00:00Miami Dolphins in their free agent frenzy, they have just signed a linebacker Leroy KJ
00:06Britt from Tampa Bay. Started a few games last year for them. I think he started 11
00:11games for him last year, 14 over his career, add a little linebacker depth to the Dolphins.
00:18Um, I just think they're, they're trying to, you know, gradually improve at certain positions
00:26based on what's available. I'm not mad. Well, thank you, Bobby. Uh, the only things that they,
00:33the things that they haven't touched on yet that they, I guess need to, um, unless they're going
00:40to go in house. I mean, like the, the thing that's very noticeable is corner, right? Like
00:43they let Kendall Fuller go. Uh, are they going with Cam Smith to start this year? Are they going
00:50to go sign somebody? I don't know. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. It's
00:55draft the, uh, the Michigan corner. Even if they do, I feel like we haven't had success with like
00:59drafting corners, such a weird thing that they're so good at finding undrafted corners,
01:04but they stink at drafting corners. Right. Right. It like, I think a lot, a lot of people get
01:15in positions where in, in it's their own fault where every decision has to work,
01:24right? There's a lot of teams out there that have made decisions that have just been duds.
01:32But when you're trying to catch up to those teams, it seems like your decisions on how you spend
01:40your money, who you draft, who you bring in has to work. Um, even more a case in point
01:48when you look at Philadelphia and look at some of the defensive players they brought in,
01:55right? Hell they had a pro, uh, uh, uh, uh, they had a all pro who was a special team's
02:03got a year before. Oh yeah. Was that bond? Yeah. So like while we're sitting here,
02:11the Dolphins had that too, with the van Ginkle, they let him walk. Right. So it's hard to
02:18determine because you may not know the name. No, I don't know. But that's, that's the thing that
02:23I'm wondering is are the dolphins. Cause I don't know how the dolphin fan feels about this. This
02:28is the thing that's like, are they going to go into this year and give basically cam Smith the
02:35keys? I guess if it doesn't work with storm duck is, is there to kind of hold the Ford? Are you
02:42bringing maybe a veteran that you think, but I would imagine a guy that you drafted in the second
02:47round who was your first pick that year though, he very much, very clearly didn't go well with,
02:55uh, with, with Fangio and got a bunch of injuries and didn't really seem like when
03:00Anthony Walker was that big a fan either. Are they really going into this thing and being like,
03:06get them, get them young chap. Cause it is year three. Like it's kind of break it off.
03:10Is it not? Yeah. Yeah. All. Yeah. That's, that's accurate that you don't want
03:18to draft the guy in the first couple of rounds. And after year three, still have questions about
03:27where there's going to work out. I think at some point because you drafted him that high,
03:36you should have already seen some signs of flash and we haven't seen it. Um, that being said,
03:45that being said, like they've put themselves in a position where everything has to work and
03:55it really doesn't always work. That's, and it's not just with the dolphins. We only see the teams
04:04that it worked out for. When you look at what Detroit did with the running backs and stuff
04:11like that. When you look at what the Eagles did, right. Um, it doesn't mean that you're
04:19making bad decisions. Now the free agency has not been very conducive to getting quality players.
04:30And if you look at free agency, even the guys that made a ton of money in free agency,
04:37they all had questions. Somebody got 80, somebody got 80 million. It was a backup in Philly.
04:44Oh, this has been a very boring free agency. I don't feel like there's really been one. I know
04:48that people like were crazy because the bears redid their trenches, but like, you know, act like,
04:51you know who the good linemen are and free agency, like every fan's line. Exactly. So it's like,
04:57I feel like it's been like, there's been interesting trades that have led to big
05:00deals like the DK Metcalf thing or whatever ends up happening with the Bengals.
05:05Like those are flashy. Those are splashy. But right now this has kind of been like, all right,
05:10I'm going to take your word for it. Like the dog, because unless you, as a Dolphin fan,
05:14when you watch free agency, the only thing that you're like, you spent how much on who?
05:18And they really haven't had a moment like that. So the only one, and the only one that's of
05:23controversy right now is the backup quarterback. Cause you're like, you're paying Zach Wilson.
