Speaker 1: I here we are again, Kimbo Campberg, John Jemmy with
Speaker 1: you our edition of the audible coming up the John,
Speaker 1: we're itching closer to the draft. We've been talking about
Speaker 1: free agency the Dolphins. I think we're all kind of
Speaker 1: in unison and this one, at least when the people
Speaker 1: I've spoken to feeling pretty good about what Chris Greer
Speaker 1: uh and Brian Flores and the scouting staff were able
Speaker 1: to do in free agency to really fill a lot
Speaker 1: of holes and really put the Dolphins in a pretty
Speaker 1: good position with the draft coming up and all the
Speaker 1: selections that that they have to uh to to really
Speaker 1: kind of pinpoint some areas. And now there's I know
Speaker 1: there's the and I don't know that they're doing it
Speaker 1: this year, John, but every year they do the the
Speaker 1: every team does the you know, the head coach and
Speaker 1: the general manager comes out and gives their pre draft
Speaker 1: and never tells you anything and and moving on. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think this week, if you I mean
Speaker 1: this time, if if if they were to do that,
Speaker 1: I think the one thing that this team would be
Speaker 1: able to say would be John. They put they put
Speaker 1: themselves in pretty good position where and I know the
Speaker 1: old saying, as well, you know, draft the best player available,
Speaker 1: no matter what position he is. And I understand that,
Speaker 1: and I hear I've heard that over and over again,
Speaker 1: but I still find it hard to believe the team
Speaker 1: that has a deficiency a big deficiency in one area,
Speaker 1: especially where the Dolphins are now, with what they've done
Speaker 1: in free agency, with all the draft capital that they've got,
Speaker 1: that they don't look a little bit more intently on
Speaker 1: positions as long as that guy is is is not
Speaker 1: head and shoulders below that best athlete available. Well, I
Speaker 1: agree with you, though, in terms of the Dolphins put
Speaker 1: themselves in position to focus in on where they're glaring
Speaker 1: deficiencies are. Now. Through free agency, they were able to
Speaker 1: bolster the defensive side of the football. They were also
Speaker 1: able to help a certain position on offense along the
Speaker 1: offensive line. And now you go back and you say,
Speaker 1: you're still in the same position you were in, but
Speaker 1: you're you're more focused in on maybe a couple of
Speaker 1: position instead of the entire roster. I still think that
Speaker 1: they will pay attention to defense, but I would expect
Speaker 1: the Dolphins to be overly uh exuberant on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the football when it comes to quarterback, when
Speaker 1: it comes still the edge of the offensive line, when
Speaker 1: it comes to running back, and when it comes to
Speaker 1: a receiver or two. I still think you're going to
Speaker 1: get people in this draft that score points that make
Speaker 1: the scoreboard light up a little bit more in keeping
Speaker 1: people from getting into the end zone now and saying
Speaker 1: that they have fourteen picks currently, So if you went
Speaker 1: seven and seven uh in the picks or eight on
Speaker 1: offense and six on defense, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle because you still need guys that
Speaker 1: are gonna be able to go down and run and tackle,
Speaker 1: run and hit on special teams. And with the certain
Speaker 1: selections you've made in free agency, you'd like to keep
Speaker 1: those guys off as many teams as you can because
Speaker 1: you want them playing more defensive snaps. So you're still
Speaker 1: gonna need guys that can run and hit, and that
Speaker 1: means linebackers, that means safeties, and might mean another corner.
Speaker 1: But I would expect this this focus to be especially
Speaker 1: in the draft on the offensive side. So John, a
Speaker 1: while back, we talked about going into the off season
Speaker 1: with the with the draft situation prior prior to free agency,
Speaker 1: and we both talked about what our priorities were, and
Speaker 1: you know, most of our priorities at that point, we're
Speaker 1: certainly quarterback the priority, tackles a priority, but beyond quarterback,
Speaker 1: our priorities kind of were were more shifted to that
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football. Where were you gonna find
Speaker 1: another quarterback opposite X? What are you gonna do about
Speaker 1: the edge rushers? What about that linebacker that can do
Speaker 1: multiple things for you? And so you know, we're kind
Speaker 1: of on on that mode now afterwards. I'm with you
Speaker 1: when I look at, you know, my my areas of
Speaker 1: need going into the draft, as we're getting closer and closer,
Speaker 1: they've shifted more to the offense. And I still I
Speaker 1: would still put in and I'll ask you if you're
Speaker 1: you're getting put here, but I would put, you know,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks still at the top of my list. I just
Speaker 1: I just think that you know that that, uh, you're
Speaker 1: in a situation where you can go and go after
Speaker 1: a quarterback high and and you still have a little
Speaker 1: bit of a safety net if this guy doesn't work.
Speaker 1: You still got a couple of first round picks next
Speaker 1: year that you may have the opportunity to reload and
Speaker 1: and and grab another one out there. But but but
Speaker 1: but still quarterback is no doubt priority number one to
Speaker 1: walk away from this draft with one of those guys
Speaker 1: that can come even compete. But I think after that, John,
Speaker 1: to me, it's tackle tackle um for running back, UM,
Speaker 1: maybe another edge rusher, uh and then and then maybe
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. You know, you talked about getting explosive
Speaker 1: guys that can score points. You know, I think especially
Speaker 1: when we've seen over the last couple of years, when
Speaker 1: you've had multiple injuries and the wide receivers about two
Speaker 1: years ago was Jachim and Albert Wilson. Last year it
Speaker 1: was it was Williams and uh who and and and
Speaker 1: Albert and Albert got Albert was slow, slow coming back
Speaker 1: from from his injury. And so it kind of leads
Speaker 1: you to believe that maybe somewhere down the road, maybe
Speaker 1: uh maybe one of those one of your second round
Speaker 1: picks or a third round kick, maybe you don't try
Speaker 1: to scoop up, you know, one of those wide receivers,
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of wide receivers out there.
Speaker 1: But I think that's kind of where my priorities have
Speaker 1: have shifted to a couple of weeks before the draft
Speaker 1: rolls around. I tend to agree with you again, though
Speaker 1: only because I do believe there's a huge safety net
Speaker 1: in next year's draft with with two first round selection
Speaker 1: in two seconds, you know you you have the wherewithal
Speaker 1: to come away with a Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields
Speaker 1: because you have that firepower just as you do this year.
Speaker 1: If you feel like Joe Burrows, you'r a guy and
Speaker 1: you want to go get them. Uh and and you're
Speaker 1: and you're gonna scoop up a bunch of picks next
Speaker 1: year and you're gonna have your quarterback of the future.
Speaker 1: And if you stand pad it five and you're able
Speaker 1: to get to or you're able to get Herbert, I
Speaker 1: think I think you're gonna, you know, still have money
Speaker 1: in the bank to go up and get a guy
Speaker 1: that you want to get next year if if you
Speaker 1: deem that necessary. But after the quarterback position, offensive tackle
Speaker 1: at number eighteen is paramount. I mean, I don't see
Speaker 1: any any other position that's gonna need more attention than
Speaker 1: your offensive line. And I think you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: go grab a tackle or two. Now, that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: both picks need to be in the first round, but
Speaker 1: it's sure better be high in the second because you
Speaker 1: don't want to water down to the you know, the
Speaker 1: fourth round and kind of cross your fingers and hope
Speaker 1: a guy comes through. Because there is a lot of
Speaker 1: talent on the offensive line and and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of talent, you know at receiver. You mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: scooping up a guy maybe in the second or third
Speaker 1: round that can fit the slot receiver position. I'm all
Speaker 1: for it. And I think if you don't go tackle
Speaker 1: tackle in the first round and you go tackle running
Speaker 1: back at at eighteen and twenty six, I think you're
Speaker 1: doing yourself a favor because you need another guy like
Speaker 1: that to complement Howard and what he can do. So
Speaker 1: I I just think that the Dolphins are in a
Speaker 1: great position. They have flexibility in terms of where what
Speaker 1: positions they want to go after, and if that need
Speaker 1: isn't necessarily the guy that there they have full conviction over,
Speaker 1: they just switch over to another position and select that guy.
Speaker 1: I just think that the flexibility that Dolphins have built,
Speaker 1: they're gonna use to their advantage and they're gonna target
Speaker 1: maybe three or four positions with those selections. Yeah, Johnny,
Speaker 1: I fully expect this team, uh, after after the second
Speaker 1: round is over, to have at some point along you're
Speaker 1: acquired a quarterback and two tackles. It's such a you know,
Speaker 1: from an offensive line standpoint, I don't think there's a
Speaker 1: star that's projected to go in the first round in
Speaker 1: this draft, but there are plenty of offensive tackles that
Speaker 1: that could show up in this first round. And then
Speaker 1: you've got guys like Austin Uh, You've got some other
Speaker 1: guys that are like Austin Jackson, who I've seen him
Speaker 1: high and I've seen him in the second round pick.
Speaker 1: So you can, you know, after two rounds, if they
Speaker 1: can come out with a quarterback and and in a
Speaker 1: combination of two of those offensive tackles between round one
Speaker 1: and round two, boy, I would feel really good about
Speaker 1: what they've been able to accomplish in the first you know,
Speaker 1: the first couple of rounds of this draft. Well, I agree,
Speaker 1: because you know, you take a look at the offensive
Speaker 1: line selections and there's gonna be probably four guys maybe
Speaker 1: five go in the first twenty five picks in this
Speaker 1: year's draft. You know, Andrew Thomas from Georgia, Wills from
Speaker 1: Alabama works from Iowa who can play guard or tackle. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know becked In a huge guy that is gonna
Speaker 1: be outside at the tackle position you mentioned. You know,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, You've got Ezra Cleveland. You've got a bunch
Speaker 1: of different guys that can play that Ed's position. And
Speaker 1: then as you kind of move along in the draft,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have other guys that that are center slash guards.
