Speaker 1: To on remove Gallin, Deep Spiegles, Peas do peas. From
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studio inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's my hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up?
Speaker 1: Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we're opening
Speaker 1: up the mailbag on this edition of the podcast, exclusively
Speaker 1: your questions from start to finish, my answers on all
Speaker 1: matters Miami Dolphins free agency, draft, off season workouts. If
Speaker 1: you guys put some stuff in there about television shows,
Speaker 1: golf or basketball or other stuff that I'm into, probably
Speaker 1: gonna answer that as well. I'm just gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and go off the cuff though, and read these things
Speaker 1: as we go. Whatever you can think of, we're talking
Speaker 1: about it here on the podcast. From the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Studios inside the Baptist Hell Training Complex. This is the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: Mayie Jeff.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and jump right in the first name
Speaker 1: I see. Does Twitter sort these by the people that
Speaker 1: you like know the most or do you interact with
Speaker 1: the most, Because the first question I got is from
Speaker 1: longtime friend of the show, longtime friend of the person
Speaker 1: you're hearing from right now at Jason Underscore Sarny with
Speaker 1: the Anthony Weaver hire. He asks Jason, by the way,
Speaker 1: how are you doing Hope the family as well? With
Speaker 1: the Anthony Weaver hire, which player are you most interested
Speaker 1: in seeing what he can do for said player? And
Speaker 1: what a way to start this podcast off. Coming off
Speaker 1: the heels of the Friday Anthony Weaver episode, which you
Speaker 1: haven't heard yet, go back and check it out. I
Speaker 1: had the great Mark vandermiro on who just was spitting
Speaker 1: hot fire with what he thinks about the Dolphins new
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. And then we also heard from Coach Weaver
Speaker 1: on that podcast, and I alluded to this in an
Speaker 1: answer the coach put on the or that he mentioned
Speaker 1: in his press conference on that Friday podcast, And I mean,
Speaker 1: the easy money here is Jalen Ramsey, right, But I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go somebody else in that defensive backfield and say
Speaker 1: it's Javon Holland. And I think that what coach Weaver
Speaker 1: saw this past year with the usage of Kyle Hamilton,
Speaker 1: who for my money is already the best safety in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And by the way, This is
Speaker 1: like getting way out into the weeds, Jason, and I
Speaker 1: apologize for that positional.
Speaker 2: Value in the draft.
Speaker 1: Is has totally jumped the shark, has it not? Like
Speaker 1: Jamiir Gibbs. I think I tweeted about it last year.
Speaker 1: You could just tell, you could just it wasn't hard, right.
Speaker 1: It took a couple of reps to see this guy's different,
Speaker 1: and they took him at what was a tenth overall
Speaker 1: or eighth overall, I forget what it was even but
Speaker 1: everyone's all fire about where the Lions took Jamiir Gibbs.
Speaker 1: And look how important he was to the run towards
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Like we get so caught
Speaker 1: up in these trivial things in the sport. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: hey draft good football players and it works out right.
Speaker 1: The same thing is true with Kyle Hamilton, and I
Speaker 1: remember the lead up to the draft that year with him,
Speaker 1: with the disbate about the value of safety or the
Speaker 1: value of you know what, he's good, but you can't
Speaker 1: take him in this position of the draft. They should
Speaker 1: have taken him even higher because he changed the way
Speaker 1: that defense operates, and safeties can do that when they're
Speaker 1: not just safeties. And that's what Javon Holland is because
Speaker 1: if you go back to Javon Holland's tape at Orgon,
Speaker 1: it wasn't him ranging around in center field picking off,
Speaker 1: you know, go balls that don't They just don't happen
Speaker 1: that frequently anymore. In the National Football League, it's important
Speaker 1: to have someone cap those off in your deep cloud coverages,
Speaker 1: whether you're in a cover two, whether you're gonna cover
Speaker 1: three to cover six, different variations of having different guys
Speaker 1: take different deep valves of a passing game away.
Speaker 2: And so while.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland can do that, and he has the range
Speaker 1: of a very heady and athletic and quick trigger at
Speaker 1: center fielder, it's like Jalen Ramsey in the sense that
Speaker 1: you're pigeonholing his skill set by locking him into that role.
Speaker 1: And in Oregon, what I thought he was best at
Speaker 1: was understanding his job, the defensive structure within what his
Speaker 1: job entails, how the concept the offense calls attacks that,
Speaker 1: and his ability to make plays because of what he
Speaker 1: sees and what he processes in his mind to go
Speaker 1: make those plays like coming off of a bunch where
Speaker 1: he's got a front side crosser and he bails because
Speaker 1: he recognizes Mesh coming back from the backside and jumps
Speaker 1: into that and go get goes and gets a pick
Speaker 1: where the quarterback I guarantee you comes back to the
Speaker 1: sideline on that play and says, what the.
Speaker 2: What happened there?
Speaker 1: That? Like all my reads, all my process took me
Speaker 1: to that throw and Javon Holland's there. What the hell's
Speaker 1: Javon Holland doing here? What the hell's Brett Favra doing here?
Speaker 1: I mean, time to put the Dolphins of dumbass. But
Speaker 1: that's why Javon Holland is, in my opinion, the player
Speaker 1: that weaver. Will watch the tape which the last guy
Speaker 1: didn't watch the previous year's tape, which blows my freaking mind.
Speaker 2: Give yourself a leg up, dude.
