The Audible Ep.111 | 2020 Draft Breakdown

we got through over the weekend. I'm talking about the NFL Draft and Johnny look at his football team and I think when, for the most part, when I've looked at different comments about the Dolphins and the draft, and everyone's getting grades and no one knows what's what these players are gonna turn out to be, but to get grades anyway, but it seems like, I don't want to say completely universally, but almost universally, the Dolphins have gotten

pretty high marks on what they've done and how they've filled out their roster in the draft. And I would combine that, John, We've talked about it before, with the ten players that they signed in free agency prior to the draft, you start to feel pretty good about how

this team you're shaping up. Now. Having said that, these draft choices, you know a lot of these draft choices are gonna have to come in and proved that they were worth their uh you know, where they were selected, and some of them that were selected maybe later have to prove that they're better than than with the number they were selected at. Well, I think you're right, Bow,

and it starts at the top. You know, when you go and you have three draft choices in the first round and you pick fifth, eighteenth, and then you make a move to go back from thirty. You want to be able to feel like you have pillars that are going to be around the Miami Dolphins franchise for a

long time. And you want to be able to not only pick guys with with great talent on the field, a great character that you can build around it, that that you can draft leaders future leaders of this football team.

And I think the Dolphins really did that with too a tongue of Bloa at quarterback, because he's the guy that everybody's had their kind of uh, you know, bulls eye on for a long time now, you know, for a couple of years, ever since he threw that game winning touchdown pass in overtime in the National Championship Gaming he was a guy that was going to be you know, a top one, two, three, four, or five draft choice, and you know only because of his injuries that he

slipped a five, quite honestly. So the Miami Dolphins were able to stand pat at number five, get the quarterback that they wanted, and have the luxury now with Ryan Fitzpatrick of either making that a true competition and the best guy wins, or still making it a true competition and engaging it by uh the progress that to it makes in the next couple of months in terms of being able to be ready to be the best he

can be for training camp. So I think there's a lot of positives when you start at that position, because that position is gonna drive your football team. Yeah, I mean, it's you know, it's it's it's nice. It's it's comforting right now. Uh And and I probably wouldn't have said this going into last season, but it's comforting to have, you know, Ryan Fitzpatrick on your football team just because we've had the chance to see him during the season. We have a chance, had a chance to really understand

more of what Ryan Fitzpatrick was all about. You know that we didn't know, you know, when we weren't you know, watching seeing him as close to close as we did were able to see last year and in the game and in pre games, and just the way he carried himself out there. So it's really, you know, it's really for the Dolphins to have that. It's a it's a it's a big luxury right now. Uh, Josh Rosen, you know where he's gonna fit into that to that room.

Time will tell, you know, he may be here, he may not be here, But I think when you look at it's clearly going in into this season, you know he's your number three guy on on the roster there or now. Whether he's gonna be there or not, time

will tell. But you know, I think you feel pretty good going into this season where you are and and the unknown being like you talked about, what is what is to his contribution gonna be if any of this year when it comes to playing in game time now, And I think there's a number of different ways to look at it. Certainly you're looking at him, and you know the one thing you hear over and over and over again as well, you know, let him let him sit out the year and let him get let him

get health here. You know, the guys had guys had break injuries. You know, he's had high ankle sprains. He's had two high ankle sprains, he's had surgery, he's had the hip injury. It was a fracture, and John my feeling on those things, or I know the fracture is a little different because it's a hip thing. But you know, my my experience with with injuries and my own injuries and other guys I played with watching their injuries and

how they came back. You know, want to break his heel, his heel, You know it's it's not gonna get better, you know, because it's you know, if it's a hundred percent heel now, it doesn't mean that next year it's gonna be a hundred percent stronger than than it is now. You know, it's it's it's one thing. If it's if it's one thing, as if it's an a c L or a or or achilles or some of those things where it's kind of soft tissue stuff and you're kind of not sure. But to me, what a bone is healed.

It's healed and and you're not that susceptible to having it return again. I remember the first time I had my first knee surgery. And you know, and and to A talked about this a little bit. He said, you know, you know once once I went to the doctor, I said, doctor, you fix my knee. Yes, is there is there at risk now of being more injury places No, that thing is as good as new. As long as you rehab right and you get your legs streighted up, it'll be good to go. And that was my rookie year and

it never bothered me the rest of my career. And I had another one that had the same result with that. So, um, you know. The point I'm getting to is, I'm not so sure that you know the the reason for not

playing two of this year is the injury. I think the reason to me and the criteria that I would want to see to play two, uh, is what you talked about, the fact that he came in was healthy to play, to play in training camp and whatever pre training camp they may have this year, whether it's an o T a week or or a mini camp or whatever, or whether or not you know, to me, the criteria to to base whether whether or when two or should play should be when he's ready to play, if he's

gone out there, maybe he's gone out there and after three weeks of the season, you're you're looking at Ryan and you're going, you know, the guy we got sitting on the benches is better than him, is more productive than him, gives us a better chance to win. Then I think that's when you make the decision, not so much based on my mind John, on the state of

the of the injury. Now I'm saying that, like I said, if he's ready to go out and compete, then to me, it's just who's the better guy and stick him in. Whether it's week one or week fifteen. You make valid points in terms of all the things that the coaching staff and the head coach Brian Floor is going to have to discuss with his staff, with Chris Greer, with TA and with the quarterback room because this is not

only an injury decision. That is probably at the top of the list because that's all we really talked about. But basically it comes down to a talent evaluation and how to A is going to be able to function in this offense and with with the people around him. Does TAH make the team better? If it's yes, then he's playing. If if you check off all the other boxes. I think you go back to last year and you look talent wise, if you looked at Rosen and Fitzpatrick,

