WEBVTT - Dolphins in the PFF Top 101 0:00:01.600 --> 0:00:05.160 You were listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:08.600 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:16.440 looking us ALCA wide open touchdock crick Hill, unbelievable. Just 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.239 flue fire for a second time to know where he 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.320 was going right away ahead of that nun man. I 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.160 want to help you soon up on his band away wattle, 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:29.480 waddle to a shotgut back to throw looking stups up fires, 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:34.159 touchdop again, it's waddle, It's six touchdown pad out of 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:40.199 the tea. Drivetime with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:44.560 check your pulse. If not furd of what is up? 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:48.519 Dolphans and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.479 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.320 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:56.520 --> 0:00:59.920 And on today's show, more Combine Prep, We're gonna fail 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.800 the top one hundred on offense with the wide receivers 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.679 and offensive line. Plus we go around the web and 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.039 catch up on some good content worth your time to 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.000 go check out from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:20.360 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. It 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.639 a lot to get to on the show today, talking 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.680 combine prep, finishing up the offensive side of the football, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.279 and the players were watching for the purpose of those 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.880 three day two picks, one in the second round, two 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.840 in the third. But first, I spent some time this 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.839 morning on the Google machine on Twitter wherever I could 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:41.200 find some material from some of my favorite writers and publications, 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.240 and I found a couple. And first, this goes to 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.120 a point that I've been making here on the podcast 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:49.400 really since I started, and it's just gotten better. So 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.360 continuing that theme, but the process of roster building through 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.480 the draft trades and aggressive approach to the veteran market 0:01:57.520 --> 0:01:59.560 on the heels of a couple of really good draft 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.280 classes back in twenty twenty in twenty twenty one, and 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.480 you might say, hey, twenty twenties first round wasn't great, 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.560 but you also got Brandon Jones, Robert Hunt, and ray 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.359 Kuan Davis side of that, and your franchise quarterback. So 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:12.960 a pretty good draft class there, if you ask me. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.000 But also how this team really seems to have its 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.120 finger on the pulse of its own self scouting, but 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.440 also what the market has to offer. And that's before 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.680 we even get into the cap Whizzer Dree you know 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.400 Brandon Shore shout out here on the podcast. That helps 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:29.400 Greer and his staff maintain flexibility to address the needs 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:32.280 that have been decided upon from the coaching and scouting staff. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.520 And Greer is so adept at getting what his coach 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.919 needs that that flexibility really helps him do that. Let's 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.639 go ahead and play him sound here from Chris Greer 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.640 on that one, and what was one of my favorite 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.960 soundbites from the end of the year press conference and 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.760 really in general and just real quick, this is Chris Greer. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.560 The question was posed to him through the lens of 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.560 free agents at the linebacker position, which you'll hear him 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.400 divulge on that point as well. But the laugh right 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.200 here is what really gets me. Yeah, we we always 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:03.360 have flexibility, and we've done a lot of work to 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:07.639 make sure we've maintained that. So what it is right 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.679 now is not what it will be at the start 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:12.600 of the season. So you know, for us, well, like 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.440 I said, we're going to keep going through a process 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:20.640 here or evaluating everything. So I think guys, especially the 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.960 defense second half of the year played really well. You know, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.600 we were just talking about when Bradley came on. You know, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.720 our analytics were just ran study for us, and we 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.079 moved into like the top ten of a top eight 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:36.320 of a like six of our like twelve metrics were 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.480 really the value for defense, just as impact coming in. 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.160 So and that's running past. I know we're actually look 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:46.640 at everything, but Eason. Then on the exit meetings today, 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.680 some of the defensive guys were talking about how cool 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:50.839 it was and what a good guy and work at 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:54.520 the toughness leadership. So I think with all that we 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:56.800 look at out all. You know, Landon Roberts did a 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.640 nice job showing leadership. You know, Baker do all those 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:04.800 guys channing. We're excited for his future in terms of development, 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.640 which should be kind of expected that this year that 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:08.560 it would be more of a special teams guy. And 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.080 so I think where we are and Sam did a 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:12.840 nice job on special teams. I don't want to leave 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.560 anyone out, but we're gonna at a position because I 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:16.880 know you're asking, because there are a lot of free 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.880 agents in that position. But we'll just keep doing our 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.200 work and filling the holes like we always do. The 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.880 reason I get a kick out of that and played 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:28.680 that audio. Four y'alls because I mean, it's just commonplace 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:33.080 now that you have folks that cover the game that 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.040 don't understand the questions they're asking to these people that 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.240 do this stuff for a living. And so when you 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.000 say all the Dolphins don't have cap space, like, understand 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:43.839 how it works so that the Dolphins can create that 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.880 cap space, which caused the GM to laugh at that question. 