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Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering door team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody in his draft day?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: it's our last pre draft podcast and we want to
Speaker 1: hear from you, So we're gonna answer some of your
Speaker 1: mail bag questions via the Twitter mail bag. We'll talk
Speaker 1: some general draft, some guys I love, some Dolphins draft,
Speaker 1: everything in between, including my one and only mock draft,
Speaker 1: which we'll see how I do on that thing. All
Speaker 1: of that and more from somewhere in South Florida. This
Speaker 1: is the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. So I know it's
Speaker 1: not our typical draft run up here this week for
Speaker 1: y'all without the first and second round draft picks for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins, But I'm still excited. I still gonna
Speaker 1: watch all these players you've been scouting evaluating go off
Speaker 1: the board. We're gonna take a look at a couple
Speaker 1: of them here in the aquand orange in the third, fourth,
Speaker 1: and then two in the seventh round. I mean, I
Speaker 1: still stay excited. I saw a couple of comments in
Speaker 1: the mail bag thread asking we still have picks, we
Speaker 1: still have a draft where there I talk about. There's
Speaker 1: plenty to talk about, and that's what we're gonna do
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Draft Time podcast. And you know,
Speaker 1: I've been The scouting process for me is I would
Speaker 1: say six months long. I usually crack in. Well. The
Speaker 1: start of college football I watched on the broadcast, but
Speaker 1: I don't consider to be watching tape. It gives you
Speaker 1: a feel about what kind of guys make, what kind
Speaker 1: of impact, and who's trending in the right direction, who's
Speaker 1: getting the national buzz, all that fun stuff. It's definitely
Speaker 1: beneficial to watch the games in season, but until you
Speaker 1: get the tape, until you kind of get the process
Speaker 1: of breaking down a play. I mean, all the podcast
Speaker 1: we did the last couple of weeks, we asked everybody,
Speaker 1: what's your process like for watching the tape? And what
Speaker 1: do they all tell us? They watch every play four
Speaker 1: or five, six, seven times, And that's just not something
Speaker 1: you do when you're hanging out, eating popcorn, drinking a beer,
Speaker 1: watching football off your buddies. Again, valuable, but not the
Speaker 1: same deal. So I would say the process for me
Speaker 1: is about six months long of getting into the actual
Speaker 1: tape and watching these guys and trying to get at
Speaker 1: least two hundred of them done here before the pot
Speaker 1: or before the draft kicks off. Here for podcast coverage,
Speaker 1: for Miami Dolphins coverage, all that fun stuff. But this
Speaker 1: year I really found it hard to stay on task
Speaker 1: because well, quite frankly, there are so many things that
Speaker 1: are pulling you away as a Dolphins fan from studying
Speaker 1: draft prospects because you don't pick until one out two.
Speaker 1: For me, that was San Francisco forty Niners tape, watching
Speaker 1: every game they played the last couple of years and
Speaker 1: just getting a feel for how the offense was called,
Speaker 1: how the rhythm, the pacing, the timing of all that
Speaker 1: went down, just to kind of give myself my expectation
Speaker 1: to understand how pieces might be used here and not
Speaker 1: even for podcast publication. You know, part of that is
Speaker 1: just for your own knowledge base, because it's always helpful
Speaker 1: to have that knowledge base inherent so you can talk
Speaker 1: about things that come up down the line, Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: tape charting all kinds of stuff. I really became fascinated
Speaker 1: by the Dolphins third down offense this year and to
Speaker 1: a tongue of by lowest performance on that down. So
Speaker 1: I've been charting some of that stuff. And then also
Speaker 1: Chief's tape for Tyreek Hill, Cowboys tape for Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: and for Cedric Wilson, Saints tape for toront Arms, and
Speaker 1: even got some Raiders tape rolling that's right for alec
Speaker 1: Ingolden fullback tape. Anything I could put in front of
Speaker 1: my face for the pro team at times took precedent.
Speaker 1: But you know, I still had the draft party I
Speaker 1: was planning to get ready for, and a bunch of
Speaker 1: work for that that I was it's not gonna happen now,
Speaker 1: we're not doing the programming at the draft party now,
Speaker 1: but getting ready for that, I thought I owed it
Speaker 1: to myself and to my my audience here to keep
Speaker 1: staying on that draft train. And I did it, plugged through,
Speaker 1: worked hard, got back into my you know, two or
Speaker 1: so players evaluated and watched for this draft class, and
Speaker 1: it feels good. It feels good to have that in
Speaker 1: the backseat and to talk about it here or in
Speaker 1: the review I should say and talk about it, and
Speaker 1: it's it's just not in my nature to completely balk
Speaker 1: at a draft class. I still remember the first draft
Speaker 1: that I quote unquote covered. I wrote this six page
Speaker 1: mock draft, and I worked on that so long and
Speaker 1: so hard, and I printed it out and put it
Speaker 1: into one of those like binders, those little like see
Speaker 1: through sleeve binders with a binding on the on the
Speaker 1: spine of your project that you would turn in for
Speaker 1: like your senior paper in high school or maybe your
Speaker 1: college thesis, like that type of thing. I was so
Speaker 1: proud of it, displayed it on my coffee tail for
Speaker 1: my friends to read when they came over about an
Speaker 1: hour before the draft that year, and getting ready, like
Speaker 1: I was very proud of that. So I've been doing
Speaker 1: this for about, I guess fifteen sixteen years, And with that,
Speaker 1: all that preamble is here to tell you about the
Speaker 1: guys that really stood out to me in the process
Speaker 1: of this this uh the scouting process, and I don't
Speaker 1: have all the names here that I wrote down, but
Speaker 1: just some guys that stood out regardless around or position
