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Speaker 3: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
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Speaker 3: What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, it's
Speaker 3: a football Friday. We will hear from a member of
Speaker 3: the Patriots beat as Evan Lazar joins me. Plus, it
Speaker 3: is another chance to talk to my good friend Kyle
Speaker 3: Krabs about the weekend in college football, where the Dolphins
Speaker 3: go from here and so much more, as well as
Speaker 3: the week five NFL picks from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 3: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft
Speaker 3: Time Podcast, Ye Daffy. We are joined today by Patriot
Speaker 3: Creates dot com reporter and the host of the Catch
Speaker 3: twenty two podcast at Easy Lazarre on Twitter, Evan Lazar.
Speaker 3: Welcome back into the show, my friend. It's good to
Speaker 3: see another round of Dolphins and Patriots.
Speaker 4: Man. Here we go again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely good to see you, Travis.
Speaker 5: We see the combine press box and I'm in Miami
Speaker 5: that those are twice a year, so it's three times
Speaker 5: a year.
Speaker 1: That's nice.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I guess we get some some draft content
Speaker 3: every once in a while for the podcast as well,
Speaker 3: so you're a valuable resource for us here on draft
Speaker 3: time as well as Dolphins HQ are a brand new
Speaker 3: YouTube show. And I want to start off here with
Speaker 3: the head coaching change, because to your point, you know,
Speaker 3: fourteen year old Evan watched the same head coach that
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: I'm sure mid thirties Evan watched her.
Speaker 3: I don't know how old you are, but it's been
Speaker 3: a long time since they've had a coaching change in
Speaker 3: New England. I'm curious your early impressions of Gerrodmeo and
Speaker 3: what that first year has been like so far, you know,
Speaker 3: four weeks in to covering a non Bill Belichick Patriots team.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well I'm thirty one, so not mid thirties quite. Yeah,
Speaker 5: we're getting in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the biggest thing that has been.
Speaker 5: Differently is just that he's has a totally different personality,
Speaker 5: which I know I'm probably not breaking news with that
Speaker 5: by any means. And it's not that you know, we
Speaker 5: didn't see the whole Bill Belichick personality in general. Girod
Speaker 5: is just a different guy, you know, is his own DNA,
Speaker 5: his own human being. He's a little bit different even
Speaker 5: than some of the other Belichick disciples, like you know,
Speaker 5: I know, you guys down there familiar behind Flores or
Speaker 5: Josh McDaniels or someone like that also, So it's been
Speaker 5: unique in that situation in that sense. I think right
Speaker 5: now what we're seeing though, is we're you so used
Speaker 5: to the Patriots being such a well coached team that
Speaker 5: our eyes are seeing things that were not jiving in
Speaker 5: the Belichick era and saying, well, this is the coaching right.
Speaker 5: You know, these things are going wrong, and that's on
Speaker 5: the coaching right. You know, a lot of the issues
Speaker 5: that that Belichick had at the end were more personnel related.
Speaker 5: It was more Bill a g im not doing a
Speaker 5: great job than it was Build a coach. So right now,
Speaker 5: Drod Mayo and the media here, every little decision that
Speaker 5: he is making in game, you know, outside of the
Speaker 5: games is getting nitpicked and compared to Bill Wow, which
Speaker 5: is obviously very difficult.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's it's so weird, man, because like you know,
Speaker 3: for years it was like you can write the Patriots
Speaker 3: in for twelve wins and they're going to get all
Speaker 3: this media coverage and they are They just are who
Speaker 3: they are, and it's just so weird to see him
Speaker 3: in transition from what that era was to where they
Speaker 3: are now and obviously going through a little bit of it.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 3: They're one to three coming off of last season that
Speaker 3: provided them the third pick in the draft, and that's
Speaker 3: where I want to go next here is at the
Speaker 3: quarterback position, because you know, I follow probably I would
Speaker 3: say the Jets are probably close too, but I probably
Speaker 3: follow as many Patriots accounts as I do Dolphins accounts
Speaker 3: in terms of my NFL hierarchy of Twitter follows.
Speaker 4: But my sense is that the.
Speaker 3: Fan base is ready to see Drake May like now,
Speaker 3: but I want to hear from the expert here and
Speaker 3: when do you think the appropriate time is to get
Speaker 3: Drake May out there?
Speaker 4: Are they going to write it out for the entire year?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 4: Think the plan is? And what do you think it
Speaker 4: should be?
Speaker 5: Well, this is the only topic that anybody has any
Speaker 5: interest in New England right now. I can tell you
Speaker 5: that based off of our metrics. It's like if you're
Speaker 5: not writing or talking about Drake May, then people just
Speaker 5: don't really care about what you're saying, so it's a
Speaker 5: number one topic in maybe all of New England sports
Speaker 5: at the moment, is when Drake May is going to
Speaker 5: play and going into the season, especially after the improvements
Speaker 5: we saw in training camp in the preseason, Drake May
Speaker 5: did have a pretty upward trajectory to his development in
Speaker 5: the summer, so by the end of the summer we
Speaker 5: felt pretty good about where he was.
Speaker 1: It was two schools a thought. One.
Speaker 5: I actually compared the situation a lot to the Dolphins
Speaker 5: with Ryan Fitzpatrick in Tua, where Fitzpatrick's locker room favorite.
Speaker 1: He's a veteran quarterback.
Speaker 5: You know, he played better than Jacoby's playing right now,
Speaker 5: certainly in that season.
Speaker 1: But it felt the same where.
Speaker 5: A captain guy that the locker room specs, the locker
Speaker 5: room likes with preset, but they just drafted this guy
Speaker 5: high first round pick that was clearly the future of
Speaker 5: the franchise. So I just felt like it was inevitable
Speaker 5: that at some point Drake May is gonna play, and
Speaker 5: it is to an extent. But I think the other
Speaker 5: thing that we're seeing now, even in season, is that
Speaker 5: there was this growing concern about the state of the
Speaker 5: offense around the quarterback. It's more specifically the offensive line,
Speaker 5: which right now is basically dead last, and every single
Speaker 5: stat that you can pull up in terms of pass protection,
Speaker 5: your pass block win rate, pressure rate, quick pressure rate,
Speaker 5: like all of it is just last, last, last, last.
