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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: and on to day show, part one of our two
Speaker 1: part free agency preview. The new league year kicks off
Speaker 1: next Wednesday. The negotiation period opens up on Monday, and
Speaker 1: we're going to take a look at the top one
Speaker 1: hundred and one free agents on offense, plus the latest
Speaker 1: news from the Dolphins and around the league. That and
Speaker 1: plenty more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the Friday Show, the last Friday Show before the
Speaker 1: new league year begins. We've been drilled down in draft
Speaker 1: content for a couple of days now, but now it's
Speaker 1: time to turn the page to free agency. But before that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and get caught up on the latest
Speaker 1: news from around the NFL. Mike Pouncey signed a one
Speaker 1: day contract with the Miami Dolphins to retire as a
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin. Let's go ahead and play some sound from
Speaker 1: his press conference. Yeah, I'm excited to be Batman. You know,
Speaker 1: I've waited for this day for the last two years,
Speaker 1: just because the Dolphins just missed so much to me.
Speaker 1: I'm my family, and you know, for my son to
Speaker 1: be at his age now and to be able to
Speaker 1: see it and be able to appreciate a little bit
Speaker 1: more because he was so young whenever I was playing here.
Speaker 1: But I told him, I say, this is something you
Speaker 1: gotta work for you to be able to come back
Speaker 1: and be able to be able to be wanted, be
Speaker 1: able to no to a place that gave so much
Speaker 1: to you. Ain't change your life. You know, I'm glad
Speaker 1: he'd be see it, but I brought my family here
Speaker 1: to day my brother obviously without him, none this is
Speaker 1: even possible. But happy to be back, I noticed two
Speaker 1: years past retirement, but be able to say I'm retired
Speaker 1: as a Miami Dolphin is one of the greatest achievements
Speaker 1: of my life. Three time pro bowler, made ninety three
Speaker 1: starts as a Miami Dolphin between the years twenty eleven
Speaker 1: through twenty seventeen. Had a really good career here did
Speaker 1: Mike Pouncey. The best part of the press conference to
Speaker 1: me was when he opened up about Jason Jenkins. And
Speaker 1: he didn't really open up. He really couldn't because it
Speaker 1: was an emotional thing for him to talk about, and
Speaker 1: that's how we all feel around here about the late
Speaker 1: grade Jason Jenkins. So that was cool to see that
Speaker 1: raw emotion from him and then eventually kind of regather
Speaker 1: his composure to come back and talk about what a
Speaker 1: great man Jason Jenkins was. So there you go, Mike
Speaker 1: Pouncey one day contract retiring as a Miami Dolphin. I
Speaker 1: saw somebody ask on Twitter does this affect the cap. No,
Speaker 1: it does not affect the team's cap space to bring
Speaker 1: in a one day retirement contracts. So there you go.
Speaker 1: We also had some more news Miami Dolphins related over
Speaker 1: the last well, I guess I recorded this podcast on Thursday,
Speaker 1: so it happened Thursday morning. You're hearing out on Friday morning.
Speaker 1: Over the last twenty four hours, Bradley Chubb has agreed
Speaker 1: to restructure his contract or the Dolphins converted some of
Speaker 1: his contract to a signing bonus to open up fourteen
Speaker 1: plus million dollars in cap space. You're probably going to
Speaker 1: see some more of that over the coming days as
Speaker 1: we get into these podcasts, taking a look at free
Speaker 1: agency today at the offense. On Monday, we'll take a
Speaker 1: look at the defense. Bet your latest Miami Dolphins news elsewhere.
Speaker 1: Jeff Darlington from ESPN had a great tweet on Tuesday night.
Speaker 1: I think it was the Dolphins will not be in
Speaker 1: pursuit of want away Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. My favorite
Speaker 1: part of that was this, the quote at the very
Speaker 1: end of the tweet, per the source, Mike McDaniel fully
Speaker 1: believes Tua is the perfect fit for his system. And yeah,
Speaker 1: we've known that, right, We've detailed that in depth on
Speaker 1: this podcast with the timing, eye discipline, post snap defender manipulation.
