Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and on today's show
Speaker 1: a couple of more prospect profiles to get to. We're
Speaker 1: going to break down two more players the Dolphins drafted
Speaker 1: this past weekend, Dante Trader, junior from Maryland and Olie Gordon,
Speaker 1: the running back from Oklahoma State. Plus UDFA news coming
Speaker 1: off the wire here, hot and heavy, fast and furious.
Speaker 1: Here on a Saturday night. As I record this podcast
Speaker 1: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: Somebody in the content room just asked me, like it's
Speaker 1: over right, they all got to go home, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: you have no idea. It is time to get on
Speaker 1: the phone for all the udfas and that's what happening
Speaker 1: right now for the Dolphins and the entire National Football League.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go ahead and just go over some of.
Speaker 1: The reported signs we've talked to, we've heard about already
Speaker 1: on social media, and it happens fast man. UCF cornerback
Speaker 1: b J Adams was a guy that's on a thirty
Speaker 1: visit down here in Miami. We talked about his tape
Speaker 1: a little bit really good man cover skills, finds the football.
Speaker 1: He is one of the reported ten names to come
Speaker 1: down to Miami. Alabama long snapper Neiland Hibbert on the
Speaker 1: list as well. I don't know much about his game.
Speaker 1: Running Back Nate Nole, a Appalachian State and Missouri product,
Speaker 1: comes up here for a UDFA to be a UDFA
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins. Not familiar with his name and
Speaker 1: his game either, to be quite honest. Northwestern's Aj Henning
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. Plenty of receivers on this list from Northwestern,
Speaker 1: He's part of the group there, and they also get
Speaker 1: Missouri's Theo Weez the receiver from Missouri. He was a
Speaker 1: big target for a lot of teams in UDFA, per
Speaker 1: Barry Jackson saying that there was a bunch of teams
Speaker 1: out for him and the Dolphins won that bidding. Baylor
Speaker 1: wide receiver Mona Ray bald Win another big time target there.
Speaker 1: And Arkansas wide receiver Andrew Armstrong, who Kyle Krabs text
Speaker 1: me right away, Hey, go check out Armstrong.
Speaker 2: He can flat out play.
Speaker 1: So that's the udfas as of now, and we'll update
Speaker 1: this as we go on throughout the week and get
Speaker 1: these signings officially confirmed. And again we'll have the great
Speaker 1: Emery Hunt on the show to take us through this
Speaker 1: and tell you who's going to make the team from
Speaker 1: the UDFA list, like he does every single year for
Speaker 1: us on the podcast. Maybe I'll come back at the
Speaker 1: end of the show here and kind of update you
Speaker 1: guys on the rest of the udfas if they get
Speaker 1: more and more announced here ooh, and then here comes
Speaker 1: one across the wire that I thought would be a
Speaker 1: draft pick sometime on Day three and possibly for the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. In fact, I think I think Kyle and
Speaker 1: I mocked him to the Dolphins at one point in
Speaker 1: the process. Jalen Conyers, the Texas Tech tight end Simon Clancy,
Speaker 1: threw up his scouting report a double transfer. Golf loving
Speaker 1: Kanyer spent three years at Arizona State before going to
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and settling in a West Texas for the Red Raiders.
Speaker 2: He had some serious talent.
Speaker 1: Naturally gifted athlete with small man movement skills, showing the
Speaker 1: ability to be a demon after the catch and anything
Speaker 1: Tyler Warren can do in terms of ball production. Conyers
Speaker 1: is a match chunky as a runner. He plays quarterback
Speaker 1: from the wildcat position. Rushed twenty two times from ninety
Speaker 1: two yards in a touchdown and threw for a score
Speaker 1: against Baylor in twenty twenty three. Had nine point six
Speaker 1: yards after the catch. Brock Bowers had eight point seven
Speaker 1: at Georgia in twenty twenty three. Right Simon Clancy from
Speaker 1: his draft guide here. Not necessarily a speedy vertical threat,
Speaker 1: lacking some snap at the top of his stem, he
Speaker 1: still manages to get open consistently against man and displays
Speaker 1: soft hands, great ball skills, and short area quicks. Shows
Speaker 1: enthusiasm as a pass protector or run blocker in space. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a tight end that I thought would get drafted,
Speaker 1: and he's a UDFA that apparently will come down here
Speaker 1: to Miami PI reports six foot four, two hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty seven pound tight end who's played five years of
Speaker 1: college football. Big fan of his game. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get into the main meat of the episode.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Dante Trader Junior, the safety out of Maryland. So on
Speaker 1: the film, really good process and anticipation, which you guys
Speaker 1: know is the first thing that I always watch for
Speaker 1: with any player.
