Speaker 1: Booking Touchdown Miami. What is up, Dolphans And welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network,
Speaker 1: covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we have a very very special guest joining us to
Speaker 1: talk Dolphins and the latest draft buzz. Peter Schrager of
Speaker 1: the NFL network Good Morning Football, and on set during
Speaker 1: the draft in two weeks in Cleveland. He'll tell us
Speaker 1: about the trades Miami has made and their ability to
Speaker 1: control the draft board. Plus will play our first game
Speaker 1: this draft season of if this, then that, All of
Speaker 1: that and more on this very special edition of the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast. Miami Dolphins play the Hits rule number
Speaker 1: one of radio and podcasting. Let's get right into my
Speaker 1: interview with Peter Schraeger and I am thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined now by the host of NFL Networks Good Morning Football.
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Speaker 1: location coverage of the NFL Draft in Cleveland April through May.
Speaker 1: The first. Peter Schreeger Peter, what's up man? What's up?
Speaker 1: Big Darner? I came on the podcast last year at
Speaker 1: the combine and it was a little different feeling time.
Speaker 1: It was pre pandemic and all we were talking about,
Speaker 1: I think was Twa or Herbert. Well, now we have
Speaker 1: our answer and we can dig into one now as well.
Speaker 1: That was one of my favorite conversations over the year
Speaker 1: because again, you know, you do these two mock drafts
Speaker 1: this season, and that's where I want to kind of
Speaker 1: start this podcast off, is you talk about how you
Speaker 1: do the one mock draft, you get the criticism that
Speaker 1: comes back your way, you kind of fix it based
Speaker 1: upon that criticism from what you get around the league.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you, Peter, to give you
Speaker 1: kind of a chance here to on the official Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast kind of clear the air here, because on behalf
Speaker 1: of Dolphins Nation, Peter, allow me to apologize for that
Speaker 1: response and just making a point that this is a very,
Speaker 1: very thirsty and passionate fan base. So you you had
Speaker 1: Rashawns later going their number six. Overall, you had the interaction.
Speaker 1: Just tell us about that a little yea, I'll give
Speaker 1: you the backstory on it. So for the listeners at
Speaker 1: home and the viewers of this amazing zoom session we're doing.
Speaker 1: My process with the mock draft is I am on
Speaker 1: my phone all day and I don't scout talent, never
Speaker 1: had a scouting background. If you showed me two offensive
Speaker 1: tackles from two completely different schools, I might not even
Speaker 1: be able to tell you the difference. It's not what
Speaker 1: I do. What I do is I do really well
Speaker 1: with this, and I text people around the league, and
Speaker 1: I text gm s and all thirty two of them
Speaker 1: interact with me in some way, and I speak with
Speaker 1: evaluators and then I try to get inside info on
Speaker 1: each team what they're looking to do. Okay, so like
Speaker 1: what are the Dolphins were gonna do? What are we
Speaker 1: gonna do? And then I put the first mock mock
Speaker 1: draft out. When you put that thing out in the
Speaker 1: public and you're on Good Morning Football and it's on
Speaker 1: in every thirty two buildings, you start getting feedback, and
Speaker 1: it's from people who might have worked for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: in the past, from people might be work for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins currently. It might be from feedback from people who say,
Speaker 1: I want know Brian Flores. I used to work with him.
Speaker 1: Now up in New England that he won't like that
Speaker 1: type of player. He's like this. That's when you start
Speaker 1: informing things, and you start shaping your thoughts, and you
Speaker 1: start getting little tips from people who maybe did not
Speaker 1: come out of the would work for nothing, but wanted
Speaker 1: to help you and guide you as the accuracy goes.
Speaker 1: I would look at my mock drafts the last ten years.
Speaker 1: The last one that comes out, I'm as accurate as anybody.
Speaker 1: The first one that comes out, I'm way off the wall.
Speaker 1: So I put some things out there, and I put
Speaker 1: Rashawn Slater to the Dolphins and they could discuss it.
Speaker 1: In The initial fan base from Dolphins fans wasn't anger necessarily,
Speaker 1: but depression and hysteria and how dare you shock awe
Speaker 1: the fact that they would go from three to twelve
Speaker 1: to six to get what many people have as the
Speaker 1: second best offensive tackle in this draft. It was not
Speaker 1: welcomed with fond feel things from the Dolphins faithful and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what fins up. I appreciate that the
Speaker 1: passion was real and I'm here for it. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait to discuss it now. I mean, I think I'll
Speaker 1: speak for the entire Dolphins fan base when we can
Speaker 1: say that, you've been one of the bigger proponents of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins and hypen us up the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: So we definitely appreciate that. I think where some of
Speaker 1: that hysteria comes from is you have this young quarterback.
Speaker 1: We've seen other teams around the league, a team in
Speaker 1: our division here surround their young quarterback with some talent
Speaker 1: at the skill positions, and they see that and maybe
Speaker 1: they want to go heavy in that direction and this
Speaker 1: is a good draft for it. But the Dolphins do
Speaker 1: wind up in that sixth spot because of some clever
Speaker 1: pre draft wheeling and dealing by Chris Career and company.
