WEBVTT - Drive Time: Julian Hill Interview and AFC East Preview 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on the Move, Golin, Deep Speedlins, Past Hell. From 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:18.440 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my advans 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:28.560 in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins? And well done 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:31.960 to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.880 And on today's show, our final divisional preview of the summer. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.000 That means that football is right around the corner and 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.640 I cannot wait. We're gonna talk about the Bills, the Jets, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.720 and the Patriots very in depth. We'll sort of breeze 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.000 through your Miami Dolphins because we're gonna do two episodes, 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:50.680 one on the offense, one on the defense to finish 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.479 up the summer series. Plus my chat with Dolphins tight 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.880 end Julian Hill. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:56.920 --> 0:01:03.160 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast. Hey Jaffir, 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.440 really quickly before we get going here. I think a 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:09.919 lot of you probably listen to the show as well 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.360 that I did the show that kind of got me 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:17.080 into podcasting and football podcasting in general. Full transparency, and 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.759 I'm ashamed to admit this my first podcasts I ever 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:25.560 listened to was the Joe Rogan Experience back in twenty fifteen, 0:01:25.760 --> 0:01:28.200 I think is when it was twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.120 and I used to love the long form format of 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.440 those shows and just kind of bsing and shooting the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.120 breeze with his friends and talking about random things. And 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:40.160 then he kind of became you know what he is now, 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.000 and that's when the show to me was no longer 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.000 interesting putting Alex Jones in the podcast, like Okay, let's 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.200 go ahead and get the hell away from this. And 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.200 one of the jobs that I worked, one of the 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:53.280 many jobs I worked before football, I was in water 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.560 and fire restoration and smoke restoration, and I would drive 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.960 around the Yakamaw Valley in the state of Washington today 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.559 different sites, and I would estimate how much repairs would 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.920 cost for homes that were damaged by smoke, fire or water. 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:09.400 And so with all that driving, I needed something to 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.639 listen to that wasn't music, and I graduated towards podcasts, 0:02:12.720 --> 0:02:14.720 and Bill Burr was one of the podcasts I first 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:18.960 started listening to. Two Bears, One Cave came in later 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:20.840 on down the line. I can't remember any of the 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.560 comedy podcast, but it was mostly football, and I was 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:27.600 really scouring for good national football podcasts, which you know 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.160 now it seems like they're kind of tough to get 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:31.880 because I just think it's really tough to cover three 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:35.640 to two teams on on a podcast every single day, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.200 because it's hard to know enough about three two teams, 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.680 like I give you guys UDFA information, you can't know 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.040 that about thirty two teams. And there was like a 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:46.440 pro football weekly podcast that was inconsistent, and the one 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.120 that always stood out to me was the Around the 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:52.480 NFL podcast with Dan Hansis, Greg Rosenthal, Mark Sessler, and 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:56.600 the late Chris Westling, and it like annoyed me at first. 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.600 I thought they talked about like their softball team, like 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.280 I found them in the summertime, so they were, you know, 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.080 doing what I'm doing right now, and I was like, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.840 where's the football talk? And then the show continued on 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:07.040 and I got to know the hosts more and it 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.160 became like, you know, almost like Friends, and I think 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.800 Friends is a terrible show, quite frankly, but it became 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:15.680 like where you knew how Rachel was going to react, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.360 you knew how Joy was going to react, and that 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:19.560 was what became the show, and there was so much 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.680 magic behind that, and in fact, they are the model 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.880 of what I tried to be as a podcaster in 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:28.160 terms of I want to be as informative as possible, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:29.519 and I think there was two guys in the show 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.600 that could provide good football information, but they also had 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:34.120 the touch of mirth, and that's what the other two 