Speaker 1: Bowl, Cutdown, Miami Run. What is up? Dolphans And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it
Speaker 1: going everybody? I am your host Travis Winfield. And on
Speaker 1: today's show, we are continuing the draft preview series as
Speaker 1: we take a look at the running back class with
Speaker 1: USA Today's Doug Ferrar. We're gonna break the class down
Speaker 1: by tears, talk about the fall off from the top
Speaker 1: three to the next group of backs where the best
Speaker 1: value is the best past catchers, the best pass protectors,
Speaker 1: the best between the tackles, runners, all that good stuff
Speaker 1: you've come to know and love from these draft preview podcasts. Plus,
Speaker 1: Chris Greer met with the media on Wednesday morning. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get to all the comments and break down everything
Speaker 1: he said in that press conference. All of that and
Speaker 1: a whole bunch more on this edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast before we jump into this Chris career press
Speaker 1: or if you can't tell by my Twitter timeline, and
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Speaker 1: Crowder as your main stage host. We're gonna have a
Speaker 1: plethora of guests to go along with that as well,
Speaker 1: So come check us out on Thursday night. But I'm
Speaker 1: at the stadium every day. I'm tweeting about kind of
Speaker 1: how surreal this whole thing is, and it's kind of
Speaker 1: like the Dream Job, Part two because last year everything
Speaker 1: was put on pause when I got this job back
Speaker 1: in late February, two weeks before the pandemic became a
Speaker 1: part of our lives. And now things they're opening up slowly.
Speaker 1: We're still wearing masks, we're still socially distancing, fully vaccinated,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff. But it's kind of like a
Speaker 1: reintroduction into the job for me being around Hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 1: walking out to the field and you know, just purging
Speaker 1: my inbox from the stands and looking down to the
Speaker 1: field that I have watched hundreds and hundreds of Dolphins games.
Speaker 1: It's all just a magical, magical dream come true to
Speaker 1: be there. The food they serve, everything about the damn
Speaker 1: place is top notch, five stars, world class. You just
Speaker 1: can't believe how great this organization treats their employees. But
Speaker 1: there was one little problem. On Tuesday. I ran into
Speaker 1: we have a lunch program you opt into and you
Speaker 1: can eat at the stadium, and there was no soda available.
Speaker 1: And I am, yeah, kind of addicted to soda, Like
Speaker 1: I thrive on caffeine. You've seen the BANG promotion. I've
Speaker 1: done the diet Pepsi's that I drink, and I go
Speaker 1: through that stuff heavily. So Tuesday I didn't have soda
Speaker 1: with my lunch for the first time that I since
Speaker 1: I really can care to admit it's it's probably been
Speaker 1: a couple of years, and there's like no flavor in that,
Speaker 1: and I just had this taste, this yearning for the
Speaker 1: soda in the afternoon, and then I finally get home
Speaker 1: to drink it and my head starts to hurt, Like
Speaker 1: you need caffeine in your system? Is that common? Like?
Speaker 1: Is there is that? What happened? If you don't drink caffeine,
Speaker 1: that's a diet tribe, but hold another off the rails
Speaker 1: topic for another podcast. But I just wanted to bring
Speaker 1: it up because I didn't realize how reliant I was
Speaker 1: on caffeine. But here we are. Okay, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and pivot this thing over now to the Chris Career
Speaker 1: presser from Wednesday morning, talking all things Dolphins Draft now
Speaker 1: just one week away. Let's go ahead and play the
Speaker 1: hits here from Chris Career, starting with an opening statement
Speaker 1: regarding the George Floyd death and Tuesday's verdict. Good morning, guys.
Speaker 1: I appreciate everyone coming on this morning, but I thought
Speaker 1: there was something I really need to talk about, um
Speaker 1: before we get started, you know obviously with the George
Speaker 1: Floyd verdict last night. So I just think it's, uh,
Speaker 1: you guys know me that I'm not a prepared statement
Speaker 1: type of person and doing stuff, but I just think
Speaker 1: it's important for me to organize my thoughts and I
Speaker 1: wanted to put them down after the last few hours
Speaker 1: and uh, like everyone kind of dealing with, you know,
Speaker 1: what transpired yesterday. So, um, yesterday's verdict, it was a
Speaker 1: very emotional day for me, you know, for me as
Speaker 1: an African American, there was a sense of relief and sadness.
Speaker 1: George Floyd was senselessly taken from family and friends. His
Speaker 1: story was one of many that have taken place in
Speaker 1: our communities over the years, and yet people of color
Speaker 1: are still asking for equality and justice. The Jury of
Speaker 1: Minnesota served notice that police brutality is unacceptable and people
Speaker 1: will be held accountable for their actions. We as a
Speaker 1: people should all be touched by the raw emotions of
Speaker 1: joy and relief by the verdict. The justice system worked
Speaker 1: for people of color yesterday. However, we cannot forget that
Speaker 1: a life was loss. I am proud of the work
Speaker 1: our organization has done in the South Florida community over
Speaker 1: the years. Led by Steve Ross, tom Garfinkel, and Brian Flores,
Speaker 1: our players are actively out in the community trying to
Speaker 1: make a real difference. There's a lot of work to
Speaker 1: still be done in terms of reform and equality. We
Speaker 1: will continue to do more and ask others to do
Speaker 1: so as well. Across the NFL, we have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to make things better for everyone in our country. There
Speaker 1: are a lot of good people that want to make
Speaker 1: a difference. It's encouraging to hear and see the number
Speaker 1: of white people in big companies willing to be uncomfortable
Speaker 1: and speak out against systematic racism. There are a lot
Speaker 1: of good law enforcement officials who want change for the better.
Speaker 1: These are good men women who uphold their oaths. We
Speaker 1: need to support them as well. You've made tremendous advancements
Speaker 1: in our way of life, except for dealing with race.
Speaker 1: It's not just people of color being affected. Look at
Speaker 1: what's happening with all the hate being directed towards the
Speaker 1: Asian community right now. I'm hopeful, but not naive to
Speaker 1: think that this vertical change things, politics and rhetoric have
Speaker 1: created a great divide in our country. We as an
Speaker 1: organization believe in bringing people together and valuing all human life,
Speaker 1: and I hope our country can move towards that too. Well.
