WEBVTT - Drive Time: 2023 Offensive Line Review and Senior Bowl Notes 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:05.960 To on remove going deep Speedways, Peace Doll peasd From 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:10.400 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:14.720 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:21.520 He's gone my hands in the playoffs? 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:25.720 What is up? 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:29.760 Dolph fans and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.400 am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.159 are at the halfway point of the twenty twenty three 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.360 exit interviews series and we arrive at the largest one 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.760 both in stature and in quantity. We'll assess the offensive 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.120 line play in twenty twenty three, an initial primer heading 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:50.400 in twenty twenty four, and we'll talk about day one 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.720 of Senior Bowl practices where two of my favorite players 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:54.680 on the field were. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.920 You just guessed it on the offensive line From. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.400 The Baptist Health Studios inside the back Just Health Training Complex. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:05.960 This is the Drive Time Podcast. Maggie G. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.240 Thank you very much, Caroline, as we jump into the 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.920 offensive line review for twenty twenty three. First, real quick, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:16.680 just want to go ahead and let you guys know 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.880 I am tracking all these defensive coordinator interviews that are 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:24.319 being reported to have occurred down here in Miami Gardens 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.759 or elsewhere we'll go ahead and get you a more 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.319 comprehensive look at that as we go along. I don't 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.240 want to just tell you about the names that have 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:33.840 come across, which there are plenty. I believe five of 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:36.800 the seven names that have been reportedly attached to the 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.240 Miami Dolphins have worked in the past with head coach 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:43.399 Mike McDaniel. But in the past, like Lockdown Dolphins, you know, 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:45.440 my whole thing was to be the best and to 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.840 be first with everything, and sometimes that's not always possible, 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:52.240 especially in this position that I currently hold with the team, 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.600 and I just like to be completely transparent with you guys. 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.240 It's always available to me to talk about reported names, 0:01:58.240 --> 0:01:59.480 So I just want to let you guys know that 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.360 the work be done and you'll get a comprehensive look 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.560 back once we find out who that guy is, and 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:05.960 probably ahead of that as well as we kind of 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:08.639 assess some of the finalists. I think as we get 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.400 closer to naming a new defensive coordinator in place of 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:14.000 Krusty Vick, so let's go ahead and take a look 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.320 at this Dolphins offensive line and review this position group 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.400 and do a whole podcast out of this and talk 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.000 about the Senior Bowl practice today because quite frankly, I 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.720 think this offensive line class is going to a produce 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.600 a surefire starter at pick twenty one on your team, 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.000 which I think this team could definitely use that. And 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.440 be even more important is that I think that this 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.959 class will provide not just depth deep into the draft, 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.840 but man, I think there's not just like a surefire 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.720 starter potential, like multiple time Pro Bowl Hall of Fame 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:50.920 type of talent within this class. I'll tell you right now, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.400 the two guys I'm going to talk about the most 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:57.079 are Talise Fuaga from Oregon State at the tackle and 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.000 Jackson Powers Johnson, the center from Oregon, who I think 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.880 think are both Pro bowlers as rookies. I think one's 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.480 going to be a top ten pick. I think the 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.160 other one might be a top twenty pick. Hopefully he 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.000 makes to pick twenty one. We'll get to all that 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:09.920 here in a second, but first let's go ahead and 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:13.680 review Dolphins offensive line from last year. We go in 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:15.440 order of who took the most snaps, right, and that 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.400 was Austin Jackson. This year, he had six hundred and 0:03:18.400 --> 0:03:21.280 thirty nine pass block snaps and twenty six pressures allowed. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.720 That was a pbe pass block efficiency of ninety seven 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.960 point five, and in hindsight, I'm not sure there was 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:34.119 a more needed development than Austin Jackson realizing his potential 0:03:34.160 --> 0:03:36.240 this season, aside from two a tongue by Lowa and 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.880 the growth that he took this year. Leap he took 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:40.680 this year, I should say, in the growth he's shown. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:42.880 Let's not make this to a podcast, but you get 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.320 what I'm saying. You think about the current makeup of 0:03:45.360 --> 0:03:48.720 the offensive line, plenty of questions mark right with there 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.000 are some built in solutions that you could say, well, 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:52.640 they have these question marks, but this is what they 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:54.800 could do. And that's true, but there are just a 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.720 lot of things that we don't know right now that 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.360 will have to be kind of uncovered over the next 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.840 couple of months. We go here and rebuild this roster 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:05.000 for twenty twenty four and for Austin to go from 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.880 relatively unknown off of a very tough twenty twenty one 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.360 campaign where he bounced around and play well, and then 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.560 a twenty twenty two season that saw him take fewer 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:16.200 than sixty snaps with essentially a season ending injury, and 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.960 then he came back from that and reaggravated it and 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.280 ended the season totally and played less than sixty snaps. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.000 Stuff like this is why nobody is ever good at 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.960 predicting what happens in the NFL. This happens in every 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:31.880 position room on every team across the entire league. You 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.720 think you know, but you really have no idea. Now 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.920 that's my diatribe. How about a credit to the work 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:43.039 Austin put in so in our cafeteria here at Miami Gardens, 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.799 at the Baptist Hill Training Complex, we have these massive 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:48.680 bay windows. Like most practice facilities do, I think the 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.440 modern ones at least they look out over the practice field. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.000 I think back to the Davy facility and Ryan Tannehill 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.400 staring out over the practice field after tearing his ACL 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.120 in training camp twenty seventeen like his dog just died, 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.719 because really it did, and our season just died that day. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:06.120 All off season when AJ wasn't working during OTAs or 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.280 even on days we were not on the practice field, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:10.560 what would you see when you would go down there 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.600 for your chicken thighs on a bow bun or hibachi 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.760 Mongolian steak from the Great Aunt Anthony behind the grill? 