Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
Speaker 1: the labor of love over the last month of learning
Speaker 1: about the free agent and draft prospects has come to
Speaker 1: a head for a fun exercise as we take a
Speaker 1: comprehensive look back at all the work we did over
Speaker 1: those four or five weeks. With a comprehensive off season
Speaker 1: general primer, I'll talk about what position groups offer, what
Speaker 1: I'll rank them in terms of how your needs might
Speaker 1: stack up against what's available out there, and we will
Speaker 1: finish it all with a fun game the mock off season,
Speaker 1: as you know I do every single year here and
Speaker 1: will of course we will update that as we go
Speaker 1: along from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is.
Speaker 1: The Draft Time Podcast. So now that the off season
Speaker 1: capsules are a rap, what did we learn as this
Speaker 1: project began back on January fifteenth? And even though it
Speaker 1: was a bit of a labor of love, I do
Speaker 1: love doing these series because A I think it's really
Speaker 1: good podcasting, that's what folks want this time of year,
Speaker 1: I think, but also be it really educates me to
Speaker 1: do my own show to answer your questions on social
Speaker 1: to do radio hits and TV hits and other podcasts,
Speaker 1: just continuing my own education. So what I wanted to
Speaker 1: do was kind of comprehensively look at each position group
Speaker 1: with a general thought, discuss the strengths and weaknesses of
Speaker 1: what could be out there in free agency and the
Speaker 1: draft with our own internal review, and then tell you
Speaker 1: how that might shape the off season. And you know
Speaker 1: what's funny Between myself and Crabs and the Three Arts
Speaker 1: per carry guys, anybody else out there that does this
Speaker 1: like full time and has these exercises every single off season,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll all have different ideas and I'll be
Speaker 1: wrong because you can't forecast what teams will do. It
Speaker 1: happens every single year, But I don't think that makes
Speaker 1: the exercise futile. The point of it in general is
Speaker 1: to show you one of the roadmaps, the different routes
Speaker 1: you can take off of that roadmap, and just kind
Speaker 1: of inform you on how the team might be thinking
Speaker 1: with the landscape of what's out there with regards to
Speaker 1: the team building philosophy. But of course there are so
Speaker 1: many variables that could change things, Like I bet most
Speaker 1: teams don't get the offseason they thought they would get
Speaker 1: because hey, guess what, players have their own agency to
Speaker 1: dictate what they do, because it takes two to tangle
Speaker 1: orsh up night at So with that, my thoughts on
Speaker 1: each group and how I'd rank the supply of the
Speaker 1: positions heading into the twenty twenty five offseason, beginning at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, and the draft feels lacking on not
Speaker 1: just early picks, but mid round prospects as well, and
Speaker 1: that's common most years, as guys tend to get pushed
Speaker 1: up from that second third round, and then the middle
Speaker 1: class tends to kind of fall back as a result
Speaker 1: of that because the more quarterback needy teams attack it
Speaker 1: early and then you can kind of take your developmental
Speaker 1: guy sometime on Day three. There's a couple of fun
Speaker 1: prospects here, like Taylor Shook from Louisville or Max Brosmer
Speaker 1: from Minnesota that I think offers some Day three value.
Speaker 1: The free agent market has quite a bit of guys
Speaker 1: I think would make sense in terms of the veteran
Speaker 1: backup behind to Atunga Bai Looa, but there's also some
Speaker 1: higher upside guys slash unproven options that as of this
Speaker 1: taping are set to see their contract expire with the
Speaker 1: new league year, and I tend to think that's the
Speaker 1: better route over a rookie, just because of the landscape
Speaker 1: of the of both the position for both avenues. But
Speaker 1: you just never know. Nobody knew that Brock Purty, for instance,
Speaker 1: was a franchise quarterback at this time three years ago.
Speaker 1: At running back, arguably the deepest running back class we've
Speaker 1: ever seen for the draft. Now, the Dolphins I think
Speaker 1: are well set here at least the top two guys
Speaker 1: with doing all Devon a Chan and the very hungry
Speaker 1: Jalen Wright, who I think deserves a lot more work.
Speaker 1: It kind of feels like you need a third back though,
Speaker 1: but ideally you know that back just sees a little
Speaker 1: at a time and some special teams work.
Speaker 2: So how do you value that.
Speaker 1: I think you could attack a prototype like a certain
Speaker 1: type of player, a power player, to be perfectly frank,
Speaker 1: to kind of compliment what you have here, and to
Speaker 1: reiterate the draft really does have every flavor, like the
Speaker 1: Ohio State kids are a perfect microcosm of the entire class.
Speaker 1: Quinshawn Judkins has some real Marshawn Lynch to his game,
Speaker 1: and Traveon Henderson has some forgive me for the comparison,
Speaker 1: but some Reggie Bush to his game. To me, that's
Speaker 1: this class. You can choose your weapon, as it were. Now,
Speaker 1: the free agent market I think pales in comparison to
Speaker 1: the draft class like now Aji Harris, no thank you.
