August 28, 2025 • 37 mins
We’re answering your mailbag questions today, talking about the practice squad additions and what Juju Brents brings to the table to the Dolphins cornerback room.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What is up.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Show, the mail is here. It never fails.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We're answering your mail, bad questions. I was gonna do
an entire show taking your questions, but then we claimed
a couple of guys, and I was a big fan
of one of those guys. In particular, We're gonna do
a Juju Brents breakdown, talk about Greg Dolcich as well
and Jamichael Hasty and the entire Dolphins practice squad.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Plus I have ten.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Things your boy was way wrong about and I kind
of want to rant to close the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We'll see if I get there or not.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex,
this is the Draft Time Podcast. Aye Daffy, Let's go
ahead and kick this bad boy off with the Dolphins
practice squad. So we've got I believe team names on
here as of now, and that means there should be
one available spot that could be fluctuating and changing as
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the days go on. Here it's a constantly fluid process,
so keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
My name of Jeff.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Jeff Wilson's back. I cannot wait to see my dog.
I'm recording this about three hours ahead of open locker
room today. He's the first guy I'm going to go
talk to.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You're not allowed to actually put stuff on the record
and do an actual interview with practice squad players. It's
one of the rules of locker room reporting. But I
just want to say hi, and I say my name
is EH to Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So he's back.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We got Greg Dulcich as well, and Jamichael Hasty are
kind of the big outside names that you're gonna see here,
and we'll talk about Brent's as well as Dulceach here
a little bit. Hasty is a kind of scatback return man,
probably a third down option. The Dolphins will add to
that group for a possible call up early on as
we find out what happens are the longevity of Feeling
Wright's injury. And then the rest of the group is
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names that you know, theoies, Aj Hending, the two receivers
whom make it off the UDFA list. They kind of
beat out Monterey Baldwin, who has cut a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And Andrew Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The four UDFA receivers they brought in here, Hayden Roucchie
Rooch Dog. To me, Rooch Dog has one of the
best chances of the players on this list to get
game day call ups.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think that he is maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Maybe the most equipped why tight ends you have beyond
Julian Hill, and depending on how you feel about Julian Hill,
maybe he's even the most of all that list. On
the offensive line, we had two guys make it from
the roster. Joshbit Josh preeb sorry from Michigan, the rookie
from there, and then Brayden Daniels was a guy that
I think is like the next man up in terms
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of your nine to ten man deep offensive line. Alex Huntley,
the defensive tackle gets a spot back on the practice squad.
Derek McClendon and Quinton Bell. I have a feeling you'll
see those two guys in games at some point this year.
They are I think NFL players on the practice squad
here that can actually help the football team in case
of injury. Cornell Armstrong, that's kind of I think maybe
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your emergency slot situation call up type of guy. I
will talk about Brent's here in one second. He never
really played slot, just like Jason Marshall, but I kind
of feel like Juju Brentz could be a slot option
for the Dolphins. And then bj Adams, the UDFA from
UCF is back. John Saunders, the safety that I thought
had the best shot of the udfas to make the team.
He comes back on practice squad, and then Riley Patterson
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the kicker. And we'll get further confirmation on this as
we go along. I've seen it reported, but it's not
official yet. Jordan Colbert, who made the initial fifty three
was waived like fourteen hours later. We'll come back and
check on that, so not quite official on all of that.
That's actually the one day that's not official yet, But
I wanted to just cover all that for you guys
and get into the newcomers here as we saw. You know,
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the last the last fifty three man change was the
addition of a player that I wrote down right away
as a claim that I was interested in. The other
was also a former cult in tight end Jelani Woods.
He lines up with the Jets. We also saw a
report the Dolphins put a claim in on Jalen Armor Davis,
the former Ravens corner who I thought kind of popped
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on tape last year when I went back and watched
or when I got ready for that Dolphins in Ravens game.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Is that last year? No?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Two years ago? Well, I thought we had a chance
to beat them in the Week seventeen game. That went
awfully awry there. But anyway, he goes to the Titans
that had the first waiver priority, and then Johnny Woods
went off the board to the Jets before the Dolphins
waiver priority. So I kind of feel like he might
have been a guy they were interested in. But it
kind of tells you what they're thinking that right, And
they've told us all along about the competition in the
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cornerback room, and I do think that those words held
merit because of the way they wanted things to unfold.
And Rasull Douglas is here, and I talked about the
Douglas addition on the podcast yesterday. I was apprehensive about
the idea of bringing back somebody that's you know, on
the Jordan Poyer track, more or less in terms of
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accomplished player Pro Bowls. You know has made thirty plus
million dollars and earning potential over his career and do
they come here and kind of you know, right off
into the sunset. Well, the point was made to me
by actually one of our video staff members here, a
good buddy of mine, and he was like, yeah. But
they went about it, and they developed that competition, and
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they developed this chemistry in the locker room and the
identity of who they want to be. And then they
brought Rasul Douglas into that opposed to like making him
the focal point and the centerpiece of it all from
the spring and making him a captain like you did
with Jordan Poyer. And that makes a lot of sense
to me. And you just add these cornerbacks in after
giving those guys the chance like you've you gave him
an opportunity right to compete and earn those jobs, and
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then you brought the talent in. And I think with Douglas,
he certainly is one of the most talented players in
the room, and I think Juju Brentz is too, and
Jack Jones to me, is the best player in the room.
So I think it's a possibility your three best players
in that room are guys that you brought in in
the last month and that's kind of what the Dolphins
have been doing the entire last couple of weeks. Right
end position with Greg Dolcic got better. Jeff Wilson is
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a good third down option, a good third back option,
I should say, if he gets a call off the
practice squad in place of Jalen Wright. You know, they
added Daniel Brunskill over the last month as well, made
the offensive line depth better. So I just think this
team has done a good job in the months of
July and August of improving the roster. Even Omar Kelly
got on board. We're gonna talk more about Omar here
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in one second. I think we'll see. I'm not gonna
go for sure just yet, but anyway, they got the
best player available the Dolphins did in the waiver cuts.
I think Juju Brents, you know, and you're gonna ask
me why is he available? Then we'll get to that
here in one second. But he was the best player
available the minute he got here, or that it became official.
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I got a DM from JJ Stankovich from the Colts.
He was did the podcast last year in before that
travesty of a game in Week six or Week seven,
whatever it was, the game we lost to the Colts,
but he sent me his interview with Juju back from
the summer or from the training camp, when he was
saying he's one of his favorite guys to talk to,
and go ahead and post that link on Twitter here
at some point. But to be honest with you guys,
going into the study, I was mostly relying off of
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his college body of work, but that was not very
long ago. I mean, he was a standout at the
Senior Bowl back in twenty twenty three and had a
crazy combine workout that really got my attention. He's closer
to six three than he is six to two. He's
actually sixty twenty six, which is, you know, six two
and a half plus some change two hundred pounds. Those
are ninety ninth and eighty fourth percentile coming out his
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forty one point five inch vertical, his eleven zero six
broad jump, we're both ninety ninth percent tile. His one
point five ten split was ninety six percent tile. The
fifty and the long speed, which we'll talk about on
his tape, is where the only part he didn't like,
you know, blow the doors off, and he was above
average in that category. Fifty ninth percent tile with a
four five three forty yard dash, but the twenty split,
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which is more accurate for measuring a cornerback's burst and speed,
eighty fifth percent tile, and then the shuttle and three
cone were ninety second and ninety eighth percent tile respectively.
This isn't an elite mover with good size and physicality.
And when I tell you that, who comes up? Who
comes to mind? Jason Marshall Junior, right, which is a
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you know, a satellite of Jayalen Ramsey right, change of direction, explosiveness,
it's the same thing. I'm not calling these guys the
same player as Ramsey. That would be foolish. Ramsey as
a future Hall of Famer. As much as I have
a distaste in my mouth with the way things ended
here with Miami Dolphins, it's a great player and that
prototype is what you have in Jason Marshall Junior, and
Juju Brents is even more of that. So I am
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curious if he might be a safeguard in that slot
for the rookie because he only played sixty eight snaps
last year due to injuries, and sixty four of those
were at wide corner one in the slot three in
the box. His rookie season was more of the same
three slot reps fifty one in the box, the rest
out wide, and those reps that condense him inside. That's
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just fariations based upon motion and personnel. Like it's not
like they're saying, hey, go play the slot for these
three snaps.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's just where he winds up in those situations.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But I think he has the makeup to be something
of a hybrid type, maybe even a guy that does
multiple things in safety roles too, kind of like you
saw with Jason Marshall during the preseason. The lou Ana
Remo defense is so much different than what Weave does,
and that, to me is why they cut him loose.