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:19.279 What would you see you would see Austin with a 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:22.000 couple of trainers working on the practice field, with his 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.760 teammates in the cafeteria. This dude put in the time, 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:26.880 and then when you hear him talk at a press conference, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.839 you can just see it right, not just the physical statue, which, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.200 by the way, he looked so much better this year 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:34.760 than he ever has, just toned up, still large, but 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:36.640 like six pack. He kind of reminded me of Jake 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.200 Long when he came in to the league at three 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.800 hundred and thirty pounds and had abs like what he 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:42.760 looked just built in a lab. But the way that 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:46.599 he processes things and can communicate football intricacies. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.440 I wonder if he'll want to coach in. 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.480 His post playing career because he kind of communicates like 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.760 a coach does. It's the reason why I voted for 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.599 him as one of my top three guys in the 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.400 good Guy ballot just for your awareness. I went Jalen Phillips, 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.240 I went alec Ingold, and when Austin Jackson or he 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.600 most it was my fourth pick and he actually won 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:04.160 the damn thing. 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:05.239 But those guys were my tops. 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.520 I thought Austin Jackson, the way he dealt with the 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.000 media after the things that they all said about him 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:10.880 was really impressive. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:11.640 I digress. 0:06:12.000 --> 0:06:15.599 So you have the body, the physical skills, the mental aptitude, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.800 how about the tape. To me, what Austin did this 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:22.799 year was get all of the mechanics operating with an orchestra. 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:26.000 The punch matched, the correct foot drive, the hips popped 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:28.640 at the right time. I think that's a credit to 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.839 butcher Berry. I think it's a credit to Austin for 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.960 drilling it like this stuff doesn't become overnight. Second Nature's 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.480 like a golf swing, right. Repetition's the only way you're 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:40.159 gonna be able to step up to a two hundred 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:44.160 yard approach shot with sand and water as potential hazards 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:46.480 off either side, with the confidence that you're gonna put 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.560 that thing within ten feet on the putting surface every 0:06:48.600 --> 0:06:50.880 single time. I think the thing that stood out with 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.520 Austin for me was how he recovered when he would 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.479 lose reps Initially. Like in the past, a bad rep 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.400 could sort of unravel and ultimately lead to big hits 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:01.760 on your quarter back and broken plays. But if he 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:05.360 lost the initial leverage battle, if his base was too 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.560 wide and he got displaced, he would recover, he would 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:11.000 get back to those mechanics and compete to at least 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.840 a draw so that he could keep his quarterback afloat right. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:16.520 Sometimes that's all it takes. 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:18.560 You're not going to win every single rep against someone 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:21.240 like Max Crosby for thirty straight pass rush naps. You're 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.400 not going to just wall him off every time. Sometimes 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:25.760 you have to find a way to protect your quarterback. 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.000 And I thought Austin did that all year long, and 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.200 so as one of the let's call it what it is, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:33.600 premiere pass protecting tackles in the National Football League this year, 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:36.960 he harnessed something we had already seen on tape, and 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.520 that was his mauling presence in the running game. It's 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.400 funny because he's so soft spoken when you get to 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.960 know him and just kind of chill, but he's, for 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.320 lack of a better term, he's an asshole on the 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.040 football field. He finishes through the echo of the whistle. 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.080 He'll just beat you up and then celebrate after he 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:52.440 does it. 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.200 I love it. You need players like that. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.320 I think where he can go even another step this 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.560 year is just the traditional pass set victories. It was 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:04.480 very good, but maybe we can become even better and 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:06.880 you know, become one of the top couple of right 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.600 tackles in the NFL, because if we can get to 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.720 third and nine and just shut guys down to a 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.120 standstill and give two up three four seconds to throw 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.720 the football, we're gonna destroy teams. And he's already close. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.920 So I'm glad we got his deal done. And I'm 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.120 a huge fan of this player and of this man, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:22.120 and of the contract. We gave him twelve million a 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:23.760 year for a guy that probably, if he plays like 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.880 that again next year, would get twenty five or twenty 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.080 five twenty million on the open market. Like that could 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:31.560 potentially be a massive, massive boom for the Dolphins team. 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.559 And to contextualize his season, I mentioned to Crosby, right, 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.680 did you know that Max had one cleanup sack in 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.800 that week eleven game against US didn't go against Austin Jackson, 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:42.720 But it was a sack. It was a scramble play 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.120 where two got like he got him like a yard 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.760 behind the line after a scramble, so it wasn't even 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.960 a big play. They didn't charge the sack to Austin 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.000 and in fact, he was hit with just one pressure 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.360 in the game on forty two pass blocking snaps in 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.240 that game twenty five against Max Crosby. 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:57.520 That's elite work there. 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.760 He also had one or zero pressures allowed games against 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:06.559 Buffalo and Gregory Russa, the Giants Caveon Thibodeaux, Carolina, Brian Burns, Philadelphia, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.960 Hassan Reddick, the Jets with Bryce Huff and Jermaine Johnson 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.840 and John Franklin Myers, the Jets again, and then Buffalo again. 0:09:13.080 --> 0:09:15.640 He allowed two or fewer pressures in all but three 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:18.120 games this year. The opener against the Chargers, which I 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.640 thought that was scored kind of weird. Baltimore he allowed 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.120 four in that game. We all got beat up in 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:22.520 that game. 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.760 And Casey in the playoffs he allowed five. We all 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:25.680 sucked in that game too. 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:29.319 Fifty five offensive tackles allowed more pressures than Austin Jackson 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.120 this year. He played all of the games but won right. So, 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.959 out of the sixty four designated starting spots for tackles, 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:38.320 you think all those guys play every game. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:38.440 No. 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.400 In fact, the ninety seven point five PBE was twelfth 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.480 among offensive tackles who played at least three hundred pass 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.200 blocking snaps, and like the names ahead of him, this 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.640 is left tackle and right tackle by the way to 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.880 Ron Armstead, Pine Sewel, Trent Williams, Tristan Wurfs, Tyron Smith, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.800 Braden Smith, Caleb Gary, Colt Miller, Laramie Tunzel. These are 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.760 the best tackle with the NFL guys. That's where he 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.760 is right now. Number seven Liam Mikenberger's is not there? 