Speaker 1: or projected area. They go off the board. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start with the quarterbacks. I love me some
Speaker 1: Moleaque Willis. Love his game and what he brings the table,
Speaker 1: both as a physical runner, as a speed runner. A
Speaker 1: guy that can execute multiple different types of looks from
Speaker 1: the run, pass option game, the play action game, the boot,
Speaker 1: the pistol, all that fun stuff, and the armed talent
Speaker 1: is really impressive too. I think that he's a good
Speaker 1: example of kind of this modern day conundrum. I think
Speaker 1: that is definitely prevalent among media types and personalities. I
Speaker 1: can't speak to how the teams view this because I
Speaker 1: just don't have access to that, but the the idea
Speaker 1: between how quarterbacks are viewed from their processing and sharpness
Speaker 1: and readiness to play the position compared to their physical
Speaker 1: traits and how that stands out, And you know, Josh,
Speaker 1: there's always gonna be those outliers that kind of give
Speaker 1: folks justification for why that argument is sound. Right, Like
Speaker 1: Josh Allen after his first two years of up and
Speaker 1: down but productive play in the National Football League turned
Speaker 1: into his third season, which was dominance m VP level quarterbacking,
Speaker 1: the type of quarterback that makes the Bills a team
Speaker 1: that people will put into the deep portions of playoff
Speaker 1: runs every year as long as he's healthy and going
Speaker 1: at this rate, right, And so if you can foster
Speaker 1: those those traits and try to manage the intangibles along
Speaker 1: the way, then you could possibly hit Yatzi on the
Speaker 1: other end of that quarterbacks development. But still, I still
Speaker 1: believe that of the position is played from the pocket,
Speaker 1: is played from structure, is played from reading the defense
Speaker 1: and getting through that stuff. So it's an interesting balance
Speaker 1: of how those two things go together. And with Malik Willis,
Speaker 1: he's as physically gifted as you've ever seen. Now, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a lot of college experience, so maybe that
Speaker 1: takes some time to kind of get him to that level.
Speaker 1: But to say that he can't do it because he
Speaker 1: hasn't is crazy to me. I think that he's far
Speaker 1: and away the best quarterback in this class and definitely
Speaker 1: the most intriguing quarterback in this class. The other guy
Speaker 1: put on my list here with Sam Howe. I like
Speaker 1: the kind of shortstop type of arm angles that he
Speaker 1: can throw from. He was a baseball player for a
Speaker 1: long time. He can snap the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: He's quick twitch off of his spot. I like his
Speaker 1: game a lot too from u UNC, probably in the
Speaker 1: second round sometime at running back. You heard me and
Speaker 1: Kyle Crabs talk about this, how much there is to
Speaker 1: like about this position group in this class. I don't
Speaker 1: want to give a full scouting report. And all these
Speaker 1: guys who talked about him about the course of the process.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Spiller his passing game, prowess, stick your face and
Speaker 1: the fan on pass protection, go convert a big third down,
Speaker 1: play through the air, breakaway speed at times to hit
Speaker 1: the big home runs. Pierre Strong from South Dakota State.
Speaker 1: Love his gaming for me, talk about him for weeks now.
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson at Alabama, big physical bruiser, that next Bama
Speaker 1: product there. Rashad Wife from Arizona State has great foot
Speaker 1: quickness and patience to kind of pick his way through
Speaker 1: the running game. James Cook a big time passing game.
Speaker 1: Uh out guy, you can flex out wide and and
Speaker 1: beat matchups. Try to say matchup beating there couldn't come
Speaker 1: to me like his game a lot. I like davey
Speaker 1: On Pierson past protection, like Taylor Tyler Batty from Missouri
Speaker 1: as well. There are just too many to talk about here.
Speaker 1: A great running back class. This year at receiver. I
Speaker 1: think it's similar, although lacking the top of the level.
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase, Jalen Waddle, and Davonte Smith we had last
Speaker 1: season that really, really I think would all be the
Speaker 1: first pick in the draft this year if they were
Speaker 1: in this year's draft class. But Jamison Williams is my favorite.
Speaker 1: The explosive nature of his game, springing off of the slant,
Speaker 1: off of the out route, after the off, the stem,
Speaker 1: the vertical routes, whatever you want him to do. He
Speaker 1: can turn short gains into big gains. I love guys
Speaker 1: that can turn twelve play drives into four play drives.
Speaker 1: He's one of them. Johan Dotson has explosive skill set
Speaker 1: as well, and some of the best hands you've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Like O J. McDuffie had the best hands in Penn
Speaker 1: State history. Johan Dotson might have the second best. David
Speaker 1: Bellett Perdue, he has the best hands I ever saw it. Perdue.
Speaker 1: He's a crafty, gifted route runner who might fall because
Speaker 1: of a low low outage or low output I should
Speaker 1: say at the scouting combine, but I love his game.
Speaker 1: Sky or one of those interesting kind of jet sweep
Speaker 1: carry the football play in the backfield, get vertical in
Speaker 1: the passing game as well. A nice looking route runner
Speaker 1: there in the in the match of some maction this year,
Speaker 1: he's a good look employer John Mechi again, if there's
Speaker 1: a theme here from me, guys right springy separation creators,
Speaker 1: guys that can make big plays like his game a
Speaker 1: lot too. And then Alec Pierce from Cincinnati just a special,
Speaker 1: special athlete that can make all kinds of ployees all
Speaker 1: over the field at tight end. Love me some Isaiah
Speaker 1: likely the Coastal Carolina product, a sensational athlete with vacuums
Speaker 1: for hands and the way the ball hits his mits
Speaker 1: it's just he reels it in so impressively. And then
Speaker 1: Gelanni Wood from Virginia Tech. Classic y with the ability
Speaker 1: to flex out and play the f like his game.
