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Speaker 1: Draft Network. Will also discuss the David Long acquisition and
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Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime Podcast. May Gaffe fash please help me?
Speaker 1: Welcome in my guest today from the Draft Network, Damian
Speaker 1: Parson and jumping on the podcast now is yet another
Speaker 1: draft guru and expert in the field and a friend
Speaker 1: of mine, Damian Parson. Damien, we're just over a week
Speaker 1: out from the draft, now, how you feeling, Man, You
Speaker 1: get any rest these days? No, I am that I
Speaker 1: wish shortly though, soon soon, and very soon this draft
Speaker 1: class will be you know, Kansas City will be rocking
Speaker 1: and rolling and the draft will be live. And it's like, man,
Speaker 1: the culmination of all this hard work on everybody's part
Speaker 1: has been a fun process, but it's been a tiring one.
Speaker 1: We had a conversation before we started recording the podcast here,
Speaker 1: and I think it's worth talking about again, just because
Speaker 1: I thought your your perspective was really value about the
Speaker 1: idea of the Dolphins, you know, and the genesis of
Speaker 1: this was me saying, like, I rely on guys like
Speaker 1: you because we haven't had the draft picks or our
Speaker 1: energy has been focused, you know, on coaching changes or
Speaker 1: new veteran acquisitions, or breaking down someone's film like a
Speaker 1: Tyree or like a Tyreek Hill last year Bradley Chub
Speaker 1: midseason a year ago, and I was curious to get
Speaker 1: your take on the process of spending you know, picks
Speaker 1: in the twenties, which Miami has done the last two
Speaker 1: years now on Tyreek and Bradley Chubb on veteran players,
Speaker 1: and how consistently that works. Going back to Stefon Diggs
Speaker 1: or Frank Clark. It's just like every time you see
Speaker 1: a trade like this happen, it typically benefits the team
Speaker 1: that gets the veteran. In some cases you do wind
Speaker 1: up with Justin Jefferson on the other side, which is
Speaker 1: great too. But I was curious to hear your take
Speaker 1: on to the Dolphins approach and doing that because you
Speaker 1: go from you know, pick twenty nine is what that
Speaker 1: would have been this year and looking at like edge
Speaker 1: six or maybe seven with how much those guys go
Speaker 1: off the board versus Bradley Chubb, and to me, the
Speaker 1: answer there is obvious. So how do you kind of
Speaker 1: feel about the Dolphins approach in their team cycle and
Speaker 1: team building? Right now? I love it. Right you have
Speaker 1: a quarterback on a rookie deal for you guys, having
Speaker 1: to who you saw last year when Healthy was one
Speaker 1: of the better quarterbacks in the league. You got him
Speaker 1: weapons and now he's out here performing at a very
Speaker 1: high level, going throw for throwing score for score with
Speaker 1: the Lamar Jacksons with the Jaws Shallons of the world
Speaker 1: right and being able to really apply pressure to opposing defenses.
Speaker 1: So have I'd rather have a Tyreek Hill, and essentially
Speaker 1: that's my draft pick. You know what I mean if
Speaker 1: you tell me I could draft the Tyreek Hill or
Speaker 1: draft a Bradley Chubb with a pick in the twenties,
Speaker 1: rather than getting a young person, a young player that
Speaker 1: is unproven, that has developed development that they have to
Speaker 1: get to go through and essentially learn the game at
Speaker 1: the next level, at the NFL level, no matter how
Speaker 1: physically gifted and talented you are, it's always a learning
Speaker 1: curve no matter who you are. We see Peyton Manning
Speaker 1: through a twenty eight interceptions his third year in the league.
Speaker 1: It's a learning curve for everyone. Hall of Famers, guys
Speaker 1: who become Hall of famers, or guys who you know
Speaker 1: flame league. At the end of the day, everyone has
Speaker 1: a learning curve. So especially when you look at this
Speaker 1: class for you guys, you guys did great trading the
Speaker 1: first round pick for a proven commodity that knows how
Speaker 1: to win against NFL tackles right now, who's proven he
Speaker 1: can win versus NFL tackles right now rather than, like
Speaker 1: you said, possibly getting a back end of the top
Speaker 1: five edge or potential like top eight edge in the twenties.
Speaker 1: And then a lot of these guys in this edge class,
Speaker 1: while they're physically gifted and talented, they're very raw in
Speaker 1: terms of their technique because of colleges not teaching these
Speaker 1: kids the same way the NFL, you know, has these guys.
Speaker 1: It's a lot different when you are bigger, stronger, and
Speaker 1: faster because you're ninth, you're twenty twenty one, and the
Speaker 1: kids you're faces a true freshman. When you get to
Speaker 1: the league, you're facing twenty eight, twenty nine and thirty
Speaker 1: year old grown men. This is their livelihood. So it's
Speaker 1: a different ball game. And these guys taking I love
Speaker 1: listening to old line offensive line and the old line
Speaker 1: coaches because it's so detail oriented and these guys practice
Speaker 1: and they stud to be able to stop these type
Speaker 1: of guys. So when you got a student at high
Speaker 1: level student as an eight year pro versus a first year,
Speaker 1: day one rookie, yeah, it's a little different, man, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, It's different for you like a
Speaker 1: Nick Bosa Vaughan middle of those guys like came in
Speaker 1: just more technically refined and didn't have other worldly skills.
Speaker 1: So yeah, one hundred percent, man, I'd rather have the
Speaker 1: proof of commodities. At the end of the day, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna draft an all Pro year one. It's very
Speaker 1: rare that you see them. But if I can acquire
Speaker 1: in all pro, all pro caliber player, give that to me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean with one of those middle
Speaker 1: of the first round type of picks. Yeah, the right
Speaker 1: now comment you made is what really kind of triggers
Speaker 1: the genius behind it to me, because like understanding where
Speaker 1: you are in your team cycle and the expectations, like
Speaker 1: the Dolphins made the playoffs last year, I think probably
Speaker 1: the nine and eight record was maybe not representative of
Speaker 1: how good they played at times, especially in the middle
Speaker 1: portion of the season before you know that, the injury
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Understanding where you are in your
Speaker 1: team cycle, and getting Bradley Chubb, who right now today
Speaker 1: you know can go beat most offensive tackles. I love
Speaker 1: that idea. I love that it's premier positions too, right
Speaker 1: because we talk about edge six, seven, eight, whatever it
Speaker 1: might have been. At the backck of the first round
Speaker 1: if that's the route you go in. Same with wide
Speaker 1: receiver man in that class last year like you had,
Speaker 1: I think it was five or six receivers plucked off
Speaker 1: the board before that pick where we used it for
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. I love that idea. And then you kind
Speaker 1: of mentioned there a little bit as well. Don't forget
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey too. By the way, the third round pick
Speaker 1: for Jill Ramsey's not too bad on the back end.
