Speaker 1: Two on the Move Darling Deep Speedways Past Hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: He's got my havans in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins?
Speaker 2: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, the worst day of
Speaker 2: the football calendar is in the rearview mirror and we
Speaker 2: now can start taking a look at the roster, the
Speaker 2: fifty three pieces and the assets we have going into
Speaker 2: week one, which officially kicks off in just eight days eleven.
Speaker 2: For us as Dolphins fans, we're gonna look at each
Speaker 2: group and mention the calling card and the question of
Speaker 2: those units, and we're gonna have us solve for most
Speaker 2: of the questions there. And we'll also hear a bunch
Speaker 2: of sound from GM Chris Career, round out the practice
Speaker 2: squad so far and gets you updated on the latest
Speaker 2: news around the Dolphins roster. From the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 2: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: The Draft Time Podcast. NFL rosters are far from being finalized,
Speaker 2: and we actually saw a trade. Was it twenty four
Speaker 2: hours ago? When it was announced that the Rams sent
Speaker 2: Ernest Jones to the Titans for essentially a bag of chips.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get claims, trades, practice squads. We'll start to
Speaker 2: take shape here over the next you know, twenty four
Speaker 2: hours to even a week from now. I think it's
Speaker 2: the best thing about the NFL going from four preseason
Speaker 2: games down to three because it gives teams a little
Speaker 2: bit of extra time to kind of let things breathe
Speaker 2: and find out where they are before the actual install
Speaker 2: of game planning goes into that Week one, you know,
Speaker 2: Jacksonville game. And speaking of that, we have a waiver
Speaker 2: wire claim as the Dolphins put a claim in and
Speaker 2: were awarded receiver Grant Dubos from the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and here from Dolphins GM Chris Career
Speaker 2: on the traits that attracted them to do bos.
Speaker 1: He's got size, he's tough, really good route runner, he's
Speaker 1: got good hands, and it was the physical how physically
Speaker 1: is in his play. Obviously, you know, Mike knows a
Speaker 1: lot of people up there in Green Bay with the
Speaker 1: relationship as well as I do, and they're all very
Speaker 1: high on them. And I said it was a very
Speaker 1: hard decision for them to move on from him. So
Speaker 1: it's an opportunity that we're excited for just working for
Speaker 1: where we are right now.
Speaker 2: When you watch his tape, whether it was in college
Speaker 2: or well, I guess only in college or preseason AX
Speaker 2: with the Packers, it's pretty clear what he offers here.
Speaker 2: I think that he's a kind of a souped up
Speaker 2: version of Eric Azookama, or maybe a player that has
Speaker 2: those traits and can potentially maybe pick things up a
Speaker 2: little bit quicker. Since he has two years in a
Speaker 2: similar offense, he'll have to learn some new verbiage and
Speaker 2: things of that nature. But playing under Matt Lafleur for
Speaker 2: two training camps in a full season should really help
Speaker 2: him kind of catch on quickly. But the special team's
Speaker 2: work jumps off the page. I don't think that Azukama
Speaker 2: offered that as much, and his blocking is something that
Speaker 2: really stands out about his game as a guy that
Speaker 2: can be one of those players that comes in in
Speaker 2: those red zone situations after Reek and Waddle have given
Speaker 2: you forty yards on the drive combined, and you go
Speaker 2: to the running game down in the high red zone.
Speaker 2: He's one of those guys kind of like a River
Speaker 2: Craycraft that you can count on as a key blocker
Speaker 2: down in those spots, and I think he can beat
Speaker 2: one on one coverage, which is what you get when
Speaker 2: you're the number four to five receiver in this offense,
Speaker 2: right You're not going to see double teams ever, when
Speaker 2: you have ten or seventeen. So I thought that was
Speaker 2: a very nice addition to a room that needed a body.
Speaker 2: And we're going to go over the practice squad we
Speaker 2: have so far, which does include Erica Azukama, but Dubo's
Speaker 2: I can see the real fit here. Pretty excited about
Speaker 2: this player. And something else Chris Career mentioned was the
Speaker 2: feedback they got from the Packers' coaching staff, which as
Speaker 2: you know, is very tight with Mike McDaniel, give him
Speaker 2: Matt Lafleur's time on staff with McDaniel back in Washington.
Speaker 2: So I followed up on my Debo's questions, saying, how
Speaker 2: common is that to get feedback from a team on
Speaker 2: a guy they just cut, And Chris Greer said, not
Speaker 2: the film the player in terms of what he is
Speaker 2: as a football player, but you're looking for stuff that
Speaker 2: you can get back from him or back from the
Speaker 2: team on the person that you're getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're always reaching out to different people,
Speaker 1: you know, because you just want to make sure that
Speaker 1: they don't have to tell you what kind of player
Speaker 1: you're getting. It's just the person, really, because when you're
Speaker 1: adding someone into a building, you just want to be
Speaker 1: careful who you're adding into it. So yeah, so you
Speaker 1: always talk to people and because I mean, obviously if
Speaker 1: they let him go, you'll try and find out why
Speaker 1: here and there, But you watch the film at the
Speaker 1: end of the day. That makes the ultimate decision whether
Speaker 1: you can put a claim on someone.
