Speaker 1: To on the move Glan Deep Speedways Peace. From the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's joy Miami has in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, another divisional preview brings us back to
Speaker 1: the AFC with the South, the Texans, the Colts, the Jags,
Speaker 1: the Titans all go under the microscope, and of course
Speaker 1: we'll do that through a Miami Dolphins lens. Plus my
Speaker 1: chat with a former Titan and brand new Dolphin. The
Speaker 1: very large, the very enigmatic Tier Tart joins me on
Speaker 1: the podcast from the Baptist Hell Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast. The
Speaker 1: AFC South, for so long was the division that everyone
Speaker 1: kind of made fun of, the punching bag of the NFL,
Speaker 1: and now it appears that it'll be the one that
Speaker 1: kind of has some up and coming talent and some
Speaker 1: nice quarterbacks to work off of, and hopefully no longer
Speaker 1: be that. Maybe next year, because your Miami Dolphins play
Speaker 1: against this division in twenty twenty four and the good
Speaker 1: news there is I don't think it'll be a whole
Speaker 1: lot better than it has been in the past, and
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and use a half an hour here
Speaker 1: to explain to you why I feel that will be
Speaker 1: the case. We go ahead and start with the defending
Speaker 1: champion Houston Texans, who finished last year ten and seven
Speaker 1: on top of the AFC South and lost in the
Speaker 1: divisional round to Baltimore after blowing the doors off the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. I am so damn fascinated by this team.
Speaker 1: They pull me in different directions as much as anybody
Speaker 1: out there. Monday, I talked about the perception around the
Speaker 1: Packers really stemming from a few Steam role performances in primetime. Well,
Speaker 1: the Texans are that on like Volume eleven, and this
Speaker 1: is probably me using the podcast to rebut Twitter it
Speaker 1: takes again. But I've seen the discourse around the Texans
Speaker 1: rebuild being vastly accelerated beyond the Dolphins have done. And
Speaker 1: that comes to me purely from a single game last
Speaker 1: season where you beat the Joe Flacco led Browns at home.
Speaker 1: Because I remember it being a very up and down
Speaker 1: season for the Texans, who were a drop pass away
Speaker 1: mind you, from losing an indie in the finale and
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs all together. I also remember them scoring
Speaker 1: six and allowing thirty to the New York Jets. I
Speaker 1: remember them losing by two touchdowns that same Browns team
Speaker 1: three weeks earlier, or a loss of the Falcons and
Speaker 1: the Panthers. And the wins, well, the most impressive one
Speaker 1: was probably the first one of the season. Aside from
Speaker 1: the playoff win, a week three jubbing in Jacksonville, jubbing, drubbing.
Speaker 1: They beat Pittsburgh in September. They beat the Saints, who
Speaker 1: couldn't do anything ever, the Bucks and the Bengals, who
Speaker 1: did have Joe Burrow in that game, but Burrow was
Speaker 1: kind of cheeks last year. The Cardinals, the Broncos, the
Speaker 1: Titans twice, and the Colts thinks to a drop pass.
Speaker 1: The only one of these wins that was by more
Speaker 1: than five points down the stretch was the second Titans meeting.
Speaker 1: They went four and two in a bad division and
Speaker 1: drew the NFC South as their cross conference schedule. Without that,
Speaker 1: they don't sniff the postseason. And I tell you this,
Speaker 1: The reason I tell you all this is I just
Speaker 1: don't think it was that special of a year. They
Speaker 1: also did that while being predicted by most to me,
Speaker 1: included to win four or five games, and then it
Speaker 1: had maybe the best offseason in the entire National Football League.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to look this up, and I wound
Speaker 1: up looking at medieval punishments to find the definition of this,
Speaker 1: like when they used to tie people to horses and
Speaker 1: run different directions as like execution style. It's actually called
Speaker 1: being quartered, where they tie all of your limbs to
Speaker 1: a different horse and send them off in four different directions.
Speaker 1: Holy crap, dude, what a crazy way to go. That's
Speaker 1: what this team is doing to me. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and dive right in and talk about their moves.
Speaker 1: Because they were busy. They brought in three edges that
Speaker 1: are really good players, Danil Hunter, Deniko Autrey, and Mario
Speaker 1: Edwards Junior. They also brought in full Russo Faracasi and
Speaker 1: Tim Settle too defensive tackles, so I think can really play.
Speaker 1: The guitar linebackers Aziz al Shayer and del Sean Phillips.
Speaker 1: I'd love the former, I like the latter. Jeff Okuda
Speaker 1: has been an interesting player the last few years. He
Speaker 1: gets another crack at kind of trying to find that
Speaker 1: second big contract here after playing better than he did
Speaker 1: early on in Detroit and speaking of former first round
Speaker 1: buff CJ. Henderson's also there. They bring in Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: and Stefan Diggs in big trades this offseason to bolster
Speaker 1: the offensive skill groups. And they bring in Ben Scarnick,
Speaker 1: who was kind of like the alec Ingold slash durham
Speaker 1: Smyth combination for Sean McVay the last few years in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and their first pick was in the second round.
Speaker 1: They traded out of the first round to get Mario Lassiter,
Speaker 1: the cornerback in with their first pick in the NFL draft.
Speaker 1: Out they didn't lose a lot. Devin Singletary's gone, Elite
Speaker 1: Collins the defensive tackle was gone. They lose Blake Cashman
Speaker 1: and cornerback Kadar Hallman. I mean, we just gave you
Speaker 1: twelve players they brought in and four that left. What
Speaker 1: do they do well, Well, it's a Shanahan system offense,
Speaker 1: So what do we say about that. They marry the
Speaker 1: run in the pass, they expand the hook zone, they
Speaker 1: capitalize on one of the best pre snap generals and
Speaker 1: post snap box checkers. We've seen really in some time
Speaker 1: out of the college game. The quarterback and the play
Speaker 1: caller are in perfect sync with how they see the field.
Speaker 1: It's a little crazy what they've done with their passing
Speaker 1: game weapons in just a couple of years. I mean,
Speaker 1: Tank Dell and Dalton Schultz and Noah Brown were all
Speaker 1: newcomers last year and all had good seasons for the Texans.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins in twenty twenty one has really worked out now.
Speaker 1: They drop instaevon Diggs. It's kind of like that meme
Speaker 1: with the guy drops the crab is a crab legs
Speaker 1: into the boiling pot and then it blows up. That's
Speaker 1: what that reminds me of. They solidify the in the
Speaker 1: run game. In the passing game, they work off the
Speaker 1: bootleg off of that with a top tackle tandem in
Speaker 1: Laromy Tunzel and Tyas Howard. They play situational defense. They
Speaker 1: know how to get into their sub packages and what
Speaker 1: matches up well with the opposing offense. They're aggressive and
Speaker 1: they tackle well. Hallmarks of a team coach by a
Speaker 1: former middle linebacker, right, and they have to work in
Speaker 1: a lot of new pieces. But just looking at that list.
