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Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 3: Night two is now officially in the book and it's
Speaker 3: Devon a Chain joining camp Smith for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: The Dolphins get even faster with the Texas A and
Speaker 3: M running back. We're breaking down his game. Plus we'll
Speaker 3: hear from a Chain and Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer's
Speaker 3: end of night press conference. All of that and much
Speaker 3: more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
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Speaker 6: With the eighty fourth pick into twenty twenty three NFL Draft,
Speaker 6: the Miami Dolphins select Devon a Chain running back Texas
Speaker 6: A and M.
Speaker 3: This shouldn't be a surprise, big time track speed going
Speaker 3: to Miami.
Speaker 1: If they aren't fast enough already, they just got even faster.
Speaker 3: If you thought the camp Smith podcast was a little
Speaker 3: bit unhinged coming off of not one, not two, not three,
Speaker 3: but four consecutive cappuccinos, I've had a long day on
Speaker 3: this Friday.
Speaker 2: I've been up since early. I didn't sleep last night.
Speaker 3: I've out doing stuff all day, did radio with Juice
Speaker 3: and Seth before the draft started. And it's about eleven
Speaker 3: forty five on a Friday night recording this podcast for y'all,
Speaker 3: just at the end or the conclusion of Day two
Speaker 3: of the twenty twenty three NFL Draft. Those four cappuccinos
Speaker 3: got me through the evening because I was pretty tired
Speaker 3: at that point. But now this draft pick has me
Speaker 3: fired up to do this last podcast here of the day,
Speaker 3: And just like that night, twos a rap man, one
Speaker 3: more day left of the draft. It goes by faster
Speaker 3: every year, it feels like, and somehow someway, the Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins got even faster on their offense with Devon a
Speaker 3: chain from Texas A and m the running back. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and run this thing back with the background,
Speaker 3: the stats, the tape, the fit, the presser, including McDaniel
Speaker 3: and Greer's end of night presser.
Speaker 2: He's five foot eight and a half one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty eight pounds.
Speaker 3: At the combine, he ran a four to three to
Speaker 3: two forty yard dash with a one four to nine
Speaker 3: ten yard split. He also posted four to three six
Speaker 3: in the short shuttle, thirty three inch vertical jump, and
Speaker 3: a nine foot three broad jump. And by the time
Speaker 3: we set all of that, a Chaan already ran too
Speaker 3: that mountain and back over there. That's a SpongeBob reference
Speaker 3: for all you old heads out there. This is one
Speaker 3: of my draft crushes this year. Man, a player that
Speaker 3: I thought could add the speed element to this offense,
Speaker 3: that matchup element to another position on the field. We
Speaker 3: know about Tyreek and Jalen, and then you've got Raheem
Speaker 3: speed at the running back position too. Now, you go
Speaker 3: out thirty add a four to three to two guy,
Speaker 3: a guy that some people thought Mike Clip the all
Speaker 3: time forty yard dash record.
Speaker 2: He has that kind of speed. And you look at.
Speaker 3: Different comps out there, shorter backs and stature that can
Speaker 3: really run. He looks like you know some of the
Speaker 3: guys that have made it happen at that size in
Speaker 3: this league, in a pretty pretty low cut frame. Good
Speaker 3: contact balance, keeps that center of gravity ground, which allows
Speaker 3: him to drop the pads and run on through tackles
Speaker 3: in that second level with exceptional start stop quickness. And Travis,
Speaker 3: you said you weren't going to do tape just yet.
Speaker 3: That's right, and I'm talking to myself here now, eleven
Speaker 3: forty seven on the East Coast.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and talk about a. Chanin's background. Grew
Speaker 2: up in Houston.
Speaker 3: Actually told me in the press conference today that he
Speaker 3: was friends with Jalen Waddle playing AAU basketball when they
Speaker 3: were younger. Can you imagine trying to defend that team
Speaker 3: in transition with a Chane and Waddle. He became the
Speaker 3: starting running back at Thirdgod Marshall High School in Missouri,
Speaker 3: City of Texas his sophomore year Missouri City in Texas.
Speaker 3: How come these different states have cities that are in
Speaker 3: different states like Kansas City and Missouri.
Speaker 2: What the hell is that all about?
