Speaker 1: Riding shotgun with me now here on the Drivetime Podcast
Speaker 1: previewing the wide receivers for Dolphins training camp twenty is
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jachim Grant Jachem. Good to see you again, men, man,
Speaker 1: I say to you too, Man, I appreciate you for
Speaker 1: having me. It feels like we just did this, doesn't it. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we we are previewing the receivers here on training camp
Speaker 1: and having number nineteen himself. He's in the areas on
Speaker 1: the ground. He is housing punts and kicks and Jachem
Speaker 1: Grant and Jachem staying healthy, staying active. How you doing, man,
Speaker 1: I'm doing good, man. I'm just grinding joint and joint
Speaker 1: family time and you know, planning a lot of calls
Speaker 1: of duty definitely, uh, but most of our spending most
Speaker 1: of my time grinding. Plus we'll hear from Jechem Grant
Speaker 1: and preview the entire room all of that and more
Speaker 1: on this Thursday, July the thirtieth edition of the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast. And we reported earlier this week the addition
Speaker 1: of three players to the reserve Slash COVID nineteen list,
Speaker 1: and that has been a source of daily news around
Speaker 1: the league so far as training camps kicked off this week,
Speaker 1: as we see some players added throughout the other thirty
Speaker 1: one franchises to that list as well well. Today, the
Speaker 1: first player in the NFL came off that list, and
Speaker 1: he is a Miami Dolphin, Benito Jones, the u d
Speaker 1: f a from Old Miss. He rejoined the defensive line,
Speaker 1: and so does another addition. By way of the way
Speaker 1: of her wire. We added Javarus Davis, a very impressive
Speaker 1: athlete to the defensive backfield on Monday and on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: another great athlete on defense courtesy of the three hundred
Speaker 1: plus pound defensive tackle and Ray Smith. Smith played his
Speaker 1: college ball at Boston College Brian Flores, his alma mater.
Speaker 1: He played in forty games, made one d and thirty
Speaker 1: eight tackles, and he signed as an undrafted free agent
Speaker 1: with the Lions after going undrafted in nineteen. Most recently
Speaker 1: he was with the forty Niners, but was recently waived
Speaker 1: and now was added by the Miami Dolphins. Smith had
Speaker 1: a super impressive Pro Day after college season and before
Speaker 1: that nineteen draft, measuring in the elite category on several
Speaker 1: areas of the Relative Athletics scorecard, again produced by Kent
Speaker 1: Platt of Relative Athletics scorecard dot com. Kent collects a
Speaker 1: cumulative score based upon the measurement and workout metrics, both
Speaker 1: from the combine and pro day numbers alike. He utilizes elite,
Speaker 1: average and poor classifications for each prospect than averages the
Speaker 1: metrics into one collective score. And Smith's total score out
Speaker 1: of ten was nine point six seven. And you might recall,
Speaker 1: for comparison's sake, the Dolphins cornerback Byron Jones, who broke
Speaker 1: the broad jump record, the world record for the broad
Speaker 1: jump at his combine, he scored a perfect ten with
Speaker 1: his crazy workout back before he was drafted his rookie year,
Speaker 1: and so Ray Smith a nine six seven out of ten.
Speaker 1: Smith did that by clocking a sub five forty time
Speaker 1: at four point nine three, And so just recall, this
Speaker 1: score does take into account the comparison of the position.
Speaker 1: So a four nine three forty yard dash for a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle obviously is going to be more impressive than
Speaker 1: a four nine three would be for a receiver or
Speaker 1: defensive back, and so forth and so on. A very
Speaker 1: impressive number for a three hundred and two pound defensive tackle.
Speaker 1: His twenty yards split was nearly a perfect ten. He
Speaker 1: ran it in two point seven six seconds, showing that
Speaker 1: explosive metric, and his ten yards split was not far behind,
Speaker 1: a score of nine point five four out of ten
Speaker 1: with an actual time of one point six eight seconds.
Speaker 1: Again getting out of the blocks getting out of the
Speaker 1: gate showing explosiveness off the line, and again another metric
Speaker 1: that measures explosiveness both the jumping metrics, the vertical and
Speaker 1: the broad He jumped thirty five inches vertically and nine
Speaker 1: ft eleven inches on the broad jump. Those scored out
Speaker 1: at nine point eight one and nine point nine respectively
Speaker 1: out of the hand total score. His shuttle time was
Speaker 1: four point four nine seconds and a three cone time
Speaker 1: of seven point to eight seconds, each of those scored
Speaker 1: in the Green Elite category. He also scored elite in
Speaker 1: the speed category, explosion category, as well as the agility category.
Speaker 1: You can find that tweet on my timeline at winkl NFL.
Speaker 1: I retweeted Kent Platt, who was at math bomb on Twitter.
Speaker 1: So Ray Smith is in, Benito Jones is back, and
Speaker 1: the Dolphins did make one more roster move on Wednesday
Speaker 1: with the release of cornerback Ryan Lewis. He was waived
Speaker 1: on Wednesday afternoon, and that's it for Dolphins News. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and talk about the Dolphins wide receiver room
Speaker 1: in accordance with the article up on Miami Dolphins dot com.
Speaker 1: We have done the receivers, the tight ends, and the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and today we're talking about those receivers, and we start
Speaker 1: with unc himself, Davante Parker, and he spoke last offseason
Speaker 1: after getting the new contract after his rookie contract had expired,
Speaker 1: about how he wanted to change his legacy and the
Speaker 1: perception of him in Miami with the new contract he took,
Speaker 1: and boy did he take an emphatic first step and
Speaker 1: doing just that this past season in nineteen, heading into
Speaker 1: the season, Parker talked a lot about his nutritional habits
Speaker 1: and workout habits and getting himself prepared for that twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen season. And I thought it showed up in training
Speaker 1: camp from the start, as he just looked slimmer, he
Speaker 1: looked sleeker. He was making big plays all over the
Speaker 1: football field and really showing out on the practice field
Speaker 1: in last year's training camp, and that, of course would
Speaker 1: translate into the regular season. He has five accrued seasons,
Speaker 1: all of them here in Miami as he enters year
Speaker 1: number six. Where's jersey number eleven from Louisville. He's twenty
Speaker 1: seven years old on opening day, so entering that real
Speaker 1: prime age of a player's career, and twenty nineteen again
Speaker 1: was the coming out party for Davante Parker. I've been
Speaker 1: breaking down his tape a lot this summer because I
Speaker 1: think it's fascinating to watch him really make plays down
Speaker 1: the football field, high pointing those contested catches and picking
Speaker 1: up chunks of yardage with a really high yards her
Speaker 1: reception rate, and of course finding the end zone with regularity.
