Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: Senior bull practices are in the rearview once again. I
Speaker 1: have tons of notes. I have my top twelve performers
Speaker 1: from the week of practices, and I have your questions
Speaker 1: about the draft, the offseason, fatherhood, and I believe there's
Speaker 1: a severance question in there somewhere. We're gonna cover it
Speaker 1: all today from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, opening
Speaker 1: the show with the Day two and Day three notes
Speaker 1: from the Senior Bowl down in Mobile, Alabama. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna get Kyle Krabs on the show who was in
Speaker 1: Mobile and Fort Worth for the Shrine and Senior Bowls,
Speaker 1: and we'll have them on the Monday show after the
Speaker 1: game on Saturday, to give a full breakdown of the
Speaker 1: practices and games and just kind of a check ins.
Speaker 1: We're going to be very heavily involved in the draft
Speaker 1: process this year. Ten picks, I feel like it'll be more.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with my notes from the
Speaker 1: broadcast and the all twenty two from three days of
Speaker 1: practices out in Mobayo, Alabama, and I took note of
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks out there. One was Jaln Milroe, who I
Speaker 1: talked about on the Wednesday show, and Lewis Riddick did
Speaker 1: a hit on him where he talked about how Milroe
Speaker 1: needs to go to a program that has a good
Speaker 1: developmental program for young players and has the time and
Speaker 1: patience to develop him and see through some of the
Speaker 1: issues he has in his game, because you could see
Speaker 1: how much he struggled throughout the entire week, and he
Speaker 1: seemed to have some real issues with the football itself.
Speaker 1: A couple of throws fluttered out of his hands, very duckish,
Speaker 1: and he's below the nine inch hand threshold that there
Speaker 1: kind of is in the NFL, where if you don't
Speaker 1: have that big of a hand, it's kind of tough
Speaker 1: to be a good quarterback in this league. He was
Speaker 1: late to see stuff. He threw a terrible interception. He
Speaker 1: stood in there like a deer in the headlights, and
Speaker 1: took some sacks players that get blown dead. I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think you might have a chance at him in
Speaker 1: the third round, and you're really only doing that because
Speaker 1: of the hope of a three year project in developing
Speaker 1: the physical skills, which again I think might be up
Speaker 1: the alley of the Miami Dolphins and what's on their menu,
Speaker 1: as it were, for draft prospects at this position, insanely
Speaker 1: highly physical upside. But you can get him at a
Speaker 1: lower cost because there are a lot of things you
Speaker 1: have to iron out, Like that's kind of your approach.
Speaker 1: That's the approach you have to take if you want
Speaker 1: to replace Tua down the road, right, Because Tua gets
Speaker 1: you to a certain level. I would say he's a
Speaker 1: better version of Alex Smith when they made the transition
Speaker 1: over to Patrick Mahomes. Like I think two was a
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback, and you can win a lot of games,
Speaker 1: and you can win championships with Tua with the right
Speaker 1: pieces around him. Now, if you want to get into
Speaker 1: the we're going to be there every single year no
Speaker 1: matter what happens. Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson level.
Speaker 1: These are the kind of players you would gamble on.
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? So if you're going to replace twoa,
Speaker 1: don't do it with a milk toast white dude, right
Speaker 1: for instance, you know someone that just goes out and
Speaker 1: like Kyle McCord is not going to be an upgrade
Speaker 1: on two A tongue by loa. Don't waste your time there.
Speaker 1: Take the big risk and gamble in the third or
Speaker 1: fourth round if you want to do that, and see
Speaker 1: if you can develop a player for two or three years,
Speaker 1: and maybe he does turn out to be Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: or maybe you know what Malik Willis showed you in
Speaker 1: his you know third year devent like you can put
Speaker 1: you can put these guys in position to develop their game,
Speaker 1: to get into a position to maybe be that big
Speaker 1: upgrade you're looking for, but you're never gonna get there
Speaker 1: if you don't invest. So Milroe, it was a rough week,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of where I come down on him.
Speaker 1: The other quarterback I noted was Tyler Shook from Louisville.
Speaker 1: I think I called him show last time I got
Speaker 1: to watch the tape because I have no idea what
Speaker 1: type of quarterback he is, but you can tell he
Speaker 1: played shortstop as a kid. I'm always intrigued by guys
Speaker 1: that can snap the football from that dropped arm slot
Speaker 1: and he just slings the pill all over the yard
Speaker 1: with you know, three quartered arm angle. He had really
Speaker 1: good low location in a low red zone seven on
Speaker 1: seven slant to Jayden Higgins. Sorry it's a mouthful to say,
Speaker 1: into a tight window. Then the very next throw he
Speaker 1: drives this far field out to the corner of the
Speaker 1: end zone for a touchdown the test Johnson. So he
Speaker 1: has live arm talent. And just as I write that,
Speaker 1: he throws this nice peelback touchdown to Elijah Arroyo in
Speaker 1: the red zone and it showed the arm elasticity where
Speaker 1: he kind of went across the body and flung the
Speaker 1: thing out there. But he had the under route on
Speaker 1: a little play action naked boot, so wide open, and
Speaker 1: for him to never have seen to not see that
Speaker 1: is incredibly alarming to me. It takes away all the
Speaker 1: good us off from the arm because if we can't
Speaker 1: see the most basic of stuff, if we have to
Speaker 1: teach you how to play quarterback at this level, it's
Speaker 1: very tough. See Skyler Thompson for example. Running backs. Only
Speaker 1: a couple guys made the notes here. I did, like
Speaker 1: Bishel Tooton from Virginia Tech. I know Miami fans know
Speaker 1: him well. He had some good pass pro reps and
Speaker 1: ran the ball pretty effectively. Alli Gordon had no idea
Speaker 1: where he was going in pass pro. He's a very
Speaker 1: high cut, tall runner. This is an interesting class where
Speaker 1: everyone has like traits to like, but there's also a
Speaker 1: lot to not like about a lot of these guys.
Speaker 1: One of the guys I think is the most well
Speaker 1: rounded and versatile pieces that was at this game, or
Speaker 1: this week of practices and in the entire draft class
Speaker 1: is a guy that you know well and a guy
Speaker 1: that I know well from my PAC twelve days. Damian Martinez,
Speaker 1: the Miami running back. He's just a you know the
Speaker 1: scene in forty year Old Virgin when he's going through
Speaker 1: the box of porn that he gives to Andy, the
Speaker 1: forty year Old Virgin, and he's like, Oh, everybody loves Raymond.
