WEBVTT - Drive Time: Senior Bowl Day 1 2025 Notebook 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:12.240 What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.480 --> 0:00:15.040 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.320 the Senior Bull is underway. I have plenty of day 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.920 one notes for you guys, plus a couple of coaching 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.760 hires for the Miami Dolphins. We'll talk about Robert Prince 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.319 and Craig Ackerman and we'll see if we have some 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.440 time for the mailbag. Might have to save that for 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.520 the Friday show from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:31.520 --> 0:00:32.919 Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:38.680 This is the Draft Time Podcast Off the top. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.120 The Dolphins have reportedly agreed to a contract with Craig 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.680 Ackerman to be the new special teams coach, and he 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.440 spent six years with the Tennessee Titans. Prior to the 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.760 Titans job, he was the special teams coordinator for the 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:55.720 San Diego Chargers back in twenty sixteen. And he has 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:59.680 a background outside of special teams as a defensive assistant 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.760 and he was a linebackers coach at Kent State, Miami 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.039 of Ohio, and Western Kentucky some maction. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:06.800 He's forty eight years old. 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.240 And I'm sure you guys have heard about this by now, 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:14.960 but Rick Gosling does his annual special team's rankings every year, 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:19.120 and the Titans under Ackerman it wasn't very good. In 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.800 twenty eighteen they were sixteenth, twenty nineteen they were eighteenth, 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.160 then twenty fourth in the COVID year nineteenth and twenty 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.520 twenty one, fourteenth in twenty twenty two, and then he 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.000 was fired in twenty twenty three when they were twenty 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.520 first after they had a pair of blocked punts and 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.119 one of those injured their punter, and then they missed 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.680 the pat later in the game because he couldn't hold, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.240 and Ryan Tannehill got promoted to the holding position to 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:48.120 fill in for Ryan Stonehouse in that spot. So he's 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:49.440 been out of the league for about a year and 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.000 a half. It was week thirteen of twenty thirteen when 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.480 he was let go. And if you go off social media, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:59.520 if you go off of x Titans fans some similar 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:05.160 sentiments about him as to what Danny Crossman's reputation was 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.520 across Dolphins fans here for quite a while. And I 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:11.679 get the trepidation about that. I mean, you are choosing 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:15.920 from essentially, you know, the Fired Football Coaches Association, the 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:20.360 old John Gruden joking association that he talked about. But 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.000 that's what you have to choose from, right. You can't 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.160 just go get the best special teams coach in the league. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:26.480 You can't just go get Andy Reid. 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.880 You can't just go get Patrick Mahomes, no matter how 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:31.680 much social media might tell you that. So if you 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:35.880 don't like it, I think it's interesting sometimes the reaction 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:37.800 we get from a guy we didn't know existed a 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.360 half an hour prior to the reduce coming out. But 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.040 I get the trepidation at the same time, I just 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.040 think it's kind of funny seeing that balance and the 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.440 upheaval over someone that you have no idea what he 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.040 even looks like. Probably, and I will say this about 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:52.800 special teams, I think that you can really point to 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.800 a team's special teams production based on how injured they were, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:02.400 because who's been more injured the last three years then 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.560 the Miami Dolphins. And I remember that was kind of 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.000 like an excuse that I was told about for Danny 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.880 Crossman coming back in twenty two or maybe it's twenty three. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.280 I forget about it was twenty three because all the 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.040 injuries they had were you know, key on Crossing for instance, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.040 is a guy that you signed strictly to play special teams, 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.520 and because of the cornerback attrition we had that year, 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.440 he winds up playing like a pretty significant role on 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.680 defense as a cornerback, and that pulls from his special teams. Dude, 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.840 he's now all of a sudden, you're asking practice squad 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.280 guys to fill out your special teams groups and the 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.320 depth you know, you feel that that depth and the 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.160 hit you take there. I mean this year at linebacker 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:40.200 to cut David Long with Anthony Walker's injury, Duke Riley 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.960 getting playing time and Tyrrel Dotson stepping into that lineup 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.960 in that role, like that's the spot that you were, 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.360 you know, banged up at quite quite frequently this season. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:52.200 Just all the positions that can really impact what you 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:54.320 have on special teams seem to be the ones that 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:56.480 we have injured the most the last few years. And 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.320 so I kind of look at the fix for special 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.840 teams is the same fix for the entire football team. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.520 Just stay healthy and have your core guys that you 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.480 pay to do that be available for you and not 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:10.520 have to, you know, moonlight in special teams while they 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:13.480 play defense or offense, and vice versa. So I just 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:17.039 think it's worth mentioning how much injuries impact that group, 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.400 because when you lose a tight end, yeah, it impacts 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:21.240 your tight end room, right, But when you lose a 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.200 tight end and a linebacker and it impacts those rooms independently, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.200 that has a net impact on your special teams unit, which, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.239 of course you know those two positions are very heavily 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.119 steeped in special teams production. So something to think about. 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.400 I don't really know much about Rick Ackerman besides what 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:39.200 we just talked about his career. Forty eight years old, 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:42.240 spend a lot of time coaching football, and speaking of age, 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:45.120 the Dolphins new wide receiver coach is also a fifty 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:48.240 nine year old who was born in Okinawa, Japan. By 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:51.200 the way, Robert Prince, he will reportedly be the new 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.640 receivers coach for your Miami Dolphins. He's been with the 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:54.960 Cowboys the last three years. 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:57.400 And you know, I don't. 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.320 When we do sweeping coach changes, I don't mind doing 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.080 the whole episode on that to kind of get you 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.280 guys familiar with where they are and where they've been 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.919 and who they've coached. And you'll recall when the Dolphins 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:10.440 brought this coaching staff in and I think, to Mike 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.880 McDaniel's credit, I think one of the best things he's 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:16.279 done here with the Miami Dolphins is find good coaches. 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.599 And sure the defensive staff has overchanged every single year 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.800 because he's had a new DC just about every single year. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:26.440 And by the way, we're learning now that it's basically 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.760 looking like Kellen Moore for the Saints. So continue to 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:31.720 cross your fingers. And I hate saying this on the 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.159 show because Anthony Weaver is one of the best guys 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.159 in the entire building, you know how we do in Travis. 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.039 The type of guy that he'll ask me that, which 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:42.400 compared to the last DC who wouldn't give me the 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:44.080 time of day if I said hi to his face. 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.360 Was a nice change. And Anthony Weaver, I hope becomes 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.040 a head coach one day. I think that that's coming 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:52.360 for him next year, and maybe he still does get 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.159 the Saint's job, but it sounds like they have zeroed 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.880 in on Kellen Moore, which they cannot make that move 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:58.720 until after the Super Bowl, obviously, as he is coaching 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.240 in the Super Bowl for the Philadelphia Eagles, but it 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.039 sounds like it'll be him for the Saints job, and 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.599 quite frankly, that makes me happy, not just because we 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.159 get Coach Weaver back in that scenario, but that wasn't 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:14.640 a good job. And also like, Okay, how do I 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:18.000 say this, Like I have seen Kellen Moore dupress. I've 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.920 seen Kellen Moore do media. I've gotten to know Anthony Weaver, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:21.600 I've seen him. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:22.880 Do his media. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:25.920 One of those guys is a commanding presence and a 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.240 future head coach that I think will really rally his 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.839 troops around him. One of those guys, I don't think 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:33.640 is that. And I'll leave you to put those pieces 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.960 together about who I think that is. And that opens 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:37.880 up a whole other can of worms about the hiring 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.880 processes in the NFL and a man of color like 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.080 coach Weavers, for instance, who maybe doesn't get the same 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:46.760 opportunity as the young offensive whiz who has had multiple 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:50.560 opportunities in that role for the Chargers, for the Cowboys, 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:54.520 for the Eagle, Like, yeah, you know, it's I don't 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:55.960 want to go any further into it. I think there 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.480 is something there for that, but I hey, we'll take 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.880 coach Weave back for one more year. Hopefully he coaches 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:02.880 his defense up from their top five unit again or 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:04.960 in terms of the yards allowed. I don't think they 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.760 were top five last year in terms of production. I 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.560 think you'd be crazy to say that. But you know, 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.080 on balance with what he had to deal with in 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:11.720 the injuries and the lack of death, I think it 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.800 was pretty good. And I you know, I think we'll 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.320 get one more year of that, one more year of 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.480 continuity to put this thing together and build guys out 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.240 from you know, from what he sees and what he 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.600 likes in his defensive players, and then he goes on 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.720 gets a better head coaching job, we get two third 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.679 round draft picks and compensatory return for that, and everybody wins. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.680 That's kind of what I'm hoping for here with that situation. 