Speaker 1: He earned that four year contract extension prior to the
Speaker 1: conclusion of the season and his career years saw the
Speaker 1: former first round pick finished fifth in the NFL and
Speaker 1: receiving yards with one thousand, two hundred and two yards.
Speaker 1: He tied for eighth in yards per reception, and he
Speaker 1: tied for fourth and touchdowns with nine scores on the season.
Speaker 1: He was unguardable at various points throughout the season, particularly
Speaker 1: in a victory against eventual NFC East champion Philadelphia. He
Speaker 1: caught seven passes in that game for one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards and two scores and really just put
Speaker 1: on a highlight reel show the entire day, going up
Speaker 1: and taking footballs off the helmets of defensive backs and
Speaker 1: really just making plays for Ryan Fitzpatrick, his quarterback. That
Speaker 1: was a lot of fun to watch, and it sparked
Speaker 1: a very very strong December for Davante Parker as he
Speaker 1: came on like gangbusters both before and after the contract
Speaker 1: extension had been agreed upon. And those sixty minutes unstoppable
Speaker 1: play really showed Parker at his best. The way he
Speaker 1: can kind of lean into the defensive back and really
Speaker 1: shield the defensive back with that big frame and the
Speaker 1: leaping ability, and he does so well to extend his arms.
Speaker 1: And I heard this comment on the Move the Sticks podcast,
Speaker 1: how you can tell about a receiver's trust that he
Speaker 1: has in himself and his own hands when they run
Speaker 1: dig routes which are just deep square in, you push upfield,
Speaker 1: you break inside, and the way a receiver can catch
Speaker 1: the football and stride without having to kind of gather himself.
Speaker 1: And you see that from Parker and the real trust
Speaker 1: in his hands and his ability to make plays. You
Speaker 1: also see it on the deep shots down the field
Speaker 1: because he kind of throws his body into the defensive
Speaker 1: back and does so well to make that defensive back
Speaker 1: pretty much have to go through his body, which of
Speaker 1: course is past interference if he wants to make a
Speaker 1: play on the football, and that has just generated big
Speaker 1: play after big play both last year and throughout his career.
Speaker 1: You go back to the season opener this year in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: he had a big play just like that. Go back
Speaker 1: to the season again against ball to more at home,
Speaker 1: a touchdown play on a play very similar to that
Speaker 1: where he elevates over the goal line and high points
Speaker 1: the football and brings it down. Did the same thing
Speaker 1: in a game against Cleveland as well. So he's been
Speaker 1: a known commodity that way, and this year he was
Speaker 1: just at his best in that department, and I think
Speaker 1: also in his route running and really every element of
Speaker 1: his game. He created separation from some of the game's
Speaker 1: best this year, producing some eye popping production against a
Speaker 1: pair of all Pro cornerbacks and division rival Buffalo and
Speaker 1: New England. In the last two games against Buffalo and
Speaker 1: New England the ladder matches of those two series, he
Speaker 1: combined for two hundred and seventy two yards on fifteen
Speaker 1: catches in those two games, and his consistent playmaking really
Speaker 1: earned the trust of first year Dolphins quarterback last season,
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, who had this to say after that Week
Speaker 1: seventeen win in New England. For us and for me
Speaker 1: as a quarterback, I'm always going to rely on my playmakers,
Speaker 1: and DeVante has been that guy all year long. There
Speaker 1: were a couple that maybe I didn't get in there
Speaker 1: make the throw or Stefan Gilmour did a good job with.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't going to shy away from a matchup,
Speaker 1: not because I don't respect the other guy, but because
Speaker 1: I have that much confidence in our guy. Davante really
Speaker 1: stepped up big today in that win. And up next
Speaker 1: on our list here going in order of jersey, number
Speaker 1: number fifteen, Albert Wilson, who has six accrued seasons in
Speaker 1: the NFL. He's entering his third in Miami. He is
Speaker 1: a Georgia State product. He will be twenty eight years
Speaker 1: old on opening day. He's a Port St. Port St.
Speaker 1: Lucy native, and when he's been healthy here in Miami,
Speaker 1: he's been uber productive. The guy has three trunks for legs.
Speaker 1: He is just thickly built, has a four four three
Speaker 1: forty time on his resume, going back to his pro
Speaker 1: day in college, and that combination of factors makes him
Speaker 1: one of the game's most difficult tackles once he has
Speaker 1: the football in his hands. We certainly saw that in
Speaker 1: the eighteen game against the Chicago Bears, where he basically
Speaker 1: took the Dolphins offense down the field a couple of
Speaker 1: times for big scores in that fourth quarter and through
Speaker 1: seven games in that season, and he led all qualifying
Speaker 1: receivers and Pro Football focuses, yards per route run metric,
Speaker 1: broken tackles, and yards after initial contact. In fact, you
Speaker 1: go back to the game against the Lions when he
Speaker 1: was injured, he and Golden Tate were kind of the
Speaker 1: Golden Standards pardon the pun for running with the football
Speaker 1: after the catch, and they were going back and forth
Speaker 1: in that game, taking the lead from one another, and
Speaker 1: Wilson wound up having the most after that game, even
Speaker 1: though he exited the game with an injury. But after
Speaker 1: averaging three point nine targets per game for the first
Speaker 1: thirteen games last season, more recently, Wilson caught seventeen of
Speaker 1: twenty three targets over the final three games and picked
Speaker 1: up one hundred and ninety seven yards, really showing some
Speaker 1: of that similar explosiveness that we saw back in eighteen
Speaker 1: and as far as his usage goes, last year, three
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two of Wilson's four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: nine offensive snaps came inside as a slot receiver. He
Speaker 1: averaged five and a half yards per route run from
Speaker 1: the slot in eighteen and last year caught seventy two
Speaker 1: point nine percent of his targets playing inside, being a
Speaker 1: playmaker at that slot position. But that's not all he is.
Speaker 1: He's a jack of all trades. He lined up in
Speaker 1: the backfield on twenty eight occasions during his two year
Speaker 1: tenure with Miami. He served as a wildcat trigger man.
Speaker 1: He took the football as the jet sweep motion man,
Speaker 1: and that goes towards receiving statistic, but he also basically
Speaker 1: has to carry the ball like a running back on
Speaker 1: those plays. Go back to the teen touchdown, the high
Speaker 1: five play with Jachem Grant that basically is a running play,
Speaker 1: but he scored on that passing play on the little
Speaker 1: pop pass. He takes handoffs from the shotgun as a
Speaker 1: ball carrier, and over those two years he has thirteen
Speaker 1: carries and sixty one yards with the Dolphins, and like Parker,
Speaker 1: Wilson really earned the admiration of his quarterback last season
Speaker 1: through his will, attitude, and work ethic. Fitzpatrick had this
Speaker 1: to say, Wilson's attitude is unbelievable. I don't know that
Speaker 1: I've played with many guys that I mean. He truly
Speaker 1: is happy when someone else makes a play. He really is.