Speaker 1: How'd that get in here? That's just a good show.
Speaker 1: Damian Martinez is just a good runner. He gets on
Speaker 1: his track, he reads out his blocks, he sees the crease,
Speaker 1: and then hits it with absolute conviction. He didn't run
Speaker 1: a lot of zone in college. There was more zone
Speaker 1: at Oregon State than in Miami, for sure, But you know,
Speaker 1: I think he can be taught that because of what
Speaker 1: I've seen from his running ability. He's two hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty pounds in slippery and then just pulling up his tape.
Speaker 1: I saw him catch a ball in space against a
Speaker 1: Virginia defensive back and completely joked him down the field.
Speaker 1: So he has impressive shake. He had an explosive run
Speaker 1: and team drills where a guard lost a block on
Speaker 1: duo and he just had the vision, the peripheral vision
Speaker 1: to see the backside of that man would be blocked
Speaker 1: because of the one half of the combination block and
Speaker 1: he just could skip over a gap on a smooth
Speaker 1: jump cut with no issue and then took off with speed.
Speaker 1: He's got rare movement at that side that pairs with
Speaker 1: his vision. We'll talk about him here more in just
Speaker 1: a second. Wide receivers Kyle Williams from Washington State. But
Speaker 1: ba baa five four wash egg. Just you gotta win
Speaker 1: the day, fault cript head and Gray. He's awesome. I
Speaker 1: love his game. He was a transfer from UNLV. He
Speaker 1: balled out this year and I try not to get
Speaker 1: too high on Washington State prospects. So they go to
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and they dominate there. Your boy's gonna
Speaker 1: go crazy about it. He's starting to separate himself in
Speaker 1: the route running discussion I talked about on the Wednesday show,
Speaker 1: and here's what I know about watching him from broadcast copy.
Speaker 1: All year long. They threw to him on every critical down.
Speaker 1: He was the go to guy. He's quick, but patient
Speaker 1: in his details in the route. He has a knock
Speaker 1: for pushing a defensive back into one spot, then throwing
Speaker 1: the counter to that exact momentum against it to keep
Speaker 1: them on their heels, and not able to transition smoothly
Speaker 1: like he can. He has very secure hands. He's an
Speaker 1: excellent ball tracker, capable of stacking the red line. That's
Speaker 1: the line you're gonna see painted on practice fields where
Speaker 1: the receivers try to keep the route on that line.
Speaker 1: To hold that and not get pushed to the perimeter
Speaker 1: where he can then track the football over that shoulder
Speaker 1: to give the quarterback a huge window to throw with.
Speaker 1: It gives you bigger margin for air. Imagine you're taking
Speaker 1: your pitching wedge onto a green that has thirty feet
Speaker 1: of radius. Now give it fifty feet. You're gonna hit
Speaker 1: more greens right then. At practices this week, it was
Speaker 1: more of the same, but just winning his routes immediately
Speaker 1: with a quick release. He has the top GPS speed
Speaker 1: among the receivers this week, twenty one point three six
Speaker 1: miles per hour. You put that with elite route running
Speaker 1: and very very solid river your solid hands. Gotch a
Speaker 1: good thing to have right there. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: him in just one second. I'm making fun of myself.
Speaker 1: Cut just tumble my words. Stay with us here back
Speaker 1: after this Xavier Estrepo from Miami. He was in the
Speaker 1: notes on Wednesday. He blocked his ass off in these
Speaker 1: two sessions. He adds value in the way that he
Speaker 1: can align to a bunch stack or trip formation. Bunches
Speaker 1: and stacks are just two receivers and tied together, trips
Speaker 1: is three obviously in the screen game, and give the
Speaker 1: defense a player to contend with that can both block,
Speaker 1: be a key lead blocker on the point or pick
Speaker 1: his way through traffic like a running back with the football.
Speaker 1: You put a player like that out there that either
Speaker 1: can't block Jim on eight Chian or does it make
Speaker 1: yards after the catch, Mike ASICKI, It really limits what
Speaker 1: you can do if you have three guys like that,
Speaker 1: which Waddle's that guy, Well, Wattle's not a great runner
Speaker 1: with with screen game to be perfectly honest, But give
Speaker 1: me like John new Smith who can do both. Give
Speaker 1: me Exavier Streppo who can do both. And give me
Speaker 1: a Jalen Wright who could do both. We're cooking with gas.
Speaker 1: That's three different positions there too, So it's a very
Speaker 1: unique personnel grouping. But that's what Streppo gives you. Jayden
Speaker 1: Higgins from Iowa State, I'm having a really hard time
Speaker 1: with him. To be perfectly honest, I need to watch
Speaker 1: some more of his tape there in karage. Some of
Speaker 1: his routes look smooth, others look slow, and I need
Speaker 1: to find out the calibration of why that is. He
Speaker 1: has some serious wins where he leaves him in the dust.
Speaker 1: And Daniel Jeremiah said there's some Nico Collins movement ability
Speaker 1: at that size. I'm not seeing that on these Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl practices. Maybe I'm wrong, and I'm willing to admit
Speaker 1: that if I am, and go check it out and
Speaker 1: get the evidence here for you guys on the show.
Speaker 1: But he did say that. Dj did say that there's
Speaker 1: not as much polish because Nico Collins is like a
Speaker 1: top you know, he's one of the best receivers in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So let's not go crazy here. Tesz Johnson
Speaker 1: from Oregon have Marsha my gosh. I love watching him
Speaker 1: play man. He'd had the first spin cycle we've seen
Speaker 1: in these one on one reps at receiver where he
Speaker 1: just put the guy into the absolute uh being today
Speaker 1: and he was flying away there for a little bit.
Speaker 1: The way he can release off the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: then re stack at the top, he has really good
Speaker 1: attention to details. Some guys will win that route right
Speaker 1: away off the line, and then they are so like
Speaker 1: intrigued by the space they've created, they get lazy on
Speaker 1: the rest of the details and it allows the defensive
Speaker 1: back to get back into good shape and recover. But
Speaker 1: he stays on it and then snaps it inside and
Speaker 1: generates three yards of separation off of that highly detailed route.