Speaker 1: You get the sense that someone gave to Miko a
Speaker 1: bag of money on his desk this February and said,
Speaker 1: go get what you need, big dog. There's always a
Speaker 1: chance for growing pains, but this defense will simply be
Speaker 1: a lot better in twenty twenty four. There's no chance
Speaker 1: that it's not. So what are the concerns or the
Speaker 1: fatal flaws for this Houston Texans team that I keep
Speaker 1: leading you back to here? Well? Will there be early
Speaker 1: struggles with continuity? Because there were wholesale changes? I mean,
Speaker 1: getting an entire rush plan together with all new guys
Speaker 1: is not easy. How long does it take for all
Speaker 1: that to stick together? And then Stefan diggs Man like
Speaker 1: some of the stories that I've been told about his
Speaker 1: behavior and Josh Allen's behavior and why that thing came
Speaker 1: to a head in Buffalo, like it would truly shock
Speaker 1: some you guys. It's not the appropriate place to do it.
Speaker 1: But maybe one day, if you ever see me in
Speaker 1: South foury, you could ask me about what's going on
Speaker 1: in Buffalo between Digs and Allen when they were there.
Speaker 1: But he wore as welcome out there, right, and there
Speaker 1: was this always there was always this. Will they won't
Speaker 1: they tension kind of between those two guys, and gosh,
Speaker 1: it really really boiled over in that in that Bengals
Speaker 1: playoff game. I think the first year with a player
Speaker 1: like that is usually great, you know, the honeymoon year,
Speaker 1: and that's what they need and if it's not right
Speaker 1: in year two, they've built up the appropriate depth in
Speaker 1: that room to be okay. But the locker room dynamic
Speaker 1: is imperative. It's not something that gets talked about in
Speaker 1: fantasy realms or you know, social media, but it's a
Speaker 1: it's a big deal. I know Buffalo was a bit
Speaker 1: egg Shelley the last couple of years with that strange
Speaker 1: tynamic between those two players. They're two of their best
Speaker 1: players right now. That said, I think Stroud is a
Speaker 1: guy that digs will go to War four because he
Speaker 1: just kind of approaches things the right way and doesn't
Speaker 1: have a kind of powdy mentality. What else is the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield. I like so many of these moves, but
Speaker 1: a lot of the marquee stuff was upfront for them.
Speaker 1: They need more progress from Derek Stingley Junior, who I
Speaker 1: think he'll get it. He'll give it to them. I
Speaker 1: think Desmond King has been okay, but he's not. You know,
Speaker 1: it's he was like the slot dynamo for a one
Speaker 1: year and it's been kind of like a regression ever
Speaker 1: since then. And then matching up with teams they're deep
Speaker 1: at the receiver spot or the skill group spot was
Speaker 1: an issue and I'm not convinced it's entirely solived right now,
Speaker 1: but getting pressure obviously will help immensely for that. Interesting
Speaker 1: things about this team are biggest storylines. A team that
Speaker 1: took step one looking to make step two always fascinates me.
Speaker 1: A theme on the podcast this time of year Stroud's
Speaker 1: sophomore season. We've seen lots of rookies fail to follow
Speaker 1: it up. And I mean I still hear about Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert's rookie season all the time when discussing his prowess
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. I don't think it happens
Speaker 1: for Stroud. I think he's too good at the actual
Speaker 1: quarterback position to pose the physical traits. Let that happen,
Speaker 1: but always worth watching. It's you know what, Let's pause
Speaker 1: real quick because that discussion reminds me going back to baseball,
Speaker 1: going back to the Seattle Mariners. I know some of
Speaker 1: you guys don't listen to watch baseball all, but this
Speaker 1: will connect with you, I promise. So the Manors have
Speaker 1: this young player named Julio Rodriguez who is twenty three
Speaker 1: years old.
Speaker 2: He's in his.
Speaker 1: Third year in the big leagues and last year he
Speaker 1: signed a contract extension for eighteen years that basically tied
Speaker 1: him to the Mariners for the rest of his career,
Speaker 1: with all kinds of incentives and outs and options and
Speaker 1: all this stuff, but essentially they wanted to get a young,
Speaker 1: promising superstar locked up for his entire career, and he
Speaker 1: loved the city that scouted him and made him a
Speaker 1: major a professional baseball player at age sixteen, and now
Speaker 1: in his third season, not only is he below average player,
Speaker 1: he is like a slap hitting horrible hitter. He can't hit.
Speaker 1: And what has happened here is teams have adjusted to
Speaker 1: his two years worth of at bats, and really it
Speaker 1: started happening last year, but he had a couple of
Speaker 1: good months that erased it what was a pretty bad
Speaker 1: season otherwise and put him back in the same category
Speaker 1: statistically this year. Hard grass balls, inside, saw stuff away
Speaker 1: and the dude cannot lay off either of those two pitches.
Speaker 1: He hits a lot of weak ground balls and waves
Speaker 1: at pitches that are three feet off the plate and
Speaker 1: does not hit well. And when he does their softly
Speaker 1: hit singles. I think that's what happens to quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: have physical traits only, and that's why they decline in
Speaker 1: such fashion, especially when they get to a certain age.
Speaker 1: Now Herbert ain't there yet, but I think that that's
Speaker 1: when you get a book on player, you can defend
Speaker 1: him better. And that's why I still prefer a quarterback
Speaker 1: that plays the position like Stroud over a guy that's
Speaker 1: more physical traits than anything else. Back to the Texans here,
Speaker 1: developing continuity across an overhaul is always an interesting story line.
Speaker 1: And then his digs still an Alpha number one receiver.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to watch that. How does Demiko Ryan's
Speaker 1: coach a defense that has more of his guys. I
Speaker 1: think that'll be a lot better. I think they'll get
Speaker 1: connected to what they want to be in the front,
Speaker 1: especially earlier this year, Bobby Slowick's head coaching candidacy. If
Speaker 1: he does it again this year, he's gonna be gone
Speaker 1: a lot to find out who to replace one of
Speaker 1: the best young coordinators in the National Football League Final
Speaker 1: roster thoughts. There's just so much to like here, the
Speaker 1: development of the skill spots, and then you kind of
Speaker 1: push your chips in with the investment right on you
Speaker 1: once you get to a certain baseline there, like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I've built my bank roll up, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: put a big chunk of that bankroll in on Stefan
Speaker 1: Diggs and Joe Mixon. I love that approach personally. I
Speaker 1: never even mentioned John Metchi, who I think can play
Speaker 1: despite you know, going through a freaking cancer diagnosis early
Speaker 1: in his career. I think he's going to bounce back eventually. Now.
Speaker 1: I think the interior offensive line in depth is a question,
Speaker 1: but again we know what do we know about the
Speaker 1: Shanahan style attacks? Right That's where the concessions usually get
Speaker 1: made on the defensive position or at the edge position.
