WEBVTT - Drive Time: Offensive Tackle Offseason Capsule 2025 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:11.920 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.000 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. Busy, Busy show. Today, 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:18.919 Kyle Krab stops by to help me recap Senior Bowl 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:22.160 week and the game on Saturday. Plus, we're diving into 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:26.159 your favorite position. It is officially Churenches Week. Here on 0:00:26.200 --> 0:00:28.640 the show, we'll talk about the offensive tackles. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:29.000 Today. 0:00:29.280 --> 0:00:32.479 Free agent's draft prospects are incumbents. You're going to learn 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.200 a lot about that position in this upcoming offseason cycle. 0:00:35.240 --> 0:00:38.479 From the Baptist Hell Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.320 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.680 Eye Daffy, Let's go ahead and welcome in my friend 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.840 Kyle Krabs to recap the week that was Inmobile Jordan 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.479 Game six, Kirk Gibson eighty seven World Series, Tiger at 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.520 the two thousand and eight US Open, and Kyle Krabs 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.640 on February third, twenty twenty five talking about the Senior 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.320 Bowl and Shrine Bowl. That is the company that we 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.200 are playing through today. Kyle, my man, All Star week 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:06.000 got the best of you, but here you are in 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:06.959 full forest. 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:07.280 Ready to go. Man. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.760 How you feel and how we do it? And how 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.240 was the week did you have this prepped ahead of time? 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:17.679 Yes? I did? Man, all right, Yeah. That's the best 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:18.600 thing about. 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:23.080 Traveling for All Star events in January is you get 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.200 a chance to go some warm weather places. You get 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.280 a chance to see a bunch of great football players. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:33.400 The worst part is you're going through airports multiple times 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.480 in the month of January and you always get sick. 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.160 And it just so happened that I happened to acquire 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:46.399 something called influenza A on my way home from the 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:49.360 Senior Bowl. So I'm glad we are not doing the 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:54.040 podcast yesterday because I would have been just snoring out 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.840 loud and you get no good football takes. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:58.640 But we have good football takes to give, so I'm 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.800 I'm glad we got the sorted out. 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:03.880 A tradition unlike any other is whenever I go to 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:06.160 or get back from Indy one or the other, I'm 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:07.840 going to be sick for the combine, whether I get 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.000 back or where I'm there and blow my nose every 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:11.720 two minut I saw they're on the floor, so hopefully 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:12.080 they shoard. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:12.560 We avoid that. 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:15.600 But it sounds like you're getting your immune system boosts 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.639 up here for the Scout and Combine. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.280 Just less than a month away from now. But I 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:20.840 want to talk about the week that was in the 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.079 All Star Games, because, like you said, you were out 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.679 there in Fort Worth, you made it down to Mobile, Alabama, 0:02:26.000 --> 0:02:28.120 and man, you got your eyes with some good prospects, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.480 and I just want to get your general takeaways off 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.760 the top here, Like what popped to you, man, I 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.640 went through my top twelve guys on the podcast on Friday. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.880 I think it was from the practices. Did the game 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.240 change your list? Like, just tell us about the week 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:42.520 that was both in Fort Worth and Mobile? 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.519 Can I be honest? Yes, the game's never going to 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.760 change my list, I hope. So that's awesome. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:52.360 Yeah, and yeah, I appreciate the game and the game 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.600 is really fun. There's a great pageantry with the game 0:02:54.639 --> 0:03:04.440 down there Mobile, But the barometers of the exhibition nature 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.960 of it, I think are of a lot less value 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:14.400 than the high degree of intensity practices. So the first 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:20.639 thing that I walk away from is this Darius Alexander 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:25.600 Cat from Toledo is just the latest name in what 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.800 has turned into and Draftnicks have been talking about it 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.600 for a couple of months now, but this defensive tackle 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:37.240 group is hilariously good. I actually think it's a really 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.800 good trench meat and potatoes type of draft class in general, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:46.000 when you look at both sides of the ball, which 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.240 is great news for the Dolphins, but I mean, you 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:53.119 look at Darius Alexander and Walter Nolan, and you look 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.560 at TJ. Sanders and just a handful of guys on 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.560 the defensive side of the football is interior defenders. 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.360 Those guys all popped. 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.120 And then you contrast that to the offensive side of 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:06.440 the ball, where a guy like Gray's Abel might have 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:10.520 been the best player here in Mobile coming out of 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:14.120 being the left tackle for North Dakota State and playing 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.040 all three interior spots and dominating in all three interior 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:20.080 spots with the jump up and player competition and drills 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.280 that are supposed to have the Dacks get stick stacked 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:29.440 against you. It's it's a really exciting group and it's 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.360 what you thought it was when you saw the roster 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:31.760 coming in. 