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Speaker 2: on today's show, wheels up well. After the podcast, we're
Speaker 2: breaking down Day thirteen Dolphins practice here at training camp
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. Two competitive days are in the books.
Speaker 2: Offense bounces back, but defense gets theirs two. I'll tell
Speaker 2: you why I thought today was the best exchange from
Speaker 2: either side scoring wins. And we'll hear from a handful
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Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft Time podcast.
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Speaker 2: I always like to start the show here and tell
Speaker 2: you how the episode came together and my thinking behind it,
Speaker 2: and I'm once again going to break down audio towards
Speaker 2: the end of the show. Now, yesterday I said that
Speaker 2: I would do that, and I wound up weaving it through,
Speaker 2: but without giving you the details. It's just going to
Speaker 2: be easier for me today to do it this way. Actually,
Speaker 2: the details are that the team flow early media was
Speaker 2: a little bit rush. Only had a chance to listen
Speaker 2: to one player's press conference, so I don't really have
Speaker 2: any stories for you today outside of what happened on
Speaker 2: the practice field and then going back through and finding
Speaker 2: those pressers, which if I can't ask the guys questions,
Speaker 2: it makes it really hard for me to give you
Speaker 2: the story of the day. So sound good, all right?
Speaker 2: Practice first, practice notes first, then media availabilities, and boy,
Speaker 2: I thought this practice was really really really good, like real,
Speaker 2: I got it. If you don't, if you didn't listen
Speaker 2: to Esdray's podcast, which first, what the heck are you doing? Here,
Speaker 2: you Turkey, get back on that. I talked about the
Speaker 2: very competitive red zone period and how tightly contested everything
Speaker 2: was in that period, but also how Tua shined finding
Speaker 2: tight windows in that part of practice. We've heard coach
Speaker 2: McDaniel before talk about exactly that, about what makes Tua
Speaker 2: so sharp in the red zone, in the condensed area
Speaker 2: of the field. And remember, this is a quarterback who
Speaker 2: in small sample sizes has found himself near the top
Speaker 2: of the leader board in all time passer ratings, both
Speaker 2: in the red zone and in the fourth quarter more
Speaker 2: on the ladder here shortly. And why he excels in
Speaker 2: those areas, it's because of the things that we, or
Speaker 2: to me I should say, are the most important traits
Speaker 2: for a quarterback vision, anticipation, processing and placement, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, who are all these TikTok analysts I'm seeing
Speaker 2: the only value arm strength? That's crazy?
Speaker 3: Yup?
Speaker 2: Is that where we're heading here? I don't know, I
Speaker 2: you know, get off my lawn, I guess. And what
Speaker 2: was strange about Sunday's showing was how sharp he was
Speaker 2: there and then how it didn't translate to the team period.
Speaker 2: But then I'm kind of thinking you know, the defense
Speaker 2: gets paid to they're pros, and we all think this
Speaker 2: might be one of the very best defenses in football, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, the pieces are there, the coaches there, even
Speaker 2: in Jalen Ramsey's absence. You have a system, a DC
Speaker 2: famous for forcing quarterbacks to second guests, to double clutch
Speaker 2: and find their third and fourth options, a defensive system
Speaker 2: that has shut down some of the most prolific offenses
Speaker 2: year after year. The twenty eighteen Rams ran to an
Speaker 2: absolute wood chipper against that Vic Fangiobert's defense, and then
Speaker 2: the Patriots pretty much copy and paste of that scheme
Speaker 2: and that game plan and held the Rams to three
Speaker 2: points in the Super Bowl. But I've got news for
Speaker 2: you here, guys. If you've if you have to get
Speaker 2: through all of that with Jalen Phillips and Bradley Chubb
Speaker 2: and Christian Wilkins and Zach Seeler and Emmanuel Agbaugh and
Speaker 2: on and on on going through your third and fourth options,
Speaker 2: good luck, you know, mister Gilmore, good luck making the
Speaker 2: putter on the TV tower. But then today we get
Speaker 2: more of the same. We get the defense dominant early
Speaker 2: and the same thing I mentioned yesterday about the nonverbal cues.
Speaker 2: The head nods, the finger points, some finger guns, Hey,
Speaker 2: good stuff over there, eight good stuff, twenty five things
Speaker 2: that to me say, hey, that was good stuff. We
Speaker 2: get more of that today? Until we didn't. And how
Speaker 2: do we beat that? Tua began putting footballs in perfect
Speaker 2: spots before the defense could react. The big one you
Speaker 2: all saw by now is a beautiful rip. And I
Speaker 2: always get a kick out of the way folks describe
Speaker 2: plays differently. I try to be as descripted if I
Speaker 2: possibly can. I think in this case I was once
Speaker 2: again because watching the video, the football had more velocity
Speaker 2: than I originally thought from Tua. I thought he wrote
Speaker 2: more layered it, but he actually kind of drove it.
