WEBVTT - Drive Time: The Dolphins are Going to Madrid 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:12.800 What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:16.439 I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show, 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.599 so pretty big news came down across the wire today 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.600 as the Dolphins will play the first ever NFL game 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:26.239 in Madrid at the San Diego Bernabeo, a stadium that 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.520 I have played many many FIFA games in but never 0:00:28.560 --> 0:00:31.360 been too personally. We're gonna welcome in Alex Mattrel from 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.919 Dolphins Espanya Dolphins Club Aspanna, I should say, to talk 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.680 about that game when football overseas in the country of 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:41.080 Spain plus Divisional Weekend on Tap will pick the games 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.920 there and we'll also introduce a new segment called you 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:47.120 produced the show where I talk about things that you 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.400 talked about on social media and I agree or disagree 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.720 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.800 This is the Drift Time Podcast. 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.840 Before I get into anything here quick, I just want 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.000 to get this off the top because we're gonna slowly 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.400 get to all the position groups in the offseason review, 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:08.680 in the draft preview and free agency and all that stuff. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:12.040 But cornerbacks are a long way away. And I did 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.280 a segment on the show was that Monday or maybe 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.759 last Friday. I forget when it was where I talked 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:21.600 about young impact players that you're not quite privy to yet, 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:24.240 Guys that were either practice squad all year or someone 0:01:24.280 --> 0:01:27.120 like Andrew Meyer who spent really the entire year inactive 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.520 but on the active roster, Guys that could afford you 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:35.000 cheap contributions with regards to their rookie contracts or their 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:38.240 contracts in general, that could give you contributions on the 0:01:38.319 --> 0:01:41.320 roster next year. And two of the guys that I omitted, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:43.480 and I don't know why I did this because I 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.280 think they're both going to be NFL players, are Jason 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:50.200 Maytrie and Isaiah Johnson, and I believe that they have 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.720 a really good chance to not just be NFL players 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.080 at some point, but impact twenty twenty five team. And 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:58.840 since the cornerback spot is so far away in our primers, 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.480 I felt like we had to get it off there. 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:04.840 Jason Matri was a late UDFA edition, not part of 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:09.600 the original core of udfas, which full transparency gave me 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:13.880 a bit of an influenced perception of him. I thought like, oh, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.160 he was number eighteen on their list. I'm not going 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.680 to pay much attention. And again, the udfas that you 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:22.280 do get off the top, their odds are pretty long, right, 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:26.000 Like three percent of udfa's make rosters. So he's not 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.160 a player that I'm locked in on early at all 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:29.799 because I put him out of my mind. And that's 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.320 a lesson that I have to learn. But then Day 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.799 one comes and goes, and he makes a play, Day two, 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:37.400 another play, Day three, a few more plays, Day four. 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:39.720 He's making all kinds of plays, showing up all over 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.320 training camp. Then he gets into the preseason and just 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.560 starts shutting down screens, winning one on ones against three 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.360 way goes in the slot. Very very impressed by what 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:49.679 he put on tape. And I thought he had a 0:02:49.760 --> 0:02:52.440 chance to make the club out of training camp last year, 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.400 but he didn't. And not one for bold predictions here, 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.600 but if I'm making one here today on this show, 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.280 I think Matreal plays snaps for this team in twenty 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:01.839 twenty five. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.680 I believe in his game that much. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.519 And guess what, he might not even be the rookie 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:11.040 UDFA futures contract cornerback. Say that twelve times fast, that 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.560 I believe in the most. That's because I watched Isaiah 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.720 Johnson's step up and have quality reps against our ones 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.320 in training camp. I saw him shut down Tyreek Hill 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:22.639 on a couple of fade routes, which mismatch because he's 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.680 six foot three in Tyrek is five foot nine. But 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:27.480 I saw him have quality reps and joint practices in 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.200 the preseason. And then there's the Syracuse tape that was 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.480 really good. This dude can play. And oh hey, by 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.920 the way, how about a ten foot nine broad, a 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.119 thirty nine inch vertical, a one to five to five 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.240 to ten split and doing all of this at six 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.000 foot three two oh five. I think this next part 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.960 is why he didn't get drafted. He ran a four 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:48.360 to six four that is sundial measurement speed in as 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.920 far as cornerbacks go. But then again, Terry and Arnold, 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:53.680 what did he mean to the lines this year? Four 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.320 point five forty time? How about Ronaldo Green for the 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:57.960 forty nine ers clocking a four to four to nine, 0:03:57.960 --> 0:04:00.120 which is basically a four to five right and going 0:04:00.200 --> 0:04:02.000 on to be an impact starter as a rookie there 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:05.160 or tarheb Still who basically won that Falcons game for 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:06.920 the Chargers, the game that I talk about every damn 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:08.560 day on the show here he ran a four or 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.160 five two. So yeah, four or five is better than 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.520 four to six four. But I just don't think that 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:18.039 it's a non negotiable at that speed to be a 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:19.560 four to four guy, or you know, from four to 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.800 four to four to six four something else entirely different. 