WEBVTT - 2021 Schedule Release and Season Preview 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:17.000 Cutdown Miami n What is up, Dolphans, and welcome to 0:00:17.079 --> 0:00:21.320 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.200 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:26.239 --> 0:00:30.280 It is Wednesday, a special edition of the Drive Time Podcast. 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:33.640 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and today we're gonna 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:37.960 get into the Miami Dolphins schedule as it is officially 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:42.000 scheduled released day. We're gonna get to all seventeen Dolphins games, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.159 breakdown each opponent when the game occurs. All of that 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.680 and much much more, plus how the Dolphins vision set 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.920 forth back in twenty nineteen is coming into focus here 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.280 in one. I think you all are going to love 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.160 our opening segment on the podcast, and without let's go 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.640 ahead and get to it on this edition of the 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:08.399 Drivetime Podcast. And we do have the Miami Dolphins schedule 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.480 in my hand right here looking at it to go 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:12.959 ahead and get to. By now you know the order 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.720 of the games. Hopefully you're already planning your trips to 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.720 hard Rock Stadium and around the NFL to represent your 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.160 Miami Dolphins on the road this year. So we're gonna 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.120 get to the schedule breakdown for you on the pod 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.400 with the research that goes beyond just listening to games, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.920 will cover the short week slash long week, element by weeks, 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:34.160 possible track game scenarios, matchups, all of those angles. But first, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.440 there's something I've been wanting to touch on. As the 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.039 offseason kind of tails off here with a few moves 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:43.600 here and there, the compensatory formula is no longer in effect. 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.119 But these signings we get this time of year are 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.560 not usually Markie. They're typically stuff like we saw with 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.000 Eric Fisher earlier in the week, for instance, coming off 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.600 a significant injury signing with a club like Indianapolis who 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.640 had a huge need at the tackle position. I want 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:01.320 to say t J McDonald was a summer signing as well. 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.680 I could be wrong on that, but you get the idea. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:06.440 It's a player who, whether coming off injury or has 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.639 a suspension, what have you, it's usually a player with 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.760 some baggage. So I thought this part of the calendar 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.760 was a good time to discuss this. And the point 0:02:14.800 --> 0:02:17.640 I want to get to is the cumulative process that 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:20.000 has led us to where we are today with the 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:23.040 Miami Dolphins, a point where frankly, for my money, we're 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.440 looking at the most talented Dolphins roster this team has 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:28.440 had since two thousand two, and I know that club 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.000 whatnot and seven they lost their quarterback for a few games, 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.920 but defensively, running game and skill players and offense line, 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.680 offensive line all the way across the board, that team 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.239 was pretty loaded, even though the record didn't reflect it. 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.640 But I truly believe this year's roster is the best 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:45.120 the Dolphins I've had since that team was that nineteen 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.280 years ago. And of course I see some of the comments, 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.400 reviews or what have you about Travis drinking the kool 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.519 aid fanboy podcast with no negativity. That's all fine, Well 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.639 I don't I don't mind those types of responses. But 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.839 those of you that have been with me from the Star, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:04.400 you know, back the lock Dawn days in nineteen, this 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:06.960 is reaching the culmination of what I thought this team 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.120 was building back in twenty nineteen. Remember my tweet after 0:03:10.600 --> 0:03:13.280 my first day watching a Brian Flores practice in training 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:15.640 camp twenty nineteen. I still have the tweet and it 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.360 basically says here that the Dolphins have not had a 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.320 coach extend into his fifth year at the position since 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:24.040 Don Shula. I believe what I saw today is the 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.160 next head coach that will take that mantle. Then, as 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.960 the team came together in twenty nineteen and won five 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:33.440 games despite being underdogs in every single game, and winning 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:37.080 three of those games as double digit underdogs, no team 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:39.440 has ever done that before, by the way, won three 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.440 games in one single season in which they were double 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:46.960 digit underdogs. Do the moves in to jump again to 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:50.000 ten wins with chances to win four more games for 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.400 one score games or one score losses. I should say 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.760 to now this what you have right now to what 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.360 they've done this offseason. And that's where I really want 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.560 to get into this because I see so many comments 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.960 and concerns around the same stuff, and I don't want 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:05.520 to come off as defensive here, but rather I'd like 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.960 to just explain my perspective and why my optimism around 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:13.160 this operation only continues to grow. And for what it's worth. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.520 They told me when I first started in this whole game, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.760 David locked back at Locked on Sports, please follow me again, Dave. 