July 15, 2025 • 46 mins
Our penultimate summer series episode takes of to the NFC East to preview the Eagles, Commanders, Cowboys and Giants. Plus, rookie QB Quinn Ewers and DT Zeek Biigers join Travis.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins?
And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show we continue our summer
series two more chats. Two Dolphins rookies, Quinn Yours and
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Zeke Biggers are with me on the podcast today. Plus
we have two divisions left in our twenty twenty five
comprehensive season preview. The NFC East Commanders, Eagles, Cowboys, and
Giants are on the clock today under the microscope from
the Baptist Hell Studios inside of my house. This is
the Drive Time Podcast. My guest today is new Dolphins
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quarterback quin Yours.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Quinn.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
How are we doing?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Ooh, appreciate you having me. I'm doing great, Excited for
the opportunity in front of me.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Should we unveil the secret off the top? Or should
we keep it a secret between you and I?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It depends.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
So Quinn, Quinn's going through a whole thing here today
with media available with media day and uh, the pads
are on. Man, We're ready to rock and roll. I
guess I just spoiled the secret, but you're ready to go?
How does it feel? To put that whole thing on
for the first time.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, man, it feels great. It's actually the second time. FLA.
That's right, that's right, But no, I mean it's great
to do a it's always funded interviews in full pads to.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Do it often.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, the time, the time.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So how's things been going for you? What's the about
two months here in South Florida. How's the experience going,
football life everything?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean, number one, it's been a lifelong dream of
mind to play for an NFL franchise and for for
it to be for it to come to fruition in
a place like this is beyond special and I wish
I could put it into words, but it's it's hard
to I think that there's not words that can just
can describe exactly how it felt to be drafted here
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and to be in the building here.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
When you say a place like this, like what can
you give you more detail?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah? I mean I think it's just like the people,
the cold sure, the coaches, the players that have built
this place up to where it is now, and it's
just been awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
To get to see.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Obviously you see it from the outside end and talk
about franchises and and one like this who you know,
we were big fans of at Texas. We took a
lot of stuff from from Coach McDaniels and the offensive
staff and we put it in our playbook at Texas.
And for for me to come here and kind of
see how they taught it and how it really is
supposed to be taught in certain certain ways and how
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they think it works and whatnot has been cool to do.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And see that's really cool. I mab're talking about that
one of your media availabilities when we first got drafted
about this kind of similarities in the offense there, has
that kind of helped you a little bit accelerate your
learning curve to the offense here.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I think it definitely helps, just being familiar with concepts.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's just different.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
They just verbalize it different here obviously, And but no,
we've we've done some of the same stuff obviously, and
I'm glad that get reps before getting here, honestly.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So it's been nice.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I was a Washington State grad so every time
I ce Sark, I'm like, ah, he got me a
few times back up. Yeah, have you been there. Okay, Yeah,
there's no reason for you to go there outside of
unless Texas played there, which we would never do a
home in home with Texas because that would not benefit
Texas the way would benefit Washington State. But I digress
with that, back to the offense stuff. I'm just curious because,
like you know, as as a person that struggled as
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a student my entire life for the most part, like
the idea of studying, especially when it becomes your job.
It's like kind of fascinating to me. What's that like
for you? Like, I mean, obviously you're not all the
way in a date in the offense, but how do
you kind of take it like step by step, block
by block to learn the offense? Is it just a
is it an approach like that? Are you trying to
like take it all in at once? Like what do
you how do you approach it?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I approach it block by block, just one in one
insall at a time, And so I think that's best
for me instead of trying to learn it all at once.
That's how I've always always learned best in my career,
whether it be in school or on the field, learning plays,
learning the playbook.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And I'm a visual person.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I gotta draw it all up and I got to
see it to combine and hear the words.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I gotta be able to.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Think in my mind and see the drawing that I
drew to completely visualize it. And that's that's how I
play my best.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's something that I think I
wish fans almost had more exposure to what you guys
have to do, because the checklist when you get like,
you know, the forty second clock where you get to
play call on your helmet and then you get to
the line scrimmage with what hopefully twenty fifteen seconds. Yeah right,
it would be great, But like, what's kind of going
through a quarterback's mind during those forty seconds?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Obviously, you gotta think about the down and distance before
you get the call, and whether it's you know, first
and ten second and five second and thirteen or a
third down. Then you gotta think, Okay, think back to
the film that you watched. You know, what are their
tendencies on this certain down? Where are we in the
red zone? Their red zone tendencies and are we a
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third down? Their third down? Blizz packages and then okay, yeah,
coaches talking to me in the play.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now I got to get the play.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh, and he's he's giving me a check to make
if they if they rolled a one high, or if
you know, the Mike linebacker's pushed over to the right,
and then you know you're you're tight end doesn't know
what he's doing. Now you got to tell you're tight end.
It's just there's a lot that goes with it, and
that's what makes it so fun. Yeah, and you know,
it's like you're playing a chess match against the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I apologize to the listeners because they're gonna hear this
a lot in these interviews. Do you do you play golf?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I like a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It kind of reminds me of like all the components
of a golf swing, right, Yeah, Like if one thing
is off, the whole thing can go to hell, for sure.
But like if you get it right and you peer it,
it's like touchdown pass. It's the best feeling in the world, right.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
There's nothing better.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, It's that's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So we've heard a lot of you know, discussion about
this time of year. We're doing this in June, so
you'll hear this, you know, sometime in June or July,
but during OTA's and all these practices, like this is
the one time a year where coaches can really work
on developing your technique and your fundamentals. Right, So what
does that look like for a rookie at a position
where you do have all this information to learn? Can
you still uh fine tune your craft from a physical
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standpoint while getting all the mental down?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, And like you said, this is a good time
for rookies to come in because you know, the coaches
are more focused on technique and obviously teaching us the
plays as well. But I mean this is just such
a timing and footwork driven offense.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think that that's been the biggest.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Learning curve for me is getting down all the different
footworks that we have here, whether it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Be a half roll or a rollout.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Or you know, just figuring out how to you know,
whether what the timing is on certain routes is But
it's again, it's that challenge that is fun for us.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So what's it like watching Tua with the footwork because
that's something that with him, Like I've seen this dude
interrupt a drop back and hitch up before he's supposed
to to like make the timing of the playwork because
there's a you know, von Miller's coming down the rights. Like, Yeah,
it's so much fun to watch on tape. What's it
been like to be around that guy and kind of
experience it for yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, you're completely right. He's got it down.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He's got it down pat He unders stands the timing
of all the plays and how it's supposed to look
and how it's supposed to work. I mean, he's been
fun to watch and it's good for me just to
see how he does it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I gotta flip it in my brain because he's a lefty. Yeah,
but no, he's been great, great to learn learn from,
great dude, fun to have, fun to be around.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Him in the meeting room.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What about the rest of the quarterback room that I know?
I know you work with obviously coach McDaniel and Frank
Smith as well, but Darryl Bevell just kind of getting
to know the coaching staff you mentioned the people. I'm
sure the three of those guys are three that you're
talking about there.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, No, for sure. Coach Bettle has been great for me.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He's a he's a great teacher of football, and I'm
just trying to learn as much as i can from him.
You know, he's he's been in the position that we're
in as a player, and you know, he's coaching.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
The big game.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So I'm just trying to be a sponge and learn
as much as I can from those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Are you familiar with the players that he's coaching his career,
like his resume? Yeah, it's crazy. It is crazy far
Rogers Russ Like he's just every guy who just boom
boom boom stuff after stud That's it's just a little
bit more personal stuff here away from the football. Just
a couple of mens with you here. Texas kid threw
and through right born and raised. So tell me about
your I know it's only two months in South Florida,
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but it's it's got to be a culture shock a
little bit at least. What's the difference between South Florida
and Texas two months in so far in your opinion?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, well, i'd say going to Mexican food places and
they're not being in the chips and Caeso number one.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Which I'm not sure how how that works.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But I'm a sucker for some chips case though, But
I mean it's been it's been awesome. Obviously I love Texas,
but being in South Florida has been been really fun.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's rural.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's like being in a sauna. Though still getting a
little used to that. It's a little different. So you
get some of that in Texas, but that's more East Texas.
But there's a mix of dry in that Texas heat.
Texas heat too. Out here there not so much.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
No, it's always humid and hot. It was hot right now.
My ac went out last night and we had fans
all over the all of the bedrooms, trying to keep
ourselves cool. But it happens sometimes, man, So humor me
here because I know you're you were like a big
hunter growing up. Your your draft party kind of got
some of the pub there among our beat writers in
your first press conference. But you're a big hunter, right, Yes.
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So my first question is are you familiar with my
new obsession, the YouTube channel Outdoor Boys.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, man, he stopped recording.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I know, That's how I find out about him. Oh really,
I know. I'm I'm i binge with my kids love it.
They want to watch camping videos.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It used to watch them all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, he's the man as me. Do you have anything
he did that he did in particularly that you like
the most.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, I mean any of his like survival tactics and
like tips that he gives out. Like I mean, he's
he lives in Alaska, I think, so all his Alaska
videos of him like going out in the forest and
like staying for four or five days and he just
builds a fire and then puts the hot holes under
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his bed so he doesn't freeze it dead. It's like, dude,
that takes a different mentality to go do that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But all his videos are cool.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I like his He's got cool like fishing videos, and
he's I think he's a hunter too. He's got some
hunting videos. He does it all. It's like who I
want to be when I grew up.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, you two little YouTube channel. I just saw one
other day where he like pulls a fish out of
the the river and like just punches it to like
kill it basically for you know, for the next process
of it. But yeah, it's fun stuff. Do you do
you have any dreams of maybe going up north to
do some hunting one day or.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, I mean I've hunted in New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, shot an elk up there, man, I'll I'll never
turn down a hunting.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Trip for good stuff. A right, Well, that's all the
time I have for you today, Dolphins quarterback Quinn. You
were Quinn. I appreciate it, patted it up, ready to
rock and roll. Have a good rest of the day, man,
and thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Doesn't he kind of have that like calming McConaughey, Texas
twang to him a little bit. I just listened back
to that as I put the podcast together, and it
just was like soothing to listen to the interview back again.
Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come
back on the other side and jump out to the
NFC East and preview that entire division Cowboys, Commanders, Eagle,
and Giants. That's Next Draft Time podcast, brought to you
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by Auto Nation. The Eagles will defend their Super Bowl
championship on opening night against the Dallas Cowboys. Talking about
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both those teams, Commanders and Giants. Here, as we go
ahead and kick it off with my best team in
the NFL. Hot take Travis, the champion from the previous year,
is your number one team in the power rankings. I've
been thinking a lot about how I would stack the
teams right now. Maybe I'll put something together for a
future podcast across all thirty two teams in the NFL.
We'll have the Prediction show for you guys at the
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end of training camp into September, when rosters get finalized
and we know what teams look like going into the
new campaign. Let's talk about this Eagles team trying to
mount a Super Bowl defense, trying to win their third
in since twenty seventeen. Not a math guy. The changes
for the Eagles, which is becoming the norm, is to
replace their staff annually, but this time, this time they
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get continuity on defense with a Vic Fangio really tethering
together that side of the ball after getting them playing
at a very high level last season. Offensively, it's on
from Kellen Moore to Kevin Patulo, and he was the
passing game coordinator for the last four years in Philadelphia.
