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Speaker 1: What is up the Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft
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Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, Game
Speaker 1: Week and also one of my favorite shows every single year,
Speaker 1: it's the season preview show where I predict every record
Speaker 1: across the NFL Division Champs, wild Card season Awards, World Champion,
Speaker 1: all the good stuff. Plus how about the weekend that
Speaker 1: was in college football? I've got some notes on that.
Speaker 1: Plus we're gonna hear from head coach Mike McDaniel from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Drivetime podcast Maye Gaff first though, before
Speaker 1: any of the juicy stuff we have coming up on
Speaker 1: today's podcast, Robbie Chosen is back to the practice squad
Speaker 1: and that rounds out the group. I believe I dropped
Speaker 1: my podcast about an hour last week before we had
Speaker 1: a bunch of names come out on the practice Squad.
Speaker 1: And look, I get mad about it on here all
Speaker 1: the time. I'm not sure why I do, because you
Speaker 1: guys are not the folks on Twitter. You guys are
Speaker 1: my writer dies listening to this podcast. But I still
Speaker 1: get upset about the idea that I get called homer
Speaker 1: all time on the podcast, and maybe there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of that in there. But I also feel like
Speaker 1: I'm a very objective fan of this team that can
Speaker 1: highlight where I think there are shortcomings and where they
Speaker 1: need to be critiqued in certain areas. So I say
Speaker 1: all that to preface the fact that I think this
Speaker 1: practice squad is really damn good, and doesn't that kind
Speaker 1: of jive with a roster that I think is really
Speaker 1: damn good. Which you might see reflected later on in
Speaker 1: this podcast. So the full practice squad chose him as
Speaker 1: an NFL receiver. Man, I thought he was number seven
Speaker 1: going into the cut down day and that bared fruit
Speaker 1: eventually in the end there. But I do think that
Speaker 1: he is capable of playing at this level and is
Speaker 1: a really nice, you know, practice squad call up type
Speaker 1: of option to have there in your back pocket in
Speaker 1: case of an injury or for particular game plan specific
Speaker 1: that week, whatever you might want. I like having chosen
Speaker 1: in that position, and he's home and happy and hopefully
Speaker 1: that makes for the best version of Robbie chosen. So
Speaker 1: the full guys that are here from are the practice
Speaker 1: squad guys that are here from camp that stayed with us,
Speaker 1: Ethan Bonner, Tanner Connor, those all right, Cameron Good to
Speaker 1: Sean Hand. I think is a great player to have
Speaker 1: just kind of waiting in the wings to pull up
Speaker 1: for you know, fifteen twenty five snaps on game day.
Speaker 1: I've talked about this in the past. Ideally, Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler, and Raykwon Davis are just good to go
Speaker 1: for you know, sixty sixty and forty snaps a week
Speaker 1: and you don't need anybody else, but probably not realistic
Speaker 1: to get that. So having DeShawn Hand waiting in the
Speaker 1: wings to get called up for a couple of times,
Speaker 1: maybe he gets a full time you know, uh raise
Speaker 1: and gets the contract to the active roster. I like
Speaker 1: having him here in camp. Though AJ Johnson was that
Speaker 1: late signing, got cut a few days later, but he's
Speaker 1: back on the practice squad. Similar situation. Their depth knows,
Speaker 1: the system, knows the defensive coordinator. Those two guys I
Speaker 1: think are going to be critical parts of this roster.
Speaker 1: They contribute at some point in the season, and you know,
Speaker 1: critical maybe over using that term, but I think that
Speaker 1: those guys are going to come in and impact games
Speaker 1: that maybe we win, that maybe put us in position to,
Speaker 1: you know, achieve our ultimate goal, which to me is
Speaker 1: a critical piece of your Brayln Sanders working back from
Speaker 1: the injury. He's back on the practice squad. And then
Speaker 1: the two undrafted rookies James Tunstall on the offensive line
Speaker 1: in a lame yuliave newcomers. This is where I get
Speaker 1: pretty fired up about this group. Tight End Nick Bauers.
Speaker 1: I mentioned running back Derrington Evans out of app State.
Speaker 1: He went to the Titans out of college, and I
Speaker 1: thought he had explosive passing game ability as a running back.
Speaker 1: Not very familiar with offensive guard Chasing Hines from the Patriots.
Speaker 1: He was cut this training camp. He's now here on
Speaker 1: the practice squad. Safety Joshua klou is a special team's
Speaker 1: missile and a guy that plays one hundred miles an
Speaker 1: hour downhill. But the guy that I'm most fired up
Speaker 1: on this list, there's actually two of them, but the
Speaker 1: guy that tops the list is nose tackle Rishard Lawrence.
Speaker 1: He can play like this guy is, to me, your
Speaker 1: fourth defensive tackle. I would probably assume that he's going
Speaker 1: to run out of those elevations pretty quickly because I
Speaker 1: think that he can come in here and give you
Speaker 1: fifteen snaps where he plays that zero tech or that
Speaker 1: one shade and just eats up the interior of the
Speaker 1: offensive line and creates all those chances for guys around him.
