August 27, 2025 • 35 mins
A busy Wednesday gives you a full dose of the Drive Time Podcast. Travis will assess the initial 53-man roster, including the addition of Rasul Douglas to the cornerback room. Plus, we heard from Chris Grier on this rookie class, the roster as a whole, and some behind the scenes on the positive culture shift taking place here in Miami Gardens.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
we have the initial fifty three man roster. We're gonna
break it down, plus the film review on Rasul Douglas
new Dolphins cornerback, as well as the highlights from the
Chris career presser. Full coverage on that busy show from
the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
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This is the Drive Time Podcast, Maggie Jaffeirs. Initial fifty
three is here and this will probably move and change
in the coming days and weeks, because well it always does.
But here's what we've got so far. So three quarterbacks
on the roster, Tua, Zach Wilson and Quinn Yours. The
only real thing that was up in the air here
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going into this was the potential of keeping two quarterbacks
if viewers didn't progress like he did. But he did,
and I gotta say it was a surprise to me
going off of his Texas tape. I didn't think the
processing and timing was going to be something he excelled with,
but he grew in that area. The entire course of
the summer in the offseason. Plus given the injury history
to our number one quarterback, probably not a great idea
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to dangle one of three humans in the galaxy that
went through your off season program for somebody else to
possibly scoop him up and cut that number down to two.
And the Dolphins will go into the season with those
three guys as of now at the quarterback position. Four
running backs right now, Devon a chan Olie Gordon, Jalen Wright,
and alec Ingold. Injuries kind of made this a boiler
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plate selection for the Miami Dolphins. I'm curious to see
what the movement looks like from now up until the
Colts game, given the fact that Right will not play
in that game. Most likely Right. We've heard that from
coach McDaniel. Now, that's one of the things that makes
roster management this time of year so tricky. You don't
put a player on any type of an active list
when they're out for one or two weeks, and then
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with practice squad elevations you can just go that route.
So whether it's Mike Boone, Aaron Shamklin or a newcomer
if they want to come in with three backs, and
usually you do. I wouldn't really expect him address two
running backs now like Ingold in a game.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It could be a move like that, or maybe not.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We will see my pick for a veteran practice squad
audition with three possible elevations. My nimma Jeff Wilson in
San Francisco. The receiver room, six of them, Tyreek Hill,
Jalen Wattle, Malik Washington, Taj Washington, Nick Westbrook, A Keene
and D. S. Gridge kind of felt this six man
room coming together for a while now. Toaj was on
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my list of potential surprise names back on that podcast
I did in you know may or March or Februtary.
It was an OTA preview podcast. I think, but a
late round pick gets hurt as his rookie season. It's
in his rookie season. It's easy to forget about them.
But I didn't, you know, I didn't just think he
looked like a guy that was gonna have a shot
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to make the roster. I thought he looked like a
guy with a chance to contribute and maybe be a
long term solution in this room.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I love this room. In fact, I love my whole team.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
By far the best receiver room we've had in the
Mike McDaniel era, which makes it the best receiver room
we've had since the nineties. Actually, no, it's since the
eighties and since the Duper Bros. Right when you have
two number one receivers, it kind of does that. But
we've lost the thread here a little bit. So the
depth of this room, the widespread skill sets. They're different
from each other. Malik the shifty man, cover beater, n
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Wi the hulking blocker with the red zone presence and
a sneaky vertical game. D has special teams, jet sweet
ball carrying screen game, tough catch guy mentality, and Taj
like I think he has a juice to the juice
to be a difference maker, and I'm excited about his
development continuing here. You know, Tyreek is probably on borrowed
time at this stage of his career, whether it's you know,
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his longevity in the league or just with the Miami
Dolphins and all of the turmoil it's gone on around
him here. I wouldn't mind seeing Taj develop and see
if he can kind of be a future Tyreek light
down the road. You save a bunch of money in
doing that, and that would come with the evolution of
your offense in terms of like Tyreek being one hundred
and thirty target guy. I'm not saying that for Tage,
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but in terms of a guy that can run off coverage,
take advantage of opportunities when you get single coverage to
be deep and vertical and just do some of the
stuff that Tyreek does in that aspect of the game.
Three tight ends as of right now, we saw two
on the practice field on Tuesday. Forgot what day it was,
Julian Hill, Darren Waller and Tanner O'Connor. It sure feels
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like there needs to be a shoe that drops here,
right because that's just not a good enough room to me.
And that's even if I have the high you know,
pie in the sky dreams of Darren Waller. Thought connor
really struggled again this preseason. And again, who the hell knows.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
What Waller is going to be.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe maybe he is going to be like, you know,
resurgent Darren Waller, but we just we can't know, We
can't possibly know. And then Julian Hill is your most
proven commodity. I do like the concept of getting Julian
for a third year because of his or fourth year
rather right, no third year, for his familiarity in the system.
Like it's tough for a tight end in this offense.
Nobody asked more of those why tight ends in the
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league than the Dolphins do. And when it comes to,
you know, finding angles and changing landmarks, it's a lot
to process. So for him, I feel like, you know,
they've got a good progression there and they feel like
they like it. Then I like it too, but you
know it's got to get better than it has been
the last couple of years. I do hope Hayden Roochie
can return to the practice squad because I would have
kept him on my roster quite personally on the offensive line,
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Patrick Paul Jonas of Ike Naya, Aaron Brewer, James Daniels,
Austin Jackson, and a new addition that's actually somewhat old.
Kendall Lamb comes back to the Miami Dolphins, and I
imagine that's going to be in the capacity of a
left tackle role for him. I think Larry Borum has
kind of shown you enough at the right tackle position
to be the backup there and look like I was.
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The comments about whether or not Kendall would be a
viable option after getting cut from the Eagles. Came up
and my first thought was, well, the run game was
really struggled last year when Austin Jackson went down, and
I didn't think that Kendall was a particularly good fit
for the system in terms of how they run the football.
But I do think that his pass protection is an
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upgrade over every other tackle on the roster that's not
a starter Larry and Keon Smith, and we'll see what
happens there going forward. Is I'm going to probably find
a way to continue to shuffle, and I don't want
to keep on going back and redoing this podcast because
I've remade so many of these comments now with the roster,
you know, changing over the last twenty four plus hours
or so, so Kendall lamb with Larry Borum and Keon Smith,
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to me, I think is a lot deeper than you
were last year. And if you know, hopefully you never
see any of those guys in the field with Austin
and Patten, I think Pat's going to be a reliable
player at that position. You never know what happens with
freak possible injuries, but I do think he's a reliable
option for seventeen games this year, Austin kind of has
to prove that back again. But I mean, I just
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think that the depth of the offensive line gets a
little bit better with the veteran player like Kenda Lamb,
even if I don't believe he's the perfect scheme fit
this run game. And to just continue here routing out
the roster and then Keon Smith, Daniel Brunskill, and Larry
Boram the eight there with only seven practicing right now
because of Austin Jackson being down, and this kind of
felt like there was a chance for maybe someone like
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Brayden Daniels to sneak into the back end of the
room just because of his the preseason that he had.
I hope he winds up coming back with the practice
squad here. We should find that out any minute now.
But I the the injuries to Liam Eikenberg and Andrew
Meyer certainly changed the landscape of this room. And it's
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not I don't want to say good that they're injured,
but almost kind of nice that you have a couple
of guys that you feel confident about, like in the
well right just waiting to come back and return to
the lineup with their injuries because at some point you're
gonna get guys dinged up, and quite frankly, I think
brun Skill showed enough to be a quality backup center.
I think, I don't care what anybody says, I think
that Larry Boram did enough at the tackle position to
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be a swing there. And before you start, you know,
clamoring for Kendall Lamb to come back, which I'm sure
a lot of the fan base will because he was
cut by the Eagles. Go back and watch every game
after Austin Jackson got hurt and tell me what happened
to the un the run game. It was the right
tackle position, So just chill on that if you're going
to go to that direction. But yeah, I think that
the depth when you get Meyer and Eikenberg back, makes
this depth really really strong, actually a strength of the
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football team on the offensive line, on the defensive line.
Zach Seeler, Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, Benito Jones, Zeke Biggers,
and Matthew Butler.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
This was my.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Coop de gras here on the roster predictions. I got
all six of these right ahead of time. I thought
Butler had a better preseason than Dickerson. I thought Butler's
tape was good for the Raiders. He winds up making
the squad gets some high praise from Zach Seeler. But yeah,
this was pretty much cut and dry, and you see
the growth of those three rookies really kind of solidified
what this room would look like here and Seiler being
the focal point of that group. A really really good
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defensive line group that has a chance to be somewhat special.
