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know the drill by now two more players

1:55

under the microscope for free agent film analysis

1:57

two more players in the hot seat for

1:59

from your boy. We're gonna go ahead and

2:01

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2:04

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2:06

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2:08

the Dolphins' tie-in room. We're gonna talk about

2:10

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2:13

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2:15

put Zach Wilson and Alexander Madison in the

2:17

hot seat to take questions from your boy

2:19

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2:22

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2:26

to go ahead and put the news out there

2:28

the reported signing of already Burns is going to

2:30

become official here this week So the Dolphins will

2:33

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2:35

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2:37

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2:39

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2:41

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2:43

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2:45

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2:48

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2:50

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2:52

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2:54

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2:56

deep dives on the film as well as my

2:58

chats with these players. And without any further ado,

3:01

let's go ahead and get to my discussion with

3:03

Dolphins running back, Alexander Madison. What's up, Dolphins, welcome

3:05

back to another edition of The Dolphins, welcome back,

3:07

Alexander Madison. What's up, Dolphins, welcome back to another

3:09

edition of the edition of Thethans, welcome back, Alexander

3:11

Madison. What's, welcome, welcome back, to another. Really impressed.

3:13

I mean the weather can beat it. Yeah, it's

3:16

beautiful. I'm I'm amazed at you know everything and

3:18

I'm just blessed to be here. Yeah, we're excited

3:20

to have you. Wait till it's about lunchtime about

3:22

an hour from now. Get over there and get

3:24

some food because it is it is very very

3:26

good. But glad to hear your way around the

3:28

building here. So I wanted to start with this

3:31

because I told you I grew up in Eastern

3:33

Washington about four hours away from Boise and that's

3:35

where you went to college. And that's where you

3:37

went to college. You grew up in San Bernardino.

3:39

And you grew up in San Bernardino. And you

3:41

grew up in San Bernardino. And my first thought

3:44

was he had to have gone up there like,

3:46

whoa, what did I sign up for? Boise, but

3:48

it must have been a pretty big culture shockful.

3:50

Yeah, yeah, definitely was it was one of those

3:52

rude awakenings for me. going from a place that

3:54

winters are 70 degrees still in California, you know,

3:56

you get your rainy days or whatever, but yeah,

3:59

I went to Boise and found out what a

4:01

winter was. And I remember my freshman year riding

4:03

my bike around campus and stuff and I had

4:05

it locked up and one morning I was getting

4:07

up. to go in for workouts and it was

4:09

frozen and that's what I learned you know really

4:11

what it was about yeah yeah the blue turf

4:14

as well kind of a little bit a different

4:16

look there for a football field and you're heading

4:18

back I think I saw on your Instagram like

4:20

next week for a football camp right out what's

4:22

what's going on there? Great Iron Dreams Alex Guerrero

4:24

was a former Boise State players well he does

4:27

a lot within the community with this great Iron

4:29

James camps and even more just throughout the community.

4:31

pays a forward a lot so he invited me

4:33

to be a part of his camp series so

4:35

I think that is actually this weekend coming up.

4:37

We'll be down in Boise and give some kids

4:39

some some gems to take away and up their

4:42

game. Yeah, man, you're jet setting from Vegas to

4:44

Miami back up to Boise all over the country

4:46

so far. Let's stay there in Boise because going

4:48

back to your college career, I saw you had

4:50

600 touches, never missed a game in college, and

4:52

you've only missed five games over the last four

4:54

years as a pro. My question is, what's the

4:57

key to your durability to spot that really kind

4:59

of lends itself to quite a bit of punishment?

5:01

I would say from early on I learned about

5:03

what it takes to get to the next level,

5:05

starting in high school, you know, my coaches forced

5:07

me to take ice bass after the game and

5:10

stuff like that and like dreading it, but you

5:12

know, this is what they do at the next

5:14

level. So then get to the next level, okay,

5:16

what do they do at the next level? So

5:18

just trying to learn and I mean, learn from

5:20

guys too. I mean, I was able to be

5:22

around some really good veteran caliber guys when it

5:25

comes down. to take care of your body. In

5:27

Minnesota, when I first got to the league, you

5:29

know, had those guys who put their arm around

5:31

me, showed me the ropes. At Boise, I was

5:33

around Cedric Wilson and Layton Bandres and those guys.