Speaker 1: And and you know, I love this cornerback class. I
Speaker 1: think it's the best group in the entire draft. But
Speaker 1: I'll take Jylen Ramsey any day over a rookie. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: how could you not in this particular climates of the
Speaker 1: Dolphins roster. And then you know the way the way
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offense kind of flipped to the strength of
Speaker 1: the team last year, you know, finishing top ten compared
Speaker 1: to the defense where that had been the one carrying
Speaker 1: them year before. Finding a way to get that defense
Speaker 1: back to that level of twenty twenty one or twenty
Speaker 1: twenty will be a big, a big portion of what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins season becomes this year. And that's what we
Speaker 1: have you on here to talk about. One of the
Speaker 1: groups on that defense here under new defensive coordinator Vic Fangio,
Speaker 1: and I want to talk about linebackers again, that satellite
Speaker 1: or the analog of the running back position on the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football and kind of sort of
Speaker 1: do it through the lens of how the Dolphins could
Speaker 1: attack the position with picks fifty one, eighty four and
Speaker 1: then the six and seventh round. But before we do that,
Speaker 1: I want to go back to free agency because the
Speaker 1: Dolphins made a big splash and acquiring a player who's tape.
Speaker 1: I just can't get enough of David Long. He is
Speaker 1: so fun to watch. Man. Since we're talking linebackers, I
Speaker 1: want to get your take, Dame on Long's game and
Speaker 1: his fit in Vic Fangio's defense. Man, I watching the
Speaker 1: watching David along for the Tennessee Titans this past season
Speaker 1: and even going back to the summer, I'll came away
Speaker 1: very impressed with him. Right like a guy that's athletic.
Speaker 1: He can move sideline the sideline. You see the ability
Speaker 1: to drop offensive zones and coverages and even covers some
Speaker 1: tight ends at times. But just be that plus player
Speaker 1: on all three downs, and that's what you want. You
Speaker 1: want the all three down player at the linebacker position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you see a lot of teams they want to
Speaker 1: supplant supplement linebacker for a third or fourth safety and
Speaker 1: bring more speed on the filble. And you got a
Speaker 1: guy that is athletic as a David Long. He can
Speaker 1: essentially do the same things that you want that box
Speaker 1: safety to do. He can blitz, he can fit the
Speaker 1: fit the gaps in the run game. So I can
Speaker 1: repressed with him with that. He was a well coached guy.
Speaker 1: Mike Frabel is one of the tougher defensive defensive minded coaches,
Speaker 1: and he played the linebacker position right where he understands
Speaker 1: what it takes to succeed. So that knowledge that he
Speaker 1: was able to instill in David Long, I think showcase
Speaker 1: as he developed during his time in Tennessee. So I
Speaker 1: think in this Vic Vangio's defense, I think he can
Speaker 1: really shine as one of those stars on the second
Speaker 1: level man be able to scrape sideline, the sideline flow
Speaker 1: with the ball for the perimeter runs tass sweeps, the
Speaker 1: wide angle zone type of runs, but also get downhill
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and fill those run layers.
Speaker 1: I love the fit of what he could become in
Speaker 1: this defense, going from Mike Vrabel to a vig Vanjie.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great opportunity for this young man
Speaker 1: because I like his game and the reason I do
Speaker 1: lead with David Long because much like the rest of
Speaker 1: the defense or roster in general, I think the Dolphins
Speaker 1: could line up and play a game tomorrow and be
Speaker 1: well positioned to do so. Like most of the you know,
Speaker 1: guys we're going to see the most snap counts from
Speaker 1: are already here. You know, Long and Jerome Baker have
Speaker 1: been every down players for years. You got Duke Cryley's
Speaker 1: a quasi starter like sub package ace in addition to
Speaker 1: what he does on special teams. And then you know,
Speaker 1: I think Channing Tindal's a guy that has all the
Speaker 1: upside in the world. And actually I want to get
Speaker 1: your take on him because when you talk about David
Speaker 1: Long and what he brings the table and how his
Speaker 1: instincts in the way he plays the game kind of
Speaker 1: faster with that processing speed, to me, that's a big
Speaker 1: benefit in a defense that will go lighter boxes at
Speaker 1: times and what Vic Fangio operates with. But also a
Speaker 1: great player to kind of show Channing Tendal the ropes
Speaker 1: and a young player who just doesn't have that much football,
Speaker 1: you know, experience in his background, Like he was part
Speaker 1: of those Georgia teams, but didn't play a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps those those three years he was there, and then
Speaker 1: last year not very many s on defense either. Um.
Speaker 1: But after that red shirt season, I'm curious to see
Speaker 1: how you think he might fit in Vic Fangio's defense
Speaker 1: and how all those traits and all that athletic ability
Speaker 1: you talked about David Long being the what was the
Speaker 1: word he used, the spill spill yep. So like kind
Speaker 1: of sounds like I'm a similar to Chang Kendall in
Speaker 1: a way, doesn't it. Yeah, No, Channell like that that
Speaker 1: burst in range. So he has driving down hill. He's
Speaker 1: a player that I always felt coming out of Georgia, Um,
Speaker 1: that was much better going downhill than dropping backwards. Uh,
Speaker 1: he does, he's he's I think he's a good athlete,
Speaker 1: but that that that athleticism and just his play style
Speaker 1: was always better forward charging at the last scrims, blitzing. Uh.
