December 5, 2025 • 38 mins
Kyle Crabbs joins Travis to discuss the Dolphins turnaround, the ingredients behind it, the sustainability factor of it, and breaking it down offensively and defensively. Plus, they’ll discuss this weekend’s conference championship games and Travis makes his Week 14 NFL picks. Finally, Mike McDaniel, Anthony Weaver and Craig Aukerman discuss Jordyn Brooks, Minkah Fitzpatrick, player development and much more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Great, what is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft
Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on
today's show, Kyle Crabs is back in the saddle to
talk some Dolphins football and conference championship weekend in college.
Will pick the week fourteen games and hear from the
coaches and players on a SoundBite roundup from the Baptist
(00:29):
Hell Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
the Draft Time Podcasts kicking off this week's football Friday show.
Longtime friend of the podcast, longtime friend of the host
Kyle Krabs talking all things Dolphins and NFL Draft for
the Miami Dolphins. Here on the Draft Time Podcast, Kyle,
how you doing man? How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
My Thanksgiving was great, Travis. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We had four separate Thanksgiving meals because each me and
my wife's households are split. Oh, we did the full game.
We still have leftovers in the fridge. We're living good
off that regard.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Still rocking with the leftovers. I ate myself sick on
Thursday and Friday. I have a history of doing that.
It's like I love the meal so much and I
don't have the discipline to stop.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Got myself sick both times. You e run under that problem.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I have not individually, but one of my old high
school teammates there was a buffet we went to like
the day before training camp my senior year, and he
went and he ate so much he had to go
to the bathroom and throw up the last two plates
and then went back and got more plates. So I
don't know if you've ever been that bad, but it's
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been done. I've seen it first hit.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The old Country buffet, boot and rally first time for everything.
I haven't heard of that before. Yep, let's dive into
the Dolphins. Now that we're in the post Thanksgiving era
of the twenty twenty five season, as some would say,
this is when the season really begins, and for the Dolphins,
you know, kind of trying to find themselves over the
first half of the season. Well they've found themselves now.
Winners are four of the last five. Some good competition
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among that group as well. And let's go ahead and
start on the offense. I'll do both sides of the
football here, but offensively with this turnaround, I think it's
a little more.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Tangible on this side. Of the ball.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But I just want to get your perspective as a
expert of this. You know, this team and this league
and x's and o's and all that stuff. What you've
seen from the Dolphins with the turnaround, the obvious you know,
ground and pound game. But really, what I want to
know the most, Kyle, is what you think from a
sustainability standpoint, not just for the rest of this season
and Sunday and going forward, but long term, Like what
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has this last couple of games taught you about who
the Dolphins can be in twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, I think it opens the door for you to
have a lot more flexibility for your roster composition, because
you know, it's Miami.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
When when Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
First gets here, there's a wide receiver who's a really
promising wide receiver, but he's on a rookie contract. So
then you trade for Tyreek Hill. Is this too good
to be true opportunity? But then Jalen Waddell proves himself
to be as much of a stud as he is,
he gets a contract extension and rightfully so, and it
was done early, which is more often than not, those
are when you know you want to extend those guys,
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you should get them in a earl. But now you
have a thirty million dollar wide receiver and a twenty
eight million dollar wide receiver and Miami as of late
after the Tyreek Kill injury, you've seen thirteen personnel, twenty
two personnel with jumbo packages or heavy with a sixth
offensive lineman, whatever you want to call it. And it's
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just hard to when you have that invested in players
and twenty million dollars or thirty million dollars a season.
They need to be on the field, right because that's
where you're invested. But if you've made a transition that
shows you how capable you can be running the football,
ask yourselves how many different players for the rest of
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your roster composition you can get at other positions for
potentially up to thirty million dollars, which was the going rate.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Of like a wide receiver one in the NFL these days.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And that's running backs, that's offensive lineman, that's top level
tight ends, Like the top players at each one of
those spots is barely two thirds of what that thirty
million dollar mark is.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So that, for me is what's really.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Energizing to me about Hey, we can go heavy, we
can load up and be big with our personnel packages.
We can still have success with speed and getting out
to the perimeter, but we can also diversify what we
do and run more between the tackles, and we can
do more gap scheme and counter and pin and pull
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an outside zone and inside zone and duo and like
all the concepts. And you've seen that from Miami, and
that's where Mike's roots really lie, right, So I think
for me seeing since week six, you know that Panthers
game in Week five when Carolina ran for two forty
or something like that, Miami ran for it was less
than twenty yards as a team after that week, So
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week six till today, the Dolphins ran sixth in the
NFL and rushing EPA their fifth in yards per carry
at five point one. They are second in yards after
contact at three and a half yards per carry after contact.
Like that's all. It's half a season's worth of sample size.
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It's very sustainable. All of that regard and the slate
of opponents that you've had in run defense that you
just got done playing are playing the run better than
each of the final five opponents that you have on the.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Schedule, it's eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
To your point, I'm glad you went that far back,
cause I did this on the show earlier this week.
I went back to the Falcons game because like the
wins and whatnot. But like, yeah, right, you can go
back further than that and find a deeper sample size that,
to your point, is half the season, which that's not
a fluke, that's not by mistake. That happens because you
have worked on it, You've developed the identity, and it's
it almost kind of you know, on the show, I
love kind of making references to real life, you know things.
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It's almost like you reverse engineer and engineering cooking a
meal and you're getting the same meal. But to your
point about the cost, you know, efficiency of how you
build that out, like essentially you're going to a cheaper
grocery store to find the items, and it looks different,
the preparation all looks different, but ultimately the final meal
is scoring points and winning games, and Miami's getting there,
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and to your point, maybe they can do that where
they can add more you know, support elsewhere across the roster.
I love the way you put that there, and I
think my follow up question to that Kyle would be.
You know, we've had this conversation privately and on shows,
and I've talked about on my show a million times
about the ever shifting landscape of the National Football League.
Last year we saw the Bills and the Eagles both
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make deep runs with you know, prioritizing their power run
game over the passing game. We've talked about average depth
of target is down, that the deep balls are kind
of not a thing anymore, not not a thing anymore,
but they're they're less than they were during the offensive
explosion of the NFL during the ATS into the you know,
early twenty twenties and now like high percentage throws, short
passing game, run game.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You know, do you see it continuing that way?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And how does Miami's you know, renewed identity fit with
where the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is right now?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It's it's very much a cyclical process, right because you
go back to like the Legion of Boom right in
Seattle and the Legion of Boom they played a ton
of Cover three. It wasn't anything exotic. They were just
so good talent wise at what they did that it
created this elite product and then everybody across the NFL
defensively said, wow, that's working really well.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Let's try to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Let's play a bunch of cover three, and you try
your best to get the pieces to do it successfully,
and everybody has their own degree of success. But then
once it became so popular to run a bunch of
cover three, well, now you can get up the seams
and you can run vertical shots because there's not two
high shelves that's going to automatically work you off of
that right, and now you're seeing the pendulum swing back
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the other way. I go back to one of Kansas
City runs to the Super Bowl when they were kind
of banged up at wide receiver and they did a
ton of thirteen personnel. It was Travis Kelcey who could
flex around, but then it was.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Noah Gray was in that group.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I don't remember who the third tight end is off
the top of my head, but in that postseason run,
they very much identified as thirteen. You have a team
mid season this year, the Rams who have kind of
flipped that switch. They used to be like ninety five
percent eleven personnel, right, but they had big receivers so
they could emulate twelve. This is remember when Ben's Scaronic
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was like the coolest thing in football because they line
him up at full back, but he's also a wide receiver.
Like that's how they blurred the lines with the personnel.
Now you're seeing because of two high shell presentations. This
whole chess match on trying to get teams defensively to
match personnel with who you bring into the football game.
The teams that I think are gonna have the most
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success moving forward are the teams that can present a
tight end room with diversified skill sets, but not like
a very skill specific player in each role, Like you
want to have some ambiguity on who's doing what. So
I think for Miami, you've seen with Greg Dolcic in
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his emergence and Darren Waller and what he provided this
year with a different receiving profile even though he was
also receiving tight end like John new Smith was for
the Dolphins last year.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I think that's the pathway right now in the NFL,
and you've seen Miami dabble in a little bit. But
the teams that have the most challenge with presenting personnel
packages with multiple tight ends on the field, I think
are going to be the ones that really grease the
wheels of this next evolution across the league offensive.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
There in lies the intrigue of the NFL to me,
because you came into the season and if you ask
Dolphins fans with the biggest like question marks in the roster,
where they told you cornerbacks and probably tight ends. And
now we sit here today against the Saints and like,
I'm watching these three tight ends get used twenty five
plus snaps in the game, and I that's where the
biggest intrigue for the offense comes to me right now
is how they continue to add wrinkles and layers to
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what Darren Waller, Greg dole Such and Julian Hill can do.
