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Speaker 8: And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the
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Speaker 8: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 8: And on today's show, it's our Football Friday Show, taking.
Speaker 6: A bit of a different course this year.
Speaker 8: We're gonna hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, who addressed
Speaker 8: the media on Friday. Plus we're gonna hear from David
Speaker 8: Faronos of the Sun Sentinel taking a look at Dolphins
Speaker 8: and Chargers, kind of giving you a camp and preseason
Speaker 8: recap We'll also hear from some of the guys in
Speaker 8: the locker room, Cater Kohu, Robert Hunt, We'll hear from Tuatungo,
Speaker 8: Bai Loa, and Mike White, and we'll finish up the
Speaker 8: podcast with Kyle Krabs talking the weekend in college football
Speaker 8: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 6: This is the Drive Time podcast. That's another Miami.
Speaker 8: Dolphins go ahead and kick this off with some media
Speaker 8: availability here from head coach Mike McDaniel, who addressed Toron
Speaker 8: Armstead's availability or lack thereof, potentially in the game on Sunday.
Speaker 8: I want to go ahead and make it perfectly clear
Speaker 8: this podcast will most likely come out before the injury
Speaker 8: report comes out, So for an update on that, by
Speaker 8: the time you guys hear this probably will be out.
Speaker 8: Go check out my Twitter timeline at Wingfield NFL for
Speaker 8: the latest Dolphins injury report for Sunday in Los Ange, Angeless.
Speaker 6: As for what.
Speaker 8: Coach had to say about toront Arfseett and how close
Speaker 8: he potentially is returning to action and getting the work in,
Speaker 8: let's go to here. Let's go ahead and hear from
Speaker 8: head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 7: Here's here's what we'll say. Especially I'm sure you guys
Speaker 7: have talked to Tron. I know his expectation has has
Speaker 7: been the entire time to to play week one and
Speaker 7: if he has the final say, if Chris, Chris Greer
Speaker 7: and the Boys decide to fire me and make him
Speaker 7: the head coach today, he'll definitely be playing. However, you know,
Speaker 7: want to take a look at him this this afternoon
Speaker 7: and really kind of make a concrete decision for Sunday.
Speaker 7: So I think by today we'll have an answer for Sunday.
Speaker 7: And the literally the only reason, uh there's even a
Speaker 7: debate is because it's my job to protect players from themselves,
Speaker 7: and it's my job, with the aid of all sorts
Speaker 7: of well intentioned, very well schooled individuals, is that we
Speaker 7: do what's best for the Dolphins for the entirety of
Speaker 7: the season. So we you know, going through that process
Speaker 7: making sure that there won't there continues to not be setbacks,
Speaker 7: more that we're trying to do something for the long haul,
Speaker 7: and we'll assess it today and see where that leaves us.
Speaker 8: I just thought the whole process of how coach is
Speaker 8: going through that and how the team is, you know,
Speaker 8: deciphering whether or not it's best for Toronto player or
Speaker 8: not was worth hearing whether or not he does player
Speaker 8: or not. So there's coach talking about his star left
Speaker 8: tackle and all pre season we saw Kendall Lamb play
Speaker 8: in that left tackle position.
Speaker 6: And a player that I've been talking about in the podcast.
Speaker 8: Whether it's training camp, whether it's games, whether it's his
Speaker 8: reps from a season to go, albeit just thirty two,
Speaker 8: but mostly what he says in his media availabilities and
Speaker 8: just kind of how confident he is and the lessons
Speaker 8: he's learned from a nine year pro career here in
Speaker 8: the National Football League. I think Kendall can play man
Speaker 8: and I'm looking forward to seeing him get a chance,
Speaker 8: if he does get that chance, to prove it and
Speaker 8: show you what he's kind of progressed here towards Coach
Speaker 8: touched on the progression that Kendall has made from his
Speaker 8: first year here and how he's talked about it all
Speaker 8: the time, how in this offensive line group you're doing
Speaker 8: an ultimate trust fall because everything you've learned as a
Speaker 8: pro is kind of being rewired to do the opposite
Speaker 8: for how you play the position. And he talked about
Speaker 8: the progression Kendall had from year number one to year
Speaker 8: number two within this system, and that's kind of been
Speaker 8: the entire theme of the off season on this podcast,
Speaker 8: right talking about how that second year breeds familiarity that
Speaker 8: kant Neuty can potentially breed better success for the offense.
Speaker 8: Hopefully that's the idea at least, And so for Kendall
Speaker 8: Lamb to get that second year of knt Nuty and
Speaker 8: familiarity could be a big boon for him. Here's coach
Speaker 8: talking about how comfortable he feels if Kendall Lamb is
Speaker 8: the left tackle on Sunday against the Chargers.
Speaker 7: Kendall's a great example of a guy that has found
Speaker 7: a place on a team that had been through some
Speaker 7: trials in his career. But I mean he last year,
Speaker 7: he made an impact so early in the room about
Speaker 7: how he goes about his business. He uses every slight
Speaker 7: that's happened to him to his advantage, not disadvantage. And
Speaker 7: he uh, he's he's a core core piece of the
Speaker 7: locker room at this point, which says a lot. So
Speaker 7: my confidence is high just because I see better than
Speaker 7: I hear, and he's shown me as consistent really as anybody,
Speaker 7: what I can expect, what his teammates can expect from him,
Speaker 7: and that's a that's a guy that there's nothing more
Speaker 7: important to him than what he needs to deliver on
Speaker 7: for himself and his teammates. So anytime he's on the field,
Speaker 7: I get excited for because he's he's he's been down
Speaker 7: the rigors of the NFL journey for a player that's not,
Speaker 7: you know, a lottery pick, so to speak, and he's
Speaker 7: coming out a better version then he went in.