Speaker 1: Like on the podcast, I was watching Josh rosenfilm telling
Speaker 1: you how terrible he was, Like watch players, I think, coach,
Speaker 1: we were gonna go back and watch the tape and
Speaker 1: see Javon Holland and all the different things he can
Speaker 1: do even in the game.
Speaker 2: And look the way that you're.
Speaker 1: Ended for Javon was not great, right and taking yourself
Speaker 1: out of the Buffalo game with was seventeen snaps and
Speaker 1: most of those snaps were in the slot, and he
Speaker 1: played really well in that role. I thought he felt
Speaker 1: he couldn't move the way he normally does. The way
Speaker 1: he normally does is fantastic and elite fashion. I think
Speaker 1: that his ability to match up to you know, keep
Speaker 1: your scheme fluid on a weekly basis, and that's another
Speaker 1: big kind of bomb drop that coach we were put
Speaker 1: in that press conference was kind of revealing what he
Speaker 1: envisions the structure of this defense looking like, which is
Speaker 1: some crossover with the Dolphins zone principles. And obviously this
Speaker 1: Dolphins defense was effective. They were good and kind of
Speaker 1: styming the offense with the same exact look every single play,
Speaker 1: which then disguises how you rotate in your coverage that way.
Speaker 1: And I thought for the most part, this past season
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins was one of the best in terms
Speaker 1: of you know, when you watch the broadcast and like
Speaker 1: you can't really see what's going on down the field
Speaker 1: and then like the quarterback hits the top of their
Speaker 1: drop when they have conviction they throw on time, usually
Speaker 1: it's going to be a completion. I felt like this
Speaker 1: year when we were kind of in that mystery world
Speaker 1: of being, you know, subject to what the broadcast showed us.
Speaker 1: I felt we were better equipped in coverage down the
Speaker 1: field on those situation, situations and scenarios, and it played
Speaker 1: out that way on tape as well. So I think
Speaker 1: Miami's ability though, to take that structure, take the personnel
Speaker 1: they have, which is very good. By the way, and
Speaker 1: another quick aside, Sarry, you get lots of burn time here. Man,
Speaker 1: the great Kyle Krabs had a great reply to a
Speaker 1: guy on Twitter who just loves to be miserable, right,
Speaker 1: and we know I won't give it the time of day,
Speaker 1: but like just bitching about every single little thing this
Speaker 1: team does. And Kyle went back and said, like, oh,
Speaker 1: they've got the most sacks and it fell.
Speaker 2: Over the last three years. They set the franchise record
Speaker 2: for sacks. This year.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, they allowed three point eight
Speaker 1: yards per Kerry playing usually down a hat in the box,
Speaker 1: which was sixth best in the National Football League. So
Speaker 1: to go take your gripe somewhere else, right, And that's
Speaker 1: because of the Dolphins personnel being so damn good. It's
Speaker 1: a great defense. Coaches around the legue will tell you
Speaker 1: how great this personnel is. Depth may need some work,
Speaker 1: and that's the case for every team, but when you
Speaker 1: look at the positions they might need, it's all non
Speaker 1: premium positions. Like they have the pass rushers, they have
Speaker 1: the corner, they have the matchup piece in Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: they have the Zach Seeler wolfing that about Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: and that's a question coming on the podcast here in
Speaker 1: a minute, but you get the sense and David Long,
Speaker 1: by the way, phenomenal football player, Like, there are pieces
Speaker 1: and I think that what coach Weaver is going to
Speaker 1: see with this is the ability to maximize their skill sets.
Speaker 1: And who better to maximize their skill set than Javon
Speaker 1: Holland in the capacity of what you can do from
Speaker 1: disguise and movement and in the box and off the
Speaker 1: football and matching up on a said player, it's it's
Speaker 1: nice to have him, and then you pay that with Ramsey.
Speaker 1: I think this defense is going to look a lot
Speaker 1: different although also similar in the way they attack things
Speaker 1: this year. And Javon Holland's my pick. I's a long,
Speaker 1: long first milbag question and answer there We're gonna have
Speaker 1: to go faster to get through all these at b one,
Speaker 1: Nick is that Beneck, I don't know what is Tua
Speaker 1: attacking this offseason. My hunch is play EXTENSI when routes
Speaker 1: are blow up the lines, scrimage. And I tend to
Speaker 1: agree with you on that, ben being. I'm sorry, man,
Speaker 1: I don't Yeah, I know it's clever wordplay, but I'm
Speaker 1: just not clever enough to figure it out. Pretty stupid person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's gotta be first, right, because and I don't
Speaker 1: feel it's not I feel it's not something that he
Speaker 1: can't physically do. I think it was more of an
Speaker 1: ingrained in his mind to play smarter and safer this year,
Speaker 1: which we you know, only eight quarterbacks played all seventeen games,
Speaker 1: and it gave us a chance even when the offense
Speaker 1: was struggling down the stretch because a year ago, going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs with a rookie, seventh string or seventh
Speaker 1: round quarterback, third stree quarterback wasn't gonna work out. So
Speaker 1: having to a healthy is paramount first and foremost. But
Speaker 1: I think we need to play a little more, almost
Speaker 1: like Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, Like let's go
Speaker 1: make some more plays, and so I think it's there.
Speaker 1: I think the skill set is there. I always allude
Speaker 1: to that play against the Commanders when he had a
Speaker 1: free rusher in his face and was able to kind
Speaker 1: of do that little pump fake and then you know,
Speaker 1: tuck the ball in side step attack lane scrimage and
Speaker 1: throw the ball on time hot that way, or obviously
Speaker 1: the play on opening day against the Chargers to Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill down the field there, or the one to Braxon
Speaker 1: Burials in that game moving left off the spot.
