Speaker 1: To our Removedlin Deep Speedlins past.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's my
Speaker 2: hav hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins?
Speaker 3: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show we're gonna welcome in
Speaker 3: the great Kyle Krabs talk about the draft, the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins off season. Just a comprehensive chat with a
Speaker 3: good friend of mine about this Miami Dolphins team and
Speaker 3: off season from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 3: Health Training Complex.
Speaker 4: This is.
Speaker 3: The Draft Time Podcasts, gaff. Let's get right to it today.
Speaker 3: My guest Kyle Crabs joining me once again, is good
Speaker 3: friend of the show show and really the perfect Dolphins
Speaker 3: draft guess you guys know who he is from. Locked
Speaker 3: on NFL scouting and locked on Dolphins. What an intersection
Speaker 3: for our purposes today, Kyle Crabs, Kyle, what's up?
Speaker 1: Budy?
Speaker 4: Hey, Travis, happy off season to you. I know it's uh,
Speaker 4: we wish we were still playing a game this weekend,
Speaker 4: but it's a really fun season and excited for the
Speaker 4: off season ahead for Miami to hopefully push some right
Speaker 4: buttons and play a few more games next year.
Speaker 3: I know you and probably nobody else wants to hear this,
Speaker 3: but the weather on Championship Sunday here it was nice.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I couldn't I couldn't stop thinking about how nice it
Speaker 3: would have been, how yes in our building too, and
Speaker 3: how nervous I would be.
Speaker 1: But like, it's the weather this time of year.
Speaker 3: It's man, there's a reason that everybody from Montreal comes
Speaker 3: down here to play golf this time of years.
Speaker 1: It's crazy.
Speaker 3: I want to start here on the episode though, Kyle
Speaker 3: with a hypothetical here because little peak behind the curtain.
Speaker 1: Kyle and I, if you can't tell we are friends,
Speaker 1: are we friends? We're friends?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that's fair to say. I thought maybe
Speaker 1: you go a joke there and then say no, but
Speaker 1: we are friends.
Speaker 3: We text So when I see a prospect that I like,
Speaker 3: I'll typically text Kyle hey thoughts on you know, position
Speaker 3: player school? And I text him after watching the one
Speaker 3: on one drills and mobile and said, hey, what are
Speaker 3: your thoughts on Texas offensive tackle Christian Jones? And Kyle says,
Speaker 3: haven't had a chance to watch him. Yet a reason
Speaker 3: I like Kyle's opinion is because he doesn't have a
Speaker 3: player he hasn't seen yet and just tell me thoughts
Speaker 3: for the sake of having thoughts. So I get excited
Speaker 3: to start sending Kyle some deets about this player. When
Speaker 3: I google Christian Jones, I get a hit that lays
Speaker 3: out his personal info and it tells me he's a
Speaker 3: thirty two year old player. Now I knew he was
Speaker 3: going to be on the older side because he was
Speaker 3: a sixty year senior at Texas. I heard that on
Speaker 3: the broadcast. But what I didn't know is that there's
Speaker 3: another Christian Jones in the NFL who is thirty two
Speaker 3: years old. So I'm going through this process of telling
Speaker 3: Kyle this is a guy with sweet feet, former soccer players,
Speaker 3: some good reps and one on ones where he, you know,
Speaker 3: didn't let his chest plate get exposed.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, this guy looks like a Day two
Speaker 1: pick at worst.
Speaker 3: But then we have a collective laugh when I tell him, oh,
Speaker 3: of course he's thirty two years old. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and call me priority undrafted free agents. So Kyle, the question,
Speaker 3: after all that nonsense is how good would a player
Speaker 3: have to be for you to draft him if he
Speaker 3: was thirty two years old, or would you not? I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 1: Some of those specialists can go into their forties.
Speaker 4: Man, So indeed, long snapper, I don't know about a
Speaker 4: day two pick on anybody at thirty two. We saw
Speaker 4: was the Baylor guard like ten years ago for Philly
Speaker 4: when he was twenty six, and it was like the
Speaker 4: biggest deal ever. So you to be thirty two, you'd
Speaker 4: have to really be a man amongst boys at the
Speaker 4: college level. Unintended there because obviously you would be a
Speaker 4: man amongst boys if you're thirty two.
Speaker 3: Pick Brandon Whedon was twenty eight, right, and you got
Speaker 3: drafted yep, twenty six guard and that's it. I guess
Speaker 3: for a quarterback, it's you know, you hope that you
Speaker 3: could get a ten year career over at that point.
Speaker 3: But either way, we are far into the We just
Speaker 3: go ahead and get into this episode specifically a focus
Speaker 3: on the Senior Bowl and the draft, but I do
Speaker 3: have a couple of additional topics we'll talk about at
Speaker 3: the very end of the show. So having digested the
Speaker 3: practices of mobile and by the way, real quick How
Speaker 3: great is it that they actually broadcast the practice as
Speaker 3: a game, because the last few years, I know you're
Speaker 3: usually down there, so you probably didn't know this, but
Speaker 3: they would have like half of it on ANFL network,
Speaker 3: half of it on ESPN, and you wouldn't even get
Speaker 3: the full practice. But they're back to the old school
Speaker 3: way where the entire two hours of either practice is
Speaker 3: broadcast for the entire day, all the one on ones,
Speaker 3: all that great stuff, plus the tape after the fact. Anyway,
Speaker 3: after all that, put on your all thirty two scouting
Speaker 3: hat and educate the drive time listeners when you go
Speaker 3: to evaluate. Give the breakdown and value between practices Kyle
Speaker 3: and the actual game on Saturday itself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that the game is a great measure
Speaker 1: of like.
Speaker 4: Competitiveness, competitive toughness. It's an all star event, it's it's
Speaker 4: an X ambition game. But the guys that go out
Speaker 4: there and really look to make a positive impact, like
Speaker 4: Chili Smith Wade making a diving interception and running that
Speaker 4: thing all the way back should have been a touchdown.
Speaker 4: It's neither here nor there on that play. In particular,
Speaker 4: those kinds of plays stand out at the game versus
Speaker 4: practice is like this great equalizer of I get to
Speaker 4: see an FCS running back going against an SEC linebacker
Speaker 4: in one on one drills, whether that's pass protection or
Speaker 4: running routes and those kinds of great equalizers.
Speaker 1: It's the only setting.
