Speaker 1: Do.
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Speaker 2: Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 2: is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's my hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: part two of our exit interview series, our year end
Speaker 1: review takes us to my man OJ McDuffie's room, his residence,
Speaker 1: the wide Outs. We'll break down the room, tell you
Speaker 1: about the numbers and the skills of each guy, what
Speaker 1: to look forward to. And on top of that, I
Speaker 1: did a little bit of injury data research because I
Speaker 1: got asked about it on Twitter. All of that and
Speaker 1: more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Hey Daffy, I don't want to start this podcast today
Speaker 1: with an injury research I was telling you guys about.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna do a new segment on the show
Speaker 1: here going forward, taking a look at college prospects as
Speaker 1: we get closer and closer to the NFL Draft.
Speaker 2: And I made a song. I created a.
Speaker 1: Song, and I'm very very very excited about it. We'll
Speaker 1: do that at the end of the podcast. Here, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start though, because someone on Twitter asked
Speaker 1: me about my tweet that they're looking for comparative numbers
Speaker 1: regarding the Dolphins injury situation that I tweeted about and
Speaker 1: how few players played X amount of snaps for Miami
Speaker 1: this season, and I thought to myself, I'm doing all
Speaker 1: that for Twitter. Also got rid of Twitter blue for
Speaker 1: the football or for the off season, because I don't
Speaker 1: want to tweet enough to make money and I'm never
Speaker 1: gonna be an aggregator, never gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Do you guys make a lot of money doing that.
Speaker 2: It's not worth it to me. I don't Knowles's it's
Speaker 2: a lot of money, but maybe maybe it is.
Speaker 1: But I got rid of Twitter blue for the off season,
Speaker 1: and I probably wouldn't do it if I had Twitter Blue.
Speaker 2: But without Twitter Blue.
Speaker 1: I'm definitely not putting all that stuff on Twitter. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing on the podcast because I do get paid
Speaker 1: for this. So I tweeted about some Miami numbers about
Speaker 1: their injuries they occurred accrued this season, and we could
Speaker 1: just blanket this and move on from it. But the
Speaker 1: truth is that nobody lost more wins above replacement this
Speaker 1: year than you are Miami Dolphins when you remove the
Speaker 1: quarterback out of the equation. But I put it together
Speaker 1: some thresholds on teams in the AFC and who had
Speaker 1: what amount of players play certain percentages of their snaps
Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the football, And so I
Speaker 1: broke it down like this to thresholds of players on
Speaker 1: the team's offense within the AFC, getting very specific here,
Speaker 1: right what's you're biting average at night time when the
Speaker 1: moon is in sagittarius against a left handed pitcher, players
Speaker 1: exceeding eighty five percent snaps, seventy five percent snaps and
Speaker 1: then fifty five percent of the snaps on offense. And
Speaker 1: from Miami they had two guys exceed eighty five of
Speaker 1: their offensive workload. That was to a tongue by Loa
Speaker 1: and Austin Jackson. And we're gonna pause right there, because
Speaker 1: that in itself is instructive because you came into the
Speaker 1: year thinking, I don't know how many games I can
Speaker 1: get from Austin Jackson. He missed a handful of games
Speaker 1: his rookie year, he missed an entire season his third year,
Speaker 1: and a second season, he got moved positions because his
Speaker 1: performance wasn't good enough. Who the heck knows what kind
Speaker 1: of durability he has to a tongue of I Low's durability.
Speaker 1: Everybody in the you know, in speaking of Twitter blue
Speaker 1: is the same thing as the morning talk shows. All
Speaker 1: those guys getting their engagement takes off wanted to to
Speaker 1: retire from the game of football because of injuries.
Speaker 2: He played the entire year.
Speaker 1: He didn't miss a snap except for when he got
Speaker 1: pulled because of dominance. But those are the two guys
Speaker 1: that exceeded eighty five percent of the snap So now
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this because Buffalo had their entire
Speaker 1: starting offensive line played the entire year, Like, what the
Speaker 1: hell kind of luck is that, dude. But Miami also
Speaker 1: only had two players exceed seventy five percent because Durham
Speaker 1: Smyth and Liam Eichenberg both were between seven and seventy
Speaker 1: five percent. That's telling you how many reps the Dolphins
Speaker 1: missed from key players on offense and Durham Smith and
Speaker 1: Leam Mikenberg. You know, I thought Durham had his best
Speaker 1: year of his career. He's still a blocking tight end
Speaker 1: right A y tight end. It's not the most important
Speaker 1: position on the field, and leam Miikenberg came into the
Speaker 1: year is like o line. Eight guys that played fifty
Speaker 1: five percent of the snaps are more just five now
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is the fifth on that list, So pretty
Speaker 1: good there, And that's the gist of it. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to go around the NFL or on the AC
Speaker 1: I should say, and talk about teams and what they had,
Speaker 1: because this is pretty jarring. Compare it next to Miami.
Speaker 1: Like Buffalo six players over eighty five percent of the snaps.
Speaker 1: Eight players played a three quarters, so they have four
Speaker 1: more than Miami and six more than Miami in those
Speaker 1: critical spots. No wonder they hit their stride late in
Speaker 1: the season and Miami kind of fell off of theirs. Now,
Speaker 1: the fifty five percent snap threshold I came to find
Speaker 1: out at the end of this research project was not
Speaker 1: very telling, even though it was from Miami, because most
Speaker 1: teams had like eight or nine. But you wouldn't have
Speaker 1: more than that because offensive linemen five of those guys
Speaker 1: A quarterback running backs usually work half the workload and
Speaker 1: then beside your top one or two receivers, you get
Speaker 1: guys that have varied workloads as well, so that number
Speaker 1: at eight or nine was pretty common across the league.