Speaker 1: Love love love Rashard Lawrence's game and Travis why did
Speaker 1: he get cut? Well, look at what the Cardinals are
Speaker 1: doing across their entire roster. They are shutting off good
Speaker 1: pieces across the board for what Well, we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that here in the moment because college football has a
Speaker 1: bunch of good quarterbacks right now in their landscape, and
Speaker 1: then wide receiver Rally Webb and outside linebacker Chase Winovich,
Speaker 1: a former second round pick, Chase Winovich, who's a pretty
Speaker 1: damn good edge rusher in college and had some moments
Speaker 1: the Patriots kind of faded away into the ether when
Speaker 1: he got traded to the Cleveland Browns, but he is
Speaker 1: now here in the system playing more of that true
Speaker 1: you know, three four outside rush linebacker and maybe gives
Speaker 1: you a chance of some you know, sub package rush
Speaker 1: options when you have to get into your depth if
Speaker 1: guys get nicked up throughout the year. So I think
Speaker 1: this practice squad is damn good. There's NFL players all
Speaker 1: throughout it. Deshaan hand aj Johnson, Darrington Evans, Joshua kalou
Speaker 1: Rashard Lawrence, and Chase Winovich are six guys I think
Speaker 1: and chosen, so seven guys that I think are going
Speaker 1: to play games for you this year. If not more
Speaker 1: than that. Tanner Connor I like him. Cameron Goode might
Speaker 1: get a call up at some point two. I think
Speaker 1: it's a very good practice squad. We also got captains
Speaker 1: and how far have we come from twenty twenty one's
Speaker 1: captain list, which I don't have to remind you guys
Speaker 1: what that was. But the captains this year to a
Speaker 1: tongue Bai loa no brainer there. He's the leader of
Speaker 1: this football team. Tyreek Hill. He sets the standard every
Speaker 1: single day by how he works in practice. To Ron
Speaker 1: Armstead as a coach on the field, he is a
Speaker 1: third captain. Christian Wilkins. I think the way he addressed
Speaker 1: that press conference and congratulating his friend Zach Steeler pretty
Speaker 1: much tells you all you need to know about how
Speaker 1: he works. And he's a great example as well. Xavian
Speaker 1: Howard has really developed his role as a leader on
Speaker 1: this football team over the last several years. Javon Holland
Speaker 1: is the guy they kind of all point to in
Speaker 1: that defensive backfield, and alec Ingold. I think that's pretty
Speaker 1: much six of the same guys from a year ago,
Speaker 1: if not mistaken. And then alec Ingold also a team
Speaker 1: captain this year. So Tua Cheetah Te Staid, Christian, x Man,
Speaker 1: Javon and alec Ingold are your team captains. Coach mentioned
Speaker 1: the team captains in his press conference on Monday. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and play that sound for how that selection
Speaker 1: process plays out.
Speaker 3: So that's something that we do, a player driven vote
Speaker 3: that that the locker room really comes up with, which
Speaker 3: is one of the reasons it's it's such a special
Speaker 3: honor to each and every one of those guys because
Speaker 3: it's voted on their most important on the on the
Speaker 3: most important really first person of opinion in the building.
Speaker 2: That's that's their peers in the locker room.
Speaker 1: We also got injury updates from four key pieces Jalen Wattle,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, and Devon A Chain all going to practice
Speaker 1: on Monday, which obviously puts them in great great position
Speaker 1: to play in the game on Sunday. No Tron Armstead
Speaker 1: on Monday, but I think you would start looking at
Speaker 1: Wednesday for when you start trying to evaluate whether or
Speaker 1: not he will go for that week one game. He
Speaker 1: has talked about that being his mission, his target day
Speaker 1: all along since the injury back in Houston. Didn't practice
Speaker 1: really all last year, but got out there for games
Speaker 1: and was awesome. So keeping checks on t Ron Armstead,
Speaker 1: you know, I rather have them healthy for the link
Speaker 1: the season to pose this game but if we get
Speaker 1: him back, obviously that would be great against Khalil Mack
Speaker 1: and Joey Bosa. Last thing before we get to the
Speaker 1: college football weekend, coach addressed the backup quarterback position, which
Speaker 1: goes to Mike White. I think that was a no brainer.
Speaker 1: You guys on this podcast know how I feel about that.
Speaker 1: Here's coach on the backup QB for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: Informed him late last week, We'll be going with Mike
Speaker 3: White as the backup to start the season. Feel super
Speaker 3: fortunate in our situation. Was kind of what we're hoping
Speaker 3: for is you know, we've learned the hard way that
Speaker 3: you need available players and your roster just in general.
Speaker 2: And I thought Mike White and Skyler.
Speaker 3: Competed all the way until the last rep and when
Speaker 3: it really came down to it, I thought they both
Speaker 3: made just cases. But for our football team and really
Speaker 3: adhering to exactly what a backup quarterback needs to do.
Speaker 3: They'll they'll, you know, I'll be active each day. But
Speaker 3: to be able to understand our system in such a
Speaker 3: short period of time that Mike White did, and the
Speaker 3: command really he exudes in the huddle, and you know
Speaker 3: you're you're solving an imperfect puzzle as a backup quarterback
Speaker 3: where you don't get any of the reps during the
Speaker 3: week and have to master your situation, your craft repless.
Speaker 3: So I think relying on Mike White's bets, an experience,
Speaker 3: and really all the growth that he did this offseason
Speaker 3: make you feel pretty comfortable with that.
Speaker 2: Do do do?
Speaker 3: Do?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 1: College football weekend? Baby? So first, thanks? First, the Pac
Speaker 1: twelve was thirteen and oh. From week zero to week one,
Speaker 1: USC won two games. The Koogs ran rough shot over
Speaker 1: Colorado State. I think it's going to be fitting when
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve has potentially the best season of any
Speaker 1: conference before it dissolves next year. Or it sounds like
Speaker 1: it could be a two team conference for Washington State
Speaker 1: and Oregon State, which means what one game to get
Speaker 1: into the College Football Playoff every year. I'll take that,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to be in talking about the future
Speaker 1: of the Power four conferences or however it's gonna shake out. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I don't really don't dive that deep into it. I'm
Speaker 1: just mad that Washington State got left out when they
Speaker 1: are better than substantially better I should say than a
Speaker 1: lot of the programs that are remaining in those Power
Speaker 1: four conferences. Not to mention Oregon State, who's number eighteen
Speaker 1: of the country right now on the outside looking at
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and start in that conference at the
Speaker 1: premier position, because all the good quarterbacks right now, for
Speaker 1: the most part, are in the PAC twelve. Caleb Williams
Speaker 1: from USC, he has unreal creativity ability and that seems
Speaker 1: to be the theme right now among the college landscape.
