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Speaker 1: of what is up? Dolph fans and welcome to the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering
Speaker 1: your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield And on today's show, we
Speaker 1: are recapping the scouting combine twenty twenty three. We've checked
Speaker 1: another box in the draft process season. What changed from
Speaker 1: the workouts and the week that was in Indie? How
Speaker 1: do each position stack up through the Dolphins lens who
Speaker 1: really put their name on the map. All of that
Speaker 1: and more, plus will look around the league a little
Speaker 1: bit as well from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and kick this podcast off with a little bit
Speaker 1: of news. As the new league year just around the corner.
Speaker 1: We had franchise tag deadline yesterday. All kinds of moving
Speaker 1: and shaking really across twelve months in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and the Miami Dolphins were part of the Tuesday news.
Speaker 1: Adam Schefter from ESPN reports the Dolphins planned to release
Speaker 1: cornerback Byron Jones with a post June one designation. Again
Speaker 1: that from Schefter, the Dolphins also planned to release tight
Speaker 1: end Seeth and Carter and offered the exclusive rights free
Speaker 1: agency to safety Elijah Campbell, who I thought was really
Speaker 1: really good on his role in special teams the last
Speaker 1: couple of years and some spot duty as kind of
Speaker 1: a dime safety, a subpackage defensive back who can come
Speaker 1: into the game and rush the quarterback. He's a great
Speaker 1: tackler off the edge. Big fan of Elijah Campbell's game.
Speaker 1: I think he's earned the right to really make a
Speaker 1: name for himself on the roster, and the Dolphins will
Speaker 1: give him that chance, provided he does not sign a
Speaker 1: tender with another club, so Byron Jones per Adams Shafter
Speaker 1: will be released post June one. Tight Seethan Carter has
Speaker 1: been released, and safety Elijah Campbell exclusive rights free agent.
Speaker 1: Before we go back to Combine news, we had some
Speaker 1: NFL news that came across the wire on Monday when
Speaker 1: I'm taping this show. Probably a good chance I'll have
Speaker 1: to do some editorializing on Tuesday, as stuff seems to
Speaker 1: be picking up with regards to the veteran market players
Speaker 1: being released. I saw that who's the linebacker? Eric Kendricks
Speaker 1: was released from the Vikings. Love his game. I think
Speaker 1: he's a great player that could be a good fit
Speaker 1: for a lot of teams in this upcoming cycle. There's
Speaker 1: gonna be lots of players release that don't count against
Speaker 1: your compensatory formula. It just makes the process really interaction
Speaker 1: and see how teams attack it, how they approach it.
Speaker 1: Trades are going to change things. Like I mentioned, the
Speaker 1: veterans that get cut will change things. The class you
Speaker 1: see right now for next week's free agency crop is
Speaker 1: not what it will be next week when that comes up.
Speaker 1: But we did get the first domino to fall on
Speaker 1: the most important part every single offseason the quarterback carousel,
Speaker 1: which can hold things up sometimes if there isn't much movement,
Speaker 1: and we get some movement here, and it should get
Speaker 1: some clarity on some other veteran moves. Now, the two
Speaker 1: top dominoes that would still have to fall have not.
Speaker 1: That would be Lamar Jackson and Aaron Rodgers. Though I
Speaker 1: tend to think the former of that listing. Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: I think he stays put and I tend to think
Speaker 1: the ladder. Aaron Rodgers, I think you might retire, but
Speaker 1: we'll talk about that in another day. But Derek Carr
Speaker 1: goes to the Saints, and how nice is it to
Speaker 1: see a good quarterback leave the AFC and go to
Speaker 1: the NFC after last year? And you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: expect Russell Wilson to have the year he had in Denver.
Speaker 1: But after seeing Russell Wilson go to the AFC, after
Speaker 1: seeing well Deshaun Watson changed teams but stay in the AFC.
Speaker 1: After seeing Herbert Booa, Burrow, Tua josh aland Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: all these top of the line quarterbacks atracted into the
Speaker 1: AFC over the last several years. You have eight teams
Speaker 1: that feel like they have future franchise quarterbacks or current
Speaker 1: franchise quarterbacks, you know, on the right side of age,
Speaker 1: like twenty seven. It just makes for a challenging conference.
Speaker 1: So seeing you know, I wouldn't put car in that category,
Speaker 1: but seeing him leave the conference that makes me happier.
Speaker 1: But what happens now with Aaron Rodgers And the reason
Speaker 1: I bring all this up is because I think we
Speaker 1: all hope that the Jets are the ones that get
Speaker 1: left without a chair once the music stops right. Part
Speaker 1: of me is intrigued by the idea of Rogers, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe going to the Jets half in. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that would be the case, but if it is,
Speaker 1: that would be awesome. But I do think that in
Speaker 1: his mind, it would make more sense to choose either
Speaker 1: an NFC team to stay in the weaker of the
Speaker 1: two conferences. Let's be completely transparent about that, or retirement,
Speaker 1: because I don't think you contemplate this hard when you're
Speaker 1: all the way in. I mean you don't, it's a fact.
Speaker 1: But just based on all the content he's provided, I
Speaker 1: think he's going to lean more towards that direction in
Speaker 1: the future. In the media world, and I'm sure he
Speaker 1: can make a bunch of money doing Pat McAfee. But
Speaker 1: the reason I bring up all of this is because
Speaker 1: it's worth watching because it impacts eleven point eight percent
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins games next year two games right, divide
Speaker 1: two by seventeen. I already did the math for you.
Speaker 1: It's eleven point eight percent to out of seventeen game
Speaker 1: So no need for jokes there. And with car going
Speaker 1: to the Saints, does Jameis Winston become available? Like I said,
Speaker 1: the players that are out there right now is not
Speaker 1: what you're going to get next week when the new
Speaker 1: league years starts. So that's what's going on in terms
Speaker 1: of the veteran market. And we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: free agency on Friday and Monday's podcast. Get You're ready
Speaker 1: for the It's not called will tampering anymore? What's it called?
