Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins?
Speaker 3: And welcome to the Drift Time Podcast, part of the
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your teams, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: And on today's show, it's gonna be an O line
Speaker 3: heavy day, at least for a segment or two. Maybe
Speaker 3: we heard from Liam Eichenberg and Austin Jackson. Coach McDaniel
Speaker 3: discussed offensive line play at length. We'll dive into that,
Speaker 3: plus all the practice notes, including another day of interesting
Speaker 3: quarterback play, some back and forth in the ground game.
Speaker 3: We'll talk to Raheem Mostert about that and a hecko
Speaker 3: a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 3: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: Heye gaff.
Speaker 3: So we're gonna kick this thing off with some O
Speaker 3: line conversation. But before we do that, a little bit
Speaker 3: of news to bring you into the podcast. Safety Miles
Speaker 3: Dorn signed with the team this morning. Dorn was a
Speaker 3: udi to the Vikings back in twenty twenty one and
Speaker 3: played in fourteen games with Minnesota the last two seasons combined.
Speaker 3: He played a lot on special teams for them and
Speaker 3: plays with that missile mentality you often see from the
Speaker 3: core special teams guys.
Speaker 1: He has some really pretty good technically.
Speaker 3: Sound hits on his tape, both at safety and from
Speaker 3: the special team's clips I've seen of his. And speaking
Speaker 3: of special teams, linebacker Mike Rose also signs after spending
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two offseason as a member of the
Speaker 3: Kansas City Chiefs, a UDFA from Iowa State. That year,
Speaker 3: he was first team All American in school and played
Speaker 3: for the Saint Louis BattleHawks and the CFL. He was
Speaker 3: also an extensive special teams guy in the XFL, said
Speaker 3: CFL XFL going back to his time in college as well.
Speaker 3: So two new players at camp, they take the roster
Speaker 3: spots opened up by the release of Michael Turk and
Speaker 3: waived injured rookie Bennett Williams. So there you go, practice
Speaker 3: number seven in the books. And it was a hot,
Speaker 3: one man, minimal win today. No cloud coverage, no storm
Speaker 3: on the periphery to bring that cooler in, just a hot,
Speaker 3: muggy Miami Gardens mess and the guys got after it
Speaker 3: and work in that horrible, horrible, horrible hot hot heat,
Speaker 3: multiple team periods in different situations including mid and low
Speaker 3: red zone work, even a situational period at the end
Speaker 3: to see what Tua and Thompson could do with the
Speaker 3: winding clock in late game situations. And Tua got the
Speaker 3: team into a fifty eight yard field goal chance, and Skyler,
Speaker 3: I believe, got into a fourth and long, probably like
Speaker 3: a sixty two yard field goal chance. So it was
Speaker 3: thirty seconds left, ball at midfield, no timeouts, left down
Speaker 3: by two, so two was able to get a first
Speaker 3: down and put the team in position to try a
Speaker 3: game winning field goal. I'm not so sure about Skyler's
Speaker 3: opportunity that maybe they would have had to go for
Speaker 3: it on fourth down to give himselfs another chance. But
Speaker 3: that was into practice. But the day began with coach McDaniel.
Speaker 3: And since the theme of this opening segment is going
Speaker 3: to be on the offensive line, I want to go
Speaker 3: ahead and start here with three soundbites from Coach McDaniel
Speaker 3: as he takes us through Coach butch Berry's impact and
Speaker 3: the offseason gross of Liam Eichenberg and Austin Jackson.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach first.
Speaker 5: On coach bear relationship with him working relationship, and you
Speaker 5: know there when when you do have that, there's certain
Speaker 5: expectations that you have when you're you're joined back together,
Speaker 5: and he's met those expectations because of his uh diligent
Speaker 5: command of that crew. I think they've got a really
Speaker 5: cool thing going there where they've been working and owning
Speaker 5: techniques that other Really it's probably the best that they've
Speaker 5: been able to understand what we're trying to do as
Speaker 5: an offense.
Speaker 2: And you know, the thing about a line.
Speaker 5: Coaches, if you know, if you have a good one,
Speaker 5: in which I think we do have, they're typically not satisfied.
Speaker 5: They're typically very they're they're ready to get a sucker
Speaker 5: punch from from the side that they can't see. Just
Speaker 5: because that this, you're the nature of offensive line in general.
Speaker 5: You're out athleted because the best pound propound athletes really
Speaker 5: a defensive lineman in this game. So you have to
Speaker 5: be on your p's and q's. You can't be result based,
Speaker 5: you have to be processed driven. And he's he's really
Speaker 5: done done a great job. But classic online coach Form
Speaker 5: don't ask him what type of job he's doing because
Speaker 5: he'll he'll grumble and you need to be better today,
Speaker 5: you know, which is what ultimately I think players really yearn.
Speaker 1: For next coach.
Speaker 3: On the development so far as second year in the
Speaker 3: system of offensive lineman Liah Meichenberg.
Speaker 5: Year two is very exciting for multiple reasons. Like what
Speaker 5: we do from an offensive line standpoint, there's some trustfall
Speaker 5: involved where you're like, Okay, we don't want you to
Speaker 5: just block this person safely.
Speaker 2: We want you to.
Speaker 5: Aggressively attack, thereby making you vulnerable. That can ebbs and flows.
Speaker 5: We felt it last year. The players know it that
Speaker 5: sometimes when in the heat of battle, you revert back
Speaker 5: to things that we don't emphasize.
Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't mean those things were bad.
Speaker 5: It means now you're off with your teammate who's trying
Speaker 5: to do it.
Speaker 2: You know, it's the synergy.
Speaker 5: Of it, and he's really really taken a step forward
Speaker 5: that way.