Speaker 8: Next, we get another update from coach on a player
Speaker 8: who's been working so hard to get back from an
Speaker 8: injury that cost him a big chunk of the twenty
Speaker 8: twenty two season. He finally ditched the red non contact
Speaker 8: jersey a couple of weeks back and just continues to
Speaker 8: look on track and progressing towards Week one. Let's go
Speaker 8: ahead and hear from coach McDaniel and how confident he
Speaker 8: is and Brandon Jones' ability to get back into the
Speaker 8: defense here in Week one and play against the Chargers.
Speaker 7: You know, that's first and foremost, that was our priority
Speaker 7: in assessment from him from his from this whole offseason,
Speaker 7: because again you're trying to You're trying to make sure
Speaker 7: that you're coming back the best version that you possibly
Speaker 7: can and that's a process. So we're very very attentive
Speaker 7: to the physical part of that, and I can I'm
Speaker 7: very happy with Brandon. I'm very happy with the training
Speaker 7: staff because I think for a normal timeline purpose, he's
Speaker 7: done everything he could and more. And I feel very
Speaker 7: good about his physical ability to play within the defense.
Speaker 7: And for him, you know, it's trying to make up
Speaker 7: the reps in that are lost live in that process,
Speaker 7: in a in a new defense. You know, it's not linear.
Speaker 7: When it clicks, it clicks, and each and every day
Speaker 7: he's been getting better and better at getting to that
Speaker 7: click spot. So I'm I'm very happy with where he's
Speaker 7: at because he's a big part of the team that's
Speaker 7: a very impactful play and you know, I feel pretty confident,
Speaker 7: as confident as one can be in the game of football,
Speaker 7: that we've done right by him and the Dolphins with
Speaker 7: our progression that will continue as his uh he gets
Speaker 7: caught up.
Speaker 8: I want to end here at coaches media availability this question.
Speaker 8: I asked him about a clip from his childhood lifelong
Speaker 8: friend Dan soder A great comic who actually comes through
Speaker 8: here quite a bit. Go check him out with Daniel
Speaker 8: improv when he is in town here in South Florida.
Speaker 8: But he told a story about playing techmost super Bowl
Speaker 8: against Coach when they were children, And he went on
Speaker 8: the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast and told us this
Speaker 8: story about playing Coach in Techmobiles.
Speaker 5: He would be the Falcons and he would is such
Speaker 5: a memory for me because I got so angry. He
Speaker 5: would always switch to Dion Sanders and drop Dion all
Speaker 5: the way back. So no matter what play I picked,
Speaker 5: when I threw it, he would break on it with
Speaker 5: d On. He would pick it almost every time, and
Speaker 5: as he was running it back, he would look at
Speaker 5: me and go brid And it's like after the first
Speaker 5: two you're like, okay, you know, like that kid frustration.
Speaker 2: We're like.
Speaker 4: To try to not be and he's like.
Speaker 8: That is the most coach response I've ever heard in
Speaker 8: my life. So I wanted to ask him about that,
Speaker 8: and you're gonna hear Coach give his little impression of
Speaker 8: his younger self. Here's McDonnel talking about playing Techmobile with
Speaker 8: a great Dan Soda.
Speaker 7: In terms of developing football passion, it's probably uh you know, right,
Speaker 7: you know, as I think I got my first video
Speaker 7: game as a reward for straight a's right, and so
Speaker 7: whenever those reports maybe it was first grade or something,
Speaker 7: you know, I once I got my hands on video games.
Speaker 7: That was a game changer. And U that, you know,
Speaker 7: at Techmo, super Bowl, college Football, all those games, I
Speaker 7: spent way too much time. And it's probably why I
Speaker 7: was able to, you know, at the time when we
Speaker 7: were talking about with Dan Soder, I was four foot
Speaker 7: ten in seventh grade, right, and probably didn't have that
Speaker 7: much to talk crap about just in general and life.
Speaker 7: So video games are a nice outlet. Being good at
Speaker 7: Techno super Bowl allowed me to you know, lay off
Speaker 7: some steam probably on my my taller, uh more manly
Speaker 7: looking friend. Hey listen prime Time now it's real. And
Speaker 7: it was obnoxious. And then then I would get upset
Speaker 7: that like dude, you don't want to play anymore, Like
Speaker 7: come on, man, this is like two games. I'll be
Speaker 7: a different team that would be the Raiders and have
Speaker 7: Bo Jackson do the same thing.
Speaker 8: Not sure I've loved the story more so far and
Speaker 8: coaches one and a half years here with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 8: Let's go ahead and turn things now to my guest
Speaker 8: that I welcome into the podcast today. David Fronas from
Speaker 8: the Sun Sentinel talk in all things Dolphins and Chargers
Speaker 8: ahead of the game on Sunday and joining me today
Speaker 8: on the Draft Time podcast. Is a writer for the
Speaker 8: Sun Sentinel. You can find him on Twitter at David Fronas.
Speaker 8: Underscore important for the innerscore.
