WEBVTT - OTA Week 2 Coverage, Wednesday's Practice with Notes and Audio from Mike McDaniel, Terron Armstead, Chase Edmonds and Cedrick Wilson Jr 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.360 To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 end zone of Miami Boyd Tight froll, tight window. They 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.760 had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.920 What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:24.040 part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:28.600 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:33.600 Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it is mandatory mining camp. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.800 We've got practice notes, We've got audio from Mike McDaniel 0:00:37.040 --> 0:00:40.280 and a handful of players including Cedric Wilson Jr. And 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:42.159 you will not want to miss the breakdowns I got 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.040 from Chase Edmonds and to Ron Armstead and the insight. 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.560 They provided a fun show today from the Baptist Health 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:54.200 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the 0:00:54.320 --> 0:01:01.640 Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins, all right? And with that, it 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.120 is football season. Because I had a little bit of 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.399 rest and a little bit of a reset over the 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:10.320 weekend since we last talked, a much needed weekend unplug 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.080 I was the efficient of one of my best friends weddings. 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.840 I had three jokes in the script and they all 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.640 landed nice and the groom cried after every line of 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:22.720 his vows, so he took a lot of the heat 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.640 off me. Speaking of the heat, I don't want to 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:27.520 talk about it. Still think that the best team in 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.880 the Eastern Conference, but the best team does not always win, 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:33.319 will be back next year, Jimmy m VP of the playoffs. 0:01:33.800 --> 0:01:36.640 And with that, again, it is football season because the Mariners, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.920 my baseball team, are annually done by June one, and 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:42.840 right now eight games under five hundred. That's about where 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.160 I put them. But it has more to do with 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.240 the fact that they have like one solid picture in 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:49.960 the rotation and like five automatic outs in their lineup. 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.720 But I digress. So football time, I want to make 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.160 note first of the transition from when I first got 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:01.360 here in and really in earnest began covering this team 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:07.440 like daily in and the transition of talent and the 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.080 way this roster has been built up under Chris Career, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.519 Brandon Shore in this Dolphin's front office, and eventually now 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:17.079 here underhead coach Mike McDaniel, and just looking out across 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:21.720 that practice field and seeing Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Javon Holland, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.640 Tehron Armstead, Melvin Ingram, you know, and that's just the 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.320 marquee type of names, right, the guys in addition to 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.040 the players that we know and love, I mean a 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.639 Christian Wilkins, is Zach Seeler, A Jerome Baker, a Mike 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:37.320 GATSICKI A in this case, Chase Edmonds to a Toungo 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.760 by LOA Nick need Um, Byron Jones. And there's so 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:45.760 many guys out there that you just recognize every position 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:47.480 group you go through and you say, I want to 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:49.079 keep an eye on that guy. No, no, no, no, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:51.320 no that guy. Oh wait, wait, there's that guy too. 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.079 Like every group you look around, there's just a lot 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.240 of talent. And I know that's reflective of the mood 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.520 I've seen on social media around this foot ball team. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:03.240 You guys are pretty damn excited, and so am I. 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.079 So with that, let's go ahead and start with the 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.920 practice notes different order on the podcast today, since we 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.560 did not hear from coach or the players until after practice, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.880 So we go ahead and start with practice, and we 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.800 start with the orange jersey number fifty two Land and Roberts. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.200 And there was a lot of old school hip hop 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.679 in there that I quite enjoyed. And when I say 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.679 old school I'm talking about like early eminem I think 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:28.079 there was some Tupac in there. This was one of 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:31.040 the better playlists I thought. Or wait, no, I don't 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.640 say that, because if I want to say that, I 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.560 have to get the orange jersey right, and I don't 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.280 have the orange jersey. We're an awkward today. Actually the 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:41.280 shirt belongs to Frank. That's a Billy Madison joke for you. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.600 But a couple of notes here from the individual drills 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.560 and one thing I like to do when we get 0:03:46.560 --> 0:03:48.280 a new coach just to kind of see how those 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.000 guys go through their individual drills. And since the entire 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.360 offensive side of the staff is largely new, I was 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.320 kind of paying attention to that. And we've heard this 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:59.040 before from Trent Sherfield on Drive Time. That's the beauty 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.320 of being here every day is that you get have 0:04:01.480 --> 0:04:05.880 kind of collect your thoughts and things that you've heard 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:07.360 and things that you're told from the guys that are 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:09.960 experts at it, like a Trent Schurfield, who on Drive 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.160 Time talked about this, and Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.360 also talked about this in their media availability. We've also 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:18.440 heard the same from the offensive line, like guys like 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.800 