5:35

And so, really just learning from early on how

5:37

to be a pro. and trying to take care

5:40

of my body and be ahead of it and

5:42

be prevented. The stuff that's not fun to do,

5:44

right? Like for us, like brushing our teeth, you

5:46

don't want to do it, but you got to

5:48

do it every single day, so that's great to

5:50

hear. And when I, when we first signed you,

5:53

I thought, okay, this guy played for the Vikings,

5:55

he played under Kevin O'Connell, there, there's some familiarity,

5:57

he played for the Vikings, he played under Kevin

5:59

O'Connell, there, there, there's some, he played for, he

6:01

played for, he played for the Vikings, he, he

6:03

played for the Vikings, he played for the Vikings,

6:05

he, he, he, he played, he played, he, he

6:08

played, he played, he played, he played, he played,

6:10

he played, he played, he played, he, he played,

6:12

he played, he played, he played, he played, he

6:14

played, he played, he played, he played, he played,

6:16

he played, he played I hope to fit in

6:18

and be a pivotal piece as well. It's for

6:21

me, you know, just dating back to looking at

6:23

playing against Miami from the other side and it's

6:25

exciting. It's exciting to see and I'm excited to

6:27

be a part of it now. It's something you

6:29

kind of have to be a smart player, right,

6:31

to kind of read those tracks and set those

6:33

blocks up like what's the key to being effective

6:36

back in that type of system? Really, yeah, there's

6:38

your key notes that you... you have to hit

6:40

on pretty much every time it's you know reading

6:42

reacting running but then there's there's the scheme aspect

6:44

of it when you have to understand you know

6:46

a nine tech versus five tech you have to

6:48

understand if you're running to on the front versus

6:51

the over front linebacker depth and shade and all

6:53

that so there's there's a couple different things that

6:55

you have to kind of snap into really quick

6:57

a pre-snap and I learned that from Kennedy Palomalo

6:59

my first. running back coach he was really great

7:01

at teaching the run game and with his own

7:04

like words and keys so yeah take pride in

7:06

trying to dissect defenses within that scheme. It was

7:08

moving landmarks right like you have to kind of

7:10

be able to read it on the flies it

7:12

lays out because so much can change in that

7:14

amount of space. Something else I went back and

7:16

watch on your on your film reel was the

7:19

short yarder stuff and stacked boxes and like it

7:21

seems like no matter what whether it's the corner

7:23

off the edge that comes in unblocked or a

7:25

defensive tackle that beats his block like you kind

7:27

of almost always miss make that first man miss

7:29

like in your opinion what is the key to

7:31

being a good short yard back because I watched

7:34

you that that tape and like you're constantly pushing

7:36

the pile falling forward getting the yard your team

7:38

needs I appreciate that you can't just try and

7:40

go get the art. You have to work with

7:42

what's in front of you, work with what you

7:44

have. Sometimes there's nothing and you got to live

7:47

to see another down, but there's times where timing

7:49

comes into play, the velocity of which you're moving

7:51

comes into play, the way that you contour your

7:53

body, spin off of tackles versus, you know, going

7:55

straight down a guy. So there's just a bunch

7:57

of different things that you, you know, watch film

7:59

on, practice. I mean I'll be walking around the

8:02

house and like run into the wall and like

8:04

spin off the wall and stuff like that so

8:06

you just you know find your your way and

8:08

find something that fits you in. I think for

8:10

me I was able to find a good amount

8:12

of tools to keep my back pocket for those

8:14

situations. I love that. I always like pass rush

8:17

moves around my house, like around corners and stuff.

