Speaker 1: Fail touchdown, Miami drawn. What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins
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Speaker 1: going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and as
Speaker 1: always I am here to bring you your daily dose
Speaker 1: of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, no practice updates,
Speaker 1: but we are bridging the gap between the Dolphins going
Speaker 1: back on the practice field Wednesday in Chicago. Will have
Speaker 1: coverage from Bears camp for you, but today we preview
Speaker 1: that trip up north. We go back to the mailbag
Speaker 1: for a few of your questions, get my five comprehensive
Speaker 1: takeaways from the first ten days of camp so far,
Speaker 1: and we'll quickly cover Dolphins assistant coaches, media availability on
Speaker 1: Monday afternoon. All of that in a heck of a
Speaker 1: lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Training Complex. This is the Drivetime Podcast, So off
Speaker 1: to Chicago. The team departs on Tuesday for practice on
Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday, with an off day on Friday and
Speaker 1: a game on Saturday. One preseason opener in Chicago one
Speaker 1: o'clock Eastern time. You can watch that on CBS four
Speaker 1: down here in Miami. You can also catch that on
Speaker 1: the NFL Network on Saturday at one o'clock Eastern. The
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears offer some fun matchups, and the first one
Speaker 1: I'm looking at here, well the number eleven pick in
Speaker 1: the draft, first round quarterback Justin Fields, who is so
Speaker 1: so crazy talented, and I think that he gives the
Speaker 1: Dolphins a couple of things to look at, gives the
Speaker 1: past rush a good opportunity to work on their eye
Speaker 1: discipline because we have seen him both in Ohio State
Speaker 1: and so far at Bears camp from the videos I've
Speaker 1: seen on social media and the like that you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to find a way to not just rush the
Speaker 1: spot where the quarterback is, but anticipate where he might be.
Speaker 1: Always have to keep your head up, your eyes up,
Speaker 1: because you can't just rush to the spot behind the
Speaker 1: offensive line where the quarterback is supposed to be, because
Speaker 1: Fields can get off that spot, and he has shown
Speaker 1: that time and time again in training camp again based
Speaker 1: on social media videos that I have seen. Obviously, he
Speaker 1: can't contact the quarterback, he can't hit him, but it
Speaker 1: is a good opportunity to work on that. I discipline
Speaker 1: and the rush target point. It also helps the defense
Speaker 1: work on the back end on plastering when the quarterback
Speaker 1: breaks the pocket. Good practice for a guy like, for instance,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and Buffalo who does plenty of outside of
Speaker 1: the pocket work, and the receivers can create open space
Speaker 1: that way after the play breaks down after the quarterback
Speaker 1: breaks the pocket. Now, the Bears offensive line has been
Speaker 1: really banged up through camp so far. Both Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: as well as Jermaine Effetti have been out for a
Speaker 1: while and Larry Borrow, another tackle is missing, has missed
Speaker 1: the last couple of practices, I should say, and I
Speaker 1: was hoping to get a good look at all those guys,
Speaker 1: but either way, I would get a chance to watch
Speaker 1: how this Dolphin's pass rush comes at this Bears offensive
Speaker 1: line against a new offensive line, because Miami has been
Speaker 1: really finding different ways to apply pressure with so many
Speaker 1: different names and rushers. And we've talked about this throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the podcast for the last two weeks.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Andrew van Ginkl or Immanuel Ogba or Brendan
Speaker 1: Scarlett off the outside or Jerome Baker from that off
Speaker 1: ball linebacker position or Bnardrick McKinney or all those stout
Speaker 1: defensive tackles up front, like a Christian Wilkins or a
Speaker 1: Adam Butler or Zach Seeler or ray Kwon Davis. I'm
Speaker 1: curious to gonna look at how the Dolphins depth on
Speaker 1: the defensive front goes up against a new offensive line.
Speaker 1: Another injured Chicago Bear is safety Eddie Jackson, one of
Speaker 1: the game's very best, and I was curious to get
Speaker 1: a look at how two and the quarterbacks worked off
Speaker 1: of that safety. As so often the cases that the
Speaker 1: safety kind of not tells you where the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna go, or the coverage or whatever it might be,
Speaker 1: but it's a good indicator a lot of time for
Speaker 1: the quarterback to work off of. I wanted to see
Speaker 1: how they would work off of him, as well as
Speaker 1: two Shawn Gibson. But both of those guys have missed
Speaker 1: some practices here of late. We'll see if they're back
Speaker 1: on the field this week. Hopefully they are. We'll get
Speaker 1: you an update on that on Wednesday in the post
Speaker 1: practice Drivetime podcast. Now, the Bears front is where I'm
Speaker 1: most intrigued to watch our guys get some work, because
Speaker 1: you know, about Khalil Mack, and he's a good test
Speaker 1: for working on the fundamentals and the techniques that coach
Speaker 1: Flora's harps on, because if you're not right, if you're
Speaker 1: not square, if you're out over your skis, if you're
Speaker 1: leaning in one direction, he's gonna run right through you
Speaker 1: and put you on your back. So it'll be a
Speaker 1: good opportunity for these guys to get multiple looks against
Speaker 1: other rushers that have some of the traits and some
Speaker 1: of the accomplished resumes of a guy like Khalil Mack. Also,
Speaker 1: the same is true up front of a Cheam Hicks.