Speaker 1: He played with like this and I say it in
Speaker 1: a positive way of reckless, abandoned, like he did not
Speaker 1: really care, like he was a physical guy who was
Speaker 1: going to and you saw it with you know, it
Speaker 1: was him, the Kobe Dean and Quay Walker. And when
Speaker 1: they will put one of those guys off off the field,
Speaker 1: they would still do their double A gap bugs, you know,
Speaker 1: putting walk him up on the line of scrimmage in
Speaker 1: the A gaps he would blitz. He will phil and
Speaker 1: be that splattered guy, that physical guy in the run
Speaker 1: game as well. But like you said, just coming into
Speaker 1: the NFL, as we talked about earlier, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a learning curve, not just for the speed of the game,
Speaker 1: but just learning NFL defenses because one thing about Kirby
Speaker 1: smart like and you look at what all of these
Speaker 1: defensive players in the front seven for Georgia. They're not
Speaker 1: technically refined guys like you know, Vaunta y At, Jordan Davis,
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker, this year's prospect, Nolan Smith, Robert Beale Junior,
Speaker 1: all these guys come in kind of raw because they're
Speaker 1: just hey, go be an athlete. Hey we scheme it
Speaker 1: up right, you know, cross dog and cross dog blitz
Speaker 1: is when you get the linebackers crossing it at the
Speaker 1: snap and getting going opposite direction of the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and hitting opposite gaps. Then they're a line, right.
Speaker 1: They did a lot of scheming, especially when you had
Speaker 1: all those stars in the defensive line as well, where
Speaker 1: you know, George Davis is getting double team the Vaunta,
Speaker 1: why is getting a potential duo block? Now it leaves
Speaker 1: one guard or the center by himself or a tackle
Speaker 1: by himself to deal with all these moving parts on
Speaker 1: the second level. They are firing at allers cylinders downhill.
Speaker 1: So I think with him, it's just now, it's okay.
Speaker 1: You got to play a designated role in the defense
Speaker 1: that structured and Georgia's defense, to me, was never truly
Speaker 1: a structured defense like an NFL defense where hey, it's
Speaker 1: all about reading your keys that you know. We use
Speaker 1: the term for a linebackers slow until you know. So
Speaker 1: you got to be very very disciplined in terms of
Speaker 1: where you're patient with reading, but you're not a slow
Speaker 1: processor where you allow guards and centers to climb up
Speaker 1: to the second level in the screen game and then
Speaker 1: the run game to pick you off. So slow until
Speaker 1: you know, locate the ball, see where the ball is
Speaker 1: or where the direction is, and now you hit, you
Speaker 1: get on your horse, and you get there. So I
Speaker 1: think with Tendall, having a guy like David Long, who's
Speaker 1: a veteran in this league now, and having the veterans
Speaker 1: in the locker room at the linebacker position, I think
Speaker 1: that could help his development this year. My favorite part
Speaker 1: about the scouting industry is the phrases in terms you
Speaker 1: guys all come up with, slow until you know that
Speaker 1: stuff is so good, Like Daniel Jeremiah always has the
Speaker 1: best ones at the NFL Network and that's one I
Speaker 1: haven't heard before. So good stuff their damon. You know,
Speaker 1: we talk about the idea of these veteran acquisitions and
Speaker 1: kind of, you know, let's get immediate impact right now.
Speaker 1: You can almost look back at last year's clash for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and say like that was a class that
Speaker 1: might be more geared towards producing in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: both with he and eric A Zukama, who might get
Speaker 1: more of a chance to get some more snaps this
Speaker 1: year with Trent Sherfield exiting stage left and going up
Speaker 1: to Buffalo in free agency this year. So great stuff there.
Speaker 1: I do want to talk about the draft with you.
Speaker 1: That's why you're on here. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break right here real quick and come back
Speaker 1: on the other side and talk about the linebacker class.
Speaker 1: I know you're excited to talk about these guys. It's
Speaker 1: a good crop. That's next Draft Time Podcast. Your host
Speaker 1: Trys Wingfield. My guest today Damien Parson, brought to you
Speaker 1: by a donation, Segment number two on a linebacker preview
Speaker 1: edition of the Draft Time Podcast. I've got Damien Parson
Speaker 1: from the Draft Network locked on NFL Draft Podcast as well.
Speaker 1: He and his co host Keith Sanchez do a great job.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna have Keith on. Not quite sure
Speaker 1: if that's confirmed yet, but I'm looking forward to talking
Speaker 1: deep with him. He was He was great last year
Speaker 1: on the podcast doing that same thing with us, so
Speaker 1: looking forward to getting him on the podcast here hopefully.
Speaker 1: I think next week is the idea here, But do
Speaker 1: you kind of want to go and do this the
Speaker 1: same way I've done it with my other guests so
Speaker 1: far and just go in order of the Dolphins draft
Speaker 1: picks and where they sit on the board. Obviously no
Speaker 1: first round pick, the first pick they have is at
Speaker 1: fifty one, and so the question I've been asking my guests,
Speaker 1: is how many linebackers do you think will be gone
Speaker 1: off the board through those top fifty picks. So when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins get on the board at fifty one, who
Speaker 1: is going to be out of the equation that you
Speaker 1: know for sure? I know it's up to talking absolutes
Speaker 1: in the draft season, but who are guys that you
Speaker 1: think for sure are going to be gone at pick
Speaker 1: fifty one? Man by pick fifty one, I think we
Speaker 1: could potentially see two. I think that's Drew Sanders and
Speaker 1: Trent Simpson. Drew Sanders linebacker sas edge usher from Arkansas,
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, you think about what Denver
Speaker 1: does with Baron Browning and then of course with the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys have now made famous with Michael Parsons, a
Speaker 1: guy that's traditional edge rusher, but athletic and athletically gifted
Speaker 1: and physically enough to play off ball linebacker on early
Speaker 1: downs while you walk him up and rush him as
Speaker 1: his natural position on third downs. With those two guys,
Speaker 1: I think Drew Sanders fits that mold and that's gonna
Speaker 1: be really hard for defenses at the top of the
Speaker 1: second round to pass on in my personal opinion, because
Speaker 1: he has the measurements. He has to height, the arm length,
Speaker 1: the physical and athletic ability to play both positions, so
Speaker 1: that that type of flexibility and versatility were big. And
Speaker 1: if you talk about versatility, Trent Simpson a guy that
Speaker 1: some teams have as a safety, other teams has been
Speaker 1: a linebacker. Then there are the the you know, the
Speaker 1: third cropper like man. He could play either one for us,
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter because he has that physical profile,
Speaker 1: but he has that also that safety dB athleticism in range. Right,
Speaker 1: So a young man that that can blitz, rush off
Speaker 1: the edge, drop off in coverage, play man to man. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know a guy that could potentially be that third
Speaker 1: safety you know, nickel dime backer on the field as well.