Because we finally have all three of those guys playing together. Now,
it's a very exciting prospect to me. Let's go ahead
and make a segue here. You mentioned the legion of boom.
There makes a good segue to the defensive side of
the football, which, by the way, let's let's.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Play cover three.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
But oh, just go get Earl Thomas cam chance with
Richard Sherman and you can make it work.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Right, That's how that's how that goes.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But the Dolphins defense man, we saw it last year,
and I think you're seeing kind of the exact same
thing play out here. But I would, you know, kind
of push the question in this realm Kyle towards, like, yeah,
there was Kaleis Campbell here last year. Yeah, you had,
you know, some different pieces that aren't here this year.
But when I look at the change and I think
about the structure of the defense and what's kind of
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sparked the change, Like we just heard from from Craig
Ackerman on Thursday talking about how Minka Fitzpatrick brought a
like a practice drill about recovering on site kicks to
Craig Lockerman like, we're gonna do this on Saturdays now
and Fridays because we did it, I did it in
a past place and it had an impact and coaches like, sure,
we're doing it like that leadership to coach and conduit
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Jordan Brooks that we talk all the time about. Anthony
Weavers talked about like I don't have to be on
guys as hard because I know Jordan Brooks has got me.
And he talked about you know Seeler and t Dot
and Minca. So you have these like established veterans who
are about what they say they're about. They go out
and they produce in the same way. And then you
have this young core of rookies and second year players
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that are playing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Really good football.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And like I'm looking at this thinking to myself, like
this is sustainable again, not for just the rest of
the season, but going forward. Where do you come down
all that? What can you add to that? What's made
this defense click the way it has.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think you can look at their ability to control
the line of scrimmage, the way in which they have.
Obviously the communication on the back end is huge. I
think getting Minka Fitzpatrick and the nickel with consistency has
really evolved the feel of that role. Speaking of Minca,
how cool. I know you were there when I was
down for training. Kid, we watched some of the pro together.
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You remember watching It was Bradley Chubb, Chop Robinson, Jalen
Phillips working on their pass rush stuff and they were
working on like the strip of the quarterback's arm at
the high point in their warm up period at the
beginning of training camp, and every other day who hopped
over there and did stuff with him.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Minka Fitzpatrick, dude.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Never had a sack before this strip sack he had
against New Orleans. Yeah, and he would still take the
time during training camp to go over and do that
that strip sack drill with those top three pass rushers
on the roster before practice, and then for him to
get that opportunity and get.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
A strip sack off the it was like, that's really cool.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I think that embodies why Minka Fitzpatrick has has this
has had the success he's had in the NFL, and
how he's kind of been transformative to the Dolphins defense
being in the nickel. But I look at their success
stopping the run, especially with the young guys, and figuring
out what combinations of guys play well off of each other.
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You've got an anchor player in Zach Seeler. And when
you're in even fronts, when you're in rush fronts, when
you're trying to run twists, when you're in odd front
with three interior down linemen and you're trying to cover
up the both the be gaps and put a nose
out on the field, how do those pieces fit together.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It took a little bit of time.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
It took some coaching from Austin Clark's unit to get
all those young guys rolling. But since Week six, that
same window, that game, starting that game after the Panthers
ran all over Miami, the Dolphins in run total run
defense EPA or second in the league since Week six,
and that's three.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Rookies playing at least twenty snaps a game right now.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
And I think that's where you have that ability to stop,
get increased, make teams suddenly one dimensional. Now you're not
in third and two all the time. Now you're not
so off balance defensively on third downs. You've normalized your
possessions and forcing punts and end possessions in kicks. The
first three weeks of the season, that was such a
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sore spot for them. The way that it's really gelled together,
I think is a testament to who we thought Austin
Clark and Anthony Weaver and the rest of that defensive
coaching staff is for how they work with those young
guys who really stabilize that part of this.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, that's why I'm so excited. Man, You've got such
development that's happened on this roster. And you know, Weave
was asked about Zeke Biggers, We're gonna run the sound
by on the show later on today. He was asked
about it on Thursday and he was like, they were like,
why don't you put him in the game earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He's like, cause, it's not mad.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I can't just drop a guy out there, Like you
have to kind of grind through some of these things
and develop these guys as games. And it's like, I
trust the process, man. I know that's like almost a
bad word in sports, the sports lexicon, but you should
trust the process of what you've seen so far from
this development. And then on top of that, like I
feel like Dolphins fans for years have asked for this,
like Bowlly football. Not only the Dolphins like running the
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ball down team's throats, but to your point, control the
last scrimmage. And on the back end, they have all
these you know, safeties who can play the big nickel,
and the cornerbacks are big physic guys Like I don't know, man,
it's kind of changed the way I view football. You
made fun of me on the Fish Tank a couple
of weeks back for saying that I have a honeypot
of skills I prefer in terms of speed and small guys.
I'm kind of going hither way now, man, And I
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think it's tracked. I've learned from you, I've learned from
the Big Boy Club, is right? Speaking of the Big
Boy Club, Let's go ahead and take a break right there,
come back on the other side and talk about Conference
Championship Weekend with the great Kyle Krabs and the Drive
Time Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. Segment one
with my guesses Ay Kyle Krabs, all about Miami Dolphins
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football and the final five weeks of the season and beyond.
But now, as far as the beyond, this Dolphins team
next year, Kyle gonna have five picks in the top
one hundred of the draft. They are continuing to round
out the resources along with a good young core on
this roster.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
A lot to be excited about here.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Let's just go ahead and kind of give you the
wheel here on Conference Championship weekend and tell us what
you're looking at from a scouting person effective. What's some
of the big matchups that you can't wait to dive into.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm really excited to see this matchup, the first
matchup on Saturday, the Big twelve Championship game with Texas
Tech and BYU. I don't know how much anybody who's
listening has caught this Texas Tech defense this year. But
holy smokes, is this unit is really fun. They've got
a bunch of transfers up front. It kinds of reminds
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me of you remember last year's SMU team that made
the playoff and they had all those Miami Hurricanes transfers
on the defensive line, like Eliza Roberts is one of
those guys. They've got David Bailey, a senior transfer from
Stanford who's probably a top twenty pick as a pass rusher.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
He's primarily a speed rusher.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
The other edge rusher that they have is a sixth
year Super senior whose name is Romelo Height. He might
be his tape this year might be better than David Bailey's,
but he's a little bit of an older prospect because
he's a super senior, so he'll be like a twenty
five year old rookie. That'll probably hurt him a little
bit on like the draft boards, but its first round
tape on the edge as far as what he does
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as a pass rusher. And they pair that with Aj
Holmes and Hunter Lee who's the nose tackle as transfers
in upfront, Like I think the entire defensive line is
NFL players, and then they have arguably one of the
most diverse off ball linebackers in the country, and Jacob
Rodriguez who's a red shirt trans transfer senior as well,
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and it's like they're doing the Heisman campaign for Rodriguez.
He's getting some run on offense as a Wildcat quarterback
in the low red zone at times, They've got they've
got guys in the secondary. Cole Wesnowski is a senior
red shirt senior transfer from North Dakota State. He's got big, say,
he's like six four, two twenty type of safety that's
kind of savy. That gets your attention because you know,
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you could play him on the or on the edge.
You could play him on the second level. You could
do Halffield safety stuff with him, you could put him
in the nickel. He's a really good tackler. He stands
out in a big way. And then their their junior
corner Bryce Pollock, stands out to me as well. So
they've legit got like half of their NFL defense could
be NFL draft picks and feasibly like top one NFL
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draft like that, They've got a really good group going
against a big, physical BYU football team that's eleven to
one coming in, and you know that, you kind of
know the book on BYU. They're gonna be big upfront,
They're going to run the football. They've got a big
wide receiver Chase Roberts, who's been very productive this year.
