WEBVTT - Drive Time: Quarterback and League Lesson Deep Dive 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.920 Two on the move Darling Jeep Speedways past Hell. From 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:17.919 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got I have 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:19.440 hands in the playoffs? 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.280 What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.240 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:40.600 I have a long monologue I wrote about team building, 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:45.479 quarterback play traits of a quarterback, next process season, just 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:47.960 kind of a convoluted way of looking at things and 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:51.040 where Dolphins fans might be feeling right now. Plus I 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.040 want to play some sound from coach McDaniel about going forward, 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.720 the quarterback position, some of the run game stuff, some 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.560 valuable commentary among his Tuesday press conference. All of that 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.440 and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:12.600 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. Fans 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.880 of old Locked on Dolphins prior to Kyle Krabs when 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:20.920 I was the host of that show the twenty nineteen season, 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.000 and one of my favorite comments to read was how 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.920 that podcast got a lot of Dolphins fans through a 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:32.679 very tough season. And not that we're there already, but 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.200 you can see remnants of it. I've spoken about it 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:37.959 on the Film podcast, on the Sunday podcast about my 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:42.280 fears of this thing potentially going off the rails quickly 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:44.640 if things don't change and if you don't get the 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:48.280 quarterback back. And that year, I had a lot of 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.640 content that was based around other NFL happenings and a 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:55.520 lot a lot of draft content and college football content 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.360 as we geared up for that run and that build 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.360 with all those picks and all that money. Of course, 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.480 you don't have the picks and the money this time around, 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.760 but you might. You might, depending on how everything goes. 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.240 We have fourteen games left, you might be dipping back 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:12.320 into that quarterback pool once again. So I want to 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.120 start today's podcast with some commentary, and even before that, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 some commentary to set up the commentary. So the first 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:24.239 thing here this is show housekeeping. That dolphin sound drop 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.040 in and out of breaks was mostly a joke. I 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:30.320 thought it was funny, and sometimes I use this podcast 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.000 as my own playground for funny one thing or one 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.640 that I probably let it run a little bit too long. 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:38.120 To be honest with you guys, I kind of space 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:38.919 it on that a little bit. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.880 I'll admit that. Take a mea colpa to that. 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:44.760 But one thing I found funny was I told myself 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.760 the minute somebody talks about it on social media or 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.799 in the reviews or comes up to me and says, hey, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.320 you got to get rid of that, I'm gonna move it. 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:53.359 I'm gonna take it out of the show. 0:02:53.440 --> 0:02:55.440 And that's what I'm doing today because somebody on Twitter 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.520 told me, for the love of God, please take out 0:02:57.560 --> 0:02:59.440 the Dolphins SoundBite, and so I'm gonna go ahead and 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.680 do that, and I have a new transition sound in 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:03.200 and out of breaks. That's what I've been hearing on 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.600 another podcast. Trying to do my best to make this 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.840 podcast grow and get better. So we're gonna do that. Okay, 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.360 housekeeping done off the top here. Second, I've been thinking 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.880 a lot about this, and I want to make perfectly 0:03:14.960 --> 0:03:18.200 clear that I don't know what the future holds with 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:22.560 one with OOS, But I also don't think it's as 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.160 simple as you are eligible to come off the ir 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.280 you are the starting quarterback against the Arizona Cardinals when 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:28.839 you get back. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:30.280 Maybe it is, I hope it is. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:32.960 If you told me that was the case guaranteed, and 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.120 in fact, after the Buffalo game, it took me like 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:37.080 five days to get over what felt like a breakup 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.320 before I thought all right, I'm ready to go. And 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.320 then right after that happened, we got the Tua to 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.960 IR news and it felt right back in the same place. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.720 So if if we get to a healthy. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:50.120 And for every game back in, baby, I think they 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:52.560 can overcome the offensive ras early on. That's what the 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.440 beginning part of the season typically is, even if it 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:55.960 hasn't been that way for the Dolphins in the past 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:56.640 couple of years. 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:59.080 I would buy all the way back in. But I 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:00.000 don't think it's that simple. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.840 But if it is, and you tell me I get 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.600 him back for the Cardinals game, I am saying that 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.720 press box on Monday night, clutching my Aqua orange tinted 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.920 binoculars with each of these next three games, really not 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:13.360 just the Monday night game, with the intensity of somebody 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:15.680 desperate four win. I think you guys know that, right. 