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Speaker 4: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 4: And on today's show, you already know Day two of
Speaker 4: many camp is here. We'll go back to coach at
Speaker 4: the podium, back to the practice notes and hear from
Speaker 4: two players quarterback to a Tungua bi loa linebacker Jerome
Speaker 4: Baker busy show. Let's go from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 4: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the drive Time podcast Mage Geff.
Speaker 4: So it's going to be a lot of quarterback talk
Speaker 4: and Tua Tungua Biloa talk on this pod, So strap
Speaker 4: in for that.
Speaker 2: It's really a lot of the.
Speaker 4: Same with me with Tua, and I continue to beat
Speaker 4: the drum that it's not been as flashy as the
Speaker 4: constant parade of deep shots and explosives that we saw
Speaker 4: all season last year to both Tyreek and Jalen, but
Speaker 4: having complete grasp of his job, his role in the offense,
Speaker 4: the offense as a whole, and the ultimate facilitator role
Speaker 4: within that offense and the ultimate leader of the entire
Speaker 4: football team. In fact, I thought coach McDaniel explained it
Speaker 4: perfectly this morning when he talked about Tua in the
Speaker 4: second year and how he's taken ownership of the offense
Speaker 4: and his leadership role here at the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5: There's a lot that goes into that, you know, I
Speaker 5: think year two, the prerequisite is that he as the quarterback,
Speaker 5: he has to have ownership of everything he's doing and
Speaker 5: what everyone else is doing as the facilitator of the
Speaker 5: of the offense, and he's checked that box every every
Speaker 5: day it's been really cool in the year's time how
Speaker 5: he's not only learned the language but is now fluent
Speaker 5: in it, and that that opens quarterbacks up to doing
Speaker 5: some of the components of the job that are really
Speaker 5: it's really hard to try to be the leader of
Speaker 5: an offense and motivate guys and encourage guys when you
Speaker 5: need to, or you know, maybe be hard on guys
Speaker 5: when you need to when you're just trying to spit
Speaker 5: out a play and know your own assignment. So I
Speaker 5: went into this offseason hoping that I would see a
Speaker 5: graduation of sorts and really have every single day so
Speaker 5: that that's first and foremost for his game, you know,
Speaker 5: you're you're less concerned about the really good plays. You know,
Speaker 5: your your tension is less drawn to that, and it's
Speaker 5: more about consistency of the entire practice, Like just like
Speaker 5: a game where you can have some you know, he
Speaker 5: had his games where he made some big time plays
Speaker 5: and then you know he wasn't as happy with, you know,
Speaker 5: the rest of the game. So kind of looking at
Speaker 5: through that lens, and he's really been one of our
Speaker 5: more consistent if that, I think he's been as consistent
Speaker 5: as anybody day in day out, which has residual effects
Speaker 5: to the whole team. And I know the team can
Speaker 5: feel it as well.
Speaker 4: Might as well get the quarterbacks take on the exact
Speaker 4: same thing your second year here to how has that
Speaker 4: really increased your comfort level in the program?
Speaker 3: We feel extremely comfortable coming off of a year having
Speaker 3: to study, having to you know, get a good feel
Speaker 3: of how might cause plays. You know, get a feel
Speaker 3: of the guys running the routes, and then the concepts
Speaker 3: and where guys are going to be and the distribution
Speaker 3: of those. So makes it a lot easier when you
Speaker 3: can transition from that, you know, into this year and
Speaker 3: not have to learn new like a new offense.
Speaker 4: And I just thought this was so evident on the
Speaker 4: loan drill so far of many camps in which the
Speaker 4: drive continued beyond its starting point. Typically you get reps
Speaker 4: from the same position on the field, but once in
Speaker 4: a while they'll scrimmage it out in terms of picking
Speaker 4: it up from the previous spot, in terms of where
Speaker 4: you gained the yardage on that previous play. The two
Speaker 4: al offense went right down the field, the other two
Speaker 4: did not. But it was a lot of quick game
Speaker 4: in that to a portion. He was four for four
Speaker 4: for roughly forty yards. On that series. He found alec
Speaker 4: Ingold twice on hot throws like quick throws. One was
Speaker 4: your typical full back type of shot to the flat
Speaker 4: and area where those fullbacks tend to make their living.
