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Speaker 4: What is up, golf fans and welcome to the Drive
Speaker 4: Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering
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Speaker 2: How's it going everybody?
Speaker 4: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today show
Speaker 4: a fun one for you guys. Dolphins running back him
Speaker 4: stopped by the podcast studio. We're gonna talk to him
Speaker 4: about the season so far and also his event coming
Speaker 4: up next Friday at Spare Lanes in Davy for the
Speaker 4: benefit of the youth down here in South Florida. Also,
Speaker 4: we'll go ahead and Welcome in Kyle Krabs for five
Speaker 4: on Finn's draft. At the end of the show, we'll
Speaker 4: also here from head coach Mike McDaniels, some locker room chatter,
Speaker 4: and a whole lot more from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 4: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Maggie Daffy, Please.
Speaker 4: Give a warm welcome to my guest today, Dolphins running
Speaker 4: back Raheem Moster.
Speaker 2: What up?
Speaker 4: Dolphins? Welcome back into the Draft Time Podcast. Very special
Speaker 4: guest today, Dolphins running back Raheem Moster. Raheem, first time
Speaker 4: in here since we signed you. Welcome back into the studio.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you having me. Man, it's a it's an honor.
Speaker 2: I'm glad to have you back in. So how are you feeling?
Speaker 4: What's what's how you feeling for four weeks into the
Speaker 4: season here kind of getting things.
Speaker 1: Rolling, feeling pretty good. Just got to, you know, get
Speaker 1: back to that street that we were on. But you know,
Speaker 1: it starts this week against the Giants and then we'll
Speaker 1: see what what is like. You know, I asked me
Speaker 1: the question, you know five or six weeks from now.
Speaker 4: Every single week, right, it's always a new thing every
Speaker 4: single week. But one thing I always ask you about
Speaker 4: when we have press conferences and just around the building
Speaker 4: is like, man, how you feel with the knee second
Speaker 4: you're off the injury. You talked about that a little
Speaker 4: bit recently about how you felt just more comfortable, more trust.
Speaker 4: Thank me. I kind of wanted to get an update
Speaker 4: on that in terms of how you feel coming off
Speaker 4: the injury a couple.
Speaker 2: Of years ago.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean the knee is wonderful. You know. I try
Speaker 1: to maintain it as best as I possibly can, you know,
Speaker 1: stay active in the training room. And I even got
Speaker 1: it a guy that I go and see off off
Speaker 1: the premise to give me right, so shout out to Stefan.
Speaker 1: But it's all good, man. I try to do my
Speaker 1: best to maintain it and just try to grow and
Speaker 1: get stronger.
Speaker 2: So you're feeling pretty fast these days?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Where you rank on the four by team that we
Speaker 2: got out there?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 4: For my team, I'm like one, two, three, four. Who's
Speaker 4: the one that you would say would be give you
Speaker 4: the biggest challenge?
Speaker 1: You think? Definitely? Yah, yeah, yeah, he'll give me a challenge.
Speaker 1: But also Vaughn and you know, even even Jadu. We'll
Speaker 1: see Jayalen Waddel.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean it's a toss up, honestly. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's fun for us to watch his fans. Man, you
Speaker 4: guys doing your thing out there, just running a bunch
Speaker 4: of touchdowns and run a super fast at the five
Speaker 4: top speeds in the NFL this year. You guys, what
Speaker 4: do you guys think about that when you see that?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you see that status like mind boggling
Speaker 1: that we have like, legit, four guys, five guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: six guys that can compete in that category and to
Speaker 1: be able to hold all those you know, the top fives.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's just remarkable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 4: Man. One of the things I've been tracking this entire
Speaker 4: season is, you know, the second year and Mike McDaniel's
Speaker 4: offense as a head coach. Obviously he's got plenty of
Speaker 4: experience around the National Football League, but it just seems
Speaker 4: like you guys came out of the gates this year, clicking.
Speaker 4: How would you say that second year now that you
Speaker 4: have four games worth of you know, evidence of it
Speaker 4: has kind of taken hold this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if you see what you know Mike's doing,
Speaker 1: McDaniel's doing. I mean, he's doing unbelievable things. He's utilizing
Speaker 1: the speed as best as possible. I mean, I believe
Speaker 1: that he's he's growing into his own when he's doing
Speaker 1: everything that he possibly can to be a better play caller,
Speaker 1: and he's just going out there and having fun and
Speaker 1: he's putting us in position to have fun and win games.
Speaker 1: So it is a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So you mentioned him kind of growing into his own.
Speaker 4: How have you seen him kind of take not I
Speaker 4: don't want to say ownership of the head coaching position,
Speaker 4: because he was obviously that last year, but just the
Speaker 4: growth that you get naturally from a second year in position,
Speaker 4: obviously that kind of happened for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for a guy like him, you know, coming into
Speaker 1: a second year. I think that the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: that he's being able to relax a little bit more
Speaker 1: on his play calling, but he's also understanding the importance
Speaker 1: of better play calling during the game and he knows that.
Speaker 1: You know, he has to be comfortable. I think that's
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. You know, you have to be subtle,
Speaker 1: you have to become I mean, it's just like playing
Speaker 1: when you're on the field, you don't you're gonna get
Speaker 1: anxious and stuff like that, and and ultimately you don't
Speaker 1: want to mess up or uh we call it screw
Speaker 1: the pooch, you know. But at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: it's all about just going out there and competing and
Speaker 1: having fun. And he wants to be the best play
Speaker 1: caller to ever do it. So who's like, who's anybody
Speaker 1: to you know, knock that. At least for us, We're
Speaker 1: gonna go out there and we're trying to help him
Speaker 1: be the best play caller by you know, maximizing those
Speaker 1: plays as we best possibly can.