Speaker 2: He moves all.
Speaker 1: Over the formation, he carries guys down the scene into
Speaker 1: helping coverage. He can peel off and go jump somebody
Speaker 1: else's man. You watch him against orgon this last season,
Speaker 1: a team that really specializes in their spacing, and then
Speaker 1: once they stretched the back end, they wind up running
Speaker 1: the ball right down your throat and just take advantage
Speaker 1: of all that space when they do space you out.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked really composed and in his element
Speaker 1: in that game tape with regards to bouncing around, finding
Speaker 1: landmarks and finding his assignments and going through his checklist
Speaker 1: on a snap by snap basis. I don't think he
Speaker 1: jumps off the tape from a movement standpoint. Here's what
Speaker 1: Dane Brugler wrote. His long speed isn't as impressive as
Speaker 1: his short area burst, which can lead to coverage lapses
Speaker 1: if his reads are not on point, And that tracks
Speaker 1: from what I've seen both on tape and the testing metrics.
Speaker 1: Will get to that here in just a second. But
Speaker 1: you see his aggression and his preparation aid him and
Speaker 1: making those plays. It's like in any sport, the best
Speaker 1: players are gifted and hard workers. They're both gifted and
Speaker 1: hard workers, but a lot of guys are great at
Speaker 1: one of the two, and for Trader, if he wants
Speaker 1: to get there, he probably has to do it through
Speaker 1: continuing to excel with his ability to process.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The Maryland staff praised him for being one of the
Speaker 1: hardest workers on the team, which there you go. So
Speaker 1: it sounds like, you know, desire and will won't be
Speaker 1: a problem. And that tracks across his tape too. He
Speaker 1: gets on his horse, he pursues plays with full effort,
Speaker 1: even if it's probably going to end before he arrives.
Speaker 1: I'm always a big fan of just putting effort on tape,
Speaker 1: even if you're pretty sure it's not going to have
Speaker 1: an impact, because there's gonna be one play in a
Speaker 1: season where you get there and maybe the ball finds
Speaker 1: you and you get to take away and you can
Speaker 1: turn that game and turn your season around because of
Speaker 1: that constant effort. It's always about running to the football man.
Speaker 1: That's how you make plays, got to make things happen.
Speaker 1: He does that stuff. He just looks like a pro
Speaker 1: to me in the way he preps and plays. As
Speaker 1: a result of that prep. Brugler wrote that one scout
Speaker 1: told him he's already a pro. The type of dude
Speaker 1: that has motivational quotes on post it notes on his
Speaker 1: mirrors in his crib. Now, while he's maybe not the
Speaker 1: best track star in the world, I do think that
Speaker 1: he's very efficient with his movement in terms of not
Speaker 1: having false steps and not taking himself out of the
Speaker 1: play by poor reeds that get himself over extend. We
Speaker 1: talk about false steps all the time on the show.
Speaker 1: I don't see a lot of false steps in his game.
