Training Camp Preview 2021 Wide Receivers

dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's part three of the training camp preview series as we stopped by the wide Receiver's room to detail one of the deepest position groups on the team in my opinion, with an infusion of speed and explosiveness this offseason. Plus I did it, I ranked every I think you should leave sketch from the wildly popular second season of the Netflix show on Rotten Tomatoes. Will close out this podcast

with some TV talk. But first we got receivers to talk to, and there are a bunch of them on this roster. Let's go ahead and jump right in. So this receiver's room was a point of emphasis in the off season. Miami only lost one player from the receiver's room, Isaiah Ford was a departure with four incoming players and Will Fuller, Robert Foster, Jalen Waddle and Kai Locksley and the first thing I wanted to look at was a question I had for coach Grizzard back. I think it

was in May, maybe early May. I can't remember the exact date, but there was a quote from a question I asked him about something that receivers talked about last year in the Chan Gaily system, how there was a little bit more freedom in the routes compared to other offenses that players have played in. With regards to I need you at this spot at this time, I don't really care how you get there in terms of the footwork, the steps you take, because oftentimes that's kind of how

timing and rhythm is sync up. In a asking game. You want to have the quarterback has his three step drop timing, his five step drop timing, his quick you know, get the ball out of the hands quickly timing, and then you have the receivers that take you know, maybe it's two or three steps before they break into the slant or into the out or into the curl, whatever it might be. It's all timed up and seeked up.

That's why you know professional football is such a marvel to watch, because go watch a high school game, that stuff is you know it's night and day. The difference you see there, so part of the NFL is is the beauty of it, is the fact that these guys

are so precise in their timing. And the question I had for coach Grizzard was how much of that changes this year and how much do you coach that in the receiver's room, And he said, there's pretty good carry over when it comes to having that freedom to win the route, but also having the same timing and tempo and sense of urgency that we know the timing of the play. We've got to get open and cannot take

too long. It just really is being on the same page with the quarterbacks and seeing it through the same lens. So kind of the idea there of rep being and practice and getting this stuff down. I think that right there shows you some of the value of having this full compliment of an off season for the Miami Dolphins with this young team that was the second youngest team

in the National Football League last year. For a lot of the season, they were the youngest team until some injuries or guys going on I R changed that across the league. But the main idea was that this team was so young and to get that offseason work together with a room that has plenty of incumbents but also has some newcomers. I think that can prove valuable this season,

especially as the year goes along. The second thing I wanted to look at with regards to this room and how it's constructed as an argument that I've seen made often on the Move the Sticks podcast, and this idea of attacking your receiver's room kind of like you would a basketball lineup, and in the sense that maybe this isn't so true today where everybody can shoot thirty foot jumpers and and knock those down, and the maybe dumping the ball into the post is a bit of a

thing in the past, but having your variety on the floor could be viewed as a similar translation or idea or theory, whatever you want to call it at the receiver position. So I'm kind of thinking about how would I describe these receivers in terms of that basketball analogy. And I'm kind of looking at like this like you've got so many options for all five positions on the field, Like I put Will Fuller as my point guard because he's an accomplished receiver. In the NFL twenty seven years old.

He's showing growth every single step of the way. His route running continues to get better. He has the vertical threat, but he also can turn guys around in the short area. Just go back and watch the Thanksgiving game last year against the Lions. With the Houston Texans, he was creating three four five yards of separation with relative ease, or not relative ease, but with regularity. I put Jalen Waddle as my two guard because I mean, this guy can

do just about anything you want to. But we're gonna use him to free him up and get him shots and you know, use jet motion him in the backfield, whatever it might be. You have so many options with him that I think that he puts that role of we can create certain plays in certain ways to give him the football. On top of the idea that he can do a lot of the things we talked about will Fuller in terms of creating separation as a pure route runner, vertically intermediate and the short area as well.

I was trying to decide between who was the small forward and power forward between Devonte Parker and Preston Williams, and I think I'm going with Preston as my small forward.