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:35.680 guys came in, and that was what kind of brought 0:03:35.720 --> 0:03:37.760 the whole show together. And it was in the top 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:41.080 ten and sports podcast downloads for a decade, and I 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.360 don't know the reason behind it, but the NFL media 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:46.320 decided to cut it just cold turkey, like their last 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.280 episode was in May. It was six weeks ago, and 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:50.200 they just announced a new show that I just listened 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.240 to for the first time, NFL Daily, with only Rosenthal 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.120 as the host, and it just kind of has me 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.440 feeling melancholy, kind of having me reflective about my own 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.800 podcasting career and my media career. And I don't know 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.160 where I'm going with this, but it was a huge 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:06.440 inspiration to what you now hear, and it's now gone 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.880 and it makes me very, very sad. So I just 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.080 wanted to communicate that with you. And let you guys 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.920 know that one of my biggest inspirations behind podcasting is 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.320 no more. And that makes me like I have so 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:20.440 much nostalgia, Like I was in the Awkward Dad but 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.520 at the hospital listening to the Around the NFL podcast 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.760 when my daughter was born. I remember listening to the 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.159 podcast on the flight to Hawaii for my wedding, the 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.120 entire trip down there, Like that podcast was a big 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.919 part of my life, my professional development, and it is 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.960 now no more. So very sad day. And speaking of sad, 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.279 let's talk about the Buffalo Bills, and they're sad sex 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:40.760 So last year in the AFC East, they won the 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.400 division again because we couldn't take care of business down 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.240 the stretch with the same record as US at eleven 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:49.960 and six. They were a divisional round exit that year. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:53.480 And I cannot forget my favorite moment in the NFL 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:56.760 last year, probably above any Dolphins game, which and I've 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:58.840 always been like this, maybe you guys are too. Let 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:00.240 me know if you are or you are or not. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:03.719 I kind of like the suffering of our rivals even 0:05:03.720 --> 0:05:06.080 more than our own success. Like as long as the 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:08.520 Jets exist, I think I'll be happy because they always 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.400 find ways to invent new ways to crush their fan base, 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.520 and I just really really like that with the Buffalo Bills. 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.360 It's kind of similar in terms of how they lose 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.000 games down the stretch, even though it's not as gratifying 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.279 because they make it further than us. And I don't 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.479 think it's right to be like, oh, you guys lost 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:26.080 in the playoffs, like, yeah, we were further than you though, 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.760 Like shut up, dude. So what I did like, though, 0:05:28.880 --> 0:05:31.039 was that Broncos loss last year. That was probably the 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:33.479 best reaction I had. I woke up my kids. That's 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:34.919 not a good thing to do, but I woke up 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.359 my kids by yelling when they threw that flag and 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.880 the Broncos lined up again to run that kickback and 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.039 put it through the uprights to knock Buffalo to five 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:44.760 and five. We were six and three, knowing that they 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.200 had the Eagles, Chiefs and Cowboys coming up, and we 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.080 had the Raiders and the Jets and the Commanders and 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.800 Titans coming up. It just felt like a division clinching moment. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.120 And I tweeted how the Dolphins hadn't lost to a 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.320 winning team or something to that effect. Because the Buffalo's 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.520 record had dropped to five and five, and the next 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.120 day in practice, walking back into the indoor, Mike White 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.240 calls me out and goes, hey, that was a great tweet. 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.480 So that was a really fun week for me. And 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.200 when the Bills in that game, the offense was sputtering 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.120 yet again, and I think it was it was one 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:17.039 of the former quarterback content careaters. It was like Orlowski 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.480 or O'Sullivan or Chase Daniel. I forget who it is exactly, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.160 but they said that the moment you have a player's 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:25.039 only meeting, you might as well call it a season 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.680 because it's done. It's over. But that wasn't the case 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.920 for Buffalo. They axed Ken Dorsey, they promoted Joe Brady, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.280 installed a whole new offense, and they rolled the Jets. 