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Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network covering your Miami Dolphins. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Every buddy? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm
Speaker 1: here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we're doing final preparations for tonight's
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, the first round tonight, rounds two through three
Speaker 1: on Friday, and rounds four through seven on Saturday. And
Speaker 1: to help us do that is NFL Networks Peter Schrager.
Speaker 1: We're gonna roll that interview and get you ready for
Speaker 1: Draft night on this Thursday, April edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Reminder to check back with us tonight on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a podcast that publishes immediately after the draft,
Speaker 1: give you the inside first look at what these players
Speaker 1: can bring to the Dolphins from a scheme standpoint, from
Speaker 1: a character standpoint, all that fun stuff. And then on
Speaker 1: Friday morning, we'll go ahead and release interviews with each
Speaker 1: of the newest members of the Miami Dolphins, and that
Speaker 1: process will repeat itself for the following three days Friday
Speaker 1: Night Conclusion Podcast, Saturday Morning Interviews, Saturday Afternoon Conclusion Podcast,
Speaker 1: Sunday Morning Interviews. We're gonna have you guys covered wall
Speaker 1: to wall comprehensive coverage here on the Drivetime podcast on
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins dot com, on the Miami Dolphins social media
Speaker 1: accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, wherever we are, you can
Speaker 1: find us there covering this year's NFL Draft for your
Speaker 1: twenty Miami Dolphins fourteen draft picks. And without further ado,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead now and roll this interview and welcome
Speaker 1: in the man, the myth, the legend, Peter Schrager. But
Speaker 1: just real quick, before we do that, I want to
Speaker 1: let you guys know where you can find this video
Speaker 1: on the Miami Dolphins Virtual Draft on Facebook. Check that
Speaker 1: out at five o'clock Eastern tonight. And Peter showed up
Speaker 1: wearing a divine Parker jersey. So just so we're clear
Speaker 1: on why the conversation went in that direction, here is
Speaker 1: Peter Schreeger and joining the podcast now is NFL Networks owned.
Speaker 1: He's the host of Good Morning Football. You can find
Speaker 1: him on the sidelines on Fox as a game day reporter.
Speaker 1: He is Peter Schreeger. Peter, what's going on? Man? Let
Speaker 1: me show you what I'm wearing. I've got the DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker jersey on here in my basement. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something I'm doing great, Travis. Uh, The greatest single
Speaker 1: game performance I was in person for was not from
Speaker 1: the mahomes of Super Bowl, was not from anything that
Speaker 1: I saw. Russell Wilson new was DeVante Parker just destroying
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles. And it's a sideline reporter. So I
Speaker 1: had to get the jersey. And if I'm on this podcast,
Speaker 1: I'm wearing it DeVante Parker jersey on Draft Day. Let's
Speaker 1: go fifty balls that day are more like nine balls
Speaker 1: with high point in those things. But I gotta ask you,
Speaker 1: you're doing your own wardrobe obviously on hair and makeup too.
Speaker 1: How's all that going for you? In course, it's been interesting.
Speaker 1: So Uh, I'm in my in laws basement. Um here
Speaker 1: in definitely, because I live in Brooklyn in a small
Speaker 1: apartment with my with my son and my wife. She works.
Speaker 1: My son is supposed to be doing zoom on school.
Speaker 1: It was impossible, so we moved into the in laws house,
Speaker 1: which we're here indefinitely, and we're filming Good Morning Football
Speaker 1: from a basement on a poker table that I think
Speaker 1: my father in law might have used in the eighties. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: let's flash it back to the nineties and go for
Speaker 1: now and talk about this year's offseason, Peter, because the
Speaker 1: Dolphins were very active in free agency, ten new editions,
Speaker 1: We're gonna have fourteen draft picks schedule to be made
Speaker 1: in tonight's NFL Draft. What do you make so far
Speaker 1: of what the Dolphins have done this offseason? Love it um.
