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Brian Baldinger Joins to Break Down New Look Dolphins Offense

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Travis is back for another edition of the Drive Time Podcast and we have landed the big fish for this episode. Brian Baldinger joins to impart his X's and O's wisdom on the Dolphins fan base and what they can expect from Mike McDaniel, John Embree, the offensive tendencies, the work that goes into play sequencing, and how the system can maximize Tua Tagovailoa and Jaylen Waddle. Plus, we take a look at some recent signings and break down River Cracraft, Daeshon Hall and John Lovett.

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Two fires to Waddle stocked into the end zone of Miami type pro tike window. They had to get that touch down on that play. They give it. What is up, Dolph fans and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host Travis Winkfield, And on today's show, we reeled in a

big big fish. Brian Baldinger from the NFL Network is going to join us to break down some exes and ohs and talk new head coach Mike McDaniel, the system he brings with him, how he could tweak that system to fit his personnel here, and how we can see the best versions of Tua and Waddle and others across the offense. We had plenty of fun with Baldy, Plus will break down the games of the three acquisitions of the last week in River Cracraft Day Shawn Hall and

John Lovett from Some are in South Florida. This is the Drive Time Podcast. So before we get to my guest today, let's go ahead and run down these three new acquisitions to the roster real quick with a little bit of background on who they are and their game. We touched on River Cracraft on the Coaches Announcement podcast from Friday afternoon, but I wanted to do more than just, you know, figuratively play the w s U fight song. Though again I must admit there's a fair amount of

Washington or University of Washington stuff. I should say that I see around the building and Javon Holland rocks his UFO his organ stuff now and then. So seeing a fellow coug does make this coude pretty happy. As for his game, for Crai Craft, not a ton of NFL experience. He's been in the NFL since, primarily as a special teamer.

He caught six passes in for the Niners team that was really super banged up that year, and it earned him a one year extension for one with thet But he didn't catch a pass in twenty nine team at the Broncos, and he made his first career catch back in again with the Broncos. So seven career catches for eighty five yards, twenty four career games, three kick returns for forty three yards, and seventeen punt returns for eighty yards. He sure handed he won't muff kicks and he won't

drop passes. That was his game at Washington State. We'd put him in the either three to the field, which is the closest receiver into the formation, or he played all of the formation, but most frequently to the three or to the two to the boundary and our spread five wide air raid system, and then motion him and find a way to get matchups for him in two way goes and either hit him with a quick hitter to move the chains over and over again, or if he got a slower linebacker or safety on him, he'd

go up over the top for big place. But his pro career has been almost exclusively on special teams. All one five of his snaps last season we're on special teams. In he played a hundred and twelve snaps on offense and one six teen on special teams. Just eighteen total snaps in nineteen five as a receiver, and then twenty seven snaps on offense his rookie season with a d eight snaps on special teams back in plus in his tape,

you'll see the same things every time. He's a very advanced route runner in terms of setting up his routes and making them all look the same. He'll use a subtle lean or a step, or an armbar or a head fake to sell you one direction, then cross face the other way once he sees the hips flip and he catches everything again, which showed up a ton on his college tape, tons of contested balls, and man, he had a way of pulling them all down. We had multiple quarterbacks at w S you that just trusted him,

from Luke Fawk to Gardner Minshew to Ryan Helinski. It just didn't matter. And so, knowing him as well as I did with the Coogs, here's what I know you can count on. He'll be where he's supposed to be. He's gonna work as hard as anybody in the building,

and if the ball hits his hands, he'll catch it. Now, we left off the coaching Announcement podcast on Friday talking about the importance of relationships and the importance of maintaining those relationships from year to year, and that was one of my favorite parts of the announcement that coach McDaniel emphasized keeping so many coaches on, even in roles that are, you know, seemingly less on paper, but the importance of the way they communicate, in the relationships they have with

guys on the roster and the coaching staff and all, you know, all the way from head coach down to quality control. That type of stuff really matters. Like here's a good example. Maybe not a great example. It's not the same thing at all, but for for my personal experience, Caleb and Q in the kitchen staff, those are my dudes. And when I found out they were moving, man, I got really sad. Like Ultimately, what I'm saying is that my favorite part of every day is the people I've

gotten to know in the building. And I think that's very, very important, and Coach McDaniel clearly does too. But you know what else is great. It doesn't just have to be guys you have connections with from previous staffs or previous roster, you know, connections. Hence some of the hires we were fired up about, right, I mean, actually most of the coaches McDaniel never worked on a staff with them,

