Miami Dolphins Will Reportedly Let Jevon Holland Hit Free Agency And Not Tag Their Starting Safety

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The Miami Dolphins are letting safety Jevon Holland test free agency, they will not place the franchise tag on him. The guys discuss Chris Grier's track record with retaining young talent he drafts... will he let another one walk away? Cam Wolfe reports that the Dolphins are not 100% sure they won’t trade Tyreek Hill...

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00:00And the Dolphins, according to NFL Network's Cameron Wolfe,

00:05the Dolphins are going to let safety Javon Holland test free agency

00:11and do not plan to use the franchise tag on the snowman.

00:17There's a couple of things here.

00:19No, Leroy, explain it.

00:21There's a couple of things here.

00:25It kind of has the same feel of the Christian Wilkins deal

00:28where he played and now they really don't feel like they can afford him.

00:35But the thing that bothers me is if I'm Chris Greer

00:44and there's questions about how I draft or whatever,

00:49you're not helping your cause by getting rid of all the guys you drafted.

00:53Nope.

00:54And so you got to have some, you know, staples, some guys,

01:03some young guys you brought in.

01:06They playing all these contract games with the guys they drafted.

01:10That usually doesn't end well.

01:13No, it doesn't.

01:14I mean, it bit him in the ass last year with Andrew Van Ginkle,

01:18certainly even at a much –

01:20Look, the Wilkins thing was a pretty public thing for a couple of years.

01:23We kind of knew where that was going.

01:25Javon, it's an interesting one because, like,

01:28I think by most people's eyes, like, it wasn't his best season.

01:33But I still think there's a lot of people that look at him

01:36and be like, oh, he's 24, 25 years old.

01:39He obviously got a lot of dynamic talent.

01:43He has been playing banged up.

01:45I mean, he had the year where he had the two knee injuries.

01:47Last year he played with the thumb and some other stuff.

01:49There was some questions about whether or not, you know,

01:52did he lay it all out on the line during certain seasons

01:54because he was making business decisions.

01:57I don't know.

01:58You know, but I do think that the guy's not a bum.

02:02And, again, you're going to probably get nothing for him.

02:04Right.

02:05You're going to end up losing a guy who definitely was a good pick.

02:11And, you know, now we're at the –

02:13Let's think of all the guys.

02:15Yeah.

02:16Javon Holland.

02:17Yeah.

02:18Mika Fitzpatrick you traded.

02:19Christian Wilkins walked.

02:22Van Ginkle walked because you didn't want to give him $10 million.

02:29Who else?

02:30I mean, the first –

02:31I mean, Noah Binagwede played a lot for the Commanders last year.

02:33Noah, right.

02:35So, like, there's just –

02:37And they –

02:38What's the point?

02:39Don't have any draft picks then.

02:41Yeah.

02:42It seems like they're costing you more problems than they are helping.

02:45But that's the thing that he's like –

02:46Look, Chris Greer very clearly has a comfort in the known quantity.

02:52Like, he likes making the home run cuts.

02:55He likes making monster trades.

02:56That's what he likes doing.

02:57Right.

02:58And I think from his standpoint, you know, losing another guy from this young

03:05defense is –

03:07Yeah, it is disappointing because I think my thought is he's going to go

03:11somewhere else and he's going to be Ed Reed.

03:12He's going to be –

03:13He's going to ball out.

03:14Right.

03:15But my whole thing is is that part of the reason why you can question his

03:19drafting is because the players that actually pan out aren't on your team.

03:26Yeah.

03:27Yeah.

03:28I mean, I think just his running of a team right now is in question.

03:31I think that's what everybody is looking at and being like, can this guy –

03:34This guy was basically like, all right, he tore down –

03:38He tore down to the studs.

03:40And, you know, it was like, oh, that's cool.

03:43I need that.

03:44But then also, man, it would be really cool if I had a waterfall fountain that

03:49was in my foyer, you know?

03:52Right.

03:53And it's like, well, don't you need a kitchen sink?

03:55Nah, dude, waterfall.

03:57I'll just wash my dishes in the waterfall.

03:59That's pretty much –

04:02So now you have –

04:04And if it's not proof now, it should be in the future that if you don't have an

04:12offensive and defensive line, you can't win.

04:16And we have all the skill positions you could ask for.

04:20So seeing the way Philly played, seeing the way Detroit played,

04:27seeing how Kansas City struggled, everybody in the league should be

04:33fortifying their offense and defensive line.

04:36Right.

04:37And getting a viable run game.

04:39We have –

04:41The Dolphins have signings that in the scheme of things, the way football and

04:50successful football is played, in the scheme of things, those pieces are

04:56irrelevant to the success of your football team because you got some of the best

05:07receivers and cornerbacks in the league.

