WEBVTT - Drive Time: Miami Dolphins 2025 Training Camp Preview Part 1, Offense 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:08.640 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:11.720 --> 0:00:15.600 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:20.279 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and welcome back, Welcome back, 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:21.000 welcome back. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:22.400 It is here. Are you ready? 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.800 The golf clubs are in the garage, the beach chairs 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:26.720 are packed away, and it's time to get back to 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:27.920 work football season. 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:29.840 We have practice later this week. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:33.080 We're gonna be on that camp grind starting on Wednesday, 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.440 but first to preview podcast Defense tomorrow. 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:38.000 But beginning today, we're doing the. 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.760 Entire offense, player by player, position by position, spelling it 0:00:41.800 --> 0:00:44.440 all out for you, providing a guide to training camp. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:47.760 Put this on on your way to Dolphins camp. Let's 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.199 watch these guys get better and tune it up for 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.600 the twenty twenty five Miami Dolphins season, the sixtieth in 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.800 franchise history. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:03.880 Health Training Complex, this is the Draft Time Podcast. Hey guys, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.080 welcome back. In the last time I taped a podcast 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:10.600 was quite frankly, I don't know, it's been a while. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.920 I do feel refreshed, I feel invigorated, and quite frankly, 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.000 I am just jazzed up for football. I tend to 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.440 be a little bit more excited when I feel the 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:21.759 national narrative is off on this team, and this year 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.080 I feel it is. I thought last year was pretty 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.200 much on the no some concern, but still some belief 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:29.520 the team could be a double digit win team, you know, 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:32.880 under the guidance of Tua Tongua Vailoa, even with all 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.000 the change in turnover. But he gets hurt and you 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.039 know they don't meet that expectation. In twenty twenty three, 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.600 everybody was loving us and for good reason. Twenty two 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:42.319 there was some hope and height, but still a question 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.240 about Cantua maximize Tyreek and all that stuff. But this 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.000 year it feels as though the narrative is this team 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.000 is downtrodden, past the window to K of the roster, 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.200 and on and on and on, and I just don't 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.880 see it that way. I saw this tweet that was 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.440 funny to me from someone the other day who said, well, 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:00.760 this team isn't that much different. It comes down to 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.440 Tua playing. But even last year when we were without 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.520 two for six and a half games, we win eight 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:09.240 and nine facing a murderer's row of quarterbacks. This year, 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.360 it's not nearly the same. In terms of the quarterbacks. 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.440 We're not gonna go anywhere, but we could still maybe 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.720 win eight games. Now, I agree with all of that 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.480 until the m Night Shyamalan level twist at the very end, 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.560 because like, all those facts are true, But then to 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:25.400 say eight and nine, that doesn't compute to me, because 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.639 if you get the quarterback healthy and you face the 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.720 slew of quarterbacks, you know, in fact, let's go ahead 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.920 and talk about that, that slew of quarterbacks before that 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.720 Ravens Bills Commander stretch, which is going to be where 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.840 I think teams or people's opinions on this team are 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.480 going to be formed this season. Here's the quarterbacks we 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:48.160 face before Lamar Allen and Jayden Daniels, Daniel Jones. Most 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.720 likely it could be Anthony Richardson. You know, gold Jackie 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:54.639 Green Jacket, Drake may at Buffalo is basically a scheduled 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.960 lost every single year on a Thursday night in Buffalo. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.200 It feels like that's even more so if that but 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.560 finding a win there be a pure bonus. But Daniel Jones, 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.720 Drake Maye, Josh Allen, and then this justin fields, Bryce 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.720 Young Herbo's pretty good Pickett, Shador or Flacco in Cleveland, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.600 Michael Pennix, tell me which of those quarterbacks we're going 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.080 to lose to as long as we have two, Josh 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.200 Allen maybe the Chargers. Other than that, Like, I'm not 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:23.440 gonna go crazy with predictions right now. That blew up 0:03:23.440 --> 0:03:25.760 in my face last year and the quarterback getting hurt 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:27.120 for six and a half games, you know, over a 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.119 third of the season didn't help that. But I do 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:32.239 think this offense is going to be twenty twenty three good. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.079 And if we do that through the first eight games, 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.440 you and I could play cornerback with this pass rush 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.400 we have and a lead and we're gonna go eight 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.960 to one. I'm just saying that again, not making predictions, 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.280 but if you get that, you'll get the other part 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.920 with it, a lot of fun football here in South Florida. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:48.360 With all of that is, go ahead and get into 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:49.960 the offense, and I think is going to be very 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.160 good this year. Here is how I constructed this podcast. 