Speaker 2: You're two.
Speaker 5: Since you do know what words mean, what play calls mean,
Speaker 5: what how we communicate, how we target aiming points, timing.
Speaker 5: Since he does know that he's been able to do
Speaker 5: some things we were unable to do in year one
Speaker 5: that I was adamant that we didn't do in year one,
Speaker 5: which is moving around a little bit too, and he's
Speaker 5: I really love where he is at in the progression,
Speaker 5: but again, it is a progression that's long because you
Speaker 5: can't it like like I was alluding to before, we're
Speaker 5: trying to do stuff at a high level that you
Speaker 5: have to really kind of empty all of the old
Speaker 5: thinking and can't revert in the heat of battle. That's
Speaker 5: where our biggest problems came, where people reverting. And he's
Speaker 5: right now doing a great job, but you have to
Speaker 5: what's going to happen when you're like the lines turned
Speaker 5: up today, Okay, Then what's gonna happen next week when
Speaker 5: you have different people. Those are the things that are
Speaker 5: monumental for him as well as all the guys that
Speaker 5: have been here to really make sure that what we're
Speaker 5: doing on a day to day basis is ingrained and not.
Speaker 2: Just a practice technique.
Speaker 3: And then lastly to the guys we're gonna hear a
Speaker 3: lot about this preseason. Two important guys to the program
Speaker 3: this year. Austin Jackson here is coach on the Miami right.
Speaker 5: Tackle Austin being you know, he he was out longer.
Speaker 2: I got to see less of.
Speaker 5: Him and he it's it's been exciting, exciting for him
Speaker 5: because what he hasn't done, what you're fearful of.
Speaker 2: Case in point, you guys are all I know. There's
Speaker 2: several guys that.
Speaker 5: Are very locked into one on one pass rush. And
Speaker 5: what happens to offensive lineman especially, you know when they're
Speaker 5: an important year of their career.
Speaker 6: Is you.
Speaker 5: Go and set on somebody and it doesn't work. It
Speaker 5: actually is quite the opposite. You get up and under
Speaker 5: or do something like that. Typically the response is, Okay,
Speaker 5: I'm not doing that again.
Speaker 2: And where he's at is he can turn.
Speaker 5: And have a football conversation with myself, Frank Butcher lem
Speaker 5: or Mike Judge. He can have a football conversation of
Speaker 5: what just happened so that he can do the technique
Speaker 5: he just did better.
Speaker 2: He's he's flashed.
Speaker 5: Some really good things, and then there's been great teaching
Speaker 5: done by the the defense when he hasn't done things correctly,
Speaker 5: so he continues to get better. He is a better
Speaker 5: player than he was last week. And that's that's where
Speaker 5: I'm at with h Really, all those guys, there's a
Speaker 5: we have a lot of competition across the board in
Speaker 5: the offensive line, room, so everyone's having to really go
Speaker 5: after it, which is a cool.
Speaker 2: Thing as a coach to to witness.
Speaker 5: And and right now we are in practice.
Speaker 2: Seven of.
Speaker 5: And we have three opportunities to practice against each other
Speaker 5: before we practice against an opponent.
Speaker 2: So that's uh, that's what we're focused on today for him.
Speaker 3: So I got a good look at both those guys
Speaker 3: and in general the last few days with pads going on,
Speaker 3: and I think you're going to see more growth and
Speaker 3: flashes with Eichenberg that coach described off the top. I've
Speaker 3: liked his work in the past sets in the one
Speaker 3: on one drills, but there's still some meat on the
Speaker 3: bone in terms of the team period, especially in the
Speaker 3: running game against Wilkins and Seeler. And I really don't
Speaker 3: know what to expect because those guys are both reletive,
Speaker 3: stively unstoppable, like they've taken longtime vets and taken them
Speaker 3: to task repeatedly and actual games. So I'm not sure
Speaker 3: I would expect anyone to look good against them. But
Speaker 3: I think Liam is showing at minimum a non tomato
Speaker 3: can presence the old Daniel Jeremiah quote.
Speaker 1: Right, if you've got a.
Speaker 3: Few really good guys and we do we know about
Speaker 3: left tackle, center, and right guard. Then you can get
Speaker 3: by with, you know, two replacement level players. We just
Speaker 3: cannot have two guys that are total washouts. And I
Speaker 3: think you can get that from seventy four. This year,
Speaker 3: we'll see about seventy three. It's just not been materializing
Speaker 3: so far in practice, it's not Jalen Phillips really got
Speaker 3: him good on the first play of the day for
Speaker 3: a sack, and that's been a pretty consistent theme this camp.
Speaker 3: And of course Wilkins had that day of you know,
Speaker 3: giving it to seventy four back in the indoor practice.
Speaker 3: So what are the options? Roll with the growing pains
Speaker 3: or move to a secondary option. I know that Isaiah
Speaker 3: Winn can play left guard, so I think it's a
Speaker 3: good competition there if that's where they want to go.
Speaker 3: And I'm pretty sure Kendall Lamb can play right tackle
Speaker 3: at a high level or at least the level of
Speaker 3: Brandon Shell a year ago, if not even better. I
Speaker 3: thought his work in that spot has been really good
Speaker 3: in camp and the best I've seen on the team
Speaker 3: so far.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of the update there.
