Episode 548: Running Back Rearranging, Tyreek, Parsons, and More

Episode 548: Running Back Rearranging, Tyreek, Parsons, and More

We’re back. Oh, sorry. Supposed to say and we’re off. Episode 548 of the All Dolphins podcast for this Thursday, uh, August 28th, 2025. This is the last episode before, no, I should say this is the last practice before game week starts next week. Dolphins back at work on Thursday. Um, there were some more moves involving the practice squad. The the 53 stayed intact. some news involving Jaylen Wright. Rasul Douglas spoke to the media for the first time since joining the Dolphins. And I guess we should touch upon this ma mammoth NFL trade that went down shortly before we signed on here. So, welcome everybody joining me once again, Chris Perkins from the South Florida Suns Sentinel. Before I go any further, just to show you I have your back tomorrow at noon Eastern time, the Dolphins deep dive with Perk over on YouTube with Perk and Feronus. Check it out. And when you’re not doing that, check out his written content at sunset.com. Perk, were you blown away by this Michael Parsons trade by the way for the to the Green Bay Packers for two first round picks and defensive lineman Kenny Clark? Yeah, blown away. I mean, first of all, I thought this was just more Jerry Jones BS. Where didn’t Dak Prescott signed on the day of the opener last year? Um, and and so I I thought it was Yeah, I thought it was just more Jerry Jones BS that Yeah, this is going to cost him more money, but he doesn’t care. He’s in the spotlight every day. No. Turns out this is a a crushing blow to the Cowboys. Um, I mean, Micah Parsons, my goodness. I mean, this is one of the top defenders in the NFL, and you’ve traded him off to a to a inconference rival. Um, a team that’s better than you and will be better than you for the foreseeable future. I mean, my goodness, Jerry, what in the world are you doing? Wow. No, I mean, talk about botching this up from start to finish where he’s trying to negotiate directly with Parsons and bypassing David Mulugetta, the agent for Michael Parsons, also the agent for Christian Wilkins, for Javon Holland, and countless others. And and then boom, Kenny Clark’s a decent defensive lineman, too, for Sean Pix is very nice, but still, holy moly. Um, and for the Dolphins, I guess now the there started to being to be some smoke early on Thursday about he might just get traded. And then I I saw three teams at one point. It was the Packers. It was the Arizona Cardinals and it was the Baltimore Ravens. And I’m like, “Oh my lord, give the Ravens that dude. Holy moly. Good luck AFC. Have fun.” So good that he’s going to the Packers outside the AFC Dolphins. Don’t play the Packers this year. They played him last year. And as I put out on social media, the Dolphin connection here, Micah Parsons was selected with the 12th pick in the 2021 NFL draft. A pick they acquired in the trade with the Philadelphia Eagles who got the 12th pick from the Miami Dolphins after they had traded down from three to 12 with that move from San Francisco. Uh, which I absolutely adored because they got two extra first round picks to drop down nine spots. I absolutely adored that move. I didn’t like the move nearly as much to go back to six uh by surrendering one of those extra first round picks they got and then as good as J model has been as an NFL player and he’s been very solid very good good player uh hard to argue there was a bad pick at six overall Dolphins could have had pane at who went seven to Detroit and to me that would have been the move right there but that’s an entirely different conversation and the other Dolphin connection if you want to call it that history lesson for those who have been uh commenting in the comment section. The appropriate place to comment in the comment section. U the history, some folks are missing the history lesson. His history lesson, and I’m going by memory, unless memory fails, the last time the Dolphins surrendered two first round picks for a player was in 2002 for one, Ricky Williams. And again, if memory fails, the second first round pick was conditional. And then Ricky goes out his first year with the Dolphins, sets a franchise record, leaves the NFL with 1853 yards, then has a very complicated Dolphin career, which leaves us question even the idea of was that a good trade when you look back on it for the Dolphins? Yeah, I I Ricky was Ricky. Yes, that was a good trade. Ricky was a a a transcendent player. um you know, he was legendary on the field, he was legendary off the field. Um so yeah, no, it was it was it was a great move. Um the the fact that they missed the playoffs in 2002 is just kind