Speaker 1: I forget the negotiation window. We'll talk about that the
Speaker 1: next couple of podcasts. But how about the Combine week Now,
Speaker 1: we did have a great interview with alec Ingold on
Speaker 1: the Monday podcast, and if you have not checked that out,
Speaker 1: go do so. We also had the Combine interview recap
Speaker 1: on YouTube. Go to the YouTube channel, and if I
Speaker 1: don't ask for much here, but if you want to
Speaker 1: support myself and the team here really mostly myself, that's
Speaker 1: what we're talking about right now. Go click on all
Speaker 1: the content that includes me, the YouTube recap, watch the
Speaker 1: alec Ingold video on YouTube, and the podcast. It just
Speaker 1: really helps the numbers go up, helps me look good
Speaker 1: to my bosses, and it makes the numbers just you know,
Speaker 1: everyone wins when the numbers are higher. So if you
Speaker 1: want to support the podcast that way for free, doesn't
Speaker 1: cost any money, go ahead and do that. But we
Speaker 1: had some really big time guests on a fun week
Speaker 1: of interviews talking about this exciting twenty twenty three Dolphins
Speaker 1: team that we're all so eager to see built and
Speaker 1: eventually go out there and perform in August and into
Speaker 1: the season in September, and that starts well, it starts
Speaker 1: back in the fall for the scouting staff. But the
Speaker 1: real big turn of the page to draft season usually
Speaker 1: occurs at the Senior Bowl, but bleeding into scouting combine.
Speaker 1: The two events are a month apart. For me personally,
Speaker 1: it feels like they're a week apart. That's how fast
Speaker 1: this time of the year goes by and man, what
Speaker 1: a week it was, not just from our own content,
Speaker 1: but this impressive class of athletes and young men. I
Speaker 1: put some general thoughts on Twitter, and I want to
Speaker 1: expand upon those before giving you more detail on the
Speaker 1: workouts that really stood out and the context behind them.
Speaker 1: So just going in order of position groups here, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start with the offense and the qbs,
Speaker 1: which we know Miami's not probably in the quarterback market,
Speaker 1: especially at the top of the draft. You know, I
Speaker 1: think the quarterback market they would be in would involve
Speaker 1: veteran backup options. I don't envision a scenario where any
Speaker 1: top pick, or any pick from the Dolphins for that matter,
Speaker 1: is the backup quarterback next year. But you never know.
Speaker 1: As far as the quarterbacks in this year's class, though,
Speaker 1: I think the Anthony Richardson workout and tape juxtaposition brings
Speaker 1: the most important debate in the sport to the table.
Speaker 1: And this is where I want to go with this,
Speaker 1: because again we're not looking at quarterbacks in this year's
Speaker 1: draft class. But I go back and forth on this,
Speaker 1: and first, you guys that are daily listeners of the
Speaker 1: show know that I have been clamoring over this prospect
Speaker 1: since his first start at UF back in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 1: and that wasn't even necessarily for the game. Well, it
Speaker 1: was because he had like a fifty five year I
Speaker 1: touchdown run where he was the fastest person on the field,
Speaker 1: but the back handspring backflip he pulled off at halftime,
Speaker 1: I was watching that like that is a specimen. That
Speaker 1: is a guy that's going to jump forty inches in
Speaker 1: the vertical, probably run a four four, and give us
Speaker 1: more than ten feet on the broad jump. And sure enough,
Speaker 1: those were all the things that he did. Now, I
Speaker 1: didn't think exactly that, but with hindsight you can go
Speaker 1: back into piece those things together and it's the same
Speaker 1: thing that really, you know, I was so fascinated by
Speaker 1: Josh Allen. I remember thinking sending a DM to Mark
Speaker 1: Sessler of the Around the NFL podcast. I used to,
Speaker 1: you know, conversate with him quite frequently, just about random stuff,
Speaker 1: and he was a big Browns fan and he was
Speaker 1: really intrigued by that twenty eighteen class and I was
Speaker 1: telling him Baker Mayfield looks like a good prospect. Didn't
Speaker 1: really hit that one, but I did tell him Josh
Speaker 1: Allen was a guy that could change things for you.
Speaker 1: And I did the rock Pile Report podcast, a Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills podcast, and told hit them he's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy that, if you develop him correctly, can change the
Speaker 1: skyline in your city. And the Bills are building a
Speaker 1: new stadium, so he did do that already. And then
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes the other guy. I've told you guys about
Speaker 1: my exploits watching him in college football, just just wanting
Speaker 1: you know, always picked the Red Raiders to win games
Speaker 1: because they have Patrick Mahomes. He's that kind of player.
Speaker 1: So there's a parallel there between the athlete and the
Speaker 1: extended play guys. With those three I mentioned there, with
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes, those two, I should say,
Speaker 1: with Anthon Richriston being the third. But sure enough, that backflip,
Speaker 1: back handspring, all of that stuff translates to a four
Speaker 1: four forty, the best vertical jump by any quarterback ever,
Speaker 1: and a broad jump that was in that same territory,
Speaker 1: best among quarterbacks in this year's class. And I've seen
Speaker 1: this question post what does vertical jump even mean for
Speaker 1: a quarterback? Well, I saw this broken down by a
Speaker 1: guy on Twitter named bets. He does a lot of
Speaker 1: good like runfit content of former football coach Great follow.
Speaker 1: I think he changed his ap though, so it's not
Speaker 1: bets anymore. But I digress. Not important. He mentioned the
Speaker 1: rotational capacity and how it generates a greater window for
Speaker 1: success with the ability to do things physically that other
Speaker 1: players can't not so like his mechanical operation has more
Speaker 1: margin for error because of that athletic or the lack
Speaker 1: of athletic constraints. I should say if that makes sense,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense to me, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it does for y'all out there. But now that said,
Speaker 1: the tape had a lot of accuracy, inconsistencies and clips
Speaker 1: from the pocket that make you say, WHOA, what happened there?
Speaker 1: That was a pretty routine dig route that you sailed
Speaker 1: by five yards over his head. So the reason I
Speaker 1: go into this, and I saw this debated endlessly on Twitter,
Speaker 1: is the league is shifting more towards athletes over true
Speaker 1: pocket passers. Right, No, it's not like, Yeah, the athletic
Speaker 1: ability and extending of plays, that stuff is great, don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, But did you know that on roughly
Speaker 1: nine of NFL plays, the football is out in two
Speaker 1: and a half seconds, Like that doesn't incorporate any scrambling ability,
Speaker 1: any explosiveness. Only three quarterbacks this year average more than
Speaker 1: three seconds of time to throw on an average drop
Speaker 1: or average per drop back basis ensure the scrambles an
Speaker 1: extended plays throwing off platform makes the highlight reels, and
Speaker 1: that gets passed around Twitter and it becomes a narrative.
Speaker 1: And actually I heard Lance Zeroline talking about this both
Speaker 1: on Twitter and that same around the NFL podcast about
Speaker 1: how this draft community on Twitter posts the highlights and
Speaker 1: it creates these narratives that force the general public to
Speaker 1: have the wrong perception compared to the NFL, who thinks
Speaker 1: things differently because they have the entire body of work.