Speaker 2: But even the Jets right who had.
Speaker 1: I would say before Miami's injury woes really kicked into
Speaker 1: high gear in the second half of the season, the
Speaker 1: Jets were the most injured team in the AFC them
Speaker 1: in the Cleveland Browns. And even still, the Jets had
Speaker 1: one more player than Miami exceed eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps they had three of them. They had double
Speaker 1: the players play three quarters of the snaps, four to
Speaker 1: R two, and they had eight players play fifty five
Speaker 1: percent or more to our five Jets. All year long
Speaker 1: you heard about injuries. Miami was more injured than the
Speaker 1: Jets were, except for the quarterback position, which I digress
Speaker 1: because that's a big deal. I'll give you that the
Speaker 1: Patriots that theirs was like ours. They had one player
Speaker 1: go over eighty five percent. That's because they were terrible.
Speaker 1: They're the worst offensive personnel in the entire National Football League.
Speaker 1: The Browns, who again offensive line was beat to crap
Speaker 1: by the end of the year. They had to go
Speaker 1: through multiple different quarterbacks, So no quarterbacks on this list.
Speaker 1: But even with all that players that played eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps we had two, they had two
Speaker 1: seventy five percent of the snaps we had, two had five.
Speaker 1: The Browns were so banged up on offense this year,
Speaker 1: and we yet somehow were more banged up. The Steelers
Speaker 1: five and five to R two and two. The Bengals,
Speaker 1: they were hurt all year. Wrong long, right, I mean
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow the quarterback, big deal. But five and eight
Speaker 1: compared to R two and two for eighty five percent
Speaker 1: and seventy five percent. The Ravens four and five, and
Speaker 1: they were a team that last couple of years didn't have.
Speaker 1: They had similar numbers of the Miami Dolphins and their
Speaker 1: injury numbers the last two years. They finally get healthy
Speaker 1: and look at them. They're the best team in the
Speaker 1: NFL in my opinion. The Colts six and seven players
Speaker 1: to R two and two, right, and ten players who
Speaker 1: exceeded fifty five percent of the snaps. That's double we
Speaker 1: had this year. The Titans just like US, two players
Speaker 1: over eighty five percent, but five players over seventy five percent.
Speaker 2: That's more than double.
Speaker 1: And eleven players exceed fifty five percent of the snaps,
Speaker 1: but none of those players were quarterbacks because they couldn't
Speaker 1: hid too. The quarterback is gonna be this year because
Speaker 1: their best quarterback was the backup quarterback. And then they
Speaker 1: put the rookie in and I digress again at digressing here.
Speaker 1: The Texans two and four, so similar to us. The
Speaker 1: Jags five and seven. That offense was completely broken by
Speaker 1: the end of the year, but they had seven guys
Speaker 1: on the offense play three quarters of the snaps.
Speaker 2: If we got that, are you kidding me? The Chiefs
Speaker 2: five and five, That five number is very good.
Speaker 1: If you get five year players playing eighty five percent
Speaker 1: of your snaps for more, you're in a good spot
Speaker 1: right there. The Raiders six and six, the Broncos six
Speaker 1: and seven, the Chargers right. Chargers fans, all they talk
Speaker 1: about is how everything in the world always works against
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert. He can't possibly overcome these dire circumstances that
Speaker 1: he faces every single year. We had two players play
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the snaps on offense.
Speaker 2: They had four. We had two players play seventy five
Speaker 2: percent of the snaps on offense. They had five.
Speaker 1: We had five players play fifty five percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps offense. They had ten crimea river Man. So the
Speaker 1: two players exceeding eighty five percent of the snaps that
Speaker 1: we had was tied for the lowest with Houston, Cleveland
Speaker 1: and Tennessee the two players exceeding seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: the snaps. Nobody else had that low. In fact, only
Speaker 1: one other team had three players. Only two other teams
Speaker 1: had four players, So that's three four So three quarters
Speaker 1: of the conference had more than double the amount of
Speaker 1: players we had played seventy five percent of the snaps.
Speaker 2: Is that a confusing sentence? Let me slow it down.
Speaker 2: We had.
Speaker 1: Three quarters of the AFC, so take out the entire
Speaker 1: AFC East. The rest of the AFC had more than
Speaker 1: double the amount of players on offense exceed seventy five
Speaker 1: percent of their workload. That's how injured the Mounty Dolphins
Speaker 1: were this year. Twelve teams had at least five players
Speaker 1: exceed many work snap counts snaps and the average on
Speaker 1: balance was five point three. So we had less than
Speaker 1: half the conference average for our offensive players playing three
Speaker 1: quarters of the snaps this season. I know it's a
Speaker 1: lot to digest in a podcast vehicle here, but does
Speaker 1: that track for you?
Speaker 2: Guys?
Speaker 1: Pretty banged up man, the nine players exceeding fifty five percent,
Speaker 1: This number actually seems irrelevant, like I talked about, because
Speaker 1: now that I did the entire conference, pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: is in that same number. But yeah, man, not ideal.
Speaker 1: Having our quarterback and a tackle for nearly every snap
Speaker 1: is awesome. But the third highest was a guy who
Speaker 1: wasn't even a top swing interior offensive lineman literally O
Speaker 1: line seven, maybe eight, And number four was a blocking
Speaker 1: specialist tight end number five the best receiver in the NFL.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: But then number six was O line eight, Lester Cotton.
Speaker 1: So maybe there's even more to that research project, and
Speaker 1: I think it's worth digging into. But I also think
Speaker 1: the point has already been made, and that is this
Speaker 1: from your or four year snap counts to go like
Speaker 1: this quarterback right tackle ninety percent plus.
