Speaker 1: To US buyers touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boyd tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, it's exclusively a Twitter
Speaker 1: mail bag episode. I put out the call for your
Speaker 1: questions via Twitter. You right in with your thoughts and
Speaker 1: questions and we flesh them out here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: Mostly football today, so not a lot of television or
Speaker 1: better call saw whatever. We're gonna talk about a lot
Speaker 1: of Dolphins stuff in there. From somewhere in South Florida.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. So when I
Speaker 1: recorded this episode, I was in South Florida, but now
Speaker 1: as you're hearing it, I'm back in the Pacific Northwest
Speaker 1: and I found a beach front condo for two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty dollars a night in Lincoln City on the
Speaker 1: Organ Coast, which is the region that my wife and
Speaker 1: I hope to one day retire to someday, hopefully if
Speaker 1: you've not been to the Organ Coast, I cannot recommend
Speaker 1: it enough and maybe nostalgia plays a role there, but
Speaker 1: I just think it's the best place on earth in
Speaker 1: the summertime. That's where I'm gonna be for a week
Speaker 1: late in June. But for now, we are in the
Speaker 1: central part of Washington State, seeing families, seeing friends, and
Speaker 1: soaking up some not so humidly hot summer days. But
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get to the flavor of the hour.
Speaker 1: You guys wrote in with your questions. I have the answers,
Speaker 1: at least I think I do, and I want to
Speaker 1: do as many of these as we can. I believe
Speaker 1: there is twenty one in there. I'm hoping to get
Speaker 1: to as many of those as they possibly can. And
Speaker 1: we start here from at Yo SOI to a Papa
Speaker 1: great Twitter name what would be deemed a successful SEASONO
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I'm gonna go back to what Coach McDaniel
Speaker 1: said in the fish Tank, because I think he said
Speaker 1: it best there and I've been saying, you know, something similar.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say anywhere close to the level of
Speaker 1: Coach McDaniel, but something similar since really twenty nineteen and
Speaker 1: even before that. I mean it's process over results because,
Speaker 1: as coach said, so many variables can go against you
Speaker 1: in this game. Whether it's just lucky things that have happened,
Speaker 1: like a missed field goal, a bounce of the football
Speaker 1: in a punt, a call you might not agree with
Speaker 1: the wrong holding call to take a big play off
Speaker 1: the board. What if you finally get the defensive look
Speaker 1: you've been hoping for to exploit all game long, and
Speaker 1: someone gets an early start, false start and you never
Speaker 1: see that look again. There are so many variables that
Speaker 1: play into the results in this game. It's a very
Speaker 1: fine it's a fine line between victory and defeat. When
Speaker 1: you only have seventeen games, those records and playoff berths
Speaker 1: can be fleeting, they can be not lucky, but there
Speaker 1: can be things that happen that don't necessarily tell you
Speaker 1: which team was better or worse. So to me, competing
Speaker 1: consistently showing growth in areas that you need to show
Speaker 1: growth and showing this offense can match the personnel that
Speaker 1: was acquired to Ron Armstead to re kill Cedric Wilson Jr.
Speaker 1: You guys get growth at quarterback. Look we know the
Speaker 1: narratives out there, how nice would it be to get
Speaker 1: the offense humming at a level that those daily debates
Speaker 1: are looked back upon in a year from now and mocked.
