Best Traits of Each Dolphins Draft Pick with Brett Kollmann

pick by pick. Brett's going to list the best trait of each prospect we drafted and how they can be beneficial in Miami schemes. Will also assign some homework by giving you the best tape of each prospect so you can go look at them at their very best. All of that and more on this edition of the Drive Time Podcasts. And I want to keep this podcast off

by using a couple of other resources. I love The Athletic and the Draft Network and a couple of articles penned by two of my favorite writers, and Ted Win of The Athletic and Joe Marino of the Draft Network. And we'll go ahead and start on the Athletic with Ted's Film Room, his ten favorite scheme and player fits, from NFL Draft, not just talking about the best draft picks, but who fits into their new team and their new system and into their new surrounding cast. The best and

number one he has Trey Lance in San Francisco. I think we all kind of assumed that was coming based upon their move up in the draft and Kyle Shanahan's history with developing quarterbacks and that offensive system and how QB friendly it is. And Trey Lance has all the traits to take that offense and that team to the next level. Just please wait until we can get our draft picks up there at the top of the draft

and not the bottom. The number two player on his list is Jalen Waddle, the receiver out of Alabama now with your Miami Dolphins. He list his play style as a speed receiver with elite acceleration and a exceptional play strength for his size, heavy play action bootlegs, and West Coast principles or the fit he has for this Dolphins offense and receiver. Says he loves Wattle still with the Dolphins, not just because of the scheme, and truthfully, we don't

know what kind of scheme it's going to be. He writes with new coordinators Eric Studicsville and George Gatzi. But he loves the fit because of what Waddle could do for quarterback to a Tongue by Loa, and he talks about the wider windows and the intermediate to deep portions of the field creating more opportunities and less hesitation in

this Dolphins offense to attack vertically. He also says that he creates Wattle does more separation than any receiver he's scouted in recent memory, and he does it in a hurry. Ted writes his ability to accelerate and maintain speed on his cuts is uncanny, and he writes about an instant deep threat here for tongue Byla but who can also help him creating separation on the horizontal routes like digs

or crossing routes. And the hope is that bigger windows Wattle will create could encourage the Dolphins offense and too it would be more aggressive throwing the football down the field. And also oh by the way they go out and they get will Fuller to compliment that as well. How

about the Draft network piece. We go to one end of the draft with the number six pick in the draft, all the way to pick to forty one with Jared Doakes, who leads off Joe Marino's piece titled Marino's Top five sleepers from one NFL draft and who was on their first but Jared Doakes. He says he loves the Dolphins didn't panic when it comes to the running back position, but instead prioritize more meaningful positions with early draft capital.

And he continues on talking about the production of fellow seventh round draft pick Miles Gaskin, but also how Doakes is a good compliment because of his powerful downhill running style that has angry runs attached to it and explosive into contact with good vision and contact balance. He also notes his terrific pass protection and a capable receiver in

that Cincinnati offense. So Joe Marino a big fan of the last draft pick for the Miami Dolphins too overall, and Ted Win a big fan of the first pick, number six overall in Jalen Waddle for your Miami Dolphins. And with that, I want to welcome in my guest today. I talked about him all the time on the podcast, referencing his great work he does. He's the creator of the film Room on YouTube. You can subscribe to that channel.

You can also hear him via the podcast Airways on the Bootleg Football podcast with his co host E. J. Snyder. He's Brett Coleman. Brett. Here we go again, Man, how the hell are you? Um? I'm doing great, And even though I'm not a Dolphins fan, I was absolutely psyched to see what they came away within the draft. Uh, pick after pick after pick. If you're following me on Twitter, every single time the Dolphins picked, I was just like, man,

that's great. That's just value, value value. I loved everything they did well. I mean we talked this offseason a little bit, and I I do like I have some sympathy for what you're going through. Is a lifelong Texans fan, but I mean you've been talking about jumping ship for a while now, Man, like join us. I you know, I I was halfway a Bears fan because my dad lived in Chicago, so I've you know, passively rooted for the Bears and kind of jumped full on over to

the Bears this offseason. But I'm looking for a new a f C team, and I'll tell you what, the future is bright for the Dolphins. So if I can get in, not at the ground floor. The ground floor was a couple of years ago. If I can get in you know, second or third floor and right this all the way up to the eightieth, I think I'll be okay. Well, at least you've got justin fields there in Chicago hopefully. And I talked about this on Draft night.

