WEBVTT - The Audible Ep.111 | 2020 Draft Breakdown 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:07.600 All, I welcome back to the audible Kimbo Camper, John 0:00:07.640 --> 0:00:09.560 con Jemmy with you and John Wade. Has been a 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:12.520 long time since we've been able to talk about something 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.560 football wise. It didn't happen two or three months before, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.439 a year before, or whatever. We've actually got something that's 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.160 on the calendar, and that was on the calendar that 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:23.360 we got through over the weekend. I'm talking about the 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.360 NFL Draft and Johnny look at his football team and 0:00:26.840 --> 0:00:29.320 I think when, for the most part, when I've looked 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:32.960 at different comments about the Dolphins and the draft, and 0:00:33.000 --> 0:00:36.120 everyone's getting grades and no one knows what's what these 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:37.680 players are gonna turn out to be, but to get 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:40.920 grades anyway, but it seems like, I don't want to 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:45.240 say completely universally, but almost universally, the Dolphins have gotten 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.520 pretty high marks on what they've done and how they've 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.520 filled out their roster in the draft. And I would 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.520 combine that, John, We've talked about it before, with the 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.560 ten players that they signed in free agency prior to 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.480 the draft, you start to feel pretty good about how 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.920 this team you're shaping up. Now. Having said that, these 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:07.759 draft choices, you know a lot of these draft choices 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.080 are gonna have to come in and proved that they 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:12.679 were worth their uh you know, where they were selected, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.520 and some of them that were selected maybe later have 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:17.800 to prove that they're better than than with the number 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.360 they were selected at. Well, I think you're right, Bow, 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.080 and it starts at the top. You know, when you 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.760 go and you have three draft choices in the first 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.120 round and you pick fifth, eighteenth, and then you make 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.400 a move to go back from thirty. You want to 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.000 be able to feel like you have pillars that are 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:37.399 going to be around the Miami Dolphins franchise for a 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.920 long time. And you want to be able to not 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.680 only pick guys with with great talent on the field, 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.120 a great character that you can build around it, that 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.760 that you can draft leaders future leaders of this football team. 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:52.120 And I think the Dolphins really did that with too 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.720 a tongue of Bloa at quarterback, because he's the guy 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.880 that everybody's had their kind of uh, you know, bulls 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.880 eye on for a long time now, you know, for 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:03.440 a couple of years, ever since he threw that game 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:07.320 winning touchdown pass in overtime in the National Championship Gaming 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.560 he was a guy that was going to be you know, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.359 a top one, two, three, four, or five draft choice, 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:16.280 and you know only because of his injuries that he 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.680 slipped a five, quite honestly. So the Miami Dolphins were 0:02:19.720 --> 0:02:22.920 able to stand pat at number five, get the quarterback 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.960 that they wanted, and have the luxury now with Ryan 0:02:25.960 --> 0:02:30.000 Fitzpatrick of either making that a true competition and the 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.200 best guy wins, or still making it a true competition 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.959 and engaging it by uh the progress that to it 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.600 makes in the next couple of months in terms of 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.480 being able to be ready to be the best he 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:45.200 can be for training camp. So I think there's a 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.160 lot of positives when you start at that position, because 0:02:49.200 --> 0:02:52.280 that position is gonna drive your football team. Yeah, I mean, 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:54.239 it's you know, it's it's it's nice. It's it's comforting 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.720 right now. Uh And and I probably wouldn't have said 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.760 this going into last season, but it's comforting to have, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.600 you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick on your football team just because 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:07.800 we've had the chance to see him during the season. 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:10.440 We have a chance, had a chance to really understand 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.640 more of what Ryan Fitzpatrick was all about. You know 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.880 that we didn't know, you know, when we weren't you know, 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.639 watching seeing him as close to close as we did 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.320 were able to see last year and in the game 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.639 and in pre games, and just the way he carried 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.000 himself out there. So it's really, you know, it's really 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:27.600 for the Dolphins to have that. It's a it's a 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.600 it's a big luxury right now. Uh, Josh Rosen, you 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:34.680 know where he's gonna fit into that to that room. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.040 Time will tell, you know, he may be here, he 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.160 may not be here, But I think when you look 0:03:39.200 --> 0:03:42.360 at it's clearly going in into this season, you know 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.320 he's your number three guy on on the roster there 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.240 or now. Whether he's gonna be there or not, time 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.800 will tell. But you know, I think you feel pretty 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:52.600 good going into this season where you are and and 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.360 the unknown being like you talked about, what is what 0:03:55.480 --> 0:03:58.400 is to his contribution gonna be if any of this 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:01.080 year when it comes to playing in game time now, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:02.880 And I think there's a number of different ways to 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:04.920 look at it. Certainly you're looking at him, and you 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.880 know the one thing you hear over and over and 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.160 over again as well, you know, let him let him 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:10.760 sit out the year and let him get let him 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.400 get health here. You know, the guys had guys had 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:16.400 break injuries. You know, he's had high ankle sprains. He's 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.240 had two high ankle sprains, he's had surgery, he's had 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.000 the hip injury. It was a fracture, and John my 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.400 feeling on those things, or I know the fracture is 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:29.160 a little different because it's a hip thing. But you know, 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:34.080 my my experience with with injuries and my own injuries 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:37.000 and other guys I played with watching their injuries and 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:39.279 how they came back. You know, want to break his heel, 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.920 his heel, You know it's it's not gonna get better, 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:43.640 you know, because it's you know, if it's a hundred 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.440 percent heel now, it doesn't mean that next year it's 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.840 gonna be a hundred percent stronger than than it is now. 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:54.200 You know, it's it's it's one thing. If it's if 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.080 it's one thing, as if it's an a c L 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:00.440 or a or or achilles or some of those things 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.200 where it's kind of soft tissue stuff and you're kind 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.120 of not sure. But to me, what a bone is healed. 