Speaker 3: But Liam and Austin are going to continue to get
Speaker 3: plenty of reps and seeing this challenging front will pay
Speaker 3: dividends as we go along here, I think again, Liams
Speaker 3: looked good in the one on one drills, but the
Speaker 3: team period, it's been up and down. Let's ask him
Speaker 3: about the offensive line versus defensive line drills because I'm
Speaker 3: always so curious about this. I asked Rob Hunt about
Speaker 3: it earlier in the week. Let's go to Liam Eichenberg
Speaker 3: on the value of one on one O line versus
Speaker 3: D line.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, I think line versus line drill. I
Speaker 6: think it's you know, a great time. You're going to
Speaker 6: see a lot of stuff that maybe you won't see
Speaker 6: it during the game. You know, it's a time for
Speaker 6: you know, me specifically to work on what I want
Speaker 6: to work on for that day. You know, if I'm
Speaker 6: going to rock set, upkick or you know, tight angle set,
Speaker 6: so those are the biggest things, and you know, I
Speaker 6: just got to going with a plan and you know,
Speaker 6: work from there, so one day at a time.
Speaker 3: Also asking him about coach McDaniel's Colentarry about playing in
Speaker 3: this system, that trust of playing aggressively and not really
Speaker 3: running back to old habits and old ways of teaching.
Speaker 3: Here's Liam on his second year in the system and
Speaker 3: how he thinks that having that full year of work
Speaker 3: and the full year of tape to Tuddy can benefit
Speaker 3: him heading into his fourth year as a pro, his
Speaker 3: second year under Mike McDaniel. Check that third year here
Speaker 3: in the pros.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say, just getting my footwork done faster.
Speaker 6: Let's probably the biggest thing. Run and pass, and I've
Speaker 6: just continued to work on that an individual and then
Speaker 6: on my own. So she just keep working. This is
Speaker 6: the perfect time for it. So I'm going to continue
Speaker 6: with that.
Speaker 3: Let's go to Austin Jackson with the same question regarding
Speaker 3: the second year here in the system and how it
Speaker 3: can benefit him.
Speaker 7: You know, when I get a task, I like to
Speaker 7: get the job done. He's huge kudos to this coaching
Speaker 7: staff or sitting with the players and helping us get
Speaker 7: a better understanding of what's expected. I think playing in
Speaker 7: this offense, we utilize speed, and you know that's just
Speaker 7: one of my many skilled traits that you know I
Speaker 7: benefit with. I think that that's a plus in this offense.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and take a break right there and
Speaker 3: continue this on to the second segment because I think
Speaker 3: that Raheem Moster offered some valuable commentary about the relationship
Speaker 3: between the offensive line and defensive or I should say
Speaker 3: running backs in the running game, as well as the
Speaker 3: rest of the practice notes Raheem Audio. We're also going
Speaker 3: to hear more from coach McDaniel all that next Draft
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean you have to really be in sync
Speaker 8: with the whole old line and have have have to
Speaker 8: have that understanding that that connection when it comes to
Speaker 8: you know, this game that that has been around for years.
Speaker 8: You know, you can't just it's just like the receiver
Speaker 8: and the quarterback. You know, they have to be on
Speaker 8: the same page. You have to get that feel and
Speaker 8: the time and aspect, and it's the same thing essentially
Speaker 8: in regards to the run. So if you're able to
Speaker 8: have that connection, you know, especially in the interior where
Speaker 8: it starts with the center, if he's able to make
Speaker 8: the right calls, right reads, and then it just you know,
Speaker 8: it goes in and spreads out in front of everybody.
Speaker 4: So that's what you want. You want to make sure
Speaker 4: that you have a better understanding of that.
Speaker 3: And I think you've seen that come to fruition here
Speaker 3: a bit in camp, but really a carryover that began
Speaker 3: in December last year when the Dolphins finished the season
Speaker 3: with five games where they went ninety two one eighty eight,
Speaker 3: eighty two, eighty six, one sixty two on the ground.
Speaker 3: That's six hundred and ten yards one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: two yards per game. That's compared to ninety yards per
Speaker 3: game in the first twelve weeks of the season. And
Speaker 3: I think that's one area that stands to continue into
Speaker 3: this upcoming campaign. Like sometimes or something I think that
Speaker 3: is more indicative of how this offense can grow in
Speaker 3: the second season. Is that effort late in the year
Speaker 3: and into the second year with these same guys coming
Speaker 3: back in the continuity on offense, I don't think is
Speaker 3: getting enough publicity, at least outside of this podcast and
Speaker 3: maybe Kyle's podcast, But I think that that's going to
Speaker 3: go a long way towards his offense being even better
Speaker 3: this year. Another way is with alec Ingold and Raheem
Speaker 3: having that full year of work and training without being
Speaker 3: in a red non contact jersey, not being on any
Speaker 3: kind of pitch counter or ramp up in training, camp.
Speaker 3: We heard he talked about that last week, and he's
Speaker 3: a huge reason why the rushing numbers were what they
Speaker 3: were in December. He looked freaking awesome down the stretch.
Speaker 3: But I talked to him today about alec Ingold's value.
Speaker 3: Who continues to be more involved in the passing game,
Speaker 3: who just looks like he's playing a step faster coming
Speaker 3: off and off season where he didn't have, you know,
Speaker 3: an ACL.
Speaker 1: It was the hand he broke last year, but the
Speaker 1: ACL was fine.
Speaker 3: So he looks faster, sharper, more decisive, a little more
Speaker 3: wiggle and you're gonna hear Raheem Moster here. I had
Speaker 3: a back and forth ra him talking about fullbacks and
Speaker 3: the relationship between fullbacks and the running backs and how
Speaker 3: that all works in the running game.
Speaker 1: Here's the back and forth with me and Raheem Moster,
Speaker 1: like San Francisco out here, he's had to be at
Speaker 1: the backs.
Speaker 5: In the game value.
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously you see what's going on, you know,
Speaker 8: with what I had in San fran but then also
Speaker 8: with alec Ingele, you know, he's he's at the top
Speaker 8: of his game right now.