Rosen was clearly the stronger army. He was the younger guy. We thought at that time he might have a little bit uh more mobility. Watching him in the preseason, at least he was able to run around and do the things that Fitzpatrick did as a fifteen year vet. So you felt pretty good about him giving him that opportunity, But in reality, when you watched him play, he didn't make the team better and he had the same cast

of characters. Now, I will say that maybe the names on the back of the jerseys change, but the talent evaluation at tackle, at either tackle or a wide receiver really didn't change all that much. It wasn't that significant. So I think to it kind of falls into that category. Hey,

you check the box. Healthwise, he's fine. You watch him, you monitor him, you look at him function, you look at him move, and if he gives the Dolphins the best chance to win on a much better roster this year than you, anybody could argue that than last year. I don't. I think if you if you thought it was close you're crazy. With all the free agency moves the Miami Dolphins made in the way they strengthened their team in the draft, it goes down to are you

the better quarterback? Do you give us a better chance to win? If the answer is yes, you're gonna see whatever number on two is back in the huddle or in the shotgun playing quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. So, you know, the funny thing, there's a couple of funny things about the draft that that stuck me. What one when we were doing our virtual draft, Um, and you were doing the the quote pregame segment of of our virtual draft on on Thursday evening. Um, you know, I'm

looking at it. I'm looking at the screen on there and then listening to you and Travis do your thing there and and lo and behold, you know you look at you look at people that are watching that show, and and and two two is watching the shows. Who was on the computer watching the Dolphins uh pregame or

the Dolphins? Highly? I hope I still highly of him? No, you did, and I But so that's one thing is you know you you kind of feel like you know he had an insight track as to as to what he thought was gonna happen because he was watching watching there. Now you know, who knows, maybe he was watching some other stuff. But all I know is he showed up on on our board. So so that was one thing, and John John the other thing. And it has nothing to do with playing football, but it does have something

to do with playing football. Was just watching him and man, maybe this is just me, but watching him at his home wherever he was for the draft and comparing him and his family to everybody else there was. There was that that had these these virtual draft parties where you know, you had guys slouching on the couch and I think one guy so I was sleeping, one guy rolling on the floor. You saw somewhere that have too many people

in there and it was kind of chaos. Well, you looked at Tah he had he was dressed up in a suit. His mom and dad were sitting there next to him. They were disciplined behind him, family sitting in chairs being very you know, you know, very discipline, you know, very clean, very discipline, and and you know, to me, you know that you kind of look for snapshots of people's personality, and I just kept looking at going. Man, here's a guy and a family that is committed, discipline

and organized. And you know, not that that's gonna make him a you know, a Hall of Famer. Nothing that's gonna make him a pro bowler, but it just makes it for me. It just made me feel good about the family that he's coming from and the way they carry themselves. Look, he went from Hawaii to Tuscaloosa, Alabama. His whole family picked up their roots and moved right

along with their son. And you know what, they're gonna pick up their roots from Alabama, and I guarantee you they're gonna be right here with him, providing support for him. And that discipline background that you just saw in that snapshot of his living room on draft night. Both there is no question that to a tongue of Byla from a young age has been molded and crafted and formed

to be the CEO of an NFL franchise. Now, he may be a CEO of a company when it's playing days are over, but his discipline, in the way that his family structure has been built, in the position that he plays, he he has been everything is that you need to be a lead of a franchise and molded into too a quarterback and making decisions about not only

yourself but the people around you. And the way you hold yourself and the way you answer questions, and the way you walk down the hallway and the way you enter a room, the way you look at someone, the way you speak to someone has been molded from a young age. That's why not that not that every guy in the NFL has that makeup. There's different makeups that make you good. But as a quarterback and as the

as the franchise leader. As everybody's looking at the Miami Dolphins in the first name they're gonna say is to a tongue of violoa. I mean, that's the first guy they're gonna think of when he's finally named the starting quarterback, hopefully for ten, twelve, fifteen years. But he has that makeup to be the leader of men, and that's why he was drafted by by this franchise, in this organization

to do so. It's been always a little bit of long time, but since you went into training camp with a good feeling about the I mean a really good feeling about the quarterback position. But I think I think we're there now. Now it's gonna take time to see now along the line with it, you know, with that pick. And but the Dolphins had a lot of picks. They made some maneuvers and uh and certainly two of the impact of TWA is far and away the biggest thing

that the Dolphins did. But you know, the fifth round, you know, you you've you've been sitting here and you're looking at j. K. Dobbins go by, and you're looking at Jean Ray Swift go by, and you're looking at Jonathan Taylor go by. You know, man, one of those guys would look nice in that in that in that

running back room. But the Dolphins in the fifth round kind of standing around, standing around drop a fifth round draft, picking forty Niners and getting that that breathed, which to me, John was kind of those one of those you know, kind of maybe I don't want to say under the radar, but it was just kind of an oh, by the way, but oh, by the way, I thought that was a really a really critical and and and big big move