Speaker 1: What do you make of Miami's pre draft trades and
Speaker 1: what is the league saying about the Dolphins ability to
Speaker 1: really kind of do what they please with the draft board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, they collect these picks, they move up,
Speaker 1: they moved back, it's all great. Now it's not going
Speaker 1: to be great. Number six. You're sitting there and Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts and Jamaar Chase get taken four and five, and
Speaker 1: then this whole vision of well, we did this whole
Speaker 1: move to get to six because we thought that did it.
Speaker 1: And and when you're at three, Travis, you know you
Speaker 1: can get your guy. When you're at six, you don't
Speaker 1: know you can get your guy. And you don't know
Speaker 1: what Atlanta is doing. You don't know what Cincinnati is doing.
Speaker 1: So it's great, and you pick up the extra draft picks,
Speaker 1: and we love collecting draft picks, and that's all great,
Speaker 1: But all right, where you're removed, okay to play nine games.
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson showed flashes the corner at Auburn. You tell me,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he was a standout. Last year,
Speaker 1: you had three first round draft picks. This year you'll
Speaker 1: have two first round draft picks. At some point. These
Speaker 1: guys got a hit. You've got to make an impact
Speaker 1: right away. And if you have the number three overall pick,
Speaker 1: and you're gifted that from the Tunzil trade, to trade
Speaker 1: back and then trade up and then to get a
Speaker 1: little cute with the order and say three, no, but twelve,
Speaker 1: now we'll go six. That's all I'm saying. At four
Speaker 1: and five are Falcons and Bengals right now. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're going quarterback. So if you're so confident sitting
Speaker 1: at six that you're still gonna get your guy. You
Speaker 1: better like three of these prospects that are in quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, with all the maneuvering, if it does
Speaker 1: all work out. I know I'm on the Dolphins podcast
Speaker 1: and its team and all that stuff, I think it's
Speaker 1: okay for me to question. I think that's fair because
Speaker 1: at the third overall pick, if you really want Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: you go and you take them in a third overall,
Speaker 1: if you really want Jamark Chase, you're going to take them.
Speaker 1: To do all this dancing with the order, it kind
Speaker 1: of feels like you're dancing with the devil a little bit,
Speaker 1: and the devil could be the NFL draft. You mentioned
Speaker 1: to Austin Jackson Noah egg Bonogamy that the Dolphins led
Speaker 1: the NFL with rookies taking snaps last year over four thousand,
Speaker 1: won ten games in the process. And again, like you
Speaker 1: mentioned the pipeline of draft picks coming down here in
Speaker 1: future years to pick next year, two picks, three, future
Speaker 1: twos and threes. I mean, like you mentioned the draft picks,
Speaker 1: they just keep coming. But I want to dive into
Speaker 1: something you said there, Peter about the possibility of quarterbacks
Speaker 1: only going one to three and then a stop there
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. I'm curious, do you have it
Speaker 1: like most people where it's Lawrence Wilson and then who
Speaker 1: is that number three guy? You think at this point?
Speaker 1: And then what do Atlanta and Cincinnati like? Where do
Speaker 1: you lean for those two picks? So we can kind
Speaker 1: of assess what Miami has here at number six. I
Speaker 1: think this is where it gets really cool. I think
Speaker 1: it's Lawrence and Wilson. I think right now Mac Jones
Speaker 1: is the leader in the clubhouse in San Francisco, but
Speaker 1: that could easily be Fields or Lands. So let's say
Speaker 1: those we've got the quarterback one, two, three. I don't
Speaker 1: know San Francisco's plans. I'm very close with John Lynch.
Speaker 1: I worked with him at Fox. He has not told
Speaker 1: me Kyle Shanna and I have a relationship with He
Speaker 1: has not told me. I honestly don't think as we
Speaker 1: record this in the second week in April, I don't
Speaker 1: think they're sold on a quarterback just yet, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it Jets are either, by the way, But
Speaker 1: let's just say for arguments sing, So now you got
Speaker 1: Atlanta at four, they've got Matt Ryan under contract, Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan can still play football. They could take their quarterback
Speaker 1: of the future, stacked the quarterback for this ship and
Speaker 1: go forward there. But what if there's a team that
Speaker 1: likes Kyle Pitts even more than the Miami Dolphins. What
Speaker 1: if there's a team that likes Kyle Pitts more than
Speaker 1: but just doesn't want the Dolphins to have him and says,
Speaker 1: you know what, we can offer even better draft capital.
Speaker 1: That's where it gets tricky. Cincinnati at five, they've needs,
Speaker 1: But I think Atlanta Cincinnati, those two teams, when you
Speaker 1: say you're gonna trade behind them, you've got to be
Speaker 1: awfully certain. You might say, if you're the Dolphins, well,
Speaker 1: we love Chase, we love Pits. If Pitts is off
Speaker 1: the board, will take Chase. But you better be okay
Speaker 1: with having a planned c When you've got two teams
Speaker 1: in front of you, and a lot of teams who
Speaker 1: might be wanted to trade up in front of you
Speaker 1: to get those two guys, you might have to start
Speaker 1: wrapping your head around Pena Sewell or Rashawn Slater or
Speaker 1: God forbid, Jalen Waddle or God forbid Davante Smith. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if Dolphins fans are sitting there doing flips.
