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Speaker 4: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 4: we continue our draft preview series with a couple of
Speaker 4: heavy hitters. Dane Brugler from the Athletic joins us to
Speaker 4: break down the tackles, and my good buddy Dante Colinelli
Speaker 4: helps us kick inside on the interior offensive line from
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Speaker 4: Let's kick it off with my first guest, talking offensive
Speaker 4: tackles and his mock draft up on the Athletic all
Speaker 4: seven rounds for your Miami Dolphins and every team across
Speaker 4: the National Football League. From the Athletic, Dane Brugler. Real
Speaker 4: to be joined today by the author of The Beast.
Speaker 4: The best draft guy in the game if you ask me,
Speaker 4: he's Dane Brugler from the Athletic. Welcome in, Dan, and
Speaker 4: I begin with this question because I am dying to
Speaker 4: know the process behind the Beast. Do you start with
Speaker 4: the tape, then get to your background as a vice versa?
Speaker 4: And then if you had to count them, how many
Speaker 4: cumulative hours do you think you put into the Beast
Speaker 4: every year?
Speaker 5: Maybe asking my wife would be a better way of gauging.
Speaker 5: That's it's a NonStop fact finding mission, it really is.
Speaker 5: And it starts, really it starts eighteen months ago, because
Speaker 5: you know, like right now, I'm not looking for the
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five draft, but I can't help pick up
Speaker 5: some random info whether you know, maybe I'm talking to
Speaker 5: a player or a coach or a scout, and ultimately
Speaker 5: something comes up about a player for next year, and
Speaker 5: so I'm making these notes and or watch tape and
Speaker 5: who's this number twelve?
Speaker 3: Always a sophomore?
Speaker 5: Okay, someone might be looking at next year, and so
Speaker 5: I'm making these notes, and you know, it just builds
Speaker 5: over time, and by the time we get to the
Speaker 5: finish line, you know, we've got these comprehensive reports.
Speaker 3: And so it's just it's it's.
Speaker 5: A matter of NonStop talking to people watching the tape,
Speaker 5: just trying to find the way, the best way I
Speaker 5: summarize it is there's all these puzzle pieces out there,
Speaker 5: and it's my job to collect as many puzzle pieces
Speaker 5: as possible. And then some of some of these pieces
Speaker 5: are those, you know, a big corner piece that's so
Speaker 5: important to the overall picture. But just to make sure
Speaker 5: I get all the puzzle pieces I can, because when
Speaker 5: you put it together in the report, it's the most
Speaker 5: clear picture of who this guy is as a person,
Speaker 5: as a player, who's going to be at the next level.
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's it's an exhaustive process, but yeah, I
Speaker 5: tell you, when I release it and it's available for everybody,
Speaker 5: it makes it all worth it to hear all the
Speaker 5: feedback and how much people use it and get out
Speaker 5: of it. And so even though it is a beating it,
Speaker 5: it does make it all worth it.
Speaker 4: I always say that in this industry, in this in
Speaker 4: this world, that feedback and just kind of some of
Speaker 4: the you know, general praise for a job well done,
Speaker 4: it goes a long way. I mean, I've I've been
Speaker 4: there several times where I've had these long series where
Speaker 4: it's just like, when is this thing going to end?
Speaker 4: Then it does and you get some love and some
Speaker 4: feedback and like you said, it makes it all worth it.
Speaker 4: Do you have your vacation plan for post draft yet?
Speaker 4: I feel like that it's gotta be an annual thing
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I do make sure and take the month
Speaker 5: of May to kind of recharge. No vacation, but I do.
Speaker 5: I just look forward to just mowing my lawn, you know,
Speaker 5: I got, I got over an acre of land here.
Speaker 5: I just I look forward to that and coaching my
Speaker 5: my son's baseball team, my daughter's softball team like that.
Speaker 3: That's what gets me.
Speaker 5: Kind of just relaxed and you know, a chance to
Speaker 5: just take a deep breath. But then yeah, once June
Speaker 5: first comes, it's right back into it.
Speaker 4: Well, you are in good company here as far as
Speaker 4: a man of a certain age on this podcast, I'm
Speaker 4: right in that same wheelhouse my friend, A nice cold
Speaker 4: one on a summer day and mowing your launch here
Speaker 4: you go.
Speaker 2: Tough, tough to beat that.
Speaker 4: But we didn't have you on here to talk about
Speaker 4: monar lawns and how much time you put into the
Speaker 4: draft process. Here we want to talk about the actual
Speaker 4: draft itself. So let's go ahead and dive right in
Speaker 4: to perhaps the best position group in the entire class
Speaker 4: the offensive tackles will do interior offensive line with my
Speaker 4: next guest here in just a second, but I want
Speaker 4: to go ahead and start here with Dane because the
Speaker 4: Dolphins have their starting tackles for twenty twenty four, right
Speaker 4: toront Armstead. We don't know how many more years he'll
Speaker 4: play beyond this one. It could be this one, it
Speaker 4: could be Multimore years, who knows. They also have Austin
Speaker 4: Jackson their right tackle, who just got a contract extension too,
Speaker 4: So Miami, I think is certainly in play to add
Speaker 4: somebody there. My question to you to start this thing
Speaker 4: off is how many of the tackles do you think
Speaker 4: are gone? How many guys do you think are completely
Speaker 4: out of the equation by the time MIMI comes up
Speaker 4: to twenty one to make their selection.
Speaker 5: That's an interesting question because I we're going to see
Speaker 5: several of these guys off the board. It's just, yeah,
Speaker 5: how many I think it's obviously Joel be gone Notre
Speaker 5: Dame left tackle a good chance, JC Latham from Alabama,
Speaker 5: Fuaga from Oregon State, Olufashnu from Penn State, and let's
Speaker 5: let's say Troy Foutinu from Washington. Let's include him in
Speaker 5: this mix, even though some viomes a guard. So that's
Speaker 5: six tackles right there that I think will be off
Speaker 5: the board in the top twenty picks. And then it's
Speaker 5: a question of okay, who's Amarius Mims, Geydon, do they
Speaker 5: Tyler Goyiton, do they go sneak into the top twenty,
Speaker 5: into the top twenty two or are they more in
Speaker 5: the mid twenties. So we're gonna see these guys fly
Speaker 5: off the board. We might even see some of the
Speaker 5: interior guys like a Graham Barton sneaking at top twenty
Speaker 5: as well. So it's gonna be a very offensive line
Speaker 5: heavy first round, very offensive period heavy first round. Where
Speaker 5: in my mock draft, my seventh round or that just
Speaker 5: dropped on the athletic I had twenty one offensive players
Speaker 5: and we've never seen twenty offensive players drafted in a
Speaker 5: first round. So we're gonna see this very offensive heavy
Speaker 5: first round, and those tackles are going to play a
Speaker 5: big part.
