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Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my advans in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What is I'm Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfold. And on today's show,
Speaker 3: we are back on the floor at the Indiana Convention
Speaker 3: Center for Scouting Combine twenty twenty four coverage. We have
Speaker 3: a bunch of interviews lined up for you guys. We're
Speaker 3: also gonna touch on the Dolphins ranking first in that
Speaker 3: player survey for how they're treated across multiple avenues of
Speaker 3: professional football life.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do that.
Speaker 3: We're a gonna hear from Jordan Reid from ESPN and
Speaker 3: the great Emory Hunt from CBS Sports HQ. All of
Speaker 3: that and more from the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: YEA, So, the Dolphins rank number one on the NFLPA
Speaker 3: survey that grades several categories across the National Football League
Speaker 3: and these are graded by the players themselves, a pretty
Speaker 3: good source here, and I believe Miami was number two
Speaker 3: last year.
Speaker 2: If I'm not mistaken. Well, they got better, they upgraded,
Speaker 2: they proved.
Speaker 3: To number one this year with top rankings really across
Speaker 3: the board. So here's the categories that players voted on
Speaker 3: for this particular survey. Treatment of families. That's third in
Speaker 3: the National Football League out of thirty two.
Speaker 2: What does that mean?
Speaker 3: Tickets for families at games, postgame meeting areas with the players.
Speaker 3: We have family Night for where the families come in
Speaker 3: for dinner to have dinner with their with their players
Speaker 3: and the coaches at the facility. So third out of
Speaker 3: thirty two. Pretty good in that category. And when they
Speaker 3: have those dinners in the cafeteria number one in the NFL. Baby,
Speaker 3: and I can personally attest to that. We have very
Speaker 3: good breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day in the facility.
Speaker 2: It's awesome. I eat their more than eat at home,
Speaker 2: and it is very very good food. And it gives
Speaker 2: me a good mix too, because I.
Speaker 3: Don't really like to eat that many vegetables and things
Speaker 3: that are good for me, but it forces me to
Speaker 3: eat better when I eat in that cafeteria. Nutritionists and
Speaker 3: Dietitian second in the National Football League. Locker room third
Speaker 3: and it's a great locker room.
Speaker 2: We hear about that all the time.
Speaker 3: Training room first, Training staff first. A lot of consternation
Speaker 3: about training staff this year, right, and I've always said,
Speaker 3: how the heck is a training staff supposed to prevent
Speaker 3: an achilles from popping?
Speaker 2: Like, I never understand that argument.
Speaker 3: Well, the players will tell you the training staff and
Speaker 3: training room are number one in the entire National Football League.
Speaker 3: So it was the weight room that's also first strength.
Speaker 3: Coaches second place, team travel Scott Bullus mentioned here the
Speaker 3: one that coordinates all that stuff first in team travel ownership,
Speaker 3: Stephen Ross number one, Go get.
Speaker 2: Them, Steve.
Speaker 3: And then how about the head coach number eight? That
Speaker 3: one kind of shook me as like kind of low
Speaker 3: on the list here, but he.
Speaker 2: Also got an A.
Speaker 3: That just means there's lots of coaches that are loved
Speaker 3: out there in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: So every one of these things is great.
Speaker 3: As an AA for the Miami Dolphins, the only A
Speaker 3: minuses were training staff and treatment of families, and then
Speaker 3: the ownership and the weight room both received A pluses
Speaker 3: and everything else got an A.
Speaker 2: For your Mimi Dolphins, it's a great place to work.
Speaker 3: And we got to hear from Dolphin Jail manager Chris
Speaker 3: Greer on that survey as he addressed it in his
Speaker 3: Wednesday media availability. From the comment, I will play the
Speaker 3: rest of the sound bites from Chris Greer a little
Speaker 3: bit later on.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and drop.
Speaker 3: That sound bite talking about the NFLPA survey right here.
Speaker 4: Well, I think it's a testament.
Speaker 5: It's a Steve Ross.
Speaker 4: I mean just for what he's built in terms of
Speaker 4: the facility and the people he's allowed us to hire,
Speaker 4: and and when you have a building like that and
Speaker 4: you get a survey and you finish top rated like that,
Speaker 4: I think that shows just the quality of the people
Speaker 4: from you know, Dave Poloka and strength, Kyle Johnson and
Speaker 4: training staff, you know Meghan and the dining staff.
Speaker 5: But it's a very collaborative.
Speaker 4: Everyone works and talks together, and the players feel that, like,
Speaker 4: you know, we're very communicative with the players and telling
Speaker 4: them like, hey, you know, what can we do better?
Speaker 4: What can we do? So I was very excited for
Speaker 4: it because I know last year when we got number two,
Speaker 4: you know, guys are like, oh, how do we not
Speaker 4: get number one? So again, and that just shows that,
Speaker 4: you know, with Steve, because right away that last year,
Speaker 4: Steve was like, oh, we're number two, what can we
Speaker 4: do better? And so I give Steve a lot of
Speaker 4: credit on that for driving us to be the best
Speaker 4: in the business.
Speaker 3: We will hear more from Chris Career here in just
Speaker 3: one moment, But first, let's go ahead and play a
Speaker 3: couple of interviews live from Radio Row. They're not live.
Speaker 3: I conducted them live when I did them. They're not
Speaker 3: live right now. They happen in the past. It's a podcast.
Speaker 3: That's how podcasts work. Do you guys know how podcasts work?
Speaker 3: Maybe I do. Let's go ahead by the interview here
Speaker 3: with Jordan Reid from ESPN. Now, all right, welcome back
Speaker 3: into the podcast. ESPN still feels good to say that
Speaker 3: every single year Jordan Reid, Jordan, how do you doing man?
Speaker 2: How's the how are the rounds treating you?
Speaker 6: Here?
Speaker 3: Exuce, I've seen you make a couple of software anywhere
Speaker 3: over to the Dolphins table.
Speaker 5: It's good man.
Speaker 6: I compare it to the car wash, just going through it,
Speaker 6: talking to different teams, and that's the fun part of
Speaker 6: the process.
Speaker 5: It's like the lead up to Christmas for me.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: So every time I have you on the show here
Speaker 3: we do some type of check in on the quarterback position,
Speaker 3: because well, you play the position at a pretty high level,
Speaker 3: and so I'll ask you again for a progress report
Speaker 3: on two A Tongua bai Loo who played the full
Speaker 3: season for the first time in his career, had great
Speaker 3: success early on, kind of tailed off the production towards
Speaker 3: the end of the year, didn't get the wins late
Speaker 3: in the year the Dolphins fans and organization we're hoping for.
Speaker 3: I'm just curious overall, what did you make of his
Speaker 3: second year in Mike McDaniel's system.
Speaker 5: I thought he was really successful.
Speaker 6: He had plenty of hot points throughout the season, and
Speaker 6: I think there isn't a better system than he could
Speaker 6: play in that matches his strengths. Just attack in the
Speaker 6: middle of the field and then just having the adequate
Speaker 6: number of weapons that he has Jaqulen Waddell, Tyreek Hill
Speaker 6: and the host of other guys that they do have.
