Who actually fits our system

[Dolphinator530]

This is a fun time of year with all the mock draft causing some great debates. Will this guy fall? Will he run fast at the combine and work his way above us? ETC ETC

But of all the needs and players available who actually fits what we run as both O and D schemes. I would love R Foster but does he fit our D (I think he does) but in all the excitement I just want to find people who work for us. So many people hated on X Howard at first until we found out that he fits what we needed to have from our CB position.

I have seen OJ Howard and other TE's at 22 but I think most seam guys will work on O. As far as LB of guys who may be there Cunningham, Davis, McMillian (2nd rd) how do they work in how we operate. I have heard Cunningham as a SAM option and if we got a true MLB (Z Brown, Hightower) and kick Kiko outside maybe he is a good option. Davis is more of a Mike but is he a 3-4 blitzing roaming one or a 4-3 run busting qb type. Mcmillian had a horrible playoff and hurt his stock I really dont know his fit but if he falls to 54 is he worth it.

At DE I have seen the KState guy as a good fit.

CB there are tons but do any work as a press man on an island type?

At Guard do any fit or would give us a day 1 guy so maybe we can move Albert and only be obligated to get one guard in FA?

I would love to see where everyone see guys as a fit and where they could see them projected.

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I get sick of that term and that focus. A legitimately great player will fit any system. We've lacked truly great players recently but have forced a ton of system fits.

I decided to watch the rest of the Senior Bowl tonight. The Kansas State defensive end looked good but the guys across from him were miserable. The Bucknell left tackle didn't belong in that game. He looked like Billy Turner in Senior Bowl practices a few years ago. Willis also feasted on the Pittsburgh tackle who had a lousy Senior Bowl week kind of like T.J. Clemmings did a couple of years ago, plummeting his draft status.

 

[datruth55]

I get sick of that term and that focus. A legitimately great player will fit any system. We've lacked truly great players recently but have forced a ton of system fits.

I decided to watch the rest of the Senior Bowl tonight. The Kansas State defensive end looked good but the guys across from him were miserable. The Bucknell left tackle didn't belong in that game. He looked like Billy Turner in Senior Bowl practices a few years ago. Willis also feasted on the Pittsburgh tackle who had a lousy Senior Bowl week kind of like T.J. Clemmings did a couple of years ago, plummeting his draft status.

Bingo.

As most reports from the Senior Bowl went Willis was pegged as a first step DE. Meaning he was a speed rusher that if he got by the OT on that first step then he would win. He was mainly handled when the OT stopped that first step...there was no counter, no spin, no rip, no swim and his bull rush is ineffective. I give a strong pass on the Kansas State DE.

 

[BobDole]

Huge pass for me as well. One trick pony who might never develop ... you don't use a high pick on that. There's not even obvious upside there. 5th rounder for me.

 

[SF Dolphin Fan]

Well I'm hoping that it's physical football players across the board. This team still retains too many soft players who were acquired prior to Adam Gase coming to Miami.

You know Gase would love to dictate the running game at a more consistent level. He has the back in Jay Ajayi, but needs a physical guard either in free agency, the draft, or both if Brandon Albert isn't retained.

The Dolphins badly need playmakers at linebacker and the team has talked about the need for speed there. That makes sense going up against New England's fast receivers who typically turn short passes into big gains. So you look for physical linebackers with speed who can match up in the passing game.

The Wide 9 is interesting because that would seem to be more about speed than physicality. If the Dolphins stick with that alignment than I'd guess the team is looking for fast ends who can disrupt more than set the edge.

 

[mmikel30]

Players I like that might be available in our draft spots. in no particular order....Dan Feeny, Hassan Reddick, Zach Cunningham, Charles Harris, Marcus Maye, Jarred Davis, Tannosaa or whatever his name is he looks like a freak with super long arms. Taco Charlton, Solomon Thomas, Ryan Anderson, TJ Watt,

 

[NoblePhin]

I really am starting to like Ryan Anderson but I'm not so sure he really moves the needle toof far for us. Solid player though.

 

[SF Dolphin Fan]

I really am starting to like Ryan Anderson but I'm not so sure he really moves the needle toof far for us. Solid player though.

