WEBVTT - Drive Time: Kyle Crabbs 2025 Dolphins Offseason Preview 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.400 What is a dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.680 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.000 we are going to get you ready for what's to 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:21.239 come this week across the National Football League. Kyle Krabs 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.759 joins us to talk about the biggest storylines ahead of 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.920 free agency, his picks for Dolphins fits. We'll also do 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.200 a mock draft for the top thirteen in the NFL 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:33.120 and a full seven round Dolphins mock draft. All of 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.159 that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:37.640 Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.400 This is the Drive Time Podcast, daff. 0:00:43.280 --> 0:00:45.600 It's that time of year again, the brand new league 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.720 year set to kick off here in just a couple 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.680 of hours at least the legal tampering period, and then 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.239 in a couple of days on Wednesday, we'll have the 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:55.800 official start of the new league year, and all these 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:59.640 reported signings will begin to become official. All the trades 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:01.600 that happen over the last week and a half plus, 0:01:01.920 --> 0:01:03.840 all these signings over the next couple of days will 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.000 become official. Kyle Crabs joins us to take us through 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.640 everything here. Kyle, you have put in a lot of 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.040 groundwork here as we all do in this industry at 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:13.680 this time of year. 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:15.320 How you feeling about it all? Man? 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.679 Like, what are you thinking about what's gonna happen, not 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.200 just the Miami Dolphins, but across the NFL landscape. Give 0:01:20.280 --> 0:01:23.120 us your forty eight hours away from the new league year, 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:25.839 ten thousand foot perspective, if you will. 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.600 Yeah, it was alleged as though there's an off season, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:33.559 which indicates there's things that don't happen and there's gonna 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.600 be a whole lot of action for an off season 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.640 here with the league. It'll be really interesting to see 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.880 how the free agent class is received where you have 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.600 a lot of teams that have a lot of cap, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:49.320 but the general consensus appears to be it's kind of 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:53.640 an underwhelming draft class and a lot of facets. So 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:59.559 does that yield surprisingly large contracts? Does that yield teams 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:01.760 that kind of a whole firm to values and don't 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:04.120 get desperate and get into big time biding wars. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:05.680 I think that's the number one thing that I'm. 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:07.720 Really excited to see how it all plays out here 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.640 league wide here in the next couple of couple of days. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.040 Absolutely, And I think we should acknowledge right off the 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:16.040 top here that we are recording this podcast on Wednesday, 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.280 so five days before it comes out, So bear with 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:21.239 us on anything that changes over the next couple of 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:22.960 days in the weekend, as I'm sure plenty of stuff 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.760 will come across the wire. I think by the time 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.520 I text you about doing the show today versus when 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:29.839 we got on the podcast, it was like we've seen 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.040 Christian Kirk, Tyler Lockett, a couple of guys already announced 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.760 as being released from their current club. So hang with 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.120 us there. And speaking of that, we got some news 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.240 on this Wednesday. I just wanted to ask you, Kyle, 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.400 to help describe something for us on the show. Keon 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.880 Smith and Cam Good, we're officially let me find the 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:50.519 actual verbiage here. We're tendered the following attended exclusive rights 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.760 free agents, Cam Good and Keon Smith. Can you tell 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:54.079 us what exactly that means? 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:58.000 It's exclusive rights free agents are players that have not 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:02.520 reached the three years of tenured or recrude seasons in 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.680 the NFL, and when your contract expires and you have 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.640 not accrued at least three seasons of NFL play, the 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:12.880 team that you played for last has an opportunity to 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.880 automatically effectively sign you with an exclusive rights free agent 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:24.600 tender for whatever that year's minimum salary is for a 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:26.720 player with however many years you've been in the league, 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:31.200 and that figure is not fully guaranteed. So if that 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:33.440 player doesn't make the roster, it's not like you're out 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:37.160 and lose that cap space for dead money, because you 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.640 would pay it to them up front. It's just automatically 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.840 returns the team chooses to withhold your rights for a 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.520 minimum salary for an additional. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.120 Year, and we should be seeing some movement. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.160 There was a couple other players that were in a 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.040 similar category. Grant to Bos was an exclusive rights free agent, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:55.160 and then Quentin Bell cater Coho and Anthony Schwartz restricted 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:59.000 free agents, which follows somewhat similar language in terms of 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:03.120 how thoseasically first ride of refusal in contract negotiations go 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.960 with draft pick round tenders and all kinds of stuff 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:07.720 that we'll get into when those moves become official. But 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:09.280 I want to start here, Kyle, or I guess we 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.400 already began pivot now towards this changing landscape of free agency, 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.200 and I was looking at the top, you know, one 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.039 oh one list from from PFF or NFL dot Com 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:22.320 and just kind of going through what people think in 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.640 terms of how this class shakes out or you know, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.839 stacks up, or how it will shake out in terms 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.760 of who goes where. And I wanted to get your 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.520 take on this because I have an opinion myself that 0:04:31.560 --> 0:04:33.400 I wanted to put to someone that I respect and 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.560 kind of see if you think I'm on base, off base, 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.480 or where how far off I am. It's like pretty 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:42.240 rare nowadays that the great players make it into free agency, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:46.520 Like those players are usually acquired via trades. I think 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.840 teams do a much better job nowadays than they used 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.159 to at getting the value for their want a way 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:55.760 players or players that for whatever circumstances arises they can't keep. 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.880 Now it happens like I think Jordan Brooks is a 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.880 great player, but for a guy like him, he had 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:03.880 to overcome a serious injury, you know, and prove that 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:04.920 he could play after that injury. 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:05.920 That's that's kind of the point here. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:08.400 There's usually at least like one reason that a guy 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.240 is available, whereas in the past it felt like it 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.800 was a little bit more guesswork. And I think maybe 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.600 teams have better data these days than they did back 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.440 then for external reviews, and you would sort of follow 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:23.520 the cycle of spend, you know, overspend, get yourself kind 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.680 of strapped for cash right up to the bubble, then 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.840 that bursts, then you have to reset and kind of 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.120 do that cycle over again. But you still have these 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.560 teams with super deep pockets, and I think gone are 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.360 the days of restoring your roster with stars by signing 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:38.680 free agents. I think you have to do it through 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.960 the draft or trades, where free agency to me is 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.839 a great place for quality starters. Maybe you can spend 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.239 a little bit more cheese on one or two guys 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:51.440 that is somewhere between that superstar and quality starter, you know, monikers, 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.080 and then look to make your splashes in the trades. 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.320 And then of course the big key you've got a draft. Well, 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.080 it's like a cheat code in this ever rising salary 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.159 cap landscape. That's my take on free agency in twenty 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.320 twenty five compared to what it was even just a 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:04.960 few years ago. 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.280 What say you, Kyle, Yeah, I think the biggest thing 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:13.159 is with the expanding tools that continue to exist for 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:18.400 teams to continue to finance into the future interest free 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:20.520 with the growth of the salary cap. But then also 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:24.160 the emergence of void years, which was really not a 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.040 thing like five six years ago, and it has now 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:30.359 become almost commonplace across the league for every team to 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.800 have some number of contracts that have voids and continue 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.040 to push more money that we're paying this year out 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:40.919 into being debt against future, your salary cap and the 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.920 growth rate of all of that. Anybody you want to keep, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.719 you can generally keep unless you do it to the 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.200 umpteenth degree and max it out for five six years, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.719 which you see a team in the NFC South that 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.960 has put themselves in that position and their cash spend 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:02.120 has really fallen and off and they have to continue 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.960 to restructure all their contracts just to get compliant and 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.760 put feel a roster. So yeah, I would generally agree 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:12.360 that the vast majority of free agents that are available 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:18.640 are available for at least some degree of a hole 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.040 in their resume that has you questioning, like, how stable 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.040 of assigning is this for us moving forward? 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:25.320 Now? 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.440 I do think you look at a team like in 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:30.000 New Orleans, They're probably one of the teams that I 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:31.960 would consider it to be an exception to that, just 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:35.920 because if they're giving market contracts out and they have 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.600 for so long not done the reset of how they 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.480 address their books. You've seen them have some quality players 0:07:43.480 --> 0:07:45.640 that have left in free agency because the Saints just 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.440 simply couldn't offer a competitive contract. 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.400 To keep them. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:53.520 But yeah, I'd say the standard across the league is 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:57.040 that the flexibility that you're afforded is such that if 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.800 you want to keep anybody and there's anybody worth keeping, 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:01.680 you will find a way. 