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into the mailbag. I have a bunch of your questions here ready to roll in the post post first wave, first couple of weeks of free agency. Here on the off season calendar. And speaking of the off season, the program kicks off today in Miami Gardens. We'll talk about that and the mailbag here on this edition of the Drift Time Podcast from somewhere in South Florida. This is that's right, the Drivetime Podcast. So the off season program

kicking off today. Now, the off season schedule or program has evolved in recent years as the NFL tends to do. We talked about that in the Friday podcast about how much I appreciate the NFL's ability to recognize things that can be improved upon, fixed or just you know, ideas they want to work out with new rule changes and things of that nature. And I think that's one of the best things about this league. And with the offseason program,

you've got different phases that kick off with weights and conditioning. Uh, then you finally get to some on field work without pads. You know, some stuff like routes on air and you guys know, our social team is going to have the content to get you through this football lists portion of the calendar, Like football is twelve years around, right, Dolphins football is for sure too, and we've all been enjoying

the player acquisition period. But now as you get into the spring and summer months where there's not a lot of on field product outside of the O t A practice is which is what we go by, right, we get what gets us through this part of the calendar alongside baseball, the basketball playoffs, um, the World Cup just had their draw last week as well, Go USA. But this content is what we all look forward to more

than anything else. And you know, our social team is going to have you covered on that stuff and the new guys in the aquand orange and just keep that excitement building and rolling right into training camp. Since I know all of you, just like me, are absolutely dying for football. So then after those we get the rookie mini camps and eventually O t A s and before you know it, that little summer break and then right back for training camp when the season unofficially officially really begins.

I mean, truth be told, there's what there's like twelve different days in the calendar where we always say the league starts today. The new league years the one of them. The start of O t A is one of them, The start of training campus one, the sort of the regular or preseason is one of them. The start of the regular season is also one of them. But we

love checking those boxes along the way. And we'll have you covered here on drivetime on Miami Dolphins dot com, on Twitter, on Instagram, on YouTube, everywhere that we are. We are everywhere. We'll have Dolphins content for you on this Miami Dolphins offseason program, so keep an eye out for that. And today on the podcast, we're just doing the mail bag. You know, talk about improving yourself and

bettering your show or your product. One thing I want to do better this year is get to more of your questions because I always found a way to get the mailbag on the podcast last year, but it was always I always felt like I was leaving questions on the field because you guys put out so many of them, and I appreciate that so much. I want to go ahead and make sure we get more comprehensive here and get to more of your questions. And we have a bunch to get to today, So why don't we go

ahead and start that off? As probably reason I'm talking so fast right now, slow it down, Travis, and I want to kick it off here with the iTunes reviews, the Apple podcast reviews, because we haven't read those in a while, and you guys have put some good ones up there. Let's go ahead and start with this one and this Ski Balls nine oh three. Man, what a great review this was. I really appreciate this. Five stars.

I have only recently began listening to podcasts, and of course, first and foremost, I started searching for good sources for all my sports teams Drive Time, more specifically, Travis Wingfield himself is the best of all I've listened to across the board. Travis gives you all the inside information on players the team in the NFL, as it pertains to the Dolphins. Not only that he does it with such a personality that is professional but also far from dry.

You can tell how passionate he is about this team, the organization, and his pride in his work. It makes for an amazing balance and makes the podcast not only informative and insightful, but also enjoyable and easy to listen to. I agree with the piece of another review I read, You're not truly a Dolphins fan if you're not listening to this podcast. Keep up the great work. Fins up check is in the mail, sir. Thank you so very much. That was so kind of you to say. Next one

here from Sparks, is this Cameron Sparks. If it is how you doing, man, appreciate listening to the show. And if you're not Cameron Sparks, we also appreciate that too. But one stop shot for every Dolphins fan. If you think you're a Dolphins fan and you don't into the Dolphins Podcast, then you're not really a Dolphins fan. Travis follows every aspect of the team inside and out and

