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Speaker 1: Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we are
Speaker 1: having fun with mock drafts. Our first mock draft roundup.
Speaker 1: We'll take a look at some of the most popular
Speaker 1: names in the draft community, who they're mocking to your
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins and what that might mean for us in
Speaker 1: the draft. Plus, we are going to talk about some
Speaker 1: concerns we might have on the roster and how to
Speaker 1: address those. We'll also take a look at the edge group,
Speaker 1: Darius Robinson, Chop Robinson, lat To lot To, We'll break
Speaker 1: down those threes game and we'll also explain to you
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins Curran roster creates the options for flexibility
Speaker 1: throughout the rest of free agency and the draft. All
Speaker 1: of that in a heck of a lot more from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Maggie mock draft round
Speaker 1: up season. Let's go ahead and kick this thing off
Speaker 1: with Daniel Jeremiah, the goat of the draft community, who
Speaker 1: has Miami taking at pick number twenty one the all
Speaker 1: offensive linemen center guard tackle Graham Barton out of Duke.
Speaker 1: This is from his top fifty profile. Barton starts a
Speaker 1: left tackle during his final three years at Duke. Prior
Speaker 1: to that, he started five games at center, and that's
Speaker 1: where I see him playing at the next level. He
Speaker 1: has ideal size for the position and average length and
Speaker 1: pass protection. He is quick out of a stance, plays
Speaker 1: with knee bend, and has the agility to redirect. He
Speaker 1: does struggle against power rusher. He doesn't play long armed,
Speaker 1: exposes his chest and gives ground. Fortunately, he loses slowly
Speaker 1: on most occasions, allowing the quarterback time to get the
Speaker 1: ball out. He's a technician in the running game. He
Speaker 1: always hits his landmarks with his hands and on down
Speaker 1: blocks before sinking and driving with his lower half. He
Speaker 1: is excellent on combo blocks, and he's under control as
Speaker 1: a poler. Overall, I see Barton as an athletic center
Speaker 1: with the ability to survive at tackle if needed, and
Speaker 1: I don't think much needs to be added to Jeremiah's
Speaker 1: blurb there. His top fifty tends to give you pretty
Speaker 1: much the entire breakdown of each player.
Speaker 2: He just told you what kind of player he is there.
Speaker 1: The fact that he's seen a lot of football from
Speaker 1: those extra positions excites me. And of course we've talked
Speaker 1: about the short Shuttle threshold of four to four to
Speaker 1: seven where Barton came in his pro day at four
Speaker 1: to four flat. And again the beauty of our offensive
Speaker 1: line which might be one of the deepest in the
Speaker 1: league now because I would feel good about Kendall Lamb
Speaker 1: if he had to start a couple of games. I
Speaker 1: would feel good about Keon Smith if he had starts
Speaker 1: a couple of games at tackle. I feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about Rob Jones and Liam Eichenberg and those reserve roles
Speaker 1: on the interior offensive line as well, not to mention
Speaker 1: Isaiah Wim. We'll see how all that shakes out with
Speaker 1: My has a bunch of guys that can do multiple things,
Speaker 1: and the nice part about that is when you have
Speaker 1: so many guys that can play those multiple spots, it
Speaker 1: opens up your options in terms of who you can take.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be a tackle or a guard.
Speaker 1: It can be either or more on that later on
Speaker 1: in the show. So Matt Miller from ESPN to the
Speaker 1: seven round mock draft, and he actually gave the Dolphins
Speaker 1: two players that I don't think will be there in
Speaker 1: those spots. But we press on twenty one offensive tackle
Speaker 1: JC Latham out of Alabama.
Speaker 2: I just don't see that happening.
Speaker 1: I mean, here's his lawyer abound that salary cap concerns
Speaker 1: have forced the Dolphins to remake their offensive line, and
Speaker 1: Latham could fit well. He's a handful for defensive lineman
Speaker 1: at three hundred and forty three pounds and has excellent
Speaker 1: grip strength. Latham was a two year starter at right
Speaker 1: tackle for Alabama, allowed two sacks, but has potential to
Speaker 1: play either tackle or guard in the pros. He would
Speaker 1: likely push right guard Robert Jones out of the lineup
Speaker 1: as a rookie, he says, and who knows, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have a storry lineup right now, so that's
Speaker 1: kind of it is what it is. But Latham, I
Speaker 1: don't think mech makes it to pick twenty one at all.
Speaker 1: He is big, he's strong, he's athletic, and those guys
Speaker 1: typically go off the board earlier than your top twenty picks.