Speaker 2: That's cool.
Speaker 1: Number three, O line seven, number four, you're eligible five
Speaker 1: at best best? Right, would Cedric and Braxon be ahead
Speaker 1: of Durham on the eligible list? I would, I tend
Speaker 1: to think so, not blocking but catching the football. Number
Speaker 1: five is receiver one, number six O line eight, number seven,
Speaker 1: O line six. Kendall Lamb was the seventh highest snap
Speaker 1: taker that is far less than ideal. Like our best
Speaker 1: players on offense, I would say, are Tyreek than Wattle?
Speaker 1: Then I'd say Tua, Then maybe rob Let's just rank it.
Speaker 1: I'm going Tyreek Wattle to my top three players on offense,
Speaker 1: and then I think Robert Hunt, and then Devon eight Chan,
Speaker 1: then Connor Williams Moster, Jackson, ingold, Tea Stead headed down
Speaker 1: year this year, Win, and Smythe. That's my top twelve.
Speaker 1: How did they rank in snap counts? So Tyreek is first, right,
Speaker 1: fifth most, Wattle eighth most, Tua first most, most most,
Speaker 1: Hunt tenth most. So your top four players are five, eight,
Speaker 1: one to ten. How about your top five players? Eight
Speaker 1: Chan was nineteenth, Connor Williams, your sixth best line or
Speaker 1: offensive player was thirteenth, Moster, it was ninth, Jackson second,
Speaker 1: finally Ingle, fifteenth, Teesta, twelfth, Win, sixteenth, Smythe fourth, like third, sixth, seventh, eleventh,
Speaker 1: all not within our top twelve players.
Speaker 2: And I'd add fourteen and fifteen to that too. Not
Speaker 2: good man.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go ahead and take our first break rate there.
Speaker 1: Injuries have been proven a problem for the Dolphins this year.
Speaker 1: Right on this podcast, we just proved it didn't know before,
Speaker 1: but now we know for sure it's a problem. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and take a break rate there. Come back
Speaker 1: on the other side and break down this Dolphins wide
Speaker 1: receiver room. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Quarterbacks on Monday, Receivers
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. I think I'm gonna do. I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna do offensive lineman on Friday. We'll find out might
Speaker 1: be less. That's a big position group to get into,
Speaker 1: and Friday is usually a lighter show.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and.
Speaker 1: Do receivers here real quick though, because the room in general,
Speaker 1: I think I have an issue with it. The usage
Speaker 1: of ten and seventeen, no issue there, But if you're
Speaker 1: going to operate that idea in terms of how those
Speaker 1: guys come off the field more than I think most
Speaker 1: top two receivers across the National Football League, I think
Speaker 1: you have to be better the rest of the room
Speaker 1: beyond that, receivers three through six. I like the blocking
Speaker 1: and the will of all these guys. I think they're
Speaker 1: wired the right way. I think they have the right mindset.
Speaker 1: But we're so small out there and that shows up.
Speaker 1: But also, our inability to win one on one matchups
Speaker 1: elsewhere was an issue. I think it was fine in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two because Reek and Waddle were healthy all year,
Speaker 1: but with Wattle's injuries accumulating to the point of just
Speaker 1: not being that effective for a lot of the season
Speaker 1: and Tyreek's ankle injury.
Speaker 2: I mean, those guys are the driving force of the
Speaker 2: entire offense.
Speaker 1: It's built around their ability to run fast, to run
Speaker 1: a lot of steps. I think they're step counter probably
Speaker 1: is at thirty thousand every game day, and they have
Speaker 1: to do that at top speed, right, And I get
Speaker 1: you need to keep them fresh, And I think you
Speaker 1: lost a key piece to the entire equation in Eric Azukama.
Speaker 1: But I think that just speaks to how you need better,
Speaker 1: cheaper investments in that position. Because Cedric Wilson for the
Speaker 1: first two years it didn't. It didn't work out, right.
Speaker 1: I get that he was signed with a contract commesurate
Speaker 1: to not knowing that we're gonna have Tyreek Hill on
Speaker 1: the football team before he you know, before Tyree got here.
Speaker 1: But even still the last two years production wise, it didn't.
Speaker 1: It's was nowhere close to worth the value you paid
Speaker 1: for him, Braxon Barrios got paid quite a lot.
Speaker 2: Didn't really work out in the receiving game.
Speaker 1: Ether River Craikraft, I think you got exactly what you
Speaker 1: paid for Sherfield last year. Didn't kind of kind of right,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't the idea. You expected Cedric or Azukama
Speaker 1: or someone to beat him out and it just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: But you look around the league, like Rashi Rice happened
Speaker 1: this year. Puka Nakua is not a realistic measure, but
Speaker 1: he did happen this year. If we could hit on
Speaker 1: a rookie who can be that number three when they're
Speaker 1: healthy and even more importantly, just be a competent too
Speaker 1: when we don't have one of those two guys, that
Speaker 1: could be to me, a major, major game changer, major
Speaker 1: changer this year for the Miami Dolphins. I mean, on
Speaker 1: top of Rice and Nakua, Tank Dell, if we had
Speaker 1: Rashid Rashid Shahed this.
Speaker 2: Year, Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: There are rookies among the top producers every single year
Speaker 1: wherever you want, Olave and Wilson Watson and Dubbs Jaden
Speaker 1: Reid for the Packags this year for that matter, I
Speaker 1: think you get it by now, But all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is we need that. But also my point is that
Speaker 1: there's a point to be made about investing into the
Speaker 1: position and maybe even with your most valuable resource this offseason,
Speaker 1: that twenty first pick. If the best player is a
Speaker 1: receiver who can get vertical and stem and stack on
Speaker 1: any of the options of a three way, go inside,
Speaker 1: turn the card in, let's go score thirty five points
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 2: Again, that was fun.
