September 12, 2025 • 37 mins
It’s a football Friday and we’re welcoming in Kyle Crabbs to talk some Dolphins and the weekend in college football. Plus, we stop by the locker room to catch up with Jonah Savaiinaea and Dante Trader Jr., and pick the Week 2 games.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfields.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Kyle Krabs joins me for an extended version of his
weekly spot on the show. For our Football Friday show,
we're gonna pick the week two games. We had the
Packers on TNF last night.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Did we win that game?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We'll find out as soon as the game wraps. We're
gonna also hear from the assistant coaches, stop by the
locker room to talk to some players, and a whole
heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health studios
inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Hey Kyle, who's a backup nose tackle of the Miami Dolphins,
Jordan Phillips? Do you do you have evidence of that?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I have about sixty percent of Jordan phillips Is snaps
in week one, and I have preseasons apps in Chicago
where your other interior defensive lineman are not playing on
those in Jordan Phillips's.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Which is what he did by and large in college
and throughout camp.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
About fifty five sixty percent of his snaps in two
years at Maryland were on the nose tack, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And a zeke bigger split in college of I think
it was three forty and the B gaps and wider
compared to about forty snaps in the A gaps.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That sounds right, Yes, it's just this.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't know what we're still doing on this topic
if you can't tell by now. My guest today is
Kyle Krabs. He joins us for our weekly Friday spot
and I'm just exhausted by that discussion. But Kyle, let's
do this before you get into the college talk this week.
Can we start by sort of taking a inventory.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
On the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The shows this week have been a departure, I imagine
for you as they have been for me based upon
previous expectations. I'm just kind of curious for your state
of how you feeling and maybe more so where we
go from here.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, I think this is a big week and opportunity
for Miami for kind of hearing guys like Devon A.
Chan and Tyrrel Dotson and the rest of the group
talk about how this first game played out and how
everybody was kind of surprised and Mike McDaniel's feedback and
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kind of how the players are taking a priority of
their own to get together per to a tongue of
Aloa and Mike taking the opportunity to the podium to
kind of point out a specific example of a player
with good intentions who did make a play it all
for me sets the stage for Week two to be
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a very critical week for you to do. I think
one of two things, Like I can see them coming
out very inspired, making the adjustments, playing with pride. I
expect there to be a lot of pride with this group,
but it's how do you channel it and potentially having
a very wrong performance in week two where I think
there's more matchups that are in your favor than what
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there were in Indianapolis. And we kind of had the
great ton known of Daniel Jones and how he would
work with Shane Steiken's system versus you know, the thing
you have to absolutely hope you can avoid if you're
this football team is a similar performance to last week.
But it was just very surprising to me for all
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of what the energy felt like, with how things were
talked about and made a point of emphasis relative to
the energy in the performance in week one being so
different than that, So I think we two's critical in
that regard.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think who whoever wins this game comes out feeling like, Okay,
we're back on track here a little bit. Whoever loses
the game kind of enters almost like it's time to
get going modoh and two obviously, And I think the
natural follow up to that question would be because you know,
I've struggled with this myself, and you know it's it's
so weird to go months right talking about certain things
and then you get one sixty minute snapshot of evidence
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and it kind of changes the way you view things.
I think when certain performances go the way they do,
what would it have to look like Sunday against the
Patriots for you to return to the way you felt
at twelve fifty last Sunday. Is there a possibility or
do you have that doubt kind of crept in already
that you can erase it no matter how they play
against the Patriots?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, I certainly think you I'll be leary because it's
it's never about what happens when things are good, right,
It's what happens when there's adversity or an unexpected turn,
and that was Mike McDaniel talking in the postgame about
I was really excited to see all of the things
that we put a lot of point of emphasis and
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work into and I didn't see any of it. And
that was kind of for me as I looked at
what your personnel moves are and you're talking about the
tonality of the football team, and you're talking about the
things that you want to do to kind of expec
in the menu for what you do, and I understand,
like the game script from a score and their early turnovers,
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like really said, a negative stage and you can't play
like that and expect to win games. But that for
me is if I'm gonna come away feeling enthusiastic, the
energy has to be a lot better. The focus and
strain across the board has to be a lot better.
I think you have to also, on top of that,
show what strides you tried to make to be a
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different team, because it just felt like a very familiar
script and style to what they were last year. And
that was part of why I got enthused about it,
was looking at the personnel moves and hearing what they
were intending to do. But then you hit this adversity,
and it all just kind of felt like it reverted
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back when I watched it and then when I watched
it back through again on the tape again.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So hopefully we get a change in terms of the perspective,
because I think that's a pretty common thought with how
this game played out, and I think that's why a
lot of the handwringing has happened, whether it's national, locally
or otherwise. And of course, you lose a game thirty
three to eight, like against a team that I don't
think had like crazy high expectations coming in the Indianapolis Colts,
it'll kind of shock you. But you know, to kind
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of take a Ricky Williams phrase here, he was talking
about how teams you know, trying to interview.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That wasn't it great? And by the way Ricky saying
we and us.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That kind of kind of got the the emotional heartstrings
going for you, boy, because that's my favorite player of
all time.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So that was cool to see.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But I want to close on the Dolphins talk here
before we get into the college talk Kyle with this is,
you know, one of one of the biggest things that
we had discussed this off season together individual in our
shows and through our private texts and not stuff was
some of the pre snap operation and getting to the
ability to use his superpower right, the ability to assess
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the defense before the snap and make decisions before the
snap does go off and beat you with anticipation that way.
But you did a big stone body on some of
the numbers behind pre snap operation and how there's an
area of opportunity there.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, So what I did was I looked at kind
of the Dolphins as a whole, their offense, and then
to a tongue of Aloa. His efficiency splits when the
ball is snap within five seconds of the play clock
and when there's more than five seconds left when the
ball is snapped on the play clock. And that's a
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very inexact science because there's two minutes in there, there's
four minute in there where you're maybe you're trying to
milk the clock down, maybe you're trying to go fast
in an end of half or end of game situation.
Since twenty twenty three, and so I will readily acknowledge
it's not the fully comprehensive all the scientific checks to
eliminate potential outlier situations. But it was interesting to me
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that between success rate as a passer and EPA per
drop back two is rates are significantly higher when there
is less things going on at the snap, when it's
snapped closer to the play clock ending. So, for example,
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his EPA per drop back with just emotion, not a
shift end emotion, but just emotion is more than twice
as high since the start of twenty twenty three when
it's snapped within five seconds of the playcock expiring versus
when it's snapped earlier. So you're giving up to the
end of the window to snap the ball with less
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going on for you to assess what the defense is
doing and snap the ball. It is more than three
times higher when there's no mechanics before the snap, no shift,
no motion, nothing, You just get up, You let the
play get down close to the end of the play
clock expiring, and you snap the ball. His epas it's
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almost four times higher when it snapped within five seconds
versus when it's snapped with six or more seconds left
on the playlock, but with shifts end motions. When the
ball is snapped within five seconds of the playcock expiring,
his EPA per drop back on those drop backs is
half of what it is when it's snapped with six
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or more seconds left on the play clock. So this
was in something I wanted to kind of look into
with the sack that the Dolphins took where DeForest Buckner
was lined up an end over top of Tanner Connor
and Buckner crashes down inside and Tanner's not able to
get set up and eight chance in pass protection and
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he steps up, but Buckner has a full head of
steam because Tanner doesn't get a hold of him at all.
And as pat is talking with Patrick to confirm the
protection side on that side, Tua looks like he grabs
Tyreek by the arm and he's wrangling Tyreek to bring
him back around. It looked like they axed e motion
on that play because they were low in the play clock.
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So Tyreek gets back over to the right side, and
by the time he gets sets there's two seconds left
on the play clock, and you know the clapping cadence
and to his clapping for the ball and he's ready
to go. And that's one of those things where when
there's that much going on before the snap, sometimes it
can be difficult to kind of just take a look
at that inventory of what's the call, what's the protection,
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what's the front? Do I have an alarming mismatch against
Tanner trying to block the Forest Buckler, who's an outstanding
player on the other side of the ball. So in
doing that, it was very illuminating to me that the
shift in motion mechanics have a lot of value for
the offense, but it becomes a challenge, and the numbers
since the start of twenty twenty three reflect that when
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you're having to snap the ball so close to the end.
