Speaker 1: To us fires touch style by waddle stuck into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami Boyd Tight froll, tight window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Drive Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield And on today's show, it is mandatory mining camp.
Speaker 1: We've got practice notes, We've got audio from Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: and a handful of players including Cedric Wilson Jr. And
Speaker 1: you will not want to miss the breakdowns I got
Speaker 1: from Chase Edmonds and to Ron Armstead and the insight.
Speaker 1: They provided a fun show today from the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Speaker 1: Drivetime Podcast Miami Dolphins, all right? And with that, it
Speaker 1: is football season. Because I had a little bit of
Speaker 1: rest and a little bit of a reset over the
Speaker 1: weekend since we last talked, a much needed weekend unplug
Speaker 1: I was the efficient of one of my best friends weddings.
Speaker 1: I had three jokes in the script and they all
Speaker 1: landed nice and the groom cried after every line of
Speaker 1: his vows, so he took a lot of the heat
Speaker 1: off me. Speaking of the heat, I don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about it. Still think that the best team in
Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference, but the best team does not always win,
Speaker 1: will be back next year, Jimmy m VP of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: And with that, again, it is football season because the Mariners,
Speaker 1: my baseball team, are annually done by June one, and
Speaker 1: right now eight games under five hundred. That's about where
Speaker 1: I put them. But it has more to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that they have like one solid picture in
Speaker 1: the rotation and like five automatic outs in their lineup.
Speaker 1: But I digress. So football time, I want to make
Speaker 1: note first of the transition from when I first got
Speaker 1: here in and really in earnest began covering this team
Speaker 1: like daily in and the transition of talent and the
Speaker 1: way this roster has been built up under Chris Career,
Speaker 1: Brandon Shore in this Dolphin's front office, and eventually now
Speaker 1: here underhead coach Mike McDaniel, and just looking out across
Speaker 1: that practice field and seeing Tyreek Hill, Jalen Waddle, Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: Tehron Armstead, Melvin Ingram, you know, and that's just the
Speaker 1: marquee type of names, right, the guys in addition to
Speaker 1: the players that we know and love, I mean a
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, is Zach Seeler, A Jerome Baker, a Mike
Speaker 1: GATSICKI A in this case, Chase Edmonds to a Toungo
Speaker 1: by LOA Nick need Um, Byron Jones. And there's so
Speaker 1: many guys out there that you just recognize every position
Speaker 1: group you go through and you say, I want to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on that guy. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: no that guy. Oh wait, wait, there's that guy too.
Speaker 1: Like every group you look around, there's just a lot
Speaker 1: of talent. And I know that's reflective of the mood
Speaker 1: I've seen on social media around this foot ball team.
Speaker 1: You guys are pretty damn excited, and so am I.
Speaker 1: So with that, let's go ahead and start with the
Speaker 1: practice notes different order on the podcast today, since we
Speaker 1: did not hear from coach or the players until after practice,
Speaker 1: So we go ahead and start with practice, and we
Speaker 1: start with the orange jersey number fifty two Land and Roberts.
Speaker 1: And there was a lot of old school hip hop
Speaker 1: in there that I quite enjoyed. And when I say
Speaker 1: old school I'm talking about like early eminem I think
Speaker 1: there was some Tupac in there. This was one of
Speaker 1: the better playlists I thought. Or wait, no, I don't
Speaker 1: say that, because if I want to say that, I
Speaker 1: have to get the orange jersey right, and I don't
Speaker 1: have the orange jersey. We're an awkward today. Actually the
Speaker 1: shirt belongs to Frank. That's a Billy Madison joke for you.
Speaker 1: But a couple of notes here from the individual drills
Speaker 1: and one thing I like to do when we get
Speaker 1: a new coach just to kind of see how those
Speaker 1: guys go through their individual drills. And since the entire
Speaker 1: offensive side of the staff is largely new, I was
Speaker 1: kind of paying attention to that. And we've heard this
Speaker 1: before from Trent Sherfield on Drive Time. That's the beauty
Speaker 1: of being here every day is that you get have
Speaker 1: kind of collect your thoughts and things that you've heard
Speaker 1: and things that you're told from the guys that are
Speaker 1: experts at it, like a Trent Schurfield, who on Drive
Speaker 1: Time talked about this, and Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: also talked about this in their media availability. We've also
Speaker 1: heard the same from the offensive line, like guys like
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson, Robert Huntley, and Ikenburgh about how important it
Speaker 1: is to come off the football in this offense. So
Speaker 1: seeing the receiver group stressing that in a drill, working
Speaker 1: on the release packages, whether it's you know, crossover step
Speaker 1: or a dummy, you know, a slow release, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be. They're doing all the release packages they have,
Speaker 1: but the whey they fire off the ball that I
Speaker 1: thought was cool to see. And then just watching all
Speaker 1: the talent in the room and knowing they've got West
Speaker 1: freaking Welcer to lean on. I feel so good about
Speaker 1: that group. And something I pointed out to Big Seth
Speaker 1: watching this practice with him, and this is something that
Speaker 1: he O J myself talked about on the postgame show
Speaker 1: a lot last year on five sixt w q a M,
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins Radio network, was that the receiver room
Speaker 1: we thought, you know, needed that jolt, needed some fresh perspective.
