Miami Dolphins bring back Liam Eichenberg

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In the midst of Free Agency the Miami Dolphins are bringing back Liam Eichenberg on a 1-year deal and RB Alexander Mattison. Tobin shares his thoughts on the return of Eichenberg and the other signings from the first week of NFL Free Agency.

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00:00Uh, the Miami dolphins in the midst of free agency, uh, they bring back

00:04yesterday, Liam, I can learn.

00:06Uh, so there was that they also, you know, signed Alex Madison, Alexander

00:12Madison, a running back from the Las Vegas, basically you had a swap yesterday.

00:18I wasn't a trade, but it was, but you're switching running backs.

00:21So Madison from the Raiders ends up in Miami.

00:24Most start ends up in Las Vegas.

00:26No trade skis though.

00:27Just happens.

00:29Like I hate when that happens.

00:31So it happened twice yesterday.

00:32Happened with the linebackers.

00:33Anthony Walker ends up in Tampa.

00:35The dolphins end up with Brit from Tampa Bay.

00:38So it happened twice yesterday, Vlad.

00:40And speaking of what's what's what's with you guys?

00:43What do you mean?

00:44It's the first time we've talked, but it's, Oh, dude.

00:47Yeah.

00:47What, what's, what's, what's, what is with you guys grabbing the jets?

00:51I handed him, dude.

00:52I don't know.

00:53And I, and I got to tell you, Mikey Blanco, now Zach Wilson.

00:59Well, the other thing that's crazy about it is this one, Zach Wilson's

01:03got to have some agent because I'm looking at all the numbers that

01:06are thrown around out there.

01:07No one got the money that this guy did.

01:09And he doesn't need the money.

01:11That's crazy.

01:12I'm sitting here and I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute.

01:14McCorkle, you know, has had a more successful career and he

01:19signed him for, for half the money in San Francisco, uh, Mason Rudolph.

01:25It was like career backup, but he signed for four year.

01:28I'm just, he went back to Pittsburgh though.

01:31He did.

01:32But I'm just trying to figure out like this guy got 6 million

01:36just off the bat, off the jump.

01:38Has anybody got, I saw Minshew sign with the chief yesterday.

01:40I don't know what he got.

01:42I'm not sure what Minshew ended up getting.

01:43I know Minshew, I think made the most, even though he's kind of a

01:46starter for Vegas, but, uh, I don't know.

01:49I dude, I don't know what's up with it.

01:51And quite frankly, I'm very nervous.

01:53This is the thing.

01:56It's not like I can crush the dolphin signings, but I don't even

02:00like some of the guys being options.

02:02So like when I'm mad at the Eichenberg thing, like I understand, you

02:06know, Omar's saying to people, stop being Peter Pan, grow up.

02:09He's here for the minimum.

02:10What's the big deal.

02:12And while that's true, because a lot of linemen are making a lot of money.

02:16I get you.

02:16He knows the system, you know, I'm, I don't even want to be in an

02:20option addition by subtraction.

02:24And the same thing was Zach Wilson.

02:26It's like, is it an outlandish amount of money for a quarterback?

02:29No, but it's more than other people got who are more qualified than him.

02:36And also let's just say two goes to a, and he throws his head into somebody

02:42and ends up out for four games because he has a propensity to do that.

02:45And I love the guy, but let's just say he does that where a snap away

02:51or a two, a bad decision away from this guy being the starting quarterback.

02:55And I don't know.

02:58All right.

02:58He has so-called talent.

03:01He has the tools.

03:03Yes.

03:04He has talent, but we don't know if he's good at this.

03:07We have no idea.

03:09Okay.

03:09So let me talk to you.

03:12The kid has talent and he spent a year under Sean Payton.

03:18That's true.

03:20We saw a Sean Payton, a year.

03:22James Winston had under Sean Payton.

03:24We saw it, the change in James Winston.

03:27He still went back to being James Winston, but that's what outside

03:30of the Sean Payton umbrella.

