Speaker 1: Miami u N. What is up, Dolphins and welcome to
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network,
Speaker 1: covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody?
Speaker 1: It is Friday. I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
Speaker 1: as always, I am here to bring you your daily
Speaker 1: dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, we
Speaker 1: welcome in an old friend to the podcast and Twine Staley,
Speaker 1: the first ever Dolphins beat writer that I met and
Speaker 1: hung out with back when I was covering games for
Speaker 1: Lockdown Dolphins. He's gonna help us go over this draft class,
Speaker 1: break down the Dolphins off season, take a look around
Speaker 1: the a f C East, and a quick sneak peek
Speaker 1: at the draft class. That's right, you heard that right.
Speaker 1: The outing season never ends here on Drive Time. Plus
Speaker 1: a quick tribute to one of my favorite Dolphins over
Speaker 1: the last half decade. All of that more on this
Speaker 1: edition of the Drive Time Podcast before we get to
Speaker 1: anything real quick. May seven, a very very special day
Speaker 1: in the Wingfield household A very happy birthday to Kayalin Wingfield,
Speaker 1: my beautiful wife, the beautiful mother of my child. I
Speaker 1: hope you have a great day and I love you,
Speaker 1: and I'll see you here very very shortly, in time
Speaker 1: for Caroline's first birthday coming up later this month, her birthday,
Speaker 1: Caroline's Birthday, and Mother's Day all in this month. It's
Speaker 1: a busy one for me, but one of business and
Speaker 1: sheer happiness. So very happy birthday, Boo. And that's right.
Speaker 1: We call each other boo because it started off as
Speaker 1: a joke. We first thought about pet names for each other,
Speaker 1: and that joke stuck. Six years later, here we are.
Speaker 1: So the big news this week was that Adam Schefter
Speaker 1: reported on Twitter on Thursday, the Dolphins will say well
Speaker 1: part ways with safety. Bobby McCain reports where that Malik
Speaker 1: Hooker was in for a visit earlier this week and
Speaker 1: he was having some fun with Dolphins fans on Twitter.
Speaker 1: So you can possibly if that move were to come
Speaker 1: to fruition see the swap for swap idea at that
Speaker 1: spot and looking at the current roster, there just isn't
Speaker 1: a proven deep safety in terms of NFL experience playing
Speaker 1: that role on the current roster. I've seen the idea
Speaker 1: that Javon Holland slides right into that role, and maybe
Speaker 1: he does. We'll have plenty to talk about as we
Speaker 1: go through the summer and training camp. But Holland only
Speaker 1: played three hundred of his career twelve hundred snaps in
Speaker 1: college at the free safety position. And we know Eric
Speaker 1: Rowe is more of a tight endy racer who can
Speaker 1: match up in coverage. And Brandon Jones last year, as
Speaker 1: well as at college, spent most of his time down
Speaker 1: around the line of scrimmage and covering in the slot.
Speaker 1: So considered that Bobby was a cornerback before he was
Speaker 1: a safety, and the same is true of Eric Rowe.
Speaker 1: And we know Brandon Jones played slot of Texas. Byron
Speaker 1: Jones played safety in Dallas his first few years there.
Speaker 1: And Noah Igbanogny has the range you might like at
Speaker 1: that position as well. And again this is me speculating.
Speaker 1: I'm just throwing ideas against the wall. But we know
Speaker 1: that last year Igbo was focused on developing clearly on
Speaker 1: the perimeter all season. Last year, they didn't even consider
Speaker 1: the idea of kicking him inside to play slot cornerback.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's one of them, maybe it's a committee, maybe
Speaker 1: it includes Milique Cooker. Whatever it is, it adds another
Speaker 1: layer of intrigue again to the summer program and training camp.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see how this group comes together now,
Speaker 1: but I think it's apt for some appreciation here for
Speaker 1: Bobby McCain, who was the longest tenured defensive player on
Speaker 1: the roster, and now DeVante Parker is the last man
Speaker 1: standing from that squad as the longest tenured Miami Dolphin
Speaker 1: on the roster. Xaviing Howard now becomes the longest tenure
Speaker 1: defensive player. But Bobby was a captain, an ambassador of
Speaker 1: all things South Florida, a good ball player here for
Speaker 1: a long time. Really wish him the best in his
Speaker 1: next stop. I don't suspect it'll take him long to
Speaker 1: find work. As far as the salary cap considerations, according
Speaker 1: to spot rack dot com, the release as a pre
Speaker 1: June one designation would free up five point six million
Speaker 1: dollars in cap space with a dead money hit of
Speaker 1: one point for eight million. He was owed roughly around
Speaker 1: fourteen million dollars in cash over the next two years.
Speaker 1: And again, cash is keen when it comes to the stuff,
Speaker 1: and that's where the real savings from this move come
Speaker 1: into play. I was kicking around the idea of doing
Speaker 1: my annual ideal lineups segment where we talk about each
Speaker 1: offensive package and defensive package from eleven personnel all the
Speaker 1: way down to oh personnel to Nickel dime dollar half
Speaker 1: dollar defense and all that fun stuff. But I gotta
Speaker 1: get back to the drawing board and regroup after this
Speaker 1: Bobby move. So we'll get to that either next week
Speaker 1: or the following week into the summer here on the podcast.
Speaker 1: And before we turn to our guest today, one of
Speaker 1: the very rare occurrences where I'm recording a podcast and
Speaker 1: some breaking news happens. Ian Rappaport, Adam Schefter, all the
Speaker 1: big heavy hitters have it. The Dolphins have agreed to
Speaker 1: a one year deal with Jason mccordy, the form Patriots cornerback,
Speaker 1: And there's a story back in to start a training
Speaker 1: camp when the Patriots auditioned him a little bit of
Speaker 1: free safety and he played about fifty sixty reps over
Speaker 1: his three seasons at that position, but has primarily been
Speaker 1: a wide cornerback on the perimeter in his career. Twelve
Speaker 1: year veteran, he clocked a four three forty back in
Speaker 1: his scouting combine year that of course was twelve years ago,
Speaker 1: but a very reliable dependable, outstanding locker room presents there
Speaker 1: for Miami. A versatile player with plenty of experience, great
Speaker 1: communication skills, all the stuff that Flores and Career talk about.