Speaker 4: If you see the way he gives those.
Speaker 8: Hits and he's catching out of the backfield and he's
Speaker 8: making all these unbelievable plays.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 8: You know, I give him nothing but credit just because
Speaker 8: I know what it looks like.
Speaker 4: I have a good fullback in front of me.
Speaker 8: So he's he's he's that guy, you know, he's the
Speaker 8: one that is the down and dirty guy, and that's
Speaker 8: the one that's trying to trying to do his best,
Speaker 8: you know, for the team, and he's gonna put his
Speaker 8: body on.
Speaker 4: The line no matter what.
Speaker 8: He he accepts challenges as you can tell, and to me,
Speaker 8: he conquers those challenges, whether it be small or big
Speaker 8: in the game plan.
Speaker 4: He does everything that he needs to do.
Speaker 8: So I'm I'm very happy, and everybody else around is
Speaker 8: happy that, you know, we got him. And also John
Speaker 8: love it. John love it as well. You know, he's
Speaker 8: former heisman in his in Princeton, So I mean that
Speaker 8: guy is also an athletic guy just walking around here.
Speaker 8: So I don't want to say dined out, No, not really.
Speaker 4: You know, I was.
Speaker 8: I was in the offense, you know, with Chip Kelly
Speaker 8: and everything that he had, you know, so they didn't
Speaker 8: really utilize all that much in a full back regard.
Speaker 1: We were here to go back to playing in.
Speaker 8: Uh, it would be just because I feel like with
Speaker 8: the fullbacks right now that you know in the game
Speaker 8: that we have the offense that we have, Uh, there
Speaker 8: there are eyes. That's something that we use in the
Speaker 8: in the room. You know, they're the ones that see
Speaker 8: the hole before the hole opens up. And they were
Speaker 8: ones who had to you know, hit those holes in
Speaker 8: order for us to hit them as well. So they
Speaker 8: always say let the fullback's eyes be your eyes, and
Speaker 8: I truly believe in that.
Speaker 3: That might have been hard to discern there on the audio.
Speaker 3: I cranked up as much as I could, but basically
Speaker 3: talk to him about the value of the full back
Speaker 3: and playing behind Kyle Yueschek and alec Ingold here, and
Speaker 3: then just how weird it might be to go back
Speaker 3: to more single backs that he's played in two systems
Speaker 3: for so long or two offenses for so long that
Speaker 3: had a full back in front of it. But all
Speaker 3: things told, I thought, Rahiem just looked smooth. I thought
Speaker 3: Savon Auchmann, speaking of the running backs, had a nifty run,
Speaker 3: picking through some gaps and finding the end zone for
Speaker 3: like an eight yard touchdown run. Chris Brooks continues to
Speaker 3: impress man. He had a ten yard touchdown gallup where
Speaker 3: he got pay dirt by winding his way through some
Speaker 3: really good blocks, and that compared, or i should say,
Speaker 3: combined with his ability to drop the shoulder and run
Speaker 3: through some tackles at the goal line. That was his
Speaker 3: tape at BYU converting touchdowns and short yardage. Also had
Speaker 3: the ninety five yard touch I run in practice the
Speaker 3: other day, So those guys look good. Brooks is making
Speaker 3: a case.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: I thought Devon a Chain had the day of all
Speaker 1: of them today.
Speaker 3: His best run was a slow developing run outside where
Speaker 3: he got a really good seal block from James Tunstall.
Speaker 3: But I thought he set it up with his patients
Speaker 3: to press inside and really squeeze the formation and just
Speaker 3: get one or two more steps downhill before the safety
Speaker 3: of the corner widens back out, and that just gives
Speaker 3: him a better angle. When you have four to two speed,
Speaker 3: any advantage of an angle can turn to ten, fifteen,
Speaker 3: twenty eighty more yards in the play right. And so
Speaker 3: he did a good job of squeezing this thing and
Speaker 3: force that second and third level to come down and
Speaker 3: get you know, decrease their depth and maximize that chance
Speaker 3: to win the corner, and he did it for about
Speaker 3: thirty or so yards in this particular rush. He had
Speaker 3: some additional shifty runs. He had some plays in the
Speaker 3: passing game, back to back completions on that Skylar Thompson,
Speaker 3: you know, situational drill trying to get back into field
Speaker 3: goal range. I thought he ran a really good back
Speaker 3: shoulder where he got free from Aubrey Miller, but the
Speaker 3: pass from Mike White was down around the ankles and knees.
Speaker 3: We couldn't hang on tough ball to grab one of
Speaker 3: the lesser balls from Mike White. Today, I thought he
Speaker 3: had a good day, but more on him and his
Speaker 3: progression and camp so far.
Speaker 1: Can't hit him. All didn't hit this one.
Speaker 3: Speaking of callbacks, let's finish up the offensive line notes here,
Speaker 3: because I watched a little bit of the one on
Speaker 3: ones but was more focused on wide receiver versus cornerback today,
Speaker 3: which is typically sacrilege. But today it was not one
Speaker 3: on one but rather half field combos. You had two
Speaker 3: man route combos, three man route combos with a safety
Speaker 3: and corner to that side. The linebacker kind of contributing
Speaker 3: so it was like a half cocked seven on seven
Speaker 3: drill that I wanted to watch. And remember how Tua
Speaker 3: talked the other day about noticing the defensive communication from
Speaker 3: his helmet camp boy. I thought the way they got
Speaker 3: around natural picks and rubs that come from those say,
Speaker 3: inside combos, and just made a bunch of.
Speaker 1: Plays in the football.