I mean, you saw the Colts go after every cornerback
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known to man, and like the perfect example is the
difference between Xavier and Howard and Juju Brentz. Totally different
players and one is more of a scheme fit for them,
one's more of a scheme fit for us, Like x
x was never coming back here, and part of that is,
you know, the departure, the culture shift, but also the
lack of scheme fit. Brents does everything the Dolphins want
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in a cornerback, and the big knock on him is
probably the long speed. And I'm gonna tell you why
in one second, why that's something they're not gonna have
to worry about too much down here outside of the
situations where an offense can create those mismatches, in those
situations where they can't get him isolated in one on
one situations without help over the top. But the first
rep I pull up, he's in a half turn of
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responsibility to the field, the wide side of the field,
and the Texans try this little hitch route in front
of him, and his feet are chopping. He drives down
on the stick route and puts his hand in between
the hands of the receiver and breaks it up and
gets off that pile, slapping his helmet, going nuts. He
is quick as a hiccup out of the back pedal.
There is some Jack Jones to his game that way
and the springingess going forward. But when you pivot it
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the other direction and he has to flip the hips
and run vertically, he looks like a different athlete. That's
where like testing metrics. That's why you have to pair
the film with the testing metrics, because it looks great
in terms of combine numbers and going downhill when you're
out of the back pedal, But when he has to
flip open the hips and then turn it on from there,
it's not quite as fast. And that's kind of indicative
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of the forty yard dashtime, right. The long speed and
the quick turnaround to a sprint is not his bread
and butter. And the very next rep I see in
pass coverage, they go man on a third down and
he presses for the reroute on Tank Dell, which is
one of the smallest receivers in the league, so don't
get crazy about that. But he tries to stem and
stack Brents on that particular play and he just runs
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down the line on the outbreaker to him and the
ball doesn't go that way because he's all over it.
So physical reroute challenge guys at the point of attack,
at the catchpoint, everywhere. He's an absolute freight trained downhill.
In the run and screen game, there's plays all over
his tape where he buries guys. There was a screen
against the Bears this preseason, maybe it was last preseason.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I have to check on. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Where he runs over the wide receiver and then tackles
the running back behind the line of scrimmage. He had
a hit on Nase Harris two years ago in the
regular season where he wrapped him up and drove him
into the ground like a freaking WWE star. So that
physical play style, the ten yard, the ten split to
get off the football. I just know Weave is watching
this guy and thinking about ways he can draw blitzes
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for him and all the guys in the secondary that
have similar skill sets. Here's another one that allows you
to disguise your pre stack pressure and your pre snap rotation.
Mike McDaniel was asked about him before his press conference
or during his press conference, I should say he said
he loves his redirection, his physicality, the way he competes.
I thought he was deserving of an active spot when
we made that move. So pretty good stuff all around,
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and honestly, like again, he's everything we love about Jason
Marshall from a physical tool standpoint, but just better. Like
he's bigger, he's stronger, he's faster, he's more explosive, and
all of this is great. And I'm not telling you
he's going to be a better player than Jason is.
I actually have pretty high hopes for Jason Marshall at
this point, because if you can't be on your rules,
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then it won't matter. And I'm not saying that to
dismiss anything that he's capable of or what Marshall has
done as a rookie, because I think it's super impressive
what he's done to be able to understand when we
want to invert, you know, getting vertical and being a
half field safety, when we want to blitch you off
the edge, when you have to fit the B gap
as a run defender, when you have to cover curl
flat while carrying the seam to pass him off to
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you know, to the safety who's helping and coverage that way.
So I think, you know, there's a chance that he
could wrestle away that slot cornerback job.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Maybe they're preparing him on the outside. We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But when I watched his tape, I came away thinking,
this looks like another guy they can convert to a
slot you know, nickel subpackage safety type role within this defense.
And he's got to be one of the longest cornerbacks
in the entire game, which if you match him up
again in a slot receiver, all these little you know
Cole Beasley types. Good luck getting off the press of him.
When he's in a crouch stance and he rests his
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forearms on his kneecaps his hands and wrists like dangled
down another foot and a half below his knees. It's
really weird looking just how long he is. The thirty
four inch arms were the longest arm length of a
cornerback in NFL combine history, and I looked it up
on a mock draft database or something like that. Sorry
for the proper citation here, but the average arm length
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for an NFL cornerback is thirty one and a half inches,
So he's got two and a half inches. Pause on
those guys. But I did find the flaw. I talked
about it a little bit, the tenth blit, the quick
trigger stuff. He's not nearly as quick as when he
has to flip, flip and run long the long speed,
but he can get cooked vertically if the opposing offense
knows how to sequence enough stuff in front of him,
get the eyes big, get him firing downhill, get the
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proper look, and then shoot a guy passed him on
a double mover a vertical route. So everything we've heard
Weaver talk about like I mean, we covered it yesterday
talking about you know, Rasul Douglas.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
We want to disrupt guys right, get hands on bodies.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We want big corners that can get up there and
play the run and the blitz, and we want guys
that find the ball and they're springy. All of that
applies to Juju Brentz. To me, it comes down to
his health. I mean, that's why he was available. He
missed time as a rookie. He played all of Week
one last year and injured his knee and then played
through the injury in the game, then missed the next
sixteen games, came back and played six snaps in Week eighteen.
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Then he pulls a hamstring early in camp and that's
like his third hamstring injury of his career, which that's
obviously a big concern, and missed most of August, though
he did come back and practice and play in their
preseason finale. So yes, availability is the best ability. But
this isn't, you know, some high price free agent addition.
It's a cut down waiver day, a waiver claim. These
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are the kind of swings you should make in this arena. Right,
if his body gets right, you just might have uncovered
gem for free, for no resources, no draft picks, no money,
and you do that enough times, you start to have
a really good football team. No one has moved the
needle from me in this room the way Jack Jones did,
but I think Juju is close, provided he can stay healthy.
Jack hasn't had the health that's us the way Juju has.
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I like him more than Rasseul Douglas. Quite frankly, it
might take a little bit of time, but I think
he's going to be a starter by the end of
the year if he's healthy, and all of a sudden,
I feel we have enough at cornerback right now. They
put two claims in, so they probably feel like they
want more. But you know, I wasn't there before Rasoul
and Juju. I think I am now even without Cater Kohu.
With Jack, Juju Jason, Rasoul and Storm Jack, Juju Jason,
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that's five. And I like all those guys enough. If
they're on the field and have to be called on
to play, let's go ahead and pause and come back
with a no.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Let's do this first.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So the practice squad newcomers, you guys know about Jeff Wilson,
let me just say this, I cannot wait to see
my dude again. That's my absolute guy, legit. One of
the nicest people I've come across in my six years here.
And you know about his game. Riley Patterson been around
for four years. He's had seven different stints. Twenty twenty
one with the Lions, twenty two with the Jags, twenty three,
back to the Lions, then to the Browns, then to
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the Jets in twenty four, then back to the Browns,
then to the Falcons, and now he's here. He also
looks exactly like where my friends from back homes. That
kind of was a trip to see him in the
building today. He's appeared in forty four games. He's sixty
three for seventy four with a long of fifty three.
That's eighty five point one percent, right around Jason Sanders'
career make percentage. But five of those misses are from
fifty plus, where he's four for nine. Frankly, I don't
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love it. The range is clearly a problem. He also
missed one from inside thirty that can't happen. He missed
one from thirty to forty yards, and then he has
four misses in the forty to forty nine range. We've
been spoiled by Jason outside of that stretch from twenty
two to twenty three. Greg Dolsich is a six foot four,
two hundred and four seven pound tight end. I thought
when I saw the name come across the wire, I
remembered him as a F but that's not who he
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is at all. He's actually a sneaky quick not a
He's an F not a Why did I get that wrong?
Sub four seven forty yard dash one six three ten split,
thirty four inch vertical, ten to two broad. He scoots
seven point zero five to three cone. He was a
big part of the Broncos offense his rookie year or
fifty one targets in twenty twenty two, he caught thirty
three of those for four hundred and eleven yards and
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two touchdowns. The last two years, though, just eight catches
on fourteen targets for fifty three yards and no visits
to pay dirt. I'm sure y'all saw the preseason he
had three touchdowns for the Giants, and I think the
ability to quickly present a target in the red zone
in the intermediate part of the field as a bigger
body target. There's an opportunity there for him to get
in some games and make some plays. He's got big
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but soft hands, and he can run after the catch
as well. I do not think he's solving any issues
as a blocker, but rather competition for Tanner Connor for
work as a backup f to Darren Waller.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Let's go ahead and pause right there. Comeback on the
other side, answer your mail bag questions. I also have
ten things that I got way wrong. I want to
talk about those, and I have a rant I want
to do on the podcast here. So first break right there,
a draft time podcast brought to you by AutoNation.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh here's the mail. It never fails.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It makes me want to wag my tail when I
something about the mail mail. I mean, I used to
watch that show like every time he stayed home from
school in the late nineties early two thousands. It was
Blues Clues time. Mail Bag. Let's go ahead and get
to your questions here. I put out the call on social,
on Twitter, on x whatever the hell's called these days.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
By the way, dead internet theory is a real thing.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The Adam Schefter tweet about uh Jalen Wright losing some
time this year. Go look at that tweet and scroll
underneath it like wow, oh no, bad news, w Ollie
Gordon to the moon, Damn they gonna do the best.