Speaker 1: That's that would be great for me personally. And then
Speaker 1: with the defense, well, if they play like we know
Speaker 1: they're capable of, then I think everything takes care of
Speaker 1: itself there. So a successful season to me equals similar
Speaker 1: defensive production, a jump from the offense, some tangible growth
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Those would be great successes and
Speaker 1: the results of that if that process plays out, well,
Speaker 1: you think it would be pretty good too. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it's fair to say the final result is
Speaker 1: necessarily who you are, like you are what your record
Speaker 1: says you are. I've never agree with that, because we
Speaker 1: talked about this and like a lot of the wins
Speaker 1: that year were you know, opponent opponent's missing field goals
Speaker 1: or just things of that nature, or even you know,
Speaker 1: even last year some of the bounces that went against
Speaker 1: the Dolphins three straight walk off field goals, and then
Speaker 1: that in those three games the Dolphins missed their own
Speaker 1: field goals, just things that you know, you play sixty
Speaker 1: minutes of football it comes down to a kick. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna, you know, disown the left guard because the
Speaker 1: field goal didn't go in. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: It makes sense so process over results. But I think
Speaker 1: those things about the offense showing growth, defense showing you
Speaker 1: similar production, and getting a really good definitive answer at
Speaker 1: quarterback would be great signs of growth in a good season.
Speaker 1: At Paul con McGuire. Rebuilds don't happen overnight, Travis, And
Speaker 1: with so many new players and skill possessions on offense,
Speaker 1: what are the chances of making the playoffs this season? Well,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins need to lean on the defense the first
Speaker 1: six to eight games of the year until the offense
Speaker 1: can reach its full potent. Chill. It's a good question,
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't call it a rebuild because I think
Speaker 1: that began back in twenty nineteen. And you can look
Speaker 1: at how far the roster has come since that nineteen
Speaker 1: roster where you set a record for most players used
Speaker 1: U d F as guys off the street, you know,
Speaker 1: coming and signing on Tuesday, playing on Sunday. And now
Speaker 1: where the roster is with cornerstone pieces, quality starters, adequate starters,
Speaker 1: good depth, good balance of youth and veteran players and
Speaker 1: how successful this team has been since that time at
Speaker 1: utilizing the resources that came from that undertaking. Since that time,
Speaker 1: you've hit on draft picks, you've acquired good young talent,
Speaker 1: you have cornerstone players up and down the roster, and
Speaker 1: then your idea, Paul about the defense kind of carrying
Speaker 1: the way early on. That would have been probably preferable
Speaker 1: last year because the one is heaven start. The defense
Speaker 1: wasn't playing like we know it can. And it could
Speaker 1: be that way, It's possible, but it could also be
Speaker 1: the McDaniels version of his offensive system that he talks about,
Speaker 1: right Like, we know the system that he from. He
Speaker 1: talks about working in that system for seventeen years. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna have a McDaniel twist on it, McDaniel flavor
Speaker 1: on it. Maybe that little wrinkle or flavor is a
Speaker 1: bit of a shock to the rest of the NFL,
Speaker 1: and it takes them four or five games to catch
Speaker 1: up to the Dolphins offense. You just never know. That's
Speaker 1: why we watch, right. I can't freaking wait for this
Speaker 1: football season. It should be a lot of fun at
Speaker 1: Born Frown. What a great name that is who looks
Speaker 1: most improved out of the young offensive lineman. Well, it's
Speaker 1: tough to really get a beat for me without pads on,
Speaker 1: and really at practice in general. I mean, I'm sure
Speaker 1: if I had the tape and could get to the
Speaker 1: tight copy the end zone behind the play copy and
Speaker 1: run back each place several times, I could tell you, hey, look,
Speaker 1: seventy four is consistently getting the strike zone with his punch,
Speaker 1: or sixty eight is doing an excellent job of coming
Speaker 1: off the ball with a low pad level. Seventy three
Speaker 1: is really moving out there and hitting his blocks in
Speaker 1: space in a controlled manner. But I don't have that.
Speaker 1: And that said, Ikenberg's name has come up next to
Speaker 1: a lot of the second and level runs in my
Speaker 1: O t A notebooks I have. I think he can
Speaker 1: really play with some power on the phone booth and
Speaker 1: turn guys out and his his his traits transition to
Speaker 1: I think a lot of positions on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but in particular inside I think where the biggest advantage
Speaker 1: is is just understanding the art of offensive line play.