of mind-blowing really. Um but uh Ricky, you know, he comes back and he wins NFL comeback player of the year. Um he’s and you know, I I talked to him when did I have that Ricky interview? Like a few months ago, I think. Uh yeah, when he was in town for a um for a cannabis convention. Uh strangely enough, coincidentally enough with Ricky. Right. Right. Right. Right. Who knew it was ever going to come to that? But uh yeah, no, that was a good trade. That was a good trade. And look, uh speaking of trades, can we talk about this now? What we were talking about before the show, or should we get into Dolphins news? Should should the Dolphins have have called Dallas inquiring about Micah Parsons when they knew that Jaylen Ramsay was on the trade block? I wonder if they did call Dallas about Micah. I would think that they did due diligence, but I I wonder if it involved that. Um Micah would have been great here. Uh but you know, uh they they they were already loaded at Edge Rusher, but there were questions. There still are questions. That’s why they got Matthew Judon because of questions. Is Bradley Chubb going to be healthy? Is Jaylen Phillips going to be healthy? Um, it would have been a a heck of a front seven and I probably wouldn’t have worried about the quarterback position as much if Micah Parsons were here. But but cornerback was still going to be an issue. But I I wonder if they did make a call and just kind of talk, you know, hey, is is he available? Do you want Ramsay? Yeah. And and to that, as I told you before the show, my thing is Chris Greer told us during his media session on Wednesday morning that the Dolphins were trying to get away from the idea of trying to go get every bigname player. Now they got Muffit Patrick who got a decent salary and all that. Um, so would they have done would they have done Micah Parsons instead? I don’t know. Again, I think that the the idea of them, you know, having so many pass rushers already on hand, although it maybe this is where Jon Phillips could have been included in in a trade because that and that also takes care of 13 million in salary cas. But that’s beside the point, they didn’t make the move. He’s in Green Bay. So, uh, and one last thing on Ricky because since we’re talking about him, I can’t think of many, and I’ve covered the Dolphins as I’ve said many times full-time since 1989. I can’t think of many players who are more impressive in terms of their football skills. Yes. I mean, that dude, you want to talk about vision as a running back? Vision, power, speed, everything. I mean, that dude was a baller. Okay. So, uh, speaking of, now we’re on the subject of running backs. Segways are for kids. Nice. Um, the Dolphins made some moves at running at moves and running back on Thursday. They signed two players to the practice squad. There are two veterans. However, the one is Jeff Wilson Jr. who we figured that was coming all along. It had been reported already and gave the gets the Perkins thumbs up seal of approval. The other one is J. Michael Hasty, uh, who also has familiarity with Mike McDaniel from his time with the 49ers in 20 in 2021, has 120 career rushing attempts in five years, 20 last year, believe it was with the New England Patriots. I hope that Hasty has some power to his game. We saw him out there at practice today and he’s thick. He’s he’s a thickly built kid. uh muscular and and so you know really what I was saying and and what I continue to say is I would like to see them have some options in the back field and they do with with Ali Gordon an option a counter to Devon Han speed and they do have power with Ali Gordon. Ali Gordon is is unproven because he’s a rookie sixth round draft pick. Hasty isn’t proven either. So that’s that’s kind of the thing there, you know. Um Jeff Jeff Wilson is the is the uh proven guy, but he’s a slasher. He’s not a power guy. He’s not a speed guy, but he’s not a power guy. He’s a slasher. He can break tackles and and do that, but he’s not somebody that you think of in third and one, fourth and one, first down, let’s run it, you know, a gap, B gap, and and exert ourselves. But I I you know, look that they had to do something. Um, Mike McDaniel told us today that Jaylen Wright had a procedure on his knee, which when I saw Jaylen Wright in the locker room yesterday, I I I wouldn’t have guessed that he had a procedure. He had a sleeve on his knee, but um, he wasn’t he wasn’t favoring either, you know, the right leg, which was the leg that had the procedure. Um, but then today he was in the locker room and there was nothing on the knee. He had like a uh the the the sleeve was down like a a brace. It wasn’t really a brace, but you