Speaker 2: It's in there.
Speaker 1: It's not the best in the league, but it is
Speaker 1: in there. I think the mental calibration of when to
Speaker 1: do it, when you can get away with it, when
Speaker 1: you can extend without opening yourself up to more risk
Speaker 1: for injury, is kind of where he has to be at.
Speaker 1: And then also, just like I would say, I kind
Speaker 1: of felt too his lack of mobility was tied to
Speaker 1: his lack of mobility, but also a waning trust in
Speaker 1: his pockets that he had, because there was instances where
Speaker 1: you could see like he kind of felt the rush,
Speaker 1: especially those last couple of games of the year. I
Speaker 1: thought that he felt the rush more than he did
Speaker 1: earlier in the season. So I guess being more confident
Speaker 1: and having a better calibrated mindset on top of just
Speaker 1: getting a little bit maybe slimmer, maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: more agile, which is all stuff that he's gonna knock
Speaker 1: out with Nick Hicks. You just know he's going to
Speaker 1: next one here from at Dolphins Fan five, what improvements
Speaker 1: do you see the Dolphins doing with the offensive line?
Speaker 1: It's a good question because I mean, we saw Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson get extended and the Connor Williams ACL injury definitely
Speaker 1: open up a unique situation there with how he will
Speaker 1: approach the offseason and his market on the open market.
Speaker 1: Tron Armstead has been very good, if not always available,
Speaker 1: and has alluded to the fact that the body sometimes
Speaker 1: hasn't cooperate with what he wanted to do, and that
Speaker 1: might invite the scenario where maybe he doesn't want to
Speaker 1: play anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know Turan, but I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's still kind of kicking through that what
Speaker 1: he wants to do as well. So when you think
Speaker 1: about the I guess variables that we don't really know
Speaker 1: about yet. I would expect Rob Hunt to be back
Speaker 1: I don't expect Connor Williams to be back. That's just
Speaker 1: my assumption based upon how last season played out and
Speaker 1: kind of the asking there. And then the left tackle,
Speaker 1: I think Tron will go one more year, but I
Speaker 1: really don't know. So if that's what the scenario you're
Speaker 1: playing with, where you have Austin, Robb and Tehran, that's
Speaker 1: a very good starting three to begin with, You're gonna
Speaker 1: have to fill out the other spots. And I kind
Speaker 1: of feel like I love Liam Eichenberg is like my
Speaker 1: seventh offensive lineman, Like not my swing tackle, but my
Speaker 1: swing interior guy. Maybe is a good position for him,
Speaker 1: Maybe it's Isaiah Win if you want to go back
Speaker 1: that route, but I don't. You have to, like, you
Speaker 1: have to have somebody else you feel comfortable with and
Speaker 1: capable with at that position, because he's never finished a
Speaker 1: season in his career, kind of like to Ron Armstead.
Speaker 1: So with that in mind, I think that your incumbents
Speaker 1: another year in the system will get better. But I
Speaker 1: also think you have to just get better and bigger
Speaker 1: on the interior. That's kind of my that's my main
Speaker 1: focus this offseason is getting much bigger and thicker on
Speaker 1: the interior. And there's some more questions in here that
Speaker 1: I saw. We're going to go ahead and answer more
Speaker 1: of that for you at Dolphins Fan O five. But
Speaker 1: I think that's my number one thing is getting much bigger.
Speaker 1: I'll talk about the particulars here as we go along.
Speaker 1: At Tutio Javier, I hope I got that right. I apologize,
Speaker 1: but I didn't. Who's the first player you see the
Speaker 1: team re signing. Who's the first one you see them
Speaker 1: trading or letting walk.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 1: I think the first one, just based upon how this
Speaker 1: is my assumption, based upon what I assume to be or.
Speaker 2: My own evaluation of where things went wrong.
Speaker 1: And I talked about size on the interior, and if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go that direction, you also still want athletic
Speaker 1: ability and the ability to get out wide in those
Speaker 1: wide zones, and that's rob Hunt. And the guard market
Speaker 1: is scarce as well. So to me, this top priority
Speaker 1: there is Robert Hunt, just because of the value of
Speaker 1: I think offense over defense of someone who can play
Speaker 1: your scheme but also give you that size and physicality
Speaker 1: and a guy that's been available to you his entire
Speaker 1: career except for one stretch of games last season. So
Speaker 1: to me, it's a non premium position, right, you can
Speaker 1: probably afford to It's not going to cost you as
Speaker 1: much as a premier receiver, a premier edge, a premier corner,
Speaker 1: premier tackle. It's affordable usually, So Rob hunts my option
Speaker 1: there on the first part of the question. The second
Speaker 1: part I talked about this last you know, before the
Speaker 1: injury to Bradley Chubb, it was Andrew Van Ginkle because
Speaker 1: I thought he played himself out of our price range.
Speaker 1: But now with that volatility of what might happen there,
Speaker 1: maybe you do bring Gink back and he has his
Speaker 1: own injuries coming back off of So that was my
Speaker 1: answer just because he was too good for us, like
Speaker 1: he outplayed our ability to afford him, I thought at
Speaker 1: that time. So that would have been my first answer.
