Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: the mail Bag, I'm only answering your guys's questions. It's
Speaker 2: a long one. We're gonna get to all those. Let's
Speaker 2: jump in from the Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist
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Speaker 2: go ahead and crack open this mail bag?
Speaker 1: Do I have I do not have the Blues Clues
Speaker 1: mail drop?
Speaker 2: I should have that, really, I mean I could go
Speaker 2: put it in right now, but we're gonna skip over that.
Speaker 1: I tweeted about this and.
Speaker 2: I think it was last week, and then you guys
Speaker 2: put a bunch of great questions in there, and I
Speaker 2: wound up going way too deep on the a chan
Speaker 2: and corners versus pass rush debate or topic and wound
Speaker 2: up blowing right past a bunch of the mail bag questions.
Speaker 2: So I thought, let's go ahead and just dedicate a
Speaker 2: whole episode.
Speaker 1: To the mail bag.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of questions in there. You can do
Speaker 2: an entire show off of this stuff. And little transparency
Speaker 2: peak behind the curtain here open the kimono, whatever you
Speaker 2: want to say, peel back the onion. You guys really
Speaker 2: help me by doing that, because I've got so much
Speaker 2: content to get done before I go on paternity leave
Speaker 2: as my third child, my second daughter is going to
Speaker 2: get here sometime in mid to late June, and I
Speaker 2: have to basically have like five or six weeks of
Speaker 2: content ready and I have none of that done yet.
Speaker 2: So you guys really helped me kind of get a
Speaker 2: quick episode in and I can get to work on
Speaker 2: future episodes. So let's go ahead and jump into the
Speaker 2: mail bag here. I tweeted about this and it did
Speaker 2: come from the mail bag, but I thought it was
Speaker 2: worth pulling back up here because it's.
Speaker 1: How do I say this?
Speaker 2: Sometimes my frustrations with like the commentary of you know,
Speaker 2: other people covering the Dolphins is because I feel like
Speaker 2: it sometimes put the impetus on correcting that incorrect take,
Speaker 2: for instance, the three nose tackles things. To be as
Speaker 2: nice about as I possibly can, to have that thought,
Speaker 2: to have that level of understanding, it just means you
Speaker 2: haven't done the homework. And now I'm trying to be
Speaker 2: as kind as I can about that, because that's all
Speaker 2: that would produce that take, because if you just go
Speaker 2: back and watch the tape, if you go and look
Speaker 2: at the numbers, you can find the stuff. With a
Speaker 2: thirty second Google search, you can find it. And so
Speaker 2: I thought it was worth covering here because I tweeted
Speaker 2: about it, but I just want to go ahead and
Speaker 2: put it on the show. I put most of my
Speaker 2: content on this show, all of my content, I should say,
Speaker 2: and I only put a small amount of what I
Speaker 2: do on social anymore, because that's very much intentional.
Speaker 1: I would.
Speaker 2: For instance, I was just on a Twitter thread and
Speaker 2: it was a video of a guy turning down the television.
Speaker 2: They're at a family dinner and he was across the
Speaker 2: table from his wife and the television is on like
Speaker 2: volume thirty behind her head, and he turns down to
Speaker 2: like volume eight, and she looks up and acknowledges like, oh,
Speaker 2: thank you, sweetheart, Like he knew that she does not
Speaker 2: like a loud TV at family dinner, so he turned
Speaker 2: it down and she gave him like an unspoken thank you.
Speaker 2: And I went in the thread and every single reply
Speaker 2: was from a bot, obviously, but it was like, grock,
Speaker 2: explain this, what's happening? Why don't I understand this video.
Speaker 2: It's like, well, dude, because you haven't. All you do
Speaker 2: look at your phone day like you don't have an
Speaker 2: education because you're too stupid a thing for yourself. And
Speaker 2: that's why I don't really use Twitter anymore, because it's
Speaker 2: either boss or morons, and I just can't really deal
Speaker 2: with that. So I apologize if you're active on Twitter.
Speaker 2: There's some good accounts on there still, but it is
Speaker 2: a wretched website these days, and so I don't use
Speaker 2: it very often, but i'd use it for the Twitter
Speaker 2: mailbag when I need you guys just help producing the show.
Speaker 2: So I tweeted about it and it was about the
Speaker 2: nose tackle comment. So Kenneth Grant played almost three times
Speaker 2: as many snaps in the B gaps last year at
Speaker 2: Michigan as he did in the A gaps. The B
Speaker 2: gap means you are basically no further than the inside
Speaker 2: shoulder off of the guard or no further inside than that,
Speaker 2: and the A gaps are when you play head up
Speaker 2: over the center or off either either shoulder of the center.
Speaker 2: Jordan Phillips played two hundred and forty three snaps in
Speaker 2: the B gaps compared to two hundred and eighty three
Speaker 2: in the A gaps, So he did play more nos,
Speaker 2: but by forty snaps and compared to you know, two
Speaker 2: hundred and forty versus two hundred and eighty. And when
Speaker 2: I watched his tape, I mean the tape is the
Speaker 2: biggest indicator of all this stuff. Watch his tape and
Speaker 2: I think that he that the real professional upside and
Speaker 2: where you can unlock Jordan Phillips as a guy that
Speaker 2: I liked on on day two because of his upside
Speaker 2: is as like a three technique Christian Wilkins type who
Speaker 2: has pass rush wiggle but also the strength to hold
Speaker 2: a point against the run. It's like an eighty percent
Speaker 2: snap taker that I think he can be at that
Speaker 2: position with some work inside at the nose tackle. But
Speaker 2: I think that Zeke Biggers was drafted more because remember
Speaker 2: this is like going back to the thing like he
Speaker 2: didn't catch passes as a running back in college. Why
Speaker 2: is he going to do it as a pro. You
Speaker 2: can't say that because if he wasn't asked to do it,
Speaker 2: and that's all you have to go off of, and
Speaker 2: that's all you have to go off of.