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:02.720 To make it work, and it'll work. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.520 Like it it am I crazy to say that these because, 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.320 like I remember, every year for longest time, I was like, 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.000 here's the teams that have the most cap space, and 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:11.680 that was so attractive to be one of those teams. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.560 But it doesn't really seem like it's that attractive of 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.280 an endeavor anymore, because really the reason you have that 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.840 much cap space is because you don't have enough internal 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.520 guys that are worth spending your cap on. Right, Like, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:24.720 it kind of seems like having a boatload of cap 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.280 space in today's free agency landscape isn't necessarily a great thing. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.760 I think if you have the right pieces in place, 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.240 you can obviously spend the next several seasons of throwing 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.040 your weight around. And I do still think it is 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:43.319 a cyclical element of having a fresh start with your 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:46.400 cap and then you build talent, and then your talent matures, 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.719 and if you have a heavy draft focus, those contracts 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.240 mature and then you know you're a little less active 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.679 in free agency and you do have to cycle through. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.640 And I think you saw that with the Dolphins when 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.480 what they had the nineteen twenty and twenty one classes 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:05.880 where they had such a large influx in draft picks, 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:10.760 and then you've seen these contracts mature and how the 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.360 Dolphins went about assembling their roster was a little different, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.720 and it feels like the pendulum for the Dolphins is 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.800 starting to swing back the other way. So I still 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.880 think this is a very sicklical league in that regard, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.839 but as far as individual talents, it definitely gives you 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:28.040 a lot more play in wiggle room. 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.760 Yeah, perhaps I should rephrase that and say that as 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.719 long as you're spending what you're getting in return, then 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.960 it's a good business. Like if you're spending you know, 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.120 twenty million dollars in a player who's playing like a 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.440 ten million dollar player, you do that enough times, you're 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.000 going to be in a bad spot cap wise, So 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.439 That's kind of my point is that there's there seems 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:48.800 to be almost more supply these days of cash to 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.600 spend than demand of what's available in terms of the 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.480 player out there. So just kind of a fun topic 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.240 I wanted to kick around with you. And speaking of 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.880 all that, like I said, some of these names are 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.760 going to start going off the board. We'll put this 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.800 podcast out probably morning, maybe like a late Sunday night 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.200 release for the hell of it, but we'll see what 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.440 happens with it. But I wanted to kind of just 0:10:05.559 --> 0:10:07.679 gauge where you think some of these top guys might go. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:10.680 And I think we start with Sam Donald. Where do 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:12.920 you think the top quarterback? What are the only like 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:16.800 potentially franchise quarterback available? Right kind of feels that way 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.200 in terms of not being in the free agent class. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.640 We might see trades that could happen, I suppose, but 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.880 he's like the only potential franchise quarterback out there. Do 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:26.880 you think he does get that type of deal? And 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.160 where do you think he might wind up. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.360 I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up landing with 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.160 the Raiders if it's not back in Minnesota. It seems 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:35.480 like there's some interest to get that dumb. Minnesota has 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:40.960 cap space, but the terms of that, and they kicked 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:43.360 around doing a franchise tag. I think they have a 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.480 really fine line to walk there in Minnesota with Sam Donald. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.920 But Raiders are number two in the NFL and salary 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.640 cap space at their disposal, they're picking sixth, so they 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:58.160 are generally on the outside looking in for opportunities to 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:01.520 swing the bat for top quarter top quarterback or quarterbacks, 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.319 depending on who you talk to. So I could totally 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:07.920 see them being a team that with Pete Carroll, they 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.400 are probably going to want to be aggressive. They hired 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.880 the NFL's oldest head coach this offseason to be their 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:14.760 head coach in year one, and he's already the oldest 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:19.239 head coach, so like, you don't have the same timeline 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.920 or luxury as some of the teams that went super 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:25.120 young and hired really young coaches that hey, if everything works, 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.200 you might be here for a couple decades, you know, 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:29.920 And maybe Pete Carroll does that, but I'd be surprised. 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:33.160 Right it feels like his time on task is going 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:34.680 to be a little shorter, and i'd expect them to 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:36.719 haveack with proper urgency in that regard, and. 