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.320 They told me to establish your credentials and your credibility 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.559 because every episode is a potential new listener who needs 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.400 to gain your trust first. So you know, I mean, 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.360 I've predicted this team's record each of the last two years, 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.599 and that's recorded on podcast. To go back and look 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.080 at I've predicted five four of the six first round 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.520 draft picks made under a career in Flores. I have 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.200 the pre rights and tweets to prove that. Unfortunately, with 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.760 the pre rights twenty nineteen, I said, if you put 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:46.960 a gun to my head right now, I'd say Christian 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.680 Wilkins is the pick He's had to fight as the 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:52.080 criteria of versatility, character, a work ethic, and love of 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.839 the game the Dolphins. Covett also mentioned the Marrion hobby 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.880 connection there with him, how do you think we had 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.240 a three thousand word piece ready to roll on two 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.320 a toung of VLOA at the time the pick was announced. 0:05:02.480 --> 0:05:04.960 Same story on Austin Jackson a pick number eighteen. Now 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.279 I missed on Noah Ignogamy, completely whipped on that one, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.839 but you come back in one. And I mentioned it 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.520 on the Kyle Crabts podcast and had the written profile 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.160 on Jalen Waddle before he was drafted that it was 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.600 gonna be Jillan Waddle in my opinion. Admittedly, that took 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.800 a long time before I became comfortable with that prediction, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.520 as I was so back and forth on he and 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.520 Devonte Smith. But luckily we learned from the Peter King 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.360 article that it seems like it was always Waddle. More 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.200 on that in just a moment, I also missed on 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.640 Jalan Phillips. I thought offensive line might be the play there. 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:36.719 So I think I should have known better on that 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:39.360 pick because he fits so well. But four for six 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:41.920 in those first round draft picks. So there's my credibility. 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.040 I've urged to you all. So when I read that 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:47.440 I'm only being a Homer, it just it doesn't like 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.200 offend me. It just kind of bothers me because I 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.359 put a lot of time and effort, blood, sweat and 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.720 tears into this and I feel like, I mean, I 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.880 think I've established that line of credibility and honesty and 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:01.159 transparency on the podcast. And so we are almost here 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.919 to my final point. But real quick, I'm putting this 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:08.720 monologue together. I stumbled upon another tweet from November when 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.280 I listed out the starting lineup from the game that 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.479 day and how each player that started that game was acquired. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:16.600 Let's go ahead and visit that tweet for a second now, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.960 because it's a perfect segue into my greater roster building point. 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.360 And we turned this to this tweet now that I 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.680 posted on Monday afternoon. As I mentioned, I dug up 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:28.520 some old tweets for the purpose of this research monologue. 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.760 And here's what I came across. One day after we 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:35.240 beat the Jets in nineteen for win number one under 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.320 Brian Flores. The twenty two starters in that game, had 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:42.000 they combined four premium resource players in the lineup, that's 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:44.880 picks in rounds one through three, or a free agent 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.760 signing or trade acquisition that brought back a player who's 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.240 compensation was top tier or mid tier in regards to 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.880 the free agent market and their compensation they made with 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.560 the Dolphins. Now, granted there were two loopholes in their exhabing. 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.000 Howard was hurt and Mike Kasicki didn't start the game 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.159 even though he played plenty and produced big time in it. 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:04.200 So let's go ahead and call it six. But now, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:09.120 of the two spots nineteen nineteen such players and the 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.840 ones that aren't from that category in my projected lineup, 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.920 Eric Rowe, Miles Gaskin, and Matt Skura. And you know 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:17.080 how I feel about Eric Rowe who won fourteen of 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:20.040 a sixteen tight end matchups last year. Miles Gaskin who 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.840 finished tenth among running backs in yards from scrimmage and 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.880 Matt Scura yards from scrimmage average per game, I should say, 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.480 and Matt Scura who was a top ten center on 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:31.440 tape in twenty nineteen and playing well last year before 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.400 some issues with the snap. So that's the rub. This 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.520 roster is full of talented players. We've established this coaching 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.960 staff can develop and get results above the some of 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.920 their parts. Right, That's what twenty nineteen was, and to 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:48.040 a lesser extent as well, three double digit wins as 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.320 underdogs in twenty nineteen, beating to division winners and winning 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:55.720 five total games as dogs outright, then in I think 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.200 I'm the only person on earth who predicted ten wins 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.040 with this club, and now one man, I am excited. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.400 I've told you about the fit of the pieces, how 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.440 Jalen waddles horizontal stretching on those drag routes that we 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.360 just missed big play after big play opportunity last year, 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.560 paired with Will Fuller's vertical stretch ability, the space being 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.000 created in the running game because of that speed the 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.000 openings and the easier leverage inside for players like Parker 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.280 and Gasicki and Williams and all they have to work 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.040 with the different types of packages you can deploy because 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:28.200 suddenly you're diverse as an offense from a skill set standpoint. 