Speaker 1: To remove going deep speedways past. From the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex, this is Drivetime
Speaker 1: with Travis Wingfield. He's got my advands in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this one. We're gonna do a
Speaker 1: comprehensive where can it get better internal assessment of the
Speaker 1: roster of the team, where things are, the salary cap,
Speaker 1: the flexibility they might have. We're gonna hear more from
Speaker 1: Chris Greer. We're gonna talk about some league leaders on
Speaker 1: this roster and break down more about the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Plus pick the divisional round weekend games. We have a
Speaker 1: lot to get to on this one. From the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast. Maggie Gaffe. Did I get you
Speaker 1: guys with that longer pause? This time? I think I
Speaker 1: might have. So I wrote down here that I want
Speaker 1: to do a quick Friday show. But every time I
Speaker 1: say it's gonna be quick, I wind up getting my
Speaker 1: rundown into three or four more points that winds up
Speaker 1: turning into three or four more three minute monologues, which
Speaker 1: adds on another twelve to fifteen minutes of the show.
Speaker 1: And that's why the show became a forty five minute
Speaker 1: program compared to a thirty minute program that it was
Speaker 1: three years ago. So I'm gonna try to keep it short,
Speaker 1: but wasting time right here already will not do that.
Speaker 1: But I just want to kind of take a look
Speaker 1: at where we are six days after elimination. And again
Speaker 1: this is off script, to be quite frank, I really
Speaker 1: struggle this time of year, just the absence of football,
Speaker 1: on the absence of rooting against other teams, and you're
Speaker 1: just kind of playing out the string. I love playoffootball
Speaker 1: the best, but now that we've arrived as one of
Speaker 1: these teams that can compete at this level, it's a
Speaker 1: lot harder for me to watch. And then, you know
Speaker 1: the whole I understand this time of year, people in
Speaker 1: their content wants and desires, look forward to speculation and
Speaker 1: here's what I would do, and here's my projected offseason,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna do a lot of that here. But
Speaker 1: it's a little more challenging for me because there are
Speaker 1: certain things we can and cannot do in that regard,
Speaker 1: but I like to push it up against the line
Speaker 1: and get ourselves into a position where I can tell
Speaker 1: you my thoughts in a way that is appropriate. So
Speaker 1: I want to go back and just look at the
Speaker 1: team and what we saw this year and just do
Speaker 1: some overall thoughts, because you know, it's been a tough
Speaker 1: week for fans of the finn and I'm still very
Speaker 1: much struggling to reconcile with this fun ass year being
Speaker 1: over right, it sucks, But just you wait in seven months,
Speaker 1: because we always say it, we're not coming back. This
Speaker 1: team has to prove something to me that's not how
Speaker 1: it is. In seven months, you're gonna be back in
Speaker 1: those bleachers with me absolutely charged up, watching Tu throw
Speaker 1: July dimes, Tyreek Hill for touchdowns, getting ready for another
Speaker 1: run of the playoffs, and maybe this can be the
Speaker 1: year we break through that playoff at victory door. We'll see.
Speaker 1: Speaking of playoffs, the worst performer on wild Card weekend
Speaker 1: wasn't actually anybody in a uniform. It was actually me.
Speaker 1: I went two to four in the wild Card round,
Speaker 1: my worst week of the year by far. Those were
Speaker 1: tough games and obviously the Miami pick boned me in
Speaker 1: a big spot. I thought the Rams could come back
Speaker 1: and win that game and get that victory. Nope, the Cowboys. Wow,
Speaker 1: that was not what I expected in that game at all.
Speaker 1: I think the ones I got right was Pittsburgh and Houston.
Speaker 1: The rest we got wrong Tampa and in Philly Common
Speaker 1: And by the way, the Lions getting the Bucks in
Speaker 1: the second round. Damn it, that was supposed to be
Speaker 1: our path. I keep thinking about the four minutes against
Speaker 1: the Titans. If that would have gone our way, you
Speaker 1: would have hosted Pittsburgh and then probably hosted Houston. If
Speaker 1: you just would have won that Titans game. You're that
Speaker 1: close away from all of this, a trip to the
Speaker 1: AFC Championship game essentially, and all of this talk being
Speaker 1: completely void. That's why I like this whole podcast is
Speaker 1: going to be toping about using longer timelines to extrapolay
Speaker 1: expectations and forecasting opposed to one and a half games.
Speaker 1: That's when you make bad decisions. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: here as we go along. Let's go ahead, though, and
Speaker 1: pick these divisional round games real quickly. I'm taking all Chalk, Okay,
Speaker 1: Baltimore over Houston Buffalo over Casey. Is Casey favored in
Speaker 1: that game? They shouldn't be. Buffalo is gonna, I think,
Speaker 1: gonna roll them. I'm rooting for the Chiefs, not like
Speaker 1: Deshaun Elliott, Go Chiefs in that one, big time. Would
Speaker 1: never root for the Buffalo Bills. In fact, the one
Speaker 1: thing that's gonna make this offseason even worse than it's
Speaker 1: already gonna be is if the Bills win the freaking
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I don't think they will. If I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna go to the AFC Championship Game against the Ravens,
Speaker 1: and then I have the Niners over the Packers, which
Speaker 1: I'm really pulling for the Packers in that one too,
Speaker 1: and the Lions over the Bucks in the other NFC contest.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and assess the Dolphins offense here. You know,
Speaker 1: I've thought about this for a week. I've watched the
Speaker 1: Chiefs tape. You guys heard the podcast. I've watched a
Speaker 1: little more of film. I've gone back over some more numbers.
Speaker 1: Just tricky, a tricky spot the Dolphins find themselves in,
Speaker 1: because I think that they're gonna be just as good
Speaker 1: that next year as they were this year. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to find the small margins to get the victories,
Speaker 1: to get more competitive in bigger spots against the better competition.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. All year, I told you guys,
Speaker 1: I was gonna be okay, and I was wrong. I
Speaker 1: was wrong that they would be able to find victories
Speaker 1: against those teams. Now, I will argue every single one
Speaker 1: of those games, besides the Buffalo one was on the
Speaker 1: road in tough conditions. No less in Kansas City. We
Speaker 1: did beat Dallas at home, but one in one at
Speaker 1: home in big games. It's not terrible. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: damn close to making it too. And no, if you
Speaker 1: would have gone to and Oh again, you would have
Speaker 1: reset this entire narrative because I believe you would have
Speaker 1: steamrolled Pittsburgh. I believe you're a better team than Houston, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, real quick, the Texans winning a playoff game,
Speaker 1: can we just not say that they had a better rebuild.
