Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: What is up, Dollhans And Welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today show,
Speaker 2: we played some football today, baby, as I wont to do.
Speaker 2: I have way too many notes for an hour long
Speaker 2: shorts and shells practice in the month of May. But
Speaker 2: if Coach McDaniel says that Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb
Speaker 2: are the most excited practice players of all time, They've
Speaker 2: got some competition in your boy. I was fired up
Speaker 2: to watch some football today seven on sevens eleven on
Speaker 2: eleven's we heard from Coach, we heard from Bradley Chubb,
Speaker 2: we heard from Tyreek Hill. I have got commentary on
Speaker 2: Patrick Paul on Jonahvit, Jonah Savit, Naya Tua tonguea II Looa,
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle, Devon Ah Chan, Jalen Wright, Kenneth Grant Jackson.
Speaker 2: I've got some stuff on Ashton Davis. I got some
Speaker 2: stuff on Storm. Like I'm covering a lot of things
Speaker 2: today on this podcast, We're gonna get to it all
Speaker 2: right now. From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 2: Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 2: All right, so I've got practice notes here in chronological order,
Speaker 2: and the day did match up pretty well with some
Speaker 2: of the talking points, So I'll mix in some commentary
Speaker 2: from the guys we spoke to. I think i'll plug
Speaker 2: in Tyreek. We'll start with him here, because there was
Speaker 2: a bunch of commentary in there, and personally, I didn't
Speaker 2: really care to litigate like the end of last season,
Speaker 2: you know, Tyreek's offseason, all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I think that's not what this show is about.
Speaker 2: So I just wanted to do one question with Tyreek here,
Speaker 2: and we'll go ahead and jump into it because he's
Speaker 2: been here all off season pretty much. He's getting reps
Speaker 2: on air. He's doing a lot of work, as much
Speaker 2: work as he can do. Right. We'll hear from McDaniel
Speaker 2: on that as well, but he's getting extra routes on air.
Speaker 2: I liked how he would try to steal reps in
Speaker 2: the individual drills, like he would go through it and
Speaker 2: do it on air without a football being thrown to him,
Speaker 2: and then when the drill wrapped, he would go back
Speaker 2: in line and get an additional rep in there as well.
Speaker 2: So I thought that was encouraging to see let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and hear from Tyreek on the importance of banking
Speaker 2: reps in the spring for the specific needs of this offense.
Speaker 3: It's timing, man, It's all about timing.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: Tool's real good at what he does. He's very accurate.
Speaker 3: His timing is amazing. He has a very strong hom
Speaker 3: a lot of people don't give him credit for, but
Speaker 3: just those valuable reps against you know, certain defenses, whether
Speaker 3: it's cover two, cover four, you know, just trying to
Speaker 3: find like certain windows, you know what I'm saying, like
Speaker 3: being able to catch the ball and like being able
Speaker 3: to like take a fifteen yard kitch and turn into
Speaker 3: like a forty yard touchdown. So that's very important man,
Speaker 3: in the offseason for all of us.
Speaker 2: Man McDaniel also touched on Reek's presence and the value
Speaker 2: that he offers this team. Let's go ahead and throw
Speaker 2: it to the head coach of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tyreek's done a great job of you know, being
Speaker 4: proactive with when he got the surgery done and then
Speaker 4: making sure that, uh, he is able to do as
Speaker 4: much as he can with the team, which has been
Speaker 4: which has very much included his daily participation in how
Speaker 4: he attacks, all of our strength program, all of you know,
Speaker 4: whether he's able to run routes and not block quarterbacks
Speaker 4: have gotten used to him getting routes run. And as
Speaker 4: we get his as we really train his way back
Speaker 4: into you know, recovery of that that hand, then he'll
Speaker 4: start catching the ball. But he's been participating above and
Speaker 4: beyond from a uh, whatever he can do, he has
Speaker 4: been doing all right.
Speaker 2: So then we're gonna go ahead and talk about the
Speaker 2: individual portion of practice. As each position group breaks off
Speaker 2: with their position coaches and goes and works on their
Speaker 2: game and their craft. And before we get into that,
Speaker 2: Storm Duck was in the Orange Jersey. First song of
Speaker 2: the day was a country song. We also had some
Speaker 2: slow jams. I was pretty, I guess impressed by the
Speaker 2: diversity of Storm Ducks playlists. Maybe not my choice of music,
Speaker 2: my preference for music, but some good diversity in there.
Speaker 2: So during individual drills I try to just kind of
Speaker 2: watch certain guys like you know, who repeats reps, who
Speaker 2: gets coaching points, who takes those coaching points, who fires
Speaker 2: the coaches up, things of that nature, and watching Jordan
Speaker 2: Phillips and the defensive tackles. During the individual drills. You know,
Speaker 2: I made the deep dive segment on Coach Clark a
Speaker 2: couple weeks back, and what is the first thing I
Speaker 2: see at practice? But you know, he didn't like the
Speaker 2: way Phillips went through the rep, and he had him
Speaker 2: repeat it and do it again, which is common for
Speaker 2: football coaches to have guys rerun reps. But then he
Speaker 2: didn't like it again and made him go off to
Speaker 2: the side and kind of get instruction from him privately
Speaker 2: about the footwork and the sequencing of the timing of everything.