Speaker 1: Runner at one hundred and fifty six pounds, you better
Speaker 1: be really smart with your routes and you be the
Speaker 1: best crossover guy in the entire game. Jack Besh from
Speaker 1: TCU update on him. He had a huge block on
Speaker 1: a tunnel screen that went for a big game that's
Speaker 1: all over his tape. The very next play, he pulls
Speaker 1: down a pop fly throw from Jaln Milroe. That too,
Speaker 1: is all over his tape. He's just stronger than the
Speaker 1: defensive backs on those plays and he prevents them from
Speaker 1: elevating to make the catch because he can kind of
Speaker 1: hold them down while holding the line and still have
Speaker 1: the athletic ability to elevate himself tight ends. I mean,
Speaker 1: the two guys that popped off were on the notes
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, Mason Taylor and Elijah Arroyo. Mason Taylor, his
Speaker 1: top speed was like a twenty one point five miles
Speaker 1: per hour or no, no sorry. In the games this year,
Speaker 1: he almost hit twenty two miles per hour and that
Speaker 1: was like the sixth highest of all the eligibles in
Speaker 1: college football at that size. And he caught everything. He
Speaker 1: just pulls everything down. Man. He ran away from guys.
Speaker 1: He did everything. We'll talk about him more in a
Speaker 1: second as well. Arroyo, his route running is tremendous. Guys
Speaker 1: are legit scared of him getting vertical and it allows
Speaker 1: him to stack and then break kind of like Tes Johnson,
Speaker 1: but we're talking about like a six foot five, two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pound guy that does this or two fifty.
Speaker 1: Then he breaks it off and they're still getting vertical
Speaker 1: to keep up with the deep ball because they're a
Speaker 1: phrase going to run away from them and be this
Speaker 1: high catch radius guy. All of a sudden he's wide
Speaker 1: open on the dig or the out and turns into
Speaker 1: a runner after the catch. Jackson Hawes was a guy
Speaker 1: that I was really intrigued to watch coming in, and
Speaker 1: at first I thought he was really losing kind of
Speaker 1: the point of attack battle in pass protection and in
Speaker 1: the run game. But as the week went along, he
Speaker 1: got better at that. I think his hand striking got
Speaker 1: better and his feet were working more in unison with
Speaker 1: his hands, and then also he was doing some pretty
Speaker 1: good work as a rout runner where it was more
Speaker 1: physical and blocky out type of stuff. I thought that
Speaker 1: his tape showed a more fluid mover than what I
Speaker 1: saw on the tape during the Senior Bowl. But he
Speaker 1: remains a guy that I would keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: This tight end class. You can pretty much pick what
Speaker 1: round you want to take one in and feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about it. I think Taylor and Arroyo are going
Speaker 1: to be top forty picks in that range, so if
Speaker 1: you're gonna get one of them, you probably should do it.
Speaker 1: In the second round, provided they make it to your
Speaker 1: second round pick. Warren's not gonna get pass like the
Speaker 1: fifteenth pick, so you have to go there up top
Speaker 1: with him. I don't really think Colston Lovelin's an option
Speaker 1: for this team because of his play style, but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of guys you can't go wrong with here,
Speaker 1: and Taylor and Arroyo I think are going to be
Speaker 1: big time NFL players, and Jackson Hawes to me, could
Speaker 1: be a much better version of what Durham Smith is
Speaker 1: for you. At tackle. Arianta Esri from Minnesota, I thought
Speaker 1: he struggled against some of the long arm power guys,
Speaker 1: and that's what those guys are designed to do, right
Speaker 1: That strike stops your feet and then the train keeps
Speaker 1: rolling downhill through your strike zone and they put a
Speaker 1: hole in your chest. A couple of guys were able
Speaker 1: to get his feet stopped, and he wasn't very fluid
Speaker 1: redirecting back inside and got beat that way a few times.
Speaker 1: They were kind of dogging on him on the broadcast
Speaker 1: because he kept giving up the inside post and it's like, dude,
Speaker 1: you gotta learn and fix this thing. But he really
Speaker 1: picked it up in the team period. Where he had
Speaker 1: a wash down block the point of attack for a
Speaker 1: big run off his side, did a fantastic job in
Speaker 1: pass pro until he got beat on the inside post
Speaker 1: again on a pass rush where Mike Green, who had
Speaker 1: a great week, split him and the guard. He's there's
Speaker 1: a couple of tackles and the maybe back end of
Speaker 1: the first round second round territory that I like. I
Speaker 1: don't like as much as like Patrick Paul where he's
Speaker 1: at right now, but there's gonna be some options into
Speaker 1: that second round. And one of those guys that I
Speaker 1: thought showed well was Emery Jones. But when he moved
Speaker 1: into guard is when I liked his game better. From LSU,
Speaker 1: He's huge. I thought he looked really comfortable and his
Speaker 1: kick slide past that and strike any reaction to the
Speaker 1: rusher's first move. He would show patience and bring his
Speaker 1: feet with him. Then they kick him inside at guard,
Speaker 1: and I thought it was his best rep of the
Speaker 1: entire week. He squeezes the a gap and leans you
Speaker 1: know it, gets a good pad shelf down into the
Speaker 1: chest plate of the or the shoulder pads, I should
Speaker 1: say of the pass rusher, and cuts off the slant
Speaker 1: from a three technique across his face and just shuffle
Speaker 1: stepped him into the center. Like that intrigues me. I
Speaker 1: think there's gonna be we'll get into this city of
Speaker 1: the show. But there's a lot of tackles in this
Speaker 1: class I think make a lot of sense to draft
Speaker 1: as a potential like long term solution after Austin Jackson's
Speaker 1: contract ends. If it doesn't, you know, come back for
Speaker 1: you here and can play guard while they get that
Speaker 1: experience to kind of be that and your third tackle. Like,
Speaker 1: there's lots of options. There's so many options to go
Speaker 1: after this offensive line this offseason, and we heard Chris
Speaker 1: Career say it they're going to focus on that position,
Speaker 1: so I'll be curious to see how they do that.
Speaker 1: Speaking of offensive lineman, the interior was even better than
Speaker 1: the tackle play in this in this game. And you
Speaker 1: heard Kyle Crabs in the show shoot. I don't know
Speaker 1: he does the show so often these days, but he
Speaker 1: talked about how the Shrine Bowl was kind of the
Speaker 1: skill players and the Senior Bowls kind of the trenches.
Speaker 1: I think that proved out. Although Kyle Williams really had
Speaker 1: a huge week and you know, guys, do know how
Speaker 1: I feel about tes Johnson. Kyle's not gonna like test
Speaker 1: because he's too small. But that's that's all right. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and actually take a quick breaks. We're up
Speaker 1: against fifteen minutes here. Let's take a quick break, come
Speaker 1: back and talk about these interior offensive linemen. We'll do
Speaker 1: the entire defense. I have my top twelve and your
Speaker 1: male bag questions. Busy, busy show today. All that's next
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Speaker 1: by Auto Nation. Next week on the podcast is Trench Week.