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:32.960 They did not disappoint. 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:36.120 So I have a question, a follow up question about that, 0:04:36.200 --> 0:04:38.720 because you know, I've heard that term a few times now, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:40.039 meet and potatoes type of draft. 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:40.720 You've mentioned it. 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.520 My buddy Kevin Duran loves to talk about meeting potatoes drafts, 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:46.560 and you know, this is trench week here on the 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.280 Draft Time podcast, talking about tackles today after we let 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.160 you go, We'll do interior offensive line tomorrow and defensive 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:56.320 tackles on Friday. Those are positions that traditionally outside of 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.360 offensive tackle obviously, which is you know, in line to 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.800 go number one any given year and round out with 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.760 seven or eight guys in the first round at that position, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:07.800 but guards and centers and even defensive tackles sometimes that 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.120 group can fall a little bit. How does the depth 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:14.840 of those two spots impact team's ability to possibly get 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:18.440 starters on Day two, you know, back end of Day two. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.960 And you know, as I look at this offensive line 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.320 class to your point, both in free agency and the draft, 0:05:23.400 --> 0:05:26.240 like you know, last year the Dolphins went the continuity 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.400 route in terms of bringing back Rob Jones and Leam 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:31.240 Miichenberg was there and Isaiah Win came back. Do you 0:05:31.279 --> 0:05:33.800 think that teams have foresight to say, like, hey, next 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.120 year's class is pretty dangloaded. With those two spots, we 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.960 can kind of, you know, get ourselves a bridge situation 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:41.720 and get onto that you like. And that's a lot 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.800 of questions for you, But do you get on saying, Kyle, like, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:44.680 does that make sense? 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.359 Yeah. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.480 I think the depth, particularly on day two, uh, for 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.920 both of these position groups that you're talking about, is 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.159 it's a very real thing. And I think that may 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.560 have a trickle down effect into or I guess a 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:04.360 trickle up effect into free agency. Where you saw last 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.680 year teams were very reluctant to draft into your offensive 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.839 linemen early right, it was like Graham Barton went in 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:15.080 the first round. Then you had some guys who you 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.119 saw go in the first few picks in the early 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.039 second round, and then it kind of got quiet again 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.120 until the middle of the third round. And that's because 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:28.240 teams spore spending thirteen fourteen, fifteen, sixteen million dollars on 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.880 veteran players in free agency to come in or. I 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:33.960 think this is the inverse of that. I think you 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:35.760 see just how deep it is in these spots in 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:40.919 the draft, and you may not see the same urgency 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.919 to spend dollars like crazy. So I think the ways 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.880 in which you play the board on an annual basis 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:52.720 every year is unique. But I think this is in 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.920 some ways the inverse of what last year was, and 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:58.760 it'll be really interesting in six or seven weeks when 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:03.560 the league county year open to see if the league 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.000 tells us what they think about the draft with how 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.120 they choose to spend on players that are already in 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.560 the league. We're going to cover this this week on 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.160 the show and for a couple of months leading into 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.200 the draft and a free agency. But if you could, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.480 Kyle from the Senior Boy, I know you did like 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:21.440 an All Star Game only mock draft on Touchdown Miami. Correct, 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:23.400 that's where you hosted that, Okay, so you can find 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:27.320 that on Touchdown Miamio. Kyle loves his classes just from 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.880 that All Star week alone, so he's very bullish on 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.120 the draft. But if you could give our fans here, 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:36.160 our listeners some day two offensive line options that you 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.560 like as fits in Miami, because you know, I think 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.840 that when you're talking about the tackle spot, like that's 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.520 obviously always in play at thirteen, even if you have 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:46.960 Austin Jackson and Patrick Paul, just because the value and 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:50.000 the versatility of those guys. But in terms of interior 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.520 guys where that's a little bit more of where Miami's 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.480 range has been in the past at that position, especially 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.600 in this scheme, in this offensive tree goes back for 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.400 years without taking those guys like in the first But 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.240 give me a couple of names that pop off the 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.480 tape there for you in that part of the draft 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:07.960 that could be possibly selected in the second round, third round, 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:11.240 and maybe start opening day from Miami. Yeah, if Gray's 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.640 Able didn't play his way into the first round of 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.000 the Senior Bowl, I think he would be the home 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.800 run choice because they love positional versatilities. Guys played tackle. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.280 He's capable and keep his head above water. But the 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:32.080 ceiling at guard feels significantly high. And it depends on 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.640 what kind of body type they want to where do 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:40.200 you want to improve the players that are of the 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.320 arc type in which you've tried to be or do 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.880 you want to bring something different and bring some new 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.440 DNA into that position group. Because if you want to 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.920 bring some new DNA into that position group, maybe Tyler 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.480 Booker from Alabama I think is a strong option as 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:59.360 a top fifty pick three hundred and sixty five, three 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.520 fifty two. As far as for if you'd like a 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.640 contrast on just the point of attack power skills that 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.200 a guy has at three point fifty two, that's pretty athletic. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.800 That's a name that I would point to Tate Ratledge 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:17.800 from Georgia at six six, three twenty. I think Anthony 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:21.400 Belton from NC State was at the Senior Bowls played tackle. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.439 I thought he did a really nice job with the 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.800 limited looks that he got inside a guard too, So 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:31.040 I think that's a player. I don't think you can 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:36.920 completely dismiss. Miles Frasier from LSU's a red shirt senior. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:41.319 He's played his log starts at left guard, right guard, 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:43.960 and right tackle throughout the course of his career at LSU, 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:45.920 and he had a great week in mobile at the 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.760 Senior Bowl, including a day in which he almost worked 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:52.679 exclusively at right tackle. So that's another player who's maybe 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:58.120 not a great ideal athlete, but the past protection IQ 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.080 in which he has, and he's big enough and physical 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:03.719 enough at three twenty four verified he can create some 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:04.800 movement at the point of attack. 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:06.719 Those are all names that. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:10.280 I think would be really attractive options where he'd walk 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.120 away from adding any of them and say, Okay, I 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:14.559 could see what the vision is here. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:17.160 I think this player could potentially start for us. You 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.160 think Tyler Booker can survived around two. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.679 I was very surprised to see how high Daniel Jeremiah 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:27.320 was on him to have him. I think he had 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:29.679 him going ten in his first mock draft, and the 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.920 DJ mocks are always kind of ahead of the curve 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.280 as far as where the league's at. There are some 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.600 land mines throughout the twenties that I think would be 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.360 you'd be surprised to see him make him through all 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:48.959 of them. But I think he's not a position flexible player. 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.000 I think he's a guard exclusive. So you see really 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:56.920 talented players that are at devalued positions, they slide from 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:01.920 time to time. And would not dismiss it for Tyler 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:06.240 Booker despite the fact that I do think he'd be 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.720 pushing it, and as things currently stand, he's a player 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.280 that's about thirtieth on my personal big board. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:13.320 Okay, that sounds good. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.000 I was thinking like Graham Barton, But to your point, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.400 he kicked in the center and played really good for 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.600 the Bucks this year at that position, which is obviously 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.000 a very valued position in the league. Right now, Kyle, 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.960 before you go, just real quick, we've seen so many 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:26.439 debates about the quarterback position down a mobile, people talking 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.120 about a certain quarterback making himself a first rounder, Others 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.000 saying like what were you watching when you were there? 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.120 And then also a Jaln Milrow, I'm curious to get 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.200 your takes on those two guys. And then also because 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.160 you've been ahead of the curve on this guy that 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:40.920 popped off this week, Jack besh Man, what a stud 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.200 he is. If you can talk about those quarterbacks, Jack, 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:45.280 and then maybe anybody else in the skill groups that 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.600 you liked, whether it's Mason Taylor, Elijah, like, give me 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:49.120 whatever you take from the skill groups is. 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:50.720 Yeah, Jack Batch. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.240 Really cool to see him end his week the way 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.640 that he did with the touchdown in the game, and 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:59.400 obviously his family going through such difficult time with them 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.840 losing his other on New Year's Day in New Orleans. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:08.440 But he was awesome all week long. Every day of practice. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:10.959 It was big play Betch. There was at least one 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:15.840 play down the field, some contested catch opportunity through contact 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:17.800 despite the fact that he stacked the guy and had 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.880 a bunch of separation and the throw pulls him back 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.320 into contact and makes the play. As far as the 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:26.520 quarterbacks go, it was not a great week for Jalen Milroe. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.600 I think there's probably more questions for Milroe now than 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.960 there were going into the week, and that's never really 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.679 where you want to be when you're attending an All 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.360 Star event like that. But just looked like it was 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.360 a lot of information for him to have to process 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:49.120 in real time. So I think he's he's a player 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.559 that I think is losing ground. I think based off 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.480 his traits. If he told me he still went in 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:57.520 the middle portion of Day two, I wouldn't be surprised, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:59.760 But I don't think this is a player that you're 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:01.920 looking looking at in those first few picks in the 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:05.040 second round of the team bypasses a quarterback but needs one. 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:11.360 I'd be really surprised having this kind of audition in 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.720 this environment if he ended up getting coveted in that regard. 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.040 Kyle, you went about five minutes longer than I want 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.320 you to. But that's just your thoroughness there of being 0:13:19.679 --> 0:13:21.800 the best in the entire business at this The host 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:24.840 of Lockdown Dolphins podcast, locked on NFL scouting, author of 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.439 Touchdown Miami. He is, of course the NFL Draft lead 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:29.640 for the thirty third team at Kyle crabs on social 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:31.360 Do you have a new big boarder a mock coming 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:32.079 up anytime soon? 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.839 Kyle, it's funny you. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.959 Say that we just had a mock that dropped a 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.959 couple hours ago over at the thirty thirteen on Monday, 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.920 and then later this week. I believe on Thursday, we're 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:46.120 gonna have a top one twenty five big board that's 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:46.720 out as well. 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:52.640 Here's your guy check him out, podcast, written, video, audio, radio, pod, television. 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.240 Wherever you want to find this guy, you can find him. 0:13:54.280 --> 0:13:54.400 Kyle. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:56.480 Appreciate your time to demand feel better. We'll see you 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:00.000 in about a month, buddy. Thanks Treves, and away he goes. 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.439 Fun chat there with Kyle. We're gonna take our first 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:06.400 break right there, come back and debut the Trench Week 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.559 podcast and Trench Week song. You don't want to miss it. 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.000 It is officially Trench Week on the Draft Time Podcast 0:14:12.000 --> 0:14:20.480 to your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation, It's. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:32.359 Too Trenches Week, Tackles, guards, centers, offensive line play, toreach Week, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:38.880 Trench Week, Tweek. 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:42.120 Trench Week. 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:46.720 Let's go ahead and jump right into this tackle capsule 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.160 because I'm gonna talk about like twenty five players here 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.240 from draft prospects, free agent picks, and our own incumbents. 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.160 So there's a lot to get to. So let's go 0:14:54.200 --> 0:14:56.760 ahead and just jump right in, starting with the incumbents 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.800 for the Miami Dolphins and in general. Was there a 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:03.080 deeper position on the field for the Miami Dolphins in 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.560 twenty twenty fourth in the tackles, I mean, they needed 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.640 every bit of that room and then some tapping into 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.520 in season acquisition Jackson Carmen in a game that amounted 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.120 to a playoff game before the playoffs, right in the 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:18.440 Houston game, and he got proper washed in that game. 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:20.720 I don't know what else you could expect from him, though, 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:23.560 I will say I was surprised to see Chris Greer 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.720 eviscerate him at his end of season press conference. That's 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:28.880 what the tape called for. He was not NFL ready 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.040 in that game. This is a reason, however, that you 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.760 need to consistently invest into positions with youth. And that's 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:38.320 no more true than on the offensive line, where misses 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:43.080 are vast in terms of the evaluation process, injuries are 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.480 even more prevalent, and you're physically outmatched one hundred percent 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.640 of the time. There is not an offensive lineman who 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:52.120 athletically measures up against any guy he faces on the 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.120 other side of the ball on any given stap across 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:56.880 the entire league, right, We saw it all around the playoffs. 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:59.440 Critical players are down, rookies are stepping into the critical 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:02.360 roles across the offensive line. That's the nature of playing 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.360 into January. I know, we don't know much about that. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.200 And for the Dolphins, just making it to Thanksgiving with 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.120 a healthy brood has been a challenge. Austin Jackson suffers 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.000 a freak injury getting wiped out sideswiped on a lateral 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.640 play at the end of the Buffalo game, and you 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.240 can really track a regression in the run game production 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.760 to that exact moment. Hell, that was the best ball. 