Speaker 2: And there's more roster news that I know that everybody
Speaker 2: is going to take in total stride. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to do my whole offensive line spield again. You guys
Speaker 2: know how I feel about that. And Chris Grewer has
Speaker 2: certainly affirmed that for me here in the building, and
Speaker 2: that's not shouldn't be a surprise to you all where
Speaker 2: I see these things and hear these things from and
Speaker 2: evaluate them in the same vein as the team. And
Speaker 2: I actually did think that Jack Driscoll had a good summer,
Speaker 2: but he is the one it goes by the boards
Speaker 2: and the corresponding move with the Deboe's acquisition, and that
Speaker 2: was how Chris Greer opened his press conferences. They asked
Speaker 2: about the offensive line, and he said something you've heard
Speaker 2: plenty of times before and made fun of.
Speaker 1: Before with the offensive line. How every year that's you know,
Speaker 1: you guys are like, oh or not good enough, not
Speaker 1: good enough, but then offensively we're a pretty good offensive
Speaker 1: the last two years, and a number of you guys
Speaker 1: have talked about how the guys have improved. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys in the offensive line have worked their tails off.
Speaker 1: We feel confident in them. The coaching staff believes in them,
Speaker 1: and Butch and Mike and Frank have done a great
Speaker 1: job in lim and helping those guys develop and work.
Speaker 1: And so I think the important thing is they they
Speaker 1: all work together. It's a really cohesive unit and just
Speaker 1: watching them work together is great. Every day they hang
Speaker 1: out together, so it's a very close knit unit. That said, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll have someone in the practice squad like we always do,
Speaker 1: and just for your information, we released Jack Driscoll recently
Speaker 1: because he claimed Grant Dubo's wide receiver and so that
Speaker 1: was the roster move for him. Jack's a good kid,
Speaker 1: worked his tail off is just unfortunately a numbers crunch
Speaker 1: for us, but we're confident in the offensive line, so yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just one of those it's you know,
Speaker 1: Mike and I just we always kind of chuckle, you know.
Speaker 1: I know you guys made a joke about me saying
Speaker 1: that more you guys are more worried about it than
Speaker 1: we are. But internally that's how we feel about our
Speaker 1: group here as a as a team.
Speaker 2: And I'm I just love that he mentioned, like we
Speaker 2: get where people get on us for this stuff, and
Speaker 2: then we go out and we finished, you know, top
Speaker 2: top five an offense. That's I don't think it requires
Speaker 2: more than that, but I know social media disagrees with that.
Speaker 2: We're gonna move on though, because it's it's at this point,
Speaker 2: it's it's like arguing politics. What's the point of it.
Speaker 2: You guys, you have your thought, I have my thought.
Speaker 2: We're not going to agree or move off of it.
Speaker 3: So let's move on.
Speaker 2: We know about seven practice squad guys as of this taping.
Speaker 2: Eric Aszookamma. I mentioned him earlier. Good to see him
Speaker 2: back out there on the practice field. Tim Boyle is
Speaker 2: the quarterback they added, and I don't get it. I'll
Speaker 2: just go ahead and leave it at that. Don't get
Speaker 2: that one. Nick Needham is back and I had a
Speaker 2: chance to see Nick in the cafeteria today. Great to
Speaker 2: see him around and he is hungry to get an
Speaker 2: opportunity to get back on the field. Nakwan Jones is
Speaker 2: a defensive tackle the Dolphins acquired from the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 2: In fact, let's go ahead and run some audio on him,
Speaker 2: as Chris Greer spoke about his game. A guy that
Speaker 2: is a pretty good fit here, I think for the
Speaker 2: Dolphins defensive line.
Speaker 1: Nakwan Jones came over from Arizona. He's a big, big
Speaker 1: body nose tackle and as you kind of seeing with
Speaker 1: Weavers defense, it's a little different type of detackles now
Speaker 1: that we're looking for. But very excited coaches, Coach Weaver,
Speaker 1: Austin Clark, everyone very excited. Our video guys that had
Speaker 1: to stay here at night and get the video going
Speaker 1: for him. We're very excited to do that at ten
Speaker 1: o'clock last night.
