Speaker 1: All, I welcome back to the audible Kimbo Camper, John
Speaker 1: con Jemmy with you and John Wade. Has been a
Speaker 1: long time since we've been able to talk about something
Speaker 1: football wise. It didn't happen two or three months before,
Speaker 1: a year before, or whatever. We've actually got something that's
Speaker 1: on the calendar, and that was on the calendar that
Speaker 1: we got through over the weekend. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft and Johnny look at his football team and
Speaker 1: I think when, for the most part, when I've looked
Speaker 1: at different comments about the Dolphins and the draft, and
Speaker 1: everyone's getting grades and no one knows what's what these
Speaker 1: players are gonna turn out to be, but to get
Speaker 1: grades anyway, but it seems like, I don't want to
Speaker 1: say completely universally, but almost universally, the Dolphins have gotten
Speaker 1: pretty high marks on what they've done and how they've
Speaker 1: filled out their roster in the draft. And I would
Speaker 1: combine that, John, We've talked about it before, with the
Speaker 1: ten players that they signed in free agency prior to
Speaker 1: the draft, you start to feel pretty good about how
Speaker 1: this team you're shaping up. Now. Having said that, these
Speaker 1: draft choices, you know a lot of these draft choices
Speaker 1: are gonna have to come in and proved that they
Speaker 1: were worth their uh you know, where they were selected,
Speaker 1: and some of them that were selected maybe later have
Speaker 1: to prove that they're better than than with the number
Speaker 1: they were selected at. Well, I think you're right, Bow,
Speaker 1: and it starts at the top. You know, when you
Speaker 1: go and you have three draft choices in the first
Speaker 1: round and you pick fifth, eighteenth, and then you make
Speaker 1: a move to go back from thirty. You want to
Speaker 1: be able to feel like you have pillars that are
Speaker 1: going to be around the Miami Dolphins franchise for a
Speaker 1: long time. And you want to be able to not
Speaker 1: only pick guys with with great talent on the field,
Speaker 1: a great character that you can build around it, that
Speaker 1: that you can draft leaders future leaders of this football team.
Speaker 1: And I think the Dolphins really did that with too
Speaker 1: a tongue of Bloa at quarterback, because he's the guy
Speaker 1: that everybody's had their kind of uh, you know, bulls
Speaker 1: eye on for a long time now, you know, for
Speaker 1: a couple of years, ever since he threw that game
Speaker 1: winning touchdown pass in overtime in the National Championship Gaming
Speaker 1: he was a guy that was going to be you know,
Speaker 1: a top one, two, three, four, or five draft choice,
Speaker 1: and you know only because of his injuries that he
Speaker 1: slipped a five, quite honestly. So the Miami Dolphins were
Speaker 1: able to stand pat at number five, get the quarterback
Speaker 1: that they wanted, and have the luxury now with Ryan
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick of either making that a true competition and the
Speaker 1: best guy wins, or still making it a true competition
Speaker 1: and engaging it by uh the progress that to it
Speaker 1: makes in the next couple of months in terms of
Speaker 1: being able to be ready to be the best he
Speaker 1: can be for training camp. So I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of positives when you start at that position, because
Speaker 1: that position is gonna drive your football team. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it's it's nice. It's it's comforting
Speaker 1: right now. Uh And and I probably wouldn't have said
Speaker 1: this going into last season, but it's comforting to have,
Speaker 1: you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick on your football team just because
Speaker 1: we've had the chance to see him during the season.
Speaker 1: We have a chance, had a chance to really understand
Speaker 1: more of what Ryan Fitzpatrick was all about. You know
Speaker 1: that we didn't know, you know, when we weren't you know,
Speaker 1: watching seeing him as close to close as we did
Speaker 1: were able to see last year and in the game
Speaker 1: and in pre games, and just the way he carried
Speaker 1: himself out there. So it's really, you know, it's really
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins to have that. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: it's a big luxury right now. Uh, Josh Rosen, you
Speaker 1: know where he's gonna fit into that to that room.
Speaker 1: Time will tell, you know, he may be here, he
Speaker 1: may not be here, But I think when you look
Speaker 1: at it's clearly going in into this season, you know
Speaker 1: he's your number three guy on on the roster there
Speaker 1: or now. Whether he's gonna be there or not, time
Speaker 1: will tell. But you know, I think you feel pretty
Speaker 1: good going into this season where you are and and
Speaker 1: the unknown being like you talked about, what is what
Speaker 1: is to his contribution gonna be if any of this
Speaker 1: year when it comes to playing in game time now,
Speaker 1: And I think there's a number of different ways to
Speaker 1: look at it. Certainly you're looking at him, and you
Speaker 1: know the one thing you hear over and over and
Speaker 1: over again as well, you know, let him let him
Speaker 1: sit out the year and let him get let him
Speaker 1: get health here. You know, the guys had guys had
Speaker 1: break injuries. You know, he's had high ankle sprains. He's
Speaker 1: had two high ankle sprains, he's had surgery, he's had
Speaker 1: the hip injury. It was a fracture, and John my
Speaker 1: feeling on those things, or I know the fracture is
Speaker 1: a little different because it's a hip thing. But you know,
Speaker 1: my my experience with with injuries and my own injuries
Speaker 1: and other guys I played with watching their injuries and
Speaker 1: how they came back. You know, want to break his heel,
Speaker 1: his heel, You know it's it's not gonna get better,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's you know, if it's a hundred
Speaker 1: percent heel now, it doesn't mean that next year it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a hundred percent stronger than than it is now.
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's one thing. If it's if
Speaker 1: it's one thing, as if it's an a c L
Speaker 1: or a or or achilles or some of those things
Speaker 1: where it's kind of soft tissue stuff and you're kind
Speaker 1: of not sure. But to me, what a bone is healed.
Speaker 1: It's healed and and you're not that susceptible to having
Speaker 1: it return again. I remember the first time I had
Speaker 1: my first knee surgery. And you know, and and to
Speaker 1: A talked about this a little bit. He said, you know,
Speaker 1: you know once once I went to the doctor, I said, doctor,
Speaker 1: you fix my knee. Yes, is there is there at
Speaker 1: risk now of being more injury places No, that thing
Speaker 1: is as good as new. As long as you rehab
Speaker 1: right and you get your legs streighted up, it'll be
Speaker 1: good to go. And that was my rookie year and
Speaker 1: it never bothered me the rest of my career. And
Speaker 1: I had another one that had the same result with that. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know. The point I'm getting to is, I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure that you know the the reason for not
Speaker 1: playing two of this year is the injury. I think
Speaker 1: the reason to me and the criteria that I would
Speaker 1: want to see to play two, uh, is what you
Speaker 1: talked about, the fact that he came in was healthy
Speaker 1: to play, to play in training camp and whatever pre
Speaker 1: training camp they may have this year, whether it's an
Speaker 1: o T a week or or a mini camp or whatever,
Speaker 1: or whether or not you know, to me, the criteria
Speaker 1: to to base whether whether or when two or should
Speaker 1: play should be when he's ready to play, if he's
Speaker 1: gone out there, maybe he's gone out there and after
Speaker 1: three weeks of the season, you're you're looking at Ryan
Speaker 1: and you're going, you know, the guy we got sitting
Speaker 1: on the benches is better than him, is more productive
Speaker 1: than him, gives us a better chance to win. Then
Speaker 1: I think that's when you make the decision, not so
Speaker 1: much based on my mind John, on the state of
Speaker 1: the of the injury. Now I'm saying that, like I said,
Speaker 1: if he's ready to go out and compete, then to me,
Speaker 1: it's just who's the better guy and stick him in.