Speaker 1: He's had to deal with a lot of adversity and
Speaker 1: things out of his troll in terms of some of
Speaker 1: the injuries and whatever else. He's worked really hard and
Speaker 1: is coming on as of late at the end of
Speaker 1: the season. Really the run after the catch ability and
Speaker 1: all of that. He's really shown that in the last
Speaker 1: few games. Up next on our wide Receiver Room preview
Speaker 1: is Gary Jennings. He has one season in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This is his second with the Dolphins. He wears number
Speaker 1: sixteen out of West Virginia. Gonna be twenty three years
Speaker 1: old on opening day, and he really tore up the
Speaker 1: Big twelve in two thousand eighteen, scored thirteen touchdowns and
Speaker 1: his final college season. Was drafted last year by the
Speaker 1: Seahawks in the fourth round, but was released mid season,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins picked him up off waivers, but he got
Speaker 1: a bad break in that first game with the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He was injured on the Jachem Grant one two yard
Speaker 1: kickoff return for a touchdown against the Buffalo Bills. So
Speaker 1: he only played nine snaps in all of nineteen and
Speaker 1: just one of those snaps on offense, So coming into
Speaker 1: year two, not a lot of on field experience. But
Speaker 1: his postseason work the year of his draft year, the
Speaker 1: Senior Bowl and the Combine that year where he ran
Speaker 1: a four point four to forty yard dash, really helped
Speaker 1: elevate his draft stock. They're coming out of West Virginia.
Speaker 1: NFL dot COM's Lance Zerline, their draft expert, had glowing
Speaker 1: praise for Jennings and his pre draft report, saying a
Speaker 1: possession receiver with impressive combination of size, speed, and contested
Speaker 1: catch toughness. Jennings was one of the fastest players at
Speaker 1: the Senior Bowl according to Zebra Technology tracking, and his
Speaker 1: four four two combine time and huge numbers and explosive
Speaker 1: testing are to sure to push him up draft boards.
Speaker 1: End quote there, and of course that pushed him up
Speaker 1: into the fourth round that year in the draft. Up
Speaker 1: next on our list is the uber reliable Alan Hearns.
Speaker 1: He has six accrued seasons in the NFL. This is
Speaker 1: his second in Miami. Where's number seventeen. He went to
Speaker 1: Miami and the U He's twenty eight years old on
Speaker 1: opening Day and he signed with the Dolphins last year
Speaker 1: on the first day of training camp and just developed
Speaker 1: from there into one of Ryan Fitzpatrick's most trusted targets.
Speaker 1: That reliability went up the change of the Dolphins brass
Speaker 1: as Hearns was rewarded with a two year contract extension
Speaker 1: back in November. Hearns caught sixty eight point one percent
Speaker 1: of his passes for thirteen yards per catch. He posted
Speaker 1: the second highest yards per target mark of his career
Speaker 1: last year at eight point nine. Only DeVante Parker played
Speaker 1: more snaps at wide receiver for the Dolphins last season
Speaker 1: then Alan Hearns and Herns versatility is perhaps his greatest asset.
Speaker 1: His workload was split almost evenly amongst slat and perimeter receiver.
Speaker 1: He played two hundred and fifty four snaps inside and
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty nine snaps rather outside. Twenty three
Speaker 1: of his thirty two catches occurred between the numbers and
Speaker 1: inside guy, toughness over the middle, and two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty nine of those four hundred and sixteen receiving yards
Speaker 1: came from the slot, including both of his touchdown catches.
Speaker 1: You might recall that impressive touchdown run he had against
Speaker 1: the Steelers, breaking tackles going into the end zone on
Speaker 1: Monday night, and Brian floor has really praised Herns for
Speaker 1: his toughness, one of the coaches key pillars of the program.
Speaker 1: As we know he wants to build here in Miami.
Speaker 1: As he had this to say about Herns after a
Speaker 1: December game against the Jets. Quote, he's dinged up. He
Speaker 1: played through some injuries last week. I thought he tough
Speaker 1: through it and was an impressive performance by him. This
Speaker 1: is a tough kid. He wants to play. If he
Speaker 1: can be out there, he'll be out there. End quote.
Speaker 1: So some nice words there from Brian Flores. And speaking
Speaker 1: of nice words, we have some nice words about our
Speaker 1: next player on this list from both his teammates and
Speaker 1: coaches alike. Preston Williams a rookie season last year, entering
Speaker 1: his second with the Miami Dolphins, number eighteen out of
Speaker 1: Colorado stake and to be twenty three years old on
Speaker 1: opening Day, and undrafted rookies always faced the greatest odds
Speaker 1: to make the roster out of training camp. It's even
Speaker 1: more difficult to make a significant impact in year one
Speaker 1: for a player that was passed over through seven rounds
Speaker 1: of the draft. But early on for Preston Williams, it
Speaker 1: was clear the Dolphins found a gem of the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen U d f a market. He made play after
Speaker 1: play in training camp. He'll recall the tweets, all the
Speaker 1: media people saying how good he was playing in training
Speaker 1: camp last year. He carried that over into the exhibition
Speaker 1: season and into the twenty nineteen season, scoring the first
Speaker 1: touchdown of the year for the Dolphins in that Baltimore game.