Because he's got plenty of wiggle and shake at the top of the route as he kind of One thing you want to watch for these guys is you want every route to look the same, and one way you can do that is to sink the hips into the route so that you're not giving away the route with your body language or your footwork or how you set the route up. If you can sink your hips, that allows you to stay within the framework of your route

and make everything look the same. So with Preston, he's got an ability to do that, and he has going back to Colorado State. I think it's a big reason why he's had such big training camps in the one big preseason and then production when he's been on the field the last couple of years, because he does have that vertical skill set. He has the height to challenge

cornerbacks on back shoulder throws or vertical throws. But also when you can do that and snap things off and come back to the quarterback and run horizontal, that's a little bit more of that three position on the basketball court, the small forward where Davante Parker I'm gonna put him out there and we'll talk about why here in terms

of the stats that proved this out. I'm gonna put him in the post and power forward him and just throw him contested balls and let him go up over people and draw fouls as it were, you know, pass interference or a foul, you know, hack a shack type of basketball, and just body guys and pull the ball in on those contested catches. Be my red zone guy, my touchdown maker. He's been doing that the last couple of years here in Miami. And then I don't think

there's a great center option. And again this kind of goes back to the idea that the center is maybe a little bit dead in the NBA as far as real true impact players. But I think the easy comparison here is Mike get Sicky, even though I know he's a tight end, but he plays the majority of his reps in the slot. So you know, a receiver slash tight end a move piece that can do a lot for you. So we'll go with him there. Then I've

got backcourt options a plenty. I mean, Lynn Bowden, Albert Wilson, Joachim Grant, Malcolm Perry, all these guys can do the horizontal stuff, the drag routes they can do hookups, they can run screens, you can you can put these guys in the backfield. All of these guys have run plays from the backfield, either in their college or pro career. Then as my kind of front court off, you know, behind Parker and Williams and Mike, I've got Robert Foster,

Mac Hollins, Kirk Merritt, Alan Hearns, and Kayle Loxley. I mean, the depth there, it just it goes on and on and on and on. You've got almost these line changes you can run with this group. It's evenly balanced, it's evenly complimentary. I am just such a fan of how

this room was constructed in the off season. I remember at the start of free agency, there was, you know, so many name brands on the market that folks were pointing to, and that was something we talked about for months on the podcast, on Twitter and among Dolphins fans yourselves, Like you know, into pendant of my content, you know, the likes of Juju Smith Schuster who goes back to pittsburgher Kenny Golladay who winds up on a huge contract with the Giants, who you know, I like Kenny Golladay,

but I think his game was a bit redundant to what the Dolphins had here, So it's not like adding him makes you not a boy our team. He certainly would, but I think you look for more complementary skill sets to what you have. And the two names I liked in that area where Will Fuller and t Y Hilton of the Colts, who then of course resigned back to the Colts late in the free agent process. I also loved me some Curtis Samuel went off the board pretty quickly in free agency, if I recall correctly to the

Washington football team. Man he and why am I forgetting his name all of a sudden? Terry McLaurin and Washington is a fun duo. Can't wait to watch those guys get after it. We'll have the NFC East preview on a podcast coming up here in the coming weeks. But getting Will Fuller was such a perfect fit for I

thought the room needed heading into the offseason. Then you come back and get the absolute again opinion, perfect fit for what the room was missing with Jalen Waddle and by now you know that I think the world of this guy as a prospect. I just love seeing position groups have certain needs. You know, it's not just put receiver X in that position like you see it in mock drafts, for instance, like, well, team X needs a receiver. The third receiver in the draft is on the board

right here. Let's go ahead and assign him. But if he's not a fit for your system, or if he's not going to up end a veteran on in terms of what he does well with his skill set, then you're being redundant. And so I thought the way they went after this with having certain needs in the front office and the coaching staff identifying those needs and investing in that particular need, not just in addressing it, but

investing in it. And we saw it last year with the offensive line, where you pair draft picks with free agent signings, giving you a good balance of veteran and young players with obviously Eric Flowers and Ted Harrison free agency, and then you get Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, and Solomon

Kinley in the draft. And now you come back this year and you identify the receiver position and we'll talk about this with coach Flores and his comments this offseason as well, and you address it with Will Fuller and

