Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: the Senior Bull is underway. I have plenty of day
Speaker 1: one notes for you guys, plus a couple of coaching
Speaker 1: hires for the Miami Dolphins. We'll talk about Robert Prince
Speaker 1: and Craig Ackerman and we'll see if we have some
Speaker 1: time for the mailbag. Might have to save that for
Speaker 1: the Friday show from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast Off the top.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have reportedly agreed to a contract with Craig
Speaker 1: Ackerman to be the new special teams coach, and he
Speaker 1: spent six years with the Tennessee Titans. Prior to the
Speaker 1: Titans job, he was the special teams coordinator for the
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers back in twenty sixteen. And he has
Speaker 1: a background outside of special teams as a defensive assistant
Speaker 1: and he was a linebackers coach at Kent State, Miami
Speaker 1: of Ohio, and Western Kentucky some maction.
Speaker 2: He's forty eight years old.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you guys have heard about this by now,
Speaker 1: but Rick Gosling does his annual special team's rankings every year,
Speaker 1: and the Titans under Ackerman it wasn't very good. In
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen they were sixteenth, twenty nineteen they were eighteenth,
Speaker 1: then twenty fourth in the COVID year nineteenth and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one, fourteenth in twenty twenty two, and then he
Speaker 1: was fired in twenty twenty three when they were twenty
Speaker 1: first after they had a pair of blocked punts and
Speaker 1: one of those injured their punter, and then they missed
Speaker 1: the pat later in the game because he couldn't hold,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Tannehill got promoted to the holding position to
Speaker 1: fill in for Ryan Stonehouse in that spot. So he's
Speaker 1: been out of the league for about a year and
Speaker 1: a half. It was week thirteen of twenty thirteen when
Speaker 1: he was let go. And if you go off social media,
Speaker 1: if you go off of x Titans fans some similar
Speaker 1: sentiments about him as to what Danny Crossman's reputation was
Speaker 1: across Dolphins fans here for quite a while. And I
Speaker 1: get the trepidation about that. I mean, you are choosing
Speaker 1: from essentially, you know, the Fired Football Coaches Association, the
Speaker 1: old John Gruden joking association that he talked about. But
Speaker 1: that's what you have to choose from, right. You can't
Speaker 1: just go get the best special teams coach in the league.
Speaker 2: You can't just go get Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: You can't just go get Patrick Mahomes, no matter how
Speaker 1: much social media might tell you that. So if you
Speaker 1: don't like it, I think it's interesting sometimes the reaction
Speaker 1: we get from a guy we didn't know existed a
Speaker 1: half an hour prior to the reduce coming out. But
Speaker 1: I get the trepidation at the same time, I just
Speaker 1: think it's kind of funny seeing that balance and the
Speaker 1: upheaval over someone that you have no idea what he
Speaker 1: even looks like. Probably, and I will say this about
Speaker 1: special teams, I think that you can really point to
Speaker 1: a team's special teams production based on how injured they were,
Speaker 1: because who's been more injured the last three years then
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. And I remember that was kind of
Speaker 1: like an excuse that I was told about for Danny
Speaker 1: Crossman coming back in twenty two or maybe it's twenty three.
Speaker 1: I forget about it was twenty three because all the
Speaker 1: injuries they had were you know, key on Crossing for instance,
Speaker 1: is a guy that you signed strictly to play special teams,
Speaker 1: and because of the cornerback attrition we had that year,
Speaker 1: he winds up playing like a pretty significant role on
Speaker 1: defense as a cornerback, and that pulls from his special teams. Dude,
Speaker 1: he's now all of a sudden, you're asking practice squad
Speaker 1: guys to fill out your special teams groups and the
Speaker 1: depth you know, you feel that that depth and the
Speaker 1: hit you take there. I mean this year at linebacker
Speaker 1: to cut David Long with Anthony Walker's injury, Duke Riley
Speaker 1: getting playing time and Tyrrel Dotson stepping into that lineup
Speaker 1: in that role, like that's the spot that you were,
Speaker 1: you know, banged up at quite quite frequently this season.
Speaker 1: Just all the positions that can really impact what you
Speaker 1: have on special teams seem to be the ones that
Speaker 1: we have injured the most the last few years. And
Speaker 1: so I kind of look at the fix for special
Speaker 1: teams is the same fix for the entire football team.
Speaker 1: Just stay healthy and have your core guys that you
Speaker 1: pay to do that be available for you and not
Speaker 1: have to, you know, moonlight in special teams while they
Speaker 1: play defense or offense, and vice versa. So I just
Speaker 1: think it's worth mentioning how much injuries impact that group,
Speaker 1: because when you lose a tight end, yeah, it impacts
Speaker 1: your tight end room, right, But when you lose a
Speaker 1: tight end and a linebacker and it impacts those rooms independently,
Speaker 1: that has a net impact on your special teams unit, which,
Speaker 1: of course you know those two positions are very heavily
Speaker 1: steeped in special teams production. So something to think about.
Speaker 1: I don't really know much about Rick Ackerman besides what
Speaker 1: we just talked about his career. Forty eight years old,
Speaker 1: spend a lot of time coaching football, and speaking of age,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins new wide receiver coach is also a fifty
Speaker 1: nine year old who was born in Okinawa, Japan. By
Speaker 1: the way, Robert Prince, he will reportedly be the new
Speaker 1: receivers coach for your Miami Dolphins. He's been with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys the last three years.
Speaker 2: And you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: When we do sweeping coach changes, I don't mind doing
Speaker 1: the whole episode on that to kind of get you
Speaker 1: guys familiar with where they are and where they've been
Speaker 1: and who they've coached. And you'll recall when the Dolphins
Speaker 1: brought this coaching staff in and I think, to Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel's credit, I think one of the best things he's
Speaker 1: done here with the Miami Dolphins is find good coaches.
Speaker 1: And sure the defensive staff has overchanged every single year
Speaker 1: because he's had a new DC just about every single year.
Speaker 1: And by the way, we're learning now that it's basically
Speaker 1: looking like Kellen Moore for the Saints. So continue to
Speaker 1: cross your fingers. And I hate saying this on the
Speaker 1: show because Anthony Weaver is one of the best guys
Speaker 1: in the entire building, you know how we do in Travis.