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:23.640 That was the best we've run the ball. You know, 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:28.480 even just throwing the numbers aside. You know our ability 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:31.240 to gash the Bills defense for seven eight nine yards 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.080 a pop throughout that game and what it did for 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.920 the passing offense. I'll say that was the best running 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.840 game showing we've had in the McDaniel era. And I 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.280 mean before that too, because this era has been the 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.440 best run game we've had since Ronnie and Ricky, Like 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.080 it goes that far back. You lose to ron for 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.080 just two games on the stat sheet. But the truth 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.000 is he was up and down in a few more games, 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:55.720 battling through that knee injury that he's had countless surgeries on, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.200 and he's endured the pain and the way he gets 0:16:58.200 --> 0:16:59.800 his body ready for a couple of years now. For 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.480 I mean, that guy has been through the ringer in 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:05.400 terms of what a human body can withstand and the 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.000 injuries and the rigors of playing on the offensive line 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.800 for twelve years, and yet he battles and gave us 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.160 everything he had and finished a game in Week eight 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.400 team when we were out of the playoffs. I mean, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.040 somebody else could take note on that, right, One of 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.320 the smartest players I've ever talked to might be number 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.960 one in that category. Then you got a super super 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.800 promising showing from Patrick Paul in brief action in place 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.600 of Toront Armstead, enough so that I think if you 0:17:29.720 --> 0:17:32.880 go into twenty twenty five with him written in Penn 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.480 at left tackle, I would feel very good about that. 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:37.879 Another reason Paul was a smart pick, and I know 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.280 guard was a bigger need. But like Zach Frazier, doesn't 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.479 change the way twenty twenty five plays out. But if 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:46.320 Paul hits like he looks like he will, getting that 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.720 player at the cost of a rookie contract for what 0:17:49.760 --> 0:17:51.919 you normally pay for left tackles in the open market. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:56.399 That the relief you get money in financials there gives 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:58.240 you the room to buy all the frickin guards that 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:01.520 you want. That's why that as smart. I thought Kendall 0:18:01.560 --> 0:18:03.600 Lamb did an awesome job when he was called upon 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.400 really throughout his Miami tenure, and he's a great example 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:08.919 of it working with some teams and systems versus not. 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:12.120 I thought Kendall's best football happened here in Miami over 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.840 his ten year career, and he mentioned when he resigned 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:16.480 this would be his last, so we have to assume 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.560 he's retiring. Keon Smith, you'd imagine, will be ready to 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.840 roll by camps given that he was hurt last August. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.080 And that's what you dealt with in twenty twenty four, right. 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.720 I think twenty twenty five projects well for a lot 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.119 of these guys. And the interesting thing about this draft 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:31.080 class is there are a lot of guys that played 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.919 one spot but can project elsewhere, and we've seen this 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.679 team find different ways to use lineman. Nobody loves to 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.679 take tackles and convert them to guards like the Miami 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.800 Dolphins because of the athletic profile that tackles have and 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.680 how you have to play in this offense to run 0:18:44.720 --> 0:18:47.440 off the football and be able to you know, out 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:50.960 athlete people. And I get this pushback on social about 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.720 stop taking athletes on the offensive line, start getting more 0:18:53.720 --> 0:18:56.600 strength and size, and like, I agree to a certain point, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.240 but do you not understand how this offense works. You 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.480 clearly don't, because to execute this offense, you have to 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:04.120 run off the football and you have to be able 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:06.479 to threaten a five technique with the reach block from 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:07.919 the right guard. You have to be able to do 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:09.880 that stuff for this offense to function the way it does. 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.480 And I don't want to strip this offense down and 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:14.560 be less of what it is. I just want to 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:17.400 add other elements and curveballs and changeups to us. Don't 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:20.119 take away what makes it good and fun when Tua 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:21.679 is in there, just add to it. 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:22.400 And we're at that point. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:24.640 We can do that across the league with the Niners, 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.639 the Packers, us, Like, you know, we signed Connor Williams 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.720 and no one else played him at center until we did, 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:32.800 and he was a damn good one. Austin Jackson has 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.640 played everywhere, and he was a guy that went from 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.440 guard back off the tackle. Keon Smith started playing guard 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:40.560 last preseason, so there's always unique solutions and I'm curious 0:19:40.600 --> 0:19:42.600 to see what the makeup of the room looks like 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.840 next year and how they project guys at different positions. 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:47.600 Let's go back to the players here real quick. To 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:50.920 Ron Armstead, if this was the last ride, big fella, well, 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:51.960 it was an honor. 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:52.640 I learned so. 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.320