Rookie Contracts, Undrafted Free Agent Intros, Twitter Mailbag

via the Twitter mail bag. But first we're gonna roll through an introduction of the undrafted free agent class and get you updated on all the rookies that are signed, sealed, and delivered, plus a brief look at the notion that quarterbacks on big contracts can't win Super Bowl titles, as well as the benefit of a quarterback on a rookie deal. All of that and more on this Thursday, May the

fourteenth edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Miami First, and we have signed, sealed, and delivered seven of the Miami Dolphins eleven draft picks from last month's annual NFL Selection Meeting. First Real Quick, Ray Kwon, Davis, Brandon Jones, Solomon Kinley, Jason Strowbridge, Curtis Weaver, and Blake Ferguson all signed four

year rookie contracts and quarterback to a tongue. Voloa is the first of the first round selections both for the Dolphins and the NFL league wide to sign his rookie contract, and that, of course is a four year deal with a fifth year team option. Standard business there in the first round. Great work by the Dolphins to get the business side out of the way and make football the only thing most of our draft class has to worry

about right now. And that rookie contract for twa brings up a topic that I always see debated and one that I just don't think holds a lot of water once you bring context to the table. First, though, let's

just call a spade a spade. In a league that has a salary cap and a league where one position commands by far the greatest chunk of that cap, when you have an established veteran at the position, I mean, we're seeing contracts start to go up to thirty million dollars a p y for quarterbacks, and I'm sure Super Bowl champion and League m v P. Patrick Mahomes will nudge that number closer to forty million when he is

finally due his payday. So in a league where the cap is roughly two million, of course, having a thirty million dollar quarterback makes filling out the rest of the roster the other fifty two spots a little more challenging. That's basic logic. That's why you often see teams get aggressive early in that rookie contract window for the quarterback and will typically start to surround the young quarterback with

weapons by year number two. Hell, we even saw it last year from our two rivals, with the Jets going out and getting Levy on Bell and Jamison Crowder for Sam Donald and the Bills going out and getting John Brown and Cole Beasley last year, on top of trading

first to fawn digs this year. But the Dolphins are in a unique position as far as the general league is concerned because of the work last year to sort sort of reset the cap and really clear off essentially every penny of those old contracts from the previous regime and give themselves such a fresh slate. They were able to build this thing under one succinct vision, and we've

talked about that on length on this podcast. Even with this past free agency class, Miami are in a good position to be aggressive if they want to be next year and can continue building out this roster with both quality starters and depth from top down. I ask, what's the harm and adding more talent and giving yourself more flexibility and more depth. It's a win win because salary cap unused. Though it can be rolled over, it's there

to be used. So I look at the idea of bolstering positions, bolstering your roster, and just being the best possible team you can be from player number one, whoever that might be, all the way down to player number fifty three, whoever that might be, and really extend that to the ninety man roster. Actually I should go back and say fifty five men on roster now with the new rules. But going down to the man on the roster, Brian Flores and Chris Career, this is what they do.

They evaluate, They turn over stones. They are not going to arrest until they think of all the options that are available to them. Obviously not using other teams rosters, because you can't just go out there and sign someone else's player unless you have to give something back to them in a trade. But if there's a player out there that's available and they think that player is an upgrade to one of the nineties spots on the roster, take it. That's how you become a better football team.

That's how you create more competition, and so you not only have more talent on the roster, you create this environment. You breed this culture of competition, which just makes everybody on the roster better because you have to work. I mean, even personally speaking, before I got hired by the Miami Dolphins, other podcasts out there drove me to be better. If someone dropped an episode or dropped an article that I thought was maybe ahead of me, or looked at something

that I hadn't done yet. I wanted to make something of my own that was better, to make myself stand out more because I want to make this a career for myself. So I was driven by my competitors. Same thing works here on the football field. So the Dolphins are in a position where they can go out there and search for players on the open market, even if they are deep at that position, because improve the roster. So to tie this whole thing back to the quarterback.