Speaker 1: So I think those are two guys that will be
Speaker 1: off the board before up by time that Miami picks Uh.
Speaker 1: And the guy that that I think that could be
Speaker 1: on the board that I truly think could really be
Speaker 1: a nice fit for them is uh is day and
Speaker 1: Henley from Washington States, Like, I absolutely love this kid
Speaker 1: own brand, right brand I just showed my coffee is
Speaker 1: Washington State. But everyone here knows I make sure everyone
Speaker 1: knows that, No, listen, I really came away in press. Well,
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to watch him prior to
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, um because he wasn't in my bucket
Speaker 1: of players to watch prior to. But watching him at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, you talk about guy who looked good
Speaker 1: on the huff. You know, he's got that that he's
Speaker 1: walking around with the Zeke crop top, you know, with
Speaker 1: the jersey tucked up showing the eight pack. Abs played
Speaker 1: but right like you know what I'm saying. It's just
Speaker 1: he played and his energy was so infectious. You can
Speaker 1: feel him on the field kind of getting everybody else
Speaker 1: riled up. You know, you watched him in the past
Speaker 1: in the one to one pass protection drills with the line,
Speaker 1: with the running backs and linebackers going one on one,
Speaker 1: and it was very rarely that he was blocked one
Speaker 1: on one by any of the running backs down the
Speaker 1: mobile and the physicality he played with. This is the
Speaker 1: young man who was I think he played quarterback. He
Speaker 1: played receiver growing up as well, and it's like, okay
Speaker 1: to make it. I think he played some safety also,
Speaker 1: So now putting him at linebackers, this is different. This
Speaker 1: is a different area for this young man. I think
Speaker 1: he's assimilateing himself and become accustomed to it well and
Speaker 1: really embraced it. And then you said, you see the
Speaker 1: range from sideline the sideline. He's getting quicker as the
Speaker 1: time as time goes by, with processing and reading right
Speaker 1: being slown to you know, But I will I love
Speaker 1: the fact that, you know, watching him in the run game,
Speaker 1: a guy that will be planted. He sees the ball,
Speaker 1: He's able to evade and slip blocks and still be
Speaker 1: able to re square himself to make a powerful hit
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, and bring down the ball carrier.
Speaker 1: So this is a guy I think that if they
Speaker 1: did want to attack linebacker, you know, especially if you
Speaker 1: have any qualm are concerns about the long term potential
Speaker 1: of a channing tendo. I think you know Dan Henley especially,
Speaker 1: he compares a little bit too um too David Long,
Speaker 1: I think physically. But I'll tell you that one of
Speaker 1: the comps I had, like not a full comp because
Speaker 1: I think they're they're two different type of athletes. And
Speaker 1: I remember this guy ran the four so four four.
Speaker 1: His playstyle reminded me very much of Ryan Shazier over
Speaker 1: with the with the Pittsburgh Steelers when in his prime,
Speaker 1: Shazier was a guy that played with his hair on fire.
Speaker 1: He was physical, he was aggressive. He didn't meet the
Speaker 1: body masks thresholds of the old school linebackers, right. He
Speaker 1: didn't look like ray Lewis, Brian or Lacker. He didn't
Speaker 1: have all the masks on this body. He looked more
Speaker 1: like a safety. But a guy that shot gaps, got
Speaker 1: into the backfield and you felt his presence play after play.
Speaker 1: He would blitz, he would drop off in coverage, he
Speaker 1: could catch the ball, he could take the ball away,
Speaker 1: and just that again the energy things you can't teach
Speaker 1: are guys that play with that infectious like even though
Speaker 1: he was ballheaded, he played with his head on fire,
Speaker 1: right like that That's what right sec here did and
Speaker 1: that's what Henley does as well. I mean, I feel
Speaker 1: like you just described our Hall of Fame linebacker Zach
Speaker 1: Thomas to a t in those instincts and the way
Speaker 1: he played the game. Man. So we are all about
Speaker 1: the non prototype player down here when it comes to
Speaker 1: players like that, and you know, you kind of gosh, Henley,
Speaker 1: he's one of my favorit players. Man. That Wisconsin tape
Speaker 1: that he had last year was so dang good. He
Speaker 1: had so many TFLs in that game, and he did
Speaker 1: it from either sideline to either sideline all game long.
Speaker 1: He was awesome in that one. But you bring up
Speaker 1: an interesting point there that I kind of want to
Speaker 1: take a detour on because you mentioned Trent Simpson a
Speaker 1: safety convert. You mentioned Henley, he was a guy that
Speaker 1: was a safety prior in his career as well. I
Speaker 1: feel like we get a lot more of that than
Speaker 1: we used to, and following the draft for you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years, it feels like you get a lot
Speaker 1: of that now compared to, you know, in the back
Speaker 1: in the day, what you played in college is what
Speaker 1: you are in the next level. If you try to transition,
Speaker 1: you probably probably not going to work out for you.
Speaker 1: But now it's more common, And I'm curious you think
Speaker 1: that's because of how the NFL has these sub packages,
Speaker 1: how the NFL has become the spread out passing game
Speaker 1: where you take a player who has those safety instincts
Speaker 1: and has that safety kind of knowledge and maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a linebacker kind of tweener body
Speaker 1: worth the athletic ability because now on third and twelve
Speaker 1: I've got a linebacker who's in the game who can
Speaker 1: handle a screen but also can drop twenty yards on
Speaker 1: the pike. Like, is that kind of why the game
Speaker 1: is going that way and why you have some of
Speaker 1: these converted players. I mean, the game has changed, right,
Speaker 1: especially defensively in the NFL. You think about the NBA,
Speaker 1: where it's like they talk about being positionless basketball, where
Speaker 1: you can have all the way up through the center spot.
