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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, more Combine Prep, We're gonna fail
Speaker 1: the top one hundred on offense with the wide receivers
Speaker 1: and offensive line. Plus we go around the web and
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Speaker 1: a lot to get to on the show today, talking
Speaker 1: combine prep, finishing up the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: and the players were watching for the purpose of those
Speaker 1: three day two picks, one in the second round, two
Speaker 1: in the third. But first, I spent some time this
Speaker 1: morning on the Google machine on Twitter wherever I could
Speaker 1: find some material from some of my favorite writers and publications,
Speaker 1: and I found a couple. And first, this goes to
Speaker 1: a point that I've been making here on the podcast
Speaker 1: really since I started, and it's just gotten better. So
Speaker 1: continuing that theme, but the process of roster building through
Speaker 1: the draft trades and aggressive approach to the veteran market
Speaker 1: on the heels of a couple of really good draft
Speaker 1: classes back in twenty twenty in twenty twenty one, and
Speaker 1: you might say, hey, twenty twenties first round wasn't great,
Speaker 1: but you also got Brandon Jones, Robert Hunt, and ray
Speaker 1: Kuan Davis side of that, and your franchise quarterback. So
Speaker 1: a pretty good draft class there, if you ask me.
Speaker 1: But also how this team really seems to have its
Speaker 1: finger on the pulse of its own self scouting, but
Speaker 1: also what the market has to offer. And that's before
Speaker 1: we even get into the cap Whizzer Dree you know
Speaker 1: Brandon Shore shout out here on the podcast. That helps
Speaker 1: Greer and his staff maintain flexibility to address the needs
Speaker 1: that have been decided upon from the coaching and scouting staff.
Speaker 1: And Greer is so adept at getting what his coach
Speaker 1: needs that that flexibility really helps him do that. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and play him sound here from Chris Greer
Speaker 1: on that one, and what was one of my favorite
Speaker 1: soundbites from the end of the year press conference and
Speaker 1: really in general and just real quick, this is Chris Greer.
Speaker 1: The question was posed to him through the lens of
Speaker 1: free agents at the linebacker position, which you'll hear him
Speaker 1: divulge on that point as well. But the laugh right
Speaker 1: here is what really gets me. Yeah, we we always
Speaker 1: have flexibility, and we've done a lot of work to
Speaker 1: make sure we've maintained that. So what it is right
Speaker 1: now is not what it will be at the start
Speaker 1: of the season. So you know, for us, well, like
Speaker 1: I said, we're going to keep going through a process
Speaker 1: here or evaluating everything. So I think guys, especially the
Speaker 1: defense second half of the year played really well. You know,
Speaker 1: we were just talking about when Bradley came on. You know,
Speaker 1: our analytics were just ran study for us, and we
Speaker 1: moved into like the top ten of a top eight
Speaker 1: of a like six of our like twelve metrics were
Speaker 1: really the value for defense, just as impact coming in.
Speaker 1: So and that's running past. I know we're actually look
Speaker 1: at everything, but Eason. Then on the exit meetings today,
Speaker 1: some of the defensive guys were talking about how cool
Speaker 1: it was and what a good guy and work at
Speaker 1: the toughness leadership. So I think with all that we
Speaker 1: look at out all. You know, Landon Roberts did a
Speaker 1: nice job showing leadership. You know, Baker do all those
Speaker 1: guys channing. We're excited for his future in terms of development,
Speaker 1: which should be kind of expected that this year that
Speaker 1: it would be more of a special teams guy. And
Speaker 1: so I think where we are and Sam did a
Speaker 1: nice job on special teams. I don't want to leave
Speaker 1: anyone out, but we're gonna at a position because I
Speaker 1: know you're asking, because there are a lot of free
Speaker 1: agents in that position. But we'll just keep doing our
Speaker 1: work and filling the holes like we always do. The
Speaker 1: reason I get a kick out of that and played
Speaker 1: that audio. Four y'alls because I mean, it's just commonplace
Speaker 1: now that you have folks that cover the game that
Speaker 1: don't understand the questions they're asking to these people that
Speaker 1: do this stuff for a living. And so when you
Speaker 1: say all the Dolphins don't have cap space, like, understand
Speaker 1: how it works so that the Dolphins can create that
Speaker 1: cap space, which caused the GM to laugh at that question.
Speaker 1: So the point here about working hard to maintain that flexibility.
Speaker 1: It's a puzzle that frankly fascinates me across the league
Speaker 1: how all of this gets put together each year with
Speaker 1: your finite level of resources. Everybody gets the same resources,
Speaker 1: go build the best thing you possibly can. It's fun
Speaker 1: to watch. It's a big part of why I think
Speaker 1: we're all fans of the sport and of this league.
Speaker 1: But I think the Dolphins have found their secret sauce
Speaker 1: here with Chris Greer, and the process continues to be
Speaker 1: really good. I contend that you can't give me ten
Speaker 1: teams that have drafted better since twenty sixteen and go
Speaker 1: ahead and throw your arguments about the first round twenty
Speaker 1: twenty or the twenty seventeen draft class. But also when
Speaker 1: you do that, make sure you look at every other
Speaker 1: draft in the NFL and realize how common that is
Speaker 1: and how uncommon it is to have draft classes like
Speaker 1: Miami has had. In fact, I would push that number
Speaker 1: closer to five. You can't give me five teams that
Speaker 1: have drafted better than Miami since twenty sixteen. Tunzel X
Speaker 1: and Drake and Grant in that first year. That is
Speaker 1: a phenomenal draft class. Twenty seventeen was terrible. Twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know we traded them away, but you've
Speaker 1: got Minkah Fitzpatrick, Mike Kasicki, Jerome Baker, Durham's Smith, and
Speaker 1: Jason Sanders. That is a loaded draft class. It's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Then Christian Wilkins, Andrew Van Ginkl, Miles Gaskin. I know,
Speaker 1: you know that kind of tails off towards the end there.