Speaker 1: Didn't overspend on positions that you shouldn't overspend on, didn't
Speaker 1: go nuts and get a quarterback in free agency, did
Speaker 1: the smart thing and said, let's just kick the can
Speaker 1: down a little bit. Maybe draft someone tonight. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's going what we've got. But defense, I mean
Speaker 1: two linebackers that I know flow loves in a Landing
Speaker 1: Roberts and Kyle van Noy. Uh. You get obviously Shack Lawson,
Speaker 1: who finally put his career together last year of Buffalo
Speaker 1: and was a terror on the defensive line. And then
Speaker 1: Byron Jones, who I can tell you it was offered
Speaker 1: a ton of money from the Raiders and offered a
Speaker 1: ton of money from the Philadelphia Eagles and chose to
Speaker 1: be a Dolphin. Wanted to be a Dolphin. That's a
Speaker 1: great sign. So really laid the groundwork with some guys
Speaker 1: that obviously Brian Flores knows, but they didn't go silly
Speaker 1: here and go and bring in the equivalent to a
Speaker 1: Levian Bell last year the Jets did, or go spend
Speaker 1: a ton of money on a Todd Gurley just to
Speaker 1: say we have Todd girl, and I'm looking to sell jerseys.
Speaker 1: They're looking to build something. I loved it. You mentioned
Speaker 1: the attractive destination that Miami was because of the head coach,
Speaker 1: because of Brian Flores, and because of the program they're
Speaker 1: building down here with the Miami Dolphins. And we had
Speaker 1: each of the Dolphins free agents on the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: in separate interviews, and to a man, Peter, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: they all said that Brian Flores and this program was
Speaker 1: a big reason why they decided to sign on the
Speaker 1: dotted line with the Miami Dolphins. So my question to
Speaker 1: you is, what is it about Brian Flores that makes
Speaker 1: this program, this city, this town, this football team so
Speaker 1: attractive to these players because he's the man, because he
Speaker 1: is a peer, but he treats you with respect and
Speaker 1: he has the pedigree of Belichick, like he's got the
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy, so you can't question that he's done it.
Speaker 1: He's also got an incredible life story where coming from Brownsville, Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: which is an area you don't see many NFL coaches
Speaker 1: coming from, coming from uh, you know, Boston College, where
Speaker 1: there was talk of is this guy gonna be a
Speaker 1: star player? No, no, he wanted to go into coaching.
Speaker 1: Like every step of the way, Brian Flores has earned
Speaker 1: what he's he's become and then you get to the
Speaker 1: pros and these players they respect him obviously because he
Speaker 1: has that Patriot way about him, but you can also
Speaker 1: talk to him. So many of these Dolphins guys swear
Speaker 1: by Brian Flores and that gets around the league. That's
Speaker 1: that's a great reputation to have championships, but also being
Speaker 1: a guy that players can look to and what is
Speaker 1: the thirty nine years old seems to be a peer
Speaker 1: as well. Fourteen draft picks for the Dolphins ahead of
Speaker 1: this weekend's draft. Three of those tonight on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: in the first round scheduled to be made by the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and the first one of those picks is
Speaker 1: number five overall and Peter. The question I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask you was, it seems like every single year we
Speaker 1: have this one portion of the draft, this one spot
Speaker 1: towards the top of the draft that kind of serves
Speaker 1: as the unofficial quote unquote start of the draft where
Speaker 1: things start to get a little bit wonky, a little
Speaker 1: bit off the off the conventional wisdom track that we
Speaker 1: have been pretty much had pounded into our heads over
Speaker 1: the last three four or five six months, with all
Speaker 1: the mock drafts, all the speculation, there's always that one
Speaker 1: spot in the draft where things change. I think everybody
Speaker 1: expects Joe Burrow to go first to Cincinnati and Chase
Speaker 1: Young number two to Washington, and that brings us to
Speaker 1: the third pick where things might start to kind of
Speaker 1: get crazy. Is that where you expect things to officially
Speaker 1: start off in earnest in this year's draft. No, I
Speaker 1: see it at five, and it could be wrong in
Speaker 1: a couple of hours made the Lions do trade. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a long line of teams looking to
Speaker 1: trade up beyond the Dolphins and Chargers for a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna come down to three and four, and
Speaker 1: those teams are gonna take listen, you know, take offers.