Speaker 1: He's been a pocket collapser for a long time in
Speaker 1: the National Football League, and I'm curious to see where
Speaker 1: the run game works off of Roquan Smith, who's been
Speaker 1: one of the best linebackers MIC linebackers, I should say
Speaker 1: in the NFL as well. And then finally, on offense,
Speaker 1: the Bears, they have two exceptional route runners and Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson and Darnell Mooney and Demure Bird can fly, Markue's
Speaker 1: Goodwin can flat out flies an Olympian or Olympian qualifier.
Speaker 1: So how do they communicate and how do they match
Speaker 1: up in the back end against two exceptional route runners
Speaker 1: and two burners, and of course some other receivers there
Speaker 1: that bring some pop and some juice to that roster
Speaker 1: as well. That would be fun to watch. That's looking ahead. Now.
Speaker 1: I want to go back to the first ten days
Speaker 1: of practice and give my five general takeaway so far.
Speaker 1: At number one, we start at the quarterback position, the
Speaker 1: growth of the second year quarterback and his first training
Speaker 1: camp here in Miami. You've seen him on the top
Speaker 1: performers list quite frequently on the Drivetime podcast to a
Speaker 1: tongue of Byloa, and we've covered it so much on
Speaker 1: the podcast, and I don't want to get repetitive here.
Speaker 1: Let's just go ahead and quickly go down the checklist
Speaker 1: of the things I've been most impressed with from to
Speaker 1: uh from the Dolphins second year quarterback from QB one
Speaker 1: through his first ten practices. Here. Number one, the accuracy.
Speaker 1: We talked about that Brian Day ball quote. We talked
Speaker 1: about some of the instances where dbs are in great
Speaker 1: position with the ball is just located where only the
Speaker 1: receiver can get to it, and they also yak. It
Speaker 1: has created after the catch for guys to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to run through the football and intersect with that
Speaker 1: pass and take yards after the catch. Also the different
Speaker 1: pitches in the toolbag, whether it's throwing a lofty ball
Speaker 1: to the back pile on or driving a deep out
Speaker 1: from the far hash, or ripping a slant into you know,
Speaker 1: between a couple of defenders and coverage, or throwing that
Speaker 1: steam route over the linebacker under the safety. He's shown
Speaker 1: the ability to throw different passes, different pitches and really
Speaker 1: vary those throws based upon what the coverage, what the route,
Speaker 1: and what the timing of the play looks like. The
Speaker 1: footwork to allow him to manipulate the defense with the
Speaker 1: body to move guys based upon where his position is,
Speaker 1: the eyes to do the exact same, whether it's pulling
Speaker 1: a safety out of the middle of the field or
Speaker 1: moving a linebacker when he moves outside the pocket to
Speaker 1: create space for a tight end. The command of the huddle.
Speaker 1: Like mac Hollands mentioned at his last press availability, how
Speaker 1: wrangling ten guys and Max said, you know, I'm in
Speaker 1: there talking trash the defense poking my head out. He
Speaker 1: has to wrangle me in. It's not as easy as
Speaker 1: you might think it is. And then finally, the spirit
Speaker 1: the celebration of guys making big catches like Isaiah Ford,
Speaker 1: who made a great diving catch on I throw from
Speaker 1: Tuah on Sunday's practice and he runs down there and
Speaker 1: gets pumped up and celebrates with him, or on the
Speaker 1: mic up edition we had on Twitter earlier this week
Speaker 1: on our social campaigns, I should say that he was
Speaker 1: very excited about a long run by Miles gas him
Speaker 1: very encouraging with his teammates. And that goes back to
Speaker 1: a video that when I was doing the twenty nineteen
Speaker 1: scouting process of all the quarterbacks that year, you know,
Speaker 1: to a tongue of Byloa, Justin Herbert, Joe Burrow, Jordan
Speaker 1: Love Jake from all those guys in that class. One
Speaker 1: of the videos of TWA was a handoff and a
Speaker 1: touchdown where he you know, doesn't he's not involved in
Speaker 1: the play because he hands it off and he gets
Speaker 1: away from the action and you see him pump his
Speaker 1: fist and really get excited about the touchdown run of
Speaker 1: I think it was Nagi Harris at the time. You
Speaker 1: see some of that here so far in Dolphins practice
Speaker 1: as well. And then I wanted to mention how Armando
Speaker 1: Salgaro tweeted out about how to looks in TOTLD commanding
Speaker 1: of the offense and has had a great camp. Good
Speaker 1: praise there from a long time Miami Dolphins beat writer
Speaker 1: at the Miami Herald. Number two takeaway so far is
Speaker 1: the upstart offensive line. And I look at this group
Speaker 1: that has seen a fair amount of investment over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years with Austin Jackson, Robert Hunt, Liam Eichenberg,
Speaker 1: Solomon Kindley, Michael Dieter, Larnel Coleman this year as well
Speaker 1: in the draft. And you know, Jackson, Eichenberg and Hunt
Speaker 1: have been starters for a significant portion of camp or
Speaker 1: at least opening the practice on the first string right
Speaker 1: that with the ones, And that's been reported by the
Speaker 1: beat guys as well, So nothing breaking there, but between
Speaker 1: those guys getting their work in and then Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 1: being included on that front team as well, that first
Speaker 1: team as well, and the work he's done to get
Speaker 1: work and the run blocking, the past blocking, to see
Speaker 1: different looks in different fronts and get a chance to
Speaker 1: really just put his work in here, I think that's
Speaker 1: very valuable for what this offensive line needs to be
Speaker 1: this year. And going forward into the future. And I
Speaker 1: think all three of those guys have shown some pop
Speaker 1: in that regard. Michael Dieter for a guy that and
Speaker 1: coach Lemil John Pierre talked about this is press availability.