Speaker 1: But to get a Pro Bowl level defensive tackle and
Speaker 1: a really good special team or slash such situational rusher
Speaker 1: in a draft class where you kind of put your
Speaker 1: eggs in the twenty twenty basket by moving down and
Speaker 1: moving those assets to the future, it's a great draft
Speaker 1: class based upon the resources you had. Then twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: a big rob Rae Kwon Brandon Jones mentioned that, then
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one is the coup de graw, Jalen, Jalen,
Speaker 1: and Javon What an outstanding draft class that was. Like,
Speaker 1: you understand that most teams get one or two really
Speaker 1: productive players in each draft, right two being on the
Speaker 1: high side. Some teams go multiple drafts without getting impact players.
Speaker 1: A lot of teams get a couple of, you know,
Speaker 1: replacement level starters and no stars. Like that list of
Speaker 1: names I just gave you is full of stars. It's
Speaker 1: full of plus starters. It's full of the core of
Speaker 1: this football team. It's why I contest that this roster
Speaker 1: we have right now is the best the organization has
Speaker 1: had in twenty years. That two thousand and two team
Speaker 1: had eight Pro Bowlers, and this twenty twenty two team
Speaker 1: was pretty close to that mark, not in the sense
Speaker 1: that we had six or seven Pro Bowlers, but how
Speaker 1: many guys were just on the fringe of making the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. Two was the first alternate and would have
Speaker 1: gone had it not been for skipping out because of
Speaker 1: the injury. Waddle was right there and frankly should have
Speaker 1: gone over Jamar Chase. Christian Wilkins should have gone too.
Speaker 1: If he was a defensive tackle on defensive end, they
Speaker 1: were all right there. I thought Connor Williams, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: and Javon Holland all made a case to qualify as well.
Speaker 1: You get it. There are probably ten to twelve players
Speaker 1: on this roster that you could legit see in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl next year. And that's why I wanted to
Speaker 1: bring this up because Pro Football Focus is unveiling their
Speaker 1: top one hundred and one players of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two season, and as of this taping on Thursday, they've
Speaker 1: gone through the top twenty six players so far. So
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill has not been listed yet. He'll be in
Speaker 1: the top twenty five. But here are the players on
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins that you have in the top twenty
Speaker 1: five through one hundred. I should say number ninety nine
Speaker 1: was Connor Williams, and the excerpt was that he played
Speaker 1: one thousand, one hundred and twenty seven snaps and allowed
Speaker 1: just sixteen total pressures over eighteen games. He was phenomenal
Speaker 1: all year long. Number eighty eight to Ron Armstead. Injuries
Speaker 1: prevented Armstead from playing the whole season, but his impact
Speaker 1: when he was on the field was as noticeable as
Speaker 1: it can be for an offensive line. His ninety eight
Speaker 1: point one pass block efficiency was sixth among qualifying tackles.
Speaker 1: Number sixty six wide receiver Jalen Waddle. With Tyreek putting
Speaker 1: up records heating numbers in the Miami offense for much
Speaker 1: of the season, it's easy to ignore Waddle's continued success.
Speaker 1: Waddle almost doubled last year's yards per reception figure in
Speaker 1: the new offense, and passes thrown his way generated a
Speaker 1: one nineteen point two passer rating. Waddle was exceptional this year.
Speaker 1: Number fifty nine Jalen Phillips. Phillips had a similar sack
Speaker 1: total from his rookie year, but was outright dominant in
Speaker 1: his second year. His seventy seven total pressures including playoffs,
Speaker 1: were top ten among his position group. He also was
Speaker 1: top twenty in runstops. Phenomenal player number fifty eight, one
Speaker 1: spot higher Christian Wilkins Christer Rourkens, one of two interior
Speaker 1: players to log more than one thousand snaps. I was
Speaker 1: Chris Jones of the world champion Kansas City Chiefs. He
Speaker 1: led all defensive tackles with fifty five run stops and
Speaker 1: the number forty five was quarterback to a tongue of Valoa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the quarterback that uh there's for some reason debate about
Speaker 1: out there, and I get salty on this topic every
Speaker 1: time it comes up, and we're gonna do it again today.
Speaker 1: He was number forty five in terms of most impactful
Speaker 1: players this year from Pro Football Focus. He was leading
Speaker 1: an offense they say that was matching Kansas City and
Speaker 1: Buffalo's output until injuries interrupted and eventually ended his season.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's a PFF has been doing
Speaker 1: these top one hundred and one list since twenty ten.
Speaker 1: The Dolphins have never had six players on the list.
Speaker 1: Tyrek will make it seven. What's the most they had
Speaker 1: in that time period? Any guesses for anybody out there,
Speaker 1: it wasn't one of the better teams we had. It
Speaker 1: was twenty fifteen when they had Olivier Vernon at twenty
Speaker 1: one and Tom I can Sue at twenty seven, Lamar
Speaker 1: Miller eighty five, Jarvis Landry at eighty six, and Rashad
Speaker 1: Jones at ninety eight. So having seven guys on that list,
Speaker 1: thirty two teams one hundred and one spots. That's three
Speaker 1: point one five spots per team. Miami More than doubled
Speaker 1: that not bad, not bad at all. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and do a ck rip around the web before we
Speaker 1: dive into pro football focuses top one hundred draft prospects
Speaker 1: on the offensive line and wide receiver. Will also go
Speaker 1: ahead and talk some quarterbacks too, and I'll give you
Speaker 1: my take on what I expect at the combine. But
Speaker 1: there's some schedule talk from Peter King's Football Morning in
Speaker 1: America column. He also quoted US in our interview with
Speaker 1: Vic Fangius. That was cool to see. But he wrote
Speaker 1: about potential week one, the opening night options to play
Speaker 1: the Chiefs when they hang the banner arrowhead, and he
Speaker 1: mentioned the really strong home schedule for the Chiefs. So
Speaker 1: that features their division rivals obviously with Denver, Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: and Los Angeles games against the Bills and Bengals, and
Speaker 1: then US and then also their NFC games with Chicago, Detroit,
Speaker 1: and Philly. He writes it's unlikely they would do a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl rematch. He said, they're not likely to do
Speaker 1: a top rated games which takes away possibly Buffalo, maybe
Speaker 1: even Cincinnati. So it seems to me like the choices
Speaker 1: to this game are the divisional matchups. You know, I
Speaker 1: think the Chargers make a lot of sense. The Bengals
Speaker 1: make a lot of sense if they don't qualify in
Speaker 1: that Buffalo range or that Buffalo territory, and then the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: I mean, Cincinnati to me makes the most sense. I mean,
Speaker 1: those teams have been talking a lot of trash, they've
Speaker 1: been going back and forth. But you also see CBS
Speaker 1: tends to protect those games, or if you get NBC
Speaker 1: later in the year, because your season opener is going
Speaker 1: to do Numbees regardless of who you put on there.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a possibility that we could see
Speaker 1: Miami and the Tyreek Hill return to Kansas City. That
Speaker 1: could be a storyline to watch to a coming back.