uh by Chris Greer that can make that trade. The forty Niners have picked up a running back, they figured one was available, and when you look at greena with the forty niners the average over six yards of carry while he was there for two years and last year at the beginning of the year he was there, featured running back a lot of big plays early on. He's an ultra quick guy, not really the most shifty guy, but but if he gets to the second level, he

can go. And I just thought that that that pick at that time really kind of completed the draft for the Miami Dolphins and really put him in a good position from a running back standpoint. Not not that look, not not that he's gonna be the guy that's gonnas gonna get all the carries, but I think when you add him to Uh, to Jordan Howard, Patrick Lair uh and and you know those guys that that are there's still in that running back room, You've got a pretty

good group of crew in there. To get the two or three guys it can play multiple positions and give you multiple things from that running back spot. Well, I won't say it's as valuable as any other pick, but it's just as valuable that the Miami Dolphins made a move in the running back room to get a guy like Matt Redis actually with four years of experience He's got great quickness. He's a sub four four runner. As you said, he's averaging close to six yards per carry. Uh.

He has the ability to make guys missed. And if you take a bad angle on this guy, he's going just to house call you right to the end zone. I mean that's that's the type of quickness. And you blend him with some of the other backs on this roster. I think the Miami Dolphins had to go out and

make a move at running back. When when J K. Dobbins came off the board of the Baltimore Ravens, I think I slam my my fist down on the desk as well as the brass of the Miami Dolphins, because you know, at least in my gut, that was their pick. That was where the Miami Dolphins were going. After letting a couple of guys slide. They felt like, you know, we gotta make our move right now. There's no way

Baltimore is gonna take a running back. They've already got three on their roster that have run you know, for close to seven eight hundred, nine hundred yards apiece, you know, and that's excluding your quarterback. That's over a thousand. So, you know, I think that the Dolphins had every confidence that Dobbins was gonna be there and they were gonna

take him. When that didn't happen and they had to start looking around and get creative, and they did with that fifth round draft choice, sending one fifty three to San Francisco. And I just think that, you know, you get a guy that has the experience, that can do

a little bit of everything. And like you said we were talking before we went on about the makeup of this of this franchise, you get another quick twitch guy that can make you miss behind some big bodies that the Miami Dolphins acquired in this draft in terms of trying to bolster and build this offensive line. So you've got a meteor back or a tougher straight line back and Howard and now you've got a really shifty guy to add to that that backfield. Yeah, I think I

just thought it was a really nice move. Look, do you think about you give a first fifth round pick. I take my chances with a guy who's been in the league for a couple of years and you're seeing him and see what he can do at this level. Over for a fifth round pick. Nine times out of ten, So I think they made a nice movie. They're really not really not a lot of additions in the wide receiver room. In the draft, Malcolmpary, the kid from Navy

comes out and he's an interesting guy. I mean, you know, as they've run that they run that option and they barely throw the football at Navy. But you know, here's a guy who did a lot of things for him, played a lot of different positions, and another one of those guys. It's a high character guy. You know, he's high character guy. If he's coming from UH from Annapolis, UH to come in and come in and and and again. Like so many guys that we've seen in free agency.

In the draft, he's a guy that can play multiple positions and do a lot of things for you. And really maybe a steal in the draft from a stand standpoint of how you can put him on different players and Shan Gailey can put him in situations where he would be a mismatch out there and not to not

to and and forget about that. I mean, the guy is gonna be a great He's gonna be a great special teams player for you, whether it's returning kicks, whether it's running down the field, all the types of things. Another guy you'd like to see on this roster. Yeah, how about throwing him in the red zone and run a little option right down there for package or in short yardage. You've got a guy that can do a

little bit of everything. You know. You think of Julian Edelman when he came out of the MAC and he was a quarterback, and now he's one of the top slot receivers in the league. Malcolm Perry maybe uh, not as thick, but five nine six, uh, you know you're gonna go through the possibility of a kick returner, punt returner. You can line him up in the slot. You can do a little bit of everything. The one thing you

get is is that sudden elusiveness. He always makes the first defender miss at least when he had the ball in his hands as a quarterback, and he has that, you know, really that real good short space quickness. He makes somebody missed. Then he gets up the field and he's adept at running in the open field. So you know, you get an athlete. You know, he was a player Offensive Player of the Year in the A a C

last year, and he's a leader at Navy. That's the type of guy you you want to let hang around and and see what what he becomes in a in a year or two, no doubt about it. And then you know, nothing, nothing happened in the tight end position. We didn't expect, really expect anything to be really wasn't that at a very deep tight end drafting and this year anyway, and then really no need for the Dolphins at this point. But you know, after tour they start

building that offensive line. Austin Jackson, you know, you pick him up with a second that eighteenth pick in the draft, and and you know, we talked about it on the on the show that evening. Twenty year old kid a lot of upside. He's played against a lot of talented players out of coming out of USC and he seemed to have all the skills Johnny. He moves his feet well, he's long, he's thick, he's strong. Uh, And I think he just he just needs to he just needs to

keep his game growing. And and to me, he's the kind of guy that you know, much like Michael Dieter and Michael Dieter a third round draft pick last year. To me, as an offensive lineman, you know, I'm of the I'm of this the school and says, you know what, throw him to the wool. You know you want to they want a training camp. You're the startup kid. Let's go the starter and you know, and get ready because you know you're gonna have your ups and downs. Is

