WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Offseason Could Improve Three Critical Areas 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:05.440 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.639 Drive Time with Travis Waefield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:16.480 looking clips about a wide Dolphin touchdown, Tyriquel uncrelievable. Just 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:19.160 move by it for a second time. Don't know where 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.880 he was going right away. I want to hit that though, man, 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:23.960 I want to help you. Someone will stup on his 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.920 man away wattle wattle to a shotgun. Back to throw, 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:34.080 looking at them up myers touchdown, it's waddle, it's six touchdown, padown. 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:39.760 I'll just ki. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:45.360 check your pulse if you're not for what is up? Dolphins? 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.640 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:53.920 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.120 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wheatfield. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.760 And on today's show, we are recapping well a lot 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:03.840 the twenty twenty three NFL Draft as a whole. We'll 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:07.319 look at the areas the Dolphins on paper improved this offseason. 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.080 We'll see what the masses are saying about are four 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.160 new Miami Dolphins. I'll stop by the film room once 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.080 again to give you the omissions from the original film 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.360 study on these guys, now that I had the entire 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.800 weekend and take a look under the hood, plus my 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.319 top draft notes and top rosters heading into the summer. 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:27.039 All of that and more from the Baptist Health Studios 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.360 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:36.680 Time Podcast, Maggie. So if you haven't listened to the 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.800 draft episode, which I'm not sure there's a single person 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.920 here who would have skipped those and come straight to 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:45.640 this one, but just in case, I just want to 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.440 go ahead and detail a few extra notes from watching 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:51.040 not just two or three games from these guys, but 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.600 getting into six plus games and seeing what they really 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.440 offer with a real mind of just watching that player 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.000 and watching their potential fit here with the Miami Dolphins. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.160 So real quick, just a brief omission period on each 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:05.280 of the four draft picks, and we start in the 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:09.000 second round with cornerback camp Smith and watching more and 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:11.680 more of his tape. I think maybe the best trait 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.519 of all that I like for him is that he 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.600 keeps your defensive playbook wide open. What I mean by 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:20.520 that there are reps of him doing a little bit 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.040 of everything on that South Carolina tape the pick he 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.280 had against Clemson last year. He's ten yards off in 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.079 the slot and they try to get a takeoff from 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:32.360 that position, which is a very common route in twenty 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:34.840 twenty three. He squats on it in a way that 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.920 limits the break off the top of the route by 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:40.680 playing underneath and kind of being ready to trigger downhill. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.040 But it allows him to also flip his hips and 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.160 run vertically. And on this rep, when you watch just 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:49.040 the broadcast version, you see the ball go up and 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.959 then Smith is tracking it like a wide receiver, and 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:55.960 then the other actual wide receiver appears in frame trying 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:57.919 to get back in phase, but he can't do it, 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.840 and so Smith winds up rundown this deep shot for 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:04.079 an easyt I think that rep tells you all you 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.320 need to know about his game, his confidence, the trust 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.519 he has, and what he sees that allows him to 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:11.040 play this way where he can funnel down and challenge 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.240 the short game without having to sacrifice the deep portion 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:16.639 of the field Because he can flip his hips and 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.480 take off in an instant that tense split speed right, 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.720 he has plenty adequate long speed, and then of course 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:26.079 the length helps him disrupt the catch point if he 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.200 is behind a little bit or falls out of phase 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.239 a little bit, then in the running game. You know, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:31.959 when I first watched his tape, I thought, this is 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:33.800 a guy that doesn't really love to go make hits. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.280 But the more you watch, the same thing I love 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.240 about his general approach to the game is what makes 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.520 him effective. Here understanding of angles, where he is on 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.480 the field, and spatial awareness. You can just see the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.560 football IQ with this player, and the trait that almost 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.480 always comes with that and does here is the effort 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.440 throw the ball to the other side of the field 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.400 and you'll see him take off and get his angle 0:03:55.680 --> 0:03:57.560 to where he has to be just in case the 0:03:57.640 --> 0:03:59.760 play breaks out and goes for a big gain. He 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.960 wants to be there to prevent the long touchdown, and 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.680 that awareness of where he is and the way he 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.920 plays the football. In fact, there's a three play sequence 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.320 in the Vanderbilt game. One, he strings out an outside 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.280 run and makes the play by set in the edge 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.120 and coming back inside to make the tackle. Number two. 