Speaker 2: Then he goes back in line and he does it
Speaker 2: again and gets a big pat on the back and
Speaker 2: an explotive an f yeah from Coach Clark. So I
Speaker 2: thought it was kind of cool to the first opportunity
Speaker 2: I had to watch practice. I got some verification, some
Speaker 2: validation on the Coach clark finer points of coaching and
Speaker 2: being so I guess, accurate or on the nose with
Speaker 2: what he wants and how he communicates it to the
Speaker 2: players and getting the best out of those guys. And
Speaker 2: speaking of guys from that group, Alex Huntley, the UDFA
Speaker 2: from South Carolina number ninety six, was getting a lot
Speaker 2: of praise from the coaching staff as he was going
Speaker 2: through that stuff. So another guy for Coach Clark to
Speaker 2: get his hands on. There, let's see cam Smith and
Speaker 2: cater Ko who would jump into the first part of
Speaker 2: the cornerback drills and INDI's and then would be Storm
Speaker 2: Duck and Isaiah Johnson. So that kind of tracks with
Speaker 2: how you might you know, stack those guys. And we'll
Speaker 2: talk more about those guys here in just one second.
Speaker 2: And I wrote this down about camp Smith and we're
Speaker 2: gonna come back and kind of retract it almost because
Speaker 2: it happens to me every year watching him.
Speaker 1: Go through individuals.
Speaker 2: He's so smooth the way he can bend the knees
Speaker 2: and sink the hips and fire out of that backpedal
Speaker 2: from a low posture and keep that pad shehelf low.
Speaker 1: That's what you have to do with that position.
Speaker 2: That was the case from day one as a rookie,
Speaker 2: and I was like, this guy can freaking move man,
Speaker 2: That's what you have to be for a cornerback. Whoa
Speaker 2: voice went away there for a second, and that again,
Speaker 2: that was the case from day one as a rookie
Speaker 2: to last year and now this year. But it's always
Speaker 2: a nice reminder it's just different to how everybody else
Speaker 2: in the room moves. And then on the very next rep,
Speaker 2: he gets outside with a hip flip where he has
Speaker 2: to flip his hips all the way back around to
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty degrees from an outside leverage position,
Speaker 2: and I just wrote, this.
Speaker 1: Is so smooth.
Speaker 2: But then you get on with practice and those good
Speaker 2: vibes from Indie dissipate a little bit more on that.
Speaker 2: In just one moment, Bradley Chubb was the star of
Speaker 2: the day for me, in addition to a couple other
Speaker 2: guys off the edge, but Chubb stood out in the
Speaker 2: individual portion because I just thought the way he was
Speaker 2: hitting the bag and the natural body pliability and the
Speaker 2: sequencing of the feet in the hands and the arms
Speaker 2: and went to extend and went to coil and recoil.
Speaker 2: The upper body movements come from the lower half power generation,
Speaker 2: kind of like a power bottom. He's got a good
Speaker 2: base when he locks out, then the feet come along
Speaker 2: with the upper half when he sheds, and he can
Speaker 2: do this head up stacking two gapping, but he can
Speaker 2: also play off the outside shore of a player with
Speaker 2: a long arm and McDaniel's press conference kicked off with
Speaker 2: conversations about Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips, and I wanted
Speaker 2: to use this portion to pontificate on something that I
Speaker 2: guess dawned on me. Let's go ahead and start here
Speaker 2: with coach on Beachub and JP's return to the practice
Speaker 2: field and the value of that.
Speaker 4: Both of them have basically made their off season in
Speaker 4: season and how they approach their work as a result.
Speaker 4: They're they're both able to, you know, really participate in
Speaker 4: most things most days, being cautious and you know, using
Speaker 4: the science on you know, their their recovery. So someday,
Speaker 4: you know, depends on what day you're out there, you'll
Speaker 4: probably see uh one, if not both there are. There
Speaker 4: will be a day or two where we're gonna have
Speaker 4: to back off of that. But very happy with where
Speaker 4: they're at. And uh uh know that they're as excited
Speaker 4: as ever. I mean, they're the most excited practice players
Speaker 4: of all time right now, what about he's not They're
Speaker 4: more excited than him whoever you're asking about. But uh,
Speaker 4: and I think that I think that is a It's
Speaker 4: a cool piece for our team to feel because it's
Speaker 4: an authentic appreciation and much like most people, you know,
Speaker 4: most of us, we we you don't always know exactly
Speaker 4: to the level of what you have until it's removed
Speaker 4: from you. So these guys are exemple find what we're
Speaker 4: everything we're asking of players right.