Speaker 4: The All Star games are the only setting in the
Speaker 4: pre draft process where you're doing actual football drills activities,
Speaker 4: and you're doing it with contact, and you're doing it
Speaker 4: on a completely level playing field. You know, when you
Speaker 4: watch the tape, an FCS running back running for four
Speaker 4: hundreds awesome, but it's a little difficult to gauge the
Speaker 4: value of those reps because he's playing against other FCS
Speaker 4: players versus the Senior Bowl. That setting is such an
Speaker 4: awesome way to kind of have a blanket statement, like, look,
Speaker 4: everybody's at the same place at the same time, with
Speaker 4: the same coaching going against each other, and there's a
Speaker 4: measurative one for one in the value of those football
Speaker 4: specific reps that you just don't get anywhere else in
Speaker 4: the pre direct process. Do you feel like scouts versus coaches,
Speaker 4: because we always like scouts and coaches have different preferences
Speaker 4: and players, right like a scout sees the high weight, speed, combination,
Speaker 4: a coach says, this guy can process.
Speaker 1: Well, that's what I want a little bit of a
Speaker 1: dichotomy there between the two.
Speaker 3: Do the coaches and scouts kind of differ on that
Speaker 3: because for me, like watching the one on one drills, like, oh, man,
Speaker 3: that guy's got like he's got flexible ankles, he's got
Speaker 3: oily hips, right, I can see the way he can
Speaker 3: move in those drills.
Speaker 1: Is their difference there?
Speaker 4: I think, especially at something like the Senior Bowl, you
Speaker 4: do get the same thing at the combine, but the
Speaker 4: meeting time, I think the assistance, especially now that they've
Speaker 4: changed the way they do the coaching staffs, you have
Speaker 4: kind of this mishmash potpourrie of assisting coaches at all
Speaker 4: different teams pooling together to do the coaching staffs respectively.
Speaker 4: So I think that's where you probably get that element
Speaker 4: of it is individual position coaches for teams getting to
Speaker 4: work hands on with those guys, and even beyond just like,
Speaker 4: oh his processing speed, but oh he responded to how
Speaker 4: I communicated this well is kind of one of the
Speaker 4: inside tracks. And in the past it's been well, two
Speaker 4: NFL teams have their whole staffs down here.
Speaker 1: And coach the game.
Speaker 4: Now you get much more representation for all the teams
Speaker 4: across the league, and I think that's helpful for every
Speaker 4: coaching staff to be able to take something out of
Speaker 4: this experience too.
Speaker 3: How about when you kind of step back and look
Speaker 3: at the Senior Bowl week versus the tape, because I
Speaker 3: think you know, the draft starts and mobile, right, and
Speaker 3: that's typically where I kind of start to dive in after,
Speaker 3: you know, covering the team all year long, it's tough
Speaker 3: to really get into the scouting side outside of our
Speaker 3: great Friday shows we do taking a look at each
Speaker 3: weekend in college football. But how about the way you
Speaker 3: measure the tape versus what you see at Senior Bowl.
Speaker 3: Is it more of like a reminder like, Oh, this
Speaker 3: guy I didn't know about him, but I like what
Speaker 3: he did here, so I'm gonna go back and watch
Speaker 3: his tape.
Speaker 1: Or is it more confirming? How do you balance those
Speaker 1: two things?
Speaker 4: A lot of the time you're hoping to get a
Speaker 4: confirmation on what you thought you saw. I think again,
Speaker 4: the environment being one that puts guys in different roles
Speaker 4: and does things more that extend beyond what they were
Speaker 4: asked to do.
Speaker 1: For their respective team.
Speaker 4: That's where players can really move the needle is if
Speaker 4: I play in a certain kind of offense and we're
Speaker 4: stylistically going to play one kind of way, but teams
Speaker 4: are evaluating me to fill different roles for their respective offenses.
Speaker 4: At the NFL level, I can show more diversity in
Speaker 4: what I'm capable of doing. It's that age old question
Speaker 4: of what can he do versus what was he asked
Speaker 4: to do? And I think that's where the more times
Speaker 4: you get the confirmation on the tape with the senior
Speaker 4: role practice, you say, Okay, great, I got a really
Speaker 4: good idea of who this guy is. But the guys
Speaker 4: who you walk away with and you're like, wow, he's
Speaker 4: he might be more substantive than what I thought he
Speaker 4: was in his respective offense. I think that's the one
Speaker 4: you circle back to and rewatch the tape and really
Speaker 4: look at the tape through a different lance.
Speaker 3: I always think about Justin Herbert when those conversations come up,
Speaker 3: because of how limited that Oregon offense was in terms
Speaker 3: of catch rock throw to the perimeter. Let's get the
Speaker 3: screen game going extension of the running game, and they
Speaker 3: run the ball thirty five times a game, as well
Speaker 3: on top of that, and not many of the whole
Speaker 3: shots that he's capable of as a pro obviously that
Speaker 3: you see there. But I am curious because you know,
Speaker 3: in scouting, like you know, I know everyone on twitter's
Speaker 3: a scout a scout now, but like it's they can
Speaker 3: see it a touchdown, but like that's a good play.
Speaker 1: I like that player because it's a good play.
Speaker 3: But there are you know, certain elements of the game,
Speaker 3: certain nuances, movements of guys that do you know, particular things,
Speaker 3: and you're like, I can see that translating, even though
Speaker 3: maybe it's not where it is today where it needs
Speaker 3: to be, but I can see that being a useful
Speaker 3: tool as a professional down the line. What's the process
Speaker 3: of like projecting from talent you see at the college level,
Speaker 3: because you know, Austin Jackson Frands is a guy that
Speaker 3: was super young when he got drafted, right, and it
Speaker 3: took him till his third year to really break out
Speaker 3: or was fourth year to have a breakout like dominant, go,
Speaker 3: get go, extend that guy type of season, Like I guess,
Speaker 3: use Austin as your platform if you don't mind about
Speaker 3: projecting and how you can see a prospect at age
Speaker 3: twenty out of the draft, and maybe that's not where
Speaker 3: you think he'll be at twenty four. How do scouts
Speaker 3: look at that in terms of how they think a
Speaker 3: guy will grow and develop.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's different conversations that teams and reps
Speaker 4: have for every player, and it's the year one forecast
Speaker 4: and then typically the three year forecast. But by the
Speaker 4: end of that rookie contract, what is your expectation? And
Speaker 4: offensive lineman's kind of a unique game in general, because
Speaker 4: the rare ones will step on the field right away
Speaker 4: and they'll be a net positive impact and really be
Speaker 4: a needle moving player. You think about Tris and Worf's
Speaker 4: coming out of Iowa and how good he was right
Speaker 4: away for Tampa Bay. But it's not outside the norms
Speaker 4: that I would say. It's actually more commonplace that offensive
Speaker 4: linemen have a trajectory that is more.
Speaker 1: Like Austin Jackson's.