Speaker 2: They also were able to get back Jonathan Harris, which
Speaker 2: I thought was very important for the depth of this
Speaker 2: defensive line. Kind of got a little bit worried there
Speaker 2: after seeing Gallimore, Tierra Tart, and Jonathan Harris all go
Speaker 2: by the boards. I thought those guys would all be
Speaker 2: contributing players this year. I thought Harris had some good
Speaker 2: tape in the system and is a fit here. So
Speaker 2: to see him back on the practice squad as a
Speaker 2: guy that I'm sure will get playing time this year
Speaker 2: was nice to see. And then nak Onan Jones, I
Speaker 2: mean we talked about it there with Chris Gream. I
Speaker 2: think he's he's got some ability to play in this
Speaker 2: defense on that nose tackle position, which could also serve
Speaker 2: as a guy that maybe fills in if Benito Jones
Speaker 2: is not ready to go in Week one. Hayden Rucie
Speaker 2: also back. That shouldn't be a surprise. I think he
Speaker 2: has a future on the football team. Jordan Colbert had
Speaker 2: a nice camp as well, kind of a special team's
Speaker 2: ace on that back end, and maybe some deep deep
Speaker 2: safety help. And then there's a reporter out there that's
Speaker 2: not official yet, but Dwayne Eskridge, now granted hasn't done
Speaker 2: anything as a pro, but you go back to his
Speaker 2: Colorado tape, he again kind of has that Azuokama type
Speaker 2: of game where he is big, he's physical, he's a
Speaker 2: jet sweep guy, he's a run blocking guy. I loved
Speaker 2: his game at Colorado, didn't work out in Seattle. Has
Speaker 2: not been a good pro so far, but he reportedly
Speaker 2: we'll join the Dolphins practice squad. So you get two
Speaker 2: receivers there actually three with the bows going to the
Speaker 2: active roster. You fill in two of the spots on
Speaker 2: the defensive line, you get need them back, you get
Speaker 2: Roochie in here. So pretty good looking practice squad so far,
Speaker 2: and we'll have more for you guys on that as
Speaker 2: it rounds out. So we have I guess an idea
Speaker 2: of I don't know what you'd call it, ninety five
Speaker 2: percent of what the ross was going to look like.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a good time to go through
Speaker 2: it all and play a fun game that I'm going
Speaker 2: to call the calling card and the question what is
Speaker 2: the calling card of each of these rooms for your
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins. And we're going to go ahead and start
Speaker 2: where we always start at the quarterback position. It's the timing,
Speaker 2: the anticipation and the accuracy of tu a tongua bai loa.
Speaker 2: Those are sort of built in functions of the offense
Speaker 2: when you've got Tu at the controls. And I think
Speaker 2: that's also the thinking with Skyler Thompson as he heads
Speaker 2: into his third season here coming from an offense in
Speaker 2: college that was, you know, five or six terms on
Speaker 2: an armband or even a poster board on the sideline
Speaker 2: with cutouts of SpongeBob, SquarePants, Creamsickles, Mountain Dew and Scott Vampell, Like,
Speaker 2: that's your play call right now, you have twenty five
Speaker 2: word play calls that are a little bit tougher to
Speaker 2: communicate than your six play wrist band calls. And then
Speaker 2: with Tua, you know, I retweeted that Manti Teo video
Speaker 2: from Good Morning Football where he talked about throwing to
Speaker 2: spots before the receiver has indicated what the route might be.
Speaker 2: And that's just a description of elite anticipation. And that's
Speaker 2: why Tua is able to manipulate defenses as well as
Speaker 2: he does. But it also reduces the time you need
Speaker 2: to hold a block in pass pro and in today's
Speaker 2: NFL with all these dynamic pass rushers, gosh, that is
Speaker 2: so so valuable. And then in his third year, you
Speaker 2: see the confidence in the huddle at the podium kind
Speaker 2: of has you know, fu money if you will at
Speaker 2: this point and when pressure is in his face, you know,
Speaker 2: in a brief preseason stint, I think he's showed you
Speaker 2: that confidence in his you know, he's on his way
Speaker 2: to that field general category that Manti Teo talked about.
Speaker 2: And I just came off the practice field and watched
Speaker 2: him do this drill where he threw like attacking the
Speaker 2: lion of scrimmage, but on the move to his right
Speaker 2: and then flipping the hips open. There's just a different
Speaker 2: level of juice and escapability to his game this year
Speaker 2: that I think is going to go a long, long way.
Speaker 2: These are all reasons that I just mentioned that you
Speaker 2: opened the checkbook for your quarterback and commit to him
Speaker 2: as your franchise guy with two hundred million big ones.
Speaker 2: The question here is winning the big game, right. It
Speaker 2: just takes one to undo a narrative. I just watched
Speaker 2: the two thousand and four highlight of the season opening
Speaker 2: game between the Patriots and the Colts and Mike vander
Speaker 2: Jack misses a field goal to open the game and
Speaker 2: they lose in that season opener, And it was supposed
Speaker 2: to be like, oh, that the Colts might finally beat
Speaker 2: the Patriots, but they didn't, and Peyton Manning was like
Speaker 2: zero to five at that point against the Patriots, including
Speaker 2: playoff games, and they would go on to lose to
Speaker 2: him again in the playoffs that year, and then finally
Speaker 2: two years later they got the breakthrough beating that Patriots team,
Speaker 2: and that kind of shifted the narrative around Peate Manning's career,
Speaker 2: who at Tennessee didn't win the Big One and to
Speaker 2: that point in Annapolis had not won the Big One.
Speaker 2: I think for Tua, he played well in the Philly
Speaker 2: game last year. I think he played well in the
Speaker 2: Dallas game, and then in spurts against Buffalo and Baltimore
Speaker 2: the first Buffalo game when they were able to you know,
Speaker 2: match touchdowns with the Ravens and Bills throughout the first
Speaker 2: like quarter and a half of that game, two quarters
Speaker 2: of that game. But I just want to see that
Speaker 2: breakthrough performance like you guys all do as well, and
Speaker 2: I love that we'll have plenty of chances to do
Speaker 2: it down the stretch. I think, you know, who knows,
Speaker 2: if the Jets stink again, which they usually do, then
Speaker 2: that gauntlet is suddenly reduced in toughness by like forty percent.