Let's get running at grock fr question mark Wow he
too good? Damn sad fr question mark solid w bad news.
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Let's go will play in the Shit's AFC East. These
are the comments in the chefter tweet.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Twitter sucks dude.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
All right, let's go ahead and get to the email
bag here at Cameron Sparks.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But the E is a three in his name there.
You guys know who he is.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Who do you believe will get the most targets outside
of Wattle and Hill this season? My guess is Malik Washington.
I think that's a good pick if you're not talking
about eight chan. But I want to use this to
just kind of state again, and I think looking at
the eligibles, and I think this is probably the case
for most teams, mostly in Miami, Like, don't think about
it as a pecking order in terms of who is
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up next, like Reak and Waddle. Yeah, that's different that
you force feed players like that, that you pay that
much money to right and Achan for that matter because
those guys can score every time they touch the football.
And to me, when you have a power hitter like that,
give him at bats, give him six hundred at bats,
and if they get enough of those, they can hit
forty bombs and make big impact on your season. Just
get them opportunities and the math works its way out
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that way. But Malik and Nwi are totally different players.
They'll have different roles in different packages that don't dictate
target share, but rather reflect the situations they come across
on a given down in a given game. So to
satisfy the question, in the event that we are without
ten or seventeen for a game or a stretch of games,
I really think that Toaj Washington can do some of
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the stuff that both those guys do and could be
a sneaky fun option if you have to go that route.
Hopefully we don't, but I like Taj and think Taj
could be a guy that in the event that you
lose one of these top two guys for a stretch
of games, he could be a guy that comes in
and has some big production. So I hope that was
a good tough answer for you there, cam JC Dixon
thirty three. You doing picks game the pick the game segment.
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This year absolutely had my best year ever picking games.
Last year we have to hit seventy two percent. We
strive for the nineteen seventy two team every single year.
On that at Kyle the Commission, Dolphin's question based on
the offseason program, any dark horse captains you think emerged
this year.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Let's go ahead and answer that. First.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I'm not sure if this is off the radar or not,
but I think Aaron Brewer has really endeared himself to
his teammates. I believe he'll be a captain. And then
his non Dolphins question, what's your airline of choice? We
are Alaska Rewards members because that's like the primary airport
from the Pacific Northwest and Seattle at Sea Tech. But
I gotta say I've been flying Delta and United lately,
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like for the joint practices, and I kind of f
with those two. I refuse to fly the budget airlines though,
Like I got a buddy who flies for Spirit and
I'm like, no, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I don't care how much how good a pilot you are.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I am just I'm iffy on flying as it is,
and I get like motion sickness pretty easily. I just
I've seen too many horror stories at Russell Grace sixteen.
I am admittedly a homer, but I don't get the
national media being so down on this team, believing we
are a five or seven win team. Sure the team
is weaker at tight end and cornerback, but I believe
have improved at all the rest of the positions over
the year.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I think I butchered that read.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But what gives Russell asks I couldn't You're asking the
guy that's been talking about that for six months, right,
I couldn't be more in lockstep with you. And That's
what I'm gonna rant about here at the end of
the podcast. I think maybe I should just do it now.
This is a good place to do it. Let's go
ahead and pull up the rant right now, interject it
into the middle of the show. Okay, So I was
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thinking about this on the drive in, and you know,
like I titled it, look at what you did your
Little jerks from home alone, because I feel like what
has transpired in terms of the perception of the football
team isn't what's happened on the football field. And let
me get out in front of that from the top,
from the jump here, and just say they have earned
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their reputation to a certain point in terms of the
short yard stuff, the big game stuff, the backup quarterback
when two was on end, they look like they aren't
even an NFL team, The operation, the procedurals, you know,
all that stuff has been earned. But what I think
has happened is this pendulum swing of jumping the shark,
where like it went from okay, those are bad things
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that caused them to win you know, nine eleven and
then eight games and the season they didn't have their
quarterback and go back to twenty two. By the way,
watch those twenty two games again, that was that was
a really good football team that just lost their quarterback.
Like that might have been bear team. The twenty twenty
three was they were really good. They just lost their
quarterback for too many games. Again, which is again that's
if that's if that's where you base your five or
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six win predictions that I that make no sense to me,
is that two is gonna miss like double digit games. Fine,
I will, I will get there with you. But I
just feel like, like I listened to the Heat the
Call podcast in the way in this point the Around
the AFC podcast they do. And I love Dan Hanss
and Mark Sessler for entertainment purposes. I don't think they
know jack about football, but I like their entertainment value.
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And Mark Sessler is like, this is a front seven
that lacks depth. Brother, It's the deepest front seven in
the damn NFL, So what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And then with the perception of like being soft and
not being good enough in these certain situations, and oh no,
they signed Darren Waller, so they're not committed to being physical.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Like everything they did this.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Aw season was about getting more physical, like they did it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Give him a chance to show it on the field.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And everyone keeps coming out here and complaining about, you know,
Patrick Paul's not ready.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'm like, Patrick Paul is ready.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Then Patrick Paul has someone on one reps that you
guys like it, and it's like, oh, Patrick Paul's really good.
I'm like, damn told you so. But it's just these
false facts and statements.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Man Like.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Again, I like Omar, he's a good dude, but every
freaking tweet is wrong.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I had to I had to, you know, I had
to clap back on the one back in Detroit about
Grant Stewart just completely in factual. And that's like every
damn tweet he sends out. You can say the Mike
Hilton thing, but I guarantee you didn't know who Mike
Hilton was. Hell, he tweeted about the the midnight Blue
uniforms not being able to be worn till September or
till December. Yeah, we've already announced months ago that they're
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going to be worn on a Monday night game, you know.
And I just feel like this permeates from the national
media down and there are some local you know, drivers
that I think really insinuate that or really magnify that.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But ma'am, it drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I like, again, if you think we're gonna go eight
to nine because Tua gets hurt and missus a month,
If you think that Tyreek is gonna be a problem
child and quit on the team, if you think that
it's not a winning proposition to expect so much from
a rookie class with Kenny and Jonah being starters, maybe
Jordan Phillips, Jason Marshall, and Ollie Gordon being a big
part of the running game. I get that I can
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get there with you on that, but I just don't
understand this rewriting of history. The way people talk about
this Dolphins team, you would think they've had the recent
success of the Cleveland Browns or the New York Jets
or the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They just haven't broken through.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And last year they lost nine games in a year
where they had their quarterback on the bench for six
and a half of them. And they were a worst
team last year. Don't get me wrong, they went backwards
last year. They took a step back from what they
were in twenty two and twenty three, no doubt about that.
But even in their worst without a competent quarterback, they
won eight games. Soft offensive lines bad ESPN hasn't with
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the thirtieth ranked offensive line. Are you crazy talking about dude?
All five of the stars are good players. Don't even
get me started on Jordan Poyer thinking about the Bills
last year while you're a Miami Dolphin, Like, shut up, dude.
Just a perfect embodiment of everything that was wrong with
the twenty four team. And I feel confident talking about
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this because we've heard this from guys on the roster.
You know, a bad player right, he was terrible. He
cost you two games with bad plays the Buffalo and
the Cardinals game walk in pick six and a horrible
late hit that would have gotten the defense off the
field and given the ball back to a red hot
offense for a quarterback that was twenty five for twenty
eight and they would have needed like thirty yards to
get into field goal range to beat the Bills, right
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if he didn't make that stupid hit. So a horrible player,
worse than the team last year, who won't look himself
in the mirror for why he was bad, saw a
team that was giving out dollars after you know, missing
out his Harrison Smith contract from Buffalo that he wanted
to get, was asked and charged to be a leader,
only to be a disinterested dufis who cared more about
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his old team and himself and took the only opportunity
he had last year to play the kind of position
he wanted as a playmaking safety versus what Buffalo used
him for as a glorified dime linebacker, and pissed down
his leg with it by playing small and old and
failing to make a single redeeming play when it mattered.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's my ramt Man.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And quit taking these things so seriously and getting these
grand takeaways from these tweets from people.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
That are just flat out wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Okay, so that's my biggest pet peeve here, And just
to go back to my answer for Russell, I think
this team is better than the twenty twenty four team
by long shot. I think it's way deeper and has
attacked all the things they came up short at the
last few years. I think it's fair to have questions
about a couple of spots, but I also think they
resolved the cornerback position nicely over the course of camp.
It's not great, but it's not terrible, I don't think,
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and if it weren't for the Cater injury, I would
say it's actually a roster strength, and who knows, it
still might be. I think Juju and Jack could be
better than Cater and are better physical talents. I think
the next area everyone looks at is tight end and like, Okay,
I get that, because you know, I always say, how
many teams don't have a single position where they have questions?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
The Eagles, the Ravens, the Chiefs. Is that about it?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean the Bills just signed Jordan Poyer and Keon
Coleman's their best receiver and he gets open as much
as Calvin Benjamin did. And then the offensive line depth,
I just don't buy that, like at all. Last year
we started Liam Mikenberg and Rob Jones, and I think
Rob Jones is pretty close to Liam in terms of
his ability, and Liam, you know, healthy this year would
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be what offensive lineman eight or nine on the roster
right now. I think Brunskill is a better player, and
he's better than your interior backup options were last year.