I am rooting so hard for that whole quarterback woes in Chicago to go by the boards, especially if they're going to give us the Bears four or five times a year in prime time. Let's get a competitive team on that NBC and NFL network and ESPN broadcast. But

that's neither here nor there. I do want to touch on a couple of things before we get into the football here, because Brett, every video you make, you make me thirsty, and then you make me hungry on Twitter with that post draft mill you post a man like I wasn't sure if you made that or if that was a restaurant. What was that? So that wasn't a place that we just we were looking for a place to eat, uh and I found it open table. It's place called Wooden vine Over or wood and vine Over

in l A. Uh. I live, you know, in the l A area, and uh, they had only been open for three days. They were closed down during the entire last year for obvious reasons. And it was one of the best meals I've ever had. Thirty two ounds perfectly cooked rebby you know, smoke, garlic, mashed potatoes, these great like chili, honey, Brussels sprout. It was phenomenal. So I posted that on Twitter because I was like, I need people to see this place and go here because I

never want them to close again. It was amazing. This is a man who lives his best life. I think it was maybe it was when the pandemic was cooling down after the first wave or something, and you had gone to an outdoor event where Bill Burr pops into

the set for you. What was that like? I mean, it was amazing because it was just these little, you know, impromptu comedy shows, you know, parking lot behind a barber shop, because all these comedians hadn't been able to do was showing months and they were rusty, and so they were just bringing in random people that just wanted to do a set to keep fresh and Bill burg happened to

be one of them. And this was like a ten dollar ticket, you know, like, this is a small, dinky show with like fifteen twenty people in the audience, and he just randomly rolled up, you know, started doing his uh Bill Burr type improvisation for the people that were yelling at him from a taco truck across the street. It was it was great. It was one of the best comedy shows I've ever seen. I listened to the Monday morning podcast every single week I listened to was

Bill Burt Podcast with Burt Kreischer. He's one of the funniest men alive, and he's also one of the most uh notorious or infamous I don't know how to put it bourbon drinkers, but he stepped away since then. But man, I talked about you making me thirsty on the YouTube channel. Those those video shoots you do of the drinks and the concoction as it is, they always look so delicious, man, Like,

have you always had that passion for spirits? I've always loved whiskey, and I tried to get a little bit into mes cow and trying to get into rum as well, but whiskey has always been very close to my heart.

And you know, when I started going on camera with these videos, I wanted to, you know, kind of show a little bit more of myself, and whiskey was always something that kind of calmed my nerves a little bit for being on camera, because that was not something that I really wanted to do it first, but I knew I had to um, and you know, the whiskey was there to call my nerves and it's also just something I love. And over time that whiskey became part of

the channel, part of the brand. And you know, fans love it when I, you know, throw a new drink in there that maybe they've never had before, never made before, and you know, you get to have a nice little cocktail, get to talk some football, and I think it's a format that works for me. It's the Film Room on YouTube. Go check it out. He has a phenomenal Jalen Phillips video. We're gonna talk about him here in just one second. And as you can tell, the man loves the Dolphins

draft class. I just have to mention how funny it is to me that you were nervous about going on camera, since that's what you do for a living now. When I first started doing podcast, I was afraid I hated the sound of my own voice, and now here I am hosting Dolphins draft parties in front of six thousand Dolphins fans at hard Rock Stadium. Like it's it's crazy how it works. Like I think your biggest insecurity is something you work on it turns into a strength. It

certainly has for you, man. I love the channel, I love the resource. I talked to you about it all the time. It's some of the best content out there. So let's go ahead and finish up before we get into the football here with your mock draft. I saw some of the people talking about their scores on Huddle and Josh Norris had like a batting average of a thousand percent. How did your mock draft go this year?