Speaker 1: But now I think it's Connor Williams because of the injury,
Speaker 1: because I think the ask is going to be still
Speaker 1: for premier center money, and I think that where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have to get better and where they can improve
Speaker 1: their short yardage, their true passet pass protection is by
Speaker 1: getting bigger on the interior, and Connor Williams, I think
Speaker 1: is a top five or six center of the National
Speaker 1: Football League. But I think that getting bigger has to
Speaker 1: be a priority up front. So that would be my
Speaker 1: two choices there along the offensive line at it's me Nick,
Speaker 1: good morning, Travis. Do you see the Dolphins drafting up
Speaker 1: or maybe down for more picks? What's your take on that? Thanks,
Speaker 1: and have a great day. Trading up right, go ahead
Speaker 1: and assume that's what he meant by drafting up. So
Speaker 1: the thing about trades on draft day is that I
Speaker 1: always see like, oh, what I would do is trade down.
Speaker 1: It's like, I'm sure you would. I'm sure that's what
Speaker 1: every GM wants to do. But it takes two to
Speaker 1: kango oshapnet Adam Taandler. Yeah, I think I think that
Speaker 1: Acquir I would love to get back in the third
Speaker 1: and fourth round of the draft, and so like I
Speaker 1: would be intrigued by a potential move back that puts
Speaker 1: me in that same range. In twenty twenty, when the
Speaker 1: Packers came up for Jordan Love, we went back four
Speaker 1: spots and we recouped I believe a fourth round pick
Speaker 1: that year.
Speaker 2: I could see something like that in the works. I
Speaker 2: do not see us going up.
Speaker 1: I think draft picks in next couple of years is
Speaker 1: gonna be very valuable for this Dolphins franchise, and U
Speaker 1: I think it picked twenty one, Like, there's a guy
Speaker 1: that I definitely want in that spot and I would
Speaker 1: not risk losing him going back if he's there.
Speaker 2: So that's kind of part of what it is. And
Speaker 2: we'll talk about who that player.
Speaker 1: Is here in the moments. I think there's more questions
Speaker 1: about the draft coming up on the podcast. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take our first break right there, come back
Speaker 1: on the other side and just continue doing this, just
Speaker 1: chopping it up Benny hannstyle with my boys talking football,
Speaker 1: male bag questions. More next on the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation Segon,
Speaker 1: but number two on a Monday. Man, these these like
Speaker 1: between actually the summer podcasts when it's really dead are
Speaker 1: pre taped and it's like season preview and we're kind
Speaker 1: of getting geared up and enjoying the last part of
Speaker 1: summer break with your kids being out from school. For me,
Speaker 1: my wife works in a school, so she also has
Speaker 1: summers off, and then for me, obviously that's the one
Speaker 1: time year where I'm not working all the time. So
Speaker 1: it's nice, but this time of year, like we're in
Speaker 1: this really weird position. Like I talk about draft prospects,
Speaker 1: I talk about free agent film I'm watching.
Speaker 2: We'll do more of that.
Speaker 1: But I thought that was a good chance to kind
Speaker 1: of connect with you guys. Haven't done mailbags in a while.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and talk to the boys and
Speaker 1: to the ladies out there. I think I have a
Speaker 1: ninety seven slash three percent demographic split, but talking to
Speaker 1: the lays as well. Yeah, let's just go ahead and
Speaker 1: get your guys' thoughts and take So the next question
Speaker 1: here from g Ortega twenty three eighty six, what are
Speaker 1: the big changes you anticipate happening this off season to
Speaker 1: help the Dolphins get over the hump? And I don't
Speaker 1: think you're gonna like this answer because it just doesn't
Speaker 1: jive with what I see fans talking about on social media.
Speaker 1: I just think it's incumbent improvements, man, I really do.
Speaker 1: I mean retaining our own guys, I think is going
Speaker 1: to be a critical venture this off season with regards
Speaker 1: to how this thing gets built and where the money
Speaker 1: that we do have goes.
Speaker 2: And look like there, I know you've been.
Speaker 1: Told a bill of goods about how this cap situation
Speaker 1: is going to be damning for us for a long time.
Speaker 1: But you just please just please don't listen to that,
Speaker 1: like it's just not the case. You know. Kyle Krabs,
Speaker 1: locked on Dolphins, is the guy that you probably go
Speaker 1: to first for that because he is so locked on it.
Speaker 1: Chris Coffin's very good. C. K. Parrott with the financial
Speaker 1: aspect of it. Outside of that, just just please be
Speaker 1: careful with where you get information from because it's tricky.
Speaker 1: I don't really dive into it because it's over my
Speaker 1: stupid brain and I don't really want to like flesh
Speaker 1: out like where you move money around and restructure. But
Speaker 1: just understand that the way this organization or front office
Speaker 1: structures things is to keep themselves flexible, to give themselves outs,
Speaker 1: to keep themselves with the ability to change things that
Speaker 1: the drop of a hat for a scheme change or
Speaker 1: a coach change, or whatever the case may be. They
Speaker 1: find opportunities to move money around and keep themselves flexible.
Speaker 1: It's the job of an entire guy. Brandon Short is
Speaker 1: a great job in the organization of making that all happen.
Speaker 1: So just please remember that it's the stuff you hear
Speaker 1: from people that think that a nine technique means the
Speaker 1: defense nine gaps, like, don't take your opinions too seriously
Speaker 1: from that, that's my only thing. So with that all set,
Speaker 1: gi Ortega your question about what moves the Dolphins might
Speaker 1: make this off season to make them get over the hump.
Speaker 1: I think the third year in the offense for the
Speaker 1: quarterback and play.