Robert Foster and you draft Jalen Waddle. All three of those guys have clocked sub four forties at one point or another in their career, and not to mention getting back Albert Wilson another sub four four guy, and Alan Hearns, a guy that has eaten up the field in the middle of the field from that slot position as well as played outside in his career. Both those guys back

in after opting out in. So the approach of getting balanced at this position with size and speed, it also allows you to be adaptable, and we talked about this on the Running Back podcast with how all of those guys at their very best can be fungible across different systems, you know, zone, man, outside, inside, We talked about that

on the Wednesday podcast. Different facets of the game, running, game passing, game pass blocking, special teams, and I see a lot of the same things here at the receiver position. We talked about it in that basketball lineup breakdown. You have seemingly infinite permutations where you can get whichever skill sets you need on the field for that particular down or that series, or that quarter or that game, whatever it might be. And last year attrition was a problem

late in the year. It got to a point where you're trying to survive losses of Preston Williams, of Albert Wilson and Alan Hearns from opting out in the beginning part of the year, you know, right before training camp gets gets going, you're kind of limited in your options as far as how you can address the position, with free agency and the draft both by gone. Davanta Parker and jakeem Grant take late season injuries and have to miss some time in game and also miss games at

the end of the year. Not to mention Mike get sick, he goes down late in that Patriots game too. So really a lot of your top receiving options in terms of targets, receptions, yards, touchdowns, however you want to play it, we're not available to you late in the year. So now I think you feel a lot better about being

protected against something like that happening. Again, it's kind of been a focal point of the off season to build up every position group, not just for competition, but to give yourself that depth so that you can survive the attrition that is the National Football League, and that also extends into the way you game plan. You know, We talked about being interchangeable on this podcast. We talked to the coaching staff about we talked to the players about it.

It's a organizational philosophy to have people that can do multiple things, and that goes for the entire you know, the entire organization of podcasts like me, I'm learning about SCO for instance, and working with Emily Latham are great, great web developer designer, the one that helps me the most on the back end design with the website stuff.

We have people that are multifaceted, and that is an extension of Brian Flores and his message and his team and being interchangeable in the sense that you can be a team that does X primarily one week and then

pivots to why the following week. For instance, when they were down bodies late in the season, you call upon a mac Hollins who plays a career high sixty nine snaps on offense, and all they do is roll up two fifty rush yards after having a prior season high of one d and thirty eight yards, almost double the rushing total of this previous season high. And you go watch that tape, watch Mac Hallins number eighty six blocking

in the running game. He is wiping guys out, he's holding up multiple guys at the point, he's selling edges, he's downfield. Anytime you get a big run, there's gonna be a downfield blocked by a wide receiver and eighty six was hitting him on that day. You stacked this group up against the rest of the league. I mean Pro Football Focus has been doing uh, position by position rankings across the league, and they ranked the Dolphins receiver

room ninth. And it seems like it's been since the Dan Marino days since you can say that about the Miami pass catchers, that they'd be viewed in that regard. Chambers, Booker and McMichael. Maybe. I know McMichael's a tight end, but back then, you know, there was a different league.

You played a lot of twenty one personnel with two backs, Rob Conrad and Lusaka polite types in the league, Irving Friar O j McDuffie and mark Ingram in the mid nineties maybe, and then for sure before that, like definitely, the the Marx brothers held up that end of the bargain. But I asked Brian Floores about, you know, going back to the idea of the emphasis on the passing game

and playmakers he talked about post draft. I asked him because Chris Greer had said pre draft that we do want to add playmakers both of the offensive and defensive side of the football. And then after Javon Holland, the safety was drafted in the second round out of Oregon, I had a chance to ask coach, you know you talk about addressing playmakers on both sides of the ball. Can you kind of speak more to that, and he

he said this verbatim quote, it's a passing league. I think we all know that you need to be able to defend the past. You have to. You've got to defend the run also, But if you just look at the percentages and strictly the numbers, it's a passing league in my opinion, and Chris Greer and I have had

many discussions about this. We want to be able to defend the deep part of the field and limit explosive plays and a quick aside right here g A coach Gerald Alexander has talked multiple times last season, and I'm sure we'll hear it this year about how mistakes in the secondary lead to touchdowns. That's where you cannot make your communication airs in the secondary, so limiting explosive plays.

