WEBVTT - Drive Time: Aaron Brewer, Patrick Paul and AFC West Preview 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:08.560 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:14.720 What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.160 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:20.720 it's time to get into our summer content series. We're 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:22.799 going to talk to a couple of Dolphins. Patrick Paul 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:25.959 and Aaron Brewer joined me plus the first of eight 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.720 divisional previews the AFC West up today from the Baptist 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:32.280 Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:35.160 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:36.400 May daff. 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.920 Up first, Dolphin Center. Aaron Brewer joining us today on 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:42.920 the Draft Time Podcast is Dolphin Center. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.360 Aaron Brewer. Twin right, what's up man? How are you doing? 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.320 I'm doing good man, bless on this good Monday. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.159 We share a birthday in case folks didn't know that, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.839 that's how we go. We kind of hit it off 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:56.319 that way Halloween birthdays. How was last year's birthday for you? Uh? 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:57.360 First of Miami? 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:59.600 It was cool. I didn't do much last year, you know, 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.080 my rad shot here. I'm just trying to get comfortable 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.000 with the area. Yeah, but this year is it's my 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.920 goal in the year. You know what I'm saying, Because 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.600 this year turned twenty eight twenty eighth. Yeah, kind of 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:12.160 like a special year two for me. You know, like 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.280 this meant like my theory, so you know birthday ten 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:18.319 twenty eight ten then twenty eight two plus eight equals 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:22.760 ten number fifty five five plus five ten twenty eight 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:28.080 This year to mass ten man, what's it's a special year. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.280 That's like it's like astrology. 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.200 That's the wrong term for it, but there's like, what's 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.319 the There's something behind that, Like there's a I'm trying 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.440 to say right here, but you believe in like some 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:38.920 type of like divine intervention. 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.240 Almost yes, And I definitely think that's what. 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.400 It is special your year. So I wanted to I 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.360 wanted to throw this by you here real quick. I 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.360 got a nickname for you, ready for it. I think 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.400 we should call you cold Brew. 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.520 Cold brew because you're cold on the field. That seems 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.120 brew delicious. It is the most delicious strength there is. 0:01:56.200 --> 0:01:58.160 I like the opinion. So I just wanted to run 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.160 that by your own. 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.800 Like a nice little ad. 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.560 Okay, he's sponsorship somewhere's I'm golling with coldbroof now on. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.680 All right, So your first year here, Aaron was outstanding. 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:07.160 I thought you should have been in the Pro Bowl. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:10.560 But what what the hell do I know? So how 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:12.760 can you take from that first year and build here 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:14.200 into your second year with the Dolphins. 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.840 Uh, it's what I've been saying for a minute now, 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.639 you know, Just that's another year on top of another 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.359 year deffinitely in this same program too, because like the 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.799 year before I came here, that was my first four 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:29.320 year at starting at center. And I don't know in 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.239 a while because even though even in college I was 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.600 playing guard, center tackle, finished my senior year at right 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.880 tackle the whole season, so I ain't never just had 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.239 a full season of just center. And so coming from 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:44.160 Tennessee to a whole different uh what's the name scheme 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:47.440 or whatever, similar but different scheme, have another year at 0:02:47.440 --> 0:02:50.000 center and getting comfortable in this scheme this year, like 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.840 it gets real spooky, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.560 So, how's how's it change? 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.760 Like having the knowledge of the offense the way you 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.840 do at that position, how is it changed versus going 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.920 into a season where you know new leverage, new you know, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.240 new first step maybe you have to learn, Like how 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:04.440 is it? 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:05.120 How different is it? 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:06.800 Oh? 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.000 It's a little different, But you know, we start so 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.520 early in April, even like when the season going though, 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.120 Like you got to learn that technique, get real comfortable 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:17.200 with it, and the more time you got doing that technique, 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:19.560 the better you'll be. And so that's what this situation 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:20.040 is now. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.360 Yeah, it makes perfect sense. What is it about playing center? 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.760 Because you mentioned playing tackle and guard, but you found 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.480 your home here in Miami at center. What is it 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.200 about center that makes you the best version of yourself 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:31.639 and that you like the most. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:32.200 Center. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.920 I'm just I'm in there running the show, and I like, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:38.320 don't nothing move before me. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:39.760 I get everything going. 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.600 And so just being in that position and being able 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.360 to have that first step on everybody, like even like 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:49.800 if I was at guard tackle, like I'm an explosive player, 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:50.960 you know what I'm saying. So I got a good 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.360 first two step, first step, fast, whatever, and so at center, 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:58.440 I'm controlling when we start and I get to jump that. 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.880 So it just it's it's a cheap code for me, 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:03.280 to be. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.360 Honest, because yeah, because no one knows what you know, 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:07.680 when the ball's coming off and coming off the snap. 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:09.480 You're not going to move faster than me neither. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.760 I believe that because I put together, we did a 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.040 thing last year where I think we posted a reel 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.040 of some of your best plays and I was tasked 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:18.880 with going and finding them. And there was just some 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:21.039 clips where you were out outside the numbers, putting the 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.320 safety on his back, or you know, cutting off a 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.240 linebacker that had you out leveraged. What's what is your 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:28.800 favorite thing to execute on a football field? What's the 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.040 thing like, you know, for a slugger, it's a four 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.320 hundred and fifty foot home run. Right for Steph Curry, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.520 it's hitting the game winning shot. What's your favorite thing 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:35.920 to do on. 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.240 A football field? 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.680 You No, I like real like old school, like grimy football, 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.680 you know, so back in the day, like them blind 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:47.360 side hits, like big hits like I love though so whenever, 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.559 like I'm running, I see like just a sweet spot, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.760 like a person standing like he's squared, or like I 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:55.120 just find that good angle down. No, I fin to 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.520 get him, like that's that home run. You just can 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.599 run through a person face and it's just a bu You. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:02.160 Must have been a fan of the game NFL. What's 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:02.560 growing up? 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.160 Yes, big time breaking bones. Yeah, that was my strength. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:06.880 That was my stuff. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.120 I used to play with a Marino and O J. McDuffie, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.280 Maria McDuffie every time. That was my favorite game to play. 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:15.320 So coming into this season, we have potentially two new 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:18.640 guards Beside James Daniels. We draft Jonah Savit Naya, which 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.240 he told me I nailed his name. I think I 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:21.800 just did it again right there, So very proud of 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.240 myself for that. But two new guards potentially next to you. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:26.120 What's the challenge of getting to know two new players 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:26.719 on either post? 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:31.919 Just knowing like first figuring out knowing them as a person, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.280 getting that connection, their friendship, their bun with each other. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.400 Then also figuring out like what kind of player they are, 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:39.080 you know what I'm saying, Like they like a real 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.320 grind me extra physical guy, or you know, it's different 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.520 styles of players, and like what gets them going? What 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.040 do they like, Like I said, like my home run 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.560 is finding that sweet spot and just running through somebody's 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.440 face at the point of contact. Like what is their 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:59.119 favorite blocks or what is their go to strengths or whatever. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.920 So just figuring out that out and molding with each other. 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.080 And then behind you is the quarterback obviously to a 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.840 tongue of Biloa, and I remember asking him at a 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:08.800 press conference about you last year, and his answer was 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.440 something to the effect if I hope Bruce here for 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.840 a long long time, and so maybe you think about 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:14.800 like the bomb between the center and the quarterback. How 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.320 would you kind of pivot that question and have me 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.000 ask you about Tua, like, what was it about two 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:20.320 of that you really enjoyed playing with him? 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.920 Uh? I feel like we just we real assimily. 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.920 You know, he got that dog and him like he 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.880 sensed that same dog for me, and we just got 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.680 the attitude bad We both got some personality too. It's 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.640 like two goofy guys, you know what I'm saying. But 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.279 we about business and so I just love that bat 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.400 my guy. He a good dude, good heart, good head 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:42.800 on the shoulders, and he's got a good mentality about 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:43.799 how he go a bad things. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.040 I feel like that's a common theme across the entire roster. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.240 It's like guys that can have a good time and 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.560 be personable but also no one to lock in. You 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.080 feel that same thing, Yeah, yeah, I do. It seems 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.640 a track across the entire thing. All right, So one 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.560 more question for me, get you out of here. We've 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.559 talked a lot of football, but this is your first 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.960 like full year in Miami, right, is there something that 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.320 you haven't done yet, like as a tourist or have 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.360 the family come down, Like what's something about South Florida 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.720 that you want to do that you haven't done yet. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:09.960 That's why I was gonna see it. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.440 For example, perfect and I need to see an alligator. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.840 Yeah you haven't seen one yet. No, you do have 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:16.400 to go out there. 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:17.760 Like I thought when I moved here, they were just 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:20.400 gonna be like on my doorstep or not, like you 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:21.040 gotta go find them. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:22.600 Yeah, that's why I wear back like the house I 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.080 got out here, like it's right, buy some water. And 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.600 so I was like, that's why I was thinking like that, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.800 Like alligator would be not to watch any time today. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.000 I didn't seen too many videos on Instagram like alligator. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.000 Is that people patty your door trying to open their 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:35.480 doors and. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.480 Yeah, they're scared of youtubet. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:38.960 I don't want no problem with. 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:42.040 No me neither Brew. New Dolphins and that great stuff. Man, 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:42.640 appreciate you. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.000 I talked to like seven consecutive rookies before Brew came in. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.280 So when I said new Dolphin Center, that was just 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:50.680 a slip of the tongue. 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:51.360 There, and I'm not going to. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.240 Take it out because it's so close together, but I 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:55.640 just want to explain it to you guys. Let's go 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.240 ahead and take a break right there, come back. I 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.360 want to our longest segment of this show, the AFC 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.920 West previous taking a look at the Chiefs, Chargers, Broncos, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.600 and Raids. That's next Draft Time Podcast, brought to you 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:12.040 by AutoNation. You got to lead off these sixteen interviews. 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.600 We had this for this summer with Aaron Brewer, because 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.120 how much of a gem is he? 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:16.560 Right there? 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.160 All right, let's go ahead and pivot now to the 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.440 NFL preview portion of the Draft Time podcast the Kansas 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:22.960 City Chiefs. 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:23.080 Now. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.360 I do this to really help myself just get up 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.240 to date on the rest of the league, and it 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:30.960 helps me for the rest of the season as well. 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:32.600 So I hope you guys enjoy these. 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.000 Let me know if you do or do not in 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:36.559 the comments on social and we can adjust from there. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.080 But I do like doing these for the podcast's sake as. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.719 Well as my own knowledge, and I've always liked when 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:45.160 other podcasts do entire league previews. So that's what I'm 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.080 doing here, and we kick it off with the AFC 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.559 West and the KC Chiefs, who are in the Super 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.240 Bowl every damn year and the changes and the personnel 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.160 changes for them. One of the real cheat codes in 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.520 the league in recent years is the Chiefs ability to 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:01.120 maintain their coaching continuity. Chris Jones said it best last year. 