WEBVTT - Drive Time: Kyle Crabbs Dolphins 2024 Draft Preview 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:06.040 To on remove Dallin Deep spiegwals peas do From the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:10.400 Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Help Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.440 He's got my advance in the playoffs. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:31.240 What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:34.360 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:36.440 you don't want to miss this one. Man, you're already here, 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.440 so gott I tell you that. But Kyle Krabs is 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:40.800 here for his second part of his two part series. 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.920 We took a look at the offseason so far, but 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:45.600 today we're talking about Tua Tongue Biloa, how the team 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.440 can continue to build around him, where he can go 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:50.159 further in his career, how the offense can avoid the 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:51.600 loll from the end of the season we saw the 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.480 last two seasons, expectations on defense. Under new DC Anthony Weaver, 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.560 We're going to do a bunch of mock draft scenarios, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:00:59.920 trading up, trading down, and the players we prefer it 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.080 twenty one and fifty five and a whole heck of 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:04.400 a lot more. From the Baptist Hell Studios. Inside the 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.800 Baptist Hell's Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.640 Maggie first Part two with a very great Kyle Crabs. 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.759 Back for part two with my guests previewing the Dolphins 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.360 draft and taking a look at the off season so far, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.440 basically getting you ready for what this Dolphins team could 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.400 look like Opening Day twenty twenty four. Still far away, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.240 but right now we have the great Kyle Krabs joining 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:28.880 us on the podcast for the second rate episode. 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.440 Kyle, what is up? My dude? 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.040 Gravis is good to be back fired up for a 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.399 little draft talk here on this episode of the Drive 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:38.280 Time Podcast. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:40.480 Nice nice pause there. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.200 I have a lot for you I'm gonna throw at you, 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:43.800 and I'm not really sure how it's gonna go because 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.400 I just kind of have some general ideas and not 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:47.120 really scripted out that well. So I'm excited to just 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.240 kind of shoot the breeze, as it were with you. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:51.600 But first, this stuff's a little more buttoned up, a 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.960 little bit more formulaic. Let's go ahead and talk about 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.800 the quarterback here, because Chris Greer. I love his press conference. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.000 By the way, his pre draft presser was very very good, 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.760 very informative, and very to the point to the point 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.120 to where he said, you guys can most likely go 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.320 ahead and cross quarterback off your list of twenty one. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.240 We'll look at every position and we'll take a look 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.120 at that down the line, but at twenty one we 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.760 feel pretty good about the guy we have in house. 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.240 Right now, Mike McDaniel continues to talk about how much 0:02:14.280 --> 0:02:15.880 he loves Toua's game and wants me to be here 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.280 long term. Just tell me about Tua, his arc, where 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:21.760 he is and year number three for Mike McDaniel here, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:24.520 where you think he can get better. Just give us 0:02:24.520 --> 0:02:26.280 the Tuo A skinny man. You talk about this guy 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:27.959 a lot. This a quarterback of the team you cover. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.520 I want to hear your takes on Tua Tunka bai Looa. 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:31.239 Yeah. 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.880 I think reps in schemes is important and should not 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.240 be devalued. I think a lot of the discourse around 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:43.080 Tua is what his strengths are as a quarterback versus 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.480 kind of the generally accepted must have to be a 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.600 quarterback at a certain level. But when I hear Chris 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:53.519 Greer and Mike mc daniel talk about Tuas still having 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:56.600 another level and another gear to get to, I generally 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.200 do believe them, and it's maybe not because he has 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.280 the strongest arm in the league or because he's running 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.560 a four to three footy or anything like that. I 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.359 just think there's an efficiency that comes with. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:11.760 Having so much muscle. 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.120 Memory within the scheme and within the plays and where 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.480 your guys are gonna be. And you saw, you know, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.520 Tyreek Kill alluded to that as far as like year 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.200 one to year two, understanding the timing of the offense, 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:28.480 more understanding the why and how the plays are constructed. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.400 And I think for a quarterback, it's just understanding where 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.560 all your options are on every given play against every 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:40.440 kind of coverage. And I think for Tua, you consider 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.840 some of the opportunities. There were some too mint of 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:46.960 offense situations for the Dolphins offense last year where you 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.440 felt like maybe there were some easier completions that were 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.560 to be had and they had time, whether they had 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:55.560 timeouts or not. And I think to the Kansas City game, 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.640 I think to the Buffalo game at the end of 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.880 the regular season, there were some throat out there that 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:09.280 just having the muscle memory element there, I think gives 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:15.160 you more consistent efficiency in all elements of running an 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:19.960 NFL offense. And I think that's where there is another 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.520 gear to tap into for who he is as a player. 