Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
Speaker 2: Now, let me check your pulse if you're not far though.
Speaker 3: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 3: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your team,
Speaker 3: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, another day of work
Speaker 3: under the sun. It was hot, it was competitive, the
Speaker 3: pads were on and they were popping. We'll do the
Speaker 3: practice notes and we'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel
Speaker 3: and a bunch of the guys on the team, Rob Hunt,
Speaker 3: Durham Smyth, Elijah Campbell, Jerome Baker, and alec Ingold from
Speaker 3: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: Hey, Jaffeir, I.
Speaker 3: Want to start today's podcast with some sound from coach
Speaker 3: McDaniel who met with us on Tuesday, Monday morning. I
Speaker 3: keep forgetting what data is uh, because we got about
Speaker 3: twenty minutes with coach and he gave us all kinds
Speaker 3: of good content as he is wont to do, and
Speaker 3: I wanted to start here is he broke down some
Speaker 3: of the thought behind his practice structures and what a
Speaker 3: day it was. With this script, almost all team drills
Speaker 3: gave us plenty to chew on here as we you know,
Speaker 3: you evaluate this practice as best we can without having
Speaker 3: really any inside knowledge of what we're watching out there
Speaker 3: in terms of how things get put together. More on
Speaker 3: all that in the moment, but let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: hear from coach and how they decipher the reps in
Speaker 3: a given practice.
Speaker 1: So in terms of the structure of practice, it won't
Speaker 1: always be that that way, but you know, you have
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback and those who are working with the
Speaker 1: starters that day, and then you kind of split the
Speaker 1: rest of the team to two different groups. Well, not
Speaker 1: all positions have two different groups, so there's overlapping reps
Speaker 1: between those two groups, so we sandwich the ones or
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback and who's working with them that day.
Speaker 1: So that because from an athletic performance standpoint, from an
Speaker 1: injury prevention standpoint, and just a competitive standpoint, it's not
Speaker 1: quite fair to you know, depending on where we're at
Speaker 1: in our progression as we get ramp up to get
Speaker 1: ready for games.
Speaker 2: It's not fair for.
Speaker 1: A guy to be judged on his sixth rep consecutively
Speaker 1: out of seven against guys that have four four in
Speaker 1: a row. So it's overall for the team health. You'll
Speaker 1: do that so that guys don't have excessive reps that accumulate,
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 2: Won't always be the case.
Speaker 1: There's sometimes that, uh, depending on how the periods are
Speaker 1: structured that you you want the starting quarterback out there
Speaker 1: to set the tone. But when we do that, it's
Speaker 1: for that splitting up of reps.
Speaker 3: And hear from coach McDaniel ever wonder why it's three
Speaker 3: days off or three days on rather than one day off. Well,
Speaker 3: here's why from the head coach.
Speaker 2: With the initial.
Speaker 1: Really with the CBA derived off.
Speaker 2: Days that we do believe in.
Speaker 1: You know, during the season, you never practice more than
Speaker 1: three days in a row, and you're practicing three days
Speaker 1: in a row, then you get your Saturday before the
Speaker 1: game where you get a little rest, and then you
Speaker 1: perform on Sunday. So we kind of you try to
Speaker 1: make things as a game like you try to model
Speaker 1: everything after you know what you're going to be doing
Speaker 1: all year. So it doesn't really make any sense to
Speaker 1: practice four days in a row once or twice early
Speaker 1: in the season when you're never playing four days in
Speaker 1: a row.
Speaker 3: We also got pads today for the first time, which
Speaker 3: means offensive line versus defensive line. Pass rush one of
Speaker 3: my favorite drills here, And I want to go back
Speaker 3: to Rob Hunt, who I talked to about this, so
Speaker 3: I thought had a really good period in the one
Speaker 3: on one pass rush drills. Here is Robert Hunt on
Speaker 3: what he thinks.
Speaker 5: About those drills D line may they might love. It's
Speaker 5: it's a defensive line drill. Man, It's a defensive line drill.
Speaker 5: But you know, we just got to hold on and
Speaker 5: you know, do what we do. It's a lot harder
Speaker 5: for office a line and to win right there in
Speaker 5: that setting old line versus D line. It's a lot
Speaker 5: harder for all line to win. But if you can
Speaker 5: win now, you can win throughout the game, throughout the
Speaker 5: practice you.
Speaker 3: Guys have.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a space and I just feel like it's
Speaker 6: a we know what it is. We know what it is.
Speaker 5: They they going straight for you. Let me, you just
Speaker 5: got to try to do what you can do.
