Speaker 1: To us byres touch style waddle stuck into the end
Speaker 1: zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They had
Speaker 1: to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield. Where you're one day away from the draft,
Speaker 1: and on today's show, Kyle Crabs makes his return to
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast, the host of Locked On Dolphins and
Speaker 1: a big time draft analyst there at the Draft Network.
Speaker 1: I'll get his title here in just one second. We're
Speaker 1: gonna preview this entire draft, take a look at how
Speaker 1: the Dolphins could get better, and we'll also talk to
Speaker 1: Kyle a little bit about the entire draft storylines and
Speaker 1: what they're working on their over at t d N.
Speaker 1: From somewhere in South Florida. This is the Drivetime Podcast.
Speaker 1: I think I have a solid fifteen eighteen questions here
Speaker 1: for Kyle, plus some riffing and follow ups we did
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Drift Time Podcast. So planning
Speaker 1: to get to let's not waste any more time and
Speaker 1: get to my guest Kyle Crabs and joining me now
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime podcast is the grind Father himself, the
Speaker 1: director of scouting at the Draft Network. Locked on Dolphins. Also,
Speaker 1: should I say locked on Dolphins? Kyle Crabs? How are you?
Speaker 1: My friend? Is that you poking fun at me already?
Speaker 1: And they just got here? Yes, they don't have that
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest accent to roll with, but it's good to
Speaker 1: catch up and talk a little ball, Travis. And I'm
Speaker 1: obviously excited to talk Dolphins and draft and a couple
Speaker 1: of my favorite things. So I would love to get
Speaker 1: this thing started or whatever direction we we think that
Speaker 1: people are going to enjoy the most. Well, look at
Speaker 1: you take in the high road there on my trash talk.
Speaker 1: It was something I've I've I've asked you about in
Speaker 1: the chat a few times and you probably just blow
Speaker 1: me off. And that's probably the best way I do,
Speaker 1: because just being stupid like I like to be sometimes.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, you mentioned the draft and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and it's a big week this week. Anything going
Speaker 1: on for you this week? Man? Uh? No, you know,
Speaker 1: I might go to bed beev and beyond. We'll see.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know if we'll have enough time,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, we'll we'll be in uh we'll be
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas with the Draft Network all week and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do some some really cool stuff with some
Speaker 1: of the prospects that are coming through. And obviously we'll
Speaker 1: have our coverage. Uh this is some video content and
Speaker 1: a bunch of written content. We've got a great team
Speaker 1: over there, so we're we're full steam ahead. This is
Speaker 1: kind of our super Bowl. We love that this weekend
Speaker 1: can be all inclusive for all thirty two teams, even
Speaker 1: when you only have four picks and none in the
Speaker 1: first one. And uh, as we heard Chris Crewer talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about last week, you know that that
Speaker 1: depth of process this time of year is is important
Speaker 1: for not just now in making these decisions, but you
Speaker 1: might get a year or two down the road and
Speaker 1: somebody is available via the waiver wire, or you want
Speaker 1: to make sure you mind your p's and qus dor
Speaker 1: I s cross teams. So it's it's a great time
Speaker 1: a year for that for all thirty teams. Are you
Speaker 1: just proving to me that listen to Drift Time? Since
Speaker 1: I told you I haven't cop on Lockdown Dolphins, Like
Speaker 1: I talked about that exact same thing, I think a
Speaker 1: couple episodes ago, So I think that's coming maybe what
Speaker 1: you're doing here. Uh no, man, it's it's an interesting point.
Speaker 1: I loved, you know, Chris Greer's press conference last week
Speaker 1: was very very informative, very transparent, and just I like
Speaker 1: the way he told he spoke about certain things, and
Speaker 1: that was one of the things that rested out to
Speaker 1: me was him talking about the value of the picks
Speaker 1: they do have, and you're not just gonna like go
Speaker 1: into the draft and say, like we're not just actually
Speaker 1: gonna watch Tyreek Hill highlights. Obviously a joke on his part,
Speaker 1: but you know, I put this point out there, and
Speaker 1: you probably know better than I do because you run
Speaker 1: in more circles across the league than just one team.
Speaker 1: But you know, I've I've heard this from I think
Speaker 1: Move the Sticks talks about it sometimes about the value
Speaker 1: of the depth of your scouting staff and your regional scouts,
Speaker 1: your area scouts, and how much really goes into this process.
Speaker 1: But just how valuable is the depth of your scouting
Speaker 1: staff when you do get into that sixth seventh round
Speaker 1: priority U D F A S regularly regular U d
Speaker 1: f a s. Those guys become more important at that
Speaker 1: stage of the draft. Maybe more important is the wrong term,
Speaker 1: but they really get their their hands dirty, and that's
Speaker 1: the work that comes out of that is typically that
Speaker 1: part of the draft in my writing that, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that that's the group that's boots on the ground
Speaker 1: right who regionally is going to schools all throughout the
Speaker 1: summer and the fall, and you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: create a little bit of a relationship with people within
Speaker 1: each one of those respective schools and their buildings to
Speaker 1: kind of intimately know the finer details that when you're
Speaker 1: trying to scout. You know, some of these databases are
Speaker 1: starting with like ten tho prospects, and you whittle it
Speaker 1: down throughout the course of the summer and then the fall,
Speaker 1: and then you get to the start of the winter
Speaker 1: and you know, these lists are down around three hundred
Speaker 1: to fifty and you just continue to whittle it down.
Speaker 1: This whole draft process is largely from a team perspective.
Speaker 1: We're trying to find disqualifiers that we feel like, don't
Speaker 1: make you somebody we feel safe investing in to bring
Speaker 1: into our program. And those people who are in the
Speaker 1: minutia of it all for your late round guys in
Speaker 1: your U d f A s. Yes, they're essential and
Speaker 1: they're critical, and especially when you get to the U
Speaker 1: d f A portion too, because a lot of times
Speaker 1: you have to If you're a highly prized U d
Speaker 1: f A, you could probably have half the league calling you, right,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, what is your what is your
Speaker 1: ability to convince that player to come play for you?
Speaker 1: Is it the most guaranteed money that you can offer
Speaker 1: at signing, which we we've seen teams try to strategize,
Speaker 1: or is it having a good relationship with somebody in
Speaker 1: the building that makes you feel like I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a home here and I know I'm going to get
Speaker 1: a chance to compete based on what these conversations have been.
Speaker 1: So a lot of that sounds almost like a college
Speaker 1: recruiting pitch, like you're back into that eighteen year olds
Speaker 1: living room talking to mom and dad about the best opportunities.
Speaker 1: That kind of kind of the same idea. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's it's a great way to present the long
Speaker 1: and the short of it. You know, we we all
Speaker 1: we we hit one four o'clock on Saturday, and the
Speaker 1: last pick is in and Mr. Irrelevant. They they do
Speaker 1: the quaint thing where the guy goes up with the
Speaker 1: jersey Mr. Irrelevant and to fifty seven. I think this
Speaker 1: year it's like to sixty or whatever, and that you
Speaker 1: have your pomp and circumstances and I'm like, okay, drafts over,
Speaker 1: you turn the TV off. But like it's after the
Speaker 1: draft is over for so many of the teams, it's
Speaker 1: like that's when things get really crazy. You know. I
Speaker 1: would expect that to be the case for Miami this year.