Speaker 1: I made a song. I'm excited for you guys to
Speaker 1: hear it. It's another one of those stupid Travis productions
Speaker 1: I put on the show over once in a while.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be talking about the tackles the interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking about defensive tackles. That's a Monday, Wednesday
Speaker 1: Friday production. We will talk about tackles on Monday and
Speaker 1: do the entire you know, our roster free agents and
Speaker 1: draft picks, do the exact same thing for the interior
Speaker 1: guys on Wednesday, and do defensive tackles on Friday for
Speaker 1: French Week. And the Trench Week really kicked off with
Speaker 1: a bang here with Grey's Abel. Saw someone called him Greg.
Speaker 1: One of the beers called him Greg. I know another
Speaker 1: guy named Greg's let's pull that hang out one second.
Speaker 1: Longfellow Deeds? Wow? Is that des Frest name?
Speaker 2: Well, if the deeds you're referring to is long Fellow
Speaker 2: Deeds done? Yes, that is Deesu's first name. Well, I
Speaker 2: don't know Deej's first name. Maybe it's Greg, maybe it's
Speaker 2: long Fellow maybe, but I don't know. I know another
Speaker 2: guy named Greg. You want men to call him up?
Speaker 1: No, thank you, Please just tell us where Deeds lives.
Speaker 1: I know my guy, Adam Beasley hates Adam Sandler joints,
Speaker 1: but man, how can you anyway, let's get back on
Speaker 1: track here. Away from the Sandler verse, Grey's Abel was
Speaker 1: dominant in the team period and individuals. He showed functional
Speaker 1: strength and pure technique. He was able to reach and
Speaker 1: seal and wall off a five technique on an outside
Speaker 1: zone toss sweep in the run period. That's what we do.
Speaker 1: I texted Buddy who's down there? And I said, Hasabel
Speaker 1: lost a rep yet? And he said yeah, if he has,
Speaker 1: it was on air. Not sure. Many guys have helped
Speaker 1: themselves the way Zabel has this week, and it just
Speaker 1: kept getting better. They had him do the competition rep
Speaker 1: at the end of practice where everybody gathers around and
Speaker 1: watches him. He locks it down looking so effortless. Jeremiah
Speaker 1: said it reminded him of the week that Zach Martin
Speaker 1: had when he was down there before getting drafted in
Speaker 1: the first round by the Cowboys back in Mobile all
Speaker 1: those years ago. Jalen Rivers is a guy we talked
Speaker 1: about on Wednesday also from Miami. I finally saw him
Speaker 1: lose on that jump set rep from the guard position
Speaker 1: where we talked about that on the Wednesday show where
Speaker 1: those guys were jump setting like crazy. He got clubbed
Speaker 1: and it knocked him right off the spot, but he
Speaker 1: had a key block pulling from the backside to lead
Speaker 1: a back for a big run in the team period
Speaker 1: where the edge closed in and he had an angle,
Speaker 1: but you could see Rivers's life the thirty five inch
Speaker 1: arms just kind of extend and get enough of a
Speaker 1: piece of that edge to knock him off the track
Speaker 1: for that big run. He also cleared a lane with
Speaker 1: a seal in red zone work for a touchdown where
Speaker 1: he came off of his original block and caught a
Speaker 1: piece of the backer right at the point of attack.
Speaker 1: Those are the kind of combo blocks you're looking for
Speaker 1: if you're a Miami Dolphin evaluator. Marcus bo from Perdue.
Speaker 1: I like his pad level, his strike, and the absorbed
Speaker 1: combination in the drop back game, especially at guard. I
Speaker 1: thought he struggled at tackle. I think it's a pretty
Speaker 1: easy conversion inside for him and that might actually bump
Speaker 1: him down somewhere in the second round if you are
Speaker 1: so intrigued by that. Willie Lampkin from North Carolina, the
Speaker 1: first rep you see, you can see this guy's wrestling background.
Speaker 1: He's gritty, he's tough, he's feisty, all that stuff. Kind
Speaker 1: of plays center like Brent Grimes played cornerback, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. But the most unique part of his
Speaker 1: game he's five ten, two hundred and seventy pounds. Darnell Washington,
Speaker 1: the tight end from a couple of years ago, was
Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty pounds when he came out. He
Speaker 1: is going to be lower than you to have better
Speaker 1: leverage than you, and his flexibility allows him to sink
Speaker 1: into that anchor so nicely. You have to imagine that
Speaker 1: he has to get bigger. I mean, he does, but
Speaker 1: he also had a rap against Dion Walker, who's six
Speaker 1: foot six three forty five, where Walker looked like he
Speaker 1: collided with a concrete wall when Lampkin struck him with
Speaker 1: his punch. Because of all this, I went and watched
Speaker 1: his tape to confirm what had to be true. And
Speaker 1: he's a plus athlete to the numbers, not quite as
Speaker 1: good as Aaron Brewer. But like, let's be real here,
Speaker 1: he's too small. It's that simple. He's not going to
Speaker 1: be able to drive Jordan Davis off the football or
Speaker 1: Zach Sealer. But would I spend a seven on him
Speaker 1: and see if we can stack thirty pounds on him
Speaker 1: in two years and if he can carry it. I
Speaker 1: bet he could because he's a try hard guy that
Speaker 1: will do anything. But this is the kind of developmental
Speaker 1: pipeline guy I'm talking about here, Like he's gonna fall
Speaker 1: deep into the draft because of a serious deficiency. Can
Speaker 1: you put him in your pipeline with a low investment,
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick or a priority UDFA and give
Speaker 1: him two years in the program to build thirty pounds
Speaker 1: of muscle, or just thirty pounds in general, why not?
Speaker 1: Like why not? You know, Wyatt Millum. I don't want
Speaker 1: to keep dunking on the guy, but I am just
Speaker 1: not seeing it here the West Virginia Prospect. He's out
Speaker 1: of control. It looks. It reminds me of a liamin
Speaker 1: practice far too often on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1: Defensive tackle Walter Nolan, this guy we talked about from
Speaker 1: Old miss and the update on him is I'm still
Speaker 1: trying to figure out the best way to describe his
Speaker 1: work as a pass rusher. Jeremi I did a good
Speaker 1: job of it. He said that he gives you nothing
Speaker 1: to put your hands on because of how he can
Speaker 1: coil and explode. You just can't get a piece of him.