Speaker 1: It's just so impressive.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I mentioned the three editions, but none of them are
Speaker 1: better than the guy that gives them their fastball. Will
Speaker 1: Anderson is going to be the next guy. He just
Speaker 1: is right. I like the defensive tackle additions, and they
Speaker 1: needed to get several guys there they so they didn't
Speaker 1: get enough. I don't think but they have some compared
Speaker 1: to last year they had none. I love the disease
Speaker 1: al sha'er addition, but I'm not sure if Tamiko has
Speaker 1: his dem so to speak just yet at the middle
Speaker 1: linebacker spot. And then Stingley and Petray are total stars
Speaker 1: on the back end. I love Jimmy Ward, m J.
Speaker 1: Stewart's a good player, but Miles Bryant, Desmond King, Lonnie Johnson,
Speaker 1: Jeff Okuda. Which of those guys stands out as someone
Speaker 1: that can play eight hundred, nine hundred STAPs. That's what
Speaker 1: you need and I don't think they have that yet.
Speaker 1: What can they tell us with the Miami Dolphins. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good measuring stick next to us this season.
Speaker 1: I think we're a better football team. And I'm probably
Speaker 1: in the minority when it comes to the national sentiment,
Speaker 1: but I think that the sentiment is jaded again by
Speaker 1: national games versus the full body of work. But this
Speaker 1: is a team that's doing it the right way. They're
Speaker 1: building up the roster, they found their quarterback. They have
Speaker 1: an awesome head coach, a great play caller on offense.
Speaker 1: I think I proclaimed the Texans as my second team
Speaker 1: last year when I was watching them on the bye week.
Speaker 1: I think it was a Jacksonville game, and they was
Speaker 1: back and forth all game, and they just played really
Speaker 1: high energy football. And I'm probably using their success against
Speaker 1: them a bit here in this whole ride up. I
Speaker 1: just don't think we often see this team, not the Texans,
Speaker 1: but rather the team that is on their arc make
Speaker 1: the leap to title contenders just yet. It might take
Speaker 1: into the year now. The Lions kind of did last year,
Speaker 1: but I think Houston still has tough outs when it
Speaker 1: comes to Casey and Baltimore and Buffalo and Miami and
Speaker 1: the AFC and who else they gonna find the playoffs
Speaker 1: besides those teams. So there you go. There's the Texans,
Speaker 1: the Indianapolis Colts. I mean, the question of who played
Speaker 1: more above board than the Houston Texans gets answered in
Speaker 1: the very next team we talk about here, a Colts
Speaker 1: team that went nine to eight and finished third in
Speaker 1: the AFC South. But let me go ahead and paint
Speaker 1: you a scenario here. Week eighteen, A win clinches you
Speaker 1: a playoff Berth, You trail your division arrival twenty three
Speaker 1: seventeen with one ZHO six to play, It's fourth and
Speaker 1: one at the plus fifteen yard line. You have a
Speaker 1: rub wheel that sets up your back on a perfect
Speaker 1: line to the first down marker and then some and
Speaker 1: he's wide open. But the pass goes incomplete and your
Speaker 1: season's over. Now this was declared a drop, but the
Speaker 1: throw go Koog's Gardner Minshew could not have been worse.
Speaker 1: And that's how the Colts season came to an end.
Speaker 1: Total devastation. I'd always sympathize with fan bases that have
Speaker 1: to endure that, like, what have we just caught that
Speaker 1: ball man? But even being there was playing well above board,
Speaker 1: wasn't it? A team that couldn't find a win Late
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two after hiring an ESPN Studio analysts
Speaker 1: their head coach midseason, lose and they're starting quarterback in
Speaker 1: Week four and they win the first game out of
Speaker 1: that and then lose three straight. So you're three and
Speaker 1: five just Saturday was your coach nine games ago? Your
Speaker 1: backup quarterback is in there on a team that really
Speaker 1: struggled that previous season. With ESPN Studio and analysti's head coach,
Speaker 1: and then the schedule lightns and they rattle off four
Speaker 1: straight wins over freaking Carolina and New England. Tampa's impressive
Speaker 1: and there I suppose well at that time, Tampa wasn't
Speaker 1: a good team last year. They just played into bad
Speaker 1: Division two and then the Titans. They traded losses and
Speaker 1: wins the rest of the way until that Week eighteen
Speaker 1: game where they were about to have first and goal
Speaker 1: to try to make the playoffs, and that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Much like a lot of the teams we talked about here,
Speaker 1: and this is why it's hard, right, not all of
Speaker 1: these teams will achieve this trying to take the next
Speaker 1: step in twenty twenty four at this time, armed with
Speaker 1: their incredibly tracy quarterback, the big moves this offseason, it
Speaker 1: wasn't much. They kind of just brought back their own
Speaker 1: guys in Michael Pittman, in Grover Stewart for his first name,
Speaker 1: there for a second, Kenny Moore, Taekwon Lewis Zi or Franklin,
Speaker 1: Julian Blackman. And they're also counting on a ton of
Speaker 1: guys who are coming off injuries, so it means you
Speaker 1: don't get many guys coming in, don't get many guys
Speaker 1: going out. Ray Kwon Davis was kind of their big
Speaker 1: addition I mean Joe Flacco was the other guy as well,
Speaker 1: and then Laatu Latu was the first round draftick and
Speaker 1: I freaking love his game, as you all know. Exiting
Speaker 1: the Colts, Gardner Minshew go Koog's Zach Moss formerly of
Speaker 1: the utah Utes and the dead Pack twelve. The Pac
Speaker 1: puelb went off the air last night and that someone
Speaker 1: like showed a video of it going off the air.
Speaker 1: That kind of hurt my soul a little bit. Defensive end.
Speaker 1: Jacob Martin also in what do the Colts do well, Well,
Speaker 1: they don't employ an ESPN studio and listen anymore. That's
Speaker 1: number one. Shane Steiken, to me, is the best offensive
Speaker 1: architect that you're not talking about. I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: you specifically, I'm just saying in general, we don't hear
Speaker 1: a lot about Shane Steiken. I think putting a mirror
Speaker 1: up to the Colts and Eagles last year kind of
Speaker 1: proves that, you know, the Eagles scheme was dog poop
Speaker 1: and the Colts was off some. They schemed things open
Speaker 1: and really know how to play it to the strengths
Speaker 1: of their quarterback. That's actually why I think Minshew was
Speaker 1: successful Relatively speaking, in in d last year because he's
Speaker 1: a rhythm and timing thrower that wants to anticipate and
Speaker 1: hit those those arcy throws in the middle of the field, right.
Speaker 1: But now Richardson, you can't make those plays or have
Speaker 1: a quarterback that executes that style if your offense doesn't
Speaker 1: know how to do it, which you need a good
Speaker 1: coach to do that, which is why the Dolphins or
Speaker 1: they were in twenty twenty one with Tua because their
Speaker 1: offensive play calling was a joke. But now Richardson is
Speaker 1: vastly underrated with that. But he is a better physical
Speaker 1: version of Cam Newton and if he puts it all together,
Speaker 1: oh man, watch out.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor did not have his usual success last season,
Speaker 1: but the offensive line got back to where it was
Speaker 1: after a really strangely down twenty twenty two season, which
Speaker 1: I guess tracks because the ESPN studio analyst that was
Speaker 1: coaching their team was a former offensive lineman. I'm sure
Speaker 1: that he was like, I can coach it this way,
Speaker 1: Like it just wasn't such a stupid idea. They also
Speaker 1: run the ball into heavy box as well as anybody else.