I think Patrick Paul as a rookie and Lamb filling him,
those guys are you know, Paul's better than he was
Austin Jackson's back. I think Larry Borum is better than
what Kendall Lamb was last year in twenty twenty four,
not in his previous spots, but twenty twenty four Kenda
(29:03):
Lamb key on two for that matter. I just walked
a twenty two game against the Packers the other night,
and I forgot they started Brandon Shell off the street
for half that damn season.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
They scored thirty.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Points per game when Tool was in the lineup. I
really don't get it. I think this team is the
team that the national media is the most off on.
But we'll go ahead let the game speak for themselves.
We'll predict the record on the Tuesday podcast next week,
and I'm gonna be pretty bullish on the Dolphins last
break right here, come back and do some more mail
bag and ten things I was way wrong about. That's
next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Autoation. I
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have a few more mail bag questions to get too.
I apologize if you did not hear your question on
the show. It kind of just got backed up because
of the additions and me wanting to rant a little
bit at k DASH sixty five. Hey, Travis, in your opinion,
what unit on the team is most likely to exceed
expectations by the media and fan base and which will
be the one to most likely disappoint. I love this one,
and it's what I just talked about, right, the corners
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or maybe the secondary in general, Like, just look at
the makeup, look at the construction of the front seven
and how it plays with the skills in the secondary.
I think they're going to make more splash plays than
they have in a long time. The turnovers have been
a big problem for this team, and I think they're
perfectly adept for what we've wants to do and to
extend that special teams I think is going to be
way better this year. As far as what will be
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the most likely to disappoint, I might go with the
running backs, just because a chan I'm worried about the injury.
Jalen Wright hasn't taken that step like I thought he might,
and Alli Gordon as good as I think he can be,
you know, he's still a rookie, so I think you
can sometimes get over your ski on that. I'll go
ahead and go with running back, although I'm not super
convicted in that.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And then a quick pause here.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
A few of you guys asked about waiver claims, but
that already passed by, so I just want to shout out.
Z Fly Goat and Kevin Garrard thirteen both asked about it.
So I want to give you guys some love here
on the show at call me Gamman. How would you
say two US training camp stacked up versus previous years?
I love this question. The first ten or so practices
he was just ripping that thing, but then production slowed
down at like practice number eleven and I've been trying
(31:03):
to piece together how I feel about that in my
own head, but I think it's most likely because of
things that he and McDaniel and Jordan Brooks have talked about.
Right Brooks call it the hardest camp he's ever been
a part of, and Tua talked about how in the
past they were playing more for results. I think that
there was a lot more intentionality about trying to run
stuff into less favorable looks, And I get the sense
the more the closer we get to game week two
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was gonna feel like that player that had the donut
on deck for like a half hour, and once he
takes the donut off of his baseball bat, it just
becomes it feels like a toothpick in his hands, kind
of feel nice and smooth for him. So I think
that results wise, it was like middle of the pack,
like maybe maybe better than twenty and twenty twenty twenty
and twenty one, not as good as twenty two and
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But I think there's intentionality behind that.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
At ARH Underscore seven to sixteen Dolphins question, from what
you've seen during training camp, do you believe this team
has what it takes to run the ball successfully. If
we lose Austin Jackson or alec Ingold to injury, they
are not the same without it. Yeah, definitely the most
important thing. Right with the front five, I have zero
questions about it. I think it's going to be a
top ten offensive line with those five. Now if they
get hurt, which happens all the time, it kind of
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depends on where it happens, right. I thought we had
questions at guard last year in terms of scheme fits,
and then when Austin went down, it really highlighted your
inability to get that athletic movement off the right side,
like Liam and Kendall Lamb were not scheme fits, they
were deficiencies. I think you're far more equipped to handle
that this year because the Guards are more athletic. James
Daniels is a massive upgrade, and if you go to
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Larry Borum, he's more in tune with how this offense plays,
so they have a much better chance to pivot their
run schemes if they need to. And Frank Smith said
as much at Gladiator seven to one. Did they learn
from their mistakes on not extending Robert Hunt sooner and
not to repeat the same thing with Aaron Brewer and
Brooks given what they want a new deal this summer.
We need to get both of them done. I'm just
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gonna say signing a guard to a twenty million dollars
contract is bad business.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And I still believe that. I'll always believe that.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I don't think you pay your guards like you know,
mid level starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay, I want to do this.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Ten things I learned or ten things I was dead
wrong about to kind of just crap myself here a
little bit. Number one, Odell Beckham Junior. I don't feel
like this requires a dissertation. I thought his ability to
get vertical among Waddle and Rieke was going to open
up a new element of the offense. What I didn't
account for was a total self serving attitude, dancing after
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catches of three yards, walking away from his teammates after
scoring touchdowns, not putting in the reps. And worked with
Tua to develop the chemistry dear like one on Travis
swinging a miss. Number two, the continuity on the offensive
line would mask the talent deficiency and the scheme fit
on the interior offensive line, and all the coaches of
this tree seemingly had to learn that at some point
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or another, and I guess it was maybe one year
late for McDaniel, but I think they've corrected that this year.
But I was wrong, as was the team on that
number three draft misses Cam Smith and Mokamara, Right, I
was high on those guys, but I learned more about
the process of like what a guy's made of with
Cam Smith and then in terms of the overall skills
or traits of Mo Kamara, and this goes to Grayce
(34:03):
and Murphy as well, like you can look great against
the Mountain West, but if you don't have the requisite length,
you better be special in a different area. And I
should have been more privy to that in those misses.
Number four, David Long continued success. At this time last year,
I thought he was gonna be the guy alongside Jordan Brooks,
and then he goes on to have like two of
the worst tapes I've ever seen in my entire left.
That Cardinals tape was one of the worst linebacker tapes
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I've seen. And now he's out of the league. And
like David Long was pretty good in twenty three, fell
off the face of the earth in twenty four, off
the radar. Here Cal Rawley, the man that has fifty bombs.
Right now, I have this thing about overweight baseball players.
I don't like him. I don't like when you can't
move across the bases. But Cal wasn't that, even though
he looked like it as a rookie. He's got like
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fifteen steals this year and he was just a big
boned hell of a baseball player when he first got
to the show. I didn't like his approach, but now
he's one of the most disciplined hitters in the damn league.
We had plenty of others I called the rowdy t
lez DFA before it happened. He's a pile of stuff.
Same with Ty Frantz, Like, if you're slow and don't
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drive the baseball, get the hell out of my league.
I put Cal out to pasture way too early, and
now he's the damn MVP of the American League, and
I'm thrilled about it. By the way, Manorer is gonna
win the World Series this year, we'll be visited that
November number six.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Javon Holland like, WHOA, that was bad, right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I had some high expectations for him, but his last
two years were not good.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Chop Robinson.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I thought he'd be an impact rusher, and I thought
maybe he wasn't worth the pick where he was because
of the lack of run defense success. But shut up, dude,
because he can't play with power. Number eight. I think
I said last year there was a chance the offense
there wouldn't be any chance that the offense wouldn't be
top ten. Well, hey, yeah, if the quarterback misses half
the season, then he will they will be that. They
scored twenty seven points per game with Tua, but it
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wasn't you know, it wasn't good without him. Number nine.
I thought that golf was lame. That was my take
for the longest time. And God, what I was I wrong?
What a stupid take that was? Golf is this is
the stuff and the number ten Mike hillt him. I
was pretty adamant that he was gonna start nickel cornerback.
But I do feel like the fact that Jason Marshall
took that from him is more of a praise for
him rather than an indictment of Mike Hilton.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That's my podcast, longer than I wanted to go today.
Thank you for your questions, Thank you for the week
of stuff with me here. It's been a fun training camp.
I'm so excited for the season. We have a brand
new episode of Dolphins HQ on the YouTube channel tonight
at six o'clock. Please watch that and share it and
like it and subscribe it, give me a comment on there.
Please help me get Dolphins HQ really rip it and
tear in this year. I want to get those numbers.
(36:30):
Those are ricky numbers. We got those numbers way up
this year. Please do your part to help me out
with that on the team YouTube channel. Watching it a
couple times, let it play in the background if you can.
And then tomorrow we're gonna come back and we're gonna
basically air that version of the episode on the podcast
to give our podcast only listeners a chance to hear
that as well as the August takeaways. Gonna take the
entire weekend off. Enjoy the college football Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
(36:51):
no podcast, Tuesday coming back with the season Prediction podcast,
and then Wednesday, Thursday Friday, it's all colts coverage until then,
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Until next time, Finns up Caroline Cameron a willow daddy.