He's kind of a vertical playing type guy, but he
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has that physicality about him. So that matchup to me
at noon is probably it's two top eleven teams in
the country. It's not as sexy as Alabama Georgia for
the fifth time in six years or whatever it is,
and Ohio State Indiana is number one and number two. Like,
I get why everybody's excited about those other games, but
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from an NFL talent perspective, like that Texas Tech defense,
I think they're loaded. It is a great showcase opportunity
for them, and I'm excited to scout that game and
see how plays out.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It's exactly why I want to have you on the
show because it's an easy you know, to your point,
you know, what's what's the I can't think of the
freaking term right now, but low hanging fruit there it is.
With the two night games later later afternoon night games
there with Georgia, Alabama, Indiana Ohio State. So we'll be
just taking a look at the Big twelve Championship there.
The Kugs won the Pac twelve championship last weeks. We
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want to talk about that over Oregon State. The only
teams in the conference go Kug six and six eligible.
But you mentioned the Indiana Ohio State game, and I
want to ask you this from from from the jump
here because I was having this discussion with a buddy
here at work the other day, like both these teams
are making the playoffs and look, I get it, undefeated season,
Big ten Championship, first round by number one seed.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
All of that is great going forward.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But you could make the case that there's no real
reason to to try to win this game, Like you
could possibly rest guys because you're going to be in
the playoff anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I'm curre where you come down on that.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And we are we being robbed of what should be
the game of the year right now because the ultimate
like the consequences of losing just aren't that significant.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I feel like it'd probably be a pretty big deal
for Indiana to win the Big Ten Championship game.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I know Ohio State defending champion.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
It's kind of an element of been there, done that,
So I see maybe some of the appeal of this
game getting watered down a little bit. But I think
for a coach like Kurt Signetti, who's who's in his
second year with the program and then got them to
the playoff last year, and then the way that they
lost in the playoff to Notre Dame and the energy
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that he's put into that program and getting a contract
extension already, I expect they'll be really up for this game.
And it's a great showcase game right where you've got
everybody's kind of consensus going to be in the draft
top quarterback in Fernando Mendoza against a defense at Ohio State.
That's I mean, they're not surprisingly loaded again where I
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mean you just kind of take the rundown sunny styles
and RVL Reese are two linebackers on the team that
arvel Ree has some Jalen Walker pass rush style stuff,
but is better off the ball and is a bigger player.
And Walker went in the top twenty last year. I
think Reese has a chance to go in potentially his
high as the top five. Caleb Downs might be the
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best overall player in the class. The way that they
played those three players off each other on at the
second level. And then a front that's got Katie McDonald
doesn't run stuff round the interior. Kenyatta Jackson is a
super long defensive end that's got some power. Davison nigbanosen
A Corners had a strong year. It should have plenty
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of fireworks for the talent. As far as the motivation
to win the game, it doesn't matter whether you're in
a bad start to a season at the NFL level
or you're playing in a kind of a Big ten
championship game. You play to win the game, right Like,
once these guys go out compete a high level, I'm
sure we'll get that. I'm man, great job, you killed it.
(22:10):
I love everything you said in this episode.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And just to put a cherry on top, they're talking about,
you know, Travis's fair positions receiver. If you want to
watch the receivers in that Ohio State and Ohio State
Indiana game, Carneal Tay, Elijah Surratt, and Omar Cooper Junior
probably going to be pretty high draft picks in the cycle.
So there's all kinds of talent all over the football field. Kyle,
you have said it all. He is the host of
the Lockdown Dolphins podcast and lockedwn NFL Scouting podcast, author
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of Touchdown in Miami and analysis for eight of Z Sports,
as well at Kyle Krabs on social. Kyle, thank you
so much for your time. Enjoy your holiday season and
all the events you get to go to with your kids.
To know you're gonna be busy this month with all
of that and football, my friend.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Thanks, Dravis, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Bro Away, He.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Goes, We're gonna go ahead and finish out this segment
with the Week fourteen NFL picks really strong. Finished last
week after a horrendous zero to four start on Thanksgiving
and Black Friday lost all four of those games, finished
up eleven and one the rest of the way to
get to eleven and five. That brings us to one
thirty six fifty seven and one on the season. If
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the game is nationally broadcast, you can probably guess I'm
going to get that one wrong. That seems to be
the theme of the season. And we picked TNF Are
we one to zer right now? Are we zero to one?
I didn't love the Lions pick, but I'm gonna go
with the team that I still think is better than
the Cowboys, and that one. We shall see how that
plays out, or how it played out last night, I
should say let's go ahead and get into the rest
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of the picks.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Cue the music here.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We took the Dolphins over the Jets at the Meadowlands.
I'm taking the Seahawks over the Falcons. Without Michael Panics,
without Drake Lennon, that offense has struggled. I suspect that
to be the case this week against that Mike McDonald defense.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That flies all over the field.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Big big game out in Buffalo Bills and Bengals. I
think this is going to be a close game, but
I'm picking the Bills to just get more against a
challenged Bengals defense than vice versa.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
In this one. I'll take the Titans over the Browns.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I think the Titans are probably the worst team in
the league on balance across their roster right now, but
I do think they can stifle Sugar Standards enough and
cam Ward can make enough place to win what's kind
of the Tank Bowl right now. I'll take the Commanders
over the Vikings. It's been a rough, rough go at
the quarterback position for the Vikings. The Commander's playing better
football as of late. They'll get that one. In my opinion.
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I'll take the Bucks over the Saints as the Bucks
look to get healthy down the backstretch of the season. Here,
we'll take Jacksonville over Indianapolis. That's a tough game to pick,
but we've talked about the Colts, you know, potential for
a bit of a collapse here that to me is
tied directly to the health of the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I watched Daniel Jones last week. Moving was tough.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I don't think it's gonna get better here as we
go forward against a good Jacksonville pass rush. I'll take
Baltimore over Pittsburgh. I've been saying they're gonna sweep the
Steelers and win the division for the since they were
one to five. I still believe that to be the
case for the Ravens in this game. Give me the
Broncos over the Raiders. We're not picking the Raiders the
rest of the way.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'll take the Packers over the I think this will
be the reckoning for the Chicago Bears, but I've been
saying that for a while now, so we shall see you.
But I think George Love hitting that stride, that Packers'
offense hitting their stride. I think they're gonna really take
it to the Bears in this one. I'll take the
Rams over the Cardinals for obvious reasons. The big game
on Sunday night. I don't love this pick in the
way I don't love the Detroit over Dallas pick. But
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I am going to take the Chiefs over the Texans
despite the fact that they're gonna be without Josh Simmons,
Trey Smith, and Juwan Taylor against the best.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Pass Russian football. Good luck, Pat.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I'm still picking you, though, and they'll take the Eagles
over the Chargers with or without Justin Herbert in that game.
Last break right there, cut the music. We'll come back
on the other side. I'm gonna hear from Mike McDaniel,
from Anthony Weaver, from Craig Ackerman, from Frank Smith, all
kinds of soundbites here on the show. To close things up.
On a Friday, Draft Time podcast brought to you by
Auto Nation, we are going to close up the show
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this week with some soundbites from some of the assistant
coaches as well as Mike McDaniel, which is where we
are going to start with a bit of a Jordan
Brooks appreciation moment. Here on the show, I asked coach
as well as Anthony Weaver about the leadership of Jordan
Brooks and what he means to this team. And let's
go ahead and just start here, because this is what
kind of spawned the entire discussion to ask these questions
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of multiple people throughout the week, with Mike McDaniel talking
about Jordan Brooks's leadership style, his quiet nature, but the
just consistent, relentless approach and work and how that has
earned him this voice that carries so much weight in
the locker room throughout the building. Let's go ahead and
hear from Coach McDaniel on Dolphin star linebacker Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
It's rare that a quiet, business like, serious focused person.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Becomes the you know, almost the voice of your team.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
That process is really cool because the quiet guy doesn't
talk until he's until people are ask asking what he
has to say. He's doing his job, He's relentless, you know,
he's tough.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But it's rare.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You're you're given the gift of having being on a
team with with a person that's so so focused, so
tough minded, so relentless that you can count on his
one hundred percent every day.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So after doing that for a lot of.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Days, he became, you know, one of the main pillars,
became a captain. And you know hard press that anybody's
voice is heard louder because of it's continued play plays
he makes. He's not walking around any different than he
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was a month, two months, three months ago. He's walking
around trying to fix the couple times in zone defense
that he didn't he thought he could have got depth
and not get high lowed.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
He is.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
It's inspiring, man, And and I think when teams are
led by players like that, there's a you know, turn
the page and you have a play style that keeps
you in football games, that makes you very very difficult
to beat because you're relentless, and you and each player
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that's on the field, whether he's on the field with
him or he's watching them while they're on the field,
and it's opposite phase.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
They don't want to let him down. How powerful is that?