According to over the cap dot Com, the Dolphins have the eighteenth most expensive quarterback room in all of football and among the least amount of future assets owed. And with the experience veteran who played really well last year and Ryan Fitzpatrick we all know, the fifth overall pick in the draft and to a tongue of Valoa and the fanfare and the praise he gets from so many

scouts and pundits around the league. And still speaking of cheap quarterback contracts, we still have a twenty three year old Josh Rosen here, who really because the Cardinals paid so much of the initial money on his contract upfront, with that signing bonus, the Dolphins have a super cheap contract on a twenty three year old Josh Rosen who is still growing and developed upping and Brian Flores has mentioned that growth he's seen from Josh Rosen and Jake

Rudoc there as well, who had a strong preseason and training camp last year. So that's a great spot for this team to be in. The talent to financial resources committed balance is really in favor of the team because you've got a good deep quarterback room and it's not costing you all that much, so that means a window of four to five years for your championship. Your quote unquote, and I'm doing air quotes right now, you're super Bowl window. Right.

That's where I disagree, because sure, factually it is true that the quarterback on the big top five level contract hasn't won a Super Bowl and quite some time. That is a fact. But facts don't mean a lot without context, like the context that Matt Ryan is in that category. When the Falcons led to three in a Super Bowl game, does that nearly improbable? Actually, until that point was improbable comeback? Mean that he was the team's problem that year? Far

from it, of course not. He was the league m v P and broke the record for passer rating in a single season. What about the year prior Cam Newton goes off for an m v P season, played in a Super Bowl game, didn't win it, but they played in it. Would you take a fifteen and one season and come up just one game short of a championship?

How about in two thousand nine when Peyton Manning and the Colts were on the fringe of a championship, but that on side kick at halftime or to start a second half rather really swung the game towards the underdog Saints. These are all examples of how you could still be a damn good football team if you have an elite

quarterback on that big contract. And the best tweet I saw, I forget who was from some My apologies for not crediting properly, but someone had tweeted out that sure it is tougher to build a roster with the massive contract quarterback, but you know, it's even harder winning a championship without having that guy established at quarterback. So the point is this, there's no one way to skin a cat, so to speak.

As long as you have clear vision and are not making moves from desperation to bill voids on the roster and try to prolong your own job security, then you can find find ways into the winner circle from really any route. There's no one way to do it. But for the time being, the Dolphins are in a nice spot in regards to the cap situation for the immediate and long term future, and a lot of that has to do with the quarterback room being more talented than

the money it's owed. Alright, speaking of contracts, we have ten brand new undrafted free agents that we haven't talked

about on this podcast. Let's go ahead and dive into the ten players we have not broken down, the only ten players on this roster we have not yet broken down, and we start at the wide receiver position with Matt Cole, who was a four year letter winner at McKendree University, where he was named Great Lakes Valley Conference Special Teams Player of the Year as a senior in twenty nineteen. He caught forty three balls for nine hundred thirty nine

yards last year and twelve touchdowns. Both the yardage and touchdowns were school records there at McKendree. He also had twenty three kickoff returns for six hundred and twenty five yards one score, and eight punt returns for two hundred and eight yards. And a cool thing about Matt Cole,

he was the Prospect X from this year. And what that is is the mm QBS Kalin Coller has an annual Prospect X where they kind of hide the sleeper type of prospect that no one knows about, and they reveal him once he signs or gets drafted by a team. And this year that happened to be Matt Cole. And there's a really cool story up on the Palm Beach post written by hal Habib about Matt Cole and about the phone call between he and Brian Flores and how that phone call left Matt in tears and he knew

that Miami was the place for him. So this kid can return kicks. He is a big, big play waiting to happen. And you see that return ability after he catches the football. He can turn basic little screens or drag routes or mesh concepts and turn them into big place for touchdowns with a subtle little move in the open field. And he creates a lot of big plays after the catch with that run after the catch ability.

Also in the wide receiver room. Kirk Merritt, who spent the last two years in Arkansas State after coming out of East Mississippi Community College, and we all know about them from the show on Netflix chance you which, by the way, if you haven't watched that show, go watch every single season front to back right now, a terrific program on Netflix. Kirk Merritt earned all Sunbelt honors both

years he was there. He caught seventy balls for eight hundred and six yards and twelve touchdowns last year as a senior and eighty three grabs for one thousand five yards and seven touchdowns. As a junior, his eighty three catches were third in school history and led the Sun Belt Conference last season. And you want to talk about speed again with this player. He has a track background as well as so many of these Dolphins rookies do.

