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Speaker 3: I am your host, Travis Wingfield, And on today's show,
Speaker 3: we are going to talk.
Speaker 2: About a Miami Dolphins football game.
Speaker 3: Certainly not going to earn any awards for prettiest game
Speaker 3: you've ever seen in your life, but there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a lot to chew on, including plenty of players who
Speaker 3: stood out, some things to debate about, competition and battles
Speaker 3: and all that fun stuff. Plus we'll do the five
Speaker 3: flagship takeaways and here from head coach Mike McDaniel. All
Speaker 3: of that and more from the Baptist Hell Studios inside
Speaker 3: the Baptist Health Training Complex.
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Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and kick this show off with a
Speaker 3: statement from coach McDaniel that I think was the most
Speaker 3: important part of the entire day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing good. Yeah, No, it was a mid
Speaker 1: section injury that you know, sometimes you have guys that
Speaker 1: end up coming up with an injury after in the
Speaker 1: middle of camp, after having a tremendous offseason. That that's
Speaker 1: kind of what Jalen has had from OTA is the onset.
Speaker 1: He's come to work. He does some really good things,
Speaker 1: so you never want to see anyone ever get injured.
Speaker 1: But he's banked enough quality reps that I'm really not
Speaker 1: worried about his participation within the offense. So unfortunate that
Speaker 1: it's not something that I don't that will be a
Speaker 1: long term deal. But he's steadily rehabbing and working with
Speaker 1: the trainers, which fires men.
Speaker 3: That's obviously Mike McDaniel talking about Jalen Waddell, who, of
Speaker 3: course he was injured in the last practice we had
Speaker 3: out here, and coach was asked about it after the
Speaker 3: game on Friday night, and that's your answer there. So
Speaker 3: it sounds like Jalen should be okay. We'll get you
Speaker 3: updated more and we have more information on that. Let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and talk about a football game here, because
Speaker 3: the Dolphins lose the Week one preseason opener to the
Speaker 3: Atlanta Falcons, a nineteen to three final from hard Rock Stadium,
Speaker 3: And let's go ahead and take a look at the
Speaker 3: autopsy as it were here of this game. And you know,
Speaker 3: we'll hear from coaching a moment here about where he
Speaker 3: thinks things broke down as far as where the scoreboard
Speaker 3: wound up. But Miami had more yards than the Atlanta
Speaker 3: Falcons offensively, three seventeen to two twenty seven actually, and
Speaker 3: really you look at the entire you know, game book
Speaker 3: in terms of numbers, twenty to thirteen and first downs
Speaker 3: three for ten versus three for twelve on third down
Speaker 3: in favor of the Miami Dolphins, zero for two on
Speaker 3: the fourth downs obviously, both of those in the red zone,
Speaker 3: which is something we'll talk about here. But more total yards,
Speaker 3: more passing yards, more rushing yards, more plays ran. The
Speaker 3: four turnovers is where the game really swelling in favor
Speaker 3: of the Atlanta Falcons. But I think that when you
Speaker 3: look at this game, it was pretty even back and
Speaker 3: forth throughout the first you know, three and a half quarters,
Speaker 3: and Miami's inability to capitalize on some of the red
Speaker 3: zone looks they had, and I thought they had chances
Speaker 3: to make some of those plays happen. Two of the
Speaker 3: red zone failures were fourth down failures, and one of
Speaker 3: the throws I thought was a chance to hit Tyler
Speaker 3: Croft in the corner of the end zone by Mike White.
Speaker 3: The ball got tipped into the air, but Devon Achan
Speaker 3: had a chance for a cut block on a blitzer
Speaker 3: and he missed it, and that blitzer got his hand.
Speaker 2: In the football.
Speaker 3: If you hit that block, you have a chance to
Speaker 3: throw a clean touchdown passing the corner of the end zone.
Speaker 3: Another one to Brax and Barrios on a little mesh
Speaker 3: concept where they got the linebacker in some peril and
Speaker 3: kind of rubbed him with a dB who was covering
Speaker 3: Brax and Barrios. And we'll talk more about Brax and
Speaker 3: Barrios here in a moment. But I thought White had
Speaker 3: him open in the end zone and you know, not
Speaker 3: wide open, but NFL open where Barrios had him stacked
Speaker 3: on his back and the ball is a little bit
Speaker 3: behind and that gives a dB all he needs to
Speaker 3: catch up and get a hand on the football.
Speaker 2: So those two.
Speaker 3: Plays right there with you know, a late pick six
Speaker 3: that gets tipped into the air, a late punt return
Speaker 3: that gets ran.
Speaker 2: Back for a touchdown. That's that's the that's.
Speaker 3: The game right there, and you're gonna hear coach talk
Speaker 3: about process over results, but using the results to kind
Speaker 3: of teach and learn some things. I think the Dolphins
Speaker 3: have a good chance to learn some things from this
Speaker 3: game after going back and watching the tape and realizing
Speaker 3: four or five plays can really change a game in
Speaker 3: the NFL. That's kind of lesson for this game. I
Speaker 3: takeaway is that Miami played well and consistent throughout the
Speaker 3: course of the game to you know, keep the scoreboard
Speaker 3: what it was as a six nothing, six to three
Speaker 3: ball game, and again could have been you know, fourteen
Speaker 3: to six or seventeen to six if the red zone
Speaker 3: had gone a little bit better. They didn't, And that's
Speaker 3: a teaching lesson to learn how in this league. If
Speaker 3: you don't capitalize on those opportunities that are right there
Speaker 3: for you, you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the scoreboard.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and hear from coach who met with
Speaker 3: the media after the game. This was an opening statement
Speaker 3: before they ask questions to Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: As did you guys enjoy that the clinic?