Speaker 1: You know Ruise from Michigan, and you know there's guys
Speaker 1: like that that can play different positions along along your
Speaker 1: offensive line. Uh, Cushion Berry might be a center guard
Speaker 1: type of guy from l s U. So there's there's
Speaker 1: plenty of talent in terms of offensive lineman that you
Speaker 1: might be able to get in the second or third round.
Speaker 1: That could be your your either or position. You know,
Speaker 1: you're trying to get position flexibility all the time on
Speaker 1: defense under Brian Flores. Well, I'm sure on offense you're
Speaker 1: looking for those types of guys that you can flip
Speaker 1: around on the offensive line. Has experience a guard but
Speaker 1: can play center, is a tackle but can kick down
Speaker 1: to guard, because you need that now in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, you know, talking about the guard position, they
Speaker 1: go out and they get Eric Flowers, who you know,
Speaker 1: kind of had a bumpy start to his career coming
Speaker 1: out of the University of Miami, play tackle, end up
Speaker 1: moving to UH end up moving to guard, and seemed
Speaker 1: to have found a home at guard. The Dolphins signed him,
Speaker 1: and you know, he's got tackle experience, but I think
Speaker 1: they clearly expect him to fill one of those guard
Speaker 1: roles along with Ted Terriss at the center that they
Speaker 1: picked up in free agency. The question I would have
Speaker 1: John and we'll talk about the guards here in a
Speaker 1: little bit, but the you know, to me, one of
Speaker 1: the big lynch pins about this offense right now, without
Speaker 1: having gone into the draft and seeing what tackles they
Speaker 1: come out with, is Michael Dieter. You know, can Michael
Speaker 1: Dieter be the guy that they expect him to be? Now?
Speaker 1: They threw him into the fire last year. First of all,
Speaker 1: he had one coach and lasted I don't know what
Speaker 1: about a week, a week or two weeks maybe then,
Speaker 1: you know, and then you flip them over to Google's
Speaker 1: and and just kind of throws him in the fire there,
Speaker 1: and a little towards the end, I think he I
Speaker 1: think he hit the wall a little bit Deeer did,
Speaker 1: and so he was kind of moved around. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think that's a guy that they're still counting on.
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's unfortunate for him this much
Speaker 1: inasmuch as you know it was listen to me, it's it.
Speaker 1: It kind of parallels a little bit what we saw
Speaker 1: Mike Gasecki last year, you know, his his rookie year,
Speaker 1: not not know, you know, didn't get what you know,
Speaker 1: he didn't get what he expected out of his rookie year.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dolphins got what they expected. The fans
Speaker 1: didn't get what they expected. We didn't get what we expected.
Speaker 1: But I kept looking at him, going, you know what
Speaker 1: this guy need. This guy needs a year in the
Speaker 1: weight room. This guy needs that off season in the
Speaker 1: weight room to bulk up a little bit, toughen up
Speaker 1: a little bit, and figure things out. And we saw
Speaker 1: and and that's not the only reason, because obviously Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: had a lot, a lot of influence on how Mike
Speaker 1: Dasecki played this year. But I think you could see
Speaker 1: the difference between the physicalness of Gasecki this year as
Speaker 1: a those to the prior year. And I'm kind of
Speaker 1: I was kind of thinking that from Michael Dieter, same thing.
Speaker 1: Give him, give him a year, because right now they'd
Speaker 1: they'd be in conditioning right now, in the in the
Speaker 1: in the weight room, you know, three or four hours
Speaker 1: a day doing all this stuff. And so I expected
Speaker 1: to Dieter to get that kind of work, that kind
Speaker 1: of strength training and little stuff during the offseason, uh,
Speaker 1: to to put him in a better position to to
Speaker 1: really take a stranglehold on that guard position. Um And
Speaker 1: so I hope he's doing just that, and I would
Speaker 1: assume he's doing just that now on his own. But
Speaker 1: I just don't think you can ever get to the
Speaker 1: level on your own as you would with a guy
Speaker 1: like him John if without being in the program and
Speaker 1: with that trainer and with that strength coaching, with all
Speaker 1: those people, you know, eyeballing you every single day and
Speaker 1: telling you, hey, you need to pick up the pace
Speaker 1: or he need to do this, you need to do that. Um. So,
Speaker 1: so it does. It does present a little bit of
Speaker 1: concern as far as uh is Michael Dealleeter in that
Speaker 1: other guard spot. Well, if Deeter made the same jump
Speaker 1: as Mike Kisiki did at tight end, you could pencil
Speaker 1: him in as the starter because that was a huge
Speaker 1: jump for Mike at tight end and the the way that
Speaker 1: he played in the way he was able to use
Speaker 1: his body and his frame, uh like much like he
Speaker 1: did in college at Penn State. He was he was
Speaker 1: more of a dominant force and he was a threat
Speaker 1: down the middle of the football field, which and he
Speaker 1: was an option outside the numbers, which was terrific because
Speaker 1: he was able to go and run option routes and
Speaker 1: and use that body and Fitzpatrick was able to give
Speaker 1: him those fifty fifty chances and he came down with
Speaker 1: not only some big plays but explosive place for touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So if Deeter could do that, boy, you feel really
Speaker 1: good about Flowers getting him in free agency and having
Speaker 1: across your fingers that the guy you saw in Washington
Speaker 1: is the guy you're gonna get, not the guy you
Speaker 1: saw with the Giants. And if you felt good about that,
Speaker 1: you could look at Deeter and Caress and go, Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna grow with this group, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be better with this group. And now you can focus
Speaker 1: in on tackle. So I I do believe you have
Speaker 1: you make a good point in terms of being around
Speaker 1: other guys. You're always challenging other guys. You see somebody
Speaker 1: do something and you want to be able to match it.
Speaker 1: If you didn't get there individually, or you want to
Speaker 1: set the table and set the bar here and let
Speaker 1: other guys kind of chase you, you don't have that
Speaker 1: challenge and that interaction and that being around the group
Speaker 1: kind of feeling when you're kind of isolated as everybody
Speaker 1: is in the world right now. So it's a tough
Speaker 1: situation for guys, and and that's where you have to
Speaker 1: get self motivators and and that's where you do a
Speaker 1: good job. And you're scouting and you're hoping that you
Speaker 1: pick the guys that whatever the situation is, you feel
Speaker 1: good that he's gonna give you the best, no matter
Speaker 1: if your eyes are on him or he's kind of
Speaker 1: by himself studying and working out and running and doing
Speaker 1: all the things you need to do to prepare for
Speaker 1: the season. So I think Michael Dieter comes from pretty
Speaker 1: good stock at Wisconsin and the coaching staff, and and
Speaker 1: I think he is going to be able to make
Speaker 1: that jump in here too. Yeah, I do. I think
Speaker 1: he is a self motivated guy, and I think he
Speaker 1: was disappointed kind of what happened last year to him.
Speaker 1: He's got a new offensive line coach to deal with
Speaker 1: this year, and uh, and I still have pretty good
Speaker 1: hope for him. So let's kind of go through these
Speaker 1: the Let's kind of go through the offensive prospects here
Speaker 1: draftwise and and kind of take a look and were
Speaker 1: since we were talking about deater and and Florence Flowers
Speaker 1: and those guys, let's kind of start with the offensive
Speaker 1: guard with John. I really gonna see, I really would
Speaker 1: be surprised if anybody in the in the they're they're
Speaker 1: strictly offensive guards. Um, that did jump up in the
Speaker 1: into the first round. But guys on the Mission's got
Speaker 1: two kids, a kid Bretticon six four to thirty nine,
Speaker 1: four year starter, good player there, Uh, michael On when
Speaker 1: you the the other their other guards six two three
Speaker 1: seventy three, Uh, it's one of those malers that they're
Speaker 1: they're probably two of the top guys. And then Clemson's
Speaker 1: got two kids, John Simpson and Tremaine acram ancram Um,
Speaker 1: both of them big solid guys, can play. But I
Speaker 1: think you start getting below that and you start dropping
Speaker 1: down into the third maybe fourth round. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's never been a glamour position, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a glamour position going into this year's draft.
Speaker 1: You know, unless you need and unless you're at a
Speaker 1: position to need at the guard position, you're kind of
Speaker 1: looking at guys that can play both. Give me a
Speaker 1: guy like uh Ruise out of Michigan, who's the center
Speaker 1: that gives you good movement, but you feel like his
Speaker 1: traits can transfer over to play guard. You know, Cushionberry
Speaker 1: from l s U. He controlled the middle of that
Speaker 1: offensive line that won the national championship. He's tough, athletic,
Speaker 1: quick hands and feet. Uh And maybe there's a guy
Speaker 1: that you know you get later in the round, even
Speaker 1: a Matt Hennessey from Temple that was a three year starter.
Speaker 1: He has a brother that's a long snapper, a National
Speaker 1: Football League kind of a scrappy guy Temple, tough type
Speaker 1: of player that has experience, that might have the position
Speaker 1: flexibility at six four, three hundred five pounds that you
Speaker 1: can move around in the middle of your offensive line.
Speaker 1: But for the Dolphins right now, I think I think
Speaker 1: they're pretty well set. I don't expect them to be
Speaker 1: dabbling in a guard's center, unless it's a luxury pick,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins didn't have to give up a lot
Speaker 1: of draft uh moving around in the first round. You know,
Speaker 1: you give up two or three picks, and now you're
Speaker 1: kind of those picks get more valuable later and you
Speaker 1: want to get him at maybe receiver or at edge,
Speaker 1: at edge rusher, or another offensive tackle or another running back.