In my opinion, Off the Edge got five guys there
the joint Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Chop Robinson, Matthew Judon
and Cameron Good. This seemed like the most complete room
option to me. You've got top tier run defenders up
top and Chubb and Phillips, you've got one of the
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most electrifying young rushers in the game and Shop Robinson,
who can really take this scheme to the next level.
Matthew Judon has a little bit of both of that,
even if it is less juice than it has been
in the past of his career. And don't get it twisted,
Phillips and Chubb are damn good rushers too, right. They
don't just don't defend the run, and so in that
fifth spot, I kind of thought that Cam Good made
the most sense because every player that was vying for
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that position kind of had different specialties, where Quintin Bell,
you know, I thought, probably had the longest shot to
be this guy because he's a little bit stiff and
the pass rush isn't really there. His specialty is more
run defense. But you kind of have that in spades
with really all the guys in the room, especially up
top Grayson Murphy. It was the pass rush, the length limitations.
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I still thought we're gonna come up more and more
as we ran up against you know, true left tackles,
true right tackles are going to start for teams this year.
And then Cam Good his best trade as his special
teams And that's kind of where I think you go
from there, especially because the gap between him and Bell
and Murphy wasn't glaring to where it's like enough to
dwarf the special team's impact you would get from a
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Cam Good. And we'll see about the practice squad declarations here,
but man, I hope we can get both those guys
back with Murphy and Bell and McClendon too for that matter,
because you'd have legit every base covered, you know, seven
or eight names deep into this group. I think, you know,
mcclennon is probably the most well rounded of that group
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of guys, with kind of the lack of the true
fastball that those guys have when it comes to Murphy's pass, rush, bells, run, defense,
and goods special teams. But I hope we can find
a way to just keep this group together and keep
these guys rolling in the development because you know, one
day Bradley Chubb's gonna move on and Matthew John's not
going to be a long term solution. So let's keep
on building up these guys and hopefully you have a
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nice pipeline here off the edge linebackers. This was the
most obvious one Brooks, Dodson, Gay and britt This felt
like the easiest one to predict from from day one, right.
You know, Tindall and Asante have both played well, but
you know they made this the toughest room to crack
on the team. I do think Tendall catches on somewhere else.
I think he's got enough juice in the old in
the old tank to make a roster, you know, maybe
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not a good roster but a roster in the league,
and then at cornerbacks, some more shakeups as we learned
that Cam Smith would head to the NFI list, the
Non Football Injury List. You won't get any more information
out of that because those are kept internal when that
type of stuff happens. But Rasul Douglas's signing is official,
so him, along with Jack Jones, Jason Marshall, Junior Storm Duck,
Isaiah Johnson, and Ethan Bonner round out the cornerback group
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for your Dolphins so far as of the tape. As
of this taping, I've redone this part several times now
on the show. The Douglas edition makes the starting lineup
a little more of a mystery. Kind of seemed like
it was settling into Duck, Jones and Marshall. So we'll
see how that, you know, the most urients accomplished player
of the group fits in here. And we'll go ahead
and do a tape review on Douglas in just one
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second in the next segment. But perhaps the biggest surprise
of the entire day was Isaiah Johnson, and I thought
Isaiah had a good chance going into camp. We're going
to talk about the physical press nature of this defense.
They want to get hands on guys in reroute and
that's his entire game to a tee. But he was
kind of buried in the depth of it all during
training camp and in the preseason, and even though I thought
he played well and also his special team's prowess helps him,
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I just thought it was a long shot for him
to make the roster. I do think that Ethan Bomber's
injury probably helped keep Isaiah around for now. And we're
gonna see a move because they're gonna have to sign
a kicker given Jason Sanders going to the injurieserve.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We'll talk about that here in one second.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So you're gonna have two specialists and somebody off the
offense or defense. Right now, the defense is one that
has twenty six. Will have to change and they'll have
to move that around accordingly, but for now, it's six cornerbacks.
Isaiah Johnson gets on that list as well. It did
look like we're gonna have six safeties on cutdown day,
but within twelve hours of his making the initial fifty three,
the Dolphins did wave Jordan Colbert, who I imagine will
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return to the practice squad should he not be claimed elsewhere
to make space for the Kendal Lam addition. Cam Smith
and the Rasuol Douglas thing goes hand in hand. There
so five safeties to open the fifty three man roster
for the Dolphins, Minka Fitzpatrick, Ifatu melafon Wu and Ashton Davis.
The rookie Dante Trader and Elijah Campbell rounds out the
five there for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
And then Davis.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
What a turn of events that would be from the
injury back in the middle of training camp that looked
like it was going to be season ending for him.
But you know that's why I don't like to speculate
too much on what it is. I even regret the
chop Robinson being carted off tweet from Detroit.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Because he was fine. He was just getting off the field.
But like with Ashton Davis, it looked really serious.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And now he's out here looking like he's about ready
to go, and getting him back without the IR designation
is going to be huge for this defense's ability to
roll out their sub packages and have Davis kind of
play that center field post and let you know Minca
and if he kind of patrol, you know, the middle
of the field, in the in the line of scrimmage
when it comes to those big nickel packages.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I like that room a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And then at specialists. A little bit of a surprise here,
I guess, or maybe not, I don't know. Jason Sanders
will go to the injury reserve. So it'll be two
specialists right now with Jake Bailey and Joe Cardona. No
kicker on the roster. But kind of like your fantasy team,
you can do that in the draft, get the best
players possible, maybe stash one IR, and then come back
and pick up your kicker after the fact and get
more players. Dolphins can do that. With Sanders on IR.
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They are gonna have to sign one eventually here. Maybe
it is a practice squad elevation. Maybe it's it's a
guy for three weeks on the practice squad and they
cut him and bring one more in for the fourth game.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They have options to fill it out, but we're gonna
have to find out what looks like as we go
ahead here. So no Jason Sanders the begining of the year,
we will have no Andrew Meyer. Those two guys will
be on IR with designation to return. So that's two
of those guys use on that particular eight man swing
back or boomerang Ir coming back to the roster. And
then Liam Eichenberg will open the season on pup, meaning
he too will miss the first four games, like Sanders
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and like Meyer.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
So we'll get more additions to the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And Chris Beer, as you'll hear in just one second,
talked a little bit about how they're going to be
aggressive try to make waiver claims. We'll cover that on
the mail Bag show tomorrow, But to kind of recap
the fifty three man roster as of noon on Wednesday,
August twenty seventh. Quarterbacks three of them two Wilson and Ewers.
Four running backs eight Chan Gordon, Wright and Ingold. Six
receivers Hill Waddell, Washington, Washington Nwy and d s.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Gridge.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
At tight end three of them Julian Hill, Darren Waller,
Tanner Connor. Nine offensive linemen Patrick Paul Jonas Ofvitanaya, Aaron Brewer, Daniels,
Austin Jackson, Keon Smith, Kendall Lamb, Daniel Brunskill and Larry Boram.
On the defensive line, Zach Steeler, Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, Benito, Jones, Zeke,
Biggers and Matthew Butler. Six five edges, Phillips, Chop Chubb,
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Judon and Good at linebacker Brooks, Dotson, Gay and Brent
four of those guys. Six cornerbacks Jones, Duck, Marshall, Douglas,
Johnson and Bonner. And five safeties Fitzpatrick, Melafon, wu Davis,
Campbell and Trader. Let's go ahead and take a break
right there, come back on the other side and break
down Rasul Douglas's game. That's next Draft Time podcast brought
to you by Auto Nation and the cornerback shoe drops
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as Razul Douglas is here and from jump. Let me
just say, these types of moves nowadays worry me. You know,
he earned a decent salary as a top one hundred
draft pick back in twenty seventeen, he was ninety ninth
overall to the Philadelphia Eagles, and he winds up getting
his start with the Eagles there but didn't really work out.
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He was cut ahead of his fourth season and that
the final of that rookie contract. Then he goes on
a bit of a journey. The Panthers pick him up
and he plays a full season there. But does not
re sign lands with Diraitas in twenty twenty one, but
they cut him early in camp. He goes to the
Houston Texans cut a week later. Then he joins the
Cardinals practice squad and has then signed off the practice
squad to the Green Bay active roster in the middle
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of the season, and injuries gave him an opportunity that
he never really relinquished from that stage of his career forward.
So after a thirteen pass breakup, five interception, two touchdown season,
the Packers give him a three year, twenty one million
dollar tracked and he goes on to ball for that team.
