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@SiClancy @msarnoff It's going to be quite a competition in camp. The likes of Duck, Marshall and Lonnie Johnson could end up anywhere from starter to off the team altogether. (Though I like Marshall's chances more than the others.)

@Tuckineddy @msarnoff I think the outside guys are right. I think Taafe, Trader, Louis Moore will get a lot of safety snaps. And Kyle Louis will be a big nickel, robber, overhang, safety type. Lot of zone.

Hell of a Dolphins pick. LOVE Kyle Louis such a great player.

@SiClancy @msarnoff The DB room is so hard to work out at the moment. If you had to guess the day 1 starting line-up now, what would you say? Perhaps Brents and Johnson on the outside? And a post-June veteran safety signing alongside either Trader OR Taaffe? Nickel looks wide open too.

@msarnoff :) :)

@AllanRicharz @StevenErlanger Reporters don't write headlines. There will have been no "pitched" headline.

Reporters don’t write print headlines but it was quickly corrected, btw

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@HeedTheCallPod @DanHanzus @MarcSessler @ConorOrr The story about Monken being on the can reminds me of the greatest ever piece of sports commentary (imo): "Steve Evans, the Leeds manager, missed the goal as he'd gone to the toilet. He had to ask his number two what happened."

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@SarahDuggers It's the Clark Kent glasses thing playing out in real life. We all laughed at how a pair of glasses fooled Lois and others so easily, yet here a beautiful woman wears a pair and Ambar and others suddenly think she's Su Pollard for some reason.

I love this because it’s absolutely not true.

@ckparrot Quietly ironic that he mentions using his hips more, as we move on from someone whose accuracy went downhill because his hips wouldn't work.

This is a Malik Willis ACCURACY post. Something Willis said in his opening presser caught my attention as it ties in with other head-scratching observations I had while looking into him the last 3 months. TLDR - his accuracy improvement is starting to remind me of JOSH ALLEN. THE QUOTE "My first year didn't go great, so I went to figure out things that would help me. I started working with this guy in Jacksonville. He started teaching me the mechanics of throwing- using my hips and this lower body that I have, this strength that we work for, instead of just using all arm, all the time, and it's just less consistent, and more strain on your body. So working that over the last 4 years, it's been super beneficial. It's helped me become way more accurate and consistent. Obviously there's times where you've got to make throws that aren't going to be perfect platforms, and that's whatever God has given you, but whenever you can be consistent when consistent is there, I think that's great." THE TIMING One of the reasons the quote stood out to me was because Malik offered a missing puzzle piece as it pertains to the timing of his development as a pro. Most people (lazily, IMO) exclusively credit Packers head coach Matt LaFleur for Willis's transformation from rookie flop to one of the hottest free agents on market. And while no doubt the Green Bay system helped Malik on his journey, there are obvious flaws in that hypothesis. Malik Willis started his first games for the Packers in 2024 a mere THREE WEEKS after they traded for him. This was anything but ideal. He barely knew the playbook, barely knew his new teammates. He hardly had the time to absorb any coaching from his new team, let alone from a Head Coach who had a million more pressing matters to attend than the development of a player his team had just flipped a casual 7th round pick for during final cuts. But injuries happen, and Willis was pressed into duty ultra-early. He won his first start against the Indianapolis Colts in Week 2 of the 2024 season. Then he beat, and frankly embarrassed, Mike Vrabel's Tennessee Titans in Week 3. Willis only started 3 games during his time in Green Bay, and 2 of them happened before Matt LaFleur, or frankly any of the Packers staff, could have significantly impacted his development arc. The obvious conclusion is that Willis had already improved from his rookie season, had already improved over what he showed in Hugh Freeze's offense at Liberty, and nobody realized it because he had spent the entirety of 2023 buried on Tennessee's depth chart behind the starter Ryan Tannehill and his newly-picked successor Will Levis. So when you see Malik talk about how he began working with a QB specialist in the 2023 off season, suddenly that timing becomes more conspicuous than the change of uniform and helmet. THE NUMBERS Let's put some numbers on this. Pro Football Focus does an "adjusted" accuracy percentage where they only count "aimed" throws (i.e. no spikes or throwaways) and then credit the QB for any receiver drops. I was a big fan of Willis's coming out of Liberty in 2022. But accuracy was never a big part of the story on him. His adjusted accuracy was only about 72% during his final 2 seasons with the Flames. To put into context, Josh Allen (of whom I was also a big fan) had about 67% adjusted accuracy at Wyoming. I bring up Josh Allen because he's the quintessential "inaccurate" QB prospect who (depending on who you talk to) did the "impossible" by wholly improving his accuracy. Willis's accuracy at Liberty was only 5% better than Allen's at Wyoming. And when you account for Allen's 12.8 yards average depth of target on his throws versus Willis's 11.4 yards average, "shot selection" (forgive the basketball term) probably accounts for the bulk of even that marginal difference. Sure enough, PFF recorded a 68% adjusted accuracy for Malik Willis in the preseason of his rookie year, followed by 67% during a regular season for which Willis himself admits he was unprepared. "Not great, Bob!" Fast-forward. The Titans GM who drafted Willis got fired mid-season out of embarrassment over the A.J. Brown trade. Local writers talked about how Malik's relaxed demeanor didn't jive with Mike Vrabel's preference for a more fiery, Brady-like competitor. Malik himself says that when Vrabel benched him as a rookie it was because he was worried that the smallish Willis was going to get hurt. So Vrabel and the new GM draft a much bigger, more explicitly fiery QB in Will Levis. Effectively, Malik Willis was done in Tennessee. Tannehill was still the starter, and there was no way the shiny new 33rd overall pick was going to be QB3 on the depth chart. All that to say, preseason was the only action Malik Willis was destined to get in 2023. But strangely, between the 57 aimed passes he had in preseason and the 5 he had in the regular season, his adjusted accuracy jumped all the way to 81%. Willis's average depth of target remained virtually unchanged (8.8 yards to 8.9 yards) from 2022 to 2023, but his accuracy jumped multiple levels. Which brings us back to Malik's story about working with a specialist in Jacksonville to develop more consistent lower-body mechanics during that 2023 off-season. A year later, Willis is still with the Titans during the 2024 preseason and puts out a still-elevated 79% adjusted accuracy on mostly the same average depth (8.6 yards). Then he starts 2 games for the Packers, a mere 3 weeks after being traded, still crash-coursing the playbook and trying to find chemistry with his new teammates, and right out of the gate puts out an impressive 84% adjusted accuracy in those 2 games. And then in the 2025 regular season, he breaks the charts with 94% adjusted accuracy at 9.7 yards average depth. PUTTING IT TOGETHER The numbers tell us the WHAT - that Malik Willis went from being a guy with "Bad Josh Allen" accuracy to being a guy with "Good Josh Allen" accuracy. They also tell us the WHEN - that this happened before Malik boarded his first plane to Green Bay. And further, Willis himself has been trying to tell us HOW and the WHY. So while "sample size" is the criticism du jour when it comes to Willis, we can actually go back far enough to say that we've now seen over 200+ aimed passes since he first began working with that QB specialist in Jacksonville. We can see that his true accuracy is multiple levels above not only what he was in his rookie year with the Titans, but also multiple levels above what he was in a college system facing college opponents at Liberty University. Whether the decision-making component has or will continue to develop for Malik Willis is anyone's guess. That is a subject for a different post. Malik Willis is a true accuracy development story, much like Josh Allen's famously thought-impossible journey from being the "inaccurate" 1st round pick that everyone in the world criticized, to an elite passer with great accuracy. And if Willis has improved one area of his game most talking heads seem to be convinced doesn't significantly improve for professionals, who is to say he hasn't improved other areas? Author's Note: No, I didn't use AI for this. It's pure ChatCKP.