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:04.120 As long as the league keeps letting us keep Steve Spagnolo, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.560 we're gonna keep coming back here. And to a degree 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.719 I agree, the quarterback and head coach certainly helps a 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:14.480 little bit there too. Matt Nagy in his second year 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.120 of his second stint in KC, and they're about to 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.679 have the most dangerous offense they've had, in my opinion 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.840 since Tyreek Hill, the days of Tyreek Hill. They'll have 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.640 Hollywood Brown from week one. They get Rashi Rice back 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.800 this year, if you're worthy in year two, Travis Kelcey, 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:32.040 Isaiah Pacheco, Noah Gray. That's the incumbents. I love the 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.360 addition of Elijah Mitchell. I think he offers them something 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.240 different that they didn't have last year at that running 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.280 back position in terms of the outside zone prowess that 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.760 he features a player that I thought might draw some 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.760 interest from the Dolphins for that reason, the big changes 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.120 come up front on the offensive line, as Joe Toney 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.560 is out and so is DJ Humphries in his first 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.480 round pick, Josh Simmons, and a competition between last year 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:58.360 a second rounder in Kingsley, Sua Mattia, and Mike Caliendo 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.560 the Super Bowl starter there well as others. Frankly, I 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.280 had Simmons as a top five player in the draft, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.840 but he tore his ACL in October, so he fell 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:07.160 down the. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:08.120 Board a little bit there. 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:11.040 But that's been the calling card of these Chiefs teams, 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.400 the ability to pivot on the offensive line throughout the 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.520 Patrick Mahomes era. They've gone from Orlando Brown to Donovan Smith, 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.520 the DJ Humphries. They tried the second rounder in Sue 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.959 Mattia last year and that did not go well, and 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.199 a lot of those moves didn't go well. Jawan Taylor's 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:27.800 one of the guys they brought in as well, and 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.040 he's had a pretty up and down career there with them. 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.520 But this is the first time they'll make a change 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.800 at guard with Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith both back, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.200 and that's probably the best center right guard combination in 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.559 the NFL. But now there's a bit of an unknown 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.920 at left guard for the first time. They signed Tooney, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.559 which was the move they made in reaction to losing 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.120 their first Super Bowl a few years back to Tom 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:50.439 Brady and the Buccaneers, and he was even one of 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:54.000 the tackle options last year after injuries decimated that group. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.520 It happens to every team guys offensive line health and 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.480 attrition is tough to keep up with. On defense, they 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:02.480 lost justin read Derek Nodty and really the only notable 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.160 losses there. The only name acquisition on this side of 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.960 the ball was former charger of Christian Fulton. They did 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.960 replace Natty with a second round pick in Omar Norman Lott, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:15.240 the Tennessee defensive tackle. On the film, their calling card 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:20.199 is Mahomes Magic, which is constrained to creativity on highlights, 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:22.960 but make no mistake about it, the calling card of 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.800 this offense is the mastery of angles, matchups, leverage the 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.120 indicators from a quarterback and head coach who are completely 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.920 in tune with one another, and two of the best 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.840 of all time at their positions already for Mahomes add 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:38.840 the ultimate feel. I put air quotes around that tight 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:42.600 end and now a handful of explosive wide receivers with 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.480 a run game that I think can play on the 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.800 edges but also be transitionable into a power football team 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.000 down the stretch. We saw that in the playoffs a 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.199 couple of years ago. It's an offense that really can 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.320 adapt to all situations, and that's why they're so damn 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.600 good every single January, and Mahomes is a freaking dog. 0:11:59.800 --> 0:12:03.360 The return of Rice unlocks so much for the offense. 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.920 They can give you pre snap indicators and shift it 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:09.040 because of all the motions and speed and threats to 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.320 every blade of grass. All these guys can play multiple positions, 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.680 and the way that Travis Kelcey feels out soft spots, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.280 Rashi Rice is just a more explosive and faster version 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.840 of that in my opinion. Obviously not as good as 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:24.120 Kelsey in that regard, because that's what made Kelsey a 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.880 top two or three all time tight end. Defensively, it's 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.680 all about fire zones, elite coaching and talent on the 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:33.360 back end that plays on a string together, and a 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:37.000 front that has unblockable interior presence, a mix of outside 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.720 pressure players and some flexible second second level players. I 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:44.040 should say frankly, I think they messed up choosing Nick 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.520 Bolton over Willie Gay for the Miami Dolphins now the 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.800 Saints last year. But Leo Chanelle has been a nice 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.079 piece for them, and I will take my l finally 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.679 here on Chanelle over Tindall. I thought that was an 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.319 interesting move that we could be looking back on in 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:56.959 a few years, and that certainly has worked out for 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.000 the Chiefs, not so much for the Dolphins here so 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.840 far chanining Tendall, but you know, Trent McDuffie one of 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:05.000 the best slot players in the game, if not the best. 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.760 I think Jayden Hicks, their safety, is going to blossom 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:10.400 into a star this year. Go Koog's, Chris Jones, George 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.160 car Loftis, Drew Twank Well, they're loaded, man, They're gonna 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.280 be right back where they were again last year. This 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:17.760 is like McDonald's. If you're talking about a question here, 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.960 this is the question portion of the team. This is 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:25.040 like McDonald's trying to find out how they can reduce 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.800 their margins. Like if we have to complain, it's about 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.280 the explosives haven't been there for the last couple of years, 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:31.840 and they become a ball control offense. 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.400 But they've approached that and tact it in the offseason. 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.120 It's also akin to like complaining about the ice cream 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.240 machine breaking down to McDonald's. Who goes to McDonald's for 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.960 ice cream? I don't know if people still do that, 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.160 but you've still got the burgers and fries and happy 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.200 meals that make everyone happy. There the miscellaneous factors here. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.640 I've got no worries about this football team. I don't 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.400 feel bad for their fans. I would ever say that, 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.720 but I kind of feel like their games don't matter 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.320 until the division round. They're the new Patriots that way. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.160 The only thing I could even put here is that 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.600 an injury to the quarterback, which is true for every 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:05.319 team in the NFL coaching roster veteran presents continuity stars everywhere. 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.400 Tell me why we shouldn't pick this team to go 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:09.439 back to the Super Bowl again. Tell me why the 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.560 Arrowhead invitation is going to take place anywhere outside of 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.440 Arrowhead for the AFC Championship game. They have a first 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:19.880 play schedule, but they have always had that. The Chargers, Eagles, Ravens, Lions, 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.840 Commanders bills on the docket within the first nine games. 