Speaker 4: It's cool to get your perspective because you've been with
Speaker 4: him for so long now, but it's only your second
Speaker 4: year here. But correct me if I'm wrong here, But
Speaker 4: you're kind of one of the old heads in the
Speaker 4: locker room at this point.
Speaker 2: I'm a pretty young football team.
Speaker 4: How have you kind of taken hold of that ownership
Speaker 4: role that you are not ownership leadership role that you
Speaker 4: possess on this team obviously?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean guys come up to me and they
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of questions. You know, I have
Speaker 1: a lot of experience I'm going into year nine. Well
Speaker 1: I can't say I'm going into you and I'm in
Speaker 1: there now. But honestly, the guys come up and then
Speaker 1: if they have questions, I'm an answer. Like you know,
Speaker 1: they have off the field questions, and you know, how
Speaker 1: to be a father or how to you know, be
Speaker 1: a husband? And what do you do during your spare time?
Speaker 1: You know, how do you relax? How do you decompress
Speaker 1: from a game? I just try to give all my
Speaker 1: keys and tibis as you know, best as possible, so
Speaker 1: that way, you know, the next next guy can get
Speaker 1: answer those same questions when somebody else is asking them
Speaker 1: when they get older, on the older guy on the team.
Speaker 4: So so from our perspective, is content people, fans, all
Speaker 4: of that stuff. It seems like you guys have so
Speaker 4: much fun together as a team. Where do you think
Speaker 4: that comes from? Like why do you think this team
Speaker 4: is just gelling so well together in terms of how
Speaker 4: they all get along?
Speaker 1: I mean, if you think about like what guys are
Speaker 1: doing on the field together, right, we're all battling, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all competing against other teams. We're we're putting our
Speaker 1: next on the line to to be a better version
Speaker 1: for the next man, you know, and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: But I think it's more important that the guys utilize
Speaker 1: off the field, you know, going to dinners together. I
Speaker 1: know that, me and Justin Bethel and a bunch of
Speaker 1: other guys, we've taken our kids to countless events, whether
Speaker 1: it be Monster Jam you know, we did. We even
Speaker 1: did Disney on Ice a couple of weeks ago, when
Speaker 1: we thought that was pretty cool. I mean, I didn't
Speaker 1: think I would be a fan of Disney on Ice
Speaker 1: just because it's like, but honestly, it was like the
Speaker 1: coolest thing ever was Yeah.
Speaker 2: What was there?
Speaker 4: My daughter is huge into she wore the Marabelle dress.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, she was saying all.
Speaker 1: The princesses yes on ice and stuff like that. Man,
Speaker 1: it was honestly, it was a great time. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: my boys loved it and they were they were calling
Speaker 1: out the cars and all that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got made it running around and it was
Speaker 1: pretty cool. So just trying to utilize those opportunities, you know,
Speaker 1: off the field, to to have a better connection with
Speaker 1: the guys, you know, who you're battling with, I think
Speaker 1: that that's the most important thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, We love seeing you guys celebrate to go on
Speaker 4: team as a group celebrations. But I still contend that
Speaker 4: the surf right in the wave is the best celebration,
Speaker 4: not just in the Miami Dolphins, but in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I'm a West Coast guy and I love the beach.
Speaker 4: But I'm I gotta ask you the new New Sumurta
Speaker 4: beach right Yeah, where the heck are the waves down here?
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 2: I can't ever found a wave on the Atlantic Ocean yet.
Speaker 1: Oh man, you gotta go down. You gotta go to
Speaker 1: New Smurny Beach and check them out. We have a
Speaker 1: we have a we call it a jetty. It's uh inlet. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's a strip of rocks that you know can create
Speaker 1: waves a little bit better than you know most areas.
Speaker 1: I know that Cocoa Beach is also a good place
Speaker 1: to surf. That's where Kelly Slaters from Kelly Slater shout
Speaker 1: out of Kelly Slater, that's my that's my guy right there.
Speaker 1: He's a really good friend of mine. So he's invited
Speaker 1: me to come surf with him over in his hometown.
Speaker 1: And they also produced some good waves.
Speaker 4: So the real reason we have you in here is
Speaker 4: talk about your foundation today. You know, surfing, you're a
Speaker 4: little bit of a golfer as well, but also some
Speaker 4: more non football sports bowling. Right, are you a pretty
Speaker 4: good buler?
Speaker 1: I'm fairly pretty good with my average. It's about like
Speaker 1: a one fifty. Pretty yeah, one fifty. I was. I
Speaker 1: was close to like one nineties, but then I broke
Speaker 1: my arm. Sure, so I lost a little bit of
Speaker 1: touch on that. But yeah, all good.
Speaker 4: So let's talk about the event, and you're coming up here.
Speaker 4: So it's gonna be next Friday, Spars.
Speaker 1: Yeah, spars, Lane and Davy, and it's going to be
Speaker 1: started at six o'clock. And it's My foundation is Waves
Speaker 1: of Success Foundation. You know, I created it to give
Speaker 1: the opportunity to under underprivileged kids, uh, to be able
Speaker 1: to have resources and connections and you know, just to
Speaker 1: have a good time. I mean, because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of kids that don't necessarily have the means or funds
Speaker 1: to to you know, do what they want to do
Speaker 1: to be successful. And that's why I created you know,
Speaker 1: Waves of Success. There's many different ways to be successful.