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.400 Five hundred and twenty six pass blocking snaps, twenty four pressures, 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:08.360 a ninety seven point one pass block efficiency. Let's go 0:10:08.400 --> 0:10:10.400 ahead and just rip this band aid off right off 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:10.760 the top. 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:11.800 I don't want to. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.560 See seventy four at center anymore. Fair Like, look, commendables, 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:18.760 hell the job he did there. As much as I've 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:20.840 supported the roster building, I mean, I mean, how can 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:22.760 you not. I know we lost in the playoffs again, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.120 but this roster, this last couple of years has been 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:26.839 one of the best in the National Football League. I 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:29.319 think the biggest air this year was the negligence at 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:31.600 backup center. And you don't have to have an all 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:33.679 pro there. In fact, there's like ten good centers on 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.080 the planet, but to not have anyone on the roster 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.400 seemed a little bit ill faded. 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:39.720 And look, Dan Feeney didn't like go on to be 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:42.480 a Pro Bowl or somewhere. Didn't even play in this year. 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.320 Wherever he it was the Bears, right, But that was 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:47.480 just a strange move to ship him off on the 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:49.880 eve of the season because all year we saw what 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.360 happened when we lost Connor. Even if I think Connor 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.280 inherently gives you a little bit of a miss on 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:56.360 something you need inside that was uncovered this year. 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:57.559 More on that moment. 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.080 But Liam was constantly out of play, off balance, just 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:04.120 getting railroaded or on the ground. You can't win football 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.120 games that way. I do think you have to commend 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.040 him for his toughness, because this was a guy that 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.559 was limping around after games and gutting it through practices 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.520 to give us, you know, sixty plus snaps every single game. 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.200 He didn't miss like he was out there for us. 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.640 He was just very tough that way, and I'm sure 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.160 it limited his range of mobility, but man, when he 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.120 needed him out there instead of a guy that was 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.480 a late season off the street for agent who hadn't 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.840 played a snap in the NFL in years, Liam was 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:29.600 there for us, and I thought where he was best 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.160 was it the guard position. When Isaiah Winn got hurt, 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:36.040 and Connor returned for the Chiefs game back in November 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.040 and he kicked out to left guard, and now, of 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.040 course he had to slide back into the right guard 0:11:40.120 --> 0:11:42.040 role when we lost Probert Hunt that same week for 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:44.120 a few weeks. Then he went right guard, right guard, 0:11:44.200 --> 0:11:47.000 left guard for Vegas Jets in Washington, that's where I 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:49.160 thought he was playing his best football, and it kind 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.160 of coincided with mid season last year when he got hurt, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:53.880 playing his best ball in that same position at left guard. 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.120 And man, when I think about the lead that Austin 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:58.280 took last year for a guy who came out one 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:02.160 year later, albeit probably more polished product than what Austin 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:04.439 Jackson was with a ton more snaps in full four 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.440 years another dame, I don't think it's crazy to think 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:10.480 that it's possible that Liam can take all those lessons, 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.640 a full off season of training, the various spots played 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.120 and get even better next year, because during that stretch 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:21.600 I thought he was starting guard quality, backup center quality 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.599 at best. And if you can get that plus a 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.520 little bit more for a guy that's on the fourth 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.679 year of that rookie deal, like if you get Liam Eickenbergers. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.680 You're starting left guard, and it's not like, oh no, 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.400 it's Liam, It's like, oh Liam's there. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.520 Good. If you get that on his contract for this year, 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:39.319 it would be a massive, massive win for the way 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.000 that Dolphins want to build the roster this year. 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.320 Do you bank on it? 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.800 I wouldn't, But I think that you can build this 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.120 thing in a way that creates contingencies where Liam is 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.040 afforded that opportunity, because I'm not sure if he's capable 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:50.160 of that. 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:51.360 I think there's a lot to be refined. Though the 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.400 technique is inconsistent. 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.000 He can get overpowered, he falls off blocks way too easily, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.520 and he's always on the ground. Another classic case of 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.360 guy on the ground, right, But I deally, You know, 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.520 if you spend something like, I don't know, five million 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.959 on a starter there, if it's Isaiah Win or if 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.440 it's you know, a free agent off the street, you 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.800 re sign Rob Hunt, You let Connor Williams walk, and 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:15.800 you draft either Zach Frazier or Jackson Powers Johnson. Liam 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.040 becomes the top interior guy off the bench, and he 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.440 needs to be better, but we kind of need him. 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:22.040 It's a weird spot to be in This is the 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:24.360 kind of player in a league where you there just 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.720 aren't enough good offensive line for Edwin to have five, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:29.320 much less six seven eight players that are good at 0:13:29.320 --> 0:13:32.520 this position group. And when you consider his contract, man like, 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.960 that's gonna be that's gonna provide value for this team 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.240 next year, so he'll be here. What he becomes as 0:13:37.280 --> 0:13:40.640 a player could be a critical critical mission here for. 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.079 The Miami Dolphins. More on that in the Isaiah Win portion. 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:44.840 Let's go ahead and finish up the first second here 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.360 with a quick note on the player sixty six Lester Cotton, 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.560 three hundred and sixty two snaps in pass protection, twenty pressures. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.280 It was a ninety six point seven pbe pretty wild 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.839 journey for him to go from not playing last year 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.199 to starting a playoff game and then getting buried in 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:03.600 the depth chart this summer, probably probably rightfully so, and 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.360 then to work his way into the seventh most snaps 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:08.760 on the entire offensive side of the football. I thought 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:11.680 he got better in certain things like picking up certain 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.400 games and twists, but it got to a point on 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.679 tape where I just like couldn't watch it anymore because 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:19.240 you guys heard it all year long, falling off blocks, 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.160 unable to locate those backside seals that provided big runs. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:24.800 I think the attrition that forced this player onto the 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:29.040 field cost you hundreds, hundreds of rushing yards and as 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.720 a result, conversions points and eventually wins big big gripe 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.760 with a snap count for this player, I thought it 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.640 was a big hole on the roster this year. Let's 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.680 go ahead and take our first break right there, come 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.120 back on the other side and finish up the offensive line. 