Speaker 1: That's looking down Miami quarter run. What is up, Dolph Fans?
Speaker 1: And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast part of the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we're gonna commit a cardinal sin
Speaker 1: and read our own press clippings, will gauge how the
Speaker 1: national media has perceived this draft class before we turn
Speaker 1: it over to my guest today, draft and college football
Speaker 1: expert and really, who am I kidding? NFL expert, to
Speaker 1: Emery Hunt of CBS Sports Headquarters. All of that and
Speaker 1: more on this edition of the Drivetime Podcasts. The cardinal
Speaker 1: sin of sports, positive or negative, is reading your own
Speaker 1: press clippings. Right. I remember back in high school and hoops,
Speaker 1: to be specific, our head coach would post newspaper articles
Speaker 1: in the locker room among every other very very very
Speaker 1: corny motivational tactic you can think of. And we went
Speaker 1: four and six team my senior season. So and that
Speaker 1: was at the advice that we neglect all positive press,
Speaker 1: which was hard to come by in a four and
Speaker 1: sixteen season, and even the preseason full spread in the
Speaker 1: newspaper predicted us to finish bottom of a ten team
Speaker 1: conference and it called me a scrappy hustle defender and
Speaker 1: their blurb on me Jim Ratt coach's kid first and
Speaker 1: last out, you know the drill. So you can find
Speaker 1: both and probably with any team in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: And there are some stories out there that questions some things,
Speaker 1: some ideas, and some approaches of this Dolphins brass and
Speaker 1: that's how it just just just how it goes. Plenty
Speaker 1: of local outlets that have pointed out some concerns they have,
Speaker 1: but the stuff that really shows up on my timeline
Speaker 1: at least is some of the stuff that I'm gonna
Speaker 1: play for you guys here. Let's go ahead and start
Speaker 1: with this clip the from a podcast that straight up
Speaker 1: tells you they really don't know the first thing about
Speaker 1: college ball or the draft, but they do study the
Speaker 1: NFL and the rosters and ahead of his Starters series
Speaker 1: on NFL dot Com Greg Rosenthal of the Around the
Speaker 1: NFL podcast, And I'll go ahead and play the question
Speaker 1: first and then the answer from Rosenthal. What's a team
Speaker 1: that you really like right now? What's a team that
Speaker 1: you can't wait to see? Them um assembled on the
Speaker 1: field because you feel like they're they're better and they're
Speaker 1: going to be stronger than they were last year. My
Speaker 1: heart says the Dolphins that that's the one that pops
Speaker 1: to my mind. You know, I think, you know, they
Speaker 1: got all these picks the last two years. I think
Speaker 1: if you're judging their last draft class off their rookie year,
Speaker 1: there's some concerns that maybe they didn't use those picks
Speaker 1: that well, well, we'll see and so we'll see about
Speaker 1: the five picks that they had in the first three
Speaker 1: rounds this year. But I liked them, like I want
Speaker 1: to see Jalen Waddle and a Fuller and DeVante Parker.
Speaker 1: I thought the other picks they made Jalen Phillips uh.
Speaker 1: And I think to a Tongue is going to be
Speaker 1: better in a second year. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but I just feel like they're they have come together.
Speaker 1: Their team has totally turned over. I know there's been
Speaker 1: all this crazy transition and different coaches like and that
Speaker 1: all looks bad, but I think they're going to be exciting.
Speaker 1: And I'm kind of excited for to a Tongue boyl
Speaker 1: to prove people wrong and that he's better than people think.
Speaker 1: So he likes the Dolphins and their off season, staying
Speaker 1: at the NFL Network and friend of the podcast Peter Schreeger,
Speaker 1: as well as his esteemed co host on the Good
Speaker 1: Morning Football program on NFL Network, Nate Burlison. They double
Speaker 1: dipped on the Dolphins after Night one and we were
Speaker 1: doing headlines, and I said that my headline for the
Speaker 1: draft after Day one will be Miami making monster moves.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what they did. They went out there
Speaker 1: and they got some playmakers right out the gag. Oh baby,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle is a receiver that can make plays and
Speaker 1: he's gonna come in right away and making a met
Speaker 1: an impact. This dude got speed, he got hands. They
Speaker 1: checked this out. He average almost twenty yards of pop,
Speaker 1: twenty yards of catch, eighteen point not that's wild. That
Speaker 1: is a big time playmaker. And you know what that does.
