WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 15 Variety Show with Kyle Crabbs 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:03.320 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.200 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not far though. 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:12.000 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast, 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.200 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team, 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.600 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.479 Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, I have to be 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:23.440 honest with you guys. 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:24.240 I'm back. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:26.920 We're gonna smoke the Jets on Sunday, We're gonna beat 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:29.560 the Cowboys the following Sunday, and we're gonna be back. 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:32.440 That's my takeaway. And we're gonna talk to Kyle Krab 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:34.440 today about this team about how they can get over 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.360 that hump, about how they can learn from that loss, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.360 how they can learn from last year. We'll lost talk 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.720 a lot about the college football season and the draft 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:44.120 coming up in April for your Miami Dolphins, first first 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.360 round draft pick in three years. All of that in 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.040 a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:53.080 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:53.960 Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:55.639 Maggie Daffy sh. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:00.160 Feieling Silly, feeling ready to go for Sunday. It's Friday, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.360 that means the Variety Show. Let's go ahead and welcome 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.039 in my guest today for not one, but two segments. 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:10.000 Kyle Crabs making his fifteenth Variety Show appearance. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:10.800 We have fifteen weeks. 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:13.520 I think might have missed a couple weeks, though maybe thirteenth, fourteenth. 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:15.959 I don't know who cares anymore. But first time on 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:21.200 the front end of the Variety Show, Kyle Crabs, Kyle sup. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:23.920 I didn't realize this was my first time on the 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.880 front end. I guess I'm better bring the juice today, 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:27.840 be fired up. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.440 Maybe I'm doing it backwards because you know, we've had 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.479 like Lewis Riddick, We've had like Kevin Harlan, and like 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:38.000 you close the show typically, So maybe I'm doing that wrong. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:40.120 But maybe that means you just are like the Dave 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.039 Chappelle of podcasting, and you always are the ones that 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:44.040 close the club down. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.760 Coffee's for closers. So I'll myself a cup and we'll 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:51.360 knock this thing out. Speaking of coffee, I like mine iced. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.000 Some folks likes there's let's do a temperature check real quick. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.800 You like that transition, so you know I do this. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.280 Often, Kyle, where like after a big loss the last 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.560 couple of years, all like monologue to kick off my 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.200 Sunday recap show and just kind of try to connect 0:02:05.200 --> 0:02:08.160 with Dolphins fans. And even though I was the meme 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.200 of that girl who's crying yet dancing through the tears 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.720 during that monologue on Sunday or Monday, rather, I want 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.760 to present a I wanted to present a force for 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.480 the trees viewpoint, but I kind of want you to 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.680 do the same thing, because man, and look like I 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.040 think we learned that no game is a gimme, even 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:27.480 though our calling card was we don't lose games we're 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.959 not supposed to. Maybe that's why fans are so upset now. 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.800 But I see, like I've seen tweets like they're gonna 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:34.840 finish nine and eight, miss the playoffs, they have no 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.959 chance to beat the Jets, a team that we beat 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.320 by twenty one points just three weeks ago. And I 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:43.440 mean people that pick these games think Miami is a 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:47.399 clear favorite in it. So my question, finally, what would 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:52.600 you say to that obviously very emotionally invested but very 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.320 upset Dolphins fan after the Monday night collapse in the 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:55.880 end of the game. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.440 I think everybody who is emotionally invested in the team, 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.200 walks away from a game like that and they're upset 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.840 and distressed that the Dolphins were in the position that 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:10.240 they were in and a very rare level of collapse. 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.440 But Mike McDaniels talked in recent weeks about eight and 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:16.440 three last year versus eight and three this year and 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.079 the scars of that team and the lessons that they learned, 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.960 and we're going to find out, you know, because they 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.160 got four games left to play, they have an opportunity 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:27.919 to achieve all of the goals that they set out 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:31.520 for themselves throughout the regular season. Everything that they still 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:33.080 have a game and a half lead in the AFC 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:35.000 East with four games to play, including a head to 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:37.760 head matchup in Week eighteen against the team that they're 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:38.760 looking to close out. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:43.960 You have two divisional games left. We'll see what comes. 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:47.720 But to be that upset this early in the process, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.920 I think is just leaning back into some of the 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.960 heartbreak that this team has provided fans in the past, 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:56.960 which has really nothing to do with this year's team. 