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Baptist Hill Training Complex. This is the DT Podcasts. It has been a while since we heard from you, so I wanted to open up the Twitter mailbag here on this Friday edition of the Draft Time Podcast. And we are off of week two of OTA practice reports. Next week we'll be with you guys on Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and then pivot to two episodes per week, and we have some really fun summer content planned for you all

here on Drivetime. So I thought this was a great chance to put some user questions on all things Dolphins, fatherhood, four irons, to keep up with the f alliteration, and everything in between. I put out the call on social. You guys responded strong. I think I had like forty five replies, So thank you for that. Let's go ahead and pick it up right here, because this first question gets us into the one news item of the day.

The Jalen Wattle contract extension, which over a five year period that will keep him in Miami through at least twenty twenty eight, is essentially an a apy of twenty one million dollars per year. It gets Wattle his bag, it's most guaranteed, seventy six out of like the eighty

five money. Eighty five million dollars he gets is guaranteed, and if you look at the cat breakdown, essentially it's pretty cheap for the next couple of years, and then there's some big money years at the end of the contract. But when you factor in the guys are gonna get paid here coming up pretty soon like a C. D. Lamb or a T. Higgins or a Brandon Ayuk or a Justin Jefferson or a Jamar Chase in five years, that thirty three million dollar cap hit might be actually

a pretty good deal for the Dolphins. So we'll see what happens when we get there. But the Dolphins go back to the well, they extend one of their own and the first question here from at Clay Smith underscore ten says over under three point five extensions before week one? He says four with two, oh, Waddle Holland and David Long and those would be my picks too, already have one down, So I think that that's a good way

to you know, kick off the podcast here. But the Dolphins, you know, have put themselves in this position to take care of their own guys, right, and they've done a good job of creating flexibility down the road and prioritize certain guys at premium positions that we have his draft picks. Right defensive tackle wasn't that spot, and right guard wasn't that spot. But it started the quarterback. We'll see when that happens. It's going to happen eventually. The right tackle

is done. Austin Jackson got his extension last year, and then now our star receiver has his second contract after becoming the first Dolphin to begin his career with three consecutive one thousand yard seasons. We've seen him as a rookie operate effectively in a role that was entirely different than what he did in college and the last two years a possession receiver who ran most of his routes to a stagnant finish or coming back to the line

of scrimmage, and that wasn't really his game. And all he did was embrace that role, catch over one hundred balls for over one thousand yards, and pretty much be the only guy in the twenty twenty one offense from

a skill player standpoint that you can count on. Then in twenty twenty two he's back to what makes him a special player and he comes very close to fourteen hundred yards, and then last year another thousand yards, but does that missing a few games and saw the production go down at TAD as a result, But make no mistake, one of the game's best receivers. I think he's a

top ten receiver. Been saying it since his rookie season when we didn't give him enough chances with all the routes that he got open on that season in a really poorly designed offense that year. He's a dog. He outworks everyone around him. He plays with the major edge to him that I absolutely love. He's all about the team. His teammates love him. He saw Ramsey Hill, all the boys came out and supported him on social media, and

the news got announced on Thursday morning. The speed is what obviously jumps off the tape, but it's the nuance in his route running like all great receivers to me, that makes him really different and stand out from his peers. Subtle moves headnots leans. The ability though, to accelerate off of cuts. I talked about it on Twitter with Brett

Coleman regarding Chris Johnson and Devon a Chian. The ability to accelerate off of a cut means you better arrive and square him up because if you don't, you're gonna get an eighty four yard touchdown like he had against the Packers a couple of years ago. And that's where I think he maximizes his separation and then of course leaves defenders in the Dust. Great deal for the Dolphins, as they now have Water Tyreek, two of the game's

very best locked up for the foreseeable future. Also, there was a story about Tyreek trying to get a contract extension here at the Miami Dolphins, which to me says he's not thinking about retirement anytime soon. And Wattle being here through twenty twenty eight, you hope that Tyreek is also going to you know, keep his career going that long too. And again it comes ahead of some big time a receiver contracts that will come up here on

the market very soon. So great question. My answer to that is I take the over also, and I like the names that you gave me there, although I'll probably switch out Phillips for Javon Holland. All Right, this next one is going to be a long one at the realist one, but it's an zero to three. Where would