You know, it's interesting I didn't get a score on that because I never like submitted it for review or

anything like that. And my mock draft is a little bit different where I focus more on what would I do if I was a general manager versus trying to predict picks, and I ended up getting some guys in the first round that almost nobody else had in the first round just because I went off my own grades, like Joe try On and Peyton Turner towards the end of the first round, I had them as the thirty one and thirty second overall pick, and then you know,

Joe Tryan went thirty two. Peyton Turner went a few picks before that at to the Saints, and you know a lot of people were like, what's what is this? Why? Why are why are you putting them in your mock draft? And then they go in the top thirty two picks a few days later, and I'm like, well, I put them in my mock draft because they're really good players.

That's why I did it. Um. But you know, there were there was a lot of picks that I accidentally got correct, Like I put Trey Lance at number three to the forty Niners because I felt, ironically the pick of the Dolphins traded away to the forty Niners. You know, I put Trey Lance there because I felt that he was worth the pick. And then I didn't want to buy into the whole you know, we're taking the Alabama kid at three because I that just wasn't my grades, And I stuck true to my grades and ended up

getting that one, right. I stuck true to my grades and got Jamaar Chase to the Bengals over Penn a stool. There was a lot of disagreement there, but oddly enough, just me sticking to my own grades, UH ended up getting a few picks right. And by the way, a lot of Dolphins fans were wondering, why are we taking Jalen Phillips at eighteen? I personally had him at eleven to the Giants, So for me, that was actually a

pretty big value. Oh Man, the still still the first round perhaps there as far as him fall into the eighteenth pick of the draft, first defensive and off the board there. And I think it's great that you provide that that look at the at the mock draft process, because you know, you're a film guy. You're a guy that knows how these players work and how they operate. So do it that way. Let the insiders, like Peter Schrager's of the world, for instance, do the here's what

I'm hearing mock draft. I think there's place for both of them. And with that, I want to get into our podcast here where I want to go down each player picked by the Dolphins and talk about their best trade, how it fits into the Dolphins scheme, and their best tape you can give the fans to go watch. Does that work for you? Brett Coleman, absolutely, let's do it. Let's start with Jalen Waddle, number six pick in the draft, the number two receiver off the board. What is his

best trade? In your opinion, it's the ability to separate quickly. And you know, you and I were talking about this months and months and months ago on another drive time where I said, with the offense that the Dolphins want to run, it is getting the ball out quick with two It like Ta is at his best when he is working the quick game, working r P O S. If you want to take a shot deep, it's, you know, three steps, let it fly down the boundary. So in terms of should we take a tackle, should we take

a receiver? When your offense is getting the ball out that quickly anyway and you're taking a lot of three step drops, tackle, it's still important, but it's not as important as getting guys that can separate within that two and a half second window. And you know, it's nice to have great protection, but if nobody's getting open and under three seconds anyway, who cares? You know? So I think the Dolphins made the right pick. It could have

been Waddle. It could have been DeVante Smith. I didn't really care either way because they both do the same thing and that's just get open. So I know a lot of people maybe wanted Seul, but I think a package of Jalen water on Liam Eikenberg is vastly preferable to a package of Penna Sewell and whatever receiver they would have taken in the second round, I think they made the right move that fits their offense and most

importantly makes two a comfortable Absolutely. I think Elijah Moore might have been the possible selection in that second round to fill out that group, but he went off the board before Miami could pick it thirty six, so you would have kind of missed on that one. Maybe it's Rondale Moore. I'm not sure who it might have been, but I agree with you that Waddle gives you that instant explosion, the instant offense. And do you think he

can contribute in a big way right away. Oh? Absolutely, whether it's special teams, whether it's as a slot receiver, and remember he's a very good route runner as well. He's not just, you know, one of these gimmicky slot receivers where we can only get in the ball on screens, like, he is a legitimately good route runner, so you can maybe play him a little bit outside at Z as well. We haven't really seen him go up against press coverage before.