Austin Jackson, Robert Huntley, and Ikenburgh about how important it 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.520 is to come off the football in this offense. So 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.240 seeing the receiver group stressing that in a drill, working 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.200 on the release packages, whether it's you know, crossover step 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.680 or a dummy, you know, a slow release, whatever the 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:38.680 case may be. They're doing all the release packages they have, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.560 but the whey they fire off the ball that I 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:43.880 thought was cool to see. And then just watching all 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:45.839 the talent in the room and knowing they've got West 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.800 freaking Welcer to lean on. I feel so good about 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:51.000 that group. And something I pointed out to Big Seth 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.400 watching this practice with him, and this is something that 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:56.360 he O J myself talked about on the postgame show 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:58.560 a lot last year on five sixt w q a M, 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:04.240 the Miami Dolphins Radio network, was that the receiver room 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.080 we thought, you know, needed that jolt, needed some fresh perspective. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.040 And I think that Tyreek Hill, I mean, we can 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.560 talk about, you know, the on field production and the 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.800 explosiveness of his game what that does, but man, this 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.520 dude sets a tempo at practice. We talked to him 0:05:19.640 --> 0:05:22.240 last week about it, and you know there's no veteran 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.640 day off for you here in May, because he's he's 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:27.440 running go routes, he's running full gasers, he's doing takeoffs, 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.520 he's in every single drill. And he said, that's what 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:30.960 I do, man, I come out here and I run 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.240 full speed. I run fast, I go fast. And that's 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.240 got that kind of can only when you're you know, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:39.800 your highest paid and your best player arguably are at 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:41.880 that level. I mean, six Pro Bowls in six years. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.000 Hard to argue against that when he's the one that's 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.320 not jogging to drills, but running to drills and he's 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.159 kind of waving guys long, Hey, let's go to the spot. Hey, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:51.400 let's go over here and get this part done. He 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:55.000 is getting guys to follow his pace and we know 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.640 that's fast and he's setting a tempo that I think 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:01.080 it's gonna maximize not just that room, but the entire team. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.160 And that's kind of what we've seen from some of 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:06.200 the veterans that were added to this team across the board. 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:08.279 We'll talk to to Ron Armstaid later on in this 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:11.000 podcast and hear from him about imparting his wisdom in 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.880 that young offensive line room. And then Melvin Ingram as 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.279 well in terms of getting on the grass with the 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.200 guys and helping out any way that he can. It's 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:22.480 nice when you can add veterans who can produce results, 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.400 but it's the best of both worlds when they are 0:06:25.480 --> 0:06:29.360 eager to help the younger guys as well. So we 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.599 talked about a Landing Roberts catching the orange jersey for today. 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.559 Who might be wearing it tomorrow? We wonder. I can't 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.560 say because I don't have access to the tape and 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.039 to go over all of that, but I do think 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.839 that Noah Igbonogny made a case for it on this Wednesday, 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.640 June the one. So we'll start in the defensive backfield 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.680 sort of here because coverage sacks were the theme of 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:52.000 the day, and so too where batted balls at the 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.440 line of scrimmage and Big Seth said to me a 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.640 few times at practice, Man, they sure are picking up 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:58.480 right where they left off, aren't they in terms of 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.479 the defense. And we'll also hear from Chason Toehron on 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.360 that fact. Really good insight from those guys on just that. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:08.680 But remember that Austin Clark Dolphins defensive line coach. They 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:11.040 that grew up led the national Football League in terms 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.040 of batted passes at the line from defensive lineman, and 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:17.240 Emmanuel Ogball led all defensive lineman in that category per 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.000 Pro Football Focus as well as Pro Football Reference. And 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.640 what's funny is that to a is one of the 0:07:22.680 --> 0:07:26.960 league's least rejected passes, throwers, pass throwers, passes, throwers, I 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:31.160 don't know words in the league zero batted balls last year. 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:35.280 That's according to Football Outsiders and to the two highest 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.560 percentages from Football Outsiders last year. We're a pair of 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.360 six ft five quarterbacks Cam Newton and Ben Roethlisberger. So 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.360 which is it? Is it the quarterback is the defensive line? 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:47.720 That stat right there tells you it's the defensive line 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.120 doing what they do best. Back to the defensive backfield 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.520 and Noah Igbanagady, he's playing fast man. He's flying around 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.680 out there, and you often mistake him for Javon Holland, 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.800 and athletically, they kind of pair up that way because 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.120 they both are so explosive. That's a good company, right. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.200 He came in for a would be sack at one point. 