Speaker 1: To our remove Goling, Deep Speedlas, Peace to.
Speaker 2: Hell from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got
Speaker 2: my ad hands in the playoffs.
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: it is officially NFL Preview Time. We'll kick it off
Speaker 1: out west in the AFC, taking a look at the
Speaker 1: off season of the Chargers, Chiefs, Broncos and Raiders. Plus
Speaker 1: we'll take a halftime break to hear from Dolphins rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver Molak Washington who joined me on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We'll go ahead and finish out the rest of the
Speaker 1: AFC West and some division predictions and superlatives from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is the Draft Time Podcast. We'll go around the NFL
Speaker 1: over the course of the next eight episodes, which takes
Speaker 1: us to the week before training camp, where we will
Speaker 1: then preview the Dolphins roster ahead of this year's camp.
Speaker 1: And we start our divisional previews out west in the AFC.
Speaker 1: And we kick it off here with the defending champion
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, who went eleven to six last year,
Speaker 1: won the West once again, ran through a four to
Speaker 1: zero playoff record that included three wins on the road,
Speaker 1: one of those being a neutral site game in the
Speaker 1: championship obviously, but the World champs for the third time
Speaker 1: in five years. I think it's instructive how dynasties find
Speaker 1: ways to win in reinvented ways, because the Patriots went
Speaker 1: from this ball control, a quarterback who barely ever put
Speaker 1: the ball in harm's way and would help them win
Speaker 1: games with late drive success, a defensive team who then
Speaker 1: went on to be a record breaking offense, and eventually
Speaker 1: then at the end of all that came back once
Speaker 1: again in Brady's final season to be the best defense
Speaker 1: in the entire National Football League. The Chiefs ran everybody
Speaker 1: out of the building for five years offensively, then last
Speaker 1: year they have large stretches where the offense was just
Speaker 1: it was bad. Did you guys watch that Raider game
Speaker 1: on Christmas? Just flat out awful, And it made me
Speaker 1: think the Dolphins had a chance going into that playoff game,
Speaker 1: But a little did I know we had our own
Speaker 1: offensive woes and zero pass rushers at our own disposal
Speaker 1: as well. And yet the Chiefs hoist yet another Lombardi
Speaker 1: Trophy because they drafted beautifully on defense, hired and maintained
Speaker 1: the greatest current defensive architect in Steve Spagnolo, and then
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback that rises to the occasion in
Speaker 1: the biggest moments on top of already being the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the world. Right, what reason do we have
Speaker 1: to think the Chiefs are not going to be this
Speaker 1: team again in twenty twenty four and beyond, because I
Speaker 1: think they are a lot better than they were last year.
Speaker 1: They're big moves this offseason. Hollywood Brown, the receiver coming
Speaker 1: over from the Cardinals, is the big addition. They also
Speaker 1: go out and get Irv Smith, a tight end from
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Carson Wentz is the new backup behind Mahomes.
Speaker 1: I also loved a couple of draft picks. Xavier Worthy,
Speaker 1: My god, what a fit he's going to be in
Speaker 1: that offense. And then Jaden Hicks, the safety out of
Speaker 1: WSU I think is a good replacement for Mike Edwards,
Speaker 1: who they lost to the Buffalo Bills. They also lost
Speaker 1: Willie Gabe to the Saints and Marcus Valdez Scantling also
Speaker 1: to the Bills, but the biggest loss was trading Lugerius Snead,
Speaker 1: they're all pro shut down perimeter cornerback to the Titans
Speaker 1: this offseason, who was going to be on the franchise tag.
Speaker 1: They wind up getting basically a third round pick with
Speaker 1: some additional compensation on the back end. I think of
Speaker 1: the seventh round pick they went back to the Chiefs
Speaker 1: in that deal, So they lose probably their second best
Speaker 1: defender behind Chris Jones for a mid round draft pick.
Speaker 1: But we'll get to more to that here in just second.
Speaker 1: What do they do well well? I think that even
Speaker 1: when the defense has the right call, they can still
Speaker 1: win and create offscript because of their heroic quarterback. They
Speaker 1: have this telepathic connection between Mahomes and Kelsey. Their pass
Speaker 1: protection and ability to generate push inside in the running
Speaker 1: game because of the offensive line. Investment in Creed Humphrey,
Speaker 1: Joe Toney, and Trey Smith is a hallmark of this
Speaker 1: team and basically where they allocated their resources last year
Speaker 1: opposed to going after the skill positions, and they found
Speaker 1: a way to win that way as well. They get
Speaker 1: simulated pressures and create protection issues for the offensive line
Speaker 1: with Steve Spagnolo. They have waves of rushers that can
Speaker 1: win one on ones both inside and outside, whether it's
Speaker 1: Chris Jones and Derek Nandi inside or George car Loftis,
Speaker 1: Leo Chanel, Mike Dana and Charles Amena who outside, and
Speaker 1: they all kind of feature different skill sets. Their rush
Speaker 1: pairs with exceptional range at the second level and Drew
Speaker 1: Trankwell and Nick Bolton. And also they have tremendous corner
Speaker 1: play with the best slot in the entire league in
Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie, who opens up Spag's playbook to blitz and
Speaker 1: to pull guys off in coverage and just do so
Speaker 1: many different things that they do so well in Kansas City.
Speaker 1: What's the concern or fatal flaw with this team? And
Speaker 1: ross Well, the last point requires replacing their best corner
Speaker 1: on the perimeter in Snead. His ability to press and
Speaker 1: disrupt the game's top wide receivers sort of drove that
Speaker 1: style of defense. The choices for replacing Sneed are internal,
Speaker 1: and the first crack looks to be former seventh round
Speaker 1: Washington State Cougar or Jalen Watson, who's been a nice
Speaker 1: depth piece, but as far as a starter. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty big drop offense overall skill. The other concern would
Speaker 1: be your skill group improvement, right, but I think it's
Speaker 1: almost impossible to believe they won the whole thing with
Speaker 1: the production they did get on the perimeter last season.
