WEBVTT - Drive Time: Edge 2024 Dolphins Draft Preview with Trevor Sikkema 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.120 To on the move, going deep speedways. Peace do hell 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.320 peas do. From the Baptist Health Studio. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:12.280 This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drive 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:14.680 Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:25.960 Heasy my hands in the playoffs? What is up, Dolphans 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:29.280 And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.680 Travis Wingfield. And on today's show we continue the preview 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:35.879 series and flip it over to the defensive side of 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.200 the football with the great Trevor Sikamoff from Pro Football Focus. Plus, 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.360 you guys have some questions, want to talk about Eric Azukama, 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.760 the running back position in general, and also take a 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.080 look at a review on the podcast up on Apple 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:51.320 Podcasts I believe it was, and finally discuss the Tua 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.440 throwing motion video. All of that and a heck of 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:55.840 a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.200 Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:57.800 This is. 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.720 The Draft Time Podcast. But it was a video that 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:07.200 momentarily broke Twitter. It was to a throwing a football 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:08.960 right And I don't think you know, I don't talk 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.360 about this a whole heck of a lot, but one 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.960 thing that I do have my Malcolm Gladwell ten thousand 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:20.039 hours in is throwing and catching baseball's, footballs, any type 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.960 of sport ball, including footballs. All I did as a 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.440 kid was get home from school, go outside in my 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.120 backyard and would throw the baseball ou to myself and 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.120 hit it, and then throw the ball against that net 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.360 that could either propel a ground ball or a fly ball. 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.000 And I would pretend like I was playing in the 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.000 major leagues and play these games over and over and 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.880 over again. Or I'd go to the front yard and 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.759 shoot hoops for three hours and do the exact same 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:44.440 thing all by myself until I got older. Then my 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.240 friends would come over and do the exact same thing. 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.080 So all I did my whole life was play sports. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.240 And I can tell you about my own experience with 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.240 changing a throwing motion. Not quite an NFL quarterback, but 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.800 close right a legion. Baseball and field are close, right, 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.240 very very close, so I could always. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:01:59.840 Hit that was never a pro. 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:03.160 But when the field expanded to big league size, which 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:05.720 by the way, in my day. In my day, they 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:08.839 made us go from sixty foot base paths and two 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.200 hundred foot fences to ninety foot base paths and four 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.720 hundred foot fences, why where was the middle ground there. 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.560 I always wondered that in my high school park actually 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.440 had a four hundred foot dead center fence with a 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:20.920 twenty five foot tall fence on top of that. 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:21.480 Pretty dumb. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:24.200 But I wasn't getting any at bats or starts my 0:02:24.240 --> 0:02:26.399 freshman year on the junior legion team, and I asked 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:28.359 the coach, like coach, I'm a better hitter than Jake, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.080 I'm a better hitter than Eric, the shorts top and 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.000 second basement that are playing more than I am. Why 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:33.639 am I not playing more? He said, well, we can't 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.080 trust you to throw the baseball to first base. And 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.000 I took that personally. So I got with the assistant 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.160 coach and we drilled my throwing motion every day for 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.760 a couple of weeks. I went from a long, looping 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.040 wind up to a condensed throwing motion with the ball 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.200 tight high, elbow tight to the ear. Keep everything tight 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.600 and condensed, and that should get the ball out faster 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.640 and add arm strength, and it did add velocity and 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.840 distance suddenly to my throwing arm. I became our utility 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:58.800 guy because I couldn't get out of lineup with a 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.640 decent enough throwing arm and a good bat to boot. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:05.080 So that all comes back to say, from watching the 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:08.000 side by side videos of Tua from last year to this, 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.799 I see the exact same change. First, the armslot is different. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.680 It's more over the top with a very pronounced elevation 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.440 in the elbow, and this maximizes the torque you can 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:18.400 get from the arm release. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:19.160 But it's more than that. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:22.840 Everything becomes more compact, including the load, the hip clear 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.520 and ultimately the release, which is the most important part 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.520 of it. Right If you watch last year, when the 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:31.680 ball leaves Tua's hand, his base is spread well beyond 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.480 shoulder with the part. If I can compare it to 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:35.720 a golf swing, it's kind of like clearing your hips 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:38.120 at the same time as the contact with a clubface. 