Speaker 1: Wasn't it hard to beat you when you score that
Speaker 1: many points? And look, I hate to say it, but
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna need that big money savings at
Speaker 1: that position at some point because it'll be like case
Speaker 1: where clearing Tyreek's money off the books, you have to
Speaker 1: do it before you pay Waddle, and you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to find a new balance at that receiver bus and
Speaker 1: then you have a new Waddle on that rookie deal.
Speaker 2: So you kind of have to keep that cyclical.
Speaker 1: And I know we need to buildup the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but the fact is this skill group is still the
Speaker 1: most important aspect of the entire football team. See, you
Speaker 1: better keep that pipeline full because right now, what does
Speaker 1: the future look like beyond those two guys, it's literally
Speaker 1: Eric Azukama and like Braylen Sanders, who last year had
Speaker 1: two ops, I recall one was a fumble, one was
Speaker 1: a really poorly ran route that should have been a
Speaker 1: long touchdown.
Speaker 2: I'm just saying, so that's kind of the room at
Speaker 2: the glances.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go player by a player here
Speaker 1: once again, going to go in order of who had
Speaker 1: the most snaps this season. Number ten, Tyreek Hill, who
Speaker 1: had the second most catches, first most yards, and them
Speaker 1: tied for the most touchdowns one nineteen, seventeen, ninety nine,
Speaker 1: and thirteen in those categories, and among the eighty target
Speaker 1: threshold receivers, he was sixth in yards per target at
Speaker 1: ten point five.
Speaker 2: He had the most first downs with eighty three.
Speaker 1: He also had a fifty seven point nine percent success rate,
Speaker 1: which was seventeenth in the NFL. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the fact that he averaged fifteen point seven yards
Speaker 1: per catch at that volume, the highest target total of
Speaker 1: guys that were ahead of him in yards per reception
Speaker 1: was one thirty six.
Speaker 2: He was one seventy one.
Speaker 1: He was third targets had more than five hundred yards
Speaker 1: more than DeVante Adams, who had four more targets than
Speaker 1: he did. He had nearly seven hundred more yards than
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson, who had three fewer targets. I mean, we
Speaker 1: could go down the list, but this is the best
Speaker 1: receiver in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: Some more numbies.
Speaker 1: He broke the record for yards per route run and
Speaker 1: advanced metric, established back in two thousand and three. I
Speaker 1: don't believe they go back further than that because Jerry
Speaker 1: Rice might have something to say about that, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he would because Rice never left the field
Speaker 1: and they had lots of mouse to feed that offense. Right,
Speaker 1: But this just speaks to the sheer efficiency that Tyreek exhibits.
Speaker 2: Like he catches the ball and he makes explosive plays.
Speaker 1: He only played sixty three percent of the snaps and
Speaker 1: garnered those one hundred and seventy one targets. And if
Speaker 1: you look at the other guys with that target share,
Speaker 1: Lamb played eighty five percent, Adams played ninety two percent,
Speaker 1: Saint Brown played eighty five percent.
Speaker 2: You get it.
Speaker 1: Tyreek's usage is way less than all the other number
Speaker 1: one receivers in the NFL. The YPPR was three point
Speaker 1: seven to two. Randy Moss back in seven was two
Speaker 1: point twenty six. It's almost a yard and a half
Speaker 1: more Calvin Johnson when he had nineteen hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: four yards back in twenty twelve two point five to five.
Speaker 1: Dude Reek was fifth in total yak. He had six
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty nine yards after the catch. He also
Speaker 1: had twenty eight forced miss tackles, that was most among receivers.
Speaker 1: Deebo was second with twenty five. He had a one
Speaker 1: twenty point two passer rating when he was targeted that
Speaker 1: was fourth among receivers with eighty targets. The thing about
Speaker 1: Tyreek the numbers displayed the results for sure, but man,
Speaker 1: it's the detail in his game that really sets him apart.
Speaker 1: I know everyone sees the speed, the explosives, the celebrations,
Speaker 1: all that fun stuff, right, but it's his fine detail
Speaker 1: in the route running that really gets those big openings.
Speaker 1: I logged two plays this year against the Raiders. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do a YouTube breakdown. You guys saw the we did.
Speaker 1: Who did we do alec Ingold? We did two earlier
Speaker 1: in the year. We did Jalen Ramsey and we did
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb. Tyreek was gonna be one of those, but
Speaker 1: he got injured so we didn't do it. But I
Speaker 1: had a couple of plays logged, and he runs the
Speaker 1: exact same route. It's a twenty five yard comeback to
Speaker 1: the perimeter from the boundary the short side of the field,
Speaker 1: and both route is the are the exact same, but
Speaker 1: they're completely different. He alters the release, the stem, the pacing.
Speaker 1: It all looks identical, but he shows how he can
Speaker 1: attack whichever release you give him and still sell you
Speaker 1: on the opposite of what he's going to do.
Speaker 2: He tends to complete his routes with the attention to detail.
Speaker 1: That helps expand the defense, and that's the entire goal
Speaker 1: of your offense, right expand their coverage, expand that space,
Speaker 1: and exploit that space. And he does that by taking
Speaker 1: the extra step, by taking the extra head nod, by
Speaker 1: finishing his route completely opposed to just saying, oh there's
Speaker 1: space here, I'll go ahead and check up his speed.
Speaker 1: The detail that's what makes him the best in the game.
Speaker 1: I think that parent's competitiveness, his confidence also has this
Speaker 1: reverberating effect that just helps the team in general. I
Speaker 1: do think the approach changed this year A little bit.
