Speaker 1: To on the move Going Deep speedwas Peas Doll from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's y my hands
Speaker 2: in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up, dollphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: the Great Kay Adams stop by this week and gave
Speaker 1: us some gold. We'll chat with her about her chats
Speaker 1: with TUA coach Tyreek and so much more. Plus we
Speaker 1: have a football game tomorrow night. We'll tell you about
Speaker 1: some key matchups and players to watch. From the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is.
Speaker 2: The Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Maggie Daffy Sirs.
Speaker 1: What's up, guys, Welcome back into the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: My guest today is none other than the Great k
Speaker 1: Adams up in Adams eleven o'clock every single day on
Speaker 1: FanDuel TVK thank you so much for stopping by and
Speaker 1: talking with us.
Speaker 4: Thank you for giving my show a plug right off
Speaker 4: the top. I guest loves that you got.
Speaker 2: To do that.
Speaker 1: That's what I have you here for, right So, speaking
Speaker 1: of the plug, you were here for some pretty big
Speaker 1: interviews today. What do you make of the experience down
Speaker 1: here in South Florida today?
Speaker 4: Usually I know what I'm walking into, and this one
Speaker 4: threw me for a bunch of surprises. I will say
Speaker 4: that getting to meet Mike McDaniel before practice, so there
Speaker 4: was a little bit of a wusaw to him, was
Speaker 4: really introspective and thoughtful. I think my takeaway was I
Speaker 4: get it. I get why he is who he is.
Speaker 4: I think he is one of one. I think all
Speaker 4: coaches are genuine, but there's this pioneer breaking the door
Speaker 4: down of authenticity in a different way. I think he
Speaker 4: is who he is twenty four to seven, and I
Speaker 4: love that letting the players vibe everyone.
Speaker 3: These are things that everybody knows.
Speaker 4: But I do think my takeaway from him was how
Speaker 4: deliberate he is.
Speaker 3: And I think he probably doesn't get credit for that.
Speaker 4: And the way I could explain it is just how
Speaker 4: thoughtful he is in his meeting with TUA, how he
Speaker 4: handled that very strategic. A lot of coaches do a
Speaker 4: lot of different things to get the best out of
Speaker 4: their players.
Speaker 3: Coach does that too, he just has his own way.
Speaker 1: Deliberate intention is a phrase that he uses quite often
Speaker 1: there we have around right here. And it's funny you
Speaker 1: mentioned that because I know, staying in the practice field,
Speaker 1: like he makes his rounds different position groups and talks
Speaker 1: different guys and every single one of them is always
Speaker 1: smiling after he gets on talking to him, like he
Speaker 1: has that energy in that aura.
Speaker 4: He left me and I was like, I just love it.
Speaker 4: I just love him. I want to play for him?
Speaker 3: How can I?
Speaker 4: And then you think, oh, he told me exactly what
Speaker 4: I needed to hear today and he suss that out
Speaker 4: of me. And so to have somebody be as he
Speaker 4: would put it, he said, socially aware in our interview,
Speaker 4: but to just be hyper vigilant is what I think.
Speaker 4: I think he can read people really well and that's
Speaker 4: gonna obviously has gone a long way. And I think
Speaker 4: it's cool that he's showing that there's this style that
Speaker 4: is effective. He's you know, it's a fine line between
Speaker 4: am I a player friendly coach? Am I soft? Am
Speaker 4: I too friendly? Am I too funny? Am I going
Speaker 4: to be taken seriously? And he's showing and will show
Speaker 4: next general coaches that are needed to sort of disrupt
Speaker 4: and you know, Flip the table on its head that
Speaker 4: this way can be successful. I see has two back
Speaker 4: to back Playoff appearances and hopefully a super Bowl win
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 2: Hopefully we're all hoping for that.
Speaker 4: It feels like everybody thinks, Travis, it's just everyone here
Speaker 4: is just like in the super Bowl in my opinion already,
Speaker 4: Like everyone has the best energy and it's so hot.
Speaker 3: I give them a lot of credit.
Speaker 1: Well, that's one of the questions I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you here, was about the energy and sell for it.
Speaker 1: Because you've been on this tour now for a little bit.
Speaker 1: How many city has you been to now?
Speaker 3: Carry the one?
Speaker 4: I don't know when we get out my Tia and
Speaker 4: nine calculator, my advocates Matthew Hamilton's is fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 1: So how's it been going. You're wearing down here towards
Speaker 1: the end. You getting late that late tour, Sergy.