Speaker 1: Like you go back to his college tape and the
Speaker 1: scouting reports, super high floor total technician rarely beat by
Speaker 1: counter moves. I think Liam has has had a nice
Speaker 1: spring camp so far, and just because I want to
Speaker 1: make it perfectly known, I think Rob Hunt is a very,
Speaker 1: very very good player, and I think we've seen that
Speaker 1: so far through his first two years here and into
Speaker 1: spring CAMPO. Next question from at I, sweetheart, currently, who
Speaker 1: is your under the radar player? That's tough. I think
Speaker 1: there are some good options based upon them. Maybe the
Speaker 1: national coverage is for this team, right, Like Zack Seeler,
Speaker 1: for instance, is an incredible player. We know that, but
Speaker 1: does John in Oklahoma? Does Joe and South Dakota know
Speaker 1: about that? Or? Shoot, there was a weakest per position
Speaker 1: per team article out there this spring or earlier the
Speaker 1: spring that talked about the Dolphins safety is being a
Speaker 1: position they had to address. It was the weakest position
Speaker 1: on the team. Well, then I'd like to introduce you
Speaker 1: to Javon Holland because that's laughable. Let's do it from
Speaker 1: the Dolphins fan perspective, though, if you're on this podcast,
Speaker 1: you know all about Javon Holland and Zach Seler. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take receiver Trent Sherfield. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: give you fifteen and twenty special team snaps every game
Speaker 1: and give you insane effort on those. He's gonna run
Speaker 1: his routes on offense in a way that best helps
Speaker 1: open up space and create chances for either himself or
Speaker 1: his teammates. And I think he's an exceptional, exceptional run blocker.
Speaker 1: The impact guys like him and Eric and Zoo Kama
Speaker 1: could have down on the red zone in the running game,
Speaker 1: I think could be a big boon that not a
Speaker 1: lot of folks are talking about heading into the season.
Speaker 1: Next question from at Ricardo bunch of numbers, He asks
Speaker 1: how concerned should we be with the offense is not
Speaker 1: fully clip king right now? Not at all, not at all. Also,
Speaker 1: we have seen a lot of things click on offense,
Speaker 1: Like I guess my question would be, where have you
Speaker 1: heard that from? Because consider the source, I'm not entirely
Speaker 1: sure I agree with the idea in the first place.
Speaker 1: But the defense has won their days, the offense has
Speaker 1: had their's, the offense has hit a bunch more explosives,
Speaker 1: and the run game looks blocked up pretty good more
Speaker 1: often than not than a year ago, I would say.
Speaker 1: But still man not to go full iverson here, but
Speaker 1: it's practice practice. I remember a great quote from I
Speaker 1: think it was Keenan Allen from the Chargers, but I
Speaker 1: could be wrong there, but he talked about evaluating practices
Speaker 1: for some grand takeaway is a very risky proposition when
Speaker 1: you're considering the outside source, like not about players and
Speaker 1: coaches who were doing it. And that's in training camp
Speaker 1: much less o t a s when you're in shorts
Speaker 1: and shells installing basic principles of your offense and defense.
Speaker 1: We talked about He talked about I should say how
Speaker 1: different guys have different goals at various stages of the
Speaker 1: off season. The veteran might be working on something new
Speaker 1: that requires him to take some lumps before he perfects it,
Speaker 1: Like when you fix your golf swing. It's not pretty
Speaker 1: in the beginning, but when you get the result on tour,
Speaker 1: that's what you see. Right. Maybe a rookie is doing
Speaker 1: the same thing, trying to get his technique to go
Speaker 1: from what his college coaches asked him to do to
Speaker 1: what his pro coaches asked him to do. This does
Speaker 1: feel like an age old question. Is it good for
Speaker 1: the defense when they play well or is it bad
Speaker 1: for the offense and the defense plays well a little
Speaker 1: bit of both vice versa on that. My final point
Speaker 1: is that sweating what happens on a football field in
Speaker 1: May and June, it's not healthy if you are. I
Speaker 1: go back to the early recommendation. Just go ahead and
Speaker 1: go outside, touch some grass, and enjoy the summertime. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and take our first break. Will come
Speaker 1: back on the other side with more of your questions
Speaker 1: here on the Drivetime Twitter Mailbag edition of the podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Back here on a Friday edition of the Drive Time podcast,
Speaker 1: answering your questions via the Twitter mail bag. We are
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and we pick it back up here from
Speaker 1: the Twitter mailbag. I put the call out for questions.
