Speaker 1: Tour Fires touch stop Waddles knocked into the end zone
Speaker 1: of Miami more type broke window. They had to get
Speaker 1: that touchdown on that play. They get it. What is up,
Speaker 1: Dolph fans and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody, It's a Friday. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl practices and the measurements are all in the books.
Speaker 1: Will recap those, plus Xavian Howard goes to Vegas for
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and we'll discuss willful blast and the
Speaker 1: ramifications of entering old man trying to do athletic things. Territory.
Speaker 1: I think I'm officially there from somewhere in South Florida.
Speaker 1: All of that and a heck of a bunch more
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins. So
Speaker 1: I think it's best to kick off this podcast asked
Speaker 1: by reminding you what you can expect from Drive Time
Speaker 1: with Travis Winfield. This is a podcast that focuses on football,
Speaker 1: and it's always been about football, opinions on how to
Speaker 1: make the football team better. Things that are are excelling
Speaker 1: with the current football team, all ball, all the time,
Speaker 1: with the occasional streaming service series recommendation, and that's where
Speaker 1: we'll keep it. It's an exciting time of year, the
Speaker 1: roster construction time of year, in my opinion, arguably the
Speaker 1: most exciting time of year. So that's where the focus
Speaker 1: will remain. Sound good, And before we go ahead, I
Speaker 1: want to go back here real quick, just touch on
Speaker 1: the weekend that was previously didn't discuss this on the
Speaker 1: Monday podcast, but conference championship weekend in the books, and
Speaker 1: just wanted to put a note in here how cool
Speaker 1: it is to have kind of some fresh blood in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl game this year. I mean, I saw
Speaker 1: a stat or a figure from I think my brother
Speaker 1: sent me this, so it's something like it's been nineteen
Speaker 1: years since we had a Super Bowl that did not
Speaker 1: feature Brady Manning off Us Burger or the San Francisco forty.
Speaker 1: Isn't that like a wild stat I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So it's gonna be Bengals and Rams. Also
Speaker 1: to me a great indicator of how team building processes
Speaker 1: can really happen in multiple ways. There's no one way
Speaker 1: to get to the Big Game and just one season ago,
Speaker 1: you know the Bengals being a four win team two
Speaker 1: years ago, a to win team, drafted up, build it up,
Speaker 1: did sign some nice free agents. And then you have
Speaker 1: the Rams who have just seen star player and acquired
Speaker 1: star player and put themselves in position to go to
Speaker 1: their second Super Bowl inside of four seasons and for
Speaker 1: them hopefully to win their first one under Sean McVeigh.
Speaker 1: And that's the game we're looking forward to next Sunday.
Speaker 1: But before we do that, I want to look back
Speaker 1: here a little bit in this previous week with the
Speaker 1: Whiffle Blast tournament as well as the Fish Tank podcast,
Speaker 1: and we start on Tuesday, the episode of the Fish
Speaker 1: Tank with myself. It's called Travis Wingfield I Can Do.
Speaker 1: This is out now on Apple, podcast, Spotify, wherever you
Speaker 1: get your podcast. From the Miami Dolphins dot com home page.
Speaker 1: Seth and o J welcomed me into the Tank and
Speaker 1: what a surreal moment that was to get to tell
Speaker 1: my story on a show that I'm a huge fan
Speaker 1: of that I was a huge fan of before it
Speaker 1: became part of the Miami Dolphins umbrella. So big thanks
Speaker 1: for those guys for giving me the platform to do that.
Speaker 1: Go check it out now, give them a five star
Speaker 1: rating and give them a nice review, let them know
Speaker 1: what you think, and go back and listen to the
Speaker 1: entire catalog of Fish Tank episodes. Those guys are great
Speaker 1: storytellers and they helped me get my story out there
Speaker 1: on the Fish Tank. And before the Fish Tank came out,
Speaker 1: I hung out with the guys from the Fish Tank
Speaker 1: for the Whiffle Blast Tournament, a whiffleball tournament that was
Speaker 1: held on Saturday the Jason Taylor Foundation. A lot of
Speaker 1: good stuff they do there in terms of raising money
Speaker 1: for kids with pediatric cancer other pediatric emergencies, and a
Speaker 1: bunch of teams came out. A great cause, a great
Speaker 1: weekend for everyone involved. And you know, I throughout the
Speaker 1: course of this week, I've been feeling some soreness in
Speaker 1: my abdomen and my whole life. I've been terrified of
Speaker 1: appendicitis because of just the horror stories I've heard, so
Speaker 1: I was worried it was that, but it was not.
Speaker 1: It's just some soreness from the torque of swinging a
Speaker 1: whiffle bat. You guys ever tried to hit a real
Speaker 1: whiffle ball with a real whiffle bat and that skinny,
Speaker 1: thin barrel of a whiffle bat. It's not as easy
Speaker 1: as it looks. So first of all, we all agreed
Speaker 1: to get there about an hour before the game starts.
Speaker 1: We could get some warmups in, maybe you could take
Speaker 1: a few hacks. And we we get there, and you know,
Speaker 1: O J had told me ahead of time that they
Speaker 1: were very good on on defense and needed some more
Speaker 1: firepower on offense. And I'm like, perfect, I don't pitch.