Speaker 1: Fifty five center Zach Fraser from West Virginia. A late
Speaker 1: season injury to Connor Williams, who's now a free agent,
Speaker 1: affected the team down the stretch. Yeah, I did, Fraser's
Speaker 1: a top three to two prospect on my board, but
Speaker 1: teams aren't in a hurry to prioritize centers in the
Speaker 1: draft just yet. The four year starter was a state
Speaker 1: wrestling champion in high school, and he is the perfect
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's own offense fit. The needs mobility in the
Speaker 1: middle of the offensive line, plus Fraser has the tools
Speaker 1: to start at guard or center. My argument there for
Speaker 1: mister Miller would be that Aaron Brewer is a pre
Speaker 1: damn good center who just got signed here, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that you want to move him off that
Speaker 1: spot because Brewer's best at center, which then begs the
Speaker 1: question about Graham Barton. But I think Barton can play
Speaker 1: guard more so than Fraser could, so I kind of
Speaker 1: like the idea of going Barton over Fraser, but Fraser
Speaker 1: at pick fifty five would be fantastic value. He finishes
Speaker 1: up with defensive tackle Christian Boyd from Northern Iowa at
Speaker 1: pick one, fifty eight, safety out of Auburn, Jalen Simpson
Speaker 1: at picked one to eighty four, a cornerback from Mississippi State,
Speaker 1: Decamarion Richardson at one, and then the seventh round, two
Speaker 1: forty one linebacker John Trey Hunter from Georgia State. And
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, guys, I don't have any notes
Speaker 1: on any of those players at this stage of the
Speaker 1: draft process. Field Yates did a two round mock draft
Speaker 1: and gave Miami Byron Murphy at the twenty first pick
Speaker 1: out of Texas. The Dolphins just watched Christian Wilkins depart
Speaker 1: in free agency, but Murphy has some traces of Wilkins
Speaker 1: in his game as a disruptive interior defender. Murphy has
Speaker 1: had a great season in twenty twenty three to five sacks,
Speaker 1: but the stats are far from the full story of
Speaker 1: his impact. He has the unique ability to torque and
Speaker 1: hold up against the run, and he makes life easier
Speaker 1: for the players around him. Doing these is always kind
Speaker 1: of funny to me, because like, I'm just providing voices
Speaker 1: from other people besides myself on the podcast. But I mean, look,
Speaker 1: this is going to sound so conceded. But these guys
Speaker 1: don't know the Dolphins the way I know the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Like the whole salary cap concerns for you remake your
Speaker 1: offensive line, That's not what happened there. Connor Williams is
Speaker 1: not healthy and Robert Hunt got twenty million bucks a year.
Speaker 1: That's not That's not what smart teams do. So I
Speaker 1: disagree with that whole sentiment there. And yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pick fifty five for field Yates is Christian Haines from Yukon,
Speaker 1: and I freaking love this player. So, speaking of Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: lost him to free agency, opening a significant gap on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Enter Haynes, an experienced guard who has
Speaker 1: forty nine starts, who plays with a serious edge to
Speaker 1: his game. I think you'd be an ideal fit in
Speaker 1: Miami's offense. And that, to me, is really an ideal
Speaker 1: draft their field. So congrats to Field Dates for getting
Speaker 1: it exactly right. In my opinion, No, it's not the
Speaker 1: premium positions, but I think you're hard pressed to find
Speaker 1: two players at those two spots who could come in
Speaker 1: and play right away and be serious, serious contributors for
Speaker 1: you in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: They both have a ton of college experience.
Speaker 1: They both technically are at the two spots where you
Speaker 1: probably don't know who your starter is right now. Haines
Speaker 1: is a right guard and Murphy's a zero through three
Speaker 1: technique on the defensive line, and their tape is really, really,
Speaker 1: really really good. In fact, it almost kind of tracks
Speaker 1: with the freegency concept I discussed on the Wednesday podcast.
Speaker 1: Because these positions can get overlooked a smidge, you can
Speaker 1: tend to get exceptional value later on in the draft
Speaker 1: than you can with some positions. Like Haynes is definitely
Speaker 1: a top fifty player for me, but the interior offensive
Speaker 1: line designation maybe does bump him down the board a
Speaker 1: tad And then with defensive tackle like Murphy, same deal.
Speaker 1: Easily a top twenty player for me in the class,
Speaker 1: but he might be on the board there because of
Speaker 1: defensive tackle position designation. We talked about Murphy at length yesterday,
Speaker 1: but my god, man, I continue to go back to
Speaker 1: Christian Haines. One seven five ten split is ninetieth percentile,
Speaker 1: so you know he gets off the football quickly. Thirty
Speaker 1: three inch vertical is ninety fifth percentile, so that's where
Speaker 1: he gets all those you know, he tends to get
Speaker 1: under guys at his six two and a half frame
Speaker 1: that he plays with. That's short for football standards, right,
Speaker 1: but three hundred and seventeen pounds. I think he could
Speaker 1: play five pounds heavier or lighter if he was asked to.
Speaker 1: And Robert Hunt played last year at three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds. But that vertical and the just look at
Speaker 1: the man's quad uds and his hamstrings. Like, imagine if
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill were an offensive You've seen Tyreek Hill's legs, right,
Speaker 1: Like he he's a big dude in that regard, and
Speaker 1: Christian Haynes has a similar build, but he's not like
Speaker 1: two hundred pounds or one hundred and eighty pounds whatever
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is?
Speaker 2: What is Tyre? What is Tyreek Hill? What does he weigh?
Speaker 1: I'm probably way off on that. Aren't they googling? It
Speaker 1: doesn't tell me on here? One ninety yeah, one hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety one pounds for Tyreek Hill. So imagine Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill's legs at one ninety and now put it into
Speaker 1: a three hundred and fifteen pound offensive lineman. That's basically
Speaker 1: what Christian Haynes is, and he just runs through people.
