WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Highlights from Daniel Jeremiah’s Conference Call 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:06.040 To on remove Golm deep speedles peas do. From the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.120 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:14.680 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 He's got my ad hands in the playoffs. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:31.120 What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.000 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:37.839 it is combine work. We're off to Indianapolis taking a 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:41.320 look at athletes running around and spandex and short shorts, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.159 going nanners on all the crazy workouts they do and 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:47.240 what that could do for the complexion of the draft. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:51.159 Plus sound bites for Daniel Jeremiah's Thursday conference call, some 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.120 thoughts on those, plus latest Dolphins news like some different 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.520 releases that happened over the weekend slash end of the week, 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:00.120 and some ideas about free agency, the salary cap, and 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.080 a whole lot more. From the Baptist Health Studios inside 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.840 the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:13.200 Ye daffy, sirs, And just like that, we are off 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.840 to Indianapolis. By the time you guys hear this, I'm 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:20.160 probably wheels up en route to the scouting combine en route. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.880 Let's go ahead and get you prepared for what the 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.440 week will look like. So I'm not exactly sure how 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.560 many shows we're going to do. This is another one 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.280 of those situations where I often want to work more 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.640 than I'm allowed to. It's a beauty of having a 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.240 job that you love. I get to all the time. Hey, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.039 back it down, man, Just chill out and do three shows, 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:38.800 like I kind of want to do five shows. So 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:40.880 probably gonna be five because that's what I want to do. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.840 I know there will be one tomorrow, the rare Tuesday 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.040 off season show because Mike McDaniel speaks, will also have 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:52.440 one on Wednesday, your normally scheduled programming because Chris Greer Speaks. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.840 Will get tons, tons of fresh new Dolphins nuggies like 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.160 I have for you guys today coming up. Plus I 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:02.520 will also have interviews recorded by that time with the 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.200 Great Daniel Jeremiah Whoops, and I have so many questions 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.280 that I'm fired up to ask him. I'm just fired 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:12.240 up to be here, you know, Jordan Reid and Matt 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:16.200 Miller to name a few. So we'll get those episodes 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.440 out to you by Tuesday and Wednesday evening there will 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.280 be at least one more episode later on in the week, 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.840 could be Thursday, could be Friday. Maybe beep yourself to 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.000 quote Mark Wahlberg in The Departed. I'll have plenty of stuff, 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:29.920 just organizing how it all looks. Plus we'll talk to 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.399 Kyle Krabs, I'll talk to the bootleg guys. I've got 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:38.280 Brad Spielberger, the Gap, Gap Cap, and freakin' you know, 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.119 free agency expert, the Guru. Thats what I might say, 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.800 Guru with Cap on the front gee for Cap turns 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:44.400 into Gap. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:45.000 Man. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.160 I'm on like my second coffee. It's nine thirty in 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:48.919 the morning, and I have to do this. I have 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.840 to pack, I have to take some clothes back that 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.160 I bought at the mall. Who goes to the mall anymore? 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:54.880 So I'm feeling a little bit weird, and I have 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.280 to thee all this time, like in five hours. So 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.320 bear with me here. So we're gonna get to all 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.720 those interviews. We'll also have some sound bye from players 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.760 at their podiums, some general draft content that you're used 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.560 to on this podcast, and before any of that, on 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.040 this Monday, I'm feeling weird, man. I thought Daniel Jeremiah's 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.560 conference call last week was great, as it always is, 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:15.799 So I do want to play you guys some highlights 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.800 from that podcast. We'll also get to our Combine preview, 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.880 but first, I think this will be the segment that 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.480 you guys like the most on this show. And I 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.880 saw some of the comments on the reviews about the 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.320 shack was released. Yeah, you're right about that, and it's 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:32.359 been fun. I'm having a lot of fun getting back 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:37.040 to more opinion and more you know, just being myself 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:38.840 with you guys in the show here and with that, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:42.320 I want to talk about some elements of the upcoming 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.960 off season. It's just a couple of weeks away, guys. Freezency, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.160 like on my favorite times a year, is right around the corner. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.160 We're also going to have Washington State in the NSA 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.040 Tournament this year. We'll also have the new net the 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:58.000 second season of Full Swing as the golf heusing kicks 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.480 off with the Players Championship really getting into full here. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.160 It's a fun time of year. So I start here 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.640 by talking about these salary cap news that came down 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.760 the wire. Was it Friday or Thursday? I can't remember. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.120 I think it was Friday's I had already published the podcast, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:12.760 but maybe I didn't. I don't know. Once again, Mark Wahlberg, go, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:17.480 you know, stuff yourself. So the cap is going, it is, 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.760 it's official now going to be around two hundred and 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:22.440 fifty million dollars this year, the largest increase, I believe 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.160 in the last I don't know, the last twenty years 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.280 or whatever, the biggest jumping and salary cap like thirteen 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.120 percent increase in what it was the year prior. And 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.359 what that means, so essentially, what that means is the 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.880 percentage of the top tier contracts is going to go 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.480 way up. What else that means is the second tier 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.920 of free agency is going to really suffer. From a 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.080 player's perspective, they're going to get less money because the 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.200 bigger chunk of the pie, as it does in this league, 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:50.280 goes to quarterbacks and the top paid premier players at 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:54.880 premier positions. So Christian Wilkins contract ask probably just went up. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.839 Robert Hunts probably just went up a little bit. But 0:04:56.880 --> 0:04:58.280 you know what's nice about it is a lot of 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.479 guys in the market that I think that we're gonna 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.560 live on. They're going to be at an even more 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.160 reduced cost right now. And I'm talking about a Deshaun 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.680 Elliott you can bring back. I'm talking about probably an 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:11.440 Andrew Van Ginkle you can bring back. I'm talking about 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.560 maybe even Isaiah Win who maybe can't, maybe doesn't get 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.240 a contract right away, Ryb he has to come back 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.160 here on a one year, two million dollar deal and 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:21.440 scept in August. You know, I'm not that's just speculation 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.560 and speaking to the future, but those are the kind 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.640 of players that are going to be hit the most 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.120 by this in terms of the bigger chunk of the 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.839 pie going upwards. But ma'am, that's where you want to 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:33.800 live because I see these complaints, and you know, I 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:37.600 see Kyle's discord from Lockdown Dolphins and the complaints about 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.560 Chris career, and I never understand the criticisms there. I 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:43.719 get the whole hasn't won a playoff game thing, but 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.880 like those aren't those I mean, that's use your process 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.720 to figure out why we haven't won those playoff game 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:52.360 because the roster, the trade acquisitions, the drafting, like free 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.640 agency hasn't been great for us, but the rest of 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:59.400 it has been really good. In roster What am I 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.920 looking for here? And roster construction, and so you know, 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.680 I keep seeing this arguments about like, oh, this one 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:08.560 move means that Chris career is done a bad job. 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.159 Like Byron Jones for instance. You know a five year 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.520 pro who had made all pro teams and missed one 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.480 game and once popped his kneecap back into place after 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:19.680 dislocation mid game and kept on going, like I swear 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:22.279 some of the foresight or some of the comments I 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.440 see and their expectation of foresight for players you acquire, 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.839 like it's wild to think that that was like some 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.200 move like oh, how could he ever sign Byron Jones? 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:34.799 We were fired up about Byron Jones when he got signed. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.560 But the nice part is, and I keep saying this, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.240 and if you won't take my word for it, I 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.520 constantly refer to people that know about this frankly better 0:06:42.520 --> 0:06:44.560 than I do. You know, never have been much of 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.320 a cap or contract guy, because sometimes when I stare 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.120 at numbers, it makes my freaking brain hurt. Words. I 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.880 have the best ways, a head, many moods, but numbers 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.320 I can't do it. But I do believe that understanding 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.520 your shortcomings is a strength. But I digress. So the 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:02.440 Dolphins build in this flexibility into the contracts they do 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.560 every single year they are one of the most risk adverse, 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.960 but also put themselves in position to take risk because 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:10.960 of how they structure contracts. And we'll talk to Brad 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.040 Spielberger of PFF about this later on this week. But 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.720 I look back to the Kyle van Ney and Shack 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:17.880 loss In contracts. They got out of those deals after 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:21.120 one year, and it wasn't very punitive to Miami. Now, 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:23.680 the one bad contract the Dolphins gave out recently was 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.480 the Xavian Howard redo. But that's kind of like an 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.520 Exaviing Howard issue, right, we'll talk about that here in 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.840 just one second. And when you constantly shop at the 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.440 top of the market, you're going to have stuff like 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:36.920 this happen because you wind up paying in free agency 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:39.840 like thirty cents on the dollar. When you live in 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:43.240 the Mike McGlinchey in the Christian Kirk world of paying 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:47.040 seventeen million dollars for the thirty fifth best receiver in 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.160 the National Football Did you feel me on that? So 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.360 that's not where I want to live. I want to 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.800 live in Tier two and get my impact players like 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:57.000 Mike Deshaun Elliott's, you know in this instance, and Andrew 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.440 Van Ginkle because Gink is deserving a big money. I 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.720 think we all agree on that, but comparative to the 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.200 top pass rushers, it's not going to be twenty million, right, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:05.440 it's not going to be fifteen. It's not going to 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.360 be ten million. Most likely maybe eight that sounds about right. 