Free Agency Preview, Mock Draft Round Up, Jaylen Waddle's Top 5 Plays

and mock draft roundup. We'll examine Pro Football Focus is fresh off the press top two hundred free agents list. We'll take a peek at Daniel Jeremiah Jordan, read the Draft Network and a few others and where they have the Dolphins going with the twenty ninth pick in this year's draft. And we'll also count down Jalen Waddle's top five plays from his record breaking rookie season. From somewhere

in South Florida. This is the Drive Time Podcast. So we heard Pellicero on the podcast on Monday and he reported the Dolphins will be hiring Frank Smith to the offensive coordinator position. He is formerly the offensive line coach and running game coordinator of the Los Angeles Chargers. We're gonna cover the coaching hires here in All One podcast when we have that official for you guys here with

the Miami Dolphins. Now, that draft order coming up here in just two and a half months now has crystallized at least a little bit in the first round, still have the comp picks to factor in, but for now we know that Miami is going to pick and barring any trades or movement, and then that third rounder will come towards the end of the third round with the Niners compensatory pick, so somewhere in the nineties seven to low one hundreds range there. So how about a mock

draft round up? But first before we get to that, because the start of the new league year is now just one month the way and the opening of the first major player acquisition period with free agency and Pro Football Focus just produced this week following the Super Bowl. Pretty smart layout there their top one or rather two hundred free agents available, and I want to go over

that list and just talk about it. Of Course, we know the Dolphins have the most available cap space as it stands right now, and of course they, like all teams,

have avenues to free up even more space. So what could that room actually produce this Dolphins team In the off season, there are obviously a couple of big decisions coming with in house free agents, notably Emmanuel Augbon Mike Sicky, and therein lies the message we have to convey off the top, because if you type those guys names and on Twitter or Google, you're gonna find fans sites and the like with commentary pieces suggesting we should go sign

that defensive end or that tight end. So all of this comes with the caveat that each one of these guys could just boomerang back to their original squad. In fact, I say almost the majority of the time that's what happens. But as we sit here on the sixteenth of February, here's my take on the Pro Football Focus Top two hundred free agents available this year. So I thought about how to do this. Should I break it into like twenty per episode and drag it out for a couple

of weeks. That might still be an option. We'll see and talk about these guys more in depth, but I wanted to take a look at just a highlighter view of going through this and noting the interesting elements and how it could impact the Dolphins approach. You know, I also wanted to look at it from my roster allocation standpoint. I mean, only only quarter cornerbacks on this Dolphins roster or even in the top fifteen of the league in terms of how much cash commitments the Dolphins have to

that position. It's number three in the NFL, but pretty much every other positions in the mid to late twenties. So, like we've talked about, if you want your blue chip prized free agent allah Byron Jones two years ago, you can pretty much do it wherever you want to on this roster, and quite honestly, you could probably swing two

or maybe even three of those types of players. I just I look at the options and what teams have done with the free agency window over the last few years, and I just think it's an incredibly undervalued mode of improving your football team. And even that statement might get greeted with some backlash since it really is the second, if not the premier player acquisition event of the calendar,

along with the NFL Draft. But I do feel as though it creates or catches rather a bit of a bad rap and that the sentiment can sometimes be negative when a team adds a really good football player and look, I get a free agency by design can lore teams into traps. But because of market demand, you can wind up with getting you know, players with average too above average production in their career pushed up to the top of the available market just because of what the rest

of their position group offers in free agency. And then that can lead to some deals that players simply can never live up to. And that's the entire idea of the National Football League. Right, you get X amount of resources, now go see if you can allocate them better the your thirty one competitors. Just look at last year for instance, like Corey Davis, a very good wide receiver, signs with the Jets. According to over the Cap, it's a twelve point six million cap hit for him on the Jets.

That's the ninth highest cap commitment to a receiver in one Then in a draft where Jamaar Chase and Jalen Waddle and Davante Smith are all sitting there and producing number one receiver value on the draft board, that's where you can see the disconnect on true free agent value. And you will see this multiple times at every position. Just to continue the thought from over the Cap dot Com.