Speaker 2: And I need you guys to understand how much you
Speaker 2: have to throw to a spot when you have an
Speaker 2: actual cheetah, not a human, a cheetah running around there
Speaker 2: coming out of his break at four point two seconds
Speaker 2: every forty yards, when you're throwing the ball twenty five
Speaker 2: yards down the field, that calibration has to be. It
Speaker 2: has to be very difficult. Go back and watch Tyreek's
Speaker 2: tape in Kansas City. There's so many times where he
Speaker 2: has to come back to the football because he just
Speaker 2: outruns the play. It's not a bad thing. It's just
Speaker 2: tells you how fast he is. And even Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 2: who has the best arm in the league for my money,
Speaker 2: couldn't you know, consistently make him run into footballs. But
Speaker 2: in this situation, to calibrate the accuracy and the spot
Speaker 2: and the timing for all that stuff to come together
Speaker 2: toa makes it look so easy. So go watch the video.
Speaker 2: Tyreek never break stride. And I know we all marvel
Speaker 2: over a guy throwing the ball seventy five yards off
Speaker 2: of a knee or from their butt. You know, JaMarcus
Speaker 2: Russell worked out for him, right, But this play right
Speaker 2: here is a twenty five yard play if the ball
Speaker 2: is twelve inches behind him where he has to reach
Speaker 2: back and catch it and go to the ground. If
Speaker 2: it's twelve inches in front of him, it's incomplete. But
Speaker 2: because it was where it was, it's a sixty five
Speaker 2: yard touchdown. And again I saw someone describe as a
Speaker 2: thirty five yard play. No, it was a touchdown, dude.
Speaker 2: They were not tackling Tyreek on that play. His speed
Speaker 2: and space, it's an absolute treat. The high school teams
Speaker 2: that were well recovered in practice by the beat was
Speaker 2: an attendance, was absolutely loving it, very fun to watch.
Speaker 2: He had another similar throat in that little pocket over
Speaker 2: the middle, where again it's like Tyreek isn't even to
Speaker 2: the top of the stem, So the stem is your
Speaker 2: vertical part of the route, and then you know, you
Speaker 2: break it off to the comeback or to the dig
Speaker 2: or down the curl or whatever it might be. Before
Speaker 2: he even got off the top of the stem, the
Speaker 2: ball's out and then he rips it and breaks it
Speaker 2: to the middle and the ball's right there. Like the
Speaker 2: timing of that stuff is gosh. It is some of
Speaker 2: the best chemistry we've seen since Walter White and Jesse
Speaker 2: Pinkman work together. I love the way Tua found the
Speaker 2: backs and found his hots. The pressure was hot today
Speaker 2: on a very hot southward today. More on that in
Speaker 2: the moment, but Tua had multiple completions to Raheem Mostert,
Speaker 2: who looks telling you, guys, looks like the real deals,
Speaker 2: a pass catcher out the backfield and one that sprung
Speaker 2: out the backside for a huge gain. He also found
Speaker 2: the others. I had Wilson and Chan, a couple of
Speaker 2: catches as well. I loved the blitz beaters he had
Speaker 2: on back to back throws to Tyreek and chosen excuse me,
Speaker 2: Fangio generated free runs in the quarterback and I thought
Speaker 2: it was cool to see him have answers to is
Speaker 2: because in the past, in these practices, when they've randomly
Speaker 2: popped up with blitz periods or pressure periods, the offense
Speaker 2: has kind of struggled to pick up what to do
Speaker 2: with it. And this day was not one of those days.
Speaker 2: And there was one where I should say both of them.
Speaker 2: The football is out in less than two seconds, like
Speaker 2: catch the snap, get your mechanics aligned, let that thing rip.
Speaker 2: And the first one hit between the one and the
Speaker 2: zero on Tyreek's orange jersey. That was really impressive, and
Speaker 2: he actually let it go into his chest, which you
Speaker 2: know you're not supposed to do, but he did, I
Speaker 2: think because of the velocity and you could like hear
Speaker 2: the pot from up in the stands. That was kind
Speaker 2: of interesting to me. And then the one to chose
Speaker 2: and was a little bit deeper down the field, but
Speaker 2: the exact same result right on the three on his jersey.