Speaker 1: With that ability, and he has lead blocks for the
Speaker 1: orbit motion like, which is a slow developing outside play
Speaker 1: where he beats the back and the pursuit defender outside
Speaker 1: the numbers. There's an excellent relationship there between timing of
Speaker 1: his hands feet and playing from behind his paths at
Speaker 1: that low pad level. Because of that build and his technique,
Speaker 1: I think this is a power, slow athletic type of
Speaker 1: player that would flourish in this system. And it picked
Speaker 1: fifty five is a Julio Rodriguez four hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: foot home run.
Speaker 2: I love this draft, great value.
Speaker 1: I think both players have room to grow, and I
Speaker 1: think both can start for their respective teams.
Speaker 2: Week one.
Speaker 1: Great job by gm Field Yates on this mock draft
Speaker 1: will end here in our opening segment with Lance Zerlene
Speaker 1: because it takes me into my Round one prospect preview
Speaker 1: and number twenty one edge chop Robinson from Penn State.
Speaker 1: He writes with Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb, both rehabbing
Speaker 1: from season ending injuries. It won't surprise me if the
Speaker 1: Dolphins grab a veteran edge rusher in free agency. They
Speaker 1: did that already with Shaq Barrett and draft Chop Robinson,
Speaker 1: raw but ridiculously explosive. This Penn State product has immense
Speaker 1: upside with more tutelage, and I can see the idea
Speaker 1: there that Lance has in terms of going in the
Speaker 1: direction of a Chop Robinson because of the upside, and
Speaker 1: because you already have three guys that you know come
Speaker 1: hopefully by like October are all playing right with Phillips,
Speaker 1: Chubb and then Jack who is healthy going into the season.
Speaker 1: But I can see the idea thinking there of like,
Speaker 1: while those guys develop, or while those guys are still
Speaker 1: in their prime, whatever, Chop can develop and kind of
Speaker 1: become the breakout player in two or three years. But
Speaker 1: I think that there's better options there because you want
Speaker 1: got someone that can play right away right and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this in the second segment. There's two
Speaker 1: guys in that position who I just think are better
Speaker 1: players and better prospects than Chops. We'll get into that
Speaker 1: here in just one second. I want to finish up
Speaker 1: the first segment with this idea because the Stefan Diggs
Speaker 1: news shook the airwaves, didn't. I mean, they extended him
Speaker 1: last year, they extended him last offseason and the situation
Speaker 1: becomes so tenuous that you've decided to trade him, And yeah,
Speaker 1: the Texans will absorb the rest of that money owed,
Speaker 1: but the Bills already paid him over thirty one million
Speaker 1: dollars in bonuses as part of that new extension, and
Speaker 1: you can't move that money.
Speaker 2: It's dead money.
Speaker 1: So Buffalo will chop that up into like seventeen dead dollars,
Speaker 1: seventeen million dead dollars each of the next two years,
Speaker 1: so they can't use They will get salary relief in
Speaker 1: the future because Texans. The Texans do take on the
Speaker 1: rest of the contract. But like, that's basically two premier
Speaker 1: players that you have at like eighteen million bucks is
Speaker 1: a premier player right per year, they're going to have
Speaker 1: one of those players that's not a player. It's just
Speaker 1: a you know, David Justice and moneyball. That's what the
Speaker 1: Yankees think of you. They're paying me, they're paying you
Speaker 1: to play against them this year, David Justice, Like that's
Speaker 1: not good And there's no chance that Buffalo is done
Speaker 1: right now at the top of the receiver room because
Speaker 1: it's Curtis Samuel Khalil Shaker and Matt Collins. I actually
Speaker 1: really like Samuel's game and Khalil Shaker's game, But that
Speaker 1: receiving room is not scaring anybody right now.
Speaker 2: They'll they'll get somebody else, you know they will.
Speaker 1: Whether it's the picking the twenties, whether it's a veteran
Speaker 1: trade they make, They're going to pick somebody up. But
Speaker 1: I refuse to believe that move was made without the
Speaker 1: plan to reinforce the group. But it's still wild because
Speaker 1: eating dead money to depart a receiver who's produced fifty
Speaker 1: four hundred yards and thirty seven touchdowns and four seasons
Speaker 1: for you all year, all four years of Pro bowler
Speaker 1: and one first team All Pro nod that is.
Speaker 2: Crazy, absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to go ahead and mention this because
Speaker 1: I saw tweet from Alan Poopar for anyone thinking Buffalo
Speaker 1: is done because Digs is gone.
Speaker 2: Just considered the twenty twenty three season.
Speaker 1: First nine games, Digs seventy catches, eight hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: four yards, seven touchdowns, a record of five and four.
Speaker 1: Their last eight games Digs thirty seven grabs, three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty nine yards and one touchdown, record six and two.
Speaker 1: Just saying, well, here's what I'm just saying. You know
Speaker 1: the game better than that, right right, right? You sure
Speaker 1: about that? You sure about That's why Cuz, like, bro,
Speaker 1: do you understand the impact of having Sefon Diggs on
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 2: You understand what the Bills did?
Speaker 1: Like I know this is beyond conceivable for you know,
Speaker 1: certain podcasters, But like when the Bills fired again Dorsey
Speaker 1: and went to Joe Brady, they completely revamped their offense.
Speaker 1: They went RPO one, re, hitch, pop and go. And
Speaker 1: that's why Josh Allen stunk down the stretch. He wasn't
Speaker 1: even a good player down the stretch. Now he beat
Speaker 1: the crap out of us, because he always does. But
Speaker 1: that shift was not something that Josh Allen was familiar with.
