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Speaker 3: What is up Dolphans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 3: our first football Friday of twenty twenty four, I have
Speaker 3: a couple of guests lined up for you guys from
Speaker 3: the Jags Beat, Demitrius Harvey joins me to break down
Speaker 3: the Jacksonville Jaguars where they are currently with their systems operations,
Speaker 3: with their injury report, and so much more. And we'll
Speaker 3: welcome in Kyle Krabs for his weekly spot in season
Speaker 3: to go around college football and talk about some prospects.
Speaker 3: I'll also make my Week one NFL picks after winning
Speaker 3: one hundred and ninety one games a year ago, my
Speaker 3: all time greatest season picking games. All of that and
Speaker 3: a heck of a lot more from the Baptist Hell
Speaker 3: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Speaker 3: Drivetime Podcast and I am thrilled today to have the
Speaker 3: opposing beat back on the show. My guest is Demetrius Harvey,
Speaker 3: reporter for Jacks dot Com. Demetrius, how are we living?
Speaker 4: Brother?
Speaker 5: We're doing all right. We're excited for the for the
Speaker 5: seasons finally here. It almost seems like every year we're
Speaker 5: going through training camp. It feels like it's long and ruling,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden, boom, it's week one,
Speaker 5: and yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker 3: I feel like as you get older, that's kind of
Speaker 3: how it goes, because when you're younger, maybe you have
Speaker 3: fewer responsibilities, less obligations, and the time off seems longer.
Speaker 3: But you know, life kind of gets in the way
Speaker 3: and you get through, you know, those offeas of months
Speaker 3: because you have other things going on in your life.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's maybe that's just me.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but let's go ahead and kick it
Speaker 3: off here with just I just kind of want to
Speaker 3: get a rundown because I was kind of going through
Speaker 3: this in the podcast earlier in the week, taking a
Speaker 3: look at every team on the Dolphins schedule and how they,
Speaker 3: you know, kind of fared in training camp through the
Speaker 3: injury situation.
Speaker 2: So I was hoping to get.
Speaker 3: A rundown from you on the Jags and their health
Speaker 3: and injury situation. Also, you know camp battle winners, just
Speaker 3: if you wanted to give us, you know, the nuts
Speaker 3: and bolt from training camp.
Speaker 2: What all of that looked like the last month here
Speaker 2: for the Jaguars.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, injury wise, I guess i'll start there.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: Obviously, Eric Armstead signed here and I think March around
Speaker 5: then during free agency, and he sort of had that
Speaker 5: off season knee surgery. He had a meniscus injury with
Speaker 5: the forty nine ers during that Super Bowl run. So
Speaker 5: he had been rehabbying pretty much throughout the entire offseason,
Speaker 5: and he hadn't even stepped foot on the practice field
Speaker 5: really until I think it was the week after or
Speaker 5: maybe you know a few days before the Bucks joint practices,
Speaker 5: and then he'd even participate in the Bucks joint practices.
Speaker 5: So so he's sort of been delayed, or probably the
Speaker 5: most delayed out of the guys that are expected to
Speaker 5: start on the defense. And then as far as Darnell Savage,
Speaker 5: he's another one who he hadn't been off the practice field.
Speaker 5: You know, he's been on the practice field, but he
Speaker 5: had been wearing a red no contact jersey throughout the
Speaker 5: entire offseason program, in most of training camp. You know,
Speaker 5: he didn't even step foot on on the field as
Speaker 5: far as tackling or or or making contact until the
Speaker 5: final week of the preseason. You know, those are two
Speaker 5: of the major injuries. Obviously, Andrew Wingard who went on IR.
Speaker 5: He's their backup safety and special teams ACE. He's gonna
Speaker 5: miss a lot of time. He missed pretty much all
Speaker 5: of training camp with a knee injury. He's gonna miss
Speaker 5: at least the first four games of the season because
Speaker 5: he's he's now on IR. Other than that, I don't
Speaker 5: think that there's been any other major injuries. You know,
Speaker 5: a couple of Nixon bruises. You know, Tyson Cambell had
Speaker 5: an ankle for a couple of weeks, but he's fine.
Speaker 5: Daniel Thomas, the backup safety, is another guy who might
Speaker 5: miss a little bit of time, but but they expect
Speaker 5: him back this week too. So as far as injuries
Speaker 5: are concerned, it seems like it's it's all golden. But
Speaker 5: in terms of the actual training camp, and and and
Speaker 5: and and what went down, Just to give you a
Speaker 5: little bit of a perspective, you know, everything's new, so
Speaker 5: we're all trying to play catch up in terms of
Speaker 5: of of what we're seeing. At least on the defensive
Speaker 5: side of the football, there's been a lot of battles.
Speaker 5: You know, at cornerback, you had Ronald Darby versus third
Speaker 5: round pick Jari and Jones. We all thought going in
Speaker 5: that that was gonna be a pretty intense battle, but
Speaker 5: it seemed like Darby sort of took took off with
Speaker 5: that pretty early on, and so he he's gonna be
Speaker 5: their starting cornerback opposite Tyson Campbell. The same goes with
Speaker 5: the nickel and safety position. They're they're they're being a
Speaker 5: little koy with it in terms of Darnell Savage's real position,
Speaker 5: but but he's gonna be playing nickel and and and
Speaker 5: you know that that that sort of solidified itself throughout
Speaker 5: the offseason, throughout training camp as well. On the offensive
Speaker 5: side of the football, there weren't very many battles, I
Speaker 5: guess if you want to point to one the backup
Speaker 5: quarterback position, you know with Mac Jones and Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 5: or Mac Jones in a C. J. Bethard, sorry, you
Speaker 5: know that those two sort of went at it and
Speaker 5: then you know, Unfortunately for Bethard, he suffered a hip
Speaker 5: injury or actually it was a groin injury, and and
Speaker 5: so he's gonna miss or you know, he's gonna miss
Speaker 5: at least seven weeks because they release him with an
Speaker 5: injury settlement, missing four four weeks, and then there's three
Speaker 5: weeks that he can't sign with the Jaguars. So those
Speaker 5: are pretty much all the camp the camp battles I
Speaker 5: can think of, and and sort of what went down
Speaker 5: during training camp as far as that's concerned. But yeah,
Speaker 5: pretty clean training camp. No real tough injuries. Not really
Speaker 5: much in terms of players coming back from injury from
Speaker 5: last year other than Lawrence and and and and guys
Speaker 5: like that. But but yeah, it was a it was
Speaker 5: pretty clean.
