The guys discuss the Dolphins draft picks and how they have filled voids in the team. We move on to the lack of contributions made by Fins Rookie Class.
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00:00The Dolphins, meanwhile, one o'clock on Sunday against Indianapolis,
00:05who's a three point favorite.
00:06They are starting Anthony Richardson,
00:09who is not very experienced. I mean, it's kind of crazy.
00:11I was like, oh, yeah, he only played four games last year.
00:13He's only got as he played a full season yet.
00:15No, he's only played. This is his ninth game.
00:18Right. In nine years, not even two years, two years, two years.
00:23Yeah. I mean, I gave him two years.
00:25They'd be already ready to retire.
00:27I mean, that is the interesting thing about it, though, right?
00:29Like because you were mentioning about Joe Flacco's efficiencies was seven
00:33touchdowns, one pick.
00:34This guy's six and six already this season. Right.
00:37You know, so he is he's also going to give you some ideas.
00:41The Dolphins haven't been very good at turning over the football.
00:45This is a guy who's going to think maybe give him some chances.
00:48Except all I have etched in my head.
00:52Is that 60 yard flick into the air?
00:56Oh, yeah. Effortless hitting the guy on the fly.
01:00And I'm like, holy smokes.
01:04Oh, yeah. He's losing.
01:06There's there's there's talent in there, but it does feel raw, you know?
01:10And they said that when he came out.
01:12So the problem is, is that he's got to get reps under his belt.
01:17So let's hope that he's still not ready.
01:20It's also one of these things, too, where unfortunately for the Dolphins,
01:24they're in this spot right now where.
01:28They're kind of the slump buster, and if you look at the cold schedule
01:31coming up, it's really rough, so they're going to bring him back
01:35like they're probably thinking themselves.
01:37So this is better this than Houston and Minnesota.
01:40You want to you want to bring it back against the Brian?
01:42That was a two and three.
01:44Yeah. The Jets are two or four. Yes.
01:49The Browns are one and five.
01:51Yep. The Saints are two and five.
01:55How the hell are the Dolphins a slump buster?
01:57I'm explaining to you, if you look at the cold schedule coming up,
02:00you're going to bring back the easiest of their schedule.
02:05Yeah, the easiest. OK.
02:07No, I'm saying if the Dolphins are like the Dolphins are being looked at
02:11as the soft open for bringing back the young kid instead of
02:16do we do it against Houston, D'Amico Ryan?
02:18Do we do it against Brian Flores in a couple of weeks?
02:20Like, that's probably a disaster.
02:22Because, look, I love Joe Flacco.
02:24It's a great story.
02:25Eventually, he's going to Flacco and he's going to have a three interception game.
02:28Oh, he's going to he's going to do it.
02:30And then you're going to say, you're not right.
02:33So they got basically what they did was they said, look,
02:37Joe, we appreciate what you've done.
02:41You've been awesome.
02:43But, you know, you know, you know, that's that's it, dude.
02:48Like, like, yeah.
02:49And the thing is, is that if he has a whole season.
02:54Then it all washes out, right?
02:57But he's he's coming in as he's coming in as a reliever.
03:01You know what I'm saying?
03:01He coming in as a reliever.
03:03You got to be good right away for stretches of time.
03:06We don't we can't afford for you to go flack on us.
03:09Look, if you we're going to see if the Dolphins can get to where they're at.
03:13But like the odds of like they prepared for this.
03:15We know we had a quarterback who got banged up last year.
03:18We're paying Joe Flacco to come in there after what he did last year.
03:21Dolphins, they thought Skylar Thompson was the answer.
03:23He was not.
03:24Well, and think about this.
03:26The Browns, they were like the Browns fans are like, why didn't we keep Flacco?
03:31Yeah.
03:32Seriously, why didn't they keep Flacco?
03:36Why didn't they keep Flacco?
03:38Because right now he'd be
03:40because right now he'd be the starter.
03:42That's why.
03:44Such an odd thing.
03:46Very like we watch sports.
03:50And sometimes we see situations and you look at those situations and go,
03:55this has nothing to do with winning.
03:57Yeah. And it sucks if you're a fan.
04:00It sucks if you're watching it, because you like
04:03there's nothing they can tell me that says this is about winning like.
04:09Even if you're confused about what the Steelers are doing.
04:13As far as fields and and Mr.
04:16Unlimited, Russell, even if you're confused about that.
04:23If they were to make the decision to go back to Russell Wilson.
04:27Right. You would at least say, OK, well, they see something.
04:32And and I mean.
04:35My man said, geez, you know what he said?
04:38Fields. Yeah. Yeah.
04:40Yeah. Yeah.
04:41It goes. If they're considering it, I haven't been good enough.
04:45I thought it was a very mature quote.
04:48It was. But damn right.
04:52Like, come on.
04:54Could you imagine?
04:55Russ, Russ isn't going to have that that awareness.
