WEBVTT - Drive Time: 2023 Wide Receivers Review 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:00.240 Do. 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:06.480 I removed and deep speedways peas do. From the Baptist 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:11.120 Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:19.440 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's my hands in the playoffs. 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:30.320 What is up, Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:33.120 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.600 part two of our exit interview series, our year end 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.559 review takes us to my man OJ McDuffie's room, his residence, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.199 the wide Outs. We'll break down the room, tell you 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.519 about the numbers and the skills of each guy, what 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:47.400 to look forward to. And on top of that, I 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:50.080 did a little bit of injury data research because I 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.919 got asked about it on Twitter. All of that and 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.600 more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:55.400 Training Complex. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:58.120 This is the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.680 Hey Daffy, I don't want to start this podcast today 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.840 with an injury research I was telling you guys about. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.920 But I'm gonna do a new segment on the show 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.040 here going forward, taking a look at college prospects as 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.200 we get closer and closer to the NFL Draft. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.640 And I made a song. I created a. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:22.240 Song, and I'm very very very excited about it. We'll 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:23.760 do that at the end of the podcast. Here, let's 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.000 go ahead and start though, because someone on Twitter asked 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:30.679 me about my tweet that they're looking for comparative numbers 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.480 regarding the Dolphins injury situation that I tweeted about and 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.840 how few players played X amount of snaps for Miami 0:01:37.920 --> 0:01:40.640 this season, and I thought to myself, I'm doing all 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.200 that for Twitter. Also got rid of Twitter blue for 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.840 the football or for the off season, because I don't 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.280 want to tweet enough to make money and I'm never 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:49.880 gonna be an aggregator, never gonna do it. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:52.640 Do you guys make a lot of money doing that. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:54.600 It's not worth it to me. I don't Knowles's it's 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:55.800 a lot of money, but maybe maybe it is. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.160 But I got rid of Twitter blue for the off season, 0:01:59.320 --> 0:02:01.480 and I probably wouldn't do it if I had Twitter Blue. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:02.800 But without Twitter Blue. 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.240 I'm definitely not putting all that stuff on Twitter. So 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.080 I'm doing on the podcast because I do get paid 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.480 for this. So I tweeted about some Miami numbers about 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:14.760 their injuries they occurred accrued this season, and we could 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.600 just blanket this and move on from it. But the 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.160 truth is that nobody lost more wins above replacement this 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.880 year than you are Miami Dolphins when you remove the 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.480 quarterback out of the equation. But I put it together 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.480 some thresholds on teams in the AFC and who had 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.360 what amount of players play certain percentages of their snaps 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.600 on the offensive side of the football, And so I 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:40.679 broke it down like this to thresholds of players on 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.680 the team's offense within the AFC, getting very specific here, 0:02:44.760 --> 0:02:46.720 right what's you're biting average at night time when the 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.200 moon is in sagittarius against a left handed pitcher, players 0:02:50.320 --> 0:02:54.320 exceeding eighty five percent snaps, seventy five percent snaps and 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.679 then fifty five percent of the snaps on offense. And 0:02:56.800 --> 0:03:00.440 from Miami they had two guys exceed eighty five of 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.040 their offensive workload. That was to a tongue by Loa 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.880 and Austin Jackson. And we're gonna pause right there, because 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.239 that in itself is instructive because you came into the 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.640 year thinking, I don't know how many games I can 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:14.679 get from Austin Jackson. He missed a handful of games 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.440 his rookie year, he missed an entire season his third year, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.919 and a second season, he got moved positions because his 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.320 performance wasn't good enough. Who the heck knows what kind 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:25.120 of durability he has to a tongue of I Low's durability. 0:03:25.440 --> 0:03:28.800 Everybody in the you know, in speaking of Twitter blue 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.360 is the same thing as the morning talk shows. All 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.000 those guys getting their engagement takes off wanted to to 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.880 retire from the game of football because of injuries. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:38.720 He played the entire year. 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.400 He didn't miss a snap except for when he got 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:43.680 pulled because of dominance. But those are the two guys 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.200 that exceeded eighty five percent of the snap So now 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.880 I was thinking about this because Buffalo had their entire 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.080 starting offensive line played the entire year, Like, what the 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.600 hell kind of luck is that, dude. But Miami also 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.640 only had two players exceed seventy five percent because Durham 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.080 Smyth and Liam Eichenberg both were between seven and seventy 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:05.080 five percent. That's telling you how many reps the Dolphins 0:04:05.160 --> 0:04:07.480 missed from key players on offense and Durham Smith and 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.360 Leam Mikenberg. You know, I thought Durham had his best 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:12.760 year of his career. He's still a blocking tight end 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.560 right A y tight end. It's not the most important 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.840 position on the field, and leam Miikenberg came into the 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:21.239 year is like o line. Eight guys that played fifty 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.480 five percent of the snaps are more just five now 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.559 Tyreek Hill is the fifth on that list, So pretty 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:30.240 good there, And that's the gist of it. I just 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:32.000 wanted to go around the NFL or on the AC 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:34.720 I should say, and talk about teams and what they had, 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.680 because this is pretty jarring. Compare it next to Miami. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.280 Like Buffalo six players over eighty five percent of the snaps. 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.240 Eight players played a three quarters, so they have four 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.880 more than Miami and six more than Miami in those 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.840 critical spots. No wonder they hit their stride late in 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.640 the season and Miami kind of fell off of theirs. Now, 0:04:52.720 --> 0:04:55.000 the fifty five percent snap threshold I came to find 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.000 out at the end of this research project was not 0:04:57.200 --> 0:04:59.440 very telling, even though it was from Miami, because most 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.680 teams had like eight or nine. But you wouldn't have 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.760 more than that because offensive linemen five of those guys 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.480 A quarterback running backs usually work half the workload and 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.920 then beside your top one or two receivers, you get 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.720 guys that have varied workloads as well, so that number 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:15.720 at eight or nine was pretty common across the league. 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:18.400 But even the Jets right who had. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:23.640 I would say before Miami's injury woes really kicked into 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.280 high gear in the second half of the season, the 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.720 Jets were the most injured team in the AFC them 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:30.560 in the Cleveland Browns. And even still, the Jets had 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:33.280 one more player than Miami exceed eighty five percent of 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.839 the snaps they had three of them. They had double 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.800 the players play three quarters of the snaps, four to 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.440 R two, and they had eight players play fifty five 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.760 percent or more to our five Jets. All year long 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:46.560 you heard about injuries. Miami was more injured than the 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.960 Jets were, except for the quarterback position, which I digress 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.800 because that's a big deal. I'll give you that the 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.400 Patriots that theirs was like ours. They had one player 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.560 go over eighty five percent. That's because they were terrible. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.520 They're the worst offensive personnel in the entire National Football League. 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:01.960 The Browns, who again offensive line was beat to crap 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.400 by the end of the year. They had to go 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.960 through multiple different quarterbacks, So no quarterbacks on this list. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.200 But even with all that players that played eighty five 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.480 percent of the snaps we had two, they had two 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.240 seventy five percent of the snaps we had, two had five. 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.040 The Browns were so banged up on offense this year, 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:20.240 and we yet somehow were more banged up. The Steelers 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:23.800 five and five to R two and two. The Bengals, 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:25.960 they were hurt all year. Wrong long, right, I mean 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.200 Joe Burrow the quarterback, big deal. But five and eight 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.679 compared to R two and two for eighty five percent 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:33.920 and seventy five percent. The Ravens four and five, and 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.120 they were a team that last couple of years didn't have. 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.080 They had similar numbers of the Miami Dolphins and their 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.000 injury numbers the last two years. They finally get healthy 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.200 and look at them. They're the best team in the 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.280 NFL in my opinion. The Colts six and seven players 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.200 to R two and two, right, and ten players who 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.480 exceeded fifty five percent of the snaps. That's double we 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:52.520 had this year. The Titans just like US, two players 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:55.960 over eighty five percent, but five players over seventy five percent. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:58.440 That's more than double. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.159 And eleven players exceed fifty five percent of the snaps, 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.039 but none of those players were quarterbacks because they couldn't 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:05.000 hid too. The quarterback is gonna be this year because 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.000 their best quarterback was the backup quarterback. And then they 0:07:07.040 --> 0:07:10.200 put the rookie in and I digress again at digressing here. 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.520 The Texans two and four, so similar to us. The 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.880 Jags five and seven. That offense was completely broken by 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:20.080 the end of the year, but they had seven guys 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:22.080 on the offense play three quarters of the snaps. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.640 If we got that, are you kidding me? The Chiefs 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.040 five and five, That five number is very good. 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.120 If you get five year players playing eighty five percent 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.840 of your snaps for more, you're in a good spot 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.160 right there. The Raiders six and six, the Broncos six 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:36.960 and seven, the Chargers right. Chargers fans, all they talk 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:40.000 about is how everything in the world always works against 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.000 Justin Herbert. He can't possibly overcome these dire circumstances that 0:07:44.000 --> 0:07:49.800 he faces every single year. We had two players play 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:51.320 eighty five percent of the snaps on offense. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.520 They had four. We had two players play seventy five 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:56.040 percent of the snaps on offense. They had five. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.400 We had five players play fifty five percent of the 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.400 snaps offense. They had ten crimea river Man. So the 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:08.520 two players exceeding eighty five percent of the snaps that 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.560 we had was tied for the lowest with Houston, Cleveland 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:15.320 and Tennessee the two players exceeding seventy five percent of 0:08:15.360 --> 0:08:18.160 the snaps. Nobody else had that low. In fact, only 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.400 one other team had three players. Only two other teams 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:26.239 had four players, So that's three four So three quarters 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.760 of the conference had more than double the amount of 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.920 players we had played seventy five percent of the snaps. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.680 Is that a confusing sentence? Let me slow it down. 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:36.800 We had. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.400 Three quarters of the AFC, so take out the entire 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:46.040 AFC East. The rest of the AFC had more than 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.880 double the amount of players on offense exceed seventy five 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.600 percent of their workload. That's how injured the Mounty Dolphins 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:59.520 were this year. Twelve teams had at least five players 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:04.079 exceed many work snap counts snaps and the average on 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.920 balance was five point three. So we had less than 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:10.680 half the conference average for our offensive players playing three 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:12.959 quarters of the snaps this season. I know it's a 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:16.079 lot to digest in a podcast vehicle here, but does 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:16.760 that track for you? 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:17.080 Guys? 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.439 Pretty banged up man, the nine players exceeding fifty five percent, 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:23.920 This number actually seems irrelevant, like I talked about, because 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.280 now that I did the entire conference, pretty much everybody 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.760 is in that same number. But yeah, man, not ideal. 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.840 Having our quarterback and a tackle for nearly every snap 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.800 is awesome. But the third highest was a guy who 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.920 wasn't even a top swing interior offensive lineman literally O 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.760 line seven, maybe eight, And number four was a blocking 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.240 specialist tight end number five the best receiver in the NFL. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:44.680 That's cool. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.560 But then number six was O line eight, Lester Cotton. 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:51.000 So maybe there's even more to that research project, and 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.240 I think it's worth digging into. But I also think 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:54.719 the point has already been made, and that is this 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:57.280 from your or four year snap counts to go like 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.920 this quarterback right tackle ninety percent plus. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:00.400 That's cool. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.480 Number three, O line seven, number four, you're eligible five 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.280 at best best? Right, would Cedric and Braxon be ahead 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:10.199 of Durham on the eligible list? I would, I tend 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.200 to think so, not blocking but catching the football. Number 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.160 five is receiver one, number six O line eight, number seven, 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.880 O line six. Kendall Lamb was the seventh highest snap 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.120 taker that is far less than ideal. Like our best 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.920 players on offense, I would say, are Tyreek than Wattle? 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:27.880 Then I'd say Tua, Then maybe rob Let's just rank it. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:31.160 I'm going Tyreek Wattle to my top three players on offense, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.600 and then I think Robert Hunt, and then Devon eight Chan, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.079 then Connor Williams Moster, Jackson, ingold, Tea Stead headed down 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.040 year this year, Win, and Smythe. That's my top twelve. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.400 How did they rank in snap counts? So Tyreek is first, right, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:48.800 fifth most, Wattle eighth most, Tua first most, most most, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.559 Hunt tenth most. So your top four players are five, eight, 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.080 one to ten. How about your top five players? Eight 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:58.599 Chan was nineteenth, Connor Williams, your sixth best line or 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.640 offensive player was thirteenth, Moster, it was ninth, Jackson second, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:10.480 finally Ingle, fifteenth, Teesta, twelfth, Win, sixteenth, Smythe fourth, like third, sixth, seventh, eleventh, 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.720 all not within our top twelve players. 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:14.719 And I'd add fourteen and fifteen to that too. Not 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:15.280 good man. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.920 Okay, let's go ahead and take our first break rate there. 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.920 Injuries have been proven a problem for the Dolphins this year. 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:23.280 Right on this podcast, we just proved it didn't know before, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:24.920 but now we know for sure it's a problem. Let's 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:26.520 go ahead and take a break rate there. Come back 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.240 on the other side and break down this Dolphins wide 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.640 receiver room. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:41.120 brought to you by Auto Nation. Quarterbacks on Monday, Receivers 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.000 on Wednesday. I think I'm gonna do. I think I'm 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.880 gonna do offensive lineman on Friday. We'll find out might 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:47.680 be less. That's a big position group to get into, 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:48.880 and Friday is usually a lighter show. 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:49.840 Let's go ahead and. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:53.959 Do receivers here real quick though, because the room in general, 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.720 I think I have an issue with it. The usage 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.280 of ten and seventeen, no issue there, But if you're 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:06.280 going to operate that idea in terms of how those 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:10.480 guys come off the field more than I think most 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.480 top two receivers across the National Football League, I think 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.160 you have to be better the rest of the room 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.199 beyond that, receivers three through six. I like the blocking 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:20.120 and the will of all these guys. I think they're 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:22.439 wired the right way. I think they have the right mindset. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:26.679 But we're so small out there and that shows up. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.080 But also, our inability to win one on one matchups 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:32.439 elsewhere was an issue. I think it was fine in 0:12:32.520 --> 0:12:36.040 twenty twenty two because Reek and Waddle were healthy all year, 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:39.160 but with Wattle's injuries accumulating to the point of just 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.240 not being that effective for a lot of the season 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:43.000 and Tyreek's ankle injury. 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.079 I mean, those guys are the driving force of the 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:45.800 entire offense. 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:49.319 It's built around their ability to run fast, to run 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:53.319 a lot of steps. I think they're step counter probably 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.800 is at thirty thousand every game day, and they have 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.559 to do that at top speed, right, And I get 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.120 you need to keep them fresh, And I think you 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:02.720 lost a key piece to the entire equation in Eric Azukama. 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:05.880 But I think that just speaks to how you need better, 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.760 cheaper investments in that position. Because Cedric Wilson for the 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.760 first two years it didn't. It didn't work out, right. 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.960 I get that he was signed with a contract commesurate 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:16.599 to not knowing that we're gonna have Tyreek Hill on 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.480 the football team before he you know, before Tyree got here. 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:23.080 But even still the last two years production wise, it didn't. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:26.080 It's was nowhere close to worth the value you paid 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.920 for him, Braxon Barrios got paid quite a lot. 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.079 Didn't really work out in the receiving game. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.760 Ether River Craikraft, I think you got exactly what you 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.760 paid for Sherfield last year. Didn't kind of kind of right, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.720 but that wasn't the idea. You expected Cedric or Azukama 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.240 or someone to beat him out and it just didn't happen. 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:44.000 But you look around the league, like Rashi Rice happened 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:47.559 this year. Puka Nakua is not a realistic measure, but 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:49.679 he did happen this year. If we could hit on 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:51.840 a rookie who can be that number three when they're 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.480 healthy and even more importantly, just be a competent too 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.880 when we don't have one of those two guys, that 0:13:58.000 --> 0:14:01.160 could be to me, a major, major game changer, major 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:03.959 changer this year for the Miami Dolphins. I mean, on 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.960 top of Rice and Nakua, Tank Dell, if we had 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:08.560 Rashid Rashid Shahed this. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:09.880 Year, Are you kidding me? 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.000 There are rookies among the top producers every single year 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.120 wherever you want, Olave and Wilson Watson and Dubbs Jaden 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:17.920 Reid for the Packags this year for that matter, I 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:19.640 think you get it by now, But all I'm saying 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:23.280 is we need that. But also my point is that 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.560 there's a point to be made about investing into the 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:30.200 position and maybe even with your most valuable resource this offseason, 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.640 that twenty first pick. If the best player is a 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.640 receiver who can get vertical and stem and stack on 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.640 any of the options of a three way, go inside, 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:41.880 turn the card in, let's go score thirty five points 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:42.160 a game. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:42.960 Again, that was fun. 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.760 Wasn't it hard to beat you when you score that 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:47.080 many points? And look, I hate to say it, but 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.560 you know you're gonna need that big money savings at 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.240 that position at some point because it'll be like case 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.040 where clearing Tyreek's money off the books, you have to 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.080 do it before you pay Waddle, and you're gonna have 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.360 to find a new balance at that receiver bus and 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.640 then you have a new Waddle on that rookie deal. 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.160 So you kind of have to keep that cyclical. 0:15:04.520 --> 0:15:06.600 And I know we need to buildup the offensive line, 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.800 but the fact is this skill group is still the 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.440 most important aspect of the entire football team. See, you 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.120 better keep that pipeline full because right now, what does 0:15:14.160 --> 0:15:16.120 the future look like beyond those two guys, it's literally 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:21.480 Eric Azukama and like Braylen Sanders, who last year had 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:23.800 two ops, I recall one was a fumble, one was 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.120 a really poorly ran route that should have been a 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:26.840 long touchdown. 