Speaker 1: There are certainly no words that I can use to
Speaker 1: even come close to that message, but I will just
Speaker 1: say this, working for this organization makes me so, so
Speaker 1: beyond proud. I'm just gonna leave it at that. Let's
Speaker 1: get to the next football question here. With the first
Speaker 1: football question, rather for coach who was asked about the
Speaker 1: draft board maneuvering going up or down rather from three
Speaker 1: back up to six and some of the conversations or
Speaker 1: reports out there in the media right now about fielding
Speaker 1: possible calls to move a in off that sixth pick.
Speaker 1: Will always listen to everything We've shown that, and I
Speaker 1: think you ought to your team and your organizations always
Speaker 1: listen to any offers that may or may not come.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, you know, as
Speaker 1: the draft falls and gets towards our pick, if you
Speaker 1: know someone wants to call and they make an aggressive
Speaker 1: pitch to us, will evaluate it, look at the board,
Speaker 1: and look at our options, and we'll make the decision
Speaker 1: that's best for the Miami Dolphins at that point. And
Speaker 1: that's about as basic as it gets, right. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: be doing his job if he wasn't taking in every
Speaker 1: single phone call and listening to every single offer and
Speaker 1: engaging the entire market. I mean, a person selling their
Speaker 1: house doesn't just become steadfast on one idea and commit
Speaker 1: to that and not consider other offers from potential other buyers.
Speaker 1: Like you, always want to be gauging the markets. That's
Speaker 1: what Chris Weer in this Miamie Dolphin staff and front
Speaker 1: office has certainly done. Up next, Chris was asked a
Speaker 1: question that he answered in one word, which was enough
Speaker 1: for me personally with the question, But it was about
Speaker 1: do you regret the decision to move off number three
Speaker 1: if any certain player comes off the board that you
Speaker 1: did not anticipate. Now, I think, you know, when we
Speaker 1: made our move, we targeted you know a number of
Speaker 1: players that we liked we're comfortable with getting So I
Speaker 1: think with us when you make a move like we
Speaker 1: did and doing what we did to get back up,
Speaker 1: we're very comfortable where we are. But again I said,
Speaker 1: we'll always evaluate it and and draft changes. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: people fall for reasons unknown or or you know, people
Speaker 1: uh select players for their roster based on their needs. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, we're comfortable where we are. We feel very
Speaker 1: good where we are, and and we won't have any regrets.
Speaker 1: I mean, doesn't that just seem so like obvious, Like
Speaker 1: do you think Chris would put himself in a position
Speaker 1: where there's like a doomsday scenario where the trapdoor could
Speaker 1: fall off from under him. Of course, there are players
Speaker 1: they feel comfortable that they believe there are enough guys
Speaker 1: that somebody they feel great about will be their number six,
Speaker 1: and if there's a better offer on the table, then
Speaker 1: you consider it. It's it's pretty straightforward to me. Chris
Speaker 1: answers that question pretty straightforward as well. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and pick this up here with the next question, which
Speaker 1: refers to the evaluation of opt out players versus players
Speaker 1: who did play the season. Now, you know, SOFTA, I
Speaker 1: think it's it's such a such a unique year. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, with the pandemic and uh, you know, all
Speaker 1: players have reasons for opting out. And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's right for us to hold it against
Speaker 1: any player, whether it's family or you know, we don't
Speaker 1: know all the circumstances. You know, until you get to
Speaker 1: this point you talk to players, But a lot of
Speaker 1: players opted out. You know, you also have schools that
Speaker 1: some schools played four games, so you played tent you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So, however you look at it
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be an Apple's Apples comparison around. So,
Speaker 1: but you know, for us to sit here and judge
Speaker 1: players on opt out for the reasons why, it's unfair
Speaker 1: and I think it's unrealistic. Let's continue here with a
Speaker 1: question regarding the decision to make the trade and the
Speaker 1: team's thinking behind jumping around the draft board from three
Speaker 1: to twelve twelve back up to six. We've had a
Speaker 1: number of teams call us, you know, all you know,
Speaker 1: they're talking about coming up to three and you know, um,
Speaker 1: we were, you know, comfortable being where we were, and
Speaker 1: and once we evaluated and then you know, obviously San
Speaker 1: Francisco was very aggressive. You know, Um, John was great
Speaker 1: dealing with He was very open and honest, transparent, and
Speaker 1: as we worked through it, you know, we thought that
Speaker 1: you know, um, it was the offers as we talked
Speaker 1: to it, and once they gave us the offer that
Speaker 1: you know we were comfortable with taking, you know, we
Speaker 1: decided it was it was important for us also as
Speaker 1: well to get back you know, into that top ten
Speaker 1: and so um, you know, once you know, we looked
Speaker 1: like San Francisco could happen, we kind of you know,
Speaker 1: reached out to a few teams just e gauging, you know,
Speaker 1: whether they would move or not. And you know, in
Speaker 1: Philadelphia was you know, a very good partner working with
Speaker 1: how we uh did a good job with us, um
Speaker 1: in terms of what we were looking for and what
Speaker 1: we're looking to do. And I give them a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. There's a lot of teams that you know,
Speaker 1: wanted to wait and wanted to wait and see and um,
Speaker 1: and you know, it takes scuts to make a move
Speaker 1: like that. It's like San Francisco and Philadelphia both credit
Speaker 1: for doing it. Gosh, I just I love that, Like you,
Speaker 1: you have this offer on the table, like he said,
Speaker 1: San Francisco looks like it might happen. So we then
Speaker 1: got on the phone and looked at possible options to
Speaker 1: get back into the top ten. Wind up finding a
Speaker 1: dance partner with Philadelphia there at six. So always thinking
Speaker 1: about the next movie reminds me of that that Puff
Speaker 1: Daddy video when he gets excited. What's next? What else
Speaker 1: can I do? I'm not done working yet. That's Chris
Speaker 1: care in this Miami Dolphins front office when it comes
Speaker 1: to draft picks and and working the phones. Up next,
Speaker 1: Chris was asked about the trade compensation coming back for
Speaker 1: those trade downs and how Miami evaluated getting those picks
Speaker 1: in future years and how this team is set to
Speaker 1: build for now and the future. You know, at some point,
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm sure someone probably ask a question.