8:19

I'm not, I mean I'm not good, but I'd

8:21

like to do it anyways. It's fun or like

8:23

routes, I kind of break down my route and

8:25

get into the, you know, get off the top

8:27

of the stem there, but that's just me being

8:30

an obsessed football fan for the time I grew

8:32

up and now I'm doing podcast. And now I'm

8:34

doing podcast. So kind of a follow up to

8:36

the follow up to the short yards to the

8:38

short yard to the short yard question to the

8:40

short yard question, because short yard question, because short

8:42

yard question, because past, because past, because past pro,

8:45

because past pro, because past pro, That's one of

8:47

those like thankless jobs for running back that you

8:49

have to be able to do to stay on

8:51

the field for third downs and watching you that

8:53

you're receiving game your short yards to me that's

8:55

like okay this guy excels in all those areas

8:57

what's the key to being a good patch protector

9:00

man there's I mean there's a lot of technique

9:02

that you can you know preach about but honestly

9:04

it comes down to a kind of like like

9:06

my running back coach used to tell me it's

9:08

like when you get in the street fight you

9:10

got to do whatever you can't to just serve

9:13

and sometimes that's what

9:15

it comes down to. It's

9:17

that you impose in

9:19

your will and making sure

9:21

that you protect a

9:23

quarterback. So it comes down

9:25

to a lot of

9:28

different techniques that you have

9:30

to up bye bye,

9:32

but you gotta have a

9:34

plan B and a

9:36

plan C. And then when

9:38

those go out the

9:40

window, you just have to

9:43

have the will to

9:45

try and stop a guy.

9:47

Kind of sink those

9:49

hips in, let it absorb

9:51

that contact. I saw

9:53

some tape of Boise where

9:56

you're like taking on

9:58

edge rushers are coming free.

10:00

I'm like, okay, that'll

10:02

play. That'll play at the

10:04

next level for sure.

10:06

Two more questions before you

10:08

going back off your

10:11

Instagram, cause I saw you

10:13

have a foundation. We'll

10:15

get to that in a

10:17

second, but father could

10:19

change as a man, right?

10:21

I've seen the posts

10:23

with you and your kids,

10:26

man. Like your face

10:28

is lighting up right now.