I mean, I can't say enough about the guy. He's he's.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Whatever credit he gets, it would be completely feasible if
he gave him.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
More, and so that spawned a follow up question for
coach Weaver about when you have a guy like that,
how much easier does make your job just in terms of,
you know, bringing the guys along with you.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Here's coach Weed. It makes it a lot easier just
because I don't have to. I don't have to be
the heavy all the time, right, I don't. I don't
have to give guys that that kind of kick in
the butt to get them going, because I know j
Beal do it right. Usually most of the things that
I'm thinking or feeling, all of our leaders really him,
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t do Zach, Steeler, Chubb.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
They're usually all on the same page.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
So when you have that, I think that's why you
can have the growth and resolve and perseverance through all
these situations that we've had. But just as it pertains
to Jordan in particular, like absolute stud, I hope he
starts to get some of the credit he deserves. To me,
he's one of the you know, top two three linebackers
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in the league, and I wish we had more wins
so the rest of the world would see that.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And you know, with Jordan's that was one of the
players that I was most excited about acquiring really since
I've been here, you know, last season, but over the
course of six free agencies and drafts like that was
one of the guys we're on tape. I was like, yeah,
I can see it with this guy, but you don't
always know about the rest of the equation, right, who
is he, how does he work, what's you know, what
makes him tick? And with Jordan Brooks, come to find
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out that all that stuff like blows the tape out
of the water, even as good as it is. So
that's when you get yachts on a player, and that's
how you wind up with one of the best players
in the entire National Football League. Let's stay with coach
Weaver and we're gonna do a lot of kind of
developmental stuff on the show here today. And I love
this comment about Zeke Biggers. It's a one two punch
here about his playing time, what he's done to earn
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that you'll recall back on the Training Camp podcast, I
talked about this with Kyle Krabbs way back in August
about showing up and seeing Patrick Paul look like a
different person than he was in twenty twenty four. A
testament to his work ability or his workout regiment in
the offseason. Well, you can do that in season as well.
And that's why these games are all so important for
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every team across the National Football League, the ability to
potentially develop and uncover new assets that maybe you didn't
know you had in the past, and with Zee Biggers
that might be the case. Here here's coach Weaver on
Zeke earning more playing time and then after that why
he wasn't on the field more early in the season.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I just love both these answers here from Anthony Weaver.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
He's just putting a ton of work.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Even from a body composition standpoint, he looks different. So
it's truly a credit to the kid and all the
work he's done both on and off the field in
terms of digesting the playbook, making he's sure he was
sound from an assignment standpoint, He's taken enormous strides in
this run defense. His pass rush has been there, like
we've seen that, but from a just run defensive perspective,
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he's gotten so much better.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
So it's truly just been a credit to the kid.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Really proud of him as all the potential in the
world and that's why he's gotten the snaps he has. Yeah,
we don't play Madden, right, I can't just put him
on the field and they automatically know where to go
and how to play and what to do.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
There's some growth and maturation that needed to occur there.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
There's a reason we got the kid where we did, right,
But we saw the potential in him. And again, truly
a credit to the kid and all the work he's
put in to put himself in this position.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
If you didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Bradley Chubb is the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five Walter
Payton Man of the Year nominee. So coach, we was
asked about Bradley Chubb, who he is as a person
and just about the honor he gets here with the
Walter Payton Man of Your nomination.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
He is a man's man and truly like.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Somebody like I have two boys, and somebody that I
hope they they look up to as a role model, right,
someone who's comes in every day just puts in the
work off the field.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
He's does a tremendous amount of work for the youth.
And we've all been that kid, right.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
I still remember when I was young and going to
watch some of the guys from the Giants, like Steve
Diassi and Dave Meggott's play against the teachers at my school.
So just the impact he has on both the people
in the building as a captain, as a leader, as
a player, and then realizing that this isn't you know.
Everything he does is is with purpose and impactful and
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he serves and ultimately that's that's what we're all here
to do.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I questioned about a play from Browdley in the games
on the two point Minka pick back the direction he
had a pass rush where it looks like he fakes
a spin, moved back to the inside and then goes
back around the corner.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Is that something that he sets up for the course
of the games?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He talking to you about that, Like, how is that
manifested itself into the biggest moment in the game.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
I have to be honest, like I've been coach d Line,
played d Line a long time. You don't see a
lot of people win on fake spins. So that's one
that that he was absolutely setting up. Now say this,
when I was great in the film later that night
and I saw it, I immediately text him.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
And I was like, oh, fake spin was sweet, and
he was like, I.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Know, but nobody saw it so and so he couldn't
wait to get to get in and watch the film.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
But it was a pretty for sure.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We'll finish up with Weave here talking about Minka Fitzpatrick,
who's been a big topic of discussion. We're gonna hear
from coach Ackerman here in just one second about Minka's
leadership extending beyond the field into the coaching aspect of things.
But here's Coach Weaver on Minka Fitzpatrick at this stage
of his career, where he is and where he think
you can go from this position going forward.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Yeah, I think I think he's very much at the
top of the game.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Aging safeties can't play Nickel, right, and he's one of
those guys where he doesn't dodge any smoke, right, Like,
he doesn't care who's out there, shifty fast. He's gonna
take pride in that and lock him down. And I
don't know a lot of guys like that. You know,
I was around Kyle Hilton, right, he has a little
bit of that in him. But but Minca is an
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absolute stud and quite frankly, I don't even know where
we'd be at this point as a defense without him,
just because of some of the injuries we've had, particularly
in the back end. So I love him, man, I'm
extremely fortunate that we have him. And yeah, I don't
the lack of speed thing, I certainly don't see. I
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like to say. I like to tell MinC click. He
has selective speed, right. He's as fast as he needs
to be when he needs to be it. And I
think some of that just where he's messing with quarterbacks
and baiting them to make throws too. So he's a
stud man and super glad he's here.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Let's go ahead and stay on that train of thought
here with coach Ackerman, who talked about Minca's involvement and
how they do certain things at practice.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
Minka Chitspatrick. This was awesome. He brought this over from Pittsburgh.
We do so many on side kicks on Fridays and
on Saturday for the guys, so we'll continue to do that.
We've got all of our specialists, including our long snapper, kicker,
and punter that are kicking all different types of you know,
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onside kicks for those guys. So we'll continue to do
that and get better at it. It was new. We
were going into the season, and Minka just came up
to me on a Friday, because we usually do onside
kick on Saturday, where we have our hands team out there.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
We have our kicker, give him a couple.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
Of different looks, and Minca's like, hey, coach, after practice,
why don't we get the guys and catch some on
side kicks. And I was like, yeah, we can do that.
He's like, no, I want to do it. Okay, that's great.
So literally after practice he gets the guys that are
on the hands team, and then again it's just like
football is going all over the place. We got guys
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lining up on the right and left hand side, and
then Minka gets lined up. We'll kick him a few
different types of kicks. Same thing with Nick Westbrook, Jam Waddle.
All those guys get these different types of kicks. We
punt the ball with Jake Bailey sometimes because if the
ball is back at the twenty yard line, they can
go and punt it, drop kicks from the punter. I mean,
we get all these different types of things. So I
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really appreciate Minka, you know, saying that to us at
the beginning of the season, just for us to get
extra reps because really not that it's overlooked, but not
a lot of time usually goes in, and you know,
you only have a certain amount of time on a
Saturday to go through all four core special teams and
then including your on sidekick and then your hands team too.
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So I thought that was a great thing that he
brought over and all continue to use that for the
rest of my career.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
All right, there we go, very girthy episode here of
the Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
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Speaker 2 (37:21):
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I think we will but hopefully beat the Jets. Until then,
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Speaker 1 (37:48):
Fins up Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy he's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Great, what is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft
Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on
today's show, Kyle Crabs is back in the saddle to
talk some Dolphins football and conference championship weekend in college.
Will pick the week fourteen games and hear from the
coaches and players on a SoundBite roundup from the Baptist
(00:29):
Hell Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
the Draft Time Podcasts kicking off this week's football Friday show.