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.240 So back to the original point of this whole thing, 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:38.360 with you know, the defensive staff ever changing under Mike McDaniel, 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.640 with Josh Boyer, with Vic Fangio, with Anthony Weaver, and 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.520 hopefully a second year of continuity and can retain this 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:46.560 defensive staff, and I think did a pretty good job 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.040 in twenty twenty four. You know, I always we talked 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.000 about the offensive staff, and they brought them in back 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.080 in twenty two, and it was like, hey, here's Frank 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.960 Smith and his accolades, here's Wes Welker and his accolades, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.760 and John Embry and you already know about Eric Studisville 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.280 and they wound up getting But so like, one of 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.400 my favorite things about coach McDaniel is his willingness to 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.200 see what works and what doesn't work on a coaching 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.720 staff and to make those changes. And I think that 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.440 you know, fans were pretty fed up with a special 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.880 team's production and you got that change, and you look 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.680 at the receiver position with Wes Welker, and I think 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:18.440 Wes is a good football coach, but I think that 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.440 what happened in that receiver's room in terms of, you know, 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:26.160 Tyreek ran the show right, Like they need someone that 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.360 can not allow that to happen. And I'm not saying 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.480 that Wes did. I just think that a change there 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:32.520 to get a new face in that room and not 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.120 have a guy that you know, for whether he had 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:37.400 a hand in it or not, kind of got steamrolled 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:39.280 by a player who I don't think will be here 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.520 next year. I think that you go get a fifty 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:44.439 eight year old Robert Prince and say like, hey, Jaylen Waddle, 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:45.480 You're the new number one receiver. 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:47.800 Like, follow his lead. Everybody else follow his lead as well. 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.200 I think there's value to that, and I can see 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.400 why that change was made. And so rather than sit 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.440 here and tell you about every single player they coach, 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.200 I just want to give you a brief background, but 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.600 I will tell you, like with the Cowboys last year, 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.960 you know, couple of years. Hey, Ceedee Lamb is a 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:06.880 great player and developed under Robert Prince. Brandon Cooks is 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:08.840 a player that has been awesome for a long time 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.200 and someone I've floated as a possible free agent acquisition, 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:13.880 much to the shagrin of Kyle Krabs, who thinks that 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.360 we should avoid players of that age like the plague. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.360 And I get why he thinks that, but I just 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.880 think Brandon Cooks is a really, really good player. And 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.640 of course he's small too and all that stuff, but 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.240 there's a connection the right. So I'm trying to get out. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.800 Robert Turpin was a nice player there in Dallas. They've 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:30.280 developed players there in that receiver's room. And then go 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:32.720 back to the Detroit Lions. Now, he was there before 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:34.680 Amin ros Saint Brown got there, but he had some 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.760 pretty good receivers there in Troit as well that he 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:38.960 helped develop and get on to the next stage of 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.559 their career. Most notably there, Josh Reynolds, I think was 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:46.200 a guy that made his mark under Robert Prince. But 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:48.960 prior to that, he was with the Houston Texans for 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.000 a year. He was an OC in college, he was 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.640 a receivers coach, he was an assistant quarterbacks coach, a 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:58.120 pass game coordinator. He's been coaching since nineteen eighty nine 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.040 at Humboldt State in California. You know, small college where 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.480 actually two of my high school buddies went and played 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:04.839 their college football at that place. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:05.640 So small world. 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:09.240 But Robert Prince, Craig Ackerman, the two coaching staff changes 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:12.040 thus far. I don't imagine we'll get any more because 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.760 we're getting pretty late into this thing here, but those 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.199 are worth reporting on here. To kick off the podcast, 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.240 let's go ahead and take our first break right there. 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.000 Come back on the other side. I have a general 0:10:21.080 --> 0:10:24.200 off season and draft rant. It's not very long to 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.200 get to for you guys, and then we'll go ahead 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:28.880 and break down what I saw on Day one Tuesday 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.720 at the Senior Bowl. That's next draft Time podcast, your 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:34.360 host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:39.480 Let's kick off segment two this way. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.120 The Dolphins Cancer Challenge announced a headliner, Third Eye Blind, 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.640 performing at the finish Line Celebration at the fifteenth annual 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:51.240 DCC taking place on Saturday, February twenty second, twenty twenty five. 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:54.439 Join the Miami Dolphins and the DCC signature, run, walk, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.680 or ride and raise funds to support innovative cancer research 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:01.319 at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center right here in South Florida. 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.480 Registration closes on February seventh. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.320 Visit Dolphinscancer Challenge dot com to register or donate today. 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:08.160 Third eye Blind? 