Speaker 1: They can bring down safeties and they can still you know,
Speaker 1: run duo or inside zone or even gap that's without
Speaker 1: Richardson too, and you put him in the equation. Lookout Now.
Speaker 1: On defense, I tried just to put something in here good,
Speaker 1: but it's basically they keep the roof in the defense
Speaker 1: because Gus Bradley will see the exact same picture every
Speaker 1: single snap, which I can't wait to play those guys,
Speaker 1: even on the road in indoor in an indoor building,
Speaker 1: in an indoor capacity, because show the Dolphins the same
Speaker 1: picture over against see what happens, what's the concern or
Speaker 1: fatal flaw At the same time that defense was you know,
Speaker 1: they were bad last year and their solution is counting
Speaker 1: on a lot of young guys who have missed time
Speaker 1: coming back from injuries. And I actually like Quitty pay
Speaker 1: and de Ode Jingbo. I can't say his freaking name.
Speaker 1: He was a first round pick a couple years ago,
Speaker 1: Julian Blackman. But this isn't a unit that screams depth
Speaker 1: beyond what was kind of a bad unit last year
Speaker 1: to begin with. Also, Richardson, I've been talking to his
Speaker 1: praises here, but he's got less than five hundred pass
Speaker 1: at him since he played high school football. I mentioned
Speaker 1: the rookie quarterback rule, but that applies to him more
Speaker 1: than it does someone like Caleb Williams, for instance, who
Speaker 1: played you know, three thousand, had three thousand college snaps.
Speaker 1: Who's the guy beyond Michael Pittman. Is it Alec Pierce?
Speaker 1: Is it Dona Mitchell? I don't think so. What if
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor is not good anymore? What if last year
Speaker 1: was who he is now? That would be a huge
Speaker 1: concern for me. Interesting things about them or storylines. I'm
Speaker 1: pretty bearish on the Colts, I'm being honest with you,
Speaker 1: but Richardson changes that. Like, if he blossoms the way
Speaker 1: I think he can, it could be a surprise twelve
Speaker 1: win team in my opinion. I know the offense will
Speaker 1: be good and has an identity, but what is it
Speaker 1: on defense? It's like play a cover three umbrella that
Speaker 1: doesn't really get after the quarterback or run games up
Speaker 1: front and just kind of is straightforward like that doesn't
Speaker 1: work in today the NFL. This division went from probably
Speaker 1: the worst in the league for several years to all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, three teams feel like they have their
Speaker 1: answer at quarterback, and that of course hinges On ar
Speaker 1: so I'm watching that very closely, and then their approach
Speaker 1: to retain their own and bank on better health. I
Speaker 1: really like Chris Ballard and his approach to it. I
Speaker 1: think he'll get the answers figured out. But there's just
Speaker 1: a lot of questions here as we get to the
Speaker 1: final roster thoughts. I think most of these teams, you've
Speaker 1: gleaned the sense of where I'm going with my predictions,
Speaker 1: but I just can't really put a freaking finger on
Speaker 1: the colts Man. I guess that's what happens when you
Speaker 1: think they're a superstar quarterback. There's a superstar quarterback in
Speaker 1: the full but you can't possibly put that label on
Speaker 1: him yet. They've invested a lot to find the next
Speaker 1: guy beyond beyond beyond Pittman on the perimeter, but they've
Speaker 1: all kind of performed at the same rate, like threes
Speaker 1: and fours. I'll go back to the famous Jeff Ireland quote.
Speaker 1: We got a bunch of threes, fours and fives and
Speaker 1: six is like, that's a problem, Jeff. You know, Alec Pierce,
Speaker 1: Josh Downs, will Adonai mitchellill be the guy that breaks
Speaker 1: that trend. I don't think so. I think that he's
Speaker 1: got plenty of issues in his game. I love Leatu Latu,
Speaker 1: Grover Stewart, DeForest Buckner is a beast. Actually, the front
Speaker 1: I think is really good, but the back seven I
Speaker 1: have so many questions. Juju Brentz showed some real flashes
Speaker 1: last year and he plays a fun, physical brand of cornerback.
Speaker 1: Julian Blackman has been awesome from the safety spot when
Speaker 1: he's been healthy. But they'll probably have competitions with two
Speaker 1: of the five spots on defense. But beyond Kenny Moore,
Speaker 1: who's one of the best slot quot rnerbacks in the game,
Speaker 1: who I really wanted to sign here if he didn't
Speaker 1: if he made it out of Indy. But they'll probably
Speaker 1: have to make some moves for depths. And that's where
Speaker 1: Chris Ballard comes into play. And you can see the
Speaker 1: exact same thing about the linebacker. It's just just now,
Speaker 1: I really like it doesn't jump out of you when
Speaker 1: you look at that group on paper. What can we
Speaker 1: learn about the Dolphins from then? They probably fall into
Speaker 1: the not much bucket here. They're contructed entirely different. They
Speaker 1: have different philosophies and offense and defense. They play inside
Speaker 1: it opposed to us playing out in the heat, Like,
Speaker 1: is there a team that more juxtaposes the Dolphins. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there is. All right, time to take
Speaker 1: our first break, right there, come back on the other side,
Speaker 1: and here from Tier Tart. That's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation. All right,
Speaker 1: join me today new Dolphins defensive tackle Tier Tart, tierre
Speaker 1: welcome in. Man. First of all, how is South Florida
Speaker 1: been treating you so far? I know it's been just
Speaker 1: a short amount of time you've been here.
Speaker 3: Oh man, it's been beautiful. Uh, you know, every single
Speaker 3: day I wake up, it just feel like you on vacation.
Speaker 3: You go outside, Yeah, you get the fresh upwater smell,
Speaker 3: and you get the palm trees.
Speaker 1: Sod you find a good place to stay by the coast.
Speaker 2: Then yeah, I've been standing out tour for for a
Speaker 2: little minute.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay, are you pretty new to the area or
Speaker 1: is this you've been here before?
Speaker 3: I mean, I went to college here, so I went
Speaker 3: to Florida International for two years, so I'm not too
Speaker 3: new to the area.
Speaker 2: But it's it's just a it's a refreshing feeling to
Speaker 2: be here, you know.
Speaker 1: Tell me about your time at f i U.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was there for two years.
Speaker 3: I played under Butcher Davis, Uh, my d line coaches actually,
Speaker 3: where Kenny Holmes and Canar Lane Damian Lewis the former
Speaker 3: un players, uh, which is which is a great experience.
Speaker 3: You know, it's always great to learn from former NFL players.
