WEBVTT - Breaking Down Combine Workouts with Kent Platte and NFL News Picks Up 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:05.360 To us fires touch style by Waddle snucked into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boy, tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:19.400 What is up? Dolphins and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.920 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.640 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I am your host, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.960 Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, we are putting a 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:36.760 bow on the combine and some draft notes until after 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:39.440 free agency calms down from the first week or two 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.280 of activity. We're gonna welcome in our annual guest and 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.879 Kent Platt of the Relative Athletics Scorecard to help us 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.680 break down the on field workouts. Plus we have to 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.360 talk about the crazy week that has been in the 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:56.960 National Football League, franchise tag deadline, major quarterback news, and 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.840 the impact on the new league year. Coming your way 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.920 next week with wall to wall coverage here on the 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.680 Drivetime Podcast and all over Miami Dolphins content avenues from 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.800 somewhere in South Florida. This is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.160 We start here with some Dolphins news and we'll get 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.680 to the league news here in just one second. But 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.319 we start with some tendered exclusive rights free agents. Defensive 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.839 back Elijah Campbell, who joined the club mid season last 0:01:26.920 --> 0:01:30.120 year and really became one of the core special teamers 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:33.360 and was an absolute maven in that role for that matter, 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.200 watching him on tape, he was consistently getting down on 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.600 tackles and getting off blocks and just doing the work, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:41.039 the dirty work that kind of goes unnoticed on the 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:44.039 third phase so often, and you can never have enough 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:48.320 defensive backs, especially when they function that highly on special teams. 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.200 And then also running back Savan Akhmed, who you might 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.880 recall began his career with the forty Niners as a 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.720 U d F. A out of you, Dub and Mike McDaniel. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.440 There with the Niners, he'll get a chance to show 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.920 this staff what he can do. And what I've always 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.560 thought that Savan could do is hit home runs. He 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.560 has electric speed and acceleration to the perimeter and otherwise. 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:12.720 What game was that last year? I think it was 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:17.160 the Panthers where I thought he was a shoe string 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.880 tackle away two separate occasions from hitting the big run. 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:23.000 You bring that single high safety down, you get it 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.359 blocked up, well, you make one guy miss at the 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.079 second level, and you can hit some home runs in 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:29.320 the running game, and we know how much I love 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.400 big plays in the running game. And then also his 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:36.720 factoring into the passing game. Remember that wheel route he 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.880 caught against the Bears from Jacoby Brissette last preseason for 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.040 a touchdown. That happened almost daily in camp, and I 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.200 always wanted to see him get more of those looks 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.680 and get another opportunity to see just more of what 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.080 he can do. And we'll get that opportunity here this 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.960 offseason to watch him in the offseason camps and up 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.079 to training camp. Then, of course, nothing can become official 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:02.640 sands players who were outright released agreeing to terms with 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:07.040 new clubs, but nothing else can become official until the 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.000 new league year. You might recall Alex Smith's trade back 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:16.080 in or the Matt Stafford trade last winter. Both of 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.360 those went down within a week of the Super Bowl, 0:03:19.400 --> 0:03:22.040 per reports, right, couldn't make it official until the new 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:25.360 league year. Then we saw them officially executed on you know, 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.560 in mid March. And it's not like that's some new thing. 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.760 I mean, I remember the Sam Bradford trade to was 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.400 it Minnesota, No, it was the one before that was 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.560 the Eagles trade But that was which leads me into 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.280 the first point I have about all the news that 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.680 went down on Tuesday. Actually first in case this is 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.480 the only football content you consume, and if it is, 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.000 we thank you. But here's the news that happened. So 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:54.520 Aaron Rodger, Rogers ROJ will reportedly sign a new contract 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.360 to stay with the Packers, probably until he retires. Right 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.600 the contract has had to be four years, which will 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.760 take him well into his forties. And how cool was 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:06.360 the reaction to that news and kind of a peek 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.520 behind the curtain in terms of how these NFL front 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:13.840 offices and executives are just always working trying to find 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.240 the best way possible to improve their football teams. I mean, 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:22.320 the Rogers links to Denver, especially with Nathaniel Hackett there, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.520 they were quite strong. And then that began in earnest, 0:04:26.960 --> 0:04:31.239 long before that last year on Draft night, when those 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.960 reports first surfaced that Rogers might be interested in a 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:38.080 trade out of Green Bay. I'll never forget being at 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.560 the stadium for Draft night and the draft party. It 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.360 was all we could talk about. Whether I was talking 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:45.960 to alumni, fellow media members, people fans at the stadium. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.000 Everyone was buzzing about the potential Aaron Rodgers trade that 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.200 was supposed to go down that night on Draft night. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.200 It never did. It never materialized, and here he is 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:56.000 now back with the Packers. But that was all we 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.520 could talk about it. It took up the headlines at 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.039 sure as hell, takes up the a block of so 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:04.839 many syndicated radio shows I'm a fan of, and it 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.920 grew a little bit tiring. But that shoe dropped. Then 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.839 the bigger shoe dropped in the Russell Wilson trade, which 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:12.520 again this gives you the idea, you know, the Broncos 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.680 so heavily linked to Aaron Rodgers. That gets announced, and 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.240 just a couple hours later, the Russell Wilson trade has 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.039 been announced, and you know, much of the dismay of 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.599 my friends back home in the Emerald City and the 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:28.719 breathtaking Pacific Northwest. He is a Seahawk. No more. Seattle 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.080 and Denver strike a trade that sends the future Hall 0:05:32.120 --> 0:05:34.640 of Fame quarterback. I feel pretty comfortable saying that to 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.599 the Rocky Mountains in exchange for and it's a lot. 0:05:38.000 --> 0:05:40.440 There was a fourth fifth round pick swap. Let's get 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:44.680 that out of the way. But Seattle gets Denver's first rounders, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:48.760 and that's the ninth pick this year, and that, to 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.040 me is where the real value there comes, because you know, 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.400 even if the Broncos don't play too I think what 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.680 their expectation would be. Even even in that instance, you 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:03.039 have to assume like seven eight wins minimum, which puts 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:06.880 you in the teens of the following draft. So the 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:12.080 ninth pick is probably not guaranteed, but probably the highest 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.320 pick the Seahawks will get from that hall. Now, when 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:18.840 we got the picks from Houston for the Larrymie Tunzill 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:23.479 Kenny Stills trade, I think there was always the potential 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:27.719 for those Texans teams to have what amounted to, you know, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.040 a Murphy's Law type of season, right where everything goes wrong, 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.800 because they had injuries to DeAndre Hopkins, to j J. Watt, 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:38.920 to so many crew crucial players on that roster. And 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:41.160 that was without an injury to the starting quarterback who 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:45.080 played all sixteen games that year. And that's I mean, 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.560 that's why it's somewhat insane that with Dolphins wound up 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:52.240 with a third pick and ultimately Jalen Waddle and Javon 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:56.160 Holland and another first round pick in more on us 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.880 here in just a minute. So can the Seahawks use 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.800 that ninth pick to a whire more draft capital this year? 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.240 Maybe maybe my buddy Mitch from back home might lose 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:07.960 his mind if that happens. In fact, I told him 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.040 I might mention him on the podcast and the idea 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.800 of them moving back, and if you know the Seahawks, 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.080 they move back in the draft all the time. And 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:17.120 he says, if they find a way to trade all 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.440 the way out of the first round altogether, that he's 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.320 looking or that I'm looking rather at the newest Miami 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.280 Dolphins fans. So Mitch, come join us, my friend. But 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.520 the Seahawk get the two first rounders, they get to 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.760 second rounders, They get Shelby Harris, a damn fine player. 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:33.240 They get no Offense who I think has all kinds 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.120 of ability that has not yet shown itself in the 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.640 National Football League in terms of his upside and production. 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.080 And they also get Drew Lock, the former second round 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:45.200 pick there of the Denver Broncos. And with that Jimmy 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:48.720 Johnson trade value chart that we consult so often on 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.840 this podcast, on Twitter and really across the football landscape, 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.080 that's a suggestion these days. Right, the value that we 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.520 have to evaluate off of is really just the recent trade. 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.440 So that brings me back to this point, a trade 0:08:01.440 --> 0:08:04.560 the Dolphins made back in tween that the sun has 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:07.520 still not set on in the Larry me Tunsel Kenny 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.960 Stills trade two first round picks and a second round pick, 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.480 which again Waddle and Holland are part of that. Hall 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.120 feel pretty good about that. Some mid round swaps and 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.640 some players swaps. You know, Johnson Batamosi was part of 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.360 that trade, a special teams player and defensive back to 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.600 that nineteen Dolphins team. And again you should also mention 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.000 Kenny Stills because he was a heck of a player 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:29.320 and he his name often gets buried in revisiting that trade, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.320 but he was a big piece for that Texans offense 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.840 as well. But I mean, we're talking about quarterback value 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.280 for a non quarterback and maximizing the opportunities you have 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:44.559 to get well above market value when the opportunity presents itself. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.680 And now, if you look at reports circulating out there, 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.000 like lances are lined for instance from NFL dot Com, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.440 who does radio in Houston and as as plugged in 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.600 and Houston as anybody across the National Football League suggesting 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.880 that Larry me Tunsil might be available for a trade 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.439 this offseason, and he floated the idea of potential late 0:09:02.480 --> 0:09:05.680 first round pick to make that happen. Like, I mean, 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.480 that's that's about the value you see from Orlando Brown, 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.479 from a even a Frank Clark of you know, non quarterback, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.040 big time producer that was traded at you know, before 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:19.040 a contract came up. And what do you see who 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.320 with the quarterbacks who get dealt in these blockbuster trades. 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:25.400 I think Matt Stafford's going anywhere from Los Angeles an 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:27.480 time soon. He'll be there forever. Probably do you think 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:30.280 Russell Wilson's gonna play anywhere but Denver for a while. 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:31.680 I mean, he had to sign off on a no 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.560 trade provision to let this deal happen. You have to 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:37.800 think the Rams and Broncos respectively, feel like they have 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:43.360 their quarterbacks for the next seven eight years minimum. Stafford 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.400 was acquired for two first round picks and a third 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:47.800 But another big part of that trade was offloading the 0:09:47.840 --> 0:09:50.760 Jared Goff contract. But from a picks perspective, it was 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.440 literally less than what Miami got for Laramie Tunzil, and 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.560 we talked about this roster on the podcast a lot, right. 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.680 You know the names, Christian Wilkins going back to nineteen injury, 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.240 Van Ginkel to a big rob Ray Kwon Davis, Brandon Jones, 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:07.800 Jalen Waddle, given Philip Javon Holland. In a lot of ways, 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.320 that trade set the table for the Dolphins to have 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:14.320 this run of draft success where they're picking up big 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.840 time contributors on rookie contracts and really having those guys 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:21.920 be primary producers on this roster. The flexibility you gain 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.120 from that and the fact that you're still profiting off 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:27.319 that that trade and future draft picks. It creates a 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.080 level of flexibility. It creates a level of, well, we 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.040 can go after this position because we know we have 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.480 more picks here. It's just ms that's definition of flexibility. 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:37.960 But it really set the table for Miami to get 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.480 themselves into this position where they have the most caps 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:42.640 based on the National Football League, the least amount of 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:45.079 dead cap in the National Football League, a whole bunch 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:47.440 of young players on rookie contracts who are big time 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.920 producers in the system. That's a big part of it. 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.840 So that's the Dolphins lens on that and frankly, I'm 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.640 excited to have another year of someone else's first round pick. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.640 It always adds an element of excitement to that particular season. Now, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.679 Wilson to the a f C is well, I mean 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.200 this conference and the balance of quarterback play is it's 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.040 tough that division. Someone asked me this or asked this 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.280 question on Twitter. I should say, is this the best 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:14.240 quarterback division of all time? And I saw some references 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:17.680 to the nineties a f C East with Marino, Kelly Bledsoe, Assaissin, 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:22.000 a Siasen and Hardbaugh. That's pretty good, But I think 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:25.680 I might lean towards this one right now. I mean Mahomes, Wilson, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:31.200 Herbert Carr, Derek Carr would probably be minimum the second 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.480 best quarterback. And like a lot of divisions in the 0:11:33.559 --> 0:11:36.320 National Football League, the majority of divisions, and you can 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.360 certainly make the argument that he would come in forth 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:40.680 and an a f C West quarterback power rankings. And 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.480 this is a guy that I had firmly, very firmly 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:46.760 among my top ten quarterbacks this season ago just insane. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.080 The balance of power there by the way we played 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.360 the a f C North this year, but we've seen 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.840 ten wins come up short of a playoff birth. We've 0:11:56.880 --> 0:11:59.080 seen nine wins come up short of a playoff birth. 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.040 We've seen the team have back to back winning seasons 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:06.360 result in zero playoff berths, the first team to do 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.240 that since well US in two thousand to two thousand three. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.920 And that speaks to the balance of power between the 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:16.360 conferences the last two years. And this a f C gauntlet, 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.080 So no one said it was gonna be easy. Lots 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:21.320 of work to be done for every club, obviously across 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.920 the National Football League, but it did get a little 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:28.520 bit harder with Mr Unlimited coming to the a f C. Alright, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.319 that wasn't the only news we talked about Mike Gasicki's 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.160 franchise tag on the last edition of the Drivetime podcast. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.360 There was some more that went down. Mike Gasicky, Dalton Schultz, 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.160 the Cowboys, David Najoku from the Cleveland Browns, the tight 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:46.120 end market there depressed a little bit. Davante Adams, Chris Godwin, 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:50.360 Jesse Bates, Cam Robinson, and Orlando Brown. So the tight 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:51.760 end market takes a bit of a hit, But that 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.680 makes you feel better about Mike Asiki coming back, Adams 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.240 with Rogers and that contract. Both those guys will have 0:12:57.280 --> 0:12:59.640 on like on the tag and and the extension that 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.000 Roger is reported to receive. That would be fun to 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.439 watch how the Packers piece that thing together. Two very 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.439 very expensive players and too well, the best probably the 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.520 best quarterback in the best receiver in the National Football League. 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.679 So with Adams and Godwin going off the market and 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:15.920 Mike Williams signing an extension with the Chargers on a 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.040 MEGAMEGA deal, that deeplets the receiver market a little bit. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.680 Which we're gonna do an updated version of some of 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.240 those free agent primers we did, was it a month 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.840 ago and give you a better vision of what it 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.200 looks like now come the new league gear. So those 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.520 guys off the market, Calvin Ridley obviously was mentioned among 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.680 reports as guys that might be available for trade. Strike 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.360 that idea. That's four guys at the receiver position that 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.680 we're inside Pro Football Focus is top twenty available free agents, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.160 and not a free agent but a guy that was 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:48.160 rumored to be potentially on the move. So four of 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.840 those top guys out of the equation now and just 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.679 some late breaking news into the podcast as I'm recording, 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:59.440 Carson wentz It sounds like we'll be going from Indianapolis 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.800 back to the NFC East for the Washington Commanders, so 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:07.000 some more quarterback movement here in the league. The dominoes 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.480 continue to fall. So we'll have all of that stuff 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.000 covered for you here on the Drivetime podcast in the 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:14.439 coming days and the coming weeks here as the new 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.840 league your kicks off next week. And look, I want 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.080 to make an apology here real quick to the Miami 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.200 Heat and Heat fans everywhere, because I was caught up 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:26.160 in the hysteria of the NFL offseason, which is, in 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.800 all honesty, the second best season of sports behind the 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.760 NFL season, and so I tweeted that all other sports 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:35.440 are just passing time between the NFL's tent pole events. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.240 But you guys know, I'm all in on the Miami Heat. 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.160 Let's go Heat, baby, and they're run to the finals 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.640 as there's a drive deep to left and I'll make 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.720 it a four oh ball game. So, like I said, 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.240 we'll revisit this next week. I also want to hear 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:51.560 from you. Put your questions in the Apple podcast reviews. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:54.160 I'll answer the five star ratings on our mail Bag 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.400 podcast next week. Also, I'll put a tweet out for 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:59.040 that and get some written questions on the Miami Dolphins 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:01.120 dot com web page to get as many of your 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.760 questions answered as we can. But coming up next back 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.160 to the Combine, my annual guest Kent Platt, the creator 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.800 of the Relative Athletics scorecard that's coming your way next 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.600 here on the Drivetime Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.720 Back here on the Drive Time Podcast, brought to you 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:23.920 by Auto Nation, and I am thrilled to be joined 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.640 as I am annually by This is off my show 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.520 notes Kent. But the best mustache I've seen so far 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:32.320 in the whole zoom process. He is Kent Platt, the 0:15:32.400 --> 0:15:35.720 creator of one of my of my favorite draft resource 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.280 that's out there in the Relative Athletics Scorecard. Kent first, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.120 welcome fantastic mustache. And to kick it off, rather than 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:45.800 me explaining r A S, why don't you go ahead 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.080 and give the audience here a quick rundown on what 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.880 exactly r A S is. Yeah, great, I'm glad that 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.360 you have me and I always love coming back. Relative 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:57.880 Athletics score was created to be a way to contextualize 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:00.840 the metrics that we get at the Combine days every year. 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:03.520 It's very easy to use all those buzzwords like oh, 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:05.640 this guy is quick but not fast, or this guy 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.400 is explosive and and that type of stuff doesn't really 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.400 mean anything. It's just words that they throw around. But 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.760 then you see the times, the actual raw metrics, and 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:17.560 those don't really mean anything to most fans either. If 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:19.280 I if I tell you that a wide receiver ran 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.400 a four or five two, that doesn't really mean that much. 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:23.840 But if I tell you a wide receiver ran a 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.960 four five two and a defensive end ran at four 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:28.280 five two, well that's the same time. That's that's that's 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.320 good for both, right, Well, it's it's okay for a 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:34.600 wide receiver, whereas for a defensive end that's a fantastic time. 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.720 And RAS does a great job of contextualizing that, because 0:16:37.760 --> 0:16:39.880 your score at a receiver for four or five two 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.160 is gonna be just about average, a little bit above average, 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.360 but for a defensive end that's gonna be very very high. 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:49.120 Because for a defensive end that's a much more impressive score. 