Speaker 4: Think about Titus Howard, you know, as a HBCU kid
Speaker 4: from Alabama State getting drafted in the first round by
Speaker 4: the Texans, and he has become a quality starting offensive lineman,
Speaker 4: but he was all over the board when he first
Speaker 4: got into the league and Austin being as young and
Speaker 4: as raw as he was.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's another case study of that.
Speaker 4: And I know that people a lot smarter than I
Speaker 4: have have done some research on developmental curve, specifically for
Speaker 4: offensive linemen, and kind of the general consensus is you
Speaker 4: don't see what that player is capable of being, more
Speaker 4: often than not until the end of that rookie contract,
Speaker 4: so that three year conversation. So sometimes you're gonna pick
Speaker 4: a guy in the first round because he you really
Speaker 4: like the forecast. I think you can maybe have a
Speaker 4: specialized or specific role for you early on, but you
Speaker 4: know you're not going to see the full player until
Speaker 4: after a few seasons. And I think just with social
Speaker 4: media and everything nowadays, the expectations everybody's going to come
Speaker 4: in and boom, they're going to hit the ground run
Speaker 4: in both feet right away. But we'll draft and develop
Speaker 4: is a mantra, and for a lot of teams that
Speaker 4: means it's a long term investment and as long as
Speaker 4: you have the stability in your front office to do that,
Speaker 4: give it a few years and then ask yourself revisit
Speaker 4: that question of what that player brings to.
Speaker 3: The table, because all thirty two fan bases. When they
Speaker 3: like they make their first two picks, it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: right tackle and defensive end, those two needs are filled
Speaker 3: for the next ten years.
Speaker 1: They're solved.
Speaker 4: Right.
Speaker 3: We already have it figured out. Those guys are hits.
Speaker 3: They're going to be immediate players right away. I want
Speaker 3: to close the first segment here. And by the way, Kyle,
Speaker 3: we we kind of opined about whether we're going to
Speaker 3: do a full show here. We're going to go full
Speaker 3: three segments here. We're already into it. I wanted to
Speaker 3: ask you, because you and I text about this a lot,
Speaker 3: about players that could really by taking that Austin Jackson's
Speaker 3: step would really benefit the Miami Dolphins from a financial standpoint,
Speaker 3: from a roster fit standpoint.
Speaker 1: I just want to get your take on some of
Speaker 1: those guys and who they might be this year.
Speaker 3: I know you and I have talked about Eric Azuokama,
Speaker 3: a player where we're both big fans of his skill
Speaker 3: set and what he offers, and him going down last
Speaker 3: year I thought was was a detriment to that progress
Speaker 3: because we saw him kind of developing a niche role
Speaker 3: in the offense. I'm sure that would have grown and
Speaker 3: developed from there. But I just want to get your
Speaker 3: take on some guys that you think are in that
Speaker 3: kind of eric as Zukomma mool. Those guys we haven't
Speaker 3: really seen produce, but they're young and could be forgotten
Speaker 3: out by the fan base because of what you talk
Speaker 3: about microwave society.
Speaker 1: Come out and produce right away or we forget about you.
Speaker 3: Who are some guys do you think fit that mold
Speaker 3: that could have I don't want to say breakout years,
Speaker 3: but be contributing players in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, and through that same Austin Jackson Lenz. His
Speaker 4: first two seasons he played a lot and it was inconsistent,
Speaker 4: and then he gets hurt and really like one hundred
Speaker 4: snaps his third year and we came in the last season,
Speaker 4: everybody written him off. I know one guy that a
Speaker 4: lot of people have written off is Channington linebacker, and
Speaker 4: that's a player who when you drafted Channington Doll, I
Speaker 4: think you reflect on the role that he had and
Speaker 4: he only played like five hundred snaps that last year
Speaker 4: at Georgia, so he didn't get a lot of playing time.
Speaker 1: That was a three year conversation. Well, you're coming into
Speaker 1: year three.
Speaker 4: Now you've changed schemes from the Josh Boyer scheme to
Speaker 4: the Vic Fangio scheme, and obviously now Anthony Weaver coming in,
Speaker 4: and we'll get a better idea as time passes by
Speaker 4: on what this scheme specifically is going to look like.
Speaker 4: But that's a player for me that kind of has
Speaker 4: the same vibe as Austin, where everybody's just kind of
Speaker 4: pushed him out of their frame of mind as being
Speaker 4: somebody that can be a viable contribute to this team.
Speaker 4: But he's big, he can run, and as he sees
Speaker 4: more of the game, I think he is going to
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to be a player, And if he is,
Speaker 4: I think it's going to be really helpful for the
Speaker 4: Dolphins because they have Jerome Baker and David Long, and
Speaker 4: both of those guys are currently scheduled to be expiring
Speaker 4: contracts after twenty twenty four. So like getting him in
Speaker 4: the fray and seeing what you have there this season
Speaker 4: would be a big boom for Miami, and I think
Speaker 4: they will find some ways to try to get him
Speaker 4: on the field this year.
Speaker 1: I love that answer. His tape was fun.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 3: They talk about explosiveness and co collision, the way he
Speaker 3: ran through guys, and the way he could cover and
Speaker 3: do some things as a blitzer. I think I think
Speaker 3: it makes sense that he's a guy that you could
Speaker 3: kind of come back to an OTA's and training camp
Speaker 3: and say, like, let's put a star on that guy,
Speaker 3: make sure a Washington forty one, because he's an important
Speaker 3: player right here for this team. Eric is who comments
Speaker 3: my pick for that, It kind of already spoiled that.
Speaker 3: But that's a good That's a twenty twenty two draft
Speaker 3: class right there. I forgot my years there for a second.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that would be if both those guys pan
Speaker 3: out and then we know what Devon ah Cham looks
Speaker 3: like in camp Smith, I think we have high expectations there.
Speaker 3: I mean, that would be a really nice way to
Speaker 3: get your kind of you know, rookie contract funnel backwork.
Speaker 3: And again, let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 3: right there, come back on the other side and talk
Speaker 3: about the Senior Bowl and the draft and the Dolphins
Speaker 3: all that next year. Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: my guest today, the Great Kyle Krabs, brought to you
Speaker 3: by Auto Nation. Segment two with my good buddy here
Speaker 3: Kyle Krabs talking all things Dolphins draft and really just
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins football in general. With all that first segment
Speaker 3: that was not necessarily Dolphins specific, some of it was
Speaker 3: let's go ahead and put that Dolphins hat right back on,
Speaker 3: take your scouting hat off, put your Dolphins hat back on.
Speaker 1: I guess that's kind of a crossover there.
