WEBVTT - Drive Time: Mock Draft Round Up, Edge Rusher Class and Solutions for Potential Shortcomings 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.120 Two on the Move, Galling Deep, Spiegwys Peace, do hell 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.320 Peas from the Baptist Health Studio. 0:00:07.400 --> 0:00:12.640 This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drivetime 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:14.680 with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:25.400 He's job my advans in the playoffs. What is up 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.360 Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am 0:00:29.400 --> 0:00:32.040 your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we are 0:00:32.080 --> 0:00:36.440 having fun with mock drafts. Our first mock draft roundup. 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.120 We'll take a look at some of the most popular 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.000 names in the draft community, who they're mocking to your 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.640 Miami Dolphins and what that might mean for us in 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:46.040 the draft. 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Let's go ahead and kick this thing off 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:26.080 with Daniel Jeremiah, the goat of the draft community, who 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.200 has Miami taking at pick number twenty one the all 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.399 offensive linemen center guard tackle Graham Barton out of Duke. 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.120 This is from his top fifty profile. Barton starts a 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.800 left tackle during his final three years at Duke. Prior 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.119 to that, he started five games at center, and that's 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.399 where I see him playing at the next level. He 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:47.040 has ideal size for the position and average length and 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:49.240 pass protection. He is quick out of a stance, plays 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:52.240 with knee bend, and has the agility to redirect. He 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:55.760 does struggle against power rusher. He doesn't play long armed, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:02:00.600 exposes his chest and gives ground. Fortunately, he loses slowly 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.920 on most occasions, allowing the quarterback time to get the 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:05.080 ball out. He's a technician in the running game. He 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:07.200 always hits his landmarks with his hands and on down 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.680 blocks before sinking and driving with his lower half. He 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:12.600 is excellent on combo blocks, and he's under control as 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:15.640 a poler. Overall, I see Barton as an athletic center 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.560 with the ability to survive at tackle if needed, and 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.880 I don't think much needs to be added to Jeremiah's 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.040 blurb there. His top fifty tends to give you pretty 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.760 much the entire breakdown of each player. 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:26.680 He just told you what kind of player he is there. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.520 The fact that he's seen a lot of football from 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.280 those extra positions excites me. And of course we've talked 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.960 about the short Shuttle threshold of four to four to 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.240 seven where Barton came in his pro day at four 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.800 to four flat. And again the beauty of our offensive 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.120 line which might be one of the deepest in the 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:46.280 league now because I would feel good about Kendall Lamb 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:47.720 if he had to start a couple of games. I 0:02:47.720 --> 0:02:50.160 would feel good about Keon Smith if he had starts 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.160 a couple of games at tackle. I feel pretty good 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.720 about Rob Jones and Liam Eichenberg and those reserve roles 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.119 on the interior offensive line as well, not to mention 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.800 Isaiah Wim. We'll see how all that shakes out with 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.240 My has a bunch of guys that can do multiple things, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.640 and the nice part about that is when you have 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.800 so many guys that can play those multiple spots, it 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:09.000 opens up your options in terms of who you can take. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:10.800 It doesn't have to be a tackle or a guard. 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.280 It can be either or more on that later on 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.160 in the show. So Matt Miller from ESPN to the 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.600 seven round mock draft, and he actually gave the Dolphins 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:20.440 two players that I don't think will be there in 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.680 those spots. But we press on twenty one offensive tackle 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:25.560 JC Latham out of Alabama. 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:26.760 I just don't see that happening. 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.040 I mean, here's his lawyer abound that salary cap concerns 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:32.200 have forced the Dolphins to remake their offensive line, and 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.040 Latham could fit well. He's a handful for defensive lineman 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.600 at three hundred and forty three pounds and has excellent 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.680 grip strength. Latham was a two year starter at right 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.520 tackle for Alabama, allowed two sacks, but has potential to 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.920 play either tackle or guard in the pros. He would 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.040 likely push right guard Robert Jones out of the lineup 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.520 as a rookie, he says, and who knows, you know, 0:03:50.520 --> 0:03:52.040 we don't have a storry lineup right now, so that's 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:53.960 kind of it is what it is. But Latham, I 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.240 don't think mech makes it to pick twenty one at all. 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.360 He is big, he's strong, he's athletic, and those guys 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.520 typically go off the board earlier than your top twenty picks. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.560 Fifty five center Zach Fraser from West Virginia. A late 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.680 season injury to Connor Williams, who's now a free agent, 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.240 affected the team down the stretch. Yeah, I did, Fraser's 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.000 a top three to two prospect on my board, but 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.240 teams aren't in a hurry to prioritize centers in the 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:17.400 draft just yet. The four year starter was a state 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.680 wrestling champion in high school, and he is the perfect 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.520 Mike McDaniel's own offense fit. The needs mobility in the 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.880 middle of the offensive line, plus Fraser has the tools 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:28.360 to start at guard or center. My argument there for 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.480 mister Miller would be that Aaron Brewer is a pre 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.280 damn good center who just got signed here, and I'm 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:34.600 not sure that you want to move him off that 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.680 spot because Brewer's best at center, which then begs the 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.279 question about Graham Barton. But I think Barton can play 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.360 guard more so than Fraser could, so I kind of 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:45.920 like the idea of going Barton over Fraser, but Fraser 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.800 at pick fifty five would be fantastic value. He finishes 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.800 up with defensive tackle Christian Boyd from Northern Iowa at 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.040 pick one, fifty eight, safety out of Auburn, Jalen Simpson 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.039 at picked one to eighty four, a cornerback from Mississippi State, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.640 Decamarion Richardson at one, and then the seventh round, two 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.479 forty one linebacker John Trey Hunter from Georgia State. And 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.320 I gotta tell you, guys, I don't have any notes 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.599 on any of those players at this stage of the 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.720 draft process. Field Yates did a two round mock draft 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.640 and gave Miami Byron Murphy at the twenty first pick 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.400 out of Texas. The Dolphins just watched Christian Wilkins depart 0:05:18.440 --> 0:05:21.039 in free agency, but Murphy has some traces of Wilkins 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.680 in his game as a disruptive interior defender. Murphy has 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.800 had a great season in twenty twenty three to five sacks, 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.080 but the stats are far from the full story of 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:30.360 his impact. He has the unique ability to torque and 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.680 hold up against the run, and he makes life easier 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.160 for the players around him. Doing these is always kind 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:39.240 of funny to me, because like, I'm just providing voices 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.760 from other people besides myself on the podcast. But I mean, look, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.960 this is going to sound so conceded. But these guys 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:47.560 don't know the Dolphins the way I know the Dolphins. 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:49.720 Like the whole salary cap concerns for you remake your 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:54.640 offensive line, That's not what happened there. Connor Williams is 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:58.159 not healthy and Robert Hunt got twenty million bucks a year. 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.440 That's not That's not what smart teams do. So I 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:05.720 disagree with that whole sentiment there. And yeah, yeah, that's 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:09.080 pick fifty five for field Yates is Christian Haines from Yukon, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.280 and I freaking love this player. So, speaking of Robert Hunt, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.719 lost him to free agency, opening a significant gap on 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.600 the offensive line. Enter Haynes, an experienced guard who has 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.960 forty nine starts, who plays with a serious edge to 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.039 his game. I think you'd be an ideal fit in 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.599 Miami's offense. And that, to me, is really an ideal 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:25.800 draft their field. So congrats to Field Dates for getting 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.800 it exactly right. In my opinion, No, it's not the 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.279 premium positions, but I think you're hard pressed to find 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.280 two players at those two spots who could come in 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.159 and play right away and be serious, serious contributors for 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:38.640 you in twenty twenty four. 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.000 They both have a ton of college experience. 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:43.839 They both technically are at the two spots where you 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.960 probably don't know who your starter is right now. Haines 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.080 is a right guard and Murphy's a zero through three 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.200 technique on the defensive line, and their tape is really, really, 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:55.680 really really good. In fact, it almost kind of tracks 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:58.720 with the freegency concept I discussed on the Wednesday podcast. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.240 Because these positions can get overlooked a smidge, you can 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.920 tend to get exceptional value later on in the draft 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.160 than you can with some positions. Like Haynes is definitely 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:12.920 a top fifty player for me, but the interior offensive 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:16.040 line designation maybe does bump him down the board a 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.360 tad And then with defensive tackle like Murphy, same deal. 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.240 Easily a top twenty player for me in the class, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.120 but he might be on the board there because of 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:28.320 defensive tackle position designation. We talked about Murphy at length yesterday, 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:29.920 but my god, man, I continue to go back to 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.240 Christian Haines. One seven five ten split is ninetieth percentile, 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:37.120 so you know he gets off the football quickly. Thirty 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.840 three inch vertical is ninety fifth percentile, so that's where 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.520 he gets all those you know, he tends to get 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.960 under guys at his six two and a half frame 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.600 that he plays with. That's short for football standards, right, 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:50.480 but three hundred and seventeen pounds. I think he could 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:53.440 play five pounds heavier or lighter if he was asked to. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.160 And Robert Hunt played last year at three hundred and 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:59.280 fifteen pounds. But that vertical and the just look at 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:03.320 the man's quad uds and his hamstrings. Like, imagine if 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.280 Tyreek Hill were an offensive You've seen Tyreek Hill's legs, right, 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:10.200 Like he he's a big dude in that regard, and 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.760 Christian Haynes has a similar build, but he's not like 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.120 two hundred pounds or one hundred and eighty pounds whatever 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:16.880 Tyreek Hill is? 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.520 What is Tyre? What is Tyreek Hill? What does he weigh? 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:26.240 I'm probably way off on that. Aren't they googling? It 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.840 doesn't tell me on here? One ninety yeah, one hundred 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.480 and ninety one pounds for Tyreek Hill. So imagine Tyreek 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.040 Hill's legs at one ninety and now put it into 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:37.040 a three hundred and fifteen pound offensive lineman. That's basically 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:40.760 what Christian Haynes is, and he just runs through people. 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:44.240 With that ability, and he has lead blocks for the 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.960 orbit motion like, which is a slow developing outside play 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.679 where he beats the back and the pursuit defender outside 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.199 the numbers. There's an excellent relationship there between timing of 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.240 his hands feet and playing from behind his paths at 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:58.319 that low pad level. Because of that build and his technique, 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.199 I think this is a power, slow athletic type of 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.640 player that would flourish in this system. And it picked 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.320 fifty five is a Julio Rodriguez four hundred and fifty 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.040 foot home run. 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.520 I love this draft, great value. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.679 I think both players have room to grow, and I 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:13.760 think both can start for their respective teams. 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:14.240 Week one. 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.440 Great job by gm Field Yates on this mock draft 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.120 will end here in our opening segment with Lance Zerlene 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:23.640 because it takes me into my Round one prospect preview 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:27.120 and number twenty one edge chop Robinson from Penn State. 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:30.439 He writes with Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb, both rehabbing 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.800 from season ending injuries. It won't surprise me if the 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:35.920 Dolphins grab a veteran edge rusher in free agency. They 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.720 did that already with Shaq Barrett and draft Chop Robinson, 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:43.240 raw but ridiculously explosive. This Penn State product has immense 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:46.280 upside with more tutelage, and I can see the idea 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.760 there that Lance has in terms of going in the 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.840 direction of a Chop Robinson because of the upside, and 0:09:52.880 --> 0:09:55.440 because you already have three guys that you know come 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.040 hopefully by like October are all playing right with Phillips, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.560 Chubb and then Jack who is healthy going into the season. 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.960 But I can see the idea thinking there of like, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:07.320 while those guys develop, or while those guys are still 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.760 in their prime, whatever, Chop can develop and kind of 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:12.200 become the breakout player in two or three years. But 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.560 I think that there's better options there because you want 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.240 got someone that can play right away right and quite frankly, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.160 we'll talk about this in the second segment. There's two 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.840 guys in that position who I just think are better 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:24.000 players and better prospects than Chops. We'll get into that 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.120 here in just one second. I want to finish up 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.840 the first segment with this idea because the Stefan Diggs 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.440 news shook the airwaves, didn't. I mean, they extended him 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.520 last year, they extended him last offseason and the situation 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:41.960 becomes so tenuous that you've decided to trade him, And yeah, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.440 the Texans will absorb the rest of that money owed, 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:47.240 but the Bills already paid him over thirty one million 0:10:47.280 --> 0:10:50.560 dollars in bonuses as part of that new extension, and 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:52.120 you can't move that money. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:53.000 It's dead money. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:56.960 So Buffalo will chop that up into like seventeen dead dollars, 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.240 seventeen million dead dollars each of the next two years, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.160 so they can't use They will get salary relief in 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:04.080 the future because Texans. The Texans do take on the 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:09.479 rest of the contract. But like, that's basically two premier 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.200 players that you have at like eighteen million bucks is 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.960 a premier player right per year, they're going to have 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.600 one of those players that's not a player. It's just 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.120 a you know, David Justice and moneyball. That's what the 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.840 Yankees think of you. They're paying me, they're paying you 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.760 to play against them this year, David Justice, Like that's 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.120 not good And there's no chance that Buffalo is done 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.040 right now at the top of the receiver room because 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.800 it's Curtis Samuel Khalil Shaker and Matt Collins. I actually 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:38.600 really like Samuel's game and Khalil Shaker's game, But that 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.400 receiving room is not scaring anybody right now. 