Speaker 1: But I feel like they've completely erased that with the
Speaker 1: additions of Marquise Brown and Xavier Worthy. Now Rashi Rice
Speaker 1: having a massive suspension coming up is gonna throw a
Speaker 1: little bit of a fly into that ointment because I
Speaker 1: think that with all three of those guys, they'd be
Speaker 1: with Kelsey, they'd be as good as anybody, But without Rice,
Speaker 1: I think it makes the rest of the group a
Speaker 1: lot worse. So the truth is, neither of those concerns
Speaker 1: are close to fatal. I think the only fatal flaw
Speaker 1: this roster has is the same one every single contender has.
Speaker 1: If their quarterback gets hurt, then they probably aren't gonna
Speaker 1: raise the Lombardi again. Short of that, you have to
Speaker 1: believe the road goes through Kansas City once again. Some
Speaker 1: interesting things about this team or biggest storylines is the
Speaker 1: dynasty pursuit. Yeah they're already there, but four in six
Speaker 1: years would be the first time that's happened since the
Speaker 1: Steelers won Super Bowls nine, ten, thirteen, and fourteen, and
Speaker 1: the Niners also won four over the course of nine
Speaker 1: seasons back in the eighties and nineties. How does losing
Speaker 1: Lugerious Sneed impact their defense stylistically? I'm concerned to see
Speaker 1: how that works because so much of their filling and
Speaker 1: replacing of all the McDuffie blitzer of the linebacker blitzz
Speaker 1: that Spagnolo draws up, even the safety blitzes depended on
Speaker 1: lu Jerious Sneed's ability to basically lock down guys like
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill. If the weaponry returns to pre twenty twenty
Speaker 1: three form for the next storyline here, we could be
Speaker 1: talking about a contender not just to win the whole thing,
Speaker 1: but do they lose a game? Like if it's if
Speaker 1: the defense is what it was last year and the
Speaker 1: offense is what it was in twenty twenty two, does
Speaker 1: this team lose a game? I think that's a legit question.
Speaker 1: If you get both of those answers that are yes.
Speaker 1: Final roster thoughts. I love the quarterback obviously, love the
Speaker 1: remade skill spots again, even with the rice suspension coming
Speaker 1: down the pipe. Here the lead back matches the makeup
Speaker 1: of the offensive line with brute physicality in Isaiah Pacheco.
Speaker 1: The tackle spot is probably the question mark. Janya Morris
Speaker 1: is pretty unproven a second year player from Oklahoma, and
Speaker 1: Juwan Taylor led the NFL on penalties last year and
Speaker 1: I don't think he was that good either, So those
Speaker 1: are some concerns. The front on defense is deep, it's
Speaker 1: spearheaded by superstars Jones and kar loftis is gonna get
Speaker 1: you know. I think Carls is gonna get there this year.
Speaker 1: Jones already is there. I love the rangy linebackers, even
Speaker 1: with the loss of Willie Gay. I think the perimeter
Speaker 1: cornerback spot is the one area you can raise questions with,
Speaker 1: especially when we see so many units absorbing attrition at
Speaker 1: that spot. Right now, their top perimeter cornerbacks are It's
Speaker 1: Jalen Watson like It's like a third or fourth cornerback.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, What can they inform us about the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. I think this is instructive for every team,
Speaker 1: But I think the Chiefs have really mastered the idea
Speaker 1: of sustained success. And yes, that's an obvious statement, and no,
Speaker 1: I don't think it pertains strictly to having the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL. They've shown fantastic foresight on when
Speaker 1: they can maximize the value of a star and utilize
Speaker 1: the assets they get for said star to rebuild certain
Speaker 1: areas of the football team and what makes their program tick.
Speaker 1: For US, perimeter's skill and speed, right positionless versatile pieces
Speaker 1: on defense. For them, it was fortifying the interior offensive
Speaker 1: lineman and letting their creator quarterback mask some of the
Speaker 1: weapon issues. Although I believe those issues are now behind them.
Speaker 1: I just admire their ability to get on in front
Speaker 1: of potential issues and maintain a pipeline that affords them
Speaker 1: that opportunity. And I think the Dolphins do a great
Speaker 1: job of this as well. For what it's worth, I
Speaker 1: know nobody wanted to see Christian Wilkins or Rob Hunt go,
Speaker 1: but then you think about the things that make this
Speaker 1: team go right. Perimeter skills, a precision quarterback, pieces like
Speaker 1: Ramsey Fuller, Jordan Brooks on deft Waddle got the extension.
Speaker 1: We know that Phillips is probably gonna get his soon.
Speaker 1: Tuoa's gonna get his soon. Tyreek has mentioned in press
Speaker 1: conferences his desire to be here for a long long time.
Speaker 1: You have to keep him paid and happy. So I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of the foresight to say, we can
Speaker 1: say goodbye to Christian Wilkins and it's gonna hurt, But
Speaker 1: because we know we're gonna pay Waddle and Tua and
Speaker 1: Phillips and all these great players, then I think that
Speaker 1: you can have this idea of refilling the pipeline and
Speaker 1: allows you to do something only a handful of teams
Speaker 1: have done with four consecutive winning seasons. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and move on here to the Las Vegas Raiders, who
Speaker 1: finished twenty twenty three to eight to nine and second
Speaker 1: in the AFC West. And what a weird year it
Speaker 1: was for those Raiders, who were among my most surprising teams,
Speaker 1: especially when you consider the wreckage they pulled themselves out
Speaker 1: of with an interim coach at the head coaching position.
Speaker 1: In fact, it was such an impressionable job by Antonio
Speaker 1: Pierce that he had the interim label removed and he
Speaker 1: is now the man. And and they do this while
Speaker 1: starting a quarterback who wasn't that good. He's not some
Speaker 1: highly tattered first round pick. It was a fourth rounder,
Speaker 1: Little old Aidan O'Connell, who took over for the big
Speaker 1: money starter who was injured six games in in Jimmy Garoppolo.
Speaker 1: The defense made massive strides. They had nowhere to go
Speaker 1: but up. But they were way better than they weren't
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. In fact, they were one of the
Speaker 1: teams that gave us our biggest issue here at home,
Speaker 1: scoring just twenty points were usually scored forty points at
Speaker 1: hard Rock Stadium. I think it was one of the
Speaker 1: more commendable coaching jobs in the NFL last season. But
Speaker 1: now is where the real challenge kicks in. In year
Speaker 1: two for Antonio Pierce, they're big moves man. They were active.