like Frank Smith, Darryll Bevil, Sam Madison, Matt Applebaum. Then you do have the guys that have like Wes Welker and John Embrey on that Niner staff. Best man for the job right next. A fullback, John Lovett spent the season with the Packers, carried the football three times for six yards, playing forty five offensive snaps with one and twelve snaps on special teams. He entered the league with the Chiefs as a U d F A and twenty nineteen and was put on injured reserve and training camp

that year. He's played some tight ends and fullback through his pro career, but he was a quarterback at Princeton. Go look at John Lovett's Princeton highlights. They're pretty crazy. It was an option heavy offense, lots of quarterback lead in power where he did a lot of damage there. He was first team All American and twenty eight team Annie Walter Payton Award finalists. There he led the number one offense in the IVY League, the fourth most points in all of FCS, and actually had the six the

best completion percentage and FCS at sixty six point one percent. Now, I can't imagine he'll be throwing too many balls, but you get the idea. And the thing that stands out on his tape is the quick feet. You watch him play that you know, quarterback lead style offense, and you wouldn't really expect that from a full back, but man,

those direct snaps. Not comparing it at all, but the style of which he did that was similar to what Levy on Bell for the Steelers was back in his prime, where it was very, very patient back behind the line, pick your spot and then go and hit the big yards that way. And the reason he was so successful was that he was so light on his feet that he could get from gap to gap quickly and then he's out there dropping his two pound shoulder on unassuming

defensive backs. In the IVY League. It's a tough stop for those guys. So that'll be interesting to watch. How does he utilize that quickness at a position where quick is not typically synonymous with fullbacks. But he's got some quicks. Some of the Packers tape I saw had him lining up as a double y tight end as a twelve personnel unbound onsta offensive line, where he would fire off the ball and get some push and dent that line of scrimmage. He's an intriguing player. We finished up here

with another intriguing player in Dave Shawn Hall. Now you locked on Dolphins fans probably remember this name because I was all about his game coming out of Texas A and M. He was long. He's still his long, physical, well built edge who had a really nice week at the Senior Bowl and really blew up and head up the draft boards that week. And going back to my old tweets, I had him as a third round option for the Dolphins that year and he would wind up

going in the third round to the Carolina Panthers. And that was before Josh Bowyer's arrival. And this seemingly prototype that has seen guys like a manual oddball Jalen Phillips shack laws in these bigger edge defenders come into the fold. He's six ft five to sixty five. He hasn't played a game since twenty nineteen, a pretty rough rash of

injuries has prevented him from doing so. He was drafted by the Panthers in the third round back in seventeen, placed on I R in October, and he wound up on the forty Niners practice squad there with Mike mcdan, John Embry and before Westmulker was there, and then he was signed off the Niners practice squad to the Texans

a few weeks into the season. He then was placed back on their practice squad, only to be signed by the Eagles active roster in December, but he tore his a c L on the final play in the final game of that season, and it's been an uphill battle since then. He signed with the Jets in but he failed physical and was released four days later. Then wound up on the Niners practice squad in December of that year, signed a futurist contract, and then was released last July.

So a fresh start here with the Dolphins. Not a ton of NFL tape to go off of just nine tackles one and a half sacks in his career, but man his college tape, there are things that worked for him that work for guys on this line. Like an example, we talk all the time about keeping yourself clean against the quick game that is the modern NFL passing game, and generating distance from the offensive line across from you in order to give yourself a chance to elevate knock

footballs down at the line. Nobody had more of those this year than the Miami Dolphins. But his length really helps him to do that. He keeps his chest clean and he also uses that length for a very very nice long arm, which is basically one long arm locked out to help you keep your outside arm free to the edge to make plays on outside runs or end a rounds or reverses, whatever the case may be. And it helps him really set that strong edge in the

running game. And again he just dusted dudes all week at the Senior Bowl. That's where I fell in love with his game. It's evaluation season. Always fun to have guys with high upside like this to work on. Get him in the program and see if they stick. That's what this time of year is all about before we get into the new league year. So coach McDaniel and his staff have that and plenty of other things to work on and to help break down some of those things.