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, the.
Speaker 1: I I hope it doesn't get lost. It was a
Speaker 1: It was a really cool defensive effort for a lot of.
Speaker 4: Guys that haven't been here very very long.
Speaker 1: So private players and coaches for that, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna lose football games when you're vote for three
Speaker 1: in the red zone and you give up a pick
Speaker 1: six and pun return. But overall, I'm fired up to
Speaker 1: be here, guys.
Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and do five takeaways from the game.
Speaker 3: We're gonna do this after every single Miami Dolphins football
Speaker 3: game in season. Gonna be a little more in depth
Speaker 3: on the takeaways because you can learn more from regular
Speaker 3: season football and kind of give yourself a big picture
Speaker 3: thought after a game, as we like to do, you know,
Speaker 3: as media and fans too, where every single game is
Speaker 3: an event of itself and you have to kind of forecast,
Speaker 3: you know, big picture takeaways from each game, but in
Speaker 3: the preseason not so much. But I want to stay
Speaker 3: true to the format here and kind of give you
Speaker 3: five thoughts I had coming out of that game. And look,
Speaker 3: I've always been this way, going back to you know,
Speaker 3: the twenty sixteen season covering this team on Lockdown Dolphins,
Speaker 3: where the exhibition season for me is about finding standouts
Speaker 3: and highlights and star not stars, but stars are the
Speaker 3: game that you think can carry that production over into
Speaker 3: the regular season and help your team come September because
Speaker 3: the games in August, no one cares about the standings
Speaker 3: in August. Let's find out what we can do to
Speaker 3: make the team better in September. That's always been my pro.
Speaker 3: So just kind of have that mindset going into the
Speaker 3: takeaways here because number one and we'll again we'll talk
Speaker 3: about the individuals shortly, but I thought the ability of
Speaker 3: the offense in a game situation to create opportunities and
Speaker 3: scheme up plays for guys showed up a little bit today.
Speaker 3: You know, Eric Azukama had the two carries for fifty
Speaker 3: two yards I think it was, and thirty nine of
Speaker 3: those on the one rush that he took around the
Speaker 3: edge and showed you the run after catch ability that
Speaker 3: he has. There was the third down conversion to Miles
Speaker 3: Gaskin and the big game that he had where they
Speaker 3: short motioned him against a linebacker who didn't really follow
Speaker 3: him to the wide side of the field, to the
Speaker 3: side of the field that he went to on that
Speaker 3: motion and kind of gives you a little tip there
Speaker 3: as a quarterback or you know, anybody in the offense
Speaker 3: that hey, they don't have a guy for him, or
Speaker 3: maybe they're in zone coverage or man coverage. Based upon
Speaker 3: how they moved they short motioned him, he gets a
Speaker 3: free release into the flat. It's an easy pitch and
Speaker 3: catch for him to Mike or from Mike White to
Speaker 3: Miles to move the chains and get that first down.
Speaker 3: There like really easy pickings. A quick screen to von
Speaker 3: a chan where he was able to pick his way
Speaker 3: through some traffic and pick up a first down. There
Speaker 3: was a Texas route to a change later in the game,
Speaker 3: again on a linebacker. You know, if a Chanin's running
Speaker 3: for the outside shoulder that linebacker, he better flip his
Speaker 3: hips and get committed to going vertical that way, and
Speaker 3: the minute he does that, a chain breaks it back
Speaker 3: across his face and catches a pass, takes a hit
Speaker 3: first down. Love the toughness we saw from devon a
Speaker 3: change in this game. So the offense's ability when they
Speaker 3: have a chance to scheme things up in a regular
Speaker 3: season game, That's what I'm excited to see because I
Speaker 3: thought we saw, you know, the offensive line struggled late
Speaker 3: in this game, particularly to protect the quarterback, and Scaler was,
Speaker 3: you know, tough as hell back there, taking some shots
Speaker 3: and getting back up and staying in the game and
Speaker 3: staying with it. And we heard from him post game
Speaker 3: he was very you know, just I love hearing Scaler
Speaker 3: communicate after a game, you know, the way he sees
Speaker 3: the game and kind of taking things, his own accountability
Speaker 3: of things, even though you know, if some of those
Speaker 3: pockets were he'd had no chance in some of those pockets.