Speaker 1: So I would see I would see the focus on
Speaker 1: the offensive line for the Dolphins more on the edge
Speaker 1: than in the middle. You have no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And when you get to that edge, tell you there's
Speaker 1: a there's a there's a lot of talent there, Joe.
Speaker 1: You talked about them Blier. You miss them earlier, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and and there's really probably two or three
Speaker 1: of these guys you could kind of just transfixed one
Speaker 1: way or the other. Um And I would assume, I
Speaker 1: would assume, like most people, that that the number five
Speaker 1: pick unless unless um U let's Burrow and uh and
Speaker 1: two or off the board, and you don't really have
Speaker 1: that belief in in it's you know, some of those
Speaker 1: other quarterbacks, Herbert Love and those guys, they may just
Speaker 1: jump up and grab one of these guys, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know the guys. The guy that the guy that
Speaker 1: really jumped out with the in the in the combine
Speaker 1: was McKay Beckon, the big kid from Uh, six seven,
Speaker 1: three sixty four, big, huge guy, physical wingspan, you could
Speaker 1: play right tackle, you can play left tackle. And well,
Speaker 1: I tell you, when you talk about you just talk
Speaker 1: about just a big stud. Uh. This guy's got that
Speaker 1: written all over. And the kid from uh, the kid
Speaker 1: from Louisville, well he's enormous. You know, you mentioned six
Speaker 1: seven and sixty five or sixty nine pounds. He ran
Speaker 1: a five flat or five one short he you know,
Speaker 1: and it's incredible what he can do. And he's imposing.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the guy that you see first and
Speaker 1: you go, oh my gosh, I'm gonna hide behind this guy.
Speaker 1: But but he's really he's long with his arms as well,
Speaker 1: so in past protection. He has good footwork, almost nimble
Speaker 1: to a point, and he has smooth body control for
Speaker 1: a big guy at six seven, So you get a
Speaker 1: huge body that can play either side. And he played
Speaker 1: left tackle at Louisville, but he was a three year
Speaker 1: starter and then he dominated in college football. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: he has this this the length of kind of hold
Speaker 1: off a speed rusher with that, with that wingspan, and
Speaker 1: he'll mash you a little bit in the run game.
Speaker 1: You know, if he gets that big body going in
Speaker 1: the right direction, you're not going anywhere unless he's telling
Speaker 1: you where to go and he locks on you. So
Speaker 1: you get a big guy in Beckton that is pretty athletic,
Speaker 1: and I do believe he's gonna go somewhere. I would
Speaker 1: think in the twenties, if not in the teens in
Speaker 1: this draft. Yeah, you know, you you look at him,
Speaker 1: and you know, I always look at these these left
Speaker 1: tackles or tackles. And then now you've got guys like
Speaker 1: Villain the Wave of a kid from Pittsburgh. He's still
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's like six and nine. You know, you see some
Speaker 1: of these guys that are just so big and and
Speaker 1: you know, you play against big guys your whole career,
Speaker 1: but there are certain guys where you you kind of
Speaker 1: break the other. You turn around the first time they
Speaker 1: break the hottle and that guy walks the line of scourage.
Speaker 1: You go, shit, I gotta work with this guy. I
Speaker 1: gotta play against this guy all day long. Ago. This
Speaker 1: is gonna be good, be a long day's work. And
Speaker 1: he's certainly is one of those guys that that brings
Speaker 1: that to the table. The other kid, the other kid
Speaker 1: that's really high up there, uh is a kid from Ioa.
Speaker 1: Tristan Works was a freshman starter and I was six
Speaker 1: five three twenty Uh. He could play guard, he can
Speaker 1: play right tackle. For our conversation, we think about is
Speaker 1: the tackle. But you know, you you talking about a
Speaker 1: right tackle now, especially if there's a chance that you
Speaker 1: do get to a at five and now that right
Speaker 1: tackle becomes a little bit maybe a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a concern to you. Then then the left tackle.
Speaker 1: And Works as a guy that's has played that right
Speaker 1: Jackal Spott, and played it very well well he has.
Speaker 1: And any time that you know, you look in a
Speaker 1: guy's bio and you see state high school wrestling champion,
Speaker 1: you know he's got good leverage right. You know, he
Speaker 1: knows how to use those hands and those feet and
Speaker 1: kind of get his body and his core in the
Speaker 1: right position. And he is he's an elite player. The
Speaker 1: first Iowa freshman to start in twenty one years for
Speaker 1: Kurt Ferrens and and Kurt Ferrens is a guy that
Speaker 1: learned from an old offensive line coach of mine in college,
Speaker 1: Joe Moore, who the offensive Line Award goes to every
Speaker 1: year in college football. So Kurt was a g A
Speaker 1: at Pitt. Joe Moore is the line coach and that's
Speaker 1: where he he started his his prowess as it really
Speaker 1: turning out offensive lineman. And you know with worse. He's
Speaker 1: got great strength, he's got good foot speed, he's got
Speaker 1: a really powerful punch and good good hand placement, and
Speaker 1: he has experience. He started in thirty or thirty or
Speaker 1: four games in college. So you've got a guy that's
Speaker 1: not going to be shying away from Hey, it's your turn,
Speaker 1: get in there. We need you. You're the guy that's
Speaker 1: we're giving you the job. Can you can you keep it?
Speaker 1: And I think Hill rise to the occasion. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: then Deedrick Willis will Is the kids from Alabama, another
Speaker 1: good guy six four three twenty and John you're starting
Speaker 1: to kind of go down the list, and you have
Speaker 1: Thomas and Josh Jones and Austin Jackson that we're kind
Speaker 1: of going through here. But you go through the list,
Speaker 1: you oh my gosh, these guys are all you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard to find something negative about him. You look
Speaker 1: at the you look at at at Wills Jr. And
Speaker 1: he's you know, six four three twelve's a nasty guy,
Speaker 1: you know what, He's got one of these things John,
Speaker 1: that I think is a little unusual for guys coming
Speaker 1: out of car Probably a better pass protector then he
Speaker 1: is a run blocker, although he certainly has the size
Speaker 1: and the ability to move people at the line of screws.
Speaker 1: But especially in the game these days, if you if
Speaker 1: you're a better pass protector, then you are a run
Speaker 1: blocker all the all the better off for you. The
Speaker 1: way this game is going now, Yeah, it's almost like
Speaker 1: a tight end. If you can catch the football on
Speaker 1: a run, we'll we'll teach you. We might not even
Speaker 1: ask you block, but if you give it a try,
Speaker 1: we're okay with that. But but Will's is a lot
Speaker 1: better than that at run blocking. But you're right, bow
Speaker 1: two year starter from Alabama, that's really efficient in his
Speaker 1: past protection and and he has good technique. You know,
Speaker 1: this is the guy that stays square to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. He recognizes twist and stunts and does a
Speaker 1: nice job in anchoring on the right side. He was
Speaker 1: a two year starter on the right side for Alabama
Speaker 1: because of two of being a lefty, a guy that
Speaker 1: you feel confident in and with so many teams. But
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough for the Dolphins unless something the
Speaker 1: draft really broke in a strange way. You know, you
Speaker 1: have Louisville, you have Jacksonville that that might need alignment,
Speaker 1: and the Browns, the Jets, you know, you keep going down.
Speaker 1: The Bucks might take somebody now that that Tom Brady
Speaker 1: at quarterback. You know, you get a young quarterback in
Speaker 1: Denver that might need some help upfront. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams that are looking at these linemen and
Speaker 1: Wills would be one of the first guys to go,
Speaker 1: if not the first offensive lineman to go in this draft. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas, the kid from Georgia six five fifteen, He's
Speaker 1: another guy, really good at run blocking, solid guy and
Speaker 1: just about every aspect of his game. Got good feet.
Speaker 1: He's got one of those guys got a good base
Speaker 1: on he can play either side for you. So there's
Speaker 1: a there's another guy there that gives you, gives you
Speaker 1: the you know, the flexibility to use him on either
Speaker 1: side where you need if he comes in and just
Speaker 1: again another big strong, big strong guy coming out of
Speaker 1: a program that that played against some of the best
Speaker 1: defensive players in college football, which always is a is
Speaker 1: a bonus having guys that have you know, kind of
Speaker 1: played that SEC, played against all those you know, all
Speaker 1: those the top talent in there, and played against you know,
Speaker 1: some of the other big time schools around in big games.
Speaker 1: So another guy that certainly fits the bill. So it's
Speaker 1: a battle every week in the SEC, especially conference games,
Speaker 1: when you're doesn't really matter who you're playing. The offensive line,
Speaker 1: the defensive lines, they're gonna go at it and you're right.
Speaker 1: Andrew Thomas uh Ever, since freshman year he was a
Speaker 1: freshman All American at right tackle. He played fifteen games
Speaker 1: there and then the next two seasons he flips over
Speaker 1: to the left side, and twenty six games later, he's
Speaker 1: the first team All American in All Conference last year.
Speaker 1: So you know, you get a great player with position flexibility.
Speaker 1: Another guy that I would say, between Wills and Thomas,
Speaker 1: those are gonna be the first two guys maybe off
Speaker 1: the board because of their flexibility and and the way
Speaker 1: they played in the SEC with Georgia and Alabama respectively.
Speaker 1: Thomas and Wills are two of the best. Josh Jones
Speaker 1: skip from Houston. Uh. You know, here's a guy, that big,
Speaker 1: big guy six five three night team. Uh, probably is
Speaker 1: a guy that needs a little more work and he's
Speaker 1: got a big upside to him. But I think if
Speaker 1: you're gonna poke holes in some of these offensive linemen,
Speaker 1: he's probably the first guy you get to where you
Speaker 1: can can poke a couple of holes in his uh
Speaker 1: in his resume. Well, you just yeah, you're right, bo.