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:19.680 The next play is an option play where he just 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.000 disrupts the mesh point and kind of stays in a 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.560 perfect position to defend both the quarterback and running back 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.720 and it forces the quarterback to tuck it and turn 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.600 up right into his help. Just delay that pitch for 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.320 as long as you possibly can. And this third one here, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.599 it goes back to the previous trade I mentioned where 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.200 he can really play back the football. Is there's a 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:42.040 one one pass play to the field where he's on 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.120 the wide side of the field right a takeoff route 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:47.440 to the perimeter, and you see him mere really good 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.080 mirror technique wait for the receiver to engage the contact, 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.640 which he then reciprocates, which means it's not a defensive 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.080 pass interference. And here's the best part, and this is 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.480 what we didn't get the last time around we took 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.160 a cornerback very high in the draft. Is he locates 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.000 the football before making his leap or before going into 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.159 the man, and that's going to prevent so many defensive 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.320 pass interference calls that were flagged on the previous high 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.520 draft pic at cornerback here for the Miami Dolphins. I 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.799 can't tell you how much I love that quality because 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.920 all year last year, all those zero looks the man coverage, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:24.200 so much urgency put on these cornerbacks in coverage, they 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.200 got flagged so frequently because they panicked and just played 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.520 through the man, and you have almost no chance of 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:31.880 making a play in that regard. But cam Smith typically 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:34.520 finds the ball and plays the ball opposed to playing 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.200 through his man. This tape is fantastic. And by the way, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.719 I've got Brett Coleman's schedule for the podcast on Friday 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.280 this week, and he just texts me cam Smith with 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.160 about eight greater than signs. That's all he said. He 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.160 loves cam Smith's tape. We'll talk about that more on Friday. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.239 Devon a Chain. This is something I think we probably 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:52.880 could just cover about this team with a blanket statement 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:55.080 and call it good. But man, there is a certain 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.520 type of player they've clearly prioritized down here in South Florida, 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:02.280 and it revolves around the play will and determination. You 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.320 see that on a Chain's tape with regularity. Yeah, he's 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.400 one hundred and eighty pounds. He's probably not pushing the 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:09.640 pile ten yards down the field on any given play. 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.240 But anyone who just sees the weight and tells you 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.400 this guy's not gonna drop his pads and run tough 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.760 and run through tackles is simply not watching the tape, 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:20.720 which I've seen that take from you know, a couple 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.160 of couple of guys that cover the team that clearly 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.920 don't watch the tape. This dude finishes runs. He plays 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.040 on one hundred at all times, and this is another 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.760 part of the makeup that the Dolphins have clearly demonstrated 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.440 that they love. He's smart. Gosh, if there are three 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.720 wrong decisions to make or gaps to hit and just 0:06:37.839 --> 0:06:41.760 one correct one, you typically find a chain finding the ladder. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.880 And he's fast. He does it quickly, just incredibly adept 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.720 at hitting small creases at full speed. And we know 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.200 what happens when you've got nearly four to two speed 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:52.920 and you do that. You know what else? Those two 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:56.880 things play into pass protection. There are all kinds of 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.880 examples of him getting his block executed, even when giving 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.960 up sixty seventy pounds to some of these top edge 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.760 rushers in the SEC. It ain't always pretty, but it's 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.160 usually effective, and a lot of that has to do 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.800 with his effort and will to do that. Elijah Higgins. 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.040 I might be having the most fun watching Higgins so 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.480 far from his class. I referenced it in the post 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:19.040 selection breakdown podcast. But everything this guy does operates through 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:22.680 his strength core upper body, lower body. He's just a 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:24.600 brick house in terms of the way he uses that 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.560 size to his advantage. You pair really with really really 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:30.920 good route running, and man, I can see this ceiling 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.320 for him being, you know, fulfilling multiple roles from both 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:38.000 wide receiver and tight end perspectives. And I wrap that phrase, 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.520 you know, wide receiver and tight end in air quotes 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.320 because I think gone are the days of just painting 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:46.720 a player with some broad brush, and in is the 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:50.200 idea of filling out specific roles on your team, like 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.600 whether it's blocking from an inline position or cracking from 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:55.560 a plus split, or running from the slot, you know, 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.600 vertically down the field to open up that too high show. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.280 He's got a lot of tools on his proverbial belt, 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.480 but man, the way he controls DB's in the physicality 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.360 aspect of his matchups. I mentioned this in the ways 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:10.120 that he fights off re routes and positions himself for 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.880 contested balls. You see it in the running game too, 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.720 And you know, I think about what he could potentially 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:18.120 add as a run blocker, you know, off the edge 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.880 of some of this stuff that we saw receivers doing 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.000 on this offense a year ago. I see a lot 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.320 of that in Higgins games, as it projects towards a 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:28.000 potential role here on the offense down the line. Then 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.560 Ryan Hayes, you go back and find the Senior Bowl 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:32.360 reps for all the guys that played in that game. 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.160 I think that's where you can really see where Hayes 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.400 projects at the next level. The one on ones were 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.800 a bit of a learning experience for Hayes, and day 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.760 one like it wasn't good, but they always talk about 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.319 guys that improved throughout the week, and that's what you 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.480 saw from Hayes. Some of those bigger, heavy handed rushers 0:08:48.520 --> 0:08:51.000 were just bull rushing him and dropping their weight on 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:52.719 a guy that was, you know, coming into that game 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.240 about three hundred pounds, and he would give up some ground, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.240 he would get knocked back a little bit, but then 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.200 he started to make an adjustment, whether it was getting 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.600 a deeper drop or widening his base, or striking earlier, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.439 or just finding different, you know, contact points to put 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:07.880 his weight on, you know, more so than somewhere else. 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.160 And all of a sudden, these bull rushers are getting 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.480 stonewalled right at the point. Now. As for the run 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.320 blocking aspect, of his game. Didn't take longer than Monday 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.520 or was it Tuesday, the first day of practice for 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.720 him to get that picked up. It was the same 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.880 as his Michigan tape. Man. It was dominant. He is 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.560 out standing at the point of attack. In surprise, surprise, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:28.760 he fires off the ball and shortens the runway of 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.560 his man significantly, something you see plenty in this offense 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:35.320 down here, and I'm everybody's on the roster is going 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.480 to compete, right so you know, hopefully we get Tron 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.320 Armstead at left tackle for seventeen games and Austin Jackson 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.760 shows you the growth we all saw last camp but 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.280 then didn't get a chance to see because of the 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.720 early injury and then a re injury when he came back. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.199 And in this case, maybe you can see, you know, 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.160 Hayes coming off the bench in some heavy packages, some 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.319 six offensive line packages. You know, if he shows you 0:09:58.440 --> 0:10:01.040 that growth and makes his way through camp and earns 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.600 a spot on the roster, I can see him potentially 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.000 having a role in that regard because of the way 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.439 he plays the run and widens that edge in the 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:10.760 instance that you do go with a heavy six offensive 0:10:10.760 --> 0:10:12.719 lineman package. Just kind of thinking about the future what 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.520 that might look like. Obviously, lots of competition in that room, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.600 so we'll see who winds up filling out that role. 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.839 But watching his Senior Bowl reps and the way he 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.160 attacks those guys one on one, I really like the 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.200 way he blocks off the edge in the ground game. Man, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.719 lots of like from this entire class. How about what 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.920 the pundits are saying, you know, nationwide? I went around 0:10:29.920 --> 0:10:31.679 the web and dug up some draft takes from some 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.880 of the big names in the industry. Here's what Kuiper 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.480 had to say. You know, mel Kiper, cornerback Cam Smith 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.920 excelled and zone coverage in college, and he locks down 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:43.199 SEC wideouts. Running Back de von a Chain could be 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.160 one of the steals of the draft. He should be 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:48.280 on preseason Rookie of the Year watch list. A Chain 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.240 is super fast and has the ability to in the 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.079 past game. What's not to like? Ryan Hayes is my 0:10:53.200 --> 0:10:56.520 fifteenth ranked offensive tackle. I was surprised he lasted that late. 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.439 His twenty twenty two tape is very solid. Warren Sharp 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.960 of Sharp Football grated the Dolphins with the eighth best 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.640 draft in the draft eighth best value. I should say, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.360 that's a weird way to put that. This is a 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.960 metric that he devised based on draft capital over expectation. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:16.120 Now does that mean anything, No, because you're working off 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.960 of a consensus big board from all the major players 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.719 and that doesn't really reflect how NFL teams think and 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.800 who cares if you're doing better than the consensus media boards. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:28.240 But then where the players went based on their pre 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.440 draft ranking, the Dolphins got value that way. So it's 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:33.120 not bad when you consider that. I mean, it's just 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.280 one way of looking at this thing, especially when you 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.480 consider that teams one through seven on his list all 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:39.360 had seven or more picks in Miami hedge of course, 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.760 just the four so real quick. Another Brett Coleman note. 