Speaker 1: And then the kid from Maryland. We talked about it
Speaker 1: with fran Duffy chig Aquanco from Maryland. He's an h back,
Speaker 1: fullback tight end type that can do multiple things in
Speaker 1: your offense at the tackle position, same as the running
Speaker 1: back class. Rapid fire. I mean, I like the guy's
Speaker 1: up top. I think the best top part of the
Speaker 1: draft position in this year's class, except for maybe the
Speaker 1: edge at Quanta is my top player in the class.
Speaker 1: Him and Evan Neil and Charles Class or class Charles
Speaker 1: Cross are all in the top portion of this this
Speaker 1: year's draft class and potential top five picks. Trevor Penning.
Speaker 1: I like me some a Lucas from Washington State. You
Speaker 1: know that go Coog's Bernard Raymond from Central Michigan, Lukeadecky
Speaker 1: his teammate a Central Michigan. And Matt will Let's go
Speaker 1: from North Dakota State. Good good scheme, versatility, good kind
Speaker 1: of what's your flavor type of of class around the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and potentially some guys that fall into Day two,
Speaker 1: maybe even early Day three that can be plug in
Speaker 1: play type guys on the interior. Same deal. Zion Johnson.
Speaker 1: I love his game, Tyler Linderbaum and Kenyan Green. I
Speaker 1: think he's he could play tackle too, But all three
Speaker 1: of those guys to me your first round picks. Dylan
Speaker 1: Parham went back and watched more of him from Memphis
Speaker 1: after Joe Marino gave the suggestion he looks great. Cole
Speaker 1: Strange from Chattanooga might be my favorite interior offensive lineman
Speaker 1: Outside those top guys in this entire class. Luke Fortner
Speaker 1: from Kentucky's a hell of a player. Zack Tom great
Speaker 1: side to side movement skills and just finishing and pure
Speaker 1: technique in his game, and and Cam Jurgen's the center
Speaker 1: from Nebraska has a real nasty major. Because there's four
Speaker 1: good centers in this class, I think might go on
Speaker 1: Day two, Day three, you can get a look at
Speaker 1: in this position group between strange, Fortner, Tom, and Jurgen's
Speaker 1: interior d line. Obviously, Jordan Davis is a freak of nature,
Speaker 1: and Davonte Wyatt's probably just as good, if not better.
Speaker 1: Kyle Crabs thought he had him rated higher. Travis Jones
Speaker 1: from Yukon a squatty body that can overpower dudes on
Speaker 1: the interior. Perry On Winfrey can play that big end
Speaker 1: position kind of the way Zach Seiler does and kick
Speaker 1: inside and dominate inside as well. I also like Haskell
Speaker 1: Garrett from Ohio State. He's a good penetrator on the
Speaker 1: inside of the defensive line. And then Fedarian Mathis from
Speaker 1: Alabama has absurd length upfront at the edge position. The
Speaker 1: Draft Network has six of these guys in their top
Speaker 1: twenty seven and like Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton, I should
Speaker 1: say I guess I saw it like them all, but
Speaker 1: I will say Cavan Thibodeaux has been my number one
Speaker 1: player since the process began and an earnest since his
Speaker 1: freshman year at Oregon. I also think that someone's going
Speaker 1: to get a big hit on George Carl Loftus wherever
Speaker 1: he goes. But beyond that, huge fan of boy A
Speaker 1: Mafe from Minnesota, another handful of guys in that pre
Speaker 1: one hundred range. I'm going to align with Keith Sanchez
Speaker 1: here from the Draft Network, did the Edge preview podcast
Speaker 1: a few a few days back a week ago or
Speaker 1: so on the Texas and m guys Michael Clemens at
Speaker 1: one forty three on TDNS big board. Also a big
Speaker 1: fan of my j Sanders off ball linebackers. Again, obviously,
Speaker 1: Nakobe Dean and Devon Lloyd are kind of the cream
Speaker 1: of the crop. But I love, love, love kwaya Walker.
Speaker 1: You heard Kyle Crab say he might go around one
Speaker 1: by the time it's all said and done. Leo Shanal
Speaker 1: from Wisconsin. He's a good looking player. Damon Clark from
Speaker 1: l s U as a guy that Kyle pointed out
Speaker 1: as a big time potential late still because of the
Speaker 1: injury he suffered earlier. This draft run up. Chad Muma
Speaker 1: from Wyoming a great senior Bowl. Same story for Torrey
Speaker 1: Anderson at a Minno out of Montana not Minnesota, and
Speaker 1: Darien Beavers out of Cincinnati again linebacker, edge, offensive lines
Speaker 1: and deep deep classes here running back as well. Four
Speaker 1: areas Miami could be considered to be looking at at cornerback.