you rank tu today among all starting quarterbacks? And I'm glad you had this question because I see rankings and lists all the time, and I am pretty good about just you know, staying out of what I typically find to be an unproductive conversation. But I think this provides a good platform to kind of spell this out how I see fit. I do think you can evaluate each quarterback against one another, but I don't think it's done

the right way. For example, well, I saw a tweet from Patriots camp and I cannot remember if it was a fan or a beat rider. Those lines seem to get blurred more and more by the day, but it was Joe Milton throwing a football as he as far as he can, right, and the caption was, Joe Milton is going to be a problem, And I'm like, since friggin' win man. That's like watching a long drive competition and

being like, this guy is gonna win majors. Yeah, a long driver has literally never even won a PGA if maybe they have, but they're not winning majors, and they're not doing it often because distance in length is not like a great golfer the way throwing a football eighty five yards does not really mean a whole lot either. Now does arms strength have value, of course it does, of course it does. The ability to make more throws to more areas of the field and be later on

said throws with the ability to hit them. Of course there is value in that. But also pull up the tape and Tua is fitting super tight windows down the field all the time. He was thirty in the NFL last year in big time throws a PFF stat that measures tight windows vertical throws down the field way more than a lot of quarterbacks who have stronger arms than him. For instance, Justin Herd had way less big time throws last year than two a Donga bai Loa. And this

isn't some take on Two's arm strength. It's not the best in the NFL. It's far from the worst. I mean, Jamie Moyer pitched in the big league for twenty seven years and barely ever topped ninety miles an hour. I just want to get that out of the way, because there isn't a single decision maker who is employed who thinks that way about Joe Milton throwing long balls on air and camp thinking this is going to be a problem.

No one thinks that way. I think there's a massive disconnect from how NFL teams think about quarterback play and how Twitter users, for instance, think of it. Command knowledge, a coach in the huddle, reliable, dependable, same guy every day. I mean, there are countless intangibles that translate to having the ball get to where it needs to be when it needs to get there. And we've seen Tua get better at that every single year really since his first

year at Bama. Hell, go watch the National championship when he came in a halftime two was running like RPOs and scrambling and making plays off script. Get to his final year at Bama and no, there's more processing, there's more anticipation. He became a better quarterback, just like he's done as a pro. And why I think he'll just get better every year from here. For his skills are ones that improve, they don't regress. So that's one part

of it. The other part and actually Brett Coleman, again coming up on the podcast twice today, tweeted this and articulated it better than I ever could. So let's go ahead and read the tweet from Brett said, some people seem to think you can only pay a quarterback if they are top ten or else it's an overpay. But how many consistently top ten quarterbacks are there? The number isn't ten any given year, there are fifteen to sixteen guys who can argue for being top ten quarterbacks in

that single year. But the number of quarterbacks who can be argued as top ten every year for four plus year stretch is maybe six guys. There's no shame in not having one of those six guys. Sure it would be nice, but that's just not realistic. Pay the guy who can be top ten if you build things around them the right way. You really don't want to find out what happens when you let them go, really well, said Brett, and I think this is so spot on.

I think opinions and evaluations are way too rigid and become two ingrained and for two a sake, some people I think are still stuck to his twenty twenty and twenty twenty one campaigns, which weren't even that bad. I saw a tweet he went six and three of the head coach that hated him, with Devonte parker's' top receiver on one hamstring and a running back corps that was topped by Ryan Fitzpatrick in Rushing Yards of the Year previously. But I digress. And then because he was playing an

awesome ball. Now it has to be because of Tyreek or McDaniel or anything that's not to because it can't possibly be him, because we saw it in twenty twenty one when it wasn't as good, even though to a shrad of the Jets a top five defense without Tyreek last year. But once again I digress. The rankings are fluid. They should always stay that way. Players change, circumstances, change the way teams defend guys changes to bring it to

another sport. You guys know I love the Mariners. Julio Rodriguez, the menor center fielder, was awesome his first two years. Through three hundred games. His numbers were comparable to Kenriford, Junior, Mike Trout, all those dudes. This year, teams have figured out that if you pitch him soft away and then pound him in hard, he has a tough time adjusting to those fastballs in off the plate. So where do

