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twenty twenty four Miami Dolphins offense. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time Podcast.

on this edition of the Draft Time podcast. First? Thanks, First, the Dolphins have moved on from twenty eighteen second round draft pick extended linebacker who spent eighteen nineteen twenty one, two three six years with the Miami Dolphins, Jerome Baker. And regardless of results, production, whatever, you want to quantify, what makes being a sports fan fun for you? Like, it's always tough, maybe not maybe not tough, but at least sentimental when you see an era come to a close, right, Like,

we didn't win a ton since Jerome Bay got here. Now, we did do a lot of winning the last four years of his career, so I guess we did win quite a lot over two thirds of his Dolphins career, but without postseason's success. Right. But I think about Baker, you know, getting drafted in twenty eighteen, having that rotational role as an you know, an edge backer slash rusher

type who would blitz very effectively. Then he morphs into that green dot role in twenty nineteen in the middle of the defense and never miss his games, right until he had a brutal injury this year where he took friendly fire from Brandon Jones on a shot across the knee that was like guaranteed, right, that was guaranteed to knock Bake out for the entire season, but it didn't

because he's so durable and dependable. Then he plays through a broken wrist for like half of the game against Buffalo and what was his best performance of the year for my money, And I thought the Hard Knocks episode that showed you the kind of what he had to go through to play in that game, to come out of that game, and talking to his mom after the fact. Just his toughness, drive, his love for the city, his

love for the organization. Man, Bake, you were a good one, dude, Always cordial, always available, always respectful, played a lot of good football here despite you know, sometimes I think fans and myself could get on certain players for performances. And that's you know, off to the side right now. Jerome Baker was always a classack from Miami, and especially the year he was nominated for Walter Payton Man of the

Year of pillar in the community. And I get sentimental talking about this and eras like I think about the Mariners, my Manors fandom. Felix Fernandez never pitched in a playoff game, but he's beloved by Mariners fans because, well, he was the one guy we had during that era that was worth the price of admission. I think back to those Felix days, even though those years sucked as a Mariners fan, like I think fondly on them because of watching Felix

dominate every fifth day. And so with Jerome Baker, we know the Emmanuel Ogball has been released and Ogball is here for four years, not quite six, but it's a long time. That's a big chunk of a player's career. That's longer than the average football life, right. And it's also been reported that xaviing Howard's going to be released, and there's a chance that Christian Wilkins is not back

like three years ago. That was like year four pillars of the defense, right, And you've seen those four guys play a lot of games and a lot of snaps as members of the Miami Dolphins, And that, to me is the beauty of sports fandom. Winning is always your top priority, the thing you want to do the most as a fan or as an organization that's trying to get those victories stacked up. But I always have an appreciation.

Like when I got into soccer, I rooted for Liverpool and I don't really follow it as much as I used to. But Jordan Henderson was a guy in the middle that Red's defense, so that Red's midfield who was always there, and like they never replaced him. He wasn't their best player. He was a captain, so that makes a bit of difference. But like, like, okay, Jordan Henderson's in year number eight, maybe it'll be his best year

of his career. I've always kind of been drawn to rooting for that style of sport, right, Like, I want to be here for fifteen years and if it's one championship, that'll be worth it. But I want to root for him. I don't want to look elsewhere and get a new guy every year. Like I like the idea of longevity and keeping guys you know here and doing it that way.

So for Baker, you know, that was a good six years to watch him play, And I just really love rooting for guys that I considered it to be Dolphins for life, and I think Jerome Baker is one of those guys. Now that's all the you know up in the clouds exciting stuff. How about some of the nitty gritty here, because with a new system and a new defensive coordinator, and how with the NFL works, you get these changing of the guards really every couple of years.