Speaker 1: We're only having four picks. You know, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to bring in a lot of guys to
Speaker 1: compete for those bottom of the roster spots. Um. And
Speaker 1: that's something that you can play up as well as
Speaker 1: obviously locale state income tax, and you know, the opportunity
Speaker 1: to compete. This is a young team that's coment contending,
Speaker 1: and you can point to the guys like a Nick
Speaker 1: need Hum and say, hey, this guy was a U
Speaker 1: d f A. He came in here, he worked already,
Speaker 1: did all the right things, um and here he is
Speaker 1: and he's entering into his third season with the team,
Speaker 1: or his fourth season with the team. H and a
Speaker 1: chance to to secure yourself a long term future as
Speaker 1: a member of an NFL franchise. No, that's that's a
Speaker 1: really good point to talk about the previous guys they
Speaker 1: brought in, and you know, you can go back to
Speaker 1: Robert Jones last year as a guy that I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of. We've talked about a lot and the
Speaker 1: limited snaps he played last year and how he kind
Speaker 1: of impressed us with his work there and his potential
Speaker 1: to you know, maybe make a push for for a
Speaker 1: job this year on the offensive line. We'll see how
Speaker 1: that works out. But you know, it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see what the U d f A class looks like
Speaker 1: because you kind of feel like as you go along
Speaker 1: and I think that you know, from from the top
Speaker 1: down Mr Rosster, Chris Career to to Mike McDaniel and
Speaker 1: those guys have to believe this this roster is as
Speaker 1: far along as it's been during this you know kind
Speaker 1: of twenty nine team process of building these put putting
Speaker 1: these resources together, putting these assets together, and ultimately putting
Speaker 1: a football team on the field that can go out
Speaker 1: there and win a bunch of games and you know,
Speaker 1: getting to the postseason and all that fun stuff. So
Speaker 1: it's interesting to start there talking about the back end
Speaker 1: of this draft, and it'll be a big part of
Speaker 1: of what our content coverage is here on Drift Time
Speaker 1: in Miami Dolphins dot Com and for Lockdown Dolphins as well, obviously.
Speaker 1: But I want to talk a little bit with you,
Speaker 1: Kyle about just the general draft because I find myself
Speaker 1: a week out here and I'm doing my Dolphins work
Speaker 1: and I'm getting to work on some future content stuff.
Speaker 1: But I thought to myself today, like I really don't
Speaker 1: how haven't paid as a close attention to all these
Speaker 1: mock drafts, all the you know, the buzz is this
Speaker 1: guy is gonna go up and get this guy or
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. Like, I haven't really focused
Speaker 1: as much on that stuff. So I just kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to get your take on the top part of
Speaker 1: this draft, kind of what you think will define this
Speaker 1: year's draft. And you know, I guess just kind of
Speaker 1: riff off of the part of the draft the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are not going to be participating in the first round.
Speaker 1: How do you describe it? It's the wild wild West
Speaker 1: this year, I think would be the best way. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're we're a week out as of you and me
Speaker 1: sitting down talking about this, and we're we're having meetings
Speaker 1: with our group of td N talking right now about
Speaker 1: how we we wouldn't be surprised to see the guy
Speaker 1: who's been the presumptive number one overall pick in the
Speaker 1: last three four months, Michigan's defensive end, Aidan Hutchinson, uh
Speaker 1: making it the four and we're I mean, we're we're
Speaker 1: sitting here, Okay, you know, there's some some buzz on
Speaker 1: Trayvon Walker, the defensive end from Georgia potentially usurping hushingson
Speaker 1: and going at one. Obviously Trent Balky, who's who's in
Speaker 1: an executive role there was there in San Francisco and
Speaker 1: the success that they had with Alvin Smith and and
Speaker 1: Walker has kind of rare athleticism and an elite length
Speaker 1: versus Hutchinson is more of a high floor but doesn't
Speaker 1: have those rare physical skills as length as and as
Speaker 1: notable like if that's something ball, he's gonna hang his
Speaker 1: hat on like he could go one and then you
Speaker 1: get to two and we're having the conversation about, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: there's there's Brad Holmes, who's the GM there in Detroit,
Speaker 1: And yes, Adan Hutchinson's from Michigan, but Brad Holmes is
Speaker 1: from out West and they just took Penny School last
Speaker 1: year and they took COmON Ross St. Brown last year.
Speaker 1: They like they had a pretty successful tenure with with
Speaker 1: picking pack twell players. Is that gonna push them in
Speaker 1: that direction? Or will they go quarterback? And it sounds
Speaker 1: like the buzz of Malik Willison, that connection was there
Speaker 1: because of the Senior Bowl has cooled off a little bit.
Speaker 1: And then you get to three in Houston and m
Speaker 1: will they go corner? Will they go past? It's it's
Speaker 1: like every we know so little this year versus your
Speaker 1: enter year at this point in the draft process that
Speaker 1: it really makes it fascinating, even though I think some
Speaker 1: of the sexy positions on the offensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball that really moved the needle for draft discussion don't
Speaker 1: have their usual spice that they do on a normal year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of the theme I've got. You talked
Speaker 1: about the Draft Network doing big things and expanding. You
Speaker 1: guys have made up I think I think you are
Speaker 1: five of ten, so previously it was now batting and
Speaker 1: even five hundred as far as Draft Network employees doing
Speaker 1: my my preview shows hearing you guys have absolutely killed
Speaker 1: it for us. So a big thank you to you
Speaker 1: and your team for getting on that up with us
Speaker 1: and making it happen for us here. But um, you
Speaker 1: know I want to play. I want to get to the
Speaker 1: the Dolphins here in just a seconds ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break. Before that first break, though, I have
Speaker 1: a rapid fire game for you. I have not disclosed
Speaker 1: this with you before coming on the show, so I
Speaker 1: know you attack my character when we come on, and
Speaker 1: attack my my lingo and my my vocabulary. And now
Speaker 1: you're ambushing me with something to make a fool of myself.
Speaker 1: But that's great. Let's go go go ask Damnian and
Speaker 1: keep how I prepped them. I gave him the entire
Speaker 1: rundown and they were, man, this is awesome. I'm so
Speaker 1: ready to go with this. Just I'm just throwing bullets
Speaker 1: at Kyle here and he's gonna go ahead and fend
Speaker 1: them off here. So I think you'll do well. This
Speaker 1: is a fun game, I trust me. It said's something
Speaker 1: that will get some good education for the fans here.
Speaker 1: So what I'm gonna do is tell you a position
Speaker 1: and I want to hear where you think the first
Speaker 1: name comes off the board. You can say top five,
Speaker 1: top ten, you can say pick eight, it'll go pick eight,
Speaker 1: it'll be a quarterback there. So each position, I want
Speaker 1: to go down the board and just tell me what
Speaker 1: range that first player goes. Does that work for you?
Speaker 1: That does work for me? QB Dick, I thought you.
Speaker 1: I thought I lost it there. That was some some
Speaker 1: thought about that well, and I think that might be
Speaker 1: a sneaky trade spot two with Carolina. They don't have
Speaker 1: any picks. They gave up all their picks. But I
Speaker 1: will say six either via Carolina or via Tree. And
Speaker 1: that's Molik Willis. You think probably will not be surprised
Speaker 1: to see Pittsburgh come get it. Okay, Yeah, that's been
Speaker 1: a lot of buzz on that since the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: Running back thirty eight. Wherever Atlanta picks in the early
Speaker 1: second round, not first round, then that's that's kind where
Speaker 1: I thought you were gonna go. And then who's your
Speaker 1: top back in the draft? Who do you like that
Speaker 1: the most? I like Isaiah Spiller from Texas A and
Speaker 1: M the most. I know that that he didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: run a great time but listen, neither did Naji Harris
Speaker 1: last year. And I'm not saying that that Isaiah Spiller
Speaker 1: is Naji Harris, but he's somebody who I think does
Speaker 1: really good when he gets out of the mesh point.
Speaker 1: He's pressing the line of scrimmage to anticipate lanes and
Speaker 1: manipulate defenders to create lanes for himself. He just doesn't
Speaker 1: have four or four speed, but he he checks literally
Speaker 1: every other box. Yeah, he's he's awesome catching the ball
Speaker 1: of the backfield too. He's like he just the A
Speaker 1: and M offense. A lot of time went through him
Speaker 1: last year. He's he's a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: How about wide receiver? I will go ten really Jets,
Speaker 1: because because what I heard someone talk about I came first, Jeremiah.