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.640 The ability to match up with literally any person in 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:34.480 your secondary, more playmaking with Javon Holland, the opportunity to 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.600 create space for blitzers with big bodies like a Bernardic 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.440 McKinney or a quickness of an Adam Butler. And the 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:43.400 capability to rush for and play coverage because you now 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.520 have two guys that have the look of being able 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.160 to win one on one pass rush situations in any 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:52.080 situation in Emmanuel Ogba and Jalen Phillips, removing all the 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.800 ways that I think this roster was built towards one 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:58.480 singular vision. How about this, It's not just the twenty 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.760 two guys on the field that paint a promising, exciting future. 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.760 It's in how the Dolphins cultivated depth and created competition 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.800 at their most vulnerable spots. You have some concerns about 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:11.160 the offensive line in front of to no problem. We're 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.960 now competing for the seventh eight and ninth job on 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.559 the offensive line with the same crop of guys or 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.439 same level of crop of guys that were solidified starters 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.520 back in and even into not enough skill guys at 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.800 the young quarterback's disposal, No big deal. We'll go out 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.640 and add not one, but two absolutely dynamic, game changing 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.920 talents that jive perfectly with the strengths of your young quarterback. 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.880 And the mention of the depth Wattle and Fuller could 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.600 be interchangeable in that speed role. Let's say if one 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.400 happens to go down for a game or two and 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:42.800 you only can live with one of those guys in 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:44.959 a couple of games, a lot of what DeVante Parker 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:47.880 does well. Preston Williams is versed in those same areas. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.319 Albert Wilson and Lynn Bowden Jr. Have similar games. This 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.920 is the case almost across the entire roster. The next 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.440 man up mentality is going to be a lot easier 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.800 to execute when you have capable players at every position, 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.280 with two or three or four players deep at all 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.480 those spots. And if you haven't read the Peter Keen 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.920 column from earlier this week, The Football Morning in America 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.200 On Monday Morning, slash Sunday Night, Brian Flores and Chris 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.040 Career both talked about the mind towards the present of 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.520 a coach, but the mind towards the future of a 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.040 personnel executive, and how Flores is versed in both areas 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.200 as someone who came up on the personnel side and 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.280 Chris and he collaborates to make sure they're satisfying both avenues, 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:29.679 both the now and the future. It's how you win 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.520 ten games last year and now you can put yourself 0:10:31.520 --> 0:10:33.480 in position to how all this young talent you can 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.120 produce and elevate and developed for next season. I keep 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.280 seeing the complaint in the comments on our socials about 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.400 adding more tight ends. The former basketball player, I cannot 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:44.000 fathom getting upset over a tryout for a kid who 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.320 has some physical potential with literally no downside. What's the 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.080 downside to that move the whole tight end room? For instance, 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:52.600 it was a valuable portion of the roster last year 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.320 with all the two tight end sets percent of the time, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.120 ranked sixth most in the NFL for twelve personnel. So 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:00.319 how can you make that better more by at the 0:11:00.360 --> 0:11:03.360 apple to get more athletic, more versatile, and more deadly 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.800 and more depth, same deal on the defensive secondary, you 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.280 can cut costs with the Bobby McCain move while swapping 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:11.839 him out for a combination of Javon Holland and Jason 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.040 mccordy and for half the cost. So you're getting more talented, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.679 you're getting deeper, you're controlling costs better. Bang bang bang 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.800 three for three and the depth at tight end. We 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.040 talked about Gasicki Smith and Shaheen entering contract years. What 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.080 if Hunter Long is an immediate hit and Jibbrey Blunt 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.800 maybe shows you some of that translation that the great 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:34.000 basketball players to tight end converts have shown. Maybe that 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.000 makes it easier to say no on a massive contract extension, 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.880 allowing you to get cheaper without losing a lot by 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.359 way of talent irons in the fire to create flexibility 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.840 both with the roster from a talent standpoint and financial 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.600 flexibility in the future. On top of all of that, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.400 the Dolphins drafted this year in a way that will 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.640 create an opportunity to spend like we're building a possible 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.199 championship contender next offseason. Miami already has the fourth most 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.800 cap based next year, right around sixty million available, and 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.240 that's without decisions on some veteran players across the board. 