But Moore also brought Doug Nussmeyer. He brought with him
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Doug Pagnetti and Kyle Valero to Nolins with him and
the personnel changes. Let's go ahead and start with the
out here because it is vast. Mackay Beckton was a
big piece of that dominant ground game they had last year.
But the Eagles burn and turn offensive lineman, so he
goes on the way out or in Berks, who stepped
in for the injrew to Kobe Dean late last year,
was a big part of that defense. Kenny gainwill Fred Johnson,
Devonte Maddox, Isaiah Rodgers, Josh Schwet, a bigger loss, James Bradberry,
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Nick Gates in a backup UNTI your offensive lineman, Darius
Slay and the biggest one because what you just heard
was really, you know, the hilary pieces they have to
shift and you know move every single season, as every
single team does. But they did lose one major, major
cornerstone in Milton Williams. Even though he only played forty
nine percent of their snaps last year, he was dominant
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in those snaps. But that core, it's still there. This
is what they do, right, They keep that core, They
move those ancillary pieces out and in and actually, first
get a load of this. They signed fourteen players and
he guesses how many of those guys were one year deals.
If you guessed all fourteen, then you win. The headliners
are at Aj Dillon the Packers running back Harris and
Bryant Adri Jackson from the Giants, josh U Ja aziz
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O Jalari the only one who cost more than two
million bucks, Kendall Lamb, Matt pryor Terrence Marshall Junior. So
they build through the draft. They kind of plug holes
one year at a time. They put money into void
years down the down the road. I mean, nobody who
has the most dead cap in the NFL over the
last like five plus years, you know, extended out over
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void years with the Philadelphia Eagles. So they figured it out.
They really know how to build the football team and
their roster are super strong. As a result, they're calling
card on film. The nice part for the sake of
this capsule is there's not going to be a ton
of change here. Have to imagine they promote from within
to keep things status quo. But of course there's always
variation with new people in charge of such high level operations,
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and perhaps that'll be a better thing, because quite frankly,
the Eagles passing offense was broken at times last year.
Their vertical passing game was non existent outside of just
one on one shots and let's go ahead and throw
it up and see what happens. And I say that
with them hitting big play after big play in the
Super Bowl and Jalen Hurts playing on time on the
money consistently in that game and even occasionally in the season.
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But it was just those one on one shots to
aj Brown who can out physical you and outrace you,
and DeVante Smith, who's one of the best playmakers in
the football in the entire league. There wasn't really a
rhyme or reason into how it worked. But when you
have the best offensive line, the best running back, the
best short yardge offense in the history of the National
Football League, and then a red zone offense, it's not
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far behind that. It just doesn't matter all that much.
They lean on Saquon Barkley in that run game, they'll
wear teams down, they'll win the matchups on the perimeter
when they get them, and really make life easy on Hurts.
With Brown Smith arguably the best one to two in
the game. I like the tight end room a lot
with Goddard and Calcaterra. Dylan makes a bunch of sense
in terms of what they do, even losing Becton, like
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Jordan Mylatta, is one of the best left tackles in football.
Lane Johnson might be the best right tackle in the
history of the game. Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurggens are
both Pro Bowl caliber interior guys, and Tyler Stem will
try to hold off a new acquisition, former first round
pick Kenyon Green at right guard. Frankly, I think Kendall
Lamb fits their scheme better than he fit ours with
the swing tackle. And then defensively, the reason that type
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of that brand of offense that can just kind of
squeeze life out of your works is because the godfather
if pattern and match quarter principles came in there and
put a stamp on that defense and got it playing
at a high level. They put smart athletes in position
to make quick decisions. They span the middle of the field,
but show different presentations where there's not a lot of
movement and activity beforehand to tip you off, and they
really do a good job of flooding the intermedia and
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deep areas to rally and tackle in the quick game.
With lengthy second level defenders, they can clamp it quickly
and make the theory of taking a profit not all
that profitable for a lack of a better term. They
also have dogs that can win one on one pass
rushes everywhere, which makes it a lot easier to implement
your unique zone front pairings with a really damn good
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back seven. Jealen Carter and Jordan Davis are beasts. Byron
Young and Ty Robinson are good, flexible defensive tackle defensive
end types that can spell them. Moro Ojomo is a
breakout candidate this year. Nolan Smith is freaky good off
the edge, and then Zach Bond was damn near the
defensive player of the year doing both edge and off
the ball stuff for them. Remember Fangio tried that little
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bit with Andrew van Ginkel and then settled on playing
him on the outside. I thought, rightfully, so well, Zach
Bond really took to that job and ran with it
and turned his career from like what did this guy?
You know? Was he worth the first round pick to
now one of the best players in the league. And oh,
by the way, they also drafted Jahad Campbell, who I
think is the next All Pro linebacker to play in
that defense as well. Sidney Brown filled it nicely for
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the role that Chauncey Gardner Johnson used to play. Red
Blankenship developed into a stud and then Quinnon Mitchell is
a great cornerback already. Cooper dejen is that too kind
of you know? Cater cooho with you the first round
traits and intangibles and has the Ramsey versatility qualities where
Keielee Ringo is just a good coverman to boot there.
So they're loaded all across the board. The question, I
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don't think you have any If they're not back in
the Super Bowl. I think they would consider it a failure.
The best you can come up with here is that
Hurts doesn't play the position the way it traditionally is,
and that's probably more just framing of something else, because
he's awesome and he plays his butt off in the
Super Bowl and he's there when his team needs it,
makes big plays in the big moments. Splitting hairs here
to put anything literally different here miscellaneous factors. They're the
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best team on everybody's schedule, and I don't think that
division is particularly hard by the rest of the NFL standards.
Then they get a bye in the middle of the season.
Now their last three games are Commander's Bills. Commanders. Now,
I guess if they went zero and three there, that
could cost them a division. But do we think that
will happen if they're healthy Relatively here's a stretch. Maybe
they play best when they're doubted, right, and now they're
the hunted, whereas last year they were coming off at
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disappointing season and not a lot of folks believed in them.
Calling for Nick Sirianni's job, I don't know, that's like
the best I can come up with there, because the
roster is really really good. The trapdoor scenario, if the
ice Caps melt exponentially and we have to vacate Earth
to Mars, that's about it. I suppose quarterback gets hurt. Obviously,
conclusion the best team in the conference. Don't think it's close.
You get that distinction when you win the conference hal
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game and the championship the Super Bowl by a combined
fifty points ninety five to forty five. The Washington Commanders
are the team they beat in that NFC Championship game.
And on one hand, the Commanders were the smartest pick
last year for me. In the entire prediction portion of
this podcast, when we're viewing the NFC East twelve months ago,
though I said the Commanders could be a surprise playoff
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team by winning a bad NFC East. But the problem
was I took down the Eagles in the statement and
that proved to be very stupid. So get one, give
one back, One step forward, one step back. The Commanders
are officially in pedal to the floor mode, as most
teams that have breakout star quarterbacks as a rookie do
in the second year of a five year rookie contract. Unfortunately,
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one of the bigger moves. They had suffered a season
ending injury in spring and Noah Brown, but they also
brought in Deebo Samuel Michael Gallup. They traded for Larry m. Tunzel.
They signed Nate Herbig on the offensive line. They added
Javon Kinlaw and Dietrich Wise to that defensive line, Jonathan Jones,
Will Harris and Jacob Martin to the back end Eddie Goldman.
They drafted Trey Amos, the Old Miss cornerback. Their first
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round pick was also a tackle in Josh Connerly. I
have to imagine their strategy was to lock down the
tackle spots for the remainders of Jade and Daniel's career,
and hopefully they have some of that with Josh Connery there.
I think they do. They also won without losing a coordinator.
Dan Quinn brings back Cliff Kingsbury, who seems to really
jive with that quarterback in a positive fashion for Washington
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and Joe Witt Junior on defense. They did lose a
couple of big names. Jonathan Allen I thought was a
very good player for a long time for them. Diami
Brown was a guy that I was talking about as like,
you know, our young Deebo Samuel Light if we went
after him in free agency. I believe it was kind
of him and Westbrook Akine where the two guys I
had targeted in free agency if it was affordable, Cornelius Lucas,
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Dante Fowler, mikel Walker, Jeremy Chin was a guy that
I also had in the Dolphins radar and then Benjamin
Saint Ju just all out the door as far as
they're calling card. The film offensively one of the cooler
adaptations of the classic air Raid, and by that I
mean the incorporation of the power run game, which is
kind of where you know, the college game implemented some
of the new stuff, right, And if you talk to
football coaches across the country, they'll tell you defensive innovation
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happens in the NFL. Offensive innovation happens at the high school.
In college level. Mike McDaniel might take offense to that,
but I think he's been one of the better innovators
for the last few years, especially with that exit motion
in twenty twenty three that took a league by storm.
But I mean, that's that's kind of what you get now.
That's what made you know, the Chip Kelly or rather
the excuse me, yeah, the Chip Kelly offense, and kind
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of how that pivoted into what became Mario Christobal football
with bow Nicks the spread power game. Right. You spread
it out and you run power football behind a really
good offensive line. You can't really contend with both on defense.
And that's kind of what the Commanders have brought here
with Jayden Daniels and his ability to run the football
and Cliff Kingsbury's air raids system. It's tough, man. You
put the second level of defense in an absolute bind
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when they have to be able to play ford and
backwards at the same speed with really good instincts to
do so, and then when you're trying to fit your gaps,
you know you can test with the wicked arm talent
and processing of Jad and Daniels, who took all of
one period last year in live practice to make me
be like, oh my god, that guy I got something
special over there, and I watched two every day, who
makes practice look like a cinch. But he can make
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a decision on where the ball is going to be,
and you know when it's before it snapped, and usually
he's right. Just when you think you've got all that
accounted for, he pulls the ball out of the belly's back,
the backs belly even and takes it around the edge
for a big game with his legs the way Cliff
and Jayden really stepped on the gas the midway point
further using his legs is one of the more impressive
things in the entire league. Last year, I thought it
catapulted them into a serious run. They create natural spacing
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and leverage with unbalanced formations pre snap motions to help
indicate the coverage. And that's all part of Daniel's you know,
superpower really on top of multiple other trades. But he
can really see it and rip it it's so much
fun to watch and so much to deal with for
a defense, and the personnel this year, to me is
like substantially better. I think Connorley will unseat Andrew Wiley
at right tackle, and if he's a guy that becomes available,
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I would be curious about a potential swing guy there maybe,
and that just gives you a, you know, a good
third option for the Commanders. I doubt they're going to
make him available for cheap, so maybe that's that's witch
we'll thinking. But Tunzel is still elite. Tyler Biattish is
a fairy good center, Nate Herbig probably fills him where
Sam Cosmey's recoming from an injury in the playoffs that
he suffered, and then Brandon Coleman the other guard. Scary
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Terry remains the man. I saw something a couple of
weeks ago about the potential of him holding out and
maybe getting moved to New England. I hope not because
he has been one of my favorite players in the
league for a long time and that will be ruined
if he goes to the AFC East. Outside of Miami,
Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler is a good one too,
not great or special, but they make it work, especially
with how the quarterback impacts the run game. Defensively, Dan
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Quinn loves him from cover one, Cover three, middlefield closed
that just means safety in the middle of the football field,
not split looks, and a lot of man coverage calls
and the zone calls that reinforce their man match principles,
which is starting zone when someone declares run with him,
stay in man coverage. Basically what man match means, and
that means you're only as good as a your coach
coaches it and be your players communicate it. And a
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lot of the time that stems from Bobby Wagner and
Frankie Luvu Gokook's being absolute monsters in the middle of
that defense. Quinn brought Doris Armstrong from Dallas with him,
got a resurgence from Deron Payin. Now he'll look to
do the same with Javon Kinlaw, who has been a
guy that pisses me off because I was so high
on him out of South Carolina and he wasn't good
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for the Niners. He wasn't good for the Jets, and
I just wanted to be like, why aren't you good?