Speaker 3: But my question to you is, going back to the
Speaker 3: Senior Bowl, who do you think helped themselves the most
Speaker 3: down in Mobile that you think would be a good
Speaker 3: fit for the Dolphins. Very Dolphins hyper specific here in
Speaker 3: this question.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, I think there's a player, maybe not generally
Speaker 4: perceived to be one of the top positions of need,
Speaker 4: but the Dolphins have some injuries with their defensive end group,
Speaker 4: and I think Darius Robinson from Missouri had an outstanding week.
Speaker 4: And he's a guy who was a multi year starter,
Speaker 4: but really the light bulb came on this year. He
Speaker 4: had eight and a half sacks. He only had one
Speaker 4: game after September sixteenth that he didn't have at least
Speaker 4: half a sack. Ind for the final eight games of
Speaker 4: the season, like he finished red hot two hundred and
Speaker 4: eighty five pounds. There's some ability to play down inside,
Speaker 4: there's some ability to line up on the outside and
Speaker 4: win with.
Speaker 1: Speed and convert speed to power.
Speaker 4: And he's long, and he's got a prototypical build, and
Speaker 4: that's a player for Miami that I think, you know,
Speaker 4: could really make some sense when you look at the
Speaker 4: body type that they have collectively gone after with their
Speaker 4: edge guys, these big body guys like Chubb and Phillips
Speaker 4: and even Agba is a holdover from the previous regime.
Speaker 1: And obviously he's under contract.
Speaker 4: We'll see if he gets another opportunity to be with
Speaker 4: the team in twenty twenty four or not. But Robinson,
Speaker 4: I thought, really flashed in a big way for his versatility.
Speaker 4: I think that's an exciting player. And then another player
Speaker 4: who again it's I don't know how much big of
Speaker 4: a pressing need it is, but I think it's a
Speaker 4: really good stylistic fit for his style of play, especially
Speaker 4: what he showed it was what he was asked to
Speaker 4: do in college versus what he showed he could do
Speaker 4: down Senior Bowl. Quinya Mitchell corner from Toledo didn't press
Speaker 4: a whole lot on tape, pressed a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: the Senior Bowl. He got real physical with dudes. He
Speaker 4: can run fourth like he can fly. He can run
Speaker 4: four to three. He's really physical. He's got awesome ball skills.
Speaker 4: So those are a couple guys on the defensive side
Speaker 4: of the ball who you know, we've seen this team
Speaker 4: kind of at times four go pure need and gravitate
Speaker 4: towards those spots with what they've drafted with this regime.
Speaker 4: And I think those are two players that had outstanding
Speaker 4: weeks that would make a ton of sense.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
Speaker 3: Because I try to make it a point on the
Speaker 3: podcast every year this time of year when we talk
Speaker 3: about draft and team need, and I always explained to
Speaker 3: the audience that, like when you draft for need, you're
Speaker 3: drafting for one season because, as we know, needs shift
Speaker 3: and change in the NFL every single year. I mean,
Speaker 3: I was I was having a conversation with the coworker
Speaker 3: the other day about how has a player ever had
Speaker 3: the same season twice? Like they no year is ever
Speaker 3: the same, and so your opinion, your stock of a
Speaker 3: player goes up and down given you know what they
Speaker 3: put on tape that year, and so how do you
Speaker 3: value that? Because like I watching him play. I guarantee
Speaker 3: you if he was the pick, I'd be like, that
Speaker 3: guy looks awesome. That looks like a stud at a
Speaker 3: premium position for a long time. But the pushback you
Speaker 3: get from fans probably is with the drafted camp Smith
Speaker 3: last year. They already have Jalen Ramsey. We'll see what
Speaker 3: happens with like Xavian Howard in the future and cater
Speaker 3: Coho's here. We don't need cornerbacks, Travis. But I just
Speaker 3: like getting good football players, Kyle. I didn't forget the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty season. There's no such thing as too many
Speaker 3: or twenty twenty two season. There's no such thing as
Speaker 3: do any good corners first pality.
Speaker 4: Second of all, I think when you draft for need,
Speaker 4: that's when you really put yourself in a dangerous spot
Speaker 4: because you're you're not taking full inventory on the talent
Speaker 4: that's available, and instead you're putting yourself in a box
Speaker 4: for what is okay to draft. And I think specifically
Speaker 4: with kind of the build out that we're expecting for
Speaker 4: this year's team, there's gonna be so players that are
Speaker 4: on one year contracts that the team is going to
Speaker 4: sign in free agency in March. There's probably going to
Speaker 4: be another wave of free agency for this team in
Speaker 4: June and July. After free agency and after post June
Speaker 4: first money clears for a salary cap perspective, and it's
Speaker 4: always a rush to kind of you get through the
Speaker 4: first or the second day of the draft and you
Speaker 4: look at your team and you're like, Oh, they don't
Speaker 4: have this and they don't have that. But there's reasonably
Speaker 4: starting caliber players that are on the market through to
Speaker 4: the start of training camp on an annual basis, depending
Speaker 4: on what some of their spots are. So I'm much
Speaker 4: more of a proponent of if you identify premier players
Speaker 4: or top end players, you're going to have a really
Speaker 4: hard time going wrong drafting the best player available. I
Speaker 4: know it always feels great when there's an intersection between
Speaker 4: best player available and your positions of need. And a
Speaker 4: lot of times, if you have ties, you can go
Speaker 4: tie to the need because you feel like that la
Speaker 4: has an easier path to get on the field for
Speaker 4: you early on. But to just say, oh, well, we
Speaker 4: need to draft X, Y or Z because we don't
Speaker 4: have what we feel as a starter there right now
Speaker 4: on our roster. In April, you don't play games until
Speaker 4: September for keeps, So like you, you've got time to
Speaker 4: turn over other stones or sign of the free agents
Speaker 4: or facilitated trade during the preseason. There's all kinds of
Speaker 4: different ways. So I'm very much pro team draft, best
Speaker 4: players available as much as you can.
Speaker 3: Love that and perfect synchronicity here. And I'm gonna go
Speaker 3: ahead and jump a couple of questions here because this
Speaker 3: I think matches up what we just talked about there
Speaker 3: the dichotomy of building on a weakness versus strengthening a strength.
Speaker 3: And that's not even to say that you know, these
Speaker 3: positions we're talking about are those things. But I think
Speaker 3: there's a disconnect when it comes to you know, fans
Speaker 3: or armchair gms, which is again it's it's what makes
Speaker 3: the league so much fun these days, but also kind
Speaker 3: of you and I bitch about it on social media.
Speaker 3: Is because everyone's so involved and everyone does have an opinion,
Speaker 3: and that helps the league grow and become what it is.
