Speaker 1: What is a dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: we are going to get you ready for what's to
Speaker 1: come this week across the National Football League. Kyle Krabs
Speaker 1: joins us to talk about the biggest storylines ahead of
Speaker 1: free agency, his picks for Dolphins fits. We'll also do
Speaker 1: a mock draft for the top thirteen in the NFL
Speaker 1: and a full seven round Dolphins mock draft. All of
Speaker 1: that and more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Drive Time Podcast, daff.
Speaker 1: It's that time of year again, the brand new league
Speaker 1: year set to kick off here in just a couple
Speaker 1: of hours at least the legal tampering period, and then
Speaker 1: in a couple of days on Wednesday, we'll have the
Speaker 1: official start of the new league year, and all these
Speaker 1: reported signings will begin to become official. All the trades
Speaker 1: that happen over the last week and a half plus,
Speaker 1: all these signings over the next couple of days will
Speaker 1: become official. Kyle Crabs joins us to take us through
Speaker 1: everything here. Kyle, you have put in a lot of
Speaker 1: groundwork here as we all do in this industry at
Speaker 1: this time of year.
Speaker 2: How you feeling about it all? Man?
Speaker 1: Like, what are you thinking about what's gonna happen, not
Speaker 1: just the Miami Dolphins, but across the NFL landscape. Give
Speaker 1: us your forty eight hours away from the new league year,
Speaker 1: ten thousand foot perspective, if you will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was alleged as though there's an off season,
Speaker 3: which indicates there's things that don't happen and there's gonna
Speaker 3: be a whole lot of action for an off season
Speaker 3: here with the league. It'll be really interesting to see
Speaker 3: how the free agent class is received where you have
Speaker 3: a lot of teams that have a lot of cap,
Speaker 3: but the general consensus appears to be it's kind of
Speaker 3: an underwhelming draft class and a lot of facets. So
Speaker 3: does that yield surprisingly large contracts? Does that yield teams
Speaker 3: that kind of a whole firm to values and don't
Speaker 3: get desperate and get into big time biding wars.
Speaker 2: I think that's the number one thing that I'm.
Speaker 3: Really excited to see how it all plays out here
Speaker 3: league wide here in the next couple of couple of days.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, And I think we should acknowledge right off the
Speaker 1: top here that we are recording this podcast on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: so five days before it comes out, So bear with
Speaker 1: us on anything that changes over the next couple of
Speaker 1: days in the weekend, as I'm sure plenty of stuff
Speaker 1: will come across the wire. I think by the time
Speaker 1: I text you about doing the show today versus when
Speaker 1: we got on the podcast, it was like we've seen
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk, Tyler Lockett, a couple of guys already announced
Speaker 1: as being released from their current club. So hang with
Speaker 1: us there. And speaking of that, we got some news
Speaker 1: on this Wednesday. I just wanted to ask you, Kyle,
Speaker 1: to help describe something for us on the show. Keon
Speaker 1: Smith and Cam Good, we're officially let me find the
Speaker 1: actual verbiage here. We're tendered the following attended exclusive rights
Speaker 1: free agents, Cam Good and Keon Smith. Can you tell
Speaker 1: us what exactly that means?
Speaker 3: It's exclusive rights free agents are players that have not
Speaker 3: reached the three years of tenured or recrude seasons in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and when your contract expires and you have
Speaker 3: not accrued at least three seasons of NFL play, the
Speaker 3: team that you played for last has an opportunity to
Speaker 3: automatically effectively sign you with an exclusive rights free agent
Speaker 3: tender for whatever that year's minimum salary is for a
Speaker 3: player with however many years you've been in the league,
Speaker 3: and that figure is not fully guaranteed. So if that
Speaker 3: player doesn't make the roster, it's not like you're out
Speaker 3: and lose that cap space for dead money, because you
Speaker 3: would pay it to them up front. It's just automatically
Speaker 3: returns the team chooses to withhold your rights for a
Speaker 3: minimum salary for an additional.
Speaker 2: Year, and we should be seeing some movement.
Speaker 1: There was a couple other players that were in a
Speaker 1: similar category. Grant to Bos was an exclusive rights free agent,
Speaker 1: and then Quentin Bell cater Coho and Anthony Schwartz restricted
Speaker 1: free agents, which follows somewhat similar language in terms of
Speaker 1: how thoseasically first ride of refusal in contract negotiations go
Speaker 1: with draft pick round tenders and all kinds of stuff
Speaker 1: that we'll get into when those moves become official. But
Speaker 1: I want to start here, Kyle, or I guess we
Speaker 1: already began pivot now towards this changing landscape of free agency,
Speaker 1: and I was looking at the top, you know, one
Speaker 1: oh one list from from PFF or NFL dot Com
Speaker 1: and just kind of going through what people think in
Speaker 1: terms of how this class shakes out or you know,
Speaker 1: stacks up, or how it will shake out in terms
Speaker 1: of who goes where. And I wanted to get your
Speaker 1: take on this because I have an opinion myself that
Speaker 1: I wanted to put to someone that I respect and
Speaker 1: kind of see if you think I'm on base, off base,
Speaker 1: or where how far off I am. It's like pretty
Speaker 1: rare nowadays that the great players make it into free agency,
Speaker 1: Like those players are usually acquired via trades. I think
Speaker 1: teams do a much better job nowadays than they used
Speaker 1: to at getting the value for their want a way
Speaker 1: players or players that for whatever circumstances arises they can't keep.
Speaker 1: Now it happens like I think Jordan Brooks is a
Speaker 1: great player, but for a guy like him, he had
Speaker 1: to overcome a serious injury, you know, and prove that
Speaker 1: he could play after that injury.
Speaker 2: That's that's kind of the point here.
Speaker 1: There's usually at least like one reason that a guy
Speaker 1: is available, whereas in the past it felt like it
Speaker 1: was a little bit more guesswork. And I think maybe
Speaker 1: teams have better data these days than they did back
Speaker 1: then for external reviews, and you would sort of follow
Speaker 1: the cycle of spend, you know, overspend, get yourself kind
Speaker 1: of strapped for cash right up to the bubble, then
Speaker 1: that bursts, then you have to reset and kind of
Speaker 1: do that cycle over again. But you still have these
Speaker 1: teams with super deep pockets, and I think gone are
Speaker 1: the days of restoring your roster with stars by signing
Speaker 1: free agents. I think you have to do it through
Speaker 1: the draft or trades, where free agency to me is
Speaker 1: a great place for quality starters. Maybe you can spend
Speaker 1: a little bit more cheese on one or two guys
Speaker 1: that is somewhere between that superstar and quality starter, you know, monikers,
Speaker 1: and then look to make your splashes in the trades.
Speaker 1: And then of course the big key you've got a draft. Well,
Speaker 1: it's like a cheat code in this ever rising salary
Speaker 1: cap landscape. That's my take on free agency in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five compared to what it was even just a
Speaker 1: few years ago.