Speaker 5: So do you want to subject a rookie quarterback who
Speaker 5: is a little bit raw and younger than some of
Speaker 5: these other guys like bow Knicks or Jaden Daniels to
Speaker 5: that kind of offensive line play and maybe have a
Speaker 5: long term effect on his development because he gets sped up,
Speaker 5: or he starts seeing ghosts or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 5: So that was the big issue that everybody had coming
Speaker 5: into the season. It's now manifested itself in season with
Speaker 5: their offensive line play. So now the question really is
Speaker 5: more about can they support Drake May than is Drake
Speaker 5: May ready to support that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a great point, Devin.
Speaker 3: If I can follow up on that, I kind of
Speaker 3: want to go a little bit off script here and
Speaker 3: ask you just about your own thoughts about the quarterback
Speaker 3: position and development, because I've been talking about in the
Speaker 3: podcast here and there about all these young quarterbacks that
Speaker 3: come in and to your point, Jaden Daniels is a
Speaker 3: great example. Bo Nicks played, what was it, sixty college
Speaker 3: starts is just an absurd number. But for Jaden Daniels,
Speaker 3: he comes in and he looks the part right away,
Speaker 3: right he looks like he has total control of that huddle,
Speaker 3: the offense. He's you know, he's leading two minute drives
Speaker 3: for game winning drives on Monday night football.
Speaker 4: Looks like the real deal.
Speaker 3: I'm curious where you come down on the development of
Speaker 3: a young quarterback. And for a guy like Drake May
Speaker 3: who doesn't have the same number of reps or years
Speaker 3: in college as a Jadeen Daniels, what you think the
Speaker 3: benefit is of him getting all these reps mentally without
Speaker 3: how to go out there on the field. Do you
Speaker 3: think it's the best way for a young guy to
Speaker 3: grow and develop or you think that on the field
Speaker 3: you could get some of that as well.
Speaker 5: I tend to lean towards playing young quarterbacks. We're even
Speaker 5: seeing it now what these guys were talking about, even
Speaker 5: Caleb too.
Speaker 1: They really started out rough.
Speaker 5: You know, Week one was tough across the league for
Speaker 5: all these rookie quarterbacks, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 5: you're starting to see them make some improvements. Obviously, Jaden's
Speaker 5: gotten the best out of all of them, but even
Speaker 5: Caleb Williams and Bo Nicks have made some strides in
Speaker 5: just a short period of time. You mentioned all the
Speaker 5: starts those guys made, Drake may only made twenty six
Speaker 5: collegiate starts. He was a two year starter at North Carolina.
Speaker 5: I just find it hard to believe that he is
Speaker 5: going to improve leaps and bounds without playing because he
Speaker 5: hasn't played a lot of football, and a lot of
Speaker 5: the coaches that I talked to. I wrote a big
Speaker 5: feature about him for Patriots dot Com back when they
Speaker 5: drafted him, and his high school coach pointed out to
Speaker 5: me that he also lost a year of high school
Speaker 5: football because of COVID, so he really has only started
Speaker 5: forced seasons between high school and college in his career.
Speaker 5: So he hasn't played a ton of football. And that
Speaker 5: was part of the appeal with him, was that, yeah,
Speaker 5: he has some wards and he needs some development, and
Speaker 5: he has that bust factor because of that, but his
Speaker 5: physical tools are so immense that with more seasoning, he
Speaker 5: should be a Josh Allen Light type of quarterback or
Speaker 5: something of that nature. So that was always the big
Speaker 5: conversation with him. I just don't see how a young
Speaker 5: quarterback that hasn't gotten as many reps and hasn't played
Speaker 5: as much football is going to get better without playing football.
Speaker 5: But end I do see some of the other factors
Speaker 5: that are involved with the Patriots. Specifically, they don't really
Speaker 5: have a number one receiver. The Dolphins have two. The
Speaker 5: Patriots have zero. Right, they don't really have an offensive line.
Speaker 5: They have Alex Van Pelt, their new offensive coordinator, has
Speaker 5: never called plays before in the NFL, really like he's
Speaker 5: called it a little bit here and there, pockets, but
Speaker 5: he's never been the primary play caller of an offense.
Speaker 5: So he has some growing pains that he's going through.
Speaker 5: So you look at all these different elements and you're like,
Speaker 5: this is a disaster waiting to happen for a rookie quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it doesn't really compare, I don't think.
Speaker 3: But the first off that came to my mind when
Speaker 3: he talked about the rep count was Anthony Richardson for
Speaker 3: the cole who you know, miss that entire rookie season
Speaker 3: where he needed those reps so bad because at Florida
Speaker 3: he just didn't get them because you know, he didn't
Speaker 3: start until late and he was early and Rollie to
Speaker 3: the draft and or not en roly but declared for
Speaker 3: the draft early on. So you wind up having a
Speaker 3: guy that's played like five hundred reps going into his
Speaker 3: sophomore year of the NFL. It's crazy. So it's if
Speaker 3: there's a strong dichotomy there, I think the players will
Speaker 3: get all those reps eventually benefit from it. So we
Speaker 3: checked your box there for the criteria of what the
Speaker 3: Patriots fans want to read about. Right in terms of
Speaker 3: your metrics from a content standpoint, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: talk about the game here a little bit because we
Speaker 3: do have Dolphins and Patriots from Jillette Stadium on Sunday,
Speaker 3: a one o'clock kickoff, and you have alluded to this.
Speaker 4: A little bit.
Speaker 3: I want to get your just follow up on both
Speaker 3: offensive line and the skill groups, because I read that
Speaker 3: David Andrews is contemplating shoulder surgery.
Speaker 4: Do you think he'll be out there?
Speaker 3: And then just also kind of give us a walkthrough
Speaker 3: of where those cracks on the offensive line are and
Speaker 3: if you can, like a three part question here, Evan,
Speaker 3: I apologize for that, but if you can, who has
Speaker 3: been the top receiver. That's kind of I guess taking
Speaker 3: the reins on what this current Patriots offense is.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So just starting with David Andrews, I would be
Speaker 5: shocked if he plays on Sunday. For what it's worth,
Speaker 5: he was taking off the media schedule this week, which
Speaker 5: is usually a pretty good indication that he's not going
Speaker 5: to be practicing.
Speaker 1: So he's a tough SOB.
Speaker 5: So it's really just a matter of it does he
Speaker 5: want to play through this injury for the season and
Speaker 5: just pain tolerance and all that kind of stuff, or
Speaker 5: does he want to have the surgery now and try
Speaker 5: to be ready for twenty twenty five. So it's a
Speaker 5: tough situation for him, I will say, And I love
Speaker 5: David Andrews. He's one of my favorite players I've ever covered.
