WEBVTT - Drive Time: Second Half with Kyle Crabbs 0:00:04.170 --> 0:00:07.270 What is up, Dolph fans, and welcome to the Draft 0:00:07.290 --> 0:00:10.409 Time Podcast. On today's show, we are back for a 0:00:10.470 --> 0:00:13.010 Friday episode. That means the great Kyle Krabs joins me. 0:00:13.050 --> 0:00:16.390 I talk all things Dolphins, some injury news, the draft 0:00:16.450 --> 0:00:20.590 landscape across the college football landscape, I should say. We're 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.819 also going to have JJ Stankovic of Colts.com on the 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:25.640 show and pick the Week 10 games. 0:00:25.860 --> 0:00:26.600 Let's go! 0:00:26.680 --> 0:00:26.940 Magic! 0:00:29.150 --> 0:00:31.030 It is a football Friday for the first time in 0:00:31.050 --> 0:00:32.890 a couple of weeks, and that means my guest today 0:00:33.010 --> 0:00:34.750 once again is the great Kyle Krabs. 0:00:34.790 --> 0:00:37.129 Kyle, good to see you again, man. I missed you 0:00:37.170 --> 0:00:42.229 last week. Yeah, I missed you for drive time. I 0:00:42.430 --> 0:00:43.580 missed you at the stadium. 0:00:45.130 --> 0:00:48.540 Glad that you're back in the saddle, and hopefully we 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.420 can see this Dolphins team get back in the saddle 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:51.559 and pick up a win this weekend. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.440 We have been through it, and we being me. 0:00:55.130 --> 0:00:56.810 The last handful of days here, but I wanted to 0:00:56.870 --> 0:00:58.490 ask you, man, because, you know, I did post game 0:00:58.530 --> 0:01:00.750 show and was, was healthy enough to do that on Sunday. 0:01:00.790 --> 0:01:04.050 And also hearing some of your, your questions throughout the 0:01:04.090 --> 0:01:07.330 week and coordinator press conferences and Jeff Halfley. And it 0:01:07.370 --> 0:01:09.290 was just cool to hear you, man, hear your voice, 0:01:09.850 --> 0:01:12.380 you know, live on the show, on the recording stuff 0:01:12.420 --> 0:01:14.420 I listened to, how was the week in South Florida 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.160 in terms of getting your, your access and your credential 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:18.580 and covering the team up close like that? 0:01:19.180 --> 0:01:19.860 Yeah, it was really fun. 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:21.040 It was the first time I've had a chance to 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.020 come down for the regular season and be a part 0:01:23.040 --> 0:01:26.010 of the game week. And, the prep for an opponent 0:01:26.270 --> 0:01:28.230 and be there at the stadium. I've gone to plenty 0:01:28.250 --> 0:01:31.370 of games at hard rock, but, but not in, in 0:01:31.410 --> 0:01:32.590 a working capacity. 0:01:32.670 --> 0:01:32.930 Right. 0:01:32.990 --> 0:01:36.830 So getting a chance to kind of see how the 0:01:36.850 --> 0:01:39.590 team has evolved since camp and Lord knows there's been 0:01:39.610 --> 0:01:42.650 a lot of that, right. Getting a chance to ask 0:01:42.690 --> 0:01:47.950 Jeff Halfley and about some of how, how this defense has, 0:01:48.170 --> 0:01:50.810 has kind of created its identity and how the young 0:01:50.830 --> 0:01:54.020 guys have taken to it was really cool and getting 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.059 a chance to ask some of the guys about the 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.080 successes and shortcomings of the game against Detroit and things 0:01:59.110 --> 0:02:01.010 that could have gone differently or things that they did 0:02:01.030 --> 0:02:04.490 that did well. It was really great insight, and I'm 0:02:04.650 --> 0:02:06.490 hoping to get another chance before the season's over to 0:02:06.550 --> 0:02:08.590 find another excuse to come down and hopefully get a 0:02:08.590 --> 0:02:09.130 chance to do it again. 