Speaker 1: But once he gets to.
Speaker 2: The pros, he might have that workload expanded a little bit,
Speaker 2: And so if I watch a player at college, I
Speaker 2: don't just say that's all he's going to be. And
Speaker 2: that's why, like, these data points are great, but I
Speaker 2: want to extrapolate the film tolls me tells me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Kenneth Grant can be a disrupted to zero and one technique,
Speaker 2: but he also can play a three technique and win
Speaker 2: from that position. Jordan Phillips played more NOS and can
Speaker 2: do it, but I think that his best work in
Speaker 2: the NFL is going to be as a three technique.
Speaker 2: And then Zeke Biggers, who I think profiles by far
Speaker 2: the most as a true NFL NOS tackle, a seventh
Speaker 2: round draft pick who I kind of think you're going
Speaker 2: to get like ten twelve snaps a game from this
Speaker 2: year as a based down heavy front nose tackle that
Speaker 2: just clogs lanes and plays the run game. I think
Speaker 2: that's his projection at the next level. But that's not
Speaker 2: what Georgia Tech had him do. They had him played
Speaker 2: three hundred and sixty nine snaps in the B gap
Speaker 2: compared to just forty two as a nose tackle in
Speaker 2: the A gap. So the data tells you straight to
Speaker 2: your face, that ain't what it is, and the film
Speaker 2: further confirms that. In fact, the film kind of flips
Speaker 2: the point on Biggers because he is an NFL nose
Speaker 2: tackle in my opinion, Can he do more and expand
Speaker 2: that profile?
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure of course.
Speaker 2: But I think when he first gets here, I believe
Speaker 2: that's gonna be his calling card off the top. So
Speaker 2: that's the nose tackle debate, the defensive tackle debate. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and get to the rest of your questions here,
Speaker 2: starting with this one from at Fanatico's Brazil first season
Speaker 2: with continude on either side of the ball, who's about
Speaker 2: to take the biggest leap on the team and have
Speaker 2: a breakout season?
Speaker 1: So I love this question. I'm gonna give you three
Speaker 1: players here.
Speaker 2: I think Jalen Waddle will get back to the production
Speaker 2: we saw from him in twenty twenty two. I feel
Speaker 2: like he's a sleeping giant who is about to go
Speaker 2: scorch to Earth and for whatever reason, hasn't had the
Speaker 2: production the last couple of years. You know, twenty three,
Speaker 2: he missed some time here and there, and just seemed
Speaker 2: like every time he got kind of hot in twenty three,
Speaker 2: he would get nicked up and have to miss a game,
Speaker 2: or you know, come out of a game or play
Speaker 2: on a bumming, whatever it might be. And then last year,
Speaker 2: I just think the entirety of last year, like so
Speaker 2: much went wrong you can kind of just throw in
Speaker 2: the trash. But I think that he's I still believe
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two is who Jayleen Waddle is as a
Speaker 2: player in terms of production. And then I think the
Speaker 2: obvious one is Jalen Right. I think he's gonna have
Speaker 2: a great season. I don't think it's crazy to expect
Speaker 2: that by the Buccaneers Patriots game down the stretch end
Speaker 2: of the season that he might be like the running
Speaker 2: back one. And that's not a slight to a Chan
Speaker 2: by any stretch, because eight Chan is one of the
Speaker 2: most electrifying eligibles in this league. But I think we've
Speaker 2: been over this. I think that his role is better
Speaker 2: served as being more of a jack of all trades,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of a floating utility type more than
Speaker 2: just to every down running back. I think Right can
Speaker 2: be the every down running back. I think that he
Speaker 2: could have a I think you could have a thousand
Speaker 2: yard season if it gets enough touches give him two
Speaker 2: hundred Carrieres, I think he could do it. I think
Speaker 2: Kenneth Grant is my third pick, and I think because
Speaker 2: he's going to be good right away. I think he's
Speaker 2: already going to be, like by the time we get
Speaker 2: to the Jets Monday night game, they're gonna be talking
Speaker 2: about him as like an established starter in this league
Speaker 2: three games into his career.
Speaker 1: So I think that's three sort of different answers.
Speaker 2: Wattle re establishes his dominance, KG is good from the
Speaker 2: word go, and Jalen Wright is the true breakout player
Speaker 2: on the roster. Dan Johnson at DJ twenty seventy five.
Speaker 2: How hard can OTAs be run? I heard the Steelers
Speaker 2: use them as a gauntlet style to establish culture and toughness.
Speaker 2: I also hear that we tend to not push the limits.