Speaker 1: Whether it's week one or week fifteen. You make valid
Speaker 1: points in terms of all the things that the coaching
Speaker 1: staff and the head coach Brian Floor is going to
Speaker 1: have to discuss with his staff, with Chris Greer, with
Speaker 1: TA and with the quarterback room because this is not
Speaker 1: only an injury decision. That is probably at the top
Speaker 1: of the list because that's all we really talked about.
Speaker 1: But basically it comes down to a talent evaluation and
Speaker 1: how to A is going to be able to function
Speaker 1: in this offense and with with the people around him.
Speaker 1: Does TAH make the team better? If it's yes, then
Speaker 1: he's playing. If if you check off all the other boxes.
Speaker 1: I think you go back to last year and you
Speaker 1: look talent wise, if you looked at Rosen and Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: Rosen was clearly the stronger army. He was the younger guy.
Speaker 1: We thought at that time he might have a little
Speaker 1: bit uh more mobility. Watching him in the preseason, at
Speaker 1: least he was able to run around and do the
Speaker 1: things that Fitzpatrick did as a fifteen year vet. So
Speaker 1: you felt pretty good about him giving him that opportunity,
Speaker 1: But in reality, when you watched him play, he didn't
Speaker 1: make the team better and he had the same cast
Speaker 1: of characters. Now, I will say that maybe the names
Speaker 1: on the back of the jerseys change, but the talent
Speaker 1: evaluation at tackle, at either tackle or a wide receiver
Speaker 1: really didn't change all that much. It wasn't that significant.
Speaker 1: So I think to it kind of falls into that category. Hey,
Speaker 1: you check the box. Healthwise, he's fine. You watch him,
Speaker 1: you monitor him, you look at him function, you look
Speaker 1: at him move, and if he gives the Dolphins the
Speaker 1: best chance to win on a much better roster this
Speaker 1: year than you, anybody could argue that than last year.
Speaker 1: I don't. I think if you if you thought it
Speaker 1: was close you're crazy. With all the free agency moves
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins made in the way they strengthened their
Speaker 1: team in the draft, it goes down to are you
Speaker 1: the better quarterback? Do you give us a better chance
Speaker 1: to win? If the answer is yes, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: whatever number on two is back in the huddle or
Speaker 1: in the shotgun playing quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the funny thing, there's a couple of funny
Speaker 1: things about the draft that that stuck me. What one
Speaker 1: when we were doing our virtual draft, Um, and you
Speaker 1: were doing the the quote pregame segment of of our
Speaker 1: virtual draft on on Thursday evening. Um, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at it. I'm looking at the screen on there
Speaker 1: and then listening to you and Travis do your thing
Speaker 1: there and and lo and behold, you know you look
Speaker 1: at you look at people that are watching that show,
Speaker 1: and and and two two is watching the shows. Who
Speaker 1: was on the computer watching the Dolphins uh pregame or
Speaker 1: the Dolphins? Highly? I hope I still highly of him? No,
Speaker 1: you did, and I But so that's one thing is
Speaker 1: you know you you kind of feel like you know
Speaker 1: he had an insight track as to as to what
Speaker 1: he thought was gonna happen because he was watching watching there.
Speaker 1: Now you know, who knows, maybe he was watching some
Speaker 1: other stuff. But all I know is he showed up
Speaker 1: on on our board. So so that was one thing,
Speaker 1: and John John the other thing. And it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with playing football, but it does have something
Speaker 1: to do with playing football. Was just watching him and man,
Speaker 1: maybe this is just me, but watching him at his
Speaker 1: home wherever he was for the draft and comparing him
Speaker 1: and his family to everybody else there was. There was
Speaker 1: that that had these these virtual draft parties where you know,
Speaker 1: you had guys slouching on the couch and I think
Speaker 1: one guy so I was sleeping, one guy rolling on
Speaker 1: the floor. You saw somewhere that have too many people
Speaker 1: in there and it was kind of chaos. Well, you
Speaker 1: looked at Tah he had he was dressed up in
Speaker 1: a suit. His mom and dad were sitting there next
Speaker 1: to him. They were disciplined behind him, family sitting in
Speaker 1: chairs being very you know, you know, very discipline, you know,
Speaker 1: very clean, very discipline, and and you know, to me,
Speaker 1: you know that you kind of look for snapshots of
Speaker 1: people's personality, and I just kept looking at going. Man,
Speaker 1: here's a guy and a family that is committed, discipline
Speaker 1: and organized. And you know, not that that's gonna make
Speaker 1: him a you know, a Hall of Famer. Nothing that's
Speaker 1: gonna make him a pro bowler, but it just makes
Speaker 1: it for me. It just made me feel good about
Speaker 1: the family that he's coming from and the way they
Speaker 1: carry themselves. Look, he went from Hawaii to Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Speaker 1: His whole family picked up their roots and moved right
Speaker 1: along with their son. And you know what, they're gonna
Speaker 1: pick up their roots from Alabama, and I guarantee you
Speaker 1: they're gonna be right here with him, providing support for him.
Speaker 1: And that discipline background that you just saw in that
Speaker 1: snapshot of his living room on draft night. Both there
Speaker 1: is no question that to a tongue of Byla from
Speaker 1: a young age has been molded and crafted and formed
Speaker 1: to be the CEO of an NFL franchise. Now, he
Speaker 1: may be a CEO of a company when it's playing
Speaker 1: days are over, but his discipline, in the way that
Speaker 1: his family structure has been built, in the position that
Speaker 1: he plays, he he has been everything is that you
Speaker 1: need to be a lead of a franchise and molded
Speaker 1: into too a quarterback and making decisions about not only
Speaker 1: yourself but the people around you. And the way you
Speaker 1: hold yourself and the way you answer questions, and the
Speaker 1: way you walk down the hallway and the way you
Speaker 1: enter a room, the way you look at someone, the
Speaker 1: way you speak to someone has been molded from a
Speaker 1: young age. That's why not that not that every guy
Speaker 1: in the NFL has that makeup. There's different makeups that
Speaker 1: make you good. But as a quarterback and as the
Speaker 1: as the franchise leader. As everybody's looking at the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins in the first name they're gonna say is to
Speaker 1: a tongue of violoa. I mean, that's the first guy
Speaker 1: they're gonna think of when he's finally named the starting quarterback,
Speaker 1: hopefully for ten, twelve, fifteen years. But he has that
Speaker 1: makeup to be the leader of men, and that's why
Speaker 1: he was drafted by by this franchise, in this organization
Speaker 1: to do so. It's been always a little bit of
Speaker 1: long time, but since you went into training camp with
Speaker 1: a good feeling about the I mean a really good
Speaker 1: feeling about the quarterback position. But I think I think
Speaker 1: we're there now. Now it's gonna take time to see
Speaker 1: now along the line with it, you know, with that pick.