Speaker 1: I can play defense, but my bat is what I
Speaker 1: bring to the table. And um, we get there, and
Speaker 1: I was aware that this our team had some good
Speaker 1: pitching on it. I wasn't aware of just how good
Speaker 1: they were, because when I step into the batter's box
Speaker 1: for warmups, I thought, we're taking biting practice. They just
Speaker 1: start throwing these curveballs and fastball and sinkers and risers
Speaker 1: and all these different pitches. And I'm like, I think
Speaker 1: I foul tipped like three or four of them, like
Speaker 1: William Mays Hayes in Major League, having to do ten
Speaker 1: push ups everytime at the ball in the air, and
Speaker 1: that was about as good as I could do. And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my goodness is this is gonna
Speaker 1: be an embarrassing day for me. And then I get
Speaker 1: up to bat in the first game and it was
Speaker 1: like I struck out chasing a ball in the left
Speaker 1: handed batter's box. I had a called strike three looking
Speaker 1: that went up over my head and curved into the
Speaker 1: strike zone behind home plate, because wootball, all you have
Speaker 1: to do is hit that square behind home plate. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, and all my teammates are
Speaker 1: taken walks and I'm just like, all right, I'm the
Speaker 1: I'm that guy. I'm the one caused all the outs here.
Speaker 1: But then it picked up. We got those victories early
Speaker 1: because our pitching was so rock solid. I don't think
Speaker 1: we allowed to hit until the playoff round. And again,
Speaker 1: hitting is very difficult. Most of these games are like
Speaker 1: two zero three one, you know, very low scoring games.
Speaker 1: But late in the regular season, at Game three, got
Speaker 1: on the SNY with two home runs, including a monster
Speaker 1: shot that went over a tree that was beyond the
Speaker 1: left field uh home run line or fence, whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. That there wasn't an actual fence,
Speaker 1: just painted lines in the ground, so that kind of
Speaker 1: got me going. Then we get into the playoffs for
Speaker 1: the one seed. We get an easy victory in the
Speaker 1: first round, go into the semi finals, and we tied
Speaker 1: with this team, and the tiebreaker was you get to
Speaker 1: have one person hit the ball from your own team pitching,
Speaker 1: so you can lob it in and whoever hits at
Speaker 1: the furthest on the fly wins the game because I
Speaker 1: gotta keep things moving here. And our guy comes up.
Speaker 1: I really wanted the bat. We didn't choose me, but
Speaker 1: I wanted it. I had a couple of home runs
Speaker 1: on the day. I was the only one of the
Speaker 1: multiple home runs at that point of the game or
Speaker 1: of the day, and I just kind of felt like
Speaker 1: I was in a groove, but we didn't go in
Speaker 1: my direction. That's okay. I'm a good team player. Supported
Speaker 1: our guy and he grounds one right into the turf
Speaker 1: in front of the home plate like three ft and
Speaker 1: it rolls a long way, and OJ is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: out here, out here, and he's like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's where it lands. So we're like ship that went,
Speaker 1: you know, that didn't even make it down to the
Speaker 1: women's teas and engulf and uh. The next guy comes up,
Speaker 1: and this guy has been hitting the ball well on us,
Speaker 1: even though we we got him out with some fly balls,
Speaker 1: but he was he was stroking it pretty well. And
Speaker 1: he comes up there and he tips it off of
Speaker 1: home plate, like right into the ground. We win on
Speaker 1: the three foot tie breaking hit in the tiebreaker, and
Speaker 1: then we come up in championship round and we're tied
Speaker 1: in the final inning and your boy comes up with
Speaker 1: two outs and gets a big knock for the squad,
Speaker 1: and then the guy behind me hits a triple to
Speaker 1: drive me in and that was enough to win the championships.
Speaker 1: So Whiffle Blast champions It was fun. After the fact,
Speaker 1: o J calls me up like three hours later, my
Speaker 1: wife and I are at dinner with my daughter and
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm still so pumped up, man. And he
Speaker 1: didn't even play an inning. He was just our full
Speaker 1: time coach, and he was still fired up. Multiple hours
Speaker 1: after the fact. We got this big cup, a big trophy,
Speaker 1: and they sent it home with there's a father's son
Speaker 1: combo on our team. They sent it home with them first.
Speaker 1: I think I get it next, but they were sending
Speaker 1: pictures of it next to the fireplace. He was drinking
Speaker 1: a beer out of it a lot of fun. WillFull
Speaker 1: blast the JT Foundations for a great cause helping out
Speaker 1: children with cancer and other tragic diagnosis is of the
Speaker 1: like so j T Foundation, Seth Levitt, O, J McDuffie,
Speaker 1: Shawn Toad, DJ Presch, all those guys. Phenomenal event, phenomenal time.
Speaker 1: I had an absolute blast childhood coming back out even
Speaker 1: though the weather was atrocious. It reminded me of baseball
Speaker 1: tryouts back home in the Pacific Northwest where it's thirty
Speaker 1: forty degrees out and there's wind blowing on you all
Speaker 1: day long. Not great, but we made it through and
Speaker 1: we got a championship to put on the wall. So
Speaker 1: that was the weekend. That was as we anticipate another
Speaker 1: week end ahead here on this Friday edition of the
Speaker 1: Drift Time Podcast. And in this weekend, you'll have the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl Game on Saturday from Hancock Whitney Stadium there
Speaker 1: in Mobile, Alabama. That's at two thirty kickoff Eastern time,
Speaker 1: one thirty their local time. And then on Sunday we
Speaker 1: have the Pro Bowl and xaviing Howard making his third
Speaker 1: start in the Pro Bowl Game that will kick off
Speaker 1: at three o'clock Eastern on ESPN from Las Vegas, and
Speaker 1: you can watch it on yah who Sports, NFL Live,
Speaker 1: NFL dot Com on the NFL app There. You can
Speaker 1: also listen on Westwood One Serious NFL Game Pass all
Speaker 1: the fun spot there. Howard is the fourteenth player in
Speaker 1: Dolphins history to be a three time Pro Bowl starter,
Speaker 1: and he's the second cornerback joining Sam Madison tent On
Speaker 1: ten to do so. He's also the fourth Dolphins cornerback
Speaker 1: to be selected to the Pro Bowl at least three times,
Speaker 1: joining Madison ten On ten, Patrick sur Tan and Brent Grimes.