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and life stories. Do not miss this podcast. I feel like the last these last two reviews again, I go back to that I've talked about before, that scene on Forgetting Sarah Marshall with Paul Rudd and no no no no no, yeah, no, no no, Jason Siegel and Russell Brand out in the in the in the ocean getting ready to surf, and Russell Brand tells him he's like this dark Neil Diamond, goth Neil Diamond type of vibe. He's like, that's exactly what I'm going for. Those last

two reviews, That's exactly what I'm going for. So I appreciate you guys so very much. This one from Zack C twelve is this Zack Colin from perfect Ville could be if not, we appreciate it to best Dolphins coverage out there. This show rocks and every way you can imagine. And Travis is a wizard behind the mic. Keep it up, man, thank you. We'll do our best here. So I appreciate those, right ins, those reviews. Here's a two star review from Dolly Miami one. Mike McDaniel interview coach has a real

analytical approach. I love this guy already, but two stars. It was that a mistake. I don't know. We don't hold it against you, but sincerely, guys, those those Apple podcast reviews, the podcast reviews in general, even if it's a one star review, really helps us get more discoverability.

And that's all we ask of you here on Drive Time is just to help grow our brand and help us get out to more Dolphins fans, because according to the reviews, I think a lot of Dolphins fans have agree this is a good podcast to learn about your team. That's what I'm going for at least, and if we get more discoverability out there, it only helps us grow and that really really helps me and the entire idea

here behind Drivetime. So we appreciate you guys doing that, all right, Enough, other reviews and uh, the propping up here, I mean, you guys wrote them, but I read them, so I wanted to get to those in the pod guest, let's go ahead and get to your questions now here on the Twitter mail bag. If you guys put a review in the Apple Podcast, I'm gonna read it on the air for you. So if you want to make sure you get your spot, put us a five star review up there and get it in the Apple podcast reviews.

And if you want to ask a question on Twitter, that also works as well, but I can't guarantee you get into those questions. We start here with wrestling Panda. What are the chances you can hook a brother up with some F one Miami tickets? So the Miami Grand Prix less than slim to them? My man, I appreciate you asking, but full transparency not gonna happen. At WICKI m asks, Hey, Travis, huge fans since the l O D days. That's Lockdown Dolphins. I tell my wife all

the time. We watch the same things, have a daughter on the same age, and also have the same mentality. On camping, I love it. Camping is the worst. Keep up the great work. What was a bigger trade for the franchise? Ricky Williams or Tyreek Hill? First, I want to go ahead and acknowledge what you just said, because I find myself doing this with other podcasters where like, that's what podcasting does, right, It makes you feel like your friends with the host even though you've never met

the person. And I find myself doing that all the time, Like, Oh, if I ever meet this guy, I'll just go up to and talk about this, this and this, and he's like, well, I don't know you, man. So it's funny. I'm glad to see it work both ways there, but yeah, I would love to, you know, if you ever come down this way, go go grab a drink and watch a college football game or something, uh, the day before a Sunday game. But who was the bigger or what was

a bigger trade for the franchise, Ricky Williams or Tyreek Hill. Well, I think it's early to make that proclamation because you have to see what Tyreek Hill does, right. Ricky had two really good years. His first year here was an m v P caliber season back and oh two where he rushed for eighteen hundred fifty three yards and sixteen touchdowns. That stat is lodged into my brain. Don't have to look that up. He's my favorite dolphin of all time.

Then OH three, the yards per carry dipped still had thirteen hundred yards, but it was, you know, a lot more difficult sletting that season. The passing game didn't really take a lot of pressure off the running game. And then he retired and right in the middle of his prime. Came back the following season after four games suspension and gave us some production and O five missed O six and OH seven came back and oh wait, it was

part of a wildcat team. And OH nine was awesome then as well, and then went onto the Ravens and had some more good production there. So I think it's it's hard to quantify because we haven't seen what Tyreek Hill has done yet, but I think it's it's pretty comparable because you have two very accomplished players, right, we all know what Ricky Williams was when he got traded for We all know about Tyreek Hill. Six years of Pro,

six Pro Bowls. That's phenomenal, skilled players, guys that you can certainly design an offense around, or at least a good group of offensive packages for either of those guys. So I think you're in the right ballpark as far as who is going to be more impactful. The book on that is not written yet. Ricky was very impactful. We hope the same of Tyreek Hill at Thane Young asks Hey, Travis, what would you anticipate the defensive scheme

and play calling to look like next year? Um, I think there's it's It's tough to say it because, I mean, we talked about this on a Friday, right bringing the band back, getting everybody back together with Augba and Roberts and Aguavin and Riley, and you've got coach Austin Clark and Coach Campanelli and Josh Boyer running the whole thing, with Sam pat and Stephen Gregory in the defensive backfield now and all the coaches we have on the defensive side of the football, and the players and all the