Speaker 3: They all went first round, so you know, I got
Speaker 3: to absorb a lot of information there over the over
Speaker 3: the two years. But you know, it is exciting to
Speaker 3: be back, man. You know. Uh, FIU is obviously right
Speaker 3: down the road, so I could go there anytime and
Speaker 3: just you know, Philip fil feel right at home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good I mean, like you said, the
Speaker 1: saltwater in the air of the warm weather, was it
Speaker 1: like that? And I mean, I know, I know it's
Speaker 1: hot in Nashville in the summer, right, but it gets
Speaker 1: kind of cool in the winter time. So was it
Speaker 1: where camps as brutal as you expected to be this year?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's even close.
Speaker 1: No, I don't. Yeah, it's it's uh, it's something else.
Speaker 1: I mean, you get you kind of get used to
Speaker 1: after a while here, but I want to ask you
Speaker 1: so you come over to this Dolphins team that has
Speaker 1: a couple of guys in place already, and one in
Speaker 1: particular in Zach Seeler. I'm curious what you've noticed about
Speaker 1: him so far and getting to play alongside him for
Speaker 1: a few practices here.
Speaker 3: I think that one of the great things I've learned
Speaker 3: about Zach was he's a constant pro. You know, he's
Speaker 3: always on top of everything. He's extremely uh uh methodical
Speaker 3: and technical and every single thing and all all the
Speaker 3: details in this technique, which is something you could definitely,
Speaker 3: you know, you could definitely pick up from and learn
Speaker 3: from and help add it to your game.
Speaker 2: He's a good fisherman, too, is what I.
Speaker 1: Was it. Did you get sick out there? Heard the
Speaker 1: water's still my ground?
Speaker 3: I was chilling, man, I got my sea legs up
Speaker 3: under that. I caught a couple of a couple of
Speaker 3: couple of tuning out there. You know, nothing crazy, great.
Speaker 1: That's pretty impressive. Yeah, if I go on any kind
Speaker 1: of boat, I'm cea sick man. So I heard the
Speaker 1: wires were very rough on Saturdays. It's not at your
Speaker 1: platforms like he's telling me. Yes, they were a little
Speaker 1: bit chopping, but no, that's I'm glad to hear that
Speaker 1: you had your seat legs under you. Speaking of getting
Speaker 1: your seat legs under you, I'm always curious to ask
Speaker 1: guys about the particular the particulars of your job. And
Speaker 1: you play so much one technique for the Titans, right,
Speaker 1: you were mostly either on the zero one technique for
Speaker 1: the most part. I mean, it's impressive to me how
Speaker 1: you hold up in that spot at that size. Is
Speaker 1: there a certain key to am my way off base here?
Speaker 3: You tell me no, I mean I think the I
Speaker 3: think the biggest thing is when you're when you're playing
Speaker 3: the one er.
Speaker 2: The sh is just.
Speaker 3: Technique, you know, it comes a big part in the
Speaker 3: play pad level. Obviously, having a good feel knowing where
Speaker 3: your double teams are coming, and uh, basically just for
Speaker 3: lying on your technique can definitely give you quite quite
Speaker 3: a bit of an advantage from playing from there.
Speaker 1: And your quickness certainly helps that too. Right, that's a
Speaker 1: big part of your game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3: And get those double teams, Buffy, Yeah, that's right. A
Speaker 3: couple of moment looks silly, that's right.
Speaker 1: Well did you get plenty of that with Zach next
Speaker 1: to you? Because he he can eat up some blocks
Speaker 1: in a big way of playing multiple spots. But you
Speaker 1: do feel totally comfortable playing three and four four like
Speaker 1: you play across the line.
Speaker 2: I started off playing that's right.
Speaker 3: I started off playing the four rookie year, So I
Speaker 3: mean I played the four to three, So I mean
Speaker 3: I played the four in the three, I played the
Speaker 3: zero to shave my.
Speaker 2: Rookie year, but I really was the primary of the four.
Speaker 3: So I'm comfortable playing whatever I'm I like to think
Speaker 3: of myself as a football player first and whatever else
Speaker 3: comes second, you know, So like you put me out there,
Speaker 3: I'm find a way to affect the game.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of the you know, the thinking in
Speaker 1: terms of how you can be most effective here is
Speaker 1: playing multiple spots and how as coach Weaver kind of
Speaker 1: talk to you about the idea of being a very
Speaker 1: versable defensive linement.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I was thinking of myself as a
Speaker 3: football player, and I don't want to make make myself
Speaker 3: one dimensional. I don't want to say I only could
Speaker 3: play this, or I only play that. I like to
Speaker 3: think of myself as a as an athlete and as
Speaker 3: a football player, and like I don't care no matter
Speaker 3: where you line me up at Like I said, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna find a way.
Speaker 1: They'll find some as I love that. I remember I
Speaker 1: was watching the tape last year getting ready for the
Speaker 1: game on Monday night with you guys came in here
Speaker 1: and kind of spoiled the Dolphins season last year, and
Speaker 1: I was saying, that Dart guy he can he can
Speaker 1: get After a little bit, you like, I got a
Speaker 1: pause and recent that's pretty good. Let's go back to
Speaker 1: your coaching staff here. So, uh, did you know Austin
Speaker 1: Clark has been here as long as any Dolphins coach
Speaker 1: on staff? Do you know that?
Speaker 2: Actually?
Speaker 3: Coming in, I didn't, and I find it really interesting.
Speaker 3: And I can obviously see why. I mean, you can
Speaker 3: honestly see why. Just being with him for a few minutes,
Speaker 3: you could see the passion, they hearing joy he has
Speaker 3: for the game, and and the intensity as a coach
Speaker 3: he brings every single day. I mean, he doesn't let up,
Speaker 3: So I mean you could obviously see why. And I'm
Speaker 3: pretty sure every o the coaching staff could see his
Speaker 3: obvious passion for the game and at times it's his
Speaker 3: joy to watch. Man. You know, It's also like it's
Speaker 3: also gonna be refreshing too, you know, because.
Speaker 1: There's there's been He's which a lot of guys are
Speaker 1: a lot of production in that room. IVI Sualy. Christian
Speaker 1: goes off to Las Vegas, and a big part of
Speaker 1: trying to replace the production of Christian is you and
Speaker 1: a few other guys they brought in. I'm curious when
Speaker 1: you look at I think it was six defensive tackles
Speaker 1: they signed this offseason. Has it been kind of easy?
Speaker 1: Like has it eased the transition for you to come
Speaker 1: in with so many new guys who are kind of
Speaker 1: trying to get the lay of the land together.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think I think it's it's good when
Speaker 3: I came in because where I was at before, I
Speaker 3: was like the second oldest guy in the room. Okay,
Speaker 3: I was actually quite young, So I was the second
Speaker 3: oldest guy in the room. And then I come into
Speaker 3: a room and now I'm not one of the older
Speaker 3: guys anymore.
Speaker 2: So I'm one of the younger guys. So I really
Speaker 2: liked that part.
Speaker 3: And like, when you're dealing with a lot of older guys,
Speaker 3: you can pick up a lot of obviously wisdom if
Speaker 3: you sit there and pay attention to what they're saying,
Speaker 3: and you can pick up things from their game to
Speaker 3: add on to yours, which is how I always plead
Speaker 3: and how I always approach the game. You know, I
Speaker 3: always try to look at other people games. How can
Speaker 3: I apply this to me to make it work for me?