Speaker 3: So I just I thought that his ability to kind
Speaker 3: of bounce back and you know, be Scalar Thompson was
Speaker 3: important there at the end. But to give him a
Speaker 3: chance to go out and compete against you know, and
Speaker 3: Coach mentioned this as well, as might I see an
Speaker 3: opportunity next week where Skyler and Mike flip their you know,
Speaker 3: game script and give Skyler a chance to run with
Speaker 3: some more of the I guess higher up the depth
Speaker 3: chart part of the roster versus Mike White, who got
Speaker 3: to play first to night. Flip those guys next week
Speaker 3: and maybe get a better look at that. And we'll
Speaker 3: talk about the quarterback competition for that number two job
Speaker 3: here in just a moment. But in general, you know,
Speaker 3: the opportunity to scheme things up for your offense is
Speaker 3: where I think this offense goes from. You know, a
Speaker 3: bunch of highly talented players that didn't get to see
Speaker 3: a lot of those guys tonight in terms of the
Speaker 3: main components of your offense.
Speaker 2: But you take it from a bunch.
Speaker 3: Of guys playing football to like, all of a sudden,
Speaker 3: it's a chess match and you have a guy like
Speaker 3: Mike McDaniel putting all together to really make those pieces
Speaker 3: hum and work together in harmony. That was kind of
Speaker 3: a small takeaway I had from this game, just in
Speaker 3: those few plays.
Speaker 2: Number two is similar.
Speaker 3: It's the continuity of the offense plus newcomers or new
Speaker 3: contributors I should say as well on offense that could
Speaker 3: have a real impact Braxon Barrios was a guy that
Speaker 3: I thought was really good in this game. Eric Azukama
Speaker 3: obviously a really good opening night in the preseason here
Speaker 3: in this twenty twenty three season, a guy that didn't
Speaker 3: play a lot last year in the regular season. That's
Speaker 3: why I call him a newcomer, new contributor, a guy
Speaker 3: that could potentially contribute for you this year.
Speaker 2: I thought there was a good.
Speaker 3: Glimpse of that on the offensive side number three, and
Speaker 3: you heard coach allude to it in that opening statement
Speaker 3: about some of the defensive players that just got here.
Speaker 3: I thought it was impressive for DeShawn Hand to show
Speaker 3: up and play as much as he did and really provide,
Speaker 3: you know, a good look at a very strong candidate
Speaker 3: for the next guy after Wilkins, Seeler and Rakewon, because
Speaker 3: we know we have in those three guys, right and
Speaker 3: Coach Fangio talked about that a little bit. How we
Speaker 3: know those three guys are good players. They're going to
Speaker 3: give us lots of snaps this year. But what's beyond
Speaker 3: that in the depth, and you have a bunch of
Speaker 3: guys that are fighting for roles on this team that
Speaker 3: don't have a lot of NFL experience, will insert DeShawn
Speaker 3: han who's played in that role pretty much his whole
Speaker 3: career with the Detroit Lions. I thought he looked really
Speaker 3: good in this game, played a bunch of snap showed
Speaker 3: you he's in shape, and coach alludes to that in
Speaker 3: his press conference. That's a big sign to me because
Speaker 3: that was a spot where who's going to be the
Speaker 3: guy that kind of played that John Jenkins role last year.
Speaker 3: I think Deshaan Hann really put his best foot forward
Speaker 3: to say, hey, that might be me going forward. Takeaway
Speaker 3: number four. I noted the penalties eight for seventy two
Speaker 3: in this game. It's something, of course that the Dolphins
Speaker 3: have emphasized the operation and just making sure the whole
Speaker 3: thing is cleaner from a penalty standpoint, and that's the
Speaker 3: kind of stuff that can really you know, bog down drives.
Speaker 2: There was a.
Speaker 3: Holding call on Elijah Higgins that I didn't like it.
Speaker 3: I didn't agree with it. I thought it was a
Speaker 3: little bit soft from the perimeter, but it took away
Speaker 3: a big play and put Miami behind the chains. Just
Speaker 3: stuff like that that happened a little too frequently last year,
Speaker 3: and you saw a little bit poke up in this game,
Speaker 3: especially late, and you'll hear a coach in the press
Speaker 3: conference talk about the fact that, like late in that
Speaker 3: fourth quarter, is you know, you're running guys out there,
Speaker 3: ninety man rosters pluging this game. Thirty one guys not
Speaker 3: available for the Dolphins in this game. But if you
Speaker 3: look at the list of guys not available, a lot
Speaker 3: of guys that will be contributing on Sundays not out there.
Speaker 3: So you're going into you know, your entire ninety man
Speaker 3: roster and getting everybody on the same page with that
Speaker 3: many players can be difficult. In that first preseason game,
Speaker 3: I thought we saw some of that kind of rear
Speaker 3: Itch Ugly had there late in the game, just having
Speaker 3: to track going forward because the penalties, if they can
Speaker 3: cut those down man this offense, they can be as
Speaker 3: good as they like. Number five, the ability to finish
Speaker 3: the game, and the stamina. You'll hear coach again talk about,
Speaker 3: you know, guys having a hard time getting back to
Speaker 3: the huddle at certain points and just trying to get
Speaker 3: themselves into game shape.
Speaker 2: It we saw some guys play the pretty much the
Speaker 2: entire game.
Speaker 3: I think Alamo yu Lave the center from San Diego State.
Speaker 3: I think he played the entire game, not mistaken, No
Speaker 3: Connor Williams, no Dan Feenie, So it would make sense
Speaker 3: that he did at that center position. Isaiah Willams out
Speaker 3: there for a lot of the game tonight as well,
Speaker 3: and he showed out really well.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about him in a moment. But I just
Speaker 2: thought that the.