Speaker 1: They didn't lose a whole lot because they just when
Speaker 1: you lop off Jimmy Garoppolo's contract, you don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of bills to come do. But they lost Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, Germaine Iluminor, and Balald Nichols. And while Nichols
Speaker 1: goes out and gets a big contract elsewhere, they bring
Speaker 1: in Christian Wilkins to the biggest defensive tackle contract in
Speaker 1: the history of the National Football Like. They also got
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, who for my money as the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: We'll find out come camp. Alexander Madison, Michael Gallup, Jalen Geiton,
Speaker 1: Cody Whitehair Andres Pete brock Bauers and Jackson Powers Johnson,
Speaker 1: like you know, tip of the cap. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: impressive haul of players, especially some of those you know,
Speaker 1: skilled depth guys to go along with DeVante Adams and
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers and obviously Christian Wilkins changes the entire dynamic
Speaker 1: of your defensive line. So it's I thought that was
Speaker 1: a pretty impressive offseason for the Las Vegas Raiders outside
Speaker 1: of you know, completely skipping out in the quarterback What
Speaker 1: do they do well? Well, you can really you can
Speaker 1: see they really just added to what they had. But
Speaker 1: therein lies one of the potential concerns. They were one
Speaker 1: of the few teams that were kind of left, you know,
Speaker 1: without a chair in the musical chair quarterback game in
Speaker 1: terms of the big ticket guys. But as what they
Speaker 1: do do well do do or maybe their preferred identity
Speaker 1: will be with a defensive minded, old school mentality coach,
Speaker 1: they'll want to run the football right though you suspect
Speaker 1: it'll be more by committee. With Zamir White, Amir Abdullah
Speaker 1: and Alexander Madison compared to the last year with Josh Jacobs,
Speaker 1: who was a first down, second down run the football,
Speaker 1: Let's find out what happens on third down. But they
Speaker 1: do have a larger offensive line in terms of size
Speaker 1: that runs manning gap scheme, and they did it for
Speaker 1: just three point seven yards per carry last year. I
Speaker 1: think it's sound to call this their identity, but I'm
Speaker 1: curious what it looks like because of all the skill
Speaker 1: guys they have on the outside, because that identity would
Speaker 1: run counter to what their personnel offers. And that was
Speaker 1: kind of a thing A theme I know as here
Speaker 1: with some of these teams that I'm covering on this episode,
Speaker 1: is like there's conflicting ideals with personnel and scheme. I
Speaker 1: love their weapons last year, and it was the same issue,
Speaker 1: Who's going to throw the football to those guys? Davante
Speaker 1: Adams one of the game's best obviously. Jacoby Myers is
Speaker 1: maybe my favorite number two receiver in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: I don't call him a waddle is, but Wattle to
Speaker 1: me is the number one receiver. I think Jalen Geiitten
Speaker 1: is the ideal like third or fourth target slash vertical
Speaker 1: stretch guy. They also brought in Michael Gallup, who had
Speaker 1: a rough couple of years off injury for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but I think he's got all the ability in the world.
Speaker 1: And they also go with Michael Mayer and Brock Bauers
Speaker 1: at tight end, Like that's about as good as it
Speaker 1: gets as far as like your top five or six
Speaker 1: pass catchers right only like Miami and San Francisco. Maybe
Speaker 1: a couple others can be right up there with that group.
Speaker 1: But their identity on defense is what I'm really curious about,
Speaker 1: because they want to play coverage and get home with
Speaker 1: four and that's built around Max Crosby, probably the best
Speaker 1: edge in the game right now. And that's why I
Speaker 1: think Patrick Graham is only here for one year because
Speaker 1: Flora has wanted to blitz blitz, blitz, blitz blitz, and
Speaker 1: Graham's like, now, let's just chill and play more coverage.
Speaker 1: But they add to that with Crosby, with Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: they're going to try to convert Tyree Wilson to a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle after taking him at defensive end number four
Speaker 1: overall last year. I really don't get that because I
Speaker 1: don't think he can do it. I think he was
Speaker 1: one of the most explosive edge rushers in that class.
Speaker 1: Like what are we doing? Malcolm Koons might be the
Speaker 1: reason for that because he came on as a legit
Speaker 1: number two pass rusher, and they've got some good depth there.
Speaker 1: They got some length up in that group as well,
Speaker 1: and some really good coverage backers and Robert Spalane and
Speaker 1: Devine Diablo who give the back end some freedom. But
Speaker 1: that's some issues on that defensive backfield as well, some concerns.
Speaker 1: That's one of them. The defensive backfield. You know, Brandon
Speaker 1: face On, Nate Hobbs, Jack Jones to Cory and Bennett
Speaker 1: are the cornerbacks there. With Trayvon Merrick and Marcus Epps
Speaker 1: at safety, that's pretty that's pretty underwhelming offensively. Hey, what
Speaker 1: Luke Getze, I mean, did you watch the Bears offense
Speaker 1: last year? There was no rhyme or reason half the
Speaker 1: time to that Bears offense. I just I don't get it,
Speaker 1: and no need to harp on this too much. But
Speaker 1: like Gardner Minshew is my guy, right, but he's like
Speaker 1: the twenty fifth best quarterback in the NFL, and that
Speaker 1: that was the I just I can't really imagine going
Speaker 1: into a season with that because you're so limited in
Speaker 1: terms of your ceiling, and you have like no real
Speaker 1: excitement about what the future development of a quarterback could be.
Speaker 1: Like a no common probably develops into a good backup
Speaker 1: quarterback in this league. But that's what Gardner Minshew is too,
Speaker 1: so I don't really get it. Some interesting things about
Speaker 1: them slash biggest storylines. This getsy and peerce dynamic fascinates me.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of conflicting aspects of this team,
Speaker 1: but if you're collaborative, you can make that work. But
Speaker 1: do they know each other enough to be collaborative? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I do love the staff that Pierce has
Speaker 1: built on defense with Pat Graham and Joel Alexander in
Speaker 1: some familiar names here from the Dolphins of the past.