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.840 Grant Davis Wilson Alan hearns a lot of players in 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.719 there that have to make decisions because this roster is 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.040 so deep, and like I mentioned, maybe even some of 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.200 the guys that have produced big but are due for 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.240 big contracts. That's a lot of contracts you can conceivably 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.680 knock off the books this year, like, for instance, Waddle 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:22.800 taking over as a rookie contract in the receiver's room, 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:25.400 Javon Holland for Bobby McCain. We already saw that Hunter 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.640 Long the tight end for one of those vets at 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:31.240 that position, Liam Eichenberg at the tackle position. That type 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:33.360 of thing. Not saying it happens, but those are the 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:36.240 options you have available for you now with competition, youth 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.920 and cost control. And Flora's touched on this and the 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.880 Peter King article, how the approach in twenty nineteen is 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.120 different than it is for one, how then it might 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.880 have been more about acquiring picks, where this year they 0:12:47.920 --> 0:12:50.080 were more comfortable to go back from twelve to six 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:54.040 to secure the player they wanted. Priorities change the closer 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.719 you get to really competing for January success. So give 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.880 yourself an opportunity to make expensive player is replaceable fortified depths. 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.120 You don't lose a ton when you have to go 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.600 to backups weekend and week out and maximize every resource 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.360 you have for building the roster. More talented, deeper, cheaper. 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.360 That's the name of the game. And so I've referenced 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.120 the Peter King article a few times. We'll go ahead 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.760 and list a few highlights here before we get to 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.079 the schedule breakdown. Let's just go chronologically real quick. Steve 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.880 Ross was very excited for the trade. He likes trades. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.560 That was a quote from Chris. We are talking about 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.960 Steve Ross. I just love the zeal And fandom. How 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:30.440 I can picture Ross like me, Oh we got a trade, baby, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.880 let's go. I love that from the owner. Twenty eight 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.000 trades and twenty eight months on the job is full 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.600 control GM For Chris Greer, Erica Costa in Baltimore is 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.440 known for his trading. He's made fourteen in that same span. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.559 Chris career is aggressive. He goes after what he wants. 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.920 Brian Flores helped push the idea, says King, of trading 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.320 back into the top ten over the goal line. As 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:52.079 King writes, to ensure to get a top weapon, talk 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:54.439 about those twelve played drives last year, how the Dolphins 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.920 defense welcomed it offensively. They did the same thing, so 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.000 maybe this year they want to get more explosive. So 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.000 coach sees what wattle can do to a defense that 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.400 he coaches and wants that for himself. Chris Greer collaborates 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.920 with other gms from other teams and other leagues to 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.920 really sharpen his skills as a GM. There's no downtime. 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.440 Never waste an opportunity to make your roster better. King 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.920 then lists four traits of a modern GM that you 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.560 have to have know how to use leverage I on today, 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:21.320 other eye on tomorrow. You cannot be afraid, and you 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:23.040 need to work with a coach who knows how to 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.680 play for today, but also stock up for tomorrow. King 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:29.400 then writes Greer is four for four and Flora said 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.440 this in the article quote you mentioned that philosophically, coaches 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:34.680 are about today and not about the future. I guess 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.640 I'm more in tune with the future. When I get 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.240 into my coaching short term thought process. Chris pulls me 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.040 out of that. We listen to one another and have 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.760 good collaboration on everything, especially the roster. We have a 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.000 similar vision for what we want the team to look like. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.040 End quote. And King writes that Miami, like they told us, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.400 felt good about getting back to six and getting one 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.600 of the guys they ultimately would have liked for three 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.880 plus the additional first round draft pick Kyle Pitts on 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.720 the table, but if he was, and they were thrilled 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.560 with Wattle, in fact, beyond thrilled. They also note that 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.240 the original Niners offer was for two first round picks. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.560 Career insisted on getting that compensatory third round draft pick 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.400 from the Niners, which they of course obliged, and Miami 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.920 of course later used that third round draft pick their 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:16.880 own third round draft pick, I should say to move 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.200 up for Liam Eichenberg. So in a way, that negotiation 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:23.000 helped pull a potential stalwart on the offensive line for 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.840 literally no lost draft capital. When viewing it all as 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.880 a cumulative sample, the Dolphins will to work their intel 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.680 to predict how the board might go QB, QB, QB, 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.000 and then at fourth Atlanta QB or pits then Chase, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:38.920 and it sounds to me like it was Waddle all along. 