Speaker 1: Two on the move, going deep speed ways past Peas
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studio.
Speaker 2: This inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drivetime
Speaker 2: with Travis Wingfield. He's got my have hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: What is up, dollph fans And welcome to the Drive
Speaker 3: Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, I went over the entire crop
Speaker 1: of free agents courtesy of spot rack and just went
Speaker 1: positioned by position and listed ten of my favorite players
Speaker 1: who are scheduled to hit free agency next month. And
Speaker 1: that exclude our own guys. We're going to talk about
Speaker 1: that list content wars. Here a little bit and a
Speaker 1: fun mock twenty twenty four lineup I put together for
Speaker 1: you guys from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Drive Time Podcast. Ye daf off the
Speaker 3: top real quick.
Speaker 1: So the cap is estimated to make it up around
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty million dollars this year per a
Speaker 1: report from NBC Sports. And the original projection was in
Speaker 1: the two forty two ballpark. So while yes, every team
Speaker 1: would get that eight million dollar bump if that report
Speaker 1: became reality, but for us that eight million could go
Speaker 1: a long way towards keeping our own guys. It could
Speaker 1: be potentially three different players, three different starters that you
Speaker 1: could sign or retain if you space out the contracts,
Speaker 1: because all the eight million dollars per player is not
Speaker 1: going to be all on that first year, right, You
Speaker 1: could definitely stretch your budget with that extra eight a
Speaker 1: little bit more. And when you have as much success
Speaker 1: as we have had acquiring premier talent, every little bit helps, right,
Speaker 1: and you eventually have to pay the piper on that
Speaker 1: premiere talent, because remember this is the year for big
Speaker 1: Rob for Christian, for Andrew Van Ginkel, a former first second,
Speaker 1: fifth round draft pick that had been drafted and developed
Speaker 1: into absolute studs in this program. But also other guys
Speaker 1: we've acquired along the way, like Deshaun Elliott, a very
Speaker 1: solid first year here in Miami. Isaiah Win same story
Speaker 1: prior to his season ending injury. Connor Williams, a bigger
Speaker 1: free agent acquisition who played up to that deal and
Speaker 1: I would say exceeded his value in that deal, is
Speaker 1: now set to hit free agency once again. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the draft, going back that way, Austin Jackson already done
Speaker 1: a two extension actually would free up money this year,
Speaker 1: most likely because those big quarterback deals tend to get
Speaker 1: money pushed down the back end of that contract before
Speaker 1: you rework it or re extend it once again. Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones and ray Kwon Davis both going to probably sign
Speaker 1: decent veteran deals at least, you know, for a few
Speaker 1: million bucks on the open market, i'd imagine. I mean,
Speaker 1: how about that twenty twenty draft class. Six players from
Speaker 1: the first three rounds. I think it's safe to say
Speaker 1: five of them will be starters on second contracts, either
Speaker 1: here in Miami or somewhere else.
Speaker 3: But then the next year, like Waddle, Phillips and Holland.
Speaker 1: My point is when you draft that well, you eventually
Speaker 1: have to pay, and that extra eight million is literally
Speaker 1: a year worth of a quality player or a couple
Speaker 1: of players. You can kick the money down the road
Speaker 1: on and bring in two or three quality players. That
Speaker 1: could be extra money for Christian Wilkins. That could be
Speaker 1: year one entirely of Tua's new extension. That could be
Speaker 1: a full year of Javon Holland, that could be one
Speaker 1: of Robert Hunt's years. You get what I'm saying here,
Speaker 1: It's a big deal, so hopefully that does become a reality.
Speaker 1: And there's a little bit of other news in here
Speaker 1: before we get to the actual free agent primer, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Here it's that Ronnie Bradford, per reports, will
Speaker 1: be a senior special teams assistant. He played dB in
Speaker 1: the NFL, was the coordinator last year on defense at Montana.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you guys that don't know about
Speaker 1: the Northwest football world, the Montana Grizz are an FCS
Speaker 1: powerhouse and their fans take football very, very seriously, so
Speaker 1: he got some football education up there. He's been an
Speaker 1: assistant in the NFL for quite a while. He was
Speaker 1: on the Broncos staff during McDaniel's first year in the
Speaker 1: NFL back in five. So we have some changes there
Speaker 1: to special teams and the defensive side of the football
Speaker 1: heading into the new year. We also added one in
Speaker 1: Parks Frasier, who was the Panther's pass game coordinator last
Speaker 1: year after working with the Colts prior to that. And
Speaker 1: I saw a pretty cool story on him about his
Speaker 1: time out of college working with the Colts, and it
Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of me a little bit. Football
Speaker 1: is the only thing he cared about, woke up at
Speaker 1: five point thirty to get to the office, left at midnight,
Speaker 1: just grinded, indicated himself with the game of football.
Speaker 3: To achieve his dreams. Pretty cool.
Speaker 1: The article is called what It's Like to be Frank
Speaker 1: Reich's right hand man on the Indie Star. Just type
Speaker 1: it into Google and you'll find it. All right, So,
Speaker 1: before we get into free agency here content wars. I
Speaker 1: talked about it on the show on Monday, but I
Speaker 1: wanted to go more into it like this, and the
Speaker 1: more I think about it, like, look, so first off,
Speaker 1: you shouldn't treat all of these podcasts or you know,
Speaker 1: air quote content creators as like professionals because most of
Speaker 1: them aren't. And I'm not throwing shade here, I'm just
Speaker 1: being real about ninety nine percent of the people that
Speaker 1: do this don't make real money off it.