Speaker 1: And I know people that have talked about this from
Speaker 1: that building where it was a roundpeg, square hole fit
Speaker 1: there for Josh Allen and the offense.
Speaker 2: So what do they do?
Speaker 1: They went to James Cook in their running game and
Speaker 1: he tore teams up in the running game.
Speaker 2: There was a huge shift in.
Speaker 1: Philosophical approach when the offensive corner change happened. And if
Speaker 1: you can't fathom that, and you're just gonna throw these
Speaker 1: stats out there, I'm just telling you, remember there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people like that podcast. Remember what you're getting
Speaker 1: if you're going to that source for information, like you're
Speaker 1: getting a very one oh one look at the game.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's the Stefan Diggs News.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back on the other side and get
Speaker 1: right back into the prospects I want to talk about here,
Speaker 1: including three edge players I think are gonna be in
Speaker 1: play for the offensive pick twenty one. All of that
Speaker 1: is Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 1: to you by Auto Nation. We've done receiver, We've done
Speaker 1: offensive line, We've done defensive tackle. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: do another spot here from my own evaluations, my own
Speaker 1: draft notes, and talk about the edge group, another one
Speaker 1: that I think offers a bunch of really really damn
Speaker 1: good players, especially early on in this year's draft. And
Speaker 1: this one will be among three guys for me because
Speaker 1: Dallas Turner gone right. We all agree there, Jared Verse,
Speaker 1: we all agree there too, He's gone right. Those are
Speaker 1: top ten, top fifteen talents that should come off the
Speaker 1: board accordingly. So I have three guys want to talk about.
Speaker 1: But first before I get into that, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Dolphins makeup of their defense. And one thing I
Speaker 1: want to tell you guys is like, I know this
Speaker 1: time of year there's lots of draft prospect talk, and
Speaker 1: I love that. I love talking about the draft the
Speaker 1: players that the Dolphins could draft, But I just want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and let you guys know that my
Speaker 1: approach will always be to provide more Dolphins content within
Speaker 1: the episode than just here's twenty names that the Dolphins
Speaker 1: could potentially draft in a month, because I think that's
Speaker 1: not There's a place for it. But I don't think
Speaker 1: it's good to have every podcast be that because you
Speaker 1: want to come listen to some Dolphins information Dolphins talk.
Speaker 1: So I'll always do draft talk during April, but I
Speaker 1: always will also incorporate some Dolphins for sure content, right
Speaker 1: like draft prospects are hopeful, maybe a potential guy you
Speaker 1: might add, But I always want to put concrete stuff
Speaker 1: in every episode, So just have that in mind as
Speaker 1: you check out the draft podcast here on Drive Time.
Speaker 1: So first, I do think that this position group requires
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pre embole with regards to
Speaker 1: what you should look for. I go back to the
Speaker 1: to the scouting combine this year ahead of Chris Greer's
Speaker 1: press conference or media availability or just chat with us
Speaker 1: in general. And there was discussions about like who's going
Speaker 1: to replace Christian Wilkins, what position? And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: Christian's a three technique And the question back was what
Speaker 1: does that mean?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 1: You know, consider your sources of the content you check out.
Speaker 1: And so I think there's just this giant misconception with
Speaker 1: football fans because again I've seen different you know, writers
Speaker 1: say that there areund a three four or four three. Well,
Speaker 1: here's the difference between three four and fourth three. It
Speaker 1: took me six years to figure it out, but here
Speaker 1: it is. The truth is it's neither man like this
Speaker 1: is available to anybody. You can look this up. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins were in the three to four last year sixteen
Speaker 1: percent of the time. They were in the four to
Speaker 1: three two point eight percent of the time, So all
Speaker 1: round up and call it nineteen percent. So your defense
Speaker 1: is in those looks less than one fifth of the time.
Speaker 1: And then you have your nickel dime quarter, a half
Speaker 1: dollar dollar. All those packages do is identify the number
Speaker 1: of defensive backs. You're three four and four three obviously
Speaker 1: four defensive backs, right nickel. You know that's five dime
Speaker 1: is six quarter seven, half dollars eight dollars nine, So
Speaker 1: you can play as many defensive backs as you want.
Speaker 1: And Brian Flores's defenses did have those half dollar and
Speaker 1: dollar packages that most teams don't run.
Speaker 2: But I digress.
Speaker 1: So when you think about what the Dolphins need to
Speaker 1: add or I guess you know the perceived needs, like
Speaker 1: I always look at the defensive line like this, start
Speaker 1: from their base position, and then ask yourself, does their
Speaker 1: game translate more to slide.
Speaker 2: Inside or outside?
Speaker 1: Like Christian Wilkins was unique because he could do a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything and a little bit of both,
Speaker 1: I should say, but the truth is that he was
Speaker 1: a little bit more built for my money to play
Speaker 1: five technique than he was to play zero technique. Five
Speaker 1: technique is the outside shoulder of the offensive tackle. Your
Speaker 1: zero technique is head up over the center, in the
Speaker 1: absolute trenches of it all. And I would say that's
Speaker 1: true of the guys you talked about on Wednesday too,
Speaker 1: both with Newton and Murphy, because they are also in
Speaker 1: that three hundred pound weight class, and Christian played around
Speaker 1: three ten, three fifteen most years. But for Murphy, you know,
Speaker 1: he two nice seven he can play zero, which is
Speaker 1: freaking wild. But think about that role in the Raekwon
Speaker 1: Davis build, the ray Kwon Davis treats. He did play
Speaker 1: some you know, obviously one shade as comes with zero
Speaker 1: technique off the outside shoulder of the center. But he
Speaker 1: did play some two and two I and three technique,
Speaker 1: which is all the stuff from the guards in right,
Speaker 1: don't go outside the guards. Besides the three technique is
Speaker 1: the outside shoulder of the guard. That's the furthest you
Speaker 1: get in terms of your with in your pre snap alignment.