Speaker 3: I feel like that's the only win you can really
Speaker 3: get in training camp is just coming out of the
Speaker 3: other side clean and being injury free. And for Jags fans,
Speaker 3: another big win is getting your quarterback locked up for
Speaker 3: the long term. The Dolphins fans know about that as
Speaker 3: well as both Tua and Lawrence get their contracts this summer,
Speaker 3: and I want us to go back to that position
Speaker 3: there with Trevor Lawrence obviously the biggest part of any
Speaker 3: team is the quarterback, and especially when you pay that
Speaker 3: quarterback upwards of two hundred million dollars over the life
Speaker 3: of the contract. I'm curious, Demetrius, in what ways have
Speaker 3: you seen him, I guess, take ownership of the offense,
Speaker 3: ownership of the team in this new era where once
Speaker 3: you get that contract and you're like, obviously the first
Speaker 3: pick of.
Speaker 2: The draft is the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 3: But now at this stage it's like, all right, this
Speaker 3: is entirely your team. How have you seen him kind
Speaker 3: of take ownership of the offense and of the team
Speaker 3: since that contract?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, it's actually been pretty cool.
Speaker 5: And now that I'm thinking about it, it's interesting just
Speaker 5: seeing Lawrence's growth from twenty twenty one when he was
Speaker 5: first drafted here in Jacksonville to now, it's been tremendous.
Speaker 5: I think that in terms of his demeanor and how
Speaker 5: he talks and how he addresses people, it's always been consistent.
Speaker 5: He's he's from the Dabos Sweeney era during in Clemson.
Speaker 5: He's been a star his entire life. You know, he
Speaker 5: knows how to handle the media. But when when you
Speaker 5: think about how he interacts with players, you can see
Speaker 5: more and maybe I'm overstating it a bit, but but
Speaker 5: I don't think I am. You know, you you see
Speaker 5: him more talking to guys after plays, you know, working
Speaker 5: with a guy like Gabe Davis, who might be a
Speaker 5: veteran and might be a little older than Trevor, but
Speaker 5: but you know, he's a he's a new player to
Speaker 5: this team, you know, making sure that Brian Thomas is
Speaker 5: up to speed on what he's doing, interacting with Evan Ingram,
Speaker 5: him and him and Evan are our team captains this
Speaker 5: year for a reason, because you know, those are the
Speaker 5: two guys that are the pillars of the Jaguars offense.
Speaker 5: And then you can't forget about Christian Kirk. And you know,
Speaker 5: the the interactions that I've seen Trevor have with those
Speaker 5: players in particular has been has been great. And you know,
Speaker 5: during this offseason, before he even signed the contract, quarterbacks
Speaker 5: coach My McCoy sort of talked about he wants Trevor
Speaker 5: to not only master the offense in what they have
Speaker 5: in front of him, but also just in terms of
Speaker 5: that understanding and and and taking advantage of of what
Speaker 5: he's been able to to sort of build on over
Speaker 5: the last few years, he has to really own it.
Speaker 5: He has to he has to be the guy and
Speaker 5: and and I think that that's what we're seeing. We're
Speaker 5: seeing more of a leadership role from Lawrence, not that
Speaker 5: he didn't have it before, but before you're actually, you know,
Speaker 5: really ingrained in the offense, you know that he started
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two with with the Peterson. Before you're
Speaker 5: really ingrained, you you you can't necessarily tell people what
Speaker 5: to do because you're telling yourself what to do. And
Speaker 5: I think that right now we can really see what
Speaker 5: what what this these last couple of years have done
Speaker 5: for Trevor. And then really once he signs the contract,
Speaker 5: you know, he remains the same steady, calm, cool, collected
Speaker 5: and so I really think that he's he's reaching the
Speaker 5: point of his career where he can be the guy
Speaker 5: the faith of the franchise, and I think he's owning it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, these two quarterbacks, you know, Tua and Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 3: both come from an era where there's so much change
Speaker 3: in the college football landscape.
Speaker 2: And you know, we talked with two about this all
Speaker 2: the time, about how.
Speaker 3: Last year was the first time he had back to
Speaker 3: back seasons with the same play caller since his high
Speaker 3: school days and now going into his third season, which
Speaker 3: is the exact same situation for Trevor Lawrence going into
Speaker 3: his third year with Doug Peterson.
Speaker 2: So the similarities continue to stack up with these two guys.
Speaker 3: They faced off in college, they played, I believe, once
Speaker 3: again each other in the pro so far, and we'll
Speaker 3: get that rematch here in the opener, you mentioned a
Speaker 3: player that I wanted to talk about here in the
Speaker 3: offensive portion before we take our first break, and it
Speaker 3: was Brian Thomas, the first round draft pick of the Jaguars,
Speaker 3: who you know, we heard coach McDaniel to press conference
Speaker 3: earlier this week talk about how they did plenty of
Speaker 3: work on Brian Thomas. As you know, they went and
Speaker 3: got Odell Beckham, so obviously receiver was a big priority
Speaker 3: for them this offseason. With that late first round pick
Speaker 3: the Jags wind up to get the Jags do wind
Speaker 3: up getting Brian Thomas Junior. How does his inclusion, do
Speaker 3: you think into this offense kind of change things for
Speaker 3: a team that maybe last year didn't really have that
Speaker 3: you know, vertical stretch element. Is he provided that right
Speaker 3: away as a rookie.
Speaker 6: He is, and and it's actually interesting.
Speaker 5: You know, when he first started out in training camp,
Speaker 5: it it wasn't exciting. It was like, you know, you
Speaker 5: you draft this this incredibly fast, four three three speed
Speaker 5: wide receiver out of LSU who dominated, you know, seventeen touchdowns,
Speaker 5: just just a crazy last season of his college football career.
Speaker 5: And then comes into camp and and they're running short
Speaker 5: routes with them, they're they're not really giving them the
Speaker 5: ball downfield, and so there was not really much to say.
Speaker 6: It was interesting.
Speaker 5: Usually everyone hypes up the the the wide receiver. I mean,
Speaker 5: we saw what Malik neighbors and in New York, all
Speaker 5: of all the attention he got. But I think what
Speaker 5: they did was, you know, there was a plan and
Speaker 5: and so we we saw that sort of unfold where
Speaker 5: they're trying to teach him the little things, the short
Speaker 5: intermediate routes, the screens, the whatever they they want to
Speaker 5: throw at him. And then later they least i mean
Speaker 5: against the Buccaneers and joint practices, we saw him go
Speaker 5: deep plenty of times and he and he burned those
Speaker 5: those defenders. And then we saw it in the game
Speaker 5: again against the Buccaneers where you know, it looked like
Speaker 5: he was going deep. The corner, who probably covered him
Speaker 5: a lot during the joint practices, sort of stood stood
Speaker 5: back and he was afraid of getting beat deep. And
Speaker 5: then all of a sudden, Brian breaks off his route
Speaker 5: and it was a perfect pass from I think CJ.