Ryan Anderson is a football player. Love the guy, physical in run support. Sounds like his issue is in pass coverage so don't think Miami goes there at #22. Slimm indicated his best position might end up being middle linebacker.

 

[NoblePhin]

I sure wouldn't take him at 22, but if he's there in the second I definitely would have to consider him to be in play. That's quite a transition from Sam/DE to play Mike, but on run downs that doesn't sound too bad to put him there.

 

[BobDole]

I think Anderson is more of a 3rd round guy due to his limitations against the pass but I think he would seamlessly fill misi's spot on D. He's not gonna blow you away with anything in particular but should be NFL ready to come in and be stout at the POA and stop the run. Doesn't need to add any weight and has an NFL body already. I need to see just how lunky he is in pass drills at the combine before I'm comfortable giving up a pick on that ... given our abundant needs.

 

[ckparrothead]

There's really no reason Jordan Willis should not be a 1st round pick.

His body is built like a pro. He's 6036 & 255 lbs with 10" hands and a 6'8" wingspan. The wingspan in particular stands out.

There's a lot of work ethic reflected in his build. If you tend to be a healthy skeptic of reports claiming a guy has a stellar work ethic (there are plenty such, and credible ones, for Willis), the body can be confirmation of that. And on that point, it's clear as day.

His character as far as I've heard is beyond reproach. He is noted for being quiet in the locker room, which isn't necessarily a plus, but he was voted this year a Team Captain. He did not expect that, did not lobby for it, and even went into the Coach's office and said he thinks his being voted a Team Captain is a mistake and he's not sure he can do it. He never tried to be a leader, his teammates just saw him that way organically. The best story I've heard about him was in high school in the locker room he was so quiet that his teammates never voted him captain, but then off the field he was voted Student Council President. The best leaders are ones who have enough of an appreciation of what it takes to be a leader to be unsure that they could or should be doing it. Cameron Wake is that way.

Which isn't a coincidence because Cameron Wake is a guy that he studies a lot and models himself after. Which can only be a good thing.

He's fast and athletic. Quick film watch should tell you that much. You didn't necessarily need to see the Senior Bowl practice Catapult data recording him moving faster than RBs and WRs in order to confirm it, but that data was nice. I'm one of a handful of people outside NFL teams receiving the raw copy of that data, so more on that later.

He played Power Five competition and recorded 32.5 TFLs, 21.0 Sacks and 7 Forced Fumbles in his last two seasons at K-State. And 24.5 of those TFLs and 17.5 of those Sacks (and 6 of the Forced Fumbles) were in the 21 games he played against P5 competition.

Yes, his first few steps are his biggest weapon. People talk about it like it's a bad thing. It's a good thing, especially in a system like Miami's where Jim Washburn coaches the DLs incessantly on their get-off and explosiveness off the snap.

I disagree with the characterization that he does it off his first step off the line of scrimmage. Actually his first step off the line and his snap timing could use a little work (which is something Washburn always specialized in, if he sticks around; he's still listed on Miami's website despite all other coach entries being properly updated/deleted). He's explosive, but needs to be more consistent on first step. You see the explosiveness more consistently on his second and third steps, or from a standing start. That's characteristic of a speed player. He's pretty close to having that consistently explosive and well timed first step, definitely does it some of the time. But if you actually help a Jordan Willis to realize his full explosive potential by getting him off the line with a first step the way a Cam Wake gets off the line with his first step, that's where things get a little more interesting. Players make entire Hall of Fame careers off the disadvantage they can force onto blockers by an explosive take-off.