Speaker 1: Derek Steinley number one on my big board, but I
Speaker 1: saw Scarterns a ball or two. I love the you
Speaker 1: dub kids gokugs, but Kyler Gordon's a future star. Trent
Speaker 1: McDuffie just might be too. I think Andrew Booth at
Speaker 1: Clemson has been a little bit under the radar for
Speaker 1: a true lockdown perimeter number one type. And then later
Speaker 1: on Cam Taylor Brett from Nebraska a huge fan of
Speaker 1: his game, physical press corner, plays the game the modern
Speaker 1: the ways playing in the modern day. Kobe Bryant from
Speaker 1: Cincinnati and Mario Goodrich from Clemson, they're kind of the
Speaker 1: other guys there at those two schools right that that
Speaker 1: they're not They're not Andrew Booth and They're not Sauce Gardner,
Speaker 1: but they're damn good football players who should go on
Speaker 1: Day two. I think at safety, Kyle Hamilton's so glad
Speaker 1: Kyle said he was his number one player, he might
Speaker 1: be mine too. I've given you three now with Thibodeaux,
Speaker 1: Quanda and Kyle Hamilton's, but I think I'm gonna lean
Speaker 1: towards Tibodeau with Hamilton's two and a Quanta three. But
Speaker 1: I love the mention that Ed Reid also ran a
Speaker 1: four five because who cares the guy's place being on
Speaker 1: the football field? Absolutely outrageous. Daxton Hill probably my next favorite,
Speaker 1: the Michigan safety. Really like Jalen Peatray's game from Baylor.
Speaker 1: You heard Brett Coleman talk about his Holland like traits
Speaker 1: as far as his versatility, and then the lay a
Speaker 1: round Kirby Joseph from Illinois, I think he might be
Speaker 1: a dude. And then Verona McKinley from Oregon can also play.
Speaker 1: And then also Bubba Bolden thought he was trending towards
Speaker 1: a top one hundred pick last year, got hurt and
Speaker 1: now most publications have him outside the top one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty prospects. If that's the case, he could be
Speaker 1: a real nice value for someone late in this year's
Speaker 1: draft class. Alright, let's take our first break here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna fly through a mock draft in the third segment.
Speaker 1: But again, it's it's weird to think about this from
Speaker 1: a completely void of a Dolphins lens. There used to
Speaker 1: be a time where I used to think I can't
Speaker 1: imagine not having a first round pick, But now we're here,
Speaker 1: and I prefer it so good looking they're concerning the
Speaker 1: player we got back, I think you have to prefer that.
Speaker 1: But next we'll do the mail bag and they'll get
Speaker 1: to the mock draft. From the third segment, Here, Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: Back here on this Thursday, day one of the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft edition of the Draft Time Podcast. We are presented
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. It's
Speaker 1: always weird to me to get back in the saddle
Speaker 1: here as a solo host after having weeks in even
Speaker 1: a month of guests. I guess. We did have the
Speaker 1: media coverage podcast last week that was just me, but
Speaker 1: it was mostly Chris and Chris Career and two are
Speaker 1: talking but it's it's always a good feeling to get
Speaker 1: back in the solo hosting chair. So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get some of your mail bag questions here. I
Speaker 1: put the call out on Twitter. You respond with your questions.
Speaker 1: I answer them here on the podcast or on Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins dot com. I believe I have four or five
Speaker 1: in that mail bag too, so check it out up
Speaker 1: on m d dot com if you have not done
Speaker 1: so already. Adam Beasley, we know him Pro Football Network
Speaker 1: and formerly of the Miami Herald, asks this and I
Speaker 1: couldn't wait to answer it. What's your hair care regiment
Speaker 1: or your hair care secrets? He asks, Well, Beasley, absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1: So I hate having stuff in my hair. I found
Speaker 1: a barber here that's aces, so shout out to Alejandro
Speaker 1: at the Cutting Gallery and Pembroke Pines go seem if
Speaker 1: you need someone to cut your hair. But the nice
Speaker 1: part about parting your hair one way for a decade,
Speaker 1: the old side part, my friend just called a comb over.
Speaker 1: It's not a comb over. It's a side part come
Speaker 1: over when you don't have hair on top, when you
Speaker 1: fix it by pulling the hair of the side. But
Speaker 1: my hair is very well trained to kind of stay
Speaker 1: where it's suppose too, so it's I can kind of
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning and it's usually where it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be. It's like a humble brag. I guess.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a cool trait to have,
Speaker 1: but honestly, if I'm going to style my hair, which
Speaker 1: I almost never do, I leave it dry. I just
Speaker 1: use lotion. It holds, but if you want it out,
Speaker 1: it's easy and not messy. Like a pretty nice life hack.
Speaker 1: I learned from Matt money Smith, who does the Chargers
Speaker 1: play by play broadcast. He was talking about this on
Speaker 1: the Around the NFL podcast on NFL Media about the
Speaker 1: old broadcasters trick as if you forget your hair gel,
Speaker 1: hand lotion works pretty well too. From the hotel that's
Speaker 1: where I found out about it. Tried it once, loved it.
Speaker 1: It stays, but if again, if you want to take
Speaker 1: it out, you can. So when you forget your hair
Speaker 1: gel or you never want to use hair gel again,
Speaker 1: go for the lotion. I did it and never looked back.
Speaker 1: But that's like if I'm gonna be on camera, I
Speaker 1: almost never used stuff in my hair otherwise. This one
Speaker 1: from at one Leo f realistically the best player that
Speaker 1: could fall to one oh two, regardless of position, very
Speaker 1: tough to forecast. We'll get to my mock in just
Speaker 1: one second. I'm already convinced that my first pick is wrong,
Speaker 1: and my second and pick two, so we'll see how
Speaker 1: it goes. But I think you look at the potential
Speaker 1: positional gluts and and kind of jams that causes the
Speaker 1: entire group to slide a little bit. It's like in
Speaker 1: fantasy right, like you're looking at your board and you've
Speaker 1: got a needed receiver, need it tight end, but the
Speaker 1: tight end classes is still stacked up, like you still
Speaker 1: got Waller and Kelsey and get Sicky and all these
Speaker 1: top tight ends on the board, and there's one last
Speaker 1: receiver that stands out above the rest. You take that
Speaker 1: receiver because you know you can come back and get
Speaker 1: the tight end later on. That can happen in the
Speaker 1: draft NFL draft too, So I would be inclined to
Speaker 1: say both tackle and interior offensive line could be the
Speaker 1: situation where that happens. But the demand for that position
Speaker 1: literally every single year doesn't allow that. So I then
Speaker 1: think that's probably not gonna happen. Then I look at
Speaker 1: the edge position, running back and linebacker. Talked about that
Speaker 1: just a minute ago, especially the latter two also two
Speaker 1: positions that sometimes suffer from the positional value drop right,
Speaker 1: but that could provide someone like Miami a potential boon there.