familiarity with what was a rush heavy, man heavy coverage scheme the last couple of seasons, but also did a good job mixing in their zone and mixing and playing you know, four man rush and playing coverage and split safety and single high. So I think that's kind of that's kind of what it looks like to me, a

variety of the things that this defense does best. Which what this defense does best, it finds a way to lockdown receivers on the outside with two very versatile, explosive safeties and a third also there with Eric Rohland what he does. So three of them really uh linebackers that can rush the quarterback, that can do multiple things, a defensive line that's deep and has a good rotation, and and selfless guys unselfish or selfless either or that do a good job of setting picks for each other. So

I think versatility. I think you know, there's a question here about past rush production. Here a minute, I'll get to but how much they produced the last couple of seasons in terms of pass rushing with sending extra rushers, that would be what I anticipate, but you never know. We'll see how it evolves for this Dolphins team as they can look at these guys in training camp and into the season. It'll evolve as we go along. Next

one here from at j K bunch of numbers. If you have a bunch of numbers behind your handle, that's how we're gonna talk about it here in the podcast. Hey Travis, why does two get such a bad rap when he's had very minimal tools to work with? Seems like he's always been bashed and thought of as bad personally, I think he's been good. What kind of progression are you looking for from him this season? Well, as far as minimal tools to work with, I think that's subjective.

I mean, you know, Waddle was a big piece that was added for him last season. It's been some draft picks on the offensive line as well. Uh, you know, some connections to the play callers and coaches on the

offensive staff as well. But you know, now you look at it, and you look at Jalen Waddle and Tyreek Hill and to Ron Armstead and Connor Williams certainly four guys that are gonna help him big time where he most dirt and Chase Edmunds will certainly have an impact on that as l and just the additions they made on offense with speed, and I keep talking about the play action passing here on the podcast and how he's really excelled in that regard, and how I think that

the Dolphins with a strong running game with a Raheem Moster and with a Chase Edmunds and Miles Gascon and savan akbed and those guys, if they can help increase the rushing production from what it was a season ago, can only help improve the play action passing game. As far as for so for his progression goes, you know, I I expect, you know, to have that progression continue. I think he was better last year than he was

his rookie season. I think that's the expectation to continue to get better and improve in his game and just take steps in key areas that can help him. Like you mentioned, I mean, there was some really good stretches of play last year where even the biggest attractors, like I know Colin Cowherd loves to to mix it up, but last year, after the Panthers or Giants game in that range he was, he had a whole segment about how you can win with two of there's there's a

lot of those things that two does well. So there was moments where he played well enough to even the biggest attractors like, yeah, that's pretty good product and looks

pretty good out there. So I think that as far as why is that way, I just think you look at a kid that when he first came out of you know, first got to college, he accomplished the mountaintop his first year there and did it in such dramatic fashion where you saw like ice water in the veins, and sometimes when guys get to that level that early, there's like an overcorrection. The same thing happened with Trevor Lawrence.

Remember his freshman year he came out and bawled out and played really well in the National Championship Game one a national title, and then over the next couple of years you saw him kind of deal with some similar things in terms of how people were knocking his games and he couldn't do this, couldn't do that. It's like, no man, he was always He's always been Trevor Lawrence. So why that happens? I think that the college popularity and the immediate accomplishments, I think have something to do

with that. As far as putting the rest to it, Hey man, play well and get the ball to all these weapons and it'll all go away. And I can't wait to see how that happens, and if it happens, I'll look forward to it. Let's do Let's go ahead and get to our first break here. We'll come back and answer a whole bunch more of your questions here on the Mailbag edition of the Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield.

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on Miami Dolphins dot com. This next question here comes in from at David o'havor favorite and least favorite Quentin Tarantino films. What a great question. I have a tie from my top films. They are Django Unchained and Glorious Bastard's Just I think both of those films are positively perfect. Jamie Fox is incredible, so is Leo DiCaprio, and then Brad Pitt and oh Man, why did I forget his name? Oh Man, the the guy, the German Guy. He's also

he's also in Django. I forgot his freaking name. But he's an incredible, incredible actor and he kills it in both of those movies, um, and then my least favorite one,

I gotta say, it's Once Upon Time in Hollywood. And I think I think pre movie hype is so important when you go in, Like I hate when someone tells me that's, oh, it's great, you gotta go see it or or vice versa, because that sets the expectation and I think it changes in a lot of way your ability to enjoy it the way the way you should.