Speaker 1: It also forces too to unleash it because sometimes two
Speaker 1: can be a micromanager of games. Now you bringing in
Speaker 1: a guy that can not only be a wide receiver
Speaker 1: that can throw deep stretch to field, but you can
Speaker 1: also use in that part return. And then at eight
Speaker 1: team they wouldn't got Jalen Phillips and Steger. I know
Speaker 1: that you were sitting there, just like me, looking at
Speaker 1: these two playmakers, thinking to yourself, Miami, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: they're going to become legit continuers one level further with
Speaker 1: this and with some insight from what they were doing
Speaker 1: in their draft room. And it's very rare on our
Speaker 1: show that we come out of the draft and it's like,
Speaker 1: who's the winners of the Draft, And we've got four
Speaker 1: hosts and there's thirty two teams and we each pick
Speaker 1: a different one. Nate, I'm doubling down. The Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: won the draft last night. Here's why. That trade they
Speaker 1: made with the San Francisco forty Niners, they picked up
Speaker 1: a first rounder for next year, a first rounder for
Speaker 1: three season. And do you know who the top rated
Speaker 1: wide receiver on their board was. Wasn't Jamaar Chase, it
Speaker 1: was Jalen Waddle. They got their guy. This is why
Speaker 1: they made the trade. This is what they did. Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle was the top rated wide receiver on Miami's board,
Speaker 1: and when they made that trade with the Niners and
Speaker 1: then traded back up with the Eagles, it was because
Speaker 1: they didn't want to miss out the chance to get
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle. Here's the rum, here's the here's the story
Speaker 1: on Waddle. It's a serious ankle injury in Week five,
Speaker 1: everyone assumes this season's done. Works out like a demon
Speaker 1: to get back on the field for that National title
Speaker 1: game and plays. And what everyone said coming into this
Speaker 1: draft where a lot of players opted out and there
Speaker 1: was no problem with that last year, COVID whatever else,
Speaker 1: What are the reason you might have Jalen Waddle? He
Speaker 1: opted in, said I want in, and that is what
Speaker 1: the Dots are trying to build there. He played in
Speaker 1: that National title game. He wanted that action. He wanted
Speaker 1: to get on the field. The Dolphins dark static right now.
Speaker 1: And then to add on jan and Phillips, who I
Speaker 1: had going overall in my mock draft, and then he
Speaker 1: comes out and he falls all the way to eighteen.
Speaker 1: That's a steal. Janalen Phillips, top pass rusher on just
Speaker 1: about everybody's board, comes from the University of Miami, But
Speaker 1: before that was that u c l A where he
Speaker 1: was a dominant DNOM before we had to transfer. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's had some injury issues there are some questions about, Okay,
Speaker 1: how does that translate because he's such an This guy
Speaker 1: had the best Pro Day out of any defensive player
Speaker 1: in the entire NFL and interviewed off the charts. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins got their stalwart at wide receiver who's gonna go
Speaker 1: with Parker and with Fuller and with Koseki, and then
Speaker 1: got maybe the best pass rusher in the draft at eighteen. Overall,
Speaker 1: I know we don't often double dip on teams, and
Speaker 1: we'd like to spread the love. Miami Dolphins fans, have
Speaker 1: yourself a morning, because you had yourself a night last night.
Speaker 1: What a job A plus. That was the first night
Speaker 1: of the draft. And then we come back with the
Speaker 1: same network, the NFL Network. They asked Brian Baldinger about
Speaker 1: who was some of his ferret picks on Day two. Well,
Speaker 1: if people didn't understand who Javon Holland was, and I
Speaker 1: know he opted out this year, they weren't doing their homework.
Speaker 1: This is a dynamic playmaker going to Miami, a team
Speaker 1: that led the league and takeaways a year ago, and
Speaker 1: that's kind of what Javon Holly could do. He can
Speaker 1: do it all as safety and he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys deep middle, down to the line of scrimmage in
Speaker 1: the slot. He really has versatility to his game, and
Speaker 1: I didn't surprise me how early he went. He's a
Speaker 1: great tackler. I mean, he's got sized. You watch him
Speaker 1: right here, and you watch him run support, Get enough
Speaker 1: b gap, take care of that be gap right here.
Speaker 1: Don't let that run go any further. Short tackler in space.
Speaker 1: But then, like a lot of safeties, you get a
Speaker 1: guy in the slot right here, you better be able
Speaker 1: to come, and then it just sort of ends fighting
Speaker 1: crime penetration, crime penetration, crime penetration, and then it just
Speaker 1: kind of ends there. But you heard him talking about
Speaker 1: the tackling, the slot coverage, all the fun stuff that
Speaker 1: he can do. How about this tweet from Bucky Brooks
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins were close a year ago, Ellipses dot
Speaker 1: dot dot. This new class should push them over the top.
Speaker 1: How about Peter King in his Football Morning in America
Speaker 1: piece up on NBC Sports or Pro Football Talk, talking
Speaker 1: about how Miami picked four scouts Darling's in the first
Speaker 1: three rounds with Waddle, Phillips, Eichenberg, and Hunter Long. He says,
Speaker 1: if two can play and you guys know how I
Speaker 1: feel about that. This team is going to be dangerous.