gonna be good and bad. But I saw him do it, you know, I saw him doing with John Geeson when he came in. I saw him doing Roy Foster. I saw him do it with UH, with Keith Sims, with Richmond Webb. And you know what, the only way you're gonna get better in the National Football League if you're an expected starter is to get reps and and and I think you've got clearly Austin Jackson and maybe one of those other guys later on in the draft may

find themselves. You know, you're you're starting to two tackles when the season opens up. Well, I think you're you make a great point bow about just getting him in and telling him, hey, don't look back, only look forward. You make a mistake, you're gonna have to pick yourself up and correct it and get ready to take the next snap. Because at twenty years old, you're gonna mold an offensive tackle, an offensive left tackle, and do you

want him to be in the National Football League? And the good thing about Jackson is he moves like a tight end. Now he's six five plus pounds, but his feet really move, uh, like a skilled athlete down on the blocks playing basketball. You know you want the more tape you watch about him. He has good lateral quickness and allows them, you know, to get to the second level on linebackers, get outside on screens and outside zone plays, and is strong enough to hold his own and pass protection.

Will only get better in terms of that aspect of his game. So I I really like that pick. And as you alluded to, moving inside, you get huge bodies that that you know might have a chance to play right away as well. Yeah, you're solid. And Kiddley, the kid they got from Georgia's a guard. You've got Robert Hunt who can play left, left, apple, right topple. He

can plays played guard before. But the one thing I see John, and when you look at it, you you go back for free agency Ted carrass That's they they that they bring in and you know you're you're looking now at an offensive line. It's massive. John six five six six plus from tackle to tackle, long, big, strong, and guys that that can you know, we're we're you kind of look at what the the the change in philosophy for this football team of the offensive line. They

want malers that can move. And I think they filled their roster out offensively on that line of scrimmage with just that from tackle to tackle. Um, I you know, if if if two of these guys can play, if you can find your boat, your two tackles in there with these with these three draft picks in the offensive line, that's the size that they are. This is gonna make

this group a very formidable group. And and and I'm not saying they're gonna be this type of offensive line, but they have the physical makeup to be similar to the Dallas Cowboys when they've done over the years building that offensive line. And you're just a line that you look at your own. If he's just gonna be a

long freaking day dealing with these guys for sixty minutes. Well, Dolphin fans and you and I like we we've been you know, kind of shouting about the offensive line for years now in terms of you know, who, who can we get to fix the leaks up up front. Who can we get to repair and move people against their will along you know, the line of scrimmage. And I think Robert Hunt and Solomon Kinley are two massive road graders. I mean they like to get on a body and

punish guys that are going up against. Both of them have pretty good versatility. I think Hunt, as you mentioned, he's played left tackle, right tackle, left guard. Salom McKinley has been kind of anchored in there on the left guard, but he has played a little left tackle as well at Georgia UM. I just think both of these guys are getting into the personality of what the Miami Dolphins want to be. They want to be a team you don't want to play, you don't want to play along

the interior because games are one and lost. As much as we talk about quarterback and wide receivers and corners and guys that are rushing off the edge, if you don't have offensive and defensive lines that can influence the game,

you're not going to win. And I think the Miami Dolphins have really looked at the offensive line in this draft and went out and got three guys they feel that are gonna be on this roster hopefully for a very long time, and providing uh some running room for the running game and keeping two of upright in the pocket.

You know the other thing they've done by having this and then you look at Eric Flowers and then ted Ted Harrass having up to you know what by drafting, you know they've created along with Jesse Davis who returns, you know, they they've created a situation where the competition on that offensive line in training camp is gonna be

is just gonna be massive for this football team. There's gonna be a dog fight to find out who which five guys want to line I don't care from, I don't care if the left tackle, right tackle, center, guards, whatever. It's almost a free for all out. They're gonna be a free for all out there for these guys, because if you can't making a left tackle, hey maybe or right tackle, hey maybe you could slide down and get that right guard spot. Or you know, Michael Dieter coming back,

he's got a third round draft pick last year. He's got to prove that he can get in there and and and hold his own against these guys. You know, after having a year of a lot of snaps, a lot of valuable snap for him to try to get himself better. So you know, I think the competition that they will they will have created and that offensive line room is is gonna is gonna really help this team moving forward, not only this year, but as a as you continue to build this football team over the next

couple of years. Well, coach Slow, he he, he said it once, he said it a thousand times in terms of creating competition on this roster to be able to get the best guys playing and and also both to create flexibility along that offensive line. You see what the Dolphins did in free agency with the pieces they selected on defense to be able to have that flexibility with position, got physitional guys playing linebacker, defensive end, defensive end, defensive tackle,

being able to have that interchangeable parts on defense. While on offense, now you've got guys like Jesse Davis, who's well established on the offensive line. He started a tackle on both sides, he's played guard. You get Robert Hunt, who's played three positions. In this year's draft in the second round, you get a guy like Kinley that could possibly play either side. So you're you're moving pieces around by creating competition with guys like Michael Dieter and Shaq Calhoun.