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:37.120 They damn near pulled off that overtime win over the Eagles, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.599 which after that one, you know, they're six and six, 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:41.680 they go into their buy. We improved the nine and 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:45.040 three by beating Washington, beating the absolute breaks off Washington. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.560 But from there they beat the Chiefs by three, and 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.080 that was a game that I regret watching personally, rooting 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.200 for the Bills to win that game to help our 0:06:52.240 --> 0:06:54.559 seating at the top of the AFC Conference. I probably 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.719 should have just taken the you know, the guaranteed division 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.200 title right there with a Buffalo win. Not that my 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.640 rooting had any impact on the game, but I recall 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.240 thinking about that very specifically. And then they roll the Cowboys, 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.080 which was a game we needed them to lose. Then 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:08.240 they escape East and stick and the Chargers. If they 0:07:08.279 --> 0:07:09.920 just had lost that damn game, we would have clinch 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:12.200 the division on Christmas Eve. Then they beat the Patriots, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:14.840 barely had to survive a late drive by the Patriots, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.520 and then they beat us with the dam punt return 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.480 to get to the Steelers in the wild card round. 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.600 They roll up that team and then they lose to 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.440 Casey once again. Lots of turmoil, lots of perseverance. A 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:26.760 long article that I read that took me like a 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:30.160 full week to get through about Sean McDermott's ways, and 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.200 I think they kind of rallied around that article and 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:35.040 the galvanized the team. Lots of change in season, lots 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.040 of change offseason, which began with the trade of their 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.200 biggest star outside of their quarterback, quarterback in Stefon Diggs, 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.400 and that spawned a bunch of moves at wide receiver 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.520 as they brought in Curtis Samuel, who I still think 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.880 can play ball if he's healthy. He's a really good player. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:51.000 Matt Collins, who's a special teams guy that's kind of 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.680 like a fourth receiver, right Marquez Valdez Scantling has been 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.320 a fourth receiver's entire career, So that's who they brought 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.680 in to replace. Defon Diggs, no one's even closest Von 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.920 Diggs ability, especially not Keon Coleman, their second round draft pick, who, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.400 by the way, their entire draft strategy of let's go 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:09.880 ahead and trade out of a spot where there's a 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:13.720 difference making player at a position we desperately need. Let's 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:15.360 go ahead and give him to our biggest rival, a 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.240 team that we cannot be, and give Mahomes a vertical 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:19.640 threat that's probably going to be, you know, one of 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.040 the best in the NFL. Let's get out of that 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.160 and go get a guy that can't separate in Keon Coleman. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.600 I don't understand it at all. This podcast might come 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:28.040 back to bite me when we if Keon Coleman goes 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:32.320 off against US. I don't get it from a process standpoint, like, okay, 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.720 another receiver that cannot separate. You already have like four 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.840 of those, so I didn't get that. Mitch Trubisky's the 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:39.800 new backup there, the old backup, and the new backup. 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.520 Will Clapp was brought in the center. They also brought 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.880 in Lyyl Collins, who I know Dolphins fans are going 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.840 to say, why can't we do that? Well, he hasn't 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.040 been good in like four years. Just FYI defensive tackle 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.640 Austin Jackson. I like these defensive end moves. Casey two 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.520 Hill from Washington, Dwayne's moved from Jacksonville. Those guys are 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.600 both good players. To offset some losses they had there 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.960 as well, Linebacker Dion Jones has kind of had a 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.920 and down career, and then safety Mike Edwards's replacement for 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.360 a couple of safeties they lost in both Micah Hyde 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:07.240 and Jordan Poyer, who I always thought were kind of 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.600 the guys that drove that defense. Mentioned Stefan Diggs's loss. 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:14.240 They also lose Mitch Morse, who was a stalwart, the 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.079 absolute anchor in the middle of their offensive line. Saran 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.600 Neil comes down here to join our special teams as well. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.840 They lose Gabe Davis, who I thought was the same 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.240 issue they had with Keon Coleman, can't separate. They lose 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:27.520 poona Ford. Leonard Floyd is the loss that I'm most 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.880 excited about because he was a one on one winner. 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.280 He would beat one on ones anytime he gave it 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.000 to him, and the Bills find ways to create those 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.240 for him. He was a problem in their past rush plan. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.720 He is no more in Buffalo. Dan Jackson has gone 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:44.000 to Carolina, Jordan Phillips goes to the Giants. Tim Settle 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.640 is also gone, and so is cornerback Trey Right Trey White. 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.080 What do they do well? I think they uncovered something 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:51.840 in the run game last year with James Cook, and 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.640 they do it with a lot of power lead trying 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.000 to lean on defensive lines to take them out of 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.880 their high octane rushes, which can of course be nega 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.520 by a quarterback that does so much to you know, 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.960 spoil good pass rush wins as well, and that's the 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.600 thing I think they do the best is they put 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.760 a cape on the damn quarterback. I think the Bills 0:10:10.800 --> 0:10:12.160 are a good football team, and they have been for 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:14.280 a while. But I think if you take Josh Allen 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.200 off of that team who I know. Dolphins fans love 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.000 to talk about the giveaways and the interceptions, like Marino 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:21.679 threw a lot of picks to you guys, and he 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.760 was a great player, like Josh. Allen's a great freaking player. 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:27.160 To me, there is a I think Mahomes is in 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.160 his own class. I think Allen's in his own class. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:30.480 I think there's a big drop off to the third 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.360 best quarterback in the NFL. I just think that's how 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.439 it is. He makes rushers miss unlike anybody we've ever 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:37.960 seen before. And he's one of the most productive runners, 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.080 whether it's designed runs or scrambles, and you just can't 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:42.679 hurt him, like you hit the guy and he doesn't 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:45.360 get hurt. Last year, they made the OC change and 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.439 they went to this RPO read out the middle of 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:49.560 the field attack, and it was very unnatural for Josh, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.040 who's not a timing and rhythm thrower. He's not an 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.760 anticipatory thrower. He's not a spot thrower, like he does 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.160 not play that style of football. But he just keeps creating. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:00.440 And when they go into those series long slim umps, 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.360 he was always the one with a scramble or a 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.560 scramble to a throw to pull them out of it. 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:08.240 I talk a lot about how overrated creating as a 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.840 quarterback is in this league. Josh Allen kind of transcends that, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.680 like he is so good at it that you actually 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.520 can build an offense around it. But there's he's one 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.040 of one, so good luck trying to replicate that. That's 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:23.360 why I think it's so silly that so much quarterback 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.880 evaluation and scouting is based upon like, well, look at 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.600 what Josh Allen does. Okay, go, yeah, good, look at 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.520 what Michael Jordan did. Go find one of those. Go 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.840 look at what Lebron James did. Go find one of those. 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.840 Those guys don't grow on trees. They are rare, rare breeds. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.559 And to pat myself on the back, which is probably 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:41.800 annoying to you, like that's why I said he was 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:43.720 coming out of Wyoming. I remember watching that final year 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.960 at Wyoming and being like, this dude is a stud 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:48.520 and his stats sucked, and all my friends that were 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:50.480 you know, we were amateurs at the time, especially myself, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.240 and those guys definitely not working in the NFL right now, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.559 will always be like, well he was he was six 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.000 for fifteen and like, yeah, twelve of those not twelve, 0:11:58.120 --> 0:12:00.280 eight of those misses were drop passes where with the 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:02.720 ball right in the money after escaping three pass rushers, 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.040 Like the tape was so good and that's who he's become. 