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.200 It's healed and and you're not that susceptible to having 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.080 it return again. I remember the first time I had 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.960 my first knee surgery. And you know, and and to 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.000 A talked about this a little bit. He said, you know, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.480 you know once once I went to the doctor, I said, doctor, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.200 you fix my knee. Yes, is there is there at 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.280 risk now of being more injury places No, that thing 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:31.839 is as good as new. As long as you rehab 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.159 right and you get your legs streighted up, it'll be 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.000 good to go. And that was my rookie year and 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.240 it never bothered me the rest of my career. And 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.560 I had another one that had the same result with that. So, um, 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:45.520 you know. The point I'm getting to is, I'm not 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.960 so sure that you know the the reason for not 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.159 playing two of this year is the injury. I think 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.760 the reason to me and the criteria that I would 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.080 want to see to play two, uh, is what you 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.960 talked about, the fact that he came in was healthy 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.840 to play, to play in training camp and whatever pre 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.320 training camp they may have this year, whether it's an 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.279 o T a week or or a mini camp or whatever, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:14.080 or whether or not you know, to me, the criteria 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.599 to to base whether whether or when two or should 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.800 play should be when he's ready to play, if he's 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.200 gone out there, maybe he's gone out there and after 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.120 three weeks of the season, you're you're looking at Ryan 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.240 and you're going, you know, the guy we got sitting 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.160 on the benches is better than him, is more productive 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.760 than him, gives us a better chance to win. Then 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:37.320 I think that's when you make the decision, not so 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.839 much based on my mind John, on the state of 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.400 the of the injury. Now I'm saying that, like I said, 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:47.680 if he's ready to go out and compete, then to me, 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:50.080 it's just who's the better guy and stick him in. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:53.760 Whether it's week one or week fifteen. You make valid 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.960 points in terms of all the things that the coaching 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.719 staff and the head coach Brian Floor is going to 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.440 have to discuss with his staff, with Chris Greer, with 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.880 TA and with the quarterback room because this is not 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:11.880 only an injury decision. That is probably at the top 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.280 of the list because that's all we really talked about. 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:18.000 But basically it comes down to a talent evaluation and 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.400 how to A is going to be able to function 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:24.280 in this offense and with with the people around him. 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.520 Does TAH make the team better? If it's yes, then 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.680 he's playing. If if you check off all the other boxes. 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.400 I think you go back to last year and you 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.400 look talent wise, if you looked at Rosen and Fitzpatrick, 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.400 Rosen was clearly the stronger army. He was the younger guy. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.760 We thought at that time he might have a little 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.040 bit uh more mobility. Watching him in the preseason, at 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:47.840 least he was able to run around and do the 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:51.440 things that Fitzpatrick did as a fifteen year vet. So 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:54.960 you felt pretty good about him giving him that opportunity, 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.960 But in reality, when you watched him play, he didn't 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.640 make the team better and he had the same cast 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:03.280 of characters. Now, I will say that maybe the names 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.360 on the back of the jerseys change, but the talent 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:08.920 evaluation at tackle, at either tackle or a wide receiver 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.600 really didn't change all that much. It wasn't that significant. 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.440 So I think to it kind of falls into that category. Hey, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.440 you check the box. Healthwise, he's fine. You watch him, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.600 you monitor him, you look at him function, you look 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.280 at him move, and if he gives the Dolphins the 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:27.080 best chance to win on a much better roster this 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:30.240 year than you, anybody could argue that than last year. 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.240 I don't. I think if you if you thought it 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.679 was close you're crazy. With all the free agency moves 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:37.920 the Miami Dolphins made in the way they strengthened their 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:41.760 team in the draft, it goes down to are you 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:43.800 the better quarterback? Do you give us a better chance 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.400 to win? If the answer is yes, you're gonna see 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.040 whatever number on two is back in the huddle or 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.240 in the shotgun playing quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. So, 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:54.120 you know, the funny thing, there's a couple of funny 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.959 things about the draft that that stuck me. What one 0:08:57.000 --> 0:09:00.080 when we were doing our virtual draft, Um, and you 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.800 were doing the the quote pregame segment of of our 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.920 virtual draft on on Thursday evening. Um, you know, I'm 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.720 looking at it. I'm looking at the screen on there 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:13.400 and then listening to you and Travis do your thing 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.000 there and and lo and behold, you know you look 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.679 at you look at people that are watching that show, 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:22.959 and and and two two is watching the shows. Who 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.199 was on the computer watching the Dolphins uh pregame or 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:30.280 the Dolphins? Highly? I hope I still highly of him? No, 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.800 you did, and I But so that's one thing is 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:34.520 you know you you kind of feel like you know 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.240 he had an insight track as to as to what 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:40.719 he thought was gonna happen because he was watching watching there. 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.680 Now you know, who knows, maybe he was watching some 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.840 other stuff. But all I know is he showed up 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:47.240 on on our board. So so that was one thing, 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:49.240 and John John the other thing. And it has nothing 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.840 to do with playing football, but it does have something 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:56.240 to do with playing football. Was just watching him and man, 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.320 maybe this is just me, but watching him at his 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:04.440 home wherever he was for the draft and comparing him 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.880 and his family to everybody else there was. There was 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:11.199 that that had these these virtual draft parties where you know, 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:14.240 you had guys slouching on the couch and I think 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.880 one guy so I was sleeping, one guy rolling on 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.680 the floor. You saw somewhere that have too many people 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.200 in there and it was kind of chaos. Well, you 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.600 looked at Tah he had he was dressed up in 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:28.680 a suit. His mom and dad were sitting there next 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:33.520 to him. They were disciplined behind him, family sitting in 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:38.080 chairs being very you know, you know, very discipline, you know, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.959 very clean, very discipline, and and you know, to me, 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.520 you know that you kind of look for snapshots of 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.800 people's personality, and I just kept looking at going. Man, 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:53.360 here's a guy and a family that is committed, discipline 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.439 and organized. And you know, not that that's gonna make 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.280 him a you know, a Hall of Famer. Nothing that's 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.439 gonna make him a pro bowler, but it just makes 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.439 it for me. It just made me feel good about 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:09.040 the family that he's coming from and the way they 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.480 carry themselves. Look, he went from Hawaii to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.719 His whole family picked up their roots and moved right 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.040 along with their son. And you know what, they're gonna 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.600 pick up their roots from Alabama, and I guarantee you 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:26.240 they're gonna be right here with him, providing support for him. 