Speaker 3: Stamina to play that full game and then to not
Speaker 3: finish the game or finish the game the way they did,
Speaker 3: I thought was just a negative takeaway that you can
Speaker 3: kind of look at and learn from and get better
Speaker 3: from hopefully going forward.
Speaker 2: Those are the five takeaways there.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and come back on the other side
Speaker 3: here and talk a little bit about some competitions the
Speaker 3: quarterback position here a lot more from head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3: That's all next on the game Recapetition of the Draft
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Speaker 3: from coach McDaniel to kick off the second segment of
Speaker 3: the game recappetition. Dolphins falls to the Atlanta Falcons to
Speaker 3: go to zero to one in the preseason by the
Speaker 3: final of nineteen to three. A pick six late, a
Speaker 3: punt return late for six, zero for three in the
Speaker 3: red zone. That's the script to lose a football game,
Speaker 3: the formula to play a losing football.
Speaker 2: As the Dolphins did in this game.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and go to coach McDaniel, who talked
Speaker 3: about the offensive execution, but got more into just the
Speaker 3: overall theme of the night in terms of competition, fighting
Speaker 3: for positions on the on the offense, on the defense,
Speaker 3: and the team in general.
Speaker 2: Here's head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought it was a pretty good job
Speaker 1: in the first half. Henceforth we were in the low
Speaker 1: red three times and then gave you know, see fourth
Speaker 1: downs in preseason games as an opportunity to you know,
Speaker 1: see see certain people at the point of attack. Second half,
Speaker 1: I didn't like the operation at all. You know, the compounding.
Speaker 5: Variables of like guys being more tired than they're used to,
Speaker 5: getting back to the huddle late, those types of things
Speaker 5: I did not like at all.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that there was some real good
Speaker 1: stuff on the line of scrimmage from the offensive line,
Speaker 1: particularly in the first half, and there's some you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things to build upon it's a
Speaker 1: preseason is all about process of results, but you learn
Speaker 1: you use the results as a teaching tool. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that you have to. You can really learn
Speaker 1: the hard way and you utilize preseason to see how
Speaker 1: precious those opportunities you get in the red zone and
Speaker 1: how you have to come up with points or you can,
Speaker 1: you know, waste a pretty good effort by the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, holding that team to six points and really
Speaker 1: really come together. So there's some good stuff to learn from.
Speaker 1: And I thought there was certain players that are in
Speaker 1: heavy competition did some good things that will help them
Speaker 1: stand out.
Speaker 3: And you know, so it's the tale of two halves
Speaker 3: really offensively, and to that point. We'll talk about the
Speaker 3: quarterback competition here in just a moment. But I thought
Speaker 3: that one of the guys that coach allude to there
Speaker 3: was Isaiah Win. At least that's my takeaway from it
Speaker 3: because the way I watched him and Seth commented on it,
Speaker 3: OJ talked about in the post game show. I thought
Speaker 3: Isaiah Win played incredibly fast and fired off the football
Speaker 3: and really got some surge in the running game, which
Speaker 3: on those interior three positions, you know, the left guard
Speaker 3: spot for winning this game. You want to get that
Speaker 3: knockback and surge in the running game and try to
Speaker 3: create lanes up the middle to get those big running
Speaker 3: plays up the middle on your offensive attack. And I
Speaker 3: thought that when, especially when you factor in what we've
Speaker 3: heard from coach in the past, and offensive line coaches
Speaker 3: here and offensive coordinators talk about, you know, Frank Smith
Speaker 3: and Butch Berry and obviously Mike McDaniel talk about is
Speaker 3: playing fast off the ball, and the players talk about
Speaker 3: it and they want to fire off and trust the
Speaker 3: process of you know, we're going to put you in
Speaker 3: positions to play fast and not worry about the vulnerability
Speaker 3: that comes with that of making mistakes or over running
Speaker 3: a player, over running your block and putting yourself in
Speaker 3: a bad position, and that.
Speaker 2: Trust fall that coach talked about.
Speaker 3: For a guy Isaiah Win who came over from a
Speaker 3: primary gap man scheme in New England and you know,
Speaker 3: put his best foot forward on the first game of
Speaker 3: his career in the Miami Dolphins uniform in this system
Speaker 3: that does prioritize the way they come off the ball,
Speaker 3: I thought that was super impressive. Attached to some blocks,
Speaker 3: got some pancakes, move guys around and create some lanes.
Speaker 3: So I thought Isaiah Winn did really well in his
Speaker 3: first game as a Miami Dolphin at that left guard spot.
Speaker 3: The quarterback competition, if you want to call it that,
Speaker 3: then two job between Mike White and Skyler Thompson.
Speaker 2: Now the statistics they're not.
Speaker 3: Going to do those guys in your favorites, go ahead
Speaker 3: and read those off here real quick. So for Skyler
Speaker 3: in the game, he of course played the second half.
Speaker 3: He was ten for sixteen with one hundred and four yards,
Speaker 3: two interceptions, and was sacked four times. That was kind
Speaker 3: of the main takeaway late in the game was in
Speaker 3: again the coach we'll talk about this was just how
Speaker 3: difficult it was kind of you know, rowing upstream for
Speaker 3: Skyler Thompson to get anything accomplished with the pressure bearing down.