Speaker 1: And I think that Tyreek Hill, I mean, we can
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, the on field production and the
Speaker 1: explosiveness of his game what that does, but man, this
Speaker 1: dude sets a tempo at practice. We talked to him
Speaker 1: last week about it, and you know there's no veteran
Speaker 1: day off for you here in May, because he's he's
Speaker 1: running go routes, he's running full gasers, he's doing takeoffs,
Speaker 1: he's in every single drill. And he said, that's what
Speaker 1: I do, man, I come out here and I run
Speaker 1: full speed. I run fast, I go fast. And that's
Speaker 1: got that kind of can only when you're you know,
Speaker 1: your highest paid and your best player arguably are at
Speaker 1: that level. I mean, six Pro Bowls in six years.
Speaker 1: Hard to argue against that when he's the one that's
Speaker 1: not jogging to drills, but running to drills and he's
Speaker 1: kind of waving guys long, Hey, let's go to the spot. Hey,
Speaker 1: let's go over here and get this part done. He
Speaker 1: is getting guys to follow his pace and we know
Speaker 1: that's fast and he's setting a tempo that I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna maximize not just that room, but the entire team.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what we've seen from some of
Speaker 1: the veterans that were added to this team across the board.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to to Ron Armstaid later on in this
Speaker 1: podcast and hear from him about imparting his wisdom in
Speaker 1: that young offensive line room. And then Melvin Ingram as
Speaker 1: well in terms of getting on the grass with the
Speaker 1: guys and helping out any way that he can. It's
Speaker 1: nice when you can add veterans who can produce results,
Speaker 1: but it's the best of both worlds when they are
Speaker 1: eager to help the younger guys as well. So we
Speaker 1: talked about a Landing Roberts catching the orange jersey for today.
Speaker 1: Who might be wearing it tomorrow? We wonder. I can't
Speaker 1: say because I don't have access to the tape and
Speaker 1: to go over all of that, but I do think
Speaker 1: that Noah Igbonogny made a case for it on this Wednesday,
Speaker 1: June the one. So we'll start in the defensive backfield
Speaker 1: sort of here because coverage sacks were the theme of
Speaker 1: the day, and so too where batted balls at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage and Big Seth said to me a
Speaker 1: few times at practice, Man, they sure are picking up
Speaker 1: right where they left off, aren't they in terms of
Speaker 1: the defense. And we'll also hear from Chason Toehron on
Speaker 1: that fact. Really good insight from those guys on just that.
Speaker 1: But remember that Austin Clark Dolphins defensive line coach. They
Speaker 1: that grew up led the national Football League in terms
Speaker 1: of batted passes at the line from defensive lineman, and
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogball led all defensive lineman in that category per
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus as well as Pro Football Reference. And
Speaker 1: what's funny is that to a is one of the
Speaker 1: league's least rejected passes, throwers, pass throwers, passes, throwers, I
Speaker 1: don't know words in the league zero batted balls last year.
Speaker 1: That's according to Football Outsiders and to the two highest
Speaker 1: percentages from Football Outsiders last year. We're a pair of
Speaker 1: six ft five quarterbacks Cam Newton and Ben Roethlisberger. So
Speaker 1: which is it? Is it the quarterback is the defensive line?
Speaker 1: That stat right there tells you it's the defensive line
Speaker 1: doing what they do best. Back to the defensive backfield
Speaker 1: and Noah Igbanagady, he's playing fast man. He's flying around
Speaker 1: out there, and you often mistake him for Javon Holland,
Speaker 1: and athletically, they kind of pair up that way because
Speaker 1: they both are so explosive. That's a good company, right.
Speaker 1: He came in for a would be sack at one point.
Speaker 1: He was challenging the catchpoint all practice long, and we
Speaker 1: talked to him, what was it two weeks ago, the
Speaker 1: first week of of media availability here at practice or
Speaker 1: media being at practice, I should say, and what did
Speaker 1: he talk about? But confidence, how that's key for him.
Speaker 1: I think we saw a big step today or just
Speaker 1: from the off season work in general in that department.
Speaker 1: And it was evident on the final play of practice today.
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle runs a takeoff route and we know how
Speaker 1: he can run. And the ball is throwing a country
Speaker 1: mile down there off the arm of number one two
Speaker 1: a toungo byloa and it's a good ball. It's in stride.
Speaker 1: It looks like Jalen is gonna have a chance for
Speaker 1: the home run ball, but here comes number nine skying
Speaker 1: through the air to break it up. He got all
Speaker 1: kinds of dap after that one. That's one thing when
Speaker 1: you're watching practice plays you look for is you obviously
Speaker 1: you're watching to get your own field, but notice who
Speaker 1: gets the dap afterwards. That's the best way to evaluate
Speaker 1: who did their job correctly when maybe you don't know.