Speaker 1: My goodness, these quarterbacks are evolving in a way that
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how it shakes out in the
Speaker 1: next ten years or so. But all these kids have
Speaker 1: been practicing that Patrick Mahomes throws out in the backyard,
Speaker 1: and look, at the risk of sounding like the old
Speaker 1: man yelling out a cloud, it just doesn't matter that much.
Speaker 1: I know. We're breeding a generation of analysts like the
Speaker 1: TikTok guy who thinks that quarterback plays about arm strength
Speaker 1: and nothing else. But go back and watch all the
Speaker 1: great quarterback performances this weekend, and what did you see
Speaker 1: time and time again from all of them? Shador Sanders
Speaker 1: torched the horn frogs from the pocket. By the way,
Speaker 1: eventually he's QB one whenever he comes out. I just
Speaker 1: love the way he places the football, the poise that
Speaker 1: he shows, the athletic ability obviously is there, the way
Speaker 1: he handles the big moment. He as the kids say,
Speaker 1: has that dog in him. I am so impressed by him.
Speaker 1: The pedigree is a big part of it, you know.
Speaker 1: I think his dad's a little bit of a crazy person,
Speaker 1: but in a good way. They should benefit him. Big
Speaker 1: fan of Shadurro Sanders, man. I thought Williams and Drake
Speaker 1: May from North Carolina were exceptional whooping up on that
Speaker 1: South Carolina team that just couldn't block for Spencer Ratler.
Speaker 1: But Rattler's you know, he ain't it either. But those
Speaker 1: guys are going to be one two off the board
Speaker 1: this year, no doubt about that. You can kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, pick your poison with what you want to
Speaker 1: go with there in terms of what you like. May
Speaker 1: reminds me of like Justin Herbert. And then Williams is
Speaker 1: such a playmaker. I don't have a comp for him yet. Man,
Speaker 1: he's fun to watch. And I should clarify that I'm
Speaker 1: not anti arm strength. I just I really kind of
Speaker 1: do this. I did it with Ryan Tannehill. I've done
Speaker 1: it with twa tongue ba loa. I'm gonna do with
Speaker 1: arms strength. Now it seems to be the next thing
Speaker 1: where I go heavy the other way to try to
Speaker 1: sway this public opinion. But I just think the arm
Speaker 1: strength is pointless without the other traits. But if you
Speaker 1: have it with the other traits, that's how you get
Speaker 1: Dan Marien, That's how you get Patrick Mahomes. So it
Speaker 1: is worth noting, you know that it's a valuable trait
Speaker 1: when you have the other stuff to go along with it.
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting how much easy gas there is
Speaker 1: out of this crop of quarterbacks. Man, did you guys
Speaker 1: watch a Tennessee game against Virginia on Saturday. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I've ever seen a football jump off a hand
Speaker 1: of a quarterback like it does for Joe Milton, maybe
Speaker 1: Mike Vick. Goodness, he had a sixty five yard air
Speaker 1: yard throw where it looked like he was just kind
Speaker 1: of getting warmed up. It's crazy, I don't know, kind
Speaker 1: of like Anthony Richardson last year though. The ball takes
Speaker 1: off on him a lot. And that's where I kind
Speaker 1: of come into this whole like developmental segment here where
Speaker 1: it's so critical to get these kids in a place
Speaker 1: that can facilitate their mechanics and not just foster good mechanics,
Speaker 1: but avoid creating bad habits early on. Here I go
Speaker 1: making golf comparisons once again, they don't they say that
Speaker 1: when you're having a bad session on the range, don't
Speaker 1: just keep hitting and hitting and hitting bad balls, because
Speaker 1: you develop bad habits and bad mechanics in your swing.
Speaker 1: It's the same for a quarterback. It's very tough to
Speaker 1: reconstruct a player's framework from what got them to where
Speaker 1: they are. It's why it's so important. Like it's not
Speaker 1: about when you get drafted, but where you get drafted, right,
Speaker 1: I know you've heard that before. It's so critical where
Speaker 1: these guys go because if you go to DW. Loggins,
Speaker 1: good luck. But if you go to you know, Darryl Bevell,
Speaker 1: big difference. But imagine getting those traits curated early on,
Speaker 1: kind of like Tua was with his pops, but then
Speaker 1: obviously at Alabama with Nick Saban and Brian Dable and
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, an all star ensemble he had there to
Speaker 1: make sure those mechanics never got lazy and drilled and
Speaker 1: repped them every single day. I digress on that point, Quinn,
Speaker 1: you were from Texas. Also on that level, Michael Pennix,
Speaker 1: I liked him in Indiana. I love him at you
Speaker 1: dub as much as I hate to say that. Such
Speaker 1: a smooth and easy throwing motion to push the ball
Speaker 1: vertically torched up Boise with that awesome receiving core of
Speaker 1: the Huskies have this year Pack twelve is awesome. Man,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a fun year in the conference. The
Speaker 1: last year in the conference. I really really like Jordan
Speaker 1: Travis from Florida State. Similar to Sanders, he has the
Speaker 1: poise and composure control of his huddle and the football.