you rank Julio? Is he the six to fifteen OPS guy he's been the first two months of this season, or is he the eight to fifty OPS All Star he was his first two years. It's kind of the same thing as Odell. I feel like it's super in vogue right now. Say that the Odell Beckham's best days are behind him, and they probably are. But you aren't doing it right if you're not watching his tape and seeing that guy can still absolutely go and has an

absolutely electric rep within him. So to me, there are two quarterbacks who are a different plane than the rest of the National Football League. I know you guys don't want to hear this, but they are Patrick Mahomes and Josh Allen. Then there's a group of guys that are on the precipice, but the questions around them are valid enough to keep them away from that Mahomes and Allan

Teer who both those guys. Quite frankly, I don't have many questions about I know Alan Nick's bad decisions and turns of ball over, but he is just comes back and keeps coming back and keeps producing even after bad plays. The guys in the next category from me are Lamar Jackson. His inconsistencies and how he sees the field and his availability are the concerns. Joe Burrow, He's missed more games than two out of his career. There you go. He also starts the year very slow the last two years.

Matthew Stafford availability, he's been an issue for him right and then Tua is also in that group for me, and his ability his availability is a question even after last year and his ability to finish and play strong in big games, which is I understand that the concern there, even though context tells you there's It's better than it

looks to the eye. Now, if Tua makes one run, he jumps to the top of the list to me, and I know I'd be called crazy by a lot of people for that list, and people that do not work in NFL buildings. So I'm totally fine with that. But like the Ringer bros. Who just see six foot five, big am and can run, I just value other things. So this next group is right there, right there for me,

right up against that first group. Two of them are guys I essentially have in the next tier, but I need to see one more season of it, and they are stroud and love two quarterbacks that I could not rave about enough as prospects. And look, I know bragging's on a good look, but I kind of feel like it's worth spelling out here that my track record of quarterback evaluations should make you take my Tua projections more seriously. But if you're here, you probably already do, so who

the hell are you talking to? And I don't know. Also, in that group and Actually, you know what, I'm gonna go ahead and separate back groups. Next is Stroud in Love. But the group after that for me is Kyler Murray, Dak Prescott, Justin Herbert, and Trevor Lawrence. The next tier for me is Jalen Hurts, Jared Goff, Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers, and Brock Purdy. And actually I probably would I'd probably keep Purtty closer to the other side of that list.

He's on the back end of that. And for posterity, I think Anthony Richardson is going to fly up lists this year. So for the total POSTERI let's go ahead and go thirty two to one for me. In my top quarterbacks that I see it going into twenty twenty four, number thirty two. J J. McCarthy, bo Nicks is next, Bryce Young, Daniel Jones, will Levis, Jaden Daniels, Yeah, Jaden Daniels j Yeah, Drake May Gardner Minshew is my twenty five through thirty two. Then Derek Carrs twenty four. I

have Caleb Williams twenty three. He'll probably jump up higher than that. Russell Wilson twenty two, Deshaun Watson, twenty one, and Baker Mayfield rounds out. He's number twenty rounds out the top. The bottom twelve. Gino Smith is nineteen, Anthony Richardson eighteen. I think he jumps up big this year, brock Perty seventeen, Kirk Cousins and Aaron Rodgers and Jared Goff Jalen Hurts and Jared Goff is sixteen, fifteen, fourteen thirteen.

Then my top twelve is Lawrence Herbert and Kyler twelve eleven, ten. Then the nine through seven category dak Love and Stroud and then Tua I have at number six. I would be totally okay if you want to drop two spots to eight and move them back behind Stroud Love, I just think too, it's not for longer than those two guys have in similar ways. And then Lamar, Burrow, Stafford, Allen and Mahomes are my top five quarterbacks. Sound good, all right, So let's go ahead and put a pennant

right there. Come back on the other side and keep answering your questions on the Dolphin. On the Drivetime mail bag, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We go back to the Twitter mail bag here with my good buddy ghost of Adam Gaze who asked this question.