He was a Louisiana state champion in high school in the one hundred meters, so he can flat out scoot. Those are the two receivers. Let's go ahead and move to the tight end position where the Dolphins bring in a former defensive player and Bryce Stirk out of Montana State. And though he was a defensive player playing off the edge, is kind of a linebacker slash defensive and conversion player. He will make that jump to tight end where he did play back in high school at the position before

he got to Montana State. On the defensive side, he did play two seasons at Montana State where he was second team fcs L American Honors. And we're gonna start with don L. Stanley out of South Carolina. This guy is a six year college player. He started all three interior offensive line positions in his career, but primarily as a center each of the last two seasons, and Chris Kaufman on Twitter at c K Parrott, You guys probably know who he is, does a lot of great work

for the three Yards per Carry podcast. He had some videos showing Stanley going up against Christian Wilkins and Dexter Lawrence and javon kinlaw and practice every single day. All the guys that he faces in the SEC really kind of have him battle tested throughout the course of his career, and you would think maybe that would get him drafted.

It did not, But this guy just goes up there and physically matches up against some of the best players currently getting drafted high in the last couple of NFL drafts in Wilkins, in Lawrence, and obviously now this year in javon Kin law And So Stanley a five year letter winner there from twenty nineteen and three year starter at South Carolina. He finished his career with fifty games played, thirty eight starts, twenty three at center, eleven at left guard,

and four at right guard. He was a team captain for his senior season and also won the team's Leadership Award, an Unselfish Teammate award on the offensive side of the ball, so sounds like he fits the bill here for being a team first, tough, smart player under Brian Flores in Miami. Also along the offensive line Jonathan Hubbard, who was a four year letterman out of Northwestern State. He played in thirty two games with twenty six starts, primarily at tackle.

He helped the Demon offense established school records and passing yardage each of the last two seasons. And the third member of the undrafted offensive line group is Nick Kltmeyer, a three year letterman at Kansas State, playing in all thirty eight games of his career. He started all thirteen games at right tackle as a senior last year and earned honorable mention all Big Twelve honors. He played his freshman season at Western Illinois before transferring to Kansas State.

And we do have some testing numbers here for colt Meyer did eight teen bench on the eighteen reps on the bench rather twenty five and a half inch vertical jump eight ft one on the broad here at eight to one three cone time. He has a massive wingspan.

That's where you really see the impacts here. He has thirty four and a quarter inch arms and an eighty two and a half inch wingspan, a long, tall tackle there who goes six ft seven and has, of course those thirty four and a quarter inch arm So coming out of Old Miss, he was a four year letterman and three year starter there at Old Miss, where he

played in forty eight games with thirty six starts. He finished with a career one thirty two tackles, ten and a half sacks, and his ten point five career sacks are eleventh and program history. He earned second team All SEC honors as a senior last year, and his thirty tackles were the most in the conference by a nose tackle defensive line. So ray lima one of two defensive tackles signed as undrafted free agents. The other one Benito Jones. This is a guy's name you might have heard a

lot in draft circles or on mock drafts. He goes six ft one and packs a three twenty one pound package in that tight contact compact frame that he has, and he uses his hands very active, can slip blocks in short spaces and just finds a way to keep active and keep moving and staying in the play as he's gonna go ahead and keep after even if he loses initially and gets himself into the backfield, into the gap and trying to make an impact on that defensive line. Up. Next,

we've got Tysha and Render, who is an edge. He went to Middle Tennessee State, and you might recall him as the famed rainy photo of Belichick during the scouting combine when he went to scout Render individually at his pro day at Middle Tennessee State. He was a senior in twenty nineteen, started all twelve games and had a career high forty nine tackles. Also recorded three and a half sacks, one pick, five pass breakups, two fumble recoveries,

and too forced fumbles. And while I can tell you I watched some Iowa State and Old Miss football this past season, I did not catch any Middle Tennessee State games.

So I'm gonna go off this scouting report from the sports hub dot com coaches speaking after his pro day there at Middle Tennessee quote, big Rend is a guy that can throw on Tuesday practice tape in the dog days of the season and witness him on the back side of a play run the opposite direction from him, and he would turn and bust his butt to make a quote save the day play. He consistently had effort that we would use as an example of how to

play defensive football. Combine that with his physical attributes, he's got a chance to be great for somebody on Sundays. He grew a ton as a leader slash person over the years I was with him, and I enjoyed watching him work to become better end quote and last but not least, more of an off ball linebacker and kyl And Johnson out of Pittsburgh. He started all thirteen games there last season after transferring from Florida as a graduate

pick up. Fifty four tackles, six and a half sacks, two forced fumbles earned honorable mention all a CC honors. At Florida, Johnson played in thirty three games with nine starts, totaling eighty three tackles and one sack for the Gators defense. So those are the ten undrafted free agents. And if you happen to find yourself at training camp and want

to know what number of these guys where. The tight end Bryce Stirk number eighty seven, the wide receivers Kirk Merritt number eighty three, and Matt Cole number eighty two, along the offensive line, Donnel Stanley seventy two, Nick Caltmeyer seventy nine, Jonathan Hubbard seventy one. On the defensive line, Ray Lima seventy six, Benito Jones off the edge, Tyshan