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.440 In fact, Peter King says they were always all in 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.600 on Waddle, though they never actually told him that. That 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.040 was his thought and takeaway. Flora said if they go 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.040 to twelve, they have to get back into the top 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.800 ten and said one player we knew, we felt very 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.800 strongly about, would be there at six. And of course 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:56.080 John Lynch in San Francisco pulled the trigger on that 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:57.960 trade and had this to say about Chris Career from 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.640 the article I love dealing with Chris. He not emotional 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.720 about it, and his word is everything. Chris is a 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.400 rock and that quote he has sent out. Chris Career 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.640 has seven first and second round draft picks since nineteen. 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.920 In exchange for twelve, he damned near doubled his premium 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.280 resource capital, which is how you wind up with that 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:18.720 figure I showed earlier with nineteen premium resources occupying twenty 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.880 two of your starting spots. Awesome, awesome stuff. And this 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.280 is the three year culmination of why I've been so 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.600 bullish on this pairing of Brian Flores and Chris Career 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:32.280 and why I cannot, absolutely cannot wait for football and 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.720 for training camp this summer. We gotta win games on 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.200 Sundays in the fall. But I'm confident in this entire thing, 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:41.560 and man, it feels good. All right, And here we 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:46.720 go schedule release time. We're gonna go through each game 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.680 here on the Miami Dolphins schedule. Tell you what's unique 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.360 about the scheduling of it. Preview the game, tell you 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:55.880 about the opponent's offseason, the matchups, all that fun stuff. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:58.600 So first, let's go ahead and list off the schedule. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:00.800 I'm sure you've heard it by now. Let's go ahead 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.880 and get it for you off the top. In the 0:17:02.920 --> 0:17:05.360 same place last year we opened up Week number one, 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.639 September twelve, kickoff in New England. Week two home for 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.119 the Buffalo Bills. Same schedule for the first two weeks 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.600 this year as we had last year. One o'clock kickoff, 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.240 Week three at the Las Vegas Raiders, a four oh 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.320 five kickoff. Week four back home for the Colts, a 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.560 one pm kickoff. Two road games follow that, although one 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:26.520 of them is a neutral site game. Week five at 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:29.560 the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and defending world champions in Tom Brady. 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.960 Week six, we're in London for the Jaguars, a nine 0:17:33.040 --> 0:17:36.440 thirty am Eastern kickoff. That is the Jacksonville home game. 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.600 So Miami. Nine home games this year, seven road games 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.320 and one neutral site game, although I know Dolphins fans 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.640 in the UK will represent for that one back home 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:47.960 for the Falcons in Week seven. No bye week after 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:52.200 the London game October one o'clock kickoff, Halloween Week eight 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:55.280 in Buffalo, the crazy people going through tables up there 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.680 on Halloween, October thirty one, one o'clock kickoff. Two home 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.760 games Texans Week nine, Ravens Week ten. The Texans game 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.000 one o'clock kickoff on Sunday. The Ravens are first prime 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.760 time matchup of the season. That's a Thursday night football, 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:11.919 A short turnaround there from Miami. The long week after that, 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.480 we're in the in the Meadowlands for the Jets week 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.760 number eleven, one o'clock kickoff there. Then three straight home 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.960 games with a bye week sandwich in their Week twelve 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.800 home for the Panthers, Week thirteen home for the Giants, 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.600 both of those one o'clock kickoffs. The bye week comes 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.240 in Week fourteen, which has to be one of the 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.120 latest bye weeks this franchise has ever had, and then 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.680 Week fifteen a possible flex game like we had last 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.720 year with the Raiders with the Jets at home either 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:41.199 Saturday or Sunday tb D on kickoff Week sixteen, Monday 0:18:41.280 --> 0:18:43.960 Night football in New Orleans and the Big Easy the 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.760 Saints eight fifteen kickoff Week seventeen are really one cold 0:18:47.800 --> 0:18:50.960 weather game on the schedule in Nashville as we take 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.040 on Ryan Tannehill and the Titans on January second, one 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.520 o'clock kickoff, and we finished the season at home against 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:00.760 the Patriots with a one pm kickoff, So just covering 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:02.800 some of the quirks here real quick of the schedule. 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.040 There are some things you just can't know until the 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.600 season gets here, like for instance, last year playing the 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.240 forty nine and their whole secondary was out for that 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:13.200 game and they had the practice squad cornerback Brian Allen. 0:19:13.240 --> 0:19:15.360 I felt bad for him in that game, with Devonte 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.000 Parker and Preston Williams going back and forth taking their 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:21.239 turns and Ryan Fitzpatrick just picking them out too. Did 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:23.560 the same thing later on against the Cardinals later in 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.600 the season. So those are factors. We'll cover those in season. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.520 You always look for potential trap spots, but those are 0:19:29.560 --> 0:19:33.440 also live occurrences. For instance, last year the Seahawks played 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.960 the Cowboys before the game down here. In Week four, 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.200 they were playing the Cowboys at home. In Week three 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.040 it went to overtime. The defense was on the field 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.280 for like ninety two snaps, and they were sluggish starting 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.879