Speaker 3: What say you, Kyle, Yeah, I think the biggest thing
Speaker 3: is with the expanding tools that continue to exist for
Speaker 3: teams to continue to finance into the future interest free
Speaker 3: with the growth of the salary cap. But then also
Speaker 3: the emergence of void years, which was really not a
Speaker 3: thing like five six years ago, and it has now
Speaker 3: become almost commonplace across the league for every team to
Speaker 3: have some number of contracts that have voids and continue
Speaker 3: to push more money that we're paying this year out
Speaker 3: into being debt against future, your salary cap and the
Speaker 3: growth rate of all of that. Anybody you want to keep,
Speaker 3: you can generally keep unless you do it to the
Speaker 3: umpteenth degree and max it out for five six years,
Speaker 3: which you see a team in the NFC South that
Speaker 3: has put themselves in that position and their cash spend
Speaker 3: has really fallen and off and they have to continue
Speaker 3: to restructure all their contracts just to get compliant and
Speaker 3: put feel a roster. So yeah, I would generally agree
Speaker 3: that the vast majority of free agents that are available
Speaker 3: are available for at least some degree of a hole
Speaker 3: in their resume that has you questioning, like, how stable
Speaker 3: of assigning is this for us moving forward?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 3: I do think you look at a team like in
Speaker 3: New Orleans, They're probably one of the teams that I
Speaker 3: would consider it to be an exception to that, just
Speaker 3: because if they're giving market contracts out and they have
Speaker 3: for so long not done the reset of how they
Speaker 3: address their books. You've seen them have some quality players
Speaker 3: that have left in free agency because the Saints just
Speaker 3: simply couldn't offer a competitive contract.
Speaker 2: To keep them.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I'd say the standard across the league is
Speaker 3: that the flexibility that you're afforded is such that if
Speaker 3: you want to keep anybody and there's anybody worth keeping,
Speaker 3: you will find a way.
Speaker 2: To make it work, and it'll work.
Speaker 1: Like it it am I crazy to say that these because,
Speaker 1: like I remember, every year for longest time, I was like,
Speaker 1: here's the teams that have the most cap space, and
Speaker 1: that was so attractive to be one of those teams.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't really seem like it's that attractive of
Speaker 1: an endeavor anymore, because really the reason you have that
Speaker 1: much cap space is because you don't have enough internal
Speaker 1: guys that are worth spending your cap on. Right, Like,
Speaker 1: it kind of seems like having a boatload of cap
Speaker 1: space in today's free agency landscape isn't necessarily a great thing.
Speaker 3: I think if you have the right pieces in place,
Speaker 3: you can obviously spend the next several seasons of throwing
Speaker 3: your weight around. And I do still think it is
Speaker 3: a cyclical element of having a fresh start with your
Speaker 3: cap and then you build talent, and then your talent matures,
Speaker 3: and if you have a heavy draft focus, those contracts
Speaker 3: mature and then you know you're a little less active
Speaker 3: in free agency and you do have to cycle through.
Speaker 3: And I think you saw that with the Dolphins when
Speaker 3: what they had the nineteen twenty and twenty one classes
Speaker 3: where they had such a large influx in draft picks,
Speaker 3: and then you've seen these contracts mature and how the
Speaker 3: Dolphins went about assembling their roster was a little different,
Speaker 3: and it feels like the pendulum for the Dolphins is
Speaker 3: starting to swing back the other way. So I still
Speaker 3: think this is a very sicklical league in that regard,
Speaker 3: but as far as individual talents, it definitely gives you
Speaker 3: a lot more play in wiggle room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, perhaps I should rephrase that and say that as
Speaker 1: long as you're spending what you're getting in return, then
Speaker 1: it's a good business. Like if you're spending you know,
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in a player who's playing like a
Speaker 1: ten million dollar player, you do that enough times, you're
Speaker 1: going to be in a bad spot cap wise, So
Speaker 1: That's kind of my point is that there's there seems
Speaker 1: to be almost more supply these days of cash to
Speaker 1: spend than demand of what's available in terms of the
Speaker 1: player out there. So just kind of a fun topic
Speaker 1: I wanted to kick around with you. And speaking of
Speaker 1: all that, like I said, some of these names are
Speaker 1: going to start going off the board. We'll put this
Speaker 1: podcast out probably morning, maybe like a late Sunday night
Speaker 1: release for the hell of it, but we'll see what
Speaker 1: happens with it. But I wanted to kind of just
Speaker 1: gauge where you think some of these top guys might go.
Speaker 1: And I think we start with Sam Donald. Where do
Speaker 1: you think the top quarterback? What are the only like
Speaker 1: potentially franchise quarterback available? Right kind of feels that way
Speaker 1: in terms of not being in the free agent class.
Speaker 1: We might see trades that could happen, I suppose, but
Speaker 1: he's like the only potential franchise quarterback out there. Do
Speaker 1: you think he does get that type of deal? And
Speaker 1: where do you think he might wind up.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if he ends up landing with
Speaker 3: the Raiders if it's not back in Minnesota. It seems
Speaker 3: like there's some interest to get that dumb. Minnesota has
Speaker 3: cap space, but the terms of that, and they kicked
Speaker 3: around doing a franchise tag. I think they have a
Speaker 3: really fine line to walk there in Minnesota with Sam Donald.
Speaker 3: But Raiders are number two in the NFL and salary
Speaker 3: cap space at their disposal, they're picking sixth, so they
Speaker 3: are generally on the outside looking in for opportunities to
Speaker 3: swing the bat for top quarter top quarterback or quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: depending on who you talk to. So I could totally
Speaker 3: see them being a team that with Pete Carroll, they
Speaker 3: are probably going to want to be aggressive. They hired
Speaker 3: the NFL's oldest head coach this offseason to be their
Speaker 3: head coach in year one, and he's already the oldest
Speaker 3: head coach, so like, you don't have the same timeline
Speaker 3: or luxury as some of the teams that went super
Speaker 3: young and hired really young coaches that hey, if everything works,
Speaker 3: you might be here for a couple decades, you know,
Speaker 3: And maybe Pete Carroll does that, but I'd be surprised.
Speaker 3: Right it feels like his time on task is going
Speaker 3: to be a little shorter, and i'd expect them to
Speaker 3: haveack with proper urgency in that regard, and.
Speaker 1: Just again to reiterate, we've already seen on this day
Speaker 1: Joe Tooney betrayed to the Chicago Bears or reports, so
Speaker 1: that it will happen once the new league year kicks off.
Speaker 1: Jonah Jackson also on the move from the Rams to
Speaker 1: the Bears, so the Bears loaded up on the offensive
Speaker 1: line with some pricey veterans. So far in the trade market,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel has left the Niners, or I should say
Speaker 1: will when the new league year begins to go to
Speaker 1: the commander. So again, a lot of big moves are
Speaker 1: gonna happ by the time you guys hear this podcast.
Speaker 3: And don't forget DK Metcalf officially requesting a trade, which
Speaker 3: came out since we started recording this.
Speaker 1: Though you asked me before it came on, what's going
Speaker 1: to happen during the recording? There you go right off
Speaker 1: the top, and that was kind of, I guess somewhat expected, right.