Speaker 1: I thought he makes really good decisions where he just
Speaker 1: kind of throws the ball into the soft spots of
Speaker 1: the coverage and then Washington State bump fifty twenty four
Speaker 1: over Colorado State. That game was early, was over early.
Speaker 1: But quarterback Cameron Ward is not going to be a
Speaker 1: first rounder. I thought he had a chance to be,
Speaker 1: But coming back just watching this one game, there's still
Speaker 1: some deficiencies in his game that have to get ironed
Speaker 1: out before he gets to the professional level. Might not
Speaker 1: even be a Day two pick, but man, the ball
Speaker 1: is up and out quick released from him from any platform.
Speaker 1: He's got Jalen Hurt's running skills, and I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be the developmental prospect that everyone clamors over
Speaker 1: this year and this year's class. With regards to he's
Speaker 1: got the physical traits. We've got to get it all
Speaker 1: packaged up together. So I play both sides out there
Speaker 1: a little bit. I like the physical traits, but if
Speaker 1: I want an NFL quarterback, you better be able to
Speaker 1: win from the pocket and above the neck. Good week
Speaker 1: for the PAC twelve. Great week in college football. Some
Speaker 1: more names I liked. Wisconsin running back Braylan Allen's a
Speaker 1: first round pick. If they'll still exist at the running
Speaker 1: back position, you want your Jonathan Taylor Redo. He is
Speaker 1: at downhill freight train that has speed and power. My goodness,
Speaker 1: what a monster he is. I think he's only true
Speaker 1: sophomore too. Speaking of absolute loads at the running back position,
Speaker 1: how about UTSA running back Gavorian Barnes. He had a
Speaker 1: touchdown run against the Houston Cougars where he was stood
Speaker 1: up at the three and just powered his way into
Speaker 1: the end zone. He's five nine, two fifteen a modern
Speaker 1: day muscle hamster. Love the speed of Louisville running back
Speaker 1: Jawar Jordan. He had that house call that put the
Speaker 1: game away against Georgia Tech. What else here Utah safety
Speaker 1: Cold Bishop back to that Gator game on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Sorry jt Our resident in house Gator here watching the
Speaker 1: Gators get beat up by the Pac twelve power Utah Utes.
Speaker 1: But Cole Bishop ky of reminds me of Javon Holland. Man.
Speaker 1: He can attack the land scrimmage. You can play coverage,
Speaker 1: but mostly the instincts. He has to play his job,
Speaker 1: but also come off of that make plays outsider structure
Speaker 1: who he's good. Had a sack against the Gators as well,
Speaker 1: where he timed up his blitz beautifully. I mentioned Travis
Speaker 1: Oh I did not mention Travis Hunter from Colorado. I
Speaker 1: mean cornerback one. Play him on the board right now,
Speaker 1: take him first. Overall, that guy is an absolute freaking monster.
Speaker 1: Dylan Edwards the freshman running back, who boy, he looks
Speaker 1: like a nice piece down the line, maybe for this
Speaker 1: team in the future. And finally, just loved the Florida
Speaker 1: State game. I love that they kicked the crap out
Speaker 1: of Brian Kelly because those videos are so cringe of
Speaker 1: him dancing with his freaking recruits. Yuck. But they killed
Speaker 1: the transfer portal, didn't they? That key on Coleman receiver
Speaker 1: like three tunnies in one game, nine for one twenty two,
Speaker 1: smooth runner after the catch with that kind of size,
Speaker 1: Keeping eye on him as a potential future number three
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. Baby, That Florida State team in
Speaker 1: general just really damn good. That defense on the opening
Speaker 1: stand down on the goal line, just waves of rushers
Speaker 1: and interior guys that played low you know, verse the
Speaker 1: rusher verse verse verse. He's gonna be a top ten
Speaker 1: pick at some point despite some mental errors. I thought
Speaker 1: that Patrick Payton looks the part of the modern day
Speaker 1: edge rusher. But man, fun weekend in college football. You've
Speaker 1: got Duke and Clemson tonight, So looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there
Speaker 1: and come back on the other side and talk some
Speaker 1: NFL football. I'm doing my picks, my season awards, my
Speaker 1: division champions, my world champion, all that fun stuff. That's
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Speaker 1: some predictions one of my favorite segments of the entire year.
Speaker 1: I think about it all off season. I draw up
Speaker 1: my wins and losses to get to two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy three games before I officially write it down and
Speaker 1: make my official predictions for the upcoming season closed. Last year,
Speaker 1: Eagles over Bills made the mistake of unders in Kansas
Speaker 1: City after the Tyreek Hill trade. But that won't happen
Speaker 1: again this year, at least not in the regular season.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and do the awards first. My MVP,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna pick against Patrick Mahomes until he isn't
Speaker 1: around anymore. I guess my Offensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: is Christian McCaffrey. I just love, love what he's done
Speaker 1: to that position, to that offense. I think that he
Speaker 1: was kind of the guy that got them over the
Speaker 1: hump last year, of course, until they got banged up
Speaker 1: in the NFC Championship game. My Defensive Player of the
Speaker 1: Year is Shjalen Phillips. Go talk to a walk about.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have fifteen sixteen sacks. He's gonna make impact
Speaker 1: plays for a Dolphins team that's gonna go pretty far.
Speaker 1: Comeback Player of the Year DeMar Hamlin. There's nobody else.