Speaker 1: It was a guest on the podcast talking about, like
Speaker 1: just take the receiver at four. I thought you were
Speaker 1: gonna go a lot higher than that. Well, I think
Speaker 1: the I know that they're really dialed in on three
Speaker 1: potential positions, edge, offensive tackle, and wide receiver. I think
Speaker 1: the scarcity and and the fact that the Giants picked
Speaker 1: twice behind him the Panthers and Seahawks. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think there's enough competition for those other spots that they'll
Speaker 1: probably go trenches first and get and get the I
Speaker 1: think they can still get wide receiver one at ten.
Speaker 1: Tight end, uh, sometime outside the top fifty fifty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's we had fran Duffian and he was talking about
Speaker 1: how nice the classes, but how kind of that glut
Speaker 1: might actually push it down a little bit. Yes, which
Speaker 1: you agree. If the Dolphins are in the range for
Speaker 1: a tight end and looking for it, you could get
Speaker 1: a nice value pick there. Uh, let's go offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: I will say offensive tackle is five to the Giants. Okay,
Speaker 1: so da that's again these positions that keep thinking they're
Speaker 1: gonna go top three might be a heavy edge portion
Speaker 1: of I think we'll go edge, edge corner in the
Speaker 1: top three. Well, there's a couple of answers. So I
Speaker 1: want to ask you edge, want to ask your corner, interier,
Speaker 1: your offensive line, interior offensive line. I'll say right now
Speaker 1: fourteen to Baltimore and that they will friendly Bozeman in
Speaker 1: free agency. So whether it is Zion Johnson, Kenyan Green,
Speaker 1: I think they've got a couple of options there. Johnson
Speaker 1: showcase some some positional versatility, potentially snap, um, and then
Speaker 1: they've got enough lottery tickets. At right tackle. They do
Speaker 1: have Jawan James who missed last year. He's still under contract.
Speaker 1: He's gonna contend for that right tackle spot. And they'll
Speaker 1: get Ronnie Stanley back as well. Yeah, it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the defensive spot. Uh, Is Jordan
Speaker 1: Davis the first tackle off the board? And who do
Speaker 1: you where do you see the first defensive tackle going
Speaker 1: off the board. I would not be surprised to see
Speaker 1: it at seventeen or eighteen to the Chargers or Eagles.
Speaker 1: And that's Jordan Davis, either Jordan Davis or Davante Wyatt,
Speaker 1: a couple of one of the Georgia kids. And no
Speaker 1: one's gonna love to hear that. How about the uh?
Speaker 1: How about off ball linebacker? This one's tough. Um. It
Speaker 1: depends on I think it depends on how the corner
Speaker 1: group falls. I could see New England taking Devon Lloyd
Speaker 1: at twenty one. Um. You think about Donta high Tower
Speaker 1: not renewing his contract thereas of this point in time,
Speaker 1: and and Lloyd showcasing the kind of three down value
Speaker 1: that he had last year and making plays in the
Speaker 1: passing game, both as a pressure player and in zone
Speaker 1: coverage underneath. I think that's very much a New England centerpiece,
Speaker 1: kind of that quarterback in the defense. UH. Dallas maybe
Speaker 1: a sneaky spot depending on what they and if they
Speaker 1: want to play Micah Parsons more on the edge Tennessee
Speaker 1: at UH. And then I would also point to Detroit
Speaker 1: as thirty two is kind of just a team that
Speaker 1: needs to get as good of a football player as
Speaker 1: they can. That might be p p A for them
Speaker 1: at thirty two. I know you agree here. I do
Speaker 1: not want to see devn Lloyd in New England. No, No,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a stunt. Yeah, he's he's an absolute stunt.
Speaker 1: And stay out of the a FC East in general. Please.
Speaker 1: And so you ted, you said cornerback at number three
Speaker 1: to Houston. I have to imagine that, sauce. I That's
Speaker 1: how I would lean. I think Nick as Serio in
Speaker 1: his background with the Patriots, and you think about how
Speaker 1: they've liked big, long, physical press guys, I think that
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. And then the last question
Speaker 1: is Kyle Hamilton, the safety. Where does he go? The
Speaker 1: big mystery right now? I would point to either eight
Speaker 1: to Atlanta or eleven to Washington as my two favorite
Speaker 1: landing spots for Kyle Hamilton's possibly the best player in
Speaker 1: the draft right is? Where does he rank on your
Speaker 1: big board? He's one for me? Firstly, I know, listen,
Speaker 1: I I know he ran four or five seven, but
Speaker 1: Ed Reid ran a four or five eight, I think,
Speaker 1: And I'm not saying Kyle Hamilton's Ed Reid. He's a
Speaker 1: very different player. But the big trend in league right
Speaker 1: now is a lot of too high safety looks trying
Speaker 1: to take away explosive place for imposing offenses. And he
Speaker 1: can align back there and play downhill and fit the
Speaker 1: run and be an absolute stud in that capacity, and
Speaker 1: a lot of his other athletic testing was very explosive.
Speaker 1: He just happens to be six four. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think he's He's somebody I'm not gonna get bored with.
Speaker 1: He's my my top player. Yeah. Talking about the four
Speaker 1: or five, all I could picture was the Jeffy OI
Speaker 1: send us of I don't care, I don't care, I
Speaker 1: don't care, I don't good stuff. Let's come back. I'll
Speaker 1: take our first break, come back, and we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins Draft. Here next on the Drive Too on podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: My guest today Kyle Crabs. All right back here for
Speaker 1: the B block, the Dolphins Draft preview edition of the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast. I have who else besides Kyle Crabs have
Speaker 1: locked on Dolphins and the Draft Network here talking some draft,
Speaker 1: talking some Dolphins and Kyle before we get into that,
Speaker 1: you know, looking at your Twitter profile and seeing your
Speaker 1: your banner there with you in the great Joe Marino,
Speaker 1: Ricky Williams Man, you got a chance to meet them,
Speaker 1: go tell us about that. What a that was a
Speaker 1: bucket list item for me. I'll be completely honest. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not blessed enough to go on the fish Tank
Speaker 1: and talk to to Seth and Juice or anything like that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, we went out to Los Angeles for the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for a couple of days and uh, Ricky
Speaker 1: was there with one of our partners, with Panini, and
Speaker 1: he did like a card opening and did a couple
Speaker 1: interviews and one of them that he did with was
Speaker 1: with us and getting to talk to Ricky and catching
Speaker 1: up about like what life has been like after the
Speaker 1: NFL and hearing about all of his entrepreneurial ventures that
Speaker 1: he is embraced and really tackled with enthusiasm, and then
Speaker 1: getting into talking about the running back position and uh,
Speaker 1: talking about what traits Ricky would look for if he
Speaker 1: were looking for criteria for running back to draft in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and uh, we kind of got him down
Speaker 1: the rabbit hole talking about pass protection and intelligence. And
Speaker 1: I'm one of those weird football nerds that like, I
Speaker 1: don't care what your yards per carry is, Like, let
Speaker 1: me let me see you stick your face in the
Speaker 1: hole on third and seven and pick up an a gapthletzer,
Speaker 1: right Like, That's that's what moves the needle for me
Speaker 1: when I'm watching running backs. And we got Ricky talking
Speaker 1: about that a little bit, and he talked about his
Speaker 1: his vision and oh, he made so many plays because
Speaker 1: his vision in the pocket would be able to see
Speaker 1: where a missed assignment was from somebody else, and how
Speaker 1: he was able to redirect and pass protection and allow
Speaker 1: plays to happen in that regard. And we talked about
Speaker 1: the Wildcat and oh it was. He was phenomenal. It
Speaker 1: was an absolute treat to get a chance to talk
Speaker 1: to Ricky and um, I'm very thankful that he shared
Speaker 1: his time with us. I think one of the most
Speaker 1: underrated traits in any individual in the sport of football
Speaker 1: is Ricky's passionate love for the game and intelligence of
Speaker 1: the game, which kind of seems to just you assume
Speaker 1: because he's into other things besides football, he doesn't have
Speaker 1: those things. But that could not be further from the truth.