Speaker 1: But that's the problem with social media in sports and
Speaker 1: in life, Right, you just play your highlights, then someone's
Speaker 1: going to get the wrong idea of what your life
Speaker 1: is really. Like, I personally find more respect in someone
Speaker 1: that says, yeah, parenting is hard. Yeah, you know life
Speaker 1: is tough right now, Like it's not just my life
Speaker 1: is awesome all time. That's not how anybody lives. When
Speaker 1: they show that social media, that's a front for something. Right,
Speaker 1: and this isn't some referendum on Anthony Richardson. It's just
Speaker 1: general discussion that his game sparks because he's arguably the
Speaker 1: best athlete we've ever seen at the position, and there's
Speaker 1: lots of flashes on tape as well. But the truth remains,
Speaker 1: winning from the pocket is the best trade any quarterback
Speaker 1: and have. If we can start there and win that way,
Speaker 1: then you add the athletic ability. That's when it really pops.
Speaker 1: That's where it happened for Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: They've mastered the idea of playing the quarterback position against
Speaker 1: those two high shells that takeaway deep passing and you
Speaker 1: have to stay in the pocket against rush lane, contain
Speaker 1: and pick teams apart that way. Now we saw Mahomes
Speaker 1: master it, and really that was part of the Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill trade for them. They thought that he could play
Speaker 1: a different style of football. He proved it right. He's
Speaker 1: the best quarterback on the planet. He's the best quarterback
Speaker 1: to ever play. Go talk to a wall about it.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen had some struggles this year in that regard.
Speaker 1: He was not patient enough. He forced the issue down
Speaker 1: the field. He had the most giveaways and the most
Speaker 1: interceptible balls this year because he was not as patient,
Speaker 1: and I think that happens with maybe a little bit
Speaker 1: of a regressed weaponry. We saw that, you know, no
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Sanders, they you know, Cole Beasley was a shell
Speaker 1: of his former self and an absolute idiot. But you know,
Speaker 1: Stefon Diggs was the go to guy there and they
Speaker 1: didn't have that. That reliable number two is Gabe Davis.
Speaker 1: Kind of struggled on and off here and there. But
Speaker 1: if you can capture that lightning in a bottle with
Speaker 1: the Mahomes or Island style, that's great. But the fact
Speaker 1: is that those guys are more unicorns than the norm.
Speaker 1: It's why JaMarcus Russell didn't work out. It's why we'll
Speaker 1: see about Jordan Love. I still think he has all
Speaker 1: the upside in the world. I love his game. I
Speaker 1: think he's even more gifted than even you know, Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert was. It's why who else can we talk about here?
Speaker 1: I mean Malique Willis lash year was the same in
Speaker 1: terms of the traits and intangibles, but he couldn't play
Speaker 1: the position. He got replaced by Josh Dobbs, and essentially
Speaker 1: it was a playoff game for the Titans. So there's
Speaker 1: give and take, but ultimately, you know, with the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you have to be able to win from the pocket.
Speaker 1: That will never ever, ever, ever change. So with the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: I thought we saw some athletes. I thought we saw
Speaker 1: some live arms. But still, even after it all, I
Speaker 1: think my personal QB one CJ. Stroud, which tells you
Speaker 1: where I come down on this argument about traits versus tape,
Speaker 1: because what's his game pocket management and ball placement. I
Speaker 1: think the ultimate conclusion I personally have is this, give
Speaker 1: me all those fun traits that can open up the
Speaker 1: playbook and make the play caller right when the play
Speaker 1: call is wrong by extending or doing something off script.
Speaker 1: But first and foremost, give me the guy that can win,
Speaker 1: instructure and make the right decisions quickly. That's the important part,
Speaker 1: quickly making correct decisions, and that's why we go to
Speaker 1: the tape. It's an intriguing class this year. I think
Speaker 1: having multiple quarterbacks in the top ten range always makes
Speaker 1: for a more exciting draft, and we should get that
Speaker 1: this year. I personally think we see four go in
Speaker 1: the top ten, worst case scenario, top fifteen. As far
Speaker 1: as your top five athletic scores from Next Gen Stats.
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson had the maximum score in ninety nine. He's
Speaker 1: out of Florida. If you didn't know that already, Clayton
Speaker 1: Tune from Houston was an eighty nine second place, so
Speaker 1: ten points behind our leader. It's like a ten stroke
Speaker 1: lead at the Master's. Malik Cunningham from Louisville eighty nine
Speaker 1: as well. Will Levis from Kentucky another one of those
Speaker 1: top four guys wasn't eighty four, and Tyson Badgeant from
Speaker 1: Shephard wasn't eighty Now some more notes here. Richardson had
Speaker 1: the perfect ninety nine score that was the best in
Speaker 1: the entire class. The next four on that list were
Speaker 1: two corners, an offensive guard, and an edge. I thought
Speaker 1: you saw in this class easy gas on the football
Speaker 1: from Will Levis. Doesn't take much for him to get
Speaker 1: power and velocity behind the football. That's really all I had. CJ.
Speaker 1: Stroud was sharp, and he's the kind of guy that's
Speaker 1: gonna throw really well on the air because he is
Speaker 1: so sharp with the ball placement, accuracy and spin. I
Speaker 1: thought Levis showed the traits, and Richardson proved to be
Speaker 1: an absolute specimen that we all thought he would be.
Speaker 1: And I also thought Malie Cunningham's bund the football pretty
Speaker 1: well as well. Good spot for our first break there.
Speaker 1: That's not really dolphin centric, but I think it kind
Speaker 1: of is with the quarterback de baton and what really
Speaker 1: you look forward to position. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 1: our first break and comeback on the other side and
Speaker 1: talk about some more positions of need for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation back here on the Wednesday post
Speaker 1: Combine post alec Ingold Interview edition of the Driftime podcast.
Speaker 1: If you have not gone back and checked out that
Speaker 1: interview with Alec, please do so. It's I'm really proud
Speaker 1: of it. I tried to take his book and the
Speaker 1: lessons and weave them into the Miami Dolphins in his
Speaker 1: football life, and I think it was pretty successful. Go
Speaker 1: ahead and check it out and give me your thoughts
Speaker 1: and notes on that. Let's go to the running back
Speaker 1: position here, and again that was a fun debate for
Speaker 1: me for fifteen minutes there. I'll start the podcast, but
Speaker 1: let's get into some more Dolphins centric notes here and
Speaker 1: the running backs position. I mean, we don't have any
Speaker 1: running backs on the roster right now. That'll change, obviously.
Speaker 1: I'm sure some guys will be brought back. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can look at some existing veterans in the free
Speaker 1: agent market. But I think this draft class presents a
Speaker 1: real opportunity to get better, faster, and more explosive at
Speaker 1: the position. The real takeaway for me here is just
Speaker 1: the amount of speed that this position features. That's always
Speaker 1: been my preference at the position. You guys know about
Speaker 1: that if you listen to the podcast all the time.