Speaker 5: Beth or mac Jones one of the two, and completed
Speaker 5: it to Brian. And that's just sort of the element
Speaker 5: that I think the Jaguars are hoping to get out
Speaker 5: of Brian Thomas. Not only will he be able to,
Speaker 5: you know, catch balls downfield, but he's also going to
Speaker 5: be that threat. And so you're gonna see the safeties
Speaker 5: back off, You're gonna see the corners back off, and
Speaker 5: then that opens up everything underneath. And and that's sort
Speaker 5: of the direction I think the Jaguars offense is headed in.
Speaker 5: They they have always been a sort of I don't
Speaker 5: want to say dunk and dunk offense, but you know,
Speaker 5: more of a West Coast style offense, more horizontal, you know,
Speaker 5: things like that, quick passes, get it out, get it
Speaker 5: out of Trevor Lawrence's hands, and if he has time
Speaker 5: this year, I really do think that that's a perfect
Speaker 5: fit for Brian a perfect fit for a guy like
Speaker 5: Gabe Davis, who also is known for getting downfield. And
Speaker 5: I think that that's sort of what they want and
Speaker 5: that's what they expect out of these out of these
Speaker 5: guys this year.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 3: It's kind of the conversive what the Dolphins did this
Speaker 3: offseason because they clearly have two of the best field
Speaker 3: twitches the entire game, and Tyreek and Waddle, but they
Speaker 3: go after John hu Smith and even Odell Beckham as well,
Speaker 3: who does have the vertical element of his game. But
Speaker 3: on top of the Lake Washington and Jalen, Right, what
Speaker 3: those guys can do almost like opposite types of needs
Speaker 3: these offenses had, and they went after it accordingly. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and finish up here in our first segment
Speaker 3: before our first break, right here, Demetrius. And when I
Speaker 3: look at the Jags reports, you know on on Twitter
Speaker 3: or you know wherever you get your training camp reports across,
Speaker 3: you know the landscape, I tend to only really trust
Speaker 3: my own eye because training camp is a whirlwine.
Speaker 2: So it's tough to get those.
Speaker 3: But what I did see was some concerns about the
Speaker 3: offensive line, and when I watched the games, you know,
Speaker 3: despite a few pressures, they still move the ball well
Speaker 3: when Lawrence was out there. My question is, are those
Speaker 3: concerns valid from the fan base of the Beat writers
Speaker 3: and why or why not? Do you think the offensive
Speaker 3: line had a good or a bad preseason?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I think they're valid. You can probably
Speaker 5: lump me into the concerned bubble.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 5: It's the issue that that that I've seen. It sort
Speaker 5: of goes back to last season. I mean this this
Speaker 5: offensive line struggled mightily. I mean they were one of
Speaker 5: the worst rushing teams in the league. I believe they
Speaker 5: were twenty ninth, if not worse than that or just
Speaker 5: around there. And so when you look at at at
Speaker 5: the turnover, you know, they they didn't have a left
Speaker 5: guard until the trade deadline basically, and when they brought
Speaker 5: in Ezra Cleveland and then he came in there hurt
Speaker 5: and and so you know, there was just a lot
Speaker 5: of moving parts. There was a lot of injuries, There
Speaker 5: was a lot of poor play. They sort of went
Speaker 5: out and tried to remedy some of that. You know,
Speaker 5: they replaced Luke Fortner with a veteran in Mitch Morse.
Speaker 5: They retained Cam Robinson because there was some question or
Speaker 5: whether or not he would still be the team starting
Speaker 5: left tackle. Obviously, Anton Harrison is entering his second year.
Speaker 5: And so what I've seen throughout training camp is is,
Speaker 5: you know, you is not enough. You know, you don't
Speaker 5: really have a good idea of what this offensive line
Speaker 5: is going to look like because first of all, they're
Speaker 5: only in pads so much. Secondly, no one can touch
Speaker 5: the quarterback, so there's a question on whether or not
Speaker 5: it would have been a sack or whatever the case
Speaker 5: may be. Is the defensive line going as fast as
Speaker 5: they as they should be, And I think the concerns
Speaker 5: really got elevated for me, at least against the Tampa
Speaker 5: Bay Buccaneers. Didn't seem like they did a good job
Speaker 5: in joint practices in terms of getting off the ball.
Speaker 5: The Buccaneers pretty much stopped all the runs. You know,
Speaker 5: there was some pressures. Even when I talked about that
Speaker 5: Brian Thomas, you know, deep touchdown catch he had against
Speaker 5: the Bucks and joint practices, Trevor probably would have been
Speaker 5: sacked on that play. And so when you look at
Speaker 5: what we've seen last year and then you look at
Speaker 5: this year, pretty much every every player on that offensive
Speaker 5: line aside from Mitch Morris is returning, and so you
Speaker 5: have an older Brandon Sheriff who definitely didn't look like
Speaker 5: in All Pro, you know, as he was with Washington
Speaker 5: in years past. You have a Cam Robinson who has
Speaker 5: been hurt a lot of a lot of time in
Speaker 5: his career, and then you have Ezra Cleveland who's still,
Speaker 5: to me is unproven. So the concerns sort of match
Speaker 5: up with what we saw last season, and they really
Speaker 5: just have to go out there and prove it. You know,
Speaker 5: I did see some good things against the Falcons, but
Speaker 5: then we have to remember, you know, the Falcons were
Speaker 5: playing third and four string players. Rahee Morris just doesn't
Speaker 5: want to play his his starting line guys in the
Speaker 5: preseason really that much. And so when when you factor
Speaker 5: all that in that the concerns I think are valid.
Speaker 5: Do I think that they're going to be a bad
Speaker 5: offensive line this year?
Speaker 6: For sure?
Speaker 5: Not necessarily, It just the the concern is there, and
Speaker 5: I don't think it's gonna be a race until we
Speaker 5: actually get the games played.
Speaker 2: Really good stuff there on the Daguars offense.