0:02:09.690 --> 0:02:12.590 I thought the back and forth with the Jordan Brooks 0:02:12.730 --> 0:02:15.120 discussing the communication of the defense and then the question 0:02:15.130 --> 0:02:18.140 for Halfley was really valuable just in terms of hearing 0:02:18.810 --> 0:02:20.750 kind of, you know, I guess the two pillars of 0:02:20.780 --> 0:02:24.160 the defense, and Jacob Rodriguez belongs in that conversation as well, 0:02:24.180 --> 0:02:26.600 but Brooks and Halfley being, you know, two of the 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:28.980 major voices in the defense talking about the importance of 0:02:29.020 --> 0:02:30.500 that and seeing it kind of click together like that, 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:32.240 I think it bodes well for where this team is 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.840 going on that side of the football. And to continue 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.160 doing that, they're going to have to do without one 0:02:38.180 --> 0:02:40.100 of the stalwarts of the defensive front. I want to 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.220 ask you how you see the impacts of the injuries 0:02:43.260 --> 0:02:45.930 of Zach Seeler on the defense affecting this team, and 0:02:45.950 --> 0:02:49.830 then also the follow-up, obviously, the quarterback position with Malik Willis, 0:02:49.889 --> 0:02:51.650 not just in terms of the play on the field, 0:02:52.180 --> 0:02:55.400 but does it change the timeline? Does, you know, we 0:02:55.419 --> 0:02:58.820 always talk about how you have to have plans and 0:02:58.860 --> 0:03:01.540 plans for those plans in case they fail. And you're 0:03:01.580 --> 0:03:04.140 constantly evolving your, your vision of the football team and 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.690 how you adjust where things are, you know, financially and 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.389 resource allocation wise, does Malik Willis's injury change anything about 0:03:11.470 --> 0:03:14.709 where you were prior to him going on the IR? 0:03:15.350 --> 0:03:19.210 Um, Not too much in my opinion, just because as 0:03:19.230 --> 0:03:21.150 we've heard John Eric Sullivan kind of talk about his 0:03:21.190 --> 0:03:27.070 quarterback philosophy, it's been about continuing to invest in that room, right? 0:03:27.350 --> 0:03:29.470 And continue to invest in all rooms across the roster. 0:03:29.490 --> 0:03:31.840 But he said it starts with the quarterback. And he's 0:03:31.850 --> 0:03:38.500 given examples of teams that have gone on to find 0:03:38.580 --> 0:03:41.860 long-term successful starters. And the moral of the story is like, 0:03:42.990 --> 0:03:44.250 you have to keep swinging there. 0:03:44.490 --> 0:03:44.710 Right. 0:03:44.990 --> 0:03:47.110 And I've kind of always felt like I like a 0:03:47.150 --> 0:03:49.130 lot of what Malik brings to the table. I thought 0:03:49.150 --> 0:03:51.530 the two weeks out of the buy with the jets 0:03:51.550 --> 0:03:53.470 game and the Patriots game, like there, there was a 0:03:53.490 --> 0:03:55.370 lot of positives to take out as far as the 0:03:55.390 --> 0:03:59.710 growth there. And you were hoping that you would see 0:03:59.730 --> 0:04:02.610 that be a springboard for the second half of the season. Now, 0:04:02.690 --> 0:04:05.570 obviously there's a chunk of time that's going to be missed. 0:04:05.870 --> 0:04:08.650 So from my perspective, like I was going to go 0:04:08.670 --> 0:04:11.270 into this off season, regardless of how well Malik will 0:04:11.290 --> 0:04:14.630 has played it kind of, hoping to see them invest 0:04:14.750 --> 0:04:17.909 somewhere in the quarterback room to continue to add depth 0:04:18.029 --> 0:04:21.390 and build up the sturdiness of that room. And I 0:04:21.430 --> 0:04:24.690 think that is, is still the case. I do think, 0:04:24.710 --> 0:04:27.790 you know, if your question was, is quarterback going to 0:04:27.810 --> 0:04:31.150 be perceived as something that's on the table early in 0:04:31.190 --> 0:04:34.360 the draft? Is it more of a secondary or ancillary need? 