Speaker 2: Now, said you don't know what you got, Gal, it's
Speaker 2: gone gone, yeah, he I mean, I think this is
Speaker 2: an imperative aspect of what the team's goal was this offseason,
Speaker 2: right McDaniel talking about setting your culture through the draft
Speaker 2: and the end of season press conference, the non negotiables,
Speaker 2: the moves that coincide with that. Thinking about stressing, you know,
Speaker 2: your professionalism, being on time and being just a pro
Speaker 2: in every aspect of the word. You need energy sources
Speaker 2: like this a practice. Christian Wilkins was that guy for
Speaker 2: a long time, the one that kind of, you know,
Speaker 2: set the tone and kept the energy going all practice
Speaker 2: long because of his great conditioning. You need voices of
Speaker 2: reason on the field on Sunday that can get guys
Speaker 2: right when they're not right, and that's something that you know,
Speaker 2: no coach can do that on the field, So it's
Speaker 2: important to have those conduits on the field. And both
Speaker 2: two and fifteen are those guys on top of what
Speaker 2: they bring as athletes and football players, and that's all
Speaker 2: before you get to the concept of them being great
Speaker 2: example setters, guys that can blaze a trail for others
Speaker 2: to follow. We talked to Cater Kohou today and there
Speaker 2: wasn't any sound bites I thought worth putting in the podcast,
Speaker 2: but you know, they talked about Storm Duck and Ethan
Speaker 2: Bonner and uh, you know Bja Adams being one of
Speaker 2: those guys, and he's like, yeah, of course, those guys
Speaker 2: kind of picked my brain about you know, my path
Speaker 2: and trying to follow that path. U DFAs to starters,
Speaker 2: that's that's a if you can get that, that's a
Speaker 2: great thing for any team. So I think it's important
Speaker 2: to have those example setters in room, and for Chubb
Speaker 2: and Phillips, those guys are going to be such a
Speaker 2: big impact on Chop Robinson on Grayson Murphy on Muhammed
Speaker 2: Kamara and I swear, I swear that I wrote this
Speaker 2: down before I heard this comment from Bradley Chubb. But
Speaker 2: here's what Bradley said about leading from the shadows versus
Speaker 2: being in the trenches. With those guys, it's a big difference.
Speaker 2: Like I just talked about I guess.
Speaker 5: Ten out of ten, Man, ten out of ten is
Speaker 5: just to be you know, being around last year and
Speaker 5: trying to lead from the background is one thing. But
Speaker 5: when you're actually going through the fire with guys and
Speaker 5: we actually putting the blood to sweating the tears in
Speaker 5: with the guys, it's a little different. You can lead
Speaker 5: from out front, not in the background and trying to like, hey,
Speaker 5: do this, but you're not doing it, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. So it feels good, Man, just to be
Speaker 5: in the mix, to be around the guys, be able to,
Speaker 5: like I said, lead out in front and just trying
Speaker 5: to continue this thing going. Man, we got a lot
Speaker 5: to prove, not to anybody but ourselves because we know
Speaker 5: we can't do this year. So we out there on
Speaker 5: the grass working it right now.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and stay with beachub here for a
Speaker 2: couple more. Here is his commentary on how he feels
Speaker 2: at the stage of the game.
Speaker 5: Man football percentage like in terms of body wise, I'll
Speaker 5: say I'm about ninety five ninety nine percent, you know,
Speaker 5: in terms of just feeling good, feeling better, you know,
Speaker 5: and feeling like myself. So for sure, high nineties. Man
Speaker 5: and I would say that last ten percent just game
Speaker 5: game reps, actual game reps, actually tackling, just to see
Speaker 5: where I'm at in that aspect. But that's gonna come
Speaker 5: when it comes in. For right now, I'm good where
Speaker 5: I'm at.
Speaker 2: And then this one here is what will make fans
Speaker 2: just love this guy. He took a revised contract this
Speaker 2: off season, right took less money, and here he's talking
Speaker 2: about why. And this kind of flies in the face
Speaker 2: of the concept that veterans didn't want to be here.
Speaker 5: Right because at the end of the day, Man, I
Speaker 5: know that this is a show. What have you done
Speaker 5: for me?
Speaker 2: Now? Business?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a good year in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 5: but at the end of the day, man, I didn't
Speaker 5: play a liquor football all last year. So at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, I could could have got cut,
Speaker 5: had to learn the new system, had to learn move
Speaker 5: to a different city, and do all this. But at
Speaker 5: the end of the day, you know, I knew this
Speaker 5: is the team I wanted to be with. I knew
Speaker 5: the guys, the leadership I had did from the back,
Speaker 5: from the background. I knew that these guys were the
Speaker 5: guys I wanted to be around. And to push and
Speaker 5: to push me at the end of the day, and
Speaker 5: I know what we can do here in Miami. A
Speaker 5: lot of doubts this all season, a lot of talk,
Speaker 5: a lot of chatter, but I knew what we could
Speaker 5: do with this team this season, and I'm excited to
Speaker 5: just be here and be able to show out.
Speaker 2: It's always nice when a guy that you have like
Speaker 2: an affinity for as a player and an athlete kind
Speaker 2: of reminds you of why you have that feeling about him.
Speaker 2: I wanted to end there, but then I heard this
Speaker 2: quote about Jalen Phillips and Bradley or rather Chop Robinson.
Speaker 2: Get a load of what Bradley Chubb says right here
Speaker 2: about the second year past rusher who was my top
Speaker 2: performer of the entire day.