Speaker 1: There's a couple of guys that you're kind of looking
Speaker 1: at and you say, well, I'm not I'm not totally sold. Um.
Speaker 1: I think the first five or six guys we that
Speaker 1: we mentioned in Thomas and Worths and Wills and Beckton
Speaker 1: and even Austin Jackson, with the upside that he has,
Speaker 1: I think that you're gonna get a really good cross section.
Speaker 1: But but there are a couple of guys on the
Speaker 1: list when you when you take a look, and Joshua
Speaker 1: Josh Jones is one of those guys. He's a huge,
Speaker 1: he has a huge body, but you just don't know
Speaker 1: if if he's worth taking at a certain spot. You know,
Speaker 1: do you wait on him and and maybe get him
Speaker 1: in the second round because he's he's got a big frame,
Speaker 1: he's athletic, he's he's kind of played a little bit
Speaker 1: of everywhere, and you feel like the upside is great
Speaker 1: for him. You just don't know how good that ceiling
Speaker 1: could be. You know, Austin Jackson talking about him to
Speaker 1: kid from USC, and you're growing up in the West
Speaker 1: Coast and growing up watching USC and looking at all
Speaker 1: those big offensive linemen that came out of them, tackles
Speaker 1: that came out Afterony Moods and guys like that that
Speaker 1: just were just a staple of what USC was. You're
Speaker 1: certainly not that type of football team now. But this kid,
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, young twenty years old coming out plays left tackle. Um,
Speaker 1: you know he's one of those guys could uh you know,
Speaker 1: could get in the league and and and remind you
Speaker 1: of some of those great offensive linement that have come
Speaker 1: out of USC over the years. Well, my like I
Speaker 1: would say, like Jones from Houston, Austin Jackson maybe has
Speaker 1: his best football ahead of him. You know, he has
Speaker 1: an athletic frame, uh, pretty good athleticism in terms of
Speaker 1: being able to move his feet and match his hands,
Speaker 1: gets to the second level really well. Um, He's he's
Speaker 1: a guy that that you feel good about taking at
Speaker 1: tackle because I think that he he's a guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna take the NFL teaching and take it to the
Speaker 1: next level. I think he's gonna get really good fast
Speaker 1: getting around the right people and getting around the caliber
Speaker 1: of you can you you belong here, getting that feeling
Speaker 1: that he belongs in the National Football League. And he's
Speaker 1: a young guy too, So I just think that one
Speaker 1: of those challenges for Jackson. It might be easier for
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson from USC to get where he needs to
Speaker 1: be than some of these other guys with with the
Speaker 1: same experience. Yeah, John, I would be shocked if the
Speaker 1: Dolphins and anywhere in this draft draft of the tight
Speaker 1: end I think they've got. I think they've got you know,
Speaker 1: they've got enough tight ends in there, uh to fit
Speaker 1: the bill. And when you look at this, it may
Speaker 1: this may be one of the one of the weakest
Speaker 1: years for tight ends. Cole commit to get out of
Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Uh, you know it is clearly the best
Speaker 1: of the bunch. Uh. And then after that, you know
Speaker 1: you've got the kid Troutman out of Dayton, but but
Speaker 1: really nobody there that uh that jumps up and Bryce
Speaker 1: Hopkins a kid from Purdue, and Hunter Bryant from Washington,
Speaker 1: but really nobody nobody there that should just kind of
Speaker 1: spinning lie Like I think Commits gonna be a good player.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if he's gonna be a first round pick,
Speaker 1: but if there is someone who goes uh goes in
Speaker 1: the first round, certainly would be him coming off the board.
Speaker 1: I think so, and you're gonna have I got local talent,
Speaker 1: Harrison Bryant. I think from f au that that's gonna
Speaker 1: go a little bit earlier than most people think because
Speaker 1: of his toughness and his run after catchability. So and
Speaker 1: you take a look around at the tight end position,
Speaker 1: I think you're right. You've got maybe a handful of
Speaker 1: guys and uh, some other guys that that may fit
Speaker 1: the bill as as you go down that were teams
Speaker 1: that need that. Maybe moss At of l s U.
Speaker 1: You know, he had some injury issues. He had surgery
Speaker 1: in the offseason, so he might be a guy that
Speaker 1: guys take a pick and say, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take him and and give him a couple of years
Speaker 1: that to really come into the player we want him
Speaker 1: to be John the wide receiver. A lot of wide
Speaker 1: receivers in this draft, and a lot of good wide
Speaker 1: receivers in this draft, and and and as we talked
Speaker 1: about earlier, you know, not a position of need right
Speaker 1: off the back for the Dolphins. But I think I
Speaker 1: said second third round if if that guy, if someone
Speaker 1: drops down, they're like, you're in the second round, God
Speaker 1: drops album position. You know, this would be a nice
Speaker 1: little pick up for us. It's certainly something to look at. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you can kind of you can kind of
Speaker 1: it's like kind of like a toss salad with these guys.
Speaker 1: You can kind of mix them up, pull one out,
Speaker 1: and you know what, it's probably gonna case pretty good
Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, there's a lot of talent, a lot
Speaker 1: of talent at the wide receiver spot. And in the
Speaker 1: first round, you're gonna have guys like Jerry Judy from Alabama,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb from Oklahoma, Henry Ruggs from Alabama, Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: from l s U. You're gonna have a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys that are gonna be battling to see who's the
Speaker 1: first guy to come off the board. But for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, you're kind of looking at guys in the
Speaker 1: second round, maybe maybe early in the third round. And
Speaker 1: I don't know how the board's gonna fall for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: But when you take a look at this receiver group
Speaker 1: as a whole, there are some guys that are really
Speaker 1: talented because of the way the game has changed in
Speaker 1: the college football in terms of all the run pass options,
Speaker 1: those RPOs on the edge, and it's kind of filtering
Speaker 1: in to the National Football League when you get a
Speaker 1: guy with one step and you have that that bait
Speaker 1: for the play action, or you stick that football out
Speaker 1: and freezes guys defenders for a second. And you've got
Speaker 1: guys with the speed of a of a Judy or
Speaker 1: a Lamb or a Rugs, especially in the middle, and
Speaker 1: you can you can throw those quick slants, both those
Speaker 1: those five seven yards slants go for sixty or seventy
Speaker 1: to the house. Yeah, no doubt. And Jerry Judy, you
Speaker 1: talk about him, but where these from. Uh he's a
Speaker 1: brower kid, right, Deerfield, Deerfield Beach, I believe, Yeah, Deerfield Beach. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: you know. And and it's hard not to look at
Speaker 1: him coming out of Alabama and think about Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: And if you think about Julio Jones, the type of
Speaker 1: player that he's become of, Jerry Judy can be, you know,
Speaker 1: anywhere near what Julio Jones has done during his career. Boy,
Speaker 1: you pitch yourself a major league home run with a
Speaker 1: kid like that. Yeah. I believe he's the most talented
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the draft. And that's saying something because
Speaker 1: there's so much talent. But I mean even last year
Speaker 1: over eleven hundred yards and ten touchdowns and he was
Speaker 1: remember he was splitting catches with Henry Rugs and jay
Speaker 1: lm Model and Smith, so the ball was kind of
Speaker 1: going everywhere. Um, but he does everything at a high level.
Speaker 1: He mixes up his speed uh in setting up defensive
Speaker 1: backs with his route running and gives his quarterback a
Speaker 1: lot of room to deliver the football. And the most
Speaker 1: important thing, but he was productive in big games. Uh
Speaker 1: twenty four touchdowns in his last twenty eight games. So
Speaker 1: this is a guy that knows how to make the
Speaker 1: big play and make the big splash when you need it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: good player, and then just does a lot of things
Speaker 1: you could probably you know, you you could either go
Speaker 1: him and him one and Ceedee Lamb two or Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb and yeah you're there. I mean very very both
Speaker 1: brought very town Lamb Oklahoma. Good route runner, but probably
Speaker 1: the biggest thing, the best thing about him is he
Speaker 1: was a great route runner catch as well. But you
Speaker 1: know he's a guy who likes to run after he
Speaker 1: makes a catch yard after catch guy, and you know
Speaker 1: he'll break tackles, get down field on you and uh
Speaker 1: and give you some some really big playability out of that.
Speaker 1: The thing I see with Ceedee Lamb is that his
Speaker 1: level against man to man is very good. But even
Speaker 1: in zone coverage he's able to find little spots to
Speaker 1: be able to He's patient, he can sit in those holes.
Speaker 1: And and as you said, he turns into a running
Speaker 1: back in the open field with run after catch opportunities.
Speaker 1: He's he's excellent at that. So he you want to
Speaker 1: get him the ball quickly. You know you can. You
Speaker 1: can also run by people, but if you get the
Speaker 1: ball to to Lamb quickly, he's gonna make the first
Speaker 1: guy most most times miss or or at least it's
Speaker 1: a glancing blow where he's gonna always get yards after
Speaker 1: after first contact and run after catch. So ceedee. Lamb.
Speaker 1: One of those guys that has great body control. Again,
Speaker 1: he's gritty, he's tough, he's instinctive and and most importantly,
Speaker 1: he just finds dead areas and he's open when the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks ready to deliver the football. Yeah. And then this
Speaker 1: is just to me, this is pretty amazing with the
Speaker 1: Alabama with Jerry Judy and and then and then you've
Speaker 1: got Henry Ruggs third coming out of Alabama four to seven.