Speaker 3: I also thought passing off was super super solid, like
Speaker 3: these guys are recognizing and picking up their rules in
Speaker 3: their zones in zone coverage really well.
Speaker 1: I thought we saw that today.
Speaker 3: The pick that Xavi and Howard had on Tua was
Speaker 3: a good example of the VET sitting back, deciphering what
Speaker 3: the route combination was going to develop into and then
Speaker 3: anticipating Chosen's release to a kind of slow play vertical
Speaker 3: route where he ran under it. Put himself in position
Speaker 3: and made the play on the football. And Tua didn't
Speaker 3: throw his best ball there either, but put yourself in position,
Speaker 3: good things will happen. I like this drill because the
Speaker 3: quarterbacks will always put it up and give the guy
Speaker 3: a chance. It's better to take the rep and just
Speaker 3: let them seeminglate a fifty to fifty ball because in
Speaker 3: game I know two was smart enough to not tempt
Speaker 3: xaviing Howard on a.
Speaker 1: Fifty to fifty ball.
Speaker 3: He's one of the few cornerbacks in the league where
Speaker 3: it's fifty to fifty, but the defensive fifty is not
Speaker 3: for a breakup.
Speaker 1: It's usually for a pick.
Speaker 3: So don't want to do that, didn't I say we
Speaker 3: go back to the offensive line. Let's do that right now.
Speaker 3: I thought Tunstall had a really good day. I saw
Speaker 3: Ryan Hayes get some action where he was the isolated
Speaker 3: man away from the slide like slide foreman to the right,
Speaker 3: keep your left tackle in one spot, and Ryan Hayes
Speaker 3: had some good work there, even put a manual Ogbom
Speaker 3: into a stale mate. We know Ogma is capable of
Speaker 3: those one on ones pass rush wins. I'm really glad
Speaker 3: that Dan Phoene is here, man. I think he's very,
Speaker 3: very very solid option as sort of the sixth man
Speaker 3: the interior, and if he's starting, that's also not going
Speaker 3: to be a problem in a pinch starting. I think
Speaker 3: Phoene is extremely capable. Also, ask him if he's familiar
Speaker 3: with Boy Meets World when I saw him today, and
Speaker 3: he said, so, that's my guy.
Speaker 1: I thought Cedric a boy. He had a really good day.
Speaker 1: I'm not really.
Speaker 3: Providing a lot of updates on Connor and Rob because
Speaker 3: it's just business as usual for them, but two of
Speaker 3: the best in the league at their position. Like it's
Speaker 3: you know, another day, another dollar for those guys. I've
Speaker 3: seen enough to really want to focus on Jaren Christian
Speaker 3: and Lester Cotton. In the games, Cotton had a really
Speaker 3: good block on a screen pass out in space, and
Speaker 3: Christian's a guy that I see at the point of
Speaker 3: attack often on some big runs. Oh and before I
Speaker 3: forget here, in one on ones, James Blackman dialed up
Speaker 3: a dime to an open Daywood Davis for six.
Speaker 1: In that period.
Speaker 3: All the quarterbacks dapt him up in a kind of
Speaker 3: a cool moment there, because I think it speaks to
Speaker 3: the brotherhood of the team and the chemistry in that
Speaker 3: room when you see the way they celebrate with another,
Speaker 3: both in that position, group or anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Hey, speaking of chemistry, going a million miles.
Speaker 3: An hour today, I asked coach about the importance of
Speaker 3: chemistry before practice today.
Speaker 1: Here's Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 2: I've fallen victim of it as well in my life.
Speaker 5: You know, it's one of the things that I think
Speaker 5: is valuable of remembering all those moments as a fan
Speaker 5: and remembering all those moments when I was a college
Speaker 5: player before I got coaching, that these are a collection
Speaker 5: of human beings.
Speaker 2: That are.
Speaker 5: That have all the ills and all the strength of
Speaker 5: all of us. So when you and ultimately players end
Speaker 5: up shaping what your team looks like, the players are
Speaker 5: the culture, and when you are when you're adjusting something
Speaker 5: that's so significant to their lives, which is the locker room,
Speaker 5: you treat it like human beings in every sense and
Speaker 5: how that's going to affect other human beings. So I think,
Speaker 5: you know, we think a lot about the residual effects
Speaker 5: of a in the whole development of the team because
Speaker 5: we're recognizing that these are human being, human beings individuals
Speaker 5: that are all affected by things as well. So I
Speaker 5: think it's important to remember that human scope in the
Speaker 5: whole process.
Speaker 3: Let's keep this bad boy rolling here with the offense
Speaker 3: and the cubes starting with two a tongue of bailoa.
Speaker 3: I feel like I say this every damn day, but
Speaker 3: man I thought to it. Had his coolest rep of
Speaker 3: camp today in the opening period. Now he's been money
Speaker 3: all camp, he nearly had his first team period interception,
Speaker 3: had one in the seven on sevens last week and
Speaker 3: then one today and one on ones, but still has
Speaker 3: not been picked off in seven days of team drills,
Speaker 3: which is, you know, seven practices. I don't know how
Speaker 3: many reps that is, but you get the idea.
Speaker 1: It's a lot.
Speaker 3: It's probably equivalent to, you know, a quarter plus of
Speaker 3: a football season. But X had him today on a
Speaker 3: miscommunication where Wattle went high and to through low to
Speaker 3: the goal line. Wattles at the back of the end
Speaker 3: zone and X is right there, but he dropped something
Speaker 3: that would have been like a ninety eight yard pick
Speaker 3: six return. So X dropping picks is not usually common,
Speaker 3: but last year happened a couple times. I think we'll
Speaker 3: get it back this year. But the rep that I loved,
Speaker 3: Tua gets pressure up the middle and around the offense
Speaker 3: is left. He hits the top of his drop, springs
Speaker 3: up from the interior pressure, and it was like watching
Speaker 3: a veteran two bag work the base on a double play.