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.720 And that discipline background that you just saw in that 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:34.280 snapshot of his living room on draft night. Both there 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.720 is no question that to a tongue of Byla from 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.640 a young age has been molded and crafted and formed 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:45.080 to be the CEO of an NFL franchise. Now, he 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:47.880 may be a CEO of a company when it's playing 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.960 days are over, but his discipline, in the way that 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:54.160 his family structure has been built, in the position that 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:59.040 he plays, he he has been everything is that you 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.760 need to be a lead of a franchise and molded 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.440 into too a quarterback and making decisions about not only 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.960 yourself but the people around you. And the way you 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.560 hold yourself and the way you answer questions, and the 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.000 way you walk down the hallway and the way you 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:15.240 enter a room, the way you look at someone, the 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.960 way you speak to someone has been molded from a 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.200 young age. That's why not that not that every guy 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:23.880 in the NFL has that makeup. There's different makeups that 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:26.600 make you good. But as a quarterback and as the 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.280 as the franchise leader. As everybody's looking at the Miami 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.679 Dolphins in the first name they're gonna say is to 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.040 a tongue of violoa. I mean, that's the first guy 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.559 they're gonna think of when he's finally named the starting quarterback, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.520 hopefully for ten, twelve, fifteen years. But he has that 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.960 makeup to be the leader of men, and that's why 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.119 he was drafted by by this franchise, in this organization 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.599 to do so. It's been always a little bit of 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.840 long time, but since you went into training camp with 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.360 a good feeling about the I mean a really good 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:58.960 feeling about the quarterback position. But I think I think 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:01.120 we're there now. Now it's gonna take time to see 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.560 now along the line with it, you know, with that pick. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:05.520 And but the Dolphins had a lot of picks. They 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:08.559 made some maneuvers and uh and certainly two of the 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:12.160 impact of TWA is far and away the biggest thing 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.199 that the Dolphins did. But you know, the fifth round, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.760 you know, you you've you've been sitting here and you're 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.240 looking at j. K. Dobbins go by, and you're looking 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:23.040 at Jean Ray Swift go by, and you're looking at 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.880 Jonathan Taylor go by. You know, man, one of those 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.160 guys would look nice in that in that in that 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.360 running back room. But the Dolphins in the fifth round 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.640 kind of standing around, standing around drop a fifth round draft, 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:36.920 picking forty Niners and getting that that breathed, which to me, 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.520 John was kind of those one of those you know, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.760 kind of maybe I don't want to say under the radar, 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:44.920 but it was just kind of an oh, by the way, 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.840 but oh, by the way, I thought that was a 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:51.199 really a really critical and and and big big move 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.080 uh by Chris Greer that can make that trade. The 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.439 forty Niners have picked up a running back, they figured 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.800 one was available, and when you look at greena with 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.719 the forty niners the average over six yards of carry 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:04.160 while he was there for two years and last year 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:05.600 at the beginning of the year he was there, featured 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.520 running back a lot of big plays early on. He's 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.200 an ultra quick guy, not really the most shifty guy, 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.600 but but if he gets to the second level, he 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.760 can go. And I just thought that that that pick 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.280 at that time really kind of completed the draft for 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.680 the Miami Dolphins and really put him in a good 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.560 position from a running back standpoint. Not not that look, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:29.760 not not that he's gonna be the guy that's gonnas 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:31.760 gonna get all the carries, but I think when you 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:36.920 add him to Uh, to Jordan Howard, Patrick Lair uh 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.400 and and you know those guys that that are there's 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.120 still in that running back room, You've got a pretty 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.000 good group of crew in there. To get the two 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:47.120 or three guys it can play multiple positions and give 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.880 you multiple things from that running back spot. Well, I 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.520 won't say it's as valuable as any other pick, but 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:57.000 it's just as valuable that the Miami Dolphins made a 0:14:57.080 --> 0:14:59.040 move in the running back room to get a guy 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.480 like Matt Redis actually with four years of experience He's 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.320 got great quickness. He's a sub four four runner. As 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.920 you said, he's averaging close to six yards per carry. Uh. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:11.480 He has the ability to make guys missed. And if 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.880 you take a bad angle on this guy, he's going 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.200 just to house call you right to the end zone. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.800 I mean that's that's the type of quickness. And you 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.520 blend him with some of the other backs on this roster. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.280 I think the Miami Dolphins had to go out and 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:26.560 make a move at running back. When when J K. 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:30.120 Dobbins came off the board of the Baltimore Ravens, I 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:33.080 think I slam my my fist down on the desk 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.640 as well as the brass of the Miami Dolphins, because 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:38.880 you know, at least in my gut, that was their pick. 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.240 That was where the Miami Dolphins were going. After letting 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:45.280 a couple of guys slide. They felt like, you know, 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:47.280 we gotta make our move right now. There's no way 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.720 Baltimore is gonna take a running back. They've already got 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.120 three on their roster that have run you know, for 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.840 close to seven eight hundred, nine hundred yards apiece, you know, 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.640 and that's excluding your quarterback. That's over a thousand. So, 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.080 you know, I think that the Dolphins had every confidence 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:05.080 that Dobbins was gonna be there and they were gonna 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.320 take him. When that didn't happen and they had to 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.080 start looking around and get creative, and they did with 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.040 that fifth round draft choice, sending one fifty three to 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.840 San Francisco. And I just think that, you know, you 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:18.960 get a guy that has the experience, that can do 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.920 a little bit of everything. And like you said we 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.400 were talking before we went on about the makeup of 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.560 this of this franchise, you get another quick twitch guy 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.080 that can make you miss behind some big bodies that 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.000 the Miami Dolphins acquired in this draft in terms of 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.960 trying to bolster and build this offensive line. So you've 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:42.760 got a meteor back or a tougher straight line back 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.400 and Howard and now you've got a really shifty guy 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.560 to add to that that backfield. Yeah, I think I 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:50.480 just thought it was a really nice move. Look, do 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:52.640 you think about you give a first fifth round pick. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.800 I take my chances with a guy who's been in 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.280 the league for a couple of years and you're seeing 0:16:56.360 --> 0:16:57.880 him and see what he can do at this level. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.040 Over for a fifth round pick. Nine times out of ten, 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:03.040 So I think they made a nice movie. They're really 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.000 not really not a lot of additions in the wide 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.680 receiver room. In the draft, Malcolmpary, the kid from Navy 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.080 comes out and he's an interesting guy. I mean, you know, 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.440 as they've run that they run that option and they 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.360 barely throw the football at Navy. But you know, here's 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:18.840 a guy who did a lot of things for him, 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.480 played a lot of different positions, and another one of 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.719 those guys. It's a high character guy. You know, he's 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.000 high character guy. If he's coming from UH from Annapolis, 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.400 UH to come in and come in and and and again. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.879 Like so many guys that we've seen in free agency. 