Speaker 1: And I think you've got a chance to kind of
Speaker 1: have improved that right in front of you, right there,
Speaker 1: and and Seth and O J talked about them. They
Speaker 1: both say the exact same thing about just how how crazy,
Speaker 1: relentless that guy was working on the football field, And
Speaker 1: obviously that pairs with immense talents. So the goat man.
Speaker 1: I love Ricky Williams. Let's let's talk about the current
Speaker 1: team though here because you and I did this podcast
Speaker 1: the last two years, and I think we turned out
Speaker 1: two episodes of forty five minutes of pop an hour
Speaker 1: and a half. We're gonna trying to cut that in
Speaker 1: half this time and go just forty probably smart. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you've got a bunch of things
Speaker 1: going on. You gotta get you gotta get yourself that
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania artificial tan. You're getting the teeth whitened? Are you?
Speaker 1: Have you gone with the frosted tips yet? Is that
Speaker 1: part of the equation? Uh No. When we're done here,
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna go get my hair cut by a
Speaker 1: professional for the stime in probably a decade. So I'm
Speaker 1: a little nervous, but I'm trying to look right for
Speaker 1: for going on camera next week. Well, you're aging like
Speaker 1: a fine wine, my friend. I'll give you a compliment
Speaker 1: after all the trash shok I gave you early on,
Speaker 1: So looking good for camera. Man. Look, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see you guys do man, It's gonna be gonna
Speaker 1: be some fun content for you guys this year. And uh,
Speaker 1: let's talk to some Dolphins though and talk about this
Speaker 1: offseason and how kind of how we got to this point, right,
Speaker 1: how we got to having just four draft picks. And
Speaker 1: I know you're excited, but I want to have your
Speaker 1: our fans here, how excited you are because we talked
Speaker 1: about this all the time. You don't gotta tell me
Speaker 1: about Go ahead and tell them, you know, going from
Speaker 1: eleven picks in the top one hundred to just four
Speaker 1: this entire draft, this year, Um, what do you think?
Speaker 1: What do you think about this team in this off season?
Speaker 1: What they've done to kind of build around the head
Speaker 1: coach and Mike McDaniel bet around the quarterback into a
Speaker 1: tungle by loa to put complimentary pieces on the football
Speaker 1: field for the offense and defense. Where kind of give
Speaker 1: us your meteror where you're at right now with this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins roster. Yeah, it's funny you you alluded to
Speaker 1: the journey that this team has been on since two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen when they kind of embrace, you know, taking
Speaker 1: things down to the foundation and building it back up again. Right.
Speaker 1: But I'll look even further back, and I'll go to
Speaker 1: when Chris Greer was first named the general manager of
Speaker 1: the team back in two thousand six team, and I
Speaker 1: look at the roster that existed for that team that
Speaker 1: year when they won ten games and made the playoffs,
Speaker 1: versus the roster that we are looking at coming into
Speaker 1: this year's draft without a lot of draft capital at
Speaker 1: your disposal. But you invested those picks and impact players.
Speaker 1: And yes, I think the offensive line when healthy was
Speaker 1: more talented back then, but it was also a lot
Speaker 1: more expensive and they weren't healthy often. Uh, And I
Speaker 1: know you had bigger, more established names on your defensive line,
Speaker 1: but I don't think the talent levels particularly close, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's that's a testament to Chris Greer and the
Speaker 1: evolution of him working with different regimes and and making
Speaker 1: sure like we're getting what we need for whatever chapter
Speaker 1: we're in as an organization right now. And for them
Speaker 1: to come through this massive influxing young talent with the
Speaker 1: emphasis that's been on the draft in the last two
Speaker 1: years to now coming into this year and say, hey,
Speaker 1: we think we're close, Like we think we're really close,
Speaker 1: and we have young players that are going to continue
Speaker 1: to get better and progress at differing rates, right, because
Speaker 1: progressions never linear. It's never the same for any two players.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna it's gonna happen. What the ceiling is
Speaker 1: is up to them. Um. I'm so excited about the
Speaker 1: speed that they have implemented on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball. And I went down a big rabbit hole
Speaker 1: last week un Lockdown Dolphins talking about hopefully what we'll
Speaker 1: see from coach McDaniel and the speed on the perimeter
Speaker 1: that we have here. I mean, and the screen game
Speaker 1: was an area that the Dolphins weren't particularly high volume
Speaker 1: in last year relative to some of the other offenses
Speaker 1: across the league. And I think Jimmy Garoppolo and San
Speaker 1: Francisco was in the top twelve in screen rate. I
Speaker 1: know their screen rate was twice as often as what
Speaker 1: the Dolphins did last year. And um, you know there
Speaker 1: were teams that were three times the screen rate. And
Speaker 1: you talk about to Ah coming into the press conference
Speaker 1: to say we're trying to act guys to death. You
Speaker 1: got Tyreek kill and you got Jalen Wattle in the
Speaker 1: screen game with a creative play caller, and just you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a math problem, right, You're gonna say it here,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna look and say, okay, are you gonna
Speaker 1: play plus one outside the numbers or outside the hashes
Speaker 1: on each side, because if you do, and you're gonna
Speaker 1: go into those two high safety looks, well, now you're
Speaker 1: lighting the box. And we got athletes up front, we
Speaker 1: got speed inside. And if you're gonna play man coverage
Speaker 1: against this, we're gonna run you off and you're gonna
Speaker 1: play zone, then you're gonna be soft on the edge.
Speaker 1: We get the whole corner of the run game. So
Speaker 1: it's like you you're introducing so many different like levels
Speaker 1: of conflict the offensive infrastructure wise, with the talent and
Speaker 1: the change in the philosophy that's in place. And I'm
Speaker 1: excited to see what the Dolphins evolution on that side
Speaker 1: of the ball is gonna look like. I'm glad that
Speaker 1: they embrace stability on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I still think they'll probably kick the tires on a
Speaker 1: couple opportunities to maybe get guys that can step into
Speaker 1: rotational rules quickly. But like, think about the jump that
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins took from year two to year three right now,
Speaker 1: think about what's Javon Holland's jump look like from year
Speaker 1: one to year two. What's Jalen Phillips's jump look like
Speaker 1: from year one to year two? Does Christian Wilkins take
Speaker 1: another jump this year? Like it? That's the part for
Speaker 1: the defense that I think is it's is exciting. It's that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of familiar faces, but a lot of
Speaker 1: their strong performers that were young players early on, we're
Speaker 1: players on that side of the ball and we'll continue
Speaker 1: to see them grow. So I don't think we've seen
Speaker 1: the ceiling of the defense yet either as well as
Speaker 1: the offensive side. Yeah, and Holland didn't start the season
Speaker 1: as a starter, and Jalen Phillips didn't really get his
Speaker 1: pass rush production going till you know, October. So I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's all. It's like you mentioned, that's that incumbent
Speaker 1: growth I think is where you're gonna see a big
Speaker 1: leap there. You also mentioned the offensive side of the football,
Speaker 1: not to mention that the options in the passing in
Speaker 1: the running backs they have now with Chase Edmonds and
Speaker 1: and uh, help me out where he and most start
Speaker 1: going along with Miles Gaskin, and you put one of
Speaker 1: those guys in a Texas route or an option route
Speaker 1: on a linebacker after a blizz comes on the pipe.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's constant conflict, like you mentioned. And
Speaker 1: I want to go back to another point you alluded
Speaker 1: to about Chris Career's press conference and talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: building through the draft, but also I love the idea
Speaker 1: that he mentioned. You know, we were we were kind
Speaker 1: of keen on this idea of potentially using that late
Speaker 1: first round pick or maybe the second round pick on
Speaker 1: a Vecteran player and understanding the way of kind of
Speaker 1: constructing this football team as it currently is with Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: And you know, he does have that build through the
Speaker 1: draft mentality, which you love because that's obviously the best
Speaker 1: path forward most of the time. But the ability to
Speaker 1: kind of go away from what he knows in a
Speaker 1: in an industry of sport, a league that's full of
Speaker 1: you know, ego and my way or the highway, right,
Speaker 1: the ability to go outside of your your comfort comfort zone,
Speaker 1: I suppose and do different things. I think that has
Speaker 1: to make Dolphins fans really excited about not just right now,
Speaker 1: but how they're going to build this thing long term.