Speaker 4: But off of that, having a fullback with Ingold's athletic
Speaker 4: ability really allows you to push the envelope and change,
Speaker 4: you know, the look of the defense from that particular
Speaker 4: route and the wrinkles off of it, like with a
Speaker 4: little wheel route that catches the curl flat defender on
Speaker 4: their front foot, leaning forward eyes in the backfield thinking
Speaker 4: maybe I have a big play here, maybe I have
Speaker 4: a pick, maybe I have a big stick on the
Speaker 4: fullback that can jar the football loose. And suddenly he's
Speaker 4: behind you and tu has the touch and accuracy to
Speaker 4: drop the ball right in over your head, over the
Speaker 4: top in that bucket, which he did for a big
Speaker 4: catch and run for number thirty. It was like twenty
Speaker 4: five yards or so watching thirty get down the field
Speaker 4: and make a big play. Then he comes right back
Speaker 4: with a quick shot to Aleck once again to get
Speaker 4: ahead of the chains on first down, and then a
Speaker 4: play on the move where I was super impressed by
Speaker 4: his knowledge of not just where the twenty two hats
Speaker 4: are on the field right, but he's rolling to his right.
Speaker 4: And we heard Brian Baldinger ask Tu a question about
Speaker 4: all the rollouts he worked on during the individual portion
Speaker 4: throwing the football at Tyreek Hill, and Tua really harped
Speaker 4: on the small things being so important and how he
Speaker 4: wants to get to more of the plays in the playbook,
Speaker 4: and McDaniel's like, no, we're gonna rep these things over
Speaker 4: and over again and make them muscle memory, make them
Speaker 4: second nature. And here comes Travis with his opinion once again.
Speaker 4: It's like golf man, like, if I don't go hit
Speaker 4: the range or go hit the chipping area or the
Speaker 4: putting green every day, you lose that feel, you lose
Speaker 4: that rhythm. It's the same thing for any sport really
Speaker 4: in football, especially with those touch throws, with those particular
Speaker 4: types of pitches you have in the bag.
Speaker 2: So on this.
Speaker 4: Particular play, he's rolling to his right. He's got his
Speaker 4: indicator where the ball might go right, like wherever the
Speaker 4: quarterbacks head, shoulders, knees, and toasts. Notice kid heads, shoulders
Speaker 4: and hips are aligned. Is that's where the ball. That's
Speaker 4: the only position the ball can come out from, so
Speaker 4: you're thinking that's probably where it goes. That's how manipulating
Speaker 4: and moving defenses with your eyes typically works. It's not
Speaker 4: just the eyes, it's the entire body positioning. We've covered
Speaker 4: that so many times in the podcast here. But then
Speaker 4: just as quick as he processes it all and gets
Speaker 4: aligned to that deep over he's already aligned back to
Speaker 4: the under route when the ball comes out. It's the
Speaker 4: same thing I say all the time. The eyes are
Speaker 4: hard wired to the feet. It's one of the most important, intangible,
Speaker 4: esoteric traits that I don't think a lot of folks
Speaker 4: pay attention to or even are aware of or privy to.
Speaker 4: That allows him to execute physically at the same speed
Speaker 4: that he processes mentally. And he's so sharp in that
Speaker 4: regard that when you can do that, it's like playing
Speaker 4: a video game. You can execute it as fast as
Speaker 4: you see it because you have to push a button
Speaker 4: to out there pushing the X button with the QB
Speaker 4: vision already flipped where it has to go. And I
Speaker 4: want to play some sound here from coach McDaniel on
Speaker 4: that onto his recall on his football IQ and how
Speaker 4: it helps the entire offense, especially with the audio they
Speaker 4: have now tapped into the huddle during these practices, with
Speaker 4: that helmet recorder or that helmet camera, whatever you want
Speaker 4: to call it, How that all coincides to basically increase
Speaker 4: the offense's ability from the quarterback position and the entire
Speaker 4: offense to get things down quick and get them down
Speaker 4: the right way so their second nature and you can
Speaker 4: play more reactionary football rather than think and then go.
Speaker 4: Here's coach on his quarterbacks recall on football IQ.
Speaker 5: I think that added resource. He's seen it live and
Speaker 5: he has he has a very strong recall in what
Speaker 5: he sees and is able to communicate it to coaches
Speaker 5: so that it's more for you know, coaches to see
Speaker 5: exactly what he's seeing. That that's proved beneficial as well
Speaker 5: as you know, I can. I'm not sure if you
Speaker 5: guys have it or if you've noticed or not, but
Speaker 5: I'm never in a huddle now I am. You know,
Speaker 5: there's a lot that goes on with that you don't
Speaker 5: but how you communicate to your teammates all all that's
Speaker 5: available now, and you know there's I think he I
Speaker 5: think he does get some enjoyment on Like see Coach Bevell.
Speaker 5: This is kind of hard to see, but like he's
Speaker 5: at the stage of his game where he can he
Speaker 5: already knows what he's see what he's seen, and he's
Speaker 5: u is able to articulate it well enough to now
Speaker 5: we can. We've just found out how honest he is,
Speaker 5: which is a great thing.