Speaker 1: Guys who can make a well blocked play go from
Speaker 1: twelve yard games to seventy yard touchdowns. Whereheim mostart has
Speaker 1: that gear and that's why he's a priority for me
Speaker 1: to bring back. And we saw it a handful of
Speaker 1: times that you're the big run against the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: had that long touchdown against the Cleveland Browns. There was
Speaker 1: another long run somewhere else too, but I forget which
Speaker 1: game it was. This class has dudes that are like that.
Speaker 1: I think if you can compliment that and not lose
Speaker 1: that speed when you take Raheim out of the game,
Speaker 1: if you can't bring him back, would be a major,
Speaker 1: major boon for this offense. Running the football to me,
Speaker 1: is the next step this group has to take. You know,
Speaker 1: the offensive lines a big thing you debate about and
Speaker 1: bandied about, but the quarterback to me, really maximizes the
Speaker 1: offensive lines ability to protect. And we saw that with
Speaker 1: tah and without two the disparity and sacks allowed pressures, well,
Speaker 1: pressures are kind of the same, but TA was able
Speaker 1: to not convert those pressures into sacks or it was
Speaker 1: able to prevent them from being converted to sax And
Speaker 1: again like there's I saw a great tweet today Kyle
Speaker 1: Crabs retweeted it from Lockdown Dolphins, and the Dolphins were
Speaker 1: the fewest sacks allowed team in the NFL for nine
Speaker 1: years straight to Dan Marino stats sacks or a quarterback stats.
Speaker 1: So I think that that's a little bit overblown in
Speaker 1: terms of the past protection. You know, you're going to
Speaker 1: see it from the talking heads on ESPN and whatnot
Speaker 1: are going to tell you like, oh, they need better
Speaker 1: offensive line. Well, the quarterback makes up for a lot
Speaker 1: of that. That's why I think running the football can
Speaker 1: help keep the defense more honest and give you more
Speaker 1: balance to keep you more from developing tendencies. I think
Speaker 1: that has the biggest tangible impact on this offense. And
Speaker 1: so the most impressive thing I saw a week outside
Speaker 1: of to me, Darnell Washington from Georgia is the best
Speaker 1: player the Dolphins can add this offseason. We'll see if
Speaker 1: he's there when they pick in the second round. I
Speaker 1: don't think he will be again, going back to Kyle Krabs,
Speaker 1: he thinks he will be. I don't personally see it
Speaker 1: that way, but just his existence was the most impressive
Speaker 1: thing I saw in Indianapolis. But the second most impressive
Speaker 1: thing I saw was the feat of Jamir Gibbs, and
Speaker 1: it tracked with his tape at Alabama. I think those
Speaker 1: agility drills and the cut and decision point bag drills
Speaker 1: are as game day applicables anything you do on the
Speaker 1: field in Indianapolis. And just watch the way he keeps
Speaker 1: his feet under his body, or the way the body
Speaker 1: lean and the feet like stay consistently underneath him. That's
Speaker 1: where he's so explosive in and out of cuts and
Speaker 1: why he seems to accelerate when he hits it and goes.
Speaker 1: But he wasn't like alone in that regard. We saw
Speaker 1: b John Robinson just easy moving like he was so
Speaker 1: relaxed in that forty yard dash. He's gonna go easy
Speaker 1: top twenty, probably even higher than that. We saw a
Speaker 1: Deuce Vaughan moving like the jitterbug that he is, and
Speaker 1: how smooth he is as a pass catcher, like they're
Speaker 1: around that flat drill where they would catch routes in
Speaker 1: the flat and turn up field. And I really clamor
Speaker 1: every year about the easy transition from pass catcher to
Speaker 1: ball carrier and the way he was able to pluck it,
Speaker 1: put it away and get up field was just so
Speaker 1: smooth like you would see from a wide receiver. Him
Speaker 1: and Jamir Gibbs led all backs third down catches this
Speaker 1: last year in college football. How about the tracks beat
Speaker 1: of Devin a Chain. That guy is amazing. He was
Speaker 1: flirting with four two. He's a hell of a receiver.
Speaker 1: So is Taje Spears from Tulane, who killed the Trojans
Speaker 1: in the bowl game, had a great senior Bowl. Didn't
Speaker 1: run the forty, but I'm betting we get a four
Speaker 1: three guy when he runs it. As Pro Day, i
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see backs drafted in the third round
Speaker 1: in this year's class. They're going to be ultraproductive as rookies.
Speaker 1: It's a great class and a great time to have
Speaker 1: a need at running back in Miami right now has
Speaker 1: no running backs on the roster, but again that will change.
Speaker 1: Prior to the draft. Top five athletics scores here were
Speaker 1: Denitric Pierce, our Prince Rather from Tulsa eighty nine, b
Speaker 1: John Robinson, the best back in the class from Texas
Speaker 1: eighty five, Chase Brown from Illinois eighty two, our Guy
Speaker 1: Gibbs eighty one, and A Chain from A and M
Speaker 1: seventy nine. Those are top five backs in terms of
Speaker 1: the workouts. Spears Taj Spears. He would have been on
Speaker 1: that list if he had ran the forty, but he
Speaker 1: did not because he went thirty nine inches in the
Speaker 1: verse ten to five and the broad it's wild. He's
Speaker 1: so explosive and so powerful in the lower half, and
Speaker 1: it shows up in the way he passed protects and
Speaker 1: the way he plays in the contact as a runner inside.
Speaker 1: And then back to Gibbs, there was a cool comp
Speaker 1: you know, Jeremiah was tweeting up the printed out sheets
Speaker 1: of paper comping two players, and he's so good at that,
Speaker 1: but he was comping Jamir Gibbs to almost identical traits
Speaker 1: to Jamal Charles. He's one of my all time favorite backs.
Speaker 1: Five eleven compared to five nine and a half. You
Speaker 1: know Charles was five eleven. Both were two hundred pounds
Speaker 1: four three eight for Charles four to three six for Gibbs.
Speaker 1: Gibbs got him in the vert by three inches thirty
Speaker 1: three and a half to thirty and a half. And
Speaker 1: the play styles, to me is where it really shows
Speaker 1: the most, and it goes back to the feet. It
Speaker 1: all starts with the feat Both those guys were so smooth,
Speaker 1: so balanced, and so quick without losing that balance even
Speaker 1: through contact. Now I mentioned the offensive line. I think
Speaker 1: the Dolphins do need to add some pieces here, and
Speaker 1: Chris Greers mentioned that as well, some depth in competition.