Speaker 1: But this instance, it was obvious because he made the
Speaker 1: play on the football and all the I gave him
Speaker 1: a big, big uh celebration for the hell of a
Speaker 1: day for no ignogamy. I thought Nick Needham was locked
Speaker 1: down once again. He's been so damn good in these
Speaker 1: o t A s. I thought Javon Holland as he
Speaker 1: is wont to do impacting the game or practice from
Speaker 1: everywhere on the football field. Same for Brandon Jones. This
Speaker 1: secondary I think pro football focus rather than the number two,
Speaker 1: the number two Travis Know's words in the NFL. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's it's there, or number one. It's one of the
Speaker 1: two in the receiver group too. So I mean very
Speaker 1: impressed the defensive backfield today, and that includes a lot
Speaker 1: more names, but just a couple of mentions here. I
Speaker 1: thought Eric Roe, Javarus Davis, and Trull Williams all made
Speaker 1: some plays that I saw. At linebacker Andrew Van Geekl
Speaker 1: was in the backfield a lot. Jalen Phillips had a
Speaker 1: would be sack and he was impacting the pass pro
Speaker 1: on damn near a down by down basis he gets reset,
Speaker 1: you know, you reset the alliance scrimmage where you kind
Speaker 1: of move the guys back and forced the quarterback to
Speaker 1: deal with a different pocket than what he was expecting,
Speaker 1: or the running back to deal with a different launch
Speaker 1: point than he was expecting. He does that for breakfast, lunch,
Speaker 1: and dinner. I thought the line up front did well
Speaker 1: to keep those guys clean the running game as well,
Speaker 1: because linebackers had some some wide open tackle attempts. Like
Speaker 1: Brandan Scarlett, he wasn't there for a would be sack
Speaker 1: and had some really good work setting a hard edge
Speaker 1: and a couple of reps I saw. I thought Darius
Speaker 1: Hodge got his had some good reps to getting his
Speaker 1: hands in the football once and flying around pretty well.
Speaker 1: But upfront man Christian Wilkins, that's the tweet him. Him
Speaker 1: and Zach Seeler caused a ton of problems again broken record.
Speaker 1: And they do it from we know they can do
Speaker 1: it from multiple positions. We saw Wilkins play multiple spots,
Speaker 1: you know, on game day tape the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Same for Seeler. That's the same deal out here. In practice,
Speaker 1: both guys go on runs, whether it's deconstructing the interior
Speaker 1: or the edge, whatever the case may be. Those guys
Speaker 1: just continue to get the job done in practice and
Speaker 1: in games. And we saw that today. Uh Benito Jones
Speaker 1: came clean for it would be sack I think, or
Speaker 1: maybe no, no, no, check that check that check that
Speaker 1: check out would have been a nice collision in the
Speaker 1: backfield on a running play. He came clean a couple
Speaker 1: of times. He's been making some plays here so far
Speaker 1: in the offseason program onto the other side of the football.
Speaker 1: And as much as it sounds like the d offense
Speaker 1: just did whatever they wanted, there were some offensive wins too,
Speaker 1: and especially I thought across the offensive line. I thought
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson was tremendous today. There was a rep where
Speaker 1: he dealt with a speed rush by quickly getting into
Speaker 1: a setup, swiping the hands down, then finishing the rep
Speaker 1: and getting the rusher onto the ground. And it was
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins too, so like this is a big dude
Speaker 1: coming off and coming around him and he just finds
Speaker 1: a way to get the hands down and put him
Speaker 1: on the ground. That does not happen very often. Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson got done today. I thought Liam Eichenberg had a
Speaker 1: lot of reps in the running game where he generated
Speaker 1: push and created gaps and created space for the running backs.
Speaker 1: Thought Connor Williams did the exact same thing. And the
Speaker 1: two U d f A s I thought had some
Speaker 1: nice work Kellen Dish and Blaze Andrew's. Both those guys
Speaker 1: fire off the ball and it puts them in advantageous situations,
Speaker 1: and it did so a couple of times today. But
Speaker 1: I think, man, this line, when they get to drown
Speaker 1: Armstead going and they get the positions ultimately sorted out,
Speaker 1: there's a chance for this line to be pretty damgn good.
Speaker 1: The running backs. I am so impressed by Chase Edmonds.
Speaker 1: I mentioned it on Twitter. You could see his explosiveness
Speaker 1: and the individual drills. Big Sath comes up to me
Speaker 1: and goes, what you watching for? Said feet feet feet,
Speaker 1: watch the feet, watch everybody's feet out here. But he
Speaker 1: can just sink his hips into those cuts and it
Speaker 1: helps him fire out of those breaks and it translates
Speaker 1: to the to the actual game, to the play the
Speaker 1: team drills. Heh's a couple of nice runs in practice,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk to him about that here in the
Speaker 1: third segment. Really interesting stuff from him on practicing and
Speaker 1: shorts and shells and how to evaluate it. I mentioned
Speaker 1: this two weeks ago as well. I think the Quadria
Speaker 1: Whites vision and feel really gives him a chance to
Speaker 1: make a make some noise here. Saw some more of
Speaker 1: that today, and his South Carolina tape is full of
Speaker 1: him finding that backside escape hatch, that fold back run,
Speaker 1: and you don't do that without having really sound vision.
Speaker 1: He's done it a few times now that I've seen
Speaker 1: in practice. The quarterbacks, receivers, and tight ends, this was
Speaker 1: the group that I thought struggled the most collectively. There
Speaker 1: was lots of checkdowns, lots of coverage sacks, but each
Speaker 1: guy had a handful of plays to have found. Lind
Speaker 1: bowed on the first play with a really nice shot
Speaker 1: between a pair of defenders, and it's the throw I've
Speaker 1: been clamoring about two a skill set for well since Alabama.
Speaker 1: Right his ability to get up over one defender and
Speaker 1: under the next, good touch, layering the football as it's called.