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:07.680 He was challenging the catchpoint all practice long, and we 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.600 talked to him, what was it two weeks ago, the 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.920 first week of of media availability here at practice or 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.280 media being at practice, I should say, and what did 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.760 he talk about? But confidence, how that's key for him. 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:20.320 I think we saw a big step today or just 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:23.400 from the off season work in general in that department. 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:25.960 And it was evident on the final play of practice today. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.800 Jalen Waddle runs a takeoff route and we know how 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.000 he can run. And the ball is throwing a country 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.080 mile down there off the arm of number one two 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.240 a toungo byloa and it's a good ball. It's in stride. 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:37.920 It looks like Jalen is gonna have a chance for 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.720 the home run ball, but here comes number nine skying 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.080 through the air to break it up. He got all 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.640 kinds of dap after that one. That's one thing when 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:47.960 you're watching practice plays you look for is you obviously 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.360 you're watching to get your own field, but notice who 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.240 gets the dap afterwards. That's the best way to evaluate 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:55.600 who did their job correctly when maybe you don't know. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.280 But this instance, it was obvious because he made the 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.480 play on the football and all the I gave him 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.199 a big, big uh celebration for the hell of a 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:05.760 day for no ignogamy. I thought Nick Needham was locked 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.640 down once again. He's been so damn good in these 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:09.600 o t A s. I thought Javon Holland as he 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:12.839 is wont to do impacting the game or practice from 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.120 everywhere on the football field. Same for Brandon Jones. This 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:19.240 secondary I think pro football focus rather than the number two, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.480 the number two Travis Know's words in the NFL. Yeah 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:25.319 it's it's there, or number one. It's one of the 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.080 two in the receiver group too. So I mean very 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.480 impressed the defensive backfield today, and that includes a lot 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.240 more names, but just a couple of mentions here. I 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:35.440 thought Eric Roe, Javarus Davis, and Trull Williams all made 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.240 some plays that I saw. At linebacker Andrew Van Geekl 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.240 was in the backfield a lot. Jalen Phillips had a 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.400 would be sack and he was impacting the pass pro 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.560 on damn near a down by down basis he gets reset, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.760 you know, you reset the alliance scrimmage where you kind 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.320 of move the guys back and forced the quarterback to 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.400 deal with a different pocket than what he was expecting, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.160 or the running back to deal with a different launch 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.040 point than he was expecting. He does that for breakfast, lunch, 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.040 and dinner. I thought the line up front did well 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.920 to keep those guys clean the running game as well, 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:04.360 because linebackers had some some wide open tackle attempts. Like 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:06.600 Brandan Scarlett, he wasn't there for a would be sack 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.240 and had some really good work setting a hard edge 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.400 and a couple of reps I saw. I thought Darius 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.199 Hodge got his had some good reps to getting his 0:10:14.240 --> 0:10:16.680 hands in the football once and flying around pretty well. 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:20.120 But upfront man Christian Wilkins, that's the tweet him. Him 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.560 and Zach Seeler caused a ton of problems again broken record. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.959 And they do it from we know they can do 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.840 it from multiple positions. We saw Wilkins play multiple spots, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:30.640 you know, on game day tape the last couple of years. 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.199 Same for Seeler. That's the same deal out here. In practice, 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.360 both guys go on runs, whether it's deconstructing the interior 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.240 or the edge, whatever the case may be. Those guys 0:10:38.320 --> 0:10:40.560 just continue to get the job done in practice and 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.959 in games. And we saw that today. Uh Benito Jones 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:47.839 came clean for it would be sack I think, or 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.640 maybe no, no, no, check that check that check that 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:51.480 check out would have been a nice collision in the 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.680 backfield on a running play. He came clean a couple 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.520 of times. He's been making some plays here so far 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.320 in the offseason program onto the other side of the football. 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.320 And as much as it sounds like the d offense 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.520 just did whatever they wanted, there were some offensive wins too, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.560 and especially I thought across the offensive line. I thought 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:09.760 Austin Jackson was tremendous today. There was a rep where 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.160 he dealt with a speed rush by quickly getting into 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.760 a setup, swiping the hands down, then finishing the rep 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:17.040 and getting the rusher onto the ground. And it was 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.320 Christian Wilkins too, so like this is a big dude 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.320 coming off and coming around him and he just finds 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.520 a way to get the hands down and put him 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.040 on the ground. That does not happen very often. Austin 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.439 Jackson got done today. I thought Liam Eichenberg had a 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.320 lot of reps in the running game where he generated 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:32.000 push and created gaps and created space for the running backs. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.520 Thought Connor Williams did the exact same thing. And the 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.240 two U d f A s I thought had some 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:39.800 nice work Kellen Dish and Blaze Andrew's. Both those guys 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:43.040 fire off the ball and it puts them in advantageous situations, 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.559 and it did so a couple of times today. But 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.560 I think, man, this line, when they get to drown 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:50.720 Armstead going and they get the positions ultimately sorted out, 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.840 there's a chance for this line to be pretty damgn good. 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.320 The running backs. I am so impressed by Chase Edmonds. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:57.720 I mentioned it on Twitter. You could see his explosiveness 0:11:57.720 --> 0:11:59.640 and the individual drills. Big Sath comes up to me 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.480 and goes, what you watching for? Said feet feet feet, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:03.960 watch the feet, watch everybody's feet out here. But he 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:05.880 can just sink his hips into those cuts and it 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.440 helps him fire out of those breaks and it translates 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.720 to the to the actual game, to the play the 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.360 team drills. Heh's a couple of nice runs in practice, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:14.720 and we'll talk to him about that here in the 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.280 third segment. Really interesting stuff from him on practicing and 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.959 shorts and shells and how to evaluate it. I mentioned 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.160 this two weeks ago as well. I think the Quadria 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.880 Whites vision and feel really gives him a chance to 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.439 make a make some noise here. Saw some more of 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.560 that today, and his South Carolina tape is full of 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.480 him finding that backside escape hatch, that fold back run, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.880 and you don't do that without having really sound vision. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:36.480 He's done it a few times now that I've seen 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:39.160 in practice. The quarterbacks, receivers, and tight ends, this was 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.920 the group that I thought struggled the most collectively. There 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.600 was lots of checkdowns, lots of coverage sacks, but each 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.040 guy had a handful of plays to have found. Lind 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:48.880 bowed on the first play with a really nice shot 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.160 between a pair of defenders, and it's the throw I've 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:55.160 been clamoring about two a skill set for well since Alabama. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.640 Right his ability to get up over one defender and 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.160 under the next, good touch, layering the football as it's called. 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.400 I thought that in his ability to anticipate, you know, 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:07.520 here's the coverage, here's where the ball can go against 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:09.640 that coverage, I thought those were the best traits he 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.720 had on display in this practice. The ball comes out 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:14.240 early on a particular breaking route, and the ball meets 0:13:14.240 --> 0:13:16.079 the receiver when he gets that part of the route. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.880 Good stuff. I thought. Skyler Thompson had some nice throws, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:20.920 some good zip checked, a lot of balls down, but 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.240 showed some physical skills. And then Teddy Bridgewater after up 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.640 and down day, had a nice rip to Trent Sherfield 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.559 for a touchdown in red zone work, and that's where 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.520 we started receiver Schurefield. He found the soft spot and 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.840 showed the quarterback his numbers, made some tough catches and 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.800 did a nice little dance after the touchdown catch. Then 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.839 at the end of practice, he caught a ball laying 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.200 out running away from the defensive back, running away from 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:43.600 the quarterback with coverage tightly in tow. Had a very 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.920 nice day sort of lym Bowden that grabbed him to 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.440 a and another one on a similar throw later where 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:51.400 he's open but still has to go to the ground 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:53.760 and make a tight bang bang catch. Really nice day 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.640 for number three. Cedric Wilson continues to catch everything we 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:59.280 heard from him after practice. Excuse me more on him 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.599 in just a moment. And then both Tyreek Hill and 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:04.440 Jillen Waddle caught touchdowns in the red zone period, and 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.680 my note there was that you don't just recognize their 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.480 speed and suddenness in the long game, but also how 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.079 effective it can be in the red zone, like super effective. 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.560 They both score a bunch of touchdowns. Waddle had seven 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.760 last year. Tyreek's usually around ten in his career. But 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.760 it's not just forty plus yard plays. I mean, what 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.120 was Waddle's longest touchdown last year? Eleven yards? The guy 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.440 can get open, He can get open down there in 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.560 the red zone. It reminds me of my scattering report 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.360 I had on Brandon Cook's out of Oregon State when 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.480 he came out back in fourteen. Almost had born and 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.200 O four one of my favorite players in that draft, 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.040 because yeah, he was fast, but his ability to win 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:41.800 and condense spaces and quickly really stood out to me 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.360 at Senior Bowl and on his Organ State tape. And 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:46.080 this thought that you have to be this big bodied 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.520 guy to winning the red zone, it's it's not the 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.360 case at all, and I think that Waddle and Hill 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.520 are prime examples of that. Finally, how about some specialist 