10:30

Tell me about being

10:32

a dad. Oh, it's the

10:34

best thing in the

10:36

world. I thought,

10:38

you know, living out my dream and

10:41

NFO, you know, was the best

10:43

thing that ever happened to me, but

10:45

no, not even close. Being a

10:47

father is amazing. You

10:49

know, I gotta give a shout out to my

10:51

wife. She's an amazing mother. She's an amazing partner and

10:54

being able to raise those kids in

10:56

today's society for us. I would want

10:58

to just make sure that we give

11:00

them the best future that they can

11:03

have a better, you know, living situation

11:05

than we grew up with. So like

11:07

that motivation is a fire within me

11:09

and seeing my daughter smile, seeing my

11:11

son laugh and play and do all

11:13

that. Those are the moments and memories

11:15

and things that I'll hold on to

11:18

and that will shine through when the

11:20

bone gets tough, when adversity strikes. So

11:22

yeah, it's a beautiful thing. Yeah, wins

11:24

or losses, 100 -yard games, two fumble

11:26

games doesn't matter. They're always gonna be

11:28

there after the game. Oh, waiting for

11:30

daddy. That's great stuff, man. I have

11:33

two of myself. It's the best thing

11:35

in the world. Last question is, you

11:37

know, I saw on Instagram that you

11:39

have a foundation, the I am gifted

11:41

foundation. Can you just kind of take

11:43

the floor and tell us what that

11:46

is? Yeah, so my am gifted foundation

11:48

was born after I wanted to find

11:50

a way to do something that was

11:52

bigger than myself. I didn't want to

11:54

just be Alexander Madison football player and

11:56

Alexander Madison has a camp and Alexander

11:58

Madison is giving back. But I wanted

12:00

to start something that could live

12:03

longer than me and my kids and

12:05

anyone could ever live. Just let that

12:07

legacy be and let it be a

12:09

movement more so than a brand and

12:11

more so than merchandise or anything

12:14

like that. But really start a

12:16

movement, spreading love and positivity

12:18

in the world. And in

12:20

college I went through my own

12:22

struggle with mental health. And I

12:24

didn't know what it was. I didn't know

12:26

how to deal with it. But it just

12:29

hit me. And luckily I was

12:31

unintentionally doing positive mental health

12:33

practices like taking a bike ride along

12:35

the river on an off day or

12:37

something. And I think those things helped

12:39

me get through that tough time. And

12:41

for me, the message of I'm gifted

12:44

is that everyone was born with

12:46

a gift. You just have to find it,

12:48

embrace it, and use it to shed light

12:50

world. And in doing so, shedding your

12:52

light, you can help be that light in

12:54

somebody's dark time. and I know that I

12:56

was in a dark time and all I

12:58

needed was a little bit of like to kind

13:00

of help me get out of there as

13:02

well. So yeah, we're all about

13:05

spreading love and positivity, emphasizing the

13:07

importance of mental health and combating

13:09

suicide. And so yeah, we just

13:11

try and make sure we spread

13:13

that love and positivity. And it

13:15

starts out with, it's, I actually get the

13:17

chills when I talk about it, but like

13:19

you just reading, I am gifted. is an act

13:21

of positive mental health practice. Sure, because

13:23

you just told yourself in your own

13:25

voice that you're gifted. And so

13:27

we just want to take that first

13:29

step and help people take that first

13:32

step and that creates a movement. So

13:34

that reinforcement, right of kind of telling.

13:36

That reinforcement, right, of kind of telling

13:38

yourself, right of kind of telling the

13:40

movement. So that reinforcement, right of kind

13:42

of telling yourself, like, telling yourself, like,

13:45

telling yourself, like, I'm, and that creates the

13:47

movement. So that reinforcement, right. So, right. Away

13:49

he goes I can see Alex being a

13:51

massive fan favorite if he produces in a

13:53

big way because he is a genuine genuine

13:55

human being Really enjoyed getting to know him

13:58

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14:00

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14:02

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dolphins? Welcome back into the draft time podcast

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15:32

today for our free agency interview interview is

15:34

quarterback Zach Wilson. Zach Wilson. Welcome into the

15:37

South Florida man. Thank you. Super excited to

15:39

be here. So have you just got in

15:41

right? Yeah. I know you've been down here

15:43

a few times because you've been down here

15:45

a few times because you play us every

15:47

year. This was always one of my favorite

15:49

stadiums, if not my favorite stadium. Just because

15:51

every year we played in Miami, December, January,

15:53

and it was freezing wherever we were at.

15:55

And I was like, man, I can't wait

15:57

to get to that Miami game where we

15:59

get to go enjoy some sun. And we

16:01

don't always try and maybe come out a

16:03

little bit early. And so, you know, the

16:05

weather's awesome here. Speaking of nice weather, you're

16:07

getting married here sometime this summer coming up

16:09

in Cabo, right? Yes, we're actually going to

16:11

get married out in June. We just had

16:13

our vital party in Cabo, but we're going

16:15

to be getting married in New York City.

16:17

Okay, I missed that one. Yeah, there we

16:19

go. So New York City. Summer in New

16:21

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16:27

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Yeah, I think it was a great fit.