Speaker 3: From Demetrius Harvey at Jacks dot Com, you can find
Speaker 3: him there as well. I was at Demetrius a two
Speaker 3: on Twitter or X. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 3: first break right there. Come back on the other side
Speaker 3: and talk about this defense under new coordinator Ryan Nielsen
Speaker 3: all that next year on the Draft Time podcast, my
Speaker 3: guest Demitrius Harvey, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 2: We did the offense.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and flip this thing over to the
Speaker 3: defense with my guest today, Demitrius Harvey, and talk about
Speaker 3: Ryan Nielsen, who came in here last year as the
Speaker 3: DC of the Falcons in joint practices, and I really
Speaker 3: wasn't impressed by the way those guys played for him
Speaker 3: in two days of practice and the game, as you mentioned,
Speaker 3: against backups and with their own backups as well as
Speaker 3: the Falcons kind of ran that operation the same way
Speaker 3: last year in the preseason. Just from a structure standpoint
Speaker 3: in your study of his defense in Atlanta, what you
Speaker 3: expect me to bring to Jacksonville? What do you think
Speaker 3: the Dolphins can expect to see from their defensive structure
Speaker 3: comes Sunday under Ryan Nielsen.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be interesting.
Speaker 5: I think we'll all kind of get a good glimpse
Speaker 5: of that for the first time in riek one. And
Speaker 5: I say that sort of jokingly, but but but it's
Speaker 5: it's kind of serious because you know, during training camp,
Speaker 5: Nielsen he has a great, it may be a great
Speaker 5: method of going about things. The Jaguars rotated guys in
Speaker 5: like no other you know, I I saw backups and
Speaker 5: third string players playing with starters. I saw, you know,
Speaker 5: for for instance, Miles Cole, their seventh round rookie, playing
Speaker 5: on the same line as Treyvon and Walker. And then
Speaker 5: we see we see Darnell Savage playing nickel, but he's
Speaker 5: listed as a safety, and and and and we have
Speaker 5: competition between Chad Mooma and Devin Lloyd as the as
Speaker 5: as one of the starting linebackers. And then we have
Speaker 5: foye A luik And potentially being a weak side linebacker
Speaker 5: rather than the middle linebacker. But that's not all cleared
Speaker 5: up necessarily either. So you know, to me, I think
Speaker 5: that this Jaguars defense is going to be a surprise.
Speaker 5: But at the same time, when when you look at
Speaker 5: how they play, and you can still see what they
Speaker 5: like to do, even when they're rotating guys in and out,
Speaker 5: they're changing the the defense around a lot.
Speaker 6: They're they're gonna be a really fast defense.
Speaker 5: I I just know that I think that what they've
Speaker 5: done is sort of simplified what these defenders sort of done,
Speaker 5: sort of did the last couple of years under Mike Caldwell,
Speaker 5: where there was a lot of thinking, there was a
Speaker 5: lot of gray area, there was a lot of open
Speaker 5: for interpretation changes on the fly. This year's defense doesn't
Speaker 5: seem to have that. They they attack, their aggressive. That's
Speaker 5: sort of the mantra that Ryan Nielsen has has given
Speaker 5: to the Jaguars, and he's taken from you know, his
Speaker 5: time with the Falcons and probably his time with the
Speaker 5: Saints as well. But but you know, he's he's continued
Speaker 5: to sort of go into that. What I what I
Speaker 5: can say about the Jaguars defense is the defensive line
Speaker 5: is going to be the featured unit among the group.
Speaker 5: You know, they are they are rotating in and out,
Speaker 5: they are they are fast, they are they are playing
Speaker 5: a different style of defense than we've seen before. You know,
Speaker 5: in your past they were a three four defense. Now
Speaker 5: there are four to three defense. And so I really
Speaker 5: think that this this year's defense is going to be
Speaker 5: interesting to see just because of not only the personnel
Speaker 5: that they have, you know, Chine's Allen, Eric Armstead, Trey
Speaker 5: Von Walker, you know, Devon Hamilton, guys like that, but
Speaker 5: also because of what Neilsen sort of brings to the table.
Speaker 5: You know, he's obviously had a background as a defensive
Speaker 5: line coach. We saw him routinely with that unit throughout
Speaker 5: throughout the day during practice. It's gonna be interesting. I
Speaker 5: think that it's gonna be a new look. It's gonna
Speaker 5: be it's gonna be fast, it's gonna be aggressive.
Speaker 3: You kind of answered my final questions there and that rundown,
Speaker 3: which was very thorough, and I appreciate that, and it's
Speaker 3: I guess I got to thinking when you were going,
Speaker 3: you know, over everything there. It seems like early in
Speaker 3: the season. You know, I look at the Dolphins schedule
Speaker 3: the last couple of years and I was kind of
Speaker 3: tracking when they face teams that are working in new
Speaker 3: d c's or maybe you know DC's that haven't really
Speaker 3: proven themselves, that's when they hang the big points, like
Speaker 3: vance Joseph last year was his first year in Denver
Speaker 3: seventy Burger, which I know that's kind of anno for
Speaker 3: anybody across the NFL. But even two years ago, you know,
Speaker 3: Mike McDonald after the Dolphins and Ravens game when the
Speaker 3: Dolphins scored forty two points and came back from down
Speaker 3: twenty one in the fourth quarter to win that game.
Speaker 3: After that, he basically was perfect for a year and
Speaker 3: three quarters to get himself a head coaching job. So
Speaker 3: it kind of seems like when a team works in
Speaker 3: a new DC, maybe he doesn't have the connectivity right away.
Speaker 3: That's when Miami can get their you know, their gaudy
Speaker 3: point holes up there. But I think that for the
Speaker 3: Jacks perspective, it sounds like the kind of reduced terminology,
Speaker 3: maybe just the ability to play faster because there's left
Speaker 3: less interpretation, to your point, seems like maybe that shouldn't
Speaker 3: be the case for the Jackson this game.
Speaker 2: Would you agree with that?
Speaker 6: Yeah? I think so.
Speaker 5: And it's funny you mentioned it because yesterday Josh hens
Speaker 5: Allen met with us and everyone was sort of peppering
Speaker 5: him with with questions about the defense, like when is
Speaker 5: it going to look like what is this?
Speaker 6: What is that?
Speaker 5: And he was just like, is that what everyone's talking about?
Speaker 5: Like calm down, like we all understand this defense very well,
Speaker 5: like it's it's not a big deal, this isn't this
Speaker 5: isn't something where they're going to be entering week one confused.