Speaker 1: He's so consistently getting guys in their heels all week long.
Speaker 1: Jamari called well from Oregon. What a day he had
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. He started with power in the one on
Speaker 1: one portion and was just dog walking guys. He's a
Speaker 1: squatty body type that can really work under you and
Speaker 1: just play through you. But then he started flashing the
Speaker 1: slant to the outside shoulder and just sliding by guys
Speaker 1: with quickness. Legit, I didn't know his measurements. I was
Speaker 1: thinking he might be like six three, three thirty. Nope,
Speaker 1: he's six foot one, three hundred and forty pounds. I
Speaker 1: love that body type for a guy that can both
Speaker 1: play the run and stack it up, but also has
Speaker 1: some wiggles. A pass rusher could be a Benito Jones
Speaker 1: plus in that regard off the edge. The spoiler of
Speaker 1: Top twelve. The best player of the entire week was
Speaker 1: Shamar Stewart, and if you follow my coverage, you knew
Speaker 1: that was going to be the case because I've been
Speaker 1: talking about this guy as a perfect fit. At two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety pounds. They can play edge and kick
Speaker 1: inside defensive tackle for an Anthon Weaver defense that loves
Speaker 1: to rotate guys around and use rush games because of
Speaker 1: the explosive lateral agility, dog mentality. He's got rare bend
Speaker 1: and power for that two hundred and ninety yard frame
Speaker 1: where he can play the one technique off your center,
Speaker 1: he can play the three technique off your guard, or
Speaker 1: he can play the five technique off your tackle. He
Speaker 1: thwarted a cut block backside and team period and closed
Speaker 1: down to the cutback land for a tackle for loss.
Speaker 1: Later on he bowl rushed the right tackle and the
Speaker 1: pop alone helped him disengage from the attachment from the blocker,
Speaker 1: and he sent the right tackle up to Birmingham with
Speaker 1: the way he knocked him back and sacked the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He made a big play on a peel back on
Speaker 1: Wednesday as well. He was everywhere I've seen people talk
Speaker 1: about it. He doesn't how much a plan where he can't
Speaker 1: finish that well, but I think there's plenty that'll work
Speaker 1: with this a player you get him into your program.
Speaker 1: Mike Green from Marshall. Just seeing his composition, I don't
Speaker 1: think the weight is going to be an issue for him.
Speaker 1: He did add some weight and carried it very well
Speaker 1: this week up to like two forty five. I think
Speaker 1: it was the way he threatens the upfield shoulder and
Speaker 1: then has a really fast and violent swipe to keep
Speaker 1: with a bend around the corner to keep his frame clean,
Speaker 1: which he has to do with that size. I think
Speaker 1: he can win a lot of rushes as a rookie.
Speaker 1: His finishing on tape is probably the best part of
Speaker 1: his game, where he has this knack for getting the
Speaker 1: quarterback to the ground by like collapsing their legs, but
Speaker 1: not in a Brady Rule type of way. It's kind
Speaker 1: of hard to explain. He had that rep that you
Speaker 1: saw on Social where he buried Organs Josh Connory. There
Speaker 1: were just a bunch of wins against those jump sets
Speaker 1: where you know the tackle, even the guard wants to
Speaker 1: go reduce the space between you and he, so he
Speaker 1: jumps out there. And they'll do that in this drill
Speaker 1: because the defensive lineman can kind of take liberties with
Speaker 1: how much room they have to rush. And so there
Speaker 1: was a counter on that on Wednesday, and the guys
Speaker 1: were kind of jumping under their pads and bowl rushing
Speaker 1: them and knocking them backwards. And Connorley had a nice
Speaker 1: bounced back rep on the very next rep after that happened.
Speaker 1: But he did have a pretty tough week. I thought
Speaker 1: Connorly did. Donovan oh Man, there's a Boston College edge.
Speaker 1: He's a rouco. I hope I got that right. I didn't.
Speaker 1: He flashed some twitchy, freaky blow by rush moves. DJ
Speaker 1: was raving about how you see the most gifted rusher
Speaker 1: short in the corner and the way he did that
Speaker 1: against Connorlely in a one on one pass rush situation
Speaker 1: where he sets the tackle up for a crossover step
Speaker 1: and then rips across the outside like you're trying to
Speaker 1: like squeeze that angle, like you're bending the curve around
Speaker 1: a mountain with your you know, your sports car, where
Speaker 1: the shoulder kind of dips under and you simultaneously angle
Speaker 1: your way back into the quarterback and almost pin them
Speaker 1: in that spot. It's a good way to not run
Speaker 1: around the quarterback and get a sack. He showed some
Speaker 1: of that capability in his pass rush arsenal At linebacker
Speaker 1: Jeff Bossa from Oregon. He was in Wednesday podcast, but
Speaker 1: update there. I just love the way he plays on
Speaker 1: a string as a hookbacker in coverage. He sees the
Speaker 1: quarterback's eyes and moves with it. He had a nice
Speaker 1: play on Jayden Higgins a pop on the hookup route
Speaker 1: that he ran during the team portions of drill. That's
Speaker 1: a big receiver there. Jack Kuiser from no He had
Speaker 1: some nice plays sinking down into the running game and
Speaker 1: the point of attack where he would basically, you know,
Speaker 1: shorten the distance, then scrape off that block and go
Speaker 1: make a tackle with a point of attack. Had two
Speaker 1: TFLs also picked off Milrow where he was the curl
Speaker 1: defender and just kind of read the eyes back over
Speaker 1: to the middle of the field and jumped over under
Speaker 1: an over route, jumped under the over route for the
Speaker 1: easy pick at cornerback. Trey Amos from Old Miss withdrew
Speaker 1: after the weeks after Wednesday's work, and it was easy
Speaker 1: to see why in terms of the fluidity he was
Speaker 1: the guy from that group. He gets into phase and
Speaker 1: a couple of verticals and the way he drives back
Speaker 1: down the stem is as sudden as you've seen in
Speaker 1: this class, and that's going to be a theme for
Speaker 1: the next three guys I talk about her. In fact,
Speaker 1: these guys were all in the notes on Wednesday. Isaiah
Speaker 1: Thomas from Florida State, Quincy Riley from Louisville, and Maxwell
Speaker 1: Harrison from Kentucky. We're all in the notes. Thomas just
Speaker 1: stays so low out of his stands through the route,
Speaker 1: doesn't lift his pads and get himself off balance. He's
Speaker 1: a big cornerback and he moves like that. That's going
Speaker 1: to make him a high pick if he runs well.