I'm not saying he can't do it. We just haven't really seen it because Bamma didn't use him that way. But he's got legitimate speed, so we can threaten uh down downfield, down the boundary. But I think just putting him in the slot, you know, letting him absolutely eviscerate people with two way goes inside, I think that's probably the best way to use him. And plus from the slot, it's easier to give him carries, it's easier to give

him screens, all that kind of stuff. Like his best way to generate explosive plays is either in the slot or as a return man, and I expect he's going to see a lot of action there. I don't think I've been that's excited about a Dolphins season since, and this is a bad example because they have finished that year six and ten. But the two thousand and six season, we started the year on the Sports Illustrated cover as

a possible Super Bowl pick with Dante Culpepper. It didn't go that way, but that was very exciting time for the Dolphins in that summer. I feel similarly this year, but even better in a sense. So Jalen wall is a big part of that. If you had to give the fans a best tape to go watch of this kid to really get excited about him, which game would that be. It's hard not to say the Auburn game from a few years ago, where you know he was

the fourth receiver. It was Judy, it was Ruggs, it was DeVante Smith, who was the de facto number one, even though Judy and Ruggs were seen as the high end draft prospects. But Jalen Waddle was the wide receiver four in that team, and he scored four touchdowns. Pretty much every time he touched the ball he scored. It was as a return man, as a runner receiver, like everything just getting him the ball was an explosive play

waiting to happen. And that is the tape. If you only watch one game of Jalen Waddle to understand why he went at six overall, watched that game and he showed you some of the traits that he's been showing his entire career Alabama, the sudden, quick stop star ability man. He's fun to watch, and Brett had referenced a player going off the board number eighteen to Miami, who he had pegged for the eleventh pick in the draft in

Jalen Phillips. I've shared the YouTube video many many times about who the best pass rush prospect in this year's classes, and you compared him to a couple of the Watt brothers, Jalen Phillips, this guy's best trade in your estimation, Brett is it's it's versatility, you know, It's it's the fact that he has explosiveness, he has power, he has length, he has fluidity. There's so many pass rushers that come out these days where you know they're lighting quick off

the edge, but they don't have length or power. So if they're going up against a really quick footed tackle, they don't really have a way to to do a counter punch and win in another way. You know, the Georgia kid coming out this year is a good example of that. Caleban Chase on the year before. You know, they were really good speed rushers, but they didn't really have another club in the bag that they could turn to You look at Jalen Phillips and he's got that

speed around the edge. He has the ability to bend, but he also has a wicked inside counter. He's got power, he plays the run very very well. He's very instinctive, super high motor player. And you look at like his relative athletics score like he is a freak athlete. It's not quite like a case young type freakiness, but it's

not that far off either. And the fact that he has a very complete physical profile, the fact that he can win in multiple ways, that to me is more valuable than anything because it means that it's very hard to gain plan for him. It's very hard to know exactly what he's gonna do on a snap to snap basis. He can keep tackles on their toes. And I think that's why they took him is because this is a team that wants to be able to generate pressure in

more ways than just calling zero. They want to be able to rush for if they need to rush for, because that's how you you know, it's been proven to beat some of the other teams they have to go through in the a f C, like Kansas City. You've got to be able to win with four. You can't just generate pressure with blitz Is And that's why they took Jalen Phillips is so that they can now actually

rush with four and still get to the quarterback. The opportunities he could create for Immanuel Ogball on the other side or vice versa could be very beneficial. I also think you kind of see some of that Bret in terms of the four man rush, with the shift at the safety possession who we're going to talk about here and just one second, and the release of Bobby McCain,

who had a great career here in Miami. He has since moved on, But maybe the Dolphins have more flexibility in terms of who's going to be the free safety, who's gonna be the box safety, who's gonna rotate and blitz and all that fun stuff. But I want to come back to this with Jalen Phillips. You know, you talked about his athletic traits. He was the number one player coming out of high school few years back out of the state of California, above Nagy Harris and Cam Akers.

And you also had a great comment in the video bread where you talked about his ability to take information throughout the course of the game, find out what the tackles are doing to beat him, and then use those tendencies against those tackles to beat them later in the game. Can you talk more about that and just what you mean by that. Yeah, I mean you saw that in

uh in the Clemson game. He was going up against the Clemson right tackle I think his last name is McFadden, who's got just a wicked inside punch, really really quick, really strong, and it was kind of it was giving him some problems in that Clemson game because he was having trouble kind of judging the distance for when to hit that swite of and so he would get caught with that inside punch before he could land the swipe,

and his whole rush would get shut down. And so then he kind of switched it up, you know, one one drive later basically where he would lead with a long arm just to kind of give him a good distance measurement that he could really rely on. And then as soon as he would make contact with that long arm and he would know that the outside hand was coming, then he would hit the swipe and finish around the edge.