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.719 What last year it was a was it Shaka Khan 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.960 last year or Sneade O'Connor? I don't know, I don't 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.720 freaking know, but Third Eye Blind, that's right up my alley. 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:23.319 My mom, my late great mom, rest Or Soul had 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:28.160 a like nineteen ninety four bright blue jeep, Grand Cherokee, 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.240 and like, I don't really have a ton of memories 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.040 from youth, but I have like random core ones that 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.840 stick with you for no reason. And one of my 0:11:38.000 --> 0:11:42.760 core memories is like mobbing around Kennewick, Washington in that 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.320 bright blue jeep Grand Cherokee listening to like Third Eye 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.040 Blind or you know Creed whoever the hell from the 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.360 nineties and go into like Taco time for lunch, like 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:54.360 on a summer afternoon. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:55.640 Man, good times. 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.360 Third Eye Blind also reminds me of a great Workaholics 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.960 episode when they convinced the three girls to come to 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.200 their house so the music festival they're throwing and the 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:05.959 Third Eye Blind is the headliner, and the only reason 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.319 the girls agreed to come was because the Third Eye 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.800 of Blind and the song Jumper saved one of the girls, 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.520 a stepdad's life because he was suicidal and decided not 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.160 to because of the Third Eye Blind song. That's a great, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.839 great episode of a great all time show. Okay, enough 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.679 rambling here. Oh oh, one more thing. Somebody asked me 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:23.520 about wiffle Blast. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:23.920 We lost. 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:27.080 We lost in the semi finals two to nothing to 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:29.360 a team that was they could hit pretty good and 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:32.040 they had really good arms. They were blazing fastballs. Byas, 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.400 the way wiffle blast works is basically, if you can 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.720 score a run, you probably win the game. I mean 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:38.560 they're throwing from like twenty five feet away. They can 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:40.840 throw as hard as they want if the woofballs. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:40.839 Move a lot. 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:45.560 Your boy had two homers, two triples. I think I 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.800 had a single, and then I had a bunch of walks, 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.120 So like I was basically Adam Dunn, you know, a 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.600 three outcome hit or walk, strikeout or home run or triple, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.360 I guess, but I was pretty productive to play. We 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.280 fell to nothing in the semifinals to that team I 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.280 mentioned there because we couldn't push a run across the arms, 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.160 and they scored two in the first inning on a 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.720 two run homer. Our arms kind of got tired towards 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:07.040 the end, but semi final round knocked out and it 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.160 was only I was the only player from the previous team. 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:13.160 Oj doesn't play anymore. He just manages the team. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.960 And then we had three guys from the Dolphins team 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.120 that I should be a part of probably, but Juice, 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.200 you know, was the first one to recruit me. So 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.440 we had three people from the Dolphins here myself and 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.000 then one more guy that Juice picked up. So it 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:26.240 wasn't even the original Juice crew. But we did make 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.000 a push into the semi finals before we got knocked 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.120 off there. All right, enough, of that, I have a 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:32.559 bit of a rant I want to go on here, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:36.080 and and you know, I'm only getting into my initial 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.800 studies here, so there's a long, long, long way to 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.920 go with this. But this is what I hear from 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:44.720 people that I trust. Kyle Krabs tells me all the time. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.280 Really hard to f up this draft, Travis, And I'm 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.480 seeing it now too, with you know, getting into it 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.040 more and more as the year goes along. And by 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.079 the way I am, I think the podcast and the 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:58.040 audience can can feel this. I'm really charged up this 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.880 year about this stuff. Man. In years past, it was 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.240 always like that. And you know, more liberties in the 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.520 podcast is the biggest reason for that, I would say. 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.040 But also having high draft picks helps too. And you 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.600 know last year we had the twenty first pick, this 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:10.800 year the thirteenth, and just having more picks as well 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.240 really intrigues me to look at a guy like a 0:14:13.280 --> 0:14:15.840 Gray Zable in North North Dakota State guard who kicked 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:19.160 butt on Tuesday's practice. But all of that aside, you know, 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.080 this draft that I'm really invested in at this point 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.080 this off season, that I'm talking about in the podcast 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.920 every day is chock full of certain position groups, and 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.680 what I would call it is a meat and potatoes 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.240 off season, a meat and potatoes crop of players. What 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:44.040 is that Linebackers, safeties, tight ends, defensive tackles. Dolphins fans 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:52.240 favorites the guards. These positions are so deep, deepest hell, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.360 one of the deepest drafts I can remember. And you 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.560 can see guys like Daniel Jeremiah tweeting about how picks 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.000 twenty through sixty year basically this because the player, the 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.160 talent pool is really that deep. And so I keep 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.920 thinking about the Dolphins having and that fourth round comp 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.720 pick for Christian Wilkins is gonna really piss me off 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.560 when it becomes official, because like, we still lost the player, 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.480 they still sign him for that much money. Why do 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.040 we not get a third round draft pick there? It 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.680 really drives me crazy. We will get one for Robert Hunt. 