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:52.200 Everything's rated on a zero to ten scale. Everybody can 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:55.600 understand zero to tend. Zero is never good, tend is 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.240 always good. When you zero it's end um and everything's 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.640 color coded. You know, it's got the whole style Blake colors, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.800 color scheme, red, yellow, and green, and people can figure 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.159 that stuff out on their own too. So the idea 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.199 was to create something that was very fan facing and 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.480 very easy to understand, and I think it's done a 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.440 pretty good job of that over the last couple of years. 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.760 I think without question it has especially the red, the red, green, yellow. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.679 Man Like, every time I type in a player, like 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.120 a for instance, on draft night, if the Dolphins draft 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.400 someone that I'm not intimately familiar with their game, I'll 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.400 already as that thing, find it out, and then it's 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:27.080 all green. It's like, all right, here we go. Now 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.159 we're talking. Now we're cooking with guests. And so that 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.239 kind of brings me to a question I was curious about, Kent, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:32.639 and I don't know if there is an answer to 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:34.080 this or not. I'm just kind of kind of going 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.879 off script again on you. I apologize for that, but 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:39.280 it fascinates me so much. I was just wondering, do 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:44.280 you find, uh, you know, certain certain indicators, or is 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:48.879 there a certain way to score or measure ultimately the 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.560 success of draft picks or players. That ties back to 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.480 RASS because you know we've talked. We talked about this 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.000 off air. You don't have to have elite testing numbers 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.320 to be a great NFL player, like Xaviing was a 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:02.840 player who who wasn't a high RAS scre one of 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.199 the best cornerbacks in the National Football League. But have 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:07.360 you kind of over the years, because this goes back 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.840 to ven, have you kind of put together something in 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:12.840 your mind about like, Okay, I know that when a 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.320 player does this, this, and this, it tends to equal 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.320 that or does that not exist in this project. It's 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.800 hard because when you're trying to explain and everybody wants 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:23.080 it to be like, well, higher number means better, so 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.040 if I get this, I should get this, and it 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:29.480 doesn't really correlate in that way. Everything's kind of threshold 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.480 based and you can really see it. I actually put 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.000 it up on the site now on the main page 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.600 at r S Football. You can actually sort by Pro 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.000 bowlers or by thousand yard receivers or thousand yard rushers 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.359 or different pass rushers have ten sacks in the season, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.280 and you'll see it immediately because the majority of those 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:48.200 guys are going to be in the green so it 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:51.160 shows you that there's a correlation over time for guys 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.280 to test really well. But that doesn't mean that a 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:55.560 guy tests well and he's gonna do well. It just 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:58.560 generally means that if a guy does well, he probably 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.040 tested well. So it kind of worked the other way around. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.480 And once you get that kind of mindset, it really 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.840 helps to project because you're never gonna look just at 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.800 testing numbers. You're always going to go back to the 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.480 tape and see what else is there, Because whether a 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.840 guy tests well or he tests poorly, if he's got 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.440 good tape, that's the guy that you're going to be considering. 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.320 Drafting for your football team is just weighing the risk 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.639 based on tons of different factors, of which athletic testing 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.760 is one. No, it makes perfect sense. And and for me, 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:29.240 you know, knowing those kind of comparison cards, like I 0:19:29.320 --> 0:19:32.560 told you, I use this tool not just during draft season, 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.320 but sometimes in season when I'm trying to think about 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.400 particular matchups for for the team, Like, for instance, if 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:41.879 they have a super athletic, long speed type of receiver, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.960 I might think about Byron Jones because of how athletic 0:19:45.040 --> 0:19:46.879 he is and how he might match up in that 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.720 skill set. So it's fascinating stuff, can't We're just getting 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:52.440 started here, and before we do get started, you know, 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.520 I wanted to look at maybe some current dolphins and 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.520 where they checked in to kind of help develop that 0:19:56.960 --> 0:19:59.040 shared aesthetic for both you and I but also for 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.600 the audience. And again, where else would you start besides 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.000 Byron Jones, who broke all kinds of combine records and 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.240 even a world record on the broad jump? What about 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.480 his r as? That really kind of I guess just 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:12.760 walk us through Byron Jones and and the rest scorecard. Yeah, 0:20:12.800 --> 0:20:16.760 Byron Jones actually broke bras. The original calculation that I 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.720 had for for RAS was broken by Byron Jones because 0:20:20.800 --> 0:20:24.359 his his twelve foot three inch broad jump was so 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:27.920 much higher than the next best guy that the old 0:20:27.960 --> 0:20:32.200