Speaker 1: He checks those boxes. So an accomplished player, another good
Speaker 1: defensive back joins this Dolphins defensive back room, and we'll
Speaker 1: see if it's cornerback, if it's inside outside, if he's
Speaker 1: the very next Brian Flores and Josh Boyer conversion to
Speaker 1: the safety position. I'm sure he can play wherever you
Speaker 1: ask him to. But Jason mccordy gives us deep deep
Speaker 1: Dolphins secondary another name, another accomplished NFL resume there in
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy. All right, now, let's go ahead and turn
Speaker 1: this thing over to my guest today, and with that,
Speaker 1: let's give a warm welcome to my next guest. Dolphins
Speaker 1: fans know him well. He's a former beat writer for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins Wire on USA Today and he's covered a
Speaker 1: bunch of college football over the years and currently works
Speaker 1: on the Florida state beat for Tallahassee dot Com. Antoine Staley, Antoine,
Speaker 1: you're just a few hours northman, Like, when are we
Speaker 1: gonna get you back down here to South Florida hopefully
Speaker 1: soon though hopefully it's some good news for Dolts will arising,
Speaker 1: So hopefully I get down there soon for some regular
Speaker 1: season games, teasing the fans of that one. I know
Speaker 1: that you kind of earned this badge of honor on
Speaker 1: Dolphins Twitter or maybe among the Dolphins writers. Is the
Speaker 1: nicest guy. I mean, that's that's how I know you. Man,
Speaker 1: So I think you got a big fan based that I
Speaker 1: I would love to see you back down this way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's been way too old, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's this is definitely the time to do it,
Speaker 1: especially with so much optimist him month Dolphin fans this year,
Speaker 1: especially coming up the tendency season. Exactly exactly right, it's
Speaker 1: a fun time to be down here. And you and
Speaker 1: I were joking off air a little bit about you know,
Speaker 1: I convinced myself and was trying to convince my wife
Speaker 1: for about a year that doesn't get that hot, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's hot, and there's a reputation of the humidity like
Speaker 1: I was full of it, man, Like I'm wrong. It's
Speaker 1: it's hot. It's already hot, it's early made, it's already
Speaker 1: very very hot out there. So that kind of leads
Speaker 1: me into this question. I wanted to ask you give
Speaker 1: me one thing you miss about South Florida, and maybe
Speaker 1: the summers is the one thing you don't but one
Speaker 1: thing you miss and one thing you don't miss about
Speaker 1: South Florida. For me, it definitely missed being close to
Speaker 1: the water and they having the ability to go to
Speaker 1: the beach whenever I could. But yeah, I you think
Speaker 1: it for granted to once you get down there. I
Speaker 1: remember when I first moved down there, it was like, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the beach every day or every
Speaker 1: week and then just uh just kind of lounge there
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you just started taking it for grantedy, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the beach whatever, you know, I can go any
Speaker 1: time that I want to. That's one thing that I
Speaker 1: definitely miss. What I don't miss is kind of what
Speaker 1: we touched. All the weather, ammidity, especially in the summertime
Speaker 1: when it just gets unbearable. And then you're going to
Speaker 1: training camp. You're sweating up there in the box and
Speaker 1: training camp there's no air conditioning, there's no there's no fans,
Speaker 1: like you're you're trying to write down your notes on
Speaker 1: the computer, and then you have to go down on
Speaker 1: the field and then it's hot on the field. Then
Speaker 1: as you know, it's hot on the field and it
Speaker 1: is actually in that boss, and it's just by the
Speaker 1: time you get back to the press room, it's just
Speaker 1: like you completely soaked, and when the yeah, you just
Speaker 1: want to go home and take a shower, and we're lax.
Speaker 1: My first year at training camp was twenty nineteen with
Speaker 1: Locked On Dolphins, and I footed my own bill to
Speaker 1: come down here. I always say that was kind of
Speaker 1: the moment that launched my career. And then I was
Speaker 1: here last year with COVID protocols and everything was different,
Speaker 1: so things were different. But I remember going onto the
Speaker 1: field and then I would drive back to my hotel
Speaker 1: room and I would shower because, like you said, like
Speaker 1: you're miserable until you get that shower, and then I
Speaker 1: would finish my work after the fact, while the rest
Speaker 1: of the beat guys and you included, had to go
Speaker 1: back there and usually had one of those hot sandwiches
Speaker 1: they would serve up to you, and then you had
Speaker 1: to sit in that little crowd of room and and
Speaker 1: write your story for the day. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I look back at that and think like how terrible
Speaker 1: it was the time. And now I'm thinking like I
Speaker 1: want nothing more than one of those late July early
Speaker 1: August scrumbs on the practice field because we just haven't
Speaker 1: had that and it's like the old time, the old
Speaker 1: way of doing things right. So my question for you, Antoine,
Speaker 1: do you have your best scrum story or maybe postgame
Speaker 1: story or something memorable that happened to you while you
Speaker 1: were covering the team within talking to a player or
Speaker 1: a coach and the other beat guys. Is there one
Speaker 1: thing that stands out to you? A few things actually,
Speaker 1: just remember like really, the training camp scrubs are kind
Speaker 1: of the best because people, the players get so tired
Speaker 1: of hitting each other at a certain point that like
Speaker 1: they just want to play against somebody, know, they don't
Speaker 1: care who it is. It could be a high school team,
Speaker 1: college whoever. And then I remember just kind of uh
Speaker 1: uh yeah. I remember just Jarvis Landry also talking about
Speaker 1: that and just players getting upset and pushing each other. U.
Speaker 1: I remember probably one thing that I do remember my
Speaker 1: last year covering the office was Mike Palsy was still
Speaker 1: on the team there as well, and he was coming
Speaker 1: up on the last year of his contract, and he
Speaker 1: thought he in his mind, he thought that none of
Speaker 1: us thought he was gonna play all sixteen games, and
Speaker 1: he just had that in his mind mentally, which I
Speaker 1: never said that. I just always wrote that he had
Speaker 1: not played all sixteen games in such a long time.
Speaker 1: So he took it as a slight and then he
Speaker 1: pointed at every single reporter said like, you didn't think
Speaker 1: I was doing You didn't think I would do it.
Speaker 1: He pointed at all the reporters. I guess somebody told
Speaker 1: him that we had wrote something about him, and then
Speaker 1: you just got you can't do nothing but laugh. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's you know a lot of players take
Speaker 1: things personally. They say they don't read anything, they don't
Speaker 1: read a lot of stuff, but they did. They always do,
Speaker 1: whether they do or also other play other their family
Speaker 1: members or people around them read it. They they're aware
Speaker 1: of what you're writing and what you're saying about them
Speaker 1: on Twitter and social media. So that's that's always kind
Speaker 1: of what sticks out to be to me, that relationship
Speaker 1: between players and coaches and the local media market is
Speaker 1: is one of the most underrated parts about sports and
Speaker 1: sports media and coverage and all that stuff, because you
Speaker 1: just can't replicate that otherwise, like Flow jumping into a
Speaker 1: press conference and acknowledging cam or Omar or Softed by name.
