The Dolphins roster is wildly OP

I've been looking forward to this team the entire time I'm not kidding the entire time I have been looking forward to the Dolphins episode and I will say this we get one consistent piece of criticism on this series people say we're too positive it's true you know people say we look at the bright side for every single team we look at the upside for every single team if everything goes right what could they be which to me is like a better way to approach it than just this team is trash uh they're going to win 6K like who you know is that productive content to talk about uh the the downside of every single team you know what happens when they get injured what happens when coaching changes don't work out like no we want to talk about the like what could they be we're acknowledging that not every team will reach their ceilings in all these episodes but we talk about what could they be if they do think of us as a can half full podcast we are a can half full podcast and I and I I will say this as positive as we've been for every team looking at their ceiling looking at what is what they are capable of I think I might be more positive about the Dolphins than any other team in the league again if everything hits and if one specific thing hits they could achieve Heights that could put them at the top of the league the very very like winning a Lombardi with a bullet like that's how talented this team is that's how much we believe in their quarterback when he's healthy now they've already taken some injuries we lost Jalen Ramsey until you know maybe December but the fact that I still think they have that capability even with Ramsay not even on the field for three months tells you how strong this team is so uh buckle up if you're not a fan of positive podcasts this is not going to be the one for you because the Dolphins are a really really really really really good football team Jay Autumn Anthony roll the intro [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] welcome once again the bootleg football podcast coming to you from beautiful Dash Point State Park in Washington or at least just outside of the dash Point it's right there literally right there uh one of our good friends Travis Wingfield um Dolphins fans know him well at this point he's like king of Dolphins Twitter uh you know Works obviously for the team um his podcasters an office content creator and also grew up in this state so uh we did it outdoors in Washington specifically to remind him that Washington summers are Elite and you know come home a little bit more Travis how about that he was just back he was back for golf tournament to see the family but he is now back in uh what I would call the liquid cauldron of Miami they just posted some practice footage of Miami this morning and it's one of the players all mic'd up I think it was caterko he's like man it's hot dog it's hot it's so hot that's all that's like the entire clip so yeah uh if you haven't been to South Florida in the summer good luck even like the September games not to get too far on a tangent when I was there in September last year for week three it was bills at dolphins I went to a bunch of bills games last year I'm not even a Bills fan but I just went to a bunch of bills games you don't know and it was like three weeks into September like absolute Peak and that was where like 12 Bills players went down on the field with cramping and dehydration and everything and like I I legitimately felt bad for them because if you're just if you're looking at the actual Sun Beams coming in to the stadium you're watching human beings get cooked alive and going to that game really put into perspective like why the Dolphins home field advantage statistically is at or near the top of the league every single year because if you're playing in Miami before Halloween it's a death sentence like it is horrible at least for the opposing team for the home fans are chilling they're in the shade they're cool they're awesome yeah away teams terrible yeah the boss you don't like you buy him tickets on the other side yeah I got your free tickets go cook in the sunshine but outside of you know the atmospheric conditions uh shout out to Travis a friend of the podcast for sure um and I'm just super excited as we're wrapping up the series that we have two really exciting teams because we're tired it's been a long been a long haul but these are two teams that are really easy to get excited for and and just want to focus on the Dolphins last year was a good year but they had their ups and downs largely because of injuries to the quarterback a few other injuries and look it was Mike Montano's first year overall record nine and eight came in second in the division home record six and two again talked about their home field advantage they did really well there on the road not as good three and six in the last five games one and four to be expected with some of the things that befell the team but how good they looked before tua's first injury was exceptional and we've talked about that in a couple of other podcasts we've alluded to this and you said you're excited for this team I was excited for this team I wrote most of these agendas in order which means I was going to get to Miami Last and I about four times was like I'm gonna skip ahead I'm gonna skip ahead I'm just gonna write Miami and buffalo do we have to do afc's last one of the teams that it just feels like they're so close in so many ways and if a few good breaks go their way they can achieve things that we haven't seen out of the Dolphins in a long time unfortunately this is a organization that has not had breaks go their way so I have to assume they're due for like one healthy year just one time and hopefully we get it this year because at the height of their powers they're one of the most entertaining teams to watch um and they're also one of the most effective teams to watch like if we look at the EPA numbers we really should have done and we don't do this normally but like we really should have done some sort of like break break of like with to uh without Tua because it was two different teams but even then with dealing with significant quarterback injuries that you know they're on their technically third or fourth quarterback by the end of the year uh who's you know still playing well like Skyler still had some shots but even with that like they still finished with the the you know top 13 if we're doing like our amalgamation of all the EPA numbers when we get to power score they were still a really good team even with all of those injury problems yeah the coaching staff in Miami did a really good job working around what was a very significant injury obviously this team is very different with two a quarterback but they didn't give it up they weren't an easy out they were still competing with Skylar Thompson at quarterback as a rookie so for the effectiveness summary we talk about rushing offense passing offense Rush defense pass defense Point scored and points allowed and we use EPA per play as the backbone for those first four stats and the rushing offense was a bit surprising again when I was putting this agenda together this is one of the numbers that I kind of circled and went really because we talk certainly at this time last year on this podcast we were talking about the Shanahan Style Run game outside Zone basis Mike McDaniel has been with Kyle Shanahan for the last what 15 years something before he gets the dolphins head coaching job so we were so excited about them leaning into this style of rushing offense and they gathered the right pieces they had the right Personnel pieces to run it again suffered some injuries there but they were the 21st ranked rushing offense in the league by EPA that was a lot lower than I expected if you had us Venture a guess at this time last year about what that number would have been I would have said 15 maybe 12 could have seen it 21st is a bit low for I think the both the combination of the Mike McDaniel design Run game and the talent they have on hand both on the offensive line and in the backfield so I would expect that to go up in year two I would have expected it to be higher in year one one of those surprising numbers passing offense eighth and that's even with to a missing large portions of last year when he was there they would have been in the running for first or second they were that effective Rush defense knife they're very good at stopping the Run um not terribly surprising again giving McDaniel's pedigree he picked up not only offense on all those stops with with Shanahan but also I'm sure because he's just an inquisitive guy I was picking the defensive minds too and saying hey um you know getting ready for this eventual head coaching shot and shows pass coverage this was an Achilles heel for