You know, guys that are gonna be able to come in and say, well, I've got a fight now from my position. And that makes everybody better along the offensive line. Yeah, not only that, but not only from your starters, but Johnny, it it gives you got depth that you need. You know, then that where you've got a guy where we're like you have you have Jesse Davis is the odd mat out. You know. That leaves you with a guy that's played the multiple positions in the offensive line. He's played in

a lot of games, played a big situations, you know. So, so it gives you, it gives you the depth there. Uh, you know with whoever those guys are gonna be, Whoever whoever's gonna be in that second tier of that offensive line are gonna have some pretty solid credentials walking in there, which makes you feel good with all the you know, you you know, I think I think it was new. I think Indianapolis was the only team last year that started all five offensive linemen for the for the entire

six team game scene. And so you know that that so and and and much like we saw with the you know, I don't expect the same you know, revolving door that there wasn't that offensive line last year for the Minami offs. Would be very disappointed if that was the case. But to bed, by having that situation, you've created depth on that offensive line that that really is gonna bode well for you, I think, because I think, I think with the roster moves, you're you're allowed to

have an extra offensive lineman. I believe you believe that the roster going in, so it gives you the opportunity to have that depth. And with the change in the roster situation, they use that depth going over this year. Yeah, it's gonna help because the Miami Dolphins, you don't have to you don't have to you know, pick hairs, you know, in terms of what, you know, what position can this guy play because we're only gonna address six today and in terms of now you have the luxury of dressing

maybe eight offensive lineman. So you have an opportunity to be able to create death. You don't have to maybe dress an extra tight end because you in short yardage, you just put another alignment in that identifies and and you're okay, you know, you're able, You're able to go

in and and do a lot of things formationwise. So I think that the competition that's been created on this roster, and you probably have maybe I think the Dolphins are at eighty nine and you're allowed to maybe get to ninety and ninety one with a roster exemption for a foreign player, So you're gonna be able to get two more guys. This roster this year is going to be

loaded with competition at every position. You're gonna have your your starters kind of inked in there and sharpie, but there's gonna be a lot of guys written in pencil because you're gonna have a lot of change, uh, around training camp and into training camp and into the preseason where you're gonna say, you know what, I thought that guy was gonna start. It looks like you know, X y Z is gonna gonna be the starter there. Yeah, you know. Uh, moving on to the defensive side of

the football. Uh, that defensive front seven John which was really uh, you know, gave up a lot of yards rushing. You know, I think where they have twenty three stacks worse than the league and uh, you know last season and you know you needed a big improvement there, and they begin that improvement with the free agency by getting kyled Vannis and Shaq Lawson at Manuel Logbal guys that can come in and and and really help out that defensive front. And then you have three more, uh three

more defensive linemen in the draft. Ri Kawan Davis, a big defensive tackle out of Alabama, and you pair him with the Wilkins and got shot in that that tackle position just gives you another big body in there that can play the run well, and they give you a little push for the as far as the and the past reussor since Herning and then Christian Wilkins much like Michael Dieter in the offensive side, I thought, I thought, I thought Christian played better than a lot of people

gave him credit for last year. A defensive tackle, you know, it's it's it's it's really tough to evaluate the defensive tackle if all you're evaluating on them on his tackles, tackles for losses in sacks. You know, there's there's a lot of other things that go into evaluating defensive tackles. So from my liking, I thought Christine work has played very well for this team last year, you get another year of growth in him, and you're bringing a guy like Ray Kawon Davis in the middle of the line.

Then you bring in a couple of edge rushers, a defensive end Jason Snowbridge out of North Carolina, true defensive end, and Curtis Weaver, the kid out of Boise State, who's an edge guy that uh, you know, boys, boys, guys always seemed to be coming and ready to play. And here's another guy that can give you some pressure. So when you look at what you've done in free agency and then added in the draft again, John, I'm and it's kind of kind of, you know, kind of bet

the same grum. But what I'll tell you on that in that front seven is gonna be maybe a lot of competition out there, both in the defensive line and and and in the in the linebacker group with Vince Biegle coming back, Van gig Will coming back, Jeroe Baker, Uh, Ray Kawon McMillan, bringing in Kyle Van Noy and Curtis Weaver and all these guys and uh and Vince Beagle and like you know, through Vince Biggle. But I mean,

you hit the point up front seven. You know, again, a lot of competition and some depth and talent that you're gonna have out there, and a lot of those guys, a lot of those guys that have played a lot of downs, maybe running down special teams for this football team this year. And for me, that's not a bad situation at all. No, it isn't. And you you know, we both talked about the size of the offensive line.

Now with the addition of Jackson at the eighteenth pick and Hunts in the second round, and you get Kinley in the fourth round, well, ray Kwon Davis at six six maybe six seven three and ten plus pounds, and that's a huge human. You know. You you stick him in the middle of that defensive front and you get a guy that has experienced playing in the SEC and all those battles weekend and week out when you have

a conference game. This is a three year starter. Now, granted he had his best season as a sophomore in Alabama, but he has rare size and I think that's where the Miami Dolphins are looking to get guys that have size that that can also move and be a problem when they start moving and and starting to use some

of that leverage to these players advantage. You know, he's a powerful man, uh that can win and fend off a double team, and that's gonna help your linebacking corps that is that are sleek, that that triggers suddenly, and that don't miss much in the open field. So you get a guy like Joan Baker behind a guy like ray Kwon Davis, you're in good position to be able

to make a play. And you throw in the edition of Wilkins in his second year and got Child playing at the level he's playing at, You're gonna have a

