WEBVTT - Drive Time: 2023 Free Agency Preview — Offense 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.600 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:15.840 looking slips at folk a white dolphan touchdock, cleric hill, unbelievable. 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.160 Just flue fire for a second time to know where 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.320 he was going right away ahead of that man. I 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.160 want to help you soon up on his band away wattle, 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:28.760 waddle to a shotgut back to throw looking its ups 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:34.080 up fires, touchdock again, It's waddle, It's six touchdown padout 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:40.120 of the tea. Drivetime with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:46.239 check your pulse if not furd of what is up? 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.440 Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.720 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.360 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.080 and on to day show, part one of our two 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.720 part free agency preview. The new league year kicks off 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.880 next Wednesday. The negotiation period opens up on Monday, and 0:01:09.920 --> 0:01:11.720 we're going to take a look at the top one 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.040 hundred and one free agents on offense, plus the latest 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.280 news from the Dolphins and around the league. That and 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:20.760 plenty more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:28.880 Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time. Oh yeah, 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:31.840 it's the Friday Show, the last Friday Show before the 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.160 new league year begins. We've been drilled down in draft 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.399 content for a couple of days now, but now it's 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.280 time to turn the page to free agency. But before that, 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.600 let's go ahead and get caught up on the latest 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.360 news from around the NFL. Mike Pouncey signed a one 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.800 day contract with the Miami Dolphins to retire as a 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.960 Miami Dolphin. Let's go ahead and play some sound from 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.000 his press conference. Yeah, I'm excited to be Batman. You know, 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:56.880 I've waited for this day for the last two years, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.840 just because the Dolphins just missed so much to me. 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.320 I'm my family, and you know, for my son to 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.520 be at his age now and to be able to 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:06.040 see it and be able to appreciate a little bit 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:07.840 more because he was so young whenever I was playing here. 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.639 But I told him, I say, this is something you 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:11.480 gotta work for you to be able to come back 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:13.240 and be able to be able to be wanted, be 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:16.520 able to no to a place that gave so much 0:02:16.520 --> 0:02:18.399 to you. Ain't change your life. You know, I'm glad 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:19.960 he'd be see it, but I brought my family here 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.320 to day my brother obviously without him, none this is 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:25.440 even possible. But happy to be back, I noticed two 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.160 years past retirement, but be able to say I'm retired 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:30.480 as a Miami Dolphin is one of the greatest achievements 0:02:30.520 --> 0:02:33.480 of my life. Three time pro bowler, made ninety three 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.280 starts as a Miami Dolphin between the years twenty eleven 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.160 through twenty seventeen. Had a really good career here did 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.880 Mike Pouncey. The best part of the press conference to 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.520 me was when he opened up about Jason Jenkins. And 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.360 he didn't really open up. He really couldn't because it 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.600 was an emotional thing for him to talk about, and 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:53.680 that's how we all feel around here about the late 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:55.639 grade Jason Jenkins. So that was cool to see that 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.440 raw emotion from him and then eventually kind of regather 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.320 his composure to come back and talk about what a 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.880 great man Jason Jenkins was. So there you go, Mike 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:05.880 Pouncey one day contract retiring as a Miami Dolphin. I 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.240 saw somebody ask on Twitter does this affect the cap. No, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:11.400 it does not affect the team's cap space to bring 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.600 in a one day retirement contracts. So there you go. 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:17.520 We also had some more news Miami Dolphins related over 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.200 the last well, I guess I recorded this podcast on Thursday, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:24.800 so it happened Thursday morning. You're hearing out on Friday morning. 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.519 Over the last twenty four hours, Bradley Chubb has agreed 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:30.360 to restructure his contract or the Dolphins converted some of 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:33.160 his contract to a signing bonus to open up fourteen 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.440 plus million dollars in cap space. You're probably going to 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.520 see some more of that over the coming days as 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.480 we get into these podcasts, taking a look at free 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:43.080 agency today at the offense. On Monday, we'll take a 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.160 look at the defense. Bet your latest Miami Dolphins news elsewhere. 