Speaker 1: So really good stuff there, Kyle. Let's keep going here
Speaker 1: talking about the draft. Finally, first pick one oh two.
Speaker 1: You know, I've previewed every position here on the podcast now,
Speaker 1: We've talked about the moves this offseason, and I think
Speaker 1: one thing that Dolphins have done is really put themselves
Speaker 1: in position to just take B p A. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's we talked about it all the time. It's a
Speaker 1: popular phrase, it gets thrown around, but there's probably you know,
Speaker 1: two or three, maybe four spots that you could look
Speaker 1: at on the roster and say, like you mentioned. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we could use more depth there or immediate rotational pieces
Speaker 1: kind of like you mentioned. But really, I think you
Speaker 1: look at the roster and say, you know, we go
Speaker 1: into camp with that spot. It looks it looks pretty good. Now,
Speaker 1: with all that said, we did this last time when
Speaker 1: you came on it picked one o two. Let's just
Speaker 1: go ahead and get into it. What positions do you
Speaker 1: think make the most sense there? And you know that's
Speaker 1: that's a holistic question, isn't it both in terms of
Speaker 1: the positional value you expect the draft to produce. Like
Speaker 1: we talked about the tight end position. Uh, that's that's
Speaker 1: actually I'm gonna get more convoluted here. Let's break this
Speaker 1: into two parts and start there. A variety of circumstances
Speaker 1: can provide different pockets of benefit the draft. What are
Speaker 1: a couple of positions that could see some really good
Speaker 1: talent that maybe in other years might see that value
Speaker 1: plucked earlier than pick one oh two, but because of
Speaker 1: how it stacks up. What are a couple of positions
Speaker 1: do you think that could present some real value at
Speaker 1: that one O two pick? Yeah, I know this this
Speaker 1: might be music's to a lot of dolphins. Fans ears
Speaker 1: despite the moves that have been made already this offseason.
Speaker 1: But the running back position this year is loaded, like
Speaker 1: there's a lot of really good players that in the
Speaker 1: vacuum you would say, yeah, this probably got a mid,
Speaker 1: mid to late day to pick, but you do the
Speaker 1: volume of those players, and we already talked about, you know,
Speaker 1: when do you think the first one comes off the board?
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think we get one in the
Speaker 1: first round. I'd be surprised if we got more than
Speaker 1: two in the top fifty. Well, maybe Bruce Hall goes
Speaker 1: to the Bills at the end of the first round.
Speaker 1: I know he's probably the betting favorite. I don't know
Speaker 1: that for sure, but it just seems like he's the
Speaker 1: consensus favorite to potentially get his name called first. But
Speaker 1: you've you've got a lot of backs, whether it's James
Speaker 1: a from Georgia who's more of a pass catching type,
Speaker 1: whether it's uh some more of these heavy, heavy hitters
Speaker 1: between the tackles as well. That I think is probably
Speaker 1: we're talking about rotational players. As I kind of survey
Speaker 1: the Dolphins running back room, I think Jared Oaks is
Speaker 1: probably the closest to that player. Is the seventh round
Speaker 1: picked from last year, and he'll get a chance to compete.
Speaker 1: But if they want to get a Rashod White from
Speaker 1: Arizona State who's another pass catcher but can run effectively
Speaker 1: between the tackles, I really like him in his own
Speaker 1: Or Pierre Strong Jr. From South Dakota State who ran
Speaker 1: in the four threes and was highly highly productive, and
Speaker 1: I think he's underrated as a a pass blocker to
Speaker 1: bringing back that nerd in me and for pass pro
Speaker 1: speaking pass pro and backs Damian Peers from Florida, somebody
Speaker 1: who didn't get a lot of mileage at Florida UH
Speaker 1: in a crowded running back room and they kind of
Speaker 1: consistently passed guys around. And if they want another big
Speaker 1: body guy who can run to the outside, you've also
Speaker 1: got Isaiah Pacheck from Rutgers who ran in the fourth
Speaker 1: reason it's two fifteen pounds and successfully runs kind of
Speaker 1: that toss. You think about San Francisco and what they
Speaker 1: did with the outside run game and the short toss
Speaker 1: with Deebo Samuel at times last year. I could see
Speaker 1: a role like that for a player like him early
Speaker 1: in Day three. Or I know that that's a little
Speaker 1: bit behind one oh two. But do you have so
Speaker 1: many options? And the fact that you have so many
Speaker 1: options it makes it really hard for me to envision
Speaker 1: teams continuing to prioritize that position early because it's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: the opportunity costs, I can get of this player around
Speaker 1: or two rounds later, So why would I draft this
Speaker 1: guy early? So that potentially is going to push a
Speaker 1: lot of the top guys down too. So I think
Speaker 1: the number one position that I think has depth that
Speaker 1: would be beneficiary of the Dolphins with their first pick
Speaker 1: being at one oh two, is you can get really
Speaker 1: really good running back value if that's something they choose
Speaker 1: to prioritize. I think that your answer there, which is
Speaker 1: great by the way, kind of opens up an other
Speaker 1: philosophy that maybe it gets lost in the shuffle sometimes.
Speaker 1: But you're not just drafting for two, right, because like
Speaker 1: you look at the additions of Mostert and Edmunds and
Speaker 1: Gaskins still here in savan Akhmed's still here, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned Jared Oaks as the running back room kind of
Speaker 1: rounds out. But I mean, you look at the lengths
Speaker 1: of contracts of those guys sign it's you've got to
Speaker 1: prepare for not just now, but four and that's where
Speaker 1: the idea of a four year contract for a running
Speaker 1: back could do you some benefit and give you some
Speaker 1: favors in that room, not just and adding to what
Speaker 1: you have this year, but in future years. Here for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins running back room. So good stuff there,
Speaker 1: can I can I jump in on that real quick? Can?
Speaker 1: It's just this thought. You know, we talk about life
Speaker 1: cycles at the Draft Network, and you know, it's a
Speaker 1: pretty popular phrase to refer to teams having different mentalities
Speaker 1: and different chapters, and we just got done alluding to
Speaker 1: that with Chris Group too. But with this roster being
Speaker 1: built out the way that it is, like that kind
Speaker 1: of mentality starts to take more hold now than what
Speaker 1: it has been because they've been looking for foundational players.
Speaker 1: You found a lot of foundational players. Now you can
Speaker 1: start to ask yourselves those questions and then and now
Speaker 1: it is more appropriate to start drafting players for Hey,
Speaker 1: we need to be ready for next year when we
Speaker 1: have to make a contractual decision about player except position wy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot easier when you have Javon Hall and
Speaker 1: Jileen Philip Jillan Waddle, Christian Wilkins, all these guys that
Speaker 1: you know you can count on to PLoP him in
Speaker 1: their first seven, eight hundred snaps or you know, in
Speaker 1: the case of of a Hall and a thousand snaps,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get good production there. That's a great point, man,
Speaker 1: it's a good That's a good spot to end this
Speaker 1: topic and get to our next topic, which is part
Speaker 1: of the previous topic. But it's a game that I
Speaker 1: want to introduce to you. We're gonna get to that
Speaker 1: here next on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: my guest today Kyle Crabs of the Draft Network and
Speaker 1: Locked on Dolphins here brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: All right back here on this Draft preview edition of
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. My guest, as he is every single
Speaker 1: year here right before the draft kicks off. As Kyle Crabs.