Speaker 1: I remember last year at training camp, Softed had Soften
Speaker 1: Dean of the South Florida Sun Sentinel, had quoted Flores
Speaker 1: previously about something he said, I forget the material. Flow
Speaker 1: disagree with the fact that he had said that. And
Speaker 1: as Flow was coming onto the practice field around that
Speaker 1: corner where the bathrooms are, like by the bubble, you
Speaker 1: know I'm talking about, he came around from that corner
Speaker 1: and he looked up at press row and all of
Speaker 1: us are sitting there, of course nobody else in the facility,
Speaker 1: because it's just media and the players, and he looks
Speaker 1: up and said, soft As you find that quote, and
Speaker 1: he's like, I'm working on it. So like that, that
Speaker 1: back and forth, you can't top that. It's my favorite
Speaker 1: thing when it comes to sports and sports media. So,
Speaker 1: speaking of talking to coach and his interaction with media,
Speaker 1: I know you were you cover the team his first
Speaker 1: year here, correct, Yeah, I was. I was coming out
Speaker 1: when his first year. Yeah, so I covered him a
Speaker 1: little bit before I end up leaving, so you got
Speaker 1: to know him a little bit. Yeah, you know his temperament,
Speaker 1: you know the way he answers questions. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's transparent when the question I think is is adequate
Speaker 1: or or it's is legitimate and maybe not so much otherwise.
Speaker 1: If you could put one question to coach right now,
Speaker 1: whether it's about the draft, the off season, this upcoming season,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be, do you have one question that
Speaker 1: you would love to ask coach right now? Absolutely. I
Speaker 1: think it goes back to the quarterback position. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm very confident and too. I know some people have
Speaker 1: kind of you know, we're a little negative the way
Speaker 1: the yearly ended last year, and you know the high
Speaker 1: expectations playing going into Buffalo and potentially getting the playoffs.
Speaker 1: But I would just ask him just kind of where
Speaker 1: he sees two at this stage and also what made
Speaker 1: him so confident into it heading into his second year
Speaker 1: in the league too. I think late for me, they're
Speaker 1: just seeing the growth that too, even though in the
Speaker 1: off season you kind of see just physically too, it
Speaker 1: looks a lot different than what he did last year.
Speaker 1: And also getting that work in that he wasn't able
Speaker 1: to get in last year, especially when he was he
Speaker 1: he was recovering from that hip injury. There, you definitely
Speaker 1: can see a little bit more of the confidence, and
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna show once he comes this off
Speaker 1: season work comes about. But yeah, that would be the
Speaker 1: question I would ask him just that's kind of where
Speaker 1: he was says, where two is at his confidence level
Speaker 1: in him? Would you can kind of see it already
Speaker 1: because they're showing how confident they are in him right
Speaker 1: now just the course of the moves that they made
Speaker 1: throughout the off season. I mean, they basically structured the
Speaker 1: offense around his strengths, in my opinion, which is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal approach to take for your second year quarterback. Right,
Speaker 1: novel concept, Let's give this kind of things that makes
Speaker 1: him take the best you mentioned, you know, two of
Speaker 1: their his his first. I don't think there's ever been
Speaker 1: a throne football in Dolphins practice that will be more
Speaker 1: anticipated in the first ball he throws whenever on field
Speaker 1: work is available to the media. We all want to
Speaker 1: see that drive in that rip because, like you talked about,
Speaker 1: he's jack now right, like he's looked in weights he's
Speaker 1: definitely put the time in and he's ready to come
Speaker 1: out and compete. I want to see the type but
Speaker 1: drive he has in that football now, you know, a
Speaker 1: year and a half, two years removed from that serious
Speaker 1: hip injury. So you touched on, you know, covering flow
Speaker 1: your first year here and one of my favorite exercises.
Speaker 1: We talked about this in the Twitter Spaces conversation, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you guys aren't familiar yet, Antoine,
Speaker 1: Jason Sarney, and Waldo, I don't know Waddle's last name.
Speaker 1: I know it's after he does the regular podcast. Right,
Speaker 1: these guys do a phenomenal Twitter Spaces, which is like
Speaker 1: an hour long show where it doesn't record permanently, right,
Speaker 1: it's just a segment that's live and then it goes away.
Speaker 1: We uh, we actually started recording it on a podcast,
Speaker 1: so we've been doing it once a week two as well,
Speaker 1: so we'll put it on a podcast. Uh, it's some
Speaker 1: people don't but yeah, we thought would be a good
Speaker 1: idea that so people can listen to it if they
Speaker 1: don't get a chance to be on the live Spaces. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a really cool format and I'm glad you're doing
Speaker 1: that so people can go back and hear it because
Speaker 1: I actually was on there and made some points that
Speaker 1: I was pointing to some friends about how I was
Speaker 1: talking about certain subjects of like you guys, gotta go here,
Speaker 1: this and that's a great conversation, but we couldn't find it.
Speaker 1: So that's good to hear. But check them out on
Speaker 1: the Twitter spaces as well as the podcast. But as
Speaker 1: you get ready for your number three and one of
Speaker 1: the conversations I brought to you guys was put the
Speaker 1: nineteen roster up to one roster night and day difference. Antoine,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this Dolphins operation heading into
Speaker 1: year three of this regime of Flores and Chris career.
Speaker 1: I love the direction that they've gone in the know
Speaker 1: now you've gotten two with some weapons and the and offensively,
Speaker 1: I feel like they're ready to take that next step.
Speaker 1: I feel like last year I thought this is a
Speaker 1: team that could finish eight and eight, nine and seven,
Speaker 1: But just looking at the team what they have defensively
Speaker 1: and also offensively, I think I think they are in
Speaker 1: playoff team. I really do. I think you look at
Speaker 1: on the first round pick and I know we'll start
Speaker 1: to get it we'll get into some of the draft
Speaker 1: picks too as well. Uh Wattle. I definitely think having
Speaker 1: him back with two and they already have some chemistry
Speaker 1: down anyway, even though they have not played played with
Speaker 1: each other for a year, but they still You still
Speaker 1: when you have that type of chemistry, it's something that
Speaker 1: you're gonna always remember and it's always kind of it'll
Speaker 1: come back to you, kind of like riding the bike.
Speaker 1: So imagine that would be something good there too as well.
Speaker 1: I like the upgrades that they made getting Holland there
Speaker 1: from Oregon. I loved him at the safety position. Actually
Speaker 1: before the draft started, I thought he was the number
Speaker 1: one safety for me heading into the draft, while somebody
Speaker 1: had asked me that, and I was surprised actually the
Speaker 1: Dolphins had a chance to get him when they did. Um.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were disappointed at the
Speaker 1: running back because they didn't wann't they didn't address the
Speaker 1: running back position there. But getting the guy like that
Speaker 1: who can not only play the safety position but also
Speaker 1: play also some cornerbacks position in the slot and also
Speaker 1: all of being versatile as he is also a special
Speaker 1: teams I definitely think that's big too as well. And
Speaker 1: the way they addressed the offensive line too is um
Speaker 1: and also defensively as well. Um getting a guy like
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips too as well, and what they did in
Speaker 1: the draft. So I I love the direction this team
Speaker 1: is gone. I definitely think it. Obviously Buffalo is the
Speaker 1: team you're trying to get now to in the a
Speaker 1: f C East there, but I definitely think you've gone.