Right now, those guys were longtime stalwarts. Twenty sixteen for X, twenty eighteen for Bake, twenty twenty for Agba, twenty nineteen for Wilkins, four or five, six and eight years a Miami Dolphin for those guys. But I thought it was pretty telling that when Anthony Weaver opened up his press conference the first time he addressed media in South Florida,

you know who he mentioned. He mentioned Phillips and Chubb, He mentioned Seeler, He mentioned Holland and Ramsey and David Long, who, by the way, it sounds like he might be here for a while. You know who he didn't mention Jerome

Baker and Xavien Howard. He also might have given us some context clues there with Christian Wilkins, because if he was being honest, and I have no reason to believe he was not, that it sounds like he knows we want Christian back, but it's Christian's prerogative to go get exactly what he's worth. So we'll see with that. But man, what did those guys struggle with these changing of the

guard parts? We're talking about Xavion Howard. He wasn't a matchup piece anymore, you know, he was he like, at best, you were hoping that he could lock down somebody's number two, and that wasn't always the case last year. I think you can look at the cornerback position like this. Now Ramsey can play inside, damn it. He can play anywhere. He can match up, and so can Javon Holland, who

came down and played in the slot last year. That will those two guys will drive the coverage under Anthony Weaver. But that also gives you flexibility because now you can explore perimeter and slot cornerbacks because of Ramsey's flexibility. And we'll do this on the Friday podcast. The idea of playing the compensatory formula and how you can kind of gain the system and get more players out of the contracts that you might have signed elsewhere, in addition to

draft capital, which is always a good idea. But from the Rams. If Darius Williams know not the Rams, the Jaguars, Sorry,

he started with the Rams. If Darius Williams who was cut by the Jaguars where he and Ramsey were fantastic together with the Los Angeles Rams, Now, all of a sudden, and if that's an eight million dollar player compared to you know, the twenty four, the Christian gets somewhere whatever one third of that player, and I can now use those other sixteen million dollars on two more players of

this caliber and at a premium spotlight cornerback. Now, all of a sudden, there's less pressure on Cam Smith and he can be your seventy five percent guy when he comes onto the field. He comes on for your nickel package. But he's not the nickel defender right because Ramsey can kick inside and he can slot outside and play where he's best on the perimeter. So there's flexibility there, and

I think it'll look a lot different. And the things that have frustrated you the fan the last two years with the last two defensive coordinators, who I think are good football coaches. I think Josh Boyer and Vic fangu are very good football coaches. Everybody has their flaws. Those flaws that drove you crazy, I think will be gone this year and that's again results aside, because twenty twenty two I thought was okay, not good, not it wasn't good.

Twenty twenty three really good results there, but matchup wise, you didn't always get maybe what you wanted there, and I think it'll be different that way. It wasn't X game x's game. It wasn't Baker's game playing that deep hook drop. You know that, that wasn't his game either.

So I think there's lots of changing the guard here and it could be for the better as you kind of shift towards you know what the skill sets you do have on your defense and how that aligns with you know what you don't have in terms of personnel. So that's Jerume Baker. That's the changing of the guard idea. We also have some official signing and one more roster

move here. First, Keyon Crossen was released. He had that freak injury last training camp and actually it was on cutdown day and he was out there during like there was like fifty five guys practicing and we weren't decided on who was gonna get cut who was gonna make the team at that point, and he was one of the guys and he suffers a freak injury that day and makes the choice for people, right, probably one of the weirder signings to like a three million dollar per

year special teamer. I thought that was just a Brian Flores thing, and it was, you know, with Clayton Fedglam and then Keon Crossen was the next guy after Fedulam, and he actually stuck it out for a couple of years here under Mike McDaniel. But I imagine, imagine will be at the end of that idea and that approach of putting valuable resources into you know, special teams, exclusive players, because Keyon goll Is to run at corner back in

twenty twenty two and it wasn't good. Right, We do have a newcomer, Isaiah mack a UDFA defensive tackle from twenty nineteen. Appeared in games with the Titans, Patriots, and Ravens. He played Underweaver there in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two, also spent time He's been around the league man Denver, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Washington and with the Jets beIN on those rosters. I'm gonna be real with you, guys. I don't know much about his game. Actually at all.

So he's here, he'll probably be, you know, competing for role a role on the back end of the defensive tackle rotation. I have to imagine he's a guy that knows coach Weaver, so that's a good connection there. Now, the one I really want to talk about here on the show is a Tuesday night tweet from Chefty that said that John new Smith was visiting the Miami Dolphins. The two sides are in contract negotiations, and we'll cover the signing you know, when it happens a little bit

more officially. But I've ground the tape. Guys, you want to talk about the tape, Let's go ahead and take our first break right there. Come back on the other side and talk about that tape. That's next Draft Time podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,

teased it on the first segment of the show. Here, John news Smith, tight End and the Miami Dolphins appear to be in negotiations about joining up and giving the Dolphins offense yet another weapon to attack with and again report of for Madam Scheffer will find out what happens here. But I dug into the tape here a little bit, and this one has me fired up. Guys, if you heard the podcast at all the last two months, you've heard me discussing all these past catching options, be a

wide receiver or a tight end. And I thought that the offensive regression was really tethered to the injuries of Reek and Waddle last year and the challenge of finding consistent one on one coverage beaters elsewhere in the offense that just never materialized. That way, John new Smith can do that, man. First off, like, okay, so I had this, I had this plan for the end of the show. Let's go ahead and do it right here, because it fits another instance of take in all the opinions you want.

