WEBVTT - Drive Time: Answering Your Mailbag Questions 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on remove Gallin, Deep Spiegles, Peas do peas. From 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studio inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 He's my hands in the playoffs. 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:24.160 What is up? 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.840 Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:30.880 your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we're opening 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.519 up the mailbag on this edition of the podcast, exclusively 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:38.680 your questions from start to finish, my answers on all 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.559 matters Miami Dolphins free agency, draft, off season workouts. If 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:45.880 you guys put some stuff in there about television shows, 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:49.479 golf or basketball or other stuff that I'm into, probably 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.760 gonna answer that as well. I'm just gonna go ahead 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:53.480 and go off the cuff though, and read these things 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.680 as we go. Whatever you can think of, we're talking 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:58.120 about it here on the podcast. From the Baptist Health 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:02.160 Studios inside the Baptist Hell Training Complex. This is the 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:03.279 Drive Time Podcast. 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:04.200 Mayie Jeff. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.720 Let's go ahead and jump right in the first name 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.480 I see. Does Twitter sort these by the people that 0:01:11.520 --> 0:01:13.000 you like know the most or do you interact with 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.280 the most, Because the first question I got is from 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:20.440 longtime friend of the show, longtime friend of the person 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:25.200 you're hearing from right now at Jason Underscore Sarny with 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.160 the Anthony Weaver hire. He asks Jason, by the way, 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.480 how are you doing Hope the family as well? With 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.920 the Anthony Weaver hire, which player are you most interested 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.800 in seeing what he can do for said player? And 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.280 what a way to start this podcast off. Coming off 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:41.760 the heels of the Friday Anthony Weaver episode, which you 0:01:41.760 --> 0:01:43.560 haven't heard yet, go back and check it out. I 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:45.919 had the great Mark vandermiro on who just was spitting 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:48.880 hot fire with what he thinks about the Dolphins new 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.360 defensive coordinator. And then we also heard from Coach Weaver 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.040 on that podcast, and I alluded to this in an 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:59.000 answer the coach put on the or that he mentioned 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:03.040 in his press conference on that Friday podcast, And I mean, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.440 the easy money here is Jalen Ramsey, right, But I'm 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.799 gonna go somebody else in that defensive backfield and say 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.919 it's Javon Holland. And I think that what coach Weaver 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:16.200 saw this past year with the usage of Kyle Hamilton, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.080 who for my money is already the best safety in 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.800 the National Football League. And by the way, This is 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:23.560 like getting way out into the weeds, Jason, and I 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:26.840 apologize for that positional. 0:02:26.440 --> 0:02:27.360 Value in the draft. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.280 Is has totally jumped the shark, has it not? Like 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.200 Jamiir Gibbs. I think I tweeted about it last year. 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.400 You could just tell, you could just it wasn't hard, right. 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.040 It took a couple of reps to see this guy's different, 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:39.799 and they took him at what was a tenth overall 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:41.440 or eighth overall, I forget what it was even but 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.680 everyone's all fire about where the Lions took Jamiir Gibbs. 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:47.000 And look how important he was to the run towards 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.079 the end of the season. Like we get so caught 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.720 up in these trivial things in the sport. In my opinion, 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.519 hey draft good football players and it works out right. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.799 The same thing is true with Kyle Hamilton, and I 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.639 remember the lead up to the draft that year with him, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.920 with the disbate about the value of safety or the 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:05.440 value of you know what, he's good, but you can't 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:07.640 take him in this position of the draft. They should 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:09.839 have taken him even higher because he changed the way 0:03:09.880 --> 0:03:13.119 that defense operates, and safeties can do that when they're 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:16.480 not just safeties. And that's what Javon Holland is because 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.320 if you go back to Javon Holland's tape at Orgon, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.760 it wasn't him ranging around in center field picking off, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.919 you know, go balls that don't They just don't happen 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.440 that frequently anymore. In the National Football League, it's important 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.280 to have someone cap those off in your deep cloud coverages, 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.320 whether you're in a cover two, whether you're gonna cover 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.480 three to cover six, different variations of having different guys 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:39.120 take different deep valves of a passing game away. 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:40.200 And so while. 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.360 Javon Holland can do that, and he has the range 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.720 of a very heady and athletic and quick trigger at 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.720 center fielder, it's like Jalen Ramsey in the sense that 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:52.320 you're pigeonholing his skill set by locking him into that role. 