Speaker 1: These are the traits that maximize this timing rhythm based
Speaker 1: offense and puts the football in the hands of the
Speaker 1: most dangerous one two punch the NFL has to offer
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and jilln Waddle, But for whatever reason, reading
Speaker 1: that from Darlington, who is the best in the business,
Speaker 1: For my money, it's just nice to see. We've also
Speaker 1: seen franchise tags dolled out. We saw two quarterbacks get
Speaker 1: the bag as it were. They are, of course Geno
Speaker 1: Smith up in Seattle. I don't think discussing numbers is
Speaker 1: really something we should do on this show because contracts
Speaker 1: tend to be complex in the language in those deals
Speaker 1: tends to supersede what you see reported. That's my disclaimer
Speaker 1: of ahead of telling you that the numbers four Geno
Speaker 1: were three for one oh five and then in the
Speaker 1: New York Daniel Jones fifteen touchdown passes last year gets
Speaker 1: four years for one hundred and sixty million. Albert Breer
Speaker 1: wrote about the changing landscape of the quarterback market, and
Speaker 1: it makes total sense that teams find themselves in this
Speaker 1: difficult position sometimes where they have to make a decision
Speaker 1: on a big contract, or do you go back to
Speaker 1: really the least enviable place in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: which can often lead to years of purgatory. Just ask
Speaker 1: us at the most important position, the quarterback position, it's
Speaker 1: really delicate. Do you willingly go back into the quarterback
Speaker 1: search or do you offer up top of the market
Speaker 1: type of money, which is what the new quarterbacks who
Speaker 1: come up for deals tend to get, because again, there's
Speaker 1: thirty two of these guys, there's probably thirteen or fourteen
Speaker 1: that are locked into their position for the foreseeable future,
Speaker 1: and that's part of the club that you want to
Speaker 1: be in. If you're not part of that club, you're
Speaker 1: probably not competing for championships. You're probably not really competing
Speaker 1: from much more than playoff berths or maybe one random
Speaker 1: playoff win here and there, kind of like the Giants
Speaker 1: got this year over a very bad Vikings defense. So
Speaker 1: do you offer that kind of money to a quarterback
Speaker 1: like Daniel Jones, you know, Jimmy Garoppolo's a guy out
Speaker 1: there that kind of is in that same vein, or
Speaker 1: do you willingly go back into the quarterback search and
Speaker 1: go at it with nothing like we've heard about the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Will they go after Garoppolo or will it make more
Speaker 1: sense for them to go with Jarrett Stidham. Go cheap,
Speaker 1: not hamper the rest of your salary cap with a
Speaker 1: huge quarterback contract and see if you can't develop him,
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't work out, you probably get a
Speaker 1: high draft pick. It's a really delicate balance. I think
Speaker 1: it's changed the more of the quarterback salary takes up
Speaker 1: a larger percentage of the salary cap. And you know,
Speaker 1: with Jones and Smith, I think Gino made a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. I think Jones, could they have maybe explored
Speaker 1: other options. Yeah, but now they know they have the
Speaker 1: quarterback that was at least you know, baseline productive. But
Speaker 1: will it work out over the course of those four years?
Speaker 1: Can they find pieces to support a quarterback who probably
Speaker 1: needs that support around him to play at a level
Speaker 1: where again higher than fifteen touchdown passes are a ninety
Speaker 1: two passer reading, which you know, it's both very much
Speaker 1: in the bottom half of the league. I've always just
Speaker 1: been fascinated by the NFL for the fact that all
Speaker 1: thirty two teams are granted the exact same number of
Speaker 1: resources each year. And held to the same restrictions, i e.
Speaker 1: The salary cap and then from there it's just about
Speaker 1: who can allocate those resources better than the rest. So Smith, Jones,
Speaker 1: Derek Carr all done and that sort of shapes the
Speaker 1: quarterback market, right. We'll see what happens here in the
Speaker 1: coming days and weeks with Lamar Jackson he gets the
Speaker 1: non exclusive franchise tag and Benjamin Solac from The Ringer
Speaker 1: friend of the podcast here he wrote a great piece
Speaker 1: on the history behind the non exclusive franchise tag. What
Speaker 1: is it? So the exclusive tag prevents the player from
Speaker 1: negotiating with other clubs. That's typically what you see around
Speaker 1: the NFL. And as far as the guys that did
Speaker 1: receive the franchise tag, just six players this year, quarterback
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, non exclusive. Three running back sae Quon Barkley,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs and Tony Pollard, tight end Evan Ingram and
Speaker 1: Jacksonville and the Commander's defensive tackle to Ron Payne all
Speaker 1: receive the tag. So the exclusive tag that five of
Speaker 1: those six received prevents the player from negotiating with other clubs.
Speaker 1: The non exclusive tag allows a player Lamar Jackson to
Speaker 1: meet with teams when the negotiating window opens up on Monday.
Speaker 1: If he receives an offer that he likes, he can
Speaker 1: sign that offer sheet, and then the Ravens or the
Speaker 1: given team are allotted a five day period to match
Speaker 1: that offer sheet and keep Lamar. If they don't, Lamar
Speaker 1: or the player would sign with a new team and
Speaker 1: they would send two first round draft picks back to
Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. West Welker did this back in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven for the Miami Dolphins. That's probably the
Speaker 1: best example I can think of for the Dolphins. I
Speaker 1: know this is the Miami Dolphins podcast, but I think
Speaker 1: it's worth discussing because it could draft bastically shake up
Speaker 1: the AFC and the offseason. We talk a lot about
Speaker 1: other teams here on the podcast. The Ravens win games
Speaker 1: when Lamar is in there. They just do. Now, he
Speaker 1: hasn't finished the last two seasons, and the offense really
Speaker 1: bogged down without him in their both years. But he's
Speaker 1: a great quarterback. He's one of the top ten quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and in fact, I think the AFC
Speaker 1: to me has seven of the top ten that I
Speaker 1: would that I would list going into twenty twenty three two,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: and Lamar Jackson. I think all of those guys are
Speaker 1: in the top ten. I'd probably round it out with
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurtz, Dak Prescott, and Justin Fields. That's I mean,
Speaker 1: I know it's probably premature for some people on him,
Speaker 1: but I think Justin Fields is special. But anyway, that
Speaker 1: gives you a seven to three split. Actually, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's call it eight two because Lamar would be in
Speaker 1: there for me, and I would bump Dak out for
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson in my top ten. So if Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: does jump conferences, that's a shift in the di Damic.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mentioned it with Derek Carr. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: at least after last year we saw quarterbacks making that
Speaker 1: NFC to AFC jump, most notably Russell Wilson. I'll gladly
Speaker 1: welcome it going in the other directions. So I know
Speaker 1: Carolina and Atlanta both came out and said no thanks
Speaker 1: in Lamar Jackson. I mean, I get why we would
Speaker 1: do it. We have to me a superior quarterback for
Speaker 1: our system here in a superior quarterback really last year
Speaker 1: in general, but for Carolina and Atlanta, like why not?