Speaker 9: Right of course, otherwise you're never gonna find it. Some
Speaker 9: type of my name is not like it drops down
Speaker 9: on a menu or something.
Speaker 8: But yeah, right, I mean I think I was on
Speaker 8: Twitter in like twenty sixteen, so I mind's winfled NFL
Speaker 8: like real original, right.
Speaker 9: I think some Spanish someone in Spain took David.
Speaker 6: Farronas before me.
Speaker 9: But then I think it was available one time when
Speaker 9: I looked later, but I already had it.
Speaker 6: So what are you gonna do?
Speaker 8: It's gonna cost you a pretty penny and to get
Speaker 8: that name probably back at some point anyway. David joins
Speaker 8: us here today talking some Dolphins, Chargers and really camp
Speaker 8: in preseasons where I want to start with you because
Speaker 8: we have a chance to be out here. You know,
Speaker 8: a unique perspective that a lot of fans don't get
Speaker 8: because we get to see all the practices and just.
Speaker 6: Kind of start there for a week one game.
Speaker 8: Here, what's your biggest takeaway you had, David from either
Speaker 8: the preseason training camp just the lead up to Week
Speaker 8: one here, boy, just.
Speaker 9: Giving me the open book to to say whatever I want.
Speaker 9: I gotta go to Jelen Phillips. I mean, he had
Speaker 9: such a tremendous camp. Just to watch how consistently he
Speaker 9: got home those pressures. I think that that's that we
Speaker 9: always talk about with him, that pass rush win rate.
Speaker 9: It's really going to start to turn into some sacks
Speaker 9: this year. We're gonna see him probably get into those
Speaker 9: double digits that've been we've been waiting to see Jaylen
Speaker 9: Phillips get too. Through the first two years of his career,
Speaker 9: he was really consistently beating whoever was in front of him.
Speaker 9: And I mean he was my team player of the
Speaker 9: camp really.
Speaker 6: So okay, So maybe boys orange jersey in game number one?
Speaker 9: Yes, Yeah, Well, the Dolphins gonna bring back those orange
Speaker 9: jerseys from two thousand and three or whatever it was.
Speaker 8: I might have to Roger might not like that too much.
Speaker 8: Roger could tell might might have something to say about that,
Speaker 8: but yeah, he was. He was dominant in practice. I
Speaker 8: had a stat that I would try to read off
Speaker 8: sometimes on the show and it's like two wordy. He
Speaker 8: had like the most pressures in a certain amount of
Speaker 8: seconds that didn't result in sacks. And I think that
Speaker 8: this year they have a chance to potentially turn more
Speaker 8: of those pressures into sacks.
Speaker 4: Is you're an.
Speaker 9: Acronym for that? Like you got those weird ones in baseball?
Speaker 8: There's something weird, but I can't make a word out
Speaker 8: of It's not English, so we're gonna mess out on that.
Speaker 8: So you know, my favorite part about Week one is
Speaker 8: trying to find out, like what teams are. We don't
Speaker 8: really know what teams are, like, we have our our
Speaker 8: ideas and predictions from training camp. But is there an
Speaker 8: element to this team that is new or maybe a
Speaker 8: little bit mysterious to you that you're most intrigued to
Speaker 8: find out about Come Sunday, Yeah, I think you got
Speaker 8: to go to Vic Fangioe. The team transforms its defense,
Speaker 8: so switching over from the more aggressive, the press man
Speaker 8: and blitz heavy packages that Josh Boyer had previously, and
Speaker 8: then now you're gonna see more of those, the variety
Speaker 8: of his own defenses that that Vic Fanjo plays, although
Speaker 8: he'll mix in the man coverages as well, but the
Speaker 8: two high shell, the quarters cover six and.
Speaker 9: All those things, and really a defense that will limit
Speaker 9: a lot of the big plays that the offense opposing
Speaker 9: offenses are trying to hit, and then also put his
Speaker 9: own defenders in positions to make big plays on their end.
Speaker 9: So thin that'll be exciting to watch. I wish we
Speaker 9: had Jayalen Ramsey did. Does he play in it early
Speaker 9: in the season, But something tells me he's gonna be
Speaker 9: beating that timeline to recovering. We're gonna see him in
Speaker 9: this defense.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 8: That's that's gonna be a nice little whenever it happens
Speaker 8: mid season, late season booing the Dolphins get to the defense,
Speaker 8: and like you said, Fangio is just I can't wait
Speaker 8: to see what he does too, because it's it's such
Speaker 8: a mystery and we don't know what exactly is gonna
Speaker 8: look like, especially with the year off.
Speaker 6: And drawing up extra coverages.
Speaker 8: Kind of the same question for you here, because again,
Speaker 8: like this is what makes this game so far. I
Speaker 8: think it's the best game on the schedule this week.
Speaker 8: Maybe Buffalo and the Jets is right up there as well.
Speaker 8: But there's so many storylines in this game. What's one
Speaker 8: that you're really focusing on, Whether it's you know, Ronaldo
Speaker 8: Hill coming back to the Chargers, or like you mentioned,
Speaker 8: Fangio's first game, what's your favorite storyline for this game?