Speaker 2: Caller is paramount. I've heard Peyton Manning talk about that.
Speaker 1: I've heard other quarterbacks discussed how critical that continuity on
Speaker 1: the offense side of the football is. And you guys
Speaker 1: know me, I think the best way to win today's
Speaker 1: in today's league is to be the best on offense.
Speaker 1: Just continue to be the best on offense, and you
Speaker 1: will find your way into the winner circle in most
Speaker 1: games because most other teams don't have offenses and quarterbacks
Speaker 1: that can keep up in the thirties. I would say
Speaker 1: there's twenty four teams if you score thirty points against,
Speaker 1: they really don't have much of a chance to beat you.
Speaker 1: And now we have to find out how to beat
Speaker 1: the other eight teams that have the quarterbacks like the
Speaker 1: one that we have or even better than the one
Speaker 1: that we have, which is the case for a handful
Speaker 1: of teams right. So to me, it's just being better
Speaker 1: detailed at everything, minimizing pre snap penalties and mistakes, giving
Speaker 1: yourself a better glance at what the pre snap alignment
Speaker 1: of the defense and postnapp rotation might be. Having my
Speaker 1: quarterback have more answers and critical situations, having better third
Speaker 1: down conversion and communication with how we attack a good
Speaker 1: defense with a good pass rush and the pass protection plan.
Speaker 1: I think for year three, for Tua being more well
Speaker 1: versed in his protections and how to get that stuff
Speaker 1: all sorted.
Speaker 2: I talked about it on the Super Bowl Recap podcast.
Speaker 1: Tony Ralmo talked about brock Party in his second year
Speaker 1: being a very good cerebral quarterback in the processing element
Speaker 1: of the position that he thinks he plays well at.
Speaker 1: But one thing he thought he could have done better
Speaker 1: was a quick protection fix, right, a protection resolution to
Speaker 1: what the defense presented, And he didn't think that brock
Speaker 1: Party had the answers to this all the time. And
Speaker 1: so for Tua, who I think has really taken a
Speaker 1: big step the last couple of years with his professional approach,
Speaker 1: with his mental aptitude.
Speaker 2: And just knowing ball.
Speaker 1: He's always had great recall, but I feel like he
Speaker 1: just has taking that knowledge to a different level the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. I think in year three, like
Speaker 1: I talk about it all the time, if Tuwas puts
Speaker 1: his mind to something about getting better, especially in the
Speaker 1: off season, he's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: I think that's a big thing for him.
Speaker 1: So offensively, structurally, quarterback and coach are your two most
Speaker 1: important pieces, right I think those guys can be even
Speaker 1: better now. As far as what moves happened in the
Speaker 1: off season, I've I've kind of discussed it's been on
Speaker 1: the show here, but we'll go ahead and recap it again.
Speaker 1: Better and true dropback situations and maybe a more refined
Speaker 1: offensive approach that has a little bit more What's what
Speaker 1: I'm looking for here, not like not predictability, but can
Speaker 1: just when you when you know what you have to do,
Speaker 1: you can do it right. And that is kind of
Speaker 1: what the Rams and Niners have done the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. They've converted to a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a power running scheme that gives them more opportunity to
Speaker 1: convert those situations that we came up shorten.
Speaker 2: That's a big part of it.
Speaker 1: Playing better under pressure in general for the quarterback and
Speaker 1: the offense is a big part of it. And then
Speaker 1: defensively opening up more of your guys to more just
Speaker 1: you know, scheme fluctuation, to more adaptability week by week
Speaker 1: to open up the playmakers to put them in better
Speaker 1: positions to go make plays. And yeah, that's probably about it.
Speaker 1: I would say getting after the quarterback a little bit more,
Speaker 1: these top line quarterbacks and confuse them with different rush looks.
Speaker 1: That's been big on my list this offseason, so plenty
Speaker 1: to look at there, and of course, you know we'll
Speaker 1: have some newcomers to come in and help with that
Speaker 1: as well. Next question here from at Laramore underscore Ben
Speaker 1: keep one cut one McDaniel into a you are diabolical, sir.
Speaker 2: That is tough.
Speaker 1: Oh man, can I sacrifice my third born child? I
Speaker 1: don't have a third It's not gonna happen. So that's
Speaker 1: why I say that, and all jokes aside, but really
Speaker 1: I'd probably go to the quarterback just because I'm a
Speaker 1: big believer what this coach can do. I'm a big
Speaker 1: believer in the quarterback as well, so don't take that
Speaker 1: out of context. But I would say, I would keep
Speaker 1: McDaniel by a slim margin because I think that once
Speaker 1: you get a head coach, he can certainly tailor thanks
Speaker 1: for that quarterback, And I think that eventually, you never know,
Speaker 1: it took us twenty years the first time, eventually we
Speaker 1: could find another quarterback. A head coach can be even
Speaker 1: tougher to find. If you ask me at ross PB,
Speaker 1: of all the players who are due to hit free agency,
Speaker 1: which two do you re sign? One offense and one defense,
Speaker 1: I'd pick Wilkins and Hunt. I put this question in
Speaker 1: there because we already discussed this earlier. My pick was
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt for the defense. Yeah, I think you nailed
Speaker 1: the head there with Christian Wilkins. I will say, though,
Speaker 1: if it gets to a point where it's not really
Speaker 1: you know, tenable for your your structure and your cap
Speaker 1: and it's going to really really suck if you have
Speaker 1: to lose a player like that because of that. But
Speaker 1: I will say, if it comes down to that, a
Speaker 1: cheaper option at the safety position, and Deshaun Elliott probably
Speaker 1: is my pick because of the financials of that and
Speaker 1: the flexibility we'd have with that, you know, twenty million
Speaker 1: dollars per year, which of course you can sparse out
Speaker 1: through the course of the contract and you know, roll
Speaker 1: the money down the line and all that fun stuff.