And that's where I think when you see guys but
we got to play air traffic controllering it. Everybody lined
up the right way, and sometimes there's a little bit
of extra chaos on top of the eleven guys on
the other side of the field that are trying to
tackle you to the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To relate this to someone's like day to day life,
think about the way you make like critical decisions for
your family, for yourself, for your financial future, whatever it
might be. And think about making that decision sitting in
a room by yourself versus you know, the baby's crying
and she needs to be fed, and your son just
crapped as diaper and needs to be changed and he's upset,
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and the five year olds, you know, I'm taking a
pitch of my own play look here if you can't tell,
And the five year olds you know, singing demon hunters
and you're just trying to get hurt quiet down a
little bit like it's it's operating in chaos versus operating
in a calm setting. And so it feels, Kyle, like
you've kind of diagnosed a large issue here. So I
think the natural follow up to close out our Dolphins
talk on this entire topic is what's the solution?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
What's the solve?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And is it something where because like I had this
conversation with Jamon bush Rod on the postgame show and
he was saying, like, one of the things we did
in twenty sixteen were one and four and we like
we wanted to find out, like who are we? What
can we hang our hats on the week and do well?
And we know that we have Jaya Ji who can run.
You know, if we get him one yard past the line,
he's going to make a tackle or two miss and
on our outside zone game can then set up Ryan
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Tannehill in the play action game and they found their identity.
You know, five games end of the season and went
on to finish the year nine and two that year.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Is it like that?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Is it where you kind of scrap who you were,
who you wanted to be and go towards something that
is maybe more simplified of who you are as you know,
your coaching identity, or is there a medium like happy
middle ground?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Like what do you think is the solve here and
how you approach this?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well? I think there's I think there's two options. I
think your your first option is if you want to
sustain all of the pre snap mechanics that exist, and
that's that's been such a hallmark of the offense that
call getting in earlier so that if there's extra work
that needs to be done to get lined up, you
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can then execute that and not have to scrap the
motion because it's too late in the clock. I think
that whatever that play calling process with Mike looks like,
as far as making a decision on what the call is,
if you want to sustain all that, I think we
have enough of a body of work now that that
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is where that can be challenging for you. And alternatively,
maybe it is a matter of you know, how much
motion are you implementing or how much shifting are you
implementing and maybe there's one but not the other, or
and you can kind of have some of the tells
without trying to manipulate the angles as much, because the
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Dolphins have talent, right Like there's talent at the wide
receiver position. You've got a very talented running back with
a lot of speed. With those players in and of themselves,
you can create a lot of stress without having things
happening on the fly. And I know that's one of
the evolutions I was hoping to see, is we address
the offensive line and we bring in some more physical,
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supplementary skill players to say, hey, well maybe this can
just be me versus you. We feel like we can
be physical enough to win and then lean on kind
of the explosive plays of our skill players to create
the explosives instead of trying to create these supreme angles.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Reminds me of the Nick Saban plays not play or
players not plays concept that he told of a story
when he threw his first like game winning touchdown pass
in high school and as his coach was like letting
him call the plays because he trusted I don't care
what play you call just call it to either this
guy or that guy because they're our best players. So
it makes a lot of sense. Kyle did a great
job breaking it down his show. If you want to
go find him talking about it Lockdown Dolphins podcast obviously,
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and the A to Z portion of the Miami Dolphins.
I probably butcher that your publication there help me out there.
Touchdown Miami, touchdown Miami, my bad dog. Let's go ahead
and take a break rate there. Come back on the
other side and hear Kyle talk about this weekend in
college football. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you
by AutoNation. My guest today is the great Kyle Krabs
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talking all things college football in week number three in
the NC. And before we get into that, Kyle, I
got I tell you, man, the haircut. It's looking good.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It is.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It is a good look for you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Thanks, dude. You know it was, uh we gave them
all at a good run. We got through, we got
through the Panthers Stanley Cup playoff run, and then uh say,
a new season of football. Maybe maybe it was. I
don't forget what the mythology is where the guy cuts
off his hair and loses his powers, but maybe I
maybe I doomed the Dolphins by cutting the mullet off.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But here we are, my Seattle Mariners as we tape this,
are writing a five game winning streak and they I
don't know this. This Etsy Witch thing is like apparently
a new like viral thing going on that I'm totally
not privy to. But they've talked about this Etsy Witch thing,
and they've also all grown mustaches too, and has produced
this five game winnste that's gotten them right back in
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the mix of the al Pennant. So, uh hey, you
never know, maybe the facial hair and just the hair
above the neck in general can be a positive, you
know thing for for a sports team.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Nobody wants to hear me talk about this.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Let's go ahead and talk about the weekend in college
football and last week Kyle and I I did this
last year all the time talking about former WSU quarterbacks.
We began last week's show talking about LSU's Garrett Nessmeyer,
and I wasn't crazy about John Mattier at WSU in
the same way I was cam Ward because of the
way cam just processed and played the game from the pocket.
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But I knew he had some really intriguing ability. And
now I'm watching this Michigan tape and I'm like, there's
there's some more cam Warden there that I'm seeing. And
I'm starting to think we might see back to back
years with a former Coup quarterback going in the first round.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So here here's what I think needs to happen for that.
If John Mattier, because I think he is a little
rough around these I'm excited. I'm taking the family. They're
playing in Temple on Saturday, so the whole family's coming with.
I tell the missus, you know, entertain the kids that
they get crazy. My buds parked in the cmaster the game.
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My daughter has really gotten into football issue.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Ns Man. That's great.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Cool, But you look at the schedule and there's a
home game against Auburn, there's a home game against Texas
at South Carolina at Tennessee, against LSU at Alabama. There's
some big opportunities on this schedule for John Mattier. But
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if he plays the way that he did against Michigan,
where it seemed like we had the right answers at
the right time, there's some big time throws. I love
the quickness of the feet I love the snappiness of
the arm. I don't know if you knew this, Travis,
you know how much this guy can squat.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's gotta be a lot man because he was running
wildcat quarterback at WSU. He's only six one two twenty
five and he was around for guys.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He's squat six hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh my god. He's dealing.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Like he's an athletic guy with the live arm. A
little rough round the edges, but man like that. There's
just a ton of natural arm, talent and ability here
that getting that big win against Michigan the way that
they did. I don't know how well Oklahoma's going to
be able to contain those other SEC teams. We talked
about the thirteen points or so. But it's a huge
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opportunity for him to I think, play himself into that
kind of top three, top four quarterback tier, in which
case it would set the stage for you to probably
be a first round quarterback in this year's class.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Bruce Feldman wrote about his travel baseball career as a
youth and talking about, you know, not specializing in how
that playing multiple sports allowed him to be flexible in
his movements and you know how big of a fan.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I am of that.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Because guys that can play that shortstop position, it really
trains their arm to throw the football. Even though it's
not the same mechanics, it does train the arm to
throw the football in a variety of ways. I know
another guy that you're really high on is your Alma
Marters quarterback. Talking about Kyle and Travis quarterback us here apparently,
but Drew Aller was a guy that I thought played
well last year. I'm dying for his first real test
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this season. But Villanova on the docket just talked to
us about Drew Aller a little bit and why he's
your QB one.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, I think he's in the running for QB. He's
in the running for QB. I think the way Garrett
Nussemeyer started this season, I would probably stack it nuss Meyer, Aler,
Lenoris Sellers, and then that's where I think Matier can
potentially kind of come into the conversation right now. The
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big thing for Aler is he's got two big games
on the schedule. I like the way that he's They
have a lot of operational stuff before the snap as
far as movement and chess pieces, and he's got a
comfort in doing that with the offense. This is his
second year in this offensive system that really pulled out
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the best version of himself. For his completion percentage was
up eight points in twenty four versus in twenty three.
He's completing seventy percent of his passes through the first
two games thus far this season. Big, strong, he can move,
but he's not twitchy when he moves, but he kind
of has like that power forward in the paint style
to him as far as like a quarterback within the
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pocket that I really like. And he's got a toughness
to his game as well. And now they have villain
Ova this week. Next week is Oregon boom, and then
I believe it's November first is when they play Ohio State.
