WEBVTT - Peter Schrager Talking Dolphins and 2021 NFL Draft 0:00:00.720 --> 0:00:16.759 Booking Touchdown Miami. What is up, Dolphans And welcome to 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.920 the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:26.000 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:29.480 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:32.720 we have a very very special guest joining us to 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:36.440 talk Dolphins and the latest draft buzz. Peter Schrager of 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.080 the NFL network Good Morning Football, and on set during 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:42.960 the draft in two weeks in Cleveland. He'll tell us 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.400 about the trades Miami has made and their ability to 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.760 control the draft board. Plus will play our first game 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:53.440 this draft season of if this, then that, All of 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:56.320 that and more on this very special edition of the 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:02.840 Drive Time Podcast. Miami Dolphins play the Hits rule number 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.360 one of radio and podcasting. Let's get right into my 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:10.319 interview with Peter Schraeger and I am thrilled to be 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:14.280 joined now by the host of NFL Networks Good Morning Football. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:17.440 You can catch that fantastic program Monday through Friday at 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.319 seven am Eastern. He'll be part of NFL Networks on 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:26.039 location coverage of the NFL Draft in Cleveland April through May. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:30.319 The first. Peter Schreeger Peter, what's up man? What's up? 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.760 Big Darner? I came on the podcast last year at 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.759 the combine and it was a little different feeling time. 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.360 It was pre pandemic and all we were talking about, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.760 I think was Twa or Herbert. Well, now we have 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.479 our answer and we can dig into one now as well. 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:45.640 That was one of my favorite conversations over the year 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:47.960 because again, you know, you do these two mock drafts 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.320 this season, and that's where I want to kind of 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.880 start this podcast off, is you talk about how you 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.720 do the one mock draft, you get the criticism that 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.160 comes back your way, you kind of fix it based 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.280 upon that criticism from what you get around the league. 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:00.920 But I want to ask you, Peter, to give you 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.560 kind of a chance here to on the official Dolphins 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.560 podcast kind of clear the air here, because on behalf 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.560 of Dolphins Nation, Peter, allow me to apologize for that 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:12.839 response and just making a point that this is a very, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.960 very thirsty and passionate fan base. So you you had 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:19.800 Rashawns later going their number six. Overall, you had the interaction. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:21.560 Just tell us about that a little yea, I'll give 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.960 you the backstory on it. So for the listeners at 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.040 home and the viewers of this amazing zoom session we're doing. 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.760 My process with the mock draft is I am on 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:32.280 my phone all day and I don't scout talent, never 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.720 had a scouting background. If you showed me two offensive 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:38.120 tackles from two completely different schools, I might not even 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:39.480 be able to tell you the difference. It's not what 0:02:39.520 --> 0:02:41.040 I do. What I do is I do really well 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:42.959 with this, and I text people around the league, and 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.919 I text gm s and all thirty two of them 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:46.840 interact with me in some way, and I speak with 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:49.200 evaluators and then I try to get inside info on 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.160 each team what they're looking to do. Okay, so like 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:53.639 what are the Dolphins were gonna do? What are we 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.560 gonna do? And then I put the first mock mock 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.280 draft out. When you put that thing out in the 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.200 public and you're on Good Morning Football and it's on 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.320 in every thirty two buildings, you start getting feedback, and 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.280 it's from people who might have worked for the Dolphins 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:07.000 in the past, from people might be work for the 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.880 Dolphins currently. It might be from feedback from people who say, 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:11.720 I want know Brian Flores. I used to work with him. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:13.680 Now up in New England that he won't like that 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:15.720 type of player. He's like this. That's when you start 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.680 informing things, and you start shaping your thoughts, and you 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.960 start getting little tips from people who maybe did not 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:22.919 come out of the would work for nothing, but wanted 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.600 to help you and guide you as the accuracy goes. 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.320 I would look at my mock drafts the last ten years. 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.960 The last one that comes out, I'm as accurate as anybody. 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.480 The first one that comes out, I'm way off the wall. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.520 So I put some things out there, and I put 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.800 Rashawn Slater to the Dolphins and they could discuss it. 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:43.000 In The initial fan base from Dolphins fans wasn't anger necessarily, 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:49.600 but depression and hysteria and how dare you shock awe 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.680 the fact that they would go from three to twelve 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.480 to six to get what many people have as the 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.120 second best offensive tackle in this draft. It was not 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 welcomed with fond feel things from the Dolphins faithful and 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.360 I'll tell you what fins up. I appreciate that the 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.000 passion was real and I'm here for it. I cannot 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:09.840 wait to discuss it now. I mean, I think I'll 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:11.840 speak for the entire Dolphins fan base when we can 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:13.600 say that, you've been one of the bigger proponents of 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.880 the Dolphins and hypen us up the last couple of years, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:18.080 So we definitely appreciate that. I think where some of 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.760 that hysteria comes from is you have this young quarterback. 