Speaker 1: The type of guy that he'll ask me that, which
Speaker 1: compared to the last DC who wouldn't give me the
Speaker 1: time of day if I said hi to his face.
Speaker 1: Was a nice change. And Anthony Weaver, I hope becomes
Speaker 1: a head coach one day. I think that that's coming
Speaker 1: for him next year, and maybe he still does get
Speaker 1: the Saint's job, but it sounds like they have zeroed
Speaker 1: in on Kellen Moore, which they cannot make that move
Speaker 1: until after the Super Bowl, obviously, as he is coaching
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles, but it
Speaker 1: sounds like it'll be him for the Saints job, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, that makes me happy, not just because we
Speaker 1: get Coach Weaver back in that scenario, but that wasn't
Speaker 1: a good job. And also like, Okay, how do I
Speaker 1: say this, Like I have seen Kellen Moore dupress. I've
Speaker 1: seen Kellen Moore do media. I've gotten to know Anthony Weaver,
Speaker 1: I've seen him.
Speaker 2: Do his media.
Speaker 1: One of those guys is a commanding presence and a
Speaker 1: future head coach that I think will really rally his
Speaker 1: troops around him. One of those guys, I don't think
Speaker 1: is that. And I'll leave you to put those pieces
Speaker 1: together about who I think that is. And that opens
Speaker 1: up a whole other can of worms about the hiring
Speaker 1: processes in the NFL and a man of color like
Speaker 1: coach Weavers, for instance, who maybe doesn't get the same
Speaker 1: opportunity as the young offensive whiz who has had multiple
Speaker 1: opportunities in that role for the Chargers, for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: for the Eagle, Like, yeah, you know, it's I don't
Speaker 1: want to go any further into it. I think there
Speaker 1: is something there for that, but I hey, we'll take
Speaker 1: coach Weave back for one more year. Hopefully he coaches
Speaker 1: his defense up from their top five unit again or
Speaker 1: in terms of the yards allowed. I don't think they
Speaker 1: were top five last year in terms of production. I
Speaker 1: think you'd be crazy to say that. But you know,
Speaker 1: on balance with what he had to deal with in
Speaker 1: the injuries and the lack of death, I think it
Speaker 1: was pretty good. And I you know, I think we'll
Speaker 1: get one more year of that, one more year of
Speaker 1: continuity to put this thing together and build guys out
Speaker 1: from you know, from what he sees and what he
Speaker 1: likes in his defensive players, and then he goes on
Speaker 1: gets a better head coaching job, we get two third
Speaker 1: round draft picks and compensatory return for that, and everybody wins.
Speaker 1: That's kind of what I'm hoping for here with that situation.
Speaker 1: So back to the original point of this whole thing,
Speaker 1: with you know, the defensive staff ever changing under Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: with Josh Boyer, with Vic Fangio, with Anthony Weaver, and
Speaker 1: hopefully a second year of continuity and can retain this
Speaker 1: defensive staff, and I think did a pretty good job
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four. You know, I always we talked
Speaker 1: about the offensive staff, and they brought them in back
Speaker 1: in twenty two, and it was like, hey, here's Frank
Speaker 1: Smith and his accolades, here's Wes Welker and his accolades,
Speaker 1: and John Embry and you already know about Eric Studisville
Speaker 1: and they wound up getting But so like, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things about coach McDaniel is his willingness to
Speaker 1: see what works and what doesn't work on a coaching
Speaker 1: staff and to make those changes. And I think that
Speaker 1: you know, fans were pretty fed up with a special
Speaker 1: team's production and you got that change, and you look
Speaker 1: at the receiver position with Wes Welker, and I think
Speaker 1: Wes is a good football coach, but I think that
Speaker 1: what happened in that receiver's room in terms of, you know,
Speaker 1: Tyreek ran the show right, Like they need someone that
Speaker 1: can not allow that to happen. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that Wes did. I just think that a change there
Speaker 1: to get a new face in that room and not
Speaker 1: have a guy that you know, for whether he had
Speaker 1: a hand in it or not, kind of got steamrolled
Speaker 1: by a player who I don't think will be here
Speaker 1: next year. I think that you go get a fifty
Speaker 1: eight year old Robert Prince and say like, hey, Jaylen Waddle,
Speaker 1: You're the new number one receiver.
Speaker 2: Like, follow his lead. Everybody else follow his lead as well.
Speaker 1: I think there's value to that, and I can see
Speaker 1: why that change was made. And so rather than sit
Speaker 1: here and tell you about every single player they coach,
Speaker 1: I just want to give you a brief background, but
Speaker 1: I will tell you, like with the Cowboys last year,
Speaker 1: you know, couple of years. Hey, Ceedee Lamb is a
Speaker 1: great player and developed under Robert Prince. Brandon Cooks is
Speaker 1: a player that has been awesome for a long time
Speaker 1: and someone I've floated as a possible free agent acquisition,
Speaker 1: much to the shagrin of Kyle Krabs, who thinks that
Speaker 1: we should avoid players of that age like the plague.
Speaker 1: And I get why he thinks that, but I just
Speaker 1: think Brandon Cooks is a really, really good player. And
Speaker 1: of course he's small too and all that stuff, but
Speaker 1: there's a connection the right. So I'm trying to get out.
Speaker 1: Robert Turpin was a nice player there in Dallas. They've
Speaker 1: developed players there in that receiver's room. And then go
Speaker 1: back to the Detroit Lions. Now, he was there before
Speaker 1: Amin ros Saint Brown got there, but he had some
Speaker 1: pretty good receivers there in Troit as well that he
Speaker 1: helped develop and get on to the next stage of
Speaker 1: their career. Most notably there, Josh Reynolds, I think was
Speaker 1: a guy that made his mark under Robert Prince. But
Speaker 1: prior to that, he was with the Houston Texans for
Speaker 1: a year. He was an OC in college, he was
Speaker 1: a receivers coach, he was an assistant quarterbacks coach, a
Speaker 1: pass game coordinator. He's been coaching since nineteen eighty nine
Speaker 1: at Humboldt State in California. You know, small college where
Speaker 1: actually two of my high school buddies went and played
Speaker 1: their college football at that place.