Speaker 3: And he talked about in his postgame press conference as
Speaker 3: well that he didn't really he kind of got confused
Speaker 3: by a couple of the pressure looks we saw from
Speaker 3: the Falcons in this game and maybe held the ball
Speaker 3: a little bit too long and took some of those shots.
Speaker 3: But not his you know, best game statistically. We saw
Speaker 3: him really tear it up last preseason, but a rough
Speaker 3: night for him with a forty one points having a
Speaker 3: passer rating, and then for Mike White as well, nine
Speaker 3: for fourteen eighty five yards and a pick and just
Speaker 3: the one sec but a fifty one point two passer rating.
Speaker 3: And I thought Mike missed two throws that were really
Speaker 3: the difference in his night. One was the I mentioned
Speaker 3: the mesh concept to Braxon Barrios where he ran that
Speaker 3: route over the middle of the field, that fourth down
Speaker 3: on the end zone going away from the press box
Speaker 3: in the that was the first quarter, made the second quarter,
Speaker 3: but run in that direction. There was that mesh concept
Speaker 3: that that Brax and Barios got free on and the
Speaker 3: ball was a little bit back on the back hip
Speaker 3: back shoulder area and that allowed the dB to come
Speaker 3: over the top after he got beat on the rep
Speaker 3: initially by Barrios, and recover and get a pass break up.
Speaker 3: And then the throw the one that was picked off
Speaker 3: in the end zone again from Mike White, where he
Speaker 3: tried to find Tyler Croft. They ran that layer's concept
Speaker 3: where they had a short, intermediate and deep and Craig
Speaker 3: Craft went to the corner and it looked like he
Speaker 3: came up in for a moment, but White tried to
Speaker 3: jam the ball into a window to Tyler Croft, and
Speaker 3: I thought the decision was maybe to go to cray Craft.
Speaker 3: And also the window had kind of tightened up and
Speaker 3: he was late on the throw to Croft, and that
Speaker 3: allowed the dB to peel off of cray Craft and
Speaker 3: come back down and make that play gets deflected and
Speaker 3: then you know, tips in the end zone typically wind
Speaker 3: up getting caught by somebody.
Speaker 2: In this instance, it was the defense. So not the
Speaker 2: best showing for the quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: But again, like you know, everything, the context of all
Speaker 3: that is really what matters the most. In fact, coach
Speaker 3: touched on that and its press conference is a results thing.
Speaker 3: What do you look at in this quarterback competition so
Speaker 3: far and what do you make of it? Here's Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, It's what's important to keep in mind is
Speaker 4: there's a lot of things that go in You don't
Speaker 4: just look at it like, Okay, Mike did.
Speaker 1: Better than Skylar. It's not that it's much more complicated
Speaker 1: than that in terms of the opportunities both had and
Speaker 1: you know, Scalar needs an opportunity to play with the
Speaker 1: same guys that Mike played with, which you'll probably get
Speaker 1: next week, so they're you know, I think it's about
Speaker 1: how people learn react, and you know, especially with quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: you have to be very coachable. You know, there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a point where two is gonna be taking all
Speaker 1: the reps. You better be learning from the things that
Speaker 1: you did in the preseason and the things that two
Speaker 1: is learning from. So quite critical on the holy evaluation
Speaker 1: process is how guys move forward from here.
Speaker 2: So those are some of the main points I wanted
Speaker 2: to touch on here.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take our last break right here
Speaker 3: and just rip through the list of guys that I
Speaker 3: was impressed by, some plays that kind of stuck on
Speaker 3: my craw a little bit. Let's go ahead and break
Speaker 3: the rest of this game down here on the other
Speaker 3: side of the break. Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by Auto Nation. A nineteen to three
Speaker 3: preseason opening loss for the Miami Dolphins against the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3: The next time we're going to be home is Week
Speaker 3: three against the Denver Broncos on September twenty fourth, So
Speaker 3: a lot of road games coming your way. We're gonna
Speaker 3: have live practice reports on Twitter on the podcast, on
Speaker 3: the story on Miami Dolphins dot Com from Houston next week,
Speaker 3: the game on Saturday, then of course Jacksonville Week three,
Speaker 3: and then it's here.
Speaker 2: Man, football is only thirty.
Speaker 3: Days away, so it's coming very quickly down the pipeline. Here.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and talk about some of the names
Speaker 3: that I thought stood out in this game. I broke
Speaker 3: them into halfs because some of these guys played multiple
Speaker 3: halfs obviously, but that was easier for me to go
Speaker 3: that way. So running back Miles Gaskin kind of I
Speaker 3: think is one of the first ones you look at,
Speaker 3: and just the patience and the vision that he showed
Speaker 3: I thought was really reminiscent of twenty twenty Miles Gaskin
Speaker 3: when he had that really good year where he was
Speaker 3: the feature back in this offense, you know, running and catching.
Speaker 3: Big game for him tonight, that big game out to
Speaker 3: the right side where he made a couple of moves,
Speaker 3: made guys miss and found open space. Looked like him
Speaker 3: run through the Apple Cup once again against my Washington.