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:51.760 Jeff Darlington from ESPN had a great tweet on Tuesday night. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.400 I think it was the Dolphins will not be in 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.360 pursuit of want away Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. My favorite 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:00.560 part of that was this, the quote at the very 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.240 end of the tweet, per the source, Mike McDaniel fully 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.680 believes Tua is the perfect fit for his system. And yeah, 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:10.560 we've known that, right, We've detailed that in depth on 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:15.360 this podcast with the timing, eye discipline, post snap defender manipulation. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.960 These are the traits that maximize this timing rhythm based 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.560 offense and puts the football in the hands of the 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.839 most dangerous one two punch the NFL has to offer 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:29.000 Tyreek Hill and jilln Waddle, But for whatever reason, reading 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:32.440 that from Darlington, who is the best in the business, 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.200 For my money, it's just nice to see. We've also 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.360 seen franchise tags dolled out. We saw two quarterbacks get 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.479 the bag as it were. They are, of course Geno 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.520 Smith up in Seattle. I don't think discussing numbers is 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:47.240 really something we should do on this show because contracts 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.200 tend to be complex in the language in those deals 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.040 tends to supersede what you see reported. That's my disclaimer 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:57.200 of ahead of telling you that the numbers four Geno 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.600 were three for one oh five and then in the 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:04.240 New York Daniel Jones fifteen touchdown passes last year gets 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:10.000 four years for one hundred and sixty million. Albert Breer 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.839 wrote about the changing landscape of the quarterback market, and 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.520 it makes total sense that teams find themselves in this 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.320 difficult position sometimes where they have to make a decision 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.000 on a big contract, or do you go back to 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:24.279 really the least enviable place in the National Football League, 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:28.360 which can often lead to years of purgatory. Just ask 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:32.680 us at the most important position, the quarterback position, it's 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.479 really delicate. Do you willingly go back into the quarterback 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.440 search or do you offer up top of the market 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.680 type of money, which is what the new quarterbacks who 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:46.000 come up for deals tend to get, because again, there's 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:49.400 thirty two of these guys, there's probably thirteen or fourteen 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.320 that are locked into their position for the foreseeable future, 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.359 and that's part of the club that you want to 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.040 be in. If you're not part of that club, you're 0:05:57.080 --> 0:06:00.360 probably not competing for championships. You're probably not really competing 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.240 from much more than playoff berths or maybe one random 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.599 playoff win here and there, kind of like the Giants 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.440 got this year over a very bad Vikings defense. So 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.520 do you offer that kind of money to a quarterback 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:15.360 like Daniel Jones, you know, Jimmy Garoppolo's a guy out 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.840 there that kind of is in that same vein, or 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.120 do you willingly go back into the quarterback search and 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:22.600 go at it with nothing like we've heard about the Raiders. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:24.960 Will they go after Garoppolo or will it make more 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.719 sense for them to go with Jarrett Stidham. Go cheap, 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.240 not hamper the rest of your salary cap with a 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.160 huge quarterback contract and see if you can't develop him, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:35.560 and if it doesn't work out, you probably get a 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.360 high draft pick. It's a really delicate balance. I think 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.320 it's changed the more of the quarterback salary takes up 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.680 a larger percentage of the salary cap. And you know, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:48.000 with Jones and Smith, I think Gino made a lot 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.839 of sense. I think Jones, could they have maybe explored 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.120 other options. Yeah, but now they know they have the 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.520 quarterback that was at least you know, baseline productive. But 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.680 will it work out over the course of those four years? 