Speaker 1: I thought that in his ability to anticipate, you know,
Speaker 1: here's the coverage, here's where the ball can go against
Speaker 1: that coverage, I thought those were the best traits he
Speaker 1: had on display in this practice. The ball comes out
Speaker 1: early on a particular breaking route, and the ball meets
Speaker 1: the receiver when he gets that part of the route.
Speaker 1: Good stuff. I thought. Skyler Thompson had some nice throws,
Speaker 1: some good zip checked, a lot of balls down, but
Speaker 1: showed some physical skills. And then Teddy Bridgewater after up
Speaker 1: and down day, had a nice rip to Trent Sherfield
Speaker 1: for a touchdown in red zone work, and that's where
Speaker 1: we started receiver Schurefield. He found the soft spot and
Speaker 1: showed the quarterback his numbers, made some tough catches and
Speaker 1: did a nice little dance after the touchdown catch. Then
Speaker 1: at the end of practice, he caught a ball laying
Speaker 1: out running away from the defensive back, running away from
Speaker 1: the quarterback with coverage tightly in tow. Had a very
Speaker 1: nice day sort of lym Bowden that grabbed him to
Speaker 1: a and another one on a similar throw later where
Speaker 1: he's open but still has to go to the ground
Speaker 1: and make a tight bang bang catch. Really nice day
Speaker 1: for number three. Cedric Wilson continues to catch everything we
Speaker 1: heard from him after practice. Excuse me more on him
Speaker 1: in just a moment. And then both Tyreek Hill and
Speaker 1: Jillen Waddle caught touchdowns in the red zone period, and
Speaker 1: my note there was that you don't just recognize their
Speaker 1: speed and suddenness in the long game, but also how
Speaker 1: effective it can be in the red zone, like super effective.
Speaker 1: They both score a bunch of touchdowns. Waddle had seven
Speaker 1: last year. Tyreek's usually around ten in his career. But
Speaker 1: it's not just forty plus yard plays. I mean, what
Speaker 1: was Waddle's longest touchdown last year? Eleven yards? The guy
Speaker 1: can get open, He can get open down there in
Speaker 1: the red zone. It reminds me of my scattering report
Speaker 1: I had on Brandon Cook's out of Oregon State when
Speaker 1: he came out back in fourteen. Almost had born and
Speaker 1: O four one of my favorite players in that draft,
Speaker 1: because yeah, he was fast, but his ability to win
Speaker 1: and condense spaces and quickly really stood out to me
Speaker 1: at Senior Bowl and on his Organ State tape. And
Speaker 1: this thought that you have to be this big bodied
Speaker 1: guy to winning the red zone, it's it's not the
Speaker 1: case at all, and I think that Waddle and Hill
Speaker 1: are prime examples of that. Finally, how about some specialist
Speaker 1: Thomas Morrista was punting him around midfield during one drill
Speaker 1: today and there was lots of lift and they would
Speaker 1: wind up putting the ball down around the seven or
Speaker 1: eight yard line. It would spin towards the goal, the
Speaker 1: goal line, and the gunner was there to catch it
Speaker 1: and put that thing down at the one. So many
Speaker 1: times the ball was down into the five yard line
Speaker 1: in this practice, So Funday, nothing beats covering football. We'll
Speaker 1: have another one tomorrow for you guys here on Drivetime,
Speaker 1: and of course we have a lot of media to
Speaker 1: get to here the rest of the way. We'll do
Speaker 1: that next Drivetime Podcast. Your host Travis Wingfield, Coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel here next, brought to you by Auto Nation, back
Speaker 1: here on this Wednesday edition of the Drivetime Podcast. It
Speaker 1: might be Thursday when you hear us, but we recorded
Speaker 1: on a Wednesday after Wednesday's practice, and we're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and get right now into coach Mike McDaniel's press conference.
Speaker 1: If you want to watch this thing in its entirety,
Speaker 1: go ahead and check out the YouTube channel. If you
Speaker 1: want to hear my thoughts on it, go ahead and
Speaker 1: stay here and listen to us talk about coach McDaniel,
Speaker 1: who first was asked about the change and schedule to practice.
Speaker 1: We were out here around noon the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: This week, we are out here right around ten, which
Speaker 1: is a training camp schedule. I have it sounds like,
Speaker 1: and that's what coach with Daniel was gonna talk about
Speaker 1: here in just one second. So here's coach on the
Speaker 1: idea of this week of the mandatory mini camp and
Speaker 1: the scheduling they have or the thought process I should
Speaker 1: say behind the scheduling. Here's coach with Daniel. Yeah, from
Speaker 1: a operational standpoint, UM, we adjusted a little bit too.
Speaker 1: Uh kind of coincide with training camp. So they're they're
Speaker 1: getting a taste and a taste of what the training
Speaker 1: camp day is like minus paths obviously, so it is
Speaker 1: a little different UM this particular UM uh mini camp,
Speaker 1: we're kind of doing a collection of all the stuff
Speaker 1: we've installed as an offensive, defense and special teams UM,
Speaker 1: and doing that in the mini camp and just using
Speaker 1: the meeting time to watch tape as opposed to traditionally
Speaker 1: in training camp or O t s you're installing plays
Speaker 1: UM in the morning and at night. So uh, it's
Speaker 1: a continuation of But they had had their first non
Speaker 1: scripted period UM today. Uh. So that was different, which
Speaker 1: is UM typical of something to work into UM week
Speaker 1: three of training camp or week two UM and then uh,
Speaker 1: but their schedule will be the same as training camp.
