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Speaker 1 (00:08):
What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
we are covering the Chris Greer press conference. He spoke
to the local media here on Tuesday afternoon ahead of
the NFL Draft, talking about some of the major landscape
shifts across the roster and that includes some new information
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about cornerback Jalen Ramsey. All of that and a heck
of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast,
May Gaff. So the press conference begins with an opening
statement from Chris Greer about the news of the morning
that was reported that Jalen Ramsey and the Dolphins have
mutually agreed to part ways and they will look to
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facilitate a trade for the all pro cornerback. Here's Chris
Grear on Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So, really, after a couple of weeks of discussions between
ourselves internally and Jalen and his representation, we decided that
it was probably the best interest for all parties to
move forward. So I will say these decisions aren't done
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quickly and.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They're not taken lightly.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Because we spent a lot of time this offseason working
through this, talking through things. At the end of the day,
Jalen did not ask for a trade, so we went
through the process, and I just felt that after numerous
conversations and then talking last week with Jalen and his agent,
that it was best to move forward and it was
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best interest of the Miami Dolphins and for Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Naturally, a lot of questions arose from that statement that
it has obviously become made clear that the Dolphins and
Jalen Ramsey are going to wind up parting ways. And
you'll hear him talking a few of these answers about
we'll deal with the fallout of him being here or
you know, the situation of him being here if when
that happens, or acquire the draft picks, and he was
asked about urgency to get done before the draft to
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make sure they get picks in this year's draft. He
said that that was not part of the discussion, that
they'll do it when the best time for it is
to be done. He was also asked about Ramsey wanting
a salary adjustment. He said no, he opted to keep
it internal. When asked why this is happening, because he
did say that Ramsey did not ask for a trade,
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did not ask for a raise, there was not an
issue with the scheme or anything. And so he was asked,
why is this trade happening or why is this discussion
even happening, and he said that will stay internal. He
was also asked, it didn't seem like the moves you
made this offseason matched up with what you did in
free agency or to build the rest of the roster out.
And I think if you look at the Dolphins current roster,
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you're gonna have to get some guys that step up
that have been unproven, and that might even include you know,
cater Coho playing on the outside more than the inside
than he has in the past. And if you guys
are longtime listeners of the podcast, you know, I think
he's very capable of that, a very good football player.
And Chris Career touched on on Cam Smith later on
in the press conference as well, and we saw a
Storm Ducket playing time last year, Ethan Bonner the year
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before that. Like, if you go into the season right now,
which you're not, you have the draft and undrafted free agency,
and as you'll hear from Chris later on, there's the
you know, the free agent veteran market hasn't closed either,
that's still available to them. And while I don't think
it makes sense to sit here and talk about the
roster on April sixteenth, from a completion standpoint, I think
that the general idea is that if you don't have
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like sure things at every single position group, that you're
lacking in that group. And I understand that from an
outside and fan perspective, but sometimes in this league, especially
in this league, I should say, with how the salary
cap is and you know the turnover that we've seen
in the last couple of years, you have to have
guys that haven't shown stuff in the past show up
and be players that you maybe didn't expect them to
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be or and maybe the team did, but maybe the
fan base didn't. But it happens every single year on
every single football team, and for the Dolphins at the
cornerback spot right now, they're going to have to have
a couple of guys step up and play to a
higher level than what they've shown in the past, or
play at all. And that could include rookies, you know,
high draft picks or mid round draft.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Picks or your DFAs. So we'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But right now it sounds like Ramsey and the Dolphins
will try to find a way to facilitate a trade
to get Ramsey out of Miami after a two year
run here with the Dolphins. One more here from Greer
on Ramsey and we'll go ahead and move on.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When you're talking through the off season and all these
conversations are having throughout the off season, you're still working
and you tried to prepare for scenarios. So like again,
this was a long discussions, many discussions, i would say,
throughout the off season, So this wasn't anything we rushed
to and just said today, let's do this, So we're prepared.
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If he's here, you know, we'll deal with it. And
if he's not, you know, we'll we'll adjust as well.
So we feel good about where it is. It's never
easy to replace a player like Jalen a good player.
For us, he's a good player, he'll probably be a
Hall of Famer here, but for the Miami Dolphins going forward,
we feel like this is the best chance to help
us win not only just this year, but in the
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future as well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He was also asked about the mindset of Stephen Ross
about this team and how hopeful he can possibly be.
Chris Career just basically said that he doesn't step over
the football decision makers to make football moves. So I
think this concept that Ross has been handing out Levy's
about spending money or not, like, that's never been Ross's
m right. He's always been spend the most money possible
to get the best team on the field possible and
spare no expense in doing that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So and I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's been pretty well proven with the facilities and the
constant report cards that you get back from the NFLPA
survey they say a plus across the board. So this
building in this facility and the commitment to winning is
something that I think would be I mean, I don't
know how you could possibly ever question that given the
all of the surroundings that you see down here in
South Florida and Stephen Ross's commitment to winning here with
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the Miami Dolphins. And you know, I think what you
look at with this year's team and this offseason, like
everything that they do or that they've done is through
the prism of like what's going to make us win
most now, but also for the long term, because you'll
recall back when his you know, twenty nineteen press conference,
when they made the move, it was like, we are
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our biggest thing right now is trying to find a
way to sustain success. And that was after a couple
of years of teams that pushed money into you know,
some some aging veterans and went onto the free agent
market and signed big time names, and they didn't always
work out, and you would get these six and ten,
seven and nine years and kind of be up against
the books every year. And that was kind of a
change in process. And I think the idea behind sustained
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winning is how every decision gets made here for Miami
and especially for Stephen Ross. Just continuing for the posterity
of the entire press conference, which you can find on
the team YouTube channel, but I think that breaking it
down here has a better option.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
What do I know to you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He also was asked about the effort to resign Kalay's Campbell.
He mentioned that Klay has opted to go back the
team that drafted him. And we have heard, you know,
I had heard previously the Campbell's a big Arizona guy.