Everyone can tweet what they want and have their opinions and have their podcasts and their articles and make them right whatever they want, because every take exists, right, every take on Twitter exists. And this you know, the world of media and football and sports coverage that we're in now, everybody is an expert. All of a sudden, there's no

more questions. It's I know all these things, and I'm gonna go ahead and lay them out there, even though the fact that again you know, if fans or even you know beat Riders for GMS, we would have Brian Flores and Deshaun Watson here and they be handing the ball to Najie Harris without Jalen Phillips. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying, so again, read what you want, tweet what you want, but I'm gonna tell you right now, be aware of the source because and I've been coming at a certain podcast here on my show a lot, and I saw a dude from said podcast was asked, who do you want as the Dolphins number three wide receiver this year? And I keep telling you, guys, you don't want that advice. Maybe you do, but you shouldn't.

In case in point, the answer was Jarvis Landry. Jarvis Landry, the same Landry who at his best was a four to six guy with zero ability to play on the perimeter, a guy that required ten targets a game to even make an impact on the game. Jarvis Landry, who was a glorified running back that defenses could erase any vertical option when he's on the field, so squat and go ahead and keep eyes on the quarterback. The same Jarvis Landry who played nine games the last two years. I

guarantee you. We can find tweets from Homie about guys that didn't play enough games, you know, for the Miami Dolphins and against what's available in the draft, no less a wide receiver like these are the kind of evaluations you're gonna get. It shouldn't be a surprise with the idea that Brent freaking Grimes could come back, Right, What the hell are we doing? Truth purveyors? Though?

nice red zone target. So again, some of that is right, Like the reason that he wasn't a good player in New England was because the Patriots don't know what they're doing offensively and haven't for a long time. Right, Like he played seventy five percent of his snaps in line with the Patriots, and it's been forty percent for the Titans and Falcons the last you know, last year with the Falcons, in the previous four years with the Titans. But doesn't that go again? Inline blocking, that's where his

production goes down. Like you contradicted yourself in that own tweet and like man like, inline blocking ain't his game, Bubba, it ain't it? Now? The nice part about John whu what is his game? Is some of the stuff I

think we needed last year. And look, you think big tight end, you think improved run game in better short yarge conversions, right, well, that can be true, but now you can get mad at Mike a little less for throwing the football in those spots because John who can win in those spots, and he can win when he's not uncovered, which is kind of how this offense has operated in the past. And in those tricky third down situations when we don't get the system, you know, down

of way we wanted to. You need some confidence and some guys to pull down catches where they're kind of you know, plastered, and that's what this guy can do. He's one of the best contested tight end catchers in the National Football League. One of the best ball traysers vertically as well. You want to sneak him out on a wheel route. You want to throw him that damn fade that you love so much. You want him to

box somebody out in the end zone. He's gonna be a mismatch against most of the guys that he sees down there. He's stronger than anybody who will cover him. It allows him to stay on the stem and build that trust with his quarterback, like if Ta Tua knows sometimes how to fit these little windows, like his ability John hu Smiths to stay on balance and have functional strength down the stem of the route against those reroutes, gives the quarterback an easier window where he can fit

that thing in there. Like that wasn't the case last year, even that touchdown in Baltimore to Cedric Wilson, like that was not open, said got punked in the entire route. We're just lucky to have the most accurate quarterback in the league. Put that ball on the keyhole where only he could get it, and it kind of stuck to him as a result. Right, good catch. I won't take any credit away from that, But Homie was not open,

and so Tua can make those throws. Now he's got a guy I think if the signing happens, that can help you in that regard. So you think about tough,

contested catches and condensed areas, red zone short yardage. That's where John who makes you better, but he also gives you some of that vertical stretch from that number three position to run off that you know, too high structure to run you out of that single high middle field safety that wants to maybe played that robber role and kind of come down and chop down some of those crossing routes and all of a sudden you hit a vertical stretch on the three. You can't cover both of those,

But where he's best and what this offense opens up like. Look, the reason Durham Smith had a career high last year and catches and yards and the reason he saw the most targets he's seen in his career last year, The reason he had the second highest catch rate at eighty one percent last year is because how many of those damn catches and targets where naked boot action was split flow?