Speaker 2: State Cougar's there for a little bit.
Speaker 3: Seven carries, fifty seven yards, that thirty five yard long
Speaker 3: rush also, and then of course in the passing game,
Speaker 3: also had two catches for twenty yards, so seventy seven
Speaker 3: yards from Miles Gaskin. Good showing from the veteran running
Speaker 3: back in this game. I thought that mentioned Isaiah Win.
Speaker 3: I thought Eric Azukama was really good. And how nice
Speaker 3: is it when you are on a topic on and
Speaker 3: on and on and on, and Seth and Oj gave
Speaker 3: me crap for us in the postgame show and then
Speaker 3: you kind of get confirmation of it quickly after the fact.
Speaker 3: But Eric Zuokoma with the football in his hands, he
Speaker 3: can do some stuff. Now, man, that's his Texas Tech tape.
Speaker 3: That's kind of what I've felt. I've seen it here
Speaker 3: at training camp, although it's not live and you can't
Speaker 3: really judge, you know, ball carriers as well.
Speaker 2: But he's big, he's strong.
Speaker 3: He took off that they flashed next gen stats up
Speaker 3: on the big board at one point in the game.
Speaker 3: And on his thirty nine yard rush attempt at the
Speaker 3: end of round that he took, he hit a top
Speaker 3: speed of twenty point five miles per hour on that run,
Speaker 3: So really impressive long speed for a guy that can,
Speaker 3: you know, go out high point the football and just
Speaker 3: looks just looks like a football player.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: I think that Azukama's ability to kind of create some space.
Speaker 3: There was a throat to the flat to Devon a
Speaker 3: Chain where Azukama ran a dig that really was important
Speaker 3: to hold the attention of the defense vertically, just to
Speaker 3: open that space underneath. And I thought the way he
Speaker 3: got into that route and really snapped that thing off
Speaker 3: took the attention of the dB, who was also concerned
Speaker 3: about the speed of getting pressed on that vertical route.
Speaker 3: I thought that Azukama's route on that play opened up.
Speaker 2: The space for Devon a Chain.
Speaker 3: I could be wrong, that's what I saw, but I
Speaker 3: just think he looks really sharp in the things that
Speaker 3: he's doing right now for this football team. I mentioned
Speaker 3: Braxon Barrios, you know, Mike White talked about it on
Speaker 3: the podcast.
Speaker 2: Or in his press conference that I played in the podcast.
Speaker 3: I don't know how many days ago was that in camp,
Speaker 3: but we could go ten days ago, I don't know.
Speaker 3: But he talked about the way Braxton is able to
Speaker 3: you know, feel soft spots and zone understanding, like the
Speaker 3: lean of defensive backs and where their coverage might be
Speaker 3: kind of catered towards, and how he can pick up
Speaker 3: heart soft spots and just run away from guys in
Speaker 3: man coverage, which that mesh concept, you know, running away
Speaker 3: from him trying to pick a rug from the linebacker
Speaker 3: or from the receiver that you're meshing with in that
Speaker 3: middle part of the field.
Speaker 2: We saw that. We saw him pick apart zone coverage.
Speaker 3: Just a couple of third down opportunities or a third
Speaker 3: down conversion and a fourth down opportunity for a touchdown
Speaker 3: that just didn't happen. But I thought Braxon Barrios really
Speaker 3: put his best foot forward in that regard. Jalen Twyeman
Speaker 3: got on the board of the sack, but I thought
Speaker 3: that his best pass rush rep was an assist on
Speaker 3: a sack, although he didn't get the half but it
Speaker 3: was picked up by Mitchel Lagude because Jalen Twyman put
Speaker 3: a little swite move where the offensive lineman threw his
Speaker 3: punk and Twinement swiped his hands off and then got
Speaker 3: around him. Really impressive interior rush. He's pretty strong in
Speaker 3: the upper body and he showed that off so far
Speaker 3: throughout camp.
Speaker 2: Didn't love the penalty.
Speaker 3: Late he tried to get a touch on the quarterback
Speaker 3: whose slip put a hand on the head, got a
Speaker 3: fifteen yard penalty.
Speaker 2: Can't do that.
Speaker 3: That was a mistake late in the game, but overall,
Speaker 3: nice performance by you. Then Twyman mentioned DeShawn Hans showing here,
Speaker 3: showing up, you know, last week or earlier in the
Speaker 3: week and showing up and having an impact and playing
Speaker 3: somebody snap speaks to his conditioning. Was impressed by the
Speaker 3: showing that he had. Garrett Nelson had a sack and
Speaker 3: it was pure effort, which is exactly what he is.
Speaker 3: The edge rusher from Nebraska who got on the upfield shoulder,
Speaker 3: leaned into the rusher and just bent that arc and
Speaker 3: worked and worked and worked to get an impressive sack
Speaker 3: in his NFL debut. I thought, Noah, Igbinogny, you know,
Speaker 3: minimal reps, but really showed you again the things that
Speaker 3: he's been showing us in camp that I think have
Speaker 3: improved the instincts of the feel and just the understanding
Speaker 3: of how to play within the structure of the defense
Speaker 3: and not necessarily just like Okay, I'm in cover three,
Speaker 3: go cover the deep portion, the deep third of the field. Like,
Speaker 3: I think he has a better understanding of how to
Speaker 3: adapt the coverage based upon what is happening in front
Speaker 3: of him.