Speaker 1: If if if it ends up being Davante Smith, you tell
Speaker 1: me what's the reaction if it's not. If it's not
Speaker 1: one of these two guys chase their pitts, are Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans doing jumping jack so happy to get the third
Speaker 1: wide receiver, a third pass catcher off the board. I mean,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that perspective because, like you mentioned, from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins fan perspective, what I see every day. What you
Speaker 1: got to dive in there for a little bit after
Speaker 1: mock draft. One point, oh, was that folks are really
Speaker 1: excited about the potential of those past catchers. The Chase,
Speaker 1: the Pits, the Waddle, the Smith. You know, any of
Speaker 1: the four would would seem to please most. But I'm
Speaker 1: curious what your takeaway is from that group of skill players.
Speaker 1: And you can go ahead and groups Tool and Slater
Speaker 1: and maybe the top defender in this class too, because
Speaker 1: you know, Brian Flores isn't gonna just do what you
Speaker 1: know Chalk tells him to do. He's gonna take the
Speaker 1: player he believes in best, and Chris Career and their
Speaker 1: entire staff, that's their modus operandi. So who do you
Speaker 1: like of that group among the Chase, the Wattle, the
Speaker 1: pits Seool Slater. Maybe it's Micah Parsons, maybe it's I
Speaker 1: don't know, Caleb Farley, whatever, the top cornerback might be.
Speaker 1: Which of that group do you think really stands out
Speaker 1: above the rest? Maybe in the league's eyes and your
Speaker 1: eyes just kind of walk us through them. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: the inside I got from this first mock draft is
Speaker 1: that there is no Miles. This isn't the class for that,
Speaker 1: especially at six overall, so you're out on defensive end,
Speaker 1: their defensive tackle or linebacker. Corner certain gets great right
Speaker 1: ups and he might be an NFL superstar. Do you
Speaker 1: want a corner at six? A Kudo went three last year.
Speaker 1: It's been done. Teams do draft corners inside. Denzel Ward
Speaker 1: went for If there's anyone at certain, I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be the first one off the board, and he can't.
Speaker 1: You can't shake a stick at that. But that's not
Speaker 1: Miami's needs. Miami has got a great defensive backfield. So
Speaker 1: then it comes to down to offensive tackle because you
Speaker 1: just take them when you can get them. And you know,
Speaker 1: I know Hunt play well last year too. But if
Speaker 1: you can add another young offensive linemen to protect to
Speaker 1: you gotta consider it. And then it becomes to the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. So Pits and Chase, they're both viewed as
Speaker 1: one a guys, both of them, Top five, top six,
Speaker 1: whatever you want. The offensive tackles are interchangeable, Sewel and Slater.
Speaker 1: Depends on what your preferences, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: big drop off after that as far as wide receivers, corners,
Speaker 1: defensive ends and running backs in the rest of the positions.
Speaker 1: It is a quarterback draft. It is a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Two guys really in Chase and Pitts if you want
Speaker 1: to consider Pits a wide receiver, and then it's two
Speaker 1: offensive tackles. That's how most teams have their boards set
Speaker 1: as far as top five, six, seven prospects go. We're
Speaker 1: talking NFL Draft Miami Dolphins with Peter Schreeger of the
Speaker 1: NFL Network and Peter, you know, we talked a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier about the feeling around the Dolphins acquiring all
Speaker 1: this draft capital and for four years and four years
Speaker 1: of drafts. If things stand the way they are right now,
Speaker 1: which they probably won't because we've been so active, but
Speaker 1: in four years, Miami would have had eight draft picks
Speaker 1: if you go from three and now we're seeing, you know,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville goes out and trades Jalen Rams and acquires all
Speaker 1: this draft capital. The the Jets trade Jamal Adams get
Speaker 1: all this draft capital. Teams are kind of starting to
Speaker 1: do a little bit more of this. Let's let's reset,
Speaker 1: let's knock back the books and get the draft capital.
Speaker 1: Is that kind of a precedent set here by the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, And is a league looking at Dolphins is
Speaker 1: like kind of a blueprint for how to rebuild the franchise.
Speaker 1: And that's the opposite, right, you have the Rams model,
Speaker 1: which is we're all in every year, and then you've
Speaker 1: got the Dolphins model, where it's like, we're not only
Speaker 1: in this year, but we're gonna consider next year and
Speaker 1: year after. I think here's the truth of the matter.
Speaker 1: Brian Flores isn't going anywhere. This guy could have easily
Speaker 1: even Coach of the Year this year. He is one
Speaker 1: of the most respected men in the league, let alone
Speaker 1: head coaches. And if things go a little differently against
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, things go a little differently. Obviously against Buffalo,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a team that might have made a
Speaker 1: run through the playoffs. I think that they're set up
Speaker 1: at the coaching position. I think quarterback they like to
Speaker 1: obviously he if they didn't number three overall, we'd be
Speaker 1: talking quarterback as a possibility for the Dolphins. They trade
Speaker 1: out of that spot, um, and now it's finding all
Speaker 1: the right picks to do it at some point. This
Speaker 1: was the Cleveland Brown situation for years, where they were
Speaker 1: just trading back and loading up picks. At some point
Speaker 1: you have to draft these players and they can't just
Speaker 1: be fictional. We have a first rounder next year, you
Speaker 1: have to actually deliver. So I'm curious to see what
Speaker 1: we get from Austin Jackson. I'm curious what we see
Speaker 1: and you'll know the pronunciation better and it's insulting to
Speaker 1: the kid, But as the Auburn corner, what do you know? Uh?
