With the 2022 NFL season quick approaching, the South Florida Sun Sentinel takes a take a look at 10 storylines to look at for in a 10-part sequence forward of the Miami Dolphins’ first day of coaching camp, which is about for Wednesday.
Terron Armstead has had an completed nine-year NFL profession, however the one factor he’s lacking is a soccer legacy.
While Armstead was a three-time Pro Bowler and a particularly necessary cog in Sean Payton’s New Orleans Saints offense, he wasn’t the straw that stirred the drink. He was one among many ice cubes in New Orleans.
In Miami, he has the potential to do — and be — a lot extra as a result of this Dolphins offensive line belongs to him now. If issues go proper, that unit will function the muse for the whole staff.
That’s why it shouldn’t be too difficult for Armstead to think about himself because the participant who turned one of many NFL’s weakest offensive traces into one among its most feared items, and a part of the change wanted to assist Miami win its first playoff sport because the 2000 season.
That’s what the 6-foot-5, and match 304-pounder’s legacy may very well be.
Armstead, who has began 93 of the 97 video games he’s performed, is an offensive linemen within the Trent Williams-mold. He’s a expertise new coach Mike McDaniel can construct the Dolphins’ whole operating sport round, very like McDaniel constructed the San Francisco 49ers’ speeding assault round Williams.
That sort of 300-pound athlete, who can dominate the person lined up throughout from him for 50 snaps a sport, is strictly what the Dolphins have been lacking since Laremy Tunsil was traded to Houston for a treasure chest of draft picks earlier than the 2019 season.
And what’s much more becoming is that Armstead, who owns the NFL mix document for operating the quickest 40-yard sprint time (4.71) of any offensive linemen, is ideal match for this scheme, and he is aware of it.
“This scheme. I think it fits my skill set pretty well, so I’m excited,” mentioned Armstead, who has been rehabbing a knee damage that pressured him to overlook the ultimate 4 video games of the 2021 season, and all of Miami’s offseason discipline work. “I’m going to keep saying that word because I truly am. Just ready to get out there and show what I can do in that fit.”
For the Dolphins to rework their West Coast offense right into a top-10 unit they’ll want the wide-zone operating scheme to work, and finest probability of that taking place is that if Armstead can dominate for 17 video games, like Williams has in San Francisco.
“When you’re running the wide zone, and its 11 people moving on one accord, and the running back isn’t rushing his read,” Williams has mentioned in regards to the scheme. “He’s reading it one gap at a time and then exposing a hole in the defense. It’s damn near impossible to stop if run properly.”
And if a staff has athletes on the offensive line, look out.
That’s what Williams is, and what Armstead brings to Miami.
“The only way to stop it is to put six down linemen down and doing that you restrict your coverage and then we pass because all the tight ends and fullbacks are like receivers. They run the same routes,” Williams mentioned explaining the 49ers fashion of offense McDaniel is bringing to the Dolphins.
“Then you got a Deebo [Samuel],” Williams added (Miami will simply substitute Tyreek Hill in his place).
“We can look like we’re in a five wide and then run an I-formation,” Williams continued. “That dynamic, and when you add all that to it, it makes it extremely hard to guard. That’s why no matter who we go up against we have success.”
The aim is for Miami to imitate that very same fashion and it’s Armstead who will serve the foundational piece as a result of when wholesome he’ll open up operating lanes, tackle second-level defenders to supply massive runs, and infrequently block the opposition’s finest go rusher one-on-one, doubtlessly easing the load positioned on the opposite 4 offensive linemen.
We’ll uncover if Armstead, who turned 31 lately, nonetheless has the athleticism to take action when he’s cleared to apply on his surgically repaired knee.
That’s when his career-defining determination to go away New Orleans for Miami will get examined as a result of Armstead’s the kind of expertise who ought to assist everybody round him carry out at a better degree.
That sort of participant is crucial to Miami’s success this season as a result of it’s time to lift the bar, and time for Armstead to cement his legacy.
Previously addressed
Can Dolphins get similar manufacturing from Tyreek Hill in Miami?
Will Dolphins defensive coordinator Josh Boyer have the ability to show he doesn’t want Brian Flores’ assist?
In what methods can Mike McDaniel’s teaching fashion, offensive thoughts profit Dolphins?
Can wide-zone scheme jump-start Dolphins’ run sport?
How a lot enchancment may be anticipated from Tua Tagovailoa after all the things Dolphins put round him?
Will Jaylen Waddle and Mike Gesicki praise Tyreek Hill to provide Dolphins a harmful offensive trio?
How good can Emmanuel Ogbah, Jaelan Phillips and Dolphins’ go rush be in 2022?
Who will step ahead as Dolphins’ leaders in 2022?
Did Dolphins miss out by not including a confirmed center linebacker to improve unit?
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