WEBVTT - Drive Time: Potential Camp Battles and Tyler Warren Prospect Profile 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.639 What is up Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:13.240 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, 0:00:13.680 --> 0:00:16.560 the draft is fast approaching and we are knocking out 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:20.520 yet another prospect profile on a potential first round pick. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:21.960 As we look at tight end. 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:24.959 Tyler Warren, the apple of my eye in this year's 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:28.560 draft class, and with roster depth rounding into form throughout 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.320 free agency, I wanted to look ahead to training camp 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.080 at some of the potentially intriguing battles we might see 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:38.480 come the month of August. From the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.520 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:48.720 Time Podcast. Off the top, very happy retirement, congratulations to 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.680 twelve year veteran one of the best tackles of the 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.360 last decade, to Ron Armstead who called it a career 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:59.360 on Saturday Night. So he hands the reins officially to 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.600 Patrick at left tackle, and I will be doing some 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.520 work on his tape from last season, providing you guys 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.080 a breakdown. Hopefully we'll have that in video form on 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.039 HQ as well, and maybe even try to get the 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:12.560 Big fellow on the show here and talk to him 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.440 a little bit. So that's first off the top here, 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.600 but what I wanted to look at with Paul sliding 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:21.040 into the left tackle position and essentially having four of 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.560 the five offensive line spots pretty much spoken for as 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:28.319 of today on April the seventh, I thought it would 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.720 be fun to look at some of the potential camp 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.680 battles we might see with what the roster currently looks like. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.600 And you know, the first thing I learned in the NFL, 0:01:36.680 --> 0:01:38.240 or the first thing that was really drilled into my 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.760 head from you know, a football perspective, was that everything 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:45.160 is a competition every single day. And the moment you 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.200 go into training camp thinking you have a concrete idea 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:51.520 of what your lineup and rotations will look like come 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.760 the second Sunday in September, when you kick it off 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:57.240 for real, that's when you permeate an environment that focuses 0:01:57.280 --> 0:01:59.600 on the wrong things. Off the top of the head, 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.160 the best example of this that I can pinpoint to 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.640 the league right now is when the Bills spent a 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.800 first round pick on kyer Elum back in twenty twenty two. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:10.480 And I'll never forget the content around him with the 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.280 Bills when he requested the playbook on the flight to 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.960 Buffalo after draft night, and it was like, Oh, this 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.360 guy's going to be a great study, which obviously he 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.280 went that high because of athletic ability. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:22.320 How could it go wrong? Right? 0:02:22.360 --> 0:02:24.600 That's where we always kind of take the cheese on 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.720 prospects and players is if they're smart and in their 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.160 playbook and care about the right things and their athletes, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.720 they should work. But they don't always work out that way. 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.520 In that same draft class, they took Christian Benford one 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.000 hundred and sixty two picks later in the sixth round. 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:39.160 The first round draft pick didn't make it out of 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.600 his third year in Buffalo before getting cut. And that 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.359 sixth round pick just got a new contract paying him 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:46.520 roughly twenty million bucks per year. And that's what makes 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:49.640 this fun league, right, all the unknown that shrouded around 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.520 the league. Every single year, every single team, every single 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.679 position group has surprises that we did not forecast going 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.800 into that season. And another reason I detest the concept 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.040 that you have to land ins within your first couple 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:02.400 of picks. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.760 Don't get me wrong, it's obviously very important. 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.119 Or rather, I suppose the best way to frame it 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.280 is that you can only possibly do it with your 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:12.800 first couple of draft picks. It drives me crazy because 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:15.400 we see impact players enter this league in every single 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:18.399 round and beyond the draft every single year. But that's 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:22.680 a separate argument for another day. Now, every coach, every regime, 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:26.080 every single person holding a high ranking position in this 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.640 league will have things they can improve upon, right, That's 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.200 true for even the best players in the NFL, and 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.160 experience is typically the only way for that to crystallize. 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:38.640 For coaches, for instance, especially first time head coaches. I 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:42.080 think in recent years, you know, in pursuit of star talent, 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:46.160 the Dolphins not only had to take some sacrifices in 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.120 certain areas of depth, which really, if you go back 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:52.560 the last every year of the McDaniel era has pretty 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:56.120 much gone by the boards because of one position group's 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.560 complete and ability to stay healthy. And you can pretty 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.880 much attach to two of those three years. But even 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:02.960 back in twenty two, it was the cornerbacks, right, remember 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.480 when we were playing you know, guys that were signed 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:07.960 to be special teams aces like Keon Crossing and Justin 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.320 Bethel as like starters, like, it was just so thin there. 