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:27.200 And I'm really interested to see how the Dolphins choose 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.839 to supplement around him, right because that's the big thing 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:35.400 is the league right now, it's so geared towards You 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.520 build up a young quarterback with this really strong supporting cast, 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.479 and you invest around him, and then once you pay 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.919 the quarterback, you naturally have to make some transitions as 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:51.000 far as how you choose to assemble around that quarterback contract. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.839 And for Miami that is a long term discussion that 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.280 they won't necessarily have to have in twenty twenty four, 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:02.600 but you will probably start to get an idea based 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:07.960 off of how that muscle memory continues to evolve for him. 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.559 That's why I love about his game and his skill 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.480 set is quarterbacks of that ilk that play that way 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:16.279 tend to get better as they age. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:16.960 And we've seen it. 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.160 You know so many quarterbacks that played into their thirties 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:20.640 and even the one guy that played deep into his 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.080 forties who was an anomaly, but for the most part, 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.359 like I thought, Drew Brees was his best and do 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:25.839 his thirties. 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.600 You could say the same thing about Ben Roethlisberger. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.680 Tom Brady, I think was as well, Like all these 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:32.360 great quarterbacks just kind of get better and better because 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.160 of the like you talked about, the reps, the the 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.719 sustained time within the same system, and the must memory 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.640 that comes with that. And we know Tua was out 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:41.760 throwing footballs in the beach every day with his dad 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.719 and just harping that must memory of accuracy and armslaught 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.479 and all the stuff that he did that put himself 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.080 in position to be an NFL quarterback in the fifth 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:48.560 pick of the draft. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:49.520 YadA, YadA yah all that. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.120 My follow up question to that, Kyle is help me 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:53.880 understand something here, because I talked to myself in the 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.720 podcast a lot. We talked about to his game, and 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:57.880 I don't get much of a chance to debate this 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.640 with someone that I, you know, think so highly of 0:06:00.800 --> 0:06:04.400 in terms of your opinion of football players. Where is 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.920 this disconnect coming from with quarterback play? Because I see 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:09.800 it all the time. I see it in draft reports 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:13.159 like big arm, throwball, Fart's all I care about. But man, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:15.800 I watch a lot of football, dude, and what always 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.800 wins to me those that are great traits to have, 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.480 but playing the position, playing on time, seeing the field 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.359 being a field general like, I don't think those things 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.680 are ever going to go out of style. Why is 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:31.080 there such a disconnect for what actually constitutes good quarterback play? 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.280 Or Am I wrong? Am I completely off based on this? 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:34.520 Can I be honest with you? 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.840 I think everybody does this at every position. I think 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:41.039 you get into the pre draft process and it exists 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.840 with offensive linemen. I think it exists with edge rushers. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:49.479 I think it exists with wide receivers. It exists with corners. 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.159 There's a slew of examples of corners that get drafted 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:55.640 off of what they could be as compared to what 0:06:55.720 --> 0:07:00.719 they tangibly are. And it's the Every coach is going 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.000 to have some level of confidence that they can bring 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.200 the best version of a player out, and whether or 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:09.440 not that's realized oftentimes extends beyond the player himself, and 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.400 it extends beyond the relationship with the coach and the player. 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.560 A lot of this is unfortunately circumstantial because of how 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:20.240 interwoven so many parts of these organizations are. So I 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.080 think it's very easy to take a step back and 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.320 look at the tools of oh, well, just imagine if 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.240 he does what did what he did on these ten 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:31.040 plays in this one game every time he drops back 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:35.000 to pass, and that's so much easier said than done. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:41.000 But I do think the physical potential of upside gets 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.880 romanticized a lot at all positions, because when you look 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:49.520 across the course of history, the reason why so many 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:53.920 of the highly, highly, highly successful players are successful is 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.840 in part because they had the tools, but they didn't 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:59.720 just have the physical tools that you can't teach. There 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:03.480 is a between the ears elements of all of those 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:07.840 players as well, and I think quarterback, ironically enough, is 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:11.440 one of the positions where you can be more apt 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:16.800 to win between the ears just off of that strength itself, 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:20.000 because there's a chess match that's involved with that position 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.360 that you maybe don't necessarily get so in the weeds 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:25.120 with out of the spots along the way. 