Speaker 6: Devin h change really came on when he was healthy
Speaker 6: throughout the season, and they have a host of other
Speaker 6: running backs that they do like as well. So I
Speaker 6: thought he showed some problems and flashes, but they do
Speaker 6: have a big decision to make with him this offseason
Speaker 6: and if they're going to give him the extension or not,
Speaker 6: and if he is worthy of that.
Speaker 5: So I'll mentioned to see how it does unfold.
Speaker 3: Well, if you take McDaniel's word for it, sounds like
Speaker 3: that's the direction they're going to go into. He just
Speaker 3: talked about him in his press conference, and it seems
Speaker 3: pretty likely that two was going to be here for
Speaker 3: quite a while. If you hear coach talk about him
Speaker 3: and his growth that he's he's seen from that first
Speaker 3: year now into year number three, what would you say
Speaker 3: are some things that he can he can do better?
Speaker 3: Because every year we've seen to a twenty five year
Speaker 3: old quarterback going into his age twenty sixth season, he's
Speaker 3: gotten better every single year rookie year up to now.
Speaker 2: What about year five? Where's that jump for him gonna
Speaker 2: happen in year five?
Speaker 6: Do you think just a consistency with working things outside
Speaker 6: the middle of the field and then also just stretching
Speaker 6: the playbook outside of so much RPO stuff too, just
Speaker 6: because RPO is such what I call object read centric
Speaker 6: to where he's reading the safety or he's reading the
Speaker 6: linebacker and things like that. To where he can go
Speaker 6: through those true progressions and be more consistent than that area.
Speaker 3: What do you think about the idea of hiring quarterback coach?
Speaker 3: I heard that he was going that direction this offseason.
Speaker 3: I think most most quarterbacks probably work with a And
Speaker 3: also I was telling our friend off to the side
Speaker 3: here that did the production for us.
Speaker 2: He was like, what's the quarterback coach?
Speaker 1: Joan?
Speaker 3: I view it as like a swing coach in golf, right,
Speaker 3: whereas you have your your caddy as your coach, and
Speaker 3: then your swing coach as yours your quarterback coach. Is
Speaker 3: that an accurate assessment? And also what's the value of
Speaker 3: having that?
Speaker 5: It is?
Speaker 6: And a lot of times with coaches, they have to
Speaker 6: be so focused on winning games they forget about the
Speaker 6: developmental aspects of the position. So a quarterback coach can
Speaker 6: focus on those intricacies, the depth and the details of
Speaker 6: the position that the NFL coach may not have time
Speaker 6: for just because he's trying to beat the Patriots, He's
Speaker 6: trying to beat the Bills and the JITs, so they
Speaker 6: forget about the little details of the position. R I
Speaker 6: should they forget? They forget about they get into winning
Speaker 6: games and they get a little. They get so focused
Speaker 6: on that they forget about the little details of the position.
Speaker 3: Fundamentals and details can always be stressed upon it and
Speaker 3: focused on. Let's go ahead and pivoting down to the
Speaker 3: team building aspect of our show. Here we have Jordan
Speaker 3: Reid from ESPN breaking down all things NFL draft minded
Speaker 3: Dolphins for you guys. Here, let's go ahead and start
Speaker 3: with the top pick twenty one. I think this is
Speaker 3: the first time we've done drive times since twenty one. Yeah,
Speaker 3: maybe the Waddle and Phillips picks, which worked out pretty
Speaker 3: good for the Dolphins. In fact, if you go back
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty to Austin Jackson, no Ignogeny was a miss.
Speaker 3: Jalen Phillips and Jaalen Wattle pretty good bye christ career, right, Like,
Speaker 3: tell me about those guys a little bit.
Speaker 2: What do you think about their career so far?
Speaker 5: I mean, they've been awesome.
Speaker 6: Phillips had the unfortunate injury too, has come along really nicely.
Speaker 6: Waddle has been a very explosive weapon. And then you know,
Speaker 6: Igbinoghny was a risk for them back then, but it
Speaker 6: was worth a swing just because a player that started
Speaker 6: as a receiver at Alburn and then transferred over the corner.
Speaker 6: It tests really good and they felt like they had
Speaker 6: he had the traits present to where you could coach
Speaker 6: them up to eventually turn into a successful player, but
Speaker 6: it just didn't.
Speaker 5: Work out for him.
Speaker 3: So we're talking about in those five players, a quarterback,
Speaker 3: a tackle, a wide receiver, an edge, and a corner.
Speaker 3: It's the five premium positions in the sport, right Is
Speaker 3: that kind of a smart philosophy to go first round
Speaker 3: premium spot because we can get these guys that on
Speaker 3: the free agent market are super expensive.
Speaker 2: Rickie contract not so much.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I mean the first round, in my opinion,
Speaker 6: should be a reserved for passers, pass catchers, and pass protectors,
Speaker 6: pass rushers. But so those are the four areas where
Speaker 6: he really want to address in the first round, just
Speaker 6: because they're those premium positions. And I think wide receiver
Speaker 6: is a premium position nowadays just because we're seeing so
Speaker 6: many of those guys go in the first round, and
Speaker 6: how it really is insurance for those first round quarterbacks
Speaker 6: or those young quarterbacks that you do select.
Speaker 3: So kind of getting into more followups here than my
Speaker 3: actual question I was going to ask you, because you know,
Speaker 3: I tell people this a lot, and actually e J.
Speaker 2: Snyer, the Bootleg Football co host, just stop buying.
Speaker 3: He asked me, what do you think the offen'se biggest
Speaker 3: needs are, And I said, I'm interested in another pass
Speaker 3: catcher because Tyreek and Waddle when they were injured last year,
Speaker 3: there was a lot of stress on the one guy
Speaker 3: who was up and available. And they also run an
Speaker 3: offense where there's a lot of rotation, so Tyreek and
Speaker 3: Walla don't play every step every game because they come
Speaker 3: off the field for those reps. So I'm curious what
Speaker 3: you think is a good compliment to those two in
Speaker 3: this year's class at a receiver, tight end and eligible
Speaker 3: that could potentially give Miami even more juice on offense.
Speaker 6: That you like. Well maybe not at twenty one, but
Speaker 6: if they want to trade back for somebody that's coming
Speaker 6: up for a player, maybe late first or early second,
Speaker 6: I would love to see them get a dynamic tight end.
Speaker 6: I think that's another area that can unlock Mike me
Speaker 6: Daniels offense, just because we know they like the flood
Speaker 6: the middle of the field. That's just his scheme, that's
Speaker 6: what he wants to do. So Jatavian Sanders of Texas.
Speaker 6: He's one that I think they could have a lot
Speaker 6: of interest in, just because.
Speaker 5: He's a player that's highly productive.
Speaker 6: He can play inside and outside in the end with
Speaker 6: them stressing the middle of the field so much, his
Speaker 6: game in between the college hashes has been so productive
Speaker 6: for him, and I think he was around one to
Speaker 6: think yeah, yeah, I think so, late first, maybe not
Speaker 6: at twenty one, but late first, early second.