Speaker 1: He ran at the combine. So this is guys one
Speaker 1: of those speed guys who can play slot, he can
Speaker 1: play outside. He's a tough cover. He can run away
Speaker 1: with you, run away from you. I mean he he
Speaker 1: is Uh. You know, he's one of those guys who
Speaker 1: would be like Tyreek Hill and that that type of guy. Um,
Speaker 1: you know you're looking guys like that, and especially in
Speaker 1: the way the games played. Now you know that big
Speaker 1: misdirection you've got that you look like a little receiver
Speaker 1: end around or a jet sweep and you you turne
Speaker 1: into an option, you go the other way. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys not only do they make plays the ball
Speaker 1: thrown to him. But they can make plays just by
Speaker 1: being on the field and making people watch them and
Speaker 1: see where they're going in respect where they're going well,
Speaker 1: right off the bat, Henry Ruggs is a matchup nightmare.
Speaker 1: And you're right by saying Tyreek Hill because that's what
Speaker 1: you get. You get that fly sweep handed to him.
Speaker 1: Motion who's got him? Now? You know, you put him
Speaker 1: in the backfield and then you go empty, where's the matchup?
Speaker 1: Because if Henry Ruggs is matched up against a safety
Speaker 1: or a nickel corner you know, or even uh, you
Speaker 1: know sometimes a linebacker that gets misaligned, boy, that's where
Speaker 1: you're going with the football. Uh. He's got that track speed,
Speaker 1: but he's football tough. You know, most guys that don't
Speaker 1: have that blend. He has that blend. He's competitive. He'll
Speaker 1: win most content, you know, contested catch opportunities. Everything he
Speaker 1: brings to the table is done with quickness. And that's
Speaker 1: what you what you get with Rugs. Justin Jefferson at
Speaker 1: an l s u s two pounds, eighteen touchdowns, forty
Speaker 1: yards and another guy that just gives you a good,
Speaker 1: solid play every time he steps in the field. Well,
Speaker 1: he's smooth he's a he's a technician in terms of
Speaker 1: being able to play that slot position where there's a
Speaker 1: lot of traffic. And he made a living running option
Speaker 1: routes for Joe Burrow at l s U last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, just go down wherever the leverages. He goes
Speaker 1: away from it and he finds spots and then he
Speaker 1: can do something with the ball after that. Remember he
Speaker 1: had over a hundred catches hundred eleven catches last year
Speaker 1: and eighteen touchdowns. So this is the guy with speed
Speaker 1: at four four. Uh, he can go outside and play
Speaker 1: the X or Z, he can play inside in the slot.
Speaker 1: But but the most telling trait for Justin Jefferson is
Speaker 1: he has strong hands at the point of attack on
Speaker 1: the inside. When you're catching in traffic, He's gonna go
Speaker 1: attack the football and he's usually gonna come down with it. Yeah. Hey,
Speaker 1: this kid, the Benzel Mims from Baylor six through two
Speaker 1: hundred seven times I look at him. I watched him play.
Speaker 1: He's a tall kid. He's one of those guys you
Speaker 1: look at me. He goes up for the ball. The ball, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, when it's up there, he's he's gonna get
Speaker 1: it more more times than not and by I just
Speaker 1: can't stop looking at him and what he's done and
Speaker 1: comparing him with size and speed to DeVante Parker. Similar
Speaker 1: type guys, similar type, body types, similar skills. They can jump,
Speaker 1: that can go up and catch the ball. And you know,
Speaker 1: we again much like much like Kaseki, we saw the
Speaker 1: emergence of of Devonte last year with the help of
Speaker 1: of rights, Fitzpatrick really take advantage of what his skills
Speaker 1: are and and basically the same skills that h Denzel
Speaker 1: Mims comes in with. Well, MEM's is a big guy.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, six three about two pounds. He's still
Speaker 1: running a sub four four forty for a big guy.
Speaker 1: So you know you've got uh an athletic type of
Speaker 1: long strider wide receiver that has height, weight, speed is
Speaker 1: catch radius is enormous, right, So you get a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna chew up a lot of cushion in his routes.
Speaker 1: He'll build up some speed he can run by you,
Speaker 1: or he's fluid enough to get out of that and
Speaker 1: stutter and go and come out of a route and
Speaker 1: be able to leave the defensive back kind of in space.
Speaker 1: So you get another guy that you can throw the
Speaker 1: football up to with fifty fifty opportunities and normally he's
Speaker 1: gonna come down with the football. Also, a big framed
Speaker 1: type wide receiver that that has experience, that can play
Speaker 1: multiple positions and both I throw another guy in there
Speaker 1: that I was looking at because I covered him a
Speaker 1: couple of times last year doing my duties with college
Speaker 1: football for ESPN. Antonio Gibson is a name I think
Speaker 1: the Dolphins should kind of look look for because he
Speaker 1: had experience at wide receiver at the slot position, but
Speaker 1: then they would line him up at running back as well.
Speaker 1: This is a six ft six ft one pound athlete
Speaker 1: that runs a sub four four forty and has experience,
Speaker 1: you know, at multiple positions. You know, you talk about
Speaker 1: the defensive flexibility with getting linebackers that can rush the
Speaker 1: pastor that can play in space, that can run and cover,
Speaker 1: that also can tackle and play the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: I think Antonio Gibson is gonna be Tofilly a sleeper pick.
Speaker 1: With all the luxury picks the Dolphins might have an
Speaker 1: opportunity at that you can put a guy like Gibson. Now,
Speaker 1: he had seven seventies having touches last year in college
Speaker 1: football fourteen to those one for touchdowns, so he had
Speaker 1: limited you know, it's a one year wonder type of season.
Speaker 1: But with a frame like that, and with how many
Speaker 1: positions this guy could play, and on special teams, you
Speaker 1: might have a guy you're you're kind of plug and play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: six ft twenty coming out of Memphis. Uh. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of options out there, and they look that's
Speaker 1: just you know, it's funny, it's one that's one of
Speaker 1: those fishals went went through five or six guys and
Speaker 1: you feel like you just touched the tip of the
Speaker 1: iceberg with that. That's right. There's a ton ton of
Speaker 1: talent for teams that need wide receivers. This year is
Speaker 1: the year, no doubt. Uh. Next part we'll look at
Speaker 1: is john is the running back position somewhere with the
Speaker 1: Dolphins certainly have gone out in free agency. They've you know,
Speaker 1: they've added uh, they've added Howard the running back from Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. But but you'd probably somewhere along the line
Speaker 1: like to see another another visit from uh running back
Speaker 1: in here to get into that room and just put
Speaker 1: a little bit of work in there, you know, to
Speaker 1: about Patrick Laird in there, Miles Gaskin. Uh, some of
Speaker 1: these guys. So there's still some some guys in that room,
Speaker 1: but it certainly doesn't hurt throwing another guy in there.
Speaker 1: And the best of the bunch, you really, you know,
Speaker 1: probably the top three guys, you can throw them in
Speaker 1: a bag and pull them out and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be disappointed with each one would be DeAndre Swift, Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: J K. Dobbins, Uh coming in and all of them
Speaker 1: are uh, all of them can run, most of them
Speaker 1: can catch. Uh they you know, Dobbins a little more
Speaker 1: of a power runner. Jonathan Taylor does does a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything. Uh. But I think, Mike, I think
Speaker 1: the concern to me with Jonathan Taylor coming in just
Speaker 1: he's a big enough guy, five from Wisconsin, but boy,
Speaker 1: they used him a lot in three years the average
Speaker 1: three eight carries, but he also averaged two thousand and
Speaker 1: fifty eight yards. That's a lot of that's a lot
Speaker 1: of you know that, that's a lot of abuse coming
Speaker 1: out of college. And then DeAndre Swift five to twelve
Speaker 1: out of Georgia. This guy can do is a three
Speaker 1: down guy, has been a three down guy, can run,
Speaker 1: catch and give you everything. Um, so it's um took
Speaker 1: in the top of the heat. There three three pretty
Speaker 1: good players. John, You're right between Swift and Dobbins and Taylor,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get better at the running back position. I'll
Speaker 1: start with Swift from Georgia. Uh. They're not big guys
Speaker 1: that when you talk about Dobbins and Smith and Swift,
Speaker 1: but they play that way. I think Swift has outstanding
Speaker 1: power and balance. You know, he has that body control
Speaker 1: you're looking for. And both Swift and Dobbin's love to
Speaker 1: finish runs. They're gonna initiate the contact. They're those are
Speaker 1: the guys that are falling forward. And with Swift, you
Speaker 1: get a guy that presses that line of scrimmage. He'll
Speaker 1: use a jump cut and explode through the hole and
Speaker 1: then he has the speed to get out the back
Speaker 1: end of it. And he also has the ability to
Speaker 1: catch the football, so you get a three down back.
Speaker 1: He can run it, he can block in past protection,
Speaker 1: he can catch the football. kJ Dobbins same kind of stature,
Speaker 1: but I think he's more of a smooth runner, where
Speaker 1: Swift is more of a choppier guy that's gonna hit
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Dobbins likes to run that outside
Speaker 1: zone and does look like he's moving all that fast,
Speaker 1: but he's getting there and he has great timing and
Speaker 1: pace to hit that line of scrimmage. And he's a
Speaker 1: good perimeter runner because of that, because he takes the
Speaker 1: right angles and he has that acceleration. With Taylor, you know,
Speaker 1: you're right, three big ten rushing titles. You know, that's
Speaker 1: a lot of carries, as you mentioned, but he also
Speaker 1: has that big play potential. I think he's the fastest
Speaker 1: of this group, and he's also the biggest. He's the
Speaker 1: biggest running back, but he also has that burst at
Speaker 1: under four or four that when he gets to that
Speaker 1: second level, you may not catch him. You know, he
Speaker 1: had two hundred yard games in his career, twelve of
Speaker 1: those at Wisconsin, so he's he's had a lot of
Speaker 1: tread on the tires. But if you're the Dolphins and
Speaker 1: you have a position, you're in a position to take Taylor.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're shying away because of the carries,
Speaker 1: because and the way the running backs are going these days,
Speaker 1: you can get three or four years out of him.