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.960 Like I think with this, just because of the sample 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.170 size and the, where the guaranteed monies run out, like, Yeah, 0:04:42.230 --> 0:04:44.950 it's probably going to be a more pressing part of 0:04:44.980 --> 0:04:48.640 the conversation for me this offseason, and hopefully we get 0:04:48.660 --> 0:04:51.700 a chance to see Malik back in action, and hopefully 0:04:51.740 --> 0:04:54.180 he's able to take that progress that he showed after 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.560 the bye and once fully healthy. I think it was 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.260 really evident that he wasn't 100% when he played against Detroit, 0:04:59.380 --> 0:05:01.870 so I'd fortunately kind of take that performance with a 0:05:01.910 --> 0:05:04.529 grain of salt, not to make excuses, but you want 0:05:04.550 --> 0:05:05.950 to see him come back and get on the field 0:05:06.230 --> 0:05:08.690 and be back playing at that improved level that he showed, 0:05:09.430 --> 0:05:11.880 which would at least make you feel feel better about 0:05:11.900 --> 0:05:15.020 the progress and the development, but in a sample size 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.820 that we're working with here, it is a small sample 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.200 size and that does make it more complicated. So I think, yeah, 0:05:19.339 --> 0:05:20.900 you probably perceive it as a little bit more of 0:05:20.940 --> 0:05:21.960 a pressing need of quarterback. 0:05:22.350 --> 0:05:22.550 Yeah. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:25.510 The 17 game, you know, sample run this year was 0:05:25.550 --> 0:05:27.110 always a very important thing to me. And I don't 0:05:27.130 --> 0:05:30.670 think to your point that it necessarily completely changes everything, 0:05:30.710 --> 0:05:33.390 but I do think it does constantly change the timeline 0:05:33.410 --> 0:05:34.790 just in terms of where you are and how you 0:05:34.810 --> 0:05:36.630 perceive things. That's a good way to put it on 0:05:36.650 --> 0:05:39.650 the defensive side of the football. I mean, obviously Zach played, 0:05:40.210 --> 0:05:42.310 over almost 400 snaps the first half of the season. 0:05:42.330 --> 0:05:45.630 He was on track for another 800-snap season here, 76% 0:05:45.630 --> 0:05:46.729 of the workload on defense. 0:05:46.750 --> 0:05:49.430 How does his loss impact this defensive line? 0:05:49.450 --> 0:05:51.799 Because we were seeing Jordan Phillips is off, I think, 0:05:51.810 --> 0:05:54.020 the best two-game run of his career. Kenneth Grant played 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:54.940 really well on Sunday. 0:05:54.980 --> 0:05:56.240 Zeke Biggers has been playing better. 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.560 How does Seeler's absence impact what this defense had accomplished 0:05:59.580 --> 0:06:00.320 the last couple of weeks? 0:06:00.860 --> 0:06:04.240 Yeah, Zach had been playing really good ball. I think 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.520 it's a big-time bummer. I think since week three against 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.320 Kansas City, he's been playing at a level that, Kind 0:06:11.339 --> 0:06:13.300 of echoes some of what you've come to expect for 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:14.960 Zach for the standard of the body of work of 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.860 his entire career with the Dolphins. And to see him 0:06:18.900 --> 0:06:21.600 kind of in the leadership role and be the frontline 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.000 guy of the defensive interior and performing like that, I 0:06:24.020 --> 0:06:26.620 think was really cool. That's a big loss from a 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:31.470 leadership standpoint, from a snaps standpoint. I mean, you're looking 0:06:31.490 --> 0:06:34.450 at almost 50 snaps a game that you have to 0:06:34.490 --> 0:06:38.690 fill now with Zach being out. Kenneth Grant obviously is 0:06:38.730 --> 0:06:40.950 a top 15 draft choice in year two. I think 0:06:40.970 --> 0:06:43.029 he played his best game in the season against Detroit. 0:06:44.070 --> 0:06:48.210 That was on 20-something snaps. That usage may have to double. 