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:24.560 But they're going to win half of those because they 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:27.040 always do. They beat the other teams, and they finished 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:28.600 like a seven game winning streak. They're going to be 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.960 thirteen and four going into the playoffs again, and the 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:35.000 trapdoor scenario. Perhaps the offensive line changes don't click, Maybe 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.160 they lose one of those guys and Humphrey and Smith 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:39.240 and have to kind of scramble again from the start. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.240 That's kind of the only way I see it. But 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:44.280 even then you still got Patrick Mahomes and he'll make 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.480 it work. The conclusion is this is the best team 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:47.560 in football, well. 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:48.120 In the conference. 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.440 The Eagles kind of cracked that code last year, and 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.280 I think it's going against the grain to pick anybody else, 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.320 but a repeat matchup here and I will go against 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.040 that grain. But that's for the September podcast when we 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.120 predict all of this stuff. The LA Chargers their changes 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.480 on personnel from a personnel perspective, coaching continuity a second 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.880 year in a massively overhauled system, both on offense and defense. 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.480 They play wandyball right, a drive that ends and a 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.720 kick is the goal, which is a philosophy that you 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.720 can debate about whether or not it's a good one. 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.840 Jesse Mintter's defense was no joke in year one, and 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:23.800 to me, that's the calling card of the football team. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.320 I think their first round pick was the biggest addition 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.480 they made in terms of how they want to play. 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.960 They were best when JK. Dobbins was rolling last year 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.400 and will the rookie match what he was doing, because 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:36.720 when he got hurt and he exits now to Denver, 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:39.080 which is the one of their biggest rivals, and they 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:41.520 use a first round pick on Omari and Hampton. Like, 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.360 I'm no fantasy expert, but if I learned anything from 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.280 watching John Harbaugh coach football since twenty ten at Stanford, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.600 like Hampton's going to get approximately nine hundred carries. Like 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.080 they also added Naji Harris to the backfield, but I 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.240 think that the juice in his game has kind of 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.560 gone by the wayside. And to rely upon Hampton in 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.640 a spot where I felt you maybe could have gone 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.160 after some of the pass catchers that Herbert could use 0:16:04.520 --> 0:16:06.800 in that first round, It's going to be a thing 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:09.080 that's debated about for a while. I have my thoughts 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.920 on it, but we'll find out what happens come September. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.400 The surprise of the offseason to me is just that 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:17.560 for the entire NFL. The Chargers lack of attention to 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.560 the wide receiver room. They went back and brought back 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.320 Mike Williams, who just hasn't looked the same for a 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.640 couple of years now. They draft Trey Harris in the 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.560 second round. Some folks like his game. I think separation 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:29.640 skills is the biggest thing for receiver and he doesn't 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.480 do that at a high level, at least not yet. 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.080 And I'll repeat this, no team tells you who they 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.960 want to be more than the LA Chargers. All of 0:16:37.960 --> 0:16:40.800 the receivers are above the rim guys except for the 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:43.800 best player on the offense in Lad McConkie. But they 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.360 want to run the ball fifty five percent of the 0:16:46.360 --> 0:16:50.080 time and play great defense. More changes on the offense here. 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.840 Tyler Conklin is there. Makai Becton is a great signing 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.960 for them. Andre James two DeShawn Hand they get him. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.040 Tony Jefferson is a good piece to bring to the 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.120 back end of that defense. They lose Josh Palmer, Hayden Hurst, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:05.120 Joey Bosa, a Sante, Samuel Junior, Morgan, Fox, Poona Ford, 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:08.280 Christian Fulton. So really more out than incoming and I 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.159 struggle to see where they made big upgrades on this 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:14.280 roster just on the paper perspective from the film. Their 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:17.280 calling card is ground and pound. Half their snaps they 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.880 come out and eleven personnel. It's three wide receivers, one back, 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.400 one tight end, and the rest is divvied up across 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:25.119 two back, two tight They ran a league leading twelve 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.520 percent twenty two personneledge. I means one receiver on the field. 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.840 Lad McConkie the only lad out there, if you will. 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.439 And you guys know my thoughts on Justin Herbert. Good player, 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.359 and this is not anything to his fault, but I 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.760 think he is one of the most overrated players I've 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:39.320 ever seen. 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:41.200 Cover John because very. 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.720 Good, but he's he just hasn't proven that he's in 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:47.240 that next tier of quarterbacks. But he's definitely a franchise quarterback. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.280 And I have such an issue with the conflicting nature 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.560 of the way this team is built, Like I can't 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.600 fath them spending a quarter of a billion dollars in 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:58.479 a quarterback to reduce your offense into this like rubble 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.919 creating three yards in a cloud of dust approach, and 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:02.960 that's what they were last year. You could draft a 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.320 quarterback in the first round like bow Knickson, have him 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.520 do that for you. And there was more put on 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.280 bow Nix's shoulders last year than what Justin Herbert was 0:18:10.280 --> 0:18:10.720 and you could do it. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.119 I had won fiftieth of the cost. 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:14.359 So maybe I'm putting my foot my mouth there, but 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.280 I just think it's conflicting by nature. They run gap 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.240 power football, a lot of vertical options designed to create 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.159 these leverage advantages and give Herbert see it and rip 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:26.480 it options because he's not an anticipatory thrower. 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:27.200 It's not his game. 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.040 This is probably one of the least timing based offenses 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.240 in the entire league, and they show you that by 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:35.879 the aforementioned offseason changes. If you want to beat the Chargers, 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.719 you better be ready to play from base to defeat 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.600 the run, and then play physical on the perimeter and 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:45.200 challenge the many contested catch throws they rely upon. Outside 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.440 of mconkie, who I would have after seeing what McConkie 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:48.959 did last year. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:50.800 I would have gone after two or three more of 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:52.199 those guys. But that's just me. 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:56.320 I'm just a podcaster. I think the defense is the 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.159 calling card of this team. Aggressive blitzing. I found a 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.800 great breakdown that spoke to the modularity concept they subscribe to, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:05.480 which is kind of what coach Weaver does, where every 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.320 front can be paired with every coverage and every blitz 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:11.120 can be called from the same combinations and it kind 0:19:11.119 --> 0:19:13.280 of reduces it down to being simpler for us but 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.919 harder for the opposing offense. Is the way they approach it. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:19.240 And if it sounds like we've defense well Jesse Minter 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.800 also coached under Mike McDonald, who coached Weaver, coached under 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:26.359 it is different though it's fewer fronts, pressure packages, slimmed 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:29.560 down and streamlined, but that becomes complex because of how 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:32.359 those fronts compared with every coverage, and you don't have 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:34.760 to reduce the amount of coverages you have based upon 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:36.960 your fronts. And this is where I think the Chargers 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.440 stand to gain the most ground. Second year of the 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:42.480 system stands let them take off in that way, especially 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.480 with the number of studs they have on that side 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:48.280 of the ball. Dayon Henley Go Koug's, Khalil Mack, Tuley, 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.880 Tuya Poloto, Derwin, James, Elijah Molden, the Lowhi Gilman, Tony 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.879 Jefferson who played under McDonald and Baltimore I like that 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.959 side of the ball a lot. My question here is 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:01.240 does the offensive approach work. I mean, it did to 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:03.280 the tune of eleven and six last year, But I 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:07.320 do kind of find it interesting, I'll say funny, interesting 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.760 that they avoid any of these allegations we see against 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:13.840 the Dolphins. The only beat quality teams, right, because the 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:15.919 team that they beat last year that was a quality 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:17.440 team was the Broncos. 0:20:17.640 --> 0:20:19.480 And you guys know how I felt about that Denver 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:20.080 team all year. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.200 I thought they were, like the Chargers, kind of propped 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:24.720 up by the fact that the AFC West played the 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:27.159 NFC South last year and a down year in the 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:29.800 AFC North, and they both had third and fourth place schedules. 0:20:29.960 --> 0:20:32.600 They beat the four win Raiders twice, the five win 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.960 Panthers before Bryce Young's benching, the five wins Saints with 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.320 Spencer Ratler, the three win Titans, the eight win Falcons, 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:42.200 and we've documented that game, right The Falcons had four 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:43.840 turnovers in the red zone that game, and the Chargers 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.480 won that game by four points. The four win Patriots. 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:49.320 Their best win was against the Bengals, but the Bengals 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.520 were four and seven at the conclusion of that game. 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.119 They had a loss of the Cardinals when they were 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:56.600 playing some of their best ball. They lost to the Steelers. 0:20:56.800 --> 0:20:59.240 They lost to Tampa Bay by twenty three, and that's 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:01.919 a team that has so many offensive weapons, you know, 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:04.320 a loaded group on that side. I don't think you 0:21:04.359 --> 0:21:07.000 can compete with that type of approach with your approach 0:21:07.080 --> 0:21:09.200 you have. I think this Chargers approach is really good 0:21:09.200 --> 0:21:11.960 at solidifying wins against teams that don't have the talent 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:13.919 you do. But when you have to go up in talent, 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.160 I think it's the same complex that you face trying 0:21:17.200 --> 0:21:19.000 to win against that. So that's the biggest question I 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.080 have for them. The miscellaneous factors. The schedule will on 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:24.680 paper be much tougher this year. They lose that home 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.879 game to the Chiefs, and that's that's pretty brutal to 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:29.080 go to Brazil for that home game against division rival. 0:21:29.240 --> 0:21:31.159 Then they come back for a road game after that, 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:33.320 which usually you get that game at home after that. 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:36.560 Then they have to go home game in game three. 0:21:36.960 --> 0:21:39.040 Then week four they're on the road back to New York, 0:21:39.080 --> 0:21:41.240 and then they come back home for a game Week five, and. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:42.600 Then in week six they're down here. 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.800 So they're traveling all over the Globe those first six 0:21:44.840 --> 0:21:50.639 weeks Brazil, Vegas home, East Coast home, Miami, like brutal start. 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:52.960 After the bye week, they get the Eagles, the Chiefs, 0:21:53.000 --> 0:21:55.239 the Texans, and then they're in Denver. I think this 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:56.960 is the year you really find out what this team 0:21:57.040 --> 0:21:59.960 is made of. Their trappdoor scenario. They had the quarterback 0:22:00.040 --> 0:22:02.280 injury two years ago, but they were losing games before 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:04.040 Herbert went out that year, so you can kind of 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:06.920 I mean, if it lose Herbert, it's gonna hurt a lot. 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:07.440 Obviously. 0:22:07.800 --> 0:22:09.960 I think the second year and a follow up for 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.840 a new system can be a difficult kind of the 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.200 way it was for Esperano and Gaze down here in Miami. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.439 I think the test of a harder schedule and a 0:22:17.480 --> 0:22:19.639 full year of tape could make them have sort of 0:22:19.680 --> 0:22:24.399 a reinvention necessity this early on the season. Especially with 0:22:24.440 --> 0:22:26.439 that schedule and how it stacks up. This is a 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:28.600 tough team to peg for my conclusion here, to me, 0:22:29.040 --> 0:22:31.159 I don't think they got better on paper. To me, 0:22:31.240 --> 0:22:33.520 they focus on things that help you beat bad teams 0:22:33.560 --> 0:22:36.879 and doesn't give you a real fighting chance against the 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:40.080 superior teams. They're well coached, they play good defense, and 0:22:40.320 --> 0:22:43.200 they know who they are. My questions would be, yeah, 0:22:43.240 --> 0:22:45.520 it's a great you know, a great stack of wins 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.520 they got against those aforementioned quarterbacks like Deshaun Watson, Mason, 0:22:48.600 --> 0:22:51.440 Rudolph Kirk, Cousins, Aidan O'Connell. But this year they get 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.280 Mahomes twice, they get Knicks twice, they get Gino twice, 0:22:54.520 --> 0:22:57.960 they get Tua Daniels, Rogers, cam Ward, Jalen Hurts, C. J. 0:22:58.080 --> 0:22:58.439 Stroud. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.880 I am fascinated this team and leaning towards them being 0:23:01.920 --> 0:23:04.960 outside the playoffs, but again we'll cross that bridge come September. 0:23:05.160 --> 0:23:08.040 The Denver Broncos personnel changes. It's a big year for 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:09.800 the Broncos and a great example of how you really 0:23:09.880 --> 0:23:12.480 don't know anything in the NFL. Right, that was a 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:14.480 team that was supposed to be doomed by the mistake 0:23:14.560 --> 0:23:18.000 that was the Russell Wilson trade and contract, and just 0:23:18.080 --> 0:23:21.280 one year later they're in the playoffs with a promising 0:23:21.320 --> 0:23:25.399 rookie quarterback. The challenge now is taking that next step 0:23:25.440 --> 0:23:28.840 against what figures to be a much tougher schedule. Their offseason, 0:23:28.960 --> 0:23:31.080 as it usually does, tells you what they've felt they 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:33.160 had to get better at They were linked to Colston 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:36.040 Lovelin all throughout the draft process, but they did bring 0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.160 in Evan Ingram who has a similar style of game, 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:40.560 and like the Chargers, they got bigger at the pass 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:41.440 catcher options. 0:23:41.520 --> 0:23:44.840 More on that in a moment. They also land JK. Dobbins, 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:45.280 who I. 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.440 Just love a week or two ago, and he gives 0:23:47.440 --> 0:23:49.120 a huge boost of the running game which was really 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:53.119 lacking parts besides rookie RJ. Harvey before that. Outside of that, 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:56.960 it was mostly moves on defense Drake Greenlaw tellanoa Hufongo 0:23:57.000 --> 0:23:59.399 with the two biggest moves. They go Jade Barron in 0:23:59.400 --> 0:24:01.760 the first round, then r J. Harvey and Pat Bryant 0:24:01.800 --> 0:24:04.840 from Illinois in the second and third round. The departures 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:07.040 not really a lot of notables here. They lose Cody 0:24:07.040 --> 0:24:09.240 Barton that was the big contract that got signed elsewhere, 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.040 but outside of that they're all back. The coaching continuity 0:24:12.040 --> 0:24:14.240 in the division here is rare because our third straight 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.600 team has the exact same head coach OC and DC 0:24:17.000 --> 0:24:20.760 with Sean Payton, Joel Lombardi, and Vance Joseph On film, 0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:22.879 the calling card is the West Coast style offense. It 0:24:22.960 --> 0:24:26.840 exemplifies all the experience that Bodnicks gathered in college playing 0:24:27.080 --> 0:24:29.199 was It six years there at Auburn and oregan and 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.720 his growth is really something that should be studied because 0:24:31.720 --> 0:24:33.879 after his Auburn career, I don't think he was a 0:24:33.960 --> 0:24:36.840 draftable quarterback. Then he shines to Organ goes was it 0:24:37.040 --> 0:24:40.840 eleventh overall, tenth overall and plays really well as a rookie, 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:44.199 pairing that processing and decision making with some nice creativity 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:46.800 off script. But like all players, there's plenty of room 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:49.080 to grow there. They do a great job to exploiting 0:24:49.119 --> 0:24:50.880 the areas of the defense that are willing to give 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:53.359 up playing that short passing game with a good rhythm, 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:56.440 some West Coast principles that kind of stretch you horizontally, 0:24:56.680 --> 0:24:58.679 and they did this with almost no semblance of a 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.960 running game. Between the Dobbins addition and the growth of 0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:03.920 an offensive line that has a lot of continent in 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:07.560 the exact same five starters and same system. If bowenex 0:25:07.640 --> 0:25:10.159 takes another step, they could have a pretty damn good offense. 