Speaker 5: Spoiler alert, Man, it's I'm smelling the ear the ear
Speaker 5: every time I get a chance to look at the tape. Man,
Speaker 5: Just like from the junk Chop has made over his growth.
Speaker 5: Guys get six sacs, get defensive Rickey of the Year convos,
Speaker 5: and they take the step off the gas a lot.
Speaker 5: But Chop has has put pedal to the middle. And
Speaker 5: to see him do that, to see JP attacking his
Speaker 5: rehab as hard as he has, you know, just the
Speaker 5: back to back injuries he dealt with and his mindset.
Speaker 2: Still.
Speaker 5: Man, I'm attacked. I'm still the best out here. I'm
Speaker 5: still gonna do this, do that. So I know, if
Speaker 5: I got those two guys in my corner, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: be good for life, man. So and I'm gonna take
Speaker 5: do my part as well, you know, make sure I
Speaker 5: do everything to do my part. And we got three
Speaker 5: guys hungry and ready to go like that, it's nothing good,
Speaker 5: nothing but good can come from it.
Speaker 1: Pretty hard to do a spoiler alert when I put
Speaker 1: that on freaking Twitter. So there you go. But yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's go ahead and pivot here to the offense.
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily think this is a different thing from
Speaker 2: previous years, but I really noticed today the ownership that
Speaker 2: TWA shows. If he, you know, wants another rep, he
Speaker 2: goes and takes it. No one tells him he can't
Speaker 2: do it. If he doesn't like the way a route
Speaker 2: is thrown, or the way a ran rather or a
Speaker 2: throw went, he goes and addresses it with the player.
Speaker 2: And if he sees something when he's not in the lineup,
Speaker 2: in the game. In practice, he'll give input and provide
Speaker 2: that I just pay attention to this with McDaniel's comments,
Speaker 2: and we do this every summer where we say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: you can tell that two A drilled this and got
Speaker 2: better in his mobility, he got thicker and can you
Speaker 2: know better roll off of falling to the back of
Speaker 2: his head. And to me, one day in it's already
Speaker 2: obvious that those one of those things was just taking
Speaker 2: the next steps as the franchise quarterback, right being the
Speaker 2: man in charge of really everything, and the coaches are
Speaker 2: are you know, the teachers, but you need a player
Speaker 2: to be that conduit. And it's best when it's your quarterback.
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over to
Speaker 2: McDaniel here for one second. But like I've talked about
Speaker 2: the need for this team to get to the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage faster and possibly, you know, maybe that's a
Speaker 2: McDaniel thing where he can you know, reduce like the
Speaker 2: difficulty of his verbiage. But then again, like if you
Speaker 2: have a quarterback that can do all that at a
Speaker 2: high level, maybe you don't have to reduce it and
Speaker 2: you can keep the complexities and play it at a
Speaker 2: better speed. So here's McDaniel on two on what he
Speaker 2: expects from Tua this year, and yeah, this is kind
Speaker 2: of where you get with these veteran quarterbacks that have
Speaker 2: been around for a while, and they start to get
Speaker 2: better and better and better as they get closer to
Speaker 2: thirty because they're they're brain processing and power of anticipation
Speaker 2: and being just the leader of the entire organization continues
Speaker 2: to further cement itself as they get older. Here's coach
Speaker 2: on Tua and next steps for him in the franchise
Speaker 2: quarterback role.
Speaker 4: I think for for Tua being in year four of
Speaker 4: the system him, you know, really going through the process
Speaker 4: and understanding, you know, what his job is and how
Speaker 4: to excel at it. It's consistency of development for him,
Speaker 4: and you know that, I think there was a lot
Speaker 4: of lessons learned, uh, you know last year in particular
Speaker 4: on and off the field when he was playing and
Speaker 4: when he wasn't how to do his job. You know,
Speaker 4: I think there's uh, you know, I'll let him talk
Speaker 4: at specificity when we're talking. He's a the quarterback, the
Speaker 4: franchise quarterback of a team that his job is to
Speaker 4: lead men each and every play and finding different ways
Speaker 4: to continue the process of evolution for him. That's always
Speaker 4: been the name of the game for him. And whether
Speaker 4: that's getting the offense to the line of scrimmage faster
Speaker 4: out of the huddle, whether that's being able to adjust protections,
Speaker 4: do side adjusts, you know, growing his game, work on progressions,
Speaker 4: working on escaping the pocket and getting rid of it,
Speaker 4: all of the things that quarterbacks asked to do. I
Speaker 4: think that's that's where he's at as there's nothing. He's
Speaker 4: dipped his toe in the water with everything and now
Speaker 4: it's consistency of mastery and and that's why it's a
Speaker 4: never ending.
Speaker 1: Exercise.
Speaker 2: First break, right, then we're gonna come back on the
Speaker 2: other side and talk about what happened on that practice field.
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Speaker 2: So just to kind of put a bow on that
Speaker 2: to a talk there to a talk tie very well.