Speaker 1: In Indye. Quincy Riley, the instincts were all over the tape.
Speaker 1: Once again. He blew up a screenplay, undercut a dig
Speaker 1: and dropped the pick. But he trusts what he sees
Speaker 1: and just goes. And then Harriston was awesome. He was
Speaker 1: a terrific cover guy. Just mirrors, gets into phase, stays
Speaker 1: on balance through contact, and rides the receiver to the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Really good reaction skills. He had an awesome win in
Speaker 1: the competition period as well. At safety. All my favorite
Speaker 1: safeties that were in this game dropped out because they
Speaker 1: were Lathan Ransom and Exavier Watts, the guys that played
Speaker 1: in the National championship game. But two guys that popped
Speaker 1: was Dan Jackson, who is the exact same name from
Speaker 1: the Key and Peel skit right, Dan Johnson from BYU right,
Speaker 1: and he looks just like that guy too. But he
Speaker 1: had two nice wins. One against Mason Taylor on a
Speaker 1: vertical route and then he also stayed on top of
Speaker 1: Jackson Hawes a little end cut route in won both
Speaker 1: of those reps. And then KeAndre Jackson, a Hula Bowl
Speaker 1: call up name who showed out well at the Senior
Speaker 1: boll It's how you get yourself into the draft and
Speaker 1: make yourself some money man. Good job for KeAndre Jackson.
Speaker 1: He made a play every single day, including a really
Speaker 1: nice pass breakup in red zone seven v seven where
Speaker 1: he read a slant flat combination and drove down the
Speaker 1: passing lane to take away that touchdown and break it up.
Speaker 1: I thought he matched up as well as any safety
Speaker 1: in one on ones versus tight ends and the Hula
Speaker 1: Bowl call up thing. It's been a busy month for him.
Speaker 1: He's showing well and made himself some mullah. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break right there, come back and do
Speaker 1: my Top twelve from the Senior Bowl as well as
Speaker 1: your mail bag questions to finish up the show. That's
Speaker 1: all next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Auto Nation, The big Dogs, the Top twelve,
Speaker 1: Shamar Stewart, Texas A and M Number one. My favorite
Speaker 1: player of the entire week, the two hundred and ninety
Speaker 1: pounds edge, team, period, individual. He did everything run, game, production, sack,
Speaker 1: He used power and then speed and team and one
Speaker 1: on one. He was the best player out there. I
Speaker 1: thought Gray's Abel, little old North Dakota State grays Abel
Speaker 1: was second. The quote of the week. If he lost
Speaker 1: a rep, it was on air. He matched any and
Speaker 1: all comers. He is a Day two pick after the
Speaker 1: week that he had Walter Nolan out of Old miss
Speaker 1: Who's going to be a top ten pick. I just
Speaker 1: hadn't watched him yet, and so I failed to give
Speaker 1: you guys proper commentary before the Senior Bowl. He is
Speaker 1: just uniquely slippery as a rusher, and I have very
Speaker 1: little doubt he'll be effective as a pro. Top ten
Speaker 1: pick all day. Mason Taylor out of LSU. He did
Speaker 1: everything you want to see from a tight end. He
Speaker 1: hit a second level block from the ye position, he
Speaker 1: made tough catches off of his frame, he outran linebackers
Speaker 1: in safeties. Then you get these character references. I know
Speaker 1: it's his dad, Jason Taylor, but listen to the way
Speaker 1: JT talks about Mason, and you can hear on the
Speaker 1: broadcast and you can also hear it on the latest
Speaker 1: edition of the fish Tank podcast that came out this week.
Speaker 1: Really good episode with JT giving you a lot of
Speaker 1: truth in the last twenty five years or I guess
Speaker 1: really over the course of his entire life. Mason Taylor,
Speaker 1: He's special man. He's gonna be a really good pro.
Speaker 1: Number five was teed Johnson, the receiver out of Oregon.
Speaker 1: He was the uncoverable guy, the one that made the
Speaker 1: drill look impossible. Downright silly movement at one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty six pounds. Quincy Riley, the cornerback from Louisville. Fluid
Speaker 1: instincts kept pinning verticals to the perimeter and working his
Speaker 1: way back down this time on comebacks. He has NFL
Speaker 1: movement and feel. Man, I didn't put tray Amos in
Speaker 1: here because he skipped the last day, and I dock
Speaker 1: guys for that, even though I guess I kept you
Speaker 1: were in there. So what am I talking about? Stuart
Speaker 1: was special. Kyle Williams number seven, the Washington state wide
Speaker 1: receiver up. He has the best release game all week
Speaker 1: in Mobile. He won routes right away, and that gives
Speaker 1: you those indicators that two always talks about, right where
Speaker 1: if I have to get an outside release against outside
Speaker 1: leverage and I can win that, it tells me what
Speaker 1: that cornerback is going to do, which can dictate how
Speaker 1: the safety plays it. And from one quick snapshot, if
Speaker 1: I'm looking at you early in the progression, you win
Speaker 1: your route. I can be informed by the rest of
Speaker 1: the coverage based upon that, that's what two loves about
Speaker 1: Jaylen Waddell asked him that personally, I think he would
Speaker 1: love the exact same thing about Kyle Williams, who really
Speaker 1: catches everything. He's always open. Seems like a good combination
Speaker 1: to me. Elijah Arroyo from Miami. The straight line speed,
Speaker 1: quick acceleration off the line, and the ability to lean
Speaker 1: and break off the routes is a deadly combination of
Speaker 1: past game prowess. Man. I cannot imagine he has to
Speaker 1: wait long on day two to hear his name called.
Speaker 1: He was awesome out there. Jack Besh number nine, the
Speaker 1: TCU wide receiver. There was a vertical throw that was
Speaker 1: a miss where he had an extra gear to accelerate
Speaker 1: to the football and outrun the cornerback. If he can
Speaker 1: do that with how he blocks in the screen and
Speaker 1: run game, and how he's able to create separation with
Speaker 1: physicality against type press coverage in a short amount of space,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of things I think we could have
Speaker 1: been better out last year. I think Jack Besch gives
Speaker 1: you all of those if you draft him, probably somewhere
Speaker 1: on day two. Number ten is Damien Martinez, the Miami
Speaker 1: running back, across the board as a runner, pass protector,
Speaker 1: pass catcher. I thought he was the best back out there.