Speaker 6: Pretty thank you appreciate.
Speaker 3: That was me telling him, I thought you did a
Speaker 3: pretty good job on Christian Wilkins today, and he said,
Speaker 3: thank you. I appreciate that pretty uh, pretty hilarious, But
Speaker 3: his commentary there was really in general. But all things told,
Speaker 3: I thought the offensive line had some really good work
Speaker 3: in that drill. Let's go ahead and start with the
Speaker 3: practice notes on the offensive line, because you know where
Speaker 3: else would you start on the first day of padded practice.
Speaker 3: The reason I asked Rob was watching him rep after
Speaker 3: rep just completely stonewall his man. And it wasn't like
Speaker 3: we had to look up the names to find out
Speaker 3: who he was going up against. I had him with
Speaker 3: back to back stand up and the rep type of
Speaker 3: work on Christian Wilkins, who's been unblockable all camp long,
Speaker 3: and then a third on Zach Seeler, who you guys
Speaker 3: know how strong he is and how much he can
Speaker 3: take advantage of the extra leverage you can create in
Speaker 3: those open space pass rush drills. All things told, I
Speaker 3: don't think he surrendered even a single pressure and a
Speaker 3: drill where the defensive line is obviously at an advantage.
Speaker 3: As you heard there from him real quick. Let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and hear from alec Ingold on the play of
Speaker 3: the Dolphins right guard.
Speaker 6: He's a big nasty man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, he loves physicality, he loves playing ball,
Speaker 7: he loves moving his feet running.
Speaker 6: He's athletic as all get out.
Speaker 7: I mean you see that from a couple of years
Speaker 7: ago on that Ravens catch that he had. So being athletic, fast, physical,
Speaker 7: and wanting to play football, I think all those things
Speaker 7: added up. Yeah, I think that makes a good football player.
Speaker 3: I did not know he was big, nasty, and also
Speaker 3: I asked him about that and he said, never been
Speaker 3: called O my life, So we'll find out about that more.
Speaker 3: I thought Dan Feeney was also very, very good. He
Speaker 3: had some good work on Seiler and Raykwon, two guys
Speaker 3: who are really tough to stop in this drill. In particular,
Speaker 3: so did alame U Lavalle. At one point, Kyle leaned
Speaker 3: over and said, man has sixty two gotten beaten yet
Speaker 3: I'm thinking I don't think he has some pretty good
Speaker 3: pass sets there. Raykwon Davis on Connor Williams is always
Speaker 3: a fun matchup because they kind of go back and
Speaker 3: forth a little bit. I think this is the one
Speaker 3: where you really see the advantage for the defensive line
Speaker 3: in this drill because it's not going to go Connor
Speaker 3: Williams's way in those drills for the most part, because
Speaker 3: somebody with Rayqwan's length, he can just create tons of
Speaker 3: space and then take advantage of the length and the
Speaker 3: reach he has over you know, pretty much anybody out
Speaker 3: there and utilize the swim, the arm over things that
Speaker 3: really emphasize creating and exploiting leverage. I thought it was
Speaker 3: the second day in a row of some pretty good
Speaker 3: offensive line play, which is, you know, a testament to
Speaker 3: bouncing back to what happened on Fred. But again, context
Speaker 3: of those practices and the play script, like it's it's
Speaker 3: not a results based type of things. When you come
Speaker 3: out here for practice. Don't think about you know, quarterback
Speaker 3: throwing interceptions or player getting whatever the case may be.
Speaker 3: It's not about results in these periods. It's about trying
Speaker 3: to grow and find out what you are as a
Speaker 3: football team and just essentially make the entire roster better
Speaker 3: with these practices. So, uh, you know, I again thought
Speaker 3: pretty good for the offensive line. I thought Hunt carried
Speaker 3: over the individual drills into team I thought Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 3: had one of his best days I've seen out here.