Speaker 1: And it also marks the seventh time in the past
Speaker 1: nine years the Dolphins have had a member of the
Speaker 1: secondary go to the Pro Bowl. Always members of the secondary,
Speaker 1: going back to Rashad Jones through Brent Grimes all the
Speaker 1: way back to the Madison and Curtin days in the
Speaker 1: early two thousand's X but by now you know it's
Speaker 1: had a fantastic career. Seventy two games played, seventy one starts,
Speaker 1: two forty one tackles, two sacks, twenty seven picks, seventy passes, defense,
Speaker 1: four force fumbles, three fumble recoveries. He has two picks,
Speaker 1: sixes and one fumble for a touchdown, and his twenties
Speaker 1: seven picks since lead the National Football League, also one
Speaker 1: Pro Football Writers of America. All rookie teams say safety
Speaker 1: Javon Holland will also be at the Pro Bowl to
Speaker 1: provide insight as a correspondent. So make sure I check
Speaker 1: out our social channels Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, the whole lot
Speaker 1: of them for coverage there from x as well as
Speaker 1: Javon Holland, and of course our website Miami Dolphins dot
Speaker 1: com for photos and updates on the twenty two Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: We mentioned the Senior Bowl a second ago. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take our first ad break right here and come back
Speaker 1: and get into the week that was in mobile measurements
Speaker 1: from the Senior Bowl coming up, and then we'll get
Speaker 1: to the notes from the three practices National and American
Speaker 1: team on the field there at Hancock Whitney Stadium. Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast, keep it locked right here. So Senior Bowl
Speaker 1: practices have come and gone once again here on this
Speaker 1: Friday edition of the Drivetime Podcast, February the fourth. Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: your host, And before you get onto the practice field,
Speaker 1: everybody had to go through the poking and prodding as
Speaker 1: far as the athletes are concerned. The media certainly did
Speaker 1: do that. But the measurements for the players have been posted.
Speaker 1: They're all over Twitter throughout the course of the week.
Speaker 1: You can go back to the Senior Bulls timeline and
Speaker 1: find all those measurements. And I spoke to a few
Speaker 1: people around the league. You know, some writers, some draft
Speaker 1: knicks that like people that cover the league, I should say,
Speaker 1: and the common theme is what the hell are they
Speaker 1: putting in the draft waters these days? I mean, I
Speaker 1: mentioned this on the preview series. The measurements and testing
Speaker 1: numbers of some of these guys, really most of these guys,
Speaker 1: is beyond absurd. We talked about Daniel Filele among a
Speaker 1: crop of absurdity is the absurd ityst where I made
Speaker 1: up right there, but file kicks it off here. And
Speaker 1: I told you guys he was pretty new to football
Speaker 1: in the preview series, only having his real season income
Speaker 1: in terms of college experience with the Minnesota Gophers and
Speaker 1: Power five football. But listen to this six O eight
Speaker 1: one That means six eight with a one tenth of
Speaker 1: an inch. I've never seen eight in that number before.
Speaker 1: I've never seen six eight seven that's more than Trent
Speaker 1: Brown and McKay Beckton, the heaviest players in football hands eleven,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen more than ten before ten ten and change.
Speaker 1: Thirty five and three eight inch arms and his eighties
Speaker 1: six and a quarter wingspan is the biggest one I've
Speaker 1: ever seen in terms of these combine or Senior Bowl measurements.
Speaker 1: Absolute freak, Daniel Filele. How about Mark's Hayes from Oklahoma
Speaker 1: Thirty four and a half inch arms at six four
Speaker 1: six ft four and a half three and a half
Speaker 1: inch wingspand that is exceptional, exceptional length for an interior
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. You can control your reps so much easier
Speaker 1: when you have the sand in your pants and that
Speaker 1: length to help get the initial strike and slow the
Speaker 1: momentum before it gets into your anchor. The wild dichotomy
Speaker 1: with Hayes, though, with those vines for arms kind of
Speaker 1: has leaves for hands. In terms of eight and three
Speaker 1: quarter inch hands, that's a pretty crazy split there. Brandon
Speaker 1: Thorn of the Trench Warfare Newsletter, one of the best
Speaker 1: offensive line mines out there, was very impressed by his game.
Speaker 1: He said he's a brawler through contact who understands leverage,
Speaker 1: with a good processor. Going to hear more about him
Speaker 1: later on ed Ingram from l s U thirty three
Speaker 1: and three eight inch arms. He's six ft three three
Speaker 1: seventeen and watching him out there, I think he's got
Speaker 1: the frame to carry him even more. Ten inch hands too,
Speaker 1: I mean grip strength, all that stuff you want up
Speaker 1: in the trenches. Who else back on the inside? Zion
Speaker 1: Johnson thirty three and seven eight inch arms, ten seven
Speaker 1: eight hands, eighty two and seven eight inch wingspan. That's
Speaker 1: another absolute lengthy monster on the interior and the way
Speaker 1: he plays on the offensive line, that's a great combination
Speaker 1: to have. This game was full of guys with these
Speaker 1: long armed, heavy sand in the pants type measurements when
Speaker 1: it comes to the interior or tackle positions on the
Speaker 1: offensive line, like Georgia's Jamari Sailor eight inch wing span,
Speaker 1: thirty four inch arms, six ft two twenty pounds. Talk
Speaker 1: about pad level, getting underneath the guy and can tilling
Speaker 1: him with your grip strength and your long arms, two gapping.