Then the Packers have that twenty twenty three season where
they start off two to five in the first year
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of Jordan Love, and they ship him off to Buffalo
on Halloween and he balls out for them in that
zone heavy scheme. He actually tore an mcl at some
point last season, didn't miss any games, and played through
the postseason on a torn ligament. Then the Bills part
ways with trade Avius White, and Douglas holds off former
first round pick kyer Elam for the starter job alongside
Christian Benford. He starts and plays in fifteen games and
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didn't log an interception for the first time of his career.
Since the twenty twenty season. All things told, he's got
one hundred and twenty games played, eighty starts, nineteen picks,
three defensive touchdowns, seventy nine passes defense, three force fumbles
and three recoveries, two sacks, twenty three tackles for loss,
and four hundred and forty one combined tackles and diving
into the tape the first, you know, just to kind
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of put a bow on that. Actually, I should say,
I just get nervous about guys that come here for
a one year contract into their thirties after they made
a bunch of money. He's over thirty million dollars in
his career, with the accolades and the resume that they
can feel good about going into retirement. Sometimes it feels
like that happens here and guys take advantage of the situation.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It happened last year with Jordan Poyer.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So I just want to put that on the on
the tape because that's my biggest concern because in the tape,
I think the first thing that stands out when you
watch him is the size and how he uses that
to match up against bigger body receivers when they do
go to man coverage. If you want to call man,
he's got the presence to match that and lingdon guys
at the top of the route. Is it going to
cover Jalen Waddle Probably not a good matchup for him
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at this stage of his career, but luckily Walla's on
his team. But there are other receivers out there with
that shifty component that Wattle features, right, But he can
do it in press, but it's probably best when he's
off like press zone off man if you want to
call it that, which is more beneficial to playing zone
when you play off anyways, and you want your pre
snap stance to not be a tell, which he can
do that because he's got multiple tricks up his sleeve, multiple.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Techniques in the bag.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The other part of his game that stands out to
me that maybe is above all and this kind of
matches the press of the line of scrimmage ability is
the tackling. And again, when you're in one of the
many variations of playing you know, cloud coverage or hanging
out in that curl flat areas and cover two or
cover six, whatever it might be, that's a very very
important element of this defense. We've heard Anthony Weaver, We've
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heard We've talk about the space that they're most inviting to.
It's the short throws out wide right, And that's hardly
a state secret. Every defense wants to force the highest risk,
lowest reward throw on the field, which is the short
outs to the perimeter of the field, and you want
to funnel the football there and then rally up and tackle.
And if you have good tackling cornerbacks, you can get
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away with that, and you can you know, they can
miss one, and then you can make a good tackle
on one, and all of a sudden you got a
third long situation. So Storm and Rasul Douglas are both
really good tacklers in those short spaces. And I don't
think Jack is a slouch in that department, and Jason
Marshall has a chance to be the best of all
four of them.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Quite frankly.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Now, again, the signing makes me wonder if they'd ever
consider this. I don't know why I said again, this
is the first time saying this, but it makes me
wonder if they would consider ever going like matchup based
or even rotate throughout a game like maybe one week
we like the matchup for Razool more than we do
for a Jack Jones for instance, and rotate as the
game goes on. And since the dawn of time, it's
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been like, if you start the game, you play every
snap right as a perimeter cornerback. It's always the safeties
and corners play one hundred percent of the snaps. The
nickel plays seventy five percent, where if you're a nickel defense,
he's on the field. But I wonder if you could
ever implement a rotation on the back end. It might
be a little grandiose idea, but it's a podcast. We're
supposed to have grandiose ideas and be pretentious, you know,
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buttoles like we are. But I wonder because there I
feel like there are different players in different matchups that
could suit different guys on this roster better than others.
But man cutting the tape, he is such a good
tackler outside in the run game. Go watch week two
against US last year. He can dip a tackle and
make a play on the running back, like like a
guy like Devon ah Cham who's pretty damn quick, and
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he's outstanding against the screen game. He can stay outside
leverage against the block and shed that at the point
to make the play while funneling the help back inside.
He wants to get hands on guys impressed, right, And
that reminds me of this Weaver quote when he was
asked what do you look for in the cornerback position?
It appears cornerback Jack Jones is very aggressive at the
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Am I seeing that? Right?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And is that what you want to see from him?
And we've said, quote, I hope you're seeing that from
all of our corners. To be quite frank, we're trying
to force offenses to be off schedule. In order to
do that, you've got to disrupt some routes. Offenses are
going to give you different sets, right, They're going to
stack receivers, condense and try to hope to get you off.
But if we can get an opportunity to put hands on,
we're going to do that. And at his peak, Douglas
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is a springy athlete with length and the ability to
react with eyes in the backfield. He's in line with
Jack Jones and that signing in terms of the ability
to take advantage of when he knows a rush or
blitz will likely get home and can heat up the
quarterback at least and limit their options in the passing
game and then take away one of those few options
they do have limited outlets they do have. I don't
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think it's a coincidence of the three biggest additions or
I guess I'd say four in the defensive backfield this year,
including Ashton Davis. To this group are guys that have
done this twenty career picks, Minka Fitzpatrick nineteen career picks,
Razull Douglas eight career rots on just one thousand and
fifty snaps, Ashton Davis or seven career picks in four years,
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with three of those going back for touchdowns for Jack Jones.
And there's some Marcus Peters to this guy's game. I
think that's kind of the best comparison I can come
up with. He reads routes, reads the route concepts, exceptional
ball skills off man's zone corner, with a penchant for tackling.
I liked his tape more than I thought I would
watching this now to go, Brian Windhorst, Why would a
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three million dollar player be available in August twenty sixth
be valuable to you? I think he schemes specific and
he fits here with what we do. If you have
him as a cloud in two, which is, you know,
playing that shallow flat area, the curl flat area and
zone coverage or like three cover three in off technique
with a half turn where it's not you know, full
body turn or side shuffle. Half turn is speaking specifically
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to a transitioning from backpedal to any change of directions,
So it's kind of like a hybrid of a full
turn and run or you know, a shy a shy
a side shuffle. I can say jonas avit naya, but
I can't say shy shuffle to save my life. It's
mixed sequencing between your upper and lower half, and that's
kind of what he does best. And you guys know
what's coming, right. Don't make me point to the sign again, Pete.
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Don't make you point to Pete again. It's a golf
swing right upper body and lower by a sequence together,
and you can see successful reps on tape of him
doing just that. I do think he's a little bit
like Jack Jones and the gambling sense of things, so
there could be some big plays beyond him. I think
he's probably a half step slower than he was. Could
see a world where he's a full step slower now
at age thirty, because we haven't seen him work out
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this summer, and that's the risk you run by a
thirty year old cornerback.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But he's a good player, he's a smart player.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
We'll just have to wait and see if that cliff
is now or hopefully a year down the road. I
think he's a nice fill in for Cater Kohu if
he was still around with Jack and Duck and Marshall,
I'd say that it's the middle of the pack cornerback room,
but without him, without Cater, probably eight rooms below yours
right now in my opinion. Ultimately, I think this would
bump Storm to first man off the bench.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
For me, that's what I would do, But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I would go Jack, Rasoul Marshall with Storm, but I
have a feeling that my guy's gonna be the one
that gets the short on the stick. We'll find out there.
But that's the Rasul Douglas film study. Let's pause one
more time right there, come back and cover the highlights
from the Chris Career Wednesday press conference. That's next Draft
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Speaker 1 (24:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I swear if I have to make one more change
to this godforsaken podcast, I'm just kidding. We're not gonna
make any more changes. This is a last one. I
already cut this episode. I'm gonna drop this into it
and recut it again to cover the Juju Brents move.