Sidebar. I can think of two examples off the top of my head of first step players who were/are not necessarily fast. One is a defensive tackle in THIS draft, that being Ralph Green of Indiana (who is likely not fast). The other reaches back a bit; Bjoern Werner of Florida State, who made a killer college career off his first step, but couldn't capitalize at the next level because ultimately his first step wasn't indicative of him being a true speed player, which sucks because Ryan Grigson (since fired) stupidly pegged him as an outside linebacker. The hope for Ralphie of course is that as a defensive tackle he doesn't ultimately need to be all that fast, and thus his good first step will help him to have an NFL career. The promising thing for Ralphie that way is that unlike other first step players who were also not fast, like Brian Price or Will Sutton, Ralphie has a lot more length (6033 with 34.5" arms) and it helps him to stay off the carpet whereas those other two were shorter (Price - 6011 w/ 32" arms; Sutton - 6004 w/ 31" arms) and ended up on the ground a whole lot. That makes you want to put Ralphie more in category with the first steps you saw out of a Mike Neal (6030 w/ 33.5" arms) or Earl Mitchell (6016 w/ 33.5" arms). Then again, those two had good first steps in part because they really were very fast for their size (Mitchell - 4.81 at 296 lbs; Neal - 4.87 at 294 lbs). Faster than I think Ralphie will be at 317 lbs. It's tough to say at this time, hence Ralph Green will not be drafted high.

Anyway I digress. I'm seeing this notion that if you defeat Jordan Willis's first step, or his first move, then he's done. I have three immediate thoughts about that, before we even get into higher quality arguments or details:

1. I think that's a bit silly and does not reflect on his tape.
2. It's also dangerously close to the "60 percent of the time, it works every time" cliche.
3. That's what they said about Cameron Wake in 2009, as well.

I do wonder sometimes when I hear these sorts of things about the breadth of tape watch that is being done out by the Senior Bowl practice onlookers (e.g. the Stanford tape from 2016 is the only video of him available on Draft Breakdown). The most common mistake I see from people looking at pass rushers is failure to account for coordinated rush techniques within a defensive scheme (e.g. blitzes, or having one end go shallow while the other goes deep), and failure to account for offensive tendencies. Washburn in his career has been particularly well known for coaching his DLs to modify their techniques week to week based on small details of the upcoming offense's tendencies. Some colleges do this as well.

Regardless, I don't think you have to go looking very far in any given tape of Jordan Willis's to see him being successful on secondary movements:

https://youtu.be/3K9iEPlAvvk?t=401 (Senior Bowl: Second move spin off the initial defeat)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4625 (Senior Bowl: Second move spin to the inside off the outside rush)
https://youtu.be/Llt9NtSGTnw?t=93 (Senior Tape: Second move to the inside, wide rush)
https://youtu.be/Llt9NtSGTnw?t=119 (Senior Tape: Put the blocker on skates after initial speed to power)
https://youtu.be/Llt9NtSGTnw?t=162 (Senior Tape: Fake the outside, go inside on a stunt)
https://youtu.be/Llt9NtSGTnw?t=187 (Senior Tape: Hand fight to the outside after the initial contact)
https://youtu.be/r-JZ7NFZUK8?t=135 (Senior Tape: Fake the outside, go inside on a stunt)
https://youtu.be/r-JZ7NFZUK8?t=346 (Senior Tape: Outside-in against the double team)
https://youtu.be/r-JZ7NFZUK8?t=578 (Senior Tape: Outside-in against the double team)
https://youtu.be/HyTKeDwwncY?t=160 (Senior Tape: Second move to the outside after the initial contact)
https://youtu.be/HyTKeDwwncY?t=213 (Senior Tape: Swim back to the inside after speed rush)
https://youtu.be/HyTKeDwwncY?t=335 (Senior Tape: Put the blocker on skates after the initial speed to power)
https://youtu.be/Fg4X-8fNx0A?t=85 (Senior Tape: Second move to the outside, wide rush)
https://youtu.be/Fg4X-8fNx0A?t=187 (Senior Tape: Second move to the inside, wide rush)
https://youtu.be/Fg4X-8fNx0A?t=213 (Senior Tape: Second move to the inside, wide rush)
https://youtu.be/YSQj2QQS4Xc?t=26 (Junior Tape: Second move to the outside, from a 5-technique)
https://youtu.be/YSQj2QQS4Xc?t=285 (Junior Tape: Second move to the outside, from a 5-technique)
https://youtu.be/YSQj2QQS4Xc?t=483 (Junior Tape: Second move to the outside after an inside move off the snap)

Miami is picking #22 overall. Let's not pretend they're going to have their choice of a bunch of Myles Garretts at that pick. Or at #54 overall for that matter, if that's where Jordan Willis is destined to go. I agree most with Awsi who said that Willis looked good in the Senior Bowl, but that the tackles in the game (on the North and South, really) looked a bit in over their heads.