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.680 But that's second tier money for an edge rusher. So 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:13.240 that's where you want to live, and especially bringing guys 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.560 back in your own program. Real quick, let's go ahead 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.600 and divert here because we've got some news over the weekend. 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.280 Emmanuel Agba, who was probably the first guy to like 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.920 really develop a true friendship with me outside of the 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.400 actual football. He got here in twenty twenty, so did I, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.160 and we became pretty good buddies there. So Emmanuel Agba 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:32.959 has been released by the Miami Dolphins. Great two years 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.400 for him. The last two years of his ten year 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.679 in Miami didn't really work out, but he was a 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.440 really really good, really important player almost twenty and twenty 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.080 one rosters and I'm gonna miss having around really really 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.720 good dude Xavien Howard. The Dolphins will release him with 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.440 a post June one designation, per reports that one's notofficial yet, 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.200 And just like that, through those two moves and the 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.480 salary cap jumping up to two hundred and fifty million 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.760 dollars when we were fifty two million dollars over the 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.760 cap four days ago. It's been reduced by more than 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.760 half twenty five million dollars over the cap now. So 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:04.920 like I told you guys this right, and it's gonna 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:06.880 keep going that way. You're gonna lop off some more 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.240 parts that give you more flexibility. You're gonna see more 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.679 extensions like Tua's extension will knock the number down a 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.080 little bit. And the nice thing about drafting, well, you 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.880 have other extensions that you can execute which would achieve 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.800 the same goal of shifting cap down the line. Now, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.400 is that a great process when it comes to eight 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.400 years down the road? Maybe not. Maybe you have to 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.480 take another twenty nineteen year, another twenty nineteen pill in 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.959 you know, a certain year would be let's let's say, 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.080 in eight years from now, Tua gets injured, Like, okay, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.079 take your pill and let's go ahead and reset the 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.160 books right here. But like that's way down the road. 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.559 So you can achieve this idea of creating more space 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.160 and more flexibility, which I don't I'm not advocating for 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.200 for top of the line free agents just forgetting my 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:46.439 no offense of the world. 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:46.680 Right. 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:50.080 But you can do this with Jalen Waddle, with Jalen Phillips, 0:09:50.120 --> 0:09:52.760 They're gonna get paid, right. That's the business of drafting 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:55.280 good and doing so at premium spots. It'll affords you 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:58.080 the chance to get those players in twenty four and 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.280 twenty five for pretty cheap if you I want to 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.839 backload those deals because I trust that both Waddle and 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:07.120 Phillips are going to be Dolphins lifers. But even still, again, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.360 just because you have the money, man, do not live 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:12.440 at the top of the free agent market because it 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.520 is thirty maybe forty cents on the dollar. And actually, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:17.240 I do want to put a pin in that because 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.880 it sounds like a full episode to me exploring past 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.959 top of the market contracts. Like again, I mentioned Christian 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.040 Kirk earlier. I think Christian Kirk's a very good football player. 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.720 I loved him when he got drafted out of A 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.960 and M I thought the Jaguars spent way too much 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:31.920 on him, even though I think he's an important player 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.800 for that team and a very good player in the 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.200 perspective of the national Football league. Is he a seventeen 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:42.240 million dollar player? I don't think so. It's not good 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.200 business by the very nature of it, by its very 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.560 core description. So that's kind of my diatribe here about 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.200 free agency, available money, the GM, all that stuff, the 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.280 cap going up. But also just a couple more notes here. 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:58.400 Don't be surprised if that nugget was floated out there 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:01.120 about xaviing Howard with the idea of potentially trading him 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.280 at the new league year, Like why not say, hey, Houston, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.920 he wants to be there. You need a veteran corner 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:10.480 alongside Derek Stingley. Why not give us a sixth round 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:12.319 draft pick and take some less money off of our hands. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:14.480 That could happen, or maybe you give him a six 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.800 round draft pick, like whatever the case may be. You 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:18.320 could get yourself out of that penalty a little bit 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.440 with a bad contract, which, by the way, back on 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:23.960 that again, the demands of that guy were very infuriating 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.800 throughout the whole process. Refuse to take a pay cut 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.240 the time around, Like not a lot of love lost there, right, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.120 I mean, great player for the Dolphins for a long time, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:32.760 but that situation was, you know, getting himself an off 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.400 off field trouble. I'm kind of glad to be out 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.000 of that headache. I just don't really care for that 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:37.920 type of stuff. Give me a saint, give me a two, 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.920 you know, Christian Wilkins. This the last note I have 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.959 on here before. Actually, no it's not. That's a lie. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.679 But I did put Christian Wilkins in my notes here 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.400 because I've thought about this over the weekend, and the 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:50.200 extra money we got from the salary cap bump makes 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.080 me think that's a slam dunk deal, and I've moved 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:56.439 my opinion to I have to have him back, non negotiable, 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.760 give him what he wants. I need him back because 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:02.520 going from two hundred and thirty eight projected cap to 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.760 two hundred and fifty will probably raise his price a 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.560 little bit. But that's also two players. Because Christian Wilkins 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:10.719 plays eight hundred, nine hundred snaps a year out of 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.400 year one thousand, year eleven hundred that you play, that's 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.640 two players. I mean, Ray Kwan Davis is a four 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:17.600 or five hundred snap player, Like, you want to get 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.679 two of those guys. If you open up Christian Wilkins, 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.679 you're gonna have to go get two new players. And 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.680 the chances of both those guys hitting and giving you 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.480 production at the level kommesrate that you paid them with 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.000 is not great. If I pay Christian, I know exactly 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:30.839 what I'm getting. I have him and Zach Seeler. I 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:33.160 basically don't have to worry about defensive tackle depth because 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.080 they never leave the field, they never get hurt, They're 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.560 tough as hell, and they fight through everything, and they're 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:40.720 phenomenal football players. I would not break that up. I mean, 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.880 those two guys are so valuable to this team, and 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:44.760 especially with the situation the way it is right now, 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:48.760 definitely do that. And so that's why those are the 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.240 kind of players I wouldn't mind spending the twenty million 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:54.120 plus on because they're not important products that you have 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:56.160 to figure out if they work in your program. You know, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.000 Christian Wilkins works here. He has his routine down. He's 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.959 gonna kick his shirt from the shower all the way 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.679 to the locker. One of my favorite player quirks of 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.760 all time. After he gets out of the shower after practice, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:08.040 he's got his talent, his slides on, and he kicks 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:10.080 his T shirt from the shower all the way back 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.600 to his locker with a very slow crawl walk. It's hilarious. 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.720 The guy is one of my favorite human beings because 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:19.040 of how weird he is. I just love that. So 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.160 get him back in the building. I expect that to 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.880 happen sooner than later. So just on top of all that, 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.640 like I keep seeing this this is last how here 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.240 before we get to some actual podcast content that I 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:34.199 promised you. I keep seeing this thing about like it's 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.000 going to be a boring off season because we don't 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:39.520 have the same expectations that we had last year. Who cares, man, Like, 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.840 haven't we learned this by now? That's kind of like 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.760 I get where you're coming from. I kind of felt 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.760 the same way after the loss to Kansas City or 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.400 after the lost of Buffalo even kind of trailing into that. 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.959 But who gives a damn about off season perception? Does 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.920 it ever ever match up for more than a couple 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.599 of teams that you predict every single year out of 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.280 the thirty two Like the team will look different, no 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.600 doubt about that. But you can just go get other 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.200 good players. They exist in the draft and free agency 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.680 and on the market, Like we brought in Brandon Shell 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.120 one time mid season to compete at the right tackle position. 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.720 He played okay, like you can find you can find 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:16.040 new players, right. The system's good, the quarterback's good, the 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.880 coach is good. That there's certain premium spots in place 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:21.880 that are good. You can round out the rest and 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.480 so like. Who cares about expectations? Man, Buffalo? Last year, 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:28.480 after two years ago they had these Super Bowl aspirations 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:30.680 got knocked out in the divisional round. Last year. Everyone 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.120 said their window had closed and they couldn't compete anymore. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:34.720 And it looked that way in the beginning, but then 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:36.880 they rattle off six straight wins and put themselves right 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:38.920 back in the same spot where they Oh, by the way, 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.400 they lost again. But I think everybody was picking them 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.720 to beat Casey at home in the divisional round and 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.680 make a run, right, Everyone thought that was gonna happen 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.760 either then were Baltimore didn't happen that way? Or how 0:14:47.760 --> 0:14:50.560 about Houston who I predicted to go four and thirteen 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:52.680 and they won the damn division? How about the Bengals 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:55.160 if they had any visions of going what was it 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.520 eight to nine this year? Look at Philadelphia? Weren't they 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:59.440 ten to one at one point? How does it look 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:02.760 right now, like, who cares about perception? Let it play out, 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.240 have fun, enjoy the guys you have, get to know them. 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.280 In fact, I did a mock off season real quick 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:08.880 to put a boat on this first segment where I 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.440 was able to extend to a waddle Phillips and Holland 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:14.640 not a bad court, right, and some good draft picks 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.320 there too, to re sign Christian Wilkins, Robert Hunt, Andrew 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.000 BEng Ginkle. I also put to Shaun Elliott and Elijah 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.920 Campbell in there. I also added Andre James, Noah Fan, 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.960 Tim Settle, Trevis Gibson a free agency that's a big 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.840 nose tackle in Tim Settle. That's Trevis Gibson outside Rushier 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:30.880 who worked with Ryan Crow and Tennessee. And of course 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.760 you guys know Noah Fan the tight end from Seattle, 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.640 and Andre James, the center who would be coming here 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.360 and anchor the middle of the offensive line. And then 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.720 draft Troy Fatano who's my left guard in twenty twenty 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.920 four and my left tackle in twenty twenty five, Roman Wilson, 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.920 who I think is a great receiver prospect, Cedric van 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:48.240 Prant from Georgia the center slash guard, and then Shaw 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.360 Smith Wade. Now that's mock draft. Who knows what the 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.360 hell's there, But the team's going to look different. But 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.760 sometimes the players you add, they're pretty good. Last note here, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.960 DCC absolute rock and success, over seventy five million dollars 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:02.720 raised in the fourteen years. Seth and I did a 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.880 two hour radio program, had the great Jalen phillips on. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.520 We got to meet Malachia, five year old cancer survivor. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.640 Good job, Malachi, go get them, buddy. You beat the 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.080 crap out of that crappy cancer. Just a lot of 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.240 fun to see all you guys out there, the support, 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.920 the writers, just a really fun community event. If you 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.120 haven't gotten out for that in past in the past, 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.920 come check out DCC fifteen next year. It's a great time. 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:24.680 All right, let's go ahead and take a break right 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:28.240 there and get to the news conference of Daniel Jeremiah 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.360 which he gave us tons of great nuggets, and I 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.840 have some thoughts on said nuggets. That's next Draft Time 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:38.200 podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoonation. Okay, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.320 there might be a chance that I punt on the 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:45.280 Freaks List and the Combine workout preview because this conference call, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:47.200 I cut the audio and didn't realize how much I 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.920 had and wanted to use. So I'm using a fraction 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:51.760 of what he actually talked about, because it's like a 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.800 two hour conference call taking questions from different beat writers 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:58.160 who asked teams specific questions, national writers who asked general 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.520 draft questions. I asked about specific offensive line players you'll 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:03.000 hear at the end of this news conference here. But 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.040 I want to go ahead and just start with a 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.680 collection of players I think are good players. It would 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:12.320 fit from Miami, some general NFL team building philosophy, thoughts, 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.440 just everything DJ has to offer, which is draft expert analysis, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:21.080 team building, construction, allocation, all that stuff. Very comprehensive and 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.560 what he does, I want to go ahead and use 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.560 that lee into it. And we start here. And this 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.080 is in order of how he went, so I'm not 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.520 stacking these in any certain order. Okay, guys, But he 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.600 talked about the Michigan players, and he was asked about 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.600 JJ McCarthy and camped him to Alex Smith coming out 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.840 of college, which I found pretty interesting. But I want 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.120 to go ahead and fast forward that because McCarthy off 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:41.359 the board before we pick. Also not really a player 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:43.359 or a position that we're interested in the first round. 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.600 Although I do love Michael Pennix. I will tell you 0:17:45.600 --> 0:17:47.480 guys that I think he's a good looking football player, 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:49.159 but I wouldn't use a pick on it because we 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.159 have a quarterback. But just let you know that's my 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.400 thoughts on the quarterback class. But he talked about McCarthy, 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.359 but then I cut that part out and use the 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.120 rest of the players he discussed here. Because there's two 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.720 guys he mentions whose game I love. Let's go ahead 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.479 and hear from DJ about the Michigan prospects he likes 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:04.800 the most. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.560 Junior Colson, the linebacker, who I think is one of 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.919 the best linebackers in this draft. Is a plug and 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.160