Speaker 3: It's a hobby.
Speaker 1: I mean, they might be making enough to have a
Speaker 1: nice red robin date night with the misses once a year,
Speaker 1: you know, like fifty bucks. So when you raise this whole,
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're giving him a platform idea. I'm
Speaker 1: with you on that, but that's not really a platform.
Speaker 1: We understand that do we get that? And bragging about
Speaker 1: your YouTube subscribers, Guys, it doesn't mean anything. Podcast downloads
Speaker 1: don't mean anything. Subscribers are not watchers. Listen through rate
Speaker 1: return rate. There are several metrics that advertisers look at,
Speaker 1: and I promise you subscribers is not one they hand
Speaker 1: over checks based upon. It might help them, but they
Speaker 1: have to find out that you're actually getting your ads
Speaker 1: to the people they want to sell you. And the
Speaker 1: guy that was bragging about his following, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: name names here. He's a freaking aggregator.
Speaker 3: Man. Watch his channel one time. He aggregates what other
Speaker 3: people do. That's not a creator. That's a freaking thief man.
Speaker 1: It's what the people on Twitter that all of a
Speaker 1: sudden do per shifter, like yeah, just hit the retweet button.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like Twitter blue, like the Twitter model.
Speaker 1: Fuck freaking sucks, man. I hate it so much and
Speaker 1: look something for everybody, right, I don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of the content. I haven't watched daytime debate shows since
Speaker 1: the pandemic, and that just spoke to how bored I was.
Speaker 1: I wasn't into him then I had nothing to do
Speaker 1: all day. I don't take in every Dolphins podcast. I
Speaker 1: don't take in any Dolphins podcasts, but listen to one.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be Kyle Crabs.
Speaker 1: I think there's another one you can learn from two
Speaker 1: that The Three Arts per Carry is a good educational
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast as well.
Speaker 3: I think there's a couple more that are fun shows.
Speaker 1: A great shows, perfect Phil for examples, a great podcast.
Speaker 1: Jake and Josh have a fun podcast. And I apologize
Speaker 1: to I'm out there. I haven't heard them all, Like Showtime,
Speaker 1: for instance, has a fun Twitter spaces.
Speaker 3: I've heard you guys. Tell me about a couple of podcasts.
Speaker 1: Oh, I can't think of the name of it right now,
Speaker 1: But there are plenty of Dolphins podcasts out there for everybody.
Speaker 1: But again, if your whole shtick, and this is going
Speaker 1: back to you know, the content warriors idea and the
Speaker 1: YouTube subscriber guy, if your whole stick was that Skyler
Speaker 1: Thompson was the best quarterback on the roster his entire
Speaker 1: rookie year, behind a guy who finished first and passer
Speaker 1: rating and then led the league in passing this year.
Speaker 1: Like the jig is up, You've taken a path and
Speaker 1: you have to stay in that lane. It's a grift, right,
Speaker 1: we all understand that. Don't talk about like, you know,
Speaker 1: freaking what is it?
Speaker 3: Candy man?
Speaker 1: Don't say the candy man's name and you won't find
Speaker 1: the candy man. Plus, you know, and I go back
Speaker 1: to the Twitter platform for this. I blame Elon's lumpy
Speaker 1: ass for this. Twitter just seems to have made it
Speaker 1: so much worse with how it's evolved, promoting this stuff
Speaker 1: over real actual content, Like you're feeding into these this
Speaker 1: negative world that we don't want to live in, incentivizing
Speaker 1: people to be morons online like cool model, bro, I'm
Speaker 1: sure eighty percent of the Twitter world that's basically bots
Speaker 1: just spamming every tweet you have with their check out
Speaker 1: this and my bio check out. Oh a perfect way
Speaker 1: to pick games, Like Oh it sucks man, I miss
Speaker 1: what Twitter used to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it wasn't like it used to be. But also
Speaker 3: just ignore it. That's really all there is to it.
Speaker 1: There's so much good Dolphins content out there, why bother
Speaker 1: with that nonsense? And then to address the stuff that
Speaker 1: ties back to me personally here and this was what
Speaker 1: you can't tell It makes me a little bit mad,
Speaker 1: makes me a little bit annoyed is that I'm a
Speaker 1: propaganda machine, right, I mean, you don't listen to the
Speaker 1: show if you think that. I don't say this to
Speaker 1: like try to prove myself. But it's a slap in
Speaker 1: the face man when you just say, oh, look at
Speaker 1: his title. He can't provide honest analysis. And it goes
Speaker 1: back to you know, I don't want to name names,
Speaker 1: but someone that is I'm talking about here mentioned me
Speaker 1: as a non reliable source because of my job, and
Speaker 1: he used to work for the team.
Speaker 3: You know who it is.
Speaker 1: Now, Like, come on, man, And first off, all of
Speaker 1: you listening to this notes bs because well, you listen
Speaker 1: to the podcast this year, you listen to where I
Speaker 1: think the shortcomings were all year long.
Speaker 3: But also, this is my job.