Where you're going to be joined next here on the Drivetime Podcast by Brian Baldinger. You do not want to miss that. Plenty of good stuff here coming up next Drivetime Podcast presented by AutoNation. And we're back here on the Drivetime Podcast presented by Auto Nation, and I am thrilled to be joined by a man who gets us all fired up every week with Baldy's breakdowns, especially when talking Javon Holland to a tongue of blow, Xavian Howard or really any dolphin. The list goes on, Baldi, how

you doing, man, Trav I'm good. I mean, I'm I mean, I don't want to give away We're exactly where I'm at right now, you know, after the season, but I'm in a good spot. So you gotta kind of you gotta kind of catch your breath and uh, kind of regroup a little bit after, you know, twenty four weeks. But I'm good right now, Travis. I'm it's I'm a big fan of what Mike McDaniel has done everywhere he's been and happy to share any sort of insight I

can with you. Well, that's why I wanted to get you on here, because number one, you do so much good work with the film that's really kind of unique in the space out there, I think. And the number two just you know, I had a chance to really digest your breakdown of that Niners run game under McDaniel, and so I wanted to kind of just get some XS and O's expertise on here as well, have a bit of a deeper dive to coach McDaniel does that sound good for you. Yeah, let's do it all right,

here we go. So, coach McDaniel has been described as kind of an out of the box thinker. Right. What do you think it is about him that has earned him that reputation as a guy who's out of the box. Well, I think his background, you know, I mean, he's IVY League educated, as you know, and you know it wasn't much of a player, you know, to look at him, you didn't think football was something in his DNA. But he's kind of a football nerd is what he is.

But in a way that players gravitate towards him because players know when they're around him that they can become better, that he's going to make them a better player. And you know, you know, sometimes you can be Mike Rabel and you get the best out of players because you're a great player playing for a great coach. And then sometimes you can just be yourself and just go this is what I see and this is what you can do.

And I think sometimes Travis players need to know them and they need to learn that they can become much greater than what they are. And I think most players want that found out about them. When, however, long your careers are. They want to be told how they could become better or great, and I think Mike has that

ability to do it. There was a great piece Peter kingbro this that came out on Monday talking about how Deebo Samuel kind of coach approach Deebo Samuel and said we need more, not more of a leadership role, but maybe kind of step up in that way. And he wasn't talking about the raw raw stuff. Just be the hardest worker, be the guy who when you're tired, you're still putting forth that best effort. It was a great

blurb there. So we saw Deebo Samuel have a you know, almost a two thousand yards from Scure much season this year and you did a lot of that as a kind of quasi running back. So you had that great post about are the great video breaking down the Niners running game? Why have those running games been able to

get such consistent production regardless of who the back is. Well, he's got a you know, he's got a long history with with Mike Shanahan and then with Kyle and then really what brought Mike Shanahan the run game that he had in Denver? Alex Gibs. You never crossed paths with Alex.

I don't believe in Denver, but I I know Alex Gibbs and I have seen Alex coach and Alex coach is a little bit different than Mike, but the results are the same in that what you're gonna get is you've got those specific places you have to be that you have to get to. And here's the reason why when you do this, this is the result. And so when Mike coaches the run game, he coaches every part of it, the tight ends, the fullbacks, the running backs, and he's gonna have a big say in the personnel.

There's a reason why Raheem Moster was in San Francisco. Me go through the list of backs, whether it's Washington, Um, whether it's Cleveland, whether it's Atlanta, uh Tevin Coleman. There there's a reason why certain backs really excelled in the system, and there's a reason why the system has been highly productive. And so what you do is you create a pattern. You create could be the wide zone. You create a pattern. And if you're playing against Fred Warner, you're playing against

Bobby Wagoner, you're playing against great middle linebackers. Luke Keithley, you're playing against great middle linebackers. They don't they know where the ball is going. Well, once they know where the ball is going, then you break that pattern. That's the trick of what Mike can do. He's gonna show you this, this, this, and then he's gonna break it and it's gonna be to the point where Luke Keickley, a Bobby Wagoner, Fred Warner takes himself out of the play.