Speaker 1: Ben Slock wrote about the precedent of other players on
Speaker 1: the non exclusive tag, most recently Kirk Cousins and Washington
Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen, but he did not get signed
Speaker 1: away obviously. Then he got the exclusive franchise tag the
Speaker 1: next season, and then you cannot use a tag for
Speaker 1: a third straight year and a player, so he went
Speaker 1: up with the Vikings after that. But Ben walks you
Speaker 1: through all of that. Check it out. The Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: faq making sense of the non exclusive franchise tag up
Speaker 1: on the ringer right now. So as it stands, it's
Speaker 1: kind of down to what happens with Lamar and then
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers right, who had a meeting with the Jet
Speaker 1: per reports this past week in California. Looks like the
Speaker 1: Jets full court press for the forty year old quarterback
Speaker 1: is on. That could be kind of fun. Huh. Two
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the division last year played at the top
Speaker 1: five level from really any statistical measure you look at.
Speaker 1: Rogers obviously is capable of that, although I think he
Speaker 1: was a far cry from that last year. And we'll
Speaker 1: talk about this here in a second. But you know,
Speaker 1: the standard folks get held too in the league is
Speaker 1: not the same as our quarterback. It seems like, and
Speaker 1: I see the comments out there about Aaron Rodgers, like he's,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, a massive upgrade for a Jets
Speaker 1: team that was consistent quarterback play away from potentially disrupting
Speaker 1: the post He's in party, you know, in the AFC,
Speaker 1: And if Rogers on that Jets team Week eighteen, the
Speaker 1: Dolphins probably don't win that game. And they don't win
Speaker 1: that game, right, Like nine points is enough to beat
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. I think there would be a really strong
Speaker 1: case though that Tua, Alan Rodgers and Mac Jones could
Speaker 1: be the best quarterback division in the NFL. Pretty cool
Speaker 1: I'll be able to say that when for twenty years
Speaker 1: it was basically Tom Brady and a bunch of a
Speaker 1: thoughts otherwise. But I digress. But back to the Rogers
Speaker 1: thing with a standard. You know, I get he's Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: I get he's a Hall of Fame quarterback. I get
Speaker 1: he's one of the best of all time, but the
Speaker 1: best of all time from twenty ten, I mean, doesn't
Speaker 1: impact how the quarterback will play in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: So if you have a certain standard you're holding, you know,
Speaker 1: one quarterback too, I challenge you to go back and
Speaker 1: watch the five game losing streak of the Packers because
Speaker 1: that was some really bad quarterback play. Funny how that works.
Speaker 1: No one seems to be keen to talking about that
Speaker 1: when you are, you know, discussing our quarterbacks. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite things are time, one of my favorite times
Speaker 1: on the calendar, coming up here with free agency. That's
Speaker 1: what's happening in the news. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break and jump back in with our free
Speaker 1: agent preview. That's next Drift Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: It's brought to you by Automnation nfl dot com. Top
Speaker 1: one hundred and one free agents listed by Greg Rosenthal,
Speaker 1: who is on the Around the NFL podcast as well.
Speaker 1: I like that podcast a lot. I appreciate it more
Speaker 1: for its mirth and levity, but Rosenthal often brings out
Speaker 1: a little bit more prevailing common sense to the rest
Speaker 1: of the show when talking actual football, especially again our
Speaker 1: quarterback and the standard that he's held to that no
Speaker 1: one else seems to be held to. By the way
Speaker 1: Rosenthal is best friends with stand up Anthony jessel Nick,
Speaker 1: and they have a podcast together called The jessel Nick
Speaker 1: Rosenthal Vanity Project JRFP Junior Vice President. It's a great,
Speaker 1: great podcast. Highly highly recommend that let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: separate the free agency preview here into two episodes. We'll
Speaker 1: do Offense today, Defense on Monday. This list is subject
Speaker 1: to change at any given moment because Rosenthal updates this
Speaker 1: as things happen. We had the Tuesday tag deadline that
Speaker 1: brought about some news. It wiped a handful of players
Speaker 1: off of his list here, and it's still possible to
Speaker 1: we get trades or cuts from now when I'm recording
Speaker 1: this on a Thursday to the time the podcast publishes
Speaker 1: on Friday morning. So I just wanted to use that
Speaker 1: disclaimer for the topical nature of this content. It will
Speaker 1: be like ninety five percent accurate, but there's a chance
Speaker 1: we have some early Friday morning movement that changes things.
