Speaker 1: To us byres 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? Dolphans 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's the rewatch omissions.
Speaker 1: Back to the Lab take Review podcast. You know how
Speaker 1: we do it here the last one of the preseason,
Speaker 1: not gonna do it for next week's game. Will go
Speaker 1: over anything we missed from the game recap slash Takeaways pod,
Speaker 1: will sprinkle in some PF data, and we'll hear from
Speaker 1: head coach Mike McDaniel and the assistance on a very
Speaker 1: very busy episode here of the podcast from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drivetime Podcast. So it's funny because watching the game
Speaker 1: live in the stadium compared to on television in the
Speaker 1: in the station, the radio station for the postgame show
Speaker 1: with Seth and o J. They both have their different
Speaker 1: advantages and then of course there's watching the game in
Speaker 1: a room by myself, which for me is full of pausing, rewinding,
Speaker 1: pausing rewinding. And when I'm there live, I noticed that
Speaker 1: I don't get as many offensive line notes, but I
Speaker 1: do get a better feel for looks, concepts, coverages, that
Speaker 1: sort of thing. So it's an interesting dichotomy on these
Speaker 1: rewatches to measure the things that I missed. If you
Speaker 1: have not done so yet, check out the most recent episode.
Speaker 1: And the idea is that these two pods give you
Speaker 1: a full scope of things you know when we do
Speaker 1: this review in season. I've always liked the idea of
Speaker 1: the emotional reaction podcast post game and then the fine
Speaker 1: tooth comb review the day after after having some time
Speaker 1: to dig us the game, both from a film standpoint,
Speaker 1: but also from you know, the emotions cooling down after
Speaker 1: the game. I just think it covers the game in
Speaker 1: a comprehensive fashion. You don't get a lot of places.
Speaker 1: So what that said, here are my rewatch notes for
Speaker 1: the Dolphins lost against the Las Vegas Raiders on Saturday
Speaker 1: night in Week two of the preseason. Chase Edmonds his
Speaker 1: big play in the passing game is where I start,
Speaker 1: and it's just nice by everyone involved. You have the
Speaker 1: line that squeezes and shuts down the rush game of
Speaker 1: the opposing defensive front. The Raiders run a little twist
Speaker 1: up front. I liked Ikenberg getting extra wreck work on
Speaker 1: that play where he goes out and gets the ribs
Speaker 1: of the man rushing on um left tackle Larnel Coleman.
Speaker 1: We'll talk to coach Matt apple Bomb about that here
Speaker 1: in just a moment. And then for twa to attack
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage with his eyes up and keep
Speaker 1: your your eyes on your options down the field. He's
Speaker 1: the top of his drop and you've got nothing but
Speaker 1: Raider Jersey's covering up the guys in aqua. I can't
Speaker 1: even see the number on the field side or the
Speaker 1: boundary corner who's driving on that route to tell you
Speaker 1: who it is. Edmunds and Surefield are both bracketed and
Speaker 1: Ghasicki's beginning to uncover on a little whip route back
Speaker 1: to the inside, but to us season opening on the
Speaker 1: backside and heads for that space. I like the way
Speaker 1: he attacked that open space aggressively and that gave Chase
Speaker 1: just enough time to outrun the linebacker. The location of
Speaker 1: the ball out in front helps Edmunds transition from pass
Speaker 1: catcher to runner running back and then his ability Edmunds
Speaker 1: to stay active through the penalty that legal contact flag
Speaker 1: that came out and turn it up with explosiveness and suddenness.
Speaker 1: We saw the same thing we've been seeing all camp
Speaker 1: with him, how quick and explosive he is. And how
Speaker 1: about Chase by the way, just a different feel with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands and it I mean he
Speaker 1: was running hard. He really didn't get squared up as
Speaker 1: a ball carrier after that opening play, which there was
Speaker 1: a big wine back lane. If we could just get
Speaker 1: that first forced defender off that edge blocked. But his speed, suddenness,
Speaker 1: it just gives the offense another one of these guys
Speaker 1: who forces defenders to make these snap decisions, which is
Speaker 1: the best way to create airs and poor decisions on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. Right. I am a huge, huge Chase
Speaker 1: Edmunds fan man. He is. He's fun to watch. I
Speaker 1: thought the Raiders did a good job of consistently blitzing
Speaker 1: the weak side edges of this Dolphins offense on those
Speaker 1: fakes and boots, different run action and play action they
Speaker 1: had off of that, they were able to either stop
Speaker 1: the quarterback from getting wide. We're forcing them to bubble
Speaker 1: and go the long way around. We did see a
Speaker 1: four team percent reduction and play action calls. That's gotta
Speaker 1: have something to do with it there. It's nice to
Speaker 1: get work against that and good to see it on tapes.
Speaker 1: You can kind of have your you know, counter to that.
Speaker 1: Look once the games start to count. Here on the
Speaker 1: first one that two had to ground at Gaski's feet,
Speaker 1: you see Surefield behind the defense all alone on a
Speaker 1: deep crosser, and if TWA could have gotten outside that
Speaker 1: forced defender man, they had a chance for a huge game.
Speaker 1: Something to look at when you go back to the
Speaker 1: tape as a coach and put together your plans for
Speaker 1: for regular season games. All of that said, I become
Speaker 1: more and more encouraged the more I see these guys
Speaker 1: work with how clean the pockets have been for them.
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of challenging or changing rather
Speaker 1: the launch point, playing you know, a solid play action
Speaker 1: game into that, and then just good old fashioned execution
Speaker 1: doesn't hurt either. Frankly, who cares how it gets done.