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.080 That's all next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:49.640 brought to you by Auto Nation. Three players into our 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:53.600 twenty twenty three offensive line review. Several more to go here, 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.160 starting with Kendall lam number seventy who again, we're going 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:59.720 in order of snaps played, so Austin Jackson, Lea Mikenberg, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.440 Lester Cotton, Kendall Lamb. If I told you that going 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.280 into the season, you would have said Travis's team is 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:08.680 gonna go eight to nine. He played three hundred and 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.400 fifty seven pass blocking snaps and allowed twenty pressures. It's 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.320 a ninety six point five pbe and it sure is 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.280 nice when you see thirty two snaps of a guy 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:18.680 in twenty twenty two and think, man, that was pretty good, 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:20.840 and then you can roll that over into six hundred 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.640 snaps and the eighth most on your offense, fourth most 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.560 on the offensive line. It started in Week one right, 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.960 just shut down Khalil Mack time and time again. I 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:32.080 think those true pass sets are his best trait. A 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.840 veteran savvy to have the combination of nasty but also 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.560 the little tricks of the position that you see the 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.520 older heads so well versed in, like a toront Armstead, 0:15:41.760 --> 0:15:44.200 go short in the runway on a wide nine, extract 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:46.360 the pass rush moved by a dummy punch while you 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.240 get your depth and set up your pass set, redirecting 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:50.640 on a guy in a way that gets his leverage 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.280 so out of balance, he just goes to the ground 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:54.240 and you follow him to end the rep right there. 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.760 I just think Kendall won so many of his reps 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.880 before the ball was even snapped, and I think that's 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:01.760 a valuable depth piece. And I'm really curious to see 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:03.800 what they do here. He seems to me like the 0:16:03.920 --> 0:16:08.720 ideal perfect swing tackle. Federan presence has been largely available 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:11.080 to you, kind of has some stuff to him, and 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.560 I've got my guy seth level would say on the 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.960 Fish Tank podcast with Oja McDuffie, go ahead and check 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:20.080 out their podcast, and just his veteran experience is valuable 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:21.760 for the young guys as well. And again, I think 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.360 the biggest downgrade we saw with the shuffled offensive lines 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.920 wasn't in the past pro It was the surge in 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.240 the running game or lack thereof. When we talked about 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:35.240 it on the Monday podcast about how the Ravens defensive ability, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.520 the Chiefs defensibility to come downhill and collision at the 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.000 line of scrimmage and get forward, push and not get 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.240 knocked back, to give yourself second and nine, a post 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.720 a second and five. That changes the equation for the 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.240 opposing offense right like you're gonna go from single high 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.560 to too high with that additional. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:52.840 Yardage you have in your back pocket. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.680 And that's where I think Miami's entire operation began to 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.080 fold in on itself. 0:16:57.120 --> 0:16:57.880 The inability to. 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.360 Run the ball in early downs and the kind of 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.400 thinking of McDaniel pivoting towards more early down runs, which 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.080 I think was a mistake. Throw the football early, run 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.360 the ball to convert short yards in that type of situation. 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.960 I think Miami's inability to do so with their commitment 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:13.959 to do so in the running game was where the 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.120 offense got behind what it does best, and it put 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.359 them in all these true pass drop sets, which is 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.040 not it's not designed to live off of those. No 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.960 offense is. But they were consistently in those looks down 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:28.399 the stretch, and I think the interior three offensive lines 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.639 inability to get pushed in the running game was the 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:34.200 main culprit for that. On top of not enough separators 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:36.840 beyond ten and seventeen, with seventeen being out for so 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:38.639 many games late in the year and practice rep so 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.240 many late in the year, beyond the quarterback not playing 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.240 well enough, I think this was one of the core 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.880 issues you had this year. And Kendall, didn't, you know, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:48.560 give us a lot of range in the in the 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.360 running game or pop as that starter left tackle. But 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.439 and when you went with him Cotton and Lamb or 0:17:55.480 --> 0:17:57.720 like or with him Cotton to Lium, I should say 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:00.400 we left so many rushing yards out there with one 0:18:00.480 --> 0:18:03.240 of those three losing a rep and costing us to gain. 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:07.680 Now again, our tackles performed super well in their pass 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.359 pro metrics. The ninety six point five Ppe was actually 0:18:10.400 --> 0:18:13.399 tied for thirty fifth among all tackles and again sixty 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.359 four tackle spots, right, So for your third to finish there, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.720 that is very very very good. But also something else 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:23.040 to consider in your off season projections and evaluations. If 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.200 you add Keion and remove the snap stipulations, that's four 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.920 tackles in that top thirty five range. That's why I 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.679 think the interior offensive line's more important for us in 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.480 terms of getting rock solid in that position because they've 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:37.800 shown the ability this coaching staff and this team to 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.840 mitigate tackle quote unquote holes, not as much at guard 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.359 and center. And that's system based, right. You can get 0:18:44.359 --> 0:18:47.560 those tight ends and wide receiver crackbacks to help those guys, 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:48.680 and the chips and all the things you do to 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:49.719 help on the perimeter. 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:52.000 Inside, it's kind of on those guys and the. 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.280 Quarterback and the running back, and we're just built so 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.840 much better for helping on the outside than we are 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:59.920 on the inside. Food for thought Number sixty eight, Robert Hunt, 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:01.480 this is your best player and he played the fifth 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:02.080 most snaps. 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:02.879 That's a problem. 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.440 Seven hundred or rather three hundred and seventy six pass 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.080 block snaps, five pressures, that's ninety nine. 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.280 Point two pass block efficiency. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.199 I thought Rob was destined for Pro Bowls the first 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:17.720 time I plugged on his UL tape, comically steamrolling dudes, 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.040 tossing them out of the club. And boy, let me 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.320 tell you, four years into his Dolphins tape, we've gotten 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.760 the exact same thing. Think we missed him more than 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:30.200 anybody else when he was down with that hamstring injury 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:33.080 that lingered like damn it. When he was right versus Washington, 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.280 we rolled that game the last time the offense looked 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:37.560 like the offense right. Then he aggravates it and we 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:39.280 only get in for the playoff game, Like this is 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.560 what I was talking about. A guy who hadn't missed 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:44.600 a game in three years plays just two of the 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:46.879 final nine of this critical season. 