Speaker 1: I'm sure the Giants would love to trade back if
Speaker 1: they could still stay in the top tend and get
Speaker 1: one of the as tackles. But I've been ear to
Speaker 1: the ground here on the phone texting everything. I don't
Speaker 1: have a third team that's looking for a quarterback. It's
Speaker 1: right now the Dolphins, and it's the Chargers. And if
Speaker 1: both those teams passed, then that this thing is really weird.
Speaker 1: Well I can't wait personally, Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 1: weird in the NFL draft tonight. And speaking of the
Speaker 1: draft and the challenges of the changing culture we're in
Speaker 1: right now with the COVID nineteen pandemic and the changes
Speaker 1: that has presented to us as NFL media, as the
Speaker 1: NFL decision makers, you said you had your phone, your
Speaker 1: ear to the phone, ear to the ground, texting everybody
Speaker 1: across the league. What's kind of the general feeling about
Speaker 1: some of the challenges that could be presented into Night's draft,
Speaker 1: whether it's potential trades getting caught up because of poor
Speaker 1: Internet connections or just general possible I t snaffoos that
Speaker 1: it could occur in tonight's draft. What are you hearing
Speaker 1: on that front? I think there's a feeling of like,
Speaker 1: and you're in the same room, you kind of have
Speaker 1: a consensus that might be the issue when you're on
Speaker 1: the clock. Like the Bengals have no problem. They know
Speaker 1: who they're taking. The Ridskis for the most where have
Speaker 1: no problem they're taking. Even the Linons, they know what
Speaker 1: they're gonna do with the first two. It's when you
Speaker 1: get to four or five, six, seven, where Okay, now
Speaker 1: this guy went off the board where we didn't expect
Speaker 1: them to. How are we going to adjust? And well,
Speaker 1: let's have that quick conversation. Okay, well we've got in
Speaker 1: the Southeast region, scout, you got your last word, but
Speaker 1: we only have this much time and it's on zoomed
Speaker 1: like that stuff's gonna get interesting. But I think we're
Speaker 1: overblowing a lot of this technically. I'm knock on wood here.
Speaker 1: I don't think gm Worth is Sault is gonna blame
Speaker 1: the technology if the draft does not go right. And
Speaker 1: to kind of dovetail off that question, a general thought
Speaker 1: that was floated out there a while back across the
Speaker 1: league circle was that maybe some teams could be more
Speaker 1: inclined because of whether it's less medical reports available to
Speaker 1: a team, or less chances to meet the kid in person,
Speaker 1: put them on the white board, and just less of
Speaker 1: a general typical draft setting. What type of impact could
Speaker 1: that have on teams possibly wanting to maybe punt picks
Speaker 1: into one being more aggressive a trade back and get
Speaker 1: rid of picks in this year's class and maybe have
Speaker 1: more of a two year snapshot approach opposed to going
Speaker 1: all in on this year's draft. I do, I do.
Speaker 1: I don't think they don't Want's taken a mulligan here,
Speaker 1: but if the Lions take defensive player and the Dolphins
Speaker 1: opt to not take quarterback, and the Chargers opt to
Speaker 1: not take quarterback, and tell you something about A this
Speaker 1: year's draft class and B that's my son's screaming sorry
Speaker 1: it's Draft Day's excited and be um the familiarity with
Speaker 1: the quarterback. We're gonna draft a quarterback. You want to
Speaker 1: know inside and out everything, and these teams haven't had
Speaker 1: the opportunity to do that with either Herbert or two.
Speaker 1: They can take a guess they could say, well, we
Speaker 1: got to meet him at the combine, and in Herbert's case,
Speaker 1: Dolphins got to meet him at the buzzer. But like,
Speaker 1: if I'm putting my name on a quarterback, I might
Speaker 1: want to feel really comfortable and really get to know
Speaker 1: him before saying that's my guy, that's my top ten pick.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of good tackles in this draft. It's
Speaker 1: not a sexy It might make more sense this here.
Speaker 1: In your latest mock draft, you have the Dolphins taking
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, Josh Jones, and DeAndre Swift in that first round.
