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And if you can figure that out, good for you because I don't know what I just said.

We got Jess Keneena, column Z with us.

I think they get the picture Z, but it's, I'm speaking in tongues already today.

And we just started here on the show because, man, I don't know what I do if I were Kyle Crab's

or what you do.

But, man, it's just, it's headspinning season Z.

And that revolving door just continues going full speed at the Miami Dolphins complex.

It sure is.

A lot of guys coming and going and, you know, it's funny because we talked about how much

cap cap room we weren't going to have, but it seems like we just keep signing people more

people and bringing more people in the building, which is a good thing.

We're filling up some rooms that needed some filling.

And, you know, it's just to keep adding them as we go throughout this.

And then we got the draft coming up and we'll add some more.

So it's fun times.

It's good to see the team move it in the right direction and hopefully it's all for the

positive.

Yeah, I wonder Kyle.

I mean, we got to check their IDs on the way in because no one knows who these new guys

are.

So the biggest complaint I see from the Dolphins fandom and we'll get a complete update

from Kyle in a minute.

What's going on with the dolphins, new signings, things that are happening right now.

But big names out, not such big names back in Kyle.

And that's the name of the game when you're where the dolphins are right now, right?

Yeah.

Well, this, this is how to do a rebuild 101, right?

The dolphins currently have the youngest average age of roster, 26.1 years old.

It's the youngest, they're younger than Green Bay by 0.1.

There's only a handful of other teams that are younger than 26 and a half.

And that's across like 70 players on the roster.

The dolphins are also dead last in the NFL and cash spending right now.

That comes despite paying to a tongue below $54 million and pay Malik Willis, the 22 and a

half that he's getting this year on the first year of the three year deal that he signed.

So low cost roster, low age roster, we're going to go through a draft where you're probably

going to make double digit picks.

There's probably going to be room for every single one of those guys on the 53 man roster

when it's all said and done or at least they're really rooting for that to happen because

that's four years of player control and for the first round pick a fit here.

So what they have been doing with the free agents that they have signed, I like the strategy

of where there's an archetype of corner that they seem to be going towards.

There's a couple of formerly high drafted guys who didn't work out with the team that

drafted him.

Right after those guys with some conviction to bring those guys into the picture and

say, Hey, you're clearly physically talented.

It hasn't worked.

Maybe we can tap that out of you.

You're not going to bat a thousand when you signed two dozen free agents.

You're just not going to bat a thousand.

But can you find three, four, five guys that are long term starters out of this group that

are all guys in the prime of their career physically?

If you do that, this free agency crop is a win in my opinion.

They're signing some athletes.

You see some of these numbers that are eye popping with the speed in the athleticism.

And you know that they're cooking.

We see it in the chat already.

They're saying, Sully is cooking and he is maybe the biggest news to come out of Miami

Dolphin land right now is Troy Ackman talking about how he's still going to be working with

the dolphins in some capacity.

So you got Dan Moreno, the legend in the building.

You got Troy Ackman, another legend in the building.

Unfortunately, Z, and neither one of those guys able to put on the pads in the helmet ever

again and go out there and throw it for the dolphins.

But it doesn't hurt to have a guy like Ackman saying he's going to stick around.

The guy's been a big time winner at everything he's done in this world and in this game specifically

so that that can't hurt anything for sure.

No, it's always great to have guys around the building of that caliber and what they've

done this week.

But I'm waiting to see what his role is really going to be.

Is it more of a front office role?

Is it more of just a sounding board guy or you know, it could be around the players?

You know, who knows?

I'm waiting to see what that is and hopefully it does benefit the team in the long run.

Kyle, I know that you've been all over this from the beginning and great job, by the way,

tremendous coverage on lockdown dolphins and great shows as always and the head spinning

and all the things that are happening.

But you know, you've been all over this Ackman story from the beginning.

It's looking more like Troy might be some sort of a permanent fixture within the dolphins

organization or as permanent as you can be in the NFL.

Yeah, well, I do think there's probably some limitations with the broadcasting stuff,

right where Tom does his part time owner and does the Fox games and Matt Ryan,

I believe left CBS sports to take the full time job as the, what's his title in Atlanta,

the president of Fresno speaking, this is the title that he has.

So is Troy going to be like the Dan Marino special where like you can come up with

whatever creative title you want.

But at the end of the day, like he's that sounding board, like you said, Grease, like,

I'm with Z. I'm really fascinated to see like just how official it becomes or if he's

just a loose connection that kind of comes and goes and obviously he'll have his obligations

throughout the course of the season when he's calling games.

But from all the reporting that we heard, there was, there was rave reviews for the job

that Troy Ackman did to bring a fresh voice to that room and they helped kind of promote

the fresh start that the dolphins embraced at all levels of the team.

You know, they fired the general manager and they were kicking around.

Maybe keep them might make Daniel and half resets are hard, right?

And at the end of the day, like the John Harboth thing happens and they don't go chase the big

fish and throw the sun, moon, stars and everything else at him.

They stuck with their process, right?

They said we have a two months head start on the GM search.

We're not going to drop everything we did for two months because Jim Harboth's brother

becomes available and Steve Ross loves Michigan and the Harboth brothers, right?

So I think Troy had a very, from everything that we've heard, had a very healthy

contribution to what happened and the fact that he has his name on those decisions and then

is going to stay around for the in some capacity with which he mentioned on a podcast recently.

I think it's only good because he's invested in these guys being successful because he helped

decide for them to be the ones that are here.

That's a good point and I find it interesting that the dolphins and packers are the two

youngest, right? And that's where they came from versus where they are now.

So we know what their philosophy is, we know they want to get younger, we know they want to

accumulate more picks for the upcoming draft and future drafts, probably two.

And we know they love athletes. We know they're intrigued by athletes.

They're not afraid to go with specialists, you know, pass rusher, for example,

who's not really great against the run. They're not afraid to do that. But the things that stand out

to me are the youth and the athleticism with these early signings.

Yeah, but again, at the end of the day, you can have all the young players and all the most

athletic dudes in the world, but if they cannot play football, they're not going to help your team.

So, you know, you just hope that, you know, some of these guys that they have brought in, you know,

do develop and do bring something to the table, you know, for this team to get over the hump

and get to back to what it used to be, you know, and that's that's the plan and, you know,

they're going to try it out. And again, they're going to keep adding people over the next two,

three years, you know, to build this team to what half and solid want.