Speaker 1: And with the promising class and the cost of a
Speaker 1: mid round to a Day three pick, it seems as
Speaker 1: though that's kind of where the opportunity of value exists
Speaker 1: every single year at wide receiver. Again, not in free agency,
Speaker 1: not a time to write home about. Especially if t
Speaker 1: Higgins goes back to the Bengals. Then you've got a
Speaker 1: guy like Chris Godwin who is awesome, but coming off
Speaker 1: a serious injury, and he's already kind of previously pleted
Speaker 1: his allegiance to the buccane year. And with Reek and Waddle,
Speaker 1: that's probably not your market.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: We'll see if Reek is back. I expect them to
Speaker 1: be at this point. But nothing you know, nothing you
Speaker 1: say on this show has one hundred percent certainty, because well,
Speaker 1: we're projecting what could happen. We're just spitballing. But there
Speaker 1: are some interesting options like Brandon Cook's Nick Westbrook Akine.
Speaker 1: But we've also seen a lot of wide receiver two
Speaker 1: wide receiver three types in terms of their production get
Speaker 1: fifteen plus million dollars per year, so that can be
Speaker 1: a tricky landscape to navigate. I think the top of
Speaker 1: the draft is a bit thinner this year, but the
Speaker 1: value really peaks on Day two. And if it's size
Speaker 1: you want, You've got the two Texas Christian guys. You've
Speaker 1: got Jaden Higgins, the Utah State kid Jalen Royals. They
Speaker 1: are everywhere, and with Wattle and Washington, perhaps that's the
Speaker 1: complement you seek out at tight end. This is also
Speaker 1: a place where you can get bigger and more physical.
Speaker 1: And what a year for the tight end I mean
Speaker 1: not in free agency. I think it might be my
Speaker 1: least favorite free agent crop on the entire list of
Speaker 1: positions here. Certainly individual I think make the offer some
Speaker 1: value to you. In fact, I believe Kyle Krabs on
Speaker 1: his projection, picked my favorite guy in John Bates to
Speaker 1: sign to his team.
Speaker 2: But the draft is just crazy loaded.
Speaker 1: I think Tyler Warren is a force multiplier, a top
Speaker 1: ten deserving pick, and we'll see if he makes it
Speaker 1: there George Kittle type of impact. But then you've got
Speaker 1: so many more options later on and you can find
Speaker 1: your why. You can find your f your combo tilee
Speaker 1: like a Gunner Helm from Texas or a Jackson Hawes
Speaker 1: from Georgia Tech. We've got two lineage players here and
Speaker 1: Mason Taylor and Rondez Gas. In the second we released
Speaker 1: Durham smyth, giving us one of the best f's in
Speaker 1: the league in John new Smith and a y tight
Speaker 1: end that I think is still developing, but took a
Speaker 1: step in year two and Julian Hill go ahead and
Speaker 1: throw your tomatoes at me. And if you're just replacing Durham, well,
Speaker 1: he was as true of a why as.
Speaker 2: You can get.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's a later pick or a phase two
Speaker 1: phase three free agent that feels that tight end three role.
Speaker 1: Or you could go big on a Tyler Warren and
Speaker 1: reshape your offense to that twelve personnel heavy attack with
Speaker 1: John neu Smith himself, Reek Wattle a chan As your
Speaker 1: kind of first five in and show me a group
Speaker 1: of better eligibles across the league than that right now,
Speaker 1: and that removes you know, off the field issues. The
Speaker 1: point is there are so many options, and with the
Speaker 1: tight ends, this draft is absolutely booming at tackle. Again,
Speaker 1: the draft is the way to go. I think we're
Speaker 1: pretty much locked in with the current roster, especially if
Speaker 1: Tron Armstead returns, but even if not, you know, Patrick
Speaker 1: Paul Austin Jackson, Keam Smith is a pretty good one
Speaker 1: through three. I would look to add a veteran to
Speaker 1: that group, as we'll talk about here in one second.
Speaker 1: You could look at guard conversions, and this year's draft
Speaker 1: class has some serious contenders, whether it's armand Membo, Marcus Bow,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of guys that a kick inside from that
Speaker 1: tackle spot. I think free agency as it tends to be,
Speaker 1: is pretty barren here unless you're going after a swing
Speaker 1: tackle type, which again I think is where we're shopping
Speaker 1: more so than a starter. There will be a good
Speaker 1: tackle prospect on the board at thirteen, just because the
Speaker 1: first round has so many this year. Maybe not as
Speaker 1: deep into Day two as it was last year, but
Speaker 1: a pretty attractive group in general on the interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: This one is completely opposite of the tackle spot. The
Speaker 1: draft class kind of stinks. The free agent class is loaded,
Speaker 1: and you know we have you know, pretty much a
Speaker 1: wide open room right now. With Robert Jones, Isaiah Win,
Speaker 1: Liam Eichenberg all set for free agency, the draft is okay.