Loves it there and wants to set his roots long
term down in Arizona. So that makes the most sense
to me. And then the question I want to go
ahead and play the answer for was would you label
this a soft rebuild or a reset of the roster?
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Because I've made it clear that the twenty twenty four
rams were a great example of this, and I think
you're seeing the Niners go through something similar to this
and we'll see, you know, how these teams shake out
on the other side. And we have seen the results
of teams that have kind of taken a different approach
or maybe just change their overall structure for how they
do things. And you've seen that with the Miami Dolphins
this year. I mean, it wasn't about the top of
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the class of free agency. It's not about you know,
making the big trade in big splash, and it's been
more about acquiring draft picks and trying to reset your
the way the building operates through the draft and through
young players. And you've seen teams, not just across the league,
but from this particular coaching tree have success doing that.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And so.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Chris Greer was asked about the actual label of a
saw to reset or rebuild, And I thought that his
answer was just instructive in terms of how they view
this entire thing from you know, this point forward.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We have a lot of really good football players on
this roster still at some places that impact game. So
our goal is to win, win this year and and
and keep winning for sustained success in the future.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Quick pause for a follow for Chris Grew on a
similar question.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And some of the players we added or quality h
human beings and people that have been leaders that other teams.
But I do think in house when you have guys
like Zach Seeler, just to name a few, like I mean,
you can say Tyree Waddle, alec Ingold, Austin Jackson, the
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offensive line guys love you know, those guys they lead differently,
you know, they're they're quiet guys and how they do
it by example and stuff. So we feel comfortable they
know the expectations. You know, as we talked about it
the post draft press conference, Mike addressed that and what
he told the team. And so Mike and leaders on
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a team have been meeting all throughout the off season
talking about things. So very excited for where it's going.
And they know the expectations and so looking forward to
see how this group responds.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come
back on the other side and continue here with Chris
Grear his pre draft press conference. That's Next Draft Time
podcast brought to you by AutoNation. I think this next
part here will be of interest for those that are
concerned about all the needs on the roster. He was
asked about this, Chris Greer about kind of bowing out
of the first the high end of free agency, and
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you guys have heard this podcast time and time again.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's for no team.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is that a good process to invest heavily into that
portion of the offseason or team building program. Team building
portion of the off season program. But there was some
interesting tidbits in here about the draft picks and also
the tension of free agency beyond that first couple of weeks,
the first wave or two of free agency, and you're
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going to hear him talk about how they're in connection
right now to a few players that are out there,
which I always thought was the case, but interesting to
hear Chris Wereer talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
This in a salary cap era, you just can't keep
when you have high priced players and you've seen it
around the league. You know that a team, so you
make decisions. We have ten draft picks this year for
the first time with that many draft picks, so excited
about that. But at the end of the day, it
was just we were just looking to sign some good
players at prices that we feel comfortable playing. And that
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continues all the way through the drafts and post draft
as we've been in touch with a number of players
as well still that we're still tracking.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So here's where I think there could be a disconnect
from someone like myself or Kyle Crabs for that matter.
And obviously, you know my job and attachment to the
team comes with a different level of expectation for this.
But like Kyle is also a pretty optimistic guy that
we like to call it like we see it when
it goes wrong. But for the most part, we involve
ourselves in this because it's it's more enjoyable to be
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looking at things from the lens of like what could
it be if it goes right, Because the entire league,
the entire process of the sport is make a decision.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It could go this way, it could go that way.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We'll see what happens and if you make enough of
the decisions to go the right way, you are a
consistent winner. And I'm not, you know, naive enough to
acknowledge that it never goes wrong, but I always like
to look at it that way. And I even't thought
about this today before the press conference went off and
we heard about the Ramsey News, like I remember covering
the team in twenty nineteen, and I kind of enjoyed
it because it was like there was no need to
get upset about what you're watching on the field because
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they were not going to be a contender to begin with,
but there was things to get excited about from an
evaluation standpoint. And I will not sit here on April
fifteenth and be like they have no chance at positions X,
Y and Z, because there's going to be a lot
of more additions made to the roster. We have to
watch how those guys, you know, acclimate to the football
team and where they are in September and even beyond
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that into like Thanksgiving and where this thing grows. So
that's all I set up to say, Like they could
sign three impact free agents still and hit on four
draft picks and get a couple of u DFAs that
play on special teams and they could wind up adding
seven or eight more contributors to the football team.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Is that super likely? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I don't think the history and math of the league
tells you that it is. I think there's examples of it,
but probably more examples of it not working out for you.
The reason I say all this is because he was
asked a question about and this has been something he
said every all the five years that I've been here,
like we want to go into the draft without having
any glaring needs, like the ability to line up and
play a football game tomorrow. Then we can just draft
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the best players and supplement what we already have from
a roster standpoint. And it's obviously not like that this year,
And so he was asked, do you adjust your draft
strategy to fit those needs? Because right now, and you'll
hear him talk about this press conference about like going
into this draft with maybe more needs than years past,
or you know, how the draft strengths align with the
needs the Dolphins have on their roster, So will you
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adjust accordingly? So here's Kris talking about that and addressing
the fact that there are particular needs on this roster.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No for us it's the draft kind of lines with
a lot of the positions of need for us that
people perceive and what's on our roster right now. So
for us, we think at thirteen, they'll be good players
there that will we'll be NFL ready players that are
also fell in need. So if we choose to stay there,
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we'll have options and if we move around, we'll take
advantage of that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, I get the sense they would prefer to add
even more draft picks the ten that they do have
and just try to again do what the Rams did
in twenty twenty four. It was twenty twenty three when
they really you know, hit the reset button and had
all those draft picks and signed like twenty seven udfas
and got impact your performance from a couple of them.
And that's how teams have restacked the deck for a
long time. Now when it comes to like, okay, we
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made our aggressive push. Now it's time to kind of
peel back and go more back towards the draft. Like
there's team cycles, right, you have teams that are ready
to go after it right now, and those are the
teams that are attractive towards the top of the line.