Speaker 1: And but the Dolphins had a lot of picks. They
Speaker 1: made some maneuvers and uh and certainly two of the
Speaker 1: impact of TWA is far and away the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins did. But you know, the fifth round,
Speaker 1: you know, you you've you've been sitting here and you're
Speaker 1: looking at j. K. Dobbins go by, and you're looking
Speaker 1: at Jean Ray Swift go by, and you're looking at
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor go by. You know, man, one of those
Speaker 1: guys would look nice in that in that in that
Speaker 1: running back room. But the Dolphins in the fifth round
Speaker 1: kind of standing around, standing around drop a fifth round draft,
Speaker 1: picking forty Niners and getting that that breathed, which to me,
Speaker 1: John was kind of those one of those you know,
Speaker 1: kind of maybe I don't want to say under the radar,
Speaker 1: but it was just kind of an oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: but oh, by the way, I thought that was a
Speaker 1: really a really critical and and and big big move
Speaker 1: uh by Chris Greer that can make that trade. The
Speaker 1: forty Niners have picked up a running back, they figured
Speaker 1: one was available, and when you look at greena with
Speaker 1: the forty niners the average over six yards of carry
Speaker 1: while he was there for two years and last year
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year he was there, featured
Speaker 1: running back a lot of big plays early on. He's
Speaker 1: an ultra quick guy, not really the most shifty guy,
Speaker 1: but but if he gets to the second level, he
Speaker 1: can go. And I just thought that that that pick
Speaker 1: at that time really kind of completed the draft for
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins and really put him in a good
Speaker 1: position from a running back standpoint. Not not that look,
Speaker 1: not not that he's gonna be the guy that's gonnas
Speaker 1: gonna get all the carries, but I think when you
Speaker 1: add him to Uh, to Jordan Howard, Patrick Lair uh
Speaker 1: and and you know those guys that that are there's
Speaker 1: still in that running back room, You've got a pretty
Speaker 1: good group of crew in there. To get the two
Speaker 1: or three guys it can play multiple positions and give
Speaker 1: you multiple things from that running back spot. Well, I
Speaker 1: won't say it's as valuable as any other pick, but
Speaker 1: it's just as valuable that the Miami Dolphins made a
Speaker 1: move in the running back room to get a guy
Speaker 1: like Matt Redis actually with four years of experience He's
Speaker 1: got great quickness. He's a sub four four runner. As
Speaker 1: you said, he's averaging close to six yards per carry. Uh.
Speaker 1: He has the ability to make guys missed. And if
Speaker 1: you take a bad angle on this guy, he's going
Speaker 1: just to house call you right to the end zone.
Speaker 1: I mean that's that's the type of quickness. And you
Speaker 1: blend him with some of the other backs on this roster.
Speaker 1: I think the Miami Dolphins had to go out and
Speaker 1: make a move at running back. When when J K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins came off the board of the Baltimore Ravens, I
Speaker 1: think I slam my my fist down on the desk
Speaker 1: as well as the brass of the Miami Dolphins, because
Speaker 1: you know, at least in my gut, that was their pick.
Speaker 1: That was where the Miami Dolphins were going. After letting
Speaker 1: a couple of guys slide. They felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta make our move right now. There's no way
Speaker 1: Baltimore is gonna take a running back. They've already got
Speaker 1: three on their roster that have run you know, for
Speaker 1: close to seven eight hundred, nine hundred yards apiece, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's excluding your quarterback. That's over a thousand. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think that the Dolphins had every confidence
Speaker 1: that Dobbins was gonna be there and they were gonna
Speaker 1: take him. When that didn't happen and they had to
Speaker 1: start looking around and get creative, and they did with
Speaker 1: that fifth round draft choice, sending one fifty three to
Speaker 1: San Francisco. And I just think that, you know, you
Speaker 1: get a guy that has the experience, that can do
Speaker 1: a little bit of everything. And like you said we
Speaker 1: were talking before we went on about the makeup of
Speaker 1: this of this franchise, you get another quick twitch guy
Speaker 1: that can make you miss behind some big bodies that
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins acquired in this draft in terms of
Speaker 1: trying to bolster and build this offensive line. So you've
Speaker 1: got a meteor back or a tougher straight line back
Speaker 1: and Howard and now you've got a really shifty guy
Speaker 1: to add to that that backfield. Yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: just thought it was a really nice move. Look, do
Speaker 1: you think about you give a first fifth round pick.
Speaker 1: I take my chances with a guy who's been in
Speaker 1: the league for a couple of years and you're seeing
Speaker 1: him and see what he can do at this level.
Speaker 1: Over for a fifth round pick. Nine times out of ten,
Speaker 1: So I think they made a nice movie. They're really
Speaker 1: not really not a lot of additions in the wide
Speaker 1: receiver room. In the draft, Malcolmpary, the kid from Navy
Speaker 1: comes out and he's an interesting guy. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: as they've run that they run that option and they
Speaker 1: barely throw the football at Navy. But you know, here's
Speaker 1: a guy who did a lot of things for him,
Speaker 1: played a lot of different positions, and another one of
Speaker 1: those guys. It's a high character guy. You know, he's
Speaker 1: high character guy. If he's coming from UH from Annapolis,
Speaker 1: UH to come in and come in and and and again.
Speaker 1: Like so many guys that we've seen in free agency.
Speaker 1: In the draft, he's a guy that can play multiple
Speaker 1: positions and do a lot of things for you. And
Speaker 1: really maybe a steal in the draft from a stand
Speaker 1: standpoint of how you can put him on different players
Speaker 1: and Shan Gailey can put him in situations where he
Speaker 1: would be a mismatch out there and not to not
Speaker 1: to and and forget about that. I mean, the guy
Speaker 1: is gonna be a great He's gonna be a great
Speaker 1: special teams player for you, whether it's returning kicks, whether
Speaker 1: it's running down the field, all the types of things.
Speaker 1: Another guy you'd like to see on this roster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how about throwing him in the red zone and run
Speaker 1: a little option right down there for package or in
Speaker 1: short yardage. You've got a guy that can do a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything. You know. You think of Julian
Speaker 1: Edelman when he came out of the MAC and he
Speaker 1: was a quarterback, and now he's one of the top
Speaker 1: slot receivers in the league. Malcolm Perry maybe uh, not
Speaker 1: as thick, but five nine six, uh, you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna go through the possibility of a kick returner, punt returner.
Speaker 1: You can line him up in the slot. You can
Speaker 1: do a little bit of everything. The one thing you
Speaker 1: get is is that sudden elusiveness. He always makes the
Speaker 1: first defender miss at least when he had the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands as a quarterback, and he has that,
Speaker 1: you know, really that real good short space quickness. He
Speaker 1: makes somebody missed. Then he gets up the field and
Speaker 1: he's adept at running in the open field. So you know,
Speaker 1: you get an athlete. You know, he was a player
Speaker 1: Offensive Player of the Year in the A a C
Speaker 1: last year, and he's a leader at Navy. That's the
Speaker 1: type of guy you you want to let hang around
Speaker 1: and and see what what he becomes in a in
Speaker 1: a year or two, no doubt about it. And then
Speaker 1: you know, nothing, nothing happened in the tight end position.
Speaker 1: We didn't expect, really expect anything to be really wasn't
Speaker 1: that at a very deep tight end drafting and this
Speaker 1: year anyway, and then really no need for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: at this point. But you know, after tour they start
Speaker 1: building that offensive line. Austin Jackson, you know, you pick
Speaker 1: him up with a second that eighteenth pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: and and you know, we talked about it on the
Speaker 1: on the show that evening. Twenty year old kid a
Speaker 1: lot of upside. He's played against a lot of talented
Speaker 1: players out of coming out of USC and he seemed
Speaker 1: to have all the skills Johnny. He moves his feet well,
Speaker 1: he's long, he's thick, he's strong. Uh, And I think
Speaker 1: he just he just needs to he just needs to
Speaker 1: keep his game growing. And and to me, he's the
Speaker 1: kind of guy that you know, much like Michael Dieter
Speaker 1: and Michael Dieter a third round draft pick last year.