Speaker 1: He ran some zone of Oregon State more Man Gap
Speaker 1: at Miami, and he's two hundred and thirty pounds and
Speaker 1: has a great feel for stretching a run out and
Speaker 1: choosing the bang, bounce, bend lane that's take it wide,
Speaker 1: take it inside, take it back the other direction. I
Speaker 1: just see a player that can help you be versatile
Speaker 1: in your scheme and your week to week game planning
Speaker 1: because he can kind of do it all. I just
Speaker 1: sort of like them all Michael Bolton's entire catalog, even
Speaker 1: if it's more of a Master of None type of situation.
Speaker 1: He's got really really good zone I think instincts that
Speaker 1: will be liked here. Mike Green from Marshall Number eleven.
Speaker 1: I docked him because of the skipping Thursday that, you know,
Speaker 1: he was so explosive. He did get washed in the
Speaker 1: run game a couple of times. But he's got freaky
Speaker 1: getoff and ability to angle as a rusher. That's that's
Speaker 1: going to play at the next level. Number twelve Jalen
Speaker 1: Rivers from Miami. I think he's gonna be a really
Speaker 1: good guard, plus, he has movement skills for that spot.
Speaker 1: He's bigger than the requisite size and strength for inside
Speaker 1: at three hundred and thirty pounds thirty five inch arms.
Speaker 1: He's a rare, rare prospect. I would keep an eye
Speaker 1: on him on Day two as well as a potential
Speaker 1: guard fix for you. My biggest takeaway from three days
Speaker 1: of a scout in these players and really getting about
Speaker 1: halfway through the positions for the capsules, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good football players in this draft. It might not
Speaker 1: have the multiple Hall of Famers up top in the
Speaker 1: first round that some classes do, but that's not really
Speaker 1: our problem or our range. Anyways, we're at thirteen, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be in a position to get a very good
Speaker 1: player first round, type of player that could start right away.
Speaker 1: You could take a number one player, probably at safety,
Speaker 1: tight end, linebacker if you want. You could probably get
Speaker 1: OT three, four or five in that spot. And if
Speaker 1: that's if that's armand Membu the Missouri I think he
Speaker 1: starts at you for guard next year and is your
Speaker 1: third tackle in the event of an injury, and has
Speaker 1: long term tackle prospects. I don't hate those options, especially
Speaker 1: if it's Josh Simmons, who right now to me from
Speaker 1: Ohio State is ot one, but he's gonna get knocks.
Speaker 1: He tores acl back in October. There's going to be
Speaker 1: a really good defensive tackle because Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant,
Speaker 1: both the Michigan guys, and Walter Nolan are all worthy
Speaker 1: of top ten selections. To be honest, there's just too
Speaker 1: many players for you to miss out on a player
Speaker 1: that should be a five year starter at cost control
Speaker 1: for you. But then as you go along, I think
Speaker 1: there's numerous chances to draft players and just play really
Speaker 1: good football with those guys, like athletes with acumen for
Speaker 1: the game. It's all over the draft, the tight end position,
Speaker 1: the safeties, the offensive line. To be honest, there's a
Speaker 1: million defensive tackles. I think it's the best linebacker class
Speaker 1: in some time. This is a hard draft, I think
Speaker 1: to mess up. That's what Kyle Crabs always tells me.
Speaker 1: I agree with him. That's the takeaway that I have
Speaker 1: from this week in Mobile and all the capsules I've done.
Speaker 1: I think there's going to be clusters of a handful
Speaker 1: of players at multiple spots that you pick at where
Speaker 1: you feel pretty good about what's on the board for
Speaker 1: you than those spots. I think they will add capital
Speaker 1: still at this point, I think they can really add
Speaker 1: you know, they could really add a couple more picks
Speaker 1: if you move, as you know, certain players and get
Speaker 1: those more picks and maybe move back in the draft.
Speaker 1: Not to mention you, probably you probably are going to
Speaker 1: get two third round comp picks when we gets hired
Speaker 1: next year's cycle. I think he will. I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go get us eight contributors at cost control
Speaker 1: for the next four years. That's the goal, and it
Speaker 1: can be done in my opinion. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: pivot off that and answer a few of your male
Speaker 1: bad questions and get out of here for the week
Speaker 1: at Science and Football. In your opinion, is it best
Speaker 1: to draft an elite athlete and hope that it can
Speaker 1: become that they can be converted to another position or
Speaker 1: to our scheme, or is it best to draft a
Speaker 1: player that has more moderate abilities but can fit in
Speaker 1: right away. That's a great app By the way, Science
Speaker 1: and Football, this is something I struggle with every year.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you, there's an old I get
Speaker 1: a cliche. I guess that the coach wants the player
Speaker 1: who's polished and executes, and the scout wants the ball
Speaker 1: of clay, the athlete that they can mold. I often
Speaker 1: find myself down the middle on that, and our scheme
Speaker 1: is unique, and it's something I've been trying to communicate
Speaker 1: for a long time now, and I guess doing a
Speaker 1: poor job of it. But they like tackles at guard.
Speaker 1: They like their build, they like their athletic ability. You
Speaker 1: are asked to get to different landmarks than the offensive
Speaker 1: line are in other offenses. Like to spell it out
Speaker 1: like this. Let's say a player, you know a play
Speaker 1: is four seconds long, the same amount of time, but
Speaker 1: in our offense you have to get to a landmark
Speaker 1: fifteen yards away, and other offenses you have to get
Speaker 1: to that landmark that might be ten yards away. So
Speaker 1: obviously you need different players. So they like guys that
Speaker 1: have athleticism to play tackle and they like to make
Speaker 1: them guards. But if you have a freak athlete guard
Speaker 1: that works as well. I think you have to balance
Speaker 1: the entire prospect and the entire case. If the upsides
Speaker 1: is so great that you can take the risk that
Speaker 1: it might not work out, then you don't do it,
Speaker 1: and then how high is the floor on the more
Speaker 1: proven player? Like you have to balance all that stuff
Speaker 1: then with a scheme idea. This defense is so fluid
Speaker 1: and requires guys to play multiple spots, I think you
Speaker 1: do lean more towards the plus athlete that has that versatility,
Speaker 1: because if you get a bunch of those guys, you'll
Speaker 1: be you should be okay at dan PFL with our
Speaker 1: current draft picks, how many Day one starters should we
Speaker 1: hope for and which positions are most likely to play? Safety,
Speaker 1: tight end, interior, offensive line or a small, fast wide
Speaker 1: receiver off the top, I do think that needs we
Speaker 1: have today, and again, this change is so frequently in
Speaker 1: this time of year, can can be different tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: if I can tell you we need a safety and
Speaker 1: we can bring back Javon Holland, and that changes the
Speaker 1: entire things, right, But I don't think that'll happen for posterity.