Speaker 1: I'm paid to watch coaching clinics. I'm paid to learn
Speaker 1: how to study film and then to study that film
Speaker 1: and then provide content off of it. I started doing
Speaker 1: this for the love of the game, man, and then
Speaker 1: I started to get paid for it. And I promise
Speaker 1: you ninety nine percent of these content creators don't care
Speaker 1: to study the game at that level because it's boring
Speaker 1: unless you love doing it. So when that person discredits me,
Speaker 1: or someone that watches that content discredits me because.
Speaker 3: They tell the truth.
Speaker 1: Look, you can't tell the truth if you don't understand
Speaker 1: what the hell you're talking about. Like how many times
Speaker 1: are we gonna let that man I'm changing gears now
Speaker 1: spout off some wildly incorrect nonsense and just be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's the truth teller. He tells you how it is,
Speaker 1: the things that you don't want to hear, he'll tell
Speaker 1: you that, cool man, that's a separate deal. And again,
Speaker 1: like I mean to that point, back to you know,
Speaker 1: platforming grifters, Like can we stop talking out both sides
Speaker 1: of our mouth? Because that's exactly what happens here. Like
Speaker 1: I thought we were rid of this in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: but it lasted for just one season. This particular individual
Speaker 1: warned us for months about cap opelypse or whatever the
Speaker 1: hell you say it is, how however you say it,
Speaker 1: And then today that same person said the Dolphins owner
Speaker 1: can't help him sell from making the big free agent splash,
Speaker 1: so it's going to happen again.
Speaker 3: Like dude, what what.
Speaker 1: You just say things to say them, because that's not
Speaker 1: there's not a plane of existence in this world where
Speaker 1: both of those two things can be true to just
Speaker 1: nonchalantly throw out there that idea out there, and that
Speaker 1: people that I have no idea why they haven't caught
Speaker 1: onto it yet, they lap it up and they eat
Speaker 1: it up and they spread it like wildfire, and it
Speaker 1: becomes this narrative that I have to now spend time
Speaker 1: on my show addressing because I'm gonna get these questions
Speaker 1: about why with the Dolphins spend big and freege, like,
Speaker 1: just please stop spreading the opinions of people who clearly
Speaker 1: don't put the work in or have any idea what
Speaker 1: they're talking about.
Speaker 3: Golly, you know. And back to the idea of doing
Speaker 3: this for the love of the game. These guys don't
Speaker 3: do that. Man, It's boring to do unless you love it.
Speaker 1: And so when that person discredits me, or someone that
Speaker 1: watches the content discredits me because they want to tell
Speaker 1: the truth, it just drives me nuts because you're hiding
Speaker 1: your ignorance in this whole I tell the truth idea.
Speaker 1: And I used to write and delete tweets that I
Speaker 1: cannot send because of my job and send them my
Speaker 1: friends like, hey, look at my funny I made. And
Speaker 1: I'll never ever ever forget a ben Volan tweet? Who
Speaker 1: is a study t D. Cunningham right like he's he
Speaker 1: actually paved his way of the journalism degree and worked
Speaker 1: in the field before he realized outrage and grifting was
Speaker 1: the selling point. He had a tweet once, and in
Speaker 1: fact it was right after we'd just beaten Buffalo to
Speaker 1: get to three and zero in twenty twenty two, you know,
Speaker 1: one week after four seventy and six, and the tweet
Speaker 1: was this the irony of Jalen Hurts being a better
Speaker 1: pro quarterback than mac Jones and Tua. And my response was,
Speaker 1: if I ever become so irrelevant in this space that
Speaker 1: the only way to generate engagement is to tweet shit
Speaker 1: talk about one player every day, You guys have to
Speaker 1: promise me you'll put me out to pasture. Don't believe
Speaker 1: me if I tell you I wasn't bitten. I was.
Speaker 3: I will never do that, man. That's the point of this,
Speaker 3: all the stuff.
Speaker 1: But really, to me, it's talking out both sides your mouth,
Speaker 1: making stuff up that you clearly demonstrate you don't have
Speaker 1: an idea what you're talking about. And then it comes
Speaker 1: down to people like myself or Kyle or ck to
Speaker 1: disprove the nonsense that you just threw out there because
Speaker 1: you didn't want to study up on the actual job itself.
Speaker 3: Oh it's tiring, boss.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our first break right there,
Speaker 1: come back and do my top ten free agents going
Speaker 1: into late February. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoation. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and jump into the meat of this episode here. And
Speaker 1: it's been this way for decades. But is it sort
Speaker 1: of weird to anybody else that we have this kind
Speaker 1: of mix of draft free agent events intertwined throughout this
Speaker 1: portion of the calendar. I suppose maybe there's no other
Speaker 1: way to do it given the structure of the NFL
Speaker 1: off season, But like, I will be all in on
Speaker 1: draft content next week at the Combine, but then we
Speaker 1: turn right back into free agency and.
Speaker 3: It kind of goes back and forth like that for
Speaker 3: quite a while.