05:27Like I saw, I saw Mac Jones made, got 3 million, 3 million a year from the 49ers. And I was like,
05:33I can't believe I'm saying this. This is right up there with my bread. Farf. Don't,
05:39don't please. I think I would have preferred back Jones.
05:44No, you don't have to clip that. Oh yeah. But he's got actually like, Hey,
05:49Hey, you, you say something and then all of a sudden you see this.
05:54But I don't like, hold on one second. No, no, no.
05:58I understand. You can't take it back. Hold on though. The man has genuine starting experience.
06:08Okay. He was a pro bowler. Don't do this. He wasn't like, if we're going to do this,
06:13if Leroy's going to go, Oh, they were, they're always a play. He was a pro bowler. He was a pro
06:18bowler. And you can't take that away from Zach Wilson. Wasn't a pro bowl. No one ever,
06:22no one would bring Zach Wilson to the toilet bowl. He was a pro bowler and he started last
06:28year. He had to do what they did that last year with whichever Lawrence, the Jaguars, they sucked,
06:33but 3 million for like, would you, if I had to put it out here, all right.
06:406 million for Zach Wilson who played no games last year, but you know, Hey, that guy's got a real
06:46chooch doesn't know where to throw it when he's got a chooch or boring McCorkle for half the price.
06:51So, so here's the other thing you have to understand about free agency.
06:57Who's to say McCorkle wasn't asking for the Daniel Jones contract because he was a starter
07:04and a pro bowler. And he ended up with only 3 million. So you don't know at this time of the
07:11signings, both of these, both of these guys were asking for, that's fair to say, I would have
07:16read that this guy had to like all the quarterbacks got signed. He was trying to get more
07:22money and it didn't work out. So he has to just get a job. So let's, let's, let's not just all
07:28of a sudden make these assumptions on the table. You had 6 million here or 3 million here. And you
07:36went with the 6 million that 3 million could have been eight or 9 million at the time when you had
07:41to make your decision. I'm to believe that Zach Wilson had more suitors after him out of the gate
07:48of free agency than Mac, than Mac Jones did know the price, but his price was more expensive. No,
07:55you think, wait, wait, wait, wait. And I just, did you just hear what I said? Yes. That's what
08:00I'm asking. You ended up being 3 million when the dolphins decided to sign Zach Wilson.
08:07Who's to say McCorkle wasn't at eight or 9 million because he was a starter and a pro bowler.
08:13Now who's to say he didn't want that same contract that, uh, what's the name got in,
08:18in Indianapolis. I think that kind of goes to my point. Like you wouldn't, you wouldn't wait for,
08:22like, so, so you tell him to wait and then wait, wait, wait, hold on. Hold on. Here's where it
08:29gets tricky. You wanted him to wait. And what if both of them had gotten signed? I have a hard
08:35time believing this is just me. I'm just, I'm just saying, I'm not, I'm not dismissing what
08:39you're saying, but let me just, my opinion would be, I have a hard time believing that there was
08:45a bunch of suitors for Zach Wilson. I got a hard time believing it. He played no games last year.
08:52Did you have a hard time believing that the senior Bosa was going to get 12 and a half million
08:59for not playing? Um, I didn't find it that surprising. It's shocking. Most of the numbers,
09:05hold on. Most of the numbers around there were 10 million. People were talking like 10 million.
09:09Now the Dolphins, apparently the reports where they offered, uh, less than eight. So the Dolphins
09:12really did have a sticking point on price. Right. There was reports that, uh, I think San Francisco
09:17was around 10. So if one team wasn't going to spend any cash, basically like, all right, let's
09:21give them 12 million. Like if the bill, who are the bills going to spend money on this off season?
09:26Right. No, I don't think if he got 20 million, you know, it's, it wasn't that it wasn't that out
09:32of the realm of the numbers I was seeing. Right. I just saw, I was like Mack Jones making three
09:37and a half or two years. I was like, that just seems more reasonable than Zach Wilson getting
09:416 million for what? Right. I'm just saying that at, at the time, at the time, right.
09:52You don't know what these two guys were asking for. I don't. And all you see is the end result
09:59and to say, I would rather had the $300 million guy. Sure. With the Dolphins. No, at the time.