Speaker 1: He had much much less work in camp. He was
Speaker 1: always a last one out to practice every single day.
Speaker 2: Like I get it.
Speaker 1: Stars are stars, and receivers tend to have this type
Speaker 1: of mentality. But it felt a little bit like there
Speaker 1: was more investment last year. In fact, he referred to this.
Speaker 1: He talked about how he kind of got stale towards
Speaker 1: the end of the year.
Speaker 2: That blows my mind.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to complain about the best receiver in
Speaker 1: the game, but like what, you know, the concentration lapses,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: He admitted that.
Speaker 1: He had to kind of refocus his game at the
Speaker 1: end of the year, and that was evident. I mean,
Speaker 1: he had major, major gaffs in every single big game
Speaker 1: we had until the playoff game. I thought it got
Speaker 1: the best out of him in the Kansas City playoff game. Though,
Speaker 1: we can help him even more, I think next year
Speaker 1: with better separators around him. But he needs to fix
Speaker 1: that issue in his own right, but we can help there.
Speaker 1: He caught just seven to twenty three contested passes thirty
Speaker 1: point four percent, one of the lowest among the top receivers.
Speaker 2: He's thirty in March, But it.
Speaker 1: Doesn't seem like he's slowing down anytime soon. Just some
Speaker 1: more advanced metrics for you here. On Tyreek eight hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight yards on deep passes. The next most
Speaker 1: was five point fifty two Mike Evans, who also had
Speaker 1: three more targets than Tyreek. On those twenty plus air
Speaker 1: yard throws. He averaged twenty two point three to two
Speaker 1: yards per route ran on those plays. Mike Evans was
Speaker 1: thirteen point four to six. He's almost double, like almost
Speaker 1: double in these categories.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: His five hundred and eighty yards from the slot was
Speaker 1: eighth most, despite the fact that only thirty nine percent
Speaker 1: of his targets came from the slot alignments. Nobody ahead
Speaker 1: of him was less than fifty five percent slot usage,
Speaker 1: and most of them were in the seventy percent range.
Speaker 1: He's the best, man. I think Jalen Waddle is not
Speaker 1: that far behind him, number seventeen. Kind of crazy that
Speaker 1: in a down year he becomes the first Dolphin ever
Speaker 1: to begin his career with three consecutive one thousand yard seasons.
Speaker 1: Of the twenty seven receivers with one thousand yards, only
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson had fewer targets this year, one hundred compared
Speaker 1: to wadalls one oh four, so he was twenty sixth
Speaker 1: in yards thirty six in catches. He did have half
Speaker 1: the touchdowns from last year with four, but this all
Speaker 1: came on just one on one targets, which is thirty
Speaker 1: ninth in the National Football League. So he outproduced guys
Speaker 1: with more targets hit a sixty nine point two percent
Speaker 1: reception rate, which shows you how multifaceted that he is.
Speaker 1: Because you know, as if we needed to see anymore
Speaker 1: after he showed you he can be a force fed
Speaker 1: number one receiver and a ball control offense that did
Speaker 1: not use his skills at all, but also the most
Speaker 1: electric playmaker in the league in a stretched out offense
Speaker 1: when they use him right. Last year twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I just think the whole year was one where he
Speaker 1: never really got fully healthy because he wasn't as best
Speaker 1: for most of the year. I think when you go
Speaker 1: into a season and say that he only topped our
Speaker 1: number three receiver or a number three snap taker at
Speaker 1: receiver by sixty six snaps, after what I just told
Speaker 1: you about how they want to use these guys in
Speaker 1: a refreshing role, you would point to that as one
Speaker 1: of the biggest challenges with regards to limiting the offense
Speaker 1: from being its fully functional self to what it became
Speaker 1: right because this thing is built around Reek and Waddle.
Speaker 2: Tua told us as much. He told us this all
Speaker 2: year long.
Speaker 1: Those two guys are so important to our offense. The
Speaker 1: entire thing is built around them. We run routes that
Speaker 1: most teams can't be of those guys, and the numbers
Speaker 1: back it up too. Skill players with lengthy routes, love
Speaker 1: of the game, routes, pressing the safeties to expand the defense,
Speaker 1: shifts and motions require sprints before the snaps even happen.
Speaker 1: It's just so pivotal to have those two guys available
Speaker 1: because their speed is what creates the space. Not just
Speaker 1: out there playing but at their best, their physical best.
Speaker 1: But on top of playing six hundred and eleven snaps
Speaker 1: fifty six percent of our offense, only sixty six snaps
Speaker 1: more than Cedric, only one hundred and fifty five more
Speaker 1: than Braxton. How about the miss practice time. I remember
Speaker 1: McDaniel raving over Wattle's spring or offseason program and how
Speaker 1: if anybody could afford to miss time, it would be Wattle.
Speaker 1: And look, it's not like it slowed us down to
Speaker 1: start the season. Right. We came out of the gates
Speaker 1: as hall as anybody else ever in the National Football
Speaker 1: League history. But I do think practice is important. And
Speaker 1: in fact, if I can just look back at this,
Speaker 1: like the oblique injury, when was that, there's a tweet
Speaker 1: for that August ninth.
Speaker 2: Here, let's do this.
Speaker 1: Actually, I can go back and look at the injury reports,
Speaker 1: so we know that he played fourteen games.
Speaker 2: We know he missed some time.
Speaker 1: I remember the second play of the KC game in
Speaker 1: Germany when he gets rolled up on and was in
Speaker 1: and out of the lineup. If you have Wadle the
Speaker 1: entire game, maybe you win that game. If you win
Speaker 1: that game, you're playing at home against Pittsburgh. Like these
Speaker 1: small things added up for our season to go the
Speaker 1: way it did at the end. Same thing happened in
Speaker 1: the Dallas game. He gets an ipoke early on and
Speaker 1: then gets rolled up and has to leave the game entirely.