Speaker 1: You guys right in with your answers. We talked about
Speaker 1: them here. Your questions, I should say, my answers on
Speaker 1: the podcast at not Underscore, Mr Underscore Delecto, who are
Speaker 1: your top three off the radar breakout candidates mentioned this
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, but I think the term breakout
Speaker 1: does make this question difference. We'll go ahead and take it.
Speaker 1: I'm taking big rob Hunt for one of them. I
Speaker 1: think his skill set matches what this system can ultimately
Speaker 1: do for him. And he talked about playing under Billy
Speaker 1: Napier at u L University of Louisiana Lafayette UH in
Speaker 1: an offense that really prioritized spacing, athletic ability outside zone UH,
Speaker 1: some vertical sets, things that are going to happen in
Speaker 1: the spaced out offense. Two things I think can that
Speaker 1: he can do and has shown he can do are
Speaker 1: those two things getting out in space, controlled duo combo blocks,
Speaker 1: climbing to that second level. I like this scheme change
Speaker 1: for him a lot. Jalen Phillips is my second guy. No.
Speaker 1: He talked about or he had the eight and a
Speaker 1: half sacks last year, and you go back and listen
Speaker 1: to the fish Tank episode with Chillan Phillips on it,
Speaker 1: you'll hear him talk about how much he thinks he
Speaker 1: can grow and trying to be a guy that can
Speaker 1: be on the field for all three downs, you know,
Speaker 1: on any given particular series. He's been damn good in
Speaker 1: the off season program. I think the pressure numbers and
Speaker 1: the pass rush kind of arsenal got rat ratcheted up
Speaker 1: last year, late in the season, I think he can
Speaker 1: continue that and put it all together and really take
Speaker 1: off in your number two and man, I feel like
Speaker 1: we could do ten players here, because yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of them. But I'll just go ahead and take Well,
Speaker 1: you said off the radar, so that removes Waddle Holland
Speaker 1: probably Phillips too, but already talked about him, so it's
Speaker 1: too late. Two was not off the radar. That would
Speaker 1: be my number one pick. Let's go ahead and do
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones. He talked about getting better at every area
Speaker 1: of his game the last time we spoke to him,
Speaker 1: and was even asked about shaking this idea of being
Speaker 1: you're just a blitzing safety, right. That's not accurate. It
Speaker 1: does a lot more than that. And I go back
Speaker 1: to his Texas tape when he was very good and
Speaker 1: a lot of coverage roles. They're playing that slot star position,
Speaker 1: off coverage, press coverage, rotating into his own. I think
Speaker 1: you'll see his entire game take another step this year,
Speaker 1: especially as he in Holland keep getting more and more
Speaker 1: time together, like that play against the Ravens where he
Speaker 1: strung out the jet sweep too. I think it was
Speaker 1: Devin Duvernet and just basically kept him behind the line
Speaker 1: so Holland could scrape around and make that play in
Speaker 1: the backfield. There's a lot to that on Brandon Jones's tape,
Speaker 1: So it's a lot more than just blitzing for him
Speaker 1: at MERSA Nova. What was the Porters signing all about?
Speaker 1: What do you see his fits or attributes to the
Speaker 1: team as sure? Yeah, I'd love to talk about that.