Speaker 1: How to go from a guy that starts fifteen games
Speaker 1: as a rookie, doesn't start a game as his second year,
Speaker 1: and the mental order to to come back in year
Speaker 1: three and compete and know that this is my opportunity.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna ever take it for grant. Not that
Speaker 1: he did, but I'm not taking this opportunity for granted.
Speaker 1: And you see that way in the way he works
Speaker 1: out there on the practice field. And then also Laarnel
Speaker 1: Coleman earning some reps and having some quality practices out
Speaker 1: there so far in his first season. Solomon Kinley bouncing
Speaker 1: around and showing the grit that you loved a year ago.
Speaker 1: Leamille John Pierre touched on this as well at his
Speaker 1: press conference. How we know how aggressive and physical he
Speaker 1: is and how hard he works, and that's just kind
Speaker 1: of the mindset and makeup of the entire room. So
Speaker 1: I'm curious to gonna look at these guys in game action,
Speaker 1: but so far to see the options and the youth
Speaker 1: they have in that position. It's a nice, a nice
Speaker 1: place to start for the Miami Dolphins on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Number three, the past catcher log jam. I mean, we
Speaker 1: look at this position group and Jalen Waddle has had
Speaker 1: such a good camp so far where there's lots of
Speaker 1: times where he's just really difficult to cover, and how
Speaker 1: he has so many different routes and tools in the
Speaker 1: arsenal for what he can do. Albert Wilson back to
Speaker 1: full form and playing really really good so far this
Speaker 1: camp with big plays, sure handed catches, Jachim Grant having
Speaker 1: for my money, his best training camp I've seen, and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that has had some great camps the
Speaker 1: last two years as well. Robert Foster Isaiah Ford have
Speaker 1: made big play after big play. Kirk Merritt catches everything
Speaker 1: Read Sinnett throws to him, as well as Jacoby Brissette,
Speaker 1: Lynn Bode and Malcolm Perry catching passes and making guys
Speaker 1: miss on the regular, and both those guys have such
Speaker 1: unique skill sets. A takeaway from me here is that
Speaker 1: you have your choice to go into the season really
Speaker 1: however you want to. You want a bunch of trees.
Speaker 1: You got it. It's fine. Tall guys and rebounderies. We
Speaker 1: got those guys want to go up here, speed and
Speaker 1: literally the field with speed merchants, no problem, that's doable.
Speaker 1: To want a combination of the two. That's my preference personally. Boom,
Speaker 1: it's there for you and Olmark Kelly tweeted this, speaking
Speaker 1: of long time beat writers, that he's never seen so
Speaker 1: many explosive plays out here at the Miami Dolphins training camp,
Speaker 1: and he's been doing it for nearly fifteen years. And
Speaker 1: that's without Will Fuller all but one day. That's without
Speaker 1: Davonte Parker for the majority of the practices, that's without
Speaker 1: Mike Asiki for the last week or so. And those
Speaker 1: three guys combined last year for one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: nine receptions, two thousand, three hundred and seventy five yards
Speaker 1: and eighteen touchdowns. So you have three really proven players
Speaker 1: on your roster that just have not been available that
Speaker 1: much so far free training camp, and they're still making play.
Speaker 1: So that log jam with the pass catcher position, it's
Speaker 1: a good problem to have. The fourth takeaway here is defensively,
Speaker 1: no complacency after the year they had finishing first and
Speaker 1: third down defense and first and takeaways six and scoring
Speaker 1: and you know the drill by now tenth and sacks.
Speaker 1: The numbers were all there for this Dolfins defensive year ago.