Speaker 1: So really, in the aggregate for Guaddle probably played roughly
Speaker 1: twelve games this year, I would say with all the
Speaker 1: time that he missed in those games. So the oblique
Speaker 1: that kept him off the practice field from August ninth,
Speaker 1: and he returned the week of the Chargers game, where
Speaker 1: he was limited all throughout the week of practice that week.
Speaker 1: Then he was limited to start the week against New England,
Speaker 1: but then upgraded to full by thursday's practice. Then he
Speaker 1: got hurt in that game and missed Denver, but then
Speaker 1: he was off the injury report for Buffalo Giants, Panthers, Eagles,
Speaker 1: but then a back injury had him on it for
Speaker 1: for the next game. In those five games, three hundred
Speaker 1: and sixteen yards, three touchdowns, almost all of his touchdown production,
Speaker 1: one third of his season yards total. And in that
Speaker 1: New England game, he was limited in practice all week long,
Speaker 1: and he's back to full participant again. Second player of
Speaker 1: the game gets rolled up on and plays just half
Speaker 1: the snaps. Then he was full go for the Jets,
Speaker 1: then fully back with no designation versus Vegas and Washington,
Speaker 1: and guess what, another healthy run. He fully practices through
Speaker 1: those games, through the Cowboys game, and then the next
Speaker 1: time that he would practice was the one practice.
Speaker 2: We had against the Chiefs ahead of that game.
Speaker 1: So if you have three practices a week, it's not
Speaker 1: always this way with short weeks and you know time off,
Speaker 1: but for the sake of the study, that's fifty one
Speaker 1: in season practices. Wattle was a full participant for thirty
Speaker 1: two of those practices, and that's after missing way more
Speaker 1: than fifty percent of camp. And you can tie the
Speaker 1: production to this weeks where Waddle was healthy and a
Speaker 1: full participant all three days. There was nine of those
Speaker 1: games he had fifty nine for seven to fifty five
Speaker 1: and three. That six and a half catches eighty three
Speaker 1: point nine yards. Let's do the let's pro rate that.
Speaker 1: What is eighty three point nine times seventeen oh weird,
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and twenty six yards. It's what he was
Speaker 1: last year, same exact production, just got hurt this year.
Speaker 1: And then point three touchdowns per game, so six and
Speaker 1: a half eighty four yards. Remember that in the five
Speaker 1: games where he was limited at least once in practices,
Speaker 1: fifteen catches two sixty two and one touchdown. That's three
Speaker 1: catches per game less than half. That's fifty two and
Speaker 1: a half yards per game, almost thirty is thirty yards
Speaker 1: less per game, and then point two touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: I think practice reps in a timing based offense with
Speaker 1: two receivers that the offense runs through is important. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong some more on Waddle here. He's a top
Speaker 1: ten receiver anyway. You cut at the acceleration. Those deep
Speaker 1: balls running through brackets that Tyreek did, he does that too.
Speaker 1: The ballers didn't go there enough. The route against DJ
Speaker 1: Reid for the touchdown against the Jets. I think we
Speaker 1: talked about it on the All twenty two podcast. He's
Speaker 1: hitting the turnpike at full speed, where so many drivers
Speaker 1: crawl onto the ramp at forty five and cause all
Speaker 1: kinds of issues and backup traffic. But his ability to
Speaker 1: break off a full speed cut is so rare. He's
Speaker 1: an angle eraser, a man coverage destroyer. I felt like
Speaker 1: we missed those quick hitters where he takes the slant,
Speaker 1: it hits an explosive, like the first play of the
Speaker 1: year against the Chargers, catches a slant, takes at thirty
Speaker 1: yards and we're off and run an all game long.
Speaker 2: Did we ever have that again?
Speaker 1: It didn't feel like it, aside from the third down
Speaker 1: conversion of the Patriots where he essentially walked him off
Speaker 1: in a game clincher.
Speaker 2: But I digress. That was a coverage bust.
Speaker 1: I think if there's one thing you'd want to see
Speaker 1: from those two guys from Tyreek and Waddle. Seventeen total
Speaker 1: drops was the most by a tandem in the NFL.
Speaker 1: In fact, reequa second, Wattle was like seventh and drops
Speaker 1: from according to PFF. But also like the drops leaders
Speaker 1: are essentially the top target guys like Pooka led the
Speaker 1: league with thirteen, Adams is one behind Reek with nine.
Speaker 1: Evans and Digs tied for fourth, so some of the
Speaker 1: top guys do drop the football. Now the question is
Speaker 1: can Waddle be available? I think he's one of the
Speaker 1: toughest players in the league, but how many times did
Speaker 1: he get hurt this year? It seemed like every other game.
Speaker 1: That's really all we need from him. Just stay out
Speaker 1: there because you're an elite player when you are, and
Speaker 1: that the drop off to the rest of the room
Speaker 1: is well, let's say it's Stark speaking of that, iss
Speaker 1: come back on the other side, finish up the room.