What is that it's play action to one side to the strong side to the tight end side, but he comes back across your outside zone action and leaks out into the flat. Usually in the running game he picks up the backside edge, but in the passing game, on play action passes, he'll leak out there and go catch the football in the flat. I mean that was like

at least half of his catches, right. It's it's it's what you do when they overplay that play action or they owe replay the crossing route to Wattle or Tyreek against that play action, They're gonna go ahead and leave the least suspecting eligible in the pattern all alone in the flat because we can come up and rally and tackle and maybe it's maybe it's a three yard game

and we win to play on defense. Now, you watch him with Arthur Smith in Atlanta, another place that has weapons all over the field, right in Drake London, in b John Robinson, in Kyle Pitts, and they throw him these screens which would come down to something as simple as a box count, like, Okay, they're three to two over there, three defenders over two receivers on Wattle and Reeke, but I've got John who backside one to one. Let's

just go ahead and throw it over there. If he makes that first man miss it said, not just a first down, it's ten plus yards, and then we're still trucking with a full steam ahead. It helps balance the field more, it helps open up more of the field. Not to mention, teams can be a little more inclined to turn this free if there's urgency to make sure you find wattle and reek. So these little dump offs where Durham runs to daylight and gets chopped down by

the first defender that arrives. Smith's game is running through and around those guys. In fact, let's go ahead and compare it. John new Smith last year seven point six yards after catch on average with an average depth of target of six point one yards, and his plus minus

for YAK over expected was two point three. So that means that what he's supposed to get, given years of data and GPS tracking with the nearest tackler and his ability to break tackles, he gets you two point three yards more per catch than what you're supposed to get. So seven six six ' one two three Dirham Smith in those numbers six point two a dot, so the same exact a dot, but three point seven yak. That's I'm not good at math, but that is less than half of what John Wu had last year, and the

yak over expected was in the negative. In fact, he's one of twelve players who were in negative yak over expected. Mike Kasicki was one of those guys as well, point minus point three. Here's a comp that will drive the fact home for you all. Mike Kasiki was minus point five. And I mean that guy hasn't broken a tackle in the league in like three years. Like, look it up.

He doesn't break tackles. Now, none of this, none of this is a slight to Durham Smith because I thought Durham Smith had the best year of his career last year and was a critical aspect of our offense. It's a strength to know what your weaknesses are, right, And Durham is not here to catch a bunch of passes. He's an in line blocker, right. I get a kick out of that still, because you can just tell who just knows football buzzwords and uses them willy nilly like

inline blocker you tied it in. Yeah, he's a big guy. Nah, that's not his game. So I think this is a perfect marriage in the tight end room and damn it if Julian Hill isn't also a perfect tight end three. When you want to go heavy slash thirteen personnel, it all always just took one player for me to go from e on the tight end room to like, oh okay, now I like this room, and John new Smith is

that guy. Let's go ahead and take the break right there, come back on the other side and talk about some draft history, nuggets and what we can glean from the past. That is next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Hearn's burn a while, hurns her, It's been a while since our first pick in the first round for the Dolphins, right, Jalen Phillips back car on the Draft Time podcast was your last first round pick for the Miami Dolphins, and it got

me thinking about something. Chris Greer was promoted to GM in twenty sixteen. He worked with an EVP of Football Ops and mister Mike Tinebaum. So if you extend it that far back, there are eight drafts with Chris Greer's name directly attached, right, and he was here as a scout and director for a long time too. But for all intents and purposes. You can attach classes back to

twenty sixteen to Chris Grear. Then, of course, the EVP was removed in twenty nineteen, and you get five years worth of drafts that were really just Chris Greer's watch. So going back to twenty sixteen, there's a quite a popular trend for the Miami GM in the first round

of drafts. And though there are exceptions to that rule and every rule, right, you can sort of glean his thinking here in the first round and how the Dolphins have been able to create a roster that has premium players at premium spots for at affordable costs, right, And it's because they draft him. And I won't ever say it's all Chris, because I think that one of the things that makes him so good at his job is how Chris Greer listens to others and empowers his people