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.439 The NFL. They also on defense, vary their coverages and 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.160 their pre snap presentations and play a good one gap 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.400 style that generates early pressure that forces the quarterback to 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.280 throw into these well constructed zones. They seem to know 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.760 where the hots are. They know how to kind of 0:12:19.800 --> 0:12:21.760 crowd that area where you want to spam the field. 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:25.120 As an offensive designer, play designer, and they can create 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.760 pressure that forces you into throws into coverage and it 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.559 creates takeaways. Like Tua doesn't usually play his best ball 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.199 against Buffalo outside of the two games in twenty twenty two, Right, 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:37.760 what's the concern or fatal flaw against the Buffalo Bills? 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.960 Do they have enough of the skill spots? I say 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:44.240 vehemently no. And I like Curtis Samuel, I don't think 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:47.080 very highly of Keon Coleman. I like Khalil Shakur, but 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:49.640 that's Dalton king k is a good player. Dawson Knox 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.559 is a good player, and James Cook is a good player, 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:55.840 but that's like twentieth in the league at best. And 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.079 that's it was a big problem for the Bills last year. 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:01.400 Go watch the Bills tape. There was long drought, so 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:03.720 they just did not do much as an offense. Uh, 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.360 one of these days, one of these hits talking about 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.400 fatal flaws is going to finally impact Josh Allen. Right, 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.160 I was talking about with Seahawks fans all the time, 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:13.560 like Russell Wilson, when he loses his legs, it's gonna 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.320 be a sharp decline. And I was I took the 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:18.520 bullet on that take for a long time because Russell 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:20.160 Wilson's one of the best quarterbacks to ever play this 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.160 damn game. But the decline happened fast and he is now, 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.360 you know, on his third team in four years. And 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.040 it's that's what happens for Josh Allen every week. I 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.199 watch this dude absorb these insane, huge level of contact 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.840 saying insane huge hits and he just plays through it 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:36.400 and he gets up. I thought he had a was 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:37.760 it two years ago? I thought we had he was 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.880 gonna get Tommy John But he like played the next week, 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.599 cool man like this guy is indestructible. What else is 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.240 a big flaw is don't discount the loss of Mitch Morse. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.559 They didn't have a single offensive line miss a snap 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.480 last year. If that happens again, then like, okay, you 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.960 tip your cap to the luck the football lut gods. Right, 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.000 it's not gonna happen again. I they have a brand 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.080 new secondary Poyer and Hyde, where the communicators the Sean 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:03.080 McDermott on the field. I almost made a joke there about, 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.280 you know, his distasteful nine to eleven content. But I'm 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.120 not gonna do it. I'm not gonna do that. Not 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.599 gonna do it. Trey White's also gone, which he was 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.920 kind of a shadow of himself, but he's also coming 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.400 off into Achilles' injury. But it's a lot of change there. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.200 Rasull Douglas. I wish the Packers hadn't just given him 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.360 away to Buffalo because he became a really good cornerback 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.880 for them. Christian Benford has beaten out their first round 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.800 pick kyer Elam when he was a sixth round pick 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.680 that same year, and he's been a pretty good player 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.640 for them on the perimeter. And then Tarren Johnson's the 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:31.360 guy in the slot that makes it all go. But 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.680 it's a new day with Mike Edwards and then Taylor 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.680 Rap I think of the guys that are gonna start 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:38.080 back there, and that to me is a sharp decline 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.720 from what you had in Hide and Bloyer, especially when 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.080 you consider the mental reps they had together and that 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:45.440 chemistry they had in the back end. So interesting things 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:48.680 about Buffalo and some big storylines the post Digs era. Look, 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.480 there was a lot of consternation between Alan and Diggs, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:55.200 and you know, Josh is not the choir boy that 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:56.680 I think a lot of folks think he might be, 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.640 and there was some stuff that he was you know, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.720 I know he's got the hate Steinfeld relationship, and he 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.240 was kind of maybe not being faithful to his previous 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.040 