T3 Mock Draft: Miami Dolphins

The Miami Dolphins are making significant strides in their draft strategy, focusing on both immediate needs and future potential. We dive into how the Dolphins are assessing their roster and key positions to strengthen as they head into the draft season.

• Analysis of Miami's current roster needs 
• Discussion on offensive line protection for Tua Tagovailoa 
• Focus on strengthening the defensive backfield with cornerbacks and safeties 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome back to T3.
I'm your host, mr U.
We are in mock draft season andit is a ride.
So far for sure.
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(00:39):
So please help us continue onthis incredible journey.
So far, thank you for joiningus and supporting us.
We are doing the Miami Dolphinstoday.
I have probably about a dozenfriends that love the Miami
Dolphins.
I've heard from some of themalready about what they want.
I'm going to try not to lead topublic pressure and try to find

(01:04):
the best options for these guys, so bear with me.
We're picking the MiamiDolphins.
They got 10 picks out here.
We're probably going to pickthree or four of those,
depending on how it falls.
If we find a good trade, I'lldo that.
They have several needs out here.
I mean guards, safety andcornerback are the ones that you
might see listed, but they needsome interior O-line help.

(01:24):
And cornerback are the onesthat you might see listed, but
they need some interior O-linehelp.
You've got to protect Tua.
Tua can't keep taking beatings.
He's been through enoughprecarious medical situations
already.
If he's going to keep onplaying, which it seems like he
is, you've got to protect himand keep him upright.
I got concerned about tight endas well, and even wide receiver
.
I think they can use some helpthere.
So if I find somebody who's agood find on the offense a lot

(01:46):
of my friends want defense onlyI'm going to try to do what I
can to help you Leverage therest of your picks and your
supplementals coming up later onin the draft and, of course,
free agency and any undraftedguys that come through.
They'll fill their roster.
They'll get some stuff straightand get down to their starting
rosters for the season.
But for now I'm trying to findthe best picks, best available

(02:10):
for what this team's in need of.
So I will be looking at defense, but see, some offensive help.
I'm going to take it.
Let's go ahead and see where weland today.
This is exciting, pretty funstuff, all right.
So the Miami Dolphins?
All right.
So the Miami Dolphins All right, let's see what comes up for us
today.
All right, it's like playingthe lot over here.
All right.

(02:30):
So for the 13th pick and theoffer here is to give them the
13th Can we say the 14th and the80th, because we're going into
four rounds.
I think this is a good idea.
I'm going to take this deal.
This deal I am not going totake.
This one has merit.

(02:51):
I'm going to take this one too.
I'm going to try to help Miamiout today.
Okay, now we're gettingridiculous.
We're not doing that.
Okay, we're going to pass onall those things, all right.
So we're at a place now wherewe've fallen a little bit lower
than what we planned.
I personally see a guy that Ithink the Miami Dolphins would

(03:14):
love, but they may not have aneed for him at this time.
So let me take a look at theirdepth chart and see if I agree
with that assessment before wemove forward.
All right, so that linebackerthey got Anthony Walker Jr,
jordan Brooks.
These guys are probably notgoing to be in need of replacing
.
We'll go ahead and keep thetrain moving.

(03:36):
Then we're going to take Mimblehere, arnon Mimble, all right
now.
I like him for a few differentreasons, but the bottom line is
that and I lost all my notes butthe bottom line is that he is a
.
He's a stud at tackle and heshould be on the left side.
That's going to help out to alot.
Hold on one second.
I want to give you some notesthat I have for this guy.

(03:58):
Funny how he just disappeared.
I love it.
If you can see my desk rightnow, you would.
It would blow your mind, it.
I love it.
If you can see my desk rightnow, it would blow your mind.
But that's draft season for you.
It looks like he's probablygoing to be more of a right
tackle guy.
I think he can play on the leftside.
I mean, he's an explosiveplayer.
He definitely knows how to workhis hands.

(04:19):
Honestly, they could use helpon both sides of that line.
To be honest with you, he'sgood against the run, fantastic
ground game.
He is able to manhandle theopposing defensive tackles.
I like him there.
He has that kind of power toknock you out of your shoes and,

(04:42):
honestly, all the Missouriopponents.
They saw this in Memble.
I think that Miami Dolphins andCoach McDaniel would love this
guy.
We're going to get Membu tohelp these guys out.
Keep on looking for some morehelp for these guys.
All right, we know they needhelp at safety for sure.
Xavier Watts, it's really hardto pass up a talent like this.
I mean, this guy was supposedto be the ball hawk.

(05:05):
For sure Notre Dame wouldn'thave been in the national
championship if it wasn't forthis guy.
And you got Jordan Poirier andJavon Holland here.
I am going to go ahead and takeXavier Watts.
This is the kind of talent youcan pass up.
I mean, he is great in themiddle of the field.
He can contend against mosttight ends.
He's a big body.

(05:26):
I like him.
So we're going to go ahead andtake him here.
No, we're going to pass on thatone.
Let's see how we can continueto help.
Okay, this is a guy that Idefinitely have some some
thoughts about before I go aheadand drop those.
Pardon me for digging throughmy paper, but it is what it is.
I love this.
This is one of the most funtimes of the year, all right, so

(05:48):
this guy I know that they needhelp on the defensive line, for
sure.
Deon walker man.
I don't think we can pass thisguy up.
I mean, this guy is six, seven,three hundred 340 pounds.
I mean he doesn't always usehis body to his best advantage,
but I think that's coaching morethan anything.
20-year-old, pretty young kid.
I mean he has some decentleverage.

