WEBVTT - Drive Time: Patriots Perspective with Evan Lazar 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.800 To remove Darlin Deep Speedways past Peas. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:10.400 From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:14.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 Please God, my having it's in the playoffs? 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.000 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.919 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, it's 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:35.720 a football Friday. We will hear from a member of 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.040 the Patriots beat as Evan Lazar joins me. Plus, it 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.960 is another chance to talk to my good friend Kyle 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.199 Krabs about the weekend in college football, where the Dolphins 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:47.720 go from here and so much more, as well as 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:50.840 the week five NFL picks from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:55.000 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:00:55.000 --> 0:01:00.000 Time Podcast, Ye Daffy. We are joined today by Patriot 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.320 Creates dot com reporter and the host of the Catch 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.800 twenty two podcast at Easy Lazarre on Twitter, Evan Lazar. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.959 Welcome back into the show, my friend. It's good to 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.640 see another round of Dolphins and Patriots. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:10.440 Man. Here we go again. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:12.520 Yeah, absolutely good to see you, Travis. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.679 We see the combine press box and I'm in Miami 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:19.319 that those are twice a year, so it's three times 0:01:19.319 --> 0:01:19.600 a year. 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:20.280 That's nice. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:22.440 And yeah, I guess we get some some draft content 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:23.880 every once in a while for the podcast as well, 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.959 so you're a valuable resource for us here on draft 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.520 time as well as Dolphins HQ are a brand new 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.800 YouTube show. And I want to start off here with 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.399 the head coaching change, because to your point, you know, 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.679 fourteen year old Evan watched the same head coach that 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:35.959 you know. 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.560 I'm sure mid thirties Evan watched her. 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:39.360 I don't know how old you are, but it's been 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.480 a long time since they've had a coaching change in 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:45.200 New England. I'm curious your early impressions of Gerrodmeo and 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.920 what that first year has been like so far, you know, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.720 four weeks in to covering a non Bill Belichick Patriots team. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.240 Yeah, well I'm thirty one, so not mid thirties quite. Yeah, 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:56.160 we're getting in there. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.800 Yeah. I think the biggest thing that has been. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:05.080 Differently is just that he's has a totally different personality, 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:07.080 which I know I'm probably not breaking news with that 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.840 by any means. And it's not that you know, we 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.760 didn't see the whole Bill Belichick personality in general. Girod 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.600 is just a different guy, you know, is his own DNA, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.799 his own human being. He's a little bit different even 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.280 than some of the other Belichick disciples, like you know, 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:27.120 I know, you guys down there familiar behind Flores or 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:31.480 Josh McDaniels or someone like that also, So it's been 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:35.480 unique in that situation in that sense. I think right 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.440 now what we're seeing though, is we're you so used 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:44.000 to the Patriots being such a well coached team that 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:47.920 our eyes are seeing things that were not jiving in 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.400 the Belichick era and saying, well, this is the coaching right. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:53.160 You know, these things are going wrong, and that's on 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.000 the coaching right. You know, a lot of the issues 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.840 that that Belichick had at the end were more personnel related. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.200 It was more Bill a g im not doing a 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.680 great job than it was Build a coach. So right now, 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.520 Drod Mayo and the media here, every little decision that 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.040 he is making in game, you know, outside of the 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.399 games is getting nitpicked and compared to Bill Wow, which 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:16.880 is obviously very difficult. 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.680 Yeah, It's it's so weird, man, because like you know, 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:22.840 for years it was like you can write the Patriots 0:03:22.840 --> 0:03:24.480 in for twelve wins and they're going to get all 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.600 this media coverage and they are They just are who 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.360 they are, and it's just so weird to see him 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.600 in transition from what that era was to where they 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.720 are now and obviously going through a little bit of it. 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:33.040 Right now. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.360 They're one to three coming off of last season that 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.840 provided them the third pick in the draft, and that's 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:39.200 where I want to go next here is at the 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.800 quarterback position, because you know, I follow probably I would 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:44.840 say the Jets are probably close too, but I probably 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.600 follow as many Patriots accounts as I do Dolphins accounts 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.400 in terms of my NFL hierarchy of Twitter follows. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:51.760 But my sense is that the. 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:54.640 Fan base is ready to see Drake May like now, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.480 but I want to hear from the expert here and 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:58.640 when do you think the appropriate time is to get 0:03:58.720 --> 0:03:59.680 Drake May out there? 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:01.480 Are they going to write it out for the entire year? 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:01.680 Wait? 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:03.040 Think the plan is? And what do you think it 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:03.520 should be? 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.440 Well, this is the only topic that anybody has any 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.920 interest in New England right now. I can tell you 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.600 that based off of our metrics. It's like if you're 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.160 not writing or talking about Drake May, then people just 0:04:14.160 --> 0:04:17.680 don't really care about what you're saying, so it's a 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:20.960 number one topic in maybe all of New England sports 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.240 at the moment, is when Drake May is going to 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.400 play and going into the season, especially after the improvements 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.080 we saw in training camp in the preseason, Drake May 0:04:31.160 --> 0:04:34.920 did have a pretty upward trajectory to his development in 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.000 the summer, so by the end of the summer we 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.280 felt pretty good about where he was. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.360 It was two schools a thought. One. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.640 I actually compared the situation a lot to the Dolphins 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:50.000 with Ryan Fitzpatrick in Tua, where Fitzpatrick's locker room favorite. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:51.280 He's a veteran quarterback. 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.599 You know, he played better than Jacoby's playing right now, 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:55.880 certainly in that season. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.120 But it felt the same where. 