WEBVTT - Raekwon's Pass Rush, Parker's Routes, McCourty's Leadership, Rowe's Coverage and an Energetic Coaching Staff 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:15.800 Cut down Miami n What is up, Dolphans and welcome 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.919 to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:25.160 podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going, everybody? 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.040 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. Back again on another 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:33.000 June edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Today we've got another 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.000 grab bag of Dolphins topics. I want to cover the 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.360 Big Trade in the NFL over the weekend with Julio 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.600 Jones coming in conference now to Tennessee. I want to 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.040 talk about media from last week with Brian Flores, Eric Rowe, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.600 Ray Kwon Davis, we had Jason mccordy, and much much 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.240 more plenty to come. On this edition of the podcast. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.239 We are going to pump in some stats and some 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:57.360 film evaluation around those media availabilities, as well as get 0:00:57.400 --> 0:01:00.440 to the all twenty two breakdown of Jason mc quarties. 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:04.080 Game plenty coming your way on this edition of the 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:10.360 Drive Time Podcast. So the Big Trade on Sunday afternoon 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.720 on the East Coast Sunday morning out here on the 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.160 West Coast where I currently am, and by the way, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.280 I'll be back in South Florida for mandatory minicamp in 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:20.920 a week. So you're gonna have some updates and podcast 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:24.479 live from South Florida from your boy. I do apologize 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.200 for not being down there for the last couple of 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:28.320 weeks in o t a s. My wife and I 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:30.480 as well as my daughter, as many of you know 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.400 by now, are making the move to South Florida full 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:36.399 time permanently. I'm gonna be there. They're gonna be there. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:40.240 I cannot wait. We've been making all the goodbye rounds 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.600 so far. We had a barbecue at her parents house 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:44.520 the other night. We went and met with her aunt 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.000 for dinner. Earlier last week, we had a thing at 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:50.440 my friend's house this weekend. The tour continues here up 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.200 in Washington State, but I'm getting in some podcasts and 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.600 some film and some analytics and all that fun stuff 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.560 done for you guys here on the pod. I just 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.360 can't wait to get down there and be there full 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.880 time if the family have the house, all the stuff 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.600 that we have there, which by the way, we did 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.240 close on a house, so that is a very exciting 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:09.320 development for us here. As the Wingfields make the pilgrimage 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.560 to South Florida on Sunday, What a sports day, what 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:16.160 a sports weekend? Maybe just a sports time right now 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.040 on the calendar. And man, maybe the NBA should push 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.840 back their schedule so they get this playoff run into 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.920 June and July, because I'm really really enjoying these NBA playoffs. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.040 A great game on Sunday with the Hawks in the 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.920 seventies sixers that went to the underseat in that game. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:33.359 I was happy to see Kawai Leonard turn it up 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.200 on Sunday as the Clippers close out the MAVs. And 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.640 how about that F one race for you racing fans 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.960 out there, man Lewis Hamilton's losing it on the restart, 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:44.600 going from second place down to out of the race altogether. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.600 Max verstaff and goes out of the race. Just a crazy, 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.080 crazy weekend of sports. And yet the NFL finds a 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.880 way to reign supreme once again. Because for my money, 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.520 top ten all time receiver, I mean, he's kind of 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.640 in that Randy Moss category. Worry from me, Larry Fitzgerald, 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:03.800 I think is in that category. Jerry Rice as well, 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:07.320 Julio Jones, the best player in the franchise history of 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.160 the Atlanta Falcons is going up north, I suppose a 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:13.120 little bit and making a transition to the a f 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.040 C as he has been traded for a second round 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.400 draft pick, and the two clubs swapped fourth and sixth 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.920 round picks in to get Julio Jones to the Titans, 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.000 and the Falcons now have a little bit more cap 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.920 relief for themselves in that NFC South And that's kind 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:29.920 of one of the I guess the things I wanted 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.880 to talk about here on the podcast was the fact 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.080 that I've seen this from people I respect in the industry, 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.880 good really good football writers who have made good points 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:40.280 about the salary cap and this whole You know, I'm 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.360 using air quotes in my fingers right now the downside 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.760 of podcast. You can't see me, but the air quotes 