Speaker 1: To me, as an offensive lineman, you know, I'm of
Speaker 1: the I'm of this the school and says, you know what,
Speaker 1: throw him to the wool. You know you want to
Speaker 1: they want a training camp. You're the startup kid. Let's
Speaker 1: go the starter and you know, and get ready because
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have your ups and downs. Is
Speaker 1: gonna be good and bad. But I saw him do it,
Speaker 1: you know, I saw him doing with John Geeson when
Speaker 1: he came in. I saw him doing Roy Foster. I
Speaker 1: saw him do it with UH, with Keith Sims, with
Speaker 1: Richmond Webb. And you know what, the only way you're
Speaker 1: gonna get better in the National Football League if you're
Speaker 1: an expected starter is to get reps and and and
Speaker 1: I think you've got clearly Austin Jackson and maybe one
Speaker 1: of those other guys later on in the draft may
Speaker 1: find themselves. You know, you're you're starting to two tackles
Speaker 1: when the season opens up. Well, I think you're you
Speaker 1: make a great point bow about just getting him in
Speaker 1: and telling him, hey, don't look back, only look forward.
Speaker 1: You make a mistake, you're gonna have to pick yourself
Speaker 1: up and correct it and get ready to take the
Speaker 1: next snap. Because at twenty years old, you're gonna mold
Speaker 1: an offensive tackle, an offensive left tackle, and do you
Speaker 1: want him to be in the National Football League? And
Speaker 1: the good thing about Jackson is he moves like a
Speaker 1: tight end. Now he's six five plus pounds, but his
Speaker 1: feet really move, uh, like a skilled athlete down on
Speaker 1: the blocks playing basketball. You know you want the more
Speaker 1: tape you watch about him. He has good lateral quickness
Speaker 1: and allows them, you know, to get to the second
Speaker 1: level on linebackers, get outside on screens and outside zone plays,
Speaker 1: and is strong enough to hold his own and pass protection.
Speaker 1: Will only get better in terms of that aspect of
Speaker 1: his game. So I I really like that pick. And
Speaker 1: as you alluded to, moving inside, you get huge bodies
Speaker 1: that that you know might have a chance to play
Speaker 1: right away as well. Yeah, you're solid. And Kiddley, the
Speaker 1: kid they got from Georgia's a guard. You've got Robert
Speaker 1: Hunt who can play left, left, apple, right topple. He
Speaker 1: can plays played guard before. But the one thing I
Speaker 1: see John, and when you look at it, you you
Speaker 1: go back for free agency Ted carrass That's they they
Speaker 1: that they bring in and you know you're you're looking
Speaker 1: now at an offensive line. It's massive. John six five
Speaker 1: six six plus from tackle to tackle, long, big, strong,
Speaker 1: and guys that that can you know, we're we're you
Speaker 1: kind of look at what the the the change in
Speaker 1: philosophy for this football team of the offensive line. They
Speaker 1: want malers that can move. And I think they filled
Speaker 1: their roster out offensively on that line of scrimmage with
Speaker 1: just that from tackle to tackle. Um, I you know,
Speaker 1: if if if two of these guys can play, if
Speaker 1: you can find your boat, your two tackles in there
Speaker 1: with these with these three draft picks in the offensive line,
Speaker 1: that's the size that they are. This is gonna make
Speaker 1: this group a very formidable group. And and and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying they're gonna be this type of offensive line,
Speaker 1: but they have the physical makeup to be similar to
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys when they've done over the years building
Speaker 1: that offensive line. And you're just a line that you
Speaker 1: look at your own. If he's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: long freaking day dealing with these guys for sixty minutes. Well,
Speaker 1: Dolphin fans and you and I like we we've been
Speaker 1: you know, kind of shouting about the offensive line for
Speaker 1: years now in terms of you know, who, who can
Speaker 1: we get to fix the leaks up up front. Who
Speaker 1: can we get to repair and move people against their
Speaker 1: will along you know, the line of scrimmage. And I
Speaker 1: think Robert Hunt and Solomon Kinley are two massive road graders.
Speaker 1: I mean they like to get on a body and
Speaker 1: punish guys that are going up against. Both of them
Speaker 1: have pretty good versatility. I think Hunt, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: he's played left tackle, right tackle, left guard. Salom McKinley
Speaker 1: has been kind of anchored in there on the left guard,
Speaker 1: but he has played a little left tackle as well
Speaker 1: at Georgia UM. I just think both of these guys
Speaker 1: are getting into the personality of what the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: want to be. They want to be a team you
Speaker 1: don't want to play, you don't want to play along
Speaker 1: the interior because games are one and lost. As much
Speaker 1: as we talk about quarterback and wide receivers and corners
Speaker 1: and guys that are rushing off the edge, if you
Speaker 1: don't have offensive and defensive lines that can influence the game,
Speaker 1: you're not going to win. And I think the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins have really looked at the offensive line in this
Speaker 1: draft and went out and got three guys they feel
Speaker 1: that are gonna be on this roster hopefully for a
Speaker 1: very long time, and providing uh some running room for
Speaker 1: the running game and keeping two of upright in the pocket.
Speaker 1: You know the other thing they've done by having this
Speaker 1: and then you look at Eric Flowers and then ted
Speaker 1: Ted Harrass having up to you know what by drafting,
Speaker 1: you know they've created along with Jesse Davis who returns,
Speaker 1: you know, they they've created a situation where the competition
Speaker 1: on that offensive line in training camp is gonna be
Speaker 1: is just gonna be massive for this football team. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be a dog fight to find out who which
Speaker 1: five guys want to line I don't care from, I
Speaker 1: don't care if the left tackle, right tackle, center, guards, whatever.
Speaker 1: It's almost a free for all out. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: a free for all out there for these guys, because
Speaker 1: if you can't making a left tackle, hey maybe or
Speaker 1: right tackle, hey maybe you could slide down and get
Speaker 1: that right guard spot. Or you know, Michael Dieter coming back,
Speaker 1: he's got a third round draft pick last year. He's
Speaker 1: got to prove that he can get in there and
Speaker 1: and and hold his own against these guys. You know,
Speaker 1: after having a year of a lot of snaps, a
Speaker 1: lot of valuable snap for him to try to get
Speaker 1: himself better. So you know, I think the competition that
Speaker 1: they will they will have created and that offensive line
Speaker 1: room is is gonna is gonna really help this team
Speaker 1: moving forward, not only this year, but as a as
Speaker 1: you continue to build this football team over the next
Speaker 1: couple of years. Well, coach Slow, he he, he said
Speaker 1: it once, he said it a thousand times in terms
Speaker 1: of creating competition on this roster to be able to
Speaker 1: get the best guys playing and and also both to
Speaker 1: create flexibility along that offensive line. You see what the
Speaker 1: Dolphins did in free agency with the pieces they selected
Speaker 1: on defense to be able to have that flexibility with position,
Speaker 1: got physitional guys playing linebacker, defensive end, defensive end, defensive tackle,
Speaker 1: being able to have that interchangeable parts on defense. While
Speaker 1: on offense, now you've got guys like Jesse Davis, who's
Speaker 1: well established on the offensive line. He started a tackle
Speaker 1: on both sides, he's played guard. You get Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: who's played three positions. In this year's draft in the
Speaker 1: second round, you get a guy like Kinley that could
Speaker 1: possibly play either side. So you're you're moving pieces around
Speaker 1: by creating competition with guys like Michael Dieter and Shaq Calhoun.
