00:00So the Miami Dolphins, their 53-man roster is set.
00:05This is the first time, and correct me if I'm wrong,
00:12where you had 30 to 40 guys get cut,
00:18and you only know two names.
00:21Yeah, I'd say so.
00:22I would say like five guys.
00:25I was like, oh, yeah.
00:27Right.
00:27Well, and two of the guys they brought in.
00:30Right.
00:31And signed, and they just cut bait on them.
00:34Yeah, there was, I would say, out of the maybes, the most,
00:40I don't want to say stunning, but the ones
00:42that were like, all right, which way is this going to go?
00:44Azucama.
00:45Well, I heard something on the way in,
00:48because it took so damn long, was this.
00:57As great as he was in preseason, the last two preseasons,
01:00he is a preseason Hall of Famer.
01:02Yep.
01:03He's only had three catches in the NFL.
01:05Yeah.
01:06So you can wave him and bring him back.
01:09Nobody's going to steal him.
01:10I don't think so.
01:11You see what I mean?
01:12Because he has his own.
01:13And he had a bad injury last year,
01:15a neck injury that derailed him.
01:16And then he's dealing with something here.
01:19And then Chris Brooks, he had the concussion,
01:22and he got hurt in the last game, too.
01:24So both guys that were kind of on the fence,
01:26it's availability.
01:27Like, I don't know if they're going to be good to go or not.
01:29It's weird, because if you're those guys,
01:32and they say it's an availability thing,
01:34and you look around this team, you're like, really?
01:38Yeah, well, you're not Odell Beckham.
01:40I don't have to tell you.
01:43But yeah, so and I would say this, and I was kind of,
01:49remember, I was kind of upset when this happened.
01:52Why would you let Andrew Van Ginkle go?
01:56You know what I mean?
01:58When he was probably your best pass rusher
02:01at the end of the year, and he would
02:03have been one of those guys you could bring back
02:05for that mid-level, not the super high,
02:08but not the super cheap, somewhere in the middle,
02:11you could have brought him back at a reasonable price.
02:14Because there's certain things that we
02:19knew were going to have to improve out of the young guys.
02:24And what did we say about Storm Duck?
02:26Doesn't set the edge.
02:28Chopper Robinson.
02:29Chopper Robinson, sorry.
02:31And so from that standpoint, that is like,
02:37just look at what happened to Dallas.
02:40When their star didn't set the edge well, they ran at him.
02:43So you can't play him a whole bunch of plays.
02:48Well, yeah, they definitely, he was a good player.
02:51They let him go.
02:52And I think that the price there between him and Barrett, too,
02:55I don't think it was that crazy.
02:57So that was definitely a weird one in the offseason.
03:00But yeah, I mean, I think the thing,
03:03you talked about this yesterday with the tight ends, right?
03:05They went double the tight ends they did last year,
03:08because they got Tanner Conner and Jonu Smith.
03:10And that kind of allows them to be.
03:13Flexibility with what they could do with that third wide
03:16receiver.
03:16Right.
03:17Which, I mean, like their receivers.
03:18I mean, they couldn't ride a roller coaster.
03:20I mean, they're all five, eight guys, but two of their five,
03:23eight guys are amazing.
03:24Wait, wait.
03:26Who's five, eight Jalen Waddle.
03:30Jalen Waddle is not five, eight.
03:32Oh, okay, dude.
03:33Sorry.
03:34We'll quibble over five, nine.
03:36No, they got him listed at 510, but they also all right.
03:42So I thought he was taller, which is why I thought.
03:47For sure.
03:47They would keep as a comment.
03:48Yeah.
03:49Jalen Waddle Tyreek Hill are both five niners, and then you
03:53got five, eight Braxton Barrios and five, eight Malik Washington.
03:56Right.
03:57Well, Malik Washington also weighs about a buck.
04:00Yeah.
04:01So tiny, tiny receiver core, but it's very cyclical, because
04:07remember, there was a point in time where everybody wanted
04:10a giant as a wide receiver.
04:11Yep.
04:12And we went through that stretch of what, 10, 15 years where
04:18everybody wanted that big, strong receiver outside.