With Riisner signed with the Vikings and the offensive line concerns of the twenty twenty three seasons still lingering, does Miami address the O line post June one with another veteran or is the team content on not replacing Hunt and confident there guys will step up. I feel like this is the primary thing I see on Dolphin's Twitter recently. And let me just first start by saying this, if there's a situation where an injury or two occurs on the interior, I can see where the major concern over

depth comes into play. No argument out of me on that standpoint. But can we get one thing clear about Dalton Reisner? And I say this as a guy that was a huge fan of him coming out of Kansas State. This is a guy that's been on the market every year late into the year every year. You ever ask yourself why in the league that is in a depression of quality offensive line play? Because, first off, the tape is mediocre. Have you guys watched the Dalton Riismer tape.

It's not great. It's okay, it's fine. Second, the fit is not great. Either and third some inside baseball. He's an absolute knucklehead. You're just gonna have to trust me in the last part. But it's what I know, So just keep that in mind.

I do. I promise you I do. Watching Lester Cotton miss a landmark for the fourteenth time in a row, or Liam Meikenberg trip over the turf Monster for the twelfth time in a row, costing us big runs, it sucked. Trust me, I get it. But this is also the number one offense in the National Football despite having the most o line combinations in the NFL last year. And they did all of that despite all those fan concerns.

I told the story about toront Armstead's injury in Houston in training camp last year, and Kendall Lamb stepping in, and nobody thought we could survive Lamb at left tackle. Nobody thought Austin Jackson deserved the right tackle job, nobody thought Isaiah Winn belonged with the starters. And yet all three of those guys played really, really well last year, and when we had the line mostly fully healthy, we literally set records for most amount of yards through X

amount of weeks. And then, of course Connor and is Isaiah get hurt in the Philly game, and that's where things kind of pivoted back a little bit at that point of the year. So I guess my plea is to just trust, just have faith. I mean, they did sign to Ron Armstead, that was a big ticket item. They did sign Connor Williams a big free agent. They went out and got Isaiah win last year. They drafted

Patrick Paul in the second round. I don't think it's fair to lump Austin and Rob and here as to high draft picks, because they were both before McDaniel got here. But it's not like they totally neglected altogether. They just don't value offensive line the way other teams do. And

there's a reason for that. They know what they can get and cannot get away with, and it's more important to have dynamic skill players, and it is to vest in the offensive line, a group that is outmatched by the defensive line every single week for every single team in the National Football League. Once again, I would sign

Greg Van Rodin. But that's just me. Let's go ahead and run some audio here from Chris First or the San Francisco forty Niners offensive line coach, who talked about this and how their system values skill players over offensive line. I think every Dolphins fan needs to hear this.

rush around the team. There's so many mechanisms to help alignment that if a guy can't get open, if a guy can't catch the ball right, that's way I'm problem. But an offensive line plate, you gotta be careful. You got to have those six, seven, eight guys that are just at that line are above And that's that's the challenge. Where's that line in the draft? Is that the third round, second round, fourth round, fifth when's that line where all of a sudden the tackles have dried up, the guards

have dried up. Now you're talking about drafting backup players, which is fine. They're backup players, but they're not gonna be long term starts for your team. And that's the that's the challenge for me, because eventually the guys that can run a score touchdowns run out. They're not there anymore. So you have to find those quality starters at other positions.

And you got to be right because oftentimes when you draft a lineman in the fourth or fifth round, there might be a guy that could come in immediately, contribute on special teams, contribute to be a backup linebacker, safety, and those that's where so I'm not okay, we didn't driving first sec. We got to take somebody in the fourth round here because they got five guys, got five holes to fill.