Speaker 3: But it's also you know, one hundred mock drafts every
Speaker 3: winter and spring, like guys are firing these things off
Speaker 3: saying that's what you gotta do, that you always look
Speaker 3: for the biggest needs. I think that sometimes the best
Speaker 3: thing that you can do is get better at what
Speaker 3: you're already good at. I'm curious how you think teams
Speaker 3: do that balance when let's set you go into a draft.
Speaker 3: Let's say, for instance, you have an offensive line that
Speaker 3: needs help. You have a receiver group that's very good
Speaker 3: but could use some more help as well. But it's
Speaker 3: you know, it's a strength versus a weakness, Like is
Speaker 3: that a tiebreaker scenario? How do you balance whether or
Speaker 3: not it's more beneficial to get even better at what
Speaker 3: you're good at versus getting a little bit better at
Speaker 3: something you're not good at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there's probably a conversation about what your
Speaker 4: menu looks like and what the players on your strength,
Speaker 4: whatever your strength is, allows you to do. And as
Speaker 4: long as you can get tangible better results by doubling
Speaker 4: down on the strength and say, look, here's our core identity,
Speaker 4: this is how we're going to build a team, this
Speaker 4: is how we're gonna choose to compete. It gets really
Speaker 4: difficult to reach kind of the diminishing returns that no
Speaker 4: longer make it worth it to continue to bet on that.
Speaker 4: I do think there is a point where you have
Speaker 4: to play late season games, or you have to play
Speaker 4: in cold weather environments for example, and certain styles of
Speaker 4: play translate better than others. So you do have to
Speaker 4: have like a certain operating floor in my mind for
Speaker 4: all of the different ways that you would attack offense
Speaker 4: or defense, and make sure that your floor gives you
Speaker 4: a broad enough menu where we can just roll into
Speaker 4: any given matchup and have an honest conversation about here's
Speaker 4: what they're good at, here's what we want to try
Speaker 4: to attack about what they do, instead of just saying
Speaker 4: we don't care what they do. This is what we're
Speaker 4: good at, this is what we have to do, and
Speaker 4: that's it. Because I think you do paint yourself into
Speaker 4: a corner a little bit there. So I think it's
Speaker 4: really hard to reach diminishing returns by continuing to invest
Speaker 4: in your strengths, but only if your floor across.
Speaker 1: The board is at a certain level.
Speaker 3: I just had Sean Said from Sumer Sports on the
Speaker 3: podcast talking about Anthony Weaver, and that was kind of
Speaker 3: one of his sicking points was he believes that Weaver
Speaker 3: is very much a attack the opponent's weaknesses and be
Speaker 3: aware of their strengths and kind of be flexible and
Speaker 3: versaile to the different types of offense you'll see in
Speaker 3: the National Football League, and I hope that's the case,
Speaker 3: because that seems to be what wins in the NFL
Speaker 3: these days. I want to pivot back to the offensive
Speaker 3: side though here and talk about two position groups that
Speaker 3: I thought really stood out at the Senior Bowl, and
Speaker 3: two groups that I think are strengths in the draft class,
Speaker 3: and two groups that I think the Dolphins could use
Speaker 3: some help at. They're receiver and offensive line. And I
Speaker 3: wanted to first put this question to you about to
Speaker 3: just separate these three guys on either side of the ball.
Speaker 3: One guy didn't go to the Senior Bowl, but I
Speaker 3: put him in there because I watched his tape and
Speaker 3: he looks like a lot of fun. So the receivers
Speaker 3: are Lad McConkie, Roman Wilson, and Malachai Corley. What do
Speaker 3: you think about those three.
Speaker 1: Romans? My dude, I love Roman Wilson. I think he
Speaker 1: is This is not what you told me on the phone,
Speaker 1: by the way.
Speaker 4: Well, I think Malachi Corley's probably the best intersection of
Speaker 4: a difference skill set than what the Dolphins currently have
Speaker 4: while also having the same strength as being a run
Speaker 4: after catch player. But if you just ask me, which
Speaker 4: is my favorite player out of the group, Roman Wilson
Speaker 4: is tough as nails. He can fly, he can run
Speaker 4: in the high four threes to four fours. I wish
Speaker 4: he was just a little bigger, but like he plays
Speaker 4: like he's got that dog in him. He's got super
Speaker 4: plucky hands. I think he can win in the middle
Speaker 4: of the field. I think he can win on the perimeter.
Speaker 4: I think he can win a little bit down the field.
Speaker 4: So like he really brings a lot of diversity. But
Speaker 4: if you're asking me from a Dolphins perspective, I think
Speaker 4: Corey as the bigger guy, like the two hundred and
Speaker 4: fifteen pound run after catch type of body. That's just
Speaker 4: something when you consider Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Braxton Barrios,
Speaker 4: River Craycraft, a lot of the Robbie chosen. A lot
Speaker 4: of the guys that got run this year at wide
Speaker 4: receiver were leaner guys or or were guys that were
Speaker 4: not bigger guys. And at some point, mass does move
Speaker 4: the needle when you run so much cracked toss and
Speaker 4: you're looking to have guys really contribute on the edge
Speaker 4: in the run game in addition to be run after
Speaker 4: catch threats. So I love Corley's run after catch physicality.
Speaker 4: I think he's a pretty good route runner coming out
Speaker 4: of Western Kentucky. But my main crush out of those
Speaker 4: three is Roman Wilson. I think I'm just head over
Speaker 4: heels with the way he plays the game.
Speaker 3: So again, to kind of peel back the curtain here
Speaker 3: a little bit. We were talking about that during the
Speaker 3: Senior Bowl week and I was like, hey, he looks
Speaker 3: pretty good, and you're like, ohish, he's a bit taller,
Speaker 3: but you've come around that a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just yeah, it's a good player, right, Like, don't
Speaker 4: don't put yours in the same way, don't draft for needs,
Speaker 4: don't put yourself in a box and say, oh, well
Speaker 4: we have to have a certain body type.
Speaker 1: Yah know. And is the dude the ball or die
Speaker 1: and the ball.
Speaker 3: I saw that on Twitter. Someone's like, oh great, another
Speaker 3: five ten receiver. I'm like, you don't want another Tyreek Hill. Like,
Speaker 3: I'll take another Tyreek Hill. I'll take three of those guys.