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.280 And in Oregon, what I thought he was best at 0:03:55.640 --> 0:04:00.320 was understanding his job, the defensive structure within what his 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:04.360 job entails, how the concept the offense calls attacks that, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:08.000 and his ability to make plays because of what he 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:12.280 sees and what he processes in his mind to go 0:04:12.360 --> 0:04:15.160 make those plays like coming off of a bunch where 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.000 he's got a front side crosser and he bails because 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.840 he recognizes Mesh coming back from the backside and jumps 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.680 into that and go get goes and gets a pick 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.320 where the quarterback I guarantee you comes back to the 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.960 sideline on that play and says, what the. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:28.760 What happened there? 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.279 That? Like all my reads, all my process took me 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:35.080 to that throw and Javon Holland's there. What the hell's 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.320 Javon Holland doing here? What the hell's Brett Favra doing here? 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.359 I mean, time to put the Dolphins of dumbass. But 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.920 that's why Javon Holland is, in my opinion, the player 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.520 that weaver. Will watch the tape which the last guy 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:51.239 didn't watch the previous year's tape, which blows my freaking mind. 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:53.240 Give yourself a leg up, dude. 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.799 Like on the podcast, I was watching Josh rosenfilm telling 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.840 you how terrible he was, Like watch players, I think, coach, 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:03.320 we were gonna go back and watch the tape and 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.000 see Javon Holland and all the different things he can 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:06.839 do even in the game. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:08.680 And look the way that you're. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.560 Ended for Javon was not great, right and taking yourself 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.920 out of the Buffalo game with was seventeen snaps and 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:16.279 most of those snaps were in the slot, and he 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:18.280 played really well in that role. I thought he felt 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:19.880 he couldn't move the way he normally does. The way 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:23.560 he normally does is fantastic and elite fashion. I think 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.400 that his ability to match up to you know, keep 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.200 your scheme fluid on a weekly basis, and that's another 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.320 big kind of bomb drop that coach we were put 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.880 in that press conference was kind of revealing what he 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.240 envisions the structure of this defense looking like, which is 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.800 some crossover with the Dolphins zone principles. And obviously this 0:05:40.839 --> 0:05:44.160 Dolphins defense was effective. They were good and kind of 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.960 styming the offense with the same exact look every single play, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.560 which then disguises how you rotate in your coverage that way. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.120 And I thought for the most part, this past season 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.120 for the Dolphins was one of the best in terms 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.120 of you know, when you watch the broadcast and like 0:05:57.880 --> 0:05:59.880 you can't really see what's going on down the field 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:01.880 and then like the quarterback hits the top of their 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.040 drop when they have conviction they throw on time, usually 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.960 it's going to be a completion. I felt like this 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:07.880 year when we were kind of in that mystery world 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.560 of being, you know, subject to what the broadcast showed us. 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:14.640 I felt we were better equipped in coverage down the 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.840 field on those situation, situations and scenarios, and it played 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:20.320 out that way on tape as well. So I think 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:24.080 Miami's ability though, to take that structure, take the personnel 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:25.919 they have, which is very good. By the way, and 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.760 another quick aside, Sarry, you get lots of burn time here. Man, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.599 the great Kyle Krabs had a great reply to a 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.039 guy on Twitter who just loves to be miserable, right, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.600 and we know I won't give it the time of day, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:38.680 but like just bitching about every single little thing this 0:06:38.680 --> 0:06:40.919 team does. And Kyle went back and said, like, oh, 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:42.480 they've got the most sacks and it fell. 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.400 Over the last three years. They set the franchise record 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:45.080 for sacks. This year. 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:46.520 Oh and by the way, they allowed three point eight 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.159 yards per Kerry playing usually down a hat in the box, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:51.720 which was sixth best in the National Football League. So 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.000 to go take your gripe somewhere else, right, And that's 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.480 because of the Dolphins personnel being so damn good. It's 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.680 a great defense. Coaches around the legue will tell you 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.040 how great this personnel is. Depth may need some work, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:03.800 and that's the case for every team, but when you 0:07:03.800 --> 0:07:05.920 look at the positions they might need, it's all non 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.479 premium positions. Like they have the pass rushers, they have 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.680 the corner, they have the matchup piece in Javon Holland, 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.360 they have the Zach Seeler wolfing that about Christian Wilkins, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.160 and that's a question coming on the podcast here in 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.400 a minute, but you get the sense and David Long, 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.960 by the way, phenomenal football player, Like, there are pieces 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:21.760 and I think that what coach Weaver is going to 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.920 see with this is the ability to maximize their skill sets. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.320 And who better to maximize their skill set than Javon 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.960 Holland in the capacity of what you can do from 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.480 disguise and movement and in the box and off the 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.320 football and matching up on a said player, it's it's 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:38.160 nice to have him, and then you pay that with Ramsey. 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.080 I think this defense is going to look a lot 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:43.120 different although also similar in the way they attack things 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.840 this year. And Javon Holland's my pick. I's a long, 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.720 long first milbag question and answer there We're gonna have 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.040 to go faster to get through all these at b one, 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:56.200 Nick is that Beneck, I don't know what is Tua 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.320 attacking this offseason. My hunch is play EXTENSI when routes 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.360 are blow up the lines, scrimage. And I tend to 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:04.920 agree with you on that, ben being. I'm sorry, man, 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:06.800 I don't Yeah, I know it's clever wordplay, but I'm 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.000 just not clever enough to figure it out. Pretty stupid person. Yeah, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.560 that's that's gotta be first, right, because and I don't 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.880 feel it's not I feel it's not something that he 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.080 can't physically do. I think it was more of an 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:22.440 ingrained in his mind to play smarter and safer this year, 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.280 which we you know, only eight quarterbacks played all seventeen games, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.880 and it gave us a chance even when the offense 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.720 was struggling down the stretch because a year ago, going 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.240 into the playoffs with a rookie, seventh string or seventh 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:35.200 round quarterback, third stree quarterback wasn't gonna work out. So 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.800 having to a healthy is paramount first and foremost. But 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:42.040 I think we need to play a little more, almost 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.120 like Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl, Like let's go 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:46.640 make some more plays, and so I think it's there. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.960 I think the skill set is there. I always allude 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:50.760 to that play against the Commanders when he had a 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:52.719 free rusher in his face and was able to kind 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.440 of do that little pump fake and then you know, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.280 tuck the ball in side step attack lane scrimage and 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.559 throw the ball on time hot that way, or obviously 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.680 the play on opening day against the Chargers to Tyreek 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.360 Hill down the field there, or the one to Braxon 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.240 Burials in that game moving left off the spot. 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:07.120 It's in there. 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:08.840 It's not the best in the league, but it is 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.600 in there. I think the mental calibration of when to 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.600 do it, when you can get away with it, when 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.520 you can extend without opening yourself up to more risk 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.920 for injury, is kind of where he has to be at. 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.240 And then also, just like I would say, I kind 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:24.400 of felt too his lack of mobility was tied to 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.000 his lack of mobility, but also a waning trust in 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:31.160 his pockets that he had, because there was instances where 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.160 you could see like he kind of felt the rush, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:34.839 especially those last couple of games of the year. I 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:36.880 thought that he felt the rush more than he did 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.560 earlier in the season. So I guess being more confident 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.240 and having a better calibrated mindset on top of just 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.320 getting a little bit maybe slimmer, maybe a little bit 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.280 more agile, which is all stuff that he's gonna knock 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:47.800 out with Nick Hicks. You just know he's going to 0:09:48.640 --> 0:09:51.840 next one here from at Dolphins Fan five, what improvements 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.920 do you see the Dolphins doing with the offensive line? 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.240 It's a good question because I mean, we saw Austin 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.680 Jackson get extended and the Connor Williams ACL injury definitely 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.719 open up a unique situation there with how he will 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.800 approach the offseason and his market on the open market. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.880 Tron Armstead has been very good, if not always available, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.440 and has alluded to the fact that the body sometimes 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:17.040 hasn't cooperate with what he wanted to do, and that 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.439 might invite the scenario where maybe he doesn't want to 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:20.000 play anymore. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:20.520 I don't know. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.440 I know Turan, but I don't know the answer to that. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.400 I'm sure he's still kind of kicking through that what 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.160 he wants to do as well. So when you think 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.080 about the I guess variables that we don't really know 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.040 about yet. I would expect Rob Hunt to be back 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.079 I don't expect Connor Williams to be back. That's just 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.760 my assumption based upon how last season played out and 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:39.800 kind of the asking there. And then the left tackle, 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.040 I think Tron will go one more year, but I 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.040 really don't know. So if that's what the scenario you're 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.679 playing with, where you have Austin, Robb and Tehran, that's 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:50.959 a very good starting three to begin with, You're gonna 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.240 have to fill out the other spots. And I kind 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.120 of feel like I love Liam Eichenberg is like my 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.200 seventh offensive lineman, Like not my swing tackle, but my 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.600 swing interior guy. Maybe is a good position for him, 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.560 Maybe it's Isaiah Win if you want to go back 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.800 that route, but I don't. You have to, like, you 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.400 have to have somebody else you feel comfortable with and 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.800 capable with at that position, because he's never finished a 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.600 season in his career, kind of like to Ron Armstead. 