That was the idea of getting deeper at the position and not being as worried about top of the line guys who are probably gonna get hurt some point anyways, and you have to get into the depth. So let's get better at eight through ten opposed to getting way better at one through three, and then when those guys get hurt, you're back in the same spot. Right. Does that makes sense? I hope it does. Next question at Kevin Garrard thirteen. Your thoughts on three guys I'd like

to pursue post June one Quandre Diggs. I like his ability to play deep and free up Holland to attack the ball more two Van Rote starting caliber right guard. Number three shack loss and might need a part time d And to start the year. Excellent edge center versus the run. Yeah, heavy handed shack losson right first off. I like all those players. I think Caandre Diggs is

my favorite of that group. He's one of the most underrated players in the league for my money, and a position that excels and some of the things I think I find most intriguing about a safety and quite frankly, the stuff that makes Javon Holland and Jordan Poyer are so good and how they can anticipate and move before the quarterback makes his move. I think defensive back. The defensive backfield here is incredibly deep, and I would agree that one area you could stand it at a body

is probably at safety. And we'll see how Nick Edams transition there goes. But to your point, there's still so many proven vets out there. It's a weird market, a weird year for the safety market this year. I'm a big fan of Van Roten. Like I mentioned, think he'd be a nice fit here, and I'm not really sure

I agree on Shack. I think maybe his best days are behind him, and I do think a progress stopper in front of Chopper Kamara or quite frankly, I think Grayson Murphy has a good shot to make the team as well. So we know one thing. Though, Dolphins will always be looking to make moves from now to cut down day, I think that some of the guys you mentioned there are going to be well within their thoughts and their potential plans at Hassan Patel, what's the toughest

part about being a dad? Any advice for someone who will become a dad soon? I love this question. It's a right turn from what we've just been talking about. But I want to go ahead and first just cover this. My first piece of advice is a steal sleep anyway you can. I haven't slept a full night in years, and it affects your everyday life. It does. My wife is the same way too. If you have some downtime, go find in that man. My next piece of advice is to be a great resource for your partner, help

them carry the load. Be spontaneous and where you help, nothing's gonna make your partner happier than coming home and seeing their to do list already wiped out. Do that as much as you possibly can if you have the energy. My final and more important advice is to not listen to parenting advice from anybody. Every kid is incredibly different and what works for you probably won't work for somebody else. You know what's best for your child, and you are

the best parent for him or her. Most of my advice is about making sure you put yourself in the best position to be a great dad, like sleeping, for instance, but also make it a point to still do things that make you happy. My first kid was born during the pandemic, and that was a rough time because there was not much I could do to take care of my own mental and it was very stressful and I

suffered from it. Your life is about to get a lot more stressful, and for me, a one year old that I have without having family in South Florida, like it's just me and my wife. We're the only ones that can look after him, so it's constant stress and anxiety. For you, it's gonna get more stressful, So find outlets to help you destress, because that will make you a

better parent. Everybody on this podcast knows I dove deep into golf, and whether it's a quick range session or having a tea time to look forward to, it does so much to help keep you sane when your kid is having a tough week and you're not sleeping much, or you're just listening to crying all the time, which can definitely wear on you. Great question at Kevin MD four if you could choose any character from the Better Call Saw Breaking Bad Universe to be the GM, who

would it be and why? I love this question. That's such a Kevin question too. It's got to be Gestavo free. It just has to be right, because obviously you want intelligence. But Walt is just too emotional and makes rash, selfish decisions that are not well thought out, and I can see him hanging on to a draft pick who isn't working out just to try to prove a point that

he was right right. Skyler tried out to be a pretty great boss, especially at the car washing and when she got bogged On's torn down for his eyebrows that was pretty great. But she might be the second choice here where I think Lalos Salamanca was another guy that comes to mind, but he's a little bit too rough around the edges. I think probably not a good player

relationship guy there. To me, it's Gus Fring because his foresight would allow us to build flexible contracts, to obtain future resources, to have plans ABC and D off of the original plans. It's got to be Gus Fring. The man built an entire underground lab and nobody knew he did it. I think he could build a football team the same way. At the fendalorian esque with a new

quarterback rule. Do you think it's more likely the Dolphins will keep only two quarterbacks on the fifty three or will they want to protect Scyt or Thompson and keep three on the active roster. I think it's always why to have three quarterbacks who have knowledge of your system, especially when this is complex as Dolphins, and we're kind of lucky in that regard. Maybe luck is the wrong word because they've prepared for this. They've developed Skyler for

three years now. Tua is obviously Tua, and then Mike White in his second year in the system, but also came from an offense ran by Mike Lafleur, who's also off the Shanahan Tree. So you have three guys that I feel are equipped to at least keep the entire playbook open for you if something were to happen to two, And then Mike White look at us in twenty twenty two, for instance, quarterback injuries were probably the difference between nine wins