You should be so good, and they also got some
nice step with Jacob Martin, Eddie Goldman and Dietrich Wise,
I think Jonathan Jones and Trey Amos are good scheme
fits and can kind of get them out of the
Emmanuel Forbes business who has not worked out for them.
Kwan Martin is that middle of the field piece that
really shapes the back end of the defense. And I
freaking love Mike Sandra still the slot second year player
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out of Michigan, with Marshawn Lattimore being a perfect fit
for that system too. So the question, I guess sometimes
it's easy to point to a team that goes on
a run as an arrive you know, an arriving team
as an annual contender. Let me rephrase that. Sometimes we
get excited about a team that goes on a run
and say like, oh, there, suddenly here is an an
merging contender. And that's where I pump the brakes and
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be like, you got to earn that man, like you
have to Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, Philly. At this point,
you don't get to have one year and put yourself
in that class. You have to do it for a
few years. Like I would still consider San Francisco in
that class more than Washington, just because I you know,
I've seen San Francisco bounce back and do it multiple
years in a row. I'm very bullish on the Commanders,
but I thirty eight years in this place and watching
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this sport has taught me like not one year doesn't
solidify anything, like things can happen. So I'm just gonna
be patient with that. But luckily for them, the quarterback
is elite, so not much else matters when you have that.
If he's not in your top ten already, you're doing
it wrong. I think you could be dubious about the
offensive weapons. I think Samuel is well past his prime,
so whatever they get from him to me's a bonus.
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And there are some questions on the interior offensive line
as well. I feel pretty good about that defense, just
adding what dan quinnin still because he's a great coach.
Miscellaneous factors. Eagles twice, AFC West and NFC North probably
the two best divisions they'll play. Love Gino Pennix, Herbert
Daktip twice, Mahomes Goff, Tua Knicks, and Jalen Hurts twice.
That's twelve really good quarterbacks. Out of seventeen the trapdoor scenario.
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As good as he was, he still scares the hell
out of me with the way he plays in his
body type. He's thin and he throws his body around.
He had the rib injury and struggle after that for
a couple of weeks, but then returned to his dominance.
I know Mariota played well in the pinch last year,
but I think the ship is tethered to the quarterback
here like it is anywhere else. And also I felt
this way last year they would after some free agents
that were just like old or quite frankly, weren't like
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big time players like kin Law this year, like Eckler
was slow, Dietrich wise is getting old, Deebo looks like
he's passed his prime. It's just an interesting approach, and
I wonder if they can trike Gold there. Again the conclusion,
I don't think they're a threat to the Eagles yet,
but who is? But I think you can pencil them
into the wild card spot like they did last year.
They're a better football team. I think the quarterback will
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get better, but I would caution against the offense taking
major leaps forward just because it's year two. Member of progress.
It's not always linear. We've seen really good quarterbacks have
really good rookie years and struggle in year two. I
don't think it'll happen, but I just think about it
because it happens all the time. The Dallas Cowboys, Mike
McCarthy is out, Brian Schottenheimer is in, and the whole
staff is new too, Clayton Adams on offense, Matt Ebrafus
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on defense. It's kind of crazy that this is where
they went right. I'm not gonna take shots, but what
is it about Shy's resume that screams head coach? It's
it was totally out of left field, and changes like
that typically come with plenty of personnel changes. The big
splash was getting Ceedee Lamb a dynamic number two, and
they did that. George Pickens headlines their incoming crop. Also
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Miles Sanders, Javonte Williams. That's what they did, and they
lost Rico Daddell. So the running back position was already
dire and it got worse. Robert Jones, Achema Denji on
the offensive line, Dante Fowler and Peyton Turner. The pass rusher,
Sawomon Thomas and Jack Samborn. They also traded for Kenneth Murray,
Kyer Elam and Joe Milton's three picks for guys that
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have bad tape but all right on the way out,
Cooper Rush, Trey Lance, Rigo Daddle, Brandon Cooks, who you
guys know how I love Burnon Cooks, Zach Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence,
Carl Lawson, Linval, Joseph, Eric Kendricks, Jordan Lewis was one
of the best lots in the game. Like usually I
can get excited about a lot of rosters because you
get you know, full health and they look pretty good.
But this one's like, what what's going on here? The film?
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I don't really know. The Shoddy I know is the
ball control. Any drive that ends in a kick is
a good drive. Let's try to win the game in
the fourth quarter approach like Dave Wanstead used to do.
He was the offensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy. But there
weren't They weren't from the same tree, So it's a
bit of mystery in terms of how much we'll stay
in place versus Shoddy incorporating his own flavor. But I
would be very surprised if it weren't a run first
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type of approach, get it, imnageable third downs and go
from there. But then I look at their offense and
I question that because of the investment at the running
back position. Is not what you expect from a team
that wants to be that. And with Dak and Lamb
and Pickens, you imagine the ball is going to be
going up. I hope it is. I think a power
run game that builds in play action shots is the
most likely formula there. Plankton. You've got Jalen Tolbert and
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Cavante Turpin who can both go get it, a nice
collection of tight ends, and Luke scoon Maker and Jake Ferguson.
So some twelve personnel power run game with the vertical
passing game built off of that. Use Pickens for your
vertical stretch, your run game to influence the second level,
and try to get Lamb single coverage in the intermediate.
I'm Ron Burgundy. The line has undergone serious change, and
we know they'll play man gap because they spent the
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eleventh to picking the draft on Tyler Booker, who was
never going to play for the Miami Dolphins. No matter
how much you might have heard that he was. You
don't do that if you want to run zone, because
Booker doesn't block in zone. Cooper BB and Tyler Smith
are the other interior guys. Tyler Geiton and Terren Steele
are on the outside. It's not the Cowboys line of old,
but it ain't bad Defensively. Iber Flus earned a head
coaching job through a soft and off zone approach in
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Philly that utilized four man rushes to impact the passer
and defend the middle of the field with speed. It
never really took in Chicago, but he'll have to sort
of overhaul things from a previous scheme that was an
entirely different approach. I don't know what entices you to
trade for Kenneth Murray, who we've seen two will put
him in a binder several times in his career. And
I don't know why they did much of what they did.
All these additions were cast off players like it's not shaite,
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it's just the facts, right. I did like their first
two draft picks and Donovan Izuraku and Chavon revel I pronunciation, man,
it tricks me crazy. Trevon digs we back from the
injury with Deron Bland. Malie Hooker is a player that
I quite like. I think he's a critical feature fixture
of playing those two high structures that allows him to
kind of roll downhill because he just loves to play,
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you know, moving towards the line of scrimmage and then
having Micah Parsons and Osa Odigi Zua is a deadly combination.
Build everything off that and you're gonna be Okay, the
question first time head coach in his twenty eighth year
of coaching football in a place where, let's be real,
it's about as high stress as it gets in sports.
Head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. They're pivoting defensive schemes
without yeah, without really a total personnel overhaul. And we
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say this with every team, but Dak's off of his
third season ending injury in his career. As long as
he's in there, they'll win games. But it's worth pointing out.
And I don't think that Pickens is gonna like the
offense they run. I think that line is the worst
it's been in a long time. And without a power
run game, I think it could put more pressure on
Dak and it could change and kind of, you know,
make them rethink the way they want to do things
if they do it the way I think they will
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do it. The miscellaneous factors. I'm curious to see what
the offense looks like, and I think you could make
the case that you're getting some friction in terms of
approach and personnel. But it's also very possible that I'm
completely wrong. I'm fascinated. He either looks like schedule isn't
too crazy. Giants, Bears, Jets, Panthers within the first six games.
They need a fast start there the trapdoor scenario, well,
quarterback getting hurt, offensive line attrition, lack of running game
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killed them last year, and they addressed it with you know,
Javonte Williams, who just has not been the same back
he was in North Carolina, and Miles Sanders, who's been
looking for a couple of teams in a couple of
years now. Defensive schemes shifts sometimes take a while to jail.
That could be a bottom out scenario as well. This
feels like a transition year, but it also felt that
way in Washington last year. Plus Dak is still a
good player. As long as he's playing, I think they'll
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be in games if he goes down. I think this
could be a rough season, and I wouldn't even put
him in the playoffs. With Dak playing every game this season,
the Giants personnel wise, it's time for the Giants to win.
I have a friend that grew up a Giants fan,
die hard, and he complains all the time about how
the current team is terrible. And I always say, dude,
you saw two Super Bowls? Do you know what I
would do for just one? But now it's like outside
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of that magic carpet ride playoffs. Heason in twenty two.
The most games they've won since twenty sixteen is six three, five, four, six, four, nine,
six and three. That's taxing, brother. I'm glad they retained
Brian Dable. I think he deserves a shot to develop
a quarterback, and now he's got that chance in Jackson Dart.
He retains the majority of his staff, including the offensive
coordinator and DC and Mike Kafka and Shane Bowen. This
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quarterback room is all new. Russ and Jamis with the
rookie and Tommy Cutlet's other imports, Abdul Carter. What a
great pick that was for them, Roy Robertson, Harris Paulson, Dedibo,
I loved his tape for the Saints last year, Javon Holland,
Chris Board, Chauncey Golston, James Hudson, Stone Forsyth. I love
their third round pick Darius Alexander two. So a good
draft class year for the Giants. On the way out,
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Dory Jackson, Jason Pinnock, aziz O Jelari, Isaiah Simmons, and
Drew Locke the calling card on film for this offense.
Who remembers the left lane offense? Aggressive, That's what they
called it in Miami right when Dave Ball is here. Stable,
But I think the way he's adapted, the way he
sequences is what makes him special as a play caller.
It's like an extremely high level processor with quick recall,
and it allows him to see the game like a quarterback.
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Every moving part has a solution, and he needs a
quarterback that can do all of that. I don't think
that was Daniel Jones's forte and as well as he
played at times, I don't think it was ever Drew
Locke's strength. Oddly, both veteran acquisitions that ain't their game either.
You know, Russ doesn't see the field very well and
Jamis is a you know, fit someone's down there, And frankly,
I thought Jackson Dart was one of the worst decision
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makers of all the draftable quarterbacks this year, and we
saw that must pass late game situations like I don't know, man,
I don't know. I didn't see it there. But the
lead dog is Tyrone Tracy. He had a nice season
last year. Devin Singletary and Cam Scatibo are guys that
people are fired up about there. The offensive line has
a beast and Andrew Thomas. The other starters are John Runyon,
John Michael Schmidtz, Greg Van Rotten wrote and sorry and
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Jermaine Illuminor I mean not great. That's been a problem
there for a long time, right. And the thing I'm
most excited about with the Giants is Malik Neighbors. But
I do wonder how they can relieve pressure off of him.
No shade to Darius Slayton, Wandel Robinson, Zach Pascale, but
they're not taking attention of attention off Mylik Neighbors, who
can still score two hundred can gain two hundred yards
in a game where he is getting attention. But for
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Shane Bowen, conversely, I think the name of the game
for their defense is simplicity. Wink Martindell goes back to
Michigan and they went from this aggressive, play in your face,
go down swinging approach to letting the game kind of
come to them with mixed results. Now they want to
get more pressure with four, where Wink wanted to devise
pressure through scheme. I just don't think there's enough innovation there.