And so I was so excited for that movie to come out because obviously Leo and Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino, like, that's a trio that's like, you know that that is Aikman, Irving and Smith, that is Manning Harrison and Eduard James. That's like the best trio you can imagine, right, But I was just bored the entire time. I don't know,

I didn't like it very much. So Django and Glorious Bastards, and then my least favorite was Once Upon Time in Hollywood from at Toma Nick one, who is your dream selection? At one oh two? You know, you never really know what's gonna happen when you're that portion of the draft.

Every single year you get guys that you like that kind of fall in the draft a little bit, so potentially potentially that and I think that you know, I've talked about the center position being an area that I like, a couple of guys at the running back position, the linebackers. I think there's some edge depth this year that could help that position get strong into the third, fourth, fifth round or look strong, I should say. Um, I've talked about these names a lot. Uh Luke Fortner from Kentucky,

the center Cole Strange also a center from Chinanoogo. Just very very interesting in the way those guys process and the way they get out in space. Pierre Strong junior from South Dakota State is one of my favorite players in this draft class. Very curious to see where he goes because he has he has what I call like urgency, increasing ability and the defense because if you miss an arm tackle in the first gap on him, he might

go to the distance. And that I think is it really can help impact the way you defend the run and ultimately the play action passing game. I also put on my list here dari And Beavers from Cincinnati. He's a quasi you know, hybrid line backer off ball on ball type of guy, and I just like the way he plays the game. So there's there's all kinds of players that could be a selection there. I can't I can't narrow down to one player at this stage. Just

it's just not possible. From at Camo three three five, is the draft now all about center Alec Lynstrom and punter Matt Areza. I understand the question, but I want to make I want to make use. I want to use the question, I should say as an opportunity to kind of make a point here, and that's that you should never make the draft about one or two players. That's just asking to get into a situation of desperation and that's never a good place from which to make

decisions from. As for Lynchtrom and Areza, just looking up Lynstrom and I talked to him at the combine. He was phenomenal, gave us great soundbites on Matt apple Bomb. But just looking at the draft, Network and Pro Football Focus both have him projected as a sixth round draft pick, and I guess we'll see on Areza. Neither sites have draft projections for him because I don't know if they

do punters, because he is a punter. So I think the answer to that is no, and that would be the same with any two players that you listed there. Next one here from at Patty Perk. Oh boy, here we go. Always know they're gonna be good. From Patty Perk, Travis, do you think it's fair to call a professional fire the most dangerous man in the world when they're hurting like fifty to a hundred people max. And there are still people out there teaching tens of thousands of children

how to bunt. Pat you have checked off two of my favorite boxes. Here are talking about baseball and talking about analytics, and you know, genius as always. But in the words of Brad Pitt as Billy Bean, if if they lay down a bunt, don't try to be a hero until the battle second base. They're giving you an out, just take it. And to mixmash Brad pitt As Billy Bean quotes, I pay you to get on first, not

to get thrown out a second. So yes, stop all bunting, all sacrificing, all stealing bases, because that's not the way moneyball works. In fact, I have a high school baseball story for you. Eat your heart out, big seth. If you're listening out there. So I baseball was my game

growing up. I think I made that pretty clear here. Uh. I was a three year letterman in high school and I started every game at second base those three years on my varsity team, and um, there was another guy that was like, our top five batters in the lineup could all do damage, and then after that it was a big drop off, and so we had to score our runs in those first five batters. And at my junior my sophomore in junior season, there was one guy who was a year older than me, who was a

hell of an athlete. He had a better chance for a scholarship than just about anybody on the team. But literally everything about his game spelled leadoff hitter, and everything about my game was designed for a two hitter. He was more patient and worked the count better than I did. I swung it the first pitch like every damn bad.

He was way faster than I was, And I was a much better bunker than he was, because this was before analytics came into the baseball A much better bunker, in fact, I should say, in fact, I stole base hits all the time with drag bunting, dropping that thing right down inside the third baseline, but the risk of down. Like Uncle Rico, I had this theory because if my coach would put me in state, we would have one state.