Speaker 1: And you add Javon Holland, who looks as advertised so
Speaker 1: far with the range and the playmaking skills and the
Speaker 1: three takeaways in the last three practices, but also getting
Speaker 1: a guy like Jason mccordy to help the transition and
Speaker 1: that learning curve. And John Jenkins talked about how Brian
Speaker 1: Flores allows players to be players and empowers guys to
Speaker 1: take on those leadership roles, kind of a self policing
Speaker 1: aspect of each room. How I'm gonna hold you accountable.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hold myself accountable, and you do the same
Speaker 1: and for me and for the rest of your peers
Speaker 1: and your teammates. The Justin Coleman addition, and he battles
Speaker 1: a guy like a Nick Needham, for instance, who has
Speaker 1: sack and ball production over his first two years in
Speaker 1: the league and really pretty much every day in practice
Speaker 1: as well. The obvious emphasis on making sure exhabing Howard
Speaker 1: is back here in the ability to recreate the vision
Speaker 1: of the defense to be aggressive in coverage and asked
Speaker 1: them to only have to cover for a couple of
Speaker 1: seconds because you found a way to create package. What's
Speaker 1: packages that can get pressure on the quarterback instantly and
Speaker 1: force them into quick decisions. Then, obviously the additions of
Speaker 1: Banarjack McKinney and Adam Butler and what they've meant to
Speaker 1: make the interior of the defense even stronger. And coach
Speaker 1: Flores has talked about signal callers down the middle of
Speaker 1: the field. Your safety is your linebackers, your center, your quarterback,
Speaker 1: and I include defensive tackles in that middle portion of
Speaker 1: the field. And Miami has just beefed up so strong
Speaker 1: in that area. I mean ten guys on your defense
Speaker 1: down the middle of the field. You look at them
Speaker 1: on paper, you said, that's a good group right there.
Speaker 1: Christian Wilkins, Ray Kuan Davis, Zach Seeler, Adam Butler, BARJK
Speaker 1: McK any, Jerome Baker, Eric Rowe, Brandon Jones, Javon Holland.
Speaker 1: I mean a collection of players that you really put
Speaker 1: the resources and allocated your your those resources into those positions,
Speaker 1: and you look at it on paper and it looks
Speaker 1: pretty good. Jalen Phillips hasn't practiced in a while, but
Speaker 1: when he does, you could see the juice out there,
Speaker 1: and his versatility helps open up more fronts to put
Speaker 1: even more on the table for guys like Brian Flores
Speaker 1: and Josh Boyer to go to. And the growth of
Speaker 1: year three players like a Andrew van Ginkle, for instance,
Speaker 1: or Vince Bagel who's not in year three but comes
Speaker 1: back from an achilles injury last year and looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: Brandan Scarlett having a good camp. Duke Riley's speed is noticeable.
Speaker 1: Shakim Griffin speaking of spirit, He's got plenty of that,
Speaker 1: but also some speed off the edge of a pass
Speaker 1: rusher two. So to me, on paper, the defense looks
Speaker 1: better than it did last year, but the games are
Speaker 1: not played on paper. But that's the takeaway so far
Speaker 1: is seeing these guys in camp kind of apply these
Speaker 1: new changes to the defense. It's been fun to watch
Speaker 1: my fifth takeaways the intensity on special teams and you
Speaker 1: prote Danny croftsman to assistant head coach after finishing six
Speaker 1: last year in d v o A on Football Outsiders
Speaker 1: Special Teams rankings. He added Michael Pollardi, who looks like
Speaker 1: a master directional kicker so far and has been consistently
Speaker 1: skying kicks with five seconds of hang time, angling them
Speaker 1: towards a sideline and checking balls up at the five
Speaker 1: yard line. You also add Jalen Waddle to Jachim Grant,
Speaker 1: Noah Ignogeny and the explosive return men this team already
Speaker 1: had to go along with Jalen Waddle, guys like Mac Hollands,
Speaker 1: Sam Egle, Von Durham Smith being such core special teams
Speaker 1: players and guys that over the years have made plays
Speaker 1: on those that unit, but also in camp so far
Speaker 1: making plays on the offense and defense getting rewarded for
Speaker 1: the work they put in, which requires, you know, another
Speaker 1: layer of your job to go on special teams and
Speaker 1: perform on that side of the football as well. And
Speaker 1: they do it without even asking a question, without missing
Speaker 1: a beat. Jason Sanders doesn't miss field goals. He's missed
Speaker 1: I think two in camp so far. He had one
Speaker 1: other day as well, we didn't talk about. But to
Speaker 1: miss field goals all of camp just never happens. Blake
Speaker 1: Ferguson's name never comes up, and that's a great thing
Speaker 1: for a long snapper. I don't think i've seen him
Speaker 1: miss a snap so far this year or last year
Speaker 1: in practice, at least as far as the ball getting
Speaker 1: away from anybody. He'll tell you he's got to be
Speaker 1: perfect with every snap. I don't. I can't see that
Speaker 1: from my vantage point, but he's been really good in
Speaker 1: my opinion, and of course from yesterday's podcast Michael Pollardy
Speaker 1: on the intensity of the coaching staff and how that
Speaker 1: matches his preferred method of coaching and the results that's
Speaker 1: had on the special teams as a whole. So those
Speaker 1: are the five takeaways so far. We've got plenty more
Speaker 1: to get to and you know the rest of training camp,
Speaker 1: and you guys can check out Miami Dolphins dot com
Speaker 1: where we have five training camp takeaways every two or
Speaker 1: three practices or so. We'll do that updated notebook piece.