And I'm looking at the guys they brought in Kyle. And again, you've been all over this.

I see you on Yahoo. I see you all over A to Z. And, you know, you've been grading the dolphins

free agency so far. And looking at some of the guys they've brought in and some of the upside,

looking at the potential upside is huge. But, you know, potential is always there.

Everybody has an upside, right? They have to be able to play football, as he said. But out of all

these guys, and you just wrote a great article grading their first week of free agency,

who are a couple of these guys that you're looking at and saying, wow, you know, this could really,

this, it's low risk, extremely high reward, potential, super high ceiling. Who would those

couple guys be? Yeah, I think past Russia, Josh Huches, that the top of the list there for me,

where, you know, 11 sacks a few years ago, the rundown stuff has been what's preventing them

from getting a big time run. But his contract details came out this morning. And they got him on

a veteran salary benefit contract, which is, at one point, he's getting 1.4 million in cash.

And he's counting for, he gets a, like, it was like a 200k discount against the cap,

with based off some fine print in the CBA as far as guys that have been on, have four plus years

of 10 year. And if they're going to sign for minimum salary, they get their league amount,

or their year amount of minimum salary plus a signing bonus. But the team only has to pay like a

portion of it against the cap to help keep those guys on rosters so that they're not losing their

jobs to guys that are undrafted rookies, right? Like, getting him for a contract like that,

and he's going to be 1.4 in cash, and 1.2 on the salary cap, that's a great value contract for

a guy who can very clearly rush the pass, or it's just, how do you find the right balance of roles

and, and snaps to get him on the field? I think that, that's the front row center one for me. I'm

interested in these wide receiver contracts when the details come out with like two to out well,

and, and Jalen toller, but the UCHA contract at that dollar amount, but really like that fit for

them. Yeah, he could be a really good football player, Z. No, yeah, he can, but, you know, I was

going to say that's, that was my world, Kyle. That's where I lived for many years on that kind of

kind of, veteran salary benefit contracts. Yes. Oh, yeah. Remember the first year I got

that was in St. Louis. I was actually turkey hunting, and they called me because it just came out

like in April, or something, and they just passed it. I was in St. Louis, and James Zigmont called

me, goes, hey, we're cutting. Yeah. Like, oh, really? That's, that's nice. You know, waiting for

a fair to go across the Mississippi River, you know, and he's like, oh, now we're bringing it back

tomorrow. Yeah. Once you clear, you know, we're bringing it back on that veteran deal. You count that,

you're making this much, you're going to count 400 against the cap. I'm like, all right, whatever

dude, you know, long time not losing money. Tell me what I'm getting, right? Yeah. I'm keeping my

money. I don't care. Yeah. However, you need to do it. You need to do it. And a lot of conversions,

a lot of big bonuses, hand it out, of course. And, you know, it's crazy to see the things that

John Eric Sullivan and the dolphins are having to do right now. The hoops they're having to jump

through. And, you know, the fan base, the question is, you know, who, look at all these big name

guys are leaving. And who are these guys that we're bringing in? And we're trading, you know,

I'm not literally trading them. And, you know, literally, but, hey, Bradley Chubs gone and we're

bringing in this no name here. And, you know, here goes, there goes, make a Fitzpatrick. And here comes

another one behind and we don't know who he is. And so that's the biggest complaint of the

dolphins that I've been seeing guys in the chats and everywhere that I've been looking things I've

been watching and listening to and Kyle, sorry, are you on this one? Of course, the fans are going

to look at it and see it that way. But that, to me, that's not really the question that people need

to be asking. It's what is the overall plan? What is the overall plan? And there's one signing

in particular, no matter what the overall plan is, no matter what they hit on or miss on. And

that's Malik Willis, Kyle. They hit on this one and they hit as big as some people. Kurt Warner,

for example, thinks that they've hit on this guy. Then that makes it all a smashing success regardless.

Because if you find your QB1, that's number one, right? And we've talked about that on that show.

They need that QB1 more than they need anything else right now. Yeah, I mean, that's John Ericksello

have been talking about his team building philosophy. He said that none of it matters if you don't

on the quarterback, right? And so he told you outright they were going to try to prioritize it and

find a swing at the bat and get a guy that they believe in. And I think this should like count,

like the fact that it's a rebuilding year or kind of a transitional year or whatever

phrasing you want to use, I think you count this in their ledger. This isn't a freebie for them,

just because they got Malik Willis for an under economic value market contract for a starting

quarter back. But it is something that, you know, I think this move isn't going to hinder

anything else that they do moving forward. And that's why I like it so much, right? But as far as

the name brand, like the dolphins had a bunch of name brand players, they'll ask four years

and what did it get you to quote Jim Moore, got you diddly poo, right? Like you had a couple winning

seasons, you had a couple playoff appearances, you know, way in playoff games. So I would much rather

do what needs to be done from a salary cap and budget perspective and try to take your time

building it the right way. If you're going to come out here and chase a bunch of name brand

players and pay an offensive guard, that's a sufficient level starter and pay him $16 million

a year because that's the going rate in free agency for average guards, because teams are paying

these guys like crazy right now. That's kind of how you got this mess in the first place.

So I'm completely unbothered by the idea that I'm looking at the ledger of names that they have

and say, man, there's not a lot of established starting power here. Of course, there's not.

But that's the point is they want those players to be guys that they cultivate through their own

system and take the time in two, three years of stacking those guys on top of each other. And what

you're looking for right now is raising the floor of your rooms because you had some non-NFL

caliber position rooms before free agency started and they've done very well for themselves

to get some guys that create a stabilizing presence of names in those rooms and you're hoping

a few of them you can lock in to be long-term starters. But I have a gross expectation that you're

going to do the numbers at the end of the year and so and so maybe played above what his best role

would have been because they needed somebody to do it. It's just the reality of the needs that

they had and the resources that they had to do with. It was never going to be a sexy offseason

but I'm tired of sexy off seasons. I want to have good seasons. I want to have post seasons.