Because I can show you a text where I text
my buddy Seth and OJ last night and OJ was like,
anybody you like from the cuts list trap and I
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was like, I have one name for you. His name
is Juju Brent, a Kansas State product in the second
round two years ago. That I think it's a hell
of a football player. But he's had injury issues in
Indianapolis and that's why he shook free there. He was
when he played kind of like if E melafonmu really
really good tape. But he hasn't stayed healthy and so
the Dolphins have a chance to hopefully get the resurrection
(25:17):
of his career from a health standpoint. And the corresponding
move with that to correct the previous segment is Isaiah
Johnson has been released.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Keep an eye for him on the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We'll get to the rest of the practice squad on
tomorrow's episode, as well as a full Juju Brent's breakdown
back to the podcast as it was planned. Off the top,
I should mention your kicker questions have been answered. Riley
Patterson will be signed to the Dolphins practice squad. The
plan for him is to get three elevations and then
go from there. Of course, they will have a fourth
game where Sanders is required to miss against the New
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York Jets. As he is on IR for those first
four games. They'll have to make a decision at that
point to bring somebody else in the practice squad for
the elevations or to sign Patterson to the active roster.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I just wanted to get that in here before we
get to Chris career, because I want to start with
more big picture stuff here. As Chris was asked a
couple of questions I think go in accordance here with
one another about the reset, both from a approach standpoint
and a culture standpoint. I'll go ahead and start with
the opening answer of the press conference and some follow
up on that. When he was asked about the decision
to not spend big in free agency and the kind
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of directive, Was there a directive given to you from
ownership and Steven Ross and Tom Garfinkle down about how
to approach this stuff. Let's go ahead and play this
sound by here from Chris career.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Every year is different, you know. We've had years here
where it's been all draft focused for a couple of years,
and then at some point you have to reset. And
when you go and you make aggressive moves like we
had made for a few years, you have to reset
again and start it over because it's just not sustainable
in the way the contracts are with players and what
they're making now. So in terms of directive, no, it
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was just for us. It was just good business since
working through it and trying to find value. But we
also had to get younger, you know, so we added
younger players, and you know, like a year ago, we
were one of a couple of teams with all the
one year bet contracts and stuff, and so we're in
a different spot now adding the young players. So that's
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the direction we're going right now, and we've been very
happy so far.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
He was asked about the belief in the cornerback position.
He was asked about the Kenda Lamb addition, whether or
not he would be ready to go with his back injury.
He talked about on social media, talked about Russell Douglas
a little bit, talked about the trench as being a focus,
which I think is pretty clear that they have been
this offseason. But I want to just skip through all
that because I didn't think it was you know, the
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transactional stuff, to me, is not worthy of a podcast discussion.
Like I can tell you guys the news, I can
tweet about it, but I want to bring you guys
here to give you more light and more in depth
analysis on some of the thoughts and kind of the
background of those thoughts. And I think that this next
Q and A, and that was a great question from
Will Manso from our ABC aphill down here in Miami.
(28:01):
He asked about, you know, you made the term you
mentioned the term reset in that first answer, so it
was you know, seven or eight questions later, and does
that is that a term that coincides with the football
team that can win games today? And I think that
this answer was one of the most instructive we've heard
from Chris career, and especially in just a larger sense,
a broader sense. The Dolphins as a whole this entire
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twenty twenty five calendar year.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Well, yeah, and in terms of reset, it was just
talking about the money philosophy, spending and stuff. But like
I told you that, we were always going to try
and win this season. It's all about winning in twenty
twenty five. It was never going to be a step back.
I think you guys have been around the players and
in the locker room and talking to players. It's been
a little different down there and how they've approached things.
And we saw it from day one and OTAs like
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the offensive and defensive groups would stay out on the
field on their own, which I'd never seen here in years,
for like an hour after OROTIA as a group by
themselves in their own time, walking through stuff, going through
holding each other accountable. You know, the stuff you saw
like in the joint practices where our guys getting on
each other about competing and stuff that hadn't happened here
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in years. So it's a different mindset, you know, led
by Mike that we talked about right from that last
team meeting at the end of last season when he
told them what it was going to be. And it's
been that way and the players have responded incredibly. So
we're excited. We're going to try and win as many
games as we always can, and we feel good about
the group and what it could be, and so we'll
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see how it plays out.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, I'm excited to be able to talk about that
now because it's kind of one of those, you know,
hidden rules about don't talk about things that happened after
the media availabilities are open. But yeah, you would see
the entire group out there, and like Tyrel Dotson was
a critical aspect of that group running through the defense.
And that's why I was so convicted in the idea
they'd have this defense at just a different level this
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offseason compared to where it was a year ago because
of the investment, because of the familiarity and continuity in
the defense, and then for the offense to have that
for the four straight year as well.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I think it's all good stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
If I want to go ahead and finish that point
with another later question that was posed to Chris about
the culture shift and the idea. You know the Athletic
article that talked about the guys that were late to practice.
Here's Chris talking about holding guys accountable but getting rid
of the guys that it just didn't matter if they
were accountable or not, they would just still go against
the rules. Let's go back to Chris career one more
time on this culture shift idea.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
For us, it was just getting the right group of
people for this the changes we wanted to make and
make sure that everyone was all about football and this team.
So I know some of you guys have heard stories
and stuff, and I'm not going to go into you know,
things that are said, and that's for you guys to do.
But those guys that left them happy for him, like
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Jalen and Johnny are good people. I didn't have any
issues with him. I know getting Minka back was a
big piece for us. I've known Minka obviously drafted him.
I know what kind of person he was, kind of leader,
and how he loves ball and his impact in that room.
And now the team has already been really felt because
Mike has talked about it and when the players have
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seen some of the things he's done on the field.
But it was important for this team and these people
and the young players were having in to know that
this is the standard and what we're going to be
and how we're going to run here and so it's
been very good thus far.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
A couple more here.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You guys can check out the entire availability on the
Dolphins YouTube channel, but I want to go ahead and
play a couple about first this rookie class and the
late round pick success they look to have had. We'll
find out more as we go along here, but just
a couple of anecdotes here on Ollie Gordon, Jason Marshall,
Jordan Phillips, mostly the Olli Gordon part, and it kind
of speaks to this grander idea about getting what he
(31:40):
just talked about, the right kind of guys that are
focused on football in the building to reset this culture
to the vision that they see for this team.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
The one thing you never know, obviously when you're coming
into an NFL camp is how they're going to react
and stuff. So you know Ali in the spring was
it was an acclamation for him for the NFL, Like
he came in a little bit heavy and doing it
because it'sledge he had gotten bigger, trying to protect himsef
after he won. You know, the dope Walker. I think
he played about ten pounds heavier. So he got here.
(32:07):
We told him no we need you down a little bit,
so unprompted, we just told him that he came back
to camp he was like nine ten pounds lighter, and
it's been great for us. Jason's the same way. You
don't even know he's out there. He's so quiet. He's
a really good person, but just works every day, just
comes in and puts his head down.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Was proud of on me.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
He had a little hamstring for a day and it's
something he'd bother and then went back out there and
has not missed a day since he's been out competed,
played through it. So it's been good watching those guys
grow up. But all of them from Jordan Phillips, all
those guys, I mean, they've been out there and this
whole group of rookies has just come in and just
put their head down and you know, Grant, all these guys,
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it's been really good to watch them. Quinn has been
really good. People talk about his sense of humor and
everything and how but how smart he is and works
through it. So the whole draft draft class and very
happy with and as we talked about before, we needed
those guys to contribute and they're gonna have to contribute
and play this year, and.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Let's go ahead and conclude with this here, Chris was asked,
what makes you most excited about this roster heading into
week one? This is a good way on the press
conference because at the end of it he talked about
fan emails and reactions to him, and hey, quit emailing
people hateful things. Okay, let's go ahead and hear from
Chris on his stance on the roster going into week one.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
We're younger, we're faster, but I think it's a closer
unit group. And obviously seeing his shirt, there was a
Stanley cup we had. Bill Zito brought the Stanley Cup
over this Bill as a friend mine for a while.
He actually tried to sign my brother when he was
a player, when he was an agent to sign my brother.
(33:46):
So so Bill and Matthew Kachuck came over and talked
about how the uniqueness and closeness of a locker room
is so important, and so hearing that again just kind
of reiterated everything that we've and talking to the players
about spending time together. Like you've heard the players talk
about the ten day road trip, how they weren't fired up,
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and then after like it was the greatest thing that
ever happened, Like, I truly loved it and had a
really good time in getting closer. So that's what I'm
excited about. That these guys are all going to play
for each other and try and win football games, and
it's not about individuals, it's about winning as a team.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Again.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You can find that press conference and its entirety up
on the Dolphins YouTube channel. As for now, that's going
to be my time. A little bit of shuffling on
the schedule this week. I'm gonna go ahead and roll
the Mailbag podcast out on Thursday. So depending on when
you hear this show, go ahead and get to the
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this podcast will come out here on Wednesday afternoon. Friday,
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Wednesday will start cracking into the Colts and then Thursday
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins and welcome to the Drift Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
we have the initial fifty three man roster. We're gonna
break it down, plus the film review on Rasul Douglas
new Dolphins cornerback, as well as the highlights from the
Chris career presser. Full coverage on that busy show from
the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
(00:34):
This is the Drive Time Podcast, Maggie Jaffeirs. Initial fifty
three is here and this will probably move and change
in the coming days and weeks, because well it always does.