Speaker 1: You know, guys that are gonna be able to come
Speaker 1: in and say, well, I've got a fight now from
Speaker 1: my position. And that makes everybody better along the offensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not only that, but not only from your starters, but Johnny,
Speaker 1: it it gives you got depth that you need. You know,
Speaker 1: then that where you've got a guy where we're like
Speaker 1: you have you have Jesse Davis is the odd mat out.
Speaker 1: You know. That leaves you with a guy that's played
Speaker 1: the multiple positions in the offensive line. He's played in
Speaker 1: a lot of games, played a big situations, you know. So,
Speaker 1: so it gives you, it gives you the depth there. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know with whoever those guys are gonna be, Whoever
Speaker 1: whoever's gonna be in that second tier of that offensive
Speaker 1: line are gonna have some pretty solid credentials walking in there,
Speaker 1: which makes you feel good with all the you know,
Speaker 1: you you know, I think I think it was new.
Speaker 1: I think Indianapolis was the only team last year that
Speaker 1: started all five offensive linemen for the for the entire
Speaker 1: six team game scene. And so you know that that
Speaker 1: so and and and much like we saw with the
Speaker 1: you know, I don't expect the same you know, revolving
Speaker 1: door that there wasn't that offensive line last year for
Speaker 1: the Minami offs. Would be very disappointed if that was
Speaker 1: the case. But to bed, by having that situation, you've
Speaker 1: created depth on that offensive line that that really is
Speaker 1: gonna bode well for you, I think, because I think,
Speaker 1: I think with the roster moves, you're you're allowed to
Speaker 1: have an extra offensive lineman. I believe you believe that
Speaker 1: the roster going in, so it gives you the opportunity
Speaker 1: to have that depth. And with the change in the
Speaker 1: roster situation, they use that depth going over this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna help because the Miami Dolphins, you don't have
Speaker 1: to you don't have to you know, pick hairs, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of what, you know, what position can this
Speaker 1: guy play because we're only gonna address six today and
Speaker 1: in terms of now you have the luxury of dressing
Speaker 1: maybe eight offensive lineman. So you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be able to create death. You don't have to maybe
Speaker 1: dress an extra tight end because you in short yardage,
Speaker 1: you just put another alignment in that identifies and and
Speaker 1: you're okay, you know, you're able, You're able to go
Speaker 1: in and and do a lot of things formationwise. So
Speaker 1: I think that the competition that's been created on this roster,
Speaker 1: and you probably have maybe I think the Dolphins are
Speaker 1: at eighty nine and you're allowed to maybe get to
Speaker 1: ninety and ninety one with a roster exemption for a
Speaker 1: foreign player, So you're gonna be able to get two
Speaker 1: more guys. This roster this year is going to be
Speaker 1: loaded with competition at every position. You're gonna have your
Speaker 1: your starters kind of inked in there and sharpie, but
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of guys written in pencil
Speaker 1: because you're gonna have a lot of change, uh, around
Speaker 1: training camp and into training camp and into the preseason
Speaker 1: where you're gonna say, you know what, I thought that
Speaker 1: guy was gonna start. It looks like you know, X
Speaker 1: y Z is gonna gonna be the starter there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. Uh, moving on to the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the football. Uh, that defensive front seven John which was
Speaker 1: really uh, you know, gave up a lot of yards rushing.
Speaker 1: You know, I think where they have twenty three stacks
Speaker 1: worse than the league and uh, you know last season
Speaker 1: and you know you needed a big improvement there, and
Speaker 1: they begin that improvement with the free agency by getting
Speaker 1: kyled Vannis and Shaq Lawson at Manuel Logbal guys that
Speaker 1: can come in and and and really help out that
Speaker 1: defensive front. And then you have three more, uh three
Speaker 1: more defensive linemen in the draft. Ri Kawan Davis, a
Speaker 1: big defensive tackle out of Alabama, and you pair him
Speaker 1: with the Wilkins and got shot in that that tackle
Speaker 1: position just gives you another big body in there that
Speaker 1: can play the run well, and they give you a
Speaker 1: little push for the as far as the and the
Speaker 1: past reussor since Herning and then Christian Wilkins much like
Speaker 1: Michael Dieter in the offensive side, I thought, I thought,
Speaker 1: I thought Christian played better than a lot of people
Speaker 1: gave him credit for last year. A defensive tackle, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's really tough to evaluate the defensive
Speaker 1: tackle if all you're evaluating on them on his tackles,
Speaker 1: tackles for losses in sacks. You know, there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of other things that go into evaluating defensive tackles.
Speaker 1: So from my liking, I thought Christine work has played
Speaker 1: very well for this team last year, you get another
Speaker 1: year of growth in him, and you're bringing a guy
Speaker 1: like Ray Kawon Davis in the middle of the line.
Speaker 1: Then you bring in a couple of edge rushers, a
Speaker 1: defensive end Jason Snowbridge out of North Carolina, true defensive end,
Speaker 1: and Curtis Weaver, the kid out of Boise State, who's
Speaker 1: an edge guy that uh, you know, boys, boys, guys
Speaker 1: always seemed to be coming and ready to play. And
Speaker 1: here's another guy that can give you some pressure. So
Speaker 1: when you look at what you've done in free agency
Speaker 1: and then added in the draft again, John, I'm and
Speaker 1: it's kind of kind of, you know, kind of bet
Speaker 1: the same grum. But what I'll tell you on that
Speaker 1: in that front seven is gonna be maybe a lot
Speaker 1: of competition out there, both in the defensive line and
Speaker 1: and and in the in the linebacker group with Vince
Speaker 1: Biegle coming back, Van gig Will coming back, Jeroe Baker, Uh,
Speaker 1: Ray Kawon McMillan, bringing in Kyle Van Noy and Curtis
Speaker 1: Weaver and all these guys and uh and Vince Beagle
Speaker 1: and like you know, through Vince Biggle. But I mean,
Speaker 1: you hit the point up front seven. You know, again,
Speaker 1: a lot of competition and some depth and talent that
Speaker 1: you're gonna have out there, and a lot of those guys,
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys that have played a lot
Speaker 1: of downs, maybe running down special teams for this football
Speaker 1: team this year. And for me, that's not a bad
Speaker 1: situation at all. No, it isn't. And you you know,
Speaker 1: we both talked about the size of the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Now with the addition of Jackson at the eighteenth pick
Speaker 1: and Hunts in the second round, and you get Kinley
Speaker 1: in the fourth round, well, ray Kwon Davis at six
Speaker 1: six maybe six seven three and ten plus pounds, and
Speaker 1: that's a huge human. You know. You you stick him
Speaker 1: in the middle of that defensive front and you get
Speaker 1: a guy that has experienced playing in the SEC and
Speaker 1: all those battles weekend and week out when you have
Speaker 1: a conference game. This is a three year starter. Now,
Speaker 1: granted he had his best season as a sophomore in Alabama,
Speaker 1: but he has rare size and I think that's where
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins are looking to get guys that have
Speaker 1: size that that can also move and be a problem
Speaker 1: when they start moving and and starting to use some
Speaker 1: of that leverage to these players advantage. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a powerful man, uh that can win and fend off
Speaker 1: a double team, and that's gonna help your linebacking corps
Speaker 1: that is that are sleek, that that triggers suddenly, and
Speaker 1: that don't miss much in the open field. So you
Speaker 1: get a guy like Joan Baker behind a guy like
Speaker 1: ray Kwon Davis, you're in good position to be able
Speaker 1: to make a play. And you throw in the edition
Speaker 1: of Wilkins in his second year and got Child playing
Speaker 1: at the level he's playing at, You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of move it behind these big bodies. And if
Speaker 1: you can add a strow Bridge or a Weaver, if
Speaker 1: they can add to the guys that you mentioned in
Speaker 1: free into free agency being able to be on this
Speaker 1: team and be able to pressure the pocket as well
Speaker 1: as strow Bridge, he gives you that flexibility that the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman we talked about, He's played defensive end, he's
Speaker 1: played defensive tackle. He can move up and down that
Speaker 1: defensive front, and he really flashed. I saw him at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl and I didn't know that, you know,
Speaker 1: until the draft, and he's you know, he's right out
Speaker 1: of Deerfield Beach High School. So you get a guy
Speaker 1: that grew up probably is a huge Miami golfing guy
Speaker 1: or a South Florida guy comes back and he's just
Speaker 1: gonna add to that, to the depth along that defensive line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff there. And you know the
Speaker 1: linebacker situation is it's good. Now they go out and
Speaker 1: uh and it igmonogamy in the uh the third pick
Speaker 1: in that in that first round, bo they got us
Speaker 1: on this pick. I gotta say, you know, I I look,
Speaker 1: I thought running back. I thought maybe one of those
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Yeah, I'm sitting there going or maybe even
Speaker 1: another one of those offensive tackles. It was still lighting
Speaker 1: up there, and they threw his name out there. I'm like,
Speaker 1: what not only did they throw his name out there?