Speaker 2: You know? So yeah, you know when in the room,
Speaker 2: we're older guys.
Speaker 3: You know, they're not shy, just given sharing information, so
Speaker 3: which is really cool.
Speaker 1: So you're looking forward to being well, you said you
Speaker 1: were on the old guys in Tennessee, but as you
Speaker 1: go along, do you kind of look forward to being
Speaker 1: the guy that has the tricks of the trade and
Speaker 1: kind of helping the younger guys out.
Speaker 3: I love helping younger guys out. I got some information
Speaker 3: to get about giving for sure.
Speaker 1: It makes sense. I wish my friends over here in
Speaker 1: the video department do the same thing. Because I'm thirty six,
Speaker 1: they're mostly in their mid twenties, they're probably closer to
Speaker 1: your age, and they just call me peepal man. They
Speaker 1: call me people. I'm thirty six, sold I'm freaking peepul
Speaker 1: already in this building. So hopefully they can start to
Speaker 1: learn from from my wisdom as well when it comes
Speaker 1: to audio and video. I have one more question for you,
Speaker 1: tr enough about me. What motivates you? Man? Like, what
Speaker 1: what are you looking? What do you want to accomplish
Speaker 1: this year? And kind of what's your why behind twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four tr tart the Dolphins. What do you what's
Speaker 1: what's your entire focus and your goal here with the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: My time focus is just try to become the best
Speaker 3: player I could be. Honestly, I like when I line
Speaker 3: up against somebody, I think one of the biggest things
Speaker 3: is after the game the office, that line may come
Speaker 3: up to you, tell you a hell of a player, man,
Speaker 3: you did this, you came from that, you know, just
Speaker 3: have a conversation and appreciate and respecting your game. So
Speaker 3: I just kind of don't want to leave. I want
Speaker 3: to leave a Dolphins the respective of everyone around me
Speaker 3: and the players I played against in the field.
Speaker 1: That's a really, really good answer. Good way to end
Speaker 1: the podcast with our tr Tarknet Dolphins defensive tackle. Appreciate
Speaker 1: your time today, man, thank you, and away he goes.
Speaker 1: Fun to meet the big fellaw. We had some good
Speaker 1: talks there. He actually told me out off the air,
Speaker 1: like they always listen me at three oh five, but
Speaker 1: I haven't been three oh five in like ten years.
Speaker 1: I'm like, all right, well that's good to know because
Speaker 1: I want you play in some nose tackle their big fella.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there.
Speaker 1: Come back on the other side and wrap up the
Speaker 1: AFC South of the Jacksonville Jaguars, Wires, jack you Ars
Speaker 1: and the Tennessee Titans. That is next Drave Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation. Final
Speaker 1: segment before the fourth of July weekend. Please do not
Speaker 1: set off fireworks within your close proximity. Please don't set
Speaker 1: off fireworks all long. How about we keep the fireworks
Speaker 1: between like eight and ten pm? Does that sound good?
Speaker 1: Because when you have children, it really sucks when there's
Speaker 1: fireworks all day long. That's my old man soapbox for now.
Speaker 1: The Jacksonville Jaguars finished the twenty twenty three season nine
Speaker 1: and eight after an eight and three start, second in
Speaker 1: AFC South, and they missed the playoffs. So actually I
Speaker 1: kind of screwed up the order of this episode. We're
Speaker 1: going in order of how they finished last year. But
Speaker 1: I had the Jaguars third in the division for some reason,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams suffer stufflerd similar fates in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three when they ended the season with a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries and less than desired results see Jacksonville. The
Speaker 1: Eagles ended end us. But I'm not sure anybody had
Speaker 1: it worse than Jacksonville, who missed the playoffs altogether. Hey,
Speaker 1: we got in sot the Eagles by losing five of
Speaker 1: the final six, including a win and in division championship
Speaker 1: in Week eighteen to the six win Titans. That man,
Speaker 1: because that loss was kind of what set up an
Speaker 1: awful Sunday, right, because when I was I remember, I
Speaker 1: brought my car to the stadium to leave it here
Speaker 1: because parking here is a message, you guys all know,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to get one of the top media
Speaker 1: spots like seven hours before kickoff. And I went back
Speaker 1: home and watched the rest of the Jaguars game, And like,
Speaker 1: if the Jags had won and we won, we would
Speaker 1: have played Pittsburgh in the first round. But then we
Speaker 1: knew going into the Buffalo game, if we beat Buffalo,
Speaker 1: we play them again, which like kind of sucked, right,
Speaker 1: because like this just didn't really matter at that point.
Speaker 1: But it also did. It was tough, tough spot. So
Speaker 1: thanks a lot Jacksonville, you jag offs, but oh man,
Speaker 1: so this they they end the year by losing five
Speaker 1: of the final six, including that division winning in game,
Speaker 1: and that included narrow losses to the burrowless Bengals, the Browns,
Speaker 1: and a drubbing by the Buccaneers like whoa, you know,
Speaker 1: like some team like we lost the Titans. That was
Speaker 1: a bad loss, but a lot of teams had that loss,
Speaker 1: like three times last year. Two really impressive wins mid
Speaker 1: season over Buffalo, albeit in in London, which like, I
Speaker 1: don't know what the results of those games if they
Speaker 1: ever really kind of track, and then also the Houston
Speaker 1: Texans with the ladder bringing them to eight and three,
Speaker 1: two game divisionally. That was one of the best games
Speaker 1: in the NFL all season. Now, that stretch did feature
Speaker 1: a banged up Trevor Lawrence who played through an injury
Speaker 1: where we saw him limp back to the locker room,
Speaker 1: you know, the slowest walk I've ever seen in my life,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, the next week he's
Speaker 1: playing again. But the numbers have been you know what
Speaker 1: they've been, But his tape is a lot better than numbers.
Speaker 1: So let's please not be those fans that we got
Speaker 1: mad at fans for being that towards Tua a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, like Lawrence is a good quarterback man.