Speaker 1: All that stuff comes from these guys builds and if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go up against those guys on defense. Talking
Speaker 1: about Sailor and Johnson, Marquis Hayes and Daniel Filele. You
Speaker 1: need similar traits like Tygreek Smith from o s u
Speaker 1: Ohio State. He comes with ten and three eight inch hands,
Speaker 1: thirty three and five eight inch arms, and eighty one
Speaker 1: inch wingspan. Anything over eighties is really impressive and off
Speaker 1: the edge at six ft three to five, it's kind
Speaker 1: of that mix outside linebacker, defensive and you're Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Ginkle types. How about a big end more of your
Speaker 1: Zack Steeler types. Another Zach from Florida, Zachary Carter six
Speaker 1: ft three and a half to eighty seven. It's a big,
Speaker 1: big end thirty three and three eight inch arms and
Speaker 1: eighty one inch wing span. These guys are built different man.
Speaker 1: And what about Sailor's teammate Davante Wyatt, George's defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: seventy eight inch wingspan, thirty three inch arms at six
Speaker 1: ft two and a half three hundred and seven pounds.
Speaker 1: Talk about squatty body playing with low pad level from
Speaker 1: that interior position to get under these big long offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and control the rep with the power that he
Speaker 1: has in the burst and to get off Davante Whites
Speaker 1: from my favorite players in the entire draft, of course
Speaker 1: here at Senior Bowl to Cincinnati linebacker Darian Beavers is
Speaker 1: an absolute wrecking ball. Six ft four to fifty two,
Speaker 1: wingspan thirty two and five eight inch arms. You want
Speaker 1: your mic linebacker might be him. I think one is
Speaker 1: a great weight for Missouri running back Tyler Batty. He's
Speaker 1: five ft seven and a half. He's come back and
Speaker 1: shot out of a can with some of the most
Speaker 1: explosive tape in this entire draft class. I also think
Speaker 1: three or to ten six ft six ft and a
Speaker 1: half for Rashad White from Arizona State. Like Batty, he's
Speaker 1: got the juice, really carried that Sun double offense. When
Speaker 1: he was out there was a huge drop off. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to the line and tackle. I've seen some
Speaker 1: pretty big names in the draft community with a crush
Speaker 1: on this guy. Trevor Penning from Northern Iowa, teammate of
Speaker 1: Spencer Brown, who went to the Senior Bowl last year,
Speaker 1: then to the Buffalo bill and had a very nice
Speaker 1: rookie season. But Penning, he's a bullyball type and the
Speaker 1: measurements match. Six ft six and a half three dred
Speaker 1: thirty pounds, ten and a quarter inch hands, thirty four
Speaker 1: and three quarter inch arms, eighty three and five inch
Speaker 1: wing span. That is so impressive. How about going back
Speaker 1: to another squatty body on defense and Travis Jones, who
Speaker 1: really is a nose tackle but multi position defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: Six ft four and a half, three hundred twenty six pounds,
Speaker 1: thirty four inch arms. That's a pair of vines for
Speaker 1: playing inside for a guy that usually you see in
Speaker 1: the seventy six to seventy eight range. Talk about thirty
Speaker 1: four inch arms and eighty two and three quarter inch
Speaker 1: wingspan with ten and a quarter inch hands to boot
Speaker 1: this guy that those measurements match what I saw on
Speaker 1: tape from him. How about Federian mathis Bama always has
Speaker 1: a dude like this? Just Ray Kuan Davis two years ago?
Speaker 1: How about six ft three and some change six point
Speaker 1: six ft three point seven three pounds, thirty four and
Speaker 1: five eight arms, ten three eight inch hands, and eighty
Speaker 1: three and a half inch wingspan. They're just built differently.
Speaker 1: And you know, we we broke the wings wingspan laws
Speaker 1: here with this guy, pery On Winfrey from Oklahoma on
Speaker 1: the defensive line. Eighty five and five eight inch wingspan,
Speaker 1: thirty five and a half inch arms at six ft
Speaker 1: three and a half three oh three. These guys I
Speaker 1: just continue to be so impressed. And U C l
Speaker 1: A has one of their own with O Tito Agbania,
Speaker 1: who was a late addition to the game. Eighty four
Speaker 1: and three eight inch wingspan with thirty five and an
Speaker 1: eighth inch arms at six ft three and a half
Speaker 1: three and twenty six pounds. It's kinds of ridiculous. We
Speaker 1: promised the length. It's here. How about North Dakota State's
Speaker 1: offensive Tacklett Matt wallet Zac eighty five and three quarter
Speaker 1: inch wing span with thirty five and eight inch arms
Speaker 1: at six ft six seven three and ten pounds. It's
Speaker 1: like Jake long build, and going up against him would
Speaker 1: be a guy like South Carolina edge Kingsley and Agberry
Speaker 1: eighty three and five eight inch arms or wink span
Speaker 1: rather thirty five inch arms off the edge thirty five
Speaker 1: that's odd. Bat Territory six ft three and a half
Speaker 1: and two sixty one on the back end. How about
Speaker 1: Illinois safety Kirby Joseph with an eight inch wingspan even
Speaker 1: though safeties are built crazy, thirty three and a quarter
Speaker 1: inch arms at six ft and a half two hundred pounds, solid,
Speaker 1: solid numbers for him. How about a late game edition
Speaker 1: here as well with Eric Johnson, the defensive lineman from
Speaker 1: Missouri State. Listen to this three hundred pounds at six
Speaker 1: ft four eighty two and a half inch wingspan thirty
Speaker 1: four inch arms. Welcome, Welcome to mobile, sir. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up with a couple of tight ends.