They're not even blocked, and there is He understands how the defense is going to react to what you show them. And that isn't a playbook. That isn't okay, this is you know slanty this, it's it's way deeper than that, way deeper. And so when you know how a player or players or defense is going to react to what you show them, and then you give them something different, then you got him. And then when you add a play action passed to it, you know, then you can

get big chunk plays. And Mike is that nerve that sits there in the film room and just traces those reactions. A lot of guys don't have that patience to do it. He could do it for twelve or fourteen hours a day until he knows how you're gonna respond, and once he knows the response, then he can build his running game around that. So when you say it's more than just the playbook, that's always a big part of that. The twelve fourteen hours a day of tracing and finding

tendencies and breaking those tendencies. Is that like a feel that he has like end game because a lot of times people, I think a big disconnect for fans is what a play caller and what it makes a good play caller end game? What is it that makes him a good play caller? You know, a guy that can that can have the feel for what is happening and make adjustments in game that will make him a good play caller at this level. Well, it's it's it's a

lot of it is that is. You know, if you look at a guy like Kyle Shannon, you look at Sean McBay, you look at some of these play calls, just look where they stand when they watch the game. I mean there are twenty yards either behind the player in front of the play they're either seeing it coming at them or they're seeing it going away. Like like I would watch the end zone copy of a play from you know, from the NFL. So they're they're seeing

a game like that. But then you know, you listen to some of these Wires or Kyle or Sean, like they know what the defense is gonna do, and they know when they have the right play call and where they're gonna be and here it comes, you know, can't it's not every play you know, there's there's a place for it, and there's a feel for it. I think Mike has said, I think has Shawn hasn't. Certain guys have it and uh and when to pull that play out, when to save it for the right moment in the

right game. And so some of these guys they're not highly emotional people during the game. I mean they are, but they're not. They're they're they're able to they're able to calm themselves so that they're not too emotional getting caught up with the referees and you know, and and you know some of the things that can happen during a game where they're just you know, takes some out

of whack where they're just becoming too emotional. Like, these guys have the ability to keep themselves controlled so that they can feel the game. You gotta feel it, see it, and then react to it. I'm sure that that level of expertise they feel certainly creates a level of comfort to when it comes to kind of keeping those emotions and check. And you know, we love to educate on this podcast bad It's my favorite things to do and that's why I love having someone like you on. So

two things I wanted to ask you about here. It's it's play sequencing and then also all the motion and misdirection they use. Let's start with to play sequencing here. Can you just kind of give us a one oh one on what that means and how I mean you kind of answer this already a little bit, But how exactly coach McDaniel use his play sequencing to his advantage? Well, everything that he's that he will do during a game or during a week get ready for a game is

going to set up everything else. Everything there's a way to build, whether it's the wide zone, outside zone. We all kind of know what that looks like, but it could look different depending on who you're playing against in what your personnel grouping is. But you know, I think everything sort of comes off of that um you know, But it's it's it's way deeper than that. And so the movement of what you're showing the defense is very specific to what you want to create and how you

want to get a rhythm going on offense. And the rhythm starts really in the run game, you know, because defenses are built to stop the r That's that's how they think. And so how do you get first and ten, how do you get six yards from first down? And how important is that to the sequence of what you're going to deliver? And so everybody obviously wants to stay

out of third and thirteen, We understand that. But if you can stay out of that because of your play sequencing to where your third and three to where you can running, to where you can throw it to where they have to be able to defend everything, knowing that there could be a fourth down play that comes right behind it, depending on down distant situation of the game, UM analytics, all that stuff plays into it. Uh, it could be a two place sequence on third and three,

and that's why you run. All those things are really important. So we talk a little bit about how the misdirection the motion that the place sequencing you mentioned there makes it difficult on the defense as a guy that's played on the offensive line a little bit, How does that benefit the offense for those calls where you maybe can get those false steps or maybe the eyes that are kind of tracking the wrong direction, how does that help

the offense? Well, sometimes it's window dressing, and it's just that it's just window dressing, just getting the defense to take their eyes off the prize for a moment. But sometimes there was a real specific purpose to that, to the motion and to the shifts. I mean, if you look at if you study San Francisco, I mean, nobody goes the motion more than George Gattle. But is it all like you know, I mean you don't even joke about it, Like he literally is in motion every play

from one side of the formation to the other. It's is it just changing, you know, from weak side to strong side? Is it more than that? What's the defense? Is that an indicator man versus own? Like all those things are very very calculated, and so there was very little I think that is just actually window dressing. And be honestly, I think it all has a purpose. And so you're gonna get multiple shifts um every single play.