Speaker 1: You know, we picked you know, three guys in the
Speaker 1: first round. Last We're gonna keep adding young players and
Speaker 1: talent and growing and we feel good. So, you know,
Speaker 1: we feel really good about you know, how things transpired
Speaker 1: for us. And I love this next question here from
Speaker 1: I believe it was Cam Wolf of ESPN asked Chris
Speaker 1: about the principles of you know, the Bill Parcels Heighthway
Speaker 1: speeding the exceptions of those and Chris obviously came from
Speaker 1: that Bill Parcels tree way back when. And he was
Speaker 1: asked whether the way of a player is a reason
Speaker 1: to knock a player or size and how that has
Speaker 1: changed in modern football. Here's Chris talking about size of players. No,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's it's it's all part of
Speaker 1: the evaluation. But every player tells their own story. He's
Speaker 1: a different player, you know. So I think you know,
Speaker 1: the league has changed as well. You know, there's more rules,
Speaker 1: it's more of an offensive league. I think what's been
Speaker 1: evident is that there a lot of smaller players have
Speaker 1: become really good players in this league as well. So, um,
Speaker 1: you always value it, you always talk about it. But again,
Speaker 1: each players is their own case, and uh, you know, um,
Speaker 1: those guys have shown that they've been good players, you know,
Speaker 1: at a high level of play, in the SEC and
Speaker 1: but that goes for a lot of players around the country. Um,
Speaker 1: I just think the game has changed a little bit,
Speaker 1: and I think these smaller players are given more room
Speaker 1: and and freedom to showcase their talents. Next, Chris was
Speaker 1: asked to evaluate weighing the value of his draft board
Speaker 1: compared to building around a young quarterback and the importance
Speaker 1: of getting pieces that support that young quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: especially when you're um picking up where we're picking, and
Speaker 1: you're always looking at your team and and you know,
Speaker 1: and two is a big part of that. And so
Speaker 1: as we build around and what we're doing, and yeah,
Speaker 1: you're always looking at, you know, what does your quarterback
Speaker 1: do best, but you're also looking at weighing that versus
Speaker 1: you know, the best players available and what you do
Speaker 1: for your team, because at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's it's always about the team. It's not about one player,
Speaker 1: one pick one person. And you know you've heard Brian
Speaker 1: talk about you know, team first, players that fit right.
Speaker 1: So um, for us, you know, it is it's just
Speaker 1: looking at for the right player, the right person, the
Speaker 1: right fit for our team as well as you know,
Speaker 1: the mesh with the quarterback and we'll stay on the
Speaker 1: topic of the quarterback there and Chris was asked rather
Speaker 1: about the off season so far of Tanka Vloa. The
Speaker 1: communication has been great, you know, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: been around as you know, working hard. I know, he's
Speaker 1: been working with the receivers. Um. You know, he's he's
Speaker 1: he's a very competitive kid, as you know. And I
Speaker 1: think you know, coming off of the injury last year
Speaker 1: with you know, no no O t A s you know,
Speaker 1: no mini camp you know, and being you know, just
Speaker 1: thrown in right away, that's a hard transition. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: especially coming through the rehab part of it. It was
Speaker 1: doing so you know he's healthy now. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I've seen a couple of videos. I'm not on social
Speaker 1: media very much, and uh, he's been working very hard.
Speaker 1: I know, our guys have been around and have popped
Speaker 1: in and out here, um to stuff that. He's been
Speaker 1: been great with the players and the receivers have been working.
Speaker 1: So like I said, it's he's going to take the
Speaker 1: next step. You know, the kids been a winner everywhere
Speaker 1: he's been. And really excited for him, especially to have
Speaker 1: an off season under his belt, and I think that
Speaker 1: would be really important for him flipping it over to
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. Chris was asked to
Speaker 1: evaluate some of the decisions in free agency regarding edge rusher,
Speaker 1: but also the release of Kyle van Noy, and Chris
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to open up and talk about the
Speaker 1: development of some young players that needed to see the
Speaker 1: field a little bit more. Yeah, Now, Kyle did a
Speaker 1: good job for us last year and provided a lot
Speaker 1: of things, and you know, he helped us win ten games.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of the players on this roster that
Speaker 1: are no longer here, you know, wishing the best, you know,
Speaker 1: But for us, we had a lot of you know,
Speaker 1: we had some young players that were developing, and um,
Speaker 1: we felt good about and those guys need to get
Speaker 1: on the field. So um, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it was decision we made as an organization going to it.
Speaker 1: We always talked about, you know, the roster at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, between Brian and myself, the coaches
Speaker 1: and the scouts, and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it was a movie made. And in terms of the
Speaker 1: pass rush, suggesting, uh, you feel good about it, We're
Speaker 1: like everything, we're always looking to keep upgrading. So there's uh,
Speaker 1: it's just such a unique year. Um, you know, with
Speaker 1: the pandemic, as so many teams releasing players, players taking
Speaker 1: one year deals, uh cheaper below market value, I guess
Speaker 1: you could say because of the lower salary caps. So,
Speaker 1: you know, for us, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll just keep you know, looking at churning
Speaker 1: over the roster, and then we'll go through the draft
Speaker 1: here and then we'll keep looking at free agents that
Speaker 1: are on the streets as well. Continuing along here, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite quotes from Chris and this next bit
Speaker 1: and favorite themes of this press conference was about the
Speaker 1: development and we'll get to my question for Chris here
Speaker 1: in just one second, but about how players are perceived
Speaker 1: in the building as they developed and go through meetings
Speaker 1: and practices, and the way they work with their teammates
Speaker 1: as opposed what has seen you know, sixteen times a
Speaker 1: year on Sunday, and what the fans might have as
Speaker 1: a perception. Here's Chris talking about development and the belief
Speaker 1: employers and getting contributions from guys they draft early, but
Speaker 1: also how important that development is going into their second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth years and so on. Uh, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it all depends on where they fall. My get the day.
Speaker 1: There's uh, some of those players, yeah, they'll be starters,
Speaker 1: impact players. But again, where as you've heard Brian saying,
Speaker 1: I love this statement, is like when you're coming in,
Speaker 1: no one's a starter, you know in April, guys, after
Speaker 1: these rookies have to come in, there's such a transition
Speaker 1: for him to learn and and I think that's why
Speaker 1: you always see guys take those huge second year jumps,
Speaker 1: you know, like Van Ginkle for us last year, and
Speaker 1: I think, uh, uh, you know Mike g did a
Speaker 1: few years ago, made the jump after you know, rookie
Speaker 1: year or you know, people were you know, unsure of him.