Speaker 1: You're onto the next guy anyway. Uh, in most cases,
Speaker 1: not all, but most cases. And I think you look,
Speaker 1: most teams now, not during not very many teams have
Speaker 1: that one you're back into exactly exactly. They're you know,
Speaker 1: they've got the kid that can receive, they got the
Speaker 1: guy that runs, they got the guy vote. You know,
Speaker 1: they got the guy that can go out in a
Speaker 1: slot and become a mismatch. So, you know, I think,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's much like the you know,
Speaker 1: the fullback kind of becoming obsolete in the National Football
Speaker 1: League with the single tailback uh running back position in
Speaker 1: the National Football he has become a little obsolete too
Speaker 1: with with more teams having more success with multiple guys
Speaker 1: back there to do different things for you. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's two other guys both that I caught my attention
Speaker 1: that the Dolphins maybe you know Bay maybe in play
Speaker 1: for Clyde Edwards Hilaire from l s us the smaller back.
Speaker 1: But but his production in winning that national championship can't
Speaker 1: go undervalued because he ran over a four yards sixteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He can catch it fifty five catches out of the
Speaker 1: backfield from Joe Burrow. He has great bend in balance
Speaker 1: and he's a little guy that stopped and going a
Speaker 1: flash and he's gone. He's tough and cam makers be
Speaker 1: kind of a poor offensive line at f s U.
Speaker 1: I thought he was one of the most national natural
Speaker 1: runners in this in this year's draft. Yeah, that's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you about Acres and that, uh
Speaker 1: you know, because that's I mean you you I've seen
Speaker 1: it play. You look at it. It looks great. But
Speaker 1: then boy, he was really plagued by which is hard
Speaker 1: to believe that Florida State had an offensive line that
Speaker 1: poor last year. But uh uh so, you know he
Speaker 1: he really, to me is a big question mark about him.
Speaker 1: What he could do behind you know, a solid offensive
Speaker 1: line that gives him some running room. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 1: because when you looked at him, when he got uh
Speaker 1: to that second level, nobody was catching him. But it
Speaker 1: was the inconsistency of maybe the scheme of the offensive line,
Speaker 1: maybe the talent of the offensive line, maybe the combination
Speaker 1: of both. But when you watch him a good seat,
Speaker 1: especially in short yardage and goal line situations, he always
Speaker 1: felt found increase, you know, to fall forward and get
Speaker 1: into the end zone and you might even throw you know,
Speaker 1: a local guy like DJ Dallas in that in that
Speaker 1: same kind of realm because I like what he gives
Speaker 1: you as a running back, and he may be around
Speaker 1: later with one of those luxury picks the Dolphins may
Speaker 1: have that he could end up being a pretty good
Speaker 1: special teams guy. He could be able to, you know,
Speaker 1: challenge the running backs that are on on the roster
Speaker 1: currently because he has all the talent and the speed
Speaker 1: in the world. Yeah. Hey, uh so kind of leaves
Speaker 1: us with the with the quarterback spot here and you know, John,
Speaker 1: next week we come back and do this audible bob
Speaker 1: yar last one before the draft, I believe, wasn't it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be. Yea, it should be. And so uh
Speaker 1: and so next week we'll kind of we'll focus a
Speaker 1: little more on the defensive side of the football, but
Speaker 1: we kind of come to, you know, the premier position
Speaker 1: in the college football the premier permission to the position
Speaker 1: in the National Football League, and one of the premier
Speaker 1: needs for the Miami Dolphins, the quarterback spot. John, I, I,
Speaker 1: you know, as much as Joe Burrow is is Um, well,
Speaker 1: it looks like just a can't miss big guy six
Speaker 1: three to one. Um throws the ball every got good,
Speaker 1: you know, great pocket presence, he's got leadership ability, he
Speaker 1: can throw every ball, he's accurate, he can run when
Speaker 1: he needs to. Is there any question in your mind
Speaker 1: about Joe Burrow is the number one guy? No, it's
Speaker 1: just that we talked about this maybe at length last week.
Speaker 1: It's it's Cincinnati and the Bengals making that decision, and
Speaker 1: I think that's where it comes down. I'm not quite
Speaker 1: sure how how the Miami Dolphins and what they're you know,
Speaker 1: what they're thinking in terms of putting together a package
Speaker 1: to go and get Joe Burrow, if they feel like
Speaker 1: staying put at number five, if they feel like they
Speaker 1: need to go to number two or three to get
Speaker 1: someone else like two a tongue of by loa. But
Speaker 1: for Joe Burrow, I just think, you know, the guy
Speaker 1: has it. You know he he put it together when
Speaker 1: they needed it the most. And you know he won
Speaker 1: the Heisman, He won just about every quarterback award you
Speaker 1: could win. He got the best team award you can
Speaker 1: win in the National Championship while throwing sixty touchdowns. He's
Speaker 1: with confidence, he's tough in the pocket, and I think
Speaker 1: one of the traits about Joe Burrow and and probably
Speaker 1: to as well, that teammates gravitate towards guys that play
Speaker 1: that way, that are tough, that elevate their play, that
Speaker 1: get everybody, you know, kind of going in the same direction.
Speaker 1: Just like Fitzpatrick did for the Dolphins last year. You
Speaker 1: could tell when he came in the huddle, when he
Speaker 1: came in the game, guys kind of elevated to his
Speaker 1: play and he gave confidence to those guys. I think
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow does that at the quarterback position, not only
Speaker 1: because of his intelligence at the at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and post nap when he has the football, but
Speaker 1: his toughness, his ability to get out of plays that
Speaker 1: look like they're doing for disaster and come up and
Speaker 1: get a first down or get a touchdown after escaping
Speaker 1: pressure and being accurate down the field. He's athletic enough
Speaker 1: to do those things, you know what, And he's got that,
Speaker 1: He's got that moxie about him. You and I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that that probably hurts Josh
Speaker 1: rosen Uh as he's trying to kind of find his
Speaker 1: path in the National Football League. You know, it's funny
Speaker 1: because he's got all the ability can run, he can throw,
Speaker 1: he can do all these different things John, but he
Speaker 1: he just you know, as a quarterback, he just seems
Speaker 1: like that a shucks kind of a guy, you know, saying, well,
Speaker 1: you you're not gonna get me, You're not gonna get
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, You're not gonna get Ryan Fitz. Patterns of
Speaker 1: these guys walk up behind the podium and and kind
Speaker 1: of a shucks their way through a through a press
Speaker 1: conference where you know, we're Joe, I mean, we're Josh Rose,
Speaker 1: and you know that seems to be his downfall is
Speaker 1: just a you know, kind of a I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's not committed to the game. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he doesn't work hard at the game, but
Speaker 1: he's just got that oh well kind of well, that's
Speaker 1: the way it goes. Kind of an attitude that just
Speaker 1: doesn't seem to translate. And you certainly don't with Joe Burrow. Uh,
Speaker 1: to a you you're certainly not concerned about that. No,
Speaker 1: that's the last thing you're concerned about with Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: or to a ton of Valoa. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: if Justin Herbert kind of falls in the middle of that, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm in terms of why I left, That's kind
Speaker 1: of why I left him out with the top two,
Speaker 1: because I you know, when I look at Herbert, I
Speaker 1: kind of I don't you know, I haven't been around
Speaker 1: him personally. I haven't seen that much of him because
Speaker 1: usually when those games were over was you know, one
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning or whatever when they're playing out
Speaker 1: in Oregon um, and so you didn't get to really
Speaker 1: see a lot of that side of him. But but
Speaker 1: but you do kind of get that as shucks out
Speaker 1: of him a little bit more than those other guys. Well,
Speaker 1: you're You're right, and I think exposure has a lot
Speaker 1: to do with it. And even though justin Herbert was
Speaker 1: you know, so successful at Oregon. You know, he's a
Speaker 1: He's a big guy with huge arm talent. You'll stand
Speaker 1: in there and sling it and and do all those things.
Speaker 1: I think his best football is ahead of him. And
Speaker 1: but in terms of having that moxie and having that
Speaker 1: you know that put your arms around the entire football
Speaker 1: team and don't worry about it. Guys, I got you.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know if I've been around him
Speaker 1: enough to know that, but just hearing different things, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure Herbert has been exposed to as many things
Speaker 1: as maybe a Joe Burrow has or a to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Boloa has, because they've always been in the spotlight.