Speaker 2: Is there a real difference? Well, I yeah, OTAs, there's
Speaker 2: parameters to all of this. So what one team might
Speaker 2: be doing versus another team might be skirting the rules
Speaker 2: because all I know is you can't do certain things,
Speaker 2: like you get a certain amount of time on the grass,
Speaker 2: you get a certain amount of time with coaches, with
Speaker 2: the players. That's why I've been so pumped up about
Speaker 2: what I've been seeing here this entire offseason because the
Speaker 2: coaches only get a finite amount of time with the players,
Speaker 2: but the players can go on the field themselves. And
Speaker 2: that's why, Like when I watch Tyrel Dotson and Jordan
Speaker 2: Brooks get the entire defense and go through the entire
Speaker 2: list of calls and changes and shifts every single day
Speaker 2: after practice to kind of, you know, rehearse what they
Speaker 2: just worked on. They al post practice walk through that
Speaker 2: really encourages me. And they can do that. So that's
Speaker 2: all part of the CBA with what they can and
Speaker 2: cannot do. So technically speaking, there shouldn't be a difference
Speaker 2: across different camps. There's definitely no contact. They don't wear
Speaker 2: shoulder pads, they don't wear pants. They're just wearing helmets
Speaker 2: and shorts in these practices, shorts and shells. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how you'd make it tougher without contact, right,
Speaker 2: So this time of year, it's all about technique and
Speaker 2: install So like they're making their proverbial swing changes right
Speaker 2: now and they're trying to enact those and coaches love
Speaker 2: this time of year because it's the only time where
Speaker 2: you can just drill on your fundamentals.
Speaker 1: It's going back to golf.
Speaker 2: If you were in season and you know, eighteen weeks,
Speaker 2: eighteen holes in the golf course. Like, if you're on
Speaker 2: week eleven and you have a fundamental change you have
Speaker 2: to make to your game, you can work on it,
Speaker 2: but it's kind of like trying to make a swing
Speaker 2: change on the tea box on the eleventh hole. They tell
Speaker 2: you not to do that because you're not going to
Speaker 2: work it out on the course. Can you can improve things,
Speaker 2: but it's a big gamble to try to work on
Speaker 2: things while you're playing the game, Whereas this time of year,
Speaker 2: you're on the driving range, you can go ahead and
Speaker 2: tinker and play around with things. So coaches love this
Speaker 2: time of year to work on those fundamentals and techniques. Sean,
Speaker 2: and there's there's no difference because you literally can't. It's
Speaker 2: it's the same rules for everybody. Sean at pass and yell,
Speaker 2: I think I said that, right, Pa s C I
Speaker 2: n E L past.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I suck at pronouncing things. Travis, thank you for your
Speaker 2: weekly grind for OTAs. What can you learn about the
Speaker 2: rookies during this time that you might not see on
Speaker 2: film study. So I love the question because I fall
Speaker 2: into this trap sometimes of maybe being too film oriented
Speaker 2: and not thinking about other factors and that's kind of
Speaker 2: a weak spot for me that I have to work on.
Speaker 2: But the first thing for me is always how they move.
Speaker 2: It's it's the number one criteria, and how they look
Speaker 2: in terms of like their building size and stature compared
Speaker 2: to their contemporaries, and now that we get to see
Speaker 2: them alongside those contemporaries, it's a great a great tool
Speaker 2: for measurement. Like I remember when Channing Tyndall tracked down
Speaker 2: this thirty yard seam shot that Tanner Connor I think
Speaker 2: it was. I think it was it was training camp
Speaker 2: because Kyle Krabs is out here and we were like,
Speaker 2: WHOA Like Tanner Connor's like a twenty two mile per
Speaker 2: hour top speed guy and that linebacker just ran with him.
Speaker 2: Now it didn't matter because here we are four years later.
Speaker 2: But it's it's obviously more than that. So I look
Speaker 2: for guys that can, you know, that can be engaged,
Speaker 2: and they're always tuned into what their coaches are saying.
Speaker 2: They're asking coaches for extra you know, tutoring during the drills,
Speaker 2: they're running between drills, they're getting back in line and
Speaker 2: not deally dialing around like dance and have fun, but
Speaker 2: like you know, that's when it's time to focus up
Speaker 2: and lock in.
Speaker 1: Let's lock in.
Speaker 2: They get extra reps, you know, small things like that,
Speaker 2: how they interact with their teammates. Things you can learn
Speaker 2: a lot. I think you can learn a lot by
Speaker 2: observing guys at practice. And it's really hard to judge
Speaker 2: these practices because again, you're just you're trying to enact
Speaker 2: a swing change, whereas in season we're trying to focus
Speaker 2: on results. That's a little bit different. So results are fun,
Speaker 2: that's what the fans come out here for a practice.
Speaker 2: But take a look at evaluation, Like there's a reason
Speaker 2: why you are wrong, and I am wrong on roster
Speaker 2: predictions because the coaches know what the players are trying
Speaker 2: to do at practice. We don't. We don't have that,
Speaker 2: you know, we're not afforded that luxury. So that's why
Speaker 2: I like, you're like, wait, why did he make the roster?
Speaker 2: Probably because he was executing his assignments every single day
Speaker 2: and just because he didn't have a bunch of long touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Then you know it doesn't have to be the case,
Speaker 2: Like you can have an effective day at practice without
Speaker 2: it looking like it to the fans at the Man
Speaker 2: the myth forty five who faced more double teams in
Speaker 2: college Kenny g or Mason Graham. I didn't have this
Speaker 2: stat when I first wrote it down, but I went
Speaker 2: back and found it for you, all right, So I
Speaker 2: came back and found some metrics. I don't know how
Speaker 2: reliable these are, but I did see that Mason Graham
Speaker 2: had significantly more double teams than Kenny Grant did than
Speaker 2: Kennethy Grant did at Michigan. It was sixty two to
Speaker 2: like twenty nine, was the chart that I saw, But
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how accurate that is. I can double
Speaker 2: check that and come back and maybe maybe get you
Speaker 2: a better answer, but that's I think it was. I
Speaker 2: think it was that there was that much disparity there.