Speaker 1: I suppose I only noticed it as a content creator
Speaker 1: and someone whose work follows that calendar. And the reason
Speaker 1: for that prelude is that we will be flipping back
Speaker 1: to combine draft content by the very next episode. But
Speaker 1: I've taken some time last week or so firing up
Speaker 1: game pass getting a look at some of the Vets
Speaker 1: who caught my eye on the upcoming free agency list,
Speaker 1: players I think could help us in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: and beyond. Now. I did use potential compensation and the
Speaker 1: financial implications of these players when selecting them. I will, not, however,
Speaker 1: discuss that in the rundown of these players, simply because
Speaker 1: that's just like the fourth branch of the if this,
Speaker 1: then that tree, and that to me seems like a
Speaker 1: poor use of time. So instead, I just found the
Speaker 1: players that I think are hashtag good football players and
Speaker 1: that I think you could find a specific role for
Speaker 1: them on the team, and those that coincide with some
Speaker 1: of the things I thought we came up short on
Speaker 1: last year. Does that make sense trying to fix some
Speaker 1: of the holes here. First, there's a panic across twitterbo
Speaker 1: the cap situation, right, And I remind you that Chris
Speaker 1: Greer said this back in January. I mean, at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we have good players here, everyone
Speaker 1: will have a market. We're not really right now concerned
Speaker 1: about where we'll be in March salary cap wise.
Speaker 3: And then he would go on and talk about how.
Speaker 1: Brandon Shore and Max and Politano have made creativity and
Speaker 1: flexibility in their contracts, which creates that flexibility for how
Speaker 1: you get in and out of deals after they happen.
Speaker 1: So that's contract structure, baby, that's the flexibility of Chris
Speaker 1: Greer is speaking to. And if it's not a one off,
Speaker 1: it's every off season. And quite frankly, the entire NFL
Speaker 1: has sort of adopted more of a short term thinking
Speaker 1: philosophy that kind of goes along with this, Like, I
Speaker 1: know a lot of you guys are my age and
Speaker 1: probably remember how it was even five years ago where
Speaker 1: it'd be upteen billion dollars in a long term commitment altogether,
Speaker 1: and that's where you're gonna finish your career. We don't
Speaker 1: really get those deals anymore, like you'll get three year
Speaker 1: deals at most, it seems like for the most part
Speaker 1: when it comes to the free agent market. And then
Speaker 1: to couple that, frequently you see this idea of cost
Speaker 1: of certain needs versus available funds. And the best part
Speaker 1: of the Dolphins roster is that tuas the quarterback, Tyreek
Speaker 1: and Waddle or receivers Armstead and Austin Earth, tackles JP
Speaker 1: and Chubb or Edges and Jalen Ramsey's a cornerback. That's
Speaker 1: eight of our give or take, top fifteen players right
Speaker 1: in that range. Some are excluded, like Javon Holland. I
Speaker 1: say the combo of Zach and Christian if ninety four
Speaker 1: is back, because that's getting there.
Speaker 3: Do you guys know where I'm going? And do you
Speaker 3: know what those positions are?
Speaker 1: That's right, they're the most expensive as far as what
Speaker 1: costs the most average salary per player per position goes
Speaker 1: like this, quarterback, edge, receiver, literally three spots we have
Speaker 1: like a very good quarterback, dominant edges and dominant receivers.
Speaker 1: Right cornerback we have probably the best in the game
Speaker 1: in Jaylen Ramsey. Offensive tackle, we have two of those
Speaker 1: guys if one doesn't retire, I mean, depending on what
Speaker 1: happens with some vets there, you could argue we don't
Speaker 1: have any true needs at those spots.
Speaker 3: And interior defensive line is.
Speaker 1: Next, by the way, And where do we rank in
Speaker 1: these positions in terms of our cost commitments? So right now,
Speaker 1: quarterback seventeenth, I tell you what two is better than seventeenth?
Speaker 1: Quarterback in the NFL? Receiver eighth. What if I told
Speaker 1: you the Chargers, Seahawks, Bucks, Raiders, Broncos all pay more
Speaker 1: for the receivers than the Miami Dolphins do. Tackles were sixth,
Speaker 1: but O line on balance is twenty sixth. We're also
Speaker 1: due to repay three interior starts. That kind of tracks
Speaker 1: there at the edge eighth most money committed there and
Speaker 1: at corner first, but that's some Byron Jones left over
Speaker 1: X will have from left over there and Ramsey obviously
Speaker 1: paid very highly. But the other half of the position
Speaker 1: positional premium running backs the twelfth most money tight ends
Speaker 1: twenty first, Interior d line eleventh see look guy his extension.
Speaker 1: Wilkins on the fifth year option was a big money
Speaker 1: maker this year. Off ball linebacker just fifteenth and safety
Speaker 1: thirty first. And that's where your needs are right Well,
Speaker 1: we maybe need a corner when X is gone and
Speaker 1: you reduce that figure big time. But then that's why
Speaker 1: you draft Campsmith and have him step into that spot
Speaker 1: and take over. We really need Campsmith this year. You
Speaker 1: might have a need a safety I like DeShawn for
Speaker 1: that role. You can wipe away a lot of those
Speaker 1: interior line issues with re signing your own guys. You
Speaker 1: probably need an off ball linebacker, provided you move on
Speaker 1: from fifty five.
Speaker 3: Is that tendall? Is it a draft pick?
Speaker 1: Is it a bargain free agent? Probably interior defensive line.
Speaker 1: If you move off Christian that will go another direction,
Speaker 1: but hopefully we do not. And then tight end you
Speaker 1: probably need it.
Speaker 3: You don't need a.
Speaker 1: Running back, Maybe you need additional edge. I'd run it
Speaker 1: back even with the injuries, and I'm talking about forty three.