That's how it goes. But my buddy Paul, Paul, my buddy, uh, he was also on the basketball team with me, and we were really good friends. He was co m v P runner up for his m v P his senior season hoops too, so a very good athlete. But he agree with me on this theory. So it's not just

Uncle Rico theory out there. But I'm convinced that we hit Paul and the two hole behind me because I was on base right around five hundred two, and especially leading off games, like the first pitch was always a groove fastball and I always jumped on it and line that thing into left right in front of left field. It was like every single doublehead we played, that was how they started him off. So with me on first, they could then dial up a drag bunt for Paul

and he puts it down. If it's a bad one and gets thrown out at first base, it doesn't count for an at bat, so it helps him with a sack bunt and a chance to get a base hit, which helps his batting average, which helps our coach sell the player to college coaches. So I had a better

batting average than Paul that year. But he went on to Lewis and Clark State, which, if you guys don't know, it's in Idaho and it's like the premier Division two baseball school who's won like thirty thousand World Series champions whatever they're called. But he won four straight rings at l C State. So I had the first laugh, Paul had the last laugh. That's my crazy theory. Next question

here from at Hassan Potel. Why is the dig route the most intercepted route and lowest completion percentage of quarterbacks? How does to compare to the rest of the NFL on throwing dig routes. Why I saw the tweet you're talking about where someone talked about evaluating throws over the last X amount of years and the dig route had

the lowest completion percentage and highest interception rate. To me, it's because that's where the most traffic is, and you get a tipped ball, it's more likely to come down in someone's hands. That would make the most sense, just you know, more traffic. That's basically what it is, and I saw the analytic I think it's very interesting. But I think I saw the suggestion that that thread spawn was like, should we not throw the ball to that area? And I can't agree with that because that's I mean,

middle of the field throws are the majority of football plays. Now, as to your question, I actually think that's one of two of his best throws. We saw him hit Mac Hollands on that fourth down dig in the Jaguars game, just an absolute dot. We saw him hit Mike on a crossing route more of an over than a dig in that same game. We've seen him, excuse me, we've seen him hit those little pop shots slash quick hitters

to Mike and Durham down the middle. Parker makes all kinds of hay on those inbreaking routes and dig routes. I think square ins and digs and slanches my Parker's best routes. And then, of course the fifty seven yard hit to jelland Waddle that was a dig. I think that to us anticipation on that route and his ability to throw kind of away from you know, planted defenders or leverage and that intermediate portion of the field and

his ball placement are all really strong suits. In fact, Pro Football Focus had to a last year on intermediate middle of the field throws, which is basically where digs wind up fifty six point one percent completion but nine point two yards per attempt. And you compare that y p A to the other intermediate throws the ten to nineteen yard range left or right, it's six point two

and five point five. So I think that middle portion of the field is a very very big strength of two a tongue of by Lows at rob E Digital. How many primetime games do you think the Finns get this season? It's a great question. I'm not really sure. I think there's a good chance for a couple for

a number of reasons. For a couple of reasons, I should say one, you have an exciting team that has shown signs of improvement this offseason, and it's really starting to boost the marquee attraction idea right, not just the recent additions, but returning players who are developing reputations as

big time players in their own right. We saw what Waddle, Phillips and Holland did just a season ago, already becoming household names after one year, and we had Jeff Darlington do our space to show a couple of weeks ago with me, Seth and o J on Twitter spaces Wednesday nights at eight o'clock. Don't miss those, and he talked about how the Dolphins could be a very attractive team for prime time, but that sometimes that takes a year

for it to happen. So like the other reason is to just look at the other teams on the schedule that are a great looking draw on paper. You know, two Bills games and Patriots games, the forty Niners and McDaniel and Shanahan. You know, it's obviously a very attractive draw. The Packers. Anytime Aaron Rodgers is in the mix, there's

a big time draw for that. The Chargers with and Bengals with two uh and Herbert and Burrow, and you know, the Bengals being the runner up conference champions, the Ravens are always a good matchup for Miami, really the entire a f C North. And you know we had to last year, so I'll guests one more this year and go with three. But I have no idea. Let's do one more here before the break, and we'll get to

some more this is from at Mitch Davis. Mitch J. Davis, I should say, Mitch, what's up man, one of my best buddies from back home? He says, Hi, Travis, what's your all time favorite episode of south Park? And who's your favorite south Park character? Well, it's an impossible question, Mitch, and you know that, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that. For me, my character is Jimmy Valmer. I love Jimmy Tally would be my vote, but he's not recurring enough. But when he joins Randy Integrity, every line