I want to post season wins and chasing sexy off seasons with names that we know from one

place or another and then paying them 120% of what you ideally would, I think it's good that that's

how they went about their businesses here. And in this economy Z and we're talking about it and

we'll hit the break in a minute but in this economy it's crazy when you think about it too because

some of the sexy signings that Kyle is talking about this offseason you're talking about a guy

look at what Jalen got right in Carolina and look at what Chubb gets in. That's expensive. That's

that would have been so way too expensive for the dolphins to keep them but that's a lot of money

for a team that the dolphins put together and didn't get anything out of and you look at what

these guys are getting when they go elsewhere and as a dolphin Z you have to look at that and say

hey they didn't fit here I mean I think in Jalen's case it's crazy money but good for him but what

I'm trying to say is huge money for guys who weren't getting it done here and at least they got

something for Jalen on the way out. Exactly I mean the way I judge that whole contract that whole

situation is that that third rounder we got for Jalen who that pick is going to be and where he's

going to be at in three to four years and then you can justify if it was a good deal or not to

keep him but for 120 you're not going to keep him if you're still in the building there's just no

way you know you have to you have to franchise them they put yourself in even a deeper hole

you know for the year so you know it's good that they trade them and you know and it's good

that the kid went out and got paid because that's what it's all about you know these guys to get paid

because again he didn't beg anybody someone gave him the money you know so you can't say he didn't

deserve it he was given it it was given to him Kyle you got a thought to wrap that before we hit

break yeah I'm really happy for Jalen just because knowing what his story is right where he's a

five star recruit I think it was the number one recruit in the country I remember I went to a

I was doing a lot of college scouting that year this is freshman season UCLA and Joshua's

and Wynton Memphis and I was at Memphis at the Liberty Bowl and I saw him walk by down on the

field before the game I was like holy cow who's this the pull up the roster with the numbers on it

and I'm like who's this cat like I got to know who this guy so I can watch him and it broke my

heart to find out that that dude was a true freshman 18 year old kid out there and he was like

the most pro ready body on the field for both teams with Memphis and UCLA but then he has to

medically retire has the health issues in college and then he gets healthy and goes to Miami and

then he's a first round pick and and he is the ACL and the Achilles in Miami for him to get that

contract for him and I know he just started a family like couldn't be happier for Jalen

individually but you know looking at what his market was they were never even going to be able

to afford the franchise tag right so your your alternative was you keep him for the year

you let him walk in free agency you hope he stays healthy so that his contract qualifies as a

third round compensatory pick but they did that with Christian Wilkins and then Christian Wilkins

didn't play 25% of the snaps that season and they only got a fourth round pick compensatory

pick for Christian Wilkins so I've seen some people say yeah you could have held on to him and got

the comp three well you would have had to wait a year for the comp three and you're at the mercy

of Jalen staying healthy to guarantee you get a three otherwise it might be a four so you got the

earliest possible pick that you could and what ended up being a lost season and I think it works

out for for everybody and kind of where their futures are going for that to have been the play

and I'm going to be rooting for Jalen and Carolina for sure because I know he's a great dude

and Zee is in good company in the chat man one of the guys in there is saying I love the fact

that former dolphins players like Marino, Skanina, Juice, Joe Rose, ETC become huge dolphins fans so

Zee you're in good company there in that group I'll tell you that man as we continue with your

dolphin squad show it's your Monday edition looking at them right there that's Jeff Skanina the

big guy in the middle maybe there maybe they're lucky to be in my company oh there you go

yeah you know what that's I like that right there there we go Kyle's getting a little more energy

we've got a lot more to go here on your dolphin squad show I want to talk draft on the other side

guys based on what I've seen in free agency so far and it looks like to me right now it's going

to be one of three positions that they take at 11 if they don't trade down and we'll talk about

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have the bandwidth for it now I'm doing like free agency draft I'm I'm usually doing 325 player

reports every single year I'm not writing that many this year but I I haven't sat down and watch

like the tournament stuff and it's probably been 10 years hey shout out to the boilermakers for

winning the big 10 tournament yesterday beat number one Michigan they did that's right and Michigan

still got a one seat too didn't they I think yeah that's okay yep they win the big 10 though that's

right they might have won the regular season I can't remember regularly speaking stuff the

ACC two the canes lost the Virginia and seven seed beat no one seed seven beats of one so they're

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you know what as we continue here with your dolphin squad show the draft is coming up and

to Kyle's point this is one of the reasons he doesn't have time for college basketball but one

guy I've been reading more and more about I've brought him up on the show before I know I'm going to

get shot down this position no I thought it was going to be mezzador wide receiver no not mezzador again

look I love mezzador for the dolphins and he's not going to be there at 43 but I love mezzador for

the dolphins I love Bane for the dolphins anybody at 11 who can rush the passer and wreak havoc on

the field I'm all for that I'd love to see Caleb down slip down that far and then of course after

that you're looking at a guy like Sony styles I don't think he'll be there so I'm looking at

positions of need and nobody's talking about receiver guys and nobody's talking about a guy who

has a visit lined up with the dolphins I read about and Kyle can probably correct me or or add more

to that but I love macaie lemon if you look at his career trajectory you look at the number of

ballsy catches you look at how strong his hands are the routes he runs the numbers he's been putting up

in his workouts Kyle and and if he's there he's projected to be a top 15 pick so he may or may not

even be there at 11 but for some reason and and in a football way only I'm falling in love with

macaie lemon from USC lemon lemons I think he's helped by this recent trend of kind of the

it's more positionless at wide receiver if that makes sense where like it used to be very defined

skill set that would play at x and a very defined skill set that would play at z and a lot of the

guys that are built like lemon would get archetype this slot guys only right and you've seen a lot

more interchangeability with alignment to play an inside and outside and I think that opens the

door from a Kyle lemon to be the kind of volume receiver that would warrant and justify a top 20

pick um he wouldn't be my choice not because he's not a good player just because I would like to see

them adding whether it's a pass rusher or an offensive lineman or uh I think if Caleb Downs is

there I think he's the no brainer turn the card in but I really my list of positions that I would not

draft is very short and wide receivers of position I'm totally open to them drafting depending

on what the board ultimately looks like so it's however many different iterations of the multiverse

you can draw up to get 10 different players off the board with the first 10 picks and I haven't

necessarily found one where like lemons the best player that I would want them to take but he's

certainly in that big bucket of guys that'll be there at 11 that makes for an interesting conversation

yeah and see he's not a big receiver either he's not even six feet

no no I don't um yeah I don't know receivers I mean he's pretty sure asking me a question

