WEBVTT - Drive Time: August 3 Training Camp Recap 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.960 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:06.280 Now, let me check your pulse if you're not. 0:00:08.200 --> 0:00:09.719 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.520 And welcome to the Drift Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:17.440 Miami Dolphins podcast network covering your teams, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.400 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:22.640 And on today's show, it's gonna be an O line 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:25.120 heavy day, at least for a segment or two. Maybe 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:28.680 we heard from Liam Eichenberg and Austin Jackson. Coach McDaniel 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.240 discussed offensive line play at length. We'll dive into that, 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.800 plus all the practice notes, including another day of interesting 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.480 quarterback play, some back and forth in the ground game. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:39.800 We'll talk to Raheem Mostert about that and a hecko 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.199 a lot more from the Baptist Health Studios inside the 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:46.360 Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast. 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:47.160 Heye gaff. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:50.720 So we're gonna kick this thing off with some O 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.599 line conversation. But before we do that, a little bit 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.680 of news to bring you into the podcast. Safety Miles 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.640 Dorn signed with the team this morning. Dorn was a 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.760 udi to the Vikings back in twenty twenty one and 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.720 played in fourteen games with Minnesota the last two seasons combined. 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:09.120 He played a lot on special teams for them and 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:12.240 plays with that missile mentality you often see from the 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:13.520 core special teams guys. 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.640 He has some really pretty good technically. 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:19.840 Sound hits on his tape, both at safety and from 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:22.399 the special team's clips I've seen of his. And speaking 0:01:22.440 --> 0:01:25.800 of special teams, linebacker Mike Rose also signs after spending 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.440 the twenty twenty two offseason as a member of the 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.280 Kansas City Chiefs, a UDFA from Iowa State. That year, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.240 he was first team All American in school and played 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.120 for the Saint Louis BattleHawks and the CFL. He was 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:41.240 also an extensive special teams guy in the XFL, said 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.160 CFL XFL going back to his time in college as well. 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.479 So two new players at camp, they take the roster 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.080 spots opened up by the release of Michael Turk and 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.200 waived injured rookie Bennett Williams. So there you go, practice 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.640 number seven in the books. And it was a hot, 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.240 one man, minimal win today. No cloud coverage, no storm 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.200 on the periphery to bring that cooler in, just a hot, 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.440 muggy Miami Gardens mess and the guys got after it 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.680 and work in that horrible, horrible, horrible hot hot heat, 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.760 multiple team periods in different situations including mid and low 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.079 red zone work, even a situational period at the end 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:16.280 to see what Tua and Thompson could do with the 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:19.320 winding clock in late game situations. And Tua got the 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.320 team into a fifty eight yard field goal chance, and Skyler, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.800 I believe, got into a fourth and long, probably like 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.000 a sixty two yard field goal chance. So it was 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.560 thirty seconds left, ball at midfield, no timeouts, left down 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.200 by two, so two was able to get a first 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:34.560 down and put the team in position to try a 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:37.079 game winning field goal. I'm not so sure about Skyler's 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:38.840 opportunity that maybe they would have had to go for 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.240 it on fourth down to give himselfs another chance. But 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.040 that was into practice. But the day began with coach McDaniel. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:46.200 And since the theme of this opening segment is going 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.840 to be on the offensive line, I want to go 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:51.040 ahead and start here with three soundbites from Coach McDaniel 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:54.680 as he takes us through Coach butch Berry's impact and 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.520 the offseason gross of Liam Eichenberg and Austin Jackson. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.000 Here's Coach first. 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:04.520 On coach bear relationship with him working relationship, and you 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.639 know there when when you do have that, there's certain 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:11.000 expectations that you have when you're you're joined back together, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.959 and he's met those expectations because of his uh diligent 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:19.760 command of that crew. I think they've got a really 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.760 cool thing going there where they've been working and owning 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:31.200 techniques that other Really it's probably the best that they've 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.400 been able to understand what we're trying to do as 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:33.960 an offense. 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:38.840 And you know, the thing about a line. 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:43.920 Coaches, if you know, if you have a good one, 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:49.400 in which I think we do have, they're typically not satisfied. 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:56.000 They're typically very they're they're ready to get a sucker 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.200 punch from from the side that they can't see. Just 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:05.280 because that this, you're the nature of offensive line in general. 