Speaker 1: But he was largely a zero or one technique and
Speaker 1: you never saw him ever, ever, ever at the five technique.
Speaker 1: That's like Devandre Sweat from Texas. He's not gonna play
Speaker 1: out there. That's like Benito Jones, he ain't gonna play
Speaker 1: out there. But then you've got Nevill Gallimore, Jonathan Harro,
Speaker 1: those guys are likely to follow that same positional flexibility
Speaker 1: as a Christian Wilkins. So with all of that in mind,
Speaker 1: here's what I think you currently have as far as
Speaker 1: zero and one techniques who can also play the three.
Speaker 2: It's Benito Jones.
Speaker 1: He's kind of the only guy, and you really only
Speaker 1: need one of those guys that's healthy Raekwon was healthy
Speaker 1: all year last year. Because that's typically three hundred four
Speaker 1: hundred snaps a year, that's not really worse worth investing
Speaker 1: two premium you know, roster spots into like that guy,
Speaker 1: maybe a practice squad guy and call it good. But
Speaker 1: then with the various fronts that you can run, the
Speaker 1: need for the three to five technique combination player is
Speaker 1: much greater, and that's where Gallimore and Harris and DeShawn
Speaker 1: Hand all those guys factor in. Then, of course, Zach
Speaker 1: freaking Seler does everything and can legit play the five
Speaker 1: technique and the zero technique and be one of the
Speaker 1: best in the league in both those positions, and of
Speaker 1: course the unicorn that he is at the three technique
Speaker 1: as well. So I think that if you take Zach's
Speaker 1: eight hundred plus snaps from last year, you're looking for
Speaker 1: collectively around eight hundred more snaps among the rest of
Speaker 1: those guys making it up in the aggregate. Right, unless,
Speaker 1: of course, shoe PLoP another three down guy in there,
Speaker 1: which I think both Newton and Murphy are, then that
Speaker 1: changes your approach, and all of a sudden you've got
Speaker 1: a bunch of death guys that you might not even
Speaker 1: play this year. But then there's the five techs who
Speaker 1: also slide out to the six, seven, and nine techniques,
Speaker 1: the wide alignments Cam Wake's wide nine technique where Chubb
Speaker 1: and Philip playing the seven technique a lot, and we
Speaker 1: have two of those guys in who are unicorns, and
Speaker 1: then they can rush from the three technique and get wins,
Speaker 1: like JP has bull rush potential in the three technique
Speaker 1: to run over guard Soaken Bradley Chubb and Shaq Barrett
Speaker 1: does a bit of that too, but he's mostly an
Speaker 1: edge guy. And those spots require you to have at
Speaker 1: least three guys that can do some of the heavy
Speaker 1: lifting with their snapcouns. We read our best last year
Speaker 1: when we had all Chubb, Phillips and Van Ginkel right,
Speaker 1: and with JP and Chubb's ability to get on the
Speaker 1: field in that NASCAR package when it's third and eight
Speaker 1: and you want to take DT's off the field and
Speaker 1: get more edge rushers on the field to get after
Speaker 1: the quarterback. The ability to utilize a lot of fronts
Speaker 1: like Weaver did in Baltimore. I mean they ran all
Speaker 1: kinds of different fronts and brought all kinds of different blitzers.
Speaker 1: I think the edge is very much in play in
Speaker 1: round one, and that's without mentioning the injuries that we
Speaker 1: have going into the year with both two and fifteen.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of like our offensive line that we
Speaker 1: have so much flexibility. You could throw Newton, you could
Speaker 1: throw Murphy, you could throw a lot too, Robinson or
Speaker 1: Robinson one or the other in one bucket and determine
Speaker 1: who do you like the best in the draft and
Speaker 1: just take that player and then adopt your deployment accordingly,
Speaker 1: which we've heard both McDaniel and Weaver talk about doing.
Speaker 1: So we're up to speed there, right. We understand the
Speaker 1: basics and the fundamentals and the just overall operation of
Speaker 1: how that looks. Okay, cool, Let's talk about those three
Speaker 1: players that I mentioned here and how I stack them.
Speaker 1: So probably not a surprise if you're an every day
Speaker 1: listener that Layatu Latu is the top guy of that group.
Speaker 1: For me from UCLA pass rush plan of a five
Speaker 1: year veteran. He has counters to his counter moves. He
Speaker 1: showed him off in mobile to the Senia Bowl. Tried
Speaker 1: that spin move that didn't work but had a seamless
Speaker 1: counter rip off of it, speed to power, big enough
Speaker 1: to hold the point in base versus the run. Felt
Speaker 1: very good about his ability to drop into coverage as well.