Speaker 1: You know, Bradley chub is his first full year here.
Speaker 1: He used to play against the Chiefs twice a year.
Speaker 1: I just think it's a possibility. Even though the schedule
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs is so good, the Dolphins could potentially
Speaker 1: get that game. Who remembers the last time we played
Speaker 1: in that opening time slot anybody two thousand and six
Speaker 1: against Pittsburgh rough night. That was huh Joey Porter and
Speaker 1: Bill Cower kissed on the sideline. That wasn't fun. To watch.
Speaker 1: Peter King also mentions that k C has a game
Speaker 1: in Germany and since thirty of the thirty four international
Speaker 1: games of all time have not included divisional matchups, one
Speaker 1: of those one of our home games individual matchup, But
Speaker 1: I digress. He lists Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Hackago, Detroit, and
Speaker 1: Miami as possible options there. He does rule out Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and Buffalo in those spots because he thinks those are
Speaker 1: going to be more for primetime slots, not early morning slots.
Speaker 1: Of course, this is all speculation on King's part, but
Speaker 1: I find it interesting and how the league views these
Speaker 1: premier games within the context of putting together their schedule.
Speaker 1: It's all generated through computers. It is very, very fascinating
Speaker 1: to me. Frankly, I just want to play someone besides
Speaker 1: New England on opening Day three years in a row.
Speaker 1: I'm all about variety, and that's not very much variety. Next,
Speaker 1: ESPN produced a really good article from one of my
Speaker 1: favorite writers out there. I didn't actually know that he wrote,
Speaker 1: but Matt Bowen is on NFL Matchup. For my money,
Speaker 1: their best show. They bury it like at three o'clock
Speaker 1: in the morning for some reason, because I guess Stephen A.
Speaker 1: Smith yelling at people is better TV. I guess I
Speaker 1: don't know. He's a high school football coach and also
Speaker 1: now a great writer, a true renaissance man. But he
Speaker 1: wrote about the best fit for his top fifty free
Speaker 1: agents on ESPM plus, and he had just one player
Speaker 1: as the Dolphins as their best team fit, and it
Speaker 1: was running back Miles Ends of your NFC champion Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Eagles Bowen rights. We have to see how the market
Speaker 1: develops for Sanders, who sat career highs and rushing attempts,
Speaker 1: rushing yards, and touchdowns. He went two fifty nine for
Speaker 1: one thousand, two hundred and sixty nine yards and eleven
Speaker 1: touchdowns for the Eagles. But there is an opening right
Speaker 1: now in Miami, considering both Jeff Wilson and Raheem mosted
Speaker 1: our schedule to hit free agency. Sanders would fit in
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's heavily schemed run game and could see more
Speaker 1: usage as a wide receiver. Interesting stuff there. I do
Speaker 1: think we obviously need to running backs because all of
Speaker 1: our guys are free agents right now, are heading into
Speaker 1: free agency in the new league year, and Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: is a great player. I think Raheem is a great player,
Speaker 1: so interesting to see what happens this year at the
Speaker 1: running back position. And additionally, he had the quarterback carousel
Speaker 1: going this way. Lamar Gino, Smith and Daniel Jones all
Speaker 1: stay where they are with the Ravens, Seahawks, and Giants.
Speaker 1: He had Derek Carr with the Saints and Jimmy g
Speaker 1: Landing with the Jets. That would be I would like that,
Speaker 1: Let's do that. The latter portion is why I mentioned it.
Speaker 1: I think this is as close as we pay attention
Speaker 1: to the quarterback carousel as we have in all because
Speaker 1: of the Jets involvement. I just want to see the
Speaker 1: Jets strikeout. Personally, that would be the preferred option, but
Speaker 1: also go ahead and get Derek Carr bringing on doesn't
Speaker 1: worry me either way, but be funny to see him
Speaker 1: strike out. But it's the same reason we were so
Speaker 1: dialed on that twenty twenty one draft class, knowing both
Speaker 1: the Jets and Pats were very much in the market
Speaker 1: for rookie quarterbacks at the time, and I love the
Speaker 1: way that draft class went, especially for us. And then
Speaker 1: all right, there you go. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break right there and come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and do one position for each segment, wide
Speaker 1: receivers and offensive line expected the workout in Indian. What
Speaker 1: we can expect from those workouts, Who has the who
Speaker 1: stands the best chance to improve their stock? All of
Speaker 1: that next on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by AutoNation. It's a Friday here ahead
Speaker 1: of scouting Combine week. It's already here. Just another reminder
Speaker 1: of how fast things seem to fly by these days.
Speaker 1: I think it happens with age personally. For me, the
Speaker 1: years go by faster and faster. I think kids will
Speaker 1: do that to you as well. It just still feels
Speaker 1: like training camp was yesterday, and here we are talking,
Speaker 1: you know, flying head first towards the new league year.
Speaker 1: That always means a combination of free agent talk and
Speaker 1: draft prospect talk, and before you know it, pro days
Speaker 1: we'll be wrapping up, and we'll be onto the draft
Speaker 1: and into OTAs and then into summertime, in vacation time,
Speaker 1: drinking it all through a fire hose. Man, it happens fast.
Speaker 1: Let's get to the offensive line first. A note, This
Speaker 1: to me is always the most interesting position group each year.