Speaker 2: But they both got double teamed a lot in the
Speaker 2: running game, you know, on duo blocks, an inside zone,
Speaker 2: and then in past wrestling situation they kind of shared
Speaker 2: the bulk of it. But I think over the course
Speaker 2: of the entire season, Mason Graham did about double up
Speaker 2: on Kenneth Grant there at Randy d easily. What are
Speaker 2: the player's perspectives of their new teammates. I think it's
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit too early to answer that, because, well, one,
Speaker 2: I haven't been around the guys in that capacity in
Speaker 2: the same way. So maybe maybe doing media day, I'll
Speaker 2: ask some of those questions and we can get some
Speaker 2: some further answers on that and circle back.
Speaker 1: Sound good.
Speaker 2: Next one here, Let's go ahead and take a break,
Speaker 2: and then we'll come back and do some more on
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Speaker 2: so arduous. Anyway, off the rails here, let's get back
Speaker 2: into the mailbag pod here at Kevin Wagner PhD. Is
Speaker 2: that Wagner or Wagner? I hope I'm saying that right.
Speaker 2: I know everything is a big names, but are you
Speaker 2: interested in seeing what some of the young corners on
Speaker 2: this team can do Johnson, Matree, Bonner, all very interesting prospects.
Speaker 2: So first of all, I love this, And in my
Speaker 2: freaking note right here, I wrote that I think Jason
Speaker 2: Matrie has the goods, the temperament, the suddenness, the competitiveness.
Speaker 2: Every time I've watched him as a Dolphin, I've been impressed.
Speaker 2: And in a league where off the radar guys make
Speaker 2: impacts every single year, like remember when the Chargers, you
Speaker 2: know they had tar Heeb still who I didn't know
Speaker 2: who that was last year when he got drafted, and
Speaker 2: then he just starts making plays and gets like a
Speaker 2: game win. He pick in the Atlanta game, a fifth
Speaker 2: round pick, buried on the depth chart at started training camp,
Speaker 2: and then he winds up being like a starter down
Speaker 2: the stretch. That would not have That wouldn't have shocked
Speaker 2: me for Matre if he had jumped into the slot
Speaker 2: cornerback role and Cater gets kicked outside. And that was
Speaker 2: what I had planned out for you guys. And then
Speaker 2: as I go to tape some of this on a
Speaker 2: Tuesday afternoon, I find out that Jason Matrie has been
Speaker 2: placed on injury reserves.
Speaker 1: So yeah, dude, that part is a bummer.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, I think Isaiah Johnson fits what they want be
Speaker 2: in terms of more man corner coverage and playing more
Speaker 2: physical up in your face to go along with that
Speaker 2: dominant front seven and all the rush games they can
Speaker 2: get to. And then beyond that, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, I think Cam's struggles.
Speaker 1: You know, let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and put a pin in that because
Speaker 2: I have another question here about Cam Smith. But mature
Speaker 2: was my pick Kevin, but he's now not gonna be
Speaker 2: on the team this year because he's injured. Our Genis
Speaker 2: Herrera at a aar H underscore seven to one six.
Speaker 2: Love your work, Travis, which one of last year's draft picks?
Speaker 2: Do you expect to have a bigger impact in year
Speaker 2: two with the Dolphins? And man, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: I mean there's four obvious ones, right like Patrick Paul
Speaker 2: is gonna be your left tackle, Jalen Wright is gonna
Speaker 2: be a serious factor in the running game, Chop is
Speaker 2: obviously like already that dude, and then Malik Washington. Gosh,
Speaker 2: it's it's tough. I I I think Chop is going
Speaker 2: to have a very productive year. I think the way
Speaker 2: he works and the way he came on and that
Speaker 2: first step quickness all coincides with what this defense does.
Speaker 2: And while JP and Beachub are kind of getting in
Speaker 2: the swing of things, I think he can kind of
Speaker 2: carry the pass rush there.
Speaker 1: So I'll go with Chop.
Speaker 2: I think Chop is going to and this comes from
Speaker 2: a guy that thinks that Right is going to see
Speaker 2: a two hundred carry workload, a guy that thinks that
Speaker 2: Malik is going to be a very good receiver three,
Speaker 2: A guy that thinks that Patrick Paul is going to
Speaker 2: be like a guy that you don't even worry about
Speaker 2: at this time next year at left tackle. I think
Speaker 2: that Chop Robinson has like twelve sack potential. I think
Speaker 2: he's that good and if he does that, then he
Speaker 2: would be the guy here. So I'm gonna go with Chop,
Speaker 2: your first round pick from last year. Just keeps on
Speaker 2: getting better and we'll trust that trajectory. At Julian at
Speaker 2: Mack Arrow Draft era, what a great freaking name.
Speaker 1: That is.
Speaker 2: My question, he says, is about the Jalen Ramsey deal.