Speaker 5: I think that's where they could go.
Speaker 3: Gotcha, how about on the offensive line, because that's another
Speaker 3: spot where the Dolphins, like every team is looking for
Speaker 3: offensive line help. Right. I did a little research thing
Speaker 3: on this and, like I believe Chad Rure, NFL dot
Speaker 3: Com had like twenty six teams with the offensive line
Speaker 3: need and their first three needs, like it's everybody in
Speaker 3: the NFL but from Miami. Pretty good lusher and they're
Speaker 3: healthy the depth after injuries took their toll, which again
Speaker 3: every team in the NFL has those. But left guards
Speaker 3: are free agent, center's a free agent, right guards a
Speaker 3: free agent. The right tackle got re signed. The left
Speaker 3: tackle we don't know if he's coming back or not yet.
Speaker 3: How are some guys that could play either either of
Speaker 3: those spots. But also I'm kind of airsted in the
Speaker 3: potential convert guys like like a Troy Fatanu right from
Speaker 3: you could be a guy that plays guard right away tackle?
Speaker 3: Is that a tough transition for a guy like that
Speaker 3: to make? And I guess just kind of tellus about
Speaker 3: the offensive line in that first round.
Speaker 6: Well, it'd be interesting with Patanu, just because I'm always
Speaker 6: of the belief if you have any doubts or you're
Speaker 6: on the fence about if a guy can play tackle
Speaker 6: or guard, make them show or make them fail at
Speaker 6: tackle first, just because it's such a premium position. You
Speaker 6: want to make him show you that, hey, I cannot
Speaker 6: play tackle before you slide him inside the guard.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 6: I have Fortana grated as a guard, but some teams
Speaker 6: you talk to they have him as a tackle and
Speaker 6: they feel as if he can stay there. So I
Speaker 6: think he could be a viable option at twenty one.
Speaker 6: Center could be another area of need or is the
Speaker 6: area need for them? Jackson Powers Johnson of Oregon, I
Speaker 6: think he's another player that they could target. Zach Fraser
Speaker 6: of West Virginia is another. There's plenty of others. Kooper
Speaker 6: beebe of Kansas State is another I think they could
Speaker 6: like as well.
Speaker 3: We've heard Powers Johnson, we've heard the Duke kid. I
Speaker 3: just for grand Barton and Zach Fraser a lot the
Speaker 3: three centers. How do you separate those guys? Like, what's
Speaker 3: the difference in those guys' games?
Speaker 5: If you don't mind it, well, I'll just start with Barton.
Speaker 6: Barton actually played center his first year at Duke in
Speaker 6: the any transition to tackle his final two seasons, so
Speaker 6: he has that versatility of where he can play off
Speaker 6: five upfront. Now I think it's an interior guys because
Speaker 6: he does lack some length and he saw that on
Speaker 6: tape quite a bit last year. So he has the
Speaker 6: versatility and experience at all five that the others do
Speaker 6: not have. Fraser's only been a guard in the center,
Speaker 6: so he kind of has that interchangeable ability. And then
Speaker 6: Jackson Powers Johnson also has guard and center capability.
Speaker 5: But I think he's the best center in this year's draft.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's fun to watch his tape's.
Speaker 3: I compare him to Christian Wilkins a lot in his
Speaker 3: post snap extracurriculars because he's always doing something on the tape.
Speaker 3: Is that something you kind of watch for on tape
Speaker 3: sometimes is how guys backed after plays.
Speaker 6: It shows guys that are having fun and they're enjoying
Speaker 6: the game. Especially as an offensive lineman. You'd love to
Speaker 6: see that, just because as a center, centers are like
Speaker 6: quarterbacks to me, you're setting the tone of the offense
Speaker 6: because there's only two people that touch the ball every
Speaker 6: single play on offense.
Speaker 5: It's the quarterback and it's the center.
Speaker 6: So him having that type of infectious energy, it just
Speaker 6: helps infuse the rest of the group. And you saw
Speaker 6: that at Oregon, like when he was playing at a
Speaker 6: high level. That offensive line is playing at a really
Speaker 6: high level.
Speaker 2: Just a high a great character.
Speaker 3: I saw an interview with him where he was talking
Speaker 3: about doing autographs and he's like, when I find out
Speaker 3: the guys are hawking the auto are the Ebell e
Speaker 3: Bay sellers, I just ride down like turd Ferguson from Jeopardy.
Speaker 3: I saw he mentioned that in interview. Just a great,
Speaker 3: high character. Funny dude. Last one for you here we
Speaker 3: talked about the first round Dolphins pick. Again in the
Speaker 3: second round, I picked fifty three. Who do you like
Speaker 3: in that range? That kind of marries up with the
Speaker 3: Dolphins knees that you have.
Speaker 5: Just any position or just in general.
Speaker 2: Wherever you want.
Speaker 3: Fifty three, like top fifty three players, kind of that
Speaker 3: French top fifty guys that you like.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean offensive line, we could stay with that.
Speaker 6: Cooper b B I definitely could could be a viable option.
Speaker 6: Now see a scheme fit. I would say that's kind
Speaker 6: of on the fence about that as far as the
Speaker 6: predominantly zone scheme. But I think Cooper BB could he
Speaker 6: could be a tackle or it could be a guard.
Speaker 6: So he's one tight end I think could be once
Speaker 6: again another area we talked about Jatavian Sanders, but after
Speaker 6: that it gets a little bit tricky. Maybe not so
Speaker 6: at fifty three, but Theo Johnson of Penn State is
Speaker 6: one that I like, call it quite a bit. Excuse me,
Speaker 6: that big, multiple piece of clay that really dominates the
Speaker 6: middle of the field. Had seven receiving touchdowns the last
Speaker 6: eight games at Penn State, so things really started to
Speaker 6: click for him down in the back stretch of last season.
Speaker 3: It's hard to discuss defense in the podcast because we
Speaker 3: don't really know what the Dolphins defense looks like going
Speaker 3: into next year with a new DC. I even asked
Speaker 3: Andremia about this and he was like multiple and versall.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, you don't say it like every the
Speaker 3: team in the NFL. Right, he was making a joke
Speaker 3: about that. So appreciate your time. Was always Jordan Reid
Speaker 3: at Jordan Underscore Read on Twitter. You can find him
Speaker 3: on ESPN all across the draft landscape there still getting
Speaker 3: mistaken for the former commander's tide end right, I think
Speaker 3: I saw it recently. Appreciate you, man, Thank you.
Speaker 5: Thanks as always, Travis, and.
Speaker 3: Away he goes, let's go ahead and take our first
Speaker 3: break rate there. Come back on the other side, and
Speaker 3: welcome in guest number two, Emery Hunt. Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 3: your host Travis Winkfield, brought to you by Auto Nation
Speaker 3: annual tradition, Emery Hunt, CBS Sports HQ joining me here
Speaker 3: on the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Emery, good to see you again.