Part of that is athletic ability on the back end, but also communicating and so back to Brian Floores is quote here. In order to do that, to limit explosive plays, the guys who are back there are the defensive backs. I think Chris puts an emphasis on that with the scouts, and we talk about the back end constantly. We feel it's important. We feel like it's all important. I hate to kind of talk about one thing because every position, from the nose tackle to the three technique to the linebacker,

it all plays as one. But at the end of the day, there's nothing a nose tackle can do about a fifty yard ball. We put an emphasis on that. The next thing we have to do is get them coached up. It's one thing to add players, it's another thing to get them coached up and get them all on the same page so we can try to defend

these offenses that are very good in this league. So that point kind of evolved into a point about the defense, which is what I asked coach, So I appreciate him, you know, answering the question that I asked, But I thought that was relevant to the point about the offense, And you talk about limiting explosive plays and defending the deep part of the field. While on offense, which free agent threatens the deep part of the field more than

Will Fuller There wasn't one. In the National football We'll talk about that here in just one second. Which player in the draft threatened the deep part of the field more than Jalen Waddle, There wasn't one. We'll talk about that here in just one second. And you talk about making an emphasis on the playmakers. I just got the War and Sharp season preview magazine. He does great work. He does so many models and analytics and in depth advanced metrics. They give you an idea and a feel

for what team is and what they can be. And it's it's just a unique look at the game and by the numbers, and I think it's a really good balance to what you see on film. Use both those things that kind of come to a final conclusion. But in that he has positional salary rankings in terms of what teams allocate their cash towards which position, and the number one team in the league as far as receiver payroll and defensive back payroll both of those belong to

the Miami Dolphins. So they talk about it, they have a vision, they approach it, they attack it, and they are I mean, that's that's my favorite part about this Dolphins iteration under this current regime is they talk about things they want to do and they go out and do it, like you don't have to look for between the lines that they're gonna do what they say they're gonna do. That's their vision, that's their belief and it's been fun to watch it come together. So this group,

you know, creating conflict. I just I don't know how you avoid the conflict that this team can present. Because you play man coverage with all that speed we talked about, the vertical and horizontal stretching element is going to just open up space for everybody, not just the speed guys, but the big guys that create space in the middle. And you get those guys one on one opportunities like a Mike Kisiki or Davante Parker or Preston Williams and

down the list. If those guys get one on one, that's where they excel and bodying guys up and making those contesting catches, you play two high defense that creates chances for the running game. You get a two way go from the slot where the receiver can can go inside,

can go outside. That forces you to play coverage unless you want to rely on your off safety or maybe a nickel cornerback playing off coverage to be responsible for the possibility of this where Jalen Waddle or Will Fuller is lined up on you, you have a ten yard cushion and you're the only man in the deep part of the field, so you have to be worried about him stepping to the corner and then crossing face back

to the post or doing the opposite. There's a great clip of Jalen Waddle against Missouri this past season late in the game where he does just that. The nickel cornerback blitzes the safety rolls over to cap and kind of replace that cornerback and Waddle he gives him no chance. He runs straight at him with that four three speed or sub four three speed really, and the safety flips his hips to the corner. He runs to the post and creates like five yards of separation. The ball didn't

find him, but that's besides the point. You know, process over results, so I look at the the offense and the conflict that can create. That's the most exciting part about this to me. Conflict, conflict, conflict. And finally, I also think you have the potential to maybe add to future capital with this room because there's what double digit

capable receivers in this room that we know of. That's before we get a chance to see some of these drafted guys or players that haven't had NFL experience, like a Kirk Merit for instance, We'll see what is what can he bring to the table. You can't keep them all.