know, the sleeve. It was down near the ankle, and you could see a a white bandage over his knee as to where like an arthroscopic incision would have been made, the three holes. So, um, that, you know, that was a giveaway. But, uh, I I you know, they they’ve really got to hope that Ali Gordon can can carry most of the load early. Now, I will say again, we saw Han at practice again today. nothing on either calf, which I take as a very good sign. He when he walks, he doesn’t favor either leg. We don’t know which calf it is for Han. And it’s and we can’t tell. So, I take that as a good sign, but we should mention that. Yeah, because I I was there for practice as well. H did not practice. He was there. Yes. Yes. He was there walking around talking to some players. Um and McDaniel said the the the issue with Jerald Wright is not season ending and he called this timetable Septemberish, which I absolutely love it. put that on Twitter. That needs to be a new entry into dictionary. Marryiam Webster, get on it. Septemberish. Love it. Um, so the Dolphins will go into the regular season with Devon Han and Ali Gordon, too. And then they’ll elevate more than likely one of the two, Wilson or Hasty, I think Wilson, but that’s just a guess for that week one game against the Cole just like they elevate Riley Patterson. The Dolphins made another move on the practice squad on Thursday. They made official the signing that had been reported Wednesday, that of the tight end Greg Doulich coming over from the New York Giants, who again, all the reports are really, really good, which always leads me to the question though, if it’s so great, why did the Giants cut him? Uh, and and I checked with my buddy who covers the Giants and it’s like, the Giants made a mistake. Well, okay. But again, uh, we’ll hope for the best, keeping expectations reasonable. Uh, so that makes that puts the Dolphins at 15 players on the practice squad officially. Room for one more unless they get an international player. Um, which is no guarantee. And then the the report had been that Jordan Colbert would be that one guy has to clear waiverss first. I’m still trying to get the there’s some issue with uh technical issues with the the NFL transactions list for Thursday. In fact, I’m going to just refresh it right now. Nope. still still an issue, so I can’t tell. More than likely, he cleared waiverss and he’ll be back on the practice squad. That’ll be your 16 and that takes care of that. Um, terms of a couple of player updates, Darren Waller was at practice today. The entire time that we were there, what about 20 minutes maybe? Yep. Working with a trainer and as you and I were saying on the field watching him was like, it still remains insanely weird. No matter what he said after practice, no matter what Mike McDaniel has told us, it’s just weird. I just don’t know how you go from zero to 60 and you know it’s next week is game week. You know the the the Dolphins are off Friday, Saturday, Sunday and so um next week and and Monday is probably going to be a fairly light practice as they get into game, you know, game rhythm. Uh it would be the day after a game, so you you don’t do much. Um I just don’t understand. And then Tuesday will be an off day. And and so then you get Wednesday, Thursday as the heavy work days, uh where you do the install and and you actually, you know, have a little bit of contact, but definitely not the same contact as you would in training camp or a joint practice. I just don’t see how this is going to it it doesn’t it just it just flies in the face of the necessity of training camp. Then why do you need training camp? this guy’s been out of the league for for over a year and and he’s just going to walk out there and and and be in football shape without any hitting. I then why do you need training camp? Like I I I don’t I I this is just a bizarre situation. Yeah. Yeah. It’s just it’s just to me like I said the weird’s the word the only word I keep coming back to. Um Tyreek also was out there took part in stretching but I didn’t see him do anything else other than that. Uh Mike McDaniel seems to suggest before uh practice during his media session that no concern for him. Uh I believe great confidence is the the phrase he used to describe uh his outlook. So uh outside of that I’m trying to think Ethan Bonner didn’t practice. We saw him working with trainers on the side and and Ethan Bonner looked decent. I mean as far he wasn’t like like he was moving side to side. He did a little bit of forward to backward. Nothing at full speed, but I was encouraged by what I saw from Ethan Bonner. I, you know, I I would, you know, and and I’ll just put on my uh little medical smok