to be impactful. I've long said that he's always been a great grocery shopper. You know, he changes with the coaching staff and gets their types of players, Like a Landon Roberts was a Patriots front type of guy, right, a stackbacker, a Brian Flores guy. Whereas Tyreek Hill that's a Mike McDaniel guy. Because Brian Flores didn't want superstars. You know, Chris Greer finds out what his coaches want, he makes it happen. Now, in the first round, there's

a pretty good trend of taking premium positions. If you pull over the caps position allocation, there's a clear line of delineation after five positions. Actually there's a couple of lines delineation, but for the purpose of this segment, quarterback is in a own stratosphere. Then edge corner, offensive tackle, and wide receiver are pretty similar when you factor in how much each team pays that group, divided by the number of players in that group and how many snaps

each player in that group takes. Interior defensive line is next, and it's to drop off from those other five and it's pretty stark. But there's another really good drop off right after that. So it's quarterback has created its own tier. There's four groups in the next tier. Defensive tackle or the IDL is in its own tier at the sixth position, and then it's the next tier. At the bottom tier is the remaining positions. You know, running back, I guess

off ball, linebacker, safety, and guard, right intir offensive line. Now, there's always exceptions to the rule, and I think in the case of Mika Fitzpatrick and Christian Wilkins, who are the exceptions to that rule a safety and defensive tackle for the last nine draft classes. You know, Wilkins's ability to play inside and outside, to rarely leave the field,

to rush and play the run. I think he transcends the idea of that positional value just because of all those traits that he offers, you know, availability not absent among them. With Minka Fitzpatrick, I mean, simply look at the extension that he garnered the bones of that deal four for seventy five thirty six million guaranteed. That's a notch below your average premium position player, right eighteen million dollars per year in that ballpark. It's in that defensive

tackle tier. And quite frankly, Minka played more corner here than safety. He was a nickel that first year and also played on the perimeter with some safety mixed in. So those two guys were outside of the five position groups. But they provide unique exceptions, and I think those were forecastable. I mean, Minka Fitzpatrick played the star position all lut Jalen Ramsey at Alabama, right, and we saw what Derwin James can do from a multiplicity standpoint and how he

was paid, you know, commeserate with that role. You knew these things going into those drafts. It was the same with Christian Wilkins. You know, he was old by draft standards, right twenty three shoot, one year later, we took two guys who were barely twenty years old. One wasn't even that no monogamy. So those are two exceptions to a unique in the sense that A they sort of dabble in the premium five and b they became so good at those quote unquote ancillary spots that they became premium

players outside of the premium five, as it were. So with all of that in mind, who are the guys that you should keep an eye on in the draft that hit those criteria? As always anything as possible. Saying

no chance in the draft is terrible, terrible practice. But we can go in and formed with an anticipation of what it might look like, and teams will do that too as they work through the many many scenarios that could come up on draft night in the offseason, how to forecast how the board shakes off the value that exists by sticking and picking moving back, or is there a player that if he slides, we are willing to

go up and get. So I want to use Daniel Jeremiah's top fifty here to see who fits this criteria. And first again, remove some names. Right, all the quarterbacks Caleb Williams, Drake may j A and Daniel STREEA McCarthy, Bodennicks, Michael Pennix could all conceivably be top twenty picks. I doubt they are. Four of them, will be most likely five,

probably with an outside shot at six. And I've been leaning this way for a long time, and I have a feeling the six quarterback taken Michael Penix is gonna be the best one that comes out of that class. We'll see, But let's remove the big three receivers marv Odoonsay, Neighbors, They're all going way before us. Let's check off these

insanely polished tackles as well. Joe alt Alu I can never get his name right for Shano, the penn State guy, Tealisi, Fulagrapher, Oregon State JC Latham, and then on defense, Dallas Turner and Jared verse, there's two corners I'm inclined to put here, but like we're already at fifteen, let's go ahead and just keep those guys on the table. So I remove players one through five off DJ's fifty top players, player seven, player nine through fourteen, Player twenty three, player twenty seven,

player forty. Those were McCarthy, Nicks, and Pennix. By the way, the quarterbacks. This means I've left players six, eight, and fifteen through twenty two, which is cornerback Terrying Arnold number six from Alabama. Tight End brock Bauers from Georgia is number eight, and then fifteen through the twenty five on here.