Longtime friend of the podcast, longtime friend of the host
Kyle Krabs talking all things Dolphins and NFL Draft for
the Miami Dolphins. Here on the Draft Time Podcast, Kyle,
how you doing man? How was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (00:51):
My Thanksgiving was great, Travis. Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
We had four separate Thanksgiving meals because each me and
my wife's households are split. Oh, we did the full game.
We still have leftovers in the fridge. We're living good
off that regard.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Still rocking with the leftovers. I ate myself sick on
Thursday and Friday. I have a history of doing that.
It's like I love the meal so much and I
don't have the discipline to stop.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Got myself sick both times. You e run under that problem.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
I have not individually, but one of my old high
school teammates there was a buffet we went to like
the day before training camp my senior year, and he
went and he ate so much he had to go
to the bathroom and throw up the last two plates
and then went back and got more plates. So I
don't know if you've ever been that bad, but it's
(01:37):
been done. I've seen it first hit.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
The old Country buffet, boot and rally first time for everything.
I haven't heard of that before. Yep, let's dive into
the Dolphins. Now that we're in the post Thanksgiving era
of the twenty twenty five season, as some would say,
this is when the season really begins, and for the Dolphins,
you know, kind of trying to find themselves over the
first half of the season. Well they've found themselves now.
Winners are four of the last five. Some good competition
(02:01):
among that group as well. And let's go ahead and
start on the offense. I'll do both sides of the
football here, but offensively with this turnaround, I think it's
a little more.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Tangible on this side. Of the ball.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
But I just want to get your perspective as a
expert of this. You know, this team and this league
and x's and o's and all that stuff. What you've
seen from the Dolphins with the turnaround, the obvious you know,
ground and pound game. But really, what I want to
know the most, Kyle, is what you think from a
sustainability standpoint, not just for the rest of this season
and Sunday and going forward, but long term, Like what
(02:31):
has this last couple of games taught you about who
the Dolphins can be in twenty twenty five and beyond.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, I think it opens the door for you to
have a lot more flexibility for your roster composition, because
you know, it's Miami.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
When when Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
First gets here, there's a wide receiver who's a really
promising wide receiver, but he's on a rookie contract. So
then you trade for Tyreek Hill. Is this too good
to be true opportunity? But then Jalen Waddell proves himself
to be as much of a stud as he is,
he gets a contract extension and rightfully so, and it
was done early, which is more often than not, those
are when you know you want to extend those guys,
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you should get them in a earl. But now you
have a thirty million dollar wide receiver and a twenty
eight million dollar wide receiver and Miami as of late
after the Tyreek Kill injury, you've seen thirteen personnel, twenty
two personnel with jumbo packages or heavy with a sixth
offensive lineman, whatever you want to call it. And it's
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just hard to when you have that invested in players
and twenty million dollars or thirty million dollars a season.
They need to be on the field, right because that's
where you're invested. But if you've made a transition that
shows you how capable you can be running the football,
ask yourselves how many different players for the rest of
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your roster composition you can get at other positions for
potentially up to thirty million dollars, which was the going rate.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Of like a wide receiver one in the NFL these days.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
And that's running backs, that's offensive lineman, that's top level
tight ends, Like the top players at each one of
those spots is barely two thirds of what that thirty
million dollar mark is.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
So that, for me is what's really.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Energizing to me about Hey, we can go heavy, we
can load up and be big with our personnel packages.
We can still have success with speed and getting out
to the perimeter, but we can also diversify what we
do and run more between the tackles, and we can
do more gap scheme and counter and pin and pull
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an outside zone and inside zone and duo and like
all the concepts. And you've seen that from Miami, and
that's where Mike's roots really lie, right, So I think
for me seeing since week six, you know that Panthers
game in Week five when Carolina ran for two forty
or something like that, Miami ran for it was less
than twenty yards as a team after that week, So
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week six till today, the Dolphins ran sixth in the
NFL and rushing EPA their fifth in yards per carry
at five point one. They are second in yards after
contact at three and a half yards per carry after contact.
Like that's all. It's half a season's worth of sample size.
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It's very sustainable. All of that regard and the slate
of opponents that you've had in run defense that you
just got done playing are playing the run better than
each of the final five opponents that you have on the.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Schedule, it's eight weeks.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
To your point, I'm glad you went that far back,
cause I did this on the show earlier this week.
I went back to the Falcons game because like the
wins and whatnot. But like, yeah, right, you can go
back further than that and find a deeper sample size that,
to your point, is half the season, which that's not
a fluke, that's not by mistake. That happens because you
have worked on it, You've developed the identity, and it's
it almost kind of you know, on the show, I
love kind of making references to real life, you know things.
(06:00):
It's almost like you reverse engineer and engineering cooking a
meal and you're getting the same meal. But to your
point about the cost, you know, efficiency of how you
build that out, like essentially you're going to a cheaper
grocery store to find the items, and it looks different,
the preparation all looks different, but ultimately the final meal
is scoring points and winning games, and Miami's getting there,
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and to your point, maybe they can do that where
they can add more you know, support elsewhere across the roster.
I love the way you put that there, and I
think my follow up question to that Kyle would be.
You know, we've had this conversation privately and on shows,
and I've talked about on my show a million times
about the ever shifting landscape of the National Football League.
Last year we saw the Bills and the Eagles both
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make deep runs with you know, prioritizing their power run
game over the passing game. We've talked about average depth
of target is down, that the deep balls are kind
of not a thing anymore, not not a thing anymore,
but they're they're less than they were during the offensive
explosion of the NFL during the ATS into the you know,
early twenty twenties and now like high percentage throws, short
passing game, run game.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
You know, do you see it continuing that way?
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And how does Miami's you know, renewed identity fit with
where the NFL.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Is right now?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, it's.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
It's it's very much a cyclical process, right because you
go back to like the Legion of Boom right in
Seattle and the Legion of Boom they played a ton
of Cover three. It wasn't anything exotic. They were just
so good talent wise at what they did that it
created this elite product and then everybody across the NFL
defensively said, wow, that's working really well.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Let's try to do that.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Let's play a bunch of cover three, and you try
your best to get the pieces to do it successfully,
and everybody has their own degree of success. But then
once it became so popular to run a bunch of
cover three, well, now you can get up the seams
and you can run vertical shots because there's not two
high shelves that's going to automatically work you off of
that right, and now you're seeing the pendulum swing back
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the other way. I go back to one of Kansas
City runs to the Super Bowl when they were kind
of banged up at wide receiver and they did a
ton of thirteen personnel. It was Travis Kelcey who could
flex around, but then it was.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Noah Gray was in that group.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I don't remember who the third tight end is off
the top of my head, but in that postseason run,
they very much identified as thirteen. You have a team
mid season this year, the Rams who have kind of
flipped that switch. They used to be like ninety five
percent eleven personnel, right, but they had big receivers so
they could emulate twelve. This is remember when Ben's Scaronic
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was like the coolest thing in football because they line
him up at full back, but he's also a wide receiver.
Like that's how they blurred the lines with the personnel.
Now you're seeing because of two high shell presentations. This
whole chess match on trying to get teams defensively to
match personnel with who you bring into the football game.
The teams that I think are gonna have the most
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success moving forward are the teams that can present a
tight end room with diversified skill sets, but not like
a very skill specific player in each role, Like you
want to have some ambiguity on who's doing what. So
I think for Miami, you've seen with Greg Dolcic in
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his emergence and Darren Waller and what he provided this
year with a different receiving profile even though he was
also receiving tight end like John new Smith was for
the Dolphins last year.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I think that's the pathway right now in the NFL,
and you've seen Miami dabble in a little bit. But
the teams that have the most challenge with presenting personnel
packages with multiple tight ends on the field, I think
are going to be the ones that really grease the
wheels of this next evolution across the league offensive.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
There in lies the intrigue of the NFL to me,
because you came into the season and if you ask
Dolphins fans with the biggest like question marks in the roster,
where they told you cornerbacks and probably tight ends. And
now we sit here today against the Saints and like,
I'm watching these three tight ends get used twenty five
plus snaps in the game, and I that's where the
biggest intrigue for the offense comes to me right now
is how they continue to add wrinkles and layers to
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what Darren Waller, Greg dole Such and Julian Hill can do.
Because we finally have all three of those guys playing together. Now,
it's a very exciting prospect to me. Let's go ahead
and make a segue here. You mentioned the legion of boom.