Speaker 1: We've won eighteen more games than the Texans in the
Speaker 1: last three years, and they got a better draw in
Speaker 1: the first round in the Cleveland Browns because they were
Speaker 1: a fourth down conversion from the Colts on a walk
Speaker 1: in throw on the sideline from Minshew to Tyler Goodson
Speaker 1: away from going nine to eight and losing the division, mission,
Speaker 1: the playoffs altogether. So please don't tell me the Texans
Speaker 1: did a better job in the rebuild. They had a
Speaker 1: better couple of weeks than Miami. That's that's it. That's
Speaker 1: all it is, So shush on that. So when I
Speaker 1: assessed this offense, here's here's what I came away with.
Speaker 1: I think we would really benefit from more versatility to
Speaker 1: beat more defensive looks. Tyreek Hill said as much in
Speaker 1: the postgame press conference, saying they're gonna have to find
Speaker 1: ways to beat two man and too high cover two structures, right,
Speaker 1: and that that's I mean, I think it's pretty obvious
Speaker 1: how you do that. You get more physical inside with
Speaker 1: a better interior running game. We have so much we
Speaker 1: can do to put you in peril. But developing a
Speaker 1: change up off of that, whether that's you know, that
Speaker 1: physical downhill running game, which I think is a big
Speaker 1: way to get teams out of those two high looks,
Speaker 1: or expanding the progression, which requires more time for sure
Speaker 1: to be able to touch more blades of grass in your
Speaker 1: route concepts, and that requires what better protection and the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He plays a big role in it two. He has
Speaker 1: to I think I think te needs to step back
Speaker 1: this offseason and kind of recalibrate the mindset. You need
Speaker 1: the offense to have more rooted basic concepts that they
Speaker 1: do well, like it's power, like it's duo. You know, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a five play, Here's a five word play that
Speaker 1: we can communicate and get out of the huddle of
Speaker 1: twenty seconds and just go run the damn thing and
Speaker 1: convert and be successful and out execute you. Because Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel said in his first year here that if someone
Speaker 1: knows the offense, that's not that big of a deal
Speaker 1: because the best offense is out there, the best units
Speaker 1: in this sport can execute when the opposition knows what's coming.
Speaker 1: He has said that in the past, and that's why
Speaker 1: he talked about like training camp videos, it's not that
Speaker 1: big of a deal. The entire Shanahan playbook and the
Speaker 1: wrinkles and the trees that have existed for decades. Now
Speaker 1: it's all available online. You can look it up. Opposing
Speaker 1: coaches can look it up. But that's not gonna matter
Speaker 1: because the way you tailor your offense to specific players
Speaker 1: to specific years, to specific ski E personnel groupings, I
Speaker 1: should say the rules within those changes. So it's the
Speaker 1: Dolphins need to kind of practically preach in that regard
Speaker 1: and just get better at things that teams can know
Speaker 1: what's coming, whether it's the stuff that's confusing in their offense,
Speaker 1: but more rooted basic concepts that just gets you simpler
Speaker 1: execution where you don't have to be this out smarting
Speaker 1: three motions on a given snap that you know you
Speaker 1: have to get communicated on the road in a tough
Speaker 1: environment and allowed crowd. Just things that you can get
Speaker 1: too much more simple. That's kind of my thought process there.
Speaker 1: We also need better size inside. Even with Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: we struggled against the Biggins, and we saw in training
Speaker 1: camp like Raykwon Davis kind of could give Connor Williams
Speaker 1: some issues because of the size and length. I think
Speaker 1: you need press and seam beaters. You know a Jake
Speaker 1: Ferguson from the Cowboys was a really good example of that.
Speaker 1: You know, Derham Smith is a nice player, a really
Speaker 1: good blocker. Julian Hill as well, just not really that
Speaker 1: top tier, like I know he can get on top
Speaker 1: of a linebacker and go make a tough catch in traffic.
Speaker 1: We just I think that's something the Dolphins probably need
Speaker 1: this offseason. Although it's not like some miracle like you know,
Speaker 1: grow that you're just going to pop in there and
Speaker 1: it's going to change things. You have to kind of
Speaker 1: be intentional about it. My assessment of Tua here. So
Speaker 1: I want to go through just kind of the progression
Speaker 1: of what I've put together the last week of thinking
Speaker 1: about this, And I saw a quarterback again in the
Speaker 1: last one and a half games, two and a half
Speaker 1: games because Buffalo, well, the first half, because Buffalo is
Speaker 1: actually really damn good. I thought those two long touchdown
Speaker 1: drives were a thing of beauty. The pick was terrible,
Speaker 1: but man, he hit some big time throws in that
Speaker 1: first half, and then the second half fell off after
Speaker 1: a bad second half against the Ravens and a horrible
Speaker 1: performance against the Chiefs. But what I saw was a
Speaker 1: quarterback that I think lost faith and trust in what
Speaker 1: he was doing, which was compounded in an elements game,
Speaker 1: an element that I'm not sure that he's suited for. Like,
Speaker 1: that's tough. I get it, especially when you have three
Speaker 1: special talents within the conference who all play in cold
Speaker 1: weather cities. We'll do the quarterback rankings on the Monday podcast.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now the top three quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: the league for me, not in order, our Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes, and Lamar Jackson. So that's the kind of
Speaker 1: the gauntlet you have to go through in the AFC
Speaker 1: if you don't win your division and get home playoff games.
Speaker 1: And Tua certainly takes his blunt of the blame for that.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think he needs recalibrated. He needs a
Speaker 1: happy medium between protect yourself and being aggressive or patient
Speaker 1: if it comes to hanging in the pocket to let
Speaker 1: something develop. They're just finding ways to make plays last
Speaker 1: a little bit longer from his perspective, and I trust
Speaker 1: that he will do that. But there are two things
Speaker 1: that I think most attribute to those incredulous habits, right
Speaker 1: unsatisfactory habits, in case we didn't have a dictionary or
Speaker 1: the source nearby. First, the circumstances, the combination of different lineups.