Speaker 4: We had a bye week. We had a bye day,
Speaker 4: and I hated it. I was like a sie I
Speaker 4: didn't want to sleep. I think adrenaline's a big thing,
Speaker 4: especially you guys are doing it too every day of
Speaker 4: training camp.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't like the day off. I feel like I'm
Speaker 4: missing something. I feel like I get out of our rhythm,
Speaker 4: and that I think we are a little bit out
Speaker 4: of our rhythm after that day off. So we're just
Speaker 4: going to do our best and it's on to wherever
Speaker 4: we are next, which I have no idea, no, but
Speaker 4: I would say, if you're asking about the energy of
Speaker 4: this camp, Tua blew me away.
Speaker 3: I don't know how else to say it.
Speaker 4: I expect the Tyreek hill that I got today, which
Speaker 4: is just why even think of questions.
Speaker 3: For him, It's just going to go how it goes.
Speaker 3: But I love that about him.
Speaker 4: But with Tua man, he is really not holding punches.
Speaker 4: He's having a good time. He sat down and he
Speaker 4: started the interview. He said, Hi, welcome to the show.
Speaker 4: I'm Tua interviewing Tua, and I literally, I literally said,
Speaker 4: who am I sitting next to right here? But I
Speaker 4: think being settled, getting paid, all of that, getting taken
Speaker 4: care of is a huge part of that, and clearly
Speaker 4: just the freedom that Mike McDaniel a lows as well.
Speaker 4: But he's super vocal, super holding guys to be accountable.
Speaker 4: So that's the energy. I think it's sort of being
Speaker 4: set by by Mike. Of course, and being carried out
Speaker 4: by Tua.
Speaker 1: Had you got a chance to be in before today,
Speaker 1: so you knew him from previous.
Speaker 4: I've interviewed, Yeah, I've interviewed to a bunch and I
Speaker 4: it's hard because I don't want to say he didn't
Speaker 4: have it in him. I just think he wasn't comfortable
Speaker 4: doing it on camera. I think when you have worries
Speaker 4: about how things might be perceived or how it's going
Speaker 4: to affect you or your team, but that the contract
Speaker 4: stuff has done that they've surrounded him and supported him.
Speaker 4: That I found, Like on this tour, I'm hearing a
Speaker 4: lot of players say I belong and it feels good
Speaker 4: to belong. That it means something when it's backed up, right.
Speaker 4: So I think because that's taken off of the table,
Speaker 4: he can sort of thrive and use his voice more,
Speaker 4: which I think everybody will like.
Speaker 1: In addition to you know, all the great personalities we
Speaker 1: have here in the building, the building itself is kind
Speaker 1: of a bit of a showstopper, right. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: been to fourteenth and he's now, like you mentioned, how
Speaker 1: about the impressions of our beautiful facilities here.
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
Speaker 4: I don't think I've been here since live and even
Speaker 4: then I wasn't at the facilities. I mean it's cold
Speaker 4: in here, which I love. It is insane what you
Speaker 4: guys deal with on an every day basis. I was
Speaker 4: asking Khalis Campbell, you're seventeen, like, why are you out
Speaker 4: here doing this and this heat? And he said that,
Speaker 4: you know, obviously it's the culture, the chance to win.
Speaker 4: He wants a Super Bowl ring, but it's also all
Speaker 4: of the the great things and how the Dolphin take
Speaker 4: care of their players. So even you know, from top
Speaker 4: to bottom, having stay of our facilities like this, and
Speaker 4: I hear there's an even colder room than this all,
Speaker 4: so that's where I'll be for the rest.
Speaker 2: Of the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the room in the back is about fifty degrees
Speaker 1: most days. But you were trying to battle some of
Speaker 1: the heat earlier. I saw you down there. Did you
Speaker 1: manage okay?
Speaker 2: Today?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: No, I want an ice bath, I want, I can't.
Speaker 4: I brought don't. I can't eat anything.
Speaker 3: I'm so hot. I don't understand.
Speaker 4: And then you look at these players and you're like
Speaker 4: Jalen Phillips, who's back and looking freaking off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 4: And then you see you see just these dudes running
Speaker 4: out there and you're like, zip it, don't complain. I mean,
Speaker 4: Klais Campbell left my chair soaked. We had a wood chair.
Speaker 4: It's gonna rot now. It was insane. And then Braxton
Speaker 4: came and he goes, thanks, Klays, I'll just sit down
Speaker 4: in this puddle.
Speaker 3: Cool. But that just shows like the love of the game.
Speaker 3: That's what it is.
Speaker 4: And you know it's no secret that every NFL player
Speaker 4: wants to play for the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: It's just what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty nice place to be, pretty fun
Speaker 1: team to be a part of, like you mentioned there,
Speaker 1: and we like pray for cloud coverage for just like
Speaker 1: five degrees cooler and it feels like a god sound
Speaker 1: would get it, but it's so few and far between.
Speaker 1: But today you've got none of that help. You've got
Speaker 1: no wind, you've got no cloud covered, you got nothing.