Speaker 1: He was a nightmare at USC. I remember that he
Speaker 1: definitely ruined a ten and two season. Didn't ruin this season,
Speaker 1: but he ruined one of the two losses the Cooks
Speaker 1: had that year when they went on to beat Oklahoma
Speaker 1: State in the Alamo Bowl. That season lost in like
Speaker 1: week number three to USC and then the Apple Cup,
Speaker 1: which we lose every year except for this last year.
Speaker 1: Go Coog's. But he had to play in that game
Speaker 1: where he had put a pressure on Gardner Minshew that
Speaker 1: forced incomplete pass. I still think his hands were up
Speaker 1: high to the helmet, but I digress because he was
Speaker 1: all over the backfield that game. I remember that, remember
Speaker 1: him being that nightmare for opposing teams. Every time I
Speaker 1: watched USC play back and before that, He's got a
Speaker 1: great combination of build and speed. Look at his relative
Speaker 1: athletics scorecard nine point six seven. That's out of ten
Speaker 1: in the green categories, the elite categories, the ninety percent
Speaker 1: tile of your position group. He was in that category,
Speaker 1: and the shuttle, the three cone, the bench, the vertical jump.
Speaker 1: Really good agility for a linebacker. He's got seven hundred
Speaker 1: forty nine career snaps on defense as a prow pressures
Speaker 1: on four hundred and twenty pass rush reps, which is
Speaker 1: one for every eight or nine pass rush snaps. Not
Speaker 1: too bad. Twenty four run stops on three eighteen rundown reps.
Speaker 1: He only played eleven snaps in coverage, so off the
Speaker 1: edge come after the quarterback has had a hard edge
Speaker 1: in the running game. He did give Cleveland a hundred
Speaker 1: and five snaps over the final four games of last year,
Speaker 1: so he's played some football here recently. His greatest impact
Speaker 1: has been on specialty though two hundred and thirty three
Speaker 1: snaps in his career, and his pro football focus great
Speaker 1: has improved each of the three years on special teams,
Speaker 1: culminating in a score over seventy, which is a quality
Speaker 1: production score. But you go back to his scouting report.
Speaker 1: First step explosiveness pops off the tape and that's not
Speaker 1: just athletically. He plays with this certain level of fire
Speaker 1: and intensity. If you just go back to the college tape,
Speaker 1: I'd have to pop on the pro tape to give
Speaker 1: you the same level of analysis there. But he is
Speaker 1: a master at clean up sacks. When it comes to effort,
Speaker 1: and we do talk about what are we talking about,
Speaker 1: I should say this defense does here all the time
Speaker 1: right like create chances, set picks. Being part of a
Speaker 1: selfless rush lane, integrity pass rush plan that doesn't always
Speaker 1: pay off your effort in terms of the sack numbers.
Speaker 1: You have to be very selfless. Coach Austin Clark. Tyrone
Speaker 1: McKenzie is talked about two since his arrival, but Austin
Speaker 1: Clark worked with both linebackers and defensive line over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, and he has talked about how
Speaker 1: this is the most selfless group he's ever been a
Speaker 1: part of. You have to be willing to basically go
Speaker 1: set the pick for the pick and roll right. And
Speaker 1: Gustin as a prospect was great at redirecting and find
Speaker 1: the football and cleaning up broken place and when you
Speaker 1: run rush games up front and you have great lockdown
Speaker 1: caybrads on the back side, there's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of those opportunities. So maybe as a sub package rusher
Speaker 1: he can come in and make an impact that way.
Speaker 1: He shocks guys in the running game with a hard edge,
Speaker 1: a very strong punch that helps him control that outside arm,
Speaker 1: stay on the upfield shoulder and make a play that way.
Speaker 1: And the last thing, and I picked this up from
Speaker 1: researching him, was that he has a very legendary workout
Speaker 1: slash nutritional plan where he eats ten thousand calories a day.