Speaker 1: So that is is that Rashad White? Is it Pierre Strong?
Speaker 1: Is that James Cook? A running back? Is that Chad Muma?
Speaker 1: Is it Troy Anderson is a demon Clark because at
Speaker 1: leo chanal linebacker, That's what I think you're looking at.
Speaker 1: It's a great question and a tough one if that's
Speaker 1: the direction you want to go. Could be dB, could
Speaker 1: be receiver, who the hell knows, but there should be
Speaker 1: some good options there at Cobo Nation. If you were
Speaker 1: Chris Career, is there a specific player or position that
Speaker 1: you would consider trading away one of the first rounders
Speaker 1: to go up and go get This will be a theme,
Speaker 1: because well it's a theme when you pick in that
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty range, much more so when you pick
Speaker 1: at one oh two. But it's just so tough to gauge.
Speaker 1: Like I think, this question takes us to the draft
Speaker 1: value chart, the one that I refer to I like
Speaker 1: ten times a year on this podcast, which is of
Speaker 1: course not the end all be all, but it's a
Speaker 1: good measurement device. And for the sake of the question,
Speaker 1: let's just say Miami wants to go up to it's
Speaker 1: buffalo picking there, But for the sake of the argument,
Speaker 1: we'll say it's twenty five. That pick is worth seven
Speaker 1: twenty points. Pick one oh two is worth ninety two points,
Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to come up with six hundred
Speaker 1: thirty points, which is the equivalent of the in this
Speaker 1: year's draft, any draft, and of course both teams involved
Speaker 1: would have to accept the fact that there is no
Speaker 1: guarantee of where that pick would be, and the higher
Speaker 1: or lower it goes based upon your record the season
Speaker 1: that's coming up would impact that trade value at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. But I think it's important to
Speaker 1: lay out the expectation there have cost and in a
Speaker 1: draft where you're probably going to see the top tackles, receivers,
Speaker 1: and edge rushers plucked off the board by the time
Speaker 1: you made that move into the pick twenty five, like,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna see four or five tackles, three or
Speaker 1: four receivers, five or six edge guys off the board
Speaker 1: by that time. I'm not so sure there's a guy
Speaker 1: on the board that would that would validate that move.
Speaker 1: There could be, but I don't know that it would be.
Speaker 1: I think it's also a nice boon to have those
Speaker 1: two first round picks next year, just for the flexibility
Speaker 1: allows you alone. So my gut says no. But who
Speaker 1: the hell knows, Like what if for some reason a
Speaker 1: player like Kenyan Green slides there and you just want
Speaker 1: to play him at tackle. Maybe it's George carl Loft
Speaker 1: is falling a little bit, maybe Jamison Williams because of
Speaker 1: the injury. I don't know. But the point is, I
Speaker 1: think you need to see a top prospect at a
Speaker 1: true premium position fall for the move to be worth it.
Speaker 1: Now next there are a lot of questions about the
Speaker 1: trade up ideas. I want to go ahead and just
Speaker 1: shout you all out and say thanks for the questions
Speaker 1: that I saw when I recorded this podcast. If you
Speaker 1: put your question in there after record of the podcast,
Speaker 1: I apologize. We do these a lot, so you get
Speaker 1: a chance to get your questions in the future. Podcast
Speaker 1: and mail bags up on Miami dolphins dot com Dolphins
Speaker 1: Darling's asks about a trade up. There's also a few
Speaker 1: similar questions about under the radar guys, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to thank at Wade Trip one and at two Legs
Speaker 1: for that one. I'm a big Pierre strong junior guy
Speaker 1: that running back from South Dakota State. He's kind of
Speaker 1: the guy that I like about. You know. In that
Speaker 1: one oh two range, at J Couch one asks do
Speaker 1: you believe linebacker or edge depth is more important? At
Speaker 1: one oh two, and I think edge is one of
Speaker 1: the premium positions. And we heard, you know, Chris Career
Speaker 1: saying his media the offensive line and edge where two
Speaker 1: of the deepest groups in this class. It's fun do
Speaker 1: you pair linebacker there with it? Because I think, because
Speaker 1: of the nature of this draft that both positions should
Speaker 1: have at least a couple of really intriguing prospects either spot.
Speaker 1: From there, I'm all about taking the player you feel
Speaker 1: best about, but generally speaking, I think edge is viewed
Speaker 1: as a premium so that would probably be the one there.
Speaker 1: Next one here from at Nathan Chickele, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: enjoyed ted Lasso man he put out there that I
Speaker 1: he not doesn't have a question. Just want to mention
Speaker 1: my ted Lasso recommendation was Ted Lasso. I was not
Speaker 1: so much a fan, so I'm glad you enjoyed. It
Speaker 1: wasn't really for me. But my next recommendation for everybody
Speaker 1: out there is Barry on HBO. It's got just heard
Speaker 1: of the season, their third season, so a little bit
Speaker 1: different than Ted Lasso, though. Just know that going in
Speaker 1: at finn correct, does our limited number of picks and
Speaker 1: where they fall make Chris Greer's job easier or harder.