Speaker 1: Sound good, all right, Let's go ahead and see what
Speaker 1: the offense has to offer. Forty three of the one
Speaker 1: on one are on offense. I thought Rosenthal did a
Speaker 1: good job balancing it on the back end, because just
Speaker 1: six offensive players in the top twenty overall eighteen of
Speaker 1: the top fifty, but forty three players on offense compared
Speaker 1: to fifty eight on defense. Going by a position here,
Speaker 1: for the offense, there are six quarterbacks, none of them
Speaker 1: the top twenty. That's pretty new, you know. Not that
Speaker 1: long ago, it was wild for a quarterback to change
Speaker 1: teams in the middle of their prime. Now it's almost
Speaker 1: like commonplace. Every year you see two or three quarterbacks
Speaker 1: change teams that are really at the peak of their
Speaker 1: playing powers. But two of those guys were wiped out,
Speaker 1: with Gino Smith going back to Seattle and Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: going back to the Giants. Now, if you want to
Speaker 1: argue whether they are top level quarterbacks, that's a different discussion.
Speaker 1: At running back, there are seven of them. The first
Speaker 1: one listened forty eight. Personally I would list for him
Speaker 1: most much higher than he is, but I digress. Once again.
Speaker 1: Wide receivers, there's eight of them, one inside the top ten,
Speaker 1: but he didn't even play last year, which to me
Speaker 1: is crazy that he's in the top ten. One thing
Speaker 1: I love about being aggressive and trading back up for
Speaker 1: Waddle and then going out and getting Tyreek and back
Speaker 1: to back years. You know, there's ebbs and flows to
Speaker 1: the various positional markets in the last two years were
Speaker 1: about as good as it gets in terms of a
Speaker 1: buyer's market at wide receiver. And what's the result of that.
Speaker 1: A bit of a downturn in terms of the marquee
Speaker 1: talent that was available at this time last year, both
Speaker 1: from the draft and free agency. And like you know,
Speaker 1: Christian Kirk got the big paycheck, but he wound up
Speaker 1: being worth it. He's a great receiver, and that's sort
Speaker 1: of true in the draft now too. Now we'll definitely
Speaker 1: see good receiver rookie production this year. It happens every year,
Speaker 1: and there are players in this class that are good.
Speaker 1: But the perception heading into into it is that you're
Speaker 1: not going to get a class like you had in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one for a long time. I mean, Chase
Speaker 1: excuse me, Chase Waddle Smith and Amant Brown's ridiculous. And
Speaker 1: then twenty twenty two was a great follow up too.
Speaker 1: I mean, the two Ohio State kids, Lave and Wilson
Speaker 1: were fantastic, and there was obviously multiple receivers in that
Speaker 1: class that were good too. Tight End five. I liked
Speaker 1: this entire list. I would be happy with pretty much
Speaker 1: anybody off this top one hundred list at this position.
Speaker 1: That with the incoming draft class, which Daniel jeremiahs is
Speaker 1: the best in ten years. He has eleven players going
Speaker 1: off the board in his first three rounds at the
Speaker 1: tight end position. To me, it makes the market so
Speaker 1: fascinating for those position because like, yeah, these are really
Speaker 1: good players. But when you have that many good players
Speaker 1: to choose from, the entire market tends to suffer. Right.
Speaker 1: If I have a five hundred thousand dollars home on
Speaker 1: beachfront property like suite, I want that, it's a great deal.
Speaker 1: But if there's ten of those and there's only eight buyers,
Speaker 1: maybe I can offer four hundred and fifty thousand. You
Speaker 1: get what I'm saying here, It could turn right into
Speaker 1: a buyer's market quickly. On the offensive tackle position, nine
Speaker 1: two the two highest rated offensive players or tackles Orlando
Speaker 1: Brown junior year and Mike McGlinchey. Brown's number two overall.
Speaker 1: He was traded to the Chiefs a couple of years
Speaker 1: back because he wanted to play left tackle and Baltimore
Speaker 1: had arguably the best left tackle in football at the time.
Speaker 1: And Ronnie Stanley, now Brown back on the market after
Speaker 1: being released by the Chiefs. I'm curious to see if
Speaker 1: he demands to stay at left tackle or not. The
Speaker 1: next guy is the most like plug in play, ready
Speaker 1: to fit guy really in free agency for the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: but it will not come cheap if they want to
Speaker 1: go in that direction. Mike McGlinchey ha been a Day
Speaker 1: one right tackle going back to college, and obviously he
Speaker 1: knows how to play within the system. And then Juwan
Speaker 1: Taylor's up next at twenty six. I love his game too,
Speaker 1: and he's a natural right tackle. So if Miami wants
Speaker 1: to go heavy in their investment to upgrade the right
Speaker 1: tackle position, those are three of your choices. Technically, I
Speaker 1: think it's really down to the former two, or I
Speaker 1: should say the latter two because I think Orlando Brown
Speaker 1: Junior is gonna get a big left tackle contract somewhere,
Speaker 1: and we got one of the best left tackles in
Speaker 1: the game baby. On the interior offensive line, there's nine
Speaker 1: of them good year for the center class. At guard,
Speaker 1: I'd probably move Isaac Somalu up like thirty spots. I
Speaker 1: think he's a Pro Bowl caliber guard, and then Dalton
Speaker 1: Reisener is really fascinating to me because he can play
Speaker 1: so many spots. We'll talk more about that here in
Speaker 1: just a second. The list in its entirety does this
Speaker 1: or looks like this, I should say I mentioned two
Speaker 1: and six the offensive tackles Brown and McGlinchey. Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: was the receiver I was talking about. Jacobe Myers is
Speaker 1: number twelve as the fourth highest offensive player here in
Speaker 1: free agency, Dalton Schultz, Juju Smith, Schuster, Jason Kelsey, that's
Speaker 1: sixteen nineteen twenty one. You get a quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo
Speaker 1: first one here at twenty two. Mike Gasiki is twenty three.