I mean, pick your team and you can find one like the fact that Tyler Boyd counted nine million against the cap for the Bengals last year, while Jamar Chase was just five point six million, or like the Cowboys with a Marie Cooper twenty two million against the cap and Ceedee Lamb just three point two. This idea of balance between veteran and rookie contract and how to do

that and how to allocate your resources. Now, the nice part for a team like Miami, when you've got the quarterback still on the rookie deal, you can afford to do some of this and and maybe even in some instances extend yourself above market value for that roster fit

and that roster needs. So while maybe you do have to overpay a little bit compared to market value and the inflation that free agent market can often bring, the idea is that you make your football team as good as you possibly can, right and when you aren't paying that quarterback thirty forty million dollars, you don't have to make these concessions at other spots. All all the Cowboys with Byron Jones two years ago. So it's a Yin

and Yang situation. Back to the detractions, and let's go ahead and start with that Cowboys team and that team and a thought that first the argument always starts, well, why did this team allow that player to leave in the first place? And fair point, but counter that there are always going to be circumstances that make it make sense. Back to Byron Jones, one of the game's very best cornerbacks for years with the Cowboys there and they knew they had to pay Dak Prescott, Zeke Elliott, Ile Collins,

Tyrant Smith to Marcus Lawrence, Mary Cooper. That's a roster that has the majority of its cap tied up in the top seven or eight players on their squad. And that's how just how they do it. Every team does it differently, and that's how a Byron Jones can shake free because there's just on a space for another one of those guys, and he happens to be the one that was a free agent do at the time. But it's absolutely imperative to understand why a player is hitting

the market. I mean, if there was no such thing as a valuable free agency acquisition, and no one's saying that it's a straw man. But you get like this backlash you're gonna get inevitably when free agent signed uh, you know they went too far on that player. Then why are teams out there spending cash every single spring if it's not effective? Then to further that point right into my point B teams have utilized free agency to

take their team to the next level. And I really think it began earnest back with the Denver Broncos and some of those Super Bowl years in the early twenty teams whatever you call that one win, one loss where they got Wes Welker, Emmanuel Sanders to Marcus Ware, DJ

Ward and oh yeah, Peyton Manning. Obviously a unique case there with the Ladder, But what about more recently, what about a team who built a twenty year dynasty on the idea of draft, get four years of production, say goodbye and free agency, collect the compics and just keep

the train rolling. The Patriots, that's who we're talking about, have a sub five hundred season one time and say forget all that, and they go out and signed Aguilar Born, Henry Smith, Godshot, Judon van Noy and most of those hit. Some of them didn't. But that's how free agency goes, and that's how it all goes. Free agency, the draft trades, You're not gonna about one thousand. But the Patriots did that and went from seven wins to ten wins and a playoff berth, largely on the back of their free

agent class. How about the Bengals representing the Super Bowl this year. Seven of their eleven starters, who were the primary reason they made this run right goal line stops at the end of the wild card and Championship game and got the interception right before the Titans broached field

goal range. Three consecutive games, three huge drives by the defense, a bunch of picks and takeaways and sacks as well, and then damn near did it again in the Super Bowl before all those flags came out after about forty seven stops in a row on the Rams offense. But I digress. So if you say it's impossible to get guys to up to speed quickly in free agency, it's not. DJ Reader, Von Bell, Shadow Wouzier, Mcat Mackenzie, Alexander Eli Apple,

Larry Oak, and job Trey Hendrickson. All these guys signed in the last two years and made a huge impact on an a f C Championship title winner. They didn't want the Super Bowl, but they want the a f C. And to put a bow on this spield of a preamble, I just wanted to spell the notion of blanket statements in any avenue in this league and this sport, really

any walk of life. Like no quote. You can't build a team through free agency, but also no, we need to sign top of the market players at position X, y and Z. Nope, explore every situation case by case and determine where the true value lies. That's my argument, long winded. Let's go ahead and kick off the quarterbacks portion of this top two hundred Pro Football Focus free agent list, and first up on the list at number

forty one and one quarterbacks is Jamis Winston. He had an a C L Terra midseason, played a much safer brand of quarterback than we saw in Tampa Bay where his career began, and you have to imagine he gets some potential starter money, if not in New Orleans. Up next Bridgewater, number forty nine. Curious to see what type

of deal he gets. Could easily see him landing in a situation with a young quarterback where he's kind of the experienced number two there, which of course you can always afford when you have that rookie deal at the

starting position. Speaking of guys that went the backup route, Marcus Mariota's number seventy, Andy Dalton's one, third team, Ryan Fitzpatrick one seventeen, and then Mitch Robiski is one and he could be interesting, and that he has starting experience, probably some more upside as he's a younger player at the position, and he has a skill set where you can get him on the field occasionally with some potential

razzle dazzle. How about wide receivers. Number one player on the entire list is in this position group, Davante Adams of the Packers. He's gonna break records with his contract for non quarterbacks, whether that's with Green Bay or elsewhere. He's the best receiver in football. And here in lies the point of my preamble. We talked about market value.

