WEBVTT - Drive Time: Post Draft Roster Reset Part 1, Offense 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:11.119 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:11.200 --> 0:00:14.240 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.160 it is Roster Reset Day. Always one of my favorite 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.640 podcasts to do every time. We do it throughout the 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:23.160 course of the calendar year, but especially post draft, when 0:00:23.200 --> 0:00:26.680 you have your first real look at your ninety manter 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.920 roster for the upcoming season. Will assess the Dolphins with 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.400 where they are with that roster, where they need to go, 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:34.839 where they've improved, where they can still get better, and 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.240 the entire outlook as we barrel towards training camp here 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.560 and a new NFL season from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.880 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:51.400 Time Podcast, daff roster turnover in the National Football League. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.920 Get used to it. This is the new NFL, as 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.520 Mike McDaniel told us back at the owners meetings in 0:00:56.640 --> 0:01:00.800 March one year deals, constant scouring, thirty to forty new 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.920 faces every season. That's kind of how ninety percent of 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.080 the league is right now. You have a few teams 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.400 that don't have that model. The Buffalo Bills are kind 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.479 of like that right now, and you know, give them credit, 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:11.720 they are one of the best teams in the league. 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:14.399 But you'll see the Chiefs every year they hot swap 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.240 players in and out of that roster as well. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.640 But there's the one way to get out of that. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:19.960 Is how Buffalo is able to get out of that, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:21.919 and the Chiefs for a while was to hammer the draft. 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.399 And we are coming off a twenty twenty four class 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:28.320 that featured seven players, four that had immediate impacts. They 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.880 were contributors in the rookie season, no matter how higher 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.520 low you think that contribution was. And those same four 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.520 players I expect will have an even further expanded role, 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:39.040 which you can get a little bit, you know, over 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.000 your skis on those predictions. Not every growth is linear 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.200 for every player, so to assume immediate growth is not 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:48.880 always a good process. But I do think in the 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.880 case of these four guys, we are on a good trajectory. 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.680 Patrick Paul, who, as I'll get into, I am very 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.120 very bullish on his upside. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.720 Jalen Wright, I mean same as Pat. 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:00.680 I think that right, I think rights the running back 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.400 on the roster, and I'm gonna take that end of 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:06.120 the season. Malik Washington, who kind of did what you'd expect, 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:08.080 and I think that December run will be more of 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:10.560 the norm from him from jump the season. And I 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.799 also think that Patrick mc I've leftp Chop Robinson, who's 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.120 already your best edge defender. Good job, Travis, But I 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.880 also think that Patrick McMorris has a chance to start, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.880 and Mo Kamara has some of the goods as well. 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.520 And for posterity, of course, Toaj Washington missed his entire 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.000 rookie season, and that's tough for those guys. They get here, 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:28.880 they spend all that time getting ready for the season, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.560 they get hurt, and then it's been two years since 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.120 they've played competitive football and they get forgotten by a 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.000 little bit. So Taj Washington, don't forget him. Patrick McMorris 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:38.520 in that same role as well. But now you're gonna 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:40.320 get eight more rookies, and I feel good about the 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.440 opportunity for a few of those guys to get on 0:02:42.560 --> 0:02:45.040 the field and make an immediate impact. I mean, Chris 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.840 Greer talked about it in that pre draft press conference 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.120 with the need to get immedia impact starters, and I 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.560 would be pretty surprised if that's not what you get 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.560 from Kenneth Grant and of course from Jonah Savoy and Ayah, 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.560 who was a guy we targeted and went up for 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.720 in the second round. So I think you'll get that 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.760 from those guys and later on the draft potentially as well. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.440 And you know, for the future's sake, I mean, we've 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:07.920 got all of our natural picks next year, seven rounds worth. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.240 We have the additional third we got from the Texans 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.120 this year, and we are in line for a fourth 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.480 round compensatory pick that can be lost. It can also 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.320 be reduced, so it's not official yet, but that's what 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.320 we're lined up for right now. And then if coach 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.040 Weaver gets hired in the cycle, and frankly, I'm surprised 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:24.880 he didn't get hired this time around, that would be 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:27.560 another third in both the next two drafts. So next 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.040 year you could have two thirds and a fourth in 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.079 addition to all your original draft picks. So it could 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:37.240 potentially be a team that continues to have more than 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.839 the seven a lot of draft picks and build that way. 