Speaker 1: Offensive Rookie of the Year. This is a tough one,
Speaker 1: but I'm going Zay Flowers. I think the Ravens offense
Speaker 1: has a chance to be explosive this year, and I
Speaker 1: think that he could be the number one by the
Speaker 1: end of it all. I just don't buy into odell
Speaker 1: Or Rashad Bateman the way I do him. Smooth mover,
Speaker 1: great speed, seems to have a good connection so far
Speaker 1: with Lamar Jackson and Camp. Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I didn't love the choices here, but I'm going Lucas
Speaker 1: van Ness from Green Bay. I think he's gonna slot
Speaker 1: in right away and beat people up on the edge
Speaker 1: and get a bunch of sacks and put himself in
Speaker 1: position to win that award. The Coach of the Year
Speaker 1: for me is going to be Ron Rivera. Why is
Speaker 1: that because I have the Washington Commanders in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You said, what, Yeah, that's what I did. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get to my playoff predictions here in my
Speaker 1: season prediction, let's start in the NFC. Actually, because let's
Speaker 1: make it more exciting to wind down, we'll go backwards
Speaker 1: and read the NFC West first, Seattle eleven and six,
Speaker 1: San Francisco eleven and six, the Rams five and twelve,
Speaker 1: and the Cardinals won in sixteen. This has the Seahawks
Speaker 1: as the division champion, the two seed probably gonna regret that,
Speaker 1: and the Niners as the five seeds. So no team
Speaker 1: has flipped me more than the twenty twenty two to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three Seahawks. I talked about in the draft
Speaker 1: episode how tough of a time they've had finding hits
Speaker 1: in the draft, but that all changed last year with
Speaker 1: one of the best rookie classes really of all time.
Speaker 1: I like this year's class two San fran could go
Speaker 1: fourteen to three. But you see my theme here. I
Speaker 1: know Perdy played well, but I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of positive surrounding circumstances that helped that. If he does
Speaker 1: it again, I won't ever question it again. But I
Speaker 1: just think that there was a lot of luck involved
Speaker 1: in that run they had last year. But also it's
Speaker 1: such a loaded team they're going to be there in
Speaker 1: the very end. The Rams in transition with like forty rookies,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I like their ability to get coached up,
Speaker 1: but with Coop. Without Cooper Cup to start the season,
Speaker 1: Stafford is off injury, that's going to be the real
Speaker 1: key there. I just don't trust me to win a
Speaker 1: bunch of games this year. And then the Cardinals cutting
Speaker 1: McCoy and rolling with Clayton Tune and maybe Josh Dobbs,
Speaker 1: the guy they just acquired last week, gives me some
Speaker 1: pause on their ability to compete. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a long year for them out West. In the
Speaker 1: NFC South, the ten and seven Saints when the division
Speaker 1: get the three seed. The Falcons just missed the playoffs
Speaker 1: at nine and eight, the Panthers five and twelve, the
Speaker 1: Bucks four and thirteen. As you can tell, I think
Speaker 1: there are two tiers in this division and the teams
Speaker 1: within them are impossible to separate. I go New Orleans
Speaker 1: because of the quarterback experience with Derek Carr. I think
Speaker 1: he's in that underrated category, the same as Cousins in
Speaker 1: Tannehill and Dak I love Atlanta's roster, but we have
Speaker 1: no idea at the quarterback position, and I don't frankly
Speaker 1: believe that much in Ritter, but I think they could
Speaker 1: zig on teams that have loaded up the top of
Speaker 1: the pass with a great offensive line and the best
Speaker 1: stable of backs in football. I think Caroline's just not
Speaker 1: going to be good yet. Their offensive line was terrible
Speaker 1: in the preseason and they just don't have a ton
Speaker 1: of weapons. After DJ Shark went down, next year team
Speaker 1: for me, and even then, I'm not a big believer
Speaker 1: in Bryce Young either. I like the Bucks roster a lot,
Speaker 1: but I just used to be super high on Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 1: I'm not anymore. He's been on multiple teams the last
Speaker 1: few years. So the NFC South shakes out that way.
Speaker 1: The NFC North Green Bays my division winner at ten
Speaker 1: and seven. They're the four seed, Detroit eight to nine,
Speaker 1: Minnesota seven and ten, Chicago six and eleven. I think
Speaker 1: that those records kind of reflect the parody in the division.
Speaker 1: Like you could probably flip a coin and pick your
Speaker 1: winner here. But I just think that Jordan Love is
Speaker 1: really good and don't care what else there is about
Speaker 1: that like. I think he's awesome. They had some injuries
Speaker 1: last year. I thought should have made them run the
Speaker 1: ball more. I think they will this year because their
Speaker 1: quarterback's not gonna insist they make it go through him,
Speaker 1: because he only cares about himself. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: win with a young quarterback who has all the talent
Speaker 1: in the world. And I like that defense a lot too.
Speaker 1: I hope Detroit wins it, but I never like buying
Speaker 1: the hype of a team with that trajectory the first
Speaker 1: year that everyone expects. I'll probably pick him to come
Speaker 1: back next year with the division, but it always seems
Speaker 1: like the big expectations to make that jump from like
Speaker 1: sweetheart team into division champion. It's usually a first year
Speaker 1: let down. But I still think there's talent all over
Speaker 1: that team.
Speaker 2: CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson is going to make a big difference to
Speaker 1: that defense. Minnesota lopped off a lot of key parts,
Speaker 1: but I like their coaching staff and I think that
Speaker 1: Kirk is underrated. Plus Justin Jefferson is just impossible to stop.
Speaker 1: But that defense was a tire fire year ago and
Speaker 1: they didn't do much to change it. They obviously changed
Speaker 1: the system, but the personnel I just don't see it yet.