Speaker 1: He's always eating quick digestion. He works his butt off
Speaker 1: because I guess he was a in The word that
Speaker 1: I saw in the article was scrawny, A scrawny high
Speaker 1: schooler who wound up at six ft two sixty five
Speaker 1: pounds by the time he was done at USC You
Speaker 1: know what, I went ahead and tweeted the link out
Speaker 1: on my timeline just now, so I go ahead and
Speaker 1: check that out. The story on Porter gust and how
Speaker 1: he had to work to get himself into football shape
Speaker 1: and eventually become a pfessional football player. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and go here to at thought smasher who would win
Speaker 1: in a fight one medium sized grizzly bear or Ray
Speaker 1: Kwan Davis. Well, unlike Dwight Shrewd, I do not have
Speaker 1: a catalog of bare knowledge at my disposal. I do
Speaker 1: know that grizzlies are the biggest, most ferocious of the bears,
Speaker 1: so maybe I do Black bears are definitely not best,
Speaker 1: But I think we've gotta take the grizzly here because
Speaker 1: of the advantage of claws and teeth, right, that's really it.
Speaker 1: Bare hands for Rake one equipped hands and abiding mechanism
Speaker 1: for the bear, because I think strength, length and size
Speaker 1: is all pretty comparable. And that's sounds funny, but it's
Speaker 1: probably not that far off. You put a bear through
Speaker 1: the combine. Can he change directions like ray Juan Davis.
Speaker 1: Can he take on a lead blocking fullback like ray
Speaker 1: Kuan Davis? Can he eat up a double team like
Speaker 1: ray Kuan Davis? Can he uh pinch and condense and
Speaker 1: stack and shed and get off blocks like Rake je Davis?
Speaker 1: I don't think so. So I think that if you
Speaker 1: removed the aspect of the claws and teeth, we have
Speaker 1: a fair right, but otherwise not very fair that's your
Speaker 1: bare analysis here. Let's go ahead and take our last break.
Speaker 1: We have two more questions here on the Twitter mailbag.
Speaker 1: Your host, Travis Wingfield Drive Time Podcast brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Back here on the Friday edition of
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. My name is Travis Wingfield. I am
Speaker 1: your host, and we have a lot to get to
Speaker 1: this summer. We're gonna preview every possession group. We're gonna
Speaker 1: do some coaches audio, some analysis, some stats to get
Speaker 1: you guys ready for training camp, which if you have
Speaker 1: not done so in the past, highly recommend coming out
Speaker 1: to practice and watching these guys get after it. It's
Speaker 1: my favorite time with the football calendar. You can't lose games.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be evaluated football. You get a watch football
Speaker 1: for a couple of hours. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: So come on out to training camp and get ready
Speaker 1: with your training camp preview series up on Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot Com as well here on the Drivetime Podcast, and
Speaker 1: I'll take you right up into the regular season and
Speaker 1: then we're full go ahead into two. It's almost here,
Speaker 1: But first a couple more questions before those Training Camp
Speaker 1: Preview podcast, where we also will take a look at
Speaker 1: the entire NFL, division by division and talk to some
Speaker 1: other team's gotta get to know everyone else, because if
Speaker 1: you don't have knowledge of the other thirty one teams,
Speaker 1: you can't properly assess your own team. At showtime, Underscore
Speaker 1: Miami asks how's the progress of the offensive line so
Speaker 1: far compared to this time last year? First of all, showtime,
Speaker 1: what's up? Man? He does a lot of Twitter spaces
Speaker 1: out there, and they're always informative and most of all
Speaker 1: hard to find. This respectful check him out at showtime,
Speaker 1: Underscore m i A and check out his Twitter spaces.