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.000 A captain guy that the locker room specs, the locker 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.400 room likes with preset, but they just drafted this guy 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.839 high first round pick that was clearly the future of 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:11.000 the franchise. So I just felt like it was inevitable 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.320 that at some point Drake May is gonna play, and 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:15.560 it is to an extent. But I think the other 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.599 thing that we're seeing now, even in season, is that 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.719 there was this growing concern about the state of the 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:25.520 offense around the quarterback. It's more specifically the offensive line, 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.719 which right now is basically dead last, and every single 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:32.120 stat that you can pull up in terms of pass protection, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.240 your pass block win rate, pressure rate, quick pressure rate, 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.040 like all of it is just last, last, last, last. 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.479 So do you want to subject a rookie quarterback who 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:44.720 is a little bit raw and younger than some of 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:47.599 these other guys like bow Knicks or Jaden Daniels to 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:52.000 that kind of offensive line play and maybe have a 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.680 long term effect on his development because he gets sped up, 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.440 or he starts seeing ghosts or whatever the case may be. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:02.559 So that was the big issue that everybody had coming 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:05.839 into the season. It's now manifested itself in season with 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:09.040 their offensive line play. So now the question really is 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.640 more about can they support Drake May than is Drake 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:13.960 May ready to support that? 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:16.479 Yeah, it's a great point, Devin. 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:17.919 If I can follow up on that, I kind of 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:19.440 want to go a little bit off script here and 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.800 ask you just about your own thoughts about the quarterback 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.919 position and development, because I've been talking about in the 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.599 podcast here and there about all these young quarterbacks that 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.640 come in and to your point, Jaden Daniels is a 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.560 great example. Bo Nicks played, what was it, sixty college 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.400 starts is just an absurd number. But for Jaden Daniels, 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.640 he comes in and he looks the part right away, 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:40.719 right he looks like he has total control of that huddle, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.480 the offense. He's you know, he's leading two minute drives 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:45.520 for game winning drives on Monday night football. 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:46.480 Looks like the real deal. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.120 I'm curious where you come down on the development of 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:50.920 a young quarterback. And for a guy like Drake May 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.240 who doesn't have the same number of reps or years 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.159 in college as a Jadeen Daniels, what you think the 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.799 benefit is of him getting all these reps mentally without 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.440 how to go out there on the field. Do you 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.240 think it's the best way for a young guy to 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.080 grow and develop or you think that on the field 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.160 you could get some of that as well. 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:11.960 I tend to lean towards playing young quarterbacks. We're even 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.240 seeing it now what these guys were talking about, even 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:15.040 Caleb too. 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.160 They really started out rough. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.560 You know, Week one was tough across the league for 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.920 all these rookie quarterbacks, and now all of a sudden, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.240 you're starting to see them make some improvements. Obviously, Jaden's 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.240 gotten the best out of all of them, but even 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.840 Caleb Williams and Bo Nicks have made some strides in 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.360 just a short period of time. You mentioned all the 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:35.080 starts those guys made, Drake may only made twenty six 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.080 collegiate starts. He was a two year starter at North Carolina. 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:41.120 I just find it hard to believe that he is 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:43.680 going to improve leaps and bounds without playing because he 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.200 hasn't played a lot of football, and a lot of 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:48.560 the coaches that I talked to. I wrote a big 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.080 feature about him for Patriots dot Com back when they 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:54.160 drafted him, and his high school coach pointed out to 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.440 me that he also lost a year of high school 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.560 football because of COVID, so he really has only started 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:03.520 forced seasons between high school and college in his career. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.080 So he hasn't played a ton of football. And that 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.800 was part of the appeal with him, was that, yeah, 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.680 he has some wards and he needs some development, and 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.880 he has that bust factor because of that, but his 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.800 physical tools are so immense that with more seasoning, he 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:22.960 should be a Josh Allen Light type of quarterback or 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.239 something of that nature. So that was always the big 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.480 conversation with him. I just don't see how a young 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.559 quarterback that hasn't gotten as many reps and hasn't played 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:36.559 as much football is going to get better without playing football. 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:41.000 But end I do see some of the other factors 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:44.280 that are involved with the Patriots. Specifically, they don't really 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.080 have a number one receiver. The Dolphins have two. The 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.280 Patriots have zero. Right, they don't really have an offensive line. 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.640 They have Alex Van Pelt, their new offensive coordinator, has 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:58.120 never called plays before in the NFL, really like he's 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:01.240 called it a little bit here and there, pockets, but 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.680 he's never been the primary play caller of an offense. 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.360 So he has some growing pains that he's going through. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:09.920 So you look at all these different elements and you're like, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.360 this is a disaster waiting to happen for a rookie quarterback. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.120 Yeah, it doesn't really compare, I don't think. 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:17.439 But the first off that came to my mind when 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.599 he talked about the rep count was Anthony Richardson for 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:22.079 the cole who you know, miss that entire rookie season 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.640 where he needed those reps so bad because at Florida 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.440 he just didn't get them because you know, he didn't 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.360 start until late and he was early and Rollie to 0:09:29.440 --> 0:09:31.680 the draft and or not en roly but declared for 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.720 the draft early on. So you wind up having a 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.760 guy that's played like five hundred reps going into his 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.360 sophomore year of the NFL. It's crazy. So it's if 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.719 there's a strong dichotomy there, I think the players will 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:43.520 get all those reps eventually benefit from it. So we 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.120 checked your box there for the criteria of what the 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:48.040 Patriots fans want to read about. Right in terms of 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.319 your metrics from a content standpoint, Let's go ahead and 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.120 talk about the game here a little bit because we 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:55.800 do have Dolphins and Patriots from Jillette Stadium on Sunday, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.000 a one o'clock kickoff, and you have alluded to this. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:58.320 A little bit. 0:09:58.360 --> 0:09:59.880 I want to get your just follow up on both 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.960 offensive line and the skill groups, because I read that 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.679 David Andrews is contemplating shoulder surgery. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.240 Do you think he'll be out there? 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.640 And then just also kind of give us a walkthrough 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.760 of where those cracks on the offensive line are and 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.760 if you can, like a three part question here, Evan, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:15.920 I apologize for that, but if you can, who has 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:18.520 been the top receiver. That's kind of I guess taking 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.680 the reins on what this current Patriots offense is. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.320 Yeah, So just starting with David Andrews, I would be 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:28.000 shocked if he plays on Sunday. For what it's worth, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.440 he was taking off the media schedule this week, which 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.720 is usually a pretty good indication that he's not going 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:33.600 to be practicing. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.760 So he's a tough SOB. 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.360 So it's really just a matter of it does he 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.080 want to play through this injury for the season and 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.520 just pain tolerance and all that kind of stuff, or 0:10:44.640 --> 0:10:46.880 does he want to have the surgery now and try 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.960 to be ready for twenty twenty five. So it's a 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:52.520 tough situation for him, I will say, And I love 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.720 David Andrews. He's one of my favorite players I've ever covered. 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.560 I think he probably wears a red jacket in the 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:02.360 Patriots Hall of Fame someday. He has had some dip 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.200 in production over the last couple of years, specifically in 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.400 past protection. He's not necessarily the same guy that he 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.360 was three, four or five years ago. So as much 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.680 as it's a drop off from a leadership in just 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:19.880 a mentality and all those types of intangible aspects from 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.000 what we saw limited granted, but Nick Leverett their backup 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:26.600 center as a pure blocker. I'm not sure how much 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.120 of a true drop off that's going to be. You're 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:33.359 just losing a lot when it comes to grit, leadership, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:37.400 communication on the line, all those elements that David Andrews 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:42.160 brings to the table. To your second question about where 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.320 are the holes in this offensive line? 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:45.720 Kind of everywhere. 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:49.080 I wish there was one spot that I could be like, yeah, 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.360 they're really good there. Maybe right tackle with Mike gon 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.880 Wnu is probably where you feel the best. But even 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.960 then he's a guard playing tackle out of necessity, So 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.680 that's not necessarily a great situation long term either. But 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.520 I look at the real holes left tackle as that 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:09.240 by far the biggest one. Last week they started Trey Jacobs, 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:13.439 who was a waiver claim by the Patriots on cutdown Day. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.199 He's technically their fourth string left tackle if you want 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.720 to look at the depth chart that way. They signed 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:22.000 Chooks the Corps four in the offseason to be their 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.840 stop gap bridge left tackle. They knew they were going 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:28.319 to probably draft one early next year in twenty twenty five. 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.160 He's no longer with the team. He's basically retired from football. 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:36.400 As my understanding, he quit essentially on the team. I 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:37.960 just got to call it what it is. You know, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.680 he went home and took his bags and went home. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.560 So he's not here. Vederian Lowe was sort of their 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:49.200 second string backup. He has a knee injury. He was 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:52.720 a ruled out on Friday guy last week, so really 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.080 didn't have a chance to play in the game on Sunday, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.679 and we'll see if he's ready to go. And then 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:00.760 their rookie Kidden Wallace, who they drafted in the third round. 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.760 I saw him in a walking boot and crutches after 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.319 the game on Sunday leaving Levi Stadium in San Francisco, 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:11.960 so he's injured as well. So it's looking Unlesvedarian Lowe 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:15.520 somehow is healthy enough to play. It's looking like it's 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.760 going to be Trey Jacobs again, who allowed two sacks 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.959 and seven quarterback pressures last week against the forty nine ers. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.240 So that's not his fault, like he shouldn't even be 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.680 out there. The Patriot should have done a better job 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.560 is shoring up this position in the offseason. But it 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:31.640 is what it is, and I would also just point out, 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:34.800 you know, rookie guard at right guard as well, Laden 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.280 Robinson their fourth round pick. Pretty good run blocker already, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.400 but is struggling right now in pass protection. So they 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.040 really have a lot of holes everywhere. It's like a 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:46.080 ship with a bunch of different holes that they're trying 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.600 to plug on the offensive line right now, and it has. 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:52.679 It has sunk their passing game for the most part. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:54.480 You can't throw down the field when you have no time, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:57.640 right you know, that's just common sense. So last one 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:01.800 on the receivers, I would say that the the guy 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:05.360 that really is like their third down and money type 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.240 of player is actually Hunter Henry at tight end. You know, 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.960 he's the one that Jacob Brissett has the most comfortability 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.679 with and can move the chains a little bit. They 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.520 are bullish about Jalen Polk, their second round pick out 0:14:16.520 --> 0:14:19.960 of Washington. He's come on a little bit here in 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.480 recent weeks. He's beginning moved up the depth chart a 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.720 little bit more. Played his most snaps in the game 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.080 last week, a lot more first read progression type stuff 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.480 with him where the quarterback is looking at him initially 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.080 in the progression. So he's starting to be a little 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.920 bit more involved. But the thing with Polk is that 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:39.640 he's one of those guys that needs to be thrown 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:41.680 open a lot of the time. He's not like a 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.880 pure separator. He's more of like a back shoulder, you know, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:48.720 catching traffic kind of guy, and Brissette is not necessarily 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:50.600 one of those types of passers. 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.320 So it hasn't been a great mix there. 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.320 But the hope is when Drake May comes back, you know, 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:58.120 comes into the games, that he'll you know, be able 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.520 to put those balls on Jalen Polk a little bit better. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:02.680 Well, I think you just gave us the answer for 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.680 the Patriots offense ranks where it does right now in 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.680 thirty second place, less than one thousand yards four games in. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.680 But pintruglefield Dolphins offense as well. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:11.560 Let's go ahead and take a quick break, come back 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:13.040 and talk about that on the other side of My 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.960 guest today, Evan Lazar, senior reporter for Patriots dot Com 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.920 and the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.800 to you by Auto Nation. Back here with my guest 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.400 today from Patriots dot Com, Evan Lazar. We talked about 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.640 the Patriots offense. Now I want to ask you, Evan 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.240 about the Patriots defense and how they might attack this 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.200 Miami offense. And I want to start upfront because we 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:37.400 saw Matt Judong get traded before the year began. But man, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.560 that front for so long had so many mainstays that 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.080 have kind of changed a little bit here over the 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.440 last couple of years. But in all of that, you 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:46.720 guys have uncovered what I think is the next breakout 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:48.800 start at a pass rusher. Can you tell us about 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.000 Keyon White a little bit, Evan? 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:53.480 Yeah, Keon White has been their entire pass rush. He 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.560 has double the amount of quarterback pressures of anybody else 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.480 on their team. You know, he's young, all right, So 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.520 there are some things I'll talk about that are still 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:05.840 works in progress in his game, but it's very very 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.480 clear that he is a disruptive force and extremely good 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:13.080 at rushing on the interior especially. I would say, you know, 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:17.280 he's given guards all sorts of fits. A really explosive guy, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.760 twitchy guy, really good hands, violent hands. I would call 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.520 him to get off blocks and things of that nature. 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:26.400 So he's a disruptive guy. 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:29.680 But right now, I would say the biggest issue with 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:32.280 him and with their pass rush as a whole is discipline. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.480 You know, they've let quarterbacks for three straight weeks now 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:38.800 get outside the pocket and extend plays or even just 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.720 scramble for first downs on third down. They're thirty first 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.800 in the league on third down defense right now, and 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.960 a big part of that to me just watching their 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:50.200 film is that they're letting the quarterback outside the pocket. 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:53.320 So Keon White's been great and I always kind of 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.800 push back on people that criticize him because I'm like, well, 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.680 if they don't let Keon White just go up the field, 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:01.720 are not going to have a pass rush, like he's 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.320 the only one that's getting after the quarterback. But the 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.240 other side of that coin is that sometimes he lets 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:09.719 the quarterback out of the pocket and that's how you 0:17:09.760 --> 0:17:12.480 get you know, Aaron Rodgers on the move or Rock 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.159 Pretty on the move, and they've been burned by that 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.960 pretty badly. So they have to do a better job 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:19.600 of keeping quarterbacks in the pocket. 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:22.320 Well, that leads right in my last question here for you, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:25.240 because we have a quarterback changed since two went down 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.760 back in Week two, Scalar Thompson. Back in week three. 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.040 We had three different quarterbacks start the last three games. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.200 But we will have the same quarterbacks start a game 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.440 for the second time this year after to a start 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.360 of the first two games and Tyler Huntley, and usually 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.840 I ask you the question about how the Patriots plan 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.119 to attack Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, But those guys 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.600 haven't been as productive since Tua went down, and I'm 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.560 curious what Evan Lazar's game plan might be or how 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.159 you might draw up what it might look like for 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.400 the Patriots when it comes to defending a quarterback that's 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.920 so brand new here that was, you know, a tough 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.080 showing on Monday night against the Titans. What do you 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.040 think the Patriots are looking to do against the Dolphins 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.159 offense with Tyler Huntley at the helm. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.720 Well, it's interesting because you know, I watched their film 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:09.119 from the Titans game yesterday and I did a little 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.880 cut up on it for my game plan of all 0:18:11.920 --> 0:18:15.400 the times that Tyreek is still getting open deep and 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:17.639 just the ball just isn't finding him because it's not 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.520 too And my whole warning to the Patriots would just 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:24.000 be don't fall asleep at the wheel just because it's 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:28.240 Tyler Huntley at quarterback, because Tyreek is still wide open 0:18:28.320 --> 0:18:31.480 for seventy yard touchdowns some of the time, and you know, 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.000 one of these days, Tyler Hunterly is actually going to 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:35.919 complete one of those passes and don't let it be 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.840 on you. So I still look at their offense as 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:42.640 being explosive and dangerous and really one of those offenses 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:45.000 where they can score from anywhere on the field because 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.040 of those two receivers. So with that being said, and 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.040 I just mentioned all the issues that they've had with 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:53.199 the containing quarterbacks, that's the one thing with Huntley that 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.080 he does have the capability of doing. Even that quarterback 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.280 draw that he picked up a first down with on 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:02.240 Monday night. You can't let him just run around and 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:04.879 be an athlete back there. And I would also just 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.159 mention you as you know, a lot of those inbreaking 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.680 routes are always where they want to throw off a 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:14.280 play action, those glances and the crossers and things like that. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:16.879 So if I'm the Patriots, they had a lot of 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:19.560 issues with that last week against San Francisco. You know, 0:19:19.600 --> 0:19:23.800 Brandon Aik, Juwan Jennings big chunk plays off of just 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:26.480 post cross you know, just take the top off the 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.119 defense and then cross over the middle of the field. 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:31.919 So they have to find a way to close that 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:36.400 down and take away those inbreaking routes from this Dolphins offense. 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:39.480 Because I still look at that game on Monday night, 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.240 I see I think it was the first play of 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:43.960 the game, dagger right to Tyreek, you know, off play 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.800 action glance later in the game to what I believe 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.840 it was Tyreek again, Like they still have that capability 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:54.120 of doing those types of things with Huntley. So I look, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:56.280 I don't take anything for granted right now with this 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:58.480 Patriots team. They're They're not good enough for me to 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.440 sit here and say, well, it's a third string quarnderback, 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:01.520 so they'll be fine. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.800 They still have to worry about a lot of things here. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.320 I think you just yelled all the hits, by the way, 0:20:06.359 --> 0:20:09.879 with all the route concepts that the Dolphins runners. 0:20:10.240 --> 0:20:10.560 I love. 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:13.639 I love watching that Dolphins offense. And the thing that 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:16.359 makes me super jealous too is how much pistol they run. 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.600 Like when the Patriots get Drake may and there, I 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:23.639 have been begging them to run pistol because he's not 0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:26.520 very comfortable with running under center. It's not anything he 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:30.359 did in college at a regular level. And North Carolina 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.160 did run a lot of pro style pistol concepts though 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.880 for him and at uh at un C. So they 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:39.280 want to be an under center run team in New England, 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:42.719 and I just say, like, look at Miami, they are 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:46.240 a pistol running gun team. Just play him in the 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:48.120 pistol like he doesn't have to be all the way 0:20:48.200 --> 0:20:48.720 under center. 0:20:48.840 --> 0:20:50.960 So I love watching those concepts. 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.639 You get like three more gaps compared to sidecar in 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.000 the shotgun right with you in the formation. So I'm 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:57.719 with you on that all the way I said I had. 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.119 That was the last question by a lot. I have 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.600 one more for you this every time off the beat, right, 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.639 guess it's just simple Patriots win if and then you 0:21:04.680 --> 0:21:06.600 get a fill in the blank, I. 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.200 Would say the Patriots win if their defense gets back 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:11.959 on track this week against the backup quarterback. You know, 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:16.920 they've had that in their bag in this Belichick mess 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.120 that was last year or even twenty twenty two. 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:22.600 For the most part, they've beaten the Tyler. 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.040 Hunt Lees of the world, or you know, whatever backup 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:28.520 quarterback they're facing. So they need to get right on defense. 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.840 We went into this season thinking, yeah, they'll probably have 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:34.800 a little drop off because Belichick's not here on defense 0:21:34.840 --> 0:21:36.600 but they still have a ton of talent on that 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.399 side of the ball. Right now, they're twenty fifth in 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.280 the league in EPA on defense. That's not what we 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.920 expected going into the year, but we expected them to 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.160 still be top fifteen, top half of the league on defense, 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:50.680 and they haven't been. So they are going to win 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:52.760 on the back of their defense. They're not going to 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.040 score a lot of points this year. We know that 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:57.240 even when Drake May gets in there, they're probably still 0:21:57.280 --> 0:21:59.439 not going to be a great offense, so they have 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:00.840 to get right on defense. 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:02.199 Great stuff there. 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:04.360 We got a lot smarter on the opponent this week 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:07.080 with Evin Lazarre from Patriots dot Com, senior reporter and 0:22:07.080 --> 0:22:09.639 the host of The Catch twenty two podcasts at Easy 0:22:09.720 --> 0:22:12.199 Lazarre on Twitter and Evan, I think we close the 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.879 podcast just wait by saying, how about that mapples my friend? 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:18.639 All right? Well, maybe that Joe kind of fell on 0:22:18.720 --> 0:22:21.160 deaf ears there towards the end. Big thanks to Evan 0:22:21.240 --> 0:22:24.479 Lazar for his time on the show. Gosh didn't really 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:26.720 pull any punches there on the Patriots, did he Let's 0:22:26.760 --> 0:22:28.840 go ahead and pick the week five games before we 0:22:28.880 --> 0:22:31.320 take our last break and hear from the great Kyle Krabs. 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.000 We kick it off on Thursday Night Football. I picked 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:34.640 the Falcons. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:35.200 Did they win? 0:22:35.320 --> 0:22:37.199 Who knows. We will know by the time you hear 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:38.200 this podcast, but right. 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:38.879 Now I don't know. 0:22:39.280 --> 0:22:41.760 We also have an early morning game as the Jets 0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:44.120 will play the Vikings in London. 0:22:44.200 --> 0:22:46.359 Go ahead and give me. I'm really in between on 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:46.760 this game. 0:22:47.080 --> 0:22:48.879 Like I feel like it's a perfect spot for the 0:22:48.920 --> 0:22:50.840 Jets to kind of bounce back and the Vikings a 0:22:50.840 --> 0:22:53.440 step back after a road divisional win and a. 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:54.560 Great four and oh start. 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:57.200 But I just think that the Jets offense is still 0:22:57.200 --> 0:22:59.000 going to be stuck in the mud, and I think 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.320 the Vikings can find to run the football on that 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:03.840 Jets defense. In fact, the more I talk about it, 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.000 the Dolphins offense when they're clicking always gives that Jets 0:23:07.080 --> 0:23:09.480 defense issues. And I think there are similar scheme things 0:23:09.480 --> 0:23:10.920 there and similar talent. 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:11.240 For the Vikings. 0:23:11.240 --> 0:23:13.440 So give me the Vikings over the Jets to make 0:23:13.480 --> 0:23:15.679 them fall to two to three, and hopefully we can 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.359 enjoy their misery as much as they're enjoying ours. I 0:23:18.400 --> 0:23:20.840 am taking the Patriots over the Dolphins. They're gonna have 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:22.280 to prove it for me to pick the Dolphins again 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.440 this year. I'll take the Panthers over the Bears in Chicago. 0:23:25.880 --> 0:23:28.200 Andy Dalton goes and gets his second winners the Panther 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.720 starting quarterback. I'm gonna also take another upset here with 0:23:30.760 --> 0:23:32.200 Cleveland over Washington. 0:23:32.359 --> 0:23:32.679 Why. 0:23:33.040 --> 0:23:34.840 I just feel like Washington's been kind of on a 0:23:34.920 --> 0:23:36.600 high for a couple of weeks. It feels like it's 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:38.840 a ripe spot to get picked off, especially against a 0:23:38.840 --> 0:23:41.800 good DC against a young quarterback in Jaden Daniels, who 0:23:41.840 --> 0:23:43.240 I think is the absolute truth. 0:23:43.359 --> 0:23:44.240 Give me the Browns there. 0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.560 I'm also taking the Jaguars to get their first win 0:23:46.640 --> 0:23:48.800 of the year over the Colts. They seem to always 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:51.600 give that Colts team issues, and they're gonna be either 0:23:51.640 --> 0:23:54.320 limited with Anthony Richardson or have Joe Flacco in there. 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:56.199 I will take the Jags get their first win of 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.919 the year. Give me Buffalo over Houston in that big 0:23:59.000 --> 0:24:03.040 early season matchup there for AFC seeding hierarchy, I'll take 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:06.160 the Ravens over the Bengals. Give me the Raiders over 0:24:06.200 --> 0:24:08.920 the Broncos. I guess I don't know who cares. I'll 0:24:08.960 --> 0:24:11.840 take the Niners over the Cardinals and that one Seahawks 0:24:11.840 --> 0:24:15.600 over the Giants. I'm also gonna take Green Bay over Pittsburgh, 0:24:15.720 --> 0:24:18.400 or rather, I'm sorry the Rams. I will take Dallas 0:24:18.440 --> 0:24:20.680 over Pittsburgh on Sunday Night football. 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:22.080 It's a fun matchup, I think. 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.000 And then we'll go ahead and take the Chiefs on 0:24:24.080 --> 0:24:26.600 Monday Night over the Saints in now Leans. 0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:28.320 Let's go ahead and take our last break right there. 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:30.560 Come back on the other side with Kyle Crabs Drift 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:33.320 Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you. 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.600 By Automation. 