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:12.360 And then in twenty three it was the edge. Last 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.440 year it was the edge again, and then the quarterback again, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.039 so you've essentially had that happen each of the last 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.400 three years. And while you might say that type of 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.240 attrition is pretty much just unfair in any sense, the 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:26.840 reality is that it's happened three years in a row, 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.559 and so maybe lacking depth in certain areas, but also 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.360 it doesn't naturally foster an environment of competition. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:35.599 That's not to say they didn't compete. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.960 I would never, you know, question the efforts of these 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:41.920 you know, professional athletes, at least, you know, not uniformly, 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.760 Like there's obviously certain individuals that you know, need that. 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:48.279 But we kind of knew the starter at every single 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.560 position going into last year, right like where was the 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.279 real mystery one of the one of the two guard 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.360 spots after we learned that the Isaiah Winn was going 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:56.400 to be down for a while, the tight end two 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.720 battle between Smyth and Hill. I mean, that's just about 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.520 it outside of rotational work, and the tight end two 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.400 job is rotational work. Now, I think we'll look at 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:10.640 this camp with competitions at safety, defensive tackle, one of 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:14.160 the two guard spots, and I guess wide receiver three, 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:16.359 And of course the draft will reshape that. But I 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:19.960 feel pretty good about those competitions with how the roster 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.880 shakes out at the moment. All of this is a 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.719 preamble to say, to give you a disclaimer. Obviously, not 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:28.280 every spot is going to come down to camp performance. 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.880 You know who the quarterback is, you know who the 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:33.000 top two receivers are. You've got sixty percent of a 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.160 proven offensive line, eighty percent of what you is going 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.039 to be out there opening day. One of the best 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.360 defensive tackles, and Zach Seeler cornerbacks, and Jalen Ramsey, Mike 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.320 Backers and Jordan Brooks. It's good to have known quantities, 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.080 but I also think it's good to pit two good 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.800 players against each other or three or four at a 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.760 couple of positions and say let the best man win 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.080 and let's be You know, I mentioned this in a 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:55.719 podcast recently, Like that type of environment where you compete 0:05:55.760 --> 0:06:00.160 for your job, winds up giving you applicable reps when 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.360 you need to compete on the field on Sundays and 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.520 with the draft still to come, you know, ten picks 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.680 and I'm I'm kind of a big believer in the 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.680 idea of trying to just accumulate more picks, like trade 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.240 back and acquire more and get yourself fourteen picks and 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.080 allow yourself to bat four hundred and find six contributors, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:17.279 cause you know what that would do to this roster. 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.760 I digress, different story for a different day, and we'll 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.520 talk about different draft outcomes here in the coming weeks. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.200 But you know the last time the Dolphins had a 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.320 very successful draft classes when they had a bunch of 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:28.800 byates at the Apple and you factor in those picks 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:31.960 udfas and almost certainly you know a couple of more 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.440 veteran acquisitions between now and the end of July, like 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.800 Jack Jones just got released. I know he's been a 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.839 knucklehead in two places he's been, but he's a really 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:39.800 good football player. 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:41.080 We need a quarterback. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.360 I would kick the tires and that possibly, I thought 0:06:43.400 --> 0:06:45.479 we could assess where some of those battles could occur. 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:47.719 And I had written that we were going to operate 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.800 under the assumption that toront will not be back, but 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.920 he gave us that news on Saturday. So updating that here, 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.400 Patrick Paul's left tackle, and with that in mind, we 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.920 have eighty percent of the offensive line ready to roll 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.240 with Austin Brew, James Daniels at one of the two 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:02.480 guard spots, and then Pat Paul we covered two a 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:05.040 Reek wattle at John new Smith In there. I don't 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:06.640 think there's a ton of mystery about the eight Chan 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:10.240 and Wright duo and how Alexander Madison factors into that, 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.880 which really only leaves us with three spots that I 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.560 find worthy of discussion in the segment, And quite frankly, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.560 I'm inclined to lop off one of the three, and 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.040 in fact, I'm gonna do that because it's the same 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.800 spot I talked about last year with tight end two, 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:25.440 which to me is Pharaoh Brown versus Julian Hill for 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:28.640 that you know, y reps, and I don't think it's 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.679 much of a battle, if I'm being totally honest with you, guys, 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.560 receiver rolls beyond reak and waddle, and then the fifth 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:36.000 piece of the offensive line. Who's that other guard and 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.400 who mans the third and fourth spots and what roles 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.360 and what groupings and what personnel packages. You could probably 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.680 add swing interior offensive line and swing tackle here. I 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.200 think Keon Smith probably has his hand in both of 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.600 those pies. But even then, you know, again, tight end 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.760 two and why position work, I don't think it's worth 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.160 getting that far into the weeds prior to the draft. 