Speaker 1: At this point, as we see with Nicola Yo Kits
Speaker 1: and the MBIs, the Jannis Onto, the compos of the world,
Speaker 1: guys that can bring the ball up you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, at seven foot seven foot one, and it's like,
Speaker 1: like this is not what we're used to. We're used
Speaker 1: to shot being in the low post, right, being three
Speaker 1: hundred pounds and just banging and throwing this body around. Right.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's the game has changed, where in
Speaker 1: the NFL it's the same thing position his defense. The
Speaker 1: NFL has it's it's a grown man's league, right, but
Speaker 1: it's now attracting. So if the days of the two
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy pounds just two down Brandon Spikes type
Speaker 1: of linebackers, that day is long gone because offenses are
Speaker 1: able to pick apart that one player as the weakness
Speaker 1: of your defense at such a high rate. Now you
Speaker 1: think about the routes, the running backs are running out
Speaker 1: of the backfield, and teams are so easily to go
Speaker 1: from twelve personnel under center with one running back to
Speaker 1: completely spread and now your base defense is stretched across
Speaker 1: the field. So you need these type of guys who
Speaker 1: could be interchangeable where it's like, you know what, I
Speaker 1: find more value And a guy like that that can
Speaker 1: play safety, like a Trenton Simpson, Isaiah Simmons, right, those
Speaker 1: type of guys. Then a guy that's gonna you know,
Speaker 1: you think about the Danta high Towers that from the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots. He was like two seventy. He was
Speaker 1: actually an ad dresser, you know what I mean. He
Speaker 1: was actually edge guy, but he was playing off ball
Speaker 1: backer that kept dropping them off in the coverage. In
Speaker 1: today's NFL, he would get picked on in coverage because
Speaker 1: of the lack of fluidity atlticystem and his body type.
Speaker 1: If you use him in that way, now have you
Speaker 1: rushed him off the edge, He's gonna dominate, you know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna dominate it. He's still gonna be able to
Speaker 1: trans transition to this league. But that's where where it is, though, Travis, like,
Speaker 1: it's so spread out now, it's attracted me. Speed is everywhere.
Speaker 1: That's why you know the offenses are constantly looking at
Speaker 1: these type of tight ends that can moves like receivers
Speaker 1: a stretch the field because you know what I can.
Speaker 1: You can outrun these linebackers or outrun these safeties. But
Speaker 1: then they're they're taller and have a bigger frame than
Speaker 1: the linebackers. So it's like I just gotta put a
Speaker 1: helmet or higher. It's a quarterback because you're linebacker who's
Speaker 1: five ft eleven six foot one can't go up with
Speaker 1: the Luke Musgrave who's six six two fifty. I could
Speaker 1: put it over his head and let him go get it.
Speaker 1: And that feels like the whole tight end classes like
Speaker 1: that right now, to all these six foot six guys
Speaker 1: that are running freaking four six six seven. Washington's not
Speaker 1: even I don't think he's even a human at this point.
Speaker 1: The way he works out, in the way his body
Speaker 1: is put together just unbelievable. And by the way, I
Speaker 1: love how you fit the Drivetime culture because the basketball
Speaker 1: reference with the big guys bringing the ball up the floor,
Speaker 1: that's like right in my wheelhouse. Man, I talk about
Speaker 1: baseball and basketball on the show all the time here,
Speaker 1: so good stuff there, man, Yeah, exactly, it's that's again
Speaker 1: back to Dayan Jeremiah. He talks all the time about
Speaker 1: different sports and team building and how those different ideas
Speaker 1: kind of incorporate into the game of football. I think
Speaker 1: it's I think you have to have that perspective, that
Speaker 1: wide scope, and that big perspective to be able to
Speaker 1: do your job as best as you possibly can. So
Speaker 1: we talked about pick fifty one. I kind of thought
Speaker 1: you might put Hamley in this tier because I've just
Speaker 1: seen him mocked there a lot. But hey, top fifty
Speaker 1: player for the Coogs, I'll take that all day long.
Speaker 1: But pick eighty four at the linebacker position, who do
Speaker 1: you think kind of falls into that range that might
Speaker 1: fancy the Dolphin's interest. Oh? Man, I think about another
Speaker 1: former safety kind of tweener, and that's de Marvi and
Speaker 1: Overshan from Texas. Right sixty three, he's about two. I
Speaker 1: think he can he I don't really take the combound
Speaker 1: way in seriously. His kids drop weight just to run
Speaker 1: fast and jump high. But I think he played closer
Speaker 1: to two forty athletic guy. And what I loved about
Speaker 1: like he said, former safety. Started a career at Texas
Speaker 1: as a safety. But you see him, you put you
Speaker 1: turn on the tape against Alabama and he said, I
Speaker 1: got this similar to to Henley, consistently developing in terms
Speaker 1: of processing, and uh, you know, I discipline right, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to get you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: eye candy pre snap and motions and shifts and stuff,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to get caught trying to flow
Speaker 1: with someone that doesn't have the football. So he's still
Speaker 1: developing in that round. That's why I think third round
Speaker 1: could be a good spot for him. But he plays
Speaker 1: much more physical than I expected a tend on that
Speaker 1: Alabama table, I saw a guy that rushed off the
Speaker 1: edge that would fit the run run lanes, dropped off
Speaker 1: in coverage. He was physical, he was out there hitting,
Speaker 1: He was getting into sticking his face in the fire
Speaker 1: man like you know at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: And to be a run defender and a tackler to
Speaker 1: to give yourself three down value, it takes a certain
Speaker 1: mentality even in today's NFL, where yeah, it's the most
Speaker 1: more passed happy, but still yet you still had to
Speaker 1: defend the run. And one thing I took I had
Speaker 1: appreciation for with Overstown was his willingness to get close
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage when the ball snapped and
Speaker 1: he knows his run and fight through blocks using that
Speaker 1: I think he's thirty three inch arms. Using that arm
Speaker 1: link to the shock and shed offensive lineman and locate
Speaker 1: the ball and make a tackle. Matt came away and
Speaker 1: press with this young I mean, I think on day two,
Speaker 1: you know, mentally, day two of the draft, a team
Speaker 1: is going to get a linebacker that could really be
Speaker 1: a high impact starter for him. I love that comment because,
Speaker 1: like as much as we talk about the game changing
Speaker 1: and going more towards the speed, spread out active, like
Speaker 1: all the action down the field, like, you still have
Speaker 1: to deconstruct blocks and play physical because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, football is a violent, physical game and
Speaker 1: so you have to be able to bring that as well.