You know, veteran, one year mercenary types of players, and
then you have teams that are trying to slowly build
the thing up, and we've seen the Panthers kind of
do that a little bit over the last couple of years.
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And then you have teams that have to kind of
reset back and kind of reformulate. Like every different team
in the league has a different particular cycle, and right
now Miami's in their cycle where they're trying to get
younger and trying to get more contributing draft picks and
young players in the roster.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Let's go ahead and pivot forward here.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He was asked, is the belief that both the starting
safeties are in the building, And I thought this answer
was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes, yes, we feel good about those three and Elijah
Campbell as well as back, so we feel like we
have some depth there. But we'll keep looking to add
as well as we you will to every position.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And I do think that in the best version of
those players, you do probably have starting quality talent, but
I think you also have good depth if you were
to tap into this pretty deep safety class, which we've
seen reports to the Dolphins being attached to a few
of the draft prospects in terms of their visits to
Miami and free agency. There was talk about Jeremy Chin
having interests to the Miami Dolphins that go sign e
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Fatu melafon Wu, who's a similar player type. And so
I think that with this class, with the amount of
draft picks, you probably could look to add more safety
help and that would really make that room even deeper
and better. But yeah, you've got a bunch of guys
and they're going to compete for positions. And I'm excited
about the turnover that spot because I thought safety last
year was kind of a struggle for the Dolphins and
having that whole room over Maade was probably a good thing.
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And I kind of view the entire Weaver defense right
now through that prism of like, hey, what do you need, coach,
because it seems like that hybrid, you know, box impact
safety that can play the run, which is so paramount
in today's league. Right Like, if you can't play the
run at the safety position, man, you put your defense
in a bind because of the inability to play high
coverage and play off the football but also be able
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to insert into the running game, Like if you give
the offensive front a hat advantage, a numbers advantage in
the running game because you can't come down and play
the run like it changes the entire dynamic of how
you play football. And you know, this is getting way
into the weeds here in terms of like the discussion
about analytics and whether or not running the football matters.
And you guys remember ten years ago when it was like,
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it does not matter who your running back is. It
does not matter if you run the ball ever in
a game, you should throw the ball every single time,
because if you average eight yards per past attempt and
that's a good number, and you average four yards per
rush attempt and that's a good number, which one should
you choose every single play? And that's how like I
even subscribed to that thought a while ago. I remember
I had a friend who was a high school running
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back and I told him one time.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Running backs don't matter. He was like what, he was
so mad at me. And that was a foolish take.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And I one of the reasons I bring it up
is because, like, you have to be able to impact
your physicality and put the threat of the run game
in the mind of the opposition to be able to
open up your entire offense especially for Miami and all
the play action that we have, and how good of
a ball handler Tua is a quarterback. Like, when you
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can do that and impact the run game that way,
it changes the way teams have to defend you and
vice versa with the ability to play the run from
depth of safety. So when I watch these moves and
when I think about Anthony Weevers impact on the defense
and who could possibly run what he wants to run,
I look at those types of impact safeties and think
like that, that seems like a really good fit and
a good idea for how this team builds out that
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room on the very back end of your defense. More
questions about culture and all that stuff. I feel like
they've covered that pretty in depth, so I need to
get into that any further. Do you guys see Patrick
Paul as the long term left tackle here, the starting
left tackle for twenty twenty five. He was asked about
that and leam Mikeenberg. Will he start a guard back
to CG in terms.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Of Patrick Paul, Yes, he will. He will be our
starter at left tackle get the first crack at doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
We signed Larry Borum, who we felt really good about.
We really liked him in free agency, and Liam will
will come in and provide swing versatility, and he'll compete
for a job, and he's not homist anything, and he
knows there's going to be a competition for it.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And remember McDaniel mentioning that Liamlickenberg is going to have
to be the best version of himself if he's going
to start in twenty twenty five, which I think the
writing on the wall between that and the versatile backup
options and competition that you heard from Chris Grear that
that all kind of tracks to me. I'm sure that
was part of the conversation with Liam when he signed, like, Hey,
we're going to bring you back, but you're going to
have to compete if you want to keep that starting job.
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This next question was posed by Omar Kelly in a
pretty pretty upfront way about what created the change that
you guys had in terms of philosophy of going into
the draft without having any roster holes to now having
several of them. Here's Chris Greer on what changed your
core philosophy to have this approach going into April's draft
for the first time, really that we can remember.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
For us, we feel good with our scouting staff and
what we've done and our ability to be able to
fill some holes with the free agency, like you know
we've done with the guys we've added. The strength of
the draft was a little bit of the reason where
we felt like, okay, like we said, we're going to
need NFL ready players. It's not like there's no like, hey,
let's hope this guy's right, like he's going to be
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These guys are gonna be forced into play and that's
a good thing, you know. So we just have to
be right on the person and the characters of the
guys that we bring in here that they're gonna do that.
So there was there was really no grand plan of
doing it. It was just as we were looking through
because you really always look a year into the future,
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like when you're looking at like the quarterbacks evaluations, like
who's the next class of college players, So you always
try and get a peek of what the next year's
draft class looks like in strength. So for us, it
just aligned to where it made sense for us to
invest in some younger players at those positions and UH,
and then we'll fill in the rest post draft, UH
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through free agency.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
They're not shopping in the markets that provide you the
Jalen Ramseys and the Bradley Chubbs with Tyreek Kills. Anymore,
they're trying to find the next Aram Brewer, right, That's
that's the idea here. And I did find the answer
about like, we can't expect to draft guys and just
have him like red shirt for you. He didn't say that,
but we have to have guys that can make an
immediate impact. Like that wasn't the case last year because
the first two picks were guys that needed some time
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in seasoning, especially your second round pick, who has now
looked at in hindsight as a smart move because of
what happened to Toron Armstead's career and his retirement.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
So let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Ahead and take our last break right there. Come back
on the other side, talk about the QB position. We'll
talk about pressure, trade down, interest, all kinds of stuff here.