Speaker 1: It's getting done, and if they can sustain that, when
Speaker 1: Cheetah and Penguin are in the lineup. That's gonna pair
Speaker 1: awfully nicely, isn't it? A good example? That's the sixteen
Speaker 1: yard throw to Trent Sherfield. The run action stretched the
Speaker 1: second level of the defense but also puts the solid
Speaker 1: wall in front of Tah so he can go through
Speaker 1: his looks and his reads and progressions. And I just
Speaker 1: love the way he moved his feet with his eyes.
Speaker 1: The eyes and feet hardwired together. That helps you stay
Speaker 1: in a threatening position while you get through your checks mentally.
Speaker 1: And then he gets right back to that backside and
Speaker 1: puts the ball on Sherefield on time. As he comes
Speaker 1: out of that break, the ball is right there. And
Speaker 1: you could see Trent get upset with himself after the
Speaker 1: play because his first step after catching the football you
Speaker 1: see his foot slide out. I think he probably believes
Speaker 1: that the space that he had, he could have made
Speaker 1: a move to make a man miss and get some
Speaker 1: more yards there. Durham Smith had a really nice pole
Speaker 1: slash lead block into the gap on that three yard
Speaker 1: Edmonds run, and then the ensuing four yard run you
Speaker 1: get a pancake block from Rob Hunt as Liam leads
Speaker 1: on a pole and squares up his stack backer, So
Speaker 1: some good work all around there, and then like that
Speaker 1: first down completion to Edmunds, the more I look at it,
Speaker 1: that little flare where to gets it out quickly that
Speaker 1: I just love that play so much. Trent sherfield on
Speaker 1: that play back to him real quick. He runs a
Speaker 1: really really good route to clear that boundary corner. And
Speaker 1: the only threat to Chase is an outside linebacker whose
Speaker 1: first step is upfield to bluff a rush, and that's
Speaker 1: as good as coming on the blitz because with the
Speaker 1: release and Chase his speed, the only chance he has
Speaker 1: to get over there for that sideline pursuit is to
Speaker 1: sell all the way out on it. And then that
Speaker 1: move back inside for a guy with Chase's shift nous.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really just child's play for him at
Speaker 1: that point. You're not gonna make that tackle very often
Speaker 1: if you're that backer in that situation, So good operation.
Speaker 1: There's only no defense for that. It just protects you
Speaker 1: in the instance that if you're hot, you put the
Speaker 1: ball early into an advantageous situation. And we saw that
Speaker 1: there from tah. He also had that nice check down
Speaker 1: to Mike Gasicki getting through multiple reads. We talked about that.
Speaker 1: We retweeted it from both I think it was Dan
Speaker 1: Orlovski and Brian Baldinger. So go check out at Wingfield
Speaker 1: NFL to find those clips of those guys breaking that down.
Speaker 1: And the last thing here, and it's sort of a
Speaker 1: continuation of something we've been on is Tah's eyes, and
Speaker 1: I thought they were really good in this game. You know,
Speaker 1: Orlovsky broke that play down where you see him getting
Speaker 1: off reads and anticipation of the defensive rotation. That linebacker
Speaker 1: recoils back into the hook and takes away that route.
Speaker 1: The flat corner falls into the deep third, which then
Speaker 1: opens the flat to Mike Gasicki on that check down.
Speaker 1: I just think my biggest takeaway from this brief brief
Speaker 1: showing as much as you can get from eight preseason
Speaker 1: snaps to hammer the point home, finding that check down
Speaker 1: fast and preventing that le defensive pursuit. It's such a
Speaker 1: hidden and tangible, but all the best quarterbacks do it well.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed seeing the tight end get some run in
Speaker 1: that fullback position slash alignment. Durham Hunter, Sethan Carter was
Speaker 1: back there. You know. Alec Ingles had a really good
Speaker 1: camp so far. With him not out there, you get
Speaker 1: some valuable work for those guys formerly called the muscle club,
Speaker 1: the fullbacks and tight ends position room on the safety
Speaker 1: Teddy bridge Wire took where coach took all the blame
Speaker 1: for a bad play call there. I think two things
Speaker 1: were true there. There wasn't really a route anywhere near
Speaker 1: where Teddy rolled to, but he did have a lot
Speaker 1: of time to get rid of that pass. That's a
Speaker 1: play that you're happy to just get out of the
Speaker 1: way there. In the preseason, put in the trash and
Speaker 1: forget about River Cracraft. Couple of times we saw him
Speaker 1: communicating things to guy's pre snap, and that kind of
Speaker 1: speaks to his mental aptitude and just where he is
Speaker 1: in this offense. I like the way he found soft
Speaker 1: spots in the zone and then caught the football and
Speaker 1: turned up immediately into a runner. That's why he converged
Speaker 1: so many first downs for your Washington State Cougars, Go Coos.
Speaker 1: Then that big gainer on the corner route was a
Speaker 1: really nice catch, and he's sold that route to the
Speaker 1: post before taking it back to the corner with a
Speaker 1: really good head fake to put a dB one step
Speaker 1: in the wrong direction. That's all you need in this league.
Speaker 1: I thought Robert Jones up front looked good. He was
Speaker 1: snatching guys in pass pro and they would mirror their
Speaker 1: movement while maintaining the grip up front. The kind of
Speaker 1: night you want to see from someone like him operating
Speaker 1: late into the game with clean rep after clean rep.