But this talk among Senior Bowl practice onlookers or whoever is saying it, the talk about Willis being a first step player that is easily defeated if you can keep up with his first step, or him being one-dimensional, etc...I think it's kind of silly. I remember in 1999 when everyone said, coming off a highly disappointing 2.5 sack year, that "the book has been written" on how to block Jason Taylor and that "all you have to do is body him" or some such nonsense. We know how that ended. I also remember 2009 when Cameron Wake was only being used 300 snaps on the year behind the likes of soon-to-be-retired Joey Porter, and some of us were SCREAMING (as early as preseason) that this Wake guy has incredible explosiveness and needs to be playing at least twice as much as he is, but the general group-though insisted Cam Wake is a one-trick pony, that all he has is his first step, etc. The dangers of group-think, I guess. I think the lesson is that players can make entire careers off that ability to explode off the snap and take the outside-edge from a blocker. It deserves some amount of benefit of the doubt, when you see it.

I don't know if Jordan Willis is destined to be Cameron Wake or Jason Taylor. He may be destined to be just another Jack Crawford. But I do think that's the range for him. He's at least a Jack Crawford, possibly more. I'd roll the dice on that if I knew it was a great locker room guy with a stellar work ethic and favorable build.

Here are the relevant snaps from his Senior Bowl where he was asked to be more strictly a wide rusher, speed-to-power guy. Stunting wasn't even allowed, by rule, I think.

https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=72 (Senior Bowl: Speed to power, wide rush; Taylor Moton)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=1194 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Taylor Moton)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=1214 (Senior Bowl: Speed to power, wide rush; Taylor Moton)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=1270 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Taylor Moton - Flag Holding)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=1940 (Senior Bowl: Speed to power, wide rush; Zach Banner)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=2137 (Senor Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Zach Banner - Sack/Fumble)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=3288 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Adam Bisnowaty - Sack/Fumble)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4625 (Senior Bowl: Outside to in, wide rush; Julien Davenport)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4647 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Julien Davenport)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4737 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Julien Davenport - QB HAT)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4779 (Senior Bowl: Speed to power, wide rush; Julien Davenport)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4868 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Julien Davenport)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=4916 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Julien Davenport)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=5862 (Senior Bowl: Outside, wide rush; Zach Banner)
https://youtu.be/waUV4_FXNnA?t=5944 (Senior Bowl: Speed to power; Zach Banner)

 

[ckparrothead]

Getting back to the thread topic of fits for our system(s), I fully agree with Awsi Dooger when he says "legitimately great players" (emphasis on the full and specific meaning of that descriptor) will fit any system.

The problem is most of a draft you're probably not trying to get "legitimately great players". Maybe the top of the 1st round. The rest of the draft you don't have a ton of whacks at the bat to try and get a legitimately great player.

One assumption I've often seen put out there is that good is the enemy of great when it comes to draft picks. I don't agree. Terrible is the enemy of great. Bad is the enemy of great. Mediocre is the enemy of great. Often when I see General Managers or draft picks cited as examples of how drafting for "good" can be dangerous, we're talking about BAD PLAYERS. I mean Eddie Moore was a friggin' bad player. That wasn't "good is the enemy of great". That was a bad player, a bad eval. Let's not try and stretch that into our convenient narratives.

It's sort of like saying that going for Jamar Fletcher was trying to hit a single instead of a home run, then turning around and saying that going for Anquan Boldin in the 2nd round would've been swinging for the fences. Really? Because Jamar Fletcher and Anquan Boldin were basically the same player at different positions. Both College Football Hall of Fame types who were GREAT players (not good, GREAT) in college, but who had some measurables that didn't necessarily add up for pro translation. One of them went on to be a great pro. The other didn't.

I think the great players to come out of the draft beyond a certain point (e.g. top half of the 1st round) come out of all walks of life. All styles, all levels of competition, prototypes, etc. It's a little like hitting the lottery. And I've never seen any evidence that consistently hitting on good players that give you good contributions in your system(s), will actually decrease your chances of finding a great player. In fact it's probably the opposite.