Speaker 5: Man, Always a pleasure, man. It's always good to seeing you.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 7: I feel like we're all getting older, but you somehow
Speaker 7: just continue to get younger. I know you had kids,
Speaker 7: so you know your grade started peak out a little
Speaker 7: bit there, man.
Speaker 3: So I did get a haircut earlier, which hides him
Speaker 3: on the side a little bit hides the grays. And
Speaker 3: I was going to make a comment to you because
Speaker 3: usually when I see you, man, you put me to
Speaker 3: shame with the dress. But you're kind of casual today.
Speaker 5: What's yeah, listen, I felt like, you know, I wanted
Speaker 5: to do it for the people. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: I was getting too flashy.
Speaker 7: I didn't want the fans to come in, so I
Speaker 7: was like, let me stay a little key, mingling with
Speaker 7: the commoners, and then boom.
Speaker 2: He dresses down. He confidence the host.
Speaker 3: This man knows exactly what he's doing, how to butter
Speaker 3: the bread there as it were. Every year we do
Speaker 3: this with you at the combine, and then we do
Speaker 3: one in May, which I'm sure we'll do again talking
Speaker 3: about udfas. But it's an annual tradition to revisit the
Speaker 3: hits you have with guys that you project they're gonna
Speaker 3: make our roster from the udf A list. It's uncanny, man,
Speaker 3: every year you get two for us. I don't want
Speaker 3: to know, inflate your ego too much.
Speaker 5: Year.
Speaker 2: But Chris Brooks and.
Speaker 3: Julian Hill, you came on the podcast last many and
Speaker 3: tell me they're gonna make the team, and they did,
Speaker 3: and they played all year long. Chris Brooks got injured
Speaker 3: and couldn't get on the field late in the year.
Speaker 3: But those two guys, man, what did you see in
Speaker 3: their game as rookies for the Dolphins this year.
Speaker 7: Well Brooks was someone that set out to me initially
Speaker 7: at the Hula Bowl.
Speaker 5: There's a big.
Speaker 7: Back, just was heavy running downhill, ran behind his pass.
Speaker 7: I felt like watching him that week, it's difficult to
Speaker 7: tackle him. And then you go and watch the film,
Speaker 7: You're like, Okay, he was a good pace setter for
Speaker 7: a run game, someone that can help keep the Dolphense
Speaker 7: on pace.
Speaker 5: And we know the.
Speaker 7: Dolphins is predicated on speed, so you need someone like
Speaker 7: Brooks in there. And that was the perfect fit for
Speaker 7: him for his skill set and when he brought to
Speaker 7: the table, he'll I remember calling the game where they
Speaker 7: played Mama because I do a lot of college broadcasting
Speaker 7: and Mama Campbell game was like, man, it's this This
Speaker 7: kid is pretty dog go good. And you know he's
Speaker 7: one of these swing move h back types that can
Speaker 7: catch the ball and get up.
Speaker 5: Feel he could run, he could block.
Speaker 7: He's enthusiastic about blocking but he's also very good with
Speaker 7: the ball in his hands. So he's another one that
Speaker 7: if given the opportunity. With the way the Dolphins utilize
Speaker 7: their tight end and what they want to recreate, I
Speaker 7: know everyone says, you know Minnie Sean Vay or someone
Speaker 7: like that, and how San Francisco does. Says, well, that's
Speaker 7: what San Francisco does. They get a tight end, they
Speaker 7: get an h back and get a flex tight end
Speaker 7: and get a full back. And the Dolphins are still
Speaker 7: creating that. And I thought Hell would have been a
Speaker 7: perfect type to crossover between fullback h back that can
Speaker 7: really catch the ball.
Speaker 3: That's a good example because alec Ingold obviously is kind
Speaker 3: of that.
Speaker 2: Kyle used check role.
Speaker 3: Dervis minds us a little bit of everything, kind of
Speaker 3: a I don't want to say poor manage George Kittle
Speaker 3: because he's not that, but George Kittle's an can all pro,
Speaker 3: so it's tough to hit that match. But then you know,
Speaker 3: with Julian I had I interviewed this year in the
Speaker 3: locker room one point and I was like, man, I
Speaker 3: love watching you come around the formation on those jet
Speaker 3: motions and kick out that backside lineback or even lead
Speaker 3: up the back on the outside zone that way, and
Speaker 3: he's like, got offif on my rookie duties.
Speaker 2: So what I'm curious is the.
Speaker 3: Next evolution for him as a pass catcher because you mentioned
Speaker 3: a little bit there. You think there's some meat on
Speaker 3: the bone fram because he didn't really get any targets
Speaker 3: this year in the passing game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's you go back and watch the games
Speaker 7: at Campbell. He was a significant part of the passing game.
Speaker 7: He was well closed by Mike Menton, former NFL player
Speaker 7: and he now moved on from the head coaching position
Speaker 7: there at Campbell. But while he was there, he was
Speaker 7: they were getting him the ball. And I think now
Speaker 7: because people have gotten you see him blocking, that they're
Speaker 7: going to leave the passing game on a constant and
Speaker 7: he's going to get those opportunities. And that's going to
Speaker 7: be the surprise the growth this year, which is what
Speaker 7: I love football and how you could always see rolls expand.
Speaker 7: So what you see year one may not be what
Speaker 7: a guy can only do. It's going to expand in
Speaker 7: a year or two, and for him, I think we
Speaker 7: were going to see that this year. It was just
Speaker 7: mixing offense that much more dangerous.
Speaker 3: Julian Hill alec Engold fifty combined catches this year. I'm
Speaker 3: calling it right now. Now, get the ball in those
Speaker 3: guys hands. Forget Tyreek and Walla again to those two guys. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding, But let's go back to Chris Brooks here,
Speaker 3: because you know, you mentioned the balance for the Dolphins offense,
Speaker 3: the speed they have, but Chris Brooks is such a
Speaker 3: physical hammer man.
Speaker 2: There was a moment in training camp last year.
Speaker 3: They were running the team drills at the end of
Speaker 3: the practice and Chris Brooks took a ninety or no,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, let me rephrase that.
Speaker 2: They were on goal line.
Speaker 3: He hammered it in it from two yards out, just
Speaker 3: ran through a tackler and then took a ball ninety
Speaker 3: seven yards the other direction for a long touchdown. I
Speaker 3: was like, okay, you got my attention now, young man.
Speaker 3: But he ran that way in the preseason. In this
Speaker 3: regular season in the Broncos blowout, he had a long
Speaker 3: run in that game. I think he can play man.
Speaker 3: And so my question to you is, because the Dolphins
Speaker 3: have all that speed and they tend to garner two
Speaker 3: high structures defensively, right is Chris Brooks kind of that
Speaker 3: guy that can come in and get you out of
Speaker 3: those two high looks and get more single high looks
Speaker 3: for this offense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because at the end of the day, you have
Speaker 7: to account for him in a run game, and you know,
Speaker 7: for guys like him.
Speaker 5: It's a chore to tackle him.