and eleven or twelve wins. Like, I think we would have won a lot more games if to have played every game that year. But then look at last year the entire NFL was it eight teams had their quarterbacks start every single game, and we were one of them. You have to be prepared to start multiple quarterbacks if your starter goes down. Now, it'd be nice to not have to pull someone off the street in the event

something happens to Tua. Right, So, I personally love the idea of keeping that pipeline full of guys that have been here and who can give you the entire offense when they have to go into the game. And I think there's value to that, even if I don't, you know, love the play or some of the quarterbacks. My vote is for all three because there's just the value of that position and you don't want to get stuck starting a quarterback that just got signed off the street at

T Feeley one. How do the Fans get over their third and one issues from last year? Do they have the personnel stuff it down the middle for one yard? Could they give it to Patrick Paul, let him smash into the defense for a yard or fall forward for a yard? Well, I know one thing. I don't want to give Patrick Paul any touches, but I think he could be a potential answer to some short yardge conversion

shortcomings we had a year ago. Honestly, and this might not be the most popular thing among the fans to hear this, but I just feel like we have to execute better. There were chances and we just didn't hit them.

Like I think about the toss play and short yardage, it was either Carolina or the Giants where we faked the full back dive and then two like stood up and threw a pass out wide to Raheem, but it was they weren't on the same page and the ball trickled backwards out of bounds like a six yard loss. Like that was wide open. Just execute it, man, And I think that happened a few times on passing plays. I've been long the tooth about how our inabilities separate

on the inside when it's not ten or seventeen. Needs to get better well, enter Beckham Malik taj Johnnu, a second year of Devon eight chan. I think we have way more options outside of ten and seventeen to get open in those spots. But back to Patrick Paul, one way you can get better is to bring on an extra lineman and maybe they explore that. Maybe it's him, maybe it's Kendall Lamb my votes for Patrick Paul. Maybe they don't do it at all, but it is an option.

I love the idea of going heavy personnel and then you can run off of that and maybe you throw, maybe you throw Patrick Paul the old Jumbo Elliot route in the end zone one of these times. Who knows, But I said, didn't want to give any touches, but there's a passing player there. I love quarterback sneaks. I love the d Smyth sneak package. I like the Ingle dive up the middle, and I think we have some

good tackle breakers too, lots of options. I cannot imagine we have the same issue this year because I think we're just too good for it. I just think the personnel is too good and the staff is too smart to struggle to convert for that for a third straight year, especially when they're so good at third medium or third and long. All right, last break, right there, Let's go ahead and come back on the other side. Finished up with more of your questions on the Draft Time podcast

your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Autoation. All Right, I try to get to as many of these as I possibly could, and I want to just go ahead and rip through them here real quick at Mason Prince TV. I'm curious your thoughts on Ingold's role in twenty twenty four in the offense with all the upgrades, do we see less of him to be a less productive part

of the offense. It's a great question, and we can't answer that until we get to the games, right, But I do feel confident saying that will be adaptable on a week to week basis and attack defenses where they are vulnerable. I know a lot of teams game plan around what they do best, but this system has long been about going after where the defense is weakest. So a team like Buffalo, for instance, who wants to play these light boxes, and we saw it in the game

at Buffalo in twenty twenty two. You can get some numbers advantages and get rolling with Alec Ingold as your lead blocker in a very good running game. But we've also seen him contribute in some of our more spread out games, like the rail he caught up the sideline against the LA Chargers. He's a captain, he's smart. He gives us an element that few teams have, which creates a whole other package that defenses have to spend practice

time on working on that we can practice. I love Alec and think he's gonna have a big role here for this Dolphins offense at fullback at Rubin Ramirez, Hi, Travis. Can you tell us the twenty twenty three rushing and passing yards per play out of these two personnel groups eleven and twenty one personnel? Yes? I can so. Eleven personnel, which is one running back, one tight end, three receivers think Tyreek Hill and or sorry, Tyreek Waddle and Beckham