he says just takes me out. So he would be up there if he was a little bit more featured in the show. Uh, the episode where he's a camp counselor with Jimmy is up there for sure. But I think the Motorcycle the Harley Writer episode is my favorite, But man, how can really pick? Like the World of Warcraft episode cartman Land is a great throwback. All the stuff with the election back in and the internet trolling

was just pure genius. There. It's always genius. I think I told you this season that I loved Mitch talking to you, specifically that I love the Paintball episode. Like this, the show is just the greatest of all time. And I'll go with Jimmy as my favorite character and the Motorcycle or Harley episode as my favorite. All Right, our last break here on this mailbag edition of the Drivetime podcast. Keep it locked right here. We'll come back and finish

up here brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here on the mailbag edition of the Drift Time Podcast, we have a whole bunch more to get to here. Let's go ahead and keep things cranking. This one from at one Leo f who do you think they or what position that will have them trade back into the draft into the second round using a pick from the twenty three draft. Alright, so is there a player or a position that would cause them to want to go up and use a future draft pick to get back into

round two? I believe this is what that question was. It varies every year, man, but just for the baseline, like pick thirty three of the Jimmy Johnson Draft value chart is five d eighty points, pick sixty two hundred and seventy points, and the medium between picks sixty and seventeen is four hundred and fifteen points. That's kind of the baseline to work off of but I think I think I recall it was Alfonso Smith, a quarterback from Wake.

The Broncos came back into the second round like five or six years ago, or maybe it was more than that. I don't know, UH to select to select that cornerback from Wake. I think it was Alfonso Smith, and they shipped the following year's first round pick to the Seahawks. But I don't think it's happened since then. But it definitely varies, and as far as the player or position, I there's no way I can answer that. There's just

no possible way I can answer that for you. Next question from at Ricardo bunch of numbers with the Dolphins continue to place an equal emphasis on the success of

the defense now that they have an offensive minded head coach. So, you know, coach talked a little bit about preparing for this head coaching role for the last fifteen twenty years, you know, talking about he would have been a fool to have not taken advantage of the opportunity to learn the job from the coaches he's been around his whole career, which are some of the most accomplished coaches that we've

seen in the NFL. The last couple of decades, and I think the best coaches, you know, all head coaches really don't consider themselves a one side of the football type of coach. Now, he's spoken to his defensive philosophy quite a bit, and when I had him on the podcast, he talked about doing what's best for the Miami Dolphins to win games. If that's thirteen ten, great, if it's

forty four or forty also great. But I mean, you look at the imports on free agency on offense, those were great, but also the defensive retention was great too, with Agba coming back. You know, obviously X and Byron are are two very accomplished players that have either recently signed here or got contract extensions here or you know, raises to that to that point, as well accomplished veterans.

We saw Roberts, Riley, Egban coming back, need him with the second round tender, adding Pat Sam and Steve Gregory to the secondary in the coaching realm, I think they have demonstrated plenty of emphasis on the defensive side this year and that will not change at Brother of Mine asks thoughts on your boy Channing sharing weird personal stories. Man, that's Channing being Channing wouldn't have him any other way. He's the best storyteller I've ever met in my entire life.

In fact, last year at the draft party back in the green room, we were there early to kind of prep and go through our lines and go through our ad reads and kind of how the show would work for us. Alid ninety minutes we just kind of sat and ate and talked, and I didn't say a word the entire time because he and Joe Rose were back their sharing stories and all I wanted to do was listen to them. Never changed. That's my thought for Channing Crowder at M I a defense, how do you feel

about no additions to the front seven on defense? Still feel pass rush is a concern. No additions, but no losses either. And and for a team that finished fifth in the NFL and SAX second and QB pressures third, and QB pressure rate tied for first, and QB knockdowns, I'm not sure where the disconnect is there. You know, Agba has been as good and as consistent as they come since he got here back in Andrew Van Ginkle

has gotten better every single year. Jalen Phillips, I think showed you some of the upside there last year by breaking the rookie franchise sack record with eight and a half of which, by the way, seven of those came in the second half of the season. So I think those guys, you know, Jerome Baker's ability to get after the quarterback, Samuel von Duke Riley had some subpackage pass

rush production the last couple of years. UH on the interior, Christian Wilkins is getting better every year, Ray Kwon Davis as well. Adam Butler had some some good pressure on the interieor Zack Steeler just kicks asks everywhere he lines up. So I don't know. I mean, if if they if they repeat those numbers with the same guys coming back, I would be very very happy with that. At Dawn Underscore, Small's always wanted to know which Finn players are Cat people.