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:22.520 We've seen other teams around the league, a team in 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.279 our division here surround their young quarterback with some talent 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.200 at the skill positions, and they see that and maybe 0:04:27.240 --> 0:04:29.440 they want to go heavy in that direction and this 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.320 is a good draft for it. But the Dolphins do 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.240 wind up in that sixth spot because of some clever 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.000 pre draft wheeling and dealing by Chris Career and company. 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.400 What do you make of Miami's pre draft trades and 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.440 what is the league saying about the Dolphins ability to 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.360 really kind of do what they please with the draft board. Yeah, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.240 I mean, look, they collect these picks, they move up, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:49.000 they moved back, it's all great. Now it's not going 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.400 to be great. Number six. You're sitting there and Kyle 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.400 Pitts and Jamaar Chase get taken four and five, and 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.680 then this whole vision of well, we did this whole 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.680 move to get to six because we thought that did it. 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.359 And and when you're at three, Travis, you know you 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.440 can get your guy. When you're at six, you don't 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:07.839 know you can get your guy. And you don't know 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:09.960 what Atlanta is doing. You don't know what Cincinnati is doing. 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:12.800 So it's great, and you pick up the extra draft picks, 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:14.800 and we love collecting draft picks, and that's all great, 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:19.839 But all right, where you're removed, okay to play nine games. 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.520 Austin Jackson showed flashes the corner at Auburn. You tell me, 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:25.760 I don't know if he was a standout. Last year, 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.240 you had three first round draft picks. This year you'll 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:31.360 have two first round draft picks. At some point. These 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.640 guys got a hit. You've got to make an impact 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.120 right away. And if you have the number three overall pick, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:39.080 and you're gifted that from the Tunzil trade, to trade 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.520 back and then trade up and then to get a 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.159 little cute with the order and say three, no, but twelve, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.800 now we'll go six. That's all I'm saying. At four 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.719 and five are Falcons and Bengals right now. I don't 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.919 think they're going quarterback. So if you're so confident sitting 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.560 at six that you're still gonna get your guy. You 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.080 better like three of these prospects that are in quarterbacks. 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.279 I'm just saying, with all the maneuvering, if it does 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:05.080 all work out. I know I'm on the Dolphins podcast 0:06:05.120 --> 0:06:06.760 and its team and all that stuff, I think it's 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.160 okay for me to question. I think that's fair because 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.520 at the third overall pick, if you really want Kyle Pitts, 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.599 you go and you take them in a third overall, 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.120 if you really want Jamark Chase, you're going to take them. 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.320 To do all this dancing with the order, it kind 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.159 of feels like you're dancing with the devil a little bit, 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.440 and the devil could be the NFL draft. You mentioned 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.520 to Austin Jackson Noah egg Bonogamy that the Dolphins led 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:28.640 the NFL with rookies taking snaps last year over four thousand, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.080 won ten games in the process. And again, like you 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.560 mentioned the pipeline of draft picks coming down here in 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:37.120 future years to pick next year, two picks, three, future 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.200 twos and threes. I mean, like you mentioned the draft picks, 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.320 they just keep coming. But I want to dive into 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:44.640 something you said there, Peter about the possibility of quarterbacks 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.479 only going one to three and then a stop there 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.000 at the quarterback position. I'm curious, do you have it 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.640 like most people where it's Lawrence Wilson and then who 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.599 is that number three guy? You think at this point? 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.919 And then what do Atlanta and Cincinnati like? Where do 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:58.880 you lean for those two picks? So we can kind 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.240 of assess what Miami has here at number six. I 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.080 think this is where it gets really cool. I think 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.279 it's Lawrence and Wilson. I think right now Mac Jones 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.080 is the leader in the clubhouse in San Francisco, but 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.160 that could easily be Fields or Lands. So let's say 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:13.800 those we've got the quarterback one, two, three. I don't 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.080 know San Francisco's plans. I'm very close with John Lynch. 