Speaker 1: You know, four players on this offense exceeded seven hundred
Speaker 1: snaps one to a seventy three Austin Jackson, seventy four
Speaker 1: Leam Miikeenberg and eighty one Durham Smith Lester Cotton played
Speaker 1: the sixth most snaps on your offense this year and
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle was out only out snapped Cedric Wilson by
Speaker 1: thirty reps. If I told you that going into the year,
Speaker 1: you say we're gonna have some problems offensively, Travis. These
Speaker 1: are just from game participation numbers from a camp injury
Speaker 1: before Game one for Jalen Waddle all the way through
Speaker 1: the ankle spray on Christmas Eve. He barely practice all
Speaker 1: year long. He was in the concussion protocol early in
Speaker 1: the year after the Patriots hit in Week two that
Speaker 1: strained oblique in training camp wiped out all of camp
Speaker 1: and then pretty much all of the preseason, and then
Speaker 1: into Week one he was limited in the game against
Speaker 1: the Chargers, and then a twisted knee where he gets
Speaker 1: rolled up on the second play in Germany against the
Speaker 1: Chiefs and takes some time to come back from. Then
Speaker 1: the ankle sprain was after he got removed from the
Speaker 1: game for getting an eye poked against Dallas. It is
Speaker 1: just almost comical what this team went through, and Waddle
Speaker 1: is a perfect example of that. Like his production was
Speaker 1: way down and still had a thousand yards, but the
Speaker 1: production that he is used to experiencing last year that
Speaker 1: we saw, that's the kind of player that he is,
Speaker 1: and we talked about on the tape all year how
Speaker 1: there was options to get the football to him, but
Speaker 1: really I think his limited capacity from injuries was what
Speaker 1: really kind of derailed his year from a production standpoint
Speaker 1: from what we're used to, and that's what the entire
Speaker 1: roster went through. First, before we talk more about this,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and hear from Chris Career on how
Speaker 1: the injuries impacted the season for the Miami.
Speaker 2: Doll Sometimes, as football, injuries happen, but those guys do
Speaker 2: a fantastic job of getting our guy prepared. And I
Speaker 2: think you would have some players who have come here
Speaker 2: from other teams well that have talked about injuries they've
Speaker 2: had at previous places, and they've had no issues here.
Speaker 2: So it's been it's just one of those years where
Speaker 2: it was our turn, unfortunately, to have injuries, and it's
Speaker 2: part of football.
Speaker 1: I've alluded to this so many times that the last
Speaker 1: two years, the Ravens like left training camp the most
Speaker 1: banged up football team and then wind up having the
Speaker 1: most injuries at the course of the season as well.
Speaker 1: And now this year they've been pretty healthy and look
Speaker 1: at them, they're thriving in the best way possible. So
Speaker 1: hopefully Mimi can get that luck next year. We don't
Speaker 1: have to go through two years of this like the
Speaker 1: Ravens did. But I think back to when the best
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the NFL talking about practice time and
Speaker 1: wild not being available and where he most start missing
Speaker 1: practice late in the year and the offensive line combinations.
Speaker 1: Remember when the best wide receiver in the league dropped
Speaker 1: two critical passes the same week that he had to
Speaker 1: leave practice because his house was set on fire, or
Speaker 1: the ankle injury he had that directly led to the
Speaker 1: loss that prevented that You know, that could have prevented
Speaker 1: that semblance of a collapse, because you would have put
Speaker 1: Miami at home versus Pittsburgh in the first game of
Speaker 1: the playoffs, an easy win, and then the Texans in
Speaker 1: the second round, a team that were better than by far.
Speaker 1: What about a left tackle who never practices. What about
Speaker 1: switching centers several times throughout the year Connor and Connor
Speaker 1: out Liam in Liam out Lester. How about signing Jonathan
Speaker 1: Harrison in the middle of the season and thirteen different
Speaker 1: offensive line combinations in eighteen games. Speaking of that line,
Speaker 1: the variation is the second point. The starters were very good,
Speaker 1: but the depth in this league at that spot, it's
Speaker 1: just so tough to be good seven, eight, nine, ten
Speaker 1: guys deep, and you can find ways to mitigate the
Speaker 1: issues that presents. And that's what this team did all
Speaker 1: year long. They mask some of the issues they had
Speaker 1: with the injuries on defensively and offensively. Because think about this,
Speaker 1: there's five linemen that play every snap on thirty two teams,
Speaker 1: which means they're one hundred and sixty offensive lineman. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's one hundred and sixty good offensive lineman
Speaker 1: in the NFL. I don't think that there's one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty. So you have several guys that are relied
Speaker 1: upon to play as opening days starters who just aren't,
Speaker 1: you know, capable of competing with the many athletic pass
Speaker 1: rushers and defensive tackles and guys up front that are
Speaker 1: just freaks these days. So to expect to have your
Speaker 1: ninth and tenth guy be on the field dominating, it's
Speaker 1: not realistic. And that's why I always say Dolphins fans
Speaker 1: use a standard for the Dolphins that's not held to
Speaker 1: any and it's not tethered to anything in reality. Just
Speaker 1: go look at go watch other games like one time,
Speaker 1: we'll always see quarterbacks missopen throw as offensive line issues
Speaker 1: have leaks like it happens across the league. Now, I
Speaker 1: do think they did a fantastic job scheming around it.
Speaker 1: The quarterback did a great job navigating it, and there
Speaker 1: were plenty of wins as well. But when you step
Speaker 1: back and assess, you can see how damaging that is
Speaker 1: to an offense over the course of a long, long
Speaker 1: football season. And yes, a lot of the production is
Speaker 1: a product of offensive philosophy, but the real loss was
Speaker 1: in the running game. The interior movement regression became way
Speaker 1: too much and then long third and downs that come
Speaker 1: from that with disruptive timing, it just didn't work. These
Speaker 1: things snowball and get into other areas like can you
Speaker 1: You can often ug on a weed and trace it
Speaker 1: back to the route right, and the route was that
Speaker 1: we just didn't have enough time on the grass together,
Speaker 1: especially late in the year, for this timing rhythm based
Speaker 1: offense in a road environment to compete in bad conditions
Speaker 1: like it was the perfect storm in that KC game,
Speaker 1: and I will agree the entire year was lost on
Speaker 1: the Buffalo game it was, or the Titans game. However
Speaker 1: you want to shake that out. Miami had to find
Speaker 1: a way to get that division championship and play home
Speaker 1: games and avoid that perfect storm. But the injuries you
Speaker 1: couldn't avoid that, And then the conditions you could have
Speaker 1: avoided that, but you didn't because of injuries and poor play,
Speaker 1: And then that's part of the offensive operation thing. Like
Speaker 1: I wish I could tell you I have a concerted
Speaker 1: effort or a concerted point on the podcast here that
Speaker 1: I can tell you just fix it this way. But
Speaker 1: I think it goes back to just having more simpler
Speaker 1: concepts that you can go to and execute in road
Speaker 1: environments to make sure you're not having those situations. Because
Speaker 1: Tua talked about the communication issues, lack of time on
Speaker 1: the grass with the guys, and how that can make
Speaker 1: this timing offense really kind of skip a beat and
Speaker 1: wind up getting production like you saw in the wild
Speaker 1: card playoffs. So let's go ahead and pin it right there,
Speaker 1: take a break, come back and pick it up on
Speaker 1: the exact same topic. We have a lot more to
Speaker 1: Colm talking about this football team where to go in
Speaker 1: the off season. That's all next Draft Time podcast to
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: to recap the first segment and where I think things
Speaker 1: went wrong and where they could get better. Let's just
Speaker 1: go ahead and start here. Better Health, right, isn't that
Speaker 1: a website? Better health is first adding a physical interior presence,
Speaker 1: developing counter punches. You know, maybe it is Derek Henry
Speaker 1: full seam ahead downhill into your two high looks, have
Speaker 1: fun tackling this guy with a light box. And then
Speaker 1: of course the recalibrated quarterback. Those are some things that
Speaker 1: I an amateur, right, that I think we can do
Speaker 1: better and where I'm pouring my resources this offseason. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind seeing swings at filling the third receiver with
Speaker 1: a rookie hit as well. That happens all the time,
Speaker 1: because damn it, when you needed Braxon Barrios or Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson to separate inside with three week gos when there
Speaker 1: were double coverage on either side on the perimeter, they
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And that's a big deal. You got
Speaker 1: to find someone that can do it. And we seed
Speaker 1: all the time in the National Football League. Late round
Speaker 1: draft picks, Puka Nakua, Tank Dell. These guys coming to
Speaker 1: the league and they have big impacts. Miami needs a
Speaker 1: player like that. We'll talk about that more in just
Speaker 1: a second. The other good news is we still do
Speaker 1: have really, really, really good players. I saw someone complaining
Speaker 1: about the players that might leave. Two is not going anywhere.