Speaker 4: I didn't, But I was also a big baby instead
Speaker 4: of braving the elements, let's be honest, I was like
Speaker 4: inside and I was looking at Twitter to see what
Speaker 4: was going on in.
Speaker 3: Practice, So there was that this is a full Tel store.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Pull the curtain back a little bit.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask you about your career a
Speaker 1: little bit because we talk about, you know, players that
Speaker 1: sit in the seat we talk you're talking about players.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about you because you know, we're
Speaker 1: all huge fans of your career path of Good Morning
Speaker 1: Football up in Adams, and I'm so curious to hear
Speaker 1: about that transition going from a four person show that
Speaker 1: was I mean, rock stars, all of you guys, you've all,
Speaker 1: you know, achieved such great things.
Speaker 2: Nate on the Good and the Good Morning Show.
Speaker 4: He was just a star you could see see hosting
Speaker 4: Hollywood Squares.
Speaker 3: No one's surprised by that. He's the absolute best.
Speaker 1: Going from that to your own venture and so successful
Speaker 1: in that, I'm just curious how that transition went.
Speaker 2: Were you worried about it at first?
Speaker 1: Like, what was the process of going from such an established,
Speaker 1: you know, four person show with great co host like
Speaker 1: that to a new show that's taking off so quickly.
Speaker 4: I think I would ask you the question, how did
Speaker 4: that show get established.
Speaker 2: From the hard work of individuals.
Speaker 4: Like yourself or just the group or the team you
Speaker 4: put together, so there was never a fear of building
Speaker 4: a show because I helped build a show and that's
Speaker 4: what Good Morning Football gave me that opportunity, And in that,
Speaker 4: I guess the fear would be that you're handed a
Speaker 4: beautiful slot with that's on in every NFL locker room,
Speaker 4: which I'm never not going to be grateful for, like
Speaker 4: unbelievable access and unbelievable support and a sort of a platform.
Speaker 4: So building your own platform is, you know, is a
Speaker 4: bit of a huh. But I would have to say
Speaker 4: I wish I had a better answer for you, Travis,
Speaker 4: because I think, you know, people who are interested in
Speaker 4: doing it will have these questions. I don't think about
Speaker 4: the future very much. I don't. I never wanted to
Speaker 4: have my own show, that's the truth. They wanted to
Speaker 4: name it the k Adams Show. I was very against that.
Speaker 3: I just don't.
Speaker 4: I wanted the show to be about other people, and
Speaker 4: I think I knew that I wanted to show to
Speaker 4: have that same sort of curiosity that's always driven me
Speaker 4: and have also good information. And I think I've achieved that.
Speaker 4: But that's like a day to day war of letting
Speaker 4: those two lead me. But I mean, I don't think
Speaker 4: about it. I think it's I mean, I'm grateful, and
Speaker 4: I will say there's tough things about it, but it's
Speaker 4: all about who you're around, and it's all about who
Speaker 4: believes in you. And I got to say, and the
Speaker 4: reason it was easy to transition was because FanDuel just
Speaker 4: were open. They said, we know that you can do
Speaker 4: you know you can do it whatever you want. We'd
Speaker 4: like to support that. And to have that sort of freedom,
Speaker 4: to have your CMO, your CEO behind you is rare.
Speaker 4: It does not happen, and I would be I mean,
Speaker 4: there's no success on any level without them at Vanduel,
Speaker 4: which I really appreciate. But I would also say I
Speaker 4: don't know that I've achieved success. It's so funny that
Speaker 4: you say that. When you say that, something in me
Speaker 4: goes like so, I think that's probably a big driver
Speaker 4: of me as well. I'm never quite and a never
Speaker 4: it's a bad thing. I never quite stop and say
Speaker 4: like this is awesome, very rarely, Hamilton, How often do
Speaker 4: I do that?
Speaker 3: A little bit more now? Yeah? But I want you know,
Speaker 3: I want it all. So there's that.
Speaker 1: Well, to go back to coach McDaniel, you think getting better,
Speaker 1: you're getting worse. You never can place it in the
Speaker 1: same place.
Speaker 4: My phrase is you're either what Hamilton saying, you're either
Speaker 4: growing or you're dying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is the.
Speaker 4: More morbid version of the well adjusted Coach McDaniel at the.
Speaker 2: Startup version of that.
Speaker 1: I've heard that like, yeah on valley circles that I
Speaker 1: that I often traverse it, not you know, in the
Speaker 1: Silicon Valley.
Speaker 2: But no, that's a joke. I don't do that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm lost myself.
Speaker 1: Let's so your whole the whole purpose of your show
Speaker 1: is to get these great personalities to show themselves. And
Speaker 1: you talked about coach McDaniel earlier. You got some other
Speaker 1: guys on the show today as well. Right, I'm curious
Speaker 1: to hear about You mentioned klay As Campbell. Yeah, Bracks
Speaker 1: and Barrios you talked about too. But just what'd you
Speaker 1: get from from those guys today?