Brian Thomas, Troy Fittanu, Tyler Geitton, Amarius Mims, Quinya, and Mitchell Edgrin Cooper, Leotu Latu, Byron Murphy, Enis Rakestraw Junior and Chop Robinson are the names that fall into that top twenty five of DJ's big board, and from that group you have eight premium positions and three non premium. However, I think brock Bauer's ability is a pass catcher who

could never leave the field. In eleven personnel offense, I think Edrin Cooper's ability to some of the Fred Warner stuff and Byron Murphy kind of fits the bill of what we share with Christian Wilkins and his ability to make himself into something of a premium position player. And the reason you draft at those premium spots is because, man, when you get hits, now you have created wait for it,

our favorite term, maximum flexibility. Because if I get a top ten wide receiver production you know Waddle in twenty twenty two, if I get top ten edge production Phillips and went healthy last year, I'm doing this on a rookie contract that's well below, well below the threshold for premium production at a premium position. You sick with that word yet, so the question becomes from that list, who

can satisfy that criteria. I'm not all the way done with my draft study and tape study, but I'm getting there. And from that list, this is what I like and think. To reiterate my own take on the crop of players. Lea la to Chop Robinson and Darius Robinson are the three edges I like in that spot. We've talked about lot to a Lot, I just think he's the best pass prushure in this class quite Frankly, who's only down

on the spot because of medical concerns. Chops great forty time and the ability to bend and the way he can kind of see and react quickly in that position really makes me intrigued about his game. And then Darius Robinson just pure power and strength and can bull you from multiple spots across the defensive line. All of those guys could be potential, you know, seventy plus percent snap takers right away at premium spots that give you a you know, if you get them in the first round.

Like you are not at all upset about that, even though you have Chubb and Phillips and probably Van ginkle back as well. At tackle, I got Fuaga on here, but I I think he's long gone. The two that I'm looking at the most are Amerius Mims from Georgia and Tchroy Fatanu from you Dub. I think Fatano's like maybe tackle two in the class. I love his game. We'll see where he goes. And then the cornerbacks Mitchell and Arnold are also on there. Those are the guys

that fit that bill. They're in that range for the Dolphins. According to DJ's draft board, they play premium spots, and that's what we've done seven of the last nine draft classes. If you go back to sixteen first round Lenardy Tons will tackle right seventeen, Charles Harris edge twenty eighteen, that's the off year, Minkah Fitzpatrick, but we are explained his

exception twenty nineteen. Christian Wilkins another exception there. But since then twenty twenty quarterback tackle corner two of those three were hits. In twenty twenty one receiver and edge two massive hits there. So if there's one exception, actually I have two exceptions for you. Number ones, Jackson Powers Johnson, You guys know that the reason I think he's the exception you for me to talk about it all all

draft season. That added weight that he has at three point thirty in the interior, the extra fifteen twenty pounds in other centers. It's going to help you with interior rush to get movement and goal line in short yardage.

That should not be lost on anybody because if my short yards improves without sacrificing any athletic ability, and I also have a field general who is gonna be in sync with my quarterback to get protections and calls, you know, called out that entire makeup of that player fits my

exception list, and that's probably about it. At twenty one, maybe Byron Murphy from Texas, because I think that he's again kind of in that same mold as Christian Wilkins, but he's a bit smaller, so I'm not sure if he can play that zero one shade technique that sometimes Christian would do. Maybe we come back to this in

a month, we'll find out. But also in the second round, like kind of thinking about this as well, and this is you know, because the receiver position was so kind of you know, Brian Thomas is in that spot, but I don't know, we'll see. I don't think that he's the best fit, but it makes me think about receivers in the second round because there's, like I just from the sheer volume of very good receivers in this year's class, somebody's gonna draft a receiver in the second round who

becomes a multi time pro bowler. Like the odds are just so in your favor that's gonna happen. So it's huge opportunity, right like premium times three with the investment of pick fifty five and the contract commesurate with that. I mean that, like pick twenty one last year was Quinton Johnston, which Kyle Krabs tells me that Quentin Johnson's Brian Thomas, So I don't know, that's kind of funny

that worked out that way. But he signed for fifteen point three million dollars total over the life of his four year contract. Pick fifty five, well, look at what we have here. The receiver that I would wager winds up making Pro Bowls very soon, Rashi Rice for the Kansas City Chiefs. The four year total of his deal six point eight million. That's less than two million per year. And if that player turns into Waddle or Almond Ross, Saint Brown, even Rice, it's a jet pack of value. Right.