Speaker 1: Dane Brugler had Miami is his number nine draft class
Speaker 1: up on the Athletic out of the thirty two eighteen
Speaker 1: experts associated with NBC Sports. Their consensus grades across those
Speaker 1: eighteen expert picks were the fifth best draft class in
Speaker 1: the NFL over the weekend. And those are all the
Speaker 1: stuff you hear about the top of the class, the
Speaker 1: top five picks and three rounds we're gonna hear about
Speaker 1: over and over again. But as you all know, the
Speaker 1: sixth and seventh round and the undrafted class makes up
Speaker 1: a massive chunk, the most significant chunk of NFL rosters.
Speaker 1: And that's where we turned to an expert of all
Speaker 1: ranks of college football Power five G five fcs, historically
Speaker 1: Black colleges. Whatever it is, he's covered it. He's the
Speaker 1: creator and owner of Football Game Plan. You can see
Speaker 1: him on CBS Sports HQ Emery Hunt. Emory, the draft
Speaker 1: is over. Are you kind of breathing that sigh of
Speaker 1: relief like you got vacation coming up? Or what's going on? Man? Yes,
Speaker 1: it's always football, all the time. I am ready to
Speaker 1: step back and just kind of, you know, relax just
Speaker 1: a little bit. But you know, normally, if this was
Speaker 1: a non pandemic year, I'd be preparing to go up
Speaker 1: to Canada for their All Star Game circle which kicks
Speaker 1: off two. But that's not happening this year, so I
Speaker 1: get a little bit of a break before we dive
Speaker 1: right back into the mix. Do you think you'll ever
Speaker 1: be a guy that does that, because, like I always love,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jeremond is like, all right, I'm going to the beach.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Bermuda somewhere. Don't bother me for a week.
Speaker 1: I'm taking some time off. That's how to deal with you. Man.
Speaker 1: You're always working, and that's why the analysis is what
Speaker 1: it is. You know, if I can't, I can't take
Speaker 1: time off. If I only study fifty prospects like what
Speaker 1: I did all season, like no, I had to do
Speaker 1: six hundred, and we kind of roll a little into
Speaker 1: the next year. Because one, I love what I do
Speaker 1: and football is all year round, so for me, it's
Speaker 1: not like work. I mean, this weekend for me, it
Speaker 1: was a dream come true. Hosting our draft party and
Speaker 1: and bringing out all those podcasts and talking to coaches
Speaker 1: and players. It's like you said, Man, it's not work
Speaker 1: what we do. We're the luckiest people in the world.
Speaker 1: And man, I know I've told you this every time
Speaker 1: you've ben the podcast, Emery, but you really inspired me
Speaker 1: from a young age with all the just posting your
Speaker 1: work two different message boards and the relentless pursuit of
Speaker 1: the career you've made it. Man, it's awesome to see.
Speaker 1: I love your work, and that's why we have you
Speaker 1: here today talking about kind of I want to get
Speaker 1: your collective thoughts on the entire draft class, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure anybody else has a deeper catalog of player
Speaker 1: evaluations out there like you mentioned, so I want to
Speaker 1: kind of start in the weeds here, if that's okay
Speaker 1: with you, and we go to the seventh round. The
Speaker 1: two thirty first pick in this draft is offensive tackle
Speaker 1: Larnel Coleman out of U mass Now. Laurnel is the
Speaker 1: owner of one of the class largest wingspans and athletic
Speaker 1: profiles from his days playing hoops back in high school,
Speaker 1: and he's also the selection of the cutest draft pick
Speaker 1: ever made by Miles and Maxwell Flores on the broadcast.
Speaker 1: But I want to hear your thoughts on this kid,
Speaker 1: Larnel Coleman. What do you got Emory? You know, he
Speaker 1: already matches up athletically, and that's something that you noticed
Speaker 1: on film. You see him on reach blocks. You see
Speaker 1: him be able to, you know, catch these shorter, quicker
Speaker 1: defensive ends and and really escort these guys out the club.
Speaker 1: So athletically, he's already you know, what you want in
Speaker 1: a pro offensive lineman and and still has upside left
Speaker 1: in the game. I thought his tape was underrated, So
Speaker 1: I'm glad to see him and get his name called
Speaker 1: in the draft in a situation where we've seen good
Speaker 1: development so far with the draft picks they had last
Speaker 1: year and guys stepping in, stepping in ready to play.
Speaker 1: So he's landing in an ideal situation for his skills
Speaker 1: and he can continue to grow because again, he already
Speaker 1: is what you look for in a pro offensive line.
Speaker 1: But his tape at you Mass was outstanding. Again East
Speaker 1: West type athleticism, able to you know, reach blocks, so
Speaker 1: your outside run game and all that stuff is gonna
Speaker 1: be key with him. So I just like to pick.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a very good, you know, one
Speaker 1: value pick, but a good prospect to go to a
Speaker 1: good situation in Miami. Two questions for you to follow
Speaker 1: up on that point. Number one, do you think he's
Speaker 1: the kind of prospect that maybe needs a red shirt
Speaker 1: type of year to go to the practice squad and
Speaker 1: get his game down? And number two, you know I
Speaker 1: talked about eighty four and a half inch wingspan just
Speaker 1: blows my mind. You mentioned the athletic profile that seems
Speaker 1: to really be kind of the Dolphins bread and butter.