Speaker 2: And I don't think the Browns quarterback can play football
Speaker 2: anymore because karma seems to have caught up to him.
Speaker 2: And so if those those three teams stink, then half
Speaker 2: of those six games to end the season aren't supposed
Speaker 2: to be that tough. So we'll see what happens. I
Speaker 2: think the solve here for this position, for the concern
Speaker 2: is that I think they showed you that more options
Speaker 2: to force the defense to not be able to match
Speaker 2: up on a slot receiver or tight end who cannot
Speaker 2: get open against their fourth or fifth guy is a
Speaker 2: key aspect. And then also just execute, don't drop passes,
Speaker 2: don't make poor decisions, don't have bad operation in the
Speaker 2: KC game. In fact, Chris Greer touched on this. I
Speaker 2: want to go ahead and end this segment with this
Speaker 2: commentary from Chris Greer when he was asked, what do
Speaker 2: you think you guys have to do to improve your
Speaker 2: one and six mark last year against playoff teams?
Speaker 1: No, it's always something when you go through and and
Speaker 1: and try and figure out the whys after the season
Speaker 1: when you do it, and for us working through you know,
Speaker 1: some of the stuff offensively, like there were some of
Speaker 1: those games, you know, like just Top of ed Philly
Speaker 1: where we you know, we had a drop touchdown pass
Speaker 1: at one point, you know, a borderline, you know, pass
Speaker 1: interference call on one. So we're like that one in
Speaker 1: the Kansas City and Germany. You know, we had a
Speaker 1: couple of miscues at the end where we didn't you know,
Speaker 1: function the way we should and so at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, looking through it, and it's just talking
Speaker 1: looking through situations, really spending time on you know, talking
Speaker 1: to our players, going through situations football basically and what
Speaker 1: it is. And that's just my opinion. But also I
Speaker 1: think we have the players to win, very confident in them.
Speaker 1: So for us, it's just finding that way to get
Speaker 1: over the humplet like you said, and it's we feel
Speaker 1: confident in what we're doing and Mike and the staff
Speaker 1: have done a great job and the scouts and working
Speaker 1: through it. So I'm very excited to see what happens
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 3: Busy, Busy.
Speaker 2: First segment, there lots of soundbites from Chris career. We'll
Speaker 2: go ahead and take our first break, come back and
Speaker 2: do the rest of the offensive positions and finish up
Speaker 2: on the thirds. I've been talking about the Dolphins defensive
Speaker 2: calling cards and questions all of that. Next Draft Time podcast,
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Speaker 2: Backs up next in our roster review post fifty three
Speaker 2: man cut down Day, and for running backs, the calling
Speaker 2: card is the speed and I have been spending a
Speaker 2: lot of time going back over some of the origins
Speaker 2: of this offensive system and kind of parsing out what
Speaker 2: the key elements are. And the cool part about this
Speaker 2: coaching tree is how everyone puts their own flavor on things,
Speaker 2: and nobody has really incorporated unadulterated speed in the way
Speaker 2: that Mike McDaniel has and the way that we can
Speaker 2: threaten the edge, which coincides with having freaky, freaky athletic
Speaker 2: tackles that are a big priority, and it forces teams
Speaker 2: to make a choice. I better get out there and
Speaker 2: get my wits, because if I don't, then we're gonna
Speaker 2: have ISO blocks with Julian Hill or you know, Tron
Speaker 2: Armstead or Patrick paul On one hundred and ninety pound
Speaker 2: cornerbacks who just have no shot in those like all
Speaker 2: they can do is hope to bring down the offensive
Speaker 2: tackle and prevent him from getting a second body, like
Speaker 2: that's the only thing they can hope to do in
Speaker 2: those spots, and then it's Raheem Moster or Devon h
Speaker 2: Chan one on one against the safety to decide if
Speaker 2: it's a twelve yard gain or if it's time to
Speaker 2: call out Jason Sanders for the extra point operation and
Speaker 2: the way that neutralizes the pass rush. The ability to
Speaker 2: mug up in the a gaps or even drop a
Speaker 2: safety into the box, that is the calling card, and
Speaker 2: quite frankly, it's why I get in these these tiffles
Speaker 2: on Twitter, and I keep seeing people talk about it
Speaker 2: even today. Everyone's mad online right now. Like, if you
Speaker 2: want to feel better about it, and there's no way
Speaker 2: to say it, say this without sounding like an absolute elitist.
Speaker 2: I don't want to come off that way. I hope
Speaker 2: I don't. But if you want to feel better about it,
Speaker 2: like study the offense, learn the origins of it, learn
Speaker 2: about the fixtures that make it go. Because when you
Speaker 2: understand that, it's easy to see why they finish so
Speaker 2: good every year the last two years. Okay, but that's
Speaker 2: not all they feature. Because Raheem is one of the
Speaker 2: most underrated physical runners and all the football. I think
Speaker 2: Devona is going to see his receiving numbers go crazy
Speaker 2: this year. And in fact, on Friday show, we're going
Speaker 2: to have the great Scott Barrett from Fantasy Points come
Speaker 2: on the podcast and talk about Devon as a fantasy
Speaker 2: player and why he's so bullish on him. And then
Speaker 2: I think Jalen Wright gives you this very nice wrinkle
Speaker 2: with his inside decisiveness to incorporate some inside zone change
Speaker 2: ups or maybe even some man some power scheme running downhill.