Speaker 4: And of course we know that this offense is steeped
Speaker 4: heavily in motion, pre snap movement and ways to give
Speaker 4: the defense eye candy, which we'll hear from TWA here
Speaker 4: in a second, and all the stuff that it's designed to. Well, actually,
Speaker 4: let's go ahead and just play the audio here from
Speaker 4: QB one. Here's two a tongue of bay Lowe on
Speaker 4: this offense motion and forcing the defense to think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would say it's it's something that we've you know,
Speaker 3: tried to harp on last year during our operation. What
Speaker 3: we don't want to do is go out, get the
Speaker 3: defense set and just run a play. Those guys on
Speaker 3: the other side are already good and so forcing end
Speaker 3: to have to communicate, you know, back back backs, you know,
Speaker 3: shift in the front, you know, just having to force
Speaker 3: them to communicate and not not get set and just
Speaker 3: go out and play football and not have to think.
Speaker 4: Another thing we've discussed on the podcast is the success
Speaker 4: of this offense from last season ranking sixth and total
Speaker 4: offense despite some of the attrition at the quarterback and
Speaker 4: offensive line positions, you know, two key spots. That's a
Speaker 4: high bar, but that's what this game is all about, right,
Speaker 4: trying to get over that bar the next time, in
Speaker 4: this case, the next season. And coach McDaniel mentioned this.
Speaker 4: I think back at his original Ota press or a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks back, how operation was a big area
Speaker 4: of emphasis for him this offseason. I mean, if you
Speaker 4: cut down the pre snap and the operational errors and
Speaker 4: the timeouts used because the play didn't get in in time,
Speaker 4: and you also increase your third and short offense, it's
Speaker 4: going to be a top three offense. It's just that
Speaker 4: that was to have your biggest shortcoming or shortfall be
Speaker 4: something that's so correctable to me has me super fired
Speaker 4: up because I think this coaching staff and this personnel
Speaker 4: grouping up front on the offense, I should say, can
Speaker 4: get that stuff taken care of. And one thing I've
Speaker 4: really noticed this year, one because I love this stuff
Speaker 4: and can't get enough of it. But also because it
Speaker 4: makes my job a lot easier, is the synchronicity between
Speaker 4: coach and the players and what they all say. And
Speaker 4: it goes back to last year too. But like here's
Speaker 4: an example the coach talking operation in that previous comment,
Speaker 4: here's what Tua had to say about his second year
Speaker 4: growth and where he's really focused on for this offense
Speaker 4: to take that next step with Operation.
Speaker 3: I think for me, it's it's continuing to work on
Speaker 3: the little things. One of the things that we've been
Speaker 3: harping on has been Operation. When I think of my position,
Speaker 3: I think of, you know, what have I done as
Speaker 3: a leader for the guys up front, for the guys
Speaker 3: out there, you know, to have gotten you know them better?
Speaker 2: And what have we done?
Speaker 3: And so, you know, I think we've been we've been
Speaker 3: doing a great job working Operation, doing some cadence deals, motions,
Speaker 3: you know, trying to work a lot of things just
Speaker 3: to give some eye candy for the defense and forcing
Speaker 3: them to communicate in the back end.
Speaker 4: So that all sounds fantastic, right, But what's the other
Speaker 4: area we've discussed that could be improved or even just
Speaker 4: help us offense find a different gear that can help
Speaker 4: them stay not just ahead of the chains, but execute
Speaker 4: when they do get into those third and short situations.
Speaker 4: It's finding other options that are not necessarily vertical shots.
Speaker 4: And while I love averaging nine point six yards per
Speaker 4: past attempt, which is an outrageous number that our quarterback
Speaker 4: hit last year, you know, if you can go a
Speaker 4: little more efficient and find more consistency, as we heard
Speaker 4: coach talk about a little bit earlier or maybe.
Speaker 2: It's later, I'm not sure which piece of the audio
Speaker 2: that comes.
Speaker 4: In here, then you can all of a sudden, stay
Speaker 4: on the field longer, you know, help your defense rest longer,
Speaker 4: score more points.
Speaker 2: Which obviously is the ultimate goal.
Speaker 4: But I want to go ahead and go to this
Speaker 4: about the practical application of all that in accordance with
Speaker 4: facing this defense assembled here by Vic Fangio, and obviously
Speaker 4: coach Fangio's resume speaks for itself. We've done our deep
Speaker 4: dive on the system with some of the best football
Speaker 4: minds in the analyst slash media landscape, and as great
Speaker 4: as all of that is, who better than Tua and
Speaker 4: Mike McDaniel to shed some light for us on that.
Speaker 4: Here's what Tua had to say about this defense.
Speaker 3: I think what he does a really good job with
Speaker 3: his guys is holding shell in the back end. They
Speaker 3: do a really good job holding shell and you know,
Speaker 3: being able to disguise their coverages in that sense. But
Speaker 3: there's so many nuances to what they do and how
Speaker 3: they run their defense, so many coverages. You know, it's
Speaker 3: not just one. There's like a knockoff of like six
Speaker 3: in just one coverage. So you got to know what
Speaker 3: they're doing, and if you don't, they'll make you pay.