Speaker 1: I think Pierce is a good job of being the
Speaker 1: leader and empowering his assistance. He's kind of a hands
Speaker 1: off like leader, not necessarily a scheme coach. Now, sometimes
Speaker 1: interim coaches ride this wave, right, So how does Pierce
Speaker 1: attack a season from the start? Which is to me
Speaker 1: worth watching? And you can say that without last year's
Speaker 1: awful start, they were a playoff team. But it's a
Speaker 1: fun juxtaposition because I think it's gonna be way more
Speaker 1: difficult for Pierce to kind of get the raw ross
Speaker 1: stuff going in his second year, kind of like Dan
Speaker 1: Campbell who in Miami. You know, it didn't work out
Speaker 1: after the first couple of games and the Jews kind
Speaker 1: of dropped little bit. You can you can ride that
Speaker 1: way for so long, but will it continued this year?
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell figured it out Detroit, can Pierce do it
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas? I have my questions about that, And
Speaker 1: they obviously built this roster for a quarterback drop in
Speaker 1: next year. Just kind of puts you in some limbo
Speaker 1: for this season, though. And can they keep all those
Speaker 1: mouthse on offense fed? I don't know. It's a lot
Speaker 1: my final roster thoughts here. I love the skills spots.
Speaker 1: I think they're running back and offensive line position on
Speaker 1: paper regressed. I think they added to the strength of
Speaker 1: the defensive front, and I think they'll need to scour
Speaker 1: the way we wire for defensive back depth at the
Speaker 1: conclusion of camp, and again the quarterback right, what can
Speaker 1: we learn from the Dolphins or about the Dolphins from
Speaker 1: the Raiders team I'm not sure there's a lot here.
Speaker 1: They do, however, have a similar blueprint in terms of
Speaker 1: loading up the skill possessions, which has been something of
Speaker 1: an NFL pivot the last five or so years across
Speaker 1: the league. Teams want as many weapons as they can get.
Speaker 1: Even a team without approven quarterback and a coach that
Speaker 1: played linebacker in the league for a decade want to
Speaker 1: go after those skill guys on the perimeter. So there
Speaker 1: you go, two teams down, two more to go. But next,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and hear from Dolphins rookie wide receiver
Speaker 1: Meleak Washington. That's next on the Draft Time Podcast, your
Speaker 1: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation Well
Speaker 1: of Dolphins Draft Time Podcast. Here, your host Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: My guest today is Dolphins rookie wide receiver Malik Washington. Maleik,
Speaker 1: how you doing man?
Speaker 3: Man? I'm doing great. I'm very happy to be here,
Speaker 3: very excited to get talking to you guys.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk to you as well. I've been
Speaker 1: a big fan of your game for a while. I
Speaker 1: can't believe you were there in the fifth round. Could
Speaker 1: be perfectly honced with you, and I'm glad that he works.
Speaker 1: We can pick you up and make you Miami Dolphin.
Speaker 1: So part of that, you know, pre draft process and
Speaker 1: finding out about your game and watching tape and stuff,
Speaker 1: was seeing you on Steve Smith's podcast. I want to
Speaker 1: go ahead and start there. First of all. First of all,
Speaker 1: I know that's your guy, but I'm just curious, was
Speaker 1: that your guy from childhood? Watching him play ball? Like,
Speaker 1: how did you get that relationship with Steve Smith?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think from the first time I ever typed
Speaker 3: in YouTube and was able to watch in football highlight,
Speaker 3: Steve Smith was the guy that was coming up and
Speaker 3: just seeing the way he attacked the game, seeing the
Speaker 3: way he played every down, the tenacity of which he played,
Speaker 3: the tenacity of which he acted off the field. So
Speaker 3: seeing that as a young kid growing up and I
Speaker 3: wanted to emulate. I wanted to be kind of like that,
Speaker 3: And now that I've made it to the NFL, I
Speaker 3: want to continue that path, to continue trying to earn
Speaker 3: my stripes that way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good mindset to have. He is just
Speaker 1: wired differently in terms of the way he approaches games,
Speaker 1: So I can kind of get the same sense from
Speaker 1: you there a little bit you mentioned on that podcast
Speaker 1: that your why is your brother, and I'm just kind
Speaker 1: of curious to kind of open that up a little
Speaker 1: bit more and hear you talk more about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, of course. So my little brother, he actually just
Speaker 3: graduated from high school and everything, so he's doing some
Speaker 3: good things, and I think that's kind of the main
Speaker 3: reason I want to be that good, that light in
Speaker 3: his life, so that when he looks around and he
Speaker 3: looks for that role model, he looks for somebody to follow,
Speaker 3: he has somebody and there's no confusion, there's no doubt
Speaker 3: that I'm right there with him. And so I think
Speaker 3: going to school, getting two degrees, trying to graduate the
Speaker 3: highest GA GBA I could, trying to bring football to
Speaker 3: life for myself, and it's just accomplishing my goals. So
Speaker 3: whether or not he wants to play football or do
Speaker 3: sports or something like that, he just knows what it
Speaker 3: looks like to have a goal and really work relentlessly
Speaker 3: at it and make all his dreams come true.
Speaker 1: Man, I think you're doing a good job about you
Speaker 1: and that already so far. Two degrees, what were they in?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I got my bachelor's in psychology that I
Speaker 3: got a certificate and organizational leadership from Northwestern. Then I
Speaker 3: went and did grad school at Virginia and got a
Speaker 3: degree in higher education.
Speaker 1: All right, man, let's go higher education. My wife has
Speaker 1: actually got our master's childhood education. So good company there, man,
Speaker 1: that's good stuff. So it sounds like you're a pretty
Speaker 1: good learner just based upon the things you've talked about here.
Speaker 1: Are you enjoying the process of learning the NFL, the playbook,
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins in particular. How's that process been for you?
Speaker 3: Or I think anybody could sit up here and just
Speaker 3: realize how tough it is to come into a new program,
Speaker 3: come into a new organization and have to one learn
Speaker 3: everybody's name, learn everything how they operate, learn a new playbook,
Speaker 3: learn how you know the league really is, especially transition
Speaker 3: from college and you know the past life, it's different.
Speaker 3: So I think trying to take advantage of each moment
Speaker 3: I can to sit down with a coach, or sit
Speaker 3: down on my iPad and watch the film and you know,
Speaker 3: really capture the game for myself, really take it and
Speaker 3: try to slow it down so that when I'm on
Speaker 3: the field it feels good.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty demanding room right, in terms of alignment, assignment,
Speaker 1: trying to be where you're supposed to be. What's that
Speaker 1: process been like for you in terms of what coach
Speaker 1: Wes Welker has asked of you and how you've responded
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's just asked me to come every
Speaker 3: single day and put my best foot forward, and that's
Speaker 3: all I really can do. So every single day I
Speaker 3: try to attack it with a mindset that it's a
Speaker 3: brand new day and try to win that day, try
Speaker 3: to win that moment, win that practice, so that could
Speaker 3: just continue to move on and go.