So he recognized what was beating him and how he could beat that inside punch which was using they called a one arm is longer than two Principal defensive line coaches call it that where if you just kind of angle your shoulder and you you really reach with one arm, there's nothing a tackle can do to outreach you, let

alone when you have thirty four inch arms. So it was it was a perfect you know, kind of counter to what was beating him, and that to me, showed that he really knows what he's doing and it shows that he doesn't rely on just one thing to win. He can do a variety of things to win. And that's really the mark of a great pass rusher in the NFL is variety and versatility. I have to imagine that's what had coach flora Is very excited in the draft room once again for the second straight year after

taking a defensive lineman. Last year was ray Kwon Davis. This year it's Jalen Phillips. What's his best tape this in his career, Brett, I mean, it's hard not to say the Virginia Tech game, where, other than the Clemson game, he was showing, you know, versatility, he was showing the ability to adjust the tackles mid game. He had their heads spinning with inside moves, outside moves. They had no idea what he was gonna throw on a snap to

snap basis. So again, watch that Virginia Tech game. Uh, it's probably the best example of his talent and by the way, added bonus for him as a new Miami Dolphin. He loves the three oh five. He loves Miami. I think he wants to to play hard for the Dolphins and he ended up where he wanted to be, which for a player transitioning to the NFL is crucial. He doesn't really have to change his life that much. He can just focus entirely on football in a city that

he loves, with fans that he already loves. I think he's probably got one of the inside tracks the defensive rookie of the year, just because he can hit the ground running from that. Absolutely, he said after the draft that Southern California made him, the three oh five saved him.

I love that quote from Jalen Phillips. And like you mentioned, I think that VOTEG game, it was two or two and a half sacks, four and a half tackles for loss, and even that felt like it was underselling his performance because he was so disruptive in that game, was so much fun to watch. Let's move on the day two here, and we kind of tease it there in the previous segment talking about Javon Holland out of Oregon, and I get a feeling, Brett, this guy might be your favorite

of the bunch. What's his best trade? His best trade is the fact that he can basically be anything from a range e center field safety to a nickel corner. And I was thinking about it because he was in my Tier one of safeties along with Trayvon, Mary, Tyree Gillespie and Andre Cisco, but he was just a different kind of safety to me. And I was thinking after the after the pick got made, I was like, Man,

how's Brian Flora is going to use him? Because they already have um, you know, Eric Rowe, who was their matchup guy for tight ends, and at the time, they had Bobby McCain who was a good, you know, center fielding free safety. They had Noah who plays in the slot. They had Justin Coleman who plays in the slot. I was like, where are they going to use him? And then it occurred to me I was like, wait a minute,

Brian Flores already had Devin mccordy for years. They're gonna use him exactly like Devin mccordy, which is to say, based on the game plan, every single week, he's going to have a job. Either he's going to be down low playing in the nickel, or he'll play, you know, super deep as a free safety, which I think that Bobby McCain released today probably signals they want more of that out of him. But he is a matchup weapon

for them because he can do either thing. And I think he's a better true free safety than Eric Rowe would be. He's a better true free safety than uh maybe Brandon Jones would be even and I'm a big fan of brand and Jones as well. So he is going to be there Devin McCarthy because he has almost an identical skill set, and I think Brian Flores chose him for that reason is because he wanted a guy

with that kind of flexibility. So when he's moving around the formation and he comes down, let's say he is playing that single high look or or whatever it might be, any he kicks down inside, like who is the next best option on the roster to play that position and kind of fill his void when he comes out of that spot. I mean, I would have said Bobby McCain, but I would I would probably say at this point Brandon Jones is my best guest because I think Brandon

Jones also has some range to him. Um, he's kind of a diet version of Javon Holland in my opinion, Like, if I had to choose one of the two to start, well, it kind of depends on how fast Holland picks up the defense because it's not like, you know, Flora's is running something simple out there. But um, I wouldn't be surprised if, like by Halloween, Javan is the starting free safety, Eric Rose the starting strong safety or potentially a kind

of weird hybrid dime linebacker. I'm not entirely sure yet. Either way, he'll be the tight end guy, and then if they go like three safeties on the field, maybe