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.919 Can they find pieces to support a quarterback who probably 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.480 needs that support around him to play at a level 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.960 where again higher than fifteen touchdown passes are a ninety 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.920 two passer reading, which you know, it's both very much 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.880 in the bottom half of the league. I've always just 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.080 been fascinated by the NFL for the fact that all 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.360 thirty two teams are granted the exact same number of 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.720 resources each year. And held to the same restrictions, i e. 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.320 The salary cap and then from there it's just about 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:29.960 who can allocate those resources better than the rest. So Smith, Jones, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.600 Derek Carr all done and that sort of shapes the 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:36.160 quarterback market, right. We'll see what happens here in the 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:38.680 coming days and weeks with Lamar Jackson he gets the 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:42.720 non exclusive franchise tag and Benjamin Solac from The Ringer 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.400 friend of the podcast here he wrote a great piece 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.200 on the history behind the non exclusive franchise tag. What 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:53.160 is it? So the exclusive tag prevents the player from 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.840 negotiating with other clubs. That's typically what you see around 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.600 the NFL. And as far as the guys that did 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:02.160 receive the franchise tag, just six players this year, quarterback 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:06.120 Lamar Jackson, non exclusive. Three running back sae Quon Barkley, 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.600 Josh Jacobs and Tony Pollard, tight end Evan Ingram and 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:14.040 Jacksonville and the Commander's defensive tackle to Ron Payne all 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.760 receive the tag. So the exclusive tag that five of 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.440 those six received prevents the player from negotiating with other clubs. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.240 The non exclusive tag allows a player Lamar Jackson to 0:08:25.360 --> 0:08:29.120 meet with teams when the negotiating window opens up on Monday. 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:31.480 If he receives an offer that he likes, he can 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:34.240 sign that offer sheet, and then the Ravens or the 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.199 given team are allotted a five day period to match 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.880 that offer sheet and keep Lamar. If they don't, Lamar 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.320 or the player would sign with a new team and 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.120 they would send two first round draft picks back to 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:49.760 the Baltimore Ravens. West Welker did this back in two 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.040 thousand and seven for the Miami Dolphins. That's probably the 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:55.560 best example I can think of for the Dolphins. I 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:57.959 know this is the Miami Dolphins podcast, but I think 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.880 it's worth discussing because it could draft bastically shake up 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.440 the AFC and the offseason. We talk a lot about 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.360 other teams here on the podcast. The Ravens win games 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.560 when Lamar is in there. They just do. Now, he 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:11.240 hasn't finished the last two seasons, and the offense really 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:13.880 bogged down without him in their both years. But he's 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.800 a great quarterback. He's one of the top ten quarterbacks 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:18.160 in the NFL, and in fact, I think the AFC 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.319 to me has seven of the top ten that I 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.920 would that I would list going into twenty twenty three two, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:30.240 Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:32.760 and Lamar Jackson. I think all of those guys are 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.400 in the top ten. I'd probably round it out with 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:40.880 Jalen Hurtz, Dak Prescott, and Justin Fields. That's I mean, 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:43.720 I know it's probably premature for some people on him, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.320 but I think Justin Fields is special. But anyway, that 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.640 gives you a seven to three split. Actually, you know what, 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.120 let's call it eight two because Lamar would be in 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:54.120 there for me, and I would bump Dak out for 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.120 Lamar Jackson in my top ten. So if Lamar Jackson 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.360 does jump conferences, that's a shift in the di Damic. 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.000 I mean, I mentioned it with Derek Carr. You know, hey, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.600 at least after last year we saw quarterbacks making that 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:09.800 NFC to AFC jump, most notably Russell Wilson. I'll gladly 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.320 welcome it going in the other directions. So I know 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.720 Carolina and Atlanta both came out and said no thanks 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:17.200 in Lamar Jackson. I mean, I get why we would 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.439 do it. We have to me a superior quarterback for 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.319 our system here in a superior quarterback really last year 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:25.679 in general, but for Carolina and Atlanta, like why not? 