Speaker 1: When they threw it out there, I was like, where's
Speaker 1: Jones or Smith? Yeah, that's exactly you know. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: sure I'm a lot like you. As soon as I
Speaker 1: heard that name, I'm saying, they're going igmonograpy higman. Hey.
Speaker 1: I don't think you know, we we had we had
Speaker 1: our kids kind of helping us out with you know,
Speaker 1: as executive producers in the house, and when I saw that,
Speaker 1: I immediately looked and they saw my face and they go,
Speaker 1: my dad has no idea how to pronounce his name. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. But and there're so you go,
Speaker 1: you know, way with that name. But then you go, wow,
Speaker 1: another quarterback and then and then you know, Brian uh.
Speaker 1: Chris Greer and Brian Flores both talked about because they
Speaker 1: were asked about, you know, picking up another cornerback after
Speaker 1: you got and you could get by then Jones and
Speaker 1: free agency. You got Exavier. On the other side, you
Speaker 1: got two of the highest played paid cornerbacks in the
Speaker 1: National Football and you may have one of the one
Speaker 1: of the best cornerback pandoms now in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: But you use your third pick in the first round
Speaker 1: to get another cornerback. And both Chris and both Bryant
Speaker 1: said after the wrap, when I asked about making that pick,
Speaker 1: they said, Hey, look, coming from New England for for
Speaker 1: for Brian Flores and watching up there, the fact that
Speaker 1: they've always had so many cornerbacks, he said, I came
Speaker 1: down here with the belief that you can never have
Speaker 1: enough cornerbacks. And you know the way the game is
Speaker 1: going now the way the passing game is going now,
Speaker 1: and with the rule changes on defense for secondary coverage,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Give me, you know, give me cornerbacks,
Speaker 1: give me cornerbacks and to play. And you look at
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, I think, you know, we have Bobby mccame
Speaker 1: back there as the safety. He can play cornerback. Nick Needham,
Speaker 1: he could play cornerback, he can play inside. You You've
Speaker 1: got a lot of Ken Webster, Ryan Lewis, You've got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out there in the cornerback situation
Speaker 1: that when you come to the nickel and dimes situation
Speaker 1: now they go out later on. Uh and they and
Speaker 1: they do get a safety. And Brandon Jones a kid
Speaker 1: from Texas to to provide you a little bit more
Speaker 1: of that traditional safety guy, kind of a hard hitter.
Speaker 1: But I I, you know, the more and more I
Speaker 1: think about it, the more I'm becoming comfortable with you.
Speaker 1: Give me more guys that can cover, and we'll worry,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll at the front seven worry about, you know,
Speaker 1: managing the line of scrimmage and and and setting the
Speaker 1: edge on both sides and not allowing them to get
Speaker 1: to the perimeter. Uh. And let's get our quarterbacks after
Speaker 1: covering as well as we possibly can. Well, you mentioned
Speaker 1: physician flexibility, and higg Been Ageny does that. He's played corner.
Speaker 1: I mean remember, just like Austin Jackson, hig Ban Ageny
Speaker 1: is only twenty years old and he's only been playing
Speaker 1: on the defensive side of the football for two years.
Speaker 1: This was a like a four or five star high
Speaker 1: school wide receiver when he came to Albert So you
Speaker 1: take him with the thirty overall pick. He brings you,
Speaker 1: you know, it's sceptional speed and quickness. He's a really
Speaker 1: good athlete. And when you when it watched a couple
Speaker 1: of films on him, not only is he competitive and
Speaker 1: strong and press coverage he looks he makes it look
Speaker 1: like a sparring session out there. I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: a lot of hands, he's a lot of contact. He
Speaker 1: will probably mature into something that is going to be
Speaker 1: a headache for wide receivers to go up against because
Speaker 1: of his competitiveness. And Brandon Jones from Texas, you get
Speaker 1: a guy with experience. He was a three year starter
Speaker 1: for the Long Warns. He started thirty five career games.
Speaker 1: He has the ability to play center field, I've seen
Speaker 1: him do that and for interception interceptions in his career
Speaker 1: doing that, but in the slot, he showed off his
Speaker 1: speed not only to be able to cover, but close
Speaker 1: in the open field on on a now or a
Speaker 1: quick screen on the outside or running back dumping it
Speaker 1: off in the flat. He's able to get on his horse,
Speaker 1: get to the ball carrier or the pass catcher and
Speaker 1: get him to the ground, which leads me to believe
Speaker 1: he might be. In addition, and on special teams, is
Speaker 1: one of your guys going down there to you know,
Speaker 1: another young guy that you can groom to be on
Speaker 1: all four teams because you're so deep in terms of
Speaker 1: how many guys you have that can run and cover
Speaker 1: right now, and you have that ability on special teams
Speaker 1: for Jones, Yeah, that makes a good situation out there.
Speaker 1: And still when you look at the safety position, you
Speaker 1: got Eric Row, uh, Bobby McCain, Adrian Colberg who they resigned, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you have Brandon Josephine Mix and
Speaker 1: and and you feel pretty good. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: just I just kind of like that group, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and John. I think the one thing too
Speaker 1: that when you talk about like like Malcolm Perry and
Speaker 1: some of these other guys and then Robert Hunt and
Speaker 1: uh you know there you know, the their their their makeup,
Speaker 1: their character, the type of people they are. They all
Speaker 1: seem to have that personality. Um that that that this
Speaker 1: franchise is looking for. Guys that were captains on their team,
Speaker 1: Guys that were important to the team, Guys that that
Speaker 1: you know that that are more than football players. And
Speaker 1: they're there. They're they're good citizens, are good people. And
Speaker 1: I'm not saying every one of these guys as a
Speaker 1: you know, as a choir boy, but you you like
Speaker 1: to feel that as you take a snapshot of this
Speaker 1: football team from a from a playing standpoint, you go, jeeus.
Speaker 1: You know, we've got pretty good running backs. We've gotta
Speaker 1: you know, we have a you know, possibly a future
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback in here. You've you've built yourself a big
Speaker 1: offensive line. You know, you've got a number of receivers
Speaker 1: out there, Your tight ends, you know, showed that they
Speaker 1: could play last year. You've you've enhanced your front seven.