Speaker 1: I think the big takeaway here is the number of
Speaker 1: athletes you have in this year's class. We've talked about
Speaker 1: McDaniel's commentary on retraining your brain to play O line
Speaker 1: in the scheme, how it's about firing off the football
Speaker 1: and laying fast more so than reactive. And this really
Speaker 1: tracks with the modern trend because each year the gap
Speaker 1: in athleticism between defensive line and offensive line. It grows
Speaker 1: like rather substantially too, and it probably happened again this year. However.
Speaker 1: Check out this tweet from underdog fantasies Josh Norris. He
Speaker 1: does a great content, by the way he writes. Since
Speaker 1: twenty ten, just twenty eight offensive lineman have recorded a
Speaker 1: four four seven short shuttle or better. At the combine,
Speaker 1: those twenty four players went on to start eighty four
Speaker 1: percent of their NFL games. Here's that list. Nate Solder,
Speaker 1: Anthony Costanzo, two great tackles, Andre Dillard go Coog's, but
Speaker 1: hasn't worked out for him so far. Eric Fisher number
Speaker 1: one overall pick. Great tackle, Zion Johnson a guy we're
Speaker 1: a big fan of last year. Jake Matthews, a franchise
Speaker 1: left tackle. Joel Betonio one of the best guards in football.
Speaker 1: Xavier sue Filo, same deal there, Ali Marpett, Jason Spriggs,
Speaker 1: James Daniels, Ezra Cleveland, Abe Lucas Go Coog's a solid
Speaker 1: right chacle, Rickie of the Sehaks last year, Joe Noteboom,
Speaker 1: Zach Tom an absolute monster rookie last year for the Packers,
Speaker 1: John Erschel, Joe Hague, Jason Kelsey, Hall of Famer David Questenberry,
Speaker 1: Jeff Baca, Matt Pardis, Chase Rouyer, and James Leno Junior.
Speaker 1: I mean, that is a great list of players who
Speaker 1: hit that threshold this year. Only John Gaines from UCLA,
Speaker 1: Boyse's John Ojoku and Ohio States Luke Wipler. We're within
Speaker 1: a half second of the threshold. Cody Mok and John
Speaker 1: Michael Schmidts within point nine seconds. And we've heard how
Speaker 1: impressive both they are athletically, and you see it on tape.
Speaker 1: For me, Match and Michael Schmidts are going to be
Speaker 1: good players on the interior offensive line. Those are options
Speaker 1: for you for Miami. I think possibly at pick fifty two.
Speaker 1: Match would also finished second behind Gains in the three
Speaker 1: cone seven three one to seven three three. It's a
Speaker 1: great number for both those guys, and then Blake Freeland
Speaker 1: was fourth at seven four to six. We saw Miami
Speaker 1: go get to Ron Armstead last year, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest athletes the position has ever seen. And that was
Speaker 1: true for Connor Williams at guard, even more true for
Speaker 1: him at center. Rob Hunt has for my money, a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl year last year. Go back and watch his
Speaker 1: Louisiana tape and he's the first guy off the football
Speaker 1: and just plays fast at all times. Austin Jackson is
Speaker 1: a great athlete as well, So you can see the
Speaker 1: idea percolating behind which guys might be the best fit
Speaker 1: for this offensive line, And yeah, they're somewhat rare, but
Speaker 1: you can see that there are more guys that hit
Speaker 1: that threshold than in most years, or at least came
Speaker 1: close to it. I mean it's pretty much one guy year,
Speaker 1: but the top five athletics score for tackles this year.
Speaker 1: Blake Freeland from BYU was eighty eight, Broderick Jones from
Speaker 1: Georgia was eighty five, Darnielle Right from Tennessee eighty five
Speaker 1: as well, Earl Bostick Junior from Kansas hit eighty two,
Speaker 1: and Jalen Duncan from Maryland hit eighty two. Among guards
Speaker 1: and centators, John Gaines was first obviously ninety eight. He
Speaker 1: led all offensive lineman. Sydney so from Eastern Michigan was
Speaker 1: eighty six. Nick Salad Verry from Old Dominion was eighty four,
Speaker 1: and John Ojoku from Boise State was eighty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got on both of those lists somehow. And then
Speaker 1: Luke Wipler from Ohio State eighty one. Just the general
Speaker 1: notes here, you know, I mentioned running back drills as
Speaker 1: being the most informative, those bag drills and applical being
Speaker 1: applicable to NFL games. I think the offensive line drills
Speaker 1: are a close second that old rabbit drill. Like now
Speaker 1: it's just a coach where it shows their movement skills
Speaker 1: and a kickslide, their change of direction to redirect, and
Speaker 1: just their overall fluidness. I thought you saw some guys
Speaker 1: show that they're heavy footed, but you also saw some
Speaker 1: smooth movers like Roderick Jones, who really checked the box
Speaker 1: from me here. You know, he locked up a spot
Speaker 1: in the first round, probably top twenty with that showing.
Speaker 1: But again, this is a class that has rare movement.
Speaker 1: And again to refer that Norris tweet back to the
Speaker 1: Jeremiah comps. You know for Jones, Rodrick Jones, Jack Conklin,
Speaker 1: they're separated by a fraction of height, three pounds in weight,
Speaker 1: a quarter inch arm length, same vertical and Jones best
Speaker 1: of the athletic score eighty five to eighty one. I
Speaker 1: mentioned Darnell Right ran the third fastest forty by an
Speaker 1: offensive Lineman who's over three hundred and thirty pounds since
Speaker 1: two thousand and three, he ran a five O one.
Speaker 1: If he's how is there at fifty two, he won't
Speaker 1: be run the card up unless it's darting L Washington.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my list of guys for fifty
Speaker 1: two here in a second. I think it's a good
Speaker 1: crop of guys who could go day two early day
Speaker 1: three to develop. Blake Freeland is a good example of that.
Speaker 1: I saw a great tweet that said, you're not drafting
Speaker 1: Blake Freeland for who he is today, but who you
Speaker 1: think he could be in three years. And that's perfect
Speaker 1: because I think he's got all the makings to be
Speaker 1: the next great wide zone tackle. His tape screams it,
Speaker 1: but it's not all refined just yet. Need some more
Speaker 1: season and needs some more NFL strength training, I think.
Speaker 1: And it's that's the case for most prospects unless you
Speaker 1: go like top ten. That's why you take guys on
Speaker 1: the top ten because they're polished products for the most part.
Speaker 1: But a sub five forty at that size with his
Speaker 1: jumping metrics have mercy. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 1: last break right there, and come back on the other
Speaker 1: side and do tight ends and wide receivers and move
Speaker 1: on to the defense side of the football. Long podcast today.