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Speaker 4 (20:38):
Why Zach Wilson. Here's Chris Greear.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We were all going through it and we spent a
lot of time on that, you know, with Mike and
the offensive coaches and the scouts, and we just felt
like Zach had a lot of potential and a lot
of talent. And I know, you know, you could go
to the veteran route with someone that you know, more proven.
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Know Zach has won a few games. I know everyone's
going to say, you know, his record and stuff, but
I think for us, in dealing with it and getting
to know him, talking you know, once he signed, and
getting to know him and going through it and going
back to the relationships people had with him prior to
the draft when he came out, we just felt that
in talking to him and some veterans, that he was
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the right fit and right choice for us because we
do think that his skills set really fits what our
offense does.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And perhaps my favorite part of the entire press conference
was a response to a question about would you guys
take a quarterback in the first round, Well, we already
have our starting quarterback. Never rule anything out, but we
have our guy.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I would say, we have our starting quarterback, so I
wouldn't be looking to it. But I never rule anything out,
but I would not be looking to draft a quarterback in.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The first round.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I want to go ahead and play this sound bite
for you guys about the willingness to come off the
thirteenth pick to acquire more picks. I think that's you know,
let's go ahead and play the audio first.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm definitely open to moving around in the draft, but
also if the opportunity to arise is to get a
really good player, be open to figuring out a way
to go get them too as well. So we do
have needs. But I think you guys would even say
that there's more good street free agents on the street
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now than there have been in a long time. Seems
like a lot of veterans are waiting until after the
drafts to see.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Where they're going to sign.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So there again, there are opportunities to keep building the
roster that way.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So I want to first address that by saying, like,
typically when you get these breadcrumbs, these trails of consistent
messaging from Chris or Mike, they typically come to fruition.
And a few times now we've heard him mention the
idea that there's players on the free agent market that
can round out the roster, and there are some pieces
like at cornerback. I'm a fan of a Sante Samuel's game.
He would be a good fit in my opinion. There's
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a safety Julian Blackman that remains out there who could
be of interest to me, a couple of guys on
the offensive line. I think Marcus Williams at safety makes
some sense as well. So there are guys that exist
out there that would help this roster improve. But there's
also some areas that are pretty scarce, like defensive tackle
or the cornerbacks beyond a Sante Samuel. But it does
sound like there's going to be a pretty good surge
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here of players coming in post draft or post June one,
whatever it might be. I think that'll be a pretty
It's pretty telling that they're looking to do that already.
And then the other thing was a trade down interest,
which again I think there's been breadcrumbs there about how
they've built this thing and the interest in draft picks
and a team that wants to build their entire program
through the draft and has kind of pulled back the
reins on the aggressiveness of going after veteran talent. I mean,
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if you offer that team more draft picks, they're going
to say yes, right like's if it's worth it for
them in terms of the deal that gets done. So
I think those are two things you can look forward to,
is potentially more accumulation of picks as well as more
veterans being brought in between now in September. And we'll
go ahead and close with this. I found this to
be a very interesting answer, probably one of the best
of the entire press conference, when he was asked about
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the process of running a draft for ten years now,
really going back to sixteen and what has he learned
in that process. And I'll go ahead and weigh in
act we hear from Chris and a pretty lengthy answer here.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Now, it is an interesting question because it's an evolution.
You kind of know how I work with coaches. So
I've had, you know, three different coaches here and it
is interesting and they all have different types of players
they like. So it's the adjustment. But you know, I
think the one thing that's common is just finding those
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guys that love football, that are tough kids, that are
competitive and love ball. And so I think there's some
times when maybe I've veered a little bit guess like, hey,
we're just going to take the athlete or something or
whatever whatever trait this player has and you're kind of like, okay,
we'll make it work. Sometimes it does, it doesn't always,
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And so I think we do a lot of work,
you know, vetting backgrounds and personalities of players, and I
think that plays a big role in the of people because,
like you said, these players read everything that is.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Said about them, you guys know, I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And for those guys to handle it, it takes a
special player to be able to handle it because they
want to react to everything someone says about them. So
so myself, I think for me, sometimes.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You know, maybe I defer too much. And I've talked.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
About that and that's probably the one thing I've I've
learned that as I've gotten more, I guess along in
my years that the pushback is great. And that's what's
great with Mike. We don't always agree on everything, but
we always come into alignment to where we get to
help the MIDI Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
So it's it's been really good working with them.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So, all things told, a pretty interesting press conference there.