Speaker 1: And I think with all these guys, it's you preach
Speaker 1: patients for him a little bit. But I know, because
Speaker 1: guys are first round, second round picks, you know, um,
Speaker 1: you'd like them to be in players right away, and
Speaker 1: they may be, but it may be subtle to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff and personnels that were you all feel bit
Speaker 1: about it and you're just making you know, waiting for
Speaker 1: for the public to see it. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, um, they could be stars. But again,
Speaker 1: the players make their own, make their own way and
Speaker 1: create their own jobs on the team here, and Brian's
Speaker 1: created a create environment here of competitiveness. And that's what
Speaker 1: I love about our guys here, you know, I think
Speaker 1: that's why we won ten games last year. Guys that
Speaker 1: here generally know it's about competition and taking care of
Speaker 1: each other. And that's an important thing. And let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish it off with my question for Dolphins
Speaker 1: general manager Chris Career. Hey, Chris, good morning. Thanks for
Speaker 1: doing this with us um. I was curious how much
Speaker 1: does Flow and his coaching staffs ability to develop talent,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned with Van Gegel and GOSICKI, how much
Speaker 1: does that kind of way into the decision to acquire
Speaker 1: as much draft capitals you guys have accumulated the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. You know, that's part of it. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not afraid to make picks, you know us at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's you know, we'll make
Speaker 1: the picks. But we have great confidence that this coaching
Speaker 1: staff has shown that they can develop players and get
Speaker 1: the best out of them. And and so that's the
Speaker 1: exciting part of it is that, you know, listening to
Speaker 1: them the thought probs and watching those guys coach every
Speaker 1: day and the details that you know Brian and the
Speaker 1: staff are on is what makes it fun here. And
Speaker 1: the players know that and they appreciate it and UH
Speaker 1: and finding those right type of guys that love to
Speaker 1: work and do everything is um it's very important because
Speaker 1: we know those players can get even better and so
Speaker 1: that's the exciting part of working with Brian and his staff.
Speaker 1: So plenty of good stuff there from Chris Career Dolphins GM.
Speaker 1: You can find that interview in its entirety or press conference,
Speaker 1: i should say, up on YouTube, as well as the
Speaker 1: team page on Miami Dolphins dot com. Really good content
Speaker 1: there from Chris. Let's go ahead and finish out this
Speaker 1: lengthy edition of the Drive Time Podcast with my interview
Speaker 1: with USA Today's Doug Ferrar as we wrap up the
Speaker 1: positional preview for the draft with the running back class
Speaker 1: US Well, and we've done it all so far. Let's
Speaker 1: get to my interview with Doug fur and riding shotgun
Speaker 1: with us now on the Drive Time Podcast. Is the
Speaker 1: NFL editor for USA Today. He does great work regarding
Speaker 1: all things NFL and draft and everything in between, and
Speaker 1: he's holding it down in the Pacific northwest out in
Speaker 1: beautiful Seattle, Doug Ferrar, Doug, how the hell are you
Speaker 1: doing man Seattle? For the wind the week of clear
Speaker 1: skies and seventy degrees of which we don't tell people,
Speaker 1: as you know, because you get real it rains all
Speaker 1: the time and it's miserable. Yeah, four months of the
Speaker 1: year you can't leave your house. Well, we are here
Speaker 1: to talk about something besides weather in a position group
Speaker 1: that has a unique tie between your current hometown up
Speaker 1: there in Seattle and my current hometown in South Florida.
Speaker 1: With Miles Gascon and Savan Akhmed, and you know, the
Speaker 1: three of us have made the pilgrimage as it were,
Speaker 1: from the Pacific northwest to South Florida. So let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and start there with the current Dolphins running back roster.
Speaker 1: Both these guys, Doug, are sub two hundred pound guy eyes,
Speaker 1: but offer a kind of slashing style to their game. Now,
Speaker 1: Savon only played a very limited basis last year, but
Speaker 1: Myles was a future feature back for the ten or
Speaker 1: eleven games that he was healthy for. What did you
Speaker 1: make of Miles Gaskins season? What the Dolphins had in
Speaker 1: the backfield last year? I think it's a good back.
Speaker 1: He was mean, he was productive in college is one
Speaker 1: of the feedbacks I believe ever to have four one
Speaker 1: thousand yeards seasons in in the n C A. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think and Ahmed he made my have
Speaker 1: a thing called Secret Superstars in the un season where
Speaker 1: I take guys who were you know, hey, we should
Speaker 1: be talking about. I think week tend against the charges
Speaker 1: he made. It was a week fifteen. It'st Patriots kind
Speaker 1: of went off. You could have made it then. Um, Studentsville,
Speaker 1: I mean where he comes from. It's it's a lot
Speaker 1: of zone scheme. But the Dolphins run game was interesting
Speaker 1: last year. I was looking up stats on that and
Speaker 1: kind of watching tape in preparation for this. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of power, a lot of gap, a lot of
Speaker 1: draws um on. It seems like a really good draw runner.
Speaker 1: Most of their zone runs were quarterback runs, and it
Speaker 1: was almost as much Fitzpatrick as it was to uh,
Speaker 1: which you'd think it was too way running, you know,
Speaker 1: zone reading, arpo and all that stuff. If they want to.
Speaker 1: And and most defensive head coaches, as Florida's obviously is
Speaker 1: through the years, most offensive head coaches want a balanced
Speaker 1: offense with a dominant back. So if they want that guy,
Speaker 1: they didn't get him in free agency. They have what
Speaker 1: four picks in the top fifty they can certainly do
Speaker 1: in the draft. He's talked a lot about his desire
Speaker 1: to run the football and to be physical and establish
Speaker 1: all those old school principles that you talk about. Had
Speaker 1: a full knock on the roster for a long time
Speaker 1: as well. A defensive head coach go, I want to
Speaker 1: run five wide. You know for birds old school Don Court,
Speaker 1: you will never hear any offensive ever. Ever, it will
Speaker 1: never happen. So that's exactly right. I'm just glad that
Speaker 1: you pronounced Eric Judisville's last name right, because I hear
Speaker 1: that pronounced incorrectly all the time, and so I really
Speaker 1: appreciate you getting that right. Let's let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: continue on that theme with coach Doudisville, one of the
Speaker 1: co offensive coordinators here and kind of his track record.