Speaker 1: Onan and know every day makes perfect sense. I could
Speaker 1: do this with you all day. Man, We'll get you
Speaker 1: out of here shortly. But I just want to ask
Speaker 1: a couple more questions about just the the skill of
Speaker 1: route running. It seems like that's kind of your your
Speaker 1: bread and butter, is that's safe to say, that's probably
Speaker 1: one of your strong suits, is just the ability to
Speaker 1: run multiple routes that look the same but different.
Speaker 3: Right, that's the idea, right, Yeah, I think that's an
Speaker 3: area where like, no matter who you are, whether you're
Speaker 3: the highest paid or lowest paid guy, like you always
Speaker 3: feel like you can get better at route running, So
Speaker 3: I think using this offseason to really hone in on
Speaker 3: that especially it's it's good to have good route running,
Speaker 3: but you have to be on time. You have to
Speaker 3: be where the quarterback expects you to be. So that's
Speaker 3: really important. I think that's what this summer is going
Speaker 3: to be used to do, is make sure we're all
Speaker 3: on one page.
Speaker 1: When you watch too as game and that's timing. Is
Speaker 1: that's his thing? Do you think about that in terms
Speaker 1: of how your ability to get better at that can
Speaker 1: increase your likelihood seeing the football because and that thing
Speaker 1: is it's in his hands and it's out it's quick
Speaker 1: down here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that ball sizzles out of his hand,
Speaker 3: and I think if you want to get the ball,
Speaker 3: you better be where he expects you to be when
Speaker 3: he expects you to be there. So creating that time
Speaker 3: and creating that trust, that relationship with him and without
Speaker 3: the whole office of staff, you know, is going to
Speaker 3: be really important, especially as we move into training camp.
Speaker 1: So I know it's earlier, but have you had a
Speaker 1: chance to kind of go over some of the fire
Speaker 1: points with three can waddle some of the guys that
Speaker 1: their speed gets so much publicity, but I continue to
Speaker 1: go back to their tape and it's like it's the
Speaker 1: route running. Man, They're so detailed and new ones like
Speaker 1: they don't they don't shortcut the route, they take the
Speaker 1: extra step. Right. Have you had a chance to kind
Speaker 1: of chopping up with those guys in terms of those
Speaker 1: fine details.
Speaker 3: Those guys are polished. Man, you said it yourself, like,
Speaker 3: those guys know what they're doing. They're they're running routes
Speaker 3: and the speed is just a bonus and it's helping
Speaker 3: them out. But I think we've gotten a chance to
Speaker 3: see them around and being meetings with them and stuff
Speaker 3: like that. I think as we move into training camp,
Speaker 3: we'll get a real chance to really just pick up
Speaker 3: some nuggets from those guys and take our games to
Speaker 3: the next level.
Speaker 1: You've been catching football and jugs machine since you could walk?
Speaker 1: Huh Yeah. I just kind of can tell by watching
Speaker 1: you play, Like this guy's been catch football since you
Speaker 1: could walk, since the young age. Like, do you remember
Speaker 1: your first memory? You have your like your first memory
Speaker 1: of playing football and how far back as I go.
Speaker 3: Dude, I started, I want to say in two thousand
Speaker 3: and seven, so I was six years old and I
Speaker 3: played for like a little church league and I was
Speaker 3: a receiver, and I was the first position I ever
Speaker 3: played was a receiver. So it's really full circle because
Speaker 3: I've played a lot of positions since that first time
Speaker 3: playing receivers, and I didn't. I didn't would come back
Speaker 3: to being a receiver to the end of end of
Speaker 3: high school. Okay, So it was kind of wild. And
Speaker 3: I just remember, you know, being a kid and trying
Speaker 3: to I could catch everything, and that was what I
Speaker 3: remember my coach saying, he doesn't know how to run,
Speaker 3: but he can catch everything. And I took that to heart,
Speaker 3: and I kind of grew up with that whole mindset,
Speaker 3: like I'm going to show him that I know how
Speaker 3: to run the ball as well. So, uh, carrying that
Speaker 3: with me throughout my life and showing that on college tape.
Speaker 3: Now I got an unbelievable chance to show it on
Speaker 3: the NFL do as well.
Speaker 1: I got two guesses wildcat quarterback or running back?
Speaker 3: Well, kick a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know what both?
Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty easy to tell U. Just real quick, how
Speaker 1: are you dealing with traffic down here and salf Fort?
Speaker 1: You get where you need to.
Speaker 3: Be, dude? I got to get one at the Florida
Speaker 3: Passes whatever that is, to get through the tolls and stuff,
Speaker 3: because if you don't have that, it creates like an
Speaker 3: extra twenty minutes on your drive. And I don't know
Speaker 3: if I could keep doing that.
Speaker 1: Oh I get the Sun Passages. Yeah, I need the
Speaker 1: Sun pass There you go, good stuff. And Lake Washington,
Speaker 1: new Dolphins receiver, appreciate your times today.
Speaker 3: Man, thanks Forceman, thank you, and.
Speaker 1: Away he goes a really fun chat with a very
Speaker 1: bright young man there, Milake Washington, who I feel like
Speaker 1: he's just gonna have a great career here with the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and take our last break
Speaker 1: right there, come back on the other side and finish
Speaker 1: up the AFC West Divisional preview here on the Drag
Speaker 1: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 1: Auto Nation. We've done the Chiefs and the Raiders. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and go out to the Rocky Mountains to
Speaker 1: take a look at this Denver Broncos team who finished
Speaker 1: eight to nine and in third place in the AFC
Speaker 1: West a season to goo. Somehow, they were alive going
Speaker 1: into the final game of the season after a crazy
Speaker 1: topsy turvy season. I know Russell Wilson's numbers were good,
Speaker 1: but that offense was mostly unwatchable most weeks. Three and outs,
Speaker 1: negative plays, a couple of you know, a run for
Speaker 1: one yard, a sack or an incompletion. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we're trying to get nine yards on third down. We
Speaker 1: have no hope of doing that, so we throw a
Speaker 1: check down or a scramble and he winds up being
Speaker 1: like fourth and three and the quarterback stats survive, but
Speaker 1: you wind up having like eight consecutive punts in a row.