Speaker 3: He ran for twelve hundred yards on an eighties comedian,
Speaker 3: What's the Dude with their airline food? Twelve hundred yards,
Speaker 3: eighteen touchdowns, and picked off a pass on defense. That
Speaker 3: was his sophomore year. As a senior, he went for
Speaker 3: two two hundred and sixty six rushing yards that's eleven
Speaker 3: point three per clip, forty total touchdowns, and that included
Speaker 3: thirty eight grabs for seven hundred and sixty eight yards
Speaker 3: and ten more tuddies. He was named the twenty nineteen
Speaker 3: Offensive Player of the Year, and they went to back
Speaker 3: to back state title games, although they lost both times
Speaker 3: to the same team in Texas. All things told, he
Speaker 3: finished his high school career with forty eight hundred and
Speaker 3: twenty three rushing yards, two thousand and four receiving yards,
Speaker 3: hundred and sixteen touchdown. That's Reggie Bush production in the
Speaker 3: high school level. He was also named the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: I put two thousand and two right here, which would
Speaker 3: be impressive because he was born in two.
Speaker 2: Thousand and one.
Speaker 3: The twenty twenty Gatorade Texas Track and Field Athlete of
Speaker 3: the Year, posting the best four by one hundred relay
Speaker 3: time nationally. That's forty point four. I don't know what
Speaker 3: that means, but it sounds pretty good. He also placed
Speaker 3: first in the two hundred meters at the twenty nineteen
Speaker 3: five A State Championship. That was the best time in
Speaker 3: the nation, and he also posted a personal best in
Speaker 3: the one hundred meters at ten five to three. He
Speaker 3: was the number four overall all purpose back in that
Speaker 3: twenty twenty recruiting class, and he chose Texas A and
Speaker 3: M with offers from Georgia, Texas, USC, Bama, Florida State, LSU,
Speaker 3: and Houston Wow. His personal best at Texas A and
Speaker 3: M included ten point one four one hundred meters, twenty
Speaker 3: point two two hundred meters, and six point sixty three
Speaker 3: sixty meters. And to put those numbers in perspective, and yes,
Speaker 3: I am repeating this from my previous podcast because I
Speaker 3: talked about a Chane a lot. The standard two hundred
Speaker 3: meter time for Olympic trial qualifiers is twenty point twenty four.
Speaker 3: He's under that we have Olympic speed in the backfield.
Speaker 3: Now back to football. He posted two thousand, three hundred
Speaker 3: and seventy six rushing yards and twenty one touchdowns in
Speaker 3: his college career, averaging six point four per rush. He
Speaker 3: also added sixty five for five point fifty four and
Speaker 3: five touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Catching the football.
Speaker 3: He also had a kickoff return and back to back
Speaker 3: seasons there at College station. He ran for seven hundred
Speaker 3: and five yards last season after the initial tackler missed
Speaker 3: him or they bring him down but he falls forward
Speaker 3: for extra yards. That's an average of three point six
Speaker 3: yards after contact per rush. And if you guys watched
Speaker 3: A and M last year, not a very good run
Speaker 3: blocking team. There was lots of trash he had to
Speaker 3: navigate his way through and PFF had him with one
Speaker 3: hundred and seventeen runs on zone scheme and seventy nine
Speaker 3: in gap man scheme. Very diverse usage in terms of
Speaker 3: his pre snap alignments, which caters to his ability to
Speaker 3: catch the football. He is so smooth transitioning from receiver
Speaker 3: to runner once he secures the football. He forced fifty
Speaker 3: three missed tackles this year on one hundred and ninety
Speaker 3: six rushing attempts. Again, no math guy here. That's better
Speaker 3: than one for every four attempts, and when he makes
Speaker 3: you miss, it's usually a lot more yard d after
Speaker 3: the fact because of the speed and the way he
Speaker 3: opens up from a really stationary position and how quickly
Speaker 3: he can get up to top speed. So fun player, man,
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and talk about the tape here. Next
Speaker 3: we'll do that on the other side and hear from
Speaker 3: DeVaughn as well. That's the next Draft Time podcast. Your
Speaker 3: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 7: Spending time with you, getting to know you here.
Speaker 6: Coach is probably.
Speaker 1: Hey, you're still fast, right hey, buddy, congrabs man, you
Speaker 1: earned it. Celebrate Okay, this is uh, this is the
Speaker 1: start of something real cool.