Speaker 1: You talked about the zone schemes, and we saw it
Speaker 1: in twenty eight team when he first got here. There
Speaker 1: was so much more nuance and more like kind of
Speaker 1: wrinkles throw into the running game. When Frank Gore got
Speaker 1: in town and they had Kenyan Drake and we're balancing
Speaker 1: those two guys. But he's been the run game coordinator
Speaker 1: here since that year. He's coach running backs for decades.
Speaker 1: He's typically Doug had two twenty pound guys that can
Speaker 1: carry the bulk of the load, from Travis Henry to
Speaker 1: Willis McGahee, Marshawn Lynch, No, Sean Marino and Denver. That's
Speaker 1: been what he's worked with. So with those traits in mind,
Speaker 1: does anybody in this class stand out above the rest
Speaker 1: for you when it comes to those traits. If you
Speaker 1: want that sort of guy, I'm looking through my list
Speaker 1: here Ramandri Stevenson from Oklahoma six foot to thirty and
Speaker 1: you would think, oh, he's Brandon Jacobs. He's gonna beat
Speaker 1: the crap on you. UM. I compared him to Stephen Davis.
Speaker 1: He's more. It's interesting he runs. He runs in a
Speaker 1: more agile fashion, like he's a power back who runs
Speaker 1: like a what I wrote was from zero to ten yards.
Speaker 1: He's a bigger back who moves like a smaller back
Speaker 1: in a good way. Excellent short area agility for a
Speaker 1: size can bounce from gap to gap in a relative break,
Speaker 1: ran through a lot of open gaps in Oklahoma's mixed
Speaker 1: blocking line kind of a put you know, equals. So
Speaker 1: when I'm looking at running backs, I want to see, well,
Speaker 1: how many times you have to work your way out
Speaker 1: of something? There were times where Stevenson just had he
Speaker 1: could have You could have driven a semi truck from
Speaker 1: the holes he had. That's not to debit kim, Um.
Speaker 1: He does have the reality break tackles and make games
Speaker 1: after contact. But and and we're gonna talk about Javante
Speaker 1: Williams from North Carolina. I watched It's like when I
Speaker 1: was a kid and I was a long time guitar
Speaker 1: player and I heard Jimmy Hendrick for her are clapping.
Speaker 1: People would ask me that are clapping. I don't care
Speaker 1: about your clapp because I heard gimmics. First. I watched
Speaker 1: Javolonte Williams first out of all the running backs, and
Speaker 1: everyone else was kind of like, oh whatever. So you
Speaker 1: know he's a He's a decent power back. I think
Speaker 1: Tray Sermon six ft to fifteen. He runs like about
Speaker 1: a two hundred and thirty pounder, and that's both good
Speaker 1: and bad. Um. There are a lot of guys in
Speaker 1: this class who are under to twenty and are just
Speaker 1: more versatile. So it really you know, as far as
Speaker 1: power backs go, I mean Javonte, who I think is
Speaker 1: by far the best power back in this class. He's
Speaker 1: five ten to twelve. Now Marshawn who you mentioned obviously
Speaker 1: we're fimiliar with him up in Seattle. I think his
Speaker 1: top rate was to fifteen. So if you wanted two
Speaker 1: hundred twenty pound bruiser, UM, I don't think there are
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys who also in this particular class,
Speaker 1: who also present well rounded, you know, feature that traits
Speaker 1: where you can have him in if you're running no huddle,
Speaker 1: you're not time to take him off on third down,
Speaker 1: you can have them there that they're done. He can block,
Speaker 1: you can catch, you can do all those things. Uh,
Speaker 1: if you're a third down draw team, can he you know,
Speaker 1: do that? Does he have patients? Can he cut back all?
Speaker 1: You know, all the stuff if you want from a
Speaker 1: future back, UM, I think reminder, reminder, a Stevenson of
Speaker 1: Oklahoma could be sort of retro fit into that guy
Speaker 1: over time. But there isn't a two twenty pound back
Speaker 1: in this class, at least from the proteo weights that
Speaker 1: jumps off the screen to me, you know, and goes, hey, wow,
Speaker 1: you know there isn't a lettered four net here is
Speaker 1: gonna get picked fourth overall or any running back probably
Speaker 1: ever again, you just gonna get picked fourth overall. Really,
Speaker 1: isn't that guy? What struck me watching your running backs
Speaker 1: in this class and putting my piece together for for
Speaker 1: Touchdown Wire was that it's kind of like when people
Speaker 1: say the defensive the interior defensive line class this year
Speaker 1: isn't great, and people it's terrible. I'm like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you have to know what you're looking for. If
Speaker 1: you want, you know, a nose tackle, there are these
Speaker 1: two guys. If you want to an edge, you can
Speaker 1: you know, flip inside nut. You might look at Milt
Speaker 1: Williams from Losantech or whatever. In the same way. These
Speaker 1: running backs are different. Now, you could look at Niger
Speaker 1: Harris six to two thirty. That's unofficial, UM, and that's
Speaker 1: a guy who if they're going to run gap to
Speaker 1: the same degree they did last year. Um. He had
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty eight gap carries last year per
Speaker 1: sports Infrat Solutions. For Alabama, Alabama's a heavy gap team
Speaker 1: that might be a really good fit and I don't
Speaker 1: know if Nja is gonna, you know, either than I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna go in the first round.
Speaker 1: He might, he might not. Um. And the way I
Speaker 1: would characterize Naja Harris is he does everything well and
Speaker 1: almost nothing spectacularly. He's a sustainer. He led the n
Speaker 1: c A with eighty one first downs, but he didn't
Speaker 1: have a lot of breakaway runs. So it's really depending
Speaker 1: on what kind of running back you want. You know,
Speaker 1: is he there at thirty six? They picked the goat
Speaker 1: from Houston, one of the big from Houston. Maybe, um,
Speaker 1: But if Studentville wants that, you know, reminder, Stevenson is
Speaker 1: one guy, UM, I think certainly Naja Harris should be another.