Speaker 1: That's next Drivetime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. I find it funny how I
Speaker 1: reduced down to three shows in the off season and
Speaker 1: then I wind up doing forty five minute shows that
Speaker 1: basically gives you five episodes a week as it is.
Speaker 1: Can't help myself. That's how it's gonna go on this
Speaker 1: podcast today as well. Let's go ahead and pick it
Speaker 1: back up at the tight end class. And I mean
Speaker 1: forgive me for this becoming the Darnielle Washington podcast, But
Speaker 1: did you guys see his sled work on the on
Speaker 1: field drills. There's a clip of him pushing a sled
Speaker 1: and I don't know how heavy those things are. There's
Speaker 1: one plate on the back of it, but I know
Speaker 1: the piping and the pads and it's all, you know,
Speaker 1: probably a couple one hundred pounds, but he pushes it
Speaker 1: with total ease eight yards down the field. Then they
Speaker 1: cut to some of the other tight ends out there
Speaker 1: pushing the same sled and it's a struggle for two
Speaker 1: or three yards and that's a carry over from the tape.
Speaker 1: Right He's the most dominant inline blocking tight end I've
Speaker 1: scouted since George Kittle. He's unreal and what a class
Speaker 1: this is. I think if it could cannibalize itself a
Speaker 1: little bit in the sense that teams could look back
Speaker 1: at their tight end kneed or whatever and see that
Speaker 1: there are five or six as they like, and think
Speaker 1: they can come back later and get one around after
Speaker 1: the fact without having a huge drop in talent and value.
Speaker 1: It's a fantasy football approach as well, like, oh, the
Speaker 1: running back classes deep right here, I'm gonna go ahead
Speaker 1: and pass right now. I'll come back on the backswing
Speaker 1: and get it, you know, and around later. Top five
Speaker 1: athletic scores here. Zack Coon's from UCLA ninety four, my
Speaker 1: guy d dubbed from Georgia ninety one, Sam Laporter from
Speaker 1: Iowa eighty six, Luke Musgrave from Oregon State was eighty six.
Speaker 1: That's about where he expected him to be, and then
Speaker 1: Will Mallory from Miami to Florida School eighty four. Darnell
Speaker 1: Washington clock to the fastest short shutow by a player
Speaker 1: weighing at least two hundred and sixty pounds since Frank
Speaker 1: Clark recorded a four oh five in twenty fifteen, Washington
Speaker 1: was four oh eight. It's just freaky, freaky movement skills.
Speaker 1: His six four to six four forty yard dash was
Speaker 1: the fourth fastest by a tight end, waging two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty plus pounds at the combine since h three
Speaker 1: four six four forty fourth fastest. How's that sound? His
Speaker 1: ten two broad was the second longest by a tight
Speaker 1: end in that time span as well, and only four
Speaker 1: tight ends since OZ six ran a faster twenty yards
Speaker 1: shuttle than Washington. Two of those guys were two hundred
Speaker 1: and forty one pounds. Two of them were two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty four pounds Washington's two sixty four at six
Speaker 1: foot seven. Different type of breed. The wide receivers, I
Speaker 1: think we saw the best prospects show their value from
Speaker 1: an athletic standpoint. Quinton Johnson from TCU is wide receiver
Speaker 1: one for me, and he went out there and solidified that.
Speaker 1: I was excited to see Zay Flowers go. And Daniel
Speaker 1: Jeremiah has a comp with him next to Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite receivers for the Seahawks fraction of
Speaker 1: an inch difference in height, both one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: two pounds four four two and a four four for Lockett,
Speaker 1: both thirty five and a half inches on the vertical.
Speaker 1: Both those guys will go in the first day of
Speaker 1: the draft. Top five athletic scores were Quinton Johnston from
Speaker 1: TCU ninety six, Jalen Higher from Tennessee eighty nine, He
Speaker 1: can scoot Man, Matt Landers from Arkansas eighty nine, Jackson
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba Ohio State eighty nine, and Bryce ford
Speaker 1: Week from West Virginia eighty eight. Jackson Smith and Jigbo
Speaker 1: recorded a three nine three short shuttle, which was the
Speaker 1: fastest buy a wide receiver since Brandon Cooks ran a
Speaker 1: three eight one back in twenty fourteen. Now that was
Speaker 1: before the podcast or before I became a podcaster, But
Speaker 1: there wasn't a bigger Brandon Cooks fan than I, and
Speaker 1: I love Jackson Smith and Jigbo. He's a first round pick,
Speaker 1: so it's not even a question we'll have to ask.
Speaker 1: But man, the thought of adding a player like him
Speaker 1: to Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill would be just an
Speaker 1: embarrassment of riches he would compliment those guys perfectly that
Speaker 1: play style. And it seems like every year there's always
Speaker 1: four or five positions where fans were like, oh, they're
Speaker 1: not going to go in that direction for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: or for any team, but just draft good players like
Speaker 1: that's always the way to go. That's why I want
Speaker 1: to talk about wide receivers in this draft process. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the good players, regardless of what position
Speaker 1: they play. Interior defensive line. Flipping over the defensive side
Speaker 1: of the football, Kalijah Canty had himself an Aaron Donald day.
Speaker 1: Didn't he fastest forty of any defensive tackle since O three,
Speaker 1: besting Donald, and the top athletics score of anyone in
Speaker 1: this class that Donald comp Both are six one two
Speaker 1: eighty one pounds for Kancy, two eighty five for Donald,
Speaker 1: four to six seven compared to four to six eight. Now,
Speaker 1: Cancy was six points shy of Donald's ninety eight athletics score,
Speaker 1: but the same jersey and helmet, both from Pitt. Top
Speaker 1: five guys among interior defensive line, Cancy was ninety four.
Speaker 1: Jalen Redman from Oklahoma was eighty nine. Moro Ojomo from
Speaker 1: Texas seventy eight, Tyler Lacy from Oklahoma State was seventy seven,
Speaker 1: and Keanu Benton from Wisconsin seventy six. I got we
Speaker 1: talked about a lot. I was curious to look at
Speaker 1: players in terms of their weight. They performed at the
Speaker 1: guys that had top performances with large weights because nose tackle,
Speaker 1: I think, because an area you'll look at who stands
Speaker 1: out there? But Keanu Betton, who goes three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds. We raised about him at Senior Bowl Week
Speaker 1: and those metrics at that size are impressive, But he
Speaker 1: might be a tweener. I'm not exactly sure where he lands.
Speaker 1: I think those numbers say true three technique in an
Speaker 1: even front, maybe even the one technique as well, because
Speaker 1: the five tech in an odd front probably aren't that big,
Speaker 1: and then a true nose is going to be close
Speaker 1: sort of three thirty or three forty. So how about
Speaker 1: Key Andrea Coburn from Texas, the former Longhorns three hundred
Speaker 1: and forty three pounds, eight five broad twenty seven and
Speaker 1: a half inch vertical that illustrates some rare power and explosion.