Speaker 3: You know, each step puts yourself in position to take
Speaker 3: the next step. You know, get that right foot cleared,
Speaker 3: make sure the basement is not going to take out
Speaker 3: your legs and drop the arm down and fire that
Speaker 3: thing off to first base to get the second out
Speaker 3: of the play. He hitches up, slides out, but knows
Speaker 3: he's still not out of the woods yet, so he
Speaker 3: works the arm angle down around the trash and throws
Speaker 3: the ball to the side of the guy's helmet, drops
Speaker 3: it to that three quarter arm slot, and fires it
Speaker 3: in to a wide open wattle.
Speaker 1: For a completion out wide.
Speaker 3: It was a really impressive play, and that reminds me
Speaker 3: of what Coach said on play ca the podcast with
Speaker 3: Jordan rod Reeg from The Athletic check that out if
Speaker 3: you have not heard that yet. Of thinking that your
Speaker 3: play call is what makes a play, we've seen, Coach said,
Speaker 3: We've seen trash play calls work and good ones not work.
Speaker 3: So the audacity I think that you're the one making
Speaker 3: this all click is a little bit ego maniacal. Well,
Speaker 3: this is one of those instances where the quarterback made
Speaker 3: a bad play, not the call, just the bad protection
Speaker 3: a good play.
Speaker 1: And haven't we seen Tua do that to a.
Speaker 3: Degree of high execution on third downs for a while now,
Speaker 3: Because today I had him with seven chances during the
Speaker 3: third down period and completions and conversions on six of them.
Speaker 3: The seventh was another case of maybe my favorite play
Speaker 3: in camp. And I'm air quotes here, and I know
Speaker 3: it becomes reductive when you become repetitive, but I think
Speaker 3: it might have been a no look throw. He had
Speaker 3: one route to the perimeter that little I guess rail
Speaker 3: or whatever you want, the sale up the sideline and
Speaker 3: then the rail down the middle up the seam, and
Speaker 3: from my vantage point, it looked like he was coming
Speaker 3: to the sideline, and the defense did too because they
Speaker 3: moved that way. But then he rifles the thing back
Speaker 3: almost across his body. I've not seen him throw at
Speaker 3: this kind of alossie before. He just rips this shot
Speaker 3: to Eric Sober. I think it surprised the tight end
Speaker 3: because he got his hands up late and couldn't hang
Speaker 3: onto the ball, but it was right on the money,
Speaker 3: So I think the arm is stronger from multiple slots,
Speaker 3: which is a big key for him, because if I
Speaker 3: had the knock to his game at all, it would
Speaker 3: be that once he gets around the trash and has
Speaker 3: to move out of the pocket and throw on the
Speaker 3: move with that pressure coming from all angles, that's when
Speaker 3: the plays don't really go your way. But it's the
Speaker 3: quick sun movement where he gets to a reset position.
Speaker 3: I think he's really great at it's just when he
Speaker 3: gets chased, he's not gonna be as good. But I
Speaker 3: saw in this practice in this month multiple slots of
Speaker 3: arm positioning and footwork where they are in terms of
Speaker 3: how he's got his base and his power generator down low.
Speaker 3: I think the activity in the pocket is quicker. I
Speaker 3: think he's showcasing a variety of pitches in his bag.
Speaker 3: I use that phrase all the time, don't I so
Speaker 3: imagine the crap eating grin I displayed when I heard
Speaker 3: this from coach McDaniel about how his off he's in
Speaker 3: training and improved strength has helped his game.
Speaker 2: Arm wrestling competitions.
Speaker 5: Uh, he's less prone to defeat.
Speaker 2: You know, there's unintended consequences.
Speaker 5: He really took his training on his body serious this
Speaker 5: offseason for a multitude of reasons.
Speaker 2: And you know, I've seen various things.
Speaker 9: Uh where there's just a he has a little more
Speaker 9: uh short area explosiveness where you're able to manipulate yourself
Speaker 9: in the pocket, you.
Speaker 2: Know, at a more I don't know explosive rate.
Speaker 5: He's also you know, I I don't know this to
Speaker 5: be fact, but it appears by my layman's eye that
Speaker 5: he is.
Speaker 2: He has more.
Speaker 5: Pitches in his arsenal, Like you know, he can layer
Speaker 5: stuff and drive it just with even more command. Then
Speaker 5: you know, he's already pretty dept at considering his accuracy.
Speaker 5: So I think it just overall helps him feel prepared
Speaker 5: and execute a lot of things. And the residuals are
Speaker 5: apparent and various.
Speaker 3: We're hitting a point in camp where two A camp
Speaker 3: updates will kind of lose their luster. I mean, I
Speaker 3: know they won't because everybody wants to hear about quarterback one,
Speaker 3: and especially this guy who's just a lightning rod of
Speaker 3: engagement and conversation. But he's so consistently good, and that's
Speaker 3: what you want, obviously. I think the White Thompson battle
Speaker 3: has ratcheted up another level. From the first few days
Speaker 3: of camp. I know there were some conflicting opinions about
Speaker 3: White's work and OTA's me on the positive side of that,
Speaker 3: and into the first few days of camp where I
Speaker 3: was beginning to agree more with the other side about
Speaker 3: how his production and performance had been so far. But
Speaker 3: from that moment from Sunday to now. I think Mike
Speaker 3: Whites looked really good. Before we get into that. Coach
Speaker 3: touched on the backup quarterback competition and how you view
Speaker 3: that in a scope that is a different or is
Speaker 3: it similar to how you view your QB.