Because this class is so deep, maybe you have the opposite effect of teams having to pony up top of market dollars for players who have not produced at that level, because this market is chock full of players who have produced. Chris Godwin's number three overall He's a phenomenal player, one of the best in the game. Mike Williams number seven from the Chargers. Another great receiver, Alan Robinsons number ten, four players in the top ten or receivers on our

list of top two hundred free agents. Robinson's also a tremendous player at number ten. Number nineteen is Odell Beckham Jr. Who had a great run here with the Rams, and then Michael Gallant from the Cowboys, who I absolutely loved, is number twenty eight overall. So that's four five six players in the top twenty eight, four in the top ten. Do these guys shake free? How much do they wind up costing? It's a great crop of free agent wide receivers.

You also have Juju Smith Schuster at forty two, Christian Kirk at fifty dj more at fifty one than some others that stand out. One oh three is Cedric Wilson from the Cowboys. It's been a nice complimentary piece there. Isaiah McKenzie from Buffalo two hundred. I also like his game a whole heck of a lot too. He's interesting there as well. The running back position. Quardurell Patterson kicks

us off at number thirty eight. I've long been fascinated by his career, even more so now that he kind of became the lynchpin of that Falcon's offense as a running back more than a receiver. He does both of them. But you watched that Falcons team last year. They were best when Quardourell Patterson was cranking Lenny four net number sixty eight. Then the Arizona running backs James Conner seventy one, Chase Edmund seventy eight, and you get Melvin Gore eight eight.

Then more than one hundred spots later, j D mckissic at one eight nine has had a nice career as a kind of third down receiving back, and then Raheem Mostert checks in at one eight seven. I did that backwards, but sometimes that's just how a dyslexic mind tends to operate. So the running back position, there's some interesting guys here

in terms of their flexibility. Obviously, Cordrirell Patterson mentioned that already, in terms of being able to do multiple things and kind of power inside ouside runners from trickeration, they're involved as well. Interesting class there. The draft also kind of that same, like interesting names, but not the deepest and best group we've seen in recent years at the running back spot. How about tight ends. It starts with an incumbent and Mike got Sicky at number twenty we know

what he does well. Number twenty one Dalton Schultz from Dallas. Number thirty eight Rob Gronkowski, and these two guys are really two guys that do it all in terms of block, run game, pass game, and I'm curious to see if Grant calls it a career. But Schultz is just entering his prime. Really, you have to imagine he sets the market there at the position, and with seventy eight catches and tons of good work in the blocking game, it's I'll be curiously what he gets. I'll also be curious

see what David and Joke Wu's market looks like. I say that because I subscribe to the always invest in talent idea like Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks has had for a long time on the Move the Sticks podcast, and I don't think in Joke Who's production has matched his talent at this point of his career. And that's kind of what I was getting at in the preamble, scouring for the best potential market buys who could out

performed their perceived value. This is a pretty good class to zach Urge fifty eight, Gerald Everett sixty two, Evan Ingram seventy three, Max Williams ninety five, Moiley Cox a big blocking tight in there for the Colts one oh eight, and then Robert Tonyan and then not until one seventy two do we get another tight end with Jared Cook.

How about the interior offensive line one of the stronger groups here in terms of players on this free agent class with number twelve, the center from the Buccaneers, Ryan Jensen. He was on my radar back in when he was with the Ravens, and he's only gotten better. Jensen strengths really are finishing and maintaining blocks and blocking in space. PFF has graded him in the seventie percentile or better the last three years among all centers in both gap

in zone scheme, so he's well diversed there. And then at guard, Brandon Schurff is back up after getting tagged last couple of seasons, two tags in a row, and availability is really the only thing with him. He missed four games last year and but he's one of the best guards in all of football. Brandon Schuff has been

a long time. At twenty six, you've also got Lincoln Tomlinson, who spent the last five years with McDaniel in San Francisco and PF where it's that he's developed into one of the game's best guards under Kyle shanahan and McDaniel, and he started with the Lions, so he's played both in gapings on schemes, versatile, nasty finisher, and he excels in space. And the list keeps rolling here the number thirty eight, Connor Williams, played the last thirty three games