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.399 In the draft, he's a guy that can play multiple 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:39.239 positions and do a lot of things for you. And 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.760 really maybe a steal in the draft from a stand 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:44.720 standpoint of how you can put him on different players 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.399 and Shan Gailey can put him in situations where he 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.159 would be a mismatch out there and not to not 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.639 to and and forget about that. I mean, the guy 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.040 is gonna be a great He's gonna be a great 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:56.560 special teams player for you, whether it's returning kicks, whether 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.040 it's running down the field, all the types of things. 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:02.080 Another guy you'd like to see on this roster. Yeah, 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.120 how about throwing him in the red zone and run 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:07.439 a little option right down there for package or in 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.879 short yardage. You've got a guy that can do a 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:12.000 little bit of everything. You know. You think of Julian 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.520 Edelman when he came out of the MAC and he 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.880 was a quarterback, and now he's one of the top 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:21.240 slot receivers in the league. Malcolm Perry maybe uh, not 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.159 as thick, but five nine six, uh, you know you're 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.520 gonna go through the possibility of a kick returner, punt returner. 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.439 You can line him up in the slot. You can 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.960 do a little bit of everything. The one thing you 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:36.720 get is is that sudden elusiveness. He always makes the 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:39.080 first defender miss at least when he had the ball 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:42.280 in his hands as a quarterback, and he has that, 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.560 you know, really that real good short space quickness. He 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:47.600 makes somebody missed. Then he gets up the field and 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.399 he's adept at running in the open field. So you know, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.200 you get an athlete. You know, he was a player 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:54.399 Offensive Player of the Year in the A a C 0:18:54.640 --> 0:18:56.960 last year, and he's a leader at Navy. That's the 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.959 type of guy you you want to let hang around 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.240 and and see what what he becomes in a in 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:04.400 a year or two, no doubt about it. And then 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.360 you know, nothing, nothing happened in the tight end position. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.000 We didn't expect, really expect anything to be really wasn't 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.399 that at a very deep tight end drafting and this 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:14.640 year anyway, and then really no need for the Dolphins 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.240 at this point. But you know, after tour they start 0:19:17.640 --> 0:19:20.760 building that offensive line. Austin Jackson, you know, you pick 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.199 him up with a second that eighteenth pick in the draft, 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.560 and and you know, we talked about it on the 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.919 on the show that evening. Twenty year old kid a 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.840 lot of upside. He's played against a lot of talented 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.439 players out of coming out of USC and he seemed 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:38.440 to have all the skills Johnny. He moves his feet well, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:43.520 he's long, he's thick, he's strong. Uh, And I think 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.960 he just he just needs to he just needs to 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:49.119 keep his game growing. And and to me, he's the 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.480 kind of guy that you know, much like Michael Dieter 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.720 and Michael Dieter a third round draft pick last year. 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:56.720 To me, as an offensive lineman, you know, I'm of 0:19:56.800 --> 0:19:58.720 the I'm of this the school and says, you know what, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.600 throw him to the wool. You know you want to 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:04.520 they want a training camp. You're the startup kid. Let's 0:20:04.520 --> 0:20:07.320 go the starter and you know, and get ready because 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.040 you know you're gonna have your ups and downs. Is 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:10.560 gonna be good and bad. But I saw him do it, 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:13.000 you know, I saw him doing with John Geeson when 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.320 he came in. I saw him doing Roy Foster. I 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.959 saw him do it with UH, with Keith Sims, with 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:21.960 Richmond Webb. And you know what, the only way you're 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:24.760 gonna get better in the National Football League if you're 0:20:24.800 --> 0:20:28.239 an expected starter is to get reps and and and 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:32.920 I think you've got clearly Austin Jackson and maybe one 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.720 of those other guys later on in the draft may 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:38.880 find themselves. You know, you're you're starting to two tackles 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:41.760 when the season opens up. Well, I think you're you 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.200 make a great point bow about just getting him in 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:47.879 and telling him, hey, don't look back, only look forward. 0:20:47.960 --> 0:20:50.080 You make a mistake, you're gonna have to pick yourself 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:52.399 up and correct it and get ready to take the 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:56.320 next snap. Because at twenty years old, you're gonna mold 0:20:56.520 --> 0:21:00.240 an offensive tackle, an offensive left tackle, and do you 0:21:00.240 --> 0:21:02.479 want him to be in the National Football League? And 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:05.080 the good thing about Jackson is he moves like a 0:21:05.160 --> 0:21:09.479 tight end. Now he's six five plus pounds, but his 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:13.800 feet really move, uh, like a skilled athlete down on 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.840 the blocks playing basketball. You know you want the more 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.359 tape you watch about him. He has good lateral quickness 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.720 and allows them, you know, to get to the second 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:25.879 level on linebackers, get outside on screens and outside zone plays, 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.760 and is strong enough to hold his own and pass protection. 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:32.159 Will only get better in terms of that aspect of 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:34.560 his game. So I I really like that pick. And 0:21:34.680 --> 0:21:37.640 as you alluded to, moving inside, you get huge bodies 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:40.080 that that you know might have a chance to play 0:21:40.160 --> 0:21:42.600 right away as well. Yeah, you're solid. And Kiddley, the 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:45.280 kid they got from Georgia's a guard. You've got Robert 0:21:45.320 --> 0:21:47.879 Hunt who can play left, left, apple, right topple. He 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.399 can plays played guard before. But the one thing I 0:21:50.440 --> 0:21:52.359 see John, and when you look at it, you you 0:21:52.400 --> 0:21:55.520 go back for free agency Ted carrass That's they they 0:21:55.560 --> 0:21:58.520 that they bring in and you know you're you're looking 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:02.600 now at an offensive line. It's massive. John six five 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:08.840 six six plus from tackle to tackle, long, big, strong, 0:22:09.440 --> 0:22:11.800 and guys that that can you know, we're we're you 0:22:12.160 --> 0:22:14.119 kind of look at what the the the change in 0:22:14.160 --> 0:22:17.200 philosophy for this football team of the offensive line. They 0:22:17.200 --> 0:22:20.679 want malers that can move. And I think they filled 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.960 their roster out offensively on that line of scrimmage with 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:28.440 just that from tackle to tackle. Um, I you know, 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.080 if if if two of these guys can play, if 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.400 you can find your boat, your two tackles in there 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:37.280 with these with these three draft picks in the offensive line, 0:22:37.760 --> 0:22:40.520 that's the size that they are. This is gonna make 0:22:40.560 --> 0:22:44.640 this group a very formidable group. And and and I'm 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:47.719 not saying they're gonna be this type of offensive line, 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.320 but they have the physical makeup to be similar to 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:54.000 the Dallas Cowboys when they've done over the years building 0:22:54.000 --> 0:22:56.480 that offensive line. And you're just a line that you 0:22:56.520 --> 0:22:57.720 look at your own. If he's just gonna be a 0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:01.560 long freaking day dealing with these guys for sixty minutes. Well, 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:04.920 Dolphin fans and you and I like we we've been 0:23:05.359 --> 0:23:07.840 you know, kind of shouting about the offensive line for 0:23:07.960 --> 0:23:10.520 years now in terms of you know, who, who can 0:23:10.560 --> 0:23:14.159 we get to fix the leaks up up front. Who 0:23:14.240 --> 0:23:17.359 can we get to repair and move people against their 0:23:17.400 --> 0:23:20.159 will along you know, the line of scrimmage. And I 0:23:20.200 --> 0:23:24.879 think Robert Hunt and Solomon Kinley are two massive road graders. 