Speaker 1: The two tackles back to back Juwan Taylor and Caleb
Speaker 1: McGarry twenty six, twenty seven. Wide receiver DJ Chark is
Speaker 1: number twenty eight. Couple of guards at thirty two and
Speaker 1: thirty five, Ben Powers and Nate Davis. There's Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: number thirty six. The quarterback Dalton Reisener and Isaiah Wynn
Speaker 1: two offensive lineman forty and forty three. Miles Sanders the
Speaker 1: first back at number forty eight. Then after number fifty,
Speaker 1: I mentioned Isaac Samala at fifty two. Kelvin Beecham, the
Speaker 1: long time stalwart tackle at fifty four, another former Dolphin
Speaker 1: fifty five quarterback Tady Bridgewater two centers fifty seven, fifty
Speaker 1: nine Eighthan Postic and Connor McGovern a tackles number sixty
Speaker 1: one Donovan Smith running back Damian Harris from the Patriots,
Speaker 1: number sixty four. I like his game a lot. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if it would be an exact scheme fit,
Speaker 1: but I think that his game translates really in any
Speaker 1: way you look at it. Number sixty five wide receiver
Speaker 1: Alan Lazard back to the running back position, and this guy,
Speaker 1: to me is way too low as well. Running back
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams, who scored like forty five touchdowns last year
Speaker 1: seventy five Titan hayden Hurst talk about him in a
Speaker 1: second Quarterback Andy Dalton seventy eight. Two running backs at
Speaker 1: eighty and eighty one, Devin Singletary and Raheem Mostart again.
Speaker 1: Mostart to me is like thirty five spots higher than
Speaker 1: this number eighty two wide receiver Robert Woods. Another Robert
Speaker 1: at eighty three. Robert Tuny in the tight end from
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers back to the running back at
Speaker 1: eighty five Alexander Madison, their center, Garrett Bradbury number eighty seven,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs bookend tackle with Orlando Brown jew Andrew Wiley's
Speaker 1: number eighty eight. And then we have a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys here from ninety to one oh one. Gardner Minshew
Speaker 1: the quarterback. You guys know him, Go Coogs, center, Bradley Boseman,
Speaker 1: tight end, Herb Smith, wide receiver Nelson Aguilar, running back
Speaker 1: David Montgomery, wide receiver Mac Collins, and one on one
Speaker 1: quarterback Baker Mayfield. So what I wanted to do is
Speaker 1: look at this from the perspective of going back to
Speaker 1: the idea of kind of constructing this thing around your quarterback,
Speaker 1: because get a young quarterback on our rookie contract, build
Speaker 1: this thing around him, and really invest in every other
Speaker 1: position while he is cheap. Because when he's not cheap,
Speaker 1: he's not cheap. And that's the way this quarterback is
Speaker 1: trending right now. And look, we heard from Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: and Chris Career about the desired outcome for TWOA Tonga
Speaker 1: Bailoa is to be here for a long time playing
Speaker 1: at a high level, which he did in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: a very high level so if he can repeat that
Speaker 1: performance and stay healthy, you have your answer at quarterback.
Speaker 1: There's no debate about that. The health is the one thing.
Speaker 1: So look, and I've seen this debated. And if your
Speaker 1: argument is, well, he didn't have a great December and
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the big Oh Show appearance I saw
Speaker 1: the other day, just think about that for a second.
Speaker 1: Think about the evolution of goal post moving first. Couldn't
Speaker 1: throw the ball five yards right? We heard that over
Speaker 1: and over again. Couldn't maximize Tyreek Hill, who had a
Speaker 1: career year here in Miami. It was always that he
Speaker 1: couldn't play the game right, couldn't play the guitar as
Speaker 1: it were, well, finishing first in several categories, in top five,
Speaker 1: and every single important category that's kind of important, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Because if you're going to hold two to a standard
Speaker 1: that he better be perfect and everything and every split
Speaker 1: and every single statistical demographic you can think of, you
Speaker 1: better hold everybody else that same standard. You better acknowledge
Speaker 1: Herbert's fourth quarter collapses. You better acknowledge how bad Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was in the five game losing streak. You better
Speaker 1: acknowledge Lamar Jackson not finishing each of the last two
Speaker 1: season and on balance playing worse football than our quarterback here,
Speaker 1: you know, to having far greater frequency of good play
Speaker 1: over the Baltimore quarterback. You better acknowledge that Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: led team loss of the Colts last year and you
Speaker 1: can say you did win the Super bul Travers shout U.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did, but that game also happened. It happens,
Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. What I'm saying is no quarterback
Speaker 1: is perfect, but it feels like that's the standard that
Speaker 1: we hold to a tunga by lower two. Why it's
Speaker 1: so dumb and to that point from the Dodington tweet,
Speaker 1: and again we know this. You know this if you
Speaker 1: listen to the drivetime every day, which most you probably do.
Speaker 1: Tua is a great fit for what this offense does.