16:50

I mean, with Coach McDaniel, Coach Bev is

16:52

a quarterback coach. You know, I think it's

16:54

going to be a great fit. You know,

16:56

just with what I'm looking for, the type

16:58

of offense, the amount of information I'll be

17:00

able to learn from these guys, I'll be

17:02

able to learn from these guys. I think

17:04

it couldn't have been a better match. So

17:06

you've mentioned, you know, some of the coaches

17:08

you worked in your fourth year in the

17:10

league. Yeah, I mean they were phenomenal. It

17:12

was almost a different look at playing the

17:14

position, but I felt like I was able

17:16

to get on my feet and learn a

17:18

ton of new things and felt like I

17:20

was playing good ball and so I'm excited

17:22

to kind of, you know, find what's next

17:24

in the journey. Was that weird for you

17:26

to go a whole year without playing like

17:28

a regular season? because since you were probably

17:30

what eight years old you haven't missed a

17:32

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17:34

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17:36

for you yeah super strange you know and

17:38

so obviously you know you always hope how

17:40

can I you know work hard to get

17:42

back to that point where I can be

17:44

on the field and and finding the best

17:46

opportunities for that in any way and you

17:48

know just trying to get better so I

17:50

can be ready for that. And just reading

17:52

some kind of background on you like I

17:54

read some articles from you know some Denver

17:56

papers and stuff talking about your experience there

17:58

and they were saying that you really embraced

18:00

that role and kind of took what you

18:03

could from it and learn the most from

18:05

it how did those reps in the preseason

18:07

reps as well because they were saying that

18:09

you really embraced that role and kind of

18:11

took what you could from it and learned

18:13

the most from it how did those maybe

18:15

even build your mindset or your I thought

18:17

they did a good job of bringing the

18:19

entire team together and I felt like, you

18:21

know, it almost just felt like taking that

18:23

next step that it got a little bit

18:25

easier out there just playing with the guys

18:27

around me. I read one quote from another

18:29

one of those stories that talked about you

18:31

expressed your experience with the Jets, right? And

18:33

I didn't go the way you wanted it

18:35

to, but how you kind of took those

18:37

experiences and learned from them. Like, what did

18:39

you ultimately take from that experience in New

18:41

York? Yeah, it was challenging, you know, and

18:43

there's things looking back, you know, I wish

18:45

I could have done so much better and

18:47

maybe would have approached differently, but I think

18:49

at the end of the day it's all

18:51

part of the story and... you know learning

18:53

from those experiences and those in those hard

18:55

times and you know ultimately is what got

18:57

me here and hopefully being able to take

18:59

advantage of the next opportunity here yeah you

19:01

mentioned some of the verbiage in the offense

19:03

you can learn down here and obviously a

19:05

second pick in the draft like pretty damn

19:07

talented football player to be drafted that high

19:09

what do you think this offense does to

19:11

suit your skill set that you offer yeah

19:13

extremely explosive you know there's obviously a lot

19:16

of speed on the field it's been one

19:18

of those teams on film that you know

19:20

When I've tried to watch film of the

19:22

offense, you can't really replicate anything they're doing

19:24

because they're extremely explosive with what they have

19:26

and Coach does a great job of altering

19:28

things to his players and what their best

19:30

strong suits are. Have you had a chance

19:32

to meet up with our quarterbacks coach yet,

19:34

Coach Bevel? I have a little bit and

19:36

we'd always kind of talked a little bit

19:38

in the past and he's a great dude.

19:40

Yeah, you got a pretty good offensive support

19:42

effort. How about two? Do you and two

19:44

know each other? I do know two a

19:46

little bit. We ran into each other on

19:48

California last year and I threw around with

19:50

his brother last year and I threw around

19:52

his brother a little bit. And I threw

19:54

around his brother with his brother last year

19:56

and I threw around his brother with his

19:58

brother a year and I threw around his

20:00

brother with his brother in California last year

20:02

and I threw around his brother with his

20:04

brother a round with his brother. And I

20:06

threw around his brother with his brother. And

20:08

I threw around his brother with his brother

20:10

with his brother his brother a brother a

20:12

brother his brother a brother a brother a

20:14

brother his brother a brother a brother a

20:16

brother a brother his brother a brother a

20:18

brother a brother his brother his brother a

20:20

brother a brother his brother a brother a

20:22

brother his brother his brother his brother a

20:24

brother his brother a brother a brother his

20:26

brother a brother his brother a brother Very

20:29

good. Zach, appreciate your time today. Zach Wilson,

20:31

new Dolphins quarterback here on the Drive Time

20:33

podcast. Appreciate your time today, man. Thank you

20:35

so much. Away he goes before we get

20:37

to our last break. I want to go

20:39

ahead and just insert the analysis here because

20:41

it's brief. It's quick. A new punner, Ryan

20:43

Stonehouse. Are you ready for some punter talk?

20:47

Some Friday afternoon punter to I

20:49

don't know what date is, but

20:51

we're gonna talk about Ryan Stonehouse

20:53

dolphin's new punter And I don't

20:56

have a lot of film to

20:58

go off of. Let's go ahead

21:00

and play the verdict sound drop

21:02

off the top So Ryan Stonehouse

21:04

is here and he's glorious huge

21:06

leg kicker and he spent three

21:08

years of the Titans, undrafted out

21:10

of Colorado State back in 2022.

21:12

He's missed five games. It was

21:15

all in 2023 when a free

21:17

runner blew him up and broke

21:19

his leg toward his ACL, tore

21:21

his PCL, but he's going to

21:23

be 21 months removed from that

21:25

injury by the time the season

21:27

starts and it didn't really impact

21:29

him that much last year. He's

21:31

the Mountain West all-time punting average

21:34

leader, 47.8 yards per punt. His

21:36

2022 season was the highest pun

21:38

average. in NFL history. 53.1 yards

21:40

per punt. Then he had the

21:42

exact same fifth Colorado State back

21:44

in 2022. He's missed five games.