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There are some names on defense, you know, Abdul Carter
and Brian Burns and Kavon Thibodeau is pretty fun and
that tracks with Joe Shane last offseason saying that Shane
Bowen would value edge rushers more than Wink did. Well,
now they've got three really good ones. They've also got
the best pass rushing nos maybe ever in Sexy Dexi.
Bobby Okeriiki is a damn good Mike linebacker. So they've
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got pieces there. They add paulse and Thedebo and Javon
Holland to a secondary that had Tyler Neuban and deontaey Banks.
I kind of can't believe that eight got what he got,
but I'll take the compick for it. That backfield I
think is going to struggle, you know, you know not
any more than the offense will tank them, but I
think it's going to be the death neal of them.
The question I have is how quickly a brand new
quarterback room can pick up this complex, high level offense,
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and how would this team absorb a slow start. They
have to start fast, and that requires playing good offense early.
I think it's fair to question what the plan was
at week one for quarterback, and I imagine it's Russell Wilson.
I haven't really tapped into Giants like you know, spring ball,
but I imagine it's Russell Wilson. And I thought the best
day ball Giants team was when Daniel Jones ran a
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simple RPO type of offense. That's not Russ's game anymore.
So I guess I don't need to go beyond that.
But the connectivity between coach and quarterback is at the
forefront of my questions miscellaneous factors. It feels like a
real line of demarkation between the Eagles Commanders and then
Giants and Cowboys. The out of division schedule is tough.
I mentioned the need for a fast start. They go Commanders, Cowboys, Chiefs, Chargers,
then you get Saints, Eagles, Broncos, Eagles, like the Saints,
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are the only team they're going to be favored against
in that stretch of games. The trap door scenario does
not apply here. The conclusion, I thought I might be
more bullish on the Giants than I have been in
a long time, But then I deep dive their tape
and their construction of their roster, and I'm as turned
off as I've ever been. I don't believe in any
of the quarterbacks, especially not in this system. The line
has not been good, they have one eligible that scares teams,
and I don't think they're well coached. On defense. I
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think the optimist will say the Dart is an immediate
hit and starts Week one, and he and neighbors carry
an offense that is supported by a filthy pass rush.
But I think that schedule some of the questions. I
think we're probably still at least a year away Division superlatives.
Eagles are the winners. Obviously, the best quarterback I'm given
to the second year player, Jayden Daniels. I'm not giving
to the Super Bowl MVPD, and that crazy best non
quarterback on offense is Sae Kwon Barkley. The best defensive
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players mikeah Parsons. The best head coach is Dan Quinn,
and the best rookie for me is going to be
for the Eagles as well, Jahad Campbell, and my under
the radar stud is Eagle safety Read Blankenship. Let's go
ahead and take our last break right there. Long episode today,
come back on the other side. Zeke Biggers joins me.
That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.
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Joining us today on the Drive Time podcast is new
Dolphins offensive lineman Zeke big Or Zeke. What's up? Man?
How are we doing good?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Man?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Not too bad? I can't complain. So I don't think
you and I have had a chance to really speak
since uh draft night, when you when you got your
your first zoom call there with local media. But can
you just take us through what the experience has been
like so far, a couple of months since you got drafted.
What's it been like to be a Dolphin and be
a pro football player?
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Man, the experience has been really great. I can't complain,
not taking anything for granted, but just coming in every
day and working, just getting down here and meeting the guys,
meeting all the coaches and just building a bond and
building that chemistry within the team already and then getting
into OTA's and stuff like that where we're out there
practising learning. So I've just been trying to kind of
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clean to the older guys and learn as much as
I can, because we got guys in the room like
Zach Steeler who's had tense as back to back years,
so putting on a pretty good career. So guys like
that you just got to sit there and learn from.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Is that something that you knew about or did did
they tell you that about Zach's tent?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I watched him. That's some obviously you look at some
of the chickens, a lineman and the top guy's gonna
pop up. I've definitely seen him.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
You like washing him, You like washing this tape.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yeah, I've been like just looking back on an old
film and kind of just seeing how because we kind
of played the same position like a big and three test,
So just kind of just seeing how he how he
got to making those players, Just seeing his knowledge of
the game and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
You mentioned playing that position. You play all over the place,
right like you can Georgia Tech there and certainly here
as a pro as well. What's the key to being
so versatile for a defensive lineman up front?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Like that?
Speaker 4 (38:34):
I feel like being versatile Obviously they you can get
picked up longer, so guys are gonna like you to
do more that you can. And then availability is kind
of a big thing too. So being a guy that
can fit into any position. You can go out there
and play nos, go out there, play through tech or
go out there play five. You're gonna like they're gonna
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want that a lot. So definitely just being versatile in
that way.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Do those different spots change the way you like read
blocks or keys? Like, is it different anyway?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
H Yeah, you have to something on the edge. It's
a little bit like take along a longer time to
kind of play to develop.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Well, like inside the play developed real fast, like as
soon as the boss snap, you got two guys on
you trying to double team. So, uh, just just that
asset of it that's really the biggest team.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That reaction time in the interior that happens quick. Right.
You were saying you mentioned the coaching staff a little
bit earlier. I would be remiss if I don't talk
to you about coach Austin Clark who is one of
my favorite human beings we've ever met. We've got a
chance to know Coach here for several years now. Initial
impressions of Coach Clark would.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Be initial impression, Yeah, great coach off the field, funny guy,
he's gonna crack jokes. But once we on that field,
he's a different guy. He's he knows how to flip
that switch and really coach you, and he expects greatness
out of you every day. So if you're not giving
him that, he's going to be on you really hard.
So I really like that out of a coach, like
just pushing me to being great. And he's been a
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lot of things that I didn't know I could do.
So just sitting there listening to him and trying to
implement everything he's saying to my game has really been
a big thing.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
One of the things I hear most about him is
how he is very clear about how his messaging is
but what he wants right, it's a very direct He's
gotten that same depression.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah, definitely, he's gonna he's gonna do it. Went one
way and he knows that way he's working. So he's
had multiple guys that went got paid or is still
here getting paid and out there playing great football. So
he's definitely condit it to one way and he's making
it work.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
So yeah, one of his first years here it was
basically Christian Wilkins actually learned Raykwon Davis for all we're
all new and he they all went on to become
really really good players. So now you guys, you guys
are that kind of the next group there. And with
that in mind, I mean yourself, Jordan obviously, kg a
uh Huntly alex un Sorry got almost almost at a
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j hanting the receiver. Some of those names confused me.
But four rookies in that room, I that's that's a
pretty good crop of young players. Have you guys had
a chance to kind of bond over this shared experience?
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Oh yeah, we all close obviously being close with your
position group, but we all crack jokes and everything, but
we know, like when we step on the field, we're
trying to push each other get better as we are
competing in a sense, but just not letting it be
just competition with us, let it fall into being a brotherhood.
And so guys just been pushing each other like knowing
that's what we want on the weekends, we might come
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in and work work out together, doing like footwork or
something that coach might say we need to work on.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
So just things like that.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Man, it seems like, and this is like a cliche
you hear across the league all the time, but it
seems like the guys we brought in, the young players,
the rookies, the draft picks, like their love for football,
Your guys just love for football just seems to be
unanimous across the board. Coming on weekends to work out.
That's I mean that kind of tracks how much you guys,
how much it means to you. You see that same thing.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Yeah, for sure, I feel like from DB's wide receiver,
I feel like everybody like you coming on the weekends.
You think you're not gonna see no rookies in here,
you see them every day getting recovery. That that's getting
the sign of hot tels, cold tous, or that's out
on the field just getting used to the heat, walking
around the field, just visitalizing certain things. So you just
it's just a it's a great thing. Like all of us,
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I can say, we all came in here and ready
to work and ready to take on the challenge and
come in here and essicially take somebody's job, but at
the same time just go out there and put our
best fool for it. So I feel like as rookie class,
we have been doing that so far.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Fans are gonna love to hear that. So we get
training camp coming up here in about a month and
a half. I want to ask you about your summer
plans here in one second. But you got to be stoked.
I mean, I know, Lineman to throw the pads on, right,
and then we get the fans out here for the
first time. They'll be chanting your guys' names and going crazy.
How excited a you for training camp and putting pads on,
going hitting somebody.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
I'm super excited, ready to hit somebody because you know Ota,
y'all you got on so it's like it's not too
much physical. You hit somebody, you might get in trouble
out there. But once we pass come on, a lot,
a lot more hitting, a lot more violence is going
to come up. Like you're gonna see a lot of
more power rushes from everybody's boiling. Yeah, So I'm really
excited to put on the path, especially I haven't put
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it on since like last time, I had an own
December of the ball game. So definitely ready to get
out there and put them pass on and just see
the atmosphere of the fans coming to see us practice,
because that's gonna be a first for me, just having
fans that practice and everything.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
So yeah, it's electric, man, Especially the joint practices are
my favorit ones we get to see every single year.
So a couple of months here in South for the
last question for you here. Obviously there's a lot to
do down here, but any summer plans, you're gonna stay around,
You're gonna go back home. What's the plan for the summer?
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna probably go back home for a
couple of days see my family. I ain't really I've
been kind of a lock in, so I ain't been
talking to them as much as I used to. But
definitely go home, see my family, chill with them for
a little bit, and then come I'm gonna come back
here and then get right back to working on because
I don't want to let myself get out of shape
or nothing like that. Just so just come back and
get ready for turning camps. I'll go out there and
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ball out.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
If you're going to bring your family down here, what's
like one tourist that you'd want to do, like fan
boat ride in the Upper Glade, Maybe you want to
go deep sea fishing or something in the south forda
you want to do definitely.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
So I'm from the country, so I take my family fishing.
Just the fishing spots out here. I've been trying to
look for and see finding a good place to go
or something like that. So like one weekend, I'm probably
going to probably this weekend I might try to go
do that, but definitely if I bring my film down here,
We're going to fish somewhere.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Good stuff. See appreciate your time today. New Dolphins offensive
lineman Zeke Bigger's best lucky season man, and thanks for
your free time.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
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This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. What is up Dolphins?
And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast. I am your host,
Travis Wingfield. And on today's show we continue our summer
series two more chats. Two Dolphins rookies, Quinn Yours and
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Zeke Biggers are with me on the podcast today. Plus
we have two divisions left in our twenty twenty five
comprehensive season preview. The NFC East Commanders, Eagles, Cowboys, and
Giants are on the clock today under the microscope from
the Baptist Hell Studios inside of my house. This is
the Drive Time Podcast. My guest today is new Dolphins
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quarterback quin Yours.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Quinn.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Man?
Speaker 1 (00:48):
How are we doing?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Ooh, appreciate you having me. I'm doing great, Excited for
the opportunity in front of me.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Should we unveil the secret off the top? Or should
we keep it a secret between you and I?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (00:56):
It depends.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
So Quinn, Quinn's going through a whole thing here today
with media available with media day and uh, the pads
are on. Man, We're ready to rock and roll. I
guess I just spoiled the secret, but you're ready to go?
How does it feel? To put that whole thing on
for the first time.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Yeah, man, it feels great. It's actually the second time. FLA.