Speaker 1: His clicking clothes is sharp, like he's fundamentally sound, and
Speaker 1: he has functional range from the post. Even if I
Speaker 1: think he does play better in the box, I think
Speaker 1: that he plays a lot faster than he tested his
Speaker 1: fit here in Miami. I think his ticket is going
Speaker 1: to be through special teams right away, and I'd be
Speaker 1: surprised if he doesn't excel with that relatively quickly. I
Speaker 1: think he could be a third safety type, someone you
Speaker 1: insert down in the box, ask him to run the alley,
Speaker 1: and if he puts it all together and matures into
Speaker 1: his game, he could be a signal caller on the
Speaker 1: back end for you. But I think that his ability
Speaker 1: to see the field in multiple coverage structures, perhaps as
Speaker 1: a robber type there's roles within this defense that will
Speaker 1: benefit a well studied player like Dante Trader Junior. Now,
Speaker 1: while the desire to do it is great, you still
Speaker 1: have to execute that a pro because I think one
Speaker 1: of the things that we kind of fall into a
Speaker 1: trap as fans or draft analyst or anything in between,
Speaker 1: is like, oh, well, he's got talent and he works hard,
Speaker 1: therefore he's going to work out.
Speaker 2: But it's not always. That's not always how it works.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll never.
Speaker 1: Forget being head over heels about John Beck because there
Speaker 1: was a story about him and his wife going grocery
Speaker 1: shopping and she had all the plays on flash cards
Speaker 1: and would quiz him in test and it's like that
Speaker 1: sounds great, but like it didn't matter because he wasn't
Speaker 1: able to play the position at a high enough level.
Speaker 1: So like, it all sounds great and it's all good,
Speaker 1: and you have to have it. It's a requisite to
Speaker 1: be in this position, but it doesn't always guarantee success.
Speaker 1: That's probably one of the biggest things I've learned in
Speaker 1: the whole like process, I've tried to learn how to
Speaker 1: be a scout. Statistics and advanced metrics. He played twenty
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen snaps over four years. Another guy
Speaker 1: that started and finished at the same school. That's a
Speaker 1: rarity these days. He played a ton of snaps on
Speaker 1: special teams as a freshman and a lot less after
Speaker 1: that after he became a starter eight hundred and thirteen
Speaker 1: snaps total as a sophomore on defense seven hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, and then he missed some time last
Speaker 1: year and played five hundred and seventy eight stats. But
Speaker 1: he wasn't every downplayer when he was healthy. He still
Speaker 1: played eighty six total snaps on special teams last year
Speaker 1: and five hundred and twenty three across his college career,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll find a calling card in that
Speaker 1: role in the National Football League. He wasn't called upon
Speaker 1: to blitz very much, just twenty four times over four years,
Speaker 1: producing nine QB pressures. He made one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: eight total tackles, thirty nine stops. That's when you get
Speaker 1: a stop that is a win for the defense, less
Speaker 1: than forty percent of the yards on first down, less
Speaker 1: than fifty percent of the yards on second down, and
Speaker 1: a not a first down on third and fourth down.
Speaker 1: So thirty nine stops and he held opposing receivers to
Speaker 1: a fifty six percent completion rate. PFF charged him with
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns allowed, but five career picks and twenty total
Speaker 1: passes defense. His passer rating allowed was eighty one point six,
Speaker 1: and he surrendered just six hundred and ninety four receiving
Speaker 1: yards on twelve one hundred coverage snaps. And that's not
Speaker 1: the same thing as the cornerback stat I gave you
Speaker 1: guys on Jason Marshall the other day, but it's a
Speaker 1: pretty good number there for him. He's five eleven one
Speaker 1: ninety six thirty one inch vertical, nine to nine broad jump,
Speaker 1: four three two shuttle, and seven to nine to three cone.
Speaker 1: All of that is like average to below average. The
Speaker 1: sizes is below average, the vertical is below average, the
Speaker 1: shuttle and three corner right around average.
Speaker 2: But he's just not a big time tester.
Speaker 1: I do think his tape shows a better athlete than
Speaker 1: his testing did, even though it's not the calling card
Speaker 1: of his game background. He's a son of a football
Speaker 1: player and track star at Wittier Winner University. I think
Speaker 1: I got that right, and a football coach later on
Speaker 1: after he played who introduced his son to the game
Speaker 1: at a young age. His mother was a teacher who
Speaker 1: inspired Trader to create backpack drives and other initiatives to
Speaker 1: help kids with their education. He played football, basketball, and lacrosse.