Speaker 7: So you got to bring an extra guy down, an
Speaker 7: extra hat down, and that just creates those looks that
Speaker 7: you see, those advantageous looks that that gets those guys.
Speaker 5: With speed in space.
Speaker 7: So yes, but it's the gift and the curse, because
Speaker 7: we touched on it briefly, the injuries. Right when you're
Speaker 7: that physical over runner, that's gonna happen. So if you
Speaker 7: could just develop a little bit more wiggle without losing
Speaker 7: that that enforcer mentality, it's gonna help sustain his season
Speaker 7: for sixteen seventeen games and then open things up for
Speaker 7: everyone else to do their things speed wise, because if
Speaker 7: you have to tackle him all throughout the game, at
Speaker 7: least on first or second down, like man, all right,
Speaker 7: here we go again, and then here comes a ch
Speaker 7: hand and then boom eighty yards like I'm tired from
Speaker 7: tackling this dude, and this dude just running all over
Speaker 7: the place. That's the union and the yang of the
Speaker 7: running game, which is why you need those prime example,
Speaker 7: and this is a team that the Dolphins played. You
Speaker 7: saw the difference between the Cowboys without a pacesetter Jux
Speaker 7: opposed to you know, having one with Zeke. It was
Speaker 7: a different game. Polo was much more efficient and better,
Speaker 7: more effective. And so we're seeing that now the Dolphins.
Speaker 7: If they can get Brooks out there and let him
Speaker 7: just continue to be the pacesetter. He doesn't have to be,
Speaker 7: you know, a dominant back, but he has to be
Speaker 7: able to go on those three and a half four
Speaker 7: yard carries, those jabs and here comes to knockout blow.
Speaker 5: With all the speechs you guys have in the backfield.
Speaker 3: The way he kind of the way a chan finds
Speaker 3: those little slippers increases reminds me of Chris Johnson for
Speaker 3: the Titans back in the day. Wendell White. Maybe he
Speaker 3: can be our thunder and lining right now? What would
Speaker 3: really tick me off about?
Speaker 7: Like, because people always liked what's your favorite team or
Speaker 7: who's your favorite team? And I don't root for teams anymore.
Speaker 7: I root for good football and our route to see guys,
Speaker 7: do well. Right, So it just in the Dolphins Ravens game,
Speaker 7: a Chan had the easiest one hundred yard game and
Speaker 7: didn't get the ball, Like imagine if he just they
Speaker 7: kept giving him the ball. I think they stayed in
Speaker 7: the game and probably beat the Ravens. So having that
Speaker 7: ability to hit the home run from anywhere on the
Speaker 7: field in the run game, that is a valuable asset.
Speaker 7: So I'm glad he ended up in a situation that's
Speaker 7: gonna you know, utilize his skill sets fully.
Speaker 3: You love his game, right, let's talk more about him
Speaker 3: a little bit. Just tell me about his rookie season
Speaker 3: and just kind of what you saw from him.
Speaker 7: Speed speeding is supposed to just like period, like you
Speaker 7: get outside and it's gone, it's eighty eight out the gate,
Speaker 7: and you know, so when you have in one of
Speaker 7: the in my scouting news, I think the first tune
Speaker 7: of his scolaryport, I have like runs like a determined puppy.
Speaker 7: Like he's just aggressive in terms of like I'm not
Speaker 7: going down, and he had to be a little bit
Speaker 7: more judicious on winning where he's gonna take contact that
Speaker 7: we're contact. The beauty is when we're that fast, he
Speaker 7: might not take a lot of contact. He's just gonna
Speaker 7: outrun everybody. And we saw that at times in the NFL,
Speaker 7: and that to me is where someone like a Chan is.
Speaker 5: Gonna have a nice long career.
Speaker 7: It's kind of like what you see already roheem most
Speaker 7: those type of guys. But I mean, when you run
Speaker 7: Legit four three, four to two on good days.
Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: You got a Legit four about one track team, And
Speaker 7: I brought this up. I was talking to another team
Speaker 7: where with the Dolphins, in this particular team, it's creating
Speaker 7: It's very CFL like to where you feel like the
Speaker 7: field expands with wire. So now when you expand the
Speaker 7: field with wise and you have these dynamic speed guys.
Speaker 5: In space, it's impossible to cover.
Speaker 7: That's why teams were so afraid of playing the Dolphins,
Speaker 7: because it makes the field look wider, it makes the
Speaker 7: feeld look longer, and we don't have the speed to
Speaker 7: cover four guys that have Olympic track speeds. So eight
Speaker 7: Chan in the midst of the Wattles and the Tyreek Hills.
Speaker 7: I would never want to game plan against Miami.
Speaker 3: Daniel talks about his twenty one first twenty one personnel fast,
Speaker 3: twenty one personnel with a chan, and most are out there.
Speaker 3: I like that thirty personnel package put ingled out there
Speaker 3: wattle reek a chan.
Speaker 2: Mosters go baby speak.
Speaker 5: How much speed do you have?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 5: You can't you can't like? And the thing here's the
Speaker 5: thing about exposed to speed.
Speaker 7: People don't understand you can't zone cover or bracket cover
Speaker 7: that type of speed. You can bracket speed and zone
Speaker 7: speed and kind of play inside out banjoo coverage or whatever.
Speaker 7: But when you have Olympic type speed guys outrun coverage,
Speaker 7: it's it's it's nothing you can do. You better get
Speaker 7: pressure on the quarterback. But when you're dealing with a
Speaker 7: quarterback that is accurate, his timing is all.
Speaker 5: Point, the placement, his own point. The ball comes out quick.
Speaker 3: Good luck, hey man, preaching, tell us more.
Speaker 2: You got three minutes. You're out here.
Speaker 3: I want to ask you this last two questions. In one,
Speaker 3: I know you've been spending some time on the skill
Speaker 3: players in your evaluation. Tell us about some guys you
Speaker 3: like at the top of the draft from Miami in
Speaker 3: that regard, And then as you want to do some
Speaker 3: hidden gems later.
Speaker 7: On, listen Troy Franklin is someone I thought you might
Speaker 7: like it. It's speed, speed, speed, bro, and it's Miami
Speaker 7: can't get enough of it. And he's a he's a
Speaker 7: taller guy. I do think even though he's lean, he
Speaker 7: has room to fill out this frame a little bit
Speaker 7: and get, you know, add some weight. But he runs
Speaker 7: routes like a like a receiver does. He's not just
Speaker 7: a speed only guy. He's just a He's a receiver
Speaker 7: that happens to be explosively fast. So he would be
Speaker 7: one with the Dolphins picked that still well, it depends
Speaker 7: on when that run goes with the you know, the receivers, right,
Speaker 7: because this is an elite class of wide receivers. You know,
Speaker 7: you got a bunch of guys, maybe like ten guys
Speaker 7: that I could say our first round talents, right, and
Speaker 7: so it's crazy it's gonna push guys down. So Franklin
Speaker 7: would be the one. I think it fits in that
Speaker 7: range for the Dolphins. That would be an ideal fit
Speaker 7: for what they do schematically, if you're a taller guy,
Speaker 7: but still that in line with the speed, and it
Speaker 7: just opens things up right later in the draft, you
Speaker 7: want to undraft the gym you want someone that no
Speaker 7: one's talking about, West Florida's John Giles, like six two
Speaker 7: two eighteen can fly.