0:06:48.870 --> 0:06:51.710 And even then, you're looking at another two dozen snaps 0:06:51.790 --> 0:06:57.609 to filter out between Zeke Biggers and Jordan Phillips. And 0:06:57.630 --> 0:07:00.490 they brought back Keith Cooper. And I imagine he'll probably 0:07:00.970 --> 0:07:03.010 be 10, 12 snaps a game, I kind of guess, 0:07:03.210 --> 0:07:05.060 to get us started. And then maybe you kick some 0:07:05.100 --> 0:07:07.280 of them to Malik Herring as a big end who 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.200 can can reduce inside a little bit depending on your fronts. 0:07:10.690 --> 0:07:13.750 So I think that's, it's going to be in the 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.490 aggregate that you have to replace him. 0:07:16.650 --> 0:07:17.550 And I thought it was interesting. 0:07:17.590 --> 0:07:19.130 One of the things that Jeff Halfley did say in 0:07:19.230 --> 0:07:21.730 response to one of the questions that I had about 0:07:21.750 --> 0:07:23.610 the pass rush and how it was so successful early 0:07:23.630 --> 0:07:26.230 against Detroit in the post game, he said, we're asking 0:07:26.270 --> 0:07:28.630 a lot of our defensive line right now. Like sometimes 0:07:28.670 --> 0:07:31.610 you see these wave after wave of, of defensive linemen 0:07:31.630 --> 0:07:32.450 that come into a game. 0:07:32.910 --> 0:07:34.550 We got guys that are playing a lot already. And 0:07:34.590 --> 0:07:36.110 then that's before Zach goes down. 0:07:36.230 --> 0:07:39.980 So it's, It's a really, really tough blow, but it's 0:07:40.010 --> 0:07:43.480 a great opportunity for Kenneth Grant, who I think has 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.780 built momentum in his four games since he's come back 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.580 off injured reserve to kind of take on a bigger 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.380 role and kind of showcase himself to be the kind 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.750 of talent that warranted top 15 draft selection. 0:07:53.770 --> 0:07:55.530 And that's obviously what I'm hoping happens. 0:07:55.850 --> 0:07:58.570 And he'll be, as far as I'm concerned, first man 0:07:58.630 --> 0:08:01.250 up to really seize a larger sample size here and 0:08:01.290 --> 0:08:01.950 see what he does with it. 0:08:02.390 --> 0:08:04.480 Hopefully he winds up dropping himself in that bucket. We've 0:08:04.500 --> 0:08:06.480 been talking about all year long of these guys that 0:08:06.950 --> 0:08:09.590 have just continued to show well for not just now 0:08:09.650 --> 0:08:11.970 for the Miami dolphins, but the future and being part 0:08:11.990 --> 0:08:14.750 of this core nucleus and this long-term build here in Miami, 0:08:15.070 --> 0:08:18.010 let's pivot to the college game, Kyle. And I swear, 0:08:18.050 --> 0:08:19.910 this is more of a coincidence than anything else, but 0:08:19.930 --> 0:08:22.630 I wanted to talk about quarterbacks today because we just 0:08:22.670 --> 0:08:23.750 came off of a week where I didn't get a 0:08:23.750 --> 0:08:27.070 chance to talk to you with two perceived potential first 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.280 round picks facing off in the Notre Dame Miami game. 0:08:30.300 --> 0:08:31.860 And I don't want to talk about the result of 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.220 that to Kane's fans here on the podcast, but also 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.059 this weekend, um, two of the top quarterbacks, and my 0:08:37.100 --> 0:08:39.219 personal top two quarterbacks right now. I have a long 0:08:39.260 --> 0:08:41.339 way to go before I'm done with any type of 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.180 film review or anything like that. But Drew Mestemaker at 0:08:44.250 --> 0:08:47.350 home against a 12th-ranked Texas Tech team, and then also 0:08:48.429 --> 0:08:51.390 Austin Simmons going to Georgia to face number one-ranked Bulldogs. 0:08:51.890 --> 0:08:54.870 Tell me about those four quarterbacks. Are those your top 0:08:54.910 --> 0:08:56.489 four guys? How do you stack them? What do you 0:08:56.510 --> 0:08:58.550 think this weekend can do? What did last weekend do 0:08:58.610 --> 0:09:00.630 for you in terms of Carr and Mensah? Just take 0:09:00.670 --> 0:09:03.750 us through where you are right now today. November 13th 0:09:03.770 --> 0:09:05.469 in the quarterback position in this year's draft. 