Speaker 1: Now it's a pretty critical year for this iteration of
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, aren't they all. But it's just in time
Speaker 1: for the division to get a lot better, so it
Speaker 1: makes it for even more interesting dynamic here in the
Speaker 1: AFC South. The Jags were busy this offseason. They brought
Speaker 1: in Gabe Davis and Devin Duverney. Yeah, they brought in
Speaker 1: Mitch Morrison, Ezra Cleveland, Okay. They brought in Deeranis Johnson
Speaker 1: the running back position, and they brought in Eric Armstead
Speaker 1: on the defensive line, who is one of the best
Speaker 1: players in the National Football League. I also liked the
Speaker 1: move of Trevis Gibson, who I kind of wanted to
Speaker 1: bring here, Ronald Darby the cornerback, and a couple of safeties,
Speaker 1: Terrell Edmunds and Darnell Savage. They brought in Mack Joe
Speaker 1: Oh it's cool man, and they also drafted Brian Thomas
Speaker 1: Junior in the first round on the way out. Calvin ridley'
Speaker 1: z Jones, Fularunso, Farracassi, Darius Williams, the cornerback who was
Speaker 1: really good for the Rams and goes back there, and
Speaker 1: safety Rayshawn Jenkins, who have been there for a minute
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. What do they do well? They create matchups
Speaker 1: and easy cues for the quarterback. It's kind of Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson's whole thing, former quarterback. I think they've done a
Speaker 1: good job of collecting route technicians who can attack leverage
Speaker 1: and give Lawrence a clear picture because I think that
Speaker 1: my problem with Lawrence. I think everything's kind of robotic
Speaker 1: for him, like the it's kind of like Tannehill esk
Speaker 1: Like it's all what kind of robotic in the way
Speaker 1: he gets through things, and just like process, process, process go,
Speaker 1: like just play the position, man, There's there's not like
Speaker 1: a lot of fuel there, I think when I watch
Speaker 1: him play, and while he is like super mobile and athletic, again,
Speaker 1: it's like Tannehill, like he can run straight in a
Speaker 1: straight line pretty effectively. But I want him in a
Speaker 1: clean pocket where he looks his best, because he looks
Speaker 1: like he was freaking built in a lab that way.
Speaker 1: Maine and all they have speed from the backfield to
Speaker 1: the perimeter. I love Travis etn cool name dude, and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is a part of this as well. But
Speaker 1: they also have some sizzle inside with Bigsby and Daranis Johnson.
Speaker 1: It's it's a bruising offensive line that generates push and
Speaker 1: there's nothing really technical about this, but just pairing Armstead
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen as an inside outside duo is pretty nice.
Speaker 1: What's the concern or fatal flaw?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Everything on defense for them was a challenge last year,
Speaker 1: especially on the back end. Some of those tapes like
Speaker 1: go go watch those tapes like it kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of the Staly Chargers in Week one against US.
Speaker 1: But they did make a move at DC to bringing
Speaker 1: Ryan Nielsen from Atlanta, who was awesome for the Falcons.
Speaker 1: So it'll be better than that last year. But the personnel,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's there yet. On offense, are
Speaker 1: there enough playmakers? You've probably seen the montages you know
Speaker 1: of Lawrence. You know throws to end up in incompletions
Speaker 1: that should have been The big move was going from
Speaker 1: Calvin really to Brian Thomas. To me, that's a massive, massive, downgrade.
Speaker 1: I didn't want any part of Thomas personally for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and I think really can still play, even though he
Speaker 1: had some rough ones last year. So some interesting things
Speaker 1: about them are big story lines. What if the results
Speaker 1: don't change because they have been productive in certain ways
Speaker 1: and they have like nice pieces, but they've had their
Speaker 1: chances and bad divisions and even going back to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two when Mahomes got hurt, like you gotta beat
Speaker 1: that Chiefs team, man, and they couldn't move the ball
Speaker 1: all game long then and it wasn't they give twenty
Speaker 1: five degrees either. Then the offense down the stretch last year,
Speaker 1: every single time they had to make a play they
Speaker 1: didn't and Lawrence came up short, the receivers came up short.
Speaker 1: It just wasn't good. And I think Lawrence at this
Speaker 1: point of his career where, especially with his contract, he
Speaker 1: has now where the results will be the only thing
Speaker 1: everyone looks at, even the biggest fans of the Jaguars.
Speaker 1: And I hate this personally, but what does a slow
Speaker 1: start mean because it's seventeen game season, Like who cares
Speaker 1: whether you start or fins? Like it's goin, you gotta
Speaker 1: play seventeen games, but I think after that finish they
Speaker 1: have to start fast. I mentioned the arms race in
Speaker 1: the division. That's worth reiterating, Like Lawrence kind of needs
Speaker 1: to establish himself as at least the number two in
Speaker 1: the division. You know Stroud is probably the number one guy,
Speaker 1: but don't let ar past you too. The Calvin Reley
Speaker 1: decision and replacing him with a round one pick will
Speaker 1: be scrutinized either way. Personally, I didn't like it at
Speaker 1: tall some final roster thoughts a lot to like. There
Speaker 1: plenty of questions as well, but that's about what you
Speaker 1: expect from nine to eight team. I like a lot
Speaker 1: of the top of the cupboard with Christian Kirk and
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram and Travis Etm, but I have questions beyond
Speaker 1: those three. They did bring in Gabe Davis, who hasn't
Speaker 1: he has like a good game, a good game of year.
Speaker 1: They invested in Mitch Morse and Ezra Cleveland on the
Speaker 1: offensive line and have three good tackles. I think I
Speaker 1: think Anton Harrison will be good, but Cam Robinson and
Speaker 1: Walker are good players. And then like the skill group,
Speaker 1: what is the depth like upfront and at rusher they
Speaker 1: need a lot more from Trayvon Walker and from Devin
Speaker 1: Lloyd to first round picks from a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: or one was never one overall picked. Devn Lloyd was
Speaker 1: the first round in the year prior, and then coverage
Speaker 1: was a total problem and they're kind of running it
Speaker 1: back back there. And what can they tell us about
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, Well, they can show us that somebody
Speaker 1: else had a promising season that ended prematurely, because sometimes
Speaker 1: stuff happens, and I think some of their moves show
Speaker 1: you that there's not some death to flexibility when you
Speaker 1: pay your quarterback, because they were still able to get Armstead, Davis,
Speaker 1: Morrise and Cleveland, even though they just had to page
Speaker 1: for Lawrence. Finishing up with a team that ruined our
Speaker 1: freaquancies in the Tennessee Titans. They went six and eleven.
Speaker 1: They finished fourth in the AFC South. Actually they ruined
Speaker 1: both teams in the AFC and from Florida, probably the
Speaker 1: most shocking move of the offseason was moving on from
Speaker 1: Mike rabel. I don't think anybody's how that coming. It
Speaker 1: kind of might be the Brian Flores firing a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. But then we came to learn that.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of reasons behind that. Who I
Speaker 1: think has gotten more from less really of any coach
Speaker 1: in the last half decade. Even last year they weren't
Speaker 1: a good football team. They gave some top dog some
Speaker 1: fits like we was top dog. We got fits from them,
Speaker 1: including the loss that really, you know, set us on
Speaker 1: the wrong track for the rest of the year, massive
Speaker 1: massive changes. Probably for that reason, they organizationally wanted to
Speaker 1: move past the old guard, right, and perhaps a little
Speaker 1: reimagination is a good thing on offense, even if it's
Speaker 1: a process. I'm not sure how far the old you
Speaker 1: know twelve personnel Henry Henry play action game was going
Speaker 1: to work down the stretch against Casey and Baltimore's of
Speaker 1: the world. That damn went over us was Sandwich by
Speaker 1: back to back overtime losses. They also lose to Seattle
Speaker 1: by three the next week. I mean, that's nine and
Speaker 1: eight if they get those results flipped right. I mentioned
Speaker 1: the death of the middle class in the NFL. I
Speaker 1: think these guys, even with their record worked that a
Speaker 1: year ago, good enough to be anybody, but consistently not
Speaker 1: good enough to contend. They had some bad breaks and
Speaker 1: one of eleven losses as a result, and so they
Speaker 1: made a bunch of moves to try to fix that.