Speaker 5: I think he probably wears a red jacket in the
Speaker 5: Patriots Hall of Fame someday. He has had some dip
Speaker 5: in production over the last couple of years, specifically in
Speaker 5: past protection. He's not necessarily the same guy that he
Speaker 5: was three, four or five years ago. So as much
Speaker 5: as it's a drop off from a leadership in just
Speaker 5: a mentality and all those types of intangible aspects from
Speaker 5: what we saw limited granted, but Nick Leverett their backup
Speaker 5: center as a pure blocker. I'm not sure how much
Speaker 5: of a true drop off that's going to be. You're
Speaker 5: just losing a lot when it comes to grit, leadership,
Speaker 5: communication on the line, all those elements that David Andrews
Speaker 5: brings to the table. To your second question about where
Speaker 5: are the holes in this offensive line?
Speaker 1: Kind of everywhere.
Speaker 5: I wish there was one spot that I could be like, yeah,
Speaker 5: they're really good there. Maybe right tackle with Mike gon
Speaker 5: Wnu is probably where you feel the best. But even
Speaker 5: then he's a guard playing tackle out of necessity, So
Speaker 5: that's not necessarily a great situation long term either. But
Speaker 5: I look at the real holes left tackle as that
Speaker 5: by far the biggest one. Last week they started Trey Jacobs,
Speaker 5: who was a waiver claim by the Patriots on cutdown Day.
Speaker 5: He's technically their fourth string left tackle if you want
Speaker 5: to look at the depth chart that way. They signed
Speaker 5: Chooks the Corps four in the offseason to be their
Speaker 5: stop gap bridge left tackle. They knew they were going
Speaker 5: to probably draft one early next year in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: He's no longer with the team. He's basically retired from football.
Speaker 5: As my understanding, he quit essentially on the team. I
Speaker 5: just got to call it what it is. You know,
Speaker 5: he went home and took his bags and went home.
Speaker 5: So he's not here. Vederian Lowe was sort of their
Speaker 5: second string backup. He has a knee injury. He was
Speaker 5: a ruled out on Friday guy last week, so really
Speaker 5: didn't have a chance to play in the game on Sunday,
Speaker 5: and we'll see if he's ready to go. And then
Speaker 5: their rookie Kidden Wallace, who they drafted in the third round.
Speaker 5: I saw him in a walking boot and crutches after
Speaker 5: the game on Sunday leaving Levi Stadium in San Francisco,
Speaker 5: so he's injured as well. So it's looking Unlesvedarian Lowe
Speaker 5: somehow is healthy enough to play. It's looking like it's
Speaker 5: going to be Trey Jacobs again, who allowed two sacks
Speaker 5: and seven quarterback pressures last week against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 5: So that's not his fault, like he shouldn't even be
Speaker 5: out there. The Patriot should have done a better job
Speaker 5: is shoring up this position in the offseason. But it
Speaker 5: is what it is, and I would also just point out,
Speaker 5: you know, rookie guard at right guard as well, Laden
Speaker 5: Robinson their fourth round pick. Pretty good run blocker already,
Speaker 5: but is struggling right now in pass protection. So they
Speaker 5: really have a lot of holes everywhere. It's like a
Speaker 5: ship with a bunch of different holes that they're trying
Speaker 5: to plug on the offensive line right now, and it has.
Speaker 1: It has sunk their passing game for the most part.
Speaker 5: You can't throw down the field when you have no time,
Speaker 5: right you know, that's just common sense. So last one
Speaker 5: on the receivers, I would say that the the guy
Speaker 5: that really is like their third down and money type
Speaker 5: of player is actually Hunter Henry at tight end. You know,
Speaker 5: he's the one that Jacob Brissett has the most comfortability
Speaker 5: with and can move the chains a little bit. They
Speaker 5: are bullish about Jalen Polk, their second round pick out
Speaker 5: of Washington. He's come on a little bit here in
Speaker 5: recent weeks. He's beginning moved up the depth chart a
Speaker 5: little bit more. Played his most snaps in the game
Speaker 5: last week, a lot more first read progression type stuff
Speaker 5: with him where the quarterback is looking at him initially
Speaker 5: in the progression. So he's starting to be a little
Speaker 5: bit more involved. But the thing with Polk is that
Speaker 5: he's one of those guys that needs to be thrown
Speaker 5: open a lot of the time. He's not like a
Speaker 5: pure separator. He's more of like a back shoulder, you know,
Speaker 5: catching traffic kind of guy, and Brissette is not necessarily
Speaker 5: one of those types of passers.
Speaker 1: So it hasn't been a great mix there.
Speaker 5: But the hope is when Drake May comes back, you know,
Speaker 5: comes into the games, that he'll you know, be able
Speaker 5: to put those balls on Jalen Polk a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you just gave us the answer for
Speaker 3: the Patriots offense ranks where it does right now in
Speaker 3: thirty second place, less than one thousand yards four games in.
Speaker 4: But pintruglefield Dolphins offense as well.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a quick break, come back
Speaker 3: and talk about that on the other side of My
Speaker 3: guest today, Evan Lazar, senior reporter for Patriots dot Com
Speaker 3: and the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by Auto Nation. Back here with my guest
Speaker 3: today from Patriots dot Com, Evan Lazar. We talked about
Speaker 3: the Patriots offense. Now I want to ask you, Evan
Speaker 3: about the Patriots defense and how they might attack this
Speaker 3: Miami offense. And I want to start upfront because we
Speaker 3: saw Matt Judong get traded before the year began. But man,
Speaker 3: that front for so long had so many mainstays that
Speaker 3: have kind of changed a little bit here over the
Speaker 3: last couple of years. But in all of that, you
Speaker 3: guys have uncovered what I think is the next breakout
Speaker 3: start at a pass rusher. Can you tell us about
Speaker 3: Keyon White a little bit, Evan?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Keon White has been their entire pass rush. He
Speaker 5: has double the amount of quarterback pressures of anybody else
Speaker 5: on their team. You know, he's young, all right, So
Speaker 5: there are some things I'll talk about that are still
Speaker 5: works in progress in his game, but it's very very
Speaker 5: clear that he is a disruptive force and extremely good
Speaker 5: at rushing on the interior especially. I would say, you know,
Speaker 5: he's given guards all sorts of fits. A really explosive guy,
Speaker 5: twitchy guy, really good hands, violent hands. I would call
Speaker 5: him to get off blocks and things of that nature.
Speaker 1: So he's a disruptive guy.
Speaker 5: But right now, I would say the biggest issue with
Speaker 5: him and with their pass rush as a whole is discipline.