Speaker 1: He give you a Van Ginkle back in the building,
Speaker 1: provided he agrees to another one year deal here coming
Speaker 1: off injury. So with all that in mind, with all
Speaker 1: those needs and potential money moving around and everything that
Speaker 1: could go into this, I put together a list of
Speaker 1: ten guys I love their tape and potential fit from
Speaker 1: their perspective of a current list of available free agents
Speaker 1: as of February twenty first, and that list starts with
Speaker 1: Kenny Moore, a cornerback in Indianapolis, a five foot nine,
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety pounds slot with a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: to his name. It should be more than that. Over
Speaker 1: seven years. He's twenty nine in August. He has seventeen
Speaker 1: career picks in one hundred and three games. He has
Speaker 1: eighty nine starts and he has two picks sixes just
Speaker 1: this last year. Why is Kenny Moore a top the list?
Speaker 1: Travis Well, I've always been a huge fan of his game,
Speaker 1: and sometimes you might worry about age getting close to
Speaker 1: thirty for a corner, but twenty twenty three was the
Speaker 1: best year of Kenny Moore's career. It's pretty rare that
Speaker 1: he missed his time. He missed one game last year
Speaker 1: in five and twenty twenty two, but didn't miss a
Speaker 1: game in the two years prior. He's just shy of
Speaker 1: four thousand snaps played those last two years. And while
Speaker 1: he is a primary slot, he's also play laid on
Speaker 1: the perimeter for a Colts team that really had some
Speaker 1: cornerback depth issues the last couple of years. He's in
Speaker 1: the slot better than seventy percent of the time. He
Speaker 1: averages right around two pass rush attempts per game, which
Speaker 1: is effective as hell. He has sack production pressure impacting
Speaker 1: plays which also shows up. And his run game production
Speaker 1: where he made thirty four stops last year. Remember last
Speaker 1: season when all I could talk about was Cater Kohu's
Speaker 1: twenty two stops in the run screen game thirty four
Speaker 1: for Kenny Moore this year, I was third most among
Speaker 1: slot cornerbacks. He also allowed five hundred and ninety four
Speaker 1: yards on five hundred and ninety four coverage snaps. We
Speaker 1: know that one is a great figure there, especially inside
Speaker 1: in the slot. His career cover numbers are outstanding. I
Speaker 1: don't usually like passer rating allowed because like the main
Speaker 1: job of the cornerback is to not be targeted, but
Speaker 1: also over a seven year career, you begin to get
Speaker 1: a sample size. Right, his passer rating allows ninety three
Speaker 1: point four in his career. That's on five hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty targets. And in fact, his yards allowed per coverage
Speaker 1: snap were the lowest of his career this last year,
Speaker 1: so much for a decline right. In fact, corners this
Speaker 1: year had the Among corners, he had the fifth most
Speaker 1: tackles and second and most among slots. He also had
Speaker 1: eight TFLs, which was the most among a slot cornerback
Speaker 1: this year. He's a premiere slot. He's shifty, he's physical,
Speaker 1: he has long speed. He loves to hit and take
Speaker 1: on blocks. He loves to tell you about it as well.
Speaker 1: I just can't say enough Aboutkennymore. He's my favorite player.
Speaker 1: I think on the entire free agent list in terms
Speaker 1: of what the Dolphins could need and use in this defense.
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: I don't view the running back position as a need,
Speaker 1: but even still, it's usually an area you can address
Speaker 1: somewhere in the draft or even low end to the
Speaker 1: free agent market, especially when you have what we have
Speaker 1: in the backfield. But the reason I list Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: here is for the solution I believe he could provide
Speaker 1: to one of the biggest things defenses did just slow
Speaker 1: us down late in the year. If you play too
Speaker 1: high against Dereck Henry, the ball goes there, and then
Speaker 1: you have to tackle the most physically imposing running back
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL with a light box
Speaker 1: who also happens to run four to four on the
Speaker 1: back end. And if you don't get it fitted right
Speaker 1: and you miss your run fit and you have missed assignments,
Speaker 1: you now open up this fun Pandora's box of a
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pound man who can get to
Speaker 1: top speed in three or four steps and a top
Speaker 1: speed that is four to four. And you unleash that
Speaker 1: on your two safeties who are giving up fifty pounds
Speaker 1: of this man to try to tackle a moving semi
Speaker 1: truck from a stand still position, and we've seen a
Speaker 1: lot of highlights that have become NFL lore as a
Speaker 1: result of that, usually Derek Henry stiff farming some cornerback
Speaker 1: into oblivion. So this is more about a fit in
Speaker 1: terms of here's an issue, here's a one step solved
Speaker 1: to that issue. Henry can still do it, man, Like
Speaker 1: I know we all watched that finale last year and
Speaker 1: hope the Jags win that game against the Titans and
Speaker 1: turn the Sunday night football game into a lose and
Speaker 1: out situation for the Bills. But they couldn't stop Derek
Speaker 1: Henry in that game and what was considered a down
Speaker 1: year for him, he had eleven hundred and sixty seven
Speaker 1: yards on two hundred and eighty carries. He also scored
Speaker 1: twelve touchdowns, but that's common for him. He has not
Speaker 1: scored fewer than double digit touchdowns since twenty seventeen, twelve, sixteen, seventeen, ten,
Speaker 1: and thirteen and twelve. He'll be thirty this year. I'm
Speaker 1: sure he'll have a mark. But man, what a fit
Speaker 1: he would be if he doesn't have a job in
Speaker 1: like training camp. I'd be like, hey, hey, Derek, what
Speaker 1: you got going on this fall man?