Those plus whatever postseason opportunities he has are like the
games to circle because if he makes the lead there,
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I think the league's coaches and executives are gonna really
fall in love with what the resume looks like based
off traditional quarterback play. But then also like he he
has enough extend to play strength within the pocket, to
extend plays outside of structure.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's crazy how much more I enjoy the aspect of
a scouting college football when there's good quarterback play across
the country. Like last year it just didn't exist to
a certain extent.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And this year I feel like, does the Hurricanes play
and that was it?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, and it's usually and they'll playing cal
at ten o'clock and nine. It's like, I guess I'm
saying up to watch cam tonight. Let's go ahead and
close with this though, because for your your game of
the week. As far as prospects in general, well you
talked about nuss Bus already. It sounds like you're going
back to his team to talk about this week's big matchup.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, it's a big SEC matchup with LSU and Florida
and a big time rivalry where there's not a lot
of love lost. But you just compare the two rosters
and what I think LSU has in the way of
talent on defense. Now they Garrett my quarterback, red shirt senior,
but for me, it's names like Wit Weeks Manster, Delane,
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Harold Perkins is back had a big play to help
LSU close out their Week one win. Delane is a
transfer from West Virginia at corner that's got excellent ball skills.
Wit Weeks and Harold Landry or Hale Perkins are kind
of cut from the same cloth as far as like
a little undersized but hybrid linebacker types that have a
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lot of space. They've got a transfer from Florida State
and Patrick Payton on the defensive line that has a
lot of natural ability. He's a South Florida kid played
at Miami Northwestern, so they've got a lot of talent
on that defense versus a Florida offense that as DJ
Lagway quarterback who's a true sophomore, so not eligible, but
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they got a couple draftable guys on this offensive line.
Austin Barber at offensive tackle has some fans, Jake Slaughters
in the running to potentially be one of the top
three in tier offensive lineman in this year's class. And
then on the defensive side of the ball kind of
there marquee players Caleb Banks at defensive tackle, who has
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not played thus far this year, but was a transfer
from Louisville. I'm not sure. I believe he was on
his way back to playing, so I'm not exactly sure
if he's playing or not. But there's talent on both
sides for both of these two teams. And Florida. Obviously,
coming off of the loss to USF is a little
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wind out of the sales of the sexiness from the
ap pole or the coaches poll with this matchup. But nevertheless,
rivalry games like this or are going to get the
juices flow.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
He is the host of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast, locked
on NFL Scouting, author of Touchdown Miami and NFL Analysis
for a Disease Sports. I apologize for getting that wrong earlier,
Kyle at Kyle Krabs on social You're the man, buddy,
We'll talk to you soon, Thanks Lovin.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Thanks Trev and away.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He goes, let's go ahead and pivot now to our
week two picks. Week number one pretty successful eleven and five.
And in fact, as I pull up my previous year's picks,
I don't think I've had a better Week one than that,
And so that gives us a chance to get on
the right foot on the right start here eleven divided
by sixteen. Just do some math on the podcast here,
that is a sixty nine nice percent winning percentage, which
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is three percent shy of our projected goal every year.
But I've said it before, I think Week one is
the toughest week to pick every single year. Let's go
ahead and get into week two. Here, go ahead and
cue the music. The Packers were the pick on TNF
over the Commanders. I'm taking the Cowboys over the Giants.
As you heard on yesterday's podcast, the Patriots over the Dolphins.
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I like the Steelers over the Seahawks. Seattle traveling east
in that ten am local time Pacific time slot typically
is a challenge, and I think the Steelers might be
kind of in that weird position where you can get
picked off after kind of winning an emotional game late
and possibly have a chance to get picked off in
this game. But I don't think Seattle's playstyle matches what
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can attack this Pittsburgh defense effectively in the same way
the Jets did. And I think Aaron Rodgers could have
some success against that Mike McDonald defense because last year
we saw Rodgers kind of get after the Dolphins defense
here with coach Weaver, and we know that scheme is
very similar. Give me the Rams over the Titans. Can
somebody catch a ball for camp Ward, please.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
He's gonna have.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
A really good rookie season but have terrible stats like
the inverse of the Caleb Williams rookie season. But either way,
the Rams are going to stop all the Titans because
Tennessee is not very good. Buffalo over the New York Jets.
That's an easy pick for me. Cincinnati over Jacksonville kind
of a tough spot there. It looks like the Bengals
are still the Bengals in regards to how they play
early in the season, even though they did play most
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of the preseason with their starters. But Jacksonville, I gotta
see more from them to.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Become a believer.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I do think they're going to be better than I
expected based upon Week one, which that harlot of Week
one can lie to you, right, But I do think
the Bengals can get off to a two and zero
start here, and that would be really good for them
because they always get crankin once the calendar turns to
the fall. I'll take the Niners over the Saints. I
don't care who's at quarterback. It could be me, and
I'll still take the Niners to win that game. Baltimore
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over Cleveland, that's gonna be to me. Remember Baltimore last
year in Week two, they lost the opener to Kansas
City in heartbreaking fashion. And then they lost Week two
to the Gardner Minshew Raiders, and it was like, what's
wrong with Baltimore. Even if that happens here, I'm still
taking it to go to the super Bowl, but I
don't think it'll happen. Ravens over Brown's big. I'll take
the Lions over the Bears. I like this get back
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spot for Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions. I think
they win that one convincingly. Denver over Indy was one
of my toughest picks of the week. I might have
undersold Indy a little bit. I'm not ready to go
that far, but I do think their defense can cause
some issues. I talked about this in the preview podcasts
when we played the Colts last week, that I thought
lou Ana Rumo's defense would be good eventually. I didn't
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think it would happen right away because of all the
new pieces and a difficult, complex scheme to put in
place there. But they kind of did it on the
fly a week one, and I think they can get
after Bonix and that Broncos offense. However, I don't think
Daniel Jones will have a repeat performance against that Broncos defense,
so I'll take Denver over Indian a tight one. I'm
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taking the Cardinals over the Panthers. The Panthers are a
team that I did not buy any of the off
season hype on the entire spring and summer, And the
Cardinals to me, had the easiest landing into the twenty
twenty five season with the Saints and then the Panthers
at home for their first two games, So the Cardinals
start off too. And oh for me, I'm taking the
Eagles over the Chiefs. That would mean an zero to
two start for the Chiefs, which feels like that would
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be the first time that has happened since like nineteen
forty seven. Maybe it's been a long time probably, but
the Eagles I think can take advantage of a reeling
Chiefs team right now. Who I think The biggest question
mark from that Friday game Chargers and Chiefs last week
wasn't how good Herbert was, and don't get me wrong,
he was very good, and how good the Chargers develop
their offensive attack.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
The Chiefs defense was really bad.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Like their pressure packages weren't good, their coverage responsibilities weren't good.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
They were wide open spaces.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They had no real life against that Charger offense, and
I think for Philly, good luck man, that's a bigger
test than what you saw against the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'll take the Falcons over the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think the first three quarters of JJ McCarthy's game
against the Bears are going to be more indicative of
what happens in his rookie season. I do like the
way that kid's wired. He's fun to watch, he has
the right temperament. But I think that Michael Pennix is
a better player. And I think the Falcons. I think
the Falcons can handle all the stuff that Brian Flores
can throw at them. I'll take the Falcons to beat
the Vikings there. And then Monday night, I'm taking the
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Bucks over the Texans. Texans have a damn good defense.
Bucks have one of the best offense in football. What
a fun matchup that is. And then is it a
ten to thirty kickoff Chargers and Raiders. I'm taking the
Chargers in that one to get off to a two
and we'll start. So let's be Week two, picks eleven
and five going in. We'll see how we do this
week and come back and pick the games again next week.
Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
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come back and stop by the Dolphins locker room chat
with a few players. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation. Let's go stop by the
locker room here and talk to a couple of Dolphins players,
starting with rookie offensive lineman jonahvit Naya.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Dolphins offensive lineman Jonahs invite na with me here.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Jonah, Just first off, how was that experience of getting
your feet wet that first NFL start?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I mean it was good, you know, just going out
there with my brothers, you know, all the guys that
I've been training with, you know during his OCAs and
training camp. Finally gets to play you know, an actual
game and just doing it with my brothers. You know,
that's what made it fun. And you know, despite the outcome,
you know, that's something we'll get back into it. But
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that's behind us now. We have is tomorrow today attack
the filming and tomorrow's practice.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
So you mentioned the result.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Despite the result individually, what can you take away from
that game that you can apply to next week and
going forward the rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah, for me personally, you know, just a little things,
you know, being tied with my hands in the run game,
just trust, trust myself that I can run and just
let it loose.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
When it comes to the message from leadership, whether it's
Brew on the offensive line or Austin or Coach Barry,
whoever it might be, what was kind of the message
to you guys as a whole this week about how
you can approach this upcoming game.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah, so we're emphasizing on communication and operating free snap.
You know, we're making sure that everyone's on point, you know,
everyone may just making sure everyone you know, is aligned correctly.
And you know the old line is communicating the calls
to the quarterback and running back, so emphasizing on that
and operating.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Is there a heightened sense of urgency after the week
one game or is it kind of business as usual
for you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yes, there's definitely a sense of urgency there. You know,
we're approaching this week. You know, we're at home. We
got to defend our you know, our our home here,
so we're we're definitely looking forward to that game. But
like like again, just got to attack it one day
at a time, one one moment of time here.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So for you, how do you make sure that you
channel the energy in a proper way, right, because sometimes
you can get a little bit too high and too
amped up, and maybe you can have a negative impact.
How do you make sure that you channel the energy
in the right way.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I mean, I've been doing this since you know, college.
You know, I don't really trying to get too high headed.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I don't like you know, pre and rituals, you know,
to listen to rap, rap music and stuff like that.
I don't really, you know, that's not me now. I'm
a really, you know, super lowerheaded type of guy. You know,
no matter what the situation is, I'm super calm on
game days. But you know when when I see my teammates,
you know, juiced up. That that's what kind of gets
me going, is you know, when they're all fired up,
but me and me getting juiced up. You know, it's
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just just in a calm, calm way. I wouldn't. I
don't really show it, but I'm really like juice up inside.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I was gonna say it because you know, every time
I talk to you, you you're very your demeanor is
very calm. So it's pretty you know, standard for you.
Is there anything in life outside of football that gets
you like kind of on the edge of your seat,
Like is there something that watching a different sport? Maybe
you're competitive and something like playing against your brothers or
something like what gets Jonas of Vite and ay as
blood pressure.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Going a little bit? Ah, Man, be a tough question.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I mean, I'm a competitor, you know, just any competition
stuff I do in general in life that kind of
you know, I guess on the edge of you know, seat,
I'm on my toes. But you know, like I said,
you know, it's it's in me. Like in me, I'm
I'm like super choop stuff, but like outside, I just
don't show it as much. So that's me like everything
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I do.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Just controlling your emotions is a good trait to have
for sure. Okay, so you mentioned the home opener. Last
question for you here, how excited you man to get
across the street You've been practicing looking at that building,
you know for the last eight months, whatever it is.
How excited you to go out there here it am
called and the pregame announcements and and go do your thing.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I mean it's gonna be It's gonna be a fun one,
you know, like you said, getting to do here at
the crib. You no getting to see my families from
family flying over and you know, I'm just excited nowhere
here at home. Get it. You know, I'm just excited
that I get to play another game with my brothers,
you know, on my teammates. Like I said, we've been
been through it through chaining camp. So another opportunity for
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us to go out there and play play for one another.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
How much hell you got coming out?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I have my my, my girlfriend's family coming out. My
my immediate family won't be here, so I'm excited. You know,
my girlfriend's SIMI is here.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Get to spend time with them before they leave. Good man,
We'll enjoy it. Congrats. So now thanks for your time, sir.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I appreciate this, and we'll include the podcast here with
my chat with Dolphin's rookie safety Dante Trader Junior. All
right here with Dolphins safety Dante Trader Junior and Dantelle.
You got your first taste of NFL action on Sunday.
How did it feel to get out there in placement
NFL football?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I felt great.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I was like a kid in the candy store. All
my preparation, all the time that I had missed and
all the times that I was seeing everybody compete, you know,
tore me apart because I like to compete. I like
to be on the field some way, some shape. So
just being out there for special teams or any defensive rep,
I was like, you know.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm gonna give him awe and strain. It's just what
I do.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
So it was it was very fun to go out there.
Obviously there was not the result, but it was fun
to get my first snaps.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I feel like you may be challenge him out that
energy into that tackle with the goal line, right that
big stop you hd at the goal line.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Oh yeah, just anything on the goal line. It's it's
him or me. That's all.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
The mindset is to hit him and go through him.
So when you get in the red zone, there's only
one mindset. So once I see him shoot through, I
read it pretty good and just shot it.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
How did you stay engaged? You mentioned being down and
how tough that was, and how did you kind of
keep yourself engaged throughout the process.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Missing a lot of camp like that.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Yeah, I have a lot of great vets like Minka,
Jordan Brooks and even t Dot. They were just like,
bro work while you wait. That's one thing I can
give you because they can see the frustration on my
face some of those days, and was to be able
to go out there and every walkthrough was my second practice.
So when the ones or twos were in, I'm behind
them and you know, take in those same steps. I'm
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meeting late with coach slow to practice to get all
those mental reps. So everything was all mental. So that
was really the main thing was just workwhile wait and
stay stay in it because you never know when the
opportunity is gonna come. And that's what happened on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
So yeah, Well, to.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Your point, I think we had for safeties play double
digit snaps in the game. Is that kind of a
theme of this defense in terms of the flexibility of
how you guys can be using multiple roles and to
your point, that means you kind.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Of got to stay on top of your game.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Right, Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
We play a lot of our three safety packages, three
dafty looks, so there's opportunity for another safety to come
out there and you know, take.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Some reps off of you know, Ify or a d
or Minka.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
So just being able to be flexible, we can play
all around each other, which is going to be key
on these next games.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Weaver said, this morning, you talked about you as a
future leader and a guy that is like a future
coach on the field. I'm curious how you feel about
those comments. If you knew he felt that way about you,
I'm sure you do. But also, as a young guy
that you know, played one game, how do you how
do you kind of, I guess, balance the idea of
being a person that could be looked upon as a
leader but also not really having the NFL experience.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Yeah, you kind of got to learn from the guys
that are the leaders. I may not be able to
be vocal right now, but I can do stuff in
terms of being prepared and not wasting the veterans times
with my snaps. So as a young guy, just being
on my on my technique and fundamentals and my communications,
that's another way to you know, leave by example. But
then seeing how they do, seeing how they you know,
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approach their days and and and being leaders. So, as
coach Weaver said, as a compliment at the end of
the day, but it's that's raising a bar for me
because that's what they see me. So, you know, as
I told coach Weaver, when I came out and said,
put the pressure on me. If there's gonna be some
pressure putting on me, if there's nipiggy things, say it.
I really don't need the good job responses. Just I'm
trying to be great, So just strain on me.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
For the last five months, been practicing out here, looking
across the street at that field. Now you get your
chance to go out there and playing your home over
for the Dolphins. When you think about that, what comes
to mind?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
I just I just smile, yeah, big smile.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Just go out there and play ball like it's I
love to play football from our home crowd. It's good
to play against our home crowd and show, you know,
sostally showed how I can play. But just being a
part of the team and just being out there and
do anything possible to win.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So that's that's all cool.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
So there you go, pretty fun, well rounded Friday episode.
We have no more shows to go until you hear
from me postgame Sunday. Hopefully it's a much cheerier one
than you got this last Sunday, and hopefully things can
turn around here a little bit for the Miami Dolphin.
Let's go ahead and get out of here. You all,
please be sure subscribe, rate, review the show, follow me
on social at Wingfold NFL, the team at Miami Dolphins,
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and so much more and last button not least, Miami
Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Until next time. Fins up Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy.
He's coming home.