Speaker 4: I got, you know, to me, it's just asking Kalais Campbell.
Speaker 4: I think that the most insane thing that you can
Speaker 4: achieve in this league, outside of Super Bowls and numbers,
Speaker 4: is just consistency and his games played, his production, actual
Speaker 4: true production. He was still tops last year six and
Speaker 4: a half sacks a bunch of TFLs, like he's still
Speaker 4: giving it at thirty eight, like what drives him was
Speaker 4: a big question and wanted to ask his future his
Speaker 4: Hall of Fame thoughts.
Speaker 3: That was really cool.
Speaker 4: You guys can check that out on the show Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: You know, you sit down with him and it's a
Speaker 4: rollercoaster it is. You know, we're a couple hours, I'm
Speaker 4: sure from Orlando, like it is. He could be a
Speaker 4: ride in the Magic Kingdom. I don't know that's it.
Speaker 4: And then it's always is he like the villain ride
Speaker 4: and that part of the park or is he the hero?
Speaker 4: And there's this beautiful sort of line that's drawn that
Speaker 4: he doesn't give an f what he says. And I
Speaker 4: told him after the interview, I said, what must it
Speaker 4: be like to be so undeniably talented that you can
Speaker 4: say whatever you want? And he made a joke about
Speaker 4: how he can't try that at home. You know, he
Speaker 4: can't say whatever he wants, But it is true. He's
Speaker 4: beyond reproach you. He's an undeniable force. So super fascinated
Speaker 4: I think coming in here about how do you manage
Speaker 4: this many personalities? How do you do it? I would
Speaker 4: be drained by it every day. You know, I don't
Speaker 4: know the coach McDaniel's an extrovert or an introvert, but
Speaker 4: I just talking to these guys, I'm like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: I need to like take a nap. The energy is
Speaker 4: at a ten out of ten all the time. But
Speaker 4: that it works, How does it work? Teams that have
Speaker 4: so many stars don't It could blow up. It's not
Speaker 4: going to blow up here, and it's not just because
Speaker 4: of McDaniel. It's because of this tua that's more vocal too.
Speaker 1: Would love to hear that quarterback and head coach got
Speaker 1: those positions figured out as at and career.
Speaker 4: Of course, Uka doesn't get a lot of love for
Speaker 4: putting this all together and you know, making making the
Speaker 4: right moves, which is great.
Speaker 2: Number two on the top one hundred list.
Speaker 1: In terms of players on that list, we had eight
Speaker 1: nine ers had nine players, so the Dolphins were second
Speaker 1: that in that category.
Speaker 2: So a great roster for sure.
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Speaker 1: You talk about accomplishment, I mean I mean award winning.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think I didn't go and I don't
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Speaker 2: Okay, thank you so much for your time.
Speaker 4: Can ask your question, what is the thing that you
Speaker 4: need me to be talking about this year on this team?
Speaker 3: Like, what is the Is it obviously defense?
Speaker 2: No, I mean the coach and the quarterbacker.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's a.
Speaker 1: Great place to start. And I mean, like I said,
Speaker 1: that's that's where most organizations, you know.
Speaker 4: Is there a name though that needs to be spoken
Speaker 4: in the national media war?
Speaker 2: A name?
Speaker 3: Alec ingoldme back.
Speaker 1: He's he sounds like a player you would talk about,
Speaker 1: like yeah, like he reminds me like a GMFB guy
Speaker 1: that you guys would praise.
Speaker 3: Up and the offensive weapon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, perfect, Yeah, he's he catches passes, he digs out
Speaker 1: linebackers in the blocking game. He can blamp on the
Speaker 1: edge and play some tight end. So he does everything.
Speaker 1: He's he's a Swiss Army knife, he's a team captay,
Speaker 1: he's an incredible human being.
Speaker 2: He's he's a guy you need to see.
Speaker 3: Wait, I love this and move over, Kyle Yuschek, move over, CJ.
Speaker 2: Ham.
Speaker 3: We've got our new guy in town.
Speaker 2: Thank you for that, no problem, Thank you for your times.
Speaker 1: And she goes really fun meeting her and chatting with
Speaker 1: her and meeting her entire team. Kind of cool to
Speaker 1: see their entire operation go town to town throughout the
Speaker 1: course of training camp.
Speaker 2: There's a bunch of them.