0:23:25.240 --> 0:23:27.520 I mean they like to get on a body and 0:23:27.600 --> 0:23:30.640 punish guys that are going up against. Both of them 0:23:30.640 --> 0:23:33.840 have pretty good versatility. I think Hunt, as you mentioned, 0:23:33.840 --> 0:23:37.320 he's played left tackle, right tackle, left guard. Salom McKinley 0:23:37.359 --> 0:23:39.879 has been kind of anchored in there on the left guard, 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:42.520 but he has played a little left tackle as well 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:46.040 at Georgia UM. I just think both of these guys 0:23:46.440 --> 0:23:50.840 are getting into the personality of what the Miami Dolphins 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:53.040 want to be. They want to be a team you 0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.159 don't want to play, you don't want to play along 0:23:55.200 --> 0:23:58.120 the interior because games are one and lost. As much 0:23:58.160 --> 0:24:01.520 as we talk about quarterback and wide receivers and corners 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:03.720 and guys that are rushing off the edge, if you 0:24:03.760 --> 0:24:08.160 don't have offensive and defensive lines that can influence the game, 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:10.639 you're not going to win. And I think the Miami 0:24:10.680 --> 0:24:13.919 Dolphins have really looked at the offensive line in this 0:24:14.000 --> 0:24:16.240 draft and went out and got three guys they feel 0:24:16.240 --> 0:24:18.680 that are gonna be on this roster hopefully for a 0:24:18.800 --> 0:24:21.920 very long time, and providing uh some running room for 0:24:21.960 --> 0:24:25.640 the running game and keeping two of upright in the pocket. 0:24:26.080 --> 0:24:27.760 You know the other thing they've done by having this 0:24:27.840 --> 0:24:29.880 and then you look at Eric Flowers and then ted 0:24:30.359 --> 0:24:33.119 Ted Harrass having up to you know what by drafting, 0:24:33.119 --> 0:24:35.960 you know they've created along with Jesse Davis who returns, 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.920 you know, they they've created a situation where the competition 0:24:40.560 --> 0:24:44.320 on that offensive line in training camp is gonna be 0:24:44.800 --> 0:24:47.400 is just gonna be massive for this football team. There's 0:24:47.400 --> 0:24:49.920 gonna be a dog fight to find out who which 0:24:49.960 --> 0:24:51.960 five guys want to line I don't care from, I 0:24:51.960 --> 0:24:55.000 don't care if the left tackle, right tackle, center, guards, whatever. 0:24:55.600 --> 0:24:57.399 It's almost a free for all out. They're gonna be 0:24:57.400 --> 0:24:59.560 a free for all out there for these guys, because 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:02.240 if you can't making a left tackle, hey maybe or 0:25:02.359 --> 0:25:04.480 right tackle, hey maybe you could slide down and get 0:25:04.480 --> 0:25:07.720 that right guard spot. Or you know, Michael Dieter coming back, 0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:10.360 he's got a third round draft pick last year. He's 0:25:10.359 --> 0:25:12.280 got to prove that he can get in there and 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:14.600 and and hold his own against these guys. You know, 0:25:14.600 --> 0:25:17.080 after having a year of a lot of snaps, a 0:25:17.080 --> 0:25:19.360 lot of valuable snap for him to try to get 0:25:19.440 --> 0:25:22.280 himself better. So you know, I think the competition that 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:25.520 they will they will have created and that offensive line 0:25:25.600 --> 0:25:28.760 room is is gonna is gonna really help this team 0:25:28.800 --> 0:25:31.239 moving forward, not only this year, but as a as 0:25:31.280 --> 0:25:34.240 you continue to build this football team over the next 0:25:34.280 --> 0:25:36.840 couple of years. Well, coach Slow, he he, he said 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:39.200 it once, he said it a thousand times in terms 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:43.199 of creating competition on this roster to be able to 0:25:43.200 --> 0:25:46.199 get the best guys playing and and also both to 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:49.560 create flexibility along that offensive line. You see what the 0:25:49.600 --> 0:25:52.879 Dolphins did in free agency with the pieces they selected 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:57.120 on defense to be able to have that flexibility with position, 0:25:57.200 --> 0:26:01.600 got physitional guys playing linebacker, defensive end, defensive end, defensive tackle, 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:05.120 being able to have that interchangeable parts on defense. While 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:07.960 on offense, now you've got guys like Jesse Davis, who's 0:26:08.240 --> 0:26:11.679 well established on the offensive line. He started a tackle 0:26:11.720 --> 0:26:14.800 on both sides, he's played guard. You get Robert Hunt, 0:26:14.800 --> 0:26:17.480 who's played three positions. In this year's draft in the 0:26:17.560 --> 0:26:20.280 second round, you get a guy like Kinley that could 0:26:20.280 --> 0:26:24.800 possibly play either side. So you're you're moving pieces around 0:26:24.840 --> 0:26:29.800 by creating competition with guys like Michael Dieter and Shaq Calhoun. 0:26:29.880 --> 0:26:31.880 You know, guys that are gonna be able to come 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:33.680 in and say, well, I've got a fight now from 0:26:33.680 --> 0:26:37.760 my position. And that makes everybody better along the offensive line. Yeah, 0:26:37.800 --> 0:26:40.440 not only that, but not only from your starters, but Johnny, 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:42.480 it it gives you got depth that you need. You know, 0:26:42.520 --> 0:26:44.600 then that where you've got a guy where we're like 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:46.960 you have you have Jesse Davis is the odd mat out. 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:49.840 You know. That leaves you with a guy that's played 0:26:49.840 --> 0:26:52.560 the multiple positions in the offensive line. He's played in 0:26:52.600 --> 0:26:56.320 a lot of games, played a big situations, you know. So, 0:26:56.320 --> 0:27:00.000 so it gives you, it gives you the depth there. Uh, 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:01.879 you know with whoever those guys are gonna be, Whoever 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:05.400 whoever's gonna be in that second tier of that offensive 0:27:05.440 --> 0:27:09.040 line are gonna have some pretty solid credentials walking in there, 0:27:09.040 --> 0:27:12.480 which makes you feel good with all the you know, 0:27:12.560 --> 0:27:14.240 you you know, I think I think it was new. 0:27:14.280 --> 0:27:17.080 I think Indianapolis was the only team last year that 0:27:17.240 --> 0:27:20.639 started all five offensive linemen for the for the entire 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.119 six team game scene. And so you know that that 0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:26.840 so and and and much like we saw with the 0:27:27.200 --> 0:27:29.879 you know, I don't expect the same you know, revolving 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:32.800 door that there wasn't that offensive line last year for 0:27:32.840 --> 0:27:35.439 the Minami offs. Would be very disappointed if that was 0:27:35.480 --> 0:27:40.000 the case. But to bed, by having that situation, you've 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:43.639 created depth on that offensive line that that really is 0:27:43.680 --> 0:27:46.440 gonna bode well for you, I think, because I think, 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:48.720 I think with the roster moves, you're you're allowed to 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:51.480 have an extra offensive lineman. I believe you believe that 0:27:51.560 --> 0:27:54.360 the roster going in, so it gives you the opportunity 0:27:54.400 --> 0:27:57.040 to have that depth. And with the change in the 0:27:57.119 --> 0:28:01.840 roster situation, they use that depth going over this year. Yeah, 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:04.560 it's gonna help because the Miami Dolphins, you don't have 0:28:04.600 --> 0:28:08.240 to you don't have to you know, pick hairs, you know, 0:28:08.280 --> 0:28:10.719 in terms of what, you know, what position can this 0:28:10.760 --> 0:28:14.159 guy play because we're only gonna address six today and 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:16.520 in terms of now you have the luxury of dressing 0:28:16.720 --> 0:28:21.240 maybe eight offensive lineman. So you have an opportunity to 0:28:21.320 --> 0:28:23.679 be able to create death. You don't have to maybe 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:26.679 dress an extra tight end because you in short yardage, 0:28:26.680 --> 0:28:30.040 you just put another alignment in that identifies and and 0:28:30.240 --> 0:28:32.760 you're okay, you know, you're able, You're able to go 0:28:32.800 --> 0:28:35.440 in and and do a lot of things formationwise. So 0:28:35.840 --> 0:28:38.840 I think that the competition that's been created on this roster, 0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.400 and you probably have maybe I think the Dolphins are 0:28:41.440 --> 0:28:43.320 at eighty nine and you're allowed to maybe get to 0:28:43.480 --> 0:28:46.800 ninety and ninety one with a roster exemption for a 0:28:46.880 --> 0:28:49.120 foreign player, So you're gonna be able to get two 0:28:49.160 --> 0:28:52.240 more guys. This roster this year is going to be 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:55.520 loaded with competition at every position. You're gonna have your 0:28:55.760 --> 0:28:58.520 your starters kind of inked in there and sharpie, but 0:28:58.560 --> 0:29:00.440 there's gonna be a lot of guys written in pencil 0:29:00.800 --> 0:29:04.719 because you're gonna have a lot of change, uh, around 0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:07.440 training camp and into training camp and into the preseason 0:29:07.720 --> 0:29:09.320 where you're gonna say, you know what, I thought that 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:12.040 guy was gonna start. It looks like you know, X 0:29:12.200 --> 0:29:15.120 y Z is gonna gonna be the starter there. Yeah, 0:29:15.280 --> 0:29:17.240 you know. Uh, moving on to the defensive side of 0:29:17.280 --> 0:29:20.760 the football. Uh, that defensive front seven John which was 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:23.720 really uh, you know, gave up a lot of yards rushing. 0:29:24.520 --> 0:29:26.959 You know, I think where they have twenty three stacks 0:29:27.000 --> 0:29:29.800 worse than the league and uh, you know last season 0:29:30.280 --> 0:29:32.680 and you know you needed a big improvement there, and 0:29:33.160 --> 0:29:36.280 they begin that improvement with the free agency by getting 0:29:36.320 --> 0:29:39.480 kyled Vannis and Shaq Lawson at Manuel Logbal guys that 0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:41.960 can come in and and and really help out that 0:29:42.040 --> 0:29:45.160 defensive front. And then you have three more, uh three 0:29:45.160 --> 0:29:47.640 more defensive linemen in the draft. Ri Kawan Davis, a 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:50.600 big defensive tackle out of Alabama, and you pair him 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:52.840 with the Wilkins and got shot in that that tackle 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:55.720 position just gives you another big body in there that 0:29:55.760 --> 0:29:57.880 can play the run well, and they give you a 0:29:57.960 --> 0:30:00.280 little push for the as far as the and the 0:30:00.520 --> 0:30:03.640 past reussor since Herning and then Christian Wilkins much like 0:30:03.680 --> 0:30:05.960 Michael Dieter in the offensive side, I thought, I thought, 0:30:06.160 --> 0:30:08.400 I thought Christian played better than a lot of people 0:30:08.440 --> 0:30:12.560 gave him credit for last year. A defensive tackle, you know, 0:30:12.560 --> 0:30:15.720 it's it's it's it's really tough to evaluate the defensive 0:30:15.760 --> 0:30:19.960 tackle if all you're evaluating on them on his tackles, 0:30:20.000 --> 0:30:23.360 tackles for losses in sacks. You know, there's there's a 0:30:23.360 --> 0:30:26.560 lot of other things that go into evaluating defensive tackles. 