Speaker 1: And they had ramand Stevenson on the Senior Bowl roster
Speaker 1: down there in Mobile, and they had Naja Harris there
Speaker 1: as well, So a couple of connections there to this
Speaker 1: Dolphins team. And you know, I was gonna compliment you
Speaker 1: for not taking the chalk there with Najy Harris. You
Speaker 1: did eventually work yourself back into Najy Harris. But that
Speaker 1: leads me into my next question about these tier rankings
Speaker 1: of these running backs in this class. Almost everybody that
Speaker 1: I've talked to her. From my own eyes, it's it's
Speaker 1: Nagy Harris, It's Chavante will into Travis E. T N.
Speaker 1: Then a significant gap and then that fourth running back
Speaker 1: and maybe you even might elevate a fourth into there.
Speaker 1: We talked a little bit off fair about your favorite
Speaker 1: guy there and see you or one of them at least. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm just curious, is that your top three? And how
Speaker 1: big is that drop from that top three to the
Speaker 1: next tier running backs? It's not I mean yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's funny because the radically here for um. Javonte Williams
Speaker 1: is my comparison for him, He's an unholy combination of
Speaker 1: Marshall Nick Chub. He's the best power back I've seen
Speaker 1: since Marshaw and his prime. Um. I think he's a
Speaker 1: better power rack than n Chub, which is kind of
Speaker 1: an astonishing thing to say. He's had a better power
Speaker 1: back than Derrick Henry. But he's a more explosive power
Speaker 1: back than Derrick Henry. UM E T N. I can
Speaker 1: to Jamal Charles, Um I think if he winds up
Speaker 1: in camp I know they just took Edwards Hilaire. Uh
Speaker 1: if I go like a t M want up in
Speaker 1: an Andy Reed system, that would just be illegal. Um.
Speaker 1: Kyland Hill from Mississippi State, I would say, is if
Speaker 1: he may or may not be tier one, Um, but
Speaker 1: he's if he's not, he's Tier two A for me.
Speaker 1: He's a hundred and sixteen broken tackles on four hundred
Speaker 1: two career carries. Um. He had twenty three exceptions last
Speaker 1: year for two hundred and three or four yards with
Speaker 1: one drop and eight broken tackles in three games. So
Speaker 1: he's really you know, he's he's pushed himself ahead as
Speaker 1: a versatile back five ten to fourteen now when we
Speaker 1: say to fourteen, but he's at five ten. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like that Martsiawn thing where you don't have to
Speaker 1: be to twenty to be power back. And Kyle and
Speaker 1: Hill to me projects very well as just a good
Speaker 1: overall power back. A lot of leg drive runs lower
Speaker 1: to the ground at you know what you call that
Speaker 1: competitive personality, which I know Brian Flores would love. Um,
Speaker 1: this guy is looking for a fight. Is I like
Speaker 1: to put it on the field not off the field? Um?
Speaker 1: You know, because but you know he had that reduced season.
Speaker 1: When you go back and watch when you did in
Speaker 1: nineteen hundred fifteen sixties scrimmage yards eleven touchdowns on two
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty touches against really strong competition. My com
Speaker 1: for him was a bit old school was Garrison Hurst
Speaker 1: and because as it had tough to fi five foot
Speaker 1: ten backs in the two hundred and fifteen Conradins who
Speaker 1: run the hills, power and contact balance and I'm not
Speaker 1: man compared with with Indian Thominson because you don't do that,
Speaker 1: but you know he I think less so what Studentsville
Speaker 1: may want for what floors may want in those bigger backs,
Speaker 1: but kind of the paradigm they have now, I think
Speaker 1: I think talent Hill would fit that very well. That's
Speaker 1: kind of a dude, all guy, because here's the have
Speaker 1: of thing you've got to in his first year as Okay,
Speaker 1: he's the guy. Ryan Fitzpatrick is now in the nation's capital,
Speaker 1: so too, Way is the guy. He's a timing and
Speaker 1: rhythm passer, and timing and rhythm passers, especially in to
Speaker 1: his case with an RPO element, which I think will
Speaker 1: increase um. Running backs are very important. Running back so
Speaker 1: you can catch are very important. Now, Naja Harris might
Speaker 1: be the best well, not the best receiving back, but
Speaker 1: the best receiving power back in this class. Kiland Hill
Speaker 1: can also do that. You know, if you want to
Speaker 1: get into specific receiving backs, I have a couple more guys, Um,
Speaker 1: but I would stay Hiland. Hill is a two way,
Speaker 1: and then you get into more specialists than generalists like
Speaker 1: Michael Carter, who shared backfield with Javante Williams. Is a
Speaker 1: terrifying thought, and Carter is more the speed guy. Um
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell from Memphis, who I compared to Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: the Chargers, very good receiving back. And when I'm a listener,
Speaker 1: damitrich Felton from MTL. If you want a guy for
Speaker 1: more receiver now running back can run a full route tree.
Speaker 1: I compared him to James White of the Patriots, who
Speaker 1: I know, you guys know very well down there in Miamis.
Speaker 1: You have to deal with it twice a year. Um,
Speaker 1: this guy not a feature back, but always shows up
Speaker 1: in Belichick's offense because he can do he can block,
Speaker 1: he can make the crucial third down run, and you
Speaker 1: can catch all kinds of passes. Um, that's dimetrich Felton.
Speaker 1: That's more his game. So going back to the main
Speaker 1: thing and sort of the tears I think this year
Speaker 1: because if you look, I mean Javonte Williams, no j Harris,
Speaker 1: Travis E. T N. And if you want to put
Speaker 1: kyl One Hill in there, they're really different guys. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Kylan Hill might be Javonte Williams life. But
Speaker 1: the other three guys, I mean, they're they're just radically different.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's tears this year with
Speaker 1: running backs as opposed. You know, it's not really equivalent
Speaker 1: skill sets or remotely equivalent skill sets. It's a lot
Speaker 1: of different guys doing different things for a well, and
Speaker 1: it's more to fit through your team than it is. Hey,
Speaker 1: we have these top three backs, and we can take
Speaker 1: each one of them. Um, either any of those guys
Speaker 1: would take a different conversation between Chris Beer and Brian
Speaker 1: Flores and the offensive staff. Okay, how would we use him?