Speaker 1: It's such a need for so many teams. Really, every
Speaker 1: team has offensive line needs every year. Even the Eagles
Speaker 1: will have to find a way if they can't bring
Speaker 1: back Isaac Somalu to replace their right guard because they
Speaker 1: were sensational. All five spots this year on the offensive
Speaker 1: line spring a league. This year, you're gonna have another need.
Speaker 1: Every team has needs. So we get this crop picked
Speaker 1: clean pretty early each year in the draft, like you're
Speaker 1: always going to see a handful of offensive lineman and
Speaker 1: edges drafted in the first round. And with offensive line,
Speaker 1: there was that pretty significan can't dearth for a few
Speaker 1: years where there just wasn't that many guys coming off
Speaker 1: the board early and being productive as pros. Like that
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen draft class. We did get Lane Johnson and
Speaker 1: Eric Fisher out of that. You know, I think Luke
Speaker 1: Jokel was also involved. That was supposed to be like
Speaker 1: a tackle dominant draft class, but like that was it,
Speaker 1: and then there was years and years where it just
Speaker 1: didn't really produce a whole lot. And it was the
Speaker 1: same time where you saw pass rushers coming off the
Speaker 1: board and producing at high levels, and it really kind
Speaker 1: of slanted the way the game was played. I think
Speaker 1: in terms of there's way more athletic good pass rushers
Speaker 1: and there are offensive linemen. But I think that pendulum
Speaker 1: is beginning to swing back to closer to even I
Speaker 1: won't call it even yet, but in this deep class,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see guys come flying off the board like
Speaker 1: they do every single year. I mean, just look at
Speaker 1: the balance of this year's top one hundred list. You've
Speaker 1: got thirteen total offensive linemen in there. Eight of those
Speaker 1: guys are top fifty. If the players went off and
Speaker 1: this order, that's eight players gone before Miami comes up
Speaker 1: on the clock. So there's not really a sense, a
Speaker 1: lot of sense and spending tons of time all the
Speaker 1: guys that are pretty much locks to go top twenty five.
Speaker 1: You get surprises every year, but we know that Johnson, Scarronsky,
Speaker 1: Harrison Torrens, those guys are going to be first rounders.
Speaker 1: You get surprises, but you're going to hear those names
Speaker 1: fast and because well a their top level prospects and
Speaker 1: be again, the offensive line demand across the league is
Speaker 1: so great every year. It's why to me landing two
Speaker 1: bonafide stars at their positions into Ron Armstead and Connor
Speaker 1: Williams last offseason is such a win at that position group.
Speaker 1: We were just unfortunate with production and injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: from the younger players on the offensive line. We saw
Speaker 1: one guy really assert himself as a bonafide you know star,
Speaker 1: and Rob Hunt and then Austin Jackson and Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 1: battle injuries. If you can get you know, a good
Speaker 1: jump next year from one of those guys or Rob Jones,
Speaker 1: whoever it might be, that would be a massive, massive boon.
Speaker 1: But there's still some things to sort out on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. So with that, let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: to it, and let's do these ones early, quickly, because
Speaker 1: like I said, you're gonna five or six, maybe as
Speaker 1: many as seven of these guys go off the board
Speaker 1: in the first round. I think you could go all
Speaker 1: the way through PFF's forty fourth ranked player, Darnell Wright,
Speaker 1: which is the seventh offensive lineman on their list. The
Speaker 1: number nine player overalls Paris Johnson from Ohio State. Remember
Speaker 1: what McKay Beckton did a couple of years ago, That's
Speaker 1: what Paris Johnson's probably going to do. He's a five
Speaker 1: star recruit and I read that when he was a
Speaker 1: junior in high school, he posted combine numbers or workout
Speaker 1: numbers that would have ranked fifth at that year's Combine
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen. It's absurd for a high school or length
Speaker 1: get off anchor. He has every single tool. He's gonna
Speaker 1: blow the combine away. Number thirteen Peter Scarronsky from Northwestern.
Speaker 1: Now he's the second tackle off the board here for
Speaker 1: the PFF list, but he's my first because the workout
Speaker 1: stuff is nice. But he's the closest thing we've seen too.
Speaker 1: Rashaun Slater since he came out and ironically the same
Speaker 1: school in terms of plug him in and you can
Speaker 1: set and forget he's gonna be top. He's not going
Speaker 1: to be top of the charts in Indie, but his
Speaker 1: tape is the best. And watch the rabbit drill if
Speaker 1: they still do that. That's where the defensive lineman goes
Speaker 1: back and forth and tries to knock the offensive line
Speaker 1: off balance as he changes direction. You'll see how seamless
Speaker 1: his weight transfer and balance are in that drill. Number
Speaker 1: twenty one from Oklahoma Aton Harrison. He is as smooth
Speaker 1: as they come. Man covers a ton of ground with
Speaker 1: his kickslide all of his mechanics are perfectly aligned. I
Speaker 1: think he'll test well in the jumping and running numbers,
Speaker 1: and I don't think bench press measures applicable strength. But
Speaker 1: I am curious to see what he does there because
Speaker 1: there just wasn't a lot of head up blowing defenders
Speaker 1: off the ball type of raps at Oklahoma, and his
Speaker 1: knock has been like his strength and his anchor. So
Speaker 1: curious to see how that holds up if you see
Speaker 1: it at all, and if the combine, I don't think
Speaker 1: you really do, because it's more of an underwear Olympics
Speaker 1: Number twenty four Roderick Jones is a tackle from Georgia.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to time incredibly well because of
Speaker 1: the training portion of the calendar. And I say that
Speaker 1: because you go back and watch his tape and he
Speaker 1: like rolls his jersey up. Dude's got like six pack
Speaker 1: abs at three hundred and whatever twenty pounds he is
Speaker 1: with no fat on him. I just think that there's
Speaker 1: functional strength on tape and the ability to kind of
Speaker 1: trim that down and run well is more about your training,
Speaker 1: and I trust it he'll do that really well. And
Speaker 1: if he does that, he could shoot into the top
Speaker 1: fifteen probably does if you ask me. Osyrius Torrens from
Speaker 1: Florida is far and away the best interior offensive lineman
Speaker 1: in this class. Scheme diverse has the look of a
Speaker 1: classic manpower scheme road Greater, But I think if you
Speaker 1: put him in a box that would be a mistake.
