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agency special. Running Back Chase Edmonds is up next. We'll break down his game and get him in here to talk some football, his 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 Chase Edmonds, twenty five year old running back formerly of the Arizona Cardinals and before that by way of Fordham University in New York.

And you know, I look at this guy's game and I've I've talked about this a lot in my podcasting career about how much fun it is to have a running back that can hit the home run in the big play. And that's what this guy has. Explosive stats in a five nine pound makeup, and he just does everything well. Man. He's he told nine hundred three yards from scrimmage and five touchdowns and just twelve games played

last season. That's good for a five point one yards per carry average and an average of two point six six yards after initial contact, and that came courtesy of plenty of lengthy runs. He had eighteen carries that totaled ten plus yards a season ago. That was good for

a fifteen point five percent explosive run rate. Again, five back, ten pound back had runs of fifty four and forty yards last season and clocked to high speed of fifteen miles per hour on twenty three point three percent of his carries, so a little less than one fourth of his carries he hits fifteen mph on the radar. That's most m all NFL backs last season with at least

one hundred attempts. Next Gen has some really cool stats man, something like this, a chart called rushing yards overexpected, a metric through which Edmunds has displayed his abilities. He averages

point five eight yards over expected. Only seven backs had a higher yards overexpected marked and Edmonds that is another one of those really cool next gen stats, where what they do is they collect a whole bunch of data with stuff like the nearest defender to project how many yards a player should get based upon years and years

of collective comprehensive data. And on those runs, Edmunds had point five eight yards per carry over expected, which again was seventh and then or rather eighth in the National Football League last year. He also had a plus ten point to e p A expected points added on a hundred and sixteen carries. Only Indianapolis is Jonathan Taylor and Dallas is Tony Pollard had a better e p A on their rushing attempts in one. But don't mistake Edmunds

for a speedy one trick pony. He's got a lunch all mentality nine six catches for seven dred thirteen yards the last two seasons and no sacks allowed on a hundred and thirty two pass blocking snaps the last three years. Three down capability. Of his one hundred and sixteen rushes, thirty three of them move the chains as an impressive twenty eight point four percent conversion rate. He also converted sixteen of his twenty two rush attempts with three or

fewer yards to gain last season. That is a seventy two point seven percent clip. Pretty reliable to move the chains on short yardage. You look at this guy's tape. Man, he's fun to watch. That doesn't take a whole lot of reps to see the urgency and suddenness that he plays with. It's a smooth, choppy, quick feet with excellent vision to both the front and backside to take advantage

of daylight every time he sees it. Once he sees that crease, he can hit it and get big yardage, make guys miss on the arm tackles at that second level, and really maximize what you block for him. As a runner, he's displayed exceptional patients both as a ball carrier and

as a route run or. The Cardinals deployed him effectively in the screen game and from the backfield on a variety of option routes that really helped him utilize that quickness against reacting linebackers in the short areas of the field. We're gonna put Edmunds running downhill to linebacker and he has the choice to go left or right. Linebacker has

to react to that. Incredible, absolutely incredible. The forty nine offense under Mike McDaniel produced three top ten run after the catch players, and no team utilized pre st nap

motion with greater frequency than the forty nine. The pairing of quick decision making with lightning quickness bodes well for the Fins in creating conflict for the opposing defenses, and according to the r a S the Relative Athletics Scorecard, Edmunds ten point eight six agility score from NFL Scouting Combine workout was one of the best measured since the project began. Back in a six seven nine three cone time.

That really shows you the change of direction, skill set and the quickness, and now it cuts all time among one thousand, nine one thousand, ninety six running backs who have ran that drill. Edmonds clocked a four oh seven on the shuttle run that was good for the seventieth best all time among one thousand, three hundred forty backs who ran the shuttle. Since so quickness, change in direction, it's really key traits there for running backs, and he

excels in both of those areas. We talked about running backs and the quote from Mike McDaniel, let's go ahead and just read that back here from the combine when he was asked about the running back position and the importance of it in an era where there's this I hate. I absolutely despised this narrative about running backs his importance, and I think Coach really hammered that out as well