Speaker 1: They're really good about social teasers and getting clips clipped off,
Speaker 1: and their run of you know, social media presence and
Speaker 1: the way they post the show is just really cool
Speaker 1: and admirable and kind of cool for me to see
Speaker 1: it behind the scenes, peak at how something like that
Speaker 1: works and operates. And she's obviously the pro and the
Speaker 1: catalyst that makes it all go and gosh, I mean
Speaker 1: the interview, you can just hear it and see it
Speaker 1: like working with a pro. People always ask me like,
Speaker 1: don't you get nervous for you know, Nick Saban or
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. No, the ones I get the most nervous
Speaker 1: for are the pros in this industry because I want
Speaker 1: to look good for them because they know what good
Speaker 1: broadcasting is. So fun interview there, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our first break. Come back on the other side.
Speaker 1: We're going to break down the offense and defensive matchups
Speaker 1: to look for, and a couple of soundbites here from
Speaker 1: Coach McDaniel. All of that next Drivetime podcast to your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Nation. Before we get
Speaker 1: into anything, a SoundBite here from coach McDaniel on Thursday,
Speaker 1: will we see starters in the game tomorrow night?
Speaker 3: Coach?
Speaker 5: The idea from a starting point is that, you know,
Speaker 5: I want some starters to play in the game now
Speaker 5: to say exactly which individuals those are specifically with with
Speaker 5: the collection of uh uh, you know, injuries they have
Speaker 5: to manage and you know, not really knowing what takes
Speaker 5: place today, will make some final assessments on who those
Speaker 5: players are going to be as a staff tomorrow. But
Speaker 5: the approaching it, and as I've explained to the players,
Speaker 5: the approach will be that the the guys that are
Speaker 5: are known starters, you know, with exceptions, but the starting
Speaker 5: point is that they will get some action this game
Speaker 5: and then we'll just take a case by case from there.
Speaker 1: All right, So some matchups for the Dolphins players to
Speaker 1: watch tomorrow night on offense. First of all, I want
Speaker 1: to look at the quarterback position and who gets first
Speaker 1: crack at it, because last year we saw them go
Speaker 1: with Mike White in the first half of Game one,
Speaker 1: Skyler Thompson in the second half of that game, and
Speaker 1: then in Week two at Houston, after Tua was done,
Speaker 1: it was Skyler up next and Mike in last. But
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel was asked about the slight change we've seen
Speaker 1: this year at camp where it's been less of a
Speaker 1: rotation and more of a consistent schedule of quarterbacks with
Speaker 1: certain teams or strings of the offense, and he told
Speaker 1: us on Thursday the thinking behind that change in routine.
Speaker 5: So that's a great question because without me answering it,
Speaker 5: you'd have no clue why. So I'm here to provide
Speaker 5: the why for Barry and very only nobody else. So
Speaker 5: the you know, every year presents new challenges. We we have, uh,
Speaker 5: you know, guys that we've that have developed in our
Speaker 5: offense and have done so in it from day one
Speaker 5: in a competitive environment, and you know, we were very
Speaker 5: routine with the pattern with which we were giving the
Speaker 5: opportunities to quarterbacks up until this training camp really really
Speaker 5: with between Mike and Schuyler, we were very routine this
Speaker 5: day two's, next day threes. So in the vein of competition,
Speaker 5: you know, we we putting our heads together. From a
Speaker 5: staff perspective, we felt like that that that routine in
Speaker 5: itself might not be doing justice to the players and
Speaker 5: that that the competitiveness would be best served if we
Speaker 5: changed up the routine for the change sake, because with
Speaker 5: with that, you know, there's so there's so many competing
Speaker 5: variables to deal with as a as a quarterback, particularly
Speaker 5: a backup quarterback that is in charge of leading a
Speaker 5: team to victory if you know to it goes down
Speaker 5: all those things, all those challenges we get to evaluate
Speaker 5: with not only the player playing in the huddle, but
Speaker 5: then how does how does someone respond when you get
Speaker 5: less reps which is kind of the nature of backup quarterback.
Speaker 5: So all evaluation tools with the intent of not making
Speaker 5: it as consistent, but you know, over the whole scope
Speaker 5: of camp to be able to make sure that those
Speaker 5: are even but just patternize it a little differently to
Speaker 5: make sure that that competation stays fresh and the you know,
Speaker 5: we we allow the players to tell us who who
Speaker 5: two and who three are, just like at every other position,
Speaker 5: you know, because I see better than I hear.
Speaker 1: So when Tua comes out of the game, if he plays,
Speaker 1: you know who gets next crack? How do they perform?
Speaker 1: And if we know anything about coach, we know this
Speaker 1: competition is far from over and those reps are going
Speaker 1: to matter. But most of all, I just love the
Speaker 1: thinking because it tracks with how this camp really seems
Speaker 1: to be about getting as many regular season type of
Speaker 1: reps or as much of a simulation of a game
Speaker 1: week game itself as you possibly can. And this completely
Speaker 1: tracks with that line of thinking. And I keep saying this,
Speaker 1: but just to do it again. To me, is the
Speaker 1: advantage of another, you know, year of continuity and the
Speaker 1: bank of reps you have gathered together over the course
Speaker 1: of multiple years, because it allows you to tinker and
Speaker 1: fine tune and hone in on specifics.