with Moster and John who think about that? So rushing out of that package last year with five point six yards per rush, passing was eight point one yards per play. Twenty one personnel, two backs, one tight end two receivers think Inglden Moster with Hill and Waddle and Durham Smith five yards per carry eight point one yards per past, both very impressive. Next question at Keist Scott we have some great beat writers, Unfortunately too many are negative of

the skies falling black Monday type of guys. Is that a cultural thing with Northeast coast transplants or is that what sells and works in the Miamy market. Never seen anything like it before? Curious your take? I do think that, especially with what Twitter's become, and we see some of our beat res becoming aggregators at this point, which is

just kind of weird to me. But you know, Steven A. Smith sells because he yells and like, what's going to be on ESPN For the casual fan that doesn't really want to listen to a podcast, right, that's what they're trying to go after there with the most that's the biggest part of the population, right is kind of the ding dungk that wants to watch that stuff. But also panic because people love to read about misery, impactice. Why news stations don't want to run you know, heartwarming stories,

they want to run panic and bad things. But also I think it's just the nature of the league nowadays, and it's definitely in that case on social media. But like I always give Adam Beasley shit for this last year, he tweeted about the Dolphins having red zone issues against the Falcons and the preseason opener when no one started the game. Mike White was a quarterback that game, and

he was like, the Dolphins offense needs some work. And then it came back practice a few days later it wasn't sharp again, and he says, I stand by my story. It's like and then they would go on to you know, game five hundred yards per game for the first six games the season. It's yeah, you should probably wait until season starts. I just think that every game, every play is like all that folks can remember, and that's for

fans and beat writers alike. So I think that the when something bad happens, that's that's what you write about, and you harp on it until something could happen. So I just think it's a nature of the league and how it is nowadays. At Noah's a dork. Best horror movie you've seen the last six months, You guys are right up my Alley today. Luckily I log all my films I watch on letterbox, so now I have three for you. I watched a film called Voices with Ryan

Reynolds a few months ago. He's like a he hears voices in his head and he wants to get into killing, but he hasn't decided if he wants to yet, and he eventually does it. He like talks to his pets and like sees things. It's really kind of fun. I thought.

I saw a one called House of Darkness with Justin Long where he plays a He just plays a good douchebag that eventually gets killed off in a movie like Barbarian is an all time favorite for me, not the last six months, but an all time favorite of all time. Even an awful film like Tusk that I watched. I love Justin in that film where it gets turned into a freaking walrus, and he's great in that one too. He's also great in this one last The Coffee Table.

I'm not gonna tell you anything about it. It is tough to watch. It's a hard watch, but it's so unique and just so so good. I will say there's a bunch of horror films coming up that I cannot wait to watch in a Violent Nature looks so good. Long legs the trailer had my skin crawling in that one twenty eight years later, and then the m Night Shyamalan film Trap. Is it gonna get me again? Is he gonna have a horrible movie that I hate coming out of Probably, but I'm gonna go see it anyways.

Thank God. The superhero movies, though, seem to be made less frequently, so we can get more originality and actually good films back in theaters. Thank you for the question, Noah, At Mike Lane CC, we have much better depth than in previous seasons. Having said that, do you feel we have any trade chips the teams will be calling about or released at the end of camp, for example, Jeff

Wilson's or the defensive tackle, death receiver, et cetera, et cetera. Well, that's the thing I think gets lost the most with draft need perception, Like what was the theme on Twitter? They better not draft a cornerback, right, and it even became don't draft a receiver in round one at least what I saw. But I always harp on this because I feel like it doesn't land. Your needs are gonna change drastically every single year now more than ever. It was always this way, but now teams have so many

guys on one year deals or two year deals. Take the best players, and that's the best way to ensure your roster will be the best that it can become week one. And what we said is a great point to look at come the end of camp, I hope we have sixty guys that belong in NFL rosters that

can give us the ability to acquire more assets. To your point, so we know we have a bunch of good backs, maybe someone's willing to give you a pick for the guy that finishes fifth in that competition, or the same at wide receiver or corner, or we've also got plenty of edges and off ball linebackers too. It's a deep team almost everywhere, and that will always work

in your favor. I think those are the position groups receiver, running back, corner, edge, off ball linebacker where you can say, if we can get good value for a guy that might not make the team, let's go ahead and pull a trigger there. So absolutely there are those at King Underscore eight six. Are the Mariners going to win the division? The offense teams to have taken a step in the right direction and chaos ball is back. I'm gonna say no because the offense is awful. It's so bad. As