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:56.640 This is a more of a you know, fostering competition 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.200 and who could be in line to surprise a training 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:01.080 camp type of segment. So my first one here might 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.080 even be a bit of a stretch. But the receiver spot, 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.640 we know that Nick Westbrook Akinne is more than just 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.080 an insert blocker. He's arguably the best blocking receiver in 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:12.280 the NFL. Who expands what you know about receivers, excuse me, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.840 in the run blocking game in the in the running 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.560 game in the NFL. Like remember those old infomercials, forget 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.559 everything you know about I don't know vacuum cleaners. Okay, cool, 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.200 So forget everything you know about what you can ask 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:27.000 receivers to do in the running game. When it comes 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:30.920 to Nick Westbrook Akine. Now with Malik Washington, I would 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.440 say the same applies in terms of the want to 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.360 but and the tact I suppose that he plays with. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.560 But the difference there is six two two ten versus 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.679 five eight one ninety. I legit could see NWI getting 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.320 reps that you would call for twelve personnel but actually 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.000 having eleven personnel on the field, like they match with 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:52.959 their nickel defense, and you get what you want because 0:08:53.080 --> 0:08:54.920 they don't know that one of those three receivers is 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.400 going to jet motion wrap the edge and seal that 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.640 edge against your undersized box defender or one hundred and 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.000 seventy five pound nickel cornerback that you brought into the 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:05.880 field because we showed you three receivers. Now we're gonna 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:07.760 go ahead and block that guy and seal him for 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.840 a twelve yard Devon h Chen touchdown run on the 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.920 red zone. That and his ability to make contested catches, 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.559 it's not it's not like a you know, calling card 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:17.000 to his game. 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:18.560 I wouldn't say, but he can do it. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.040 And just that size and tight quarters alone with his 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.520 ability to kind of, you know, create separation through his 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.280 route running, it makes him seem like an obvious plug 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.319 and play red zone threat, one that might even be 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.840 able to give ten and seventeen a breather here and there. 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.960 And we know that, you know, McDaniel's not at all 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.760 shy about doing that, right, We saw Trent Sherfield, River Craycraft, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.760 Cedric Wilson, all these guys, even Chase Claypool and Robbie 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.080 chosen to a certain extent getting reps down in high 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.760 and mid red zone and low red zone two for 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.520 that matter, while ten and seventeen got their breathers a 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:54.120 lot of the time on those rundowns inside the red zone. 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.560 Red zone rundown reps that's a freaking mouthful. So Westbrook 0:09:57.640 --> 0:09:59.400 is more of a vertical threat to than the leak. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.520 So he's got two pretty big ends of the spectrum 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.080 there in this potential competition in my opinion. But I 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.240 think Malik is a better screen player and with the 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.680 football in his hands after the catch and as a 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.600 potential ball carrier. So jet motion Nwi on one play 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:15.240 and he's your lead blocker, Jet motion Malik Washington and 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:18.480 give him the football. He's also very sure handed and 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:20.560 a true student of the game that absorbed the offense 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.520 last year and saw him go, you know, kind of 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.240 break out, not breakout, but like show that he could 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.520 play in this league, in this offense down the stretch right, 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.480 and he's got better as he went along, And that 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.920 year of experience within the offense I think is an 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.880 advantage on Nwi, who is no slouch when it comes 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.040 to being a student of the game. So I think 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:39.800 he'll get it down as quick as anybody, But I'm 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.240 just acknowledging that Malik does have the edge in terms of. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:43.440 He was here last year. 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.280 Of course, the entire room is fighting for playing time, 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:49.840 but I think that based off resume and projecting forward, 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:53.040 those would be the front runners, with Westbrook Akine holding 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.960 the edge for a more prominent role. But ultimately both 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.680 players should have plenty of reps, especially with Malik in 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:02.160 the kicking game here is that Westbrook Akine takes it, 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.480 but Malik makes it tough on him, pushes him, and 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.960 makes the entire room better. In fact, I think the 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.920 real battle here might be more between Malik and D. S. 