Speaker 1: In fact, he played lacrosse in college. He was a
Speaker 1: freshman starter at quarterback and played wide out in dB
Speaker 1: In high school. He played only football his freshman year
Speaker 1: at Maryland, but joined the lacrosse team as a sophomore,
Speaker 1: scoring five goals that year, enforcing fourteen turnovers. I don't
Speaker 1: know what that means. Is that good lacrosse players? You
Speaker 1: can tell me. I assume it is. He was twice
Speaker 1: an academic All Big Ten member and he played at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl this past February.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: That is Dante Trader, junior fifth round draft pick for
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and pause for a
Speaker 1: quick commercial break. Come back on the other side. Going
Speaker 1: to be a quicker podcast for you guys today and
Speaker 1: talk about running back Ollie Gordon from Oklahoma State. That's
Speaker 1: next Draft time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Autoation. Now this one might be the one
Speaker 1: that I'm most fired up to break down from this
Speaker 1: third day beyond Jordan Phillips and it's running back Alli
Speaker 1: Gordon from Oklahoma State. Because I think that there is
Speaker 1: really high end potential with this player. So the film,
Speaker 1: to me, it starts in pass protection, which you know,
Speaker 1: if you're a running back, and that's where you start.
Speaker 1: It says a lot about your game and your mindset.
Speaker 1: I guess with how you play the football, how you play,
Speaker 1: how you play the football, how you play the game.
Speaker 2: It's late, man, it's been a long weekend.
Speaker 1: That's where he jumps off the screen to me, and
Speaker 1: it's like, there's this great you know, there's great natural
Speaker 1: reps where he absorbs contact, sinks the hips into the
Speaker 1: ground and puts his cleats in the turf and regenerates
Speaker 1: force back into the rusher. But there are also clips
Speaker 1: where I'm trying to think of the best way to
Speaker 1: describe this. Have you guys seen that video where the
Speaker 1: dude has this cat and he like puts him in
Speaker 1: front of a hockey net and then like flicks balls
Speaker 1: towards him and the cat like makes these these diving saves,
Speaker 1: like full extension laying out saves.
Speaker 2: That's what Allie Gordon's pass protection reminds me.
Speaker 1: Of like he can dive back across the formation and
Speaker 1: get a piece of a shoulder pad and declete a
Speaker 1: rusher like it's it's kind of it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: It's a highlight reel of hits where he can lay
Speaker 1: them out and do it in the last second and
Speaker 1: not have his feet underneath him and just find a
Speaker 1: way to get the job done, or just straight up
Speaker 1: stay in there with good technique and fundamentals as everything
Speaker 1: plays out the way it's supposed to and drawn up
Speaker 1: and just get under a guy's chinch trap and jack
Speaker 1: him up that way and put him on his butt
Speaker 1: and he runs that way too. There's a ton of wiggle.
Speaker 1: There's not a ton of wiggle. I should say to
Speaker 1: his running style, you know, like, you know what you're getting.
Speaker 1: It's downhill business decision in the gap. Meet me their
Speaker 1: Oklahoma drill style.
Speaker 2: Mono E mono.
Speaker 1: Let's see what you got, big dog, and we'll get
Speaker 1: into all the stats with the yards off for contact.
Speaker 1: But physical, physical nature, that's the name of his game.
Speaker 1: I think that he and Alexander Madison have similar play
Speaker 1: styles and could compete for reps in what's all of
Speaker 1: a sudden a pretty deep running back room that has
Speaker 1: multiple skill sets, but man, the best part of his
Speaker 1: game is his forward lean. I know you guys remember
Speaker 1: Layah linear yardage accumulation, Mike McDaniel's phraseology for Raheem Moster.
Speaker 2: That's what Alli Gordon does.
Speaker 1: He can attack half the man as a runner and
Speaker 1: find a way to basically not have to go through
Speaker 1: their entire like core structure of their body, and get
Speaker 1: behind a super powerful leg drive and push you backwards.