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.559 I got a different text from him earlier over the 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.839 weekend that said, of course the Dolphins took a chane. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:48.760 He texted me that right when they'd had that draft 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.480 pick come through. What a cheat code, he wrote me. Again, 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:53.559 he'll be doing the podcast later on this week. And 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.199 speaking of future podcasts, you guys know my boy Emery 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.319 Hunt from CBS Sports HKE was going to come on 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.920 for his annual spot to taking a look at all 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.280 the udfas that he thinks have the best chance to 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:06.120 make an impact on this year's roster. Remember last year 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.599 I asked for a name. He goes co Who. I 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.319 was like, yeah, yeah, cater co who. He told me, 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:11.959 so that was all I needed to know. He then 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.920 broke it down for us, but he was very indignant 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.719 on the selection of cater Coho, who I think was 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.320 the dolphins best rookie in general last year. Pretty I mean, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.560 obviously he was speaking of. We have reports, not official signings, 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.760 but reports of Udfa's who will be joining the Miami Dolphins. 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.720 They are quarterback James Blackman from Arkansas State. May recall 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:34.199 him from his days at Florida State, running back Chris 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:37.200 Brooks from BYU, couple of wide receivers day Would Davis 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.839 from Western Kentucky and Chris Coleman from cal Poly. I'll 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.600 be honest with you, guys, I have not fired up 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:44.319 the Hilltoppers nor the cal Paly tape. I also have 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.320 not watched tight end Julian Hill out of Campbell. Offensive 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.959 tackle Jared Horse from Michigan State. He's just a mean 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.480 dude on the offensive line. Alex Jensen from South Dakota State, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.040 another offensive tackle a guard DJ Scaife I think is 0:12:57.040 --> 0:12:59.400 how you say it from Miami, a center Aluma a 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:02.360 Lave from where is he from? I didn't get his 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:05.400 college on here. Defensive tackle Brandon Peeley from USC who 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.679 I think has a chance to really make not just 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:09.880 an impact on making the football team, potentially eating up 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:13.599 from snaps on the nose. Tackle defensive tackle Anthony Montevalo 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.840 from UCF. Defensive lineman Randy Charlton from Mississippi State. Almost 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.840 Norm Charlton and Randy Johnson put together an edge Garrett 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:23.960 Nelson from Nebraska. We talked about him on the Visits 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.079 podcast a couple weeks ago. And edge from Miami, Mitchell Agade. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:31.400 Another edge, Ezekiel Vanderberg from Illinois State. He is highly intriguing. 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.559 I'm looking forward to diving into his tape. Linebacker Aubrey 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.920 Miller from Jackson State, cornerback Kedrin Smith from Kentucky, free 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:41.880 safety Ethan Bonner from from Stanford. He is electric safety 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.560 Bennett Williams from Oregon and Matt Turk's son, Michael Turk, 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:47.760 the punter from Oklahoma. That's how you know you're getting 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.800 old man, a player that you know that you remember 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:54.040 watching very distinctly, his son is now on the football team. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.760 Before our first break, new Jersey numbers. Braxton Barrios gets 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.440 the zero that's going to look cool on him. Chosen 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.599 has the former number three of Will Fuller, almost with 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.679 Will Anderson, Will Fuller and Josh Rosen. Hopefully Chosen can 0:14:07.760 --> 0:14:10.080 make that more of a chosen number here In twenty 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.679 twenty three, cater Cohu goes to four, which was my 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.000 high school basketball and baseball number, so that makes me 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.600 love him even more. Jalen Ramsey gets number five, Avi, 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:21.520 Mike White fourteen, Jake Billy the Punter sixteen, Deshaan Elliott 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:24.520 takes Eric Rose position really and his number twenty one. 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.800 Miles Gaskin goes back to thirty seven. Malik Reid's gonna 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.480 wear number forty seven. Does that mean that Andrew Van 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:34.880 Geegle has a new number? David Long fifty one, Dane 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:38.200 gets number sixty seven. Keon Smith bumps up one number 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.920 to seventy seven. Eric Sabert's gonna wear eighty two, and 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.280 Freddy Swain takes Mike Gasicki's number eighty eight. There you go. 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.080 Let's go ahead and take our first break. Right there 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:47.800 and come back on the other side. I'm gonna tell 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:51.280 you three areas where the Dolphins improve this offseason that 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:56.640 could take them from nine wins to eleven twell, maybe thirteen, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.040 maybe fourteen. That's next Draft Time Podcast, your host, I 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:07.040 was Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Oh yeah, 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:10.280 it's a Tuesday here, the first episode of the week. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:13.120 Like I mentioned earlier, we had three episodes drop over 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.680 the weekend. So if you went into Aaron Rodgers's Darkness 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.880 Retreat and didn't know what happened over the weekend, go 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.520 ahead and get back on the playlist. There ya, silly 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.240 goose and check out those previous episodes of the Draft 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:27.280 Time Podcast. I wanted to look at the Dolphins off 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:29.480 season as a whole, and eventually when we get some 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.520 downtime here there ain't no downtime right now. We'll go 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.520 ahead and take a look at a roster reset as 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.920 we do at every pivotal point of the off season, 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.400 and kind of gauge where the Dolphins are post draft, 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.680 post free agency, post post Malone. But I wanted to 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:45.800 look at some areas where I think the Dolphins the 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.960 reason they were nine to eight last year despite the 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:49.920 fact that I thought they were a much better football team. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.000 I wanted to take a look at three areas that 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:53.920 they were not good in that I think they got 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:57.960 better at this offseason by nature of their moves. Number 0:15:58.000 --> 0:15:59.760 one is the short yardage game. And I've been talking 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.200 about this a lot. This is an issue to me 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.720 of sample size more than anything else, because even though 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.720 Miami was twenty two for fifty five, which was forty 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:09.760 five point five percent, and the only team in the 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.720 National Football League under fifty percent in short yardage? Is 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:17.760 there anybody out there that here's how I view quarterbacks. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.760 If it's third and seven and you're on defense and 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:22.360 you're like, oh man, I don't like our chances, that 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:26.440 means that quarterback is good. If you don't like the 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:28.560 offense's chances in third and seven, that means the quarterback 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.040 needs to be replaced. That's kind of how I view that. 0:16:30.280 --> 0:16:32.280 But if I told you it was third and three 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.920 or shorter, and you can choose to be on the defense, 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.440 or you can choose to have this Dolphins offense with Tua, 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.840 Tyreek and Jalen which one are you taking? Anybody choosing 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.320 the defense, would you take the defense? If I told 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.000 you it was third and eight, you probably wouldn't do 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.120 that then, which means your quarterback's pretty good. It's very hypothetical, 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.400 you know, is evident by the fact that when Tua 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:53.680 was in the game, Miami's third and long conversion rate 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.000 was thirty seven point eight percent. Tops were the Chiefs 0:16:57.400 --> 0:17:01.040 at forty five percent, and second place was thirty two 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.440 point three percent the Bengals. So the Dolphins were comfortably 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.879 in second place with the Chiefs, who ran away a 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:11.800 number one. And again, everyone loves Patrick Mahomes. I think 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:13.600 most people think he's the best quarterback in the NFL. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.080 Everybody loves Joe Burrow. I think most people think he's 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:18.720 the second best quarterback in the NFL. Some people think 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.680 he's theirstst quarterback in the NFL. Two was right between 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:25.680 those guys. Well, you think that's it then for posterity. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.960 Regardless of the quarterback, the Dolphins were number two and 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.520 third and medium, which is four to six yards at 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:33.720 sixty percent, only behind the Buffalo Bills. And one of 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:35.560 the people think Josh Allen is the number three or 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.800 four best quarterback in the NFL. But man, I just 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.400 look at the offseason. I think about how the moves 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.800 jive with improving the few areas that Miami could have 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.960 performed better in last year. Short yardage, I think perhaps 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.920 foremost among them. So last year to an average nine 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.200 point six average depth of target among starting quarterbacks that 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:55.880 was the most in the NFL. When I only throws 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.400 the ball five yards down the field, No he does. 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.639 He led the NFL an average depth of target. Josh Allen. 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.240 Mister Howitzer himself was second at nine point four yards. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.440 And what was the complaint from Buffalo fans when the 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.359 Bills offense would hit some of the slumps they had 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.200 last year like all quarterbacks have. By the way, this 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:15.000 thing turns into a rant every time I talk about 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.879 Tua that Allen was pushing the ball too much and 0:18:18.040 --> 0:18:20.960 not taking what was there for the defense to give him. 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.600 And frankly, I think that when he does that, he's unstoppable. 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.240 We saw that Week three game. Miami did their damnedest 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:28.920 to keep Josh Allen from pushing the ball on the field, 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.440 and he was doing very good job of taking the 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.680 short stuff, but eventually the mistakes piled up and the 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:35.159 Dolphins win that game. But we saw the Week fifteen 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:36.440 game where he did a little bit of both the 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.480 playmaking to take the short stuff, and that offense rolled 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.800 that game right. But then the playoff game playoffs he 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:44.760 was pushing the ball had an average depth of the 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.920 target is fifteen yards in that game, nearly double the 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.359 previous output, and the offense stunk in that game. So 0:18:52.600 --> 0:18:54.760 people want Josh Allen to take more short stuff and 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:56.280 take what's there rather than try to push the ball 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:58.480 vertically all game. And to bring this back to the 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.160 Dolphins in Tua, giving more options in that short passing game, 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.400 I think between Sobert and Higgins and a Chin and Barrios, 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:07.720 I think you've made big strides in that department. So 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.000