Speaker 3: And that's not just lip service about a guy that
Speaker 3: you know, we really want to excel in that way
Speaker 3: in terms of, you know, getting this offensive line solidified,
Speaker 3: but he was rock solid in the one on ones
Speaker 3: and then was also getting good push in the running game,
Speaker 3: which has been a pretty consistent theme for him so
Speaker 3: far in this camp. I had a couple of runs,
Speaker 3: explosives and chunks that were sprung in part by Eikenberg blocks,
Speaker 3: and the pressures from the defense largely came out on
Speaker 3: the perimeter today. More on that in a moment. I
Speaker 3: liked the day of Jeron Christian today, both one on
Speaker 3: one team. I thought Isaiah Winn had some really good work,
Speaker 3: particularly in the team drills as well. And again I
Speaker 3: thought the outside was where the pass rush came down,
Speaker 3: especially with seventy three Austin Jackson the seventy Kendall Lamb
Speaker 3: up against Bradley Chubb on Jalen Phillips. You know, a
Speaker 3: theme is developing, or I guess it has already become
Speaker 3: a theme where it just doesn't really seem to matter
Speaker 3: who's matched up on Jalen or you know, Chubb, They're
Speaker 3: going to find their way into the backfield and against
Speaker 3: both the run and the pass. We'll see when Testad
Speaker 3: gets back out there, which by the way he was
Speaker 3: out there today active off pup, no team period, but
Speaker 3: was taking part in some of the individual drills, which
Speaker 3: is obviously a great thing to see. But back to
Speaker 3: two and fifteen, I think one area where we stood
Speaker 3: to improve a little bit from last season was run
Speaker 3: defense around the outside. And it looks to me like
Speaker 3: it's almost a point of emphasis for the defense and
Speaker 3: those guys that they have been so dang good at
Speaker 3: really inserting themselves off the edge in the running game
Speaker 3: by shocking that kickout block or the seal block that
Speaker 3: tries to widen them and create space, and that b
Speaker 3: or ce gap out wide and then working back inside
Speaker 3: of that once they set the edge, to try to
Speaker 3: follow the back and make that lane even tighter for
Speaker 3: them to cut back into. Both guys have been relatively unblockable.
Speaker 3: I almost get rid of the word relatively like they
Speaker 3: have been as pass rushers, particularly Bradley Chubbed. Like gosh,
Speaker 3: he has been sharp. He looks completely healthy and ready
Speaker 3: to go quick, powerful, explosive, and he's such.
Speaker 2: A big dude.
Speaker 3: But the way he kind of bends and gets the
Speaker 3: lean down around the edge, he's gonna be tough for
Speaker 3: some of those bigger, you know, not so fleet of
Speaker 3: foot tackles to handle this off this coming season. I
Speaker 3: know he was here for half the season last year,
Speaker 3: but getting him in for the entire offseason program, getting
Speaker 3: him on a defense that has already you know, he's
Speaker 3: already intimately familiar with the scheme. This guy's one of
Speaker 3: my picks to click in a way that's even better
Speaker 3: than we saw a year ago. And between he and Phillips, like,
Speaker 3: I asked, Kyle, what would you set the over under
Speaker 3: for Saxby's two guys combined? He said twenty four, and
Speaker 3: I said, I'm taking the over on that, man. I
Speaker 3: think those guys could both push into the teams for
Speaker 3: sacks this season. I continue to be very, very impressed
Speaker 3: by the work of Andrew Van Ginkel. Let's go ahead
Speaker 3: and go back to coachit real quick. Who had some
Speaker 3: guys he pointed out who he thinks took a good
Speaker 3: jump from OTA to training camp because I asked him,
Speaker 3: you know, last year he talked about going, you know, Wattle,
Speaker 3: taking that big jump from OTA to training camp. Who
Speaker 3: are some guys this year? And he gave me a
Speaker 3: really you know, as he is wont to do a
Speaker 3: very interesting answer that ultimately did give me three names.
Speaker 3: But he talked about how that's not necessarily something that's
Speaker 3: similar this year, given year two in the system or
Speaker 3: in the program.
Speaker 2: This I think, I think the byproduct of being here.
Speaker 1: A second year, I think there is a lot more
Speaker 1: consistency with people knew what to expect in O TAS,
Speaker 1: so their best foot forward, you know, was what the
Speaker 1: expectation was.
Speaker 2: So is I don't see as much.
Speaker 1: Distinction between OTAs and training camp and specifically with individuals.
Speaker 1: What I do see is people, more so than last year,
Speaker 1: utilized uh last year's training or or utilized last off
Speaker 1: or the off seasons training and built upon that in
Speaker 1: training camp, which is something that you kind of you're
Speaker 1: kind of always worried about.
Speaker 2: And you know, there's there's certain guys.
Speaker 1: You know, we've spoke about uh Van Ginkle's versatility. Well
Speaker 1: he's utilized what he learned in O t A S
Speaker 1: and has been able to do some really cool stuff
Speaker 1: in training camp. You know, I think there's a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of the defensive players that are are
Speaker 1: developing at a really cool rate and really flourishing within
Speaker 1: the system.