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.000 So with that in mind, I think that your incumbents 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.120 another year in the system will get better. But I 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.720 also think you have to just get better and bigger 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.520 on the interior. That's kind of my that's my main 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:24.840 focus this offseason is getting much bigger and thicker on 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.960 the interior. And there's some more questions in here that 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.120 I saw. We're going to go ahead and answer more 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.319 of that for you at Dolphins Fan O five. But 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.559 I think that's my number one thing is getting much bigger. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.600 I'll talk about the particulars here as we go along. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.000 At Tutio Javier, I hope I got that right. I apologize, 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:41.760 but I didn't. Who's the first player you see the 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.680 team re signing. Who's the first one you see them 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:44.800 trading or letting walk. 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:45.920 That's a good question. 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.920 I think the first one, just based upon how this 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:56.040 is my assumption, based upon what I assume to be or. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.520 My own evaluation of where things went wrong. 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.199 And I talked about size on the interior, and if 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.920 you're gonna go that direction, you also still want athletic 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:05.880 ability and the ability to get out wide in those 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.120 wide zones, and that's rob Hunt. And the guard market 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.360 is scarce as well. So to me, this top priority 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.240 there is Robert Hunt, just because of the value of 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.840 I think offense over defense of someone who can play 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:20.160 your scheme but also give you that size and physicality 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.400 and a guy that's been available to you his entire 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.920 career except for one stretch of games last season. So 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.320 to me, it's a non premium position, right, you can 0:12:27.360 --> 0:12:29.280 probably afford to It's not going to cost you as 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:32.480 much as a premier receiver, a premier edge, a premier corner, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:37.080 premier tackle. It's affordable usually, So Rob hunts my option 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.200 there on the first part of the question. The second 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.280 part I talked about this last you know, before the 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.800 injury to Bradley Chubb, it was Andrew Van Ginkle because 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.240 I thought he played himself out of our price range. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.960 But now with that volatility of what might happen there, 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.720 maybe you do bring Gink back and he has his 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.640 own injuries coming back off of So that was my 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:55.920 answer just because he was too good for us, like 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.079 he outplayed our ability to afford him, I thought at 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.400 that time. So that would have been my first answer. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.320 But now I think it's Connor Williams because of the injury, 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:06.120 because I think the ask is going to be still 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.520 for premier center money, and I think that where the 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.720 Dolphins have to get better and where they can improve 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.719 their short yardage, their true passet pass protection is by 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.079 getting bigger on the interior, and Connor Williams, I think 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.839 is a top five or six center of the National 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:20.360 Football League. But I think that getting bigger has to 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:21.680 be a priority up front. So that would be my 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:25.839 two choices there along the offensive line at it's me Nick, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:28.480 good morning, Travis. Do you see the Dolphins drafting up 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.240 or maybe down for more picks? What's your take on that? Thanks, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.120 and have a great day. Trading up right, go ahead 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.880 and assume that's what he meant by drafting up. So 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.400 the thing about trades on draft day is that I 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.640 always see like, oh, what I would do is trade down. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:44.679 It's like, I'm sure you would. I'm sure that's what 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.560 every GM wants to do. But it takes two to 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:57.880 kango oshapnet Adam Taandler. Yeah, I think I think that 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:00.000 Acquir I would love to get back in the third 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.720 and fourth round of the draft, and so like I 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.280 would be intrigued by a potential move back that puts 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.720 me in that same range. In twenty twenty, when the 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.120 Packers came up for Jordan Love, we went back four 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.600 spots and we recouped I believe a fourth round pick 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:12.040 that year. 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:13.960 I could see something like that in the works. I 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:15.080 do not see us going up. 