Speaker 1: I also have to debut my new segment all that
Speaker 1: next Draft Time podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation, didn't know that was going to
Speaker 1: be the Tyreek and Waddle segment, but it does turn
Speaker 1: out that way. As we finished up the receiver room
Speaker 1: here with the third highest snap taker on our exit
Speaker 1: interview series here the wide receivers. On this January twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: twenty fourth podcast, twenty fourth edition of the Drive Time
Speaker 1: Podcast Cedric Wilson, who caught twenty two for two ninety
Speaker 1: six and three on thirty eight targets, a fifty eight
Speaker 1: percent catch rate. He averaged thirteen and a half yards
Speaker 1: per catch. He gained fourteen first downs, a forty seven
Speaker 1: point four percent success rate, one point one yards per
Speaker 1: route ran. He caught half of his contested catches five
Speaker 1: of ten, and when Tua targeted him a ninety two
Speaker 1: point two passer rating. I thought there was a clear
Speaker 1: jump in performance from last year to this year with Cedric,
Speaker 1: just in terms of getting lined up correctly.
Speaker 2: He did cost us a critical first.
Speaker 1: Down in the playoff game by aligning wrong, which will
Speaker 1: again send Wes Wilker's head to Planet Neptune.
Speaker 2: He blasts off in an anger.
Speaker 1: But I thought there was more comfort in the system,
Speaker 1: the ability to run multiple positions, which is a non
Speaker 1: negotiable in this offense. If you're gonna operate in this offense,
Speaker 1: the motions, the shifts you better be able to play
Speaker 1: all those spots and know where the hell you're going.
Speaker 1: I thought he did a good job operating in those
Speaker 1: multiple alignments, and he showed strong hands at the catch point.
Speaker 1: But man, it just has to be better. I think
Speaker 1: our eligible, our next eligible is a back in terms
Speaker 1: of who you'd go to, and that's eight Chan, especially
Speaker 1: next year, and then moster A if he's back as well.
Speaker 1: But like the Niners have Samuel as their three, yes,
Speaker 1: Auk passed him this year, and Kittle is the engine
Speaker 1: that drives the offense. And that's beyond Christian McCaffrey, who
Speaker 1: I would say is number one on top of all
Speaker 1: those guys. But those are your top four and it's
Speaker 1: Samuel and Ayuker Kittle. Like your three is either Samuel
Speaker 1: or Kittle or I you like, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those guys. Look at what Khalil shakurgan from
Speaker 1: Buffalo down the stretch. He was the number three option
Speaker 1: all year long. The Ravens went and signed Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: to be that guy because they already had Flowers and Andrews,
Speaker 1: not to mention Bateman, and likely the Bengals had Tyler
Speaker 1: Boyd the last few years to make up their trio
Speaker 1: with Higgins and Chase, Like, I don't think we have
Speaker 1: the room to get someone of that caliber, a top
Speaker 1: of the line slot receiver or interior presence. But it
Speaker 1: just has to be better, like the we talked about
Speaker 1: the on the Quarterback podcast. Hey shut up email, It's
Speaker 1: just gotta be better because like so many times, teams
Speaker 1: would just take away Reeker, Wabble, whoever was out there,
Speaker 1: and then we could not win one on ones inside.
Speaker 1: And I think that between the Kendrick Bourne a Juwan Jennings,
Speaker 1: these big physical guys that can run a little bit,
Speaker 1: not as much for Born as it is for Jennings,
Speaker 1: but also block a lot. You know, Brian Thomas, the
Speaker 1: receerior from LSU in the draft, there's no a tight
Speaker 1: end that could be that guy. Lots of options out there,
Speaker 1: but it has to get better next year. Number zero
Speaker 1: Braxon Barrios twenty seven, two thirty eight and one on
Speaker 1: thirty three targets, eighty two percent catch rate golden retriever
Speaker 1: man catches everything but eight point eight yards per catch,
Speaker 1: fifteen first downs, fifty seven point six percent success rate
Speaker 1: is very good, but point seven to one yards per
Speaker 1: out ram.
Speaker 2: It tells you the limitations.
Speaker 1: Two for four on contested catches, an eighty one point
Speaker 1: eight passer rating when he was targeted, I thought he
Speaker 1: was going to have more run as that interior one
Speaker 1: on one separator, but he just didn't win enough to
Speaker 1: do that. He made some big catches and I thought
Speaker 1: he had a good nose for the sticks, although one
Speaker 1: instance he did not get the first down marker on
Speaker 1: a critical third down against Buffalo. But I also thought
Speaker 1: he was the most trustworthy punt return we've had since
Speaker 1: Juice O Jim McDuffie. I don't know, but I love
Speaker 1: his decision making down there around the goal line. But
Speaker 1: as much as I love the return game, like I said,
Speaker 1: it just has to get better. Eighty five River Craycraft
Speaker 1: nine one, twenty one and one on twelve targets, he
Speaker 1: caught three corps. Of the passes they threw to him,
Speaker 1: eight of those nine catches were for first downs. That's
Speaker 1: a two to third percent success rate, sixty six percent,
Speaker 1: one point sixty six yards per out ram, and he
Speaker 1: had a one to twenty eight point two passer rating.
Speaker 1: Speaking of none on the offense, no one knew it
Speaker 1: better than River did coming back in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: I know it was really tough on him to stuff
Speaker 1: for the injury early on this year, but man like
Speaker 1: he's he's so trustworthy in terms of you know, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be where needs to be, but like a little
Speaker 1: more to the game than that, right, I think that
Speaker 1: Rivers as dependable and as reliable and the type of
Speaker 1: teammate you want, a great presence in the locker room.
Speaker 1: He's very much in that mentor role, a guy that
Speaker 1: can help the younger guys and other players understand the
Speaker 1: offense and how complex it can be in very many ways.
Speaker 1: I think he's an ideal like fifth or sixth.
Speaker 2: Receiver on the roster.