Speaker 1: Tyreek's not going anywhere. Wattle's not going anywhere. Devon a
Speaker 1: Chan's not going anywhere, Zach Seedeler's not going anywhere. Jalen Phillips,
Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, Jalen Ramsey, Javon Holland there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good football players on this team. You just are gonna
Speaker 1: have to find a way because I think we can
Speaker 1: mow through the bad teams once again, but just learn
Speaker 1: how to have that CounterPunch against good teams. Win one
Speaker 1: or two more of those, and you're gonna get multiple
Speaker 1: home playoff games our schedule next year. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: speaking of having all the best games or all the
Speaker 1: best teams be on the road, it ain't like that
Speaker 1: next year. It's probably gonna be a lot easier next year.
Speaker 1: Not to mention we're gonna play more than just two
Speaker 1: of the six at home where you went one and
Speaker 1: one and zero four. Right, That's why I probably in fact,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and just take a look at this
Speaker 1: real quick and look, this stuff changes annually. Here's the disclaimer.
Speaker 1: Even during the course of the season, schedules will change.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Week two Patriots were anything close
Speaker 1: to the Week seventeen Patriots, which makes me think the
Speaker 1: road game in prime time in Week two was actually
Speaker 1: kind of an impressive win back against the Patriots in
Speaker 1: Week two, whereas when they played the Bills in Week
Speaker 1: seventeen with Bailey Zappi and like a team that just
Speaker 1: wanted to get the heck to their U hauls and
Speaker 1: to vacation. It's a different type of football game. And
Speaker 1: we won that shootout with the Chargers in Week one.
Speaker 1: How many people picked the Chargers to go to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl? I know Greg Rosenthal did, NFL dot Com guy.
Speaker 1: There was plenty of others as well. And they were
Speaker 1: sub five hundred with their quarterback and didn't win a
Speaker 1: game without him, And they just changed their perception change
Speaker 1: entirely from who they were in August to who they
Speaker 1: were in December. That's the point, Like, wouldn't have been
Speaker 1: nice to have gotten the Eagles in Week sixteen instead
Speaker 1: of Week seven when they were in the midst of
Speaker 1: a ten to one stretch compared to a stretch where
Speaker 1: they finished one and six to end it. So there
Speaker 1: isn't a ton to glean from this, But I think
Speaker 1: you can assess these teams with what it might look
Speaker 1: like this offseason and which directions they can go, and
Speaker 1: who is in position to be a threat this year
Speaker 1: and who is not. And when I look at the
Speaker 1: schedule this year compared to what it was a season ago,
Speaker 1: I think that you can very much assess how the
Speaker 1: schedule is easier in this regard. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start here. Home games. Buffalo, right, a good team with
Speaker 1: an elite quarterback that we have to find a way
Speaker 1: to beat. You have to beat Buffalo at home. Lose
Speaker 1: in Buffalo for all I care, but you have to
Speaker 1: beat them at home. And doing that would to me
Speaker 1: guarantee seven and one at home, maybe even eight to
Speaker 1: oh beat the nine ers. But would I just the
Speaker 1: home schedule is going to be faarable for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: this year, which obviously puts you in great shape to
Speaker 1: go on the road and try to win six of
Speaker 1: the nine games you have on the road. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, you're talking about twelve thirteen wins. So Buffalo
Speaker 1: at home, biggest game you'll have in the entire calendar
Speaker 1: all year long. The Jets at home. I just can't
Speaker 1: take them seriously, even with their forty year old quarterback
Speaker 1: returning from an achilles, sociopathic, libelist loser loaner. I just
Speaker 1: expect to sweep them and do it by a combined
Speaker 1: score of sixty four to thirteen. Again, I'll worry about
Speaker 1: the Jets when they prove we should worry about the Jets.
Speaker 1: Patriots brand new coach, and I like Gerardmeo. I think
Speaker 1: it's probably going to work out for him. But to
Speaker 1: kind of go to a coach off the same tree
Speaker 1: that was already aging himself out of the league and
Speaker 1: now you have a total rebuild with an offense that
Speaker 1: has zero talent on that offense and probably your rookie quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think we can not really worry about that team
Speaker 1: for a couple of years. The Titans new coach they
Speaker 1: fired a great one. Is the next one going to
Speaker 1: be as good? Most likely not total rebuild. The quarterback
Speaker 1: as will love us the guy. The only evantage they
Speaker 1: had at us in that game, I thought was Mike
Speaker 1: Rabel and that coaching staff that out coached us in
Speaker 1: that game. So I like that as a potential rebuild
Speaker 1: team that we can destroy in our house. The Jaguars,
Speaker 1: to me, the most overrated quarterback in the NFL right now,
Speaker 1: a dreadful defense that wiped the staff clean on that
Speaker 1: side in our house. In a rebuild, get him early too.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think that's a game that you should probably win.
Speaker 1: The Raiders total rebuild. Are they going to bring back Pierce?
Speaker 1: We don't know yet. Probably no DeVante Adams stuck in
Speaker 1: that Jimmy g contract. Is it going to be Aidan O'Connell.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a new coach there, most likely. Don't
Speaker 1: like their chances. The Cardinals potentially dangerous, but they're in
Speaker 1: year two of a gut down rebuild. The quarterback changes.
Speaker 1: Thinks Kyler Murray is a great player, but we should
Speaker 1: be by far the superior team in this one. Who's
Speaker 1: coming all the way across the coast to play a
Speaker 1: different level of heat right dry heat in Arizona humid
Speaker 1: down here in South Florida. And then the last one
Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers. They're a better team than us.