@JNSports1 Well, Pollock had a decisive impact at the death...

Imagine a Henry Pollock try to break French hearts and win Ireland the Six Nations 🤣🤣 #FRAvENG

@SiClancy @KyleCrabbs I was going to guess 6, with 8 eminently possible and 10 being a stretch 'target'. All these one-year veteran deals suggest the team will be very, very young in 2027 and 2028.

@Tuckineddy @KyleCrabbs Hard to say but I’d envisage a lot more than we’re used to.

@KyleCrabbs A question for you (and @SiClancy): By the last game of the 2027 season, how many of the 22 starters (excl. special teams) will be players drafted by Miami in 2026 or 2027?

@MattInfante I'm surprised they didn't make him hold up today's newspaper.

Poor guy...

@FDSportsbook Pick 64 and a 6th? Are you totally insane?

The Seahawks need a RB. The Dolphins need ... a lot. Should Seattle & Miami make this trade to send De'Von Achane to the Emerald City? 🤔

@SiClancy Luckily they got rather more than that for the other player they signed on the very same day...

@Tuckineddy 😳

It’s fairly difficult to get a handle on exactly what we’re doing and what the plan is.

@jccdixon33 @Alf_Arteaga Yep. Draft picks, and even existing players' contracts being voided.

@Alf_Arteaga Is there a penalty for going over the cap ? Got to be right?

Let's be clear. Go check OTC before you start trading players to help Miami's cap situation. Spoiler alert: You can't trade Jaylen Waddle and help your cap. You would only damage it worse.

@HeedTheCallPod Kudos to @titansfilmroom for making the important point that McDaniel's strength is the *run* game, not the passing game. Dolphins fans will confirm that his run scheming was excellent in 2024 and 2025, while some of the pass play designs were... strange.

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@titansfilmroom @HeedTheCallPod Wow - so smaller spreads don't apply and you guys still have such terrible records?!

@Tuckineddy @HeedTheCallPod because he locked them up and they won. the spread is only to keep us from picking an "easy" win - that's why it doubles if you pick a team favored by more than 5.

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@ckparrot On the one hand I like what he's saying. But on the other I worry that he looks like he's getting ready to have his hair cut.

Interesting choice of sales pitch by Sullivan. - "Proven process" - "Tough, physical, talented" - "A team that's resilient and can thrive in any situation, any element" Clearly knows what the team was NOT under Grier & McDaniel, trying to strike an attention-catching contrast.

@RandomR26 If they'd decided it had gone backwards, they'd have moved the Dolphins back about a yard, I guess. That's all they could do.

HOW CAN YOU REVIEW THIS? They blew the whistle, Miami stopped trying to recover.