Speaker 1: He really moved his man on that Savant Akhmed run,
Speaker 1: which was really good burst and cut from Savon for
Speaker 1: twelve yards. I thought Rob Jones and Michael Dieter in
Speaker 1: that kind of second string offensive line had pretty consistent
Speaker 1: pass pro all night long. And I thought Adam Panky
Speaker 1: came into the game at left guard later and had
Speaker 1: some really good work too. Always found some work held
Speaker 1: his own in pass pro and he's a guy who
Speaker 1: can play all five spots as well. What a ball
Speaker 1: from Teddy, by the way, on that Braylon Sanders fade
Speaker 1: right into the bucket that one and his throw on
Speaker 1: the move where he wheeled out of trouble. That ball
Speaker 1: and the fade into the end zone that the defensive
Speaker 1: back broke up on Braylon Sanders were both absolute dimes.
Speaker 1: You had moments from all three quarterbacks in this game
Speaker 1: that just has to have you feeling good about that
Speaker 1: room as a whole. Back to the tight end position,
Speaker 1: Hunter Long had a really good run after the catch
Speaker 1: on a quick stick from Teddy where he drops the
Speaker 1: shoulder and runs through a tackle to finish that run
Speaker 1: and get extra yards for a first down. I thought
Speaker 1: he had some good work as a blocker to the
Speaker 1: very next snap he washes down the edge for a
Speaker 1: nice cut back from Savan. On the very next series,
Speaker 1: Miles starts with I think a four yard rush and
Speaker 1: Hunter motions to the play side and goes and gets
Speaker 1: the force offender and blocks him up. Good work from
Speaker 1: him might have been the best tight end tape on
Speaker 1: the on the field tonight or that night. And man
Speaker 1: on that shot to Eric Azukama across the body, you
Speaker 1: know Azukama waste not a moment to break his route
Speaker 1: and come back to the quarterback. What an impressive night
Speaker 1: he had. He is just so impressive from a mental
Speaker 1: standpoint of physical standpoint. Let's go ahead and go deeper
Speaker 1: into his game. He talked a little bit about Wes
Speaker 1: Welker emphasizing getting your shoulders past your man and that's
Speaker 1: the best way to win routes and on that first
Speaker 1: deep ball, you see him come out of that original
Speaker 1: really east off the line and he dips those shoulders
Speaker 1: and gets him past his man, then takes off and
Speaker 1: it just happens so quickly. Take your coaching and ball
Speaker 1: out as a result. You'd love to see that. And
Speaker 1: then the catch obviously down the field, the contestant catch
Speaker 1: absolutely absurd. Those two on the final drive between he
Speaker 1: and Skyler Thompson, outstanding throws, insane body control, just a
Speaker 1: really really impressive couple of plays from the two rooks.
Speaker 1: And I do want to mention Skyler Thompson again. He's
Speaker 1: not an omission from the podcast last night because we
Speaker 1: talked about that, but man, he was feeling it the
Speaker 1: field and the instincts are pretty dang nice for a
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback. And then his touchdown past his a Quandree White,
Speaker 1: so he had that touchdown catch obviously, but he had
Speaker 1: one carrier for four yards and I thought was super
Speaker 1: impressive where he cut backside then right at the line,
Speaker 1: made one more little jump cut and a spin that
Speaker 1: made a man miss and propelled him forward beyond the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage for a nice positive game. When he
Speaker 1: was contacted into the backfield. So good work from the offense,
Speaker 1: go ahead and turn the page of the defense. I
Speaker 1: thought Van Gekle and Steeler consistently whipped their guys and
Speaker 1: pretty much access full goblin mode. Wilkins and Phillips also
Speaker 1: won their matchups with regularity. I thought Phillips pass rush
Speaker 1: on the near Nick Needham interception there was play three
Speaker 1: of the game. Man he runs the arc and then
Speaker 1: he's able to stop, put his foot in the ground,
Speaker 1: and then get back the other direction and retrace back
Speaker 1: towards the quarterback, and he gets his hand on Stidham's
Speaker 1: arm to force an errand throw which popped into the air.
Speaker 1: His athletic ability at that size, that combination, it never
Speaker 1: ceases to amaze me. Did the exact same thing on
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler sack, which, by the way, my god, Seiler
Speaker 1: is so strong. Back to Gink real quick. He had
Speaker 1: a rush where he looped inside from the foretech where
Speaker 1: your head up over the tackle and then come across
Speaker 1: the center position, and he puts a pick on the
Speaker 1: center and moves him over a solid gap with that strike,
Speaker 1: and then he comes off the hit, closes in the
Speaker 1: quarterback and finishes with a big hit on him. Now,
Speaker 1: great play by stid him to complete that pass. But
Speaker 1: man Ginkle did a little bit of everything in this game.
Speaker 1: And the very next play he lines up off the
Speaker 1: weak side sea gap and cuts that down for a
Speaker 1: tackle for loss, just like Rashad Jones used to do
Speaker 1: for so long here right, it was cool to see that.
Speaker 1: I thought Elijah Campbell was good again. He was in
Speaker 1: coverage on the aforementioned fourth down, but his recovery speed
Speaker 1: to make a play on the football was so nice.
Speaker 1: The guy is just the guy that he was covering.
Speaker 1: Just made a really nice catch on that play, that
Speaker 1: near pick that he had down on the red zone.
Speaker 1: You see him put a foot in the ground on
Speaker 1: the little whip route the tight end runs and he
Speaker 1: ran it better than the receiver or the tight end.
Speaker 1: Just really explosive and his change of direction of movement skills.