Speaker 1: And so the bowling event, you know, where I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna host about one hundred kids. Yeah, and the whole,
Speaker 1: the whole bowling allies are going to be reserved. And
Speaker 1: you know, I'm invite some teammates. I know, Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: he came last year, Alec came, a whole bunch of
Speaker 1: guys came and support. So I'm I'm pretty sure there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot more you know, guys on the
Speaker 1: team that gonna want to go. But it's just it's
Speaker 1: just a way to have, you know, a good connection
Speaker 1: with the kids, to stay involved, to give them opportunity.
Speaker 1: I even give out backpacks and stuff like that, you know,
Speaker 1: supplies and everything for them, and they just they love it.
Speaker 1: I Mean they come out and they see who's there
Speaker 1: and next thing, you know, it just puts a smile
Speaker 1: on their face and they get pizza, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's just a night to have have fun and connect
Speaker 1: with you know, with celebrities, with stars and great minded people.
Speaker 4: So what was your inspiration behind creating the foundation and
Speaker 4: this invent in particular.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the inspiration came behind you know, me growing up,
Speaker 1: I didn't have the you know, I was one of
Speaker 1: those kids that didn't have the necessary means and so
Speaker 1: for me, I wanted to change the narrative. I wanted
Speaker 1: to go ahead and use my platform for the better
Speaker 1: good and help create a foundation that you know, epitomized
Speaker 1: what I went through when I was younger. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't have a role model to look after, I
Speaker 1: look up to. I didn't have the means. I mean,
Speaker 1: I had to earn a full rise scholarship to go
Speaker 1: to Purdue University, and I'm blessed that I was able
Speaker 1: to do that. But I also utilized it too. You know,
Speaker 1: I got a business management degree. So a lot of
Speaker 1: things came out of you know, just me working hard.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of kids out there that don't,
Speaker 1: you know, have those role models to push them to
Speaker 1: that next level. And so I wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to be that advocate for those kids to say, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know, you're not alone. You could be whoever you
Speaker 1: want to be, whatever you want to do. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be a professional athlete, you don't have to
Speaker 1: be a celebrity. You could still be a prominent lawyer,
Speaker 1: you know, you could be a podcast guy who's doing
Speaker 1: great things like yourself. You know. So I mean it's
Speaker 1: just it's just going out there and doing what you
Speaker 1: love to do and just putting your all into it.
Speaker 1: I think that that's the most important, you know message
Speaker 1: going going along with that.
Speaker 4: This is your second you're doing it here obvious since
Speaker 4: your second your team, right, So did it come over
Speaker 4: from the Bay Area or did you This.
Speaker 1: Is the first time. It was the first time I
Speaker 1: brought it last year. I was like, hey, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to start doing some more things. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to tap into my roosts. I'm a Florida guy,
Speaker 1: born and raised here, So what better way than to
Speaker 1: come back home and actually start my foundation the way
Speaker 1: I want it, you know, in my home state, on
Speaker 1: home soil, and just go out there and just have fun,
Speaker 1: you know, just give up, like I said, give a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of opportunities.
Speaker 4: You know, my guy in the post game show or
Speaker 4: to MCDUFFI, you know, yeh was right. You know, he's
Speaker 4: kind of blowing event at spars as well. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure what time of year it is. I did a
Speaker 4: couple of years ago. I'll tell you that story. We
Speaker 4: get off there.
Speaker 2: He's kind of funny, but do you think he is
Speaker 2: he coming out to you?
Speaker 1: He went last year. Okay, yeah, yeah, I appreciate him
Speaker 1: for coming last year. I think he's coming this year again,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm banking on him coming because he's He's man,
Speaker 1: that's my guy. He's like best, He's the best. OJ
Speaker 1: is the best man. He comes with a lot of
Speaker 1: energy and he really competes to try to beat the kids. Hey,
Speaker 1: you gotta take it easy, man, they're kids too. He's like,
Speaker 1: I want to win. I'm like, I know you want
Speaker 1: to win. We all want to win, trust me.
Speaker 4: So we could just see that passion in the radio
Speaker 4: station too. He's always very fired up when we win games.
Speaker 4: So he's he's very into everything he does there. Well,
Speaker 4: last time was the.
Speaker 1: Date of the event, October thirteenth, Okay, at six o'clock
Speaker 1: at Spars Lanes and d be there. Thanks for appreciate,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, man, Thank you.
Speaker 4: And away he goes. One of my favorite people in
Speaker 4: the entire building. Raheem Moster. We're gonna take our first
Speaker 4: break right there and come back on the other side
Speaker 4: and talk about a player the Dolphins just acquired. In
Speaker 4: the wide receiver room, we'll hear from head coach Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel do the Friday d Tour and welcome in Kyle
Speaker 4: Krabs for his Finns Draft in five. All of that
Speaker 4: coming up on the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 4: brought to you by I Don't Nation. Some news on
Speaker 4: a Friday mornings. The Dolphins have acquired wide receiver Chase
Speaker 4: Claypool from the Chicago Bears. It's a late round pick
Speaker 4: swap and it's from the twenty twenty five NFL Draft,
Speaker 4: so you won't even see the fruit of this labor
Speaker 4: for the draft picks, I should say, until two drafts
Speaker 4: from now. The Dolphins send their twenty five sixth round
Speaker 4: draft pick to the Chicago Bears for their twenty five
Speaker 4: seventh round draft pick, and you know, top back end
Speaker 4: of the sixth round, top part of the seventh round.