I really can't answer I know I did see one uh one little pre draft deal they said the kid from

Arizona state what was the name Tyson he's right yeah the dolphins were taking him so again I didn't

I haven't studied the receiver yet there's so far down my list you know who would you rather

go on a great receiver friends but not everybody don't care about receivers how about you Kyle of

those two if you have to pick one which one of the two you taking I think Jordan Tyson is a

special physical talent uh he didn't have a great year his last year at Arizona state his 2024

season is the best tape of any of the wire receivers in in the class it's he didn't work out

with combine because of a hamstring he had some some minor injuries his last season in 2025 there

were some early season injuries stuff for him so that's the hard part about that's why teams miss

right because sometimes you'll get a guy like um who has a resume like that and it ends up coming

back to bite him and they're not successful NFL players but sometimes guys have college crews

like that and then they get to the pros and they never have any problems and they're healthy and then

now all of a sudden is it is a great steal if you're going strictly off the talent um Jordan Tyson

six foot two two hundred pounds ii's got elite body control the way you can't can toward his

frame and adjust to the football and what its catch radius looks like but i don't know what that

medical sheet looks like right and them having the visits and them having the combine to kind of

get a feel for all that is essential but then you got to do your risk assessment on on how likely

is it that this is going to be a thing for him and that might be a deterrent or a tiebreaker for

the dolphins when all the chips are down and my guy Kenny Dillingham Z loves obviously Jordan

Tyson he's done an amazing job at ASU but to Kyle's point last year they had huge expectations

for Levitt at QB who's now gone right and then Tyson who had the injury problems and Levitt did too

so they still only had a three-law season in spite of all that but the coaches at ASU tell me

that whoever gets Tyson is getting a guy who is just now starting to hit his stride so i know Z

that you don't it's hard for you to speak to individual receivers and what they bring to the

table but just the whole notion of guys drafting guys who are just starting and the science of

finding guys who are just starting to hit that elevation a little bit and you know as opposed to

the guys who peak in college for lack of a better word and they're not gonna get any better

but you can find those kids who are just just keep improving and they say Tyson's one of them so

can you just speak to the whole process of that of drafting somebody who could just be starting

to hit that wave of talent well it gets you to how it always is though when you you watch and you

grade it as a position coach you you grade your position and you watch the talent in college

because it's all about projection you know i mean i get it now some of these cats are playing seven

years so it's a little bit more than projection but you know like a sophomore you know back when the

you know three year guys are coming out you know you kind of got to project you have put some

numbers together and you look for different traits you look for you know get off you know i guess

for receiver in and out of breaks their hands how they catch the ball you know how they track a

ball in the air you know there's a lot that goes into it so you know you sit there and you've

got to project which is you know it can make you a superstar or can get you fired all in one day

you know because if you say something and it doesn't come in for wishing and they get you draft

top ten they start finding out who got the table for them and what that coach say or scout said

or GM said and that's how jobs are lost you know and it's the the crappy part about it you know

a kid could come in and just not want to play you know and i've seen that a few times you know

yeah and see when it's free you see guy does a contract year gets paid and then shuts it down

until the next contract year you know it's a big gamble you know it's it's a lot of risk so you

know the you do as much background check and do diligence and talk to high school coaches and

parents and uh you know gurus and this and the other that worked with the kid and because the

kid can say what he wants but at the end of the day it's a gamble no matter who you take you just

hope that who you take is good and some of these guys are on their third or fourth school by the time

you get them now in this portal era so there's some kids that literally have no consistency they didn't

stick anywhere and now here they are and you're just gonna gamble that kind of money and that kind

of future on them because you miss on a pick like that you pay them that kind of money it really

sets you back and guys before we hit the break i just want to make sure everybody knows what i'm

talking about lemon i'm just doing that assuming right obviously mendoza's gone Reese is gone

barely is gone Ruben Baines gone Maui Noah's gone styles is gone downs is gone i would take Jeremiah

love is gone i would take any of those guys and delaying by the way to the corner from LSU i

would take any of those guys Kyle over lemon if they're there i'm just assuming that none of them

are gonna be there yeah that's that's the fun part right as you never really know how a board is

gonna break and all it takes is one dramatic change from expectation and i think this can be the

kind of year where most of the guys that go in the top eight are not gonna surprise you but what

happens if if one guy tumbles down and a team that doesn't expect them gets it and that's not how

everybody had it mocked out like we they do this exercise in draft media every year where

uh you put together your your best guess mocked draft on wednesday the day before the draft

and you're sitting there cheering all the picks to be right and you know usually get to the third

or fourth pick and then that unexpected one happens and the whole thing becomes chaos right and

that that's part of why everybody loves the draft as much as they do it's become such a big thing so

it's kind of hard to say like does does Jeremiah love go way early and does that surprise people

versus the defensive prospects and what's the trickle down effect for a team that was getting

sunny styles but now all of a sudden the past rushers there and they go to the past rusher now

sunny styles gets down so the whole thing is a little weird and that that's why i have so much

phone with the draft yeah and and i wonder if either one of you guys take love at eleven if he's

there and just trade h and i'm telling you i think that's a real possibility if he's there but that's

a big if well i mean bill polio did it with the cults he sent rush to fuck to the singles rams

for a third round draft to get edger and james for both sides that worked out great yeah no that's

rare with with players of that caliber and deals like that but i mean i could have told you that

about edge i was at the you when he was there so i could told you that about him first see the

first time he touched the rocket the you he took it thirty two years at Memphis first carry

of his collegiate career it's kind of what about uh take from one up from a half a state wide

receivers interesting player and and i'll yeah i'll lean into the bid here yeah so car notated

big body guy uh really does well playing above the rim he's kind of like a big body z as far as

the the skill set where he runs a lot of the vertical plane stuff um zero seaver not scanina right

yeah the the receiver these run in the big post he's running the fades he's running the corners he's

running the deep ends and um he's got a really good catch catch radius i love the way attacks the

football uh he runs fast enough i know that was kind of the speculation there was with with some

of the time speed i think you're in four five three at the combine so good enough for his size

um i think he could develop into an extra receiver i think he's got enough functional play

strength to kind of play on the line of scrimmaging isolation but to start my vision for him

would be uh the z receiver who who's running all the vertical stuff and creating lift and then if

if you know teams are playing zone and they're squatting on stuff underneath that's where you hit

your home run balls and that's what a how state did a lot of uh with with carnal tate i think he's

he's right on there in that top 15 conversation as far as where i value him in this year's class

take Tyson lemon and Kenyon sudic the titan eight touchdowns and he's a physical run blocker

who knows how to get open big play threat from the tight end spot but to kiles point from

earlier you're moving guys all over the field to such a degree now that position's mission right