Speaker 1: Really found that part about the unscripted portion of practice
Speaker 1: today that they don't usually use until week two or
Speaker 1: three of training camp, and we saw some offensive success there,
Speaker 1: saw some defensive success as well. I just thought I
Speaker 1: was really interesting and I cannot wait. My biggest takeaway
Speaker 1: that I cannot wait for training camp because it's my
Speaker 1: favorite time of year, even though Seth always calls me
Speaker 1: crazy for it. I just can't wait to get back
Speaker 1: out on the football field and watch these guys do
Speaker 1: this thing, you know every day. That's that's my favorite
Speaker 1: time of year. Question number two for coaches talking about
Speaker 1: the tight ends and you know, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: just hear from coach about the tight ends as well
Speaker 1: as blocking the blocking, I should say of Mike KASICKI.
Speaker 1: So it was that was a process because you're you're
Speaker 1: hesitant to just do make foregone conclusions off of bscs
Speaker 1: or anything like that. So it took a lot of
Speaker 1: tape watching and there's um, you know, we we knew
Speaker 1: fully that are that we'd be asking these these guys
Speaker 1: to do some different things, um than they've done in
Speaker 1: the past. Um. After really deep Diamond and watching all
Speaker 1: the guys, you know, it felt like there not only
Speaker 1: did they put good stuff on tape, but there was
Speaker 1: a lot of room to grow. We thought that UM
Speaker 1: and the and the people first and foremost were the
Speaker 1: type of people that UH we want to represent us
Speaker 1: UM as Miami Dolphins. So UH that that was it
Speaker 1: was both the tape and and the people, and it
Speaker 1: took a little time to uncomb but UM, once we
Speaker 1: uncombed it, we we felt really good about it. As
Speaker 1: far as Mike Gasecki, he's he's UH be's been as
Speaker 1: impressive as any player on the team in terms of
Speaker 1: going after UH a challenge. You know, he hasn't you
Speaker 1: guys probably could rattle off the stats, but UM three
Speaker 1: point wasn't his primary UM position And he's been working
Speaker 1: diligely in the run in pass game, UM to do
Speaker 1: things that UH that this offense can feature UM without
Speaker 1: taking away the stuff that that has made him who
Speaker 1: he is. UH. And and there there's pieces that in
Speaker 1: the offense, you know, as we're we're always tailoring, tailoring
Speaker 1: UM what we do to the skill set of our players.
Speaker 1: But he's really attacked it UM with UH with full
Speaker 1: vigger and has uh has really done a great job
Speaker 1: working on his footwork in the run game and UH,
Speaker 1: you know, hoping that carries over to pads when when
Speaker 1: that happens, and whatever month it is, Hey, don't cut
Speaker 1: coach off, let him do this, we all want to
Speaker 1: hear from him. I thought that was really interesting there.
Speaker 1: The I also thought that there was a theme about
Speaker 1: how guys just really want to work for this coach
Speaker 1: and for the staff. Like he's talked about empowering players.
Speaker 1: We've heard the testimonies of Mike McDaniel's approach and how
Speaker 1: his players have appreciated what he offers them, and how
Speaker 1: he would say how he's provided value for players, how
Speaker 1: he would say that right. I think this is a
Speaker 1: prime example of that. You see the tight end room
Speaker 1: constructed before your arrival. You retain that room and its
Speaker 1: entirety except for you add one U D F A,
Speaker 1: and you get that type of effort, that commitment, and
Speaker 1: that drive already you love to hear that. It's a great,
Speaker 1: a great almond for heading forward into the future. Up next,
Speaker 1: Coach was asked about Melvin Ingram and a couple of
Speaker 1: the guys to Ron Armstead who are not working in
Speaker 1: a full capacity, not dressing down, And here's Coach talking
Speaker 1: about the plan for those guys and the success they've
Speaker 1: seen from that already. Definitely, you know that that's something
Speaker 1: that we don't want to just throw people out there.
Speaker 1: To throw them out there, and UM, they have to
Speaker 1: be in the prerecord shape. And we've been working since
Speaker 1: um April four uh with with the rest of the guys.
Speaker 1: So UM right now, that's kind of the the limit
Speaker 1: with which we're comfortable doing with him. And that's exactly why,
Speaker 1: all things equal, he's added value for the Dolphins because
Speaker 1: there's a an element of professional success and hung you know,
Speaker 1: he's trying to prove himself as well, just like this
Speaker 1: team is UM and we're doing that one day at
Speaker 1: a time. So that was largely Melvin Ingram. Here he
Speaker 1: is talking a little bit about Toronto Armstead, Raheemo Start
Speaker 1: and guys that are working to get back. The progress
Speaker 1: is that, UM, we're we're trying to be UM, very
Speaker 1: deliberate and intentional with how we handle all those guys,
Speaker 1: and it's been very good. We haven't had a setback,
Speaker 1: um really across the board now we are being fairly conservative. UM.
Speaker 1: But that's like on an individual basis, UM, you know,
Speaker 1: you you try to handle that the right way, which
Speaker 1: which makes the most sense, um for all parties involved,
Speaker 1: and we're when when they're ready, they'll be out there
Speaker 1: full full something I can promise you they want to
Speaker 1: be playing right now. UM, but you know, between them
Speaker 1: and the and the training staff, we're trying to be
Speaker 1: very pragmatic and smart we bring them back. Next, here's
Speaker 1: coach talking a little bit about Austin jack and and
Speaker 1: his work at multiple positions. We know that he played
Speaker 1: left tackle, left guard last year and there's some opportunity
Speaker 1: on this offensive line to find a spot to crack into.