Speaker 1: And then a four win improvement for Chicago, who has
Speaker 1: a super young defense. I like Justin Fields to establish
Speaker 1: himself this year as well. In the NFC East, I
Speaker 1: have the Eagles at thirteen and four as the one seed,
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys eleven and six as the sixth seed,
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders ten and seven as my seventh seed,
Speaker 1: and the Giants fall to eight to nine, three playoff teams.
Speaker 1: Once again. I know the Eagles lost a lot, but
Speaker 1: they also brought back a lot of the parts we
Speaker 1: thought they might lose, and they're just loaded and have
Speaker 1: drafted for future problems that gave you, Oh, you lose
Speaker 1: Javon Hargrave at age thirty one, here's Jordan Davis and
Speaker 1: Jalen Carter ready to replace those guys. That's kind of
Speaker 1: how it is across the board. The offense is not
Speaker 1: going to be stopped with that offensive line, with that quarterback,
Speaker 1: with those weapons. Dallas is a team that I absolutely
Speaker 1: love this year. I'll be interested to see how they change.
Speaker 1: Going from Kellen Moore to Mike McCarthy. I think that's
Speaker 1: a big downgrade. But the roster's still so good, just
Speaker 1: loaded on defense as well. I'm a big Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: guy this year, even though I don't really believe in
Speaker 1: the coaching quarterback, but that seventh seed is really up
Speaker 1: in the air to me in the sense that anyone
Speaker 1: could nab it, and so I'm just kind of going
Speaker 1: off the reservation here. I think they have the weapons
Speaker 1: to help Howl hit the ground running in a front
Speaker 1: on defense that can beat teams up. I think the
Speaker 1: Giants are better, but I thought last year's schedule helped
Speaker 1: them get the double digit wins. Now they have a
Speaker 1: very tough road, good test for Brian Dable and company.
Speaker 1: AFC West Chiefs fourteen and three they're the one seed.
Speaker 1: Sorry Dolph fans. Chargers ten and seven are the seven seed,
Speaker 1: then Denver seven and eleven, in Vegas six and eleven.
Speaker 1: Learn my lesson last year with regards to picking against Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I will not do that again this year. I don't
Speaker 1: care what the surrounding parts are. He's the best quarterback
Speaker 1: of all time. He's going to win most games that
Speaker 1: he plays. The Chargers I think could easily be a
Speaker 1: fourteen win team, But I feel like I've been saying
Speaker 1: that since like two thousand and eight. There's no reason
Speaker 1: they can't be other than Charger luck. They're loaded, and
Speaker 1: because of that hesitantcy, I'm just gonna split the difference
Speaker 1: and put them in the postseason with ten wins. I
Speaker 1: think both Denver and Las Vegas are better, but really
Speaker 1: really tough schedules. I think people are sleeping on the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas offense and that Denver defense has been good
Speaker 1: for so long.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Out in the South, gosh, this division is terrible. Tennessee
Speaker 1: nine to eight, four seed, Jacksonville eight to nine, Houston
Speaker 1: seven and ten, Indianapolis five and twelve. It's all basically
Speaker 1: them beating each others what I have. I think people
Speaker 1: are sleeping on the Titans. That's what's new for Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill in his career, the most underrated good quarterback for
Speaker 1: the last eleven years. They were ravaged by injuries. Last year,
Speaker 1: still were in a game to win the division with
Speaker 1: Josh Dobbs under center in that last game of the year,
Speaker 1: and they were close. The Jacks couldn't score on them.
Speaker 1: Mike Rable one of the best coaches in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and that defense is still sick. They will not go quietly,
Speaker 1: kind of in wait and see mode. On Jacksonville. I
Speaker 1: think the offense is awesome. I think Doug Peterson has
Speaker 1: turned things around there and Lawrence and really is going
Speaker 1: to be awesome for them. But I think there's just
Speaker 1: so many questions on defense that didn't really address it
Speaker 1: from what they had a year ago and had some
Speaker 1: major drought. Slasher on offense too big believer in two
Speaker 1: things with Houston, Demiko Ryans and CJ. Stroud. I just
Speaker 1: think they're a year or two away. A soft schedule
Speaker 1: here in this division helps them get to seven wins,
Speaker 1: but I think gone are the days of them just
Speaker 1: being a big circle win on your calendar. That defense
Speaker 1: could be good right away and Stroud could play. I
Speaker 1: think Anthony Richardson's going to be good, but it's going
Speaker 1: to take some time. He had like sixty more college
Speaker 1: pass attempts and Trey Lance this will be a good
Speaker 1: year for him to just get reps while they worked
Speaker 1: to discover who his weapons will be. Long term, I'm
Speaker 1: curious to see if the offensive line bounces back from
Speaker 1: a rough rough year and then who steps up on
Speaker 1: that defense. AFC North Bengals twelve to five is champs.