lot of move it behind these big bodies. And if you can add a strow Bridge or a Weaver, if they can add to the guys that you mentioned in free into free agency being able to be on this team and be able to pressure the pocket as well as strow Bridge, he gives you that flexibility that the offensive lineman we talked about, He's played defensive end, he's played defensive tackle. He can move up and down that

defensive front, and he really flashed. I saw him at the Senior Bowl and I didn't know that, you know, until the draft, and he's you know, he's right out of Deerfield Beach High School. So you get a guy that grew up probably is a huge Miami golfing guy or a South Florida guy comes back and he's just gonna add to that, to the depth along that defensive line. Yeah, a lot of good stuff there. And you know the

linebacker situation is it's good. Now they go out and uh and it igmonogamy in the uh the third pick in that in that first round, bo they got us on this pick. I gotta say, you know, I I look, I thought running back. I thought maybe one of those wide receivers. Yeah, I'm sitting there going or maybe even another one of those offensive tackles. It was still lighting up there, and they threw his name out there. I'm like, what not only did they throw his name out there?

When they threw it out there, I was like, where's Jones or Smith? Yeah, that's exactly you know. I'm I'm sure I'm a lot like you. As soon as I heard that name, I'm saying, they're going igmonograpy higman. Hey. I don't think you know, we we had we had our kids kind of helping us out with you know, as executive producers in the house, and when I saw that, I immediately looked and they saw my face and they go, my dad has no idea how to pronounce his name. Yeah, no,

no doubt about it. But and there're so you go, you know, way with that name. But then you go, wow, another quarterback and then and then you know, Brian uh. Chris Greer and Brian Flores both talked about because they were asked about, you know, picking up another cornerback after you got and you could get by then Jones and

free agency. You got Exavier. On the other side, you got two of the highest played paid cornerbacks in the National Football and you may have one of the one of the best cornerback pandoms now in the National Football League. But you use your third pick in the first round

to get another cornerback. And both Chris and both Bryant said after the wrap, when I asked about making that pick, they said, Hey, look, coming from New England for for for Brian Flores and watching up there, the fact that they've always had so many cornerbacks, he said, I came down here with the belief that you can never have enough cornerbacks. And you know the way the game is going now the way the passing game is going now, and with the rule changes on defense for secondary coverage,

I agree with that. Give me, you know, give me cornerbacks, give me cornerbacks and to play. And you look at the Dolphins, I think, you know, we have Bobby mccame back there as the safety. He can play cornerback. Nick Needham, he could play cornerback, he can play inside. You You've got a lot of Ken Webster, Ryan Lewis, You've got a lot of guys out there in the cornerback situation that when you come to the nickel and dimes situation now they go out later on. Uh and they and

they do get a safety. And Brandon Jones a kid from Texas to to provide you a little bit more of that traditional safety guy, kind of a hard hitter. But I I, you know, the more and more I think about it, the more I'm becoming comfortable with you. Give me more guys that can cover, and we'll worry, we'll we'll at the front seven worry about, you know, managing the line of scrimmage and and and setting the edge on both sides and not allowing them to get

to the perimeter. Uh. And let's get our quarterbacks after covering as well as we possibly can. Well, you mentioned physician flexibility, and higg Been Ageny does that. He's played corner. I mean remember, just like Austin Jackson, hig Ban Ageny is only twenty years old and he's only been playing on the defensive side of the football for two years. This was a like a four or five star high school wide receiver when he came to Albert So you take him with the thirty overall pick. He brings you,

you know, it's sceptional speed and quickness. He's a really good athlete. And when you when it watched a couple of films on him, not only is he competitive and strong and press coverage he looks he makes it look like a sparring session out there. I mean he's he's a lot of hands, he's a lot of contact. He will probably mature into something that is going to be a headache for wide receivers to go up against because of his competitiveness. And Brandon Jones from Texas, you get

a guy with experience. He was a three year starter for the Long Warns. He started thirty five career games. He has the ability to play center field, I've seen him do that and for interception interceptions in his career doing that, but in the slot, he showed off his speed not only to be able to cover, but close in the open field on on a now or a quick screen on the outside or running back dumping it

off in the flat. He's able to get on his horse, get to the ball carrier or the pass catcher and get him to the ground, which leads me to believe he might be. In addition, and on special teams, is one of your guys going down there to you know, another young guy that you can groom to be on all four teams because you're so deep in terms of how many guys you have that can run and cover right now, and you have that ability on special teams for Jones, Yeah, that makes a good situation out there.

And still when you look at the safety position, you got Eric Row, uh, Bobby McCain, Adrian Colberg who they resigned, uh, you know, and then you have Brandon Josephine Mix and and and you feel pretty good. I don't know, I just I just kind of like that group, you know, and and and John. I think the one thing too that when you talk about like like Malcolm Perry and some of these other guys and then Robert Hunt and uh you know there you know, the their their their makeup,

their character, the type of people they are. They all seem to have that personality. Um that that that this franchise is looking for. Guys that were captains on their team, Guys that were important to the team, Guys that that you know that that are more than football players. And

they're there. They're they're good citizens, are good people. And I'm not saying every one of these guys as a you know, as a choir boy, but you you like to feel that as you take a snapshot of this football team from a from a playing standpoint, you go, jeeus. You know, we've got pretty good running backs. We've gotta you know, we have a you know, possibly a future franchise quarterback in here. You've you've built yourself a big

offensive line. You know, you've got a number of receivers out there, Your tight ends, you know, showed that they could play last year. You've you've enhanced your front seven. You've really made it tough on that back side with the with all the coverage guys back there, and and and and on the defensive side. John, there you know there's two. There's two two parts too, pressuring quarterback's pressure

upfront and coverage in the back. And boy, the Dolphins went a long way in filling both of those needs to where I would doubt that this is the most sacked team in the foot in the in the NFL next year next year, and I would be surprised if it's the least the team with the least sacks on deep pense after what they've done on both sides of

the football. So I think when you look at the whole of the team on position wise, I don't think this football team could have strengthened themselves any better than they did this offseason through free agency and then capped off with what they did in the draft on Thursday,