Speaker 2: And I really think about that comment from McDaniel where
Speaker 2: he detailed the time on and off the field last
Speaker 2: year showing up in his office at three am, just like, hey,
Speaker 2: what do you what do you got going on here?
Speaker 2: You know, Itch to be back around football, and I
Speaker 2: think you know some of that administrational is that a
Speaker 2: word stuff probably just exposed to a further to I
Speaker 2: guess a coach's perspective, and you know, seeing him on
Speaker 2: the practice field, if you gave him a headset and
Speaker 2: a playscript, I would say, oh, that's one of the
Speaker 2: coaches right there, just based on how he interacts and
Speaker 2: leads with the other guys. And sure enough, at one
Speaker 2: point in practice on seven on seven's the defense was
Speaker 2: a man short and Tua like stopped the drill and said, hey,
Speaker 2: y'all need another guy out here, and got another guy
Speaker 2: out there on defense. Just stuff like that that I
Speaker 2: think really kind of demonstrates his expertise. All right, practice
Speaker 2: notes here, So we had a bunch of different groupings,
Speaker 2: your first, second, third, fourth team, all of that stuff.
Speaker 1: We're not going to report on that. That is not
Speaker 1: what we do here.
Speaker 2: Not trying to give any of those Buffalo Bills advantages
Speaker 2: come that game in September, But Tua and Waddle had
Speaker 2: things going, and it started off with a deep ball
Speaker 2: from Tua to Waddle off the top where I thought Caterko,
Speaker 2: who had a pretty significant hold on Walla, going down
Speaker 2: the field and Wattle was just chirping all day long.
Speaker 2: There was some some stuff we can't plan on the
Speaker 2: podcast that I heard him talking about, but also just
Speaker 2: the way he would come off of a route where
Speaker 2: that the defender was all over the receiver and he
Speaker 2: would like hold the jersey way up over his head
Speaker 2: to signify holding. So he was feeling pretty good about himself,
Speaker 2: and he made a bunch of plays, including three long ones.
Speaker 2: The first one was this nice crossing route over the
Speaker 2: middle of the field and to a layers this beautiful
Speaker 2: shot to him and he runs right underneath it, and
Speaker 2: Ashton Davis is behind him in the post and winds
Speaker 2: up getting him. You know, would have got him to
Speaker 2: the ground for like a forty yard gain on just
Speaker 2: a beautifully thrown ball with anticipation, touch and accuracy over
Speaker 2: the middle. The second one was kind of a comeback
Speaker 2: route coming back down the stem and Waddle plucks the
Speaker 2: thing above the face mask and then took that like
Speaker 2: long looping route back around under the defense and found
Speaker 2: the sideline for a big explosive play run after the catch,
Speaker 2: kind of kind of like the Green Bay game a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, but not to that extent, but
Speaker 2: kind of that similar vein of like running around the
Speaker 2: defense and getting to the sideline. And then the third
Speaker 2: one was just a straight deep shot where he stacked
Speaker 2: camp Smith on a vertical to a cranks this thing
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: I think it was people care about this.
Speaker 2: I guess probably fifty to fifty five yards in the air,
Speaker 2: right on the money, and Wattle kind of fought the
Speaker 2: ball a little bit, bobbled it, caught it and goes
Speaker 2: in for the touchdown.
Speaker 1: So three big plays.
Speaker 2: I would say those three catches alone, if your counting stats,
Speaker 2: would have been like one hundred and ten yards and
Speaker 2: one touchdown.
Speaker 1: So pretty good there from those two guys.
Speaker 2: Going back to the rest of practice here, Westbrook Akene
Speaker 2: caught a speed out to the field, which is a
Speaker 2: throw that TUA doesn't typically make.
Speaker 1: Usually it's to the boundary the short side of the field.
Speaker 2: But it was catch rock throw the football, and it
Speaker 2: just looked to me like, hey, if they're going to
Speaker 2: tilt in one direction towards rereak and waddle towards John
Speaker 2: Whuo towards whatever it might be, don't forget about Nick Westbrook,
Speaker 2: a kine who can run this route, who can stack
Speaker 2: the defensive back, who can have the big frame and
Speaker 2: the ability to box out and protect the football in
Speaker 2: those situations. Tua can trust a guy like that and
Speaker 2: he can be a one on one space available. We're
Speaker 2: going to vacate this zone, throw the ball to Nick
Speaker 2: Westbrook Akine and get your yards that way. So I
Speaker 2: thought we saw some of that, and it kind of
Speaker 2: reminds me of what we saw last year from you
Speaker 2: eight chan in the short passing game of the flats
Speaker 2: and the checkdowns and the flare the Texas routes. John
Speaker 2: hus Smith is kind of a you know, a release
Speaker 2: valve options, a you know, block pass pro, turn your
Speaker 2: turning numbers back to the quarterback and catch the ball
Speaker 2: or run a little seam dump or like a little
Speaker 2: flat route or a hookup, whatever it might be. You
Speaker 2: have all these guys that can do that, and to me,
Speaker 2: Westbrook A. Kine is one of those guys. Now, I
Speaker 2: thought that that was pretty obvious in this practice. Saw
Speaker 2: some Taj Washington that was good to see, Jalen Wright,
Speaker 2: Tanner o Connor part of a team that checked him together.