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:17.960 I worked with him at Fox. He has not told 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.360 me Kyle Shanna and I have a relationship with He 0:07:20.400 --> 0:07:23.040 has not told me. I honestly don't think as we 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:25.160 record this in the second week in April, I don't 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.480 think they're sold on a quarterback just yet, and I 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.080 don't think it Jets are either, by the way, But 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.240 let's just say for arguments sing, So now you got 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.560 Atlanta at four, they've got Matt Ryan under contract, Matt 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:35.920 Ryan can still play football. They could take their quarterback 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.520 of the future, stacked the quarterback for this ship and 0:07:37.560 --> 0:07:39.720 go forward there. But what if there's a team that 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.680 likes Kyle Pitts even more than the Miami Dolphins. What 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.920 if there's a team that likes Kyle Pitts more than 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.000 but just doesn't want the Dolphins to have him and says, 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:49.920 you know what, we can offer even better draft capital. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.720 That's where it gets tricky. Cincinnati at five, they've needs, 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.680 But I think Atlanta Cincinnati, those two teams, when you 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.680 say you're gonna trade behind them, you've got to be 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.600 awfully certain. You might say, if you're the Dolphins, well, 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.240 we love Chase, we love Pits. If Pitts is off 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.320 the board, will take Chase. But you better be okay 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.280 with having a planned c When you've got two teams 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:13.600 in front of you, and a lot of teams who 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:14.840 might be wanted to trade up in front of you 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.280 to get those two guys, you might have to start 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:21.040 wrapping your head around Pena Sewell or Rashawn Slater or 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:25.000 God forbid, Jalen Waddle or God forbid Davante Smith. And 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.320 I don't know if Dolphins fans are sitting there doing flips. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.600 If if if it ends up being Davante Smith, you tell 0:08:29.640 --> 0:08:31.360 me what's the reaction if it's not. If it's not 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.000 one of these two guys chase their pitts, are Dolphins 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.160 fans doing jumping jack so happy to get the third 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.079 wide receiver, a third pass catcher off the board. I mean, 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.439 I appreciate that perspective because, like you mentioned, from the 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:43.800 Dolphins fan perspective, what I see every day. What you 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.800 got to dive in there for a little bit after 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.360 mock draft. One point, oh, was that folks are really 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:51.040 excited about the potential of those past catchers. The Chase, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.160 the Pits, the Waddle, the Smith. You know, any of 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.400 the four would would seem to please most. But I'm 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.760 curious what your takeaway is from that group of skill players. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.760 And you can go ahead and groups Tool and Slater 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.400 and maybe the top defender in this class too, because 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.400 you know, Brian Flores isn't gonna just do what you 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.240 know Chalk tells him to do. He's gonna take the 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.040 player he believes in best, and Chris Career and their 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:13.240 entire staff, that's their modus operandi. So who do you 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.680 like of that group among the Chase, the Wattle, the 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.839 pits Seool Slater. Maybe it's Micah Parsons, maybe it's I 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.280 don't know, Caleb Farley, whatever, the top cornerback might be. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.719 Which of that group do you think really stands out 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.680 above the rest? Maybe in the league's eyes and your 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.400 eyes just kind of walk us through them. Yeah, So 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:30.560 the inside I got from this first mock draft is 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.040 that there is no Miles. This isn't the class for that, 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:36.520 especially at six overall, so you're out on defensive end, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:41.080 their defensive tackle or linebacker. Corner certain gets great right 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.520 ups and he might be an NFL superstar. Do you 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.600 want a corner at six? A Kudo went three last year. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.840 It's been done. Teams do draft corners inside. Denzel Ward 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.840 went for If there's anyone at certain, I think he's 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:54.959 gonna be the first one off the board, and he can't. 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.400 You can't shake a stick at that. But that's not 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.360 Miami's needs. Miami has got a great defensive backfield. So 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.959 then it comes to down to offensive tackle because you 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:03.720 just take them when you can get them. And you know, 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.439 I know Hunt play well last year too. But if 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.959 you can add another young offensive linemen to protect to 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:11.400 you gotta consider it. And then it becomes to the 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.720 wide receivers. So Pits and Chase, they're both viewed as 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.240 one a guys, both of them, Top five, top six, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:23.600 whatever you want. The offensive tackles are interchangeable, Sewel and Slater. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.280 Depends on what your preferences, and I think there's a 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.240 big drop off after that as far as wide receivers, corners, 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:32.000 defensive ends and running backs in the rest of the positions. 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.280 It is a quarterback draft. It is a wide receiver. 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.160 Two guys really in Chase and Pitts if you want 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.360 to consider Pits a wide receiver, and then it's two 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.400 offensive tackles. That's how most teams have their boards set 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.199 as far as top five, six, seven prospects go. We're 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:49.320 talking NFL Draft Miami Dolphins with Peter Schreeger of the 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.760 NFL Network and Peter, you know, we talked a little 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:54.160 bit earlier about the feeling around the Dolphins acquiring all 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.040 this draft capital and for four years and four years 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:58.840 of drafts. If things stand the way they are right now, 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.480 which they probably won't because we've been so active, but 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:03.760 in four years, Miami would have had eight draft picks 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.760 if you go from three and now we're seeing, you know, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.560 Jacksonville goes out and trades Jalen Rams and acquires all 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.439 this draft capital. The the Jets trade Jamal Adams get 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.840 all this draft capital. Teams are kind of starting to 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.520 do a little bit more of this. Let's let's reset, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.920 let's knock back the books and get the draft capital. 