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.440 So let's go ahead and go over the entire offense 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.400 right now. We'll do the defense on Monday, because this 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.240 my copy is like at thirty five hundred words, So yeah, 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:51.720 I am. I didn't want to do a one hour 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.160 long podcast for you guys here. So at quarterback to 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:57.160 a tongue of Iloa, Zach Wilson, and Quinn Ewers are 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.360 the three guys in tow I think you start here. 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.840 This is better quarterback room than what you had last year. Now, 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.400 the performance from the non TA quarterbacks, that bar is 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:08.760 pretty low, but I think the backup is better, and 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.440 I think the developmental piece is better. I mean, last 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.480 year was basically Tim Boyle, right because like Skylar Thompson 0:04:14.560 --> 0:04:17.640 was thrust into that backup role and it was Tim 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:19.800 Boyle and then Tyler Huntly like you didn't really have 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:22.520 one last year, and then there's Tua who gets better 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:24.960 every single season. We're going to detail this in the 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.200 offense as a whole section, but I think this offense 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:30.960 has been successful in the sense that you've given tu 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.720 Us something he's never had. Well, let me rephrase that, 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.839 because the thing I'm alluding to is a rock solid 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.960 offensive line at the same time as having electric playmakers 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.240 on the outside. He had that in twenty twenty three, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.560 at least through the Eagles game, and I think the 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.719 Patriots game after that as well. But after that game concluded, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:51.640 they had only just two more games with at least 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.560 eighty percent of the offensive line starters, and like, yeah, 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.600 you could lose guys this year too, but I think 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.320 the top five guys are better than it was all 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.559 but those first eight games of twenty twenty three, because 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.200 the rest of the way you were without one of 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:07.320 or at least two of Isaiah Wim Connor Williams, Robert Hunt, 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.800 and to Ron Armstead. But guess what he did when 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:12.320 he had either all of those guys or was missing 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.680 just one guy. Austin Jackson included. Through the first eight 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.000 weeks of that season, he was at a nice seventy 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:22.000 point four percent completion rate, a nice smooth eight point 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.320 eight yards per pass attempt, with eighteen touchdown passes. And 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.880 you extrapolate that over a full season, you get a 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.560 five thousand yard passer who threw for thirty five touchdowns. 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.280 And he also had a passer rating for one h 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:34.720 nine and the highest EPA per play in the NFL 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:38.040 and the highest completion percentage over expected of any quarterback 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:38.440 to that point. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:39.960 Season. He was the best quarterback in the league. He 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:41.560 was the MVP of the league when he had that. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:45.479 And here's the kicker I would argue that this front 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.279 five is better than the one he had that year, 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:52.040 especially when injuries you know, accumulated and made that group 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.200 what it was. But to put a pin and all that, 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.440 you know how things around two can make him better 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.240 and not just personnel per se. I think what you've 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:02.320 seen with each of the last few years is he 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.840 decides what's best for him and then comes back having 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.719 achieved that goal two years ago was getting bigger in 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.760 addition to the jiu jitsu training, and since then, you know, 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:14.919 he he hasn't had the same type of injury that 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.320 cost him time in that twenty twenty two season because 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:19.599 he has that shoulder role where he rolls out of 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.120 that contact and out of those hits. We saw it 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.160 right away in the twenty twenty three preseason. Now this 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.240 is the obvious caveat. His two injuries last year were 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.240 on scramble plays right where he dives forward. So you know, 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.640 the thing for me is like, unless it's the fourth quarter, 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:38.080 December game, fourth down game on the line, like let's 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.080 just go to the next game, because you know we 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.159 need the quarterback. He is a very very good player, 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.520 and any team that loser starting quarterback like you're gonna 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.640 have a regression to your record and like not to 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:49.880 you know, belabor the point. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:51.039 But I go back to last year. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.479 If we just slide and turn the ball over on 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.240 down to the Buffalo Bills, I think you beat Seattle 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.760 and then Tennessee, and then you beat the Patriots, which 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.839 you did without Tua, and I think you beat the 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.520 Colts too, and then you're five to one, and then 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:05.760 you go into the Cardinals game and you know, maybe 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:08.280 Jordan Poyer catches that interception, maybe he doesn't have that 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.239 late hit to the head of the Buffalo Bills receiver. 