Speaker 1: The three seed Baltimore eleven and six. I've seed Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: and Cleveland both go eight to nine. You could tell
Speaker 1: me anybody but Cleveland wins this division, and I can
Speaker 1: see that case. Although the records you can see that
Speaker 1: I have two clear favorites, and that's honestly a kind
Speaker 1: of a coin flip to me. Burrow missing all of
Speaker 1: camp and how he began last year off of missing
Speaker 1: camp makes you think there could be a slow start
Speaker 1: there in Cincinnati. But the dude just wins, and they
Speaker 1: are talented as hell. I don't think enough is made
Speaker 1: of the loss of Baits and Bell though those guys
Speaker 1: played ninety eight and ninety nine percent of the snaps
Speaker 1: on defense in one of the tougher secondaries to grasp
Speaker 1: and operate, and they're going to be replaced by Nick
Speaker 1: Scott and Dax Hill, two young players there. I'm so
Speaker 1: intrigued by the weapons that Lamar has this year in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Thinks a Flowers are going to set the league on
Speaker 1: fire as the Rookie of the Year category that I
Speaker 1: put him in, and if they can even stay healthy
Speaker 1: on defense, ever, they're so good back there. They got
Speaker 1: healthy late last year where impossible will score on down
Speaker 1: the stretch. Get that for seventeen games, they could be
Speaker 1: really good. I like Pittsburgh's defense and the way they
Speaker 1: remade the offensive line. Kenny Pickett is already better than
Speaker 1: I thought he would be, but we got to see
Speaker 1: it before making him, you know, raking him among the
Speaker 1: top quarterbacks in this conference, not saying he can't, but
Speaker 1: he's not Mahomes, Herbert, Allen, Tua, Rogers, Lamar Burrow, Lawrence.
Speaker 1: He's not those guys yet. Cleveland has a case for
Speaker 1: the most talented roster and the damn conference. But it
Speaker 1: just hasn't clicked for that quarterback. And I suspect that
Speaker 1: Karmel will never let that happen. But I want to
Speaker 1: see him play before I get him any estimations. AFC
Speaker 1: East Miami wins it thirteen and four, two seed, Buffalo
Speaker 1: eleven and six is the sixth seed, Jets nine and eight,
Speaker 1: Patriots six and eleven. The toughest division in football for
Speaker 1: my money. Look, I believe in this team. I believe
Speaker 1: in what they were doing going back to the initial
Speaker 1: start of the rebuild in twenty nineteen. They've brought talent
Speaker 1: at every position, multiple guys that can impact games in
Speaker 1: multiple ways and give you different avenues to victory. Run game,
Speaker 1: pass game, defense, it doesn't matter. I think we're well coached.
Speaker 1: I think we're as talented as anybody in the league.
Speaker 1: I think we have one of the best home field
Speaker 1: advantages in football, and I think last year's experience is
Speaker 1: going to go a long way into fortifying this team's
Speaker 1: toughness and resolve. I think people saying Buffalo's window is
Speaker 1: over is outside their minds. The injuries we talked about
Speaker 1: the Miami had last year also applies to Buffalo. They
Speaker 1: had one of the game's top quarterbacks and coaches, and
Speaker 1: getting ployer and hide back on that defense is massive.
Speaker 1: The first six weeks or so are going to tell
Speaker 1: me the story of the Jets this year. Brutal start,
Speaker 1: and I think a slow start could make that honeymoon
Speaker 1: face come to a close real quick with that quarterback.
Speaker 1: But even if it does, it's a talented team who
Speaker 1: I expect to be there to the very end. I
Speaker 1: think the Patriots are better than a six win team,
Speaker 1: but six games against this division, playing the NFC East
Speaker 1: and AFC West, it's a tough schedule, and I think
Speaker 1: they're the biggest unknown in the division at the moment,
Speaker 1: but that seems to be where Belichick thrives. I think
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien's got a big upgrade of what they had
Speaker 1: a year ago. So that's your division standings. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our last break right there and come
Speaker 1: back and tell you who's going to go through the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We'll also hear from head coach Mike McDaniel all of
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Speaker 1: left you with the playoff predictions. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get to it. In the NFC, the Commanders lose on
Speaker 1: the road to the two seeded Seahawks. In the NFC,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys go on the road and top the Saints
Speaker 1: to get a road playoff victory. The Niners do the
Speaker 1: same thing in Green Bay and advance into the NFC
Speaker 1: Divisional Round. There, the Eagles top the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: for back to back years, and the Cowboys beat the
Speaker 1: Seahawks to get into the NFC Championship game. In the
Speaker 1: AFC side of things, the Chargers lose on the road
Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins. In fact, we're gonna get three
Speaker 1: road teams to win in the playoff round. The Ravens
Speaker 1: over the AFC South champion Titans, and the Bills go
Speaker 1: on the road to avenge their loss to the Bengals
Speaker 1: a year ago. This gives us the Bills at the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Give me the Bills to pull the upset. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have a playoff season full of avenging losses. So the
Speaker 1: Bills get their big win over the Chiefs to make
Speaker 1: it to the AFC Championship game, and the Dolphins top
Speaker 1: the Ravens here at home in the AFC Divisional Round
Speaker 1: to get to the AFC Championship. That means it's Bills
Speaker 1: at Dolphins and Cowboys at Eagles. Give you the home team.
Speaker 1: In the AFC, the Dolphins down the Bills, and down there,
Speaker 1: I guess the team that kept them from getting over
Speaker 1: the hunt for the last several years. And then the
Speaker 1: Cowboys go on the road and get a win in
Speaker 1: Philly and give me the Miami Dolphins over the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys in the Super Bowl. You heard it here. First look,
Speaker 1: I think Miami is gonna be very, very good. I
Speaker 1: think the AFC is maybe the best a conference has
Speaker 1: ever been, And predicting playoff games at this stage in
Speaker 1: the month of September is impossible. And literally, I think
Speaker 1: any one of those teams I picked in the AFC
Speaker 1: could go. But I'm gonna take us because why not.
Speaker 1: We have the roster, we have the quarterback, we have
Speaker 1: the coaches. Let's go do it. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish up the podcast here with coach McDaniel. We're talking
Speaker 1: Chargers game. We're talking game planning and x's and z's
Speaker 1: and matchups all week. I've got tons of audio already
Speaker 1: from ty Greek, from Christian, from javon on playing this
Speaker 1: Chargers team. We're gonna hear about that on the Wednesday
Speaker 1: preview podcast. Let's go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: on facing the Chargers and what they saw in the
Speaker 1: game last year to help them prepare for the game.