Speaker 5: And I think that that probably just speaks to what
Speaker 5: the defensive coaching staff has been able to do as
Speaker 5: far as teaching, allowing these guys to learn understanding what
Speaker 5: is going on. And then also you factor in less
Speaker 5: gray area, more understanding your assignment, not really making not
Speaker 5: really leaving too much room for mistakes. I think I
Speaker 5: agree with you. I think that it's it might be
Speaker 5: a little bit less of a confusion and and sort
Speaker 5: of have to work through it over the next couple
Speaker 5: of weeks before they really gel and it's it's more
Speaker 5: going to be Okay, this is our assignment, this is
Speaker 5: what we're supposed to do.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 6: Will it be perfect?
Speaker 5: I don't think so, just because you know, that's just
Speaker 5: not the nature of the NFL. But but but I
Speaker 5: do think it's going to be a little bit better
Speaker 5: than people might expect.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I keep thinking about how this game
Speaker 3: might shake out, and you know, given the offensive continuity
Speaker 3: on either side and then the new DC on either side,
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like we could be in store
Speaker 3: for some points come Sunday afternoon. I'll go ahead and
Speaker 3: end with this for you here, Demetrius. I end the
Speaker 3: segment with the opposing beat writer the same way every
Speaker 3: single week here in season. And it's as simple as this.
Speaker 3: The Jaguars win the game if and then you get
Speaker 3: to fill in the blank.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the the Jaguars win the game if the Jaguars
Speaker 5: and and offense are and the Trevor Lawrence can can
Speaker 5: actually get the ball downfield, they can they can utilize
Speaker 5: the rushing attack. I think that that's what it's gonna
Speaker 5: boil down to. You know, if Travis Etn is able
Speaker 5: to get going and the Jaguars can sort of control
Speaker 5: the tempo rather than let Miami dictate it, then I
Speaker 5: think they win the game. If if they can't run
Speaker 5: the ball, they have to pun a lot and they
Speaker 5: give you know, Miami, Tyreek Hill, Jaywen wadd or all
Speaker 5: those guys more opportunities than I don't think they're gonna
Speaker 5: win the game.
Speaker 3: Sounds good. He's at Demetrius eighty two on Twitter. You
Speaker 3: can find him at Jacks dot com and an f
Speaker 3: a U alum as well.
Speaker 2: Don't forget that local.
Speaker 3: I guess someone local, right do you consart Boca part
Speaker 3: of not not really South Florida?
Speaker 5: Right, No, it's out for it's local to you guys.
Speaker 6: It's not local to us.
Speaker 5: It's But at the same time, I always I'll always say,
Speaker 5: go owls up here.
Speaker 3: Hey man, that was a fun Final four run a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago. Demitrius Harvey, appreciate your time today, man,
Speaker 3: we got a lot smarter about the Jacksonville Jaguars. Best
Speaker 3: of luck this season, but not on Sunday. And thank
Speaker 3: you again for your time.
Speaker 2: My friend.
Speaker 6: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Good luck and away he goes and in comes the music.
Speaker 3: You know what time that means? It is time to
Speaker 3: pick the Week one games across the National Football League.
Speaker 3: We did the Week one game already and I'm actually
Speaker 3: recording this segment before it gets played. So did we
Speaker 3: win the game? On Thursday? We picked the Chiefs over
Speaker 3: the Baltimore Ravens and the opener. I don't know what
Speaker 3: happened yet in that game. Tonight we have a game
Speaker 3: as well, which, by the way, do this all the time.
Speaker 3: Give me more NFL football on Friday nights. Give me
Speaker 3: the Packers over the Eagles. I'm a big Packer believer
Speaker 3: this year, not so much on the Eagles with new
Speaker 3: coordinators and a team that really fell off the rails
Speaker 3: last year. Give me your Dolphins over the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: I'll take the Falcons over the Pittsburgh Steelers. I do
Speaker 3: not have a lot of high hopes for the Steelers
Speaker 3: this year. I think that Kirk Cousins gets his first
Speaker 3: win with the Falcons as they go after their NFC
Speaker 3: South Division championship that I think they cruise to this year.
Speaker 3: I'll take the Bills over the Cardinals, but come on,
Speaker 3: Kyle Murray, go Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Give me the Bengals over the Patriots. I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be a rough, rough.
Speaker 3: Year for New England, and even if Jamar Chase is
Speaker 3: not playing that game or for a long time for
Speaker 3: the Bengals, I'll still take them in this one. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take the Titans to upset the Bears on the
Speaker 3: road in Chicago and spoil the Bears fun for the
Speaker 3: opening game that they all think they're gonna win and
Speaker 3: get off to a playoff season start.
Speaker 2: I don't see it that way for them this year.
Speaker 3: I'll take the Vikings over a Giants team that I
Speaker 3: have picking first in the draft next year. The Raiders
Speaker 3: get an upset win over the Chargers. As you guys
Speaker 3: know by now, I am bearish on the Chargers, not.
Speaker 2: A big believer there.
Speaker 3: I'll take the Colts over the Texans in a big
Speaker 3: upset and Opening Day as Anthony Richardson goes off in
Speaker 3: that one. Take the Saints over the Panthers kind of
Speaker 3: a ho hum game there. I'll take the Seahawks over
Speaker 3: the Broncos. Give me the Cowboys over the Browns. I
Speaker 3: went back and forth on that one, but I feel
Speaker 3: like Dak and CD kind of have something to prove
Speaker 3: in their first game back this season. I'll take the
Speaker 3: Washington Commanders to go on the road in Tampa Bay
Speaker 3: and win a game in a hot, hostile environment.
Speaker 2: Over Baker Mayfield and the Bucks.
Speaker 3: And then on Sunday Night Football, I'll take the Lions
Speaker 3: over the Rams, mostly because of the location of that
Speaker 3: game back in Detroit, and the Niners over the Jets, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, how funny is it that the Niners
Speaker 3: that the Jets fans had all summer thinking we might
Speaker 3: not have to play Brandon Ayuk. We might not have
Speaker 3: to play Trent Williams, we might not have to play
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: Wrong.
Speaker 3: All of them back in the lineup and you will
Speaker 3: see them for a beatdown on Monday Night Football. Those
Speaker 3: are the picks, last break right there. Come back on
Speaker 3: the other side and talk to my good buddy Kyle
Speaker 3: Krabs about his mock draft, the weekend in college football
Speaker 3: and Dolphins and Jags opener all that next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 3: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by a donation.
Speaker 3: It is a football Friday, and that means I'm bringing
Speaker 3: in my buddy Kyle, Kyle Sthman.
Speaker 4: It sound like you're gonna go to a pickle Rick there?