Speaker 2: Two was cooking today, man, And I just continue to
Speaker 2: love the way he can manipulate his arm motion for
Speaker 2: the specific throws, like they have multiple different screen looks
Speaker 2: like inside outside, you know, where you let the pressure
Speaker 2: come in a certain direction, have to dump it over
Speaker 2: the top where you drop the arm down and kind
Speaker 2: of go to the almost like cornhole type of mechanic
Speaker 2: and just flick that thing, flick the bag around the
Speaker 2: side of the rusher. He was doing this very well
Speaker 2: with with some spin and finesse on it. And like
Speaker 2: obviously those that know me in my career going back
Speaker 2: to before the Dolphins, know that I was a big
Speaker 2: believer in what Ryan Tannehill could do, you know, with
Speaker 2: pushing the ball vertically and getting the ball down the field,
Speaker 2: and his athletic ability and all the fun stuff that
Speaker 2: he was able to do as a quarterback as a
Speaker 2: top twelve or fourteen quarterback. Never thought he was much
Speaker 2: more than that. But I digress. But one thing that
Speaker 2: drove made crazy about Tannehill was his touch passes. And
Speaker 2: you saw that on the little wheels from running backs,
Speaker 2: the little screen passes they would throw. He just didn't
Speaker 2: really have that ability to throttle down the fastball and
Speaker 2: make the touch throws, but to seeing the way he
Speaker 2: does it makes me really appreciate it. And I think
Speaker 2: that the way he does that, the way he can
Speaker 2: kind of fade from pressure and get to those throws
Speaker 2: to you know, have the ball like almost suspend an
Speaker 2: air for a moment to let the rush continue to
Speaker 2: get upfield, and then all of a sudden, the running
Speaker 2: back is on the other side of the line. Now
Speaker 2: you have a second level of defenders with a wall
Speaker 2: of blockers in front of you and open space like
Speaker 2: that can be a very dangerous, dangerous, you know approach
Speaker 2: for defenses when they're already run in that third level
Speaker 2: of defense thirty forty fifty yards downfield to deal with
Speaker 2: the speed that Tyreek and Jalen have. Finally, even in
Speaker 2: the not so good day yesterday, the end of game
Speaker 2: situations where Tua put the team in position to kick
Speaker 2: field goals on three straight attempts in that same area,
Speaker 2: today was two for two and had a really nice
Speaker 2: ball to the perimeter to chose him. And they were
Speaker 2: putting Phillips and Chubb on the sidelines to kind of
Speaker 2: wall off and protect, you know, anyone getting out of bounce.
Speaker 2: But they ran this route right over the top of
Speaker 2: that and to a put it right on the money
Speaker 2: for Chosen to get around Chubb. Now he might have
Speaker 2: taken a big shot, which from Chubb, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: he can survive that because Chosen's built kind of like
Speaker 2: me and Bradley. Chubb was built kind of like you
Speaker 2: know the shed in the back yard of my house.
Speaker 2: He got another one too, did to Raheem Moster out
Speaker 2: in the flat for some positive yards to kick a
Speaker 2: field goal or a chance to kick a field goal,
Speaker 2: I should say in a late half situation.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Also had a couple of scramble plays that I thought
Speaker 2: he gained some yards with and he looks a little
Speaker 2: bit faster. He's not fast, but he looks faster to me.
Speaker 2: And the big part of that was the pass rush
Speaker 2: married to the coverage in a way that I think
Speaker 2: it's finding it stride in the last week plus really
Speaker 2: since the scrimmage real quick before that. I liked some
Speaker 2: of the shots from Mike White as well. His best
Speaker 2: ball of the day was just off the fingertips of
Speaker 2: Eric Azukama on a shot to the corner against that
Speaker 2: cover two honey hole. Ee had to kind of change
Speaker 2: shoulders and track it from right shoulder to left shoulder
Speaker 2: and just couldn't bring it in, like he didn't track
Speaker 2: it properly, I don't think. But Mike White put it
Speaker 2: right where only his guy could get it, and Rik
Speaker 2: Azukama also slipped the tackle on a screen it ran
Speaker 2: in for a touchdown that I thought was just another
Speaker 2: example of the way he kind of glides around the
Speaker 2: football field. He's He's an impressive man. I'm very excited
Speaker 2: about his second year. Okay, So I'm glad that Jalen
Speaker 2: Phillips went off to day because I just watched a
Speaker 2: segment last night where Lewis Riddick was on ESPN and
Speaker 2: asked to pick a Dolphins player that he expects to
Speaker 2: have a big year, and the host said, don't take
Speaker 2: to Tua, don't take Tyreek, don't take Jalen, don't take Ramsey.
Speaker 2: Give me a player that you're excited about for the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins. And so Lewis Riddick had this to say
Speaker 2: about Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm gonna pick out Jalen Phillips, who's now in
Speaker 4: his third year out of the University of Miami, in
Speaker 4: his first year with Vic Fangio in this newly configured
Speaker 4: thirty four configuration three to four defense as an outside linebacker.