Speaker 1: You've gotten a lot closer than what you were and
Speaker 1: the expectations will be a lot high hire and then
Speaker 1: to to this year as opposed to last year, where
Speaker 1: you're still trying to find your way and not necessarily
Speaker 1: sure where this team is gonna finish. I think the
Speaker 1: talent level has just been significantly upgraded for the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. I was gonna say leaps and bounds.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned the offensive line because you know
Speaker 1: I've I've always really admired Jesse Davis. What he brings
Speaker 1: this football team for his flexibility is versatility, his leadership,
Speaker 1: the way he communicates. He's a great guy, and you
Speaker 1: know he went into the twenty nineteen season, I believe
Speaker 1: after the Larrymie Tunzil trade really as the like we
Speaker 1: know this is like a starter, and he was maybe
Speaker 1: the only one that you could say that about. And
Speaker 1: now you look, I think if the situation bears out ideally,
Speaker 1: you know, and I hate saying this, ideally he's your
Speaker 1: seventh or eighth offensive lineman because of the upgrades you
Speaker 1: made or the moves you made pan out the way
Speaker 1: you hope and that kind of slots him down. So
Speaker 1: that kind of right there, speaks to the difference in
Speaker 1: terms of where this roster has grown over the last
Speaker 1: three years. And that's what's supposed to happen, right you
Speaker 1: add talent, they tore it down to the studs, and
Speaker 1: now they're building it back up through flows vision. And
Speaker 1: I think that you get that head coach right man,
Speaker 1: you get that vision executed and you can really start
Speaker 1: flying from there. But you touched on Jalen Waddle and
Speaker 1: Javon Holland, which brings me into my next question, which
Speaker 1: was your favorite pick of this draft? It almost sounds
Speaker 1: like maybe it's Holland. You have a favorite pick in
Speaker 1: the Dolphins in this draft. I think it would be Holland.
Speaker 1: This is because I just love the thing I've noticed
Speaker 1: about Brian Florest. And then you would know better than
Speaker 1: I would. I think he likes players at a versatile
Speaker 1: that can do a lot of different things and play
Speaker 1: a lot of differencespations when you talk about offensive line,
Speaker 1: where you can plug guys in and obviously injuries are
Speaker 1: gonna happen doout the course of the year, and with Holland,
Speaker 1: I definitely think that, Yeah, you can, like you say,
Speaker 1: you'll have him as your traditional safety, but you can
Speaker 1: use him in so many different ways that it can
Speaker 1: confuse the defense. And obviously a ball hawk, there's somebody
Speaker 1: that's gotten a ton of interceptions in college to as well.
Speaker 1: And uh, like I said before, if you need him
Speaker 1: to play special teams, I don't know how many to
Speaker 1: stay will, but if you need him on the end,
Speaker 1: he can definitely do that there too well. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely it's rare that your your favorite pick will
Speaker 1: be a second round pick or Day two pick, but
Speaker 1: that's mine too because I think he can immediately have
Speaker 1: the impact or Phillips have, and also Wattle has in
Speaker 1: their first year. So yeah, I think that the pick
Speaker 1: was just a home run there for the Dolphins. We've
Speaker 1: got Antoine Daley here on the Drivetime podcast, and I
Speaker 1: don't think I have many options for you from this
Speaker 1: next question, because I can't imagine this Jalen Phillips number eighteen,
Speaker 1: who was the top pass rusher on many people's board
Speaker 1: in general, to get him at number eighteen. You then
Speaker 1: come back. Maybe it's the trade up to get Leah Mikenberg.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's the third round pick with Hunter Long. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's trading out of the fifth round and having that
Speaker 1: one fifty pick gap. Was there a pick that you
Speaker 1: would have done differently? Something you would have done differently
Speaker 1: on draft day in general, whether it's not making a
Speaker 1: trade or selecting a certain player, Like which pick was it?
Speaker 1: And what would you have done differently? Can I can?
Speaker 1: I say? Uh? Nothing? Really? I mean you can't like
Speaker 1: to have a running back. I think they would have
Speaker 1: neted up running back obviously. Uh Williams from North Carolina
Speaker 1: was possibly there for the taking before the Broncos slid
Speaker 1: in and drafted them. But I think that was what
Speaker 1: they decided maybe wanted to do. But obviously the Broncos
Speaker 1: did that for a reason because they knew the Dolphins
Speaker 1: were interested. But I mean, just looking at it and
Speaker 1: how the draft played out, I thought they did a
Speaker 1: great job, I really do. I thought they had one
Speaker 1: of the best drafts out of all the teams in
Speaker 1: the league that they addressed. You can't address all in
Speaker 1: every single need that you have in the draft, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's impossible, but I think they addressed a lot of
Speaker 1: the concerns that they had heading into the off season.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta playmaker, right receiver. You needed pass
Speaker 1: rushing help, you got that. I definitely think safety was
Speaker 1: a concern too as well. That's I know Hunt alone
Speaker 1: probably confused a lot of people, but it didn't confuse me.
Speaker 1: Because when you're when you're building a team like Chris
Speaker 1: Greer and Brian Fords is trying to do like you
Speaker 1: see what you're you see what potentially you may need
Speaker 1: in the future, and that's why you end up taking
Speaker 1: a guy like that. You understand that Mike get Ski
Speaker 1: and Durance might earn it last year in their contracts,
Speaker 1: and you to make sure that you have a contendency
Speaker 1: plan just in case you're not able to sign one
Speaker 1: or the other. And you're getting the guy that can
Speaker 1: also who's a heck of a past casher, but also
Speaker 1: somebody that can uh contributed in the run bucking past
Speaker 1: run blacking Game two as well. So I love every
Speaker 1: single move that they made throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: Draft two as well. So for me, I would I
Speaker 1: don't think I would change the thing that I know.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I know a lot of people wanted
Speaker 1: they like Naja Harris or Travis et n or also
Speaker 1: uh when I walk, you know, Williams from North Carolina.
Speaker 1: But I really love the draft that they had, and
Speaker 1: I definitely think they did a They did a great
Speaker 1: job upgrading their team. I mean, there's a reason that
Speaker 1: pretty much every publication out there has the Dolphins at
Speaker 1: least within their top five or six drafts this year.
Speaker 1: And I'm glad you mentioned the tight end depth in
Speaker 1: that in your answer there, because it's for so long
Speaker 1: and you can attest this, Antoine. You cover this team
Speaker 1: kind of in the peak of this era, but for
Speaker 1: so long it was like, let's draft the position we
Speaker 1: have the biggest need at. For instance, I think Charles
Speaker 1: Harris might have been kind of in that mold. We
Speaker 1: had to have a pass rusher. Charles Harris is on
Speaker 1: the board. Obviously, t J. Watt and Tach McKinley were there,
Speaker 1: and that's different discussion for another day, but that's what
Speaker 1: they did. And so this year, I look at this
Speaker 1: draft class and it reminds me of a team like
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay or Kansas City, one of these teams that
Speaker 1: you know has competed in Super Bowls the last couple
Speaker 1: of seasons and has I guess their roster figured out.