Speaker 9: Yeah, well, obviously the coaching matchup between Mike McDaniel his
Speaker 9: offense and Brandon Staley his defense, and we saw last
Speaker 9: year that one went Staley's way. The defense for the
Speaker 9: Chargers had it schemed up well, pressing receivers, making a
Speaker 9: difficult on Tyreek Kill and Jilen Waddle taking away the
Speaker 9: middle of the field where likes to be so effective.
Speaker 9: So what counters does Mike McDaniel have that's gonna be
Speaker 9: interesting to see and finding ways to get to it
Speaker 9: to find those targets both in the middle and on
Speaker 9: the outside. And if the run game gets more involved.
Speaker 9: I wrote about that just today that I want to
Speaker 9: see the run game also given more touches to Raheem
Speaker 9: Mostert and and even though we don't have Jeff Wilson
Speaker 9: to start the season, but the guys, the other guys
Speaker 9: behind Savon Ahmed and Devon a Chanin. Maybe those rookies
Speaker 9: and Chris Brooks who made this roster as an undrafted
Speaker 9: rookie after a fine preseason, So which one of those
Speaker 9: guys are gonna be involved in this game plan? And
Speaker 9: Mike McDaniel has said he wants to run the ball more,
Speaker 9: so I want to see if that's true going into
Speaker 9: Week one against the Chargers run defense that returns from
Speaker 9: last year that wasn't very highly ranked, and obviously in
Speaker 9: past defense they have a J. C. Jackson coming back
Speaker 9: this year. Joey Boso wasn't playing in last year's game.
Speaker 9: He's going to be there. So that combination of him
Speaker 9: and Khalil Mack on the edges for them against the
Speaker 9: Dolphins tackles, that'll be a big.
Speaker 4: Thing to watch.
Speaker 9: So maybe if the run game can kind of counter
Speaker 9: that a little bit.
Speaker 8: I'm glad you plugged your piece. Thats the whole reason
Speaker 8: we have you on here to kind of get the
Speaker 8: folks to know more of the local riders here than
Speaker 8: to do such good work for us here on the
Speaker 8: local beat. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 8: right here and come back on the other side and
Speaker 8: talk more with David from from the Sun Sentinel Drivetime podcast,
Speaker 8: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation
Speaker 8: back here with Sun Sentinel writer David Fronas and a
Speaker 8: special guest appearance from Renzo Shepherd on the podcast Dolphins
Speaker 8: pr man. Just walking through the room here, No big deal.
Speaker 8: We're kind of taking up other people's space as well.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 4: It's here.
Speaker 2: I believe this is a quote.
Speaker 8: Food is here, So not for you guys, just from
Speaker 8: me and David in the building here. But uh, David,
Speaker 8: One of the reasons I like having you guys on
Speaker 8: is because the more eyes, the more ears we get
Speaker 8: on the show the better.
Speaker 6: Because you know, so much happens.
Speaker 8: At practice, in a locker room, in a media, a
Speaker 8: press conference, whatever it is. Do you have a moment
Speaker 8: from this week, whether it was open locker room, coach
Speaker 8: at the podium, to whatever it might have been. Was
Speaker 8: there a moment from this week that was your favorite
Speaker 8: so far?
Speaker 9: You know, it's always cool to see a coach at
Speaker 9: the podium, and Mike McDaniels so great in this media setting,
Speaker 9: So I mean, really it really brains our day. It's
Speaker 9: this is an enjoyable thing to come to work to
Speaker 9: you know, I can't complain my job when when a
Speaker 9: lot of people are you know, you're they're tuning in
Speaker 9: to watch the live stream, a lot of fans are
Speaker 9: tuning in, And this is what I get to attend
Speaker 9: on a normal basis, and Mike McDaniel makes it an
Speaker 9: enjoyable experience, always got something to say when he walks
Speaker 9: right in today. This is being recorded on a Friday,
Speaker 9: where his first Friday press conference, it's a little bit
Speaker 9: lighter attended by the media, but I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: right right, so calling us to tried and true, and
Speaker 9: I posted a little video clip of his opening remarks
Speaker 9: of how excited he was to find out what we
Speaker 9: had to ask him on a Friday press conference. I
Speaker 9: think in the locker room it's a lot of that
Speaker 9: one on one time that you get with players, are
Speaker 9: really getting to know them and then just seeing what
Speaker 9: kind of intricate things you can figure out about the
Speaker 9: game from those those moments in the locker room into
Speaker 9: a spoke at the podium earlier this week too. One
Speaker 9: answer that was kind of cool from him was talking
Speaker 9: about Justin Herbert.
Speaker 6: Those two guys, those two quarterbacks are.
Speaker 9: Always going to be compared because one was drafted number five,
Speaker 9: one was drafted number six in the twenty twenty draft.
Speaker 9: But sort of just seeing how he said I fan
Speaker 9: over him sometimes and the way he gets the ball
Speaker 9: out his arm strength, So that was kind of cool
Speaker 9: to see just one quarterback showing a lot of respect
Speaker 9: to another. Yeah.
Speaker 8: Like I said, storylines are a plenty in this game, right,
Speaker 8: and that's just one of them that you I thought
Speaker 8: that might be where you go. But I mean there's
Speaker 8: so many to pick from that you didn't choose a
Speaker 8: bad one either at all there, So.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so got it in.
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely did. That's a true proyd there, getting every
Speaker 8: talking point in. David, appreciate your time today, man.
Speaker 9: Thanks Lonon, thanks for having me.