Speaker 1: I guess there's some Day two names I love, like
Speaker 1: a grey Zabel from North Dakota State. But I think
Speaker 1: free agency is just loaded with Will Freeze, Mackay Beckton,
Speaker 1: Will Hernandez, James Daniels, Daniel Brunskill, Tevin Jenkins, Aaron Banks.
Speaker 1: There's a decent chance a few of those guys make
Speaker 1: it to the market, right But I also do like Zabel,
Speaker 1: Jackson Slater, and Miles Frasier right around Day two somewhere
Speaker 1: at defensive tackle. This is up there with a tight
Speaker 1: end group. In terms of the depth of the draft.
Speaker 1: I mean everywhere you look there's impact guys, and they
Speaker 1: come in all different shapes and sizes. There's a three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pound nose tackle who can move like
Speaker 1: a monster. There's three hundred and ten pounds, three techniques
Speaker 1: that can kick inside or outside, and everything in between.
Speaker 1: We have plenty of question marks with you know, Benito
Speaker 1: and Deshaun hand up for new contracts. The uncertain future
Speaker 1: of kalais Campbell. But looking at how they built this
Speaker 1: thing last year. It really followed that Rayvens model of
Speaker 1: building around one key fixture in Zach Seeler and having
Speaker 1: positional flexibility for rotational guys. Otherwise, I think our needs
Speaker 1: here match up with what is in the draft and
Speaker 1: the free agent class I would say is probably middle
Speaker 1: of the road off the edge, if it's not the
Speaker 1: defensive tackles. On defense, this is probably the most loaded
Speaker 1: group in the in the entire draft. And I say
Speaker 1: that with a deep linebacker, cornerback, and safety group. Kyle
Speaker 1: Krabb said that he had something like twenty potential startup
Speaker 1: grades for edges in this year's class.
Speaker 2: That is a lot.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of players, and we have an interesting
Speaker 1: situation for ourselves down here with Bradley Chubb off the
Speaker 1: injury and an expensive contract Jalen Phillips, you know, coming
Speaker 1: off two season ending injuries, perhaps our player with the
Speaker 1: most upside on the entire team, and Chop Robinson, and
Speaker 1: then some really nice depth pieces, you know. I like
Speaker 1: Mohammed Kamara, I like Grayson Murphy, but I think you
Speaker 1: can get a third type of ruck like you're Shaq Barrett,
Speaker 1: you or Andrew van Ginkel not a starter, but playing
Speaker 1: around fifty percent snaps on Day two. I think the
Speaker 1: free agent class is going to be buying above market
Speaker 1: because of the supply and demand, although I suppose that
Speaker 1: could dampen with teams looking at this draft class as
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get cheaper production that way some point
Speaker 1: in April. At linebacker, the draft is the group man.
Speaker 1: I think there are several guys that can be second
Speaker 1: fiddle to Jordan Brooks in this draft. We also got
Speaker 1: a good in house eval on Tyrrell Dodson for a
Speaker 1: half of a season. I thought he earned some interest
Speaker 1: from the from the team returning. We'll see what happens there.
Speaker 1: But in free agency it's a bit thin. I do
Speaker 1: think UCLA's cars from Swashinger could be a Day three
Speaker 1: starter or sorry, a Day two starter. All while Peyton
Speaker 1: Wilson last year, the South Carolina kid Demetrius Night is awesome.
Speaker 1: So there's options, and you can even run it back
Speaker 1: if you brought back Dotson and Walker. I wouldn't do that,
Speaker 1: but it's an option at cornerback. We discussed this on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Untapped talent in this room versus what might be available
Speaker 1: is among my most intriguing positions to follow over the
Speaker 1: next couple of months. In the market for a ten
Speaker 1: cornerback too, is that a free agent. There's some good
Speaker 1: names out there that I think would fit that role,
Speaker 1: like a paulse in the Debo, maybe a Sante Samuel,
Speaker 1: But again, the draft is deep there. I think some
Speaker 1: guys are in play at thirteen, like if Michigan's Will
Speaker 1: Johnson falls, I love East Carolina Chavon Ravel his versatility.
Speaker 1: I have to imagine it is super attractive to Anthony Weaver.
Speaker 2: And then at.
Speaker 1: Safety, as of this taping, we've basically got Patrick McMorris
Speaker 1: and nobody else because Javon holland, Jordan Poyer and Elijah
Speaker 1: Campbell are all free agents. We've got Jordan Colbert on
Speaker 1: a futures deal, and I think you have a little
Speaker 1: bit of everything, both in the draft and free agency.