Speaker 2: Considering there's talk of various teams being interested, what do
Speaker 2: you think of a player for player swap, getting someone younger,
Speaker 2: perhaps in the final year of a rookie deal, a
Speaker 2: safety or corner. Maybe that can be a better value
Speaker 2: than what we get for a draft pick. I do
Speaker 2: agree that would be the ideal route, but at the
Speaker 2: same time, like you probably want a corner in return
Speaker 2: for him, maybe a safety, right And if that's what
Speaker 2: you get the team that's trading away that player, yeah,
Speaker 2: they could see as a one for one upgrade, but
Speaker 2: I feel like you want to add Ramsey to the
Speaker 2: mix and not, you know, not like just do a
Speaker 2: slight upgrade on one position, if that makes sense. So
Speaker 2: I was looking at the Rams and the Commanders and
Speaker 2: the Cowboys rosters and like there wasn't a lot in
Speaker 2: those positions that interest me. Like for the Cowboys, it
Speaker 2: was like Savon Revel, but they just drafted him, So
Speaker 2: I don't know why they would do that, but I
Speaker 2: would love to get that taken care of. Or like
Speaker 2: Malik Hooker, they're older but still very productive safety I
Speaker 2: think from Washington, like tight end BENSONO was a guy
Speaker 2: that I was interested in, But otherwise there's not anybody
Speaker 2: in that defensive backfield. It's guys like that, you know,
Speaker 2: cheap players and rocket contracts I think can be productive
Speaker 2: across the rosters. So to your point, like, I love
Speaker 2: the idea because if you get a player, you're getting
Speaker 2: impact in twenty twenty five, whereas the pick wouldn't an
Speaker 2: impact until at least twenty six, and if it's a
Speaker 2: third or fourth round pick, most likely not till twenty seven.
Speaker 2: So I like where your head's at, and I think
Speaker 2: that's part of the process in terms of trying to
Speaker 2: get a deal done there. And you know, Ramsey on
Speaker 2: Tuesday tweeted like just the number five and it's five
Speaker 2: days until June first, so like, you know, okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: Jylan like yeah, Then at Canny Spartan, do you think
Speaker 2: it's more likely Cam Smith finally breaks out or that
Speaker 2: Jason Marshall is a hit early. That's a tough one, man,
Speaker 2: because again, the issues that have kept Cam off the field,
Speaker 2: the health is a big issue there, obviously, but also
Speaker 2: just like the the natural feel I talk about for
Speaker 2: the game all the time hasn't been on there hasn't
Speaker 2: been on tape for me in two years, and typically
Speaker 2: I think that's tough to catch back up to.
Speaker 1: So I am pretty wary of that.
Speaker 2: I think Jason Marshall has a long way to go
Speaker 2: until he's ready to play an NFL game.
Speaker 1: So can I pass and say neither? Like is that
Speaker 1: a fair answer?
Speaker 2: I don't know if I don't want to, like just
Speaker 2: disparage the two guys, but so far on tape, from
Speaker 2: what I've seen, I wouldn't feel super confident just rolling
Speaker 2: out those guys as potential starters.
Speaker 1: Right now this season. Now, Cam I think has a chance.
Speaker 1: He's got very good skills.
Speaker 2: He's what he was at South Carolina was a confident, twitchy,
Speaker 2: you know, find the ball cornerback, and if he can
Speaker 2: recapture that, that'd be fantastic.
Speaker 1: We just haven't seen it in two years here.
Speaker 2: I'm hoping that they can, you know, find rEFInd that
Speaker 2: that action that drive in year three here. Aiden White
Speaker 2: at AMW twenty twenty two, see do you think the
Speaker 2: Dolphins should look to add someone to the safety room.
Speaker 2: My Lion's friends love Iffy, but he was never available
Speaker 2: to be a full time starter, and the rest are
Speaker 2: unproven guys.
Speaker 1: That's that's how I feel.
Speaker 2: I think the Iffy is as a green player. We've
Speaker 2: done the color coordination right, blue chip, green and orange's
Speaker 2: where you want to be. I think he has potential
Speaker 2: to be a like not probably not go to the
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl, but like be on the verge in that
Speaker 2: discussion among those guys because he's so physically gifted. I
Speaker 2: think he's smart as hell. He can play all three
Speaker 2: levels of the defense and come down and hit in
Speaker 2: the running game. But to your point, he gets hurt often,
Speaker 2: and that was kind of the knock on DeShawn Elliott
Speaker 2: when he got here, and then now he's been healthy
Speaker 2: ever since. So sometimes it works out for guys, other
Speaker 2: times it does not. I don't think it's a soft
Speaker 2: tissue thing for Iffy as much as it is like contact,
Speaker 2: which was to Shawn Elliott's issue. It's not a Joey
Speaker 2: Bosa situation for the Bills, who, by the way, already
Speaker 2: has a calf injury and it is supposed to miss
Speaker 2: a bunch of time. According to Sean McDermott. Like sometimes
Speaker 2: guys just can't like Toronto Armstead, their body just won't
Speaker 2: let them do it right. I don't think that's the
Speaker 2: case for Iffy. So in terms of adding someone, there
Speaker 2: are names all over the free agent market right now.
Speaker 2: I continue to really like Julian Blackman, who's I don't
Speaker 2: know why he's not signed. We got Marcus May like
Speaker 2: a few weeks from now this time of year last year,
Speaker 2: So if you could make that happen, I'd be pretty
Speaker 2: excited about that. You're gonna see Marcus Williams name probably
Speaker 2: attached a lot, but watching his film last year was
Speaker 2: kind of rough. So even with the connection there to
Speaker 2: coach Weave, I'm not sure that's something you want to explore,
Speaker 2: but I think that you should look into it.
Speaker 1: I'd probably be.
Speaker 2: More inclined to possibly upgrade what I think Ashton Davis
Speaker 2: is slotted in for right now in terms of being
Speaker 2: that second safety in the post alongside Iffy, and I
Speaker 2: think that their interchangeability in that way it makes some sense.