That's right, that's right, But no, I mean it's great
to do a it's always funded interviews in full pads to.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Do it often.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, the time, the time.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
So how's things been going for you? What's the about
two months here in South Florida. How's the experience going,
football life everything?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Yeah, it's been great.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean, number one, it's been a lifelong dream of
mind to play for an NFL franchise and for for
it to be for it to come to fruition in
a place like this is beyond special and I wish
I could put it into words, but it's it's hard
to I think that there's not words that can just
can describe exactly how it felt to be drafted here
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and to be in the building here.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
When you say a place like this, like what can
you give you more detail?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
What do you mean by that?
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah? I mean I think it's just like the people,
the cold sure, the coaches, the players that have built
this place up to where it is now, and it's
just been awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
To get to see.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Obviously you see it from the outside end and talk
about franchises and and one like this who you know,
we were big fans of at Texas. We took a
lot of stuff from from Coach McDaniels and the offensive
staff and we put it in our playbook at Texas.
And for for me to come here and kind of
see how they taught it and how it really is
supposed to be taught in certain certain ways and how
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they think it works and whatnot has been cool to do.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
And see that's really cool. I mab're talking about that
one of your media availabilities when we first got drafted
about this kind of similarities in the offense there, has
that kind of helped you a little bit accelerate your
learning curve to the offense here.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Yeah, I think it definitely helps, just being familiar with concepts.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It's just different.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
They just verbalize it different here obviously, And but no,
we've we've done some of the same stuff obviously, and
I'm glad that get reps before getting here, honestly.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So it's been nice.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So I was a Washington State grad so every time
I ce Sark, I'm like, ah, he got me a
few times back up. Yeah, have you been there. Okay, Yeah,
there's no reason for you to go there outside of
unless Texas played there, which we would never do a
home in home with Texas because that would not benefit
Texas the way would benefit Washington State. But I digress
with that, back to the offense stuff. I'm just curious because,
like you know, as as a person that struggled as
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a student my entire life for the most part, like
the idea of studying, especially when it becomes your job.
It's like kind of fascinating to me. What's that like
for you? Like, I mean, obviously you're not all the
way in a date in the offense, but how do
you kind of take it like step by step, block
by block to learn the offense? Is it just a
is it an approach like that? Are you trying to
like take it all in at once? Like what do
you how do you approach it?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I approach it block by block, just one in one
insall at a time, And so I think that's best
for me instead of trying to learn it all at once.
That's how I've always always learned best in my career,
whether it be in school or on the field, learning plays,
learning the playbook.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
And I'm a visual person.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
I gotta draw it all up and I got to
see it to combine and hear the words.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
I gotta be able to.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Think in my mind and see the drawing that I
drew to completely visualize it. And that's that's how I
play my best.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's something that I think I
wish fans almost had more exposure to what you guys
have to do, because the checklist when you get like,
you know, the forty second clock where you get to
play call on your helmet and then you get to
the line scrimmage with what hopefully twenty fifteen seconds. Yeah right,
it would be great, But like, what's kind of going
through a quarterback's mind during those forty seconds?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, I mean there's a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Obviously, you gotta think about the down and distance before
you get the call, and whether it's you know, first
and ten second and five second and thirteen or a
third down. Then you gotta think, Okay, think back to
the film that you watched. You know, what are their
tendencies on this certain down? Where are we in the
red zone? Their red zone tendencies and are we a
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third down? Their third down? Blizz packages and then okay, yeah,
coaches talking to me in the play.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Now I got to get the play.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh, and he's he's giving me a check to make
if they if they rolled a one high, or if
you know, the Mike linebacker's pushed over to the right,
and then you know you're you're tight end doesn't know
what he's doing. Now you got to tell you're tight end.
It's just there's a lot that goes with it, and
that's what makes it so fun. Yeah, and you know,
it's like you're playing a chess match against the defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
I apologize to the listeners because they're gonna hear this
a lot in these interviews. Do you do you play golf?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I like a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
It kind of reminds me of like all the components
of a golf swing, right, Yeah, Like if one thing
is off, the whole thing can go to hell, for sure.
But like if you get it right and you peer it,
it's like touchdown pass. It's the best feeling in the world, right.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
There's nothing better.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yeah, It's that's kind of fun.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Man.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So we've heard a lot of you know, discussion about
this time of year. We're doing this in June, so
you'll hear this, you know, sometime in June or July,
but during OTA's and all these practices, like this is
the one time a year where coaches can really work
on developing your technique and your fundamentals. Right, So what
does that look like for a rookie at a position
where you do have all this information to learn? Can
you still uh fine tune your craft from a physical
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standpoint while getting all the mental down?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Yeah, And like you said, this is a good time
for rookies to come in because you know, the coaches
are more focused on technique and obviously teaching us the
plays as well. But I mean this is just such
a timing and footwork driven offense.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
I think that that's been the biggest.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Learning curve for me is getting down all the different
footworks that we have here, whether it.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Be a half roll or a rollout.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Or you know, just figuring out how to you know,
whether what the timing is on certain routes is But
it's again, it's that challenge that is fun for us.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
So what's it like watching Tua with the footwork because
that's something that with him, Like I've seen this dude
interrupt a drop back and hitch up before he's supposed
to to like make the timing of the playwork because
there's a you know, von Miller's coming down the rights. Like, Yeah,
it's so much fun to watch on tape. What's it
been like to be around that guy and kind of
experience it for yourself.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, you're completely right. He's got it down.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
He's got it down pat He unders stands the timing
of all the plays and how it's supposed to look
and how it's supposed to work. I mean, he's been
fun to watch and it's good for me just to
see how he does it.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
But you know, it's funny.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I gotta flip it in my brain because he's a lefty. Yeah,
but no, he's been great, great to learn learn from,
great dude, fun to have, fun to be around.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Him in the meeting room.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What about the rest of the quarterback room that I know?
I know you work with obviously coach McDaniel and Frank
Smith as well, but Darryl Bevell just kind of getting
to know the coaching staff you mentioned the people. I'm
sure the three of those guys are three that you're
talking about there.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, No, for sure. Coach Bettle has been great for me.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
He's a he's a great teacher of football, and I'm
just trying to learn as much as i can from him.
You know, he's he's been in the position that we're
in as a player, and you know, he's coaching.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
The big game.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
So I'm just trying to be a sponge and learn
as much as I can from those guys.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Are you familiar with the players that he's coaching his career,
like his resume? Yeah, it's crazy. It is crazy far
Rogers Russ Like he's just every guy who just boom
boom boom stuff after stud That's it's just a little
bit more personal stuff here away from the football. Just
a couple of mens with you here. Texas kid threw
and through right born and raised. So tell me about
your I know it's only two months in South Florida,
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but it's it's got to be a culture shock a
little bit at least. What's the difference between South Florida
and Texas two months in so far in your opinion?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, well, i'd say going to Mexican food places and
they're not being in the chips and Caeso number one.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Which I'm not sure how how that works.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
But I'm a sucker for some chips case though, But
I mean it's been it's been awesome. Obviously I love Texas,
but being in South Florida has been been really fun.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
It's rural.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
It's like being in a sauna. Though still getting a
little used to that. It's a little different. So you
get some of that in Texas, but that's more East Texas.
But there's a mix of dry in that Texas heat.
Texas heat too. Out here there not so much.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
No, it's always humid and hot. It was hot right now.
My ac went out last night and we had fans
all over the all of the bedrooms, trying to keep
ourselves cool. But it happens sometimes, man, So humor me
here because I know you're you were like a big
hunter growing up. Your your draft party kind of got
some of the pub there among our beat writers in
your first press conference. But you're a big hunter, right, Yes.
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So my first question is are you familiar with my
new obsession, the YouTube channel Outdoor Boys.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, man, he stopped recording.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I know, That's how I find out about him. Oh really,
I know. I'm I'm i binge with my kids love it.
They want to watch camping videos.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
It used to watch them all the time.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Yeah, he's the man as me. Do you have anything
he did that he did in particularly that you like
the most.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Yeah, I mean any of his like survival tactics and
like tips that he gives out. Like I mean, he's
he lives in Alaska, I think, so all his Alaska
videos of him like going out in the forest and
like staying for four or five days and he just
builds a fire and then puts the hot holes under
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his bed so he doesn't freeze it dead. It's like, dude,
that takes a different mentality to go do that.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
But all his videos are cool.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
I like his He's got cool like fishing videos, and
he's I think he's a hunter too. He's got some
hunting videos. He does it all. It's like who I
want to be when I grew up.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah, you two little YouTube channel. I just saw one
other day where he like pulls a fish out of
the the river and like just punches it to like
kill it basically for you know, for the next process
of it. But yeah, it's fun stuff. Do you do
you have any dreams of maybe going up north to
do some hunting one day or.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Yeah, I mean I've hunted in New Mexico.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay, shot an elk up there, man, I'll I'll never
turn down a hunting.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
Trip for good stuff. A right, Well, that's all the
time I have for you today, Dolphins quarterback Quinn. You
were Quinn. I appreciate it, patted it up, ready to
rock and roll. Have a good rest of the day, man,
and thank you for your time.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Yeah, I appreciate it. Thanks.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Doesn't he kind of have that like calming McConaughey, Texas
twang to him a little bit. I just listened back
to that as I put the podcast together, and it
just was like soothing to listen to the interview back again.
Let's go ahead and take a break right there, come
back on the other side and jump out to the
NFC East and preview that entire division Cowboys, Commanders, Eagle,
and Giants. That's Next Draft Time podcast, brought to you
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by Auto Nation. The Eagles will defend their Super Bowl
championship on opening night against the Dallas Cowboys. Talking about
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both those teams, Commanders and Giants. Here, as we go
ahead and kick it off with my best team in
the NFL. Hot take Travis, the champion from the previous year,
is your number one team in the power rankings. I've
been thinking a lot about how I would stack the
teams right now. Maybe I'll put something together for a
future podcast across all thirty two teams in the NFL.
We'll have the Prediction show for you guys at the
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end of training camp into September, when rosters get finalized
and we know what teams look like going into the
new campaign. Let's talk about this Eagles team trying to
mount a Super Bowl defense, trying to win their third
in since twenty seventeen. Not a math guy. The changes
for the Eagles, which is becoming the norm, is to
replace their staff annually, but this time, this time they
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get continuity on defense with a Vic Fangio really tethering
together that side of the ball after getting them playing
at a very high level last season. Offensively, it's on
from Kellen Moore to Kevin Patulo, and he was the
passing game coordinator for the last four years in Philadelphia.
But Moore also brought Doug Nussmeyer. He brought with him
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Doug Pagnetti and Kyle Valero to Nolins with him and
the personnel changes. Let's go ahead and start with the
out here because it is vast. Mackay Beckton was a
big piece of that dominant ground game they had last year.
But the Eagles burn and turn offensive lineman, so he
goes on the way out or in Berks, who stepped
in for the injrew to Kobe Dean late last year,
was a big part of that defense. Kenny gainwill Fred Johnson,
Devonte Maddox, Isaiah Rodgers, Josh Schwet, a bigger loss, James Bradberry,
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Nick Gates in a backup UNTI your offensive lineman, Darius
Slay and the biggest one because what you just heard
was really, you know, the hilary pieces they have to
shift and you know move every single season, as every
single team does. But they did lose one major, major
cornerstone in Milton Williams. Even though he only played forty
nine percent of their snaps last year, he was dominant
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in those snaps. But that core, it's still there. This
is what they do, right, They keep that core, They
move those ancillary pieces out and in and actually, first
get a load of this. They signed fourteen players and
he guesses how many of those guys were one year deals.