Speaker 1: Like every route he runs, it's quiet hands, it's late,
Speaker 1: subtle movements, and just a crafty technician. I like Rivers game,
Speaker 1: but he's like your fifth receiver, right, It's kind of
Speaker 1: what he was all year long. Robbie chosen for one
Speaker 1: twenty six and one on six targets, thirty one point
Speaker 1: five yards per catch, one point nine to four yards
Speaker 1: per out ran. I mean the numbers pop off tape
Speaker 1: because of that sixty five yard play, and he'll always
Speaker 1: remember that right, what a great play. That was a
Speaker 1: great moment for a hometown guy. I thought he might
Speaker 1: have a chance to be that vertical burner on the interior.
Speaker 1: Didn't work out that way. But the blocking, you know,
Speaker 1: the misalignment. There was a penalty he had against the Jets.
Speaker 1: I think it was just a lot of up and
Speaker 1: down play played there for Robbi chosen number eighty three
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool four for twenty six six point five yards
Speaker 1: per reception, a fifty seven percent catch rate and that's
Speaker 1: like mostly balls behind the lines scrimmage twenty eight point
Speaker 1: six percent success rate, point nine six yards per out
Speaker 1: ran and a twenty five point six passer rating. Can
Speaker 1: you trust the routes he's I mean, he's got an
Speaker 1: abnormal build for the room. He actually could be like
Speaker 1: a future f tight end, like a move piece tight end.
Speaker 1: But that's about all I think about his long term prospects.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna work for receiver for Chase.
Speaker 1: As a receiver number eighteen, Eric Azukama no catches five
Speaker 1: rushes twenty two yards. He had a first down and
Speaker 1: four point four yards per carry. This is where the
Speaker 1: biggest intrigue in the entire room exists for me sans
Speaker 1: Jason Wattle, what Jalen Waddles year four and being healthier.
Speaker 1: I think those run looks with him from the backfield,
Speaker 1: it gives you more expansive options between how you can
Speaker 1: use him, and like a Chris Brooks or a Devon
Speaker 1: a Chan, I think that he's gonna help you be
Speaker 1: a personnel matchup does someone that gives defensive corners nightmares
Speaker 1: for how you can match up against them. He's got
Speaker 1: such fantastic contact balance. He's so smooth with the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands. The entire Texas Tech tape on him
Speaker 1: is him catching screens and bouncing off tacklers for big games.
Speaker 1: And we saw it in the preseason. We all saw
Speaker 1: the receiving skills in the preseason, tracking the football, high
Speaker 1: pointing at making explosive plays in the field. I think
Speaker 1: that his physicality, his hands, his just overall, this guy
Speaker 1: has the goods and I cannot wait to see him
Speaker 1: get another chance. In your number three. We have three
Speaker 1: guys on futures contracts. Anthony Schwartz can run around the
Speaker 1: entire universe in less than ten seconds, Brayln Sanders and
Speaker 1: then Matthew Sexton. So that's the receivers. I just think
Speaker 1: we got to get better there. Man. There's so many
Speaker 1: opportunities for guys to win because of the space that
Speaker 1: ten and seventeen create. We need, whether it's a rookie
Speaker 1: a veteran that you trust. I just think that number
Speaker 1: three spot is a big, big need this offseason. That's
Speaker 1: kind of my takeaway from the room. Let's go ahead,
Speaker 1: I tease it earlier and queue up my last segment here.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna actually do the segment, but i want
Speaker 1: to tell you about some of the guys I have
Speaker 1: coming in the pike here that I'm looking at on tape.
Speaker 2: I have there all twenty two right here. Gonna grind
Speaker 2: that tape here soon. Cue the music. That's rat Okay, girl,
Speaker 2: let's go still watch it? Who is hey? Watch it?
Speaker 1: Wait?
Speaker 2: Still watch it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Who is.
Speaker 2: Watching? That is? Who is Wingfield watching?
Speaker 1: Our college prospects segment here as we get late into
Speaker 1: the month of January, Senior Bowl coming up, Combine coming up,
Speaker 1: and the NFL Draft will beer before you know it.
Speaker 2: So I'm taking a look at some prospects. I'm not
Speaker 2: gonna get.
Speaker 1: Into the tape today because I haven't watched all the
Speaker 1: tape yet, but I have a bunch of offensive linemen
Speaker 1: that I'm very excited to go back and watch. Two
Speaker 1: of those guys I saw lots this year, you dub
Speaker 1: left tackle Troy Fatanu and Oregon State right tackle Talise Fuaga.
Speaker 2: Both of those guys have a real nasty, mean streak.
Speaker 1: In fact, Fuaga is probably my top intriguing prospect at
Speaker 1: this moment, and I think that his ability to play
Speaker 1: tackle is a little bit more intriguing as well, because
Speaker 1: Fatanu might be more of a guard the next level.
Speaker 2: I digress.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about those guys down the line, but
Speaker 1: two interior offensive linemen as well. In Zach Frasier the
Speaker 1: West Virginia Center that everyone is all giddy about here
Speaker 1: reminds me of one of those Senior Bowl guys that
Speaker 1: shows up that week, has played like four thousand snaps
Speaker 1: in his career, just dominates all week, winds up going
Speaker 1: in like the middle of the second round, and then
Speaker 1: you look back and you're like, hey, that guy probably
Speaker 1: should have been a top twenty five.
Speaker 2: Pick because it was so obvious that he was so awesome.
Speaker 1: It reminds me of like, you know, Ali Marpette, Alex Kappa,
Speaker 1: Creed Humphrey for a big school prospect, that's what Zach
Speaker 1: Fraser reminds me of. And then also the organ center
Speaker 1: Jackson Powers Johnson. I cannot wait to watch his tape
Speaker 1: because I've heard really good things. I saw him play
Speaker 1: live on broadcast.
Speaker 2: I think that he might be like the.
Speaker 1: Best prospect imaginable for this offense. But we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that. But that's my time here on this edition
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