Speaker 1: To me, his top fifteen pick if not for the medical,
Speaker 1: probably top ten if not for the medical. When I
Speaker 1: compare this player to Jalen Phillips, it's like uniform across
Speaker 1: the board. It's kind of weird, from his game and
Speaker 1: the skills to the same college at UCLA, to the
Speaker 1: injuries that the college career almost derailed. The power speed combination.
Speaker 1: I'm watching a real of lot to chop and then
Speaker 1: angle on a left tackle, then cross face on a
Speaker 1: center with speed and get them both over their skis
Speaker 1: and falling on the ground and get sacks on both
Speaker 1: of those plays.
Speaker 2: I think that's the kind.
Speaker 1: Of player that opens up even more flexibility than what
Speaker 1: we just talked about, because he can really play any
Speaker 1: spot up front, especially in those nickel rush packages. So
Speaker 1: right now, I take a lot to right off the
Speaker 1: heels of both Turner and Verse. I think he's a
Speaker 1: future star in this league. Then we get to Darius
Speaker 1: Robinson from Missouri from Mazurra, and the position of flexibility
Speaker 1: is truly like JJ watt Like and Brett Coleman produced
Speaker 1: these pass rush win numbers from the three to four
Speaker 1: I technique, which is that's basically the same spot. It's
Speaker 1: three technique is the outside shoulder of the guard. Four
Speaker 1: I is the inside shoulder of the tackle. So it's
Speaker 1: like a smidge over. But thirteen percent pass rush win
Speaker 1: rate from the five and six techniques. That's a defensive
Speaker 1: end position eighteen point eight percent wider than that the
Speaker 1: camwake position nineteen point one percent efficiency.
Speaker 2: That's camwake level efficiency.
Speaker 1: Guys hightweight speed guy two ninety five, six foot five,
Speaker 1: but the length man. And we saw the notes that
Speaker 1: he's very very well versed in his tactical rush plan.
Speaker 1: I think he's right behind lat Too. I can see
Speaker 1: the argument that he'd be better than Law two. I
Speaker 1: really can, But I have him right behind Law Too
Speaker 1: right now, and I can understand, you know, the difference
Speaker 1: in their skill sets and how that might change for teams.
Speaker 1: Because he has a sack in the game against Tennessee
Speaker 1: last year where he just drops his face mask into
Speaker 1: the chest play of the tackle for a bowl rush
Speaker 1: and walks him across the street to Kansas.
Speaker 2: You know opposite Missouri.
Speaker 1: Then he has the ability to detach, work back upfield
Speaker 1: and get the sack on a quarterback try and step
Speaker 1: out of that pat the original edge pressure. Plus if
Speaker 1: I need a hard edge set in the run game,
Speaker 1: Robinson's the one I want doing it. There's an insane
Speaker 1: length power combination with this player. He took a Marius
Speaker 1: Mims at Georgia. Are you guys familiar with the Marious Mems.
Speaker 1: He's like three hundred and three thousand pounds, and it
Speaker 1: looked like he was rushing a rag doll because he
Speaker 1: just basically locked on and did what he wanted with
Speaker 1: him the push pull technique and kind of flopped him
Speaker 1: around like a rag doll. Awesome player, two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty five pounds. You could do some three technique stuff
Speaker 1: with him as well. He's probably a little more Zach
Speaker 1: Sealer than he is Jalen Phillips, just in terms of
Speaker 1: traits and positional preference.
Speaker 2: And then Chop Robinson.
Speaker 1: To me, there's a pretty significant gap for me from
Speaker 1: Chop to the other two guys. I was bigger on
Speaker 1: him during the call it the All Star Game and
Speaker 1: combine process, but the tape there's like lots of him
Speaker 1: just kind of running past quarterbacks or getting swallowed up,
Speaker 1: like the Dewan Jones tape against Ohio State was not
Speaker 1: very good. You heard Zerline talk about the fact that
Speaker 1: he's super raw. I don't think that jives with what
Speaker 1: you want here. I don't think you have time to
Speaker 1: develop a guy in this particular, you know, window of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, whatever you want to call it. Of course,
Speaker 1: take the best player long term, but I think that
Speaker 1: you get that with Robinson a lot too. Whereas Chop
Speaker 1: Robinson you have to kind of wait for him to come.
Speaker 1: Just too many bad reps on tape, so I would
Speaker 1: kind of veer away from that and go more towards
Speaker 1: Darius and Latu lot too. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our last break right there, come back on the other
Speaker 1: side and finish up with the concerns I think that
Speaker 1: they're currently on the roster and how you might address those.
Speaker 1: That's next Draft Time Podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought
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Speaker 1: the Friday edition of the Draft Time Podcasts. We venture
Speaker 1: into the second week of April and into Masters Week. Baby,
Speaker 1: when we have the NSAA tournament Final four. This weekend,
Speaker 1: baseball is off to a rock and start. The uniforms
Speaker 1: look hilariously bad. The Mariners still can't hit the baseball,
Speaker 1: and that's where we are. I do want to get
Speaker 1: back before I continue this final segment. Here to a
Speaker 1: question that was posed to me from finns up Tua
Speaker 1: on Twitter.
Speaker 2: Easy easy enough name love it? Who asked?
Speaker 1: Since you were asking about the wide receivers today or
Speaker 1: talking about I should say where do you think Eric
Speaker 1: Azukama comes into play next season?