Speaker 1: The last one posted on August nine on Monday, So
Speaker 1: go back and check that out, and of course catch
Speaker 1: up on all the podcasts you missed so far here
Speaker 1: on Drivetime, Subscribe rate review all that fun stuff for
Speaker 1: us here on the podcast, but intensely on special teams.
Speaker 1: The lack of complacency. Are going forward without complacency on
Speaker 1: defense this offseason, the past catcher log jam, the upstart
Speaker 1: offensive line, and the year to jump for two A
Speaker 1: tongue of by lowis from Takeaway So Far and real
Speaker 1: Quick before we get to the mailbag and before we
Speaker 1: do this penultimate segment here on the podcast. I'll be
Speaker 1: using these quotes in later pods because, like I said,
Speaker 1: it's just too much to get into one right now,
Speaker 1: and I'd like to have a little more time to
Speaker 1: organize it all as it pertains to the action we
Speaker 1: get on the football field, like telling the story from
Speaker 1: the coaches on the field and tied that stuff together.
Speaker 1: But every one of the Dolphins assistants met with the
Speaker 1: media on Monday afternoon, and there was a ton of
Speaker 1: really good content just from the quote unquote scrum that
Speaker 1: I was around. And they're not scrums. It's two or
Speaker 1: three of us behind a rope, you know, distance from
Speaker 1: the coaches at a time. But here's some of the
Speaker 1: good stuff I heard. First. I said last year that
Speaker 1: I could listen to Gerald Alexander coach g A talk
Speaker 1: football for hours and really all day, and the same
Speaker 1: is true of Charles Burke's and frankly a lot of
Speaker 1: the coaches on the staff. I've had the pleasure of
Speaker 1: speaking to for more than just a cup of coffee,
Speaker 1: which is most of the guys. But Burke's talked a
Speaker 1: lot about guys in his room and we got into
Speaker 1: conversations about guys like Javarros Davis and how Javarros path
Speaker 1: is one of overcoming adversity with regards to his NFL career, undrafted,
Speaker 1: signs with Miami, cut by Miami after signing with someone else,
Speaker 1: originally resigns with Miami on the practice squad for a year,
Speaker 1: and now competing in a load of defensive backfield coach
Speaker 1: Burke's touched on how confidence is a key for Javarros Davis.
Speaker 1: He talked about how having a guy like Nick need
Speaker 1: Um in the room can show these guys that you
Speaker 1: can go the U d F A route to be
Speaker 1: not just making a roster, but be a guy that
Speaker 1: plays and contributes. But he also talked about, and this
Speaker 1: was my favorite part of the entire day, how the
Speaker 1: culture in the room is great, and it starts with
Speaker 1: the fact that xaviing Howard and Byron Jones worked the
Speaker 1: way you'd expect a U d F A who has
Speaker 1: to outwork everybody. Those guys work that way, and it
Speaker 1: has a avalanche type of impact on that room as
Speaker 1: far as how everybody else works in that snowball effect.
Speaker 1: I also asked coach about the mindset of the position
Speaker 1: and how the requirement for those guys to be wired
Speaker 1: a certain way because it's a position where you can
Speaker 1: have sixty great reps in a game and then the
Speaker 1: one that gets behind you is the one that everybody
Speaker 1: remembers and in instances really changes the outcome of football
Speaker 1: games late in the game, at least from the outside
Speaker 1: of perspective, like that one play cost him, right, we
Speaker 1: know it's not the case, but sometimes that's how perception
Speaker 1: can be. And he talked about controlling his emotions in
Speaker 1: those moments because of he panics that's going to make
Speaker 1: the player's panic is that he's kind of reflection of
Speaker 1: those players being the guy that leads up the room.
Speaker 1: So he talked about staying even in those moments. What
Speaker 1: a fun chat that was with Coach Burke's I also
Speaker 1: talked to g A about the value of balance in
Speaker 1: his room with the safeties and the dbs in general,
Speaker 1: with the vets and young guys, and I asked him
Speaker 1: of having Brandon Jones here, who just went through a
Speaker 1: rookie season, is beneficial for a guy like Javon Holland
Speaker 1: who's going to go through his own rookie season now
Speaker 1: this year next month, starting with the game against the
Speaker 1: Bears on Saturday, And he said Javon had the benefit
Speaker 1: of O T A S and the value of those
Speaker 1: offseason practices should not be undersold. I thought that was good.
Speaker 1: What else? I had a great chat with Lemiel John Pierre.