21:46

It was all in 2023 when

21:48

a free runner blew him up

21:51

and broke his leg toward his

21:53

ACL, tore his PCL. But he's

21:55

been going to be 21. months

21:57

removed from that injury by the

21:59

time the season starts and it

22:01

didn't really impact him that much

22:03

last year. He's the Mountain West

22:05

all-time punting average leader 47.8 yards

22:07

per punt. His 2022 season was

22:10

the highest pun average. In the

22:12

NFL history, 53.1 yards per punt,

22:14

then he had the exact same

22:16

figure in 2023, but then had

22:18

a punt blocked that resulted in

22:20

the eight, or rather it was

22:22

a, it wasn't blocked, but it

22:24

was like the rush got there

22:26

and had that severe leg injury.

22:29

And it went all the way down

22:31

to 50.6 yards, all the way down to third

22:33

place in the national football league. So

22:35

in three years in the NFL, the

22:37

worst he has finished in average.

22:39

It's third place. And the only

22:41

time he didn't finish first was

22:43

the first year back off of

22:46

a serious leg injury. He's finished

22:48

sixth, second, and then 34 yard,

22:50

or 34th in net yards per

22:52

punt. Just for your guys'

22:54

awareness, our rankings in yards per

22:56

punt, over the last million years,

22:59

17th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, 25th, 23rd,

23:01

24th. I mean, Matt, Matt, Matt,

23:03

Matt, Matt, Michael Pillard, Thomas, Morris,

23:05

Jake, Jake, So Ryan Stonehouse gets

23:08

here and go watch his, if you want to,

23:10

go watch his punting reel, his special teams

23:12

reel with the Titans. They, their gunners are

23:14

on the ground half the time. He's got

23:16

a quick release. He can kind of do

23:19

that angle, nose of the football down to

23:21

the turf and hit those like high pop-ups

23:23

down inside the 20-yard line. The guy has

23:25

three punts that have traveled 74 yards in

23:27

his career. They were all touchdowns, 274 yarders,

23:30

a 75-yarder. So you can go three and

23:32

out to open a drive and then he

23:34

can just put the ball back on the

23:36

other 20 because he can just kick it

23:38

out of the back of the end zone.

23:40

He has a booming leg, a good release.

23:42

The Titans didn't offer him a

23:44

tender. So that's why he was available.

23:47

Why they didn't do that? I guess

23:49

they're not trying to win games. I

23:51

guess they're trying to win games. and

23:53

now he's ours. Last break right there

23:55

come back on the other side and talk

23:57

about this new tight end who I can't

23:59

wait If you guys to hear

24:01

my chat with him, it

24:03

should be out on the

24:05

Friday episode of the podcast.

24:08

But I have a feeling

24:10

this guy is going to

24:12

be somebody y'all really, really

24:14

like in 2025. Feral Brown

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26:42

this guy do his thing for the

26:44

Miami Dolphins. So he has been on

26:47

a journey, undrafted to the Raiders out

26:49

of Oregon in 2017, spent 2017 with

26:51

the Oakland Raiders, that's how old this

26:53

dude is, did not play football in

26:55

2018, came back to the Browns in

26:58

2019, spent two years with the Texans

27:00

from 2020. to 2021 and then had

27:02

a year between the Texans and Browns

27:04

in 2022 spent 23 with the Patriots,

27:06

24th the Seahawks. He's six foot five,

27:09

246 pounds. He turns 31 years old

27:11

in May. He's missed five games in

27:13

the last four years and the statistical

27:15

profile is 87 games, 54 starts. His

27:17

career kind of took off in terms

27:20

of playing time back in that pandemic

27:22

year in 2020 with the Houston Texans.

27:24

He's never been a predominant target in

27:26

the passing game. 34, the following season,

27:28

was the most in his career. But

27:31

he went from playing just a handful

27:33

of games with the Raiders, missed all

27:35

of 2018 with the shoulder injury, then

27:37

caught on with the Texans after being

27:39

released by the Browns after training camp

27:42

that year. He's got seven. 22 catches

27:44

on 100 targets, 751 yards, just three

27:46

touchdowns. And his usage has been pretty

27:48

interesting throughout his career because last season

27:50

with the Seahawks, I should say, no

27:53

targets over 20 yards. But two years

27:55

prior to that with the Patriots, he

27:57

was a big play machine catching five

27:59

or six passes for 15 or more

28:01

yards, including a 58 yard touchdown and

28:04

a handful of 25 yard plays in

28:06

there as well. So a lot of

28:08

it has been. Stay in, pass protection,

28:10

leak into the patterns, a checkdown option

28:12

or design flats, under routes, things that

28:15

are quick game base, but he can't

28:17

sneak up on you and get vertical

28:19

when you leave him alone one-on-one coverage.

