WEBVTT - Drive Time: 10 Draft Prospect Fits for the Dolphins 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:06.040 To on remove Glum Deep speeds Peas DOSD from the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:07.320 Baptist Health Studio. 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:12.640 This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drivetime 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:14.680 with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:26.439 He's got my advans in the playoffs. One is up 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:30.280 Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.839 your host, Travis Wingfilm and on today's show, we are 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:36.199 off to the combine next week. Before that, let's go 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.080 ahead and get our first look at the underclassmen in 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.599 the post season setting. We're gonna go down a list 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.159 of draft prospects, identify ten guys that stand out to 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:49.680 me as potential fits for your Miami Dolphins, and most 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:53.120 of them, nine of them are first or second round 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.560 picks in that option area. From the Baptist Hill Studios 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.400 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:05.960 Time Podcast. Let's go ahead and kick this show off 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:10.039 here with some thoughts and you know how every draft 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.240 seems to take on a certain shape. I recall back 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.760 in twenty twenty two, the draft being one where and 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:17.560 this was due in large part to the absence of 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:20.920 a top ten cornerback prospect, just one first rounder who 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.720 probably goes in a training camp at best in a 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:27.160 competition this year Kenny Pickett, but a draft where they 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.959 said the talent was best from like one to fifteen 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.880 and then again from like thirty five to seventy five 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.839 or something like that. And in hindsight it does seem 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.160 a little bit arbitrary to me. And look, I'm about 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.640 to speak against my own living here. But the more 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.600 draft study I do, just like the rest of football, 0:01:45.920 --> 0:01:48.240 the more I realized how much the hand ringing is 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:52.200 pretty frivolous. I always pointing back to the Seahawks there, 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:55.920 Russell Wilson, Bobby Wagner, Richard Sherman draft class and how 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.200 it was given an F on I think it was 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.760 ESPN gave him an F following the draft or the 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:05.160 twenty seventeen Saints class. I'll never forget a popular podcast 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.280 I'll call him out the Around the NFL podcast criticizing 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.480 the Saints as one of the biggest losers of the 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.840 draft because they didn't address what their perceived needs for 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.800 the Saints were, and that was the year they got 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.359 Marshawn Lattimore, Ryan. 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:20.320 Ram ram Trek, Alvin CARMERA. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:24.240 No, let's try that again, Marcus Latimore, Ryan Ramchek, Alvin Kamara, 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.959 Marcus Williams, Trey Hendrickson, Alex Anzeloni, and al Kaden Muhammad 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.440 literally all plus starters, and half of those guys are 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.960 like all pro caliber players. It's literally the greatest draft 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:39.040 class of all time. And that's most of the league. Right. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.840 We draw these grand conclusions for what will happen in 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.959 September or January for that matter, from moves that happened 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:49.680 in March with free agency, April, with the draft. Throughout 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:53.320 training camp, we all build up this grand prediction, this 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.600 grand this is who you are. And then we play 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.680 like one or two football games and that changes, and 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.440 then who that football team becomes in those couple of 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.720 games change again come the holiday season. 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:01.960 Right. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.720 Hell, collectively, we move mountains regarding opinions on players from 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.359 one month to the next, from one week to the next, 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.640 on some occasions, from one series to the next. In 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:15.000 some situations, I recall reading tweets about the Dolphins answering 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.720 every question about them in that Dallas game, And I 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:20.440 take no pride in saying this, but how'd that turn 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.840 out for you? The point is things change fast. Perceptions 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.640 are altered quickly, Reality shifts. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.600 In a moment in this league. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:32.640 Now, that's the longest preamble into draft class strengths and 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.400 weaknescis you'll ever hear. I will say, even though the 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.960 exercise of what if truly is pointless at its core, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:42.080 I think the educational nature of it and the process 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:44.640 that gives you a baseline or even just a jumping 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:47.080 off point, I think there's a ton of value in 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.920 that because you can reate, reference back to it and 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:53.680 make your future evaluations, your future podcast, your game evaluations 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:57.040 and skill sets and training camp reviews. You can reference 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.720 back to how you felt prior to that player arriving 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.240 in that positions. So you are gonna waste a lot 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:04.800 of time on draft prep if you work for in 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.440 my instance, for one single team that you're trying to 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:10.880 nail these prospects down. But ultimately that work does pay 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.520 off on the other side. But trying to predict it 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.000 and then being steadfast and indignant in those predictions, that's 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.279 where I think the disconnect comes from. Sometimes when you 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.960 make your draft takes, you get clipped off for the 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.240 intro of a Buffalo Bills podcast the Rock Pile Report, 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:31.880 after you say, Josh Allen has skyscraper altering ability after 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:34.080 they drafted him in twenty eighteen, and they're gonna build 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:34.559 a new stadium. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:35.680 That was a spot on take. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.400 Sometimes you think Deon Jordan was the best pick in 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.640 the entire draft. Yes, those are actually both takes of mine. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.799 A lot of you remember the twenty eighteen draft coverage. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.920 None of you know about my amateur scouting in twenty thirteen, 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.480 when I thought I knew a lot didn't know much. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:55.320 And that mention of twenty thirteen is my five minute preamble. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.159 And to bring us back full circle to that opening 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.159 line about the twenty twenty two draft class, I remember 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:04.400 having this discussion at length the idea of using the 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.920 first round draft pick that year on Tyreek Hill and 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.040 then some but that was the gem of the package, right, 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:11.800 or using a twenty twenty three first round pick on 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.800 Bradley Chubb. And the twenty twenty three class was heralded 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.560 as much more top heavy, a more talent laid in 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.000 the first round than twenty twenty two was. 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:21.720 But I also recall. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.440 Doing an exercise when we would have picked, there had 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.400 already been six pass rushers off the board, So it 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.680 becomes Bradley Chubb versus well, Miles Murphy went once bought 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.240 ahead of the Dolphins. The next edge selected was Felix 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.320 and aduque Uzama from the Chiefs, who barely played twenty 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.200 five percent of the snaps this year. He was the 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.600 sixth edge taken in that class. In Tyreek's year, the 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.960 wide receiver after our spot was Christian Watson at pick 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.720 thirty four. He was the seventh receiver taken. And so 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.280 I felt the Dolphins really maximize those draft picks to 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:55.720 produce talent on the field with immediate production, which should 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:57.880 not be slided for a guy that takes a year 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:59.599 to develop. If you get an extra year of production, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.560 that should count towards the cumulative weight of that move 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:04.240 that you made. 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.200 I mean, the NFL's best receiver. 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.880 Right, Tyreek Hill, we think we all agree, or at 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.680 least top three at minimum, and a guy who was 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:14.000 top ten and literally every single pass rush category you 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:14.880 can conjure up. 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.320 So this year, this season, what is the pre. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.720 Draft balance in terms of talent, fit, positional strength, all 0:06:22.760 --> 0:06:22.960 of that? 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:23.360 Right? 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:25.640 And I'm going to play some clips I think, I 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:30.400 think on the Monday podcast from Daniel Jeremiah's Thursday press 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:35.240 conference with a contingency of football schlubs like myself, football 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.360 media slubs, I should say, and I want to play 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:38.760 some of that, but I want to ask him about 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:40.839 this because you know, he's going to talk about the 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:43.200 strength in this class and everybody's going to talk about 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.520 it all draft process long is across the offensive line, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.159 and that's where this entire opening segment kind of came from, 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.480 is that everybody's going to tell you how good this 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.320 O line is. And I want to revisit Daniel Jeremiah's 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:57.320 Top fifty that he produced back in January and has 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.440 since done mock draft. One point zero and two point 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:01.680 zero inside the top fifty. This is what he has 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:05.400 as far as offensive line prospects. Seven oh line in 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.560 the top eighteen of the class, and they're all tackles. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.360 There's eight tackles inside his top fifty in general, but 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.880 that's actually top thirty seven. There's three interior offensive linemen 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:18.400 in the top fifty and they all check in between 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:20.880 thirty three and thirty seven, with Graham Barton from Duke, 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:22.720 who some think is the best un in the draft, 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.040 Jackson Powers Johnson, who I think is possibly the best 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.360 player in the draft. That's my opinion from Oregon and 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:30.280 Zach Frazer from West Virginia, who's also a freaking stud. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.840 All three of those guys are awesome, awesome football players. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.760 That gives you eleven o line in the top fifty. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.800 And actually it's eleven in the top forty, or really 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:42.360 thirty seven to be exact. So about every third or 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:46.000 fourth player through the first thirty seven players, according to 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:51.480 the NFL network's most prided or most flauded draft expert 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:54.280 are offensive lineman. And what makes it even more interesting, 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:56.880 I know you're thinking at home, right, what a perfect 0:07:56.960 --> 0:07:58.760 year to get some young, cheap, good. 0:07:58.600 --> 0:07:59.960 Offensive line talent. Right. 