Speaker 4: So you talk about the Amarius Mims, Tyler guid and
Speaker 4: a couple of guys that you think might be available there,
Speaker 4: I'm curious because, and you know, it's funny how the
Speaker 4: draft shakes out every year we have these rankings, and
Speaker 4: for you, Dan, like you do this in the sense
Speaker 4: of like for you know, for commercial right, for like
Speaker 4: a fan of the draft that wants to take a
Speaker 4: look at all thirty two teams. But every team has
Speaker 4: their own individual way they do this. And for the Dolphins,
Speaker 4: I mean it's Chris Career talked about earlier this week, like,
Speaker 4: we have the style of play we play, and we
Speaker 4: need the guys that fit that style of play. And
Speaker 4: it's pretty clear on the offensive line it's good ten splits,
Speaker 4: guys that fire off the snap, Guys that can get
Speaker 4: out in space and make blocks outside of the numbers,
Speaker 4: and be able to really emphasize the Dolphins wide zone
Speaker 4: play action concept that marries up together. So with that
Speaker 4: in mind, I know Amarus Mims is an athletic, Marvel
Speaker 4: has some injury concerns that go back, you know, a
Speaker 4: couple of years. You talked about Tyler Guid and I'm
Speaker 4: just curious, which guy do you think that could be
Speaker 4: available at that spot twenty one.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is Troy Fontona, like you mentioned you Dubb.
Speaker 4: I think his game is really fun, But who do
Speaker 4: you think could possibly be available there that fits that
Speaker 4: idea of explosive athlete on the edge, a guy that
Speaker 4: can do a little bit of what they want to
Speaker 4: do here in Miami.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Mims and Geiton, those two guys talking about who
Speaker 3: realistically could be there and guys that fit what the
Speaker 3: Dolphins are looking for. They're very interesting.
Speaker 5: And especially I don't think anyone looks at the Dolphins
Speaker 5: and say, okay, well they need to draft an offensive
Speaker 5: tackle in the first round, like I don't think anybody
Speaker 5: looks at it like that. But if maybe they're their
Speaker 5: options are wiped out at that point and they're picking
Speaker 5: at an interesting spot where they might only have one
Speaker 5: or two true first round grades left on their board,
Speaker 5: and so do you go with that first round grade
Speaker 5: even though maybe it's not an immediate need over a
Speaker 5: second rounded graded ed drusher or whoever they in what
Speaker 5: a position they might view as a little bigger need.
Speaker 5: So that plays into this as well. With Mims and Giton,
Speaker 5: you've got guys that are physically impressive. I mean, Amarius
Speaker 5: Mims six seven three quarters, three hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 5: I've never seen a three hundred and forty pounder look
Speaker 5: like him. It is very clean, it's there's no sloppy weight,
Speaker 5: it's it's really impressive. And then okay, eleven inch chances
Speaker 5: over thirty six inch arms of almost eighty seven inch wingspan.
Speaker 3: This guy is a marvel.
Speaker 5: And you just you love the traits, you love the size,
Speaker 5: you don't love the body of work. Eight career starts,
Speaker 5: and I think there's a big difference between inexperienced and raw.
Speaker 5: I don't think he is raw. I think he's inexperienced.
Speaker 5: So to me, that's an encouraging sign because you go
Speaker 5: back to the first game he ever started against Ohio
Speaker 5: State in the College Football Playoffs last year, and he
Speaker 5: was outstanding. He played really well against a good opponent.
Speaker 5: And now, of course you wish he would stayed on
Speaker 5: the field, and you know, I don't know that it's
Speaker 5: necessarily you're worried about him staying healthy. I didn't think
Speaker 5: it was just more freak injuries. He had the ankle injury,
Speaker 5: and you know he was waited his turn to see
Speaker 5: the field. So I don't know that I'm as much
Speaker 5: worried about the durability as I am just the inexperience
Speaker 5: and how long is it going to take before I'm
Speaker 5: comfortable putting him out there on the field and trusting
Speaker 5: him to get his guy blocked. But you're very encouraged
Speaker 5: by the traits. And so for a team like the
Speaker 5: Dolphins that maybe don't need a guy from day one,
Speaker 5: they can develop him at his own pace. He makes
Speaker 5: some sense. And same thing with Tyler Guiton. He's a
Speaker 5: similar size, just maybe not as not caring as much weight,
Speaker 5: but he's six seven and three quarters. He's three hundred
Speaker 5: and twenty five pounds as they were, thirty four inch arms,
Speaker 5: eighty two inch wingspan, but he's at You love the
Speaker 5: Tyler Geiton tape where he's out in space. Use him
Speaker 5: as a lead blocker, whether he's pulling short pulls, long polls.
Speaker 5: If you're a safety, the last thing you want to
Speaker 5: see is Tyler Geiton barreling down on you. And you
Speaker 5: know both these guys, it's interesting they're right tackles. I
Speaker 5: think they have the athleticism and the ability to play
Speaker 5: loft tackle, but we just don't have that body of
Speaker 5: work to pull from. And so this is why you
Speaker 5: pay your offensive line coaches all that money to evaluate
Speaker 5: that first and foremost to you know, during these meetings,
Speaker 5: during the the pro days, during the personal work outs
Speaker 5: to figure out, okay, can they play left tackle? And
Speaker 5: then once they get them into the into the facility
Speaker 5: and onto the practice field, actually developing them and making
Speaker 5: sure that they can play left or right and be
Speaker 5: interchangeable at the offensive tackle position. So these two players
Speaker 5: are really interesting because they have the traits just and
Speaker 5: all the talent and all the traits in the world,
Speaker 5: just maybe not the consistency. But will that come with
Speaker 5: more experience. There's a good chance it does, but of
Speaker 5: course that's not guaranteed.