Speaker 1: You've really made it tough on that back side with
Speaker 1: the with all the coverage guys back there, and and
Speaker 1: and and on the defensive side. John, there you know
Speaker 1: there's two. There's two two parts too, pressuring quarterback's pressure
Speaker 1: upfront and coverage in the back. And boy, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: went a long way in filling both of those needs
Speaker 1: to where I would doubt that this is the most
Speaker 1: sacked team in the foot in the in the NFL
Speaker 1: next year next year, and I would be surprised if
Speaker 1: it's the least the team with the least sacks on
Speaker 1: deep pense after what they've done on both sides of
Speaker 1: the football. So I think when you look at the
Speaker 1: whole of the team on position wise, I don't think
Speaker 1: this football team could have strengthened themselves any better than
Speaker 1: they did this offseason through free agency and then capped
Speaker 1: off with what they did in the draft on Thursday,
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday. Yeah, I'm really happy with the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins have been able to accomplish in terms of going
Speaker 1: out and identifying veterans that have played in in a
Speaker 1: lot of NFL games on the defensive side, and maybe
Speaker 1: guys that haven't had you know, four or five six
Speaker 1: years experience, but you're able to get him young in
Speaker 1: free agency. Maybe they were injured for a portion of
Speaker 1: the year like Ogba, who you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get, but the upside sure looks good. And then
Speaker 1: you get a guy like Kyle van Noy that can
Speaker 1: play multiple positions. I think the defense in terms of
Speaker 1: Byron Jones adding him with Xavien Howard, I mean, this
Speaker 1: defense on paper looks a lot better, dreamly different than
Speaker 1: last season when you had a lot of question marks.
Speaker 1: And then on offense throughout the draft and and on
Speaker 1: defense throughout the draft. In terms of who the Dolphins selected,
Speaker 1: it seems like the attention was to the line and
Speaker 1: obviously getting a franchise quarter quarterback number one, but they
Speaker 1: put a lot of time and effort in building the
Speaker 1: size of of our offense and defensive line to be
Speaker 1: able to create not only competition, but create some suddenness
Speaker 1: in this team. You know, you don't you want to
Speaker 1: be able to have the Miami Dolphins kind of roll
Speaker 1: out on Sunday and go, we're gonna win the offensive
Speaker 1: and defensive line play. You know, now you've got a question.
Speaker 1: You know you feel like this team got better on paper.
Speaker 1: You just hope that these guys are gonna be able
Speaker 1: to mature quick enough to be able to make an
Speaker 1: impact over the next couple of seasons and then be
Speaker 1: fixtures on your football team for years to come. Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know. The other thing is that I think they
Speaker 1: have some nasty on this football team too. Absolutely, some
Speaker 1: of these guys We've talked about Hunts and and uh
Speaker 1: and Kindley and and Austin Jackson and and just to
Speaker 1: the physical nature of the way they play the game.
Speaker 1: And you know, you want to be known as one
Speaker 1: of those teams that you know, when you know we're
Speaker 1: gonna play the Dolphins where you're it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a long day out there. Well, that's the way
Speaker 1: you know, when teams do up and you say, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta go play I gotta go play the Ravens. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to play the Ravens. You know, I
Speaker 1: gotta go play the Bills. You know it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a dog fight, right, you know. But when you're when
Speaker 1: you're playing some other teams, you just feel like, well
Speaker 1: we have to stop their skill guys. That will be okay.
Speaker 1: You know, the Cowboys are the same way with that
Speaker 1: offensive line. So that's that's where the Minami Dolphins want
Speaker 1: to get. They want to be able to have that
Speaker 1: two way go where they can run it just as
Speaker 1: easily to throw the football, and it keeps defenses guessing.
Speaker 1: And when they're guessing, you have the advantage. So John
Speaker 1: to go go through the draft and made all these moves.
Speaker 1: Who were the give me, give me one or two
Speaker 1: guys that that that were kind of on your list
Speaker 1: of It doesn't matter what position they play, doesn't matter
Speaker 1: what it was, but guys that you just have watched
Speaker 1: over the years. He said, Man, I would have loved
Speaker 1: to have had I would love to have him on
Speaker 1: our team. I would love to have this guy on
Speaker 1: our team. Well, I think one of those receivers you
Speaker 1: know that that that that Ceedee Lamb or or Rugs
Speaker 1: or you know, one of those impact guys that could
Speaker 1: you know Judy, that that really made a difference because
Speaker 1: there was so many receivers. That's where I thought the
Speaker 1: Dolphins may go somewhere in the second round. Or at
Speaker 1: running back, you know, any one of those running backs
Speaker 1: that were left on the board where you had Swift
Speaker 1: and Dobbins and cam Akers and one of those guys.
Speaker 1: I really felt the Dolphins were going to do something
Speaker 1: at receiver or running back in terms of going up
Speaker 1: and grabbing one of those guys, because there's that it
Speaker 1: was loaded. This draft was loaded with that talent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what you mean. I was looking at Jalen
Speaker 1: Wurtz again, I just you know, and it was jumping
Speaker 1: on who took him in the second round Philly, Philly
Speaker 1: took him the second round in camp and and he's
Speaker 1: why were you do that? And I just thought, and
Speaker 1: I would have loved to see the Dolphins, you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, second third round or something. I mean
Speaker 1: I did. I just think he's I just think he's
Speaker 1: that guy, the guy that you're starting to see on
Speaker 1: on some of these teams that that that like you
Speaker 1: like you talked about, you know, getting into the red
Speaker 1: zone and using Malcolm Perry on a option, you know
Speaker 1: what about using Jalen Hurts, putting him in the back.
Speaker 1: He'll put him in motion and put him in the slot,
Speaker 1: just do different things with them as well as So
Speaker 1: I was kind of he was kind of my guy.
Speaker 1: And and and Grant Delta was the other guy that
Speaker 1: going into the draft, I said, Man, two of the
Speaker 1: guys that I just just kind of enamored with in
Speaker 1: this draft for both of those two guys, So a
Speaker 1: little disappointed. I didn't see them one of those drop
Speaker 1: our way. But you know what I'm I'm I'm pretty
Speaker 1: I'm pretty satisfied with what the with what the Dolphins
Speaker 1: did over the weekend. Yeah, I am too. And then
Speaker 1: you know, you create you thought you created competition with
Speaker 1: the long snapper when Blake fergus But it looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the only guy left standing in terms
Speaker 1: of bringing in a long snapper for training camp. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with Tabor Pepper going, then you figured that was gonna
Speaker 1: happen when when they brought him and but uh, I
Speaker 1: know I saw your piece on him. Pretty athletic guy
Speaker 1: out there. You know, it's funny because you've had I think,
Speaker 1: I think since I've been covering the team, you know,
Speaker 1: you've had Ed Perry, and you've had John Denny and
Speaker 1: and then and then you had that's about it, and
Speaker 1: you have Pepper for you get Pepper for a year.
Speaker 1: And now if if if Blake Ferguson is as good
Speaker 1: as uh, he's good enough to be drafted, I would
Speaker 1: assume that he's gonna be here for about another ten
Speaker 1: or fifteen years until until his minimum wage gets too
Speaker 1: high for uh, for them to be comfortable with in
Speaker 1: the in the salary cap well, I can hear it already. Bow.
Speaker 1: When things kind of straighten out and you're able to
Speaker 1: kind of frequent you know, normal places, everybody gets back
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, your restaurants and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: that AJ is gonna be pounding it. You even had
Speaker 1: to go to LSU for our long staffer, didn't you.
Speaker 1: It wasn't know that he took ten or twelve guys.