Speaker 1: Big fan of his game. On the play where Needham
Speaker 1: got hurt back to him real quick, his effort, chase
Speaker 1: and tackle and then the hit he made were all
Speaker 1: so so very good. That play was defended so well.
Speaker 1: But the downside of third and short as they get
Speaker 1: one yard and they converted. Keion crossing wasn't coverage on
Speaker 1: a deep shot incomplete with good hands, a good jam,
Speaker 1: good start stop on the double move to get right
Speaker 1: back into phase when the receiver turns it on, he
Speaker 1: hemmed him into the sideline with no real room to operate.
Speaker 1: Done that a couple of times so far this preseason.
Speaker 1: I thought Kator Cahoo's insta inks really showed on that
Speaker 1: pass breakup he had where he's running with his man,
Speaker 1: passes him off to the next man in the zone,
Speaker 1: and then immediately works to get depth into that hook
Speaker 1: zone and puts himself in position to get his hands
Speaker 1: on a football man. His ability to match impress without
Speaker 1: putting a hand on the guy is pretty impressive. Quick
Speaker 1: twitch and a fast processor. With the athletic ability he's got,
Speaker 1: that's an intriguing combination if he can do that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff consistently. There was a play where his man
Speaker 1: went in motion and took a jet sweep and who
Speaker 1: ran all the way around and made the play on
Speaker 1: the other side of the formation. Super super impressive. That
Speaker 1: porter Gustin cross shop was absolutely sick. Little heavy step
Speaker 1: timed up with that inside hand swatting down the right
Speaker 1: arm of the right tackle, turned that corner and wham sack.
Speaker 1: He's had a nice preseason so far. Duke Riley was
Speaker 1: not just fast, he fit the run super well. Good pursuit,
Speaker 1: no false steps in there and getting to the gap
Speaker 1: quickly and finishing that stuff off. That's why I got here.
Speaker 1: On the offense. On the defensive fun rewatch they always are.
Speaker 1: Let's come back and do some media, some Pro football focus.
Speaker 1: That's all that fun stuff that's next on the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: It's a Monday here on the Drivetime Podcast. I want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and cover some PFF numbers before we
Speaker 1: hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, and the time to
Speaker 1: throw numbers for the quarterbacks really stood out to me.
Speaker 1: Two point eight five, two point seven six, two point
Speaker 1: eight eight, that is outstanding. We talked about the clean pockets.
Speaker 1: There's your proof right there by the numbers with an
Speaker 1: average depth of target around eight yards for all three
Speaker 1: quarterbacks too. By the way, Skylar was three for three
Speaker 1: on passes over twenty yards with eighty one yards in
Speaker 1: the game. Doesn't hurt when you' getting the big splash
Speaker 1: plays down the field from the receivers, and interesting that
Speaker 1: the Raiders only blitz two oh once, Teddy four times
Speaker 1: and Skyler zero times again preseason. Not a lot of
Speaker 1: creativity there in terms of your scheme. We'll hear from
Speaker 1: Josh Boyer on that in just a moment. But how
Speaker 1: about five point seven yards per route run from Eric
Speaker 1: Zukama on twenty routes and outrageous number he caught two
Speaker 1: of three contested passes and small sample size obviously, but
Speaker 1: league leaders each year typically around fortent in that category.
Speaker 1: As a team, we caught four of seven. Craycraft and
Speaker 1: Preston both were one of one in that category as well.
Speaker 1: Zukama had a four yards after the catch average eight
Speaker 1: point five yards after the catch for Chase Edmonds. I
Speaker 1: mentioned the Quandrea whites one kerry. He was contacted three
Speaker 1: yards behind the line to give him seven yards after
Speaker 1: initial contact. Savon and Miles with both larger workloads, average
Speaker 1: three yards after contact. PFF had zero pressures allowed for
Speaker 1: Connor Williams, Robert Hunt, Liam Eichenberg gots On four teen
Speaker 1: pass rush reps or pass blocking reps. Adam Pankey also
Speaker 1: had zero. Austin Jackson had one Rob Jones had one
Speaker 1: Jackson the fourteen reps and Panky and Jones played a
Speaker 1: whole bunch. Van ginkle Man, he and Seiler went full
Speaker 1: Goblin mode. Like I mentioned, four pressures for kink on
Speaker 1: thirteen pass rush reps, two for Seiler on eight. Gustin,
Speaker 1: Stilly and Jenkins had two pressures of each. A peach
Speaker 1: kind of move into the country. Eat a lot of
Speaker 1: peaches a piece for those guys. And then Hodge Phillips,
Speaker 1: Carney Jr. Wilcomes and Wilkins and Aguavin had one apiece. Cahoo,
Speaker 1: Good and Fedlum led the way with three run stops each.
Speaker 1: Channing Tendall, Porter, Gustin and Ben Stilly and Sam Ego
Speaker 1: van All had to those are tackles within two yards
Speaker 1: of the line of scrimmage. And then kat Caho also
Speaker 1: had just four yards receiving allowed on twenty seven coverage snaps.
Speaker 1: What a night for him. That's that's all on the
Speaker 1: PFF numbers. Let's go ahead and do Mike McDaniels press
Speaker 1: conference from Sunday, starting with the question about Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: and Tehron Armstead their availability coming into this season. Just
Speaker 1: now three weeks away. Talking about those two players, here's
Speaker 1: coach Mike McDaniel. UM, both of them are doing real well. UM.