Speaker 4: And that type of risk is why you have the
Speaker 4: potential of getting them in that range right in the twenties,
Speaker 4: because if Amarus Mims had four years of college tape
Speaker 4: that the way he's built and the way he looks
Speaker 4: and the way he plays, he's not going out at
Speaker 4: the top ten, maybe in top five with the way
Speaker 4: he's built up and just looks like a potential you know,
Speaker 4: dynamite grand slam at the back end around one type
Speaker 4: of draft pick, and you kind of answer my next
Speaker 4: question I.
Speaker 2: Had for you.
Speaker 4: There was the idea of, you know, because I always love,
Speaker 4: you know, going through the scenarios. Dan and kind of
Speaker 4: trying to figure out what how the draft might play out.
Speaker 4: And sometimes when you have a group that is that deep,
Speaker 4: you can get guys that fall and drop. And just
Speaker 4: looking at the Dolphins, you know current draft cap and
Speaker 4: I want to get to your your mak your seven
Speaker 4: round mock here in a second, but you know they
Speaker 4: have that big gap between pick fifty five and one
Speaker 4: fifty eight, and so I'd love to get back into
Speaker 4: that range and add a pick. Do you think that
Speaker 4: there's a guy that they could possibly target in a
Speaker 4: trade back scenario? Is it Geytin or Mims that they
Speaker 4: could then also recoup a mid round draft pick for like,
Speaker 4: who's kind of the next tier of tackles if the
Speaker 4: Dolphins move back in that between twenty one and fifty
Speaker 4: five range.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And this offensive tackle class gets a lot of
Speaker 5: attention because it's so top heavy, but I don't I
Speaker 5: don't love the depth this year at the position. I
Speaker 5: think it is a position where you want to get
Speaker 5: your guy early and if you don't get them in
Speaker 5: the first round, you're not gonna love your options in
Speaker 5: the second round. I think you'll like some of these guys,
Speaker 5: but you're not gonna love necessarily the amount of guys
Speaker 5: that are left for you, So you have to get
Speaker 5: your position early if you want that offensive tackle. So
Speaker 5: after the first round, if we're looking and say that
Speaker 5: early to mid second round, we're talking about Kingslisue from Byu.
Speaker 5: Really talented, but it's gonna takes a little bit of time.
Speaker 5: There's going to be a big development process for him.
Speaker 5: Patrick Paul from Houston six seven and a half, three thirty.
Speaker 5: You love the length over thirty six inch arms, but
Speaker 5: he's an example of where the length kind of works
Speaker 5: against him because he if he misfires with that punch,
Speaker 5: it takes him at an extra half beat to pull
Speaker 5: those arms all the way back and get his guy blocked.
Speaker 3: Reset.
Speaker 5: So you know, Roger Roseen Garden from Washington is also
Speaker 5: in that mix, Blake Fisher from Notre Dame. There are
Speaker 5: some equality talented tackles on day two, especially in that
Speaker 5: second round. But you know, kind of like what you
Speaker 5: were talking about with Mems and Geion, you know they're
Speaker 5: if they're available in the twenties, it's for a reason.
Speaker 5: Same thing with these guys that they're available in the
Speaker 5: second round. It's for a reason. And you're sacrificing something,
Speaker 5: and in most cases with these guys, it's because it's
Speaker 5: it's just going to take time and it's more of
Speaker 5: a projection for them at the next level. So now
Speaker 5: I do like in the third round, I really like
Speaker 5: Herrying Megaggi from Yale. He he's a inexperienced raw player,
Speaker 5: but I love where he could be three years from now.
Speaker 5: Cayden Wallace from Penn State, He'll be in that third
Speaker 5: fourth round mix, just he's a really consistent player. Some
Speaker 5: teams really like Javon Foster from Missouri. He'll be also
Speaker 5: in that fourth fifth round mix. So even though this
Speaker 5: isn't a super deep class at tackle, after that first round,
Speaker 5: there are some players that you can target and say, Okay,
Speaker 5: I think he could be a starter for us down
Speaker 5: the road.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I do wonder if that's where Miami goes. Because
Speaker 4: of what I talked about earlier with the It's nice
Speaker 4: to be in a position where like you kind of
Speaker 4: have the need, but for now, like tomorrow, you can
Speaker 4: play a game, especially when you do have Kendall Lamb
Speaker 4: and Jack Driskell on all these backups that have given
Speaker 4: you quality reps. You know, a tackler guard or otherwise
Speaker 4: in the league. So far, so Dan, We're gonna come
Speaker 4: back on the other side here. I want to get
Speaker 4: to your mock draft for the Dolphins and just kind
Speaker 4: of ask you for a couple of deep round sleepers.
Speaker 4: That's why I say, like the scouts make their money
Speaker 4: right in on Day three and in the UDFA priority guys.
Speaker 4: We're going to talk about all that next to my
Speaker 4: guest today from The Athletic, Dane Brewer. Draft Time podcast
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Speaker 4: Brugler talking about the offensive tackle class and how the
Speaker 4: Dolphins might dip their toe into that water. And you
Speaker 4: gave me a bunch of great names in the middle
Speaker 4: rounds there. But if the Dolphins keep the status quo
Speaker 4: and do not move draft picks around, we will not
Speaker 4: have a chance to see both of these guys most likely.
Speaker 4: So one fifty eight is the first pick they have
Speaker 4: outside of the first two rounds. Then again one eight four,
Speaker 4: one two forty one, Dane, you're an area scout for
Speaker 4: the Miami Dolphins in this hypothetical, and you have to
Speaker 4: pile on the table for a guy that you think
Speaker 4: we should take on Day three or a guy that
Speaker 4: goes undrafted and you think has a chance.
Speaker 2: Like you talked about with.
Speaker 4: The previous guy, a couple of guys there two or
Speaker 4: three years down the road, they could be hits in
Speaker 4: your in your lineup down the road.
Speaker 2: Who are a couple of those guys for you, Dane.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll stick with you. I'm mocked with to the Dolphins.