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.760 If you play, you know you want to start clearing 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.680 those hips before you get the club face steep and 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.640 through the zone. So it's a definitive change if you 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.400 look at it. A lot of people don't remember this, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.520 but Joe Burrow actually was the one in the twenty 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.760 twenty class that had arm strength questions coming out of 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.480 college and he worked with Tom House and two was 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.400 working with John Beck more than Tom House. Here, just 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.760 to let that go by the wayside. But it's the 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:02.720 same idea, the same shift. And look at this quote 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.480 that I found. Here's a quote Urban Meyer used to shout, 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:08.560 you throw like a girl to Joe Burrow at Ohio State. 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:10.320 And so Burrow went to Tom House and learned the 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.120 same motion that both Brady and Breeze perfected your soul 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.440 on that right. Let's go ahead and get into the 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.680 article here, because Urban well, first of all, he was terrible, 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.240 but he would say things like not enough velocity, Joe, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.000 you're a Division three quarterback, Joe, you throw like a girl. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.400 And Burrow acknowledged that his arm strength wasn't up to par. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.159 He said, I completely changed the way I throw the football. 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:31.160 The entire three DQB plane is built around four core 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.800 legs of the performance table, functional strength and conditioning, mechanics 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.440 and motion analysis, mental and emotional makeup, and nutrition. From there, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:44.480 and athlete's weaknesses are identified and a personalized program is 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:47.920 built to fit accordingly. Burrow's problem, the team discovered from 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.080 the article had less to do with his actual arm 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.679 strength that it did his footwork, lower body and core. 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.360 Tom Brady, maybe House's most famous and accomplished client, said 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.720 in a testimonial I've been working with Tom House on 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:02.479 what's called ground force reduction kinetic sequencing, getting the power 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.159 from the ground, which translates from the ground to your legs, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.159 to your hips to the shoulders, and all the energy 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:09.680 is going towards the target end quote. I mean this 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:14.440 sounds like how I talk about I'm blocking route running everything. 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:17.200 It all starts from the ground. Anyway, The story is 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.440 on the athletic type in Joe Burrow, Tom House, and 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.600 you'll find it. But just from reading that, like, yeah, 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.080 it's Twua's base and JT. O. Sullivan has mentioned this. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.960 Kurt Warner has mentioned this in his breakdown videos. Two 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.520 was missus can almost always point back to the same 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.320 base issue. But when he's off the top of the 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.159 drop hitches up, that's when you get those dimes like 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:38.159 we saw to Wattle versus the Jets twice, Tyreek versus 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.640 the Jets, Tyreek versus the Eagles, Tyreek versus the Pats, 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.880 Tyreek versus the Giants, Tyreek versus the Panthers, Tyreek versus 0:05:43.960 --> 0:05:47.480 the Chargers, Tyreek versus the Commander's twice t versus the Cowboys, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:48.679 Wattle versus the Cowboys. 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:49.080 You get it. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.080 He's pretty good and now it should be even better. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.320 I want to get into your questions here shortly, but 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:58.280 first I'd like to acknowledge a review on the podcast 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:02.239 that I saw, and this comes in from ms MF nine, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.640 who says Travis works for the team, so yes, he 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.560 knows more about the team itself than most fans, but 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.560 isn't necessary. But it isn't necessary to act like everyone 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:15.040 who listens are amateur, as he often states. There are 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.240 plenty of people who know as much, if not more 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.960 than Travis. Every podcast, Travis likes to throw shade at 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:23.159 other podcasts, but never actually calls them out. I find 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.840 that to be unprofessional and amateur. If you have something 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.600 to say, don't beat around the bush, just say it. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.600 I actually appreciate that feedback because I did not know 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.919 it was coming off that way, and it allows me 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.640 to address things this way. Maybe it's maybe that's just 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.120 how you feel, maybe no one else was that way, 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.560 but I want to address it and take that matter seriously, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.120 because first, the amateur comments that I make are about me. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.680 I always say my amateur eye. You'll hear me in 0:06:46.680 --> 0:06:50.400 press conferences. Ask that from my amateur eye. I'm an 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.800 amateur because I am. I do get paid to talk 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.200 about football, but I'm not a coach. I don't get 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.279 paid to devise game plans and call plays. I respect 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.920 the hell out of that and I couldn't do it, 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.599 but I'm not qualified for that. Now, you say, I 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.920 do have access to things that most people don't, and I. 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:06.480 Use the shit out of those resources. 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.920 Buddy, I'm not one for going online and bloviating about 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:11.160 things I haven't studied up on. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:12.880 I know it's rare these days, right. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.280 That's the other podcast that I crap on, and I 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:17.640 crapped on Twitter to his face the other day. 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.200 More on that moment. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.680 So if I see Bradley Chubb have a rep in 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.240 a game that I think is cool, but I have 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:27.080 a question about it, I'll ask him about how did 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.360 you develop that catalog of rush moves and get to 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.920 that point where you exploited this from the tackle in 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:33.560 the game. I'll go ask him and he tells me 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:35.720 that's the best part of the job. Because I am 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.960 not McDaniel, I am not Frank Smith. I do not 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.520 have a PhD on this stuff. I'm trying to learn 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.760 the best I can. I think I maximize the time 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:44.960 and resources that I do have now that set. Do 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.480 other people study coaching clinics? Do they get personal lessons 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.920 of NFL players and coaches? Do these people watch twenty 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:53.600 plus hours of tape a week? I doubt it. I 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.960 think that differentiates me in a little bit, just a 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.040 little bit, and so I do think I have a 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.920 little bit more to say than the average fan. I 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:02.360 think I think there's a lot of I don't like 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.640 for baseball and basketball. I don't care about spin rate 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.080 and you know, the art of the pick and roll. 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.320 I just watched the game. I think that's how a 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.080 lot of football fans are too. So I'm trying to 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.960 explain to the folks that are somewhat interested but don't 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.120 really like want to dive all the way, And that's 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.240 kind of the needle I'm trying to threat at. The 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:21.960 content is like, let's get smarter and learn about football, 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.680 but help explain it in a way that someone that's 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.960 not as well verse can understand. That's the only thing 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.360 I'm going for there, and with full transparency. The reason 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.880 that I do go, you know, one on one on 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.960 some of the commentary is that that's a note I've 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:36.000 gotten from people above me that said, Hey, I don't 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:36.800 know what you're talking about. 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.319 Try to maybe include that more in your content. 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.560 You know, not everyone knows these terms, and you have 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:43.920 to explain things with these casual fans that don't want 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:45.840 to be more than casual fans. And that's totally fine. 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:47.640 I'm that way with every other sport that I watch. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.320 That's all that is. It's not meant to be a slight. 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:52.200 I want to be inclusive as I can be. I 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.520 hope that makes sense. Now you mentioned the shade, and 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.360 first I thought it was abundantly clear who I call 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.760 out frequently on the podcast, right, and I'll tell them 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:02.520 this to their face. In fact, I have I even asked. 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.640 This is not who I'm talking about now, but Chris Perkins, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.080 who writes for the Sun Sentinel, I think, right, and 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:08.960 he predicted nine to eighth this year and the team 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.640 goes eleven and six. Then he has asked McDaniel, if 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.040 you're like, oh, you're on the hot seat, I'm like, 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:14.600 how did how do you connect those dust? 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.000 They exceeded your expectations? 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:17.840 Now you want fired to I did that in front 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.360 of the entire presser room, and there was a fun 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.880 conversation you know who, where you will not see me 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.560 calling people out on Twitter. That is going a no 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.200 goes on for me. Unless Omar says something that makes 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.200 no sense. Then sometimes I'll get in there and cleared 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.880 up for him, which happens just what every day, it 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:35.080 seems like. But here's that's where I get really annoyed. 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:36.640 I think you, guys, the fans, I think you are 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:41.280 served up a disservice by several voices, but in particular 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.040 a couple of voices that we're kind of talking about 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.960 here in our media, and I've been very clear about 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.080 who that is. You know, Omar left for a year 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.760 and came back and then joined another How should we say, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.160 I guess negative blowviator for clicks, type of commentator I 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.319 don't know on a podcast, and I don't listen to 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.440 the podcast. I would never do that. I just see 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:00.439 the montages y'all cut up like oh my going on 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.240 the Big Oh Show and emphatically claiming that Wilkins is 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.000 only good because he plays half the snaps gets corrected 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.560 and then just never acknowledges it and is indignant in 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.560 his ignorance, like I have no time for that. He 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.040 totally made something up and had no idea about it 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.600 and tried to present it as fact. And there are 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:19.079 so many examples of that guy's like whether it's on 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:21.960 a show and content or just in talking like in 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.920 the hallways. And I'm never ever ever going to do that. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.560 That just taking shortcuts. I think that's taking advantage of 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.920 your position because you're in a trusted position where people 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.360 trust your voice and what your eyes can see because 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:33.640 no one else can see it for the most part. 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.800 And quite frankly, I view it as stealing. You're robbing 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:40.120 people that are paying for subscriptions or for your advertising base, 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.440 like whatever it is, I'll never forget. Training Camp twenty 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.600 twenty back at Davy, Tua throws this dime a sixty 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:49.400 yard bomb to Jaquem grant Omar's podcast partner, who was 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:50.360 referenced by name on the. 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:51.079 Podcast last week. 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:52.800 By the way, tweets out that Tua held the ball 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:54.160 too long and it would have been a sec. I 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.640 will never I remember the second it was yesterday, would 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.480 have been a sack. Held the ball too long, and 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:00.199 I knew what he was doing. I saw it called 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.800 out as such on Twitter and said that's not true. 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.840 That ball came out as fast as it possibly could have, 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.440 and he said I couldn't be trusted because I work 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:06.920 for the team. 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:08.000 It's the obvious. 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:11.760 That's the almost a facto response that I get when 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.480 someone wants to discredit my thoughts and my work mirror 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.440 hours later and maybe your boy had something to do 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:20.720 with this. The video comes out on a tweet from 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.200 the Miami Dolphins, and from snap to release, it's less 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.520 than two seconds from the time that the center snaps 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.600 the ball ata and the time it leaves his left 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:31.600 hand going sixty yards down the field, less than two seconds. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.400 Allen's leads the tweet, you got caught, Bro. I can't 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.360 stop the grift. I can't do it, but I hope 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.520 that the audience also listens here and that's a fact 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:42.079 check for them. 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.040 That's all I'm doing. We go with that. Maybe not, 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:44.959 but I'm not stopping. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.559 I only have y'all's interest in mind, and I will 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.720 not stand will not stand for indignant ignorance when it 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.360 comes to this team when I know better. 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:53.840 That's all. 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:57.920 Let's go ahead and take a break rate there, come 0:11:57.960 --> 0:11:59.640 back on the other side and get into a couple 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.120 of questions as you guys have from Twitter. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:02.800 We'll do that next year. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.440 Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:06.199 by AutoNation. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:09.120 Let's pick it back. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.040 Up here on this Friday edition of the Drive Time 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.800 Podcast with a couple of questions from y'all. I'm loving 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.280 the feedback in the threads or the straight tweets you 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.080 guys send to me. I'm bookmarking those with the intention 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.000 of answering them for you, and I will keep an 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.720 eye on the reviews. I hope that that review segment 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.200 previously didn't turn anybody off. I just wanted to be 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.120 transparent with you guys about you know what I saw 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.160 one fan thought, and so I wanted to address that. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:33.840 Yeah, there you go. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.160 Let's go ahead and hear from at Mike lane Cec 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.320 on Twitter. Great content. I appreciate the Dolphins focus on 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.160 how you partner with the draft coverage and other news. Obviously, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.160 it depends on how the board fell. But do you 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.760 see us going with depth running back late to prepare 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.840 for Moster or Wilson's cliff or departure in one to 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:55.520 two years. I love this question because I think it's 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:58.640 a good way to maybe attach a disconnect that I 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:01.520 frequently see and that every year we get a draft pick, 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.040 and it last year was the first pick we had 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.600 right the cornerback, which two years in a row. Cornerback 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.400 has been one of the most banged up positions on 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:11.360 a very banged up football team in your Miami Dolphins. 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.599 But every year there's a draft pick where it's like 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.040 they didn't need X, Y or Z, they. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:15.679 Needed a B or C. 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.080 And I just don't think that's how teams think, especially 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:19.920 when you get deeper into the draft. But I always say, 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.240 go into the draft with I must get this or 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:24.920 I will not get that is a good way to 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:27.160 have a bad draft. That's not letting the draft board 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.080 fall to you. And like every year we watch these teams, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.000 the Ravens, right like, they just let the draft fall 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.640 to them and they wind up getting Isaiah Likely in 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.840 the fourth round, like every damn year they do that, 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.480 and it works out because some name that shouldn't be 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.800 there winds up there and they're like, okay, bet we'll 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:44.320 take them. And while later on those lines become less rigid, 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:46.840 but like, man, if that fifth round pick comes around 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.880 and you have a perceived need and you have a 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:52.160 running back that you think is going to be a player. 