I thought that last answer was was kind of like
a little bit of getting to know Chris more than
we ever have in terms of his press conferences and
talking about maybe some of the things that he could
have done better throughout his career so far and where
he is right now in twenty twenty five. But on balance, overall,
I think, you know, the fan base might be a
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little bit dubious about what's going to happen. My messaging
to you would be, let's let this thing play out
and see see what the draft brings. See what that
you know, the kind of hint or teaser there towards
you know, more potential free agent acquisitions. Why don't we
go ahead and see what that looks like, and then
we'll kind of make our judgments come August September when
they kick this thing off for real, because if you don't,
(26:26):
you're gonna drive yourself crazy all summer long. And you've
got baseball, and you've got golf, and you've got the
Miami Heat playing tonight, all kinds of fun stuff for
you in the sports world. Okay, let's go ahead, though,
and call it a show. You can find again the
entirety of this press conference up on the Team YouTube channel,
where you can also find a brand new episode of
Dolphins HQ. I got a chance to break down the
Patrick Paul film. In the film room, as well as
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talk about that thirteenth pick of the draft. Fun episode
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What is up Dolphins And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host Travis Wingfield, and on today's show,
we are covering the Chris Greer press conference. He spoke
to the local media here on Tuesday afternoon ahead of
the NFL Draft, talking about some of the major landscape
shifts across the roster and that includes some new information
(00:29):
about cornerback Jalen Ramsey. All of that and a heck
of a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast,
May Gaff. So the press conference begins with an opening
statement from Chris Greer about the news of the morning
that was reported that Jalen Ramsey and the Dolphins have
mutually agreed to part ways and they will look to
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facilitate a trade for the all pro cornerback. Here's Chris
Grear on Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
So, really, after a couple of weeks of discussions between
ourselves internally and Jalen and his representation, we decided that
it was probably the best interest for all parties to
move forward. So I will say these decisions aren't done
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quickly and.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
They're not taken lightly.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Because we spent a lot of time this offseason working
through this, talking through things. At the end of the day,
Jalen did not ask for a trade, so we went
through the process, and I just felt that after numerous
conversations and then talking last week with Jalen and his agent,
that it was best to move forward and it was
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best interest of the Miami Dolphins and for Jalen Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Naturally, a lot of questions arose from that statement that
it has obviously become made clear that the Dolphins and
Jalen Ramsey are going to wind up parting ways. And
you'll hear him talking a few of these answers about
we'll deal with the fallout of him being here or
you know, the situation of him being here if when
that happens, or acquire the draft picks, and he was
asked about urgency to get done before the draft to
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make sure they get picks in this year's draft. He
said that that was not part of the discussion, that
they'll do it when the best time for it is
to be done. He was also asked about Ramsey wanting
a salary adjustment. He said no, he opted to keep
it internal. When asked why this is happening, because he
did say that Ramsey did not ask for a trade,
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did not ask for a raise, there was not an
issue with the scheme or anything. And so he was asked,
why is this trade happening or why is this discussion
even happening, and he said that will stay internal. He
was also asked, it didn't seem like the moves you
made this offseason matched up with what you did in
free agency or to build the rest of the roster out.
And I think if you look at the Dolphins current roster,
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you're gonna have to get some guys that step up
that have been unproven, and that might even include you know,
cater Coho playing on the outside more than the inside
than he has in the past. And if you guys
are longtime listeners of the podcast, you know, I think
he's very capable of that, a very good football player.
And Chris Career touched on on Cam Smith later on
in the press conference as well, and we saw a
Storm Ducket playing time last year, Ethan Bonner the year
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before that. Like, if you go into the season right now,
which you're not, you have the draft and undrafted free agency,
and as you'll hear from Chris later on, there's the
you know, the free agent veteran market hasn't closed either,
that's still available to them. And while I don't think
it makes sense to sit here and talk about the
roster on April sixteenth, from a completion standpoint, I think
that the general idea is that if you don't have
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like sure things at every single position group, that you're
lacking in that group. And I understand that from an
outside and fan perspective, but sometimes in this league, especially
in this league, I should say, with how the salary
cap is and you know the turnover that we've seen
in the last couple of years, you have to have
guys that haven't shown stuff in the past show up
and be players that you maybe didn't expect them to
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be or and maybe the team did, but maybe the
fan base didn't. But it happens every single year on
every single football team, and for the Dolphins at the
cornerback spot right now, they're going to have to have
a couple of guys step up and play to a
higher level than what they've shown in the past, or
play at all. And that could include rookies, you know,
high draft picks or mid round draft.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Picks or your DFAs. So we'll see what it looks like.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
But right now it sounds like Ramsey and the Dolphins
will try to find a way to facilitate a trade
to get Ramsey out of Miami after a two year
run here with the Dolphins. One more here from Greer
on Ramsey and we'll go ahead and move on.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When you're talking through the off season and all these
conversations are having throughout the off season, you're still working
and you tried to prepare for scenarios. So like again,
this was a long discussions, many discussions, i would say,
throughout the off season, So this wasn't anything we rushed
to and just said today, let's do this, So we're prepared.
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If he's here, you know, we'll deal with it. And
if he's not, you know, we'll we'll adjust as well.
So we feel good about where it is. It's never
easy to replace a player like Jalen a good player.
For us, he's a good player, he'll probably be a
Hall of Famer here, but for the Miami Dolphins going forward,
we feel like this is the best chance to help
us win not only just this year, but in the
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future as well.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
He was also asked about the mindset of Stephen Ross
about this team and how hopeful he can possibly be.
Chris Career just basically said that he doesn't step over
the football decision makers to make football moves. So I
think this concept that Ross has been handing out Levy's
about spending money or not, like, that's never been Ross's
m right. He's always been spend the most money possible
to get the best team on the field possible and
spare no expense in doing that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
So and I mean.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
That's been pretty well proven with the facilities and the
constant report cards that you get back from the NFLPA
survey they say a plus across the board. So this
building in this facility and the commitment to winning is
something that I think would be I mean, I don't
know how you could possibly ever question that given the
all of the surroundings that you see down here in
South Florida and Stephen Ross's commitment to winning here with
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the Miami Dolphins. And you know, I think what you
look at with this year's team and this offseason, like
everything that they do or that they've done is through
the prism of like what's going to make us win
most now, but also for the long term, because you'll
recall back when his you know, twenty nineteen press conference,
when they made the move, it was like, we are
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our biggest thing right now is trying to find a
way to sustain success. And that was after a couple
of years of teams that pushed money into you know,
some some aging veterans and went onto the free agent
market and signed big time names, and they didn't always
work out, and you would get these six and ten,
seven and nine years and kind of be up against
the books every year. And that was kind of a
change in process. And I think the idea behind sustained
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winning is how every decision gets made here for Miami
and especially for Stephen Ross. Just continuing for the posterity
of the entire press conference, which you can find on
the team YouTube channel, but I think that breaking it
down here has a better option.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
What do I know to you guys.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
He also was asked about the effort to resign Kalay's Campbell.
He mentioned that Klay has opted to go back the
team that drafted him. And we have heard, you know,
I had heard previously the Campbell's a big Arizona guy.
Loves it there and wants to set his roots long
term down in Arizona. So that makes the most sense
to me. And then the question I want to go
ahead and play the answer for was would you label
this a soft rebuild or a reset of the roster?