Speaker 4: This is a guy who has fifteen plus sacks in
Speaker 4: the two years combined. But I'm telling you, Jalen Fields
Speaker 4: is not yet a household name, despite the fact he
Speaker 4: has one of the highest pass rush win rates in
Speaker 4: the NFL among pass rushers, and despite the fact that
Speaker 4: he was a first rounder. This is a year that
Speaker 4: I think number fifteen that you see on your screen,
Speaker 4: who's one of the best athletes in the NFL regardless
Speaker 4: of position. He is the perfect match, the perfect prototype
Speaker 4: thirty four outside backer. This has to be the year
Speaker 4: that he bursts onto the scene and becomes a superstar
Speaker 4: because there's no reason for him not to. There's none.
Speaker 4: He's got power, he's got speed. He can rush from
Speaker 4: the three technique over a guard. He can line up
Speaker 4: as a defensive end with his handdown. He can line
Speaker 4: up as a defensive end in the two point stance.
Speaker 4: This guy could play linebacker, this guy could play strong safety.
Speaker 4: One of the best athletes in the NFL regardless of position,
Speaker 4: who's had fifteen sacks in two years, fifteen plus. But
Speaker 4: he's a guy who still people go Jalen Phillips. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: it wasn't he that guy who was drafting the first
Speaker 4: round a couple of years ago by Miami. Out of
Speaker 4: Miami transferred from UCLA thought about quitting football. So yeah,
Speaker 4: that's cool. Whatever, who's next, Let's talk about to Let's
Speaker 4: talk about no. Jalen Phillips has to go off and
Speaker 4: he should in Dick's scheme. I can't wait to see
Speaker 4: him line it up.
Speaker 3: Week one.
Speaker 2: Not great audio quality, I apologize for that. But today's practice,
Speaker 2: it began from the jump, and it started with the
Speaker 2: thing that I can't get enough of. I think JP
Speaker 2: is not just capable of two gapping and in this situation,
Speaker 2: playing both the B and C gap in the run
Speaker 2: game where he can slant down and gives him a
Speaker 2: better chance to pursue you know, well not weakside runs,
Speaker 2: but runs away from him or also just knife in
Speaker 2: for pass rush help that way. I think he excels
Speaker 2: at that. But the first play he shoots inside the
Speaker 2: tackle and then recognizes the run is going wide, and
Speaker 2: this I think allows him to do that because he
Speaker 2: then works back outside of the block and gets on
Speaker 2: his horse. And you heard Ridcks say he could play safety,
Speaker 2: Like you see that speed routinely out here, and he
Speaker 2: wins the race to the perimeter. I guess raheem Moster like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Moster had to kind of bubble back with The reason
Speaker 2: was because JP kept that angle on him. Now, from
Speaker 2: this position, it's almost impossible for him to make the play.
Speaker 2: But if you can just put your head down and
Speaker 2: win the race the sideline and force the back to
Speaker 2: stop and turn up, guys will get there in time
Speaker 2: and flow over the top. And that's exactly what Eli
Speaker 2: Apple did coming from depth to make a play on
Speaker 2: that look. And again on that Riddick commentary, he talked
Speaker 2: about Phillips tape last year, working multiple spots across the line.
Speaker 2: There was one where he condensed into the three tech
Speaker 2: you know, outside shoulder of the guard and swam over
Speaker 2: the inside and shut down a run. Play also had
Speaker 2: a would be sack from there, and it would be
Speaker 2: sacked from the outside out. An absolute heater playing all
Speaker 2: across the defensive line. This guy has like defensive Player
Speaker 2: of the Year makeup. I'm convinced of it. So I'm
Speaker 2: just thinking about, you know, how, the way he's played
Speaker 2: and if he can do this consistently on Sundays, and
Speaker 2: if the coverage can hold the way it has been
Speaker 2: and we continue can continuously force quarterbacks to hold the
Speaker 2: ball for two and a half seconds, all things being
Speaker 2: equal with JP from last year, and they never are.
Speaker 2: But frankly, I think he'll be even better because the
Speaker 2: way he works. I just think that he's only gonna
Speaker 2: add to his skill set at the age of what
Speaker 2: was he twenty four to twenty five. But even if
Speaker 2: things are equal, that would turn his many, many, many
Speaker 2: pressures and hits into more sacks and hopefully game changing
Speaker 2: plays where he gets the football out. There was no
Speaker 2: bigger disparity in the NFL last year than Jaylen Phillips
Speaker 2: pressure to sack disparity. And if you look at the
Speaker 2: average time to throw on his seventy QB pressures and
Speaker 2: of the sixty two that were not sacks, the average
Speaker 2: time to throw on those was two point two to
Speaker 2: one seconds. Give him another tenth of a second, even
Speaker 2: two point three seconds, and that number is going to increase.