0:09:06.070 --> 0:09:09.040 Yeah, it really is an interesting group, and trying to 0:09:09.059 --> 0:09:10.840 figure out who's going to actually be in the class 0:09:11.500 --> 0:09:14.520 is the hardest part, right? Because you get the news, oh, 0:09:14.660 --> 0:09:19.510 Austin Simmons signs a contract with Missouri for the 2027 season. But, 0:09:19.610 --> 0:09:22.250 by the way, he still has a chance to explore 0:09:22.270 --> 0:09:23.550 the draft at the end of the year. It's just 0:09:23.570 --> 0:09:24.770 he can't go in the portal at the end of 0:09:24.790 --> 0:09:25.990 the season if he's going to stay in college. 0:09:26.230 --> 0:09:27.510 It's weird now, man. You see more and more of that. 0:09:28.780 --> 0:09:30.740 I think the most, if I had to pick the 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:36.070 four most compelling names right now, it's Mestemaker, Carr, Simmons, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:38.090 and Mensah. It's what order do you choose to put them? 0:09:38.550 --> 0:09:40.530 I've been encouraged by what the last couple of weeks 0:09:40.550 --> 0:09:42.970 have looked like for Lenore Sellers at South Carolina. He's 0:09:43.010 --> 0:09:45.130 been a guy with big time tools. It's just been 0:09:45.150 --> 0:09:47.170 a matter of him putting it all together. That hasn't 0:09:48.030 --> 0:09:53.150 happened in a steady progression, right? But there is a 0:09:53.270 --> 0:09:55.750 physical skill set there that's undeniable. He's played some really 0:09:55.790 --> 0:09:57.410 good ball the last couple of weeks. If somebody was 0:09:57.450 --> 0:10:00.630 going to upset that pecking order. order of the top 0:10:00.670 --> 0:10:03.880 four guys, it would probably be sellers for me. Um, 0:10:05.220 --> 0:10:07.840 in comparison to Dante Moore, who had a really ugly 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:11.630 concussion and missed the back two thirds of the season and, uh, 0:10:11.660 --> 0:10:14.160 Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss, who's a little bit of 0:10:14.179 --> 0:10:16.560 an older prospect and doesn't quite have the same physical 0:10:16.620 --> 0:10:19.090 attributes as some of the other guys. So I think 0:10:19.130 --> 0:10:21.950 that's the upper echelon. It's like, okay, mess, the makers 0:10:22.070 --> 0:10:26.890 second year starter Simmons is a really a first year 0:10:26.910 --> 0:10:30.790 starter transferring at Ole Miss. Like those guys have the 0:10:30.929 --> 0:10:35.459 most jaw dropping potential, but they also, because of their 0:10:35.500 --> 0:10:39.120 lack of experience have the furthest to go and would benefit. 0:10:39.220 --> 0:10:41.360 And now in today's day and age at the NIL era, 0:10:41.420 --> 0:10:44.060 like they can go back and get $ 7 million to 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.410 play quarterback. I think the, the Austin or the, no, the, 0:10:47.570 --> 0:10:51.370 the Camario Taylor from Mississippi state, who's not eligible for 0:10:51.390 --> 0:10:55.490 this year's classes is first team, all pro tools, traits, potentials, 0:10:55.530 --> 0:10:58.950 quarterback prospect for 28. He resigned in Mississippi state for 0:10:58.970 --> 0:11:01.290 seven and a half mil to go back next year. 0:11:01.370 --> 0:11:04.710 So it's, unless you're. 0:11:04.570 --> 0:11:07.320 A top 15 draft choice, like it's, it's more than 0:11:07.340 --> 0:11:10.059 your signing bonus. So like it really is, it's changed 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:16.760 the game. So, um, how this season plays out and 0:11:16.900 --> 0:11:20.940 how we get to January before we really know who's 0:11:21.020 --> 0:11:23.650 going to be in this class, it's going to be 0:11:23.660 --> 0:11:25.770 a roller coaster. And I'm just trying not to like 0:11:25.850 --> 0:11:27.929 ride the highs and lows of the quarterbacks class in 0:11:27.970 --> 0:11:30.910 college this year until we have a final answer on. 0:11:30.850 --> 0:11:33.070 The Simmons in the class is messed to make her 0:11:33.110 --> 0:11:33.650 in the class. 