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:29.840 I'm just saying, so that's kind of the room at 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:30.160 the glances. 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.680 Let's go ahead and go player by a player here 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.320 once again, going to go in order of who had 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:36.280 the most snaps this season. Number ten, Tyreek Hill, who 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.480 had the second most catches, first most yards, and them 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:43.480 tied for the most touchdowns one nineteen, seventeen, ninety nine, 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:46.880 and thirteen in those categories, and among the eighty target 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.000 threshold receivers, he was sixth in yards per target at 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:50.760 ten point five. 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.120 He had the most first downs with eighty three. 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.120 He also had a fifty seven point nine percent success rate, 0:15:56.120 --> 0:15:58.040 which was seventeenth in the NFL. But if you look 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.600 at the fact that he averaged fifteen point seven yards 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.560 per catch at that volume, the highest target total of 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.800 guys that were ahead of him in yards per reception 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:08.040 was one thirty six. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:09.200 He was one seventy one. 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.200 He was third targets had more than five hundred yards 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.560 more than DeVante Adams, who had four more targets than 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.880 he did. He had nearly seven hundred more yards than 0:16:16.920 --> 0:16:19.440 Garrett Wilson, who had three fewer targets. I mean, we 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:21.240 could go down the list, but this is the best 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:22.720 receiver in the National Football League. 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:23.640 Some more numbies. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.720 He broke the record for yards per route run and 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.520 advanced metric, established back in two thousand and three. I 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.400 don't believe they go back further than that because Jerry 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.360 Rice might have something to say about that, but I 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.640 don't think he would because Rice never left the field 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.600 and they had lots of mouse to feed that offense. Right, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.080 But this just speaks to the sheer efficiency that Tyreek exhibits. 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.120 Like he catches the ball and he makes explosive plays. 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:47.040 He only played sixty three percent of the snaps and 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:49.240 garnered those one hundred and seventy one targets. And if 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.240 you look at the other guys with that target share, 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.760 Lamb played eighty five percent, Adams played ninety two percent, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.040 Saint Brown played eighty five percent. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:57.600 You get it. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:01.680 Tyreek's usage is way less than all the other number 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:05.400 one receivers in the NFL. The YPPR was three point 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:08.040 seven to two. Randy Moss back in seven was two 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.280 point twenty six. It's almost a yard and a half 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.520 more Calvin Johnson when he had nineteen hundred and sixty 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.480 four yards back in twenty twelve two point five to five. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.680 Dude Reek was fifth in total yak. He had six 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.080 hundred and eighty nine yards after the catch. He also 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.680 had twenty eight forced miss tackles, that was most among receivers. 0:17:26.760 --> 0:17:28.840 Deebo was second with twenty five. He had a one 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.520 twenty point two passer rating when he was targeted that 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.520 was fourth among receivers with eighty targets. The thing about 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.240 Tyreek the numbers displayed the results for sure, but man, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.760 it's the detail in his game that really sets him apart. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.919 I know everyone sees the speed, the explosives, the celebrations, 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.439 all that fun stuff, right, but it's his fine detail 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.160 in the route running that really gets those big openings. 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.080 I logged two plays this year against the Raiders. We're 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.000 gonna do a YouTube breakdown. You guys saw the we did. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.760 Who did we do alec Ingold? We did two earlier 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.240 in the year. We did Jalen Ramsey and we did 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.359 Bradley Chubb. Tyreek was gonna be one of those, but 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.600 he got injured so we didn't do it. But I 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.760 had a couple of plays logged, and he runs the 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:10.080 exact same route. It's a twenty five yard comeback to 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.000 the perimeter from the boundary the short side of the field, 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.879 and both route is the are the exact same, but 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:19.560 they're completely different. He alters the release, the stem, the pacing. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.119 It all looks identical, but he shows how he can 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.040 attack whichever release you give him and still sell you 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.080 on the opposite of what he's going to do. 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.240 He tends to complete his routes with the attention to detail. 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.600 That helps expand the defense, and that's the entire goal 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.320 of your offense, right expand their coverage, expand that space, 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.120 and exploit that space. And he does that by taking 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.640 the extra step, by taking the extra head nod, by 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.560 finishing his route completely opposed to just saying, oh there's 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:45.560