Speaker 1: Last year, he was lost for the year with an
Speaker 1: injury in Week nine and that win over the Jets,
Speaker 1: and at the time of his exit, he led the
Speaker 1: Dolphins in both receptions and receiving yards. But before he
Speaker 1: was making plays. On Sunday, teammate Xavien Howard shared with
Speaker 1: media what it was like to go up against Williams
Speaker 1: and practice, saying, quote that guy can be special. He's
Speaker 1: still learning. He's just a rookie. There was so much
Speaker 1: room for improvement with him, but he's going to be
Speaker 1: a number one receiver one day and quote, and he
Speaker 1: expanded on that comment, mentioning his experience facing the league's
Speaker 1: best receivers, giving Howard an understanding of what it takes
Speaker 1: to be a number one receiver as a variety of
Speaker 1: traits helped contribute to Williams ability to create separation and
Speaker 1: make plays down the football field. He's six ft five,
Speaker 1: but he really has a good ability to both get
Speaker 1: vertical and sink his hips and come off the stem
Speaker 1: of the route and get in out of breaks. And
Speaker 1: that work throughout last offseason earned the praise of some
Speaker 1: Dolphins coach is, including last year's receivers coach, who of
Speaker 1: course earned a head coaching job in the college ranks,
Speaker 1: in Carl Durrell. He said this about Williams, quote, we
Speaker 1: were fortunate that after the draft and he wasn't picked,
Speaker 1: and we said, wow, here's a great opportunity to work
Speaker 1: with a kid that has tremendous potential. Well he lived
Speaker 1: up to that. He's a fun kid to coach, a
Speaker 1: very bubbly personality, a very confident kid. And quote, and
Speaker 1: Williams played almost exclusively on the outside. In his rookie season,
Speaker 1: three hundred eighty six of his four hundred four offensive
Speaker 1: snaps came in the wide alignment, and he also served
Speaker 1: as the team's primary punt returner for four games, averaging
Speaker 1: eleven point five yards per return on the season. Up next,
Speaker 1: Jechiem Grant has four accrued seasons, all of him in Miami,
Speaker 1: entering year number five. The sixth round draft pick in sixteen,
Speaker 1: he wears number nineteen out of Texas Tech. He'll be
Speaker 1: twenty seven on opening Day as well. And once a
Speaker 1: player breaks that proverbial tape, so to speak, on their
Speaker 1: forty yard dash at the scouting combine, he's never going
Speaker 1: to run that drill again. And in the sixteen rounds
Speaker 1: to the draft, Grant reportedly clocked a four point one
Speaker 1: time has taken on a handheld timer at his Texas
Speaker 1: Tech Pro day. That would have been the fastest time
Speaker 1: in the history of the NFL had it been clocked
Speaker 1: at the scouting combine. Either way, Jachem Grant can flat
Speaker 1: out scoot. The receiver who moonlights as a return man
Speaker 1: is more than just a straight line burner. He's appointment
Speaker 1: viewing in Dolphins one on one drills at practice with
Speaker 1: plenty of shake, A few players can create immediate separation
Speaker 1: off the line like Grant. He brings all the us
Speaker 1: and ows out of the fans at training camp at practice.
Speaker 1: During his four year career, Grant has scored eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: and those house calls they usually come from long distance.
Speaker 1: He has touchdowns of one o two, one oh one,
Speaker 1: seventy four, seventy one, sixty five and fifty two yards
Speaker 1: in his career. He can provide that instant sparked to
Speaker 1: the Dolphins both on offense and on special teams, and
Speaker 1: the team showed its belief in Grant last summer with
Speaker 1: a contract extension. Flora's spoke to the reasons that he
Speaker 1: felt it was important to get that media or to
Speaker 1: get that deal done rather saying quote, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: a big proponent of the kicking game. So his value
Speaker 1: as a kick returner, punt returner, and his ability to
Speaker 1: make big plays in those areas, I think it's very important.
Speaker 1: As a receiver, there's obviously a dynamic player here. This
Speaker 1: guy's fast, this guy's elusive, he's strong for a little guy,
Speaker 1: and he works hard. Football is very important to him
Speaker 1: and being part of This team is very important to him,
Speaker 1: so congratulations to him on that contract. I think it
Speaker 1: was well deserved and we're happy to have him and
Speaker 1: quote up. Next on our list, we jump into the
Speaker 1: eighties jersey numbers and undrafted rookie Matt Cole out of mckendrey.
Speaker 1: He wears number eighty two. He'll be twenty three years
Speaker 1: old on opening Day and every year. A really cool
Speaker 1: story here Sports illustrateds Kalin Caller chooses a draft eligible
Speaker 1: sleeper for his prospect x A deep Sleeper, a feature
Speaker 1: he writes for the magazine for the website, and that
Speaker 1: distinction went to mckendred University's Matt Cole. In Coal caught
Speaker 1: forty three passes for nine hundred and thirty nine yards
Speaker 1: and twelve touchdowns last year. He also averaged twenty seven
Speaker 1: point two yards on kick returns and twenty six yards
Speaker 1: on punt returns, and scored from one hundred on kickoff
Speaker 1: and seventy four from a punt on special teams. Again,
Speaker 1: go back to Flora as has mentioned of how important
Speaker 1: it is to be successful in the kicking game. Cole
Speaker 1: is listed at five ft ten one nineties seven pounds.
Speaker 1: He participated in Northwesterns Pro Day in March, where he
Speaker 1: clocked a four four eight in the forty yard dash
Speaker 1: and thirty seven and a half inches on the vertical
Speaker 1: up next number eighty three. Another of the two Dolphins
Speaker 1: U d f as added this offseason, Kirk Merritt out
Speaker 1: of Arkansas State. He's twenty three years old as well.
Speaker 1: On the opening day the second of the two U
Speaker 1: d f A signings, hoping to make the roster here
Speaker 1: for the Miami Dolphins, and his college career began at
Speaker 1: Oregon and concluded in the Sun Belt at Arkansas State,
Speaker 1: but also how to Stop midway through at East Mississippi
Speaker 1: Community College that, of of course, the school featured on
Speaker 1: Netflix's Last Chance You. He scored nine team touchdowns in
Speaker 1: his two years with the Red Wolves at Arkansas State,
Speaker 1: and he clips the one thousand yard mark with one
Speaker 1: thousand five receiving yards. And Nike host an annual football camp,
Speaker 1: the opening for the best high school football players in
Speaker 1: the country. Back in merit captured the Spark National Title
Speaker 1: as the camp's best overall athlete. The events calculated and
Speaker 1: Spark score include a forty yard dash, a shuttle run,
Speaker 1: a powerball toss, which is basically a medicine ball throw
Speaker 1: and a vertical leap. So At six ft tall two
Speaker 1: eight pounds, he is athletic and he recorded one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty three catches one thousand, eight hundred eleven receiving
Speaker 1: yards at Arkansas State. Up next incumbent receiver Dolphins Isaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: He has three accrued seasons with the Dolphins, entering his
Speaker 1: fourth in Miami. He wears number eighty four out of
Speaker 1: Virginia Tech. Gonna be twenty four years old on opening Day,
Speaker 1: and the Dolphins receiver room is just chalk full of
Speaker 1: players that have battled adversity and overcome it in their careers,
Speaker 1: and perhaps none more than Isaiah Ford. He was a
Speaker 1: seventh round draft pick in two thousand seventeen. Ford's rookie
Speaker 1: season ended before it started with that injury in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He played sparingly inen and just three fourths of the
Speaker 1: way through nineteen before seizing an opportunity down the stretch
Speaker 1: last year. Over those final four games, Ford caught twenty
Speaker 1: one of twenty nine pass targets. That's good for a
Speaker 1: seventy two percent completion rate for two d and thirty
Speaker 1: four yards. That's good for eight point one yards per
Speaker 1: target and fifteen first downs on those twenty one catches.