Speaker 1: One really good question from Daniel O. Yafusie the Miami Herald.
Speaker 3: He always does that great read to go follow his stuff,
Speaker 3: but also a great answer here from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 5: It's an interesting question because there is a what's unique
Speaker 5: about the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: There's so much stuff going on.
Speaker 5: You're the you touch the ball every play and if
Speaker 5: you're off, it fails. So one thing with with with
Speaker 5: guys at the quarterback UH position competing is I find
Speaker 5: you have to be even more resistant to making assumptions determinations.
Speaker 5: You have to let it play out longer because you
Speaker 5: know so many All of a sudden things can click
Speaker 5: and your game changes a lot.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that.
Speaker 5: They've they've been coached in the past, and having an
Speaker 5: idea of what exactly we're trying to get done. Sometimes
Speaker 5: you could you don't know why someone's not completing something
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden it becomes second nature,
Speaker 5: and they'll do it three times in a row and
Speaker 5: you'll ask them why, and it was because they were
Speaker 5: thinking about it in an.
Speaker 2: Inverse way, like very very common.
Speaker 5: So you kind of have to be a little more
Speaker 5: patient with the process and let it play all. Let
Speaker 5: it all play out at that position, because as soon
Speaker 5: as you predetermine one thing, next day some guy will
Speaker 5: light it up, you know.
Speaker 3: So why had a really nice shot to Burrios for
Speaker 3: six in mid red zone work, the only quarterback to
Speaker 3: score on the one play they were each given in
Speaker 3: that scenario. He converted the second most third downs, went
Speaker 3: three for six by my count, and I thought he
Speaker 3: made sound decisions, put the ball on time and on
Speaker 3: target and move the offense this offense sometimes that's all
Speaker 3: you need. And I'm just not seeing it from the
Speaker 3: other quarterback on the roster who had some nice work
Speaker 3: in the third down portion I mentioned. I just don't
Speaker 3: really know the process here of making checks. But they
Speaker 3: had some run plays that were successful with that unit,
Speaker 3: specifically in the mid low red zone. But the same
Speaker 3: issues persist where they drive me crazy. Throw the ball
Speaker 3: when it's there, throw it, and also the ball placement
Speaker 3: like the checkdowns that wind up with the back's feet.
Speaker 3: I just can't do that. It's driving me crazy. The
Speaker 3: Cam Smith pass breakup you saw with an NFL level
Speaker 3: throws a touchdown all day long, but still a good
Speaker 3: play from the rookie.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good spot right there for us.
Speaker 1: Take our last break.
Speaker 3: We'll go ahead and finish out the rest of the
Speaker 3: practice notes with wide receivers, tight ends and the entire defense.
Speaker 3: And I've got some more Coach McDaniel commentary. That's next
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Speaker 1: Football is back.
Speaker 3: We say it forty five times a year, but tonight
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame game returns. We got the scrimmage
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Speaker 3: Continue to be impressed by wide receiver eric As Zuokama,
Speaker 3: although he did have to exit practice at one point
Speaker 3: the day.
Speaker 1: Do not have an update.
Speaker 3: There had a really nice block that sprung one of
Speaker 3: the backs for a nice chunk of yardage. I think
Speaker 3: he's a souped up Trent Sherfield and would be surprised
Speaker 3: if his role was not. As such, really impressed by
Speaker 3: Braxon Barrows has worked this camp. He's been showing that
Speaker 3: release in quickness at the line that frees him up
Speaker 3: so quickly when he's either not pressed or facing one
Speaker 3: on one coverage, and he can use those moves and
Speaker 3: you're gonna get lots of that in this offense when
Speaker 3: you've got ten and seventeen, two of the best wide
Speaker 3: receivers in all of football outside I think Barrios would
Speaker 3: be my fourth in the pecking order right now, with
Speaker 3: Wilson next, then Craycraft and chosen has just not been
Speaker 3: chosen for a whole lot of targets. I think Sober
Speaker 3: is a guy who had more in him in the
Speaker 3: run game than what the NFL tape has shown so
Speaker 3: far from him his career. I think it's showing here
Speaker 3: every practice. It seems to be gin a play where
Speaker 3: he's walling off working as the split flow man, getting
Speaker 3: up to that second level one attacking, attaching to a
Speaker 3: key block. I think Durham's having a solid camp, including
Speaker 3: a walk in touchdown today where he got free on
Speaker 3: a passmn scaler Thompson.
Speaker 1: That's the offense. How about the defense, because they had.
Speaker 3: Their share of good plays too, The corners had a
Speaker 3: bunch of them. I thought it was funny that Cam Smith,
Speaker 3: you know, I tweeted about him at practice. How I
Speaker 3: haven't seen him targeted a whole lot the last few days.
Speaker 3: With the officials out at practice, I was curious to
Speaker 3: see how he'd respond to that challenge since he's so
Speaker 3: aggressive and you know, for lack of a better term,
Speaker 3: can be grabby at times. Never flagged and shoot, I
Speaker 3: didn't see him targeted until I did as I tweet this,
Speaker 3: and the next play they moved to red zone, he
Speaker 3: gets a pass breakup that you can see on our socials.
Speaker 3: Cater got flagged covering Tyreek on a third down play
Speaker 3: that I'm not sure I agree with. I mean, I'm
Speaker 3: way the hell up there, so what do I know?
Speaker 3: But my takeaway was that again, this guy went up
Speaker 3: against one of the best receivers in the in the league,
Speaker 3: the best receiver routinely and.
Speaker 1: Competes with him.