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.440 So the point here about working hard to maintain that flexibility. 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.679 It's a puzzle that frankly fascinates me across the league 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.240 how all of this gets put together each year with 0:04:56.279 --> 0:05:00.000 your finite level of resources. Everybody gets the same resources, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.839 go build the best thing you possibly can. It's fun 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.880 to watch. It's a big part of why I think 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:07.000 we're all fans of the sport and of this league. 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:09.320 But I think the Dolphins have found their secret sauce 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.000 here with Chris Greer, and the process continues to be 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:15.000 really good. I contend that you can't give me ten 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:19.039 teams that have drafted better since twenty sixteen and go 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.800 ahead and throw your arguments about the first round twenty 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.320 twenty or the twenty seventeen draft class. But also when 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.080 you do that, make sure you look at every other 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.320 draft in the NFL and realize how common that is 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:32.000 and how uncommon it is to have draft classes like 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.680 Miami has had. In fact, I would push that number 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.440 closer to five. You can't give me five teams that 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:40.600 have drafted better than Miami since twenty sixteen. Tunzel X 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.880 and Drake and Grant in that first year. That is 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:47.280 a phenomenal draft class. Twenty seventeen was terrible. Twenty eighteen. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:49.040 I mean, I know we traded them away, but you've 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:53.279 got Minkah Fitzpatrick, Mike Kasicki, Jerome Baker, Durham's Smith, and 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.960 Jason Sanders. That is a loaded draft class. It's fantastic. 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:01.640 Then Christian Wilkins, Andrew Van Ginkl, Miles Gaskin. I know, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.600 you know that kind of tails off towards the end there. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.560 But to get a Pro Bowl level defensive tackle and 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:10.080 a really good special team or slash such situational rusher 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.320 in a draft class where you kind of put your 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.440 eggs in the twenty twenty basket by moving down and 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.320 moving those assets to the future, it's a great draft 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.760 class based upon the resources you had. Then twenty twenty two, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.400 a big rob Rae Kwon Brandon Jones mentioned that, then 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:25.880 twenty twenty one is the coup de graw, Jalen, Jalen, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.720 and Javon What an outstanding draft class that was. Like, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.080 you understand that most teams get one or two really 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:35.200 productive players in each draft, right two being on the 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:39.040 high side. Some teams go multiple drafts without getting impact players. 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:41.520 A lot of teams get a couple of, you know, 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:45.080 replacement level starters and no stars. Like that list of 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.360 names I just gave you is full of stars. It's 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.520 full of plus starters. It's full of the core of 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.000 this football team. It's why I contest that this roster 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.520 we have right now is the best the organization has 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:56.920 had in twenty years. That two thousand and two team 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.560 had eight Pro Bowlers, and this twenty twenty two team 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:01.599 was pretty close to that mark, not in the sense 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.040 that we had six or seven Pro Bowlers, but how 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.000 many guys were just on the fringe of making the 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.080 Pro Bowl. Two was the first alternate and would have 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.120 gone had it not been for skipping out because of 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.600 the injury. Waddle was right there and frankly should have 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:17.040 gone over Jamar Chase. Christian Wilkins should have gone too. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.720 If he was a defensive tackle on defensive end, they 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.120 were all right there. I thought Connor Williams, Robert Hunt, 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.400 and Javon Holland all made a case to qualify as well. 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.720 You get it. There are probably ten to twelve players 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.880 on this roster that you could legit see in the 0:07:28.880 --> 0:07:30.800 Pro Bowl next year. And that's why I wanted to 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.560 bring this up because Pro Football Focus is unveiling their 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.840 top one hundred and one players of the twenty twenty 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:38.800 two season, and as of this taping on Thursday, they've 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.280 gone through the top twenty six players so far. So 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.960 Tyreek Hill has not been listed yet. He'll be in 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.200 the top twenty five. But here are the players on 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.760 the Miami Dolphins that you have in the top twenty 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.480 five through one hundred. I should say number ninety nine 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.640 was Connor Williams, and the excerpt was that he played 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.280 one thousand, one hundred and twenty seven snaps and allowed 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.360 just sixteen total pressures over eighteen games. He was phenomenal 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.160 all year long. Number eighty eight to Ron Armstead. Injuries 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.600 prevented Armstead from playing the whole season, but his impact 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.920 when he was on the field was as noticeable as 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:10.920 it can be for an offensive line. His ninety eight 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:14.880 point one pass block efficiency was sixth among qualifying tackles. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.840 Number sixty six wide receiver Jalen Waddle. With Tyreek putting 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:21.080 up records heating numbers in the Miami offense for much 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.960 of the season, it's easy to ignore Waddle's continued success. 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.000 Waddle almost doubled last year's yards per reception figure in 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.720 the new offense, and passes thrown his way generated a 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.000 one nineteen point two passer rating. Waddle was exceptional this year. 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.520 Number fifty nine Jalen Phillips. Phillips had a similar sack 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.400 total from his rookie year, but was outright dominant in 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.559 his second year. His seventy seven total pressures including playoffs, 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.800 were top ten among his position group. He also was 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:49.280 top twenty in runstops. Phenomenal player number fifty eight, one 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:53.559 spot higher Christian Wilkins Christer Rourkens, one of two interior 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.559 players to log more than one thousand snaps. I was 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.640 Chris Jones of the world champion Kansas City Chiefs. He 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.440 led all defensive tackles with fifty five run stops and 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.720 the number forty five was quarterback to a tongue of Valoa. Yeah, 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:08.480 the quarterback that uh there's for some reason debate about 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.640 out there, and I get salty on this topic every 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.400 time it comes up, and we're gonna do it again today. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.760 He was number forty five in terms of most impactful 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.800 players this year from Pro Football Focus. He was leading 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.400 an offense they say that was matching Kansas City and 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.400 Buffalo's output until injuries interrupted and eventually ended his season. 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.160 So there you go. That's a PFF has been doing 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.439 these top one hundred and one list since twenty ten. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.600 The Dolphins have never had six players on the list. 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:35.080 Tyrek will make it seven. What's the most they had 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.000 in that time period? Any guesses for anybody out there, 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.280 it wasn't one of the better teams we had. It 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.600 was twenty fifteen when they had Olivier Vernon at twenty 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.920 one and Tom I can Sue at twenty seven, Lamar 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:47.559 Miller eighty five, Jarvis Landry at eighty six, and Rashad 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:50.520 Jones at ninety eight. So having seven guys on that list, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.560 thirty two teams one hundred and one spots. That's three 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.000 point one five spots per team. Miami More than doubled 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.640 that not bad, not bad at all. Let's go ahead 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:01.160 and do a ck rip around the web before we 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.280 dive into pro football focuses top one hundred draft prospects 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.040 on the offensive line and wide receiver. Will also go 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.120 ahead and talk some quarterbacks too, and I'll give you 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.000 my take on what I expect at the combine. But 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.959 there's some schedule talk from Peter King's Football Morning in 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.679 America column. He also quoted US in our interview with 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:19.640 Vic Fangius. That was cool to see. But he wrote 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.880 about potential week one, the opening night options to play 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.360 the Chiefs when they hang the banner arrowhead, and he 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:28.720 mentioned the really strong home schedule for the Chiefs. So 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.199 that features their division rivals obviously with Denver, Las Vegas, 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.800 and Los Angeles games against the Bills and Bengals, and 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.760 then US and then also their NFC games with Chicago, Detroit, 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.280 and Philly. He writes it's unlikely they would do a 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.880 Super Bowl rematch. He said, they're not likely to do 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.520 a top rated games which takes away possibly Buffalo, maybe 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.520 even Cincinnati. So it seems to me like the choices 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.360 to this game are the divisional matchups. You know, I 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.120 think the Chargers make a lot of sense. The Bengals 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:56.920 make a lot of sense if they don't qualify in 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.400 that Buffalo range or that Buffalo territory, and then the Dolphins, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:02.920 I mean, Cincinnati to me makes the most sense. I mean, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.120 those teams have been talking a lot of trash, they've 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.199 been going back and forth. But you also see CBS 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.520 tends to protect those games, or if you get NBC 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:14.000 later in the year, because your season opener is going 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.040 to do Numbees regardless of who you put on there. 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.439 So I think it's a possibility that we could see 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.400 Miami and the Tyreek Hill return to Kansas City. That 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.600 could be a storyline to watch to a coming back. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.800 You know, Bradley chub is his first full year here. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.520 He used to play against the Chiefs twice a year. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.360 I just think it's a possibility. Even though the schedule 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.240 for the Chiefs is so good, the Dolphins could potentially 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.520 get that game. Who remembers the last time we played 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.640 in that opening time slot anybody two thousand and six 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.600 against Pittsburgh rough night. That was huh Joey Porter and 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.840 Bill Cower kissed on the sideline. That wasn't fun. To watch. 