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all right guys we're talking draft create and see coming up here and I love I'm intrigued by

those receivers in that tight end for sure and I know that that would really help with obviously

with muleek coming in or quen yours whoever the quarterback's going to be we don't know for sure

we never want to assume anything um waddle as a number one really stepped it up last year and

we let besides the fact that he's trying to be a boxer now and fight everybody in the league

did you guys see that kind of do you see z did you see he wants to fight sir tan maybe that could be

the next celebrity boxing yeah let's let's let's not wait till you're retired jalen

really almost you may about their boxing yet no so he talked about that a little bit but you know

the his contract is is a good one to restructure there's a lot of things that they could do there

so getting another weapon obviously would help them a lot but you know the edge rusher the defensive

back you know another linebacker like sunny styles are so many intriguing possibilities in that

trapped and then like kyle said guys you could have all the greatest plans in the world and just

think oh my god wow sunny styles drop to us here now what do we do Caleb down somehow drop to us the

guy that you never think and there's always that one guy every year the war and sap the guy who just

drop I could never you know what I mean when sap just free fell all the way down in the first round

same thing happened with ray luis and a lot of stupid teams passed on those guys but it happens

every year is he right there's always that that one player or two who you think is going to be a top

five pick their in New York and then all of a sudden picks keep going and that guy's still sitting

there yeah I mean Aaron Rogers the same thing right he fell you know and again every team's got

their mind made up with their draft board you know and some guys get dinged for certain things

that other teams don't ding you for you know so and then it comes up need you know people are

you're going you know they don't make some teams don't have a philosophy draft the best available

you know so they just draft what they need or what they're you know they think they need and that's

how they go and then you always got to have you know guys you know teams trading up to grab a player

and then you now you then you start dropping even because of that you know like switch your

quarterback you know so you're dropping and then people are trading up for these dns or these

offense alignment you just keep going and dropping and dropping and dropping until you find find a

home you know at the bottom half which sometimes it's better than you know going to the top half you

know because usually if you're in the bottom say they have a quarterback like I'm saying for

quarterback wise is a young quarterback you can come in and you'll learn the NFL and see the game

in the speed of it before you're thrown to the wolves and sometimes it helped your career again

Malik you know he was thrown to the wolves day one and it didn't pan out for him in Tennessee right

and then he went and did a backup role and now look at him he's got a chance to be the starter

and you know he played good football when he's been in there Mac Jones another cat right

same thing you know he he bought it his time you know what was the starter right away and then he

kind of had a sort of rough patch and then he goes out you know San Francisco becomes the backup

and you know gets to learn the game a little bit better relaxes and it gets in there gets

plays good football yeah and Kyle I mean I know dolphins don't love seeing two go to Atlanta where

he could have success and start over penics and have success with that team right away or

shove going to the bills or Tyree kill now being talked about potentially going to New England

you can't really do that right you like you said last show Kyle I think you said you got your own

race to run I think is the way you said it and what you meant by that was just that hey you can't

really pay attention to where all these other players are going and start thinking hey this guy's

going to beat us now but it's hard not to man it's hard not to look at these guys wearing the

uniforms of the teams you can't stand knowing you just gave them so much money here and it didn't

work out but you got to focus on your own plans in your own future right that's hard for a fan

easy for a GM hard for a fan yeah I get that there's uh there's an emotional attachment with some

players right but although those players you know Tyree kill finds out the hard way right like

the game goes on without you right like Tyree kill had had played a whole bunch of football and he

got hurt week four it kept playing football games right like Tyree still got his money but they kept

playing football games right so that's it's always going to the game's going to be there right and

your time is a player it's why I've never I never hold it against a player who wants to you know make

the most of their earnings potentials with the time that they have because their window is short

and the game keeps going and for the dolphins like this is infancy stage of a new version of the team

and I I don't personally find myself emotionally attached to any of those guys right like

if if the the guys that I would find myself attached to are the guys like the camera and wakes

of the world right like him wait came in free agent at a CFL in 2009 has 98 career sacks with

the dolphins he's there for a decade he's a phenomenal player and then after a decade late stage

career guy ends up in Tennessee for a year and that's where he gets his 100 sack of his career or

Jason Taylor going to the Jets after winning defensive player of the year and how great Jason was

or Zach with the Cowboys those are the ones that I get emotional about but Bradley Chubb and a

blackbuster trade deadline deal and was here for three years and missed one of them and then goes

to Buffalo okay like cool like you were it didn't work out because we invested in too many players

where we gave too much money and it didn't work out and you know I don't have

um nostalgia about that I you know I wish all of them well but I don't look at him and I'm like

man it's gonna be really hard to play Bradley Chubb twice next year with the bills I'm not gonna

look forward to seeing him in Buffalo okay like good luck Brad like that's that's just how I see

yeah that's where he's my thing though I mean the fans get mad the two is going to Atlanta

you wanted them out of here yet bagged all season long we heard it get rid of two of get rid of

it and now you're mad that you want to make him you know making him try and make a team and play

you can't have it both ways you know so that the fans got to understand that the best thing was

done for this team for the future was to clean house start bringing some different players in

get to cap back in order get some younger players to build and and that's what it takes you

got to get rid of some good good players and some bad players and some bad contracts but you can't

sit there and say oh I don't you know you don't want to play ever again well then you can't go to

IBM and work anymore you know or wherever you work and see how that goes you know these guys got

bills to pay they got families to feed you know and they want to live life you know you can't fault

somebody to go work somewhere else that's that kind of you look sorry hey here it takes me you

know fans to get mad a guy's gonna go work somewhere after you you ran him wanting him out of town

from you know week three on yeah and I don't think anybody expected Bradley Chubb to be here

this coming season Kyle but definitely a lot of people pissed off that they didn't trade him and

get something for him like they did jail it it's not a tradable count nobody's gonna take Bradley