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:27.840 Yeah, I think maybe there's a little bit more ability 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:30.840 to have those growing pains with the more physical talent 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.520 as well. But man, I just I want a quarterback 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.040 to plays on time and in rhythm and understands the position. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.880 That's my number one thing. But what the hell do 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:39.200 I know? 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.760 Speaking of that, this offense was clicking on a high 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.280 level last year and kind of slowed down towards the end, 0:08:44.800 --> 0:08:46.800 just kind of to put we're gonna go offense and 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.600 defense are to close this segment, just kind of talking 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:51.920 about what you think could happen this year offensively and defensively. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.440 I'm just curious what you think this offense could do 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.240 to kind of break the I don't want. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:57.880 To call it a shrenks. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:09:00.640 It's two years, but the last two seasons the offense 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:02.840 tapered off towards end. Your quarterback was down for a 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.520 big chunk of that in the first season, but last 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.560 year tapered off in December and January. Why do you 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.800 think that was and how do they overcome that in 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:11.600 twenty twenty four. 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:17.920 Yeah, I think there's I think back to twenty twenty 0:09:17.920 --> 0:09:24.960 one and the I guess twenty twenty two and the 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.960 Chargers game was the big game after that season that 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.400 everybody pointed to and all these concerns that we had, 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:33.280 and then who they played the first week is season, 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:37.160 they played the Chargers, and you very quickly found that 0:09:37.320 --> 0:09:40.559 they found a way to push the buttons to alleviate 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.760 that individual concern And I'd like to think that coming 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.559 into a new season in twenty twenty four, whatever they 0:09:47.640 --> 0:09:52.320 deemed to be the biggest issue was and there's some 0:09:52.440 --> 0:09:56.079 context clues between adding John new Smith and making overtures 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:58.959 to Odell Beckham Junior. I think there's some context clues 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:03.600 there as far as from a personnel standpoint, what maybe 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.199 could be different to give you more clubs in the bag. 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.560 But I think that's what this all boils down to 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:13.480 is your evolution to not just stay the same at 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:17.280 what you did the year before, or get better at 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.640 what you did the year before, but to have that 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:25.000 and then add something else, to do something else as 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:31.240 the counteraction, and if you log enough time together collectively 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.440 as a unit, even if there's new players that are 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:38.360 part of it, the greater unit will be able to say, hey, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.960 remember that time in twenty twenty two where this team 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:45.160 did this to us, Let's go back to what we 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.440 did three weeks later when we solve that issue, because 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:50.960 they're doing that to us in this game three years later. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:56.920 So I think part of this is stacking with new variables, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.800 and I think that's what I'm most excited about for 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:02.600 the draft is this will kind of be our first 0:11:02.679 --> 0:11:07.760 chance to see outside of John neu Smith, what they're 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:11.800 committed to investing to give them that extra layer that 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.680 they maybe need to avoid some of the same pitfalls 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:15.280 as last year. 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.040 Yeah, it does seem like a little bit of the focus, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.880 at least in the beginning of freegency was more defensively 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:21.800 to kind of get Anthony Weaver his pieces and parts. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.120 And I'm sure a lot of that has to do 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:24.800 with McDaniel and Frank Smith being like, oh, we know 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.320 what we got here, we know we are plans going 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.680 to be to go ahead and make, like you said, 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.280 those changes that are necessary to overcome that hurdle. 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:32.960 But I look at so many teams over the. 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:35.760 You know, the course of two three decades of watching 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:38.040 the sport that had to kind of get over that hump, 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.120 and it took some time. It's like, I'm with you, man, 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.480 like sometimes it takes some experience, It takes some losing 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.439 to find out what you have to do to win 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:45.600 those spots and win those games. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.280 And hopefully that's the case for the Dolphins this year. 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.440 How about defensively, man, I haven't really had a chance 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.160 to pick your brain too much on this. I've asked 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:53.400 my previous guests a lot about what they think they're 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.200 going to see from this Anthey Weaver led defense. But 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.160 is it going to be, you know, Ravens copy and paste. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.360 Is it gonna have different elements? Like what's your expectations 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:02.480 here for what we're going to see you from the 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.840 Dolphins new defensive coordinator here, Anthony Weaver in twenty twenty four. 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:07.839 I kind of expect it's going to have its own 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:12.280 unique flavor. When you're early in doctrinated by Rex Ryan, 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.760 I feel like that probably never leaves you right as 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:18.320 far as just the aggressiveness mentality. But he's had so 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:21.640 many great coaches that he's worked with along the way 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.680 that I think you will see a bit of a 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.400 unique product. And obviously he had the one year stop 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.440 as a defensive coordinator, and there were some circumstances with 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.760 that football team in Houston that I think it's probably 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.840 difficult to get a full grasp based off of that 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:45.480 personnel because good coaches tailored their system and their scheme 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.520 to the players that they have. And that is like 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.880 we just got done saying on offense, are you going 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:55.280 to go out and get another back seven, multi use 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.160 player that can play all over the place. Because if 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.520 that's the case, then I expect you you're probably going 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.959 to have a pretty heavy pressure style system that wants 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.960 to be able to match personnel against heavier personnel or 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:13.280 lighter personnel, and know that you can pick and choose 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.360 matchups when you go man coverage. You can pick and 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.400 choose who you want in the run fit. You can 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:19.199 pick and choose who you want playing deep or who 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.200 you want playing middle of the field coverage, based on 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.760 what the strengths are the offense that you play. I 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:27.720 do expect, you know, you will get a little bit 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.280 more rotation up front, which means I think you probably, 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.760 at a minimum, even if Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.920 do have ambitious timelines for recovery, I think you probably 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.000 need another pass rusher, and I think you need another 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.240 rotational guy with some ceiling on passing downs on the 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.920 interier of your unit. But I think you will probably 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:52.720 see some more pressure tendencies than what the Dolphins had 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.600 last year. But I don't know that you'll get like 0:13:55.760 --> 0:14:00.600 the full wink Martin Dale or Rex Ryanix experience as 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:01.160 an example. 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:03.520 Yeah, so different in the sense that it's not gonna 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.320 be the same picture pre snap every time. That kind 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.599 of is, you know, developed around confusing the quarterback and 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.800 presenting the same presenting the same presentation every single snap 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:12.080 to now, it's going to be a little more flexible 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:13.880 and different. I think they're with what they did in 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.680 Baltimore the last couple of years under Mike McDonald and 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:18.040 Anthony we run the defensive line. 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:19.040 So good stuff there. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:20.800 We've finally hit the point you've all been waiting for. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.600 We're gonna talk draft for two full segments here coming 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.280 up after the break. My guest today, Kyle Krabs Lockdown 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.880 Dolphins podcast on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:31.200 brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.000 Okay, Kyle, I tease this segment. 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.360 I don't know when it was. I've lost track. We've 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.720 done four segments down two to go. I talked about 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.040 I have done several mock drafts where I kind of 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:49.040 tried to take different approaches to help myself understand and 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.920 find out exactly where the strong points, the soft points, 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:56.040 the inflection points, the markets, strengths and weaknesses are for 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.720 each position at each spot of this draft. I know 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.040 you know about all this because I know you do 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.600 this yourself as well. Just kind of trying to put 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.560 myself as best in the shoes of Chris Career and 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.600 the Dolphins front office and kind of playing through these scenarios. 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.440 I know you've worked with you know, for big time 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.640 publications and been involved with teams and talked to scouts 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:16.040 and stuff like. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:16.600 That around the legue. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:19.760 Our teams doing this, our teams cranking out mock drafts 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.800 and trying to figure out what it could look like 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:22.560 come draft night. 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:24.880 I think this is about the time of year where 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.200 they really get into some of those hypotheticals. You know, 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:34.760 it's for the media. Part of our whole subculture is 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.840 mock drafts and player rankings throughout the season, and you 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.320 get to the early pre draft process, and then there's 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:47.680 another wave because it changes with free agency. But this 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.440 is really the time for teams once they've set and 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.320 finalized their boards, which is something that happens within the 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.600 first two weeks of April, and that all the pro 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.640 days are done, they're done collecting informational players. You sit down, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.080 you really finalize everything, and that's when you really start 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.000 to look at and say, Okay, well, what happens if 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.080 this happens, what happens, if that happens, what happens if 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.240 this player's here. What happens if these three players are here? 