Speaker 2: And he had a ball that.
Speaker 3: Was caught on him, but he was in great shape
Speaker 3: for and he flipped the hips, drove out of the
Speaker 3: back pedal, and really showed you the explosive movement that
Speaker 3: made him a first round pick. A few years back,
Speaker 3: I thought Elijah Campbell had a really good rep coming
Speaker 3: from depth from that safety position, flowing downhill and making
Speaker 3: a big tackle in the backfield.
Speaker 2: And then channing Tendall.
Speaker 3: Man, I think there's gonna be ups and downs with
Speaker 3: Tendall's he kind of gets more and more football under
Speaker 3: his belt. Just played like four hundred something snaps on
Speaker 3: defense at Georgia, only played a few snaps last year.
Speaker 3: It's gonna take some time, especially in a new defense,
Speaker 3: for him to get fully comfortable and play at that
Speaker 3: full speed.
Speaker 2: But when you see him go, man, he goes.
Speaker 3: He was also on that next Gen leaderboard for fastest runs.
Speaker 3: He was up pushing towards twenty miles an hour as well.
Speaker 3: So I was impressed by Tindall. And I didn't even
Speaker 3: know this until Seth brought up in the post game show,
Speaker 3: but he had quite a night in the box score
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 2: How many tackles was it ten? Total?
Speaker 3: Tackles and had a sack in the game as well.
Speaker 3: Pretty impressive from the second year line. I keep looking at,
Speaker 3: you know, the rookie report here, like a Chain had
Speaker 3: a really impressive game with the way that he caught
Speaker 3: the ball and ran the ball as well. And I
Speaker 3: thought that he showed you the speed in space. OJ
Speaker 3: mentioned the toughest between the tackles that he displayed the
Speaker 3: stats ten jump off the page at you with devon
Speaker 3: a Chain, But he sure just kind of proved I
Speaker 3: think some of the things that folks wanted to see
Speaker 3: in terms of toughness between the tackles. He had four
Speaker 3: catches for forty one yards and one of those was
Speaker 3: a big first down conversion on third down where he
Speaker 3: took a pop over the middle of the field and
Speaker 3: got right back up. So toughness from that young man
Speaker 3: and just the rookie class man the rookie class plus
Speaker 3: the guys from last year who we heard from Chris
Speaker 3: Greer and Marvin Allen say that the idea behind drafting
Speaker 3: those guys was a little bit more of a two
Speaker 3: year projection than expecting rookie year impact. And we heard
Speaker 3: Wes Welker talk about Azukama feeling more comfortable in the
Speaker 3: system this year, and for Tyndall learning a new system,
Speaker 3: but he's playing faster.
Speaker 2: It looks like a training camp.
Speaker 3: So getting these young guys that are going to be
Speaker 3: important pieces to run out the backside of your roster
Speaker 3: to compliment you know, Tyreek and Jalen and Tua and
Speaker 3: Tehran and all these you know, star players that you have.
Speaker 3: Those guys are going to be vital pieces to give you,
Speaker 3: you know, good quality production throughout the course of the
Speaker 3: roster and give you depth. And I think that they
Speaker 3: showed tonight they can be guys that can contribute, you know,
Speaker 3: down the road for your team. So those are the
Speaker 3: guys in the first half I noticed the second half,
Speaker 3: I gotta start with another rookie here, a couple of
Speaker 3: guys actually in Cam.
Speaker 2: Smith and Kedron Smith.
Speaker 3: I thought that Cam Smith had one of the best
Speaker 3: reps I've seen, really again from a rookie cornerback in
Speaker 3: this team in a long time. And it's what I've
Speaker 3: been seeing all training camp long. Where he was after
Speaker 3: making a great tackle for loss, after Josiah Bronson got
Speaker 3: penetration to force a running back to bubble down in
Speaker 3: the red zone. Here comes Cam Smith from you know,
Speaker 3: from depth and comes down and makes a big play
Speaker 3: in the backfield. Kind of got shooken up. Had to
Speaker 3: leave the game after the series, but he didn't. That
Speaker 3: didn't stop him from making a play on the very
Speaker 3: next snap where Kedrin Smith gets a pass break up,
Speaker 3: and it's very impressive from Kadrin Smith. But the way
Speaker 3: that I saw Cam Smith react to that play where
Speaker 3: they ran like a little seven flat combination a corner
Speaker 3: route and a flat route trying to put the two
Speaker 3: dbs in peril on that side of the field, and
Speaker 3: Kedron got over the top to make the pass breakup,
Speaker 3: but you saw cam Smith really sink into that cloud
Speaker 3: part and pass off the flat route like he's not
Speaker 3: going to hurt me here on third and goal, I
Speaker 3: can get depth and go impact the corner route and
Speaker 3: he damn near got to pick out of that play.