If you guessed all fourteen, then you win. The headliners
are at Aj Dillon the Packers running back Harris and
Bryant Adri Jackson from the Giants, josh U Ja aziz
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O Jalari the only one who cost more than two
million bucks, Kendall Lamb, Matt pryor Terrence Marshall Junior. So
they build through the draft. They kind of plug holes
one year at a time. They put money into void
years down the down the road. I mean, nobody who
has the most dead cap in the NFL over the
last like five plus years, you know, extended out over
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void years with the Philadelphia Eagles. So they figured it out.
They really know how to build the football team and
their roster are super strong. As a result, they're calling
card on film. The nice part for the sake of
this capsule is there's not going to be a ton
of change here. Have to imagine they promote from within
to keep things status quo. But of course there's always
variation with new people in charge of such high level operations,
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and perhaps that'll be a better thing, because quite frankly,
the Eagles passing offense was broken at times last year.
Their vertical passing game was non existent outside of just
one on one shots and let's go ahead and throw
it up and see what happens. And I say that
with them hitting big play after big play in the
Super Bowl and Jalen Hurts playing on time on the
money consistently in that game and even occasionally in the season.
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But it was just those one on one shots to
aj Brown who can out physical you and outrace you,
and DeVante Smith, who's one of the best playmakers in
the football in the entire league. There wasn't really a
rhyme or reason into how it worked. But when you
have the best offensive line, the best running back, the
best short yardge offense in the history of the National
Football League, and then a red zone offense, it's not
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far behind that. It just doesn't matter all that much.
They lean on Saquon Barkley in that run game, they'll
wear teams down, they'll win the matchups on the perimeter
when they get them, and really make life easy on Hurts.
With Brown Smith arguably the best one to two in
the game. I like the tight end room a lot
with Goddard and Calcaterra. Dylan makes a bunch of sense
in terms of what they do, even losing Becton, like
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Jordan Mylatta, is one of the best left tackles in football.
Lane Johnson might be the best right tackle in the
history of the game. Landon Dickerson and Cam Jurggens are
both Pro Bowl caliber interior guys, and Tyler Stem will
try to hold off a new acquisition, former first round
pick Kenyon Green at right guard. Frankly, I think Kendall
Lamb fits their scheme better than he fit ours with
the swing tackle. And then defensively, the reason that type
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of that brand of offense that can just kind of
squeeze life out of your works is because the godfather
if pattern and match quarter principles came in there and
put a stamp on that defense and got it playing
at a high level. They put smart athletes in position
to make quick decisions. They span the middle of the field,
but show different presentations where there's not a lot of
movement and activity beforehand to tip you off, and they
really do a good job of flooding the intermedia and
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deep areas to rally and tackle in the quick game.
With lengthy second level defenders, they can clamp it quickly
and make the theory of taking a profit not all
that profitable for a lack of a better term. They
also have dogs that can win one on one pass
rushes everywhere, which makes it a lot easier to implement
your unique zone front pairings with a really damn good
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back seven. Jealen Carter and Jordan Davis are beasts. Byron
Young and Ty Robinson are good, flexible defensive tackle defensive
end types that can spell them. Moro Ojomo is a
breakout candidate this year. Nolan Smith is freaky good off
the edge, and then Zach Bond was damn near the
defensive player of the year doing both edge and off
the ball stuff for them. Remember Fangio tried that little
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bit with Andrew van Ginkel and then settled on playing
him on the outside. I thought, rightfully, so well, Zach
Bond really took to that job and ran with it
and turned his career from like what did this guy?
You know? Was he worth the first round pick to
now one of the best players in the league. And oh,
by the way, they also drafted Jahad Campbell, who I
think is the next All Pro linebacker to play in
that defense as well. Sidney Brown filled it nicely for
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the role that Chauncey Gardner Johnson used to play. Red
Blankenship developed into a stud and then Quinnon Mitchell is
a great cornerback already. Cooper dejen is that too kind
of you know? Cater cooho with you the first round
traits and intangibles and has the Ramsey versatility qualities where
Keielee Ringo is just a good coverman to boot there.
So they're loaded all across the board. The question, I
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don't think you have any If they're not back in
the Super Bowl. I think they would consider it a failure.
The best you can come up with here is that
Hurts doesn't play the position the way it traditionally is,
and that's probably more just framing of something else, because
he's awesome and he plays his butt off in the
Super Bowl and he's there when his team needs it,
makes big plays in the big moments. Splitting hairs here
to put anything literally different here miscellaneous factors. They're the
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best team on everybody's schedule, and I don't think that
division is particularly hard by the rest of the NFL standards.
Then they get a bye in the middle of the season.
Now their last three games are Commander's Bills. Commanders. Now,
I guess if they went zero and three there, that
could cost them a division. But do we think that
will happen if they're healthy Relatively here's a stretch. Maybe
they play best when they're doubted, right, and now they're
the hunted, whereas last year they were coming off at
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disappointing season and not a lot of folks believed in them.
Calling for Nick Sirianni's job, I don't know, that's like
the best I can come up with there, because the
roster is really really good. The trapdoor scenario, if the
ice Caps melt exponentially and we have to vacate Earth
to Mars, that's about it. I suppose quarterback gets hurt. Obviously,
conclusion the best team in the conference. Don't think it's close.
You get that distinction when you win the conference hal
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game and the championship the Super Bowl by a combined
fifty points ninety five to forty five. The Washington Commanders
are the team they beat in that NFC Championship game.
And on one hand, the Commanders were the smartest pick
last year for me. In the entire prediction portion of
this podcast, when we're viewing the NFC East twelve months ago,
though I said the Commanders could be a surprise playoff
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team by winning a bad NFC East. But the problem
was I took down the Eagles in the statement and
that proved to be very stupid. So get one, give
one back, One step forward, one step back. The Commanders
are officially in pedal to the floor mode, as most
teams that have breakout star quarterbacks as a rookie do
in the second year of a five year rookie contract. Unfortunately,
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one of the bigger moves. They had suffered a season
ending injury in spring and Noah Brown, but they also
brought in Deebo Samuel Michael Gallup. They traded for Larry m. Tunzel.
They signed Nate Herbig on the offensive line. They added
Javon Kinlaw and Dietrich Wise to that defensive line, Jonathan Jones,
Will Harris and Jacob Martin to the back end Eddie Goldman.
They drafted Trey Amos, the Old Miss cornerback. Their first
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round pick was also a tackle in Josh Connerly. I
have to imagine their strategy was to lock down the
tackle spots for the remainders of Jade and Daniel's career,
and hopefully they have some of that with Josh Connery there.
I think they do. They also won without losing a coordinator.
Dan Quinn brings back Cliff Kingsbury, who seems to really
jive with that quarterback in a positive fashion for Washington
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and Joe Witt Junior on defense. They did lose a
couple of big names. Jonathan Allen I thought was a
very good player for a long time for them. Diami
Brown was a guy that I was talking about as like,
you know, our young Deebo Samuel Light if we went
after him in free agency. I believe it was kind
of him and Westbrook Akine where the two guys I
had targeted in free agency if it was affordable, Cornelius Lucas,
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Dante Fowler, mikel Walker, Jeremy Chin was a guy that
I also had in the Dolphins radar and then Benjamin
Saint Ju just all out the door as far as
they're calling card. The film offensively one of the cooler
adaptations of the classic air Raid, and by that I
mean the incorporation of the power run game, which is
kind of where you know, the college game implemented some
of the new stuff, right, And if you talk to
football coaches across the country, they'll tell you defensive innovation
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happens in the NFL. Offensive innovation happens at the high school.
In college level. Mike McDaniel might take offense to that,
but I think he's been one of the better innovators
for the last few years, especially with that exit motion
in twenty twenty three that took a league by storm.
But I mean, that's that's kind of what you get now.
That's what made you know, the Chip Kelly or rather
the excuse me, yeah, the Chip Kelly offense, and kind
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of how that pivoted into what became Mario Christobal football
with bow Nicks the spread power game. Right. You spread
it out and you run power football behind a really
good offensive line. You can't really contend with both on defense.
And that's kind of what the Commanders have brought here
with Jayden Daniels and his ability to run the football
and Cliff Kingsbury's air raids system. It's tough, man. You
put the second level of defense in an absolute bind
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when they have to be able to play ford and
backwards at the same speed with really good instincts to
do so, and then when you're trying to fit your gaps,
you know you can test with the wicked arm talent
and processing of Jad and Daniels, who took all of
one period last year in live practice to make me
be like, oh my god, that guy I got something
special over there, and I watched two every day, who
makes practice look like a cinch. But he can make
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a decision on where the ball is going to be,
and you know when it's before it snapped, and usually
he's right. Just when you think you've got all that
accounted for, he pulls the ball out of the belly's back,
the backs belly even and takes it around the edge
for a big game with his legs the way Cliff
and Jayden really stepped on the gas the midway point
further using his legs is one of the more impressive
things in the entire league. Last year, I thought it
catapulted them into a serious run. They create natural spacing
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and leverage with unbalanced formations pre snap motions to help
indicate the coverage. And that's all part of Daniel's you know,
superpower really on top of multiple other trades. But he
can really see it and rip it it's so much
fun to watch and so much to deal with for
a defense, and the personnel this year, to me is
like substantially better. I think Connorley will unseat Andrew Wiley
at right tackle, and if he's a guy that becomes available,
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I would be curious about a potential swing guy there maybe,
and that just gives you a, you know, a good
third option for the Commanders. I doubt they're going to
make him available for cheap, so maybe that's that's witch
we'll thinking. But Tunzel is still elite. Tyler Biattish is
a fairy good center, Nate Herbig probably fills him where
Sam Cosmey's recoming from an injury in the playoffs that
he suffered, and then Brandon Coleman the other guard. Scary
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Terry remains the man. I saw something a couple of
weeks ago about the potential of him holding out and
maybe getting moved to New England. I hope not because
he has been one of my favorite players in the
league for a long time and that will be ruined
if he goes to the AFC East. Outside of Miami,
Brian Robinson and Austin Eckler is a good one too,
not great or special, but they make it work, especially
with how the quarterback impacts the run game. Defensively, Dan
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Quinn loves him from cover one, Cover three, middlefield closed
that just means safety in the middle of the football field,
not split looks, and a lot of man coverage calls
and the zone calls that reinforce their man match principles,
which is starting zone when someone declares run with him,
stay in man coverage. Basically what man match means, and
that means you're only as good as a your coach
coaches it and be your players communicate it. And a
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lot of the time that stems from Bobby Wagner and
Frankie Luvu Gokook's being absolute monsters in the middle of
that defense. Quinn brought Doris Armstrong from Dallas with him,
got a resurgence from Deron Payin. Now he'll look to
do the same with Javon Kinlaw, who has been a
guy that pisses me off because I was so high
on him out of South Carolina and he wasn't good
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for the Niners. He wasn't good for the Jets, and
I just wanted to be like, why aren't you good?
You should be so good, and they also got some
nice step with Jacob Martin, Eddie Goldman and Dietrich Wise,
I think Jonathan Jones and Trey Amos are good scheme
fits and can kind of get them out of the
Emmanuel Forbes business who has not worked out for them.