Speaker 1: Best of all, I really like the way he makes
Speaker 1: poorly blocked plays turn into something positive when we talked
Speaker 1: about that in the podcast this offseason, Like Dolphins had
Speaker 1: way too many negative runs last year was a big
Speaker 1: reason why we thought they got behind the chains and
Speaker 1: had some offensive drive stall out. But a player like this,
Speaker 1: when it's not blocked well, and I think it'll be
Speaker 1: blocked a lot better in twenty twenty five based upon
Speaker 1: what you had on the person on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: But when it's not blocked well, sometimes you need it
Speaker 1: running back to save you. And I think that Ali
Speaker 1: Gordon is very capable of doing that, much like Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison's tape, where it's something that's essential to his game.
Speaker 1: Essential trait to what makes him, you know, a viable
Speaker 1: option with that forward lean. So I think that that's that,
Speaker 1: and then also it's an essential part of like the
Speaker 1: screen game as well. Like the thing I like most
Speaker 1: is when he does get through that initial line with
Speaker 1: his surge, he really gets up to to high speed
Speaker 1: or top speed and can destroy angles from that position.
Speaker 1: And when you can do that at his size and
Speaker 1: his strength, like good luck to any dB trying to
Speaker 1: catch him and get him to the ground. You might
Speaker 1: catch him, but then you gotta tackle him too. And
Speaker 1: I love the idea of finding a way to get
Speaker 1: him on the field for short yardage. And then he
Speaker 1: breaks one tackle and all of a sudden, it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: this isn't just a you know, Brandon Jacobs type that's
Speaker 1: gonna get ten yards because he sprung one, he could
Speaker 1: go for seventy yards in a touchdown, not just a
Speaker 1: first down, but a touchdown. As far as the fit,
Speaker 1: I think he's versed enough as a zone runner. He's
Speaker 1: patient to stretch things out and builds to speed. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna be the guy that finds that
Speaker 1: deep windback laying the way like Devon eh Chan does,
Speaker 1: But who is Devon Hchan besides Devon h Chan. But
Speaker 1: he sets up his blocks, he reads them well, and
Speaker 1: then makes a quick decision to get through. The twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three tape is a lot better and I think
Speaker 1: a better example of what he does. And there was
Speaker 1: a great question his Zoom press conference about how a
Speaker 1: scout had said not a scout a Pundit was like,
Speaker 1: don't even watch twenty twenty four tape. He was kind
Speaker 1: of putting some bad So if you're doing the same thing,
Speaker 1: go back to twenty twenty three and based on that tape,
Speaker 1: like you're probably talking about a Day two pick if
Speaker 1: you're going off of that tape. So tons of potential
Speaker 1: upside here. For me, I think that he's you know,
Speaker 1: he's got the patience to make the good decisions, to
Speaker 1: create good angles, tons of potential and upsides. It's hard
Speaker 1: to say what he is as a receiver because he
Speaker 1: was mostly asked to just do stuff within the screen game.
Speaker 1: But he didn't drop a single pass last season. For
Speaker 1: what that's worth, I would venture to guess that because
Speaker 1: of his play style and body type, he's not likely.
Speaker 1: I try to do this, you know, carefully, because like
Speaker 1: you don't want a pigeonhole guy, but just persona based
Speaker 1: or like you know, perception based. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: likely to flex out and run routes like Devon h Chan,
Speaker 1: but he can catch the ball on the flat and
Speaker 1: then inflict punishment on cornerbacks around the edge. The fit
Speaker 1: here he kind of already covered that. I feel like
Speaker 1: he's competition for Alexander Madison in a lot of ways.
Speaker 1: He's different than what we have on the roster in
Speaker 1: terms of his build, his history of skis and system
Speaker 1: and overall play style. But I think that's a good thing.
Speaker 1: And brother, when you can pass pro like that and
Speaker 1: you're effective in short yardage, that's a great way to
Speaker 1: get yourself on the field for third downs. I also
Speaker 1: think he can be a special teams contributor for a
Speaker 1: lot of the same reasons we just talked about, namely
Speaker 1: the effort and desire and will to play the game.