as he possibly could have. He said this quote, you have to realize running backs collectively, whether you do it part to whole or one guy, you have three hundred to four hundred touches by that one position anywhere I've been and with the Miami Dolphins moving forward, it's of paramount importance. We have a concrete skill set the week found that can really flourish in a zone blocking system. And quote Edmunds has success as an NFL zone runner and the run pass option game, as a gap scheme

runner and the passing game as well. He checks the boxes of that multifaceted player, much to the preference of the Miami Dolphins. Here's what Chris Greer said about the running back position. When I sat down with both he and coach back last month. Mike prepared a tape of

what he's looking for at the running back position. It was a great teaching moment for the scouts and the offensive coaching staff who came in and listened to There was a good visual opportunity for all the scouts and coaches to be in one room talking about what we're looking for at the position and things that Mike has had success with finding in San Francisco. Our scouts really appreciated that end quote. So Chase Edmonds checks a lot

of those boxes. Also, one thing you'll see about these new editions common theme across the board is how much their teammates really like these guys like you. Go to Twitter when the deal was reported initially on Monday, with Chase Edmunds coming to Miami, there was tweets from Kyler Murray and Kenyan Drake congratulating him. Kenyan Drake saying treat him well down in Miami. That's my dog, and Kyler

Murray said the Dolphins got a real one. Edmunds is an absolute dog on his social media, and I have a story for you guys to kind of show you about the dog mentality he brought to both the college and pro game. Here in just one second, but some

additional numbers here. His alignment last season with the Cardinals four two snaps in the backfield, sixty two in the slot thirty two out wide seven as a trigger man in the wildcat formation the quarterback position, and he also had two snaps as a return man for the Cardinals. He's played in fifty seven of a possible sixty five career games for the Cardinals, and that was after a

near records heading career at Fordham University. There's a story here from seen talking about his ability to get back on the field and the way he works and to earn that respect of his teammates as a total dog mentality. There's a story from twenties seventeen that details both his work habits and why he's proven so reliable both as

a pro and as a collegium. And with fin that story you'll find some details from the trainer there at Fordham and the excuse me, the physical therapy staff and everyone that helped him after an injury he suffered one season, and just how much work he put in, how relentless he was with his treatment, his recovery, his rehab to get back on the field to chase the all time

FCS Russian record. Now he finished fifth all time when he left school with five thousand, eight hundred and sixty two yards on the ground, and what's most impressive to me about that is that he was able to juggle multiple tasks, including the most important one, the toughest one that I can vouch for, being a girl dad. So let's go ahead and get Chase here on the podcast to talk about the playing career as well as that girl dad life. Next here on the Drivetime Podcast with

Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. What's Up? Dolphins? Travis Wingfield here, the host of the Drivetime Podcast, and I am joined by new Dolphins running back here, Chase Edmonds. Chase, what's up? Man? Travels up? But I appreciate you having We're happy to have you in here, you know, getting down to Miami for the first time here, how's it all feels? It hit me yet? It's starting to hit me now, touring the facility, seeing the great facilities that

Mr Ross has put into that implemented it here. Man is beautiful out here, seeing the locker room, getting to meet the people both of yourself upstairs, downstairs, and starting to sink in now from getting very excited you're talking about you want to do a TV career after you're playing career. You pretty into that idea. I'm pretty into that. Yeah, I got a little, a little little sauce of the TV just a little bit. Yeah, I can see already got the awkwa and orange pop looking good, looking sharp.

So you know, you said the building right here with in Miami was great. Obviously, it's a person facility that's just awesome to work and every day. But besides that, what really attracted you to the to the to come here to Miami and play? So what really attracted me to the unique opportunity to work with Mike mc daniel coach Mike mc daniel, And I was told by a

lot of former players one that they love him. That was the first thing for me, you know, I feel like playing for a coach who respects his relationships with his players was very important for me, very paramount. And then obviously I heard he was a genius. I heard, uh, he's the real deal, He's a guru. I really like

his own scheme run blocking. I like how utilizes his backs and to me, it felt like the perfect match to come here and also jail with two who I felt like it is someone that with my receiving ability, I could also we could benefit off of each other. As well. So two questions there. One, how does the

zone scheme kind of benefit your skill set? So yeah, since my college days at fordom now I've been running on just zone scheme, you know, and then coming into the NFL playing under Cliff for three years, it's all zone scheme for us really is our primary run scheme.

