Drive Time: Mock Draft Round-Up and Dolphins Visits

Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now let me check your pulse if you're not furt of what is up? Dolphins And welcome to the Drivetime podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we're gonna go around the web and the mock draft universe to see who has who coming to South Florida for the Dolphins and the draft now just over two weeks out. We'll take a look

at the reported draft visits, talk about those players. We'll talk about Mike McDaniel's spot on Mike Silver's podcast, and finish up with the NFL's global outreach expanding into Kenya and the entire continent of Africa, with one of our own players, Emmanuel Ogba, going over as a guest for the program from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime podcast. Caroline gets us going as she does daily and we are now

full go into draft season. Really, the draft season begins in the summertime, right, but now just two and a half weeks out or two days and some change even, it's time to start finalizing those boards, stack your position groups and needs and just get everything ready for more than two hundred and fifty selections during the NFL's ual selection meeting, a massive crop of undrafted players, and the

final major player acquisition period of the off season. We know better though than to think that's just limited to

the draft. We get post June one acquisitions, training camp moves and then of course cut down day after camp is usually a pretty busy day for the roster, but every year every team is allotted thirty player visits into their building for that big moment for the draft, and those visits can be utilized in a variety of reasonings, right, Like, could a player you're dying to get into your program be a reason you bring them in? That's would make the most sense. Could it be part of a smoke screen?

And there's a million things in between. That's the beauty of the draft, right. Everyone's got the hand they were dealt and now they're trying to play it the best they can. I can win a hand, I can win a pot with aces, I can win a pot with seven deuce off suit. It just depends on how you play it. I think the gamesmanship at the top is a little more intense, Like the Cardinals, who Adam Scheft reported on Monday have fielded as many as six calls.

But even that is that part of the smoke screen is that someone with a certain level of interest in that information getting out there providing it For someone as big of a name as Adam Schefter is what's the point? What does it mean? You know, who's the Brian Windhorse? Why would the Cardinals do that? So the Cardinals in that third spot, to me, they are in the catbird seat of this draft, much of the way the Dolphins were in that same position back in twenty twenty one.

Part of it is a luck of the draw for sure, but you typically wind up with this formula to get that ideal draft position, good quarterback class. You already have your quarterback and your sandwiched by teams that have needs at quarterbacks. So the quarterback kind of a big deal. But you know that if you're a football fan. In our situation back in twenty twenty one, Drevor Lawrence was billed as in John Elway Andrew Luck level prospects, so

that was always a given. Then the Jets had the second pick and could have been Fields, it could have been Lance, but it was Zach Wilson. Then you had Fields, Lands and mac Jones as players who were rumored to be worthy of that third overall pick for the Niners.

After a trade up. There was a long period of time when folks were convinced it was mac Jones, but sure enough it was Trey Lance, so so much so that Miami was able to extract some extra picks still Land, Jalen Wattle, which in hindsight, aren't you glad that move happened, and later use those picks in part to get players like Tyreek Hill, Javon Holland, and Bradley Chubb not bad? Right?

Can the Cardinals do that now? Because with the Colts picking fourth and Gardner Minshew go Coogs as their current QB one, they're pretty clearly in the quarterback market. I mean, unless you think Sam Ellingar is going to be a superstar quarterback or has already showing you so much, or Gardner Minshew is a guy that you build your program around, you'd be surprised if it's not a quarterback in that spot.

But that's how the draft b Sometimes they're surprises. Every single time we get into this period of the year. Most people think it's going to be Shroud young one too. In some order to Caroline and Houston, the Panthers make that move to find their franchise quarterback for Frank Reich, no doubt about that. They're not going to go up there and take an offensive tackle or Will Anderson, the

top pass rusher in this year's class. But I'm so happy for Reich that he finally gets a young, really good quarterback to groom and to develop, because he never had that in Indianapolis, and it was just year after year a veteran quarterback that didn't work out. Really Rivers did. But after that not so much. Now. The Texans could conceivably pass and come back later for someone like Will Levis or maybe Hendon Hooker, but if they love one of the top two quarterbacks in the draft, it's pretty