Speaker 3: We got two, won't take three of them. But uh yeah, man,
Speaker 3: it's it's a good position to to want to go
Speaker 3: after in this year's draft, as is the offensive lines
Speaker 3: go ahead and short. Three guys from me here again,
Speaker 3: two guys the'rera at the Senior Bowl. One guy didn't
Speaker 3: play in contact roles though, That was Zach Fraser, the
Speaker 3: center from West Virginia. But man Jackson Powers Johnson is
Speaker 3: a monster, but also so was Is. I'm saying that's
Speaker 3: right as the first time I have said this name
Speaker 3: out loud. Cedric van Prant from Georgia. Yes, of his game,
Speaker 3: those three guys look freaking awesome. Kyle, Yeah, so of
Speaker 3: course van Pran I would put third out of that group.
Speaker 3: I think he's a little bit more of the power
Speaker 3: center traditionally. Out of those three guys, I think Zach
Speaker 3: Frasier is still a bigger center. He's like three ten,
Speaker 3: but he's got a wrestling background and it pops big time.
Speaker 3: I think you see a lot of the lateral mobility
Speaker 3: in his game and really good leverage in short spaces
Speaker 3: where Powers Johnson I think is the blend of both,
Speaker 3: where he will railroad you and he will run you
Speaker 3: down in space. And he is perfectly comfortable as a
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty pound center kind of gearing down
Speaker 3: against linebackers and safeties in the open field, and I
Speaker 3: think that's just a really exciting blend of what we
Speaker 3: were accustomed to seeing from the center position the past
Speaker 3: few years with Connor Williams as such a dynamic athletic player.
Speaker 3: But then you look at Powers Johnson and you realize
Speaker 3: that he's three point thirty and there's just a point
Speaker 3: eight to point b element of him that he can
Speaker 3: uproot and man handle those tackles solo. And you know
Speaker 3: that if you've got a center that can do that,
Speaker 3: what does that free up your guards to be able
Speaker 3: to do where you can spend less time investing on
Speaker 3: securing the first that the interior of the first level
Speaker 3: of the line of scrimmage. So I think that's where
Speaker 3: Powers Johnson really separates himself from the rest of the
Speaker 3: centers in this year's class.
Speaker 1: In my mind.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's maybe my favorite prospect right now in the draft.
Speaker 3: We'll see how that changes over thoset couple of months here,
Speaker 3: but yeah, good stuff there, man. We're gonna go ahead
Speaker 3: and take our last break right here, come back on
Speaker 3: the other side and do the third and final second,
Speaker 3: which has just a random array of questions here.
Speaker 1: That's next.
Speaker 3: My guess is the great Kyle Krabs from Lockdown Dolphins.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. Draft Time Podcast brought
Speaker 3: to you by Auto Nation, finishing up here with Kyle Krabs,
Speaker 3: my guest today on the Draft Time Podcast on Friday
Speaker 3: before the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: Kyle, you got in the game on Sunday. I got
Speaker 4: Kansas City to beat them in. You gotta beat them in.
Speaker 4: And I will not be making the same mistakes as
Speaker 4: the sports books and fading Patrick Mahomes in a playoff game.
Speaker 1: I just won't do it.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be like me and try to
Speaker 3: go oh for four. I'm picking Chiefs games in the
Speaker 3: playoffs this year. I will kindly pass on trying to
Speaker 3: go oh for four. So I'm picking the Chiefs. When
Speaker 3: I was mad about the Bills game in Week eighteen,
Speaker 3: I think I told you it's gonna be twenty four
Speaker 3: to three on Sunday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna ar on Saurday night, We're gonna lose.
Speaker 3: I was so mad, and then I through the week
Speaker 3: went back and watched the matchups, like, we have a
Speaker 3: chance to win this game. I ended up picking Miami,
Speaker 3: but it was actually closer twenty four three than I
Speaker 3: thought it would be.
Speaker 4: Well, here's to not playing Kansas City in the first
Speaker 4: route mixture.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's not do that anymore on the road
Speaker 3: in twenty five negative twenty five degree tmperture.
Speaker 1: Let' let's avoid that at all costs.
Speaker 3: Let's also kind of do a rapid fire bit here
Speaker 3: to close up the episode and start with the draft
Speaker 3: here and just kind of I know this is very vague, Kyle,
Speaker 3: but I'm curious about some underclass options at pick twenty
Speaker 3: one that you think might be there, might be good
Speaker 3: fits because we've talked about the Senior Bowl, but every
Speaker 3: time we get to this time of year, I feel
Speaker 3: like those prospects get a little bit forgotten about because
Speaker 3: everyone's like, I just watched so and so Dominate Practices
Speaker 3: and mobile. I just want to get your take on
Speaker 3: some of the underclassmen that you think might be there
Speaker 3: at twenty one that could be options for your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I think a couple of offensive linemen that I'm
Speaker 4: really excited about to lease. Fuaga from Oregon State is
Speaker 4: one who some people are projecting inside a guard. This
Speaker 4: is another three hundred and thirty pound offensive lineman. So
Speaker 4: is there a long term tackle play with Tron Armstead,
Speaker 4: But you can draft him and get him into your
Speaker 4: starting five right off the jump. He's a junior who
Speaker 4: declared for this class, so that's the first name that
Speaker 4: really jumps out to me. I think Johnny Newton, the
Speaker 4: defensive lineman from Illinois, is a red shirt junior, so
Speaker 4: I guess technically is a fourth year player. But that's
Speaker 4: somebody who, depending on what the Dolphins choose to do
Speaker 4: with their into your defensive line. He's got really good
Speaker 4: center gravity. I could potentially see depending on if there
Speaker 4: is a corner and offensive tackle or slash offensive line run.
Speaker 4: With the wide receivers and quarterbacks you're expecting to go
Speaker 4: in the top ten, I could see him kind of
Speaker 4: getting into that stratosphere. I would be remiss to not
Speaker 4: acknowledge the existence of rock Bauers just because tight ends
Speaker 4: from a positional value. It's kind of the great mystery
Speaker 4: bag if they're going to get drafted early or not.
Speaker 1: For every TJ.
Speaker 4: Hockinson that goes in the top ten, there's really good
Speaker 4: tight end prospects other years that end up slipping and falling.
Speaker 4: So I think that's a home run versatility add to
Speaker 4: this offense as well, if he's there or if he
Speaker 4: gets close and you wanted to jump up and make
Speaker 4: a move to go get a guy like that. So
Speaker 4: there's no shortage of options for players that I'm gonna
Speaker 4: like be underclassmenner Otherwise at twenty one, I'm glad you.
Speaker 3: Touched on mostly offensive players in that portion there, because
Speaker 3: I'm curious what you think about this defense. And obviously
Speaker 3: we have a new I guess prism or a new
Speaker 3: lens to look through here with regards to a different
Speaker 3: defensive coordinator, and like going back to the Texans in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty, it's really tough for me, Kyle to kind
Speaker 3: of glean what it might look like as far as
Speaker 3: what Anthony Risky might be because I feel like the.