Speaker 5: You know, they've let quarterbacks for three straight weeks now
Speaker 5: get outside the pocket and extend plays or even just
Speaker 5: scramble for first downs on third down. They're thirty first
Speaker 5: in the league on third down defense right now, and
Speaker 5: a big part of that to me just watching their
Speaker 5: film is that they're letting the quarterback outside the pocket.
Speaker 5: So Keon White's been great and I always kind of
Speaker 5: push back on people that criticize him because I'm like, well,
Speaker 5: if they don't let Keon White just go up the field,
Speaker 5: are not going to have a pass rush, like he's
Speaker 5: the only one that's getting after the quarterback. But the
Speaker 5: other side of that coin is that sometimes he lets
Speaker 5: the quarterback out of the pocket and that's how you
Speaker 5: get you know, Aaron Rodgers on the move or Rock
Speaker 5: Pretty on the move, and they've been burned by that
Speaker 5: pretty badly. So they have to do a better job
Speaker 5: of keeping quarterbacks in the pocket.
Speaker 3: Well, that leads right in my last question here for you,
Speaker 3: because we have a quarterback changed since two went down
Speaker 3: back in Week two, Scalar Thompson. Back in week three.
Speaker 3: We had three different quarterbacks start the last three games.
Speaker 3: But we will have the same quarterbacks start a game
Speaker 3: for the second time this year after to a start
Speaker 3: of the first two games and Tyler Huntley, and usually
Speaker 3: I ask you the question about how the Patriots plan
Speaker 3: to attack Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, But those guys
Speaker 3: haven't been as productive since Tua went down, and I'm
Speaker 3: curious what Evan Lazar's game plan might be or how
Speaker 3: you might draw up what it might look like for
Speaker 3: the Patriots when it comes to defending a quarterback that's
Speaker 3: so brand new here that was, you know, a tough
Speaker 3: showing on Monday night against the Titans. What do you
Speaker 3: think the Patriots are looking to do against the Dolphins
Speaker 3: offense with Tyler Huntley at the helm.
Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting because you know, I watched their film
Speaker 5: from the Titans game yesterday and I did a little
Speaker 5: cut up on it for my game plan of all
Speaker 5: the times that Tyreek is still getting open deep and
Speaker 5: just the ball just isn't finding him because it's not
Speaker 5: too And my whole warning to the Patriots would just
Speaker 5: be don't fall asleep at the wheel just because it's
Speaker 5: Tyler Huntley at quarterback, because Tyreek is still wide open
Speaker 5: for seventy yard touchdowns some of the time, and you know,
Speaker 5: one of these days, Tyler Hunterly is actually going to
Speaker 5: complete one of those passes and don't let it be
Speaker 5: on you. So I still look at their offense as
Speaker 5: being explosive and dangerous and really one of those offenses
Speaker 5: where they can score from anywhere on the field because
Speaker 5: of those two receivers. So with that being said, and
Speaker 5: I just mentioned all the issues that they've had with
Speaker 5: the containing quarterbacks, that's the one thing with Huntley that
Speaker 5: he does have the capability of doing. Even that quarterback
Speaker 5: draw that he picked up a first down with on
Speaker 5: Monday night. You can't let him just run around and
Speaker 5: be an athlete back there. And I would also just
Speaker 5: mention you as you know, a lot of those inbreaking
Speaker 5: routes are always where they want to throw off a
Speaker 5: play action, those glances and the crossers and things like that.
Speaker 5: So if I'm the Patriots, they had a lot of
Speaker 5: issues with that last week against San Francisco. You know,
Speaker 5: Brandon Aik, Juwan Jennings big chunk plays off of just
Speaker 5: post cross you know, just take the top off the
Speaker 5: defense and then cross over the middle of the field.
Speaker 5: So they have to find a way to close that
Speaker 5: down and take away those inbreaking routes from this Dolphins offense.
Speaker 5: Because I still look at that game on Monday night,
Speaker 5: I see I think it was the first play of
Speaker 5: the game, dagger right to Tyreek, you know, off play
Speaker 5: action glance later in the game to what I believe
Speaker 5: it was Tyreek again, Like they still have that capability
Speaker 5: of doing those types of things with Huntley. So I look,
Speaker 5: I don't take anything for granted right now with this
Speaker 5: Patriots team. They're They're not good enough for me to
Speaker 5: sit here and say, well, it's a third string quarnderback,
Speaker 5: so they'll be fine.
Speaker 1: They still have to worry about a lot of things here.
Speaker 3: I think you just yelled all the hits, by the way,
Speaker 3: with all the route concepts that the Dolphins runners.
Speaker 1: I love.
Speaker 5: I love watching that Dolphins offense. And the thing that
Speaker 5: makes me super jealous too is how much pistol they run.
Speaker 5: Like when the Patriots get Drake may and there, I
Speaker 5: have been begging them to run pistol because he's not
Speaker 5: very comfortable with running under center. It's not anything he
Speaker 5: did in college at a regular level. And North Carolina
Speaker 5: did run a lot of pro style pistol concepts though
Speaker 5: for him and at uh at un C. So they
Speaker 5: want to be an under center run team in New England,
Speaker 5: and I just say, like, look at Miami, they are
Speaker 5: a pistol running gun team. Just play him in the
Speaker 5: pistol like he doesn't have to be all the way
Speaker 5: under center.
Speaker 1: So I love watching those concepts.
Speaker 3: You get like three more gaps compared to sidecar in
Speaker 3: the shotgun right with you in the formation. So I'm
Speaker 3: with you on that all the way I said I had.
Speaker 3: That was the last question by a lot. I have
Speaker 3: one more for you this every time off the beat, right,
Speaker 3: guess it's just simple Patriots win if and then you
Speaker 3: get a fill in the blank, I.
Speaker 5: Would say the Patriots win if their defense gets back
Speaker 5: on track this week against the backup quarterback. You know,
Speaker 5: they've had that in their bag in this Belichick mess
Speaker 5: that was last year or even twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: For the most part, they've beaten the Tyler.
Speaker 5: Hunt Lees of the world, or you know, whatever backup
Speaker 5: quarterback they're facing. So they need to get right on defense.