hard to imagine they would do that. Even still, that would just push another quarterback into the third spot, one of the top two quarterbacks, rather for the Cardinals to move off of. So they have to find a way to either get the most capital from a team who wants to come up or stick and pick. I think the value says make the trade. But that's what makes the draft great, right, especially when you get trade activity to the top. And that's what quarterbacks do for a

draft class. That's why last year's draft class to me, not as much fun twenty twenty one and this year much more fun. The poker game very fun. And that's all a prelude into the Miami Dolphins draft visits. These visits are akin going back to our theme to the rounds of a poker game, before you turn your cards up and reveal what everybody possesses. Do you have those aces? Do you have that seven deuce? And those are the

most generic card combinations you can possibly have. For the top level, and then the outhouse on the other end, castle versus out house. But gamesmanship, reading of situations, predictive thinking. I mean, the former poker dealer in me has a ry smile just talking about how much fun all that is to execute. Even as a dealer, I would try to predict people's hands based upon their actions. That's kind of what NFL gms and decision makers have to do for the next couple of weeks here. Over the course

of the draft. It's it's all hearsay and finding out what's actually true and what does smoke. It's fun, man. So it's a thirty visits who knows what they actually mean outside of the people conducting the visits and the draft prep process. And then there's the fact that there's reported visits compared to confirmed visits, because we only know about what's been reported so far and reported to be. Checking in with the Dolphins and talking about these four

players and their games. We heard about these reports from defensive tackle Carl Brooks from Bowling Green and my buddy Kevin Dern's a big fan of Carl Brooks's games, but I chance to go back and watch him a while back and if you haven't had a chance to watch him, go ahead and rectify that he might be a bit of a tweener because he's at two hundred and ninety six pounds, and that's kind of where you know, Wilkins and Seeler, they're a little bit heavier than that, But

that's kind of the idea of that weight class and that position and more of a you know, three technique five technique out to you know, potentially a six or seven. But he led Bowling green and sacks all five years of his college career. He was first team All Conference this year plays at six three two ninety six. But what really pops off the tape when you watch him is the quickness in that first step. Do you remember how much I marveled over how fast Adam Butler got

off the football that one year down here? It really reminds me of that. Plus you can just see the experience of those five years in college with how he attacks different blockers with a unique rush plan every single rep. But how he understands how to convert speed to power, how to go from run game to pass game. All of that I thought really translated well to the one on one drills. At the Senior Bowl when he was pretty dominant against the offensive line on the other side

across from him. His hands and feet are really hardwired together, and that's something that can take a lot of time for players to develop. So for Carl Brooks having five years there in college, he kind of figured that out a little bit and I think it makes him a potentially productive player from day number one in the NFL at the edge position. Garrett Wilson from Nebraska tried typing this guy's aiming on Google and it kept coming up Garrett Wilson, So if you try to find him, he

might have some difficulty of doing that. But the pride of the corn Huskers program the last six years. He was their emotional leader, not to mention their production leader. He kind of reminds me of Hubert Wyatt from Kansas State a few years ago, and you just see the effort, like pop off tape, like hair on fire. You recognize where he is every single snap. He talied twenty and a half tackles for lost last two seasons. That was his claim to fame upfront, playing a big, big edge role.

I'm not talking about his role, but as a player his size, he was a big player off that position. Linebacker to marv An Overshown from Texas was rumored to be a thirty visit. I love these safety converted to linebacker players. Man. He comes with exceptional length and twitchy

athletic ability, and that combination together always intrigues me. To me, you turn on the tape and you see a immediate core special teamer, a guy that you can sign as a u DFA, makes your club and gives you eighteen snaps a week on special teams because he flies all over the field, plays with tons of passion, and can

contribute in that area. I think right away as a rookie, and you think he's also a candidate talking about the length and athletic sism combo for those sub package roles early on in his career, and we know the coach Fangio in the past has rolled out a lot of dB linebacker heavy packages where you pull your defensive lineman or your non pass rushers off the field and get

more pass coverage guys in those long down distances. That's what I think of when I think of to marv An Overshowing from Texas and then cornerback Anthony Johnson from Virginia is a local product, went to Nova High School here in Davy, transferred to a private school in Hollywood, shamanad Madonna. Prepp began his career at Louisville before transferring to Virginia and seeing in his scattering report from Dane Brugler that his ability to disrupt at the line causes

a lot of timing issues for opposing offenses. We've seen both X and Jalen excel with this for years at the cornerback position. I thought kater co who was very good, especially in the way he attacks the running game and is the screen game as a cornerback pressed up on the line of scrimmage. But Johnson's a great tackle or two with premier ball production. That's kind of two traits of the modern cornerback. Find the football and tackle the football.