Speaker 2: Congratulations yeay man, you got two happy guys that we
Speaker 2: got you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I would afford to meet you, and you
Speaker 1: gotta bring your speed. Baby.
Speaker 3: There you hear the call from a very fired up
Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel, who was fist pumping in the war room
Speaker 3: here at the Baptist Health Studios, not the Baptist Health Studios,
Speaker 3: the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: He don't come back to the studios. This is my territory.
Speaker 3: But those that have heard the podcast and the run
Speaker 3: up to the draft know how much I like this player. Gosh,
Speaker 3: I love speed in the backfield. Gosh, I love hitting
Speaker 3: home runs in the ground game.
Speaker 2: And that's what a change do.
Speaker 3: Baby. He had eighteen runs of fifteen yards or more
Speaker 3: each of the last two years. That's thirty six total,
Speaker 3: eighteen times thirty six runs. Instant offense in the ground game,
Speaker 3: and when you plug on his tape, he created so
Speaker 3: much from nothing. I talked about the an M offensive
Speaker 3: line in the previous segment. They lost two players in the
Speaker 3: NFL last year, including first round pick Kendrick Green to
Speaker 3: the Houston Texans, and the blogging took a hit, but
Speaker 3: the running production it did not. I think that speaks
Speaker 3: to a Chain's vision and his ability to find tiny creases,
Speaker 3: his agility, and his ability to take off for big
Speaker 3: gains when he did find those creases. I think you
Speaker 3: see that lateral agility and pure speed really open up
Speaker 3: on those long runs where he scorts through. But also
Speaker 3: as a wide receiver, the attention that he commands when
Speaker 3: the offense catches the defense in a base look, and
Speaker 3: he can get himself isolated on a linebacker or a
Speaker 3: safety to follow him out in motion. That generates so
Speaker 3: much to think about from a vertical stretch standpoint, but
Speaker 3: also the other element of the offense that can be
Speaker 3: forgotten sometimes the horizontal stretch. And we saw ten and
Speaker 3: seventeen Tyreek Hill Jalen Waddle eat in the middle of
Speaker 3: the football field last year. And this is a player
Speaker 3: who would help create even more space with the speed
Speaker 3: on the perimeter as a route runner, but also on
Speaker 3: the play action looks where you stretch that thing out
Speaker 3: and you have to a sprint to a spot and
Speaker 3: show that football and show the defense that we could
Speaker 3: potentially run this ball off tackle. You better get your
Speaker 3: butt out there because if you don't, I want to
Speaker 3: hand this thing off and he's gonna get you to
Speaker 3: the edge. He's gonna win that edge, and he's gonna
Speaker 3: be off to the races and it's gonna be up
Speaker 3: to your safety to give him to the ground and
Speaker 3: what's a touchdown? And then we can put the ball
Speaker 3: back into his hands and then turn around and flip
Speaker 3: it into the vacancy created behind those linebackers because of
Speaker 3: that outside zone stretch. I think you saw that with
Speaker 3: Raheem Mostert last year, and that's when I began to
Speaker 3: really truly understand his value and appreciate what Raheem brought
Speaker 3: to this offense.
Speaker 2: Because of the speed that he.
Speaker 3: Brings and the way you threaten the perimeter in the
Speaker 3: ground game, it forces defense to have to commit and choose,
Speaker 3: like pick your poison.
Speaker 2: You can't give up the edge.
Speaker 3: In the running game because if you do that, teams
Speaker 3: are gonna take it all day long and they can
Speaker 3: safely hit twelve fifteen eighty yard runs because you're playing
Speaker 3: the pass like we never have to go to that.
Speaker 3: And then once you start to commit to the run game,
Speaker 3: that's when the pass starts coming to play too, and
Speaker 3: vice versa. So it just gives you even more on
Speaker 3: those stretch or those toss plays running wide. All of
Speaker 3: that over commitment was always bad news for the pass defense.