Speaker 1: But I would say, just from a value standpoint, if
Speaker 1: it's not Wilkins, which it is, right, it's probably just
Speaker 1: Shaun Elliot because I thought that he played way above
Speaker 1: board in terms of what he was paid this year
Speaker 1: and his production on.
Speaker 2: The football field should take a break.
Speaker 1: Right there, Let's go ahead and take our le Now,
Speaker 1: let's go one more here at Kevin twenty five oh
Speaker 1: three nine. When you watch the film of JPGA of
Speaker 1: Organ or Zach Frazier at West Virginia and both are
Speaker 1: available and center's number one priority, who do you take?
Speaker 2: Keep up the great work, Thank you, Kevin? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Man, So JPJ is Jackson Powers Johnson from Oregon. Who So,
Speaker 1: when you go back over the course of the draft,
Speaker 1: like centers don't typically go in the first round unless
Speaker 1: they hit a certain threshold. And that threshold typically is
Speaker 1: a certain level of athleticism, a certain number of starts
Speaker 1: in college and just really really really good tape that's
Speaker 1: difficult to find holes with them, and then also a
Speaker 1: certain level of size and strength. And that's where I
Speaker 1: thought Miami. I thought we had everything else at center
Speaker 1: besides that last criteria there the size and strength, which
Speaker 1: I talked about it right in training camp. I watched
Speaker 1: Raykwon Davis walk Connor Williams back into the lap of
Speaker 1: the quarterback frequently, and he doesn't do it against anybody
Speaker 1: else like some guys he does. But I mean Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: if there was one issue in his game, it was
Speaker 1: the size and the stature at that position and just
Speaker 1: overall anchor in the lakes. But I mean, for the
Speaker 1: most part he was. He's a fantastic player, right But
Speaker 1: between that and short yardage movement, pushing guys off the
Speaker 1: football QB sneaks or even just full back dives. When
Speaker 1: you watch Jackson powers Johnson play, he is on that
Speaker 1: level of a Creed Humphrey who fell out of the
Speaker 1: second round, on that level of a Frank Ragnow who
Speaker 1: did go.
Speaker 2: In the first round.
Speaker 1: Of these top tier centers that you can put on
Speaker 1: your football team and know for twelve years we are
Speaker 1: locked in at a critical position, and this guy is,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, he might be the best player.
Speaker 2: Of the entire draft.
Speaker 1: He is in that conversation with regards to how good
Speaker 1: he is at his job and all the makeup and
Speaker 1: the like. It's Christian Wilkins. He's Christian Wilkins as a center.
Speaker 1: That's how I describe him. He's a phenomenal player to me.
Speaker 1: He is optioned one a b cd EF at pick
Speaker 1: twenty one if he's there. Zach Frasier, I love his game,
Speaker 1: but I would just knock him back a tiny little
Speaker 1: bit because they're both former wrestlers, which is always a
Speaker 1: critical part in that pierside. For some reason, they're both
Speaker 1: smart as hell. They both played a million snaps at college.
Speaker 1: Zach Fraser is a captain who's tough as hell. He's
Speaker 1: right there too, But I just think that JPJ is
Speaker 1: on a different tier. He's on that Creed Humphrey tier.
Speaker 1: He's very, very good, and there are other centers in
Speaker 1: this class that I think make good sense in the
Speaker 1: second round as well. So it's a good position to
Speaker 1: need and it's part of the reason why I think
Speaker 1: that the current guy. I think my assumption would be
Speaker 1: that you don't see him back next year. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and take that last break right there, come back
Speaker 1: on the other side and finish up your questions on
Speaker 1: the mail back edition of the Drift Time podcast That's
Speaker 1: next brought to you by Auto Nation some more mailbag questions.
Speaker 1: Don't forget DCC on Saturday. You can come by and
Speaker 1: find my guy Seth and I will be at the
Speaker 1: finish line, I believe, in the paddock area at the
Speaker 1: f one track. We're gonna be hosting a radio show
Speaker 1: live on the air from ten to noon. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have some pre tape segments, but also gonna have some
Speaker 1: guys stop buying and do a live hit. I believe
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips will be with us, but we'll also have
Speaker 1: tons of players and Coach will be there. Gonna be
Speaker 1: a fun time hanging out for a couple hours there
Speaker 1: at DCC on Saturday. With that, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get back to your questions here and a couple of
Speaker 1: quick ones. First one at Finn's finish why aren't they
Speaker 1: addressing the special teams coaching. They actually did let go
Speaker 1: of an assistant special teamers, Brandon Dale.
Speaker 2: I believe his name was relieved to his duties.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it sounds like Coach Cross was gonna be back,
Speaker 1: So I just think it has to be better this year.
Speaker 2: Right, special teams was tough. This season has to be
Speaker 2: better this year.
Speaker 1: This year at finn one fan the Dolphins renew year contract. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not going anywhere anytime soon, So don't worry, Mike.
Speaker 1: I'll be here with you outside the radio four on
Speaker 1: Sundays after Dolphins wins and losses, but hopefully more wins.
Speaker 2: At the Homie.
Speaker 1: Which player or players will improve the most under coach?