He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
What is up.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Show, the mail is here. It never fails.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
We're answering your mail, bad questions. I was gonna do
an entire show taking your questions, but then we claimed
a couple of guys, and I was a big fan
of one of those guys. In particular, We're gonna do
a Juju Brents breakdown, talk about Greg Dolcich as well
and Jamichael Hasty and the entire Dolphins practice squad.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Plus I have ten.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Things your boy was way wrong about and I kind
of want to rant to close the podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We'll see if I get there or not.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex,
this is the Draft Time Podcast. Aye Daffy, Let's go
ahead and kick this bad boy off with the Dolphins
practice squad. So we've got I believe team names on
here as of now, and that means there should be
one available spot that could be fluctuating and changing as
(01:07):
the days go on. Here it's a constantly fluid process,
so keep that in mind.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
My name of Jeff.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Jeff Wilson's back. I cannot wait to see my dog.
I'm recording this about three hours ahead of open locker
room today. He's the first guy I'm going to go
talk to.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
You're not allowed to actually put stuff on the record
and do an actual interview with practice squad players. It's
one of the rules of locker room reporting. But I
just want to say hi, and I say my name
is EH to Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
So he's back.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
We got Greg Dulcich as well, and Jamichael Hasty are
kind of the big outside names that you're gonna see here,
and we'll talk about Brent's as well as Dulceach here
a little bit. Hasty is a kind of scatback return man,
probably a third down option. The Dolphins will add to
that group for a possible call up early on as
we find out what happens are the longevity of Feeling
Wright's injury. And then the rest of the group is
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names that you know, theoies, Aj Hending, the two receivers
whom make it off the UDFA list. They kind of
beat out Monterey Baldwin, who has cut a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And Andrew Armstrong.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
The four UDFA receivers they brought in here, Hayden Roucchie
Rooch Dog. To me, Rooch Dog has one of the
best chances of the players on this list to get
game day call ups.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
I think that he is maybe.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Maybe the most equipped why tight ends you have beyond
Julian Hill, and depending on how you feel about Julian Hill,
maybe he's even the most of all that list. On
the offensive line, we had two guys make it from
the roster. Joshbit Josh preeb sorry from Michigan, the rookie
from there, and then Brayden Daniels was a guy that
I think is like the next man up in terms
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of your nine to ten man deep offensive line. Alex Huntley,
the defensive tackle gets a spot back on the practice squad.
Derek McClendon and Quinton Bell. I have a feeling you'll
see those two guys in games at some point this year.
They are I think NFL players on the practice squad
here that can actually help the football team in case
of injury. Cornell Armstrong, that's kind of I think maybe
(03:01):
your emergency slot situation call up type of guy. I
will talk about Brent's here in one second. He never
really played slot, just like Jason Marshall, but I kind
of feel like Juju Brentz could be a slot option
for the Dolphins. And then bj Adams, the UDFA from
UCF is back. John Saunders, the safety that I thought
had the best shot of the udfas to make the team.
He comes back on practice squad, and then Riley Patterson
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the kicker. And we'll get further confirmation on this as
we go along. I've seen it reported, but it's not
official yet. Jordan Colbert, who made the initial fifty three
was waived like fourteen hours later. We'll come back and
check on that, so not quite official on all of that.
That's actually the one day that's not official yet, But
I wanted to just cover all that for you guys
and get into the newcomers here as we saw. You know,
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the last the last fifty three man change was the
addition of a player that I wrote down right away
as a claim that I was interested in. The other
was also a former cult in tight end Jelani Woods.
He lines up with the Jets. We also saw a
report the Dolphins put a claim in on Jalen Armor Davis,
the former Ravens corner who I thought kind of popped
(04:08):
on tape last year when I went back and watched
or when I got ready for that Dolphins in Ravens game.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Is that last year? No?
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Two years ago? Well, I thought we had a chance
to beat them in the Week seventeen game. That went
awfully awry there. But anyway, he goes to the Titans
that had the first waiver priority, and then Johnny Woods
went off the board to the Jets before the Dolphins
waiver priority. So I kind of feel like he might
have been a guy they were interested in. But it
kind of tells you what they're thinking that right, And
they've told us all along about the competition in the
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cornerback room, and I do think that those words held
merit because of the way they wanted things to unfold.
And Rasull Douglas is here, and I talked about the
Douglas addition on the podcast yesterday. I was apprehensive about
the idea of bringing back somebody that's you know, on
the Jordan Poyer track, more or less in terms of
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accomplished player Pro Bowls. You know has made thirty plus
million dollars and earning potential over his career and do
they come here and kind of you know, right off
into the sunset. Well, the point was made to me
by actually one of our video staff members here, a
good buddy of mine, and he was like, yeah. But
they went about it, and they developed that competition, and
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they developed this chemistry in the locker room and the
identity of who they want to be. And then they
brought Rasul Douglas into that opposed to like making him
the focal point and the centerpiece of it all from
the spring and making him a captain like you did
with Jordan Poyer. And that makes a lot of sense
to me. And you just add these cornerbacks in after
giving those guys the chance like you've you gave him
an opportunity right to compete and earn those jobs, and
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then you brought the talent in. And I think with Douglas,
he certainly is one of the most talented players in
the room, and I think Juju Brentz is too, and
Jack Jones to me, is the best player in the room.
So I think it's a possibility your three best players
in that room are guys that you brought in in
the last month and that's kind of what the Dolphins
have been doing the entire last couple of weeks. Right
end position with Greg Dolcic got better. Jeff Wilson is
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a good third down option, a good third back option,
I should say, if he gets a call off the
practice squad in place of Jalen Wright. You know, they
added Daniel Brunskill over the last month as well, made
the offensive line depth better. So I just think this
team has done a good job in the months of
July and August of improving the roster. Even Omar Kelly
got on board. We're gonna talk more about Omar here
(06:24):
in one second. I think we'll see. I'm not gonna
go for sure just yet, but anyway, they got the
best player available the Dolphins did in the waiver cuts.
I think Juju Brents, you know, and you're gonna ask
me why is he available? Then we'll get to that
here in one second. But he was the best player
available the minute he got here, or that it became official.
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I got a DM from JJ Stankovich from the Colts.
He was did the podcast last year in before that
travesty of a game in Week six or Week seven,
whatever it was, the game we lost to the Colts,
but he sent me his interview with Juju back from
the summer or from the training camp, when he was
saying he's one of his favorite guys to talk to,
and go ahead and post that link on Twitter here
at some point. But to be honest with you guys,
going into the study, I was mostly relying off of
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his college body of work, but that was not very
long ago. I mean, he was a standout at the
Senior Bowl back in twenty twenty three and had a
crazy combine workout that really got my attention. He's closer
to six three than he is six to two. He's
actually sixty twenty six, which is, you know, six two
and a half plus some change two hundred pounds. Those
are ninety ninth and eighty fourth percentile coming out his
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forty one point five inch vertical, his eleven zero six
broad jump, we're both ninety ninth percent tile. His one
point five ten split was ninety six percent tile. The
fifty and the long speed, which we'll talk about on
his tape, is where the only part he didn't like,
you know, blow the doors off, and he was above
average in that category. Fifty ninth percent tile with a
four five three forty yard dash, but the twenty split,
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which is more accurate for measuring a cornerback's burst and speed,
eighty fifth percent tile, and then the shuttle and three
cone were ninety second and ninety eighth percent tile respectively.
This isn't an elite mover with good size and physicality.
And when I tell you that, who comes up? Who
comes to mind? Jason Marshall Junior, right, which is a
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you know, a satellite of Jayalen Ramsey right, change of direction, explosiveness,
it's the same thing. I'm not calling these guys the
same player as Ramsey. That would be foolish. Ramsey as
a future Hall of Famer. As much as I have
a distaste in my mouth with the way things ended
here with Miami Dolphins, it's a great player and that
prototype is what you have in Jason Marshall Junior, and
Juju Brents is even more of that. So I am
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curious if he might be a safeguard in that slot
for the rookie because he only played sixty eight snaps
last year due to injuries, and sixty four of those
were at wide corner one in the slot three in
the box. His rookie season was more of the same
three slot reps fifty one in the box, the rest
out wide, and those reps that condense him inside. That's
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just fariations based upon motion and personnel. Like it's not
like they're saying, hey, go play the slot for these
three snaps.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
That's just where he winds up in those situations.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
But I think he has the makeup to be something
of a hybrid type, maybe even a guy that does
multiple things in safety roles too, kind of like you
saw with Jason Marshall during the preseason. The lou Ana
Remo defense is so much different than what Weave does,
and that, to me is why they cut him loose.
I mean, you saw the Colts go after every cornerback
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known to man, and like the perfect example is the
difference between Xavier and Howard and Juju Brentz. Totally different
players and one is more of a scheme fit for them,
one's more of a scheme fit for us, Like x
x was never coming back here, and part of that is,
you know, the departure, the culture shift, but also the
lack of scheme fit. Brents does everything the Dolphins want
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in a cornerback, and the big knock on him is
probably the long speed. And I'm gonna tell you why
in one second, why that's something they're not gonna have
to worry about too much down here outside of the
situations where an offense can create those mismatches, in those
situations where they can't get him isolated in one on
one situations without help over the top. But the first
rep I pull up, he's in a half turn of
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responsibility to the field, the wide side of the field,
and the Texans try this little hitch route in front
of him, and his feet are chopping. He drives down
on the stick route and puts his hand in between
the hands of the receiver and breaks it up and
gets off that pile, slapping his helmet, going nuts. He
is quick as a hiccup out of the back pedal.