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.680 I love Marvin Mims, Courtland Sutton finally stopped having bad 0:25:13.720 --> 0:25:15.960 injury luck last year. Troy Flanklin sort of a go 0:25:16.119 --> 0:25:18.680 route merchant and I think Evan Ingram is the big 0:25:18.680 --> 0:25:20.600 slot that can really help take this passing game to 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:23.480 the next level, especially in a West Coast style offense. 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:25.720 Do they see him as Jimmy Graham type. I think 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.159 that's kind of the vision there. And Vance Joseph is 0:25:28.160 --> 0:25:31.280 a well traveled DC who has a deep rollodex of 0:25:31.359 --> 0:25:33.439 calls and blitzes that he is willing to call at 0:25:33.440 --> 0:25:36.119 any point, any game, any down, distance, whatever it is, 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:38.240 he can go after it. And it's fun to watch, 0:25:38.400 --> 0:25:41.840 especially with their additions on that side of the football. 0:25:42.160 --> 0:25:44.920 Fourteen of the fifteen highest snap takers on that side 0:25:44.920 --> 0:25:47.399 of the ball are back and they add Baron and 0:25:47.480 --> 0:25:50.920 Hufonga to Sertan and Riley Moss with Brandon Jones, it's 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.080 a nice secondary man they extend Jonathan Cooper and I 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:57.320 bet you Zach Allen is the player that not everybody 0:25:57.359 --> 0:25:59.120 on this pod has heard of. He is a Zach 0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:02.040 sealer of sorts who plays a little more outside the 0:26:02.119 --> 0:26:06.800 Dre Greenlaw audition. John Franklin Myers, Nick Bonito Stefense is nice, dude. 0:26:06.800 --> 0:26:09.359 They might even have too many guys in that back seven, 0:26:09.400 --> 0:26:11.600 because I don't see starting spots for guys like Ja 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:13.800 Kwan McMillan, who was a good slot for them last year. 0:26:13.960 --> 0:26:16.639 Chris Abrams trained can play some ball. Nick Bonnido's a 0:26:16.680 --> 0:26:18.800 backup too. They have really good depth on that defense. 0:26:19.119 --> 0:26:21.639 The question is, I think the second year leap that 0:26:21.680 --> 0:26:25.000 you expected to make after a surprising first year is 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:27.359 one of the toughest things to accomplish in this sport. 0:26:27.440 --> 0:26:29.280 I think it's fair to look at the receiver corps 0:26:29.280 --> 0:26:32.400 and ask the question. Sutton, Ingram, and Dobbins have all 0:26:32.440 --> 0:26:35.160 missed a ton of games, and an injury to any 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:38.240 of them makes their respective group super thin, super quick. 0:26:38.520 --> 0:26:41.320 I'm also not all the way there on Knicks yet. 0:26:41.359 --> 0:26:44.040 He made me wrong that first year, for sure, but 0:26:44.040 --> 0:26:46.360 there's still a lot of bad tape to pour through there, 0:26:46.359 --> 0:26:48.680 which he's a rookie so obviously, but I don't think 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:51.600 there's a lot more of a ceiling to stretch to. 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:53.840 I think he's kind of maxed his talents based upon 0:26:53.920 --> 0:26:56.000 his age coming into the league and what you saw 0:26:56.040 --> 0:26:59.479 from Oregon to now and the scheme I thought protected 0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:01.720 him in a big way, like twenty nine touchdowns and 0:27:01.760 --> 0:27:04.400 twelve picks and only a ninety three pass rating. It's 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:07.040 because they their whole game was short. It was a 0:27:07.080 --> 0:27:10.120 six point seven to YPA with a high passing figure there. 0:27:10.280 --> 0:27:12.480 And as much as I love their defensive personnel, it's 0:27:12.520 --> 0:27:15.360 so hard to have back to back dominant seasons on defense. 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:18.600 The miscellaneous factors I talked about the schedule. This schedule 0:27:18.720 --> 0:27:23.200 ends with Texans, Raiders, Chiefs, Commanders, Raiders, Packers, Jags, Chiefs, Chargers. 0:27:23.560 --> 0:27:25.800 Six of the nine are playoff teams. Two of those 0:27:25.840 --> 0:27:28.320 teams are the Raiders, who are not a pushover anymore. 0:27:28.800 --> 0:27:31.800 I'd be surprised when they get back there their trapdoor scenario. 0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:34.080 The leaders of all the skill groups have missed double 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:36.760 digit games over the last two seasons each. If the 0:27:36.880 --> 0:27:39.680 rising quarterback has any type of regression with how they've 0:27:39.680 --> 0:27:42.399 struggled to run the football, games could become a slog 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:44.320 and I can wear a defense down, especially in the 0:27:44.320 --> 0:27:46.760 Mile High City. Remember this is the second where we nitpicks, 0:27:46.760 --> 0:27:48.960 so we're gonna get critical here. My conclusion is, I 0:27:49.000 --> 0:27:51.840 think the Broncos are a lot like the Chargers. There's 0:27:51.840 --> 0:27:54.199 some proof of concept, but I think we need to 0:27:54.200 --> 0:27:56.880 see more before I go all in on both those teams. 0:27:56.960 --> 0:27:59.040 I think the schedules put got those teams in last year. 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:01.080 I think the Broncos got better. I think the Chargers 0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:03.240 did not get better. So I think I like Denver Moore, 0:28:03.280 --> 0:28:05.320 but I kind of have them both in the same 0:28:05.400 --> 0:28:07.600 vein there. And that brings us to our final team 0:28:07.640 --> 0:28:10.639 here in the AFC West, he Las Faga Raiders. The 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:13.240 changes personnel wise, a team with some changes in the 0:28:13.240 --> 0:28:15.640 coaching staff for the first time here. I cannot wait 0:28:15.640 --> 0:28:17.239 to see what Pete Carroll looks like and what he's 0:28:17.280 --> 0:28:19.399 got a piss leave here in his first year. Bringing 0:28:19.440 --> 0:28:22.199 back Antonio Pierce last year I thought was always not 0:28:22.280 --> 0:28:25.240 a great decision. I think having a qualified coaching staff 0:28:25.280 --> 0:28:27.200 could actually make a big difference for the Raiders here. 0:28:27.440 --> 0:28:29.359 They put together an awesome staff, and part of that 0:28:29.480 --> 0:28:31.479 was retaining the defensive side of the ball with Patrick 0:28:31.480 --> 0:28:33.160 Graham and a lot of the coaches on that side 0:28:33.160 --> 0:28:34.880 of the ball who have done a really good job 0:28:34.920 --> 0:28:37.440 the last couple of years, and bringing in Chip Kelly 0:28:37.440 --> 0:28:39.720 to coach the offense. They spent the sixth pick of 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:41.760 the draft on the best running back to come out 0:28:41.760 --> 0:28:46.280 since Bijon perhaps Sakwan. They bring back Geno Smith or 0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:48.760 bring in Gino Smith, I should say they signed Raheem. 0:28:48.840 --> 0:28:51.200 I'm rooting for him big time. And they add Ian 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:53.320 Thomas to a tight end room that has Brock Bauers 0:28:53.360 --> 0:28:55.960 and Michael Mayers, the best tight end room in NFL history. 0:28:55.960 --> 0:28:59.520 Maybe they signed Alex Kapitaz tabilized the interior offensive line. 0:28:59.640 --> 0:29:01.880 And then i'll defense the way they retained the coaching 0:29:02.080 --> 0:29:04.800 that they that they had on the defense, I am 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:07.000 so impressed by that for Pete Carroll, but they also 0:29:07.000 --> 0:29:09.520 have some new parts in that secondary. Trayvon Merrick left, 0:29:09.560 --> 0:29:10.720 he was a guy that I talked about in the 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:13.320 podcast a lot. Replaced him by another guy I talked 0:29:13.320 --> 0:29:15.840 about in the podcast, and Jeremy Chim. They lost Nate Hobbs, 0:29:15.920 --> 0:29:18.840 Jack Jones, and Marcus Epps, bringing in Eric Stokes and 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:21.600 Lonnie Johnson to fill that void. The film here the 0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:25.640 calling card, and you can see that personnel shift kind 0:29:25.680 --> 0:29:28.880 of match with Pete's defensive principles, which I'm curious to 0:29:28.880 --> 0:29:31.680 see how they inject that into what Patrick Graham does, which, 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:33.800 as you might recall, is lots of tight fronts, big 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:36.800 bodies up front, trying to stretch your interior gaps to 0:29:36.880 --> 0:29:39.920 create advantageous looks on the outside for a Max Crosby 0:29:40.360 --> 0:29:42.440 back here. It was you know, they wanted to get 0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:44.800 Jadavian Cloune involved. They wanted to get Kyle Vannoi going 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:47.680 in that role. Then you've got similar presentations that generate 0:29:47.800 --> 0:29:50.400 variations of cover one, Cover three in man, which is 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:54.280 their three primary coverages. Their front is loaded with Christian Wilkins, 0:29:54.360 --> 0:29:57.840 Adam Butler, Tyree Wilson, with Max Crosby and Malcolm Coons 0:29:57.880 --> 0:30:00.800 off the edge. They did lose Robert Splain inside replaced 0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:03.360 him by a land than Roberts. Frankly, I liked our 0:30:03.360 --> 0:30:05.360 secondary a lot last year. This year I have more 0:30:05.440 --> 0:30:08.960 questions and answers there. Offensively, Gino's ability to play from 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:12.400 under center and play pass and then rip anticipatory throws 0:30:12.600 --> 0:30:15.080 with velocity down the middle of the field can really 0:30:15.080 --> 0:30:17.520 put your run pass defense in some peril. And with 0:30:17.640 --> 0:30:20.120 Chip Kelly, you know he's going to find ways to 0:30:20.160 --> 0:30:23.480 maximize space and get you know, vertical options in oermedia 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:25.920 options and check down and really attack every level of 0:30:25.960 --> 0:30:28.120 the field. I cannot wait to see what that looks 0:30:28.160 --> 0:30:29.960 like and how teams have to play that style of 0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:32.400 passing defense against an offense that has a running back 0:30:32.440 --> 0:30:34.880 that can make you pay against light boxes. Those two 0:30:34.920 --> 0:30:37.640 tight ends they've got are ridiculous and lends this self 0:30:37.680 --> 0:30:39.280 to the idea they're probably going to stay in twelve 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:41.680 personnel most of the game. My question for them is 0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:45.120 how will the defense mesh the two ideologies together, and 0:30:45.160 --> 0:30:47.680 will they pretty much brand new secondary mesh and how 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:50.680 quickly can they do that? Offensively, I think it's you know, 0:30:50.720 --> 0:30:53.479 we've sort of directed our eggs to the baskets outside 0:30:53.520 --> 0:30:55.880 of wide receiver, and I get if you don't have 0:30:55.960 --> 0:30:58.080 playmakers in that position, I worry about that. 0:30:58.200 --> 0:30:59.600 Jacoby Myers is a good player. 