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:56.520 Thomas Morrista was punting him around midfield during one drill 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:59.400 today and there was lots of lift and they would 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.480 wind up putting the ball down around the seven or 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.320 eight yard line. It would spin towards the goal, the 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.040 goal line, and the gunner was there to catch it 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.120 and put that thing down at the one. So many 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:09.360 times the ball was down into the five yard line 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:13.480 in this practice, So Funday, nothing beats covering football. We'll 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.520 have another one tomorrow for you guys here on Drivetime, 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.120 and of course we have a lot of media to 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:18.840 get to here the rest of the way. We'll do 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.640 that next Drivetime Podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield, Coach Mike 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:27.680 McDaniel here next, brought to you by Auto Nation, back 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:31.160 here on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. It 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:33.600 might be Thursday when you hear us, but we recorded 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.280 on a Wednesday after Wednesday's practice, and we're gonna go 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.480 ahead and get right now into coach Mike McDaniel's press conference. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:41.720 If you want to watch this thing in its entirety, 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:43.760 go ahead and check out the YouTube channel. If you 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.520 want to hear my thoughts on it, go ahead and 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.360 stay here and listen to us talk about coach McDaniel, 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.760 who first was asked about the change and schedule to practice. 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.840 We were out here around noon the last couple of weeks. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:59.240 This week, we are out here right around ten, which 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:01.400 is a training camp schedule. I have it sounds like, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:02.960 and that's what coach with Daniel was gonna talk about 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:05.120 here in just one second. So here's coach on the 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.120 idea of this week of the mandatory mini camp and 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.240 the scheduling they have or the thought process I should 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.000 say behind the scheduling. Here's coach with Daniel. Yeah, from 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:17.400 a operational standpoint, UM, we adjusted a little bit too. 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:21.760 Uh kind of coincide with training camp. So they're they're 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:25.960 getting a taste and a taste of what the training 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:30.000 camp day is like minus paths obviously, so it is 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:36.320 a little different UM this particular UM uh mini camp, 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.000 we're kind of doing a collection of all the stuff 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:43.760 we've installed as an offensive, defense and special teams UM, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.520 and doing that in the mini camp and just using 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:49.920 the meeting time to watch tape as opposed to traditionally 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:54.080 in training camp or O t s you're installing plays 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:58.160 UM in the morning and at night. So uh, it's 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.960 a continuation of But they had had their first non 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:05.960 scripted period UM today. Uh. So that was different, which 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:09.760 is UM typical of something to work into UM week 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.840 three of training camp or week two UM and then uh, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:15.760 but their schedule will be the same as training camp. 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.560 Really found that part about the unscripted portion of practice 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.240 today that they don't usually use until week two or 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.119 three of training camp, and we saw some offensive success there, 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.639 saw some defensive success as well. I just thought I 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.320 was really interesting and I cannot wait. My biggest takeaway 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.919 that I cannot wait for training camp because it's my 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.960 favorite time of year, even though Seth always calls me 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:36.960 crazy for it. I just can't wait to get back 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:38.800 out on the football field and watch these guys do 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.200 this thing, you know every day. That's that's my favorite 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:43.520 time of year. Question number two for coaches talking about 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:45.639 the tight ends and you know, let's go ahead and 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.480 just hear from coach about the tight ends as well 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:50.720 as blocking the blocking, I should say of Mike KASICKI. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:56.040 So it was that was a process because you're you're 0:17:56.080 --> 0:18:00.320 hesitant to just do make foregone conclusions off of bscs 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.159 or anything like that. So it took a lot of 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.720 tape watching and there's um, you know, we we knew 0:18:06.760 --> 0:18:09.440 fully that are that we'd be asking these these guys 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.240 to do some different things, um than they've done in 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.399 the past. Um. After really deep Diamond and watching all 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:20.120 the guys, you know, it felt like there not only 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:21.840 did they put good stuff on tape, but there was 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:23.920 a lot of room to grow. We thought that UM 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:26.840 and the and the people first and foremost were the 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:29.879 type of people that UH we want to represent us 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:34.280 UM as Miami Dolphins. So UH that that was it 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.000 was both the tape and and the people, and it 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.280 took a little time to uncomb but UM, once we 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.840 uncombed it, we we felt really good about it. As 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:45.000 far as Mike Gasecki, he's he's UH be's been as 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.680 impressive as any player on the team in terms of 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:52.119 going after UH a challenge. You know, he hasn't you 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:55.720