Speaker 1: He's expressed some less than happy thoughts in Seattle and
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett on the move, so man talk about a
Speaker 1: generation shift there in Seattle, moving off some some pretty
Speaker 1: big names. If that does in fact happen for both
Speaker 1: those guys, Kyle, I'm looking at the NFL dot com
Speaker 1: Top one hundred players, and three of the top five
Speaker 1: players and their free agency list are Eagles World champion.
Speaker 1: I mean Milton Williams, who was a big get for them,
Speaker 1: Zach Bond was the biggest probably value by of the
Speaker 1: entire NFL calendar last year, and then Josh Sweat. Do
Speaker 1: you think those guys are going to depart Philly and
Speaker 1: go elsewhere? Do they come back and try to run
Speaker 1: it back?
Speaker 3: I would expect that you will probably see a majority
Speaker 3: of that group bounce out. With Milton Williams and Josh
Speaker 3: Sweat in particular, feel like they're very poised for I
Speaker 3: think big Cashian opportunities. The past rush market is always
Speaker 3: one that will run hot, and those two guys individually,
Speaker 3: as guys who can rush on the inside and guys
Speaker 3: who can rush on the outside, I expect they'll have
Speaker 3: pretty robust markets because, as we said, there are a
Speaker 3: couple of teams I just have a lot of spending
Speaker 3: power at their disposal. Zach Bonn is an interesting one because.
Speaker 2: Frankly, he.
Speaker 3: Was in a couple of different systems and it never
Speaker 3: really clicked. And then he's in Philadelphia and it does.
Speaker 3: So how much does he value potentially cashing out now
Speaker 3: and signing a big contract that goes somewhere else or
Speaker 3: signing for a little less to come back and continue
Speaker 3: to play well and fortify his resumes, approven quality, NFL
Speaker 3: starter And what that long term and short term decision
Speaker 3: looks like for him, I think will be a little
Speaker 3: bit more interesting. But I think the two defensive linemen
Speaker 3: I would guess are going to be all the way out.
Speaker 2: Just such an interesting look here.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking at the number ten and eleven
Speaker 1: are Devonte Adams and Amari Cooper, two guys were required
Speaker 1: for mid round draft picks. I mean, Adams goes to
Speaker 1: the Jets for a third round pick last year, and
Speaker 1: now he's released. I'm looking at number whereas a number
Speaker 1: eighteen asan Redick was a holdout for half the year,
Speaker 1: now goes into his age thirty season.
Speaker 2: Like it's just kind of the landscape of it right now.
Speaker 1: And that's why I want to get to here in
Speaker 1: a second on the second side of the show and
Speaker 1: talk about your Dolphins offseason plan. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: one last question for you about general NFL.
Speaker 2: Are there any.
Speaker 1: Obvious names Matt with team matches out there that you
Speaker 1: see on this list, whether it's the top player on
Speaker 1: the free agency list or player one oh one, whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. Are there any like clear and obvious
Speaker 1: player team fits that you see, and maybe it's a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin out there, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Whatever. You think.
Speaker 3: It's tough for especially for Miami, just to kind of
Speaker 3: know what the market is gonna look like. I think
Speaker 3: there's some very low hanging fruit with say Aaron Banks,
Speaker 3: the offensive guard from San Francisco, who played in a
Speaker 3: scheme that has a lot of the same ver verb.
Speaker 3: He brings some different traits to the front that I
Speaker 3: think is a player that would make a lot of
Speaker 3: sense for the Dolphins. But Tom Pellisero this morning reported,
Speaker 3: you know, he was one of the name five names
Speaker 3: on the list of players who might get paid more
Speaker 3: than you expect and invoke the Robert Hunt contract. And
Speaker 3: if that right, yeah, that's the stratosphere that that the
Speaker 3: dollars get there, then I'm not going to pick that
Speaker 3: to be a fit for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But I made a face there, Kyle. That's why he's
Speaker 1: breacting too. By the way, it was the you know
Speaker 1: the meme of the lady making guy. Yeah, yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go, Kombucha te girl. Either one works. I was
Speaker 1: just surprised when I heard that name with that figure
Speaker 1: next to it.
Speaker 3: So I think, if the dollars make sense, Aaron Banks
Speaker 3: would be a great addition that has familiar with the
Speaker 3: terminology and a lot of the core concepts. But that's
Speaker 3: I think what makes it hard to pencil in a
Speaker 3: fit for Miami is they don't have one hundred million.
Speaker 2: Dollars in cap space.
Speaker 3: Although generally speaking, like I do think they will be
Speaker 3: much have the opportunity to be much more competitive this
Speaker 3: year in free agency if they want to be than
Speaker 3: what they were last year when they're operating cap throughout
Speaker 3: March and April.
Speaker 2: I think, really, you only ever got off to like eighteen.
Speaker 1: Million dollars, which coincided with the plan to really make
Speaker 1: sure they protect those compensatory picks which we're going to
Speaker 1: cash in on this year. And you know, if coach
Speaker 1: Weaver gets a head coaching job next year, two more
Speaker 1: third round picks down the pipe as well, if that does,
Speaker 1: in fact happen.
Speaker 2: So I want you to put a pin in that, Kyle.
Speaker 1: I want to come back and get into your Dolphins
Speaker 1: offseason plans.
Speaker 2: So far, he's.
Speaker 1: Done a really good job of kind of parsing through
Speaker 1: all of this. If you want cap language and money
Speaker 1: and the economic balance of it all to attach the
Speaker 1: talent evaluation. Kyle is your guy for the Lockdown Dolphins podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a break, come back and
Speaker 1: get into all of that. Here next on the Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation.
Speaker 1: My guest today is we are just hours away from
Speaker 1: the new I keep saying new league year, but it's
Speaker 1: the official tampering period before the new league year kicks off.
Speaker 1: Is Kyle Krab to take us through all things Dolphins
Speaker 1: off season? It's it's Christmas morning, isn't it, Kyle? Like
Speaker 1: I remember when this when the NFL wasn't like a
Speaker 1: twelve month news cycle like it is now. That time
Speaker 1: between the Super Bowl and free agency felt like it
Speaker 1: took forever, but now it like it flies by and
Speaker 1: I'm still very excited. But back in the day, it
Speaker 1: was like it was like opening Day to me, free
Speaker 1: agency day one, Where do you come down on how
Speaker 1: this how this kind of moves the needle for you.
Speaker 3: I'll never forget some of those free agent windows in
Speaker 3: my youth where the Dolphins would be very active and
Speaker 3: aggressive and it always felt like a holiday. And as
Speaker 3: I've gotten older, like maturing is realizing maybe some of
Speaker 3: the biggest contracts aren't the most exciting ones.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's the who was it? I believe
Speaker 2: it was. Mike Rabel did his.