Speaker 1: And I know his parents are both incredible athletes as well,
Speaker 1: and his story is great and he's supposed to be
Speaker 1: an awesome kid. So I apologize for not being able
Speaker 1: to pronounce the name. It's that's the amateur hour. But
Speaker 1: at some point he needs to be If he's a
Speaker 1: first round he needs to be a starting corner in
Speaker 1: this league, and he needs to be a guy who
Speaker 1: steps up. Austin Jackson needs to be that guy. So
Speaker 1: at some point you start drafting these guys and it's
Speaker 1: not year one, but they start developing and you have
Speaker 1: your core, and this is you know, I'd include Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: I'd include some of the other guys. This is what
Speaker 1: you're basing your team on, not the draft picks of
Speaker 1: the free agents or the other auxiliary pieces that you've had.
Speaker 1: Are is leftovers from a different regime. And it's certainly
Speaker 1: been a point of emphasis. You mentioned Christian Wilkins. These
Speaker 1: guys that love football that come you know, first in
Speaker 1: last out, Peter, I'll give you all the cliches you
Speaker 1: want to hear about for these guys, but it does
Speaker 1: bring true with a lot of these Dolphins players. Floras
Speaker 1: and Career both really prefer guys that just love playing football.
Speaker 1: You see in the way the team kind of interacts
Speaker 1: with each other. Every time I asked a player last
Speaker 1: year about playing with this team, they just lit up
Speaker 1: and said, we've had so much fun this year. So
Speaker 1: it's definitely a point of emphasis, Like has been acquiring
Speaker 1: the draft capital and I heard this idea mold over
Speaker 1: multiple times on the podcast of a couple of your
Speaker 1: colleagues and Daniel Jeremiah and Buckey Brooks a great move
Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast podcast, and the idea of team building
Speaker 1: that it might be more nowadays of a two year
Speaker 1: approach where you kind of assess the classes as a whole.
Speaker 1: And it reminds me of going back to you know,
Speaker 1: last season, the receiver class was so deep. This year's
Speaker 1: is too, but Miami went and kind of rounded out
Speaker 1: the trenches and now you come into another draft class
Speaker 1: this year where they received was really a good looking right,
Speaker 1: So what do you make of that approach? And are
Speaker 1: there some benefits of doing it that way? Are other
Speaker 1: teams kind of doing that too year approach? What do
Speaker 1: you think about that? Well, this year was so weird
Speaker 1: because of the COVID situation, so you had a lot
Speaker 1: of players like a Sewell who didn't even play this year.
Speaker 1: So you're almost like, all right, we have no combine.
Speaker 1: You didn't play last year. The last time it took
Speaker 1: the field was twenty nineteen and it was in November
Speaker 1: or whatever. Like, it's very curious this season's draft. A
Speaker 1: lot of it's gonna be trusting tape and then going
Speaker 1: with your gut. So I like where the Dolphins sit
Speaker 1: in the draft six and eighteen. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: get two great players. And the way this draft class
Speaker 1: is looking, as I've said it, no elite pass rushers,
Speaker 1: and that's insulting because who knows, maybe Michael Parsons comes in,
Speaker 1: or Ronnie one of these RUnni Fel whatever his name is,
Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma. He comes in and he lights it up,
Speaker 1: and what are we talking about? Who are we? But
Speaker 1: I don't think a pass rusher goes in the top ten,
Speaker 1: which is on which is completely rare for this league.
Speaker 1: There's two really valued offensive tackles, and there's two pass catchers,
Speaker 1: and and there's just like this great, great massive receivers
Speaker 1: that's gonna be in that next wave. And I look
Speaker 1: at it like last year where it was Jefferson and
Speaker 1: it was like you and then you had Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: you had all these guys. This kid could Darius Tony
Speaker 1: out of Miami. If a team wants a receiver, he
Speaker 1: might go before Davante Smith and Jalen Waddle to hype
Speaker 1: on him. Right now, everyone loves what he brings Ron
Speaker 1: bill Moore at a Purdue. He might be the pick
Speaker 1: at eight team if you don't go receiver or pass
Speaker 1: catcher at six. These are types of guys that names
Speaker 1: were not being mentioned much in the pre draft process
Speaker 1: until April, and now they're almost given that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be first round picks. So very interesting wide receiver class
Speaker 1: a lot like last year's where you had the big names,
Speaker 1: but don't be shocked at the end of the first
Speaker 1: round and get some guys that haven't been talked about
Speaker 1: as much who could also go. There could Darius Tony
Speaker 1: and Ron del Moore. That's that's impressive stuff here, because
Speaker 1: I mean there's some several other receivers you could point
Speaker 1: to and say that guy could come in his first
Speaker 1: year and contribute a big time as well. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you this because you kind of mentioned this
Speaker 1: in that last answer about pene Seul Jamarch it's not
Speaker 1: playing football in how does that how does the opt
Speaker 1: out situation the scenario this year with this unique COVID season,
Speaker 1: How does that kind of way in team's minds in
Speaker 1: terms of how they approached this draft with players that
Speaker 1: haven't played football in almost two years. Peter, you got
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta respect the decision. And yet it's
Speaker 1: frustrating for a lot of these teams because they just
Speaker 1: don't have the database. Like you know, we had Gregory
Speaker 1: Rousseau from Miami on the show today on Good Morning Football,
Speaker 1: and he was excellent and he's great and everything you
Speaker 1: hear out of Miami's awesome. He's played one year of
Speaker 1: college football, you know, and it's like it's tough, like
Speaker 1: what do I do with this? What do I do?