Speaker 1: I always refer back to this um signing from the
Speaker 1: A a f of Jared Jones Smith and I saw
Speaker 1: him on the practice field running sprints and I couldn't
Speaker 1: believe the differential between myself and him as human beings,
Speaker 1: Like we're not the same species. And so I'm wondering,
Speaker 1: what does what are those two things wingspan, length and
Speaker 1: athletic ability? What does that do for an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: in their in their potential development? And what do you
Speaker 1: think of Coleman year one practice squad guy or does
Speaker 1: he have a chance to make the roster. I think
Speaker 1: he has a chance to make the roster. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a good depth piece because, like I said,
Speaker 1: he's ready to play now athletically, and when you talk
Speaker 1: about long arms and wing span and length, all of
Speaker 1: that means nothing if you don't have the quickness to
Speaker 1: get it up and get it onto a defender, which
Speaker 1: he has. I like his hand usage. I like the
Speaker 1: fact that he's able to really do well on both
Speaker 1: ends of offense as a past blocker and also in
Speaker 1: the run blocking department. So with that baseline of athleticism
Speaker 1: basedline of skill set, he could be a nice reserve
Speaker 1: piece coming in until he slowly gets acclimated to the
Speaker 1: system and then he can compete for jobs next year.
Speaker 1: But I think he's too talented to leave vulnerable on
Speaker 1: the practice squad, to be quite honest, Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt,
Speaker 1: Jesse Davis, d J Fluker, Liam Eichenberg, and Larnel Coleman.
Speaker 1: Dolphins have some options there at the offensive tackle position.
Speaker 1: Thirteen picks later, we come back and it's the second
Speaker 1: running back drafted by Brian Flores and Chris Career if
Speaker 1: you exclude fullbacks and Chandler Cox a couple of years back,
Speaker 1: both those guys in the seventh round with Miles Gaskin
Speaker 1: and now this kid that has some folks pretty excited, Emory.
Speaker 1: His name is Jared Doakes out of Cincinnati, an absolute
Speaker 1: wrecking ball who showed the explosiveness he has in those
Speaker 1: treats trunk legs of his a thirty nine and a
Speaker 1: half inch vertical at two and twenty eight pounds. Wow, Emry,
Speaker 1: what can you tell us about this kid's game? Well,
Speaker 1: he's an angry runner, and he runs with a purpose,
Speaker 1: and he does a good job of you know, like
Speaker 1: you said, one cut downhill explosiveness. You want to see
Speaker 1: him develop a little bit more wiggle. One thing I
Speaker 1: tell you know, anyone that asked about the tell back position,
Speaker 1: you know there's not any There are no eighteen or
Speaker 1: nineteen year olds in the NFL, so you can't just
Speaker 1: run over everybody. You know, no one is scared to
Speaker 1: tapping you in the NFL. He's a grown man, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to develop some wiggle or you won't
Speaker 1: last long. So for him, that's just the biggest task
Speaker 1: right there. But you love the explosiveness, you love the
Speaker 1: burst um and he goes into a situation where you
Speaker 1: can kind of make his way. But you know, for me,
Speaker 1: I think he's more relegated to special teams duty, Uh
Speaker 1: out the onset you think he's he's wired to do that.
Speaker 1: I think so. I think when you have the mentality
Speaker 1: that run into everybody, you know kind of telling me
Speaker 1: for special teams, you know, that's essentially what special teams is.
Speaker 1: So I do think he has that that in him.
Speaker 1: Uh if he wants to you know, be on the
Speaker 1: team and make the roster, special is gonna be key
Speaker 1: for him. What do you think about his three down
Speaker 1: prospects as far as being a guy that can catch
Speaker 1: the football and help out and pass protection. And then
Speaker 1: also as far as what he did, uh schematically wise
Speaker 1: at Cincinnati, what what type of run calls best suited him?
Speaker 1: You know, I think he's just a one hill down down,
Speaker 1: one cut downhill runner. Um. You know, I think when
Speaker 1: you watch him play, he's a good complimentary guy. And
Speaker 1: you know, Miami seems to be good on complimentary backs.
Speaker 1: You know, they have a depth chart full of complimentary guys.