Speaker 1: I think safety is probably one of the deeper spots
Speaker 1: in the free agency, and it can be one of
Speaker 1: the cheaper ones too. I freaking love Jeremy Chin and
Speaker 1: Trayvon merrigg one more. Chin's more of a force multiplier
Speaker 1: who can move all over and do multiple things, and
Speaker 1: Merrig's one of the game's best post safeties. Then you've
Speaker 1: got one of the deeper positions in the draft. Like
Speaker 1: this draft is just really deep on defense in general.
Speaker 1: So Anthony Weaver and company can kind of build this secondary,
Speaker 1: this defensive back, the safety position, I should say, to
Speaker 1: their vision. And with all that work done, a month
Speaker 1: of grinding tape and still having so much more to do,
Speaker 1: Here's how I would rank the current positions in terms
Speaker 1: of what provides the most options this offseason, including draft
Speaker 1: and free agency. Defensive tackles number one, Safety is number two,
Speaker 1: tight end is number three, Interior offensive line number four,
Speaker 1: Edge is number five, offensive tackle five, then cornerback, running back, linebacker, quarterback,
Speaker 1: wide receiver. So when you hear that list, what positions
Speaker 1: are the Dolphins most set out? If Riek is here,
Speaker 1: wide receiver's pretty well covered. Probably need one body there. Quarterback,
Speaker 1: I mean, you have your starting quarterback, so that's a
Speaker 1: cheaper option. We try to consider acquiring a backup linebacker.
Speaker 1: I mean we do need a number two, but Jordan
Speaker 1: Brooks is a stud running back. You've got your one
Speaker 1: two already. Cornerback, you do have a need there, But
Speaker 1: like your biggest needs are defensive tackle, safety, tight end, interior,
Speaker 1: offensive line, that's the top four of my rankings here.
Speaker 1: It's funny how that works out. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: take a break right there. We'll come back and revisit
Speaker 1: my January podcast talking about the non negotiables that have
Speaker 1: to get better, and we'll also wrap that into a
Speaker 1: mock off season. All of that next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. If
Speaker 1: you recall the January thirteenth podcast, I believe it was
Speaker 1: we talked about some core things I believe the Dolphins
Speaker 1: have to accomplish this off season to get change for
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five campaign. We'll go to the mock
Speaker 1: off season here in just a little bit, but first
Speaker 1: a ten thousand foot view revisiting those four core four
Speaker 1: core points say that five times fast. Number one was culture, cultivation,
Speaker 1: time on task, and being on the practice field more.
Speaker 1: The veterans spelled it out for you after the season.
Speaker 1: I would add more administrative communication during game day. You
Speaker 1: cannot allow a situation like what happened with Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: to bubble over, and to me, the number one.
Speaker 2: Step to doing that is to ship and off.
Speaker 1: But if that doesn't happen, you better have process seas
Speaker 1: is in place to be preemptive to that and other situations.
Speaker 1: You know, hey, Frank, you got the play calling this drive.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see what's going on. Tyreek Hill. Culture
Speaker 1: and accountability cultivation. That's not an offe's a moves thing,
Speaker 1: just an important administrative thing, and all of that can
Speaker 1: create better time on task. And the other kind of
Speaker 1: sub caveat to this is the Tom Brady comment about
Speaker 1: his superpower that made the rounds during Super Bowl Week,
Speaker 1: his processing and his film study and knowing how the
Speaker 1: defense is going to move before they move that way.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying two with Tom Brady, but that is
Speaker 1: his superpower. He is, in my opinion, the best in
Speaker 1: the league at that and you reduce that ability when
Speaker 1: you break the huddle at ten seconds. And this all
Speaker 1: goes back to the administrative stuff. We did better job
Speaker 1: in the San Francisco game. I thought to his last
Speaker 1: game of the year where he got out of the
Speaker 1: huddle with like eighteen seconds and he went out there
Speaker 1: and played one of his best games of the year.
Speaker 1: Where if Tyreek Hill catches the damn football, he probably
Speaker 1: has three hundred and fifty yards and three touchdowns in
Speaker 1: that game, So I think, you know, to two his
Speaker 1: skill set, but adapting to more of this, you know,
Speaker 1: they went the whole route of getting him skill players
Speaker 1: and explosive playmakers.
Speaker 2: Which when was the last time, you know.
Speaker 1: Tyreek or Waddle like caught a football and took off
Speaker 1: for forty more yards. That really didn't happen the last
Speaker 1: couple of years for Wattle, hasn't happened in a long time.