Speaker 2: You make it two point five. We're talking about like
Speaker 2: double digit teams numbers in the sacks and game changing plays. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to say, I think the rush is gonna be better.
Speaker 2: I think the coverage will be better, and I think
Speaker 2: we've seen that with how they've had some pretty good
Speaker 2: runs of slowing down the offense out here and a
Speaker 2: damn good Dolphins offense. Let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 2: first break right there and come back on the other
Speaker 2: side do the rest of the practice notes. That's next
Speaker 2: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield to you by
Speaker 2: Auto Nation. How about the day in Major League Baseball? Yesterday?
Speaker 2: The Marlins erase as six run deficit to the New
Speaker 2: York Yankees. Y'all love to see that, a four of
Speaker 2: which come in the ninth inning. Did anyone happen to
Speaker 2: watch the Mariners an Orioles game. I know you didn't,
Speaker 2: but it was one of the wildest finishes I've seen
Speaker 2: in a baseball game. First, marriage are down three to
Speaker 2: two in the bottom of the ninth and Cedric Mullens
Speaker 2: this awesome outfielder for the Orioles. The center fielder goes
Speaker 2: backhand and robs the game tying home run, kind of
Speaker 2: like Griffy did in Tiger Stadium all those years ago.
Speaker 2: And then two pitches later, with two outs in the ninth,
Speaker 2: I'm already accepting defeat. And this guy that we just
Speaker 2: traded for that has one career home run hits it
Speaker 2: off the hit it here cafe in deep right field
Speaker 2: like a four hundred and fifty foot bomb to tie
Speaker 2: the game. I'm just losing my mind at this point.
Speaker 2: Then that same center fielder, Mullins comes up in the
Speaker 2: tenth inning and Yanks won four hundred and fifty feet
Speaker 2: foul just in front of the foul pool on right field,
Speaker 2: Like okay, we got life again. Then the very next
Speaker 2: pitch hits a bomb to give him a five to
Speaker 2: three lead and they win the game. Pain, but good
Speaker 2: baseball is good. Baseball is so much fun. It's rare
Speaker 2: you get those moments in baseball, but when they happen,
Speaker 2: there's so much fun. And it looks at the Marlins
Speaker 2: and my Mariners for that matter, we'll both be right
Speaker 2: there to the better end. But baseball has always just
Speaker 2: been the way we passed time until football starts. Right,
Speaker 2: And we talked about Tua, but Tua was not throwing
Speaker 2: all the passes to just nobody. He threw most of
Speaker 2: them to the guy in the orange Jersey, Tyreek Hill
Speaker 2: and the high school kids who were out and being
Speaker 2: reported on every play. Were just going crazy over his day,
Speaker 2: losing their collective minds every time he made a big play,
Speaker 2: and there were a lot of them. It's crazy what
Speaker 2: real star power does man. So, like, my wife had
Speaker 2: a career day at her school last year, so myself,
Speaker 2: a videographer, a producer, some cheerleaders, Seth and OJ went
Speaker 2: to go do career day. And first off, all the
Speaker 2: kids wanted autographs, which is something I'm never going to
Speaker 2: forget because they just work for the team. They think
Speaker 2: that you're the coolest thing ever. Was really cool, But
Speaker 2: the thing they wanted to know the most was do
Speaker 2: you know Tyreek Hill? And eventually I would tell the
Speaker 2: class that I interviewed Tyreek when he arrived here at
Speaker 2: after the trade happened, and they all demanded to watch
Speaker 2: the interview, so most of my presentation would get cut
Speaker 2: off because they wanted to just watch Tyreek interview with me.
Speaker 2: And then, fittingly enough, last night, my buddy from back
Speaker 2: home asked me do you have a picture of you
Speaker 2: and Tyreek together because my nephews want to see that.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, here you go. Pretty cool, but it's
Speaker 2: just cool to experience the nationwide recognize star power of
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill, and we saw that with the high school
Speaker 2: kids out there today and then obviously the global star
Speaker 2: with Messi getting here too. It's just really really cool.
Speaker 2: What a cool time in South Florida Sport. So Tyreek
Speaker 2: went off Chosen, had some nice plays. His timing with
Speaker 2: Tua seems to have really clicked. Chosen that is River
Speaker 2: Kraycraft caught a nice ball from Thompson in the final
Speaker 2: period where he had to tap the toes on the sideline.