Speaker 1: I asked him about playing multiple positions, and I asked
Speaker 1: him how he would compare going from left tackle to
Speaker 1: left guard, where you change issue but you stay on
Speaker 1: the same side of the field, compared to going from
Speaker 1: left tackle to right tackle, where it's the same position
Speaker 1: but different side. And he talked in depth about how
Speaker 1: in his experience there are these minor differences that can
Speaker 1: have a big impact, like how you align in your
Speaker 1: stance and how you might have to rework your mechanics
Speaker 1: and technique because of that slight difference in the stance
Speaker 1: or something of that nature. I asked him, coach, you
Speaker 1: guys work in individuals and fundamental drills on the other
Speaker 1: side of the field, I'd love to get a closer look,
Speaker 1: and we both kind of laughed about that. But I
Speaker 1: asked him, what are you trying to get out of
Speaker 1: those periods? And I loved his answer. He said he's
Speaker 1: trying to make it as hard on those guys as
Speaker 1: he possibly can and strain them, and he wants them
Speaker 1: to grind, to take advantage of not just the situation
Speaker 1: of training camp, but also the tough summer down here
Speaker 1: in South Florida, and it makes things easier once you're
Speaker 1: you know, as easy as you possibly can on game day.
Speaker 1: And that's really a theme across the entire coaching staff.
Speaker 1: Make practice harder than the games. I love coaches answer there.
Speaker 1: I talked to coach Campanelli for a bit, but mostly
Speaker 1: about family and food. He's just such a good guy.
Speaker 1: I gave an Italian restaurant recommendation he gave me one.
Speaker 1: Then we talked some football as well, and he noted
Speaker 1: the way Bernardrick McKinney and Jerome Baker have different body types,
Speaker 1: as my question referred to how they compliment one another,
Speaker 1: but he also said the commonality there is the way
Speaker 1: they both work, the way they're both in their playbooks
Speaker 1: all the time. They don't take a rep or a
Speaker 1: drill for granted, just really good stuff there from the
Speaker 1: coaches talking about some of their guys. And like I said,
Speaker 1: I'll come back and circle back to this when I
Speaker 1: get some more time for some full quotes, full audio,
Speaker 1: and applica bowl events that occur on the football field.
Speaker 1: To tie it all together, let's go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up this podcast with some of your questions on the
Speaker 1: Twitter mail bag. You guys know the drill by now,
Speaker 1: but to this for a long time now. I put
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Speaker 1: Make it a five star. You'll get a question answered
Speaker 1: sooner that way, I promise you that much, and we'll
Speaker 1: answer those questions first today, we don't have any new ones,
Speaker 1: so we're going right to the twittermail bag that I
Speaker 1: posted on Sunday evening and we start here with this
Speaker 1: question from five iron Man on Twitter. Is dogs flashing
Speaker 1: at all getting reps and pass protection? Really curious to
Speaker 1: see if he can carve out a role for himself
Speaker 1: well as far as pass protection. Yes, every running back
Speaker 1: gets reps in pass pro. But I thought he had
Speaker 1: some really good runs on Sunday in both goal line
Speaker 1: and team period where he had to really show some
Speaker 1: of the physicality of his game to drop the shoulder
Speaker 1: and get into you know, get into the gap and
Speaker 1: meet the linebacker there and drop that shoulder and plow
Speaker 1: forward ahead. And he ran through some arm tackles like
Speaker 1: if you don't bring, if you don't square him up
Speaker 1: and bring the whole load, He's gonna bounce off those tackles.
Speaker 1: We saw that at Cincinnati. I thought we saw that
Speaker 1: a few times here in training camp so far as well.
Speaker 1: So I thought he's had some good work there so
Speaker 1: far in his first camp. And speaking of his first camp,
Speaker 1: that's next question comes in from at Kevin James Turma.
Speaker 1: His question is, is Waddle the most productive rookie receiver
Speaker 1: you have seen while reporting on the Dolphins. And you know,
Speaker 1: productive was a tricky word there, because I haven't played
Speaker 1: in the games yet and you have to, you know,
Speaker 1: put numbers on the board to produce in games. But
Speaker 1: as far as what he's done in practice, Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and twenty nineteen was really explosive and made a bunch
Speaker 1: of big plays down the field. But the way Waddle
Speaker 1: has not just made plays down the field, the way
Speaker 1: he creates separation in short order, the way he puts
Speaker 1: defenders in such conflicts, the way you can really use
Speaker 1: him in a multitude of ways. I just think that
Speaker 1: he's he's got a chance to continue doing what he's
Speaker 1: been doing so far at practice, and if he does
Speaker 1: that and carries it into games and produces that type
Speaker 1: of production and games, then we'll be having a good
Speaker 1: player on our hands here. But so far, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: looked really explosive and been a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: Next question here from Travis Moore at More for Me
Speaker 1: on Twitter. What is the best surprise you've seen so
Speaker 1: far out of training camp? Surprised again tough boarding here,
Speaker 1: but Sam egg will Van was a guy that we
Speaker 1: knew last year is a really quality special teamer. But
Speaker 1: the way he's been playing at linebacker so far in
Speaker 1: training camp and the speed at which he plays, because
Speaker 1: you go back to twenty nineteens camp, he was making
Speaker 1: plays all over the field. A talk about some of
Speaker 1: the collisions he made that year in camp where he
Speaker 1: would just you could hear the pads popping from way
Speaker 1: up in press row, and we saw that translate into
Speaker 1: his ability as a pass rusher, the way he kind
Speaker 1: of plays in coverage. But now I think the instincts,
Speaker 1: the trigger, the way he's playing, the confidence, I think
Speaker 1: it's all improving for him so far in training camp
Speaker 1: right now, and he's making so many plays out there.