Speaker 2: Should we should we started off with pickle Rick?
Speaker 3: Then I'm doing good, buddy, scale of one to ten,
Speaker 3: give me way way this for me here. First week
Speaker 3: of the NFL season is underway right now. The Dolphins
Speaker 3: are less than forty eight hours away.
Speaker 2: Where you're at right now on that scale, uh.
Speaker 4: Probably about a seven and a half.
Speaker 7: And then I'm gonna wake up on Saturday and it's
Speaker 7: gonna be an eight and a half.
Speaker 4: And then you're gonna wake up on Sunday and give.
Speaker 2: Me a ten at a full ten, full stop ten. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's good to hear. I think so too.
Speaker 3: I feel like maybe with you know, kids involved in
Speaker 3: family life, like maybe you don't get as geeked during
Speaker 3: the week because there are so many.
Speaker 2: Boxes to check to get through the Sunday. But I
Speaker 2: feel the same way, man, because we are here, we
Speaker 2: are back.
Speaker 3: There is football across the street, like I said, less
Speaker 3: than forty eight hours away from right now, and let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and actually start here first, because I'm so
Speaker 3: glad Kyle that you are back riding full time draft
Speaker 3: content again, separate from your Dolphins content, and you can
Speaker 3: find Kyle's work at the thirty third team, where he
Speaker 3: has recently been named their NFL Draft lead.
Speaker 2: So Kyle, congrats, thank you TOFF.
Speaker 3: You're welcome, and as we sit here today and get
Speaker 3: ready for Opening Day, we just may Your column had
Speaker 3: me excited about the possibility of a love landing a
Speaker 3: stud in this draft, because I think you kind of
Speaker 3: nailed it for the Dolphins pick. But tell the folks
Speaker 3: where you went with pick twenty six, which, if my
Speaker 3: math is right, would mean a divisional round exit. Does
Speaker 3: that mean a playoff victory for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: That's what I did do.
Speaker 7: I did avoid the low hanging fruit of taking just
Speaker 7: the odds for the season as determining the draft order,
Speaker 7: and I instead did go pick all the games for
Speaker 7: of course your predictions and then do playoffs over that.
Speaker 7: So yeah, yes, correct. The Dolphins making a Divisional round
Speaker 7: appearance and drafting safety Malachi Starks from the University Georgia
Speaker 7: with my mock draft, and Starks, if you caught the highlight,
Speaker 7: made a Odell Beckham esque leaping interception defending a fade
Speaker 7: from the slot up the far sideline in the Georgia
Speaker 7: opener against Clemson, kind of eerily reminiscent of his first
Speaker 7: game as a freshman in twenty twenty two when they
Speaker 7: played Oregon.
Speaker 4: He made a very.
Speaker 7: Similar type of play, just on the other sideline down
Speaker 7: the field. So the ball skills here for Malachi Starks
Speaker 7: are outstanding. As far as why it was a choice
Speaker 7: for the Dolphins, we know Javon Holland is in the
Speaker 7: last year of his rookie contract right now. You have
Speaker 7: Jordan Poyer and Marcus may Is kind of the next
Speaker 7: two guys with experience in that room. They're both on
Speaker 7: one year deals, so you just don't know who's gonna
Speaker 7: be back. You try to make picks with logic of okay,
Speaker 7: where is there not long term stability with the nucleus
Speaker 7: players of the room, and as of right now, with
Speaker 7: the information that we have, safety was one of those spots.
Speaker 7: It was kind of an intersection of value. And by
Speaker 7: the time everybody's listening to this, my top fifty rankings
Speaker 7: will have come out at thirty thirteen as well, starts
Speaker 7: at top ten player in the class. But you have
Speaker 7: guys at this position for whatever reason. Kyle Hamilton I
Speaker 7: thought was a top three player in the class and
Speaker 7: he went barely in the top fifteen. You have Brian Branch,
Speaker 7: who I thought was a first round player who slid
Speaker 7: out the first round altogether intoin Winfield junior head first
Speaker 7: round tape of Minnesota didn't go. Javon Holland falls out
Speaker 7: of the first round as one of the more dynamic
Speaker 7: all around safeties in the game. It's it's just an
Speaker 7: unfortunate reality of that position. For whatever reason. The way
Speaker 7: that it's being treated is it's not prioritized in the
Speaker 7: draft process because of positional value, whether fair or foul.
Speaker 7: So That's where I think the big struggle is with
Speaker 7: Malachi Starksys is like, there's no doubt this is an
Speaker 7: elite player, but how does that get valued if he
Speaker 7: is indeed a safety who can come down and play
Speaker 7: in the nickel.
Speaker 3: I would add my maybe all time favorite draft hit
Speaker 3: personally and Jesse Bates as Amit Brown draft pick who
Speaker 3: went on to be an All Pro.
Speaker 2: At that position. Man, it's those.
Speaker 3: All those players you mentioned there are what I think
Speaker 3: in the building they call force multipliers, guys that do
Speaker 3: multiple things that really kind of you know, extend their
Speaker 3: impact beyond just their own role on the defense. And
Speaker 3: first here, I just I love the exercise of doing
Speaker 3: a mock you know, every step of the way. I
Speaker 3: know some fans will tell you why you're doing a
Speaker 3: mock draft when the games haven't even begun yet. It's
Speaker 3: like because of that reason, you get this exercise of
Speaker 3: where the roster stands today and how that could impact
Speaker 3: potential draft implications.
Speaker 2: So I think it's a great exercise.
Speaker 3: And then to put a bow on that point, man,
Speaker 3: like you know, you mentioned the safeties with Kyle Hamilton
Speaker 3: Anthony Weavers here now, and so this is a defense
Speaker 3: that I think really utilizes their safeties in multiple ways,
Speaker 3: especially in those big nickel packages and finding ways to
Speaker 3: kind of create those you know, almost roverlooks for guys
Speaker 3: like Kyle Hamilton, for a guy like Javon holland for
Speaker 3: a guy like the Georgia safety you've talked about here.
Speaker 3: So great stuff all around. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 3: into the weekend of college football. And maybe we had
Speaker 3: a good one last weekend. We didn't have you on
Speaker 3: the show for that, but it's a great weekend of
Speaker 3: college football. And right back up, I believe noon kickoff
Speaker 3: for our first game, correct.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Number ten Michigan hosting number three Texas. There's a
Speaker 7: lot of talent on the field for these two teams,
Speaker 7: needless to say, on both sides of the ball. So
Speaker 7: regardless of who has it, it's not like one of
Speaker 7: those matchups where you look at it and you're concerned about, oh,
Speaker 7: do I have to go get my snacks out of
Speaker 7: the kitchen because Texas has It's doesn't work like that.