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.840 We probably get a fourth round pick for Christian Wilkins. 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.920 So with that in mind, that's going to be what 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.760 four five picks in the top like one to twenty, 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.480 so you know, bat three for five on those players, 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.520 get one more guy later on there's four new contributing 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.040 players and rookie contracts, you get three or four more 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:38.720 of those guys in free agency. Now you have eight 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:41.080 new impact players. That's what this team needs to do. 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.720 Let's go back to the original point. This group, this 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:48.320 this draft is loaded, positively loaded. How deep is your 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.800 love for me? Cisco once asked, in a remake of 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.680 a different song, I don't know who's like the original. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.000 I'm all over the place here to the off season mode. Right, 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:57.920 it's loaded a defensive tackle and tight end and safety, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:02.720 and there are a ton a ton of usable interior 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:06.200 offensive lineman or tackles that I think can convert and 0:16:06.200 --> 0:16:09.320 play guard at this level. Marcus bo is a guy 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.440 that has been talked about that way, although I think 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.160 he's a good tackle from Purdue. We'll get to that 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.680 later on. And this is so defensive tackle tied in safety. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.920 I think into round three you're getting starters. This is 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.200 the most good off ball linebackers a draft class has 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:26.840 had in a long time. As well, there are like 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:31.160 six safeties that can play. And guess what those positions 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.560 tend to get knocked down a peg because of the 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.680 positional value they feature. Right, Safeties don't get paid, and 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.960 we talked about that on the Monday Show. There's going 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.200 to be safeties that sign in August that start for 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.120 football teams and are good players in for like a 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.240 million bucks because the position at free agency, they don't 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:47.720 want to pay those guys. That's why there's so many 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:49.720 guys up on the open market. And the draft is 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.160 loaded with those players as well. And so what does 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.760 that mean? Supply and demand? We know basic economics, right, 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:58.080 The supply is vast, the demand is maybe not as big, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.880 and that benefits the consumer, aka the Miami Dolphins, who 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:03.720 are going to have to sign two new safeties and 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.479 draft a safety probably this year because I don't think 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.680 Javon Holland's coming back. I know Jordan Pouyer is not 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.000 coming back, and we'll see what happens with Elijah Campbell. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:13.600 And that's one position. But guess where the other Dolphins 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.239 needs lie in the meat and the potatoes. Baby, we 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.680 are set at tackle, right, I mean you can add 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:20.800 to it, and we talked about it. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.000 We'll talk about on the show next week. 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.760 I'm not gonna lie down and rest of my laurels 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.320 there with Patrick Paul and Austin Jackson and key On Smith. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.119 We have to sign a veteran probably and probably a 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.600 drafted guy. But in terms of like you need a 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:32.520 starting left tackle, a right tackle, you don't need that. 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.840 You don't need a starting quarterback. You have your receiver one. 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.480 Technically you have two of them right now, but I 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.440 think one's going to be gone. I think Wattle still 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.320 is that guy. I know for a fact he's that guy. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:43.879 You have a tight end one which is in a 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.000 feature position. You have a couple of really good cornerbacks, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.920 and we'll see about Ramsey's future, and I think that's 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.160 still a position of need for long term sake. You 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.239 have Chock Robinson and Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb the 0:17:55.280 --> 0:17:58.000 most the most expensive position on the defense. You have 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.919 Zach Seeler, who you know is still underpaid my opinion. Like, 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:04.280 you have all these these critical positions locked up, and 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.879 so the positions you have to fill are the cheaper 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.399 ones and the positions that are deeper in the draft, 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:14.520 the meat and the potatoes. And while I think I 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:18.320 think this brass has sort of graduated from taking such positions, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.800 you know, like it did in twenty nineteen with Christian Wilkins, 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.680 like it did in twenty eighteen with Mika Fitzpatrick. A 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.320 safety and a defensive tackle right, or two tight ends 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.960 in that same draft class with Mike Kasicki and Durham 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.320 Smith in twenty eighteen, or Jerome Baker in the second 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.000