Speaker 1: Weaver loved that question, So I mentioned Javon Holland, but
Speaker 1: that's not He's already doesn't have a lot of room
Speaker 1: to go, right, He's pretty good already. As far as
Speaker 1: most improvement, it's got to be Cam Smith, right. I
Speaker 1: think about Cam Smith getting kind of the shaft last
Speaker 1: year in terms of not getting a chance to even
Speaker 1: see the field because of kind of a grudge that
Speaker 1: was held about not bringing in his own guys. And
Speaker 1: that's how I'm going to get back at you. And
Speaker 1: it's at stubbornness, man. That stuff don't play. That don't
Speaker 1: play at all. So I think camp Smith is your
Speaker 1: obvious option. I watching him all camp long, I feel
Speaker 1: pretty confident in my evaluations. I do get some stuff wrong.
Speaker 1: I thought no Ignogony was gonna be a good player.
Speaker 1: Well he wasn't, so you get some stuff wrong.
Speaker 2: But damn it.
Speaker 1: Cam Smith can freaking play man. He can play ball.
Speaker 1: He looks really good out there. He's so fluid, quick trigger,
Speaker 1: super smart processor. He moves before the ball comes out
Speaker 1: and just kind of sees things in a way that
Speaker 1: not every player can. A big fan of his game,
Speaker 1: I think the next obvious answer is changing Tyndall. I
Speaker 1: think a lot of the player development loving guys up
Speaker 1: putting your arm around him, not putting him a freaking
Speaker 1: you know, a Mike Leach storage shed out somewhere and
Speaker 1: just forgetting about him for a couple of days like
Speaker 1: that was kind of how the last guy did it right.
Speaker 1: But for Coach Weaver, I think he's gonna come in
Speaker 1: here and give these guys a fresh start, a fresh opportunity,
Speaker 1: and then for a more I guess not obvious answer
Speaker 1: because those kind of were obvious to me would have
Speaker 1: to probably be Sjalen Ramsey. I mean I talked about
Speaker 1: it in the you know who stands to get it
Speaker 1: to benefit the most, But I think that Ramsey's ability
Speaker 1: to play in different positions, you know, that's as he
Speaker 1: said a detriment to Ramsey. If you just tick them
Speaker 1: at field or boundary corner, leave him. They're like, no,
Speaker 1: move this guy around and maximize his ability to make
Speaker 1: plays by putting him in positions where the ball will
Speaker 1: definitely go. Because you're not going to avoid Tyreek kill
Speaker 1: all game right. Put him in spots where the ball
Speaker 1: will go and watch him make more plays. At Xander Gomez,
Speaker 1: any chance xaviing Howard comes back, I talks about his
Speaker 1: cap hit, would be a waste to issue the best
Speaker 1: Dolphins cornerback I've seen the last twenty years. Sir Sam
Speaker 1: Madison's on this team twenty years ago, so I take.
Speaker 2: Exception to that. But now, I mean the play's fallen off.
Speaker 1: It's there's been a bit of a drop off in
Speaker 1: terms of production, and at that salary, it definitely can't
Speaker 1: have that production at that cost. So as far as chances,
Speaker 1: I would never say never, but right now I would
Speaker 1: say it doesn't look like that's the direction they're going.
Speaker 1: And with the comments he's made as well, seems like
Speaker 1: it's a different kind of direction for the team. At
Speaker 1: Wade Trip one, Are you going to the Seahawks game?
Speaker 1: I hope so that's my hope. That's the plan. It
Speaker 1: just kind of depends on when the game is. It
Speaker 1: depends if I can get my family out there as well.
Speaker 1: We definitely want to go home and see our family.
Speaker 1: But that's the plan. I'm hoping to be there at
Speaker 1: Skeeter doing on are we going to resign Christian wilkins Man.
Speaker 1: I think there's some hope there. I think they're trying.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I know it's a difficult business side of this whole
Speaker 1: thing that we don't like discussing, but I think that
Speaker 1: that's the plan. That's the approach. You know, Chris Career
Speaker 1: has talked about how much they want him here in
Speaker 1: the past, and I know he wants to be here,
Speaker 1: So hopefully it gets done. But I mean, I can't
Speaker 1: sit here and tell you yes or no either, Wakes.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: One more here before I get to some other questions
Speaker 1: at Dominic Amara two. What do you think is the
Speaker 1: most important for the off season to progress, for the
Speaker 1: offense to progress on physicality, to take a load off
Speaker 1: to or more proficiency in the true drop back game.
Speaker 1: So all past concepts are not so much schemed open
Speaker 1: plays that were easier to key on later in the year. Well,
Speaker 1: if that's the assessment, then off of what you're saying,
Speaker 1: I would say the it would be the proficiency in
Speaker 1: the true drop back game, because that was something they
Speaker 1: had back in twenty twenty two when they did get
Speaker 1: themselves into some long yard situations at times, it seemed
Speaker 1: like and we're able to get out of those situations
Speaker 1: with a very proficient third down and especially third and
Speaker 1: long passing game. They were actually first in the NFL
Speaker 1: and third and long and twenty twenty two, not the
Speaker 1: case last year.
Speaker 2: So I would say it's just true proficiency in that way.
Speaker 1: Probably injuries and attrition to the offensive line that caused
Speaker 1: so many breakdowns and in ability to play on time
Speaker 1: within those structures was a big issue, and I think
Speaker 1: it eventually impacted to his trust in his protection and
Speaker 1: his whole you know thing about keeping himself healthy. I
Speaker 1: think kind of was part of that collection of just
Speaker 1: ugly offense down the stretch.