over the last two years with the Cowboys. PF notes his combo blocking and working out in space and on the move. At number forty, James Daniels, an awesome prospect from Iowa a couple of years ago. He's not even twenty four yet. Strengths and pass blocking as well as zone run blocking. Forty six Titans, Ben Jones, fifty three, the Austin Corbette from the Rams, the guard fifty six, Andrew Norwell, who got a huge contract from the Jaguars

four years back. UH sixty four Alex Cappa. I wonder if Tampa Bay can keep both he and Jensen and Godwin. He's only scratching the surface on what he can do

and it's a lot. And then sixties seven Brian Allen, the center from the Chargers had a break or rather the Rams, I should say, had a breakout season in one and comes from the same system that coach McDaniel has talked about and rounding out center Bradley Bozeman at four then a big gap to Trade Turner at one nineteen, Quentin Spain at one, Matt Parrotis at one two, and

Ted Carriss at one three. Interesting crop there at tackle number two to Ron Armstead on the overall big board, number two as an all pro type of player who will be thirty one by the time training camp starts. And he's missed games every year. That's really the only knock on him. Nine last year, to the year before that, one before that, six the previous year, and then six the year before that as well, So he's missed plenty of time, but he's played really well when he's out there.

Number nine on the overall list. Orlando Brown have to imagine Casey tries to strike a deal there after trading a first round pick last year. Length can block out the sun a huge tackle. Number thirty two is Dwayne Brown, one of the most consistent solid players of the last decade for two different clubs, entering age thirty six season. But we also saw Andrew Whitworth play well into his forties or play well into his forty age forty season. We'll see if he can do the same thing, and

that's probably the line of demarcation terms of costs. Next you have fifty seven Morgan Moses, fifty eight Eric Fisher, seventy Trent Brown, Riley leet reef Germain Effetty, and then one eight team Brandon Show. Again, this could all change in the next month, but it's a really really deep class at receiver, tight end, and on the interior offensive line, and depending on how the next month goes, there could be some plug and play tackle options we shall see.

It's also very very deep tackle class in this draft. Continuing our off season theme, next we'll do a mock draft roundup and go around the web taking a look at a handful of fresh off the presses mock drafts and also talk about the defensive side of free agency. All that. Next here Drivetime Podcast with Travis Wingfield. We are presented by Auto Nation here on the Drivetime Podcast

with Travis Wingfield. We've gone over the free agency class a little bit here, and with the Super Bowl coming and going, that always means we get a bunch of mock draft to look over. We'll get to that right after the defense here as we pick it back up with the PFF top two free agents, starting with the interior defensive line. Number twenty three is the first position that checks in here and a Cheme Hicks of the Chicago Bears one of the very best. He'll be expensive

at number thirty. Calais Campbell, sixty nine full Runzo Foncasi from the Jets, seventy six, B J. Hill seventy seven, d J. Jones from the Niners, eighty one Linval Joseph

and number eighty five Sebastian Joseph Day. And the reason I kind of cut that list short and just didn't go that far into it is because we've talked about this so many times, how deep Miami is and that's position group, how young they are, and how they have guys under contract for the next season, and just looking forward for some more progress from that group if they add to it fantastic, That's always a welcome sign. But this position group, I think is one of Miami's strongest

and deepest off the edge. A bunch of players in this group number four, Von Miller, number five, Chandler Jones, number thirteen, Jadeveon Clowney fourteen, Randy Gregory at number twenty two, our own Emmanuel Ogba, Melvin Ingram's twenty four, Hassan Reddecks thirty one, Harold Landry's thirty three, at thirty seven Justin Houston every two positions to the edge player thirty nine, Jerry Hughes fifty four, Derek Barnett. And that's where your

big lineup demarcation comes. One oh seven Charles Harris, one oh nine, Jason Pierre Paul one seven Uchennwosu, the outside rusher for the Chargers. I wanted to lay that out first because it just speaks to the depth of the group. Not to mention it's another really good class of edge defenders in this upcoming draft. So I'm very intrigued to see what that does to the market. Does it deluded