Speaker 4: This could be a pretty close picks together, well, with
Speaker 4: compicks in between, but you get what I'm saying here,
Speaker 4: and look, it's a flyer on a player that didn't
Speaker 4: work out for the Chicago Bears. They sent the thirty
Speaker 4: second pick in the traft for Claypool last year to
Speaker 4: the Steelers and it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: Obviously.
Speaker 4: He got just four balls this year for fifty one
Speaker 4: yards and has been inactive for the last couple of
Speaker 4: weeks after a reporter asked him at his locker if
Speaker 4: the Bears are correctly utilizing his skills and he said no,
Speaker 4: and that essentially put him on the an active list,
Speaker 4: And there's been concerns about the effort in terms of
Speaker 4: how hard he plays for the Bears. And hopefully this
Speaker 4: second chance here, I guess, third chancer, maybe last chance
Speaker 4: for Claypool in Miami could potentially spark a fire underneath him.
Speaker 4: He comes into a receiver room that has guys that
Speaker 4: will not stand for less than the standard with Wes Welker,
Speaker 4: tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle. You also currently are down River Craycraft,
Speaker 4: who's going to miss at least three more games, and
Speaker 4: Eric Azukama on the NFI list. Who knows when he
Speaker 4: could potentially be available again. McDaniel mentioned he doesn't believe
Speaker 4: it's season ending, but they do not know yet on
Speaker 4: that injury for Azukama.
Speaker 2: So you were a little bit.
Speaker 4: Thin at receiver compared to what you came into the
Speaker 4: year with, and now you add a body type who
Speaker 4: is like something the Dolphins just don't have on the
Speaker 4: roster six foot four, two hundred and thirty five pounds.
Speaker 4: He ran a four to four to two back at
Speaker 4: the combine when he came out very athletically gifted, very
Speaker 4: talented player who showed you that talent from the jump.
Speaker 2: In Pittsburgh. I remember that first year.
Speaker 4: During the pandemic season, when it was like, all right,
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh did it again. They found another non first round
Speaker 4: wide receiver who is very, very good as he caught
Speaker 4: sixty two for eight seventy three and nine touchdowns that year.
Speaker 2: And I think about that production down on the red zone.
Speaker 4: Maybe, you know, it's tough to pick up this offense
Speaker 4: for anybody, but coming in for you know, mid season
Speaker 4: could be a bit of a challenge. But what if
Speaker 4: you have something where in the red zone you have
Speaker 4: a big body blocker and a guy that can you know,
Speaker 4: when you have Tyreek and Jalen on the field, who
Speaker 4: you're gonna double cover.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be Claypool.
Speaker 4: Maybe he goes out and catches some high points and
Speaker 4: score some touchdowns down in the red zone where the
Speaker 4: Dolphins offense. If there's been one thing they've struggled with
Speaker 4: this season, and I wouldn't even call it a struggle,
Speaker 4: but compare to how the rest of the offense operates,
Speaker 4: it's probably in the low red zone and so adding
Speaker 4: a big body receiver. We saw a fade to Tyreek
Speaker 4: in the Charger game that was awesome, a game winner.
Speaker 4: But we saw a back shoulder fade last week against
Speaker 4: Buffalo to Tyreek again or no, was that Denver? It
Speaker 4: was a Denver game right now, I'm forgetting. I think
Speaker 4: it was Buffalo. The two point conversion that we just
Speaker 4: didn't convert on. Maybe you throw fades to Claypool now.
Speaker 4: So I think there's options for potential specific roles for him,
Speaker 4: and then if he winds up clicking and figuring it out,
Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, you have a pretty good
Speaker 4: number three to go along with your two speed demons
Speaker 4: in Tyreek and Jalen Waddle. But second round draft pick
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty nine touchdowns that rookie season, followed that
Speaker 4: up with a really good twenty twenty one season fifty
Speaker 4: nine for eight to sixty.
Speaker 2: Albeit just two touchdowns.
Speaker 4: But then when he was sent to the Bears mid
Speaker 4: season last year, it just didn't click. Now, he did
Speaker 4: play against US and back to back games for Pittsburgh
Speaker 4: and Chicago, and he I think he lost.
Speaker 2: Someone in the Pittsburgh game. I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 4: Maybe it was the Chicago now I can't remember, but anyway,
Speaker 4: maybe he showed showed well in those games with the Dolphins.
Speaker 4: It's like, hey, that guy's got some skills there. Just
Speaker 4: got again four balls for fifty one this year and
Speaker 4: acted the last couple of weeks. And coming out of college,
Speaker 4: he was billed as an above the rim type of
Speaker 4: talent we'll hear from Kyle Krabs here in a minute
Speaker 4: on his scouting report coming out of college. But his
Speaker 4: ability to win vertically at the catch point made him
Speaker 4: that explosive option, especially that kind of big body slot receiver.
Speaker 2: Plays a lot inside.
Speaker 4: And then again if he can put it all together
Speaker 4: and get the effort there, the blocking ability I think
Speaker 4: will go a long way for this football team. So
Speaker 4: the talent is immense, the compensation is not. We'll find
Speaker 4: out what happens there with Chase Claypool. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and take our Friday dtour now as we look at
Speaker 4: a certain topic that I have deemed interesting for the
Speaker 4: football team, and this week I'm looking at, is there
Speaker 4: such a good thing as a good loss, and I
Speaker 4: don't think there is. But I think back to the
Speaker 4: two thousand and nine Colts team that started off the
Speaker 4: year fourteen and zero, and the discourse as they were
Speaker 4: on that march into victories into the team revolved around
Speaker 4: if they needed to experience a loss before making their
Speaker 4: playoff run, which ended in the Super Bowl. Right, and
Speaker 4: then they lost with the Saints in that game, but
Speaker 4: before that, they lost their final two regular season games.