I think we're quickly establishing a pretty good prototype on the defensive side of the ball for what they want particularly at corner and linebacker.

If a corner isn't at least six feet with good length in his arms, he probably need not apply to our Outside CB position. Perhaps he could work the Slot CB position, but not the outside.

At linebacker Chris Grier recently admitted that both he and Tannenbaum come from the Bill Parcells school of prototyping, and Tannenbaum threw in the old Parcells quote, "Don't take linebackers that drive Volkswagons." Add in Matt Burke's history particularly at the Mike linebacker spot where he enjoyed success with the likes of Stephen Tulloch (Tennessee originally, reunited in Detroit) and Rey Maualuga (Cincinnati), I think it could be a safe bet that Burke is the source of the talk about moving Kiko Alonso to Will and then finding a new Mike. So what does that mean they want at Mike? A lengthy hammer, I guess.

Defensive end is a bit harder to gauge. From a front office standpoint, and likely also from Jim Washburn's standpoint, it seemed like there was an emphasis on length and size with the additions of Mario Williams, Jason Jones. There was the announced intention of making Cam Wake a pass rush specialist. Andre Branch was Vance Joseph's guy but at 6'4" he fit well enough. But Vance kept saying publicly that he likes his defensive ends to look more like outside linebackers, which has not been Jim Washburn's M.O. during his career, nor does that philosophy seem very compatible with giving Mario Williams $8.5 million in 2016. Then partway through the season Mario Williams gets benched, as does Jason Jones, and Andre Branch and Cam Wake (two guys who "look like outside linebackers") got elevated. Vance once even went as far as expressing that one of Adam Gase's strong suits was his willingness to bench "established starters". And I've heard privately that Vance Joseph's personnel input basically batted a thousand this year.

So there may have been disagreements on defensive end, between Vance Joseph and several others. Does that persist now that Vance is gone? Maybe we're back to the same philosophies which saw us signing Mario Williams and Jason Jones. It's hard to say. We're gonna have to watch and find out.

But clearly they're going to want guys who can set the edge, re-trace like linebackers, convert speed-to-power, and stunt to the inside from a Wide rush position. Clearly the ability to get off the blocks matters to these guys, at both the defensive end and defensive tackle positions. No matter what those guys look like physically. They may be looking for a guy who has the versatility to go inside and help there. They may be looking for a guy who will be a Sam in base and can put his hand down and rush reliably well at will. Matt Burke once coached Julian Peterson in Detroit.

On offense I'm not even really sure they have a "type". Adam Gase likes to throw everything at the opposing defense. We ended up using a lot of zone blocking because Jay Ajayi had so much success with it. But his history has not been to use zone blocking exclusively by any means. I think he's actually very demanding on his OLs because he asks them to execute a lot of different things and to always have in mind what the goal is on the different kinds of plays so that they can improvise at will.

I know that from a personnel standpoint Adam Gase puts a lot of store in physical benchmarks like lifting prowess, measures of explosiveness, measures of agility and speed, measures of length and size. He also equally puts a lot of store in how smart the players are, how quickly they can identify things, how well they're going to know the playbook and what they're trying to accomplish as a unit on each play. That may sound like he's just looking for the perfect offensive lineman. But the thing that is actually a trailing third in that profile...is technique. He doesn't care a ton if a guy has sloppy technique. He figures they'll teach him that, and as long as he's physically and mentally impressive, that's good enough.

I have been under the impression based on what I have heard, which is corroborated thus far with the fact they've re-signed MarQueis Gray but not necessarily prioritized Dion Sims, that they're looking for more of an in-line tight end. A true #1 guy with true versatility. Many people claim that the joker types are versatile but they're not really versatile unless they can be used in-line one down, an H-Back the next down, a slot WR the next down, and then perimeter slant the down after that. That's versatility. I think they covet the likes of Kyle Rudolph, Greg Olsen, guys like that. That's why when I hear this talk of David Njoku, I shy away from it a little. I love the player. I'm just not sure that's what they're looking for.