Speaker 2: And I think that's important. And I wrote this in
Speaker 2: my notes. I'm gonna go.
Speaker 1: Ahead and tease it and want to look at it
Speaker 1: down the line because I'm curious and I think my
Speaker 1: hypothesis will prove correct. But I want to go back
Speaker 1: and look at what year each head coach was in
Speaker 1: when their team won the Super Bowl, went to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, and made the final four the conference championship games.
Speaker 1: I think it's going to be mostly coaches that have
Speaker 1: been with that team for a couple of years. I
Speaker 1: didn't have time to get to on this podcast, but
Speaker 1: an idea to look at down the road. Hold me
Speaker 1: to that, please, And then also additionally in the quarterback stuff,
Speaker 1: if you don't win the backup job, is there a
Speaker 1: spot for you at all? Like this could be big
Speaker 1: money competition for these guys here in the futures of
Speaker 1: both Mike White and Skylar Thompson on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Looking at the Commander's defensive line, we saw Jonathan Allen
Speaker 1: and Deron Payinn have a lot of success in the
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday, but we also saw them have no
Speaker 1: success in the game last year, just two pressures and
Speaker 1: three stops combined among them. And this is not a
Speaker 1: game that you're going to devise a clever plan for,
Speaker 1: so you could probably get a quality test of just
Speaker 1: peer one on ones, which again is not reflective of
Speaker 1: a regular season game. I keep trying to pervade that,
Speaker 1: and at least as far as the beat is concerned,
Speaker 1: I don't see that sticking to listen to the podcast obviously,
Speaker 1: but I digress. I just see their points reverberated throughout
Speaker 1: Twitter and social media, so I don't know what's effective
Speaker 1: and what's not with that, But I am in those
Speaker 1: one on one situations without like you know, saying the
Speaker 1: season's over if they lose one or two of them,
Speaker 1: to see how Rob Jones and Liam Eichenberg hold up
Speaker 1: in those positions provided we get that matchup. I really
Speaker 1: wish their first round pictures on Newton or was he
Speaker 1: a second round book early second round? I think I
Speaker 1: wish he was in this game to get some tests
Speaker 1: against the likes of Sean Harlowe and Andrew Meyer, who you
Speaker 1: guys know, I've taken quite a liking to here in
Speaker 1: recent weeks. I'm really excited to see how they build
Speaker 1: and grow on their last game performance and some good
Speaker 1: camp days here recently. But Jack Driscoll might be the
Speaker 1: guy I'm most excited to watch, just because I really
Speaker 1: think there's something there and I think that he's been
Speaker 1: really good in camp this week and I think you
Speaker 1: can start to build momentum towards his role as a
Speaker 1: guy that could make an impact this year as possibly
Speaker 1: the starting right guard on your offensive line. If if
Speaker 1: I had to splice it today, given the kind of
Speaker 1: dubious nature around Isaiah Wins injury and return to the field,
Speaker 1: I think today my starting offensive line would be Tron Armstead,
Speaker 1: Rob Jones, Aaron Brewer, Jack Driscoll, and Austin Jackson. And
Speaker 1: with a very strong eye towards looking on the market
Speaker 1: on the veteran trade market for somebody I ea James Daniels,
Speaker 1: but back to Jack Driscoll. I just think that his
Speaker 1: play style that I've seen jives with what we want
Speaker 1: to be as our team and on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: specifically off the edge. Dorance Armstrong kJ Henry fa Obata.
Speaker 1: Armstrong caused plenty of problems in practice on Thursday, and
Speaker 1: I imagine he'll get some run against Patrick Paul, which
Speaker 1: would be the best pass rusher he's seen outside of
Speaker 1: a practice environment so far. I mean it's the Falcons
Speaker 1: and Dorance Armstrong, but just generally excited to see him
Speaker 1: go against anybody, and that definitely includes Obada, who's one
Speaker 1: of the longest players in the National Football League, perhaps
Speaker 1: one of the few guys that can come close to
Speaker 1: matching Paul's length. So a good on good traits battle
Speaker 1: there with Paul and Obada should they match up, And
Speaker 1: if Austin Jackson plays. I thought he struggled a bit
Speaker 1: and practice on Thursday, and just knowing his metal and
Speaker 1: mental toughness, I'd like to see how he bounces back
Speaker 1: from that. He had what I thought was his worst
Speaker 1: game at the Jets last year and then came back
Speaker 1: against the Commanders and blanked their pass rushers. Fittingly enough,
Speaker 1: they're playing the Commanders again this week, so curious see
Speaker 1: how he plays. If he plays, their linebackers are fast.