Speaker 1: Game has evolved a lot in those four years.
Speaker 3: But also that personnel that he worked with just was
Speaker 3: not very good, and so I don't really hold it
Speaker 3: against him. But let's go ahead and do this question first,
Speaker 3: actually before I get into the draft. What do you
Speaker 3: think that we might see from coach Weaver's defense? I
Speaker 3: talked about on Wednesday podcast, but I want to hear
Speaker 3: your take. What do you think it might look like.
Speaker 3: And what are you most excited about for coach Weaver.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you hear JJ Watt talk about him
Speaker 4: and talk about the aggressiveness, and that's something for me
Speaker 4: that I get really excited about.
Speaker 1: Obviously, this year's past defense.
Speaker 4: Was pretty vanilla pre snap and they like to throw
Speaker 4: some simulated pressures at you and rush for But where
Speaker 4: the four coming from is kind of the big mystery,
Speaker 4: and I really liked what they were able to do
Speaker 4: down the stretch. I guess that was kind of the
Speaker 4: silver lining with the injuries that they the team was
Speaker 4: experiencing defensively, is the blitz rate came up. And I
Speaker 4: really liked what they were able to do with the
Speaker 4: blitz rate where you got explosive, rangy linebackers that can
Speaker 4: fire and come from a little bit of depth. And
Speaker 4: I think if you can find that balance of aggressiveness
Speaker 4: and try to pressure to create more mistakes instead of
Speaker 4: scheming up four man rushes, I think you can continue
Speaker 4: to have a lot of splash impact plays. So I
Speaker 4: think that's the one thing for coach Weaver that hearing
Speaker 4: that he's an aggressive mentality I get really excited about.
Speaker 3: And we talked about this. I don't know if it
Speaker 3: was after the Chiefs Bills game. It was after a
Speaker 3: Bills game of some sort. Maybe it was our game,
Speaker 3: I can't remember, but you and I talking about, like, look,
Speaker 3: the reason that we haven't won a division championship in
Speaker 3: the last couple of years is because we can't have
Speaker 3: n't beat Buffalo, right, Like it comes to onto losing
Speaker 3: games to Buffalo in particular, that damn quarterback who always
Speaker 3: has career days against Miami and other games. You and
Speaker 3: I watch him, like, why is he throwing three turnal
Speaker 3: wars three picks in this game? He can't do it
Speaker 3: against us. But that kind of coincides with that, right
Speaker 3: because we've seen Josh Allen on that Bill's offense just
Speaker 3: kind of take what was there against us the last
Speaker 3: couple of years and have success doing it that way.
Speaker 3: Do you think he's a quarterback that you want to
Speaker 3: heat up a little bit more?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I think anytime you play passive against the top shelf quarterbacks,
Speaker 4: I think you're asking for a long day at the office.
Speaker 4: And it may be a strategy that helps keeps points
Speaker 4: off the board because the idea is that you're going
Speaker 4: to force them to string together double digits on the
Speaker 4: plays and drive the length of the field and force
Speaker 4: them not to make mistakes. But the top shelf guys,
Speaker 4: if they can do that consistently, then they're just going
Speaker 4: to take profits all day long. Versus if you're willing
Speaker 4: to try to dictate terms a little bit. That's how
Speaker 4: you could set yourself up on a short field or
Speaker 4: multiple short fields, or steel possesions that don't kicks and
Speaker 4: all those kinds of things that there's a pretty strong
Speaker 4: correlation to winning football games if you do that with consistency.
Speaker 4: So I think there's a line to walk there, as
Speaker 4: there is with most things in football. I don't think
Speaker 4: there's a black or white answer there. But yeah, when
Speaker 4: you're playing guys like that that are so dynamic and
Speaker 4: can beat you in so many different ways, trying to
Speaker 4: force the issue or dictate terms, I think is at
Speaker 4: least a good way to go down.
Speaker 1: Go down with the bat swinging.
Speaker 3: So you mentioned Quenyan Mitchell, Darius Robinson, a couple of
Speaker 3: guys on defense, and it sounds like aggressiveness, but that
Speaker 3: could be the mode of this defense, and if it is,
Speaker 3: I guess kind of go through that lens. But just
Speaker 3: curious that you're focus on the defensive side of the ball, Like,
Speaker 3: what do you think this defense needs to give to
Speaker 3: coach Weaver from a personnel standpoint and some players you
Speaker 3: think that might fit that in the year's draft class.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I definitely think we need more than just zax
Speaker 4: Seler under contract at defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: So I think that's a good place for us to
Speaker 3: start in this year's class. He can't nine gap now,
Speaker 3: can't nine gap now. There's two guys for Texas. We've
Speaker 3: talked about to and Andre Sweat quite a bit. I'm
Speaker 3: still a huge fan of his game. Another good performer
Speaker 3: in Mobile last week.
Speaker 4: But Byron Murphy, the junior declaration is a dense body
Speaker 4: who can hold a point of attack. He can penetrate,
Speaker 4: he can take double teams in leverage. He's loaded, he's
Speaker 4: built load of the ground. So I think that that's
Speaker 4: another player too that if you have to go for
Speaker 4: a big, a B gap defender who's versatile, that's another
Speaker 4: name to kind of soft circle and he's red hot
Speaker 4: in draft circles. Wouldn't be surprised be ends up being
Speaker 4: a top twenty pick when it's all said and done.
Speaker 4: But That's that's the spot for me that I think
Speaker 4: they're they're going to have to really give some attention to.
Speaker 4: If we don't see Christian Wilkins back in a Dolphins
Speaker 4: uniform next year, it's probably two guys to fill that
Speaker 4: spot because he plays eighty plus percent of the snaps annually, right,
Speaker 4: like an scene amount of snaps that Christian Wilkins plays,
Speaker 4: So asking any one guy to step into that role
Speaker 4: I think is a little ambitious. So I'd love for
Speaker 4: everything to work itself out and for Christian Wilkins to
Speaker 4: be Mimi Dolphin in twenty twenty four and beyond. But
Speaker 4: if he doesn't, I think that really just amplifies the
Speaker 4: need for that INTI your defensive line to get a
Speaker 4: lot of attention and investment.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the same conversation they're having right now on the
Speaker 3: other side of the building talking about what it might
Speaker 3: look like this offseason. So I think it's well within
Speaker 3: your rights to have that conversation. And you know, I
Speaker 3: like doing analogs in terms of like, well, what do
Speaker 3: the Ravens have we might have in terms of their
Speaker 3: defensive personnel. Is Tavandre sweat your Michael Pierce kind of Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 4: We were going back to Houston too, had DJ Reader
Speaker 4: right before Reader left in free agency for Cincinnati, and
Speaker 4: it came a beat up there too. Yeah, so that's
Speaker 4: another name to invoke here where Anthony Weavers had a
Speaker 4: couple of really big breakhouses in the middle and tamand Grace,
Speaker 4: Sweat would be really one for the Dolphins to have,
Speaker 4: that's for sure. But that's kind of my pipe pream
Speaker 4: right now is making sure Sweat gets ends up an
Speaker 4: a Dolphins uniform and nose tackle.