Speaker 1: Tough game, but have to imagine it goes in primetime
Speaker 1: most likely. But yeah, we have three games on our
Speaker 1: schedule that I think are above the rest. The first
Speaker 1: two are against the Bills on the road in a
Speaker 1: home and this one. Because these road games, even though
Speaker 1: we've seen a couple of teams here and there show
Speaker 1: some bite, I don't think any of them are going
Speaker 1: to be better teams than us, besides maybe Buffalo. But
Speaker 1: the Niners game, that one stands out. But that's home schedule.
Speaker 1: You kidding me, Like that's at least six and two,
Speaker 1: is it? Not? On the road? Bills? Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: win this, I think you go a direct path to
Speaker 1: the division championship. Don't even stop by, Go collector two
Speaker 1: hundred bucks and go to the division championship. Because winning
Speaker 1: m Buffalo is just it's hard to do. We have
Speaker 1: to do that. Sometimes we don't have to. But if
Speaker 1: you go five and one in the division with the
Speaker 1: road loss at Buffalo, it is what it is. Jets
Speaker 1: see above, Patriots cea above in the road. I don't
Speaker 1: need to explain those again. The Texans, yes, stroud balled
Speaker 1: against Cleveland, but they also again talked about it earlier.
Speaker 1: Shouldn't even be in the playoffs if Tyler Goodson catches
Speaker 1: a routine swing pass. They missed the playoffs all together,
Speaker 1: plus the games indoors. They still have a long way
Speaker 1: to go before that roster is complete. Go back and
Speaker 1: watch some of their games earlier this year. There are
Speaker 1: some roster holes for the Texans, and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: to really spend big and kind of have a new
Speaker 1: piece of that football team. But their quarterback is great,
Speaker 1: so that's always a tough battle, especially on the road.
Speaker 1: The Colts, who plays quarterback for them, Anthony Richardson gonna
Speaker 1: be the starter when the year begins, but he got
Speaker 1: hurt like five times this year, so depending on when
Speaker 1: the game is, who the heck knows? Who the hell
Speaker 1: you get? Heck and hell, But it's another cold weather
Speaker 1: game that's wiped out by a dome, right so that's
Speaker 1: kind of nice. And I just don't like these These
Speaker 1: teams are not better than Miami, man, Like you might
Speaker 1: say so because you're mad in emotional right now, but
Speaker 1: they weren't all year long. The Browns pretty good roster,
Speaker 1: but their cap situation, like we'll talk about Miami's cap
Speaker 1: situation in a minute, this is a truly bad one
Speaker 1: because they owe a quarterback next year sixty three million
Speaker 1: dollars who is not very good. Disaster, and they were
Speaker 1: a kind of a quarterback position that was a disaster
Speaker 1: all year long outside of the four week magic carpet,
Speaker 1: right Joe Flacco, even with a two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: million dollar guy like I don't worry about that offense.
Speaker 1: Their defense is pretty good this last year, but that's
Speaker 1: hard to sustain. So we'll see. I think Miami's a
Speaker 1: better football team, but that could be a cold weather
Speaker 1: game that you look at down the line, one of
Speaker 1: the kind of in between games there. How about the Seahawks,
Speaker 1: another total rebuild team which is like six on this
Speaker 1: Dolphins schedule this year. Gonna have a new coach who
Speaker 1: probably gets a new quarterback, and that defense has to
Speaker 1: be rebuilt because the structure of it under Pete Carroll,
Speaker 1: they're not going to run that antique defense anymore. The
Speaker 1: rams second year of a near total rebuild Stafford was
Speaker 1: the difference. I think if he plays in that game,
Speaker 1: down the road, then that's a tough one. If he doesn't,
Speaker 1: you're gonna win. You're gonna win it going away, even
Speaker 1: on the road. But warm Weather City in a dome
Speaker 1: against the Rams, whose roster is not anywhere near as
Speaker 1: good as ours. Their quarterback is great, but if he
Speaker 1: misses a game, they can't go with him. And he
Speaker 1: misses a lot of game or without him, I should say,
Speaker 1: and he does miss a lot of games. And the Packers,
Speaker 1: who suddenly look like world beaters, but they actually scored
Speaker 1: seventeen points against the Bears in a must win game.
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago, they scored what was it was it?
Speaker 1: Thirteen points against the Panthers in a must win game. Like,
Speaker 1: don't let one game make you think that's who a
Speaker 1: team is forever. It's just not how it works. The
Speaker 1: Packers were two and five at one point. They couldn't
Speaker 1: move the football save their lives. And Jordan Love was
Speaker 1: out of town. Right, he can't play, Travis, You were
Speaker 1: wrong about that guy. Plus they're a mess on defense.
Speaker 1: Now I like that their offense to grow from here
Speaker 1: because they're built around first and second year players. But
Speaker 1: my whole point here, guys, that could be a cool
Speaker 1: weather game. My whole point here is this schedule, based
Speaker 1: upon where these teams are, with their offseason resources, with
Speaker 1: the coaching structures, the quarterback, it's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot more favorable than what this year was, which was
Speaker 1: the defending champs on the road, the defending NFC champs
Speaker 1: on the road, the best team in the NFL on
Speaker 1: the road in eight. In Week seven team Buffalo and
Speaker 1: there literally they're two hottest points of the season. If
Speaker 1: you get Buffalo like in Week twelve when they were terrible,
Speaker 1: you probably beat them, right, But that's not how it goes.
Speaker 1: So the schedule this year was really tough. It played
Speaker 1: out that way this year. I don't think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that same way. So potentially six cold weather games,
Speaker 1: you always have three in division, so it's probably gonna
Speaker 1: be more like two, three, four in that range. Packers
Speaker 1: will be cold if it's a certain time year, Browns two,
Speaker 1: Seattle if it's before Thanksgiving. It's never too cold. Probably
Speaker 1: wet though, But then you also have to say, well,
Speaker 1: the three division opponents could also get early season dates
Speaker 1: down here in South Florida, and that evens that out
Speaker 1: a little bit. But then weirdly, most of our home
Speaker 1: games are a team from a desert, a team from California,
Speaker 1: the colder part of California, but still another Florida team,
Speaker 1: and then a Nashville team, which isn't without its own humidity.
Speaker 1: If there's one good thing about losing the division, it's
Speaker 1: that you don't have a Roady in Baltimore, which you
Speaker 1: would have had. It's no trip to Detroit, although Lambo's
Speaker 1: not any better, but Detroit probably a better football team
Speaker 1: right now. But yeah, and then it means the Raiders
Speaker 1: are not the Chiefs. That's a pretty big win. But
Speaker 1: I look at that home schedule again, this isn't how
Speaker 1: the schedule works, but are there two games on there
Speaker 1: that stand out above the rest? Like I just think
Speaker 1: Miami's in a good shape and a good spot there.