Chubb for twenty million dollars this year that case in point he made five million less than that

right and no team was gonna trade form at the trade deadline when they were gonna say okay he's

got a five million dollar salary so we'll pay two and a half million of it if we trade form at

the deadline but he got six sacks in Miami and if he gets two more then we have to write the

check for the incentive performance and pay him another four million dollars if our team finishes

top 20 and scoring defense so the incentive but nobody was gonna trade for the risk of hey our

defense can't do too good because then Bradley Chubb we're gonna have to write him a bonus for four

million dollars at the end of the season it was never a tradable contract and and that's

that you made the commitments to those players and put big money contracts on the table for them

and that's why you know I think Minke fits Patrick's one that's surprising to me that he got a

seventh I think that's one that you know and and maybe there was some interest for Minke at the

trade deadline it was he was a name that was brought up but at least Minke played at a high level

and and you could justify the pay right like I think that's the difference from Bradley very

Bradley this year was scheduled to be like the eleventh highest paid pass rusher in elite before

they cut him nobody was gonna trade for that and if you were trading for that you weren't signing

up for the five million dollar fifty fifty lotto ticket that you might have to pay on top of it

for us three month rental in six games like it was just it was too stacked against him and that's

unfortunate but that's again that's part of the reason how they ended up in the mess that they

were in and why all this stuff is necessary yeah and and to Bradley Chubb's credit by the way Z

he stepped up last year after not being traded he was a great leader from every account that we've

heard in the locker room and obviously his play really picked up and became a force on that defensive

line and one that was desperately needed with Jalen gone and he stepped it up and now he's going to

Buffalo and he's getting money and he's gonna have an opportunity to help a team with Super Bowl

aspirations take that next step and get it over the top and who knows if the bills are gonna do

that or not but that's a great point Kyle you can't look at where the guys are going into Z's point

they need to make their money you didn't want him here anymore anyway and you know it's it's time

to move on for the Miami dolphins and for those players and for the ones who are still here

if you build around and if H&N ends up still here and and Jalen Waddle ends up still here which by

the way they're not guaranteed there's a lot that still needs to happen with free agency with the

draft coming up and so many interesting things are just I mean it's no wonder Kyle doesn't sleep

this time of year because just thinking about the possibilities alone will make your head spin and

just when you think you're in a lull Kyle it's like all of a sudden yeah you like four more

things hit you yeah and thankfully we had kind of a a team weekend after the end of last week where

I mean what it was 20 20 external names and then three that they brought in and then they did

Charlie heck today is a swing tackle and he's like number 24 and so hex an interesting player

it's just a little quick 4-1-1 there before we get to the third break but played with Bobby

Slowick and Houston in 2023 he started four games he he played 246 snaps for Slowick's offense

with the Texans that year and then this past year he was in Tampa Bay and had a chance to start six

games and kind of struggle a little bit so you know I think he's a good experience in the scheme

experience with the coaches depth player I think ideally he's probably your fourth tackle

he's got left right capability but not really inside outside capability but getting a name

like that I think is really helpful when you're going to get to the draft and you're probably going

to take I mean the Packers go find the last Packers draft class that didn't take at least one

offensive lineman in the top 100 right like that's the school of thought that we're coming with here

and they need a chance for a starter if not a definitive starter depending on how the guard

shake out so maybe a guy that's got guard tackle flex can be can be that draft pick and

and that way it can be your head can be in that right spot to be your fourth tackle but I'm sure

he's another one of the veteran salary benefit guys and that's been the vast majority of the ones

that they've signed have classified as that so I like that ad to kind of bump key on Smith and

what Carter Warren I think is the other tackle it's on the roster move those guys down a slot

for what my expectations will be for them once you get the camp and you start to compete

and I'll tell you what that's great stuff Kyle Lockdown Dolphins Kyle Krabs the busiest man

in the room these days no doubt about that that's Jeff Scanina in the middle former Dolphins

defensive lineman and man I am Jim Grease I recall me Grease one more segment to go in this edition

episode of your Dolphins squad show we're going to come back and keep talking about the directions

that they're headed what direction is that Troy Aikman's still going to be around it's been made

very clear from the start by the new regime what they want to do what they hope to accomplish

so far they seem like they're right on track with that real quick break for the youtubers

rest if you get a full one and we wrap it up with your Dolphins squad show right here on the Lockdown

podcast network real quick I just want to make an announcement and Kyle can give us more clarity

on this but through the NFL where is it where did it go of course where is it okay so we have

yeah the bonus earned by Jack Jones Kyle so one of those things that you know you feel good for a guy

who really was a savior in some ways last year he and Russell Douglas and people like that stepping

up in the secondary and and Jack Jones gets an extra 1.1 million under the NFL's bonus program

yeah so it's a cool extra wrinkle that they have where you know they give kickbacks to guys that

play and get playtime and performance at a level above that what their pay grade is and I think

Jack was the only guy that was in the top 25 of the list that the NFL released but they do that

every year and they have something similar that's set up for the guys on the rookie contracts right

the guys in the last year they're rookie contracts they'll they'll get a bump and Devon H.A.

and got that you know he's set to make the close to six million dollars this year that he's

scheduled to make based off his three seasons prior contributions so an adjustment so I think

those are the great like little wrinkles that that they do set up for guys that are not the one

percenters right like everybody's super visible with the 50 million dollar contract of the 30

million dollar pass rush or whatever but the vast majority of this league is guys that go year to

year or if they're lucky they get a two year deal after their rookie contract and they're lucky they

play their whole rookie contract out without getting cut and you know having to kind of pick those

contracts up and piece them together so kudos to Jack obviously he he had kind of what like a rough

first month of the season but after week five or weeks six he really settled in and played some

good ball and had that deciding play in the Washington game and overtime overseas and

was one of the more memorable plays for me the season as far as just like to jump and break that

he had on the football there so it's cool to see a guy like Jack who's who's been through the

ranger a little bit rightly he goes to New England and then he's with the Raiders and then he's

sitting around at the starter training camp it doesn't have a team and signs with the dolphins and

ends up being that guy that plays all those snaps and was was glad to see him get a little kickback

for for what he did and being put in a tough spot by the dolphins with putting them late together

on the roster with that whole secondary started 17 games and doubles his income that that should

be called this canina can you imagine how much more money you would have made with this Z

they had it but it wasn't until like how it is now I mean what were the differences

well I know they like said you did a percentage of your pay to the amount of reps you you got

so if you were on the veteran minimum you still got they still count at the big number not the

small number so you know like for guy like me you know being they've that came in it I never

was able to make big big bonuses you know but some of the younger younger players like

especially guys you know rookies free agents and you know low drafted guys you know they were making

all the you know taking the big hits I think London Fletcher was one of the guys scored big before

you know he got his first you know second or second contract you know or third contract where

you really made the money so you know he scored big on it early on what about Jones possibly coming

back Kyle anything you feeling on that um it'd be interesting because they they certainly have

stockpiled a whole bunch of names in corner in the corner room right so I think him in both