Speaker 8: Let's take our last break right there and come back
Speaker 8: on the other side and finish up with some audio
Speaker 8: from the locker room cater coo who Robert Hunt will
Speaker 8: hear from Tuatungueovailoa and Mike White plus another guest, Kyle Krabs,
Speaker 8: breaking down the weekend that is coming up in college football.
Speaker 2: All that.
Speaker 8: Next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 8: you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead now, and get
Speaker 8: to some of my player interviews in the open locker
Speaker 8: room this week, I wanted to talk to a couple
Speaker 8: of guys if they're going to be integral to the
Speaker 8: Dolphins route to victory. Of course, we know the Chargers
Speaker 8: feature a slew of good playmakers and among their five
Speaker 8: eligibles on any given play with Mike Williams, with Keenan Allen,
Speaker 8: with Austin Eckler, Josh Palmer, Quinton Johnston, They're pretty deep there.
Speaker 6: So I wanted to talk to a guy who he know.
Speaker 8: Plays inside outside, does a little bit of everything on
Speaker 8: this Dolphins defense. Cater Kohu talking about Mike Williams and
Speaker 8: Keenan Allen. Here's the Dolphins cornerback and my chat from Thursday.
Speaker 10: Mike Williams, he just kind of have to be physical
Speaker 10: with him.
Speaker 4: He's like a bigger guy and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: He has good jump ball and stuff like that, so
Speaker 10: you just have to be ready for that. Noing like
Speaker 10: what they're trying to use him as and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Keenan Allen, he's like an inter mediate kind of get
Speaker 10: out of his breaks and stuff like that. He wont
Speaker 10: He's obviously like their best ride runners, So when you're
Speaker 10: going up against him.
Speaker 4: You have to be ready for anything. Double moved, jerk
Speaker 4: rouse and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: Keenan, I mean Mike Williams, if he starts going deep,
Speaker 10: he just like he's a bigger guy, you know what's coming.
Speaker 10: And then with Edan Alley, if he's going deep, I
Speaker 10: feel like you kind of still have to be in
Speaker 10: that great.
Speaker 4: Area like he might snap it down or he might
Speaker 4: you going.
Speaker 8: They have a new system this year with Kellen Moore
Speaker 8: and then obviously there they don't play their stars in
Speaker 8: the preseason. How do you prepare for a team when
Speaker 8: and you don't really have tape what they might be
Speaker 8: for the season.
Speaker 4: Uh, you kind of have to go back and just
Speaker 4: like watch.
Speaker 10: Like how they kind of try to use them last year,
Speaker 10: and then you kind of have to go back and
Speaker 10: then watch I mean preseason they don't play their starters,
Speaker 10: but they kind of use the same kind of system.
Speaker 4: And then you always have to go back and watch where.
Speaker 10: The officer coordinator came from and kind of try to
Speaker 10: just match up stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So that stuff.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so how do you know this defense is new
Speaker 8: and you guys are installing a new system. I'm gonna
Speaker 8: gonna see it in action for the first time in
Speaker 8: a real game. How would you kind of measure where
Speaker 8: you guys feel comfort level in this new defense.
Speaker 4: We feel real comfortable.
Speaker 10: We feel like BIG's gonna put us in a position
Speaker 10: to make a lot of players and stuff.
Speaker 4: He's gonna always protect.
Speaker 10: Us like he's he's he's like a football genius.
Speaker 4: So it's like his preparation.
Speaker 10: He has everything down to the numbers, like what's coming,
Speaker 10: what's what's coming on, what downs or what this and
Speaker 10: stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So I feel like we're real confident and stuff like that.
Speaker 10: We have like a lot of good players on our team,
Speaker 10: so you know, if you're just gonna have to go
Speaker 10: out there and compete, So we're really just real confident.
Speaker 8: I think we all agree that a good showing from
Speaker 8: the Dolphins offensive line, particularly in the running game, would
Speaker 8: go a long way towards securing a one and oh
Speaker 8: start for what would this be the third consecutive season.
Speaker 8: If we were to get the game on Sunday, wanted
Speaker 8: to stop by Rob hunts locker and talk to him
Speaker 8: about the running game, about playing alongside Austin Jackson. Here
Speaker 8: is Big Rob and my chat again from Thursday last year,
Speaker 8: A lot was made about the Chargers run defense going
Speaker 8: into that game, and we didn't really find success in
Speaker 8: the ground.
Speaker 6: How do you think that that game.
Speaker 8: Last year can possibly inform you for how to get
Speaker 8: success in the ground game this year?
Speaker 1: I think they had a really good game plan for us,
Speaker 1: you know, And how was that for last game? For
Speaker 1: last year? Last game? I think we you know, I
Speaker 1: think we've be doing a lot of good things in
Speaker 1: camp and you know, in preseason on the ground and
Speaker 1: hopefully that can translate this Saturday.
Speaker 8: How do you think how his preparation has been this week?
Speaker 8: What's kind of the mood around practice in the locker room?
Speaker 6: How you guys feeling about game?
Speaker 1: I put good, Man, We we know, we we we
Speaker 1: practicing the SF. Man, We're working hard, and you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think everybody's ready.
Speaker 8: So you came in your rookie year with you know,
Speaker 8: Austin's you guys have obviously worked together on the right side.
Speaker 6: Of the offensive line.
Speaker 8: How nice has it been getting Austin back and working
Speaker 8: with him at that right tackle spot.