Speaker 1: Four of those chain moving plays came on the critical
Speaker 1: third down. He's a grinder, a player who embodies the
Speaker 1: principles coach Flora's preaches. At the conclusion of training camp practices,
Speaker 1: Ford could be found getting extra work every single day
Speaker 1: after practice with Ryan Fitzpatrick. He had this to say
Speaker 1: the quarterback did about Isaiah Ford. I said this the
Speaker 1: last few weeks about Ford, but he's a special guy,
Speaker 1: a guy that you can just rely on in any situation.
Speaker 1: And Ford earned an opportunity to showcase that hard work
Speaker 1: when Miami lost a pair of their starting receivers in
Speaker 1: a Week fourteen game against the Jets, Parker and Wilson
Speaker 1: in that game, and his knowledge of the Dolphins offense
Speaker 1: proved valuable for his ability to communicate to his teammates
Speaker 1: both alignment and assignment. This from Coach Flores, I thought
Speaker 1: Isaiah stepped in, played every position from a receiver standpoint,
Speaker 1: got some guys lined up, made some big catches, and
Speaker 1: made a nice run after the catch there in the
Speaker 1: third quarter end quote. And we conclude the receiver room
Speaker 1: here with Dolphins receiver Mac Hollins, who has three accrued
Speaker 1: seasons in the NFL, entering number two with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: He wears number eighties six out of North Carolina. He'll
Speaker 1: be twenty six on opening Day, and Flora's makes no
Speaker 1: secret about the fact that he keeps a close eye
Speaker 1: on the transaction wire and scouting players around the league.
Speaker 1: So when mac Hollins became available on waivers mid season
Speaker 1: last year, the Dolphins pounced on him. Flora said this quote,
Speaker 1: I watched everybody, the guys we brought in, I watched
Speaker 1: them all, and we feel good about them. Mac Collins,
Speaker 1: for instance, he's a tough, physical receiver, plays in the
Speaker 1: kicking game. He's had some production offensively and in the
Speaker 1: kicking game. We like him and quote. And Hollins played
Speaker 1: a lot in both phases, both offense and special teams
Speaker 1: last season, both with Philadelphia and Miami. He totaled five
Speaker 1: hundred thirty four snaps with more than twenty reps on
Speaker 1: both coverage and return units on both punt and kickoffs,
Speaker 1: so over a hundred snaps there on special teams. He
Speaker 1: even logged a snap on defense to help fort that
Speaker 1: final play in New England the lateral play in that
Speaker 1: win up in New England. Hollins has twenty six catches
Speaker 1: for three hundred and fifty one yards and one touchdown
Speaker 1: over his three year NFL career, all of that production
Speaker 1: coming with the Philadelphia Eagles. All right, let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get now to my interview with Dolphins receiver Jakeem Grant.
Speaker 1: We recorded this interview a while back here on the
Speaker 1: Drivetime podcast. Let's go ahead and here from Dolphins receiver
Speaker 1: Jachem Grant and writing shotgun with me now here on
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. Previewing the wide receivers for Dolphins training
Speaker 1: camp twenty is wide receiver Jachem Grant. Keim, good to
Speaker 1: see you again, man, Man, I say you too, Man.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you for having me. It feels like we
Speaker 1: just did this, doesn't it. Yeah, well, we we are
Speaker 1: previewing the receivers here on training camp and having number
Speaker 1: nineteen himself. He's in the areas on the ground. He
Speaker 1: is housing punts and kicks and Jachem Grant and Jachem
Speaker 1: staying healthy, staying active. How you doing, man, I'm doing good, man.
Speaker 1: I'm just tell you that grinding joint and joint family time,
Speaker 1: and you know, playing a lot of calls to doom definitely, uh,
Speaker 1: but most of all, spending most of my time grinding,
Speaker 1: you know, in in the family town and TV shows. Man,
Speaker 1: I can't get enough the TV shows. And so now
Speaker 1: I'm I'm open to watching some more TV shows. Well,
Speaker 1: have you seen Breaking Bad? No? Oh? Man, if you're
Speaker 1: an Ozark fan, that's that's where you go next. Okay,
Speaker 1: and then you and then you got better call Saul
Speaker 1: to spin off. Seriously, you've got like eleven seasons worth
Speaker 1: of like really good TV right there. You can. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's your free time for the next several months
Speaker 1: right there. Man. I'm you're gonna if you like Ozaka,
Speaker 1: you're gonna love that's good stuff. But I'm curious to
Speaker 1: get your take here because we've we've seen the workout videos.
Speaker 1: We've seen you putting in the work every single day.
Speaker 1: You mentioned two days on an earlier podcast. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to know, like, because I'm always fascinated by football players
Speaker 1: and and the finally two machines talking to a guy
Speaker 1: who's got a Mustang behind him here in your zoom photo,
Speaker 1: your zoom background. I'm always curious to know, like what
Speaker 1: the what the regiments like as far as workout and
Speaker 1: nutrition and things you put in your body, how you
Speaker 1: get ready, Like what what's a what's a daily meal plan?
Speaker 1: Like what's the workout schedule like for you right now? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm typically not I will start off with my meals.
Speaker 1: I'm typically not a breakfast guy. I probably grab a bar,
Speaker 1: some water and stuff like that because I'm not a
Speaker 1: breakfast guy. I don't like to eat before more in
Speaker 1: the workouts and stuff like that, because no matter what,
Speaker 1: it always makes me nausea whenever I work, I'm working
Speaker 1: out hard whenever I eat like a big meal so um.