0:24:38.600 --> 0:24:43.960 Kyo Crabs everybody for his weekly Friday spot here on 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:47.040 the Drive Time Podcast. I don't think we'll have you 0:24:47.119 --> 0:24:49.639 on next week, though, big dog, as we have a 0:24:49.680 --> 0:24:54.040 week off no Dolphins football and week number six first 0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:56.959 of all bye week plans, have you got them? 0:24:57.560 --> 0:25:04.720 Uh? Probably recaliber right the college football schedule. I had 0:25:04.760 --> 0:25:07.920 some travel plans that were mixing up. Going to try 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:11.840 to get some college games and pour myself into that 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:16.040 and really figure out how to maximize the stretch running 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:17.280 conference play in the bowl game. 0:25:17.320 --> 0:25:18.879 That's probably what I'll be focused on. 0:25:19.280 --> 0:25:21.040 Smart fellow, he never stops working. 0:25:22.680 --> 0:25:27.359 Yeah, no, I mean it is a blessing, you know, 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:30.119 even in a season that hasn't started for the Dolphins 0:25:30.640 --> 0:25:32.960 the way that I think anybody envisioned or hoped that 0:25:33.000 --> 0:25:35.800 it would to be able to have the other avenues 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:40.840 in football is certainly something that allows you to keep 0:25:40.840 --> 0:25:43.679 perspective and things, and you see other teams that go 0:25:43.760 --> 0:25:46.920 through these battles and understand that there's ebbs and flows, 0:25:46.960 --> 0:25:50.680 and there's moments of low points and high points, and 0:25:51.440 --> 0:25:53.320 it puts the whole thing in perspective when you see 0:25:53.359 --> 0:25:55.560 how many teams there are out there in this space 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:58.439 and how many of them are uniquely experiencing things that 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.320 are similar or dissimilar to what the Dolphins are experiencing 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:01.760 right now. 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:05.520 Yeah. Absolutely, I think that's a good transition into the 0:26:05.520 --> 0:26:08.320 first topic I wanted to touch on here, because you know, 0:26:08.400 --> 0:26:10.720 it is a long season, no doubt about that, and 0:26:10.760 --> 0:26:14.080 I try my best to maintain that perspective because we've 0:26:14.080 --> 0:26:16.960 seen teams, you know, start zero and four and rip 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:18.960 wins off, and we've seen teams start off hot and 0:26:19.000 --> 0:26:21.119 go the other direction. I think you can kind of 0:26:21.119 --> 0:26:23.440 see the tea leaves here with this Dolphins team and 0:26:23.480 --> 0:26:26.639 the way things are going. But you know what, I 0:26:26.680 --> 0:26:29.240 don't know, Jim it's looking more like a top five 0:26:29.359 --> 0:26:33.160 pick for this team more than any other outcome at 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:36.720 the moment if they do find themselves in that mix. 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:38.920 I know, like we talked to quarterbacks the last couple 0:26:38.960 --> 0:26:41.520 of weeks here, but what do you think right now, 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:43.959 given all the information that we have about where this 0:26:44.000 --> 0:26:46.600 team is, where they are going forward, where the quarterback 0:26:46.640 --> 0:26:49.600 currently stands long way out? This is why they pay 0:26:49.600 --> 0:26:51.359 you the big bucks, Big Doug. What's the best course 0:26:51.400 --> 0:26:54.520 of action right now? If you forecasted a top five 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:55.560 pick for the Dolphins. 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:58.560 Yeah, I think if you forecast yourself in that stratosphere, 0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:01.960 you have one of two forks in the road that 0:27:02.000 --> 0:27:03.800 I think you can take. You'd be in a position 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:07.240 to land of what is a handful of elite talents 0:27:07.280 --> 0:27:10.320 in this draft class. Whether that's Will Johnson the corner 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:13.000 from Michigan, or Mason Graham the defensive tackle for Michigan, 0:27:13.280 --> 0:27:16.359 or Travis Hunter, the whatever you wanted to play, he 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:20.680 could probably play it type of player. I think he's 0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:24.040 better as a corner personally, Travis Hunter. But I know 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:26.080 there's dollars to be had at wide receiver with the 0:27:26.080 --> 0:27:27.840 wide receiver market and what that's looked like in the 0:27:27.960 --> 0:27:31.000 NFL last couple of years, So I don't think you 0:27:31.000 --> 0:27:34.720 could go wrong either way in that regard. I think 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:39.800 you would be an interesting situation to take a best 0:27:39.800 --> 0:27:43.719 player available, or I think the other alternative would be 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:49.080 we've seen what the backup quarterback situation has looked like. Unfortunately, 0:27:49.160 --> 0:27:51.359 the first couple weeks of having to play with the 0:27:51.400 --> 0:27:56.119 backup quarterback with this system in year three and a 0:27:56.160 --> 0:27:58.320 lot of players that have familiarity with it, I think 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:01.639 everybody probably would have hoped that that things would have 0:28:01.640 --> 0:28:05.280 clicked a little bit more with the interruption with the 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:07.159 signal caller, and that obviously hasn't been the case. So 0:28:07.160 --> 0:28:09.159 I think you have to put that position under a 0:28:09.160 --> 0:28:12.159 really big microscope. And obviously, Tua when he's on the 0:28:12.200 --> 0:28:15.280 field is so impactful and so unique, and I think 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:17.520 you see that and how the team is struggling without him. 0:28:17.520 --> 0:28:21.160 But I do think you would be in a position 0:28:21.240 --> 0:28:25.000 to bring in an additional quarterback and have one with 0:28:25.080 --> 0:28:27.600 talent that you feel you could win with and then 0:28:27.720 --> 0:28:29.679 kind of let that situation play out. This would not 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:32.400 be the first time in league history that you have 0:28:33.000 --> 0:28:35.959 a quarterback that's a veteran established starting quarterback with an 0:28:36.359 --> 0:28:39.600 early round pick behind him and having two good quarterbacks 0:28:39.680 --> 0:28:41.280 a good problem to have. Of course that the challenge 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:43.360 there is the opportunity cost of what that might look 0:28:43.440 --> 0:28:44.959 like as far as the domino effect for the rest 0:28:44.960 --> 0:28:45.440 of your roster. 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.800 Yeah, and that's I guess why I come down is 0:28:49.120 --> 0:28:52.080 if you wind up in that position, it's the old adage, like, 0:28:52.080 --> 0:28:53.640 you don't want to be there again, right, so take 0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:55.800 advantage of the fact that you are there. And if 0:28:55.840 --> 0:28:58.800 you know, we do wind up getting interruption long term 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:01.120 with QB one, it would be nice to offset that 0:29:01.200 --> 0:29:04.160 with what would be a cheap quarterback by way of 0:29:04.240 --> 0:29:06.120 the draft with the rookie contract. 0:29:06.160 --> 0:29:08.800 So I think that's where I would go. But if 0:29:08.800 --> 0:29:09.640 we're trying. 0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:11.960 To like you know, I think we both get accused 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:13.720 of this a little bit sometimes of the you know, 0:29:13.840 --> 0:29:15.920 selling hopium, although I don't think it's what either of 0:29:16.000 --> 0:29:16.280 us do. 0:29:16.720 --> 0:29:20.320 It's not an accurate term, it's not a realistic it's 0:29:20.480 --> 0:29:23.400 it's looking at the possible outcomes and understanding what the 0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:25.960 team is trying to achieve and explain what the thought 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:27.760 process is and how it's supposed to work. 0:29:27.880 --> 0:29:28.680 That's not hopeium. 0:29:29.040 --> 0:29:31.719 It's not sorry, And like I was, I was tweeting 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:33.760 about like a Jordan Brooks sack in the second half 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:35.320 of the game on Monday and how it was really 0:29:35.320 --> 0:29:37.640 cool sim pressure look or rather you know, they brought 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:40.760 the pressure after simming it all night and it caused 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:42.960 a bust in protection, and I mentioned like, that's been 0:29:42.960 --> 0:29:44.720 one of the cool parts about this team so far, 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:46.040 not many of them, but it's been one of the 0:29:46.080 --> 0:29:48.120 cool parts. And someone's like, look at this a hole 0:29:48.200 --> 0:29:50.320 trying to spin positive, Like, no, I'm just covering the game, dude, 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:51.920 I'm just telling you what happened in the game. I'm 0:29:52.040 --> 0:29:54.040 very well aware of where the thing of where situations 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:56.240 are right now. But the reason I bring this up, Kyle, 0:29:56.320 --> 0:29:59.360 is because if you did want to try to get 0:29:59.360 --> 0:30:02.440 excited about, you know, next year, if that's where you 0:30:02.480 --> 0:30:05.560 are already, I'm looking at the Niners over the Kyle 0:30:05.640 --> 0:30:09.440 Shanahan era, and they had two years where they were like, well, 0:30:09.640 --> 0:30:12.120 I guess early on they stunk because they had Brian Hoyer. 0:30:12.360 --> 0:30:15.160 Then that second year they got or Jimmy Garoppolo got 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:17.600 hurt that second year, and then in twenty twenty they 0:30:17.600 --> 0:30:19.160 were supposed to be this great team after going to 0:30:19.160 --> 0:30:21.760 the Super Bowl in twenty nineteen, but once again, as 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:23.960 they did for you know, two of the previous three years, 0:30:23.960 --> 0:30:27.040 injuries railroaded that team. They won six games, and they 0:30:27.040 --> 0:30:29.320 got better performances from Nick Mullins and I think CJ. 