Speaker 1: The with with Armstead, that's that that's a guy that's
Speaker 1: done it in the league at a high level, and
Speaker 1: we're trying to make sure that he's UM ready to
Speaker 1: go week one. UM and he's you know, we evaluate
Speaker 1: that on a day day basis. He's been practicing, but
Speaker 1: we're trying not to overload him. UM. He you know,
Speaker 1: he he has invested UM a good amount this offseason,
Speaker 1: more typically than he usually does. So we're just trying
Speaker 1: to be smart with that. UM. And I don't have
Speaker 1: I don't have any concerns for a week one at all, UM.
Speaker 1: And the plan is is to to that you guys
Speaker 1: will see him a little bit UM this week for sure.
Speaker 1: With Wattle that that's just an exercise of uh what
Speaker 1: would you call it, um, A really restraint because you
Speaker 1: know it would be one thing I think I'd probably
Speaker 1: be less cautious had he not come back from UM.
Speaker 1: You know, his out of any player on the team,
Speaker 1: his jump in the scheme from O t As to
Speaker 1: training camp was the highest. He he was UM doing
Speaker 1: well but kind of swimming in the playbook. UM, and
Speaker 1: you know, I was very interested to see, you know,
Speaker 1: a second year guy with his first offseason, how he's
Speaker 1: gonna come back for training camp, and UM he was.
Speaker 1: Uh he exceeded my expectations. And you guys know I
Speaker 1: have high expectations for him. So when UM, you know,
Speaker 1: we we noticed something that was a little tight and
Speaker 1: just you know, we really really wanted to be UM preventative.
Speaker 1: We've been extra cautious with him because just just knowing
Speaker 1: where he's at in his game, um, within the offense
Speaker 1: and how well he was doing so uh this week,
Speaker 1: we UM planned to get involved a little bit, but
Speaker 1: I planned to be very cautious with him as well,
Speaker 1: just knowing what he means to the team and how
Speaker 1: UM we don't want him to have any any lingering setbacks.
Speaker 1: We want him full fad and we rely on rely
Speaker 1: on him, um for a multitude of things, and we
Speaker 1: we want to make sure that that that he is
Speaker 1: comfortable and um a hundred percent full go. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: he's starting to get pretty annoyed with how cautious we're being. UM,
Speaker 1: but I think it's uh to his credit, and I
Speaker 1: think it's the best thing for the Dolphins, and I
Speaker 1: think you guys would be mad at me if I
Speaker 1: wasn't really cool conversation with coach back and forth about
Speaker 1: Eric Spoelster coming out to the practice last week and
Speaker 1: talking about some carryover between basketball and football, and they
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about spacing on a basketball court
Speaker 1: and how that relates to spacing on a football field.
Speaker 1: Here's coach mcdowmond talking about football and basketball, which I
Speaker 1: think is a cool intersection because coach had talked previously
Speaker 1: about or there was a story I should say about
Speaker 1: coach using Alan iverson tape to talk about releases and
Speaker 1: creating space on a football field. Here's coach talking about
Speaker 1: the carryover. Clearly he loves this stuff. You've got them
Speaker 1: going now you're you're, you're, you're dead right though, we
Speaker 1: had the same conversation, so I I I floated out
Speaker 1: here because I don't pretend to be an expert on basketball,
Speaker 1: but in my experience and just generation right, we've watched
Speaker 1: UM three point percentages completely changed the range and where
Speaker 1: where good shots are taken from um, you know, fat
Speaker 1: fast break three pointers, and just how um the shooting
Speaker 1: range of players expands the defense they have to come,
Speaker 1: they have to guard more for space, which in in
Speaker 1: theoretically and kind of the way UM we look at
Speaker 1: football specifically on the offense is we're trying to make
Speaker 1: a defense defend maximum amount of space. So you know,
Speaker 1: we do that with our principles of outside zone, but
Speaker 1: also speed. One of the reasons why you like speed
Speaker 1: is because now the defense has to defend more ground.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a similar philosophy of UM creating space. UM.
Speaker 1: You do it in basketball with shooters, so then you
Speaker 1: have to draw defenders out, giving more space underneath UM.
Speaker 1: And you do it in football with with UM playing
Speaker 1: fast and having speed, so that in the timing of
Speaker 1: the play, defenders have to defend that much more area.
Speaker 1: Because that's that's all In both sports, UM defenses are
Speaker 1: trying to do the same thing, and that's that's really
Speaker 1: you know, you're trying to compress the area that they
Speaker 1: have to defend. And and uh so it was a
Speaker 1: really cool conversation. It's something that we couldn't really forecast
Speaker 1: exactly where it was gonna go, but UM, I think
Speaker 1: it was beneficial for both and there are some commonalities
Speaker 1: for sure in that I wanted to ask coach this
Speaker 1: question about how does Dolphins rookie last despite the fact
Speaker 1: that the fewest amount of draft picks this year in
Speaker 1: the National Football League but also the fewest draft value
Speaker 1: points by the Jimmy Johnson Value Chart, How they've been
Speaker 1: able to do that and still get so much production
Speaker 1: from this rookie class. Here's coach Mike McDaniel. Well, you
Speaker 1: just know that the UM. You can't stop developing UM
Speaker 1: from the ground up, so to speak, UM on an
Speaker 1: NFL roster. So when you have limited resources, this wasn't
Speaker 1: the first time in my career I've been a part
Speaker 1: of that UM. But you just know the stakes, so
Speaker 1: you try to use those. The fact that you have
Speaker 1: limited resources means that you can spend more time in
Speaker 1: a given area projection of the draft, but it also
Speaker 1: puts pressure on You're like, hey, we we don't we
Speaker 1: can't afford to to miss because then you have a UM.