Speaker 1: I think he'll show you just how athletic he is
Speaker 1: and how quick off the ball he is with excellent
Speaker 1: jumping and running numbers. Next week. O Cyrus Torrens also
Speaker 1: was great at the Senior Bowl, number forty three Cody
Speaker 1: match from North Dakota State. We talked with Kyle Crabs
Speaker 1: about him quite a bit. Was really good at the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. Can play inside and out, did all of
Speaker 1: it at North Dakota State. Even played the pivot at
Speaker 1: the center position at the Senior Bowl. Incredibly athletic. He's
Speaker 1: going to time very well too. Tackle Darnell Wright talked
Speaker 1: about him from Tennessee. Really good player. Pierre Strength. His
Speaker 1: snap trap move where our snatch trap move I should
Speaker 1: say where he just goes out and gets to the
Speaker 1: pass rusher and kind of just pulled him to the
Speaker 1: ground like use that lean against those guys. It's flawless.
Speaker 1: He uses it all the time. He was a brick
Speaker 1: wall at Tennessee. I think one of the biggest names
Speaker 1: to watch because I don't think he'll time well, but
Speaker 1: if he does, it'll cainta pull him well into the
Speaker 1: first big week for Darnell Wright Cooper BB from Kansas State.
Speaker 1: Admittedly not familiar with his game or his tape. It'll
Speaker 1: be a surprise for me as it does for you.
Speaker 1: But number forty nine on their list here of top
Speaker 1: one hundred players. Number fifty five Minnesota's John Michael Schmitz.
Speaker 1: He's an interior offensive lineman. I thought he showed you
Speaker 1: the quickness off the ball in Mobile with regularity, reaching
Speaker 1: some of the best defensive tackles. With consistency during that
Speaker 1: whole week of practice, he could push to be the
Speaker 1: second interior offensive lineman off the board. A good week
Speaker 1: in Indie, I think he can do it. Number seventy
Speaker 1: one overalls tackle Matthew Bergeron again, Kyle crabs you heard him.
Speaker 1: He loved Bergeron's tape from Syracuse tons of good tape
Speaker 1: and pass probe. I think his on fill drills are
Speaker 1: the more important aspect of the combine for him. More
Speaker 1: so than his testing metrics. I think scouts are gonna
Speaker 1: want to see his change of direction and balance that
Speaker 1: you get from that rabbit drill again and also leaning
Speaker 1: and hitting those bags that they go through. Number eighty
Speaker 1: seven's tackle Blake Freeland from BYU. If there's a true
Speaker 1: outside zone tackle in this class, it's Freeland. I would
Speaker 1: be really intrigued by him on day three. I know
Speaker 1: we don't have a pick until like this seventh round,
Speaker 1: so you'd have to finagle and move around because it's
Speaker 1: probably a fourth rounder. It's going to be required for
Speaker 1: a player like Freeland because he needs some development, seasoning
Speaker 1: and NFL strength training because he's so quick and so athletic,
Speaker 1: just not a lot of good tapes in terms of
Speaker 1: holding up against bull rushes and power and moving guys
Speaker 1: in the running game. If he can kind of put
Speaker 1: that together as part of his game, then he can
Speaker 1: be a big time player. Good at developmental prospect there
Speaker 1: from BYU, and I I like the way those guys are
Speaker 1: always coaching, always play the game the right way. Number
Speaker 1: ninety tackle Dwan Jones. I'm so intrigued by this guy.
Speaker 1: Another guy who can really improve his stock with a
Speaker 1: big workout from Ohio State. He's the biggest person in
Speaker 1: this class seven foot five wingspan, three hundred and sixty pounds,
Speaker 1: and that comes with sacrificial athletic ability, like you're not
Speaker 1: going to be as quick in that regard. Kind of
Speaker 1: reminds me of fill Loadholt years and years ago from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Probably a Day two pick right now, but if he
Speaker 1: tests well, it's going to really increase his stock. He
Speaker 1: was fantastic with the Senior Bull two Number ninety five
Speaker 1: interior ste A Vila from Texas Christian also a great
Speaker 1: senior Bowl week. Had a good playoff run, great mechanics,
Speaker 1: fantastic pad level, and mobility within his crouch and his stance.
Speaker 1: His pure mass allows him to wall off and pass
Speaker 1: bro he was You couldn't get around him in mobile,
Speaker 1: which is obviously a great trait to have. But I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see how he tests and how that impacts
Speaker 1: his draft stock. They have number ninety five overall, which
Speaker 1: obviously fits at the end of Day two. Number ninety
Speaker 1: six is Luke Wipeler from Ohio State. Again full transparency
Speaker 1: and not really familiar with his game. Ohio State only
Speaker 1: produces athletes and movers. The entire OSU offensive line was great,
Speaker 1: and when I watched their tape, there's like eight guys
Speaker 1: you have to watch, and when you have Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: center's probably one of the last spots you watch. So
Speaker 1: I didn't watch much of it, but he should test
Speaker 1: pretty well because they that's what they tell me. That's
Speaker 1: what the draft community tells me. Noo deep class, full
Speaker 1: of variety, good inside and outside. And I think again,
Speaker 1: you can expect the same thing to get most years
Speaker 1: with guys going off the board quickly on Night one
Speaker 1: into Day two. The offensive line position this year from
Speaker 1: Miami and the off season one of the trickiest ones
Speaker 1: to me because I don't know, you've got the irons
Speaker 1: in the fire for development. You know, you have three
Speaker 1: really good players that you can trust and put them
Speaker 1: in their spots and they're gonna give you good production.