Speaker 3: When Tua pulled the ball back in last year. I
Speaker 3: think that a Chain carries the one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: pounds very well. He can absorb contact and squeeze through,
Speaker 3: and that's in rare instances where tacklers actually get a
Speaker 3: clean shot on him. He rarely takes a squared up
Speaker 3: shot because of his shiftiness. He's got such smooth hands
Speaker 3: catching the football out of the backfield. PFF only had
Speaker 3: him with two drop passes all year last year, and
Speaker 3: he can really set defenders up when he gets those
Speaker 3: two wig gos. So it's not just flexing out to
Speaker 3: run a route. But think about the space this offense
Speaker 3: creates from its wide receivers, and you've got another home
Speaker 3: run threat who kind of replaces that displacement. It's a
Speaker 3: really good way for two to have quick options in
Speaker 3: the passing game and to mitigate blitzes and unfavorable box
Speaker 3: counts against the rush or just out and out whiffs
Speaker 3: and pass protection. I think adding Barrios and then adding
Speaker 3: a chain and how having those two quick outlet options
Speaker 3: can really be a boost to pass protection in its
Speaker 3: own right. It doesn't always have to come from an
Speaker 3: insular aspect of how you improve things. I think our
Speaker 3: thoughts about how teams create solutions.
Speaker 2: For those issues.
Speaker 3: I think that we get too narrow minded in those thoughts,
Speaker 3: and I think this is a great example of that.
Speaker 2: We heard Chris Greer.
Speaker 3: So the team is not done adding and we are
Speaker 3: currently looking at a similar line that helped generate the
Speaker 3: number six offense in football.
Speaker 2: Last year.
Speaker 3: I said that on the first podcast tonight because I
Speaker 3: just don't understand why we have folks that believe this
Speaker 3: offense can't function with the way it is. Right now,
Speaker 3: you already have the important pieces. You have the quarterback,
Speaker 3: you have the two receivers, you have you know, three
Speaker 3: guys that performed really well on the offensive line.
Speaker 2: We'll see about the rest.
Speaker 3: And now you have a backfield just chock full speed
Speaker 3: and guys that can hit home runs and help you
Speaker 3: generate the run game that has the passing game that
Speaker 3: plays off of it. And now Tua has even more
Speaker 3: weapons at his disposal to help one of the quickest
Speaker 3: time to throw quarterbacks in the NFL do what he
Speaker 3: does best and process and distribute the football quickly, because
Speaker 3: now you have Barrios, who can you know, get cornerback
Speaker 3: three or four on him. He can beat that guy
Speaker 3: quickly in a two way go situation and post up
Speaker 3: in that four or five yard range to.
Speaker 2: Help convert your third and short.
Speaker 3: Or you can have a chain do it where you
Speaker 3: get a Texas route on on a linebacker. Or you
Speaker 3: have the receivers who have displaced you know, space in
Speaker 3: the middle of the field and all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: Tua is gonna say, I'm happy to take a check
Speaker 3: down to a chain because I know he's gonna run
Speaker 3: for eight yards before anybody.
Speaker 2: Gets to him, because he's that fast.
Speaker 3: I think the vision that a Chain has is what
Speaker 3: allows him to maximize that speed because in the route
Speaker 3: running the wiggle, he just sees it.
Speaker 2: And from a.
Speaker 3: Running perspective as well, how he presses it, how he
Speaker 3: feels the flow of the play and then hits that thing.
Speaker 3: He forces that over a commitment I talked about a
Speaker 3: lot because of how aggressive he is impressing the gap.
Speaker 3: So when you have a run as a running back,
Speaker 3: you have a certain gap or a certain target you're
Speaker 3: shooting for, and you want to press that lane as
Speaker 3: fast as you can because that forces the second level
Speaker 3: defenders to commit to their gap, or even a defensive
Speaker 3: lineman who's playing two gap to shed his block one way.
Speaker 2: And if you've pressed it in a certain way.
Speaker 3: And then you can anticipate him, you know, coming off
Speaker 3: of his block in the wrong gap, you bounce that
Speaker 3: thing back the other way. All of a sudden, you've
Speaker 3: got a vacant gap, and with this guy getting all
Speaker 3: the way back to the to the bend back lane.
