WEBVTT - Field Yates: People and Process 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:16.320 That field touchdown, Miami Drawn. What is up? Dolphans And 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:19.800 welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:24.680 Dolphins official podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.960 How's it going everybody? It is Tuesday. Season is in 0:00:29.000 --> 0:00:32.360 the books. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I'm 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.839 here to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:38.519 And on today's show, the season is a wrap. The 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.519 Buccaneers are world champions. We're gonna welcome in Field Yates 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:46.640 of ESPN to talk about next steps for the Miami Dolphins. 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:48.599 Will look back at the first two years under Chris 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:51.680 Greer and Brian Flores and project where this team is going. 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.280 All of that and more on this Tuesday, February, the 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:02.000 ninth edition of the Drive Time Podcast. Miami Times. And So, 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.920 the Super Bowl is in the books. It's a rap 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:07.880 not the game. I think from a competitive standpoint, the 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:12.039 neutral observer typically roots for. I was personally pulling for 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:14.960 the a f C side, because typically I do root 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.399 for the conference the Dolphins are in, unless it's been 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.760 a division opponent over the last several years. But the 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.920 Chiefs come up short to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Tom 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.679 Brady's first year in Tampa Bay yields a Lombardi Trophy 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:30.560 number seven for Brady all time. What a heck of 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:32.400 a run he's had, What a heck of a career 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.160 he's had with that Buccaneers team. Thought it was kind 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:37.440 of cool with seeing Dominican Sue get his first ring. 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:40.080 A guy that's been a productive player in league for 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:41.959 a long time, was a member of the Miami Dolphins 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.840 for quite some time as well, he gets his first ring. 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.360 So congratulations to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They pull off 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.440 the upset in the Super Bowl. I you know, I 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.000 thought the Chiefs were gonna win that game, and they 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:55.080 just were sloppy from the start. It seemed like in 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:57.360 terms of the penalties, how many flags came out in 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.040 that game. They had double digit flags for over a 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.120 hundred yards in that game. Patrick Mahomes on the move 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.640 constantly throughout the course of the night. Some of the 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:08.760 incompletions he had in that game were, I mean, the 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.280 highlights of the game because of how impressive they were 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.840 throwing the ball falling to his side. One of the 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.079 best memes I saw on Twitter on Super Bowl Sunday 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.480 was a side by side shot of that incomplete past 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.760 that Mahomes through on fourth down where he's basically parallel 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.560 to the ground falling to the ground side by side 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:30.400 with White Goodman from Dodgeball, Ben Stiller's character and that 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.959 great Vince Fawn movie back in like two thousand five, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.600 pretty much the exact same throw there from Patrick Mahomes. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.239 So he remains ridiculous despite the fact that he and 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.840 the Chiefs are now one and one in Super Bowls 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.440 with that collection of players. But that means the end 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.880 of the season now, it means it's all about one 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.560 free agency on the periphery draft season, well within draft 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:52.520 season right now. And I put the off season calendar 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.640 for the NFL up in Monday's Blitz article up on 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.640 Miami Dolphins dot com, where we look at the timeline 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.720 for and events to occur around the league. Of course, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.800 this year we're not going to have the scouting combine 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:07.360 with everybody descending onto Indianapolis, but there is the window 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.560 for the franchise and transitional player that is from February 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:14.400 to March ninth, where teams can designate one franchise or 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.120 transitional player. From March fifteen through seventeen, those are the 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.480 three days before free agency begins where clubs are permitted 0:03:21.480 --> 0:03:25.160 to contact and enter into contract negotiations with players with 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:29.120 agents of players rather who will become unrestricted free agents 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.480 on the new league year. And that new league year 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.880 starts on March seventeenth at four pm Eastern. Set your 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.240 calendars right now, set your alarm clocks for March seventeenth, 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.240 the start of the new league year. That's when everything 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.560 really gets going here, and that's on a Wednesday for 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.640 you guys here. So free agency, we're gonna have that 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.840 covered on Drivetown at Miami Dolphins dot com in depth. 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.600 Every signing, every action we take will be all over that. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.480 So the official start of the new league year March seventeenth, 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:57.800 Wednesday at four pm Eastern. And on April nineteen, offseason 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.119 workout programs can begin, and on a bull the last 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.280 day for restrictive free agents to sign their offer sheets occurs. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.920 And then finally we have the draft on April through 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.640 May one, and the draft is scheduled to take place 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.280 this year in Cleveland, Ohio. All R, let's go ahead 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.120 and get to my guest now on this edition of 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:19.080 the Drivetime podcast. The Tuesday February the ninth edition. Field 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.960 Yates of ESPN and writing Shotgun Now on the Drivetime 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.520 podcast is Field Yates. He's an NFL insider for ESPN 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.760 and co host of the Fantasy Focus Football podcast and 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:32.480 Field I think you're missing one major skill set here 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.919 from the Twitter bio man Senior Bowl Anchor extraordinaire. I 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.080 had a lot of fun down there in Mobile. And 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.720 you know, I'll go through the usual and say thank 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:44.600 you for the opportunity to my employer. But I'm easy 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.960 to see when I say that, right, the ESPN put 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:48.800 some faith in me to go down to Mobile and 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.320 be a part of the tremendous coverage. Such a fun 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.560 event though in so many ways, you know, I think 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.760 in any year it's fun. But you know, I was 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:59.000 talking about this with some of my colleagues that were 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.760 down there in Lewis Red, my pant About and Todd McShay. 0:05:02.200 --> 0:05:03.919 Just so good to be on a football field. You know, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.279 many of us have not been in the football stadium 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.600 for close to a year. Much has been on the 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.080 field to be a ground level to be amongst not 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.960 just the players, but the two great coaching staffs, the 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.960 Miami Dolphins, and the Carolina Panthers. Was that's a pretty 0:05:18.960 --> 0:05:22.640 special opportunity to be Okay, Yeah, the things that we 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.520 that we took for grant in the past, right, we 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:27.040 no longer do. Like you mentioned that, there was actually 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.400 the Week two Dolphins and Bills game. I was there 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.320 in the press box and the CBS feed had got 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.720 cut for like three or four minutes, and so I 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.839 was literally like tweeting out my fan base and they're like, 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:39.159 Travis's Twitter's timeline is where we're gonna find the place 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.120 for the game today. So it's has been a crazy year, man, 0:05:42.120 --> 0:05:44.240 But I thought you killed it, and and you mentioned 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.279 McShay and Riddick and tannem baumb man, I wanted to 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.320 ask you this because those are three, you know, heavy 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.960 hitters in terms of football knowledge and football insight and 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.240 resumes in the in the league. What is it like 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.440 being around those guys when you're evaluating a hundred and 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.960 thirty five prospects, like you have to soak up some information, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.200 I'd imagine. Yeah, it's so unique because each one of 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:07.240 them brings a different perspective as well. Right, you know, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.360 Mike Cannon almost start there obviously very familiar to Dolphins fans. 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.720 He was, you know, either a GM or the e 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.720 VP of football operations for basically twenty years. Obviously led 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.880 the show in Miami, led the show in New York. 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.800 Yet and of course in the fact that it was 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:23.919 a Dolphin staff and there were time people that Michael 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:25.880 is very familiar with. I felt like I was walking 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.159 around with the mayor of mobiles when you were near 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:32.160 Mike Sannon bombs. But Mike has basically seen every single situation. 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:35.200 Lewis Riddick did not just play the game. He also 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.360 was a scout for many years, a working personnel for 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.520 many years of both Washington football team and the Philadelphia Eagles. 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.920 And now he's evolved into one of e fpn's foremost 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:47.240 game analysts. Obviously part of the Monday Nights Football Books broadcast, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.960 and you can tap into all the different uh tenets 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.280 of his coverage. I think you've got Todd McShay who 0:06:53.320 --> 0:06:55.920 is still library and I'm fortunate to do the podcast 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.920 called The First Draft with Todd McShay and mel kiper Jr. Ever, 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.479 single two they would drop an episode for PM E. Sterns. 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.679 I'm fired from the shameless plug and it never ceases 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.160 too amazing that these two have an energy that is 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.800 unmatched and a passion that's unmatched, rolldecks of information that's 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.800 unmatched about these prospects. There thousands, and I'm not exaggerating. 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:21.600 There are players they are responsible to be somewhat familiar with. 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.040 By the time the draft rolls around. Each of them 0:07:24.120 --> 0:07:27.240 could basically uh discuss those players as if they were 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.600 their own children. They have such good knowledge of them. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:31.920 I love working with all those guys. That's what makes 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.920 the draft, watching the entire seven round, you know, extravaganza 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.600 for a week and an ESPN does such a great 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.080 job on the coverage because you get these inside stories 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.560 on these kids that you probably didn't know beforehand, like 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.200 for instance, last year Solomon killing the big fish the 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:48.080 lifeguard for the Miami Dolphins and that great story that 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.360 that provided us so much content this year for Miami 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.560 Dolphins dot Com and here on Drive Time that we 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.000 didn't know about before the ESPN shared that story. So 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.560 that was that was really cool to see. And you mentioned, 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.600 you know, being down there on the field and mobile 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:01.720 for the press for the Senior Bowl, for all those 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.400 practices and feel I think my favorite part of the 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:06.680 coverage was the micd up segments with the coaches, like 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.080 what was that from your what was that like from 0:08:08.120 --> 0:08:10.400 your guys perspective? As far as getting those coaches miked 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:11.840 up and just hear what they had to say on 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.920 the practice field. Yeah, there's no two ways about it. 