them their worst EPA ranking for us 26th in the league in pass defense that's really what something that's what made them closer to it 500 football team than Tua than the Rush game anything else the ability the inability to stop the pass consistently was not great points scored again no standing significant injury almost 400 points 397 11th best in the League points allowed 399. that's good for 24th in the league that's not great they weren't a tremendous scoring defense but a lot of it came from the inability to stop the pass so if you take those six numbers add them up divide by six you get a bootleg power score of 17. again you alluded to it earlier that places them 13th overall in the NFL hierarchy pretty good considering and that's where we get really hopeful is if the pass defense comes up obviously the addition to Jalen Ramsey gave us a lot of Hope for that along with uh the addition of some defensive coaches we'll talk about um and then you know year two of Mike McDaniel and Tua just vibing and grooving putting together a crazy pass game you can pretty easily see the potential for this team to be a lot better not a little better you did mention you know injuries were a big thing for uh the Run game like somewhere between 40 to 60 40 to 60 of the offensive line was banged up throughout the year even if they played like they they were not uh playing in 100 like I feel like Armstead was questionable like the entire year um you know and and they took some some more severe injuries on top of that too so I give them like a little bit of a pass I do think the offensive line is deeper this year uh even if it's largely the same Core Group um you know bringing in guys like Isaiah wind to be a backup like they do have more depth this year so I ideally they will be able to weather the storm a little bit better than they did in 2022. um looking at the schematic information which we pull for every team to give context to these EPA numbers and kind of explain how we got to the EPA that we did and therefore how we got to the power score that we did another thing you brought up past defense uh being 26th in past defense of Miami is not acceptable that's a team with a a strong defensive tradition and also they're just too talented on paper to be 26 in past defense and so what I want to do is explain a how that happened last year like schematically what were they doing last year and B I want to take a pretty deep dive into how everything is going to be changing this year and why at minimum their power score is probably going to go up just on past past defense EPA alone because the coverages they're going to be running under Vic fangio are wildly different than the style of defense that Dolphins fans are used to that wasn't really working out for them so if we look at their coverage splits last year they were second overall in calling zero which should not be a surprise they did that quite a bit at 6.4 percent which by NFL standards is a shitload of cover zero they were first in cover one again should not be a surprise considering the lineage of the the former coaching staff on defense there you know very very Patriot's uh ish which they run a lot of man coverage go figure they were 17th and cover two they were 11th in cover three so again we're looking at Middlefield closed structures most of the time 31st in quarters 32nd in quarter quarter half and fifth into man because again a lot of man coverage uh in the background for that staff you can expect this year to literally be the exact opposite and if you go back and you watch the Eagles episode uh and you know people may or may not realize that Vic fangio is heavily involved in the Eagles defense last year as a consultant or whatever you want to call his job title and if you look at other fan Geo disciples around the league again it is it was exact opposite for Philadelphia which is act opposite for Denver and for Minnesota where it was heavy heavy heavy on quarters heavy on quarter quarter half not a whole lot of cover one not a whole lot of cover three not a whole lot of Middlefield Middlefield close structures in general um and I I want to get a little bit into the weeds in terms of how Vic is different than even guys that have coached under him you know even you know different a little bit than Staley and Avero and God donatell you know and I want to credit coach Vass I had a very long conversation with him about this that I recorded and I'm actually going to be releasing a very very long fangiocentric video in in tandem with Vass he's helping me on it because he's the one who knows a lot more about this than I do and that's coming out over on my channel uh but cutting down four hours into hopefully one hour it's gonna it's gonna take a while but uh I want to kind of preface that video by talking about it here first because it's going to come out earlier so if you look at how Vic calls his defense there are three core coverages that you need to know more than anything else and he he will call cover one he will call cover three which their version of cover three is like a match cover three that they call cover nine don't ask me why I have no idea um you know he will call some cover two occasionally he will call some two-man once in a blue moon but the three coverages that he leans on the most are cover four cover six cover eight he calls cover four quads it's your standard match quarters if you're familiar with match quarters rules uh it's just that cover six quarter quarter half you're playing quarters to one side you're playing uh cover two to the other side and the quarter side will be on the passing strength right so you're if you're playing against a three by one look or a trips look you're playing quarters to the trips and you're playing cover two to like the single man side usually you're gonna call that if um if like they're badass number one receiver is the isolated guy backside because you want to put a cloud corner under him and a safety over the top of him and say you're not going to anywhere we'll play quarters against the other side conversely cover eight is half quarter quarter that is where you're playing a half field safety to the passing strength and you're playing quarters to the one guy backside and that kind of plays out also like a bracket but more uh more a side to side East-West type of bracket than it does in north south top down type of bracket and even then a lot of the times if you're playing quarters to the backside that backside safety which is going to be playing inside that isolated threat is gonna have his eyes towards the passing strength anyway and and you know looking at like the the number three or the inside slot receiver if he's coming over to his side he's going to take him anyway and leave that backside Corner one on one when we talked about the Broncos being able to do a lot of that because Dave Patrick's return they could just throw in man coverage on the backside and say we're going to play five over three or four over three Pat you do that like that's that's why they did that right so half quarter quarter you're playing basically cover two over the trip side and you're doing that so that again if their number one threat is in the trips now not isolated you want to play a corner in the flat underneath him uh so that he can't just kind of get little gains on you over and over and over again and win with yak and all that kind of stuff and you're putting a half field safety over the top of them so what what do you do if he's in the slot then that's that's another question that people have okay if he's isolated backside you play cover two to that side if he's outside to the trip side you play cover two to that side what if he's in the slide you know what if we're playing against Tyreke right which Vic has coordinated many games against Tyreke now you play quads because that is your way to get a bracket on a slot receiver is by playing cover four you have the nickel or whoever carrying him you have a safety playing over the top and inside of him that's how you can get two guys on a slot all that to say if we are playing either cover four cover six or cover eight the majority of the time what makes vix defense different is that he can say one call when he was in Chicago they called it ring and I know that because I've seen it and apparently now that he's in Miami they have a different word for it uh and I'm not gonna again I'm not gonna blow up their state Secrets or anything like that um so I'm not going to say it here but if I was on the field for a Miami game and I heard them say the magic words I would know exactly what coverage they're in because they have a certain call that depending on their game plan for that week they can say an r word or an L word meaning right or left and depending on where the jersey number that they're looking at is