And that's what our guys do. I think, really, you know, so makes sense that Anthony Johnson would be on the Dolphins radar in that sense. But everybody praises this aspect as well, which goes a long way under coach Fangio. How studied he is and how smart of a player he is, that's so paramount in this man match zone match coverage scheme of Vic Fangio that can be heavy in rules and different portions of the playbook that require you to know what the hell you're doing out there.

So a fun exercise, a chance to look at some players that I had previously not except for Carl Brooks. Let's go ahead and take our first break right there and come back on the other side and talk about the major draft publications, what are they saying, and do a little mock draft roundup as well. That's next Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. It's a Tuesday here on the Drivetime Podcast. We're talking all things draft and I wanted to go around the

web here a little bit. Not a whole lot going on in terms of the big time riders that you've grown accustomed to. It's just kind of a quiet time right now in the NFL. Free agency has kind of slowed down. The draft is you know, boards are not finalized. We are starting to get some of the draft guides coming out though, and Dane Brugler talked about him a little bit earlier from the Athletic just dropped the beast.

If you don't have an athletic subscription. The Beast alone is worth it because he just puts in so much work and there's great detail there. Not just about there. They're scouting the players in terms of what they are in the football field, but the behind the scenes, which I love that stuff from Dane. He gives. It's a great job every year of really getting good intel on all of these players before we do that through real

quick a quick departure. I think A big tip of the cap to John Ram for his performance and the Masters over the weekend. Also Viva Lapga Man was great to see him pulled out over brooks Kepka, who I actually, you know, brooks kep gets a lot of crap for, you know, his confidence and his brash attitude, but I tend to, you know, think he's a pretty good golfer and I like that confidence in any athlete. The Heat play in game tonight. Let's go Heat. Let's get that win.

Even though this year has been exhausting. As a Heat fan, I kind of I hope they get upsets when in the first series of the year of the playoffs, but we'll see. I do expect him to roll over the Hawks and the Mariners got it rolling again, but a brutal loss on Sunday where they blew two a pair of two run leads in the extra frame. That was that was rough to see. Let's go back to football

here and go around the web. Peter King didn't have anything Dolphins related this week, but I always enjoy, enjoy, enjoy draft scuttle, but this time of year, he says that Bryce Young and the Panthers is seemingly becoming more likely, which to me is funny because we just talked about on the Friday podcast from Bruce Feldman on The Athletic that it was going to be c J. Stroud. So that's why the draft was fun. Man. We never know

what's going to happen. But Peter also said the more people he talks to, the more he thinks that these mocks are going to wind up laughable, which they usually are. Expect surprises, he says, which is also interesting, paired with a tweet that I saw on Monday morning. I forget the author and forgive me for blanking on this. Look. I'm a tired father of two right now. Man. He said they expect maybe two but likely one receiver to

go in the first round. Compared to the mock drafts that have four or five guys going off the board, and he said, the one guy to look for is Jackson Smith and jigbu So I guess for Quinton Johnston, Zay Flowers and all those guys. I hope that happens because to me, the Dolphins with that second round pick, I think you're gonna look at the start of Day two is potential trade up territory where typically teams do want to come up and get whatever position group has been.

You know, I guess solely from the first round at that point, and if a couple of big time receivers fall, maybe that means some tackles didn't go that high, or you know, tight ends or whatever it might be, could be the ones that fill in those spots a little bit later on into the fifties where the Dolphins pick. How about this fact, it's a total random fact. Mississippi States Emmanuel Forbes. We talked to him at the combine.