Speaker 1: In is Lugerious Snead the all world cornerbacks from the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They bring in Tyler Boyd and DeAndre Hopkins would have
Speaker 1: been cool. In twenty nineteen, Lloyd Cushionberry is the new center.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard and Mason Rudolph were also added, Sebastian Joseph Day,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray, Chadobi a Wooje and in the first round
Speaker 1: they took JC Latham, the massive tackle from Alabama on
Speaker 1: the way out, Ryan Dana Hill, yet Gek gek yek gek,
Speaker 1: Derek Henry, Aaron Brewer, Denico Auxury, Aziz Al Shaier, Sean Murphy, Bunting,
Speaker 1: and Christian Fulton. Holy crap, it's a lot of talent
Speaker 1: they lost. What do they do well? It's a little
Speaker 1: ironic to me that they go from rabel to ushering
Speaker 1: in a new guard. But do it with Brian Callahan.
Speaker 1: Now he is an OC and an innovator, I'll give
Speaker 1: him all that, but you typically attach that name to
Speaker 1: the ground of the pound because of his father, Bill Callahan. Right,
Speaker 1: just kind of funny to me. They incorporate all their eligibles.
Speaker 1: Few teams threw the ball to their backs and tight
Speaker 1: ends better than the Bengals did under Callahan, and I
Speaker 1: can't think of three better players to do that than
Speaker 1: with Tony Pollard, ty J Spears and chig Okwonko, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite tight ends in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: They run routes really well, or at least they used to.
Speaker 1: Like that was Boyd's game, That's Ridley's game, That's Hopkins game.
Speaker 1: But I don't know what it's gonna look like because
Speaker 1: they're all like old Besides Ridley, they tackle, their aggressive,
Speaker 1: they play physical defense. Those parts aren't gone just because
Speaker 1: Vaibele's gone. But they still have some dudes over there,
Speaker 1: and they can dominate the trenches with Simmons and Landry.
Speaker 1: That's as good as it gets for a one to
Speaker 1: two inside out punch. But Tart's gone, Autrey's gone, and
Speaker 1: comes Joseph Dan and Devandre Sweat trying to recreate that.
Speaker 1: I think they can do that. What's the concern or
Speaker 1: the fatal flaw? Well, I don't like their quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think that's a tough option for you there. I don't
Speaker 1: like their passing game menu in general, how do you
Speaker 1: win in NFL football in twenty twenty four If you
Speaker 1: can't throw the football, it's probably not even that bad.
Speaker 1: But it seems like, you know, everybody these days has
Speaker 1: like a lot of good options. I just don't think
Speaker 1: they have that. And on top of that, don't I
Speaker 1: don't like the quarterback, So that's tough that in an
Speaker 1: offensive line has been trying to find itself for a
Speaker 1: while now, like they used to kind of have an identity,
Speaker 1: but they've, you know, ever since Taylor Lewan started getting hurt,
Speaker 1: they've kind of not been that team. And Ben Jones
Speaker 1: now leaves. They need to get more out of their
Speaker 1: high draft picks, like you know, Latham will help that,
Speaker 1: but like time for Pete s Keronski to start playing
Speaker 1: some ball. Some strange personnel moves like slopping swapping out
Speaker 1: Kenneth Murray for Aziz al Shaier, Like maybe Aziz didn't
Speaker 1: want to return this year, but Murray was brutal his
Speaker 1: entire career so far, And that's that's your move in
Speaker 1: the middle of the defense, Like I can't wait to
Speaker 1: have him here, you know for that Week four game.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be fun revenge. Interesting things about them biggest
Speaker 1: story lines. I remember the producer of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast, Justin Graver Grave Digger, a diehard Titans fan,
Speaker 1: was clamoring for the shift to a modern NFL offense.
Speaker 1: Well he got it. I can't wait to see what
Speaker 1: it looks like straight away. Here they swapped out effective
Speaker 1: parts for an unproven front seven. If that doesn't work,
Speaker 1: that comes with a lot of backlash. And then lugarious knee,
Speaker 1: different city, different defense. How does that work out? Because
Speaker 1: he was so dang good in case and it seems
Speaker 1: like it could be a one year audition for Will
Speaker 1: Levis and that always fascinates me. Some final roster thoughts
Speaker 1: here on the Tittons. I think there's a clear line
Speaker 1: of demarcation in this division and the Titans are on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of that. I still think their physical
Speaker 1: brand of football, which matches their quarterback who plays like
Speaker 1: an absolute lunatic, and that's the one thing I do
Speaker 1: like about his game, makes them a challenge on any
Speaker 1: given Sunday, But the direction seems to be scattered. I
Speaker 1: think their receiving corps would have been the best in
Speaker 1: the league five years ago. They need more from Scarronsky,
Speaker 1: and they lost a really good center, and if Latham
Speaker 1: doesn't start right away, I have no idea what they
Speaker 1: do with the other tackle spot. I really like the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield. Snead is obviously outstanding, and I think McCreary
Speaker 1: is a good boundary short side corn. Don't say boundary
Speaker 1: to say outside boundary is a part of the field.
Speaker 1: Corner who can press up the way sneed does. I
Speaker 1: like a woogie a lot, and I'm curious about this.
Speaker 1: Elijah Molden moved to safety because he's really struggled, and
Speaker 1: that's going to get a lot of slot matchups. He
Speaker 1: has struggled in the NFL so far, so just a
Speaker 1: lot of death questions in that position. What can they
Speaker 1: tell us with the Dolphins, I put absolutely nothing, So
Speaker 1: I'll punt that topic because I think there's nothing to
Speaker 1: learn from this team, who to me is going in
Speaker 1: the wrong direction.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: These can change over the course of the next few months,
Speaker 1: but my predictions right now the Texans ten and eleven wins.
Speaker 1: That kind of feels right to me. The Colts I
Speaker 1: want to pull like nine to twelve wins, but like
Speaker 1: seven to twelve wins, but I'll go in nine to ten,
Speaker 1: the Jags eight to nine wins, the Titans four to
Speaker 1: five wins. So basically just like last year. But I
Speaker 1: gave the Texans like one more win over the Titans
Speaker 1: and they're gonna lose to us to the Titans will
Speaker 1: In fact, Mimi's going to do really good in this
Speaker 1: division this year. So so, best or superlatives. Best quarterback Stroud,
Speaker 1: best non quarterback on offense to me is larm Me Tunsel.
Speaker 1: The best defensive player in the division to me is
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Simmons. My best coach is Tomiko Ryan's. My favorite
Speaker 1: rookie is Leatu Latu, the edge from UCLA. And my
Speaker 1: fantasy sleeper is Tajy Spears. I think he was probably
Speaker 1: the best back in Tennessee last year. I hope they
Speaker 1: don't take away too much of his workload to give
Speaker 1: to Tony Pollard. All right, it's gonna be my time.
Speaker 1: You guys have a great holiday. We'll see you on
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