Speaker 1: You didn't get a good look at Liam or Austin
Speaker 1: this year because of injuries, and you know, it was
Speaker 1: a build for Liam to get to the point that
Speaker 1: he was when he did get injured, kind of improving
Speaker 1: his the year went along. I still think Rob Jones
Speaker 1: is a heck of a player. We've got some guys
Speaker 1: on futures contracts and guys to look at in depthwise,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens to Eric Fisher. But between
Speaker 1: free agency and what's out there with you know, Mike McGlinchey,
Speaker 1: Isaac Somalu, do you go in that direction? Do you
Speaker 1: try to draft another guy to kind of add to
Speaker 1: that Liam and Austin mix. I'm really curious to what
Speaker 1: it looks like bringing back Brandon Shells, maybe a swing tackle.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm curious to what it looks like.
Speaker 1: But this class is one to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: because Miami's always in the market for offensive lineman, as
Speaker 1: most teams typically are. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: second break and come back on the other side and
Speaker 1: talk about wide receivers. We'll also tuck a little bit
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks. That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation back here on a Friday,
Speaker 1: and I kind of realized going through this combine prep
Speaker 1: project that I didn't block off the quarterbacks because well,
Speaker 1: we have a quarterback and I haven't watched the tape
Speaker 1: on these guys, but I wanted to give you just
Speaker 1: a quick run through because you guys know, I used
Speaker 1: to be pretty pretty involved in this whole draft scouting stuff,
Speaker 1: and it would put my thoughts on Twitter a lot
Speaker 1: more than I do now. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: you probably remember that and want to hear more about that.
Speaker 1: Maybe if not, let me know too. That's fine. But
Speaker 1: Dolphins are not going to draft any of these guys
Speaker 1: in the first round, right like that, That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 1: They don't have a first round pick. They have their quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I do think it's important to have an idea
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks coming into the league and who will
Speaker 1: potentially change the league over the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: And there's five guys in this class that stand to go.
Speaker 1: Check that, four guys that stand to go pretty early
Speaker 1: in this year's draft class. And this year's draft class
Speaker 1: kind of challenges my conventional thinking behind the quarterback position
Speaker 1: because traditionally I have been kind of a tools first,
Speaker 1: figure the rest out later. That's why I was so
Speaker 1: amped up on Josh Allen coming out of Wyoming. I
Speaker 1: think I was telling everybody that I could this guy's
Speaker 1: gonna change the way we view quarterback play. I was
Speaker 1: a huge Patrick Mahomes fan. In fact, I told my
Speaker 1: buddy always take Texas Tech in college because Mahomes is
Speaker 1: just that kind of guy. Although the rest of that
Speaker 1: team was not very good, so I nailed those picks.
Speaker 1: I was a huge Lamar Jackson fan. The athletic ability
Speaker 1: that he presented was phenomenal. But it seems like when
Speaker 1: I try to go towards more of the you know,
Speaker 1: playing the position of quarterback, it's that's where I get
Speaker 1: myself in some troublesome times. Baker Mayfield was really great
Speaker 1: that way. He didn't really pan out in that direction.
Speaker 1: I think I was spot on with Josh Rosen saying
Speaker 1: I didn't see it with his game. He was too
Speaker 1: late and just didn't quite get through things fast enough.
Speaker 1: So he always come down to this thing like do
Speaker 1: you want the traits or do you want the tape
Speaker 1: of the guy. It's basically it's Tah because you know
Speaker 1: two was not Josh Allen from a physical standpoint, But
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Ta and the way that he processes
Speaker 1: and and diagnoses defenses and anticipates in his accuracy. I
Speaker 1: like all those trades from two a better than I
Speaker 1: do from Josh Allen. So what's your preference. It's I
Speaker 1: mean the scramble off you know, off script type of
Speaker 1: broken play stuff that equates to like maybe five percent
Speaker 1: of your total plays. And I give on Sunday the
Speaker 1: true pocket passing is where the game really is one from.
Speaker 1: And you saw Patrick Mahomes do that in the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You saw Jalen Hurts do that in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So without having gone through the all twenty two on
Speaker 1: these guys and just watching their college games, you know,
Speaker 1: on broadcast this year, I have this thought. I think,
Speaker 1: to me, Anthony Richardson is by far the most intriguing prospect.
Speaker 1: I would take him number one overall. You know the
Speaker 1: Bears have justin fields. I wouldn't go off of that,
Speaker 1: but I would take richards to number one if I
Speaker 1: was the Texans to trade up or got him at
Speaker 1: number two. To me, he has the highest upside and
Speaker 1: the most to work with. I just think that he's
Speaker 1: a freak. I don't think he's very yet in the
Speaker 1: way c J. Stroud is. I think CJ. Stroud is
Speaker 1: the best pure thrower in terms of his accuracy and
Speaker 1: the way he can kind of get the arm to
Speaker 1: different slots and layer the football and touch the football
Speaker 1: and located the way he wants to. Having that type
Speaker 1: of control over the football is critical. He's not the
Speaker 1: big scrambler, not the big offscript guy, but I think
Speaker 1: that he would be my next guy in this class
Speaker 1: based upon that. I just think that he's he really
Speaker 1: plays the position at a high level. He's seen a lot,
Speaker 1: he understands route concepts and how to attack vulnerabilism defense.
Speaker 1: Big fan of his game, he would be my next choice.
Speaker 1: My next guy's Will Levis, and he's kind of a
Speaker 1: blend of the two. I think he's tough as hell.
Speaker 1: I think he's a really good leader and team captain.
Speaker 1: He has that scramble ability. He is a big, big
Speaker 1: dude that can take the NFL punishment you get. But
Speaker 1: haven't really watched the tape to kind of go through
Speaker 1: of what I like about his you know, post and
Speaker 1: pre snap acumen. But there's a lot to chew on
Speaker 1: there in terms of the physical traits. And then I'm
Speaker 1: just not really buying the Bryce Young stuff. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think he's very undersized, which usually is not a
Speaker 1: thing for me. But wait till we see what he
Speaker 1: weighs in at at the combine, it's not going to
Speaker 1: be very much, I don't think unless it's water weight.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of the off script stuff you
Speaker 1: saw from him was really excelled against the lower level
Speaker 1: college football teams. I think you see him against the
Speaker 1: Georgia it's a little bit different in terms of how
Speaker 1: he plays against those guys. So I just I'm not
Speaker 1: really big on his game. I love Anthony Richardson, I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of CJ. Stroud, I'm very intrigued by
Speaker 1: Will Levis. Not really into the Bryce Young camp, but
Speaker 1: we'll see. I'll probably watch that tape closer to the
Speaker 1: draft and have a better opinion. Then That's that's my
Speaker 1: kind of bird's eye view of the scouting process there.