Speaker 1: And it it's not any and his mom is a
Speaker 1: COVID nurse. This guy had every reason. You don't hold
Speaker 1: it against him. But if there's a player that's got
Speaker 1: three years of film, that's healthy and has shown that
Speaker 1: he can do it, maybe that's the safer pick and
Speaker 1: you're not taking as much of a swing on a
Speaker 1: guy who maybe played one year swell. Look, it's very raw.
Speaker 1: The footage, it's amazing. He's athletic, but he's raw. He's
Speaker 1: not a polished product yet. So if you're taking him
Speaker 1: with the top six pick, as a DOLLS might, are
Speaker 1: we sure he can play right away? And are we
Speaker 1: sure we are confident that this guy is going to
Speaker 1: make an impact for this team and is on the
Speaker 1: right thing. Without last year's footage, it makes it a
Speaker 1: little harder. Will say this. Jalen Waddle is a prospect
Speaker 1: that I'm really interested in because here's a guy who
Speaker 1: not only played during the COVID season, but how an
Speaker 1: outstanding year. But he went down with a bad ankle
Speaker 1: injury week five. The rest of the film that he
Speaker 1: put together in the next week's was not outstanding, and
Speaker 1: it was an excellent I have heard overwhelming praise, and
Speaker 1: it's not dismissing the guys who didn't play, but almost
Speaker 1: a backhanded compliment or way to say. Multiple teams have
Speaker 1: told me that they love that Waddle played through that
Speaker 1: injury and played in the National Championship thing, and no
Speaker 1: matter what was not you couldn't drag him off the field.
Speaker 1: I think that stuff's really interesting and I will see
Speaker 1: after the draft for the guys who decided not to play,
Speaker 1: whether teams consciously or unconsciously, whether that waved into some
Speaker 1: of the decisions of their position groups of who they
Speaker 1: took over the others. Yeah, I think both those Alabama
Speaker 1: guys get big, a big, you know, boost on the
Speaker 1: draft board for their work. Ethic and their and their
Speaker 1: ability to just do you love football. It's a big
Speaker 1: deal for these guys. And maybe it is the receiver position.
Speaker 1: Here one more question for you, Peter, and you've talked
Speaker 1: about ron Dale, Moore, Ca and Darius Tony. Maybe Jalen
Speaker 1: Wattle goes receiver number one. Who the hell knows. But
Speaker 1: if you could forecast one big surprise on night one,
Speaker 1: what would that be? Big surprise at Night one? It's
Speaker 1: on the spot. I know, I apologize, No, that's what
Speaker 1: we do. I think there's gonna be a big trade
Speaker 1: up in the top for one of the quarterbacks. So
Speaker 1: here's how it's gonna go. You're gonna get your first three,
Speaker 1: and there might be a shocker in there. The Niners
Speaker 1: might take trade lance right. And then you're suddenly looking
Speaker 1: at teams like Denver, teams like Carolina, who I still
Speaker 1: think might be in the quarterback market, Teams like Chicago
Speaker 1: at twenty, teams like New England at fifteen, and then
Speaker 1: you've got teams that have their quarterbacks but might be
Speaker 1: thinking about the future a newing. I'm sorry, Seattle. You
Speaker 1: know who knows what their future is at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had his whole thing. Is your Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: They're not in the first round. Maybe they want to
Speaker 1: get back in the first round. I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: be surprised and see that there's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: trade up front, and it's gonna be for one of
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks. I just have no idea who it's gonna
Speaker 1: be and which quarterback it is. There lusted after. You
Speaker 1: see a big smile on my face, Peter, because just
Speaker 1: the intrigue, the surprise of draft night. Let me ask
Speaker 1: you real quick, because I know that this is the
Speaker 1: Dolphins thing when everything what is the temperature on to
Speaker 1: as quarterback of the future when they traded I made
Speaker 1: all these moves. Was there anyone in that fan base
Speaker 1: who said, are we sure onto it? Because I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: I get a lot of slack for Dolphins fans, not
Speaker 1: only for giving them restons later, but for me saying
Speaker 1: the biggest of moments they went to Fitzpatrick. What do
Speaker 1: you want me to tell you? Can I assign you
Speaker 1: some homework? Yeah? I don't tell me to watch the
Speaker 1: Arizona game. I've seen the Arizona game. What else that's
Speaker 1: actually perfect? You mention that I did a podcast last
Speaker 1: week where I broke down two was game and got
Speaker 1: quotes from people around the business. You know that the
Speaker 1: Dan Orlowski's, the Trent dill first, the Kurt Warner's, got
Speaker 1: a quote from Fitzpatrick and Flora's on there, and I
Speaker 1: broke down this game as well. Yeah, thank you, and
Speaker 1: I I really went in on my belief personally into it,
Speaker 1: and I think the fan base resonates with that. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, we've we've all kind of developed this trust
Speaker 1: for Flora's and career and if what they say goes
Speaker 1: and you know, who are we to question those guys.
Speaker 1: That's that's kind of my my takeaway. I hear you.
Speaker 1: And so with with two, I see this guy that
Speaker 1: was he excelled at mitigating free rushers. His accuracy was
Speaker 1: on point in college. The ball came out quick. He
Speaker 1: has that quick release. So I think there's offenses you
Speaker 1: can definitely build and succeed around too in this league.