Speaker 5: In my seven round mock draft on the Athletic in
Speaker 5: the fifth round had him going with Christian Boyd Northern
Speaker 5: Iowa defensive tackle six two and a half three hundred
Speaker 5: and thirty pounds. He dealt with an injury and so
Speaker 5: he had to push his pro day back and wasn't
Speaker 5: clearly he wasn't one hundred percent just yet. But when
Speaker 5: you have a guy that's just naturally stout like he is,
Speaker 5: you can line him up in the middle as kind
Speaker 5: of that nose, but he can be interchangeable because there
Speaker 5: is more pass rush potential in him than I think
Speaker 5: what he put on tape. So you have got a
Speaker 5: guy that's stout, he's gonna hold a versa run. But
Speaker 5: then give you a little bit extra because he is
Speaker 5: a pretty decent athlete for that size, and we're talking
Speaker 5: about a fifth round price tag. I think he's in
Speaker 5: that mix to be one of the first first two
Speaker 5: or three non combine guys drafted. You know, there's plenty
Speaker 5: of love around for him around the league. And then
Speaker 5: in the sixth round, I had them going with a
Speaker 5: really interesting corner from Colorado State Chi Jose Unusium. He's
Speaker 5: a col transfer, only one career interception, and I know
Speaker 5: that that was something that you know, you want ball
Speaker 5: production when it comes to corners, but you also want
Speaker 5: six pounds with four to three speed, really good tester,
Speaker 5: and it shows up on his film at the athlete
Speaker 5: that he is. He's a player that again the ball
Speaker 5: production is going to really bother you as if you're
Speaker 5: looking at draft a player like this. But we're talking
Speaker 5: six round and so heightweight, speed, Give me a guy
Speaker 5: that stays attached in with his coverage. He can play man,
Speaker 5: he can play zone. Just a guy that is a
Speaker 5: he's a quality tackler as well, So there's a lot
Speaker 5: of things alike about this player as another non combine
Speaker 5: guy who I think has a good chance to get
Speaker 5: drafted late.
Speaker 4: We have to come back to the first two picks
Speaker 4: in this mock draft because we want to go ahead
Speaker 4: and keep all the guys that are casual draft fans
Speaker 4: with us here and not get too deep into the weeds.
Speaker 4: I love the additions you made there on days on
Speaker 4: day three there, I was gonna say days two and three,
Speaker 4: but it's just a three. But I want to hear
Speaker 4: about the guys the top of your mock draft here,
Speaker 4: which is Latu Lats from UCLA and Jatavian Sanders the
Speaker 4: tight end from Texas. Someone'm just curious about how you
Speaker 4: feel those guys would fit into the Dolphins if they
Speaker 4: want not being the picks come draft night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, obviously, the when you look at the Dolphins up chart,
Speaker 5: they've invested in the edge rush position, but with injuries
Speaker 5: and you know, you're just I don't think you're ever
Speaker 5: done building on the edge. On the edges, you want
Speaker 5: guys that can help create disruption. The more you can add,
Speaker 5: the more you can give your other guys rest. And
Speaker 5: so I don't think you'd be surprising if they went
Speaker 5: in that direction in the first round, and especially a
Speaker 5: player that you know is very similar to Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 5: And when talk about his journey and with the medicals
Speaker 5: and all that, Leatsu Latsu is not in terms of
Speaker 5: size and speed, He's not something that you know, is
Speaker 5: not superhuman in those areas. But where he does stand
Speaker 5: out is his pass rush savvy. He understands how to
Speaker 5: use his hands, the timing, the moves, the transitions. A
Speaker 5: lot of guys coming from the college level, they're used
Speaker 5: to being bigger, stronger, faster, and they have never really
Speaker 5: had to hone in on the technical aspects of playing
Speaker 5: the position. Where a lot too. That's where he shines.
Speaker 5: He's not deficient in terms of his size and athleticism.
Speaker 5: It's just his technical know how and the understanding of
Speaker 5: how to break down the rhythm of blockers. That's where
Speaker 5: he really stands out. So, and it's the last two
Speaker 5: years and he was stayed healthy, So I think that
Speaker 5: you know, you take that as a positive. Even though
Speaker 5: he had the medical situation at Washington, he stayed healthy
Speaker 5: the last two years at UCLA. As long as the
Speaker 5: doctors give him two thumbs up. You're looking at this
Speaker 5: guy as a someone's going to come in and help
Speaker 5: contribute from day one and someone that's going to make
Speaker 5: your defense better. So a lot too. If he's still
Speaker 5: on the board, I mean he might very well. You know,
Speaker 5: you look at the rams at nineteen and several teams
Speaker 5: I think in the top twenty will have him on
Speaker 5: the short list of players that are looking at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm excited to see where he winds up going
Speaker 4: because like you talked about the Senior Bowl too, like
Speaker 4: what a what a display of just pass rush Arsenal.
Speaker 2: He was able to flash.
Speaker 4: Those guys really undressed a lot of those tackles in
Speaker 4: those practices at DP Briugler on social NFL Draft analysts
Speaker 4: for The Athletic The Beast out Now, which comes with
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Speaker 2: Do not miss that.
Speaker 4: Dan, you're the man. Thank you for your time and
Speaker 4: go tend to that grasp my friend.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it man anytime, and away.
Speaker 2: He goes, let's go ahead and take another break right there.
Speaker 4: Come back on the other side and get to my
Speaker 4: friend Dante Colinelly to talk about the interior offensive line
Speaker 4: for the Dolphins in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft,
Speaker 4: which is now just six days away. That's next Draft
Speaker 4: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
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Speaker 4: to kick inside and do that. To do that, I
Speaker 4: should say, we welcome in friend of the show, Temple
Speaker 4: Tough grad. He works for the thirty third team and
Speaker 4: covers your Miami Dolphins at Fannation and at Dolphins Talk
Speaker 4: written and podcast forms there. Dante Colinelly Dante slow down
Speaker 4: all the jobs many making us all look bad out here?
Speaker 2: How you doing, buddy?
Speaker 1: I'm doing good. A busy guy, but really happy to
Speaker 1: be here. Man. I love talking to Dolphins football with you.
Speaker 4: I was always curious to ask you because I remember
Speaker 4: following your career as you were doing work for Temple
Speaker 4: when you went to school there. Just curious in the
Speaker 4: jump from Temple and covering that level of football to
Speaker 4: now covering the NFL. Like, what's that like for you?
Speaker 1: Oh? Man, it's a lot different. It's a lot different,
Speaker 1: right like when you're in you know you know this now,
Speaker 1: right like when you're on a beat that one team
Speaker 1: is your life, right. You go everywhere they go, You
Speaker 1: travel to the games, you go to the practices. You know,
Speaker 1: I remember like standing outside in the hail to watch practice, right, Temple,
Speaker 1: stuff like that. You know. Now my main job is
Speaker 1: covering the entire league, and obviously I also cover the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, but it's a lot different, you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of just you have to follow thirty two
Speaker 1: teams instead of just the one, so it's a big change.