Speaker 1: Here's coach talking about the positional versatility and what he's
Speaker 1: seen from Austin Jackson so far. UM been pretty pumped,
Speaker 1: um about how all all the guys have really gone
Speaker 1: after the techniques and UM, the we're we're really focusing
Speaker 1: on some position versatility right now. And UH when when
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson is playing right tackle, UM been been very
Speaker 1: pleased because he's he's approaching it the way that the
Speaker 1: only way you can get better as a player, and
Speaker 1: that's complete commitment to it. So there's there's some things
Speaker 1: that you know, it's a uh we're asking people to
Speaker 1: do uh hard things at an elite level. So you
Speaker 1: try to do it over and over and over, and
Speaker 1: he's diligently attacking that. So um, the more you know,
Speaker 1: live bullets that we get for him at at every position,
Speaker 1: then he will play the better. I just love that
Speaker 1: comment there. And you know, Coach is gonna be transparent
Speaker 1: with us because he is transparent. I believe he's being
Speaker 1: transparent here. This has just always been the case with Austin.
Speaker 1: He's a studious player who works his ass off plays
Speaker 1: with the nasty demeanor. I mean, go look at after plays,
Speaker 1: after good running plays, you'll see him getting into a
Speaker 1: little bit of you know, hand fights with guys and
Speaker 1: just exerting his will a little bit extra. And I
Speaker 1: know the first two years have had their ups and
Speaker 1: downs for him, but he's got a chance here and
Speaker 1: I think he's been showing you exactly what Mike talks about.
Speaker 1: That work ethic, the nastiness, and the athletic ability. That's
Speaker 1: really kind of shows on his tape next year. How
Speaker 1: about Coach talking about the whole reason he took the
Speaker 1: job the orange jersey, sarcasm detective, that's the whole reason
Speaker 1: I took the job, you know, or the orange Jersey.
Speaker 1: Now that it's ah, I haven't got any push back yet,
Speaker 1: so I haven't had to flex the final say um.
Speaker 1: But collectively as a coaching staff, there's always been at
Speaker 1: least one player that's really separated themselves. So it's been
Speaker 1: easy thus far. I'll keep you abreast if there's any
Speaker 1: fisticuffs up in the office. His ability to go from smart,
Speaker 1: like really intelligent football conversation to just like turn it
Speaker 1: into a buddies having drinks and b s and about stuff.
Speaker 1: I am continually impressed with his ability to how you
Speaker 1: can flip it on and off. Last question here talking
Speaker 1: about the center position. Here's coach talking about what he
Speaker 1: wants on the offensive line. Lots of good stuff here
Speaker 1: in this answer here, it isn't it's full entirety, full time.
Speaker 1: I think you have to be careful to to pigeonhole
Speaker 1: who who is doing what when? Okay, I think that
Speaker 1: that isn't fair to the process. Um Um, I will
Speaker 1: say that we have if no other players added that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be very confident in our starting center next year.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm excited about who we have. Um. But you
Speaker 1: don't close the door or pigeonhole anything because it's just
Speaker 1: not fair of the process. You know, these guys are
Speaker 1: out here wedding and in uh what is this mate
Speaker 1: or June one, um, and you wouldn't be doing service
Speaker 1: to June first or second if you um made some
Speaker 1: bold statement. That's why we practice and that's why we
Speaker 1: uh work diligently as we do. There you go, Coach McDaniel.
Speaker 1: You guys can see the entire thing up on the
Speaker 1: team YouTube channel if you have not done so already,
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back on the other side with Chase
Speaker 1: Edmunds to Ron Armstead and Cedric Wilson. You do not
Speaker 1: want to miss that my favorite part of the entire
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Speaker 1: by automation. We're back here on this day one coverage
Speaker 1: of mandatory mini camps on June the one here from
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. We are in the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health studio talking to you here on the Drivetime podcast
Speaker 1: and we kick it off here for our three player
Speaker 1: interviews with running back Chase Edmunds, who I thought was
Speaker 1: potentially an Orange Jersey type of guy in this practice.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and kick it off here about just
Speaker 1: how it feels to be back on the grass, back
Speaker 1: at practice, working with this new team. Here's Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: so good. Obviously I gotta get used to this heat.
Speaker 1: But just to be out here with the team. You
Speaker 1: out here with the guys grinding hard. We're really trying
Speaker 1: to build something special here. And you know, coach mcginny,
Speaker 1: he just always talks about when want to build something special,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of hard work. So just
Speaker 1: having guys brought into the system, having guys bought into
Speaker 1: the work, taking care of each other, and just I'm
Speaker 1: excited to be out here with the guys. Now. How
Speaker 1: about what makes Chase confident in how the system can
Speaker 1: help his skill set and the skills of his running
Speaker 1: backs in that room? Here's Edmond some really good stuff
Speaker 1: here talking scheme and next is a nose. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I played against it, you know for the last
Speaker 1: four years. Uh, it's something special. Just with how they
Speaker 1: kind of disguise everything and kind of window dressed and
Speaker 1: make everything look like the same. Really confuses the defense
Speaker 1: and it holds the defense to really be disciplined and
Speaker 1: just have gap integrity. And um, I think that's something
Speaker 1: that I'm pretty good at specialized with my my zone scheme,
Speaker 1: and I'm excited to just get it under the zone
Speaker 1: and kind of you know, work my feet work. Really
Speaker 1: it's a different scheme than what I'm used to. I
Speaker 1: was predominantly inside his zone. So just working my feet again.