Render number sixty four, and linebacker Kylan Johnson number fifty nine. Alright, let's go ahead and get to your questions on the mailbag. You guys know the drill by now. I put the call out on Twitter. You respond with your questions. I answered them here on the podcast best I can, and the first one to hear from Baron Brown. He's at Baron Brown. Makes it very easy on me not having to put anounced names I can't figure out with current personnel.

How do you see the Dolphins safety position shaking out our McCain and row the week one starter as well. I think that you have to be very loose with your term starter by definition on this football team in general, because they're just gonna play guys that match up best with what they think the opponent does best, and that's

gonna be a weekly thing they adapt to. Now, one thing you look at at the safety position, and we talked about it on the Tuesday podcast from the notes from Daniel Jeremiah the defensive principles of some of the defensive schemes that are similar to what the Dolphins do under Brian Flores. And this is the note for the safety's size speed. Guy have to be able to cover man to man. Former corners moved inside ideal if they have the size. Ball skills and judgment are essential more

than speed and athletic abilities. So when you look at those notes, Brandon Jones played safety, played slot corner. Bobby McCain was drafted as a slot cornerback, played free safety last year. Eric Rowe played all three cornerback positions before moving to safety last season as well by n Jones quarterback safety, kind of a little bit of both of

those in his time at Dallas and at Yukon. So these players can do multiple things, and so I think you're gonna see that they're gonna try to find a way to get the best five or six players on the field, regardless of what their exact position distinctions are. He also asked who are the leaders right now? To start he asked about McCain row. I think that's a good combination to start with because veterans guys that have

proven themselves in this league. They're gonna get the job first, and the rookies are gonna have to play better than them and outperform them and beat them out for the jobs. This next one here from Salez Dice at Big Salas your thoughts on signing Warford, which is Larry Warford, the recently released offensive lineman of the New Orleans Saints on a one year deal like Ted Carriss. Well, first, I can't speculate on the length of his contract, how much

money he might command. That would just be speculation, which I'm not really into here on this podcast. But I think that Larry Warford is a really good player. I think that last year maybe didn't fit with what the Saints want to be on offense. We talked about it previously.

I think on an earlier podcast, how they have Alvin Kamara and mark ing him and ingram was kind of more of the power guy Alvin Camara gave him more options in the passing game, and then Ingram Lee's last year and they try to be a little more flexible that way with Kamara in the passing game and the stretch game and being more of a wide zone team, and they go out and get Caesar Ruise on top of getting Eric McCoy last year, and both those guys

do a lot to get out in space. So I think in terms of salary cap commitments, they had to Larry Warford and what he did for their scheme, it just made sense for the two depart company because Warford might be a better fit somewhere else. As far as his fit on the field here, yeah, I think I think he's a good player that has that power and size combination. Of Dolphins are really going after this offseason and it always helps to add experience and talent to

your offensive line. So if they think he's a player that can help them out and the price is right, I'm sure they'll explore it. Now. As far as my inside knowledge of that, I have none, so it's pure speculation, but yeah, Warford is a good player and a lot of teams will be happy to have that guy up front. Next question here from Tone Toto. He's at Tone Lantern on Twitter. What is your goal with the new job for this football season? Just to be consistent and always

be turning out quality content. That's been my goal since I started all of this way back in two thousands, sixteen. I think it was, and my main goal is just to work as hard as I can to bring that content, whether it's you know, flagging down guys for interviews, really getting into the weeds with film, whether it's players or coaches, or in depth analytics, and just trying to provide an inside access for the fans out there to this Dolphins football team, because as a fan myself, the number one

thing I always wanted was more access. And that's my goal here is to provide Dolphins fans with the best inside access they can find here on the Drive Time podcast and also bring some fun, some entertainments on my own personality into the podcast. I've always thought podcast really