Speaker 3: CJ.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson's next, and it's it's pretty much Kenny Moore
Speaker 1: replica here, and it's whatever you want him to be,
Speaker 1: to be perfectly honest. Terms of his position, think Javon Holland.
Speaker 1: He can be one of the top slot guys. He
Speaker 1: can play too high, he can rush the quarterback, he
Speaker 1: can buzz from disguise, cover one, cover three looks. He's
Speaker 1: got the instincts, natural athletic ability, and perhaps the most
Speaker 1: bravado of anybody in the National Football League. He signed
Speaker 1: a one year deal with the Lions last year and
Speaker 1: missed most of the season, played just three games, was
Speaker 1: back for the playoffs. Actually picked off Baker Mayfield in
Speaker 1: that Divisional round game, but that's just what he does.
Speaker 1: Twelve career picks, a couple of forced fumbles, thirty nine
Speaker 1: plays in the football, twenty tackles for loss, fourteen QB hits,
Speaker 1: four sacks, He just finds the football. Seventeen hundred of
Speaker 1: his thirty three hundred career snaps are in the slot.
Speaker 1: He played a lot more free safety with the Lions
Speaker 1: and Eagles the last two years than he did with
Speaker 1: the Saints the previous couple years. Prior to that, he
Speaker 1: played eleven snaw in the post between twenty and twenty one,
Speaker 1: but then played four hundred and forty three two years
Speaker 1: ago and one fifty three this year with Detroit. So
Speaker 1: if you want to be versatile and hide who's going
Speaker 1: where with that Hall and Ramsey look, the way Baltimore
Speaker 1: did with Hamilton and Humphrey and Stevens and Malet, then
Speaker 1: there's another guy that gets you a closer to achieving
Speaker 1: that ideal look. And that guy is Chauncey Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 1: He's going to battle. He's feisty as hell. He might
Speaker 1: get a couple of flags on himself for taunting and
Speaker 1: being too much in your face, but he's a hitter
Speaker 1: and a playmaker who can really if he gets a
Speaker 1: couple of wins early in a game, he can take
Speaker 1: a guy like a Tyreek Kill for instance, Like he
Speaker 1: can take a guy that out of the game because
Speaker 1: he can get in their heads so well. He is
Speaker 1: a unique prep player in prospect that I've always loved,
Speaker 1: going back to his Florida days. Speaking of prospects, I love.
Speaker 1: Let's do one more here and then go ahead and
Speaker 1: take our last break of the show. Tight End Noah Fant.
Speaker 1: I think you're starting to see the first round talent
Speaker 1: of him come out the last couple of years. A
Speaker 1: middle of the field presence with ty end tight end
Speaker 1: speed who can contribute as a blocker. He's going into
Speaker 1: his age twenty sixth season, and that's a pretty try
Speaker 1: and true breakout age for some tight ends. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at the specimen aspect of it that you're buying
Speaker 1: in on was literally ninety eight percent tile among tight
Speaker 1: end and vertical jump, broad jump, shuttle, three cone, forty
Speaker 1: yard dash, twenty and ten yard splits, and that showed
Speaker 1: up on Seahawks tape all year long. He's six foot four,
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pounds. He's an f tight end
Speaker 1: at a move tight end, more pass catcher than anything else.
Speaker 1: He's caught thirty two. Last year he caught thirty two
Speaker 1: four fourteen and didn't have a touchdown. I think there's
Speaker 1: enormous untapped potential there though, because he only missed two
Speaker 1: games in a five year career. The targets were way
Speaker 1: down last year, just forty three, but when he was
Speaker 1: a ninety target player in Denver and with Seattle over
Speaker 1: ten yards per catch with sixty two and sixty eight grabs.
Speaker 1: I mean he averaged four touchdowns per year prior to
Speaker 1: this year and was consistently a six hundred yard receiver
Speaker 1: who blocks. Because you go back over his tape at
Speaker 1: Iowa or Denver or in Seattle, there's wide zone runs
Speaker 1: where he's the leading charge around the corner and making
Speaker 1: these Julian Hill type of blocks. I think this is
Speaker 1: a fit for your split flow action, your jet and
Speaker 1: sheet motion. And the more I study him, the more
Speaker 1: I think that I might have him too low here.
Speaker 1: And I also think calling him an f tight end
Speaker 1: might not be fair. He might just be a tight
Speaker 1: end because he looks like the part in terms of blocking.
Speaker 1: And I think I've just convinced myself the move here
Speaker 1: is to sign Fan and then draft Corley in the
Speaker 1: second round.
Speaker 3: You can the team pretty good that way. Let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and take a break right there.
Speaker 1: Come back on the other side, finish up the final
Speaker 1: free agents here, and I'll give you a mock twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four lineup. That's next Draft Time podcast to your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 3: We got what three players in right there.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up the list here on
Speaker 1: the third segment of the Wednesday edition of the Draft
Speaker 1: Time podcast, and start with the receiver Kendrick Bourne six
Speaker 1: foot one, two hundred and five pounds, exceptional track record
Speaker 1: of giving his absolute all in the blocking game, making
Speaker 1: tough catches, being dependable in terms of not missing games,
Speaker 1: and always being where he's supposed to be. I mean
Speaker 1: to start your career with literally the first year of
Speaker 1: Shanahan in San Francisco, then to get signed by McDaniel's
Speaker 1: Patriots offense in twenty twenty one, a system that is
Speaker 1: famous for incredibly for being incredibly tough on wide receivers
Speaker 1: to pick up and learn and master, and then to
Speaker 1: go on to have a fifty five eight hundred and
Speaker 1: five numbers in his first season. That's pretty damn good.