Speaker 2: Holding the shell.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's been the broken record here on the
Speaker 4: podcast of these these practices and recapping the practices, how
Speaker 4: the coverage has helped produce pressures and sacks, how it's
Speaker 4: forcing the quarterbacks to scour their entire progressions and make
Speaker 4: these rapid decisions as the information comes flying at you
Speaker 4: at one hundred miles per hour. I mean, we use
Speaker 4: the term iron Sharpen's iron way too loosely, in my
Speaker 4: opinion in twenty twenty three, I think, but this is
Speaker 4: a case where it makes so much sense. Coach also
Speaker 4: praised to was recalling his presser this morning, which again
Speaker 4: something we cover extensively on this podcast. I'll never forget
Speaker 4: the Cleveland game last year in TUA, explaining Palm's coverage,
Speaker 4: reading the leverage of the defender sitting on a route
Speaker 4: and throwing the ball in behind him to the back
Speaker 4: pylon for a touchdown like at a smart smart football,
Speaker 4: high level foot balls. Coach told him on the sideline
Speaker 4: was that game or the Houston game where he was
Speaker 4: super where he was miked up and he told how
Speaker 4: high of a level he's playing at.
Speaker 2: Either way, you get it.
Speaker 4: Let's go back to coach for some detail on how
Speaker 4: to attack this offseason. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think the major part of it is that he's
Speaker 5: put time into his body that I think helps him
Speaker 5: perform all tasks. You know, I think that he is
Speaker 5: It's funny to reflect on some of the the the
Speaker 5: areas of concern so to speak, when I first got here,
Speaker 5: or just things that were on my radar of you know,
Speaker 5: random people saying Okay, well you know he's young or whatever,
Speaker 5: and you know, I didn't have a complete picture on what,
Speaker 5: you know, what type of professional he was, you know,
Speaker 5: and you as we stand right now, I mean, this
Speaker 5: dude is everything you'd look for in a starting quarterback
Speaker 5: in terms of professionalism. How he tends to do his job,
Speaker 5: how serious he takes it, he takes pride in making
Speaker 5: sure he does his job, but more importantly, how he
Speaker 5: makes others better at their jobs. And all of that
Speaker 5: can fall on deaf ears if you're not living it yourself,
Speaker 5: and so he's I think it's empowered him to, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of what I was talking about before, where he
Speaker 5: is really owning the position and going about the verbiage
Speaker 5: of the offense, but really as well as like motivating
Speaker 5: teammates and encouraging them. That probably doesn't look the same
Speaker 5: if he didn't, you know, go about his individual work
Speaker 5: on his body, which has residual all over the place.
Speaker 5: So you're talking his ability to make certain plays has enhanced.
Speaker 5: His ability to protect himself as enhanced, you know, and
Speaker 5: his ability to communicate and do his job with his
Speaker 5: teammates is enhanced. I think it affects everything.
Speaker 4: You kind of get the sense why coach is so
Speaker 4: effusive in his praise of his quarterback, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: how can you not be. He does it all the
Speaker 4: right way, and he's giving himself the best possible chance
Speaker 4: to take last year's raging success from a production standpoint,
Speaker 4: and take it up even another level.
Speaker 2: And then a quick aside here, real quick.
Speaker 4: Tua was asked about the go fundme donation for the
Speaker 4: creator of Tua Non, Eric Carmona, which our thoughts are
Speaker 4: still with him and his family, and you know he
Speaker 4: passed away last week, but Tua and Tyreek both kicked
Speaker 4: in major donations to ten thousand dollars to that GoFundMe,
Speaker 4: And he said todays press conference when asked about it,
Speaker 4: how he and the Dolphins were thinking about Eric Carmona's
Speaker 4: family in this incredibly trying time.
Speaker 2: I'm tough to transition off of that. Will try.
Speaker 4: Anyways, let's go ahead and go back to talking about
Speaker 4: or I should say back to the discussion about the
Speaker 4: weight room and the off season and.
Speaker 2: The bod, the hair, the bod.
Speaker 4: When you're staying right now, the demigod here's too talking
Speaker 4: about his offseason regimen and putting on some weight and
Speaker 4: some muscle in the gym.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to work on everything as much as I'm
Speaker 3: trying to work on throwing the ball, getting the ball
Speaker 3: to the guys, you know, being able to push the
Speaker 3: ball a lot more downfield, you know, getting into playbook.
Speaker 3: I'm doing the same with my body.
Speaker 5: So yeah, So I just.
Speaker 4: Put together this entire picture all the traits I've raved
Speaker 4: about of Tuas for years. The command of the offense,
Speaker 4: the leadership role, he's clearly assumed.