Speaker 3: So he got, you know, one more step that might
Speaker 3: be an interception going back to the way. So Cam Smith,
Speaker 3: I thought, was very impressive in this game, also had
Speaker 3: a pass break up earlier that just showed you the
Speaker 3: speed and instincts and he looks the part man, let's
Speaker 3: go ahead and hear from Mike McDaniel on what he
Speaker 3: liked from his rookie cornerback in this game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, the I saw Cam as you'd want to
Speaker 1: see him, which is letting it go and trying to
Speaker 1: make some plays in the ball. You know, he was.
Speaker 1: I saw him get involved a couple of times. His
Speaker 1: energy was good, and you know, before looking at the tape,
Speaker 1: it felt like he was the competitor we were looking
Speaker 1: for from him. So I was happy with what he
Speaker 1: was doing out there.
Speaker 5: But again, we're going to dive into that tape, which
Speaker 5: will be fun, fun stuff.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow mentioned Heron Smith a couple of plays in the
Speaker 3: football on coverage. He just kind of been a playmaker
Speaker 3: since he got down here. I had the pick six
Speaker 3: in practice the other day, and I believe he was
Speaker 3: the scooper on the strip from no Eggbunoghany to take
Speaker 3: it back for a touchdown as well. So big plays
Speaker 3: from Kedron Smith. I mentioned Josiah Bronson had a couple
Speaker 3: of plays, big fan of Elijah Higgins game. Had that
Speaker 3: nice catch where he ran a route and broken play
Speaker 3: where Scaler Thompson scrambled and he had eyes back to
Speaker 3: the quarterback in the minute Skyler started to flee, Higgins
Speaker 3: came right back to the quarterback. They then schemed him
Speaker 3: open for a completion in the flat right after that.
Speaker 3: That I thought was really impressive. So big fan of
Speaker 3: Elijah Higgins game. And he had that holding call, which
Speaker 3: you know, get that ironed out, but I think that
Speaker 3: he really showed you kind of what he's capable of
Speaker 3: here in this first game. Brandon Peely has amazing power
Speaker 3: on the interior. That was some impressive work at that
Speaker 3: defensive tackle position, especially on that tackle for loss where
Speaker 3: he stacked it, strung it out, peaked the running back,
Speaker 3: shed the block and made the tackle. Impressed the stuff
Speaker 3: there from the rookie. And then Chris Brooks, another rookie,
Speaker 3: the running back from BYU. He's a physical guys and
Speaker 3: man like he was. He was dropping the shoulder, putting
Speaker 3: down some guys and really run through some tackles to
Speaker 3: the tune of five carries for twenty four yards, you know,
Speaker 3: four and a half yards per rush. The Dolphins averaged
Speaker 3: six yards per carry in this game. So the running
Speaker 3: game certainly found its footing. And again the stats favored Miami,
Speaker 3: but the critical plays favored the Falcons. In a big,
Speaker 3: big way. Some things that I thought were, you know,
Speaker 3: could be corrected. Was a couple of sacks early in
Speaker 3: the game were on some boot rolls with a tight end,
Speaker 3: had it like a green dog blitz to pick up.
Speaker 3: And that's a sign where a green dog blitz and
Speaker 3: the defender, you know, id's a guy that he's covering
Speaker 3: or staying in protection. They stay in protection, they're going
Speaker 3: to go ahead and blitz them. And on these boot
Speaker 3: legs we saw both Eric Saubert and Julian Hill miss
Speaker 3: blocks that led the sacks. In the quarterback, those are
Speaker 3: things I think you can get ironed out, which is
Speaker 3: a little bit of teaching him like a little bit
Speaker 3: of a put it on table and now you see it.
Speaker 3: Hopefully don't make the same mistake twice there. I thought
Speaker 3: the two sequence play on James Tunstall, who I thought
Speaker 3: I had some good blocks in the game, the rookie tackle.
Speaker 3: A couple of penalties back to back were killers in
Speaker 3: that game. Late game pass protection I thought had some
Speaker 3: issues off the right side there. There was a couple
Speaker 3: of plays where it looked like Lester Cotton and Keyon
Speaker 3: Smith kind of got crossed up. So get that stuff
Speaker 3: sorted out in practice here going forward. Aubrey Miller I
Speaker 3: think is often in good positions to make plays, but
Speaker 3: there was a couple of tackles he overran this game.
Speaker 3: I thought Mike Rose was similar in terms of how
Speaker 3: he was able to get in position to make plays,
Speaker 3: just couldn't quite finish them. But these are things to
Speaker 3: look at to say like we can take these and
Speaker 3: learn from them and get better next time around. So
Speaker 3: all in all, you know, not a pretty game, a
Speaker 3: lot to grow from, some performances that I think people
Speaker 3: want to have back a little bit there, but all
Speaker 3: in all, it's preseason football. We got a chance to
Speaker 3: watch the Dolphins play and I had a good time,
Speaker 3: had a good time doing the postgame show and bring
Speaker 3: this podcast to you guys as well. So that's the
Speaker 3: wrap up show, no podcast Tomorrow. Is gonna be back
Speaker 3: with you guys on Sunday for another show back here
Speaker 3: at Dolphins camp, and then we'll hit the next week
Speaker 3: running again with the Houston Texans, be in Houston for
Speaker 3: those joint practices and then of course the game on Saturday.
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