Speaker 2: And then Tua throws a beautiful corner route to Tanner
Speaker 2: Connor for fifteen yards where he pumps to the flat,
Speaker 2: the cloud cornerback crashes down, opens that space, and then
Speaker 2: he puts the ball in there right on the money.
Speaker 2: It's a pleasure to watch two a play quarterback, especially
Speaker 2: in comparison to what else I saw, because Zach Wilson
Speaker 2: checked in and you know, it's it's early, so I'm
Speaker 2: not gonna like when it was happening for Skyler last year.
Speaker 2: It was like you could tell on my podcast it
Speaker 2: was to the point of exhaustion, right, like it's not
Speaker 2: gonna happen for this guy that you could just say
Speaker 2: it ain't gonna happen. Zach is brand new in the offense,
Speaker 2: so I won't kill him for it. But it looked
Speaker 2: panicked and rushed. The feet didn't look on time with
Speaker 2: the passing game and listen like you have to in
Speaker 2: this offense. You have to be able to catch a snap,
Speaker 2: understand that the rush might be vulnerable from one side,
Speaker 2: and because of that rush expedition, you have to alter
Speaker 2: your drop, which is married up to the timing of
Speaker 2: the route of the receiver, and if he gets disrupted
Speaker 2: by the press coverage, that throws off the timing as well.
Speaker 2: And you have to be able to adjust and adapt
Speaker 2: to this on the fly within two and a half seconds,
Speaker 2: and I don't expect a quarterback to come out and
Speaker 2: do that right away. It was the same way for
Speaker 2: quinn Ewers, it looked bad and the ball was all
Speaker 2: over the place, And for Tua it looks super sharp, which,
Speaker 2: for one, I do acknowledge how tough it is for
Speaker 2: a new quarterback to come in and do that stuff,
Speaker 2: but also too, it makes me appreciate even more and
Speaker 2: should make you and the media here I would hope
Speaker 2: appreciate what Tua does because it's high level stuff and
Speaker 2: there's a reason that he throws for league leading stats
Speaker 2: across the board every single year that he's healthy out
Speaker 2: there playing. So Zach had a completion to aj heading
Speaker 2: the rookie from Michigan that was heavily contested. Isaiah Johnson,
Speaker 2: I thought had a chance to make a play on it,
Speaker 2: not was upset with himself after the fact.
Speaker 1: The offense.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get into reporting on what it
Speaker 2: is here, but it looks different.
Speaker 1: There's more to it. I'll just leave it at that.
Speaker 2: Alex Alexander Madison beat Willie Gain a Texas route and
Speaker 2: took it all the way in for a touchdown, but
Speaker 2: it would he would have been tackled earlier. But it
Speaker 2: was a nice little route from him, and then the
Speaker 2: way he finished it in the endzone was cool to see.
Speaker 2: And I just got to say, from what I saw
Speaker 2: from Zach Wilson, just I think they have a ways
Speaker 2: to go there. He threw another one that was late
Speaker 2: on a jerk route to Dwayne Eskridge, and Ardie Burns
Speaker 2: was there to make a pass break up but didn't
Speaker 2: do it, and Eskridge made made the catch and and
Speaker 2: made a sick catch later on on a ball from
Speaker 2: Zach Wilson again where he runs a corner route. The
Speaker 2: ball is like three yards behind him and Eskridge reaches
Speaker 2: back with his left arm and plucks it and brings
Speaker 2: it in one handed. Pretty sick catch there. Quinn ew
Speaker 2: Weer checks in, now this is all seven on seven.
Speaker 2: By the way, he had a corner route on the
Speaker 2: whole shot between cover two and just sails it over
Speaker 2: the receiver. Jordan Colbert did have a good break on
Speaker 2: that ball from a split field safety look to the
Speaker 2: boundary side. Again, he looked like I thought our rookie
Speaker 2: would look like I saw Farrell Brown wide open on
Speaker 2: that play, but it kind of seemed like, hey, get
Speaker 2: the ball out. Let's let's get the ball out of
Speaker 2: our hands and make quick decisions and not try to
Speaker 2: get too far into the progression. Farrell Brown speaking of him,
Speaker 2: he's huge. I was like, who the freak is that
Speaker 2: tackle lighting up out there? Oh, that's our new tight
Speaker 2: end and kind of move like it too. If I'm
Speaker 2: being honest with you, guys, Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 2: our last break, come back and do some eleven on
Speaker 2: eleven notes. And I have a couple of more audio
Speaker 2: clips for you guys here. That's all Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Autoonation. Kicking off this segment with
Speaker 2: a thing a note that I think the fans are
Speaker 2: going to love. And I was so curious to track
Speaker 2: this because obviously James Daniels is not out there right
Speaker 2: now coming back off the Achilles Terror from last year.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you this, Liam Mickenberg was not
Speaker 2: the one who replaced him. I'm just gonna say that.