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:16.520 I think draft picks in next couple of years is 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.080 gonna be very valuable for this Dolphins franchise, and U 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.240 I think it picked twenty one, Like, there's a guy 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:22.920 that I definitely want in that spot and I would 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.240 not risk losing him going back if he's there. 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:26.800 So that's kind of part of what it is. And 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:28.320 we'll talk about who that player. 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.400 Is here in the moments. I think there's more questions 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:31.760 about the draft coming up on the podcast. Let's go 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:33.720 ahead and take our first break right there, come back 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.640 on the other side and just continue doing this, just 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:40.040 chopping it up Benny hannstyle with my boys talking football, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:42.920 male bag questions. More next on the Draft Time podcast, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:49.160 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation Segon, 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:53.480 but number two on a Monday. Man, these these like 0:14:54.120 --> 0:15:00.200 between actually the summer podcasts when it's really dead are 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.760 pre taped and it's like season preview and we're kind 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.560 of getting geared up and enjoying the last part of 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.040 summer break with your kids being out from school. For me, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.560 my wife works in a school, so she also has 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.960 summers off, and then for me, obviously that's the one 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.680 time year where I'm not working all the time. So 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.320 it's nice, but this time of year, like we're in 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.640 this really weird position. Like I talk about draft prospects, 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.560 I talk about free agent film I'm watching. 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:21.600 We'll do more of that. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.360 But I thought that was a good chance to kind 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.640 of connect with you guys. Haven't done mailbags in a while. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.560 So let's go ahead and talk to the boys and 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:29.280 to the ladies out there. I think I have a 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:33.400 ninety seven slash three percent demographic split, but talking to 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.440 the lays as well. Yeah, let's just go ahead and 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.040 get your guys' thoughts and take So the next question 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.840 here from g Ortega twenty three eighty six, what are 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.440 the big changes you anticipate happening this off season to 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.800 help the Dolphins get over the hump? And I don't 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:49.920 think you're gonna like this answer because it just doesn't 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:53.240 jive with what I see fans talking about on social media. 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.560 I just think it's incumbent improvements, man, I really do. 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.760 I mean retaining our own guys, I think is going 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:03.760 to be a critical venture this off season with regards 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.840 to how this thing gets built and where the money 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:07.840 that we do have goes. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.840 And look like there, I know you've been. 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:14.080 Told a bill of goods about how this cap situation 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.520 is going to be damning for us for a long time. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.640 But you just please just please don't listen to that, 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:24.520 like it's just not the case. You know. Kyle Krabs, 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.840 locked on Dolphins, is the guy that you probably go 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:29.040 to first for that because he is so locked on it. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.280 Chris Coffin's very good. C. K. Parrott with the financial 0:16:32.360 --> 0:16:34.640 aspect of it. Outside of that, just just please be 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.240 careful with where you get information from because it's tricky. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.680 I don't really dive into it because it's over my 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.680 stupid brain and I don't really want to like flesh 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.920 out like where you move money around and restructure. But 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:48.080 just understand that the way this organization or front office 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:51.480 structures things is to keep themselves flexible, to give themselves outs, 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.120 to keep themselves with the ability to change things that 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:55.680 the drop of a hat for a scheme change or 0:16:55.680 --> 0:16:57.960 a coach change, or whatever the case may be. They 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:02.160 find opportunities to move money around and keep themselves flexible. 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.080 It's the job of an entire guy. Brandon Short is 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.359 a great job in the organization of making that all happen. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.240 So just please remember that it's the stuff you hear 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.520 from people that think that a nine technique means the 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.800 defense nine gaps, like, don't take your opinions too seriously 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:18.400 from that, that's my only thing. So with that all set, 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.959 gi Ortega your question about what moves the Dolphins might 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:22.840 make this off season to make them get over the hump. 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.960 I think the third year in the offense for the 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.040 quarterback and play. 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.359 Caller is paramount. I've heard Peyton Manning talk about that. 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:31.639 I've heard other quarterbacks discussed how critical that continuity on 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:33.600 the offense side of the football is. And you guys 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.720 know me, I think the best way to win today's 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.679 in today's league is to be the best on offense. 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:39.800 Just continue to be the best on offense, and you 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.720 will find your way into the winner circle in most 0:17:41.720 --> 0:17:45.119 games because most other teams don't have offenses and quarterbacks 0:17:45.359 --> 0:17:47.680 that can keep up in the thirties. I would say 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:51.160