Rasool Douglas would love to have a chance to get those guys back but it's how much of an

appetite does the team have with that with being the youngest roster in football and not really

signing a bunch of veterans to um bigger money contracts I think both of those guys have earned a

bigger than minimum salary contract right but with how they played last year especially I thought

Rasool Douglas was phenomenal right he comes in like the week before the season starts storm duck

lasts a drive in a half and goes down and Rasool's out there and has to play like on the jump with

a bunch of guys he never knew and a phenomenal player and all of the ways that you don't really

recognize for a corner the way he tackled the way he did run support the way he disrupted in the

contact window and played zone coverage and how instinctive he was I thought he was just a delight

to watch play and he's been a successful player and and had a couple different successful stops so

I'm sure the the biggest issue there is looking at the free agency spending that the dolphins

have had and and a lot of these guys are sub two million dollar year contracts and if I'm Jack

Jones or if I'm Rasool Douglas based on how I played especially finished the season I'm certainly

hoping to get a contract that's worth more than two mill and and Douglas by the way played in

Green Bay Z but not when Halfley was there so that's not going to help him any that was 2021

when he was there but it's interesting to see because to Kyle's point to get guys especially

you know you're playing defense you're out there you know trying to shut teams down

and you're learning new stuff and I thought Jones and Douglas were two real bright spots last year

for Miami considering all things considered not that they set the world on fire but especially

Douglas I mean they they provided a lot that this team needed last year and I almost think like wow

where would they have been without what Douglas and Jones did no yeah I mean they kept they kept

you know the glue the defense there you know and it made some good plays it made some good calls

you know again it took a while for them the you know for the whole defense to warm up again the year

you know we talked about that and you know and finally you know we've got them all settled down

and we started rolling you know they were the the figures that got us through the through the rough

spot and and guide us to the rest of the season which was good and they helped the young players

around them and the new players to learn what we're you know what we wanted to do and it all turned

out good and that's what you expect from you know your backers they're the middle of the defense

and there's bones that control with the calls and the checks and everything and they did a great

job of it. A guy who started at Nassau Community College Kyle went to West Virginia and did a real

good job for the dolphins last year and Douglas at 30 years old you know I don't know with this new

regime and the new coaching staff I think each of these guys fits the bill for the type of player

they want but if you could only keep one and you had to keep one Kyle would it be Jones or Douglas

I think Douglas was a more complete and consistent player I think Jack kind of had some more

the splash plays I think he's probably got a little bit more twitchiness in him still

that Rasool I think is is so sharp mentally and he does like the non sexy stuff that can I think

really move the needle for an outside corner with the run support stuff and the tackling so I would

pick if you were only going to bring one of those guys back on a one year deal knowing that it was

not going to be a long term answer I would bring back Rasool Douglas but I wouldn't be mad if their

choice was Jack Jones like I'd be totally fine with that in him coming back and having a chance to

compete again I just I've just I got a soft spot for corners who tackle and play the run oh yeah

you with all that see I know you like corners who play the run too Z oh yeah that a doubt I mean

unless you're Deon Sanders yeah you better tackle right if you're if you're if you're not going to

play the run you better be Deon yeah exactly Deon and there's no Deon in this league right now so

I guess that means everybody better play the run and and I think about it as we get set to wrap it

up here we got a few minutes left and this could take a while this conversation so I just want to

throw it out there and you guys take it wherever you want are the dolphins right now on March what's

the day today March 16th of 2026 are they right now and Kyle I'll start with you are they

closer to contention or further away than they were a year ago and then maybe even two years ago

on this date I think they were probably further away than what they had been those last two seasons

because it was kind of had an established order of things and you had the big money players that

you were deeply invested in and incentivized to keep spending cash and and pour into it you know

I you I could probably just boil it down to their dead last league and cash spending right now for

2026 right so and I'm going to do the rough math 40% of what they're paying to their payroll is to

two quarterbacks one of which is not on the roster and playing for the Falcons so when you look at it

like that I'm not saying this team can't come out and be like a surprise scrappy upstart high

chemistry team that is a tough out and and overachieved relative to the overall talent on the roster

no I'd never want to dismiss that being in the realm of possibility for outcomes of a season but

I think there's not a expectation to win and compete the way that you know off the 23 season going

into 2024 was that's the last time we heard publicly from Stephen Rossing they did like the preseason

game and talked about the Super Bowl and that was kind of like where their frame of mind was at

and of course finished that season eight and nine and well they had just paid everybody in 20

beginning of 24 they paid Tyreek they paid Jalen Ramsey again they paid two uh they paid

Waddle they paid everybody they paid they paid might make Daniel the contract extension everything

was good in in South Florida going into 2024 and then that season just completely went off the rails

so I would say they are not closer to competing from a composition standpoint um but I would never

dismiss a team case in point year one Brian Debal New York Giants I don't know the worst

rosters I've ever seen in the last 10 years and they went nine and nine seven and one and

want to play off game to be the Vikings that year with Daniel Jones and Sequan Barclay and they

just found like all these weird wonky situational football ways to win these tight games so you never

know uh I'm not saying that it's not going to happen for them but my expectations are not in that

place right now based on looking top to bottom of the roster see yeah I mean like it's the kind of