Speaker 2: Love the podcast. Thank you for that.
Speaker 1: By the way, I do want to start getting more
Speaker 1: fan stuff on the podcast, So if you guys reply
Speaker 1: to me or write a review on Apple podcast or
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, go ahead and do that and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it on the show for you guys here.
Speaker 1: So this question was posted to me about Eric Azukama,
Speaker 1: and man, I think he's.
Speaker 2: Got He's got a lot of game, man Like.
Speaker 1: I thought the role that he was occupying the first
Speaker 1: couple of games before the neck injury took his entire
Speaker 1: season away from him last year was one that this
Speaker 1: offense needed. It was kind of a change up to
Speaker 1: both run game and pass game in terms of what
Speaker 1: it looks like for most of the guys that we
Speaker 1: have in those roles. And I think that he's still
Speaker 1: a very good route runner. I think he's a yack
Speaker 1: monster who can produce big after the catch when he
Speaker 1: gets his opportunities. And he showed the vertical skills in
Speaker 1: both the preseason and in training camp that we just
Speaker 1: haven't quite seen yet in the regular season. Now, the
Speaker 1: first year was all all getting lined up correctly being
Speaker 1: a professional. I think there's still some more work to
Speaker 1: be done there, but I think the Azukama's game definitely
Speaker 1: translates not just to the NFL, but particularly to this
Speaker 1: offense and what the Dolphins need beyond both Tyreek and Waddle.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: That's one of my areas of concern. Actually, let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and just jump in right there. Who is this
Speaker 1: separator going to be beyond ten and seventeen? And I
Speaker 1: love Odell Beckham's tape. I've talked about him as recently
Speaker 1: as yesterday on the podcast or Wednesday in the podcast.
Speaker 1: I think he opens up the flexibility with how you
Speaker 1: can utilize both Reek and Wattle. He can steal gas
Speaker 1: guys on the perimeter, but has the same pacing and
Speaker 1: nuanced to his routes to win inside. Someone who can
Speaker 1: be a legit vertical threat on the perimeter that puts
Speaker 1: the speed of both Reek and Wattle inside. That's why
Speaker 1: I like about him. I think he gives you a
Speaker 1: bunch of that, and I think there's only the guys
Speaker 1: in the draft it could give you that as well.
Speaker 1: So I like the idea of signing Odell because then
Speaker 1: I think it opens up the possibility of going O
Speaker 1: line D line in those first two rounds, because I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have best player available options at those
Speaker 1: spots with those two groups, and then I think you
Speaker 1: pretty much knock those out and it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: we're ready to play a football game as early as
Speaker 1: the month of May. So I think that that's a big,
Speaker 1: big need. I would put it towards one of the
Speaker 1: top needs on the football team. And if it's not Odell,
Speaker 1: we've heard about the Tyler Boyd, you know rumors out there.
Speaker 1: I don't like that one as much. I'm a big
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd fan, but I don't think it fits as well.
Speaker 1: Here's what we need, and then I think in the
Speaker 1: draft there I mean talk about it at length, so
Speaker 1: many options as far as I think. You know, Malachai
Speaker 1: Corley I think is a better version of Eric Azukama,
Speaker 1: who hasn't played much in two years. You know Roman
Speaker 1: Wilson I think gives you a lot of this stuff
Speaker 1: I'm talking about with inside, outside flexibility and vertical threat.
Speaker 1: Xavier Laget can just absolutely destroy man coverage. I think
Speaker 1: he goes off the board in the first round though,
Speaker 1: so plenty and plenty of options. Is one of my
Speaker 1: biggest concerns right now. Who is going to be that
Speaker 1: separate or beyond ten and seventeen. And I'll tell you
Speaker 1: right now, he's not on the RUSS. That's the fix.
Speaker 1: It's going to be bringing in somebody new. The next
Speaker 1: one I have is my interior offensive line size concerned,
Speaker 1: and I just think that again we have the flexibility
Speaker 1: to go wherever we want because if it's Troy Fatanu,
Speaker 1: he can play left guard this year and left tackle
Speaker 1: next year. And speaking of Troy Fatanu on the Monday podcast,
Speaker 1: going to talk about trade up and trade down partners
Speaker 1: and options and Fatan, who is one of the guys
Speaker 1: I would be targeting in a trade up if I
Speaker 1: were to do that because there's no way, no, there's
Speaker 1: no way he lasts to pick twenty one.
Speaker 2: Just not gonna happen. He's too good. But I think
Speaker 2: I think that the Dolphins do.
Speaker 1: If you have a concern on the offensive line right now,
Speaker 1: it is the size, because Aaron Brewer is very undersized
Speaker 1: at center, and we saw what Connor Williams kind of
Speaker 1: how he there was. You know, certain guys that he
Speaker 1: went up against last year that he couldn't just couldn't
Speaker 1: physically move, and there's some of that on Aaron Brewer's
Speaker 1: tape as well, against guys like John Allen, Like he
Speaker 1: can do so much with technique and win so many reps,
Speaker 1: but there's just those few reps where he can kind
Speaker 1: of get the best of them because of the size
Speaker 1: difference there. And then you know, whether it's Isaiah Win,
Speaker 1: Liam Eikenberg, Robert Jones, there is some size in those positions.
Speaker 1: But I'm just really curious to see what happens to
Speaker 1: kind of give you that next starter, because I think
Speaker 1: that Isaiah Win is a very good option at left guard.