There is some Jack Jones to his game that way
and the springingess going forward. But when you pivot it
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the other direction and he has to flip the hips
and run vertically, he looks like a different athlete. That's
where like testing metrics. That's why you have to pair
the film with the testing metrics, because it looks great
in terms of combine numbers and going downhill when you're
out of the back pedal, But when he has to
flip open the hips and then turn it on from there,
it's not quite as fast. And that's kind of indicative
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of the forty yard dashtime, right. The long speed and
the quick turnaround to a sprint is not his bread
and butter. And the very next rep I see in
pass coverage, they go man on a third down and
he presses for the reroute on Tank Dell, which is
one of the smallest receivers in the league, so don't
get crazy about that. But he tries to stem and
stack Brents on that particular play and he just runs
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down the line on the outbreaker to him and the
ball doesn't go that way because he's all over it.
So physical reroute challenge guys at the point of attack,
at the catchpoint, everywhere. He's an absolute freight trained downhill.
In the run and screen game, there's plays all over
his tape where he buries guys. There was a screen
against the Bears this preseason, maybe it was last preseason.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
I have to check on. That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
Where he runs over the wide receiver and then tackles
the running back behind the line of scrimmage. He had
a hit on Nase Harris two years ago in the
regular season where he wrapped him up and drove him
into the ground like a freaking WWE star. So that
physical play style, the ten yard, the ten split to
get off the football. I just know Weave is watching
this guy and thinking about ways he can draw blitzes
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for him and all the guys in the secondary that
have similar skill sets. Here's another one that allows you
to disguise your pre stack pressure and your pre snap rotation.
Mike McDaniel was asked about him before his press conference
or during his press conference, I should say he said
he loves his redirection, his physicality, the way he competes.
I thought he was deserving of an active spot when
we made that move. So pretty good stuff all around,
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and honestly, like again, he's everything we love about Jason
Marshall from a physical tool standpoint, but just better. Like
he's bigger, he's stronger, he's faster, he's more explosive, and
all of this is great. And I'm not telling you
he's going to be a better player than Jason is.
I actually have pretty high hopes for Jason Marshall at
this point, because if you can't be on your rules,
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then it won't matter. And I'm not saying that to
dismiss anything that he's capable of or what Marshall has
done as a rookie, because I think it's super impressive
what he's done to be able to understand when we
want to invert, you know, getting vertical and being a
half field safety, when we want to blitch you off
the edge, when you have to fit the B gap
as a run defender, when you have to cover curl
flat while carrying the seam to pass him off to
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you know, to the safety who's helping and coverage that way.
So I think, you know, there's a chance that he
could wrestle away that slot cornerback job.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Maybe they're preparing him on the outside. We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
But when I watched his tape, I came away thinking,
this looks like another guy they can convert to a
slot you know, nickel subpackage safety type role within this defense.
And he's got to be one of the longest cornerbacks
in the entire game, which if you match him up
again in a slot receiver, all these little you know
Cole Beasley types. Good luck getting off the press of him.
When he's in a crouch stance and he rests his
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forearms on his kneecaps his hands and wrists like dangled
down another foot and a half below his knees. It's
really weird looking just how long he is. The thirty
four inch arms were the longest arm length of a
cornerback in NFL combine history, and I looked it up
on a mock draft database or something like that. Sorry
for the proper citation here, but the average arm length
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for an NFL cornerback is thirty one and a half inches,
So he's got two and a half inches. Pause on
those guys. But I did find the flaw. I talked
about it a little bit, the tenth blit, the quick
trigger stuff. He's not nearly as quick as when he
has to flip, flip and run long the long speed,
but he can get cooked vertically if the opposing offense
knows how to sequence enough stuff in front of him,
get the eyes big, get him firing downhill, get the
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proper look, and then shoot a guy passed him on
a double mover a vertical route. So everything we've heard
Weaver talk about like I mean, we covered it yesterday
talking about you know, Rasul Douglas.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
We want to disrupt guys right, get hands on bodies.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
We want big corners that can get up there and
play the run and the blitz, and we want guys
that find the ball and they're springy. All of that
applies to Juju Brentz. To me, it comes down to
his health. I mean, that's why he was available. He
missed time as a rookie. He played all of Week
one last year and injured his knee and then played
through the injury in the game, then missed the next
sixteen games, came back and played six snaps in Week eighteen.
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Then he pulls a hamstring early in camp and that's
like his third hamstring injury of his career, which that's
obviously a big concern, and missed most of August, though
he did come back and practice and play in their
preseason finale. So yes, availability is the best ability. But
this isn't, you know, some high price free agent addition.
It's a cut down waiver day, a waiver claim. These
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are the kind of swings you should make in this arena. Right,
if his body gets right, you just might have uncovered
gem for free, for no resources, no draft picks, no money,
and you do that enough times, you start to have
a really good football team. No one has moved the
needle from me in this room the way Jack Jones did,
but I think Juju is close, provided he can stay healthy.
Jack hasn't had the health that's us the way Juju has.
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I like him more than Rasseul Douglas. Quite frankly, it
might take a little bit of time, but I think
he's going to be a starter by the end of
the year if he's healthy, and all of a sudden,
I feel we have enough at cornerback right now. They
put two claims in, so they probably feel like they
want more. But you know, I wasn't there before Rasoul
and Juju. I think I am now even without Cater Kohu.
With Jack, Juju Jason, Rasoul and Storm Jack, Juju Jason,
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that's five. And I like all those guys enough. If
they're on the field and have to be called on
to play, let's go ahead and pause and come back
with a no.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Let's do this first.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
So the practice squad newcomers, you guys know about Jeff Wilson,
let me just say this, I cannot wait to see
my dude again. That's my absolute guy, legit. One of
the nicest people I've come across in my six years here.
And you know about his game. Riley Patterson been around
for four years. He's had seven different stints. Twenty twenty
one with the Lions, twenty two with the Jags, twenty three,
back to the Lions, then to the Browns, then to
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the Jets in twenty four, then back to the Browns,
then to the Falcons, and now he's here. He also
looks exactly like where my friends from back homes. That
kind of was a trip to see him in the
building today. He's appeared in forty four games. He's sixty
three for seventy four with a long of fifty three.
That's eighty five point one percent, right around Jason Sanders'
career make percentage. But five of those misses are from
fifty plus, where he's four for nine. Frankly, I don't
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love it. The range is clearly a problem. He also
missed one from inside thirty that can't happen. He missed
one from thirty to forty yards, and then he has
four misses in the forty to forty nine range. We've
been spoiled by Jason outside of that stretch from twenty
two to twenty three. Greg Dolsich is a six foot four,
two hundred and four seven pound tight end. I thought
when I saw the name come across the wire, I
remembered him as a F but that's not who he
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is at all. He's actually a sneaky quick not a
He's an F not a Why did I get that wrong?
Sub four seven forty yard dash one six three ten split,
thirty four inch vertical, ten to two broad. He scoots
seven point zero five to three cone. He was a
big part of the Broncos offense his rookie year or
fifty one targets in twenty twenty two, he caught thirty
three of those for four hundred and eleven yards and
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two touchdowns. The last two years, though, just eight catches
on fourteen targets for fifty three yards and no visits
to pay dirt. I'm sure y'all saw the preseason he
had three touchdowns for the Giants, and I think the
ability to quickly present a target in the red zone
in the intermediate part of the field as a bigger
body target. There's an opportunity there for him to get
in some games and make some plays. He's got big
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but soft hands, and he can run after the catch
as well. I do not think he's solving any issues
as a blocker, but rather competition for Tanner Connor for
work as a backup f to Darren Waller.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Let's go ahead and pause right there. Comeback on the
other side, answer your mail bag questions. I also have
ten things that I got way wrong. I want to
talk about those, and I have a rant I want
to do on the podcast here. So first break right there,
a draft time podcast brought to you by AutoNation.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh here's the mail. It never fails.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
It makes me want to wag my tail when I
something about the mail mail. I mean, I used to
watch that show like every time he stayed home from
school in the late nineties early two thousands. It was
Blues Clues time. Mail Bag. Let's go ahead and get
to your questions here. I put out the call on social,
on Twitter, on x whatever the hell's called these days.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
By the way, dead internet theory is a real thing.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
The Adam Schefter tweet about uh Jalen Wright losing some
time this year. Go look at that tweet and scroll
underneath it like wow, oh no, bad news, w Ollie
Gordon to the moon, Damn they gonna do the best.
Let's get running at grock fr question mark Wow he
too good? Damn sad fr question mark solid w bad news.
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Let's go will play in the Shit's AFC East. These
are the comments in the chefter tweet.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Twitter sucks dude.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
All right, let's go ahead and get to the email
bag here at Cameron Sparks.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
But the E is a three in his name there.