Speaker 4: Now the biggest caveat in the history of the world
Speaker 4: is attached to that with a resting Peyton manning in
Speaker 4: those two games caveat. And then fast forward to last
Speaker 4: year and the Eagles were cruising right along and maybe
Speaker 4: some of the seventy two Dolphins were getting a little bit
Speaker 4: anxious about how good that Eagles team was before a
Speaker 4: Week ten loss to a Commander's team that was sub
Speaker 4: five hundred coming into that game. Philly would go on
Speaker 4: to win their next five games before losing two games,
Speaker 4: and like the Colts, without their starting quarterback for a
Speaker 4: fourteen to three campaign that eventually wound up in the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, also with a loss. But those comparisons are
Speaker 4: hardly apples to apples. The Dolphins were three to oh
Speaker 4: before their first defeat of the season, far from fourteen
Speaker 4: and oh, far from eight to zero. But I found
Speaker 4: in an interesting stat that eight teams who had scored
Speaker 4: sixty plus points in the modern era, in the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl era, came out the following week a little bit flat.
Speaker 4: Just one of those eight teams won their game, and
Speaker 4: only two of the eight had covered their spread in
Speaker 4: the following week. So there's some discourse out there from
Speaker 4: guys who have played in the league and talking about
Speaker 4: the difficulty of honing in on corrections when you play
Speaker 4: a game that was as clean as it possibly can be. Really,
Speaker 4: in the Denver game, they say, you win or you
Speaker 4: learn this league right. Tyreek Hill on his It Needs
Speaker 4: to Be Said podcast said that he feels the loss
Speaker 4: brought the team closer together. And while we can't use
Speaker 4: any evidence for how they respond to adversity in the
Speaker 4: twenty twenty three season until we get an opportunity to
Speaker 4: do that, we know how much adversity of this team
Speaker 4: faced last year, and we can at least explore what
Speaker 4: some of the guys think about the team's ability to respond.
Speaker 4: This week in preparation for the bounce back opportunity against
Speaker 4: the Giants. Let's go ahead and start here with Elfins
Speaker 4: wide receiver Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 7: You know what, man, guy's been attacking it. Man, guys
Speaker 7: been you know, working hard, competing against each other, and
Speaker 7: it's been fun. You know, nobody's panic. Ain't nobody's doing
Speaker 7: nothing crazy, you know, nothing different.
Speaker 4: So and then he also made a nice little reference
Speaker 4: there towards my one of my favorite all time shows, Workaholics,
Speaker 4: although maybe it wasn't a reference towards that, just Tyreek
Speaker 4: being Tyreek? How about his quarterback to a tongue of
Speaker 4: Baila asked him the same question. Here's his response to
Speaker 4: how guys have responded this week after the first loss
Speaker 4: of the season.
Speaker 3: I think guys are approaching it the same way this week.
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's pushing pushing any harder to do
Speaker 3: more or to do do anything out of the ordinary.
Speaker 3: Guys are coming into work and they're working and working
Speaker 3: on their craft. But I would say for us, there's
Speaker 3: a lot of things that are going on that we
Speaker 3: you know, we in order for us to be able
Speaker 3: to play together, we all got to know our own assignments.
Speaker 3: And so it's about knowing our assignments and being able
Speaker 3: to trust the guy behind us and trusting that they're
Speaker 3: going to know and understand where to be and what
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 4: So and one more player before we hear from head
Speaker 4: coach Mike McDaniel. I asked fullback alec Ingold, one more
Speaker 4: captain here before here from the headman himself, here is
Speaker 4: alec Ingold on the week of work for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 6: I think it's a great opportunity to show up on
Speaker 6: a Week five game. There's gonna be a little saltiness
Speaker 6: around going around, but the way that guys are able
Speaker 6: to trust each other, come together, go to work after
Speaker 6: a loss, a tough loss and embarrassing loss like that,
Speaker 6: and be able to move forward is really important for
Speaker 6: the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: It's a long season.
Speaker 6: You're three and one at the quarter and you're able
Speaker 6: to use a tough loss like that and see how
Speaker 6: guys respond to it. So I think it's a great
Speaker 6: opportunity for everyone in the room to kind of get
Speaker 6: to know the guy next to him a little bit
Speaker 6: more and get in the foxhole a little bit.
Speaker 4: I actually don't have sound here from head coach Mike
Speaker 4: McDaniel on that exact topic. Chase Claypool trade kind of
Speaker 4: took over the press conference on Friday, So let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and go to coach here and here are a
Speaker 4: couple of soundbites as he discusses the idea of the
Speaker 4: Chase Claypool trade and the skill set that he offers.
Speaker 4: We'll go ahead and start here with the idea behind
Speaker 4: the trade, but first a couple of injury updates. Tron
Speaker 4: Armstead it has head to injury reserve, which means he
Speaker 4: will miss at least the next four games. That means Giants, Panthers, Eagles,
Speaker 4: and Patriots could be eligible to come back for the
Speaker 4: Chiefs game. But of course we have the buye after
Speaker 4: that as well, so you could get some mixent edrest
Speaker 4: there for the big fellow. But Coach said that the
Speaker 4: four week timeline, although they don't want to put exact
Speaker 4: timelines on guys, he feels that's pretty close to where
Speaker 4: Tron's projected to make his return back to the lineup. Hey,
Speaker 4: get t Ran back for the last half of the season,
Speaker 4: I would call that good.