Speaker 2: I just always appreciate how River excels and all the
Speaker 2: intangibles a player like that kind of has to Jim
Speaker 2: Ratt Whereheim looked really good as a pass catcher. Bit
Speaker 2: of a story of camp so far. I think he
Speaker 2: also had a big rip after the defense was really
Speaker 2: erasing the run game early on, and it was not
Speaker 2: with JP on the edge, So that was kind of
Speaker 2: a big thing that I noted there was how he
Speaker 2: was able to get the edge when it wasn't Philip
Speaker 2: out there setting it. But he is just so easy
Speaker 2: glide most or it is he hits those little side
Speaker 2: step cuts that put him in position to make moves
Speaker 2: and he gets through these small creases before he gets
Speaker 2: back to a squared up position to attack safeties coming
Speaker 2: down to try to chop him down before he's off
Speaker 2: to the races. My favorite part of camp so far
Speaker 2: besides you know, some of this stuff that I think
Speaker 2: can kind of counter what shut the Dolphins offense down
Speaker 2: a year ago was or is the screen game. And
Speaker 2: remember how Mike said that everything has a counter to
Speaker 2: it if you have a good offensive system. It's been
Speaker 2: the screen game for me so far. I like the
Speaker 2: way they get to them. I love the way to
Speaker 2: a retreats and finds the targets around the trees in pursuit.
Speaker 2: I like the way our guys get in space, and
Speaker 2: I like the way our backs are making things happen
Speaker 2: with the football and the variety of screens they've run.
Speaker 2: I like some of the work of the tight ends today.
Speaker 2: I thought Tyler Croft at the point of attack had
Speaker 2: some of the best blocks on those successful runs. Durham
Speaker 2: smythe had three grabs by my account, each of those
Speaker 2: for ten plus yards. Durham quietly had a pretty productive
Speaker 2: camp so far. I by and large looks like tight
Speaker 2: end one. It's tough to explain each rep from the
Speaker 2: trenches or claim big days when you get so much
Speaker 2: back and forth. So I just want to point some
Speaker 2: guys out who I thought got good push protected the
Speaker 2: quarterback and then vice versa. On the other side, I
Speaker 2: thought Connor Williams had a bunch of good work in
Speaker 2: this practice. His athleticism pops so much when he gets
Speaker 2: wide in the run game or the screen game. And
Speaker 2: also just generally speaking, Rayquon Davis is like the ideal
Speaker 2: mismatch for Connor because of his length and size, and
Speaker 2: so you see Rayquon get some wins that way. But
Speaker 2: I thought he did a really good job of finding
Speaker 2: ways to get movement on Raeque, not just today, but
Speaker 2: in the last couple of, you know, a week or
Speaker 2: so of practice. It should be stated that Rayqwan did
Speaker 2: make some plays. I had him with two run stuffs
Speaker 2: when he parked his big button the gap and just
Speaker 2: basically said you're not gonna run right here. Back to
Speaker 2: the offensive line. The way that Rob and Connor Rob
Speaker 2: Hunt work together on the catch and climb blocks always
Speaker 2: stands out to me, and I think you add Austin
Speaker 2: Jackson to that mix. Like his run game work has
Speaker 2: really impressed this camp. And we saw that in the
Speaker 2: game Friday night. We'll hear from Austin here. In just
Speaker 2: a moment, I saw key On Smith completely thwart and
Speaker 2: inside rush move from Bradley and Keon. You had my
Speaker 2: curiosity after the game on Friday. Now you've got my
Speaker 2: attention after that. Rep. Zach Steeler would be in my
Speaker 2: three selections for the possible orange jersey on Wednesday. Phillips
Speaker 2: and two are the others, although I don't know if
Speaker 2: they'll wear an orange jersey in Houston. They might because
Speaker 2: it's only the day after you play Houston that you
Speaker 2: won't bring the jersey back because you don't want to.
Speaker 2: Like Coach said, bring attention to the fact that we
Speaker 2: think that he whipped you yesterday. Not gonna do that.
Speaker 2: But he was a force in side. Seiler was just
Speaker 2: continuously wrecked shop forced the quarterbacks to move off or spot.
Speaker 2: I had him with one for sure sack, maybe another,
Speaker 2: and a handful of quarterback hits. He was all over
Speaker 2: the field in this one. And then Deshaun Hann basically
Speaker 2: arrived and started playing good football last week. Right Like there,
Speaker 2: that's all there is to it. I'm just so pumped
Speaker 2: that we landed him. He's a great fit for this
Speaker 2: defense and what we needed on the back end of
Speaker 2: the rotation there. Andrew Van ginkle Strong Camp continued today,
Speaker 2: I thought we've all seen the arms that he showed
Speaker 2: up with, you know, the gun show that he brought,
Speaker 2: as it were, and today I saw him show a
Speaker 2: wicked cross chop, which is basically where where you use
Speaker 2: the outside hand to chop to chop the the hand
Speaker 2: placement of the offensive line, which typically can be done
Speaker 2: from the inside position, but getting across the body, chop
Speaker 2: it and then's ripped through with the inside arm and
Speaker 2: get that leverage and get that the point of contact
Speaker 2: to where you can kind of bend inside on the tackle.