lined up they know whether they should be in cover four cover six or cover eight and it's all one coverage it's all one word they're just playing different rules based on where the guy they need to take away is lined up that's why they can play so fast that's why they can play so multiple that's why it looks like they're they're running everything but really they're calling one thing that is three different coverages based on the alignment of their game planned against matchup that is how that defense works and they do other stuff too obviously they have really Nifty pressure packages they don't just call this this one thing over and over and over again there are times where it's like we are just calling quads we are just calling six we were just calling eight but in terms of how Vic takes away your right hand takes away your comfort zone takes away Tyrique or Justin Jefferson or whoever that is how he does it is here's this one call that can be a number of different calls just based on where that guy lines up and no matter what we're gonna get the double on him whether you like it or not go ahead throw to your number two all day we're good with that and fangio that's been a Hallmark of his defenses wherever he's gone is a I'm gonna play my system because it works and it's worked everywhere I've gone and we'll make adjustments but largely this is what we're gonna do he doesn't deviate a ton he has a plan and it can be a little bit frustrating Dolphins fans may find this but maybe not because they have a lot of Rush Talent as well he's not just gonna go oh it's not working we're going to throw everything at the you know the kitchen sink we're going full Blitz just not going to happen with fanjo defense he doesn't believe in it and it is always about where's your strength how can we put as many resources as possible on that strength to make you pivot early because then we're dictating to you and it's it's a way to frustrate a top receiver it's a way to literally just frustrate Stefan Diggs out of the game because if Diggs is lined up outside whether he's isolated or whether it's to the trip side he's getting a Cloud Corner every time he's going to get pissed he's like I got nowhere to go so if they put him in the slot what are they going to do they're going to play quads so they can double him again he's going to be pissed because he's got nowhere to go so yeah their goal when they play against Buffalo is we're gonna make you throw it a Dalton Kincaid 12 times and if Dalton Kincaid beats us fine we can live with that but you ain't throwing us to find 12 times that's for damn sure no you might throw you might want to throw at him 12 times you might be able to eight and you might complete four to six and we'll live with that too because if you're only completing four to six balls that's fine Diggs he's not going to be the one that beats us you wonder how wherever Vic has gone he's always been the one to give like Patrick Mahomes the most trouble you know even when he was in Denver and those Denver teams were not very good their defense still slowed down Kansas City you know they slowed down every high-powered offense they win against because you know say what you want by Vic as a head coach but that man can call it defense because he knows how to do this type of stuff Blitz percentages now again this is also going to be very very different they were pretty Blitz heavy team uh last year again when they played so much man coverage and call so many man pressures like it's not gonna be that way this year but they were 13th last year in terms of third and short they were fourth last year in terms of bringing pressure on Third and medium at almost 54 which is a lot uh a lot of those were probably the zero calls that we talked about earlier they were 18th in terms of third and long that actually is uh you know anytime they're third and seven plus that actually is when they backed off and played a little bit more Zone but uh overall they were a very Blitz heavy defense which they will not be this year because Vic really does believe in playing uh coverage first and then trusting his guys to go win and uh you know whether whether that means just letting them Rush straight up because we're better than you or you know calling a bunch of stunts and everything like that he's gonna do whatever he can to try to generate pressure with four while playing sound coverage on the back end so you can expect uh these numbers to be very very different and especially the stunt numbers uh they were 23rd in terms of third down stunt percentage last year there I would bet they're like top 15 this year yeah we've talked about this relationship between blitzing teams and stunting teams and how if you're a heavy blitzing team you're probably not a heavy stunting team and vice versa and just like you said about the other defensive coverages and Concepts in terms of flipping these percentages on their head these two are almost going to exactly reverse um those numbers you know fourth in terms of a big fan Geo defense is just not going to be fourth and Blitz percentage no like I don't care which level you're talking about it just nah flipping it over the offensive side of the ball now um looking at the numbers behind uh their run game which we expect again to be better this year because it's hard to be as banged up on the offensive line two years in a row like they were last year yeah you had to say no I definitely just jinxed it but you know again fingers crossed fingers crossed but last year they were eighth in outside Zone percentage no surprise for Mike McDaniel offense they were 16th and inside Zone 25th in Duo they were ninth in power and 15th encounter uh which for a lot of outside Zone heavy teams you know we've talked about uh counter being a popular counter punch for outside Zone heavy teams as well as power as well um pretty much any time you're going to get one of the fronts that that is successful against outside Zone the types of run Concepts that are good against those types of fronts are power encounter so those two concepts kind of go hand in hand they were 31st in draw and 17th in pin and Pole these numbers are exactly what I expected and they're probably going to be exactly the same again this year the only difference is I think with a healthier team the execution ideally should be better they have the guys to do this this isn't one of those coaching situations where we have coaches saying my way or the highway and putting players in bad positions It's a combination of offensive line losses running back injuries which again we saw in San Francisco which is just odd it just happens anywhere Mike contano goes it just happens it just happens but outside Zone I would you know certainly expect to remain hide they were top ten might even be higher next year and power is really their counter punch if they're not going to run outside Zone they're going to run an inside concept it's going to be power and I would expect them to lean into that as well because they again they have some guys in the center of that line that are very good in pulling those runs and I would less changes on the offensive side so sort of more of the same but better with healthier Personnel ideally is there a counter curse I can throw uh passing offense overview again probably going to be more of the same here well maybe a little bit better in some categories with a healthier too obviously but it's hard to improve on some of these categories they were second overall and play action percentage at 38.2 percent which is astronomically high but they're gonna do it again because that's just the nature of this system is we're going to open up the middle of the field for Tour by using play action we're going to freeze those linebackers we're going to give ourselves as much space as possible to operate over the middle so pushing 40 percent seems uh obvious to me in terms of average time to throw they were 12th fastest in the NFL at 2.73 seconds that's probably the Baseline and if two is stays healthy it's going to be even faster because his trigger is quick one of the quickest in the league that being said they also took a lot of deep shots last year now they were quick deep shots it was stuff like three step drops where uh either it were just immediately like hit the back of the drop we're throwing it because Tyrese got a step or Jalen's got a step uh or um if they did work the middle uh deep down the field a lot of that was like Crossing routes against Middlefield closed structures where again Tyrique or Jalen are crossing the the face of the safety and we're pulling the trigger quick it was not like long developing Corner Post Corner like type stuff it was it was throwing deep a lot but throwing deep quickly if that makes sense um but they were second in terms of air yards percentage in the