Speaker 1: His stats in advanced Metrics he had six hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen yards after initial contact last year. That was twentieth
Speaker 1: most among college backs. He had eighty six runs in
Speaker 1: zone one on one in gap scheme, and that was
Speaker 1: a pretty similar split across his whole college career, so
Speaker 1: more man scheme than zone scheme. Twenty nine hundred twenty
Speaker 1: rushing yards, twenty nine hundred twenty rushing yards at a
Speaker 1: career average of four point five a pop. Checked that
Speaker 1: five point four a pop dyslexic moment. There. He averaged
Speaker 1: three point four to seven yards after initial contact, with
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty five miss tackles forced over his
Speaker 1: career at Oklahoma State. Seventy three runs of ten plus
Speaker 1: yards in his career, forty four runs of fifteen plus yards,
Speaker 1: and he ran for one hundred and forty two first downs.
Speaker 1: He also gained six hundred and seventeen yards through the
Speaker 1: air and scored forty total touchdowns thirty six rushing for receiving.
Speaker 1: He had sixty eight misstackles forced in that crazy twenty
Speaker 1: three season, with one thousand and fifty six yards after
Speaker 1: initial contact. My goodness, pretty impressive. His measurable six foot two,
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty five pounds. Those are ninety six
Speaker 1: and ninetieth percent tile of running backs. He is a
Speaker 1: large human being for six to one forty yard dash,
Speaker 1: fifty third percent tile, thirty four and a half inch
Speaker 1: vertical sixty second percent tile, and then he had a
Speaker 1: ten flat broad jump that was seventy second percent tile.
Speaker 1: So he's big and he's explosive.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He averaged nine this is his background. Averaged nine point
Speaker 1: nine yards per carry as a senior in high school.
Speaker 1: Senior high school football stats are hilarious to me. He
Speaker 1: was the Doke Walker Winner award winner in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two as a as a.
Speaker 2: Freshman red shirt freshman.
Speaker 1: Then he piled up over two thousand yards from scrimmage
Speaker 1: as a junior in twenty twenty three and or a sophomore.
Speaker 1: He grew up idolizing Derek Henry even though he was
Speaker 1: a middle school quarterback, but he saw himself as a
Speaker 1: Cam Newton type. He went to Trinity High School in Texas.
Speaker 1: That's the same high school as Cater Kohu. I think
Speaker 1: the best part is that he was a prime candidate
Speaker 1: for the transfer portal after twenty twenty three, but returned
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma State despite some changes on the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and a role changed there a little bit. He also
Speaker 1: finished out that season playing in the bowl game, where
Speaker 1: so many players opted out from doing that. Down the stretch,
Speaker 1: he said, quote my mama always taught me that you
Speaker 1: finish what you start. Who would I be to give
Speaker 1: up on my team because our season is not going
Speaker 1: the way I wanted it to. I could have gave
Speaker 1: up last year, but our season was going good. Just
Speaker 1: because our season is not going good how it's supposed
Speaker 1: to go, I'm supposed to give up now.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: So another player that finished his college career where it began.
Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and take a break right there,
Speaker 1: come back on the other side and recap this with
Speaker 1: the entire draft and talk about what the initial thoughts
Speaker 1: are from this draft. That's next podcast, your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by AUNT Nation once again to recap
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five NFL Draft Class number
Speaker 1: thirteen defensive tackle Kenneth Grant from Michigan, number two thirty
Speaker 1: seven overall offensive lineman Jonah Savoya, and Aya.
Speaker 2: We're gonna get that down pat here soon. I promise
Speaker 2: you guys.
Speaker 1: That fifth round, third pick for the Miami Dolphins, one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty three overall defensive tackle Jordan Phillips out
Speaker 1: of Maryland. Fifth round, one fifty overall cornerback Jason Marshall
Speaker 1: junior from Florida. Fifth round again one fifty five overall
Speaker 1: safety Dante Trader Junior from Maryland. In the sixth round,
Speaker 1: one seventy nine overall running back all The Gordon from
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, and then the two guys will break down
Speaker 1: on the show tomorrow. Two seventh round draft picks quarterback
Speaker 1: Quinn you Were from Texas picked two to thirty one
Speaker 1: overall and two fifty three overall defensive tackle Zeke Biggers
Speaker 1: from Georgia Tech. And you come away with that with
Speaker 1: an extra third round pick for next year, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: could be potentially looking at all kinds of additional picks,
Speaker 1: with a possible fourth round compensatory pick coming from the
Speaker 1: result of this year's free agency class. With Javon Holland's departure.