Speaker 2: It's exciting.
Speaker 4: Man, were a few months out from from the season,
Speaker 4: and I can't wait for it.
Speaker 2: To get here. I love what I see out here.
Speaker 4: You come to practice, you know, in the past, like
Speaker 4: I hope Toua has a good day, But now I'm
Speaker 4: coming to practices expecting a clean operation with him and
Speaker 4: the guys, expecting really you know, fluid, few balls on
Speaker 4: the ground, and you're getting it each and each and
Speaker 4: every day here, each and every day. It's been fun
Speaker 4: to watch him grow and develop and blossom into the
Speaker 4: player that he is now. Today, before our first break,
Speaker 4: why don't we go ahead and hear from his teammate,
Speaker 4: linebacker Jerome Baker on the command two has of the offense.
Speaker 4: He's just like, he's.
Speaker 1: Like one of those guys that every year he's trying
Speaker 1: to get better in every aspect. This year, you could
Speaker 1: tell physically he lives different, but mentally, man, he's sharp.
Speaker 1: I don't think he even threw a pick. It's all season,
Speaker 1: so mentally he's just sharp and he's on in. You
Speaker 1: could tell now he's getting on guys when they're not
Speaker 1: doing right, and that's just, you know, good to see.
Speaker 2: Great stuff there.
Speaker 4: We're deep into the podcast for our first break. Let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and take it right there and come back
Speaker 4: and get to the rest of the practice notes and
Speaker 4: play some more audio for you all on this to
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Speaker 4: segment there to quarterback one, which I think a lot
Speaker 4: of teams would do. That that was fun to track
Speaker 4: and put together. Let's go ahead and get to the
Speaker 4: rest of practice. I thought it was a struggle for
Speaker 4: the other quarterbacks today, miss fires, high balls, hitch up,
Speaker 4: hitch up, hitch up, too late, get it out. Mike
Speaker 4: White threw a pick in today's practice. I thought today
Speaker 4: was his biggest struggle. I thought it was Skyler's best day.
Speaker 4: But that doesn't, you know, change kind of how I've
Speaker 4: broken the quarterbacks down here so far on the pod.
Speaker 4: I thought Skyler had one of the best balls of
Speaker 4: the day, throwing a deepish shot to day Wood Davis
Speaker 4: over the middle of the field, right over the top
Speaker 4: of tight coverage. You're putting Davis in a position to
Speaker 4: run after the catch. I thought it was a touchdown
Speaker 4: and a really nice fast run to the end zone
Speaker 4: for Davis, though they did rule him down around the
Speaker 4: fifteen yard line or so in one of those drives
Speaker 4: where they go the whole field period of practice. Then
Speaker 4: two plays later, a scaler comes back and finds him
Speaker 4: for a short throw that he turns up for another
Speaker 4: nice touchdown run going into the end zone. Impressive finish
Speaker 4: there for both Thompas and Daywood Davis. Late in practice,
Speaker 4: I had Jeff Wilson and devon a chain with big
Speaker 4: slicing runs to the teeth of the defense. Again, you
Speaker 4: never know when it comes to tagging off. I thought
Speaker 4: both guys pressed and made decisive cuts to get north
Speaker 4: and south and hit that second level with authority. That's
Speaker 4: of kind of how this run game is designed, right.
Speaker 4: I think the personnel we have really fits that style
Speaker 4: as well. Chris Brooks, the rookie out of BYU, had
Speaker 4: a nice run late in practice that kind of got
Speaker 4: my attention in terms of the power that he played
Speaker 4: with there in the college game and you know who
Speaker 4: was excellent, alec ingold Man. He just opens up so
Speaker 4: much with his role in a position that's pretty unique
Speaker 4: in the NFL in terms of the fullback and how teams,
Speaker 4: how few teams deploy one, not to mention his athletic
Speaker 4: ability and pass catching ability. He was fantastic again today.
Speaker 4: As far as the offensive line goes, same thing I
Speaker 4: set off the top.
Speaker 2: It's really tough to gauge.
Speaker 4: The performances in these types of settings, but I thought
Speaker 4: that Lamb, Jackson, Hunt and Win were part of the
Speaker 4: key blocks on those big runs I mentioned from Wilson
Speaker 4: and a chain. Also, Austin Jackson had a really good
Speaker 4: pass rush rep against Emmanuel Ogba, one of tours longer
Speaker 4: completions of the day, a nicely lofted shot to Wadle
Speaker 4: for a chunk of yards down the field.
Speaker 2: Rob Jones also had a really nice.
Speaker 4: Catching climb where he got out in space and attached
Speaker 4: to the second level linebacker and turned him out of
Speaker 4: the gap to create space for a nice Chris Brooks run.