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:31.600 Bethard that year than we've gotten fm our backup quarterbacks. 0:30:31.840 --> 0:30:36.520 But my ultimate point is those years provided them a 0:30:36.600 --> 0:30:39.000 chance to get Nick Bosa and it also provided them 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:41.080 a chance to trade up and get Trey Lance, which 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:44.280 was an absolute disaster, but they were in those positions. 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:48.360 Can you draw any parallel to those Niners teams with 0:30:48.400 --> 0:30:51.080 the injuries and the bad luck they accrued during those years, 0:30:51.080 --> 0:30:53.040 because this happens sometimes to good teams. 0:30:53.240 --> 0:30:54.640 I don't think the Dolphins are a good team right now. 0:30:54.640 --> 0:30:56.760 I think they have other issues, but last year they 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:59.320 were a very good football team. Can you draw any 0:30:59.360 --> 0:31:02.560 parallels two teams like the Niners that have gone through 0:31:02.600 --> 0:31:05.760 that amid the successful runs or anybody else, or do 0:31:05.800 --> 0:31:07.200 you not see it that way at all? 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:13.040 No, I certainly think there's I think general consensus is 0:31:13.040 --> 0:31:14.680 one of the best executives in the game of football 0:31:14.720 --> 0:31:17.800 is Howie Roseman, right, and the Philadelphia Eagles, and they 0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:21.480 drafted a quarterback in Carson Wentz and gave him a 0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:24.640 second contract and he had an injury and they had, 0:31:24.680 --> 0:31:27.400 like at two quarterbacks, do you really have any situation? 0:31:27.560 --> 0:31:29.960 And the bottom fell out there. They went four eleven 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:32.120 and one, and it put them in a position to 0:31:32.160 --> 0:31:34.480 being a high draft pick and draft an impactful player. 0:31:34.640 --> 0:31:38.160 I think about the La Rams and maybe their draft 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:41.320 capital situation was a little different, but they were a 0:31:41.320 --> 0:31:44.480 team that made a couple of runs, then they got 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:46.720 really banged up and got hurt, and then they had 0:31:46.720 --> 0:31:49.680 a youth movement that came in and they made the 0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:52.240 playoffs last year, won ten games. Like there's incidences of 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:55.920 this happening all over the league. I think the thing 0:31:55.960 --> 0:31:58.239 where Dolphins fans are a little sours. Do you look 0:31:58.280 --> 0:32:01.800 at Philadelphia and you say, okay, they want a super Bowl? 0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:05.520 They had Nick Foles on the great backup quarterback run 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:07.240 of all time and they win a Super Bowl in 0:32:07.280 --> 0:32:09.160 that year before the bottom falls out, And you look 0:32:09.160 --> 0:32:12.320 at the Rams and they had a very aggressive mentality 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:14.480 and pushed all their chips in and they got it 0:32:14.520 --> 0:32:16.640 done at the end. And for Miami, if the payoff 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:20.000 is is last year and then there's a regression. I 0:32:20.000 --> 0:32:22.360 think that that's where the sting is for Dolphins fans, 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:25.520 and I totally get that, and I know a lot 0:32:25.520 --> 0:32:27.680 of Dolphins fans have a lot of different opinions about 0:32:27.720 --> 0:32:30.040 like the state of affairs with the team right now. 0:32:30.520 --> 0:32:33.160 But it is October fourth, right, Like, there is so 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:39.920 much more information to be collected before any judgments can 0:32:39.960 --> 0:32:43.120 and I think should be made about all directions that 0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:44.480 this team is gonna have to go. But this is 0:32:44.480 --> 0:32:46.040 the kind of season if it plays out the way 0:32:46.040 --> 0:32:47.640 that you think it is, that is going to make 0:32:47.640 --> 0:32:49.520 you take a step back and re examine everything that 0:32:49.560 --> 0:32:50.040 you're doing. 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:51.040 Yeah, exactly. 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:53.120 I love that because it reminds me of twenty sixteen 0:32:53.160 --> 0:32:55.280 when like one in four it's like they got to 0:32:55.320 --> 0:32:57.120 get Tannehill out of here, and then he rips off 0:32:57.120 --> 0:32:59.120 the best run of his career, and we come back 0:32:59.160 --> 0:33:01.680 in twenty seventeen, even with an ACL injury, and it's like, oh, 0:33:01.720 --> 0:33:02.560 he's our quarterback. 0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:04.560 And then it didn't go that way. It just kind 0:33:04.560 --> 0:33:05.360 of came back and forth. 0:33:05.400 --> 0:33:07.880 But basically your point about there's so much more information 0:33:07.920 --> 0:33:10.400 we have to glean from the next thirteen games, I 0:33:10.440 --> 0:33:13.320 just I love that point. Let's go ahead and dive 0:33:13.480 --> 0:33:17.560 right into the weekend of college football. Here rip Washington 0:33:17.600 --> 0:33:20.440 State's miracle college football playoff runs seems to have come 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:23.160 to an end after a blowout against Poise State. 0:33:23.440 --> 0:33:23.920 You sure do. 0:33:24.240 --> 0:33:25.920 I was hopeful that was the last game on the 0:33:25.920 --> 0:33:28.840 schedule until like the second game to the penultimate game 0:33:29.160 --> 0:33:30.680 that they would have had to get through to maybe 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:32.520 have a pretty good run at this because they played 0:33:32.520 --> 0:33:34.440 like San Jose State in Colorado, not a lot of 0:33:34.440 --> 0:33:37.239 good teams that schedule. Actually, before we do anything here, 0:33:37.280 --> 0:33:39.440 before we talk about the games, can we talk about 0:33:39.440 --> 0:33:44.200 ash Gent because I don't think I've seen anything like it. Man, 0:33:44.400 --> 0:33:46.320 Like some of the runs he had in that game. 0:33:46.400 --> 0:33:50.320 I'm he's on pace to break Barry Sanders rushing yards 0:33:50.320 --> 0:33:52.720 and rushing touchdowns record. He's on track to obliterate the 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:56.000 broken tackle and yards after contact records, even if those 0:33:56.000 --> 0:33:56.240 are on. 0:33:56.320 --> 0:33:57.120 A decade old. 0:33:57.320 --> 0:33:59.960 But we're talking about b Jhon Robinson and Jonathan Taylor 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:03.000 records there. His rushing line this week is like a 0:34:03.040 --> 0:34:05.600 buck ninety two. That's the expectation for he's going to go. 0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:08.520 Just how high up the draft board can he go? 0:34:09.000 --> 0:34:11.800 And is the fact that run on the football is 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:14.239 kind of back, does that maybe elevate his stock a 0:34:14.239 --> 0:34:14.680 little bit? 0:34:15.120 --> 0:34:16.840 So he has eight hundred and forty five yards on 0:34:16.920 --> 0:34:18.400 eighty two cares in four games. 0:34:18.480 --> 0:34:20.319 He played half of the Portland State game too. He 0:34:20.360 --> 0:34:21.520 came out early in that one. 0:34:21.640 --> 0:34:25.160 Yeah, he's on pace to break the Barry Sanders rushing 0:34:25.200 --> 0:34:29.319 touchdown record in the regular season without the bowl game. Like, 0:34:29.360 --> 0:34:32.800 how insane is that? So I had him in the 0:34:32.840 --> 0:34:35.120 top fifteen to my latest mock draft for the thirty 0:34:35.200 --> 0:34:38.520 thirteen which came out on Monday. He went to the Chargers, 0:34:38.880 --> 0:34:41.440 which we know they want to run the ball. We 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:44.000 know they want to run downhill. They invested an offensive lineman, 0:34:44.960 --> 0:34:46.520 they want to run at you. They want to challenge 0:34:46.560 --> 0:34:49.520 you physically and play big boy football and belly bump 0:34:49.560 --> 0:34:51.040 with you in the trenches and all that stuff. And 0:34:51.440 --> 0:34:54.000 this kind of ball carrier, Ashton gent running back from 0:34:54.000 --> 0:34:57.719 Poise State, who has breakaway speed. They time the when 0:34:57.760 --> 0:34:59.640 the GPS is over twenty one miles an hour on one 0:34:59.640 --> 0:35:02.759 of his break runs this year at that size with 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:06.840 the contact balance, and he's a player who can contribute. 0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:07.280 On passing downs. 0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:10.080 I think by and large, the days of like four 0:35:10.160 --> 0:35:13.680 hundred carry running backs. And I know Ricky Williams's ears 0:35:13.680 --> 0:35:16.920 are ringing right now just hearing four hundred carries in 0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:19.719 a season, but I think those days are by and 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:24.000 large gone right. But a player like this who can 0:35:24.040 --> 0:35:28.560 be the predominant volume ball carrier, even in the load 0:35:28.600 --> 0:35:34.399 management era of NFL football, I think is on its 0:35:34.400 --> 0:35:39.360 way to being a really impactful player and type of role. 0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:41.879 And I do think it's one of those things where 0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:43.400 there's gonna be a few teams that get out in 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:45.800 front of the curve and that everybody's gonna be chasing 0:35:45.800 --> 0:35:47.480 them for a little while and then it's going to 0:35:47.520 --> 0:35:48.320 swing back. 0:35:48.120 --> 0:35:48.640 The other way. 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:51.000 But he has the potential to be a catalyst for 0:35:51.000 --> 0:35:52.640 a team to being one of those teams that gets 0:35:52.640 --> 0:35:53.399 out in front of the curve. 0:35:53.920 --> 0:35:57.360 It's so rare for that playmaking ability because he makes 0:35:57.600 --> 0:35:59.920 runs that are not there happen like it didn't. He 0:36:00.040 --> 0:36:01.799 did it multiple times in the WSU game. 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:03.280 I know it's it's the freaking coops. 