He had a Florida Marlin's hat on. He used to throw ninety five miles per hour on the arm until he had an arm injury and decided to just go exclusively to football in his sports career. That's that's crazy. One hundred and seventy eight pound cornerback. He's throw ninety five mile an hour. Jetta. That's like chet Steadman manque the guitar. No no, no no, no, no, no no woo. Do you guys get that reference I do before we go

to these mocks. I'm not gonna lie. I'm happy that O b J chose Baltimore and we don't have to see him with the Jets. I still think he's one of the best route runners in the game, and he's always a challenge to cover. So we will see him once this year, but not twice unless it's in the playoffs. So Baltimore, if you can pick the playoffs, you might see him twice. Also run the web. How about mock draft season. Let's go ahead and go over a few

of these. Pro Football Focus has the Dolphins taking Jamir Gibbs at fifty one, the running back out of Obama, and wide receiver Tank Dell out of Houston at eighty four. Now, Gibbs, I talked about him a lot here, electric great pass catcher. I listened to the Movie Sticks podcast over the weekend and Daniel Jeremiah talked about him being a guy that they focus you focus getting touches too overcarries, and that he will contribute in the passing game just as much

as the running game. Tank Dell would be just a ridiculous addition to this wide receiver corps. I know that's a position that doesn't seem like a need, but I'm all about adding to your strengths. And I think that Dell does two things as well as anybody else in this draft, and they are the things that I think separate Tyreek and Jalen from the rest of the football world. The speed and the mastery of the craft of route running. Go back and watch Dell's college tape or the Senior Bowl.

It doesn't matter. There's just not much blanket coverage at any phase of the route. At the line of scrimmage, up the stem, at the top of the route, at the catchpoint. Guys have a hard time staying close to him, and people will say that he's so slight that he can't get off the line. Go watch the tape, man, like I'm tired of these takes that don't include watching tape.

Just I'll raise you. Go watch the tape and tell me if that's all the commentary you have, because if you watch the tape, you're not going to have that impression. He could off the line just fine, in the same way DeVante Smith did at Alabama. ESPN's Todd McShay has us taking Dewan Jones, the offensive tackle out of Ohio State,

at pick fifty one. And this one's interesting to me because remember we talked on the Friday Show about that Bruce Felban mock once again that only had four offensive linemen going in the first round, and in that scenario, you could potentially see a player with this type of upside that Dewan Jones features at pick fifty one. He's massive, biggest player and biggest wingspan in the draft, but he

can get off the ball and that's important. And I played this sound by on the podcast back when he was hired with Mike McDaniel talking about offensive line prototypes over a year ago. Now we heard him talk about several times this year firing off the football and having to relearn how to play the position that's a little more reactive, whereas in this he wants you to come off, you know, proactive, and go fire off the football and

go hit somebody and run. He talked about the offensive line in San Francisco having a smaller group, but how that wasn't by design and they didn't just invest, you know, top two round picks to get the players where that's typically where you find your physical marvels. Right. The guys that go on top of the draft typically have something that produces high level upside. So if they can run, jump, and they're huge, that typically puts them in a good

position to do that. But he had this comment with regards to a question about the drafting of Aaron Banks, who is six ft five, three hundred and forty pounds, and if it signals a potential change, and coach had said, we'd prefer everyone to be four hundred pounds six foot ten if you can engineer that. It's a great coach quote right there. But he talked further about the selection of Banks and if that was a hint towards a change in scheme, and he said, we weren't looking through

a vision of changing anything. We thought this is a guy quick enough that on that second level could attach to the defenders. Yeah, we like that he's big. He's just going to have to run fast while being big. And we felt like he's a candidate to do that end quote. So Jones, going back to the Ohio State prospect, is six foot eight, He's three hundred and seventy four pounds. His forty and twenty splits were in the thirty six and forty first percent tile. His ten split just sixteenth

percent TILE. But you can see those movement skills in the first two times because he's packing an extra thirty or forty pounds of weight more than most of his contemporary He's like, remember Jake Long got drafted by US back in O eight and he was six ft six, three thirty and had six pack abs, which was crazy, but three hundred and thirty pounds. Duwan Jones has thirty four pounds on that, which should honestly equate to a much worse time, but it didn't. He wasn't that far

off from being like average time. That's great. So I saw that his relative athletics score profile compares pretty similar to what Shrent Brown did, who had a great NFL career, most of that with the Patriots and the n forty niners as well. But very interesting stuff there from Duan Jones. Jordan Reid, a big friend of the podcast here has us taking Jamir Gibbs at fifty one, which I love that. But here's a prospect who I hadn't gotten around too much until later in the process that I am suddenly

very intrigued by. And you heard Matt Waldman talk about him. Was it last Wednesday? I forget when that was Luke