This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfields.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Kyle Krabs joins me for an extended version of his
weekly spot on the show. For our Football Friday show,
we're gonna pick the week two games. We had the
Packers on TNF last night.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Did we win that game?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We'll find out as soon as the game wraps. We're
gonna also hear from the assistant coaches, stop by the
locker room to talk to some players, and a whole
heck of a lot more from the Baptist Health studios
inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Hey Kyle, who's a backup nose tackle of the Miami Dolphins,
Jordan Phillips? Do you do you have evidence of that?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
I have about sixty percent of Jordan phillips Is snaps
in week one, and I have preseasons apps in Chicago
where your other interior defensive lineman are not playing on
those in Jordan Phillips's.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Which is what he did by and large in college
and throughout camp.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
About fifty five sixty percent of his snaps in two
years at Maryland were on the nose tack, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
And a zeke bigger split in college of I think
it was three forty and the B gaps and wider
compared to about forty snaps in the A gaps.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That sounds right, Yes, it's just this.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I don't know what we're still doing on this topic
if you can't tell by now. My guest today is
Kyle Krabs. He joins us for our weekly Friday spot
and I'm just exhausted by that discussion. But Kyle, let's
do this before you get into the college talk this week.
Can we start by sort of taking a inventory.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
On the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
The shows this week have been a departure, I imagine
for you as they have been for me based upon
previous expectations. I'm just kind of curious for your state
of how you feeling and maybe more so where we
go from here.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Well, I think this is a big week and opportunity
for Miami for kind of hearing guys like Devon A.
Chan and Tyrrel Dotson and the rest of the group
talk about how this first game played out and how
everybody was kind of surprised and Mike McDaniel's feedback and
(02:21):
kind of how the players are taking a priority of
their own to get together per to a tongue of
Aloa and Mike taking the opportunity to the podium to
kind of point out a specific example of a player
with good intentions who did make a play it all
for me sets the stage for Week two to be
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a very critical week for you to do. I think
one of two things, Like I can see them coming
out very inspired, making the adjustments, playing with pride. I
expect there to be a lot of pride with this group,
but it's how do you channel it and potentially having
a very wrong performance in week two where I think
there's more matchups that are in your favor than what
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there were in Indianapolis. And we kind of had the
great ton known of Daniel Jones and how he would
work with Shane Steiken's system versus you know, the thing
you have to absolutely hope you can avoid if you're
this football team is a similar performance to last week.
But it was just very surprising to me for all
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of what the energy felt like, with how things were
talked about and made a point of emphasis relative to
the energy in the performance in week one being so
different than that, So I think we two's critical in
that regard.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
I think who whoever wins this game comes out feeling like, Okay,
we're back on track here a little bit. Whoever loses
the game kind of enters almost like it's time to
get going modoh and two obviously, And I think the
natural follow up to that question would be because you know,
I've struggled with this myself, and you know it's it's
so weird to go months right talking about certain things
and then you get one sixty minute snapshot of evidence
(04:03):
and it kind of changes the way you view things.
I think when certain performances go the way they do,
what would it have to look like Sunday against the
Patriots for you to return to the way you felt
at twelve fifty last Sunday. Is there a possibility or
do you have that doubt kind of crept in already
that you can erase it no matter how they play
against the Patriots?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, I certainly think you I'll be leary because it's
it's never about what happens when things are good, right,
It's what happens when there's adversity or an unexpected turn,
and that was Mike McDaniel talking in the postgame about
I was really excited to see all of the things
that we put a lot of point of emphasis and
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work into and I didn't see any of it. And
that was kind of for me as I looked at
what your personnel moves are and you're talking about the
tonality of the football team, and you're talking about the
things that you want to do to kind of expec
in the menu for what you do, and I understand,
like the game script from a score and their early turnovers,
(05:04):
like really said, a negative stage and you can't play
like that and expect to win games. But that for
me is if I'm gonna come away feeling enthusiastic, the
energy has to be a lot better. The focus and
strain across the board has to be a lot better.
I think you have to also, on top of that,
show what strides you tried to make to be a
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different team, because it just felt like a very familiar
script and style to what they were last year. And
that was part of why I got enthused about it,
was looking at the personnel moves and hearing what they
were intending to do. But then you hit this adversity,
and it all just kind of felt like it reverted
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back when I watched it and then when I watched
it back through again on the tape again.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So hopefully we get a change in terms of the perspective,
because I think that's a pretty common thought with how
this game played out, and I think that's why a
lot of the handwringing has happened, whether it's national, locally
or otherwise. And of course, you lose a game thirty
three to eight, like against a team that I don't
think had like crazy high expectations coming in the Indianapolis Colts,
it'll kind of shock you. But you know, to kind
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of take a Ricky Williams phrase here, he was talking
about how teams you know, trying to interview.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
That wasn't it great? And by the way Ricky saying
we and us.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
That kind of kind of got the the emotional heartstrings
going for you, boy, because that's my favorite player of
all time.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
So that was cool to see.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
But I want to close on the Dolphins talk here
before we get into the college talk Kyle with this is,
you know, one of one of the biggest things that
we had discussed this off season together individual in our
shows and through our private texts and not stuff was
some of the pre snap operation and getting to the
ability to use his superpower right, the ability to assess
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the defense before the snap and make decisions before the
snap does go off and beat you with anticipation that way.
But you did a big stone body on some of
the numbers behind pre snap operation and how there's an
area of opportunity there.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, So what I did was I looked at kind
of the Dolphins as a whole, their offense, and then
to a tongue of Aloa. His efficiency splits when the
ball is snap within five seconds of the play clock
and when there's more than five seconds left when the
ball is snapped on the play clock. And that's a
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very inexact science because there's two minutes in there, there's
four minute in there where you're maybe you're trying to
milk the clock down, maybe you're trying to go fast
in an end of half or end of game situation.
Since twenty twenty three, and so I will readily acknowledge
it's not the fully comprehensive all the scientific checks to
eliminate potential outlier situations. But it was interesting to me
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that between success rate as a passer and EPA per
drop back two is rates are significantly higher when there
is less things going on at the snap, when it's
snapped closer to the play clock ending. So, for example,
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his EPA per drop back with just emotion, not a
shift end emotion, but just emotion is more than twice
as high since the start of twenty twenty three when
it's snapped within five seconds of the playcock expiring versus
when it's snapped earlier. So you're giving up to the
end of the window to snap the ball with less
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going on for you to assess what the defense is
doing and snap the ball. It is more than three
times higher when there's no mechanics before the snap, no shift,
no motion, nothing, You just get up, You let the
play get down close to the end of the play
clock expiring, and you snap the ball. His epas it's
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almost four times higher when it snapped within five seconds
versus when it's snapped with six or more seconds left
on the playlock, but with shifts end motions. When the
ball is snapped within five seconds of the playcock expiring,
his EPA per drop back on those drop backs is
half of what it is when it's snapped with six
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or more seconds left on the play clock. So this
was in something I wanted to kind of look into
with the sack that the Dolphins took where DeForest Buckner
was lined up an end over top of Tanner Connor
and Buckner crashes down inside and Tanner's not able to
get set up and eight chance in pass protection and
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he steps up, but Buckner has a full head of
steam because Tanner doesn't get a hold of him at all.
And as pat is talking with Patrick to confirm the
protection side on that side, Tua looks like he grabs
Tyreek by the arm and he's wrangling Tyreek to bring
him back around. It looked like they axed e motion
on that play because they were low in the play clock.
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So Tyreek gets back over to the right side, and
by the time he gets sets there's two seconds left
on the play clock, and you know the clapping cadence
and to his clapping for the ball and he's ready
to go. And that's one of those things where when
there's that much going on before the snap, sometimes it
can be difficult to kind of just take a look
at that inventory of what's the call, what's the protection,
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what's the front? Do I have an alarming mismatch against
Tanner trying to block the Forest Buckler, who's an outstanding
player on the other side of the ball. So in
doing that, it was very illuminating to me that the
shift in motion mechanics have a lot of value for
the offense, but it becomes a challenge, and the numbers
since the start of twenty twenty three reflect that when
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you're having to snap the ball so close to the end.
And that's where I think when you see guys but
we got to play air traffic controllering it. Everybody lined
up the right way, and sometimes there's a little bit
of extra chaos on top of the eleven guys on
the other side of the field that are trying to
tackle you to the ground.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
To relate this to someone's like day to day life,
think about the way you make like critical decisions for
your family, for yourself, for your financial future, whatever it
might be. And think about making that decision sitting in
a room by yourself versus you know, the baby's crying
and she needs to be fed, and your son just
crapped as diaper and needs to be changed and he's upset,
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and the five year olds, you know, I'm taking a
pitch of my own play look here if you can't tell,
And the five year olds you know, singing demon hunters
and you're just trying to get hurt quiet down a
little bit like it's it's operating in chaos versus operating
in a calm setting. And so it feels, Kyle, like
you've kind of diagnosed a large issue here. So I
think the natural follow up to close out our Dolphins
talk on this entire topic is what's the solution?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
What's the solve?