Brandon Jones can can hop in. It's very intriguing, and that's the thing is that the Bobby McCaine released kind of throws a monkey wrench in there, because I I thought I knew what they were gonna do, and now I don't quite know what they're gonna do, but just based on what I know from Javon Holland and Oregon and what I know from how you know Flora's used Devin McCardy in New England, those two things kind of

connect the dots for me. I'm excited for that big Nickel package where it's Jones and exabing Howard on the outside and the three big safeties with with another Jones. And then, like you mentioned Eric Rowe as well as Javon Holland, if you had to give the fans his best tape to watch in his career didn't play this past season was an opt out, but nineteen, what's the best organ tape to watch for Javon Holland? You know, I think it was the Utah game a couple of

years ago if I remember correctly. And this one is interesting because this this was really sending alarm bells where it's like, man, that's a that's a Devin mccordy type play, and uh, I would watch it just for this play

that he makes, which is pure instinct. And I guarantee you flow sat up in his chair and said, give me that dude when he saw this play, he's playing outside leverage on the slot and the receiver run the running two benders over the middle, and so he's like low shoulder outside leverage and he comes off of his guy when he's reading the throw going to the other bender on the other side, leaves his receiver completely, lays out like he's a shortstop trying to catch a line drive,

and breaks up the bender on the other side from the other receiver. Somebody wasn't even responsible for covering. And I was like that they you don't even teach that, Like every dB coach in league would be like, that's not how we draw it up. But whatever. A p BU as a PPU. That's the play that I think got Javon Holland drafted by the Dolphins. That was the PAC twelfth championship game. I think it was, wasn't it.

I think so. I'm trying to remember if that's the same game that Thibodeau absolutely went off in the malish Utah. I think that was the same game Tibodeaux. Oh man, you want to talk about the prospects we'll say of him for next year. He's he's he's the number one player on the board going into next year. Hands down, Let's go ahead and talk about another player that I

know you like. The Dolphins trade up from fifty to forty two to snag who is presumably right now at the moment they're starting right tackle, you would think he can compete for that job. Of course, Miami is now suddenly deep among the offensive line. But Liam Eichenberg, what's his best trade? Brett, I would say it's hand usage

for him. You know, he's not the biggest guy, not the most explosive, but he's got really good balance and really good hands, and for I think they got him in the second round if I remember correctly, Uh yeah, pick forty two. You know that that's about where I

thought he would and should go again. Not super athletic, not super long or anything like that, but the fact that he knows how to use his hands, and he knows how to play with a good base and good balance, which in the end, we've seen a lot of very athletic tackles with tons of length that don't know how to use it wash out of the league. The fact that Eikenberg is coming into the NFL with a very good, uh technical foundation means that I think he's going to

be successful. And again for a second round tackle that is probably gonna start Day one on the right side because you're kicking Robert Hunt into guard. I don't know if he's playing left guard or right guard, but I know they're kicking him inside. Um. That to me was a pick very well spent, and for an offense that wants to get the ball out list in two and a half seconds, he's got the technical foundation to hold up at least for that long. So again, I really

really like to pick. He made a career at No Dame of kind of working tackles around the I guess the top of the drop of the quarterback there with Ian book and kept him protecting without a sack allowed in two years. You and I spoke about his resume off air because that two years with no sacks allowed featured games against Bama and Clemson and all these powerhouse

programs and good pass rushers. Which one is the best tape of of Busch For Liam Eikenberg, I would probably say when he went up against Rashad Weaver from pit this past year, because neither one of those guys are incredible athletes, and so when they win, they both win with technique, and so you you saw him really have to battle somebody else that has great hand usage, great leverage um and it kind of put him into the test because Liam has always been a guy that beat

freak athletes by having just better technique than them, whether it was the Bama guys or you know, the Clemson guys or anything like that. Like he's always you know, he wasn't allowing a whole lot of pressures because he just had such good technique. And so going up against an equal technician that was also going to be playing on Sundays was a fascinating battle. And you know, Rashad Rashade gave him the business on a few snaps, but