Speaker 1: Could you walk us through those picks and those players
Speaker 1: as part of your recent mock draft. His mock draft
Speaker 1: is gonna be updated in a couple of hours, but
Speaker 1: as of right now, let me give you the new three. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me give you the new three. I'm getting it
Speaker 1: on my phone right now because I've been on the
Speaker 1: phone doing this with everyone all day. Here we go,
Speaker 1: Trys exclusively to you. The Dolphins have five do take
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert? Okay? I think they do take Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: and the fans you tell me, they might go but
Speaker 1: bananas in anger because they want to. Uh. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I think Herbert's the pick. Eighteen Xavier McKinney, another safety
Speaker 1: at Alabama. Remember MACA. Fitzpatrick was a pretty good one
Speaker 1: didn't work out. We're gonna take another one, a safety,
Speaker 1: Xavier McKinney at eighteen. And then twenty six, I've got
Speaker 1: Caesar Ruise, the guard out of Michigan, who can also
Speaker 1: play center. So you go quarterback, captain of the team,
Speaker 1: the whole face everything, you go center. Obviously those two
Speaker 1: will be a team battering Ram forever. And then Xavier McKinney,
Speaker 1: who I think a lot of teams are high on.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be sitting there at eighteen. I think
Speaker 1: that might be the pick, knowing Rahad Jones is no
Speaker 1: longer there and there's some questions at safety, and that
Speaker 1: would be the same pick that came back from the
Speaker 1: pit Spurks Steelers in the makeup is patricks symmetry there, Peter,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the Devantae Parker jersey off the top. I
Speaker 1: gotta ask you. You're at your in law's house in
Speaker 1: the basement. That was essential packing for you. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the thing. No, I'll be honest. I made some
Speaker 1: arrangements to make sure I can get one of these.
Speaker 1: I asked every team, and I've got contacts and every
Speaker 1: team to send me a player that I would that
Speaker 1: I appreciate some. I'm on this show all the time,
Speaker 1: Good Morning Football, and I talk certain guys up. It
Speaker 1: was either ray Kwon McMillan, who I love, who was
Speaker 1: a guest on our show and was fantastic, or it
Speaker 1: was Davante Parker. Ryan Fitzpatrick would have been an obvious one.
Speaker 1: We're going with the future. I'm going with DeVante Parker.
Speaker 1: That's my pick. Let's got the new four year, forty
Speaker 1: million dollar contracts. So a good pick there. Peter Schreeger,
Speaker 1: NFL Network, Fox Sideline reporter does it all, Peter. We
Speaker 1: appreciate your time man, Good luck tonight, guys, and so
Speaker 1: there he goes NFL Networks Peter Schreeger giving us the
Speaker 1: insight on the Dolphins offseason, free agency and the draft
Speaker 1: heading in tonight, including his first look at his new
Speaker 1: updated mock draft. The morning of April here as the
Speaker 1: draft kicks off here in us a few hours and
Speaker 1: when we kick this draft off, we're gonna have tons
Speaker 1: of content for you guys on the Miami Dolphins virtual
Speaker 1: Draft kicking off at seven thirty for the pregame show.
Speaker 1: The draft events starts at eight o'clock Eastern, of course,
Speaker 1: on ESPN, ABC and NFL Network, and we're gonna broadcast
Speaker 1: that thanks simultaneously me John kN Jemmy Kimbo, Caamper gonna
Speaker 1: bring you guys all the information and news from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins draft, from the NFL Draft, and again a reminder
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime Podcast tonight, we're gonna have a recap
Speaker 1: looking at all three or maybe four, maybe two, it
Speaker 1: depends how many of the picks the Dolphins make. All
Speaker 1: the players the Dolphins have in this year's draft, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about their on field impact there in the
Speaker 1: locker room impact. Get some quotes, some details, some stats,
Speaker 1: all the fun stuff you guys come to love and
Speaker 1: know here on the Drivetime Podcast Friday morning, interview each
Speaker 1: of those players and repeat that process for the next
Speaker 1: three days, covering all fourteen more or less draft picks
Speaker 1: of your Miami Dolphins here on the Drivetime Podcast. But
Speaker 1: as for today's show, that is gonna be my time.
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