Speaker 1: You look up in forty nine is involved in just
Speaker 1: about everything. Another guy is Kirk Merritt. I mean, we
Speaker 1: talked about the depth of this receiving corps to really
Speaker 1: put yourself in position to earn promotions and earn more
Speaker 1: reps and earn the right to to play with, you know,
Speaker 1: the second team after coming up from the third team.
Speaker 1: In the depth of all this, all the talent they
Speaker 1: have in that room, he stood out in that room,
Speaker 1: and that to me is tough to do for a
Speaker 1: guy that was an undrafted free agent last year, like
Speaker 1: you talked about with Javarus Davis, who also has been
Speaker 1: very good in this camp. Help me on that list
Speaker 1: as well. To do that, to make that climb, to
Speaker 1: make that jump, that means a bit of a surprise,
Speaker 1: but a very good one you have there. Next one
Speaker 1: here from I am at, I am Mermandy. I've seen
Speaker 1: several reports on two hanging onto the ball at tad
Speaker 1: too long. Can you comment on that, Well, training camp
Speaker 1: is different than games, and the red jersey is different
Speaker 1: than when you're not in a red jersey, because if
Speaker 1: there is a sack on a particular play, then you
Speaker 1: still have the entirety of that rep to work through
Speaker 1: it and get through your progression and find the extra work.
Speaker 1: We talked about this on the podcast a while ago,
Speaker 1: like if they get the sack, okay, their work is done,
Speaker 1: but you can still find work. You can still give
Speaker 1: your receiver a chance to uncover or to make a catch,
Speaker 1: or a dB to make a play on the football.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, even with all that said, I don't
Speaker 1: think so. I think the ball is coming out quick
Speaker 1: a lot. That's kind of a design of what Too
Speaker 1: does well. I mean, I talked about this in the
Speaker 1: podcast the day about the two minute offense or some
Speaker 1: of the pops. To a guy like Mac Hollins or
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle over the middle two is one of his strengths,
Speaker 1: is the blackjack dealer type of delivery. He has to
Speaker 1: get that thing out of his hands very quickly, and
Speaker 1: the recognition pre snap to say, Okay, that's the week's
Speaker 1: spot of the zone. I'm gonna go ahead and throw
Speaker 1: the football right here, right away. I've seen that countless time,
Speaker 1: so I don't really see it that way personally. Next
Speaker 1: question here from Magic Mike at Yates is great quick
Speaker 1: questions what starters play against Chicago? Coach said there's a
Speaker 1: plan in place for that, but he hasn't revealed it yet,
Speaker 1: so I cannot give you an answer. I appreciate the question, though, Mike.
Speaker 1: We'll find out on Saturday. Next question here comes in
Speaker 1: from at Kyle the Commission, and I just read this
Speaker 1: to say what kind of beer is best? And now
Speaker 1: I'm realizing you said what kind of bear is best?
Speaker 1: As in Dwight K Shrewt. Obviously black Bear is best
Speaker 1: Battlestar Galactica as well. But I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: answer the beer question too, because why not. There's a
Speaker 1: beer up in It's brewed in Bend Organ, I believe
Speaker 1: called Mirror Pond from Two Shoots. I think it's Bend Organ.
Speaker 1: That's like my favorite beer. I also I'm a big
Speaker 1: fan of of Mexican beers as well. Nope, Modelo and
Speaker 1: Dos Eck's are two of my favorites as well. I'm
Speaker 1: not a big beer drinker them more more of a
Speaker 1: whiskey guy. Next question here is from Tony Figueroa at
Speaker 1: Tony figs C. I s, what's the schedule for this
Speaker 1: week with travel and joint practices. I believe I talked
Speaker 1: about this, but just to go ahead and reiterate. Wednesday
Speaker 1: and Thursday practice in the morning, we'll have coach Flores
Speaker 1: presser as well as some player media, and then we'll
Speaker 1: have the game on Saturday for you guys as well,
Speaker 1: with podcast and written stories and all that fun stuff
Speaker 1: coming to you from Chicago. Next question comes in from
Speaker 1: Adonna's Huslum at Adonna's Huslum on Twitter. You've talked about
Speaker 1: throwing to a spot for two of being a strength
Speaker 1: this camp. Do you think that is due to more
Speaker 1: comfort in the system or chemistry with the receivers? Also,
Speaker 1: how his teeth and going for your little one these days? Well,
Speaker 1: she's getting better. I just dropped her off at daycare
Speaker 1: for the first time today. Her mom has been doing
Speaker 1: it the last week and it was tough. Man Like
Speaker 1: you have to rip the cord and get out of
Speaker 1: there because she cries, and I was really, really, really
Speaker 1: tough on Dad. I had a really hard time this
Speaker 1: morning with that. As far as two of the stuff
Speaker 1: you probably want to hear more about. Um, she's sleeping
Speaker 1: better too, by the way, so we're finally getting some
Speaker 1: sleep in the household. But I was looking forward to
Speaker 1: Chicago because now I can sleep a full eight hours,
Speaker 1: which I haven't had that a long long time now.