Schoonmaker from Michigan. This might be the best blocking tight end of the class, sands Darnell Washington, but he doesn't just give you that extra gap in the run game, like he can climb to that second level and attached to linebackers, he can widen the edge in the sense that he kind of makes everything look the same to force that outside rush move and then just wall off, and that creates a massive ce gap, the gap between the tight end and the right tackle in this instance

that I'm looking at, making that gap larger for the running back to hit, which is where we run a lot of our aiming points for the running back and outside zone schemes, right, So it generates explosive plays when you open up that gap in the way that Shootmaker can. And I just like the attention to detail that he has as a blocker. He stays really tight into his gap, which doesn't afford opportunities for other guys to shoot those gaps.

He stays square to his target as a blocker, which you know, it's like playing basketball right between your man and the hoop. Does a good job of just kind of staying where he needs to be and then effectively walls off. Then he runs like a man possessed with a football in his hands. Supernatural hands too, by the way,

really smooth hands catcher. But to prove his athletic capabilities, nine point eight five rasts the relative athletics scorecard, that's seventeenth all time out of one thirty nine tight ends going back to Rass's creation in nineteen eighty seven. That's a good year my birth year. Ninetieth percentile or better and broad forty and twenty splits and the three cone. Those are all measurements that track your athletic ability, your

change of direction, your explosives in the lower half. So I know that those numbers don't always mean something to everybody, but just know that they're good. Ninety percentile on any workout metric. That's a good place to be. So I think what I like most about his game but he doesn't tip your tendencies and what I mean by that. He looks the same flying off the ball to go scoop a sam linebacker as a block or in the blocking game as he does running a corner route to

the back of the end zone off play pass. It looks the same. So like your low red zone options, with a guy like him on your offense really increases both the defense's ability to be confused and the defense's ability to react late because of what he can do. It's a big time get when you have a player like that. If he can develop into that as a pro first round pick quality all day. We'll see if he makes it there at a fifty one check while Jordan Reid has him there at freaking eighty one, so

we'll see. Chad Ruter nfl dot Com has Sam Laporta at fifty one from Iowa and Derek Hall at eighty one from Auburn. Laporta we touched on that one earlier in the podcast, or I should say earlier last week. With Matt Waldman just an absolute maven with the ball in his hand. I think he can replace some of your receiver production because of his run after catch and his ability in the flat screen game, you know, short pass, his quarterback stands up, throws it out quick and go

break a tackle, go run around a block. He can do that stuff and then did enough you know in line in college to show you that he can handle that type of stuff. Most Iowa tight ends can. Most of those guys that can do that project is you know Day one early Day two picks. Then Derek Hall is a player I haven't put much time in two because he's an edge. And I cover this in the Friday Show when we talked about the mock that had

Yayah Diyabi mocked in Miami at fifty one. Again, draft good players, sure, that's always the rule, but also be aware that you have Jalen Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Emmanuel Ogba, Malik Reid, and Andrew Van Ginkel. I think all five of those guys can start on like at least one third of the teams in the league. The top three guys could start on nine tenths of the teams in the league. So I just don't see where the playing

time would be for a rookie at that spot. To me, Cameron Good is your development until edge guy for the year, so we'll see. I'm not going to discount anything, but just haven't watched a guy in a position I think Miami is not just set at probably the best in the NFL. At let's go ahead and take our last break right there and come back on the other side and talk about the Mike McDaniel appearance on the Mike