Speaker 5: We went into this season thinking, yeah, they'll probably have
Speaker 5: a little drop off because Belichick's not here on defense
Speaker 5: but they still have a ton of talent on that
Speaker 5: side of the ball. Right now, they're twenty fifth in
Speaker 5: the league in EPA on defense. That's not what we
Speaker 5: expected going into the year, but we expected them to
Speaker 5: still be top fifteen, top half of the league on defense,
Speaker 5: and they haven't been. So they are going to win
Speaker 5: on the back of their defense. They're not going to
Speaker 5: score a lot of points this year. We know that
Speaker 5: even when Drake May gets in there, they're probably still
Speaker 5: not going to be a great offense, so they have
Speaker 5: to get right on defense.
Speaker 4: Great stuff there.
Speaker 3: We got a lot smarter on the opponent this week
Speaker 3: with Evin Lazarre from Patriots dot Com, senior reporter and
Speaker 3: the host of The Catch twenty two podcasts at Easy
Speaker 3: Lazarre on Twitter and Evan, I think we close the
Speaker 3: podcast just wait by saying, how about that mapples my friend?
Speaker 3: All right? Well, maybe that Joe kind of fell on
Speaker 3: deaf ears there towards the end. Big thanks to Evan
Speaker 3: Lazar for his time on the show. Gosh didn't really
Speaker 3: pull any punches there on the Patriots, did he Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and pick the week five games before we
Speaker 3: take our last break and hear from the great Kyle Krabs.
Speaker 3: We kick it off on Thursday Night Football. I picked
Speaker 3: the Falcons.
Speaker 4: Did they win?
Speaker 3: Who knows. We will know by the time you hear
Speaker 3: this podcast, but right.
Speaker 4: Now I don't know.
Speaker 3: We also have an early morning game as the Jets
Speaker 3: will play the Vikings in London.
Speaker 4: Go ahead and give me. I'm really in between on
Speaker 4: this game.
Speaker 3: Like I feel like it's a perfect spot for the
Speaker 3: Jets to kind of bounce back and the Vikings a
Speaker 3: step back after a road divisional win and a.
Speaker 4: Great four and oh start.
Speaker 3: But I just think that the Jets offense is still
Speaker 3: going to be stuck in the mud, and I think
Speaker 3: the Vikings can find to run the football on that
Speaker 3: Jets defense. In fact, the more I talk about it,
Speaker 3: the Dolphins offense when they're clicking always gives that Jets
Speaker 3: defense issues. And I think there are similar scheme things
Speaker 3: there and similar talent.
Speaker 4: For the Vikings.
Speaker 3: So give me the Vikings over the Jets to make
Speaker 3: them fall to two to three, and hopefully we can
Speaker 3: enjoy their misery as much as they're enjoying ours. I
Speaker 3: am taking the Patriots over the Dolphins. They're gonna have
Speaker 3: to prove it for me to pick the Dolphins again
Speaker 3: this year. I'll take the Panthers over the Bears in Chicago.
Speaker 3: Andy Dalton goes and gets his second winners the Panther
Speaker 3: starting quarterback. I'm gonna also take another upset here with
Speaker 3: Cleveland over Washington.
Speaker 5: Why.
Speaker 3: I just feel like Washington's been kind of on a
Speaker 3: high for a couple of weeks. It feels like it's
Speaker 3: a ripe spot to get picked off, especially against a
Speaker 3: good DC against a young quarterback in Jaden Daniels, who
Speaker 3: I think is the absolute truth.
Speaker 4: Give me the Browns there.
Speaker 3: I'm also taking the Jaguars to get their first win
Speaker 3: of the year over the Colts. They seem to always
Speaker 3: give that Colts team issues, and they're gonna be either
Speaker 3: limited with Anthony Richardson or have Joe Flacco in there.
Speaker 3: I will take the Jags get their first win of
Speaker 3: the year. Give me Buffalo over Houston in that big
Speaker 3: early season matchup there for AFC seeding hierarchy, I'll take
Speaker 3: the Ravens over the Bengals. Give me the Raiders over
Speaker 3: the Broncos. I guess I don't know who cares. I'll
Speaker 3: take the Niners over the Cardinals and that one Seahawks
Speaker 3: over the Giants. I'm also gonna take Green Bay over Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: or rather, I'm sorry the Rams. I will take Dallas
Speaker 3: over Pittsburgh on Sunday Night football.
Speaker 4: It's a fun matchup, I think.
Speaker 3: And then we'll go ahead and take the Chiefs on
Speaker 3: Monday Night over the Saints in now Leans.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there.
Speaker 3: Come back on the other side with Kyle Crabs Drift
Speaker 3: Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you.
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Speaker 3: Kyo Crabs everybody for his weekly Friday spot here on
Speaker 3: the Drive Time Podcast. I don't think we'll have you
Speaker 3: on next week, though, big dog, as we have a
Speaker 3: week off no Dolphins football and week number six first
Speaker 3: of all bye week plans, have you got them?
Speaker 2: Uh? Probably recaliber right the college football schedule. I had
Speaker 2: some travel plans that were mixing up. Going to try
Speaker 2: to get some college games and pour myself into that
Speaker 2: and really figure out how to maximize the stretch running
Speaker 2: conference play in the bowl game.
Speaker 1: That's probably what I'll be focused on.
Speaker 4: Smart fellow, he never stops working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I mean it is a blessing, you know,
Speaker 2: even in a season that hasn't started for the Dolphins
Speaker 2: the way that I think anybody envisioned or hoped that
Speaker 2: it would to be able to have the other avenues
Speaker 2: in football is certainly something that allows you to keep
Speaker 2: perspective and things, and you see other teams that go
Speaker 2: through these battles and understand that there's ebbs and flows,
Speaker 2: and there's moments of low points and high points, and
Speaker 2: it puts the whole thing in perspective when you see
Speaker 2: how many teams there are out there in this space
Speaker 2: and how many of them are uniquely experiencing things that
Speaker 2: are similar or dissimilar to what the Dolphins are experiencing
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I think that's a good transition into the
Speaker 3: first topic I wanted to touch on here, because you know,
Speaker 3: it is a long season, no doubt about that, and
Speaker 3: I try my best to maintain that perspective because we've
Speaker 3: seen teams, you know, start zero and four and rip
Speaker 3: wins off, and we've seen teams start off hot and
Speaker 3: go the other direction. I think you can kind of
Speaker 3: see the tea leaves here with this Dolphins team and
Speaker 3: the way things are going. But you know what, I
Speaker 3: don't know, Jim it's looking more like a top five
Speaker 3: pick for this team more than any other outcome at
Speaker 3: the moment if they do find themselves in that mix.