But here's what we've got so far. So three quarterbacks
on the roster, Tua, Zach Wilson and Quinn Yours. The
only real thing that was up in the air here
(00:54):
going into this was the potential of keeping two quarterbacks
if viewers didn't progress like he did. But he did,
and I gotta say it was a surprise to me
going off of his Texas tape. I didn't think the
processing and timing was going to be something he excelled with,
but he grew in that area. The entire course of
the summer in the offseason. Plus given the injury history
to our number one quarterback, probably not a great idea
(01:16):
to dangle one of three humans in the galaxy that
went through your off season program for somebody else to
possibly scoop him up and cut that number down to two.
And the Dolphins will go into the season with those
three guys as of now at the quarterback position. Four
running backs right now, Devon a chan Olie Gordon, Jalen Wright,
and alec Ingold. Injuries kind of made this a boiler
(01:39):
plate selection for the Miami Dolphins. I'm curious to see
what the movement looks like from now up until the
Colts game, given the fact that Right will not play
in that game. Most likely Right. We've heard that from
coach McDaniel. Now, that's one of the things that makes
roster management this time of year so tricky. You don't
put a player on any type of an active list
when they're out for one or two weeks, and then
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with practice squad elevations you can just go that route.
So whether it's Mike Boone, Aaron Shamklin or a newcomer
if they want to come in with three backs, and
usually you do. I wouldn't really expect him address two
running backs now like Ingold in a game.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
It could be a move like that, or maybe not.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We will see my pick for a veteran practice squad
audition with three possible elevations. My nimma Jeff Wilson in
San Francisco. The receiver room, six of them, Tyreek Hill,
Jalen Wattle, Malik Washington, Taj Washington, Nick Westbrook, A Keene
and D. S. Gridge kind of felt this six man
room coming together for a while now. Toaj was on
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my list of potential surprise names back on that podcast
I did in you know may or March or Februtary.
It was an OTA preview podcast. I think, but a
late round pick gets hurt as his rookie season. It's
in his rookie season. It's easy to forget about them.
But I didn't, you know, I didn't just think he
looked like a guy that was gonna have a shot
(02:57):
to make the roster. I thought he looked like a
guy with a chance to contribute and maybe be a
long term solution in this room.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I love this room. In fact, I love my whole team.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
By far the best receiver room we've had in the
Mike McDaniel era, which makes it the best receiver room
we've had since the nineties. Actually, no, it's since the
eighties and since the Duper Bros. Right when you have
two number one receivers, it kind of does that. But
we've lost the thread here a little bit. So the
depth of this room, the widespread skill sets. They're different
from each other. Malik the shifty man, cover beater, n
(03:27):
Wi the hulking blocker with the red zone presence and
a sneaky vertical game. D has special teams, jet sweet
ball carrying screen game, tough catch guy mentality, and Taj
like I think he has a juice to the juice
to be a difference maker, and I'm excited about his
development continuing here. You know, Tyreek is probably on borrowed
time at this stage of his career, whether it's you know,
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his longevity in the league or just with the Miami
Dolphins and all of the turmoil it's gone on around
him here. I wouldn't mind seeing Taj develop and see
if he can kind of be a future Tyreek light
down the road. You save a bunch of money in
doing that, and that would come with the evolution of
your offense in terms of like Tyreek being one hundred
and thirty target guy. I'm not saying that for Tage,
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but in terms of a guy that can run off coverage,
take advantage of opportunities when you get single coverage to
be deep and vertical and just do some of the
stuff that Tyreek does in that aspect of the game.
Three tight ends as of right now, we saw two
on the practice field on Tuesday. Forgot what day it was,
Julian Hill, Darren Waller and Tanner O'Connor. It sure feels
(04:30):
like there needs to be a shoe that drops here,
right because that's just not a good enough room to me.
And that's even if I have the high you know,
pie in the sky dreams of Darren Waller. Thought connor
really struggled again this preseason. And again, who the hell knows.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
What Waller is going to be.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Maybe maybe he is going to be like, you know,
resurgent Darren Waller, but we just we can't know, We
can't possibly know. And then Julian Hill is your most
proven commodity. I do like the concept of getting Julian
for a third year because of his or fourth year
rather right, no third year, for his familiarity in the system.
Like it's tough for a tight end in this offense.
Nobody asked more of those why tight ends in the
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league than the Dolphins do. And when it comes to,
you know, finding angles and changing landmarks, it's a lot
to process. So for him, I feel like, you know,
they've got a good progression there and they feel like
they like it. Then I like it too, but you
know it's got to get better than it has been
the last couple of years. I do hope Hayden Roochie
can return to the practice squad because I would have
kept him on my roster quite personally on the offensive line,
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Patrick Paul Jonas of Ike Naya, Aaron Brewer, James Daniels,
Austin Jackson, and a new addition that's actually somewhat old.
Kendall Lamb comes back to the Miami Dolphins, and I
imagine that's going to be in the capacity of a
left tackle role for him. I think Larry Borum has
kind of shown you enough at the right tackle position
to be the backup there and look like I was.
(05:48):
The comments about whether or not Kendall would be a
viable option after getting cut from the Eagles. Came up
and my first thought was, well, the run game was
really struggled last year when Austin Jackson went down, and
I didn't think that Kendall was a particularly good fit
for the system in terms of how they run the football.
But I do think that his pass protection is an
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upgrade over every other tackle on the roster that's not
a starter Larry and Keon Smith, and we'll see what
happens there going forward. Is I'm going to probably find
a way to continue to shuffle, and I don't want
to keep on going back and redoing this podcast because
I've remade so many of these comments now with the roster,
you know, changing over the last twenty four plus hours
or so, so Kendall lamb with Larry Borum and Keon Smith,
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to me, I think is a lot deeper than you
were last year. And if you know, hopefully you never
see any of those guys in the field with Austin
and Patten, I think Pat's going to be a reliable
player at that position. You never know what happens with
freak possible injuries, but I do think he's a reliable
option for seventeen games this year, Austin kind of has
to prove that back again. But I mean, I just
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think that the depth of the offensive line gets a
little bit better with the veteran player like Kenda Lamb,
even if I don't believe he's the perfect scheme fit
this run game. And to just continue here routing out
the roster and then Keon Smith, Daniel Brunskill, and Larry
Boram the eight there with only seven practicing right now
because of Austin Jackson being down, and this kind of
felt like there was a chance for maybe someone like
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Brayden Daniels to sneak into the back end of the
room just because of his the preseason that he had.
I hope he winds up coming back with the practice
squad here. We should find that out any minute now.
But I the the injuries to Liam Eikenberg and Andrew
Meyer certainly changed the landscape of this room. And it's
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not I don't want to say good that they're injured,
but almost kind of nice that you have a couple
of guys that you feel confident about, like in the
well right just waiting to come back and return to
the lineup with their injuries because at some point you're
gonna get guys dinged up, and quite frankly, I think
brun Skill showed enough to be a quality backup center.
I think, I don't care what anybody says, I think
that Larry Boram did enough at the tackle position to
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be a swing there. And before you start, you know,
clamoring for Kendall Lamb to come back, which I'm sure
a lot of the fan base will because he was
cut by the Eagles. Go back and watch every game
after Austin Jackson got hurt and tell me what happened
to the un the run game. It was the right
tackle position, So just chill on that if you're going
to go to that direction. But yeah, I think that
the depth when you get Meyer and Eikenberg back, makes
this depth really really strong, actually a strength of the
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football team on the offensive line, on the defensive line.
Zach Seeler, Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, Benito Jones, Zeke Biggers,
and Matthew Butler.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
This was my.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Coop de gras here on the roster predictions. I got
all six of these right ahead of time. I thought
Butler had a better preseason than Dickerson. I thought Butler's
tape was good for the Raiders. He winds up making
the squad gets some high praise from Zach Seeler. But yeah,
this was pretty much cut and dry, and you see
the growth of those three rookies really kind of solidified
what this room would look like here and Seiler being
the focal point of that group. A really really good
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defensive line group that has a chance to be somewhat special.
In my opinion, Off the Edge got five guys there
the joint Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Chop Robinson, Matthew Judon
and Cameron Good. This seemed like the most complete room
option to me. You've got top tier run defenders up
top and Chubb and Phillips, you've got one of the
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most electrifying young rushers in the game and Shop Robinson,
who can really take this scheme to the next level.