At quarterback I think it's pretty clear that Adam Gase hates the spread and he's not very into dual-threat quarterbacks. He wants guys that work the pocket, read the field, make good decisions and make good throws. He doesn't like the spread but he seems to accept that to some extent it is a fact of life in college to pro quarterback translation. There aren't a whole lot of Cooper Rushes out there. He was willing to take a shot on Brandon Doughty whose system had pro concepts in it and was kind of like half-spread. That said, based on things I've heard I think Adam Gase can also kind of show a few nepotistic tendencies, which honestly you did see in the Doughty pick since that was kind of a Dan Marino favorite. Gase has a relationship with Kliff Kingsbury, and if Kliff is really pushing Davis Webb or Patrick Mahomes, Adam may set aside some of the spread and/or dual-threat biases he inherited from his mentor Mike Martz and actually buy into a player his friend is selling.

Running back, there's no pinning that one down. Adam Gase is all over the board there. He just wants someone GOOD. Right now, and this may be temporary, I think he may be looking to use the position more in the passing game. Based on what I've heard. He's a little stuck in this regard as Jay Ajayi isn't very good in the passing game. But Damien Williams and Kenyan Drake are...

Trust me when I say that both Adam Gase and Clyde Christensen have been seeing what these smaller, super quick guys like Tyreek Hill are doing in the passing game...especially out of the backfield. It didn't work out with Jakeem Grant that way. They'll give him another crack at it. But they'll look to give him competition in the form of perhaps a Ryan Switzer, Trent Taylor, Kermit Whitfield, someone like that. They're going to take to the drawing board this off season and start drawing up those plays and implementing them into the CORE offense. And either Jakeem Grant is going to run them, or someone else is. Getting someone to compete with Grant that way is the best way to ensure that someone's there to do it one way or another.

 

[DKphin]

2017 NFL Draft: Senior Bowl star Jordan Willis studies Cameron Wake tape

South squad defensive end Jordan Willis of Kansas State (75) lines up for a play during the first half of the Senior Bowl NCAA college football game, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. (AP Photo/Butch Dill)

MOBILE, Ala. — Kansas State defensive end Jordan Willis has broken down tape of every starting defensive end in the NFL and his favorite pass rusher is Miami Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake.

The Dolphins need an injection of youthful defensive ends and Willis should be on their radar, especially if he is available in the second round of April’s NFL Draft.

Willis says he has spent up to five hours in a single day studying the moves of defensive players like Wake, J.J. Watt, Khalil Mack, Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware.

“The reason why I watch those guys is they are always around the football,” Willis said after a Senior Bowl practice. “They’ve got good takeoff. They set up their moves. And they’re explosive.”

Willis creates quarterback pressures but also is a solid run defender. Miami needs more players who can do both.

Willis is a solidly-built 6-feet-3 and 3/4 and 255 pounds. After a good week of practice, Willis helped improve his stock with draft evaluators with two sacks and two forced fumbles in Saturday’s game.

Willis was named South Team Outstanding Player.

http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachp...star-jordan-willis-studies-cameron-wake-tape/

 

[Rolltide03]

I think Anderson is more of a 3rd round guy due to his limitations against the pass but I think he would seamlessly fill misi's spot on D. He's not gonna blow you away with anything in particular but should be NFL ready to come in and be stout at the POA and stop the run. Doesn't need to add any weight and has an NFL body already. I need to see just how lunky he is in pass drills at the combine before I'm comfortable giving up a pick on that ... given our abundant needs.

He disrupted just as many plays as Allen and Foster. Was very productive on a good defense, so underrated and no way will he be a 3rd. We'll be extremely lucky if he's there at our 2nd pick.

I don't really see how he fits as a mike though

 

[ckparrothead]

“I would say the biggest thing coach (Snyder) taught me was to be consistent,” Willis said. “Once I learned that and brought it into my game, the weight room, the film room, doing extra stuff and then recovering, not being a one-time guy or a one-day guy. I saw it. I saw everything escalate. My play. And everything else. This was my most consistent season.”

This sounds like stuff you might hear from any player, but you would be shocked how FEW actually absorb this lesson.