Speaker 1: I would highly recommend checking out that podcast. I got
Speaker 1: passionate as you guys love on Good Morning Football. I
Speaker 1: was yelling into a microphone by myself, talking to myself
Speaker 1: as I do on the podcast here, it was a
Speaker 1: fun podcast. I would check that one out. But the
Speaker 1: belief in the fan base is very strong and very
Speaker 1: high for TUA, and I would take the same same
Speaker 1: line on that if Flores and Greer knew they had
Speaker 1: the three pick. And it's not like we haven't seen
Speaker 1: teams move on after one year. We saw what Josh Rosen,
Speaker 1: what the Cardinals did. They're not looking to protect their
Speaker 1: draft pick from last year. They're safe. They're looking to
Speaker 1: win games. And if they look at this entire draft class,
Speaker 1: and that includes Fields and Mac Jones and Zach Wilson
Speaker 1: and even Trevor Lawrence, who I don't think they're good,
Speaker 1: they never would have possibly gotten. But at least they
Speaker 1: looked at it and they said, we're comfortable trading out
Speaker 1: of the top five and we're gonna let it play
Speaker 1: as it is. We got our guy. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's because they're protecting their own reputations as player evaluators.
Speaker 1: I believe they truly believe into ah, let's see how
Speaker 1: it goes this year. They believe in development, They believe
Speaker 1: in their own process as well, and don't forget they
Speaker 1: have flexibility in future years with more multiple draft picks too,
Speaker 1: so they're tainted into any kind of corner here. Peter Schreeger,
Speaker 1: you said it all man. Good Morning Football on NFL
Speaker 1: Network Monday through Friday at seven am Eastern. You can
Speaker 1: see him as part of NFL Networks on location coverage
Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft and Cleveland April nine through the
Speaker 1: through May the first, just two weeks away. Peter, thank
Speaker 1: you again so much. We really really appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. My main responsibilities on that draft will be
Speaker 1: nights too and Day three, which to me or what
Speaker 1: every draft nick loves. And I hope you guys watch
Speaker 1: and it's all the Dolphins fans out there. No that
Speaker 1: I have nothing but love, and I love the NFL
Speaker 1: and so passionate. I was a fan long before I
Speaker 1: was working this thing. I love when you guys tweet
Speaker 1: at me. I love when you have comments on the
Speaker 1: mock draft. I'd ask and encourage as much as he can.
Speaker 1: It's really fun for me. We're gonna have this on YouTube.
Speaker 1: Peter has John offered dolls his background for those listening
Speaker 1: to just the audio version right now. He wore Davonte
Speaker 1: Parker dgy from me last year on I interview two.
Speaker 1: Peter fins up, baby, I appreciate so much. People always
Speaker 1: bring it and away he goes Peter Schreeger of the
Speaker 1: NFL Network, a very fun and sightful interview where he
Speaker 1: told us a little bit there about Chris career, Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins belief in too a Toungo by Loa, the
Speaker 1: acquisition of all the draft picks, but also some interesting
Speaker 1: notes and nuggets around the draft, the Ron del Moore
Speaker 1: and can Darius Tony potential mid first round range. That's
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. Haven't really heard that from any other sources,
Speaker 1: but you just can't get much better than the source
Speaker 1: that is Peter Scheger. You've heard him talk there about
Speaker 1: the way he develops his mock draft. I just have
Speaker 1: so much respect for the way he goes about that
Speaker 1: because it's not about trying to finagle what you think
Speaker 1: might happen, or maybe you have a favorite to a
Speaker 1: friend and there's ego involved. He's trying to gather information,
Speaker 1: put it out there, and then regather information as this
Speaker 1: long process of trying to get accurate picks for each team,
Speaker 1: and he usually does it every year. Now. You heard
Speaker 1: him talk there about last season and and trying to
Speaker 1: the debate between two and Herbert, and he kind of
Speaker 1: had a maya culpa there on the podcast, but for
Speaker 1: the most part, I mean, he's been super accurate and
Speaker 1: super in tune with what not just the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: teams you know close to us, are with the entire league,
Speaker 1: and so Peter Schreeger, we really really appreciate having him
Speaker 1: on the podcast. What a great resource that is for
Speaker 1: us to get here on Drive time. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish up this podcast with a segment that I
Speaker 1: kicked around a little bit, was thinking about putting on
Speaker 1: a separate podcast, but I think we can go ahead
Speaker 1: and extend this one a little more. And are you
Speaker 1: guys silly? I'm still gonna send it. It's one of
Speaker 1: my favorite games. If this then that it comes down
Speaker 1: to the draft, and basically what it is is taking
Speaker 1: a look at the options of perceived team needs at
Speaker 1: each pick of the draft and who you could fill
Speaker 1: out in those spots. And I don't think this disqualifies
Speaker 1: other potential positions, because you know, while I think that receiver,
Speaker 1: pass catcher, running back, a front seven player, whether it's
Speaker 1: an off ball linebacker, an edge player, a conversion hybrid
Speaker 1: of both of those. Offensive line, a developmental safety and
Speaker 1: a sam linebacker are my top needs. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily wipe out the discussion about potentially being a different
Speaker 1: player off the board. You heard Peter Teger talk there
Speaker 1: about defenders maybe not having that status, that status of
Speaker 1: a top ten pick, maybe not a top ten pass rusher.