Speaker 4: I mentioned Waddle put him in the same category that
Speaker 4: I mentioned with Wilkins yesterday, who was in the orange
Speaker 4: jersey today. By the way, and had a great playlist
Speaker 4: with some popa roach and some Britney Spears and some
Speaker 4: I think it was like R Kelly or something.
Speaker 2: I don't even know, but.
Speaker 4: He had tu or rather Waddle just catches it and
Speaker 4: takes off like he's so dang good. He had two
Speaker 4: plays from two where I think he might have scored
Speaker 4: in live action, with perfectly located passes right out of
Speaker 4: the break leading him into the run after the catch,
Speaker 4: just like the eighty four yard score against Green Bay,
Speaker 4: just like the sixty seven yard score against Buffalo, just
Speaker 4: like the fifty some yard play in Baltimore. The guy
Speaker 4: is instant offense, I thought Eric Azukama had one of
Speaker 4: his best days I've seen. He's got such strong hands
Speaker 4: and just plucks it with what looks like minimal effort,
Speaker 4: and he keeps his foot on the accelerator towards the
Speaker 4: goal line.
Speaker 2: That's sort of the entire offenses.
Speaker 4: Get these guys on the move and let's turn good
Speaker 4: gains into huge gains. And of course a quarterback that
Speaker 4: really fits that mold as well. With Tua's accuracy. We
Speaker 4: got to see Tua and Tyreek getting a lot of
Speaker 4: work during the individuals always fun to watch Tyreek play football,
Speaker 4: even if.
Speaker 2: He's just running on air.
Speaker 4: Speaking of that, let's go to coach who for some
Speaker 4: sound on Tyreek and how each player during this portion
Speaker 4: of the calendar, their practice, their workout, their off season
Speaker 4: program is a case by kse situation because not everyone's participating.
Speaker 4: Full go Tyreek one of those guys. Here's coach on
Speaker 4: the decision to do that with Tyreek this spring.
Speaker 5: I'm very consistent that I'll be inconsistent with player to player.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's it's hard. But if
Speaker 5: you prove to the players that your intent is right,
Speaker 5: and you and and you're doing stuff for the right reasons,
Speaker 5: and you pay attention and and knows who's deserving it
Speaker 5: of a little time off or or maybe you know,
Speaker 5: we're hyper sensitive to maintenance of someone. Case by case,
Speaker 5: you you approach it as such. You know, I know
Speaker 5: one thing, if Tyreek is at risk for further injury.
Speaker 5: He doesn't know any speed on the practice field, as
Speaker 5: you guys know, but full go. So there's also a
Speaker 5: component of coaches protecting players from themselves. And he's dealing
Speaker 5: with some minor stuff. But you know, if at any
Speaker 5: point we think it makes the Miami Dolphins worse for
Speaker 5: someone to practice turn the page. He will not practice,
Speaker 5: So that's kind of where he's at. Or you know,
Speaker 5: I have no concerns of any player, whether you're the
Speaker 5: fifty third, the ninetieth, or you know, one of the
Speaker 5: best players in the league. All of those players in
Speaker 5: a pool, Tyreek is probably the least I'm worried about
Speaker 5: being physically able to perform his tasks, and I will
Speaker 5: say he's in executing his assignments and walkthroughs. He is
Speaker 5: he is putting his best foot forward, is night and
Speaker 5: day ahead of where he was last year with regard
Speaker 5: to the offense, and it has his mind set on
Speaker 5: improving and getting better from last year, which is the
Speaker 5: only place we'd want it.
Speaker 4: Let's go back to some more audio on a player
Speaker 4: who I think has had an excellent spring so far
Speaker 4: at the wide receiver position and Chosen, Robbie Chosen. Let's
Speaker 4: go ahead and first go to head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 5: Chosen's been awesome to have around because he's a He's
Speaker 5: at a point of his career where he's experienced a
Speaker 5: good amount of success, but he's hungry to continue to
Speaker 5: develop and improve. One of the most coachable guys that
Speaker 5: I've been around that have had success at the level
Speaker 5: that he's had in this league. He is open minded,
Speaker 5: bright eyed, and wants to be better and doesn't just
Speaker 5: say that. A lot of people can say they want
Speaker 5: to be better, but then when you're trying to improve stuff,
Speaker 5: you have to be real with yourself and take criticism.
Speaker 5: And he is a tough minded individual that means what
Speaker 5: he says and has followed through hasn't is really just
Speaker 5: approached it that he wants to be a part of
Speaker 5: the team. I think he is about the cause as
Speaker 5: much as anyone in terms of you know, he knows
Speaker 5: the direct history of the Dolphins and and what it
Speaker 5: would mean to the city for the Dolphins to be
Speaker 5: a success at the level that we all so you know,
Speaker 5: he's doing it for the right reasons and doing it.