0:11:34.030 --> 0:11:38.430 Like seeing more of Darren Mensah play without his top 0:11:38.450 --> 0:11:41.740 wide receiver in Tony Malachi. Tony, I think will be 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:44.290 enlightening to see him, uh, Obviously he played at Duke 0:11:44.350 --> 0:11:45.650 and you saw what he looked like there, but he's 0:11:45.690 --> 0:11:48.930 been a different stratosphere this year. And now you get 0:11:48.950 --> 0:11:50.890 a chance to see him without Tony, and I think 0:11:50.910 --> 0:11:53.740 that'll be enlightening for where his pro prospects fall when 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:55.300 it's all said and done too. 0:11:55.380 --> 0:11:56.140 That's great stuff. 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.359 And just to kind of close things up here, I 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.600 was listening to a podcast about the Kirk Cousins trade, 0:12:01.620 --> 0:12:04.860 and there was a host that was suggesting that they 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.260 could have and would have been right to have spent 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:11.010 more draft capital to bring Cousins to Minnesota because part 0:12:11.050 --> 0:12:13.940 of the argument that he made was that the NIL 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.040 era is going to drastically change the draft landscape. And 0:12:17.059 --> 0:12:18.830 I think we've already seen it to some degree in 0:12:18.870 --> 0:12:20.780 terms of what you're talking about with guys declaring, but 0:12:21.350 --> 0:12:23.810 how would it, how would it tangibly actually change the 0:12:23.850 --> 0:12:26.089 value of the prospects? Cause they were saying the show 0:12:26.770 --> 0:12:29.430 essentially the value of picks is going to reduce because 0:12:30.150 --> 0:12:32.530 of NIL, but I don't understand that at all. Do 0:12:32.550 --> 0:12:34.089 you see where he's coming from there? Do you have 0:12:34.210 --> 0:12:35.670 any thought on that entire? 0:12:35.710 --> 0:12:38.250 Yeah, I think it's, it's players being more willing to 0:12:38.309 --> 0:12:42.120 exhaust their eligibility and, And therefore the quality, so many 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:45.500 draft classes, the top of the class is juiced by 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:47.660 underclassmen who leave early. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:52.190 So if overwhelmingly. 0:12:51.210 --> 0:12:55.809 50% of underclassmen who would be first and second round 0:12:55.850 --> 0:12:58.429 prospects start going back to school for another year because 0:12:58.490 --> 0:13:02.150 of NIL, I think that sets the stage where the 0:13:02.270 --> 0:13:04.830 ceiling of your draft on an annual basis would be 0:13:04.910 --> 0:13:09.590 negatively impacted. And then capital would be more freely traded because- 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.400 it's not as these rookie contracts, they come in, they 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:15.540 sign a rookie contract, and then they have three years 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:19.840 of minimum salary pay in years two, three, and four 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:22.540 of their rookie contracts, unless they get a performance escalator 0:13:22.570 --> 0:13:26.050 in year four, right? So it is the ultimate value proposition. 0:13:26.070 --> 0:13:28.930 If you can hit on your early draft picks, if 0:13:28.970 --> 0:13:31.970 those players aren't as good, the value proposition of the 0:13:32.130 --> 0:13:36.250 contract is what suffers. And I think that creates a 0:13:36.510 --> 0:13:39.250 supply and demand issue. And then you have to be 0:13:39.270 --> 0:13:42.670 a lot better at developing your own talent and correctly 0:13:42.710 --> 0:13:47.490 choosing who to pay. And that, I think, has potential 0:13:47.510 --> 0:13:50.330 to create a bigger divide unless the league does some 0:13:50.350 --> 0:13:53.370 things to kind of offset the influences of the NIL era. 0:13:53.830 --> 0:13:55.150 Really curious to see where it goes. 0:13:55.170 --> 0:13:57.770 The other point was about the Jags kind of unloading 0:13:57.809 --> 0:14:00.690 their draft chest of future draft picks to go upgrade 0:14:00.710 --> 0:14:02.290 the team right now. And they were talking about how 0:14:02.309 --> 0:14:05.330 James Gladstone went way off consensus anyway. 