Speaker 1: I doubt we see Bobby Wagner. He's kind of in
Speaker 1: that Toron Armstead category of accomplished player who doesn't have
Speaker 1: to play in the preseason. But jam and Davis, Frankie
Speaker 1: Luvu and mikeel Walker can all run and Louvu man,
Speaker 1: he's working towards that go Kougs. But as a potential
Speaker 1: signal caller, I'm sure that dan Quinn in his first
Speaker 1: year wants to get some run out of Luvu in
Speaker 1: the middle of the defense. He's fast, rangy as hell,
Speaker 1: and a great test for our backs tight ends all
Speaker 1: across the board. I wished Tanner Connor was healthy for
Speaker 1: this game to go up against these guys, but I digress.
Speaker 1: I really want to see how Julian Hill goes in
Speaker 1: this game, mostly because we haven't seen him in a
Speaker 1: game since his promising rookie year that he's built upon
Speaker 1: in year two here, I'm just pumped to have him
Speaker 1: get a chance to put those improvements on tape. Jalen Wright,
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, this guy going against those fast
Speaker 1: players is going to be fun as hell, especially Walker,
Speaker 1: who I think kind of times up with. When we
Speaker 1: might see Jalen in the game, or maybe he gets
Speaker 1: in the early two, that would be a great test
Speaker 1: for him as well. They're cornerbacks. Emmanuel Forbes, you gotta
Speaker 1: beat that guy. He's struggling all camp long and all
Speaker 1: last season. Kyu Blue, Kelly, Mike Sandra Still, Benjamin Saint Juics,
Speaker 1: Michael Davis, Turque Castro Fields. I love this group because
Speaker 1: that's such a mixed match of skills and play styles.
Speaker 1: Like Davis and Saint Jus want to disrupt you. Davis
Speaker 1: was on the Chargers a couple of years ago in
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty two game and then got himself cooked
Speaker 1: last year. Mike Sandra still is a lot like Trent
Speaker 1: McDuffie to me as a rookie, I think that we're
Speaker 1: looking at possibly the best slot in the league one day.
Speaker 1: Just love, love, love his game and competitive fire, and
Speaker 1: that makes for a fun matchup on a guy that
Speaker 1: I think is kind of like his equivalent on the
Speaker 1: other side in Moleiku Washington. So that's kind of my
Speaker 1: premiure matchup of the game, two rookies Mike Sandrastill and
Speaker 1: Malik Washington from Virginia obviously in Michigan for Sandrastill, then
Speaker 1: Ericazukama against anybody. Just want to see him play football.
Speaker 1: I want to see River creakcraft and you just do
Speaker 1: what he does and get open and then can Brayln
Speaker 1: Sanders get some production against a pretty good proven cornerback
Speaker 1: room there. They'll test his ability to get out of
Speaker 1: those releases and breaks, and he's been making some tough
Speaker 1: catches all week, and I want to see him convert
Speaker 1: those into games because he's had drops and fumble issues
Speaker 1: when he's played games. Although sparingly for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: And then I put Jeremy Chin on here just because
Speaker 1: he's a matchup eraser. He's one of the most athletically
Speaker 1: gifted players ever. So wherever number eleven lines up, if
Speaker 1: you beat him, you probably did something pretty impressive athletically
Speaker 1: break number two right there. Draft Time Podcast come back
Speaker 1: on the other side and talk about the Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: Your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation
Speaker 1: some matchups and Dolphins players to watch on defense Tomorrow
Speaker 1: night at Hard Rocks a game seven o'clock kickoff here
Speaker 1: from the Rock quarterbacks, I mean Jaden Daniels, Sam Hartman,
Speaker 1: and Marcus Mariota. And I guess you can put Jeff
Speaker 1: Driscoll in there as well. I remember having, you know,
Speaker 1: watching Jeff Driscoll play. Was he like in the Was
Speaker 1: he in the MAC?
Speaker 2: I think he.
Speaker 1: I don't know where he played, but I remember, like,
Speaker 1: you know, putting some some coin on games back in
Speaker 1: the day when he was you know, fifteen years ago,
Speaker 1: whenever the.
Speaker 2: Hell that was.
Speaker 1: But plenty of athletic ability. I really want to see
Speaker 1: how we maintain rush land integrity against running quarterbacks, particularly
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 2: Late in games.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine that Daniels has any sort of directive
Speaker 1: to run in this game, but if he does, his
Speaker 1: running ability with his ability to stretch the field vertically
Speaker 1: was we'll really test, you know, our rules, our communication,
Speaker 1: our discipline. I think this defense is coming along really well.