Speaker 1: You know, UM players under rookie contract that you know,
Speaker 1: that's the way the CBA has written in the way
Speaker 1: the salary cap is. It's UM. It catches up to
Speaker 1: you if you don't have contributions UM from UH successive
Speaker 1: draft classes. So UM it's to the credit of the
Speaker 1: UM UH Chris career, in the in the scouting department,
Speaker 1: all the position coaches and coordinators. UM. When you have
Speaker 1: those limited resources, you know you need to get some
Speaker 1: contribution from the class. So so you have to really
Speaker 1: dig your heels and make sure that you're not missing
Speaker 1: on those limited selections and opportunities. Lets go ahead and
Speaker 1: finish you up here with Eagles Week coming up and
Speaker 1: joint practices this week to last for fans to come
Speaker 1: out and check out this training camp. Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about do you change up your practice plan with a
Speaker 1: new team this close to the season for joint practices?
Speaker 1: Here's yeah. I mean you're always I I really really
Speaker 1: test the entire building and the organization UM with changes
Speaker 1: because you know, it's my philosophy to always change relative
Speaker 1: to think through stuff. Maybe it doesn't change, but a
Speaker 1: lot of times you're altering stuff depending on your exact situation. UM.
Speaker 1: I think that's more to do with UH, the amount
Speaker 1: of reps that you can take UM and UM where
Speaker 1: you're you're feeling, UH, where your most depth is that
Speaker 1: the decisions that you have to make in the pending
Speaker 1: future and those opportunities UM from are you asking from
Speaker 1: a schematic? The follow up was about one on ones
Speaker 1: and the tone and script of practice. Here's coach, that's
Speaker 1: the nature of joint practices, Like it's hard, Um, Guys
Speaker 1: are competitive and and you you plateau to a degree
Speaker 1: when you're going against the same people all the time.
Speaker 1: But then you get this random influx of different types
Speaker 1: of players and the competitor in each individual player. Like
Speaker 1: even if we tried to tone down the the um intensity,
Speaker 1: that would be hard because they want to beat that
Speaker 1: guy across from them and prove it, and they get
Speaker 1: more opportunities UM in joint practices where I mean you
Speaker 1: can go a quarter as a receiver and maybe not
Speaker 1: catch man coverage, or if you do catch man coverage,
Speaker 1: maybe the ball doesn't go to you. Well, joint practice,
Speaker 1: you line up and how many one on one reps
Speaker 1: can I take? Because if I take six, I know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get six man to man opportunities and get
Speaker 1: the ball six times. So what can I do with that?
Speaker 1: Those are UM that with exception. The only thing that
Speaker 1: we really would adjust UM is maybe the length of it,
Speaker 1: but the intensity and exactly what you're doing that's hard
Speaker 1: to adjust, and um, that kind of defeats the purpose
Speaker 1: of the joint practices. There you go, Head coach Mike
Speaker 1: McDaniel on his Sunday postgame press conference. Day after press conference,
Speaker 1: I should say let's go ahead and take our last
Speaker 1: break here before we get to assistant coaches media. I
Speaker 1: spoke to Josh Boyer, Sam Madison, Austin Clark, Wes Welker,
Speaker 1: Darryl Bevil, and Matt Applebaum. We'll play the hits from
Speaker 1: those chats here next on the Drivetime podcast, your host
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's pick
Speaker 1: this back up with assistant coaches media. We had six
Speaker 1: guys I had a chance to talk to. Always good insight,
Speaker 1: always some expertise offered offered from those guys, and we
Speaker 1: start here with Darryl Bevil, who I asked about the
Speaker 1: genesis of two 's pregame ritual and what we saw
Speaker 1: on the broadcast, how that came to be, how that
Speaker 1: was received by two oh when coach Bevill brought it up.
Speaker 1: Here's coach, you know we I mean, we've we've talked
Speaker 1: about a lot of things, and UM, you know, I
Speaker 1: just I just try to impress on them just different
Speaker 1: you know, I've been around some pretty successful quarterbacks with me, Matthews, Afford, Russell, Wilson,
Speaker 1: and they all they all have different things they like
Speaker 1: to do. So, um, you know, something sticks, some things don't.
Speaker 1: And that was one of the things that I think
Speaker 1: he found important. And my follow up, how would you
Speaker 1: say that has impacted his game positively? You know, I
Speaker 1: would say that his preparation really since the day that
Speaker 1: we've been here, has has attributed to the success that
Speaker 1: he's having. And you know, the leaps and bounds that
Speaker 1: he's having within our offense. And he's done a great
Speaker 1: job of um, of of really investing his time into it.
Speaker 1: And it's this is not an easy system to learn,
Speaker 1: so he's really done a great job just um kind
Speaker 1: of dive into it every day. I would I would
Speaker 1: venture to guess there's probably not a day that goes
Speaker 1: by that he's he's not doing something good. The offense
Speaker 1: had to cut that short because of that freaking helicopter,
Speaker 1: but he was pretty much done there with the answer,
Speaker 1: and you got the gist of it. Up next, Wes
Speaker 1: Welker and his perspective on Mike McDaniel's comments Sunday about
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddles jumped from O T A S to camp
Speaker 1: being the biggest he saw in the entire roster. Here's
Speaker 1: West Wilton. Yeah, I know, absolutely. I think Jalen, you know,
Speaker 1: he had such a great rookie year. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we're very excited about you know, him coming back for
Speaker 1: the second season and and uh really just to see
Speaker 1: the jump he's made, I think with the additions that
Speaker 1: we've made in the room, and and uh, the type
Speaker 1: of guys that are in there, having some real pros
Speaker 1: in there because he's still a young player and still
Speaker 1: learning and and all those different things, and and to
Speaker 1: do what he's done, do what he did as rookie
Speaker 1: is is pretty incredible, and so um, you know, just
Speaker 1: trying to build off that, and I think he's uh,
Speaker 1: you know, face that challenge head on and you know,
Speaker 1: making sure there's no sophomore slump or anything like that,
Speaker 1: and and going out there and and perform the way
Speaker 1: he has has been pretty remarkable. And and he's such
Speaker 1: a talent to talented dude, and and um, when when
Speaker 1: he puts it all together, man, it's it's pretty special.