Speaker 2: And I kind of view Patrick mc morris as more
Speaker 2: of like a big nickel. I could be wrong on that,
Speaker 2: it could be something else, but I think that's how
Speaker 2: I would look at it, And if I can find
Speaker 2: someone that I think can push Ashton for that spot,
Speaker 2: I would be inclined to explore that option. Nick at
Speaker 2: the real Lefty fifty three, there are a lot of
Speaker 2: players that will get starting opportunities this year. Paul Davis
Speaker 2: or Morris rookie defensive tackles, Jonah, your in line tight end,
Speaker 2: your outside corner. Who do you think is most likely
Speaker 2: to shine from those guys? And who do you think
Speaker 2: the Dolphins need most to shine? But I think, gosh,
Speaker 2: you guys keep asking me to make Sophie's choice or
Speaker 2: pick my favorite child because you listened his name. I
Speaker 2: just told you Kenneth Grant was gonna be awesome on
Speaker 2: it right away. I think both KG and Jonah are
Speaker 2: going to be plus starters in year one, So I'm
Speaker 2: gonna go with those guys. And I think that would
Speaker 2: be probably the answer to both questions, because, uh, I mean,
Speaker 2: if if Jonah doesn't work out, then you're you're going
Speaker 2: towards Liam or Larry Borum right in that direction, and
Speaker 2: I'd rather have Jonah in that position. If KG does
Speaker 2: not work out, you're looking at another rookie somebody to Jones.
Speaker 2: I think you kind of need both those guys to
Speaker 2: be what you expect them to be as first year players,
Speaker 2: and for me, that's like, you know, green players. I
Speaker 2: think that Jonah, Jonah and James Daniels signify and ability
Speaker 2: to be more adaptable, more amenable to winning games against
Speaker 2: tougher teams and more and not not even just like
Speaker 2: more physical teams, but better teams. The way you can
Speaker 2: line up and just go win a football game. I
Speaker 2: think both Jonah and KG give the opportunity to do that,
Speaker 2: and Kg's ability to help you play lighter boxes and
Speaker 2: what he can do there and how he can it
Speaker 2: really expand the pass rush of Zach Sealer and the
Speaker 2: rest of the guys up front because of what he does.
Speaker 2: I think that the ripple effect of him there and
Speaker 2: the ripple effect of what Jonah means for the offense
Speaker 2: in terms of how they can be left handed if
Speaker 2: they have to be. I think both those guys are
Speaker 2: the answers to your question. The cornerback spot, though, I
Speaker 2: would say, like that's probably the one that you need
Speaker 2: to shine, but I don't have a good answer for
Speaker 2: who that could be right now. I don't think that
Speaker 2: you can just skate by on like, oh, the pass
Speaker 2: which is very good, so we can throw some rookies
Speaker 2: out there, like, I don't think you're I think you're
Speaker 2: playing with fire if you do that. So it's the
Speaker 2: spot right now that like everybody else, I'm most the
Speaker 2: most questions about. Let's take our last break, right there,
Speaker 2: come back on the other side and finish up your
Speaker 2: mail bag questions on the Draft Time podcast brought to
Speaker 2: you by Autoation. Right we're back, Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: jump into a few more of your male bag questions
Speaker 2: and then get the hell out of here and enjoy
Speaker 2: a weekend that will take us into June and possibly
Speaker 2: a resolution on the Jalen Ramsey saga.
Speaker 1: And I man, I want.
Speaker 2: I would love to get some new players and get
Speaker 2: some some film cranked out, because right now I've got
Speaker 2: we had yesterday's practice, will have one next week. We'll
Speaker 2: have three practices or at least two three schedule. Sometimes
Speaker 2: it's only two because sometimes they cancel the last OTA practice.
Speaker 2: But I've got like two three more podcasts I need
Speaker 2: to do in that time. And I would love to
Speaker 2: have some players to break down for you all before
Speaker 2: I go on break, because once I go on break,
Speaker 2: I'm not actually, yeah, I am, I'm not gonna. I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna sit there and not do content. I'm like,
Speaker 2: who am I kidding? You're not supposed to win your oppternity,
Speaker 2: but I always do he's a psycho. He needs the
Speaker 2: football in his life, so hopefully we get some new
Speaker 2: players or something to talk about in that time.
Speaker 1: For the podcast sake, Let's do.
Speaker 2: A few more questions here, This one from Rick FB
Speaker 2: at Rick FB fifty four. I'm guessing that means Zach Thomas,
Speaker 2: can Mike McDaniel and company bring back the consistent chunk
Speaker 2: gains over the middle much less outside to the passing
Speaker 2: offense and what's the most important factors for that? So
Speaker 2: I did write these mail bag questions into my copy
Speaker 2: with the Tuesday episode. So if you didn't hear Tuesday's episode,
Speaker 2: which if you're writing into the podcast, I am imagine
Speaker 2: you're in every episode listener, so that wouldn't make much sense.
Speaker 2: But if you didn't check it out, go back and
Speaker 2: look at that. I talked about the influence of the
Speaker 2: running game and staying out of negative runs and staying
Speaker 2: in proper down in distance and the threat of that
Speaker 2: to influence the middle of the football field. And I
Speaker 2: don't know if you guys follow Wattleville. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: his entire name, but he keeps on posting these clips
Speaker 2: of really good two of throws and I'm really enjoying
Speaker 2: the discourse in the in the comments section because football's
Speaker 2: in esoteric sport. Esoteric means difficult to you know, understand
Speaker 2: in parts, right, And I love that people are interested
Speaker 2: by it, but not everyone knows what the hell is
Speaker 2: going on, because I'm seeing comments like he clearly made
Speaker 2: that predetermination on the throw before he took the snap, Like, dude,
Speaker 2: there's there's a clip with a throw to Malik on
Speaker 2: an mbreaker where he puts the ball on the leak
Speaker 2: right out of the break and it's it's such a
Speaker 2: good window fit and you see both the middle of
Speaker 2: the field safety and the mic linebacker kind of influence
Speaker 2: off to the right.