Speaker 1: That is not winning football. It was, however, a resilient
Speaker 1: group that bounced back from a one to five start
Speaker 1: to get to six and five and doing it with defense,
Speaker 1: which really got it corrected. After that seventy point drumming
Speaker 1: of the Miami Dolphins. They gave him and they held
Speaker 1: the Packers, Chiefs and Bills to seventeen, nine and twenty
Speaker 1: two points over a three game streak of wins over
Speaker 1: playoff teams. And it was Sean Payton's first year and
Speaker 1: made it clear pretty early on there that they had
Speaker 1: an exit strategy from Russell Wilson. And now he has
Speaker 1: his own first round quarterback in bow Knicks the big
Speaker 1: moves here. Josh Reynolds is the big receiver edition. Matt
Speaker 1: part was the big offensive line edition. Cody Barton was
Speaker 1: the big linebacker Edition. Levi Wallace at corner, Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: at safety, and bow Knicks at quarterback. Ugh going out,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson and Justin Simmons. Justin Simmons is a hell
Speaker 1: of player. Russell Wilson not so much anymore. What do
Speaker 1: they do well, Well, Bob, it's what do you do here? Exactly?
Speaker 1: An efficient quarterback friendly offense that spreads the football around,
Speaker 1: that maximizes every eligible and gives a quarterback clear indicators
Speaker 1: and he'll need that. And I think it will benefit
Speaker 1: a quarterback that I thought saw the field better than
Speaker 1: all of his rookie contemporaries las year. You're in college football,
Speaker 1: and you better because he's a twenty four year old
Speaker 1: man playing against nineteen year old kids. Right. The defense
Speaker 1: is match zone, fire zone type of stimulate pressure and
Speaker 1: get rushers from different spots of the field. I think
Speaker 1: the second year and that system will be helpful to
Speaker 1: those guys. But I do think that system has inherent flaws.
Speaker 1: As Dolphins fans learned with regards to how they defend
Speaker 1: the run and fit those gaps without the best front
Speaker 1: seven you can possibly have, which we've seen that work
Speaker 1: with teams that have athletic freaks. This team doesn't have that.
Speaker 1: What's the concern or the fatal flaw here? A rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback is always going to be a dubious endeavor. But
Speaker 1: I can't imagine they're willing to let any of those
Speaker 1: valuable reps this year for Knicks go to anybody else.
Speaker 1: I don't it's going to be a transition year. I
Speaker 1: would not let a twenty four year old quarterback become
Speaker 1: a twenty five year old quarterback who has three hundred reps. Like,
Speaker 1: give him a thousand reps this year if you can,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Actually check that they haven't surrounded him
Speaker 1: with a helpful skill group. Jerry Judy was gone. He's
Speaker 1: probably the best guy they had. They bring in Josh Reynolds.
Speaker 1: That's a nice piece, a third or fourth piece door set.
Speaker 1: I didn't know he was even still playing. Drafted Troy
Speaker 1: Franklin the third round, who was, for my money, the
Speaker 1: most overrated receiver prospect in the entire draft class. Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 1: who was great, but he's not been healthy for a
Speaker 1: long time. I like Marvin Mims's game a lot. He's
Speaker 1: kind of a fun one to pump return and do
Speaker 1: some jet motion stuff. But there's just so much unknown there.
Speaker 1: And they've they're a good gap controlled defense that can
Speaker 1: craft pressure with advantageous down on distances, but they have
Speaker 1: to stop the run to get to those, and they
Speaker 1: don't do that enough. And I don't think there's a
Speaker 1: whole lot of one on one pass rush winners in
Speaker 1: this group either. I do love Baron Browning. He is
Speaker 1: very good at what I just talked about, but as
Speaker 1: far as more than that, it's not. There's not much
Speaker 1: in the cupboard. So interesting things about this team are
Speaker 1: biggest story lines iss Sean Payton working his magic on
Speaker 1: a young quarterback. You know, bo Nicks has really improved
Speaker 1: his processing over the course of a twelve year college career.
Speaker 1: Was that because he was an older quarterback in college
Speaker 1: or was it real growth? I don't know that yet.
Speaker 1: Big money to the tackles last year, and the pass
Speaker 1: pro was awful. You know, Mike McGlinchey was a massive bust,
Speaker 1: and I always talked about Kyle Crabs a great project
Speaker 1: about how offensive lineman who signed big contracts on the
Speaker 1: open market typically does your return on your dollars like
Speaker 1: thirty cents on the dollar. And mcglinchy's a great example
Speaker 1: that did not work out at all. And Garrett Bowles
Speaker 1: took a big step back last year after some breakout
Speaker 1: years and a big contract. They have to bounce back.
Speaker 1: Were they more reflective of the team that went one
Speaker 1: in five or the team that finished seven and four?
Speaker 1: I think the former, but we shall find out. My
Speaker 1: final roster thoughts here, I like some of the parts
Speaker 1: on the offense, not really like Quinn Minors is nice.
Speaker 1: I mentioned McGlinchey. He and Ben Powers were massive offseason
Speaker 1: signings last year that did not pan out in year one.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it gets better in year two, though I'd love
Speaker 1: to see Javonte Williams finally healthy, but it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like he has been that for a long time. On defense,
Speaker 1: you have to managine Pats or Tam one of the
Speaker 1: best in the entire game. I thought Zach Allen was
Speaker 1: one of the best under the radar signings last year.
Speaker 1: He should be even better in year two. I just
Speaker 1: think every aspect of the roster, even the ones I like,
Speaker 1: which aren't very many. There's some depth concerns there, and
Speaker 1: that's just the price you pay when you go big
Speaker 1: and with like they did on the move to get
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. What can they tell all about the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: It's like the Raiders to me, not much. I think
Speaker 1: they're a good example for everybody the risk you take
Speaker 1: when you give up capital and money for an aging
Speaker 1: quarterback who was showing signs of regression before arrival, Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: The draft capitol wasn't terrible there. We sometimes think, oh,
Speaker 1: a new scenery is going to be good for a player,
Speaker 1: he'll recapture what he was three years ago. But most
Speaker 1: times it's like, no, he just wasn't good anymore. And
Speaker 1: good for them. They moved on as quickly as they did,
Speaker 1: but man, that move set them back for years, right.