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:29.160 So from my liking, I thought Christine work has played 0:30:29.280 --> 0:30:32.040 very well for this team last year, you get another 0:30:32.120 --> 0:30:34.240 year of growth in him, and you're bringing a guy 0:30:34.280 --> 0:30:36.560 like Ray Kawon Davis in the middle of the line. 0:30:36.880 --> 0:30:38.960 Then you bring in a couple of edge rushers, a 0:30:39.000 --> 0:30:43.040 defensive end Jason Snowbridge out of North Carolina, true defensive end, 0:30:43.400 --> 0:30:45.560 and Curtis Weaver, the kid out of Boise State, who's 0:30:45.600 --> 0:30:48.160 an edge guy that uh, you know, boys, boys, guys 0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:50.440 always seemed to be coming and ready to play. And 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:52.520 here's another guy that can give you some pressure. So 0:30:52.600 --> 0:30:55.480 when you look at what you've done in free agency 0:30:55.520 --> 0:30:58.080 and then added in the draft again, John, I'm and 0:30:58.120 --> 0:30:59.960 it's kind of kind of, you know, kind of bet 0:31:00.120 --> 0:31:02.120 the same grum. But what I'll tell you on that 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:05.040 in that front seven is gonna be maybe a lot 0:31:05.080 --> 0:31:08.920 of competition out there, both in the defensive line and 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:11.920 and and in the in the linebacker group with Vince 0:31:11.960 --> 0:31:15.760 Biegle coming back, Van gig Will coming back, Jeroe Baker, Uh, 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:20.520 Ray Kawon McMillan, bringing in Kyle Van Noy and Curtis 0:31:20.520 --> 0:31:23.120 Weaver and all these guys and uh and Vince Beagle 0:31:23.160 --> 0:31:25.360 and like you know, through Vince Biggle. But I mean, 0:31:25.720 --> 0:31:28.959 you hit the point up front seven. You know, again, 0:31:29.120 --> 0:31:33.040 a lot of competition and some depth and talent that 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:35.320 you're gonna have out there, and a lot of those guys, 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:37.360 a lot of those guys that have played a lot 0:31:37.360 --> 0:31:40.000 of downs, maybe running down special teams for this football 0:31:40.000 --> 0:31:42.480 team this year. And for me, that's not a bad 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:45.360 situation at all. No, it isn't. And you you know, 0:31:45.480 --> 0:31:48.280 we both talked about the size of the offensive line. 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:51.800 Now with the addition of Jackson at the eighteenth pick 0:31:52.160 --> 0:31:54.920 and Hunts in the second round, and you get Kinley 0:31:54.920 --> 0:31:58.320 in the fourth round, well, ray Kwon Davis at six 0:31:58.360 --> 0:32:02.760 six maybe six seven three and ten plus pounds, and 0:32:02.880 --> 0:32:05.880 that's a huge human. You know. You you stick him 0:32:05.920 --> 0:32:08.680 in the middle of that defensive front and you get 0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:11.280 a guy that has experienced playing in the SEC and 0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:13.920 all those battles weekend and week out when you have 0:32:13.960 --> 0:32:16.800 a conference game. This is a three year starter. Now, 0:32:16.840 --> 0:32:19.880 granted he had his best season as a sophomore in Alabama, 0:32:20.440 --> 0:32:23.120 but he has rare size and I think that's where 0:32:23.400 --> 0:32:25.640 the Miami Dolphins are looking to get guys that have 0:32:25.840 --> 0:32:28.480 size that that can also move and be a problem 0:32:28.760 --> 0:32:31.440 when they start moving and and starting to use some 0:32:31.520 --> 0:32:34.400 of that leverage to these players advantage. You know, he's 0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:37.960 a powerful man, uh that can win and fend off 0:32:38.000 --> 0:32:40.480 a double team, and that's gonna help your linebacking corps 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:44.000 that is that are sleek, that that triggers suddenly, and 0:32:44.040 --> 0:32:46.720 that don't miss much in the open field. So you 0:32:46.760 --> 0:32:48.920 get a guy like Joan Baker behind a guy like 0:32:49.000 --> 0:32:51.840 ray Kwon Davis, you're in good position to be able 0:32:51.880 --> 0:32:54.360 to make a play. And you throw in the edition 0:32:54.400 --> 0:32:57.200 of Wilkins in his second year and got Child playing 0:32:57.240 --> 0:32:59.360 at the level he's playing at, You're gonna have a 0:32:59.360 --> 0:33:02.200 lot of move it behind these big bodies. And if 0:33:02.240 --> 0:33:04.760 you can add a strow Bridge or a Weaver, if 0:33:04.760 --> 0:33:07.480 they can add to the guys that you mentioned in 0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:10.000 free into free agency being able to be on this 0:33:10.080 --> 0:33:12.840 team and be able to pressure the pocket as well 0:33:12.880 --> 0:33:15.920 as strow Bridge, he gives you that flexibility that the 0:33:15.960 --> 0:33:19.040 offensive lineman we talked about, He's played defensive end, he's 0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.800 played defensive tackle. He can move up and down that 0:33:22.040 --> 0:33:25.280 defensive front, and he really flashed. I saw him at 0:33:25.320 --> 0:33:27.720 the Senior Bowl and I didn't know that, you know, 0:33:27.800 --> 0:33:29.920 until the draft, and he's you know, he's right out 0:33:29.920 --> 0:33:32.200 of Deerfield Beach High School. So you get a guy 0:33:32.280 --> 0:33:35.360 that grew up probably is a huge Miami golfing guy 0:33:35.480 --> 0:33:38.880 or a South Florida guy comes back and he's just 0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:43.240 gonna add to that, to the depth along that defensive line. Yeah, 0:33:43.240 --> 0:33:45.240 a lot of good stuff there. And you know the 0:33:45.680 --> 0:33:49.480 linebacker situation is it's good. Now they go out and 0:33:49.680 --> 0:33:53.720 uh and it igmonogamy in the uh the third pick 0:33:53.760 --> 0:33:56.320 in that in that first round, bo they got us 0:33:56.360 --> 0:34:00.520 on this pick. I gotta say, you know, I I look, 0:34:00.560 --> 0:34:02.560 I thought running back. I thought maybe one of those 0:34:02.560 --> 0:34:05.480 wide receivers. Yeah, I'm sitting there going or maybe even 0:34:05.520 --> 0:34:08.120 another one of those offensive tackles. It was still lighting 0:34:08.200 --> 0:34:10.520 up there, and they threw his name out there. I'm like, 0:34:10.560 --> 0:34:13.000 what not only did they throw his name out there? 0:34:13.000 --> 0:34:14.560 When they threw it out there, I was like, where's 0:34:14.640 --> 0:34:22.120 Jones or Smith? Yeah, that's exactly you know. I'm I'm 0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:23.319 sure I'm a lot like you. As soon as I 0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:28.799 heard that name, I'm saying, they're going igmonograpy higman. Hey. 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:31.600 I don't think you know, we we had we had 0:34:31.600 --> 0:34:33.799 our kids kind of helping us out with you know, 0:34:34.040 --> 0:34:37.560 as executive producers in the house, and when I saw that, 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:40.000 I immediately looked and they saw my face and they go, 0:34:40.239 --> 0:34:44.759 my dad has no idea how to pronounce his name. Yeah, no, 0:34:44.760 --> 0:34:47.160 no doubt about it. But and there're so you go, 0:34:47.280 --> 0:34:48.959 you know, way with that name. But then you go, wow, 0:34:49.239 --> 0:34:53.359 another quarterback and then and then you know, Brian uh. 0:34:53.440 --> 0:34:56.279 Chris Greer and Brian Flores both talked about because they 0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:58.879 were asked about, you know, picking up another cornerback after 0:34:58.880 --> 0:35:00.560 you got and you could get by then Jones and 0:35:00.640 --> 0:35:02.920 free agency. You got Exavier. On the other side, you 0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:05.360 got two of the highest played paid cornerbacks in the 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:07.480 National Football and you may have one of the one 0:35:07.520 --> 0:35:10.959 of the best cornerback pandoms now in the National Football League. 0:35:10.960 --> 0:35:12.680 But you use your third pick in the first round 0:35:13.160 --> 0:35:16.560 to get another cornerback. And both Chris and both Bryant 0:35:16.600 --> 0:35:18.960 said after the wrap, when I asked about making that pick, 0:35:19.200 --> 0:35:22.279 they said, Hey, look, coming from New England for for 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:26.040 for Brian Flores and watching up there, the fact that 0:35:26.080 --> 0:35:28.799 they've always had so many cornerbacks, he said, I came 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:30.759 down here with the belief that you can never have 0:35:30.920 --> 0:35:33.040 enough cornerbacks. And you know the way the game is 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:36.120 going now the way the passing game is going now, 0:35:36.280 --> 0:35:41.160 and with the rule changes on defense for secondary coverage, 0:35:41.560 --> 0:35:44.600 I agree with that. Give me, you know, give me cornerbacks, 0:35:44.600 --> 0:35:46.560 give me cornerbacks and to play. And you look at 0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:49.000 the Dolphins, I think, you know, we have Bobby mccame 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:52.720 back there as the safety. He can play cornerback. Nick Needham, 0:35:52.760 --> 0:35:55.520 he could play cornerback, he can play inside. You You've 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:57.640 got a lot of Ken Webster, Ryan Lewis, You've got 0:35:57.719 --> 0:36:00.799 a lot of guys out there in the cornerback situation 0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:04.360 that when you come to the nickel and dimes situation 0:36:04.400 --> 0:36:06.880 now they go out later on. Uh and they and 0:36:06.960 --> 0:36:09.960 they do get a safety. And Brandon Jones a kid 0:36:10.000 --> 0:36:12.480 from Texas to to provide you a little bit more 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:15.760 of that traditional safety guy, kind of a hard hitter. 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:17.840 But I I, you know, the more and more I 0:36:17.880 --> 0:36:20.239 think about it, the more I'm becoming comfortable with you. 0:36:20.400 --> 0:36:23.080 Give me more guys that can cover, and we'll worry, 0:36:23.080 --> 0:36:25.799 we'll we'll at the front seven worry about, you know, 0:36:26.200 --> 0:36:28.640 managing the line of scrimmage and and and setting the 0:36:28.719 --> 0:36:31.520 edge on both sides and not allowing them to get 0:36:31.560 --> 0:36:34.080 to the perimeter. Uh. And let's get our quarterbacks after 0:36:34.239 --> 0:36:37.320 covering as well as we possibly can. Well, you mentioned 0:36:37.400 --> 0:36:40.960 physician flexibility, and higg Been Ageny does that. He's played corner. 0:36:41.000 --> 0:36:44.840 I mean remember, just like Austin Jackson, hig Ban Ageny 0:36:44.920 --> 0:36:47.320 is only twenty years old and he's only been playing 0:36:47.520 --> 0:36:49.920 on the defensive side of the football for two years. 0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:52.520 This was a like a four or five star high 0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:55.759 school wide receiver when he came to Albert So you 0:36:55.840 --> 0:36:59.560 take him with the thirty overall pick. He brings you, 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:02.120 you know, it's sceptional speed and quickness. He's a really 0:37:02.160 --> 0:37:05.720 good athlete. And when you when it watched a couple 0:37:05.760 --> 0:37:08.839 of films on him, not only is he competitive and 0:37:08.920 --> 0:37:11.640 strong and press coverage he looks he makes it look 0:37:11.719 --> 0:37:15.160 like a sparring session out there. I mean he's he's 0:37:15.160 --> 0:37:17.160 a lot of hands, he's a lot of contact. He 0:37:17.160 --> 0:37:20.640 will probably mature into something that is going to be 0:37:20.719 --> 0:37:23.600 a headache for wide receivers to go up against because 0:37:23.600 --> 0:37:28.040 of his competitiveness. And Brandon Jones from Texas, you get 0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:30.360 a guy with experience. He was a three year starter 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:33.720 for the Long Warns. He started thirty five career games. 