Speaker 2: So maybe the calling card is three backs who can
Speaker 2: kind of do it all, but also the speed and
Speaker 2: how it dictates everything else, everything else in this offense
Speaker 2: with all the overplay that it creates. A last note
Speaker 2: before the question here, I think that you're about to
Speaker 2: see this Dolphins backfield produce its best receiving season. It's
Speaker 2: Terry Kirby in nineteen ninety three, nineteen to eighty four.
Speaker 2: The question for the group here, I think if the
Speaker 2: question is if we lose two guys to injury or
Speaker 2: the full bat goes down, then you really don't have
Speaker 2: a question. I think it's one of the most stable rooms,
Speaker 2: not just on the team, but in the entire league.
Speaker 2: And since I don't really have a question, that means
Speaker 2: I also don't have a solve wide receivers they're calling
Speaker 2: card to me is their nuanced detail. I know, I know, Travis,
Speaker 2: it's a track team out there, four to two speed.
Speaker 2: But you know what, We've seen a lot of guys
Speaker 2: run very fast and produce very little in this league.
Speaker 2: John Ross, jakeem Grant was really was very very fast.
Speaker 2: It's the toughness, the commitment to the craft, the willingness
Speaker 2: to do the dirty work that makes Tyreek and Wadle
Speaker 2: both special in my opinion. They maximize their routes. They
Speaker 2: don't short change it an area of their game. They
Speaker 2: spend all off season crafting and perfecting and working on
Speaker 2: and understanding what role they play in creating the all
Speaker 2: important space aspect of an offense. They don't short change
Speaker 2: their steps, they maximize them. They mix up their routes
Speaker 2: to look different each time. I think that standard. It's
Speaker 2: so tough for a young wide receiver to step in
Speaker 2: right away and be productive. And Coach Welker is as
Speaker 2: demanding of his guys as anybody in this league, and
Speaker 2: good because look what it's produced. Certainly not a C
Speaker 2: graded receiving core. When you have those two guys, I
Speaker 2: think that's what makes OBJ OBJ as well. For what
Speaker 2: it's worth, it's what makes River Cravecraft so well thought
Speaker 2: of around here, and we'll miss that for as long
Speaker 2: as he's down. But these guys are true pros that
Speaker 2: really play the possession like it's supposed to be played.
Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, they also happened around four
Speaker 2: to twos, which is obviously a hell of a lot
Speaker 2: of fun. The question here is the workload and health.
Speaker 2: The OBJ saga, it's a little annoying, I'll be honest
Speaker 2: with you, guys. They've talked about it today, with Chris
Speaker 2: Greer saying that they knew this was a possibility. OBJ
Speaker 2: wanted to be up, but they decided to go down
Speaker 2: on the pup to have the long play more in mind,
Speaker 2: which I think totally tracks to kind of combat what
Speaker 2: we talked about with the late season, you know, downward trends.
Speaker 2: I think they're thinking, we'd rather have the best version
Speaker 2: of our team in December versus September when this guy
Speaker 2: has had a lot of injury issues the last few years.
Speaker 2: And I know, but again, please trust this is you know,
Speaker 2: more geared towards ten and seventeen. Like, I just feel
Speaker 2: like we keep them fresh with rotation, but maybe a
Speaker 2: little more time and then not missing so much time
Speaker 2: with the injuries. Like that's the only knock on Waddle, right,
Speaker 2: because they're both tough, they're both wired a certain way,
Speaker 2: and Reek is like he plays through some stuff. Man,
Speaker 2: I just need Walla to avoid the nicks and bruises
Speaker 2: that led to him playing just over half the snaps
Speaker 2: last year. You got to have more than fifty five
Speaker 2: percent of the workload for Jalen Waddle. And you know what,
Speaker 2: like stop dropping the damn football too, like Reek. You know,
Speaker 2: my man dropped a touchdown on Philly, had the drop
Speaker 2: fumbling Kse that was the difference there. Also dropped a
Speaker 2: deep shot on third down that would have given us
Speaker 2: a first down in the red zone. Dropped a touchdown
Speaker 2: versus Baltimore, dropped a critical third down in the finale
Speaker 2: prior to the Deontay Hardy punt return. Like, make those
Speaker 2: five plays and the season goes entirely different, and maybe
Speaker 2: even the one seed is in play or close, and
Speaker 2: maybe you're closer to two k yards as well. I'm
Speaker 2: just saying he is the best in the league. But
Speaker 2: I don't think it's crazy to ask the best player
Speaker 2: in the league to finish even more plays. They're there
Speaker 2: for him to take. And we heard from Chris Career
Speaker 2: about how you beat playoff teams, like that's it, man,
Speaker 2: Like you don't have to tear your entire operation down
Speaker 2: because you drop two balls in critical games, Like, just
Speaker 2: play better, just execute better. That does happen every year
Speaker 2: in the National Football League, And it's okay to go
Speaker 2: back and watch the tape and come back from it
Speaker 2: and saying we got the horses, we have the guns,
Speaker 2: we just have to better execute. I'm not sure how
Speaker 2: you solve the injuries issue, but to solve for the
Speaker 2: reak thing, and he said this, just lock in more
Speaker 2: down the stretch. He said he lost his lock in
Speaker 2: down the stretch last year. We can't have that tight
Speaker 2: ends collective multiplicity? Is that a confusing term. I think
Speaker 2: this room is hilariously perfectly built. And by that I
Speaker 2: mean that John who's one of the best receiving tight
Speaker 2: ends in the game, and you can point to his
Speaker 2: production as a pushback, and I just don't care about that,
Speaker 2: because situation and usage matter and when he's been maximized.