There makes a good segue to the defensive side of
the football, which, by the way, let's let's.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Play cover three.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
But oh, just go get Earl Thomas cam chance with
Richard Sherman and you can make it work.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Right, That's how that's how that goes.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But the Dolphins defense man, we saw it last year,
and I think you're seeing kind of the exact same
thing play out here. But I would, you know, kind
of push the question in this realm Kyle towards, like, yeah,
there was Kaleis Campbell here last year. Yeah, you had,
you know, some different pieces that aren't here this year.
But when I look at the change and I think
about the structure of the defense and what's kind of
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sparked the change, Like we just heard from from Craig
Ackerman on Thursday talking about how Minka Fitzpatrick brought a
like a practice drill about recovering on site kicks to
Craig Lockerman like, we're gonna do this on Saturdays now
and Fridays because we did it, I did it in
a past place and it had an impact and coaches like, sure,
we're doing it like that leadership to coach and conduit
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Jordan Brooks that we talk all the time about. Anthony
Weavers talked about like I don't have to be on
guys as hard because I know Jordan Brooks has got me.
And he talked about you know Seeler and t Dot
and Minca. So you have these like established veterans who
are about what they say they're about. They go out
and they produce in the same way. And then you
have this young core of rookies and second year players
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that are playing.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Really good football.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
And like I'm looking at this thinking to myself, like
this is sustainable again, not for just the rest of
the season, but going forward. Where do you come down
all that? What can you add to that? What's made
this defense click the way it has.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I think you can look at their ability to control
the line of scrimmage, the way in which they have.
Obviously the communication on the back end is huge. I
think getting Minka Fitzpatrick and the nickel with consistency has
really evolved the feel of that role. Speaking of Minca,
how cool. I know you were there when I was
down for training. Kid, we watched some of the pro together.
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You remember watching It was Bradley Chubb, Chop Robinson, Jalen
Phillips working on their pass rush stuff and they were
working on like the strip of the quarterback's arm at
the high point in their warm up period at the
beginning of training camp, and every other day who hopped
over there and did stuff with him.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Minka Fitzpatrick, dude.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Never had a sack before this strip sack he had
against New Orleans. Yeah, and he would still take the
time during training camp to go over and do that
that strip sack drill with those top three pass rushers
on the roster before practice, and then for him to
get that opportunity and get.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
A strip sack off the it was like, that's really cool.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
I think that embodies why Minka Fitzpatrick has has this
has had the success he's had in the NFL, and
how he's kind of been transformative to the Dolphins defense
being in the nickel. But I look at their success
stopping the run, especially with the young guys, and figuring
out what combinations of guys play well off of each other.
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You've got an anchor player in Zach Seeler. And when
you're in even fronts, when you're in rush fronts, when
you're trying to run twists, when you're in odd front
with three interior down linemen and you're trying to cover
up the both the be gaps and put a nose
out on the field, how do those pieces fit together.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It took a little bit of time.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
It took some coaching from Austin Clark's unit to get
all those young guys rolling. But since Week six, that
same window, that game, starting that game after the Panthers
ran all over Miami, the Dolphins in run total run
defense EPA or second in the league since Week six,
and that's three.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Rookies playing at least twenty snaps a game right now.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
And I think that's where you have that ability to stop,
get increased, make teams suddenly one dimensional. Now you're not
in third and two all the time. Now you're not
so off balance defensively on third downs. You've normalized your
possessions and forcing punts and end possessions in kicks. The
first three weeks of the season, that was such a
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sore spot for them. The way that it's really gelled together,
I think is a testament to who we thought Austin
Clark and Anthony Weaver and the rest of that defensive
coaching staff is for how they work with those young
guys who really stabilize that part of this.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, that's why I'm so excited. Man, You've got such
development that's happened on this roster. And you know, Weave
was asked about Zeke Biggers, We're gonna run the sound
by on the show later on today. He was asked
about it on Thursday and he was like, they were like,
why don't you put him in the game earlier.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
He's like, cause, it's not mad.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I can't just drop a guy out there, Like you
have to kind of grind through some of these things
and develop these guys as games. And it's like, I
trust the process, man. I know that's like almost a
bad word in sports, the sports lexicon, but you should
trust the process of what you've seen so far from
this development. And then on top of that, like I
feel like Dolphins fans for years have asked for this,
like Bowlly football. Not only the Dolphins like running the
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ball down team's throats, but to your point, control the
last scrimmage. And on the back end, they have all
these you know, safeties who can play the big nickel,
and the cornerbacks are big physic guys Like I don't know, man,
it's kind of changed the way I view football. You
made fun of me on the Fish Tank a couple
of weeks back for saying that I have a honeypot
of skills I prefer in terms of speed and small guys.
I'm kind of going hither way now, man, And I
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think it's tracked. I've learned from you, I've learned from
the Big Boy Club, is right? Speaking of the Big
Boy Club, Let's go ahead and take a break right there,
come back on the other side and talk about Conference
Championship Weekend with the great Kyle Krabs and the Drive
Time Podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. Segment one
with my guesses Ay Kyle Krabs, all about Miami Dolphins
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football and the final five weeks of the season and beyond.
But now, as far as the beyond, this Dolphins team
next year, Kyle gonna have five picks in the top
one hundred of the draft. They are continuing to round
out the resources along with a good young core on
this roster.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
A lot to be excited about here.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Let's just go ahead and kind of give you the
wheel here on Conference Championship weekend and tell us what
you're looking at from a scouting person effective. What's some
of the big matchups that you can't wait to dive into.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Yeah, I'm really excited to see this matchup, the first
matchup on Saturday, the Big twelve Championship game with Texas
Tech and BYU. I don't know how much anybody who's
listening has caught this Texas Tech defense this year. But
holy smokes, is this unit is really fun. They've got
a bunch of transfers up front. It kinds of reminds
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me of you remember last year's SMU team that made
the playoff and they had all those Miami Hurricanes transfers
on the defensive line, like Eliza Roberts is one of
those guys. They've got David Bailey, a senior transfer from
Stanford who's probably a top twenty pick as a pass rusher.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
He's primarily a speed rusher.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
The other edge rusher that they have is a sixth
year Super senior whose name is Romelo Height. He might
be his tape this year might be better than David Bailey's,
but he's a little bit of an older prospect because
he's a super senior, so he'll be like a twenty
five year old rookie. That'll probably hurt him a little
bit on like the draft boards, but its first round
tape on the edge as far as what he does
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as a pass rusher. And they pair that with Aj
Holmes and Hunter Lee who's the nose tackle as transfers
in upfront, Like I think the entire defensive line is
NFL players, and then they have arguably one of the
most diverse off ball linebackers in the country, and Jacob
Rodriguez who's a red shirt trans transfer senior as well,
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and it's like they're doing the Heisman campaign for Rodriguez.
He's getting some run on offense as a Wildcat quarterback
in the low red zone at times, They've got they've
got guys in the secondary. Cole Wesnowski is a senior
red shirt senior transfer from North Dakota State. He's got big, say,
he's like six four, two twenty type of safety that's
kind of savy. That gets your attention because you know,
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you could play him on the or on the edge.
You could play him on the second level. You could
do Halffield safety stuff with him, you could put him
in the nickel. He's a really good tackler. He stands
out in a big way. And then their their junior
corner Bryce Pollock, stands out to me as well. So
they've legit got like half of their NFL defense could
be NFL draft picks and feasibly like top one NFL
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draft like that, They've got a really good group going
against a big, physical BYU football team that's eleven to
one coming in, and you know that, you kind of
know the book on BYU. They're gonna be big upfront,
They're going to run the football. They've got a big
wide receiver Chase Roberts, who's been very productive this year.
He's kind of a vertical playing type guy, but he
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has that physicality about him. So that matchup to me
at noon is probably it's two top eleven teams in
the country. It's not as sexy as Alabama Georgia for
the fifth time in six years or whatever it is,
and Ohio State Indiana is number one and number two. Like,
I get why everybody's excited about those other games, but
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from an NFL talent perspective, like that Texas Tech defense,
I think they're loaded. It is a great showcase opportunity
for them, and I'm excited to scout that game and
see how plays out.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
It's exactly why I want to have you on the
show because it's an easy you know, to your point,
you know, what's what's the I can't think of the
freaking term right now, but low hanging fruit there it is.
With the two night games later later afternoon night games
there with Georgia, Alabama, Indiana Ohio State. So we'll be
just taking a look at the Big twelve Championship there.