05:11But it don't matter if you don't have a pass rush or protection for your

05:15quarterback.

05:17And that's kind of where this team is.

05:19So I don't know how you go about that.

05:22We've all seen the success that teams have had recently.

05:28And we consistently, after every Super Bowl, point to a dominant performance by

05:33a defensive lineman or a line or what have you.

05:37So as long as I've been around football, those things have been consistent with

05:44successful football.

05:47They have been.

05:48And I think with Holland, it's, look, you're going to come into a year and the

05:54people who are like, hey, don't break the bank on a guy who gave you no

05:58interceptions last year.

05:59Now, to be fair, he did basically win you the Jags game.

06:02Like, he won that game punching out that fumble.

06:04Had a broken hand the whole time, too.

06:06I saw him drop a couple picks, I understand.

06:08I mean, not a broken hand, you know, the thumb issue that you mentioned.

06:11Yeah, the soft cast thing.

06:12Yeah, he essentially was playing with one hand.

06:14And he does have some injury issues that you do want to keep an eye on, for

06:17sure.

06:18But like you guys were mentioning, if you don't retain young talent, what's

06:20the point of drafting?

06:21Right.

06:22Exactly.

06:23And so are we going to, in the future, build the team like Pat Raleigh,

06:29Epdom picks?

06:31I don't know.

06:32I mean, because that's the thing.

06:34It doesn't ever feel like there's any foresight with the Dolphins.

06:36It feels like they're always on their back foot with this stuff.

06:40It does.

06:43And it seems sometimes I wonder if they're watching the same NFL I'm

06:47watching, right?

06:50Sometimes I'm wondering, like, they had a successful run game one year where

06:55all that outside stuff was working.

06:59But if you look at the teams that have success and go far in the playoffs,

07:03they all run in between the tackles.

07:06Now, however that works, right, you got to have a solid run game at certain

07:14parts of the game and the season.

07:17And so I've never, like, and I tell you this every week, the thing that

07:24drives me crazy the most with this team, I've never seen a team get more

07:29second and thirteens and second and fourteens than the Miami Dolphins.

07:33It's baffling to me.

07:36If a team were to just snap the ball and take a knee, they'd be in a better

07:40position than the plays they are called.

07:43That's crazy.

07:45It'd be less razzle-dazzle, dude.

07:46It wouldn't be as cool.

07:49I mean, I guess.

07:52It's just crazy to me how, like, and look, I will say this.

08:00I'm going to say Chris Greer knows more about building a team than I do.

08:05I'm going to say that because that's his profession and it's not mine.

08:10However, a guy that's seen as much football as he has to neglect the

08:18offensive line or to not try and build, especially with Tua,

08:25the best offensive line possible.

08:30I think he should take some of the heat.

08:34But it also seems like they're at a weird spot with that, too, because it's

08:37like, right now, they don't seem to even know, is Teron coming back?

08:41Is he not?

08:43Are they going to have their second-round pick even play next year in

08:46Patrick Paul?

08:48Very clearly, they're going to probably move on from Eikenberg unless he's

08:51playing for Peanuts.

08:52I don't know.

08:53But it seems like they'll probably end up with two new guards next year.

08:56You assume that Jackson's going to come back and play.

08:59Brewer was good last year.

09:01But you need some kind of consistency.

09:03The thing that has plagued us all.

09:05It's hard to do that if you have, respectfully, to Teron.

09:10I know he played 15 games last year.

09:13He didn't play 15 games.

09:15He didn't finish 15 games last year.

09:17So I don't know, man.

09:19That's the other thing.

09:20Where is even the foundational of this build or fixing?

09:24Where is he going to start?

09:26The problem is that at one of your most important positions, you always have

09:34to have a backup plan.

09:37Right?

09:38And at offensive line, your backup plan shouldn't be so extensive as they

09:46have to be when you're playing with this offensive line.

09:51And Teron's awesome when he plays and he's healthy.

09:54But it's maybe those three or four weeks that he doesn't finish a game or

10:02doesn't play that you have to be prepared for.

10:07Right.

10:09Now, if Patrick Paul was farther along to where they thought he could do the

10:18job, then it would be a no brainer.

10:22Yeah.

10:23But let's say he comes back next year and then you have a year where it's

10:27like, all right, Teron does the same thing.

10:30He plays 13 or 17 games.

10:33But then you're getting into year three with a second round pick.

10:37Well, that's a four-year contract.

10:39You don't even know if the guy's going to be a capable starter or not.

10:42That bothers me with what the Heat do, too.

10:45Like they'll not play young guys.

10:47And then when the guys start playing, you've now played them one year and now

10:51you've got to max them out.

10:53Get your money's worth.

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