Speaker 1: And so let's just go ahead and get the best
Speaker 1: player we can plug him into the lineup, and we
Speaker 1: do that enough times year over year, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: able to stay in the success. And that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I saw from Miami. It's not like panic, go
Speaker 1: get your needs, plug up that hole and call it good.
Speaker 1: Let's get the best football players we can. And that's
Speaker 1: like you said, like I expected you to give me one,
Speaker 1: but I'm glad that you didn't as far as what
Speaker 1: you would do differently, Antoine. So yeah, I just think that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that's the best teams have done for Look at
Speaker 1: the Ravens and the Steelers. They do they consistently, They
Speaker 1: get they make sure they draft guys that can go out,
Speaker 1: they fit their system, and also the best available player,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter if they already got a running
Speaker 1: back or linebacker. Or whatever the case, maybe they figure
Speaker 1: it out later and they draft those guys, and that's
Speaker 1: what you have to do. I mean, I think if
Speaker 1: you started drafting on knees all the time, then you're
Speaker 1: not taking the best players for your system. You have
Speaker 1: to be able to make sure those players are gonna
Speaker 1: a fit into what you'd like to do, and be
Speaker 1: how to fit in from a talent standpoint as well.
Speaker 1: So and I feel like every plays, every team, every
Speaker 1: player that the Dolphins fid did that last weekend agree
Speaker 1: And as someone who has to file stories about transactions
Speaker 1: when they happen, just know that this team and Brian
Speaker 1: flora Is, they're going to churn this roster and continue
Speaker 1: to bring guys in, escort guys out, and just continue
Speaker 1: to find gems and hidden pieces that can contribute, especially
Speaker 1: when it comes to cut down day. This has been
Speaker 1: more of the more active teams the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: and they found gems, whether it's evinced Biagle or even
Speaker 1: a Savanna Akhmed last year. They find guys in September
Speaker 1: after cutdown Day. So it's not over yet, Like we
Speaker 1: have a long way to go until football games are
Speaker 1: played to plug those possible needs and speaking of a
Speaker 1: long way to go again, I talk about Antoine covering
Speaker 1: college football, and I apologize Antoine, because I know you've
Speaker 1: been at many different publications, athlon is the one that
Speaker 1: I recall most recently. Is that correct? Yes? So because
Speaker 1: of that, I thought, what a great opportunity to to
Speaker 1: do what some other publications have done and give ourselves
Speaker 1: a peek ahead to the two draft class. And I
Speaker 1: want to go ahead and just kind of go down
Speaker 1: the list here, position by position and talk about what
Speaker 1: you like in the class, maybe what you don't like,
Speaker 1: and how about quarterback? Like this is one of those
Speaker 1: classes where you know, every everyone this year talked about
Speaker 1: how you have to come away with one of those
Speaker 1: top four quarterbacks this year because next year's class is
Speaker 1: no good. Do you see someone that is a clear
Speaker 1: cut number one? Is there someone do you have as
Speaker 1: a dark horse candidate to rise up? Who do you like?
Speaker 1: Who do you not like? Talk to us about quarterbacks? Well,
Speaker 1: first of all, when people say that, I my answers
Speaker 1: as always, did anybody think Za Wilson was going to
Speaker 1: be a top quarterback? Did anybody think Joe Burrow was
Speaker 1: going to be a top quarterback? So it's always somebody
Speaker 1: that's you don't necessarily know much about and they come
Speaker 1: a come of age, they have a great year, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they're top one or to
Speaker 1: pick on the on the draft board. So yeah, just
Speaker 1: because you're not you don't see a top a whole
Speaker 1: lot of top quarterbacks now doesn't necessarily mean it won't
Speaker 1: be the case next year. So having said that, for me,
Speaker 1: I think Sam how from North Carolina. I definitely think
Speaker 1: you look at him and everything that he's like him
Speaker 1: starting as a freshman on the Matt Brown and this
Speaker 1: his maturation there, and I definitely think looking at what
Speaker 1: North Carolina has potential to pensional be this upcoming season
Speaker 1: where I think, you know, I think, obviously Clipson will
Speaker 1: be the favorite in the A C C, but uh
Speaker 1: North Carolina is right there too, especially with the talent
Speaker 1: mac is accumulated throughout the course of the year, and
Speaker 1: um having a guy like Sam How at least for
Speaker 1: one more year. I definitely think he's poised to have
Speaker 1: a really really big year. Uh So for me, he
Speaker 1: would probably be the top quarterback on my board. I
Speaker 1: know a lot of people we spoke about this off
Speaker 1: air special Rattler. I think he's a little bit behind
Speaker 1: uh howl, a little bit in that sense, but you know,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't surprise me, especially in that Oklahoma offense and
Speaker 1: all the success that they've had bringing out quarterbacks, that
Speaker 1: he'd be up their right time too. So those are
Speaker 1: people all be the top two guys I would list
Speaker 1: least list right now. But how to me, Clearing the
Speaker 1: Way is the number one guy at least on my
Speaker 1: board right now. The quart the repetition. I just can't
Speaker 1: get into Rattlers game. Man. There's something about it that
Speaker 1: I don't like. I don't maybe it's too mistake prone,
Speaker 1: maybe it's too there's just something about it that's off
Speaker 1: to me, and I don't know what it is. I'll
Speaker 1: put a finger on maybe next year, you know, in
Speaker 1: the scouting process. But the one thing I want to
Speaker 1: give you guys is Jaden Daniels from Arizona State because
Speaker 1: he's extremely thin, definitely not built like your prototypical quarterback,
Speaker 1: but he's athletic, is all get out and has a
Speaker 1: big arm as well. I like watching his game, and
Speaker 1: he's tortured the coop's a couple of times in his career,
Speaker 1: so there you go for that staying in the pack
Speaker 1: twelve and I usually go quarterback, running back, receiver like
Speaker 1: in order here, but I want to jump to the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the football because to me, there was
Speaker 1: one player in this class that was clear cut a
Speaker 1: runaway from the rest of everybody. Cavan Thibodeaux of Oregon.
Speaker 1: I've seen this guy rush outside, inside, stand up for
Speaker 1: two or three point stands, four point stands. He beats,
Speaker 1: tackles guards, he can defend the run. He got double
Speaker 1: and triple teams all year last year, Antoine, He's the
Speaker 1: best player in this class right right now, Yes, right now,
Speaker 1: he would be the number one pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: I think right now. Nobody who was picking noever, no
Speaker 1: matter if you needed a pass for usure or not,
Speaker 1: he is the guy because you can never have too
Speaker 1: much pass for us. That's one of my things too.