Speaker 1: But you've got our long snapper as well. You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny. I was singing when when, when we were
Speaker 1: when the draft? What's going on? And I was keeping
Speaker 1: a list of who was drafted. But I was also
Speaker 1: keeping a list and by kind of stopped when I
Speaker 1: got to uh, when we got to uh, it been
Speaker 1: agomy um. I was coding. I was counting the conference picks,
Speaker 1: and I think anything by the time we got to it, y,
Speaker 1: I want to say, there was twelve or thirteen from
Speaker 1: the SEC and another eight or nine from the from
Speaker 1: the big ten, I mean, but they just said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the quality of those conferences
Speaker 1: just by just by by by the numbers of players
Speaker 1: in the first round. And then then I think when
Speaker 1: when in the l S you have fourteen players draftings? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was, it was in the teams. It was crazy. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it was a good weekend. And uh, John,
Speaker 1: I you know, I want to I want to again,
Speaker 1: I want to you know, want to thank the fans
Speaker 1: that tuned into for our absolutely that was broadcast and uh,
Speaker 1: in the in the pre draft shows that uh that
Speaker 1: you and Travis did were great. I think I thought
Speaker 1: the information coming out of those shows were good. Uh,
Speaker 1: And and just just want to appreciate the fans for
Speaker 1: sticking with this football team, sticking with this group, and
Speaker 1: sticking with us during this these these times are change
Speaker 1: that we're going through. And keeping yourself safe and and
Speaker 1: keeping yourself safe, keeping other people safe out there, it's
Speaker 1: a it's a it's a selfish and unselfish thing that
Speaker 1: you do when you stay home and still got a
Speaker 1: little ways to go, but you're starting to see the
Speaker 1: light of the tunnel. Things are starting to open up
Speaker 1: a little bit. So we're hoping for the best. But
Speaker 1: I think, you know, if we can all kind of
Speaker 1: continue continuing the path that we're doing, stay disciplined with
Speaker 1: what we're doing, making trying to make everything better than
Speaker 1: hopefully by the time September rolls around. Uh, well, we'll
Speaker 1: get some some NFL and some college football and which
Speaker 1: will will hopefully bring some normalcy back to our lives. Certainly,
Speaker 1: the draft proved that people wanted. I mean probably the
Speaker 1: television numbers for the draft were off the charts um
Speaker 1: this year and so um yeah, you know, I gotta
Speaker 1: give gotta give a lot of props to the end
Speaker 1: fell for being able to put a virtual draft together
Speaker 1: in a pearly sceneless fashion too. You know, it was
Speaker 1: funny bow that a lot of people you talk to now, uh,
Speaker 1: they thought this version was really good, you know, getting
Speaker 1: to see the g ms and the head coaches and
Speaker 1: their families. I wouldn't be surprised, you know that. I
Speaker 1: know there their scheduled to go to Cleveland in two
Speaker 1: thousand and twenty one, downtown Cleveland and maybe just having
Speaker 1: the first round there and then kind of drawn it
Speaker 1: back or you know, maybe day three is back at
Speaker 1: that home setting virtually because it went so well well
Speaker 1: it did, and I think you got to see you know,
Speaker 1: you got to see the personality of these guys and
Speaker 1: you know, you know, they're in the war they're in
Speaker 1: the war room, and you get a little shot every
Speaker 1: now and then, but use this pretty tiger. But to
Speaker 1: see you know, to see Brian and his son's high
Speaker 1: five and his daughter in there, and Chris Greer with
Speaker 1: with his kid, you know, and I think, and and
Speaker 1: it looks around the league, everybody around the league, Bruce
Speaker 1: arians sitting out of the patio. You know which which
Speaker 1: was which you if you've been around Bruce area, that's
Speaker 1: the perfect perfect scenario for him. Uh. I like, I
Speaker 1: like the the Yedni tumbler he had. Just it was right,
Speaker 1: and that was perfect, you know, uh Andy Reid with
Speaker 1: his with his uh with his you know, flowered shirt
Speaker 1: on and all that stuff. So it was, it was
Speaker 1: it was really nice. And I think, you know what
Speaker 1: I think at the end, you know, when you when
Speaker 1: you heard some of these coaches and general managers that
Speaker 1: they enjoyed it. They enjoyed having the opportunity to you know,
Speaker 1: Brian Brian Flores talked about it afterwards, the opportunity to
Speaker 1: spend this much time with his family that normally he wouldn't,
Speaker 1: you know, and to be there for the draft, and
Speaker 1: having his kids have to be able to get on
Speaker 1: the phone and talk to to uh and and this
Speaker 1: and that. It was just uh, yeah, I don't think
Speaker 1: it could have worked out under the circumstances. I don't
Speaker 1: think it could have worked out better for the NFL
Speaker 1: and for all the teams involved. Yeah, complete success. I
Speaker 1: thoroughly enjoyed the way it looked, the way it felt
Speaker 1: on TV as a fan watching it, and then us
Speaker 1: getting to cut in and do our thing, you know,
Speaker 1: on day one, and and and just watching it being
Speaker 1: a fan at home, and it really brought it. It's
Speaker 1: what it really the country needed something to kind of
Speaker 1: to kind of get it invested in in terms of
Speaker 1: breaking up the uh the monotony of the news of
Speaker 1: the day, which was always seemed to be, um, not
Speaker 1: as pleasant as as you would like because of our circumstances.
Speaker 1: But uh, it just made a great distraction for for
Speaker 1: three days, that's for sure. You also want to thank
Speaker 1: all those guys that back there, from Jeff and Logan
Speaker 1: and all those guys. Yeah, those guys did all that
Speaker 1: did all the technical work, and and Kassi Conjemmy and
Speaker 1: Kimberly Bocamp for the two on site producers, for us,
Speaker 1: everybody that got us on the air for that. What
Speaker 1: a what a wonderful job they did. So congratulations to them,
Speaker 1: Thanks to them, and John, thanks to you for all
Speaker 1: your all your Yeah, you were great. Good working with
Speaker 1: you through that. That was fun. I really enjoyed it,
Speaker 1: and uh so we're gonna wrap this up and we're
Speaker 1: getting ready for next week's uh next week's uhible to
Speaker 1: see what to see? What that old sports, but what
Speaker 1: it was, it was a great week to have football
Speaker 1: back and have the action of the draft and everything
Speaker 1: and all the different shows, and then you have an
Speaker 1: audible where we can actually talk about players coming in
Speaker 1: and what's gonna look like, what this team is gonna
Speaker 1: look like, and all of us to start looking forward
Speaker 1: to the season. It's been a pretty darn good week
Speaker 1: on It's been a great week and it's it's been
Speaker 1: a lot of fun to to kind of focus in
Speaker 1: on what the Miami Dolphins are gonna look like. You know,
Speaker 1: you get your franchise quarterback, you you build the offensive
Speaker 1: and defensive lines. You you sprinkling a corner and a
Speaker 1: safety and a couple of edge rushers and a couple
Speaker 1: of wild cards with a long snapper and a quarterback
Speaker 1: that's gonna turn into a running back slash, you know,
Speaker 1: probably wide receiver slot. So you have a lot of
Speaker 1: excitement to add along with with the Dolphins in free agency.
Speaker 1: It's it's an exciting time to be a Dolphin fan.
Speaker 1: That's for sure. Good stuff all right for John kijim Me,
Speaker 1: I'm Kimbo camp for look at the call, helping us
Speaker 1: out along in the way. Appreciate you guys. Join us
Speaker 1: and we'll we're talking again next week. Uh um um