Speaker 1: Let's put it this way, if the Jets get in
Speaker 1: the quarterback market, I don't want to see them get
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson. Don't really want to see him get c J. Stroud,
Speaker 1: don't really want to see him get Will Levis. That's
Speaker 1: kind of how I look at the way I view
Speaker 1: this quarterback class. When Miami's not going to be involved
Speaker 1: in it, Let's go back to the receiver position and
Speaker 1: finish up the offense. Here, the point I made about
Speaker 1: the offensive line, how fast they go off the board.
Speaker 1: It's the same with edge defenders. I think wide receivers
Speaker 1: probably next in that regard. Now, receivers have by far
Speaker 1: had the biggest hit rate in the first round over
Speaker 1: the last half decade or so. But again, this is
Speaker 1: why I think the Tyreek and Bradley Chubb trades were
Speaker 1: just so damned smart in terms of maximizing the value
Speaker 1: of those late first round picks. I set it on
Speaker 1: a previous podcast. We were looking at wide receiver five
Speaker 1: with that pick that we use on Tyreek Hill, who
Speaker 1: was that Christian Watson four off the board? Before? We
Speaker 1: would have picked same deal this year, that pick we
Speaker 1: used on Chub would have been twenty ninth. Care to
Speaker 1: guess how many edge defenders are ranked higher than twenty
Speaker 1: ninth on PFF's Top one hundred board. The answer is six.
Speaker 1: So edge seven or Bradley Chubb, And that doesn't include
Speaker 1: someone like Jalen Carter, who's the number one overall player
Speaker 1: as an interior guy who can play anywhere. But for
Speaker 1: the sake of the argument, do you want edge seven
Speaker 1: or Bradley Chub? I know my answer now with wide receivers.
Speaker 1: It seems like each year we have classes that somehow
Speaker 1: topped the previous year. Twenty twenty one was the pinnacle
Speaker 1: of that. I don't think that class is ever going
Speaker 1: to be topped. Waddle, Chase, Smitty, and Saint Brown is absurd,
Speaker 1: especially when you factor in the fact that Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: is kind of a receiver and if he gets you know,
Speaker 1: a quarterback and an offense Taylor to his skills, we
Speaker 1: might get a chance to see that at some point
Speaker 1: give the ball to Kyle Pitts, Atalanta, what are you doing?
Speaker 1: You can make a case that all of those guys
Speaker 1: were top ten receivers in the league, the four guys
Speaker 1: I mentioned that's wild Now this year at number fifteen
Speaker 1: overall is the top receiver. Quinton Johnson from TCU. You
Speaker 1: saw him in the playoff. He was a great player
Speaker 1: in those that Michigan win for TCU, the clear cut
Speaker 1: number one for his combination of size and downfield big playability.
Speaker 1: Those two things don't really go together very often. I
Speaker 1: think the reason he's the top dog in this class
Speaker 1: is because he separates himself in the physical tools department,
Speaker 1: on top of being very polished in the areas that
Speaker 1: I think are most integral to good wide receiver play, release,
Speaker 1: understanding of spacing, making every route look the same but
Speaker 1: also different. Six foot four, two hundred and fifteen pounds,
Speaker 1: eighteen point eight yards per catch. GPS clocked him at
Speaker 1: twenty one miles per hour this year, he'll jump out
Speaker 1: of the building. An indie long gone By the time
Speaker 1: Miami picks really good looking prospect from TCU Zay Flower
Speaker 1: from Boston Colleges, number nineteen overall, He's getting some freaking hype. Man.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that could have that monster workout
Speaker 1: that turns heads and absolute jitterbug in and out of breaks.
Speaker 1: Really pure natural separator, going to annihilate the short shuttle
Speaker 1: and three Cohen times. You'll notice during the on field
Speaker 1: drills that every step he takes his intentional and he
Speaker 1: accelerates through each cut. I think he could go under
Speaker 1: four four in the forty yard dash. Jackson Smith and
Speaker 1: Jigba's number twenty overall from Ohio State. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite players in this entire class. It's funny, man, Ohio
Speaker 1: State receivers. They come into the league every year and
Speaker 1: just like kill it. Going back to Michael Thomas Terry
Speaker 1: McLaurin is easily a top time receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We got Garrett Wilson and Chris Olave last year, Now
Speaker 1: we get Smith and Jigba. Next year we'll get Marvin
Speaker 1: Smith or Marvin Harrison Junior for Smith and Jigba. To me,
Speaker 1: he's a lot like his predecessors. I don't think the
Speaker 1: combined workout will do his stock what his tape does.
Speaker 1: He's not a burner, but a short area quickness is fantastic.
Speaker 1: I think he's the best separator and the class the
Speaker 1: best route runner. If he gets in the low four fours,
Speaker 1: he's a lock to go off the board early. Big
Speaker 1: time combine for Jackson, Smith and Jigba. Number twenty three
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison from USC. He was the Blitznacoff winner two
Speaker 1: years ago in Pittsburgh. This class does not fall far
Speaker 1: from its own tree in the sense of the skill
Speaker 1: sets to me are pretty similar. Smooth operator runs every
Speaker 1: route and produces it a high clip. His balance and
Speaker 1: total control of his body makes me think he'll do
Speaker 1: really well on the speed, balance and change of direction testing.
Speaker 1: It's kind of Chris Chambers the way he works the
Speaker 1: sidelines might be the most natural wide receiver in this class.