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And is it something where because like I had this
conversation with Jamon bush Rod on the postgame show and
he was saying, like, one of the things we did
in twenty sixteen were one and four and we like
we wanted to find out, like who are we? What
can we hang our hats on the week and do well?
And we know that we have Jaya Ji who can run.
You know, if we get him one yard past the line,
he's going to make a tackle or two miss and
on our outside zone game can then set up Ryan
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Tannehill in the play action game and they found their identity.
You know, five games end of the season and went
on to finish the year nine and two that year.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Is it like that?
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Is it where you kind of scrap who you were,
who you wanted to be and go towards something that
is maybe more simplified of who you are as you know,
your coaching identity, or is there a medium like happy
middle ground?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Like what do you think is the solve here and
how you approach this?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Well? I think there's I think there's two options. I
think your your first option is if you want to
sustain all of the pre snap mechanics that exist, and
that's that's been such a hallmark of the offense that
call getting in earlier so that if there's extra work
that needs to be done to get lined up, you
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can then execute that and not have to scrap the
motion because it's too late in the clock. I think
that whatever that play calling process with Mike looks like,
as far as making a decision on what the call is,
if you want to sustain all that, I think we
have enough of a body of work now that that
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is where that can be challenging for you. And alternatively,
maybe it is a matter of you know, how much
motion are you implementing or how much shifting are you
implementing and maybe there's one but not the other, or
and you can kind of have some of the tells
without trying to manipulate the angles as much, because the
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Dolphins have talent, right Like there's talent at the wide
receiver position. You've got a very talented running back with
a lot of speed. With those players in and of themselves,
you can create a lot of stress without having things
happening on the fly. And I know that's one of
the evolutions I was hoping to see, is we address
the offensive line and we bring in some more physical,
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supplementary skill players to say, hey, well maybe this can
just be me versus you. We feel like we can
be physical enough to win and then lean on kind
of the explosive plays of our skill players to create
the explosives instead of trying to create these supreme angles.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Reminds me of the Nick Saban plays not play or
players not plays concept that he told of a story
when he threw his first like game winning touchdown pass
in high school and as his coach was like letting
him call the plays because he trusted I don't care
what play you call just call it to either this
guy or that guy because they're our best players. So
it makes a lot of sense. Kyle did a great
job breaking it down his show. If you want to
go find him talking about it Lockdown Dolphins podcast obviously,
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and the A to Z portion of the Miami Dolphins.
I probably butcher that your publication there help me out there.
Touchdown Miami, touchdown Miami, my bad dog. Let's go ahead
and take a break rate there. Come back on the
other side and hear Kyle talk about this weekend in
college football. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought to you
by AutoNation. My guest today is the great Kyle Krabs
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talking all things college football in week number three in
the NC. And before we get into that, Kyle, I
got I tell you, man, the haircut. It's looking good.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
It is.
Speaker 3 (15:04):
It is a good look for you.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Thanks, dude. You know it was, uh we gave them
all at a good run. We got through, we got
through the Panthers Stanley Cup playoff run, and then uh say,
a new season of football. Maybe maybe it was. I
don't forget what the mythology is where the guy cuts
off his hair and loses his powers, but maybe I
maybe I doomed the Dolphins by cutting the mullet off.
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
But here we are, my Seattle Mariners as we tape this,
are writing a five game winning streak and they I
don't know this. This Etsy Witch thing is like apparently
a new like viral thing going on that I'm totally
not privy to. But they've talked about this Etsy Witch thing,
and they've also all grown mustaches too, and has produced
this five game winnste that's gotten them right back in
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the mix of the al Pennant. So, uh hey, you
never know, maybe the facial hair and just the hair
above the neck in general can be a positive, you
know thing for for a sports team.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Nobody wants to hear me talk about this.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Let's go ahead and talk about the weekend in college
football and last week Kyle and I I did this
last year all the time talking about former WSU quarterbacks.
We began last week's show talking about LSU's Garrett Nessmeyer,
and I wasn't crazy about John Mattier at WSU in
the same way I was cam Ward because of the
way cam just processed and played the game from the pocket.
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But I knew he had some really intriguing ability. And
now I'm watching this Michigan tape and I'm like, there's
there's some more cam Warden there that I'm seeing. And
I'm starting to think we might see back to back
years with a former Coup quarterback going in the first round.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
So here here's what I think needs to happen for that.
If John Mattier, because I think he is a little
rough around these I'm excited. I'm taking the family. They're
playing in Temple on Saturday, so the whole family's coming with.
I tell the missus, you know, entertain the kids that
they get crazy. My buds parked in the cmaster the game.
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My daughter has really gotten into football issue.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Ns Man. That's great.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Cool, But you look at the schedule and there's a
home game against Auburn, there's a home game against Texas
at South Carolina at Tennessee, against LSU at Alabama. There's
some big opportunities on this schedule for John Mattier. But
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if he plays the way that he did against Michigan,
where it seemed like we had the right answers at
the right time, there's some big time throws. I love
the quickness of the feet I love the snappiness of
the arm. I don't know if you knew this, Travis,
you know how much this guy can squat.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
It's gotta be a lot man because he was running
wildcat quarterback at WSU. He's only six one two twenty
five and he was around for guys.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
He's squat six hundred pounds.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Oh my god. He's dealing.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Like he's an athletic guy with the live arm. A
little rough round the edges, but man like that. There's
just a ton of natural arm, talent and ability here
that getting that big win against Michigan the way that
they did. I don't know how well Oklahoma's going to
be able to contain those other SEC teams. We talked
about the thirteen points or so. But it's a huge
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opportunity for him to I think, play himself into that
kind of top three, top four quarterback tier, in which
case it would set the stage for you to probably
be a first round quarterback in this year's class.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Bruce Feldman wrote about his travel baseball career as a
youth and talking about, you know, not specializing in how
that playing multiple sports allowed him to be flexible in
his movements and you know how big of a fan.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
I am of that.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Because guys that can play that shortstop position, it really
trains their arm to throw the football. Even though it's
not the same mechanics, it does train the arm to
throw the football in a variety of ways. I know
another guy that you're really high on is your Alma
Marters quarterback. Talking about Kyle and Travis quarterback us here apparently,
but Drew Aller was a guy that I thought played
well last year. I'm dying for his first real test
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this season. But Villanova on the docket just talked to
us about Drew Aller a little bit and why he's
your QB one.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, I think he's in the running for QB. He's
in the running for QB. I think the way Garrett
Nussemeyer started this season, I would probably stack it nuss Meyer, Aler,
Lenoris Sellers, and then that's where I think Matier can
potentially kind of come into the conversation right now. The
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big thing for Aler is he's got two big games
on the schedule. I like the way that he's They
have a lot of operational stuff before the snap as
far as movement and chess pieces, and he's got a
comfort in doing that with the offense. This is his
second year in this offensive system that really pulled out
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the best version of himself. For his completion percentage was
up eight points in twenty four versus in twenty three.
He's completing seventy percent of his passes through the first
two games thus far this season. Big, strong, he can move,
but he's not twitchy when he moves, but he kind
of has like that power forward in the paint style
to him as far as like a quarterback within the
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pocket that I really like. And he's got a toughness
to his game as well. And now they have villain
Ova this week. Next week is Oregon boom, and then
I believe it's November first is when they play Ohio State.