Speaker 1: That's because to a move those guys.
Speaker 2: So I just I really get tired by those comments
Speaker 2: and now I more so laugh at them. So Two,
Speaker 2: his ability to be on the field is a big
Speaker 2: part of that. Two, his ability to stay hot and
Speaker 2: within rhythm and to get to his checklist. I think
Speaker 2: the biggest thing you can do for this rick is
Speaker 2: to kind of reduce his pre snap checklist and get
Speaker 2: him to the line of scrimmage with more time on
Speaker 2: the clock. Because sorry, my wife just texted me, because
Speaker 2: when he can do that, and he can be sharper
Speaker 2: pre snap and have a little bit more of a
Speaker 2: relaxed approach pre snap. I think that makes him the
Speaker 2: most deadly version of himself post snap, where he knows
Speaker 2: if I can get my footwork to this spot and
Speaker 2: drive to this direction, I can move that defender and
Speaker 2: that will clear this land. I have this leverage of
Speaker 2: this defender, my trust Malik to win the inside leverage there.
Speaker 2: Like that's how two was. Brain works in processes and
Speaker 2: stuff real time. So the easier you can make the
Speaker 2: pre snap process, the better I think his post snap
Speaker 2: can be. And I really, really really think that we
Speaker 2: will get back to that with the improved running game
Speaker 2: and with receivers that are on their p's and q's.
Speaker 2: You know, Tyreek, if you want to take us word
Speaker 2: for the fact he's working harder this year, he says
Speaker 2: it every year, so I don't know. But if you
Speaker 2: do get a refocused Tyreek, I think that will be
Speaker 2: a big part of it. I think we're deeper in
Speaker 2: all the eligible rooms at running back, at receiver, at
Speaker 2: tight end with Pharaoh Brown, with Nick Westbrook a k
Speaker 2: A with in my assumption, a jump and workload from
Speaker 2: Jalen Right, So I think that just better overall surrounding
Speaker 2: cast a better offensive line that will create more of
Speaker 2: a running game.
Speaker 1: And I saw this great quote a while back.
Speaker 2: I forget who set up, but it was like, you know,
Speaker 2: we talk about running game and passing game and the
Speaker 2: numbers of all that stuff. The real effect of the
Speaker 2: running game is that guys are aware of it and
Speaker 2: afraid of it. Because if you are worried about getting
Speaker 2: pushed off the ball, it changes the way you fire
Speaker 2: out of your stance and the way you initiate contact
Speaker 2: in the trenches and you're not on a pass rush plan.
Speaker 2: It's kind of two different skills and arts. So the
Speaker 2: more you can make the defense think about the running
Speaker 2: game and stay out of those negative plays, it obviously
Speaker 2: creates more advantageous situations. So throw the football, but it
Speaker 2: also sticks in the back of that defense's mind. I
Speaker 2: have to be ready for Patrick Paul trying to steamroll me,
Speaker 2: and I can't just throw my pass rushbo out there
Speaker 2: because he's gonna knock me on my butt. So there's
Speaker 2: a lot of things to go into it. The Tuesday
Speaker 2: episode is a great starting point, and then I think
Speaker 2: what I just said there kind of covers it all.
Speaker 2: Sebastian at Finns Fan forty seven. My daughter has a
Speaker 2: Sebastian in her class and it's all Spanish speaking except
Speaker 2: for my daughter, and she comes home and she speaks
Speaker 2: a little bit of Spanish and she'll say, it's Sebastian
Speaker 2: and it's the cutest freaking thing in the entire world.
Speaker 2: So when I see that name, I think about Sebastian,
Speaker 2: who leads the team in sex. He's going with Chop.
Speaker 2: Sebastian is yeah, I mean Zach has Yeah. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: go with Chop two. Either Chop or Jalen Phillips. That's
Speaker 2: my two picks. I think JP's a fifteen sat guy
Speaker 2: waiting to happen. It's just been on a hole for
Speaker 2: a few years and it's kind of maybe a little
Speaker 2: bit presumptuous to jump to that mark right away, but
Speaker 2: I do think JP can get back there.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say I'll go with this.
Speaker 2: I'll say JP and Chop are McGuire and Sosa in
Speaker 2: ninety eight Chasing the Records There Emigo with Zach Sealer
Speaker 2: as Kingerfred Junior, the old reliable Well yeah, Zaq sealer
Speaker 2: so consistent and he's gonna be griffy in this race.
Speaker 2: So that's what I'm going with. But I think we
Speaker 2: have three guys that could push for ten sacks there.
Speaker 2: Michael Lee at slow Poke eight twenty four, what kind
Speaker 2: of tweaks or changes do you think is being drawn
Speaker 2: up with some of the new guys like Akenne and
Speaker 2: Brown and Right and Washington in their second year. I
Speaker 2: think they have to find a way to get away
Speaker 2: from the leaning on the screen game because last year
Speaker 2: the screen game effectively replaced what was a running game
Speaker 2: that just didn't exist after that Buffalo game, right Like
Speaker 2: it was tough sledding for most of the year after
Speaker 2: that contest. So I think that your ability to get
Speaker 2: the running game going with those guys off the edge
Speaker 2: and how they can impact. All those guys you mentioned
Speaker 2: are good blockers besides Right. Obviously it's not a blocker,
Speaker 2: but all those guys can help your running game and
Speaker 2: you can reduce the number of reps you have in
Speaker 2: the screen game. But also I think a Kyne's ability
Speaker 2: to block off the edge and insert into the runfit
Speaker 2: or into the run blocking ski kind of allows you
Speaker 2: to be very versatile with your personnel like you can
Speaker 2: have You could have John Whu and Akeene and you
Speaker 2: can consider an eleven personnel where you think John who's
Speaker 2: the tight end and Akeeni is the receiver. But you
Speaker 2: can swap those guys or can serve as a two
Speaker 2: tight end personnel package because Akeene can do that stuff.