You guys know who he is.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Who do you believe will get the most targets outside
of Wattle and Hill this season? My guess is Malik Washington.
I think that's a good pick if you're not talking
about eight chan. But I want to use this to
just kind of state again, and I think looking at
the eligibles, and I think this is probably the case
for most teams, mostly in Miami, Like, don't think about
it as a pecking order in terms of who is
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up next, like Reak and Waddle. Yeah, that's different that
you force feed players like that, that you pay that
much money to right and Achan for that matter because
those guys can score every time they touch the football.
And to me, when you have a power hitter like that,
give him at bats, give him six hundred at bats,
and if they get enough of those, they can hit
forty bombs and make big impact on your season. Just
get them opportunities and the math works its way out
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that way. But Malik and Nwi are totally different players.
They'll have different roles in different packages that don't dictate
target share, but rather reflect the situations they come across
on a given down in a given game. So to
satisfy the question, in the event that we are without
ten or seventeen for a game or a stretch of games,
I really think that Toaj Washington can do some of
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the stuff that both those guys do and could be
a sneaky fun option if you have to go that route.
Hopefully we don't, but I like Taj and think Taj
could be a guy that in the event that you
lose one of these top two guys for a stretch
of games, he could be a guy that comes in
and has some big production. So I hope that was
a good tough answer for you there, cam JC Dixon
thirty three. You doing picks game the pick the game segment.
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This year absolutely had my best year ever picking games.
Last year we have to hit seventy two percent. We
strive for the nineteen seventy two team every single year.
On that at Kyle the Commission, Dolphin's question based on
the offseason program, any dark horse captains you think emerged
this year.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Let's go ahead and answer that. First.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I'm not sure if this is off the radar or not,
but I think Aaron Brewer has really endeared himself to
his teammates. I believe he'll be a captain. And then
his non Dolphins question, what's your airline of choice? We
are Alaska Rewards members because that's like the primary airport
from the Pacific Northwest and Seattle at Sea Tech. But
I gotta say I've been flying Delta and United lately,
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like for the joint practices, and I kind of f
with those two. I refuse to fly the budget airlines though,
Like I got a buddy who flies for Spirit and
I'm like, no, I'm not doing it.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
I don't care how much how good a pilot you are.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
I am just I'm iffy on flying as it is,
and I get like motion sickness pretty easily. I just
I've seen too many horror stories at Russell Grace sixteen.
I am admittedly a homer, but I don't get the
national media being so down on this team, believing we
are a five or seven win team. Sure the team
is weaker at tight end and cornerback, but I believe
have improved at all the rest of the positions over
the year.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
I think I butchered that read.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
But what gives Russell asks I couldn't You're asking the
guy that's been talking about that for six months, right,
I couldn't be more in lockstep with you. And That's
what I'm gonna rant about here at the end of
the podcast. I think maybe I should just do it now.
This is a good place to do it. Let's go
ahead and pull up the rant right now, interject it
into the middle of the show. Okay, So I was
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thinking about this on the drive in, and you know,
like I titled it, look at what you did your
Little jerks from home alone, because I feel like what
has transpired in terms of the perception of the football
team isn't what's happened on the football field. And let
me get out in front of that from the top,
from the jump here, and just say they have earned
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their reputation to a certain point in terms of the
short yard stuff, the big game stuff, the backup quarterback
when two was on end, they look like they aren't
even an NFL team, The operation, the procedurals, you know,
all that stuff has been earned. But what I think
has happened is this pendulum swing of jumping the shark,
where like it went from okay, those are bad things
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that caused them to win you know, nine eleven and
then eight games and the season they didn't have their
quarterback and go back to twenty two. By the way,
watch those twenty two games again, that was that was
a really good football team that just lost their quarterback.
Like that might have been bear team. The twenty twenty
three was they were really good. They just lost their
quarterback for too many games. Again, which is again that's
if that's if that's where you base your five or
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six win predictions that I that make no sense to me,
is that two is gonna miss like double digit games. Fine,
I will, I will get there with you. But I
just feel like, like I listened to the Heat the
Call podcast in the way in this point the Around
the AFC podcast they do. And I love Dan Hanss
and Mark Sessler for entertainment purposes. I don't think they
know jack about football, but I like their entertainment value.
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And Mark Sessler is like, this is a front seven
that lacks depth. Brother, It's the deepest front seven in
the damn NFL, So what are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (23:54):
You know?
Speaker 1 (23:54):
And then with the perception of like being soft and
not being good enough in these certain situations, and oh no,
they signed Darren Waller, so they're not committed to being physical.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Like everything they did this.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Aw season was about getting more physical, like they did it.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Give him a chance to show it on the field.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
And everyone keeps coming out here and complaining about, you know,
Patrick Paul's not ready.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
I'm like, Patrick Paul is ready.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Then Patrick Paul has someone on one reps that you
guys like it, and it's like, oh, Patrick Paul's really good.
I'm like, damn told you so. But it's just these
false facts and statements.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Man Like.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Again, I like Omar, he's a good dude, but every
freaking tweet is wrong.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I had to I had to, you know, I had
to clap back on the one back in Detroit about
Grant Stewart just completely in factual. And that's like every
damn tweet he sends out. You can say the Mike
Hilton thing, but I guarantee you didn't know who Mike
Hilton was. Hell, he tweeted about the the midnight Blue
uniforms not being able to be worn till September or
till December. Yeah, we've already announced months ago that they're
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going to be worn on a Monday night game, you know.
And I just feel like this permeates from the national
media down and there are some local you know, drivers
that I think really insinuate that or really magnify that.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
But ma'am, it drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
I like, again, if you think we're gonna go eight
to nine because Tua gets hurt and missus a month,
If you think that Tyreek is gonna be a problem
child and quit on the team, if you think that
it's not a winning proposition to expect so much from
a rookie class with Kenny and Jonah being starters, maybe
Jordan Phillips, Jason Marshall, and Ollie Gordon being a big
part of the running game. I get that I can
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get there with you on that, but I just don't
understand this rewriting of history. The way people talk about
this Dolphins team, you would think they've had the recent
success of the Cleveland Browns or the New York Jets
or the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
They just haven't broken through.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
And last year they lost nine games in a year
where they had their quarterback on the bench for six
and a half of them. And they were a worst
team last year. Don't get me wrong, they went backwards
last year. They took a step back from what they
were in twenty two and twenty three, no doubt about that.
But even in their worst without a competent quarterback, they
won eight games. Soft offensive lines bad ESPN hasn't with
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the thirtieth ranked offensive line. Are you crazy talking about dude?
All five of the stars are good players. Don't even
get me started on Jordan Poyer thinking about the Bills
last year while you're a Miami Dolphin, Like, shut up, dude.
Just a perfect embodiment of everything that was wrong with
the twenty four team. And I feel confident talking about
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this because we've heard this from guys on the roster.
You know, a bad player right, he was terrible. He
cost you two games with bad plays the Buffalo and
the Cardinals game walk in pick six and a horrible
late hit that would have gotten the defense off the
field and given the ball back to a red hot
offense for a quarterback that was twenty five for twenty
eight and they would have needed like thirty yards to
get into field goal range to beat the Bills, right
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if he didn't make that stupid hit. So a horrible player,
worse than the team last year, who won't look himself
in the mirror for why he was bad, saw a
team that was giving out dollars after you know, missing
out his Harrison Smith contract from Buffalo that he wanted
to get, was asked and charged to be a leader,
only to be a disinterested dufis who cared more about
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his old team and himself and took the only opportunity
he had last year to play the kind of position
he wanted as a playmaking safety versus what Buffalo used
him for as a glorified dime linebacker, and pissed down
his leg with it by playing small and old and
failing to make a single redeeming play when it mattered.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
That's my ramt Man.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
And quit taking these things so seriously and getting these
grand takeaways from these tweets from people.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
That are just flat out wrong.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Okay, so that's my biggest pet peeve here, And just
to go back to my answer for Russell, I think
this team is better than the twenty twenty four team
by long shot. I think it's way deeper and has
attacked all the things they came up short at the
last few years. I think it's fair to have questions
about a couple of spots, but I also think they
resolved the cornerback position nicely over the course of camp.
It's not great, but it's not terrible, I don't think,
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and if it weren't for the Cater injury, I would
say it's actually a roster strength, and who knows, it
still might be. I think Juju and Jack could be
better than Cater and are better physical talents. I think
the next area everyone looks at is tight end and like, Okay,
I get that, because you know, I always say, how
many teams don't have a single position where they have questions?
Speaker 2 (28:18):
The Eagles, the Ravens, the Chiefs. Is that about it?
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I mean the Bills just signed Jordan Poyer and Keon
Coleman's their best receiver and he gets open as much
as Calvin Benjamin did. And then the offensive line depth,
I just don't buy that, like at all. Last year
we started Liam Mikenberg and Rob Jones, and I think
Rob Jones is pretty close to Liam in terms of
his ability, and Liam, you know, healthy this year would
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be what offensive lineman eight or nine on the roster
right now. I think Brunskill is a better player, and
he's better than your interior backup options were last year.