Speaker 3: Nobody understands the nature of a family friendly podcast than
Speaker 3: Kyle Krabs a brick house, just a brick house.
Speaker 1: Something else, just a statement there.
Speaker 3: So this is kind of again bringing our text conversation
Speaker 3: to life here a little bit. And this is different
Speaker 3: than the draft in general, but something you talk about
Speaker 3: to me a lot that I like and I want
Speaker 3: to talk about on the podcast now, kind of general
Speaker 3: off season and offline discussion that you and I have
Speaker 3: had because the way it looks right now and it
Speaker 3: changes right and Chris Greer said, we're not really worried
Speaker 3: about our cap situation in March right now in February
Speaker 3: because it doesn't matter. But you always tell tell me, Travis, like,
Speaker 3: the needs that you seem to have right now on
Speaker 3: this Dolphins football team are the non premium positions, right.
Speaker 3: I mean, you can go spot spot rack the CAAPS,
Speaker 3: spot rack either one of those and sort average cost
Speaker 3: by position. You'll find quarterback, edge receiver, corner, offensive tackle
Speaker 3: the most expensive, and then running back, interior lines, either
Speaker 3: side of the ball, off ball, linebacker, safety, those positions
Speaker 3: tend to cost a little bit less. You love how
Speaker 3: the Dolphins have put themselves in position to not really
Speaker 3: have the big need at the premium spots, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they have leveraged the premium and I'm using air
Speaker 4: quotes because it's premium positions are the ones that the
Speaker 4: league tells you are the most important because they spend
Speaker 4: the most amount of money there, right, And the Dolphins
Speaker 4: have leveraged those positions really, really well. They have a
Speaker 4: lot of cornerstones at a lot of those spots. And
Speaker 4: what you have is if you need to sign an
Speaker 4: into your offensive lineman, your top of market for those
Speaker 4: players in free agency is a fraction of the cost
Speaker 4: of an offensive tackle. And if you're not going to
Speaker 4: go top of market in order to say, hey, we
Speaker 4: are going to be fiscally responsible with what we do
Speaker 4: in free agency this year. You get a starting caliber
Speaker 4: player for a third of what it would cost you
Speaker 4: for a starting caliber player at offensive tackle as just
Speaker 4: an example.
Speaker 1: Or safeties.
Speaker 4: Deshaun Elliott was a really really starter for the Dolphins
Speaker 4: this year. You signed a one year, one point seven
Speaker 4: million dollar contract in free agency last year. Gino Stone
Speaker 4: was like third in the league in interceptions for the
Speaker 4: Ravens last year, and he signed a one point seven
Speaker 4: million dollar one year contract, And it's just you get
Speaker 4: the exceptions. Jesse Bates signed a sixteen million dollar per
Speaker 4: year contract to be the free safety for the Falcons.
Speaker 4: You get Tremaina Ammon signs an eighteen million dollar year
Speaker 4: contract to be a starting linebacker for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4: But Jermaine Pratt and Logan Wilson are really good starters
Speaker 4: for the Bengals and they re signed with that team
Speaker 4: last year and they averaged like seven million dollars a
Speaker 4: piece per What corner are you signing for seven million dollars? Like?
Speaker 4: It just the numbers don't line up. So when you
Speaker 4: look at where Miami, you're anticipating they're gonna need to
Speaker 4: add some starters and you consider, hey, they might be
Speaker 4: on a budget in March and April with the first
Speaker 4: wave of free agency, with their initial budget and salary
Speaker 4: cap space that they have, they're gonna be able to
Speaker 4: find some players that make a lot of sense, and
Speaker 4: they're gonna fit for the team, and they're gonna be
Speaker 4: able to afford it because they don't need the premium
Speaker 4: positions when they go shopping.
Speaker 1: It makes me so excited.
Speaker 3: So what the off season does look like this year,
Speaker 3: because you know, I think that's been one of the
Speaker 3: feathers in the cap of the organization.
Speaker 1: The last few years.
Speaker 3: They have had very good off seasons bringing in very,
Speaker 3: very good football players, and I cannot wait see the
Speaker 3: plan this year and what they end up doing ultimately.
Speaker 3: You'll do this podcast a few times between now and
Speaker 3: the draft, Kyle, just so you know I'm booking you already.
Speaker 3: Any choice, just for a fun closer here on February
Speaker 3: the seventh taping this podcast, Gun to your Head pick
Speaker 3: at twenty one, who is it today? I'll go with
Speaker 3: Jackson Powers Johnson, Let's go baby, So I whether he
Speaker 3: ends up playing guard or center for you, I think
Speaker 3: there's some positional flexibility here. I do think Miami from
Speaker 3: a expiring contracts perspective, they have to figure out what
Speaker 3: if they want to give Robert Hunt a contract, they
Speaker 3: have to figure out that they want to give Connor
Speaker 3: Williams a contract. You have vacant season, Isaiah, when was
Speaker 3: your your incumbent starter at left guard before his season
Speaker 3: ended with an injury and that was one year deal anyway,
Speaker 3: So like all three spots are up for grants right now,
Speaker 3: I think there's enough there and I think that is
Speaker 3: the right stratosphere for that to be a best player
Speaker 3: available meets team need intersection that it's a safe projection
Speaker 3: right now, and I'll play it safe here in February.
Speaker 3: You sure you don't want a three to two year old,
Speaker 3: maybe a thirty six year old. My knees still kind
Speaker 3: of work. I've seen your pass set, no think.
Speaker 4: Yeah you have?
Speaker 1: Oh man, that's good.
Speaker 3: We have a career day coming up actually to this
Speaker 3: podcast will air at my wife's elementary school, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to play some of those clips for the classes
Speaker 3: that I instruct my thing, my entire presentation for so
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to getting just dogged by twelve year
Speaker 3: olds looking at my offensive pass sets. Kyle Krabs at
Speaker 3: Grinding the Tape on Social locked and NFL Scouting Locked
Speaker 3: on Dolphins. Thanks again, buddy, Thanks Trav. All Right, so
Speaker 3: there he goes. Let's go ahead and go out of
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