I record this. The Mariners just won the first three games of a four game set against Houston. They're three up on the Rangers in the West. But I have zero faith because that lineup they tried out every night is full of holes, like automatic outs all of the lineup and slow guys that get doubled off all the time. They could have the best starting pitching we've seen this century. They probably do, and still I don't think they have

the offense to make it happen. Now, maybe they get aggressive of the deadline, and I think they should because if you get to the dance. This rotation just put up eighteen consecutive quality starts. If you do that in the postseason, you probably win a World Series. So go for it, Jerry Jerry Depoto manorch Jiam John manager. But no, they stink, Man. Their offense is so bad. At AMC twenty two C, how would you rank the running backs

in pass pro and the receivers as run blockers. I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Raheem because he's done it, and then Jilen Wright I think his second among the running backs, and then after that Jeff Wilson, but I don't think it's good beyond that Chris Brooks. Maybe at receiver, I think Craig Craft is the best blocker, and then I think Waddle and Tyreek right there too because they're very willing to try to do it and be impactful

that way. And then from there, I don't know, but that's kind of that's I guess my thoughts there at Marcos underscore Alviira. I know it's not even training camp yet, but speaking of rookies, who is impressed you the most and who is better than advertised? I just put Patrick Paul. I think the progress that he has made from his technique at Houston to where it's been in training camps or mini camp so far has been it shows. I think Leonard Payne and Grayce and Murphy are two udfas

that have a great chance to make the roster. I'm also intrigued by Jordan Colbert and not a rookie, but Eric Azuokama continues to just dazzle me. I think he's God. I think he can play football man. Let's see at c R Kent Week eighteen at the Jets primetime third and goal, the four yard line, down by five. You came back from three scores down. There's twelve seconds left. A win secures the one seed and drops the Jets out of the playoffs. What's your formation, your personnel, and

your play call. I love this question so much. I'm throwing the football first off, and I'm trying to find a one on one matchup, and you're most likely to get zoned down here in this part of the field, and I'd like to have something angling back inside. So I think I'll go eleven personnel with Tyreek, Wattle and Beckham as my receivers. I'm gonna have Reeke as the boundary the short side of the field and hope to

pull double coverage over there. If they don't throw double coverget Him'm just gonna throw the ball tygy Kiel one on one coverage and try to win that way. But I assume he's gonna get double coverage to the short side of the field and gives me more space to work with. To the field side of the field, I'm going to have Wattles start in a nasty alignment to the same side of the formation as Beckham and John Whu with the strength of the field, and a nasty alignment just

means they're in close to the formation. It's like a tight end basically with John U Smith and then Beckham and John who are the strength to the field. And then I'm gonna motion waddle from that alignment to the wide side of the field. Is the one receiver all the way out wide to pull more coverage and create

more space inside. Then I'm gonna throw it the ball to Odell on a China or whip route where he fakes out and breaks back in or vice versa, but hopefully back inside on the whip where he widens his man across his face. Throw throw over the ball or the ball against what should be one on one zone, and trust that TUA puts it in a place where Odell can get it and he makes the catch. Does

that sound good? Trying to create space here for Odell Beckham at mister John Lewis mount Rushmore of TV drama series I have Dexter breaking bad, better call Saw and Snowfall. I actually haven't seen Snowfall or Dexter. I know, I know it's bad. It's a great question, though BCS Better Call Saul is the all time greatest show. To me, I will argue that until I'm blue in the face. I think it's Breaking Bad without some of the plot holes and overall a better and experienced, more experienced crew.

It's the same crew who just got better what they do than Breaking Bad. In a second, because it was so revolutionary for its time, I'll put Bury next. I know it's a comedy, but by the end of it, I don't think anybody besides the Breaking Bad universe did a better job of creating tension and drama. And last, I'll go with True Detective just season one because mcconaughan and Woody Helsing was so good in that and it was so captivating the entire season. All right, fun episode there.

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