Speaker 1: How would we use him? You know, it's not so much.
Speaker 1: And I said, two similar guys, you just take the
Speaker 1: one you like the best. You really have to adapt
Speaker 1: your offense to each one of these backs. And I
Speaker 1: was hopeful you mentioned Kyl and Hill. I was really
Speaker 1: hopeful when he got down to UH to play with
Speaker 1: Mike Leach this year that Leech would help kind of
Speaker 1: expand his passing game and develop that rout tree and
Speaker 1: get get us some tape with him as a pass catcher.
Speaker 1: But he ended up opting out our for a couple
Speaker 1: of games or whatever it was, so we didn't get
Speaker 1: to see that full compliment. But man, he can. He
Speaker 1: can flat out play some ball. I'm glad you have
Speaker 1: him on that list. So you mentioned not that potential
Speaker 1: in again, if you want a smaller guy would want
Speaker 1: a leg drive and just because the old Walter Payton
Speaker 1: thing where you're not just trying to avoid contact, you're initiating,
Speaker 1: you're looking for it. He's one of those guys. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and that's that's what they love. You asked what we
Speaker 1: talked about that with coach Floras and loving the physical
Speaker 1: aspect of the game. Now, you had mentioned in a
Speaker 1: previous UH answer that you're not sure if if certain
Speaker 1: backs go in the first round. Do you think any
Speaker 1: of these guys go in the first round? Like, how
Speaker 1: do you see this? You know the top that twenty
Speaker 1: I guess, I guess to pick eight team with Miami's
Speaker 1: maybe we're the running back idea starts to crank into gear.
Speaker 1: So from that eight teen to maybe like fifty range,
Speaker 1: where do you see these guys going off the board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've done I think I've done three marks this year.
Speaker 1: I maybe I've had a running back once or twice.
Speaker 1: I think I had Harris going in the late twenties
Speaker 1: at one point. I don't remember which team. I think
Speaker 1: I'm mocked Javonte Williams to the Dolphins and one of
Speaker 1: them with the later pick um. You know, it's really
Speaker 1: I was looking this up in the last since seventeen
Speaker 1: backs have been selected in the first round. Uh, where
Speaker 1: is it? Six have been selected in the top ten?
Speaker 1: Well seven if you were in good top early. So
Speaker 1: the trend is obviously going away from that. Um. So
Speaker 1: it's not like we can look at league trends and say, oh,
Speaker 1: three running backs will be selected. It just depends. You know,
Speaker 1: if Andy Reid is there at thirty one and he
Speaker 1: sees the Travis at and it's still on the board,
Speaker 1: and he thinks, when I think, which is this guy
Speaker 1: would be absolutely insane in my offense, he might do it.
Speaker 1: He took a running back at three two last year. UM,
Speaker 1: you know Miami. Certainly it's the reason I assume we're
Speaker 1: talking about this is the need for that feature back,
Speaker 1: whatever that means in this era, that need is there. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, Javonte in my mind is the best back
Speaker 1: in this class. And it's not particularly close as far
Speaker 1: as the world skill set. I like Naja Harris, I
Speaker 1: like Travis Anti, n there are things that can and
Speaker 1: can't do. Um. And then you get into Kyle and Hill,
Speaker 1: who you know you'd want to see more might be
Speaker 1: a more complete back than the other two. Um, I
Speaker 1: would say Javonte Williams is the only guy where I'd
Speaker 1: say for us round great, absolutely depending on position value,
Speaker 1: where lead trends were going, and you know, just overall
Speaker 1: skill set, like how many boxes does he check? So
Speaker 1: let me let me ask you this then, because Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans on Twitter and the like, it's all about we
Speaker 1: have to get Nasey Harris. We have to get Nagy Harris.
Speaker 1: You see that. And I'm sure part of that has
Speaker 1: to do with the you know, the re reuniting with
Speaker 1: two a tongue of my low of the Alabama connection there.
Speaker 1: But you talk about Javonte Williams being not even close
Speaker 1: to the rest of the class. Can you explain to
Speaker 1: a Dolphins fan who thinks that Nasea is option one
Speaker 1: to three and four why Javonte Williams might be even
Speaker 1: a better option. And I'm not saying that you want
Speaker 1: the Nazi. Harris is bad player at all. Um, As
Speaker 1: I said in from the games I watched and the
Speaker 1: report I put together, my confort him with Stephen Jackson.
Speaker 1: Um Uh, maybe a Derrick Henry Light who is a
Speaker 1: better pass catcher, would be a more modern comparison. Um.
Speaker 1: But what I've said about Nashua Harrison does everything well
Speaker 1: and very few thinks tacklely. He's not going to get
Speaker 1: those big plays, you know, the runs of fifteen yards
Speaker 1: or more. It's not really gonna happen Javonte Williams. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring up the numbers here, Okay. Per Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: Williams for five miss tackles in seventy six is a
Speaker 1: runner and nine more as a receiver. Of all n
Speaker 1: c A running backs in only Michael Carter, Williams backfield partner,
Speaker 1: had more rushing attempts of fifteen yards or more than
Speaker 1: Williams twenty seven for six hundred and sixty yards. So
Speaker 1: the first thing you have there is a really lethal
Speaker 1: combination of contact, balance and forward motion with aggression to
Speaker 1: break tackles. And when he does break tackles, he's got
Speaker 1: this extra gear he blocks like a lineback. By your reaction,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you're seeing some of those like wow, um,
Speaker 1: milely question about him? Really, and I think he has
Speaker 1: more potential as a receiver. I've seen some people mockings
Speaker 1: a receiver more than I would. I just you know,
Speaker 1: he's run a couple of rounds because that's like it
Speaker 1: was allowed to do. Um. Really, you look at the
Speaker 1: Notre Dame game where he had eleven carries for tonight
Speaker 1: yards and Notre Dame was run bitsing and they're run
Speaker 1: whatsing Hame specifically, So that's one of the best defenses
Speaker 1: in college football. Saying okay, Javonte Williams is our problem
Speaker 1: and they were a solid I would say, what makes
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams the best back in this class? I think
Speaker 1: he checks as many boxes as a Nagen Harris or
Speaker 1: Travis Ant, and probably more boxes in a Travis at
Speaker 1: and because I think Travis is one of specialist but
Speaker 1: I think the he checks the boxes with bigger inc
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. The things he does well, he
Speaker 1: does extraordinarily well, like pop off the tape, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is amazing well, whereas Naja Harris is more of that.