Speaker 1: I like the way Chris answered this at his media
Speaker 1: last week. The lack of picks makes it more important
Speaker 1: to fit roles and find fits for the guys you
Speaker 1: do draft. But again, I think the look of the
Speaker 1: roster on the whole and what he said about exploring
Speaker 1: Trent options with that pick tells you a lot about
Speaker 1: how they were comfortable spending those picks on proven talent
Speaker 1: after having a boatload of young talent infused into this
Speaker 1: roster the last few drafts. I think it makes it
Speaker 1: harder when it comes to just ensuring you find hits
Speaker 1: in the draft. The third and fourth rounds are really
Speaker 1: kind of hit range for most teams, and then the
Speaker 1: seventh round you hope you can find a special teams guy,
Speaker 1: rotational guy, and if you get a starter there, that's
Speaker 1: a home run. So it's harder in that sense, but
Speaker 1: it's also nice to go into draft weekend and know
Speaker 1: that you've already kind of hit home runs with the
Speaker 1: capitol you had, right You just you just weren't going
Speaker 1: to get a Tyreek Hill with those picks. Like Chris
Speaker 1: Career said, it's not fair to compare those prospects to
Speaker 1: a player like Tyreek Hill, who's already proven so much
Speaker 1: in this league. Next question from at Big Old Batty.
Speaker 1: Should the Finns draft a big back for short yardage
Speaker 1: slash goal line Brian Robinson? Perhaps Robinson's a load. I
Speaker 1: love his game. I think it's possible. I think running
Speaker 1: back is possible in general, but I'm not really sure. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's hard to say what coach might prefer, or what
Speaker 1: the scouting staff or the collaboration of that entire front
Speaker 1: office says coming together. Really, if you look at San Francisco,
Speaker 1: they didn't really have a sledgehammer back there the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. They did have a fullback in Kyle
Speaker 1: hush Chick. Hello alec Ingold. But we do know that
Speaker 1: McDaniels well versed in the position and that he has
Speaker 1: an idea for the skills that he likes there. So
Speaker 1: if mos Dirt and Edmunds are any indication, speed, pass catching, visions,
Speaker 1: smarts all key ingredients. Love Brian Robinson's game though at
Speaker 1: c J F Grave, what's the most plausibly unpredictable move
Speaker 1: Chris Career could pull on draft night? That's a tough one.
Speaker 1: Uh really tough to predict one or two again, but
Speaker 1: thanks for the question, Chris, Hope, you're well man, haven't
Speaker 1: talked to you in a while. I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: this is the most but it's the one that I've
Speaker 1: seen come up as a surprise when it's mentioned. But
Speaker 1: how about a defensive back, like there's a possibility that
Speaker 1: position provides some nice options at one oh two? And
Speaker 1: I know this Dolphins defensive backfield so loaded, but you
Speaker 1: can never have enough cover guys, I'd say a dB
Speaker 1: at one oh two. It's all on the table. Let's
Speaker 1: do three more here. We also have the written version
Speaker 1: on Miami Dolphins dot Com at Medicine calm asks What
Speaker 1: wine pairs best with Tyreek Hill highlights incredible? Love it.
Speaker 1: I'm not a wine drinker. I've tried it a lot,
Speaker 1: not really for me coming from wine country in the
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest. I don't dislike it. It's just like my
Speaker 1: twelve option off the bench, my Udonis haslam for this
Speaker 1: Heat team. If you will, Bourbon, always bourbon from me
Speaker 1: at Eli j t s. What's your fever dream personnel grouping?
Speaker 1: Calling out the players you'd love to see next season?
Speaker 1: Now we're talking, and this is really tough to answer
Speaker 1: because I have to take guys off the field who
Speaker 1: I like. But that's what coaches have to do. It's
Speaker 1: a good problem to have. But I think I'm most
Speaker 1: intrigued by this one for a few reasons. Hill Waddle, Gisicky,
Speaker 1: Edmunds Moster. That's twenty one personnel, two backs, one tight end,
Speaker 1: two receivers, which typically calls for a base defense nickel
Speaker 1: at most, which is five defensive backs. Your basis four
Speaker 1: defensive backs. So from there, if they go base and
Speaker 1: you go empty, you spread everybody out because all five
Speaker 1: of those guys can run routes from pretty much all positions.
Speaker 1: That's gonna put linebackers on either the backs or GHASICKI
Speaker 1: I like those matchups. So I'm taking that one just
Speaker 1: for the conflict it creates. Excuse me, but there are
Speaker 1: countless permutations at Kyle. The commission asks, because of the
Speaker 1: limited picks, is there a player or players that, if
Speaker 1: we selected, will make you so excited you feel the
Speaker 1: entire draft is a home run. Alec Pierce is that
Speaker 1: guy for me. He says, Pierce is a fun prospect.
Speaker 1: I won't say home run just because you never know
Speaker 1: how the draft is gonna work out until three years
Speaker 1: down the line. But based off my own watching and
Speaker 1: what a lot of experts that I had in the
Speaker 1: podcast last month said I really like Chattanooga's Cold, Strange,
Speaker 1: Washington States A Lucas Go Coogs, and those three backs
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier, between White, Strong and Cook, like John Macchi,
Speaker 1: like Isaiah Likely, like my j Sanders. But I mean,
Speaker 1: there are just a few names in the hat, you know.