Speaker 2: So small world.
Speaker 1: But Robert Prince, Craig Ackerman, the two coaching staff changes
Speaker 1: thus far. I don't imagine we'll get any more because
Speaker 1: we're getting pretty late into this thing here, but those
Speaker 1: are worth reporting on here. To kick off the podcast,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our first break right there.
Speaker 1: Come back on the other side. I have a general
Speaker 1: off season and draft rant. It's not very long to
Speaker 1: get to for you guys, and then we'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and break down what I saw on Day one Tuesday
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl. That's next draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 2: Let's kick off segment two this way.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins Cancer Challenge announced a headliner, Third Eye Blind,
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Speaker 1: or ride and raise funds to support innovative cancer research
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Speaker 2: Registration closes on February seventh.
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Speaker 2: Third eye Blind?
Speaker 1: What last year it was a was it Shaka Khan
Speaker 1: last year or Sneade O'Connor? I don't know, I don't
Speaker 1: freaking know, but Third Eye Blind, that's right up my alley.
Speaker 1: My mom, my late great mom, rest Or Soul had
Speaker 1: a like nineteen ninety four bright blue jeep, Grand Cherokee,
Speaker 1: and like, I don't really have a ton of memories
Speaker 1: from youth, but I have like random core ones that
Speaker 1: stick with you for no reason. And one of my
Speaker 1: core memories is like mobbing around Kennewick, Washington in that
Speaker 1: bright blue jeep Grand Cherokee listening to like Third Eye
Speaker 1: Blind or you know Creed whoever the hell from the
Speaker 1: nineties and go into like Taco time for lunch, like
Speaker 1: on a summer afternoon.
Speaker 2: Man, good times.
Speaker 1: Third Eye Blind also reminds me of a great Workaholics
Speaker 1: episode when they convinced the three girls to come to
Speaker 1: their house so the music festival they're throwing and the
Speaker 1: Third Eye Blind is the headliner, and the only reason
Speaker 1: the girls agreed to come was because the Third Eye
Speaker 1: of Blind and the song Jumper saved one of the girls,
Speaker 1: a stepdad's life because he was suicidal and decided not
Speaker 1: to because of the Third Eye Blind song. That's a great,
Speaker 1: great episode of a great all time show. Okay, enough
Speaker 1: rambling here. Oh oh, one more thing. Somebody asked me
Speaker 1: about wiffle Blast.
Speaker 2: We lost.
Speaker 1: We lost in the semi finals two to nothing to
Speaker 1: a team that was they could hit pretty good and
Speaker 1: they had really good arms. They were blazing fastballs. Byas,
Speaker 1: the way wiffle blast works is basically, if you can
Speaker 1: score a run, you probably win the game. I mean
Speaker 1: they're throwing from like twenty five feet away. They can
Speaker 1: throw as hard as they want if the woofballs.
Speaker 2: Move a lot.
Speaker 1: Your boy had two homers, two triples. I think I
Speaker 1: had a single, and then I had a bunch of walks,
Speaker 1: So like I was basically Adam Dunn, you know, a
Speaker 1: three outcome hit or walk, strikeout or home run or triple,
Speaker 1: I guess, but I was pretty productive to play. We
Speaker 1: fell to nothing in the semifinals to that team I
Speaker 1: mentioned there because we couldn't push a run across the arms,
Speaker 1: and they scored two in the first inning on a
Speaker 1: two run homer. Our arms kind of got tired towards
Speaker 1: the end, but semi final round knocked out and it
Speaker 1: was only I was the only player from the previous team.
Speaker 2: Oj doesn't play anymore. He just manages the team.
Speaker 1: And then we had three guys from the Dolphins team
Speaker 1: that I should be a part of probably, but Juice,
Speaker 1: you know, was the first one to recruit me. So
Speaker 1: we had three people from the Dolphins here myself and
Speaker 1: then one more guy that Juice picked up. So it
Speaker 1: wasn't even the original Juice crew. But we did make
Speaker 1: a push into the semi finals before we got knocked
Speaker 1: off there. All right, enough, of that, I have a
Speaker 1: bit of a rant I want to go on here,
Speaker 1: and and you know, I'm only getting into my initial
Speaker 1: studies here, so there's a long, long, long way to
Speaker 1: go with this. But this is what I hear from
Speaker 1: people that I trust. Kyle Krabs tells me all the time.
Speaker 1: Really hard to f up this draft, Travis, And I'm
Speaker 1: seeing it now too, with you know, getting into it
Speaker 1: more and more as the year goes along. And by
Speaker 1: the way I am, I think the podcast and the
Speaker 1: audience can can feel this. I'm really charged up this
Speaker 1: year about this stuff. Man. In years past, it was
Speaker 1: always like that. And you know, more liberties in the
Speaker 1: podcast is the biggest reason for that, I would say.
Speaker 1: But also having high draft picks helps too. And you
Speaker 1: know last year we had the twenty first pick, this
Speaker 1: year the thirteenth, and just having more picks as well
Speaker 1: really intrigues me to look at a guy like a
Speaker 1: Gray Zable in North North Dakota State guard who kicked
Speaker 1: butt on Tuesday's practice. But all of that aside, you know,
Speaker 1: this draft that I'm really invested in at this point
Speaker 1: this off season, that I'm talking about in the podcast
Speaker 1: every day is chock full of certain position groups, and
Speaker 1: what I would call it is a meat and potatoes
Speaker 1: off season, a meat and potatoes crop of players. What
Speaker 1: is that Linebackers, safeties, tight ends, defensive tackles. Dolphins fans
Speaker 1: favorites the guards. These positions are so deep, deepest hell,
Speaker 1: one of the deepest drafts I can remember. And you
Speaker 1: can see guys like Daniel Jeremiah tweeting about how picks
Speaker 1: twenty through sixty year basically this because the player, the
Speaker 1: talent pool is really that deep. And so I keep
Speaker 1: thinking about the Dolphins having and that fourth round comp
Speaker 1: pick for Christian Wilkins is gonna really piss me off
Speaker 1: when it becomes official, because like, we still lost the player,
Speaker 1: they still sign him for that much money. Why do
Speaker 1: we not get a third round draft pick there? It
Speaker 1: really drives me crazy. We will get one for Robert Hunt.