Speaker 1: So those guys that have that, you know, kind of
Speaker 1: multifaceted skills that certainly pop and Overshow was actually reported
Speaker 1: to be one of our top thirty visits as well,
Speaker 1: so maybe there's some interest there in that third round.
Speaker 1: But then we don't come back until round six and
Speaker 1: seven games. So this is where the draft scouts really
Speaker 1: really really make their money. Man. You know, you're gone
Speaker 1: on the road and making all your stops and the
Speaker 1: smallest small colleges and small schools and finding the intel
Speaker 1: on these guys. Maybe the rest of the draft community
Speaker 1: doesn't know about. Who are you kind of putting your
Speaker 1: stamp on here? A potential, you know, late day three pick,
Speaker 1: maybe a priority u DFA someone that you think can
Speaker 1: come in right away and give you some special teams reps,
Speaker 1: maybe a sub package player. Maybe even a guy that
Speaker 1: you think winds up going on Day three him as
Speaker 1: a starter right away. Who are you pounding the table
Speaker 1: for late on Day three at linebacker man? Two guys
Speaker 1: that come to mind Cervassier Dennis from Pittsburgh six foot
Speaker 1: and a half, played around two thirty. A guy that's
Speaker 1: athletic enough. He's played to me, he looks like I'm
Speaker 1: remember telling keys in my western side. He looks like
Speaker 1: he could play safety, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 1: he's got that type of build. But you see the
Speaker 1: willingness to really be physical, athleticism triggered downhill drop off
Speaker 1: in the coverage blitz from different alignments and variations. And
Speaker 1: I think this is a young man that that we
Speaker 1: fast forward two years in the right right environment, you
Speaker 1: could get yourself a sub packaged player or potential starter,
Speaker 1: depends on what your what your front seven looks like.
Speaker 1: Just to keep him clean and a guy that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that, you know, you're talking about potential undrafted free
Speaker 1: priority free agent that can I think will be a
Speaker 1: special team's ace. But you know, if you get past
Speaker 1: the limitations size wise, you can you you appreciate this game.
Speaker 1: Ivan Paced junior from Cincinnati manum. You know, he's about
Speaker 1: five ten, five eleven, like this show man. That's another.
Speaker 1: I think he had a club on his hand and
Speaker 1: mobile at the Senior Bowl, and I remember watching him,
Speaker 1: like you know, just like Henley in those one on
Speaker 1: one reps in pass pro against the running backs. I
Speaker 1: think one rep he lost the rep, he was not happy.
Speaker 1: You could tell he wasn't happy with himself. And the
Speaker 1: very next chance he got that running back again that
Speaker 1: he used the most vicious club I've ever seen a
Speaker 1: linebacker used and it was just like it was so violent,
Speaker 1: so physical, so aggressive, just so he can get back
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. He plays with such a level of
Speaker 1: physicality and just motor that's unteachable. These are like he
Speaker 1: may not have the ideal measurements, he's gonna be in
Speaker 1: the less than twenty percent tile and most of the height,
Speaker 1: weight and arm measurements and everything, but sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: throw the thresholds out the window and just look at
Speaker 1: the football player. And I've to pace Junior is a
Speaker 1: football player. I think a guy that he's coachable, very
Speaker 1: well spoken young man. I saw him down in India
Speaker 1: at the Combine and I think one thing I took
Speaker 1: away from that, Travis is like that I appreciate it
Speaker 1: is you see a young man that I truly believe
Speaker 1: if you ask him to play, hey man, we just
Speaker 1: want you right now on special teams, you know, as
Speaker 1: on punk team, on kickoff team and things like that,
Speaker 1: and even as a blocker on kick or punk return.
Speaker 1: He I really foresee this young man saying whatever you need, coach,
Speaker 1: whatever you need from me, you know you know what
Speaker 1: I mean? He plays like that. This young man had
Speaker 1: now he played middle linebacker. He had twelve sacks this year,
Speaker 1: and it's like when you think about a middle linebacker
Speaker 1: or having twelve sections, like how is this possible? And
Speaker 1: you just turn on the tape and you see him
Speaker 1: just athletically just get downhill. He like I said, that motor,
Speaker 1: even when guys like get their hands on him, he's
Speaker 1: always fighting. He's always he's got this physical yet slippery
Speaker 1: type of game where he could slip off of blocks
Speaker 1: and get in the backfield. And there's times, especially when
Speaker 1: the coverage is good. You got Xavier Howard, you have
Speaker 1: Jalen Ramsey, Noah Igmnogny, you know all these different corners
Speaker 1: on your team where you could play that man the
Speaker 1: man coverage and really hold up the quarterback in terms
Speaker 1: of getting the ball out of his hands, having the
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna keep fighting and keep fighting as a
Speaker 1: blitzer to get back there and make that quarterback uncomfortable
Speaker 1: because there he got one sack. I think it was
Speaker 1: against Tulsa where he literally crawled into and like he
Speaker 1: got he got washed down and they pushed him to
Speaker 1: the ground, but he caught himself with his hands and
Speaker 1: then climbed himself right back into the sack to get
Speaker 1: his hands around, his arms, around the leg to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: So that type of leadership and play style. I think
Speaker 1: an NFL team they're gonna look at him that he
Speaker 1: may not be for everybody, but this is a guy
Speaker 1: that you might look on it on the field on
Speaker 1: Sundays and someone has him on the field in certain
Speaker 1: spots and he's making some plays for them. He sounds
Speaker 1: like a culture builder, a guy that comes in right
Speaker 1: away and has that mentality that just kind of raises
Speaker 1: the level everybody around him, because like, hey, I'll do
Speaker 1: whatever you need, coach, and that's gonna be infectious in
Speaker 1: the way you practice, in the way you prepare and
Speaker 1: all that stuff too. So man, great stuff. He gave
Speaker 1: us a bunch of names. I am circling that name,
Speaker 1: Ivan Pace. I know exactly right you're talking about in
Speaker 1: the senior ball. That's why I live up on the
Speaker 1: on the zoom here when you talked about it, because
Speaker 1: it was it was so impressive to watch, and so
Speaker 1: is he as a player. I just I love those
Speaker 1: kind of guys that overcome, you know, like you mentioned
Speaker 1: some of the physical and athletic shortcomings in terms of
Speaker 1: the measurements, like just be a football player, and he
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Speaker 1: from my season. Rewatch here in the month of April.