Speaker 2: He had eight touchdown seasons. He's averaged eight point three,
Speaker 2: eight point six and ten yards per target in three years.
Speaker 2: And in this game, looking at the stat sheet doesn't
Speaker 2: do you anything your eyeballs can't do. Just watch the man.
Speaker 2: He is an absolute menace. And trying to attribute his
Speaker 2: skill set from what a defensive coordinator running an offense
Speaker 2: in New England doesn't matter to me. That's not important.
Speaker 2: I know what I see with my eyes, and this
Speaker 2: is a good player. And then Julian Hill is this
Speaker 2: devastating blocker who executes our system so damn well. Those
Speaker 2: are rap blocks coming around the edge. And this is
Speaker 2: why I love John new Smith so much. Now we
Speaker 2: can throw in I don't know, eight or ten jet
Speaker 2: motions a game with a tight end. And now on
Speaker 2: that seventh play, maybe you get the overplay you want
Speaker 2: in the backside and you can hand it to John
Speaker 2: new Smith who gets the ball with ten yards of
Speaker 2: space before anyone could even touch him.
Speaker 3: He breaks that tackle.
Speaker 2: Now you're talking about a twenty five yard play because
Speaker 2: you just built it into your system that way.
Speaker 3: More wrinkles.
Speaker 2: For Mike McDaniel is always a good thing. But I
Speaker 2: don't think either of them is perfectly polished, rounded tight
Speaker 2: end who does both at a high level. But they
Speaker 2: balance each other in a perfect way. And the reason
Speaker 2: I say it's hilariously perfectly built is because Durham Smith
Speaker 2: is kind of that guy, like a jack of all
Speaker 2: Trade's not great at any one thing, but good at everything.
Speaker 2: So you have this perfect blend in my opinion. And
Speaker 2: the question here, of course, is the issue with having
Speaker 2: complementary parts.
Speaker 3: Is you lose one?
Speaker 2: Does that whole concept go away? I think the question
Speaker 2: I have is an offshoot of that. Can you keep
Speaker 2: the full men you open? If John new Smith goes
Speaker 2: down for some time? Is the solve Tanner connor?
Speaker 3: Maybe it is.
Speaker 2: Maybe it is last one here on the offense the line,
Speaker 2: and it'll be the only thing people talk about for
Speaker 2: the whole year, it seems like. But the taking to
Speaker 2: the element of this position within a system that makes
Speaker 2: the whole thing go that's the calling card. And this
Speaker 2: is three years running on this concept, right. Retrain their
Speaker 2: brains to play the position in a way they haven't
Speaker 2: played it previously. There's not a ton of playing backwards
Speaker 2: in this offense. It's going and getting these freaky athletes
Speaker 2: where they are, cut them off at the pass and
Speaker 2: force them to play sideways a post to downhill. And
Speaker 2: you wouldn't give a fighter jet a big runway if
Speaker 2: your goal is to keep him grounded. That's how you
Speaker 2: view these pass rushers. Go get them, don't let them
Speaker 2: build up speed. And when you look at the parts
Speaker 2: like Armstead third year here, Rob Jones, third year in
Speaker 2: the system, Aaron Brewer, he's brand new but quite literally
Speaker 2: the best fit in the system in the league for
Speaker 2: this system, like literally Liam Austin, Kendall, Lester All in
Speaker 2: their third year here, Jack Driscoll gets cut. He was
Speaker 2: heading for his first year, probably didn't like where he
Speaker 2: was at with the development in the system. And then
Speaker 2: Isaiah Wins in his second year. I think about Coach
Speaker 2: alluded to the technical refinement that he has seen. Back
Speaker 2: after the game on Friday against the Bucks, I think
Speaker 2: about how they attacked the off season. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and add weaponry. Let's watch our quarterback take the next step.
Speaker 2: Let's watch the offensive line do the same thing in
Speaker 2: the same way that we can further instruct from a
Speaker 2: bucket of experience we already have and just continue to
Speaker 2: get better at what makes this whole thing work. And
Speaker 2: you know, like they had the resources this offseason to
Speaker 2: build what they saw fit to fix those issues, and
Speaker 2: they told you what they thought those issues were with
Speaker 2: how they spent the money. That's my whole point. I
Speaker 2: think you should trust them. What do they know though? Right?
Speaker 2: I mean that's we go over this every single podcast.
Speaker 2: This seems like I'm let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 2: this segment with soundbites here or a SoundBite I should
Speaker 2: say from Chris Career on Andrew Meyer, kind of the
Speaker 2: surprise keep of the Dolphins roster, but had a pre
Speaker 2: damn good preseason.