Speaker 1: You can hear his podcast Locked on Dolphins every day
Speaker 1: on the Lockdown Podcast Network, as well as his work
Speaker 1: at the Draft Network. And so I talked about this
Speaker 1: that concluded question at the end of the last segment,
Speaker 1: but this is another Dolphins portion of that question in
Speaker 1: a game that I kind of came up with here.
Speaker 1: You know, I think every position Kyle remains on the
Speaker 1: board at all times. But you also look at like
Speaker 1: you know, for the Dolphins, for instance, quarterback, tight end,
Speaker 1: maybe even wide receiver, offensive guard, and to your defensive
Speaker 1: lineman and probably even the entire secondary as positions that
Speaker 1: you say, well, we're set at top, we like the depth.
Speaker 1: And you could look at possibly some others and say
Speaker 1: this about some others, but that would leave I guess tackle, center,
Speaker 1: running back, edge, and off ball linebacker. Let's go name
Speaker 1: for name here among those spots at one oh two.
Speaker 1: So tackle, center, running back, edge, off ball linebacker. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you the honors here. You're gonna pick five.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick five. You go first, kick us off.
Speaker 1: Who is the one player at those five positions? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That you want it one oh two? Okay, if you're
Speaker 1: drafting a center at one oh two, I really want
Speaker 1: cold strange. That's my first border. Apparently great minds do
Speaker 1: think alike. It's good to know. Uh. Yeah, I went
Speaker 1: down to the Senior Bowl. He's he's super athletic. And
Speaker 1: if you want to introduce some competition for Michael Deater,
Speaker 1: I would love for it to be him at the
Speaker 1: linebacker position problem can you get? You get one pick? Uh?
Speaker 1: And now I get a pick? Oh so okay, I'll
Speaker 1: be quiet, go ahead, so it's cold Stranger pick. Then
Speaker 1: you can change it. Yes, Oh no, I'm drafting Cold
Speaker 1: Strange because especially since you told me he was the
Speaker 1: top player. Yeah, there you go. I am gonna do
Speaker 1: this and and shamelessly take someone on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: But he's going to be Wait, is this a position
Speaker 1: that I had on there? I did? Okay, offensive tackle
Speaker 1: going back to Washington, say, I'm taking Abraham Lucas there
Speaker 1: the big right tackle, because I've seen him perform for
Speaker 1: a long time successfully there at the right tackle spot. So,
Speaker 1: Abe Lucas for me is my first round pick. There
Speaker 1: a big surprise, Travis going with a cougar? What are you?
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Man? Um? Okay, So I
Speaker 1: need offensive tackle, off ball, linebacker, and remind me of
Speaker 1: the other positions running back, center, and edge. Okay, and
Speaker 1: I already drafted my my center. Okay, So I I
Speaker 1: will probably go with linebacker Troy Anderson from Montana State
Speaker 1: as the linebacker choice here. I mean, you think about
Speaker 1: how this defense over the last couple of years has
Speaker 1: moved personnel around. Anderson was on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball quarterback and then running back at Montana State,
Speaker 1: and then he goes over the defensive side of the
Speaker 1: ball and he's All Conference at both outside linebacker and
Speaker 1: inside linebacker in consecutive years. Uh, phenomenal, top shelf athlete.
Speaker 1: He's just a little role. This would be one of
Speaker 1: those you're drafting more picks, but his ceiling is so
Speaker 1: immeasurably high, and the his ability to move around I
Speaker 1: think would be really valuable in his defense. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: He's a fun watch and it's fun to watch, like
Speaker 1: not just Dolphins Twitter, but draft Twitter kind of get
Speaker 1: their eyes on his tape and you see the tweets
Speaker 1: come out like, oh man, this is yeah, he's He's
Speaker 1: been very popular from what I've scene, I am going
Speaker 1: to go back to the running back position from my
Speaker 1: second pick and take a guy you already mentioned. My
Speaker 1: my audience knows. I love this guy from South Dakota State,
Speaker 1: Pierre Strong Jr. I love the urgency he presents. I
Speaker 1: love the fact that when he hits the whole, if
Speaker 1: you don't get your your safety down that box. After
Speaker 1: he gets past the first level, he might score a
Speaker 1: touchdown because he has that urgency and that speed to
Speaker 1: to not just get to the spot quickly, but get
Speaker 1: through the arm tackles and get to the pay dirt
Speaker 1: and get to the end zone and score points. So
Speaker 1: Pierre Strong Jr. Is my second pick who you got
Speaker 1: in the third there. Okay, So this is where my
Speaker 1: strategy is really going to come into play here. Since
Speaker 1: you've already drafted a tackle, or you've already drafted a
Speaker 1: running back and a tackle, I'm not gonna draft those.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna draft the edge next to make sure
Speaker 1: I get my top choice here at this position and
Speaker 1: then get leftovers, so of the edge guys that I
Speaker 1: predictively think could be here in this strike zone. If
Speaker 1: Josh Pascal from Kentucky ends up being here in this range.
Speaker 1: You think about how the Dolphins have put Emmanuel Agba
Speaker 1: down inside at times with his hand in the dirt
Speaker 1: on an inside shade and offensive tackles. I think he
Speaker 1: can do that, but then he showed up in the
Speaker 1: combine at two sixty eight and have like a thirty
Speaker 1: eight age for like super explosive with his lower half
Speaker 1: to go with really really heavy hands and ability to
Speaker 1: to generate that knock back that we've heard those Dolphins
Speaker 1: players talk about on the defensive side of the ball
Speaker 1: from time to time, as far as jolting guys with
Speaker 1: their hands. So I'll go with Josh Pascal, kind of
Speaker 1: a hybrid uh on front even front flexible defender out
Speaker 1: of Kentucky. That would be a great pick. And it
Speaker 1: also makes me feel more comfortable about the guy I
Speaker 1: put my list next because I did the same thing
Speaker 1: you were talking about there. You went with the uh
Speaker 1: the center and col Strange. I'm gonna keep my center
Speaker 1: on the board here till lakes and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: go back to him here. Maybe you will, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but uh, I'm gonna do the same thing that you
Speaker 1: did here and hope this guy falls down the board.
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned to you after watching the National Championship,
Speaker 1: like Georgia has so many dudes in that defense, but
Speaker 1: man quay Walker, the physicality he plays with and the
Speaker 1: way he strikes guys in the knock back you talk about.
Speaker 1: He he has that grown man strength already. I think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see Bill show up on Sundays. You know,
Speaker 1: sometimes in the college game it's not quite as physically
Speaker 1: imposing when they get to the next level because you're
Speaker 1: playing against lesser athletes, not quite a strong athletes. But
Speaker 1: Kuaya Walker kind of that sam backer position. He's my
Speaker 1: pick right here. So that's a great selection, and he'd
Speaker 1: be a home run fit for Miami. I have him
Speaker 1: grated in the same range that you have him pig
Speaker 1: here as somebody who might be there. There's a little
Speaker 1: bit of buzz though that like he might end up
Speaker 1: getting drafted in the same rage as Kenneth Murray from
Speaker 1: Oklahoma got drafted a couple of years out ago at
Speaker 1: the end of the first round. Yeah, I mean it
Speaker 1: would not surprise me as a heightweight, speed athlete if
Speaker 1: if he gets drafted in that range. So I've got
Speaker 1: running backs and offensive tackles, and offensive tackle is gonna
Speaker 1: hurt me because you took Abe Lucas already and that's
Speaker 1: probably the only tackle I would have in consideration here
Speaker 1: at all. So I'll go with the back next to
Speaker 1: kind of reflect how I I covet the players, and
Speaker 1: I will go with James Cook from Georgia. His ability,
Speaker 1: he's a four or five guy, but they put him
Speaker 1: split out wide didn't have him run go routes down
Speaker 1: the field, and he's catching balls tracking it vertically down
Speaker 1: the field, and I like his ability to kind of
Speaker 1: jitterbug between the tackles and create some space for himself
Speaker 1: as well. So I'll go with James Cook is my
Speaker 1: next pick here. Yeah, he's a hell of player. That's
Speaker 1: that's a fun one. I'm glad you took him there.