Liam overall, I felt won that battle. And also remember when you're watching uh Pitts d line, which was just very very talented in general, and you see the kind of movement that he was generating on double teams with Banks right next to him. Uh, it shows what kind

of run blocker he is as well. So if you want to if you want to watch him go up against somebody that has NFL level technique, not just NFL level athleticism, go watch that pick game against Rashad Weaver, who's also going to get a lot of snaps as a rookie. So before we get into the fifth or the third round, here in the fifth pick of the Dolphins and Hunt are long, do you think each of those four guys qualifies enough staffs to be considered first

year starters. Oh? Easily, easily, especially with the I was a little bit worried about Holland just because they had Iman McCain, But now that McCain's gone, I feel like Holland, as their best true center fielder left on the roster, is gonna get a lot of snaps just for that alone. Jalen Phillips is obviously gonna start, Jalen Waddle obviously start, and then Lee and Mikenberg. With Hunt moving inside, the guard is probably their best option at right tackle now

as well. So it's very plausible that they got starter, starter, starter, starter, back to back to back to back, which is very very rare for a draft class, and that's why you see Miami getting so many positive grades around the draft landscape.

But a position that all of a sudden has a lot of depth to it is where Miami goes in the third round with Boston colleges, Hunter along and coach Flora, has had a great just a wide ear to ear grint about how we have to get a Boston College player because there tough, smart, physical team first guys just lets it off all the traits that he basically learned himself as a prep and then also at Boston College as a college football player. Hunter Long, what is his

best trade for you? I would say ball skills. You know, he's not as explosive as Gisicky, but I think he was one of the best contested catch tight ends in this class. And so you know, knock on wood, if Gisicky goes down, you have another guy that can come in and still do a lot of work in the red zone. He's very capable blocker. Is he a super explosive athlete. No, that's why he went in the third round compared to some of the tight ends that went

ahead of him, like arm Mo than obviously Pits. But um, he's very good at just understanding leverage, finding ways to get open. You know he's going to be uh it's it's gonna be like third, no, no pun intended, third and long, and he's gonna be able to like just find a hole in the zone, sit down, and just be a reliable receiver for two of whereas Gaseki is more of like the oh my god, I can't just believe he made that catch kind of tight end. Hunter

Long is the when did he get six catches? Tight end? Like you're not gonna realize that he's gonna pile up stats, but he will, just like he did at BC, just sitting in the hole, being reliable. Get him work in the red zone. He'll never blow you away, but you're gonna look up at the end of the year and he'll have like fifty or sixty catches and you won't remember a single one, but they're all gonna be important.

A stat to your point, he had eleven contested catches last year, which was third among all tight ends according to Pro Football Focus. If you had to highlight one tape for Hunter Long to go back and watch, which one would it be? Oh? Man, um, you know the BC quarterback Jurkovic, who's also very very talented, wildly inconsistent, but very very talented. Uh. You you could see in the few games, the Virginia game, the North Carolina game

where pretty much any time he was in trouble. He was throwing at the Hunter Long because he knew he would catch it. And that's Hunter Long's role again, it's sit down, be a check down, make a catch, Rescue

plays that shouldn't work and make them work. And so I think you watched the Virginia game in the UNC game, uh, you'll you'll definitely see that quality to him kind of like like again, I don't want to compare him to a Hall of Famer, but like later stage career Jason Witten, where athletically speaking, there was no way he should have gotten open as much as he did. But just the fact that he understood coverages so well and he had such good hands, he would still end up with a

lot of catches at the end of the year. Watch the Virginia game, in the North Carolina game, and maybe even the PIT game as well, and that will kind of give you a good understanding of what he is

as a prospect. Help me with a little bit of a hole in my scouting and I own process here, Brat, because I know it's one thing that he did a lot was what he kind of approaches the point of contact into the route, like when he's in the stem, he has this little subtle movie he does where he gets his arm over the like extended arms of the defensive back and it helps him like slingshot and create leverage that way. Do you know what I'm talking about?

And what is that called? Yeah, it's almost I mean, it's very similar to what they call a slingshot technique, ironically enough for a corner where it's about creating contacts so that you can It's it's one thing to like read a player with your eyes, but if you can feel a player, you can feel his little weight shifts or possibly influence those little subtle shifts and body weight with your own hands. Um. You know, some coaches also call it a shoulder ride technique, but that's a little

bit different. It's the fact that you can feel a defender, you can feel how they move, and in your brain you respond to that quicker than visual information. You respond to touch faster, and so if you can feel just a little tiny minute shift and body weight, you'll know exactly when to plant and go. And again, I think he's a very physical tight end because he he feels defenders so that he knows when to work against their leverage.