Speaker 2: And I wanted to leave you guys with that and
Speaker 2: make you probably a little bit happier about that. But yeah,
Speaker 2: Liam as a glue guy, in the back end of
Speaker 2: the offensive line at this point of his career. Job
Speaker 2: Robinson he popped from the minute team drills started. He
Speaker 2: had a sack on one of the first plays where
Speaker 2: he double swipes the right tackle's hands in this case
Speaker 2: it was Larry Borum, and then cut the corner off
Speaker 2: with the tag off on the quarterback and it was
Speaker 2: like a one and a half second blur. He got
Speaker 2: back there, very very impressive pass rush from him. I
Speaker 2: thought there was nothing that Larry Borum could have done
Speaker 2: about that particular rush. And then Chubb man Ryan Hayes
Speaker 2: got kind of got schooled today. He got some real,
Speaker 2: some real good reps from the veterans across from him.
Speaker 2: Chubb beat him across his face and stopped a shot
Speaker 2: gun hand off in the backfield. Es Gridge makes that
Speaker 2: one handed catch behind him on the Zach Wilson throw
Speaker 2: that I talked about, and then Tua checks in, so
Speaker 2: it was kind of the second team offense there first,
Speaker 2: and Chop then completely shuts down a wide zone run
Speaker 2: with a push pull disengage where he pushed and then
Speaker 2: and then was able to create momentum and then pulled
Speaker 2: the offensive line back down and got him out of
Speaker 2: the way and stacked up the run play on the outside,
Speaker 2: so showing some real strength at the point of attack.
Speaker 2: The folks that talk about Chopp being a third down
Speaker 2: only player can't defend the run, You're gonna eat those
Speaker 2: words this this this fall, because this dude is locked in,
Speaker 2: ready to rock and roll and then to hit Walllew
Speaker 2: on that deep crosser. And then the next play was
Speaker 2: the deep shot from Tua to Wadall on the crosser.
Speaker 2: And the very next play was Austin Jackson sealing the
Speaker 2: edge on a Devon ah Chan run where a Chan
Speaker 2: had a real nice track and kind of pressed the
Speaker 2: gap and then kicked it outside. And I thought that
Speaker 2: little extra press gave gave Austin the chance to hit
Speaker 2: his reach block off the outside, and I had Devon
Speaker 2: with like eight or nine yards before the first contact
Speaker 2: was even there, as he won the race to the perimeter,
Speaker 2: and then you've seen him cut that back for big
Speaker 2: plays on Sundays as well, So I thought that was
Speaker 2: really impressive. And just you know, we've done so much
Speaker 2: work about how Austin's run game prowess kind of we
Speaker 2: saw the fall off when he got injured it was
Speaker 2: cool to see in the first period of the day
Speaker 2: him get a big block for a big eight chan run.
Speaker 2: And then Ashton Davis was a guy that I thought
Speaker 2: had a really good day of practice, probably the best
Speaker 2: defensive back on the field for my money. He had
Speaker 2: that play where he prevented Wall from scoring touchdowns. That's good,
Speaker 2: I guess, but had a really nice couple of reps
Speaker 2: capping half the field and forcing checkdowns to his side
Speaker 2: of the field and coverage. Matt Dickerson had a TfL
Speaker 2: he got around joe An Golly, Savii Naya god like Lee,
Speaker 2: get it right, buddy, I put that. I thought Jonah
Speaker 2: was kind of you know, uh sinking, not swimming, sinking
Speaker 2: a little bit there, but he would bounce back in
Speaker 2: a big way. Then Quinn you were checks in and
Speaker 2: Ollie Gordon. I didn't tweet about this, but one of
Speaker 2: the most impressive individual reps of the day where he
Speaker 2: had this press the a gap, jumping back out to
Speaker 2: the sea gap and hit full speed and looked like
Speaker 2: a doke Walker went it to me, man, it didn't
Speaker 2: look like twenty twenty four version. The defense flows off
Speaker 2: the top, he takes a dummy step inside and accelerates
Speaker 2: back around the edge and wins that. It looked pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Speaking of impressive, Grayson Murphy is gonna make this team.
Speaker 2: That's Travis Wingfield speaking nobody else. He's gonna make this team,
Speaker 2: and he's gonna make plays on Sundays. He chucked Ryan Hayes,
Speaker 2: which kind of got a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: Got the best of Hayes today.
Speaker 2: And made a play on Alexander Madison in the backfield
Speaker 2: and he was pursuit. He had a really good pass
Speaker 2: rush and later in the day where he was able
Speaker 2: to get around the edge and forced I think it
Speaker 2: was Brett Gabbert, the new quarterback, to boot all the
Speaker 2: way to the corner and basically give up on the play.
Speaker 2: And he looks fast, he looked physical. Grayson Murphy, keep
Speaker 2: an eye on his name. Forty two is the number.
Speaker 2: Elijah Campbell also had a hustle play where Jalen Wright
Speaker 2: had a long run down the field and right looked
Speaker 2: really good, but he didn't finish the rep and you know,
Speaker 2: maybe he maybe he was over. But Campbell did finish
Speaker 2: the rep and he ran down and punched the ball
Speaker 2: out and got on it and ran it back through
Speaker 2: the way. Good teach tape of effort and strain. That's
Speaker 2: what Elijah Campbell does. And then Bradley Chubb it gets
Speaker 2: back into the fold, walking Ryan Hayes again into the
Speaker 2: quarterback for another sack. A big day for number two.