Speaker 1: I would definitely have him in my list here. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna take him now because we took running backs ready,
Speaker 1: but Rashod Wife from Arizona State, another one of those
Speaker 1: guys here. I'm gonna get my center off the board
Speaker 1: right here. I'll take my edge next. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ahead and take Cam Jurgens from Nebraska. Just one
Speaker 1: of those those mean dudes. I think that every offensive
Speaker 1: line needs. He kind of qualifies the two things we
Speaker 1: talked about a lot this offseason. Can they move into
Speaker 1: the smart players and then you have that nasty finishing temperament.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and get Cam Jurgens right here
Speaker 1: from my fourth pick. So my last one is gonna
Speaker 1: be an offensive tackle, and it's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a reach versus where I have this player actually graded.
Speaker 1: I do have him as more of a four mid
Speaker 1: four UM, but I do think for the sake of
Speaker 1: this conversation and it's worth acknowledging, Matt will let's go
Speaker 1: from North Dakota was a senior Bowl participant at offensive tackle,
Speaker 1: and he looked really good against Arnold, Evi Katie and
Speaker 1: some of the one on ones. And Evcati is a
Speaker 1: pass rusher from Penn State who's getting some first round buzz.
Speaker 1: But this is a dude who is nine percentile in height.
Speaker 1: He's twelve pounds eighty five and a half inch wingspan,
Speaker 1: which is ninety seven percentile for offensive tackles. Uh. He
Speaker 1: ran a five oh three forty yard dash with a
Speaker 1: won seven three ten yards split that's eighty three percentiles. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had a nine ft five inch standing broad jump,
Speaker 1: which is percentile for offensive woman's super super explosive player. Uh.
Speaker 1: And just a freakish size for a small school kids.
Speaker 1: So well, let's go from from North Dakota is kind
Speaker 1: of a bet on trades guy here with this last pick.
Speaker 1: He I think he was a name that Joe brought
Speaker 1: up on the podcast what he did as a guy
Speaker 1: that he really liked as well. So two for two
Speaker 1: there with the big time expert opinions giving us names there,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and finish out this draft with
Speaker 1: my J Sanders from Cincinnati. The build, the length of
Speaker 1: the ability to kind of bend that corner off the
Speaker 1: edge and play, you know, a high volume of downs.
Speaker 1: I think could be an early rotation guy that you
Speaker 1: build into a potential long term starter there off the
Speaker 1: edge from the Cincinnati Barrackcats. That's ten names we gave you.
Speaker 1: Cole Strange, Abe Lucas, Troy Anderson, Pierre Strong Junior, Josh Pascal,
Speaker 1: Quay Walker, James Cook, Cam Jurgen's Matt will Let's go
Speaker 1: my J Sanders, Kyle. If that's if one of those
Speaker 1: ten guys at the first pick for the draft this
Speaker 1: year for the Dolphins, you feel pretty good about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you either got really good value or you've got a
Speaker 1: really high upside player. Um, regardless of any of those
Speaker 1: ten players. I I think that would be a great
Speaker 1: foundational bit to kind of take a look at and say, hey,
Speaker 1: here here's the shortlist of guys we should hope to
Speaker 1: see is gonna be built? Okay, speaking of short list,
Speaker 1: let's do this really quickly before we get to our
Speaker 1: last break. Are we already our last break? Never mind,
Speaker 1: but let's do a quick, a short one here with
Speaker 1: the other positions. Just two picks each, all right, quarterback,
Speaker 1: tight end, wide receiver, offensive guard, and to your defensive line,
Speaker 1: defensive back, so the other positions to you, guys, go
Speaker 1: ahead and take the arms pick one two. So we're
Speaker 1: gonna do the draft all over again. Just we're doing
Speaker 1: two rounds. You get two picks. I get two picks. Okay, okay, quickly.
Speaker 1: You can't put me on the spot like that and
Speaker 1: then expect me to prosper. How about Josh Williams, cornerback
Speaker 1: from Fayetteville State is just the absolute freakish heightweight, speed athlete,
Speaker 1: super physical. You think about the Dolphins and the amount
Speaker 1: of dollars that they do have invested in the cornerback
Speaker 1: position if they want some cheap young talent that can
Speaker 1: continue to grow into that spot. Obviously, no, Bogady is
Speaker 1: still on the roster, and we'll see what year three.
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a jump like we talked about with some
Speaker 1: of the other guys. But he's a player who the
Speaker 1: ceiling is immeasurable, and this is probably the right range
Speaker 1: to kind of bet on traits with somebody like that.
Speaker 1: That's uh, he's a senior Bowl Yes, that's that's right
Speaker 1: on the name of Oka. Yeah, Fayettville State threw me off.
Speaker 1: I remember writing about him a little bit and get
Speaker 1: a chance to watch him just just a little bit.
Speaker 1: But that's a good pick there. I'm gonna go to
Speaker 1: right back to the Alabama well, back to the receiver well,
Speaker 1: and take John Macchi because I just love his game. No,
Speaker 1: the receiver group for the Dolphins is pretty loaded right now,
Speaker 1: but I think John metch is a great fit for
Speaker 1: what the Dolphins want to do offensively, explosive playmaker who
Speaker 1: can turn those you know, quick slants in the long
Speaker 1: touchdown passes, even coming off the injury. So John Mechi
Speaker 1: is my pick. The second I'll go, I'll go tight end.
Speaker 1: I know we've alluded to to the tight end position,
Speaker 1: and we brought some names back, some familiar faces, but
Speaker 1: we do know this offense based on some of the
Speaker 1: track record that we've seen in other teams across the league,
Speaker 1: that implements it. Uh, you can have a lot of
Speaker 1: versatility with some of your athletes. I'll go Greg Dulcine
Speaker 1: from u C l A, who is somebody who I
Speaker 1: think has plenty of development to be had as far
Speaker 1: as a rumblacker, but he shows a really good appetite
Speaker 1: for it. And he's a rat, a rat guy, a
Speaker 1: yat guy at the tight end position. And uh, I
Speaker 1: think he's led the pack twelve and receiving yards amongst
Speaker 1: tight ends and each of the last two years, so
Speaker 1: a highly productive football player. He crushed it Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think that'd be a great value pick. Obviously, no
Speaker 1: Hunter Long is in the building as well, but uh,
Speaker 1: it's a mismatch league and we'll see, you know, Obviously,
Speaker 1: mikea Seki, we need to figure out if that's a
Speaker 1: long term deal or not for him, And and Adam
Speaker 1: Shehen is somebody who's getting close to the end of
Speaker 1: his current contract as well, so there may be some
Speaker 1: turnover in that position. Room. Yeah, it makes plenty of sense,
Speaker 1: And we talked about drafting for for long term and
Speaker 1: just continue to both start roster we feel pretty good about.
Speaker 1: And that was a guy I know you got pretty
Speaker 1: excited about a couple months back when you first got
Speaker 1: a chance to your your cross checks and everything with him.