Matthew Judon has a little bit of both of that,
even if it is less juice than it has been
in the past of his career. And don't get it twisted,
Phillips and Chubb are damn good rushers too, right. They
don't just don't defend the run, and so in that
fifth spot, I kind of thought that Cam Good made
the most sense because every player that was vying for
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that position kind of had different specialties, where Quintin Bell,
you know, I thought, probably had the longest shot to
be this guy because he's a little bit stiff and
the pass rush isn't really there. His specialty is more
run defense. But you kind of have that in spades
with really all the guys in the room, especially up
top Grayson Murphy. It was the pass rush, the length limitations.
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I still thought we're gonna come up more and more
as we ran up against you know, true left tackles,
true right tackles are going to start for teams this year.
And then Cam Good his best trade as his special
teams And that's kind of where I think you go
from there, especially because the gap between him and Bell
and Murphy wasn't glaring to where it's like enough to
dwarf the special team's impact you would get from a
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Cam Good. And we'll see about the practice squad declarations here,
but man, I hope we can get both those guys
back with Murphy and Bell and McClendon too for that matter,
because you'd have legit every base covered, you know, seven
or eight names deep into this group. I think, you know,
mcclennon is probably the most well rounded of that group
(10:38):
of guys, with kind of the lack of the true
fastball that those guys have when it comes to Murphy's pass, rush, bells, run, defense,
and goods special teams. But I hope we can find
a way to just keep this group together and keep
these guys rolling in the development because you know, one
day Bradley Chubb's gonna move on and Matthew John's not
going to be a long term solution. So let's keep
on building up these guys and hopefully you have a
(10:59):
nice pipeline here off the edge linebackers. This was the
most obvious one Brooks, Dodson, Gay and britt This felt
like the easiest one to predict from from day one, right.
You know, Tindall and Asante have both played well, but
you know they made this the toughest room to crack
on the team. I do think Tendall catches on somewhere else.
I think he's got enough juice in the old in
the old tank to make a roster, you know, maybe
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not a good roster but a roster in the league,
and then at cornerbacks, some more shakeups as we learned
that Cam Smith would head to the NFI list, the
Non Football Injury List. You won't get any more information
out of that because those are kept internal when that
type of stuff happens. But Rasul Douglas's signing is official,
so him, along with Jack Jones, Jason Marshall, Junior Storm Duck,
Isaiah Johnson, and Ethan Bonner round out the cornerback group
(11:44):
for your Dolphins so far as of the tape. As
of this taping, I've redone this part several times now
on the show. The Douglas edition makes the starting lineup
a little more of a mystery. Kind of seemed like
it was settling into Duck, Jones and Marshall. So we'll
see how that, you know, the most urients accomplished player
of the group fits in here. And we'll go ahead
and do a tape review on Douglas in just one
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second in the next segment. But perhaps the biggest surprise
of the entire day was Isaiah Johnson, and I thought
Isaiah had a good chance going into camp. We're going
to talk about the physical press nature of this defense.
They want to get hands on guys in reroute and
that's his entire game to a tee. But he was
kind of buried in the depth of it all during
training camp and in the preseason, and even though I thought
he played well and also his special team's prowess helps him,
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I just thought it was a long shot for him
to make the roster. I do think that Ethan Bomber's
injury probably helped keep Isaiah around for now. And we're
gonna see a move because they're gonna have to sign
a kicker given Jason Sanders going to the injurieserve.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We'll talk about that here in one second.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
So you're gonna have two specialists and somebody off the
offense or defense. Right now, the defense is one that
has twenty six. Will have to change and they'll have
to move that around accordingly, but for now, it's six cornerbacks.
Isaiah Johnson gets on that list as well. It did
look like we're gonna have six safeties on cutdown day,
but within twelve hours of his making the initial fifty three,
the Dolphins did wave Jordan Colbert, who I imagine will
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return to the practice squad should he not be claimed elsewhere
to make space for the Kendal Lam addition. Cam Smith
and the Rasuol Douglas thing goes hand in hand. There
so five safeties to open the fifty three man roster
for the Dolphins, Minka Fitzpatrick, Ifatu melafon Wu and Ashton Davis.
The rookie Dante Trader and Elijah Campbell rounds out the
five there for the Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
And then Davis.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
What a turn of events that would be from the
injury back in the middle of training camp that looked
like it was going to be season ending for him.
But you know that's why I don't like to speculate
too much on what it is. I even regret the
chop Robinson being carted off tweet from Detroit.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Because he was fine. He was just getting off the field.
But like with Ashton Davis, it looked really serious.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
And now he's out here looking like he's about ready
to go, and getting him back without the IR designation
is going to be huge for this defense's ability to
roll out their sub packages and have Davis kind of
play that center field post and let you know Minca
and if he kind of patrol, you know, the middle
of the field, in the in the line of scrimmage
when it comes to those big nickel packages.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
I like that room a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
And then at specialists. A little bit of a surprise here,
I guess, or maybe not, I don't know. Jason Sanders
will go to the injury reserve. So it'll be two
specialists right now with Jake Bailey and Joe Cardona. No
kicker on the roster. But kind of like your fantasy team,
you can do that in the draft, get the best
players possible, maybe stash one IR, and then come back
and pick up your kicker after the fact and get
more players. Dolphins can do that. With Sanders on IR.
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They are gonna have to sign one eventually here. Maybe
it is a practice squad elevation. Maybe it's it's a
guy for three weeks on the practice squad and they
cut him and bring one more in for the fourth game.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
They have options to fill it out, but we're gonna
have to find out what looks like as we go
ahead here. So no Jason Sanders the begining of the year,
we will have no Andrew Meyer. Those two guys will
be on IR with designation to return. So that's two
of those guys use on that particular eight man swing
back or boomerang Ir coming back to the roster. And
then Liam Eichenberg will open the season on pup, meaning
he too will miss the first four games, like Sanders
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and like Meyer.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
So we'll get more additions to the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
And Chris Beer, as you'll hear in just one second,
talked a little bit about how they're going to be
aggressive try to make waiver claims. We'll cover that on
the mail Bag show tomorrow, But to kind of recap
the fifty three man roster as of noon on Wednesday,
August twenty seventh. Quarterbacks three of them two Wilson and Ewers.
Four running backs eight Chan Gordon, Wright and Ingold. Six
receivers Hill Waddell, Washington, Washington Nwy and d s.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Gridge.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
At tight end three of them Julian Hill, Darren Waller,
Tanner Connor. Nine offensive linemen Patrick Paul Jonas Ofvitanaya, Aaron Brewer, Daniels,
Austin Jackson, Keon Smith, Kendall Lamb, Daniel Brunskill and Larry Boram.
On the defensive line, Zach Steeler, Kenneth Grant, Jordan Phillips, Benito, Jones, Zeke,
Biggers and Matthew Butler. Six five edges, Phillips, Chop Chubb,
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Judon and Good at linebacker Brooks, Dotson, Gay and Brent
four of those guys. Six cornerbacks Jones, Duck, Marshall, Douglas,
Johnson and Bonner. And five safeties Fitzpatrick, Melafon, wu Davis,
Campbell and Trader. Let's go ahead and take a break
right there, come back on the other side and break
down Rasul Douglas's game. That's next Draft Time podcast brought
to you by Auto Nation and the cornerback shoe drops
(16:03):
as Razul Douglas is here and from jump. Let me
just say, these types of moves nowadays worry me. You know,
he earned a decent salary as a top one hundred
draft pick back in twenty seventeen, he was ninety ninth
overall to the Philadelphia Eagles, and he winds up getting
his start with the Eagles there but didn't really work out.
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He was cut ahead of his fourth season and that
the final of that rookie contract. Then he goes on
a bit of a journey. The Panthers pick him up
and he plays a full season there. But does not
re sign lands with Diraitas in twenty twenty one, but
they cut him early in camp. He goes to the
Houston Texans cut a week later. Then he joins the
Cardinals practice squad and has then signed off the practice
squad to the Green Bay active roster in the middle
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of the season, and injuries gave him an opportunity that
he never really relinquished from that stage of his career forward.
So after a thirteen pass breakup, five interception, two touchdown season,
the Packers give him a three year, twenty one million
dollar tracked and he goes on to ball for that team.