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:22.920 Is that kind of a precedent set here by the 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.160 Miami Dolphins, And is a league looking at Dolphins is 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.800 like kind of a blueprint for how to rebuild the franchise. 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.559 And that's the opposite, right, you have the Rams model, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.680 which is we're all in every year, and then you've 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.280 got the Dolphins model, where it's like, we're not only 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.120 in this year, but we're gonna consider next year and 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:39.800 year after. I think here's the truth of the matter. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.640 Brian Flores isn't going anywhere. This guy could have easily 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.440 even Coach of the Year this year. He is one 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:46.440 of the most respected men in the league, let alone 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.760 head coaches. And if things go a little differently against 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.640 Las Vegas, things go a little differently. Obviously against Buffalo, 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:54.280 you're talking about a team that might have made a 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:57.280 run through the playoffs. I think that they're set up 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.920 at the coaching position. I think quarterback they like to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:03.840 obviously he if they didn't number three overall, we'd be 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.240 talking quarterback as a possibility for the Dolphins. They trade 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.960 out of that spot, um, and now it's finding all 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:11.040 the right picks to do it at some point. This 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.480 was the Cleveland Brown situation for years, where they were 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.280 just trading back and loading up picks. At some point 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.320 you have to draft these players and they can't just 0:12:17.360 --> 0:12:19.400 be fictional. We have a first rounder next year, you 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.880 have to actually deliver. So I'm curious to see what 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.240 we get from Austin Jackson. I'm curious what we see 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:26.439 and you'll know the pronunciation better and it's insulting to 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:29.200 the kid, But as the Auburn corner, what do you know? Uh? 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.760 And I know his parents are both incredible athletes as well, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.160 and his story is great and he's supposed to be 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.280 an awesome kid. So I apologize for not being able 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:40.240 to pronounce the name. It's that's the amateur hour. But 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:42.199 at some point he needs to be If he's a 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.680 first round he needs to be a starting corner in 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:45.400 this league, and he needs to be a guy who 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.600 steps up. Austin Jackson needs to be that guy. So 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:50.640 at some point you start drafting these guys and it's 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.400 not year one, but they start developing and you have 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:56.440 your core, and this is you know, I'd include Christian Wilkins, 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:58.040 I'd include some of the other guys. This is what 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.000 you're basing your team on, not the draft picks of 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.720 the free agents or the other auxiliary pieces that you've had. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:06.200 Are is leftovers from a different regime. And it's certainly 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.600 been a point of emphasis. You mentioned Christian Wilkins. These 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:11.000 guys that love football that come you know, first in 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:13.160 last out, Peter, I'll give you all the cliches you 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.600 want to hear about for these guys, but it does 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.440 bring true with a lot of these Dolphins players. Floras 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.240 and Career both really prefer guys that just love playing football. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:22.079 You see in the way the team kind of interacts 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.319 with each other. Every time I asked a player last 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.040 year about playing with this team, they just lit up 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.120 and said, we've had so much fun this year. So 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.319 it's definitely a point of emphasis, Like has been acquiring 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:34.520 the draft capital and I heard this idea mold over 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:37.280 multiple times on the podcast of a couple of your 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.959 colleagues and Daniel Jeremiah and Buckey Brooks a great move 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.160 the Sticks podcast podcast, and the idea of team building 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.880 that it might be more nowadays of a two year 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.679 approach where you kind of assess the classes as a whole. 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.600 And it reminds me of going back to you know, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.240 last season, the receiver class was so deep. This year's 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.520 is too, but Miami went and kind of rounded out 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.200 the trenches and now you come into another draft class 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.719 this year where they received was really a good looking right, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:03.760 So what do you make of that approach? And are 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.080 there some benefits of doing it that way? Are other 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.000 teams kind of doing that too year approach? What do 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.240 you think about that? Well, this year was so weird 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:12.319 because of the COVID situation, so you had a lot 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.600 of players like a Sewell who didn't even play this year. 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:18.240 So you're almost like, all right, we have no combine. 