Speaker 5: It was at the College Grin showcase. He killed it there.
Speaker 7: It is almost laughable with how dominant he was in
Speaker 7: each and every rep. He got a late call up
Speaker 7: to the Hula Bowl, went out there a short notice
Speaker 7: in dominated as well. And so if you go back
Speaker 7: and watch his game against Florida A and M. Florida
Speaker 7: and M was going to have two guys in twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five draft and the second area are going to
Speaker 7: be draft picks he had. He was open all day.
Speaker 7: Quarterback just couldn't get him, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: So he was open all day and that's the biggest thing.
Speaker 7: So John Giles, big receiver, fast, physical, underrated guy that
Speaker 7: no one's talking about.
Speaker 3: If I was a betting man, I would bet that
Speaker 3: you're not gonna hear John Giles' name in this room.
Speaker 7: Not at all the week unless you said unless I
Speaker 7: said it said West Florida Argonatt you know, say out
Speaker 7: there in Pensacola.
Speaker 3: And that's why we have every hunt on every single
Speaker 3: year at f ball game Plan CBS Sports HQ Emory
Speaker 3: thank you as.
Speaker 5: Always man, Always a pleasure.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you coming on, man, and we will have Emory
Speaker 3: back on the podcast to do our UDFA podcast we
Speaker 3: do every single year with him, where he gets them
Speaker 3: right every year.
Speaker 2: I don't know how he does it. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: But it's also fun to go back and look upon
Speaker 3: like we did there with Chris Brooks and Julian Hill
Speaker 3: and the other undrafted rookies that he has nailed for
Speaker 3: the Mimy Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there.
Speaker 3: Come back on the other side and get you the
Speaker 3: updates and highlights from Chris Greer's Wednesday press conference here Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: That's Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by Auto Nation. It's not too often we
Speaker 3: get to hear from Chris Grear, and we got that
Speaker 3: on Wednesday here in Indianapolis.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and go back to his media availability.
Speaker 3: And another thing you got to talk about a lot
Speaker 3: when you have a good quarterback is the quarterback position
Speaker 3: and that quarterback himself and his contract situation. So we're
Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and do two soundbites for you here
Speaker 3: on TUA. First about the extension that sounds like it's
Speaker 3: in pretty imminent at this point. Here's Chris Grear on
Speaker 3: QB one and his contract situation.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been in communication since the off season began.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk to his agent here this week. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so I'll both try and see if you can get
Speaker 4: something done. So Ryan's been great too, It's been great,
Speaker 4: So we'll see, but there's no timeline on it because
Speaker 4: the end of the day, you know how these deals
Speaker 4: get done, their complicated deals and building the team through
Speaker 4: free agencies as well. So we'll work through it and
Speaker 4: see if we get something done.
Speaker 3: A couple of guys on Radio row when I record
Speaker 3: that last bit there we're clapping, which almost feels like
Speaker 3: an applause hitting and the two extension conversation, which just
Speaker 3: feels fitting to me.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and move on next.
Speaker 3: Here to a question that I thought was the best
Speaker 3: of the entire press conference, and it was from a
Speaker 3: guy that doesn't usually come on the Dolphins beat, so
Speaker 3: good for him for coming in and being the showstopper.
Speaker 3: He asked about the exponential growth for Tua and the
Speaker 3: opportunity for him to continue to get better because as
Speaker 3: we discuss on this podcast and every piece of content
Speaker 3: that I do in this world is that Tua has
Speaker 3: improved his game each of the four years in his career.
Speaker 3: Kind of an up and down rookie season, right, not
Speaker 3: really a lot of explosive popping. There some better efficiency
Speaker 3: in year number two. Year three takes off, has the
Speaker 3: breakout yere Ab gets injured. Year four has another big
Speaker 3: time statistical season and stays healthy.
Speaker 2: What's coming up in year five?
Speaker 3: I've talked about how I believe that his processing, his
Speaker 3: strengths that he exhibits really bode well for his long
Speaker 3: term growth to become the best version of himself into
Speaker 3: his late twenties and even into his thirties, maybe even
Speaker 3: into the mid thirties as well. He's the kind of
Speaker 3: quarterback that excels with the stuff that gets better with age.
Speaker 2: So coach not coach.
Speaker 3: Chris Greer was asked about that here's career on Tua's
Speaker 3: room for growth as a quarterback and a player and
Speaker 3: a leader for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: That's a good question because Mike and I had talked
Speaker 4: about that a lot, and and we're strong believers in him,
Speaker 4: and you guys all feel Mike's passionate about him when
Speaker 4: he talks about him, and just in the two years
Speaker 4: of what he's done, he's grown in areas and to
Speaker 4: where you know, he let the league in passing and
Speaker 4: did some great things this year, and we all feel
Speaker 4: there's still another level that he can take it. And
Speaker 4: I think if you ask too, he would tell you
Speaker 4: that too.
Speaker 5: And so.
Speaker 4: Just his growth on and off the field, like being
Speaker 4: voted captain last year and then seeing how he is,
Speaker 4: you know, behind the scenes with guys and holding people
Speaker 4: accountable is huge. So I think the way he's attacked
Speaker 4: this and wants to be great, and the combination of
Speaker 4: Mike and working with that and that trust and belief
Speaker 4: in each other, we do think.
Speaker 3: There's still another level kind of tell offors. Why I
Speaker 3: apologize for that audio, but you get the point of
Speaker 3: what he's saying. Next the other big contract we're talking
Speaker 3: about this Sason Christian Wilkins. I continue to get the
Speaker 3: breadcrumbs here that sounds like Christian will not be leaving.
Speaker 3: In fact, that's what the report was, right. They're not
Speaker 3: gonna let out of the building. And why would you.
Speaker 3: I've told you, guys, I've officially swung to the side
Speaker 3: of do not let him leave, because if he leaves
Speaker 3: now you need a zero technique. You probably need a
Speaker 3: zero slash one shade technique, you probably need a three technique,
Speaker 3: and maybe even a potential like five swing technique. Is
Speaker 3: a rotational guy, so Wilkins fulfills several roles. Here is
Speaker 3: the update on Christian Wilkins, which is some good news here.
Speaker 3: It sounds like Chris Greer and his agent are having
Speaker 3: a powwell here pretty soon.