(07:18):
Because I've made it clear that the twenty twenty four
rams were a great example of this, and I think
you're seeing the Niners go through something similar to this
and we'll see, you know, how these teams shake out
on the other side. And we have seen the results
of teams that have kind of taken a different approach
or maybe just change their overall structure for how they
do things. And you've seen that with the Miami Dolphins
this year. I mean, it wasn't about the top of
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the class of free agency. It's not about you know,
making the big trade in big splash, and it's been
more about acquiring draft picks and trying to reset your
the way the building operates through the draft and through
young players. And you've seen teams, not just across the league,
but from this particular coaching tree have success doing that.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And so.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Chris Greer was asked about the actual label of a
saw to reset or rebuild, And I thought that his
answer was just instructive in terms of how they view
this entire thing from you know, this point forward.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
We have a lot of really good football players on
this roster still at some places that impact game. So
our goal is to win, win this year and and
and keep winning for sustained success in the future.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
Quick pause for a follow for Chris Grew on a
similar question.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And some of the players we added or quality h
human beings and people that have been leaders that other teams.
But I do think in house when you have guys
like Zach Seeler, just to name a few, like I mean,
you can say Tyree Waddle, alec Ingold, Austin Jackson, the
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offensive line guys love you know, those guys they lead differently,
you know, they're they're quiet guys and how they do
it by example and stuff. So we feel comfortable they
know the expectations. You know, as we talked about it
the post draft press conference, Mike addressed that and what
he told the team. And so Mike and leaders on
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a team have been meeting all throughout the off season
talking about things. So very excited for where it's going.
And they know the expectations and so looking forward to
see how this group responds.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come
back on the other side and continue here with Chris
Grear his pre draft press conference. That's Next Draft Time
podcast brought to you by AutoNation. I think this next
part here will be of interest for those that are
concerned about all the needs on the roster. He was
asked about this, Chris Greer about kind of bowing out
of the first the high end of free agency, and
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you guys have heard this podcast time and time again.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
That's for no team.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Is that a good process to invest heavily into that
portion of the offseason or team building program. Team building
portion of the off season program. But there was some
interesting tidbits in here about the draft picks and also
the tension of free agency beyond that first couple of weeks,
the first wave or two of free agency, and you're
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going to hear him talk about how they're in connection
right now to a few players that are out there,
which I always thought was the case, but interesting to
hear Chris Wereer talk about.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
This in a salary cap era, you just can't keep
when you have high priced players and you've seen it
around the league. You know that a team, so you
make decisions. We have ten draft picks this year for
the first time with that many draft picks, so excited
about that. But at the end of the day, it
was just we were just looking to sign some good
players at prices that we feel comfortable playing. And that
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continues all the way through the drafts and post draft
as we've been in touch with a number of players
as well still that we're still tracking.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
So here's where I think there could be a disconnect
from someone like myself or Kyle Crabs for that matter.
And obviously, you know my job and attachment to the
team comes with a different level of expectation for this.
But like Kyle is also a pretty optimistic guy that
we like to call it like we see it when
it goes wrong. But for the most part, we involve
ourselves in this because it's it's more enjoyable to be
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looking at things from the lens of like what could
it be if it goes right, Because the entire league,
the entire process of the sport is make a decision.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
It could go this way, it could go that way.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
We'll see what happens and if you make enough of
the decisions to go the right way, you are a
consistent winner. And I'm not, you know, naive enough to
acknowledge that it never goes wrong, but I always like
to look at it that way. And I even't thought
about this today before the press conference went off and
we heard about the Ramsey News, like I remember covering
the team in twenty nineteen, and I kind of enjoyed
it because it was like there was no need to
get upset about what you're watching on the field because
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they were not going to be a contender to begin with,
but there was things to get excited about from an
evaluation standpoint. And I will not sit here on April
fifteenth and be like they have no chance at positions X,
Y and Z, because there's going to be a lot
of more additions made to the roster. We have to
watch how those guys, you know, acclimate to the football
team and where they are in September and even beyond
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that into like Thanksgiving and where this thing grows. So
that's all I set up to say, Like they could
sign three impact free agents still and hit on four
draft picks and get a couple of u DFAs that
play on special teams and they could wind up adding
seven or eight more contributors to the football team.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Is that super likely? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
I don't think the history and math of the league
tells you that it is. I think there's examples of it,
but probably more examples of it not working out for you.
The reason I say all this is because he was
asked a question about and this has been something he
said every all the five years that I've been here,
like we want to go into the draft without having
any glaring needs, like the ability to line up and
play a football game tomorrow. Then we can just draft
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the best players and supplement what we already have from
a roster standpoint. And it's obviously not like that this year,
And so he was asked, do you adjust your draft
strategy to fit those needs? Because right now, and you'll
hear him talk about this press conference about like going
into this draft with maybe more needs than years past,
or you know, how the draft strengths align with the
needs the Dolphins have on their roster, So will you
(12:54):
adjust accordingly? So here's Kris talking about that and addressing
the fact that there are particular needs on this roster.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
No for us it's the draft kind of lines with
a lot of the positions of need for us that
people perceive and what's on our roster right now. So
for us, we think at thirteen, they'll be good players
there that will we'll be NFL ready players that are
also fell in need. So if we choose to stay there,
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we'll have options and if we move around, we'll take
advantage of that as well.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Yeah, I get the sense they would prefer to add
even more draft picks the ten that they do have
and just try to again do what the Rams did
in twenty twenty four. It was twenty twenty three when
they really you know, hit the reset button and had
all those draft picks and signed like twenty seven udfas
and got impact your performance from a couple of them.
And that's how teams have restacked the deck for a
long time. Now when it comes to like, okay, we
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made our aggressive push. Now it's time to kind of
peel back and go more back towards the draft. Like
there's team cycles, right, you have teams that are ready
to go after it right now, and those are the
teams that are attractive towards the top of the line.
You know, veteran, one year mercenary types of players, and
then you have teams that are trying to slowly build
the thing up, and we've seen the Panthers kind of
do that a little bit over the last couple of years.