Silver podcast. I know I'm late, but I want to talk about something on that and then also a great story about where Emmanuel Ogba is right now. That's next Draftime podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation, So I know it was a week or two ago at this point, but I wanted to touch on the Mike McDaniel interview with Mike Silver from the owners meetings, the league meetings, whatever they're called these days. How good was that? If you don't had a chance to go back,

check it out. It's a really great sit down with someone who's friends with coach, which always makes for a

relaxed conversation. Right But if you're like me, and if you're listening to this you are like me, then you're fascinated by any level of detail, and he provides so much in the show, both into landing the job with the Dolphins, growing up with the great comedian Dan Soder, coach Fangio's influence, and working with him for a few weeks now or a few months now, working with Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Michael Floor, Matt Lafloor, just so good man. But the part I wanted to touch on was the

longest part of the interview. It's like a forty minute podcast with the story I'm gonna touch on here goes for seventeen minutes, and I'm not I'm sure most of you have heard this by now, but I had to talk about it since it was so how do I say this? Like the podcast isn't about me, right, but it kind of is. It's my show. I like to think that the personality is part of the reason you listen,

on top of the research and information you get. And those of you that have been on the journey since day one, remember the process of familiarizing myself with two A Tongavloa's game at Alabama. Now, like all of you, I remember the National Championship like like yesterday, but more

there was a game in twenty eighteen. Yeah, twenty eighteen against LSU, the game where they won like twenty two zip or something like that, and two have had that forty five yard touchdown run where he outran Patrick Queen to the end zone. There was a third and five conversion in that game that I will never forget because it seems totally innocuous. And I've posted an eclipse on Twitter before and people that don't get it don't get it.

But if you do, you get it that you can really divulge high level stuff from any single play if you look in the right places and if it's the right play that you're looking at. It was a speed out to the field against press coverage, outside leverage with inside help. That's a word, salad. I'm gonna explain it for you. So a speedout is a five yard out route, push up as fast as you can to the five yards and break your route off ninety degrees and kind

of angle back to the quarterback. It's designed to convert third and short to third medium. And it was to the field side, which is the wide side of the football field. So every single snap for the most part, happens on either hash mark right. Sometimes it's in the middle, but if you're operating on the left hash mark. The field is the right side, and the boundary is the

left short side boundary, wide side field right. The speed out to the field and you heard you heard Mike mcdonalley talk about this in the interview is one of the more difficult throws because those corners are squatting on that. It's a far distance for just a short amount of yards to gain and if they drive on it right,

it has a chance to get picked six. There was a throw last year to Waddle right before the Sherefield touchdown where Adam Archiletta about blue a gasket in terms of like that is a perfect throw from two of that that throw could not be more perfect. It takes a lot of gust or to make that throw. You guys know what I'm talking about. The one that was highing away from Denzel Ward where he's like four inches away from pick six in ye but it's a first down,

third and six instead high level quarterback ball placement. And on the third and five against LSU, that's speed out against coverage with the cornerback playing to the outside, which means the receiver has to get outside despite the fact that the cornerback is not letting him and has helped to the inside to help him make sure that receiver does not get outside. And you hear You'll hear McDaniel on the Silver podcast talk about two us out routes of the field like Spider Man me, man, Yeah, that's

what I was talking about. This throw against LSU showed two taking a drop from under center. Literally perfect footwork which has always been to a deal, got his throwing mechanics aligned to that throw and rips this confident shot against tight coverage to move the sticks in a critical drive. And he did it in a way that expedited his drop because it had to get out faster than what the timing of the route called for. And he did it.

He sped up the legs, sped out the drops, everything up in the play to make sure that ball got there. And it was right there where I realized this dude's special. Man. He's able to speed up his operation to account for a quick throw, which also in turn mitigates pressure. Right if I can get my feet under me, interrupting my drop minimizes the time that you have to get me down to the ground or put a hit on me.