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.320 And this is the segment I wanted to get into 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.280 here with you guys. And look, Kyle Krabs and I 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.320 talk every single day. I know that our ven diagram 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:33.080 is vast. If that's how you say that, I would 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.760 venture to guest that ninety percent of you listening to 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:39.440 this show today probably listen to Kyle either regularly or 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.239 at least periodically, So I do apologize for this, but look, 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:45.600 Kyle and I discuss prospects and a lot of thoughts, 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.120 so you probably get some decent amount of carry over there. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.040 And we talk about Dolphin's roster building again literally every 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.560 single day, so you'll get some of the same stuff there, right, 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.400 And I'll probably get him back on here soon to 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:57.680 do more of this. But I just want to get 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.680 into this, and it actually curtails perfectly into a new 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:04.320 segment idea. I had the return of scanning the sosh 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:08.400 who remembers that segment looking at the old Talleader and 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.120 the new and regressed version of X. You can't even 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.400 find anything when you search on there anymore. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:13.880 Man, it sucks. 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.600 And I really missed the community of like live sporting 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.360 events on there. What happened to my ski you? So 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:21.200 I do want to do that, but I want to 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.040 change the name of the segment. So this is our 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:27.120 first dive into you produce the show. Maybe I'll do 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.920 a sound drop without some point, but not right now. 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.520 You produce the show. And I'm going to take a 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.320 take from another one of my confidants here, one of 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.680 my friends that does this as well, my man Chris 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:38.840 Kaufman c K. Parrott on social you know, in the 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.080 three yards per Carry podcast. Great information on that show. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.160 And to continue my disclaimer, you know, I talked to 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.000 him on the regular and I finally got a chance 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.680 to meet Chris in Tampa this summer. Huge, huge fan, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.360 not just of you know, the football takes that he has, 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:55.000 but for what he stands for and who he is. 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.279 I really like Chris. He's a good dude. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.920 And usually you do all that buttering out before you 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:02.800 tear someone down right, So, Chris, I guess you're probably 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.480 gonna hear this at some point, but let's go ahead 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.520 and get into it. I am going to disagree with him, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.359 but just want to make it abundantly clear that I 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.559 respect the hell of him and think that you should 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:12.800 consume all of his content. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.040 This is like, you know it's coming. I'm setting him 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:16.000 up for the jab here. 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.120 And to bring it back to Kyle, he and I 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:20.760 were discussing how much wiggle room we should have this year, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:22.400 and Kyle was able to get us to forty one 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:27.000 million dollars in available cap space by simply executing basic restructures. 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:28.719 That's not even touching the big contracts like to a 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:32.039 tongue of by loa. Also, he brought back the internal 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:34.640 free agents that he likes, which is probably pretty close 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.919 to what I think, maybe two or three names different 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.080 here or there, at a price higher than what they 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.680 played for last year. So you're not like taking short 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.480 cuts and you know, finagling this exercise to get yourself 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:46.640 that forty one million dollars. He also had to cut 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:50.919 Jake Bailey, Channing, Tyndall, Raheem, Moster, Durham Smyth traded tyreek 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.799 Hill pre June one, and then Tron arms E retires 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.200 in the scenario again didn't touch the two a tongue 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:59.960 of bi looa contract. So that's at least four young 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.040 free agents that you can sign to multi year deals, 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.560 true priority free agents, right, not talking about like Tray Smith, 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.040 who I think that if you buy into Tray Smith, 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.040 his value at twenty million dollars decreases significantly. Probably the 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:16.680 same player, but when he's four million dollars versus twenty 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:18.840 million dollars, you now have a player who's worth five 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.000 times less. That's how it goes, right, Like the impact 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.320 is great, but you're not doing yourself any favors for 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:27.760 team building by signing a contract like that. Like the 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.200 Panthers Robert Hunt, they don't have enough players to pay 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.120 money to, so it makes sense to pay that much. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.360 But if you're like a contending team that has no 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.200 wiggle room because you have big players that you have 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.200 to pay for, you can't afford players like that, You 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.480 just can't do it. So that's kind of where I 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.560 get at this with the four priority of free agents. 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.960 In terms of guys like a Jordan Brooks for instance, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:47.880 like and This is where I come after Ck a 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.880 little bit here. I don't really look and he had 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.160 the post talking about all the misses. I don't look 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:56.480 at like Robbie Chosen or Braxton Barrios as some fire 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.320 or bowl offense now using them as much as you did, maybe, 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:01.840 but like signing those guys to one year, one million 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.200 dollar contracts, whatever it was, like their depth pieces, and 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.920 you're going to get at least half of those wrong. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.160 That's just how it goes, because well, you signed like 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:11.840 twenty five of those guys, and if you hit twelve 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:12.640 of them, that's awesome. 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:13.640 That's just how it goes. 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.000 And in fact, I would say the one year investments here, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.760 especially offensively, are tough because of how tough the system 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.680 is to grasp. And again other issues, not going to 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.040 debate that those can be issues of their own, but 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.600 on the surface, for what it is, it's tough to 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:30.600 come in here and pick up this offense right away, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:33.120 as we've learned from being in it for three years. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.440 But then you look at the hits, and Chris laid 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.360 this out in his post too, what do you have 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:38.359 in common. 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:39.040 Across those guys? 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:43.400 Literally all of them were actual investments, like substantial investments, 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:47.640 multi year contracts, guarantees, guys that hit right away, and 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.400 you're counting on that production for this season. Kalaius Campbell notwithstanding, 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.480 although I personally believe, not news, just my gut that 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:55.439 he will come back this year. 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:56.320 That's how I feel about that. 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.520 And to go further on this, the Dolphins made a 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.760 successful pivot after the twenty twenty class when that really 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:05.000 flamed out when you signed Eric Klowers and Shaq Lawson 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.360 and Byron Jones. Was good for like a year and 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:09.400 a half, but after that, not so much to these 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:12.400 top of market contracts, which is not the area of 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.440 free agent you want to be playing in right. Mike 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.880 Vrabel has a really good SoundBite on a show that 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.080 he just did where he talks about two classes of 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.440 free agents, guys that are in search of the right 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.280 fit in situation and guys that are trying to maximize 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:27.240 the dollar amount. Christian Wilkins the latter, John Who Smith 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:29.280 the former. And when I look at this year's free 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.960 agent class the Dolphins needs and disposition, I think you 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.960 can add four or five of those guys, Guys in 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.400 their mid twenties hungry for a chance to earn a 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.679 raise and prove they are better players and what they 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.679 showed you in their first four or five years of 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.800 of NFL football, Like Andrew Van Ginkle for instance, Right, 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:46.200 I know that's the name that's sour for a lot 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.480 of us. Or an Aaron Brewer who was not a 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.600 great player in Tennessee or thought of that way but 0:09:50.679 --> 0:09:51.080 now he is. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:52.600 Or Jordan Brooks the same thing. 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.520 So if I tell you that we can get our 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:58.800 key internals back and then go sign Tevin Jenkins Beier 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.600 starting and left guard next year and bring some nasty 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.800 and physicality and scheme diversity and Mackai Beckton, why not 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.000 do them both at right tackle and be a power 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.839 team that can run outside zone. And then you give 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:09.600 me Diami Brown. He's gonna have the best year of 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.400 his career in this offense. Our Darius Washington becomes one 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:14.760 of the best post safeties in the league in this system, 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.120 like he's become for the Ravens. And then I signed 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.440 Levi On Woozlrique to be my defensive tackle alongside Seler 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.640 and Campbell. And then we can draft Tyler Warren and 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:25.640 that fixes the most issues of any player available this 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:28.880 entire offseason can for the Miami Dolphins, Carson Schweschinger, who 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:32.360 becomes a ninety percent snap taker alongside Jordan Brooks and 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.680 Lathan Ransom, who is now my new Rashad Jones. Well, 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.520 that's a much better team than what you had in 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.440 twenty twenty four. And that's all very very much on 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.240 the table inconceivable with what the resources they have not 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:48.160 to diminish, you know, one year contracts for guys like 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:50.040 tier Tart, you know, and tier Tart played well for 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:51.960 the Chargers, and I like tier Tart, but like, I 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.080 just am not going to bemoan moves like that because 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.080 I don't think it adds up at all anywhere close 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.959 to what you got from Jordan Brooks, from Kendall Fuller, 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.680 from John new Smith, from Isaiah Win last year. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:06.520 Guys like that. So again, all hope is not lost. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.360 Listing out some minimum one year contract players as a 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.600 referendum on the roster building for me, dog that ain't 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.920 doing it, first, break right there, come back on the 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:19.400 other side and pick the games in Divisional Round football 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.160 the best weekend of the year for the general football fan. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.240 Hopefully the Dolphins get here. One year it's been twenty 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.000 five years. Well to do that next year. In the 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.880 Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:36.360 by Auto Nation. And then there were eight football teams 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:40.680 remaining for the twenty twenty four season, not us, but 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.840 it is four games. There's probably like two games here 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.959 that'll be good. Right, Let's go ahead and talk about 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.280 Divisional round weekend. I was five and one over wild 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.640 Card weekend. Had to adjust the bracket just a little 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.000 bit because I had the Packers winning. 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:53.480 That was the game I got wrong. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:55.800 Going to the Lions and the Commanders going to the 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:59.239 Rams obviously not the matchups we have. It'll be Commanders 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.800 at Lions on Saturday night and the Rams will travel 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:04.959 to the Eagles for a two o'clock kickoff. That's the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:06.839 first year they've done that, right, It's usually been the 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:09.880 same old one o'clock Do they make it? 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:12.760 Man? Did they make it one o'clock and eight o'clock 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.400 last year? Like? I forget? 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.760 Because Conference Championship weekend is three and six thirty, right, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:20.400 And then, yeah, I don't know, it's different this year. 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:21.040 I know that much. 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.120 So I'm taking the Chiefs over the Texans on the 0:12:25.240 --> 0:12:28.560 Saturday four o'clock four to thirty kickoff. I thought the 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.320 Texans looked pretty probably their best they've looked in the 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.640 entire second half of the season in that Kansas City 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.240 game last time around, and that was with the benefit 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.840 of some of the better calls, you know, going for 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.480 the Chiefs that might have stolen the win. 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.480 From the Texans in that game. 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:44.840 Now, they also had Tank Dell in that game, who 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:46.480 made the biggest catch of the game for them for 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.480 a touchdown in that game on the play where he 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:51.520 blew up his entire knee and obviously he's down, and 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.079 for a line that's not played well for a quarterback 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:55.640 that hasn't seen it as clear as he did as 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.959 a rookie against a rested Steve Spagnolo defense. Without Tank 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.040 Dell or Stefan Diggs, that's a lot to ask man 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.439 this Divisional round game at Case, he has kind of 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.480 become what the old Patriots divisional round games were, double 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.080 digit dogs going into the game like lamps to the slaughter. 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.160 And I think the Chiefs are about to, you know, 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.760 wake up as it were, which is so funny you 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:18.560 say for a fifteen to one team that they're going 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.840 to wake up with Hollywood brown back in action, everyone 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.319 getting two full weeks to get healthy, Andy Reid having 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.440 all that time for a game plan to cook up 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.480 his voodoo magic from something we haven't seen since like 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.000 the nineteen twenty five Rose Bowl or something like that. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.080 I think the Chiefs are going to win this one 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.320 going away. And we go into conference Championship weekend where 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:39.360 the season officially begins for the Chiefs and everybody has 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:42.200 finally realized at sixteen to one, oh yeah, the Chiefs 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.520 are pretty good. And then we pivot to the game 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.880 in the NFC on Saturday, and I stand corrected on 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.040 the biggest spread of the weekend, which belongs to the 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.840 Detroit Lions. I'm not sure so sure that I see 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:58.160 it that way quite frankly. Yes, the Lions have gotten 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:02.120 some help back from injury, particularly Alex Anzeloni, but I 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.240 don't know, man, like, they're really banged up. And I 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.280 think Jayden Daniels has everything he needs from a skill 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.560 set standpoint to how he can dissect and attack coverage 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:14.120 to the weapons that he has. I think the Lions 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.240 don't have a good answer for my money for Terry 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:19.560 McLaurin or Zach Ertz for that matter, to the play caller, 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.720 to everything around them to be able to go after 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.520 the Lions and they're zero coverage, their cover one, their 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:26.880 press man heavy, get underneath you and try to disrupt 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.320 you from all that. Ball will come out quick in 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.400 this game, and I think they'll score. The problem is 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:35.600 Ben Johnson off a bye with a fully healthy offense 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:38.080 against a Washington defense that has been the Achilles Hill 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.000 at times this year. Yeah, the Lions might have yet 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:43.920 another forty burger in them. By the way, the hell's 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.360 Ben Johnson thinking? If the stuff is true about Vegas? 