Speaker 1: You never have too many too many good cornerbacks. You
Speaker 1: can never have too many inter ushing because you're always
Speaker 1: gonna need to have those guys and you can rotate
Speaker 1: them out in offensive linement. I feel like that that's
Speaker 1: kind of in that same old too as well. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you look what he's able to do. And just the versatility.
Speaker 1: We talked about this earlier with the Dolphins like to do.
Speaker 1: Not that I spent the Dolphins to be up there
Speaker 1: to be able to take him, but I definitely think
Speaker 1: that people love having a guy that can do a
Speaker 1: lot of different things where he can line up inside,
Speaker 1: he can line up on the outside. You played three four,
Speaker 1: he played four three, And I don't care who you are,
Speaker 1: what team you um, team you are, if he's you
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to draft this guy, then you're definitely
Speaker 1: gonna take it. So I have a hard time believe
Speaker 1: he might not be the number one pick because you
Speaker 1: may have a team that need a QUARTERBA has quarterback needs,
Speaker 1: but he he should be top two or three just
Speaker 1: sim because of everything he's doing, how freaking self an
Speaker 1: athlete he is. So yeah, I spent him to go
Speaker 1: in the top two or three pits in the draft.
Speaker 1: We'll give him one season, but to me, he's in.
Speaker 1: He's in Chase Young stratosphere. For me, like, as as
Speaker 1: far as a prospect goes, and that's as high appraises
Speaker 1: you can give a guy. Let's go back to the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball here and back out to
Speaker 1: the big ten and the receiver position, a player that
Speaker 1: many thought could have been a first round draft pick.
Speaker 1: This year, he goes back to school and Chris Alave,
Speaker 1: is he your clear cut number one receiver? I think
Speaker 1: I think you look at Justin Rawls, I think from Clips,
Speaker 1: and I definitely think he's up there too as well.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I probably have in the top two or three. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think Ross, I mean Clips and keeps turning out
Speaker 1: these athletes too as well. So you look at Ross
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be interesting to see how he plays
Speaker 1: without Trevor Lawrence. But we saw Trevor Lawrence UH miss
Speaker 1: some toim last year, and I think Ross was fine,
Speaker 1: and I think we think he'll continue to put up
Speaker 1: bit numbers two once again, so those will be probably
Speaker 1: on number one and number two, not in particular order,
Speaker 1: but I definitely think both of those guys are high pits,
Speaker 1: top top fifteen, top twenty pits, and UH should make
Speaker 1: a ton of money and be taken very highly in
Speaker 1: the two draft you mentioned Clemson. I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: djung Man, you know, you know, yeah, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: watch him play because, like you know, you get so
Speaker 1: used to the generational quarterbacks like a Trevor Lawrence for instance,
Speaker 1: who was just the guy from day one. Last year,
Speaker 1: we saw DJ play a little bit and they actually
Speaker 1: lost a game with him in there. But I'm excited
Speaker 1: to see what he brings his It wasn't his fault, no, no,
Speaker 1: they couldn't they When you give up three hundred yards
Speaker 1: Russian and you're gonna lose no matter who you're playing.
Speaker 1: So he played. He played as well as he could have,
Speaker 1: especially for the situation that he was in. He's unique, man,
Speaker 1: He's a big, big He's Ben Roethlisberger with way more
Speaker 1: athletic abuildings. He's fun to watch and that's gonna be fun.
Speaker 1: And to see him play, especially net Clemson offense. Just
Speaker 1: getting football, getting college football back with fans in the
Speaker 1: stands is gonna be so much fun. This year. You
Speaker 1: touched on, you know, the Clemson receivers and Justin Ross
Speaker 1: loved his game. I'm sure band was gonna produce another
Speaker 1: couple of receivers here. John Metchi last year was fun
Speaker 1: to watch. They had a freshman I forgot his name
Speaker 1: who was really good too. Let's go ahead and stay
Speaker 1: there with a Crimson tired though on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Evan Neil. If you haven't heard of this guy yet,
Speaker 1: six ft seven, three hundred and sixty pound offensive tackle.
Speaker 1: He's not even a guard, He's a tackle, three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty pounds and he carries it well. Is he
Speaker 1: the top offensive linemen you think? For me? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean this guy is like huge, like And then the
Speaker 1: crazy thing is Alabama not gonna say they don't rebuild.
Speaker 1: They just keep reloading these guys and they come out
Speaker 1: they have all these draft picks they had since in
Speaker 1: the first round, and then next year they're probably gonna
Speaker 1: have another five in the first round. Two. It's what
Speaker 1: they just keep turning around, no matter who leaves school
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. And I think Nil
Speaker 1: is the next guy that's gonna be taking pretty highly,
Speaker 1: probably a top fifteen pick, I believe, just like how
Speaker 1: big he is, how he I mean, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: move this man whatsoever, just because his size and also
Speaker 1: his laugh loticism as a tackle. So yeah, I definitely
Speaker 1: think he's somebody that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: may not know about him because they know about some
Speaker 1: of the other bigger names for Alabama. But when, of
Speaker 1: course the fall comes and they able to see more
Speaker 1: of what he can do. He'll definitely be on more
Speaker 1: people's draft board and also more radars. It's funny, man,
Speaker 1: I used to really hate Bama because obviously the whole
Speaker 1: saving thing, but now I love watching them because they're
Speaker 1: basically are the greatest farm system for the National Football
Speaker 1: League and that will continue as long as next saw you,
Speaker 1: I mean you players that you see they're gonna be
Speaker 1: playing on Sunday. So I've five of them here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just have to respect it, like that's pretty much
Speaker 1: what you have to do. Five five, five Crimson Tie
Speaker 1: players in Miami right now, Let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up in the secondary. We'll go ahead and and pair
Speaker 1: a cornerback and safety together because to me, there are
Speaker 1: three guys in this group that really stand out. Derek Stingley,
Speaker 1: I think is the top cornerback, and then at safety.