Speaker 1: But you're to a question about throwing Too spots and
Speaker 1: if it's more comfort in the system or chemistry with
Speaker 1: the receivers. Well, I remember this is a new system,
Speaker 1: and they've talked about how the offense has been designed
Speaker 1: for these particular players and how it's kind of a
Speaker 1: different scheme this year. I think it's just I think
Speaker 1: it's just two of being more of what I knew
Speaker 1: from Too, as far as the prospect that he was
Speaker 1: in college, and not to say that his rookie year
Speaker 1: was some different player, because I thought Too had a
Speaker 1: lot of really good moments last year as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I mean, he won six of the nine starts and
Speaker 1: had a lot of big plays and big throws and
Speaker 1: big time moments, and that Arizona game happened, like people
Speaker 1: seem to forget about that. He was fantastic in the
Speaker 1: start of the Chargers game. He had some big moments
Speaker 1: against the Patriots and the Bengals and the Chiefs late
Speaker 1: in the year too. But what I saw in his
Speaker 1: tape as a college prospect was anticipation, understanding leverage, and
Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing in football, Like leverages everything in football.
Speaker 1: For an offensive lineman to know where he can kind
Speaker 1: of lean or anchor and put his post against the
Speaker 1: pass rusher. For a running back, where the block is
Speaker 1: going to line up, not where it is right now,
Speaker 1: but where it will be when you hit the whole.
Speaker 1: For a quarterback to know that corner has his back
Speaker 1: turned to the sideline, I've got a guy running behind him,
Speaker 1: I can throw behind him because he can't get there.
Speaker 1: Or there's a great clip from Who's the Quarterback that
Speaker 1: does the YouTube video stuff? Kyle Krabs from Locked on
Speaker 1: Dolphins references him all the time. I'm drawing a total blank,
Speaker 1: but he does the quarterback film room and he showed
Speaker 1: a player where to last year against the Cardinals, rolled
Speaker 1: and found Mike Gassicky on a over route and the
Speaker 1: linebacker is running and chasing the Mike gasicky, and he's
Speaker 1: got his back turn to to a and although he's
Speaker 1: right in front of Mike, he can only defend the
Speaker 1: width of his shoulders because his back is turned. So
Speaker 1: understanding what the defense is capability is was always a
Speaker 1: strength of to his game to me. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the result of throwing the football to a spot
Speaker 1: and saying I could put it there. My guy is
Speaker 1: gonna be there in a second, and the defense can't
Speaker 1: get there because of where they're aligned right now and
Speaker 1: the way that all happens so quickly and so fast.
Speaker 1: It's certainly will be better in your second year with
Speaker 1: more reps and more experience and more feel for the
Speaker 1: speed of the game. So it's a combination of things.
Speaker 1: But I hope that answers it pretty good. This question
Speaker 1: from DJ at Despondido. How different schematically is the offense
Speaker 1: compared to last year? Do you think they average more
Speaker 1: points this year? Yeah, I think they'll average more points.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell you a dan thing about the
Speaker 1: scheme though, because I want to win football games, and
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you I don't want to want to
Speaker 1: hear that. So sorry CJ, but that's against the rules report.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go into that. Next
Speaker 1: question here from at Jim Loving Guth, I gotta ask
Speaker 1: about the limb question. How is Jalen Waddle looking well?
Speaker 1: Coach asked answer that question of his press conference on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think it was saying that, you know, he's been
Speaker 1: through not at that point nine training camp practices now
Speaker 1: ten and he hasn't missed any but it's it's tough
Speaker 1: on guys out there. I mean, two hours in that
Speaker 1: heat every single day, working through it, getting your sea
Speaker 1: legs back under your getting back into football shape. He
Speaker 1: attributed that to just some general wear and tear from
Speaker 1: training camp, and I mean a gat I talked about
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Like the story to me is the
Speaker 1: fact that he's catching a ton of balls for a
Speaker 1: ton of yards and a ton of touchdowns. That's that's
Speaker 1: what matters most to me. So that really is my
Speaker 1: biggest and only cern with how Jalen and how he's
Speaker 1: progressing so far in his rookie training camp. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and cut it off right there. A
Speaker 1: nice short and sweet podcast for you guys today. That's
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Speaker 1: it is here. I don't buy that for a half
Speaker 1: of a second, but I guess I'll find out. But
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