Speaker 3: Introductory Like Show appearance with the New England Patriots and
Speaker 3: their their team media and he said, there's there's two
Speaker 3: chapters of the first wave of free agency. The first
Speaker 3: one is the guys who want to optimize their earning potential,
Speaker 3: and the second one is the guys who are looking
Speaker 3: for the right fit for their next stop. And that
Speaker 3: really resonates with me with a lot of your best
Speaker 3: value players are not necessarily the players that are the
Speaker 3: best name brand players for where they were with their
Speaker 3: old team. It's the players who find the the Aaron
Speaker 3: Brewers of the world who finds like a marquee fit
Speaker 3: that that's tailored to all of his strengths and he
Speaker 3: signs a market deal that but it's not a record
Speaker 3: setting deal, but man, that contract really looks great. That
Speaker 3: Jordan Brooks, a you know, John new Smith was a
Speaker 3: little bit different because he was cut from his old
Speaker 3: contract so he could sign early. He wasn't an expiring contract,
Speaker 3: he was a street free agent, but kind of the
Speaker 3: same spirit of that as far as those guys that
Speaker 3: Dolphins fans should be able to relate to. As we
Speaker 3: talk about this as a league wide thing, players like
Speaker 3: that that that you know, you're not resetting market contract
Speaker 3: rates and all that kind of stuff. But man, you
Speaker 3: got a player that a team has a vision four
Speaker 3: and understands what they want, and the player sees how
Speaker 3: they can be a piece of that and it all
Speaker 3: fits together like that to me is the really fun
Speaker 3: part of what free agency has become now for.
Speaker 1: Me, and I think where the Dolphins to your point,
Speaker 1: we're really successful last year with Jordan Brooks, with Aaron Brewer,
Speaker 1: with John new Smith, and with you know, getting a
Speaker 1: Clays Campbell for that matter as well, was obviously very
Speaker 1: fruitful for the Miami Dolphins. Going back to Verheem most
Speaker 1: of a couple of years back as well, they've done
Speaker 1: well to Ron Arms at Connor Williams to bring guys
Speaker 1: in a free agency that have been big impact players, Kyle,
Speaker 1: I have four topics for you within this segment, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to do it in about twelve fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes here, so you can tie that up the way
Speaker 1: you want to. But I want to start off here
Speaker 1: because I come to you a lot for this because
Speaker 1: famously not a math guy. And you say the same
Speaker 1: thing on your show too, but that is not accurate
Speaker 1: in my opinion when you talk about cap and money
Speaker 1: in the NFL, because you are so good at the stuff. Brother,
Speaker 1: take us through the cap situation the Dolphins find themselves
Speaker 1: in and what's going to afford them the opportunity to do,
Speaker 1: what's going to restrict them to do? Like, just take
Speaker 1: us through where we are right now from a financial
Speaker 1: standpoint for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of different levers, hypothetical levers
Speaker 3: that the team can pull, whether that's names like Jordan
Speaker 3: Brooks or Austin Jackson. You can take their base salaries
Speaker 3: and convert a majority of that into a signing bonus,
Speaker 3: which would allow you to then spread it out over
Speaker 3: the next couple of years worth of salary cap. And
Speaker 3: you know those two names combined, you're talking it's a
Speaker 3: little over thirteen million dollars in cap space for just
Speaker 3: restructuring Austin Jackson and Jordan Brooks, those two by themselves. Obviously,
Speaker 3: you saw Tron Armstead who chose to restructure his contract
Speaker 3: down to the VET minimum, and it saves the Dolphins
Speaker 3: about twelve million dollars in cap space while he decides
Speaker 3: what his future looks like and they'll carry him on
Speaker 3: the roster until he ultimately makes a decision.
Speaker 2: But that's a cap savings.
Speaker 3: And you know they have another contract that's a big
Speaker 3: base salary player that we didn't see last year in
Speaker 3: Bradley Chubb. What the question I have is do they
Speaker 3: do what the Dolphins in Toronto arms that did last year,
Speaker 3: which was they renegotiated a salary, They put some more
Speaker 3: money into incentives that he could earn on the field,
Speaker 3: but they cut what the base salary was to prevent
Speaker 3: you from opening another need on your roster. So it'll
Speaker 3: I probably either be that or potentially a post June
Speaker 3: first cut if they can't come to some kind of
Speaker 3: agreement on Bradley Chubb. But it's one of the bigger
Speaker 3: cap hits on the team, So I would imagine they're
Speaker 3: going to end up doing something with that, and then
Speaker 3: you have the Aram Brewers of the world that you
Speaker 3: can you know, he signed a three year contract. You
Speaker 3: could do a restructure on that if the Dolphins really
Speaker 3: wanted to, And if they they did restructures for all
Speaker 3: of the players that have base salaries and multiple years
Speaker 3: left on their contracts, if you include Voyd years in there,
Speaker 3: they could get potentially up over forty forty five million
Speaker 3: dollars in cap space if they chose to do that.
Speaker 3: And that's before you get into internal free agents and
Speaker 3: what you do with Cater Kohu and you know, what
Speaker 3: do you come to terms with DeShawn Hand or Benito
Speaker 3: Jones or Kalais Campbell's guys that played on the front
Speaker 3: or Tyrell Dotson. You know, that's before you start making
Speaker 3: those kinds of moves.
Speaker 1: And hopefully they can afford to do that and then
Speaker 1: have the draft success kind of like they had last year,
Speaker 1: but maybe even more so this year with more draft
Speaker 1: picks to help themselves accommodate those expenses down the road
Speaker 1: with cheap contracts as well, with rookie rookie contracts for
Speaker 1: those impactful players right away and the next, My four
Speaker 1: questions for you is the retention the players that are
Speaker 1: due to expire, have their contracts expire this week. What
Speaker 1: are you looking at in terms of the Dolphins internal
Speaker 1: free agents and how you might attack that. What's your
Speaker 1: goals there in that position or that phase of free agency?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you identify players who you think have
Speaker 3: their best football ahead of them or were really critical
Speaker 3: pieces of the leadership component. And then I include that
Speaker 3: to put Kalais Campbell's name out there. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: he'll be in any rush to make a decision. As
Speaker 3: a guy who's pushing almost twenty years in a league,
Speaker 3: he'll probably take his good old time. But a name
Speaker 3: like cater Coo, who's a restricted free agent where you
Speaker 3: have the opportunity to We talked a little bit about
Speaker 3: exclusive rights free agent, but he's played three years, he's
Speaker 3: still a restricted free agent. The Dolphins can put a
Speaker 3: tender on him that gives them a right of first refusal,
Speaker 3: so it's a flat rate for a couple million dollars.
Speaker 3: Other teams can negotiate with him. If cater comes to
Speaker 3: terms with one of them, the Dolphins can look at
Speaker 3: the offer sheet and say, yeah, we'll match that, so
Speaker 3: he's under contract for these terms for us now. Or
Speaker 3: they could say we're not gonna match that, and then
Speaker 3: cater would leave and then go sign with that of
Speaker 3: the team. So it's kind of putting the market of
Speaker 3: the player into the hands of the league versus you
Speaker 3: trying to figure out terms for yourself. Depending on how
Speaker 3: high of a tender that you put on. There's a
Speaker 3: second round restricted free agent tenor that if you choose
Speaker 3: not to match the offer sheet and he goes and
Speaker 3: sign somewhere else, you get a second round draft pick
Speaker 3: back as compensation for that. So that's a strategic move
Speaker 3: that they'll have to make. The look at names like
Speaker 3: Tyrell Dotson, who obviously showed a lot when the Dolphins
Speaker 3: brought him in off Waivers, made a couple of big plays.