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.680 That's that's exactly how I always feel about that argument. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.640 Like we're Dolphins fans, we have PTSD from December collapses 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.000 in the past, like the four or not the four. 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.240 That's a bad example, the O two Dolphins. It doesn't 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.000 mean anything to the twenty twenty three Dolphins. So I 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.640 never get that argument, But I do understand the emotional 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.279 investment because, like you know, the reason that it's that 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.839 hard is because it's that fun when you have those 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:21.800 big fun wins like the game in Baltimore last year. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:23.960 I'm sure Ravens fans felt the exact same way when 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:27.000 Miamedia race to twenty one fourth quarter deficit to win 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.280 that game. So I think we both came away from 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.440 the Titans game and the tape study thinking they had 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.360 a pretty good plan Kyle defensively, and I opined this, 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:36.560 how this might be a good thing to get on 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:38.520 tape here, and OJ talked about in the post game 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.960 show as well, So I was I was curious to 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.000 hear his viewpoint on that or even a loss that 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.800 can maybe even like hone them in the rest of 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.360 the way. So I'll ask this question to you too 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.080 pronged here. Number one, is it a positive to have 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.640 a game plan that was effective against you like that 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.920 on tape going forward? And then the follow up to 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.880 that would also be is a wake up call a 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.479 real thing, and then that football league, I think it 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:01.880 can be. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.840 And I think for the Dolphins specifically, you've seen them 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:09.160 go on these runs of winning games and then they 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.880 have a disappointing outcome, and then they've bounced back all 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:16.040 season long, whether it was Buffalo or whether it was 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:20.520 Kansas City or whether it hopefully now is Tennessee, you're 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:24.599 going to have a bounce back opportunity, and this time 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.599 of year, especially when you're so close to the end, 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.600 I think it's a very healthy reminder to be talking 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.080 about what might McDaniel talks about how today's the most 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.000 important day of our lives every day and just take 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.800 that day and focus on that opponent. I think you 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.479 heard some concessions from the team that are a couple 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.000 of players in the post game that they had heard 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:46.760 a lot of scenarios in the build up to the 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.839 game and then you get up fourteen points and you 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:53.360 blink and it's all gone. So I do think it's 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.560 potentially a healthy refocusing for this team. And I don't 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.000 know if it's healthy to get a game plan like that, 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.400 but I think the more things that you can experience 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:06.240 that you would anticipate or how teams are going to 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:09.040 try to defend you when you start playing for keeps 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:10.719 here and you're trying to close out a division title 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.320 and you're trying to clinch a playoff berth, and then 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:16.880 when you get into the postseason, having exposures to as 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.360 many different ways that they attempt to defend you can 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.400 only help you to try to have as many answers 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.600 for once you get into a game. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.480 That's a really good point. And I'm thinking about last 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:29.039 year because off of the Charger game that I think 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.479 was kind of the analog to this game in terms 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.240 of the performance and the offense just kind of being 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.400 stuck in the mud for the majority of the sixty minutes. 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.960 Then after that you got you know, thirty points whatever 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.080 it was in Buffalo and a first half against the 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.200 Packers where two to three for over two hundred yards. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:44.880 I think there was twenty plus points in that first 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.200 half as well, until things went the other direction in 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:48.720 the second half of that game, and then you lose 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:50.520 your quarterback and the rest of the year is a 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:54.160 struggle offensively. But I think that might be you know, 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.000 history is instructive. Sometimes maybe that can be the case 0:06:57.040 --> 0:07:00.000 here for these Dolphins heading into this pivotal stretch right 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.800 against the Jets, Cowboys, Ravens, and Buffalo Bills. And I 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.200 do think the performance against the Jets will tell us 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.520 exactly how this team is wired. And I've felt all 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.120 year that is wired the right way, So I do 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.480 think we'll get one of their best performances of the year. 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.640 That's kind of the way I see it. Kyle, one 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.400 more here before we pivot to the college game and 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:21.440 the draft. I think the emotional revolt is a fabricated thing. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.960 It's not tangible. I also implore fans to recognize that 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:26.720 the reason that you can be that upset is because 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.880 you have been that thrilled. Like I mentioned earlier the 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:30.920 Chargers game Opening Day. Remember how you felt about your 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.360 team after Opening Day and that very fun victory. And 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.880 you probably thought before the Titans game that this team 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.600 had a chance to win the Super Bowl. Maybe now 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:41.320 you don't. And I think that perspective is important to 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.080 maintain with where your emotion is as a Dolphins fan 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:47.400 covering this aspect of this team. That's a good team 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.160 you were super excited about a few days ago. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:50.000 That's my die. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.680 I try My question is this is the injuries are 0:07:53.800 --> 0:07:56.600 a tangible thing. Every team has them, some to their 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.800 quarterback and it wiped out their season for good. But 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.920 for Miami, we finally get stability at quarterback for the 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:05.320 first time in about eight years, but otherwise are the 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.600 most injured team in the National Football League. So my 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.080 question finally after all that is injuries are essentially just 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.880 another problem that coaches have to solve, right, how can 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.600 Miami scheme around the losses they've accrued the last few 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.200 weeks in this entire season. I think you look at 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:20.840 what you have on the defensive side of the ball, 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.240 and you feel better about that group kind of rallying 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.320 and getting everything back together. I admire the effort that 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.040 Duke Griley's put forward in the absence of Jerome Baker, 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.040 but you need to We've heard some of these assistant 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.199 coaches talk about how these safeties are the quarterbacks of 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.480 this defense and they call, you know, it's a safety 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.080 feature defense. So between Deshaun Elliott and Javon Holland, we 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.960 need to see those guys get themselves right physically and 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:46.840 be out there for this defense to be the best 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:48.200 that it can be. And I think if you have 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:53.360 that the communication breakdowns that you saw Miami experience and 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:55.720 and you're late in the game against Tennessee, you feel 0:08:55.720 --> 0:09:00.040 like you probably can avoid a little bit of the 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.480 frequency of that if those guys are back out there 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.160 for you offensively. I will be interested to see how 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:10.440 the run game evolves. We've seen this running game without 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.000 Connor Williams for stretches of the season. We've seen it 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.319 without Robert Hunt for stretches of the season. We've seen 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:17.920 it without Tron Armstead for stretches of the season. We've 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.439 seen it without Isaiah win for the last half of 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.720 the year. Like, you've had to endure so many moving 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.200 parts that you get a sense for the skill set 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:28.840 of the guys that are going to be in these spots. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.120 And I think for Miami what will be really interesting 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:36.160 is so much of their perimeter run game success came 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.160 because you have these athletic offensive linemen that are getting 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.640 up in space and getting on linebackers and cutting off 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:42.559 horizontal flow. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.360 Does that change? Do you run a little bit more downhill? 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.520 Do you challenge teams? Do you run the toss action 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.319 but it's a designed wind back, or you're expecting the 0:09:51.520 --> 0:09:53.000 back to stick his foot in the ground instead of 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.040 pushing to the edge, and he's hitting between the tackles 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.760 where you've seen them have success with some of those runs. 0:09:59.160 --> 0:10:01.120 You think about the two runs that they took against 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.760 Kansas City late in that game when they were trying 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.559 to run the two in an offense. Those were runs 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.600 that were toss action, but they didn't hit outside on 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.360 the edge. They stuck their foot in the ground and 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:13.960 got north. So I think things like that are gonna 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:16.080 be really interesting to watch for this run game, because 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.600 I do think the key to all of this is 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:22.240 to stay balanced offensively. Anytime that you regardless of who 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.400 your quarterback is, your skill players are your offensive line. 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.360 When you get one dimensional, and that's when teams can 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.280 really dictate terms to you. And I think for Miami, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.240 being able to consistently run the ball is going to. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:34.320 Be the key. I love that point because I think 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.040 that one thing that gets kind of lost in the 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.760 sauce as far as like coach McDaniel's expertise in this 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:42.200 offensive staffs expertise and of course the players who execute it, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.600 is the variety in the running game and the different 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.520 just kind of action and scheme schema that you run 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.400 in the back of some of those tosses that wind 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.160 up going as inside runs, like you talk about the 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.120 wind back runds, like there's a lot of plays in 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:57.439 the playbook for lack of a better term, they can 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.160 go to and perhaps you do have to alter that 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.520 with different personnel up front on the offensive line. Really 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.920 really good point there, my friend Kyle's. While we're having 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.199 the podcast here, we also having the podcast here to 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.000 talk about the NFL drafts. We're gonna go ahead and 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.679 pivot off of current Dolphins and look ahead as you've 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:11.720 done all year long. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:13.880 But there are. 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:16.760 Are bowl games this weekend, yeah, Saturday, a couple of bowls. 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:18.520 Bollseason has begun. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.480 Indeed, all right, well that's coming up, but we don't 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:23.480 have the usual college sleigh, so we're gonna change the 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.079 way we do this portion of the podcast here. And 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.679 I just want to hear you know, I guess your 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:33.000 December fifteenth expectations for the fact that the Dolphins have 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.679 a first round draft pick for the first time since 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:39.040 twenty twenty one, and think about what could possibly be 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:41.199 on the board there in that twenty two to thirty 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.040 two range. Hopefully this is a thirty second pick you 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.440 could be picking at this year. But I'm wondering, what 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.920 position groups do you think have the goods in this 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.320 year's class at that point of the draft. Who's a 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.600 guy or two or three that you like as fits 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.080 at whatever position group you want for the Dolphins in 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:58.200 that range in the first round. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.000 Yeah, I think you can take this conversation to the 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.200 trenches and there's a lot of names that I think 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.920 are really relevant. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:09.320 There's some offensive tackles. 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.960 We've talked about the depth of this offensive tackle class 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.439 in prior shows that we've done together, Travis. But some 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.280 of these guys have positional flexibility and can play inside. 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.599 And some of these guys, if they're penciled into the 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:25.120 inside players, that's going to probably put them in that 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:29.360 stratosphere just positional value wise, they're not going to be 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.600 prioritized quite as early in the draft. And when you 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.480 think about Miami with Isaiah Wins an expiring contract, that 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.400 left Garden will be coming off of an injury, and 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.840 Connor Williams is an expiring contract at center and he's 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.600 unfortunately just had this season ending injury that he endured 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:43.920 last week. And Robert Hunt currently does not have a 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:46.960 contract beyond this year, Like the entire Intier trio is 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.720 generally wide open. So that for me is whether it's 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:55.560 Troy Fittanu from University of Washington. Some people think Talis 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.880 Fuaga from Oregon State is an inside guy. Some people 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.560 think that Ram Barton could play all five spots. He's 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:06.400 from Duke on the offensive line, Jordan Morgan from Arizona's attackle, 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.240 he's going to the Senior Bowl. I think he could 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.320 play multiple spots, including playing inside. Like you have this 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:17.280 embarrassment of riches in that section of the draft that 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.600 I think for Miami, if they choose to kind of 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:26.160 reset from a salary perspective and bring a rookie contract 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.640 in for somebody who's expected to be a starter. You 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.800 don't want to put all your eggs in that basket 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:34.240 prematurely because then you kind of box yourself into draft 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.720 for need. But if the board falls that way, that 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:39.520 is an area where I think there's some good depth. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.080 I also think interier defensive line is an area where 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.559 there's some appropriate depth in that stage of the draft. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.200 That's really fascinating for Miami too. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:48.840 I think you've probably just checked all the boxes as 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.600 far as what a Dolphins fan wants to hear with 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.000 regards to building to the trenches, and like, that takes 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.040 me back to a comment that McDaniel made back when 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.040 he was with the forty nine ers talking about the 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.200 nature of those Niners offensive lines that hadn't didn't have 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.480 high draft picks across the board, and he was like, well, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.439 ideally you have you self engineer six ' eight, four 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.440 hundred pound linemen that can move like a guy like 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.800 Austin Jackson does or Tron Armstead, and so it sounds 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.080 like there are options of plenty in that regard. So 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.679 I think that the Dolphins would have plenty of options 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.840 that way. But also, like you mentioned, I don't like 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.440 boxing yourself in in ahead of the officers, and so 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.720 really curious see what that looks like going forward. But 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:24.800 like we talked about earlier, a lot of games left 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.760 to go. Kyle, do you have one more segment and 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:28.120 you're here to talk more draft with me? 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:29.840 Yeah, let's do it. 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.440 Second segment with Kyle Crabs coming up next. The co 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.160 host of Locked On NFL Scouting and the solo host 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.920 of Locked On Dolphins Drive Time podcast, your host Travis 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:39.240 Wingfield brought to you by it. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:39.920 I don't nation. 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.600 Back here with my guest today, Kyle Krabs locked on 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.360 NFL scouting, locked on Dolphins. So we touched on the 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:51.040 first round prospects there, and I want to go through 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.320 this segment just a little bit faster in terms of 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.600 Actually that was pretty fast, so I guess you don't 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:56.680 have to speed it up at all. But with our 0:14:56.680 --> 0:15:00.000 current structure of our roster, expiring contracts, draft picks, things 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.680 you touched on there, all things considered, just some players 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.160 that you think could wind up on Miami's radar and 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:10.440 specific spots. For example, first round quarterback probably not likely, right, 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:11.760 I mean, they're going to be picked off the board 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.680 by that point. You have a really good one here 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.160 in your building already, but maybe you begin to entertain 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.240 the idea in the middle rounds that makes sense, right, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.200 So let's go there. Tell me about quarterbacks that could potentially, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:26.520 conceivably five months out makes sense for the Miami Dolphins. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.480 What's fascinating about the quarterback class is, with nil and 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.160 the transfer portal being what it is, you really don't 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.120 have a middle class, and you generally haven't had a 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:41.920 middle class beforehand. With quarterback play. But this year in particular, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:46.240 when you're thinking about guys like Quinn Uher's going back 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.120 to school, cam Ward going back to the transfer portal 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:52.720 and looking to play elsewhere, Riley Leonard from Duke, there's 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.200 a slew of guys that you thought, hey, these might 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.360 be mid round guys based on how many guys go 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.600 up at the top of the class that are all 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.080 back in the college portal or in the college world 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:08.600 in realm for another year. I think from a injury perspective, 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:14.080 the player who is really fascinating is Michael Pennix from Washington. 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:17.520 I think his tape is probably first round tape. Not 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.480 a left handed quarterback, but he's had a kind of 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:23.440 a laundry list of medical issues throughout the course of 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.040 his career that has led to him being there or 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.000 being in college for an extended period of time. And 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.040 he's got big time accuracy. He's got the ability to 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:35.160 push the ball down the field. He's used to throwing 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.160 vertical shots. They got three NFL wide receivers there at Washington, 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.800 so I think penis as far as guys that would 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:45.600 be Day two quarterbacks, probably based off of medicals, that 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:47.480 would probably be the one that I would look to. 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.520 I mean, I told you I love his game so much. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.760 I just love guys that can put the ball where 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:54.680 they want. I think the proverbial tires wing. I think 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:56.000 he is that guy most of the time. And you 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:58.880 also talked about cam Ward. He's currently on his tour 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.960 right now of the Florida schools. I think Miami and 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.520 Florida State are on his list, and I kind of 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.159 want him to come here selfishly so I can just 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:07.840 watch him play football. But that's an interesting point about 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.000 the middle class because I remember back in the day, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.199 like I would, you know, we do the mock drafts 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.119 that like the twenty nineteen season, right, everyone's like a 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.320 mock draft, mock draft, mock draft, and it was like 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.080 take a quarterback in the second or third round, like 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.520 that's you almost almost not always, almost always waste a 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.000 pick because they either can't start for you or you 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.160 can't get them on the football field for a proper evaluation, 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.120 and then it winds up being a pick that can't 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.120 get special teams reps or backup offensive guard reps, whatever 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:32.640 the case may be. So that's a great point there, 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:36.399 and the transfer portal windling that down even more not 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:38.760 great for that position in terms of how it gets drafted, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.119 but maybe later on you have your Tommy DeVito's of 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.120 the world who can come in and make an impact. 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.840 Let's move on to the eligibles here, Backs, receivers, tight ends. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:48.560 What do you like in that group? I know last 0:17:48.600 --> 0:17:50.439 year tight end was like the class everyone was all 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.840 excited about. But Dolphins running back room has uncovered a 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.920 pretty dangn good rookie where he moster has found the 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.159 fountain of youth. The receiving corps here is pretty good 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:01.120 as well. What you look at in this year's group 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.879 of eligibles. Yeah, so the wide receiver classes loaded. So 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:05.880 if Miami ends. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.440 Up with a little bit, probably a little bit more 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.159 mid round picks at their disposal, they could probably go 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:11.800 there in the middle rounds and get a player that 0:18:12.520 --> 0:18:14.480 in a vacuum, would be off the board a round 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:15.200