Speaker 1: There's some debate about whether or not they're qualifying for that,
Speaker 1: but that's a debate for down the road. But it's
Speaker 1: a possibility Mimi gets a compensitory pick back for Javon Holland.
Speaker 1: And if Anthony Weaver does get plucked on the hiring
Speaker 1: cycle this time around, which I would I think he
Speaker 1: will because he deserves it and he's ready for it,
Speaker 1: that would also kick back two third rounders to the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: But man, what was our theme on the show here
Speaker 1: all draft season and all off season. This is a
Speaker 1: meat and potatoes class. The Dolphins have the pieces on
Speaker 1: the perimeter and in the premium positions at quarterback, receiver,
Speaker 1: edge tackle. Obviously, corner was a need, and we heard
Speaker 1: Chris Greer say several times they've been in touch with
Speaker 1: some of the free agents. They're confident about getting a
Speaker 1: deal done with those guys here, whether it's sooner or later.
Speaker 1: But the needs were down the middle right. They signed
Speaker 1: a bunch of linebackers and safeties, They signed annuals. They
Speaker 1: draft Grant seven, Jonah as well as Jordan Phillips the
Speaker 1: top three picks. They do get some, They do get
Speaker 1: two defensive backs. They get an absolute hammer at running
Speaker 1: back who completes every imaginable style of running back. Now
Speaker 1: in that room, Man, I just for a team that
Speaker 1: has this narrative about them down the stretch late in
Speaker 1: the season, for a team that is criticized for their
Speaker 1: lack of investment in the trenches, and for a team
Speaker 1: that has identified issues at the end of previous seasons
Speaker 1: and attacked them and talked about, you know, sustaining drives
Speaker 1: last year, and they got much better at that. To me,
Speaker 1: this draft and this offseason exemplifies a team that wasn't
Speaker 1: too rigid in their original beliefs. We're not going to
Speaker 1: be stubborn and go down with the ship that way,
Speaker 1: they were able to self assess and come back with
Speaker 1: this altered approach. My buddy Brett Coleman from the Bootleg
Speaker 1: Football podcast, the NFL Film Room, the stuff for NFL
Speaker 1: Network and NFL Media and the Chargers and all kinds
Speaker 1: of stuff. Last year he picked us to miss the
Speaker 1: play and I was like, Hey, what gives like this
Speaker 1: is a pretty good football team.
Speaker 2: Why do you predict that?
Speaker 1: And he said it was lack of depth in the
Speaker 1: trenches and I said, well, yeah, I mean the reason
Speaker 1: we did miss was because our quarterback missed six and
Speaker 1: a half games.
Speaker 2: But I digress.
Speaker 1: Now. The reason I bring this up is because Brett
Speaker 1: came back this year and said that he thinks we
Speaker 1: killed the draft. And it's not like we lost any
Speaker 1: of the sizzle, right, any of the dazzle on offense.
Speaker 1: You still have that those two receivers. You still have
Speaker 1: Devon ah Chan, still have that quarterback back there, you
Speaker 1: still have John OUs Smith, you add Nick Westbrook Akine,
Speaker 1: you add the offensive line, like, look, I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: sit here and guarantee you they're gonna win thirteen games.
Speaker 1: But they've given themselves a chance, right, They've afforded themselves
Speaker 1: an opportunity to change that narrative. But could they get
Speaker 1: that power run game going that makes them, you know,
Speaker 1: feared in multiple ways. It makes teams play on their
Speaker 1: back foot. You have the same weapons, you have again
Speaker 1: the same quarterback. So if you add this power element
Speaker 1: and you get teams on their back foot, and you
Speaker 1: forced safeties to come down, and you get teams out
Speaker 1: of those umbrella coverages, maybe this is you know, the
Speaker 1: off season that allows you to marry that vertical game
Speaker 1: with a balanced run game and open up short spaces
Speaker 1: to truly make the defense defend every blade of grass.