And but it's all designed to get something freed up or to create something like it's it hasn't it does have a purpose, but there's gonna be multiple shifts and motions almost every single play. That was something we saw this Dolphin's offense do a lot this past season with under two a tongue of volo and and the options they had there. And the guy that went on motion

the most was Jalen Waddle. And I don't know if you've heard coach talk about Waddle, he's pretty excited about getting to use that uh that ferrari as it were. And you know, he had an interview with Dan Lebotard where he asked about one player and before he could finish the question, coach said, Waddle. He's very excited about Jalen Waddle. So what does this offense do to help Jalen Waddle realize his full potential? Well, I think you know,

sometimes people get paid as being a slot receiver. Let's say, and you know, you could look at Jalen size and go, he's a slot receiver. Okay, Well with five ft ten and you know, not the biggest guy. Um, you can put him in there. You can have success. But I think that when you have the type of speed that he has um, and you have the ability to change direction and change speeds like Jalen has, I think you've

got to play true strength. And so you know you can say, okay, well, Deebo became, you know, a quasi running back. He became like this, this really amorphous player, some of who was out of the necessity in San Francisco. They had all these running backs get of her. Some of it was they had him at the Senior Bowl and Mobile and they saw his body tight and they said, from the waist down, he looks like a running back, which he does. Um. But you know, the guy like Jalen,

he's not debo. So I'd be surprised if you know, he cared the ball nine times in the game, but he will carry it, whether it's on fly sweeps or you know, you know, some some part of the run game. They're gonna get the ball in his hands because you have to. I mean, that's what a good play caller does, That's what a good offensivecording or a good offensive mind does. Let's get the ball in our playmaker's hands is as much as we can without wearing them down, without the

defense realizing what he's gonna do. And so I think I think he's excited because he's a tremendous weapon. Now how do you incorporate that into the offense. And so I think the offense it's gonna look a lot different than it did last year in Miami. Um, I think we kind of know that to can do a lot of those play action things, and you know, he's got very good mechanics as a quarterback. Uh. But I think now the offense is just gonna start to build, you know.

I mean, I don't know what's gonna the future of Mike as sick he is, you know, a free agent whatever. But I know John Embery and I know what John Emery did for George Kittle, and George Kittle would not be the player he is right now would not be setting records for yards after catch or receiving yards by a tight end without John. So I think John will challenge Mike in a way that's a good thing for Mike if he's you know, if he's still here, because I think he's a tremendous athlete that has yet to

come close to his potential. So I think some of those things the offense is just gonna it's just gonna grow the more that these players realize the things that they can do. Yeah, John Embrey gets an assistant head coach role here, And I'm curious if you can talk more about him, because I went back over his resume, Baldi. Everywhere he went, there was all pro tight ends that followed him, whether it was you know, Tony Gonzalez back with the Chiefs and in the early two thousands all

the way up now to George Kittle. What what makes him such a great coach? Well, he's got a presence. I mean he's a big man, Okay, So like when he stands in front of you, there's a presence to John. But you know, when George came out of Iowa, you know, he was a fifth round pick, I think late, you know, middle round, and he was kind of an undersized kid that went to Iowa. His dad was an offense line

coach at Oklahoma, so he understood. But like you know, Kirk ference basically told George that you're not going to get on the field unless you can block. So when George was drafted by the forty niners, he understood that blocking was important. He got on the field Iowa because he could block. Well. What John said to him was he challenged him that one guy should never bring you down. You should never run out of bounds, you should never give up on a play. There's always yards to be gained.

And nobody really challenged George like that until he went to San Francisco. And so you see, you know, George Kittle not going out of bounds. You see him lowering his shoulder into defensive backs and running him over and

getting the extra cars. I mean, go back and watch that that shootout in New Orleans between the forty nine ers, you know, and in the Saints a couple of years ago, and you look how George Kittle basically won that game, you know, by not going out of bounds and putting him in a position to kick the game winning field goal. I mean, that's that's John Emory challenging his tight ends.

And so I think there's a physical presence to John that he wants his tight ends to be that person to be more physical than the defensive acts that don't really want to tackle him. They don't really want to have that tight end dropped his shoulder at two hundred fifty pounds, you know, into um, you know, into their core work in running them over. So John's gonna challenge the tight ends like that, and that would certainly help

make the offense more explosive here. And one thing that would definitely do that is is more explosive from the quarterback position just in general. And one thing that we've we've looked at with this coaching staff's history is they find a way to get quarterbacks to have some of their best years and their best stretches of their careers. So what is it about this offense that makes it quarterback friendly? Well, I think there's a heavy, heavy demand

in workload that's gonna be put on them. I mean when they say quarterback friendly, it's not like okay, just take the staffs and here's if you throw it here, like some people I think think that like it's just well, we we know where to go. I mean, if you talk to you, if you talk to Jimmy Garoppolo, let's say, I mean, he'll tell you that he never had an