Speaker 1: He's got personality, he's tough, he's smart, he loves ball,
Speaker 1: he's a grinder, and every day he just got better
Speaker 1: and better. And it got to a point where it's
Speaker 1: hard that you can see in talking with the coaches
Speaker 1: and Butch and Mike that we see that there's a
Speaker 1: lot of potential in his future. So he's, you know,
Speaker 1: still has a lot of work to do to improve,
Speaker 1: but this was a player we just felt like we
Speaker 1: didn't want to lose because he's got something that we'd
Speaker 1: like to see what it looks like at.
Speaker 2: The end, the question on the offensive line is with
Speaker 2: the game on the line and obvious passing situations or
Speaker 2: in shortyards where a running game has to come into play,
Speaker 2: can you hold up if the defense is effectively able
Speaker 2: to reroute or funnel and to what has to buy time?
Speaker 2: Can you win in those critical downs and shortyards? And
Speaker 2: in fact, I think I have the solve here because
Speaker 2: did you know that since McDaniel's arrival in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: no team has a better conversion rate on third or
Speaker 2: fourth down and short which is four yards or less
Speaker 2: from twelve and twenty one personnel than Miami. They're number
Speaker 2: one in the league in that did you also know
Speaker 2: that nobody had a worse conversion rate in those same
Speaker 2: situations from eleven personnel, so Odell, John Hu, Jalen all
Speaker 2: these guys should help you a be more diverse from
Speaker 2: eleven personnel, but also b go to more twelve and
Speaker 2: twenty one personnel because twenty one could be you know,
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright and Devon h Chan for instance, or the
Speaker 2: for instance in the case of scenario A is John
Speaker 2: new Smith is better than Durham and OBJ when he
Speaker 2: gets back is better than Braxton or Cedric for that matter.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of the solve there. That's the offensive line.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take our last break rate there,
Speaker 2: come back on the other side and do the entire defense.
Speaker 2: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Autodation Interior Defensive Lines. Where we start
Speaker 2: this off, and I'm not sure how to coin this,
Speaker 2: but it's a lot like Baltimore in the sense that
Speaker 2: we have two guys that do everything really well. They're massive,
Speaker 2: their ninetieth plus percentile in length and peer strength, and
Speaker 2: how that allows the linebacker play behind them to do
Speaker 2: exactly what they do best. But also the rotation built
Speaker 2: around that for any given game plan, personnel grouping, or
Speaker 2: particular snap. And I think this depth and rotation spills
Speaker 2: into the practice squad as well. It's not just the
Speaker 2: roster guys, it's the whole sixty nine man operation with
Speaker 2: you know, Nakuon Jones, with getting Jonathan Harris back. I
Speaker 2: think the way this group can hold against double teams
Speaker 2: with what we have at the linebacker and edge spots
Speaker 2: when they're all healthy, just makes so much sense.
Speaker 3: And the question is, now, if you lose one of
Speaker 3: those guys.
Speaker 2: I like it a lot less than that, and between
Speaker 2: you and I, I thought we had more here. That's
Speaker 2: kind of a surprise of training camp. I expect this
Speaker 2: position to be one that gets, you know, more of
Speaker 2: a look around the league. Even you know, Neville Gallimore
Speaker 2: did decide to go off to the Rams. They do
Speaker 2: get Jones and Harris back. But I think that you know,
Speaker 2: this is a spot that could still use a little
Speaker 2: bit of TLC even with those two moves of the
Speaker 2: guys coming back to the practice squad off the edge,
Speaker 2: the ability to play multiple spots, which is a theme
Speaker 2: of this entire defense. It's kind of how the whole
Speaker 2: thing was built. When we have two and fifteen full
Speaker 2: go Chubb and Phillips, there's not a better tandem that
Speaker 2: can play all three downs, dominate the run, and set
Speaker 2: their own table for the pass rush. Phillips and Chubb
Speaker 2: are basically their own full five course meal. And perhaps
Speaker 2: this analogy sucks because they bring the meal to the
Speaker 2: table to serve it on the fine chine that they
Speaker 2: brought out to eat the food that they cooked. They
Speaker 2: just do it all man. But what makes them so
Speaker 2: unique is how effective they can be from that three
Speaker 2: technique or the four I technique or the five technique,
Speaker 2: and those positions are basically on the outside shoulder of
Speaker 2: the guard to the outside shoulder of the tackle. Just different
Speaker 2: positions on the defensive line there. And if I'm a
Speaker 2: guard who sees Jalan Phillips across from me, I'm telling
Speaker 2: my right tackle, hey, Bud, I need your help here,
Speaker 2: and he's looking back at me saying, this guy out here,
Speaker 2: Chop Robinson has a one to six ten split. I
Speaker 2: need to get out there if I'm gonna have any
Speaker 2: chance of cutting him off. Otherwise we're gonna have the
Speaker 2: Jesse Davis on aj Epanessa back in twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: when he ran directly through Tua's ribs and broke them