Speaker 1: But man, I love it. There's just nothing like NFL football.
Speaker 1: You know. I love college football. I love the draft obviously,
Speaker 1: but it's a dream come true to cover the NFL. Man,
Speaker 1: So I'm enjoying it, soaking it up.
Speaker 4: I've been noticing that with basketball, Like he used to
Speaker 4: be a bigger college basketball fan, but now I prefer
Speaker 4: the NBA by a long shot. And like when I
Speaker 4: go back to watch the tournament every year, I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a pretty big drop off in skill level here
Speaker 4: from NFL or from NBA to college basketball, and the
Speaker 4: same way in the NFL as well. There And would
Speaker 4: you be surprised to hear that we actually had a
Speaker 4: hailstorm here? I think was it last year? At some
Speaker 4: point in the year we had we had hill in
Speaker 4: South forty yea. I was like, it was like very minimal,
Speaker 4: but someone's like one of my wife's co workers got
Speaker 4: their car gut hit by a big piece of haill
Speaker 4: hey Man. Crazy times for living in Besides the fact
Speaker 4: of weather and temple life all that stuff, we wanted
Speaker 4: to get downtown today to talk about the offensive line class.
Speaker 4: We did tackle before this, and as you can imagine,
Speaker 4: there are some there is some crossover there between tackles
Speaker 4: and guards, and so let's go ahead and start with
Speaker 4: this Dante because I've seen it mentioned. You know, Troy Fatanu,
Speaker 4: who is, for my money, I think he's the best
Speaker 4: off I'm in the entire class. I'm curious to get
Speaker 4: your take on that, Talisi Fuaga. These guys are players
Speaker 4: that have been projected to play either tackle or guard.
Speaker 4: No one seems to agree on whek Ram Barton might play.
Speaker 4: I'm curious tell me where you place some of these
Speaker 4: guys that have that fringe ability and how do you
Speaker 4: think teams should view it in terms of, you know,
Speaker 4: we're taking this guy in the first round, and to
Speaker 4: hit on a tackle is more valuable than to hit
Speaker 4: on a guard. Right, I'm curious how you think teams
Speaker 4: might have those discussions about, well, yeah, he can't play guard,
Speaker 4: but ideally tackles the best spot for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's really tough, right, Fatanu specifically is the
Speaker 1: toughest one for me, because if you had ask me
Speaker 1: that question before the combine, I would have said guard,
Speaker 1: no question. And that wasn't meant to be a slight
Speaker 1: in him. It's just, hey, I like my guards to
Speaker 1: be road graders, these really aggressive guys, these guys who, like,
Speaker 1: you know, moving people off the line of scrimmage. And
Speaker 1: that's all Tory Fontno's film is at Washington's just him
Speaker 1: beaten defensive linemen up, moving them off the ball. But
Speaker 1: you watch him at the combine and he just looks
Speaker 1: phenomenal moving around. And his arm length was actually a
Speaker 1: lot better than I was expecting. He came in with
Speaker 1: thirty four and a half inch arms, which is sixty
Speaker 1: seven percentile among offensive tackles since nineteen ninety nine, which
Speaker 1: which is like well above average. So that was a
Speaker 1: pleasant surprise. And then you know, you go back and
Speaker 1: you watch his tape and you're like, all right, maybe
Speaker 1: this guy is a tackle, right, He moves well. He's
Speaker 1: got the footwork, the arm length, checks the box ninety
Speaker 1: eight percent tile jumps at the combine as well. He's
Speaker 1: really explosive. So font Now, for me, I'm probably I'll
Speaker 1: probably end up ranking him as a guard just because
Speaker 1: that's where i've had him, and I have him as
Speaker 1: the top rated interior player in this class period. I
Speaker 1: have a first round grade on him. I think he's
Speaker 1: a really good football player. Fluaga I have a tackle.
Speaker 1: I just I think he's I think he's too big
Speaker 1: to play guard, like. I think he's too tall. I
Speaker 1: like my guards to have a little bit more leverage
Speaker 1: on the interior, right, So when you compare him to
Speaker 1: font Now, who's six foot three, I think Fluaga's like
Speaker 1: pushing six foot six. I think he's at least six
Speaker 1: foot five. So I like my guards have a little
Speaker 1: bit more leverage on the interior. That's a really like
Speaker 1: old schoolish approach to that position. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: I like Fluaga tackle. Bartin's an interesting one because he
Speaker 1: played three years of left tackle at Duke. I like
Speaker 1: him as sam. I think that's his best position. He
Speaker 1: can play guard for you if you need him to.
Speaker 1: He can play tackle in a pinch. I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit more worried about Barton's ability to anchor against speed
Speaker 1: to power rushers in the NFL. I think he's got
Speaker 1: the athleticism. He tested really well. He ran well at
Speaker 1: his combine or at his pro day. Sorry, so he's
Speaker 1: got the athleticism to play tackle. I worry about his
Speaker 1: ability to just like getting these long you know, these
Speaker 1: like long power rushers into his chest. At the NFL
Speaker 1: levelers a lot of those guys, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if I love him on the on the outside. There
Speaker 1: on the interior, I think you make the most of
Speaker 1: his movement skills. He's another guy who's that really aggressive mentality,
Speaker 1: which I really like. On the interior. I went back
Speaker 1: and watched his center tape when he was a freshman
Speaker 1: at Duke. He played I think it was like five
Speaker 1: games at center. I think he made four starts. It
Speaker 1: might have been five starts in six games. He looks
Speaker 1: good like that. That center tape is solid. And that's
Speaker 1: as a freshman, as a three star recruit, not a
Speaker 1: five star recruit, wasn't expected to play right away. He
Speaker 1: looks good, so I would have bar and it's center
Speaker 1: I think Vlogg is a tackle fought now for me.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably the guy that might be able
Speaker 1: to do both. And I think for Miami particularly, that's
Speaker 1: important given what other pieces they have up.
