But he converted ten of those fifteen runs for a solid sixties six point seven conversion rate. And he was also called upon for pass protection with the Raiders on just fifteen point nine percent of his passing down snaps. And a big reason for that is because he's still productive in the passing game. I have to imagine, but he allowed just one pressure on thirty three career pass blocking snaps and that was a hurry. So no quarterback hits and no quarter back sacks on

thirty three career pass blocking snaps. I want to talk about a throwback position. He is one of three fullbacks to play more than five hundred snaps since nineteen Kyle us Check of the forty Niners and c J. Ham of the Vikings the others. He was undrafted out of Wisconsin, and you might recall his tape with Wisconsin a heck

of a lot of fun. And there was actually a report It was lanzer Line of NFL dot Com who said that he spoke with several NFL scouts and teams back in that twenty nineteen draft, and every single one of them after a great, great Senior Bowl week where he was just popping pads and making big hits and showing his pass protection value, and the Lancer Line report said that every single team he heard back from expected Ingle to go drafted. He didn't wind up getting drafted,

but he sure has. Heck made the most of his opportunity with the Raiders, as most of his five hundred and seventies seven offensive snaps that he played came in those first two years when he won a competition with veteran Keith Smith there with the Raiders to win that

job as rookie season. But he's suffered an a c L injury last year that caused him to miss eight games of that Raider season and during those two full years in nineteen and Ingold was graded as Pro Football focuses seventh and second best run blocking fullback in the National Football League and the fullback with the most snaps during that span. Us Check, who played six four snaps over the last three years on offense, played under current

Dolphins head coach Mike McDaniel the last five seasons. Also in gold play with Frank Smith in Las Vegas with the Raiders there when coach Smith was a tight ends coach there in Las Vegas. So there's some connection there. In addition to the work on offense that he has done in his career, Ingold has five hundred and seventy two snaps on special teams with seven career tackles. And just a fun fact that I went back and looked at the most offensive snaps taken by a Miami Dolphins

fullback over the last decade. Can anybody think of what it is? I'll give you a second two thousand twelve Javorsky Lane member Javoriski Lane had some big plays that year. Only one time since then has a fullback played more than one hundred snapped on the Dolphins offense. That was Chandler Cox in nineteen a big stretch of years there where the Dolphins didn't roster a fullback. He also just

doesn't do fullback stuff. It's, I mean, a largely a thankless job that fullback position, right, But I went back and found some quotes here from Derek Carr, the Raiders quarterback, who recognized the unique skills the Ingle brings to the position, and we'll talk to Alec about that here in just one second, and expanded on his multifaceted role that Ingold held in Las Vegas. He said, quote, Alec has that speed when we train, he runs all the routes. He

doesn't just run fullback stuff. He runs slants and goes and digs all kinds of things. He has that old school like Lorenzo Nil feel to him. You've got to be different to play fullback with the way we Las Vegas run, the power and counters and is so plays. It's one on one you and that guy in the hole, and if you don't win, it's going to be a loss. And more time than not, Alec wins. So I'm not trying to give the guy. So I'm trying to give the guys much praise as I can because he's very

vital to us. End quote there. Carr also talked about how Ingold took on different responsibilities in his training to do more running back stuff just in case the Raiders need to call upon him for running back. You never know how much injuries can pile up, and you might have to go into your depth there and make something like that happen. So very very hard worker, very diligent worker, who wants to do as much as he can, the more you can do. Right. That's the National Football League

in a nutshell. Last note here before we get to Alec on the podcast, is that in some of that background research I found out that as an adopted man himself adopted child, I should say he's a great advocate for foster kids and adoption agencies, and especially in his previous home in Las Vegas, where Councelman Brian Knudson had this to say about Alec. We desperately need people like alec Ingolden are advocating for children and every child that is waiting for foster care and quote so really cool

stuff there. You can go find this piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com breaking down the mind Dolphins new fullback. Next here on the Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield, presented by Auto Nation, We're gonna hear from the Dolphins new fullback alec ingold What's up Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here, the host of the Drivetime Podcast on the Miami Dolphins podcast network, and I'm thrilled to be joined today by new Dolphins fullback alec Ingold throwing up the horns there. We had

Carnor Williams in earlier. He was he was the Texas longhorn for a long time. Though. Connor is a baller man. We were at the physicals and he's just like mammoth of a dude, right, He's huge. He's like, yeah, I play guard. Was like, I want to be on this guy's team. Run behind that guy. Yeah, exactly. So now you're here in Miami met Connor Williams already. But how's how's the overall experience feeling for you so far? It's

really cool. I'm building is fantastic. We're in the shadows a hard rock like you can't draw it up much better than this. So it's been fun so far. People are amazing, people are smiling. Energy is like contagious. So it is definitely. Um, it's been a good day so far. It's your first day here. Wait till se the sunset behind hard rockets you can't beat. It's a postcard man. All right, Well, I'll have to stay here until the sunset then we go. Exactly. So you're here with the