Speaker 1: But I think if you adapt your approach to more
Speaker 1: of a Lion's type of approach or hell, look at
Speaker 1: what the Bills did. They reduced Josh Allen this year
Speaker 1: and got James Cook more involved than They had their
Speaker 1: best offensive season in his career. I mean, he was
Speaker 1: the MVP of the damn League. Look at the Ravens
Speaker 1: with Derek Henry and the implementation of him behind Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: Look At what the Chiefs offense turned into an Isaiah
Speaker 1: Pacheco went down early in the year. Look at the
Speaker 1: freaking Eagles, like this is kind of the way to
Speaker 1: attack the way defenses have shifted this year, And I
Speaker 1: think all of that coincides with tua strengths, So that
Speaker 1: with the getting out of the huddle, quicker, and kind
Speaker 1: of simplifying your processes can all have major impacts. Number
Speaker 1: two was the type of players that you acquire the
Speaker 1: zach Seelers. Not the type right or rather not twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four Tyreek, but maybe twenty twenty two Tyreek when
Speaker 1: he was hungry and had something to prove that year.
Speaker 1: But we know certain guys have been open about lack
Speaker 1: of effort a particular safety for instance, like you know,
Speaker 1: you can't have that. You got to have players that
Speaker 1: will do anything to get on the field and play football.
Speaker 2: We have to emphasize that this offseason.
Speaker 1: Number three revamp the run game slash simplification of the
Speaker 1: offense plus a size and physical element that you have
Speaker 1: to kind of adapt to. You know, you moved off
Speaker 1: Durham Smith. That's the first step there in terms of
Speaker 1: you're revamping the running game off the edge at the
Speaker 1: tight end position. What do they do with guard? Do
Speaker 1: they go after a certain type of back? Is that
Speaker 1: Jalen Wright we talked about the Rams and Packers pivots
Speaker 1: to more of an inside zone duo type of concept
Speaker 1: counter game in the running game with more power players
Speaker 1: up front. The Texans did this with Joe Mixon in
Speaker 1: the similar offensive system. The simplification is again more administrative,
Speaker 1: And I wonder which is easier, because I tend to
Speaker 1: think it's the personnel part. But you know, can a
Speaker 1: person change in year four or I guess year eighteen
Speaker 1: of his career. I don't know that that's easy, but I
Speaker 1: would tend to think that that part is easier than
Speaker 1: trying to, you know, change who you are from a
Speaker 1: personnel standpoint, from your your offensive your players on offensive defense,
Speaker 1: the guards, the big body pass catcher like these are
Speaker 1: things you need to figure out who fits that mold
Speaker 1: and who you could go after in that way. And
Speaker 1: number four athletes and temperature changers on defense. We were
Speaker 1: too slow, We weren't explosive enough on defense. I think
Speaker 1: we should create competition through the way you acquire players.
Speaker 1: You know, twenty five year olds that did not pop
Speaker 1: on their first contract who are hungry to prove they
Speaker 1: are that guy, pit him against rookies who want to
Speaker 1: prove they're worth in the league. You know, you're Jeremy Chinch,
Speaker 1: your Trayvon Marriage, You're Shamar Stewarts, your Carson Sweeshinger's all
Speaker 1: types of guys that play with their hair on fire,
Speaker 1: and that brings us to this conclusion for this portion
Speaker 1: of the podcast, my ideal fits for both free agency
Speaker 1: and in the draft at each position. At quarterback, it
Speaker 1: is going to be Marcus Mariota. I don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of conviction in that it was Andy Dalton, but
Speaker 1: he went off the board back to Carolina for two years,
Speaker 1: eight million dollars, six million guaranteed. That kind of feels
Speaker 1: like the playground the Dolphins are playing in right now.
Speaker 1: And then my draft prospect, I'm gonna go with Max Brosmer,
Speaker 1: the Minnesota quarterback, because I think his anticipation and accuracy
Speaker 1: is among the best in the entire class, and he's
Speaker 1: a Day three pick.
Speaker 2: All day.
Speaker 1: At running back, Elijah Mitchell from the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: and then quin Shawn Judkins from Ohio State are my
Speaker 1: ideal fits there. Mitchell has the outside zone experience, he'll
Speaker 1: be dirt cheat because he's never said healthy and he's
Speaker 1: kind of a running back three, which would kind of
Speaker 1: hopefully help him keep him healthy as the year goes along.
Speaker 2: And then Judkins is kind of like a tone setter.
Speaker 1: You know, you show up and you've got the short
Speaker 1: yards conversion back, and he also is a great pass
Speaker 1: protector and just kind of has some ish to his game.
Speaker 2: At wide receiver.
Speaker 1: On the free agent market, I'm going Josh Palmer, the
Speaker 1: former Chargers receiver who hasn't quite put it all together yet.
Speaker 1: I think he could be motivated in his second contract.
Speaker 1: And then Elik Aamnoor from Stanford is just such a
Speaker 1: great route runner and he's six foot two. I think
Speaker 1: that matches up with the Dolphins and what they need
Speaker 1: at tight end. The class of free agents is rough
Speaker 1: to look at, but John Bates from Washington is my
Speaker 1: pick there. And then you guys know this, in the
Speaker 1: first round of the draft, Tyler Warren from Penn State
Speaker 1: is the best fit there, although there are some good
Speaker 1: fits later on, like Gunner Helm, like Jackson Hawes, like anybody.