(06:11):
It's not great, but I like himhere, especially with a third
round pick.
He has the size you want.
He has the kind of flexibilityand explosiveness that you want.
I think that he's the kind ofguy that would be a good
statement for your team.
I think he could potentially bea start of this season.
Maybe not day one, but he couldbe a start of this season.

(06:31):
Uh, I think he'll challenge youknow current guys at dlL for
the Dolphins for startingposition.
I think he has that kind ofability.
I mean, the guys there aren'tbad.
I don't really know a whole lotabout Benito Jones and Matt
Dickerson, but I think theseguys are.

(06:52):
It's right for a challenge.
I think Deion Walker will bringthat to the table.
So we'll see if we are at aplace where we have maybe one
more pick.
Ooh, I like this guy too, butwe don't need him All right.
So we're going to look at howwe can help out on this offense.

(07:16):
I think we like Mason Taylorhere.
Big body.
They could use help at tightend as well, because I doubt
very highly that they're goingto be trusting John O'Smith for
the remainder of the season.
He's been injured before.
He kind of goes in and out.
There's been some times wherehe's on the field and has some
lapses.
So I think that, as much helpas you can get to him, keep him

(07:40):
upright, get the ball out of hishand quickly and get him to
somebody who makes plays.
I think Mason Taylor is yourguy.
So, if you like that, we havemore picks out here.
I thought we had okay, we'redoing good here.
We're doing good Now.
Look, I'm getting excited nowabout his offense.
I know my friends, friends likedefense, defense, defense.
I'm like I hear you, but lookat these guys, look at these

(08:02):
names out here.
It's kind of hard to avoidthese guys, but I think we do
need some help, uh, and so we'regonna go ahead and try to help
these guys out in regards totheir defense.
I like him here, though.
So this guy, braden swenson, Ithink he's the guy we're going
to go ahead and take here.
We already got a safety, wealready got a tight end.
We need another one.

(08:22):
This guy, he's mean I meaneight and a half sacks last year
.
I mean he is 6'4", 250, almostabout the same size as Derek
Henry from the Baltimore Ravens.
So look at that withperspective.
I think he's the kind of guythat is going to round out this

(08:43):
defensive line, be as adverse asmuch as possible to defense,
underproduced.
For the past few years wetalked about it ad nauseum on
all the shows that we were onand the Dolphins defense was
constantly coming up inconversation over and over and
over again.
I think that Swenson is goingto solve some problems for this
team, so we're going todefinitely roll with this.

(09:04):
I like how it's going.
We're in a peculiar spot herebecause we have more picks than
I thought.
But I can't believe that thisguy is sitting here.
This is amazing.
But I know my guys are going tobe like don't do it, don't do
it.
I got to help you out, manCameron Gatobo.
This guy is a bowling ball.
I mean, he's a stud.

(09:25):
I mean he is basically knockingguys over.
I mean he's the kind of guy youwant to have back there, and
right now Devon Aitken is therunning back one.
But honestly, there's room forhim to be pushed and if you have
, I kind of would be happy withthe Giants back in the day with
the Thunder and Lightning.
If you have that kind of impactwhich I think, if the Dolphins

(09:46):
take him here, which we just did, thunder-lightning combos is
that what you need?
Kind of offset opposingdefenses.
I think Scatterbow is a dreamin this spot, so most definitely
I like it here.
What I want to do here is kindof go off the grid a little bit
and see what we have so far.
So we got Membo Watts.

(10:08):
We got more picks than Ithought Walker, taylor, swinson
and we got Scatterboat, so wegot one more pick left.
I want to see if I can try tohelp out my guys on defense.
All right, so let's see what wegot going on here.
Alright, so let's see what wegot going on here I think we're
looking at I don't like to.

(10:29):
I don't like that idea.
I don't like that idea either.
You guys are probably readingmy mind right now.
Jalen ramsey we're gonna haveto look at, potentially trying
to get somebody behind him.

(10:51):
We're going to bob muhammadhere.
We're gonna go ahead and gethim some help.
We're going Jabbar Muhammadhere.
We're going to go ahead and gethim some help.
I think this is the kind of movethat I think that Matt McDonald
can use, a guy like this Bigbody At 5'10" 185.

(11:14):
I mean, he's smaller than I am.
He's a ball hawk.
He's short of an organ.
I think that his name wasn'tmentioned a lot on the defense,
but he was definitely very, verypresent.
Ball hawk mentality Loves tohit.
He has an eye for the ball.
I think he did a lot of goodthings in regards to solid

(11:39):
tackling, especially in thatlast loss against Ohio State.
I think he's the health of thisteam.
Let me know what you guys thinkabout this draft.
I got more picks than what Iexpected.
The Dolphins are looking good.
I think they got a lot of helpwhere they need it.
Now we got to use free agencyand leverage the undrafted free
agents.
I think this is going to be agood thing.

(12:00):
So let me know what you thinkabout this draft.
Lovely to hear back from youguys.