Kwan Martin is that middle of the field piece that
really shapes the back end of the defense. And I
freaking love Mike Sandra still the slot second year player
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out of Michigan, with Marshawn Lattimore being a perfect fit
for that system too. So the question, I guess sometimes
it's easy to point to a team that goes on
a run as an arrive you know, an arriving team
as an annual contender. Let me rephrase that. Sometimes we
get excited about a team that goes on a run
and say like, oh, there, suddenly here is an an
merging contender. And that's where I pump the brakes and
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be like, you got to earn that man, like you
have to Kansas City, Buffalo, Baltimore, Philly. At this point,
you don't get to have one year and put yourself
in that class. You have to do it for a
few years. Like I would still consider San Francisco in
that class more than Washington, just because I you know,
I've seen San Francisco bounce back and do it multiple
years in a row. I'm very bullish on the Commanders,
but I thirty eight years in this place and watching
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this sport has taught me like not one year doesn't
solidify anything, like things can happen. So I'm just gonna
be patient with that. But luckily for them, the quarterback
is elite, so not much else matters when you have that.
If he's not in your top ten already, you're doing
it wrong. I think you could be dubious about the
offensive weapons. I think Samuel is well past his prime,
so whatever they get from him to me's a bonus.
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And there are some questions on the interior offensive line
as well. I feel pretty good about that defense, just
adding what dan quinnin still because he's a great coach.
Miscellaneous factors. Eagles twice, AFC West and NFC North probably
the two best divisions they'll play. Love Gino Pennix, Herbert
Daktip twice, Mahomes Goff, Tua Knicks, and Jalen Hurts twice.
That's twelve really good quarterbacks. Out of seventeen the trapdoor scenario.
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As good as he was, he still scares the hell
out of me with the way he plays in his
body type. He's thin and he throws his body around.
He had the rib injury and struggle after that for
a couple of weeks, but then returned to his dominance.
I know Mariota played well in the pinch last year,
but I think the ship is tethered to the quarterback
here like it is anywhere else. And also I felt
this way last year they would after some free agents
that were just like old or quite frankly, weren't like
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big time players like kin Law this year, like Eckler
was slow, Dietrich wise is getting old, Deebo looks like
he's passed his prime. It's just an interesting approach, and
I wonder if they can trike Gold there. Again the conclusion,
I don't think they're a threat to the Eagles yet,
but who is? But I think you can pencil them
into the wild card spot like they did last year.
They're a better football team. I think the quarterback will
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get better, but I would caution against the offense taking
major leaps forward just because it's year two. Member of progress.
It's not always linear. We've seen really good quarterbacks have
really good rookie years and struggle in year two. I
don't think it'll happen, but I just think about it
because it happens all the time. The Dallas Cowboys, Mike
McCarthy is out, Brian Schottenheimer is in, and the whole
staff is new too, Clayton Adams on offense, Matt Ebrafus
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on defense. It's kind of crazy that this is where
they went right. I'm not gonna take shots, but what
is it about Shy's resume that screams head coach? It's
it was totally out of left field, and changes like
that typically come with plenty of personnel changes. The big
splash was getting Ceedee Lamb a dynamic number two, and
they did that. George Pickens headlines their incoming crop. Also
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Miles Sanders, Javonte Williams. That's what they did, and they
lost Rico Daddell. So the running back position was already
dire and it got worse. Robert Jones, Achema Denji on
the offensive line, Dante Fowler and Peyton Turner. The pass rusher,
Sawomon Thomas and Jack Samborn. They also traded for Kenneth Murray,
Kyer Elam and Joe Milton's three picks for guys that
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have bad tape but all right on the way out,
Cooper Rush, Trey Lance, Rigo Daddle, Brandon Cooks, who you
guys know how I love Burnon Cooks, Zach Martin, DeMarcus Lawrence,
Carl Lawson, Linval, Joseph, Eric Kendricks, Jordan Lewis was one
of the best lots in the game. Like usually I
can get excited about a lot of rosters because you
get you know, full health and they look pretty good.
But this one's like, what what's going on here? The film?
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I don't really know. The Shoddy I know is the
ball control. Any drive that ends in a kick is
a good drive. Let's try to win the game in
the fourth quarter approach like Dave Wanstead used to do.
He was the offensive coordinator under Mike McCarthy. But there
weren't They weren't from the same tree, So it's a
bit of mystery in terms of how much we'll stay
in place versus Shoddy incorporating his own flavor. But I
would be very surprised if it weren't a run first
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type of approach, get it, imnageable third downs and go
from there. But then I look at their offense and
I question that because of the investment at the running
back position. Is not what you expect from a team
that wants to be that. And with Dak and Lamb
and Pickens, you imagine the ball is going to be
going up. I hope it is. I think a power
run game that builds in play action shots is the
most likely formula there. Plankton. You've got Jalen Tolbert and
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Cavante Turpin who can both go get it, a nice
collection of tight ends, and Luke scoon Maker and Jake Ferguson.
So some twelve personnel power run game with the vertical
passing game built off of that. Use Pickens for your
vertical stretch, your run game to influence the second level,
and try to get Lamb single coverage in the intermediate.
I'm Ron Burgundy. The line has undergone serious change, and
we know they'll play man gap because they spent the
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eleventh to picking the draft on Tyler Booker, who was
never going to play for the Miami Dolphins. No matter
how much you might have heard that he was. You
don't do that if you want to run zone, because
Booker doesn't block in zone. Cooper BB and Tyler Smith
are the other interior guys. Tyler Geiton and Terren Steele
are on the outside. It's not the Cowboys line of old,
but it ain't bad Defensively. Iber Flus earned a head
coaching job through a soft and off zone approach in
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Philly that utilized four man rushes to impact the passer
and defend the middle of the field with speed. It
never really took in Chicago, but he'll have to sort
of overhaul things from a previous scheme that was an
entirely different approach. I don't know what entices you to
trade for Kenneth Murray, who we've seen two will put
him in a binder several times in his career. And
I don't know why they did much of what they did.
All these additions were cast off players like it's not shaite,
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it's just the facts, right. I did like their first
two draft picks and Donovan Izuraku and Chavon revel I pronunciation, man,
it tricks me crazy. Trevon digs we back from the
injury with Deron Bland. Malie Hooker is a player that
I quite like. I think he's a critical feature fixture
of playing those two high structures that allows him to
kind of roll downhill because he just loves to play,
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you know, moving towards the line of scrimmage and then
having Micah Parsons and Osa Odigi Zua is a deadly combination.
Build everything off that and you're gonna be Okay, the
question first time head coach in his twenty eighth year
of coaching football in a place where, let's be real,
it's about as high stress as it gets in sports.
Head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. They're pivoting defensive schemes
without yeah, without really a total personnel overhaul. And we
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say this with every team, but Dak's off of his
third season ending injury in his career. As long as
he's in there, they'll win games. But it's worth pointing out.
And I don't think that Pickens is gonna like the
offense they run. I think that line is the worst
it's been in a long time. And without a power
run game, I think it could put more pressure on
Dak and it could change and kind of, you know,
make them rethink the way they want to do things
if they do it the way I think they will
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do it. The miscellaneous factors. I'm curious to see what
the offense looks like, and I think you could make
the case that you're getting some friction in terms of
approach and personnel. But it's also very possible that I'm
completely wrong. I'm fascinated. He either looks like schedule isn't
too crazy. Giants, Bears, Jets, Panthers within the first six games.
They need a fast start there the trapdoor scenario, well,
quarterback getting hurt, offensive line attrition, lack of running game
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killed them last year, and they addressed it with you know,
Javonte Williams, who just has not been the same back
he was in North Carolina, and Miles Sanders, who's been
looking for a couple of teams in a couple of
years now. Defensive schemes shifts sometimes take a while to jail.
That could be a bottom out scenario as well. This
feels like a transition year, but it also felt that
way in Washington last year. Plus Dak is still a
good player. As long as he's playing, I think they'll
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be in games if he goes down. I think this
could be a rough season, and I wouldn't even put
him in the playoffs. With Dak playing every game this season,
the Giants personnel wise, it's time for the Giants to win.
I have a friend that grew up a Giants fan,
die hard, and he complains all the time about how
the current team is terrible. And I always say, dude,
you saw two Super Bowls? Do you know what I
would do for just one? But now it's like outside
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of that magic carpet ride playoffs. Heason in twenty two.
The most games they've won since twenty sixteen is six three, five, four, six, four, nine,
six and three. That's taxing, brother. I'm glad they retained
Brian Dable. I think he deserves a shot to develop
a quarterback, and now he's got that chance in Jackson Dart.
He retains the majority of his staff, including the offensive
coordinator and DC and Mike Kafka and Shane Bowen. This
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quarterback room is all new. Russ and Jamis with the
rookie and Tommy Cutlet's other imports, Abdul Carter. What a
great pick that was for them, Roy Robertson, Harris Paulson, Dedibo,
I loved his tape for the Saints last year, Javon Holland,
Chris Board, Chauncey Golston, James Hudson, Stone Forsyth. I love
their third round pick Darius Alexander two. So a good
draft class year for the Giants. On the way out,
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Dory Jackson, Jason Pinnock, aziz O Jelari, Isaiah Simmons, and
Drew Locke the calling card on film for this offense.
Who remembers the left lane offense? Aggressive, That's what they
called it in Miami right when Dave Ball is here. Stable,
But I think the way he's adapted, the way he
sequences is what makes him special as a play caller.
It's like an extremely high level processor with quick recall,
and it allows him to see the game like a quarterback.
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Every moving part has a solution, and he needs a
quarterback that can do all of that. I don't think
that was Daniel Jones's forte and as well as he
played at times, I don't think it was ever Drew
Locke's strength. Oddly, both veteran acquisitions that ain't their game either.
You know, Russ doesn't see the field very well and
Jamis is a you know, fit someone's down there, And frankly,
I thought Jackson Dart was one of the worst decision
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makers of all the draftable quarterbacks this year, and we
saw that must pass late game situations like I don't know, man,
I don't know. I didn't see it there. But the
lead dog is Tyrone Tracy. He had a nice season
last year. Devin Singletary and Cam Scatibo are guys that
people are fired up about there. The offensive line has
a beast and Andrew Thomas. The other starters are John Runyon,
John Michael Schmidtz, Greg Van Rotten wrote and sorry and
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Jermaine Illuminor I mean not great. That's been a problem
there for a long time, right. And the thing I'm
most excited about with the Giants is Malik Neighbors. But
I do wonder how they can relieve pressure off of him.
No shade to Darius Slayton, Wandel Robinson, Zach Pascale, but
they're not taking attention of attention off Mylik Neighbors, who
can still score two hundred can gain two hundred yards
in a game where he is getting attention. But for
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Shane Bowen, conversely, I think the name of the game
for their defense is simplicity. Wink Martindell goes back to
Michigan and they went from this aggressive, play in your face,
go down swinging approach to letting the game kind of
come to them with mixed results. Now they want to
get more pressure with four, where Wink wanted to devise
pressure through scheme. I just don't think there's enough innovation there.
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There are some names on defense, you know, Abdul Carter
and Brian Burns and Kavon Thibodeau is pretty fun and
that tracks with Joe Shane last offseason saying that Shane
Bowen would value edge rushers more than Wink did. Well,
now they've got three really good ones. They've also got
the best pass rushing nos maybe ever in Sexy Dexi.
Bobby Okeriiki is a damn good Mike linebacker. So they've
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got pieces there. They add paulse and Thedebo and Javon
Holland to a secondary that had Tyler Neuban and deontaey Banks.