(14:09):
And then you have teams that have to kind of
reset back and kind of reformulate. Like every different team
in the league has a different particular cycle, and right
now Miami's in their cycle where they're trying to get
younger and trying to get more contributing draft picks and
young players in the roster.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Let's go ahead and pivot forward here.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
He was asked, is the belief that both the starting
safeties are in the building, And I thought this answer
was pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
Yes, yes, we feel good about those three and Elijah
Campbell as well as back, so we feel like we
have some depth there. But we'll keep looking to add
as well as we you will to every position.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
And I do think that in the best version of
those players, you do probably have starting quality talent, but
I think you also have good depth if you were
to tap into this pretty deep safety class, which we've
seen reports to the Dolphins being attached to a few
of the draft prospects in terms of their visits to
Miami and free agency. There was talk about Jeremy Chin
having interests to the Miami Dolphins that go sign e
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Fatu melafon Wu, who's a similar player type. And so
I think that with this class, with the amount of
draft picks, you probably could look to add more safety
help and that would really make that room even deeper
and better. But yeah, you've got a bunch of guys
and they're going to compete for positions. And I'm excited
about the turnover that spot because I thought safety last
year was kind of a struggle for the Dolphins and
having that whole room over Maade was probably a good thing.
(15:27):
And I kind of view the entire Weaver defense right
now through that prism of like, hey, what do you need, coach,
because it seems like that hybrid, you know, box impact
safety that can play the run, which is so paramount
in today's league. Right Like, if you can't play the
run at the safety position, man, you put your defense
in a bind because of the inability to play high
coverage and play off the football but also be able
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to insert into the running game, Like if you give
the offensive front a hat advantage, a numbers advantage in
the running game because you can't come down and play
the run like it changes the entire dynamic of how
you play football. And you know, this is getting way
into the weeds here in terms of like the discussion
about analytics and whether or not running the football matters.
And you guys remember ten years ago when it was like,
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it does not matter who your running back is. It
does not matter if you run the ball ever in
a game, you should throw the ball every single time,
because if you average eight yards per past attempt and
that's a good number, and you average four yards per
rush attempt and that's a good number, which one should
you choose every single play? And that's how like I
even subscribed to that thought a while ago. I remember
I had a friend who was a high school running
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back and I told him one time.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Running backs don't matter. He was like what, he was
so mad at me. And that was a foolish take.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
And I one of the reasons I bring it up
is because, like, you have to be able to impact
your physicality and put the threat of the run game
in the mind of the opposition to be able to
open up your entire offense especially for Miami and all
the play action that we have, and how good of
a ball handler Tua is a quarterback. Like, when you
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can do that and impact the run game that way,
it changes the way teams have to defend you and
vice versa with the ability to play the run from
depth of safety. So when I watch these moves and
when I think about Anthony Weevers impact on the defense
and who could possibly run what he wants to run,
I look at those types of impact safeties and think
like that, that seems like a really good fit and
a good idea for how this team builds out that
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room on the very back end of your defense. More
questions about culture and all that stuff. I feel like
they've covered that pretty in depth, so I need to
get into that any further. Do you guys see Patrick
Paul as the long term left tackle here, the starting
left tackle for twenty twenty five. He was asked about
that and leam Mikeenberg. Will he start a guard back
to CG in terms.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Of Patrick Paul, Yes, he will. He will be our
starter at left tackle get the first crack at doing it.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
We signed Larry Borum, who we felt really good about.
We really liked him in free agency, and Liam will
will come in and provide swing versatility, and he'll compete
for a job, and he's not homist anything, and he
knows there's going to be a competition for it.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
And remember McDaniel mentioning that Liamlickenberg is going to have
to be the best version of himself if he's going
to start in twenty twenty five, which I think the
writing on the wall between that and the versatile backup
options and competition that you heard from Chris Grear that
that all kind of tracks to me. I'm sure that
was part of the conversation with Liam when he signed, like, Hey,
we're going to bring you back, but you're going to
have to compete if you want to keep that starting job.
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This next question was posed by Omar Kelly in a
pretty pretty upfront way about what created the change that
you guys had in terms of philosophy of going into
the draft without having any roster holes to now having
several of them. Here's Chris Greer on what changed your
core philosophy to have this approach going into April's draft
for the first time, really that we can remember.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
For us, we feel good with our scouting staff and
what we've done and our ability to be able to
fill some holes with the free agency, like you know
we've done with the guys we've added. The strength of
the draft was a little bit of the reason where
we felt like, okay, like we said, we're going to
need NFL ready players. It's not like there's no like, hey,
let's hope this guy's right, like he's going to be
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These guys are gonna be forced into play and that's
a good thing, you know. So we just have to
be right on the person and the characters of the
guys that we bring in here that they're gonna do that.
So there was there was really no grand plan of
doing it. It was just as we were looking through
because you really always look a year into the future,
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like when you're looking at like the quarterbacks evaluations, like
who's the next class of college players, So you always
try and get a peek of what the next year's
draft class looks like in strength. So for us, it
just aligned to where it made sense for us to
invest in some younger players at those positions and UH,
and then we'll fill in the rest post draft, UH
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through free agency.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
They're not shopping in the markets that provide you the
Jalen Ramseys and the Bradley Chubbs with Tyreek Kills. Anymore,
they're trying to find the next Aram Brewer, right, That's
that's the idea here. And I did find the answer
about like, we can't expect to draft guys and just
have him like red shirt for you. He didn't say that,
but we have to have guys that can make an
immediate impact. Like that wasn't the case last year because
the first two picks were guys that needed some time
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in seasoning, especially your second round pick, who has now
looked at in hindsight as a smart move because of
what happened to Toron Armstead's career and his retirement.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
So let's go.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Ahead and take our last break right there. Come back
on the other side, talk about the QB position. We'll
talk about pressure, trade down, interest, all kinds of stuff here.