Speaker 1: And now we've got to worry about how do I
Speaker 1: set my edge against this this power run game. How
Speaker 1: do I contend with the speed of Devon a Channon space?
Speaker 1: How do I you know, contend with that? And then
Speaker 1: the vertical passing game of tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: and then concern myself with the screen game to John
Speaker 1: hus Smith, you know, like or Jalen Conyers, if he
Speaker 1: finds himself in that role, I just I can't get over.
Speaker 1: I can't get over three hundred and twenty seven pound
Speaker 1: James Daniels, three hundred and thirty pound Larry Borum, which
Speaker 1: are two guys that were would have been the biggest
Speaker 1: interior guys in the offensive line last year. And of
Speaker 1: course Borham can play tackle as well, that's actually probably
Speaker 1: his primary position. But and by the way, if it
Speaker 1: is Daniels and and Jonah wins the job at guard's well,
Speaker 1: Borim and eichenbergers potential backups, it's pretty good. I like
Speaker 1: Liam as a seventh three eighth offensive liman. I like
Speaker 1: borhim as a swing tackle and a swing interior guy.
Speaker 1: But then you know two hundred and twenty pound free
Speaker 1: agent back, two hundred and twenty five pound rookie running back,
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy pound blocking tight end, a two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pound receiver that wants to bury you
Speaker 1: in the running game in the red zone, a three
Speaker 1: hundred and forty pound nose tackle that has the quicks
Speaker 1: to play three technique, a three hundred and twenty pound
Speaker 1: three technique that has the chops to play nose tackle.
Speaker 1: kJ Britt As an enforcer, Willie Gay is not like
Speaker 1: a big time power player, but his electricity off the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. That'll that'll pair. That'll do right with
Speaker 1: those those bigger guys. The way, if I Mela fam
Speaker 1: who plays the game one hundred miles an hour, I
Speaker 1: am here for this seemingly obvious philosophical shift they made
Speaker 1: this offseason and the part that gets me just pumped
Speaker 1: up for camp. And look, if you can't get excited
Speaker 1: about a new football season, maybe it's time to find
Speaker 1: a new hobby. I don't know, because I see people
Speaker 1: saying I'm not excited about training camp and all that,
Speaker 1: But like, man, I want the whole part about football
Speaker 1: is how they envision their issues, how they go about
Speaker 1: fixing them, and how they play it out on Sundays,
Speaker 1: and how they put together in training camp. Like that's
Speaker 1: what gets me fired up. I just can't wait to
Speaker 1: see how this new concept or you know, the perception
Speaker 1: of this new vision of how to build the football
Speaker 1: team of twenty twenty five how that marries up with
Speaker 1: old concepts. And I'm not telling you at all, by
Speaker 1: any stretch that I want to ditch the old concepts,
Speaker 1: because everything that we do or used to do, led
Speaker 1: to the number one scoring offense in the NFL just
Speaker 1: one year ago.
Speaker 2: But I want to see how you can.
Speaker 1: Marry that with the brute physicality you've added to your
Speaker 1: personnel on both sides of the ball. And I want
Speaker 1: to see what that makes us look like on the
Speaker 1: road in bad weather, when we're notin in five and
Speaker 1: playing an important game the week before Christmas. That's the
Speaker 1: ten thousand foot view. We're going to do a roster reset.
Speaker 1: I think on Thursday or Friday. We'll see what it
Speaker 1: looks like. I am undecided, but tomorrow the final two picks,
Speaker 1: the seventh round draft picks, Zeke Biggers and Quinn Yours
Speaker 1: will do that and do a heavy SoundBite round up
Speaker 1: and get you guys some clips from the players press
Speaker 1: conferences over the weekend.
Speaker 2: All of that and a heck of a lot more.
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