I think Patrick Paul as a rookie and Lamb filling him,
those guys are you know, Paul's better than he was
Austin Jackson's back. I think Larry Borum is better than
what Kendall Lamb was last year in twenty twenty four,
not in his previous spots, but twenty twenty four Kenda
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Lamb key on two for that matter. I just walked
a twenty two game against the Packers the other night,
and I forgot they started Brandon Shell off the street
for half that damn season.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
They scored thirty.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
Points per game when Tool was in the lineup. I
really don't get it. I think this team is the
team that the national media is the most off on.
But we'll go ahead let the game speak for themselves.
We'll predict the record on the Tuesday podcast next week,
and I'm gonna be pretty bullish on the Dolphins last
break right here, come back and do some more mail
bag and ten things I was way wrong about. That's
next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Autoation. I
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have a few more mail bag questions to get too.
I apologize if you did not hear your question on
the show. It kind of just got backed up because
of the additions and me wanting to rant a little
bit at k DASH sixty five. Hey, Travis, in your opinion,
what unit on the team is most likely to exceed
expectations by the media and fan base and which will
be the one to most likely disappoint. I love this one,
and it's what I just talked about, right, the corners
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or maybe the secondary in general, Like, just look at
the makeup, look at the construction of the front seven
and how it plays with the skills in the secondary.
I think they're going to make more splash plays than
they have in a long time. The turnovers have been
a big problem for this team, and I think they're
perfectly adept for what we've wants to do and to
extend that special teams I think is going to be
way better this year. As far as what will be
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the most likely to disappoint, I might go with the
running backs, just because a chan I'm worried about the injury.
Jalen Wright hasn't taken that step like I thought he might,
and Alli Gordon as good as I think he can be,
you know, he's still a rookie, so I think you
can sometimes get over your ski on that. I'll go
ahead and go with running back, although I'm not super
convicted in that.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
And then a quick pause here.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
A few of you guys asked about waiver claims, but
that already passed by, so I just want to shout out.
Z Fly Goat and Kevin Garrard thirteen both asked about it.
So I want to give you guys some love here
on the show at call me Gamman. How would you
say two US training camp stacked up versus previous years?
I love this question. The first ten or so practices
he was just ripping that thing, but then production slowed
down at like practice number eleven and I've been trying
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to piece together how I feel about that in my
own head, but I think it's most likely because of
things that he and McDaniel and Jordan Brooks have talked about.
Right Brooks call it the hardest camp he's ever been
a part of, and Tua talked about how in the
past they were playing more for results. I think that
there was a lot more intentionality about trying to run
stuff into less favorable looks, And I get the sense
the more the closer we get to game week two
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was gonna feel like that player that had the donut
on deck for like a half hour, and once he
takes the donut off of his baseball bat, it just
becomes it feels like a toothpick in his hands, kind
of feel nice and smooth for him. So I think
that results wise, it was like middle of the pack,
like maybe maybe better than twenty and twenty twenty twenty
and twenty one, not as good as twenty two and
twenty three.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But I think there's intentionality behind that.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
At ARH Underscore seven to sixteen Dolphins question, from what
you've seen during training camp, do you believe this team
has what it takes to run the ball successfully. If
we lose Austin Jackson or alec Ingold to injury, they
are not the same without it. Yeah, definitely the most
important thing. Right with the front five, I have zero
questions about it. I think it's going to be a
top ten offensive line with those five. Now if they
get hurt, which happens all the time, it kind of
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depends on where it happens, right. I thought we had
questions at guard last year in terms of scheme fits,
and then when Austin went down, it really highlighted your
inability to get that athletic movement off the right side,
like Liam and Kendall Lamb were not scheme fits, they
were deficiencies. I think you're far more equipped to handle
that this year because the Guards are more athletic. James
Daniels is a massive upgrade, and if you go to
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Larry Borum, he's more in tune with how this offense plays,
so they have a much better chance to pivot their
run schemes if they need to. And Frank Smith said
as much at Gladiator seven to one. Did they learn
from their mistakes on not extending Robert Hunt sooner and
not to repeat the same thing with Aaron Brewer and
Brooks given what they want a new deal this summer.
We need to get both of them done. I'm just
(32:50):
gonna say signing a guard to a twenty million dollars
contract is bad business.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
And I still believe that. I'll always believe that.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I don't think you pay your guards like you know,
mid level starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Okay, I want to do this.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
Ten things I learned or ten things I was dead
wrong about to kind of just crap myself here a
little bit. Number one, Odell Beckham Junior. I don't feel
like this requires a dissertation. I thought his ability to
get vertical among Waddle and Rieke was going to open
up a new element of the offense. What I didn't
account for was a total self serving attitude, dancing after
(33:21):
catches of three yards, walking away from his teammates after
scoring touchdowns, not putting in the reps. And worked with
Tua to develop the chemistry dear like one on Travis
swinging a miss. Number two, the continuity on the offensive
line would mask the talent deficiency and the scheme fit
on the interior offensive line, and all the coaches of
this tree seemingly had to learn that at some point
(33:42):
or another, and I guess it was maybe one year
late for McDaniel, but I think they've corrected that this year.
But I was wrong, as was the team on that
number three draft misses Cam Smith and Mokamara, Right, I
was high on those guys, but I learned more about
the process of like what a guy's made of with
Cam Smith and then in terms of the overall skills
or traits of Mo Kamara, and this goes to Grayce
(34:03):
and Murphy as well, like you can look great against
the Mountain West, but if you don't have the requisite length,
you better be special in a different area. And I
should have been more privy to that in those misses.
Number four, David Long continued success. At this time last year,
I thought he was gonna be the guy alongside Jordan Brooks,
and then he goes on to have like two of
the worst tapes I've ever seen in my entire left.
That Cardinals tape was one of the worst linebacker tapes
(34:24):
I've seen. And now he's out of the league. And
like David Long was pretty good in twenty three, fell
off the face of the earth in twenty four, off
the radar. Here Cal Rawley, the man that has fifty bombs.
Right now, I have this thing about overweight baseball players.
I don't like him. I don't like when you can't
move across the bases. But Cal wasn't that, even though
he looked like it as a rookie. He's got like
(34:45):
fifteen steals this year and he was just a big
boned hell of a baseball player when he first got
to the show. I didn't like his approach, but now
he's one of the most disciplined hitters in the damn league.
We had plenty of others I called the rowdy t
lez DFA before it happened. He's a pile of stuff.
Same with Ty Frantz, Like, if you're slow and don't
(35:05):
drive the baseball, get the hell out of my league.
I put Cal out to pasture way too early, and
now he's the damn MVP of the American League, and
I'm thrilled about it. By the way, Manorer is gonna
win the World Series this year, we'll be visited that
November number six.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Javon Holland like, WHOA, that was bad, right.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I had some high expectations for him, but his last
two years were not good.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Chop Robinson.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
I thought he'd be an impact rusher, and I thought
maybe he wasn't worth the pick where he was because
of the lack of run defense success. But shut up, dude,
because he can't play with power. Number eight. I think
I said last year there was a chance the offense
there wouldn't be any chance that the offense wouldn't be
top ten. Well, hey, yeah, if the quarterback misses half
the season, then he will they will be that. They
scored twenty seven points per game with Tua, but it
(35:47):
wasn't you know, it wasn't good without him. Number nine.
I thought that golf was lame. That was my take
for the longest time. And God, what I was I wrong?
What a stupid take that was? Golf is this is
the stuff and the number ten Mike hillt him. I
was pretty adamant that he was gonna start nickel cornerback.
But I do feel like the fact that Jason Marshall
took that from him is more of a praise for
him rather than an indictment of Mike Hilton.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So there you go.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
That's my podcast, longer than I wanted to go today.
Thank you for your questions, Thank you for the week
of stuff with me here. It's been a fun training camp.
I'm so excited for the season. We have a brand
new episode of Dolphins HQ on the YouTube channel tonight
at six o'clock. Please watch that and share it and
like it and subscribe it, give me a comment on there.
Please help me get Dolphins HQ really rip it and
tear in this year. I want to get those numbers.
(36:30):
Those are ricky numbers. We got those numbers way up
this year. Please do your part to help me out
with that on the team YouTube channel. Watching it a
couple times, let it play in the background if you can.
And then tomorrow we're gonna come back and we're gonna
basically air that version of the episode on the podcast
to give our podcast only listeners a chance to hear
that as well as the August takeaways. Gonna take the
entire weekend off. Enjoy the college football Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
(36:51):
no podcast, Tuesday coming back with the season Prediction podcast,
and then Wednesday, Thursday Friday, it's all colts coverage until then,
you all, please be sure subscribe, rate review, you follow
me on social at Winkle NFL, the team at Miami Dolphins.
Check out that YouTube channel. Check out Miami Dolphins dot com.
Until next time, Finns up Caroline Cameron a willow daddy.
He's coming home.
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