Speaker 1: We probably get a fourth round pick for Christian Wilkins.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, that's going to be what
Speaker 1: four five picks in the top like one to twenty,
Speaker 1: so you know, bat three for five on those players,
Speaker 1: get one more guy later on there's four new contributing
Speaker 1: players and rookie contracts, you get three or four more
Speaker 1: of those guys in free agency. Now you have eight
Speaker 1: new impact players. That's what this team needs to do.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the original point. This group, this
Speaker 1: this draft is loaded, positively loaded. How deep is your
Speaker 1: love for me? Cisco once asked, in a remake of
Speaker 1: a different song, I don't know who's like the original.
Speaker 1: I'm all over the place here to the off season mode. Right,
Speaker 1: it's loaded a defensive tackle and tight end and safety,
Speaker 1: and there are a ton a ton of usable interior
Speaker 1: offensive lineman or tackles that I think can convert and
Speaker 1: play guard at this level. Marcus bo is a guy
Speaker 1: that has been talked about that way, although I think
Speaker 1: he's a good tackle from Purdue. We'll get to that
Speaker 1: later on. And this is so defensive tackle tied in safety.
Speaker 1: I think into round three you're getting starters. This is
Speaker 1: the most good off ball linebackers a draft class has
Speaker 1: had in a long time. As well, there are like
Speaker 1: six safeties that can play. And guess what those positions
Speaker 1: tend to get knocked down a peg because of the
Speaker 1: positional value they feature. Right, Safeties don't get paid, and
Speaker 1: we talked about that on the Monday Show. There's going
Speaker 1: to be safeties that sign in August that start for
Speaker 1: football teams and are good players in for like a
Speaker 1: million bucks because the position at free agency, they don't
Speaker 1: want to pay those guys. That's why there's so many
Speaker 1: guys up on the open market. And the draft is
Speaker 1: loaded with those players as well. And so what does
Speaker 1: that mean? Supply and demand? We know basic economics, right,
Speaker 1: The supply is vast, the demand is maybe not as big,
Speaker 1: and that benefits the consumer, aka the Miami Dolphins, who
Speaker 1: are going to have to sign two new safeties and
Speaker 1: draft a safety probably this year because I don't think
Speaker 1: Javon Holland's coming back. I know Jordan Pouyer is not
Speaker 1: coming back, and we'll see what happens with Elijah Campbell.
Speaker 1: And that's one position. But guess where the other Dolphins
Speaker 1: needs lie in the meat and the potatoes. Baby, we
Speaker 1: are set at tackle, right, I mean you can add
Speaker 1: to it, and we talked about it.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about on the show next week.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie down and rest of my laurels
Speaker 1: there with Patrick Paul and Austin Jackson and key On Smith.
Speaker 1: We have to sign a veteran probably and probably a
Speaker 1: drafted guy. But in terms of like you need a
Speaker 1: starting left tackle, a right tackle, you don't need that.
Speaker 1: You don't need a starting quarterback. You have your receiver one.
Speaker 1: Technically you have two of them right now, but I
Speaker 1: think one's going to be gone. I think Wattle still
Speaker 1: is that guy. I know for a fact he's that guy.
Speaker 1: You have a tight end one which is in a
Speaker 1: feature position. You have a couple of really good cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: and we'll see about Ramsey's future, and I think that's
Speaker 1: still a position of need for long term sake. You
Speaker 1: have Chock Robinson and Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb the
Speaker 1: most the most expensive position on the defense. You have
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler, who you know is still underpaid my opinion. Like,
Speaker 1: you have all these these critical positions locked up, and
Speaker 1: so the positions you have to fill are the cheaper
Speaker 1: ones and the positions that are deeper in the draft,
Speaker 1: the meat and the potatoes. And while I think I
Speaker 1: think this brass has sort of graduated from taking such positions,
Speaker 1: you know, like it did in twenty nineteen with Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: like it did in twenty eighteen with Mika Fitzpatrick. A
Speaker 1: safety and a defensive tackle right, or two tight ends
Speaker 1: in that same draft class with Mike Kasicki and Durham
Speaker 1: Smith in twenty eighteen, or Jerome Baker in the second
Speaker 1: round and off ball linebacker in twenty eighteen, Like they
Speaker 1: used to go after those positions, but now it's more
Speaker 1: about the premium positions, right, And I do think this
Speaker 1: might be the year to go back to that. Look
Speaker 1: at the Lions in twenty twenty three that Jamier Gibbs
Speaker 1: with Jack Campbell, I was looking at Campbell, kept thinking
Speaker 1: Kalais Campbell with Sam Laporta with Brian Branch all non
Speaker 1: premium positions right running back, off ball linebacker, tight end,
Speaker 1: and nickel safety, which you know he plays more nickel now,
Speaker 1: But those are all non premium positions. And those are
Speaker 1: all guys that are probably the top three or four
Speaker 1: players at their positions. Maybe not Jack Campbell yet, but
Speaker 1: he's a really good looking player. They're all like Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl quality, And I'm not talking about like Drake may
Speaker 1: or Mac Jones Pro Bowl seventeenth alter. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: like they would make the original team, right. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine what an injection of talent like that would do
Speaker 1: for this team. Man, we are in a good spot
Speaker 1: at a lot of those cornerstone positions. And if you
Speaker 1: hit on this draft where it's strong and they say
Speaker 1: it's deeper than it is top heavy as well, but
Speaker 1: has like a good solid fifteen top elite prospects, well,
Speaker 1: we pick in the top fifteen and we have a
Speaker 1: lot of those picks in the middle round. So I
Speaker 1: am really curious to see. Man, we've heard about change
Speaker 1: and doing what's necessary to hit our standard. I think
Speaker 1: we've kind of become privy to what needs to happen
Speaker 1: from a personnel and management standpoint, you know, the meetings,
Speaker 1: that being more steadfast on guys being where they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be, and you know, getting rid of bad locker
Speaker 1: room issues and all that stuff. I think this offseason
Speaker 1: provides another chance to show that you can, you know,
Speaker 1: blow with the trends, blow with the wins. And if
Speaker 1: you do that and you're successful, there is no reason
Speaker 1: on earth for this team to not get back to
Speaker 1: eleven plus wins. This is not at all out of
Speaker 1: reach and should absolutely be the standard for this football
Speaker 1: team and the expectation. So let's go do it, and
Speaker 1: the draft starts and mobile will come back on segment
Speaker 1: three and talk about the players that popped on Day
Speaker 1: one Tuesday from the National and the American practice. That's
Speaker 1: next Draft Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by AutoNation. You know, I went to rip the
Speaker 1: college football theme song off of YouTube and would let
Speaker 1: me do it?