So I felt like with my skill set, I'm very comfortable in the zone format, especially outside zone, inside zone, and I felt like something that just correlates to my my skill set is also kind of you know, seeing lanes developed, hitting the cutback, being able to stop and start very fast. That's what the zone scheme is all about, and that's what I feel like I do really well. Yeah, that's all on tape, man, It's fun to watch your explosive as hell. You talk about two of there too.

What's what do you think you guys do well together? That's gonna mesh together here? Mind? Well, I think the first thing I like about two is that he's very accurate. You can tell that he's intelligent, knows how to get on, get on his reads, get off his reads. And I feel like with me, that's something that I need just on on the check down purpose of the ball is getting out quick, especially in our scheme that we're gonna

be doing. Uh it just it tail list to my skill set, really catching the ball out the backfield, figuring out what I could do with it, and help moving to change some of those choice routes Texas routs to take him off and go. You mentioned Fordham, so I have a couple of Fordham tribute questions here for you. So do you know how many players have been drafted from Fordham? Myself? John John scouting? How how long back

we're going? So this is like all time. I don't know the name it was like in the forties though, I think you say that was best probably what the blocks of granted. So I'm not going to I'm gonna say I'm gonna say three three three. Do you know who has the longest career among Fordham players who were drafted in the NFL. I'm gonna go with the guy from the forties, Chase Edmonds Vans already, yes, sir, yes, sir, that's huge. So there you go. Hey, shout out to Nixicoe.

He's from Fordham and he's a mid round, late late round prospect this year. So I gotta give a shout out to my guy, make it for after your longevity as well. Love to hear it, Love the shout out. So you know, when you got the the agreement hur at the Miami Dolphins, you tweeted about a kid from Fordam making it through that rookie deal. Now into your season, you must take a lot of pride in coming from the university that hasn't produced a ton of NFL talent

and now to be here in your fifth season. Yeah, just because for me, I've kind of always been the underdog um coming out of high school obviously because I want to Fordam didn't have a lot of offers, didn't have a lot of FBS offers, and it's just something that always carried on my shoulder, chip on my shoulder every single place I went to and uh to be able to just kind of I feel like in life we get caught up in whether it's your profession, my

profession of trying to be the ultimate, you know, trying to get to that go. Everyone wants to be at the best of what they do, but sometimes I feel like people don't take the time to zoom out. And what I mean by zoom out is just zoom out of where you're at in your life right now and look at how far you've come, look at where you want to go to, and just appreciate, you know, the journey. I was just talking to coaching about It's all about

the journey man. So for me, I appreciate that part of my life, that journey that really kind of molded me into the man that I am right now. Coach, he has some great perspective. He's been around the block a little bit. He's got some wisdom. He gives me some wisdom all time. Tell me about being a father and all the stuff. It's it's great stuff. So Chase, I'm a big fan of next gen stats, the player tracking.

They do attract speed and everything. So you hit fifteen miles per hour more than any other back in the NFL last year. Do you know that? I did not know that? What role does speed play in your game? So I'm not honestly, I'm not even a burner, Like I'm not No. Four or three guy, But I feel like what I do well is, uh, I get from zero to my top speed like that, you know, in about two or three steps. I feel like I can I can generate enough quickness, velocity, and power to get

to my top speed. And I think that's probably where that stack came from. You know, I'm not gonna hit No. Twenty three miles probably like my god raheem. But uh, if we're talking zero to twenty, I can get there pretty quickly. So I feel like that's something that I just kind of continue to learn and utilize my skill set as as a professional football player. But it's also something that I think can obviously make me distinct and make me unique. And we had Kean Crossing here talking

about his speed. He was saying he can go up against anybody in the long game. So maybe maybe some races out there. I don't know, We'll see you. But you mentioned the passing game earlier into Ah, you know, a hundred and thirty targets the last two years. Why is it so important for a back to be involved in the passing game? Truth be told. If you guys can see, you know, they devalue running backs quite a bit on the NFL now, So I feel like, uh, if we all can run the ball, we all probably