You can't keep ten receivers, So can you possibly use that to your advantage if maybe someone goes down in camp on some on some other team that needs a receiver, maybe you do that that way, this receiver's room could be ultimately the gift that keeps on giving to these

Miami Dolphins. So let's go ahead and get to the written piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com taking a look at every position here heading into training camp in eleven part series, We're gonna be with you guys in the podcast here up until the opening day at camp, and then we're gonna break down all the action. Nine player evaluations throughout the course of the month of August and preseason games and training camp practices. I've said it before,

I'll say it again. It's my favorite football to watch because you're not stressing out about the results. You just get to sit there and enjoy it and do the evaluation and kind of put your own knowledge of the game to the test. So check it out Miami Dolphins dot com. Training camp previews are live up on the website. And also will you have a Moment? The only thing we ask from you from this podcast we give you

the podcast ad free. There's no charge is to go leave us a rating and a review and subscribe to the podcast wherever you get your podcast. So we talked about the additions to the receiver room Will Fuller, Jillian Waddle, Robert Foster, and Kayle Locksley and Isaiah Ford was the loan departure from last year's group. The coach of this group is Josh Grizzard. He enters his second season as

Dolphins receiver's coach. It's his fifth year with Miami. He served previously as a quality control offense offensive quality control coach My Apologies, as well as an assistant receiver's coach to Carl Durrell, who of course got the head coaching job in the Pac twelve a couple of years back.

He played his college ball, Grizzard did at Yale before making the jump to student assistant for one season prior to a three year stint at Duke as a graduate slash a graduate assistant, a g a slash quality control coach, and when you look at coaches room as a whole, we talked about this and their ability to make contestant catches last year, and we talked about in the quarterback pod cast to a tongue of blows, forty seven point five percent completion rate on tight window throws, which is

when there's a receiver or a defensive back rather within one yard of the receiver was tops in the NFL. And that's you know, a two person stat right there, the receiver in the quarterbacks to make the catches on those good throws in those windows. Davanta Parker had his second best season as a pro last year as far as some of the statistical categories go receptions, yards, touchdowns,

and some others. Preston Williams I thought developed a good rapport with the young quarterback early on in that Arizona game, had like four catches for sixty yards and a touchdown in the first half of that game. And then again to complement the size and the strength of the incumbents, Miami goes in search of speed this offseason and they found it will Fuller in fifty three catches, eight hundred and seventy nine yards and eight touchdowns. Robert Foster again

one of these sub four four guys. He had a big rookie season, has not matched it in the last two seasons, but he comes here to Miami looking to do that, but also has some big contributions in his career as a special teamer. Albert Wilson as well as Alan Hearns back off of the opt out list from last year, the sixth overall draft pick in Jalen Waddle who caught five hundred ninety one receiving yards and four

touchdowns in five games last year at Alabama. And then we talked about the depth of the room and how the goal of the off season from coach Flores and from Chris career was to breed competition in every room. Talked about mac Hollands notching his first touchdown as a Dolphin last year, the big touchdown catch against the Cardinals, Jakeem Grant earning All Pro honors as a return man, Lynn Bowden and Malcolm Perry approving really difficult to tackle

after the catch. And then of course Alan Hearns the other opt out from last season, Kirk Merritt spent all but one game on the practice squad during his rookie year, and then Kayle Loxley looks to make the switch from collegiate quarterback to professional professional wide receiver. Easy for me to say, we start here in order of jersey number

with Albert Wilson. He's entering his seventh season out of Georgia State, twenty nine years old on opening day, wearing number two this year, so keep an eye on that.

Training camp number two is Albert Willson. And I think all of us look back as far as Dolphins fans go at Albert Wilson against the Chicago Bears and eighteen, he had two catches in the fourth quarter that total a hundred eighteen yards, and combined on those hundred eighteen yards, a hundred and ten of those came after the catch on long touchdown catch and runs through a tired Chicago