Speaker 2: He was asked about that play in particular.
Speaker 1: Here's bea chub man.
Speaker 5: You got you got guys back there talking junkin. You know,
Speaker 5: it's just the competitive nature of guys, you know, And
Speaker 5: like I said, I've been out for a year and
Speaker 5: a half, so anything to get going. Man, I just
Speaker 5: see red and at the end of the day, I
Speaker 5: got to protect the team and all that. But you know,
Speaker 5: we're just getting better competing with one another, and that's
Speaker 5: gonna make us better throughout this whole process. Man. I'm
Speaker 5: excited to, like I said, just to be out there,
Speaker 5: just to be feeling going through those those plays and
Speaker 5: be able to like talk to junkin and receive it
Speaker 5: back because you're actually playing. So it's been fun.
Speaker 2: I love when guys love this game and just love
Speaker 2: being back on the field too. What checks back in
Speaker 2: and then Storm Duck makes a nice pass breakup on
Speaker 2: I Nick Westbrook a Keen a ball. Duck made a
Speaker 2: few plays in this game or in this practice, I
Speaker 2: would say that him and Ashton Davis were the best
Speaker 2: eb's in the field. And then Jonah Saviat jeez Man
Speaker 2: so vit Naya really settled in. Later on in practice
Speaker 2: he had a couple of pass pro reps that were
Speaker 2: just like what Chris Greer talked about set in the
Speaker 2: pocket and just like the sheer mast and the hands
Speaker 2: and the wide base and his set that guys couldn't
Speaker 2: get around him when he was doing that right. And
Speaker 2: then sure enough the very next play he washes Kenneth Grant,
Speaker 2: who I thought had to find practice, but he washed
Speaker 2: him down the line of scrimmage and created a big
Speaker 2: lane for Jalen Wright to have one of his three
Speaker 2: or four big runs that he hit in this game
Speaker 2: or practice, I should say. And then Ashton Davis, I
Speaker 2: just put another note here, moving with purpose, no false steps.
Speaker 2: I thought he was in good shape and coverage a
Speaker 2: handful of times and been a big part of some
Speaker 2: incomplete passes that were thrown. And then Patrick Paul pitched
Speaker 2: a clean sheet in the pass pro reps that I saw.
Speaker 2: He was the guy in on the play against Chop
Speaker 2: when Chop had the win, no no, sorry, when Grays
Speaker 2: and Murphy had that win against the run. But in
Speaker 2: pass pro I had him as a clean sheet from
Speaker 2: all the reps that I saw. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: finish this with two soundbites here. First, Mike McDaniel was
Speaker 2: asked about Austin Jackson and James Daniel's recovery. It's not
Speaker 2: a practice note, but I thought it's worth talking about
Speaker 2: here on the podcast.
Speaker 4: And he's the biggest thing for him is he's been
Speaker 4: his active participator in the within the room and in
Speaker 4: the film room, knowing that he's you know, he's he's
Speaker 4: new to the system and what we want to do
Speaker 4: and how we want to utilize his skill sets. So
Speaker 4: Austin's surely further ahead. But but James is doing well.
Speaker 2: And I thought it was apt by the way. I think,
Speaker 2: I mean, Austin's already out there playing and then James.
Speaker 2: I think we'll both of those guys are going to
Speaker 2: be weak one ready to go. In my opinion, Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and close with this. I thought I was
Speaker 2: apt to close with this comment about the culture changed,
Speaker 2: the non negotiable kind of the impact of all that
Speaker 2: what have you seen so far? Five weeks into the
Speaker 2: off season program. Here's coach kind of ending the show
Speaker 2: where we began the off season.
Speaker 4: There's no shortcut for the answer to that equation. There's
Speaker 4: no easy put a poster on the wall. You have
Speaker 4: a team, this twenty twenty five team I've been with
Speaker 4: for five weeks, and with their their daily investment across
Speaker 4: the board, with the attendance and and the the vigor
Speaker 4: that we go about each and everything, each and everything,
Speaker 4: I can tell where their minds are at. And you
Speaker 4: don't fix something by about it and complaining about it.
Speaker 4: You fix stuff with action. So every damn motivated for
Speaker 4: the team to tell me who they want to be.
Speaker 4: And as we're standing five weeks in, I'm happy with today,
Speaker 4: knowing that today is not our ultimate vision for where
Speaker 4: we're going. So we better press forward to put ourselves
Speaker 4: in a position to get better today into tomorrow. And
Speaker 4: you just chop wood like that. You know, your your
Speaker 4: culture is defined by the people within it and how
Speaker 4: you execute your daily habits, and so the tonality of
Speaker 4: the focus of the team has been clear to me
Speaker 4: thus far. And we'll see how it goes today and
Speaker 4: through the week.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, one in the books. We'll
Speaker 2: have one next week for you guys as well, and
Speaker 2: then three the following week. We'll fill out the rest
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