Speaker 1: Here Isaiah Likely from Coastal Carolina seventy eight inch wing
Speaker 1: span thirty two and a quarter inch arms six ft
Speaker 1: four to one U c l a is Greg Dolchich
Speaker 1: eighty one and a quarter inch wing span thirty three
Speaker 1: and seven eight inch arms six ft three and a
Speaker 1: half to forty eight. And then Grant Kelcata from SMU
Speaker 1: eight inch wing span thirty eight thirty three inch arms. Goodness,
Speaker 1: thirty eight would be crazy. This this game, these players,
Speaker 1: it's just different. Things have changed these days, man, Like
Speaker 1: the game of football is changing even more than it
Speaker 1: ever has. And guys that are built like this, athletes
Speaker 1: like this, continues to get better baseball what we already know?
Speaker 1: All right? Who's ready for some practice notes coming up
Speaker 1: after our last break here? Drivetime Podcast Travis Wingfield Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl coverage. So it's a wrap down in Mobile for
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl as far as the practices go. We
Speaker 1: have the game coming your way on Saturday on NFL
Speaker 1: Network to thirty eastern kickoff. There to get a look
Speaker 1: at the National and American squad and a bunch of
Speaker 1: good prospects, a bunch of first round picks, a bunch
Speaker 1: of second round picks, and a bunch of picks and
Speaker 1: rounds three through seven as well, a loaded crop as
Speaker 1: it is every single year. And I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead now and go position by position and kind of
Speaker 1: break this thing down about some of the players that
Speaker 1: I thought really stood out during their workouts throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the week on the practice field, and if
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, we start and really end for me
Speaker 1: with Malik Willis, because this is the kind of guy
Speaker 1: who tests. He tests your ability to learn lessons as
Speaker 1: a scout, I think because one of the things, and
Speaker 1: you know, amateur scout, whatever you want to call yourself,
Speaker 1: someone that does this for fun or all the way
Speaker 1: up to a full time actual position. You always have
Speaker 1: to be able to be willing to accept faults and
Speaker 1: flaws and misses and be able to be self aware
Speaker 1: enough to know where you messed up. And I think
Speaker 1: the quarterback position with regards to intangibles versus tangibles is
Speaker 1: where a lot of that can really occur. With Malik Willis.
Speaker 1: You know, this is a guy who here's a guy
Speaker 1: who started his career with the Auburn Tigers, so you
Speaker 1: know the talents there, Like, that's one of the top
Speaker 1: colleges football programs in the entire country. That's where he began.
Speaker 1: He wound up at independent Liberty, where obviously a week
Speaker 1: like this in Mobile for a player like him as
Speaker 1: much bigger because of the competition. Now that said, the
Speaker 1: talent level that he faced because of the independent schedule,
Speaker 1: Liberty played a bunch of big time teams, and he
Speaker 1: had his moments in those games. But what I'm ultimately
Speaker 1: getting at here, excuse me, is this an annual conundrum
Speaker 1: about do you draft for production and try to minimize
Speaker 1: your mystery with the prospect or do you roll the
Speaker 1: dice in anticipation of trying to hit YACHTSI if all
Speaker 1: development goes according to plan, I'm not gonna sit here
Speaker 1: and say Maleek Willis is going to either be a superstar,
Speaker 1: home run pick or nothing at all. He very well
Speaker 1: could fall in the middle there somewhere. But I think
Speaker 1: when you look at what he is at this moment
Speaker 1: in time as a college prospect, you have the loose,
Speaker 1: elastic type of arm that can slingshot any throw from
Speaker 1: any platform to any level of the field. That right
Speaker 1: there is enough to get you out of bed in
Speaker 1: the morning and say, Okay, I want to work with
Speaker 1: this guy every single day, regardless of what the rest
Speaker 1: of his skill set looks like, because I know at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, when he gets there, when
Speaker 1: he hits his potential, when he reaches his peak, he
Speaker 1: has that throw in his tool bag, and while he's
Speaker 1: getting to that level developing, we can rely on that
Speaker 1: as well. He also has four three speed in the toolbag.
Speaker 1: Sounds pretty nice, doesn't it. And you see those throws
Speaker 1: on tape a lot, and we saw it this week
Speaker 1: in Mobile And what you don't see in practices so
Speaker 1: much outside of the team portion of practice is going
Speaker 1: through what you would go through in a game with
Speaker 1: your checks and your defense and your concept and what
Speaker 1: the concept is designed to do in terms of attacking
Speaker 1: that particular coverage. And Willis does have a lot of
Speaker 1: great tape of on time on rhythm throws, but there's
Speaker 1: also some instances where it's not there. So are you
Speaker 1: willing to work with that and develop the the ungodly
Speaker 1: traits this guy has because we saw it all week long.