Speaker 2: So I would say that that's the one that I
Speaker 2: would choose.
Speaker 1: Between these two, and with the idea of the schemed
Speaker 1: open plays not working, and that's I mean two is
Speaker 1: a huge part of that. Okay, Like let's not get
Speaker 1: that Twisted two's ability to see things play out and
Speaker 1: anticipate is why things get so open so frequently.
Speaker 2: So there you go. Let's see what else we got here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I I want to weigh in on content wars,
Speaker 1: even though I know it doesn't really involve me anymore.
Speaker 1: I do remember living in that world for a long
Speaker 1: time when I was coming up with Locked on Dolphin
Speaker 1: and trying to carve out a full time role in
Speaker 1: this industry for myself. And I see now that that
Speaker 1: realm of Dolphins Twitter that I consider myself an alumni of,
Speaker 1: you know, the old fans site, covering the team for
Speaker 1: fun at first and trying to make my way and
Speaker 1: turn into a profession.
Speaker 2: I remember doing that.
Speaker 1: I remember getting lots of fights with people like Josh Houts,
Speaker 1: for instance, and I would go to each other's next
Speaker 1: all the damn time because we thought we were both
Speaker 1: were probably gonna be the next whatever, you know, and
Speaker 1: looking back in hindsight, it's totally silly. And I do
Speaker 1: want to address that further, but we're out of time
Speaker 1: here on this show, so I'll go ahead and save
Speaker 1: it for the Wednesday podcast.
Speaker 2: I suppose.
Speaker 1: I really what I really want to address, I mean,
Speaker 1: perfectly honest, is the so everybody asks when this stuff happens,
Speaker 1: like what's the best Dolphins podcast to go to? And
Speaker 1: I'll go in those threads and there'll be grind locked
Speaker 1: on Dolphins three yards per carry drive time, and sometimes
Speaker 1: the drive time comments get replied to is Travis's propaganda,
Speaker 1: he can't be on honest, YadA YadA yah. And I
Speaker 1: just want to address that part real quick, because, first
Speaker 1: of all, if you're saying that you have listened to
Speaker 1: the show in a while, I will admit the first
Speaker 1: year on the job here there probably was some of
Speaker 1: that because the person that ran the department was very
Speaker 1: very much thumb on the scale, with me not so
Speaker 1: much the case anymore. And also, like you can see
Speaker 1: my tweets, I tweet about the games live and tell
Speaker 1: you where the shortcomings are. I talk about the shortcomings
Speaker 1: in the podcast here. So I just take a lot
Speaker 1: of exception to that. I take exception to just by
Speaker 1: the nature of my position and my job that it's
Speaker 1: thought that I my credibility is less then, and how
Speaker 1: is my credibility less them?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: Someone who puts someone on their airwaves that told you
Speaker 1: for twelve months consecutively that Skyler Thompson was the best
Speaker 1: quarterback on the roster, and now that the whole idea
Speaker 1: doesn't get questioned anymore because it wasn't a well thought out,
Speaker 1: researched idea, right, It was just saying stuff to say stuff.
Speaker 1: So if you want to put someone like that on
Speaker 1: your podcast and say difference of opinions is good to
Speaker 1: have on the show, I agree. But there's also a
Speaker 1: reason I don't put my four year old on the
Speaker 1: podcast because when I ask her, how was your Valentine's Day, sweetheart,
Speaker 1: she says purple.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You don't need differing opinions just because they're different without
Speaker 1: vetting them for quality. I will never put stuff on
Speaker 1: the podcast that doesn't provide quality for you, guys, that
Speaker 1: doesn't make us collectively smarter as a Dolphins fan, as
Speaker 1: a football fan, as a human being talking about films
Speaker 1: or experiences, or evaluating draft prospects or Tua's mistake on
Speaker 1: a third down throw on a Week fourteen game, I
Speaker 1: will always give you the best in that regard, and never, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: even if I leave the Dolphins, I will never hill,
Speaker 1: I will never grift I will never put myself in
Speaker 1: that position, So I just want to address that. I'll
Speaker 1: do more on the Wednesday show, But gosh, guys, like,
Speaker 1: what is what is going on out there? All right?
Speaker 1: So Saturday ten to noon, Seth Levitt and myself are
Speaker 1: going to be at the finish line of DCC, which
Speaker 1: I believe is in the Paddock Club this year. No
Speaker 1: more JANKI finish line back in some random parking lot.
Speaker 1: It's on the actual F one track at the Paddock Club,
Speaker 1: and Seth and I will be hosting a two hour
Speaker 1: radio program. We'll have some pre taped interviews. We're gonna
Speaker 1: have the great Liz Jenkins. Jason Jenkins' is the late
Speaker 1: Jason Jenkins. His wife, Doctor Nimmer, the head of Sylvester
Speaker 1: Cancer Research Group, will be on the show with us,
Speaker 1: and I believe we're angling for Jalen Phillips as well.
Speaker 1: We're also gonna have OJ McDuffie and a live feed
Speaker 1: to OJ on his ninety nine mile ride at DCC.
Speaker 1: So come check us out, Come say hi to me
Speaker 1: and Seth, take some pictures, whatever you want to do,
Speaker 1: come meet some players, all that fun stuff. Please come
Speaker 1: out and support DCC if you are not part of
Speaker 1: it already. We'll see you guys out there on Saturday.
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