easy Wednesday or Thursday ever. You know that he was the things that he's got to work on, the things that he's got to master, like those things have to be done in practice on heavy work days Wednesday and Thursday, when there isn't all this love for the quarterback, there's this you know, this is why we're gonna get better. This is how we're gonna get better, and this is what you gotta do. And so I think, you know, two is is very coachable. Um, you know he's a

great leader. But you know, I think there's gonna be a game plan where you know, Tuesday's are in a day off anymore, but you know he's gonna want to come in and look at what we're doing for this upcoming game against the Patriots or against the Jets, and this is how you this is why you have to know this, and uh, this is what's gonna change from this week to next week. It's gonna change week to week,

and the quarterback has to understand all of it. He's gotta understand the purpose behind the motions, the shifts, where we're gonna get the ball, um, how we're going to start these drives. And so I think two is gonna be pleasantly surprised at how much you can see, like just in the staff, you know that he's bringing back

Frank Smith, whoever it is. Um, there's gonna be a lot of teaching that's going on in the classroom on the field, uh, and then in the preparation that certainly a bodes well for the quarterback in all positions across the entire roster. Baldy Man, I'm not gonna ask you to get up your location, but I see out there living life to the folds with the storkling, the free diving, all that fun stuff. Is that kind of where you're heading right now? Oh, I'm there. I just have to

get to a better you know. I mean, I'm looking out at mountains right now, but I'll be on the coast by early tomorrow morning. And so yes, I'll be out there, um, you know, in some tropical place, and I'll be in the water every day, every day. I gotta get I gotta become. It's a little bit like playing for Mike McDaniel, Like I I've got to become a better free diver travelers, like my my breath holding. It's gotta get better. I gotta work on it. There's

certain fundamentals I've got a master. Um. I'm not saying I'm gonna be underwater for two minutes on this trip, but that's the goal of this offseason is to be able to go under two minutes and that that's gonna take a lot of work. Right now, Well, you said Tuesday's not an off day. Tomorrow is a Tuesday. So there you go. I think we're in perfect locks out there. Brian Balding, your NFL Network, We appreciate your time so much, man, Thank you so much, and we'll talk to you soon.

My pleasure drives anytime, and so there he goes Brian Baldinger offering his expertise to us on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. We're gonna take our last break and come right back and finish up here on the other side, Drivetime Podcast with Travis Winfield. We are presented by Auto Nation. Here the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield covering the three signings from last week, as well as talking to Brian Baldinger. On this edition of the

Drivetime Podcast. We also have plenty of stuff coming your way from the scouting Combine in Indianapolis next week all the way up into free agency. It never really ends here in the NFL calendar, maybe until about late June July, but we're gonna be with you guys twelve months of the year, and we'll be with you guys three times a week all off season except for the bigger events. We'll have more podcasts for those like draft and free agency, which again is coming your way in just a couple

of weeks. Plenty of content to come this offseason here on the Drivetime podcast and a quick heads up the programming coming your way on Friday. We're gonna have assistant Dolphins coaches and their media availabilities will have audio from that here from new guys like Sam Madison, Patrick, Sir Tin West Welker. You won't want to miss that. I'll also go ahead and get into Chris Stravelers game, the new quarterback for the Miami Dolphins who was signed over

the course of this last week. I want to get deeper into his game more than just a quick snapshot of that. We'll do that on Friday as well. Before we get out of here, I wanted to go ahead and talk to Miami Heat. We have the one seed heading into the second half of the season or post All Star Break, it's about twenty or so games. I fully expect the Heat to go all the way to the finals this year. I don't know how you guys feel I'm all in on this Heat team. I think

they're the best team in the Eastern Conference. I think they could easily pushed to get into the finals. Then once we get there, Phoenix is tough, Golden States tough, Memphis is pretty tough. That could be a tough draw. But what do you guys think? I think all the way to the finals, I'll say they lose to the Sons in six. That's my prediction for the Miami Heat. Jimmy Butler off the All Star performance, get Tyler hero back. Hopefully.

Kyle Lowry has been awesome since his return. Bad Moto Bio is getting better and better every single game coming off the thumb injury. Very excited, very hyped. Let's go Heat that I'll get us right into the off season mini program or mini camps and off season program here for the Dolphins. So plenty of fun stuff coming your way here on the South Florida sports landscape. In the meantime, that's gonna be my time you all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast. Leave us

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