Speaker 1: That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. So I teased it on the
Speaker 1: other side of the show here, but I want to
Speaker 1: jump into this topic here watching the games back and
Speaker 1: kind of getting a recollection of things that you knew
Speaker 1: but kind of I guess went by the wayside over
Speaker 1: the last several months, having not seen a Dolphins game
Speaker 1: now in three months, it's been that long, and I
Speaker 1: refer back to this often, how I have been watching
Speaker 1: those games and it's been a bit of a slower
Speaker 1: burn this time around, because it's crazy how much less
Speaker 1: time you have with two kids compared to none. Oh,
Speaker 1: we miss sleep in the Wingfield household. But the point
Speaker 1: I've noticed through rewatching the games, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: like a yeah type of realization, because all it is
Speaker 1: is jogging your memory from when what you knew back
Speaker 1: when you watched those games live and poured over the
Speaker 1: tape several times over. At least my experience, but I
Speaker 1: think we do this with every team every year, even
Speaker 1: the one that we study the closest, the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Is that the further removed we get from the season,
Speaker 1: the more we start to remove contexts and just go
Speaker 1: results based. And anybody who follows this sport, or really
Speaker 1: any sport but football above all, given the seventeen game
Speaker 1: sample size, you know that what the numbers say is
Speaker 1: not necessarily always the case. Well I suppose it is,
Speaker 1: but it's not instructive, right, It's not predictive. And you
Speaker 1: don't listen to a podcast to hear somebody tell you
Speaker 1: the Dolphins were nine and eight. That was a good throw,
Speaker 1: that was a good tackle. No, you want nuance. You
Speaker 1: want to know why those things were good. You want
Speaker 1: context that can inform how you might feel heading into
Speaker 1: a game, a season of play, whatever the case may be,
Speaker 1: I'll do a quick departure here for you and explain
Speaker 1: in a way that I think can connect with someone
Speaker 1: whose main sport is any of the top three sports
Speaker 1: in America. Obviously most of you are probably football is
Speaker 1: that sport. But I know we have some Heat fans
Speaker 1: in here as well. I know we have some less
Speaker 1: but some Baseball fans in the audience. Raise your hands,
Speaker 1: just kidding. Imagine turning a podcast like it was live.
Speaker 1: It'd be funny. I thought last year's Heat team was very,
Speaker 1: very good, that they put exceptional team defense. I thought
Speaker 1: they were good in transition, controlled the boards, and had
Speaker 1: scores and enough shooters. It's funny how losing PJ. Tucker
Speaker 1: seems to really have unraveled at all. It doesn't it.
Speaker 1: But I went to a game in November with some
Speaker 1: of the video staff here at the Dolphins, and I
Speaker 1: ditinctly remember saying this to them, I don't think this
Speaker 1: Heat team is very good this year, and I'm watching
Speaker 1: Duncan Robinson give up three consecutive baskets on defense while
Speaker 1: Max Struss seems to have lost that touch that really
Speaker 1: made him a kind of a big figure in that
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one team. And Kyle Lowry's age became apparent overnight.
Speaker 1: I thought he was frustrating last year too, but this
Speaker 1: year way more so. But sure enough, here we are,
Speaker 1: and this is prerecorded, so who knows if they beat
Speaker 1: the Rafters or Wizards. I didn't even this is before
Speaker 1: that game even happens. I think you can take the
Speaker 1: context of the twenty twenty one team and say they
Speaker 1: probably maximized their ability with Strews hitting a high percentage
Speaker 1: of the shots and threes, where PJ. Tucker really serving
Speaker 1: as the conduit of the team hero in that sixth
Speaker 1: man role, found that spark that hasn't been the same
Speaker 1: as a starter this year. But then they just didn't
Speaker 1: do anything in the off season to shore up some
Speaker 1: of the deficiencies and banked on career type of performances
Speaker 1: repeating themselves. I compare it to elite defense in the
Speaker 1: NFL that is tough to sustain for more than a
Speaker 1: year and just about impossible to do it beyond two years.
Speaker 1: Take my Seattle manors for baseball. I was just looking
Speaker 1: at a chart of their offseason moves and it began
Speaker 1: with a splash. A power hitting high ops, quick mover,
Speaker 1: quick on the base as effective glove in the outfield
Speaker 1: with Tayoscar Hernandez. But then what Mitch Haniger gone, Kyle
Speaker 1: Lewis gone, Jesse Winker gone, replacements, AJ Pollock, Colton Wong hoof.
Speaker 1: Now they go into games with some combination of Jared
Speaker 1: Kellennick who's been hitting well, Tommy Lostella, Colton Wong, Pollock,
Speaker 1: and JP Crawford. That's four bats in the lineup who
Speaker 1: are more than one hundred points below league average and ops.
Speaker 1: That is not a winning formula. And they led the
Speaker 1: league last year in one run wins. So breaking the
Speaker 1: drought was fun, but the context tells you they probably
Speaker 1: were lucky to get in and probably can't transport that
Speaker 1: success over this year when the off season wasn't only
Speaker 1: that good. So with the Dolphins it was the opposite.
Speaker 1: Watching these games again and literally every single loss, you
Speaker 1: can look at a crucial moment late in the game
Speaker 1: in the second half. They were in position to win
Speaker 1: the game or had a favorable win probability at that point,
Speaker 1: and little things would just bite them. Now, like we
Speaker 1: talk about transporting success over, it doesn't just occur. You
Speaker 1: can't replicate that success and fix the things that you
Speaker 1: didn't do well. But the difference here to me is
Speaker 1: that a we know McDaniel is a genius, but also
Speaker 1: ego free enough to make certain corrections and changes, and
Speaker 1: that be all of the off season moves were geared
Speaker 1: towards improving those trapdoor situations. Last year aka the defense right.