Speaker 2: Which one do you think is the best one?
Speaker 1: That CBS one still gets me going the sec on CBS, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, no longer being a thing. There goes
Speaker 1: your childhood, Travis. Anyway, let's go ahead and talk about
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl Day one practice. And I put the two
Speaker 1: teams together here because I don't have a ton of
Speaker 1: notes on individual players, but I want to go down
Speaker 1: the list of players that I thought popped by position,
Speaker 1: and we start at the quarterback position, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: just kind of get into this right here and talk
Speaker 1: about a guy that I think is the one player,
Speaker 1: the one player I would have on my radar really
Speaker 1: prior to to day three, because I feel like we've
Speaker 1: got several years of evidence of this. And of course,
Speaker 1: a second round quarterback is going to start in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl here in about a week and a half.
Speaker 1: But taking quarterbacks in the second round has not been fruitful,
Speaker 1: the third round not really so much either. You kind
Speaker 1: of get the scratch off ticket on day three. The
Speaker 1: brock Perties of the world, of Tom Brady's of the world, obviously,
Speaker 1: but you're really more. If you don't believe in a
Speaker 1: quarterback enough to be your franchise and your future as
Speaker 1: a starter, then you're looking at a backup quarterback, and
Speaker 1: you don't spend second and third round picks on those
Speaker 1: guys unless you have a quarterback that gets hurt all
Speaker 1: the time that maybe you do. So maybe I digress here,
Speaker 1: but Jalen Milroe is the one quarterback that makes sense
Speaker 1: to me because of everything that he is. Tua is
Speaker 1: not right. The physical skills are they pop off. He
Speaker 1: can run like Jayden Daniels and Lamar Jackson. He's got
Speaker 1: the arm strength and the wrist flick and the ability
Speaker 1: to drive the football but also layer it. And I
Speaker 1: think that you can think about selecting him and you
Speaker 1: probably will see a lot of the same criticisms about
Speaker 1: him that you saw with Josh Allen coming out of Wyoming,
Speaker 1: with even Lamar Jackson coming out of Louisville, which Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson the scouting on Lamar Jackson, was you know again
Speaker 1: to go back to like the race card, like it
Speaker 1: was racial, because you cannot watch that guy at Louisville
Speaker 1: and that big game against Clemson and like was it
Speaker 1: twenty man?
Speaker 2: Was it twenty seventeen, twenty six?
Speaker 1: I forget what year it was, And just the way
Speaker 1: he played every single Saturday, it was so obvious that
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson was going to be a great player. It
Speaker 1: was so so obvious. Josh Allen had a lot more
Speaker 1: growing pains to go through and had to basically rework
Speaker 1: his throwing mechanics. So I understood that one. But we've
Speaker 1: seen it time and time again, right, these physical marvels
Speaker 1: that come out and they have a lot of bad
Speaker 1: college tape, But you're not drafting the player for what
Speaker 1: his college tape was. You're drafting him for what his
Speaker 1: college tape tells you that he can be. And with
Speaker 1: Jalen Milroe, I feel like he's gonna rise into the
Speaker 1: first round. Maybe I'm crazy, and I have no backing
Speaker 1: in terms of, like you know, a scout telling me
Speaker 1: this or even NFL media people like I just think
Speaker 1: that he has the physical traits that teams will look
Speaker 1: at and say, if I can sit that, if I
Speaker 1: can harness that the way we did with Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: what we did with Patrick Mahomes, all these quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: had time to sit and learn, if I can harness that,
Speaker 1: I can compete with the Josh Allens and the Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson's of the world, because physically he has all those
Speaker 1: traits and we have to get him up to speed
Speaker 1: in the other areas. And I do think on his
Speaker 1: tape that you have touch and layering and some decent
Speaker 1: processing that has a long way to go, but I
Speaker 1: think you can coach that, and that's why you have
Speaker 1: coaches that do that stuff. And when I watched him
Speaker 1: in this practice, I saw a lot of the same stuff.
Speaker 1: The ball jumps off the wrist, he can layer it.
Speaker 1: The juice on the football is just there. And I
Speaker 1: don't have to tell you guys again about his legs
Speaker 1: and what we saw that do for teams in the
Speaker 1: playoffs with obviously Lamar Jackson's running ability with Jayden and
Speaker 1: daniels running ability and how he's able to pair man.
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels is a great example of a guy that
Speaker 1: can process and run, and Lamar obviously even better at
Speaker 1: that with a you know, about to win his third MVP, Like,
Speaker 1: that's the upside for this guy, right, And I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna sit here. I gotta watch more tape before I
Speaker 1: can really give you a definitive, you know answer on that.
Speaker 1: But from what I have seen, I think you could
Speaker 1: get there. And isn't that worth a pretty high draft
Speaker 1: pick if you think he can get there, if he
Speaker 1: can be the guy that you can put up against
Speaker 1: Lamar and Josh and Patrick And look, you're talking to
Speaker 1: one of the biggest two of fans out there, and
Speaker 1: I think the TUA in the right situation can compete
Speaker 1: in those spots. But if you're looking at a quarterback,
Speaker 1: like everyone that wants to just dump to a because
Speaker 1: it's not good enough, like I don't want to do that,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to go back to the years
Speaker 1: of John Beck and Cleiol Lemon and AJ Feely and
Speaker 1: Jay Fiedler and Brian Greasy and Ryan Tannehill and Sage
Speaker 1: Rosenfels and Ray Lucas and chan for Kyle Orton and
Speaker 1: Chad Henny.
Speaker 2: I don't want to go back to that.