Then the Packers have that twenty twenty three season where
they start off two to five in the first year
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of Jordan Love, and they ship him off to Buffalo
on Halloween and he balls out for them in that
zone heavy scheme. He actually tore an mcl at some
point last season, didn't miss any games, and played through
the postseason on a torn ligament. Then the Bills part
ways with trade Avius White, and Douglas holds off former
first round pick kyer Elam for the starter job alongside
Christian Benford. He starts and plays in fifteen games and
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didn't log an interception for the first time of his career.
Since the twenty twenty season. All things told, he's got
one hundred and twenty games played, eighty starts, nineteen picks,
three defensive touchdowns, seventy nine passes defense, three force fumbles
and three recoveries, two sacks, twenty three tackles for loss,
and four hundred and forty one combined tackles and diving
into the tape the first, you know, just to kind
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of put a bow on that. Actually, I should say,
I just get nervous about guys that come here for
a one year contract into their thirties after they made
a bunch of money. He's over thirty million dollars in
his career, with the accolades and the resume that they
can feel good about going into retirement. Sometimes it feels
like that happens here and guys take advantage of the situation.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
It happened last year with Jordan Poyer.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
So I just want to put that on the on
the tape because that's my biggest concern because in the tape,
I think the first thing that stands out when you
watch him is the size and how he uses that
to match up against bigger body receivers when they do
go to man coverage. If you want to call man,
he's got the presence to match that and lingdon guys
at the top of the route. Is it going to
cover Jalen Waddle Probably not a good matchup for him
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at this stage of his career, but luckily Walla's on
his team. But there are other receivers out there with
that shifty component that Wattle features, right, But he can
do it in press, but it's probably best when he's
off like press zone off man if you want to
call it that, which is more beneficial to playing zone
when you play off anyways, and you want your pre
snap stance to not be a tell, which he can
do that because he's got multiple tricks up his sleeve, multiple.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Techniques in the bag.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
The other part of his game that stands out to
me that maybe is above all and this kind of
matches the press of the line of scrimmage ability is
the tackling. And again, when you're in one of the
many variations of playing you know, cloud coverage or hanging
out in that curl flat areas and cover two or
cover six, whatever it might be, that's a very very
important element of this defense. We've heard Anthony Weaver, We've
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heard We've talk about the space that they're most inviting to.
It's the short throws out wide right, And that's hardly
a state secret. Every defense wants to force the highest risk,
lowest reward throw on the field, which is the short
outs to the perimeter of the field, and you want
to funnel the football there and then rally up and tackle.
And if you have good tackling cornerbacks, you can get
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away with that, and you can you know, they can
miss one, and then you can make a good tackle
on one, and all of a sudden you got a
third long situation. So Storm and Rasul Douglas are both
really good tacklers in those short spaces. And I don't
think Jack is a slouch in that department, and Jason
Marshall has a chance to be the best of all
four of them.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Quite frankly.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Now, again, the signing makes me wonder if they'd ever
consider this. I don't know why I said again, this
is the first time saying this, but it makes me
wonder if they would consider ever going like matchup based
or even rotate throughout a game like maybe one week
we like the matchup for Razool more than we do
for a Jack Jones for instance, and rotate as the
game goes on. And since the dawn of time, it's
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been like, if you start the game, you play every
snap right as a perimeter cornerback. It's always the safeties
and corners play one hundred percent of the snaps. The
nickel plays seventy five percent, where if you're a nickel defense,
he's on the field. But I wonder if you could
ever implement a rotation on the back end. It might
be a little grandiose idea, but it's a podcast. We're
supposed to have grandiose ideas and be pretentious, you know,
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buttoles like we are. But I wonder because there I
feel like there are different players in different matchups that
could suit different guys on this roster better than others.
But man cutting the tape, he is such a good
tackler outside in the run game. Go watch week two
against US last year. He can dip a tackle and
make a play on the running back, like like a
guy like Devon ah Cham who's pretty damn quick, and
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he's outstanding against the screen game. He can stay outside
leverage against the block and shed that at the point
to make the play while funneling the help back inside.
He wants to get hands on guys impressed, right, And
that reminds me of this Weaver quote when he was
asked what do you look for in the cornerback position?
It appears cornerback Jack Jones is very aggressive at the
line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Am I seeing that? Right?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And is that what you want to see from him?
And we've said, quote, I hope you're seeing that from
all of our corners. To be quite frank, we're trying
to force offenses to be off schedule. In order to
do that, you've got to disrupt some routes. Offenses are
going to give you different sets, right, They're going to
stack receivers, condense and try to hope to get you off.
But if we can get an opportunity to put hands on,
we're going to do that. And at his peak, Douglas
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is a springy athlete with length and the ability to
react with eyes in the backfield. He's in line with
Jack Jones and that signing in terms of the ability
to take advantage of when he knows a rush or
blitz will likely get home and can heat up the
quarterback at least and limit their options in the passing
game and then take away one of those few options
they do have limited outlets they do have. I don't
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think it's a coincidence of the three biggest additions or
I guess I'd say four in the defensive backfield this year,
including Ashton Davis. To this group are guys that have
done this twenty career picks, Minka Fitzpatrick nineteen career picks,
Razull Douglas eight career rots on just one thousand and
fifty snaps, Ashton Davis or seven career picks in four years,
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with three of those going back for touchdowns for Jack Jones.
And there's some Marcus Peters to this guy's game. I
think that's kind of the best comparison I can come
up with. He reads routes, reads the route concepts, exceptional
ball skills off man's zone corner, with a penchant for tackling.
I liked his tape more than I thought I would
watching this now to go, Brian Windhorst, Why would a
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three million dollar player be available in August twenty sixth
be valuable to you? I think he schemes specific and
he fits here with what we do. If you have
him as a cloud in two, which is, you know,
playing that shallow flat area, the curl flat area and
zone coverage or like three cover three in off technique
with a half turn where it's not you know, full
body turn or side shuffle. Half turn is speaking specifically
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to a transitioning from backpedal to any change of directions,
So it's kind of like a hybrid of a full
turn and run or you know, a shy a shy
a side shuffle. I can say jonas avit naya, but
I can't say shy shuffle to save my life. It's
mixed sequencing between your upper and lower half, and that's
kind of what he does best. And you guys know
what's coming, right. Don't make me point to the sign again, Pete.
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Don't make you point to Pete again. It's a golf
swing right upper body and lower by a sequence together,
and you can see successful reps on tape of him
doing just that. I do think he's a little bit
like Jack Jones and the gambling sense of things, so
there could be some big plays beyond him. I think
he's probably a half step slower than he was. Could
see a world where he's a full step slower now
at age thirty, because we haven't seen him work out
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this summer, and that's the risk you run by a
thirty year old cornerback.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But he's a good player, he's a smart player.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
We'll just have to wait and see if that cliff
is now or hopefully a year down the road. I
think he's a nice fill in for Cater Kohu if
he was still around with Jack and Duck and Marshall,
I'd say that it's the middle of the pack cornerback room,
but without him, without Cater, probably eight rooms below yours
right now in my opinion. Ultimately, I think this would
bump Storm to first man off the bench.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
For me, that's what I would do, But we'll see.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I would go Jack, Rasoul Marshall with Storm, but I
have a feeling that my guy's gonna be the one
that gets the short on the stick. We'll find out there.
But that's the Rasul Douglas film study. Let's pause one
more time right there, come back and cover the highlights
from the Chris Career Wednesday press conference. That's next Draft
Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Man.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
I swear if I have to make one more change
to this godforsaken podcast, I'm just kidding. We're not gonna
make any more changes. This is a last one. I
already cut this episode. I'm gonna drop this into it
and recut it again to cover the Juju Brents move.
Because I can show you a text where I text
my buddy Seth and OJ last night and OJ was like,
anybody you like from the cuts list trap and I
(24:57):
was like, I have one name for you. His name
is Juju Brent, a Kansas State product in the second
round two years ago. That I think it's a hell
of a football player. But he's had injury issues in
Indianapolis and that's why he shook free there. He was
when he played kind of like if E melafonmu really
really good tape. But he hasn't stayed healthy and so
the Dolphins have a chance to hopefully get the resurrection
(25:17):
of his career from a health standpoint. And the corresponding
move with that to correct the previous segment is Isaiah
Johnson has been released.