Bears defense. Kind of a breakthrough campaign for Wilson that year before prematurely ending that season with an injury the following game against the Lions, where once again he caught the ball and was off to the races and someone tripped him up. But I think he doesn't get tripped up on that play. He might have damn well scored again. So that was kind of a setback in his career. But that injury, he missed some time early in twenty nineteen and came back towards the end of the season

and he looked like himself again. He was slipping tackles every single week. The final three games of the year, he had seventeen catches for a buck nineties seven and he broke seven tackles, and those three games with a hundred and ten of his one hundred ninety seven yards coming after the catch. And come training camp, he will be thirty three months removed from that injury, so I'm excited to see what he looks like out there on

the practice field. Will full or number three, he has five years of NFL experience out of Notre Dame, twenty seven years old, kind of hitting that prime age, and we saw that last season, and he stepped into that number one role last year with the Texans after DeAndre Hopkins went to Arizona, and boy, he did not disappoint. He led the NFL and yards per target at eleven point seven, and he set career highs and receptions, receiving yards,

and touchdowns. And I thought this that was interesting. Average depth of target was thirteen point three for will Fuller. That was the twenty four highest among receivers who had at least forty targets last year, and he's still caught over seventy of those targets. Only one other receiver with a average depth of target of thirteen yards or better caught better than seventy of their passes. That was Cleveland's Richard Higgins at seventy five point four percent. That's from

Pro Football focus. So he can get vertical and give you a high catch rate. So where you're you kind of get weary about attacking vertically is the low percentage throws you get yourself in second down and long. But with will Fuller, you don't run that risk as much because he catches most of the balls that are thrown to him. Seventy percent of the time. He also graded him on the top of the receiver class in terms

of Matt Harmon's reception perception data for last season. We did a podcast with Matt previewing the receiver draft class this year. We talked a lot about Jalen Waddle, but us talked a lot about will Fuller. If you have not heard that, I believe it was in late April, right before the draft, go back and check that podcast out. But Fuller posted better than league average success rates on

every single route chartered besides one, the out route. He was just below league average in that one as far as Matt Harmon's charting went, and he defeated press coverage at a clip of seventy four point two percent that was in the top eighty percent tile of the National Football League. Will Fuller, there are just so many stats that that encourage you about what his production has been

in his career. Last year and in the eleven games he late, he was on the field for two of the offensive snaps on eight of those occasions, so a full time player last year to the max twenty three point nine percent of his snaps and the slot last year the four point three to forty yard dash gives you the flexibility to do multiple things as well, but catching the deep ball, catching passes underneath, and taking into the house sixteen point six yards per catch last season,

two point to eight yards per route run that was eleventh in the National Football League, and Texans quarterbacks had a one thirty two point five passer rating when targeting Fuller last season. He is a big play waiting to happen and a lot of fun to watch play football. Up next here on our list is Lynn Bowden junior

number six, now another jersey number change. One of the four Dolphins receivers wearing single digits are gonna have Wilson too, Fuller and three, Bowden and six, and Alan Hearns and eight. So try to keep up on that at training camp. We see you out there in a couple of weeks. Number six. One season NFL experience out of Kentucky. He'll be twenty three years old on opening day, and his skills are I think best explained by his collegiate accomplishments

because he was a receiver. And you know this isn't the Ryan Tannehill thing where you heard every single week this guy was a former receiver in college. No, it was like Tannehill, where he was a receiver who moved to quarterback because his team needed him in that role, and he did that. He entered that season on the Bullet Nic Cough Award watch list for the nation's top receiver.

And all he does is go on to play quarterback that season after the first and second string quarterbacks go down to injury, and he sets a record for most rushing yards in a game by an SEC quarterback, beat Tim Tebow's record and went bananas in their bowl game for a bunch of yards and touchdowns as well. And he got here last year a week before the season opener in that trade with Las Vegas, and you saw

his playing time increase as the year went along. He was targeted just twice to the first twelve weeks of the season, but he saw at least four targets and four of the last five games. During that final month, he caught twenty seven passes for two and twelve yards, and he broke at least one tackle in every single game. He is slippery with the ball in his hands. Number eight Alan hearns six years NFL experience out of Miami.