or whatever doctors wear. Is it a smok? What did the doctors wear? Smok. No, that the white coat sometime. Yeah. Okay. Well, there you go. Yeah, I’ll play a doctor. Um I I could see Ethan Bunner being back Septemberish. How’s that? How’s that? How’s that? Come on, quit for me. There we go. There it is. Okay. Uh, the other players I did not spot, and you can tell me you’re wrong. You can always tell me you’re wrong. I don’t You don’t need my permission, but uh I did not spot D. Essian [Music] Guju Brents uh out there today. So, you are correct. I I I’m I haven’t and and Esgridge is always somebody that I dap up in the locker room and I I haven’t seen him in the locker room yesterday or today. So, for whatever that’s worth. So, that’s your practice attendance report. Um, as Perk mentioned, that’s it for this week. Dolphins will be back at work on Monday. Um trying to think I know Russell Douglas addressed the media after practice and he basically indicated that the reason he didn’t sign earlier was because of a family issue he had to take care of and he likes the Dolphins because he calls them a team on the rise. And Mike McDaniel was asked uh and I’m going to ask you the same question actually that I asked my my my uh my panel on Dolphins Collective. My McDaniel was asked if he was signed with the idea he would be the starter. And McDaniel’s reply was that no, he’s signed with the idea that he’s going to add competition to the quarterback room. And then my question was, would you prefer again if last year where Rasudo Douglas had some issues in coverage, wasn’t good, the numbers were not good. And um could be on the downside. unfortunately he’s getting at that age at quarterback that generally speaking it’s it could be a down year and then you go back up but often it’s just a slide that keeps happening. Would you rather have a savvy veteran who’s not going to make a lot of mistakes but might give up a lot of plays because the athleticism has faded a bit or would you rather have the young player with the high ceiling like a Jack Jones who could make a lot more plays on the ball whose coverage is going to be tighter but also is more prone to making mental mistakes or misignments that could result in a big game for the opposition. What’s your choice, Chris Perkins? Rasul Rasul and I I think we we we talked about this. because I know we disagree on this. We disagree on this. But, you know, I as I said with with Jack Jones, there’s also the off-field stuff. You know, there was the tardiness and there was the airport incident. The airport incident where he was he was caught with uh one or two guns. Um I I just write off to absent-mindedness because nobody goes to the airport thinking I can get these guns through. I I just Hold on. Let me interrupt you here that and apologize for doing this, but right now he’s on the roster. So you and which means that there are no off the- field issues right now. Otherwise, I would think the Dolphins would not have a very high level of tolerance. So I’m talking strictly purely from a football standpoint here. Yeah. Yeah. I I’m just saying that element is with Jack. But we’ll we’ll stick to yours though. Yes. Um I I like Russul because I I I just think he’s he’s more dependable um from from from down to down. And you know, Jack is Jack brings you definitely more big playability, right? more more flash ability and and you as you said he’s got the higher ceiling, but I’m just looking at 2025 and you know, you got Storm Duck on the other side. You got Jason Marshall Jr. in the slot. You need some dependability. You don’t need risk out there. You need dependability with the two youngsters over there. So, I’ll go with Russul even though, you know, his his he’s reached his ceiling already. We we know who Rasul Douglas is and he’s on the decline as as you say. He’s not going to get much better at 30 or 31, however old he’s going to be tomorrow. By the way, I think he said I think he told I wasn’t there for Roolool, but I think he told them he was going to be 30 tomorrow. But um you know, but but interestingly enough though, the Dolphins list him at 31 on their on their thing. And right, so Russul says he’s 29, he’ll be 30. The Dolphins list them as 30. I think he’s listed as 30 online and 31 on the roster that they give us if I’m not mistaken. So, it’s it’s a mystery. It’s a little adventure with Russo here. Man, you’re not kidding. Oh, they don’t have date of birth on the roster that I have. So, anyway, uh my bottom line on this is if Jack Jones has the potential of of becoming a massive steel and he reaches his full potential with the Dolphins, you’re not going to find that out if he’s sitting behind