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:11.920 The week after that, and you're eight and one going 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.440 to Los Angeles and you win a primetime game on 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:16.600 the road against a playoff team to get to nine 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.840 and one. I digress right, all right, But we also 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:24.880 saw Tua come back with a better feel, understanding, willingness 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:27.360 to take the short stuff and to get it to 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.240 the quick game and the progression like the checkdowns, one 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.040 of his best traits in my opinion. So I think 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:35.200 the challenge this year for the Dolphins and for Tua 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:38.320 is how to marry that dangerous vertical game with the 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.200 efficient short game to get this offense back to that 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.480 thirty points per game Barmater we had, you know, two 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.880 seasons ago, because I think that's very much on the 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.400 table right now. I think you'll see Tua take further 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.680 command of this offense and the team, and I think 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.280 he'll have his best year for two reasons. He'll be 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:56.239 the best version of himself, and he has the best 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.720 cast around him, with depth to endure what you endure 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.600 with at the course of a season, with attrition. His 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.440 best weapons, in my opinion, I mean Reakan Wadler still here. 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.520 Maybe they're not the same Reacan wad from twenty twenty two. 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.600 I don't think that's necessarily the case, but I can 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.360 see you making that argument. And then it's deeper beyond 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.320 those guys Malik and Nick Westbrook Akine, I like these 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.680 I like Copley's UDFA receivers and arguably, I won't say definitively, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.240 but arguably the best offensive line he's had with Zach 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:26.440 and Quinn. There's tons of unknown there, but I am 0:08:26.480 --> 0:08:29.720 so intrigued to see what Zach Wilson looks like in camp, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.880 because like, it has to be better than it was 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.040 for the Jets for him to get this opportunity right like, 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:39.080 and we've seen multiple quarterbacks go through you know, bust 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.680 in their first contract and for the Jets, right Gino Smith, 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.320 Sam Darnold both did that, and so like, I'm curious 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.080 to see what it looks like for Zach Wilson on 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.440 the other side of that, as a big detractor of 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.320 his tape with the Jets and even out a BYU 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.360 saying like, I don't see what everyone's seeing and making 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.120 the second pick in the draft. It was a rough 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:58.360 run for the Jets, but the comments out of Denver 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.240 about how he changed to he is very fascinating and 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:03.480 in line with what you saw with Darnold and with 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.920 Gino and with Baker and all the quarterbacks that have 0:09:06.000 --> 0:09:08.439 had this this turnaround, and I just can't wait to 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:11.120 see it for myself. And then with Quinn, I wonder 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.760 how quickly he can get up to speed given some 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.679 of the familiarity in the scheme. I think that the 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.680 big knock on his tape was processing and seeing the 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:21.360 field and you know, not getting the ball to the 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:23.439 open receiver on time within the progression. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.120 And that's big here. You have to be able to 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:25.600 do that here. 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.320 But how fast can he get that to be part 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.520 of his game and be a guy that you know 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:32.679 can step into a game and make an impact that way. 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.640 But the quarterback room I think has more potential than 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:38.440 it's had behind Tua. There's a lot of unknown there, 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.800 but ultimately I think it's a decent step ahead of 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.480 where it was at this time a year ago. How 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.200 about the running back room, we'll do that before our 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:49.040 first break. Devon a Chan Jalen Wright. I'm gonna go 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.319 Ali Gordon the second right, now form my number third 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.079 on the depth chart. That that's my depth chart, speaking 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:58.280 Alexander Madison and then Nate Nole the UDFA reported signing 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.880 with alec Ingold the full back. I think we'll miss 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.200 Raheem's presence on and off the field, but I don't 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.720 think you failed to replace him and what his play 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:10.120 style and body type and all that stuff was in fact, 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.760 and I said this being a massive you know Raheem 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.200 mostert fam I thought it multiple times last year he 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.000 was gonna get Wally pipped when he was hurt by 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.520 Jalen Wright and lose touches to Jay Dubb. And that 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.760 had nothing to do with my feelings about Raheem, but 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:26.720 rather my belief in Jalen, who was famous last year 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.520 for being addicted to being in the building before everybody else, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.080 and that's not changed this offseason. He very much looks 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.160 the part in great shape. I think he's the best 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.120 back on the roster As a runner. Devon's multiple skill 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.440 set makes him a unicorn of sorts, but I can 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:41.600 kind of see him being like the Reggie Bush to 0:10:41.640 --> 0:10:44.160 the Deuce McAllister, if you will, because I keep going 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.960 back to that Patriots game when we were without Tua 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.280 and who was the one making the big plays in 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:51.480 that game after Devon Ah Chiang got hurt on like 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.880 the second play of the game, whatever it was, and 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.640 it's not because it was blocked up well once or twice. 