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.480 Take the player that you think will be a player, 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.480 because if you draft or need, the odds of that 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:59.080 guy hitting is what like ten percent at that point 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.000 of the draft. But if it's a guy that's actually 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.880 a good football player, that is a position you maybe 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.040 don't need right now, you increase the odds and that 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:07.920 just gives you a cheap player for four years if 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:09.480 you hit on that pick. And I love that you 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.000 bring up the running back because I think we could 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:14.680 play a game tomorrow and I'd be thrilled with what 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.760 we have in our our holster. Now that said, there's 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:22.520 also a back that I think makes so much damn sense. 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:24.960 If you're Miami, if you make it that far down 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.040 the board, maybe it's and maybe it's earlier if you 0:14:27.480 --> 0:14:29.080 acquire a pick via a trade back. 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:30.840 But Louisville's Isaac Grendo. 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.560 And I mean, I'm sure you guys have heard of 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:35.640 him by now, but you'll see you'll you'll get it 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.560 when I say this four three three forty yard dash 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:40.880 was the fastest among all running backs this year in Indie. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.360 He's six foot two, twenty one interested yet forty one 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.880 and a half inch vertical ten oh nine broad, a 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.760 one five to four to ten split, a four to 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.000 one five shuttle, and a six nine to four to 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.520 three cone. He's not like, he's not a chan where 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.040 he finds those small creases and hits him and explodes 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.880 through him. But gosh, there's long speed and there's power, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.360 and that really translates on tape. He does have good 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.480 feel and vision and patience and he knows how to 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.320 hit the track to hit the proper gap. His tackle 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.320 breaking ability on the third level is there. He has 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.160 some patients. I think his initial burst takes a bit 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.280 to build up, which is why I think there's a 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:17.560 chance that he hangs around until day three in the draft. 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:19.840 But if he's there, and I love my running back room, 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.040 I'm prepared to love it even more because I have 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.400 zero issues grabbing this guy and developing him for a 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.960 year now. He's not the only one, He's just the 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.200 top one for me in terms of late round options. 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.360 But yeah, always always always keep the light on Motel 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.560 six style for talented football players. Man, you gotta do it. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.800 And I think Chris Brooks is a really nice developmental piece. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.480 From a power standpoint. You mentioned hefe he brings some 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.280 of that as well. And we know what we have 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.160 in Devon a Chan and Raheem Moster. Savon's a jack 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.360 of all trades and special teams guy. I just think 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.520 the draft is too often viewed as a way to 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.920 shore up weak spots. I think you shouldn't have that 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:54.760 in your mind. I think you should think about this 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.720 is an opportunity to get guys that can be cheap, 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.840 productive players for four years, and that affords me more 0:16:00.000 --> 0:16:03.920 flexibility in my contract extensions. It affords me more ability 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:06.800 to be aggressive and free agency. It just makes everything better. 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.680 When I have a seven hundred thousand dollars player playing 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.120 like a top twenty player his position. 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:12.400 It works out great for you. 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:16.520 But absolutely also just the idea of adding to a 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:18.160 strength is also a good way to make your football 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:19.720 team better. How can I make the team better? Do 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.240 that with every decision and you'll have good results. Great question, Mike. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:25.640 Let's get to another one here from at fins up 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:27.480 to A and I actually just saw this guy not 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.040 fins up to A, but the guy we're going to 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:32.000 talk about in the breakfast line, and he is chomping 0:16:32.000 --> 0:16:34.200 at the bit to play some football. Since you were 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:36.960 talking about wide receiver today, he asks, where do you 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:40.800 think Eric Azukama comes into play next season? Love the podcast, Well, 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:45.080 thank you for that. So we know that someone on 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.080 this team is going to come from out of nowhere, 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.600 Randy Orton right and be a big part of what 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:53.920 this team accomplishes or does not in twenty twenty four. 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:58.440 It happens every damn year with every team. Remember Malcolm 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.240 Rodriguez for the Lions in their hard knock season. Even 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.440