Me too, Me too. I might have to ask this year the because I don't know anybody that does or feels that way. The only thing that comes to mind is the great Brian heartline thank you ad joke from back in what was with the Cats and the Sweaters to be continued, dumb. We'll come back to this at Rudy seven are ut y seven ready, Rudy, Why did we concentrate on the left side of the offensive line instead of right tackle? Is it more important to to it to have a clean front pocket than to have

certain protection from his blind side. I think this used to be a lot bigger of a deal than it is now. But first, I don't think there was necessarily a side preference, but rather a player preference. Like I think, you look, you add the consensus top tackle available and the consensus you know, top three or four guard available this offseason, you have to feel great about that, regardless

of where they play. Now. As for the side, it used to be you always put your best pass rusher on the quarterback's blind side right, but that started to kind of shift. I remember with Julius Peppers, and eventually Cam Wake also did all of his rushing off the offensive lines right side. Now you've got top line rushers playing bull spots all of the Joey Bosa and Nick bos I think both play left end and rush the

right tackle, don't they. So I don't think it's as important, especially with how athletic pass rushers are nowadays, and consequently how the offensive line has responded by getting more athletic in their own right, that you have matchup that teams want to go after, and you can, you know, slide protection and find the best way to get all four or five rushers blocked up. So I just don't think

it's like as important. And again we don't have We know that Toronto Arms had the left tackle because coach told us that. Besides that, we don't really know what it looks like yet. We have a lot, long, long, long way to go until we know what it looks like at p Bomb Underscore Jump eighty five. I hope I got that right, but it's tough to get. So we'll see a favorite show to fall asleep too. It's

for me, it's always sunny in Philadelphia. It has to be a show I've seen a million times, and that's one of them that I can, you know, doze off and not feel like I'm missing something. I'm the most intent TV watch. If I'm watching a show, I'm I'm watching that damn show. So it has to be one I've seen a thousand times and it's always sunny right now?

Is that show? It's been The Office before, but right now it's always sunny at the Dustin Lawson, At what point do we acknowledge that cosmic brownies are literal garbage. I have no idea what those are. Give me a second, I'll come back and look them up. Okay, so we're talking about a little debbie snack. Yeah, man, I'm not. I'm really particular with my treats and my desserts. I always tell my wife this, if I'm going to burn

an opportunity to eat dessert. And you know, I'm not a health nut by any means, but I try to eat decent and have you know, one or two desserts a week at most. But if I'm gonna go get dessert, I'm saving it for something that's a top my power rankings every single time. I'm not gonna burn it on something like a cosmic brownie, which for me is always ice creamer cookies, So a blizzard is a go to for me. I also like cold Stone, but some of

the public's bakery chocolate chip cookies. In fact, my wife banned those from the house because they're too damn good to neglect. Let's go ahead and keep this rolling here at mind Funk twenty one. Do you think Julio Rodriguez should start the season on the Mariners or do you think he's too to coma bound? Sorry about that triple A to coma Rainiers A thousand times, Yes for opening day starters. Start him in the outfield and play him every single day. I don't care if there's growing paints.

He's already a stud. To me, he's the best prospect that Mayors have had since Kierfree Jr. I'll die on that hill. Do you see the inside the park home run the other day? Guy's a freak. He's he's gonna be one of the best players in baseball. Put him in the right now at Christo bunch of numbers. I've been a fan since George Wilson. That's the first coach

and Dolphins history. For those of you that don't go back that far, can you recall another year when our beloved Fins have made such a promising and dynamic move to open up a league year or moves, I should say, I can't Fins up all the way. I love the excitement, love the enthusiasm. I think probably the early two thousands was that the David Boston addition or the Junior say out edition. Thurman Thomas, I know those guys were you know, a little bit past their primes, but they were big

time names. It's tough to quantify. I mean, it was a big time off season that certainly was anything like Tyreek Hill and to Ron Armstead, but it was you know, a lot of players came in. But yeah, I mean, I think the excitement is reflected in what you see on social but then also the season ticket memberships going off the boards like hotcakes right now and the expectation