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:12.120 What happens if all five of these players are off 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:17.120 the board? And that's where that is an exercise that 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.200 does happen in some places that I have been, and 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:24.040 we've heard from NFL personnel and decently ranking NFL personnel 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:27.160 that they liked utilizing some of the tools that we 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.320 had for going through some of those hypotheticals like that, 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.560 that is a thing that does indeed exist. So yes, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:38.000 to answer your question, just not as excessively and obsessively 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:39.520 as the media dots. 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:41.920 I just got into it one day and these are like, 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:43.240 I see it was from Saturday. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:43.680 I was doing this. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:44.120 I must have. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.160 I must have been after like naptime or something. I 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.360 was just cranking out some mock drafts. But to your point, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.120 you know, obsessively, maybe it is a good word for it, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.760 because you don't know how accurate and this can possibly be. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:56.800 I think somebody's mock draft machines. They're all great, but 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.360 they all have inherent flaws, just inherently. There's no other 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.440 word to describe that. Like this one for instance, So 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:06.800 this is my elite top three receiver falls more than 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.159 he should mock draft. And in this case, Kyle, if 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.080 I'm gonna pull my screen up here for you, it 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.080 was Marvin Harrison. We know he's not gonna be there 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:14.880 at nine, right, He's not gonna last to the Chicago 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:16.960 Bears at nine. And if he is, they're probably gonna 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.840 take him in and paired with Caleb Williams. But in 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:21.399 this instance, I traded what in my opinion, was highway 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:23.919 robbery becas I was able to get you know, I 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:25.480 was able to get up there for a pretty cheap 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.720 but it allowed me to go get Marvin Harrison. And 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:30.879 that's how I feel about Harrison, Neighbors, and Oduns. I 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.760 think they're all premier number one receivers in this league. 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.120 Is there a player, is there a situation a scenario ethough, 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:40.000 you can see where the Dolphins move not just a 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:41.880 little bit, but way up in the draft and go 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:43.760 pluck one of these premier players. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.199 Probably not, just because I think you have to. You 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.200 don't just have to pay the price to get there. 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.600 But there's gonna be teams in the teams that are 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.520 trying to accomplish the same things. So now you're getting 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.119 in an open bidding war. And I think One of 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:01.800 the things that Miami has shown through free agency in 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:06.320 each of the last two seasons and generally speaking, is 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:11.399 they do have some restraint. And I know there's people 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.480 who are fans of the team who maybe not don't 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.760 feel that way, but it really does seem like they 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:20.480 know what they feel the cost is of something and 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.920 they're not going to go crazy. You know, the Tyreek 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.640 Hill trade is something in its own animal because it's 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.400 the best wide receiver in the NFL, becomes available in 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:33.000 his physical prime at age twenty nine, and you had 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.879 an opportunity to bring a player in that really accentuated 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.480 what you want to do to offensively like that, that's 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:44.480 a totally different ballgame, right, So for Miami to know 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:48.640 we're coming from twenty one to get into the top ten, 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.880 to go get a premiere wide receiver as an example, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:58.199 I just feel like that cost is so high and 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.480 it kind of flies in the face of what everything 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:04.560 else this offseason has been about. So that for me, 0:19:04.880 --> 0:19:09.359 if somebody falls to eighteen, I think that's a different 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:13.320 story than if somebody falls to nine with the Bears. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:15.840 Just for me, I'm glad you said that, because my 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:19.480 next my next simulation here is just that real quick 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.679 for posterity. I showed a screen to Kyle. It'd be 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:23.200 cool to tell you guys that and not tell you 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:24.760 the mock draft I did here. So I moved back, 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:27.240 all right, Rather, I moved up and got Marvin Harrison, 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.240 and then I had the sixty fourth picks. I must 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:32.280 have traded back again with the Chiefs. I dipped into 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:33.960 next year's capital to get this move done. So I 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.280 got Jayden Hicks from Washington State, Go Kooks, and then 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:39.080 Mason McCormick, Theo Johnson, and Jordan Jefferson round up my 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.239 draft there. So that was one of the scenarios I 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.760