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.760 I want to do each player kind of look at 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.760 their peak of what they can be, kind of the 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.880 questions around that player, and then what the expectations for 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.720 them in general look like this season and we'll do 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.960 that with each of the rooms as a whole as well. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.000 Sound good, cool quarterbacks too. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.040 I've been told that I'm crazy for this take, and 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.080 perhaps the context I'm providing in this argument is where 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.000 I'm coming up short. But I thought two of season 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.720 last year, sans the games missed, was a more impressive 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:23.160 display of playing the quarterback position than any other year 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.560 of his career, and that includes the explosive twenty twenty 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.400 two and twenty twenty three seasons. The Dolphins could not 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:31.000 run the football after the Buffalo game last year. 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:31.680 They couldn't do it. 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:34.159 They replaced the run game with a screen game, so 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.039 every single rep was a high leverage rep for your quarterback. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.600 And I thought the way he zipped through progressions influenced 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.279 the coverage to free up space for runners underneath was 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.599 the best display that he has shown of playing the position. 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.040 I think that's why John Whu went from a career 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:52.120 high and YAK yards of three hundred and sixty six 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.200 in his career to five twenty one last year. Maybe 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.240 a better way to convey that is that John Hu 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.000 averaged two hundred and thirty five yards after the catch 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:02.200 his first seven years in the league, So two hundred 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.279 and thirty five yards per season through seven years, and 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.480 he would more than double that as a Miami Dolphin 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.440 at five twenty one. That's not the play, my guys 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.760 like that. That's the scheme and the quarterback. And I 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.640 say this as someone that thinks that John Who's one 0:05:14.680 --> 0:05:16.400 of the best runners after the catch in the league 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:17.640 in a very damn good tight end. 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.440 But the data is right there for you. 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:22.080 This offense helped John wou become what he was, John 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:24.480 who did not make this offense go to a different level. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.680 In fact, when you funnel the offense through the tight 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.480 end position, you become like a twentieth ranked offense compared 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.359 to being the best offense in twenty twenty three. And 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.000 again the quarterback being hurt had a big part to 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:35.880 do with that too. Don't get me wrong. The silver 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.240 platter deep balls that flipped the field and the game 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.280 and light the scoreboard up in twenty twenty three, all 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.440 of that is fantastic. And you can't do better in 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.479 terms of the box score and stats and the impact 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.520 on games than that. Let's be perfectly clear about that. 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.160 But I think there's less that goes into that than 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.360 what Tua did last year with the coverages he saw. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:56.160 And this is why I just completely bypass what PFF 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:57.920 tells you about quarterback play because they don't take this 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.680 stuff into account. It's I literally as the guy that 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:02.760 does it. And he said, it's all about depth of target. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:06.440 And that's absolutely insane to me because to me, getting 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:08.800 a one on one look with Reakan Waddell and you 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:10.560 have to identify it, you have to hold a safety 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.960 and then fire an accurate ball forty yards down the field. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:14.800 But Tua does that all the time. I watch that 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.040 in practice every day. I watched that across his Alabama 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:19.520 tape for three years, just fawning over the tape. I 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:22.640 saw it for years here with the Miami Dolphins. But 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:26.240 I think the strain, the study, the mastery of the 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.880 position that goes into picking apart umbrella coverages that reduces 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.839 anything from a plus twenty yard box when you have 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.560 zero threat of a run game. To do that, when 0:06:35.600 --> 0:06:38.240 guys are pinning their ears back and rushing at the 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.720 first level, at the second level, they camp and coverage 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:42.600 because they know they don't have to take a step forward. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.760 That's elite quarterback play man. Now I want to see 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.120 those things married together in twenty twenty five, and that's 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.720 how he become the twenty twenty three offense who becomes 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.120 even better in short yardage, sustains possession longer, helps the 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.000 defense out, and the run game is a big part 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:57.920 of that. And that's why I think Tua is at 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.240 his peak, a downfield assassin who can exploit the matchups 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.320 when he finds them, but a meticulous profit taker while 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:08.280 the defense plays way off the football protecting those deep balls. 