Speaker 1: I mean, Elijah Arroyo from Miami. There's all kinds of
Speaker 1: guys that fit that mold at tackle, Josh Jones or
Speaker 1: Patrick mccariam, kind of in between those two guys, the
Speaker 1: both former Ravens, and then ariontae Esseri from Minnesota is
Speaker 1: my top pick there, although I don't think Miami's in
Speaker 1: the market for a tackle in the first round of
Speaker 1: the draft, which is where he will go on the
Speaker 1: interior offensive line. James Daniels and Jackson Slater for the
Speaker 1: free agent and the draft pick from Sacramento State. I
Speaker 1: put Donovan Jackson in here as well, but I feel
Speaker 1: better about Slater in terms of his fit in the offense.
Speaker 1: And then Daniels. Of course, coming off the serious injuries
Speaker 1: will be a flag for a lot of fans, but
Speaker 1: I just think that he gives you center flexibility, outside
Speaker 1: zone flexibility.
Speaker 2: He's powerful, he's young. I think the best ball of
Speaker 2: his career is still ahead.
Speaker 1: At defensive tackle, I'm going with Greg Gains, but there's
Speaker 1: a few options you could have here, and then Alfred
Speaker 1: Collins from Texas. There's honestly like six guys that could
Speaker 1: fit both of these positions. I just think Collins is
Speaker 1: the best nose tackle fit who can also play three
Speaker 1: and that's what we need off the edge. Michael Hoyt
Speaker 1: from the Rams, big fan of his game as an
Speaker 1: outside backer, and Shamar Stewart, who also could play inside
Speaker 1: in addition to his edge responsibilities. But he probably cost
Speaker 1: you pick thirteen if you want to get him at linebacker.
Speaker 1: Willie Gay Junior is so explosive and violent when he
Speaker 1: runs through ballcarriers, and then Carson Swashing. You're a fan
Speaker 1: of a favorite of the Drive Time podcast, I should
Speaker 1: say at cornerback Paulson Adeebo and Chavon Ravel Junior. And
Speaker 1: then I also put Jacob Parish from Kansas State, just
Speaker 1: not in round number one.
Speaker 2: And then at.
Speaker 1: Safety Jeremy chin Is, who all go with. I just
Speaker 1: think he's gonna have a great career from this point forward.
Speaker 1: And then Lathan Ransom and Billy Bowman. I couldn't side
Speaker 1: between those two for my safety choice. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break right there, come back and
Speaker 1: do the mock off season. That's next podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autnation. How you ready
Speaker 1: for a mockoff season? And the best part of the
Speaker 1: podcast in the off season is having fun by predicting
Speaker 1: what might happen and just how wrong you can get it.
Speaker 1: And I want to go ahead and tell you a
Speaker 1: few things we did to arrive at this point. And
Speaker 1: uh look, I want to point point some fun here.
Speaker 1: My man Omar, who had a Maya colpa on Wednesday
Speaker 1: about the Dolphins capopolypse coming once again, Capageddon whatever it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he tweeted that.
Speaker 1: He said, it's not going to be so bad. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, I'm just saying we told you that a
Speaker 1: while ago. So in order to get in the exact
Speaker 1: same position the Dolphins were last year when they aggressively
Speaker 1: pursued Jordan Brooks, Kendall Fuller, John new Smith, I mean
Speaker 1: they went big in free agency, right Shaq Barrett. They
Speaker 1: got a bunch of big time names, And to get
Speaker 1: in that same position, all we have to do is
Speaker 1: basic restructure Zach Sealer, alec Ingold, Austin Jackson, and Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 1: And that's without even touching the contracts of two A
Speaker 1: tonguea by Lowe Tyreek Hill to Ron Armstead, Aaron Brewer,
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, Jalen Phillips. That would you have you have
Speaker 1: triggers in there between like nine and forty million dollars.
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer can get you an easy four million bucks
Speaker 1: without any debt accumulation, and that gives you the same
Speaker 1: amount of money that you had last year that produced
Speaker 1: those signings. So you know they've already cut Raheem Moster,
Speaker 1: Durham Smyth Kendall Fuller. That gives us twenty eight million
Speaker 1: dollars in cap space, and we can free up another
Speaker 1: ten million dollars with some of those restructures, which we
Speaker 1: will go ahead and do for roughly thirty to forty
Speaker 1: million dollars. But you can also manipulate the contracts in
Speaker 1: the way you do things with future debt accrual. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, again, the Eagles have the most dead cap
Speaker 1: in the NFL, right, So that's why I just get
Speaker 1: so annoyed when I see these tweets about how Miami.
Speaker 2: Is screwed because of their debt.
Speaker 1: That is just how business is done in the NFL
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: But I digress, sethan Oj.