Speaker 1: I'll let you kick it off at safety because I
Speaker 1: want to give a story on a guy that I
Speaker 1: know you like there, but Derek Stingley, and then who's
Speaker 1: your top safety as well? Into one for me is
Speaker 1: uh how Hamilton's definitely uh if you don't know much
Speaker 1: about him, definitely from Notre Dame as well, So yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely think like Hamilton's to me is definitely the
Speaker 1: top safety on my board too as well. And uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I definitely think I love what he can do. I
Speaker 1: love the athleticism, I love his versatility, and I definitely
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people were kind of down
Speaker 1: on the safety position this upcoming draft, but I expect
Speaker 1: it to be uh much of high priority in net
Speaker 1: Shear's draft for sure, and I think Hamiltons will lead
Speaker 1: the way. There. Yeah, no safeties in the first round
Speaker 1: this past season, and that kind of end of first round,
Speaker 1: top of second round has produced some good ones. I
Speaker 1: think Hamilton's will break that trend and he'll go more
Speaker 1: up in the Jamal Adams territory. Because you know, I
Speaker 1: told you this off air twenty nineteen. I was watching
Speaker 1: Kaleid Kareem, the defensive end from another Dame in the
Speaker 1: round to the draft, and I see this number four
Speaker 1: teen kid running all over the field and it's a
Speaker 1: true freshman and I wrote his name down and it's
Speaker 1: still in my nineteen scouting notes and this year he's
Speaker 1: clear cut safety one. And that's with Bubba Bolden coming
Speaker 1: back to Miami who was among my top five safeties
Speaker 1: this year if he had declared, do you how what
Speaker 1: do you know about Bubba Bolden's game and Arcanes fans
Speaker 1: gonna kind of have a great safety this year in
Speaker 1: that defensive backfield. Oh yeah, definitely, he's probably, um you're
Speaker 1: looking at some of the one of the top, like
Speaker 1: one of the like a top twenty pick. I think potentially.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't come out because I felt like
Speaker 1: he would have been somebody that would have been a
Speaker 1: fringe first round pick this upcoming year, especially consider in
Speaker 1: the state of the safety position now he gets lumped
Speaker 1: in with I think a lot more a lot of
Speaker 1: talented secondary players and also more uh with Hamilton's two
Speaker 1: as well. But Bolden, Yeah, I definitely, uh, definitely think
Speaker 1: he's one of the better ones in the country. Ball
Speaker 1: Hall dere can do a lot play up in the
Speaker 1: BOSS but also great and covers two as well, And
Speaker 1: I definitely think that, um, when it's all said done,
Speaker 1: and yeah, he'll definitely be a solidified first round pick
Speaker 1: this upcoming next season next year in the draft too
Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, I love his game and I
Speaker 1: definitely think you'll hear more about him at the time
Speaker 1: as the draft process goes on. Just a handful of
Speaker 1: names we selected there for you guys. Of course, there
Speaker 1: are plenty of more, and we have a whole year
Speaker 1: to get into that. So a little brief preview there
Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft. Let's go ahead and bring this
Speaker 1: thing back to close this podcast up, and let's do
Speaker 1: kind of a speed round here with the a f
Speaker 1: C East Antoine, I've been kind of thinking of some
Speaker 1: potential offseason ideas and segments for the podcast, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking, let's go around the NFL, and I thought,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Aaron Rodgers. And I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. I'm so over the
Speaker 1: whole like drama quarterback, like just show up and like
Speaker 1: two NFC championships in a row. You've got an all
Speaker 1: Pro receiver and all Pro offensive lineman. Like I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: it bothers me. So let's just let's just move on. Okay,
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the a f C East here and
Speaker 1: start with the New York Jets, who I love their draft.
Speaker 1: Even though I didn't I didn't think Zach Wilson was
Speaker 1: QB two. He was QB four. For me personally, Antoine,
Speaker 1: you can tell us what you thought of that Elijah
Speaker 1: Vera Tucker. I was a little bit off put by
Speaker 1: trading up for an offensive lineman in a deep class,
Speaker 1: especially two third round draft picks. But then after that
Speaker 1: with Elijah Moore and Michael Carter, those were fantastic picks.
Speaker 1: I thought they come back and get ham saw Nasriel
Speaker 1: Dean at the safety slash linebacker out of Florida State
Speaker 1: in the sixth round. How much better is that team?
Speaker 1: And did they get it right with Zach Wilson. I
Speaker 1: think that well, I agree with you. I think Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson was probably two, like three or four in my
Speaker 1: as far as quarterbacks I had, I had justin fields
Speaker 1: number two. That's just my opinion, you know, whatever the case.
Speaker 1: Like a lot of people felt like that Wilson had
Speaker 1: the hire potential, but for me, I thought feels solidified
Speaker 1: himself in the playoff last year. But now the quarterback aside,
Speaker 1: I definitely think I did like with the Jets, did
Speaker 1: uh a dressing some office the line needs um Elijah
Speaker 1: more getting him what they did. I definitely think that
Speaker 1: was huge to Uh end up getting Corey Davis in
Speaker 1: the off season two as well. I definitely uh got
Speaker 1: those two players together. And Michael Carter, who I thought
Speaker 1: could have been a second round pick potentially, they get
Speaker 1: him in the fourth round. That's that's a heck of
Speaker 1: a value there. And now's the Dean who the really
Speaker 1: reason he slipped down was really basically because the injuries
Speaker 1: that he endured his last year there at f S
Speaker 1: U to get him in the sixth round, which I
Speaker 1: think he's definitely a third round talent. I think I
Speaker 1: think they did a great job. I think it's hard
Speaker 1: to on the Dolphins podcast. They gotta get jet and credit,
Speaker 1: but you kind of have to do game has the
Speaker 1: great game a little bit. Definitely, they they've definitely improved
Speaker 1: their football team this year. Robert Salis has come in
Speaker 1: and UH definitely put his stamp on there. Joe Douglas,
Speaker 1: the general manager, seems like they've done a really good
Speaker 1: job this year and it'll be interesting to see how
Speaker 1: they finished this upcoming year. But I definitely think UM
Speaker 1: looking at their draft, other than maybe the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: I definitely think they got it right for pretty much
Speaker 1: all of their pas. I have a one answer response.
Speaker 1: I need from you here to the Dolphins sweep the Jets. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna make the playoffs, you have to yea
Speaker 1: perfect and another team they probably have to get at
Speaker 1: least one, if not to from is a team that
Speaker 1: gets another new quarterback in the division in the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots, who had a very Unnew England like offseason
Speaker 1: Nelson Aguilar, Kendrick Born, John H. Smith, Hunter Henry. They
Speaker 1: lose Joe Tuney on the offensive line, but they also
Speaker 1: get Dante high Tower who opted out last year, and
Speaker 1: that to me is their best offseason. Addition, don't make
Speaker 1: to the roster this entire offseason. But then they drafted
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. So my question here, I suppose, is three
Speaker 1: poond who starts at quarterback for them opening day? Are
Speaker 1: they improved enough to push for a playoff spot and
Speaker 1: can Miami get a sweep of them? Or is it
Speaker 1: gonna be like a last decade release two teams sweep
Speaker 1: every or split every single year. I should say I
Speaker 1: met Jones cam Newton debate. I think you'll start out
Speaker 1: with Cam Newton just because you know, obviously, Cam Newton
Speaker 1: comes back his second year in the offense and um
Speaker 1: let me see, I thought he um he has some
Speaker 1: ups and downs obviously his first year in New England,
Speaker 1: but I definitely think he will be the start of initially.