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.319 Peter King also mentions that k C has a game 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.240 in Germany and since thirty of the thirty four international 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.439 games of all time have not included divisional matchups, one 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:56.640 of those one of our home games individual matchup, But 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:01.800 I digress. He lists Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Hackago, Detroit, and 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:05.480 Miami as possible options there. He does rule out Cincinnati 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.360 and Buffalo in those spots because he thinks those are 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 going to be more for primetime slots, not early morning slots. 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.319 Of course, this is all speculation on King's part, but 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.800 I find it interesting and how the league views these 0:12:14.840 --> 0:12:17.640 premier games within the context of putting together their schedule. 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.240 It's all generated through computers. It is very, very fascinating 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:23.600 to me. Frankly, I just want to play someone besides 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.480 New England on opening Day three years in a row. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:29.439 I'm all about variety, and that's not very much variety. Next, 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.680 ESPN produced a really good article from one of my 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:35.040 favorite writers out there. I didn't actually know that he wrote, 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.800 but Matt Bowen is on NFL Matchup. For my money, 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:39.600 their best show. They bury it like at three o'clock 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.839 in the morning for some reason, because I guess Stephen A. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.520 Smith yelling at people is better TV. I guess I 0:12:45.520 --> 0:12:47.760 don't know. He's a high school football coach and also 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.120 now a great writer, a true renaissance man. But he 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.160 wrote about the best fit for his top fifty free 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.200 agents on ESPM plus, and he had just one player 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.640 as the Dolphins as their best team fit, and it 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:02.880 was running back Miles Ends of your NFC champion Philadelphia 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.319 Eagles Bowen rights. We have to see how the market 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.280 develops for Sanders, who sat career highs and rushing attempts, 0:13:08.320 --> 0:13:11.080 rushing yards, and touchdowns. He went two fifty nine for 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.880 one thousand, two hundred and sixty nine yards and eleven 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.480 touchdowns for the Eagles. But there is an opening right 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.200 now in Miami, considering both Jeff Wilson and Raheem mosted 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.800 our schedule to hit free agency. Sanders would fit in 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.520 Mike McDaniel's heavily schemed run game and could see more 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.240 usage as a wide receiver. Interesting stuff there. I do 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:29.560 think we obviously need to running backs because all of 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:31.319 our guys are free agents right now, are heading into 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.040 free agency in the new league year, and Miles Sanders 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.360 is a great player. I think Raheem is a great player, 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.959 so interesting to see what happens this year at the 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.240 running back position. And additionally, he had the quarterback carousel 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.199 going this way. Lamar Gino, Smith and Daniel Jones all 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.480 stay where they are with the Ravens, Seahawks, and Giants. 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.800 He had Derek Carr with the Saints and Jimmy g 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.760 Landing with the Jets. That would be I would like that, 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.440 Let's do that. The latter portion is why I mentioned it. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.200 I think this is as close as we pay attention 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.440 to the quarterback carousel as we have in all because 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.000 of the Jets involvement. I just want to see the 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.920 Jets strikeout. Personally, that would be the preferred option, but 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.959 also go ahead and get Derek Carr bringing on doesn't 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:10.840 worry me either way, but be funny to see him 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.679 strike out. But it's the same reason we were so 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.960 dialed on that twenty twenty one draft class, knowing both 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:16.600 the Jets and Pats were very much in the market 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.640 for rookie quarterbacks at the time, and I love the 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:20.880 way that draft class went, especially for us. And then 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:22.400 all right, there you go. Let's go ahead and take 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.080 our first break right there and come back on the 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:27.120 other side and do one position for each segment, wide 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:30.000 receivers and offensive line expected the workout in Indian. What 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.680 we can expect from those workouts, Who has the who 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.640 stands the best chance to improve their stock? All of 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.960 that next on the Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:51.320 brought to you by AutoNation. It's a Friday here ahead 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:55.600 of scouting Combine week. It's already here. Just another reminder 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.080 of how fast things seem to fly by these days. 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.880 I think it happens with age personally. For me, the 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.920 years go by faster and faster. I think kids will 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.960 do that to you as well. It just still feels 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.400 like training camp was yesterday, and here we are talking, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.320 you know, flying head first towards the new league year. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.360 That always means a combination of free agent talk and 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:17.200 draft prospect talk, and before you know it, pro days 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:19.080 we'll be wrapping up, and we'll be onto the draft 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.360 and into OTAs and then into summertime, in vacation time, 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.000 drinking it all through a fire hose. Man, it happens fast. 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.560 Let's get to the offensive line first. A note, This 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.480 to me is always the most interesting position group each year. 