Miami Dolphins, now new fullback here for us. What was it that attracted you to the Miami Dolphins. In this free agency process, I mean I had to start with football, right Coach McDaniels, Frank Smith, UM, the whole running back staff, the everything about this offensive staff, the special teams. It was exciting being a part of this organization, the legacy, the history. I mean, you can make a whole list about it. Right. So, UM, it starts and it really

finishes with football. Right. It's you're excited to run the ball. You're excited to be a part of that team that wants to do that. To to be able to UM put an emphasis on that. We got Raheem signed, We got freaking Chase signed. Miles Gaskin was in here in the weight room already looking swallen. I'm like, I can't wait to get to work with these guys, you know what I'm saying. So UM, just being a part of this facility right now, and the way that everything seems

to be moving, I think football has been. UM. It's in the forefront of everyone's mind here, which is very exciting. Take care of your running backs, fullback. I'm excited to get to know these guys. UM. I know I had wonderful relationships all my running backs back home in Las Vegas. So, um, transitioning that to here, we're just gonna absolutely just hit the ground running obviously run the football, um man. I I'm really excited to work with these guys. You mentioned

running the ball. How much does the weather down here compliment a running game? I mean that's that you can take some hearts out now in four minute drill, right Like if it's hot, you know, in hard rock and it's in the middle of um what September October, and it's a little bit hotter than than the other parts of the area. If we can run the football, it's

gonna be exciting time to be a Dolphins. I'm not sure how often you're on social media, but kind of going back and looking at people watching your tape that are a big fan of your game, there's a bit of a following there that just says, alec ingles my guy. Like some video clips of you plowing through a making a hole for a touchdown run or high hurling a defender in the secondary, running wheel routes and get on the top of cornerbacks. What of that is your favorite?

Or is it simply just leading up a block in the a gap? Yeah? No, I think you get those highlight plays and it's really cool, and it's really you know, it's something too cool to be put on social media. But I think the biggest thing I'm working on my game is consistency. Like let's let's get a hurdle every once in a while, or like you know, a big smash play. That's cool, but let's get Raheem and Chase and Miles working. Let's get those guys in open space.

Let's get this offensive line moving. And if I can be a small piece of that puzzle that's consistent, every time I step onto the football field, the defense knows what the offense is doing. You can't really you know, beat around the bush and we're gonna go run the football. Like That's where I would want to tip my cap to um more so than any highlight play on Twitter might have to get you one of those run the

damn ball hats. With the way you're talking to your man, we're excited to hear, but we'll run through a wall if we need to love it. So you mentioned some of the versatility there and just talking about being well rounded. I found a really cool article where Derek Carr was talking about you working on routes and playing running back and receiver and fullback roles. Why is this so important to you to be so well rounded? I mean, the best ability is availability, right, and to be able to

step in for guys and fill in roles seamlessly. To know the offense more so than just your little role. It helps everything. It helps everybody in communication from the film room to the practice field to the game. Um So the more that you understand, the more you can comprehend, the more that you can do on a football field, The longer you can stick around, the bigger impact you can have. So I'll always give everything I got to this organization, to the boys in the locker room, to

the coaches. That that's just how it goes. And one of those roles obviously special teams. You mentioned that earlier. What is the key to you to being a great special teamer? It's a want to, it is, It's really I want to. You want to play football. You want to be on a football field, and that's that's what happens. Kickoff, kickoff return. A lot of people are, you know, grabbing popcorn and soda and stuff, and we are running down the field as fast as we can trying to gain

an extra three four yards. But that's really a lot of the guys that that are the glue of the team. That's the depth of the team. And if you've got those guys operating at a high level and wanting to be on a football field, that difference definitely it pays dividends long term. It's almost a full dock mentality, right, the same idea, Yeah, exactly, and it's it's not it's not glorious. Not a whole lot of people are gonna

watch it. There's not gonna be a whole lot of highlights. Besides, you know, some of those big runbacks you might see every once in a while, but always happened because of the consistent effort and want to from everyone all eleven on the field. Let's go ahead and finish up here. You know, what are you what are you most excited about? Whether it's football, it kind of sounds like that's your go to, but maybe we'll go in a different direction.

Your culture South Florida, it's rich. The food down here is great. Is there one thing you're kind of looking forward to here in South Florida away from the football field, anything that's going to be outside this facility is definitely gonna be in the community. Um A big community guy. I love helping out high school kids with mindset training, financial well being, personal and professional development. So I have a little foundation starting up back home in Wisconsin, stuff

like that. So anything I can do to help the community, you know, reach out to other people, be helping hand that. That's what I'm going to be spending my free time on. Maybe a golf course or too. I love it. That really good stuff here. We'll get you st up with all the community stuff. There's tons of good stuff to do here. With the Miami Dolphins, alec Ingle, new Dolphins fullback, Thanks a lot, man, it was pleasure, appreciate your time.

And there he goes Dolphins fullback alec ingled here on the Drivetime podcast, will come back and put a boat on this episode here next on Drivetime brought to you by Automation. Alright, that is our third and final episode. I guess it depends on the order you listen to the episodes on Friday. Coming out today, We're gonna have plenty more coming your way. All seven guys that have signed already in the tank ready to go on those interviews and We'll also have more as we go along

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