Speaker 1: I guess the message here is be careful what you
Speaker 1: wish for the Chargers bringing up the rear with everyone's
Speaker 1: favorite quarterback who played like crap last year, five and
Speaker 1: twelve last season, fourth in the AFC West. It feels
Speaker 1: like the Chargers have been a popular Super Bowl pick
Speaker 1: for a while now. And that included last year. I
Speaker 1: remember very well Greg Rosenthal run in the NFL podcast
Speaker 1: hanging I'm on charger of them on the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: this year, meet the Dolphins in Week one and got
Speaker 1: off to a great start. How'd that work out? Five
Speaker 1: and twelve? And I think the cop out is pointing
Speaker 1: to injuries because they had games to win early in
Speaker 1: the year. Well, guess what, herbo just came up short
Speaker 1: every time had the ball with a chance to beat
Speaker 1: US four and out. Same thing against the Titans next
Speaker 1: week twice overtime and regulation four and out or three
Speaker 1: and out and four and out, and they get two
Speaker 1: wins in a row. They have another chance for a
Speaker 1: game tying field goal and can't get a first down
Speaker 1: against Dallas. Then they lose the KC beat a horrible
Speaker 1: Bears team with what was that guy's name, Tyson Bagent
Speaker 1: and the Jets, which was like the hardest game to
Speaker 1: watch the entire NFL calendar this year. Then they lose
Speaker 1: to Detroit and Green Bay once again cannot get down
Speaker 1: the field at the end of the game against the
Speaker 1: Packers and the Ravens, and then they beat the Patriots
Speaker 1: six to nothing. Yeah, you know, just saying Miami scored
Speaker 1: twenty four and thirty one against the Patriots last year.
Speaker 1: Herbert then gets hurt and they score seven twenty one,
Speaker 1: twenty two, nine and twelve points. It was a last season.
Speaker 1: After that Packers and Ravens loss, it was completely lost
Speaker 1: after Herbert got hurt. They relieve Staley with three games
Speaker 1: to go, and man, if they just get one more
Speaker 1: stop in that freaking Saturday night Buffalo game with Easton
Speaker 1: Sicket quarterback, we win the division. But I digress. They're
Speaker 1: big moves.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: They brought in Jim Harbaugh, which good luck. They also
Speaker 1: brought in a bunch of guys that reflect a Jim
Speaker 1: Harboro football team, like Will Disley and Gus Edwards and
Speaker 1: Hayden Hurst and Puna Ford and Bradley Boseman. I do
Speaker 1: like the Christian Fulton and Tony Jefferson additions. I do
Speaker 1: like the JK. Dobbins and DJ Shark Chark additions. I
Speaker 1: like Joe all and I like Lad mcconkee. Going out
Speaker 1: was Keenan Allen, Mike Williams, Eric Kendricks, Austin Eckler, and
Speaker 1: Corey Linsley. That is an all star team from twenty nineteen, man,
Speaker 1: isn't it? What do they do well? I think they'll
Speaker 1: run the football? Well, they better what else the hell's
Speaker 1: hardball there for? But when you go Joe alt over
Speaker 1: Maleak Neighbors and Roma Dunza in twenty twenty four, yikes, dude, yikes,
Speaker 1: you better run the ball well. They signed multiple backs.
Speaker 1: They bring in Bradley Boseman, who's a good player. And
Speaker 1: in college football landscape, where the whole concept is spread
Speaker 1: the ball out and throw it all over the lot,
Speaker 1: Michigan ran the ball and ran out some more. But
Speaker 1: that's like going up against eighteen year olds. Can you
Speaker 1: do in the NFL? I don't think you can. But
Speaker 1: you've also got a quarterback paid like a top five
Speaker 1: player who plays like a top fifteen player, And how
Speaker 1: do you balance that? And when you put the ball
Speaker 1: in his hands late in a Dave Wance at offense
Speaker 1: that wants to keep the game class from the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: like is he gonna deliver? Because he never has? He
Speaker 1: just doesn't do it. Like I see all these stats like, oh,
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert has this record about throwing Like yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: but watch the tape because they're in those games every
Speaker 1: week and they lose games more than they win them. Right,
Speaker 1: what's happening on those dropbacks? I just this is obviously
Speaker 1: a sensive subject to me. But they'll be under center,
Speaker 1: they'll run power, and the thing I do think they
Speaker 1: do well is their quarterback can threat in the entire field,
Speaker 1: which is a nice thing to have, but it's not
Speaker 1: the most important thing, which is why this team is
Speaker 1: not very good year in an year out. What's the
Speaker 1: concern or fatal flaw doesn't have to be label a concern.
Speaker 1: I just have no idea what to expect from the coordinators.
Speaker 1: Jesse Minter gets his first NFL job outside of three
Speaker 1: years in Baltimore, where he was an assistant to the
Speaker 1: assistant regional manager. Greg Roman. Is back in the league
Speaker 1: after falling out of favor with the Ravens, and his
Speaker 1: most successful stops were coaching Kaepernick and San Francisco and
Speaker 1: Lamar in Baltimore. That ain't Herbert's game. I'm curious to
Speaker 1: what those adjustments look like. Will he benefit the quarterback
Speaker 1: or will be all about running the football? Like I
Speaker 1: don't know, man, it's weird. They also made major major
Speaker 1: changes on offense, the entire pillar of which this franchise
Speaker 1: is built upon the last decade and a half. Allen
Speaker 1: and Mike Williams and Austin Eckler gained a lot of
Speaker 1: yards and scored a lot of touchdowns. They're all gone
Speaker 1: and they were declining for sure. But Chark, McConkie, and
Speaker 1: Palmer is your top three options. I mean, every other
Speaker 1: team in the league that has a top quarterback supports
Speaker 1: that quarterback. That's not what's happening here. So I don't
Speaker 1: get it. I just don't get it. They have a
Speaker 1: bunch of blocking tight ends. I'm really curious which part
Speaker 1: of the team rises at the surface with regards to
Speaker 1: their identity, because if it's what the coach wants, then
Speaker 1: why you paying your quarterback quarter billion dollars. I just
Speaker 1: don't get it. Some interesting things about this team and
Speaker 1: their storylines this year, Harbaugh coming back to the league.