Speaker 1: He's accurate as hell, has great feet and mechanics, and
Speaker 1: I discipline, and frankly, I feel pretty damn vindicated when
Speaker 1: talking about this player because everything I told you that
Speaker 1: he can do for the last five years, going back
Speaker 1: to Alabama Crimson died, he showed you he can do
Speaker 1: it at a very high level. And we've also learned
Speaker 1: that those high level traits really translate to good quarterback play. Right.
Speaker 1: You don't have multiple games in a row with one
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty plus pass writing if you can't play
Speaker 1: the game. So building around that skill set. I know
Speaker 1: everyone else says the offensive line needs more, and it does.
Speaker 1: Everyone's does, except for maybe Philadelphia, But they're going to
Speaker 1: lose their right garden free agencies, so they probably need
Speaker 1: some help there as well. But I think part of
Speaker 1: building around TA is recognizing that a few quarterbacks make
Speaker 1: their offensive line better. Disagree talk to a wall man
Speaker 1: because the sack percentage compared to his replacements, the time
Speaker 1: to throw comparisons, the time under pressure compared to sacks
Speaker 1: allowed is near the top of the NFL. That metric
Speaker 1: is you can't fake that. It tells you exactly what
Speaker 1: it is. The tape shows it as well as any
Speaker 1: of the numbers. This quarterback reduces negative plays and losses
Speaker 1: and maximizes receivers who uncover quickly by finding them and
Speaker 1: giving them a chance to make plays after the fact. Now,
Speaker 1: I've long thought the quickest route to a good team
Speaker 1: is to build a good offense. Offense is more sustainable,
Speaker 1: and in the modern game, good offenses beat good defenses.
Speaker 1: It's just how it is. So how can we take
Speaker 1: our offense from the number one yards per play unit
Speaker 1: in the NFL with two in the game, six point
Speaker 1: seven yards per play and make that better? You can
Speaker 1: run the football better, give you more balance. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to look at all these spots, but focusing on
Speaker 1: something Daniel Jeremiah and later corroborated by Benjamin Solac said
Speaker 1: when we had them on the podcast up and let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take our last break and we'll come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and talk about all of that.
Speaker 1: That's next Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. So back here segment three Friday
Speaker 1: podcast Free Agency Preview, talking about what Daniel Jeremiah and
Speaker 1: Benjamin's Fulac said here on the Drivetime podcast last week
Speaker 1: in Indianapolis about getting your core pieces in place and
Speaker 1: how good is that to hear? I mean, we struggle
Speaker 1: at those spots for a long time. It's been a
Speaker 1: long time since Chris Chambers or O. J. McDuffie were here.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since Dan Marino was here.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time since Richmond Webb at left
Speaker 1: tackle was here. What are the cornerstone positions? I think
Speaker 1: the best way to evalue that is resource allocation around
Speaker 1: the NFL. Who spends the most wear and what's the value?
Speaker 1: You see guys being traded for Tyreek Hill's worth five
Speaker 1: draft picks? Right? How many other positions could garner that
Speaker 1: type of hall Quarterback, edge rusher like Aaron Donald is
Speaker 1: the only defensive tackle? Maybe an offensive tackle, I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure, but it's not many. It's not more than
Speaker 1: a maybe two or three. And look at Miami from
Speaker 1: an offensive perspective to a top five production all year
Speaker 1: Tyreek and Jalen you know how that went. Armstead a
Speaker 1: big time acquisition at a premium spot. He gave you
Speaker 1: lockdown left tackle play when he was out there for
Speaker 1: thirteen games, better than Miami has had in two decades
Speaker 1: at that position. I think the center position is part
Speaker 1: of the discussion, especially in this Dolphin's offense. I talked
Speaker 1: about it millions of times before. The Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 1: Perring have proven to you how important center play is
Speaker 1: in this offense. Since they brought Alex Mack to three
Speaker 1: different stops. A future Hall of Fame center Connor Williams
Speaker 1: was a slam dunk signing there. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start there. Then if the cornerstones or quarterback, receiver and
Speaker 1: tackle and it will center, I guess to a Tyreek
Speaker 1: waddle Tehran Connor. So really there's one of the six
Speaker 1: spots you haven't got a solution for for twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: If they want to go the free agent route at
Speaker 1: tight end, we're gonn look at tight ends, running backs,
Speaker 1: an interior offensive line first. If you want to go
Speaker 1: the free agent route at tight end, I look at
Speaker 1: some of the productive two way players IE pass game
Speaker 1: and the ability to line up, attach to the line
Speaker 1: scrimmage is the wide tight end and knock somebody off
Speaker 1: the ball or pass protect if you need it. Short
Speaker 1: yards was a problem for the Dolphins last year. This
Speaker 1: is a one area where they can really, really really
Speaker 1: improve their short yardage offense with a good in line.
Speaker 1: Why tight end Hayden Hurst was a first round pick
Speaker 1: a while back for his ability to do just that.