Speaker 1: And then just a personal note here, I have to
Speaker 1: think the Seattle, LA Swing is a one west coast
Speaker 1: trip thing and might be one that I try to
Speaker 1: get on myself because I want to go home and
Speaker 1: see some family back home in Seattle. But uh, just
Speaker 1: please have the second leg of the NFL be in
Speaker 1: Seattle and make it in September so I can go
Speaker 1: to Seattle for a week in September. That's my that's
Speaker 1: my only request. I don't ask much. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our last break right there, come back and
Speaker 1: do the defensive assessment. That's going to be a real
Speaker 1: quick and then I'll also finish up with some league
Speaker 1: leader numbers. I have for you guys, some more stuff
Speaker 1: on TUA I think you're gonna want to hear, plus
Speaker 1: my most important players who need to step up in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. All that next Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and continue here with our end of year assessment.
Speaker 1: Continue on defense and another sidebar. I see that you're
Speaker 1: being led to believe by some that Fangio is potentially
Speaker 1: considering dipping. I hate this time of year, man, like,
Speaker 1: I don't even get the information game. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to this stuff, so like so and so reports,
Speaker 1: then everyone gets in a tizzy. And then the actual
Speaker 1: thing happens, you know, a month later or two weeks later,
Speaker 1: and it's different, and then it's like everybody freaked out
Speaker 1: because of something that could have happened that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: I'd never understand that everybody freaked out that they hadn't
Speaker 1: signed an offensive tackle two years ago. And then Lyell
Speaker 1: Collins signed to the Bengals, and everyone started calling for
Speaker 1: Chris careers head doesn't prioritize the offensive line, he's not
Speaker 1: good enough. And then like two days later, they signed
Speaker 1: the best left tackle on the market and a potential
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer. And then Collins completely busted to
Speaker 1: the point that he didn't see the second year of
Speaker 1: that contract of a huge free agent contract, and Toront's
Speaker 1: had his injury issues for sure, but you've gotten what
Speaker 1: is it, twenty one games of elite left tackle play,
Speaker 1: which is twenty one games more than what Collins gave
Speaker 1: the Bengals. My point is this, I wish the loudest,
Speaker 1: the local minority of Twitter and social fans and reporters alike,
Speaker 1: I wish they held themselves to the same standard they
Speaker 1: hold other decision makers like Chris Queer two. Because where
Speaker 1: Greer Bat's a proven you know, fifty percent whatever it is,
Speaker 1: your mythological preten GM batting average of one fifty six
Speaker 1: just ain't holding up, brother, trust me. And if I
Speaker 1: can needle that point a little bit further and I'll
Speaker 1: do this. Don't think I'm not petty enough to do this.
Speaker 1: I did it. Somebody on Twitter who said after the
Speaker 1: Titans loss, we would not win another game because you're emotional.
Speaker 1: I get it. And you said that Connor williams absence
Speaker 1: was the reason for that they were not gonna win
Speaker 1: another game. And all I had to do was search
Speaker 1: that person's at and the terms Connor Williams, and sure
Speaker 1: enough that back in September when the missnaps were happening,
Speaker 1: that person wanted Connor Williams bench. In fact, I said,
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet he said, cut Connor Williams and
Speaker 1: put Liam in. So you all aren't as swift as
Speaker 1: y'all think you are, and you just know, you just
Speaker 1: know when an account will have takes, Like at some
Speaker 1: of the most predictive stuff you can see in the
Speaker 1: entire world. You can usually tie someone's political stance of
Speaker 1: their football takes on team like go back, try it,
Speaker 1: you'll see what I mean. So all of that is
Speaker 1: to say, can we chill on vic is unhappy? Just
Speaker 1: chill He's here, he's the DC, and with that we
Speaker 1: can build off of it. Now, I do think there
Speaker 1: are some chances. It's maybe, you know, maybe to let
Speaker 1: him get some of the guys that he thinks run
Speaker 1: his system best. Like clearly he didn't have an affinity
Speaker 1: for camp Smith and for Chaining Tendall. And we'll find
Speaker 1: out about those guys next year. But I think there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity here to let Vic maybe have a little
Speaker 1: bit more say on who gets pt and who comes
Speaker 1: into the lineup, because all camp he told us like,
Speaker 1: now we're getting there, we've got some pieces. We gotta
Speaker 1: find some others. Okay, let Vic cook, because he's clearly
Speaker 1: pretty good at this. But quite frankly, I don't have
Speaker 1: a lot on defense. I think getting guys back, some
Speaker 1: small tweaks here and there, the potential next step if
Speaker 1: we cannot keep Christian is the big one. But let's
Speaker 1: say that ninety four is back, and what real changes
Speaker 1: do you think need to happen, Because despite the Ravens game,
Speaker 1: which was a one off down the stretch, this is
Speaker 1: a defense that played really well down the stretch. Back
Speaker 1: to my point about Twitter, once again, I saw an
Speaker 1: actual tweet the other day. Let me pull it up. Actually,
Speaker 1: let me pull this up on my phone real quick.
Speaker 1: It's it's the tweet is an image of Ryan Tannehill's
Speaker 1: career numbers for the Miami Dolphins, and he just quotes
Speaker 1: that and says Tua is coming back next year. The
Speaker 1: sooner you accept that, the better end quote, and like, okay,
Speaker 1: there's like twelve things wrong with that tweet. First, none
Speaker 1: of those numbers are ever as good as what Tua
Speaker 1: has done the last two years, not even close. Right,
Speaker 1: Remind me when we were first in offense and second
Speaker 1: in scoring under Tannehill. Go ahead and remind me. Remind
Speaker 1: me when we led the league in yard at passing guard.
Speaker 1: I remember that, or or leand league and passerrating as
Speaker 1: a twenty four year old for the first time in
Speaker 1: the NFL since Dana Marino nineteen eighty five. Like, damn man,
Speaker 1: what are we doing? But wait, there's more. What did
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill do when he left here? Oh? He just
Speaker 1: became a top five quarterback by every statistical metric, wins
Speaker 1: and losses, yards per attempt, passer rating QBR, vertical passing game,
Speaker 1: every metric top five for two and a half years.
Speaker 1: He also led the Titans to the AFC Championship game,
Speaker 1: back to the playoffs and then back into the playoffs
Speaker 1: as a one seed in his three years there. So
Speaker 1: I thought you guys didn't like Tannehill, But now he's
Speaker 1: some measure of proof. Pick a damn lane, that's my thing.
Speaker 1: But hold on, there's one last one. I reply to
Speaker 1: him says, we will lose more games than this year.