can't catch the ball. So I just feel like, you know, I want to go to teams and my Miami this year obviously, just showcasing that, you know, when it went in doubt, Man, I can I can run rounds just as good as you receive before, and I'll take that to the table anywhere I go. So I feel like anything you can do, more is better. More is always better. So I'm just trying to find a way to utilize, whether it's pass pro, my knowledge of assignments, my my quarterback,

trust in my hands, out the back field. Anything to make this team better, I'm willing to do. That's definitely a theme here at the Momami Dolphins. You're a new teammate. Alec Ingle was talking about the multiple roles here. He likes to fulfill in the roster as well. So by that same token, no sacks allowed the last three years, just three quarterback hits allowed in that time. What's the mindset required to be a good pass protector, the willing,

the willingness to do it? I think uh. In pass pro, obviously, the running back is usually always at a disadvantage unless you're like Derrick Henry and you're bigger than the mind backer. But so it's never a fair fight for us. But I feel like if you go into that fight, willing to fight man. And I used to have a saying, O kay. One that I'm gonna bring right here with two is I'm gonna dine in that pocket with you, bro.

You know, I'm gonna do everything in my power to make sure that you don't get hit, but you don't get sacked. You know, whether that's getting ran over and don in slow. And that's what I gotta do. That's that's the part you know about the job. Also another thing with that, I just think it's really about the intelligence and knowing who you have to block, knowing your assignment. That's something I take pride, and I take pride to knowing my assignment always and making sure there's no mental

errors on my part. So you mentioned the TV career, the career, I don't know if you know it, but you just nailed my transition to the next k. One. On Twitter after you agree with the Dolphins, he said the Dolphins are getting a dog and Chase Edmonds, did you see that tweet? And keep you expand upon what he means? I mean in today's language, I guess getting the dog means you're getting somebody good, somebody that that's gonna help your team, you know, be a better team.

And K One he's my brother forever man. You know, I talked to him when I knew I was gonna probably be moving on um. But again, I feel like the relationship with your quarterback from your running back is you know, it's top tier. Man. He's got to be able to trust that guy next to him in that pocket. And if you look at our games, anytime you see our heads looking at each other, we're talking. We're talking about something, whether it's the play, the assignment, what you

want me to do, what I want to do. But communication is always key and that's something that I'm gonna bring here with two and just you know, him growing and me growing is us growing. So it's it's a win win situation for everybody. And just finding ways to really mess together and finding ways to become a better football team fast. That's great stuff. You talk about about the football here, but I want to get your kind of off the film, off the field perspective. So we

talked about Miami. It's a rich area in terms of culture, food, There's tons to do down here. What's what are you most excited about doing away from the football field here in South Florida for the first time. So man, really just uh, I guess getting to notice city of Miami, and like you said, it's a great city filled with so much culture. And I feel like when you're a tourist of Miami, you don't ever experience that culture because most people just come down here to party and whatever.

But for me, just really trying to get that experience of getting that culture. And I want to get my Spanish game up by the time, by the end of my my year one in Miami, I want to be halfway to bi lingual. So that's that's something I'm really gonna actually try to hone in on. We're gonna check it out. We're gonna real like one day, y'all, y'all interview, give me an interview, asking me a couple of questions

to spend. Let me see what I can do. It's not gonna be me because I gotta come along with you. But maybe Chase Edmonds Drivetime podcast shots making full of thanks for your time today you want to help A sign off? Hey man, we signed off? Chase edms here fins up. I hope I did it right. I gotta learn with it, get with it. Add a couple of sauce too, but I appreciate you for having Edmond stuff and there he goes. How good was that? Chase Edmonds,

new Dolphins running back. That's gonna be a theme on these player interviews here with the new free agents joining your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and take our last break and come back and wrap this thing up here on the Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and put the finishing touches on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Big thanks to my guest Chase Edmonds and all the folks in the building that works so hard to get these interviews accomplished, to get

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