Speaker 1: Used to the outside zoe track again, used to the
Speaker 1: outside zone field, how certain lanes field, but just working
Speaker 1: the build to something specially man How about evaluating practices
Speaker 1: without pads at a position that's all about contact in
Speaker 1: the running game. Here's Chase Edmunds talking about how he
Speaker 1: does that. You always felt like, uh, you know, O
Speaker 1: T a sho. Always you're just about a mental emphasis. Um.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, especially with the NFL going to
Speaker 1: seventeen games, it's pounding enough, you know. I feel like, guys,
Speaker 1: you gotta come out here, get the playbook down so
Speaker 1: that when we have that six weeks off it can
Speaker 1: stay fresh in our mind we come back to camp.
Speaker 1: You know, you really missing stuff. So you hit a
Speaker 1: couple of big runs, you count as big runs or
Speaker 1: does it not counting that there's no content? No, it
Speaker 1: don't count, no pass That's that's my opinion. You know,
Speaker 1: you separate the men from the boys once the pass
Speaker 1: get on um. But again, I think it's just important
Speaker 1: for us to obviously get the scheme down and get
Speaker 1: the players down, and most important to just take care
Speaker 1: of each other. You know. Uh, in past season, if
Speaker 1: you have guys that you lose guys and maybe there's
Speaker 1: no reason for that. So just coming out here and
Speaker 1: making sure we're taking care of each other and getting good,
Speaker 1: solid work. So how do you when you go back
Speaker 1: and watching from how do you assess it? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean you assessed about just your tracks. You assessed by
Speaker 1: like obviously the lanes that are there. We're still playing football,
Speaker 1: you know. But I just feel like from my personal
Speaker 1: standpoint as a as a running back, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not real until you get the ads on. You don't
Speaker 1: really get to feel the lanes. You don't really get
Speaker 1: to feel kind of the scheme. That's the tempo really,
Speaker 1: especially the tempo changes so much from pads to no pads.
Speaker 1: The church the most In the defense, who chirps the most? Uh?
Speaker 1: Great Kwan, great kawan and see will. But I was
Speaker 1: just talking to the guys, man, I mean that's what
Speaker 1: it is. But we've got some dogs on defense that's
Speaker 1: the first thing I took notice about, which just being
Speaker 1: out here is just really the physicality and now we
Speaker 1: have a really solid defense. I wanted to go ahead
Speaker 1: and let that run on its own there with the
Speaker 1: Q and A and back and forth because of how
Speaker 1: smooth and how good it was. They're talking to Chase
Speaker 1: Edmunds go ahead and finish up here talking about the
Speaker 1: defense and how and where they are and how he
Speaker 1: kind of sees their continuity having impacts so far early
Speaker 1: on in practice. We'll hear from more about us from
Speaker 1: Toronto arms At as well. Yeah, so we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of new guys on offense, man, everybody coming from
Speaker 1: different places. We're all still trying to get the scheme
Speaker 1: down and get the players down. Football is very universal
Speaker 1: in the sense that a lot of the players are
Speaker 1: the same, but the language is just different. So it's
Speaker 1: really just about changing mode language that I've been used
Speaker 1: to from Arizona, like Tybreek has been used to in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, coming here and just establishing that in our mindset.
Speaker 1: So the defense, you know, I think I was like
Speaker 1: all the starters back, I think so they're already kind
Speaker 1: of continuity. We're pretty used to everything in the flowing well.
Speaker 1: He also talked a little bit about how he and
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle were combined roommates now they reunited again here
Speaker 1: in South Florida. Let's go next to Ron Armstead, who
Speaker 1: was asked about that same unscripted portion of practice that
Speaker 1: coach McDaniel mentioned early on. Here's to Ron Armstead and
Speaker 1: what he saw in that period. A lot of energy,
Speaker 1: a lot of energy, um highly competitive from from both sides,
Speaker 1: which is which is a great thing, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of training to be in those uh, real life situations circumstances. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think I think everything has been going pretty good,
Speaker 1: like still a learning curve of course, you know, new
Speaker 1: new offense, new players, but positive man. I think the
Speaker 1: I think the guy's performances has built the competence in
Speaker 1: him that you know, they can handle it. And uh,
Speaker 1: even even that period that you that you're speaking about,
Speaker 1: I think it went well. You know, we had some offensively,
Speaker 1: we had some bad players, but we also have some
Speaker 1: it's explosives. So that was him talking about the decision
Speaker 1: to go with the unscripted portion of practice and what
Speaker 1: it says about not just the players, but also Mike's
Speaker 1: faith in the system and the players work within that system.
Speaker 1: He was then asked about working with the young offensive line.
Speaker 1: Talked about being a great room, how he's blessed to
Speaker 1: be with those guys because they work so extremely hard
Speaker 1: and they're so open to coaching and they want to
Speaker 1: be successful. And I asked him, do they ask you
Speaker 1: a lot of questions? And he said, yeah, they do,
Speaker 1: but not too much. And it's been great. But I
Speaker 1: want to play this audio clip for you here talking
Speaker 1: about Rob Hunt, Austin Jackson and why the scheme helps
Speaker 1: those guys and what he believes makes them good players
Speaker 1: and how the potential that they have is still untapped. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, you see guys like Rob Hunt, Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: just extremely explosive, like they they jump off the film,
Speaker 1: you know, uh so, and those guys are just tapping
Speaker 1: into what they are becoming as as players, as pros.