NFL last year because their deep ball was so good at 60.9 of their passing yardage coming through the air rather than after the catch virtually the opposite of of what we saw in San Francisco where the vast majority of their yards came after the catch rather than through the air so even though Mike McDaniel did come from San Francisco his approach to the passing game uh was different they stretched the field a lot more average depth of Target uh again this this keeps in line with them being a very good deep ball team 10.3 yards average depth of Target they were bombing it down the field they were sixth in yards per attempt even with injured quarterbacks the one thing that I think will improve this year a lot because again hopefully Tua will be playing every game is Big Time throw percentage at 2.5 percent um two was individual Big Time throw percentage was pretty good uh but unfortunately again he was out for what seven games something like that so you know they they slipped a little bit because of that I would think that um with him back there uh for the entire year they're probably going to be at least like top 16 17 somewhere which is enough right like that's enough for them two things about these numbers stand out to me first off for all you out there still saying that Tua can't throw the Deep ball threw it more than everybody else miss me with that air percentage of over 60 second in the league and average depth of Target 10.3 if you've been listening to this series throughout there's a lot of teams out there 7.4 7.2 like a full three yards better third best in the league two can throw the Deep ball just fine better than so many of his peers so stop with that narrative it's tired the other one is the I'm just gonna call it a fight normally play action heavy teams average time to throw is higher so going back to our draft analysis on tour that he was an ultimate point guard that he was very quick both pre and post Snap then he knew exactly where he was going he was excellent distributor to the ball like that that was his true strength you see it here their second in play action and still 12 fastest to throw that's nuts folks like that shouldn't be if you're running that much play action it elongates your time to throw second in play action only 12th or 12th best 12th quickest in time to throw those two numbers don't go together and the reason that they do is to it and I think people uh you know when when they have play action in their head in a Shanahan tree system what are they thinking of they're thinking of Matt Schaub faking outside Zone to Aryan Foster and and you know running and naked and having five seconds of space to sit there and find Andre Johnson 35 yards down the field that's not what Miami does even though it is play action heavy it's quick like they're in the gun they're faking uh the run one way to get the linebackers to take one step so they can hit the slant behind them on the back side like they treat these quick passes as an extension of the Run game and they treat the the faking of a handoff as a way to just manipulate interior or manipulate inside linebackers just to to vacate a little bit of grass so that they can get seven yards on a slant rather than seven yards on a run if they don't like exactly how the front's looking if they don't have a call there that they like you know they they have get out of jail free cards where Tua can look at and be like uh really like we don't we don't have good space there like I have space here with waddle in the slot let me just say one word and get us into this little concept where I can get him the ball rather than try to have Rahim mostert run into a wall of bodies we'll get seven yards either way but the one's a throw and one's a Pat or one's a throw and one's a run right well if the space is there for the throw you take the throw it's still play action but it's a quick hitting play action right because we're just trying to manipulate space that's why that number is so high um so when you when you look at the numbers behind this offense just realize like this is not your uncle's Shanahan system this is a quick lightning fast but still play action heavy pass game and you need a player who is an absolute distributor we say point guard and that tuo was the you know the top of that genre coming out in the draft he's able to do this right he's able to I again all the things you said identify that look pre-snap fake very quickly throw accurately very quickly on Concepts that are well drilled and that makes for both a very efficient offense but it also makes for this weird Confluence of numbers that probably aren't going to happen on any other team in the league no they're very unique and I think the only thing that comes close is like when Jimmy was starting under Kyle and Mike like they would do a lot of that type of stuff with Jimmy but two is better at it he's faster he's faster and he's a better Depot thrower like and that's what kind of pisses me off people compare to it Jimmy and like I get it like early career to uh as a comp to Jimmy made sense to a now compared to two uh three years ago they're not the same guy like he still has that Jimmy Garoppolo skill set but more and so I just don't think it's fair to him at all and I think people uh people still hang on to uh you know rookie or second year two uh and and just think that that's what he's always going to be it's like no he's not he's literally three times better than he was when he first got in the league give the guy some credit we say that all the time though that people set their expectations at a particular Point some people set them early a lot of them do some people set them later but they sort of fixate look if you're not covering the whole league I get it right if it's not your team's quarterback I get it you see a couple highlights or you see a stat line or you see how they did in fantasy football and you go that's what they are and you just kind of bookmark that in your mind and you just hold that and then three years later you can put up a whole different slate of numbers in front of somebody and say your idea of what this player is has changed dramatically are you willing to change your opinion of them it happened with Jalen hurts certainly happened with Tua he's even happy with Josh Allen it took people an extra year before they finally acknowledge like oh okay Josh is not the jock than he was like but it still took an extra year before people finally like got on that train and even now you know he's on the cover of mad and you still people see like oh he's not good enough he doesn't deserve that should have blah blah blah blah it's like are we watching the same sport quarterbacks can improve people I don't know it just pissed me off it really does like it's not just for two like there's a lot of quarterbacks where people like just see them play in college and think that's what they're always going to be it's like oh yeah you think this 19 year olds Never Gonna Get Better okay we talked about it with Tyrique earlier this week that Tyrique was one thing when he came to the league and he continued to improve and as of a couple years ago he was a it's a fully operational battle station he was a complete receiver that can compete with any of the top receivers in this league because he'd gotten better he wasn't just a speed threatening yeah well that was a long way to go for a short drink of water because we got to talk about the power structure which you've already mentioned quite a bit uh you know talking about Michael Daniel talking about Vic fangio but there's still some other names that we got to bring up when looking at the Miami power structure overall because it is a very very good staff um with a lot of experience bunch of former players bunch of former coordinators themselves that are on this staff it's it's frightening like the the group that they've assembled down there it's a really really good one it starts at the top GM Chris Greer doing a fantastic job probably the quietest GM in the league never hear from them ever really does not like I would say even aboors the spotlight he just doesn't want that attention doesn't think it's necessary for his job only speaks when it's absolutely necessary and the team kind of pulls them out of the shadows and says tell everybody what you're doing Chris and he's like I'm working on it and he goes back and keeps doing a tremendous job if you look at this Miami roster uh and compare it to three years ago oh it's completely different from where it was that's largely Chris and his staff Mike McDaniel we've talked about a lot don't need to belabor that point interesting when we talk about power structure this is an interesting structure in itself they have an associate head coach and they have an assistant head coach I honestly don't know what the