Speaker 2: So I'm very excited about what he can do. I
Speaker 2: think Parroh Brown gives you similar, like better blocking than
Speaker 2: what Julian Hill was last year, even though I think
Speaker 2: Julian can take a big step this year. And he
Speaker 2: gives you more downfield threat as a pass catcher too,
Speaker 2: So there's all kinds of stuff. I think it really
Speaker 2: helps the short intermediate game. That's kind of where they
Speaker 2: can focus on and just continue to get Reacan waddle
Speaker 2: back to the intermediate and deep game. Ken Dasher at
Speaker 2: k DASH sixty five, Travis, love your work, Appreciate your positivity.
Speaker 1: Thank you. It's how I always want to cover this team.
Speaker 2: I'm of the opinion that Ali Gordon would easily beat
Speaker 2: out Madison for the power back role this year.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts.
Speaker 2: I just spoke to Eric Smith, who gets a second
Speaker 2: shout out on the show of the week, and he
Speaker 2: says that he thinks that Allie might push for running
Speaker 2: back too. He's that big of a believer if you
Speaker 2: go back to the Doak Walker year, like, Yeah, he
Speaker 2: was phenomenal that year. I do share that thought, Ken,
Speaker 2: I think that Allie could be the third running back
Speaker 2: on this team. I think that's kind of the idea
Speaker 2: with him and Madison, and hopefully Allie has you know, longer,
Speaker 2: long term upside as well. But either way, I just
Speaker 2: love the attitude change that comes with those two guys
Speaker 2: because they are both mean, physical, drop their shoulder pads
Speaker 2: and pick up an extra yard through contact type of runners.
Speaker 2: They're they're both really good locker room teammates type of guys.
Speaker 2: So I do think I'll stack Gordon as running back
Speaker 2: three going into camp in terms of my expectations for
Speaker 2: how it will play out. And we'll see, but I
Speaker 2: really want to see a chans roll, you know, sparse
Speaker 2: more out and I want to see so much more
Speaker 2: of you Lan, right, and then if we get to
Speaker 2: those guys, and that's a good problem to have, it's
Speaker 2: a good problem to have two more here live fighter
Speaker 2: at brand Branderson seven four seven four oh Man what's
Speaker 2: your thought on these Finns podcast de measuring contests. I
Speaker 2: will say this, back when I was trying to make
Speaker 2: a name for myself and I when I got into this,
Speaker 2: my goal was always to get to this position and
Speaker 2: beyond hopefully, and so I I took it as a
Speaker 2: slight if you didn't find my content as good as
Speaker 2: somebody else's, because I felt mine was the best out there,
Speaker 2: and I probably felt a little bit of a need
Speaker 2: to kind of denigrate other posters to show you how
Speaker 2: much better my content was than theirs, which was always
Speaker 2: the wrong approach. And that's how I feel about it now,
Speaker 2: Like in hindsight, I could have been better about it
Speaker 2: back then, but now looking at it from this perspective,
Speaker 2: do good content and nothing else will matter. If you're
Speaker 2: posting about other people, that's time you're taking away from
Speaker 2: yourself to create good content.
Speaker 1: So do the good stuff and it'll stand out.
Speaker 2: If you don't do good stuff and you think you
Speaker 2: do and you're not understanding why it's not getting picked
Speaker 2: up by bigger publications or whatever, it's because it's not
Speaker 2: good enough. Be better and people will find you. That's
Speaker 2: all it comes down to. As far as getting into fights.
Speaker 2: I just don't give a damn because why who cares?
Speaker 2: I have a great job, I have a family I
Speaker 2: go to home to every night that loves me, and
Speaker 2: why would I care about what people on Twitter? I
Speaker 2: think that's that's my new old man perspective. Last one
Speaker 2: here from at Jason Sarney. Jason, what's up man? Hope
Speaker 2: you're doing. Oh, I'm sure I'll see you down here
Speaker 2: for camp sometime this summer. Who is going to be
Speaker 2: a Day three steal of the twenty twenty five draft
Speaker 2: picks for the Dolphins? And why is it? Dante Trader Junior.
Speaker 2: I love when Jason gets on a kick about a player.
Speaker 2: He is very convicted in his beliefs. I love your
Speaker 2: belief in him. I haven't really seen him play yet,
Speaker 2: but he's been so impressive as a person that that
Speaker 2: has me excited.
Speaker 1: But for me, it's Jordan Phillips.
Speaker 2: He was a top seventy player on my board for me,
Speaker 2: and I just think he's going to be excellent, So
Speaker 2: there's no other possible answer for me. Jordan Phillips is
Speaker 2: my pick for that. But I'm excited to hear what
Speaker 2: you come way with from watching Trader when you get
Speaker 2: down here for camp, Jason, all right, let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and get out here longer than I thought.
Speaker 1: It always is.
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Speaker 1: Daddy, he's coming over.