Speaker 2: We know it's typically a ten to twelve game year
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 4: It has been that way for a long time in
Speaker 4: his career. But if we can make that the last
Speaker 4: part of the year and potentially the playoffs, that would
Speaker 4: be fan fantastic. Also, we'll see about Connor Williams and
Speaker 4: Jalen Phillips. Again, you guys can get the injury report
Speaker 4: from my Twitter timeline at Wingfield NFL. I'll have it
Speaker 4: posted the minute it comes available to us here in
Speaker 4: the building in I almost said Davey Miami Gardens. Let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and go back to head coach Mike McDaniel's
Speaker 4: press conference though, as he discusses Chase Claypool and the
Speaker 4: idea behind the trade. Really good stuff here from coach.
Speaker 4: Coach's answer was awesome, as it were.
Speaker 5: That's an exciting opportunity. I think it the you know,
Speaker 5: it's kind of like Christmas in terms of I don't
Speaker 5: know anything. So when Chris comes to me about something
Speaker 5: that we that it has on on the docket, you know,
Speaker 5: we we have good discussions, and you know, for us,
Speaker 5: it felt like a situation where, uh, you know, there
Speaker 5: might be a role to carve out for him. And
Speaker 5: then you know, I think important for the player. You know,
Speaker 5: you have a guy that.
Speaker 1: Wants to.
Speaker 5: Take things into his own hands and you know, have
Speaker 5: an opportunity to be on on a team. So to me,
Speaker 5: beyond that, it was an opportunity to take advantage of it.
Speaker 5: We definitely weren't looking for receiver help. It wasn't in
Speaker 5: that nature at all. Very very happy with our receiving core.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think one thing that Chris and
Speaker 5: I have always agreed upon how we operate and and
Speaker 5: do business is you have to you have to stay
Speaker 5: steadfast to the commitment of of making your team as
Speaker 5: good as it can be. So you know, sometimes things
Speaker 5: come you're across your radar that you weren't even looking for.
Speaker 5: But when you assess it, if it falls under the
Speaker 5: the category of you know, this has chance to make
Speaker 5: us better, then you you jump on that, you know,
Speaker 5: and that's and that's been the case. There's been several
Speaker 5: instances now we're starting to accumulate where you know, things
Speaker 5: things just you know, when the opportunity presents itsel if
Speaker 5: you jump on it. The really happy about practice today,
Speaker 5: and I don't think he'll be there. But beyond that,
Speaker 5: you know, it's just business as usual, trying to get
Speaker 5: better one press conference at a time, and.
Speaker 4: Then on the skill set that Chase Claypool offers aside
Speaker 4: from the size at six foot four.
Speaker 2: And eight pounds.
Speaker 5: Yes, you guys want me say it, don't you he's fast.
Speaker 5: That's cool, But really, no, you have a player you're
Speaker 5: very open minded to, you know, the unique attributes of
Speaker 5: a guy that comes into the league, and generally you
Speaker 5: you don't see that often receivers gain a reputation through
Speaker 5: special teams and then develop in you know, as receivers
Speaker 5: just a multitude of ways that he's contributed. You know,
Speaker 5: I think this team, we have a lot of players
Speaker 5: that are moving in the in the right and same direction,
Speaker 5: and there's guys that you know, really across the board.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say one player is satisfied with their role.
Speaker 5: Everybody wants more of the pie in one way, shape
Speaker 5: or form, whatever that looks like for them. But we
Speaker 5: have a team that really respects, uh, you know, each other,
Speaker 5: and respects and really has love for for each other.
Speaker 5: So you're you're competing with people, not against them. So
Speaker 5: I think that's a good good situation for any player
Speaker 5: to come into. And you know that like every player
Speaker 5: that's that comes here, they get the opportunity to earn
Speaker 5: their place within the locker room that will be very
Speaker 5: important for him and kind of dictate the terms on
Speaker 5: what that looks like, but not really getting over the
Speaker 5: top and envisioning this, that or the other. More that
Speaker 5: we have an opportunity to upgrade our team a talented
Speaker 5: guy that's not easily accessible all the time, and now
Speaker 5: we'll be up to him to see what that looks like.
Speaker 5: And one thing I do know is he'll get the
Speaker 5: support from his teammates. The locker room here is pretty
Speaker 5: pretty cool and you know loves really our locker room
Speaker 5: loves people that help us win.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 4: on the podcast and come back on the other side
Speaker 4: of Welcome and Kyle Krabs, who discussed not just this
Speaker 4: weekend ahead in college football, but gave us some supplementary
Speaker 4: commentary on Chase Claypool. That's next Draft Time podcast. Your
Speaker 4: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation and
Speaker 4: joining us as he does every Friday, for a look
Speaker 4: ahead into the weekend in college football. Is the great
Speaker 4: Kyle Krabs, Locked on Dolphins, Locked on NFL Scouting. Kyle,
Speaker 4: you are now a family of four, My friend, how's
Speaker 4: the sleep schedule going.
Speaker 2: How you feeling, man, Well, yeah, it's uh.
Speaker 8: It's always nice to operate on zero sleep and test
Speaker 8: your mental fortitude. We did have a good night of
Speaker 8: sleep last night, but obviously excited to bring in a
Speaker 8: Dolphins fan into the world and hopefully the get get
Speaker 8: back into the win calm this weekend for the first
Speaker 8: win of his career as a Dolphins fan.