Speaker 1: He dazzled throwing the football all over the place and
Speaker 1: falling away to his left and dropping that arm angle
Speaker 1: and flinging that thing out there. That's Malique Willis to me,
Speaker 1: is the most interesting, fascinating player in this entire class,
Speaker 1: because a a lot of folks don't believe that there
Speaker 1: is a top ten pick in this draft that will
Speaker 1: go to the quarterback and beyond that, maybe even on
Speaker 1: a first rounder, and then be the unique traits that
Speaker 1: he has. The four three speed that we that he's
Speaker 1: clocked in college or will clock in the combiner close
Speaker 1: to it, with the four four in that range, with
Speaker 1: that arm, those are traits that you don't scoff at,
Speaker 1: and I just think Malik Willis he has all those
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to see where he goes on
Speaker 1: draft Day. If I had to guess, I would say
Speaker 1: top ten because those types of traits they're rare at
Speaker 1: the running back position. Rashad White from Arizona State. I
Speaker 1: love watching his game in the Pack twelve and here
Speaker 1: at the Senior Bowl, and you'd be hard pressed to
Speaker 1: find a more complete back this week in Mobile He's
Speaker 1: an ideal six you mentioned, but he has the makeup
Speaker 1: of an every down back at the next level, just
Speaker 1: what Herman Edwards called upon him last year at Arizona
Speaker 1: State to do. He's a physical between the tackles banger,
Speaker 1: but he also has the burst to leave second level
Speaker 1: defenders in his dust. He also clocked a twenty one
Speaker 1: point one five mile per run this week. I think
Speaker 1: that was the fourth fastest time last I checked from
Speaker 1: Jim Naggy in terms of their GPS tracking. Everybody uses GPS,
Speaker 1: get on board it. He clocks a twenty one point
Speaker 1: one five mph run. He also showcased his compliment of
Speaker 1: complete back skill set, a smooth runner, a fluid route runner,
Speaker 1: caught forty three balls last year, and the temperament to
Speaker 1: handle pass protection duties. What a player he looks like.
Speaker 1: I also liked running back Tyler Beatty from Missouri. Thought
Speaker 1: his speed translate. He looks fast out there. Also loved
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce from Florida, the past protection drills alone were
Speaker 1: enough to say, alright, that guy is an NFL back.
Speaker 1: He also had twenty seven reps and pass pro as
Speaker 1: a collegian last year and no pressures allowed at the
Speaker 1: receiver position. I thought Jalen Tilbert from South Alabama was
Speaker 1: among the best receivers out there all week long. In fact,
Speaker 1: the top three guys for for what I saw and
Speaker 1: you can't see it all we're receivers. Jalen Tilbert from
Speaker 1: South Alabama, Khalil Shaker from Boise State, and Christian Watson
Speaker 1: from North Dakota State. Gives you an idea of these
Speaker 1: smaller school guys and and you know FCS guys coming
Speaker 1: up and making big time place. Jalen Tilber, the release
Speaker 1: package is what's gonna get my attention every single time.
Speaker 1: He has that joystick type quickness at the line to
Speaker 1: get off press and then from there the stacking track
Speaker 1: skills to make it payoff down the field. And he
Speaker 1: did that all year long for South Alabama. Khalil Shakur,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing. The art of receiver is more
Speaker 1: about just than just hands and speed. Chief among that
Speaker 1: is your release package, and that's where Shakur shines He's difficult,
Speaker 1: difficult to get a hand on and pass in a
Speaker 1: in in press coverage because of the synbiotic relationship between
Speaker 1: his lower body and upper body. With his hands and
Speaker 1: his feet, he can move and and thwart contact all
Speaker 1: in the same motion. It's like we talked about with
Speaker 1: the quarterback having their eyes and feet hardwired to make reads.
Speaker 1: Same thing, getting off the line for a receiver with
Speaker 1: your hands and your feet. He got on top of
Speaker 1: dbs all week and maintained that separation down the field
Speaker 1: to give his quarterback easier targets. And then we also
Speaker 1: mentioned Watson all the guys that were down in a
Speaker 1: mobile talking about him. He made the most plays all
Speaker 1: week long in red zone, one on one, in full field,
Speaker 1: eleven on eleven, just tons of plays for the North
Speaker 1: Dakota State product. And he's a very physical, get off
Speaker 1: me type of guy that creates separation through physicality, but
Speaker 1: also enough suddenness at the tight end position. Isaiah likely
Speaker 1: did not change my opinion one bit about him. Love
Speaker 1: his game. The same things that he shows on tape
Speaker 1: I thought appeared all week in mobile. If the ball
Speaker 1: is close with that massive catch radius, he's likely to
Speaker 1: pull it. In no no pun intended, or maybe there
Speaker 1: was a pun intended. Not only were his hands among
Speaker 1: the best of the crop this week, he just moves
Speaker 1: at a different speed than his Senior Bowl counterparts. And
Speaker 1: you know, just to mention this real quick, I thought
Speaker 1: Jeremy Ruckert also looked very smooth and everything he did.
Speaker 1: And Trey McBride was an absolute monster attached inline in
Speaker 1: the blocking game. That's just what he does on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. What a group this is. Here's your overall
Speaker 1: takeaway from the Senior Bowl and really, this entire draft
Speaker 1: class offensive line and edge might take up half the
Speaker 1: picks in the first round. Both of these position groups
Speaker 1: are absolute lutely loaded. You might see six or seven
Speaker 1: tackles go in the first round. And that's before you
Speaker 1: get to Tyler Linderbaum from Iowa. That's before you get
Speaker 1: to Zion Johnson from Boston College. And he is where
Speaker 1: we kick it off here. He took snaps at center
Speaker 1: this week and one of the most impressive things we
Speaker 1: saw all week was that he was out there every
Speaker 1: day after practice getting extra reps because he had never
Speaker 1: snapped a football before. Did all three days, even in
Speaker 1: that trenial downpour on Wednesday. Now that wasn't tarential. That's
Speaker 1: the wrong word for a South Florida uh resident. We
Speaker 1: know what that actually looks like. It was just steady
Speaker 1: rain all day. But he was out there in the
Speaker 1: rain snapping the football. But with him, there's so many things, like,
Speaker 1: first of all, the way guys are built. It is
Speaker 1: very important. How big is the backside, how bigger the
Speaker 1: quas and the and the legs and the ankles and
Speaker 1: the calfs. All that stuff is important. And this guy
Speaker 1: is so built in the lower half, and you can
Speaker 1: see that size and sheer power generate from the lower half.