Speaker 1: Same with IRV Smith, and he's played in a wide
Speaker 1: zone twelve personnel heavy offense, which fits what you do
Speaker 1: here for the most part. With some of those personnel groupings,
Speaker 1: both of those guys are incredibly intriguing to me. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see what they get because I would personally
Speaker 1: have them penciled as you know, a position of need
Speaker 1: and top of the market targets in terms of their
Speaker 1: fit here. And again, this is just the top one
Speaker 1: on one list. We'll see plenty of other signings away
Speaker 1: from this list around the league. At running back, we
Speaker 1: mentioned the Matt Bowen piece a while back from ESPN Plus,
Speaker 1: and he connected Miles Sanders, former Eagles back, as a
Speaker 1: potential scheme fit for the Miami Dolphins. He also satisfies
Speaker 1: that speed quota this offense has. Everybody can absolutely scoot
Speaker 1: on this offense. I also look at somebody like Alexander Madison,
Speaker 1: former Boise State Bronco, who, like IRB Smith, came from
Speaker 1: a wide zone running team last year. Now, the thing
Speaker 1: I like about McDaniel, maybe more than most of his
Speaker 1: awesome traits, is that his staff and he are so adaptable.
Speaker 1: It's about what is the defense, where's the vulnerablees on defense?
Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna attack. We're not gonna just run
Speaker 1: our system and hope to the best. We're gonna attack
Speaker 1: where you're vulnerable because we're adjustable to do that. But
Speaker 1: I think you can also identify potential fit matches. And
Speaker 1: I think that Madison ran really well in various zone
Speaker 1: looks the last few years in Minnesota whereheem Mostert jumps
Speaker 1: off that list to me and we have proof of
Speaker 1: concept with him that it worked here. That's part of
Speaker 1: free agency. You know, eleven hundred yards fro scrimmage in
Speaker 1: the offense you want. Sometimes the best products you can
Speaker 1: buy are the ones that you retain because you've seen
Speaker 1: them succeed in your building, in your program, with their teammates,
Speaker 1: with your coaches. It's important on the interior offensive. Let
Speaker 1: me talk about the group, this group in the margins.
Speaker 1: But we've also seen someone like Joe Tune. He signed
Speaker 1: a massive deal. There's always outliers and he became a
Speaker 1: cornerstone for the World Champs at left guard. I think
Speaker 1: Isaac Somala is going to be in that ballpark. I
Speaker 1: have long been a huge Dalton Riisner fan because he
Speaker 1: played everywhere at Kansas State and had some great college tape,
Speaker 1: and he carried that over into the pros at in Denver,
Speaker 1: where he's settled into the spot at the guard position.
Speaker 1: We've also heard Chris Wereer talking multiple times about position
Speaker 1: flexibility up there, so that would make sense to me. Also,
Speaker 1: was drafted under Vic Fangio, so I mean, I know
Speaker 1: coach isn't offensive line coach, but he was the head
Speaker 1: coach when they drafted that guy. Makes some sense. Then
Speaker 1: there's quarterback, wide receiver, and offensive tackle. Now the quarterback
Speaker 1: spot falls into the margins because if you're not signing
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback, then the price tag is certainly not
Speaker 1: cornerstone worthy. I leaned towards Garoppolo getting signed as somebody's starter,
Speaker 1: whether it's Vegas or someone else. Despite my spield earlier
Speaker 1: about the value of not spending for the mid range
Speaker 1: quarterback in top of the market money, it's it's I mean,
Speaker 1: you don't want to spend for more than what you get,
Speaker 1: But then I think you also sort of enter that
Speaker 1: high level backup spot starter, valuable veteran resource in the
Speaker 1: room territory, the Teddy Bridgewaters with Andy Dalton's and maybe
Speaker 1: even Baker Mayfield. I would be remiss if I didn't
Speaker 1: shout out Gardner Minshew here go Coogs, even though he
Speaker 1: was oh and two as a starter last year. I
Speaker 1: think he showed you yet again that he can play
Speaker 1: in this league. And he's just that kind of personality
Speaker 1: like Ryan Fitzpatrick coming off the bench that kind of
Speaker 1: provides that spark. I like that about a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: I do wonder, though, if he gets a shot somewhere
Speaker 1: to compete with like a rookie for an opening day job.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't surprise me. At wide receiver, we covered this
Speaker 1: pretty well. I think given the nature of our current room,
Speaker 1: the draft provides more reasonable value. You never know, but Tyreek,
Speaker 1: Jalen Cedric, do Sherfield and or Craycraft come back. We
Speaker 1: know Azukama has lots of talent. We know Braylon Sanders
Speaker 1: as well. Thought of around here. I'm really curious to
Speaker 1: see what Jacoby Myers and Odell Beckham get. Are they
Speaker 1: going to get Christian Kirk money, because I don't know
Speaker 1: about that. Robert Woods is interesting, Juju Smith Schuster is
Speaker 1: as well, though. I think I saw a tweet from
Speaker 1: Mike Garafolo that the Chiefs intend to bring their entire
Speaker 1: wide receiver quarterback, and then finally at offensive tackle. The
Speaker 1: Chiefs could lose both of their tackles, which is really
Speaker 1: a fascinating storyline to me because they spent was it
Speaker 1: after the Bucks Super Bowl debacle, They like rebuilt their
Speaker 1: entire offensive line with Orlando Brown Junior. They signed Joe Tooney,
Speaker 1: They drafted Tray Smith and Creed Humphrey like damn for
Speaker 1: a really good offensive lineman one offseason that almost never happens,
Speaker 1: and they might lose two of those guys well Andrew
Speaker 1: Wiley being the other one this offseason. Those top four
Speaker 1: guys on the tackle list are going to be bank breakers.