More from Chris Greears April fifteenth, Tuesday press conference ahead
of the draft. All the coverage here on the Draft
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Speaker 4 (20:38):
Why Zach Wilson. Here's Chris Greear.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
We were all going through it and we spent a
lot of time on that, you know, with Mike and
the offensive coaches and the scouts, and we just felt
like Zach had a lot of potential and a lot
of talent. And I know, you know, you could go
to the veteran route with someone that you know, more proven.
(21:00):
Know Zach has won a few games. I know everyone's
going to say, you know, his record and stuff, but
I think for us, in dealing with it and getting
to know him, talking you know, once he signed, and
getting to know him and going through it and going
back to the relationships people had with him prior to
the draft when he came out, we just felt that
in talking to him and some veterans, that he was
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the right fit and right choice for us because we
do think that his skills set really fits what our
offense does.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
And perhaps my favorite part of the entire press conference
was a response to a question about would you guys
take a quarterback in the first round, Well, we already
have our starting quarterback. Never rule anything out, but we
have our guy.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
I would say, we have our starting quarterback, so I
wouldn't be looking to it. But I never rule anything out,
but I would not be looking to draft a quarterback in.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The first round.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I want to go ahead and play this sound bite
for you guys about the willingness to come off the
thirteenth pick to acquire more picks. I think that's you know,
let's go ahead and play the audio first.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'm definitely open to moving around in the draft, but
also if the opportunity to arise is to get a
really good player, be open to figuring out a way
to go get them too as well. So we do
have needs. But I think you guys would even say
that there's more good street free agents on the street
(22:16):
now than there have been in a long time. Seems
like a lot of veterans are waiting until after the
drafts to see.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
Where they're going to sign.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
So there again, there are opportunities to keep building the
roster that way.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
So I want to first address that by saying, like,
typically when you get these breadcrumbs, these trails of consistent
messaging from Chris or Mike, they typically come to fruition.
And a few times now we've heard him mention the
idea that there's players on the free agent market that
can round out the roster, and there are some pieces
like at cornerback. I'm a fan of a Sante Samuel's game.
He would be a good fit in my opinion. There's
(22:50):
a safety Julian Blackman that remains out there who could
be of interest to me, a couple of guys on
the offensive line. I think Marcus Williams at safety makes
some sense as well. So there are guys that exist
out there that would help this roster improve. But there's
also some areas that are pretty scarce, like defensive tackle
or the cornerbacks beyond a Sante Samuel. But it does
sound like there's going to be a pretty good surge
(23:12):
here of players coming in post draft or post June one,
whatever it might be. I think that'll be a pretty
It's pretty telling that they're looking to do that already.
And then the other thing was a trade down interest,
which again I think there's been breadcrumbs there about how
they've built this thing and the interest in draft picks
and a team that wants to build their entire program
through the draft and has kind of pulled back the
reins on the aggressiveness of going after veteran talent. I mean,
(23:34):
if you offer that team more draft picks, they're going
to say yes, right like's if it's worth it for
them in terms of the deal that gets done. So
I think those are two things you can look forward to,
is potentially more accumulation of picks as well as more
veterans being brought in between now in September. And we'll
go ahead and close with this. I found this to
be a very interesting answer, probably one of the best
of the entire press conference, when he was asked about
(23:56):
the process of running a draft for ten years now,
really going back to sixteen and what has he learned
in that process. And I'll go ahead and weigh in
act we hear from Chris and a pretty lengthy answer here.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Now, it is an interesting question because it's an evolution.
You kind of know how I work with coaches. So
I've had, you know, three different coaches here and it
is interesting and they all have different types of players
they like. So it's the adjustment. But you know, I
think the one thing that's common is just finding those
(24:27):
guys that love football, that are tough kids, that are
competitive and love ball. And so I think there's some
times when maybe I've veered a little bit guess like, hey,
we're just going to take the athlete or something or
whatever whatever trait this player has and you're kind of like, okay,
we'll make it work. Sometimes it does, it doesn't always,
(24:49):
And so I think we do a lot of work,
you know, vetting backgrounds and personalities of players, and I
think that plays a big role in the of people because,
like you said, these players read everything that is.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Said about them, you guys know, I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And for those guys to handle it, it takes a
special player to be able to handle it because they
want to react to everything someone says about them. So
so myself, I think for me, sometimes.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
You know, maybe I defer too much. And I've talked.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
About that and that's probably the one thing I've I've
learned that as I've gotten more, I guess along in
my years that the pushback is great. And that's what's
great with Mike. We don't always agree on everything, but
we always come into alignment to where we get to
help the MIDI Dolphins.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
So it's it's been really good working with them.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
So, all things told, a pretty interesting press conference there.
I thought that last answer was was kind of like
a little bit of getting to know Chris more than
we ever have in terms of his press conferences and
talking about maybe some of the things that he could
have done better throughout his career so far and where
he is right now in twenty twenty five. But on balance, overall,
I think, you know, the fan base might be a
(26:05):
little bit dubious about what's going to happen. My messaging
to you would be, let's let this thing play out
and see see what the draft brings. See what that
you know, the kind of hint or teaser there towards
you know, more potential free agent acquisitions. Why don't we
go ahead and see what that looks like, and then
we'll kind of make our judgments come August September when
they kick this thing off for real, because if you don't,
(26:26):
you're gonna drive yourself crazy all summer long. And you've
got baseball, and you've got golf, and you've got the
Miami Heat playing tonight, all kinds of fun stuff for
you in the sports world. Okay, let's go ahead, though,
and call it a show. You can find again the
entirety of this press conference up on the Team YouTube channel,
where you can also find a brand new episode of
Dolphins HQ. I got a chance to break down the
Patrick Paul film. In the film room, as well as
(26:48):
talk about that thirteenth pick of the draft. Fun episode
of HQ coming your way. You all, please be sure
to subscribe, rate, review the podcast. We're getting more reviews,
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Go ahead of follow me on social at winkfod NFL.
The team at Miami Dolphins. Check out the fish Tank
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(27:10):
much much more. Last butt not least Miami Dolphins dot com.
Until next time, Fin's Up, Caroline Cameron Daddy
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