Speaker 2: You know, I see young guys going after it.
Speaker 1: Like uh, you know, like a Cam Good who you
Speaker 1: know is trying to get on the field as best
Speaker 1: he can.
Speaker 2: You know, guys that have had some roles that they
Speaker 2: want expanded, like Elijah Campbell.
Speaker 1: You know, the list goes on and on, just because
Speaker 1: I see guys getting coached at a high level and
Speaker 1: guys wanting to be coached and guys responding to it.
Speaker 3: Really really good stuff there. And Gink is just making
Speaker 3: an impact in all three phases of that linebacker position,
Speaker 3: which I feel like is sort of hitting the crescendo
Speaker 3: of where he's really been progressing in all those areas
Speaker 3: so far in his career. Like he's playing tight to
Speaker 3: the point of attack and those kind of off ball
Speaker 3: pick your gaps and go shoot and find the running
Speaker 3: back type of plays. We know what he can do
Speaker 3: finding space and coverage in the curl flat, his pass rush,
Speaker 3: we know about that. It's all been very impressive and
Speaker 3: he looks bigger and stronger. I saw him signing autographs
Speaker 3: with the fans today. His arms and never looked that
Speaker 3: big to me. So pretty excited about what Van Ginkle
Speaker 3: does for your edge depth and your victual teams work.
Speaker 3: This season, and also some off ball work as well.
Speaker 3: I want to touch on those linebackers as well as
Speaker 3: Elijah Campbell Moore. Let's go ahead and finish up on
Speaker 3: the lines before we take our first break with these
Speaker 3: last two. Christian Wilkins it's rinse repeat here, had a
Speaker 3: couple of plays in team where he just tore through
Speaker 3: the offensive line, but you already knew that. And then
Speaker 3: Brandon Peeley had a really nice run stuff early on
Speaker 3: in team where he knocked the running back down and
Speaker 3: that doesn't go over very well, but he did have
Speaker 3: a nice play there. Just got to keep your guys
Speaker 3: up right, all right, go ahead and come back on
Speaker 3: the other side and finish up the defense, get the
Speaker 3: quarterbacks and the rest of the offense. And here's some
Speaker 3: more sound all that. Next Draft Time Podcast, your host
Speaker 3: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. I want
Speaker 3: to go back to the front seven and talk about
Speaker 3: David Long Junior as we start the second segment of
Speaker 3: this Monday, July thirty, first edition of the Draft Time Podcast. Who,
Speaker 3: for my money is in the running for the best
Speaker 3: camp of anybody out here so far? Five days in,
Speaker 3: he made another handful of plays today, including a rep
Speaker 3: right at the end of practice where he greeted the
Speaker 3: back at the line of scrimmage, just dropped the shoulder
Speaker 3: and you know, didn't up and do the whole you know,
Speaker 3: contact thing, but there was a good little pop there is.
Speaker 3: I think it was Devon a Chain also dropped his
Speaker 3: shoulder in But you see Long peel off the play
Speaker 3: and kind of go to a section where only he
Speaker 3: is kind of surrounded by grass and let's out the
Speaker 3: celebratory scream in a way that says like, yeah, I
Speaker 3: did that shit, and we could all hear that scream
Speaker 3: at the top of the bleachers and probably over in
Speaker 3: Broward County as well. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 3: Jerome Baker on his new teammate at linebacker, David Long.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, So, I mean we're kind of super similar.
Speaker 4: He's fast, I'm fast, he's Seawan, I'm sean. We kind
Speaker 4: of just feed off each other, you know, when I'm
Speaker 4: feeling sluggish, he's up and ready. When he's feeling sluggish,
Speaker 4: I got his back. So it's kind of one of
Speaker 4: those things that kind of meshal will.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's looking pretty good for those two guys.
Speaker 3: Out there back in the secondary. I continue to be
Speaker 3: pretty impressed by what we're seeing with Elijah Campbell, who's
Speaker 3: taken on multiple roles in the past. He's played special teams.
Speaker 3: You heard Coach talk about his versatility in that previous
Speaker 3: Q and A with Coach. He's had good ball production
Speaker 3: the last couple of days. I actually omitted his production
Speaker 3: from Sunday's practice. He was really really dang good with
Speaker 3: some PBUs and I felt bad about that because I
Speaker 3: tweeted about it and then forgot to put in the podcast.
Speaker 3: But I had a good chat with Elijah. Let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and play that back and forth with Dolphin Safety
Speaker 3: Elijah Campbell.