Speaker 1: This year.
Speaker 3: It definitely comes comes up over the course of the
Speaker 3: off season, at least one seventeenth at the time, you know,
Speaker 3: divvied up amongst the other the other games. But no,
Speaker 3: there's a there's things you learn, you all, you always
Speaker 3: have to be careful about making too many absolutes. A
Speaker 3: lot of times there's, uh, you know, those are game
Speaker 3: specific situations, whether that your health, the opponent's health, where
Speaker 3: you're at in the season, what you're good at, what
Speaker 3: you're bad at. Bottom line was I thought they did
Speaker 3: a great job last year in those two teams.
Speaker 2: Last year's teams.
Speaker 3: You know, they did one of the better jobs all season.
Speaker 3: But that, uh, this is a new new year. Really
Speaker 3: as the way kind of look at it, you do
Speaker 3: learn certain things about individual players, maybe play calling, you know,
Speaker 3: degree of tendencies. But you know, Week one has a
Speaker 3: great way of kind of like equalizing that because you
Speaker 3: know you're kind of you have all these things on
Speaker 3: your side of the ball, whether your offense, defense, or
Speaker 3: special teams that you've been working on to unveil. So
Speaker 3: there's a little balance of that. You know, we will
Speaker 3: be watching last year's game, but not with too much
Speaker 3: weight relative to the guys we have now and what
Speaker 3: we've been emphasizing this offseason.
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like we're gonna find out about
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel a little bit, Not that we don't know
Speaker 1: him already, but I think you're gonna learn about coach
Speaker 1: on this game on Sunday, because there was some salt
Speaker 1: there on Matt press conference that I quite enjoyed when
Speaker 1: he was asked about the Brandon Staly play and kind
Speaker 1: of laughed about it, like, I think this guy is
Speaker 1: not so much, you know, the nice guy that we
Speaker 1: all want him to be in terms of how he
Speaker 1: attacks things. I think you might get version of killer
Speaker 1: Mike this week. I'm looking forward to seeing it. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to that game and hear more about coach
Speaker 1: facing a team that game.
Speaker 3: No, I think the season and its entirety was motivating enough,
Speaker 3: not just one particular game. I'm sure from an individual standpoint,
Speaker 3: players often harbor those individual matchups, those hey it's Manda
Speaker 3: man coverage and I'm covering you and you're running this route.
Speaker 3: Those types of things you develop you kind of.
Speaker 2: Have a memory of.
Speaker 3: And But but overall, as a team, you know, we're
Speaker 3: we have been focused on the Miami Dolphins for every
Speaker 3: every day since we've gotten back together in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: and I'm.
Speaker 2: Pretty positive that.
Speaker 3: Up until this game and then after this game, most
Speaker 3: of the guys that are going to be focused on
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins as well, so to not making more
Speaker 3: of one individual opponent, it's more about us and how
Speaker 3: it relates to us. I'm sure there'll be a couple Hey,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get you this time, you got me last time,
Speaker 3: But that's kind of the that's kind of the case
Speaker 3: with all these.
Speaker 1: You heard Coach allude to a couple of times. They're
Speaker 1: the idea of kind of winging it, not winging it,
Speaker 1: but kind of being chaos in week one in terms
Speaker 1: of not knowing what to expect. I wanted to ask Coach,
Speaker 1: how much do you on your assistant coaches in those
Speaker 1: situations in a game where you just don't have the
Speaker 1: film on the team from games prior.
Speaker 3: The best staves are the ones that you know it's
Speaker 3: it's not just one voice. And the more we're around
Speaker 3: each other, the more we understand what each and each
Speaker 3: one of our pros and cons skills and maybe things
Speaker 3: that we can help each other out with. That's a
Speaker 3: ever moving piece that the strongest ones are the ones
Speaker 3: that can really utilize each other for the benefit of
Speaker 3: the whole group and not just each and every entity.
Speaker 3: So I look forward to that. I could feel in
Speaker 3: the preseason it was one of the better orchestrating coaching
Speaker 3: stats that I've been on in the preseason. So I'm
Speaker 3: excited for the residuals of that moving forward this year.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up with the thing I
Speaker 1: allude to first. There the laugh about the stately plan.
Speaker 1: Here's coach McDaniel.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like they reinvented defense. It was more that
Speaker 3: their guys understood their issues in each individual coverage and
Speaker 3: really played in a competitive spirit.
Speaker 2: I thought there was a lot.
Speaker 3: Of fifty to fifty balls that went away of the
Speaker 3: Chargers last year, and I just really thought overall that
Speaker 3: the that the team itself took, you know, took that
Speaker 3: game with its seriousness, and you could see a unit
Speaker 3: that was well coached and well schooled at the opposing
Speaker 3: team's offense in this case. So I just thought they
Speaker 3: were very competitive and did a very good job challenging
Speaker 3: things that we're trying to do.
Speaker 2: That particular game.
Speaker 1: Man, We are almost there and I cannot wait. Dolphins
Speaker 1: and Chargers Sunday at four twenty five out here in
Speaker 1: the East. All right tomorrow, Jordan Rodrieg joins me to
Speaker 1: break down the play Callers podcast and looking forward to
Speaker 1: that all summer, plus Wednesday, the game preview. Thursday, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have a Chargers beat writer on here to talk
Speaker 1: about the game. And then Friday plenty of open locker
Speaker 1: room content and all kinds of fun of Reverend Dolphins content.
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