Russell Douglas and Storm D. That’s my thing. And then if you give him a shot and he kind of kind of sinks a little bit, then you move on and you go with a safer option. But I think to me, you owe it to yourself to see if you could have this you could have landed this complete gem. That that’s just what what if he sinks against um Michael Pitman or Drake May and and it’s a a game losing sink and that that’s you, you know, it’s worth the shot. I mean to me I mean of course Rasul could Rul could be leaky throughout the game, right? As as opposed to giving up a big play. Yeah. So yeah, they’re in a bad situation or or you two negative Nellies on the screen right now. How about they both kick ass and then it’s it’s an abundance of of riches and choices. Why do you have to look at it the negative? Yeah, I I do I do say Yeah, you’re right. I do say that funding quarterbacks is Chris Greer’s superpower. So, one I say one of his superpowers. It’s the only one I publicly identified, but I but I’ll continue to say one of his superpowers as opposed to his only superpower. I would say generally speaking, if you look at his trades, generally he he produces trades. Yes. With good value for the Dolphins. I will and his first and second round picks have been generally pretty good. I mean, I know that Liam is in that group. I know Cam Smith is in that group. No, generally the first and second. Let’s not litigate that right now. Well, okay. Yeah, I think doing this. Perk is like, “Yeah, no.” Staying by my statement, but you know, that’s for another show. Well, well done. Um, speaking of former Buffalo Bills starters, we should bring up the comments from Jordan Puyer, who has been resigned to the Buffalo Bills practice squad along with Jordan Phillips along with the longforgotten and shortlived member of the Miami Dolphins. Danfeny on the Oh, yes. Yes, that’s right. Yes. On the Buffalo Bills uh who seen in Hard Knocks, Dan Feny. Oh, very nice. You know what? I have now seen one episode of Hard Knocks. For some reason, I used to be like it used to be appointment viewing for me and the last couple of years it’s like I think it been become too sanitized where and and I and I get it. I understand that teams don’t need to show us every single solitary thing, but to me it’s gotten too much to that to that point. Yeah, the the Giants one was the best one ever. I thought the offseason one that was Yeah, but Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You haven’t missed anything without saying Buffalo. You haven’t missed anything. No. And the and then what happened with the Giants where they kind of like had a little bit of pie in their face. Might might be the end of that offseason thing. So anyway, going back to Jordan Porter, he made an interesting press conference where he talked about and we chronicled this on Miami Dolphins onite.com. I hope you have already read the story by now because again guys uh this helps the podcast uh helps pay the bills. The website pays the bills even more. So, please check it out. Miami Dolphins on that side.com. All the content is free. Uh, and we chronicle this and he talked about the whole time he was in Miami, he’s keeping tabs on what’s going on with Buffalo, which on one hand is cool. On the other hand, I can see very easily where that could piss off Dolphin fans. Like, dude, you should have been completely invested. And it doesn’t help doesn’t help that he didn’t have a good year for the Dolphins. And that’s being very polite. Um, any thoughts? I don’t know if you if you saw his press conference, heard it or seen his comments, but I I Yeah, I’m I’m aware of the comments and yeah, I it’s not a good look for Jordan Puyer. It’s very unprofessional. Um, I guess I guess there’s a little uh a measure of respect for him for coming clean with that because he didn’t have to. If I was him, I probably wouldn’t have said anything along those lines. But also, Dolphin’s due diligence. This is this is kind of like oh my goodness Jaylen Ramsay can be a jerk. Who who knew? And and so you know you’re getting this guy who Right. Right. You’re getting this guy who has said that all you have to do is punch this team in the mouth and they fold and he spent so many years in Buffalo and you were like the last option for him and so he took it. So I I don’t blame the Dolphins but at at some point you know some let’s have some some awareness here. Um, well, let’s have some better awareness here. And and Mike McDaniel did, who did he say today? Oh, with with uh Jeff Jeff Wilson, he said, you know, the amount of research that we do if you guys only knew um you know, because somebody asked, did you did you uh check out Jeff Wilson’s