Speaker 3: I know, like we talked to quarterbacks the last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks here, but what do you think right now,
Speaker 3: given all the information that we have about where this
Speaker 3: team is, where they are going forward, where the quarterback
Speaker 3: currently stands long way out? This is why they pay
Speaker 3: you the big bucks, Big Doug. What's the best course
Speaker 3: of action right now? If you forecasted a top five
Speaker 3: pick for the Dolphins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think if you forecast yourself in that stratosphere,
Speaker 2: you have one of two forks in the road that
Speaker 2: I think you can take. You'd be in a position
Speaker 2: to land of what is a handful of elite talents
Speaker 2: in this draft class. Whether that's Will Johnson the corner
Speaker 2: from Michigan, or Mason Graham the defensive tackle for Michigan,
Speaker 2: or Travis Hunter, the whatever you wanted to play, he
Speaker 2: could probably play it type of player. I think he's
Speaker 2: better as a corner personally, Travis Hunter. But I know
Speaker 2: there's dollars to be had at wide receiver with the
Speaker 2: wide receiver market and what that's looked like in the
Speaker 2: NFL last couple of years, So I don't think you
Speaker 2: could go wrong either way in that regard. I think
Speaker 2: you would be an interesting situation to take a best
Speaker 2: player available, or I think the other alternative would be
Speaker 2: we've seen what the backup quarterback situation has looked like. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: the first couple weeks of having to play with the
Speaker 2: backup quarterback with this system in year three and a
Speaker 2: lot of players that have familiarity with it, I think
Speaker 2: everybody probably would have hoped that that things would have
Speaker 2: clicked a little bit more with the interruption with the
Speaker 2: signal caller, and that obviously hasn't been the case. So
Speaker 2: I think you have to put that position under a
Speaker 2: really big microscope. And obviously, Tua when he's on the
Speaker 2: field is so impactful and so unique, and I think
Speaker 2: you see that and how the team is struggling without him.
Speaker 2: But I do think you would be in a position
Speaker 2: to bring in an additional quarterback and have one with
Speaker 2: talent that you feel you could win with and then
Speaker 2: kind of let that situation play out. This would not
Speaker 2: be the first time in league history that you have
Speaker 2: a quarterback that's a veteran established starting quarterback with an
Speaker 2: early round pick behind him and having two good quarterbacks
Speaker 2: a good problem to have. Of course that the challenge
Speaker 2: there is the opportunity cost of what that might look
Speaker 2: like as far as the domino effect for the rest
Speaker 2: of your roster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's I guess why I come down is
Speaker 3: if you wind up in that position, it's the old adage, like,
Speaker 3: you don't want to be there again, right, so take
Speaker 3: advantage of the fact that you are there. And if
Speaker 3: you know, we do wind up getting interruption long term
Speaker 3: with QB one, it would be nice to offset that
Speaker 3: with what would be a cheap quarterback by way of
Speaker 3: the draft with the rookie contract.
Speaker 4: So I think that's where I would go. But if
Speaker 4: we're trying.
Speaker 3: To like you know, I think we both get accused
Speaker 3: of this a little bit sometimes of the you know,
Speaker 3: selling hopium, although I don't think it's what either of
Speaker 3: us do.
Speaker 2: It's not an accurate term, it's not a realistic it's
Speaker 2: it's looking at the possible outcomes and understanding what the
Speaker 2: team is trying to achieve and explain what the thought
Speaker 2: process is and how it's supposed to work.
Speaker 1: That's not hopeium.
Speaker 3: It's not sorry, And like I was, I was tweeting
Speaker 3: about like a Jordan Brooks sack in the second half
Speaker 3: of the game on Monday and how it was really
Speaker 3: cool sim pressure look or rather you know, they brought
Speaker 3: the pressure after simming it all night and it caused
Speaker 3: a bust in protection, and I mentioned like, that's been
Speaker 3: one of the cool parts about this team so far,
Speaker 3: not many of them, but it's been one of the
Speaker 3: cool parts. And someone's like, look at this a hole
Speaker 3: trying to spin positive, Like, no, I'm just covering the game, dude,
Speaker 3: I'm just telling you what happened in the game. I'm
Speaker 3: very well aware of where the thing of where situations
Speaker 3: are right now. But the reason I bring this up, Kyle,
Speaker 3: is because if you did want to try to get
Speaker 3: excited about, you know, next year, if that's where you
Speaker 3: are already, I'm looking at the Niners over the Kyle
Speaker 3: Shanahan era, and they had two years where they were like, well,
Speaker 3: I guess early on they stunk because they had Brian Hoyer.
Speaker 3: Then that second year they got or Jimmy Garoppolo got
Speaker 3: hurt that second year, and then in twenty twenty they
Speaker 3: were supposed to be this great team after going to
Speaker 3: the Super Bowl in twenty nineteen, but once again, as
Speaker 3: they did for you know, two of the previous three years,
Speaker 3: injuries railroaded that team. They won six games, and they
Speaker 3: got better performances from Nick Mullins and I think CJ.
Speaker 3: Bethard that year than we've gotten fm our backup quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: But my ultimate point is those years provided them a
Speaker 3: chance to get Nick Bosa and it also provided them
Speaker 3: a chance to trade up and get Trey Lance, which
Speaker 3: was an absolute disaster, but they were in those positions.
Speaker 3: Can you draw any parallel to those Niners teams with
Speaker 3: the injuries and the bad luck they accrued during those years,
Speaker 3: because this happens sometimes to good teams.
Speaker 4: I don't think the Dolphins are a good team right now.
Speaker 3: I think they have other issues, but last year they
Speaker 3: were a very good football team. Can you draw any
Speaker 3: parallels two teams like the Niners that have gone through
Speaker 3: that amid the successful runs or anybody else, or do
Speaker 3: you not see it that way at all?
Speaker 2: No, I certainly think there's I think general consensus is
Speaker 2: one of the best executives in the game of football
Speaker 2: is Howie Roseman, right, and the Philadelphia Eagles, and they
Speaker 2: drafted a quarterback in Carson Wentz and gave him a
Speaker 2: second contract and he had an injury and they had,
Speaker 2: like at two quarterbacks, do you really have any situation?
Speaker 2: And the bottom fell out there. They went four eleven
Speaker 2: and one, and it put them in a position to
Speaker 2: being a high draft pick and draft an impactful player.
Speaker 2: I think about the La Rams and maybe their draft
Speaker 2: capital situation was a little different, but they were a
Speaker 2: team that made a couple of runs, then they got
Speaker 2: really banged up and got hurt, and then they had
Speaker 2: a youth movement that came in and they made the
Speaker 2: playoffs last year, won ten games. Like there's incidences of
Speaker 2: this happening all over the league. I think the thing
Speaker 2: where Dolphins fans are a little sours. Do you look
Speaker 2: at Philadelphia and you say, okay, they want a super Bowl?