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.400 The hell you doing, dude? There's so many better jobs, 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:52.640 Like there's no quarterback You're not going to get a 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.280 quarterback because you're picking eighth because Antonio Pierce is the 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:58.320 best coach in the world at winning late games to 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.920 ruin draft picks and your roster's not good. 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:03.400 Crazy crazy. 0:15:03.440 --> 0:15:05.760 If that happens, we'll see, But that's not what we're 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:08.520 talking about today. So I think this game will go 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.120 tight into the third quarter, but the Lions pull away 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:14.400 late and win it like thirty eight to twenty seven. 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:15.280 Something like that. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:19.120 Eagles and Rams is pretty intriguing. A rematch of primetime 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.600 games from earlier that was won by the Eagles, and 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.120 in fact, the Rams only lost in a game where 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.080 they played starters after they lost to US was this 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.680 game they lost to the Seahawks in the finale, which 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:30.680 they didn't play their starters in. 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:31.880 But I think about that real quick. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:38.440 They beat Vegas, Minnesota, Seattle, lost to US, beat New England, 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:42.280 lost to Philly, then beat No. Orleans, Buffalo, San Francisco, 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:44.680 the Jets, and the Cardinals. They lost to the Seahawks 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.480 that Jimmy G starred in that game, and they just 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.640 beat Minnesota again. So I'm just saying, pretty damn good 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.040 qualifying win for the good guys there. Now, I love 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:55.520 this matchup because, in many respects, the funt the Fangio 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.280 plan in twenty eighteen with the Bears that the Patriots 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.520 famously caught beat in the Super Bowl to hold the 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.920 Rams to just three points in that game basically inspired 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.840 Sean McVeigh into a philosophical approach one that I think 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:10.720 the Dolphins need to figure need to think about making. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.080 But ma'am, I trust the old man here as crotchy 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.120 as he is in this game, and I don't think 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:19.000 the Rams have the guns yet on defense to contend 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.560 with what is just a very very good Eagles offense. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:25.760 I mean their protection, their physicality, the weapons they have 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.560 on the outside. I think Jalen Hurts catches a bad rap. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.720 I don't think he's as good as his production necessarily 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.800 says that he is. But I don't think he's as 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.920 bad as all the you know, everyone that thinks that 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.840 all the quarterbacks in the league besides two guys suck. 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.480 I don't think the Rams are ready for what they're 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.600 going to get here on Sunday. So I'm taking Philly 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.160 in like a thirty one to twenty four game where 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.720 it's like thirty one seventeen late, the Eagles take the 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.720 air out of the ball and the Rams maybe score 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.640 a late touchdown to make it look closer than it 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.720 was then the big one, man, this is the best 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.200 game of the entire year. Going to be an absolute movie, 0:16:56.240 --> 0:17:00.400 as the kids say, a total scene. Please Baltimore, Please. 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.760 If there's one thing that can be salvaged about this season, 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:10.119 it's keeping the Buffalo Bills ringless, you know, keeping them 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.000 Steve Carrell, they have never been to the finish line, 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:15.040 as it were. He made a move back in two 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:16.560 thousand and five called the forty year old Virgion. That's 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:18.560 we're making a joke of there. I think the Ravens 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:20.840 will get this one. I think their run game mixed 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:23.520 with what Lamar does as a passer and as a 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.440 decoy in the running game is a very dangerous proposition. 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.480 The Buffalo defense has struggled against teams that feature that 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:31.840 kind of balanced the Rams game, the game that we 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:34.040 damn near took off of their hands up in Buffalo. 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.480 I think Baltimore can score, and then I think their 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:39.960 defense can make the winning play in what will play 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:41.640 out as a game of the year, where we get 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.560 like a turnover or a stop late that wins you 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:47.119 the game. So I have one semi close game this weekend, 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:49.800 but then this one saves what is otherwise a bad 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.760 weekend of football in terms of competitiveness, as the Ravens 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.720 win thirty two to thirty. All Right, we are going 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.679 to have our tight end recap on Monday Day, or 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.680 our review of our roster as well as the free 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:05.840 agency and draft picks on Monday. We're gonna bump that 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:07.920 back one more day. We're gonna go ahead and come 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:10.000