Speaker 6: Oh, I feel a lot better.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously a new scheme coming in, you know,
Speaker 8: you got it's starting from ground zero. So as of
Speaker 8: last year, I was throughout the season kind of getting
Speaker 8: the hang of the last scheme that we were running.
Speaker 8: So this year, obviously it started slowing on Ta's but
Speaker 8: they kind of frontloaded it. So then coming back out
Speaker 8: into training camp, we kind of had a broad picture
Speaker 8: of what we're gonna do, and we basically were able
Speaker 8: to pick up from where we left off. So I
Speaker 8: think I just I pretty much studied a lot during
Speaker 8: the off season, you know, our six week breaking to
Speaker 8: make sure I was prepared coming in for Trump.
Speaker 3: You mentioned your versatility. How challenging is it to learn
Speaker 3: rules among multiple different positions where you kind of bounce around?
Speaker 8: Pleasing response, I mean, once you I feel like it's
Speaker 8: a benefit obviously more positions. You know, then you know
Speaker 8: what your partners are doing and who you're working with.
Speaker 3: So and finishing up in the secondary, Holland had a
Speaker 3: very nice pass breakup. Pretty much every day that's happening,
Speaker 3: this one on Jalen Waddle from Skyler Thompson. I thought
Speaker 3: X had one of his best days, really disrupting the
Speaker 3: timing of routes and the relationship between the wide receivers
Speaker 3: and quarterbacks. It's kind of fitting the X is having
Speaker 3: his best work when the pads come on because he
Speaker 3: is such a physical, imposing player. Speaking of best days,
Speaker 3: my goodness, rookie Campsmith continues to flash. I think I
Speaker 3: had three more PBUs for him today, at least two.
Speaker 3: You guys saw the one where he ran across the
Speaker 3: field and that over route and the receiver, you know,
Speaker 3: balls a little bit behind and it welcomes camp Smith
Speaker 3: back into the frame. I think a perfectly located ball
Speaker 3: on there on that throw from Skyler would have equated
Speaker 3: to a completion. But it wasn't a perfect ball. But
Speaker 3: he just got on his horse and showed you the
Speaker 3: athletic ability to make the diving pass breakup, and that
Speaker 3: length continues to show up, and it just you can
Speaker 3: see why he was a top fifty one pick. But
Speaker 3: I liked his first pass breakup even better because he
Speaker 3: drove on this pass where he's you know, squatting in
Speaker 3: the zone and kind of keying the quarterback and sees
Speaker 3: a running back come out of the concept and play
Speaker 3: in front of him, and he anticipates it in a
Speaker 3: way that puts him in position to kind of read
Speaker 3: it before the quarterback even saw it. And that's this defense, right,
Speaker 3: squat process, keep the quarterback key their eyes, anticipate based
Speaker 3: off the route concept, and then find the football. The
Speaker 3: only thing he didn't do on that play after he
Speaker 3: jumped in front of the route and you know, put
Speaker 3: himself in position for the pick, was he didn't finish it.
Speaker 3: But I know that based office college tape, he does
Speaker 3: plenty of that. I thought Deshaun Elliott had a very
Speaker 3: nice day. I tried to watch the way he and
Speaker 3: Javon rotate back there and move together and kind of disguise,
Speaker 3: and there's lots of that. Obviously we know about that
Speaker 3: from the Vic Fangio defense, but I just think their
Speaker 3: chemistry is growing and they're doing a really good job
Speaker 3: of disguising what they do back there. We've broken down
Speaker 3: lots of sacks, and one of the integral ingredients of
Speaker 3: the recipe of good is good coverage, and we've been
Speaker 3: getting that from all the guys, and a lot of
Speaker 3: that is that kind of top shelf of the defense
Speaker 3: back there with Javon and Deshaun Elliott and coverage. Finally,
Speaker 3: Justin Bethel had a really nice pick on a similar
Speaker 3: play that we saw with Cam Smith and the PBu
Speaker 3: where he undercut the route, but instead of not making
Speaker 3: the catch, he did pick off Mike White, and that's
Speaker 3: the defense. I think we can go ahead and spind
Speaker 3: this four now to the offense sans offensive line, which
Speaker 3: we already talked about. We've been putting this off for
Speaker 3: a minute now. We're about what twenty minutes into the
Speaker 3: podcast fifteen. I don't know something like that. Not talking quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and do that right now. I thought
Speaker 3: two was timing was excellent today, which is something I
Speaker 3: feel like I can really, you know, I think can
