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All of that and more, including the acquisition of a certain wide receiver we'll talk about Odell Beckham from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This

is the Drive Time Podcast. Daffy Fus. You know, the best part of the fact that you're listening to a May sixth edition of the Draft Time Podcast is the fact that the NFL, or rather your Miami Dolphins, have tent pole events essentially every week from now up until like June eighth, we get schedule released coming up, we get Rookie Mini Camp, and by the end of May we have Miami Dolphins football practice to cover, which as most of you know, is kind of my specialty here

on the Draft Time Podcast. I feel like there's so much to look forward to look forward to. I remember telling myself late last season, I cannot imagine getting up for camp practices this year after the way this season ended. But as it usually goes, that flips and here we are after you know, the blackest Monday in Dolphins history, and the roster looking the way it does now. I am probably as excited for this year as I've ever been because doing this exercise, doing this project, going up

and down the roster, it's loaded. Man, it's as loaded, and just from a rookie mini caamp standpoint, I cannot wait to watch the two rookie draft picks at that mini camp. I remember last year how from the first damn rep you could tell a cham was different, a different gear. I recall seeing Cam Smith look at the most fluid defender on the football field. Now that translates to reps and playing time, it did not, But I

think he can still play. So seeing the two Washington's Malik and Toadje run their routes next weekend or this weekend, I should say the nuance of their route running in person, watching how Patrick Paul moves around the field and our first look at his technique in person, how Chop Robinson uses his burst plus his hands, the suddenness of Jalen Wright, and the get off of Moe Kamara, watching Patrick McMorris fly down the field on special teams, and then of

course just getting to know these UDFA is a little bit better. I am fired up man. But first, before that, let's conclude part two of the post draft roster reset

series and talk about this defense. But before that, even before all that, I was done with the edge which portion of this rundown when I saw the Odell Beckham news pretty cool reporting out there via Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, who, for my money continues to be the best man on the beat, that the Dolphins set a price point and eventually agreed to go up in their negotiations and incentives to compromise with what Odell Beckham

and his representation was looking for. Per Marcel Louis Jock a one year, three million dollar deal for Odell Beckham. The Bills are out there signing Chase Claypool and spending the thirty third pick in the draft on a guy that can't get open, and paying more than that for that pick, for that matter, one year three million incentives up to eight point twenty five million, So he could definitely set it off and get those numbers. But I

hope he does that. And he also said he wanted to play here for Mike McDaniel and the Miami Dolphins and took less to do that. I mean, the trend is impossible to ignore. I know this. You can make everything about the quarterback where you can talk about how this team is not a destination or it's not in the right direction. You can talk about how much you

despise the moves and the GM. But the league will tell you, man, the league will tell you, and they have told you so far here with this year's Dolphins. And now I get to share my film notes with y'all on Odell Beckham, who when I watched him on tape about a month and a half or two months ago, I saw a great balance. I saw a fantastic body control and footwork at the top of the route with

a springy step out of that first break. He's a willing blocker, no block, no rock in this offense right, he had a key block on a long Z Flowers touchdown catch and run. He has long or his long speed has decreased a little bit since his prime, but he does have that second gear to accelerate past a flat footed cornerback. And that's how Tua throws his anticipation in deep shots anyways. He wants to see a cornerback squatting and the receiver being three yards on the wrong

side of that cornerback. Let that thing fly with trajectory and let the receiver go flag it down. It's how we had all of our exposive plays last year. Essentially, his release package wins, especially on the perimeter against press, with the ability to stack from that position stand out in a big, big way. He's just a great route

runner still at the stage of his career. I don't love the body language all the time, and that's why I think some of the production last year can be attributed to the offense or the quarterback he played with Lamar Jackson, one of the best quarterbacks in the league.

But he's not a timing, rhythm passer who can find a great route runner in those slots like Matthew Stafford did with Odell Beckham when he was at his peak, or even Eli Manning with the Giants when he was still kicking around and he still had his plus ability as an anticipatory thrower with accuracy. Who's how the defense like, that's the type of quarterback that Odell Beckham needs, and that's the kind of quarterback. Odell Beckham gots into a

tongue by low. But the body language did bother me because you would see him get opened by a half step, or the mailbox would go up right, the arm goes up, Hey, I'm open, and that slows a receiver down. He also would display frustration when he didn't get the rep on like a takeoff where he felt like he was open.