a little bit? Miller Jones, Those guys are gonna be market resenters, So maybe that can calm the secondary wave at the position and maybe you find some bargains. Just an interesting, interesting group there. And again one of the incumbents, I should say, on the Dolphins roster number twenty two there in Emmanuel Agba. What about off ball linebackers. It starts at number twenty seven with the first linebacker, deve Andre Campbell, then a bit of a drop to fifty

five for Alexander Johnson. Sixteyese Olcoon, sixty three Layton vander ash A. Was he a Rookie of the Year candidate for the Cowboys a few years back? Sixty five Josie Jewel, thee try hard, do it all linebacker for the Broncos. Seventy five, Dante high Tower, eighty six Anthony Barr Kaisi er White, a former safety convert, one thirty nine Jawan Bentley,

and one sixty three Jon Brown. I think you look at that list for the potential true Mike linebacker, and once again we look to the draft, where I think probably the two best players available at the spot among free agents are draft or otherwise would be Devin Lloyd from Utah, Nakobe Dean from Georgia, and honestly there's a handful of really good looking linebacker prospects in that draft.

I look at this off ball linebacker spot here of the free agents, and it's a lot of speed guys, a lot of sub guys, some guys that play off the edge, and and more for three type of looks and the few occasions you do run that type of defense more so than the sub package of the nickel defense that brings less than seven guys in your front seven. But you look at that group and there's just Jawan Bentley, Layton vander ash really the two big, big time Mike

linebackers in that list. At cornerback number six, J C. Jackson, a true true ball hawk who probably is He's probably the only guy in Xaviing Howard's stratosphere when it comes to ball hawking on defense and if not tagged, he's gonna cash in big time. His running mate for a long time his number fifteen and the number two cornerback in Stefon Gilmour. Then number sixteen is in Gilmore's new division, Carlton Davis, who was built in a lab with the

physicality contesting targets. He's developed into an absolute stud out of Auburn, Casey Hayward inside outside skill set thirty six. Darius Williams from the Rams received a first round restricted free agent tender last year. He's a priority there as he should be. Forty five. Stephen Nelson forty six to various wars from the Chiefs had very nice rookie h I should say a late round draft PICKO had a

great rookie contract run with them. Number forty eight, DJ Reader, number sixty six, Bryce Callahan, seventy six, Dante Jackson, eighty four, Robert al for Patrick Peterson, and then one hundred is real Seul Douglas. We had that career surgeons there with the Packers. Then there's two forty and Kawan Williams and Akello Witherspoon who are back to back in the one twenty, so that cornerback group, and we talked about roster resource allocation.

Miami right now at the cornerback position, pretty well invested there, but always good to know what's out there. At the safety position, Miami's pretty well represented here as well. But number eight on the overall big boards, Marcus Williams. He'll probably have the market. The Saints cap situation is tight, big time player on the back ends. We'll see if you can come back there at a position that typically doesn't pay out like some of the others, like edge,

or like offensive tackle or especially not quarterback. Number eleven's are my favorite players in the entire NFL. Jesse Bates, a true center fielder with elite range anticipation of ball skills. Then seventeen is Tyrone Matthew. Kind of rounds out the top of this class. We know at Tyron Matthew can do at this point of his career. He's fantastic. Then

you get to number forty four. Marcus May had a brutal timing for an achilles injury this year heading into a second contract, but he's turned into a stunt for the Jets. Back there. Fifty two Quandarie Digs for the Seahawks might be one of the most underrated players in the entire National Football League. Number seventy Jordan Whitehead. Number seventy two j Ron Curse. So to recap at all, the edge position is very deep. The top of the corner class is pretty insane. Safety and off ball linebacker

a bit light. I think the offensive size where the power balance tilts in this class and again this can all change, but with one month until the new league year, it's a good idea to look at this position by position and sort of if evaluate where you might be able to find value. And that feels like it could be the receiver position, maybe that second way with the

edge position, and across the entire offensive line. That sounds pretty good, although it does bear stating that with that ladder position that it's kind of the lead demand for that kind of wipes that out, So we'll see what happens. But very very interesting stuff. And with that, mock draft season also is here, and we start here in our mock draft round up with the man himself, Daniel Jeremiah has Jamison Williams of the Alabama and tied to the