Speaker 1: So you got your guy there. I'm gonna go back
Speaker 1: to the cornerback spot and take Cam Taylor Britt primarily
Speaker 1: for fit because I think that he's one of the
Speaker 1: better press corners in this draft, especially in this range
Speaker 1: here from Nebraska. So Cam Taylor BRIT's ability to come down,
Speaker 1: play physical, play the run, getting guys faces throw off
Speaker 1: that timing. I'm a big fan of his games. I'll
Speaker 1: go with him. So that's another contender for the nickel too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could play him inside it and he will thrive
Speaker 1: in run fits. So he's excellent. You can never have
Speaker 1: enough of those guys in this defensive back film, and
Speaker 1: I don't want to see them just kind of sit
Speaker 1: on it and call it good, you know, just because
Speaker 1: they are so good. Like, if you get a good
Speaker 1: chance to get a player, go go ahead and go
Speaker 1: get that guy. And Cam Taylor Britt would be one
Speaker 1: of those guys. All right, Kyle, let's go back into this, uh,
Speaker 1: back into the draft mode here. And I know we
Speaker 1: just talked about fourteen names, which is great for the
Speaker 1: podcast here, but um, I wanted to get your take
Speaker 1: on the day three options because we don't we come
Speaker 1: back around day you know, our round seven, I should say,
Speaker 1: And they could be guys are in the U d
Speaker 1: f A range or maybe their sixth round range. You
Speaker 1: hope they fall to you. Just some of your Day
Speaker 1: three favorites here and maybe you trade up from You
Speaker 1: can talk about that too, some Day three favorites for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins and this year's draft. Yeah, So as
Speaker 1: as I kind of survey what's where the depth flies
Speaker 1: on Day three, um, I would. I would really love
Speaker 1: to see them go find guys that can give you
Speaker 1: snaps on teams right and being able to play on
Speaker 1: special teams early on. I think about a guy like
Speaker 1: Percy Butler and safety from Louisiana, who's an absolute killer
Speaker 1: on special teams. He's not gonna blow you away with
Speaker 1: his physical measurables or anything like that. And I think
Speaker 1: as a pure defensive are uh, there's some development there
Speaker 1: that's needed. But Percy Butler from Louisiana, if you you
Speaker 1: have him on the board for you in the seventh round, like,
Speaker 1: that's a guy that you can guarantee will make your
Speaker 1: roster as your fourth safety and somebody who's gonna cover
Speaker 1: kicks and do very very well in that regard, and
Speaker 1: obviously the Miami Dolphins have a bit of a void
Speaker 1: there with the decision to let mcollins depart in free
Speaker 1: agency to go to the Raiders this offseason. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be competition in that spot. So so that's one
Speaker 1: name if you were going to look at a running
Speaker 1: back a little later that had some size and physicality
Speaker 1: to him. I really like Jante ingram from USC. I
Speaker 1: think he's somebody who created for himself. He dropped a
Speaker 1: little bit of weight coming into and showcase some some
Speaker 1: short area twitch and um, he's a different running style.
Speaker 1: He's a little bit more physical and assertive as a runner,
Speaker 1: challenging tacklers with with his frame as necessary. I'll point
Speaker 1: to a potential local at least off this past year
Speaker 1: at Miami, Charleston Rambo why receiver as somebody who bottom
Speaker 1: of the wide receiver room contender. Obviously, the they have
Speaker 1: plenty of players with experience returning kicks. Do they want
Speaker 1: any of them returning kicks full time? Again? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but that that's kind of the theme
Speaker 1: as I'm looking at the seventh round picks and I
Speaker 1: go back to what Chris Grewer talked about when he
Speaker 1: had the pre draft press conference, and he's like, when
Speaker 1: you have this few picks, you feel like you gotta
Speaker 1: hit on him, and you you gotta know what you're getting,
Speaker 1: and when you're picking in the seventh round, there's usually
Speaker 1: not a lot of those, unless you're getting guys who
Speaker 1: have a very clear and defined role on special teams.
Speaker 1: The last name I'll leave you with Travis. I'll make
Speaker 1: you real hoppy. I'll talk about Washington State Cougar Jalen Watson,
Speaker 1: the defensive back who's six ft three, runs in the
Speaker 1: four fours physical. I think he'd be another guy who
Speaker 1: would be a contender for some of those teams reps
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, he was. He was kind of a stable,
Speaker 1: stabilizing force in the Washington State team this year. That
Speaker 1: was really close, really really damn close to going off
Speaker 1: the rows of the nd season fire of our our
Speaker 1: du fist head coach that got replaced in the interim
Speaker 1: guy gets the full time job because he beat up
Speaker 1: with the Huskies and in the Apple Cup for the
Speaker 1: first time in seven years. But I'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: get off that topic. What am I to say about that.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned special teams because we talked about
Speaker 1: this a lot, you know, like, I think it would
Speaker 1: behoove the Dolphins, who clearly clearly value special teams in
Speaker 1: a way that I think, you know everyone does, but
Speaker 1: I think more so than most teams. It would be
Speaker 1: nice to get a guy that can really give you
Speaker 1: a core special teams piece, and that seventh round for
Speaker 1: the next four years would be a really good thank you.
Speaker 1: I needed that. I needed that name school school in
Speaker 1: position again, safety from Louisiana. Perfect. I know you gotta
Speaker 1: go get your haircut man to let you go ahead
Speaker 1: and do that. Before you do that, I want to
Speaker 1: hear one name that if this guy falls, for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: into that fifties, sixties, seventy five round range, who's the
Speaker 1: one guy that you're happy with giving future draft capital
Speaker 1: to go up and get this year? Oh, somebody, I'm
Speaker 1: willing to risk it all four Yep. That's the thing,
Speaker 1: that's the deal. That's the question, man, Um, that is
Speaker 1: such a tough call. In this year, your draft class
Speaker 1: have kind of mentally hunted on on the idea of
Speaker 1: of being In that conversation, I would probably point to
Speaker 1: um maybe quay Walker, the guy that you mentioned. I
Speaker 1: don't expect him to be there, but I kind of
Speaker 1: graded him in that range. And I think about somebody
Speaker 1: with that kind of length and explosiveness potentially playing in
Speaker 1: the middle and the heart of that defense a couple
Speaker 1: of years down the road as he continues to develop,
Speaker 1: and and that's somebody you'd be willing to bet on
Speaker 1: the traits with. So um, I think his floor is
Speaker 1: probably higher than Troy Anderson's, who is the linebacker I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. So if quay Walker starts that slide, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd be making some phone calls. There's moments in this
Speaker 1: industry where you kind of fill yourself validated. I've talked
Speaker 1: before about like when Shannon Crowerd talk to me about No.
Speaker 1: One football like that really made me feel good about myself.
Speaker 1: You giving me the quay Walker stamp of approval when
Speaker 1: I first brought his name up back in the National
Speaker 1: Championship game. That makes me feel very good in my friends. So,
Speaker 1: once again, you said it all. You've absolutely killed it
Speaker 1: at grinding the Tape on Twitter. Director of scouting at
Speaker 1: the Draft Network locked on Dolphins podcast, Kyle Crabs appreciate
Speaker 1: you as always my friend. Can we put you down
Speaker 1: this year again for Fann Weekend and bow campers on
Speaker 1: that Saturday. Yes, lock me in. I love it. He's
Speaker 1: locked in. He's locked on Dolphins. Kyle Crabs, thanks a lot. Man.
Speaker 1: So typically when I say farewell to my guests, they'll
Speaker 1: say like, thanks a lot, Travis, appreciate you having me on.
Speaker 1: Kyle didn't say anything. So I asked him about it
Speaker 1: after he got off the air, and I said, you
Speaker 1: didn't say anything. He goes, I'm not gonna have the
Speaker 1: last word on your podcast. I love that guy. He's
Speaker 1: the best. Kyle Crabs which chek out his work. Thank
Speaker 1: you to him again for doing this. Thank you to
Speaker 1: the entire Draft Network team for kind of carrying the
Speaker 1: water here previewing the draft class this year. Very valuable
Speaker 1: information for us for a couple of weeks now here
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime podcast. In the meantime, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: my time. We'll have the mail bag tomorrow answering your
Speaker 1: questions both on Miami Dolphins dot com as well as
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast here. So I'll check out that one
Speaker 1: and then we'll come back to recap Night two of
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