The Kugs won the Pac twelve championship last weeks. We
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want to talk about that over Oregon State. The only
teams in the conference go Kug six and six eligible.
But you mentioned the Indiana Ohio State game, and I
want to ask you this from from from the jump
here because I was having this discussion with a buddy
here at work the other day, like both these teams
are making the playoffs and look, I get it, undefeated season,
Big ten Championship, first round by number one seed.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
All of that is great going forward.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
But you could make the case that there's no real
reason to to try to win this game, Like you
could possibly rest guys because you're going to be in
the playoff anyway.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
I'm curre where you come down on that.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
And we are we being robbed of what should be
the game of the year right now because the ultimate
like the consequences of losing just aren't that significant.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
I feel like it'd probably be a pretty big deal
for Indiana to win the Big Ten Championship game.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
I know Ohio State defending champion.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
It's kind of an element of been there, done that,
So I see maybe some of the appeal of this
game getting watered down a little bit. But I think
for a coach like Kurt Signetti, who's who's in his
second year with the program and then got them to
the playoff last year, and then the way that they
lost in the playoff to Notre Dame and the energy
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that he's put into that program and getting a contract
extension already, I expect they'll be really up for this game.
And it's a great showcase game right where you've got
everybody's kind of consensus going to be in the draft
top quarterback in Fernando Mendoza against a defense at Ohio State.
That's I mean, they're not surprisingly loaded again where I
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mean you just kind of take the rundown sunny styles
and RVL Reese are two linebackers on the team that
arvel Ree has some Jalen Walker pass rush style stuff,
but is better off the ball and is a bigger player.
And Walker went in the top twenty last year. I
think Reese has a chance to go in potentially his
high as the top five. Caleb Downs might be the
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best overall player in the class. The way that they
played those three players off each other on at the
second level. And then a front that's got Katie McDonald
doesn't run stuff round the interior. Kenyatta Jackson is a
super long defensive end that's got some power. Davison nigbanosen
A Corners had a strong year. It should have plenty
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of fireworks for the talent. As far as the motivation
to win the game, it doesn't matter whether you're in
a bad start to a season at the NFL level
or you're playing in a kind of a Big ten
championship game. You play to win the game, right Like,
once these guys go out compete a high level, I'm
sure we'll get that. I'm man, great job, you killed it.
(22:10):
I love everything you said in this episode.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
And just to put a cherry on top, they're talking about,
you know, Travis's fair positions receiver. If you want to
watch the receivers in that Ohio State and Ohio State
Indiana game, Carneal Tay, Elijah Surratt, and Omar Cooper Junior
probably going to be pretty high draft picks in the cycle.
So there's all kinds of talent all over the football field. Kyle,
you have said it all. He is the host of
the Lockdown Dolphins podcast and lockedwn NFL Scouting podcast, author
(22:33):
of Touchdown in Miami and analysis for eight of Z Sports,
as well at Kyle Krabs on social. Kyle, thank you
so much for your time. Enjoy your holiday season and
all the events you get to go to with your kids.
To know you're gonna be busy this month with all
of that and football, my friend.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Thanks, Dravis, appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Bro Away, He.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Goes, We're gonna go ahead and finish out this segment
with the Week fourteen NFL picks really strong. Finished last
week after a horrendous zero to four start on Thanksgiving
and Black Friday lost all four of those games, finished
up eleven and one the rest of the way to
get to eleven and five. That brings us to one
thirty six fifty seven and one on the season. If
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the game is nationally broadcast, you can probably guess I'm
going to get that one wrong. That seems to be
the theme of the season. And we picked TNF Are
we one to zer right now? Are we zero to one?
I didn't love the Lions pick, but I'm gonna go
with the team that I still think is better than
the Cowboys, and that one. We shall see how that
plays out, or how it played out last night, I
should say let's go ahead and get into the rest
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of the picks.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Cue the music here.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
We took the Dolphins over the Jets at the Meadowlands.
I'm taking the Seahawks over the Falcons. Without Michael Panics,
without Drake Lennon, that offense has struggled. I suspect that
to be the case this week against that Mike McDonald defense.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
That flies all over the field.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
Big big game out in Buffalo Bills and Bengals. I
think this is going to be a close game, but
I'm picking the Bills to just get more against a
challenged Bengals defense than vice versa.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
In this one. I'll take the Titans over the Browns.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I think the Titans are probably the worst team in
the league on balance across their roster right now, but
I do think they can stifle Sugar Standards enough and
cam Ward can make enough place to win what's kind
of the Tank Bowl right now. I'll take the Commanders
over the Vikings. It's been a rough, rough go at
the quarterback position for the Vikings. The Commander's playing better
football as of late. They'll get that one. In my opinion.
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I'll take the Bucks over the Saints as the Bucks
look to get healthy down the backstretch of the season. Here,
we'll take Jacksonville over Indianapolis. That's a tough game to pick,
but we've talked about the Colts, you know, potential for
a bit of a collapse here that to me is
tied directly to the health of the quarterback.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I watched Daniel Jones last week. Moving was tough.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
I don't think it's gonna get better here as we
go forward against a good Jacksonville pass rush. I'll take
Baltimore over Pittsburgh. I've been saying they're gonna sweep the
Steelers and win the division for the since they were
one to five. I still believe that to be the
case for the Ravens in this game. Give me the
Broncos over the Raiders. We're not picking the Raiders the
rest of the way.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'll take the Packers over the I think this will
be the reckoning for the Chicago Bears, but I've been
saying that for a while now, so we shall see you.
But I think George Love hitting that stride, that Packers'
offense hitting their stride. I think they're gonna really take
it to the Bears in this one. I'll take the
Rams over the Cardinals for obvious reasons. The big game
on Sunday night. I don't love this pick in the
way I don't love the Detroit over Dallas pick. But
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I am going to take the Chiefs over the Texans
despite the fact that they're gonna be without Josh Simmons,
Trey Smith, and Juwan Taylor against the best.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Pass Russian football. Good luck, Pat.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
I'm still picking you, though, and they'll take the Eagles
over the Chargers with or without Justin Herbert in that game.
Last break right there, cut the music. We'll come back
on the other side. I'm gonna hear from Mike McDaniel,
from Anthony Weaver, from Craig Ackerman, from Frank Smith, all
kinds of soundbites here on the show. To close things up.
On a Friday, Draft Time podcast brought to you by
Auto Nation, we are going to close up the show
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this week with some soundbites from some of the assistant
coaches as well as Mike McDaniel, which is where we
are going to start with a bit of a Jordan
Brooks appreciation moment. Here on the show, I asked coach
as well as Anthony Weaver about the leadership of Jordan
Brooks and what he means to this team. And let's
go ahead and just start here, because this is what
kind of spawned the entire discussion to ask these questions
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of multiple people throughout the week, with Mike McDaniel talking
about Jordan Brooks's leadership style, his quiet nature, but the
just consistent, relentless approach and work and how that has
earned him this voice that carries so much weight in
the locker room throughout the building. Let's go ahead and
hear from Coach McDaniel on Dolphin star linebacker Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
It's rare that a quiet, business like, serious focused person.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Becomes the you know, almost the voice of your team.
Speaker 5 (26:51):
That process is really cool because the quiet guy doesn't
talk until he's until people are ask asking what he
has to say. He's doing his job, He's relentless, you know,
he's tough.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But it's rare.
Speaker 5 (27:12):
You're you're given the gift of having being on a
team with with a person that's so so focused, so
tough minded, so relentless that you can count on his
one hundred percent every day.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So after doing that for a lot of.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Days, he became, you know, one of the main pillars,
became a captain. And you know hard press that anybody's
voice is heard louder because of it's continued play plays
he makes. He's not walking around any different than he
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was a month, two months, three months ago. He's walking
around trying to fix the couple times in zone defense
that he didn't he thought he could have got depth
and not get high lowed.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
He is.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
It's inspiring, man, And and I think when teams are
led by players like that, there's a you know, turn
the page and you have a play style that keeps
you in football games, that makes you very very difficult
to beat because you're relentless, and you and each player
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that's on the field, whether he's on the field with
him or he's watching them while they're on the field,
and it's opposite phase.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
They don't want to let him down. How powerful is that?
I mean, I can't say enough about the guy. He's he's.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Whatever credit he gets, it would be completely feasible if
he gave him.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
More, and so that spawned a follow up question for
coach Weaver about when you have a guy like that,
how much easier does make your job just in terms of,
you know, bringing the guys along with you.