Speaker 4: Front exactly right, Like, I cannot watch him and not
Speaker 4: come away thinking like this is a Larry M. Tunzel,
Speaker 4: Like you're one left guard, kick him out to left
Speaker 4: tackle here. And you know you mentioned Barton and the
Speaker 4: ability to play inside, Like, I just feel like the
Speaker 4: Dolphins and that the Niners are in this group, the Packers,
Speaker 4: the teams that run that similar you know, I want
Speaker 4: to stretch things out wide. In the zone game, that
Speaker 4: center position becomes a little more valuable for teams like
Speaker 4: Miami or San Francisco or Green Bay because of just
Speaker 4: the expansion of the playbook that a player like that
Speaker 4: gives you. And we talked about Connor Williams last year
Speaker 4: with how he did that for Miami. Aaron Brewer, sorry,
Speaker 4: Aaron Brewer provides that for the Miami Dolphins this year
Speaker 4: as well. So very intriguing there. You know, Jackson, Powers, Johnson,
Speaker 4: Zach Frazier, all these guys that could possibly be in
Speaker 4: that range for Miami. I'm just curious, is there anybody
Speaker 4: at Guard or Center that you think is worth or
Speaker 4: should be in consideration for twenty first pick?
Speaker 2: Is it a trade down scenario?
Speaker 4: Just kind of how do you view the interior O
Speaker 4: line with Miami and that twenty first pick?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I think for me, I probably would not
Speaker 1: take any of the pure interior players at twenty one.
Speaker 1: So if you want to take Troy Fontt now at
Speaker 1: twenty one, and you want to say, hey, he's our
Speaker 1: guard this year, and like you say, he's gonna kick
Speaker 1: out when Tront Armstead retires, I'm all bored, you know,
Speaker 1: put me on the train, like let's go. That's great.
Speaker 1: Any of the pure interior guys, I wouldn't take it
Speaker 1: twenty one. I just I don't. It's not that I
Speaker 1: don't like them, right Like I have high grades on Barton,
Speaker 1: I have high grades on Zach Frazier, the high grade
Speaker 1: on Jackson powers Johnson. I just you pay Aaron Brewer
Speaker 1: enough money to be your starting center and free agency,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to position switch one of those guys
Speaker 1: or you're gonna have to put Brewer back at Guard,
Speaker 1: And frankly, I just think Brewer has done a better
Speaker 1: job at center, right Like, I think that seems like
Speaker 1: a more natural position for him. So you gotta play
Speaker 1: musical chairs. I like what you said there at the
Speaker 1: end about a trade back. Right, if you move back
Speaker 1: to I don't know, twenty nine, twenty seven to twenty eight,
Speaker 1: you get an extra Day two pick. You select Jackson
Speaker 1: Powers Johnson, and you know what, he's got the size
Speaker 1: to play guard, and you're one, we're gonna make that
Speaker 1: position switch. We're gonna put Aaron Brewer at center, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna go from there. Right. That makes a lot
Speaker 1: more sense to me. But at twenty one, I have
Speaker 1: a hard time, especially for the Dolphins specifically, thinking that
Speaker 1: they are going to value that position that high. I
Speaker 1: don't know that they will, right like, I think center
Speaker 1: is very important to them. But you can get Zach
Speaker 1: Frazier in a trade back. You can look at pick
Speaker 1: fifty five and you can attack some of the other
Speaker 1: guys that we'll get to, right Like, I think that
Speaker 1: there's value if guard is really important to you, right,
Speaker 1: you want to replace the right guard spot where Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: you know he left. Right, there's guys that you can
Speaker 1: look at pick fifty five who I think are going
Speaker 1: to be on the board to do that. So I
Speaker 1: really think that they should try to maximize this o
Speaker 1: line as much as possible. I think when you're a
Speaker 1: team like the Dolphins, who is clearly a good football team,
Speaker 1: clearly team that's gonna win, compete for the playoffs, they're
Speaker 1: trying to take that next step, right to me, like,
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity on the offensive line to improve
Speaker 1: on the fringes and really open up the playbook even more.
Speaker 1: But I think it's twenty one. If you're gonna do that.
Speaker 1: To me, it's got to be a tackle of the
Speaker 1: future who's gonna play guard for a year and kick
Speaker 1: out right, So I would not take the interior guys
Speaker 1: at twenty one in a trade back. Sure, you can
Speaker 1: talk me into a lot of guys.
Speaker 4: And that's why I think the Dolphins offseason, and not
Speaker 4: just on the offensive line was so productive because of
Speaker 4: how they were able to round out these you perceived
Speaker 4: needs that they had to where they can really put
Speaker 4: themselves in position to say it, we can just take
Speaker 4: the best football player and we can figure out where
Speaker 4: his fit is at the end of the day, like
Speaker 4: not in the system, you know, he's gonna fit the system,
Speaker 4: because don't take a player doesn't figure system. But in
Speaker 4: terms of where he might have the quickest path to
Speaker 4: playing time, like I look, you'd mentioned Aaron Brewers addition
Speaker 4: at center, like I would.
Speaker 2: I like him at that position so much.
Speaker 4: I think it's where he's the best by far, and
Speaker 4: his ability to get out in space tracks back to
Speaker 4: what we talked about with Connor Williams and Jackson Powers
Speaker 4: Johnson and all those guys that add value at that position.
Speaker 4: But I think there's value and how the Dolphin's built
Speaker 4: this thing because you know, Jack Driscoll's played guard and tackle.
Speaker 4: We mentioned Brewers played center and guard. All these guys
Speaker 4: they've they've brought in have played multiple spots and so
Speaker 4: they kind of have this versatility that allows them to, Okay,
Speaker 4: well you can play here, but you can play there
Speaker 4: as well, So we have options with how that works out.
Speaker 4: And this class seems to have that as well, with
Speaker 4: guys that played multiple spots.
Speaker 2: And on top of all.
Speaker 4: That, when you have a system like that, it gives
Speaker 4: guys opportunities to fail at a spot and then go
Speaker 4: somewhere else and be successful there too. So I like
Speaker 4: all those reasons to go after the offensive line. I
Speaker 4: want to come back to what you talked about there
Speaker 4: at pick fifty five because I've done a million mock
Speaker 4: drafts the last couple of weeks. I'm proud of myself.
Speaker 4: I held off for a long time before I got
Speaker 4: into them, but one of the things I noticed in
Speaker 4: doing them was that fifty to fifth pick sometimes like
Speaker 4: a lot of the guys that I wanted were off
Speaker 4: the board by the time I got there, but there
Speaker 4: was one guy that was typically there that I like
Speaker 4: a lot. I want to hear the names that you
Speaker 4: like in that spot and who you expect to be
Speaker 4: available for Miami at fifty five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really good point, right, Like I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about fifty five. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's right outside the top fIF there will definitely be
Speaker 1: a good guy there, and it's like not always, that's unfortunate.