And that's why even though he's not super athletic, he does get open a lot is because he knows exactly when to cut and how to cut. Brett Coleman The Film Room on YouTube. Subscribe to that channel right now, Follow him at Brett Coleman on Twitter and social and I won't ask you to give me the best game tape and all that fun stuff. In the two seventh round, guys, we had a hundred and fifty pick weight. That was

the longest way between picks and Dolphins franchise history. But Larnel Coleman out of you mass Jared Doakes out of Cincinnati, give us your quick just run down those two guys if you can, real quick. Well. Full disclosure, I did not get to watch Coleman because Massachusetts tape shocker, I know, is a little bit hard to come by. But the Dolphins have better resources than me on that one, so

I'll trust them. Uh. And then Dokes I did watch it, and his main thing that I really liked was pas protection. I don't necessarily see him as a super dynamic runner, but if you throw him in there on third down as a past protector, I think it's gonna be really reliable. Uh, you know, if you're just doing like check releases and stuff like that. Again, you're not asking him to do

a whole lot. But I think TA will appreciate him because you can actually rely on him to stop a linebacker dead in his tracks on third down, which in itself is a valuable skill set. Absolutely it is. And I talk about the film Room channel on YouTube. And one of the perks of your job and being self employed, Brett, is that you're gonna go around the National Football League landscape and go to several games every year. I know last year probably didn't work out that way for you,

but you've got the schedule cranking out this year. Are we gonna be on your stop list? Is all down here in South Florida? And can I take you to get a nice glass of bourbon together sometime on Saturday night? I definitely want to. You know. I have a few games circled on the calendar, and ironically most of them involved the a f C East. Hum fingers crossed that the Jets and the Dolphins play in Miami sometime after Halloween. That would be perfect for me to catch the best

part of Miami weather. You know, I get to avoid the lightning and the rains and stuff like that. I would absolutely love that either way, anytime like November December, if I can get down to Miami for a game, I would love that. And I'll show you around South Florida. I don't know the area that well yet, but I know it enough to take you to a couple of spots we can get, uh, get nice and loose and have a good time and talk some football. Maybe you

watch some college football on a Saturday night. Brett Coleman, The Film Room, the Bootleg Football Podcast. What are you working on now? Man? Vacation time and also correct me if I got your social handles wrong earlier. No, No, you're good. I In terms of what I'm working on now, I'm kind of doing a We'll about to do a division by division breakdown of every single you know, draft pick,

free agency pickup, U d F, A coaching change. It's it's kind of a series that I do every summer on my podcast, uh, where I I give a whole entire landscape of what the NFL looks like, team by team, division by division, and then over on the Film Room, I'm working on a few very very large projects, so there's nothing coming out for the rest of May, but in June and into July, I'm doing, uh, some kind of big breakdowns on the big Fangio slash Brandon Staley defense.

I'm looking at how Justin Fields is going to transition from Ohio State to Matt Naggie's defense, and then I'm I'm thinking about kind of trying to decipher what the Jaguars are gonna do um with combining Ohio State's offense under Urban Meyer, who happened to have their playbook under Urban, and then Darryl Bebel's offense and I have Bevil's playbooks.

I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of go through both of those as well as you know what Trevor was good at at Clemson and trying to throw them all together in one video and figure out what the Jaguars are gonna be trying to do on offense. So I we'll see it might be very very long, but we'll see how that goes well. It sounds good, man, I know, as always, will be very well produced and very well put together, and we'll look forward to that to sophomore

season breakout video right around week eight or nine. Sound good sounds give them there, I can't wait, all right, Brett, thanks a lot, Man, appreciate it. Brett Coleman, the Film Room, the Bootleg Podcast, and of course at Brett Coleman. It's two l's and two ends on social media, Brett thanks again, Man and away he goes. Fun podcast every time we get Brett on the show. Here, full of information, film and I always learned something about the game when I

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