Speaker 3: Is a younger player I think still has something to prove.
Speaker 3: He was on a one year deal last year and
Speaker 3: it didn't work out. Flashed a little bit here. I'd
Speaker 3: love to get him back and competing for a starting job.
Speaker 3: And if he doesn't win a hypothetical starting job with
Speaker 3: whoever else you bring in, it's another depth player could
Speaker 3: play special teams for you. I wouldn't mind getting some
Speaker 3: of that defensive line rotation back as well, whether that's Benito, Jones,
Speaker 3: Deshan Hand. Those guys played last year for VET minimum.
Speaker 3: I think they've earned more than that. But I don't
Speaker 3: think those are the kind of break the bank players
Speaker 3: that you look at and say, I don't think that
Speaker 3: the numbers are going to be able to work out
Speaker 3: here and we're not gonna be able to have them on.
Speaker 2: The team next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and guys they can produce for you at that
Speaker 1: rate again, So that's how you supplement a roster that
Speaker 1: has guys that are top of the line, a top
Speaker 1: of their position in terms of the market and their
Speaker 1: production every single year.
Speaker 2: So I love that.
Speaker 1: And I'm just going to go ahead and spoil a
Speaker 1: little bit of your next answer here, because, for instance,
Speaker 1: I want to hear your goals. You've done a good
Speaker 1: job parsing out how to attack this offseason and not
Speaker 1: just using names rather kind of ideologies of how you
Speaker 1: want to do that, And like the Tyrel Dotson comment
Speaker 1: is a perfect segue into that, because I think ideally
Speaker 1: for you, Kyle and your approach to add competition with
Speaker 1: guys that are hungry for this stuff is to go
Speaker 1: get a a bring back a Tyrel Dotson, and then
Speaker 1: acquire some competition for him at some point, whether it's
Speaker 1: in the draft or free agency. Tell us about your
Speaker 1: goals for ideologies this offseason for the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: I think young and Hungary is a big, big central
Speaker 3: piece where you know you as a team, I think
Speaker 3: probably have to work on mitigating some of your injury
Speaker 3: risk and just just use the linebacker room as an example,
Speaker 3: where the other figure in that room that was a
Speaker 3: prominent figure down the stretch was Anthony Walker. And Walker's
Speaker 3: a well tenured player. He's an established veteran at the
Speaker 3: NFL level, but before he got to Miami kind of
Speaker 3: had some issues with staying healthy and staying on the field,
Speaker 3: and then that lo and behold ends up happening again
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three or twenty twenty five four. En Now,
Speaker 3: if he told me that at a certain price point,
Speaker 3: Anthony Walker's back, you'd say, hey, you know, it's veteran
Speaker 3: depth in the room. It's not the worst thing in
Speaker 3: the world. But as the Dolphins are transitioning out of
Speaker 3: some of their bigger contracts and they're getting ready to
Speaker 3: kind of build the next cycle of the team, and
Speaker 3: they want to be able to compete through that more
Speaker 3: cost control players on rookie contracts that can give you
Speaker 3: a lot of competition without over committing long term to
Speaker 3: veteran players. Is a balance that I think you have
Speaker 3: to walk. And a guy like Tyrrell Dotson makes sense.
Speaker 3: For he signed a one year proved deal last year
Speaker 3: and was on waivers, but then he played well here,
Speaker 3: So okay, you know, let's stay up with the inflation
Speaker 3: of the salary cap and another one year deal, prove
Speaker 3: it deal. But then ideally we have an opportunity in
Speaker 3: the draft to bring somebody in who's young, hungry, cost
Speaker 3: controlled for multiple years.
Speaker 2: He can compete with you and we can see what
Speaker 2: that looks like.
Speaker 1: I love the thought of that and the evaluation, or
Speaker 1: rather the Dodson signing told me they had a high
Speaker 1: evaluation of him last offseason and that was you know,
Speaker 1: sprung to the David Long release to bring him in
Speaker 1: because I think they viewed him as a starting linebacker
Speaker 1: in this league.
Speaker 2: So really good stuff there. Let's go ahead and close
Speaker 2: it up with this man.
Speaker 1: Your targets, Like when you look at this list of
Speaker 1: players and we talked about maybe not being his top
Speaker 1: heavy kind of akin to this draft. But there's a
Speaker 1: lot of meat in this free agency class, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at players and I think can come in right
Speaker 1: away and help this football team. It's a fun list
Speaker 1: of shop off of Kyle. Who stands out to you
Speaker 1: the most from anybody you want, go ahead and tell
Speaker 1: me about it.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: If I could add any one player, it might be
Speaker 3: Trayvon Morig. He's so good the safety from the Raiders
Speaker 3: twenty five years old, was in that twenty twenty one
Speaker 3: draft class, was top fifty pick, was a really good
Speaker 3: high post player at TCU and has really evolved his
Speaker 3: game to be really good tackler and really good playing
Speaker 3: the run now as well. So I think you have
Speaker 3: a multifaceted player that if you told me it mirrored
Speaker 3: what Marcus Williams's edition in Baltimore looked like when they
Speaker 3: signed him a few years back. That's kind of the
Speaker 3: vision I have for what he can be as a player,
Speaker 3: and that's an impact starter. So I think Trayvon Morigs
Speaker 3: a name that really stands out to me, depending on
Speaker 3: what they want the the hierarchy of the secondary in
Speaker 3: general to look like as well. I have my eyes
Speaker 3: on Nate Hobbs as another player from that Raider secondary
Speaker 3: who's one of my favorite potential fits. He can play
Speaker 3: inside and outside. He actually had some nice tape against
Speaker 3: the Dolphins this year. That Raiders defense fell apart a
Speaker 3: little bit because they got hurt so much up front.
Speaker 3: But Hobbs is a hyper competitive guy, and because he
Speaker 3: will probably get penciled by some teams as a nickel
Speaker 3: inside player, it kind of puts a little bit more
Speaker 3: of a glass ceiling on what the market might look
Speaker 3: like versus you see top outside corners now are getting
Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen twenty million, but most of your top inside
Speaker 3: and nickel corners are getting seven eight nine million. So
Speaker 3: it's a value proposition in a free agency that I
Speaker 3: think sets you up to me be a little bit
Speaker 3: more competitive for some of the best players if you're
Speaker 3: willing to go for players in those certain position groups
Speaker 3: that historically just have lower market feeds.
Speaker 1: The merrig comment here from Greg Rosentho NFL dot com said,
Speaker 1: I send a rough draft of my list of some
Speaker 1: of the smartest people I know in the business to
Speaker 1: ask for their outliers. More than one said mereg could
Speaker 1: not be placed high enough. So I think people agree
Speaker 1: with you across the board on that. And to your
Speaker 1: point about Hobbes versus the Dolphins. Like watching that tape,
Speaker 1: he was like not backing down from Tyreek Hill in
Speaker 1: that game, which I thought was like, that's that's kind
Speaker 1: of the temperament you want to get from a new player.