Speaker 1: Here's what I did with my allocation and working within
Speaker 1: those parameters but not being totally behold into a sharp number,
Speaker 1: because if I see something I want, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: borrow from twenty twenty nine's budget to go get it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna re sign the current the following current players,
Speaker 1: Dwayne Eskridge and River Craycraft at minimum. Isaiah Winn comes
Speaker 1: back at the exact same deal he got last year.
Speaker 1: Kyle Krabs hates that one defensive tackles to Sean Hand
Speaker 1: and Benito Jones come back on the exact same deals,
Speaker 1: provided they will take that. I'm bringing Tyrel Dotson back
Speaker 1: on the Anthony Walker contract from a year ago and
Speaker 1: bidding a due to Anthony Walker off the edge, Tyas
Speaker 1: Bowser and then Cam Brown both at the minimums for
Speaker 1: their veteran experience, and then at safety Elijah Campbell on
Speaker 1: a minimum contract as well. And then Kalaias Campbell can
Speaker 1: come back for whatever damn price he wants, not really,
Speaker 1: but in earnest like if he wants to raise he
Speaker 1: can certainly have it. That means the following players walked
Speaker 1: Braxon Barrios, Jackson Carmen, Matthew Dickerson, Lea Mikenberg, Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, Tyler Huntley, Rob Jones, Eikenberg. I already said
Speaker 1: that I meant Kendall Lamb, who retires Jack McQuaid the
Speaker 1: long snapper, although I would look to replace the long
Speaker 1: snapper Saran Neil, Emmanuel Ogbaugh, Duke Riley, Jack Stole, Anthony Walker,
Speaker 1: and Hefe Wilson. Jeff's the best man. I'm gonna miss
Speaker 1: that guy. If he does, in fact move on my RFAs.
Speaker 1: My restricted free agents. Cater Coo, who gets nice little
Speaker 1: rays the best slots in the league, get like ten
Speaker 1: million bucks. We'll go about half that for five million.
Speaker 1: Quentin Bell gets the minimum deal. I'm not bringing back
Speaker 1: Anthony Schwartz of the three RFAs, and I'm bringing back
Speaker 1: all the exclusive rights guys Grant dabos Keon Smith and
Speaker 1: Cam Good. I also am taking the medicine on Bradley
Speaker 1: Chubb and Toron Armstead, moving off of those guys. And
Speaker 1: just a quick reminder here, these are my signings and
Speaker 1: my draft picks, my final roster going into training, Camper,
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like a seventy eight man roster or
Speaker 1: something like that. But well, you know, because I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna include my Cam Brown's, you know, my Trent Surefields
Speaker 1: of the world. Like this is more about the marquee
Speaker 1: signings we're talking about here, So ready, here's how it goes.
Speaker 1: Off season free agent signings will be quarterback Marcus Mariota. Again,
Speaker 1: don't love it, but I think that he offers stability
Speaker 1: in a pinch if Tua does go down and gets injured,
Speaker 1: and of course him and two our friends, which I
Speaker 1: think also helps the dynamic in that quarterback room. So
Speaker 1: I'm going that route over the rookie like try to
Speaker 1: hopefully build up a backup quarterback. I'm gonna go the
Speaker 1: sure thing route with Marcus Mariota after what we experienced
Speaker 1: last season. At running back, I'm just bringing in Elijah Mitchell,
Speaker 1: the forty Nineers running back that cannot stay healthy as
Speaker 1: my third or fourth back on the offensive line.
Speaker 2: I went crazy ready.
Speaker 1: Patrick McCary, Will Hernandez, and James Daniels all get contracts
Speaker 1: from you boy. At defensive tackle, Derek Noddy from the
Speaker 1: Chiefs is coming over. I'm bringing over the Jets cornerback
Speaker 1: Brandon Eccles, and I'm signing my top two safeties available
Speaker 1: outside of Justin Reid, Jeremy Chin and Trayvon Merrick. Kyle
Speaker 1: keeps telling me that's possible. I love the idea, so
Speaker 1: I am doing it. I think that Anthony Weaver can
Speaker 1: shape the defensive backfield how he wants to his vision,
Speaker 1: and getting those two guys would do a lot for
Speaker 1: the flexibility of this defense and could reduce your need
Speaker 1: for that second cornerback role because we can get more
Speaker 1: safeties on the field employ some big nickel that gives
Speaker 1: me the following mock draft Tyler Warren from Penn State
Speaker 1: in the first round. I traded back in my second
Speaker 1: round pick towards the back end of the second round,
Speaker 1: and I recouped a third round pick this year as
Speaker 1: well as a twenty twenty six Day three pick. I
Speaker 1: took Carson Schweschinger, the linebacker from UCLA, and then my
Speaker 1: two third round picks, I went cornerback Jacob Parrish from
Speaker 1: Kansas State and defensive tackle Alfred Collins from Texas. And
Speaker 1: then on Day three I got gone with Let's see,
Speaker 1: I got two four seven picks.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Jackson Slayer of the Guard from Sacramento State Billy Bowman,
Speaker 1: the safety from Oklahoma are my two fourth round picks.