difference is I think they wanted to be able to have two guys at that level so they came up with two titles it seems a very McDaniel solution to me they're like oh Mike we can't have two that we can only have one assistant he goes great call one an associate let's go give him the raise keep him in the building exactly that's the way it feels to me so the associate head coach and also the running back coach is Eric studesville and I went for pronunciation Travis thanks Travis appreciate that I was like I knew I blew this pronunciation last year how do you pronounce it that's how you pronounce it assistant head coach and tight end Coach is John Embry offensive coordinator Frank Smith defensive coordinator Vic fangio who we've talked about at length and special teams coordinator Danny Crossman very experienced as you said at the top lots and lots and lots of experience we've got a former head coach in there we've got a couple of guys who probably will be head coaches in there um Mike McDaniel it's his first head coaching shot but Manny waited a long time he was super prepared it does not feel like only year two of his reign I mean he's been somebody who a lot of people have tabbed as head coach material for a while a long time because Kyle's staff was getting plucked and plucked and plucked year after year after year and Mike was still there and people were like when's your turn dude this is the head guy you're taking everybody else like this is the guy with the most experience if you really want that system and he finally finds the right opportunity goes to Miami and he's made the most of it in only one year other notable coaches on offense Daryl Bevell quarterbacks and pass game coordinator I thought it was bevel bevel bevel see I didn't ask Travis about that I don't know well well Dolphins fans uh please let us know in the I always thought it was bevel but okay well I don't know Daryl Daryl yeah is the quarterback and pass game coordinator right now Mina is grinding your teeth she's like living in the Northwest and you don't know how to pronounce this 26 years as a coach 21 at the NFL level former offense coordinator in Minnesota Seattle Detroit and Jacksonville was also the interim head coach for the last four weeks of the Jacksonville season like very we talk about experienced head coach he's played his trade everywhere he's back down to a position coach and yes a pass game coordinator this guy has been an offense coordinator for different franchises and an interim head coach you know he was one of the architects of the Russ offense in terms of when Russ was still in Seattle and they were figuring out what is the offense we can run with Russ to get him at his best uh he was one of the guys that was help figuring that out right uh it's like here's the area of the field that rust doesn't really attack well here's the area that he does attack well and you know there was obviously some conflicts in terms of run pass ratios and everything like that which always felt like it was more coming from Pete than anything else but in fourth quarters when they really had to throw the ball like yeah Russ was executing but bevel was the one calling the plays and he understood the strengths and weaknesses of his quarterback very well and they produced some very magical results when the the leash came off in those in those fourth quarter runs there so he really can call a pass game he's very good at it um also underneath him Wes Welker six seasons as a coach already after 12 as a player one of the most prolific slot receivers in the history of the sport and somebody who for an offense that places so much emphasis on slot receivers could not ask for a better Coach to guide a young Jalen waddle crazy addition in terms of again very young coach but very experienced in football coaster played in four Super Bowls and six conference championships so if you want to build culture and say you know this is where we're going this guy knows how to get there Welker's a tremendous ad on defense uh Ronaldo Hill is the pass game coordinator for defense and the secondary 11 years as a coach eight in the NFL 10-year NFL playing career um his first half sack of his career was on Donovan McNabb really yup how about that and Sam Madison well known to dolphins fans uh cornerbacks coach and defensive pass game specialist again Miami just leading the league in you know unique titles entering his fourth year as a coach after an 11-year playing career as one of the top cornerbacks in the NFL strangely enough Sam's middle name is Adolphus how appropriate also he uh he was on the Giants team that upset the Patriots team that Wes was on so he took a ring from Wes a little bit of ribbing in the coaching room oh yeah do I have to listen to you I don't uh it's a good staff it's a really really good staff a great front office and it's easy to see why they're so successful as a team even through the injuries because they have the right people leading the ship and the right people building the ship in in Chris Greer so uh I am I'm more confident in this power structure than the majority of the NFL to put lightly crazy thing to me is it feels like it's been there a while and you go back and now I feel like Greer's been there but literally McDaniel comes in Imports a lot of his coaches fangios here in year two but you're like it's you're too yeah because like oh McDaniel's been there a while right he's been there two or three nope it's been there a year it's crazy uh shifting gears slightly once again by the way we talked a little bit earlier about uh what a healthy Tua is capable of and uh you know how much better he is now as a player how much more productive he is now as a player that he has Mike McDaniel and Daryl Beville and all these great coaches right let's just say to what plays all 17 games oh please let's just say he does yeah how many yards do you think he throws for because I'm Cur I have I have the underdog season-long total up right now I'm just curious what your guess is because I bet it's significantly over what the actual line right now is honestly if Tua stays healthy in this office and I mean truly healthy can play full games 17 of them and they don't pull them last week or anything else 4 800 yards it's at 3 800. good God no I I literally think he could obliterate that by a thousand and I don't think that's hyperbole he he could have he could have hit 1500 by like week five last year I I legit think five thousands in reach or at least close to it and that's I would say 4 800. so they're building in the possibility of injury into this line an underdog like and again uh if you guys don't know how the season long pickups work um you can take anywhere between two and five names they have numbers for all of them um and you can you can select higher or lower on anywhere between two to five names and the payout goes higher the more names you put because you have to hit more names so you know like if you do five names it's a 20x payout so you put like 10 bucks down on it you can get 200 bucks right um but two is at 3 800 passing which seems super low but they're obviously building in the risk of injury there um moster is at 525 and a half rushing on the season which again that could be like four games for him it is yeah but that's absolutely injury as well they're building a possibility for injury Jeff Wilson at 550 for this season here's a good one what do you think Waddles reception's at receptions or yards they don't have yards yet but they have touchdowns they have receptions 80. he's at 87 and a half okay so are you going under only if I want to feel terrible about myself because I wouldn't risk it man he's a Hoover for the football I wouldn't go I just wouldn't go near it that that's a line that's so close that I'm like again I'm not like oh my goodness here's the hard one the really hard one because again it's is to a healthy or not Tyrique 1300 yards on the season it's like bang on now if you ask Tyrique he's saying he's going for 2 000. yeah we'll see and again fully healthy to it and so much of this we talked about at the top of the podcast we're going to continue to talk about it if two is healthy it's a wildly different team the projections are also wildly different for all the players uh on offense certainly if two is healthy for 17 games and he's throwing for anywhere near that 45 4800 yards Tyreek will be 15 1600 without breaking a sweat it all definitely feels like like they're just being cautious with it because they don't want to make the numbers too difficult to get to if certain people happen to miss four or five games but I mean again for me if I'm throwing 10 bucks on it like that just seems like catnip so I'm probably gonna be uh building a lot of pikram slips with a lot of dolphins on them like even Jalen they have some ones for uh defense by the way