Speaker 1: He's a sustainer, he's not a plotter. I don't want
Speaker 1: to bring the wrong impression across because I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm making him sound it less attacktil than he is.
Speaker 1: He's a great receiver, he's an okay blocker. Um you know,
Speaker 1: he's a good down after down runner. He's not willing
Speaker 1: to break away and giving these explosive plays like Javon
Speaker 1: Ti william as well. And when you look at the
Speaker 1: ability to create explosive plays downfield as a runner and
Speaker 1: this particular power and contact balance and escapability, I just,
Speaker 1: you know, we talk about these terms like scheme specific,
Speaker 1: scheme transcendent. I think Javon Williams is the only scheme transcendent.
Speaker 1: You put him on any of the thirty two NFL
Speaker 1: teams and he'll be your best back, maybe on twenty
Speaker 1: six of those teams, Like right now, day one, the
Speaker 1: moment he hits the building, he's that good. So it's
Speaker 1: not to say that. It's not to debit Naga, Harris
Speaker 1: or Hn or whoever else you like. It's just when
Speaker 1: I look at the things he does well, he does
Speaker 1: at a level that makes him spectacular in so many
Speaker 1: areas that I just have to push him above the rest.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the fact that he blocks like a linebacker.
Speaker 1: He was a high school linebacker until his junior season,
Speaker 1: and then started playing running back because the coaches like,
Speaker 1: I think you might be a good running back as well,
Speaker 1: so you listen aw some facts there. He had the
Speaker 1: best elusive score in Pro Football Focus history with miss
Speaker 1: tackles forced led college football and yards after contact. He's
Speaker 1: twenty years old with less than four hundred career touches,
Speaker 1: the Nazi high school val victorian, four time state champion,
Speaker 1: and he also was a four by relay champion in
Speaker 1: high school as well, So he's got plenty of pelts
Speaker 1: on the wall. Stuff shows up, as you've seen the
Speaker 1: trap chet tra tracked history in the background shows up.
Speaker 1: After he breaks contact. He's in the open field. Now
Speaker 1: it's a safety, and now he's accelerating like good luck.
Speaker 1: I I woke up this morning. I didn't think I
Speaker 1: was gonna do with Williams getting faster and coming right
Speaker 1: at my face. Didn't wake up choosing violence, that's for sure. Doug,
Speaker 1: can we can we jump into this kind of speed
Speaker 1: around here? And kind of sorry to cut you off there,
Speaker 1: but I want to hear your just quick takes on
Speaker 1: these traits that I listened here and get who the
Speaker 1: best in classes at those groups? Um, okay, Doug, So
Speaker 1: who is the best zone runner in this class? I
Speaker 1: would see e t n. Um he shows the ability
Speaker 1: to cut back and and and find that gap really quickly. Um.
Speaker 1: I think Javonte has that he ran more zone last
Speaker 1: season than he had in his his previous two. Um.
Speaker 1: But I would say as far as just the ability
Speaker 1: to spark off and find the cut and go, probably
Speaker 1: you t N. I would also put Kyle and Hillizer responsibility.
Speaker 1: And you had mentioned Roman J. Stevenson. Does he hold
Speaker 1: down your best gap runner traite? Uh? Well, Roumandius Stevenson
Speaker 1: has my best running through open holes. Probably Naja Harris
Speaker 1: is the best gap for in this class, certainly with
Speaker 1: the most frequency. Absolutely. How about your best breakaway speedback
Speaker 1: Michael Carter without questions? Uh, Dmitric Felton is also fast.
Speaker 1: Michael Carter is just a different kind of fast. We
Speaker 1: saw them the Senior Bowl too, didn't we. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: caught his. My comp for him was Clyde Edwards Hilaire.
Speaker 1: So if you want that, if you were looking at
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire last year, you can get him in Michael
Speaker 1: Carter this week. I love me some c e h
Speaker 1: last year. I think your best pass protector might be
Speaker 1: in that same backfield. Want Yeah, and and and your
Speaker 1: best rp O back Oh, that's a good one. Um.
Speaker 1: Maybe Felton just because he can run a diverse route tree. Yeah, definitely,
Speaker 1: that's that's a that's a good one. And when I
Speaker 1: watched him, and then I do these comps, NFL comps,
Speaker 1: which I really sweat because I know a lot of
Speaker 1: people are just getting into the draft. They watch the
Speaker 1: NFL here, so you want to get a picture in
Speaker 1: your head. And I'm looking at h Way and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at you know, trades and production. I'm thinking James White. Well,
Speaker 1: if James White was in a heavy RPUT system, he
Speaker 1: would dominate because you can just do some me things
Speaker 1: that kind of full defenses. Um, you know, Corner would
Speaker 1: be a good RP O guy. Um, Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna be important for you guys to this week. For sure.
Speaker 1: That works. We'll take it. That's all I've got for you, Doug.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your time today, NFL Editor USA Today, the
Speaker 1: NFL Wire. Where can the people find you on social
Speaker 1: and what are you working on leading up to draft
Speaker 1: here next week? Doug NFL underscore dog for our f
Speaker 1: A R R A R. Marks Gofield and I just
Speaker 1: finished our top eleven which we've just talked about the
Speaker 1: top of running backs here. We finished all of our
Speaker 1: top eleven position there to scotting reports and against metrics.
Speaker 1: We're gonna fold that into our top fifty the big board,
Speaker 1: which we'll go up tomorrow, um as soon as I
Speaker 1: get it done, and then we'll have a couple of
Speaker 1: last mock drafts, couple podcast, a bunch of steam fit
Speaker 1: stuff grades for all the pics. Of course, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: would be a plus A plus no matter what they do,
Speaker 1: because you know, let me say say that now, I
Speaker 1: love um, I get me on. Uh yeah, we'll just
Speaker 1: be we're we're rolling deep and uh stand up Lake. Well,
Speaker 1: you guys do great work. Adding Mark Scofield was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: You guys continue to kill it out there, Doug, stay
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Speaker 1: Hartford buzz Man, Thanks and away he goes a very
Speaker 1: fun conversation that with Doug far of USA Today the
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