03:32But once he was under the Sean Brayton umbrella, he was more

03:35of a competent quarterback.

03:38So Sam Darnold, same way.

03:40Look at him now, Kevin O'Connell.

03:42Look at him now.

03:42He's a starting quarterback in Seattle, making a hundred million.

03:46So with Zach, if it's only a couple of games, he can hold

03:51it down for a couple of games.

03:53Now, if it has to be more than like a couple of games, then you have problems.

03:58Right.

03:58I mean, like, look, that's going to be the situation that the

04:00dolphins are in anyway.

04:01And I think to me, that's probably why the dolphins haven't restructured to it.

04:05They haven't restructured to it.

04:06To me, that's probably why the dolphins haven't restructured to his deal.

04:11I didn't actually think it's the prudent thing to do, because let's just say if

04:15let's say, and I don't want this to happen, but it's just the reality

04:17of having him at quarterback.

04:19And for everybody who was skeptical on it, look, you guys turned out to be right.

04:23Cause if the dolphins would have had last year with Tua and gone into his final

04:26year, who knows what he would've gotten?

04:28I don't know.

04:29Um, but this is it.

04:31I mean, they got to live with the consequences of paying them.

04:34So the reality is the entire, if it ends up still being an issue this year, and

04:39it's not, let's not even say it's the head, let's say it's the hip.

04:42Let's say it's whatever injury he deals with.

04:44You can't tie yourself down more to him.

04:47You just got to hope, Hey, we were almost in the playoffs last year.

04:51He missed six games.

04:52He can play and he's healthy.

04:54We feel good about our chances of at least making the playoffs, beating the bills.

04:59Why talk about, why talk about unicorns and pixies?

05:01Like, you know, nobody's being in that division.

05:05Here's the fear for you guys.

05:07Here's another fear.

05:09What if Tua does get hurt and Zach actually plays?

05:12Well, this kid is listen, man, this kid is central casting.

05:16He looks like what you would want from a quarterback, the good looks, the rich

05:22family, this kid, I'm telling you Boca Raton in high school musical, like he's

05:27got that baby face.

05:29We're going to, the, the fan base is going to go crazy.

05:32If this kid starts playing well, well, here's, what's going to happen.

05:35I can, I can already see now his first game where he's chucking bombs to, as

05:43you comment, the preseason and everyone's going to be thinking about it.

05:46Preseason is going to be like 65,000.

05:48We're going to wonder why it's all 40 year old and older.

05:52Everyone's going to be going crazy for the kid, but I don't straight out of central

05:56but here's the, okay.

05:57You, you mentioned the champagne thing.

05:59Here's my thing.

06:00Okay.

06:01Why didn't champagne keep him?

06:02Like he kept Stidham.

06:04Like there's a vet and Stidham was good for a bone mix.

06:08I don't know.

06:09Here's the thing.

06:11Bo Nix and Zach Wilson, even though Zach had more stats starts than him,

06:15they were pretty much.

06:18Yeah, this is probably the same age.

06:20They're probably the same age.

06:21They're probably like, if you look at them, they're young, they're inexperienced.

06:24So, but Bo had more, you know, promise than Zach, at least in

06:28Peyton's eyes to run his offense.

06:31Dade says what's denim it's because he wanted 6 million, which

06:34again, gets back to my point.

06:36It's like, this guy knew him more than anybody, but he's like too rich for my

06:39blood and here's the other problem.

06:42Oh, and not a problem, but here's the other thing.

06:43Maybe when, uh, what's his name?

06:46When might be Daniels with the Niners, they had, they were very high on Zach

06:50Wilson when they were going through the draft process, it's possible that happens

06:53a lot sometimes when you have a high mark, it's like McCorkle and yeah, it's

06:57like McCorkle ending up in San Fran, right?

06:59Like everybody thought that originally that they wanted to take him at three

07:01and then it'd be like, that's ridiculous.

07:03How could you do that?

07:04And they took Trey Lance, which ended up being a terrible

07:05decision because he's in Dallas.

07:07Um, so I don't know.

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