28:21

He's played in line on 75% of

28:24

his career snaps and in the slot

28:26

for 15% and then a combination of

28:28

both out wide in the back field

28:30

for 5%. So 95% of his snaps

28:32

happen in tight to the formation. This

28:35

guy's an extra blocker and he's really

28:37

really good at it. So he's got

28:39

a 51340 time, which was 51st percentile.

28:41

He's not your burner. A 72nd percentile

28:43

vertical jump at 34 inches, but a

28:46

0.8 percentile broad jump at 8.07, which

28:48

is kind of weird because he is

28:50

super powerful in the lower half. That

28:52

6 foot 5 mark, however, is in

28:54

the 86 percentile. and his weight is

28:57

in the 68th percentile. So big dude

28:59

for the tie to imposition, and the

29:01

tape matches all of this to a

29:03

T. He is a plus blocker. He's

29:05

not often called upon as a receiver.

29:08

All of his running times, 40 yard

29:10

dash, 10 split, 20 split, are all

29:12

in the 40 to 50th percentile range.

29:14

So big dude who moves at an

29:16

average speed, which I guess is a

29:19

good thing. No information on the contract

29:21

just yet. I'm getting these out before

29:23

the contracts just yet. when I get

29:25

them. Let's go ahead and get to

29:27

the verdict. What I knew about Farrell

29:30

Brown coming into the tape was not

29:32

a lot. I knew that he was

29:34

essentially an extra offensive lineman with some

29:36

ability in the receiving game in the

29:38

short quick game. He's an extra past

29:41

pro guy capable of standing up even

29:43

the game's best true edges off the

29:45

edge. Not a lot of tight ends

29:47

in the NFL that can say that

29:49

he's an absolute hammer in the running

29:52

game too. And watching his Seahawks tape,

29:54

the route running and receiving ability wasn't

29:56

special but when I went back and

29:58

watched the Patriots there was some good

30:00

stuff on tape so what I wanted

30:03

to see was how much pop does

30:05

he play with as a run blocker

30:07

is he a get-in-the-way type of guy

30:09

or is he a difference maker someone

30:11

that we can scheme the run game

30:14

around like you can with Nick Westbrook

30:16

Akina can he catch a fade I

30:18

know he's not doing much as a

30:20

receiver but if I run 13 personnel

30:22

can I get him matched up on

30:25

a six-foot-foot tall linebacker and trust him

30:27

to make that play? Last year on

30:29

the tape wasn't very good. It was

30:31

a struggle. We don't have to litigate

30:33

it any further than that. I think

30:36

you can run stick and he can

30:38

kind of split the hook zone. You

30:40

can throw it in that position. If

30:42

you throw a flat or an over

30:45

the ball, he can like drop the

30:47

shoulder, run guys over, but he can

30:49

like drop the shoulder, run guys over,

30:51

but he's not gonna make a ton

30:53

of guys miss. So there's not gonna

30:56

a lot of electricity. help teams will

30:58

play underneath him and he had a

31:00

pretty nice reel of stacking and then

31:02

making the catch and stride like in

31:04

2023 he had a bunch of big

31:07

plays a 58 yard touchdown on a

31:09

busted coverage against the Jets catches of

31:11

13 15 25 26 yards he also

31:13

caught a nine yarder against us that

31:15

was like the 15 yarder where he

31:18

chips off the edge disengages off the

31:20

block and shows the quarterback his numbers

31:22

and it works like a screen and

31:24

we run that same type of play

31:26

with John who Smith what 10 times

31:29

last year and he can do it

31:31

as a guy that really excels in

31:33

the blocking games you can kind of

31:35

forget about him as a receiver when

31:37

you do that and it works as

31:40

a nice little tendency breaker to him

31:42

in past protection because he's called to

31:44

pass protect all the time like that's

31:46

where he's usually playing I'm sure you

31:48

guys all saw the clip of him

31:51

beating Jaylyn Phillips one-on-one in a past

31:53

brush rap. He does that. like a

31:55

lot, a Z's O'Jolari. He got, shoot,

31:57

who else did he get? He got

31:59

Hasan Redick last year, like all, some

32:02

of the best past pressures in football,

32:04

he's shutting down. He had only one