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.560 Gridge because we saw d kind of flash some some 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.880 things here and there in that kind of you know, 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.959 screen game potential ball carrier, tougher than you know, plays 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.559 bigger than the size type of role the Malik plays 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:24.600 like D. S. Gridge kind of shows you some stuff 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.000 in that in that role as well. But I think 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.560 all three of those guys feature pretty cool supplementary skills 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.720 to wreak and waddle, and as of today, you know, 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.840 before the draft, that would be my top five going 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:37.120 into the season. Reek Wattle, Nwy, Malik Washington, and D. S. 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:39.760 Gridge at the guard spot. I'd be surprised if they're 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.760 done adding there. So there's a chance we you know, 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:44.360 monkey wrench, you know, get a monkey wrench thrown too 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:46.600 this entire thing. In fact, i'd say better than a chance, 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.800 I'd say it's likely. But since it's been quiet for 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.880 a couple of weeks, you know, what better time to 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:53.080 assess where we are before going into the draft. So 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.360 Larry Boram played a little bit of gard in Chicago, 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.200 primarily tackle. Same story in college, although there was more 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.880 guard in colleges than there was as a pro. But 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.880 I think the guard stuff with the Bears, in particular 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.520 the twenty twenty three. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.000 Tape against the Bills. I care if it was two 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:10.439 or three. I think it was twenty three. 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.880 When he played the entire game at left guard, was 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:15.120 by far the best thing that I watched, and I 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.000 watched probably six of his games, especially the movement that 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:20.480 he offers from that position and the ability to mash 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.679 down hill. There are reps with duo and combination blocks 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.600 where he you know, kind of shoulders to shoulder hip 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.920 to hips next to the center and can move people 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.319 off the football in short yardage and also a very 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.319 quick open the gate step and then cross over step 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.840 and get into space and trying to start square up 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:40.240 blocks outside the numbers down the field. With Liam, look 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.680 the five position of flexibility, I think is what's attractive there. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.760 And he's tough and durable. I always talk about the 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.080 end of that twenty three season, he was, you know, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.520 doing everything he could to play through some some pretty 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.120 serious stuff. So which that's a trait you look for 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.000 in any player obviously, but your swing guys, they have 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:57.720 to be durable, right, That's what that was a problem 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.840 with Like Kendall Lamb, for instance, who I thought was 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:01.640 as good of a swing tackles there was in the 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.840 league over the last couple of years, but he got 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:05.400 hurt a lot. If he played a few reps or 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.199 if he was in practice, like there was a possibility 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.640 he could get injured, and that all of a sudden 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.200 opens you up to Pandora's box of like practice, squad 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.160 call ups, street free agent signings, and you wind up 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.480 starting those guys in a must win game, you know, 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.920 in December, and look what happens, Like your quarterback is 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.319 under drest the entire game, So. 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.560 You need durability out of those guys. 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.480 And that's why I've always thought, like Liam as a 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:27.600 seventh or eighth makes a lot of sense. 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:29.640 Then you higher than that. Maybe you know it's you're 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:30.360 pushing it a bit. 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:35.440 But I the thing that puzzles me the most, and 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:36.880 not even the most, because like what I just said, 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.760 I do believe in terms of like if Liam mikenbergs 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.880 your eighth offensive lineman, then you're you're doing pretty good 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:44.720 up there. But the thing that does kind of confuse 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.240 me is is the scheme fit or lack thereof. I 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.200 don't think it's ever been a fit for what Liam 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:52.840 does well. There have been flashes, albeit brief, and those 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.320 flashes are when he settles in a left guard position 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.400 or right guard position and isn't bouncing around. But you know, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:14:00.559 at this point, like when he is in that seventh 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.720 or eighth offensive line role, that means you're probably gonna 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.719 have to insert at different spots throughout the course of 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.040 the season, and when you lose that momentum and all 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.000 of a sudden, we get those those reps where you 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.280 get the big losses. And that's what I think it 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:14.480 is about Liam with the reputation, is like the losses 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:16.480 that get put on tape are so bad and so 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:18.960 glaring that it really stands out among the fans. But 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.320 the scheme fit and then the durability and consistency at 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.440 one position, like it's kind of tough to get that 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.200 in the role that I think he's best suited for. 