Speaker 1: Now he is coming off a torn ACL he's suffered
Speaker 1: against US in October.
Speaker 3: But this is one of those rare.
Speaker 1: Situations where I feel like you almost have no guesswork,
Speaker 1: which is rarely the case in free agency. It's a
Speaker 1: good to me supplemental option to give you a fallback
Speaker 1: if you don't get the type of progress you hope
Speaker 1: for from Eric Azuokama, you hope he has in year
Speaker 1: number three. Kendrick Bourne a really good low end option,
Speaker 1: I think, in my opinion, here for the Dolphins, Mike
Speaker 1: Unwinnu for the Patriots, here's your offensive line meet back
Speaker 1: to back Patriots. Look, we talked about it as good
Speaker 1: as the line was at times this year, the interior
Speaker 1: three and playing against power in general, struggled to stay
Speaker 1: healthy and to hold up against bigger defensive lines. And
Speaker 1: on one who is a pretty natural fit at guard
Speaker 1: who can also play tackle and do it well. I'd
Speaker 1: actually be surprised if he gets out of New England
Speaker 1: because three hundred and fifty pound guys that move like
Speaker 1: him don't grow on trees. But also he could probably
Speaker 1: garner tackle money, and if you go big guard money,
Speaker 1: do you just go to rob hum with that? Either way,
Speaker 1: But I wanted to put him on here because he's
Speaker 1: the best player on the crop in my opinion, and
Speaker 1: his year to year pass block efficiency grades are ninety
Speaker 1: seven point three, ninety eight point seven, ninety eight point one,
Speaker 1: and ninety eight point one. Again, he's a maller in
Speaker 1: the run game, a very very good player, Mike Unwinning,
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuels next. I was big on him in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one as a free agent, we got Will Fuller instead,
Speaker 1: whoops when he was up for that new deal. I
Speaker 1: know every time we discussed a wide receiver, sometimes just
Speaker 1: in general, but when we discuss one with similar traits
Speaker 1: of ten and seventeen, there's going to be pushback about
Speaker 1: the overkill at the position. But in my mind, adding
Speaker 1: another one of those skill sets just accentuates what each
Speaker 1: of them do really well, a little bit more. Another
Speaker 1: guy they have to keep eyes on to take eyes
Speaker 1: off of your other guys. Another guy that if he's
Speaker 1: single covered, can flip the game. Weapons, weapons, weapons man.
Speaker 1: It's hard to believe he'll be just twenty eight in August.
Speaker 1: It feels like he's been playing the NFL for twelve
Speaker 1: years now. He's caught sixty two for six thirteen and
Speaker 1: four this year. He's been a nine one hundred target
Speaker 1: guy in that range really each of the last five years,
Speaker 1: sans twenty twenty one when he missed twelve games, and
Speaker 1: then this year of course, the Commander's offense was awful.
Speaker 1: But think jet sweeps, think slot speed, think vertical threat,
Speaker 1: think backfield alignments. He caught five of eight deep targets
Speaker 1: this year, which doesn't meet the threshold for qualifiers, but
Speaker 1: it would have been the highest catch ray on deep
Speaker 1: balls if it did. He played fifteen snaps in the backfield,
Speaker 1: four hundred and four on the slot and one fifty
Speaker 1: out wide. He caught forty of fifty seven targets from
Speaker 1: the slot for three twenty six and three touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: definitely a position of need there for Miami and something
Speaker 1: he could fill and hopefully a more bargain level free
Speaker 1: agent contract. Isaiah Simmons is next kind of like Chauncey
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson. You want matchup pieces, right, guys that are
Speaker 1: flexible to play different roles from multiple positions. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what made Isaiah Simmons a top ten draft pick
Speaker 1: once upon time. They never quite seemed to figure out
Speaker 1: what they wanted him to be in Arizona. So he's
Speaker 1: dealt to the Giants for cheap and wink. Martin del
Speaker 1: finds some roles for him while learning a new defense
Speaker 1: and route to a year where he matched his pressure high,
Speaker 1: he came close and stops career high, and he had
Speaker 1: the best cover numbers of his career. In fact, he
Speaker 1: was PFF's highest graded coverage linebacker. And if you want
Speaker 1: to talk about a player profile, I mean ninetieth percentile
Speaker 1: literally everything. At six foot three, two hundred and forty pounds,
Speaker 1: running like a wide receiver. Gosh, he was fun at Clemson.
Speaker 1: A nice guy that could be a potential one year
Speaker 1: bargain type of deal there for the Dolphins. Julian Blackman
Speaker 1: has safety from Indianapolis, another college crush of mine. Blackman
Speaker 1: could fully unlock Javon Holland because he can be one
Speaker 1: of the top post safeties in the game with a
Speaker 1: good instinct for him to come downhill and flow and
Speaker 1: get an extra hat in the box in the fit,
Speaker 1: one of the surest tackles. When he decides to go,
Speaker 1: he sees it and he goes. You'll see him recognize
Speaker 1: pre snap motion that kind of takes a route out
Speaker 1: of his responsibility, out of his task. He'll see the
Speaker 1: run game action off that and just goes.