Speaker 1: It's been pretty good, man. It's good to see him
Speaker 1: out there. Man, you know, Unfortunately he had a rough
Speaker 1: year injuries last year. But it's good to see him back.
Speaker 8: Man.
Speaker 1: He's flying around, he wants to he's working his ass
Speaker 1: off to you know, to get it going and get
Speaker 1: it get it rolling, man, And he looks good and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to play beside him.
Speaker 6: That's what I got for you here.
Speaker 8: So obviously a lot of the same offensive lines back,
Speaker 8: the running backs are pretty much the same.
Speaker 6: You had the rookies in here as well.
Speaker 8: But how do you think that continuity you guys were
Speaker 8: able to build up over the course of the ausseeson
Speaker 8: can benefit y'all up front this year with the running
Speaker 8: backs and the running game.
Speaker 1: I think a lot, man, Because like I said, it's
Speaker 1: a second year in the system. We all kind of
Speaker 1: know what we're trying to do. We all get the
Speaker 1: gold that we're trying to do. And it's a standard man.
Speaker 1: It's the standards, especially in our room and the running backs.
Speaker 1: You know they matched as well, but standard, man. I
Speaker 1: think everybody, no matter who you are, first team, got
Speaker 1: thirst team guy, everybody at the same standard.
Speaker 4: So that's a good thing.
Speaker 8: Let's go back to Wednesday in QB one at the
Speaker 8: podium when he was asked about coach Fangio's defense and
Speaker 8: what it is particularly about that defense, which we know
Speaker 8: that Brandon Staley and Los Angeles runs an offshoot or
Speaker 8: a version off the branch or off the tree. I
Speaker 8: should say his is the branch of the Vic Fangio defense.
Speaker 8: Here's QB one talking about facing that defense in practice
Speaker 8: every day and how it's helped the offense so far.
Speaker 3: Against his defense is tough in itself and understanding, asking
Speaker 3: him a lot of questions, asking their position groups, a
Speaker 3: lot of questions, trying to understand, you know, how their
Speaker 3: defense works together. Like I said, they really communicate out
Speaker 3: there to a point where it sounds like they're over communicating,
Speaker 3: which is something that I haven't haven't really seen, especially
Speaker 3: using the helmet cam. You know, you're trying to get
Speaker 3: the cadence going. In some times the center can't hear
Speaker 3: because of all the noise going on in the background,
Speaker 3: and guys can't hear it as well. So going against
Speaker 3: his defense definitely helps in preparation for you know, Staley's defense.
Speaker 3: So we got to be ready and we got to
Speaker 3: understand the problems that they give us on certain plays,
Speaker 3: and he's got to keep moving forward with it.
Speaker 8: One of my favorite things to discuss with a QB two,
Speaker 8: for instance, is how they support quarterback one, and that's
Speaker 8: exactly what Mike White talked about at his media availability
Speaker 8: this week in open locker room.
Speaker 11: I think in the room we have a really good dynamic.
Speaker 11: Is we're just kind of a sounding war for two.
Speaker 11: Whatever he needs, whenever he has any questions, we kind
Speaker 11: of give him what we think and try not.
Speaker 4: To step on anybody's toes.
Speaker 11: I guess because he's he's played very well at a
Speaker 11: high level, so there's there's some things that he does
Speaker 11: a lot better than us, so we're learning from him
Speaker 11: more times than he's learned from us. But yeah, it's
Speaker 11: just having a good dynamic and and whatever he needs,
Speaker 11: we're there for him.
Speaker 4: And that's the goal.
Speaker 11: The whole room is getting QB one ready because in
Speaker 11: QB one playing well, we're winning, and when you're winning,
Speaker 11: everything's fun.
Speaker 8: And we are going to end every Friday episode with
Speaker 8: Finn's draft in five talking about the college slate coming
Speaker 8: up this particular weekend. I used to break these games
Speaker 8: down on my own, but I thought, you know what,
Speaker 8: let's get someone who does this more full time this
Speaker 8: time of year and also.
Speaker 6: Knows this Dolphins team as well as anybody else.
Speaker 8: Kyle Krabs five minutes talking Dolphins Draft, Let's go, and
Speaker 8: a new segment here on the Friday. The Football Friday
Speaker 8: edition of the Draft Time podcast is going to be
Speaker 8: Finn's Draft in five.
Speaker 6: With Kyle Krabs.
Speaker 8: You guys know who he is, the host of the
Speaker 8: Lockdown Dolphins podcast. Very good friend of mine comes down
Speaker 8: every summer for training camp, comes down a couple of
Speaker 8: times a year to catch a Finns game and also
Speaker 8: watch a bunch of college.
Speaker 6: Football with Yo boy.
Speaker 8: And he's here once again with us talking Dolphins potential draft.
Speaker 6: And I call it that, Kyle, even though.
Speaker 8: We're not really you know, I guess previewing the draft
Speaker 8: just yet. It's I think it's a little bit premature
Speaker 8: for that. But I used to do these segments on
Speaker 8: my own, and I thought I got so much going
Speaker 8: on with you know, current media availabilities and whatnot. Let's
Speaker 8: get someone that knows better than I do right now,
Speaker 8: because I typically cram for the draft towards the end
Speaker 8: of the season and you're already in it. I love
Speaker 8: following your Twitter account and just seeing you do all
Speaker 8: your stuff with with college football and obviously for the Dolphins.