Speaker 1: But after that, you know, um, I always get I
Speaker 1: have meal preps um. So I always have my meals
Speaker 1: like basically sought out for me, and I eat those
Speaker 1: like I probably like eat like my breakfast meal in
Speaker 1: the lunch meal for lunch, like right after I finished
Speaker 1: working out, because I know I lost a lot of
Speaker 1: calories and I have to put that stuff back in
Speaker 1: so um. Basically, man, me, I'm I don't have a
Speaker 1: I'm good at my weight. I can continue. I can
Speaker 1: eat as much as I want. Um. I do eat
Speaker 1: healthy and I eat as much as I want, and
Speaker 1: probably like I have, I've been blessed to where I
Speaker 1: don't I don't gain a lot of weight, you know,
Speaker 1: so I can continue to do that. And a lot
Speaker 1: of people get jealous, like how can't you just sit
Speaker 1: there and eat so much food and and and not
Speaker 1: gain anyway, And I was like, man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I've been blessed with a fashion tabolism, so it's just
Speaker 1: goes away, man. And so but workouts, when it comes
Speaker 1: to the workouts, you know, I work up, work up
Speaker 1: earlier in the morning, Um, get worked on, getting my
Speaker 1: body worked on before I always get stressed deep tissue. Um,
Speaker 1: make sure they get all the knocks out and stuff
Speaker 1: before I get ready to workout. And yeah, I do
Speaker 1: my always do my lifting first and then next thing,
Speaker 1: um working on you know, conditioning. And then after that
Speaker 1: I'm doing you know footwork stuff, making sure everything is
Speaker 1: on point, making sure I'm coming in and out of
Speaker 1: my breaks. Um, well there's no extra steps. Um also
Speaker 1: working on handout cornation, and just continue to just repeat
Speaker 1: the cycle the next day, like I'm always doing that,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's got to continue to getting that
Speaker 1: routine of doing the same thing over and over again,
Speaker 1: so that way, whenever you get out on the field,
Speaker 1: it's just become second nature. Yeah, stacking up those bricks, right,
Speaker 1: putting down a foundation every single day. That's part of
Speaker 1: Brian flooress message. And it's it's fun to watch you
Speaker 1: guys evolving and and put that foundation together. And one
Speaker 1: of the players that really took advantage of that message
Speaker 1: last year was Davanta Parker. And I want to ask you,
Speaker 1: you and Devanta are good buddies, and I swear you
Speaker 1: guys gotta get something together like the Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Speaker 1: Danny DeVito is at the Twins movie, like, you guys
Speaker 1: got to do a remake of that of some sort
Speaker 1: because it's just too perfect. Since you're such good buddies.
Speaker 1: But back to the football field, what what what did
Speaker 1: you see in Devonte last year that was so different
Speaker 1: for him to come out and have that major yard
Speaker 1: nine touchdown season And what can you take away from
Speaker 1: his breakout year? Um, I would just say that for one,
Speaker 1: him being healthy and staying on top of and maintaining
Speaker 1: his body like and just staying on top of it.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing him getting worked on before practice earlier
Speaker 1: in the morning, before even before meetings and after practice,
Speaker 1: after he gets out of the coach up and how
Speaker 1: to you know, he's always getting his body worked on.
Speaker 1: And I would just say, man, his personality, right, his
Speaker 1: personality just totally changed, like once that one Svante Gotta,
Speaker 1: I would say, like a shark. Once the shark snow
Speaker 1: blood in the water. It just he went into attack mode.
Speaker 1: And I and I always told me, I'm like, man,
Speaker 1: you're a dog. Man, I know that you're a dog.
Speaker 1: Like go out there and take it, go out there
Speaker 1: and show. As soon as he got that little taste
Speaker 1: of you know, run this round, get out of rounds.
Speaker 1: Gods can't stop me. I'm too big, I'm too fast,
Speaker 1: I'm too strong. And once he knew that, I think
Speaker 1: his his mentality was just to kill inside it now
Speaker 1: And so I loved it. I told him I was
Speaker 1: every game, even like whenever I was, you know, before
Speaker 1: I even got hurt, you know, I was just I was.
Speaker 1: I was admired that I was just like man's. It
Speaker 1: was about time. It was about time that he came
Speaker 1: out and showed people. And he could. He could do
Speaker 1: it back to back every every year. All he got
Speaker 1: to do is continue to put up that that same effort,
Speaker 1: take care of his body, um, continue to train like
Speaker 1: he's training, and go out there and have that same
Speaker 1: mentality like you can't be stopped. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: he did. He basically he shot the world. He made people,
Speaker 1: uh respect DeVante Parker. He showed a lot of guys
Speaker 1: that he's here to stay and he's not going nowhere,
Speaker 1: and he's a force to be reckond with. He had
Speaker 1: one of my favorite quotes that came from Joe Shadd
Speaker 1: last year from the Palm Beach Post, who said that
Speaker 1: when he signed that new contract with the Dolphins that
Speaker 1: he wanted to change his legacy in Miami. And I
Speaker 1: just found that so respectful for a guy to to
Speaker 1: really to take it upon himself to make that change
Speaker 1: and to get himself into a new light. As far
Speaker 1: as the way fans perceived him, I think that definitely happened.
Speaker 1: You look around Twitter or social media, Dolphins fans. Everyone
Speaker 1: loves Davantae Parker and he's it's rightfully so. He's a
Speaker 1: nice guy, good guy, and he went out there and
Speaker 1: just kicked as last year. And I can't imagine what
Speaker 1: kind of confidence that gives a quarterback when he can
Speaker 1: go up there and just pluck the ball away on
Speaker 1: those fifty fifty balls, which really are you know, nine
Speaker 1: ten balls at this point with him. But I do
Speaker 1: want to stay on theme here and and go back
Speaker 1: to another one of your teammates, because from my money team,
Speaker 1: we are good at receiver, Like we've got play makers
Speaker 1: all over the damn place, and one of those guys
Speaker 1: a second year pro, Preston Williams. What do you like
Speaker 1: about Preston's game, Preston Man. Uh, Definitely an interesting interesting
Speaker 1: basically personality is through the roof man. I love Preston Man.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a young He's the young buck. I
Speaker 1: always keep us laughing. Probably the joker the jokes there
Speaker 1: in our own um man uh man, big guy, bigger
Speaker 1: and taller than Devonte um. But man, he he has
Speaker 1: great hands to do up there, a phenomenal route running.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can if you those fifty fifty balls,
Speaker 1: I'll say those those are nine balls for him too
Speaker 1: as well. Like dude can go up there and grab it,
Speaker 1: he can jump, he can do everything, and so I
Speaker 1: think him and DeVante are are definitely similar. Um uh
Speaker 1: he would have had he was having an extraordinary season
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. Um. He also does uh partner
Speaker 1: turn as well, and so I think there's no limitations
Speaker 1: on what he can do. He's a he's a he's
Speaker 1: definitely Uh. You've never seen a probably what six six
Speaker 1: punt returner back there, you know, return to point. So, man,
Speaker 1: I'm telling Preston has it all in the bag. He's
Speaker 1: just he's young, and he's going to continue to you know.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna continue to grow and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be phenomenal in this league. Yeah, I think the quarterback's
Speaker 1: biggest problem this year is gonna be feeding all those
Speaker 1: mouths because you've got so many playmakers on that offense.