Speaker 1: I like being a team that can win games and
Speaker 1: compete and get into the playoffs, and I think Jalen
Speaker 1: Milroe affords you the opportunity to make that big leap
Speaker 1: in that big swing. Now, you can't do it Pick thirteen,
Speaker 1: You just can't do that. But if he's there in
Speaker 1: the second round, I think you would really really start
Speaker 1: to consider taking a guy like Milrow. Plus, I think
Speaker 1: he can help solve some of your red zone running
Speaker 1: issues and your short yards issues right away.
Speaker 2: Something to think about. At running back. RJ.
Speaker 1: Harvey from UCF was the only guy I wrote down
Speaker 1: because he was uncoverable in the one on one routes,
Speaker 1: really impressive burst and change of direction. It seemed to
Speaker 1: be super polished as a route runner. And this is
Speaker 1: more of a primer, so I'm not going to spend
Speaker 1: a lot of time on this type of content, but
Speaker 1: I had to look it up. He only caught sixty
Speaker 1: one balls over three years for the Space Coast over there.
Speaker 1: Another example of don't assume a guy cannot do stuff
Speaker 1: because he wasn't asked to. Because that looked like a
Speaker 1: polished route runner to me. And at five eight one ninety,
Speaker 1: I'm guessing he caught some balls and played some wide
Speaker 1: receiver in high school at wide receiver. Lot of guys
Speaker 1: in this class that I think are good players as well.
Speaker 1: This game not so much, but there's a few. Tes
Speaker 1: Johnson was the first one, and just real quick, Danie
Speaker 1: Jeremiah was talking about the route running and the evaluation
Speaker 1: tool of the one on one portions of these practices.
Speaker 1: I think it's one of the most telling portions you're
Speaker 1: gonna get on a football field. And never mind all
Speaker 1: the space they have to set these dbs up with,
Speaker 1: because it's not really fair. But you you when you
Speaker 1: went back and watched Cooper Cup, Puka Nakua, Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: all of those guys were dominant in the route running
Speaker 1: portions of the Senior Bowl and you could just see it.
Speaker 2: It was just so obvious.
Speaker 1: And with Tes Johnson, even though he weighed in at
Speaker 1: one fifty six, which is like two pounds leer than
Speaker 1: I am, which is crazy. Uh, that has probably got
Speaker 1: to come up from one to fifty six.
Speaker 2: He can't play it that way.
Speaker 1: Right, But I do feel you know, I don't take
Speaker 1: players off my board for that. In fact, I think
Speaker 1: that size typically shows you how special they are in
Speaker 1: other areas. I was a huge two two at Will
Speaker 1: fan and a bigger tank Dell fan, And look at
Speaker 1: those guys. Dell was one sixty one at the Common.
Speaker 1: He produced seven hundred yards as a rookie in eight
Speaker 1: games and then almost seven hundred more yards in ten
Speaker 1: games last year. And before you say that the weight
Speaker 1: is why he got hurt, you guys saw that freak
Speaker 1: injury that would have hurt, That would have blown up
Speaker 1: anybody's leg in the situation. Now at Will took longer
Speaker 1: two years to be productive, but he was one sixty
Speaker 1: even and he's posted a thousand yards combined in the
Speaker 1: last two years for the Rams. Is like their fourth
Speaker 1: option in the passing game. Tes Johnson is a freaky,
Speaker 1: freaky mover. He glides all over the field and they
Speaker 1: could not cover him. He was the best receiver on
Speaker 1: the field all day long. Xavier withstrapro I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: he's he's better than Brax and Barrios. But I see
Speaker 1: some Brax and Barrios and he got strapped a few times.
Speaker 1: I gotta watch more tape on him. I want to
Speaker 1: like him, But when I saw the Senior Bowl, I
Speaker 1: was not very impressed by Jaden Higgins and Jack besh
Speaker 1: Are the two big bodies I wanted to get a
Speaker 1: look at.
Speaker 2: I've been asked about Jaden Higgins.
Speaker 1: He one thing I noticed about him is he knows
Speaker 1: how to press a defender with urgency through his physicality.
Speaker 1: Like he did this little hop step off the line
Speaker 1: short in the distance that forces the corner to basically
Speaker 1: declare what he's going to do so as to not
Speaker 1: get ran over in that five yard window. Then he's
Speaker 1: able to go to work chasing blind spots. But man,
Speaker 1: he is slow. Everything he did besides that one little
Speaker 1: hop step, to me was slow. I'm worried that he
Speaker 1: can't move like Keon Coleman. And you know, talk to
Speaker 1: Bills fans about Keon Coleman now versus when he was
Speaker 1: talking about buying coats at Macy's. It's pretty cute, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Until you can't play football? Jack Besh Again, somebody asked
Speaker 1: me about Jaden Higgins. This is the size player that
Speaker 1: I like here. He is an expert at making catches
Speaker 1: with his feet not connected to the ground. What I
Speaker 1: mean by that is fifty to fifty balls where he elevates.
Speaker 1: He is very very adept at high point in the football.
Speaker 1: I think he has enough twitch in his game for
Speaker 1: the size to be a factor as well. And then
Speaker 1: there's the tight ends. And the best tight end on
Speaker 1: the field all day and one of the best players
Speaker 1: in the field day was Mason Taylor from LSU. And
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get him me, probably spend your second
Speaker 1: round pick on this guy. Very little doubt that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a stud after watching some tape and
Speaker 1: his just overall work at the Senior Bowl. His first
Speaker 1: team rep was a second level climb where he reached
Speaker 1: a player that had him outflanked in the running game
Speaker 1: and he just went downfield and took care of it.
Speaker 1: Then he uncovered and settles himself into his zone on
Speaker 1: a route that didn't get a target, but I thought
Speaker 1: like his pacing and his timing of that route was good.
Speaker 1: His feel for landmarks, for assignments, for techniques is as
Speaker 1: impressive as his build. And this guy, man, you're getting
Speaker 1: a good a good character in person too. He's got
Speaker 1: soft hands. He absolutely dominated the one on ones with
Speaker 1: smooth lean. The way he can stay on balance and
Speaker 1: stay on track and on the on the stem while
Speaker 1: he leans to kind of sell different portions of the
Speaker 1: possible route is impressive. He compress a defender onto their
Speaker 1: heels and force them to kind of like you know,
Speaker 1: make a decision when they're not ready to drive. Then
Speaker 1: he has the speed to separate. He had a one
Speaker 1: headed catch from Milrow that was super impressive that way.