Speaker 1 (25:25):
Keep an eye for him on the practice squad.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
We'll get to the rest of the practice squad on
tomorrow's episode, as well as a full Juju Brent's breakdown
back to the podcast as it was planned. Off the top,
I should mention your kicker questions have been answered. Riley
Patterson will be signed to the Dolphins practice squad. The
plan for him is to get three elevations and then
go from there. Of course, they will have a fourth
game where Sanders is required to miss against the New
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York Jets. As he is on IR for those first
four games. They'll have to make a decision at that
point to bring somebody else in the practice squad for
the elevations or to sign Patterson to the active roster.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
So we'll see how that plays out.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I just wanted to get that in here before we
get to Chris career, because I want to start with
more big picture stuff here. As Chris was asked a
couple of questions I think go in accordance here with
one another about the reset, both from a approach standpoint
and a culture standpoint. I'll go ahead and start with
the opening answer of the press conference and some follow
up on that. When he was asked about the decision
to not spend big in free agency and the kind
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of directive, Was there a directive given to you from
ownership and Steven Ross and Tom Garfinkle down about how
to approach this stuff. Let's go ahead and play this
sound by here from Chris career.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Every year is different, you know. We've had years here
where it's been all draft focused for a couple of years,
and then at some point you have to reset. And
when you go and you make aggressive moves like we
had made for a few years, you have to reset
again and start it over because it's just not sustainable
in the way the contracts are with players and what
they're making now. So in terms of directive, no, it
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was just for us. It was just good business since
working through it and trying to find value. But we
also had to get younger, you know, so we added
younger players, and you know, like a year ago, we
were one of a couple of teams with all the
one year bet contracts and stuff, and so we're in
a different spot now adding the young players. So that's
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the direction we're going right now, and we've been very
happy so far.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
He was asked about the belief in the cornerback position.
He was asked about the Kenda Lamb addition, whether or
not he would be ready to go with his back injury.
He talked about on social media, talked about Russell Douglas
a little bit, talked about the trench as being a focus,
which I think is pretty clear that they have been
this offseason. But I want to just skip through all
that because I didn't think it was you know, the
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transactional stuff, to me, is not worthy of a podcast discussion.
Like I can tell you guys the news, I can
tweet about it, but I want to bring you guys
here to give you more light and more in depth
analysis on some of the thoughts and kind of the
background of those thoughts. And I think that this next
Q and A, and that was a great question from
Will Manso from our ABC aphill down here in Miami.
(28:01):
He asked about, you know, you made the term you
mentioned the term reset in that first answer, so it
was you know, seven or eight questions later, and does
that is that a term that coincides with the football
team that can win games today? And I think that
this answer was one of the most instructive we've heard
from Chris career, and especially in just a larger sense,
a broader sense. The Dolphins as a whole this entire
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twenty twenty five calendar year.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
Well, yeah, and in terms of reset, it was just
talking about the money philosophy, spending and stuff. But like
I told you that, we were always going to try
and win this season. It's all about winning in twenty
twenty five. It was never going to be a step back.
I think you guys have been around the players and
in the locker room and talking to players. It's been
a little different down there and how they've approached things.
And we saw it from day one and OTAs like
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the offensive and defensive groups would stay out on the
field on their own, which I'd never seen here in years,
for like an hour after OROTIA as a group by
themselves in their own time, walking through stuff, going through
holding each other accountable. You know, the stuff you saw
like in the joint practices where our guys getting on
each other about competing and stuff that hadn't happened here
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in years. So it's a different mindset, you know, led
by Mike that we talked about right from that last
team meeting at the end of last season when he
told them what it was going to be. And it's
been that way and the players have responded incredibly. So
we're excited. We're going to try and win as many
games as we always can, and we feel good about
the group and what it could be, and so we'll
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see how it plays out.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Yeah, I'm excited to be able to talk about that
now because it's kind of one of those, you know,
hidden rules about don't talk about things that happened after
the media availabilities are open. But yeah, you would see
the entire group out there, and like Tyrel Dotson was
a critical aspect of that group running through the defense.
And that's why I was so convicted in the idea
they'd have this defense at just a different level this
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offseason compared to where it was a year ago because
of the investment, because of the familiarity and continuity in
the defense, and then for the offense to have that
for the four straight year as well.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I think it's all good stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
If I want to go ahead and finish that point
with another later question that was posed to Chris about
the culture shift and the idea. You know the Athletic
article that talked about the guys that were late to practice.
Here's Chris talking about holding guys accountable but getting rid
of the guys that it just didn't matter if they
were accountable or not, they would just still go against
the rules. Let's go back to Chris career one more
time on this culture shift idea.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
For us, it was just getting the right group of
people for this the changes we wanted to make and
make sure that everyone was all about football and this team.
So I know some of you guys have heard stories
and stuff, and I'm not going to go into you know,
things that are said, and that's for you guys to do.
But those guys that left them happy for him, like
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Jalen and Johnny are good people. I didn't have any
issues with him. I know getting Minka back was a
big piece for us. I've known Minka obviously drafted him.
I know what kind of person he was, kind of leader,
and how he loves ball and his impact in that room.
And now the team has already been really felt because
Mike has talked about it and when the players have
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seen some of the things he's done on the field.
But it was important for this team and these people
and the young players were having in to know that
this is the standard and what we're going to be
and how we're going to run here and so it's
been very good thus far.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
A couple more here.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
You guys can check out the entire availability on the
Dolphins YouTube channel, but I want to go ahead and
play a couple about first this rookie class and the
late round pick success they look to have had. We'll
find out more as we go along here, but just
a couple of anecdotes here on Ollie Gordon, Jason Marshall,
Jordan Phillips, mostly the Olli Gordon part, and it kind
of speaks to this grander idea about getting what he
(31:40):
just talked about, the right kind of guys that are
focused on football in the building to reset this culture
to the vision that they see for this team.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
The one thing you never know, obviously when you're coming
into an NFL camp is how they're going to react
and stuff. So you know Ali in the spring was
it was an acclamation for him for the NFL, Like
he came in a little bit heavy and doing it
because it'sledge he had gotten bigger, trying to protect himsef
after he won. You know, the dope Walker. I think
he played about ten pounds heavier. So he got here.
(32:07):
We told him no we need you down a little bit,
so unprompted, we just told him that he came back
to camp he was like nine ten pounds lighter, and
it's been great for us. Jason's the same way. You
don't even know he's out there. He's so quiet. He's
a really good person, but just works every day, just
comes in and puts his head down.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Was proud of on me.
Speaker 3 (32:25):
He had a little hamstring for a day and it's
something he'd bother and then went back out there and
has not missed a day since he's been out competed,
played through it. So it's been good watching those guys
grow up. But all of them from Jordan Phillips, all
those guys, I mean, they've been out there and this
whole group of rookies has just come in and just
put their head down and you know, Grant, all these guys,
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it's been really good to watch them. Quinn has been
really good. People talk about his sense of humor and
everything and how but how smart he is and works
through it. So the whole draft draft class and very
happy with and as we talked about before, we needed
those guys to contribute and they're gonna have to contribute
and play this year, and.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Let's go ahead and conclude with this here, Chris was asked,
what makes you most excited about this roster heading into
week one? This is a good way on the press
conference because at the end of it he talked about
fan emails and reactions to him, and hey, quit emailing
people hateful things. Okay, let's go ahead and hear from
Chris on his stance on the roster going into week one.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
We're younger, we're faster, but I think it's a closer
unit group. And obviously seeing his shirt, there was a
Stanley cup we had. Bill Zito brought the Stanley Cup
over this Bill as a friend mine for a while.
He actually tried to sign my brother when he was
a player, when he was an agent to sign my brother.
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So so Bill and Matthew Kachuck came over and talked
about how the uniqueness and closeness of a locker room
is so important, and so hearing that again just kind
of reiterated everything that we've and talking to the players
about spending time together. Like you've heard the players talk
about the ten day road trip, how they weren't fired up,
(34:08):
and then after like it was the greatest thing that
ever happened, Like, I truly loved it and had a
really good time in getting closer. So that's what I'm
excited about. That these guys are all going to play
for each other and try and win football games, and
it's not about individuals, it's about winning as a team.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Again.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
You can find that press conference and its entirety up
on the Dolphins YouTube channel. As for now, that's going
to be my time. A little bit of shuffling on
the schedule this week. I'm gonna go ahead and roll
the Mailbag podcast out on Thursday. So depending on when
you hear this show, go ahead and get to the
Twitter account and fire off your questions there. I posted
it the last thing I think I tweeted out so far. Besides,
this podcast will come out here on Wednesday afternoon. Friday,
(34:47):
we're gonna have Anthony Weaver on the show and my
ultimate August Takeaways to put a bow on the end
of the month. We'll take the weekend off, enjoy your
long weekend, and come back on Tuesday with NFL predictions.
Wednesday will start cracking into the Colts and then Thursday
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(35:08):
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