Speaker 7: So ballers all up and down the field for these
Speaker 7: two teams, and players that are probably gonna be well
Speaker 7: represented in the first thirty two picks.
Speaker 3: What do you like, I mean, let's go over here,
Speaker 3: because you know this is a big game for well,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean you could probably lose this
Speaker 3: game and be okay from a playoff standpoint, right because
Speaker 3: of the expansion. Now you can't go full Florida State
Speaker 3: and lose your first two Sorry Brett are Brett Brett?
Speaker 2: Guys in here at for State of Love is not
Speaker 2: gonna love hearing that.
Speaker 3: But I think they're the first team knocked out of
Speaker 3: the college football playoff, but they can either team can
Speaker 3: afford to lose this game, so it's fun for us
Speaker 3: to get a pigmare matchup.
Speaker 2: But it's more about the prospects, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: So I think you look at Michigan defensively and they
Speaker 7: have a chance to have legit three guys maybe in
Speaker 7: the top half of the first round. Will Johnson at corner,
Speaker 7: who right now is my top overall player in the class.
Speaker 7: Six foot two corner with a lot of length and physicality,
Speaker 7: good ball skills, but like silky smooth for a player
Speaker 7: of his stature is what makes him pretty rare. You
Speaker 7: have Mason grahamt at defensive tackle, who has some shades
Speaker 7: of Christian Wilkins to his game. I think the motor
Speaker 7: is there, the point of attack play. If you watch
Speaker 7: Mason Graham, I guarantee you as a Dolphins fan, you
Speaker 7: will see a lot of what ninety four look like
Speaker 7: for his time here with the team. And then the
Speaker 7: other defensive tackle that they have, Kenneth Grant, is three
Speaker 7: hundred and thirty pounds, freak athlete, very dynamic, pretty good
Speaker 7: pass rush profile as well. That's kind of always the
Speaker 7: thing about those guys that are up in that that
Speaker 7: weight class is what are they bringing on passing downs?
Speaker 7: And you see Grant good first step, being able to
Speaker 7: convert the power and collapse and push the pocket and
Speaker 7: get back in the lap of the quarterback. So from
Speaker 7: Michigan standpoint, those are the players on their defense that
Speaker 7: I think make them a hallmark matchup. And then from
Speaker 7: Texas's standpoint, they have an offensive tackle Calvin Banks, who
Speaker 7: I think has a chance to be a top twenty
Speaker 7: draft selection as well, super athletic, freakishly long. And then
Speaker 7: they've got a quarterback in Quinn Owers who has a
Speaker 7: lot of fans. I think he showed a little bit
Speaker 7: more comfort in doing some of the things that we're
Speaker 7: so used to seeing a quarterback do with manipulating defenders
Speaker 7: with his eyes and the ball handling skills that kind
Speaker 7: of allow you to create space to throw the ball.
Speaker 7: This was kind of the first time I saw quinn
Speaker 7: Ouwers really do that for a sixty minute contest in
Speaker 7: their first game of the season against Colorado State.
Speaker 3: That is a noon kickoff on Fox Texas at the
Speaker 3: Big House against Michigan. Great stuff there, Kyle, And usually
Speaker 3: we have a full slate, we go down like three
Speaker 3: or four games, but I'm not really you know, seeing
Speaker 3: one that jumps off the page outside of that game.
Speaker 3: So I want to go ahead and just play Dealer's
Speaker 3: choice here for our guest, the great Kyle Krast and
Speaker 3: the Lockdown Dolphins podcast in thirty third team, What game
Speaker 3: you're looking at me as far as a fun prospect
Speaker 3: matchup you can think that could take place across the
Speaker 3: rest of the college football landscape.
Speaker 4: Well, I'm selflessly going to take another one in the
Speaker 4: nun block, so you might need to have two screens
Speaker 4: going on. But what you should always.
Speaker 7: We have pitt at Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh has a tight
Speaker 7: end Gavin bar following you, who I think is a
Speaker 7: nice prospect. He's been a multifaceted player to position. And
Speaker 7: then Cincinnati has a potential day to interior defensive lineman
Speaker 7: who I think we mentioned last year, Dante Corleone.
Speaker 4: His nickname is the God Godfather, and he he.
Speaker 7: Had some medical issues that kind of put his availability
Speaker 7: in question. He's been cleared, so he's going to make
Speaker 7: his return to the field this weekend. So I'm selflessly
Speaker 7: going to pick this game for Corleone. But at the
Speaker 7: very least, you do have players both sides between Pitt
Speaker 7: and Cincinnati that are going to have your interest.
Speaker 4: So that's kind of the other one.
Speaker 7: When you're kind of early in the schedule, you have
Speaker 7: a lot of the big schools playing smaller programs kind
Speaker 7: of their tune ups before they get into the conference play.
Speaker 7: But that Pit Cincinnati game is one that I do
Speaker 7: have circle that have my eyes on.
Speaker 3: Looking forward to that one in the game that's gonna
Speaker 3: happen about oh Man doing live math nineteen hours prior
Speaker 3: to Dolphins and Jags kickoff across the street here at
Speaker 3: hard Rock Stadium as the Hurricanes are back in action.
Speaker 2: But I don't want to talk about that game. I
Speaker 2: want to talk about the one.
Speaker 3: He played on Saturday, And I just want you to
Speaker 3: tell the folks what I already know about one Caam Ward.
Speaker 4: He is a baller.
Speaker 7: He has all of the arm talent in the world,
Speaker 7: and I think you saw it against Florida with the armslots.
Speaker 7: I mentioned the ball handling with Quinn Uhs, but I
Speaker 7: think Kim Ward's ball handling skills as far as playfakes,
Speaker 7: being able to kind of sell different kinds of plays,
Speaker 7: being able to quickly get the ball and catch and
Speaker 7: release if you want to go with quick client timing
Speaker 7: type stuff. Some guys they kind of sit there and
Speaker 7: fumble around, trying at the laces before they throw the ball.
Speaker 4: Not Cam. Cam has all the elasticity in the upper
Speaker 4: body in the world.
Speaker 7: And what he's able to do as a result of that,
Speaker 7: and being probably a little bit of an underrated athlete.