Speaker 4: I think we had this discussion last year when Cam
Speaker 4: was born before the Charger game. We lost that game,
Speaker 4: and you mentioned your daughter being born before a game
Speaker 4: that we lost, like.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs game in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: What the heck's going on with us?
Speaker 4: And every time we have a bring a new child
Speaker 4: into the world, we lose.
Speaker 2: The next game. Like, so you guys know who to
Speaker 2: blame for Sunday.
Speaker 1: My apologies. It was my fault.
Speaker 4: Allan Travis causing Dolphins' losses over the last three years. Anyway,
Speaker 4: congratulations man, I'm happy for you and instance. Let's go
Speaker 4: ahead and talk some college football here, and we've been
Speaker 4: doing these previews of the upcoming weekend. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and go back here first, real quick and look back
Speaker 4: at the first five weeks of the college football season.
Speaker 4: Who has impressed you in a way that would potentially
Speaker 4: be a player who might fit the Dolphins offense or defense.
Speaker 4: Just a guy that you think could be of interest
Speaker 4: in several months down the road when the Dolphins come
Speaker 4: up on the draft in April and twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a name that pops to me was somebody who
Speaker 8: probably could have came out last year with the first round,
Speaker 8: but they suffered an injury at the end of last season,
Speaker 8: and it's Arizona offensive tackle Jordan Morgan. I really like
Speaker 8: the blend of athleticism and pass set ability and length
Speaker 8: that he has. A very all encompassing player that feels
Speaker 8: like he's going to project favorably to any system. Some
Speaker 8: teams might end up favoring him inside at guard, but
Speaker 8: you think about what the Dolphins offense really likes to
Speaker 8: do up front, and you've heard Butch Berry and the
Speaker 8: players talk about the aggressiveness off the ball and firing
Speaker 8: out of your stance and being assertive and having good
Speaker 8: athleticism for you to really dictate terms up front. And
Speaker 8: I see that with Jordan Morgan, and he's bounced back
Speaker 8: really well from that season ending injury last year. So
Speaker 8: that's a name that I definitely have circled as somebody
Speaker 8: who will see what the Dolphins ultimately end up doing
Speaker 8: with some of the personnel decisions with contracts and stuff
Speaker 8: like that. But he's somebody at least right now if
Speaker 8: you're keeping all options open for all different pathways for
Speaker 8: what this offseason could look like.
Speaker 2: Is a name that I think could be a really
Speaker 2: good fit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, That's why you always scout every single position, right,
Speaker 4: even when you have, like a franchise quarterback, you still
Speaker 4: want to be aware of which quarterbacks are out there
Speaker 4: and available because you never know, four years down the road,
Speaker 4: you might wind up getting a crack at that player,
Speaker 4: just like someone we're going to talk about at.
Speaker 2: The end of this interview.
Speaker 4: Kyle, And just for the second well done track well teaser,
Speaker 4: there a little five minute episode teaser. Let's stay in
Speaker 4: college football real quick. Two big games this weekend on
Speaker 4: the schedule. You said there was about four year interested in.
Speaker 4: I'm arrested in two of these outside of the undefeated
Speaker 4: Washington Date, Cougar's Go So Cooks, the Red River Rivalry,
Speaker 4: and Kentucky Georgia games to me seem like meccas of
Speaker 4: football scouting.
Speaker 8: What say you, Yeah, I think there's two players on
Speaker 8: the Texas Longhorn side of this game that I really like.
Speaker 8: Jalen Ford at linebacker, big time impact playmaker over the
Speaker 8: course of the last few years for Texas, gets his
Speaker 8: hands on a lot of footballs. Just the instincts are
Speaker 8: really evident there. And then tight end Jatavian Sanders from
Speaker 8: Texas too, is a really really versatile athletic player. And
Speaker 8: I'd heard the name, heard the name, heard the name
Speaker 8: of about two weeks ago. I actually did the deep
Speaker 8: dive in like, watched him specifically, and I was really impressed.
Speaker 8: So I think there's for Texas's standpoint, obviously the third
Speaker 8: ranked team in the country coming into this matchup against Oklahoma.
Speaker 8: I think they got a couple players that are very
Speaker 8: high ceiling players at the next level, and I'm really
Speaker 8: dialed into what both of those guys are going to bring.
Speaker 1: To the table.
Speaker 2: So those are the big games on the landscape.
Speaker 4: I was wondering, if you're gonna say brock Bauers just
Speaker 4: real quick, is there any chance that brock Bauers is
Speaker 4: going to be outside the top ten of the DRAFTI
Speaker 4: share you think.
Speaker 8: It's weird I would say no from a talent standpoint,
Speaker 8: But then also there's this whole positional value roadblock that
Speaker 8: teams have, where if you would have told me, as
Speaker 8: an example, that Kyle Hamilton is safety out of Notre
Speaker 8: Dame from a few years ago, I thought he was
Speaker 8: the best player in the draft, and he fell to
Speaker 8: fifteen sixteen for Baltimore, who ultimately broke his fall. So
Speaker 8: sometimes those positions like safety, like tight end, sometimes intier
Speaker 8: offensive lineman, even if they're that stratosphere of like how
Speaker 8: good of a player they are, they can get outside
Speaker 8: the top ten, top twelve just because of that roadblock
Speaker 8: of well, there's a finite scale of what this pick
Speaker 8: in the draft is going to comand for the rookie
Speaker 8: Wade scale based on the collective bargaining your agreement, and
Speaker 8: some of those guys come in and like they're top
Speaker 8: five at they're positioning contracts off of pay. That's mostly relevant.