0:19:46.920 --> 0:19:47.359 That's tough. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.040 But Rob's a nasty, mauling, frequent pancake artist who finds 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:54.560 ribs and gets himself some big kill shots just Barry's. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:55.560 Dudes with raw. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.760 Strength and uses that defensive line want to rush half 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:00.240 the man so they can just work off one of 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:02.280 your shoulders and not try to rush through your entire frame. 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.080 He uses that technique to his advantage, and guys who 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:08.800 don't pack the requisite power. He just has the wherewithal 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:10.840 to bury them and say you're not gonna rush half 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.160 of mem You're gonna I'm gonna win with the half 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:13.919 of my body here and the strength I have on 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.680 my left or right side, finding, you know, help when 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:19.840 he doesn't have an assignment on top of elite one 0:20:19.920 --> 0:20:22.760 versus one work in that department. You'll venture to guess 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.760 how many guards had a better pass block efficiency than 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:26.320 Rob Hunt. 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:27.400 The answer is zero. 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:30.399 He finished a half point better than second place Brandon 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:34.120 Sheriff among guards with at least three hundred pass blocking snaps. 0:20:34.400 --> 0:20:36.919 Win was actually next, but he didn't qualify for that. 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:41.360 That group includes Shurf, Tyler Smith, Chris Lenstrom, Hellodi v Tie, 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.280 Quentin Nelson, and on the best guards in football. I 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.959 think Rob has taken to a system that he's familiar with, 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.600 that he ran in college, that he utilizes his athletic 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:52.320 ability within it, but also gives us the pop and 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:55.280 temperament at the position we need to really grind teams 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:57.240 down late in the game with the running game. 0:20:57.320 --> 0:20:59.080 I love his game. No complaints. 0:20:59.160 --> 0:21:01.840 Actually, if there was one, it's that every like two 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:03.800 or three games he has a big whiff on a 0:21:03.840 --> 0:21:06.240 free run, typically off of a game, like a stunt 0:21:06.280 --> 0:21:06.800 or a twist. 0:21:06.960 --> 0:21:09.320 But you live at that because otherwise he's just dominant. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.840 And look, I'm not negotiating deals here, but he's my priority. 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.800 Re sign number seventy two t Ron Armstead three hundred 0:21:15.800 --> 0:21:18.639 and sixty four PB snaps seven pressures a ninety eight 0:21:18.680 --> 0:21:21.159 point nine PBE. I think if you asked Taran he 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:23.200 would tell you this year was a down year for him, 0:21:23.400 --> 0:21:25.600 and in that down year, he was number one among 0:21:25.640 --> 0:21:26.200 tackles in. 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:27.199 Past block efficiency. 0:21:27.200 --> 0:21:29.560 It just tells you how damn good this player is 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:31.680 and has been his whole career. Remember when he made 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:33.840 his debut on the season versus the Broncos and we 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:36.439 posted seventy points with all those big plays around the 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.440 corner where he's putting dutes on their back and wiping 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.400 out the entire edge. He's probably the best pass protecting 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:46.320 left tackle of the last decade. Like Joe Thomas handing 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:49.240 over that throne. I mean, he's right there. If he's 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:51.720 not him, he is him. I do think there were 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:53.360 more reps this year where he just flat out got 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:55.240 beat for a sack, and by more we're talking about 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:57.639 like two or three versus zero. I just think he 0:21:58.040 --> 0:21:59.680 wore down a little bit there. The body kind of 0:21:59.680 --> 0:22:01.439 gave up on him a little bit in certain spots 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:03.679 and especially in the running game as well. But you 0:22:03.720 --> 0:22:06.040 guys have heard it all from me, right, the smartest 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.480 pass pro plan in the game, that great fake cut 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.720 block he threw at Micah Parsons to essentially win the 0:22:10.760 --> 0:22:13.680 game on the Tyreek Hill screen on that Cowboys game 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.240 winning drive. I think that his ripple effect to the 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:18.560 rest of the ruin the young guys might be his 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:22.160 most valuable asset that he features. He missed seven more 0:22:22.200 --> 0:22:24.600 games this year, missed four last year. That's thirteen and 0:22:24.640 --> 0:22:27.679 two years, almost a full season. Basically that was coming up. 0:22:27.680 --> 0:22:29.760 And he doesn't practice too, which was a big sticking 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:32.000 point I had in a previous podcast, right, And that 0:22:32.119 --> 0:22:34.399 was coming off a year where he missed nine missed 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:38.480 two and one in twenty nineteen and twenty eighteen, but 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:42.240 six games in twenty seventeen, nine more in twenty sixteen. 0:22:42.440 --> 0:22:44.720 That's just been his career and it kind of makes you, 0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:48.479 it makes for a tricky situation because you know how 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:50.639 great he is, but you know the inevitability of his 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.119 injuries makes it so tough to value him as a 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.719 player because if you go forward with him at a 0:22:55.760 --> 0:22:58.960 fourteen million dollar price tag, and that's just too much 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.119 to play ten games. If it's thirteen, I'd probably sign 0:23:02.160 --> 0:23:04.119 it today if you could give me a crystal ball. 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:07.239 But do we think he'll start playing more games at 0:23:07.240 --> 0:23:09.040 this stage of his career? And if a left guard 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:11.200 plan like I talked about earlier, like I could see 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.919 a situation where maybe you draft your left tackle or 0:23:13.960 --> 0:23:16.440 whatever the case. Like Also, by the way, signing left tackle, 0:23:16.720 --> 0:23:19.640 signing tackles, and free agency, Kyle Krabs has a great 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:21.360 segment on this. I'm sure he'll bring it up again 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:23.760 this year, where like signing offensive tackles top of the 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:27.560 market almost never works out, So food for thought there. 0:23:27.840 --> 0:23:30.119 But if you do something at left tackle here, and 0:23:30.160 --> 0:23:32.680 if you decide that one of the positions you're gonna 0:23:32.720 --> 0:23:35.160 have to gamble with on the offensive line, if it's 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:40.040 that like win Liam combination of we know wins great, 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.159 but we know he can't play half the season. We 0:23:42.200 --> 0:23:44.240 know Liam has stretches, but we know that we can't 0:23:44.280 --> 0:23:46.920 count his technique. Like you might take a gamble there. 0:23:47.000 --> 0:23:49.239 If you do that, you cannot have Tron as your 0:23:49.280 --> 0:23:51.720 left tackle because of the gamble that he inherently possesses. 0:23:51.800 --> 0:23:54.199 So it's just it's a lot of tough decisions are 0:23:54.200 --> 0:23:56.480 gonna have to make. I think there's lots of right decisions, 0:23:57.080 --> 0:23:59.639 but I don't envy those number fifty eight Connor Williams 0:23:59.640 --> 0:24:02.560 two hundred and eighty pass block snaps, six pressures, ninety 0:24:02.600 --> 0:24:05.680 eight points having pbe This is maybe the most interesting 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:07.679 situation in the league. And maybe I feel that way 0:24:07.720 --> 0:24:10.439 because of my close proximity to these Miami Dolphins. But 0:24:10.480 --> 0:24:12.560 how many teams have a player who tore his ACL 0:24:12.600 --> 0:24:15.320 in December who are a great fit for their system. 