Jalen Phillips eight and a half sacks higher lower for me I'm going higher I I'm going way above that I I think this is his year Bradley Chubbs at eight feels closer especially if Jalen's getting more of them uh but I probably still would go higher I think he can get nine but again that's one of those lines that I'm like he's closer but Phillips for me and again Phillips is my number one Edge when he was coming out in his draft class so this isn't really a surprise but I think he could he could hit like 15 16 sacks pretty easily like my comparison for him was a hybrid of both watt Brothers together that's the kind of talent I think he has so eight and a half in 17 games in a Vic fangio defense a little disrespectful I feel like a third higher I feel like 12 is like yeah super solid could he go higher than that he could is he gonna be at single digits like I doubt it no I I definitely doubt it and again maybe maybe it's just gonna have a soft spot for Jaylen Phillips but come on now eight and a half I think he had more than that as a rookie didn't he I you know like nine sacks I we talk a lot about Phillips and we might but I I really believe that this is the year that he's gonna go off in that defense he showed enough last year that he feels primed it's so odd just to see a team that everybody agrees is really good be this undervalued by the market and again I know a lot of people are just uh can they play all 17 games but just on paper if we're living in la la land where everybody stays healthy the entire year these are massively underrated players uh all up and down the roster offense defense doesn't matter like I'm telling you folks this team is talented as hell so uh if you're a dolphins fan and you're appropriately pissed off by these numbers Shameless plug coming uh promo code bootleg over an underdog fantasy you know if you want to get in on these season long pickums please do so uh because not only are you getting values on Tua you're getting values on uh Anthony Richardson well Calvin Ridley's bumping up little by little day by day so he might be 900 pretty soon that's our fault that's our fault but you're still getting you know Calvin really for under a thousand yards you're getting Anthony Richardson for like 3 000 yards passing on the year so there are still values to be had even this deep in the training camp season so uh if you're interested in doing uh season long pickums or you can do pickums week by week you 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a lot of names that you know take it or leave it fine but there were a couple on this list where at least for me in my opinion I'm kind of like uh that's tough I would have rather they kept him around there's few and like you said a lot of names overall ones that sort of mattered at all that's a lesser number ones that really sort of hurt I think that's literally a few I think that's three guys Melvin Ingram has won um say what you want about Melvin Ingram at his advancing age he still played 44.8 percent of the snaps would have been nice to keep that as a rotational piece Trent surefield the wide receiver played almost 60 percent of their snaps he's with the bills now Brandon shell also with the bills uh he played 72 percent of their snaps we talked about depth on an offensive line again maybe they decided he was a piece they didn't want addition by subtraction that one I agree with I'll be honest maybe not Eric Rowe the safety goes to the Panthers he played about 50 percent of their snaps he's 31 years old I like his versatility especially coming into this defense he's one I would have liked them to keep Mike iseki that's the becauseeki is the one for me as well uh tight end goes to the Patriots um it became pretty clear to me that they weren't going to prioritize resigning kasiki at the beginning of last season when they were like all right we're gonna make you block and gaseki openly was like I I don't know how to do that like I'm not going to be good at this big wide receiver guys yeah there's there's a couple things I do well and that's not one of them and the staff leaned hard into nope we're gonna make you into a 2A tight end it didn't really work out and they pivoted to their credit they were like oops you're right you're just really good at catching your greater Fades you're awesome in the Red Zone we're gonna use that you that way but that wasn't enough for them to re-up and and throw big money at them uh and a Landon Roberts linebacker that goes to the Steelers almost 60 percent of the snaps not yet 30 years old Steelers get a deal on him just over three and a half or right at three and a half million one of those contributors that made plays for this team that was slightly unheralded not the biggest name um but had that experience in the defense knew how to play it and produced for them was a real value and that one is the sort of low-key under the radar like that hurts more than most people think it does they did upgrade still at linebacker but I would have liked to keep landing around at least for depth personally um in terms of who they did bring back who they did extend uh salvad Ahmed back at one and a half million still kicking around the league at 25. you know so for uh pre-draft salvadavid true throughs like my friend EJ here it's a little bit of vindication still playing football at 26. uh River Craycraft they brought back for a million Raheem mostert they brought back at 2.8 31 years old and still kicking around still fast Nick Needham at less than 2 million brought him in at corner depths which unfortunately they're tapping into their Corner depth earlier than we anticipated yeah with Jaylen Rams are going down Jeff Wilson uh also on the older end of the spectrum for running backs but still very effective at three million dollars really good deal for him Durham Smythe uh they extended him at a little less than four million Duke Riley uh at two and a half million and Andrew van ginkel fan favorite Calvin noise uh younger brother not really but they play very similarly uh 2.65 million dollars for Andrew van ginkel so a lot of smaller deals but for valuable either rotational players spot players special teamers yada yada yada didn't spend a whole lot of money but spent it wisely uh in terms of third-party editions though here's where we get the spending they brought in so is it chosen Anderson or Robbie chosen like how how is it keeps changing it the last time I looked up I saw chosen Anderson I hold on let me Google this because I can't keep track of whatever reason hold on Robbie chosen like the player though so ESPN has it Robbie chosen Wikipedia also has a Robbie chosen okay so the Dolphins have it Robbie chosen Okay so we've now taken chosen taken it from the first name to the last name but Wikipedia has its chosen Anderson I don't know I think Wikipedia might be behind maybe a little bit maybe we just changed it twice I don't know either way they brought him in at 1.4 million to give themselves another speed thread outside uh Braxton Barrios at three and a half million uh slot receiver extraordinaire and return man because they don't have enough of those apparently DeSean Elliott really good kind of third and or fourth safety less than two million dollar deal for him Isaiah Wayne who I mentioned earlier to be offensive line depths for them can play tackle can play guard either way he's a depth piece at 2.3 million David long JR this is what I was talking about when I say they got an upgrade over Landon Roberts even though I do like Landon David long is just a better player better linebacker more range more coverage ability um still very instinctual the one thing is soft tissue injuries which apparently played a big factor in him getting replaced in Tennessee Mike Rabel apparently was was calling him out heavily for uh constantly having you know being little hamstring polls here and there all the soft tissue stuff he just got tired of it so replaced him with azizal Shire so David long is available Miami was like yeah we'll give you 5 million you're a really damn good linebacker please stay healthy so we'll see if he stays healthy and then the big big big money Jalen Ramsey acquired through a trade that is a 20 million dollar a year uh investment that unfortunately like three days into camp goes down with a knee injury he'll be back ideally in December I still think that there's um potential here to be a massive impact player for a playoff run even if we're not going to see him during the regular season because Jalen Ramsey as a Talent somebody who can play inside somebody who play outside uh and both an elite nickel corner and an elite outside corner which is not common at all great Blitzer great against the run super smart knows the system because he played in it multiple times now at multiple different stops this is a phenomenal