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.800 It's and I'm saying this because it's tough, man. I mean, 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:04.720 you look at the free agent offensive line market, and 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.560 we talked about this all the time. Traditionally it produces 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:11.200 awful return value for the investor you're paying. You're getting 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.120 like thirty cents on the dollar for those players. It 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.840 happens every single year. I've referenced. Kyle Krabs is a 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.200 great research project on Lockdown Dolphins where he looks at 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.440 guys that signed the big ticket, big tackle money, almost 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.720 a big ticket money at in free agency and they 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.000 produce at a level that is a fraction of what 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.640 they were with their first team at a salary that's 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:33.320 a much more than a fraction higher than what they're 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.760 making previously. So you're really you're dipping into a horrible market. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.920 You're buying NFTs almost at that rate. Most of the time, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.400 the top line guys don't shake free, and that's why 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.199 it's like this, right And when you get them into 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.240 a new system with new teammates and a new coach, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:48.720 I'd say that the offensive line is where coaching and 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.040 continuity are by far the most important, and it can 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.000 be tough to replicate that success in a new environment. 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:57.680 And that's played out with the free agent draft classes. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.880 I mean Mike McGlinchey last year. I remember all. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:01.280 You guys I talked about him too. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.439 That was the solution at right tackle, right before I 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.000 find out Austin Jackson can actually play football, was to 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.360 go get Mike McGlinchey at like fifteen million bucks a year. 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:10.719 That was the probably one of the worst signings in 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.680 the NFL last year, the Broncos of Mike McGlinchey. 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:14.200 Just you know, that's how it goes. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.680 And look at Austin Jackson was a top ten right 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.120 tackle last year. It's crazy how the sport goes man 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.480 so like, and this is getting off the script at 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.040 this point, but like, remember in the twenty twenty one draft, 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.160 I don't remember many folks that were happy about Jayden 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:29.679 Phillips being the pick over Naji Harris. It was absolutely 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.000 the smart pick at the time going forward, and it 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.319 still is. I remember that how many Dolphins fans thought 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.400 that it was a horrible move to not take Nase 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:39.079 Harris right there, who has been relegated to running back 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.080 two in Pittsburgh, Like, I don't know, man in a 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.240 position that's the cheapest in the league as well, and 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.400 now you have one of the best young pass rushers 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:47.240 on a rookie contract. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:49.720 You guys would have gotten fired for that. I'm just saying. 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.760 So back to the tackle stuff, Tron has actually been 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.600 a bit of an anomaly in terms of, you know, 0:09:54.880 --> 0:09:58.599 he's been franchise level when he's played. Now, injuries and 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:02.240 availability has made that conversation different. But when he plays, 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:05.200 he's probably a top four or five left tackle in 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.720 the National Football League. So that means that every team 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.720 is looking for offensive line help, right, you guys, know 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.520 the top seeded Ravens, the team that leads the NFL 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:15.600 and rushing every year, and that's part of their quarterback 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:18.320 as well, but is often heralded for their offensive line play. 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.000 Allow me to read you a passage from a tweet 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.920 from one of their beat writers. This was Jeff Zubriac. 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:25.679 Help I got that right? 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:26.680 With it. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.400 Now looking unlikely that Kevin Zeitler will be back, it's 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.920 become clear that slidifying the offensive line will be the 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.960 will be the Ravens offseason priority. Left guard John Simpson 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.120 is a pending free agent. Good player, by the way, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:42.120 that's me. He's talking Both tackles Stanley and Moses have age, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:46.840 injury and contact contract questions. It's basically linderbaum and question marks. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.920 So do you think they're alone in that regard? 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.160 This is me talking good? 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.600 How many teams on Let's just pick Daniel Jeremiah's mock 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:55.640 does a list team needs? 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:55.959 Who does? 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.480 Let's see NFL dot Com. Chad Ruter has us here. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.240 Good job, so he's got every team's top five needs. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.640 And I'm not saying this is gospel, because like, who 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:07.559 is Kuad? Even gotta see it? 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:08.360 Who is Chad Ruter. 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.880 You know, but I actually like Chad's works. I'm not 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.240 saying that, but like he doesn't. I mean, his needs 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.400 are not Gospel's what I'm saying. But I bet you 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.240 can pinpoint about how many teams have offensive line listed 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:18.720 in there, right. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.040 My guess is going to be twenty five spots. Let's 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:21.760 go down the list. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.800 So the Bears, picking first, their top need is interior 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:27.360 offensive line. The Commanders have an interior offensive line need 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.440 at second pick. The Patriots third need, according to Chad Ruter, 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.959 is offensive tackle. The Cardinals third need is interior offensive line. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.880 The Chargers fifth need is their center. That's close in 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.120 franch We're gonna count it. The Giant's third need is iol. 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:43.440 The Titans top need is tackle. We finally reach our 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:45.559 top team that does not have offensive line on their 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.240 top five needs, the Falcons. Then the Bears are up again. 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:49.520 Then the Jets. 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:52.480 Their top need is an offensive tackle. The Vikings a 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.000 guard is their third. Their third biggest need another team 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.160 without an offensive line need, according to Chad Ruter. 0:11:58.360 --> 0:11:59.000 The Broncos. 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.840 They did sign two top market offensive lineman last year, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.200 and Ben Powers and Mike McGlinchey. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:03.840 By the way, the. 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.520 Raiders have iol and ot as their second and third needs. 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.240 The Saints have tackle as their third need. The Colts 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.480 don't have an offensive line need. Three teams in so 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.200 far don't have needs on the offensive line. The Seahawks 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.160 interior o line is third, Jags guard second, Bengals tackle second, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.320 Rams no offensive line need really for sure with that. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:27.600 The Steelers tackle second, interior line third, Dolphins interior offensive 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.839 line first. Eagles don't need the offensive line help Accord 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.320 and Chad Ruter. Texans tackle top need. Cowboys tackle top 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.520 need into your line third top need, Packers tackle second, 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:40.360 best biggest need into your offensive line. Fourth biggest need, 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.760 Bucks interior line, third biggest need Cardinals again. Buffalo Bills 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.600 no offensive line need, and they got one thousand plus 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.720 snaps from all five guys that will never happen again 0:12:49.760 --> 0:12:52.880 for them. The Lions guard second, Ravens we cover them 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.040 offensive guard second on the list, Niners tackle third, and 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:58.880 interior offensive line fourth, Chiefs third. Third need is a 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.800 tackle team without a first round pick, Panthers interior offensive line, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:06.160 Browns offensive tackle. So how many teams didn't have offensive 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:09.160 line as a top five need in that list? Twenty 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.920 six teams had it in their top five. Twenty one 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.880 teams had offensive line in their top three needs. Six 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:22.000 teams had offensive line as the top need. Five teams 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.480 have multiple o line spots as needs. So even when 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:29.240 you have a loaded offensive line class, the math tells me, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:32.400 tells you, tells us a collective the Royal wi that 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.920 there will be teams left without a chair when this 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:39.320 music stops. Because, yeah, addressing and hitting five team needs 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.840 might be unrealistic, but I think it is realistic to 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:46.120 think you can fix three things on your football team 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:46.840 in an offseason. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:47.920 And more than. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.120 Two thirds of the teams have offensive line listed among 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.040 their top three needs. 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.160 So pick twenty one. What's there? Who knows? 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.040 But I know this offensive line class is one of 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.040 the best we've ever seen just right now, right, but 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:02.280 in three years it could not be. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:02.840 You never know. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.640 The receiver class also very very good, very very deep. 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.880 That's been pretty common the last few years. I know 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:10.560 the running back position and tight end spots are much 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:13.360 more mid rounds this year opposed to what last year's 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.760 crop offered. I know the quarterback crop is more widespread. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.640 I think we get an early run than a handful 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:20.600 more that go throughout rounds one and two, where last 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.120 year was just kind of the top guys than a 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:25.240 big dearth there. There's better into your defensive line prospects 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.320 than in years past, I would say, and the edge 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:31.280 group continues to turn out a bunch of just adonses. Basically, 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:33.600 I don't think the corner class is anywhere close to 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:35.560 what it has been, but I really like the crop 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:36.760 of safeties and nickels. 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:37.800 There's some crossover there. 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.880 That's the first segment, fifteen minutes, talking about what this 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:43.080 draft features, some of my own thoughts on it, the 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.320 offensive line group, how every team's offensive line help. Next, 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.200 we'll come back and talk about the ten prospects that 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.800 are my favorite as of today. On February twenty third, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:55.320 that's next for the Dolphins. By the way, Draft Time Podcast, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.040 your host Travis Wingfield. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:57.960 Brought to you back automation. 0:15:01.000 --> 0:15:04.080 Really enjoying putting together those kind of just Travis's thoughts segments. 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:05.960 We haven't done that on the Draft Time Podcast for 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:09.080 the last really since it began those more locked on 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.800 Dolphins segments, but trying to get back to those roots 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.280 because it's what I enjoyed to do. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:14.800 I think it's good content, and. 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.720 I think you guys like it as well, So let 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.080 me know if you agree or disagree or don't, whatever. 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:21.520 You want to do. I'm not the boss of you. 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:25.080 I'm not your father. I'm not God. That's a big 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.280 old boss reference right there. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.440 So you guys know how my notes got a little 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.560 bit less on the free agent list as that went on. 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:33.040 This might be a little bit in the converse or 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:37.760 maybe just randomly selected throughout because I talked about a 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.240 few of these guys a lot recently. 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:42.400 Just real quick. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.400 I have not done the quarterbacks yet. That's probably gonna 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:46.360 be a March project. I haven't don the running backs 0:15:46.440 --> 0:15:49.200 yet because I just don't think we're in that market 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:51.240 really and it's not a great class for it either. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.240 I will also remove the following players because I think 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:56.440 they are locks, and there are never locks in the 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:58.680 draft right but for the sake of not giving you 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.080 ten guys that are probably gonna be before we pick anyways, 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:03.920 here are the locks that I have that'll go off 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:06.400 the board before the twenty first pick. Marvin Harrison, Junior 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.840 Malik Neighbors, Rome Adunza, and Brock Bowers. For your skill players, 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.440 Alu Fashanu from Penn State. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:15.440 I think I butchered. 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:17.800 That I haven't heard his name pronounced before, Joe Alt, 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:22.440 Amerius Mims, Talise Fuaga, Jared versus Dallas Turner, and that 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.000 I think you could pencil in four quarterbacks that'll go 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.640 top twenty, which gives us fourteen total players. 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.080 That's a pretty good number for the twenty first pick. 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.640 Right, you eliminate so many guys, and you say, here 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.560 are eight guys that could be available seven picks before 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.200 you pick, which means you're gonna get one of those guys. Right. So, 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.640 but also this exercise is not limited to the first round. 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:45.800 It is, however, limited the top two rounds except for 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:49.480 my number ten guy. So that sounds confusing. But you'll 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:50.920 be with me. You'll be good, You'll be all right. 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:52.800 We'll hold your hand to this. And it starts with 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.800 the man in the middle in organ is Sasquatch a 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.640 potential nickname for this guy, just a three hundred and 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.000 thirty pound creature perus in the beautiful forestry of the 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.359 Pacific Northwest, just knocking down any object that gets in 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.720 his way for the fun of it. It's Jackson Powers 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.520 Johnson the Center from Oregon. If you just remove the 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.760 position the value of said position as far as perception goes. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:16.600 All of that, I think there's an argument that Powers 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.119 Johnson is the number one overall player in the draft. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.199 I mean, tell me, these following traits aren't everything you 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.240 want in a high draft pick, a spot where you're 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:28.280 looking to first nail down a surefire, long term starter. Right. 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.240 You have to do that because if you don't, it 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.600 sends a ripple effect throughout your franchise that impacts you negatively. 0:17:33.680 --> 0:17:35.800 The teams that hit on the first round picks typically 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:38.520 have the best rosters. You need a guy to contribute 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:40.840 for a long time also, right, and probably early. That's 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.560 another thing that would be a first round pick is 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.680 you want to contribute right away, but you also want 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:46.840 that upside, which is probably the most important thing. 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.760 This is where you take the best balls of clay. Right. 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:53.560 However, the first part happens, but then they morph into 0:17:53.600 --> 0:17:55.480 a true realization of their potential. 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:56.840 And that's what I think. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.000 JPJ is man find me some bad college tape, because 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.720 there isn't much of his There. 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.399 Just aren't really holes in his game. 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.880 I feel very comfortable saying I know the floor I'm 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.119 getting with this player that's number one. Number two, the 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:11.719 love of the game, the mindset, the approach, all of 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.080 that is there, and sometimes there's guesswork there. But it 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:16.879 doesn't take more than a few snaps to watch this 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.520 guy just after the snap the things he does, to 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:22.440 see the passion that JPJ plays with. I said it before, 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.720 I'll say it again. He reminds me of Christian Wilkins. 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.360 Number three. The upside is absolutely abundant. I mean, if 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:31.040