0:31:00.080 --> 0:31:01.680 Side of the tight ends, there's a lot of questions 0:31:01.680 --> 0:31:04.560 about who's going to catch passes there the miscellaneous factors 0:31:04.960 --> 0:31:07.280 we've mentioned the schedule for everybody in this division, much 0:31:07.320 --> 0:31:11.040 harder for all four teams, but something else. They've got 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:14.440 home games against the Bears, Cowboys, Browns, Giants, and then 0:31:14.480 --> 0:31:17.400 obviously the divisional games against Denver and Case. Those are 0:31:17.440 --> 0:31:20.000 fan bases that travel really well, and these teams that 0:31:20.120 --> 0:31:22.680 have these recent moves, the home games become road games 0:31:22.720 --> 0:31:25.320 pretty quickly, and I think Pete Carroll's going to be great. 0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:27.960 But anytime you have a seventy eight year old head 0:31:27.960 --> 0:31:30.080 coach seventy five howl is he that's been out of 0:31:30.080 --> 0:31:31.479 the league for a couple of years, I think it's 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:33.720 fair to wonder if the fastball is still there. The 0:31:33.800 --> 0:31:36.360 trapdoor scenario for me is back to the secondary and 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:39.800 changes and meshing of defensive ideologies. I think the offense 0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:42.400 has a pretty good plan and contingency in place, but 0:31:42.440 --> 0:31:44.880 I think the other side kind of needs to prove that. 0:31:45.080 --> 0:31:48.360 And man, I hate this, but Christian Wilkins hasn't practiced 0:31:48.360 --> 0:31:50.800 this spring since that foot injury last year, and it 0:31:50.800 --> 0:31:52.960 would be a bummer if that foot injury changes his 0:31:53.040 --> 0:31:55.600 career trajectory. It sucks for the Raiders and it sucks 0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:57.160 for Christian, and Christian is a good dude, So that 0:31:57.240 --> 0:31:58.000 makes me sad. 0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:00.000 My conclusion very tough division. 0:32:00.280 --> 0:32:02.680 I don't think there's a team that improved its coaching 0:32:02.680 --> 0:32:05.280 staff the way the Raiders did and the quarterback position 0:32:05.360 --> 0:32:08.280 to boot I also think you have to pass and 0:32:08.360 --> 0:32:10.680 defend the pass in this league, and that's where the 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:12.920 questions are on paper for this team. So in this 0:32:12.960 --> 0:32:15.440 conference with all these quarterbacks, to me, that's tough They're 0:32:15.440 --> 0:32:17.360 gonna be a lot better though, and that brings us 0:32:17.360 --> 0:32:22.720 to division superlatives. My winner the Chiefs, the best quarterback Mahomes, 0:32:22.200 --> 0:32:26.600 the best non quarterback on offense. I'm gonna go Brock Bauers. 0:32:26.760 --> 0:32:28.680 I mean, he was kind of legendary last year. Best 0:32:28.680 --> 0:32:31.400 defensive player. It's real close right here. I'm gonna take 0:32:31.400 --> 0:32:34.840 the hometown kid and Patrick Sartana second, although Chris Jones says, 0:32:34.840 --> 0:32:38.280 what's up? My best coach, Andy Reid, the best rookie, 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.400 it's gotta be Ashon Genty obviously, d and my best 0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:42.480 under the radar stud. 0:32:42.480 --> 0:32:44.000 It's between two players. 0:32:43.600 --> 0:32:47.840 But I'm gonna go with Dayon Henley here, the Washington 0:32:47.880 --> 0:32:50.640 State Cougar, a lum and linebacker for the Chargers. 0:32:50.680 --> 0:32:51.720 He is an absolute monster. 0:32:51.720 --> 0:32:53.560 All right, last break right here, come back on the 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:56.160 other side and talk to Patrick Paul. That's next Draft 0:32:56.200 --> 0:33:02.080 Time podcast, brought to you by Autoonation. Joining me today 0:33:02.200 --> 0:33:04.560 is Dolphins left tackle Patrick Paul. Pat what's up? 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:04.720 Man? 0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:06.080 Not much? How you doing? 0:33:06.200 --> 0:33:06.840 I'm doing good? 0:33:06.880 --> 0:33:09.640 It's it's I was just talking to Malik Washington about 0:33:09.640 --> 0:33:12.480 how much changes in three hundred and sixty five days 0:33:12.480 --> 0:33:15.280 for everybody football players myself, anybody in the world. A 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:17.560 lot can change in one year. Can you take us 0:33:17.560 --> 0:33:19.560 through what the last year has been like for you 0:33:19.640 --> 0:33:21.240 and how it's different from the last time you were 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:22.560 in that chair versus today. 0:33:23.160 --> 0:33:25.480 Uh yeah, definitely a lot of changes in the year. 0:33:25.600 --> 0:33:29.480 Like you said, the first year, you're a lot more nervous. 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:34.320 Everything's so tense, and it seems like it's the longest 0:33:34.360 --> 0:33:36.760 year of your life coming in into year two. Now 0:33:36.760 --> 0:33:38.440 you have a whole off season in front of you, 0:33:39.080 --> 0:33:42.080 and you have so much free time learning how to 0:33:42.120 --> 0:33:44.680 take care of your body, learning how to operate as 0:33:44.680 --> 0:33:47.040 a pro when you're off and you don't have time 0:33:47.160 --> 0:33:50.200 you know, well, you're not fully busy and committed, like 0:33:50.280 --> 0:33:52.640 dedicated to a football like system. So you had four 0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:54.320 months off, so learning how to take care of your 0:33:54.320 --> 0:33:57.080 body it was great, and just learning my own system. 0:33:57.640 --> 0:33:59.960 So that's a big part of football, right is trying 0:33:59.960 --> 0:34:03.200 to know exactly offensively what you're doing every single snap. 0:34:03.240 --> 0:34:05.680 But then there's the individual portion of it that's I've 0:34:05.680 --> 0:34:07.560 been having this conversation with everyone that's done this so 0:34:07.600 --> 0:34:12.240 far today. It's kind of fascinating because you get your Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, practices. 0:34:12.280 --> 0:34:14.239 It's all situational. It's all like red zone, you know 0:34:14.280 --> 0:34:14.880 all that stuff. 0:34:15.040 --> 0:34:16.520 But then you kind of have to take some time 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:20.280 yourself to really fine tune in on like your matchup 0:34:20.320 --> 0:34:21.800 that week, or maybe something that you're doing that you 0:34:21.840 --> 0:34:24.480 want to improve upon. When you take a look at 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:28.400 your technique and fundamentals, like what's Patrick Paul's approach to 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:30.120 like I got to tighten up this or that, Like 0:34:30.160 --> 0:34:32.840 how do you kind of assess what you see on 0:34:32.920 --> 0:34:34.600 film and then go put to practice When it comes 0:34:34.600 --> 0:34:36.879 to developing your fundamentals, Uh. 0:34:36.840 --> 0:34:40.239 Yeah, I'd say the biggest thing is knowing what the 0:34:40.440 --> 0:34:43.720 correct technique looks like and doing that every day. I'd say, 0:34:44.160 --> 0:34:49.320 practicing those perfect techniques and basically elite techniques and fundamentals. 0:34:49.320 --> 0:34:53.080 Practicing that every single day, and as you keep doing it, 0:34:53.080 --> 0:34:55.080 it becomes a habit and you learn what it's supposed 0:34:55.080 --> 0:34:57.359 to look like, what it's not supposed to look like. Also, 0:34:57.440 --> 0:34:59.520 coaching has a big thing to do with that, also, 0:35:00.120 --> 0:35:03.520 what they want from a player basically doing that exactly 0:35:03.560 --> 0:35:06.600 every single day. And when you practice those elite fundamentals 0:35:06.600 --> 0:35:09.120 and techniques each day each day, you're just going to 0:35:09.360 --> 0:35:11.279 see it resonating into your game. It's not going to 0:35:11.320 --> 0:35:13.319 be all at once, but it's going to slowly start 0:35:13.360 --> 0:35:15.920 pouring in and as it goes on, you're just going 0:35:16.000 --> 0:35:17.759 to notice that it's part of what you're doing and 0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:20.080 you learn from it. You start, you know, creating ways 0:35:20.080 --> 0:35:22.799 of your own, but then just expanding on that. So 0:35:22.840 --> 0:35:24.359 it's a niche day, it's an everyday thing. 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:26.759 It's kind of the same thing for like podcasting a 0:35:26.760 --> 0:35:28.920 little bit mostly writing. Like if I go back and 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:31.719 read my writing from five years ago, I'm like, that 0:35:31.840 --> 0:35:34.399 was terrible. That's a bad piece of writing right there, 0:35:34.560 --> 0:35:36.239 And I don't want to sit here in how you say, 0:35:36.239 --> 0:35:37.839 like my football was bad five years ago. But if 0:35:37.840 --> 0:35:39.600 you went back to like your freshman year at Houston 0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:42.200 versus where you are today, fundamental wise, what would your 0:35:42.200 --> 0:35:44.319 reaction be to those two videos side by side? 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:46.640 Do you think the freshman year one would make me sick? 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:49.840 Make me want to throw up? So yeah, you're definitely 0:35:49.920 --> 0:35:52.279 at it, like ages like fine wine, as you just 0:35:52.360 --> 0:35:54.520 keep honing in on it and keep getting better at it. 0:35:54.520 --> 0:35:55.879 That's the beauty of the game, though, right The beauty 0:35:55.880 --> 0:35:57.440 of everything we do is the way we grow and 0:35:57.520 --> 0:36:00.480 become just you know, more well rounded people, right, I 0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:02.160 mean do you do you take that same approach and 0:36:02.280 --> 0:36:04.719 things outside of football but in your entire life. 0:36:04.719 --> 0:36:05.719 Really it's everything in life. 0:36:05.719 --> 0:36:05.920 You know. 0:36:05.920 --> 0:36:08.200 You're just trying to expand on it different ways to 0:36:08.239 --> 0:36:11.480 take care of your body and now have the golf tick. 0:36:11.719 --> 0:36:14.560 So learning about golf, so this is a whole other obstacle. 