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:33.520 It's such a need for so many teams. Really, every 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.640 team has offensive line needs every year. Even the Eagles 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.520 will have to find a way if they can't bring 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.560 back Isaac Somalu to replace their right guard because they 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.320 were sensational. All five spots this year on the offensive 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.680 line spring a league. This year, you're gonna have another need. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.240 Every team has needs. So we get this crop picked 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:53.440 clean pretty early each year in the draft, like you're 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.720 always going to see a handful of offensive lineman and 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.480 edges drafted in the first round. And with offensive line, 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:01.560 there was that pretty significan can't dearth for a few 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.760 years where there just wasn't that many guys coming off 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.960 the board early and being productive as pros. Like that 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.680 twenty thirteen draft class. We did get Lane Johnson and 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:14.240 Eric Fisher out of that. You know, I think Luke 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.160 Jokel was also involved. That was supposed to be like 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:18.520 a tackle dominant draft class, but like that was it, 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.040 and then there was years and years where it just 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.240 didn't really produce a whole lot. And it was the 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:25.480 same time where you saw pass rushers coming off the 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:28.640 board and producing at high levels, and it really kind 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.480 of slanted the way the game was played. I think 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:34.080 in terms of there's way more athletic good pass rushers 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.760 and there are offensive linemen. But I think that pendulum 0:16:36.880 --> 0:16:40.280 is beginning to swing back to closer to even I 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.160 won't call it even yet, but in this deep class, 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.960 you're gonna see guys come flying off the board like 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:47.640 they do every single year. I mean, just look at 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:51.160 the balance of this year's top one hundred list. You've 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:53.920 got thirteen total offensive linemen in there. Eight of those 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.360 guys are top fifty. If the players went off and 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.800 this order, that's eight players gone before Miami comes up 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:02.920 on the clock. So there's not really a sense, a 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.679 lot of sense and spending tons of time all the 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.600 guys that are pretty much locks to go top twenty five. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.240 You get surprises every year, but we know that Johnson, Scarronsky, 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:13.480 Harrison Torrens, those guys are going to be first rounders. 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.400 You get surprises, but you're going to hear those names 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.480 fast and because well a their top level prospects and 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.679 be again, the offensive line demand across the league is 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.680 so great every year. It's why to me landing two 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.760 bonafide stars at their positions into Ron Armstead and Connor 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:32.200 Williams last offseason is such a win at that position group. 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.879 We were just unfortunate with production and injuries, you know, 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.120 from the younger players on the offensive line. We saw 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.920 one guy really assert himself as a bonafide you know star, 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:44.400 and Rob Hunt and then Austin Jackson and Liam Eichenberg 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.600 battle injuries. If you can get you know, a good 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.760 jump next year from one of those guys or Rob Jones, 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.280 whoever it might be, that would be a massive, massive boon. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.080 But there's still some things to sort out on the 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.439 offensive line. So with that, let's go ahead and get 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.720 to it, and let's do these ones early, quickly, because 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:01.240 like I said, you're gonna five or six, maybe as 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:02.960 many as seven of these guys go off the board 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.359 in the first round. I think you could go all 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.960 the way through PFF's forty fourth ranked player, Darnell Wright, 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.600 which is the seventh offensive lineman on their list. The 0:18:11.760 --> 0:18:14.520 number nine player overalls Paris Johnson from Ohio State. Remember 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.160 what McKay Beckton did a couple of years ago, That's 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:19.240 what Paris Johnson's probably going to do. He's a five 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:20.720 star recruit and I read that when he was a 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.920 junior in high school, he posted combine numbers or workout 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.960 numbers that would have ranked fifth at that year's Combine 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:30.040 twenty eighteen. It's absurd for a high school or length 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.640 get off anchor. He has every single tool. He's gonna 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:36.159 blow the combine away. Number thirteen Peter Scarronsky from Northwestern. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:39.199 Now he's the second tackle off the board here for 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:43.480 the PFF list, but he's my first because the workout 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:45.480 stuff is nice. But he's the closest thing we've seen too. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.160 Rashaun Slater since he came out and ironically the same 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:50.280 school in terms of plug him in and you can 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.399 set and forget he's gonna be top. He's not going 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.120 to be top of the charts in Indie, but his 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.320 tape is the best. And watch the rabbit drill if 0:18:56.320 --> 0:18:59.280 they still do that. That's where the defensive lineman goes 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.680 back and forth and tries to knock the offensive line 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:04.639 off balance as he changes direction. You'll see how seamless 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.600 his weight transfer and balance are in that drill. Number 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:11.000 twenty one from Oklahoma Aton Harrison. He is as smooth 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:13.000