Speaker 7 (29:03):
Here's coach Weed. It makes it a lot easier just
because I don't have to. I don't have to be
the heavy all the time, right, I don't. I don't
have to give guys that that kind of kick in
the butt to get them going, because I know j
Beal do it right. Usually most of the things that
I'm thinking or feeling, all of our leaders really him,
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t do Zach, Steeler, Chubb.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
They're usually all on the same page.
Speaker 7 (29:31):
So when you have that, I think that's why you
can have the growth and resolve and perseverance through all
these situations that we've had. But just as it pertains
to Jordan in particular, like absolute stud, I hope he
starts to get some of the credit he deserves. To me,
he's one of the you know, top two three linebackers
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in the league, and I wish we had more wins
so the rest of the world would see that.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
And you know, with Jordan's that was one of the
players that I was most excited about acquiring really since
I've been here, you know, last season, but over the
course of six free agencies and drafts like that was
one of the guys we're on tape. I was like, yeah,
I can see it with this guy, but you don't
always know about the rest of the equation, right, who
is he, how does he work, what's you know, what
makes him tick? And with Jordan Brooks, come to find
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out that all that stuff like blows the tape out
of the water, even as good as it is. So
that's when you get yachts on a player, and that's
how you wind up with one of the best players
in the entire National Football League. Let's stay with coach
Weaver and we're gonna do a lot of kind of
developmental stuff on the show here today. And I love
this comment about Zeke Biggers. It's a one two punch
here about his playing time, what he's done to earn
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that you'll recall back on the Training Camp podcast, I
talked about this with Kyle Krabbs way back in August
about showing up and seeing Patrick Paul look like a
different person than he was in twenty twenty four. A
testament to his work ability or his workout regiment in
the offseason. Well, you can do that in season as well.
And that's why these games are all so important for
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every team across the National Football League, the ability to
potentially develop and uncover new assets that maybe you didn't
know you had in the past, and with Zee Biggers
that might be the case. Here here's coach Weaver on
Zeke earning more playing time and then after that why
he wasn't on the field more early in the season.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
I just love both these answers here from Anthony Weaver.
Speaker 6 (31:21):
He's just putting a ton of work.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
Even from a body composition standpoint, he looks different. So
it's truly a credit to the kid and all the
work he's done both on and off the field in
terms of digesting the playbook, making he's sure he was
sound from an assignment standpoint, He's taken enormous strides in
this run defense. His pass rush has been there, like
we've seen that, but from a just run defensive perspective,
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he's gotten so much better.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
So it's truly just been a credit to the kid.
Speaker 7 (31:51):
Really proud of him as all the potential in the
world and that's why he's gotten the snaps he has. Yeah,
we don't play Madden, right, I can't just put him
on the field and they automatically know where to go
and how to play and what to do.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
There's some growth and maturation that needed to occur there.
Speaker 7 (32:07):
There's a reason we got the kid where we did, right,
But we saw the potential in him. And again, truly
a credit to the kid and all the work he's
put in to put himself in this position.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
If you didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Bradley Chubb is the Miami Dolphins twenty twenty five Walter
Payton Man of the Year nominee. So coach, we was
asked about Bradley Chubb, who he is as a person
and just about the honor he gets here with the
Walter Payton Man of Your nomination.
Speaker 6 (32:30):
He is a man's man and truly like.
Speaker 7 (32:34):
Somebody like I have two boys, and somebody that I
hope they they look up to as a role model, right,
someone who's comes in every day just puts in the
work off the field.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
He's does a tremendous amount of work for the youth.
And we've all been that kid, right.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
I still remember when I was young and going to
watch some of the guys from the Giants, like Steve
Diassi and Dave Meggott's play against the teachers at my school.
So just the impact he has on both the people
in the building as a captain, as a leader, as
a player, and then realizing that this isn't you know.
Everything he does is is with purpose and impactful and
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he serves and ultimately that's that's what we're all here
to do.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I questioned about a play from Browdley in the games
on the two point Minka pick back the direction he
had a pass rush where it looks like he fakes
a spin, moved back to the inside and then goes
back around the corner.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Is that something that he sets up for the course
of the games?
Speaker 2 (33:29):
He talking to you about that, Like, how is that
manifested itself into the biggest moment in the game.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
I have to be honest, like I've been coach d Line,
played d Line a long time. You don't see a
lot of people win on fake spins. So that's one
that that he was absolutely setting up. Now say this,
when I was great in the film later that night
and I saw it, I immediately text him.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
And I was like, oh, fake spin was sweet, and
he was like, I.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
Know, but nobody saw it so and so he couldn't
wait to get to get in and watch the film.
Speaker 6 (33:59):
But it was a pretty for sure.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
We'll finish up with Weave here talking about Minka Fitzpatrick,
who's been a big topic of discussion. We're gonna hear
from coach Ackerman here in just one second about Minka's
leadership extending beyond the field into the coaching aspect of things.
But here's Coach Weaver on Minka Fitzpatrick at this stage
of his career, where he is and where he think
you can go from this position going forward.
Speaker 6 (34:19):
Yeah, I think I think he's very much at the
top of the game.
Speaker 7 (34:23):
Aging safeties can't play Nickel, right, and he's one of
those guys where he doesn't dodge any smoke, right, Like,
he doesn't care who's out there, shifty fast. He's gonna
take pride in that and lock him down. And I
don't know a lot of guys like that. You know,
I was around Kyle Hilton, right, he has a little
bit of that in him. But but Minca is an
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absolute stud and quite frankly, I don't even know where
we'd be at this point as a defense without him,
just because of some of the injuries we've had, particularly
in the back end. So I love him, man, I'm
extremely fortunate that we have him. And yeah, I don't
the lack of speed thing, I certainly don't see. I
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like to say. I like to tell MinC click. He
has selective speed, right. He's as fast as he needs
to be when he needs to be it. And I
think some of that just where he's messing with quarterbacks
and baiting them to make throws too. So he's a
stud man and super glad he's here.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Let's go ahead and stay on that train of thought
here with coach Ackerman, who talked about Minca's involvement and
how they do certain things at practice.
Speaker 8 (35:28):
Minka Chitspatrick. This was awesome. He brought this over from Pittsburgh.
We do so many on side kicks on Fridays and
on Saturday for the guys, so we'll continue to do that.
We've got all of our specialists, including our long snapper, kicker,
and punter that are kicking all different types of you know,
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onside kicks for those guys. So we'll continue to do
that and get better at it. It was new. We
were going into the season, and Minka just came up
to me on a Friday, because we usually do onside
kick on Saturday, where we have our hands team out there.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
We have our kicker, give him a couple.
Speaker 8 (36:05):
Of different looks, and Minca's like, hey, coach, after practice,
why don't we get the guys and catch some on
side kicks. And I was like, yeah, we can do that.
He's like, no, I want to do it. Okay, that's great.
So literally after practice he gets the guys that are
on the hands team, and then again it's just like
football is going all over the place. We got guys
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lining up on the right and left hand side, and
then Minka gets lined up. We'll kick him a few
different types of kicks. Same thing with Nick Westbrook, Jam Waddle.
All those guys get these different types of kicks. We
punt the ball with Jake Bailey sometimes because if the
ball is back at the twenty yard line, they can
go and punt it, drop kicks from the punter. I mean,
we get all these different types of things. So I
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really appreciate Minka, you know, saying that to us at
the beginning of the season, just for us to get
extra reps because really not that it's overlooked, but not
a lot of time usually goes in, and you know,
you only have a certain amount of time on a
Saturday to go through all four core special teams and
then including your on sidekick and then your hands team too.
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So I thought that was a great thing that he
brought over and all continue to use that for the
rest of my career.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
All right, there we go, very girthy episode here of
the Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
We're gonna get out of here.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Next to we talk to you will be Sunday after
the Dolphins hopefully beat the Jets, almost to beat the Jets.
I think we will but hopefully beat the Jets. Until then,
you all please be sure subscribe, rate, review the show,
follow me on social at WINFLD NFL the team at
Miami Dolphins. Check out the YouTube channel for a brand
episode of Dolphins HQ that dropped last night. Craig Ackerman,
Minka Fitzpatrick breakdown. You don't want to miss that, plus
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media availabilities and so much more and last button, not
least Miami Dolphins dot Com until next time.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
Fins up Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy he's coming home.
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