0:14:05.370 --> 0:14:06.730 So why would he value draft picks? 0:14:06.770 --> 0:14:09.030 Because he's getting killed for taking Boak during the third 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:10.790 round when everyone thought they could have had him in 0:14:10.820 --> 0:14:12.939 the fifth round. So it's just, I'm really curious to 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:14.840 see how it changes. I don't know that it's, it's 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.940 going to, you know, upset the apple cart entirely. And, 0:14:16.980 --> 0:14:19.520 you know, John Eric Sullivan's talked about building this program 0:14:19.540 --> 0:14:20.859 through the draft. I think that's the best way to 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.260 do it still. I'm just, I'm just really, really fascinated 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.460 to see how it goes here going forward. He is 0:14:25.500 --> 0:14:28.300 the host of locked on dolphins podcast, locked on NFL 0:14:28.340 --> 0:14:31.350 scouting author of touchdown Miami. NFL analysis for A to 0:14:31.370 --> 0:14:34.410 Z sports. And of course at Kyle crabs on social Kyle. 0:14:34.430 --> 0:14:35.290 Appreciate it, man. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.360 Thank you. Take care of drafts. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.360 And away he goes. Always a fun chat with him. 0:14:40.420 --> 0:14:42.580 I missed Kyle last week. I missed doing the show 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.280 with him. Missed doing the show in general. Feels great 0:14:45.300 --> 0:14:47.500 to be back. Let's pause down for a break right here. 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:50.080 Come back and pick the week 10 games across the NFL. 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.660 You're not going to believe the record I had off 0:14:52.700 --> 0:14:54.320 the air in week number nine. You're not going to 0:14:54.340 --> 0:14:56.660 believe me. I'll be totally transparent about that. We'll talk 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.720 about that next year on the draft time podcast brought 0:14:58.740 --> 0:15:03.890 to you by auto nation. Now see, this is where 0:15:03.910 --> 0:15:08.370 the problem lies with not having a program to do 0:15:08.410 --> 0:15:11.130 the picks on live, because when you have a week 0:15:11.150 --> 0:15:14.620 where you go 14-1, no one's going to believe you. 0:15:15.060 --> 0:15:18.720 And maybe you won't, maybe you will, but I still 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:20.500 kind of feel like a lot of the games that 0:15:20.740 --> 0:15:23.330 I picked were pretty obvious. There was a couple of 0:15:23.370 --> 0:15:25.530 swing games, like the Giants and Eagles. I think you 0:15:25.570 --> 0:15:27.290 could have taken the Eagles at home in that one, 0:15:27.350 --> 0:15:30.290 but with Joe Milton, a quarterback. I just, off of 0:15:30.330 --> 0:15:32.430 a six-game losing streak, even as much as I haven't 0:15:32.490 --> 0:15:34.530 bought in on the Giants this year, I still took them. 0:15:35.110 --> 0:15:36.150 Barely escaped that one. 0:15:36.550 --> 0:15:38.730 In fact, the one loss I had was taking the 0:15:38.770 --> 0:15:41.470 Panthers over the Broncos. I haven't figured the Panthers out 0:15:42.230 --> 0:15:44.290 all year long, and why I picked them against a 0:15:44.330 --> 0:15:46.610 really good Broncos team, I don't know. I thought maybe 0:15:46.650 --> 0:15:49.340 the Broncos getting a huge win over the Chiefs, where 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:50.800 the Chiefs kind of squandered it late. 0:15:51.140 --> 0:15:52.440 Broncos got back into things. 