Speaker 8: I would guess it would be tight end as one
Speaker 8: and running back as the other. With what Saquon Barkley
Speaker 8: and b Jhon Robinson have come in at running back,
Speaker 8: with their the economics of their contracts as top eight picks.
Speaker 2: It's interesting I mean, like TJ.
Speaker 4: Hawkins in the last I guess Kyle Pitts as well,
Speaker 4: but he's a little bit more of a receiver in
Speaker 4: a tight ends body.
Speaker 2: But TJ.
Speaker 4: Hawkinson one of those guys that was kind of in
Speaker 4: that frame as well. So it's really interesting. I'm like this,
Speaker 4: The positional value always kind of intrigues me that way.
Speaker 4: Like you mentioned there real quick, Kyle, an off the
Speaker 4: radar game that maybe you're looking at for some potential
Speaker 4: dolphin scout in this weekend would be, you.
Speaker 8: Know what, maybe through a little bit of a different lens,
Speaker 8: but I think everybody probably recognizes the name Toungovaloa and
Speaker 8: Talia is playing at Ohio State this weekend, and Maryland's
Speaker 8: looked really good thus far this season, and I'm really
Speaker 8: excited to see a test against an Ohio State program
Speaker 8: that quite frankly hasn't put up a lot of points.
Speaker 8: And Maryland's thirty eight, thirty eight, forty two against Virginia,
Speaker 8: thirty one at Michigan State, they put up forty four
Speaker 8: last week against Indiana. They're scoring points, and Tally is
Speaker 8: like right out in front of it as far as
Speaker 8: what contributions he's bringing to the table. So I know
Speaker 8: they got some really good skill players there with the
Speaker 8: program as well at Maryland. So that's kind of the
Speaker 8: off the radar scouting game that I'm watching because Ohio
Speaker 8: State's got a ton of defensive talents and prospects that
Speaker 8: are eligible for twenty twenty four versus this Maryland offense
Speaker 8: that has put up a lot of points, and they
Speaker 8: get a great test. I mean, this is realistically the
Speaker 8: greatest test on the schedule because while Maryland still plays
Speaker 8: Penn State and Michigan later in the year, they get
Speaker 8: both of those teams at home.
Speaker 2: So this is the big test.
Speaker 8: In my mind for the Maryland offense for this upcoming season.
Speaker 4: The Tongue Bilo apparents might have a little bit of
Speaker 4: whiplash this season watching the football go up and down
Speaker 4: the field on Saturdays and Sundays, watching both third kids
Speaker 4: spin it in very impressive fashion. Good call, and now
Speaker 4: I'm looking forward to that game myself, Kyle. Before I
Speaker 4: let you out of here, some trade news on a Friday.
Speaker 4: Not very often you get that end season here, Dolphins
Speaker 4: acquire wide receiver Chase Claypool, formerly of the Bears and Steelers.
Speaker 4: Now I understand you had a scouting report on him
Speaker 4: he pulled up from when he was coming out back
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: What you got for us on that? Yeah, so this
Speaker 2: is a Drive Time exclusive.
Speaker 8: I'm not even gonna put this on any of my
Speaker 8: own stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna leave this here.
Speaker 8: I thought where he was best was utilizing his size
Speaker 8: and functional athleticism as a player who kind of what
Speaker 8: Pittsburgh did with him early in his career. They manufactured
Speaker 8: some touches for him, but his blocking skills coming out
Speaker 8: a Notre dame. This is what I had written down about.
Speaker 8: His blocking skills be a huge asset here. He's a
Speaker 8: monster against boundary corners and second level defenders the imposes
Speaker 8: as well in opposing players. He's taken several defenders completely
Speaker 8: off the screen and whitewashed run support from the outside
Speaker 8: in hand strength, length, and urgency. Mary Well here for
Speaker 8: an effective blocker. So he's somebody who could play inside.
Speaker 8: You can line them up outside and have them run
Speaker 8: vertical routes down the field. I thought you should. He
Speaker 8: showcased good vertical ball skills. There's some overlap with some
Speaker 8: of the guys that the Dolphins have when you think
Speaker 8: about Eric Azukama and what his skill set was at
Speaker 8: Tech Tech, You think about Robbie Chosen and his vertical plane.
Speaker 8: This is just a big physical player at six foot four,
Speaker 8: two hundred and thirty pounds coming out of Notre Dame
Speaker 8: when he came through the draft process that does some
Speaker 8: of those same things. So I think there's some obvious overlap.
Speaker 8: And for him this is now his third team and
Speaker 8: eager to see if this Dolphins coaching staff and locker
Speaker 8: room can really galvanize him and get him back to
Speaker 8: what the expectations were when he first came in new league.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the talent's there, and he joins a receiver room
Speaker 4: like you mentioned that has a bunch of alpha personalities
Speaker 4: who probably are not going to accept anything less than
Speaker 4: your best and your your best effort in terms of
Speaker 4: how much you put into it. So he lands in
Speaker 4: a good spot there with Wes Welker, Tyreek Hill, and
Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle and like you mentioned, replacing potentially some injured
Speaker 4: receivers of Dolphins have had some attrition at that position
Speaker 4: this season. Kyle Krabs locked on Dolphins, Locked on NFL Scouting.
Speaker 4: Thanks again, my friend, you're the.
Speaker 2: Best, Thanks travs and away he goes.
Speaker 4: One more time for you guys. Injury report on my
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Speaker 4: can hear Raheem's a great interview with me and go
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