Speaker 1: No one real bell cow. Uh. So he goes into
Speaker 1: situation where he's gonna be familiar to him. But I
Speaker 1: think for him is basically just you know, uh, special
Speaker 1: teams is gonna be his ticket to be completely honest
Speaker 1: coach Danny Cross will love to hear that. He's got
Speaker 1: all kinds of guys in that unit charged up to
Speaker 1: play special teams for him, and one of the top
Speaker 1: five special teams units in the NFL last season. So
Speaker 1: that's the final draft pick for the Dolphins. Then there's
Speaker 1: the frenzy post draft with players who didn't hear their
Speaker 1: name called. Four players are reportedly right now as of
Speaker 1: this recording signing with Miami. Two of them from the
Speaker 1: same position group on the offensive line, two on defense.
Speaker 1: And we'll start here back on that old line with
Speaker 1: Robert Jones. And for the folks out there that haven't
Speaker 1: seen a lot of Middle Tennessee state football, what does
Speaker 1: this kid offer excellence? I had a high grade on
Speaker 1: Robert Jones, and you know, you like how aggressive he is.
Speaker 1: He's the type of guy that brings the fight to
Speaker 1: your doorsteps. So he doesn't weighed on defensive lineman to
Speaker 1: you know, figure out what they want to do. He's
Speaker 1: gonna attack you with an aggressive pass that His hands
Speaker 1: are are violent and they're consistent, they're concise. He could
Speaker 1: play guard or tackle. I haven't greeted as a guard,
Speaker 1: although you play right Taco middle Tennessee State. But that's
Speaker 1: someone to me that's primed to make the roster because
Speaker 1: how talented he was, and you could go down to
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl, had a good we could work. You
Speaker 1: saw him do great things. I think the viral clip
Speaker 1: was with him in Shakatoni, Um, you know, Bidy Salamon
Speaker 1: Shokatoni to through the ground. But Robert Jones phenomenal. To me,
Speaker 1: that was I was surprised he didn't get drafted, So
Speaker 1: I think Miami got themselves of steal with Jones. Jones
Speaker 1: is excellent, versatile, he's athletic, um, he plays fast, he
Speaker 1: plays aggressively, plays quick. That's the type of guy you
Speaker 1: want play on your offensive line. So I was excited
Speaker 1: to see him go down to Miami. Were again they've
Speaker 1: shown the ability to develop offensive lineman and when you
Speaker 1: have the based on skill set that he has, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't surprise me to see him factor into the mix
Speaker 1: early despite being undrafted. That's awesome to hear. I just
Speaker 1: told you about all the depth guys I think we have.
Speaker 1: We add this guy to the mix. Reports also out
Speaker 1: there that he had a nice little signing bonus attached
Speaker 1: to that undrafted free agent offer, so clearly, like you say, Emory,
Speaker 1: probably some teams in pursuit of him there. And on
Speaker 1: the offensive line, we also go with Jordan Tucker out
Speaker 1: of North Carolina reportedly and that was a star Studdard
Speaker 1: program that saw Diae Brown, Dad's Newsom, Chaz to Rat
Speaker 1: all drafted. But so were Javonte Williams, Michael Carter from
Speaker 1: that dominant, dominant North Carolina running game. How did Tucker
Speaker 1: contribute to that? And what's his long term projection here
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I have no grade or scouting report
Speaker 1: on Tucker, so I can't even explain what he brings up,
Speaker 1: what he is, or what he does. So when I
Speaker 1: looked at that undrafted free agent list, it was just
Speaker 1: Robert Jones. To me, that's the one that clearly stands
Speaker 1: out as that has a great chance to make it.
Speaker 1: So I can't even fake my way through a fake
Speaker 1: analysis or a scouting report on somebody hadn't seen him,
Speaker 1: hadn't watched him um and didn't know he was even
Speaker 1: eligible for the class. So and that's saying something because
Speaker 1: I have six Scott reports in his draft class, so
Speaker 1: him or there's one other guy I saw on that
Speaker 1: list that I just don't have grades on um, but
Speaker 1: you know, good luck to them. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, Robert Jones first, second, and third, that's
Speaker 1: the one that's the guy that that caught my attention initially,
Speaker 1: I think we can just skip over at this So
Speaker 1: no Jerome Johnson or Jaitlyn ask you either. Jerome Johnson
Speaker 1: is a is a depth guy. I have something on him.
Speaker 1: It was him and his teammate. They kind of greeted
Speaker 1: the same. Um. You know, they play a lot of
Speaker 1: snaps bianna. But you know, initially, I think you look
Speaker 1: at that defensive interior for Miami, it's gonna be tough
Speaker 1: to to really break the fifty three. So practice squad
Speaker 1: like Libel or likely for him. But again him, it
Speaker 1: was him and to see I can't remember his teammate's name,
Speaker 1: but I know it was both guys alone. That defensive
Speaker 1: line that spearheaded a very good defense. Uh top fifteen
Speaker 1: defense in the country. Uh. So he has some work
Speaker 1: with the skills, but I think he's more of a
Speaker 1: depth guy. So definitely headed for the practice squad if
Speaker 1: he's able to make it. I'm with you as far
Speaker 1: as not having a whole bunch of immediate knowledge ready
Speaker 1: for you. But I did read that he was another
Speaker 1: one of these long guys. Primary three technique had thirteen
Speaker 1: and a half sacks in his career. And then Jaitlyn
Speaker 1: asked you from Georgia Tech, he's got some special teams.