Speaker 1: Those guys have always been sought after. And I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure, you know, maybe Justin has never left Eugene,
Speaker 1: Oregon except for you know, when he went on a
Speaker 1: plane to play a game, you know. So I'm not
Speaker 1: so sure that, you know, we know enough about what
Speaker 1: makes him tick. And I'm hoping that the scouts and
Speaker 1: and all the people that are doing their due diligence
Speaker 1: that are getting paid, you know, to to do that,
Speaker 1: they know all that and they feel confident about what
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert brings as a as a personality type to
Speaker 1: your huddle or and to your football team. And I'm
Speaker 1: sure they do. Uh. So, you know, he's one of
Speaker 1: those guys that is going to have to work on
Speaker 1: his footwork. He's always played out of the gun, which
Speaker 1: is not a big deal nowadays, but you still have
Speaker 1: to have your feet work for you, not against you,
Speaker 1: and I think that causes some of the negativity and
Speaker 1: some flat throws down the field or or touch passes
Speaker 1: he and he'll get better at that. But what he
Speaker 1: has you can't teach. He has a a lightning rod
Speaker 1: for a right arm. And I think he's accurate enough
Speaker 1: to get better. And I think there's a huge upside
Speaker 1: to Justin Herbert. Yeah, the the you know, the most
Speaker 1: perplexing guy in this draft. To a tongue of viola
Speaker 1: is the is the But you know, you you could
Speaker 1: I could sit here and argue with myself five different
Speaker 1: ways as to why he shoot or shouldn't take to
Speaker 1: a tongue of viola? Right, I mean when you first
Speaker 1: of all, when you look at his character, when you
Speaker 1: look at his upbringing, his family moves to Tuscaloosa just
Speaker 1: to support him, and you know, and and he's a
Speaker 1: he's a humble kid, he's a confidence he's got he's
Speaker 1: got all those things that you want from a mental standpoint,
Speaker 1: from a background standpoint. He's a classy guy, all that
Speaker 1: stuff going for him. He's got the production level that
Speaker 1: he did. Did you know that? Did your you you
Speaker 1: beg for you know, he's got that ability to do
Speaker 1: things that much like uh, much like Pat Mahomes And
Speaker 1: you go, wow, I can't believe that guy could throw
Speaker 1: that ball he's got all that going for him, but boy,
Speaker 1: that the lingering, lingering question for him. It's to me,
Speaker 1: it's just it's strictly if if if Tongua Biola came
Speaker 1: out this year and was pristine from an injury standpoint,
Speaker 1: would I'd be a tough pick between Burrow and Tongue
Speaker 1: And it's it's it's still somewhat of a tough pick
Speaker 1: between those two with the first pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: but those those three surgeries in two years, John, I
Speaker 1: can't I can't get that out of my mind. Um,
Speaker 1: with a guy that that you're possibly gonna take the
Speaker 1: fifth pick in the draft or maybe move up a
Speaker 1: pick or two to get him, Um, well, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a you know, I'm glad that that Chris Greer's
Speaker 1: making that pick and and and taking a risk, not
Speaker 1: me because I don't know, I don't know if all
Speaker 1: the positives outweigh that injury situation, that would he allow
Speaker 1: me to move up a pick or two to get
Speaker 1: him and give away something or d pass on him
Speaker 1: what's all together and take either an offensive tackle or
Speaker 1: Herbert or somebody like that, or an edge rush or something.
Speaker 1: That's a that's that I don't know that I've run
Speaker 1: across the guy in the draft that's as perplexing as
Speaker 1: as him and and making a pick on him is well,
Speaker 1: it's gonna that. That's gonna be the decision that's going
Speaker 1: You know, that's been probably bantered about in draft rooms,
Speaker 1: not only the Miami Dolphins, but the l A Chargers,
Speaker 1: And if you can kind of go down the list
Speaker 1: and see who needs a quarterback and who wants to
Speaker 1: come up and get one, um, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: tough decision that's gonna have to be made. And it's
Speaker 1: all because of the two ankle surgeries and the hit
Speaker 1: surgery last year. Uh. To your point, box, if you
Speaker 1: went back at the beginning of the two thousand nineteen season,
Speaker 1: he said, who would you take? I think thirty of
Speaker 1: the thirty two teams, you'd say, to a tongue of
Speaker 1: byloa um at number one and that and that brings
Speaker 1: me to if it's the Miami Dolphins that are gonna
Speaker 1: take him, knowing that you have Ryan Fitzpatrick and this
Speaker 1: guy doesn't have to play, and you're saying, you know,
Speaker 1: his his first year in playing experience is gonna be
Speaker 1: two thousand and twenty one. You know, with any meaningful time,
Speaker 1: you're hoping that one Fitzpatrick's gonna be able to obviously
Speaker 1: win the jobs, stay healthy, be productive, and be successful
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. And you're thinking, Okay, we don't
Speaker 1: have to rush to it even if he's if he's
Speaker 1: even or we think he's better, but we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a better football team in two thousand twenty one, and
Speaker 1: we're doing just fine with Ryan Fitzpatrick, and we want
Speaker 1: to make sure this guy is healthy. Is he could
Speaker 1: be Gosh, you have to consider are all those possibilities
Speaker 1: and him maybe not playing uh in year one? And
Speaker 1: even if he went to a team like the lah Chargers,
Speaker 1: who have a veteran quarterback that's ready to kind of
Speaker 1: step in and play, that has experienced, he might not
Speaker 1: play there either and they may have to go up
Speaker 1: and get him. So not only are the Mimi Dolphins
Speaker 1: contemplating what they're gonna do if they had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to draft him, I'm sure there's other teams that aren't
Speaker 1: going to rush him out if he if they feel
Speaker 1: like he's not ready. But saying he's healthy, Number one,
Speaker 1: he does everything at an elevated level. I mean, his
Speaker 1: traits can fit any style of offense. He has great footwork.
Speaker 1: He's really accurate with the football in the r P
Speaker 1: O S in the quick game. He navigates the pocket
Speaker 1: really well because of his feet and his awareness that
Speaker 1: that quarterback clock he kind of has it, and he
Speaker 1: has the ability to kind of relocate wherever that launch
Speaker 1: point is, whether it's in the in the pocket, escape
Speaker 1: or kind of get his feet underneath them and throw
Speaker 1: it accurately down the field. So so the obviously the
Speaker 1: only glaring thing you're looking at is if you can
Speaker 1: somehow decipher the health and and the playability and how
Speaker 1: quickly you can get him on the field or how
Speaker 1: quickly you want to put him on ice. Uh, if
Speaker 1: you're a team that's drafting him, those are the dilemmas
Speaker 1: you're you're kind of battling with. Yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: know what the thing about it too is that you
Speaker 1: know you wonder at with you and I agree with
Speaker 1: you know, with where where you got with fits and
Speaker 1: what he's done. Uh. If if if two is the
Speaker 1: guy that you draft, then yeah, it would be to
Speaker 1: me that would be okay. You you you sit there
Speaker 1: until we're ready to let you play, whether it's week
Speaker 1: fifteen in the season just to see what you're doing,
Speaker 1: or whether it's weak eight because maybe maybe Ryan's not
Speaker 1: having the type year he had last year or whatever,
Speaker 1: or it's just say you beat you beat him out,
Speaker 1: or try to beat him out, or you're not gonna
Speaker 1: play this year. But high question would be John, when
Speaker 1: I look at these injuries ankles, hip, uh, and they're
Speaker 1: saying that the hip is not is healed enough to
Speaker 1: where it's not gonna have any long term effects, which
Speaker 1: I find hard to believe because hips are kind of
Speaker 1: a tricky deal there. But you know, it almost makes
Speaker 1: me wonder that even if you sit him for a year,
Speaker 1: you know, a year of being more, does that is
Speaker 1: that still gonna make him less prone to three surgeries
Speaker 1: in two years? And you know it's it's so so
Speaker 1: you could be a situation you wait for a year
Speaker 1: and then the third week of the season he's down again.
Speaker 1: You know. Well, my point to that is, you know,
Speaker 1: if he's better, If you know that he's better and
Speaker 1: he's going to give you a better chance to win,
Speaker 1: you're playing no hesitation, right, But if it's if it's
Speaker 1: not that Larry like it was last year for US.
Speaker 1: We we kind of knew that Ryan Fitzpatrick was in
Speaker 1: a better position to lead this team than Josh Rosen
Speaker 1: was in the beginning of season, right kind of every
Speaker 1: day you've kind of felt that. So if you feel
Speaker 1: that way, you have the luxury of letting him learn
Speaker 1: the offense, letting letting him get a cussed him to
Speaker 1: the tempo and speed, even though he played at a
Speaker 1: high level in college football Alabama and the sec. You
Speaker 1: kind of spoon feed him until he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: And if he's ready to go Week four, that's great.
Speaker 1: Week eight. If he's not ready, if he doesn't beat
Speaker 1: out Fitzpatrick, that's fine. But you're still giving him all
Speaker 1: the all the stuff he needs to kind of keep
Speaker 1: going and get him, get him ready to play whenever
Speaker 1: he you know, whether that's a series of quarter uh
Speaker 1: two games stretch that he's ready to play and he
Speaker 1: gets a little bit of a taste of it, Um,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay. Whoever pulls that trigger, boy, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be biting their tongue until till this guy gets
Speaker 1: out and plays. But he is gonna be an intreating guy.
Speaker 1: We were touched on Herbert a little bit, but John,
Speaker 1: let me, let me let's talk good. Get back to
Speaker 1: him a little because you know, again, I haven't seen
Speaker 1: him play that much. Usually we're coming in after going
Speaker 1: those Saturday night before the game dinners somewhere and in
Speaker 1: Oregon's on, and you kind of got one eye clothes
Speaker 1: and one eyes bloodshot, and you're when you're watching watching
Speaker 1: the game. But you know, I feel like I watched
Speaker 1: enough of justin Herbert to where I just look at him,
Speaker 1: go I I just I haven't seen that that wow
Speaker 1: factor come out of him in any of the games
Speaker 1: that I played. Now he goes to you know, the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and lights it up, what's one of the
Speaker 1: combine does whatever he's doing out there, But I just
Speaker 1: don't I don't know, John, I just when I look
Speaker 1: at him, I just see something missing. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit with you there, Bo In terms of
Speaker 1: I wish I knew him more. I wish I was
Speaker 1: able to watch him a little bit more. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can watch the film, but I'd like to meet
Speaker 1: him and talk with him, sit down and and kind
Speaker 1: of get to know what makes him tick. Because if
Speaker 1: you knew that you feel either a lot better about
Speaker 1: drafting him or talking about him and wanting the Dolphins
Speaker 1: to draft him. But what you see, what you see
Speaker 1: from from Afar is a guy with great size and
Speaker 1: who has that pro ready football frame for an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1: Um a guy that operates out of the gun, that
Speaker 1: gets the football away quickly when he's when he's decisive
Speaker 1: in the passing game, who has the ability to tuck
Speaker 1: it and run and get outside and for a big body,
Speaker 1: be able to you know, to to run away from people.