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.160 Just again to reiterate, we've already seen on this day 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.880 Joe Tooney betrayed to the Chicago Bears or reports, so 0:11:41.920 --> 0:11:44.320 that it will happen once the new league year kicks off. 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.520 Jonah Jackson also on the move from the Rams to 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.720 the Bears, so the Bears loaded up on the offensive 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:52.200 line with some pricey veterans. So far in the trade market, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.440 Deebo Samuel has left the Niners, or I should say 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:57.840 will when the new league year begins to go to 0:11:57.880 --> 0:11:59.640 the commander. So again, a lot of big moves are 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:01.439 gonna happ by the time you guys hear this podcast. 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.320 And don't forget DK Metcalf officially requesting a trade, which 0:12:05.360 --> 0:12:07.120 came out since we started recording this. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.600 Though you asked me before it came on, what's going 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.839 to happen during the recording? There you go right off 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.120 the top, and that was kind of, I guess somewhat expected, right. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:16.760 He's expressed some less than happy thoughts in Seattle and 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.240 Tyler Lockett on the move, so man talk about a 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.319 generation shift there in Seattle, moving off some some pretty 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.160 big names. If that does in fact happen for both 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.680 those guys, Kyle, I'm looking at the NFL dot com 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.560 Top one hundred players, and three of the top five 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.560 players and their free agency list are Eagles World champion. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.040 I mean Milton Williams, who was a big get for them, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.079 Zach Bond was the biggest probably value by of the 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.000 entire NFL calendar last year, and then Josh Sweat. Do 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:42.679 you think those guys are going to depart Philly and 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.040 go elsewhere? Do they come back and try to run 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:45.400 it back? 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:49.160 I would expect that you will probably see a majority 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:53.280 of that group bounce out. With Milton Williams and Josh 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:58.200 Sweat in particular, feel like they're very poised for I 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:04.080 think big Cashian opportunities. The past rush market is always 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.640 one that will run hot, and those two guys individually, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.360 as guys who can rush on the inside and guys 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.679 who can rush on the outside, I expect they'll have 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:14.679 pretty robust markets because, as we said, there are a 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.160 couple of teams I just have a lot of spending 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.480 power at their disposal. Zach Bonn is an interesting one because. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:24.400 Frankly, he. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.840 Was in a couple of different systems and it never 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.440 really clicked. And then he's in Philadelphia and it does. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:36.600 So how much does he value potentially cashing out now 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.720 and signing a big contract that goes somewhere else or 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.520 signing for a little less to come back and continue 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:45.240 to play well and fortify his resumes, approven quality, NFL 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.960 starter And what that long term and short term decision 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.440 looks like for him, I think will be a little 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:52.440 bit more interesting. But I think the two defensive linemen 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.320 I would guess are going to be all the way out. 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.120 Just such an interesting look here. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.880 I mean, I'm looking at the number ten and eleven 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.600 are Devonte Adams and Amari Cooper, two guys were required 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:02.959 for mid round draft picks. I mean, Adams goes to 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.760 the Jets for a third round pick last year, and 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.840 now he's released. I'm looking at number whereas a number 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.040 eighteen asan Redick was a holdout for half the year, 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.080 now goes into his age thirty season. 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.800 Like it's just kind of the landscape of it right now. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.319 And that's why I want to get to here in 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:18.000 a second on the second side of the show and 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.640 talk about your Dolphins offseason plan. But before we do that, 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.840 one last question for you about general NFL. 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.040 Are there any. 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:27.640 Obvious names Matt with team matches out there that you 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:30.200 see on this list, whether it's the top player on 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:32.800 the free agency list or player one oh one, whatever 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.520 it might be. Are there any like clear and obvious 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.600 player team fits that you see, and maybe it's a 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:38.840 Miami Dolphin out there, I don't know. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:39.520 Whatever. You think. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.200 It's tough for especially for Miami, just to kind of 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.760 know what the market is gonna look like. I think 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:53.880 there's some very low hanging fruit with say Aaron Banks, 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:58.120 the offensive guard from San Francisco, who played in a 0:14:58.200 --> 0:14:59.920 scheme that has a lot of the same ver verb. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.360 He brings some different traits to the front that I 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.040 think is a player that would make a lot of 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.920 sense for the Dolphins. But Tom Pellisero this morning reported, 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.120 you know, he was one of the name five names 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.360 on the list of players who might get paid more 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:17.440 than you expect and invoke the Robert Hunt contract. And 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:21.440 if that right, yeah, that's the stratosphere that that the 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.440 dollars get there, then I'm not going to pick that 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.560 to be a fit for the Dolphins. 