04:57He'd be like, got this.
04:59They're like, you know, crazy.
05:01That is that you take your team.
05:03He started all year, right? Four and two. Yeah.
05:07But also understand Pittsburgh.
05:10They've had winning records.
05:13With some bums, of course.
05:15So they would be in the best position to identify
05:20if he's maximizing what that offense can do.
05:24Right. He says Tobin doesn't know what a mature quote sounds like.
05:28It was mature.
05:32It was as you and Tommy yell at the TV.
05:35White ice.
05:40Yeah, you'll be there with baby tadpole frog boy.
05:44Don't judge me.
05:45I honestly can't wait.
05:47But your level of maturity to me was perfectly defined.
05:52What would you say, Anthony Weaver, his description of Anthony
05:56Richardson's arm was a real chooch and piss whistle.
06:00Yeah, I knew who I was dealing with.
06:05Oh, my God.
06:07Like, it is not a secret.
06:09He did not say that, like, we know.
06:15Oh, man. So I just need like, it would be nice, though,
06:19that Alvin's like, you know, like Chopra Robinson, get this guy down,
06:22like first try to get away hard off.
06:24And I look, I'm not saying it can't happen.
06:29But let me ask you a question.
06:33We know who he is and has been not saying he can't get better.
06:37OK, just like when Ted Ginn got here, we knew who Ted Ginn was.
06:42Why do we all of a sudden get upset
06:47when they don't become what we want them to become?
06:52Well, the thing that's upsetting for him is not, you know, it's not his fault.
06:57Is this that everybody around him, all the passwords are dropping like flies.
07:00So then it feels like, hey, we need something.
07:03He's going to pick what you're going to do.
07:05Well, and again.
07:09His level of growth.
07:12Is his level of growth
07:15because of the situation of the Dolphins,
07:18we're looking at him and say, no, no, no, you're on our clock.
07:23Pretty much, I'm just saying, why, why, why is that we do that in sports
07:28all the time, so if a quarterback, if they say, hey, this quarterback
07:32is going to come in, we're going to develop him for a year.
07:35And then he'll be ready, like maybe
07:38like the way they did with Jordan and.
07:41And Green Bay, Jordan Love, and
07:44they were able to wait this thing out, and then he was able to step in.
07:48If Aaron Rodgers would have got hurt.
07:51You would throw him in and expect him, oh, he's a first rounder
07:54to be the quarterback he is now.
07:56Well, I think the thing that was interesting is just like.
08:00I think the philosophy was strange because it did feel like the Dolphins,
08:04you know, went at this with their first two picks and was like, all right.
08:10We take a pass rusher.
08:11None of our passers are really healthy.
08:13And we're going to take a left.
08:16And we're going to take a left tackle.
08:18He's not going to stay healthy.
08:19And I don't know if it did if you don't think they're ready to go
08:23because they're both their measurables are off the charts.
08:26They're all really talented guys.
08:27They both said raw like they need some development.
08:30And you're not going to get that time with durable starters.
08:33That's not the position with when you need assistance right away.
08:37Right. So this would have been great.
08:40And this would have been a perfect move.
08:43If I do one other move.
08:45Keep Van Ginkx.
08:46Oh, you understand what I'm saying?
08:49Yes. Yes. Keep him and then draft chop.
08:53Right now, you at least have a nice rotation or what have you.
08:59As far as the offensive line, I told you
09:03I thought.
09:05That they would put Paul
09:07somewhere on the offensive line if he's one of the best, they didn't.
09:11They just have him ready to play left tackle.
09:13Yep. And so from that standpoint, you have a lot of right tackles
09:17who played left tackle in college.
09:19A lot of them because they don't maybe they can block,
09:23but they don't have the feet or the reach that a left tackle has.
09:27So I always thought he would.
09:30So I was OK with that.
09:32The fact that he's on the side.
09:38I don't know how to, you know,
09:40I don't know how he in preseason, he seemed like one of the top five.
09:44It's like I thought, like, dude, I thought this rookie class was
09:47and I guess don't buy too much in the preseason, but I came off this preseason
09:51was like, I am fired up about this rookie class.
09:54And Jalen Wright had a nice performance last week, which was encouraging.
09:58But that was like the first time you're like, oh, man,
10:01finally, something from the rookie class like Storm
10:03Duck was the number one contributor.
10:05Well, is it supposed to?
10:06But my question is, are you supposed to get it right away?
10:10Well, I think with the Dolphins,
10:11here's the thing is when you start getting into the spot
10:14where you got to spend a lot of money on guys, you need to hit on.
10:18You need to hit on somebody.
10:20Yeah, but it is.
10:22You know, you're basing this off of five games.
10:24I understand. Right.
10:26That's that's not over.
10:28I know. That's my point.
10:30That's my entire point is that.
10:33After week one or week two.
10:36Or the first month of the season, we're going, oh, terrible draft.
10:42I'm like, really?