Speaker 1: Number thirty h Josh down to North Carolina. Now we're
Speaker 1: talking burners. His shake, his ability to throttle down and
Speaker 1: then hit the accelerator. Very crafty. Route runner can kind
Speaker 1: of some hesitation steps to throw DB's off and then
Speaker 1: boom hits that acceleration and he's gone. He tested at
Speaker 1: four four seven and a forty two in vertical upon
Speaker 1: first arriving at UNC. I think when he trains that
Speaker 1: forty time, you can get it closer to a true
Speaker 1: four four. Just watch his feet during the drills and
Speaker 1: indie some of the smoothest in the entire class. A
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, I was very high on two
Speaker 1: two at will Tank Dell from Houston is number forty
Speaker 1: seven on PFF's big board, and he's going to test
Speaker 1: that similar. How small is too small to play at
Speaker 1: this level? True speed. Merchant was uncoverable at the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl with quickness and the extra gear. And he'll need
Speaker 1: to time well because he's just five ft ten one
Speaker 1: sixty five. That's freaking my size. I'd be shocked if
Speaker 1: we don't see him get under four to four. He
Speaker 1: was pretty damn good with the ball in his hands too,
Speaker 1: So that's reasonable to assume he kills the shuttle and
Speaker 1: three cone as well. But if you can't touch him,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how small he is. That's kind of
Speaker 1: how he tanked. Dell has to play at the next level.
Speaker 1: Number fifty nine Parker Washington from Penn State. He competed
Speaker 1: at the opening the Nike Testing Challenge whenever it's called
Speaker 1: out of college. Just a four six one forty about
Speaker 1: thirty eight and a half inch avert, ten foot five
Speaker 1: broad and a four one shuttle. Those are low for
Speaker 1: me based upon his tape, meaning I think he'll do
Speaker 1: much better. But he was pure electricity to this year
Speaker 1: at Penn State. I did see that he could potentially
Speaker 1: skip workouts till his pro day because he had a
Speaker 1: season ending injury this last season. Number sixty six Jalan
Speaker 1: Higher from Tennessee. He probably saw him in the end
Speaker 1: zone against Alabama during that game of the year. Five
Speaker 1: touchdowns for him there. Watch the South Carolina tape though,
Speaker 1: and just see how much they respected his tape. Putting
Speaker 1: the roof on top of the defense. He can fly.
Speaker 1: He needs to test well because his tape against Press
Speaker 1: coverage showed that he needs some seasoning there. He only
Speaker 1: had one catch against press all year, but man, when
Speaker 1: they created free releases for him, he was able to
Speaker 1: access that speed. Just watch out. He should be in
Speaker 1: the running for the fastest forty time this year. He
Speaker 1: can fly Number seventy eight. Rashi Rice from SMU. I
Speaker 1: think his combination of size and speed could have him
Speaker 1: near the top of the wide Receiver RAS scorecard when
Speaker 1: it's all said and done. Six foot two and he's built,
Speaker 1: and you see that in the way he plays through
Speaker 1: contact and doesn't really get knocked off his route very often.
Speaker 1: I think his explosiveness and his movement translate to some
Speaker 1: of the most massive numbers you'll see on the Verton
Speaker 1: board this year. Or le Bron I should say, if
Speaker 1: he gets into the four fours, that would be a
Speaker 1: huge win for Rice this year. Number eighty four Jalen
Speaker 1: Highlight's teammate Cedric Tillman from Tennessee the perfect compliment to
Speaker 1: high At Tennessee. He wins with physicality, he'll test better
Speaker 1: and the strength and speed metrics. Six foot three, two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds will attract a team that's in
Speaker 1: need of a physical X receiver, and then number eighty
Speaker 1: nine Jalen Marino Cropper from Fresno State. Again, gotta be
Speaker 1: honest with you guys, not familiar with his tape, but
Speaker 1: he ran some wildcats and running back snaps from slot wide.
Speaker 1: The Fresno offense really funneled through his game five ft
Speaker 1: eleven roughly one seventy five. I know that type of
Speaker 1: versatility paired with good testing times could really boost his stock.
Speaker 1: So there you go. That's the offense. The last couple
Speaker 1: of podcasts here covering the top one hundred players in
Speaker 1: this year's draft. According to PFF, it's an intriguing class
Speaker 1: for the receiver position. We'll see what Miami's room looks
Speaker 1: like after free agency. Both Shrefield and Craycraft are free agents.
Speaker 1: We've got zu Kama and Sanders heading into year two.
Speaker 1: What does the organization feel about them? Obviously, Tyreek and
Speaker 1: Jalen gives you the best one two in football, maybe
Speaker 1: of all time. I tend to think this position group
Speaker 1: and the draft won't present the best value on Day
Speaker 1: two compared to what we talked about on Wednesday with
Speaker 1: the running backs and tight ends, and even earlier with
Speaker 1: our offensive line segment. But that's always speculation until we
Speaker 1: get to the actual draft, and it's what always makes
Speaker 1: the draft so intriguing to me interesting class excited to
Speaker 1: see these guys work out. So we've done the entire offense,
Speaker 1: and I tend to think that will be your best
Speaker 1: bet with the fifty second pick. Who knows, that's not
Speaker 1: our sure thing, but I think between the potential of
Speaker 1: Jamir Gibbs, Luke Musgrave, Darnell Washington, Cody Match Darnell Wright,
Speaker 1: that's kind of the vein I'm going to hop into
Speaker 1: the way this roster is set up, the way things
Speaker 1: have gone the last few years. You know, several draft
Speaker 1: picks for a couple of years, followed by aggressive pursuits
Speaker 1: of veterans on the trade market. To me, spending your
Speaker 1: free agent cap you have available on high level players
Speaker 1: at cheaper positions like off ball linebacker, safety, tight end, guard,
Speaker 1: running back, and then drafting the more premium positions where
Speaker 1: you can inflict better cost control. That might be the
Speaker 1: best route here. So from that, I guess Darnell Right
Speaker 1: is the only one from that group that satisfies that criteria.
Speaker 1: To me, this is the trickiest off season to project
Speaker 1: from the last several off seasons. Here for your Miami Dolphins.
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