Speaker 1: I suppose what I'm saying is, let's circle back after
Speaker 1: the draft and see how we feel then and then
Speaker 1: again again in three more years. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our last break right here. We'll come
Speaker 1: back on the other side with my muck draft. We're
Speaker 1: gonna breathe through that thing. We'll also get to media
Speaker 1: uh with Jalen Waddle with Jalen Phillips and Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: here on this edition other Drivetime Podcast brought to you
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Drivetime Podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield, presented
Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. It is Draft Day tonight from Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: the first round of the NFL Draft. No picks for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins. We do have a pick coming up
Speaker 1: tomorrow on Friday night, number one oh two. After the
Speaker 1: draft is over, We're gonna have media. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: I'll get my right up done talking about what every
Speaker 1: player that is. I'll have a podcast for you guys,
Speaker 1: and a preview of Day three that should be out
Speaker 1: early on Saturday morning, so keep it locked for that
Speaker 1: and then also on Sunday another podcast recapping Day three,
Speaker 1: where the Dolphins are scheduled to have three picks on
Speaker 1: the final day of the draft. For now, how about
Speaker 1: my mock draft. I only wrote it down once and
Speaker 1: I thought about it and thought there's probably some changes
Speaker 1: I can make, but I thought it's gonna be wrong anyway.
Speaker 1: And you know, admittedly I used to do this with
Speaker 1: a lot more of a league wide focus as the
Speaker 1: job I did called for it more so, and maybe
Speaker 1: this is the way to get accuracy, since it's about
Speaker 1: as easy as picking the March Madness bracket every year.
Speaker 1: But I haven't poured through every offseason move, every coaching
Speaker 1: in GM history like I used to do. So that's
Speaker 1: my disclaimer for telling you why this is gonna suck.
Speaker 1: But here it comes regardless. Pick number one to Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I don't care what they're talking about all this nonsense.
Speaker 1: They're taking Aidan Hutchinson from Michigan. Actually, who knows, who
Speaker 1: knows they It could be Trayvon Walker. It could be
Speaker 1: Jimmy Johnson. It could be Cavon Thibodeaux. It could be
Speaker 1: a Quanta, it could be Neil Evan Neil from Alabama.
Speaker 1: Who the hell knows. I'm taking Aidan Hutchinson. Number two,
Speaker 1: Malik Willis. Let's get crazy, give me the quarterback, love
Speaker 1: the upside. Get the quarterback there in Detroit. At three,
Speaker 1: Houston cornerback Sauce Gardener. Number four, the Jets Trayvon Walker
Speaker 1: from Georgia. Number five. The Giants take at Quantity from
Speaker 1: n C State Ikey a Quantu. I can't believe not
Speaker 1: his first name. There at number six, it gets even crazier.
Speaker 1: Quarterback Kenny Pickett goes to the Carolina Panthers and Matt
Speaker 1: Rule gets his QB there. Number seven, the Giants get
Speaker 1: to me the steal of the draft right here in
Speaker 1: Cavon Thibodeau from Oregon, my number one player at the
Speaker 1: seventh pick in the draft. Atlanta at number eight takes
Speaker 1: Evan Neil from Alabama to screw up that offensive line.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks at nine. Derek Steinley, my number one cornerback
Speaker 1: at number nine. Good pick for them there in my
Speaker 1: own mock draft, pat myself on the back. Number ten
Speaker 1: the Jets Jamison Williams don't want to see it, but
Speaker 1: if he gets that spot. I had a hard time
Speaker 1: seeing them passing him up. At number eleven, just learn, Jimmy,
Speaker 1: butltos out for tonight. Not good. At number eleven, the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders take safety Kyle Hamilton's who get a top
Speaker 1: three player At number eleven. Good for them. The Vikings
Speaker 1: number twelve, offensive tackle Charles Cross Mississippi State. Great looking player,
Speaker 1: thirteen Houston Chris Olave from Ohio State. Fourteen Baltimore edge
Speaker 1: Jermaine Johnson. There's some talk about him going number one overall.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's gonna happen Pandemonium Number fifteen Philadelphia Devon Lloyd,
Speaker 1: linebacker from Utah. Number sixteen New Orleans Kenyan Green from
Speaker 1: A and M. A great pick for them there to
Speaker 1: fill out that offensive line. It's been good for decades now.
Speaker 1: The Charger seventeen offensive tackle Trevor Penning. Real nasty demeanor
Speaker 1: Mentality's gonna be a nice bookend there with Rashawn Slater
Speaker 1: in this In this instance, eighteen Philadelphia defensive tackle Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis from Georgia number nineteen. The Saints trailing Burkes to
Speaker 1: go there along with uh, Nope, I didn't take a quarterback.
Speaker 1: Traylon Burks goes along with Kenyan Green for the Saints
Speaker 1: two first round picks. At number twenty, Pittsburgh takes cornerback
Speaker 1: Andrew Booth from Clemson. The Patriots get Tyler Linderbond from
Speaker 1: Iowa at twenty one. In my mock draft. Number twenty two,
Speaker 1: the Packers John Dotson from Penn State. Number twenty three.
Speaker 1: George carl offt just from from per due to the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals replaced Chandler Jones Buffalo a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about Bruce Hall right here, but I'm going offensive line
Speaker 1: Zion Johnson from Boston College, Tennessee. Also on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith tackle from Tulsa has a real nasty demeanor,
Speaker 1: kind of like Taylor Lauan there. Maybe they like that,
Speaker 1: maybe they don't, I don't know. Number twenty seven defensive
Speaker 1: vent Tampa Bay Arnold epiket Day from Penn State, a
Speaker 1: real real riser in this process. Great athletic trades, great
Speaker 1: pass rusher. Twenty eight Packers Deavonte Wyatt the DT from Georgia,
Speaker 1: twenty nine the Chiefs safety Dackson Hill from Michigan. And
Speaker 1: thirty the Chiefs receiver Garrett Wilson from Ohio State. Thirty
Speaker 1: one the Bengals were in our grayment from Central Michigan.