Speaker 1: Pelts on the wall, a guy that went down on
Speaker 1: covered kicks and played a million miles an hour there,
Speaker 1: So again kind of checking those protofiles. Are those prototypes
Speaker 1: here in Miami? Let's go back to the uh Well,
Speaker 1: my next question was gonna be if you had to
Speaker 1: pick one to make the team, who would it be?
Speaker 1: But I think we already have that answer. Let's go
Speaker 1: back to the top of the draft and you know
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, Jail and Phillips, Javon Holland we come back
Speaker 1: with Hunter Long in the third round in Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 1: Sandwich there in between skipped over his name on accident.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Dolphins first five picks
Speaker 1: in those first three rounds? And as any one of
Speaker 1: those guys stand out to you, was like, that's a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl type player from day one. I think Chris
Speaker 1: Grig got my draft guy because I loved all those picks.
Speaker 1: Number one flanker was Jailing Waddle. Number two offensive tackle
Speaker 1: was Lion Eichenberg. Number two in in line tight end
Speaker 1: was Hunter Long. So number one, uh defensive and four
Speaker 1: three defensive mean Jail and Phillips. So obviously I love
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins draft. They nailed it in my opinion. So, um,
Speaker 1: I'm glad we were seeing it all the same weight, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, as a general manager. So I thought that
Speaker 1: was awesome. The fact that Waddle is an explosive guy.
Speaker 1: And going back, I was on a Rush Tucker podcast
Speaker 1: back in the summer and and this is before the season,
Speaker 1: so I was like, Jail and Waddle is the best
Speaker 1: Alabama receiver. Um, And this was before Smith did what
Speaker 1: he had to do to win the hisman. Because Smith,
Speaker 1: to me at that point I thought he was more
Speaker 1: ted getting than anything. Going through the season, he became
Speaker 1: more Marvin Harrison to me than anything. So Devons Smith
Speaker 1: did a great job and improving his stock. But Wattle,
Speaker 1: his speed just doesn't make sense. Is rocket ishmail Like
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, Joey Gallowy, Like it's the re
Speaker 1: acceleration explosiveness that just leaves you just blinded by his
Speaker 1: skill set jail and Phillips has good value because he's
Speaker 1: able to play both ends of defense very well, playing
Speaker 1: the run, playing the past, shows good hand us shows
Speaker 1: good instincts, good technique. So he's a plug and play guy. Eikenberg,
Speaker 1: it was funny. I was shocked that there wasn't much
Speaker 1: talk amongst draft media about Eikenberg um considering how much
Speaker 1: space he vacated up up front for Notre Dame. You know,
Speaker 1: it was Ian Book had all they to throw because
Speaker 1: Eikenberg and uh, you know, Aaron Um Brown or being
Speaker 1: you know, the guard end up going to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: All those guys did. We just dominate And so I
Speaker 1: can Berg was my number two tackle. I thought he
Speaker 1: was tremendous. And then you talk about a hunter long,
Speaker 1: you know, it may not be flashy, it may not
Speaker 1: be dynamic, but it's consistent and the blocking part is
Speaker 1: where he has value. So you pair him up with
Speaker 1: the sicky and now you have a strong tight end
Speaker 1: group because you have somebody that can do it on
Speaker 1: you know, against the run, um or in the run game.
Speaker 1: And the second is the type of guy that gets
Speaker 1: you downfield in the passing game. So you keep both
Speaker 1: guys on field, and I just thought that overall, Miami
Speaker 1: just nailed it, and I was I was actually excited
Speaker 1: Miami nailed it, and a couple of teams I thought
Speaker 1: every pick was just like, Wow, that's a great pick.
Speaker 1: That's a great pick. But Miami, to me, it just
Speaker 1: backs up. You know what they did last year. I
Speaker 1: had high grades on a lot of their rookies, and
Speaker 1: so I thought back to back classes. You know, it's
Speaker 1: it's just good. And that's why you saw this team
Speaker 1: on the precipice of the playoffs last year, and I
Speaker 1: think this year have a great chance to keep the
Speaker 1: door down and get in. You mentioned two tight end
Speaker 1: sets twenty percent of the time and twelve personnel that
Speaker 1: was fifth in the National Football League last year with
Speaker 1: Mike Gasiki and then a combination of Durham Smith and
Speaker 1: Adam Shaheen at that position. So you talk a little
Speaker 1: bit there about the entirety of the class, and I've
Speaker 1: got so many questions to kind of I guess follow
Speaker 1: up with you there, and I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here. Um. You know, you mentioned last year's
Speaker 1: draft class and obviously Austin Jackson to a tongue of Byloo.