Friday and Saturday. Yeah, I'm really happy with the Miami Dolphins have been able to accomplish in terms of going out and identifying veterans that have played in in a lot of NFL games on the defensive side, and maybe guys that haven't had you know, four or five six years experience, but you're able to get him young in free agency. Maybe they were injured for a portion of the year like Ogba, who you don't know what you're

gonna get, but the upside sure looks good. And then you get a guy like Kyle van Noy that can play multiple positions. I think the defense in terms of Byron Jones adding him with Xavien Howard, I mean, this defense on paper looks a lot better, dreamly different than last season when you had a lot of question marks. And then on offense throughout the draft and and on

defense throughout the draft. In terms of who the Dolphins selected, it seems like the attention was to the line and obviously getting a franchise quarter quarterback number one, but they put a lot of time and effort in building the size of of our offense and defensive line to be able to create not only competition, but create some suddenness in this team. You know, you don't you want to be able to have the Miami Dolphins kind of roll out on Sunday and go, we're gonna win the offensive

and defensive line play. You know, now you've got a question. You know you feel like this team got better on paper. You just hope that these guys are gonna be able to mature quick enough to be able to make an impact over the next couple of seasons and then be fixtures on your football team for years to come. Yeah. You know. The other thing is that I think they

have some nasty on this football team too. Absolutely, some of these guys We've talked about Hunts and and uh and Kindley and and Austin Jackson and and just to the physical nature of the way they play the game. And you know, you want to be known as one of those teams that you know, when you know we're gonna play the Dolphins where you're it's gonna it's gonna be a long day out there. Well, that's the way you know, when teams do up and you say, well,

I gotta go play I gotta go play the Ravens. Yeah, I don't want to play the Ravens. You know, I gotta go play the Bills. You know it's gonna be a dog fight, right, you know. But when you're when you're playing some other teams, you just feel like, well we have to stop their skill guys. That will be okay. You know, the Cowboys are the same way with that offensive line. So that's that's where the Minami Dolphins want

to get. They want to be able to have that two way go where they can run it just as easily to throw the football, and it keeps defenses guessing. And when they're guessing, you have the advantage. So John to go go through the draft and made all these moves. Who were the give me, give me one or two guys that that that were kind of on your list of It doesn't matter what position they play, doesn't matter what it was, but guys that you just have watched

over the years. He said, Man, I would have loved to have had I would love to have him on our team. I would love to have this guy on our team. Well, I think one of those receivers you know that that that that Ceedee Lamb or or Rugs or you know, one of those impact guys that could you know Judy, that that really made a difference because there was so many receivers. That's where I thought the

Dolphins may go somewhere in the second round. Or at running back, you know, any one of those running backs that were left on the board where you had Swift and Dobbins and cam Akers and one of those guys. I really felt the Dolphins were going to do something at receiver or running back in terms of going up and grabbing one of those guys, because there's that it was loaded. This draft was loaded with that talent. Yeah,

you know what you mean. I was looking at Jalen Wurtz again, I just you know, and it was jumping on who took him in the second round Philly, Philly took him the second round in camp and and he's why were you do that? And I just thought, and I would have loved to see the Dolphins, you know, just you know, second third round or something. I mean

I did. I just think he's I just think he's that guy, the guy that you're starting to see on on some of these teams that that that like you like you talked about, you know, getting into the red zone and using Malcolm Perry on a option, you know what about using Jalen Hurts, putting him in the back. He'll put him in motion and put him in the slot, just do different things with them as well as So I was kind of he was kind of my guy.

And and and Grant Delta was the other guy that going into the draft, I said, Man, two of the guys that I just just kind of enamored with in this draft for both of those two guys, So a little disappointed. I didn't see them one of those drop our way. But you know what I'm I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty satisfied with what the with what the Dolphins

did over the weekend. Yeah, I am too. And then you know, you create you thought you created competition with the long snapper when Blake fergus But it looks like he's gonna be the only guy left standing in terms of bringing in a long snapper for training camp. Yeah, with Tabor Pepper going, then you figured that was gonna happen when when they brought him and but uh, I know I saw your piece on him. Pretty athletic guy

out there. You know, it's funny because you've had I think, I think since I've been covering the team, you know, you've had Ed Perry, and you've had John Denny and and then and then you had that's about it, and you have Pepper for you get Pepper for a year.

