WEBVTT - Drive Time: Week 9 Variety Show 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.480 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:10.760 your pulse if you're not form What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.720 And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:18.640 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.640 How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:25.080 And on today's show, it is the Week nine variety show. 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:28.200 I'll be joined by the co founder of the German 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:31.840 Dolphins fan Club, Marcus Martin. We have an extended chat 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:35.200 with the great Kyle Krabs for five on Finch Draft 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:39.880 and a conversation about Dolphins developmental programs on the offensive 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.800 line that has gotten those guys playing at a high level. Plus, 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.280 we'll give you the latest on injuries and play the 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.800 sounds of the week with regards to traveling overseas and 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.600 taking in the German culture. From somewhere in South Florida, 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:59.600 this is the Drive Time Podcast Maye Gaffe. We start 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.840 here with games, statuses and injury reports. Here for the 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.480 game on Sunday, the biggest game of the season for 0:01:06.520 --> 0:01:09.039 the Miami Dolphins to date and in my opinion, the 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:13.560 biggest game on the entire NFL calendar to date. And 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.480 we got some good news regardings a lot of players 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.240 that it looks like are going to come back. First 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.039 no Robert Hunt and no Brandon Jones on Sunday, But 0:01:23.160 --> 0:01:26.839 it does appear as though Miami, despite some questionable distinctions 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.399 on the game status report, will get to Ron Armstead, 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:35.840 Connor Williams, Exavien Howard, and Javon Holland back. Think about that, 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.480 that's four guys that, in my opinion, belong on Pro 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:41.399 Bowl teams within the last couple of years. Now X 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.120 did make it last year, he would argue that he 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.280 probably didn't deserve that one. I think Connor Williams would 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.400 have deserved one, but he didn't get it. So the 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.280 whole idea of this team's getting better at the trade 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:55.040 deadline concept, Miami's doing that with their own returning guys 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.560 that already know your playbook, that already know your system. 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:02.400 So I don't think anybody going to benefit from roster 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.440 changes this time of season from the Miami Dolphins. I 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:09.040 like the Chase Young Traine a lot for the forty 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.440 nine ers. I think he's the perfect candidate to come 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.600 in there with Chris Kuseric and have a bit of 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:16.799 a career renaissance there in San Francisco and go out 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.239 and get himself a big contract in the offseason as 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:24.320 a result. But people wanted to see DeVante Adams traded, right. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.280 People wanted to see all these big time moves for 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:31.360 you know, marquee players around the league and to come 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.040 in mid season, pick up an offense, pick up a defense, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:35.800 and have an impact. We've seen the Dolphins defense with 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.040 Vic Fangio take eight or so games to get clicking 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.919 in Unison, right, and it still hasn't even there yet. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.240 To his point, Jalen Ramsey's not all the way back yet. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.160 When he does get back, when they get all these 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.840 pieces back, then maybe you start to see the fruits 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.040 of their labor. Which how good does that work out 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.600 for Miami that by the time you get to that 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.440 three game stretch in December into January against Dallas, Baltimore 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:00.000 and Buffalo, you probably have the similar level of continuity 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.400 on the defensive side in terms of how comfortable you 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:06.280 are within your systems, within your rules as you have 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.519 with this Dolphins offense that came out from Game one 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:10.920 just humming with four hundred and sixty six yards through 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.480 the year for two a tongue of my lowest, So 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.000 that's a separate point. In general, I just think the 0:03:15.040 --> 0:03:18.919 Dolphins are going to have their best team on Sunday. 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.800 They've shown this season. I think they're going to perform 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:25.800 in their best game, their best performance that we've seen 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.440 all year long. And if the Chiefs don't do the 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.200 same and don't match it, the Dolphins are gonna win 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:31.760 this football game. If the Chiefs do match it, the 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:33.959 Dolphins still have a chance to win this football game. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.840 So I can't wait. I am just geeked, I am nervous, 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:40.680 I am excited. I am fraught with anticipation thinking the 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.760 Dolphins are going to do something special and give themselves 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.280 With the results that we get on Sunday, I think 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.720 Miami wins this game. I think Buffalo loses on Sunday 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.240 Night Football. I think you could put yourself ahead of 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.120 the Chiefs in the AFC standings. I think you could 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.160 create a two game cushion over the Buffalo Bills with 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.600 the results of Sunday Night Football going the way I 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.000 anticipate they will go. Though I've been wrong before. Did 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:03.880 Neil that Thursday night pick? Though, by the way, when 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:05.320 no one else was taking the Steelers, even though they 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:06.800 are a terrible football team, they find a way to 