live or die by the host. Like for me, I could listen to a podcast that really didn't have content or a topic that I was necessarily into, but as long as the host is good and does a good job of it, I think that's what makes the podcast the best. So trying to inject some of my personality into the Dolphins information that I love to bring to you guys, that's my overall owl here for Drive Time. Matt Ferrera at Matt Ferreira Underscore eleven asks what are

the key differences we can expect in chan Gailey's new offense. Matt, I don't want to leave you hanging here, but we talked about this on the Tuesday podcast, so I would just recommend going back, so we're not so repetitive. But I don't want to leave your question out to dry, so just check out the Tuesday podcast. Kyle Smith at Kyle Smith sixty six. What's your feelings on The Princess Bride? I don't think I've seen it. Is that is that a common movie to have seen? I haven't seen it,

so I apologize I don't have one. Next question from Dolphins Fan eight two at Dolphins Fan eight two. Do you think Flora's and this defense will be able to slow down the high power offenses like Kansas City and Baltimore? Because every time I get excited about the Dolphins, I

remember those two teams still exist. Those are obviously the two those are the teams to beat right now in the a f C. Last year's you know, regular season champion, last year's Super Bowl champion with the Chiefs, and of course the Ravens going fourteen and two and just looking in destructible on offense and on defense for that matter. They played so well for the course of the entire season.

But I've been thinking about this a lot to going back to like the a f C Championship game for instance, and the Patriots planned that day with Brian Flores calling plays, was really to hem Patrick Mahomes inside the pocket and forcing him to beat you on structure, and they got in the first half and completely shut the Chief's offense down. Now, Mahomes is so hard to hold back that he eventually

got going in that second half. But I think you look at that plan, you look at what Emmanuel Ogbah shack laws and do and what Kyle van Noy can do from a rush multiple package perspective in terms of he can come down off the edge, he can be in the A gaps the B gaps and rush that way. And both those two big defensive ends do so well

to shrink the pocket while containing the pocket. And what I mean by that is they're so big and strong, and an og Bas case so long, they can just bull rush into that tackle and it condenses the pocket. But it also keeps the quarterback from fleeing either direction.

So what you want to do, I think with these quarterbacks that are so dangerous on the move and off script is you want to try to find a way to limit that off script ability and then make them beat you through the play call and within that structure, because even though they're still good in that area, that's your best bet to beat them. So I think that with flores vision for what he wants to be defensively, I think that if he can execute it, then will

be in good hands. It's gonna be a tall, tall order because you don't just shut down elite quarterbacks like that without having a lot of talent and a very good scheme and game plan. So it will be a challenge. But I think if history has given us any indication, if there's a coach that I trust to do it,

it would be Brian Floores and his defense. So those are matchups I can't wait to see, like in a year or two down the road, as true measuring sticks like the Chiefs this year, for instance, we get them in December on Week fourteen December. That's gonna be a great measuring stick for how far this defense is into this. You know, new program of Brian Flores. Cannot wait for that game. This one from will he's at underscore, Will Reeves underscore. Who leads the team in rushing next year

and how many yards do they get? Well, we know this team wants to be a physical, smash you in the mouth offense with the way they've built that offensive line, and to go out and get a guy like Jordan Howard who does bring that physicality and that mentality that he's gonna run through people, and the fact that he has such good vision. We've talked about the Brett Coleman video up on YouTube, the episode breaking down Jordan Howard's rookie season and how he's able to read blocks and

read leverage and make his cuts accordingly. I think that bodes very well. I think Matt Breeda could also do the same for as far as leading the team and rushing, but I think that maybe he'll be more inclined in the passing game and have more production that way, whereas Jordan Howard gets more of his production in the rushing game. So a nice equal one to punch that basically, I think could probably come pretty close in terms of total yardage, But for rushing I'll go Jordan Howard with a slight

nod over Matt Breeda. There. Next question from Justin Holcome at Finnsider Hulk, who is the player you expect to make the biggest jump this year. I'm gonna go with Christian Wilkins, the defensive tackle, last year's first round draft pick. I think they did so well to add so many parts around him. He's gonna get a lot of one on one matchups inside and that guy can win with quickness, he can win with power. He had a good year

last year. The stats don't necessarily say that, and Brian Floor has mentioned this at his post draft presser that he's not too concerned about status for defensive lineman or any player for that matter. They can have a good game without stats, and I think that really applied to Christian Wilkins a lot last year because he was doing such a good job taken on blocks, reset and line of scrimmage and really just holding the point of attack in his gap. I think that he's going to kind