Speaker 1: He said, Patrick Curtains the top cornerback, but is he
Speaker 1: gonna go inside the top ten? So you never know
Speaker 1: what could happen. We'll see what does happen, But in
Speaker 1: my opinion, those are the top level knees and so
Speaker 1: kind of taking a look at how the draft could unfold.
Speaker 1: And this is the beauty of doing all those mock drafts,
Speaker 1: all those simulations you do on the draft network dot com,
Speaker 1: the premier draft site and premier draft simulator out there.
Speaker 1: It gives you an idea of the different variations, the
Speaker 1: different ways the draft can unfold. And so when I
Speaker 1: was on my six hour flight back to South Florida,
Speaker 1: of course I was doing mock drafts. When I was
Speaker 1: when I'm sitting on the couch at ten o'clock at
Speaker 1: night watching the Mariners squander and the lead I'm doing
Speaker 1: mock drafts on my phone because that exercise builds in
Speaker 1: the repetition and the field for what could happen, And
Speaker 1: not that it matters what I think or what I
Speaker 1: would do in the mock draft, but it gives me
Speaker 1: an idea for how to prepare for draft nights. So
Speaker 1: I look at that number six pick, and you heard
Speaker 1: Peter talk about it. There's so much value. They're both
Speaker 1: at the tackle and receiver position, so you think about
Speaker 1: who that might be, and again receivers. We're gonna call
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts a receiver in this exercise because he is
Speaker 1: basically an offensive weapon, but Chase pits both band or receivers.
Speaker 1: I think all four of those guys, really, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: are deserving of top ten picks status. Uh Piney Swool.
Speaker 1: I remember texting friends about him as a true freshman, saying,
Speaker 1: this kid is absolutely elite already as a nineteen year
Speaker 1: old true freshman at the Organ or maybe it was
Speaker 1: eight teen years old, I can't remember, but he is
Speaker 1: just such a good player. Rashawn Slater had a great
Speaker 1: tape against Chase Young. Some folks think he's the top
Speaker 1: tackle on the board, so I think if you go
Speaker 1: for the tackle in that position, that pretty much takes
Speaker 1: offensive line off the board for a couple of picks,
Speaker 1: if not for maybe a center, an interior guy that
Speaker 1: can really give you that high profile, like a Landon
Speaker 1: Dickerson or a Creed Humphrey. But if it's a receiver
Speaker 1: at that position, you then start to think about what
Speaker 1: happens at pick eighteen. So if you supplement the six
Speaker 1: pick or the pass catching with that six pick, maybe
Speaker 1: you come back around eighteen and maybe it is one
Speaker 1: of those top defenders, because in a year where maybe
Speaker 1: we don't have a defender go off the board in
Speaker 1: the top ten or twelve picks, maybe you do have
Speaker 1: a Micah Parsons who can play off the football, who
Speaker 1: can come down off the edge. He came into Pence
Speaker 1: Day as a pass rusher, a defensive end who converted
Speaker 1: to linebacker. Maybe he's the pick there. Maybe you go
Speaker 1: and continue to fortify the secondary. You get a Trayvon
Speaker 1: Moray out of TCU the range free safety, maybe j C.
Speaker 1: Horn falls and you continue to just load up in
Speaker 1: the second dary. Maybe it's on the offensive line. Tevin
Speaker 1: Jenkins is one of my favorite players. In this class.
Speaker 1: He's a bona fide, nasty, mean, malling right tackle that
Speaker 1: would force you to make some decisions in terms of
Speaker 1: how you move the other players on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: But I think it just continues to give you more size,
Speaker 1: more aggressiveness, more man gap scheme blocking that you you
Speaker 1: love here in Miami. So those are some of the
Speaker 1: options you have there. Maybe it's Christian Derrisaw out of
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech as well. There's plenty of options on the
Speaker 1: offensive line. I like those spots, but you kind of
Speaker 1: see how the balance there of where the value of
Speaker 1: these positions could come off the board. And then you
Speaker 1: come back at pick thirty six and I have running
Speaker 1: back Javonte Williams here, but I'm not sure that he
Speaker 1: makes it to that position. Um to me, he's in
Speaker 1: that same group with Nazi Harris and Travis et N
Speaker 1: and maybe even running back one. I'm getting really close
Speaker 1: to having Williams as RB one. A valedictorian in high school,
Speaker 1: a guy that was a linebacker in high school who
Speaker 1: just you can see it by the way he passed protects.
Speaker 1: He really knocks out linebackers that try to get after Sam.
Speaker 1: How they're at the University of North Carolina their quarter back,
Speaker 1: and on top of that, he averages, you know, a
Speaker 1: billion yards per carrying, had led the nation in yards
Speaker 1: after contact and broken tackles. He catches the football, he's speedy,
Speaker 1: he's powerful, he's shifting all those things. To me, he
Speaker 1: falls maybe in that eighteen range with Naji Harris and
Speaker 1: maybe even Travis et n but maybe at thirty six,
Speaker 1: maybe somewhere in between. If there are some trades up
Speaker 1: and down the board, plenty of options at that spot.