Speaker 1: It's excited. It's excited. And then the scheme, the offense
Speaker 1: that we're that we're running, that allows you to um
Speaker 1: show those those abilities and use that aolyticism and explosive
Speaker 1: or so. Um, it's excited. How about his skill set
Speaker 1: and his anxiousness to get back onto the field. Are
Speaker 1: you anxious to get back out there to run? Here?
Speaker 1: He is, Oh, I am, I am, I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm anxious to get into this to this offense, this game.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I think it fits my skill set
Speaker 1: pretty pretty well. Uh So I'm excited. I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep saying that word because I because I truly am
Speaker 1: just ready to get out there and you know, show
Speaker 1: what I can do and in that fit. So we
Speaker 1: heard from Chase Edmonds earlier about counting the long runs
Speaker 1: and non contact practices. Tehron has agreevance with that. Here
Speaker 1: he is talking about the quality or the takeaway from
Speaker 1: good blocks this time of year. I disagree because it's
Speaker 1: harder to it's hard to run the ball. And in
Speaker 1: in this dress, you know, an underwear. Uh you know,
Speaker 1: guys can share defense can share it a lot easier
Speaker 1: without the paths on. So you're getting explosive runs. And
Speaker 1: then in this dress, I mean it's not real football
Speaker 1: will get me wrong, but lanes like you're creating lanes
Speaker 1: that carries over. Here's some more from Armstead on his
Speaker 1: mentor role and how he embraces that role on this
Speaker 1: football team and in his entire career. Uh. Man, it
Speaker 1: look it's pretty pretty natural. Man. It's just I'm always
Speaker 1: just looking at help anyway, anyway I can. You know,
Speaker 1: I met I met these guys service. Um been that
Speaker 1: way for the last several years. You know, I've been
Speaker 1: a captain for the last five years, uh in New Orleans.
Speaker 1: So it's just just a part of who I am
Speaker 1: as a player. I get knowledge, information, just the god
Speaker 1: to share. We heard Chase Edmonds talking about the Dolphins defense.
Speaker 1: What about Tron Armstead? One word dangerous, man, They're really dangerous.
Speaker 1: The looks, the speed, It's a ton of speed throughout
Speaker 1: the defense, you know, Um, and the pre snapp looks
Speaker 1: create a lot of challenges, will create a lot of
Speaker 1: challenges throughout the season. You know, regardless of who we're playing.
Speaker 1: It's tough. It's hard to it's hard to pick up
Speaker 1: and and uh. Adding adding players like Melvin you know
Speaker 1: the things that he can do. Uh, that's another piece
Speaker 1: of versatility. Yeah, really good stuff there from Toront Armstead
Speaker 1: and Chase Edmunds. Go ahead and finish up here with
Speaker 1: wide receiver Cedric Wilson, who first was asked about playing
Speaker 1: outside and in the slot and why he believes that
Speaker 1: the slot position really benefits his skill set. I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel like I could play both in and outside.
Speaker 1: I definitely liked the slot a little more like that's
Speaker 1: where I strive at and closer to the quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: you get the ball easier. Why do you feel like
Speaker 1: just because you're closer to the ball, get your close
Speaker 1: to the ball and most of the more shorter routes
Speaker 1: using the quarterbacks trying to get the ball out of
Speaker 1: his hand. I asked Cedric this back on the Drivetime
Speaker 1: podcast when he signed, but I thought it was worth
Speaker 1: following up on because now he's been on the grass
Speaker 1: with these guys. How does this offense help benefit and
Speaker 1: it really magnify what you do? Well? I feel like
Speaker 1: it opens up the field. Um just with coach being
Speaker 1: able to call the players that he knows gonna work
Speaker 1: and he um, he sure knows who should get the
Speaker 1: ball when the cover shows it and when I know
Speaker 1: the ball coming to meet us always a good sign.
Speaker 1: I'm about be on the field with Tyreek and how
Speaker 1: I mean, defense is looking at them the whole time.
Speaker 1: So usually I get um one on one and that's
Speaker 1: my job to win. Short and sweet there with Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: but he makes plenty of plays in practice, which speaks
Speaker 1: for itself, so we always appreciate that from the guys.
Speaker 1: We're back at tomorrow with you guys here. We're covering
Speaker 1: another day of practice back on the field on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and full coverage of that here on the Drive Time podcast.
Speaker 1: We have the spaces tonight that should be just a
Speaker 1: couple of hours depending on when the show comes out
Speaker 1: for you guys here on the podcast, and then more
Speaker 1: coverage next week with one more practice right ahead of
Speaker 1: summer break. But we'll still have content for you than
Speaker 1: as well. Check out all the media vails on YouTube.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a what we missed over the course
Speaker 1: of O t A So Far podcast that's coming Monday,
Speaker 1: so check that out as well from the stuff that
Speaker 1: was left on the cutting room for from these podcast
Speaker 1: so we'll continue to cover these practices as in depth
Speaker 1: as you'll find out there in the podcast. Realm, All
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