0:15:52.540 --> 0:15:54.940 Panthers were off of a bad loss, playing on the 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.210 road against a kind of a mid-level team if that 0:15:58.250 --> 0:16:00.870 in Carolina was kind of my thought there but I 0:16:00.910 --> 0:16:04.910 mean Seahawks over Cardinals Bears over Bucks Bills over Vikings 0:16:05.530 --> 0:16:09.000 I took Packers over Patriots because I'm a huge a 0:16:09.060 --> 0:16:11.600 huge proponent of where the Packers are right now you 0:16:11.620 --> 0:16:14.300 know the Thursday game Jacksonville over Baltimore was obvious the 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.610 the Madrid game Cincinnati I thought was obvious I did 0:16:17.650 --> 0:16:20.730 take Detroit in the Dolphins game which we would have 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.390 done on the preview podcast, Chiefs and, like, I just 0:16:23.410 --> 0:16:25.010 felt like a lot of these games were kind of obvious. 0:16:25.030 --> 0:16:27.390 I picked against Shador Sanders because I didn't think he 0:16:27.410 --> 0:16:28.310 would be able to beat the Saints. 0:16:28.410 --> 0:16:28.790 He couldn't. 0:16:29.390 --> 0:16:34.130 So 14-1 gets us back to 93-42-1 on the season, 0:16:34.230 --> 0:16:37.950 up to 68%. We are climbing back towards 70 after 0:16:37.990 --> 0:16:40.250 a pretty rough first half of the season. Let's go 0:16:40.310 --> 0:16:42.670 ahead and put our money where our mouth is now 0:16:42.830 --> 0:16:45.800 on Week 10. And we picked the Commanders over the 0:16:45.860 --> 0:16:49.920 Giants on TNF in the Germany game. I'm taking the 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.000 Lions over the Patriots. I think Detroit is poised to 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.200 go on a run here. And I think we saw 0:16:56.220 --> 0:16:58.210 it down here in the game against the Dolphins. Defensively, 0:16:58.260 --> 0:17:01.610 they have gone three straight games without allowing 20 points. 0:17:01.690 --> 0:17:03.770 That offense, I do not think we'll have a day 0:17:03.790 --> 0:17:06.410 like that again where Miami stifled them. For at least 0:17:06.450 --> 0:17:08.190 a few weeks, they can score on the Patriots and 0:17:08.230 --> 0:17:11.040 roll up New England and get a big win overseas there. 0:17:11.420 --> 0:17:14.800 I'm taking Carolina over New Orleans. Again, Carolina is a 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.160 team that I can't figure out this year. The entire 0:17:17.260 --> 0:17:19.440 NFC South, they're all 3-5, so whatever. 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:20.060 I don't know. 0:17:20.180 --> 0:17:21.659 Someone's going to win that division with probably seven or 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:23.909 eight wins this year. I think Carolina probably is the 0:17:23.930 --> 0:17:26.130 one that does it. Maybe Tampa because of that run 0:17:26.150 --> 0:17:28.490 game in defense. But in this one, I'm taking the 0:17:28.530 --> 0:17:31.810 Panthers over the Saints. The Saints can't stop anybody on defense. 0:17:32.290 --> 0:17:34.020 I took the Colts over the Dolphins. You guys knew 0:17:34.040 --> 0:17:37.399 about that on the Thursday podcast. Houston's going to get 0:17:37.460 --> 0:17:39.679 rolling again. Probably going to find their way back into 0:17:39.700 --> 0:17:41.620 the playoffs after another 0-4 start. 0:17:41.680 --> 0:17:42.960 They're going to beat the Browns this week. 0:17:43.420 --> 0:17:45.560 And take it to Deshaun Watson, who will start for 0:17:45.580 --> 0:17:48.240 the Browns after one game of Shadur Sanders. Give me 0:17:48.300 --> 0:17:51.060 Green Bay over Minnesota. I think Green Bay is going 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:53.820 to go on a tear here. I mean, their passing offenses, 0:17:54.380 --> 0:17:56.780 them and the Bengals have a different level of passing 0:17:56.820 --> 0:17:59.119 offense this year, and that's a really, really big deal. 0:17:59.500 --> 0:18:02.659 I'll take Jacksonville over Tennessee. That's kind of an obvious one. 0:18:03.090 --> 0:18:06.570 Buffalo over the Jets. The Chiefs over the Falcons. The 0:18:06.650 --> 0:18:09.310 Rams over the Cardinals. The Cardinals will have to start 0:18:09.350 --> 0:18:12.229