Speaker 1: Both got plenty of playing time. Noahg Bnogamy started the
Speaker 1: season playing but then wound up getting some more special
Speaker 1: teams work as Byron Jones and Xavian Howard. We're healthy
Speaker 1: and playing every single week. Robert Hunt played a lot
Speaker 1: on the right side of the offensive line as well,
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley on the interior. So that's a lot of talent,
Speaker 1: and obviously a lot of that birth from the Laramie
Speaker 1: Tounsel trade a couple of years back. I'm curious, Emery,
Speaker 1: how does a roster that has so many early draft
Speaker 1: picks in consecutive years like that? Because we're gonna rely
Speaker 1: on these guys, these guys are gonna play significant snaps.
Speaker 1: How challenging is that for a coaching staff to get
Speaker 1: all those guys jelling quickly on the same page and
Speaker 1: getting them to play winning Football's earlier September, it's a
Speaker 1: good problem to have, you know. You asked any coach
Speaker 1: and they'll tell you I'd rather have a team full
Speaker 1: of talented guys and struggle to to put the most
Speaker 1: talented guys on the field than a team full of
Speaker 1: not talented guys. So you know, it's good because this
Speaker 1: year is different. You get a little bit back to normalcy,
Speaker 1: I believe. So you get to have, you know, the
Speaker 1: full off season, you get to have preseason where those
Speaker 1: you know, live game reps are so valuable because you
Speaker 1: can't fake live in practice, no manute, no matter how
Speaker 1: much you want to simulate it, it's hard to fake
Speaker 1: live action. And preseason games have tremendous value and that's
Speaker 1: where guys can develop that chemistry. So I think that's
Speaker 1: what you're gonna see for the most part from Miami.
Speaker 1: And again, all those guys you mentioned last year, especially
Speaker 1: those offensive line picks, combined with what they have this year,
Speaker 1: not only will they have a strong starting five, but
Speaker 1: their next three, you know or four, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: really good, so you don't have any drop off, and
Speaker 1: that just keeps the offense rolling, and that just gonna
Speaker 1: gonna make the transition easier for two. A tong about
Speaker 1: lower in the second season and not going in knowing
Speaker 1: he's a starter, knowing he's the guy, not looking over
Speaker 1: his shoulder, a little bit more comfortable in the system.
Speaker 1: All of that is what you want if you're a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So I love the fact that he's going in with
Speaker 1: that level of security around him, both mentally and also physically,
Speaker 1: with the offensive line and with those receiving weapons. We
Speaker 1: talked about Wildle but you got Parker, you get you know,
Speaker 1: Preston Williams back, you got you know, uh, will Fuller
Speaker 1: like good luck man like that. That's too much speed
Speaker 1: out there, um on a perimeter. If will Fuller is
Speaker 1: healthy for the for the full season, you know, that's
Speaker 1: him and Waddle on the same field at the same time.
Speaker 1: Good luck safeties, you know what I'm saying. So I
Speaker 1: just I just think Miami is gonna be so fun
Speaker 1: to watch, and I still feel as though they're running
Speaker 1: back away from being truly special. I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: come back here and a second ask you for a
Speaker 1: prediction because I love, I love what I'm hearing from you.
Speaker 1: But I want to ask you a couple more questions
Speaker 1: first before we get to that. So you had mentioned
Speaker 1: the offensive line being you know, seven, eight nine, Paul
Speaker 1: sably deep up front. I mean, you go, look at
Speaker 1: the twenty are going into last year before free agency,
Speaker 1: when they signed Eric Flowers and Ted Carriss and wind
Speaker 1: up drafting the three rookies. I mean, Jesse Davis was
Speaker 1: like the one incomement that you knew was probably gonna
Speaker 1: get a crack at a starting job up front. And
Speaker 1: now you look at the rotation. He might be a
Speaker 1: swing tackle, swing interior guy, maybe the seventh or eighth
Speaker 1: guy off the bench, or he could start. You never know,
Speaker 1: but it just speaks to the level of roster building
Speaker 1: and team building. This, this this Dolphins brass has done
Speaker 1: under Chris Career and Brian Flores. One more question for
Speaker 1: you about an individual, emery, because I have been watching
Speaker 1: his tape the last few days and I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a bad one yet. It's Javon Holland out of Oregon,
Speaker 1: the safety who eight hundred snaps in the bo or
Speaker 1: in the slot, three hundred at free safety, three hundred
Speaker 1: in the box. I'm wondering where do you think he's
Speaker 1: most dangerous at secondary? I love his ball awareness. You know,
Speaker 1: that's one dude that is always around the action. And
Speaker 1: you know he opted out this past season and what
Speaker 1: have you. But that dude is excellent in terms of
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table and what he does
Speaker 1: from you know, an instinctual standpoint. So I love his game.