Speaker 4: Well and for good measure. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 4: from quarterback to a tongue bai LOA.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chosen is a great teammate. Uh. He's he's really fast.
Speaker 3: He knows how to get the ball. He's been getting
Speaker 3: getting the ball a good amount this this OTAs. But
Speaker 3: he's a really good player, just like you know everyone
Speaker 3: in his room.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there
Speaker 4: and come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: Cover the defense. And here's some additional media from Wednesday.
Speaker 4: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
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Speaker 5: Heat.
Speaker 4: Back on the floor for game number three tonight, Lionel
Speaker 4: Messi coming to Miami. What a time for South Florida sports.
Speaker 4: And how much fun is that game too? By the way,
Speaker 4: these games.
Speaker 2: Are making me a nervous wreck.
Speaker 4: Usually the Dolphins are the only ones that can do that,
Speaker 4: but the Miami Heat have certainly joined those ranks, along
Speaker 4: with the United States men's national team in soccer, and
Speaker 4: I guess the Maras playoff baseball game would do that
Speaker 4: as well. But I just love this Heat teams resolve.
Speaker 4: Once we saw Max hitting those early threes in Game two,
Speaker 4: I knew they'd have a chance because Game one got
Speaker 4: away from them just because to me the shots were
Speaker 4: not falling. Cannot wait for Game three in Miami tonight.
Speaker 4: Let's go baby, back to the football and back to
Speaker 4: the defense. I thought Raykwan Davis was really good today.
Speaker 4: He had a pass rush win that would have shut
Speaker 4: the play down if we were live. Aka Sack had
Speaker 4: some really good work in the Running game as well.
Speaker 4: Christian Wilkins Ransom repeat every single damn day. I don't
Speaker 4: think we appreciate enough as a collective or talk about
Speaker 4: enough Emmanuel Ogba's work in the Running Game. He sets
Speaker 4: the hardest edge on the team, for my money, and
Speaker 4: he put a clinic on today, set in the edge
Speaker 4: in funneling plays back inside to his help. You can
Speaker 4: set your watch to that guy in that role. Mitchell
Speaker 4: Lagude didn't have the same monster day he had yesterday,
Speaker 4: but I thought one rep he did have was just
Speaker 4: as impressive as any from that big day. He gets
Speaker 4: a pass rush win and maybe had a sack. It's
Speaker 4: tough to tell sometimes, and he gets up off the
Speaker 4: turf and just sprints downfield to get back into the
Speaker 4: action twenty yards away. That stuff always looks good on tape,
Speaker 4: and if you're doing it, you're smart because for UDFA
Speaker 4: trying to make a name for yourself, that's a good
Speaker 4: way to do it for the coaching staff, which he
Speaker 4: has done here in the month of June. Garrett Nelson
Speaker 4: turned in some more good plays today at one point.
Speaker 4: I'm sitting next to my guy, Daniel O Yafusi up
Speaker 4: in the bleachers. I said, was that Nelson again? Yep,
Speaker 4: he says he's been getting after it. Cameron Good had
Speaker 4: one of the best coverage reps I saw today, chasing
Speaker 4: a back downfield making a pass break up for something
Speaker 4: like thirty yards down the field. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 4: finish on the back end. Here and here from head
Speaker 4: coach Mike McDaniel, who was asked on Wednesday morning, what
Speaker 4: do coaches tell you about Gileen Ramsey's presence in the
Speaker 4: building on a.
Speaker 2: Day to day basis.
Speaker 5: He is a very talented individual, you know, in more
Speaker 5: more ways than one. He's been exactly what we need
Speaker 5: from a guy that is in charge of holding a
Speaker 5: predominant piece in our detail. He's been engaged. He he
Speaker 5: has history and a version of the scheme, so there's
Speaker 5: a lot of he there's a lot of talking points
Speaker 5: that if you have the right type of players, you
Speaker 5: can really get to the next level in terms of
Speaker 5: how you execute your defense. And he's fit right in
Speaker 5: with with a lot of veterans here. I mean, you
Speaker 5: can already see his him push X for ex's benefit.
Speaker 5: You know, his the way he communicates with you know,
Speaker 5: guys that that are out there coming off the field
Speaker 5: and Javon Holland, I mean, that's that's tremendous. But there's
Speaker 5: also you know, he's communicating with all the secondary players
Speaker 5: as well as some of the guys that aren't practicing,
Speaker 5: like the Brandon Jones's or the Nick Neaedams, like he
Speaker 5: is exactly what we'd hope for, probably a little bit more.
Speaker 4: I think the secondaries where you see the biggest growth
Speaker 4: from a year ago. So far in these spring practices,
Speaker 4: it looks so sharp, so coordinated. All the space on
Speaker 4: the field is typically accounted for as much as you
Speaker 4: can at least, and you've heard the podcast, a lot
Speaker 4: of these completions are happening into tight windows and Justin
Speaker 4: Bethel's been terrific. I think he has a case for
Speaker 4: an orange penny. On Thursday's practice will find out about that.