Speaker 1: In the fifth round, I took Oregon defensive tackle Jamari
Speaker 1: Caldwell and running back Dami and Martinez from the You.
Speaker 1: And then the seventh round, I took my dev quarterback
Speaker 1: and two special teamers. I went Max Brosber from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I took Jack Kaiser from Notre Dame, the linebacker and
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jacorey Brooks from Louisville. So my roster, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know how many guys this is, but
Speaker 1: it's like somewhere between fifty three and ninety man roster
Speaker 1: for training camp is Tua Mariota and Brosmer at running back.
Speaker 1: I took a chan Wright, Elijah Mitchell, Damian Martinez with
Speaker 1: alec Ingold the fullback. At receiver, I've got Reak and Waddell,
Speaker 1: Malik Washington, Dwayne Eskridge, River Craiycraft. I've got Jacry Brooks,
Speaker 1: Grant Debo's, TODs Washington, and Erica Azuokama. And you might
Speaker 1: tell yourself or Travis, that's the exact same receiver room
Speaker 1: you had last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. But I.
Speaker 1: Was gonna get Josh Palmer in there, but I removed
Speaker 1: him to wiggle up more money for Trayvon Merrig. And
Speaker 1: since I got Tyler Warren at pick thirteen, I was
Speaker 1: gonna just say, hey, we're going more tight end heavy
Speaker 1: this year, and we're gonna roll with the same receiver cruise.
Speaker 1: My tight end room is John Smith, Tyler Warren, Julian Hill,
Speaker 1: and tanner' connor. And then my tackles are Patrick Paul
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson and then Patrick McCarry is going to be
Speaker 1: a swing tackle and swing inside. He can play guard
Speaker 1: as well. Kean Smith comes back as a potential backup
Speaker 1: swing tackle option off across the interior. My starting lineup
Speaker 1: will be Will Hernandez, Aaron Brewer, and James Daniels at
Speaker 1: right guard, although if Brewer goes down, Daniel slots into
Speaker 1: center and then Isaiah Win was brought back for depth.
Speaker 1: Jackson Slayer was drafted in the fourth round for depth,
Speaker 1: and Andrew Meyer continues his development here. On defense, my
Speaker 1: defensive tackles Zach Seeler, Alfred Collins wins the number two job,
Speaker 1: Derek Noddy is the number three, and then Deshaun hand
Speaker 1: the number four, but Itto Jones a backup nose tackle,
Speaker 1: and Jamari Cadwell. So I feel like I'm six deep
Speaker 1: there all of a sudden off the edge, Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: Chop Robinson, Tyas Bowser, Mohammed Kamara with Grayson Murphy, Cam
Speaker 1: Good and Cam Brown probably need more there. That's probably
Speaker 1: one of the spots that I took a hit on.
Speaker 1: But I do have confidence in like Grayson Murphy and
Speaker 1: Mohammed Kamara to make a move forward. Yeah, that's pretty
Speaker 1: thin at the number three spot. That's my probably biggest
Speaker 1: weakness on the roster right there, my third edge rusher
Speaker 1: at linebacker Jordan Brooks, Carson Schweschinger, Tyrrel Dotson, Jack Kaiser,
Speaker 1: and we'll see about changing tendl. I mean, you couldn't
Speaker 1: beat out Duke Riley last year, so I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of faith there. At cornerback Jayalen Ramsey, Brandon
Speaker 1: Eckles with Cater Kohu. I do think Jacob Parrish wins
Speaker 1: a starring job if you get him at some point
Speaker 1: with Storm Duck Camsmith, Ethan Bonner, and then I love
Speaker 1: my safety room. Man. I'm gonna play all three of
Speaker 1: these guys Trayvon Merrek, Jeremy Chin and Billy Bowmaan with
Speaker 1: Patrick mc morris and Elijah Campbell as depth pieces there
Speaker 1: in the safety room.
Speaker 2: So there you go. That's it.
Speaker 1: The next time you guys hear from me will be
Speaker 1: from Indianapolis. We're gonna have Mike McDaniel on the show.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if I'm going to play that on
Speaker 1: the Tuesday episode or Thursday. In accordance with the new
Speaker 1: episode of Dolphin's HQ, we shall see. But you'll hear
Speaker 1: from him. You'll hear from Daniel Jeremiah. You'll hear from
Speaker 1: my friends that I get on the podcast every single year.
Speaker 1: We'll get Emory Hunt on the show. We'll have a
Speaker 1: bunch of fun. So check out that podcast. New episode
Speaker 1: of Dolphins HQ next week. Until then, you all please
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Speaker 2: Yeah,