Speaker 1: And number thirty two the lines close it out with
Speaker 1: cornerback Trent mc duffy, man that gets tough in the
Speaker 1: back half of round one. Who am I kidding? I'm probably,
Speaker 1: of course wrong from the jump. So this draft reminds
Speaker 1: me a lot of ways. All right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and close this out with our media from Wednesday, we
Speaker 1: heard from Jalen Waddle. We heard from Jalen Phillips. We
Speaker 1: also heard from Robert Hunt. Let's go ahead and start
Speaker 1: here with Jalen Waddle, who discussed the potential Tyreek Hill race.
Speaker 1: He also talked about watching film with Tyreek Hill every
Speaker 1: single day, which I thought was really cool to hear about,
Speaker 1: and also watching Tyreek Hill film prior to Hill being
Speaker 1: traded to Miami. He talked about the media having their
Speaker 1: own combine, which sounds like a fun idea. Talked about
Speaker 1: potentially adding to his Penguins celebration, was asked if he
Speaker 1: can go Christian Wilkins route. He said, no, Christian does
Speaker 1: too much. And then also just the overall humility of
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. You kind of see that in his personality.
Speaker 1: Very humble kid. Let's go ahead and play this audio
Speaker 1: of him talking about his new receiver's coach, Wes Welker,
Speaker 1: and how he helps him understand the game even better. UM. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think it's approached different. Um. Just him being a receiver. Um,
Speaker 1: he really set the standard of being like a modern
Speaker 1: slot receiver, so he really gets insight and he can
Speaker 1: really like go into detail and really get into your
Speaker 1: head and know what it's like to actually like be
Speaker 1: out there. Um so West West been great, um working
Speaker 1: notic with me, but how he just um coached up
Speaker 1: the whole receiver room. Short, sweet and humble as always
Speaker 1: from Jalen Waddle there he had plenty of other things
Speaker 1: to say, but go ahead and check out the YouTube
Speaker 1: channel for that media availability in its entirety. Same deal
Speaker 1: with Jalen Phillips. He talked a lot about his appearance
Speaker 1: on the fish Tank podcast, which if you have not
Speaker 1: checked that out, please go back and do so. The
Speaker 1: fish Tank with Seth and o J a great, great
Speaker 1: interview with Jalen Phillips. Let's go ahead and hear one
Speaker 1: soundclip here from Jalen talking a little bit about his
Speaker 1: rookie season and the expectation he has for himself to
Speaker 1: improve upon what people believe is a pretty good rookie year,
Speaker 1: breaking the rookie stack record for the Miami Dolphins. But
Speaker 1: Jalen is not going to get content. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and here from the Dolphins edge defender, outside linebacker, defensive ends. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I'm really critical in myself and
Speaker 1: I have a lot of high aspirations and I want
Speaker 1: to do everything I can to to help the team.
Speaker 1: And so for me not being able to come in
Speaker 1: every single down and help the team, Like, that's something
Speaker 1: where you know, I took it on myself where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna work on this. And so you know that sacks
Speaker 1: were nice, but ultimately it's more than just sacks. It's
Speaker 1: more than just production. It's about you know, how you
Speaker 1: fit in the defense and what are you doing to
Speaker 1: contribute to the team as a whole. Uh And so yeah,
Speaker 1: just constantly trying to better myself and improve the things
Speaker 1: that I need to improve on. So there's Jalen. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up here with Big Rob, who
Speaker 1: was asked about how simple or hard it is to
Speaker 1: learn this system and talking about how he watched or
Speaker 1: the Dolphins rather watch the Niners tape to get a
Speaker 1: feel for the system. Here's Big Rob talking about his
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the teachers they have in that room.
Speaker 1: I would say either, I mean, I guess I think
Speaker 1: we got really good teachers in the room with matt Um,
Speaker 1: Frank Lim and Mike, and I think they're doing a
Speaker 1: fantastic job but just putting it on this man, And
Speaker 1: so I wouldn't say it's hard. I mean, there's definitely
Speaker 1: some cups, you know, but like like I said, we
Speaker 1: got really good teachers in our room. Thow helps, so
Speaker 1: though you have it. Fun media availability from those three
Speaker 1: young up and coming players here for your Miami Dolphins again,
Speaker 1: go check out the fish Tank podcast with Jalen talking
Speaker 1: with Seth and o J. Very good stuff from those guys.
Speaker 1: Also the entirety of those media availabilities up on the
Speaker 1: YouTube channel. We also have plenty of content coming your
Speaker 1: way this weekend. A Saturday morning podcast taking a look
Speaker 1: at the pick we made on Friday, whether it's at
Speaker 1: one or two, are going up or going down, whatever
Speaker 1: the case. Maybe we'll recap that draft pick and preview
Speaker 1: Day three, also talk about the media we have that
Speaker 1: night for you guys, and then on Sunday we'll have
Speaker 1: another podcast as well, recapping Day three and potentially three
Speaker 1: more or less players for your Miami Dolphins media from
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel and Chris Career. Then we'll also take a
Speaker 1: look at it all next week with a comprehensive roster review.
Speaker 1: Will get Emery Hunt back on the podcast here from
Speaker 1: CBS Sports HQ for our undrafted free agent class breakdown,
Speaker 1: as we do each year, and we'll also be covering
Speaker 1: O T A s here this coming month as well.
Speaker 1: The season never sleeps here for your Miami Dolphins. In the
Speaker 1: the meantime, that's gonna be my time. You all. Please
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