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.040 Ben Slock wrote about the precedent of other players on 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.160 the non exclusive tag, most recently Kirk Cousins and Washington 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.839 back in twenty sixteen, but he did not get signed 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:38.280 away obviously. Then he got the exclusive franchise tag the 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:41.040 next season, and then you cannot use a tag for 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.679 a third straight year and a player, so he went 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.320 up with the Vikings after that. But Ben walks you 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:47.520 through all of that. Check it out. The Lamar Jackson 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:51.520 faq making sense of the non exclusive franchise tag up 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:55.280 on the ringer right now. So as it stands, it's 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.679 kind of down to what happens with Lamar and then 0:10:57.679 --> 0:10:59.880 Aaron Rodgers right, who had a meeting with the Jet 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.160 per reports this past week in California. Looks like the 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.120 Jets full court press for the forty year old quarterback 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.520 is on. That could be kind of fun. Huh. Two 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.800 quarterbacks in the division last year played at the top 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:13.720 five level from really any statistical measure you look at. 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.920 Rogers obviously is capable of that, although I think he 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:19.800 was a far cry from that last year. And we'll 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:21.600 talk about this here in a second. But you know, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:23.560 the standard folks get held too in the league is 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:25.560 not the same as our quarterback. It seems like, and 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.960 I see the comments out there about Aaron Rodgers, like he's, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.480 don't get me wrong, a massive upgrade for a Jets 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.800 team that was consistent quarterback play away from potentially disrupting 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:37.960 the post He's in party, you know, in the AFC, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.640 And if Rogers on that Jets team Week eighteen, the 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.079 Dolphins probably don't win that game. And they don't win 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:44.800 that game, right, Like nine points is enough to beat 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.000 Aaron Rodgers. I think there would be a really strong 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:52.600 case though that Tua, Alan Rodgers and Mac Jones could 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.600 be the best quarterback division in the NFL. Pretty cool 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:57.720 I'll be able to say that when for twenty years 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.760 it was basically Tom Brady and a bunch of a 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:04.240 thoughts otherwise. But I digress. But back to the Rogers 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.559 thing with a standard. You know, I get he's Aaron Rodgers, 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:09.319 I get he's a Hall of Fame quarterback. I get 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:11.960 he's one of the best of all time, but the 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.760 best of all time from twenty ten, I mean, doesn't 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.360 impact how the quarterback will play in twenty twenty three. 0:12:17.640 --> 0:12:19.720 So if you have a certain standard you're holding, you know, 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:22.040 one quarterback too, I challenge you to go back and 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:24.400 watch the five game losing streak of the Packers because 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.480 that was some really bad quarterback play. Funny how that works. 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.120 No one seems to be keen to talking about that 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:34.280 when you are, you know, discussing our quarterbacks. One of 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.320 my favorite things are time, one of my favorite times 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.040 on the calendar, coming up here with free agency. That's 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.000 what's happening in the news. Let's go ahead and take 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.000 our first break and jump back in with our free 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:46.800 agent preview. That's next Drift Time podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:58.640 It's brought to you by Automnation nfl dot com. Top 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:02.560 one hundred and one free agents listed by Greg Rosenthal, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.200 who is on the Around the NFL podcast as well. 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.800 I like that podcast a lot. I appreciate it more 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.880 for its mirth and levity, but Rosenthal often brings out 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:15.000 a little bit more prevailing common sense to the rest 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.800 of the show when talking actual football, especially again our 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.480 quarterback and the standard that he's held to that no 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:22.400 one else seems to be held to. By the way 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.120 Rosenthal is best friends with stand up Anthony jessel Nick, 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.480 and they have a podcast together called The jessel Nick 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:31.800 Rosenthal Vanity Project JRFP Junior Vice President. It's a great, 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:35.080 great podcast. Highly highly recommend that let's go ahead and 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.679 separate the free agency preview here into two episodes. We'll 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.640 do Offense today, Defense on Monday. This list is subject 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.840 to change at any given moment because Rosenthal updates this 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.920 as things happen. We had the Tuesday tag deadline that 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.480 brought about some news. It wiped a handful of players 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.640 off of his list here, and it's still possible to 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:56.800 we get trades or cuts from now when I'm recording 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.400 this on a Thursday to the time the podcast publishes 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.440 on Friday morning. So I just wanted to use that 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.280 disclaimer for the topical nature of this content. It will 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.840 be like ninety five percent accurate, but there's a chance 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:10.280 we have some early Friday morning movement that changes things. 