girlfriend prior to that, and there was some stuff that 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.240 was on his mind. And that Bengals lost a couple 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.280 of years ago when Stefon Diggs blew up on him 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.120 on the sideline, and the last year in the playoff game, 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:14.600 they went dead again, So I think there was a 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.640 big issue there. I'm curious. So they come out of 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.640 that better. Sometimes you do come out of that better, 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:20.680 but you can't replace a player like Stefon Diggs. So 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:22.840 that's a very interesting dynamic there between those two guys 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.360 and that team. How do they cobble together an offense 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.040 with a full offseason after sort of doing it in 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.320 season last year? There's no way they come back with 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.920 the same RPO attack, right, No way or will they? 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.920 That's all kind of Joe Brady knows. So I'm curious 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.280 to see that. And then Bobby Babbage the first time DC. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:39.960 I like him a lot as a leader and a 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.880 guy that can speak, you know, and communicate to his players. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.280 But we'll see what he can bring as an actual 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.360 defensive corner and last of that position was unfulfilled after 0:15:47.440 --> 0:15:50.320 Leslie Fraser left in twenty twenty two. Some final roster thoughts. 0:15:50.320 --> 0:15:52.040 We kind of covered this, but receiver turnover, that's the 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.360 biggest question I have. You kind of need Keon Coleman 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.640 to be a number one right away. They have a 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.920 nice collection of tackles, Dion Dawkins as a beast, spencer 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.240 rounds a plus player, and whatever they get from Lyle 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.680 Collins to me as a bonus. Then Connor McGovern inside 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.800 is a good replacement for Mitch Morse. Not as good, 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.520 but it gets them by and their guard position. Like 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.160 people talk about Osirius Torrance, who was not good last year. 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:14.000 He struggled a lot. He's in line to get one 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:15.520 of the jobs, and otherwise I don't know who the 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.480 other guards are gonna be. That's a kind of a 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.760 training camp question. Getting Matt Mulano back is massive. I'm 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:26.200 stoked that Leonard Floyd is gone between Smoot Rossoue Rossue Rousseau. 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.160 Why can't I say that Casey two hill aj Epines. 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.800 So they kind of need somebody else'll step up. But 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.200 still very solid inside with Daikwan Jones and at Oliver, 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.360 but they did lose their depth behind those guys with 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.960 both Phillips and Settle departing. Otherwise, what can they tell 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:41.960 about Miami Dolphins. I think the Bills went through the 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:43.880 offseason that you were sort of led to believe the 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:47.120 Dolphins would undergo this cap opalypse that I guess he's 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:50.520 saying that there one year deals prevented the cap opilipse, 0:16:50.560 --> 0:16:51.680 and we're like, yeah, that's what we were saying the 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.440 whole time. Bro, Both teams lost a lot of players, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.440 but Miami was able to get a lot of guys 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.960 in where Buffalo did not. I think Miami got better 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.800 at some key spots. I think Buffalo will sort of 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.480 count on some guys incumbently taking the next step. Is 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.600 that a word? But I think the quarterback allows him 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.840 a lot of liberties because he is a special talent. 0:17:09.080 --> 0:17:11.800 And that brings us to your Miami Dolphin. Let's go 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.440 through this quickly here before the first break and before 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:15.600 it gets to Julian Hill eleven and six second in 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.919 the AFC East Wildcard loss to Kansas City. You know 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.520 about that nine and three start crushing loss the Titans 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:22.560 that would have seen the division wrapped up on Christmas 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.120 Eve if we just survived the final three damn neance 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.399 of that football game, the destruction at the hands of 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.359 the Ravens. Have banged up offense that couldn't do enough 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:33.200 against Buffalo with their few opportunities after Bill's long drives, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.160 which I see he praise about the defense in that game, Like, nah, dude, 0:17:36.200 --> 0:17:37.479 the Bills just turned the ball over in the red zone. 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.399 They had like four hundred and fifty yards in that game. 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:42.320 And then playing in a freezer against Mahomes and just 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.359 like that, the most fun season you has a Dolphins 0:17:44.359 --> 0:17:47.359 fan twenty plus years is over to combat that, bringing 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.200