Speaker 1: And there was also an awesome interview during the broadcast
Speaker 1: with Jason Taylor, who was on the field trying to
Speaker 1: like record video while they're trying to interview him. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of being dad right now. And you know,
Speaker 1: knowing Jason a little bit, I've I've never seen him
Speaker 1: like that, like, you know, kind of kind of vulnerable
Speaker 1: maybe talking about fatherhood and how important this is to
Speaker 1: him and how like all the football that he's had
Speaker 1: in his life is it's kind of done. And he's
Speaker 1: still a coach, obviously one of the best recruiters in
Speaker 1: the entire nation. But it was cool to see him
Speaker 1: kind of step back and just like be a dad.
Speaker 1: Like kids, man, they change us for the better, and
Speaker 1: he was beaming with pride.
Speaker 2: He was funny too.
Speaker 1: He talked about how he tells everyone that he knows,
Speaker 1: including his own kids, that Mason is the best person
Speaker 1: he knows and he said he's like that. He's like that,
Speaker 1: and the reporter says, you tell your other kids to
Speaker 1: be like Mason. He goes, yeah, because I do some
Speaker 1: dumb stuff sometimes, like really cool information, really cool woman,
Speaker 1: and Mason Taylor looks like an absolute stud. One tight
Speaker 1: end that I thought I'm not gonna even watch tap
Speaker 1: on was Maliki Matavo because he can't run, so crossed
Speaker 1: off the list forever, No thank you. Elijah Arroyo was
Speaker 1: was not familiar with your game all that well, sir,
Speaker 1: but a super smooth movie. He's gonna be an f
Speaker 1: in theme and not sure he ever lined up in
Speaker 1: line in college at twenty three years old. But you
Speaker 1: saw the shake and the suddenness and the one on ones,
Speaker 1: the vertical speed, the threat he presents at that size.
Speaker 2: He's the kind of guy that.
Speaker 1: You can draw a one on one against because of
Speaker 1: our weapons and just let him go beat somebody with
Speaker 1: a combo of straight line, burst and size with a
Speaker 1: huge catch radius. He dominated every single portion. He had
Speaker 1: a big corner route in the Showdown one on one
Speaker 1: period and they compared him to Sam Laporta and Jimmy
Speaker 1: Grahamer on the broadcast and the catch radius certainly confirms
Speaker 1: that as well. On the offensive line, several guys talk
Speaker 1: about here Josh Connelly from Oregan is the best player
Speaker 1: out there. In my opinion, it's either him, Shamar Stewart,
Speaker 1: or Mason Taylor or Walter Nolan. I think are the
Speaker 1: four guys that are in the running for that this week.
Speaker 1: I don't think he'll be there when we pick at thirteen.
Speaker 1: He is so strong with excellent ankle ben and was
Speaker 1: giving guys issues all day long the way he can
Speaker 1: get his feet back in shape, even in a drill
Speaker 1: where guys were cheating and trying to run multiple gaps
Speaker 1: over and you saw them like shorten that thing and
Speaker 1: condense it down by the end, just patiently slides and
Speaker 1: stays square like a basketball defense. He's a top ten
Speaker 1: pick if he's there at thirteen, I don't worry about
Speaker 1: who I have to move.
Speaker 2: I would just take him because he's that good.
Speaker 1: Ozzie Trapillo from Boston College is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: a pub but he's also kind of a weird mover.
Speaker 1: But he was like a black hole in pass protection
Speaker 1: because he's six foot eight and thirty four inch arms
Speaker 1: and I haven't really gotten a feel for how he
Speaker 1: moves yet, but he was he looked like a day
Speaker 1: one pass protection guy based on those reps I saw
Speaker 1: Marcus bo from Perdue. He took reps at guard and
Speaker 1: tackle at guard. He kind of got walked back a
Speaker 1: little bit against a bull rush, but you could see
Speaker 1: his natural tackle ability in the jump set. Redirect move
Speaker 1: was very fruitful for him. He's perhaps one of the
Speaker 1: best wide zone players in this class, and most projects
Speaker 1: he'll kick inside. He's a guy that I think if
Speaker 1: the Dolphins find a trade partner and they can get
Speaker 1: back down in the twenties, I would be very interested
Speaker 1: in Marcus Bow from Perdue. On the interior, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to cover a bunch of guys I didn't like,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of defeats the purpose of this process.
Speaker 1: I just want to tell you who I thought looked good.
Speaker 1: But one player that I thought looked awful was Wyatt
Speaker 1: Millum from West Virginia.
Speaker 2: To me, he was the worst player in the one
Speaker 2: on one drew.
Speaker 1: His sets were I put dog s dog pooh. He
Speaker 1: tries to cut off the defensive line, he stops his feet,
Speaker 1: he over extends with a waist bend punch. He doesn't
Speaker 1: strike it, he gets swiped, he crosses his feet.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was.
Speaker 1: All really really really really really bad. Who was not
Speaker 1: bad was Gray's Abel from North Dakota State, who didn't
Speaker 1: lose a rep. He's the next player from his factory
Speaker 1: of offensive lineman, patient, sand in the pants and content
Speaker 1: with bowl rushes. After getting into a good set to
Speaker 1: deal with both the arc and the inside slant. He
Speaker 1: plays with fantastic leverage and pad level that allows him
Speaker 1: to adjust and contort his body for the proper angle
Speaker 1: of attack. He looks like a guy that could really
Speaker 1: excel in a combination scheme, which is what we run.
Speaker 1: He played guard and tackle. He also took some center
Speaker 1: snaps in practice. The effort and strain to finish shows
Speaker 1: up on tape just like I did in these drills.