addition that unfortunately might not pay off until their playoff run but the fact that he will be back for the playoff run means that I don't care how much he costs it's worth it talk about that versatility you can play safety as well like he is just he has earned the moniker of DB he can play outside can play inside could play a Star if he needed to could play safety has that much talent that much skill familiarity with the system is the cherry on top and is a crazy wild card to inject into what we hope is a very powerful team you know building towards the end of the season getting into the tournament and it's like oh yeah and we have Jalen Ramsey now like that's a nasty wrinkle for other teams to prepare for yeah because you already had X you had kator kohu who's just a feisty like extremely aggressive constantly pissed off nickel Corner in his own right um you know again they brought back Needham no ignog and he's apparently having a really nice camp and my favorite out of all of them in terms of who's the depth piece that we're going to see a lot more of uh now that Jalen's out for a bit Camp Smith the the South Carolina Corner that I was really really really high on I had a higher grade on him than his own teammate um really bursty really fast really good technician unfortunately also got injured today because it's the Dolphins day and this just happens for us but uh it doesn't seem too serious I think he just slipped on some concrete and fell in some bushes I swear to God that actually happened like that's literally how he got banged up but if everything's good if it's not a if it's not a major injury should still uh see a lot of playing time this year with Jalen out because he is exceptionally talented and has been making waves in Camp the entire time to No Surprise uh to either of us both loved him pre-draft one of the smallest draft classes we're going to talk about in the entire NFL only four choices um they balanced that out with udfas we'll talk about them too but round two pick 51 their first pick cornerback cam Smith out of South Carolina the higher rated South Carolina corner for me as well very feisty very physical like you said great technician always in the right place and plays with a real Edge really thought he was at that sort of top of the second tier of corners and that is not to say he is a tier two Corner that's to say there were a lot of very talented Corners in this draft class and he was a guy that was just sort of slipping under the radar enough to be like well if you don't get one of these five guys go get Cam Smith you're going to be fine Dolphins pick him up round three pick 84 and this is one of the best system fits in the entire NFL draft from last year running back Devin a chain Texas A M we'd heard some whispers about oh the dolphins really like him fits their system and you started to think oh that would be perfect he does fit though like it's so dead on their type like if you had to pin one running back other than Israel bandicanda mainly because I'm in a band Afghanistan but like other than him it's like who's the running back where you're like that's a dolphin a change it abandon canistan is my favorite new country oh if there was ever a player that went up like two points on a ten point scale just based on landing spot it's Devon a chain they drop all the way to round six is their next pick three rounds later pick 197 and I also love this pick tight end Elijah Higgins is very much has a sort of time yeah he's got a very angry very Evan Ingram skill set and had a lot of cool highlights at Stanford uh obviously we were doing study on the Stanford quarterback as well and Higgins was one of those guys like who's that who's that and about the fourth time you go who's that you go okay I'm putting a mark next to Elijah Higgins name like if a Coach understands what they're getting with him and I think McDaniel and his staff do Higgins is going to be an underrated weapon they pick him all the way up almost out of the top 200 at pick 197 Great Value then round seven pick 238 their last pick offensive tackle Ryan Hayes out of Michigan got a thing about sixth and seventh round offensive lineman from Michigan like unheralded spend a year on the practice squad get inserted play six years with the starter you're like where do you come from you're like Michigan ah of course so I'm gonna give them the benefit of the doubt on the Ryan his pick as well I just thought it was so funny how you know we we heard we heard a lot from Dolphins fans uh about uh they were never going to invest long term in gaziki because he wasn't black they need tight ends that get blocked you have to let you Higgins it's like what do you think he is that's a receiver folks Evan Ingram part two which I mean I love Higgins and he's super explosive great after the catch you know tracks a deep ball again injury was the thing um apparently you can't be a pass catcher at Stanford without getting injured all the time but um in terms of skill set it's easy to see like why they fell in love with him because he's fast he's a match-up nightmare can't really block um at least not like a wide tight end if we're putting him to go like track down a safety in space because he's so athletic and he can like locate and lock on guys on the second level and pick off DBS like you fine yeah he could do that um but like you're not putting him as a wide to dig out a defensive end you know you're not putting him as anything to dig out anybody no no you know he's he's a space blocker that's that's about it which is fine again it's a six round pick like we're not gonna nope we're not gonna nip it too much uh but cam Smith like I said I'm a huge huge cam Smith guy and uh hopefully again he's okay I I just chuckled earlier because it's like of course he gets hurt like the day we're talking about the Dolphins and it's in the most weird wacky Dolphins kind of way like oh yeah he slipped on some concrete and fell in the bushes because we're the dolphins that happens to us but I hope he's okay because when he's on the field he's really really good yeah and he's already lit it up in Camp he's been one of those guys that's had consistent highlights you can wait Camp highlights however you'd like it is practice it is time for especially new players to learn but when you start to hear a very consistent drum beat throughout Camp especially about very young players hey man this guy's showing up hey man this guy's making plays hey he's got his hands on the ball every day if he's a defensive back hey he's burning defensive backs as a wide receiver every day you can start to string those together and go yeah it pretty much looks like you know he's living up to the hype looking at their udfa Hall beyond their their draft class uh a lot of names and I'm talking a lot of names on it but not very many that I actually got to watch like not gonna lie uh I I don't know if you looked at Campbell tape for Julian Hill uh but I was not privy to that uh privilege to watch Campbell I did not get down to Campbell tape uh like you said when you have a draft class of only four choices probably gonna lean pretty heavily into udfa to bring more Talent into the organization Mitchell gouda is a guy that uh spent some time at UCLA ended up at Miami as an edge he was definitely on my list as hey let's see if he can develop um there were a few others on this list but it largely comes down to Chris Greer and his staff taking dice rolls on players that they liked a trait of um the only other one that really tipped the scale for me was Aubry Miller Jr Senior Bowl kid out of Jackson State yeah um you know definitely plays with that you know great triumvirate of linebacker skills agile mobile and hostile he had some big hits down in Mobile that week that that were head turning and again he went undrafted because he's not super big he's like 5 11 2 30. and is a good short area athlete but not not really somebody good long speed that's the kind of guy you bring into camp and just see what he's got but I'm rooting for him and I hope he at least makes on special teams because that dude can hit now uh EJ with udfas out of the way that brings us to our final two segments of the show we have report card and we have uh ceiling and floor for winds report card if you're not familiar with this series is where we take four categories front office coaching staff offensive talent and defensive talent and we give it one of three grades up down or neutral and what we're grading is where are they now relative to the end of last season this is going to sound negative but I want to assure people that a neutral grade is not negative it just means in the context of this team that they were really good last year they just got injured and they're really good this year but they got slightly better in one key category so