Speaker 1: And one of my favorite podcasts, Move the Sticks, they
Speaker 1: always talk about how you want a basketball line up
Speaker 1: in your receiving corps, and I just can't think of
Speaker 1: a more well rounded group than this one we've got.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the two trees in Devonte and Preston, you
Speaker 1: and Burke with the speed and the explosion, the vertical
Speaker 1: and horizontal ability, Herns and Ford kind of can do
Speaker 1: it all as well. You've got the young guys rounding
Speaker 1: out the group. So does this all make you? Are
Speaker 1: you the point guard? Are you the two guard? Like?
Speaker 1: Where do you factor into the basketball line up there? Oh?
Speaker 1: I definitely say that I'm the point guard, uh, because um,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm more of the outspoken one and the point guard.
Speaker 1: You also got to think about it as as the
Speaker 1: leader of the group. Um. And so I'm I'm the
Speaker 1: one that's outspoken, you know, telling people telling like like
Speaker 1: I said, I told, tell them Demante like your dog,
Speaker 1: you can do this, can't nobody stop you? This and that.
Speaker 1: And I'm I'm the guy that, like, you know, get
Speaker 1: everybody up and just tell everybody let's go man. Like
Speaker 1: today we were killing the defense. We kicked, we winned
Speaker 1: every one on one, making them look bad out there.
Speaker 1: Let's let's do it. And so, um, that's me. I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm the point guard because I can. I
Speaker 1: can do it all. Um, no matter what I can
Speaker 1: play outside inside, Um, I have to be able to
Speaker 1: like being being able to do that. You have to
Speaker 1: know every single role. And as as y'all know, I
Speaker 1: played outside and I played I played inside something. And
Speaker 1: so that's why I would label myself as the point guard.
Speaker 1: And you know, so but with that being said, you know,
Speaker 1: it's it takes all all of us, you know, because
Speaker 1: some days where I don't feel like being the point guard,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't feel like, you know, being talkative,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like being the leader, and so so
Speaker 1: somebody else has to be the point guard that day.
Speaker 1: And I feel like Albur comes in and fits right
Speaker 1: in and tell us like, hey man, feltas we gotta go,
Speaker 1: Let's go, because it's always gonna be that time where
Speaker 1: you you don't that day is like, um man, I
Speaker 1: don't feel like talking to day like this is not today.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's the thing about our group, like
Speaker 1: we truly care about each other. We hang out with
Speaker 1: each other outside of the facility, you know, and so
Speaker 1: um we all want to see each other see and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of so of course all of us
Speaker 1: want the ball, no doubt. Yeah, I mean, good luck
Speaker 1: putting a single you know, single coverage on you to
Speaker 1: the boundary there with with you know, a quarter that
Speaker 1: runs a four or five or something like that. So
Speaker 1: oh yeah, that's that's good luck defenses. That's that's all
Speaker 1: we gotta say about that. And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: appreciate you talking about the supports as some Jachiem, it's
Speaker 1: really cool that you guys have that with each other.
Speaker 1: It's I was a baseball player growing up. It was
Speaker 1: always about pick up the guy. You know, someone strikes out,
Speaker 1: pick him up, go out there and help him out,
Speaker 1: make the play for him, and and don't make him
Speaker 1: the one that ruined the game for the team. So
Speaker 1: it's it's cool to hear that. And uh, I also
Speaker 1: appreciate you talking about your teammates so much, but I
Speaker 1: do want to get back to your game. And I
Speaker 1: talked to you a little bit about this off air
Speaker 1: how I kind of fancy myself something of an amateur scout,
Speaker 1: and I want to give you my book on you, Jakeem,
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, real quick, my scouting report on
Speaker 1: you is that you're low center of gravity, paired with
Speaker 1: the uber suddenness at the line and the on the
Speaker 1: release makes you damn near impossible to jam. And then
Speaker 1: when you pair that with the vertical speed, just forget
Speaker 1: about it. That's that's my really quick snapshot of your
Speaker 1: scouting report. And I want to know some inside baseball
Speaker 1: here on you. First, Do you agree with that scouting report?
Speaker 1: I definitely, I definitely agree, okay perfectly on the right track.
Speaker 1: And then my question for you is when you get
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage and you have that release,
Speaker 1: because we talked about how tough it is to jam you,
Speaker 1: do you develop a different plan for your release every snap?
Speaker 1: And like, how is it done? Is it based on
Speaker 1: leverage that they show you on the priest snap look?
Speaker 1: Is it based on the coverage or the play on offense?
Speaker 1: Like how do you vary your releases at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage? UM off pre snap off, a pre snap.
Speaker 1: I could tell him if he's gonna press bell, or
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to jam me, or he's gonna or
Speaker 1: if they're playing cover to UM. Usually I always tell
Speaker 1: about the priest now because we're gonna play covered to
Speaker 1: the corner plant cover too's gonna play at least uh, Um,
Speaker 1: he would probably play head up on you, UM, play
Speaker 1: slightly outside of you. And also or he played like
Speaker 1: two or three yards off of you. He's trying to
Speaker 1: get hands on using because you know he has the flats,
Speaker 1: things of that nature. Um. But I definitely like like
Speaker 1: love when they when they try to press me, I'm short,
Speaker 1: so there's no way they can put their hands on
Speaker 1: my chest or anything like that. So if they jam
Speaker 1: me and they're gonna hit me in my helmet which
Speaker 1: is him me and my face which is a pillow,
Speaker 1: so you can't do that because we're right by the rep.
Speaker 1: And so that's that's that's the avant of that I
Speaker 1: have that being a shorter receiver and I'm playing outside,
Speaker 1: is that you can't jam me because if you jam me,
Speaker 1: you'll hit me in my You're hit me in my face,
Speaker 1: and which is appenally. So I'm also like when whenever
Speaker 1: I get in my release, I'm also I'm I'm actually
Speaker 1: getting shorter than what I usually but then I am
Speaker 1: so um, I'm making it hard for him, and man
Speaker 1: I I and I love it. And I always tell
Speaker 1: them like I always love when a guy pressed me,
Speaker 1: because it's like, if you're gonna press me, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna press me, then you're saying that you can want
Speaker 1: with me, and that's not what you really want to do.
Speaker 1: And so I always based everything I've run off the
Speaker 1: vertical off or go route and and that's it. Man,
Speaker 1: that that terrified that terrifies DBS and all year last year.
Speaker 1: All I kept getting was press Belle, Press Bell, press bell.
Speaker 1: That they'll show that they're going to press, and they'll
Speaker 1: bill before the snapp even come. So uh man, I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, like, it is very it is hard for
Speaker 1: them press me. Some guys that get up there in life,
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna press them and I'm impress on them.