Speaker 1: You can kind of trust that they're going to come
Speaker 1: in here and work the right way when you watch
Speaker 1: the way they play against higher competition. Just real quick, Kyle,
Speaker 1: Just some names off top, because I would be a missic.
Speaker 1: We didn't talk about this on the show. Offensive Line.
Speaker 1: Who are some of the targets the Dolphins fans can
Speaker 1: look for in free agency across the offensive line?
Speaker 2: A couple of interesting names.
Speaker 3: I would say Joe Noteboom as a utility player, maybe
Speaker 3: more of a swing depth type player, but look pretty
Speaker 3: promising in that RAMS system early all before he got
Speaker 3: his big contract extension, had an injury there, but still
Speaker 3: a player in his late twenties that has for position
Speaker 3: flexibility that I think the Dolphins as we don't really
Speaker 3: like position flexibility. I look at Will Fries from the
Speaker 3: Indianapolis Colts, Aaron Banks, who we already mentioned as well
Speaker 3: Will Hernandez from Arizona. I would put James Daniels from
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh in that bucket as well, although he's coming off
Speaker 3: of a pretty significant injury last year. But if you
Speaker 3: sign a player like that and you hedge appropriately and
Speaker 3: then you draft in accordance, I think you can give
Speaker 3: yourself enough bites of the apple where maybe you fortify
Speaker 3: and protect yourself enough and you have some good competition
Speaker 3: between veterans and young guys, which goes back to the
Speaker 3: whole objective of what we're trying to replicate as many
Speaker 3: rooms as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be nice to be able to go into
Speaker 1: a game when you have a couple of injuries and
Speaker 1: there's James Daniels waiting for you coming off like a
Speaker 1: pup or something. If that were to happen, opposed to
Speaker 1: a street free agent you have to put into a
Speaker 1: basically a must win playoff game in December, Kyle, last
Speaker 1: break right there, come back. We're gonna mock this NFL
Speaker 1: draft through pick thirteen and give you a full seven
Speaker 1: round Dolphins mock draft. That's next. Kyle Krabs, my guest
Speaker 1: from the Lockdown Dolphins podcast. Draft Time podcast, your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We've talked
Speaker 1: about the internal free agents, the external free agents, and
Speaker 1: everything in between, and now it's time to pivot to
Speaker 1: Kyle's favorite time of year and mine and his true
Speaker 1: area of expertise, the NFL Draft. We just got back
Speaker 1: from Indy last week, the combine a rap, and now
Speaker 1: here we are talking about free agency. Before you know it,
Speaker 1: it'll be April and draft night. And so, Kyle, I
Speaker 1: wanted to go through a little mock draft with you,
Speaker 1: and I think I'll do the honorable hosting thing here
Speaker 1: and give you the first pick, unless you want to
Speaker 1: defer it to me. What do you prefer the evens
Speaker 1: of the odds here to kick us.
Speaker 2: Off, I will take the odds perfect, So go ahead
Speaker 2: and give us that Titans number one overall pick, assuming
Speaker 2: that they stay put, no trades, no trades allowed.
Speaker 3: I think they take Abdulla Carter, Pass Rusher Penn State
Speaker 3: in Heliones with their first overall pay that articularly, I
Speaker 3: do think they will trade out.
Speaker 1: But okay, that already throws a wrench into my into
Speaker 1: my entire mock that I had planned out here. So
Speaker 1: that's how this thing goes good. It goes That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: I do think I'll go cam Ward next for the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. I think you guys know how I feel
Speaker 1: about him as a prospect. I'm hopeful that he finds
Speaker 1: his way to the NFC because I feel like the
Speaker 1: AFC is already at capacity for good quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: So I hope the Giants make a move to go
Speaker 2: get him.
Speaker 1: But otherwise I think he goes off the boards either
Speaker 1: the Titans or the Browns. Should the Titans pass on him,
Speaker 1: so we go abdul Carter cam Ward one two, bing, bang,
Speaker 1: what you got next?
Speaker 3: For the Giants of the New York Giants in this scenario,
Speaker 3: I will have them taking Travis Hunter wide receiver corner
Speaker 3: from University of Calira.
Speaker 1: I also passed on Sugar Sanders for the Giants in
Speaker 1: that spot in my mock draft, so that brings us
Speaker 1: to the Patriots, and I am going to take who
Speaker 1: I have as O line one. This might come with
Speaker 1: some pushback, but I'm taking armand Membu. I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna want to protect Drake may. I don't see the
Speaker 1: value for the skill spots here to help him get
Speaker 1: his weapons in order at this particular point in time.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go top offensive lineman, armand membou to
Speaker 1: the Patriots.
Speaker 2: Okay, so Jacksonville at five.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know, don't like you don't know, you know,
Speaker 1: you know the you know, the first fifty firming.
Speaker 3: I think at this instance where you have Jacksonville has
Speaker 3: needs a corner defensive tackle, I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 3: Kenneth Grant ends up jumping Mason Graham for the Michigan
Speaker 3: defensive tackles where Graham came in a little smaller. He
Speaker 3: came in under three hundred pounds grand cut weight to
Speaker 3: three point thirty and was gonna run four eight like
Speaker 3: he's just got And I know they made a GM
Speaker 3: change there, but that's a very stylistic type of fit
Speaker 3: with some of the other personnel that Jacksonville has. So
Speaker 3: at number five, I will go with Ken Grant defensive
Speaker 3: tackle to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 1: We are becoming that like married couple that starts to
Speaker 1: look alike after too long, Like our shared acetic for
Speaker 1: players is becoming too common. Because I also had Grant
Speaker 1: jumping Mason Graham for that spot, right there, so once
Speaker 1: again in lockstep. I'm gonna this might be a curveball
Speaker 1: to you, Kyle, and I'm curious to hear if you
Speaker 1: think it is. But I'm gonna go ahead and go
Speaker 1: Johad Campbell for the Raiders number six. I think this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be a force multiplier, a three down player,
Speaker 1: a guy that can rush the quarterback and can spy
Speaker 1: the Josh Allens and Lamar Jacksons of the world. I
Speaker 1: would love him in Miami, but I think he's long
Speaker 1: gone by the time we picked number six for the Raiders.
Speaker 3: Johad Campbell, you are correct that that is a curve ball.
Speaker 3: So Jets at seven, they do have a quarterback need
Speaker 3: moving on and kind of resetting from Aaron Rodgers. They're
Speaker 3: kind of embracing this year as a transitional year from them.
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not buying the Shaar Sanders falls out
Speaker 3: of the first round buzz there. I'm sure he would
Speaker 3: love the opportunity to go to New York where he's
Speaker 3: as cool as the other side of the pillow when
Speaker 3: it comes to scrutiny immediately, like very comfortable in his
Speaker 3: own skin. I think you need that to have success.
Speaker 3: In that market. So I'll go Shooter Sanders at number seven.
Speaker 2: Of the Jets.
Speaker 1: There you go, love it. I figured he'll go somewhere
Speaker 1: in the top ten, but I didn't know where to
Speaker 1: put him exactly. The Raiders probably is the spot form
Speaker 1: I feel like makes it there, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just I see people pike him at six. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that makes sense. I can see Pete carrollby and like,
Speaker 1: I got to get my legion a boom back together.