So that's the part that kind of concerns me, is how does he mesh to a locker room where he's not the first option or the second option, or the third option or maybe even the fourth option when you take kick into account. The receiver's running backs and tight ends. But again, the route running reminds me of Tyreek Hill in the sense that he doesn't shortcut the details and he helps expand the defense the way the concepts are designed to do that. Tyreek does that, Jalen does that,

Malik does that, TODJ. Washington does that, and Odell Beckham does that. He has the nuances in his game to get to his route when it is explicitly taken away, like you're gonna play outside leverage against an outroute, He's still gonna find a way to get to that part of the field. He also knows when to throttle tempo in order to get the rest of the concept and play out the way it's supposed to. Ie. Don't blow past a two man bracket and let their attention get elsewhere.

Absorb the attention, run your route to the fullest, and create the space the defense wants to give the rest of the football field. He's shifty with the ball in his hands, catches a speed out on a a play that I watch against a cover three off cornerback, and then makes that cornerback miss and gets fifteen more yards. That's what Malak Washington did at Virginia. That's what Tyreek Hill does, That's what Jaalen Wadell does, It's what Odell

Beckham does. With him on the perimeter, teams are not gonna be able to get lax on those routes and just clamp down ten seventeen when they go inside. He's quick enough to win double moves and his release to get on top of that. I think the versatility it provides your offense because when you had you know, I still think Malik Washington is a very good candidate to

be the number three receiver on this football team. But when you want to go eleven personnel and you want to put Reagan Waddle inside, you can't really do that with Malik Washington because he's almost exclusively a slot receiver. Beckham gives you a guy that can play the perimeter and get more reps inside for those guys. Man, I'm fired up, guys. I always love a detour back to

the offense. Let's go ahead, though, and get back to those podcast was supposed to go here on the defensive side of the football, and I continue to be fascinated by Anthony Weaver and what the staff might cook up

come game days in twenty twenty four. I think the roster building gives you context clues based upon his history, where he's been, who he's learned from, And I think maybe collectively we make a little bit of a mistake by assuming it's just going to be a carbon copy of what the Ravens did, because it's probably not going to be that. But I think that can be a little bit like short sighted in terms of he wasn't

the DC there. He was a defensive line coach, so he has his own ideas and his own thoughts, and he talked about his influen and says back at his introduction press conference in the middle of February.

your players are going to react the same way. So I tried very much to be the same guy every single day, and I really don't have to try. It's truly just who I am, right, and then just constantly making sure we're trying to get one percent better, which requires one hundred percent effort every day. But I think as long as you're on that constant chase to get better, eventually you'll get to where you.

so much respect for how he walks and operates. Was much different than any coach I'd been around prior, and really confirmed what I was doing to myself because I was like, this is how I envisioned myself operating, and obviously it works and you can have success doing it.

using big bodies for your end positions like heavy tackle ends. There's a lot of principles and I think track with the moves you've seen in this offseason. So without further ado, let's go ahead and get to the room that Weaver came from upfront, a defensive lineman himself, and a coach in that position group in particular, the big boys on the interior led by our star defensive tackle. That's what

he is, Zach Seeler. So the cast in this room Sealer, Tart Galimore, Deshan Hann, Benito Jones, Jonathan Harris, Isaiah Max, Davion Nixon, Brandon Peeley, and Leonard Payne is the UDFA. The coaches in that room are Austin Clark and his assistant is new this year. Kinji Cotton departures, Wilkins is gone, Davis is gone, Justin Ellis and Byron Cowart are all gone. The arrivals are the guys we just talked about, Tart, Galimore, Harris, Bonito, Mack, Nixon, and Payne. It's a lot of new names in there

right this room. At a glance, look, Sealer is the straw that stirs the drink here? How good has this guy been? Matt? Maybe he's talked about more in circles that I don't see, But did anybody have a quieter double digit sax season last year? Do you guys know who the defensive tackles are that had templus sacks last season? Justin Matdabuicke who just got a hundred million bucks. Chris Jones is the best defensive tackle in the NFL. And