Those plus whatever postseason opportunities he has are like the
games to circle because if he makes the lead there,
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I think the league's coaches and executives are gonna really
fall in love with what the resume looks like based
off traditional quarterback play. But then also like he he
has enough extend to play strength within the pocket, to
extend plays outside of structure.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's crazy how much more I enjoy the aspect of
a scouting college football when there's good quarterback play across
the country. Like last year it just didn't exist to
a certain extent.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
And this year I feel like, does the Hurricanes play
and that was it?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Yeah, yeah, exactly, and it's usually and they'll playing cal
at ten o'clock and nine. It's like, I guess I'm
saying up to watch cam tonight. Let's go ahead and
close with this though, because for your your game of
the week. As far as prospects in general, well you
talked about nuss Bus already. It sounds like you're going
back to his team to talk about this week's big matchup.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, it's a big SEC matchup with LSU and Florida
and a big time rivalry where there's not a lot
of love lost. But you just compare the two rosters
and what I think LSU has in the way of
talent on defense. Now they Garrett my quarterback, red shirt senior,
but for me, it's names like Wit Weeks Manster, Delane,
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Harold Perkins is back had a big play to help
LSU close out their Week one win. Delane is a
transfer from West Virginia at corner that's got excellent ball skills.
Wit Weeks and Harold Landry or Hale Perkins are kind
of cut from the same cloth as far as like
a little undersized but hybrid linebacker types that have a
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lot of space. They've got a transfer from Florida State
and Patrick Payton on the defensive line that has a
lot of natural ability. He's a South Florida kid played
at Miami Northwestern, so they've got a lot of talent
on that defense versus a Florida offense that as DJ
Lagway quarterback who's a true sophomore, so not eligible, but
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they got a couple draftable guys on this offensive line.
Austin Barber at offensive tackle has some fans, Jake Slaughters
in the running to potentially be one of the top
three in tier offensive lineman in this year's class. And
then on the defensive side of the ball kind of
there marquee players Caleb Banks at defensive tackle, who has
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not played thus far this year, but was a transfer
from Louisville. I'm not sure. I believe he was on
his way back to playing, so I'm not exactly sure
if he's playing or not. But there's talent on both
sides for both of these two teams. And Florida. Obviously,
coming off of the loss to USF is a little
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wind out of the sales of the sexiness from the
ap pole or the coaches poll with this matchup. But nevertheless,
rivalry games like this or are going to get the
juices flow.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
He is the host of the Lockdown Dolphins podcast, locked
on NFL Scouting, author of Touchdown Miami and NFL Analysis
for a Disease Sports. I apologize for getting that wrong earlier,
Kyle at Kyle Krabs on social You're the man, buddy,
We'll talk to you soon, Thanks Lovin.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Thanks Trev and away.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
He goes, let's go ahead and pivot now to our
week two picks. Week number one pretty successful eleven and five.
And in fact, as I pull up my previous year's picks,
I don't think I've had a better Week one than that,
And so that gives us a chance to get on
the right foot on the right start here eleven divided
by sixteen. Just do some math on the podcast here,
that is a sixty nine nice percent winning percentage, which
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is three percent shy of our projected goal every year.
But I've said it before, I think Week one is
the toughest week to pick every single year. Let's go
ahead and get into week two. Here, go ahead and
cue the music. The Packers were the pick on TNF
over the Commanders. I'm taking the Cowboys over the Giants.
As you heard on yesterday's podcast, the Patriots over the Dolphins.
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I like the Steelers over the Seahawks. Seattle traveling east
in that ten am local time Pacific time slot typically
is a challenge, and I think the Steelers might be
kind of in that weird position where you can get
picked off after kind of winning an emotional game late
and possibly have a chance to get picked off in
this game. But I don't think Seattle's playstyle matches what
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can attack this Pittsburgh defense effectively in the same way
the Jets did. And I think Aaron Rodgers could have
some success against that Mike McDonald defense because last year
we saw Rodgers kind of get after the Dolphins defense
here with coach Weaver, and we know that scheme is
very similar. Give me the Rams over the Titans. Can
somebody catch a ball for camp Ward, please.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
He's gonna have.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
A really good rookie season but have terrible stats like
the inverse of the Caleb Williams rookie season. But either way,
the Rams are going to stop all the Titans because
Tennessee is not very good. Buffalo over the New York Jets.
That's an easy pick for me. Cincinnati over Jacksonville kind
of a tough spot there. It looks like the Bengals
are still the Bengals in regards to how they play
early in the season, even though they did play most
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of the preseason with their starters. But Jacksonville, I gotta
see more from them to.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
Become a believer.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
I do think they're going to be better than I
expected based upon Week one, which that harlot of Week
one can lie to you, right, But I do think
the Bengals can get off to a two and zero
start here, and that would be really good for them
because they always get crankin once the calendar turns to
the fall. I'll take the Niners over the Saints. I
don't care who's at quarterback. It could be me, and
I'll still take the Niners to win that game. Baltimore
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over Cleveland, that's gonna be to me. Remember Baltimore last
year in Week two, they lost the opener to Kansas
City in heartbreaking fashion. And then they lost Week two
to the Gardner Minshew Raiders, and it was like, what's
wrong with Baltimore. Even if that happens here, I'm still
taking it to go to the super Bowl, but I
don't think it'll happen. Ravens over Brown's big. I'll take
the Lions over the Bears. I like this get back
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spot for Jared Goff and the Detroit Lions. I think
they win that one convincingly. Denver over Indy was one
of my toughest picks of the week. I might have
undersold Indy a little bit. I'm not ready to go
that far, but I do think their defense can cause
some issues. I talked about this in the preview podcasts
when we played the Colts last week, that I thought
lou Ana Rumo's defense would be good eventually. I didn't
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think it would happen right away because of all the
new pieces and a difficult, complex scheme to put in
place there. But they kind of did it on the
fly a week one, and I think they can get
after Bonix and that Broncos offense. However, I don't think
Daniel Jones will have a repeat performance against that Broncos defense,
so I'll take Denver over Indian a tight one. I'm
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taking the Cardinals over the Panthers. The Panthers are a
team that I did not buy any of the off
season hype on the entire spring and summer, And the
Cardinals to me, had the easiest landing into the twenty
twenty five season with the Saints and then the Panthers
at home for their first two games, So the Cardinals
start off too. And oh for me, I'm taking the
Eagles over the Chiefs. That would mean an zero to
two start for the Chiefs, which feels like that would
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be the first time that has happened since like nineteen
forty seven. Maybe it's been a long time probably, but
the Eagles I think can take advantage of a reeling
Chiefs team right now. Who I think The biggest question
mark from that Friday game Chargers and Chiefs last week
wasn't how good Herbert was, and don't get me wrong,
he was very good, and how good the Chargers develop
their offensive attack.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
The Chiefs defense was really bad.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
Like their pressure packages weren't good, their coverage responsibilities weren't good.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
They were wide open spaces.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
They had no real life against that Charger offense, and
I think for Philly, good luck man, that's a bigger
test than what you saw against the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
I'll take the Falcons over the Vikings.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I think the first three quarters of JJ McCarthy's game
against the Bears are going to be more indicative of
what happens in his rookie season. I do like the
way that kid's wired. He's fun to watch, he has
the right temperament. But I think that Michael Pennix is
a better player. And I think the Falcons. I think
the Falcons can handle all the stuff that Brian Flores
can throw at them. I'll take the Falcons to beat
the Vikings there. And then Monday night, I'm taking the
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Bucks over the Texans. Texans have a damn good defense.
Bucks have one of the best offense in football. What
a fun matchup that is. And then is it a
ten to thirty kickoff Chargers and Raiders. I'm taking the
Chargers in that one to get off to a two
and we'll start. So let's be Week two, picks eleven
and five going in. We'll see how we do this
week and come back and pick the games again next week.
Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
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come back and stop by the Dolphins locker room chat
with a few players. That's next Draft Time podcast, brought
to you by Auto Nation. Let's go stop by the
locker room here and talk to a couple of Dolphins players,
starting with rookie offensive lineman jonahvit Naya.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
Dolphins offensive lineman Jonahs invite na with me here.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Jonah, Just first off, how was that experience of getting
your feet wet that first NFL start?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I mean it was good, you know, just going out
there with my brothers, you know, all the guys that
I've been training with, you know during his OCAs and
training camp. Finally gets to play you know, an actual
game and just doing it with my brothers. You know,
that's what made it fun. And you know, despite the outcome,
you know, that's something we'll get back into it. But
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that's behind us now. We have is tomorrow today attack
the filming and tomorrow's practice.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
So you mentioned the result.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Despite the result individually, what can you take away from
that game that you can apply to next week and
going forward the rest of the season.