of pair that together get the pass rush going. We saw it kind of late in the season last year. I would expect Christian Wilkins to have a big step forward in your number two. Next question here from Noah at Bullet to three seven how many games do you see to us starting or playing this year? If any, well, look, it's the best player is gonna play. I know it's it's Ryan Fitzpatrick's job, and that's how it should be. Right now. Any rookie's gonna have to go ahead and

take a job from a veteran ahead of them. But we saw it for sixteen games last year. It doesn't matter what the outside perspective is. Brian Floor is going to play the best player and I don't see any reason to think that would not apply to the quarterback position or any position on the entire roster. Best player plays. Next question from Texas Finnman. He's at Texas Finnman on Twitter. How is two us read in his second and third progressions?

That's that's where he shines the most. I mean, you can go watch any of the breakdowns from Dan Orlovsky or Mark Sanchez, the guys that have their own you know, platforms or ESPN or YouTube channel. You can look at the ESPN Plus episode with Nick Saban breaking down that read against I think it was Missouri last season or two It gets to his fourth read on a deep post to Jerry Judy, he processes so fast. That's that's to me with the accuracy is the best aspect of

his game. Next one to hear from j D Finns Fan, he is at let's find the at at j D Finns Fan. Any new news on this upcoming season's chance of being a full go with full occupancy at stadiums or are they still looking at quarter full model right now? Well, it sounds like the plan right now is to go forward as is. Of course, things change every single day. I'm not gonna sit here and try to be a

medical expert or project these things. Because I even watched you know, Dr Fauci for instance, or even like Scott Van Pelt had on Adrian war Zanowski who was like, I'm not making any commitments. I don't know what's going to happen. It's a day by day basis and that's kind of how we just have to go with this. But right now teams are preparing for a full season.

It's crazy, man. I'm as excited as anybody to get things back to normal, to get down to South Florida and get this thing go, and get this new season ahead with this new team that looks so exciting on paper. I think we're all hoping for the best, and right now the plan is to go forward as is, but of course things can change by the day. Next question here from J Perez fifteen thirty at G Perez fifteen thirty.

How much has your life changed over the last year, Well, substantially, I mean, going from a podcast that was successful but just didn't have the notoriety because it was such a small time platform with locked On there, and of course they are growing and doing great things at locked On, it's just to bring that credibility is certainly nice to have the backing of the organization. To have the access has been unreal. I mean, I've talked to people that I never would have thought I would talk to in

my life because of this job. The work has been great, the co workers have been great, We've had consistent content. Seeing my name up on Miami Dolphins dot com is still a dream come true to me. And as far as like personal growth, I mean, I got this job, I graduated college, my wife is gonna have a baby any day now. So it's been a really crazy year for me and I'm super super grateful for all of it.

Next question here from Anthony Measter at Mester tweets on Twitter if you go on the road with the team to New York, can I buy you a slice of pizza? Cut to the image of me saying, gonna get myself a New York slice? Then I walk into a sparrow. Little office reference for you guys there. But absolutely, man, I would love that. I I don't know what the schedule, the travel schedules like, but I will be at all

the games this year. So if you are in one of the visiting cities, the Dolphins had to go ahead and let me know on Twitter and we'll try to make something happen. I want to watch college football. That's I'm gonna put that out there. I want to watch college football on Saturdays. That's my go to jam on Saturdays. If we have college football this year, So pizza and football, I'll be there. Let's go ahead and do one more here from Jake Shankles at Shankles, Jake, what are the

top positions of need at this point? Well, you know this is gonna be very pc sounding, I'm sure, but every position, Man, if they can approve a position, they're gonna go ahead and look to do that. But I think right now you look at the roster. You have to feel good about the defensive backfield improvements, the linebacker improvements, the defensive line improvements. They made a bunch of investments

and really went heavy on the offensive line. Got two new running backs in here, didn't really make a lot of changes to the tight end group. Did add Michael Roberts and Bryce Stirk, the undrafted free agent. I'll just go ahead and subscribe to the theory that you can never have enough defensive backs and cornerbacks, and you can

never have enough good offensive lineman up front. And a league that for a number of years now has been pretty scarce on the offensive lines, I'll go those two spots, add dear defense, add de your offensive line, and you can never be too deep at those spots. All right, that's gonna go ahead and be our time for this edition of the Drivetime podcast. I appreciate you guys putting

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