Speaker 1: Special player indeed, how about an update on the progress
Speaker 1: of Eric Azukama and Braylon Sanders. No, they're doing really well.
Speaker 1: You know. Um, they just continue to get better every
Speaker 1: day they come out, They work hard, They done everything
Speaker 1: that we've asked of them, and and um, you really
Speaker 1: see them, you know, just continuing to grow and um,
Speaker 1: and then they're going to continue to I mean, there
Speaker 1: there's still a lot of mistakes that we got to
Speaker 1: clean up, but you can really see the talent level
Speaker 1: of those guys and what they have to offer as
Speaker 1: far as football players, and and they're they're they're going
Speaker 1: there in the right trajectory of where they're supposed to
Speaker 1: be and probably even a little bit ahead. And and
Speaker 1: so we just got continued to stay on those guys
Speaker 1: and and make sure that they're they're continue to develop
Speaker 1: to where you know, they can hopefully help us. And
Speaker 1: then finally, how about the way he felt Eric a
Speaker 1: Zukama responded after the fact that he got off to
Speaker 1: a slow start by his words, and the coach Welker
Speaker 1: kind of challenged him. How did Welker felt like he
Speaker 1: responded to that challenge? H, Well, I'm just gonna start
Speaker 1: ripping him every game, you're gonna do that. So UM.
Speaker 1: But no, UM, it's always good to see guys that
Speaker 1: can that can take criticism, especially you know, I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily like to get onto guys on game days. To me,
Speaker 1: that's that's their day. Um. But if I see something
Speaker 1: they feel like, you know, they need an extra boost
Speaker 1: or whatever it is. Um. And every guy's kind of
Speaker 1: different with that. So UM. You know, it was good
Speaker 1: to see him respond the way that he did, though,
Speaker 1: and and go out there and and put together the
Speaker 1: game that he did, especially there in the fourth quarter
Speaker 1: and giving us a chance to win. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite conversations with offensive line coach Matt apple Bomb, I
Speaker 1: asked him first about an evaluation on Austin Jackson, Liam
Speaker 1: Eichenberg and Rob Hunt. Um. Yeah, I mean those guys
Speaker 1: are getting better every day, you know what I mean. Um,
Speaker 1: So I'm pleased with their progress. Um. I think from
Speaker 1: the start of the off season until this very day,
Speaker 1: those guys have come in with the right mindset, right attitude.
Speaker 1: Some days are better than other days, that's to be expected,
Speaker 1: but I think it's been an overall steadily climbed towards
Speaker 1: becoming the players that they're meant to be and that
Speaker 1: I expect them to be and they expect themselves to big.
Speaker 1: And then here's a fun little behind the scenes coaches
Speaker 1: talk here. I asked him about the guards often finding
Speaker 1: extra work when they don't have anybody to block on
Speaker 1: a certain or on a given play, I should say,
Speaker 1: and coach broke it down two parts for me right here,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and run that. Yeah, it depends um
Speaker 1: within the protection scheme. Obviously, we don't want guys to
Speaker 1: not block anybody. We kind of call those no hitters.
Speaker 1: Those aren't acceptable. Uh, So you know what they can
Speaker 1: do when the defense presents a situation where they wouldn't
Speaker 1: have any work is scheme dependent. So it's not like
Speaker 1: they just error aimlessly kind of looking for a guy.
Speaker 1: It kind of depends on what the play call is
Speaker 1: and that will push them in one direction or the
Speaker 1: other to look for that work. But yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: just watching the tape and you see your guard uncovered
Speaker 1: and then or it's like a three technique and the
Speaker 1: guy loops out to the tackle, the end drops. Now
Speaker 1: he doesn't have work, you're gonna see the guy looking
Speaker 1: for work and trying to get a piece of somebody, um,
Speaker 1: and if you didn't know what the play call was,
Speaker 1: it might look like it's just kind of like at
Speaker 1: his leisure. We know that leisure, like at his discretion
Speaker 1: which direction to work in, But there is a there's
Speaker 1: a planned part of that part even too. It's like,
Speaker 1: if I'm the left guard, let's say and I got
Speaker 1: the three technique man, the center's go on the other way,
Speaker 1: three loops out, five drops. His reaction is scheme dependent
Speaker 1: in terms of which direction he might work at that point.
Speaker 1: But certainly if you want to go smash somebody, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It's just it's not just like
Speaker 1: but it's not just like you know, at his discretion,
Speaker 1: there is a even the the reactions to the reactions
Speaker 1: are built within the scheme. I guess what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to sell, awesome, awesome stuff. Let's go to the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball and more stuff here from d C.