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.240 You have to know that. Hell, this podcast has finally 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.560 gotten back to more truth than my own thoughts opposed 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:27.520 to you know, I guess, more bureaucratic type of podcasting 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.360 these last couple of years, And I'm just happy as 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.480 hell about that. I think the audience here can come 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.160 along with me on that thought right, understands that thought right. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.040 But the way I see it, man, if ain't to 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.320 at some point, then brother, what is even the point? 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.480 And I hate saying this because it's so much bigger 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.760 than one player every team in the league is. It's 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.839 so much bigger than the future. You have a ton 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.520 of people that put in more time than even humanly 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.920 comprehendible to put their bodies on the line each week, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.880 and they deserve a fighting chance. Like when I think 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.400 about the future and changes in the draft, all of 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.440 that stuff, even thinking about now, it makes me like 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:06.160 sad that it's September I'm having this conversation. But when 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.159 I think about that, I harken back to a Zach 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.280 Steeler who works his butt off and does everything the 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.640 right way and refuses to come off the field and 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.960 dominates the opposition all day long. And for what for 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.159 the offense to score three points and for the fans 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.920 to be interested in the draft next season? Like, it's tough. 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:24.160 It's a tough dichotomy. And I absolutely condemned the reaction 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.680 after a game or two to call for replacements, whether 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.680 it's on the field or in the coaching positions. I 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.320 think it's just knee jerk reaction that has been amplified 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:35.200 by the onset of social media and our addiction to 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.880 takes and firing off our emotions every chance we get. 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:40.800 And I say, all of that is someone who's starting 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:43.880 to have the exact same questions about the same issues 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.760 persisting and what that might mean and if it continues, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.840 then what is next. So please don't take that as 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.039 a holier than thou comment. I promise it's not that. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:56.600 But damn it, man, there are two things I've learned recently, 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:58.960 and I think you have to approach this sport and 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.960 really this league, because it's you know, there's so much 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.400 parody and it's so tight every single week. You have 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.920 to approach it kind of like professional poker players do. 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.960 And for those that never watched poker, you know, during 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.640 the boom back in the early two thousands, like Doyle Brunson, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:14.120 the legend og of the game, used to always say, 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.320 you spend your whole life trying to master this game. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.240 But it's a useless pursuit because it is impossible to 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.120 master it. And I think about covering the NFL in 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:26.080 that way a lot like, I feel like I really 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:29.840 really know what I'm talking about with quarterbacks. I think 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.920 the track record speaks for itself. There I have plenty 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.880 of blind spots. I think I've probably missed on cornerbacks 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.600 more than any other spot. I thought Noah Igbinoghny was 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.880 going to be a really good player, way wrong, way 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.159 wrong on that. But there's definitely positions that are worse 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.320 than others. But one thing I picked up over all 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.920 that time was the importance of the operation and coaches. 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.080 Like when people can't fathom why, for instance, all the 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.120 firepower this team like the Bears has, why is it 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.719 such a slog offensively, It's like, yeah, dude, are you 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.520 from earlier with Shane Waldron's history, are you aware of 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:07.800 how he basically kind of removed the combination of DK Metcalf, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.880 Tyler Lockett and Jackson Smith and Jigbo and that offense 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.920 to what it should be and how criminal that kind 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.080 of is sprinkling a quarterback whose first instinct is to 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:20.120 create an out athlete better athletes than he is. Wasn't 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:21.840 that way in college, right, and it worked, But now 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.360 you get the sloppy offense like the Bears have run 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:28.280 out and any semblance of competence in those two positions. 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.920 They're three and zero right now, but they haven't got 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:36.120 that so staking quality coaching and play designers. That was 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.160 a lesson I took a while back, and damn it, 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.520 it's why I've been so bullish on these Dolphins the 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.680 last three years. And I'll tell you why. I don't 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:43.880 think the Dolphins are gonna be a good team I 0:07:43.880 --> 0:07:46.600 think right now. And it's not a good situation. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:47.960 Now. 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.800 This isn't even one of the lessons I wanted to discuss. 