Speaker 1: You probably know you have to count on someone to
Speaker 1: play it at some point for him because he has
Speaker 1: never finished the season before. But I'm really curious see
Speaker 1: what that right guard position looks like. Is there some
Speaker 1: more size there in terms of who you bring in next,
Speaker 1: because Dolphins could stand to get bigger on the interior,
Speaker 1: and I think there's one more shoe to fall there
Speaker 1: on that offensive line group. The next one is something
Speaker 1: we talked about at length the last couple of days
Speaker 1: here on the show, is the interior pass rush. Where's
Speaker 1: it going to be beside Zach Steeler because right now
Speaker 1: you don't have it. I mean you're not gonna count
Speaker 1: on Gallimore or Deshan Hand or Jonathan Harris or definitely
Speaker 1: not Beninto Jones and that nose tackle position to be
Speaker 1: a Christian Wilkins past rush disruptor. And so maybe it
Speaker 1: is an exterior an import I should say, an outside
Speaker 1: prospect Briban Murphy, Johnny Newton, a veteran signing, whoever that
Speaker 1: might be, or or there's something else.
Speaker 2: You can do to kind of combat that.
Speaker 1: And you do run with this rotation of aggregate performers
Speaker 1: and you just make it up in different areas because
Speaker 1: we know we can rush the quarterback off the edge.
Speaker 1: We have plenty of guys that can play that role,
Speaker 1: but also get used to more blitzing and more timely
Speaker 1: blitzing in this defense. You know, Vic Fangio would't blitzer,
Speaker 1: just wouldn't do it. Occasionally he would and we get
Speaker 1: a big result out of it. Should have blitzed Herbert
Speaker 1: a lot more of that Charger game, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Chargers got whatever they wanted offensively until it was time.
Speaker 1: It was nutut in time, and then you blitz Herbert
Speaker 1: and he can't handle it, big surprise. But I think
Speaker 1: that you could find ways to get after the quarterback
Speaker 1: with the penchant that coach Weavers defenses in the past
Speaker 1: that he's been part of have used for timely pressure
Speaker 1: and blitz looks. Whether that's Jordan Brooks, who's the best
Speaker 1: blitzer we've had at linebacker probably since Carlos Dansby, I
Speaker 1: would probably say, and then David Long, I think is
Speaker 1: probably better than anybody else besides maybe Jerome Baker, who
Speaker 1: I thought Jerome, you know, as good of a player
Speaker 1: as he was in certain areas, I thought his skill
Speaker 1: set as a blitzer was he was just fast. There
Speaker 1: wasn't a past, there was no pass rush move there.
Speaker 1: That's kind of David Long too, I suppose and we
Speaker 1: know this defense has also traditionally found success in blitzing
Speaker 1: roles for players like a Cater Kohu who got Herbert
Speaker 1: down on the turf and ended a drive with that
Speaker 1: blitz rep he had back in Week one. Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 1: can definitely come on the blitz, Kyle Fuller loves the blitz,
Speaker 1: the quarterback, Javon Hall, and Jordan Poyer. There's different options
Speaker 1: to create your pass rush without having you know, a
Speaker 1: true defensive tackle winning a pass rush there alongside zach' seiler.
Speaker 1: But I always come back to this, whoever plays next
Speaker 1: to Zach is going to be a better pass rusher.
Speaker 1: He just has that impact on guys that he plays alongside.
Speaker 1: And the last one I have here is the need
Speaker 1: for a nickelback and going back to Cato ko who
Speaker 1: I love Cater's game. I think he's a baller. I
Speaker 1: think he has a long future in this league. Last
Speaker 1: year wasn't his best year. A lot more zone coverage
Speaker 1: that I don't think was his game as much. He
Speaker 1: was really good in the Josh boyer Man coverage defense,
Speaker 1: had a kind of down year in the very zone
Speaker 1: heavy Vic Fangio defense, but I think that I would
Speaker 1: not count cater out in terms of kind of getting
Speaker 1: back to that rookie year forming playing even better than that,
Speaker 1: and taking his zone coverage up another level, and just
Speaker 1: being a better professional overall. I think that he's definitely
Speaker 1: got that in his bag. But would I leave it
Speaker 1: alone with he and Nick Needham.
Speaker 2: Probably not.
Speaker 1: And the nice part about this slot position is it
Speaker 1: goes with the theme of the podcast all week. Some
Speaker 1: of these position groups are lower valued in the National
Speaker 1: Football League, so you can get better players later on
Speaker 1: in the draft as a result of that, And so
Speaker 1: I would not be at all shy against the idea
Speaker 1: if we move back out of the first or second
Speaker 1: round and get an additional third or fourth round pick,
Speaker 1: that's a good area to look at someone like a
Speaker 1: Mike sandmer Still, for instance, from Michigan. Or maybe it's
Speaker 1: in the fifth round your original pick in Shaw Smith
Speaker 1: Wade from Washington State. They really good slot cornerback there.
Speaker 1: So I would not rest on my laurels there. Those
Speaker 1: are four areas I think we have needs and concerns.
Speaker 1: Those are four fixes I think I have for those
Speaker 1: spots in those particular areas of concern that's my time
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Today Monday, we're going to start the
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Speaker 1: to have some Dolphins mix.
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