headspace, you know, and and where he is at this point. And Mike McDaniel said, “We do exhaustive homework on these people, basically.” And so I I maybe Pyer just slipped through the cracks or maybe Pooyer fooled him in in their talks. I I don’t know. But more than anything, it’s kind of a bad look for Pooyer more than a bad look for the Dolphins. Yeah. And this is always a danger where he’s speaking and and it’s tough always because we we want the athletes to be to be free in speaking and not give us all the cliches and all that and then we jump on what they say. So it’s kind of a fine line. And the other part of it too is Jordan Porter is doing a press conference in Buffalo. I don’t know if at the time he’s realizing that whatever I say is going to be put out on, you know, on the Twitter verse and the the atmosphere out there and it’s going to get back. People are going to see it everywhere. Um, he’s got to know as as much as his wife Rachel Bush is on social media, he’s got to know how it operates. But I I’m just led to believe he doesn’t really care, which I say good for him because I we do like cander and and we do like it when people um talk honestly with us. I mean there there’s a price to pay for that, but but really, you know, I I I I’m glad that Puyer was was honest. I in the grand scheme of things, it’s not a huge deal. Even if his heart was all the way here in Miami, I I don’t know that it would have helped much. He’s I mean it’s not like Buffalo is taking him as a starter. He’s he’s basically going to be a mentor and a you know break glass in case of emergency type of a guy. So um you know his I think his days as a major contributor in this league are over. He’s what 35 years old or whatever. 34 35. But good good for Pyer. Yeah. I I shouldn’t, you know, go in on them like that for like you say, we want athletes to be honest, but uh it’s it’s kind of an unprofessional look, I guess. Yeah. It’s it’s it’s kind of a weird comment. And then the other thing he said that I found interesting, he’s talking about last year and how I take receipts and I’m like, you can make the Pro Bowl this year. It doesn’t change the fact you had a bad he had a bad year last year. Nothing’s going to change that. And I don’t know that you and I are saying he automatically is not going to have a good year this year. just that it’s a trend now with the last few years. This play has taken a downturn and a pretty significant one as that. Um, and it doesn’t look good. Uh, and in terms of what he’s should be able to contribute to the Bills, if he does have a ballout season for them, good for him. It doesn’t change the fact again last year he wasn’t good. Um, and I’m trying to think here if that might be the end of I should say also interesting because I listened to Jordan Phillips as well. Um, who all who’s on the Bills practice squad as well. Uh, who I who I find a very very interesting dude. And it was interesting because he talked about the role of mentor that he’s going to play, but he also wants he’s there to play some ball. And he said he was Buffalo or retiring for him. And and he also said in terms of the guys who helped him when he was with the Dolphins early on, remember second round pick in 2015 and he mentioned two guys. He mentioned Dominican Sue and he mentioned Earl Mitchell which I thought was interesting. So yeah, Earl Mitchell a class act and Dominar Earl was a really really good dude. I liked Earl a lot. Really good dude. Uh, and Sue was kind of Jaylen Ramseyish. Yes. Yes. He he did his own thing and he didn’t care who knew it pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. On that cheerful note, that’s going to wrap it up. And please remember to like, subscribe, comment, share, all that good stuff. Uh, he is Chris Perkins from the South Florida Sunsel. Check out his fine work at sunset.com. Remember, tomorrow at noon, uh, it’s the dolphins deep dive with perk over on YouTube. Can Can that be found on sunset.com as well or just go straight to uh, you can, uh, click on, uh, the the link that we send out on sunselin.com. It’ll take you there. Okay, there you go. I’ll be back here tomorrow with a regular guest who hasn’t been on here for a while. Gonna be back tomorrow as we take a uh, you know him very well. Actually, I think I know who it is. Yeah, you know, you know very well. And then uh that’ll be that’ll drop probably sometime late afternoon tomorrow night, 7 p.m. The Dolphins Collective with TD Defense Dog, Dougl Durango, Mark Kelly, and myself. Again, please check out the website Miami Dolphins onsi.com. Until we meet again, we won’t see each other. Have a good one.

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