10:06So you're telling me the Dolphins got foisted in 72 hours. No, I'm saying that I bet you
10:16that Mack Jones contract or his asking price was a lot higher because he was a pro bowler and
10:27he was a starter. He ends up in San Francisco, which wasn't the whole rumors that when they
10:32drafted Trey Lance, they really wanted Mack Jones the whole time. Yeah. And that they were
10:36too embarrassed to draft Mack Jones at three. Yeah. So instead they drafted a guy that they're
10:43not going to pay Purdy either. They're going to, they're going to play hard ball with Purdy.
10:46That's weird, right? They're going to play hard ball with your boy, Brock Purdy, their frog boy.
10:51Hey man, as long as he stays mobile, the other, the other thing he probably needs to do is stay
10:58healthy while you sit in here looking at all this mobile stuff. He's been banged up the last couple
11:04of years. Run away from the hits. No, he hasn't been able to. Gotta get more mobile.
11:11See, like there's a, like, like, so look, it, it, it's, it's good for, it's cool for us to say,
11:24we don't know who this guy is or this guy is or this guy is. But we, we have an example of last
11:29year where the Philly fans were, you know, having a fit that the only splash that they made was
11:37Saquon Barkley. Right. That they didn't really fans making a, making a, they wanted to fire
11:42their coach in the beginning of the year. Yeah, but not over moves. They were, they were mad
11:45because the coach, but the reason they wanted to fire their coach was because the coach, the year
11:51what he says crazy things. He's a mush. No, the reason that they wanted to is because there was
11:56a lot of talk in the locker room that there was a lot of stars on that team who had lost
12:01their belief in him. Like, remember they had a collapse the year before and fell off the rails.
12:08Like that's the reason why everybody was, was distrustful. And then you remember you had the
12:11whole thing with Brandon Graham going on the radio. They're basically saying that Jalen hurts
12:15and AJ Brown still hate each other. And they're like, this guy can't control the locker room.
12:19That had nothing to do with their off season moves. By the way, you're never going to control
12:23that. There's just guys that don't like each other. All you can do is teach them to be
12:27professional. That's maybe not, but, but that's, that's where it came from. I had nothing to do
12:31with the off season moves. I just, I just think first of all, the, the, the free agency this year
12:41hasn't been, you know, big names here or there. Most of it has been trades
12:46and most of it has been giving offensive linemen ridiculous contracts because we see the importance
12:56of it. I E there's five guys that got Robert Hunt deals. Yeah. And we reacted like that when Robert
13:03Hunt got that deal, though, he did make the pro bowl. So, so from, from, from that standpoint,
13:10I'm going to be a little more cautious into evaluating what's going on simply because I've
13:16seen situations where guys got signed that I had no idea who they were by teams and it ended up
13:22working out. I'm not saying it's going to work out, but I'm saying that the needs that you had
13:31had, and everybody can, you know, everybody knows this offensive line, those offensive linemen that
13:39were getting all that money, you wouldn't have been happy if the dolphins would have gave them
13:43all that money because half of them were either banged up, hurt or whatever. He got offensive
13:49linemen that tours Achilles, right. But he was really good before that. Yeah. And all you can do
13:56is kind of hope it works out. Um, that being said, I think, and I believe that there'll be
14:06more deals around draft time or the dolphins are going to have to do really well in the draft.
14:15Oh, they have to, and there can't be any, especially with as many picks they got.
14:21They haven't had it right. They haven't had this many picks in a while. They haven't had
14:24this many picks in a while. They got that. I mean, like you got to hit on like, like they got it.
14:29They got to get people who can provide for this team, like those picks, but here's the deal.
14:35Here's the deal. In the past, you have signed veterans brought in young guys that needed
14:46development. Well, that needs to change in that you need to draft guys who can be contributors,
14:52who might not have the greatest upsize, but you know, they, you can depend on them on the football
14:56field right away. Right. Which kind of brings us back to our starting point of like, do they trust
15:01their corner? They drafted two years ago to be a starter now. Like, I don't know. I would say we
15:07got, this is one of the things you got to wait out because like, like to say at this point in time,
15:13whether they trust him or not, when the off season process is probably a quarter into it.
15:23You know, by the end of the summer or by July or the end of May, right? May, June, July in there.
15:33If they trust him enough to put him on the field and be a starter based on the moves,
15:38they make who they draft or whatever, you'll find out rather relatively quick.
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