He'll be twenty nine on opening Day. He had that contract extension back in twenty nineteen, which just through the pandemic through it all seems like so long ago, but he did that before the Week ten game in twenty nineteen. After the extension, he finished the year with nine team catches, two forty six yards and a touchdown, which was good for eight point seven nine yards per target and a sixty eight point one percent catch RaSE. So he he did a lot of work inside outside. He caught some tough,

contested balls in the middle of the field. He brings you some value in that way. Up next is number ten, Malcolm Perry, the second year player out of Navy. He'll be twenty four years old come opening Day. A versatile offensive weapon. We saw him do kind of what he did in college in terms of playing multiple positions both on offense and special teams. He caught nine passes on thirteen targets for ninety two yards and a touchdown. He also carried the ball three times for five yards and

returned to punt for twelve yards. So Malcolm Perry kind of a jack of all trades in this receiver's room. Davante Parker number or eleven, that hasn't changed six seasons as a pro out of Louisville, twenty eight years old on opening day, and this guy has mastered the craft of high point in the football. I talked about this after how it seems like it seems like those high point catches are just from the casual I or maybe

the untrained. It looks like there might be like some luck involved, Like you just go up and you hope you get your hands on it. But you watch the way Davante does it. He's so good at manipulating what the defender can do in terms of kind of putting his body into the defender and kind of hanging up in the air and using those long arms and strong hands to pluck the ball because the defensive back can't get around him because he's kind of blocked him out

or shielded him out. And I think that's the most impressive part of Davanta Parker's game. But he also moonlights, and this is kind of an unknown fact about Davanta Parker. I think he plays a lot inside too. He can win from the slot on slants and outs and flats and some of that fun stuff you do from that position. He's capable of playing every position at the receiver spot, strong hands, the top shelf, leading ability, exceptional body control,

forty three contested catches over a two year period. That's best in the National Football League and a very valuable asset for a young quarterback. He had the twelve hundred two yards back in and that was despite ranking in the bottom five in the NFL from Sports Info Solutions in terms of catchable targets. He was also twelve that year in a DOT at fourteen point four yards average depth of targets, So pulling down the football on low

percentage throws was Vante Parker's game. Robert Foster number sixteen,

three seasons NFL experience. He comes out of Alabama as well, twenty seven years old on opening Day, and another one of these guys that has a blend of size and speed at six ft two with a four four one forty yard dash and he averaged twenty point one yards per catch as a rookie, and that was his most productive campaign when he caught twenty seven passes for five hundred forty one yards and three touchdowns twenty one downs and he did that at twelve point three yards per target.

And again, this guy can get done on special teams. Jalen Waddle number seventeen, a rookie out of Alabama, will be twenty two years old come opening Day, and he was the most explosive player in college football according to GPS tracking in terms of his speed and change of direction and all the stuff that tracks instant offense. Caught twenty one of twenty six deep targets last year. That's passed his throwing twenty or more yards caught twenty one

outwenty six. That's like, that's like screen numbers right there. It's ridiculous. And the average twenty two point three yards per catch, nineteen point two yards per target that final year there Alabama, and he also averaged nineteen point three yards per punt return with two touchdowns on thirty eight chances. In his career, he averaged a hundred twenty three point eight yards per game out of the slot that led

college football by a country mile. And he also finished sixth in college football with an average of ten point one yards after the catch last season. We keep on rolling along here with number eighteen, Preston Williams two years experience out of Colorado State. He'll be twenty four years old. On opening Day, and you can bind his two seasons together.

He got injured after his eighth game both seasons, and of course played that Cardinals and for the first half, so seven and a half games really, But through sixteen games in two seasons, fifty catches, seven hundred and sixteen yards and seven touchdowns. I mean, you give me a U d f A and in one season will take that. Two years is even pretty good too, for a guy that you know has the low percentage chance of making a roster like a U d f A typically does.

But he burst onto the scene with a great training camp into the preseason and then produced on the field on Sundays when it counted. Average depth of target was fourteen point eight last year, his average reception was fourteen point three yards. Of This guy again vertical skill set, but also enough to win underneath Number nineteen Jachem Grant

five years NFL experience out of Texas Tech. He'll be twenty eight years old come opening Day, and his speed and explosiveness makes for some of the more intriguing in white knuckle plays on the NFL landscape, and especially at training camp. He has so much fun to watch practice.

He broke franchise records last year for both the longest punt return at eighty eight yards and most punt returned touchdowns in franchise history with three, and we scored it from his owned twelve yard line in that seventeen win over the Rams. He also has two kickoff return touchdowns, giving him the franchise record for most special team scores.