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:08.920 win those games. But I digress. So I just think 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.200 that the Dolphins have a chance, with the results of 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.680 this week's games to put themselves in position on the 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.560 bye week to make you, as the fan, feel better 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.080 than you have in I would say better than you 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:25.719 have since coming off that win in Denver to get 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.800 to five and one back in two thousand and two 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:30.760 before you found out about Jay Fiedler's broken thumb. You 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:34.360 might tell me the Jets finale in two thousand and eight, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:36.320 that was pretty great, But did we really believe that 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:38.920 team could even go and beat Baltimore in the first 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.400 round at home when you threw four picks, you know, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.839 Chad Pennington to Ed Reid in that game. Did you 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.720 think that the twenty sixteen win in Buffalo as great 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.760 as that was? And I went and got messed up 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.200 at my father in law's house celebrating what was about 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.520 to be our first trip back to the postseason in 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.800 eight years, did you think that team with Bakari Rambo 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.200 and guys like oh Man who the line background forgetting 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.279 the guy that called me out Spencer Pasinger on Twitter 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:05.599 when I said that, like, as great as the twenty 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:08.600 sixteen season was, the Dolphins roster was not so great, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:10.840 and he was like, hey, Dolphins fan should appreciate this team. 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.280 I'm like, hey, I appreciate this Dolphins team more than 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.800 anybody else. I'm just telling you you had Bacari ramble 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:20.320 off the streets starting in the playoff game because isa 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.240 Abdul Caduz got hurt and Rashaw Jones was out, and 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.160 I think your third safety, I forget who it was, 0:05:25.160 --> 0:05:26.880 was also down. So I was just trying to be 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:29.880 relative to that point. We are so far into the weeds. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:33.360 My point here is that I think a Dolphins fan 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.760 come one o'clock Sunday afternoon in the East ten o'clock 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:42.240 in the West, could potentially feel the best they have 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.640 about their team in twenty two years. And then Sunday night, 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.080 with a Bills result, hopefully going in the right direction, 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.720 potentially feeling better than that, and then Baltimore plays Seattle, 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:56.400 maybe the Seahawks get a big road win. I'm not 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.680 picking it, but this week could be monument until either way. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.800 If the Dolphins win, regardless of what happens in the 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.880 other games, If the Dolphins went on Sunday. They'll be 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.159 first place in the AFC heading into the bye week 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.920 and again a potential two game advantage with the first 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:12.600 half of the season in the books over Buffalo, with 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.200 their schedule getting increasingly harder in Miami, Having for all 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.080 intents and purposes, five cupcakes. After that, let's go ahead 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.800 and get you some commentary from the players this week. 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:24.400 This is one of the challenges of not traveling with 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.839 the team, as I haven't been around for press conferences 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.000 to watch practice and give you guys those updates. But 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.080 we do have the sound I want to play four 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:33.440 sound bites here from guys talking about their experiences of 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:36.200 going to Germany, how it can galvanize his football team, 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.559 taking in the culture, and much much more. We start 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:41.080 here with Dolphins outside linebacker Bradley Chubb. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:44.160 Anytime you get a chance to expand the game that 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.200 I've been playing since I was six years old, game 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.479 that I love, game that I put my heart into. 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:50.800 Anytime you got a chance to share that with a 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:54.360 different group of people, different culture, no matter where it is, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:58.640 it's a blessing. It's a huge opportunity. And last year 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:00.880 Atlanda was fun had a good time. But this year 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.239 in Germany, Man, I'm with a special group of guys 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.120 and we got an opportunity to do something real special, 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.840 so it makes the experience that much better, that much leader. 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:10.160 He also talked a little bit about how last year's 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:12.960 team kind of took the trip out to California as 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.480 more of a vacation and it informed them to not 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.280 do that because he thought they didn't play as well 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.480 in the game. And going back, I always thought the 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:21.480 Chargers they had a good game plan, but it wasn't 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.640 about the game plan. It was more that Miami just 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.200 didn't play well in that game. So hopefully you learn 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:28.440 from that lesson, you apply it here and get a 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.880 better performance in Germany. Let's go ahead and hear from 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:32.760 Christian Wilkins, who is a man who knows how to 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:34.720 immerse himself in foreign culture. 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.000 It's been so far, so good. I love being here. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.920 It's been a lot of fun, just time spent with 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.640 my teammates, enjoying their company and getting closer with those guys, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.680 but also just you know, it's special to be in 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:51.240 another country. You know, growing up in Springfield, Massachusetts, like 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.640 one thing I always wanted to do is be able 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:55.880 to travel. I didn't think football would you know, take 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.800 me out of the country to play a game. And 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.160 so this is special time for me, just you know, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:02.360 kind of thinking how far I've come and just being 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:04.720 here and have an opporutility to play a game. 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:07.840 How about a certain Dolphins running back with heritage ties 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:09.360 back to the country of Germany. 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.720 You know, I would love to tap into my roots 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.120 a little bit more, you know, just just being who 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.280 I am as a person as an individual. I love 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:21.960 learning about, you know, my ancestry and history behind the 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.760 reason why I am who I am. But also you know, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.520 what my family was like, you know, back in the day, 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:30.840 so it's fairly important. I love the fact that, you know, 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:34.360 the NFL is definitely taking that initiative to you know, 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.800 go abroad and having these opportunities for players to get 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.240 outside the norm, you know, being outside the US. I 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:45.200 think that that's very important to see different cultures and 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.600 to pick up a few things. I know when I 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:52.800 when we first arrived here, jaylen Watta was talking about 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:56.000 all these different things, talking about currency and and you 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.280 know he went to exchange right before, right before we departed, 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.040 and he was fully invested in learning the culture and 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.280 history behind you know, Germany and stuff like that, which 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.440 I thought was fairly neat the. 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:11.160 First time I ever went to Hawaii was with my 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.880 current wife, my wife, that was our first trip together, 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.679 like on an airplane and everything. And when I got back, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.600 I kept saying mahaalow to everybody, even though it didn't 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:23.240 track with what they were saying to me. And it 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.640 reminded me of this clip of Alec Ingold when he 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.080 was asked how he's enjoying Germany so far, and he said, donke, 0:09:28.280 --> 0:09:33.360 which I guess is thank you. So how is Germany 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:35.679 so far? Alec? Thank you? I thought that was a 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.400 fantastic moment. Here's Alec talking about going out with a 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:41.480 team that night and again how this entire trip has 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:42.960 been galvanizing for the entire roster. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.200 Yeah, we went to downtown Frankfurt a handful of guys, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:49.640 and no, I felt right at home, ordered some beer 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:52.880 and some brats and had a great time. So no, 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:55.720 it was really cool to get around town sightsee with 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.000 the guys on that Tuesday. Coach obviously got us down 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:02.160 here early just to experience a right and just get 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:06.600 into that new uncomfortable situations with your teammates. I think 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.160 that kind of brings everyone a little closer together. You 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.960 get to learn together, and I think that's this is 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:13.120 gonna be a week that I think all of us 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:15.720 are gonna remember for a long time. So doing our 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:16.640 best to make it special. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.240 I mean, I wanted to close with that one on purpose, because, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:20.640 like you said, a week we could all remember for 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.440 a long time. And I get he's saying in terms 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.120 of the bonding nature of this team. But perhaps you 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.400 win this game and you come back and you, you know, 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.839 maybe you have your America's game at the end of 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:32.080 the season and people talk about the Germany trip as 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.240 the one that brought this team together, provided a chance 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:35.960 to win a big football game to prove to them 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.920 they can beat one of the teams, one of the 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.199 elite teams in the National Football League and maybe springboards 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:43.320 them into a very special second half of the season 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.440 under the watchful eye of Hard Knocks. Ooh boy, we 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.240 have an exciting two months ahead and it starts on 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.560 Sunday from Frankfurt, Germany. Let's go ahead and take our 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.760 first break right here. I had Kyle Krabs go on 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.439 the podcast. We had a couple of the people you'll 0:10:57.440 --> 0:10:59.720 see in the booth on Sunday's game lined up, but 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.440 it did not work out to come on the podcast 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.920 here for the variety show, So no Rich Eyes and 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.319 no Dan Orlowski. I do apologize for that, but again, 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.640 I have some mega guests coming up your way on 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:11.960 the bye week, but that's a couple weeks or I 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.080 should say a week or so down the line from now. 0:11:14.240 --> 0:11:15.880 Let's go ahead and take our first break and have 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.240 this extended chat with Kyle Krabs on the other side. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:19.880 You guys are not gonna want to miss this talking 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.600 about the Dolphins offensive line and how they've gotten these 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:25.000 parts to finally click and work out here in South Florida. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.000 That's all next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:34.280 brought to you by Autnation. A little bit different flow 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.280 on this Friday edition of the Draft Time Podcast. I'm 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:39.520 gonna go ahead and plug in my interview right now 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:42.640 with Kyle Krabs. I just enjoyed this chat all around 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:44.760 talking college football with a lot of Dolphins talking here 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:46.640 as well. Let's go ahead and get to my friend 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.840 Kyle Crabs joining us as he does every single Friday 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.960 here for five minutes on Finn's Draft is the Great 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:56.560 Kyle Krabs locked on NFL scouting, locked on Dolphins at 0:11:56.640 --> 0:12:00.400 grinding the tape on social Kyle, how we feel, man, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:02.360 I'm feeling good. Uh. 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:04.960 You know, We're We're at the halfway point of the 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.040 NFL season, which is pretty crazy to think. We're at 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:11.240 the three quarter mark of the college football season before 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:16.240 the postseason, and I'm just gently weeping at night thinking 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:18.840 that we're getting close to the back half of football 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.439 and potentially not having football for another stretch of time. 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.960 And I'm just enjoying the ride. I had a I 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.000 left to voicemailt today which I guess speaks to the 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.840 fact that I'm thirty six years old, and I talked 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:29.960 about how there's only two months left in the football season, 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:31.920 and I kind of got the similar vibes that you 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:34.960 did right there. And you know, it reminds me of 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:37.480 like all these you know, TNF and Sunday night football 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.080 games that and granted, like there are some tough ones, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.600 but the thing that I never get, like tonight, we're 0:12:42.640 --> 0:12:45.760 recording this on a Thursday tonight, for instance, Titans and Steelers, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:47.720 Like there's intrigue there on both those sides to me. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.920 But for people to be like, I'm not watching this, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:52.559 it's like you wait, you wait eight months for this, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.160 and then you'll be just punted on it. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.880 Leading you'll be pleading for in three months, you'll be 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:03.080 pleading for a UNSP Taculer Thursday night football matchup guarantee, Kyle. 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:05.440 I used to watch Arizona hot Shots versus the Saint 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.320 Louis BattleHawks whatever the AAF. I forget, like I was 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:09.960 into that that year because I didn't have a kid 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:12.720 yet and I had nothing but time. But I digress. Enjoy 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:15.960 the football. That's the larger takeaway here. Speaking of big football, 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.800 like you mentioned college football that goes by so fast 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.840 every year, quicker than a quarter if you were on 0:13:20.880 --> 0:13:23.680 the quarter system back into school, in high school or college. 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:25.600 Give me the big game of the week you're looking 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.400 forward to, the scouting the top prospects that you expect 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:30.120 come out of that game. Some matchups you like what 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:31.200 you're looking for this weekend. 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.680 Yeah, it's tempting because you have a couple of different 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:38.480 options between LSU Alabama, which is always a fun showcase 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:42.480 of talent with the history those programs have. As of 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.760 late of putting big time talent into the National Football League. 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:51.160 But I would look at Washington at USC. I know 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.199 USC's defense has not played particularly well as of the 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:58.880 last couple of weeks, and USC has kind of struggled 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:02.000 versus the standard and next dictation, they've fall into twentieth 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:04.560 in the polls. But you got two big time quarterback prospects, 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.360 and Penix and Caleb Williams, who obviously can sling the 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.120 ball all over the field. There's some gifted wide receivers 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.679 in each one of those groups, and there are a 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:15.440 number of defenders. Washington's got a couple of pass rushers. 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:20.440 USC has safety Kylen Bullock out there, who I think 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:24.120 is a really rangy, intriguing, probably Day two guy at safety. 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:25.480 So I just think you. 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:29.320 Can look at Washington, USC and whichever team has the ball, 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.640 you're probably looking at a half dozen NFL guys that 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:33.200 are on the field at any given point in time. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.120 Now you're talking my language. Funny story for you. It 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.160 must have been exactly four weeks ago when the Kogs 0:14:38.200 --> 0:14:40.800 were four and oh, I stopped by Austin Jackson's locker 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:42.960 and said, Austin, I think it's going to be USC 0:14:43.240 --> 0:14:45.440 WSU in the Pac twelve Championship. What are your thoughts? 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:47.680 And he thought, I meant Washington because that's what everyone 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.360 thinks when I talk about football in the Pacific Northwest. 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.040 And I think since that time, Washington's zer and to four, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.760 Washington State rather zero four, and USC I believe is 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:57.320 two and two. Both teams kind of training in the 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.440 wrong direction. So yeah, the Pac two he no longer 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.840 looking as strong as it once did with Washington State 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.120 and Organ State. And let's go ahead and stay there 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:07.040 on that game in the Pac twelve. Because there's a 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.840 player on the UDUB offensive line that I keep seeing 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:12.080 clips of him, and I watched that Organ game and 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:13.760 he was the prospect that I came away I thought 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.320 most impressed by to the left tackle of you Dub 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:21.240 Troy Fatanu. I thought that his tape was really, really fantastic. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.120 But I've seen some folks talk about him as a 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:26.240 potential guard. What say you there with his pro position? 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.000 Yeah, I've kind of heard the same speculation. But at 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:31.400 the end of the day, this guy is six foot four, 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.360 three hundred and fifteen plus pounds, good on the edge 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.840 in pass protection. I think he's earned the right to 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:39.359 get a chance to play outside. 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:39.760 First. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:42.600 I think he frames blocks really well. He's really aggressive 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.120 with his hands. He's not a heavyweight puncher, but he's 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.680 really active with his hands once he kind of gets 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.320 you cut off with that initial angle, and he works 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.280 pretty hard with his hands to try try and force 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.320 you to lose leverage or give up your chest or 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.640 have your hands drop down because he's countering you. And 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.600 I think he showcased a pretty high level of football 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.200 IQ on the edge. So anytime you have a player 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:09.440 like that, maybe it's not prototypical length, but at the 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.480 end of the day, if he's got the foot speed 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:13.400 in athleticism to do it, which I think he does, 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:16.400 I would rather give him a chance to play a 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.920 tackle and then if it doesn't work out, then that 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.920 career evolution can happen. And you've seen that happen plenty 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:25.960 of times with guys come into the league and sometimes 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.520 it works once they move inside. Sometimes it doesn't. But 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.200 if you want to give a guy every opportunity to 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:32.720 be successful, I think that's the pathway I would take 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:33.480 with foot Tim. 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.760 So you probably explained this on your podcast during the offseason, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:39.720 I imagine, and sorry, Kyle, have to admit to you, 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.200 I haven't listened to every single Lockdown Dolphins episode. I 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:44.320 listened to a lot of them, not all of them, 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.320 But I haven't heard this from you before. I think 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.440 it's a good chance for you to potentially give some 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.440 football one on one education here, because you know, like 0:16:52.840 --> 0:16:55.880 a player is a good tackle in college and proe 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.360 scouts think he should kick inside to guard. What do 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.760 you think typically call is that conversation to begin? Because 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.600 I'm looking at you know you talk about him, and 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:07.639 if it's not just a good tackle versus a great guard, 0:17:07.640 --> 0:17:09.480 for instance, like look at Robert Hunt, Like I thought 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.240 he was pretty good at right tackle, but he looks 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:12.840 to me to be one of the best right guards 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:14.960 in the National Football League. And then you get from 0:17:15.000 --> 0:17:17.480 Austin Jackson, who was a career left tackle at USC 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:19.960 has now found a home with the right tackle position. 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:24.000 Connor Williams was a tackle in college, played guard in Dallas, 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.240 and now is a center here. Like this offensive line 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:28.919 has guys all over the place that have swap positions. 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.159 What do you think it is about this system that 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.800 kind of I guess changes guys from what they have 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.280 been donating in the past and are so successful in 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.320 their new role here. Well, I think what Miami. 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.920 I think what Miami has done a nice job of 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.159 is kind of forecasting the traits. You know, when you 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.240 first signed Connor Williams, and the work kind of starts 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:50.960 to get out that they may try him at center. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.840 Everybody's like, oh, that's that's surprising, But look at how 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.080 they use the center and just how athletic Connor Williams 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.639 is and how he's charged with getting up into space 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:04.240 and in the screen game and cutting off linebackers, and 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.160 so many of Miami's explosive runs this season have come 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.240 courtesy of a backside offensive lineman working up and cutting 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.760 off a linebacker that he doesn't have leverage on at 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.320 the start of the play, but thanks to the shift 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:19.520 of the motion and then bumping the formation, you give 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.640 him a half a step and then they're athletic enough 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:24.360 to get up there and do that. And I think 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.800 that's really helped. And as far as Austin Jackson goes, 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:32.199 that's a prototypical offensive tackle build, right, That's how he 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:34.359 gets drafted where he gets drafted, and teams do it 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:37.080 every year. But if you don't have a plan for 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.359 the player, you do the player a disservice, and I 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:44.080 think Austin getting into this system, his strengths finally align 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.600 with the foundations of what you're trying to do offensively. 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.760 Where it is play action pass heavy, it is you're 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:53.280