Speaker 1: Those nose tackles typically don't hear their name called until later,
Speaker 1: so I'm curious to see where he goes. But if
Speaker 1: you get back into like early day three and you
Speaker 1: can land at Coburn to be a thirty percent nose tackle,
Speaker 1: like that's a really good value in the middle of
Speaker 1: the draft. Just something to think about in terms of
Speaker 1: positional drafting and value at spots that you know. We
Speaker 1: talked about Ben Solak or with Ben Solack from The
Speaker 1: Ringer on last Friday's podcast, and he said, we have
Speaker 1: the cornerstones in place, now it's time to fill out
Speaker 1: the margins. Guys, like that is what you're talking about
Speaker 1: at the edge position. How crazy athletic is Nolan smith Man.
Speaker 1: We didn't see him play down the stretch this year
Speaker 1: at Georgia, but I still think he belongs to the
Speaker 1: top ten, especially after this workout. And Jeremiah compared him
Speaker 1: to Hassan Reddick. Smith is six two and a quarter
Speaker 1: compared to Reddick at six one, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: seven pounds. For both those guys, they both have twenty
Speaker 1: three and five eight or thirty three round in five
Speaker 1: eight inch arm length and they had seventy eight and
Speaker 1: seventy seven production scores in college. It's a next gen
Speaker 1: step and again back to the idea of athletes on
Speaker 1: the D line verse O line. This D line class
Speaker 1: average four six three in the forty yard dash. That
Speaker 1: was the fastest average of any edge group since two
Speaker 1: thousand and three. They just keep getting more athletic Top
Speaker 1: five scorecards at Tatamoie. Out of Bore from Northwestern was
Speaker 1: ninety seven. He was a freak. You saw him for sure.
Speaker 1: Yah yah d Yabe from Louisville ninety, Nolan Smith eighty five,
Speaker 1: Keyon White from g Tech was eighty four, and Byron
Speaker 1: Young from Tennessee was eighty two. Out of Barway was something.
Speaker 1: Wasn't the first rounder all day. He just blew up
Speaker 1: the combine. You get some really intriguing players in this
Speaker 1: crop that maybe showed you that they can play both
Speaker 1: off the ball as well as their position down on
Speaker 1: the edge. Sorting through twiners and finding out who can
Speaker 1: specialize right away is one of the tougher tasks GMS
Speaker 1: have coaches as well each year, especially this year. Let's
Speaker 1: move off the football to linebackers. Three guys had top
Speaker 1: of the line workouts. Then there was a little bit
Speaker 1: of a drop off. I was surprised my guy Daon
Speaker 1: Henley didn't register higher than this was wrong about his
Speaker 1: forty time, but you had one player really stand out
Speaker 1: above the rest, especially when you consider that his tape
Speaker 1: shows a three way player by way of Jack Campbell downhill,
Speaker 1: backwards and side to side. I saw him mocked in
Speaker 1: the second and sometimes third round, but I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be the first linebacker off the board after this workout.
Speaker 1: He's the only linebacker since O three who was sixty
Speaker 1: four or taller to jump more than thirty seven inches
Speaker 1: in the vert and ten foot eight on the broad
Speaker 1: and then also run a sub four seven. That's freaky traits.
Speaker 1: Your top five linebackers and athletic score was Campbell at
Speaker 1: eighty nine, Owen Papo from Auburn at eighty nine, Trenton
Speaker 1: Simpson from Clemson eighty eight, then our drop off to
Speaker 1: Anthony Orgy from Vandy eighty three, and Dorian Williams, who's
Speaker 1: an absolute thumper at two lane. He was eighty one.
Speaker 1: Back to Henley, it wasn't It was really just the
Speaker 1: forty that I was that was lower than I thought
Speaker 1: it was going to be. But the rest was great.
Speaker 1: Thirty five inch vertical, ten five broad Both of those
Speaker 1: were top five among linebackers. He's explosive as hell, and
Speaker 1: those stats show that at cornerback just an unbelievably impressive class.
Speaker 1: I keep going back to Juju Brents, Julius Brents from
Speaker 1: Kansas State. He came out this out of this as
Speaker 1: the ultimate protype for the position, maybe even a slot
Speaker 1: cornerback with rare, rare length to play inside. And that's
Speaker 1: after a great week in Mobile for the Senior Bowl.
Speaker 1: And granted this is with a four or five forty,
Speaker 1: but he destroyed the change of direction metrics a shuttle
Speaker 1: right around four seconds, a three cone under seven seconds,
Speaker 1: that's like Tyreek hilledlet numbers. Those times, paired with his
Speaker 1: play style of aggressiveness and length, gives him a chance
Speaker 1: to end the rep immediately and then if he misses initially,
Speaker 1: the chance to recover, so two chances to win the rep.
Speaker 1: It's like going forward on fourth down, right, you give
Speaker 1: yourself a chance to win on offense and then on
Speaker 1: defense on the back end. We like different ways to
Speaker 1: win games. Top five athletic scores Deontay Banks from Maryland
Speaker 1: ninety eight. DJ Turner from Michigan ninety seven. Both those
Speaker 1: guys were top five across the entire group. Jakorey and
Speaker 1: Bennett also from Maryland ninety six athletes up there in
Speaker 1: the DMV, Christian Gans from Organ eighty eight and Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Forbes from Mississippi State was eighty six. This was the
Speaker 1: most impressive group of the week. The speed, the change
Speaker 1: of direction. It's a great offset to all the talent
Speaker 1: we've seen end to the league at wide receiver over
Speaker 1: the last few years. And Daniel Jeremiah, who we can
Speaker 1: now call a friend of the podcast by the way,
Speaker 1: has been saying for years on move the sticks that
Speaker 1: encourage your kids to flip over to corner from wide receiver,
Speaker 1: because with all these passing camps and all these kids
Speaker 1: that are playing receiver, it generates tons of talent at
Speaker 1: that position, but the cornerback position has not been as popular.