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.120 If we get those and the return of the running game, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.920 we will not be stopped. It's that simple, and we 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.840 will roll through the first half of the schedule. Now 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.800 the downside for the quarterback here, you guessed it. He 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.640 misses a lot of games and the entire operation seizes 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.320 up in his absence, and I would be surprised if 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.800 any of that changed this year. So if he's out, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.160 all of your concerns, bring him on to me. Tell 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.080 me I'm an idiot, because I am. If he goes down, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.880 But if he's up and playing, it's going to be 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.400 totally fine. But he's gone out a lot, so I 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.080 get the concern. I don't even have a middle ground 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.640 with Tua. I think the big game environment is overblown 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:43.720 and tends to isolate him from the other fifty two 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.200 players that have made plenty of mistakes in those games, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.320 or the approach going into those games, like in the 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:50.200 Buffalo games, when it's fourth and three on our own 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.640 side of the field, we go for it and give 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.520 Josh Allen shortfields. He does have to elevate his game 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.119 a little bit more than he has. I will admit 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.680 that the Houston game was dreadful, but he's also been 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:00.560 aces in some of these big games. Just go back 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.440 and watch that Eagles game in twenty twenty three or 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.480 the first half of the Ravens game that year. There 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.760 have been games Buffalo last year where he's done that. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.040 There's been games where he hasn't. But guess what, I 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.480 know Kyle Krabs has done this study. Most elite quarterbacks 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.760 are about fifty to fifty in those big games because 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:17.040 guess what, it's really hard to beat really good teams. 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.480 Zach Wilson at his peak is a talented creator who 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.960 hopefully finds his home and a timing offense where he 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.720 can sharpen that aspect of his game. But where can 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.520 he get better? Well, it's just that playing within the 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:29.600 contract of the offense. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:30.840 It was bad. 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.360 In spring ball, it was not. It was hard to 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:37.199 watch at times, and again McDaniel mentioned this. We've I've 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.000 heard Oja mcduffee talk about this, like, don't you know, 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.760 don't make final evaluations on a guy who's throwing to 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:45.840 receivers for the first time, like it it's not fair 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:46.880 in this offense to do that. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:48.240 But I also have the Jets tape. 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.600 I also have the BYU tape, and it has to 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.599 be better to inspire any hope for me there, and 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:54.680 I will give the benefit of doubt for the time 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.840 that requires to make that happen. But if I'm you know, 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.839 predicting this, I just think I don't think he even 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.400 lands in the middle ground there. I don't think it 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:04.720 pans out. I've been wrong before, but I'm gonna have 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:06.600 to see it before I believe it. In this offense, 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.439 quinn ewers, it's a copy paste. I'd be surprised if 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.480 it's more than a practice squad quarterback who takes a 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.800 year to learn the offense. He does have some familiarity 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:17.080 in the system because a Steve Sarkizian system, But that 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.920 was a big struggle for him in college too, So 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:21.520 the entire room has to up their level of what 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 Tua does to make this offense click. In the event 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.760 that Tua goes down as a whole, it just comes 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.760 down to the health of a quarterback. Right if he's 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.120 out there, we win thirty eight and twenty four as 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.760 a starter. A top twelve quarterback to me, at worst, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:35.560 I know everyone else seems to not think that way, 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.240 but I don't care what everyone else thinks. That's probably 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:41.240 going to score twenty eight points per game when he's available. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.240 When he's down, we struggle to find thirteen points per game. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.079 So you do the math on that. Let's go ahead 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.040 and do running backs before our first break. Here, Devon 0:09:47.120 --> 0:09:49.439 a chan We've seen the flashes of his brilliance and 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.240 a scat role and at times in a featured role 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.400 last season. At his peak, I think he's Reggie Bush 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.440 or maybe even Jamiir Gibbs, an electric change of pace 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:01.360 option that can flip the game. That's probably disingenuous to Gibbs. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:05.760 Gibbs of every down back, but Devon's also added to 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:07.840 his skill set where he's better than Gibbs as a receiver, 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.520 like his progress last year I thought was really impressive. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.200 I think he's only going to increase that this year. 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.480 He can play from more alignments. He can run true 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:17.040 receiver route from slots and flex out of alignments. I 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.600 think that just having a better understanding of all those 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.560 roles could make Devon a pretty deadly player in his 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.920 third year. Where he struggles, and this gets overlooked by 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.319 some identified by others, is reading blocks, finding his track, 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.440 anticipating and identifying angles in the running game where that 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.760 cutback lane is where to find the tough yards because 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.800 he was always searching for home runs last year. He's 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.000 talked about that. He's talked about the coach just telling 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.600 him how much yards he left in the field. I 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.760 think he'll take that coach into heart and come back 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.880 and refocus that energy. I think he's a great football player. 