Speaker 1: I think that when you ban music from practice, you're
Speaker 1: already off to a horrible start like their own four.
Speaker 1: Because they don't allow music in practice, it's not going
Speaker 1: to work. In twenty twenty four, bro Herbert and the
Speaker 1: offense with the game on the line, can they finally
Speaker 1: win those games? Because they haven't in the past, What
Speaker 1: can they get out of the last ride style of
Speaker 1: defense here from Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack because both
Speaker 1: those guys are on bloated contracts that were picked up
Speaker 1: towards the back end here and they didn't move on
Speaker 1: from them, So it's kind of kick the candy on
Speaker 1: the road situation. I'm curious how that works out for
Speaker 1: those guys. I'm just not sure what the plan of
Speaker 1: the process or the vision is here. If those guys
Speaker 1: get hurt again, which they have really every year for
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, where's the pass rush? There
Speaker 1: is none? And there is some talent on defense, I
Speaker 1: just think structurally last year was an absolute mess like
Speaker 1: we saw in the game against US, where it's just
Speaker 1: like that was never going to work from a coverage standpoint.
Speaker 1: But Christian Fulton, Derwin, James Sante, Samuel Junior who's been
Speaker 1: disappointing so far, but he's got talent, Tony Jefferson, a
Speaker 1: Lowhi Gilman, there is some skill there, But I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's like you compare that to other good teams,
Speaker 1: it's just not there's not a lot there. What can
Speaker 1: they tell us with the Dolphin. Dolphins. I just think
Speaker 1: you have to really appreciate Miami's synchronized vision going over
Speaker 1: this whole division, because we talked about it on the
Speaker 1: on the Klayst Campbell podcast. All the moves on defense
Speaker 1: makes so much sense. The offensive vision is so clear,
Speaker 1: there's alignment across the staff, and the Chargers could well
Speaker 1: be that. But just outside looking in, there's so many
Speaker 1: conflicting aspects of philosophy and personnel. Same thing with the Raiders, right.
Speaker 1: I'm not pointing fingers at a particular teams, but this
Speaker 1: is why I urge the upset Dolphins fan out there
Speaker 1: just go look around the league and see what other
Speaker 1: teams do. You do that and you'll realize how the
Speaker 1: Dolphins have been and are one of the best run
Speaker 1: teams in the National Foota League. And you can't argue
Speaker 1: that the facts are the facts. Like you haven't got
Speaker 1: the playoff success and that sucks. I get it, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, guys, but they've been better than most than
Speaker 1: all but like five or six teams last four years.
Speaker 1: Like that's that's the aim. And then from there you
Speaker 1: hope to get better in the playoffs. But we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens this year. I just think it's a good
Speaker 1: exercise to do. My predictions are recapped for this division.
Speaker 1: Remember these are subject to change come August in September.
Speaker 1: This is probably the chalkiest division in the league. To me,
Speaker 1: I will never pick against the Chiefs if that quarterback
Speaker 1: is playing. I mean, even with the worst offense of
Speaker 1: the Mahomes tenure, they won the damn Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: that's in large part because of building an excellent young
Speaker 1: defense around whiz of a defensive coordinator who has identified
Speaker 1: and maximized what he wants from the personnel. I think
Speaker 1: they fix their issues on the perimeter, though again, losing
Speaker 1: Rice for a huge chunk will be tough. I don't
Speaker 1: know what the Chargers I think, you know, the whole
Speaker 1: old school mentality. I don't think it works anymore. I
Speaker 1: think the errors from the quarterback position get overlooked. I
Speaker 1: think their roster is not very good, and I mean
Speaker 1: we let him up last year with Blitz and key spots,
Speaker 1: and the decision making just gets worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 1: You'd take away separators that he had and Williams and Allen.
Speaker 1: Is that going to work without those guys? I mean,
Speaker 1: McConkie just gets doubled, and then what they had a
Speaker 1: ton of injuries and are clearly zigging when the rest
Speaker 1: of the league zags by going trench play. Maybe it works,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it does at all. And then
Speaker 1: Denver in Vegas have two of the quarterback situations that
Speaker 1: I trust the least going into the end of the year.
Speaker 1: As much as that pains me to say, I think
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew's a great spot starter, probably between twenty two
Speaker 1: and twenty five in terms of the quarterback hierarchy. But
Speaker 1: if he's playing seventeen games, you'll probably pick high enough
Speaker 1: the following year to replace him. And I know he
Speaker 1: won a lot of games for the Colts, but that
Speaker 1: entire division was inflated by playing the schedule they played
Speaker 1: last year. And then with Denver, I just wasn't into
Speaker 1: bow Knicks in the draft process, and that's a team
Speaker 1: that I think is going to have to dig out
Speaker 1: of it for a year or two, which is just
Speaker 1: the reality of missing big on a quarterback. At least
Speaker 1: when it's just the draft you can get out of
Speaker 1: when you put capital and cash into it, It's gonna
Speaker 1: take years to pull out of that nose dive. I
Speaker 1: see one playoff team, one fringe team, and two that
Speaker 1: are picking the top ten next year. Chiefs twelve plus wins.
Speaker 1: I think the Chargers get six or seven wins. I
Speaker 1: think the Raiders and Broncos are around four and five
Speaker 1: wins a piece. The best quarterback in the division it's
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. The best non quarterback in the division on
Speaker 1: offense is Devonte Adams. For my money, that was kind
Speaker 1: of a tough choice after a rough year last year,
Speaker 1: but I'm going Adam still. The best defensive player is
Speaker 1: Max Crosby. Chris Jones might say what's up on that,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna go Crosby. The best coach is Andy Reid,
Speaker 1: clearly favorite rookie. This is gonna be like trendy, like
Speaker 1: a hipster pick, but I'm going Jackson Powers Johnson for
Speaker 1: the Maybe I like the Rais more than I think
Speaker 1: I do. The best player you don't hear enough about
Speaker 1: is Trey Smith, the right guard for the Chiefs. I've
Speaker 1: loved that guy since I watched his tape at Tennessee.
Speaker 1: He was a great pick for them. He's been a
Speaker 1: great pro for them, and my fantasy sleeper is lad
Speaker 1: Maconkey because they have literally nobody else to throw the
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