Speaker 1: So there's three guys that stick out to me who
Speaker 1: could be there on the interior, and I have them
Speaker 1: like stacked right on top of each other on my board,
Speaker 1: and typical draft analyst fashion, imagine having a hot take.
Speaker 1: Dominic Pooney, Christian Hayes Cooper Bebe would be the three
Speaker 1: guys that I would highlight, so Dominic Pooney from Kansas.
Speaker 1: He is another guy who played tackle for them, but
Speaker 1: he also has experience a guard. They kicked him out
Speaker 1: to tackle this year. I wildly impressed with his Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: Didn't even know he existed until he went to the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. He was great there. And then you know,
Speaker 1: when you watch the Senior Bowl and you see a
Speaker 1: guy perform like that, you just run straight to the tape.
Speaker 1: And I was honestly so impressed with Pooney. I've got
Speaker 1: a pretty solid second round great on him. He's got
Speaker 1: the power, athleticism. I think he's got the size. I
Speaker 1: think he's a guard. I don't think he should play tackle.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit worried about his ability to just
Speaker 1: defend high side rushes and I don't like messing with
Speaker 1: that at tackles at the NFL level. It scares me.
Speaker 1: Christian Hayes from Yukon. Eric Christian Haynes, Sorryish Haines from Yukon,
Speaker 1: really athletic, experienced. He's like to me, he's a plug
Speaker 1: and play right guard. I don't know that he's gonna
Speaker 1: have like the ceiling necessarily be like an all pro
Speaker 1: or whatever. But like just I think you plug him
Speaker 1: in at right guard and you just forget about him
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. He's really solid, agile, athletic
Speaker 1: pass protector, has the athleticism to match some of these
Speaker 1: like quicker interior guys that we're getting into the league,
Speaker 1: like interior defensive lineman there. They're getting quick every year.
Speaker 1: These guys are getting thinner and faster, right, Like I
Speaker 1: want like the Christian Haines of the world who can
Speaker 1: do that. And then also they have that mentality I
Speaker 1: was talking about earlier, right, like Haines likes to hit people.
Speaker 1: He likes to move people off the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: like I want that in my interior guys. But he's
Speaker 1: got the athleticism back it up, right, And to me,
Speaker 1: that's what the prototype starting guard is. And in the
Speaker 1: NFL these days, you got to be able to do both.
Speaker 1: You can't just be a maller on the inside anymore.
Speaker 1: And then Cooper Beebe's just like he's just solid. Every
Speaker 1: rep is the same, it's just out of his stance,
Speaker 1: perfect hand placement, push the guy out, you know, a
Speaker 1: little bit a little angle running back those office but
Speaker 1: five yard game it's just rinse, repeat every play. So
Speaker 1: I really like Cooper Bebe. I think he's like a
Speaker 1: he's like a technician, man like, he just he knows
Speaker 1: what he's doing. He's played a million college football snaps
Speaker 1: at this point. He's been a starter Kansas State forever.
Speaker 1: I think that's the type of player too that I
Speaker 1: think somebody like Mike McDaniel might really gravitate towards, just
Speaker 1: because maybe he doesn't have the elite athleticism that the
Speaker 1: Dolphins really really like upfront. But I think he's a
Speaker 1: good mover. I don't think he's a limited player by
Speaker 1: any stretch. But he's gonna go out there and he's
Speaker 1: going to run this scheme that you want to run.
Speaker 1: He can do a lot of different things for you.
Speaker 1: He can do the inside stuff, you know, the inside
Speaker 1: zone stuff, the outside zone stuff. The Dolphins once in
Speaker 1: a while they like to dabble in those gap power
Speaker 1: type stuff. I think BB can do that for you
Speaker 1: as well. So those would be three guys I would
Speaker 1: target at fifty five. But like you mentioned, offensive line,
Speaker 1: you know, guard is becoming like low key premium position
Speaker 1: across the league. We just saw Guards get paid. You
Speaker 1: know the bookoo Bucks this offseason, Rockron obvious got a
Speaker 1: ton of money to go into the Panthers, right, so
Speaker 1: Guards becoming a premi musician. It's not smart to just
Speaker 1: sit there at fifty five and be like, oh, we're
Speaker 1: definitely going to get one of those guys. But I
Speaker 1: think one of those three guys could be there at
Speaker 1: fifty five would be a smart.
Speaker 4: Pick, especially when I look at this offensive line, like,
Speaker 4: I just feel like there's one more piece.
Speaker 2: Just give me one more good piece.
Speaker 4: That I feel good about, and I'll go into the
Speaker 4: season feeling really good about that, and we'll see what
Speaker 4: happens here. But it kind of sounds like, you know,
Speaker 4: between twenty one and fifty five, it almost feels like
Speaker 4: it's in the middle of there somewhere, like a trade
Speaker 4: back or a trade up in either direction. It kind
Speaker 4: of feels that's the way you kind of have to
Speaker 4: do it here.
Speaker 2: But you never know.
Speaker 4: We'll find out, because the draft never ever goes how
Speaker 4: you plan, and it'll go by one time, and if
Speaker 4: you did it again, they probably go buy in a
Speaker 4: different order in a different fashion that way as well.
Speaker 4: So it's like these mock drafts, but you have one
Speaker 4: official one that actually goes off and takes place, and
Speaker 4: that's the one that counts. And to your points, they're
Speaker 4: on those three guys, So Puny. I remember talking to
Speaker 4: danegre Remiah, you know name drop on the on his
Speaker 4: conference call back when he did his first one before
Speaker 4: the combine, and I asked him about who are some
Speaker 4: players that you think are what skill sets translate as
Speaker 4: guys that played tackle book and also kick inside to guard,
Speaker 4: and he's he mentioned Dominic Piani is one of those guys.
Speaker 4: Even took some reps at center. If I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 4: I think in Mobile. I believe that was where I
Speaker 4: heard that from. And then you mentioned Christian Haynes, like
Speaker 4: explosive blocks out to the numbers man, the way he
Speaker 4: buries DB's. I love that stuff on tape and then
Speaker 4: bibe the set and forget like you sold me on
Speaker 4: that too, because all those all those.