Speaker 3: And you look at a lot of his big runs
Speaker 3: the bend back lane. So again let's do some more
Speaker 3: explanation here. So you have your bounce, your bang, and
Speaker 3: your bend bounces when you kick it outside your banks,
Speaker 3: when you drop your shoulders and run to the gap
Speaker 3: that you're supposed to go to. And your bend is
Speaker 3: when you get backside to the backside of the formation
Speaker 3: after over pursuit. And if you look a lot of
Speaker 3: his big runs, it's when he forces that over pursuit
Speaker 3: by the aggressive pressing of that gap, then gets all
Speaker 3: the way to that bend back lane and you're out
Speaker 3: the back gate. And once again, you better have some
Speaker 3: four to three corners that can run this guy down
Speaker 3: because once he gets in space, he got The best
Speaker 3: part about all of this is you can utilize the
Speaker 3: passing game skills because he's plenty good in pass pro
Speaker 3: as well. He drops his pads on guys and that
Speaker 3: will you know to do that as a testament to
Speaker 3: his football character and love of the game. And I
Speaker 3: found this great blur from the Dane Brugler athletic, the
Speaker 3: beast that the the the jew. Why am i making
Speaker 3: good noises the draft guy that he offers from the
Speaker 3: athletic and first of all, he never fumbles. A Chain
Speaker 3: does just two in his career. He covered some punts
Speaker 3: and didn't ask questions about that, like why is my
Speaker 3: start running back gunning on punts? Because he can and
Speaker 3: exhibited strong football character by his actions.
Speaker 2: This is from the Beast.
Speaker 3: Here. A Chain suffered a foot injury in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 3: and rather than shutting it down for the year and
Speaker 3: going to the NFL Draft, he said that he owed
Speaker 3: it to his teammates to get back for the season
Speaker 3: finale against LSU, where he rushed for two hundred and
Speaker 3: fifteen yards and forced sixteen missed tackles in that game.
Speaker 3: And that left Jimbo Fisher to say this about a Chain,
Speaker 3: He's a tremendous human being, player, leader, competitor and has
Speaker 3: nothing but heart and toughness about him and everything he does.
Speaker 3: I am fired up about this, dude. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and hear from the man himself, devon a Chain, and
Speaker 3: start here with this question that was asked by you boy.
Speaker 3: I asked him, how did how was that thirty visit
Speaker 3: you took down here? We heard from Chris Greer, which
Speaker 3: she'll hear just in a second, who spoke about having
Speaker 3: a chain down here for a visit. So I wanted
Speaker 3: to know, what did you think of Miami? The building,
Speaker 3: the people down here, here's a chain.
Speaker 5: It was great, like you said, Amy Grave around the building,
Speaker 5: facility was nice. When I came down there, it was
Speaker 5: a little rightey, so I guess, you know, it was,
Speaker 5: you know a little look that I came down there
Speaker 5: on that day. Everybody was saying, you know, done ray
Speaker 5: down here. But you know, it still was a pretty
Speaker 5: fun visit, you know, Like I said, me and Samuel
Speaker 5: Wad you know, we're really good friends, so you know,
Speaker 5: we communicate. So I feel like, you know, me being
Speaker 5: there and the visit that I took in an international
Speaker 5: coach was great as well. So I just like I
Speaker 5: was able to, you know, be myself and I was
Speaker 5: very really come.
Speaker 3: Next question here was can you run between the tackles?
Speaker 3: Which is an interesting question, but I liked his answer.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hear from the new Miami Dolphins
Speaker 3: running back.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, sir, I like I can run in between
Speaker 5: the tackles outside like when I was I feel like
Speaker 5: most of my rus in between tackles. I mean, everybody
Speaker 5: see me as a fans guy, so they think, you know,
Speaker 5: he just wanted to run outside. But most of my
Speaker 5: roles and my two thoughts or between tackles. So I
Speaker 5: feel like.
Speaker 7: I'm right anywhere.
Speaker 5: If the bars in my head, I feel like I'm
Speaker 5: capable to do great things with it. And me running
Speaker 5: between tackle, it's not a problem that I have.
Speaker 3: I always love hearing this next answer. What was it
Speaker 3: like meeting coach McDaniel. Everyone's got their own unique story.
Speaker 5: It was great man. You know, he had a great
Speaker 5: coach that got a funny sense of humor. You know,
Speaker 5: he always keeps you on your toes and like, so
Speaker 5: I'm a very fast guy. So here come up and
Speaker 5: ask me like this funny question, like are you still fast?