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.960 But ultimately you talk about two not playing big enough 0:24:18.960 --> 0:24:21.000 in big games, or Tyreek for that matter, in the 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:23.679 biggest games against the biggest competition, against the Ed Olivers 0:24:23.680 --> 0:24:28.520 and Daikwon Jones, against the Jordan Davis and Fletcher Cox 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:32.760 and Jalen Carter, against the Chris Jones of the world, 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:36.880 against the Quincy Williams. He got kind of ran over 0:24:37.000 --> 0:24:38.960 against bigger competition. And you want a top of the 0:24:38.960 --> 0:24:41.920 market contract coming off of an ACL and December. It's 0:24:41.960 --> 0:24:44.280 tricky man I think the last two years of center 0:24:44.280 --> 0:24:46.160 play we got down here have been the best since 0:24:46.200 --> 0:24:49.280 Mike Pouncy's prime years. And look, we certainly missed Connor 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:51.040 when he was out. One of the most athletic centers 0:24:51.080 --> 0:24:53.480 in the National Football League. Opens up your options in 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:55.639 terms of your perimeter running game, your screen game, all 0:24:55.680 --> 0:24:58.240 the stuff we do to stretch the defense horizontally to 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:01.520 the absolute limit. Connor exit amplifies that. I do think 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.879 there were some times against those bigger teams where he 0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:06.119 got outmatched and that caused us to not have our 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.439 short yardage conversions, which has been a problem for two 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:09.919 years in a row. And if you go back to 0:25:09.960 --> 0:25:12.640 training camp and watch Raykwon Davis, a very average player 0:25:12.640 --> 0:25:15.159 at his position in terms of his production, get a 0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:16.720 lot of pushback on Connor. 0:25:16.760 --> 0:25:18.240 You kind of see that displayed there. 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:20.239 So I don't say that's disparage Connor one because think 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:22.280 he's going to top five or six sentators in the 0:25:22.359 --> 0:25:23.439 National Football League. 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:25.200 But it's an area that you have to get better at. 0:25:25.200 --> 0:25:27.919 And I think that where he opens the playbook up, 0:25:27.920 --> 0:25:29.639 where he gets you so many options, you have to 0:25:29.680 --> 0:25:33.040 take all that into account. Because again, his PBE was 0:25:33.040 --> 0:25:35.040 fourth among sentis, but at least two undred pass blocking 0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:39.400 snaps finish just behind Jason Kelsey. But that's a real thing, 0:25:39.480 --> 0:25:41.680 like we need to really be able to anchor against 0:25:41.720 --> 0:25:43.919 bigger guys up front, especially with our quarterback and his 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:44.760 limited mobility. 0:25:45.040 --> 0:25:45.959 Something to think about. 0:25:46.040 --> 0:25:48.720 Number sixty five Robert Jones three hundred and four pass 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:51.760 block snaps, fourteen pressures, ninety seven point two pbe. 0:25:51.800 --> 0:25:53.000 What a crazy year for this guy. 0:25:53.080 --> 0:25:55.679 Right injury in the preseason after competing neck and neck 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:57.720 for the left guard job. Does not see the field 0:25:57.800 --> 0:26:00.040 until Week eight as a result of that injury, but 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:01.640 then steps into the start of for the next two games. 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:04.960 Left guard gets hurt again, comes back in week fourteen, 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:07.040 and he plays two hundred and fifty of his three 0:26:07.119 --> 0:26:09.320 hundred and four total snaps on the year from Week 0:26:09.359 --> 0:26:10.800 fourteen through the playoffs. 0:26:10.840 --> 0:26:12.240 Didn't miss a snap the rest of the way. 0:26:12.480 --> 0:26:14.320 He had some of the key blocks on those critical 0:26:14.440 --> 0:26:17.000 Jeff Wilson runs to beat Dallas. I think that his 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:20.720 that's his best trait man gap football, displacing guys with 0:26:20.720 --> 0:26:22.800 a sheer mash three hundred and twenty five pounds. Our 0:26:22.840 --> 0:26:25.360 second biggest guard in the roster now, I don't think 0:26:25.359 --> 0:26:26.159 he's a fit for us. 0:26:26.200 --> 0:26:27.280 I think go somewhere. 0:26:27.960 --> 0:26:30.400 He was a worthwhile, you know, reserve on a UDFA 0:26:30.480 --> 0:26:32.600 rookie contract. That's cheapest, hell, the cheapest player you can 0:26:32.640 --> 0:26:35.080 have a football now that's expired. I don't think you 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:37.600 go after a bigger deal with him. Maybe they tender him, 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:39.639 but I doubt it. I think for him something like 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:41.880 Pittsburgh where he can go be a mauler for Arthur 0:26:41.920 --> 0:26:44.760 Smith makes a lot of sense. Number seventy seven Isaiah 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.520 win two hundred and twenty four PB snaps, four pressures, 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:49.199 a ninety nine point one PBE. 0:26:49.640 --> 0:26:50.879 He was phenomenal to the. 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:52.880 First seven games of the year, a total free agent hit, 0:26:53.119 --> 0:26:55.800 but then he suffers what becomes a season ending injury. 0:26:56.160 --> 0:26:56.520 Awesome. 0:26:56.520 --> 0:26:58.760 In pass Pro, nobody gained an inch on this dude, 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:01.640 regardless of their move He could absorb power. He had 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.640 the lateral movement and strength to thwart games and rushers 0:27:04.680 --> 0:27:07.160 trying to cross his face. I thought his run game 0:27:07.200 --> 0:27:09.359 work was plenty good enough, and frankly, we saw the 0:27:09.400 --> 0:27:12.359 offense struggle to replace him when he was lost. He 0:27:12.440 --> 0:27:15.160 played the first three hundred and ninety two snaps. Then 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:17.640 we have three guys rotating into that position to run 0:27:17.640 --> 0:27:19.639 with the rest of the seven hundred plus snaps that 0:27:19.680 --> 0:27:20.760 we would play this season. 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:21.840 And the only thing that I. 0:27:21.800 --> 0:27:24.719 Think keeping him from being a cornerstone from someone that 0:27:24.800 --> 0:27:28.000 you bank on is the injury history. He's never played 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:30.120 a full season. He missed eight games as a rookie, 0:27:30.160 --> 0:27:33.080 six in year two, one in twenty twenty one, eight 0:27:33.240 --> 0:27:36.439 last year, and then ten this past season. Fifty games 0:27:36.480 --> 0:27:38.680 out of eighty three possible. He's played an average of 0:27:38.720 --> 0:27:41.360 six point six miss games per year since coming into 0:27:41.359 --> 0:27:43.600 the league. I am so curious about this player too. 0:27:43.640 --> 0:27:46.720 The whole line is fascinating me. But I'm curious about 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:48.840 his market. He can't stay healthy, right, and that's an 0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:51.160 issue when you go into the year counting on him 0:27:51.160 --> 0:27:52.560 to be one of the guys and you're short a 0:27:52.600 --> 0:27:54.560 player when he goes out for the year. But that's like, 0:27:54.920 --> 0:27:57.359 you know, one for three and a half million or 0:27:57.359 --> 0:27:58.920 something like that. Again, that would be a no bran 0:27:59.040 --> 0:27:59.560 to me. Do it? 0:27:59.560 --> 0:27:59.879 Why not? 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:02.400 It's cheap and you could possibly get a starting left 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:06.000 guard for even ten games at three point five million. 0:28:06.240 --> 0:28:09.000 At top level, guard play is worth it if he wants, 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.160 like Bona fide starting left guard money, he probably can't 0:28:11.160 --> 0:28:13.040 do that. His market value at spot rack is right 0:28:13.080 --> 0:28:14.320 in line with where he was at this time a 0:28:14.359 --> 0:28:16.439 year ago, and it's probably because the injury history, But 0:28:16.480 --> 0:28:18.520 who the hell knows how accurate that can be. Frankly, 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:21.240 I will not hate it if it's him and Liam, 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:23.480 as long as we have a better plan at the 0:28:23.560 --> 0:28:25.840 left tackle position. And you brought back Rob and you 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:28.720 probably drafted a center high. But it's like it's doable 0:28:28.760 --> 0:28:30.720 if the other positions are a little bit more sturdy. 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:32.840 So on I'm trying to say seventy one key on 0:28:32.880 --> 0:28:36.000 Smith twenty two pass blocking snaps, zero pressures, I's say 0:28:36.000 --> 0:28:38.920 one hundred pbe perhaps the player I'm most intrigued by 0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:41.880 on the entire roster. I keep saying that right to be, 0:28:41.960 --> 0:28:43.920 frank I didn't think he was long for the league. 0:28:44.120 --> 0:28:46.760 After camp in twenty twenty two he looked awful and 0:28:46.840 --> 0:28:48.440 preseason was even worse. Now at the end of twenty 0:28:48.440 --> 0:28:50.240 twenty three, I think he could be a future left 0:28:50.240 --> 0:28:54.160 tackle that starts in this league. Another yet another example 0:28:54.440 --> 0:28:56.680 of not getting too rigid in your beliefs. But I 0:28:56.680 --> 0:28:59.239 think this speaks to his dedication to the craft and 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:01.360 the work of the code coaching staff. Think about this, 0:29:01.480 --> 0:29:03.520 A player who misses his senior year of high school 0:29:03.600 --> 0:29:06.360 due to an injury, gets twenty college games in his 0:29:06.400 --> 0:29:08.480 career and misses his senior year of college because of 0:29:08.480 --> 0:29:11.400 the pandemic at Fayetteville State. People throw the term raw 0:29:11.480 --> 0:29:13.920 around a lot, like just look at his measurements. He 0:29:13.920 --> 0:29:16.120 has the burst, a length, the composition to be the 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.600 ideal tackle in this offense. And I think he showed 0:29:18.640 --> 0:29:21.320 you flashes of that in very brief time this year. 0:29:21.360 --> 0:29:23.800 But the preseason tape was awesome, and then we got 0:29:23.800 --> 0:29:27.400 good again, albeit limited work, but good regular season tape 0:29:27.400 --> 0:29:29.640 this year. That makes me think he's a piece worth 0:29:29.680 --> 0:29:32.000 investing more time into. And he's near the top of 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:34.400 my list of guys I cannot wait to watch at OTAs. 0:29:34.640 --> 0:29:36.240 We rounded out here with someone that did not play 0:29:36.280 --> 0:29:39.640 at all, Number sixty Jonathan Harrison. Didn't see him play. 0:29:39.720 --> 0:29:43.000 I don't care talk anymore about it. Futures contracts. Ryan 0:29:43.040 --> 0:29:45.040 Hayes and Chase and Hines are guys that were brought 0:29:45.080 --> 0:29:46.120 back on those futures deals. 