WEBVTT - Drive Time: 2025 Senior Bowl Practices Recap 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:12.320 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.480 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.880 Senior bull practices are in the rearview once again. I 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:21.759 have tons of notes. I have my top twelve performers 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.040 from the week of practices, and I have your questions 0:00:25.079 --> 0:00:28.640 about the draft, the offseason, fatherhood, and I believe there's 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.600 a severance question in there somewhere. We're gonna cover it 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.479 all today from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:41.280 Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, opening 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.880 the show with the Day two and Day three notes 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.599 from the Senior Bowl down in Mobile, Alabama. And we're 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:49.120 gonna get Kyle Krabs on the show who was in 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.800 Mobile and Fort Worth for the Shrine and Senior Bowls, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.400 and we'll have them on the Monday show after the 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:57.720 game on Saturday, to give a full breakdown of the 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:00.760 practices and games and just kind of a check ins. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.520 We're going to be very heavily involved in the draft 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.200 process this year. Ten picks, I feel like it'll be more. 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:07.319 Let's go ahead and start with my notes from the 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:10.240 broadcast and the all twenty two from three days of 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:14.200 practices out in Mobayo, Alabama, and I took note of 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.360 two quarterbacks out there. One was Jaln Milroe, who I 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:20.600 talked about on the Wednesday show, and Lewis Riddick did 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.280 a hit on him where he talked about how Milroe 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.679 needs to go to a program that has a good 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.440 developmental program for young players and has the time and 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.200 patience to develop him and see through some of the 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.640 issues he has in his game, because you could see 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.640 how much he struggled throughout the entire week, and he 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.760 seemed to have some real issues with the football itself. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:44.120 A couple of throws fluttered out of his hands, very duckish, 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:47.360 and he's below the nine inch hand threshold that there 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.240 kind of is in the NFL, where if you don't 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.160 have that big of a hand, it's kind of tough 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.320 to be a good quarterback in this league. He was 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.200 late to see stuff. He threw a terrible interception. He 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:58.960 stood in there like a deer in the headlights, and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.840 took some sacks players that get blown dead. I'm starting 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:03.800 to think you might have a chance at him in 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:07.040 the third round, and you're really only doing that because 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.400 of the hope of a three year project in developing 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.680 the physical skills, which again I think might be up 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:17.040 the alley of the Miami Dolphins and what's on their menu, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.480 as it were, for draft prospects at this position, insanely 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:24.079 highly physical upside. But you can get him at a 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.080 lower cost because there are a lot of things you 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.480 have to iron out, Like that's kind of your approach. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.560 That's the approach you have to take if you want 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:34.639 to replace Tua down the road, right, Because Tua gets 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.240 you to a certain level. I would say he's a 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.560 better version of Alex Smith when they made the transition 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.600 over to Patrick Mahomes. Like I think two was a 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:42.280 top ten quarterback, and you can win a lot of games, 0:02:42.320 --> 0:02:44.560 and you can win championships with Tua with the right 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.960 pieces around him. Now, if you want to get into 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:49.720 the we're going to be there every single year no 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.960 matter what happens. Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson level. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.200 These are the kind of players you would gamble on. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.720 Does that make sense? So if you're going to replace twoa, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:01.320 don't do it with a milk toast white dude, right 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:03.400 for instance, you know someone that just goes out and 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:05.480 like Kyle McCord is not going to be an upgrade 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:07.720 on two A tongue by loa. Don't waste your time there. 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.760 Take the big risk and gamble in the third or 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:11.880 fourth round if you want to do that, and see 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:13.680 if you can develop a player for two or three years, 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:16.080 and maybe he does turn out to be Lamar Jackson 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.200 or maybe you know what Malik Willis showed you in 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.440 his you know third year devent like you can put 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.960 you can put these guys in position to develop their game, 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.200 to get into a position to maybe be that big 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:26.920 upgrade you're looking for, but you're never gonna get there 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.720 if you don't invest. So Milroe, it was a rough week, 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:31.280 but that's kind of where I come down on him. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:33.880 The other quarterback I noted was Tyler Shook from Louisville. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:35.880 I think I called him show last time I got 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.760 to watch the tape because I have no idea what 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.160 type of quarterback he is, but you can tell he 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.880 played shortstop as a kid. I'm always intrigued by guys 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.280 that can snap the football from that dropped arm slot 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:48.840 and he just slings the pill all over the yard 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.920 with you know, three quartered arm angle. He had really 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:55.920 good low location in a low red zone seven on 0:03:56.080 --> 0:03:59.560 seven slant to Jayden Higgins. Sorry it's a mouthful to say, 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.040 into a tight window. Then the very next throw he 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.880 drives this far field out to the corner of the 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:07.160 end zone for a touchdown the test Johnson. So he 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.040 has live arm talent. And just as I write that, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.760 he throws this nice peelback touchdown to Elijah Arroyo in 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.719 the red zone and it showed the arm elasticity where 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.440 he kind of went across the body and flung the 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.760 thing out there. But he had the under route on 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:24.080 a little play action naked boot, so wide open, and 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.560 for him to never have seen to not see that 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.520 is incredibly alarming to me. It takes away all the 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.159 good us off from the arm because if we can't 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:33.080 see the most basic of stuff, if we have to 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:35.599 teach you how to play quarterback at this level, it's 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:39.360 very tough. See Skyler Thompson for example. Running backs. Only 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.040 a couple guys made the notes here. I did, like 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.120 Bishel Tooton from Virginia Tech. I know Miami fans know 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:46.200 him well. He had some good pass pro reps and 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.400 ran the ball pretty effectively. Alli Gordon had no idea 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.200 where he was going in pass pro. He's a very 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.040 high cut, tall runner. This is an interesting class where 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.320 everyone has like traits to like, but there's also a 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.279 lot to not like about a lot of these guys. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.440 One of the guys I think is the most well 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.760 rounded and versatile pieces that was at this game, or 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.520 this week of practices and in the entire draft class 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:08.760 is a guy that you know well and a guy 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.279 that I know well from my PAC twelve days. Damian Martinez, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.960 the Miami running back. He's just a you know the 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.080 scene in forty year Old Virgin when he's going through 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.760 the box of porn that he gives to Andy, the 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.160 forty year Old Virgin, and he's like, Oh, everybody loves Raymond. 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.159 How'd that get in here? That's just a good show. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.040 Damian Martinez is just a good runner. He gets on 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.760 his track, he reads out his blocks, he sees the crease, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.159 and then hits it with absolute conviction. He didn't run 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.280 a lot of zone in college. There was more zone 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.160 at Oregon State than in Miami, for sure, But you know, 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:40.960 I think he can be taught that because of what 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.200 I've seen from his running ability. He's two hundred and 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.120 thirty pounds in slippery and then just pulling up his tape. 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.359 I saw him catch a ball in space against a 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.159 Virginia defensive back and completely joked him down the field. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.840 So he has impressive shake. He had an explosive run 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.240 and team drills where a guard lost a block on 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.960 duo and he just had the vision, the peripheral vision 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:02.760 to see the backside of that man would be blocked 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.159 because of the one half of the combination block and 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.360 he just could skip over a gap on a smooth 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.760 jump cut with no issue and then took off with speed. 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.320 He's got rare movement at that side that pairs with 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.400 his vision. We'll talk about him here more in just 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.279 a second. Wide receivers Kyle Williams from Washington State. But 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:22.520 ba baa five four wash egg. Just you gotta win 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.880 the day, fault cript head and Gray. He's awesome. I 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.680 love his game. He was a transfer from UNLV. He 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.680 balled out this year and I try not to get 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.040 too high on Washington State prospects. So they go to 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.360 the Senior Bowl and they dominate there. Your boy's gonna 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.400 go crazy about it. He's starting to separate himself in 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.400 the route running discussion I talked about on the Wednesday show, 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.159 and here's what I know about watching him from broadcast copy. 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.279 All year long. They threw to him on every critical down. 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.799 He was the go to guy. He's quick, but patient 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.200 in his details in the route. He has a knock 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.240 for pushing a defensive back into one spot, then throwing 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.360 the counter to that exact momentum against it to keep 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.600 them on their heels, and not able to transition smoothly 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.279 like he can. He has very secure hands. He's an 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:05.560 excellent ball tracker, capable of stacking the red line. That's 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.560 the line you're gonna see painted on practice fields where 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:09.520 the receivers try to keep the route on that line. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.600 To hold that and not get pushed to the perimeter 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.320 where he can then track the football over that shoulder 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.440 to give the quarterback a huge window to throw with. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:19.160 It gives you bigger margin for air. Imagine you're taking 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:21.920 your pitching wedge onto a green that has thirty feet 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.360 of radius. Now give it fifty feet. You're gonna hit 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.240 more greens right then. At practices this week, it was 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.280 more of the same, but just winning his routes immediately 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.200 with a quick release. He has the top GPS speed 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:35.840 among the receivers this week, twenty one point three six 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.600 miles per hour. You put that with elite route running 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.080 and very very solid river your solid hands. Gotch a 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.640 good thing to have right there. We'll talk more about 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.440 him in just one second. I'm making fun of myself. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.120 Cut just tumble my words. Stay with us here back 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.240 after this Xavier Estrepo from Miami. He was in the 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.600 notes on Wednesday. He blocked his ass off in these 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.760 two sessions. He adds value in the way that he 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.360 can align to a bunch stack or trip formation. Bunches 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.720 and stacks are just two receivers and tied together, trips 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.160 is three obviously in the screen game, and give the 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:07.120 defense a player to contend with that can both block, 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.120 be a key lead blocker on the point or pick 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.400 his way through traffic like a running back with the football. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.480 You put a player like that out there that either 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.360 can't block Jim on eight Chian or does it make 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.840 yards after the catch, Mike ASICKI, It really limits what 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:22.800 you can do if you have three guys like that, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.560 which Waddle's that guy, Well, Wattle's not a great runner 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:28.320 with with screen game to be perfectly honest, But give 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.360 me like John new Smith who can do both. Give 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.720 me Exavier Streppo who can do both. And give me 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:35.280 a Jalen Wright who could do both. We're cooking with gas. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:36.920 That's three different positions there too, So it's a very 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.880 unique personnel grouping. But that's what Streppo gives you. Jayden 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.199 Higgins from Iowa State, I'm having a really hard time 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.040 with him. To be perfectly honest, I need to watch 0:08:44.040 --> 0:08:46.200 some more of his tape there in karage. Some of 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.480 his routes look smooth, others look slow, and I need 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.400 to find out the calibration of why that is. He 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:53.959 has some serious wins where he leaves him in the dust. 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:57.880 And Daniel Jeremiah said there's some Nico Collins movement ability 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.600 at that size. I'm not seeing that on these Senior 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.120 Bowl practices. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm willing to admit 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:04.600 that if I am, and go check it out and 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.520 get the evidence here for you guys on the show. 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.720 But he did say that. Dj did say that there's 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.760 not as much polish because Nico Collins is like a 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:14.640 top you know, he's one of the best receivers in 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:17.920 the NFL. So let's not go crazy here. Tesz Johnson 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.439 from Oregon have Marsha my gosh. I love watching him 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.120 play man. He'd had the first spin cycle we've seen 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:26.600 in these one on one reps at receiver where he 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.960 just put the guy into the absolute uh being today 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.600 and he was flying away there for a little bit. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.160 The way he can release off the line of scrimmage 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.960 then re stack at the top, he has really good 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.199 attention to details. Some guys will win that route right 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.080 away off the line, and then they are so like 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.640 intrigued by the space they've created, they get lazy on 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.760 the rest of the details and it allows the defensive 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.920 back to get back into good shape and recover. But 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.040 he stays on it and then snaps it inside and 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.160 generates three yards of separation off of that highly detailed route. 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.960 Runner at one hundred and fifty six pounds, you better 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:00.800 be really smart with your routes and you be the 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.600 best crossover guy in the entire game. Jack Besh from 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.240 TCU update on him. He had a huge block on 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.400 a tunnel screen that went for a big game that's 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:10.800 all over his tape. The very next play, he pulls 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.160 down a pop fly throw from Jaln Milroe. That too, 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.560 is all over his tape. He's just stronger than the 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.719 defensive backs on those plays and he prevents them from 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.240 elevating to make the catch because he can kind of 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.720 hold them down while holding the line and still have 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:27.200 the athletic ability to elevate himself tight ends. I mean, 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:29.800 the two guys that popped off were on the notes 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.760 on Wednesday, Mason Taylor and Elijah Arroyo. Mason Taylor, his 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.079 top speed was like a twenty one point five miles 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.520 per hour or no, no sorry. In the games this year, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.520 he almost hit twenty two miles per hour and that 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.839 was like the sixth highest of all the eligibles in 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.880 college football at that size. And he caught everything. He 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:49.000 just pulls everything down. Man. He ran away from guys. 