0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:07.000 It's not an NFL defense, but gosh, man, like, I 0:36:07.040 --> 0:36:09.279 think there's gotta be insane value to a guy who 0:36:09.320 --> 0:36:11.680 turns second nine into second and four. Pretty much every 0:36:11.760 --> 0:36:13.839 damn time he touches the ball, all right, So that's 0:36:13.920 --> 0:36:17.360 that's a player that I mean, you gotta figure. You 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:18.840 hope with the way things go, he's not on the 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:20.799 Dolphins radar because we hope that eight Chan and Wright 0:36:20.840 --> 0:36:23.120 become those guys that are the future of the Dolphins 0:36:23.239 --> 0:36:23.879 tail back room. 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:25.719 But we'll see. Like you said, there's a lot of 0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:28.239 information still to be to be had. Here, can I 0:36:28.239 --> 0:36:30.080 give you a stat on gen T real quick? Please? 0:36:30.160 --> 0:36:33.520 Just for the season, he's averaging seven point one yards 0:36:33.560 --> 0:36:36.759 after contact per rush? 0:36:36.800 --> 0:36:38.840 What's his what's his just outright average? 0:36:38.840 --> 0:36:43.560 Like twelve ten point three he's getting He's getting three 0:36:43.600 --> 0:36:46.560 point one before contact and then getting another seven point 0:36:46.560 --> 0:36:49.480 one after contact per rush on eighty two rushes in 0:36:49.520 --> 0:36:50.080 four games. 0:36:50.200 --> 0:36:53.400 That's like the best yards per pass average in the league, 0:36:53.520 --> 0:36:55.560 much much less rushing yards per average. 0:36:55.560 --> 0:36:56.440 I mean, my goodness. 0:36:56.600 --> 0:36:58.160 All right, let's go ahead and get to the slate 0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:00.000 of games this weekend. We talked off air a little bit. 0:37:00.120 --> 0:37:02.359 Not the most attractive slate of games. I mean, WS 0:37:02.400 --> 0:37:05.080 shoes on buy So who cares, right, But what do 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:05.800 you got this weekend? 0:37:05.840 --> 0:37:05.960 Man? 0:37:05.960 --> 0:37:08.040 Some players, maybe we've talked about enough about a player 0:37:08.040 --> 0:37:09.800 that probably is not going to be a Dolphin just 0:37:09.880 --> 0:37:12.920 based on overall odds and also the position he plays. 0:37:12.960 --> 0:37:15.239 But what else you got here as far as guys 0:37:15.239 --> 0:37:17.359 that you could possibly see in twenty twenty five being 0:37:17.400 --> 0:37:18.240 on the Dolphins radar. 0:37:19.000 --> 0:37:21.879 I'll give you a game that has prospects on both 0:37:21.920 --> 0:37:24.040 sides no matter who has the ball, and it's Iowa 0:37:24.280 --> 0:37:27.440 Ohio State. And I know Iowa known for their offense 0:37:27.560 --> 0:37:30.480 right but they do have a tight end to luke 0:37:30.560 --> 0:37:33.879 Leche who's a red shirt senior. They have quarterback Kde 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:37.400 mcmarrick transferred from Michigan. They have running back Caleb Johnson 0:37:37.400 --> 0:37:40.279 who's a junior. Those are very talented players on the 0:37:40.800 --> 0:37:43.000 Iowa offensive side of the ball. 0:37:43.600 --> 0:37:46.239 And then they have a. 0:37:45.280 --> 0:37:49.000 Defensive back kind of hybrid type player and Sebastian Castro 0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:52.440 who's a fifth year senior as well. And then Ohoa 0:37:52.440 --> 0:37:57.759 State might be the most physically talented team in the 0:37:57.800 --> 0:38:01.640 country as it pertains to draft eligible talent where they 0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:04.359 have a freshman, true freshman phenom and Jeremiah Smith. There's 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.120 a couple of true freshmen in college football right now 0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:10.960 wide receiver that are just gonna obliterate all kinds of expectations, 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:15.080 which is incredible because they're they're incredible players. But Ohio 0:38:15.160 --> 0:38:17.240 State that has a draft eligible in a Mecca Buka, 0:38:17.239 --> 0:38:19.240 who's kind of next in line for that wide receiver 0:38:19.320 --> 0:38:23.440 factory at Ohio State. They're left tackle. Josh Simmons is 0:38:23.480 --> 0:38:26.520 a red shirt junior. He's really emerged. He transferred in 0:38:26.520 --> 0:38:29.760 from San Diego State. He's been a big, big jumper 0:38:29.840 --> 0:38:33.000 this year as far as his performance on the field. Uh, 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:35.680 they've got a couple of backs themselves. Ohio State doesn't 0:38:35.680 --> 0:38:38.759 Trevon Henderson and Quinn Shawn Judkins. Judkins had transferred in 0:38:38.800 --> 0:38:41.400 from from Ole Miss as a bit of a spread. 0:38:41.600 --> 0:38:43.880 There's so there's a thunder and lightning element there. And 0:38:43.880 --> 0:38:47.680 then defensively, I mean you got three guys on the 0:38:47.680 --> 0:38:50.800 defensive line. I really like the job that Jack Sawyer's 0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:53.600 done this year as a defensive end with heavy hands. 0:38:54.800 --> 0:38:57.479 And then they've got some defensive backs between Denzel Burke, 0:38:57.520 --> 0:39:00.120 who's a red shirt junior corner has been a productive player, 0:39:00.640 --> 0:39:04.359 and then Laythan Ransom at safety. So there's talent up 0:39:04.360 --> 0:39:05.799 and down the board for Ohio State and they're going 0:39:05.800 --> 0:39:07.360 against a team that's got talent on both sides the 0:39:07.400 --> 0:39:07.879 ball as well. 0:39:08.239 --> 0:39:08.760 Great stuff. 0:39:08.760 --> 0:39:10.920 Love it, man, appreciate that insight on the college game. 0:39:11.000 --> 0:39:12.600 Let's go ahead and pivot now to the pro game 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:15.120 on Sunday. Last game for a while here we go 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:17.520 to New England, take a week off, then go back 0:39:17.560 --> 0:39:20.040 out to the Midwest for the Indianapolis Colts. What are 0:39:20.040 --> 0:39:22.359 you hoping to see here from Dolphins and Patriots, Kyle? 0:39:22.880 --> 0:39:26.160 Yeah, I want to see an inspired performance. And I 0:39:26.200 --> 0:39:29.920 know that's not necessarily where everybody's expectations were, but this 0:39:29.960 --> 0:39:32.160 is where we're at right now, right so I want 0:39:32.200 --> 0:39:34.279 to see the defense continue to play hard and play 0:39:34.280 --> 0:39:35.719 with pride. I think they've done a lot of that 0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:39.080 in the first four games of the season, despite having 0:39:39.080 --> 0:39:41.719 to start on some short fields not having a complimentary 0:39:41.719 --> 0:39:44.720 game script available to them, and I think it's incredible. 0:39:44.719 --> 0:39:47.360 They're one of the most effective teams pressuring opposing quarterbacks 0:39:47.680 --> 0:39:49.160 and they haven't played with the lead for a single 0:39:49.160 --> 0:39:53.799 snap all season, like it really is. I cannot be 0:39:53.920 --> 0:39:56.719 more impressed with what they have been able to do 0:39:57.560 --> 0:40:01.400 with what they have been handed offensively. I think that 0:40:01.680 --> 0:40:04.480 and you see guys like Jalen Ramsey laid in that 0:40:04.560 --> 0:40:07.640 game against Tennessee, making plays, being fired up, leading by 0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:10.560 table like that stuff. It matters, and guys like I 0:40:10.560 --> 0:40:13.040 want to see the leaders on this team play with 0:40:13.080 --> 0:40:15.600 that kind of fire across the board. And I wanted 0:40:15.640 --> 0:40:17.719 to give Jalen Ramsey a shout out because I saw 0:40:17.760 --> 0:40:22.040 it from him on Monday Night. So players that are 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:24.520 are considered to be the leaders on your team, I 0:40:24.560 --> 0:40:26.920 want to see them match that energy that Jalen Ramsey 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:30.520 had in what was the face of defeat on Monday night. 0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:32.840 And if you give me that, we'll see how the 0:40:32.840 --> 0:40:34.879 game itself plays out. It's really hard to say because 0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:38.600 there's so much unknown about Tyler Huntley in his second 0:40:38.600 --> 0:40:40.600 career start. He's still been here less than a month, 0:40:40.640 --> 0:40:44.000 and the operation of the offense and New England is 0:40:44.040 --> 0:40:47.239 a team that they have their own wild cards in 0:40:47.239 --> 0:40:48.680 this game as well. So I really don't know what 0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:51.799 way the game's gonna go. But the least thing that 0:40:51.880 --> 0:40:53.480 you can do is control what you can control, and 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:56.239 that's go out there and play to your potential and 0:40:56.280 --> 0:40:59.200 play with an intensity that says you're playing with a 0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:01.560 lot of pro because there's a lot of these guys 0:41:01.600 --> 0:41:04.400 that are very talented players and should be playing with 0:41:04.400 --> 0:41:05.120 a lot of pride. 0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:06.600 I love your point on Ramsey. 0:41:06.600 --> 0:41:08.360 He was one of my top five tapes from the 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:10.919 game on Monday, which was all defense because that's where 0:41:10.960 --> 0:41:11.480 we had to go. 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:12.680 But I thought you got that. 0:41:12.640 --> 0:41:16.000 From him, From Jordan Brooks, from Zach Sealer, from Kalais Campbell, 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:18.279 all four of those guys really kind of piqued my 0:41:18.320 --> 0:41:20.759 interest in what you just talked about. And then also, man, 0:41:20.760 --> 0:41:23.240 what a rough week to lose jaland Phillips for many reasons, 0:41:23.239 --> 0:41:26.080 but also y, I mean, we'll see what happens to 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:27.840 that edge group because you know, do we get Mo 0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.920 Kamara's first action in the NFL because that Patriots offensive 0:41:30.960 --> 0:41:32.960 line is as banged up as we are at that 0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:35.799 edge group, so should be an interesting matchup that way, Kyle. 0:41:35.880 --> 0:41:38.239 As always, we appreciate your time draft lead for the 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:41.719 thirty third team, Locked on Dolphins Podcast, Touchdown Miami Substack, 0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:46.200 Locked on NFL Scouting podcast, and grinding the tape on Twitter. 0:41:46.560 --> 0:41:48.000 Kyle, stop working so hard man. 0:41:48.640 --> 0:41:49.480 Thanks for Grevis. 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:52.400 One of these days I'm gonna get him to outro 0:41:52.680 --> 0:41:54.560 with something. 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