Speaker 1: And you have a faster route to scholarships NFL playing
Speaker 1: time if you play that spot. And he said, you
Speaker 1: think that's starting to happen here a little bit, and
Speaker 1: this class is evident of that. Joey Porter Junior is
Speaker 1: a first round pick for days, and I love his
Speaker 1: game and I love the game that moved the sticks
Speaker 1: plays where if you can't get that guy in the
Speaker 1: first round, who's an analog that might be available to
Speaker 1: get later on. Well again, how about this side by
Speaker 1: side from Porter and Brents a quarter inch difference in height,
Speaker 1: five pounds in weight. Both have thirty four inch arms
Speaker 1: you can scrag your knee standing up, and Brents has
Speaker 1: Porter in the wingspan eighty two and five eights to
Speaker 1: eighty and seven eights. And to clarify, Brent is on
Speaker 1: the high end of all those comps, so he's more
Speaker 1: physically imposing than Joey Porter Jr. Christian Gonzalez hit the
Speaker 1: elite threshold for next Gen in the forty yard dash
Speaker 1: with a four three eight and a forty one and
Speaker 1: a half inch vertical. He's going to be long gone
Speaker 1: by the time we pick. But my guy, Trevius Hodges
Speaker 1: Thomlinson and acquitted himself nicely thirty nine inch vertical, eleven
Speaker 1: foot broad and four four one forty. That might have
Speaker 1: pushed him in the high day two, maybe even out
Speaker 1: of our range. But I think he's a shot going
Speaker 1: round one as well. I like his game a heck
Speaker 1: of a lot. How about his four four one being
Speaker 1: bested by seven corners, and in that group, I think
Speaker 1: there's at least five Day one, Day two picks. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna see some cornerbacks on the board in
Speaker 1: the middle of the second round that would be first
Speaker 1: round picks most years. And back to that tight end conversation,
Speaker 1: maybe the value gets depressed a little bit because there's
Speaker 1: so many of them. That's good news for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: at both those positions and the running back positions. Three
Speaker 1: areas of need right now. Safety Top five athletics scorer
Speaker 1: Sydney Ground from Illinois eighty nine, Jason Taylor not that
Speaker 1: guy Oklahoma State eighty eight, Daniel Scott from cal eighty seven,
Speaker 1: Brandon Hill from pitt was eighty one, and Chamari Connor
Speaker 1: from Virginia Tech was seventy eight. Interesting, ye're here for
Speaker 1: the safety position. I'm not crazy about the draft class,
Speaker 1: and it has become so much of a matchup specialty
Speaker 1: position as there is really in the league. It's why
Speaker 1: I think we're so lucky to have Javon Holland, because
Speaker 1: he can truly specialize in anything you do in a
Speaker 1: given week. You need thirty snaps in the post, got it,
Speaker 1: need him to rush the edge fifteen times. Done want
Speaker 1: to have him matchup in the slot, tight end, quarterbacks
Speaker 1: by good. I can do those two. But also back
Speaker 1: to the draft, this free agent class at safety is
Speaker 1: arguably the best one out there, and so I wonder
Speaker 1: how those two things kind of play off each other.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the free agent class and the Friday
Speaker 1: Monday podcast. But Jesse bateson Von Bell, Chauncey Gardner, Johnson,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer. It's four really good players, four Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: level players with four different skill sets. Lots to like there.
Speaker 1: As for the draft guys, five guys under four or five,
Speaker 1: which is pretty good for the position. Sidney Brown checking
Speaker 1: in at four four seven was what we expected and
Speaker 1: wanted to see from him. I think he's the best
Speaker 1: matchup guy in the class. He can cover, man up
Speaker 1: against tight ends and backs. His teammate jar Terius Martin
Speaker 1: topped his score there. Then Brandon Hill and Daniel Scott
Speaker 1: from Pitt and Cal respectively. It was the same cast
Speaker 1: in the Verton broad leader board, and sure enough, those
Speaker 1: guys are all big hitters. Two those two things typically correlate.
Speaker 1: I was gonna go around the web here to finish
Speaker 1: the podcast up, but there's not much out there from
Speaker 1: a dolphin's perspective, which tends to be the case where
Speaker 1: you're not part of the top. You know, ten picks,
Speaker 1: twenty five picks, fifty picks. But here's Peter King's Football
Speaker 1: Morning in America. Daniel Jeremiah's three workout takeaways. C J. Stroud,
Speaker 1: Ohio State quarterback at six three two fourteen best peer
Speaker 1: passer in the draft, and he had what I would
Speaker 1: call a graceful workout. I've been to workouts that are overpowering.
Speaker 1: Stroud was smooth and natural. He's a born thrower. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's what quarterbacking is all about. And decision making. Number
Speaker 1: two Klijah Cancy from pitt Not often a players taller
Speaker 1: than advertised at his event, but Cancy was delivered on
Speaker 1: the explosive this we thought we'd see in a passing league.
Speaker 1: A disruptive player like this won't get out of the
Speaker 1: first round. And then Charlie Jones, wide receiver from Purdue
Speaker 1: five seventy five. Not a great receiver year, but he
Speaker 1: ran fast four four three and had a phenomenal overall workout,
Speaker 1: might have worked himself into the third round. So just
Speaker 1: kind of random notes there from Daniel Jeremiah. Lastly, here
Speaker 1: I wanted to list some guys I think start to
Speaker 1: make sense to kind of round out your short list
Speaker 1: or your big board. It's tough to do it at
Speaker 1: fifty two compared to years past doing it at six
Speaker 1: or eighteen or whatever it might be. But how about
Speaker 1: guys that can both impact twenty twenty three and be
Speaker 1: immediate contributors but also long term fixtures. Now maybe all
Speaker 1: these guys are gone, but today this list to me
Speaker 1: looks like this. Running back Jamir Gibbs, tight end Darnell Washington.
Speaker 1: Four guys on the offensive line, Broderick Jones, Darnell Wright,
Speaker 1: Cody Match and John Michael Schmidt's I think all of
Speaker 1: them will be gone, but those are the guys that
Speaker 1: if any of them fall, I'm going to debate for
Speaker 1: a long time to draft them. Linebacker Jack Campbell, cornerbacks
Speaker 1: Julius Brentz and Trevius Hodges, Thomlinson. And then some additional
Speaker 1: names and maybe your day three targets or guys that
Speaker 1: you might see sneaking up in that range. That range.
Speaker 1: Running back two lanes Taje Spears, Kansas State's duce vam
Speaker 1: Illinois's Chase Brown tight end. I just don't think I
Speaker 1: like the blocking ability of anybody anywhere near what Darnell
Speaker 1: Washington gives you. Maybe Tucker Craft on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Matthew bergeron from Syracuse, Linebacker day On Henley from Washington State,
Speaker 1: Go Coogs, and then the cornerback position, Keiley Ringo from Georgia,
Speaker 1: and Emmanuel Forbes from Mississippi State. All right, that's a podcast.
Speaker 1: Friday and Monday are going to crack into the top
Speaker 1: one oh one free agent list from Greg Rosenthal NFL
Speaker 1: dot com. I'll talk about what stands out from that
Speaker 1: list as we get closer and closer to the new
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