Speaker 1: Just watch and yeah, winning eleven games is tough, but
Speaker 1: we were not gonna lose more than that. I promise
Speaker 1: you that. And the reply to that, that bad reply
Speaker 1: is gotta hope and pray the defense can all return
Speaker 1: and be as dominant as they were this season. What
Speaker 1: what you mean the defense that ranked twenty first and
Speaker 1: scoring that one with the offense that was second, What
Speaker 1: the hell? What are we doing? Jesus man? So I'm
Speaker 1: not sure there's a lot that needs to happen. I
Speaker 1: think the numbers became the numbers because of a slow start,
Speaker 1: as they kind of found out who they were, learned
Speaker 1: the rules the defense, how the defense orchestrates as one
Speaker 1: instead of eleven individual pieces. You'll have decisions to make
Speaker 1: on guys like Deshaun Elliott. I don't think Brandon Jones'
Speaker 1: raeq one it was is a tough decision Andrew Van Ginkle.
Speaker 1: But the majority of the corps is locked in and
Speaker 1: ready to roll. But if there's things you saw throughout
Speaker 1: the year and thought we can get better there, well,
Speaker 1: first you can be healthier, but sometimes it comes down
Speaker 1: to luck like that. But I would say better pass
Speaker 1: defense in the middle of the field. I thought we
Speaker 1: caught we got beat by those deep crossers from tight alignments,
Speaker 1: by tight ends. Just the general construction. I think the
Speaker 1: rules in the back end when you didn't have certain
Speaker 1: guys available was an issue. So finding way to get
Speaker 1: that connective tissue put back together. I just felt like
Speaker 1: there was an area we can improve in in the
Speaker 1: passing defense in the middle of the field. But then again,
Speaker 1: that's something that can also come from another year in
Speaker 1: the system. It would also help to not have your
Speaker 1: two primary signal callers miss essentially the final seven games
Speaker 1: of the year. Javon played in two but he was limited,
Speaker 1: and Baker played in one and a half games the
Speaker 1: game that he was hurt and Buffalo in the finale.
Speaker 1: That's tough, but I do think you can get better
Speaker 1: in your middle of the field coverage. It's the slot
Speaker 1: position wasn't good enough this year, your safety coverage was
Speaker 1: not good enough, and your linebacker coverage was not good enough.
Speaker 1: Finding ways to get better in all three of those
Speaker 1: areas are kind of my big keys here. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing is probably the Edges coming back from their injuries.
Speaker 1: I trust Chubb and Phillips will be even better. But
Speaker 1: how long that process takes, that's probably just the biggest
Speaker 1: question that I would have. All right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and close up with some numbers here. We'll do more
Speaker 1: in depth numbers on the position by position exit interview
Speaker 1: pieces next week and into the end of January, but
Speaker 1: real quick before that, let's go ahead and put a
Speaker 1: bow on the mini overall assessment and just run this
Speaker 1: audio here from Chris Career. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, at the end of the day, we have
Speaker 2: good players here and everyone will have a market. We're
Speaker 2: not really right now concerned about where we'll be in
Speaker 2: March and salary cap wise. I think, you know, Brandon Shore,
Speaker 2: Max Topolitano, We've had a lot of conversations. They've given
Speaker 2: us a lot of flexibility with multiple options of ways
Speaker 2: we can you know, be creative, and so hats off
Speaker 2: to them, just you know, through their work and grind
Speaker 2: on things, And so Mike Brandon and I will have
Speaker 2: a lot of discussions, and we'll talk with Steve as
Speaker 2: we get through here, and we'll try and keep as
Speaker 2: many of the players here that we can.
Speaker 1: Look whoever's telling you about cap opolypse doesn't get salary cap. Okay,
Speaker 1: trust me, Go ask Kyle Crabs about the cap. What
Speaker 1: Miami can do that comra right there, like he just
Speaker 1: told you we're gonna be What do we want to do? Okay?
Speaker 1: Just please just trust me, Please trust me. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and look at some numbers here, some end of
Speaker 1: season leader board positions. And I wound up doing this
Speaker 1: and then put myself back into a two argument. So
Speaker 1: forgive me for that. But our quarterback this year, among
Speaker 1: QB's with at least three hundred and fifty passing attempts,
Speaker 1: which means you played more than half the games, he
Speaker 1: was third in completion percentage first in yards ninth, most
Speaker 1: in attempts by the way fifth, and touchdown passes fourth,
Speaker 1: and success rate second, and yards per attempt fifth, and
Speaker 1: passer rating fourth, and sack percentage second, in net yards
Speaker 1: per attempt fourth, and EPA per play fourth, in completion
Speaker 1: percentage over expected and that obviously leads to fourth and
Speaker 1: EPA plus cpoe composite. That's a stat that a lot
Speaker 1: of folks love to measure their quarterbacks by, unless you're two,
Speaker 1: because apparently tu and party don't count for their stats.
Speaker 1: So how about that? How about that man? But how
Speaker 1: about this for the playmaker crowd, because Tuoa has got
Speaker 1: to be a bigger playmaker, right He finished fourth in
Speaker 1: Big time throws. This is measured by distance of the
Speaker 1: throw plus receiver separation. He had thirty six Big time
Speaker 1: throws and you know who had more? Dak, Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford. That's it. Literally all guys that have
Speaker 1: been attached to the MVP Award at one point or another.
Speaker 1: This past month before Lamar Jackson kind of took it over,
Speaker 1: and this got me thinking, who are the annual top
Speaker 1: five Big time throw contenders? How many did they have?
Speaker 1: And what can we glean from that crop of players?
Speaker 1: So this year it was Dak forty one, Allen thirty nine,
Speaker 1: Stafford thirty seven, two thirty six, Jordan Love thirty five.
Speaker 1: Last year it was Allen fifty two, My god, Mahomes
Speaker 1: thirty eight, Burrow thirty seven Brady thirty six, Gino thirty five.
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty one it was Stafford forty seven, Alan
Speaker 1: and Brady both had forty four, Murray had forty three,
Speaker 1: and Burrow had forty one. It sure seems like the
Speaker 1: guys that land in that company are dare we say,
Speaker 1: elite quarterbacks? I don't know. I have a lot more
Speaker 1: on that. Let's go ahead and say it for the
Speaker 1: Quarterback Exit Interview podcast on Monday. But the last point here,
Speaker 1: because I cannot help myself. I think the natural reaction
Speaker 1: to this is I don't care about these numbers, Travis.
Speaker 1: When playoff games, I test b ba ba ba, and like,
Speaker 1: there are some of those takes out there from people
Speaker 1: that I will take time to have a conversation with
Speaker 1: you know who you are. There are also some of
Speaker 1: those takes from people out there who, let's just say,
Speaker 1: like I always say this, pick a front. Do you
Speaker 1: know what a front even means? Not four three three four?