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.360 That's kind of how we spring the big runs with 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:02.080 a chan back there. But his running style puts the 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.520 impetus on defenders to make good decisions and get their 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.959 technique right. I felt that at times Devon would run 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.240 into tackles where Jay dub would kind of put his 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.320 head down run through them and get more yards out 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.920 of those plays and just have more conviction that way. 0:11:15.160 --> 0:11:17.280 I mean, in that game he had three runs over 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:19.439 ten yards and he had two more called back, same 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.880 as the Colts game. He stepped into when a Cham 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:23.960 was lost in that game and looked like a true 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:24.680 bell cow to me. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:25.360 I think that his. 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.240 Presence on the roster this year, I think he's going 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:32.319 to be a force. And those eighty three carries last 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.199 year did nothing to change my opinion of him coming 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.760 out of college, but rather strengthen that belief. And what 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:40.040 I find most interesting about this group now is that 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.400 you sort of have different traits to choose from with 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:46.440 each player, and in the past, coach Stutisville has been 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:49.520 very upfront about not wanting to have you know, every 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:52.120 back has to be capable of everything and the importance 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:53.920 of that so I has to not tip your hand 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.760 to the defense with your personnel decisions. And this isn't 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.320 to say that has changed. I'm sure he still feels 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.280 that way. But a Chan and Gordon are about is 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.800 diametrically opposed in terms of their skill sets as you 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.360 can be. I think you got better in pass protection. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.959 You know, Gordon's pass pro reel is pretty fun to watch. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.280 I think you got better in short yardage and I 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.520 can't wait to see what the increased role for Wright 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.200 does for the way that DeVaughn is deployed on the offense. 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:22.080 We saw him get more run last year as a 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.160 true wide receiver and make some catches that running backs 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.240 just quite frankly shouldn't be able to make on dig 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.160 routes on balls off the frame where he's elevating and 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.800 snatching the football with his hands. I think more of 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.480 that could potentially make him more dangerous as a runner 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.240 and reduce the number of reads he has to make 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.240 as a running back where maybe some of the vision 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.960 deficiencies get him into some bad spots and some negative runs. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.440 Now it's like he's coming in as a spell or 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.040 an option, you know, a secondary option, and he can 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.640 hit that thing with conviction and speed. And you also 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:53.600 round that out with a workload in the passing game, 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.760 and you don't reduce his workload at all. He's still 0:12:55.960 --> 0:12:57.880 you know, a twenty touch per game guy, but you 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.120 just spread it out in multiple ways to get him 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.440 angel and write both Evall because both these guys to 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:07.040 me are NFL playmakers, NFL studs. I think will come 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:08.800 out of this season saying that right is the best 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:11.800 true BELCW back on the roster. And again, you know, 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.040 I think that Devon could be Reggie Bush. I think 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.079 j Dubb could be like your Deuce McCallister. Do you 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.280 want to go Jonathan Stewart Chris Johnson. That's probably not 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.559 the most apt comparison. I think the Saints comparison is 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.000 the best one. And then you can throw Allie Gordon. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.160 There is like Latavious Murray, a guy that maybe has 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.720 ten rushers for twelve yards, but it produces seven touchdowns. 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:30.720 Maybe that's the rookie role for him right away. I 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:33.840 think that at both quarterback and running back, I think 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.880 you're done. I think that you're pretty much ready to 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.800 go to training camp and ready to go into September 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:39.160 with the roster as is. 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:39.800 So there you go. 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.040 Let's go ahead and take a break right there. That's 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:43.400 not to say they're not going to, like, you know, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.319 scour and turn over every stone. I'm just saying you 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:47.679 could play a game tomorrow, I think with both those 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.280 two spots and be totally good there. 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:50.880 Let's go ahead and take our first break. 