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier the pockets that have been afforded to
Speaker 1: the quarterback for for Tua and Teddy and Skyler to
Speaker 1: help them load up and shoot the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: Those media intermediate rips as well. I think that's been
Speaker 1: a big positive. You know, this time of year, with
Speaker 1: the way practices are not full contact, but there have
Speaker 1: been some nice rips where the back gets to the
Speaker 1: second level quote unquote, untouched, not ackled, not tagged off.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a good start. We can't wait
Speaker 1: for training camp because we'll get more and more information
Speaker 1: as we go along. Next one here from at Reuben
Speaker 1: A Reuben Ramirez, what was to us third down efficiency
Speaker 1: compared to other quarterbacks. So I'm glad you asked. I
Speaker 1: have some more information. I planned to get to later
Speaker 1: on this offseason talking about two US third down ranks
Speaker 1: because I think it shows up consistently and he shines
Speaker 1: in that regard. But he was fifth in the National
Speaker 1: Football League among all quarterbacks in converting third downs this year.
Speaker 1: And you look at the other quarterbacks and the successes
Speaker 1: they had terms in terms of under pressure running game
Speaker 1: support to a really showed out well among all those quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And those quarterbacks you're talking about are the Patrick mahomes Is,
Speaker 1: the Josh Allen's, the Tom Brady's, the Joe Burrows of
Speaker 1: the world. So not bad company. Last one here at
Speaker 1: Murray C. Eight nine. How many pieces do you phil
Speaker 1: the Dolphins are away from a Super Bowl shot? Or
Speaker 1: are they already there on paper? And then Chris corrected
Speaker 1: himself from a misspelling. And I love what you did
Speaker 1: here from my friend because in my main group chat,
Speaker 1: every time we mess up something, we corrected the same
Speaker 1: way you did. You misspelled pieces, and after that you
Speaker 1: replied and said pieces Comma even like oh yeah, even
Speaker 1: pieces like yeah, that that one too, Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and add that. So well done on that. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's a very loaded but fair loaded question.
Speaker 1: All thirty two teams are playing for a championship, like
Speaker 1: everybody has the goal to go to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I remember Joe Marino of the Draft Network and he
Speaker 1: previewed the offensive line for us talking about teams and
Speaker 1: their life cycles. Different teams are at different stages, right
Speaker 1: Like last year the Lions, you know, they the roster
Speaker 1: was not ready to compete in the way that the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers was or the Rams. And we saw the Rams
Speaker 1: approach mid season trades of Odell Beckham and Von Miller
Speaker 1: accordingly right, and the Dolphins aggressiveness this offseason to go
Speaker 1: get Tyreek Hill for a big draft, trade to Hron
Speaker 1: Armstead for a big contract, Melvin ingram lay in the
Speaker 1: process to go get Sony Michelle, Raheem Mostert and Chase Edmunds,
Speaker 1: to add Cedric Wilson in addition to Tyreek Hill, to
Speaker 1: get Connor Williams in addition to to Ron Armstead. I
Speaker 1: think that shows you where they believe. The recent drafts
Speaker 1: of this team have taken this roster ready to compete
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, look at your roster in terms
Speaker 1: of the talent descriptors, cornerstones, right, We've got them vets
Speaker 1: and young players alike. You round out a group of
Speaker 1: Xavien Howard and Tyree Hill and to Ron Armstead late twenties,
Speaker 1: early thirties, sure fire blue chip cornerstone players. You know what,
Speaker 1: those guys are got a pretty damn good feeling. I
Speaker 1: know exactly what. Javon Holland, Jalen Waddle, Christian Wilkins, Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips more cornerstone pieces. I know I'm gonna get with
Speaker 1: those guys. There are quality starters all over the roster
Speaker 1: who are on the verge of that cornerstone recognition, right
Speaker 1: and maybe they already are there. There's lots of guys
Speaker 1: in this team that really have upside and really have
Speaker 1: proven roster or proven a resume. I should say there's depth.
Speaker 1: So I think that Chris Career, Mike McDaniel, the entire
Speaker 1: staff recognized this and thought we are a competitive team
Speaker 1: right now, let's go ahead and add some more firepower.