Zach Sealler that's it, baby. And how about eight hundred and fifty six snaps in twenty twenty three and seventy seven snaps in twenty twenty two, good for seventy eight and seventy seven percent of your overall workload. So you have that, but how do you build around it? Well, he's going to beat any one on one block you put in front of him. His length allows him to

hold the point, read disengage in two gap. But he's also got the brute power and surge to really hold his own and penetrate as a one gapper and control things that way. But I think the best part of him is all the selfless, selfless work that he does creating chances for others in this defense. Watch Christian Wilkins a sack real four of the nine that he had are on games, rush games, twists and stunts and slants, and three of those four are him looping off the

work of Zach Seeler. So when I look at how we can get similar pressure, I think about Tierre Tart and his explosiveness from that three technique or even the one technique inside. I think about Neville Gallimore going back to the three tech he played at Oklahoma and how much better he was there and how quick he was getting off the football compared to being a nose tackle at three hundred pounds who didn't play that way in Dallas. So I think there's a good reason to believe you can.

It will generate the pressure inside with the absence of Wilkins by really empowering Sealer and recreating Wilkins's skills in the aggregate. Now watching that tape back, it's you're not gonna replace Wilkins. He was so freaking good man, But gotta find a way to do it because you got better in other parts of your football team. You're gonna have to find ways to get these guys up to part. It kind of reminds me of Moneyball in a lot of ways. I keep saying, recreate him in the aggregate.

But what Moneyball doesn't mention when they tell you about Jeremy Giambi or Scott Hadiberg or Chad Bradford, is that, Oh yeah, they had three cy youngs on their rotation with Tim Mudson, Mark Tim Hudson, Mark Molder and Barry Zito. And they also had the MVP in Miguel Toohatta. And they also had the best third basement of the league in what was his first name, Eric Chavez. Like that's the part of Moneyball no one seems to remember. But

that's the Dolphins right now. And what we're going to talk about here at the end of the show as I break down my position, my color coordinated depth chart that I have for you guys, and maybe we'll do it if it's three man prediction. I'm not sure that it seems early for that. But anyway, back on point here to the point about koreating that recreate and the aggregate. I love Tart as a nose tackle and Benito Jones is the only guy that weighs three hundred and thirty

plus pounds on the roster. But I just I don't see it. I don't see it in the game there. They both have had some success, Benito, It's like zero technique better be a running play right here, otherwise you're not going to get much production there. But I'm curious to see what Jonathan Harris's role is. I think he's also a best suited for the three technique that's kind of on the Broncos tape as a limited role there.

I think DeShawn Hand is kind of the underrated piece here, but he was really good last year and I think earned more reps this season despite not getting a lot of playing time last year. And again, as long as Zach is doing what he does, we're going to be just fine. But again, I don't think that the nose tackle spot is is kind of my concern, which is obviously where the question is there on this team or on this position group, which gets us into the questions

portion of the interior defensive line. First, obviously, you know Zach. You say, if Zach is there will be just fine. What if he's not there? What if something happens to Zach. It's a fair question. Grant he hasn't missed a game as a Dolphin in four plus years, and I would also assert the same question exists in the last two years, especially last year, when we had no depth beyond Christian Zach, Raikwan and Deshaan Hann, like there was nobody else that

could play those roles. I think next, who's the backup to Benito and run stuffing situations? I don't even like the start of there, So that's kind of a tough one for me. That's kind of the one spot of the football team, the nose tackle that I just don't I fly out, don't like who's gonna be the zero tech baarfront, heavy front. Look, I just don't know who the resolution is there. He's the only one on the

roster of that size. But I'm curious if it's something that also tr Tarkann because he did do it for the Titans. He's just a little bit undersized. But I just don't think we're big enough at nose tackle. The camp battles here seems safe to assume a lot of playing time is up for grabs. You've got to replaced eight hundred and fifty snaps from last year, right, and I do like the idea of breaking it down piece

by piece. To me, Tart gets the first crack of the biggest chunk of those reps just because of how I think his skill set translates here. But between he, Benito, Deshaan Hann, Neville, Harris, all the new who earns time there one of the most intriguing groups to watch during this entire training camp for your Miami Dolphins. Let's go ahead and mark our first break rate there. Come back on the other side, do the edge off ball, linebackers, corners,

and safeties. And we're also going to do my entire roster evaluation based upon how I stack up each player against the rest of the league. That's next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,

segment two of a Monday, Busy Monday show. Here of the Draft Time Podcast breaking down the Dolphins defense, taking a look at the entire roster post draft, and we pick it back up here off the Edge, where the cast of players is Chubb Phillips, Barrett Good, Quentin Bell, Chop Robinson, Mohammed Kamara, Cam Brown, and Grayson Murphy are the udfas here. The coach is Ryan Crow, which he has already gained plenty of latitude in that room, in that building, because he is very very well thought of.