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:50.959 He did everything. We'll talk about him more in a 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.280 second as well. Arroyo, his route running is tremendous. Guys 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.120 are legit scared of him getting vertical and it allows 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.600 him to stack and then break kind of like Tes Johnson, 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.200 but we're talking about like a six foot five, two 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.360 hundred and forty pound guy that does this or two fifty. 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.720 Then he breaks it off and they're still getting vertical 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.200 to keep up with the deep ball because they're a 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.719 phrase going to run away from them and be this 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:12.520 high catch radius guy. All of a sudden he's wide 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:14.240 open on the dig or the out and turns into 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:16.559 a runner after the catch. Jackson Hawes was a guy 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.400 that I was really intrigued to watch coming in, and 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.440 at first I thought he was really losing kind of 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.640 the point of attack battle in pass protection and in 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.920 the run game. But as the week went along, he 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.000 got better at that. I think his hand striking got 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:30.839 better and his feet were working more in unison with 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.240 his hands, and then also he was doing some pretty 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:34.920 good work as a rout runner where it was more 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.520 physical and blocky out type of stuff. I thought that 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.160 his tape showed a more fluid mover than what I 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:42.640 saw on the tape during the Senior Bowl. But he 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:44.160 remains a guy that I would keep an eye on. 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:46.960 This tight end class. You can pretty much pick what 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.880 round you want to take one in and feel pretty 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.320 good about it. I think Taylor and Arroyo are going 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.360 to be top forty picks in that range, so if 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:55.440 you're gonna get one of them, you probably should do it. 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.200 In the second round, provided they make it to your 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.880 second round pick. Warren's not gonna get pass like the 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.680 fifteenth pick, so you have to go there up top 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.480 with him. I don't really think Colston Lovelin's an option 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.880 for this team because of his play style, but there's 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:08.439 a lot of guys you can't go wrong with here, 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.760 and Taylor and Arroyo I think are going to be 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.760 big time NFL players, and Jackson Hawes to me, could 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.000 be a much better version of what Durham Smith is 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.480 for you. At tackle. Arianta Esri from Minnesota, I thought 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.440 he struggled against some of the long arm power guys, 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:24.920 and that's what those guys are designed to do, right 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.120 That strike stops your feet and then the train keeps 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.480 rolling downhill through your strike zone and they put a 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:31.640 hole in your chest. A couple of guys were able 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.760 to get his feet stopped, and he wasn't very fluid 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.800 redirecting back inside and got beat that way a few times. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:38.720 They were kind of dogging on him on the broadcast 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.960 because he kept giving up the inside post and it's like, dude, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.920 you gotta learn and fix this thing. But he really 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:45.960 picked it up in the team period. Where he had 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.960 a wash down block the point of attack for a 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.640 big run off his side, did a fantastic job in 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.120 pass pro until he got beat on the inside post 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.720 again on a pass rush where Mike Green, who had 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:59.720 a great week, split him and the guard. He's there's 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.559 a couple of tackles and the maybe back end of 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:04.760 the first round second round territory that I like. I 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.920 don't like as much as like Patrick Paul where he's 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.120 at right now, but there's gonna be some options into 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:10.959 that second round. And one of those guys that I 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.079 thought showed well was Emery Jones. But when he moved 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:15.720 into guard is when I liked his game better. From LSU, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.400 He's huge. I thought he looked really comfortable and his 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:21.160 kick slide past that and strike any reaction to the 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.600 rusher's first move. He would show patience and bring his 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.880 feet with him. Then they kick him inside at guard, 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.360 and I thought it was his best rep of the 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.440 entire week. He squeezes the a gap and leans you 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.240 know it, gets a good pad shelf down into the 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.959 chest plate of the or the shoulder pads, I should 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.280 say of the pass rusher, and cuts off the slant 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:39.880 from a three technique across his face and just shuffle 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.319 stepped him into the center. Like that intrigues me. I 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.199 think there's gonna be we'll get into this city of 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.880 the show. But there's a lot of tackles in this 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:47.920 class I think make a lot of sense to draft 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.840 as a potential like long term solution after Austin Jackson's 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.320 contract ends. If it doesn't, you know, come back for 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.760 you here and can play guard while they get that 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.040 experience to kind of be that and your third tackle. Like, 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.920 there's lots of options. There's so many options to go 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.520 after this offensive line this offseason, and we heard Chris 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:06.400 Career say it they're going to focus on that position, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:07.800 so I'll be curious to see how they do that. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.480 Speaking of offensive lineman, the interior was even better than 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.360 the tackle play in this in this game. And you 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:15.880 heard Kyle Crabs in the show shoot. I don't know 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.400 he does the show so often these days, but he 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.680 talked about how the Shrine Bowl was kind of the 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.280 skill players and the Senior Bowls kind of the trenches. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.080 I think that proved out. Although Kyle Williams really had 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:26.440 a huge week and you know, guys, do know how 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.880 I feel about tes Johnson. Kyle's not gonna like test 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.360 because he's too small. But that's that's all right. Let's 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:33.280 go ahead and actually take a quick breaks. We're up 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.600 against fifteen minutes here. Let's take a quick break, come 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.240 back and talk about these interior offensive linemen. We'll do 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:40.800 the entire defense. I have my top twelve and your 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.120 male bag questions. Busy, busy show today. All that's next 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.040 Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Winfield, brought to you 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:54.240 by Auto Nation. Next week on the podcast is Trench Week. 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:56.040 I made a song. I'm excited for you guys to 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.160 hear it. It's another one of those stupid Travis productions 0:14:58.160 --> 0:14:59.400 I put on the show over once in a while. 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.360 We're gonna be talking about the tackles the interior offensive line. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.000 We'll be talking about defensive tackles. That's a Monday, Wednesday 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:10.120 Friday production. We will talk about tackles on Monday and 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.480 do the entire you know, our roster free agents and 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.720 draft picks, do the exact same thing for the interior 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.560 guys on Wednesday, and do defensive tackles on Friday for 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.480 French Week. And the Trench Week really kicked off with 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:23.880 a bang here with Grey's Abel. Saw someone called him Greg. 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.400 One of the beers called him Greg. I know another 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.880 guy named Greg's let's pull that hang out one second. 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.800 Longfellow Deeds? Wow? Is that des Frest name? 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.320 Well, if the deeds you're referring to is long Fellow 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:38.520 Deeds done? Yes, that is Deesu's first name. Well, I 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.000 don't know Deej's first name. Maybe it's Greg, maybe it's 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:45.560 long Fellow maybe, but I don't know. I know another 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.400 guy named Greg. You want men to call him up? 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.680 No, thank you, Please just tell us where Deeds lives. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:53.840 I know my guy, Adam Beasley hates Adam Sandler joints, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.640 but man, how can you anyway, let's get back on 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.320 track here. Away from the Sandler verse, Grey's Abel was 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.640 dominant in the team period and individuals. He showed functional 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.520 strength and pure technique. He was able to reach and 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:09.240 seal and wall off a five technique on an outside 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.160 zone toss sweep in the run period. That's what we do. 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.680 I texted Buddy who's down there? And I said, Hasabel 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:16.800 lost a rep yet? And he said yeah, if he has, 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:19.280 it was on air. Not sure. Many guys have helped 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.160 themselves the way Zabel has this week, and it just 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:24.160 kept getting better. They had him do the competition rep 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.560 at the end of practice where everybody gathers around and 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.080 watches him. He locks it down looking so effortless. Jeremiah 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.320 said it reminded him of the week that Zach Martin 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.200 had when he was down there before getting drafted in 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.680 the first round by the Cowboys back in Mobile all 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.120 those years ago. Jalen Rivers is a guy we talked 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.360 about on Wednesday also from Miami. I finally saw him 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.000 lose on that jump set rep from the guard position 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.720 where we talked about that on the Wednesday show where 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.160 those guys were jump setting like crazy. He got clubbed 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.800 and it knocked him right off the spot, but he 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.040 had a key block pulling from the backside to lead 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.360 a back for a big run in the team period 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.280 where the edge closed in and he had an angle, 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.040 but you could see Rivers's life the thirty five inch 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.280 arms just kind of extend and get enough of a 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:05.320 piece of that edge to knock him off the track 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.960 for that big run. He also cleared a lane with 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.720 a seal in red zone work for a touchdown where 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.240 he came off of his original block and caught a 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:15.240 piece of the backer right at the point of attack. 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.359 Those are the kind of combo blocks you're looking for 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:20.760 if you're a Miami Dolphin evaluator. Marcus bo from Perdue. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.520 I like his pad level, his strike, and the absorbed 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.399 combination in the drop back game, especially at guard. I 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:28.960 thought he struggled at tackle. I think it's a pretty 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.320 easy conversion inside for him and that might actually bump 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.640