Speaker 8: So who better than Kyle Crabs to come on here
Speaker 8: and talk some twenty twenty three college football season.
Speaker 6: We're gonna keep it to tight five. But before I
Speaker 6: start the time with Kyle, how you doing, man?
Speaker 12: I'm doing great, and I feel a lot of pressure
Speaker 12: to make sure I deliver it tight five. Son, You're
Speaker 12: gonna get the best version of me in the spirit
Speaker 12: of Mike McDaniel talking about TUA this year, You're gonna
Speaker 12: get the best version of me that there's ever been.
Speaker 8: In the same way, we have to pull coach off
Speaker 8: the phodium sometimes because he likes it. He enjoys talking
Speaker 8: too much. And that's that's kind of how this podcast
Speaker 8: goes most of the time. I always have my guest
Speaker 8: ten fifteen. Then it winds up being twenty five minutes.
Speaker 8: The podcast ends up being forty minutes long, and it
Speaker 8: devolves from there like.
Speaker 6: It is right now.
Speaker 8: So I'm gonna go ahead the timer and we're gonna
Speaker 8: fire this thing up. We're basically trying to get Kyle's
Speaker 8: view of the college football landscape this weekend as it
Speaker 8: pertains to potential Miami Dolphins fits and you know, we
Speaker 8: don't know what the needs will be and all that stuff,
Speaker 8: but just players that Kyle thinks might be fun in
Speaker 8: the Aquan Orange in the future should they declare for
Speaker 8: the draft. So the timer is going on after I
Speaker 8: finished this first question, and we're gonna start here.
Speaker 6: This is more broad.
Speaker 8: You mentioned, you know, Tua the best version of himself.
Speaker 8: We feel pretty good about our quarterback right now. But
Speaker 8: it's always fun for a draft class when the quarterback
Speaker 8: class is loaded and it looks like we have another
Speaker 8: instance of that this year, of course, to a part
Speaker 8: of what might be the best quarterback class of all
Speaker 8: time back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: Twenty twenty one was supposed to be even better. Hasn't
Speaker 6: worked out that way.
Speaker 8: Kyle, stack up this class compared to recent quarterback classes.
Speaker 8: Is it gonna be the big hype and live up
Speaker 8: to that hype or will it be maybe one that
Speaker 8: falls more by the wayside.
Speaker 12: I think you'll see some of the names fall off
Speaker 12: just because you have like a dozen names that people
Speaker 12: are pointing to across all different programs, that potential first
Speaker 12: round pick gets tabbed on those guys. But I do
Speaker 12: think the top of this quarterback class is probably as
Speaker 12: good as we have seen since twenty twenty. As far
Speaker 12: as Caleb Williams, I know there's a lot of enthusiasm
Speaker 12: for Drake mayet North Carolina.
Speaker 2: I think there has not been a.
Speaker 12: Glow up that we've seen in the last couple of
Speaker 12: years like what bo Nicks has done. It we're going
Speaker 12: to last few years as well. The Pac twelve's got
Speaker 12: two other guys with SHITTERR. Sanders at Colorado and then
Speaker 12: cam Ward. I know we're big Koog's guys here on
Speaker 12: this podcast, and you know we've watched the number of
Speaker 12: Koogs games together, but that's about as toolsy as it gets.
Speaker 2: So I look at this quarterback class.
Speaker 12: I think it's potential to be the best quarterback class
Speaker 12: since twenty twenty. And as you said, for the dynamics
Speaker 12: of an entire class, the domino effect there gets really exciting.
Speaker 8: I try not to do this too much on my
Speaker 8: Dolphins podcast, but you let into it there. So I'm
Speaker 8: gonna take my last question and put it here. First,
Speaker 8: if Washington State beats Wisconsin on Saturday after beating them
Speaker 8: last year in Madison, if they welcome into Martin stadium,
Speaker 8: Pullman Washington on a Saturday night and beat the Wisconsin back.
Speaker 6: Do they deserve an invite to the Big Ten?
Speaker 2: They're too good of a program to not get an
Speaker 2: invite somewhere else.
Speaker 8: They will.
Speaker 2: I think eventually they'll they'll find their footing somewhere.
Speaker 12: Of course, we're kind of in this chaotic chapter right
Speaker 12: now of college football, but I think eventually Washington State's
Speaker 12: too good of a program to kind of get left
Speaker 12: out in the cold.
Speaker 8: Altogether, I love the idea of the two man Pac
Speaker 8: twelve and just playing each other a couple of times
Speaker 8: a year, like doing the bare bones schedule and then
Speaker 8: forcing them to play a Pack twelve championship game between
Speaker 8: the only two participants in the conference.
Speaker 6: I want to make a mockery of it because I.
Speaker 8: Think it is kind of a bit of a stupid shakeup.
Speaker 6: But I digress on that real quick.
Speaker 8: Last WSU question, Cameron Ward, you mentioned him really good
Speaker 8: opening game against Colorado State.
Speaker 6: Where do you think, you know, we have a lot
Speaker 6: of games left to play.
