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Drive Time with Travis Wingfield

Drive Time: Jon Eric Sullivan Pre Draft Presser, QB and RB Preview

Drive Time with Travis Wingfield

Miami Dolphins

Football, Sports

4.8895 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Dolphins General Manager Jon-Eric Sullivan met with the local media for his pre 2026 NFL Draft press conference, Travis assesses the highlights. Plus, our draft preview series continues with the quarterbacks and running backs.

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0:00.0

I have no doubts we will get where we want to go. Rome wasn't built in today. I don't have a

0:04.7

crystal ball. I'm not up here going to make predictions on how fast. I have tremendous faith in our

0:09.8

process and the people that carry out the process and we'll get there.

0:16.0

Hey, oh, what is up, doll fans? And welcome to the Draft Time podcast.

0:21.0

On today's show, we are going to hear from John Eric Sullivan, who gave about a half an hour of a media availability, his pre-draft press conference.

0:28.9

And Travis is going to have to reel it back in a little bit because he got me fired up talking about all kinds of roster building strategies, where this team is, where he envisions this team

0:38.3

going, and just a aura of confidence that came from the GM of your Miami Dolphins.

0:44.0

We'll play the highlights from John Eric Sullivan's press conference and continue our

0:47.9

pre-draft preview series, taking a look at quarterbacks and running backs.

0:51.5

And that was kind of the theme of this entire chat with at quarterbacks and running backs. Let's go! Let's get my gosh first down!

0:55.3

And that was kind of the theme of this entire chat with John Eric Sullivan was just a strike

1:02.3

of confidence from the headman himself and talking about the process and how they're going

1:07.5

to approach this draft and how they've approached the roster building phase already

1:10.6

that is for agency

1:11.5

and getting in a bunch of veterans that are chasing a carrot guys that have one-year deals that they feel they are better players

1:18.6

than the deals they received and how that can kind of generate this, you know, facilitate this level of competition with these guys, the rookie class, the undrafted class, and you just get a sense of John Eric Sullivan's command for team building, for drafting, and, you know, a big reason why he got in this position where he is with his process and his confidence. So that's the first thing I wanted to address here. And he comes in off the top of the press conference and kind of gives us an opening statement talking about, I think he was asked like, how are you doing, how you feel in a week out from the draft? And he basically said, there's a calm that comes when you're prepared for this. And then he went on to thank the staff. And there's so much that goes into a draft, man, like even just, you know, looking at our video library, like the cutups of players and how you can streamline this process.

2:02.1

There's video people involved.

2:03.5

There's, you know, player engagement.

2:05.1

There's scout assistants that bring in the players for our top 30 visits.

2:07.9

It's an entire team process here to get this draft, you know, over the goal line,

2:12.7

to get these months and months and a year of work, really, over the finish line,

2:16.3

which ultimately produces

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