0:36:14.600 --> 0:36:17.120 But yeah, but yeah, we're taking it a day at 0:36:17.160 --> 0:36:17.479 a time. 0:36:17.719 --> 0:36:20.680 Yeah, I'm saying that because you come you come in here, 0:36:20.680 --> 0:36:22.880 and we've talked about this off the air, but like 0:36:23.000 --> 0:36:25.600 I just I'm so obsessed with golf. Man, I've put 0:36:25.600 --> 0:36:27.560 so much time into it. And I remember we talked 0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:29.719 about this a while ago. So you're it's it sounds 0:36:29.719 --> 0:36:32.239 like it's ramping up. 0:36:32.320 --> 0:36:35.920 So yeah, definitely got spoiled with the second course that 0:36:35.920 --> 0:36:37.920 I ever went to. This is Shelby. 0:36:38.160 --> 0:36:41.880 So yeah, that's uh, that's where every piece of grass 0:36:41.960 --> 0:36:43.400 is like manicured by like la scissors. 0:36:43.560 --> 0:36:46.000 I mean, the best place I've ever been. 0:36:46.280 --> 0:36:49.239 Yeah, It's it's beautiful. Man, A good golf course is 0:36:49.440 --> 0:36:51.080 hard to be Did you did you walk or were 0:36:51.080 --> 0:36:52.920 you on a cart? We're on the car okay, So yeah, 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:54.400 cause when you walk course, you kind of get to 0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:56.120 like feel you kind of feel like you're in tune 0:36:56.120 --> 0:36:57.800 with nature and like the whole course and everything. So 0:36:57.800 --> 0:37:00.359 it's a little bit different that way. But man, the book, 0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:02.120 I feel like it's biting everyone around her these days. 0:37:02.320 --> 0:37:02.920 It's amazing. 0:37:03.440 --> 0:37:05.239 You gotta get a club fitting, right, Yes, did you 0:37:05.280 --> 0:37:05.919 buy club yet? 0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:07.880 No, I'm going, I think by the end of this 0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:10.480 week after you know, I'm locking in for now and 0:37:10.480 --> 0:37:11.360 then we'll get the break. 0:37:11.480 --> 0:37:14.759 Yeah, yeah, because i think, uh, let's just let's just 0:37:14.760 --> 0:37:16.719 do the whole thing here. Because you played that one 0:37:16.760 --> 0:37:19.360 time that my buddy saw you. 0:37:19.360 --> 0:37:20.520 You rented clubs, right. 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:22.480 Yes, so that was the So that was the third 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:23.120 time my golfer. 0:37:23.200 --> 0:37:25.319 Okay, yeah, there's no way those clubs like fit. 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:27.759 Now. People keep telling me like, yeah, you need to 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:29.359 get fitted. It's going to help what you're swing. You're 0:37:29.360 --> 0:37:31.879 going to see like a drastic change in my game. 0:37:31.960 --> 0:37:34.400 Because I'm six seven thirty seven in charms, you know 0:37:34.440 --> 0:37:36.319 what I mean. So yeah, like I'm using these clubs, 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:38.759 I'm bending down. It just doesn't feel right. So I'm like, yeah, 0:37:38.760 --> 0:37:40.120 I'm gonna go after we're done. 0:37:40.280 --> 0:37:42.080 I'm gonna I want to I want to see what 0:37:42.160 --> 0:37:43.640 it looks like when you flush one man, it probably 0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:45.080 goes it probably looks like happy. 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:46.440 Gilmore like into the mountains. 0:37:46.440 --> 0:37:48.800 You know makes us addicted, So it makes you addicted. 0:37:48.920 --> 0:37:50.840 Is when you get that it's on the money. 0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:51.920 Yeah, you've had a couple of those. 0:37:51.920 --> 0:37:53.719 I've had a couple of those. Yeah. The first time 0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:56.000 it was the one at Shelby. I birdied once. I 0:37:56.040 --> 0:37:57.960 was like, Okay, yeah, I'm a golfer. 0:37:58.080 --> 0:37:58.400 Let's go. 0:37:58.480 --> 0:38:00.319 He's a sick going just like the rest of us. Man, 0:38:00.719 --> 0:38:01.759 just just enjoy the ride. 0:38:01.960 --> 0:38:03.759 I'll tell you this. There's highs, there's lows. It's a 0:38:03.800 --> 0:38:05.239 lot of fun. There's a lot of moments you're like, 0:38:05.239 --> 0:38:07.479 I'm never playing this game again. But it's all fun. 0:38:07.840 --> 0:38:09.520 Lets let's pivot back to football here, because we kind 0:38:09.520 --> 0:38:11.359 of got off the track there, and I do apologize 0:38:11.239 --> 0:38:14.759 my audience. I make so many comparisons to football like 0:38:14.840 --> 0:38:17.799 technique and golf because I think it is kind of applicable, right, Like, 0:38:17.800 --> 0:38:20.000 there's so much that goes into that. But in terms 0:38:20.000 --> 0:38:22.080 of the second year, what excites you the most man 0:38:22.080 --> 0:38:24.319 about coming back and being with this group for a 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:27.520 second season, whether it's individual, the entire picture, Like, what's 0:38:27.760 --> 0:38:29.719 got you most fired up for twenty twenty five? 0:38:30.520 --> 0:38:34.440 Okay, yeah, twenty twenty five. I think it's I'm very 0:38:34.440 --> 0:38:36.319 excited this year to just see what this team's going 0:38:36.360 --> 0:38:38.160 to do. This group. I think we have a really 0:38:38.160 --> 0:38:41.839 croose group this year that has grown with the work 0:38:41.920 --> 0:38:44.359 and we all have the same mentality which every team 0:38:44.400 --> 0:38:46.560 should have, is to win the Super Bowl. But we're 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:48.440 doing things that I think that are going to be 0:38:48.440 --> 0:38:50.360 able to separate us this year. I'm going into my 0:38:50.360 --> 0:38:54.080 first year as the starter at left tackle, so just 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:57.040 basically going into this year with the approach to keep 0:38:57.080 --> 0:39:00.279 that position, make it a franchise, and be for the 0:39:00.280 --> 0:39:02.160 rest of my career. That's the goal. And it all 0:39:02.160 --> 0:39:04.319 starts when you're getting into this role. 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:06.120 So yeah, I can't wait to watch it. 0:39:06.160 --> 0:39:06.279 Man. 0:39:06.320 --> 0:39:09.640 And going back to last year, You've talked so much 0:39:09.640 --> 0:39:11.920 about how much Taran meant to you in terms of 0:39:11.960 --> 0:39:14.520 his tutelage. But I guess I'm curious to ask like 0:39:14.600 --> 0:39:17.640 all those because he's talked about, you know, the way 0:39:17.640 --> 0:39:19.520 he had to get himself ready for a game at 0:39:19.520 --> 0:39:21.960 this stage of his career was tough, and so in 0:39:22.160 --> 0:39:23.560 lieu of that, you were able to get a lot 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:25.799 of practice reps, but you also got something like three 0:39:25.840 --> 0:39:28.120 hundred and forty snaps in at left tackle or either 0:39:28.160 --> 0:39:29.120 tackle spot this year. 0:39:29.280 --> 0:39:30.200 What did you take from all that? 0:39:30.280 --> 0:39:32.759 How valuable do you think that was in comparison to 0:39:32.800 --> 0:39:35.160 if you didn't get all that time to practice and 0:39:35.160 --> 0:39:35.680 play games? 0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:38.920 That's the true. Those reps are valuable, very very valuable, 0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:42.520 especially you know, getting your first start going at it 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:46.839 and being mivable to prepare that week and you know, 0:39:46.880 --> 0:39:48.719 get what it feels like to go through a game week. 0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:50.600 It was good, not just having it this year, but 0:39:50.680 --> 0:39:52.400 having it last year, being able to work off of that. 0:39:52.480 --> 0:39:55.800 Also learning how to just go on the fly sometimes 0:39:55.840 --> 0:39:58.080 to get in there, really testing the mental because you 0:39:58.120 --> 0:40:00.000 have to be always locked in every single game. Last 0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:01.960 I was locked in like I was playing. So those 0:40:01.960 --> 0:40:04.920 were all invaluable reps and just knowing how to prepare. 0:40:05.000 --> 0:40:07.320 So I'm really excited for this year, really excited. 0:40:07.440 --> 0:40:09.239 There there are ten things I could ask you about. 0:40:09.239 --> 0:40:10.640 I'll get you out here because we're already get long 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:12.600 at the time here, But there's two things I was 0:40:12.640 --> 0:40:14.440 thinking about. Number One, last time we did this, you 0:40:14.480 --> 0:40:16.840 talked about after your football career. You want to be 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:20.240 the president of your home nation. Yeah, Nigeria and Jerry, Okay, 0:40:20.320 --> 0:40:21.400 is that still an aspiration of. 0:40:21.400 --> 0:40:22.319 Yours that's going to happen. 0:40:22.480 --> 0:40:23.680 Okay, that's going to happen. 0:40:23.680 --> 0:40:25.400 It's already updates to the whole story. You just just 0:40:25.480 --> 0:40:26.720 leave it at that. 0:40:27.440 --> 0:40:28.920 This is you know, I'm so young right now. I'm 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:31.759 twenty three. You know, football happy, let football half for 0:40:31.800 --> 0:40:34.000 first in my forties. I'll start umbarking on that. 0:40:34.080 --> 0:40:34.279 Yeah. 0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:36.000 Yeah, And I guess that'd be the same answer to 0:40:36.000 --> 0:40:38.840 my next question. Because we had you on the panel 0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.560 at Draft night as well as my my radio program there. 0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:43.839 I told you you got some pretty good media shops 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:45.399 and tea stad get your coach up there as well. 0:40:45.680 --> 0:40:48.360 No, this is from University of Houston. Yeah, we had to. 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:50.560 We took classes and everything on this stuff. 0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:52.680 Very nice, man, very nice. So that's something you're interested 0:40:52.760 --> 0:40:54.719 interested in too. They kind of go hand and hand. 0:40:54.880 --> 0:40:56.439 Yeah, I'd pop in and do some stuff. 0:40:56.520 --> 0:40:59.160 Yeah, good stuff. But appreciate your time today, man, best 0:40:59.160 --> 0:41:00.719 of luck this season. I can cannot wait to watch 0:41:00.719 --> 0:41:02.160 you play and we'll see you out there soon. 0:41:02.200 --> 0:41:02.399 Man. 0:41:02.480 --> 0:41:04.080 Thank you. I appreciate it all. 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:05.560 Right, Going down to two episodes a week. 0:41:05.600 --> 0:41:07.400 The podcast is gonna look like this every once in 0:41:07.440 --> 0:41:09.920 a while, so lengthy episodes. Next, we're gonna do the 0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:13.800 NFC West and have Bradley Chubb on the show. I 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:15.640 can't wait to bring guys this Bradley Chub chat. 0:41:15.680 --> 0:41:17.920 It was so very good. 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