Speaker 8: Where do you think he winds up getting picked when
Speaker 8: all things are said and done. It's a big projection,
Speaker 8: but right now, where do you think he goes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I love the fact that we're getting a second year
Speaker 12: at Washington State after him playing it incarnate word and
Speaker 12: you see just how physically gifted he is. He might
Speaker 12: be the most creative quarterback in the class as far
Speaker 12: as handling pressure outside of structure, getting the ball out
Speaker 12: of his hands, making plays happen. I think a player
Speaker 12: that has his traits as a passer with how loose
Speaker 12: his arm is, he's got good ball handling skills. That's
Speaker 12: kind of the model to these days, and I think
Speaker 12: that's a player that ultimately I'd be very surprised if
Speaker 12: he doesn't go.
Speaker 2: In the first two rounds. Okay, it's all said and done.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think there's upside a first round pick, but
Speaker 12: he's got he would have to, I think, really excel
Speaker 12: this year and blow it out of the water to
Speaker 12: get up in that stratosphere.
Speaker 6: I just can't.
Speaker 8: He definitely is. I just haven't seen him talked about
Speaker 8: in that same breath. I haven't seen him on the
Speaker 8: Senia Bowl, watch lift, things like that, and I expect
Speaker 8: him to get there eventually, but we'll see. I think
Speaker 8: having a good year in this loaded conference could certainly
Speaker 8: do a lot for him. In that regard, let's talk
Speaker 8: about the rest of the landscape this weekend. One massive game.
Speaker 8: Is it in Tuscaloosa or is it in Austin, I'm
Speaker 8: not really sure. Let's see it's at Alabama, so Texas Alabama.
Speaker 8: But I'm looking at the schedule here, not really a
Speaker 8: lot of ranked on ranked matchups, But from a scouting perspective,
Speaker 8: who are some where are some games you're looking at
Speaker 8: that fans could have a pro on their schedule this weekend?
Speaker 6: Is I'm going to go watch that game and find
Speaker 6: some prospects for myself.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I definitely think there's some low hanging fruit with
Speaker 12: that Alabama Texas matchup. You know, anytimes it's those kinds
Speaker 12: of program powerhouses butting heads, you're going to get a
Speaker 12: lot of future NFL talent that's on the field together.
Speaker 12: I think an early game that stands out to me
Speaker 12: is Notre Dame versus NC State. Notre Dame really good offensive.
Speaker 2: Line this year.
Speaker 12: They've kind of had a step back over the last
Speaker 12: couple of years because they had a lot of youth.
Speaker 12: Well that youth is growing up now, so I look
Speaker 12: at Notre Dame and their offensive line talent and some
Speaker 12: of the linebackers that they have as a defense. That
Speaker 12: and a team that I'm excited to see go to
Speaker 12: NC State and play. And then in the three thirty slate,
Speaker 12: I would look at Texas A and M coming to
Speaker 12: hard Rock Stadium and playing the Miami Hurricanes because I
Speaker 12: think the Kanes had a lot of talent between their
Speaker 12: safety duo, Leonard Taylor at defensive tackle, some of their
Speaker 12: offensive line. I know they had Jvon Cohen come in
Speaker 12: as a transfer. That's a matchup that I think, could
Speaker 12: you know one in each time slot, I think really
Speaker 12: give you a lot of value.
Speaker 8: Good stuff though, Kyle, we got about forty seconds left
Speaker 8: here in the tight five. We're trying to keep it
Speaker 8: to give us a player that Dolphins fans maybe you
Speaker 8: haven't heard of, that you think has a chance to
Speaker 8: really put themselves in a good position with a good
Speaker 8: performance this week and a big time game that maybe
Speaker 8: in the future could potentially fit in the Miami Dolphins system. Well.
Speaker 12: The versatility of Cooper Dejene defensive back from Iowa. They're
Speaker 12: playing Iowa State. It's a big time rivalry game. He
Speaker 12: made Bruce Feldman's Freaks List as far as his athleticism
Speaker 12: this year from the athletic and he plays all over
Speaker 12: the place.
Speaker 2: So he's a really fun player.
Speaker 12: But you got to mine your p's and q's because
Speaker 12: if you're not paying attention, you'll probably miss him because
Speaker 12: he doesn't line up in the same spot very often.
Speaker 12: He's really really fun, versatile defensive back.
Speaker 8: Really good stuff, Kyle. We did it four fifty seven,
Speaker 8: real quick though. Last word here. Final score Sunday in
Speaker 8: Los Angeles.
Speaker 12: Oh man, it's I won't tell you who wins because
Speaker 12: I think there's a lot of parallels between the teams,
Speaker 12: but I think this is going to be last possession
Speaker 12: type ballgame on Sunday.
Speaker 8: Good stuff, Kyle, appreciate you man, lockdown Dolphins at grind
Speaker 8: the tape on social you're the man, buddy when you
Speaker 8: coming down first game.
Speaker 12: Uh depends on if my wife cooperates and keeps our
Speaker 12: expected son to his due date or not. So we're
Speaker 12: trying to get a feel for that. In the midst
Speaker 12: of travel planes is tough, but definitely at least one
Speaker 12: in October and then I'll be down a few times
Speaker 12: later in the season.
Speaker 8: Well, congrats number two. I can't tell you it gets
Speaker 8: easier it gets a lot harder. I know you know that,
Speaker 8: and looking forward to see you done here man. Appreciate you, buddy,
Speaker 8: thanks for having and away he goes. Fun episode there,
Speaker 8: talking to plenty of the guys, Coach McDaniel great as always,
Speaker 8: David Farnas, Kyle Krabs.
Speaker 6: And a bunch of the players there as well.
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