0:15:26.600 --> 0:15:28.440 But I made a face there, Kyle. That's why he's 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.680 breacting too. By the way, it was the you know 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.120 the meme of the lady making guy. Yeah, yeah, there 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:37.480 you go, Kombucha te girl. Either one works. I was 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:39.560 just surprised when I heard that name with that figure 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:40.120 next to it. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.720 So I think, if the dollars make sense, Aaron Banks 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.080 would be a great addition that has familiar with the 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.280 terminology and a lot of the core concepts. But that's 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.440 I think what makes it hard to pencil in a 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:56.359 fit for Miami is they don't have one hundred million. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:56.960 Dollars in cap space. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.680 Although generally speaking, like I do think they will be 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.080 much have the opportunity to be much more competitive this 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.120 year in free agency if they want to be than 0:16:04.120 --> 0:16:06.800 what they were last year when they're operating cap throughout 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:07.400 March and April. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.400 I think, really, you only ever got off to like eighteen. 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:13.120 Million dollars, which coincided with the plan to really make 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.400 sure they protect those compensatory picks which we're going to 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.560 cash in on this year. And you know, if coach 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.360 Weaver gets a head coaching job next year, two more 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.680 third round picks down the pipe as well, if that does, 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:22.360 in fact happen. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.040 So I want you to put a pin in that, Kyle. 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:25.960 I want to come back and get into your Dolphins 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:26.840 offseason plans. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:27.920 So far, he's. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.640 Done a really good job of kind of parsing through 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:33.040 all of this. If you want cap language and money 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.920 and the economic balance of it all to attach the 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.360 talent evaluation. Kyle is your guy for the Lockdown Dolphins podcast. 0:16:39.400 --> 0:16:41.000 Let's go ahead and take a break, come back and 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.200 get into all of that. Here next on the Draft 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.720 Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.960 My guest today is we are just hours away from 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.440 the new I keep saying new league year, but it's 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.400 the official tampering period before the new league year kicks off. 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.400 Is Kyle Krab to take us through all things Dolphins 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.880 off season? It's it's Christmas morning, isn't it, Kyle? Like 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.439 I remember when this when the NFL wasn't like a 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.440 twelve month news cycle like it is now. That time 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.760 between the Super Bowl and free agency felt like it 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:14.399 took forever, but now it like it flies by and 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:16.639 I'm still very excited. But back in the day, it 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:18.640 was like it was like opening Day to me, free 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.679 agency day one, Where do you come down on how 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:22.600 this how this kind of moves the needle for you. 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:27.359 I'll never forget some of those free agent windows in 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.320 my youth where the Dolphins would be very active and 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.720 aggressive and it always felt like a holiday. And as 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:39.280 I've gotten older, like maturing is realizing maybe some of 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:41.600 the biggest contracts aren't the most exciting ones. 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:44.840 You know, it's it's the who was it? I believe 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:46.720 it was. Mike Rabel did his. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.840 Introductory Like Show appearance with the New England Patriots and 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.880 their their team media and he said, there's there's two 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.280 chapters of the first wave of free agency. The first 0:17:57.320 --> 0:18:00.000 one is the guys who want to optimize their earning potential, 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:01.639 and the second one is the guys who are looking 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:05.760 for the right fit for their next stop. And that 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:10.119 really resonates with me with a lot of your best 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.720 value players are not necessarily the players that are the 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.200 best name brand players for where they were with their 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:18.359 old team. It's the players who find the the Aaron 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.000 Brewers of the world who finds like a marquee fit 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.240 that that's tailored to all of his strengths and he 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.639 signs a market deal that but it's not a record 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:32.000 setting deal, but man, that contract really looks great. That 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.480 Jordan Brooks, a you know, John new Smith was a 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.600 little bit different because he was cut from his old 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:41.360 contract so he could sign early. He wasn't an expiring contract, 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.600 he was a street free agent, but kind of the 0:18:43.640 --> 0:18:47.520 same spirit of that as far as those guys that 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.439 Dolphins fans should be able to relate to. As we 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.040 talk about this as a league wide thing, players like 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:56.000 that that that you know, you're not resetting market contract 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.440 rates and all that kind of stuff. But man, you 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.840