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:11.920 You're out athleted because the best pound propound athletes really 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.440 a defensive lineman in this game. So you have to 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:18.080 be on your p's and q's. You can't be result based, 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:22.839 you have to be processed driven. And he's he's really 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:29.000 done done a great job. But classic online coach Form 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.000 don't ask him what type of job he's doing because 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:38.320 he'll he'll grumble and you need to be better today, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:42.919 you know, which is what ultimately I think players really yearn. 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:44.320 For next coach. 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.680 On the development so far as second year in the 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:49.919 system of offensive lineman Liah Meichenberg. 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:55.800 Year two is very exciting for multiple reasons. Like what 0:04:55.839 --> 0:05:00.680 we do from an offensive line standpoint, there's some trustfall 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:05.159 involved where you're like, Okay, we don't want you to 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:07.520 just block this person safely. 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:08.440 We want you to. 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:16.440 Aggressively attack, thereby making you vulnerable. That can ebbs and flows. 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.560 We felt it last year. The players know it that 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:24.960 sometimes when in the heat of battle, you revert back 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.240 to things that we don't emphasize. 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.039 Well, that doesn't mean those things were bad. 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:35.239 It means now you're off with your teammate who's trying 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:35.600 to do it. 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:37.920 You know, it's the synergy. 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:42.000 Of it, and he's really really taken a step forward 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:42.480 that way. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:44.000 You're two. 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.880 Since you do know what words mean, what play calls mean, 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:58.160 what how we communicate, how we target aiming points, timing. 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.159 Since he does know that he's been able to do 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.839 some things we were unable to do in year one 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.880 that I was adamant that we didn't do in year one, 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.800 which is moving around a little bit too, and he's 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.360 I really love where he is at in the progression, 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:23.480 but again, it is a progression that's long because you 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:28.880 can't it like like I was alluding to before, we're 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:34.600 trying to do stuff at a high level that you 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:38.279 have to really kind of empty all of the old 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:45.360 thinking and can't revert in the heat of battle. That's 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:50.760 where our biggest problems came, where people reverting. And he's 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.400 right now doing a great job, but you have to 0:06:55.920 --> 0:07:00.679 what's going to happen when you're like the lines turned 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.119 up today, Okay, Then what's gonna happen next week when 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.240 you have different people. Those are the things that are 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.000 monumental for him as well as all the guys that 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.800 have been here to really make sure that what we're 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.120 doing on a day to day basis is ingrained and not. 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:20.680 Just a practice technique. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:22.800 And then lastly to the guys we're gonna hear a 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.600 lot about this preseason. Two important guys to the program 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.080 this year. Austin Jackson here is coach on the Miami right. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:34.200 Tackle Austin being you know, he he was out longer. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:35.560 I got to see less of. 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:43.240 Him and he it's it's been exciting, exciting for him 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:47.040 because what he hasn't done, what you're fearful of. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.560 Case in point, you guys are all I know. There's 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:52.680 several guys that. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:57.680 Are very locked into one on one pass rush. And 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:03.240 what happens to offensive lineman especially, you know when they're 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.320 an important year of their career. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:05.880 Is you. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.760 Go and set on somebody and it doesn't work. It 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:14.720 actually is quite the opposite. You get up and under 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:20.000 or do something like that. Typically the response is, Okay, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.000 I'm not doing that again. 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.680 And where he's at is he can turn. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:33.640 And have a football conversation with myself, Frank Butcher lem 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.720 or Mike Judge. He can have a football conversation of 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.400 what just happened so that he can do the technique 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:41.280 he just did better. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.240 He's he's flashed. 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:51.160 Some really good things, and then there's been great teaching 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:55.840 done by the the defense when he hasn't done things correctly, 0:08:56.200 --> 0:09:00.320 so he continues to get better. He is a better 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.720 player than he was last week. And that's that's where 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.000 I'm at with h Really, all those guys, there's a 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:10.840 we have a lot of competition across the board in 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:15.760 the offensive line, room, so everyone's having to really go 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.200 after it, which is a cool. 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.400 Thing as a coach to to witness. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:27.199 And and right now we are in practice. 