Speaker 1: I love what he's able to do. Uh. Ball skills
Speaker 1: and ball awareness are two separate entities, and he has
Speaker 1: them vote so he doesn't miss the opportunity to turn
Speaker 1: the ball over. And he's always gonna find the football.
Speaker 1: And to me, I know, you know they're gonna love
Speaker 1: him down there because you have smart football players. The
Speaker 1: ball awareness part is a smart a smart football player.
Speaker 1: The ball skills part is the technique part, and the
Speaker 1: skills to turn the ball over, and he has those.
Speaker 1: You won't see any dropped interceptions or miss opportunities to
Speaker 1: to make a play on the ball. Holland is x
Speaker 1: And I forgot to mention him, uh you know, earlier,
Speaker 1: but that's one pick that I really like as well,
Speaker 1: because again, anytime you have someone in the secondary that
Speaker 1: can find the football like that in a passing league,
Speaker 1: in the passing era, that's worth your weight in gold.
Speaker 1: You know, that's someone that just keeps you honest defensively
Speaker 1: on all offense. I'm sorry where you know you don't
Speaker 1: you know you can't make errand plays because someone back
Speaker 1: there is you know, a step ahead with his instincts
Speaker 1: and beautiful plays on the ball. And Coach talked about
Speaker 1: this and his his post draft pressor that he loved
Speaker 1: Javon Hall and even said it was one of his
Speaker 1: favorite tapes to watch. And that's pretty uncommon for coach.
Speaker 1: He's usually gonna tell us where because you have a
Speaker 1: long way to go, which eventually he did tell us that.
Speaker 1: But to complement a player to that nature was was
Speaker 1: was pretty telling. I think of how coach Flores feels
Speaker 1: about Javon Holland, so I cannot wait to see what
Speaker 1: he does in this defense. Emory, I asked you earlier,
Speaker 1: I was gonna come back to it. You're just talking
Speaker 1: my language right now. Man. I've I've been kind of
Speaker 1: hyping this thing up my own as well. But what
Speaker 1: do you think, man? Where We're a few months away
Speaker 1: from training camp. But is this team of division contender,
Speaker 1: division title contender, a deep playoff run or where you
Speaker 1: got this team at? Well? They could be a title
Speaker 1: contender for sure, conference title, division title. I'm sorry, AFC East,
Speaker 1: you know division you know contender. They were there last year.
Speaker 1: You know they had an opportunity to last year. So
Speaker 1: I think tin wins is definitely um doable once again,
Speaker 1: you know, to get the extra game this year, so
Speaker 1: we'll see, um, if a running back emerges as a
Speaker 1: true threat and if toultates the next step, Um, then
Speaker 1: you can see this team, you know, not only just
Speaker 1: getting into the play winning a game or two, but
Speaker 1: I think talent wise, they are a tin win football team.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be the biggest key Canny close out
Speaker 1: some of these closed games. Can hey, you know, not
Speaker 1: drop games that there's a quote unquote supposed to win.
Speaker 1: That will be the biggest question mark. But you know,
Speaker 1: all eyes will be on tour. You know, it's the
Speaker 1: second year, first full season, uh in the system, not
Speaker 1: coming off of you know, an injury. So we'll get
Speaker 1: to see the talent that we saw at Alabama pre injury,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see how he's gonna do this season.
Speaker 1: Three months until August in the Star training camp. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see those guys back on the field together.
Speaker 1: In that meantime, Emory Hunt's gonna be doing about a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty college scouting reports as well. So Emory
Speaker 1: hunts CBS Sports HQ Football game plan Emery, Where can
Speaker 1: the folks find you on social and what are you
Speaker 1: working on right now? They could follow me on Twitter
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Speaker 1: Slash one Draft Guide. As we know, the rosters will
Speaker 1: always be transient during the training camp period, preseason, and
Speaker 1: even during the season, so anytime the Dolphins signed someone new,
Speaker 1: you cant thumb through that that scouting report and find uh,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, a name or a scouting report
Speaker 1: in it, so it still has value. We're excited about
Speaker 1: it has done really well this this draft season as
Speaker 1: our second edition of putting out a draft guide, and
Speaker 1: also we're working on our draft breeds. We love to
Speaker 1: wait until rookie minicamps done before we throw out our
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Speaker 1: goes for a hundred yards in the game last year.
Speaker 1: Maybe you hadn't heard of him. Go back to the
Speaker 1: Football game Plan and Emory hunt and find out his
Speaker 1: scouting report. Emory, thank you so much for your time today. Man,
Speaker 1: it was a blast. Learned a ton be well, my friend,
Speaker 1: and there he goes. He said it all right. The
Speaker 1: great podcast, great back and forth. That guy is full
Speaker 1: of knowledge. We talked off air a little bit about
Speaker 1: meeting up next year at the Shrine Bowl, possibly up
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