Speaker 1: So how does a guy that Quintin Bell deal with
Speaker 1: all of that? All the eye candy you can get,
Speaker 1: including their backs and their explosiveness? You know, can Chop
Speaker 1: Robinson be a running quarterback eraser? And his first action
Speaker 1: as a pro do we see the first of Mo
Speaker 1: Kamara and how how does his explosiveness kind of reset
Speaker 1: their line of scrimmage?
Speaker 2: Tons of look at here?
Speaker 1: And to continue on this thought of the offensive line
Speaker 1: off the edge, you know, Cornelius Lucas, Trent Scott, Andrew Wiley.
Speaker 1: I'm curious how much these guys play because they're they've
Speaker 1: played so much football, but you can't just not play everybody.
Speaker 1: So I'm curious see what that looks like. Tons of
Speaker 1: veteran experience and if the rookies can draw these guys,
Speaker 1: how do they craft their rush plans throughout the night
Speaker 1: against guys who have seen everything and know how to
Speaker 1: adjust to different rush plans, so kind of compartmentalizing each
Speaker 1: rush move and what comes off of those.
Speaker 2: That'll be a tape sor anything. But I'm curious to
Speaker 2: see how that goes.
Speaker 1: And these are not the most fleet of foot tackles
Speaker 1: in the NFL, so I'm also curious to see if
Speaker 1: our speed off the edge can keep them out of rhythm.
Speaker 1: It'd be a great sign if we can do that inside.
Speaker 1: Tyler Biottish, Nick Alighretti, Sam Cosmey, Chris Paul Beatis is
Speaker 1: one of the quickest centers in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: He's very fundament sound as well, So I'm looking for
Speaker 1: someone like Neville Gallimore to draw him and get him,
Speaker 1: you know, off balance and kind of win crossing face
Speaker 1: on some stunts and twists and get some wins like
Speaker 1: he had last week. And that's true for Cosmey and
Speaker 1: Paul as well. And then if Klays Campbell plays, can
Speaker 1: he just overwhelm smaller players with the size. I doubt
Speaker 1: he plays, but I'm curious to see if he can
Speaker 1: do that. I know he can do it, but I
Speaker 1: want to see it in action. And then Jonathan Harris
Speaker 1: will play and he fits that Bill lots of guys.
Speaker 1: I want to see their trajectory continue in the right direction.
Speaker 1: Here at running back Austin Eckler and Brian Robinson. I mean,
Speaker 1: talk about one of the game's best thunder and lightning
Speaker 1: mixes there. Eckler is one of the game's best pass
Speaker 1: catching backs, although he has slowed down significantly in the
Speaker 1: speed department over the last couple of years. Channing Tendall, like,
Speaker 1: how does he cover a guy like Eckler who's just
Speaker 1: a smart, savvy route runner, or Duke Riley who had
Speaker 1: troubles on the wheel route last year? Can he pick
Speaker 1: up those in this game? Or a guy like Zeke Vandenberg?
Speaker 1: Or do we see Jordan Brooks because that's a fun
Speaker 1: matchup on anybody. And Brian Robinson is the thunder here.
Speaker 1: So how do Long and Brooks, who you know, bring
Speaker 1: this certain temperament and mentality to the defense. How can
Speaker 1: they match the combination of speed and physicality? I think
Speaker 1: quite well. I want to see it at receiver Scary
Speaker 1: Terry Johan Dotson, Diami Brown, ban Byron Pringle, Luke McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: Like we know about Terry, does Fuller get him again?
Speaker 1: He picked him off or made the play to pick
Speaker 1: him off in the practice on Thursday. Do we see
Speaker 1: camp Smith get some run against these receivers. I want
Speaker 1: to see some game action. I want to see him
Speaker 1: make a play. I want to see him get beat
Speaker 1: and how he responds. I want to see him deal
Speaker 1: with physicality. I just want to see camp Smith play football.
Speaker 1: I want to see Cater coohu on Johan Dotson, a
Speaker 1: shifty slot receiver that I think Cater can physically match
Speaker 1: up against. And then of course the three rookie udfas
Speaker 1: with Brown, Pringle and McCaffrey. You have three entirely different
Speaker 1: players there for Matree, for Duck, for Isaiah Johnson to
Speaker 1: get looks against.
Speaker 2: To me, that's valuable.
Speaker 1: And then at tight end, I doubt zach Ertz plays,
Speaker 1: but Bensonnatt a big, athletic tight end that can run
Speaker 1: the seam and just move really well. Go ahead and
Speaker 1: jot him down in that running back linebacker category for
Speaker 1: tough matchups for our guy and coverage. And that goes
Speaker 1: for Patrick mc morris, who I cannot wait to watch
Speaker 1: in a second game, or Elijah Campbell who's at a
Speaker 1: nice camp so far, or Marcus May who had the
Speaker 1: pick on Thursday, So there you go. Quick edition of
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