0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:49.080 So there's some tires in the fire, some irons in 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:49.360 the fire. 0:29:49.400 --> 0:29:51.760 How do you say that whatever on an offensive line 0:29:51.760 --> 0:29:54.080 that has a lot of work to do, but feel 0:29:54.120 --> 0:29:56.360 pretty good about where they are and where they could 0:29:56.400 --> 0:29:59.000 go with the resources they have this offseason. Last break 0:29:59.080 --> 0:30:01.760 right there, come back on the speaking of the resources, 0:30:01.800 --> 0:30:04.040 two of my favorite players in the Senior Bowler offensive lineman. 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:06.840 We'll talk about day one to Practice's next Draft Time podcast, 0:30:06.920 --> 0:30:09.160 your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you by donation. 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:26.320 That's rare. Okay, girl, let's go still watch it? Who 0:30:26.600 --> 0:30:27.720 is who watching. 0:30:29.000 --> 0:30:30.720 To watch it? Yeah? 0:30:30.800 --> 0:30:34.920 Who is watching? Watching? Day? 0:30:36.760 --> 0:30:39.760 So many clarifications to make here as we get into 0:30:39.800 --> 0:30:42.320 the third and final segment on this Wednesday, the last 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:45.760 day of January, which, when your football team is not 0:30:45.800 --> 0:30:48.640 playing this time of year, feels like the longest, most 0:30:48.720 --> 0:30:51.160 pointless month of the year in a way, doesn't it. 0:30:51.160 --> 0:30:53.800 I think February probably is that way as well with 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:56.040 regards to football fans. Like I was telling my wife, 0:30:56.440 --> 0:31:01.640 we spend so many waking moments, chasing around kids, picking 0:31:01.720 --> 0:31:03.880 up messes, making sure my one year old son, who 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:07.680 seems to cry about everything, is not crying. And at 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:09.640 least at the end of the day you had football 0:31:09.680 --> 0:31:13.360 to look forward to, right, But now you don't. I 0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:15.920 love the conference championship games and divisional round weekend and 0:31:15.920 --> 0:31:16.720 all that fun stuff. 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:18.760 But like man, I miss Thursday night. 0:31:18.800 --> 0:31:20.960 I miss the holiday season when you have Saturday games 0:31:20.960 --> 0:31:23.680 and then Monday night football. It's just the best time 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:25.200 of year, and right now is kind of the worst 0:31:25.200 --> 0:31:28.880 time of year. But luckily, luckily we have some football 0:31:28.960 --> 0:31:31.920 to discuss right here, and the Senior Bowl which kicked off, 0:31:31.920 --> 0:31:33.600 which is why we give you the lead in song there. 0:31:33.760 --> 0:31:35.960 Who's Wingfield watching? And who Wingfield's watching? 0:31:36.040 --> 0:31:36.400 Today? 0:31:36.600 --> 0:31:39.720 Me is by the way that song falls really flat. 0:31:39.880 --> 0:31:44.600 I didn't realize that at first, but those notes lyrically, 0:31:45.520 --> 0:31:48.240 the words are fine, but the notes are god awful, 0:31:48.280 --> 0:31:49.640 which is kind of what I was going for, but 0:31:49.680 --> 0:31:52.480 I didn't realize how bad it actually was. Luckily, the 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:55.640 players on the was it the national team or the 0:31:55.680 --> 0:31:59.040 American team? Let me check that real quick national roster 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:01.880 Senior Bowl. So I'm telling you this because I did 0:32:01.920 --> 0:32:04.520 not watch the entirety, or I should say I did 0:32:04.600 --> 0:32:09.320 not put the entirety of my day one notes and 0:32:09.360 --> 0:32:12.320 here for you guys, because this podcast got a little 0:32:12.320 --> 0:32:15.720 bit long. Offensive lines, the longest or deepest position group 0:32:15.760 --> 0:32:19.800 on the roster and so that happens, and with linebackers, interior, 0:32:19.840 --> 0:32:22.640 defensive line corners and safety still to go, we can 0:32:22.680 --> 0:32:25.520 get much more notes in with those smaller position groups. 0:32:25.520 --> 0:32:31.200 So today we're talking about day one of the American team. 0:32:31.480 --> 0:32:33.680 Will do the rest of the Senior Bowl practice notes 0:32:33.720 --> 0:32:35.760 on Friday, and then I'll go ahead and get someone 0:32:35.800 --> 0:32:37.920 on the show Monday. I'm thinking Kyle Krabs haven't gotten 0:32:37.920 --> 0:32:39.600 a confirmation on that, but I want to get his 0:32:39.680 --> 0:32:42.320 perspective because the last disclaimer here before we talk about 0:32:42.360 --> 0:32:46.720 these prospects, everything that I talk about on the podcast 0:32:46.720 --> 0:32:48.640 here with regards to the draft is going to be 0:32:48.760 --> 0:32:51.920 through a Dolphin's lens. I will continue to harp on 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:55.640 that disclaimer. I think some shows and even myself from 0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:58.680 the past on Lockdown Dolphins had done like here's who 0:32:58.720 --> 0:33:00.960 I like, but this is what the Dolphins could do. 0:33:01.560 --> 0:33:04.160 Everything is with the lens as if I am a 0:33:04.200 --> 0:33:07.280 scout for the Miami Dolphins and thinking about who fits 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:10.200 what we do right. That's the beauty of one team 0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:12.640 scouting opposed to what Kyle does. For instance, with all 0:33:14.080 --> 0:33:18.280 thirty two scouting is you have your scouting for generalize 0:33:18.280 --> 0:33:20.960 like you would be a consultant that consults the entire league, 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:23.240 which is a much tougher job than to find specific notes. 0:33:23.320 --> 0:33:24.880 And then, of course Kyle does a great job with 0:33:24.920 --> 0:33:27.400 his Dolphins notes unlocked down Dolphins, and that's what we're 0:33:27.400 --> 0:33:29.360 gonna do here. So here's my notes from the American 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:32.160 team practice on Wednesday. I have so many because there's 0:33:32.160 --> 0:33:34.280 so many guys on that field that I think could 0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:37.600 step in and help the Dolphins in twenty twenty four. 0:33:38.120 --> 0:33:40.400 And that being said, I don't view the draft that way. 0:33:40.440 --> 0:33:40.960 I never have. 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:44.240 I've never thought that your draft purposes is to get 0:33:44.240 --> 0:33:46.760 the best football team on the field for this upcoming season. 0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:49.360 That's doing it wrong. The best way to draft is 0:33:49.360 --> 0:33:51.480 taking the best player available. I saw a tweet. I 0:33:51.480 --> 0:33:53.440 think his name is Sean Williams. You guys probably know 0:33:53.480 --> 0:33:55.800 who he is. I've never seen a tweet more right 0:33:56.200 --> 0:33:58.520 and wrong. At the same time, he was harping on 0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:01.479 how the best team in the league take the best 0:34:01.520 --> 0:34:04.360 player available, regardless of their position. That's how you draft 0:34:04.360 --> 0:34:06.640 the best, and I agree with that. That's in two years, 0:34:06.640 --> 0:34:08.520 your needs are going to be completely different and you'll 0:34:08.520 --> 0:34:11.200 still have that player. So draft the best players and 0:34:11.239 --> 0:34:12.600 you'll turn out right in the end. But then at 0:34:12.600 --> 0:34:14.560 the end of it he said, that's why Chris Grear 0:34:14.960 --> 0:34:17.440 sucks because he only has one All Pro in his career, 0:34:17.560 --> 0:34:19.120 and what a weird bar that is. First of all, 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:21.600 it's wrong because he did draft larry My Tunzel, he 0:34:21.600 --> 0:34:24.640 did draft Minka Fitzpatrick. That's two All pros. I probably 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:26.799 doesn't count Tyreek Hills two All pros, which he traded 0:34:26.800 --> 0:34:29.520 a first round pick four down here. It's misguided by 0:34:29.560 --> 0:34:31.640 people that think that Chris Greer like committed crimes against 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:33.799 humanity for whatever reason, even though he has built one 0:34:33.840 --> 0:34:37.160 of the best rosters in the NFL. I digress, so 0:34:37.280 --> 0:34:39.719 draft the best players, and Chris Greer is doing just 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:41.840 finding his draft classes and what he does with his 0:34:41.920 --> 0:34:45.359 picks as well. So that said, I have a few 0:34:45.400 --> 0:34:48.880 notes here for you guys. First, Talisi Fuaka from Oregon 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:50.879 State was my favorite player going into this game. He's 0:34:50.880 --> 0:34:52.480 not going to be available. He's a top ten pick, 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:54.680 forget about it. He's the best right tackle in the class. 0:34:54.719 --> 0:34:57.440 He can play left tackle. He's got smooth, smooth transition. 0:34:57.520 --> 0:34:59.080 In fact, there was a report that came up with 0:34:59.120 --> 0:35:01.640 the Jets love this. I don't think he'll be available 0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:03.000 for that picked number ten. I think he's gonna be 0:35:03.000 --> 0:35:05.120 to first tackle off the board. Quite frankly, he is 0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:08.040 an elite, elite prospect. And speaking of the Jets, there's 0:35:08.040 --> 0:35:10.280 an article by Diana Rossini that came out on Wednesday 0:35:10.320 --> 0:35:11.640 about how dysfunctional they are. 0:35:12.080 --> 0:35:15.239 I freaking told you, I freaking told you. 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:18.959 I told Did I not tell you that all all 0:35:19.040 --> 0:35:22.080 last offseason? I don't like to say I told you, so, Yeah, 0:35:22.120 --> 0:35:23.759 I kind of do, actually, but this time I love 0:35:23.840 --> 0:35:24.200 saying it. 0:35:24.760 --> 0:35:25.239 So there you go. 0:35:25.320 --> 0:35:30.840 Tellisi Fuaga dominant dominant player to Liatu Lata. 0:35:31.000 --> 0:35:32.600 I think I got that right. I should probably look 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:32.879 that up. 0:35:33.040 --> 0:35:36.360 The UCLA kid who basically ruined WSU season by having 0:35:36.600 --> 0:35:38.279 twenty four pressures like I don't know what it was, 0:35:38.280 --> 0:35:40.160 but it was a lot of pressures. He reminds me 0:35:40.160 --> 0:35:42.680 of Jeln Phillips, but with a little more technician, a 0:35:42.680 --> 0:35:45.719 little less pop and physicality. But man, he's right on 0:35:45.719 --> 0:35:47.640 that track. I think he's long gone before our pick. 0:35:47.800 --> 0:35:51.279 He's the best pass rusher out there. I had two 0:35:51.360 --> 0:35:53.720 notes or a note here about a player I didn't 0:35:53.760 --> 0:35:55.520 like because I saw a bunch of pop on him. 0:35:55.560 --> 0:35:58.840 Brendan Rice from usc does he is he strapped to 0:35:58.880 --> 0:36:00.920 a backboard, the stiffest player I've ever seen in my 0:36:01.040 --> 0:36:04.280 entire life, like Pops did not rap off on Homie. Okay, 0:36:04.280 --> 0:36:06.240 the rest of my notes, I put more extensive notes 0:36:06.280 --> 0:36:08.279 in my notepad on my phone to go ahead and 0:36:08.280 --> 0:36:09.880 pull that up. So here's here's the guys that I 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:13.719 had noted four or against for the Dolphins. So Oklahoma 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.520 offensive tackle Tyler Geydon. I think he'll be gone before 0:36:16.560 --> 0:36:19.440 pick twenty one because he's six foot seven, three hundred 0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:21.439 and thirty pounds and he has those laram me tons 0:36:21.440 --> 0:36:23.919 will typewriter feet. Not that good a feat, but he's 0:36:23.920 --> 0:36:28.240 pretty smooth man, easy change of direction, can doesn't lose 0:36:28.280 --> 0:36:30.480 his cleats in the ground. He throws that punch so 0:36:30.520 --> 0:36:33.000 he can really get off of his spot quickly and 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.239 redirect and has a very powerful punch. 