Speaker 2: on the convert where you flip Chop Robinson inside and
Speaker 2: he mugs up over the center. That multiplicity makes it
Speaker 2: tough to game plan for the question for this room,
Speaker 2: it's just the early season availability, right, and how nice
Speaker 2: is our schedule to give us a heap of that
Speaker 2: well less than established offenses off the bat, I should say,
Speaker 2: outside of that Buffalo game, I'm so grateful that by
Speaker 2: the time we get to the second Buffalo game. We
Speaker 2: get those guys back, We get the Bills and the
Speaker 2: Rams a nice two weeks sandwich against Las Vegas and
Speaker 2: New England before Green Bay, the Jets, the Texans, the Niners,
Speaker 2: like you get it. We should have our guns back
Speaker 2: by then. But I can understand apprehension about this group
Speaker 2: early on totally justified. And by the way, beach Ub
Speaker 2: is close, He'll be back when he's eligible. That's pretty
Speaker 2: much a guarantee. Off ball linebackers, same as the quarterback
Speaker 2: man instincts, anticipation, and the ability to play faster than
Speaker 2: your opponent. I'd add the vertical speed, and by that
Speaker 2: I mean as a blitzer or in coverage running the
Speaker 2: other way. I think when you consider stacking straight backer pairings,
Speaker 2: like one guy goes and causes the pile up in
Speaker 2: their linebacker reads that and scrapes off of his butt
Speaker 2: to fit a gap, I just can't imagine a better
Speaker 2: duo for that than Brooks and Long. For how they
Speaker 2: get their keys and how they go, it's fun to watch,
Speaker 2: and it will only Bills. We go along here and
Speaker 2: Anthony Walker plays that way too, and they all just
Speaker 2: have thump. I thought we saw that with Duke Riley
Speaker 2: at times as well when he came in for Jerome
Speaker 2: Baker last year and got off to a hot start
Speaker 2: before things went backwards for him. The question here is
Speaker 2: how quickly does that happen for them? Because I don't
Speaker 2: expect it to gel right away with those guys. I
Speaker 2: think you'll feel awesome about this group this time next year,
Speaker 2: And I can certainly understand apprehension with getting them up
Speaker 2: to speed early. And the soul for that could be
Speaker 2: as simple as reducing the snap counts and certain situations
Speaker 2: for guys, and that might come at the expense of
Speaker 2: a backer and passing situations for another defensive back. Maybe
Speaker 2: it's like Jordan Poyer or Marcus may comes down and
Speaker 2: plays the buck or plays the leo linebacker.
Speaker 3: Spot cornerbacks interchangeability.
Speaker 2: It's really quite crazy to consider that your two best
Speaker 2: corners are arguably as good inside as they are outside,
Speaker 2: and Ramsey like play him anywhere, think that he'll win
Speaker 2: that matchup. He also dictates the offensive terms unlike anybody
Speaker 2: else in the league, and because Fuller can do it,
Speaker 2: and because I think Ethan Bonner is ready to contribute
Speaker 2: on the perimeter right now, and Cater can play inside.
Speaker 2: I think you have something of an embarrassment of riches
Speaker 2: in terms of options here, Like if there's a team,
Speaker 2: you know, say the Chiefs, that you want Ramsey to
Speaker 2: shadow Kelsey, then you probably need more Ethan Bonner on
Speaker 2: the outside. Or if Ramsey is going to shadow Garrett
Speaker 2: Wilson on the outside, you probably need more slot reps.
Speaker 2: And that makes more sense for Cater COOHU. They can
Speaker 2: dictate terms because of how flexible this group is. The question,
Speaker 2: I just don't really have one outside of a Ramsey injury.
Speaker 2: That's every team that's ever played that right, your star
Speaker 2: player goes down, it is probably gonna hurt you. Captain
Speaker 2: obvious stuff. I love this room and listen tomorrow's episode
Speaker 2: and realize how many teams are super thin at cornerback.
Speaker 2: And to that point, Chris Greer totals today that a
Speaker 2: lot of teams called trying to trade for Ethan Bonner
Speaker 2: this offseason. The Safeties their temperament, that's their calling card.
Speaker 2: All these guys love to hit and play the game
Speaker 2: one hundred miles an hour. We saw it right away
Speaker 2: with Javon's first game when he put a lick in
Speaker 2: a forced five on none other than John hus Smith
Speaker 2: and that Patriots game. Also that Ravens game when he
Speaker 2: came from depth and had a crushing blow on Devin
Speaker 2: Doubty on the sideline. You know what Jordan Poyer's about.
Speaker 2: Marcus may hits everything that moves in that game against
Speaker 2: the Commanders, especially and Elijah Campbell. All he does is
Speaker 2: make presence felt on covering kicks. Safeties have to be flexible,
Speaker 2: they have to support the run. They need to be
Speaker 2: able to match up and coverage in the system. And
Speaker 2: they ask a lot of these guys. They're deep and
Speaker 2: they all share that similar mindset. I think my question
Speaker 2: here is can we match up on coverage outside of
Speaker 2: Javon Holland I do have some apprehension about that. So
Speaker 2: that's the podcast tomorrow. We're going to come back and
Speaker 2: do the NFL predictions. I'm so fired up to tell
Speaker 2: you guys about the two hundred and seventy two game rundown.
Speaker 2: I did assign records to everybody picked the playoff games,
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