I kind of can't believe that eight got what he got,
but I'll take the compick for it. That backfield I
think is going to struggle, you know, you know not
any more than the offense will tank them, but I
think it's going to be the death neal of them.
The question I have is how quickly a brand new
quarterback room can pick up this complex, high level offense,
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and how would this team absorb a slow start. They
have to start fast, and that requires playing good offense early.
I think it's fair to question what the plan was
at week one for quarterback, and I imagine it's Russell Wilson.
I haven't really tapped into Giants like you know, spring ball,
but I imagine it's Russell Wilson. And I thought the best
day ball Giants team was when Daniel Jones ran a
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simple RPO type of offense. That's not Russ's game anymore.
So I guess I don't need to go beyond that.
But the connectivity between coach and quarterback is at the
forefront of my questions miscellaneous factors. It feels like a
real line of demarkation between the Eagles Commanders and then
Giants and Cowboys. The out of division schedule is tough.
I mentioned the need for a fast start. They go Commanders, Cowboys, Chiefs, Chargers,
then you get Saints, Eagles, Broncos, Eagles, like the Saints,
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are the only team they're going to be favored against
in that stretch of games. The trap door scenario does
not apply here. The conclusion, I thought I might be
more bullish on the Giants than I have been in
a long time, But then I deep dive their tape
and their construction of their roster, and I'm as turned
off as I've ever been. I don't believe in any
of the quarterbacks, especially not in this system. The line
has not been good, they have one eligible that scares teams,
and I don't think they're well coached. On defense. I
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think the optimist will say the Dart is an immediate
hit and starts Week one, and he and neighbors carry
an offense that is supported by a filthy pass rush.
But I think that schedule some of the questions. I
think we're probably still at least a year away Division superlatives.
Eagles are the winners. Obviously, the best quarterback I'm given
to the second year player, Jayden Daniels. I'm not giving
to the Super Bowl MVPD, and that crazy best non
quarterback on offense is Sae Kwon Barkley. The best defensive
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players mikeah Parsons. The best head coach is Dan Quinn,
and the best rookie for me is going to be
for the Eagles as well, Jahad Campbell, and my under
the radar stud is Eagle safety Read Blankenship. Let's go
ahead and take our last break right there. Long episode today,
come back on the other side. Zeke Biggers joins me.
That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.
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Joining us today on the Drive Time podcast is new
Dolphins offensive lineman Zeke big Or Zeke. What's up? Man?
How are we doing good?
Speaker 4 (37:04):
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (37:05):
Man?
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Not too bad? I can't complain. So I don't think
you and I have had a chance to really speak
since uh draft night, when you when you got your
your first zoom call there with local media. But can
you just take us through what the experience has been
like so far, a couple of months since you got drafted.
What's it been like to be a Dolphin and be
a pro football player?
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Man, the experience has been really great. I can't complain,
not taking anything for granted, but just coming in every
day and working, just getting down here and meeting the guys,
meeting all the coaches and just building a bond and
building that chemistry within the team already and then getting
into OTA's and stuff like that where we're out there
practising learning. So I've just been trying to kind of
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clean to the older guys and learn as much as
I can, because we got guys in the room like
Zach Steeler who's had tense as back to back years,
so putting on a pretty good career. So guys like
that you just got to sit there and learn from.
Speaker 1 (37:55):
Is that something that you knew about or did did
they tell you that about Zach's tent?
Speaker 4 (38:00):
I watched him. That's some obviously you look at some
of the chickens, a lineman and the top guy's gonna
pop up. I've definitely seen him.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
You like washing him, You like washing this tape.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Yeah, I've been like just looking back on an old
film and kind of just seeing how because we kind
of played the same position like a big and three test,
So just kind of just seeing how he how he
got to making those players, Just seeing his knowledge of
the game and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
You mentioned playing that position. You play all over the place,
right like you can Georgia Tech there and certainly here
as a pro as well. What's the key to being
so versatile for a defensive lineman up front?
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Like that?
Speaker 4 (38:34):
I feel like being versatile Obviously they you can get
picked up longer, so guys are gonna like you to
do more that you can. And then availability is kind
of a big thing too. So being a guy that
can fit into any position. You can go out there
and play nos, go out there, play through tech or
go out there play five. You're gonna like they're gonna
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want that a lot. So definitely just being versatile in
that way.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
Do those different spots change the way you like read
blocks or keys? Like, is it different anyway?
Speaker 4 (39:04):
H Yeah, you have to something on the edge. It's
a little bit like take along a longer time to
kind of play to develop.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:12):
Well, like inside the play developed real fast, like as
soon as the boss snap, you got two guys on
you trying to double team. So, uh, just just that
asset of it that's really the biggest team.
Speaker 1 (39:24):
That reaction time in the interior that happens quick. Right.
You were saying you mentioned the coaching staff a little
bit earlier. I would be remiss if I don't talk
to you about coach Austin Clark who is one of
my favorite human beings we've ever met. We've got a
chance to know Coach here for several years now. Initial
impressions of Coach Clark would.
Speaker 4 (39:40):
Be initial impression, Yeah, great coach off the field, funny guy,
he's gonna crack jokes. But once we on that field,
he's a different guy. He's he knows how to flip
that switch and really coach you, and he expects greatness
out of you every day. So if you're not giving
him that, he's going to be on you really hard.
So I really like that out of a coach, like
just pushing me to being great. And he's been a
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lot of things that I didn't know I could do.
So just sitting there listening to him and trying to
implement everything he's saying to my game has really been
a big thing.
Speaker 2 (40:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
One of the things I hear most about him is
how he is very clear about how his messaging is
but what he wants right, it's a very direct He's
gotten that same depression.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
Yeah, definitely, he's gonna he's gonna do it. Went one
way and he knows that way he's working. So he's
had multiple guys that went got paid or is still
here getting paid and out there playing great football. So
he's definitely condit it to one way and he's making
it work.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
So yeah, one of his first years here it was
basically Christian Wilkins actually learned Raykwon Davis for all we're
all new and he they all went on to become
really really good players. So now you guys, you guys
are that kind of the next group there. And with
that in mind, I mean yourself, Jordan obviously, kg a
uh Huntly alex un Sorry got almost almost at a
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j hanting the receiver. Some of those names confused me.
But four rookies in that room, I that's that's a
pretty good crop of young players. Have you guys had
a chance to kind of bond over this shared experience?
Speaker 4 (41:04):
Oh yeah, we all close obviously being close with your
position group, but we all crack jokes and everything, but
we know, like when we step on the field, we're
trying to push each other get better as we are
competing in a sense, but just not letting it be
just competition with us, let it fall into being a brotherhood.
And so guys just been pushing each other like knowing
that's what we want on the weekends, we might come
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in and work work out together, doing like footwork or
something that coach might say we need to work on.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
So just things like that.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Man, it seems like, and this is like a cliche
you hear across the league all the time, but it
seems like the guys we brought in, the young players,
the rookies, the draft picks, like their love for football,
Your guys just love for football just seems to be
unanimous across the board. Coming on weekends to work out.
That's I mean that kind of tracks how much you guys,
how much it means to you. You see that same thing.
Speaker 4 (41:49):
Yeah, for sure, I feel like from DB's wide receiver,
I feel like everybody like you coming on the weekends.
You think you're not gonna see no rookies in here,
you see them every day getting recovery. That that's getting
the sign of hot tels, cold tous, or that's out
on the field just getting used to the heat, walking
around the field, just visitalizing certain things. So you just
it's just a it's a great thing. Like all of us,
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I can say, we all came in here and ready
to work and ready to take on the challenge and
come in here and essicially take somebody's job, but at
the same time just go out there and put our
best fool for it. So I feel like as rookie class,
we have been doing that so far.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
Fans are gonna love to hear that. So we get
training camp coming up here in about a month and
a half. I want to ask you about your summer
plans here in one second. But you got to be stoked.
I mean, I know, Lineman to throw the pads on, right,
and then we get the fans out here for the
first time. They'll be chanting your guys' names and going crazy.
How excited a you for training camp and putting pads on,
going hitting somebody.
Speaker 4 (42:40):
I'm super excited, ready to hit somebody because you know Ota,
y'all you got on so it's like it's not too
much physical. You hit somebody, you might get in trouble
out there. But once we pass come on, a lot,
a lot more hitting, a lot more violence is going
to come up. Like you're gonna see a lot of
more power rushes from everybody's boiling. Yeah, So I'm really
excited to put on the path, especially I haven't put
(43:00):
it on since like last time, I had an own
December of the ball game. So definitely ready to get
out there and put them pass on and just see
the atmosphere of the fans coming to see us practice,
because that's gonna be a first for me, just having
fans that practice and everything.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
So yeah, it's electric, man, Especially the joint practices are
my favorit ones we get to see every single year.
So a couple of months here in South for the
last question for you here. Obviously there's a lot to
do down here, but any summer plans, you're gonna stay around,
You're gonna go back home. What's the plan for the summer?
Speaker 4 (43:28):
Oh yeah, I'm gonna probably go back home for a
couple of days see my family. I ain't really I've
been kind of a lock in, so I ain't been
talking to them as much as I used to. But
definitely go home, see my family, chill with them for
a little bit, and then come I'm gonna come back
here and then get right back to working on because
I don't want to let myself get out of shape
or nothing like that. Just so just come back and
get ready for turning camps. I'll go out there and
(43:50):
ball out.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
If you're going to bring your family down here, what's
like one tourist that you'd want to do, like fan
boat ride in the Upper Glade, Maybe you want to
go deep sea fishing or something in the south forda
you want to do definitely.
Speaker 4 (44:00):
So I'm from the country, so I take my family fishing.
Just the fishing spots out here. I've been trying to
look for and see finding a good place to go
or something like that. So like one weekend, I'm probably
going to probably this weekend I might try to go
do that, but definitely if I bring my film down here,
We're going to fish somewhere.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Good stuff. See appreciate your time today. New Dolphins offensive
lineman Zeke Bigger's best lucky season man, and thanks for
your free time.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
And it is the most wonderful time of year. That's right.
Miami Dolphins training camp right around the corner, and you
can reserve your tickets right now. The Dolphins are back
on the field for Back Together Weekend on July twenty sixth,
a Saturday first Dolphins practice open to the fans in
the public. The Dolphins will take Sunday off and be
back on the field for a Monday practice on the
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twenty eighth, as well as the twenty ninth and thirtieth,
all open to the fans. After a Thursday day off
on the thirty first, Miami's right back to work for
the first, second and third of August, all those practices
open to fans as well. The next practice available to
the fans August the sixth, and then a pretty good
gap there with the joint practices up in Detroit and Chicago.
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Miami's back for three more practices in front of the
fans here at the Baptist Hill Training Complex August eighteenth,
August twentieth, and August twenty first. That twenty first date
is a joint practice against the Jacksonville Jaguars. So July
twenty sixth, July twenty eighth, twenty ninth, thirtieth, August first,
second and third August sixth, August nineteenth, August twentieth, and
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August twenty first against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Book your tickets
now on Miami Dolphins dot com and that'll do it
for us for this edition of the Draft Time Podcast.
We'll be back with you guys on Friday for the
AFC East Jonah Savit Naya and Cater Kohu. In the meantime,
you all please be sure subscribe, rate and review the podcast.
Follow me on social at Wakeful NFL, and the team
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