Speaker 4 (29:11):
Yeah, for me personally, you know, just a little things,
you know, being tied with my hands in the run game,
just trust, trust myself that I can run and just
let it loose.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
When it comes to the message from leadership, whether it's
Brew on the offensive line or Austin or Coach Barry,
whoever it might be, what was kind of the message
to you guys as a whole this week about how
you can approach this upcoming game.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Yeah, so we're emphasizing on communication and operating free snap.
You know, we're making sure that everyone's on point, you know,
everyone may just making sure everyone you know, is aligned correctly.
And you know the old line is communicating the calls
to the quarterback and running back, so emphasizing on that
and operating.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Is there a heightened sense of urgency after the week
one game or is it kind of business as usual
for you guys.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
Yes, there's definitely a sense of urgency there. You know,
we're approaching this week. You know, we're at home. We
got to defend our you know, our our home here,
so we're we're definitely looking forward to that game. But
like like again, just got to attack it one day
at a time, one one moment of time here.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
So for you, how do you make sure that you
channel the energy in a proper way, right, because sometimes
you can get a little bit too high and too
amped up, and maybe you can have a negative impact.
How do you make sure that you channel the energy
in the right way.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I mean, I've been doing this since you know, college.
You know, I don't really trying to get too high headed.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I don't like you know, pre and rituals, you know,
to listen to rap, rap music and stuff like that.
I don't really, you know, that's not me now. I'm
a really, you know, super lowerheaded type of guy. You know,
no matter what the situation is, I'm super calm on
game days. But you know when when I see my teammates,
you know, juiced up. That that's what kind of gets
me going, is you know, when they're all fired up,
but me and me getting juiced up. You know, it's
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just just in a calm, calm way. I wouldn't. I
don't really show it, but I'm really like juice up inside.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
I was gonna say it because you know, every time
I talk to you, you you're very your demeanor is
very calm. So it's pretty you know, standard for you.
Is there anything in life outside of football that gets
you like kind of on the edge of your seat,
Like is there something that watching a different sport? Maybe
you're competitive and something like playing against your brothers or
something like what gets Jonas of Vite and ay as
blood pressure.
Speaker 3 (31:15):
Going a little bit? Ah, Man, be a tough question.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
I mean, I'm a competitor, you know, just any competition
stuff I do in general in life that kind of
you know, I guess on the edge of you know, seat,
I'm on my toes. But you know, like I said,
you know, it's it's in me. Like in me, I'm
I'm like super choop stuff, but like outside, I just
don't show it as much. So that's me like everything
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I do.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Just controlling your emotions is a good trait to have
for sure. Okay, so you mentioned the home opener. Last
question for you here, how excited you man to get
across the street You've been practicing looking at that building,
you know for the last eight months, whatever it is.
How excited you to go out there here it am
called and the pregame announcements and and go do your thing.
Speaker 4 (31:56):
I mean it's gonna be It's gonna be a fun one,
you know, like you said, getting to do here at
the crib. You no getting to see my families from
family flying over and you know, I'm just excited nowhere
here at home. Get it. You know, I'm just excited
that I get to play another game with my brothers,
you know, on my teammates. Like I said, we've been
been through it through chaining camp. So another opportunity for
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us to go out there and play play for one another.
Speaker 3 (32:20):
How much hell you got coming out?
Speaker 4 (32:23):
I have my my, my girlfriend's family coming out. My
my immediate family won't be here, so I'm excited. You know,
my girlfriend's SIMI is here.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Get to spend time with them before they leave. Good man,
We'll enjoy it. Congrats. So now thanks for your time, sir.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
I appreciate this, and we'll include the podcast here with
my chat with Dolphin's rookie safety Dante Trader Junior. All
right here with Dolphins safety Dante Trader Junior and Dantelle.
You got your first taste of NFL action on Sunday.
How did it feel to get out there in placement
NFL football?
Speaker 5 (32:50):
I felt great.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
I was like a kid in the candy store. All
my preparation, all the time that I had missed and
all the times that I was seeing everybody compete, you know,
tore me apart because I like to compete. I like
to be on the field some way, some shape. So
just being out there for special teams or any defensive rep,
I was like, you know.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
I'm gonna give him awe and strain. It's just what
I do.
Speaker 6 (33:11):
So it was it was very fun to go out there.
Obviously there was not the result, but it was fun
to get my first snaps.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
I feel like you may be challenge him out that
energy into that tackle with the goal line, right that
big stop you hd at the goal line.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
Oh yeah, just anything on the goal line. It's it's
him or me. That's all.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
The mindset is to hit him and go through him.
So when you get in the red zone, there's only
one mindset. So once I see him shoot through, I
read it pretty good and just shot it.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
How did you stay engaged? You mentioned being down and
how tough that was, and how did you kind of
keep yourself engaged throughout the process.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Missing a lot of camp like that.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Yeah, I have a lot of great vets like Minka,
Jordan Brooks and even t Dot. They were just like,
bro work while you wait. That's one thing I can
give you because they can see the frustration on my
face some of those days, and was to be able
to go out there and every walkthrough was my second practice.
So when the ones or twos were in, I'm behind
them and you know, take in those same steps. I'm
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meeting late with coach slow to practice to get all
those mental reps. So everything was all mental. So that
was really the main thing was just workwhile wait and
stay stay in it because you never know when the
opportunity is gonna come. And that's what happened on Sundays.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
So yeah, Well, to.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Your point, I think we had for safeties play double
digit snaps in the game. Is that kind of a
theme of this defense in terms of the flexibility of
how you guys can be using multiple roles and to
your point, that means you kind.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
Of got to stay on top of your game.
Speaker 5 (34:26):
Right, Yeah, most definitely.
Speaker 6 (34:27):
We play a lot of our three safety packages, three
dafty looks, so there's opportunity for another safety to come
out there and you know, take.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Some reps off of you know, Ify or a d
or Minka.
Speaker 6 (34:38):
So just being able to be flexible, we can play
all around each other, which is going to be key
on these next games.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
Weaver said, this morning, you talked about you as a
future leader and a guy that is like a future
coach on the field. I'm curious how you feel about
those comments. If you knew he felt that way about you,
I'm sure you do. But also, as a young guy
that you know, played one game, how do you how
do you kind of, I guess, balance the idea of
being a person that could be looked upon as a
leader but also not really having the NFL experience.
Speaker 6 (35:04):
Yeah, you kind of got to learn from the guys
that are the leaders. I may not be able to
be vocal right now, but I can do stuff in
terms of being prepared and not wasting the veterans times
with my snaps. So as a young guy, just being
on my on my technique and fundamentals and my communications,
that's another way to you know, leave by example. But
then seeing how they do, seeing how they you know,
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approach their days and and and being leaders. So, as
coach Weaver said, as a compliment at the end of
the day, but it's that's raising a bar for me
because that's what they see me. So, you know, as
I told coach Weaver, when I came out and said,
put the pressure on me. If there's gonna be some
pressure putting on me, if there's nipiggy things, say it.
I really don't need the good job responses. Just I'm
trying to be great, So just strain on me.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
For the last five months, been practicing out here, looking
across the street at that field. Now you get your
chance to go out there and playing your home over
for the Dolphins. When you think about that, what comes
to mind?
Speaker 5 (35:54):
I just I just smile, yeah, big smile.
Speaker 6 (35:57):
Just go out there and play ball like it's I
love to play football from our home crowd. It's good
to play against our home crowd and show, you know,
sostally showed how I can play. But just being a
part of the team and just being out there and
do anything possible to win.
Speaker 5 (36:12):
So that's that's all cool.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (36:14):
Appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
So there you go, pretty fun, well rounded Friday episode.
We have no more shows to go until you hear
from me postgame Sunday. Hopefully it's a much cheerier one
than you got this last Sunday, and hopefully things can
turn around here a little bit for the Miami Dolphin.
Let's go ahead and get out of here. You all,
please be sure subscribe, rate, review the show, follow me
on social at Wingfold NFL, the team at Miami Dolphins,
(36:35):
check out the YouTube channel for Dolphins HQ, media availabilities
and so much more and last button not least, Miami
Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Until next time. Fins up Caroline Cameron and Willow Daddy.
He's coming home.
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