Speaker 1: I also think every team in the league has at
Speaker 1: least one position group to kind of go back to
Speaker 1: your question about where that addition could be made that
Speaker 1: they look at and say that could potentially being achilles heel.
Speaker 1: But then from there it's how do we minimize that
Speaker 1: potential impact? How do we mask that perceived weakness? Can
Speaker 1: we help that group out. Let's say it's at a
Speaker 1: tackle position and you want to bring a tight end
Speaker 1: or running back into chip and help and find a
Speaker 1: way to cut guys down. Like I go back to
Speaker 1: that teen Bears game, right, Khalil Mack did nothing. A
Speaker 1: big part of that was Larmie Tunsel, but also a
Speaker 1: big part of that was the help they gave Tunsil
Speaker 1: and then Juwan James when he flipped over to that
Speaker 1: side of the formation. Like, you can find ways to
Speaker 1: attack the opposing team strength and two and this wasn't
Speaker 1: a weakness to Dolphins team, but to help cover up
Speaker 1: your weaknesses, because when it's Khalil Mac against anybody, that's
Speaker 1: a weakness. Let's go ahead and help it out. The
Speaker 1: nice part about Miami's roster is even if there is
Speaker 1: a group like that, the depth really at every spot
Speaker 1: would afford you a potential solution. Like a player a
Speaker 1: isn't getting the job done. There's a player bet right
Speaker 1: behind that guy that you're you're intrigued about him. And
Speaker 1: that's really what every team's approaches right attempt to just
Speaker 1: get your roster from from player one all the way
Speaker 1: to player in ninety as strong as it possibly can be,
Speaker 1: and improve in certain areas, whether you need to improve upon,
Speaker 1: you know your potential age at the position, injuries, contracts, situation,
Speaker 1: scheme fits, There's so much that goes into it, and
Speaker 1: how the thing that stands out about the Dolphins roster
Speaker 1: to me is the fact that there's depth and you
Speaker 1: do have that kind of backing support of we feel
Speaker 1: confident about the makeup of that group opposed to just
Speaker 1: one or two individuals and really just about every single room.
Speaker 1: So next year, two picks in the first round, the
Speaker 1: rest of the draft class all into more cat flexibility.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I have an exact answer to your question, Chris,
Speaker 1: but I think they've done a great job to put
Speaker 1: themselves in a position to win right now, but also
Speaker 1: inflexible positions to attack their perceived weaknesses in any given
Speaker 1: off season. And look at this offseason, right we knew
Speaker 1: the receiver room needed some help. We knew the offensive
Speaker 1: line needed help. Tyreek Hill and Toront Armstead are arguably
Speaker 1: the best receiver and best let tackle in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. So really good job there, and I have
Speaker 1: to imagine that continues. All right, let's get the heck
Speaker 1: out of here. The next time I talk to you
Speaker 1: will be Tuesday, I believe, and we're gonna start the
Speaker 1: positional previews and go division by division and preview the
Speaker 1: entire NFL season. I can't wait for that. My favorite
Speaker 1: thing about summer is going to the beach or the
Speaker 1: pool and reading preseason content magazines or books. I used
Speaker 1: to memorize everyone's roster through the Pro Football Weekly season preview.
Speaker 1: I would go on jogs and I would restarte the
Speaker 1: starting lineup and the key impact players in my head.
Speaker 1: On those jogs actually help the run go by easier.
Speaker 1: Keep your mind busy. My go to these days is
Speaker 1: the War and Sharp season previews. I'll be reading that
Speaker 1: as long as Caroline does not bug me too much
Speaker 1: poolside or each side this summer. Please send any summer
Speaker 1: reading recommendations my way. I'll go ahead and do the same.
Speaker 1: We are less than a month away from my favorite
Speaker 1: part of this summer, the Better Call Saul final six
Speaker 1: episodes and again, unless Caroline impeded on the plane, I
Speaker 1: will have finished my complete series. Rewatch on that flight
Speaker 1: all right, so that we'll break There is gonna be
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