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:26.160 Seven of. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:32.000 And we have three opportunities to practice against each other 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.559 before we practice against an opponent. 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:37.240 So that's uh, that's what we're focused on today for him. 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.720 So I got a good look at both those guys 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.680 and in general the last few days with pads going on, 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.800 and I think you're going to see more growth and 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.120 flashes with Eichenberg that coach described off the top. I've 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.000 liked his work in the past sets in the one 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.280 on one drills, but there's still some meat on the 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.880 bone in terms of the team period, especially in the 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.520 running game against Wilkins and Seeler. And I really don't 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.000 know what to expect because those guys are both reletive, 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:04.640 stively unstoppable, like they've taken longtime vets and taken them 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:08.520 to task repeatedly and actual games. So I'm not sure 0:10:08.559 --> 0:10:11.400 I would expect anyone to look good against them. But 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.960 I think Liam is showing at minimum a non tomato 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.480 can presence the old Daniel Jeremiah quote. 0:10:17.559 --> 0:10:18.679 Right, if you've got a. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.200 Few really good guys and we do we know about 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.800 left tackle, center, and right guard. Then you can get 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.840 by with, you know, two replacement level players. We just 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.480 cannot have two guys that are total washouts. And I 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.400 think you can get that from seventy four. This year, 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:35.880 we'll see about seventy three. It's just not been materializing 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.839 so far in practice, it's not Jalen Phillips really got 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:40.600 him good on the first play of the day for 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:43.120 a sack, and that's been a pretty consistent theme this camp. 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.400 And of course Wilkins had that day of you know, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.800 giving it to seventy four back in the indoor practice. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.120 So what are the options? Roll with the growing pains 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.800 or move to a secondary option. I know that Isaiah 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:55.400 Winn can play left guard, so I think it's a 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.800 good competition there if that's where they want to go. 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.560 And I'm pretty sure Kendall Lamb can play right tackle 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.040 at a high level or at least the level of 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:05.320 Brandon Shell a year ago, if not even better. I 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:07.280 thought his work in that spot has been really good 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.120 in camp and the best I've seen on the team 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:09.480 so far. 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:10.680 So that's kind of the update there. 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:12.640 But Liam and Austin are going to continue to get 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.079 plenty of reps and seeing this challenging front will pay 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.600 dividends as we go along here, I think again, Liams 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.880 looked good in the one on one drills, but the 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.280 team period, it's been up and down. Let's ask him 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.720 about the offensive line versus defensive line drills because I'm 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.800 always so curious about this. I asked Rob Hunt about 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.760 it earlier in the week. Let's go to Liam Eichenberg 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.000 on the value of one on one O line versus 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:31.440 D line. 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.760 Yeah, I mean, I think line versus line drill. I 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:35.520 think it's you know, a great time. You're going to 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:37.360 see a lot of stuff that maybe you won't see 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.520 it during the game. You know, it's a time for 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.079 you know, me specifically to work on what I want 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:44.760 to work on for that day. You know, if I'm 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:47.720 going to rock set, upkick or you know, tight angle set, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.880 so those are the biggest things, and you know, I 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:51.560 just got to going with a plan and you know, 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.120 work from there, so one day at a time. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.440 Also asking him about coach McDaniel's Colentarry about playing in 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.960 this system, that trust of playing aggressively and not really 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:02.600 running back to old habits and old ways of teaching. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.000 Here's Liam on his second year in the system and 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.160 how he thinks that having that full year of work 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.400 and the full year of tape to Tuddy can benefit 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.680 him heading into his fourth year as a pro, his 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.960 second year under Mike McDaniel. Check that third year here 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:15.680 in the pros. 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.560 Yeah, I would say, just getting my footwork done faster. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.440 Let's probably the biggest thing. Run and pass, and I've 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.440 just continued to work on that an individual and then 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.400 on my own. So she just keep working. This is 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:30.240 the perfect time for it. So I'm going to continue 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:30.400 with that. 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.600 Let's go to Austin Jackson with the same question regarding 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.599 the second year here in the system and how it 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:36.400 can benefit him. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:37.679 You know, when I get a task, I like to 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:42.200 get the job done. He's huge kudos to this coaching 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:44.720 staff or sitting with the players and helping us get 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.480 a better understanding of what's expected. I think playing in 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:52.040 this offense, we utilize speed, and you know that's just 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.800 one of my many skilled traits that you know I 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:58.520 benefit with. I think that that's a plus in this offense. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:00.600 Let's go ahead and take a break right there and 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:03.200 continue this on to the second segment because I think 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.800 that Raheem Moster offered some valuable commentary about the relationship 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.559 between the offensive line and defensive or I should say 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:11.800 running backs in the running game, as well as the 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.440 rest of the practice notes Raheem Audio. We're also going 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.600 to hear more from coach McDaniel all that next Draft 0:13:16.600 --> 0:13:19.200 Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:19.719 Auto Nation. 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:24.360 Yeah, I mean you have to really be in sync 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.200 with the whole old line and have have have to 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:31.360 have that understanding that that connection when it comes to 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.760 you know, this game that that has been around for years. 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.480 You know, you can't just it's just like the receiver 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:38.960 and the quarterback. You know, they have to be on 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:40.480 the same page. You have to get that feel and 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.600 the time and aspect, and it's the same thing essentially 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.520 in regards to the run. So if you're able to 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:49.480 have that connection, you know, especially in the interior where 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.880 it starts with the center, if he's able to make 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.000 the right calls, right reads, and then it just you know, 0:13:55.440 --> 0:13:57.840 it goes in and spreads out in front of everybody. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.320 So that's what you want. You want to make sure 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:01.720 that you have a better understanding of that. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.160 And I think you've seen that come to fruition here 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.079 a bit in camp, but really a carryover that began 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:10.280 in December last year when the Dolphins finished the season 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.480 with five games where they went ninety two one eighty eight, 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.800 eighty two, eighty six, one sixty two on the ground. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.160 That's six hundred and ten yards one hundred and twenty 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.800 two yards per game. That's compared to ninety yards per 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.720 game in the first twelve weeks of the season. And 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:26.640 I think that's one area that stands to continue into 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:31.040 this upcoming campaign. Like sometimes or something I think that 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.080 is more indicative of how this offense can grow in 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.120 the second season. Is that effort late in the year 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.200 and into the second year with these same guys coming 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.320 back in the continuity on offense, I don't think is 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:43.640 getting enough publicity, at least outside of this podcast and 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.640 maybe Kyle's podcast, But I think that that's going to 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:47.760 go a long way towards his offense being even better 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.680 this year. Another way is with alec Ingold and Raheem 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.400 having that full year of work and training without being 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:57.120 in a red non contact jersey, not being on any 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.360 kind of pitch counter or ramp up in training, camp. 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.720 We heard he talked about that last week, and he's 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.640 a huge reason why the rushing numbers were what they 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:07.640 were in December. He looked freaking awesome down the stretch. 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.200 But I talked to him today about alec Ingold's value. 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:12.680 Who continues to be more involved in the passing game, 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:16.600 who just looks like he's playing a step faster coming 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.280 off and off season where he didn't have, you know, 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:19.120 an ACL. 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:20.960 It was the hand he broke last year, but the 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:21.760 ACL was fine. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.480 So he looks faster, sharper, more decisive, a little more 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:26.520 wiggle and you're gonna hear Raheem Moster here. I had 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.440 a back and forth ra him talking about fullbacks and 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:31.760 the relationship between fullbacks and the running backs and how 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:32.920 that all works in the running game. 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.760 Here's the back and forth with me and Raheem Moster, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.440 like San Francisco out here, he's had to be at 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:39.119 the backs. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:40.320 In the game value. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.400 I mean, obviously you see what's going on, you know, 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.840 with what I had in San fran but then also 0:15:46.920 --> 0:15:49.880 with alec Ingele, you know, he's he's at the top 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:50.760 of his game right now. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.840 If you see the way he gives those. 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.240 Hits and he's catching out of the backfield and he's 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:57.800 making all these unbelievable plays. 0:15:57.800 --> 0:15:58.200 Man. 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.160 You know, I give him nothing but credit just because 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:02.480 I know what it looks like. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:04.720 I have a good fullback in front of me. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.800 So he's he's he's that guy, you know, he's the 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.120 one that is the down and dirty guy, and that's 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.320 the one that's trying to trying to do his best, 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.560 you know, for the team, and he's gonna put his 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:16.040 body on. 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:16.800 The line no matter what. 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.040 He he accepts challenges as you can tell, and to me, 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.640 he conquers those challenges, whether it be small or big 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:25.440 in the game plan. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:27.400 He does everything that he needs to do. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.080 So I'm I'm very happy, and everybody else around is 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:32.600 happy that, you know, we got him. And also John 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.440 love it. John love it as well. You know, he's 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.800 former heisman in his in Princeton, So I mean that 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.200 guy is also an athletic guy just walking around here. 0:16:42.280 --> 0:16:50.920 So I don't want to say dined out, No, not really. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:51.560 You know, I was. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:53.760 I was in the offense, you know, with Chip Kelly 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:57.400 and everything that he had, you know, so they didn't 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:59.680 really utilize all that much in a full back regard. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:01.680 We were here to go back to playing in. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:07.040 Uh, it would be just because I feel like with 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.520 the fullbacks right now that you know in the game 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:11.800 that we have the offense that we have, Uh, there 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.040 there are eyes. That's something that we use in the 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:17.240 in the room. You know, they're the ones that see 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:18.919 the hole before the hole opens up. And they were 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.560 ones who had to you know, hit those holes in 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.040 order for us to hit them as well. So they 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.080 always say let the fullback's eyes be your eyes, and 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:28.639 I truly believe in that. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.480 That might have been hard to discern there on the audio. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.280 I cranked up as much as I could, but basically 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:34.480 talk to him about the value of the full back 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:38.159 and playing behind Kyle Yueschek and alec Ingold here, and 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.800 then just how weird it might be to go back 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.240 to more single backs that he's played in two systems 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.600 for so long or two offenses for so long that 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:47.400 had a full back in front of it. But all 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.760 things told, I thought, Rahiem just looked smooth. I thought 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.359 Savon Auchmann, speaking of the running backs, had a nifty run, 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:54.320 picking through some gaps and finding the end zone for 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.919 like an eight yard touchdown run. Chris Brooks continues to 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.280 impress man. He had a ten yard touchdown gallup where 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.360 he got pay dirt by winding his way through some 0:18:02.400 --> 0:18:05.600 really good blocks, and that compared, or i should say, 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.640 combined with his ability to drop the shoulder and run 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:09.760 through some tackles at the goal line. That was his 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:13.240 tape at BYU converting touchdowns and short yardage. Also had 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.159 the ninety five yard touch I run in practice the 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.760 other day, So those guys look good. Brooks is making 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:18.080 a case. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:18.239 Man. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.479 I thought Devon a Chain had the day of all 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:21.119 of them today. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.000 His best run was a slow developing run outside where 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.280 he got a really good seal block from James Tunstall. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.639 But I thought he set it up with his patients 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:31.600 to press inside and really squeeze the formation and just 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.760 get one or two more steps downhill before the safety 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:37.160 of the corner widens back out, and that just gives 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.679 him a better angle. When you have four to two speed, 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:43.080 any advantage of an angle can turn to ten, fifteen, 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:45.399 twenty eighty more yards in the play right. And so 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.399 he did a good job of squeezing this thing and 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.480 force that second and third level to come down and 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.960 get you know, decrease their depth and maximize that chance 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:54.720 to win the corner, and he did it for about 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.000 thirty or so yards in this particular rush. He had 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:59.359 some additional shifty runs. He had some plays in the 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:02.640 passing game, back to back completions on that Skylar Thompson, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.920 you know, situational drill trying to get back into field 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:06.960 goal range. I thought he ran a really good back 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:09.359 shoulder where he got free from Aubrey Miller, but the 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.720 pass from Mike White was down around the ankles and knees. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.240 We couldn't hang on tough ball to grab one of 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.040 the lesser balls from Mike White. Today, I thought he 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:17.800 had a good day, but more on him and his 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:19.000 progression and camp so far. 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:20.640 Can't hit him. All didn't hit this one. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:23.600