04:22And you start looking at all the guys who had success in that.
04:25You look at the Randy Moss, the Owens.
04:28You look at Megatron.
04:30You look at just all.
04:32How tall is Larry Fitzgerald?
04:33Is he like six, three Larry Fitzgerald.
04:36Right.
04:36You look at all these guys who were giants, and now it's
04:39kind of switched again and went back to like, I mean, think
04:44about the Dolphins with Dan Marino.
04:45Yeah.
04:46We were doing this yesterday because we were looking at the TV
04:47and like, Anna, Yuka is a giant, and he's really not.
04:50He's not.
04:51He's not.
04:52He's just compared to the Dolphins.
04:53He's compared to everybody else.
04:55The Dolphins receivers are very, very short, very short.
04:58But obviously, like, look, they're going to get at one point.
05:00They'll likely get, I mean, I guess I shouldn't count my chickens
05:04on the Yodell Beckham thing.
05:06Well, and keep in mind, I don't think they thought he would be here.
05:15Right.
05:17But they have him for later on in the season.
05:22Well, you know what?
05:24I'll tell you one thing that kind of annoys me with it, though.
05:27Why so much secrecy?
05:29Right.
05:29Because yesterday, all of the reports came out, and they're like,
05:34oh, yeah.
05:35Yeah.
05:35He had an offseason procedure, and this was expected all along.
05:38I'm like, oh, I know.
05:39Why 24 hours ago?
05:41The coach say, oh, it's TBD.
05:43If he's going to be on the pop list still.
05:44I'm like, you know, like that's that's one of those things
05:47that seems like there's something there.
05:50They're doing some damage control on, you know.
05:51Well, here's the problem.
05:53And here's how you explain this.
05:57He had a procedure.
05:59They knew about it.
06:01Right.
06:03So it wasn't a surprise.
06:05The surprise, however, was how long it's taken to get him on the field.
06:11Right.
06:12So you can't say you didn't know about it.
06:16Right.
06:17You can't say you didn't know about the injury or about the procedure.
06:23And I think a lot of it has to do with, yeah, man.
06:27Like, knees start rubbing.
06:29Bones start rubbing together.
06:31And you see how that affects basketball players.
06:34Well, football is even harder.
06:36Right.
06:37And you got to monitor that.
06:40And you have to be careful with that.
06:41And you have to have these procedures to try to help with that.
06:45But it sometimes takes a while to come back.
06:49So they knew about it.
06:51They knew about the procedure.
06:53However, they're not going to come and say, hell,
06:55we didn't know it was going to take this long for him to come back.
06:57We wouldn't have gave him $3 million.
06:59Right.
07:01So like, yeah.
07:03That's why you kind of get the kind of wishy-washy in this.
07:07Because they kind of knew they don't want to show any frustration with Odell.
07:13Because the injury is the injury.
07:17And you can't have a problem with his recovery
07:20if you knew what he was going to have.
07:23Yeah.
07:24I just think that, like, if this was the case,
07:27why is there always this shroud of mystery?
07:29Like, just say, yeah, hey, he dealt with something.
07:32There's a long-term plan to this.
07:33And I don't even think, like, anybody is going to have issue with that.
07:38You know?
07:38And then, like, when you just leave all this stuff out
07:41in the ether to interpret, you're like, all right.
07:44This kind of comes off as worse.
07:46Let me read this.
07:49I'm a 5'9 or 2".
07:50I think I should try out.
07:52I run a 4'2", but it's in a 26-yard dash.
07:55My nickname is Tyreek Downhill.
07:59Get to going.
08:04But that's, you know, look.
08:08I just think in a season where you have a lot of expectations
08:17and a lot of promise, it just seems like you're starting the season off
08:24kind of like the last season ended.
08:26A little bit.
08:27And I just, I get real nervous about that.
08:33Not because it doesn't happen, but because now in a week and a half
08:41and in two weeks, you are going to play two games.
08:49And you got guys who haven't really done a whole bunch of practicing.
08:53And you're going to have them rev it up to play two NFL games in four days.
08:58That's, I worry about that.