0:37:34.000 --> 0:37:36.439 He has the ability to play center field, I've seen 0:37:36.520 --> 0:37:39.880 him do that and for interception interceptions in his career 0:37:39.960 --> 0:37:42.960 doing that, but in the slot, he showed off his 0:37:43.000 --> 0:37:45.880 speed not only to be able to cover, but close 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:48.080 in the open field on on a now or a 0:37:48.200 --> 0:37:51.120 quick screen on the outside or running back dumping it 0:37:51.200 --> 0:37:53.400 off in the flat. He's able to get on his horse, 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:56.640 get to the ball carrier or the pass catcher and 0:37:56.680 --> 0:37:58.680 get him to the ground, which leads me to believe 0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:01.040 he might be. In addition, and on special teams, is 0:38:01.120 --> 0:38:03.120 one of your guys going down there to you know, 0:38:03.400 --> 0:38:05.960 another young guy that you can groom to be on 0:38:06.000 --> 0:38:09.440 all four teams because you're so deep in terms of 0:38:09.480 --> 0:38:11.359 how many guys you have that can run and cover 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:14.880 right now, and you have that ability on special teams 0:38:14.880 --> 0:38:17.759 for Jones, Yeah, that makes a good situation out there. 0:38:17.760 --> 0:38:19.800 And still when you look at the safety position, you 0:38:19.880 --> 0:38:24.759 got Eric Row, uh, Bobby McCain, Adrian Colberg who they resigned, uh, 0:38:24.800 --> 0:38:27.240 you know, and then you have Brandon Josephine Mix and 0:38:27.239 --> 0:38:29.160 and and you feel pretty good. I don't know, I 0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:31.319 just I just kind of like that group, you know, 0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:33.279 and and and John. I think the one thing too 0:38:33.360 --> 0:38:35.520 that when you talk about like like Malcolm Perry and 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:37.719 some of these other guys and then Robert Hunt and 0:38:38.200 --> 0:38:41.880 uh you know there you know, the their their their makeup, 0:38:41.920 --> 0:38:44.919 their character, the type of people they are. They all 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:49.799 seem to have that personality. Um that that that this 0:38:49.920 --> 0:38:52.799 franchise is looking for. Guys that were captains on their team, 0:38:53.160 --> 0:38:55.120 Guys that were important to the team, Guys that that 0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:58.920 you know that that are more than football players. And 0:38:59.000 --> 0:39:01.640 they're there. They're they're good citizens, are good people. And 0:39:01.640 --> 0:39:03.560 I'm not saying every one of these guys as a 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:07.080 you know, as a choir boy, but you you like 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:09.440 to feel that as you take a snapshot of this 0:39:09.440 --> 0:39:12.680 football team from a from a playing standpoint, you go, jeeus. 0:39:12.880 --> 0:39:14.600 You know, we've got pretty good running backs. We've gotta 0:39:14.760 --> 0:39:16.640 you know, we have a you know, possibly a future 0:39:16.680 --> 0:39:20.080 franchise quarterback in here. You've you've built yourself a big 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:23.759 offensive line. You know, you've got a number of receivers 0:39:23.800 --> 0:39:25.880 out there, Your tight ends, you know, showed that they 0:39:25.880 --> 0:39:29.920 could play last year. You've you've enhanced your front seven. 0:39:30.360 --> 0:39:32.279 You've really made it tough on that back side with 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:35.080 the with all the coverage guys back there, and and 0:39:35.080 --> 0:39:37.640 and and on the defensive side. John, there you know 0:39:37.680 --> 0:39:42.920 there's two. There's two two parts too, pressuring quarterback's pressure 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:46.120 upfront and coverage in the back. And boy, the Dolphins 0:39:46.120 --> 0:39:49.520 went a long way in filling both of those needs 0:39:49.840 --> 0:39:51.680 to where I would doubt that this is the most 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:54.440 sacked team in the foot in the in the NFL 0:39:54.520 --> 0:39:57.319 next year next year, and I would be surprised if 0:39:57.360 --> 0:39:59.640 it's the least the team with the least sacks on 0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:02.120 deep pense after what they've done on both sides of 0:40:02.120 --> 0:40:05.279 the football. So I think when you look at the 0:40:05.320 --> 0:40:09.759 whole of the team on position wise, I don't think 0:40:09.800 --> 0:40:12.839 this football team could have strengthened themselves any better than 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:17.560 they did this offseason through free agency and then capped 0:40:17.560 --> 0:40:20.560 off with what they did in the draft on Thursday, 0:40:20.600 --> 0:40:24.080 Friday and Saturday. Yeah, I'm really happy with the Miami 0:40:24.160 --> 0:40:27.160 Dolphins have been able to accomplish in terms of going 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:31.440 out and identifying veterans that have played in in a 0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:34.320 lot of NFL games on the defensive side, and maybe 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:37.359 guys that haven't had you know, four or five six 0:40:37.440 --> 0:40:40.200 years experience, but you're able to get him young in 0:40:40.280 --> 0:40:43.440 free agency. Maybe they were injured for a portion of 0:40:43.480 --> 0:40:45.920 the year like Ogba, who you don't know what you're 0:40:45.920 --> 0:40:48.680 gonna get, but the upside sure looks good. And then 0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:50.480 you get a guy like Kyle van Noy that can 0:40:50.520 --> 0:40:54.000 play multiple positions. I think the defense in terms of 0:40:54.040 --> 0:40:56.960 Byron Jones adding him with Xavien Howard, I mean, this 0:40:57.080 --> 0:41:01.279 defense on paper looks a lot better, dreamly different than 0:41:01.400 --> 0:41:04.080 last season when you had a lot of question marks. 0:41:04.480 --> 0:41:07.200 And then on offense throughout the draft and and on 0:41:07.280 --> 0:41:10.440 defense throughout the draft. In terms of who the Dolphins selected, 0:41:10.920 --> 0:41:13.480 it seems like the attention was to the line and 0:41:13.560 --> 0:41:17.839 obviously getting a franchise quarter quarterback number one, but they 0:41:18.040 --> 0:41:20.640 put a lot of time and effort in building the 0:41:20.760 --> 0:41:24.480 size of of our offense and defensive line to be 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:28.960 able to create not only competition, but create some suddenness 0:41:29.040 --> 0:41:31.400 in this team. You know, you don't you want to 0:41:31.440 --> 0:41:34.160 be able to have the Miami Dolphins kind of roll 0:41:34.200 --> 0:41:36.880 out on Sunday and go, we're gonna win the offensive 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:40.080 and defensive line play. You know, now you've got a question. 0:41:40.520 --> 0:41:43.800 You know you feel like this team got better on paper. 0:41:43.840 --> 0:41:46.160 You just hope that these guys are gonna be able 0:41:46.200 --> 0:41:47.960 to mature quick enough to be able to make an 0:41:48.000 --> 0:41:51.000 impact over the next couple of seasons and then be 0:41:51.160 --> 0:41:54.319 fixtures on your football team for years to come. Yeah. 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:55.680 You know. The other thing is that I think they 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:59.360 have some nasty on this football team too. Absolutely, some 0:41:59.440 --> 0:42:03.440 of these guys We've talked about Hunts and and uh 0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:06.840 and Kindley and and Austin Jackson and and just to 0:42:07.120 --> 0:42:09.799 the physical nature of the way they play the game. 0:42:09.840 --> 0:42:11.799 And you know, you want to be known as one 0:42:11.840 --> 0:42:13.960 of those teams that you know, when you know we're 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:15.839 gonna play the Dolphins where you're it's gonna it's gonna 0:42:15.840 --> 0:42:18.359 be a long day out there. Well, that's the way 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:20.160 you know, when teams do up and you say, well, 0:42:20.160 --> 0:42:22.919 I gotta go play I gotta go play the Ravens. Yeah, 0:42:22.960 --> 0:42:25.120 I don't want to play the Ravens. You know, I 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:26.719 gotta go play the Bills. You know it's gonna be 0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:29.640 a dog fight, right, you know. But when you're when 0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:31.480 you're playing some other teams, you just feel like, well 0:42:31.520 --> 0:42:34.400 we have to stop their skill guys. That will be okay. 0:42:34.800 --> 0:42:36.560 You know, the Cowboys are the same way with that 0:42:36.640 --> 0:42:40.239 offensive line. So that's that's where the Minami Dolphins want 0:42:40.239 --> 0:42:41.520 to get. They want to be able to have that 0:42:41.600 --> 0:42:43.880 two way go where they can run it just as 0:42:43.920 --> 0:42:47.120 easily to throw the football, and it keeps defenses guessing. 0:42:47.360 --> 0:42:50.719 And when they're guessing, you have the advantage. So John 0:42:50.760 --> 0:42:53.560 to go go through the draft and made all these moves. 0:42:53.640 --> 0:42:55.759 Who were the give me, give me one or two 0:42:55.760 --> 0:42:57.920 guys that that that were kind of on your list 0:42:58.000 --> 0:43:00.600 of It doesn't matter what position they play, doesn't matter 0:43:00.680 --> 0:43:03.320 what it was, but guys that you just have watched 0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:04.759 over the years. He said, Man, I would have loved 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:06.560 to have had I would love to have him on 0:43:06.560 --> 0:43:08.000 our team. I would love to have this guy on 0:43:08.000 --> 0:43:11.799 our team. Well, I think one of those receivers you 0:43:11.840 --> 0:43:15.320 know that that that that Ceedee Lamb or or Rugs 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:17.759 or you know, one of those impact guys that could 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:21.799 you know Judy, that that really made a difference because 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:24.279 there was so many receivers. That's where I thought the 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:27.319 Dolphins may go somewhere in the second round. Or at 0:43:27.400 --> 0:43:29.759 running back, you know, any one of those running backs 0:43:29.760 --> 0:43:32.200 that were left on the board where you had Swift 0:43:32.239 --> 0:43:35.200 and Dobbins and cam Akers and one of those guys. 0:43:35.360 --> 0:43:38.560 I really felt the Dolphins were going to do something 0:43:38.960 --> 0:43:41.839 at receiver or running back in terms of going up 0:43:41.840 --> 0:43:44.319 and grabbing one of those guys, because there's that it 0:43:44.400 --> 0:43:48.160 was loaded. This draft was loaded with that talent. Yeah, 0:43:48.320 --> 0:43:50.040 you know what you mean. I was looking at Jalen 0:43:50.160 --> 0:43:53.040 Wurtz again, I just you know, and it was jumping 0:43:53.080 --> 0:43:57.160 on who took him in the second round Philly, Philly 0:43:57.200 --> 0:43:59.680 took him the second round in camp and and he's 0:43:59.680 --> 0:44:01.880 why were you do that? And I just thought, and 0:44:02.000 --> 0:44:03.560 I would have loved to see the Dolphins, you know, 0:44:03.640 --> 0:44:06.319 just you know, second third round or something. I mean 0:44:06.360 --> 0:44:08.839 I did. I just think he's I just think he's 0:44:08.920 --> 0:44:11.560 that guy, the guy that you're starting to see on 0:44:11.560 --> 0:44:14.200 on some of these teams that that that like you 0:44:14.280 --> 0:44:16.200 like you talked about, you know, getting into the red 0:44:16.320 --> 0:44:20.080 zone and using Malcolm Perry on a option, you know 0:44:20.120 --> 0:44:22.000 what about using Jalen Hurts, putting him in the back. 0:44:22.040 --> 0:44:23.720 He'll put him in motion and put him in the slot, 0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:26.080 just do different things with them as well as So 0:44:26.400 --> 0:44:27.680 I was kind of he was kind of my guy. 0:44:27.680 --> 0:44:29.640 And and and Grant Delta was the other guy that 0:44:30.040 --> 0:44:32.000 going into the draft, I said, Man, two of the 0:44:32.040 --> 0:44:34.560 guys that I just just kind of enamored with in 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:37.080 this draft for both of those two guys, So a 0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:39.080 little disappointed. I didn't see them one of those drop 0:44:39.080 --> 0:44:41.360 our way. But you know what I'm I'm I'm pretty 