Your departures are Andrew Van Ginkel. That's the one I cry for. That's the only one that I'm really super sad about. Besides really besides Christian Wilkins on the entire defense, Emmanuel Agba, Melvin Ingram, Malik Reid, Justin Houston, and Bruce Irvin, who hopefully can go have their party in the Casey locker room after a playoff loss. Arrivals Barrett chop Kamara

and the udfas Brown and Murphy. I feel very convicted as the rum at a glance here in the thought that this is the best edge group in the NFL when everybody is healthy, so by no later than Halloween, maybe earlier. We don't have definitive timelines, but I do know. I'm watching JP and Bradley Chubb rehab and work out every day during these practices, and they look great. Man, they look they You wouldn't be able to tell they were coming off season ending injuries and major surgery. But

we'll find out how that works. I still think I think Chubb maybe a little bit later into the year, but not that far. I think JP probably starts reopening. That's my guess. I raved about this all last training camp with these two guys. How good of a job they did collectively in Chubb and Phillips defending the edge of a running game that gets to that spot as well as any team, any offense in the National Football League, and how they also could do that while being very

effective rushers of the quarterback. Frankly, I wouldn't take another tandem over them. Give me Garrett whoever you want, give me what whoever you want. Give me Chubb and Phillips over all those guys, freaky athletes who are massively large human beings that can play three downs, can play seven hundred and fifty snaps for you, can play with speed and power, can condense inside, and in case you forgot, they're twenty five and twenty seven years old. Man, we

are lucky in this group. And then you get Shaq Barrett, who is the best human I've met I think in football. I met him once and he blew me away in his first season off an achilles injury. Last year, he just got better and got stronger that you went along. I think there's still plenty left from the tank for this dude, who I think is on balance right now a better player than Van Ginkle. Go ahead and see that.

I like both of them, but I think Shaq Barrett's a better player right now, especially as a rusher, and whether it's full time or spelling the guys coming back from the injury early on, I think there's a role here that's akin to Ginks as like kind of that third guy in the room. But then it's the development of the rookies that could really take this group to that next level. I legit think could argue that Chopp was the best scheme fit of the entire first round

of the draft. Just wait until you see him mug up in the A gap for the first time this season and put utter stress on some poor, unassuming center and just like that. I thought it was a concern of depth at defensive tackle last year. Same here in that we only really had Cam Good as a young developmental type at the edge. Group. Enter Mo Kamara, who

I'm stoked about what he offers. We're deep, we have rushers, we have size, we have length, athleticism one of the best rooms in the entire National Football League from money, the questions here, the only question is when these guys are all on the field one hundred percent. I think any other questions are those concerned with frivolous luxuries, elite elite group here in Miami. The position battles playing time in that third role when everyone's healthy. Is it going

to be Barrett? Is it going to be Chopped? Can Chop push Stack? Can Moe push both of them? Can Cam Good get back in there from his pre injury form and continue his development? These are good battles, and I think the lack of analysis in the questions and battles portion just tells you how good side of the football is. Off ball linebackers. The cast here Jordan Brooks, David Long Junior, Anthony Walker Junior, Duke Riley, Channing Tyndall, and Zeke Vandenberg. Your coach is Joe Berry. He's also

the run game coordinator. Your departures here are Jerome Baker, Calvin Munson, and AJ Johnson, while your arrivals are Brooks and Walker Junior. The room at a glance, it's been

completely remade from what it was two years ago. David Long was the best in the group last year for my money, and I think they only continues to get better with more time here, albeit in a different scheme and the translatable thing for him to me though, and what Jordan Brooks also brings is the ability to play the run from light boxes, a principle of the Fangio

scheme that has really infiltrated the entire NFL. I mean, if you're gonna play dB heavy packages, you have to have quick linebackers who can process and get vertical and get to the perimeter. That's Brooks, that's long. And if you're going to simulate pressures and make everyone a blitz target, a blitz candidate, well a few players get downhill better than those two guys do. Brooks I think is the best cover backer in the business outside of Fred Warner.