Speaker 1: Offense was awesome, and you might get some spots that
Speaker 1: need improvements, and that's a given. But consider the fact
Speaker 1: that even with those holes are perceived holes. You're talking
Speaker 1: about trying to improve an offense that was six in
Speaker 1: the NFL last year, despite the fact that for four
Speaker 1: plus games they went from top five quarterback play to
Speaker 1: bottom one or two quarterback play based upon all stats, analytics,
Speaker 1: and charts. Let's go through these real quick. The Bengals game,
Speaker 1: the interception in the high red zone with a chance
Speaker 1: to take a lead in the fourth quarters obviously brutal,
Speaker 1: and that was a game that we played down our quarterback,
Speaker 1: most of it down our top two corners, and Byron
Speaker 1: and X and Tyreek and Jalen both in and out
Speaker 1: of the lineup that game with injuries. That's even without
Speaker 1: mentioning having a fifteen fourteen lead with two forty three
Speaker 1: to play in the game, coming off of a four
Speaker 1: day rest where a defense played eighty four snaps against
Speaker 1: Buffalo in the hot, hot heat down here and on
Speaker 1: the heels of a second and goal from the two
Speaker 1: that went run for no gain incomplete pass, Tyrek was open,
Speaker 1: missed the throw. Then the next drive we failed to
Speaker 1: convert a third and one from the minus thirty three
Speaker 1: yard bind and pump the ball away that would have
Speaker 1: given us a fresh set of downs under ten minutes
Speaker 1: to play by two. And then Evan McPherson hits a
Speaker 1: fifty seven yard field goal with six seventeen to play.
Speaker 1: He misses that, and that's a fifty percent kick by
Speaker 1: the numbers. Well, then you have the ball just shy
Speaker 1: of midfield, only eating two first downs to kick a
Speaker 1: potential game winning field goal could have won that game.
Speaker 1: Several times, Jets game just the dumbest game, removing our
Speaker 1: quarterback too for no reason, not to mention the grounding
Speaker 1: call on Teddy occurred to the opposite or the exact
Speaker 1: same way that we didn't get called for us multiple
Speaker 1: times later in the year, having a field goal attempt
Speaker 1: to go ahead with thirteen minutes left, not to mention
Speaker 1: the sequence prior to the fifty four yard field goal,
Speaker 1: a false start that he raced a first down inside
Speaker 1: the Jet thirty, then it dropped past on an ensuing
Speaker 1: second and ten that would have put Miami inside the
Speaker 1: twenty five yard line with a new set of downs.
Speaker 1: Then the wheels fell off, but putting Zach Wilson behind
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter a post to a quick change
Speaker 1: for our defense and a Jet lead. Major difference there Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The Wattle fumble, obviously, but also that never ending drive
Speaker 1: in the first quarter to go first and ten from
Speaker 1: the plus twenty four false start gain of twenty eligible
Speaker 1: man down field first and twenty offensive holding, then waddle
Speaker 1: for eighteen back in it, but then second and twelve,
Speaker 1: a gain to Tyreek and Opi second and twenty two
Speaker 1: another holding call on a screen pass, and then you
Speaker 1: punt from almost sure touchdown to punting Surefield's inside the
Speaker 1: five yard line on that catch and run, and then
Speaker 1: back to a punt. The San Francisco game, it really
Speaker 1: comes down to that fourth down, miss Kausik. He has it,
Speaker 1: doesn't secure the catch. I mean, if I told you
Speaker 1: this offense had first and ten at the plus thirty
Speaker 1: three with six minutes to play, down by six, you
Speaker 1: would tell me the Dolphins are going to win that game.
Speaker 1: Not to mention the tackle by Dre Greenlaw on Tyreek
Speaker 1: on the first down play was a brilliant one. If
Speaker 1: Tyreek slips that, it's out the gate. Plus, we just
Speaker 1: played horrible and still had a chance to win. Speaking
Speaker 1: of playing horrible on a chance to win the Chargers
Speaker 1: game the following week, they took possession with a ball
Speaker 1: with eleven nineteen to play in the game, up six
Speaker 1: at their own eleven, and we forced a third and five,
Speaker 1: which would have given us a short field. Have you
Speaker 1: gotten that stop? But Justin Herbert made a great throw
Speaker 1: and it was really good in that game. But how
Speaker 1: about the fact that we had a loose ball on
Speaker 1: an onside kick with seventy seconds to play, only down six,
Speaker 1: Like again, I'm taking the Miami offense in that spot.
Speaker 1: Or Tyreek losing a walk in eighty yard touchdown throw
Speaker 1: in the lights, I guess, or Jayalen Phillips getting hit
Speaker 1: with a worst roughing the pastor call of the season
Speaker 1: on third and nine at their own eighteen. They did
Speaker 1: still punt, but it costs us about sixty yards or
Speaker 1: potential field position, Buffalo getting the ball back with a
Speaker 1: five point lead implus territory in the fourth quarter. That
Speaker 1: was the one that hurt the most. But the back
Speaker 1: to back drop touchdowns in the first quarter leads to
Speaker 1: a field goal, Josh Allen extending that play that almost
Speaker 1: cost them a field goal chance winds up a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and then just a couple of sequences, they're light in
Speaker 1: the game that didn't go our way. That one was close,
Speaker 1: that one hurt. Green Bay was just the most annoying game,
Speaker 1: so close, so many times, getting the football back late
Speaker 1: multiple times. I don't want to overanalyze this one because
Speaker 1: who knows what the truth was for why those three
Speaker 1: picks happened the way they did, just very uncharacteristic Patriots
Speaker 1: game pick six, the Skyler scramble for a first download
Speaker 1: was called back that led to a punt instead of
Speaker 1: a first down with a just need to field goal,
Speaker 1: take a lead just outside the red zone. And then
Speaker 1: the Buffalo playoff game. Actually think this is the one
Speaker 1: where we had to say that we got very lucky
Speaker 1: to be in the game, but to have a third
Speaker 1: and two with two chances to get a first down
Speaker 1: righte at midfield, down by less than a touchdown with
Speaker 1: two twenty to play in the game. Now, given the personnel,
Speaker 1: I don't have the same confidence the offense would have
Speaker 1: scored as I did in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: But the chance was there. So that's kind of just
Speaker 1: what I noticed from rewatching the season nine and eight. Yes,
Speaker 1: but context tells me that was a twelve win team
Speaker 1: potentially that just had bad luck and got in its
Speaker 1: own way. Can they avoid those things? I hope so,
Speaker 1: and if so, going to be a very fun year.
Speaker 1: All Right, we've got more draft previews coming your way. EJ.
Speaker 1: Snyder from Bootleg Football is next. He'll do defensive line,
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