Miami Dolphins to pick number twenty nine. He you know, this kind of goes back to my point about the Super Bowl with Beckham and and uh Cooper Cup and how much the offense changed when that secondary weapon went down, and Jeremiah tweeted about that himself and his kind of championship pieces idea that you have to have multiple weapons

on offense. That's what Jamison Williams would probably give the Dolphins if he makes it there thus far, the injury is probably the only reason he makes it that far down the board because Lance zer Line also has Jamison Williams here, and he notes the yak ability, which we've talked about with Mike McDaniel. Probably only there again at this point because the injury he suffered in the National Championship. For me, he challenges as the number one receiver in

this class if he's healthy. Bucky Brooks NFL dot Com has the Kobe Dean the lineback, and we mentioned with the Dolphins pick here, a number twenty nine and absolute field general. A great tackler, a great rushier, great in coverage. He's very good at everything he does. The Draft Network the other guy at that position, Devin Lloyd number twenty nine to the Miami Dolphins from Utah. He's very good at everything that he does. I'm looking at this twenty

nine pick. There's some good value here. Pro Football Focus has Garrett Wilson, the Ohio State receiver who broke nineteen of seven nineteen tackles I should say on seventy catches the yackabilities with the Pro Football Focus likes about his game.

Jordan Read, a ESPN He did a two round mock draft a week ago, and he gave Miami Logan Hall the Houston defensive end, the kind of bigger two seventy pound defensive end, and he wrote the Hall stuck out quickly, stuck out as one of the most physically imposing prospects at Senior Bowl practices. He created easy wins at the line of scrimmage with his hands, length, and wide array of moves. He also has the versatility to fit multiple

schemes and spots up front. Hall is still scratching the surface on what he can become, and his foundation of natural traits could make him an early round contributor on a defensive line rotation. Then we get Bernard Raymond, the offensive tackle from Central Michigan. We've covered him a lot, but Read writes that he's a hard nose blocker who's more than reliable in past protection. So there you go. With twenty nine, number fifty, you wind up with Logan

Hall and Bernard Raymond from Central Michigan. So this, you know, that's this year's mocks. As of mid February. Last year, lots of folks had the speedy, reliable why not from Alabama mock to Miami and that's how it went, and we're paid off with a whole bunch of broken records from number seventeen himself, Jalen Waddle, like the top five place from Jalen Waddle in one coming up next here on the Drivetime Podcast, brought to you by Auto Nation.

Back here on the Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast, February sixteenth. And I will never forget sitting in my apartment last fall with Kyle Crabs of Locked on Dolphins talking about what to do with that Texans pick that was at the time probably in the low tens, but

would continue to rock it upwards. And I was telling Kyle how my preference basically shifted based upon who I watched most previously, because that's how good the wide receiver slash tight end with Kyle Pitts class was with Waddle Chason Smith. And I'll give it to Kyle for really driving home the Waddle point. And that was always the beauty of the position the Dolphins were in, right, they had a big need of the receiver position in a class where you had legit four blue chip prospects in

that position. Again, Pitts included and something I brought up a lot last draft season that so many draft pundits had some combination of Lawrence Wattle Chase Pitts Smith in their top five, four of the top five players at those skill positions. So to get out there with one of them and an additional first round draft pick, still think that was one of the true strokes of genius in terms of draft boring manipulation we've seen. And while the extra one is great, the real treat was seeing

Jalen Waddle do his thing all year longer. We're gonna get into his top five places, which was so tough to choose. But but before we do that, and the reason it was tough to choose, we have to mention that there are so many routes that I think could

go into this collection. Routes where the ball doesn't even come his way, I mean turning the defensive back all the way around, getting access the defense defensive back was specifically guarding against with his pre snap leverage, or even on simple eight yard catches on out routes where he does it against outside leverage. It's just I don't think the numbers did justice to what he did or especially what he's capable of doing. I mean, there's a reason

coach was doing this on Friday. Wattle, Wattle. So there you heard. Let's go ahead and get to let's count on the top five plays by number seventeen and we start with his first career touchdown in New England and on the mover's waddle touchdown because the Dolphins go back on top seventeen, or rather sixteen to ten at the time of that touchdown, opening drive of the second half in a tie game, catches a three yard flat route.