Speaker 2: Did that for a would be sack? And that's a
Speaker 2: move we've seen from Emmanuel Ogbaugh you know so many times,
Speaker 2: really perfect that with the vines that he has for arms.
Speaker 2: But to see Van Ginko incorporate that on top of
Speaker 2: his lateral agility and explosiveness and two way you know,
Speaker 2: go backwards go frontwards type of ability, I think his
Speaker 2: best year of his career. Guys, cam Good has put
Speaker 2: together a pretty good camp for himself and a chance
Speaker 2: to you know, make a dent into the edge rotation.
Speaker 2: I think every part of his game has improved from
Speaker 2: as rookie season on the practice squad, which is what
Speaker 2: you want obviously. How about Noah igbinoghany guys, another pick
Speaker 2: today that's two and two days. He gets one from
Speaker 2: Skylar Thompson, a play where Sealer for sure had the sack,
Speaker 2: but Igbo finished the play and then he ran all
Speaker 2: the way back home the other way. Just so good
Speaker 2: to see. I say it almost daily, but it really
Speaker 2: feels like something clicked in his game for him and
Speaker 2: he's finding the football and he just feels so much
Speaker 2: more comfortable or looks so much more comfortable in this
Speaker 2: system compared to, you know, chasing trail man coverage all
Speaker 2: the time. I really like the way that Eli Apple
Speaker 2: sees the game, you know, playing the run from depth
Speaker 2: or getting depth when he's keying the quarterback in that
Speaker 2: zone coverage. He just has this innate feel for where
Speaker 2: things are happening around him. And if you know, if
Speaker 2: Cam can't make it back for game one, then I
Speaker 2: you know X and Eli and Kterrick can hold it down.
Speaker 2: I'm confident in that X got targeted one time that
Speaker 2: I saw and he had the pass breakup, and I'm
Speaker 2: not sure I've ever seen someone so unbothered by a
Speaker 2: pass target. He just patiently waited for Heedric Wilson to
Speaker 2: pluck this thing on a little slant from Tua and
Speaker 2: he was right in the back pocket, reached over, punched
Speaker 2: it out. Pass breakup. Javon Holland was the was only
Speaker 2: the notes one time today, but I thought it should
Speaker 2: be noted that a lot of that coverage stuff that
Speaker 2: I'm talking about eventually goes back to Javon when he's
Speaker 2: in the post. The ball just does not get vertical.
Speaker 2: It's that simple. He had a pass breakup on Smyth
Speaker 2: today where Smyth tried to post him up on the
Speaker 2: goal line and it Tua liked it, ripped it. But
Speaker 2: I think Tua's process was this guessing because I don't
Speaker 2: know too was brain, what's going on in there? But
Speaker 2: Durham is going to be open, let's it rip and
Speaker 2: then ohh there's Javon, let's throw it away. All of
Speaker 2: that I think process in the matter of like a second,
Speaker 2: because the ball was high and outside and away from danger,
Speaker 2: and of course you know, I don't know two is process,
Speaker 2: but he doesn't miss throws like that, So that's where
Speaker 2: I have to kind of say, hey, what happened there.
Speaker 2: I think he was able to recalibrate mid mechanics. Those
Speaker 2: two guys, Javon and Tua, can make each other so
Speaker 2: much better by how they see the field from their
Speaker 2: respective posts, like the respective quarterback, you know, perches of
Speaker 2: the field offensively and defensively respectively. So I think that
Speaker 2: those guys just really work off each other really well,
Speaker 2: and they both have praised each other's games a whole
Speaker 2: bunch as well. Deshaun Elliott had another big hit measured up,
Speaker 2: but of course he pulls off because we're not gonna
Speaker 2: hit our own guys. I think we're into like double
Speaker 2: digits with those now, the opportunities he's had for big,
Speaker 2: you know, lay the lumbers type of plays. He was
Speaker 2: in good coverage to cut down some of those short
Speaker 2: throws quickly after they were caught on the passes to
Speaker 2: the backs and coverage, And that's all I got for
Speaker 2: you today. Lets go ahead to our last break right
Speaker 2: there and come back and do some media with Austin Jackson,
Speaker 2: Eric Soabert, Kedrin Smith, and Lester Cotton. That's all. Next
Speaker 2: Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
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Speaker 2: off here with Austin Jackson, who met with the media
Speaker 2: for a good portion of time after practice on Monday,
Speaker 2: was asked about the confidence that he's exuded in all
Speaker 2: these press conferences and it's never wavering. So he was asked,
Speaker 2: where does that confidence come from.