Speaker 4: No, I think all options are on the table for us.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna beet here with Christian's agent this week. Dave
Speaker 4: and I've always had good conversations, but I'm just being
Speaker 4: very transparent with it, you know. I Mean, he guys
Speaker 4: earned it. He's had a great season, and so we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens here as we talk here over the
Speaker 4: next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: The all options mentioned there at the top of the
Speaker 3: answer was regarding the potential four potential, potential for potential
Speaker 3: for a long term contract or a tag situation for
Speaker 3: Christian Wilkins. Let's go ahead and go back now to
Speaker 3: a more team building philosophy question, and he was asked
Speaker 3: about having a quarterback who is no longer on a
Speaker 3: rookie deal and how that impacts your ability to be
Speaker 3: flexible and just what you do going forward. That was
Speaker 3: the question posed to Chris Greer. But I thought the
Speaker 3: answer about the guys we're talking about for potential extensions
Speaker 3: is the real Uh you come for the come for
Speaker 3: the breader board with the highlight. Is that the the
Speaker 3: main ticket? What am I looking for here? The main
Speaker 3: the headliner? But you stay for this common here from Chris.
Speaker 4: Greer, Well, it's I mean, it's a it's a challenge.
Speaker 4: But I think the one thing that you know, Brandon
Speaker 4: Shore and Max and Paul Tonnell then when we talk
Speaker 4: is we're always looking short term and long term and
Speaker 4: so in terms of having some flexibility and how contracts
Speaker 4: are structured and stuff. So again, yes, every year you
Speaker 4: can't go make those moves. You know that people get
Speaker 4: excited for your teams just because I mean, you're seeing
Speaker 4: it around the lea. It's not sustainable. You know, at
Speaker 4: some point you have to reel it back a little
Speaker 4: bit and then add some youth and influx and then
Speaker 4: and then uh, cherry pick, you're in there where you
Speaker 4: go and so you know we've been looking at all
Speaker 4: different ways in terms of building this and keeping our
Speaker 4: roster competitive.
Speaker 3: So we know about Tua and Christian. He mentioned Waddle
Speaker 3: and Phillips in there. I believe Javon Holland has to
Speaker 3: be part of that mix as well. So that's five
Speaker 3: guys right there. I mean, again, pretty good core players, right,
Speaker 3: another result of drafting well, which some people don't agree
Speaker 3: with that even though the proof is right your face.
Speaker 2: But I digress.
Speaker 3: And it's not that disimilar to the discussions about having
Speaker 3: a quarterback on that big contract and the ability to
Speaker 3: not win games or go deep in the playoffs. Right,
Speaker 3: that's a discussion you've heard the last several years, and
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes and other quarterbacks have continued to disprove that.
Speaker 2: So interesting stuff.
Speaker 3: They're talking about how the team has to kind of
Speaker 3: take a different approach and be maybe a little bit
Speaker 3: less aggressive, and how they go after veterans and maybe
Speaker 3: even in the draft and get that influx of young
Speaker 3: talent on the roster. I'm gonna have Kyle Crabs in
Speaker 3: the podcast. I'm not sure if it's going to be
Speaker 3: Friday or Monday yet, but you'll he'll talk about this.
Speaker 3: We discussed the idea of team building cycles and how
Speaker 3: that all works out and how that flow works, and
Speaker 3: with the Dolphins' ability to have those good draft classes
Speaker 3: a few years back, they afford themselves the opportunity to
Speaker 3: go aggressively after a Tyreek Hill, after a Bradley Chubb. Right,
Speaker 3: use those first round draft picks for veteran, proven talent
Speaker 3: on the big contract. But now that you're a couple
Speaker 3: of years removed from having first round picks, probably time
Speaker 3: to kind of step back a little bit and be
Speaker 3: a little bit, you know, less aggressive and get that
Speaker 3: youth influx on your roster.
Speaker 2: I thought that was very well said there from Chris Queer.
Speaker 3: Let's go next now to a question about the health
Speaker 3: of two and fifteen, the edge rushers who were lost
Speaker 3: late in the year. Does it derail your plans at
Speaker 3: all in the off season at all? Here's Chris Career
Speaker 3: on just that.
Speaker 4: Well, it threw off the playoff plans, that's for sure. Said, Yeah,
Speaker 4: losing guys like that late in the year is always hard.
Speaker 4: At the end of the day, we don't talk about
Speaker 4: the medical history or where guys are in terms of
Speaker 4: their rehab. I will say they're both in the building
Speaker 4: attacking it every day. So it's been good to see
Speaker 4: those guys and they support each other working through it
Speaker 4: as well as all our other injuries guys with a
Speaker 4: number of guys. Yeah, I mean, you know, of course,
Speaker 4: it makes it challenging because now you know, we have
Speaker 4: to hear, have guys ready to go here, start a
Speaker 4: dreaming and do it and just the timing get the
Speaker 4: injuries later. But they're working hard and hopefully we're going
Speaker 4: back at some point.
Speaker 3: There a couple more here for you guys. Let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and pivot. Next to the offensive line, there was
Speaker 3: a bunch of questions about to Ron Armstead, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 3: Isaiah Winn, and Connor Williams, and those situations all remain fluid.
Speaker 3: To Ron Armstead has been in communication with the Dolphins
Speaker 3: about his long term potential here and whether or not
Speaker 3: he will retire or continue his playing career with the
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins. So we are still undecided on that, and
Speaker 3: you don't know about winning Williams and Rob Hunt contract situation.
Speaker 3: So he was asked, are you going to have to
Speaker 3: sign four new offensive linemen? Here's his answer about that.
Speaker 4: Possibly, you know, at the end of the day, I thought,
Speaker 4: Butch and Mike and Frank did a great job developing
Speaker 4: those guys. So some of the younger guys there that
Speaker 4: we have on the roster, the guys are excited for
Speaker 4: see him in another year here going. Those guys made
Speaker 4: a great lead this year, and they're excited for some
Speaker 4: of the guys and what they could be in the future.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, we'll definitely end up having to
Speaker 4: add some players there at that position.
Speaker 3: I wanted to run that audio because I think it's
Speaker 3: an imperative part of this offseason for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 3: with how things are going to shake out, with how
Speaker 3: the roster gets built. Because I continue to make this
Speaker 3: point that there are some spots, and this is most teams,
Speaker 3: especially when you do have the bigger contracts and the
Speaker 3: proven players begin to come up on their second contracts,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to kind of have a leap of
Speaker 3: faith at some positions in regards to you can't have
Speaker 3: you know, twenty five players that you gave premium money
Speaker 3: to because your quarterback doesn't make a bunch and you
Speaker 3: had the flexibility within your salary cap to make that happen.
Speaker 3: And so now when you do have those big contracts
Speaker 3: for tu for a Christian Wilkins, for a Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 3: for all the above, you have to make some concessions
Speaker 3: and accept the fact that you're going to go into
Speaker 3: the season with maybe a little bit uncertain to have
Speaker 3: some spots. And I wanted to talk about this because
Speaker 3: his mention of the offensive line being a position where
Speaker 3: they got young guys that developed, like, we can look
Speaker 3: at this crop that was basically you know, I don't
Speaker 3: want to say red shirts last year, but guys that
Speaker 3: didn't play a whole lot who might have the opportunity
Speaker 3: to get more playing time in the future and potentially
Speaker 3: carve out starting roles on an offensive line or backup
Speaker 3: swing roles that wind up playing several games because of
Speaker 3: the attrition you see every year.