Speaker 1: The grip strength the guys, the grip strength that guys
Speaker 1: had such a hard time shedding him once he got
Speaker 1: his hands on them, and the way he drops the
Speaker 1: weight and can quickly get the feet active again. I
Speaker 1: think he's a Day one starter. Immediately he's like the
Speaker 1: next you know code mock that came out of the
Speaker 1: the Ali Marpetz, the guy that come out of this
Speaker 1: game from small schools and just come in and become
Speaker 1: like stalwarts in the NFL. Jalen Rivers from Miami is
Speaker 1: a guy that we should keep an eye on. And
Speaker 1: you'll hear me get into this next week on Trench Week,
Speaker 1: Trench Week, Trench this week, we're talking offensive line defensive
Speaker 1: one all next week. But he converts from tackle to guard,
Speaker 1: or rather guys that do convert from tackle to guard
Speaker 1: who have this size and athletic profile is what we
Speaker 1: like at that position and it can get us to
Speaker 1: the next level, you know of offensive line play. You
Speaker 1: know Win was that way, Keon Smith is that way
Speaker 1: to a much lesser degree. Liam Eichenberg was that way.
Speaker 1: But he had a rep at right guard where he
Speaker 1: set like a tackle a jump set and then the
Speaker 1: rusher cross face and he threw up the inside handstrike
Speaker 1: right to the chest play and just took control of
Speaker 1: the rep. Are you guys Rick and Morty fans, You
Speaker 1: know the pickle Rick episode when he gets himself into
Speaker 1: the sewer and has to commandeer a cockroach and then
Speaker 1: he uses the he uses the arms of the cockroach
Speaker 1: to touch the brain to tell a body where to go.
Speaker 1: He was controlledlling the defensive lineman like Rick was controlling
Speaker 1: that cockroach on that day. He had the exact same
Speaker 1: rep I just talked about. From the right guard position,
Speaker 1: the jump set, throw the punch, take control. A player
Speaker 1: with thirty five inch arms at three hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five pounds six foot five smooth feet to operate with
Speaker 1: the hands in unison, he might be a first round pick.
Speaker 1: I am highly, highly intrigued. I don't have any notes
Speaker 1: on this guy, but Miles Fraser from LSU was just
Speaker 1: rock solid all day long on.
Speaker 2: The defensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Walter Nolan from Old Miss looks like Aaron
Speaker 1: Donald to me. Right freaky quick. He's athletics, same size
Speaker 1: and movement profile as del and Carter. Coming out, he
Speaker 1: might be unblockable if that same pliability you saw from
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald. His first few steps are so quick and
Speaker 1: sudden and dynamic, and then he can generate power from
Speaker 1: awkward body positions and walk you back. So he surprises
Speaker 1: you with the speed and then overwhelms you with the physicality.
Speaker 1: He's going top ten. I would be very surprised if
Speaker 1: he does not. Dion Walker was a guy from Kentucky
Speaker 1: that I was curious about, and I had written this
Speaker 1: whole thing about you know, six foot six, three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty five pounds, but then I saw an up
Speaker 1: close shot on his legs. And he's got skinnier legs
Speaker 1: than I do. And when he was in the one
Speaker 1: on one crucible, he was getting thrown around like a
Speaker 1: rag doll. At that size, there's zero pop. He cannot
Speaker 1: generate power from his base. No thank You're gonna hear
Speaker 1: a lot about him, But Dion Walker, I'm not interested
Speaker 1: off the edge. I didn't really get a look at
Speaker 1: this group that much today. But Arkansas Edge, land and Jackson.
Speaker 1: You guys remember that video of the guy doing the
Speaker 1: one on one Passbrush Driels, who looked like no hoo
Speaker 1: Hank from the Great HBO show Berry, And everyone's like,
Speaker 1: is that real? Is that a real person? Is that
Speaker 1: the actor doing that? It was a real guy. It
Speaker 1: was Landon Jackson from Arkansas. He has alopecia, so it
Speaker 1: has the ball, no eyebrows, no hair. He I don't
Speaker 1: know how he's out there. He reminds me it's Deon Walker,
Speaker 1: but way worse. Like so slow watch him just we'll
Speaker 1: go watch the Arkansas passers. Number forty is his name? Uh,
Speaker 1: That linebacker Jeffrey Bossa from Oregon. Haven't watched the tape
Speaker 1: on him yet, but he had a big collision on
Speaker 1: a run fit followed by a pass breakup and man
Speaker 1: matching on Tes Johnson and the coverage drills or in
Speaker 1: coverage rather during the period, and he also had a
Speaker 1: one on one win a rep in the crucible period
Speaker 1: at end of practice. I included him because in the
Speaker 1: broadcast they said that he's a green dot and as
Speaker 1: alpha as they come. He gets guys lined up and
Speaker 1: is just the leader in that locker room. We need
Speaker 1: guys like that, all right. Defensive becks Quincy Riley from Louisville,
Speaker 1: best technician on the entire day, pressed up mirror man coverage,
Speaker 1: reads the release and gets vertical at the right time,
Speaker 1: fluid movement to match his feel love Quincy Riley out
Speaker 1: of Louisville's game. Dorian Strong from Virginia Tech six foot
Speaker 1: one physical cornerback and it showed in the one on
Speaker 1: ones great redirect transition to vertical route control the rep
Speaker 1: by widening and even bigger wide receiver and Pat Bryant.
Speaker 1: He has spatial awareness on tape, good feel for zone
Speaker 1: all over that tape, but as press man reps and
Speaker 1: one on one might have been the money maker. You
Speaker 1: have to do both to be great and I also
Speaker 1: loved his tackling on tape. Something we need on the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Dorian Strong from Virginia Tech Isaac. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to say his first name, Isaia or Thomas Isaiahraia. It's
Speaker 1: az Ar e Ye apostrophe h Thomas from Florida State competitor.
Speaker 1: Smart player with a good profile to match up against
Speaker 1: different body types. He was the only one that stayed
Speaker 1: with tes in the one on one drills and made
Speaker 1: the biggest play and team with a pass breakup on
Speaker 1: a deep corner. He's long, He's an easy mover, has
Speaker 1: wide receiver body control to make plays in the football.
Speaker 1: I also noted that Jilen Smith and Maxwell Harriston from
Speaker 1: Kentucky and USC had big days as well. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get out here, long podcast. You all please be
Speaker 1: sure Friday will have a two day recap of the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl practices. I'll take your mailbag questions as well.
Speaker 1: Then Monday will recap the whole game and the weekend
Speaker 1: that was Dmobile and get onto Treunch Week. Offensive Line
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