Speaker 3: take this offense to another level if they just dialed
Speaker 3: that in even an extra one percent. Not to say
Speaker 3: it wasn't sharp last year, obviously, but on day five
Speaker 3: to see it coming together this quickly, that's pretty early
Speaker 3: in the process, and you have to believe that only
Speaker 3: grows from here. There was a couple of throws where
Speaker 3: he had to rip a shot from the far hash
Speaker 3: over one defender and under another, with the receiver coming
Speaker 3: on that same overrode that deep crosser where he's filling
Speaker 3: a vacancy, and you know, two was letting this thing
Speaker 3: fly when the receiver's like on the middle hash and
Speaker 3: the timing of it sinking up in the turkey hole,
Speaker 3: the honey hole, whatever you call it. It's there. They're
Speaker 3: just not quite dialed in to make it a completion. Otherwise,
Speaker 3: you know, the inbreaking stuff, that down the field stuff,
Speaker 3: that stuff has all been dialed pretty well. So I
Speaker 3: don't worry about those misses. I think they'll get that
Speaker 3: buttoned up. But seeing them take those shots and seeing
Speaker 3: twas arm strength that fired the ball into those spot
Speaker 3: those spaces. It requires anticipation, it requires zip. I think
Speaker 3: you have to really spin the throw to get to
Speaker 3: kind of nose dive, you know, like the middle part
Speaker 3: of the throw where the hump starts to go back
Speaker 3: down the trajectory of the football. Like you see these
Speaker 3: throws kind of hit that hump and then that they
Speaker 3: just nose dive into the receiver after that. That's a
Speaker 3: lot of spin, lots of spiral, and he's ripping those
Speaker 3: throws pretty easily. He was ripping the catch rock throws
Speaker 3: where it's you know, timing rhythm, get the ball out
Speaker 3: of your hand. He got off a spot away from
Speaker 3: pressure and a couple of times they were sacks, a
Speaker 3: couple of times they were not, and he found spots
Speaker 3: on the displaced defense. Won a fifteen yard air yard
Speaker 3: shot on the move across his body to Eric Azukama
Speaker 3: that I thought was really impressive. I don't think it
Speaker 3: was as good as it was yesterday, but I think
Speaker 3: when you look at four of the five days, I
Speaker 3: think we've seen the same version of two that we
Speaker 3: saw last year, and he was just carving up the league,
Speaker 3: been carving up the defense out here four of the
Speaker 3: five days so far. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 3: coach you talked about too, was off he's in training
Speaker 3: and how the jiu jitsu and all the strength training
Speaker 3: he did is going to benefit him this coming out.
Speaker 2: It kind of makes me happy that I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't really give credit to one person's idea because
Speaker 1: it was you know, I think the culture around here,
Speaker 1: as it best.
Speaker 2: Can is about getting to the right answer.
Speaker 1: Not whose answer it was, but I really can't remember
Speaker 1: for the life of me. I know that it was
Speaker 1: an idea that we all came together and spoke about
Speaker 1: and approached to a with and and he immediately was yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll check it out, and then got great feedback because
Speaker 1: of you know, the you know, with the coach Poloka
Speaker 1: and and Kyle Johnston and how they you know, vetted
Speaker 1: whoever the master of jiu jitsu would be. Those parties
Speaker 1: did all of their homework, really tracked every single health
Speaker 1: related issue that he's that he's had from falling and
Speaker 1: concretely attacked the problem. So I think it was really
Speaker 1: cool from an organizational standpoint and from to his standpoint,
Speaker 1: and I feel great about uh three results.
Speaker 2: We don't We've only had uh one time in camp
Speaker 2: so far in live action that it was in O
Speaker 2: t As.
Speaker 1: Actually in O t As, he he got I think
Speaker 1: he got stepped on and he fell down backwards and
Speaker 1: completed a backwards somersault.
Speaker 2: It's pretty sweet.
Speaker 3: Let's do another one here with alec Ingold on Tua's
Speaker 3: off season training and being around the quarterback for what
Speaker 3: he's been doing the whole off season. Here's the Dolphins
Speaker 3: fallback on the Dolphins quarterback.
Speaker 4: Yeah, while we're on the top physicality and putting pads
Speaker 4: on one of them, that's actually about it.
Speaker 6: M looks like you put on a little bit of
Speaker 6: extra muscle. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Somebody who's just around him all the time, Like, what
Speaker 5: if you notice differently about.