Speaker 1: Pick a front a grouping five to zero and draw
Speaker 1: how you would fit a run from that front against
Speaker 1: an offensive personal grouping. Because if you can't do that,
Speaker 1: you know, I guess our nature to argue, especially since
Speaker 1: the advent of social media. But like, let's just say,
Speaker 1: sometimes I wish that people would replace their takes with questions.
Speaker 1: If you don't know something, ask about it. Don't ignorantly
Speaker 1: spew about it. Ask questions. I like to provide this
Speaker 1: context because A I don't think anything in sports is
Speaker 1: black and white, and B it informs you for future
Speaker 1: projections and gives you an idea of what to expect.
Speaker 1: So because of this context and that big time throw stat,
Speaker 1: there's far more to extrapolate from that than there is
Speaker 1: from one and a half really really really really bad
Speaker 1: football games from your quarterback with the roster that had
Speaker 1: just withered away with no practice time cohesion together on
Speaker 1: top of conditions that don't suit what you do. And
Speaker 1: I think that that can be the big takeaway from
Speaker 1: your eye tests whatever, Like this team is not suited
Speaker 1: to play in the cold, for sure, But I also
Speaker 1: think that one and a half games and using that
Speaker 1: purely as your extrapolation, well, that's why fans are bad gms.
Speaker 1: That's operating on recency bias and emotion. Decision makers in
Speaker 1: this league or any capitalist industry, they don't think that way.
Speaker 1: They operate on larger timelines and trajectory right, because for
Speaker 1: a twenty five year old quarterback whose superpower is something
Speaker 1: he gets better with age at opposed to Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: who's going to decrease in that. Like physical skills. We
Speaker 1: saw Russell Wilson fall off a cliff. It's going to
Speaker 1: happen to all those guys. But Tua has the skills
Speaker 1: to play into his thirties at a high, higher, higher,
Speaker 1: higher level. Because Drew brees best quarterback play of his
Speaker 1: career was in the thirties. All the guys that play
Speaker 1: like that, that's what happens. It's just something to hold
Speaker 1: on to. Raheem Moster was first in rushing touchdowns six
Speaker 1: and success rate, tenth in rushing yards and he was
Speaker 1: sick among backs and yards per carry and fifth and
Speaker 1: first downs eight. Chan was twenty six and rushing on
Speaker 1: just one hundred and three carries. The next lowest number
Speaker 1: of carries in the top twenty five was one forty eight,
Speaker 1: so forty five more carries and that was Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: a quarterback. None of the other backs had less than
Speaker 1: two hundred who were in the top twenty five and
Speaker 1: rushing he's a special talent. He led the NFL with
Speaker 1: seven point eight yards per carry and was just behind
Speaker 1: Raheem and success rate at sixth in the NFL. Tyreek
Speaker 1: was first in receiving yards, second in receptions he tied
Speaker 1: the league lead and receiving touchdowns with thirteen. He was
Speaker 1: first in yards per route ran fifth and yards per
Speaker 1: target among receivers who had one hundred targets. I think
Speaker 1: it's really cool that Wilkins, Sealer Chubb were all in
Speaker 1: the top thirty in the league in sacks. Nobody else
Speaker 1: in the NFL can say that Christian trailed just Matdabuike,
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald and Chris Jones and QB hits. Among defensive tackles,
Speaker 1: Chubb tied the league lead with six forced fumbles. He
Speaker 1: was thirteenth in edge pressures. That's seventy and sixteen games,
Speaker 1: a little over four per game, So give him five
Speaker 1: more for the seventeenth game and suddenly he would have
Speaker 1: been ninth. In QB pressures. He was also eighth and stops,
Speaker 1: which just tackles For defensive wins. Wilkins and Seiler both
Speaker 1: top ten among dts and pressures. They were eight to ninth.
Speaker 1: David Long was six among linebackers and QB pressures, and
Speaker 1: Ramsey was targeted forty two times this year and had
Speaker 1: a passer rating allowed of forty eight point nine. Jalen
Speaker 1: Johnson for the Bears saw more targets with a pr
Speaker 1: allowed of thirty three point three. That was it in
Speaker 1: terms of better passer ratings allowed than Jialen Ramsey. All right,
Speaker 1: last segment here twenty twenty four players that I think
Speaker 1: need to step up in a big way because they
Speaker 1: could be massive ripple effects on your roster. Cam Smith,
Speaker 1: and I also added Ethan Bonner. Miami needs a cornerback
Speaker 1: on a rookie contract to assert themselves. It's an expensive position.
Speaker 1: We can't really afford to go back into the draft
Speaker 1: class at it. I don't think we can afford to
Speaker 1: get another big contract on the books Beside Jileen Ramsey,
Speaker 1: Miami needs a young player at cornerback to step up.
Speaker 1: It starts with Cam Smith. I think he has all
Speaker 1: the tools in the world, and I think there's something
Speaker 1: there with Ethan Bonner. Cater Kohu go back to your
Speaker 1: rookie season production as well is off also an option.
Speaker 1: Two really important players, Cam Smith and Ethan Bonner. Eric Azukama,
Speaker 1: he had a pretty fun role carved out early in
Speaker 1: the year, and we learned it wasn't gonna be a
Speaker 1: season or a career ending injury that he suffered, and
Speaker 1: he's looking forward to getting back to playing football. I
Speaker 1: do think receiver is very high on my offseason board,
Speaker 1: whether it's a free agent or a mid round draft pick.
Speaker 1: Miami needs a better separator outside of what they had
Speaker 1: outside of Waddle and Tyreek Hill, So Eric Azukama is
Speaker 1: on the list. Maybe brilliant Sanders two, but I would
Speaker 1: I probably would go different route. Julian Hill rook the
Speaker 1: young players right, young tight end who can block his
Speaker 1: butt off. If he can take the step in the
Speaker 1: passing game and become a real big threat that way,
Speaker 1: it would be huge for this Dolphins offense to have
Speaker 1: a couple of years of cheap production from that position.
Speaker 1: And then last one is Keon Smith, Liam Mikenberg and
Speaker 1: Brian Hayes, the middle guy. We've seen a lot of him,
Speaker 1: so we kind of know to expect there. But Keon
Speaker 1: Smith showed some real bite this year. If you can
Speaker 1: wind up getting him to be a starting tackle for you,
Speaker 1: it's you're probably gonna draft that spot or try to
Speaker 1: go big a left tackle if toront doesn't come back.
Speaker 1: But between Keon Smith, Leam Miikenberg and Brian Hayes, if
Speaker 1: you can get some young production from those three guys
Speaker 1: next year on your offensive line, would go a long
Speaker 1: way towards this roster rounding out in a very good way.
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