Speaker 1: Orlando Brown, Mike McGlinchey, Caleb McGarry, and Juwan Taylor. Young.
Speaker 1: Productive offensive tackles are tough to come by. Frankly, I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone on this list comes cheap. If Wiley,
Speaker 1: the last ot on the list, hits the market, he
Speaker 1: probably gets a big deal too. So it's it's kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, juggling the financials. It goes back to what
Speaker 1: we talked about at the combine. The league just keeps
Speaker 1: producing these past rushing athletics specimens, so everybody is vying
Speaker 1: for o line help from the same relatively smaller market.
Speaker 1: And then off the top one on one list. You know,
Speaker 1: here's some guys that I just noted that would make
Speaker 1: some sense from their connections on the interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: Nate Herbig and Dan Feeney both played under michaela Floor
Speaker 1: last year in a similar system. Offensive tackle Eric Fisher
Speaker 1: signed here and didn't wind up playing, But if he's
Speaker 1: healthy and can play, maybe he's a good cheap veteran
Speaker 1: who can compete for that right tackle job. Just kind
Speaker 1: of spit blowing an idea. Tie and Secki from the
Speaker 1: Rams is a good swing tackle option who's played again
Speaker 1: in a similar system. And then Trey Pipkins and the
Speaker 1: Chargers is kind of another one of those guys you
Speaker 1: look at who's played some spot duty and had some
Speaker 1: success in that regard At quarterback, it's not good, like
Speaker 1: not a good list of in terms of like you're
Speaker 1: guaranteed to get quality backup play here. Nick Mullins, Easton Stick,
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke kind of the guys that jump off that
Speaker 1: list to me, But again I just don't know about that.
Speaker 1: Ermansho's my guy man running back, Mike Boone formerly of
Speaker 1: the Vikings and that similar wide zone system kind of
Speaker 1: spelling Dalvin Cook at times Geo Bernard for his pass catching,
Speaker 1: although it wasn't really there this past year. Jeric McKinnon's
Speaker 1: my favorite guy on the non top one hundred list
Speaker 1: here at the running back position. I think he's a
Speaker 1: perfect fit for this offense. Does at tight end Tyler
Speaker 1: Kraft or Craft rather from the Niners last year. Zach
Speaker 1: Gentry is a good blocking tight end for the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Marcedis Lewis. He's thirty eight years old, but again he's
Speaker 1: basically an extra offensive lineman and I think that he
Speaker 1: can help you in your short yardage. We need that
Speaker 1: extra ot slash red zone threat. That's why I want
Speaker 1: Darnell Washington so bad man. And then receiver the Falcons
Speaker 1: or former Falcon Olamada is a kiss. I like his
Speaker 1: game a lot, and we'll see what he costs, but
Speaker 1: if it's affordable, I can see that being an option.
Speaker 1: And then me Coole Hardman just speed speed speed, speed
Speaker 1: speed baby. And then of course Trent Sherfield and River
Speaker 1: Craig Craft. So Dolphins are not. This time of year
Speaker 1: always really pulls me in as a fan. For over
Speaker 1: a decade now, I have always written down in a
Speaker 1: composition notebook every single signing of the offseason. It kind
Speaker 1: is a futile exercise and the Internet age because they
Speaker 1: post those lists on like forty five different websites where
Speaker 1: you can find them. But the exercise of doing it
Speaker 1: and writing them down helps keep me up, to keep
Speaker 1: me in the loop on the NFL. I enjoy perusing
Speaker 1: those lists and identifying why I think could happen, and
Speaker 1: just discussing possible team fits. So Monday, we will do
Speaker 1: the defense before we go real quick. I only do
Speaker 1: this when I'm blown away by a show or a movie.
Speaker 1: Off season is recommendation season, and I just finished up
Speaker 1: a mini series. It's likely to go on my top
Speaker 1: ten end of your list, even though we're just in March.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it was made in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: but I just got to it. Blackbird on Apple TV.
Speaker 1: Plus oh buddy that acting in that show. First, the
Speaker 1: plot is fantastic based on true events. The main character
Speaker 1: gets duped into accepting a plea deal gets he gets
Speaker 1: picked up for he's a drug dealer, and he gets
Speaker 1: what he thinks is going to be two or three
Speaker 1: years tops, and it winds up being ten years in
Speaker 1: a federal prison. And the FBI did this to him
Speaker 1: to offer him a deal that he couldn't refuse where
Speaker 1: he would move into the most dangerous prison in America
Speaker 1: or one of them, and can get his sentence commuted
Speaker 1: if he can extract a confession from a serial killer
Speaker 1: who killed fourteen people. The acting is great all around,
Speaker 1: but Paul Walter Houser, who plays the serial killer, it's
Speaker 1: another level. It's outrage. It gives me goosebumps talking about it.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for something to beinge this weekend, do that.
Speaker 1: It's hour long episodes. Six episodes and many series are
Speaker 1: kind of my jam right now, man. Because the writers
Speaker 1: are not beholden to any of the characters. It's the
Speaker 1: best way to organically manufacture suspense. You don't have to,
Speaker 1: you know, in a multi season show where you never
Speaker 1: the main characters never in danger. You can't kill off
Speaker 1: the main character. Nothing fatal can happen to him. So Blackbird,
Speaker 1: Apple TV plus check that out. All right, That is
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