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:20.800 You didn't play last year. The last time it took 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.200 the field was twenty nineteen and it was in November 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:26.040 or whatever. Like, it's very curious this season's draft. A 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.720 lot of it's gonna be trusting tape and then going 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.640 with your gut. So I like where the Dolphins sit 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.400 in the draft six and eighteen. I think you're gonna 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:36.360 get two great players. And the way this draft class 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.720 is looking, as I've said it, no elite pass rushers, 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.320 and that's insulting because who knows, maybe Michael Parsons comes in, 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:45.040 or Ronnie one of these RUnni Fel whatever his name is, 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.880 out of Oklahoma. He comes in and he lights it up, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:49.840 and what are we talking about? Who are we? But 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.080 I don't think a pass rusher goes in the top ten, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.120 which is on which is completely rare for this league. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:15:00.000 There's two really valued offensive tackles, and there's two pass catchers, 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:03.520 and and there's just like this great, great massive receivers 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.840 that's gonna be in that next wave. And I look 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.680 at it like last year where it was Jefferson and 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.440 it was like you and then you had Van Jefferson, 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.560 you had all these guys. This kid could Darius Tony 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.160 out of Miami. If a team wants a receiver, he 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:19.920 might go before Davante Smith and Jalen Waddle to hype 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.560 on him. Right now, everyone loves what he brings Ron 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:24.560 bill Moore at a Purdue. He might be the pick 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.520 at eight team if you don't go receiver or pass 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:30.440 catcher at six. These are types of guys that names 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:33.640 were not being mentioned much in the pre draft process 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:35.960 until April, and now they're almost given that they're gonna 0:15:35.960 --> 0:15:39.160 be first round picks. So very interesting wide receiver class 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:41.240 a lot like last year's where you had the big names, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:42.960 but don't be shocked at the end of the first 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.680 round and get some guys that haven't been talked about 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.360 as much who could also go. There could Darius Tony 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.880 and Ron del Moore. That's that's impressive stuff here, because 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:52.120 I mean there's some several other receivers you could point 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:53.640 to and say that guy could come in his first 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:55.720 year and contribute a big time as well. I wanted 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.360 to ask you this because you kind of mentioned this 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:00.320 in that last answer about pene Seul Jamarch it's not 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.680 playing football in how does that how does the opt 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.000 out situation the scenario this year with this unique COVID season, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.160 How does that kind of way in team's minds in 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:11.560 terms of how they approached this draft with players that 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.640 haven't played football in almost two years. Peter, you got 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.080 you gotta you gotta respect the decision. And yet it's 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:19.040 frustrating for a lot of these teams because they just 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.320 don't have the database. Like you know, we had Gregory 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.800 Rousseau from Miami on the show today on Good Morning Football, 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:27.880 and he was excellent and he's great and everything you 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:30.120 hear out of Miami's awesome. He's played one year of 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.800 college football, you know, and it's like it's tough, like 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.360 what do I do with this? What do I do? 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.280 And it it's not any and his mom is a 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:38.320 COVID nurse. This guy had every reason. You don't hold 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:40.800 it against him. But if there's a player that's got 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.240 three years of film, that's healthy and has shown that 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:45.880 he can do it, maybe that's the safer pick and 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:47.560 you're not taking as much of a swing on a 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:50.720 guy who maybe played one year swell. Look, it's very raw. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:54.480 The footage, it's amazing. He's athletic, but he's raw. He's 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.040 not a polished product yet. So if you're taking him 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.040 with the top six pick, as a DOLLS might, are 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:03.320 we sure he can play right away? And are we 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.560 sure we are confident that this guy is going to 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.080 make an impact for this team and is on the 0:17:07.160 --> 0:17:09.320 right thing. Without last year's footage, it makes it a 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.440 little harder. Will say this. Jalen Waddle is a prospect 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.920 that I'm really interested in because here's a guy who 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.159 not only played during the COVID season, but how an 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:20.680 outstanding year. But he went down with a bad ankle 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:23.399 injury week five. The rest of the film that he 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.080 put together in the next week's was not outstanding, and 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:29.199 it was an excellent I have heard overwhelming praise, and 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.720 it's not dismissing the guys who didn't play, but almost 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:37.119 a backhanded compliment or way to say. Multiple teams have 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.280 told me that they love that Waddle played through that 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.959 injury and played in the National Championship thing, and no 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:45.320 matter what was not you couldn't drag him off the field. 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.080 I think that stuff's really interesting and I will see 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.280 after the draft for the guys who decided not to play, 0:17:51.480 --> 0:17:54.760