Speaker 1: And then the problem is Cam Newton has not played
Speaker 1: a full sixteen game seasons. It's two two that the seventeen,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to keep that in mind. If
Speaker 1: that that continues to be the case, then Matt Jones
Speaker 1: will play at some point, so uh yeah, I imagine
Speaker 1: Cam will get the start dead too. As well as
Speaker 1: far as them pushing for a playoffs, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I think they could. Uh. I mean, you've got
Speaker 1: seven spots in the a f C. There's um now
Speaker 1: with the extra wild cards, so I mean nine and
Speaker 1: seven tendencies might be it will probably get you one
Speaker 1: of those spots, So I think they could. Along with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, I think they'll they'll contend for one of
Speaker 1: those spots. As far as them sweep Like the Dolphins
Speaker 1: sweeping them, I probably have them splitting as well. That
Speaker 1: just kind of has things like it's weird because even
Speaker 1: when the Patriots were New England, the Dolphins will find
Speaker 1: a way to split with them more often than nine,
Speaker 1: no matter how bad the Dolphins were No matter how
Speaker 1: good the Patriots were, they came down to Miami and
Speaker 1: then the Dolphins will at least get one of those.
Speaker 1: So I spent that to probably continue to as well.
Speaker 1: I'll just say ten and six is good for everybody
Speaker 1: that gets in the playoffs except for Miami twice in
Speaker 1: my lifetime. Now ten and six no playoffs. We have
Speaker 1: to say baby ten and seven now, Mr James, so yeah,
Speaker 1: coming It just broke my heart this year back in
Speaker 1: two thousand three. Also Ricky Williams last year, his first
Speaker 1: time with the Dolphins. Ten and six, no Dicks. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish them with the team that did
Speaker 1: go to the playoffs. From to vision the Big Challenger,
Speaker 1: a f C Championship Game representative the Buffalo Bills. They
Speaker 1: addressed their pass rush needs with Rousseau and Carlos Boogie Basham.
Speaker 1: Who I hate that because I love that guy's game
Speaker 1: so much. Antoine's this team closer to taking a step
Speaker 1: towards the Super Bowl or closer to coming back to
Speaker 1: the pack. You think I think? Um? I think well,
Speaker 1: I think they probably close to coming back to the
Speaker 1: path because I think the Chiefs have gotten immensely better that.
Speaker 1: That's how scary Kansas City is. I mean, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's insane, and I feel like they've had one of
Speaker 1: the best offseason and they won the ANFC last year,
Speaker 1: so that that's crazy to think about there. But you
Speaker 1: look at Buffalo and some of their issues, especially you
Speaker 1: saw in the ANFC Championship was the lack of pass
Speaker 1: rush and help. They hope they can kind of solved
Speaker 1: that Russo somebody that was kind of look fewed as
Speaker 1: the first round picked a little bit and he kind
Speaker 1: of slipped down a little bit. It's kind of slipped
Speaker 1: down a little bit further than what he wanted, even
Speaker 1: though he still was the first round pick. But I
Speaker 1: definitely think he could potentially be something a player that
Speaker 1: can solve their issues. And I love I love that.
Speaker 1: I saw a lot of my way Force Wait Wait
Speaker 1: Force Salem areas where I'm from, so I kind of
Speaker 1: keep up on what the Demon Deacons do. But yeah,
Speaker 1: he's somebody that stood out like a lot of people
Speaker 1: probably didn't watch a lot of Wait for his football,
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's amazing at what he could do and
Speaker 1: he definitely fits whether Sean mcdermerk and that defense, Uh
Speaker 1: loves to do uh from a defensive scheme standpoint, so
Speaker 1: I definitely think Dave improved in that areas. But I
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's Kansas City, and I think
Speaker 1: it's everybody else kind of cluttering in the middle, trying
Speaker 1: to make trying to get that second spot in the
Speaker 1: a FC. But I think the Chiefs are just far
Speaker 1: and away at least right now on paper, unless something
Speaker 1: happens like a big time injury, uh that they're they're
Speaker 1: a click cut team in the a f C, which
Speaker 1: is kind of what happened that basically cost them. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, the Super Bowl this year was clear cut
Speaker 1: injuries across the offensive line. But you have to give
Speaker 1: it to the credits then to go out and address
Speaker 1: those needs and to not be bullish about it all.
Speaker 1: They went after a hard and address that offensive line,
Speaker 1: just like we addressed. Are you to talk about the
Speaker 1: draft as well as this season around the a FC
Speaker 1: East with Antoine Daley formerly the Nicest man on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins beat, Now we'll call you the nicest man on
Speaker 1: Dolphins Twitter. What are you working on now, man? And
Speaker 1: where can people find you on social? You find me
Speaker 1: at Antoine Daley also on Twitter and you know find
Speaker 1: my work at Tallahassee dot com too as well, and
Speaker 1: you know, just talking about what the state football and
Speaker 1: just kind of we also preview some of the potential
Speaker 1: draft picks for them this up coming to year as well,
Speaker 1: so you can kind of check out my word there
Speaker 1: you just kind of see what what they may have
Speaker 1: in the store and that share for the two class
Speaker 1: as well. So they're hoping to have what much better
Speaker 1: year than they had from when it going three and
Speaker 1: six a year ago. So check out my word there
Speaker 1: and uh, definitely, man, it was. It was great talking
Speaker 1: to you. Man. It's been it's been way too long
Speaker 1: since we did this. We'll have to do this once
Speaker 1: again as well very soon. Here's my clothes where I
Speaker 1: was gonna gonna end with. Come back down here. We'll
Speaker 1: do the elbow room and bowcampers again. Sound good man, Yes,
Speaker 1: that that's a plan. Yeah, that that had happened this year. Definitely,
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming on, Antoine. Appreciate it
Speaker 1: and have a good rest of your night. Man, I
Speaker 1: you do. And there he goes. He said it all,
Speaker 1: Antoine Daiely. He's a great resource to have because he's
Speaker 1: not just Dolphins, he's college football as well as the
Speaker 1: NFL landscape, so I appreciate him coming on doing that.
Speaker 1: We ran long, but I don't care, and I want
Speaker 1: to finish this podcast with something. I closed out a
Speaker 1: podcast after Thursday night with and I got a list
Speaker 1: of names here from the Draft Party on Thursday night
Speaker 1: at hard Rock Stadium. Kim Thomas, Heather, Doug and Brian
Speaker 1: the broadcast team, the control room staff, j Productions. They
Speaker 1: did all the stage design and the LEDs as well
Speaker 1: as the mics on stage and dark Horse Miami signage
Speaker 1: for the desk design. In general, hard Rock Stadium and
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins Operations and Events departments for putting together that
Speaker 1: entire event. It was a spectacle. So much work that
Speaker 1: went into that. And thank you to everybody involved with
Speaker 1: the Draft Party. As for my time on this edition
Speaker 1: of the Draft Time podcast, It's gonna be my time
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