I'd definitely give it to Fred Warner, but anybody else, it's a very short list. His ability to get vertical and take away that eighteen yard hook throw changes the way offenses have to play against you now. Walker brings a little more sizzle to his game, something more of an e rob type of player in the way that he bangs between the b gaps, but there's a little more buzz and a lot more speed there with him.

I think there's a good chance that that's your three backer base look when you go that way, but you do that like literally two percent of the plays in the season. But I don't think we've had a better one, two, three off ball linebacker in Miami since fifty four was here. And that's not really even counting, you know, like Marlon Greenwood. It's just because Zach was here. They were so good. Some questions I have, I mean, what could you possibly

have here? You've got two guys who can and have played seven hundred plus snaps, who can cover, who can blitz, who can play the run game, You've got depth, You've got special teams. It's a loaded room. The question I do have is can Channing Tendall play football? I mean, he was drafted as a four hundred snap guy in college and it just hasn't worked for him so far.

I'm not sure it's a question because it kind of feels like we already have the answer there off of a red shirt rookie season where he played a couple of snaps in one game and never saw the field. Again, then another coach who I didn't care for, but he also said nope on changing Tendall, and then an aw season that saw two big signings. I think they're writing probably on the wall there for your was he fourth round pick or third round pick a couple of years ago?

The battles here. Copy and paste the edge portion. I feel pretty good about what this will look like in terms of pecking order, but you also get surprises all the time, so don't write down in pen But I just think this is one of the most well balanced rooms on the team. Does not leave a ton open to interpretation. Let's go ahead and do cornerbacks here. Sorry, I'm clicking the mouse and trying to figure out my

spot on the rundown before our last break. So the cast at cornerback is Ramsey Fuller, Coohu Needham Smith, Neil Bonner your udfas or Storm Duck great name, by the way, and Isaiah Johnson. Your coaches. Matthew Rougo is a cornerbacks coach, pass game coordinator Brian Duker. Departures in the room are Xavier Howard, Justin Bethel, Keon Crossen, and Perry Nickerson. And the arrivals are Kendall, Fuller, Saran Neil, and then the UDFA is Duck and Johnson, Storm Duca Johnson. It's like

a long name. Never mind, So the room at a glance, imagine that another room with the Dolphins got better this offseason. First, please give me seventeen games of Jaylen Ramsey this year because things were just different with him. And please give me more matchups of Ramsey traveling. I mean, we saw what he did to Garrett Wilson no catches on twenty four man coverage reps in a game last year, with Ramsey taking him out of the game as a shadow. Weaver.

Anthony Weaver has already talked about how it's doing yourself a disservice if you don't utilize Ramsey's versatility. And he's not just the best perimeter cornerback on the team, he's also the best slot cornerback on the team. He can blitz, he loves to come up and play the run. He

could even be a big nickel. If you want to go with a Fuller and Smith Campsmith cornerback package that has Holland, Poyer and Ramsey as your three safeties, I just think this group is better all around, and a big part of that is the addition of Kendall Fuller, with obviously Ramsey's health because everything I said about Ramsey's versatility that also applies to Kendall Fuller. We can dictate matchups back there. I love the length of tackling the ball,

skills and the depth. More on that in the battles here, because the questions is the next portion of this room. I keep seeing concern over Miami's defense and national outlets and just going over this all or I guess the needs they have. And frankly, the only position we don't really know about is like defensive tackle depth beyond like two or three, and then the safety depth because the edge and their health is a concern. I get that, But what are the questions there besides health? What are

the questions at off ball linebacker? What are your questions at cornerback? They don't exist. I don't have any. We have the best in the game, Like we have another top the best cornerback in the game, We have another top ten cornerback. I think Cam Smith can play, and I guess that's the one, Like do how does he play? Or how does cater Cooho bounce back? From a down second year after a great rookie year. Is Nick Needam

ready to fully contribute? What about Ethan Bonner? I mean, my god, we have like six dudes here that I think can start on several teams in the National Football League. My battles I'm looking forward to. I think they found something in Ethan Bonner. I really do. But this might be one of the best battles of all the camp. Who earns the right to be the third cornerback they call upon beyond Ramsey and Fuller, And don't just think of it as who is best inside. Your third corner

could be an exclusive perimeter player. Because of the versatility of Ramsey and Fuller. It creates a better your camp battle is more wide cast because of that. You don't have to pigeonhole these guys. So whether it's cam Cater, Needham or Bonner, I just love the options we have there. And then you have three guys that could step in and play it as backups in my opinion. Oh and real quick, if you can summack it, go watch the Week four game in Buffalo and watch all of our