Speaker 1: And even though that wasn't a linebacker driven defense, like
Speaker 1: Johan Campbell can just do so much for you, kind
Speaker 1: of the way Michael Bennett did and Hooways off the
Speaker 1: edge there for the Seahawks for all those years. That
Speaker 1: brings me to the Carolina Panthers at number eighth. Man,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have two options here, and I'm
Speaker 1: it's like, do you do you take the guy that
Speaker 1: you think should go or do you save him for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: That's kind of I guess why I should do that
Speaker 3: for Campbell. We want the challenging board at thirteen. Okay, perfect,
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna stick with what I think here. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna go Shamar Stewart. I think that the edge from
Speaker 3: A and M.
Speaker 1: You know they lost Brian Burns a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: trying to replace that pass rush production for that defense.
Speaker 1: Shamar Stewart to me, is going to be an absolute
Speaker 1: base in this league. He goes to the Panthers number eight.
Speaker 3: For me, New Orleans at nine, you could make an
Speaker 3: argument for a pass catcher.
Speaker 2: You can make an argument for potentially a corner.
Speaker 3: If they don't end up getting They've got an expiring
Speaker 3: contract there.
Speaker 2: That's just a challenge for them.
Speaker 3: I think to kind of find with paulse and Adebo
Speaker 3: market rate there with some of their other restrictions. So
Speaker 3: Jaday Baron gets some consideration. I think Tyler Warren gets
Speaker 3: some consideration. But if you tell me Mason Graham's on
Speaker 3: the board at number nine, I know they have Brian
Speaker 3: Berzi there at defensive tackle, but they have some other
Speaker 3: expiring contracts. Graham is a three down player on the interior.
Speaker 3: I'll pick him at number nine to the Saints.
Speaker 2: I like that quite a lot.
Speaker 1: And for number ten for the Chicago Bears, this was
Speaker 1: almost like an automatic offensive line position until today, really
Speaker 1: with two veteran acquisitions. For that, I should say Wednesday
Speaker 1: I went to this podcast a couple of days back,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna pivot off the offensive line for the
Speaker 1: Bears there, which should make some Dolphins fans happy because
Speaker 1: I will push one more offensive lineman too the Dolphins
Speaker 1: spot potentially, and I am going to take the guy
Speaker 1: that I've been talking about all spring and winter and
Speaker 1: Tyler Warren and try to help give Kayla Williams some
Speaker 1: more help in terms of, you know, that security blanket,
Speaker 1: that checkdown guy. He also can help their run game
Speaker 1: and just kind of help that offense with everything that
Speaker 1: he does because he's a three face player on offense.
Speaker 2: Tyler Warren to the Bears number ten overall.
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see if Invidy triangulates this recording
Speaker 3: time window.
Speaker 2: Shout out.
Speaker 3: Max Crosby just got made made the highest played nine
Speaker 3: quarterback in the NFL within the last minute. While we've
Speaker 3: been doing this mock three years, one hundred and six
Speaker 3: point five million with ninety one and a half million guarantee.
Speaker 2: For Max Kraft. It's amazing. I'll print deep penny and
Speaker 2: well deserved. Great player.
Speaker 3: We already picked for the Raiders though, so we couldn't
Speaker 3: tie in a Max Crosby running mate talking point with
Speaker 3: Johi Campbell San Francisco at A eleven. I want to
Speaker 3: go offensive line where you have Trent Williams, you have
Speaker 3: a right tackle upgrade opportunity. You could take somebody to
Speaker 3: step in for Trent Williams long term, who maybe plays
Speaker 3: guard in.
Speaker 2: The short term.
Speaker 3: But I look at their cornerback situation where Trevarris Ward
Speaker 3: is expected to leave in free agency. He and his
Speaker 3: family obviously had a very challenging situation where they lost
Speaker 3: a child, and he's talked about the opportunity to reset
Speaker 3: and put roots down somewhere else and the pain that
Speaker 3: they feel being there. So he's leaving in free agencies
Speaker 3: is the continued expectation. I don't know how much I'm buying.
Speaker 3: Like the whole league just decided to sell Will Johnson
Speaker 3: right Like, I know he had the turf toe injury
Speaker 3: this year and he missed part of the season, but
Speaker 3: that takes really electric and good and he's got length
Speaker 3: and size and they have a need at that spot.
Speaker 3: So you could put me down for Will Johnson and
Speaker 3: eleven and the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: I had John going off earlier in the mock. I
Speaker 1: did before you came on, and then I had Baron
Speaker 1: going on that spot for the Niners. So once again,
Speaker 1: great minds think alike. For the Cowboys, I'm taking the
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. I'm taking the fact that the running
Speaker 1: game just never got going last year and the fact
Speaker 1: that they were a Zeke Elliott team when they've drafted
Speaker 1: him back in twenty sixteen, Ashton gent from Boise State,
Speaker 1: get yourself a run game with one draft pick right
Speaker 1: there in Gent go in that direction for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: and that leaves us here with the Miami Dolphins. Kyle
Speaker 1: and on my particular board, I've got Will Campbell, I
Speaker 1: got Chavon Ravel, nick A Man Worry, I've got Josh Simmons,
Speaker 1: Carson Sweashinger, Johnny Barron, I've got Malachai Starks Like, there's
Speaker 1: some pretty damn good options here at Jalen Walker, what
Speaker 1: do you think about what could this board could look
Speaker 1: like here for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: I think we have a lot of names that we
Speaker 3: really like that if somebody's coming to knocking on your
Speaker 3: door and wants to come up for whatever reason, I
Speaker 3: have a hard time not picking up the phone and
Speaker 3: listening to what they have to say, because you could
Speaker 3: tell me that you could walk away from this first
Speaker 3: round pick opportunity with Will Campbell. Jaday Baron for me,
Speaker 3: is very high up on that list. I love Josh
Speaker 3: Simmons on the offensive line as well, even a wide
Speaker 3: receiver with Amca Buca. Kelvin Banks is a popular name
Speaker 3: to get tied to Miami if I got more names
Speaker 3: than I can count on one hand. You really like
Speaker 3: the way the board falls here, I would lean into
Speaker 3: Juday Baron with the Dolphins moving on from Kendall Fuller.
Speaker 3: But Will Campbell here at thirteen is a big surprise,
Speaker 3: and most of the league is leaning him to playing guard.
Speaker 3: And I know that's one of those things where the
Speaker 3: traditional ideologies of how the Dolphins have approached these picks.
Speaker 3: They like using these high draft picks on premium traditionally
Speaker 3: premium positions. But one of the times in which they
Speaker 3: didn't do it was when they drafted a safety with
Speaker 3: Mika Fitzpatrick because it was just too good of a
Speaker 3: value on the consensus board to pass up. And I
Speaker 3: do wonder if Will Campbell at thirteen would qualify for that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I to me his ability to play two spots
Speaker 1: and project back outside after a run inside a guard
Speaker 1: would make him very attractive to me, because I think
Speaker 1: that once, and that's tough to say, because I feel
Speaker 1: like both our tackles are pretty young players. Obviously, Patrick Ball,
Speaker 1: second year Austin Jackson will see, you know, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: the injuries don't sore itself out over the long term
Speaker 1: and he does wind up, you know, being the right
Speaker 1: tackle down the road. But you have options, you have
Speaker 1: flexibility there, So I like that pick quite a lot.