That and the ball placement. Pocket management and ball placement, to me are the two most important categories in addition to processing speed for a quarterback. And we heard Nick Saban on ESPN Pluss Detail Show back when two was coming out in twenty twenty breakdown how Tua got to read that nobody else in that Alabama offense had ever done before him. And we hear Dan Orlovsky and Kurt

Warner and jt. O. Solivan and Josh McCown, all these great content creators and quarterback analysts who have done it before at a high level talk about those superpowers of vision and placement, anticipation, processing. It's all the most important parts about quarterback play. So to hear the story of McDaniel doing his two A deep dive as the new head coach and trying to figure out what do I have here exactly and going through that process. Man, that's

me when I fall in love with the prospect. I'm taking clips off my phone. I'm showing everybody I know who loves this team, Like look at this rep can you believe this? Look at this throw? Look at look at the way got away from pressure. Look at how he threw this ball away on second down and created a third down chance and then ripped it and hit

it like that. Passion is really the origin story of the podcast and hearing coach go through those paces of texting Anne Nolan, of texting Chris Career, staying up all night waiting for the staff to get in the morning because he couldn't go to bed, gathering them all and saying, hey, let's check us out. We're gonna watch this seven hundred play clip that I put together because we have something

special and here's how we can maximize it. Who among you out there was on the Twitter Spaces show last March when we had Jeff Darlington on the podcast or the space, I'm sorry. We had just traded for Tyreek Hill and signed to Ron Armstead and Darlington said, those were great moves, but just you watch. The biggest impact this offseason for the Dolphins will be the addition of Mike McDaniel and that empowering your uber gifted quarterback, surrounding

him with the pieces that maximize his strength. Well, that's how you wind up with the number six offense in the NFL. If you haven't heard it, it's produced by a company called The Volume. It's Mike Silver Show Open Mic. You can find it on YouTube. He talks about Tyreek last summer really going to bat for his new quarterback, and the origin story of that phase was coach showing Tyreek the tape and Tyrek being like, Okay, yeah, this dude can play a little bit. I just think it's

really cool to get this perspective. When back then on social we saw so many comments about this hype train getting out of hand. Why are the Dolphins doing this about Tuah? Why is Tyreek doing this with Tuah? The truth was is because it was true, is it? I mean you need more than that. It was based in hours and days and weeks of research and deep diving from experts in the field, not Joe YouTube on Twitter, and as someone who has staked reputation on similar claims,

a lot less at stake. I don't no one cares if I'm right or wrong to keep my job, But it takes a lot of gusto to go against the grain like that and then to get paid off. That will send anybody that has imposter syndrome. It's going right to the sidelines like I'm the real deal. It's how you feel when you get that hit and it feels like McDaniel got that hit at the quarterback position. Great story. Go check out the podcast. You do not want to miss that. If you're a Dolphins fan. Let's go ahead

and close with this. The NFL's NFL Africa Program is expanding into Kenya as the league continues to invest in growing the game at all levels across the continent. One of our own is heading that way for a showcase for talent identification. Emmanuel Ogbas roots traced back to Legos, Nigeria before he moved to Houston with his family at the age of nine, and in fact, I wrote a feature on Emmanuel back in twenty twenty entitled Emmanuel Ogbas

Following his Father's Humble Footsteps. Go check that out if you have not read that before. With more than one hundred and twenty five players of African descent born in Africa or first generation born in the US from fifteen countries across the continent currently playing in the NFL, a talent identification camp for promising youth athletes will take place

this month in Kenya. Twenty nine prospects age sixteen to twenty one from African nations including Cameroon, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Senegal will take part in a three day NFL Combine style camp to showcase their skills. Participants will be competing for invites to the NFL International Combine, NFL International Player Pathway Program, or the opportunity to join the NFL Academy in the UK as part of league efforts to advance pathways to play in the NFL for international athletes.

So be on the lookout for content and photos from Emmanual in the coming days and weeks, or from us as well. We'll have some stuff recapping the trip on our website. Also kind of a cool feather in the cap for how the program is growing and performing in a satisfactory way. The NFL's ongoing football development efforts in Ghana saw a youth NFL flag team represent the nation in the NFL International Flag Football Championships at the twenty

twenty three Pro Bowl Games. That team, despite only having learned the game a few months earlier, made the semi finals of the ten team competition. So there's some talent out there, man, and they're gonna try to find it. An Emmanual is going to be part of that as well, so that's my time tomorrow, the great Joe Marino breaking down the offensive line class for us in the twenty twenty three draft. It's going to be almost exclusively draft experts from here forward up until Draft Day, but until

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