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.840 The two that I do want to discuss, or I 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.520 guess it's maybe even three or four are this turnarounds 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:01.280 don't happen because of total personnel upheaval. Maybe sometimes you 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:02.960 can get that, maybe it lasts for a year, but 0:08:02.960 --> 0:08:04.960 you can often lose that magic down the road at 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.000 some point. Look look at us, like we were out 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:08.400 of the gates, red hot, and look where we are 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.800 in year three. It seems to be a tortuous cycle 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:12.920 for Dolphins fans. Go to the playoffs your first year, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:14.640 by year three, it's like, what the hell do we 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.400 have here? And I'm not saying that's where we are 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.920 right now, but it's trending that way, right, despite the 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:21.480 fact that year two was the best year two of 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:25.920 really any coach since Wants Dead, I suppose. But the 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:30.240 best example of that of how sometimes it's changed within 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.320 is the Buffalo Bills last year. Remember how dead in 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.280 the water that team was, had the three game lead 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.600 in the division. There was a thirty two page column 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.320 with twenty three sources bagging on Sean McDermott and the 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.240 entire operation around there. All they did after that was 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:45.880 go five and zero, beating US Kansas City and Dallas, 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.040 all teams that won eleven plus games last year. And 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.760 you might say, well, Travis, you had they fired their 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:50.600 offensive cooridator. 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:51.640 Yeah, that's fair. They did. 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:54.200 They changed it and it got better. But watch those 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.600 Joe Brady games last year, because it was not the 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.840 design that was winning games for that football team. It 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.400 was just players executing better. It was a quarterback with 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:06.160 absolutely fu I'm a dog mentality willing his team to 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:08.800 victories in those spots. More on that in a moment. 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:14.200 The other part to me is that we spend way 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:18.040 too much time trying to assess what we see on paper, 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:23.040 and never mind the the analytics community dunking on Tom 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.760 freaking Brady. You see did you guys see this? I'll 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:29.800 a call out names. It was Aaron Shatz and Kevin 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.400 Cole talking about, like it's too bad that Brady's two 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.880 ingrained in football nature to not understand the establishing the runs, 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.040 not even a real thing, like pushing their sunglasses up 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.720 the bridge of their nose, like well, actually, like get 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.160 the hell out of here, dude. God, I hate I 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.560 hate that we now have discourse where you can tell 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.200 Tom Brady what matters in a football game. The nerve 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:53.000 of that, right, I think you see it here with 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.160 the Fins. Granted, the quarterback play in Seattle was a 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.440 non starter. You had zero chance to win that game. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.599 In those circumstances. It's like throwing me out there on 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.160 the pitcher's mound for the Seattle Marris. If I pitch 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.719 a game, we're not gonna win that game. I get, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.559 they're like sixty, it's gonna get hit over to lumenfield, 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.240 over that left field wall and safeg field. But my god, man, 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.600 a good team, A good team, a team element is 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:20.760 more important than a collection of good individuals. And that 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.120 probably sounds like duh, but I don't think we actually 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.280 adhere to that. And look no further than the Buffalo 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.040 Bills last year they lose or this year, I should 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.240 say they lose to Fon Diggs and what happens the 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.240 offense looks like the best version it's ever been of itself. 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.080 I just think there's a heartbeat with a team that 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.079 we can never measure on paper. And it's the core 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.679 reason why every year, myself, other pundits fans do these 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:46.679 predictions and just say, well, I guess I don't know 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.719 nothing about the league. It's impossible to predict. Yeah, it is, 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.520 but I thirst to know why that's the case. And 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.480 in a sport where most games come down to three 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.720 or four critical plays or officiating calls or decisions that 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:02.920 you make, I think that team element. I think that's 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:07.400 what galvanizes better play in those moments that ultimately decides 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:12.200 winners and champions. The next thing is this, and this 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:18.400 all ties together to me. Spotting quality quarterback play is easy. 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.400 I just think it is. Now that probably reads super 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.760 super super conceded in a league where half the first 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.920 round picks or busts. I won't dispute that, but it 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:36.440 starts with this. How does this person understand structure, design, movement, 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.600 game theory, their internal clock. Do they have a relationship 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:41.760 with their brain and their arm that understands how to 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.760 properly adjust the arm to make the required throw for 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.640 any given pass? And then their field vision and anticipation 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.920 trumps all of that. And the play I'm gonna use 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.120 for an example is the same quarterback from the team 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:56.120 we just talked about, Josh Allen. He was this marvelous, 0:11:56.480 --> 0:12:00.280 marvelous ball of clay, the singular most impressive spece him 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.479 in the position has ever seen. Right, Cam Newton