Speaker 2: On the offensive line.
Speaker 3: So I want to just real quick discuss a few
Speaker 3: guys that I think could be those leap of faith
Speaker 3: players that you have some trust in with regards to
Speaker 3: how they could help your roster get more balance to
Speaker 3: even out those big moves you made for Tyreek, for Chubbing,
Speaker 3: on and on and on. So, Eric Azukama, I think
Speaker 3: tops that list receivers a very expensive position to import,
Speaker 3: whether it's a high draft pick or a free agent contract.
Speaker 3: If Azukama can really carve out that role as a
Speaker 3: guy that can beat one on one coverage inside, be
Speaker 3: a separator in the red zone, win those third down matchups,
Speaker 3: that would go a long wave towards your building the
Speaker 3: roster with more explosive options outside of ten and seventeen
Speaker 3: to get, you.
Speaker 2: Know, to be more comfortable with what you have.
Speaker 3: If something happens to Tyreek or Waddell and they miss
Speaker 3: a game or two, or if they're just off the
Speaker 3: field in general.
Speaker 2: Cam Smith and Cater Kohu pretty obvious there.
Speaker 3: Cater feels like in the slot is a position they
Speaker 3: could really, you know, go after in the offseason. But
Speaker 3: his rookie year I thought was plenty good enough for
Speaker 3: that position, or his second year had the bit of
Speaker 3: a drop off. But he's a guy that I think
Speaker 3: you would feel comfortable taking that leap of faith on
Speaker 3: because of his proven resumes in the past. And then
Speaker 3: camp Smith obviously you're going off of camp in preseason
Speaker 3: and what he did in South Carolina. I think he's
Speaker 3: a hell of a football player with a chance to
Speaker 3: really be, you know, one of the lockdown cornerbacks in
Speaker 3: the league. That could be a spot where, you know,
Speaker 3: opposed to spending ten million bucks on a veteran corner
Speaker 3: if it's Cam Smith on his second round rookie contract
Speaker 3: for the next three years, you'd feel great about having
Speaker 3: that concession there alongside someone like Jayalen Ramsey who you
Speaker 3: pay top of the market money to, and then you
Speaker 3: move on to the cornerback spot. Ethan Bonner kind of
Speaker 3: falls in that category for me. I'm looking at Julian
Speaker 3: Hill and Tanner Connor as guys that could make steps
Speaker 3: forward to give you more flexibility the tight end position.
Speaker 3: And then Chris Brooks at running back I think makes
Speaker 3: a lot of sense in that role as well, because
Speaker 3: we know Devon A. Channon and Raheem Moster are big time.
Speaker 3: You know bellcows with his team, but having that more
Speaker 3: physical back could make some sense there. The reason I
Speaker 3: put this segment together, though, was talking about the offensive
Speaker 3: line and a couple of names I thinks to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on.
Speaker 2: Ryan Hayes, last year seventh.
Speaker 3: Round draft pick out of Michigan, kind of fit the
Speaker 3: mold of a Dolphins offensive lineman. Good ten split, good,
Speaker 3: get off good, athletic ability can anchor that left tackle
Speaker 3: spot in the future potentially. Keon Smith made a lot
Speaker 3: of last year both in preseason and had some damn
Speaker 3: good reps in garbage time last year when he got
Speaker 3: a chance to play for toront armstat down the stretch.
Speaker 3: Maybe even Chasing Hines who was a practice squad guy
Speaker 3: in the roster all year long, but was a guy
Speaker 3: that had some talent and majors wept in New England
Speaker 3: and eventually to the Dolphins practice squad. So a few
Speaker 3: names to keep an eye on for OTAs and training
Speaker 3: camp that you need to see progress and uh, you know,
Speaker 3: solid performances from Let's go ahead and play two more
Speaker 3: soundbites here. Chris Greer was asked about the potential of
Speaker 3: a first round draft pick. Debate whether or not you
Speaker 3: go safe or go ceiling or high ceiling. I should say,
Speaker 3: what are you looking for in that first round?
Speaker 2: Here is Chris Greer.
Speaker 4: I think at the end of the day, well, like
Speaker 4: we tag at twenty one, so we always will always
Speaker 4: take the best player. And if it's someone that even
Speaker 4: that position and that you know, and I don't want
Speaker 4: to speculating position, but the position people think we're stacked
Speaker 4: at you never know, like last year when we sat,
Speaker 4: our of our outside linebacker group was really deep, you know,
Speaker 4: and the things happened, and then you know the receivers,
Speaker 4: you know, a Wattle went down, a little bit, Tyreek
Speaker 4: got banged up. So yeah, in this league, the way
Speaker 4: the injuries happen, you need depth everywhere. So I mean
Speaker 4: it's you can have the safe pick. But if there's
Speaker 4: a guy that you truly believe is a supremely talented
Speaker 4: player and loves football and will work to reach that ceiling,
Speaker 4: then and it's up to us to spend the time
Speaker 4: and invest in them to find out and then you
Speaker 4: make that decision you feel it's best for the roster,
Speaker 4: not just short term but long term as well.
Speaker 2: One last one for you here, Cam Smith.
Speaker 3: Right, let's just go ahead and get the update from
Speaker 3: Chris Queer on camp smith growth and development.
Speaker 4: No, I think we're very excited about camp. You know,
Speaker 4: I think you know last preseason, you watch this preseason
Speaker 4: and stuff. He played very well in the preseason, got
Speaker 4: banged up the end and came back and you know,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, learning big system early.
Speaker 4: You look at his history of guys, with the young players,
Speaker 4: it takes a little bit, and so he worked hard
Speaker 4: and by the end of the season, we are really
Speaker 4: excited about it. And talking to Jalen Rams the other day,
Speaker 4: he was saying how he loves Cam's game and thinks
Speaker 4: he's going to be a good player. So now we
Speaker 4: have we're very strong. You've been believe in them. I
Speaker 4: think last year with a couple of things, he had
Speaker 4: got banged up a couple of times, but contributed on
Speaker 4: special teams get some good things. But I think I
Speaker 4: talked to him probably about three four weeks ago and
Speaker 4: called him at like eight thirty in the morning and
Speaker 4: he was in the middle of a workout session. I feel.
Speaker 4: So he's attacking the off season. So we're all very
Speaker 4: excited to see him with an opportunity to play. But
Speaker 4: he's gonna have to compete and earn it. You know,
Speaker 4: Cater is not going to give it up to him.
Speaker 4: So it'll be good. And then obviously we'll be bringing
Speaker 4: in some other people here too, and maybe X.
Speaker 2: Is back, you knows, he said, maybe X is back
Speaker 2: right there?
Speaker 3: Interesting, very very interesting. All right, that's my time today, guys.
Speaker 3: Welcome back tomorrow with let's se who's gonna be on
Speaker 3: tomorrow show.
Speaker 2: I believe E. J.
Speaker 3: Snyder and Matt Miller from ESPN will join me as well. Friday,
Speaker 3: I think is going to be the Kyle episode, and
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