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.520 And then the rest of the suitors are guys without 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.000 real NFL reps, Right, Andrew Meyer didn't play as a rookie, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:32.920 Chase and Hines has been on the practice squad for 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:35.720 a few years. Then you've got some tackles and Brandon Daniels, 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.560 Jackson Carmen, Ryan Hayes, bid On Mattos. But the one 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.120 that I'm really intrigued by is Keon Smith because he 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:43.680 made a massive jump when I thought he was one 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.080 of the first guys cut on the team, you know, 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:48.600 his first year with the Dolphins. Then he comes back 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.520 in the next season and has a really good camp 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:53.200 and winds up making the team in twenty twenty three 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.720 and winds up getting mop up duty. And then all 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.080 those blowout games we had and looked really really good, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:02.040 especially on that run exclusive touchdown drive they had in 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.360 Washington and twenty three, that drive that was Mike White led, 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.000 but it was all runs against the Commanders. And then 0:15:08.040 --> 0:15:10.760 last camp, Keon gets cross training work playing at guard 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.160 and practice and in the preseason. And while I thought 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.200 that was what you'd expect from a position change from 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.480 a young player in camp, a lot of some ups 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.080 but a lot of downs, I think there's potentially something 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.960 there for him there, and that injury was so early 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.960 on in August that he's got a shot to be 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.600 ready by training camp. So he's sort of the dark 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.800 horse in the entire equation, both as a swing tackle 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.560 and a potential swing interior guy or maybe even a 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.120 long shot to start. But I won't get ahead of 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.840 myself there. I would imagine there's you know, that's not 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.520 the banking on decision with the entire thing. So my 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:40.560 prediction for this one is that the other starting guard 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.000 is not yet on the roster. All right, that's the 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:45.640 offensive battles I'm looking at today, on April the seventh, 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.440 let's go ahead and come back on the other side 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.000 and break down the defense. Draft Time podcast brought to 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:57.720 you by AutoNation. So I'm recording this episode on Sunday afternoon. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:15:59.680 I was able to go to the driving range this 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:01.920 morning to hit golf balls and be outside for the 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:04.920 first time really in like five days. And is there 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:09.240 anything better in life than when you get over an 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.360 ailment or like a virus and then you can start 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.120 getting back to your normal life. I think maybe the 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:17.960 ability to sleep, you know, congestion free is probably the 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.960 top of that, like subgenre list. Maybe it's when you're 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:22.920 holding in like having to go to the bathroom for 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.840 a long time too, Like then you get a chance 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.760 to you know, hit the toilet, Like maybe that's one 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.240 of the best feelings in life. I don't know, what 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.920 do you guys think. Let me know in the episode 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.640 on Twitter, what you think is the best possible feeling 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.120 I'm talking about here. But yeah, going out on the 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:38.360 driving range hitting golf balls, gosh, it sure felt nice. 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:41.160 We got Master's week coming up, got college college hoops 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:44.640 Final four just happened, start of baseball, the Mariner still sucks, 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:47.600 So everything getting back on track here in the world. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.800 So we talked about offensive camp battles of intrigue that 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:55.160 could potentially happen in a few months if nothing else 0:16:55.200 --> 0:16:57.040 changes on the roster, which we have the draft, so 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.560 it will change. So an entirely futile exercise here, But hey, 0:17:00.880 --> 0:17:03.800 do you want to just listen to five thousand different 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:06.479 names that could possibly Day three draft picks. We'll get 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.280 to the sleepers and the possible fits later on, but 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.680 I just want to continue to give you guys dolphin 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:16.680 centric content because not everybody wants to hear about Francisco Waxy, 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:19.399 the running back out of Twu Lane, and the potential 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.480 seventh round draft pick on every single episode. So defensive 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.639 side of the football, now here's where I think you 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:26.000 got a lot more juice and kind of where the 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.680 idea behind this kind of was sparked. It was really 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.960 the safety position that made me got thinking about this, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.600 and the part about this I really like, and not 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.119 that it wasn't the case last year, but I can 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:39.639 really see the personnel fitting a vision of Anthony Weaver. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.760 I felt a lot of the additions made here would 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.480 speak to what made this defense ecel under coach Weave. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.960 And while defense is even more rotation, matchup and role 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.159 based and than the offenses, I think you'll have a 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:53.480 lot of fun potential battles bring all over the side 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:55.080 of the ball. To list the three that I'm looking 0:17:55.119 --> 0:17:57.959