Speaker 1: Josh Boyar asked him about how the preseason approach kind
Speaker 1: of changes or you know, what's your focus is? When
Speaker 1: the Raiders, for instance, didn't match personnel with the Dolphins offense,
Speaker 1: I asked him, what's the benefit of that. Here's coach Boyer. Um, Well, again,
Speaker 1: it could be something you could throw it in as
Speaker 1: a change up, it could be something that you do
Speaker 1: on a regular basis. Uh. There's obviously, um, you know,
Speaker 1: some thought process to be bigger versus smaller groups, like
Speaker 1: for example, if there in a loving personnel to be
Speaker 1: in a base defense, if you feel good about your
Speaker 1: adjustments and your matchups. Um, And obviously that's a harder
Speaker 1: pa to run against. Uh. And then some people they
Speaker 1: prefer to be in like a nickel or call it
Speaker 1: a big nickel three safety package versus all groups. So
Speaker 1: and again I think the element of like as coaches
Speaker 1: were creatures that habit, So you kind of study what
Speaker 1: people do and have done. And if you know they
Speaker 1: throw you change up or a curveball there you've got.
Speaker 1: You gotta be ready to adjust as as it comes.
Speaker 1: So and then I asked him about a follow up
Speaker 1: about the benefits of seeing looks that maybe are not
Speaker 1: advantageous to you, but you let the play run out
Speaker 1: anyway to get an opportunity to see that look against
Speaker 1: a you know, disadvantage. Look, here's coach boyl you're breaking down, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I think happens quite often in the preseason, So
Speaker 1: there there may be situations that come up that you
Speaker 1: ordinarily would adjust a different way, but you're you're not
Speaker 1: really willing to put that out there, like what you're
Speaker 1: gonna be in certain situations. It's come up several times
Speaker 1: for US already this year. UM, so yeah, I think
Speaker 1: there's advantages in the preseason too. Uh, you know, not
Speaker 1: exactly playing how you would in the regular season and
Speaker 1: the follow up. Do you ever have to kind of
Speaker 1: quiet the competitor inside to not dial up a blitz
Speaker 1: here's coach? I think. I think one of the things
Speaker 1: that you know, our staff does a great job of
Speaker 1: is um even as the game's going on, and'd be like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is what we're getting. We would adjust
Speaker 1: it this way or we do it this way, but
Speaker 1: it may not necessarily transpire or like you know it
Speaker 1: it's and sometimes it's easy because you know, it's usually
Speaker 1: pretty basic in the preseason and it's not a lot
Speaker 1: of game plan stuff. You'd be like, all right, this
Speaker 1: is their game plan, this is what they're doing. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, there were a lot of offensive calls and
Speaker 1: defensive calls last night that you would have saw the
Speaker 1: same offensive play versus the same defense, uh last night,
Speaker 1: which you know that that happened several times. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: I think they were you know, kind of the same
Speaker 1: mentality of us and more fundamentals techniques evaluate players, UM
Speaker 1: and UM. It was some good work for us, and
Speaker 1: there's some things to learn from and you know, it's
Speaker 1: a good opportunity for us to come in here today
Speaker 1: and let's see the things that we could do better
Speaker 1: and that we need to do better to ultimately win games.
Speaker 1: Let's go next to cornerbacks coach Sam Madison on key
Speaker 1: on crossings play and how it compares now to what
Speaker 1: they saw on tape when he signed. Aggressiveness is the
Speaker 1: key to the game, a little bit more aggressive. You know,
Speaker 1: his game before was a lot of user utilizing his speed, UM,
Speaker 1: and just the way that Josh really wants to play.
Speaker 1: You gotta want to be aggressive at the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and knows some of the things that I like
Speaker 1: to do. So just being able to pick up on
Speaker 1: the little things that he does very well, having the
Speaker 1: confidence to utilize his speed but putting a little aggressive
Speaker 1: aggressiveness on it, and he's been doing very well with that.
Speaker 1: Finish up with coach Austin Clark first about Ben Stilly's
Speaker 1: training camp in preseason and then Andrew Van Ginkle's speed
Speaker 1: in instance. Yeah, I think Ben, you know, coming in,
Speaker 1: we kind of knew that he was a high motor,
Speaker 1: high effort physical guy. I would say one of the
Speaker 1: other things that's he's a really smart guy. You know,
Speaker 1: in terms of, uh, he can handle a lot and
Speaker 1: he has good uh you know, he soaks it a lot,
Speaker 1: and he's able to his recalls very very good, and
Speaker 1: he can handle multiple spot And I think that coupled
Speaker 1: with the you know the fact that he's's been able
Speaker 1: to grasp the technique quickly has really helped him. And
Speaker 1: we've seen a guy that you know, initially struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit and he's getting better each game and you know,
Speaker 1: excited to see what he does on Tuesday and moving
Speaker 1: into Philly weeks. Yeah, you know, Gink his speed is
Speaker 1: one thing. His instincts are another thing. And I think
Speaker 1: when you combine those two things, that's kind of the
Speaker 1: the type of player he is. And he knows when
Speaker 1: to take a shot, you know. And the other night
Speaker 1: on that on that counter is a perfect example. You know,
Speaker 1: he he was able to play with great instinct, shoot
Speaker 1: a shot, get to TfL, get us to second and
Speaker 1: long situation, and uh, you know he's smart too, you know.
Speaker 1: And I think those those things about Gink over the
Speaker 1: past two years. You've seen it, and it's it's cool
Speaker 1: to see him have some confidence with what he's doing now.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think it's gonna be big for him,
Speaker 1: big challenge for him this week. All Right, that podcast
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