Speaker 1: To your point, I look at a couple of like
Speaker 1: force multipliers on defense. Carson Swashinger I think is good
Speaker 1: enough to go in this spot. Kyle like we've talked
Speaker 1: about him a lot, nick a man worried that the
Speaker 1: standout safety. I think all these guys are probably better
Speaker 1: options in a move back if you could acquire maybe
Speaker 1: another Day two pick somewhere. But to your point, I
Speaker 1: like the way this board falls. I'm a huge Savon
Speaker 1: Revel fan. The cornerback from the east, Colin six foot three,
Speaker 1: he probably if he would have ran, probably runs a
Speaker 1: four to three something in you know, at his forty time.
Speaker 1: Big fan of his game. So lots of fun options here.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna We're gonna stick with Will Campbell. Will
Speaker 1: make that our official selection here on the Locked On
Speaker 1: Draft Time crossover podcast mock Raft. But can you take
Speaker 1: me to Kyle through quickly an entire seven round mark
Speaker 1: for us here with Will Campbell, they're on the first
Speaker 1: give me your your your seven round picks for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So if we have Will Campbell in the first round,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna stay with the beef and I'll go Alfred
Speaker 3: Collins defensive tackle from Texas in the second round. You
Speaker 3: talk about getting tougher in the trenches and having an attitude,
Speaker 3: but guys they can move.
Speaker 2: He's he's like it.
Speaker 3: If Raykwon Davis had developed into I think what his
Speaker 3: early career Alabama potential look like it was going to be,
Speaker 3: I think it would look like what I think Alfred
Speaker 3: Collins is already. So I really like that foil alongside
Speaker 3: Zach Seeler on the defensive interior. If I were to
Speaker 3: go to the third round at ninety eight, I really
Speaker 3: am hoping that we end up seeing Laithan Ransom from
Speaker 3: Ohio State available in that spot. I think he is
Speaker 3: a big time tone setter coming down from depth. I
Speaker 3: think with one of the fourth round picks, whether it's and.
Speaker 1: Just real quick, yeah, these are compensatory picks that have
Speaker 1: not officially been awarded, but they're projected to be in
Speaker 1: these spots.
Speaker 2: Just want to make sure we get that clear across.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a projected three for the contract that they
Speaker 3: lost for Robert Hunt, and then a projected fourth round
Speaker 3: pick for Christian Wilkins because he did not meet the
Speaker 3: twenty five percent snap minimum that would have qualified him
Speaker 3: to be a third round pick. I think with one
Speaker 3: of the fource it's a good spot to kind of
Speaker 3: see what the quarterback market looked like looks like there,
Speaker 3: whether that's Dylan Gabriel, whether that's I don't think Tyler
Speaker 3: Shuck's gonna be there from Louisville. Sounds like he's got
Speaker 3: a little bit more fanfair despite being older player. But
Speaker 3: that's the range I would be comfortable with some of
Speaker 3: the injury risk there. I also really like Will Howard.
Speaker 3: That might not be popular a popular opinion because he
Speaker 3: didn't have a great throwing session throwing the guys he'd
Speaker 3: never thrown two in his life before. But I like
Speaker 3: the toughness, the intangibles. I think he's got a nice arm.
Speaker 3: He's a big guy that can win within the pocket,
Speaker 3: but is athletic enough to get outside the pocket. So
Speaker 3: so Will Howard's the name that it appeals to me
Speaker 3: with one of those Day three picks as well, I
Speaker 3: guess I shouldn't double dip and go offensive line, right
Speaker 3: if we took Will Campbell at thirteen. So with that
Speaker 3: that other linebacker spot I'd be looking for. Whether it's
Speaker 3: a Kobe King from Penn State, another physical guy again,
Speaker 3: somebody to kind of come in and compete with what
Speaker 3: you have, presuming you end up bringing back Tyrell Dotts.
Speaker 3: So that gives us Campbell, Collins, ran Sell double dipping
Speaker 3: it tight end in the fifth round. Yeah, with I'm
Speaker 3: guessing your UCLA boy, or maybe it is a Jalen Conyers.
Speaker 3: Is it Jackson Hawes? What do you think in there?
Speaker 3: Give me those last two names. Jackson Hawes, who's a
Speaker 3: traditional why smaller grizzly bear who plays in line tight end,
Speaker 3: but they used him in motions.
Speaker 2: He can block in space, he.
Speaker 3: Can block the line, he can blot linebackers and hens
Speaker 3: like a really diverse gun player and foil that with
Speaker 3: Jalen Conyers from Texas Tech, who was visually from Olahoma
Speaker 3: and then transfer Mayer Zone State for a couple of
Speaker 3: years high school quarterback. Not dissimilar to Tyler Warrens, so
Speaker 3: who's kind of got some of that same background where
Speaker 3: they can see the rec snap stuff to him. I
Speaker 3: kind of liken him too. What happens if you took
Speaker 3: Elijah Higgins who was a Dolphins draft pick from Stanford
Speaker 3: one day three couple of years ago and just blew
Speaker 3: him up two hundred and sixty pounds and like that,
Speaker 3: That's what I think Dalen Conyers is. But like I
Speaker 3: think there's a lot of overlap there where man as
Speaker 3: a player that would would make a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: And then in the seventh round, I'd go with a
Speaker 3: running back at that stage, like a Tije Brooks. I
Speaker 3: would go with a big bodied wide receiver to just
Speaker 3: to kind of diversify that room a little bit. So
Speaker 3: maybe at Jackson Meeks from Syracuse, and then I go
Speaker 3: with some special teams competition. Give me James Burnett, punter
Speaker 3: from Albaion.
Speaker 2: Love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, And I love your idea of the
Speaker 1: double dip. Should you miss out on like cause this
Speaker 1: We've had this discussion about the balance of the draft,
Speaker 1: being like, well, you've got this one tight end that
Speaker 1: kind of stands on above the rest, but it's a
Speaker 1: deep class in general, and the defensive tackle spot kind
Speaker 1: of feels similar, although there's more of them up top.
Speaker 1: Like if you can't get Kenneth Grant early in the draft,
Speaker 1: then maybe you come back and double dip on you know,
Speaker 1: a CJ. West and a Jamari Caldwell, or maybe if
Speaker 1: you can't get the tight end you come back and
Speaker 1: double dip the way you did with Conyers and Jackson Hawes.
Speaker 2: I love that idea, in that concept.
Speaker 1: So, Kyle, I think you fixed the Miami Dolphins day,
Speaker 1: my friend, thank you for doing this with me today.
Speaker 2: A longer episode.
Speaker 1: Again, this is all going to be basically relevant here
Speaker 1: in a few hours, but we thought it important to
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