I was saying you never know what's going to happen I think you know they can play loose they're

not under the gun to win because they're calling it a rebuild for a reason you know so they're

going to go out you're going to get these young hungry players to go out and play football and have

fun that's the main thing have fun play loose and just lay it on the line every down every play

and good things will happen look at the bears you know people are probably saying the same

conversation last offseason you know new coach the quarterback was a disarray at the time

their defense disarray still kind of is a little bit they're trying to shore that up you know and

they're off into line was bad they rebuilt it and when the one thing that it got that team to go

as far as it didn't play us was the turnovers you know Miami can come out and you have a whole bunch

of turnovers and it could be just like the bears this year you can find themselves in the playoffs

you just never know in the sleep because everybody's got talent it's a matter of how you play with

the talent and how these guys accept half in the coaching staff and in the new style you know

that's going to be put out there and just have fun and if they play loose and fast because they're

young they always got a chance always got a chance and it's going to be interesting to see what

happens here as free agency continues and we inch closer to the draft and of course Kyle's got a

ton of content coming your way always on your lockdown dolphins podcast right here wherever you're

watching us or listening to us is where you'll find all his shows as well right here on this

channel his channel that he's built into a top 12 channel on the number one sports podcast network

in the world the lockdown podcast network and before we wrap it up guys anything else from around

the league we always say we're going to go around the NFL I mean the Jets trade fields to the

chiefs for a draft pick so there's your Kansas City starter with my homes maybe out the beginning

of the year if he's out the beginning of the year there are some other things happening league

wide that's the biggest thing today but anything else happening around the league that you guys have

your eyes on no dolphins all the way dolphins all the way I'm interested to see if they're done like

do you do you get any more free agent signings that trickle in right and that that's what I did it

after the first 24 hours and obviously the big wave that came through on on Monday of the

tampering period and saw who was still out there I'd like to do that I'll probably do that tomorrow

in the show and just kind of look at hey who's still out there that might make sense we've kind of

got our gauge for where the dolphin spending is it's kind of hard to know exactly where they're at

from cap space perspective just because not all these contracts have been processed yet and have

been made kind of through the public resources so that's kind of for me I'm really eager to

kind of go back through once again and see is there anybody that could make sense to add to the

past rush room or another offensive lineman or potentially another tight end right like you talk

about being happy for guys getting their contract how about Julian Hill getting the contract that he

got from the Patriots holy smokes he ended up getting three for up to 24 it's like eight million

up to eight million a year and I think the I think the base on that was five a season so he's got

three million in performance incentives I don't know how he's going to get there because he hasn't

been a big time receiving player but oh I like for the idea of bringing Julian Hill back but not for

five million not with where this team is at for a blocking tight end so you're happy for all those

guys that went out and got those wins and got a chance to kind of process some of these contracts

over the next 24 hours or so and and kind of really recalibrate as we go into the dead period

between now and the draft and I think too that it's interesting to see the way some of these teams

re-tool look at what the Niners are doing quietly right Mike Evans joins the Niners and now Christian

Kirk on a one-year deal so you wondered you know Debo Samuel gone I you can all that debacle they had

there and and San Fran with Brock Purdy he's got a couple of pretty good targets to throw the ball

to now out there so the Niners are making moves and you know all sorts of teams are just positioning

the Panthers are spending a ton of money Carolinas really going all in and just keeping my eyes on

some of those teams in their spending Z but it's always a lot of fun and I know this I know Jeff

Skidney and I loves it when veteran guys get paid and I do too I always feel like if there's anything

the NFL has not gotten right over the years it's those players who are between the superstars and

the young guys and the league minimums the players who almost earn their way to making too much to

be kept on a roster and we don't see the best players in the world in the NFL because of the salary

cap a lot of guys on the streets are probably better than the guys who are in their Z but as they

become veterans and as they matriculate through the league they start to make too much and I love it

the NFL is finding new ways to pay these guys and I love seeing them get their money yeah no it's

it's a great thing about them money thing but again we've talked about it in the past and I'll

say it many times they need to work on the insurance for the older players that's the guys that

are not playing anymore like like the NBA and immediately baseball has done you know that's

that's my biggest crutch I would say that I have against the union right now and I've always had

it even when I was a player you know it was yeah I take care of the older guys interesting any

final thoughts Kyle I just wanted to add one thing in there that you know in talking about the

movement and things that are happening around the league just my thoughts on Kyler Murray to

Minnesota JJ McCarthy might be in trouble but his stock went way up fantasy-wise by signing with

the Vikings and all those weapons they have and I just had to get your guys thoughts on Kyler Murray

to Minnesota yeah I mean JJ had a rough go last year I know we kind of turn it on the last

month of the season but I know they kind of played some lower defenses on the rankings to kind of

help that come together so I would be very busy if I were JJ McCarthy this off season doing

everything I can to get better because he's not going to have a short leash you know that's

that you talk about cash spending Minnesota is near the top again and they I believe they were

number one in the league last year I think they spent close to three hundred fifty million dollars

last year on payroll they are spending a lot of money it needs to show up and they it only looks

that much worse because the guy they choose to to let out the door turn around and want a super

bone Seattle this year so strap up JJ because it's time to get rolling see yeah and they shredded

that defense too now I know they got rid of both their starting defense attackers you know they're

gone and they who got paid both in a paid last year yeah and you know in only one year is another

gone so you know I don't know what you know I haven't looked at what they're doing up there but they

you know I don't either defense it wasn't as good last year I don't think it's a year before

you know and who knows what's going to be this year you know getting rid of John Allen in

in in hard girl you know the mills are two good tackles you know for been you know good veteran

guys and they really didn't have no pastress on the edge but if I can remember I'm just going

off for what I've seen a little bit of you know for them but you know I've only hurts the quarterback

if you can't stop the stop the other team you know and put you in a throwing situation you know

who knows what happened then and we never know what's going to happen who knows is a good way to

put it right now because like we talked about earlier Kyle can't even watch March Madness because

things are happening so quickly this time of year in the NFL Kyle what do you have coming up

on the channel before we bounce and we'll do a plan the two shows I have planned so far the rest

of the week are looking at who else is still out there that might fit and then looking at

contracts that other teams gave out that maybe I would have been in on those guys so trying to

find hey who are some of the good signings that other teams managed to find that you wish maybe

with hindsight Miami could have been players for all right some good stuff coming your way as always

from Kyle Krabs that's Jeff Skinina we'll be back on Wednesday with the second show of the week

who knows what all happened between now and then thank you so much for being here and helping us

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