Speaker 1: I think he he ran He ran a really good
Speaker 1: forty in terms of a shuttle in terms of quickness
Speaker 1: when he was tested. So those are the types of
Speaker 1: things you like as a big guy. He has a
Speaker 1: really strong arm to get the football down the field,
Speaker 1: and he has a lot of experience. You know, if
Speaker 1: he would have come out last year, some people said
Speaker 1: he was the number one pick. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those things where you don't know how much
Speaker 1: the people around him affected his playability in terms of
Speaker 1: last year. But I definitely in watching him play, I
Speaker 1: would say that he needs to trust his eyes and
Speaker 1: his rhythm, and I think that helps that that comes
Speaker 1: from his improvement with his footwork. I think it it
Speaker 1: comes from that he's a big guy. He's a tall guy,
Speaker 1: and to to navigate the pocket and be able to
Speaker 1: be a little bit quicker and decisive with his feet
Speaker 1: to match his eyes to get the ball out. And
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna come with with NFL coaching. Hey,
Speaker 1: how do you see Jordan's love the kid from Utah State.
Speaker 1: It's a big guy. Six fours in a quarter. Uh,
Speaker 1: But but you look at his production and he's one
Speaker 1: of those guys everyone everyone was kind of you know,
Speaker 1: hooking him up to the Pat Mahomes bandwagon there. But
Speaker 1: when you look at his numbers twenty touchdowns, seventeen interceptions,
Speaker 1: probably had a better year last year than this year.
Speaker 1: And uh, one of those guys that would be tough
Speaker 1: to pull the trigger that early on him. Well, I've
Speaker 1: I've covered him live four times in the last two years,
Speaker 1: and it's not wrong to to match him up because
Speaker 1: he does do some freaky things with his arm talent
Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes did at Texas Tech. Only I think
Speaker 1: Mahomes was a little bit more I don't want to
Speaker 1: say polished, but I think more confident in his off
Speaker 1: schedule maneuvers, being able to run around and have an idea,
Speaker 1: and and and being able to have so much confidence
Speaker 1: in his arm strength, and he was gonna be able
Speaker 1: to beat you no matter what position you put him
Speaker 1: in as a defense. Now for Jordan's Love, He's got
Speaker 1: a big frame at six four two four pounds. He's athletic,
Speaker 1: he can run with the football outside of the pocket,
Speaker 1: so you know, size, mobility, armed, talent. He has all
Speaker 1: that stuff to lead in the NFL offense. I just
Speaker 1: think he needs to go to the right team. And
Speaker 1: we talked about two of because of injury, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: having you know, to pull back the reins a little
Speaker 1: bit on what you want to do. I think with
Speaker 1: Jordan's Love, it's more about um the unpredictability of of
Speaker 1: that escapability where it's gonna go. Is it gonna lead
Speaker 1: to more turnovers in the National Football League because of
Speaker 1: the windows being closed, you know, being shorter, being tighter.
Speaker 1: But I think he has all the ability uh to
Speaker 1: play quarterback in the National Fotball League. I've seen enough
Speaker 1: of him to know that he's one of those guys
Speaker 1: that may thrive right away or may take a couple
Speaker 1: of years. But he has the talent to do it.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy, the guy that there are two
Speaker 1: more guys here and then we're gonna wrap it up. Um.
Speaker 1: But the guy that still intrigues me, and I can't
Speaker 1: get him out of my head when I look at it.
Speaker 1: And and he's certainly not you know, to me, he'd
Speaker 1: be he'd be a luxury pick for the Dolphins. Is
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. And I don't care if you want to
Speaker 1: pick him as a quarterback or an athlete or whatever.
Speaker 1: All I know is that the guy at a thirty
Speaker 1: eight and four record in college through for almost thirteen
Speaker 1: almost thirteen thousand totally yards from scrimmage, and and and
Speaker 1: you know, I the problem I keep having with Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts is not a problem is that all the guy
Speaker 1: does is win games. That's right. You know that that's
Speaker 1: all he's done. When he during his career at that
Speaker 1: and he wasn't playing at Liberty, and he wasn't playing
Speaker 1: at San Jose State, and he wasn't playing it for
Speaker 1: us No stated boys, he he's playing at Alabam Amma,
Speaker 1: and he's playing at Oklahoma, and he's playing against the
Speaker 1: best competition that this country has to offer at the
Speaker 1: collegiate level, and all he did was produce almost almost
Speaker 1: thirteen thousand yards from a line of script. Hard for
Speaker 1: me to ignore that guy as as a possibility to
Speaker 1: be a jack of all trades in your offense, much
Speaker 1: like the kid in uh, the kid Trista what's the
Speaker 1: name in in in New Orleans? Um kid from b
Speaker 1: y U case on tan Hill. Yeah, you know that's
Speaker 1: a you know, the guy's a quarterback, but he does
Speaker 1: everything else. You know. Yeah, I wrote down when I
Speaker 1: wrote down Jalen Hurts his name, and I wrote winner, leader, tough,
Speaker 1: and durable. And you you mentioned the record as a starter,
Speaker 1: which is unbelievable playing at at Alabama and then and
Speaker 1: then Oklahoma. How about how about going from Alabama to
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and trying to fill the bill the two Heisman
Speaker 1: Trophy winners or before you um, you know he he
Speaker 1: shows poise at the quarterback spot, especially late in games
Speaker 1: against tough competition. He's always the guy that comes through.
Speaker 1: He's always the guy that makes plays. And I think
Speaker 1: he's shown some vast improvements and throwing the football from
Speaker 1: when he was with the Crimson Tide and then he
Speaker 1: went to Oklahoma. I think he improved while he was
Speaker 1: in Alabama, but he got even better when he was
Speaker 1: with Oklahoma. And he's been around some good you know,
Speaker 1: obviously some good players at both programs, so he's had
Speaker 1: that ability to improve from the pocket. He's obviously really
Speaker 1: good on the move at extending plays. And you're right,
Speaker 1: if you're talking Miami Dolphins, it's a luxury type of
Speaker 1: of pick. But I'm not sure so sure that some
Speaker 1: other teams around the National Football League are looking at
Speaker 1: him as a luxury there. They may be looking at
Speaker 1: him as a necessity in terms of getting him in
Speaker 1: his offense, getting him in their offense and letting him
Speaker 1: play quarterback and letting him bring that that r PO
Speaker 1: type of system to their offense, and giving defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: around the National Football League headaches about what they have
Speaker 1: to defend. Yeah, yeah, I just like him. I just
Speaker 1: you know, I've always liked him, and so he's coming back.
Speaker 1: My finally will stopped locally with the skid James Morgan
Speaker 1: from f i U six, um, you know, two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen not not that great accuracies and issue for him.
Speaker 1: Does he have a place in here John. You know,
Speaker 1: it's tough to say, but with a lot of talent
Speaker 1: at the top end of the quarterback position, I'm sure
Speaker 1: he's going to get a look. I'm sure somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: bring him into camp. Now, whether he's he's a draft
Speaker 1: choice or whether he's a guy that you know is
Speaker 1: gonna producer as a free agent. I thought maybe when
Speaker 1: you look back at two thousand eighteen, Uh, he was
Speaker 1: a little bit more healthy and didn't force the football
Speaker 1: as much. But I thought that you know, all the
Speaker 1: reports and reading about Morgan, he improved himself when he
Speaker 1: went to the bowl games, and I think he got
Speaker 1: you know, some people's attention doing that. Well, we'll see
Speaker 1: how it goes John. Uh. Next week we'll we'll start
Speaker 1: taking a look at the uh, the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the football, and then uh and then right after that
Speaker 1: it's draft time, and um, stick around with the Miami
Speaker 1: Delfice because I think we're doing a draft special. Uh.
Speaker 1: We'll kind of keep you up with the draft on Facebook.
Speaker 1: But we'll let you know more about that as we
Speaker 1: go along. So uh, It's it's gonna be exciting here
Speaker 1: over the next couple of weeks. Hopefully we get a
Speaker 1: little bit of out and about time here pretty loose,
Speaker 1: pretty soon. You know. It's uh wherever he's been doing
Speaker 1: a good job staying uh, you know, staying isolated and
Speaker 1: keeping their distance and all this stuff, and uh it's uh,
Speaker 1: it seems to be working. So if we kind of
Speaker 1: keep putting the pedal of the metal, as they say,
Speaker 1: and keep doing our due diligence and stand aways as
Speaker 1: much as we can, who knows, maybe maybe sooner than
Speaker 1: later we'll have a chance to get out and get
Speaker 1: back to some some normalcy. But until then, you know,
Speaker 1: stay uh, stay away from people, wash your hands, do
Speaker 1: all the things that we've learned to do. That's our
Speaker 1: new norm now around this around the world, he's gonna say,
Speaker 1: in our country, but around the world the new norm.
Speaker 1: But just you know, take care of yourselves and hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll get through this. And uh, John, appreciate you being
Speaker 1: with us again. And for John Kagami and Gimbo Camper,
Speaker 1: we'll catch you next week. Stay safe and we'll talk
Speaker 1: NFL Draft and the defensive side for the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: coming up next week. We'll see them