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.400 Come back on the other side, talk about wide outs 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.360 tight ends will do offensive lines well. On the podcast 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.160 today all that next Drive Time Podcast brought to you 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:05.240 by Autnation. We've done the backfield, quarterbacks, running backs, let's 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.240 go ahead and move out to the perimeter and the 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:12.800 wide receivers, which features Tyreek Hill, Jalen Wattle, Malik Washington, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.720 Nick Westbrook, A Kine, Dwayne Eskridge, Malik and Nick are 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:18.320 right neck and neck. For me in terms of who'll 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:20.320 be the three and four going into training camp, I'd 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.240 probably go with NWY to be honest with you, guys, 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:27.720 Eric Azukama, Taj Washington, Tareek Black and then four Udfhase 0:14:27.800 --> 0:14:29.880 you have to imagine the hope here is to hit 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.840 on one of these guys and have them be a 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.400 contributor in your room, you know, down the road on 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:37.520 a UDFA contract for three years would be fantastic. The 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:41.240 Oiz Andrew Armstrong, Monter Ey Baldwin and AJ Henning are 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.680 the udfas and the caveat to kick off this group 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:46.320 is what will it look like on opening day. We've 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.480 heard all the trade rumors and buzz and you know 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.760 McDaniel has said otherwise, but I just think it's worth 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.880 talking about on the podcast here that you know, if 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.320 we get everybody on the same page, rowing in the 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.920 same direction, which is the goal the entire season, Right man, 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:05.080 I look at this offense in this group and maybe 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.080 maybe shame, you know, fool me once for me twice. 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.320 Maybe that's the issue here. But I see a team 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:13.120 that could be potentially very deadly. So with Tyreek, I 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:17.280 don't think the skills have diminished. I mean he was 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:19.760 still he was still fast, he was still you know, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.520 open last year when he was in the right positions 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.440 and when he caught the football. But I think those 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.040 are the two things that he, you know, he has 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.240 to work on and McDaniel has made that point clear 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.520 as well well. Number One, the wrist injury was a 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.680 real thing that impacted his game, and you know, I 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.480 think he's If there is one knock on Reek's entire career, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.000 it was like the drops and Chiefs fans tried telling 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:39.760 us that when he came over here, but it was like, yeah, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:42.240 he's still caught, you know, two thousand yards with the footballs. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.480 I don't really care about the Sixers having drops. He had, 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.200 but last year it got a lot worse. He had 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.280 a bunch of more drops than he usually does. And 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:50.000 again that's been an issue in some of the big 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.360 games over the last three years. Right, But also if 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.440 you look at every other you know, leading receiver in 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.400 the NFL, all those guys lead the league in drops 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.960 because more targets means more drops. But I just thought 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.600 it was more out of the ordinary last year for Tyreek. 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.120 I'll say this, We just we have to execute better 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.080 in big games, the crucible moments, all that stuff has 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.400 to be better as a whole team, not just the quarterback. 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.880 Because you can point to a few of those big games. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.600 You know, that Philly game back in twenty twenty two, 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.640 or rather twenty twenty three, excuse me, the KC game 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.080 up in Germany. Like those games were turned on big 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.440 drops or fumbles by the receivers. 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:26.360 And it came up just short. In those games. We 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:27.120 were close in those games. 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.240 And if you make those plays a different way, maybe 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:31.520 you know, that game goes different. Maybe the narrative changes, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.200 maybe your confidence changes, maybe things are just different. 0:16:34.360 --> 0:16:34.800 I don't know. 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.960 But when it comes to on the field, for Tyreek, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.880 you'd be silly to say anything other than he changes 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.640 the complexion of your offense. Right, He changes the way 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.680 teams defend you, and that creates situations for a guy 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.640 that I think is a top ten receiver in this 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.800 league and a number one on just about every other team. 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:53.280 Jalen Waddle. 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.680 The way that he can play that backside X when 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.360 they have high low coverage and we're playing trail technique 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.440 and funneling into help. How he can get to the 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:03.200 leverage point against a cloud corner that wants to take 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.400 away the out route and he can still get there. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.320 That's the mark of a great receiver, right. They know 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.560 where the football's going, they know how he wants to 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.840 get there, and he still gets there and makes the play. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.400 Whatever we got to do to get twenty twenty two 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.080 Wattle production back. That's what I want to see because 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.440 that's when this offense is really cooking because this guy. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.679 I mean that Green Bay game, the eighty four yard touchdown, 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:24.280 the Buffalo game, the sixty four yard touchdown, the way 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.800 he can ignite the offense, the win over Buffalo on 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.520 twenty twenty two, the third and seventeen conversion, right, that 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.560 was Waddle like. He is a big time playmaker who 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.440 changes the complexions of football games. The Ravens comeback, the 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:37.480 game winning touchdown. There are two touchdowns in the game 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:40.119