Speaker 2: They had Nick Foles on the great backup quarterback run
Speaker 2: of all time and they win a Super Bowl in
Speaker 2: that year before the bottom falls out, And you look
Speaker 2: at the Rams and they had a very aggressive mentality
Speaker 2: and pushed all their chips in and they got it
Speaker 2: done at the end. And for Miami, if the payoff
Speaker 2: is is last year and then there's a regression. I
Speaker 2: think that that's where the sting is for Dolphins fans,
Speaker 2: and I totally get that, and I know a lot
Speaker 2: of Dolphins fans have a lot of different opinions about
Speaker 2: like the state of affairs with the team right now.
Speaker 2: But it is October fourth, right, Like, there is so
Speaker 2: much more information to be collected before any judgments can
Speaker 2: and I think should be made about all directions that
Speaker 2: this team is gonna have to go. But this is
Speaker 2: the kind of season if it plays out the way
Speaker 2: that you think it is, that is going to make
Speaker 2: you take a step back and re examine everything that
Speaker 2: you're doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I love that because it reminds me of twenty sixteen
Speaker 3: when like one in four it's like they got to
Speaker 3: get Tannehill out of here, and then he rips off
Speaker 3: the best run of his career, and we come back
Speaker 3: in twenty seventeen, even with an ACL injury, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's our quarterback.
Speaker 4: And then it didn't go that way. It just kind
Speaker 4: of came back and forth.
Speaker 3: But basically your point about there's so much more information
Speaker 3: we have to glean from the next thirteen games, I
Speaker 3: just I love that point. Let's go ahead and dive
Speaker 3: right into the weekend of college football. Here rip Washington
Speaker 3: State's miracle college football playoff runs seems to have come
Speaker 3: to an end after a blowout against Poise State.
Speaker 4: You sure do.
Speaker 3: I was hopeful that was the last game on the
Speaker 3: schedule until like the second game to the penultimate game
Speaker 3: that they would have had to get through to maybe
Speaker 3: have a pretty good run at this because they played
Speaker 3: like San Jose State in Colorado, not a lot of
Speaker 3: good teams that schedule. Actually, before we do anything here,
Speaker 3: before we talk about the games, can we talk about
Speaker 3: ash Gent because I don't think I've seen anything like it. Man,
Speaker 3: Like some of the runs he had in that game.
Speaker 3: I'm he's on pace to break Barry Sanders rushing yards
Speaker 3: and rushing touchdowns record. He's on track to obliterate the
Speaker 3: broken tackle and yards after contact records, even if those
Speaker 3: are on.
Speaker 4: A decade old.
Speaker 3: But we're talking about b Jhon Robinson and Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 3: records there. His rushing line this week is like a
Speaker 3: buck ninety two. That's the expectation for he's going to go.
Speaker 3: Just how high up the draft board can he go?
Speaker 3: And is the fact that run on the football is
Speaker 3: kind of back, does that maybe elevate his stock a
Speaker 3: little bit?
Speaker 2: So he has eight hundred and forty five yards on
Speaker 2: eighty two cares in four games.
Speaker 4: He played half of the Portland State game too. He
Speaker 4: came out early in that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's on pace to break the Barry Sanders rushing
Speaker 2: touchdown record in the regular season without the bowl game. Like,
Speaker 2: how insane is that? So I had him in the
Speaker 2: top fifteen to my latest mock draft for the thirty
Speaker 2: thirteen which came out on Monday. He went to the Chargers,
Speaker 2: which we know they want to run the ball. We
Speaker 2: know they want to run downhill. They invested an offensive lineman,
Speaker 2: they want to run at you. They want to challenge
Speaker 2: you physically and play big boy football and belly bump
Speaker 2: with you in the trenches and all that stuff. And
Speaker 2: this kind of ball carrier, Ashton gent running back from
Speaker 2: Poise State, who has breakaway speed. They time the when
Speaker 2: the GPS is over twenty one miles an hour on one
Speaker 2: of his break runs this year at that size with
Speaker 2: the contact balance, and he's a player who can contribute.
Speaker 4: On passing downs.
Speaker 2: I think by and large, the days of like four
Speaker 2: hundred carry running backs. And I know Ricky Williams's ears
Speaker 2: are ringing right now just hearing four hundred carries in
Speaker 2: a season, but I think those days are by and
Speaker 2: large gone right. But a player like this who can
Speaker 2: be the predominant volume ball carrier, even in the load
Speaker 2: management era of NFL football, I think is on its
Speaker 2: way to being a really impactful player and type of role.
Speaker 2: And I do think it's one of those things where
Speaker 2: there's gonna be a few teams that get out in
Speaker 2: front of the curve and that everybody's gonna be chasing
Speaker 2: them for a little while and then it's going to
Speaker 2: swing back.
Speaker 4: The other way.
Speaker 2: But he has the potential to be a catalyst for
Speaker 2: a team to being one of those teams that gets
Speaker 2: out in front of the curve.
Speaker 3: It's so rare for that playmaking ability because he makes
Speaker 3: runs that are not there happen like it didn't. He
Speaker 3: did it multiple times in the WSU game.
Speaker 4: I know it's it's the freaking coops.
Speaker 3: It's not an NFL defense, but gosh, man, like, I
Speaker 3: think there's gotta be insane value to a guy who
Speaker 3: turns second nine into second and four. Pretty much every
Speaker 3: damn time he touches the ball, all right, So that's
Speaker 3: that's a player that I mean, you gotta figure. You
Speaker 3: hope with the way things go, he's not on the
Speaker 3: Dolphins radar because we hope that eight Chan and Wright
Speaker 3: become those guys that are the future of the Dolphins
Speaker 3: tail back room.
Speaker 4: But we'll see. Like you said, there's a lot of
Speaker 4: information still to be to be had. Here, can I
Speaker 4: give you a stat on gen T real quick? Please?
Speaker 2: Just for the season, he's averaging seven point one yards
Speaker 2: after contact per rush?
Speaker 4: What's his what's his just outright average?
Speaker 2: Like twelve ten point three he's getting He's getting three
Speaker 2: point one before contact and then getting another seven point
Speaker 2: one after contact per rush on eighty two rushes in
Speaker 2: four games.
Speaker 3: That's like the best yards per pass average in the league,
Speaker 3: much much less rushing yards per average.