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.199 They'll they'll get somebody else, you know they will. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.720 Whether it's the picking the twenties, whether it's a veteran 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.240 trade they make, They're going to pick somebody up. But 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.040 I refuse to believe that move was made without the 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.320 plan to reinforce the group. But it's still wild because 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:55.960 eating dead money to depart a receiver who's produced fifty 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:59.480 four hundred yards and thirty seven touchdowns and four seasons 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:01.920 for you all year, all four years of Pro bowler 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.840 and one first team All Pro nod that is. 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.880 Crazy, absolutely crazy. 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.440 And I wanted to go ahead and mention this because 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.960 I saw tweet from Alan Poopar for anyone thinking Buffalo 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:13.760 is done because Digs is gone. 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:15.360 Just considered the twenty twenty three season. 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.120 First nine games, Digs seventy catches, eight hundred and thirty 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.520 four yards, seven touchdowns, a record of five and four. 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.800 Their last eight games Digs thirty seven grabs, three hundred 0:12:23.840 --> 0:12:26.240 and forty nine yards and one touchdown, record six and two. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.000 Just saying, well, here's what I'm just saying. You know 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:33.320 the game better than that, right right, right? You sure 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.000 about that? You sure about That's why Cuz, like, bro, 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:39.920 do you understand the impact of having Sefon Diggs on 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:40.200 the field. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:41.800 You understand what the Bills did? 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.200 Like I know this is beyond conceivable for you know, 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.680 certain podcasters, But like when the Bills fired again Dorsey 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.280 and went to Joe Brady, they completely revamped their offense. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.599 They went RPO one, re, hitch, pop and go. And 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.840 that's why Josh Allen stunk down the stretch. He wasn't 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:00.680 even a good player down the stretch. Now he beat 0:13:00.679 --> 0:13:02.320 the crap out of us, because he always does. But 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.679 that shift was not something that Josh Allen was familiar with. 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:07.559 And I know people that have talked about this from 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:11.280 that building where it was a roundpeg, square hole fit 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:12.559 there for Josh Allen and the offense. 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:13.080 So what do they do? 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:14.920 They went to James Cook in their running game and 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.880 he tore teams up in the running game. 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.120 There was a huge shift in. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.200 Philosophical approach when the offensive corner change happened. And if 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:25.840 you can't fathom that, and you're just gonna throw these 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.480 stats out there, I'm just telling you, remember there's a 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.520 lot of people like that podcast. Remember what you're getting 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.840 if you're going to that source for information, like you're 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.320 getting a very one oh one look at the game. 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.480 So there you go. That's the Stefan Diggs News. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.439 We're gonna come back on the other side and get 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.120 right back into the prospects I want to talk about here, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.079 including three edge players I think are gonna be in 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.040 play for the offensive pick twenty one. All of that 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.600 is Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.400 to you by Auto Nation. We've done receiver, We've done 0:13:56.480 --> 0:14:00.240 offensive line, We've done defensive tackle. Let's go ahead and 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.160 do another spot here from my own evaluations, my own 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.640 draft notes, and talk about the edge group, another one 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.640 that I think offers a bunch of really really damn 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.600 good players, especially early on in this year's draft. And 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.240 this one will be among three guys for me because 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.760 Dallas Turner gone right. We all agree there, Jared Verse, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:20.480 we all agree there too, He's gone right. Those are 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:23.840 top ten, top fifteen talents that should come off the 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:26.560 board accordingly. So I have three guys want to talk about. 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.600 But first before I get into that, let's talk about 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.880 the Dolphins makeup of their defense. And one thing I 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.280 want to tell you guys is like, I know this 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.560 time of year there's lots of draft prospect talk, and 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.480 I love that. I love talking about the draft the 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.000 players that the Dolphins could draft, But I just want 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:41.520 to go ahead and let you guys know that my 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.960 approach will always be to provide more Dolphins content within 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:49.480 the episode than just here's twenty names that the Dolphins 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.800 could potentially draft in a month, because I think that's 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.360 not There's a place for it. But I don't think 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.080 it's good to have every podcast be that because you 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.520 want to come listen to some Dolphins information Dolphins talk. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.240 So I'll always do draft talk during April, but I 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:08.760 always will also incorporate some Dolphins for sure content, right 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.680 like draft prospects are hopeful, maybe a potential guy you 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.840 might add, But I always want to put concrete stuff 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.160 in every episode, So just have that in mind as 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.400 you check out the draft podcast here on Drive Time. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:21.080 So first, I do think that this position group requires 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.720 a little bit of a pre embole with regards to 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:27.520 what you should look for. I go back to the 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:30.640 to the scouting combine this year ahead of Chris Greer's 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.440 press conference or media availability or just chat with us 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.720 in general. And there was discussions about like who's going 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.160 to replace Christian Wilkins, what position? And it's like, well, 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:40.400 Christian's a three technique And the question back was what 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:41.000 does that mean? 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:41.840 Again? 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:46.880 You know, consider your sources of the content you check out. 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:50.280 And so I think there's just this giant misconception with 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:54.920 football fans because again I've seen different you know, writers 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.840 say that there areund a three four or four three. Well, 0:15:56.840 --> 0:15:58.360 here's the difference between three four and fourth three. It 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.640 took me six years to figure it out, but here 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.640 it is. The truth is it's neither man like this 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:04.680 is available to anybody. You can look this up. The 0:16:04.720 --> 0:16:07.440 Dolphins were in the three to four last year sixteen 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.360 percent of the time. They were in the four to 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.840 three two point eight percent of the time, So all 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.200 round up and call it nineteen percent. So your defense 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:17.200 is in those looks less than one fifth of the time. 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:19.080 And then you have your nickel dime quarter, a half 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.360 dollar dollar. All those packages do is identify the number 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.880 of defensive backs. You're three four and four three obviously 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:28.200 four defensive backs, right nickel. You know that's five dime 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.920 is six quarter seven, half dollars eight dollars nine, So 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.080 you can play as many defensive backs as you want. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.960 And Brian Flores's defenses did have those half dollar and 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:37.760 dollar packages that most teams don't run. 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:38.880 But I digress. 0:16:38.920 --> 0:16:41.280 So when you think about what the Dolphins need to 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.880 add or I guess you know the perceived needs, like 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.160 I always look at the defensive line like this, start 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:49.680 from their base position, and then ask yourself, does their 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.480 game translate more to slide. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:52.800 Inside or outside? 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.360 Like Christian Wilkins was unique because he could do a 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:57.480 little bit of everything and a little bit of both, 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.040 I should say, but the truth is that he was 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.280 a little bit more built for my money to play 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.840 five technique than he was to play zero technique. Five 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.959 technique is the outside shoulder of the offensive tackle. Your 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.760 zero technique is head up over the center, in the 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:13.440 absolute trenches of it all. And I would say that's 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.200 true of the guys you talked about on Wednesday too, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.360 both with Newton and Murphy, because they are also in 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.600 that three hundred pound weight class, and Christian played around 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.720 three ten, three fifteen most years. But for Murphy, you know, 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:25.480 he two nice seven he can play zero, which is 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.560 freaking wild. But think about that role in the Raekwon 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:31.520 Davis build, the ray Kwon Davis treats. He did play 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.359 some you know, obviously one shade as comes with zero 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.879 technique off the outside shoulder of the center. But he 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:39.240 did play some two and two I and three technique, 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.080 which is all the stuff from the guards in right, 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.639 don't go outside the guards. Besides the three technique is 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:46.040 the outside shoulder of the guard. That's the furthest you 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.560 get in terms of your with in your pre snap alignment. 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:50.320 But he was largely a zero or one technique and 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:53.560 you never saw him ever, ever, ever at the five technique. 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.880 That's like Devandre Sweat from Texas. He's not gonna play 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:58.040 out there. That's like Benito Jones, he ain't gonna play 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.960 out there. But then you've got Nevill Gallimore, Jonathan Harro, 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.640 those guys are likely to follow that same positional flexibility 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:06.000 as a Christian Wilkins. So with all of that in mind, 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:08.200 here's what I think you currently have as far as 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.520 zero and one techniques who can also play the three. 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:11.560 It's Benito Jones. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.680 He's kind of the only guy, and you really only 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.600 need one of those guys that's healthy Raekwon was healthy 0:18:16.640 --> 0:18:20.040 all year last year. Because that's typically three hundred four 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.280 hundred snaps a year, that's not really worse worth investing 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.680