I'll roll through this quickly front office neutral a it's still the same people running the show B they're still doing a really good job at it so we're going to give them a neutral coaching staff up because we're adding dick fangio how can we not go up if you're adding the fan here to any staff it's an improvement offensive Talent neutral some little changes here and there uh you know adding some depth swapping out one receiving only tight end for another receiving only tight end but largely the core is the same so we're going neutral there and defensive Talent still largely neutral mainly because Jalen's not gonna be on the field for three months and that was like the big addition that could have pushed this up but he's not going to be on the field so we're going neutral there which means we are neutral up neutral neutral which sounds like a negative for a team that won nine games last year but as we've said multiple times they won nine games last year through the most difficult circumstances that they could have gone through you know losing your starting quarterback not once but twice maybe even Thrice ending up you know starting a rookie like either seventh round pick or udfa whatever Skylar Thompson was in the playoffs against the bills on the road they went through it last year still ended up at nine wins so if we're looking at this team neutral is honestly more of a positive because it's acknowledging that they did not take a step back and if anything they took a little step forward in coaching and if you're taking this coaching staff with this Talent on paper for me looking at ceiling and winds I think they they could win 13. like truly they could win 13. I have not put 13 for very many teams in this whole series Miami is one of them I'm willing to do it for not saying they will because they're in a tough division they're probably going to split with a couple of these other afc's teams but if they stay healthy they're one of the few ball clubs that I think can get to that lofty height of 13 wins and challenging for the first seed and my floor for them is literally what they hit last year because I don't think it can get any worse than that and that's nine so at minimum I think we're we're repeating last year of winning nine games and challenging for a wild card spot but if they're just a little bit healthier they could be the first seed and have the entire AFC playoffs run through South Florida believe that to be true I'm gonna hedge on both ceiling and floor by one game so I'm gonna go ceiling of 12 and floor of eight and it's an acknowledgment that the AFC East is really difficult there are a lot of other teams on their schedule that got better that is if they stay healthy if two goes out in game one and gets hurt now this is the least friendly result possible this is not what we want to see like we want to see the opposite we want to see him play that 17 games because that's the best football we can get those are the best matchups all the way down the line and maybe if that happens the Dolphins will hit Heights certainly offensively that we haven't seen in a long long time so that's what we want to happen but if he steps out there and gets dinged and he has a terrible concussion history they're gonna shut him down and shut him down hard especially with what happened last year if you are starting your backup quarterback and then most likely in a 17 game series or a 17 Game season starting your third string quarterback at some point because you're starting quarterback who is your second stringer at this point gets injured I could see eight I doubt it will happen I am much more positive on leaning towards the ceiling on this one and thinking that's the result they're gonna get because McDaniel and his coaching staff that we highlighted very solid I don't believe that they'll let them go sub 500 but again if two of steps out there in the first two or three games and goes down for an extended period of time the outlook for this team changes dramatically I think two will be more durable because um he's built like an actual tank now like have you seen him I I've seen him and there's two things the one reason I like your 13 game prediction and why I might move 12 to 13. did you see the sleeve oh yeah no that's easily adding an extra game that's a that's a win right there so getting up to like 225 plus the full sleeve like oh yeah that might be too Hawaiian Powers activated baby that might be two games um again we hope desperately like I I had said earlier that if I had you know three wishes with the football gods that uh in the Rams episode that puka nikua stand healthy would be one of my wishes two would be another one of my wishes because when that guy is healthy this offense clicks like basically no other offense in the league and I as a football fan want to see that like I want to see the fully operational battle station just laying waste to other defenses that's fun stuff so I hope that happens and if it does I hope they obliterate my ceiling of 12. I hope they win 13 or 14 and just roll and like yeah come on Chiefs let's go that would be fun that would be a great product on the field so I hope that happens he runs this offense better than Matt Ryan did Matt Ryan won MVP so that's that's the kind of ceiling we're talking about here because the 2016 Falcons just laid waste to everybody yeah when I said 4 800 I meant it yeah like if a healthy too on the field at the clip he was running at even last year so this isn't like oh if he gets better if he plays at the level he played at the beginning of last year before he got hurt that's 4 800 yards it's a good team man yeah I I really I want to find time to go down to Miami if I can for a game late season late Yo God yeah no we're talking like Thanksgiving week Christmas where it's nice and like 75 and gorgeous and there's no like category nine hurricanes coming for me did I tell you about that how like I was doing the last flights out you were texting me while you're down there like well so I'm not sure I'm gonna make my next flight and I was like why and he sent me a picture of like a black wall of clouds and I was like oh okay I was texting my friends up in Orlando I was like hey my flight gets canceled like is it easy to drive from Miami to Orlando and they're like are you kidding no how small do you think this state is not during a hurricane like they're like you're stuck buddy yeah so yeah we'll go like November or something like that we'll go visit Travis get some good Cuban food that'd be a great break when it's not like this uh we got one more or at least two more technically we got one more team one more team and one more summary episode but I get to use one of my favorite words this is our penultimate report card oh good word great word great word we'll see you tomorrow uh to talk Buffalo Bills uh probably gonna be the chief uh obstacle for the Dolphins this year other than the actual Chief about the bills okay one of the main officers there you go great choice this year but if you're interested in learning about uh what Buffalo's got going on and and why they still might not quite be dead yet uh despite every ever all the difficulties they've been through in the last few months uh come back tomorrow to learn about the bills also one more note before we get out of here our clothing partner homage I'm actually wearing a dolphins see can you see it now hold on let me move my laptop there we go I'm actually wearing an homage crew neck for Miami I got it specifically for this episode it's extremely soft extremely comfortable in one of like 30 different Dolphins designs they have Throwbacks they have like Grateful Dead dolphin stuff like they got they got everything so if you're a dolphins fan they have an NFL license just go browse their catalog see if there's any Dolphins gear that you like because every single purchase at homage at our link below uh directly benefits of the show like we get a cut of every single purchase so if you want to support the Dolphins and support us at the same time go check out homage see what you like and buy it easy way to do it some of the best gear you'll ever have easily some of the most comfortable gear you'll ever have and they will make our t-shirts we are manifesting EJ yes we are manifesting uh all right we'll be back tomorrow talking bills and then we're making predictions for who's going to win the division the day after that make sure to come back for the last two shows of this series and until then see you guys later [Music] foreign [Music]

Channel: Bootleg Football

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Keywords: nfl, dolphins, tua, tyreek hill, jaylen waddle, fantasy football, rankings, sleepers, brett kollmann

Id: LcxVRK41Eoo

Length: 74min 35sec (4475 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 14 2023