Speaker 7: He's not like a true dual threat type player, but
Speaker 7: he can get outside the pocket. You saw that with
Speaker 7: some of the scrambles against Florida and just the it's
Speaker 7: never too fast for him. Now, that doesn't mean he
Speaker 7: doesn't always make great decisions with the ball. And that's
Speaker 7: the big thing with Cam that he has to cut
Speaker 7: down this year on a platform like he has in Miami.
Speaker 7: But I knew about Kim Ward going back to when
Speaker 7: he first transferred to Washington State Goku and but there
Speaker 7: were times last year like I wanted to watch Kim
Speaker 7: wore play and I couldn't even get the game on TV.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 7: So it's a totally different ballgame from him, and I
Speaker 7: think he's going to totally change his perception. I had
Speaker 7: him going to the first out of my mindcraft because
Speaker 7: I think if he plays anywhere near the calibery of
Speaker 7: game that he played against Florida, and he does it
Speaker 7: with any level of modest consistency from start to finish,
Speaker 7: you can't tell me he's not gonna go in the
Speaker 7: first round. And I know for Miami quarterbacks at the
Speaker 7: college level, it's been a minute. The last one was
Speaker 7: Brad Kaya, and before that, it's a long list of
Speaker 7: guys that came through before he got a guy that
Speaker 7: got drafted.
Speaker 4: So I think it's a.
Speaker 7: Great thing for the Gains program and it's a great
Speaker 7: thing for Kim Ward. I think it's a great fit.
Speaker 3: I'm laughing because you know how like there's certain accounts
Speaker 3: on Twitter that will tell you that player xes better
Speaker 3: than Tua, that that's always been the case, Like going
Speaker 3: back to the Tannehill days, this player is better than Tannehill.
Speaker 3: And Brad Kaya was one of the ones that I
Speaker 3: often saw in that argument. And I just laugh because no,
Speaker 3: he never was. He never once was, never was gonna be,
Speaker 3: it never will be. I digress, But yeah, man, that's
Speaker 3: good stuff. It's he's he's so fun to watch. And
Speaker 3: I'm curious, just kind of a quick follow up for you,
Speaker 3: because the pick that he threw is like, oh, you
Speaker 3: can't do that. He did a couple of plays where
Speaker 3: he would make those throws across the body and almost
Speaker 3: like effortlessly nonchalant making those plays.
Speaker 2: I'm curious.
Speaker 3: Is that something that when he gets to the league
Speaker 3: you want to coach that out of him or do
Speaker 3: you say that's part of the package that comes with
Speaker 3: all the you know, glitz and glamour of camp Ward.
Speaker 7: I think there's a line that can be walked there.
Speaker 7: I don't think you want to fully take that element
Speaker 7: out of his game, just because it's part of what
Speaker 7: makes him so dynamic. But there's a time and a
Speaker 7: place to do it, and there's a time and a
Speaker 7: place to understand we need to concede the down. Don't
Speaker 7: do something crazy on first and ten at midfield because
Speaker 7: you got two more downs, right. I think I go
Speaker 7: back to when Ryan Fitzpatrick was here in twenty nineteen
Speaker 7: and kind of him talking about when you throw interceptions
Speaker 7: and when you're aggressive, and I think that's very applicable
Speaker 7: to the game. So I think for Cam it's more
Speaker 7: of a management of the decision making, not necessarily I
Speaker 7: don't want to do this and I want to put
Speaker 7: you in a box.
Speaker 2: It makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think that you know he's grown in
Speaker 3: that regard from his time at Incarnate Word to Washington
Speaker 3: State Gokoog's and here with the Hurricanes as well. So
Speaker 3: the Hurricanes play Florida A and M across the street
Speaker 3: at six o'clock on Saturday. You can check that one out,
Speaker 3: as well as the Michigan Texas game and the Pitt
Speaker 3: in Cincinnati game that Kyle talked about. But the big
Speaker 3: one on Sunday, Dolphins and Jacks. Kyle, just real quick,
Speaker 3: tell us a couple of things. You're looking forward to
Speaker 3: that game, and who do you think takes the openers?
Speaker 3: If the Dolphins for there would be their fourth consecutive
Speaker 3: opening day win.
Speaker 2: Is that what you have?
Speaker 7: Yeah, you can put me down for Dolphins win. I
Speaker 7: think this is gonna be a close game. I think
Speaker 7: Jacksonville has done a lot of nice things between the
Speaker 7: addition of defensive coordinator Ryan Nielsen, with all their physical
Speaker 7: talent that they have on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 7: The reinvestment in wide receivers kind of changed the dynamics
Speaker 7: for Trevor Lawrence. I think for my Miami's perspective, their
Speaker 7: skill players, I think are going to create some space
Speaker 7: against the back seven. Though I look at the safety room,
Speaker 7: I look at the linebacker room, I look at the
Speaker 7: corners outside of Tyson Campbell for Jacksonville, I think Mike
Speaker 7: McDaniel can do a lot of really good things to
Speaker 7: create space with that group. And I kind of trust
Speaker 7: Miami to have more pressure answers when they're on offense
Speaker 7: against Jacksonville's defense. Because Trevor's throwing two gave Davis wasn't
Speaker 7: here last year, Brian Thomas wasn't here last year. There's
Speaker 7: a lot of new in that wide receiver room. So
Speaker 7: I think those are some of the storylines that will
Speaker 7: play into what I think will be a hard earned
Speaker 7: Dolphins victory at hard Rock State.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of the best matchups of Week one,
Speaker 3: quite frankly, looking up and down the schedule outside of
Speaker 3: the primetime games, which are loaded, by the way, and
Speaker 3: I can't wait to well, we're recording this before Thursday.
Speaker 3: But the Chiefs and Ravens and Packers and Eagles is good.
Speaker 3: And Jets and Niners and Lions and Rams. Those are
Speaker 3: my I love when the primetime slants like that because
Speaker 3: I don't get to watch any other games on Sundays
Speaker 3: because I'm watching it and covering the Dolphins game. So
Speaker 3: a great Week one slate, a great Week three, no
Speaker 3: Week two slate in college football. You can find him
Speaker 3: on Twitter at grind the Tape, Lockdown Dolphins Podcast, Draft
Speaker 3: lead for the thirty third team All Star Dad, a
Speaker 3: decent deadlifter, great Robert Downey junior impressionist.
Speaker 6: Pumpy breaks Key, that man's national treasure.
Speaker 2: He is Kyle Crabs.
Speaker 3: Kyle, thank you so much for your time today, my friend.
Speaker 3: It's always fun having you on the show.
Speaker 4: Thanks Travis.
Speaker 2: And he's off and so are we.
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