But he also notched ten point three yards per target last year that was the best on the Dolphins team, and the averages six point four yards after the catch on eighty nine career receptions. We got a few more to get to here. Kirk Merritt number eighty three last

year was his first out of Arkansas State. A twenty four year old player who started his career at Oregon transferred to Arkansas State, where he caught nineteen touchdowns and one thousand, eight hundred and seventy two receiving yards in two seasons. I also thought he was really looking sharp

out there in o t As this past summer. Mc collins number eighty six four years experience out of North Carolina, twenty seven years old on opening Day and again carving out a real nice role for himself in the NFL. As a key special teams contributor, but also his blocking work in the running game. He came on late last year and had sixteen catches on twenty five targets for a hundred and seventy six yards and that big touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals. We talked about his work in

the running game. He had a huge block on that fifty eight yard Miles Gaskin touchdown in Las Vegas, and had so many big blocks on Miami's two hundred and fifty yard rushing day against the New England Patriots. Kai Locksley number eighty seven, a rookie out of Texas El Paso,

twenty four years old. On opening day. He was a dual threat quarterback at U TEP had two hundred and thirty seven rushing attempt and three hundred and fifty passes in college, twenty total touchdowns, eleven of those on the ground. So he's a little bit uh tough to tackle. Like so many of these guys on this roster, can make place after the reception. So that's your Dolphins receiver's room. That's the training camp preview for it. I gave you

a promise. We talked about some TV here I first want to cover the show Dave on FX, which we talked about almost weekly. It seems like here on the podcast, how good has this season been? Mina Kimes tweeted about it, saying how great the show is, and I replied to her saying that my favorite part of the season so far was the scene or the episode where Gaeta was trying to get his phone charged and there just was this overwhelming sense of tension and fear that something bad

was about to happen to him. But that wasn't the case at all. Spoiler he winds up being the star of the episode. I went from like just it's gonna happen, something bad is gonna happen to cheering at the end of the episode. Rick and Morty. Three episodes into the new season, it's kind of like Dave, where it's not that much of a comedy to me anymore as much as a great drama. I'm loving watching that. And my new show I'm into right now is Atlanta, also an

f X production. FX makes bangers, but akin to Dave, Donald Glover is so talented. You probably know him as Childish Gambino, the singer, but he does so much stuff with comedy and acting and just the true triple, quadruple, five, tuple, whatever that word is. He's a true threat in every single aspect. And as promised my I think you should leave power rankings. I went through every sketch and graded them or not gread at him. I just ranked him in order by which ones I liked the most. I

think there's like twenty eight total. I'm not going to go through all of them. But this show is on Rotten Tomato is Seth Rogan called it one of the funniest shows he's ever seen, So I recommend you go check it out because everybody else is and they're all loving it. Season one was great. I personally think season two is even better. So my top ten, let's go with that. And this isn't gonna make sense to some

of you, but go watch you you'll find out. Brian's hat slash Insider Trading, the hat with the Safari flaps and the fedora, that was number one sketch in the entire season for me. Dan Flashes number two. The great shirts with the complicated designs, that was number two. The Ghost Tour where you can say whatever you want on the adult Tour was number three, corn Cob TV bring back coffin flops, he didn't do it. Number five was the Crash Detective crash More a O L Blast interview

or Santa Claus is playing Detective crash More. Sloppy Steaks is number six. I Can't Drive is number seven when the guy was stuck in the parking lot couldn't get out because Tim Robinson could not drive his car. Carl Havoc is number eight. The great scene where he questions his entire life because of the sketch they're pulling, and then Driver's ed was number nine where the lady in her tables didn't make sense at all. And number ten was the carbor vack because is that why are you sure?

That's why you're really sure? That's why that's number ten. I got the rest of my rankings here. We'll talk about it on Twitter. Tell me your rankings, Tell me how much you love that show. Tell me what you're watching right now. I love hearing some recommendations and what everybody is doing outside of their football viewing. As for my time on this podcast, Part three of the Training Camp Preview is gonna be a rap you all. Please be sure to subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast.

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