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:50.439 But those decisions and negative runs killed the offense last year, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.440 especially when we didn't have two in the passing game 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.480 that Seattle game. They were in plus position all game long, 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.679 and then with lose yards on first down runs because 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:01.199 Devon wasn't seeing it. And I'm going to be transparent 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.600 about that. I think you need to be You need 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.480 a one Bee to help shoulder that load, and with 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:10.920 Raheem's injury last year and then fumble issues and you know, disgruntledness. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.280 I suppose it's a good way to put it, like 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:15.480 it just didn't come for him last year. And you 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.560 know Jalen Wright's greenness, you know he wasn't I don't 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.640 think ready for primetime as a rookie. We just didn't 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.360 have it in twenty twenty four. I think that's what 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:26.360 we'll get from Devon in twenty twenty five. Sparse out 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.680 his role to more of a utility player that is 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:31.560 your lead guy, but he does multiple things and get 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.520 more true touches and carries from other guys like Jalen Wright. 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:38.680 Speaking of Right, I think his vision and explosiveness, decision 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.200 making and conviction at the line of scrimmage, at the 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.320 point of attack, and the power he has to push 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.000 through arm tackles is what I love about his game. 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.160 I think he's a really good zone runner with speed 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.640 to burn and power. He hits the line with that 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.280 conviction and often shoots out the other side. We talked 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:55.480 about an all training camp, we talked about it all spring, 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:57.160 we saw it in games last year. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.560 I think he's a special talent at his peak who 0:11:59.600 --> 0:11:59.960 could win. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.679 That'll be the lead ball carrier by the end of 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.040 the year, provided everything goes how I think it can 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:07.200 with a chance evolution as a route runner and pass catcher. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.360 Where Jalen can get better is just process in approach. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.720 I think we've seen that in the spring. McDaniel talked 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.240 about it got the orange jersey with his focus. Let's 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:18.720 hope that continues. But I have huge hopes and expectations 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:20.240 for twenty five this year. 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:21.200 Oli Gordon. 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.200 I think you just plug in that twenty twenty three 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.640 tape where he's catching swings, running away from defenders, bowling 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.600 people over high, hurling defenders, and being a Dope Walker 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:30.320 Award winner. 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:31.679 I mean he was not. 0:12:31.800 --> 0:12:33.959 It was a possible top fifty pick going into the year, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.280 and he didn't go into the one fifties. Had a 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:38.320 down year last year for sure, But it's really tough 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:43.280 for me to forecast this where he'll be, given his 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.679 position in the pecking order as a rookie. You know, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:48.439 if it didn't happen for Riot last year, I shouldn't 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:50.080 expect it to happen for somebody else. Because it's a 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:52.280 tough offense to get down, but I think the potential 0:12:52.600 --> 0:12:56.439 is high end, and I don't think there's anything worth 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.040 pointing out in the contrary yet. I think with this 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.280 Dolphins backfield, like hopefully you can just keep on drafting 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.280 guys in the late rounds and develop them. By year 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:05.920 two or three they takeover and you just keep on 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.480 turning out this position without having to pay it. Maybe 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:09.920 I don't know, we'll see how that goes, but they 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.800 have a bunch of irons in the fire right now. 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:15.080 Alexander Madison, he's not an imaginative runner or a big 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:17.800 play guy, but he does play behind his pads with 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:20.320 a pension to take on contact in the short yardage game. 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:23.120 Ideally he can be your hammer in those situations. But 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.240 I also think there's a big disconnect in terms of 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.280 what fans believe in what is reality with being like 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.240 just a short yardage specialist. Like if you're lose Haka 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.880 Polite as the fullback, fine, but as a running back, 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:37.640 it tips your hand and it tells the defense what 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:39.760 you're doing. If he can't catch a pass, if he 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.160 can't run outside zone, like, you can't just be one 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.040 dimensional playoffense and expect it. 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:45.920 To be a good thing, Nate Nole. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.079 He needs to be a special teams monster to find 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.600 his way under the roster right the rookie, the undrafted rookie. 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.200 I think his most likely path is the practice squad 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:55.199 and a late season call up who does that type 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.480 of stuff special teams work. I would just tell him 0:13:57.520 --> 0:14:00.920 to watch savon achmed tape. Alec Ingle at his peak. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.200 He's a hammer of a kickout, lead block and wide 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.640 zone guy that escorts the backs to big plays. I 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:07.960 love what Coach talked about with his game in terms 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.880 of the angles of blocks and how he makes it 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:12.240 better for other guys when you plug on the tape 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.400 and you can see it because it's a constant landmark 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:17.320 shifter for the defense when you get Alec aligned all 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:19.760 over the formation. I thought he struggled to see it 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.240 at times last year, and perhaps the injury and missing 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.000 some practice time contributed to that. But my expectations that 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.200 he gets it back on track this year. The room 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.640 as a whole has so much potential and a diverse 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.200 set of skills. To me, it depends on two things, 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.920 Devaughn's continued evolution, but more importantly, Jalen Wright's development that 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.520 allows Devon to be fully utilized the way I think 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:41.480 he can be best. Let's go ahead and take our 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.120 first break rate there, come back and do receivers, tight ends, 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.160 and offensive line all that. Next Draft Time podcast, brought 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:52.680 to you by Auto Nation, we talked about the backfield, 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:54.640 the quarterbacks, and the running backs. Let's go ahead and 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.200 go out wide to as Ojai McDuffie would say, the 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:01.920 what oats Tyreek Hill? Oh what Tyreek? Who are you 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.240 going to be? I don't really think this needs to 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.800 be like a dissertation. I will say I think the 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.600 fact that he's getting faster at thirty one, drops some 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.360 weight and really focused on his speed. I mean that's 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.880 where guys games like go to die, right, They fall 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:17.520 off a cliff when they lose a step, and he's 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:20.280 not doing that. He's actually gaining steps at age thirty one. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:22.680 It's pretty impressive. A ten to one at thirty one 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.840 is it's pretty damn crazy. Plus my idea, well not 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.560 my idea. I mean Kurt Warner was the one that 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:31.480 I watched and got this concept front and I've seen 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.680 it from other former quarterbacks turned analysts to point this out. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.320 With Tyreek and JT. O. Sullivan being one of them, 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.440 is the details in his routes. He's explosive, He's a 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.280 game changer. He is so sharp in terms of maximizing 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.720 every single step and every single movement to create the 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.640 most space he can. He changes the way teams cover us, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.680 and he opens up our entire playbook with routes that 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.880 we can't throw to other guys. Now, if he's being 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:55.920 a bad teammate and he's not on the practice field, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.680 not in his playbook, not on top of his stuff, 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:59.920 not run on the right routes, how many times have 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.160 we heard that three years in now, And that's kind 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:03.960 of a long time to know an offense and not 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:06.920 run the right route. Still, then it becomes like a 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.040 net detriment like it was last season because it was 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.240 last year, right, especially at that cost, the most volatile 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.120 asset on the team, maybe in the league. I mean, 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.080 I think he'll be on his best behavior this year. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.160 But I say that like the guy and the meme 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:21.760 that you know, I say that like the guy and 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:23.320 the meme that drops the what is it? 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.720 The is it a crab or something into a boiling. 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:27.840 Pot of water, just like Scared his Hell of the 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.800 explosion if any of the measurements are off. That's kind 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.240 of how I feel about this, Like I'm optimistic, but 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.400 I'm dropping that thing into the boiling water and we'll 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.080 see what happens after that. Jillen Waddle I think is 0:16:38.080 --> 0:16:40.200 the most underrated player on the team at this point, 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.280 which is kind of crazy we got here. But he's tough, 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:45.360 he's quick, exceptional route runner who can attack leverage and 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.800 get to where you were trying to take away his 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.760 part of the field. Just go watch who Tua goes 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.400 to on third and seven, Like there's a trust, there 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.560 a chemistry, and it's because he knows how to get 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:59.440 open against those coverages designed to take him away. Now, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.040 there's two things I think Jalen needs to harness this year. 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.000 The hands, which you know, all the best guys if 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:06.800 you go look at a list of the most dropped 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.119 in the NFL every year, it's always the best receivers 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.320 because well there's a high volume of balls going to 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.480 those guys, so there's going to be more drops. But 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.880 he has definitely dropped more than he should have. And 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.480 then just staying on the field, like he's tough and 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.119 doesn't miss much time. He can play through stuff, but 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:23.720 he gets banged up and miss his practice time. We 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.480