Speaker 2: Skill sets sound very intriguing.
Speaker 4: And I'll ask you for one more question here to
Speaker 4: go deep into your bag, Dante, if you can, and
Speaker 4: get really deep into the third day of the draft,
Speaker 4: because if Miami does not move and shuffle and go
Speaker 4: up and down the draft board. We're gonna have a
Speaker 4: one hundred and three pick gap between Dolphins in the
Speaker 4: second round and in the fifth round pick fifty five
Speaker 4: to one fifty eight. Who are some guys that you
Speaker 4: think could hear the name called on Day number three
Speaker 4: and be NFL contributors.
Speaker 1: So yeah, So there's there's one name that I think
Speaker 1: people know but might have forgotten about. Zach Zinter from Michigan.
Speaker 1: He was probably a Day two pick for a lot
Speaker 1: of the year. He broke his leg in the Ohio
Speaker 1: State game, so he hasn't been able to do much,
Speaker 1: but he's to come out. I think, depending on how
Speaker 1: far he falls, will obviously be about medicals. Right, how
Speaker 1: are you recovering from that broken leg? We've seen Zach
Speaker 1: Frasier already recover from a broken leg. Everything I've read
Speaker 1: about Ziner is that he's on track, and so he's
Speaker 1: a guy that I think honestly could be there in
Speaker 1: the fifth round, just because I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: play right away. But if you're the Dolphins, I think
Speaker 1: you get a chance to take a future starting guard
Speaker 1: in the fifth round. And look, when you're in the
Speaker 1: Day three, it's you're throwing duards at guys right, and
Speaker 1: to me like Ziner has the power, the size, the
Speaker 1: mass to be a starting guard. Now, I think where
Speaker 1: you run into some problems for his fit with Miami.
Speaker 1: Not the best athlete in the world. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's like this elite mover. But again, you're on day three.
Speaker 1: If you sit down and you're like, all right, look,
Speaker 1: this guy can start a guard for us in a pinch.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe he's our like, you know, swing guard.
Speaker 1: If you will, right, you teach him to play both spots.
Speaker 1: He's your primary backup there. That's a valuable piece. The
Speaker 1: other one I would highlight is Mason McCormick from South
Speaker 1: Dakota State. I just like, I'll be honest, like I'll
Speaker 1: get into the trades here. The aesthetic is phenomenal. Looks
Speaker 1: he plays, he's got the neck role, he's got the hair,
Speaker 1: South Dakota State. He you know, his whole tape is
Speaker 1: him just running over FCS players like it's awesome. Dude,
Speaker 1: looks plays like a starting guard. But trades wise, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, you like the movement, skills, you like the power,
Speaker 1: you like the mentality. I think that he's a developmental player.
Speaker 1: I think you've got some things in pass protection that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to work out for him. I don't
Speaker 1: know that he's got necessarily right, like his his foot
Speaker 1: and hand timing right. How good is that? How good
Speaker 1: of the level of competition that he faced at the
Speaker 1: FCS level. That's a big kickup to the NFL. We've
Speaker 1: seen some FCS offensive linemen like struggle with that a
Speaker 1: little bit in recent years. You know, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: when a scout each individual player, you don't want a
Speaker 1: helmet scouter in this case lead to subdivision scout. That's
Speaker 1: a new one. But at the same time, like, I
Speaker 1: really like McCormick. I don't know that he'll be there
Speaker 1: in the fifth round. But with small school guys, especially now,
Speaker 1: you don't know, right, so many of them go back
Speaker 1: to school. He doesn't have a ton of hype, but
Speaker 1: I like him. I think he's a good athlete. The
Speaker 1: other one, the last one i'll highlight here Bo Limmer
Speaker 1: from Arkansas, pure center. Really good run blocker. I think
Speaker 1: I think he can do a lot for you in
Speaker 1: his own scheme. He could go higher than this. I
Speaker 1: like the movement skills, like the experience there. Ricky Stromberg
Speaker 1: was drafted by the Commanders. Last year. Limber played guard
Speaker 1: and then kicked into center after Stromberg left a couple
Speaker 1: of years of good film for him. I think he
Speaker 1: could be a Day three guy. Another guy I worry
Speaker 1: about in pass protection a little bit. Didn't love how
Speaker 1: he anchored, didn't love necessarily how he dealt with counters.
Speaker 1: A lot of these guys are great when everyone's just
Speaker 1: pushing them. But at the NFL level, you get those
Speaker 1: defensive linemen who have, you know, a few tricks up
Speaker 1: their sleeve because they're the best in the world, right
Speaker 1: and so Limmer needs some development there. But I think
Speaker 1: you have the bones of a contributing, solid interior player.
Speaker 1: So those would be the three that stand out to me.
Speaker 1: I like this interior O line class. I think the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: you know, like we said, maybe it's not perfect to
Speaker 1: twenty one, maybe it's not perfect at fifty five, but
Speaker 1: I'd like them to invest in this group somewhere. I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of players who are gonna contribute
Speaker 1: either as starters. I don't know that there's like a star.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we're gonna get like a Quentin Nelson,
Speaker 1: Zach martinside player in this group. But to me, a
Speaker 1: lot of really good football players. And the Dolphins has
Speaker 1: done a nice job addressing the offensive line, There's no
Speaker 1: doubt about that. Like you said, feel like they could
Speaker 1: use just maybe one more piece really push that group
Speaker 1: to the next level.
Speaker 4: And if you get it here and you hit here
Speaker 4: and you saw Robert Hunt, go get paid. Congratch big man,
Speaker 4: get your money like you're in that bag. You played
Speaker 4: great for us for four years. If you can get
Speaker 4: it here. The savings on a rookie contract versus twenty
Speaker 4: million dollars per year for a guard like it is,
Speaker 4: that is a great way to do bus. It's a
Speaker 4: great way to give yourself extra starters with that money
Speaker 4: you save in the interim.
Speaker 2: So great stuff.
Speaker 4: They're Dante fine at the thirty third team Fan Nation
Speaker 4: and Dolphins talk at Dante Colinelli on Twitter, Dante, appreciate
Speaker 4: your time to day.
Speaker 1: Man, you'd be a smarter Thanks man, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: I love doing this every year.
Speaker 4: And there he goes, and there we go with the
Speaker 4: offensive line class. We have one more of these to go.
Speaker 4: It'll be on Monday. Taking a look at linebackers, and
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