Speaker 1: Just think it's worth explaining. But man, I just don't
Speaker 1: see the draft as trying to fill out your roster
Speaker 1: with the need you have. I think you take the
Speaker 1: best players and the premium positions offer greater value because
Speaker 1: of the savings that you get there. I always like
Speaker 1: to see what cost it is in free agency to
Speaker 1: get a player at a position. So, like, what's it
Speaker 1: going to be to get a top edge, Probably twenty
Speaker 1: five fifty million dollars wide receiver? Same right, what is
Speaker 1: the top safety going to get? Like twelve million? So
Speaker 1: if you can hit on a receiver or edge, there's
Speaker 1: more value in that than the guard safety. But then
Speaker 1: also too, those positions do tend to slide, so you
Speaker 1: can really maximize the value, like the Lions class in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, right, Gibbs, Campbell, Branch, Laporta. None of
Speaker 1: those are premium positions. All of those players are already
Speaker 1: some of the best at their position, and I would
Speaker 1: say three of them are top five at their position.
Speaker 1: And those were critical players on a fifteen to two
Speaker 1: football team. So I always say draft for a player
Speaker 1: that you think will be the best long term. I'm
Speaker 1: really not a fan of a drafting for just what
Speaker 1: you need this year. I think it's very shortsighted and
Speaker 1: how you get yourself in a lot of trouble at
Speaker 1: s or sorry at Scooter v thirteen. How would you
Speaker 1: rank Miami's prioritization of unrestricted free agents heading into the offseason. PS.
Speaker 1: Severance is the ultimate I'm following like eighty four percent
Speaker 1: of what's happening here, and all I know for certain
Speaker 1: is that it's efing intense and amazing. One of the
Speaker 1: best cast in shows I can remember. Yeah, Severance is
Speaker 1: like already a better call Saul. Good for me. I
Speaker 1: really really like that show. As far as the unrestricted
Speaker 1: free agents, ma'am, you know, I see a lot of
Speaker 1: the panic from the beat and everything about how many
Speaker 1: free agents they do have. But show me one that's
Speaker 1: like an impact player, you know what I mean. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how I feel about it. Kaleis Campbell is
Speaker 1: probably my top priority of the entire group. I would
Speaker 1: say Tyreel Dotson as my linebacker three in hopes of
Speaker 1: upgrading linebacker two is a big priority for me in
Speaker 1: that spot as well. But heto Jones, I liked what
Speaker 1: he did this year. I'd probably offer him another one
Speaker 1: year contract to come back. There's just not a lot, man.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good position to be, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be able to, you know, take some losses and
Speaker 1: not be that worried about it and then add some
Speaker 1: players if they get the eight guys I'm talking about
Speaker 1: that can contribute on cost control contracts, and they can
Speaker 1: get three or four free agents, then we're going to
Speaker 1: be an eleven win team again. That's fighting in the
Speaker 1: playoffs once again at Sea Gammon, do you have faith
Speaker 1: in McDaniel and the staff to do the things you
Speaker 1: listened out in your podcast at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: My first thought was, I truly hope McDaniel has the
Speaker 1: same list, But I have my doubts. I think there
Speaker 1: will be a concerted effort for change in general. I
Speaker 1: think that they realize they're going to have to do
Speaker 1: that because I think jobs might be on the line otherwise.
Speaker 1: But I do believe that there will be an effort,
Speaker 1: but execution something else. We'll see, man, I mean, it
Speaker 1: could happen. It could not happen. We'll find out. We
Speaker 1: shouldn't just sweat and dread everything that happens beforehand, because
Speaker 1: what good does that do you? So yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it could happen. We'll see. I'm not I'm not like
Speaker 1: convicted that it will, but it could. At Rick Hernandez,
Speaker 1: seeing the importance of winning the turnover battle in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: what's the outlook in this area. I'm worried whether we
Speaker 1: have the offense or whether the offense may be too
Speaker 1: dangerous with these timing patterns, sometimes throwing directly at a defender,
Speaker 1: relying on a receiver get into the right spot first.
Speaker 1: It's funny, isn't it. How we spend all this time
Speaker 1: talking about needs and how contenders are built and how
Speaker 1: we have to replicate that, and then it pretty much
Speaker 1: just comes down to who makes fewer mistakes in those
Speaker 1: playoff games. I do think we have to do a
Speaker 1: bad job of generating takeaways next year. You know, that
Speaker 1: was one area this defense did not excel with. They
Speaker 1: can be more opportunistic and can, you know, put themselves
Speaker 1: in better spots to make interceptions. I think you can
Speaker 1: get more fumbles next year with the return of Field
Speaker 1: and Phillips and Bradley Chubb. It is an interesting point
Speaker 1: on the offense because it is a risky style, right,
Speaker 1: but that risk also increases the risk the defenses has.
Speaker 1: Defenses have of making a mistake, so you weigh the
Speaker 1: risk and reward. But in general, man, as long as
Speaker 1: it's too and he's gonna throw a couple of picks
Speaker 1: like that year, but I really trust him to make
Speaker 1: the decisions there and lead us to the Promised Land
Speaker 1: with with how he makes those throws. So I prefer it,
Speaker 1: quite honestly. Last one here at a brash twenty seven,
Speaker 1: patiently waiting the arrival of our first sonde March twentieth. Congratulations, man,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be awesome. Any tips or tricks you know
Speaker 1: of to help us get through the first couple of months.
Speaker 1: Just support your partner, man, That is number one. She's
Speaker 1: gonna go through a whole lot in this process. You're
Speaker 1: gonna change the way you look at her. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be amazing. You have to be the world's greatest assistant.
Speaker 1: Anytime you can help with late night wake ups, take
Speaker 1: care of the dishes or laundry, encourage her to nap.
Speaker 1: There's only so much you can do as the father
Speaker 1: early on, so just to communicate and be overly supportive.
Speaker 1: And then with the kid, just accept and embrace that
Speaker 1: kids are going to cry and be difficult. Don't stress
Speaker 1: about it. It's life. You will want to especially in public,
Speaker 1: but kids cry, man, if the strangers will get mad
Speaker 1: at you for that. Most of all, You've got this brother,
Speaker 1: it's inherent and you you know what to do, don't
Speaker 1: sweat it. Next week Trench Week, we're gonna recap Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl and All Star Our games with Kyle Krabs. Busy
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