Speaker 4: He had an interception on a third and eleven play
Speaker 4: during the full field drive. I think it was end
Speaker 4: of games. You got to push the ball right, but
Speaker 4: he stepped underneath River Craycraft and made a pick there.
Speaker 4: Xavier and Howard's having an excellent week not sure. I've
Speaker 4: seen him surrender a catch so far, and I'll say
Speaker 4: watching him and five during install zone turn get the
Speaker 4: eyes in the quarterback. It's kind of intimidating, Like I
Speaker 4: think this defense is going to turn people over a
Speaker 4: lot more than it did a year ago. I saw
Speaker 4: him make one play on an intended pass and then
Speaker 4: there was a screen earlier in practice where x sifted
Speaker 4: through the traffic and tagged it off in the backfield.
Speaker 2: He looks really good so far in these practices.
Speaker 4: Javon Hollins kind of the similar categories like xaviing Howard
Speaker 4: there for what it's worth.
Speaker 2: He's quick to.
Speaker 4: React and cut off verticals, he rotates quickly, he disguised
Speaker 4: as well. I think him and Deshaun Elliott have both
Speaker 4: had a great start to camp. And once again Tua's
Speaker 4: comments about Fangio's defense and I played earlier really confirms
Speaker 4: what I've been going on about with how the coverage
Speaker 4: structure is so sound and it forces quarterbacks to process
Speaker 4: the entire look in the entire progression and sometimes just
Speaker 4: take what's there underneath. Let's go ahead and finish on
Speaker 4: that topic here with Jerome Baker and how to play
Speaker 4: within this defense. Here he is talking about playing under
Speaker 4: coach Fangio.
Speaker 1: You got to be a smart player playing in his defense.
Speaker 1: But once she get it down and once she have
Speaker 1: idea what you're doing, I mean, it's so fun playing
Speaker 1: just the different things we do, different things we ask
Speaker 1: you guys, It's definitely gonna be fun.
Speaker 4: So actually want to go ahead and finish up here
Speaker 4: with this question and answer from Tuatungo ba Loa and
Speaker 4: a reporter. There's a question in here as well, So
Speaker 4: it's two answers from Tua talking about the idea of
Speaker 4: culture and getting the right guys in the building oppose
Speaker 4: just the most talented guys and the impact of when
Speaker 4: you do have those talented guys who are also the
Speaker 4: right guys and the benefit of that.
Speaker 2: Here's QB one to close the podcast.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's really important because if you have
Speaker 3: someone with talent that does their own thing, it's gonna
Speaker 3: screw up that entire symphony of the offense, the defense,
Speaker 3: or the special teams. And if you get someone that's
Speaker 3: less talented but understands what they're doing their simon, he's
Speaker 3: going to be where he needs to be when he
Speaker 3: needs to be there and whatnot. I mean, it's gonna
Speaker 3: it's gonna move like a symphony, and you know, guys
Speaker 3: in the back end are going to be able to
Speaker 3: help that one specific guy, you know, kind of cover
Speaker 3: his tracks if he's a little if if he's not
Speaker 3: as good as you know per se, you know, some
Speaker 3: someone else at that position.
Speaker 2: So when you put it together, like a guy like
Speaker 2: treeks will working.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you have guys like that at the top
Speaker 1: of the food chain, that makes it a lot easier
Speaker 1: to think for the other guys.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, it makes it a lot easier because you know,
Speaker 3: before Tyreek came here, he was a well known person.
Speaker 3: You know, he's a superstar in the NFL, and for
Speaker 3: him to come here, we have a young team, so
Speaker 3: you know a lot of the younger guys look up
Speaker 3: to someone like him, and now that he's on the team,
Speaker 3: you know, they see the kind of work ethic he has.
Speaker 3: They see what kind of person he is in the building,
Speaker 3: around the building, and it's like, oh, he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's he's a cool dude. He's just like any other person.
Speaker 3: You know, He's not this I'm I'm this ego person.
Speaker 3: Although everyone in the locker room thinks they're better than everyone,
Speaker 3: but you know it's at the end of the day,
Speaker 3: it's it's a team, and you know everyone respects each
Speaker 3: other in there.
Speaker 2: So there we go.
Speaker 4: Another fun addition of the Draft Time podcast recapping practice
Speaker 4: and I'm really enjoying these storytelling style shows. I'm curious
Speaker 4: to hear how you guys feel about them. A post
Speaker 4: of just throwing the media on the back end and
Speaker 4: giving you all the practice notes, trying to put these
Speaker 4: all together. More work, more time, but I think a
Speaker 4: better product. So please tell me what you think about that.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, it's going to be my time.
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