Speaker 3: It's always been there, you know, especially with dealing with
Speaker 3: a lot of stuff in the past, stuff I don't
Speaker 3: care to talk about right now. You know, it's a
Speaker 3: tough sport and at the end of the day, all
Speaker 3: everyone's talking, you know, I gotta get up and go
Speaker 3: do my job. I love it. So that's a big
Speaker 3: part of the confidence. It's the kids games football against
Speaker 3: some of the best athletes in the world. I love
Speaker 3: to compete. I loved for myself against the best athletes
Speaker 3: in the world after positions respectively. And yeah, that's that's
Speaker 3: a big part of it.
Speaker 2: And one of the things we talked about in the
Speaker 2: podcast a lot is the continuity on the offense, especially
Speaker 2: in the offensive line of running back rooms. Austin rather
Speaker 2: was asked about the continuity and the chemistry they've built
Speaker 2: up in the offensive line so far in training camp,
Speaker 2: and here he is talking about that continuity and chemistry
Speaker 2: up front. Chemistry.
Speaker 3: Feel like we're pretty good. You know, we've established what
Speaker 3: our standard is and how we want to perform. Whether
Speaker 3: it's practice or in a game, it's both the same.
Speaker 3: So that's a that's a big thing for us, and
Speaker 3: I think our chemistry is great.
Speaker 2: Go ahead and hear from Austin now about Jalen Phillips
Speaker 2: this big day, he was asked what the outside linebacker
Speaker 2: pass rus Shirk Schore and now Jay then Phillips brings
Speaker 2: every day. Here's Austin on JP.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well he he always has it on. So that's great.
Speaker 3: I love that. I love having guys like you know him,
Speaker 3: and really all our edge rushers coming off the edge
Speaker 3: play fast and aggressive. You know. Jalen is you know,
Speaker 3: a monster animal, but uh, you know, I left the
Speaker 3: show up and compete against all of them.
Speaker 2: I've been talking about Kedrin Smith a little bit here,
Speaker 2: especially after his showing in the preseason game on Friday night.
Speaker 2: That's go ahead and hear from Kedrin about his progression
Speaker 2: and camp and his mentality of you always got to
Speaker 2: get better otherwise.
Speaker 1: But to learn and get better. You know, if you
Speaker 1: don't get better, then you know your your time here
Speaker 1: is gonna pass you up. So you know, I'm going
Speaker 1: against the best every day and then I'm in a
Speaker 1: new position, so you know, I gotta learn fast and
Speaker 1: I got into that. But I don't have time to
Speaker 1: feel sorry for myself.
Speaker 2: Kedron was also asked about some things he's picked up
Speaker 2: so far from third year safety Javon Hollow.
Speaker 1: Javon and javonn I mean, it's just the ultimate team leaders.
Speaker 1: The way how he carries himself, take care of his body,
Speaker 1: and how he goes about the game and the way
Speaker 1: he practices. You know, I definitely picked that up that
Speaker 1: in the first couple of days when I was here. Man,
Speaker 1: just the way his speed and acceleration towards the ball
Speaker 1: in his hustle. I man, he's all all you need
Speaker 1: as a safety.
Speaker 2: Let's finish up here with ty down. Eric Saubert, who
Speaker 2: was first asked about how he thinks camp has gone
Speaker 2: for him so far with his first year with the
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5: Well, camp. First of all, this is the hottest camp
Speaker 5: I've ever been. I'm sure everyone says that, but uh, offenses, Uh,
Speaker 5: it's kind of cool to see because you know, I
Speaker 5: started my career in Atlanta. We were kind of running
Speaker 5: the same system. But it's kind of cool to see
Speaker 5: how the offense has evolved so much since then, you know,
Speaker 5: added different things, different different schemes. So it's cool, man,
Speaker 5: it's been after a great start. I love working with
Speaker 5: these guys, so it's been a good Campbell role.
Speaker 2: We'll go ahead and wrap it up right here with Sober,
Speaker 2: who was asked about the role of the tight end
Speaker 2: in this offense, and he talks about how you have
Speaker 2: to wear very many hats when you play this position.
Speaker 5: In this offense, we're asked to do a lot, definitely.
Speaker 5: You know, it's uh whether we're in the passing game,
Speaker 5: in the pass pro game, and the run game, special
Speaker 5: teams too, So you know, at tight end in this
Speaker 5: offense has to be able to do a lot, has
Speaker 5: to wear many hats, and that's what I love about it, honestly.
Speaker 5: It's it's cool to be able to experience every facet
Speaker 5: of the game, you know, Like I don't think any
Speaker 5: other position does it like we do. So it's it's
Speaker 5: it's very h fulfilling, you know.
Speaker 2: And there you go. That is the podcast today. We're
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Speaker 2: back on Wednesday from Houston with joint practice updates and
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Speaker 2: coach Mike McDaniel Bolt Day, so plenty of coming your
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