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:44.520 I'm pretty satisfied with what the with what the Dolphins 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:46.680 did over the weekend. Yeah, I am too. And then 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:50.440 you know, you create you thought you created competition with 0:44:50.480 --> 0:44:53.200 the long snapper when Blake fergus But it looks like 0:44:53.280 --> 0:44:55.520 he's gonna be the only guy left standing in terms 0:44:55.520 --> 0:44:58.560 of bringing in a long snapper for training camp. Yeah, 0:44:58.600 --> 0:45:00.799 with Tabor Pepper going, then you figured that was gonna 0:45:00.840 --> 0:45:03.080 happen when when they brought him and but uh, I 0:45:03.080 --> 0:45:05.000 know I saw your piece on him. Pretty athletic guy 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:08.080 out there. You know, it's funny because you've had I think, 0:45:08.160 --> 0:45:11.560 I think since I've been covering the team, you know, 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:16.759 you've had Ed Perry, and you've had John Denny and 0:45:17.239 --> 0:45:19.360 and then and then you had that's about it, and 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:21.439 you have Pepper for you get Pepper for a year. 0:45:22.040 --> 0:45:24.839 And now if if if Blake Ferguson is as good 0:45:24.880 --> 0:45:27.239 as uh, he's good enough to be drafted, I would 0:45:27.239 --> 0:45:29.279 assume that he's gonna be here for about another ten 0:45:29.360 --> 0:45:32.960 or fifteen years until until his minimum wage gets too 0:45:33.040 --> 0:45:35.560 high for uh, for them to be comfortable with in 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:38.399 the in the salary cap well, I can hear it already. Bow. 0:45:38.560 --> 0:45:40.640 When things kind of straighten out and you're able to 0:45:40.960 --> 0:45:44.319 kind of frequent you know, normal places, everybody gets back 0:45:44.320 --> 0:45:47.560 to uh, you know, your restaurants and all that stuff, 0:45:47.600 --> 0:45:50.239 that AJ is gonna be pounding it. You even had 0:45:50.239 --> 0:45:52.200 to go to LSU for our long staffer, didn't you. 0:45:53.280 --> 0:45:55.520 It wasn't know that he took ten or twelve guys. 0:45:55.560 --> 0:45:57.719 But you've got our long snapper as well. You know. 0:45:57.719 --> 0:45:59.440 It's funny. I was singing when when, when we were 0:45:59.440 --> 0:46:01.520 when the draft? What's going on? And I was keeping 0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:03.719 a list of who was drafted. But I was also 0:46:03.840 --> 0:46:05.719 keeping a list and by kind of stopped when I 0:46:05.760 --> 0:46:08.879 got to uh, when we got to uh, it been 0:46:08.880 --> 0:46:14.280 agomy um. I was coding. I was counting the conference picks, 0:46:14.920 --> 0:46:18.320 and I think anything by the time we got to it, y, 0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:21.719 I want to say, there was twelve or thirteen from 0:46:21.719 --> 0:46:25.480 the SEC and another eight or nine from the from 0:46:25.480 --> 0:46:28.920 the big ten, I mean, but they just said, uh, 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:31.239 you know, you look at the quality of those conferences 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:34.640 just by just by by by the numbers of players 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:36.440 in the first round. And then then I think when 0:46:36.600 --> 0:46:40.320 when in the l S you have fourteen players draftings? Yeah, yeah, 0:46:40.360 --> 0:46:43.640 it was, it was in the teams. It was crazy. Yeah. 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:47.239 So anyway, it was a good weekend. And uh, John, 0:46:47.320 --> 0:46:48.879 I you know, I want to I want to again, 0:46:48.920 --> 0:46:51.120 I want to you know, want to thank the fans 0:46:51.120 --> 0:46:55.480 that tuned into for our absolutely that was broadcast and uh, 0:46:55.520 --> 0:46:58.520 in the in the pre draft shows that uh that 0:46:58.640 --> 0:47:00.680 you and Travis did were great. I think I thought 0:47:00.719 --> 0:47:04.040 the information coming out of those shows were good. Uh, 0:47:04.239 --> 0:47:06.520 And and just just want to appreciate the fans for 0:47:07.120 --> 0:47:09.680 sticking with this football team, sticking with this group, and 0:47:09.880 --> 0:47:12.879 sticking with us during this these these times are change 0:47:12.880 --> 0:47:15.759 that we're going through. And keeping yourself safe and and 0:47:16.120 --> 0:47:19.200 keeping yourself safe, keeping other people safe out there, it's 0:47:19.239 --> 0:47:21.279 a it's a it's a selfish and unselfish thing that 0:47:21.320 --> 0:47:23.239 you do when you stay home and still got a 0:47:23.280 --> 0:47:24.880 little ways to go, but you're starting to see the 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:27.120 light of the tunnel. Things are starting to open up 0:47:27.160 --> 0:47:28.799 a little bit. So we're hoping for the best. But 0:47:28.960 --> 0:47:30.920 I think, you know, if we can all kind of 0:47:31.320 --> 0:47:34.239 continue continuing the path that we're doing, stay disciplined with 0:47:34.280 --> 0:47:36.880 what we're doing, making trying to make everything better than 0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:40.919 hopefully by the time September rolls around. Uh, well, we'll 0:47:40.920 --> 0:47:44.319 get some some NFL and some college football and which 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:47.800 will will hopefully bring some normalcy back to our lives. Certainly, 0:47:47.800 --> 0:47:50.239 the draft proved that people wanted. I mean probably the 0:47:51.440 --> 0:47:54.760 television numbers for the draft were off the charts um 0:47:54.800 --> 0:47:57.600 this year and so um yeah, you know, I gotta 0:47:57.640 --> 0:47:59.880 give gotta give a lot of props to the end 0:48:00.040 --> 0:48:02.680 fell for being able to put a virtual draft together 0:48:03.360 --> 0:48:05.920 in a pearly sceneless fashion too. You know, it was 0:48:05.960 --> 0:48:09.600 funny bow that a lot of people you talk to now, uh, 0:48:09.680 --> 0:48:13.840 they thought this version was really good, you know, getting 0:48:13.880 --> 0:48:15.960 to see the g ms and the head coaches and 0:48:15.960 --> 0:48:18.440 their families. I wouldn't be surprised, you know that. I 0:48:18.440 --> 0:48:20.560 know there their scheduled to go to Cleveland in two 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:23.879 thousand and twenty one, downtown Cleveland and maybe just having 0:48:23.920 --> 0:48:26.279 the first round there and then kind of drawn it 0:48:26.360 --> 0:48:30.200 back or you know, maybe day three is back at 0:48:30.239 --> 0:48:33.560 that home setting virtually because it went so well well 0:48:33.600 --> 0:48:35.480 it did, and I think you got to see you know, 0:48:35.520 --> 0:48:37.400 you got to see the personality of these guys and 0:48:37.800 --> 0:48:39.440 you know, you know, they're in the war they're in 0:48:39.480 --> 0:48:41.479 the war room, and you get a little shot every 0:48:41.480 --> 0:48:43.880 now and then, but use this pretty tiger. But to 0:48:44.000 --> 0:48:46.719 see you know, to see Brian and his son's high 0:48:46.760 --> 0:48:49.480 five and his daughter in there, and Chris Greer with 0:48:49.719 --> 0:48:52.320 with his kid, you know, and I think, and and 0:48:52.600 --> 0:48:55.440 it looks around the league, everybody around the league, Bruce 0:48:55.480 --> 0:48:58.959 arians sitting out of the patio. You know which which 0:48:59.000 --> 0:49:01.720 was which you if you've been around Bruce area, that's 0:49:01.760 --> 0:49:05.960 the perfect perfect scenario for him. Uh. I like, I 0:49:06.040 --> 0:49:08.960 like the the Yedni tumbler he had. Just it was right, 0:49:08.960 --> 0:49:13.480 and that was perfect, you know, uh Andy Reid with 0:49:13.560 --> 0:49:16.000 his with his uh with his you know, flowered shirt 0:49:16.040 --> 0:49:18.600 on and all that stuff. So it was, it was 0:49:18.960 --> 0:49:20.640 it was really nice. And I think, you know what 0:49:20.680 --> 0:49:22.920 I think at the end, you know, when you when 0:49:22.920 --> 0:49:25.600 you heard some of these coaches and general managers that 0:49:25.719 --> 0:49:28.960 they enjoyed it. They enjoyed having the opportunity to you know, 0:49:29.080 --> 0:49:32.799 Brian Brian Flores talked about it afterwards, the opportunity to 0:49:32.840 --> 0:49:35.680 spend this much time with his family that normally he wouldn't, 0:49:35.680 --> 0:49:37.280 you know, and to be there for the draft, and 0:49:37.440 --> 0:49:38.880 having his kids have to be able to get on 0:49:38.880 --> 0:49:41.239 the phone and talk to to uh and and this 0:49:41.320 --> 0:49:44.120 and that. It was just uh, yeah, I don't think 0:49:44.120 --> 0:49:47.000 it could have worked out under the circumstances. I don't 0:49:47.040 --> 0:49:48.840 think it could have worked out better for the NFL 0:49:48.920 --> 0:49:52.840 and for all the teams involved. Yeah, complete success. I 0:49:53.560 --> 0:49:55.760 thoroughly enjoyed the way it looked, the way it felt 0:49:55.800 --> 0:49:58.600 on TV as a fan watching it, and then us 0:49:58.600 --> 0:50:00.440 getting to cut in and do our thing, you know, 0:50:00.520 --> 0:50:03.160 on day one, and and and just watching it being 0:50:03.200 --> 0:50:06.080 a fan at home, and it really brought it. It's 0:50:06.120 --> 0:50:08.600 what it really the country needed something to kind of 0:50:09.239 --> 0:50:11.719 to kind of get it invested in in terms of 0:50:11.760 --> 0:50:15.480 breaking up the uh the monotony of the news of 0:50:15.560 --> 0:50:18.440 the day, which was always seemed to be, um, not 0:50:18.560 --> 0:50:21.880 as pleasant as as you would like because of our circumstances. 0:50:21.920 --> 0:50:25.279 But uh, it just made a great distraction for for 0:50:25.360 --> 0:50:27.680 three days, that's for sure. You also want to thank 0:50:27.719 --> 0:50:31.040 all those guys that back there, from Jeff and Logan 0:50:31.080 --> 0:50:33.520 and all those guys. Yeah, those guys did all that 0:50:33.600 --> 0:50:36.960 did all the technical work, and and Kassi Conjemmy and 0:50:37.040 --> 0:50:40.520 Kimberly Bocamp for the two on site producers, for us, 0:50:41.200 --> 0:50:43.440 everybody that got us on the air for that. What 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:46.719 a what a wonderful job they did. So congratulations to them, 0:50:46.800 --> 0:50:49.040 Thanks to them, and John, thanks to you for all 0:50:49.080 --> 0:50:51.480 your all your Yeah, you were great. Good working with 0:50:51.520 --> 0:50:53.800 you through that. That was fun. I really enjoyed it, 0:50:53.880 --> 0:50:56.279 and uh so we're gonna wrap this up and we're 0:50:56.280 --> 0:51:00.600 getting ready for next week's uh next week's uhible to 0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:02.719 see what to see? What that old sports, but what 0:51:02.840 --> 0:51:04.760 it was, it was a great week to have football 0:51:04.760 --> 0:51:06.840 back and have the action of the draft and everything 0:51:06.840 --> 0:51:08.759 and all the different shows, and then you have an 0:51:08.760 --> 0:51:11.480 audible where we can actually talk about players coming in 0:51:11.520 --> 0:51:13.399 and what's gonna look like, what this team is gonna 0:51:13.400 --> 0:51:15.560 look like, and all of us to start looking forward 0:51:15.600 --> 0:51:17.960 to the season. It's been a pretty darn good week 0:51:18.040 --> 0:51:20.359 on It's been a great week and it's it's been 0:51:20.400 --> 0:51:23.080 a lot of fun to to kind of focus in 0:51:23.160 --> 0:51:26.359 on what the Miami Dolphins are gonna look like. You know, 0:51:26.560 --> 0:51:30.000 you get your franchise quarterback, you you build the offensive 0:51:30.000 --> 0:51:32.840 and defensive lines. You you sprinkling a corner and a 0:51:32.920 --> 0:51:36.400 safety and a couple of edge rushers and a couple 0:51:36.400 --> 0:51:39.480 of wild cards with a long snapper and a quarterback 0:51:39.520 --> 0:51:42.400 that's gonna turn into a running back slash, you know, 0:51:42.719 --> 0:51:46.040 probably wide receiver slot. So you have a lot of 0:51:46.120 --> 0:51:50.040 excitement to add along with with the Dolphins in free agency. 0:51:50.080 --> 0:51:52.080 It's it's an exciting time to be a Dolphin fan. 0:51:52.160 --> 0:51:54.680 That's for sure. Good stuff all right for John kijim Me, 0:51:54.719 --> 0:51:56.880 I'm Kimbo camp for look at the call, helping us 0:51:56.920 --> 0:51:59.560 out along in the way. Appreciate you guys. Join us 0:51:59.560 --> 0:52:08.600 and we'll we're talking again next week. Uh um um