Speaker 1: But as for thirty six, I do think that if
Speaker 1: you don't go edge or defensive front seven player at
Speaker 1: number eighteen, as you heard Peter talk about how he
Speaker 1: doesn't think any of those guys go in the top ten,
Speaker 1: I think thirty six kind of becomes a sweet spot
Speaker 1: for those types of players. Whether it's Boogie Basham, who
Speaker 1: I think I'm probably higher on than most people, but
Speaker 1: I think that he's a great fit and a damn
Speaker 1: good player who at one point had twenty three consecutive
Speaker 1: games with a tackle for loss at wake Forest, which
Speaker 1: was more than double the second place finisher in that
Speaker 1: category with ten straight games at that point of the season.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Peyton Turner out of Houston, who again another
Speaker 1: one of these two seventy pound guys who had a
Speaker 1: sub seven three cone time. Who can angle? Who can
Speaker 1: We heard John Ledyard talk about him on the pod
Speaker 1: on the Edge Preview podcast. This guy is big, he's
Speaker 1: rocked up, he's quick, he's athletic. He tested super well
Speaker 1: with the jumping metrics. So he's an option to look
Speaker 1: at there. Maybe it continues to be that receiver position
Speaker 1: if you didn't attack it at number six or number eighteen.
Speaker 1: As you heard Peter mentioned, he thinks Rondale Moore and
Speaker 1: can Darius Tony could be round one picks. What about
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore, who's kind of in that same frame of mind,
Speaker 1: the shifty, speedy, really good at creating separation slot receiver
Speaker 1: who can play both inside outside and give you some
Speaker 1: punt return there as well. Maybe you go back to
Speaker 1: that linebacker mole the edge position, is even Collins in
Speaker 1: that position, the guy that can play again off ball
Speaker 1: and on ball, rush the pass or cover, and do
Speaker 1: some work in the running game as well. And then
Speaker 1: you come back to pick fifty. And that's where I
Speaker 1: kind of start to think about opening up my options here.
Speaker 1: And again every every spot in the draft, you can
Speaker 1: do this. But at this position, maybe you think about
Speaker 1: who's the best player among For instance, my top running
Speaker 1: back at that spot would be Michael Carter. I think
Speaker 1: he he is probably the fourth running back off the board.
Speaker 1: If you look at the receiver spot, maybe a Marii
Speaker 1: Rogers enters the conversation there with both both the Elijah
Speaker 1: Moore and Ron Delmore. But again hearing from Peter, they'll
Speaker 1: go along before that. On the offensive line, does Landon
Speaker 1: Dickerson stick around that long? Does Creed Humphrey stick around
Speaker 1: that long? What about Trey Smith out of Tennessee some
Speaker 1: good options there at that position. Quinn Miners out of
Speaker 1: what Wisconsin Whitewater, who had a hell of a senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: a three twenty pound tackle in college who kicked inside
Speaker 1: of place in center as well. Maybe you go at
Speaker 1: that linebacker spot and pass on the idea of Avon
Speaker 1: Collins and you come around at fifty with Baron Browning
Speaker 1: out of Ohio State, who I've seen some very well
Speaker 1: respected draft nicks have him as LB two in this draft.
Speaker 1: Maybe you enter the discussion about possible safeties. Tyree Gillispie
Speaker 1: out of Missouri. You heard me talk about him. This kid.
Speaker 1: There is a one drive sequence where he runs down
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle off the edge on a sweep and then
Speaker 1: later in the possession Stone walls Nagi Harris at the
Speaker 1: goal line, showing both the versatility, the range and the
Speaker 1: physical at that position. So there so many options exist.
Speaker 1: That's why I love this team having so many draft picks.
Speaker 1: And really something I talked about last year on the
Speaker 1: podcast was having more resources than actual needs, which allows
Speaker 1: you to really focus on getting the best players that
Speaker 1: fit your program, that can come in and really helped
Speaker 1: build the culture and established, you know, having talent on
Speaker 1: the football field while doing that. So many options in
Speaker 1: this draft class, man, I you heard me talk about
Speaker 1: with Peter, my smile on my face as we talked
Speaker 1: about this stuff. It's two weeks away. I cannot wait
Speaker 1: for it. I'm back in South Florida doing these podcasts
Speaker 1: from South Florida once again, so very very excited. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and button up the podcast right there before
Speaker 1: we do. That first day back in South Florida, went
Speaker 1: to the pool for about an hour and I am
Speaker 1: already Florida man. Once again. Got the nice nice little
Speaker 1: lobster tan to start, but that I'll even out turn
Speaker 1: into a good base. But how great is that having
Speaker 1: eight five degree temperature and sunshine in the middle of April.
Speaker 1: It was like winds and sixty degree temperature back home
Speaker 1: where I'm from in eastern Washington. So happy to be back,
Speaker 1: glad to be here. Remember, if you guys have not
Speaker 1: done so yet, go ahead an rs VP for the
Speaker 1: Draft party at hard Rock Stadium. You can also check
Speaker 1: that out on YouTube and Facebook as well. Going to
Speaker 1: have tons of fun hosting that party and that event
Speaker 1: talking all things Dolphins Draft and NFL Draft with you
Speaker 1: guys on that event. You've got some more big guests
Speaker 1: coming up. We're gonna continue these positions by position previews.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a loaded draft week with a great
Speaker 1: crossover with Kyle Crabs of Locked on Dolphins. I cannot
Speaker 1: wait for that podcast. We're gonna be talking draft up
Speaker 1: until Draft Day on April and then continue to have
Speaker 1: analysis and reaction on the podcast here as well as
Speaker 1: interviewing each of these rookies that come to Miami via
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft. As for today's time, that is going
Speaker 1: to be my time continue to recommend f one Drive
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