And now if if if Blake Ferguson is as good as uh, he's good enough to be drafted, I would assume that he's gonna be here for about another ten or fifteen years until until his minimum wage gets too high for uh, for them to be comfortable with in the in the salary cap well, I can hear it already. Bow. When things kind of straighten out and you're able to kind of frequent you know, normal places, everybody gets back to uh, you know, your restaurants and all that stuff,

that AJ is gonna be pounding it. You even had to go to LSU for our long staffer, didn't you. It wasn't know that he took ten or twelve guys. But you've got our long snapper as well. You know. It's funny. I was singing when when, when we were when the draft? What's going on? And I was keeping a list of who was drafted. But I was also keeping a list and by kind of stopped when I got to uh, when we got to uh, it been

agomy um. I was coding. I was counting the conference picks, and I think anything by the time we got to it, y, I want to say, there was twelve or thirteen from the SEC and another eight or nine from the from the big ten, I mean, but they just said, uh, you know, you look at the quality of those conferences just by just by by by the numbers of players in the first round. And then then I think when when in the l S you have fourteen players draftings? Yeah, yeah,

it was, it was in the teams. It was crazy. Yeah. So anyway, it was a good weekend. And uh, John, I you know, I want to I want to again, I want to you know, want to thank the fans that tuned into for our absolutely that was broadcast and uh, in the in the pre draft shows that uh that you and Travis did were great. I think I thought

the information coming out of those shows were good. Uh, And and just just want to appreciate the fans for sticking with this football team, sticking with this group, and sticking with us during this these these times are change that we're going through. And keeping yourself safe and and keeping yourself safe, keeping other people safe out there, it's a it's a it's a selfish and unselfish thing that you do when you stay home and still got a little ways to go, but you're starting to see the

light of the tunnel. Things are starting to open up a little bit. So we're hoping for the best. But I think, you know, if we can all kind of continue continuing the path that we're doing, stay disciplined with what we're doing, making trying to make everything better than hopefully by the time September rolls around. Uh, well, we'll get some some NFL and some college football and which will will hopefully bring some normalcy back to our lives. Certainly,

the draft proved that people wanted. I mean probably the television numbers for the draft were off the charts um this year and so um yeah, you know, I gotta give gotta give a lot of props to the end fell for being able to put a virtual draft together in a pearly sceneless fashion too. You know, it was funny bow that a lot of people you talk to now, uh, they thought this version was really good, you know, getting to see the g ms and the head coaches and

their families. I wouldn't be surprised, you know that. I know there their scheduled to go to Cleveland in two thousand and twenty one, downtown Cleveland and maybe just having the first round there and then kind of drawn it back or you know, maybe day three is back at that home setting virtually because it went so well well it did, and I think you got to see you know, you got to see the personality of these guys and you know, you know, they're in the war they're in

the war room, and you get a little shot every now and then, but use this pretty tiger. But to see you know, to see Brian and his son's high five and his daughter in there, and Chris Greer with with his kid, you know, and I think, and and it looks around the league, everybody around the league, Bruce arians sitting out of the patio. You know which which was which you if you've been around Bruce area, that's the perfect perfect scenario for him. Uh. I like, I

like the the Yedni tumbler he had. Just it was right, and that was perfect, you know, uh Andy Reid with his with his uh with his you know, flowered shirt on and all that stuff. So it was, it was it was really nice. And I think, you know what I think at the end, you know, when you when you heard some of these coaches and general managers that

they enjoyed it. They enjoyed having the opportunity to you know, Brian Brian Flores talked about it afterwards, the opportunity to spend this much time with his family that normally he wouldn't, you know, and to be there for the draft, and having his kids have to be able to get on the phone and talk to to uh and and this and that. It was just uh, yeah, I don't think it could have worked out under the circumstances. I don't think it could have worked out better for the NFL

and for all the teams involved. Yeah, complete success. I thoroughly enjoyed the way it looked, the way it felt on TV as a fan watching it, and then us getting to cut in and do our thing, you know, on day one, and and and just watching it being

a fan at home, and it really brought it. It's what it really the country needed something to kind of to kind of get it invested in in terms of breaking up the uh the monotony of the news of the day, which was always seemed to be, um, not as pleasant as as you would like because of our circumstances. But uh, it just made a great distraction for for three days, that's for sure. You also want to thank all those guys that back there, from Jeff and Logan

and all those guys. Yeah, those guys did all that did all the technical work, and and Kassi Conjemmy and Kimberly Bocamp for the two on site producers, for us, everybody that got us on the air for that. What a what a wonderful job they did. So congratulations to them, Thanks to them, and John, thanks to you for all your all your Yeah, you were great. Good working with

you through that. That was fun. I really enjoyed it, and uh so we're gonna wrap this up and we're getting ready for next week's uh next week's uhible to

see what to see? What that old sports, but what it was, it was a great week to have football back and have the action of the draft and everything and all the different shows, and then you have an audible where we can actually talk about players coming in and what's gonna look like, what this team is gonna look like, and all of us to start looking forward to the season. It's been a pretty darn good week on It's been a great week and it's it's been a lot of fun to to kind of focus in

on what the Miami Dolphins are gonna look like. You know, you get your franchise quarterback, you you build the offensive and defensive lines. You you sprinkling a corner and a safety and a couple of edge rushers and a couple of wild cards with a long snapper and a quarterback that's gonna turn into a running back slash, you know, probably wide receiver slot. So you have a lot of excitement to add along with with the Dolphins in free agency. It's it's an exciting time to be a Dolphin fan.

That's for sure. Good stuff all right for John kijim Me, I'm Kimbo camp for look at the call, helping us out along in the way. Appreciate you guys. Join us and we'll we're talking again next week. Uh um um