0:36:35.239 --> 0:36:36.880 When he times that thing right, it's so deadly. 0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:39.000 I think he's a top twenty pick and he's gonna 0:36:39.000 --> 0:36:41.520 be one of eight or nine offensive tackles taken in 0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:43.600 the first round of this year's draft class. It is 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:46.600 loaded on the offensive line guys, and Tyler Goidon looks 0:36:46.640 --> 0:36:48.640 like one of the best ones in the entire group. 0:36:48.880 --> 0:36:51.000 Speaking of guys that are best in the entire group, 0:36:51.040 --> 0:36:51.880 I think this is my favorite. 0:36:51.880 --> 0:36:52.640 Actually check that. 0:36:53.280 --> 0:36:55.520 I know for a fact this is my favorite player 0:36:55.560 --> 0:36:58.080 so far, and you guys know who it is. Jackson Powers, 0:36:58.160 --> 0:37:03.120 Johnson Man JPJ. Holy crap. If he doesn't remind me 0:37:03.160 --> 0:37:06.279 of Christian Wilkins, then damn it. Like I bet if 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.160 you miked him up, you'd hear him screaming football for 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:14.240 an entire practice. During the two pag two bag punch 0:37:14.320 --> 0:37:17.280 drill where you punch right, punch left, punch right, punch left, 0:37:17.520 --> 0:37:20.480 I saw him do the drill and then run back 0:37:20.520 --> 0:37:22.839 in line to try to get on the bag. That's 0:37:22.880 --> 0:37:25.360 not how the flow of that drill works. You're going upstream, 0:37:25.400 --> 0:37:28.200 my friend. It goes hold the bag, do the drill, 0:37:28.360 --> 0:37:29.919 go to the end of the line. But this guy 0:37:30.160 --> 0:37:32.719 wants to be doing things at all time on the 0:37:32.719 --> 0:37:34.920 football field. He was that way the entire day. He 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:37.840 wants to play. He bounced around from every period to 0:37:37.880 --> 0:37:41.080 every period. Everything was hustle to him. His retrace, get 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:42.840 back to the line, scrimmage, just want to one. Everything 0:37:42.920 --> 0:37:45.520 was just on ten at all times and aside from 0:37:45.520 --> 0:37:49.319 that the football player like he's the best player out there. 0:37:49.520 --> 0:37:52.800 Everything is second nature to him. I saw Daniel Jeremiah 0:37:52.840 --> 0:37:54.440 say it's hard to find holes in his game. In 0:37:54.480 --> 0:37:56.960 his top fifty, he just produced what you go read 0:37:56.960 --> 0:37:59.000 that if you haven't done that so far or yet 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:02.560 so repet center where he didn't anchor super early and 0:38:02.600 --> 0:38:05.160 it allowed him to keep the feet active to reposition 0:38:05.280 --> 0:38:06.879 until he could find an acre points. 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:10.640 So like there's no panic in his game. It's all calm. 0:38:10.760 --> 0:38:11.920 Then he played a repiic. 0:38:11.680 --> 0:38:13.760 Guard where he saw a move that the three technique 0:38:13.840 --> 0:38:16.359 rushed his outside shoulder and that was the only place 0:38:16.400 --> 0:38:18.440 he could get too. So he opens his hips and 0:38:18.480 --> 0:38:20.800 does this drop step once again, calmly getting to the 0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:23.240 spot before throwing the hands or getting out over his skis, 0:38:23.440 --> 0:38:25.400 and he gets into this depth to cut him off 0:38:25.440 --> 0:38:27.520 at the pass, and if he redirects the pass rusher, 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:29.120 he can just flip the other hip and do a 0:38:29.160 --> 0:38:32.880 drop step in the other direction. He is a perfect prospect. 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:35.960 And the reason I love him so much is because 0:38:36.719 --> 0:38:37.400 you get. 0:38:37.320 --> 0:38:38.680 I talked about on the Monday podcast. 0:38:38.680 --> 0:38:43.000 I think you get Connor Williams athletic ability, but you 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.160 get I think even more toughness. 0:38:45.200 --> 0:38:45.879 I think you get. 0:38:46.440 --> 0:38:48.920 You definitely get thirty more or twenty five more pounds, 0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:50.759 which gives you so much more power. There was a 0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:52.800 pass a Bowl rush move on the interior. It was 0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:55.040 only a two ninety five pound Clemson defensive line if 0:38:55.040 --> 0:38:58.080 forget his name, but he just completely thwart the power. 0:38:58.280 --> 0:39:00.279 So you can thwart power and goal line, you can 0:39:00.280 --> 0:39:03.040 displace a one shade and short yardage. You can lead 0:39:03.120 --> 0:39:05.279 a chan out wide and end around. This guy is 0:39:05.320 --> 0:39:07.120 the perfect player for the Miami Dolphins. 0:39:07.160 --> 0:39:08.120 Okay, we understand that. 0:39:08.760 --> 0:39:11.520 Let's see another thing I've noticed about these Senior Bowls 0:39:11.640 --> 0:39:13.880 or I've been doing this since twenty sixteen was my 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:16.120 first year, like scouting these and doing reporting them every 0:39:16.120 --> 0:39:19.359 single podcast. Every year, there's at least one receiver who 0:39:19.360 --> 0:39:22.399 comes in and is immediately productive but also has a long, 0:39:22.560 --> 0:39:25.359 very good career in the NFL. And again Dane Jeremiah said, 0:39:25.360 --> 0:39:27.799 the common threat across all those great receivers to come 0:39:27.800 --> 0:39:30.919 out of the Senior Bowl is their toughness. And last 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:33.799 last year Puka Nakua. Two years ago, probably the down 0:39:33.840 --> 0:39:37.280 year was Romeo Dobbs, Khalil Shakur and Jehan Dotson, Like, that's. 0:39:37.160 --> 0:39:39.600 Three good receivers two years ago or three years before. 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:42.880 A year before that Geez Davante Smith and Nico Collins 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:45.480 to the best receivers in the NFL. Before that, Brandon 0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:47.920 Ayyuk the niners number one receiver, and Michael Pittman for 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:50.480 the Colts. The year before that Terry McLaurin and Deebo 0:39:50.560 --> 0:39:52.799 Samuel blew the doors off the Senior Bowl, and then 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:55.160 DJ Shark and Michael Gallup. And the year before that 0:39:55.239 --> 0:39:59.240 was Cooper Cup. And I mentioned Cooper Cup because Roman 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:02.840 Wilson kind of reminds me of his pass catching and 0:40:02.880 --> 0:40:05.840 toughness ability, Like he is a Jarvis Landry clone in 0:40:05.880 --> 0:40:07.320 the sense that he's gonna go stick his face in 0:40:07.360 --> 0:40:10.160 the fan. Let's go Oj McDuffie a better player, Oji McDuffie. 0:40:10.120 --> 0:40:11.719 He's gonna put his face in the fan in the 0:40:11.760 --> 0:40:13.640 hook zone, make a tough catch and get blown up 0:40:13.760 --> 0:40:16.200 and hang on for a first down. But wait, and 0:40:16.320 --> 0:40:18.920 Juice always loves talking about his lack of foot speed. 0:40:19.280 --> 0:40:21.319 Roman Wilson's gonna clock a four to three eight, like 0:40:21.320 --> 0:40:23.520 that's what he ran at Michigan. He's a plus twenty 0:40:23.560 --> 0:40:26.360 mile prior runner and the way he understands his leverage 0:40:26.400 --> 0:40:29.000 and leans into guys and breaks off those routes. I 0:40:29.040 --> 0:40:31.240 think he's gonna be that next guy from the Senior 0:40:31.280 --> 0:40:34.080 Bowl that becomes an instant star and instant hit. And 0:40:34.320 --> 0:40:36.600 Jim Naggey compared him to Tyler Lockett. That's a great 0:40:36.640 --> 0:40:38.239 comp I think, And I kind of think the way 0:40:38.239 --> 0:40:41.839 he runs his routes is sort of is sort of 0:40:42.600 --> 0:40:45.160 Gaylan Waddle and Tyreek Hill. There's a nuance and detail 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.560 into those routes on top of electric electric fying speed. 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:50.560 And I know I talked about size and the ability 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:52.960 to go win tough balls inside. That's a big key 0:40:52.960 --> 0:40:54.680 for me this offseason, but I don't care if you 0:40:54.719 --> 0:40:57.240 can do it with quickness and with just pure route running, 0:40:57.320 --> 0:40:59.719 and that's what Roman Wilson from Michigan can do. He's 0:40:59.760 --> 0:41:02.279 only five to eleven, one ninety, but we had so 0:41:02.320 --> 0:41:04.640 many instances this year. We had one on one matchups 0:41:04.640 --> 0:41:07.360 inside to convert third downs when Wabble or Hill was 0:41:07.360 --> 0:41:09.400 not on the field, are not available, and we just 0:41:09.719 --> 0:41:12.360 never ever could do it. This guy would be your answer, 0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:14.160 probably gonna cost you a second round pick, but I 0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:17.320 would be thrilled to go. Jackson Powers, Johnson Roman Wilson 0:41:17.880 --> 0:41:21.399 offense is done. Not quite Dune, but it's almost done 0:41:21.440 --> 0:41:23.080 to me, if you can make those two things happen. 0:41:23.080 --> 0:41:25.840 So that's my notes on the day one of the 0:41:25.840 --> 0:41:28.760 American team practice. Friday's gonna be a lot of Senior 0:41:28.800 --> 0:41:31.120 Bowl notes. Will also break down the I Believe and 0:41:31.160 --> 0:41:33.760 Shoer your defensive line position. All that coming up on Friday. 0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:35.960 As for today's time, that is my time you all. 0:41:35.960 --> 0:41:38.680 Please be sure to subscribe, rate, review all that fun stuff. 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:41.400 Go ahead and follow me on social at Winkle NFL. 0:41:41.640 --> 0:41:43.640 Check out the fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice, 0:41:43.680 --> 0:41:46.360 the YouTube channel, and last but not least, Miami Dolphins 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:48.120 Dot comm Until next time, fins up the Carolina and 0:41:48.160 --> 0:41:49.759 Cameron Daddy, He's coming home.