of every game being a sellout. That's that to me, is the qualification of that next question from at Austin Fence Fan, is there any intrigue of keeping Jackson at left guard and having the most athletic left side in the National Football League. I like that distinction there because both them and Torn can move really well. The only thing we know for sure as Toron's left tackle according to coach. So I think everything is on the table

and that's one of the options, right. I think that's certainly within the realm of possibilities at Diamond Dodger Drive time never disappoints. Thank you for that, I believe to what takes a big step forward this year for seemingly obvious reasons. Gaze into your crystal ball. Number one's become down the road replacements for key positions, or are they

trade assets to bring in more established talent. That's the beauty of flexibility right first, I think you have to see what happens this year and where those picks wind up. But they are a great resource to have, and you know every year your first round pick is your best resource in my opinion, to either go get a rookie or a veteran, but the resource you have to improve your roster. It's great to have a couple of those.

It's a great question, but I think it's just a little bit too early to ask because we have no idea what needs will be. But I appreciate the question at right fox, how much fires how much fires up? Could a pulse check be? If a pulse check could be fired up? I mean that's not a question that there's a question. I don't have an answer for it. I just wanted to go ahead and put it on here and give you your flowers. Rye, well done, my friend, And the answer for me, when in doubt, always go

with seven. So seven at Merton, Marcus, do you consider visiting the German Dolphins podcast Dolphins Drive. I would love to I'll reach out to you right now via d M. Sound Good Marcus at GM Underscore Hindsight would love to hear a deep dive into Tyreek Hill one big plays as a chief to either confirm or dispel these narratives that number ten careers over because he won't be catching fifty yard passes five times a game in Miami. Uh. Would that sounds like a really fun summer project. I'll

put on the calendar. Let's circle back to that at Seth Levitt. Seth, my goodness, man, why are not It's at Team leven, but you guys know, Seth Levett. Why are the last two minutes of an NBA game so important? Because, Seth, that's where the games are usually decided. But also plenty of games get wrapped up before that, so there's always these runs in the NBA of points back and forth that I've learned to really be patient within the game and let it play out. The last game I went

to was the Spurs and February. The Heat were down forty five at the first quarter, not a good start, but they won by like twenties. So it goes on two more here from at Brazil Candido. Where do Tyreek Hill and Waddle line up on the field together, Who gets the boundary spot, who in the slot? And what is the usage? Like, well, who's the who's the field type receiver? We don't know? Um anywhere and everywhere is what I put down. I mean literally think of it,

and you could think of endless permutations. But since we are a bit of an on the nose podcast, here are some numbers for you last year, Waddle. This is all from ProFootball Focus. Four oh six out wide, five in the slot, twelve otherwise like backfielder in line last year, Tyreek Hill five twenty out wide, five oh eight in the slot sixteen otherwise. And just to go back off the Niners usage last year because this all is gonna

be twoby Dolphins, right, we don't know. This is a good way to look back and see what you might be able to get from previous production. The top four snaptakers were Deebo, Samuel Brandon I, Jawan Jennings, and Trent Schfield at receiver. So Sam it was five wide to thirty nine slot otherwise you was eight fifty four wide two oh two slot seven otherwise Jennings to sixteen wide to twelve slot to otherwise and Surefield to seven wide

thirty nine slot eight otherwise. Now to use the McDaniel is um there's probably some overlap there, but the roles of this team will present themselves and evolve as we go along. Right, So great question there. I want to go ahead and finish up with this one. We have two more that I didn't get to that are in the written mail bag up on Miami Dolphins dot com,

as well as that one from Brazil Candido. Let's go ahead and finish up here with one that I can't possibly answer because it's a great question from a m clifford thirty six. Name someone you would slap Chris Rock style and go, let's do this. I'll say, anytime someone talks about what a player can't do and ignores this what they can do, I want to know what players can do. You know what they can do. That's my Chris Rock slap. All right, that's my time. We had

very long on this edition. Thank you so much for the questions. We'll do these more often for you guys and get a lot of them answer and get your thoughts here on the drivetime podcast. In the meantime, that's gonna be my time. You all, please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast. Leave us a rating, leave us a review. You can follow me on Twitter at Winkfold NFL. Follow the team at Miami Dolphins across

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