32:06

red zone target over the last three

32:08

years. It was a backside, why is

32:10

so leak across the flow of flood

32:13

from trips. So it's not like a

32:15

fade or a one-on-one match up, just

32:17

he caught, he was the open target

32:19

and the ball went incomplete. everything. He

32:21

can seal the edge against a nine

32:24

technique and outside zone. He can short

32:26

motion back into the formation and lead

32:28

the gap, the sea gap for the

32:30

running back and climb to that Sam

32:32

linebacker and seal him off. Both those

32:35

players I watch resulted in 10 plus

32:37

yard runs. He can split flow and

32:39

not just seal the edge but kick

32:41

him to the perimeter. The grip strength

32:43

to stay on blocks is outstanding. Like

32:46

once he connects to you, you're stuck

32:48

to him. He's a factor in the

32:50

running game. on nearly 200 career pass

32:52

blocking opportunities, but that number doesn't do

32:54

it justice just because he's getting a

32:57

lot more true one-on-one matchups against like

32:59

really good defense events that most tight

33:01

ends who just double or chip are

33:03

not getting. For tangible applications sake. Durham

33:06

Smite has been in past pro 221

33:08

times over the last three seasons like

33:10

slot Farrow Brown there and that position

33:12

becomes a way bigger upgrade than what

33:14

you had last year. He had a

33:17

great game against us a couple of

33:19

times. He let chop cross face and

33:21

just rode him all the way out

33:23

of the play and just rode him

33:25

all the way out of the play.

33:28

So he had that the past pro

33:30

rep on JP where I think he

33:32

helps. I don't think there's a lot

33:34

left in there. Mike was now. We

33:36

also used Durham as a six man

33:39

and pass pro point of attack man

33:41

off the edge on the outside zone

33:43

game. Those are big big roles and

33:45

it was reduced from you know down

33:47

to like 15 snaps per game for

33:50

Durham but there was times where 30,

33:52

40, sometimes 50 snaps in a game

33:54

and those were some of the most

33:56

wasted reps in my opinion. The Dolphins

33:58

have had the last three years and

34:01

I think Brown is a dominant presence

34:03

off the edge in the running game,

34:05

a devastating motion to rap man that

34:07

kind of cuts into Julian Hill's role,

34:09

does some of the stuff that Nick

34:12

Westbrook Akine does. He can play some

34:14

fullback and block from that position so

34:16

he can bite into Alec Engold's role.

34:18

He does a lot on special teams

34:20

but I don't think it's like a

34:23

lot of special. teams if you will

34:25

he just can play in that role.

34:27

I've seen people you know clamor over

34:29

the signing and I get it but I also

34:31

think it's like read you know kind of pull

34:33

back your expectations a little bit

34:36

but I think that what he can do

34:38

in that tie-in 2 slash tie-in 3 role

34:40

is a big upgrade over what we've had.

34:42

Why was he available? Well he's been available

34:45

every off season so I'm gonna put him

34:47

in the quality depth and special teams category

34:49

here with possibly possibly adequate starter in a

34:51

specific role as a blocker off the edge.

34:54

He made the Dolphins run game and pass

34:56

pro much better by getting Feral Brown.

34:58

And look at that. We came in

35:00

under 30 minutes on this episode of

35:02

the draft time podcast. We're going to

35:05

come back on Friday and unless things

35:07

change and we get more signings in

35:09

here, which could happen at any time,

35:11

we're going to have KJ Britt. Farrow

35:13

Brown and the analysis for Artie Burns.

35:15

I think we might actually have Burns

35:18

on that podcast as well. I don't

35:20

think we're going to get Efattu Melafanu.

35:22

He had to jet out of here

35:24

before we could talk to him on

35:26

the podcast and I don't think he's

35:29

coming back for a podcast and I don't

35:31

think he's coming back for a podcast. So

35:33

we might miss out on him. So we

35:35

might miss out on him for a podcast.

35:37

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35:42

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