And the part that I love, I mean, besides the fact that it was his first career touched down, was the understanding for how to find that pile on and basically erase the relevance of the hit put on by the defender. You'll see him extend and make sure that the body parts that count against being down are elevated, like his knees, so that he can survive the hit

and find that pylon. I asked him about how he did that, How what's the skill set there, because he scored another touchdown just like that where he kind of angles his body so the knees can't go to the ground, and he basically said, there's no real thought, it's just instincts taking over, and those are some pretty good instincts to have. So number five the first career touchdown there

for Jaylan Waddle. Number four gets us back into the end zone when the wattle was born fires and then jone and the audio clips not gonna do it justice there, But and technically he did do the waddle the week prior against the Jets, but the Carolina waddle was when it caught now saal attention. And I plugged this play in simply because it was a microcosm for the skills that impressed me most with Jalen Waddle in his rookie season. Go up, stick it, pull it down, and protect yourself.

This was an element of his game that I think people hadn't necessarily seen that side of him. They all knew about his speed, but you got a chance to watch him really show his full compliment of skills this season, and in fact, he was second among all rookie receivers and contested catches with twelve. Jamar Chase had thirteen. Next, we get down field in week seventeen, First the Chanson who offers a block and calling to pays hoping for

water inside the food time completion forty five yards. Waddles first catch since they came open and told it's a beauty. It's another layered ground. And what you're doing is you're giving the quarterback in ops and you lined up in a bunch formas to Waddles to the outside. He's running a deep or a high angle corner route and then underneath Parker, he's lined up to the inside. He goes

off and they switch release. So then all of a sudden, Parker comes out at about fifteen to twenty yards and then you hit your third receiver going in the flat as a cool about two timeo Werlar. You get to look at those layers because side where you can take advantage.

And he got Waddle for the big game. He beat Hooklings trailing by fourteen in the fourth quarter with twelve thirty one to go, the Dolphins offense needed some explosives and they went to the rookie is two airs, one right into the bread basket and Waddle gets under it and keeps the feet in around the sideline and you see him create separation by attacking that post safety then whipping that thing back to the corner, just like he did back in week number ten for our second play

on our accountdown here, forty five more yards against the Baltimore Ravens. So protected down up there, the rookie wattle to and we heard from Marlon Humphrey and he gave the rookie some effusive praise after that game. And that was a huge play in a big win on third down to extend to drive. And I think the most

impressive thing here was from a condensed split. They wind up backing up ten yards the cornerback with inside leverage, and there's a second dB to the post, so two guys on the inside, and Jalen still threatens that skinny post and backs his man off, and in the minute he starts to flip those hips to get vertical, Jalen whips that thing back to the outside to the corner and creates a ton of separation. It's another perfect ball as next Gen Stats gave it a thirty point six

percent completion probability. Number one on our list here was higher, but it went longer fifty seven yards against the Carolina Panthers. And I put this one at the top because I think it's the most telling about what we have here in Jileen Waddle. I remember watching this game back that week and watching this play so many times and just

laughing to myself. I don't I know. He didn't finish with a touchdown on the play because there was a safety up over the top, but the way he ran away from the pack was just so alarming, The urgency with which he plays, the explosion on that first step after the catch, the speed, I mean, gosh, I cannot wait to watch what coach McDaniel can get out of this guy, as well as Wes Welker in that receiver's room.

All right, oh yeah, first, real quick for you get out of here now that football is no more for a few months. What are you guys watching out there? I've been watching Euphoria. I didn't anticipate watching this or anticipate loving it, and it might come off like a high school drama, but the depth of it is so much more than that. These pre intro character origin stories

are so well done that they do. And then Zendia, the lead actor, talk about a prodigy, just incredible at her craft and the cinematography, the score, they both bring out the most of the show. I've also been watching tons of mountain climbing documentaries. Never thought you could simulate that kind of pit in your stomach feeling without actually being in the throes of your own fear of heights, But these documentaries bring it out, like multiple times, for

minutes at a time. I just can't fathom how the clerk, the main guy from the alpinist some of the tory egger and made no sense to me. Then with free Solo and what he did, I make a little more sense of it, all because of the prep that he put in. But then to climb up those cracks and those little footholds that extend like a quarter of an inch, and the faith of your hand grip take each step they do. To me, it's pure of lunacy and some of the most gripping storytelling I've ever seen, with some

of the best visuals as well. And then of course the New South Park season, How good was that second episode? Might have been the best ret con ever done, and certainly the funniest joke on their own audience any show has ever done. Also, the fish Tank episode with Dan Lemotard. You gotta check that episode out. It's it's phenomenal from start to finish. Do that and then come back to us on the Friday edition of Drivetime. We'll have that podcast for you here in about forty eight hours. As

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