Speaker 6: Him physically physically? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 7: We spend a lot of time weight room together, on
Speaker 7: the field, on the golf course, everything, so being able
Speaker 7: to be around that guy as much as possible and offseason,
Speaker 7: you can tell a full year of being a pro
Speaker 7: helps everybody. And the way that he's taken that next
Speaker 7: step just embodying everything is demeanor everything.
Speaker 6: I think it definitely pays off.
Speaker 7: So whenever you see always bulking up or everyone's talking
Speaker 7: about he's throwing or this is what it looks like,
Speaker 7: that's what looks like.
Speaker 6: Just know what's intentional.
Speaker 7: Man.
Speaker 6: The dude's working his tail off.
Speaker 7: And I think that's as a football player, as a teammate,
Speaker 7: that's what you love is seeing guys that care about
Speaker 7: each other. You want to be accountable, and that dude's
Speaker 7: accountable as anybody.
Speaker 6: He's a foxhole dude.
Speaker 3: Let's do two bits here from Alec Ingle before our
Speaker 3: last break. First about getting more comfortable in your two
Speaker 3: of the offense for him and not being in that
Speaker 3: red jersey as a part of the passing game, which
Speaker 3: I've been talking about. I think this guy really adds
Speaker 3: things to your offense that just not many other teams
Speaker 3: have because of his ability in the passing game. Here's
Speaker 3: the Dolphins fullback Alec Englan.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean anytime you don't have to start with
Speaker 7: red jersey on probably helps during training camp. So having
Speaker 7: a full o ta's with these guys learning the offense
Speaker 7: a little bit more like the rules are the same,
Speaker 7: but the details get so much more complex. So you
Speaker 7: really want to own that stuff put yourself in good
Speaker 7: positions to make plays.
Speaker 6: So I'm trying to do as much as I can.
Speaker 6: For sure.
Speaker 3: That's a good spot for the last break. Right there,
Speaker 3: We'll go ahead and come back on the other side,
Speaker 3: talk about the restless skill guys and some additional media.
Speaker 3: All that next Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by Auto Nation. Back here for the
Speaker 3: final segment. Wrapping up the month of July. We've hit August.
Speaker 3: That means football coming up later this week. I think
Speaker 3: the Jets are playing in the Hall of Fame game.
Speaker 3: Who are they playing? I don't know, don't really care
Speaker 3: if I won't watch it. Dolphins coming up with a
Speaker 3: game next Saturday against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Right or is
Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 3: I'm lost? Oh so Falcons. That's joint practices next week.
Speaker 3: Let's go baby. So back to the skill guys. I
Speaker 3: thought a handful of skill players really stood out in
Speaker 3: this practice. Let's go ahead and start with tight end
Speaker 3: Eric Sabert, who's making some catches and I think continues
Speaker 3: to show you what he can do as a blocker,
Speaker 3: which is something we kind of wondered about this offseason
Speaker 3: the tight end position and how they might find themselves
Speaker 3: involved in the offense. He's putting together a streak of
Speaker 3: consecutive days where he's climbing up to the second level,
Speaker 3: attaching on to a linebacker or safety and making a
Speaker 3: key block that springs a runner. I've been wanting to
Speaker 3: talk about this guy, and today he gave me a
Speaker 3: great reason to Titan. Elijah Higgins made an awesome catch
Speaker 3: up the sideline working on Ethan Bonner where he gets
Speaker 3: a step. The ball was not under thrown, but it
Speaker 3: did allow Bonner to get back into the play and
Speaker 3: Higgins just high points it, spins back and as he
Speaker 3: comes to the ground with a one eighty spin, hits
Speaker 3: the ground and takes off from more yards like he
Speaker 3: is super athletic. Also had some good surge in the
Speaker 3: running game that produced a chunk play. I thought today,
Speaker 3: so really keeping an eye Elijah Higgins going forward in
Speaker 3: his growth. We keep talking about the response for this
Speaker 3: offense and what they can do to kind of combat
Speaker 3: what the Niners and Chargers did in those games last year.