Speaker 1: That's where all sports start, the lower half, every single
Speaker 1: sport you play. It's from the hip, you know, below
Speaker 1: the waist is where all of the power is generated
Speaker 1: for the most part. And he does that where he
Speaker 1: drives guys off the football. But he also is so
Speaker 1: light on his feet that he can shuffle over and
Speaker 1: get in front of a player who's not stacked. Like so,
Speaker 1: a stacked defensive lineman is right over your nose. Not
Speaker 1: being stacked is off your shoulder, and that can allow
Speaker 1: them to rush half a man, which obviously is a
Speaker 1: much easier proposition but he quickly closes that distance and
Speaker 1: gets square to his blocks. He drives guys off the
Speaker 1: football light feet. He can do a bunch of things.
Speaker 1: Played both sides of the offensive line, played inside and outside.
Speaker 1: I'm a huge fan of Zion Johnson's game. Also, Michigan
Speaker 1: guard Andrew Stubort just never saw him on the ground.
Speaker 1: He was solid, technically sound, didn't get out over his skis,
Speaker 1: never looked overwhelmed in really any really area. I thought
Speaker 1: he stayed square to his rushers regardless of the slant
Speaker 1: or their hands or whatever they tried to use to
Speaker 1: beat him. He would find a way to get them
Speaker 1: off of his of his block. And you know Perry
Speaker 1: on Winfrey, we'll talk about him here in a second
Speaker 1: from Oklahoma beat guys all week long, and Stupor came
Speaker 1: in for the first rap after he had about twelve
Speaker 1: wins in a row and held his own. That was impressive.
Speaker 1: Also liked Markus Hayes from Oklahoma talked about his measurements
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. Patients in the hands. That was
Speaker 1: a big theme this week was how patient guys are
Speaker 1: with that punch and not panicking. I thought we saw
Speaker 1: plenty of that from Marquis Hayes out to the tackle position,
Speaker 1: and you want to talk about hands, Trevor Penning. I
Speaker 1: think it's probably the story of Senior Bowl week right now.
Speaker 1: And I saw some folks say that he got better
Speaker 1: on the on day three in terms of the technique
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, but where he really shined was
Speaker 1: the temperament and the way he plays. You go to
Speaker 1: a bunch of social media or Twitter videos from from
Speaker 1: people taking clips down there. Uh, he tried to get
Speaker 1: into a fight with just about everybody, not like a
Speaker 1: fight fight, but just that extra play to the whistle
Speaker 1: and make sure you're doing your job and just a
Speaker 1: tone setting type of temperament that he brings to a team.
Speaker 1: But also addition, addition to the measurements popping off the page,
Speaker 1: the a three inch wingspan, six ft six three ten
Speaker 1: ten and a half inch hands. You see those hands
Speaker 1: I think really show up in the tape because again
Speaker 1: he's so patient with the punch and it doesn't get
Speaker 1: him out over the SKEI doesn't get him leaning back
Speaker 1: on the heels, doesn't get him weaning sideway to side
Speaker 1: to side, and that grip strength once he gets a
Speaker 1: hold of somebody, it's pretty much over because he's so
Speaker 1: strong in that regard. And I think that that physical
Speaker 1: prowess is probably where some of that temperament comes from,
Speaker 1: because he knows he can dominate guys physically throughout the
Speaker 1: course of the game. Just the temperament, the traits, He's
Speaker 1: going to be a first round draft pick. Mighty Vin
Speaker 1: moved himself from the top twenty this this week with
Speaker 1: the performances he had out there at the Senior Bowl. Also,
Speaker 1: Bernard Raymond from Central Michigan, another one of these guys
Speaker 1: that's new to football, came over from overseas. You see
Speaker 1: that grip strength these guys in their hands, it's so impressive.
Speaker 1: Guys had a very tough time detaching from Raymond and
Speaker 1: pass brushing drills. How about Perry and win Free from Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: The lightning quick hands and once he got to a
Speaker 1: half a man, he took that that small sliver of
Speaker 1: space and he made it his own. He would shoot
Speaker 1: those gaps and whether it was a quickness off the
Speaker 1: snap or using his hands, the heavy, heavy hands to
Speaker 1: rip those initial punches away and slide rapped by a guy.
Speaker 1: We saw it all day long, swiping guys put him
Speaker 1: on the ground making tackles for lost and eleven on
Speaker 1: eleven versus the running game. What a complete looking player
Speaker 1: Periyan win for you is and he can play all
Speaker 1: across the defensive line on the inside. Travis Jones from
Speaker 1: Connecticut plays with so much power and such good pad
Speaker 1: level that he was driving guys back into the backfield
Speaker 1: all day long. I just wrote down, looks like he's
Speaker 1: going up against tackling sleds because he was getting that
Speaker 1: push and driving that thing four or five yards every
Speaker 1: single time. Also liked Haskell Garrett from Ohio State and
Speaker 1: his pad level. He was in the backfield all week
Speaker 1: long and one on one his bul rush and the
Speaker 1: ability to strike that middle plate offensive lineman don't want
Speaker 1: you inside in that middle plate. He was getting to
Speaker 1: that spot and he was constantly winning the low man battle.