Speaker 5: Like he just you know, great coach out there around
Speaker 5: so you know me, you know, having a coach as
Speaker 5: such as him, I'm just thinkingful, blessed that he's my
Speaker 5: he's my coach, and I can't wait to get out
Speaker 5: there and just see what he has the store for me.
Speaker 3: One last one here I mentioned the relationship that Jimbo
Speaker 3: Fisher and he clearly had there at College Station. Let's
Speaker 3: go next here to a question about Jim bow Fisher
Speaker 3: and what he taught you about playing in the National
Speaker 3: Football League.
Speaker 5: Especially man, he was a great coach. I was happy
Speaker 5: to be able to be under him for three years
Speaker 5: or he taught me a lot. We always had that
Speaker 5: relationship with him that we could talk more than just football.
Speaker 5: We can talk about in real life. And he always
Speaker 5: kept it. He always kept it real. Never something that
Speaker 5: I liked about him, you know, he he never he
Speaker 5: never knows, you know lines to me, I feel like
Speaker 5: you have the relationship with you know, if I needed
Speaker 5: something on it was something that I needed an answer to,
Speaker 5: he was able to give me that. So man, it's
Speaker 5: lending for him. And you know, he always said, you know,
Speaker 5: people don't Christal Sawe, but you know, as long as
Speaker 5: you got the clothiness and immortality that you know that
Speaker 5: I have and you hopefully a little said that you
Speaker 5: can go out there and do, you know, whatever you want.
Speaker 5: So he always told me, you know, you know, people
Speaker 5: don't have their opinions on social media, so you always
Speaker 5: tell us, don't worry about social media and just go
Speaker 5: out there and play and do what you do.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 3: and come back on the other side and hear from
Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel and Chris Greer at their Day two press
Speaker 3: conference recapping Day.
Speaker 2: Two of the twenty twenty three NFL Draft.
Speaker 3: That's Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by I Don't Nation a Saturday morning now
Speaker 3: into the midnight hour, we're recording this podcast. Let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and pick this back up in our final segment
Speaker 3: here with Chris Greer and Mike McDaniel's post draft post
Speaker 3: night two media availability, we heard from Chris Greer discussing
Speaker 3: Cam Smith in that selection. I wanted to ask Chris
Speaker 3: and Mike about you know, what did last year tell
Speaker 3: you about needing depth at that cornerback position, but he
Speaker 3: kind of answered it here right away off the jump
Speaker 3: in the first question.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and play that SoundBite.
Speaker 4: Yeah with us.
Speaker 8: You know, Cam's a very talented football player. We're excited
Speaker 8: to at him, and competition will always add at every position,
Speaker 8: as we talked about here, So it was the opportunity
Speaker 8: for us to at that point in the draft at
Speaker 8: a really talented football player that fitting in this league
Speaker 8: and especially the AFC, with a lot of talented quarterbacks
Speaker 8: and teams, we can never have enough corners as we
Speaker 8: experienced last year, you know, with the rash of injuries
Speaker 8: that we dealt with.
Speaker 2: So excited to ad.
Speaker 8: I'm he's excited to come and so we're looking forward
Speaker 8: to working with him.
Speaker 3: I love this next answer here from Chris Career when
Speaker 3: he was asked about the tight end offensive line position,
Speaker 3: and he told you before the draft, if you go
Speaker 3: into a draft thinking you have to draft certain positions,
Speaker 3: it's the best way to guarantee you lack of success
Speaker 3: in the draft. And I keep seeing all his complaints
Speaker 3: about Dolphins drafts. Well, I'll say it again for the
Speaker 3: four thousand time in the podcast. Go look at Miami
Speaker 3: Dolphins draft since twenty sixteen compared to other teams. I
Speaker 3: promise you you're not going to find ten better drafting
Speaker 3: teams over that period. I promise you you're not going to
Speaker 3: find seven, maybe not even five. Just go do it,
Speaker 3: report back to me, let me know what you find.
Speaker 3: I've been the research. Go ahead and do yourself, do
Speaker 3: your own research. Right.
Speaker 2: We talk about that a lot in this country, all right, Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's a rant for another day.
Speaker 3: Here he is talking about the tight end and offensive
Speaker 3: line and how, believe it or not, talent acquisition does
Speaker 3: not end in the month of April.