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's what I love. I love when people
Speaker 1: are so like they have the ability to oppress me
Speaker 1: that way. Now now balls and mount ball is in
Speaker 1: my court, and now we're in a dance. When the dance,
Speaker 1: when the dance bottle we were, we're in the dance
Speaker 1: bott them. So I always tell I always tell people.
Speaker 1: I was like, if we're gonna press me, get ready
Speaker 1: to dance. I think that that makes a lot of
Speaker 1: sense watching the workout videos, because I see you working
Speaker 1: on a lot of little curls and sticks and stuff
Speaker 1: where you come back to the football and kind of
Speaker 1: press them up field and bring it right back. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can put that in your game too. It's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be really tough to defend you your team. And
Speaker 1: you you mentioned earlier that you play a lot more
Speaker 1: outside a little bit and slot and I think that's
Speaker 1: kind of one of the misnomers about your game because
Speaker 1: maybe you're not as tall as some of the other
Speaker 1: receivers on the outside, but people tend to think you're
Speaker 1: more of a slot guy. But I watch you like
Speaker 1: you mentioned on the outside, and that's I think maybe
Speaker 1: we're the most dangerous. We know you can play x
Speaker 1: Z slot backfield, doesn't really matter. Where do you think
Speaker 1: you're most dangerous from UM eat anywhere on the field,
Speaker 1: anywhere on the field. Honestly, I've played slot in my
Speaker 1: whole life. UM slot is probably I would say the
Speaker 1: probably the easiest for me. But I love a challenge
Speaker 1: which is outside because outside of the most cover guys
Speaker 1: and and in limits the field field space that you have,
Speaker 1: you don't have as much as a range as you
Speaker 1: have inside. I know inside right without a doubt, I
Speaker 1: would light it up because if you have a safety
Speaker 1: come down to guard me, which are normally aren't cover guys.
Speaker 1: There are guys that have come downfield and make a
Speaker 1: tack on this and that, or they break in like
Speaker 1: the third or fourth corner to come in and play
Speaker 1: play that nickel position, and and and that's what I
Speaker 1: did all all day in college, and it was, it was,
Speaker 1: it was. It was fun. The way you can create
Speaker 1: separations such a short area of space off the line.
Speaker 1: It's it's really impressive and fun to watch. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to get your take here because you talk about the
Speaker 1: opportunity last year with coach Carl Durrell in the receiver's room.
Speaker 1: He's now kind of head coaching job and great for
Speaker 1: him to hear. I'm curious to get your take on
Speaker 1: new receivers coach Josh Grizzard. How's that adjustment going from
Speaker 1: coach Durrell to coach Grizzard. Good? Uh, grizz has been
Speaker 1: there since I was a rookie. Been good with grizz
Speaker 1: also helped me out, help me learn to playbook inside
Speaker 1: and out where where when out I struggled to my
Speaker 1: my rookie year and learning the playbook just didn't couldn't
Speaker 1: get it all together always and always knew one position
Speaker 1: and in the NFL you have to know every position.
Speaker 1: And so he helped me, you know, inside and now
Speaker 1: day and they they they and night, just helping me.
Speaker 1: And I used to usually call him on the phone
Speaker 1: like late at night, probably like ten o'clock. At night, like, Yo, Grizz,
Speaker 1: I'm studying to playbook. Man, I just don't understand, like
Speaker 1: on this on this um, on this formation, like what
Speaker 1: is what? And he tell me what we'll go through it.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about Bridge because he's always
Speaker 1: buy his phone and anything that I need or any
Speaker 1: questions that I have for him, he would he would
Speaker 1: just pick up the phone and like, hey, Ja Kim,
Speaker 1: this is that he had dried out and send it
Speaker 1: to me and things of that nature. And that's what
Speaker 1: I love about Rizz. And I mean, he's smart, he knows,
Speaker 1: he knows defense, he knows everything that's out now and
Speaker 1: so um, I think he's he's definitely gonna push this
Speaker 1: receiver group uh to a new level. That's awesome to
Speaker 1: hear and definitely can see why he would get that
Speaker 1: promotion in place of coach Carl Drelle now at the
Speaker 1: University of Colorado. One more coach question here for you, Jachem.
Speaker 1: We have a new offensive coordinator and Chan Gailey as well,
Speaker 1: and this is a fan question coming in from Kevin
Speaker 1: Dern at Kevin m D four on Twitter. He wants
Speaker 1: to know what are some of the components of Chan
Speaker 1: Gailey's offense. That can help you guys take your game
Speaker 1: to the next level next year. Um I would say,
Speaker 1: with the flexibility and the routes, um chan Gailey, our
Speaker 1: number one rule and the receiver room from him is
Speaker 1: to get open. And that's what I love. And with him,
Speaker 1: with him saying that is telling us that we have
Speaker 1: a little bit of a flexibility and our routes, uh
Speaker 1: do we have to do to get open? And and
Speaker 1: that's what I love. And so and once he told
Speaker 1: the receivers that we all took that was like, hey,
Speaker 1: now we can at assists, you know, uh play backyard football.
Speaker 1: And so with that, with that, with that going on,
Speaker 1: we we can be able to you know, take some
Speaker 1: of those routes that you know we play, uh, take
Speaker 1: some of those releases or any of those moves that
Speaker 1: we play in the backyard with our friends and mimic
Speaker 1: that onto the field. And and so without wasting so
Speaker 1: much time. And so with that being said, man uh man. Also,
Speaker 1: I know that he loves speed and so and we're
Speaker 1: gonna go out there. Man, I'm telling you, I just
Speaker 1: can't wait. I cannot wait. Dolphins fans can't wait. We
Speaker 1: all want football back. We all want life back to normal,
Speaker 1: and you guys get on the practice field be the
Speaker 1: first sign of that for me for returning back to normal.
Speaker 1: C Jachim, we appreciate your time, man. Keep showing us
Speaker 1: those workout videos. Best of luck this year, stay healthy
Speaker 1: and get that Mario Kart game tight, because I'm coming
Speaker 1: for you, dude. I'm gonna get you with I got Yoshi.
Speaker 1: I don't mess around on Mario kar Man. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get you. Okay, I can't. I can't. Now we can't
Speaker 1: even play because I always use I figured always he's
Speaker 1: the speak job. That's my guy. Always use hey, the
Speaker 1: the old Don Shoela quote. He'll taking his and beat
Speaker 1: yours and taking yours and beat his. That's that's what
Speaker 1: we'll do. I'm adaptable, baby, all right. I appreciate your Kim,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you Chev And there he goes. Dolphins receiver
Speaker 1: Jachim Grant. Always a fun interview, always a fun guy
Speaker 1: to talk to. That's gonna conclude today's edition of the
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