punt returns. There wasn't many of them that day, but go watch siran Neil blow up all those punt returns by himself. Just FYI, let's go ahead and take our last break right there. Come back on the other side, We're gonna do the safeties, and I'll tell you about how I evaluate the entire roster right now on May the sixth. That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,

brought to you by Auto Nation. One more group to do here in our part two assessment of the roster, taking a look at the Dolphins post draft twenty twenty four entire breakdown here the safety group, the cast Javon Holland, Jordan Poyer, Elijah Campbell, Patrick McMorris and a couple of u DFAs and Mark Perry and Jordan Colbert. The coaches, dB and pass game specialist Ryan Slowick moves out from outside linebackers, and he has an assistant this year in

DB's coach, DeShawn shed. The departures are Brandon Jones and to Shaun Elliott, and the arrivals are Jordan Poyer and a couple of udfas and Colbert and Perry. This whole thing is built around another player who reminds me of Ramsey and fuller in Javon Holland. Yes, his injury was kind of devastating to the Dolphins defense down the stretch, but we need his versatility and I hope we see more of that big nickel shrew slot blitz, play down in the box, go for and edge a jet sweep.

But his best role to me is reading from the post imo in my opinion. But I don't want to pigeonhole him there either. I think that him and Poyer together and how they see the field together is the best part of the And if player's got some more juice in the tank, they are going to confuse some quarterbacks and take the football away. But there's questions back here right now. Do we have a proven third here?

We don't. I mean, every other spot has proven starters, proven depth, and just a laundry list of guys you feel good about. Besides here a defensive tackle, but we don't have it here. We have seen Campbell be a dynamo on special teams with the occasional defensive rep. But then it's a rookie in McMorris who I didn't care for his college state. Beyond special teams, you get the sense this could be a spot they're not done with.

And how given how active Chris career is every summer, every cutdown day, there's going to be someone else out of here. There's no way they go into here with this collection of players here, but the camp battles. I just don't think we're done here. So it's a little bit of bad faith. But right now it's Campbell and McMorris for third safety duties. I mean that right there tells you you probably have more work to do in

the room. So there you go. The defensive assistance. We didn't mention as a particular position group Matthew O'Donnell and Sean Ryan. And then on special teams it's the same across the board, Blake, Jason and Jake. I don't know why, but it is. And then coach cross spend a Ronnie Bradford a new assistant in the room there as well. All right, I teased it for you guys off the top,

the roster assessment. Remember the old white board. New fans don't recall this, but locked on Dolphins, I just have an image of the whiteboard that got updated all the time. I would stack the roster in terms of where I view these players in terms of their league wide rank. So here's how I grade players. It's the same as it's always been. So blue is your blue chip, right your elite, your top fives at the position, the most dominant players in the game. That's the number one spot

you want to be. Your second quality player tier is pro bowl plus starter, top ten, fringe type of guy like right in that range on the precipice of being an elite player but not quite there yet. That's a green player. And then orange is a quality starter above replacement level, a guy that you feel good about it if he's in your lineup as long as you have some greens and blues around him. And then the black mark, the black indication is replacement level, progress stopper, just kind

of a guy who's there. A good example of a black player is Durham Smith likes he's right around the Mendoza line, if you will. Purple is developmental or special teams, like if fallows one of one of those two categories, which basically means I think you're either just a special teamer or there's some hope in terms of your development. There.

We'll have to differentiate those as we go through the list here and then red is you haven't played it at all in the National Football League, you're a UDFA, or I just think you flat out can't play. Let's go ahead and do these all here real quick. At quarterback, we have four guys. I have two as the green category, the second one the plus starter, pro Bowl, top ten type of guy, and then White is in the replacement

level progressed oopper or just kind of there. And then I have two red players I don't believe they can play or UDFA with Skyler and the UDFA harders in it. Running back, I have a Chan as a blue chip player. I think he's gonna be that guy for us this year. I think he's Chris Johnson two point zero hereheem mostert to me is a green, a pro bowler, a top ten guy. And then I put Jillan Wright as an

orange player. The third the third demarcation here, which is one of the three good ones you want to be. I think he's gonna be that good this year, but I'm I think has every opportunity to climb up to the green category. And then I put both Brooks and ac in that replacement level kind of just their type of category. And then I put Jeff Wilson as red. I like Jeff Wilson, but I don't think he's a fit here for what we want to do in terms of all the speed he has in front of him.