Speaker 4: I mean, my goodness.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go ahead and get to the slate
Speaker 3: of games this weekend. We talked off air a little bit.
Speaker 3: Not the most attractive slate of games. I mean, WS
Speaker 3: shoes on buy So who cares, right, But what do
Speaker 3: you got this weekend?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: Some players, maybe we've talked about enough about a player
Speaker 3: that probably is not going to be a Dolphin just
Speaker 3: based on overall odds and also the position he plays.
Speaker 3: But what else you got here as far as guys
Speaker 3: that you could possibly see in twenty twenty five being
Speaker 3: on the Dolphins radar.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a game that has prospects on both
Speaker 2: sides no matter who has the ball, and it's Iowa
Speaker 2: Ohio State. And I know Iowa known for their offense
Speaker 2: right but they do have a tight end to luke
Speaker 2: Leche who's a red shirt senior. They have quarterback Kde
Speaker 2: mcmarrick transferred from Michigan. They have running back Caleb Johnson
Speaker 2: who's a junior. Those are very talented players on the
Speaker 2: Iowa offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 4: And then they have a.
Speaker 2: Defensive back kind of hybrid type player and Sebastian Castro
Speaker 2: who's a fifth year senior as well. And then Ohoa
Speaker 2: State might be the most physically talented team in the
Speaker 2: country as it pertains to draft eligible talent where they
Speaker 2: have a freshman, true freshman phenom and Jeremiah Smith. There's
Speaker 2: a couple of true freshmen in college football right now
Speaker 2: wide receiver that are just gonna obliterate all kinds of expectations,
Speaker 2: which is incredible because they're they're incredible players. But Ohio
Speaker 2: State that has a draft eligible in a Mecca Buka,
Speaker 2: who's kind of next in line for that wide receiver
Speaker 2: factory at Ohio State. They're left tackle. Josh Simmons is
Speaker 2: a red shirt junior. He's really emerged. He transferred in
Speaker 2: from San Diego State. He's been a big, big jumper
Speaker 2: this year as far as his performance on the field. Uh,
Speaker 2: they've got a couple of backs themselves. Ohio State doesn't
Speaker 2: Trevon Henderson and Quinn Shawn Judkins. Judkins had transferred in
Speaker 2: from from Ole Miss as a bit of a spread.
Speaker 2: There's so there's a thunder and lightning element there. And
Speaker 2: then defensively, I mean you got three guys on the
Speaker 2: defensive line. I really like the job that Jack Sawyer's
Speaker 2: done this year as a defensive end with heavy hands.
Speaker 2: And then they've got some defensive backs between Denzel Burke,
Speaker 2: who's a red shirt junior corner has been a productive player,
Speaker 2: and then Laythan Ransom at safety. So there's talent up
Speaker 2: and down the board for Ohio State and they're going
Speaker 2: against a team that's got talent on both sides the
Speaker 2: ball as well.
Speaker 4: Great stuff.
Speaker 3: Love it, man, appreciate that insight on the college game.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and pivot now to the pro game
Speaker 3: on Sunday. Last game for a while here we go
Speaker 3: to New England, take a week off, then go back
Speaker 3: out to the Midwest for the Indianapolis Colts. What are
Speaker 3: you hoping to see here from Dolphins and Patriots, Kyle?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to see an inspired performance. And I
Speaker 2: know that's not necessarily where everybody's expectations were, but this
Speaker 2: is where we're at right now, right so I want
Speaker 2: to see the defense continue to play hard and play
Speaker 2: with pride. I think they've done a lot of that
Speaker 2: in the first four games of the season, despite having
Speaker 2: to start on some short fields not having a complimentary
Speaker 2: game script available to them, and I think it's incredible.
Speaker 2: They're one of the most effective teams pressuring opposing quarterbacks
Speaker 2: and they haven't played with the lead for a single
Speaker 2: snap all season, like it really is. I cannot be
Speaker 2: more impressed with what they have been able to do
Speaker 2: with what they have been handed offensively. I think that
Speaker 2: and you see guys like Jalen Ramsey laid in that
Speaker 2: game against Tennessee, making plays, being fired up, leading by
Speaker 2: table like that stuff. It matters, and guys like I
Speaker 2: want to see the leaders on this team play with
Speaker 2: that kind of fire across the board. And I wanted
Speaker 2: to give Jalen Ramsey a shout out because I saw
Speaker 2: it from him on Monday Night. So players that are
Speaker 2: are considered to be the leaders on your team, I
Speaker 2: want to see them match that energy that Jalen Ramsey
Speaker 2: had in what was the face of defeat on Monday night.
Speaker 2: And if you give me that, we'll see how the
Speaker 2: game itself plays out. It's really hard to say because
Speaker 2: there's so much unknown about Tyler Huntley in his second
Speaker 2: career start. He's still been here less than a month,
Speaker 2: and the operation of the offense and New England is
Speaker 2: a team that they have their own wild cards in
Speaker 2: this game as well. So I really don't know what
Speaker 2: way the game's gonna go. But the least thing that
Speaker 2: you can do is control what you can control, and
Speaker 2: that's go out there and play to your potential and
Speaker 2: play with an intensity that says you're playing with a
Speaker 2: lot of pro because there's a lot of these guys
Speaker 2: that are very talented players and should be playing with
Speaker 2: a lot of pride.
Speaker 4: I love your point on Ramsey.
Speaker 3: He was one of my top five tapes from the
Speaker 3: game on Monday, which was all defense because that's where
Speaker 3: we had to go.
Speaker 4: But I thought you got that.
Speaker 3: From him, From Jordan Brooks, from Zach Sealer, from Kalais Campbell,
Speaker 3: all four of those guys really kind of piqued my
Speaker 3: interest in what you just talked about. And then also, man,
Speaker 3: what a rough week to lose jaland Phillips for many reasons,
Speaker 3: but also y, I mean, we'll see what happens to
Speaker 3: that edge group because you know, do we get Mo
Speaker 3: Kamara's first action in the NFL because that Patriots offensive
Speaker 3: line is as banged up as we are at that
Speaker 3: edge group, so should be an interesting matchup that way, Kyle.
Speaker 3: As always, we appreciate your time draft lead for the
Speaker 3: thirty third team, Locked on Dolphins Podcast, Touchdown Miami Substack,
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Speaker 4: Kyle, stop working so hard man.
Speaker 1: Thanks for Grevis.
Speaker 3: One of these days I'm gonna get him to outro
Speaker 3: with something. Besides thanks, Travis.
Speaker 4: That's it. Week five.
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