Speaker 3: X had two chances at picks, did not grab either
Speaker 3: of them. How out of character is that? But it's
Speaker 3: a reminder why he never sees the football out here.
Speaker 3: Just don't try that man. He usually finds a way
Speaker 3: to get the ball. Eli Apple showed the reaction and
Speaker 3: instincts I talked about when he signed here with a
Speaker 3: really nice transition out of the back pedal to close
Speaker 3: down on a shot outside to river Craycraft to break
Speaker 3: that thing up.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 3: Kedrin Smith had a really nice day. He had a
Speaker 3: rap against Tyreek where he impacted the timing on a
Speaker 3: quick throw into the end zone and the pass went incomplete.
Speaker 3: Also inserted against the running game a couple of times.
Speaker 3: The same thing I said about hunting Williams applies to
Speaker 3: Seeler and Wilkins real quick.
Speaker 1: Here's coach McDaniel on Christians.
Speaker 5: The classic Christian. He he he goes about his daily
Speaker 5: business and gets satisfaction on earn earned things. He doesn't.
Speaker 5: That's that's not in him. I think he is. His
Speaker 5: teammates appreciate that. They know that when he comes to work,
Speaker 5: they're going to get his energy and we've learned to
Speaker 5: count on that.
Speaker 3: Wilkins had one of the more impressive reps of camp
Speaker 3: where there was and I'm not sure if it was
Speaker 3: if I saw it right, either split flow or a
Speaker 3: pulling guard. Either way, someone coming across the formation for
Speaker 3: a kickout block, but Christian won so quickly that he
Speaker 3: thwarded the puller trying to get around the edge and
Speaker 3: then stuffed the back seiler was throwing dudes out of
Speaker 3: the club and shutting things down. Also had to as
Speaker 3: a pass rusher. Cameron Good continues to have a solid camp.
Speaker 3: He made a big run stuff in mid red zone
Speaker 3: where he came off the play, expressing his satisfaction by
Speaker 3: yelling some colorful words about his excitement about the play.
Speaker 3: Van Ginkle's been rock solid all camp long. He made
Speaker 3: a quick stop on or a stop on a quick hitter,
Speaker 3: and the get in a field goal range period where
Speaker 3: he got through a block and made that stop. Elijah
Speaker 3: Campbell continues to impress. He dropped a pick where he squatted,
Speaker 3: drove and beat the receiver to the spot. The ball
Speaker 3: hit him in the chest, but I think the receiver's
Speaker 3: hand was in there to break it up. So that's
Speaker 3: the notes. I want to close with two quotes here
Speaker 3: from coach. First, he touched on the decision to schedule
Speaker 3: practice and do it the way they do it in
Speaker 3: terms of how does the offense know what the defense
Speaker 3: is going to do and vice versa. He'll touch on
Speaker 3: that first, and then we'll come back and the selection
Speaker 3: process of the orange jersey, and then we'll get out
Speaker 3: of here.
Speaker 5: You know, that can happen organically in like a non
Speaker 5: scripted period, depending on what the emphasis of that day is.
Speaker 2: When when it comes.
Speaker 5: To periods like that, that's pre planned so that guys
Speaker 5: can have a legitimate.
Speaker 2: You know, so coaches can.
Speaker 5: Prepare guys just in general about all right, and it's
Speaker 5: and it's said like on the practice face, so that period.
Speaker 2: You're speaking of was a pressure period.
Speaker 5: And that that allows for us to work on the
Speaker 5: stuff that gives us issues with pressure as opposed to
Speaker 5: just throwing plays out there, so that both sides can
Speaker 5: be challenged appropriately that way.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's just like calling it in a game.
Speaker 5: What what are you gonna call when you're expecting pressure
Speaker 5: or what are you gonna what.
Speaker 2: Is gonna what is not gonna get called?
Speaker 5: Because you're fearful of the result of pressure, those two
Speaker 5: things get planned into it, uh.
Speaker 2: Which is why you have a period of it.
Speaker 5: It's so that you can really get better on both
Speaker 5: sides and you kind of know what's coming. It is
Speaker 5: about practice performance that day. There are underlying things, you know.
Speaker 5: As a team, it's it's you're writing your own story
Speaker 5: each and every day. So and within that story there
Speaker 5: are things that go on all the time that the
Speaker 5: team's very privy to, you know. And and when someone
Speaker 5: is able to make certain plays based upon coaching or
Speaker 5: based upon hey, maybe they messed something up earlier and
Speaker 5: then they that factors in as well.
Speaker 2: But it is it is solely about uh, somebody that
Speaker 2: epitomizes what we're trying to do that day.
Speaker 5: So the jersey is really a reflection of what our
Speaker 5: team wants and that person's effort that day. It doesn't
Speaker 5: mean that they were perfect or that they had the
Speaker 5: statistically greatest day ever, it's about doing their job that
Speaker 5: day and how it affects the team. And also you're
Speaker 5: gonna be the DJ. So and the one thing that
Speaker 5: all the players know is there's we don't have any
Speaker 5: time for people their their opinions really about your DJ
Speaker 5: set list, because if they if they don't like the music,
Speaker 5: then just be the Orange Journey the Orange Jersey winner
Speaker 5: flat out, So as.
Speaker 2: Much as it behooves me.
Speaker 5: There's some musical selections that I'm not super excited about,
Speaker 5: but if I want to do something about it, I
Speaker 5: better win the orange jersey today.
Speaker 3: All Right, there we go, fun practice, fun week. So
Speaker 3: far here, seven days in the books. We're gonna come
Speaker 3: back tomorrow and do it all over again. Then we'll
Speaker 3: see you on Saturday at hard Rock Stadium for the
Speaker 3: scrimmage live from the ballpark.
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