says, hello, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.199 but man, Josh is one of one to me. And 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.240 if you're looking for a silver lining, here quick tangent 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.680 Dolphins fan Cam Newton's play fell off of a cliff 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.480 after the twenty eighteen season. That was his eighth year 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.880 in the pros. He played three more, but he was 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:19.760 not a good player anymore. Josh Allen's in his seventh year, 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.040 and while I think he'll get more years than that, 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.000 I do think it's fair to wonder what his game 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.320 might look like in year ten with a very similar 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.480 play style to Cam Newton. I just don't think that 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.800 lasts for twenty years, and brother, man, it sucks that 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.880 we did that with Brady for what a solid seven 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.880 or eight years, Like from twenty thirteen on, we're like, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.400 this might be the year the production tails off, and 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.640 then he played till he's forty six or whatever it 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.640 was forty four. Now here we are again with a 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.440 player who, while not as accomplished, I mean, seems even 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.800 tougher to defend than Brady was. Right, and he certainly 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:57.240 is that way against us. We actually beat Brady a lot, 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.520 never beat Josh Allen. Okay, tangent over reason I bring 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.920 up Josh and the physical traits. There are two things 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:06.640 with him that tell me, yeah, he is in fact him. First, 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.160 he developed the ability to be a plus player in 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.040 that first category the vision word salad I gave you earlier. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:17.040 That's a baseline, non negotiable skill set that you must 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.360 have to play this position at this level, no question 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:26.120 about that. That's why JaMarcus Russell, Jake Locker, Zach Wilson, 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:30.400 Josh Rosen give me any bust quarterback with physical skills, 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.679 and Rosen kind of feels like a black sheep of 0:13:32.679 --> 0:13:35.680 that group. But people loved his arm coming out of college. 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.760 But give me any bust quarterback with physical skills, and 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:42.760 I can show you on the tape the inability to 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.160 see the football field. That's why when people were saying 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.480 Schyler Thompson's the best quarterback on the roster, I was like, Bro, 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.160 you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Watch 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.920 Josh on second and ten plays, he sorts through the 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.160 defense that knows passes coming. They're not going to run 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.440 the ball on second and ten. When you have Josh 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.280 Allen shouldn't run the ball on second and ten ever, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.679 But I digress. They'll play passive and prevent the big plays. 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:06.160 And he's plenty happy to one hitch timing catch rock throw, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.480 shoot this hookup route to the second level of the defense, 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.160 six yards over the football, easy catch, and if we 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:13.440 get another two yards from forward, lean and cool, it's 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.520 gonna be third and two. If not third and four, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.040 also fine. He takes those plays and puts himself in 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.440 position to make plays elsewhere out of structure when things 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.920 break down. But without those plays, without those core setup plays, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:29.160 the playmaking cannot exist. See Caleb Williams right now. It's 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:32.520 the same exact thing for Josh, specifically becoming a beast 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.120 against these soft spots in the short passing game against 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.560 zone coverages was such a diabolical element to add to 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.960 his game because you cannot play man coverage against that 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:45.040 guy and contain him in the pocket for the entire game. 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:48.160 He will burn you with his legs and physicality if 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.680 you do that. So that's where quarterback discourse to me 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.280 should start with the process, and then we can talk 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:58.440 about the playmaking. And with Jaden Daniels buddy on Monday night, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.720 he sure feels come fable back there. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.000 He knows what he's seeing. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.840 It allows him to play patient and with poise and comfort, 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.600 and then you get the fun playmaking on top of 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:11.040 all that. Now, I also mentioned the fu element of 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.640 Josh Allen's game. That's another thing that I think hardened 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.680 Josh Allen this miserable career at Wyoming with some hideous 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.440 rosters and surrounding talent. And I pose that question to 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:23.680 Kyle Krabs on the Friday podcast last week, and I 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.280 thought he expanded upon it. Well, it's more about generating 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:32.040 adversity during a very developmental stage of a young man's life. Right, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.840 These young men don't even have fully developed brains. Their 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:37.720 frontal cortex is not fully developed until age twenty five, right? 