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Biegel Battle: Dolphins Linebacker Earns Family Bragging Rights

Dolphins linebacker Vince Biegel comes from a football family, but he made it a point this weekend to show who's boss now

Alain Poupart

Steve Mitchell-USA Today Sports

Dolphins players are scattered around the country as NFL facilities remain closed because of the restrictions imposed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but linebacker Vince Biegel is surrounded by football players back home in Wisconsin.

See, Biegel's father, Rocky, was a linebacker at Brigham Young University who was good enough to earn second-team All-Mountain West Conference honors. And Vince's brother, Hayden, was his teammate at the University of Wisconsin for three years (2013-15).

So there apparently was some trash talking this weekend among the Biegel boys, dad included, and Vince clearly felt the need to show them who's boss now when it comes to football.

So the guys went outside, with both Rocky and Hayden taking turns trying to block Vince coming out of a two-point stance.

As Biegel chronicled on Twitter, it sure looks like he won both battles.

Vince's rep against his brother, prompted a Twitter reply from new teammate Kyle Van Noy, who Tweeted along with the laughing-crying emoji, "Is his knee okay?"

Biegel replied, "Knee okay, spirits not so much."

In his first season with the Dolphins after being acquired in a trade with the New Orleans Saints, Biegel ended up with the first 2.5 sacks of his three-year NFL career. The first was memorable because it came against New England Patriots legend Tom Brady.

Biegel started 10 games as an outside linebacker/edge defender, though his role in 2020 became a big unclear after the Dolphins signed veterans Van Noy, Shaq Lawson and Emmanuel Ogbah in free agency and then drafted edge rusher Curtis Weaver in the fifth round.

Biegel was re-signed as a restricted free agent this offseason.

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Alain Poupart
ALAIN POUPART

Alain Poupart is the publisher/editor of All Dolphins and co-host of the All Dolphins Podcast. Alain has covered the Miami Dolphins on a full-time basis since 1989 for various publications and media outlets, including Dolphin Digest, The Associated Press, the Dolphins team website, and the Fan Nation Network (part of Sports Illustrated). In addition to being a credentialed member of the Miami Dolphins press corps, Alain has covered three Super Bowls (for NFL.com, Football News and the Montreal Gazette), the annual NFL draft, the Senior Bowl, and the NFL Scouting Combine. During his almost 40 years in journalism, which began at the now-defunct Miami News, Alain has covered practically every sport at one time or another, from tennis to golf, baseball, basketball and everything in between. The career also included time as a copy editor, including work on several books such as "Still Perfect," an inside look at the Miami Dolphins' 1972 perfect season. A native of Montreal, Canada, whose first language is French, Alain grew up a huge hockey fan but soon developed a love for all sports, including NFL football. He has lived in South Florida since the 1980s.

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