Speaker 1: Haskell Garrett off the edge. Jermaine Johnson from Florida State
Speaker 1: didn't practice on Thursday. My just called his shot because
Speaker 1: Tuesday and Wednesday were so good. He kept finding that
Speaker 1: middle chess plate and getting hands in there and then
Speaker 1: dropping his power and the lower half explosion and all
Speaker 1: of that exertion right through the rep and bul rushing
Speaker 1: guys and putting them on their back. I saw him
Speaker 1: put multiple pound even Big Old File at three eight,
Speaker 1: putting those guys right on the on the back side.
Speaker 1: Abe Lucas from Washington State, he got everybody. He was
Speaker 1: doing it all week long. Also had a slew of
Speaker 1: counter moves with heavy impactful hands. What a player Jermaine
Speaker 1: Johnson is My j Sanders also had a big knockdown
Speaker 1: on Big Old File because that that wiggle that he
Speaker 1: has the side, you know, I'm gonna bluff inside, go
Speaker 1: around the outside. He ran around the arc for some
Speaker 1: big pass rush wins. He puts urgency in your kick
Speaker 1: slide to get to him quickly because he has the
Speaker 1: juice and then from there he can convert to power.
Speaker 1: And I think that what makes him so intriguing as
Speaker 1: a prospect is that he can play that edge position
Speaker 1: and be a good run defender, so he can be
Speaker 1: a three down guy for you, a guy that can
Speaker 1: play you know, sevent of your reps when he gets
Speaker 1: fully on boarded off the edge. Also, boy A Maffe
Speaker 1: from Minnesota, I just put down that he won a
Speaker 1: bunch around the corner with explosion, got a long arm
Speaker 1: move that he does pretty well too. And then Logan
Speaker 1: Hall from Houston just wrecked guys all week long in
Speaker 1: the past rush game. That was just a fun matchup
Speaker 1: to watch upfront between all of these guys in the
Speaker 1: trenches offense and defense and finishing up the edge position.
Speaker 1: Arnold Ebekey Day from Penn State a ferocious spin move.
Speaker 1: The length and speed combination to create angles and win
Speaker 1: with that long arm move. What an impressive player. He
Speaker 1: looks like possible first rounder as well. At linebacker. This
Speaker 1: class is just full of jaw dropping builds and body compositions,
Speaker 1: and Beavers is no exception. He's long, he's rangey, and
Speaker 1: he showcased both of those traits all week. I thought
Speaker 1: in coverage were my favorite drills to watch, Make no mistake,
Speaker 1: the one on one coverage drills favorite the offense, but
Speaker 1: you would not know that from watching Beaver's play. He
Speaker 1: used leverage and a quick change of direction skill set
Speaker 1: to stay in the hip pocket of opposing tight ends.
Speaker 1: Plus he had a good week in the past rush
Speaker 1: game as a stand up two point rusher. Also thought
Speaker 1: Chad movement from Wyoming coverage instinctive. He's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy that really pops in the games. Not to say
Speaker 1: he didn't practice like that, but watch out for him
Speaker 1: tomorrow in the game. Cornerback cam Taylor Britt from Nebraska.
Speaker 1: They had a screen beater drill where you had to
Speaker 1: fight through an initial block and then get to the
Speaker 1: ball carrier, and he attacked that thing the way I
Speaker 1: attack a Darry Queen Blizzard. He just ran right through
Speaker 1: the blocker, right into the receiver and put him on
Speaker 1: the ground. His tape is the exact same thing. One
Speaker 1: of the most physically impressive, imposing players in this whole class,
Speaker 1: cornerback Mario good Rich from Clemson, thought he played with
Speaker 1: great leverage, knew how to put himself at the top
Speaker 1: of the route in great position to break at the
Speaker 1: same time as the receiver. That's a reactionary skill, right
Speaker 1: because they know where they're going. You don't know where
Speaker 1: they're going, and you have to react just as fast
Speaker 1: as them. He did a great job of that all
Speaker 1: week long without getting grabby and getting flags. Cornerback Kobe
Speaker 1: Bryant from Cincinnati. Confidence and patience, man, those are imperative
Speaker 1: trades at a position where physical prowess is necessary, but
Speaker 1: he displayed all of the above in the one on
Speaker 1: one drills, squatting on routes, pulling the trigger to get
Speaker 1: his hands on football's all week long. His understanding of
Speaker 1: leverage without getting grabby like good Rich at the top
Speaker 1: of the route was evident all three days. To safety
Speaker 1: Sjalen Petre from Baylor, speaking of hands on football's, do
Speaker 1: it all safety has absolute springboards in his shoes. He
Speaker 1: is such a quick trigger and quick closing distance type
Speaker 1: of player driving on routes, making life difficult on pass catchers.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted to go up against him because he was
Speaker 1: getting hands on balls all the time, routinely in position
Speaker 1: for potential splash plays. The versatility he demonstrated in college
Speaker 1: playing in the post, playing in the box a slot
Speaker 1: cornerback was also on display here in mobile. And finally,
Speaker 1: Joseph Kirby from Illinois, he had a really nice pass
Speaker 1: breakup showing some range and deep coverage. I just think
Speaker 1: that pairs well with the physical mindset that he brings
Speaker 1: as a box safety for the Illinois fighting in line
Speaker 1: I and into the pros. Alright, those are my senior
Speaker 1: Bowl notes there for the week of practice. I hope
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