So with that in mind, there's guys at pick fifty five that I think make a ton of sense for you. You've heard the names by now, Roman Wilson, Malachai Corley, Xavier Worthy. I have done extensive discussions on those players on this podcast. I won't get back into that, but I think that's a really good place to look in terms of how you might attack this year's draft class with positional value, where the value of the draft itself

lies and the Dolphins history of drafting premium positions. The tackle group, the edge group, the receivers, they're all super deep in this draft. It looks like the tackle, edge group and maybe corner at twenty one would make the most sense, or maybe you could even trade back and do that, and then in the second round it feels like receiver could be this area you go to. That's just a one scenario though, right Like, never put yourself in a box, don't pigeonhole yourself, because's how you wind

up taking bad players in bad drafts. So okay, sound good. I think it's a good place to stop right there. I know a lot of you are still getting caught up on the five shows from last week, so really appreciate you guys going back and doing that. We're about to ratchet the work up way big time next week as a new league year starts. Also, Happy Full Swing Day to those who celebrate. Been looking forward to that show for a while now. Just knocked out Drive to Survive.

It's a great season in my opinion, maybe I enjoyed it more because I didn't actually watch F one this year, because hey, F one's boring as hell. It's not for me. I try to get into it, it just is not for me. But the drama of DTS is still great, so you don't know what's going to happen, so show better. In my opinion, it's that time of year. Man. I also just watched Interstellar for the first time. I know I was missing out on that one great great film Friday.

I want to look back into Free to see a little bit here, so I'll be the next couple of podcasts before next Wednesday, when we are hopefully talking about all the new players the Mimy Dolphins are bringing in here in studio, talking to him on the podcast and breaking their game down. And I want to actually end with this last thought note because I got a great kick out of this last night when I was doing my unwinding on the old back porch of the house,

or I guess it's my front porch. But uh, by the way, a one year old going through a sleep aggression freaking kill me. It's the worst. But Kyle, good friend Kyle Crabs, and I got a good chuckle out of this. Like I just saw the other one on his page and the YouTube comments that he tweeted out, you're not going to compete for a Super Bowl with that with team with players that were cut from other teams. Bro First off, like, yeah, you can. Zach Seeler was

a cut player. You don't want him. The guy that caught the game winning touchdown and the Super Bowl was a player the Jets felt was worth lopping off for scraps mid season. What are we talking about, dude? And also, you know, Kyle hid the user name, but I can guarantee you that user has probably commented on the fact that Exaving Howard and Jerome Baker are gone and irreplaceable. Right, cut players, Right? But that one got me word for word? This one really word for word is I was I

meant to say? Really sent me over the edge. So here's the tweet. So Miami has let x go, letting Wilkins hit the market, and letting Baker walk. We can't draft guys to replace them and make an impact. So what's the plan. What all those guys you just named were drafted by Miami? Yadangus? Like what are we doing? Dude? I will never understand the desire to be miserable over your favorite football team every single day. Hey, maybe we do regress. Maybe we are our worst team next year.

That's on the table for every team every year. And maybe you know we're down certain players, but we won a lot of football games last year where we were banged up to having massive vacancies at key positions with guys that were injured not available a lot of those games, right, and we still have Tua and Tyreek and Waddle and feel like you still have a lot of damn good football players. So bemoaning all you want, that's your prerogative, if you want to dwell on the possibility, the possibility

that they regress over the next six months. If you're already like bemoaning the GM because Wilkins was reported to test the market, you don't know what's gonna happen. You can get mad about it. I remember you guys getting mad about Lyo Collin's not being signed and the fact that we were never gonna address the offensive line, and two days later to Ron Armstead signed. So maybe we learn from it this year, maybe not. I don't know.

But if your prerogative is to dwell on negative what ifs for the next six months, I don't know what to tell you, Bud. But like man that tweet, that was funny. You all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple wherever you get your podcast from Leavis a Rag, and give us a review. Follow me on social at Wingfold NFL, the team at Mimy Dolphins. Check out the Fish Tank podcast with Seth and Jews.

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