Speaker 8: You know, when we do our board, we go through
Speaker 8: it and there are a lot of good players that
Speaker 8: were picked too, you know, ahead of those, So we
Speaker 8: look at every position we go through it. You know,
Speaker 8: I think you guys are probably more worried than we are,
Speaker 8: you know, in terms of you know, at the position
Speaker 8: depth at those spots you talked about. But at the
Speaker 8: end of the day, we added a good football player.
Speaker 8: We're happy and like we said, you know, the draft,
Speaker 8: it doesn't end with the draft. You know, there's still
Speaker 8: you know, guys were talking to and free agency on
Speaker 8: the streets, and so we're still working through it and
Speaker 8: we'll keep adding the players that think fit for us.
Speaker 3: I was so stoked to hear this answer from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 3: What do you envision for the speed that devon a
Speaker 3: chain offers your offense?
Speaker 4: Here's coach speed we generally like around here. But I
Speaker 4: think it's more you feel like there's a there's a
Speaker 4: fit in terms of a guy fitting within your existing team.
Speaker 4: You're you know, always keep in mind that you're adding
Speaker 4: players to a team and and really think that that
Speaker 4: group in particular is all the running back group for
Speaker 4: us is very important. And uh, you know, you find
Speaker 4: a person player that that fits your skill set, that
Speaker 4: you like, but also that fits within the room because
Speaker 4: we have some other good competition in there as well.
Speaker 4: So really really excited to add a player to a group.
Speaker 4: And he is fast, and Chris and I share that
Speaker 4: we do have affection for that trade.
Speaker 3: Here's coach McDaniel further explaining kind of the team's approach
Speaker 3: to adding talent and how taking the best player regardless
Speaker 3: of positions always the aim, and how he and Chris
Speaker 3: we are both lockstep in that approach.
Speaker 4: You're trying to do the best thing as your collection
Speaker 4: of people have decided that's available to you at the time.
Speaker 4: So you know, you uh, you'd always try to position
Speaker 4: yourself and go in the draft to be able to
Speaker 4: take the best player regardless of position. And you know,
Speaker 4: sometimes you have depth more in other places than not.
Speaker 4: But we're not gonna, uh, we're not gonna take away
Speaker 4: the opportunity to have good players in our team. It's
Speaker 4: more of you know, our the player's shape, what the
Speaker 4: team looks like. So if we have a if we
Speaker 4: have the ability to get a good player, we'll ever
Speaker 4: turn that down. And then it is there's a lot
Speaker 4: of action we've had. We had a lot of contributors
Speaker 4: that we added to our team post post draft last
Speaker 4: year that were very impactful during the regular season as
Speaker 4: well as post the first game of the season. So
Speaker 4: you're always tinkering. That's something that I'm pretty sure Chris
Speaker 4: might be half vampire because he's never sleeping because he's
Speaker 4: always evaluating something. So I think that will always be
Speaker 4: the case with us.
Speaker 3: And how about that reaction to the a change draft pick, coach,
Speaker 3: how'd you feel about that?
Speaker 4: This is just this is just like you know, cambaraderie
Speaker 4: between two work associates. Certain people have opinions that he'll
Speaker 4: be there, certain people don't. And I was really excited
Speaker 4: that Chris was right that that that a player was there.
Speaker 4: So you know, you get excited about all the players
Speaker 4: we uh, you know, it's just really it's down to
Speaker 4: the TV pretty who decide when they catch you. Because apparently,
Speaker 4: as it's become aware to me that the first pick,
Speaker 4: I was texting my wife and had my shoe on
Speaker 4: the table. So we get excited for all our players.
Speaker 4: And that's just because of the amount of work that
Speaker 4: we all put in over an extended period of time
Speaker 4: to figure out who those players are.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, and there you have it.
Speaker 3: It's time for me to go home and go to bed,
Speaker 3: come back on Saturday and do it all over again.
Speaker 2: Only going to have.
Speaker 3: One podcast for the Sunday or Sunday Saturday draft a
Speaker 3: portion Day three. We'll recap the two draft picks, we'll
Speaker 3: recap coach and Chris's press conference post draft, and we'll
Speaker 3: also get the oppressors of Round six and Round seven players.
Speaker 2: Until that time, it's going to be my time.
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