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.160 Sound good, all right, Let's go ahead and see what 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:14.600 the offense has to offer. Forty three of the one 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.280 on one are on offense. I thought Rosenthal did a 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:19.560 good job balancing it on the back end, because just 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:23.160 six offensive players in the top twenty overall eighteen of 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:27.240 the top fifty, but forty three players on offense compared 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:31.000 to fifty eight on defense. Going by a position here, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.160 for the offense, there are six quarterbacks, none of them 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:36.120 the top twenty. That's pretty new, you know. Not that 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.160 long ago, it was wild for a quarterback to change 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.520 teams in the middle of their prime. Now it's almost 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.800 like commonplace. Every year you see two or three quarterbacks 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:45.800 change teams that are really at the peak of their 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.480 playing powers. But two of those guys were wiped out, 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.400 with Gino Smith going back to Seattle and Daniel Jones 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:52.800 going back to the Giants. Now, if you want to 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.360 argue whether they are top level quarterbacks, that's a different discussion. 0:14:56.520 --> 0:14:59.200 At running back, there are seven of them. The first 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.160 one listened forty eight. Personally I would list for him 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.760 most much higher than he is, but I digress. Once again. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:08.320 Wide receivers, there's eight of them, one inside the top ten, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.040 but he didn't even play last year, which to me 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.440 is crazy that he's in the top ten. One thing 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.560 I love about being aggressive and trading back up for 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.120 Waddle and then going out and getting Tyreek and back 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:20.000 to back years. You know, there's ebbs and flows to 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.800 the various positional markets in the last two years were 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:24.560 about as good as it gets in terms of a 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.560 buyer's market at wide receiver. And what's the result of that. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.280 A bit of a downturn in terms of the marquee 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.800 talent that was available at this time last year, both 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.920 from the draft and free agency. And like you know, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:38.080 Christian Kirk got the big paycheck, but he wound up 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:40.320 being worth it. He's a great receiver, and that's sort 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.160 of true in the draft now too. Now we'll definitely 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.800 see good receiver rookie production this year. It happens every year, 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:47.800 and there are players in this class that are good. 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:50.760 But the perception heading into into it is that you're 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.720 not going to get a class like you had in 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.680 twenty twenty one for a long time. I mean, Chase 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:01.760 excuse me, Chase Waddle Smith and Amant Brown's ridiculous. And 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:03.840 then twenty twenty two was a great follow up too. 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:06.120 I mean, the two Ohio State kids, Lave and Wilson 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:09.160 were fantastic, and there was obviously multiple receivers in that 0:16:09.200 --> 0:16:11.880 class that were good too. Tight End five. I liked 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.000 this entire list. I would be happy with pretty much 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.400 anybody off this top one hundred list at this position. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.000 That with the incoming draft class, which Daniel jeremiahs is 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.480 the best in ten years. He has eleven players going 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.200 off the board in his first three rounds at the 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:27.280 tight end position. To me, it makes the market so 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.080 fascinating for those position because like, yeah, these are really 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.880 good players. But when you have that many good players 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:36.520 to choose from, the entire market tends to suffer. Right. 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:39.960 If I have a five hundred thousand dollars home on 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:43.920 beachfront property like suite, I want that, it's a great deal. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:48.040 But if there's ten of those and there's only eight buyers, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:49.920 maybe I can offer four hundred and fifty thousand. You 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:51.720 get what I'm saying here, It could turn right into 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:55.000 a buyer's market quickly. On the offensive tackle position, nine 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:59.360 two the two highest rated offensive players or tackles Orlando 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.560 Brown junior year and Mike McGlinchey. Brown's number two overall. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.320 He was traded to the Chiefs a couple of years 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.000 back because he wanted to play left tackle and Baltimore 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.720 had arguably the best left tackle in football at the time. 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.640 And Ronnie Stanley, now Brown back on the market after 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.040 being released by the Chiefs. I'm curious to see if 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:18.240 he demands to stay at left tackle or not. The 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:24.000 next guy is the most like plug in play, ready 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:27.159 to fit guy really in free agency for the Miami Dolphins, 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:28.960 but it will not come cheap if they want to 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.640 go in that direction. Mike McGlinchey ha been a Day 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.800 one right tackle going back to college, and obviously he 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.119 knows how to play within the system. And then Juwan 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:39.960 Taylor's up next at twenty six. I love his game too, 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.760 and he's a natural right tackle. So if Miami wants 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:44.959 to go heavy in their investment to upgrade the right 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.879 tackle position, those are three of your choices. Technically, I 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.520 think it's really down to the former two, or I 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.040 should say the latter two because I think Orlando Brown 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:55.399 Junior is gonna get a big left tackle contract somewhere, 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:56.960 and we got one of the best left tackles in 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.720 the game baby. On the interior offensive line, there's nine 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.960 of them good year for the center class. At guard, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.399 I'd probably move Isaac Somalu up like thirty spots. I 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:08.159 think he's a Pro Bowl caliber guard, and then Dalton 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.800 Reisener is really fascinating to me because he can play 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:12.320 so many spots. We'll talk more about that here in 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.040 just a second. The list in its entirety does this 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.800 or looks like this, I should say I mentioned two 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.879 and six the offensive tackles Brown and McGlinchey. Odell Beckham 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.920 was the receiver I was talking about. Jacobe Myers is 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:26.359 number twelve as the fourth highest offensive player here in 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:30.040 free agency, Dalton Schultz, Juju Smith, Schuster, Jason Kelsey, that's 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.240 sixteen nineteen twenty one. You get a quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.360 first one here at twenty two. Mike Gasiki is twenty three. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.359 The two tackles back to back Juwan Taylor and Caleb 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.639 McGarry twenty six, twenty seven. Wide receiver DJ Chark is 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.600 number twenty eight. Couple of guards at thirty two and 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.960 thirty five, Ben Powers and Nate Davis. There's Jacoby Brissette 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:52.960 number thirty six. The quarterback Dalton Reisener and Isaiah Wynn 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.119 two offensive lineman forty and forty three. Miles Sanders the 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.920 first back at number forty eight. Then after number fifty, 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.960 I mentioned Isaac Samala at fifty two. Kelvin Beecham, the 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.879 long time stalwart tackle at fifty four, another former Dolphin 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:10.119 fifty five quarterback Tady Bridgewater two centers fifty seven, fifty 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.879 nine Eighthan Postic and Connor McGovern a tackles number sixty 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.400 one Donovan Smith running back Damian Harris from the Patriots, 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.639 number sixty four. I like his game a lot. I'm 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:20.960 not sure if it would be an exact scheme fit, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.560 but I think that his game translates really in any 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.119 way you look at it. Number sixty five wide receiver 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:28.400 Alan Lazard back to the running back position, and this guy, 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.000 to me is way too low as well. Running back 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.800 Jamal Williams, who scored like forty five touchdowns last year 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.119 seventy five Titan hayden Hurst talk about him in a 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.320 second Quarterback Andy Dalton seventy eight. Two running backs at 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.359 eighty and eighty one, Devin Singletary and Raheem Mostart again. 0:19:42.400 --> 0:19:44.719 Mostart to me is like thirty five spots higher than 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:48.359 this number eighty two wide receiver Robert Woods. Another Robert 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:50.239 at eighty three. Robert Tuny in the tight end from 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.240 the Green Bay Packers back to the running back at 0:19:52.280 --> 0:19:57.080 eighty five Alexander Madison, their center, Garrett Bradbury number eighty seven, 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:01.440