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.640 Is that kind of how that works? So in those 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:44.280 formative years, if it's all sunshine and rainbows and five 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.680 stars and competition, that you are flat out better than 0:15:46.680 --> 0:15:51.280 across the board. Is it cake walk games until your 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.840 rivalry game in the college football playoff and you basically 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.800 only have two tough challenges a season. Or are you 0:15:57.360 --> 0:16:00.880 trying to will these glorified high school pros to Mountain 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:03.680 West victories? Are you told that you're not good enough 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:07.080 by a major program like Borough Ohio State or Daniels 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:10.400 at Arizona State, both eventually going to LSU where they 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.560 want heismans and all this ties together. I think about 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.760 one element of quarterback scouting that I'm putting more stock 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.640 into this year, And though it might be a hey, 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:22.920 don't fix what ain't broken, baby situation, I look at 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.840 this as adding skills to my rollodecks, much like Josh 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.880 learning how to decipher his own coverage rules and how 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.040 to exploit it. I want to go ahead and put 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.800 a pin in it. Rate there we're up against a break, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.080 comeback on the other side, and continue this monologue next 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:38.960 in the draft time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:44.520 to you by AutoNation. So I mentioned how this all 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:48.080 ties together, how I want to add this quarterback scouting 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.840 element to my rolodecks of scouting quarterbacks. I think you 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.480 have to be able to do the background on a 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.560 player to find out what he's made of. I need 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.440 to see how he interacts with his teammates on the sideline, 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.480 What is his demeanor in the fourth quarter down by 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.840 a touchdown with the football in his hands, what's his 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.080 demeanor like at the podium? How does he communicate the 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:10.719 way he sees, the way he leads, the way he's coached, 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:15.160 the way he communicates with his teammates. I previously had 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.240 more of an analytics approach to it, where I just 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.080 focused on the tape and what I learned from the 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.439 tape from a trades perspective, and that has value, but 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.080 I think it doesn't uncover some of the maybe timidness 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:28.040 or just the way a guy's heart beats. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:28.240 You know. 0:17:28.840 --> 0:17:31.320 But even if we're not on the scouting trail talking 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.320 to coaches or going to the librarians that you know 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.040 operate the study hall for these guys, or the front 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:38.960 desk worker at the gym to find out how they 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.760 treat people, how they're wired. I think you can uncover 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:44.399 some of that with what you have available to you 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:47.280 as a fan. And all of that takes me to this. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.119 With regards to the Miami Dolphins, Tua has the first 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.840 trait obviously, right, That's why he is who he is. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.359 It's why he's a two hundred million dollars quarterback. I 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:59.360 think that's proof of concept that that is the most 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:02.000 important trait because we know too was not a creator, 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:07.679 but he's a high level quarterback capable of hitting intricate concepts, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.960 maximizing players' ability to make plays after the catch because 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.800 of his location, but also the timing out of breaks 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.199 and maximizing separation to create the most amount of space 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.000 for those playmakers to operate within. He's a high level processor, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.479 a decision maker with a wicked release that is kind 0:18:23.520 --> 0:18:26.600 of transcend into the game. All winning traits that are 0:18:27.160 --> 0:18:29.600 kind of imperative to play the position. I think the 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.720 questions are heart rate in those big moments, which has 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.639 proven out over the first few years of his career, 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.040 and I would say this is more of a younger 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.760 brother element, but true drop back downs to operate consistently 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:44.560 and create when out of structure when things aren't there, 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.119 which again I think is overplayed. But I digress, and 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.960 that first part ties back to the football background, and 0:18:50.000 --> 0:18:52.080 I bring it up because it informs me for what 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.920 else I think needs to be accounted for when doing 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.720 all of this. That aside the reason I wanted to 0:18:57.760 --> 0:18:59.840 get to this and the reason I think we are 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.399 all we all feel like football's we know it is 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.359 kind of over, at least for Dolphins fans perspective. I 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:10.160 keep making the comparison it's so freaking brutal to watch 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:11.720 bad football. I mean, let's call it what it is. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.720 And here's another lesson that I learned. I remember one 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:16.399 time I was in Seattle with my girlfriend at the 0:19:16.440 --> 0:19:18.439 time now wife, and we took an Uber to a 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:21.800 Mariors game and the Uber driver was dogging my Dolphins. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:23.480 I think I was wearing a hat or something. The 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.720 year after they made the playoffs in twenty sixteen, and 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.040 I'm like, they're a good team. They're in the playoffs, 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.440 but I don't think that's a qualifier. Now I've changed 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:33.400 my mind on that, and as I trace it back, 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:36.200 like damn man, I defended that twenty thirteen team that 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:37.560 blew it late in the year, saying that was a 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.560 good team. The twenty eighteen team, like I was a 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.439 good team too. Hell, even the twenty eighteen that won 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:44.560 the Division. I defended those squads as good football teams, 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:45.840 but they weren't that. 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:47.720 You're not a good football. 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.280