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:16.880 That's the best part. And you know when we go 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:19.960 down there at the four hours, well two hour broadcast, 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:23.360 thirty minute breaks and then two hours more for each 0:08:23.360 --> 0:08:26.800 of the practices. And in speaking with our producer Brian 0:08:26.880 --> 0:08:30.600 Rider going into the event, you know, I was hammering 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.280 him with questions like, what are you gonna do here? 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.400 Is We're good, We're gonna hang for two hours. We're 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:37.800 gonna watch football for two hours and talk about it. 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.480 And it's unlike anything else that we do, at least 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:43.520 in terms of my response building the b SPN everything else. 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:46.959 You know, you spend a day working on NFL Live 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.840 Rundown and you know starts at seven am that morning 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.880 until you go on the air at four pm. That's 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.320 just so great about the senior is that the best part, 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.240 without question is when the coaches are animated, the coaches 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.720 are giving you sounds, you get to see the passion 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.200 of East coaches, and there's not one way to skin 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.439 the cat when it comes to coaching. Not every coach 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.160 has to be you know, in your face. Not every 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.160 coach has to be sort of this quiet, stoic leader. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:12.839 Not every coach has to be a guy who you know, 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:17.880 doesn't with energy or enthusiasm or positivity or you know, criticism. 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.360 Everybody is different, and that's what I really enjoyed watching 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.199 both the Panthers and of course the Dolphins staff, as 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.320 we got to see a handful of different Dolphins coaches, 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.800 Mike up and um. You know, it was great to 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:30.640 be able to chat with them a little bit, you know, 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.400 between drills and before practice as well. But to hear 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.880 that sound when they're on the field doing what they love. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.520 I think it's the coolest part of the broadcast. Because 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.320 football coaching sounds like a dream job to a lot 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.360 of people, and it is for many. It's also a 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.760 life that is incredibly demanded. You might as well based 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.520 to say good body to your family from the time 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.560 of your report to training camp until the time the 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.080 season is over. But the reason why they do it 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:53.800 is not just because they want to feed their family 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.640 and they want to provide you know, great life for 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:58.200 their family is that they can. But it's because they 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.280 love teachings. They love to be teaching, they love to 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.120 be on the field with the players. And that's the 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.560 sound that you get. You can see how contagious their 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.240 energy is. And we got a good up close shot 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.760 there of coach Campanelli, the Dolphins linebackers coach, and I 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:13.320 think he lost his voice about halfway through one of 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.600 those stack and shed drills, and I was gonna say, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.360 maybe you go ask him about some food too, because 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:19.040 he's a kind of guy that we had him every 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.160 other week on the on the press conferences here and 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:24.000 he would talk about his Sunday dinners back in Jersey. Man. 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.400 He's he's a character. He was fun to watch out there. 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.360 Now you mentioned something their field that I want to 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.280 touch on further, because you talk about these guys being teachers. 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.880 That's a point of emphasis for Brian Flores and he 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.199 he's kind of made this staff into his vision in 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.640 terms of bringing in guys from different areas of you know, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.520 whether it was coach kurk Kons from last year, who 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:44.600 was a high school coach in twenty nineteen and comes 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.440 in and leaves Dolphins third down defensive meetings this year 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.920 for the number one third down defense in the National 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.520 Football Like now Charlie Fry here the quarterbacks coach kind 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.760 of turning over the coaching staff and getting his staff 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:56.840 under his vision. What do you make of the changes 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.959 coaches made to his to his coaching staff. Yeah, I mean, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:02.280 so this is this is gonna be flows third year 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:04.400 with the Dolphins, and there has been quite a bit 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.319 of change. I mean, obviously they had a change of 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:11.400 defensive coordinator and offensive coordinator last offseason. They did it 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:13.960 again on the offensive side of the ball this offseason 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.240 with Jan Giles is a great, great man, and I 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.680 wish invest in retirement deciding to retire once again from football. 