Speaker 3: I think you look at how you can stress the
Speaker 3: perimeter and get teams out of that inside leverage we
Speaker 3: saw those teams really you know, focus on to take
Speaker 3: away the middle of the field passing game that was
Speaker 3: so dangerous. I think guys like Higgins and Eric Azukama
Speaker 3: can really help you in that way. You can throw
Speaker 3: your sticks, your curls, your speedouts to put pressure on
Speaker 3: the defense in the short outside passing game. But then
Speaker 3: from there you can take another level and you know
Speaker 3: the stress that Tyreek and Waddle put on the roof
Speaker 3: of the defense to really back that shell off. Then
Speaker 3: if the second level wants to play up to, you know,
Speaker 3: give them more guard against the running game or short
Speaker 3: passing game. You've got the speed now among running backs
Speaker 3: and receivers and tight ends with whether it's Ee Higgins
Speaker 3: most a chain where they can give you chances for
Speaker 3: one on one explosives against a linebacker you know who's
Speaker 3: mismatch like a Landon Roberts for instance, not going to
Speaker 3: run very well with a Roheem Moster or a Devon
Speaker 3: Hien or even an Eric Azukama. So I like the
Speaker 3: opportunity there. This offense has to expand off what they
Speaker 3: did last year with more secondary weapons beyond Tyreek and
Speaker 3: Jalen and the they all offer I mentioned Azukama continue
Speaker 3: to really come away impress from what I've seen from him.
Speaker 3: The way he moves and transitions from pass catcher into
Speaker 3: route runner is like immedia. It's it's impressive. I wonder
Speaker 3: how you, you know, might create some space in this
Speaker 3: offense and really give him a chance to catch the
Speaker 3: football and be you know, lethal with it in his
Speaker 3: hands after the catch. Tyreek made some plays, Waddle made
Speaker 3: some plays. That's what you're used to seeing. And I
Speaker 3: tweeted about one deep shot to Wadle from Thompson where
Speaker 3: he just put this absolutely devastating move on Eli Apple
Speaker 3: to get him way behind the defense, but the pass
Speaker 3: sailed just out of his range. I saw the debate
Speaker 3: that maybe that ball was better than I thought it was,
Speaker 3: and then Waddle kind of slowed down, but either way,
Speaker 3: it didn't go complete. But the biggest part of that
Speaker 3: play to me was the double move that Wattle ran.
Speaker 3: He is he is something else. Freddie Swain had to
Speaker 3: catch and run where he showed off the four four
Speaker 3: speed kind of curling back to the quarterback and then
Speaker 3: to a led him upfield and it was kind of
Speaker 3: off to the races from there, and oh yeah, Orange
Speaker 3: Jersey winner. I forgot about that. The Running Back Show
Speaker 3: its fancial for these guys. Hraehie Moster was in the
Speaker 3: Orange jersey. If I had to guess for tomorrow, I'm
Speaker 3: probably gonna go David Long. If not him, Rob Hunts
Speaker 3: my pick. But Raheem had some more shifty runs today. Man,
Speaker 3: he's so assignment focused, and I have to imagine that's
Speaker 3: why he got the jersey because there wasn't like explosive
Speaker 3: plays in that practice. He did have that awesome wheel
Speaker 3: route touchdown in the back of the end zone, but
Speaker 3: I think just being so assignment sounds going to get
Speaker 3: him that Orange jersey. More of that today, Miles Gaskin
Speaker 3: had his best day, including a block where a run
Speaker 3: I should say where John Levitt led the way for
Speaker 3: something like twenty yards before a defender even touched him.
Speaker 3: He also had to run on one of those inside
Speaker 3: tosses where he kind of navigated his way through the
Speaker 3: crease and found a big lane that way. I thought
Speaker 3: a chain looked very good picking his way through some
Speaker 3: blanes today. And just a good day from the running
Speaker 3: backs in the running game, kind of going back and
Speaker 3: forth with the defense in general. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 3: finish up here with Dolphins fullback alec Ingold, who talked
Speaker 3: about putting the pads back on and how important it
Speaker 3: is for a fullback to have pads on in practice.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think at anytime you can emulate
Speaker 7: football a little bit more on the practice field. The
Speaker 7: speed we practice fast without pads. I think any good
Speaker 7: team has to learn how to do that. Late in
Speaker 7: the season, you got to get good reps so to
Speaker 7: set the tone that way. But when you get the
Speaker 7: pads on, definitely working on pad level, making sure guys
Speaker 7: are seeing fits, feeling it the right way. All of
Speaker 7: that plays into having a successful preseason that can set
Speaker 7: you up for a good regular season.
Speaker 3: All right, So there you go. That's the podcast today.
Speaker 3: We'll be back with you guys tomorrow for another practice
Speaker 3: day a number six out here, then off on Wednesday,
Speaker 3: and then back at it for three more days in
Speaker 3: the weekend, including a Saturday scrimmage at hard Rock Stadium.
Speaker 3: Very much looking forward to that. In the meantime, you
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