Speaker 3: Man he hits it.
Speaker 1: I think those are the kind of players that help
Speaker 1: you maximize other playmakers on your defense. He's six foot
Speaker 1: he's six feet tall well, two hundred and two pounds,
Speaker 1: has seven career picks twelve tackles for loss. He had
Speaker 1: been a most exclusively a free safety until this year
Speaker 1: when they gave him nearly five hundred snaps down in
Speaker 1: the box. The previous high was seventy, and he made
Speaker 1: like thirty stops and has like the lowest mistackle rate
Speaker 1: of his career by seven point four percent. It's a
Speaker 1: hell of a player and a guy that I like
Speaker 1: quite a lot. And we finished with the list here
Speaker 1: top ten with Grover Stewart. How come nine of the
Speaker 1: ten guys my list here were some on some team
Speaker 1: with a variation of blue in their color. Weird either way.
Speaker 1: Grover Stewart is the definition of a nas kicker. He
Speaker 1: actually gets flagged sometimes for playing through the echo of
Speaker 1: the whistle. There's someone Dominican su in terms of his
Speaker 1: temperament there, and I can bet you know kind of
Speaker 1: like I can beat everybody up out here and they
Speaker 1: all know it. He's six foot four, three hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds. He's a three tech with one tech shade
Speaker 1: ability as well, who probably doesn't have the same end
Speaker 1: and five tech chops that Christian or zach Szeeler has,
Speaker 1: like you probably don't kick him out to play end
Speaker 1: probably ever, but he collects stops for a living twenty
Speaker 1: four this year despite missing six games. He had thirty
Speaker 1: eight the year prior on just three hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: six rundown snaps. He played seven hundred and eighty one
Speaker 1: total snaps, a career high that year. So he's not
Speaker 1: giving you a Christian snap, but he's close. I guess
Speaker 1: he's an incredible building block inside because he almost never
Speaker 1: gets washed out, holds the point against double teams. He
Speaker 1: can get movement displacement as a rusher, which is a
Speaker 1: key for a defense that wants to run games, and
Speaker 1: green dog and delay blits you.
Speaker 3: He's just a force. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Ten guys that have caught my eye in the free
Speaker 1: agent planning portion of the calendar. On Friday, I'll do
Speaker 1: some prospects and this will kind of, I guess, give
Speaker 1: it away here on the podcast, But I wanted to
Speaker 1: have a mock lineup for you guys here just for
Speaker 1: the fun of it, because it's the off season. If
Speaker 1: I gave you this roster in September, how would you
Speaker 1: feel Tua at quarterback, Raheem and a chant running back,
Speaker 1: Tyreek and Wallle your top two receivers. Malachai Corley in
Speaker 1: the second round from Western Kentucky as your third receiver,
Speaker 1: Noah fant As your tight end who you signed in
Speaker 1: free agency. Those are your five skill position guys on
Speaker 1: the field, in addition to your quarterback. Your offensive line
Speaker 1: in this scenario is Tron Armstead. My left guard spot
Speaker 1: is where I kind of went cheap. I signed Isaiah
Speaker 1: Winn on a one year cheaper deal, and that has
Speaker 1: to be like even cheaper than was this year because
Speaker 1: he just can't count the guy to play sixteen seventeen games,
Speaker 1: and he's pair with Liam Eikenberg. I know you guys
Speaker 1: aren't gonna like that, but when Liam a left guard,
Speaker 1: I swear it's the one spot. I have a kind
Speaker 1: of a hole here on the roster.
Speaker 3: So Tua Heem and h.
Speaker 1: Chan, Tyreek, Waddle, Corley, Phant, Armstead, Win Slash, Liam Powers.
Speaker 1: Johnson's my first round pick there at center, Robert Hunt
Speaker 1: I re signed him at right guard, and Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: is the right tackle. On defense, my front goes Wilkins, Sealer, Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Chubb. I brought back gink on a cheap one
Speaker 1: year deal after the injury. Well, not cheap, but cheap
Speaker 1: comparative to what you maybe could have gotten without being injured.
Speaker 1: Long and Simmons are my linebackers. A free agent ad
Speaker 1: in Isaiah Simmons, and then my secondary is the same Ramsey,
Speaker 1: I got rid of x Cam Smith at the other
Speaker 1: perimeter qrnerback. My slot is Cater Kohu, but I also
Speaker 1: drafted Shaw Smith way to compete with him out of
Speaker 1: Washington State. And then Holland and Elliott safety. That's my
Speaker 1: time today. That is the podcast. You all please be
Speaker 1: sure to subscribe to the show on Apple wherever get
Speaker 1: your podcast from. If somebody tells you I'm a propaganda
Speaker 1: machine who can't be honest, tell him otherwise. Also follow
Speaker 1: me on social at Linkedal NFL. Follow the team at
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins or the Fish Tank podcast with Seth and Juice.
Speaker 1: Check out the YouTube channel for medi Availabilities, Dolphins Today,
Speaker 1: and so much more. Last butt not least Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: dot com. Until next time, Fin's up, Carolina Camera and Daddy,
Speaker 1: He's coming home.