And then at fullback Ingold to me's a green player Pro Bowl Plus Starter, Top ten whatever. That's kind of different for fullbacks, but to me, he's in the green category. At receiver, Riek is blue, Blue, Chipper Wattles green Pro Bowl Plus Starter Top ten guy. And then I have Beckham and Malik Washington is Orange players. I just think you're both really going to be valuable, valuable fits here.

And then the next couple of guys I'm not sure on, but I put black replacement level of progress starter starter just there on Azukama, Taj Washington, and River Craycraft. We'll find out how that plays out. And then I put special teams on Barrios, and then red categories for the other four guys Sanders, Schwartz, Sexon, and Burton. At tight end. I have John hu and Fortson as Orange quality starter above replacement level players. We've got Durham Smyth as the

black category. Purple is going to be sorry, I'm getting text right now, my purple tight end is Julian Hill. I think he's developmental still, and then I have Con and Roochie. The UDFA is red. We'll find out about those guys. At tackle, I have both Armstead and Jackson as that green category the Pro Bowl top ten level, and yes, Austin Jackson was a top ten right tackle for me my money last year. Kendall Lamb is orange.

I think he's a quality starter above replacement level, and then purple is both Keon Smith and Patrick Paul who I have as full developmental guys still at the stage of their career, and then red as Hayes and Mattos. Will find out about those guys no playing time so far. Interior offensive line, Brewer and Winner both orange, which that's for the roster concerns here, right you have two orange and then three black for me replacement level just kind

of there. That's Eikenberg, Rob Jones, and Jack Driscoll, and then I have Lester Cotton is also in that category with Chasen Hines and the two udfas Jones and Mayer as red. On the interior defensive line, Steeler is green. I could push him into blue with another year, just like last year, but there's a lot of good defensive tackles in the league, so I won't go that far.

Tart is orange that third category, and then I have four guys in the Black category replacement level hand Gallimore, Harris, and Benito, with Peelee, Nicks in Mac, and pain all in the Red category. Off the edge. Phillips is a blue chip player for me. I thought he was there last year when he got hurt. I think he'll get there once he gets back. I have Chubb just beyond that in the Green category, right behind Chubb in that pecking order, and then I have Shaq and Chop both

in the orange categories. We have four guys here from me here in the top three categories where you want to be, and then I have Kamara and Good in the purple categories, with Bell and Murphy as the red categories. Inside linebackers, I have Brooks and Long in the in the green category Pro Bowl level caliber players top ten players their position plus starters, and then in the black categories Anthony Walker Junior, Developmental slash special teams which for

rally special teams. That's where Duke Riley falls, and then Tyndall and Vandenberg in the red category. At cornerback, I've got Ramsey and Fuller as the elite top five at their position player. I think they're both so dang good. I have cam Cater, Needham, and Bonner all in the orange category, although I expect one of those four to elevate into the green category. So I have two blue chippers and I think I'm gonna get a green guy by the end of the end of the year. Like

cornerback room is loaded. Then I have Neil's a purple special teamer, and then the two udfhas are red. That's what they're always going to be for me heading into the year. Holland is green, not quite a blue chip yet. Poyer is orange, just hanging onto that before he goes back to black if another down year this year. And then two developmental slash special teamers in Campbell and mc morris, and the two udfas excuse me, Colbert and Perry are

both red. So the breakdown of the roster is this, I have five blue chip players in the roster, eight Chan, Reek, Phillips, Ramsey, and Fuller. I have eleven green players to Moster Ingold Wattle, Armstead, Jackson, Seler, Chubb, Brooks, Long Holland This rosters loaded, guys, Orange. I have sixteen guys, so that gives you thirty two players that are quality starters or better. Five are top five of their position, and eleven more guys are top ten. Yeah, the window

is closed black Monday, YadA YadA yah. I've got sixteen players in the black category, ten Purple players and twenty six red players. So there you go. We're gonna come back on Wednesday. I might have mister Odell Beckham with me on the podcast. We'll find out about that, and maybe some more rookies heading into the weekend here with Ricky Mini Camp. We have lots to come your way here on the Drivet Time Podcast. In the meantime, that's

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