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.960 So I think one thing that we learned this year, Travis, 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:27.840 is that we have on the outside it's our job, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.559 I mean, in the media, it's our job to make 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.760 judgments and and for opinions and to do our best 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:35.640 with the much as much information as we have, uh, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.640 and we try to do so responsibly. The reality is 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:40.839 that as much as we think we might know, or 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:44.280 we perceive ourselves to know, the people on the inside 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:47.520 have a much better foundation of knowledge to work off 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:50.959 of and decide what's right for the staff, what's right 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.960 for the team. So as we've seen all these changes, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.880 not just this offseason, but even dating back to last 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.319 off season, you know, I'd be easy to say, like, oh, 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.200 you're changing up coordinators after one year, but that seems unusual, right, Well, 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.800 I think it worked out pretty well. And it's not 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:11.080 just the coaching staff. We saw where a major decision 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.800 was made by Brian Flores that receives some public backlash. 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.960 I mean, obviously the decision at quarterbacks this year to 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.760 go to to us entering the bye week with the 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.960 team playing well and Fitsy having led a couple of 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:26.640 back to back wins. One thing I've come to know 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:29.200 about Brian Flores, and I've been fortunate to know him 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.280 for I want to say seventeen or eighteen years now, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:38.200 is that, um, he's a man that will refuse to 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.400 be sucked onto the emotional roller coaster. And that's a 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.000 that's a very positive strength of his is that you 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:46.719 can say whatever you want about him. I don't think 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.560 he's particularly phased by that. And if you're gonna be 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.160 a football coach for a long time, you better not 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:54.040 be faced by it because there's a lot of noise. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.240 I mean, we're having podcasts and do a TV show, 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.840 the radio shows, and writing articles every single day, and 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.800 I think that it's important for coaches to be able 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:06.160 to block out the noise while also addressing what might 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:09.760 be topical and the media would need be and flows 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.840 on an unbelievable job and sort of telling that line actively. 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:15.520 And you mentioned it right there at the quarterback position, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.240 right that was the kind of the storyline down the 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:19.760 backstretch of the season. And I wanted to touch on 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.280 that because you mentioned, you know, Lewis Riddick and Todd 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.120 mcshade they had kind of gotten into that conversation at 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:27.600 the end of one of the days of Senior Bowl practices. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:30.400 I forget which one, Wednesday or Thursday, but they touched 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:32.760 on it. And you know, Louis has never one to 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:34.880 mince his words. That's why I love about him. And 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:38.080 he's so assertive and confident in his opinion. And he 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.160 put it on Twitter. He talked about it like, I 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.560 don't understand this. You know, it's not new to but 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.320 it's this concept of the quarterback has to show you 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.640 he's a superstar. In the first few stars, otherwise you 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.480 have to find the replacement. But he was adamantly against 0:13:52.480 --> 0:13:54.160 that Todd McShay, who was a big fan of two 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.600 US coming out of college and still remains. So they 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.080 both were very much focused on this point that let's 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.080 see what too can grow and develop into year two, 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.400 Like where does the league sit as far as quarterback development? 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.360 How long it's supposed to take? Like is it really 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.880 the way fans talk about it on social media? Or 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.600 does the league have more of that pulled back classic 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:15.440 like let's develop this guy mindset? Well, I think probably 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.960 speaking generally, and I want to see generally to start, 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:20.600 and I think the league and teams are more inclined 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.040 to develop. You know, you didn't invest the fifth overall 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:26.720 pick on a player to prepare yourself to pull the 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:30.360 plug one year later. Which that's been part of the 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.080 conversation surrounding two of this offseason is and I want 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:35.400 to get to the second part of that a minute, 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.600 But there are examples around the league of players that 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:42.920 have thrived with development. Whether it's a player, I think 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.440 the best example this year is obviously Josh Allen with 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.720 the Buffalo bill who has reached incredible heights in his 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:50.920 third season when many were ready to write him off 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.400 two years ago. Right, I mean, everybody's any can so 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.600 accurately he's not, and it makes too many bad decisions. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:00.560 There was a playoff game last year, as in the 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.880 season against sex Ends where he's laddering the ball haphazardly. 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.440 So as an example of somebody that has grown and 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.880 developed tremendously, I mean, there are guys that make those 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.680 strides and it takes some time. So but there are 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:16.600 two dynamics that I want to get into, and I'll 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.240 start with this, is that you're right. The other issue 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.680 we have is that we're gonna leave where we have 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.120 examples of quarterbacks bursting onto the scene. Justin Herbert this 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:28.800 year is a great example. And the fact that he 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:32.240 was taken one pick behind two US is a fact 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.760 of this conversation. I'm not trying to, you know, uh, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.040 revisit who made the right pick or who did it. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.320 That's not what I'm trying to do here. I'm just 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.720 stating the fact that when you have one guy going fix, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.320 one guy going fix, and the pick six player ends 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.360 up having a tremendous offensive rookie of the year's season, 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.920 that enters the minds of fans that are wondering whether 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.560 it's time to reconsider things. The other dynamic here is 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.920 that the Dolphins, and I don't want to say the 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.840 word gift because it's my agift, they pulled up a 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:03.800 Master Strokes trade to acquire two first round picks for 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.800 the Houston Textris, I don't believe. I obviously have an 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:10.520 active question, but I would be surprised if Chris spore 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.640 Brian's lawrence is respecting the one first round pick to 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:20.520 be third overall. You have this incredible asset on your hands. Again, 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.120 I'm not here to state my opinion about whether who 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.000 they should pick with number three overall. But the only 0:16:26.040 --> 0:16:29.640 reason why this is so different than a different circuits 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.560 than another circumstance is just that you have this opportunity 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.200 potentially to draft the quarterbacks. We know it's not gonna 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.840 be Trevor Lawrence available, whether it's a Zach Wilson, whether 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.440 it's a Justin Field, one of those two players have 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:44.480 guaranteed to be available at picks three. It's opportunity cause 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.960 and again I'm not here to say that they should 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.160 or should not. I think it's important, though, to identify 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:53.760 the dynamics of why this conversation is taking place momily, 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:57.680 and this is all things being equal, is my preference 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.840 is to invest in a player, to ELPA player, support 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.399 that player. And you and I having this conversation the 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.600 morning after the Super Bowl, and I understand that this 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.960 player is not a rookie, but I felt that the 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.879 ascension of Leonard pour Neett in the playoffs for the 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:16.800 Buccaneers was really notable because many myself included, had some 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.679 fun about the idea that this guy who was supposed 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.359 to be, you know, a franchise altering running back, all 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.560 of a sudden it's not from Jabars. Right, You're like, wow, 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.080 Leonard Fournett, he didn't get picked up off waivers. And 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:30.960 I understand that salary was more significant, time, etcetera. But 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.320 no one was talking about Leonard Fournette is like this 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.840 massive game changing player anymore? Right, it was wow? That 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.760 guy was a buck Well in the playoffs. I'm not 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:42.240 saying he was the Buck's best offensive player, but he 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:46.040 was phenomenally scoring every single game, caught nearly fifteen passes, 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.240 ran the ball effectively in a long rushing touchdown last night. 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.800 It's a team sport man and you've got to invest 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:53.639 in these players. You gotta believe in them, and you've 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:55.880 got to prove to them that if you are going 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.719 to ask of them to get everything they have, then 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.000 I'm also willing to reciprocate by developing you and putting 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.919 everything I can behind you to make you a better player. 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.760 And I think the Dolphins that even though it's a 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.400 brief tenure with Brian Florence, have a pretty good track 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.560 record of developing players. So that's why if you, you know, 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.720 told me right now date my case, are they taking 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.880 a quarterback or not? Or the two again next year? 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.280 I believe will be too again next year. And I'm 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.679 really glad you brought that the development hallmark up of 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:25.600 Brian flores because he talks about it all the time. 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.639 I mean, I've I've written so many pieces this year 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:30.159 field about how Emmanuel Agba had a breakout season, or 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:32.520 how Eric Row and you know you're number six is 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.680 having the best year of his career at a new position, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.320 or Bobby McCain moves to safety a new position and 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.480 has you know, kind of a resurgence in his career 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.440 as well. So it's not just exclusive to rookie's, first 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.639 year player, second year players. I mean, guys develop all 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:47.399 the time at different stages of their career. And you know, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.480 that brings me back to kind of an interesting point 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.280 about where this Dolphins team is right now today. Field 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.280 you talk about the morning after the Super Bowl in 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:57.080 one compared to where they were. Let's go back to 0:18:57.119 --> 0:18:59.399 when Brian Flores was highed the day after the Super Bowl, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.080 back after the season, where this team was coming in 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:05.359 they knew they had some contracts to get off the books, 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:07.879 they had to kind of restock the draft capital. Like 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:10.200 where was your thirty thousand foot view be of where 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:12.600 this team has? Like how far they've come in those 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.800 twenty four months from the day Brian Floors was hired 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.360 with Chris Careers the GM to now where they are 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.480