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.120 of the salary cap is a myth. The salary cap 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.839 is fake, definitely is not. Because this trade right here, 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:52.400 I don't think you said goodbye to a franchise legend 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.520 unless you're in a situation where you have to clear 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.840 space and and clear cap space to get yourself in 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.680 a position to be able to pay your rookie class 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.920 and get those contracts taking care of. And now we'll 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.120 see what that team looks like with Kyle Pitts kind 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.040 of running the middle of the field and maybe being 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.200 one of the main target the guys that gets the 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:10.040 most targets on that offense, along with Calvin Ridley. But 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:11.560 the big part of this news that I wanted to 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:14.760 cover was Julio Jones coming to the a f C South. 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.120 Of course, the Titans are on the Dolphins schedule this year, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.280 and that's one of two reasons why I think this 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:23.200 is pretty relevant here on a Miami Dolphins podcast on 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.680 the Drift Time podcast, because the Dolphins played them in 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:27.960 Week sevent team which could be that could have big 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.240 time implications in the a f C playoff race. And 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.520 also the fact that Julio Jones is he makes Titans 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.040 better football teams. Now they're gonna have a better I guess, 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:40.560 a better surge, a better chance of upping their playoff likelihood, 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:43.680 their wild card likelihood in that a f C South Division. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:45.480 Now that's the division that has kind of taken on 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.080 some some heat, some water this offseason for some of 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.279 the moves and changes those clubs have endured. The Jaguar 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.839 seemed to be on the come up, the Texans maybe 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.039 taking a step back from previous years to paying what 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.360 happens at the quarterback position for them. The Colts make 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:59.279 another change in the quarterback spot, and now here are 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:02.400 the Titans. After some big losses in that division. They 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.360 go out and get one of the best weapons in 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.320 the NFL and still is for my money, despite the 0:05:06.320 --> 0:05:08.120 fact that he's missed a couple of games like this 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.440 injury pro and thought with Julio Jones, it's a little 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.680 bit overblown because he's only missed more than two games 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.679 once since like two thousand thirteen, and check my facts 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:17.880 on that. It's something in that neighborhood. He's not missed 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.080 that much time. He's just had some some nix and 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:22.840 bruises along the way. But I think the main thing 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.840 to look at here is the way teams are trying 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.520 to create space offensively in the National Football League. And 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.640 we've heard Brian Flores, who we're gonna hear from here 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.440 in just one second his media last week about how 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:34.760 teams are trying to find ways to create spacing and 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.039 not just that, but build around the quarterbacks and the 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:39.479 strengths and the things they do well. We talked about 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.880 it all off season. Long speed, precision guys that can 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.600 win their routes early create that separation early in the 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.520 route that will drive well with the things that to 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.200 a tungnel by Loa does well. I think the Titans 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:52.760 went out and got the pretty much premier type of 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.839 receiver for Ryan Tannehill. So he goes to Tennessee and 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.440 now I think this team ran as much twelve personnel 0:05:59.520 --> 0:06:02.599 play act and deep vertical shots, the intermediate shots, those 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.000 over routes, those deep digs, those crossers. Man, he really 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:08.840 sets them well up there with a J. Brown, who's 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:11.279 one of the best young receivers in the National Football League. 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.600 And now I think this takes Tennessee from I thought 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.080 they were kind of a minor step back, so kind 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.640 of you know, that was the team the Miamiho's competing 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.960 with last year down the stretch, So maybe this gives 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.720 him a couple of extra wins. So that ten eleven 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:26.440 twelve wind range, I think is about where the Titans fall, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.760 and that to me is certainly certainly relevant to the 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.159 Miami Dolphins as they try to get themselves back into 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.159 the playoffs for the first time since two thousand sixteen. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.560 So Julio Jones sending shock waves throughout the National Football 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.960 League landscape on Sunday has been traded to the Tennessee Titans, 0:06:42.120 --> 0:06:44.240 and we're gonna start here with head coach Brian Flores. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:46.400 Will play one audio clip for you as he was 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:48.880 asked about quarterback to a tongue of by Loa and 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.960 his comments about processing the playbook and all that fun 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.280 stuff from his rookie season. Here's coach addressing to us 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.680 answer the prior week in media kinda go back to 0:06:57.720 --> 0:07:01.960 what we talked about last week. It's gonna be more comfortable, um, 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:09.000 and just having better command and the huddle right now. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.760 And you know, honestly, I just think he's comparing last 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:19.120 year to write and where he is right now. Uh So, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:24.000 And I get it. You know, I understand that I 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.760 remember being a first year position coach and you know, 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.640 coming out of that year, going into the spring, going 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.760 into the next season saying, you know, I could have 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:36.520 been better last year. I should have been better and 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.080 better now. So I think, you know, from a contextually, 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.880 I don't. I'm not sure if I have a pretty 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.600 good I think we all understand where he's coming from. 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.880 Giving uh you know, at least the conversation I had 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.000 with you guys last week, UM, I think that's that's 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.000 if that makes sense. But I think he's thinking about 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.600 where he is right now versus there you know that 0:07:57.640 --> 0:08:00.160 time a year ago, just reflecting, and that's good. All 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:04.720 this time is about reflection, um and you know where 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.920 you are now versus where you were six months ago. 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.280 And I think he's worked hard to improve in a 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.800 lot of areas, and I think he hasn't um. I 0:08:12.800 --> 0:08:19.320 think he's no kind of communicated that out. And Coach 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.440 would continue on a question later regarding quarterback to a 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.520 tongue of by Low as he talked about putting it 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.960 himself in a process in terms of how he studies, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.960 how he eats, how he trains everything. So Coach said 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:31.800 that he would he would say he's seen that out 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.160 of to a getting that process and that schedule, in 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:36.680 that routine, in that system down that he's gotten place 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.000 that he thinks will get him better at X y Z, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.920 whether it's trainings, whether it's meetings, whether it's fundamental throwing mechanics. 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:45.760 I've seen that for sure, Coach Flores says their end quote. 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:47.800 And just to kind of put my own perspective, my 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.880 own flavor on that, and you know, you go back 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.839 to your own experiences to try to relate to what 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.280 people say what regardless of what field it is, right, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:57.400 And I always go back to my sports days and 0:08:57.640 --> 0:08:59.720 high school, in the junior college and that fun stuff 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:02.000 where aim to an end for me because well I 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.880 am a one hundred and sixty pound kids, so it 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:07.439 didn't go very far from me. But when I played hoop, 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:09.480 you know, I I came up to the varsity pretty 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.880 early in my career in high school, and I remember 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:13.760 getting on the court my first time from j V 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.679 up to varsity and the speed of the game, like 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:18.720 I just was catch, get the ball out of my hands, 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.520 get to my next spot, and get the hell out 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.680 of the game. And don't cause any turnovers or any 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.360 lapses or breakdowns in the in the playbook. Just make 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:27.000 sure you know what you're doing and get the ball 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:28.280 out of your hands and go to the next spot. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.760 So I can certainly understand that from my perspective. And 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.920 then in this job, which is you know, I'm thirty 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:35.840 three years old now, so it was that fifteen years later, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.679 like my my rookie season on this job, it wasn't 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:41.960 as good as it is now. I talked about some 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.400 of the writing I've done in the past. I go 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.439 back to things I wrote five six years ago. I 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.200 pulled up some of the um the files I had 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.439 from third and ten dot com that I've referenced several 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:53.960 times in this podcast, and how reading those was like, 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:59.200 oh gosh, your your understanding of grammatics or grammatical structure 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.720 in the sentence ructure, And I say grammatics, but you 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:04.839 get it, Like I improved so much from from where 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.680 I am now to where I was five years ago. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.640 Even year to year, I think you should continue to 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:10.680 get better. And so for a first year player, I 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.240 think it makes all the sense in the world. You 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.680 just feel more comfortable. Like again, training Camp twenty nine team, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.240 my first day going to the Dolphins facility, didn't know 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:19.880 where to go, didn't know I had to park around 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.760 the back, and it was stressful. It was created anxiety. 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.360 Now I roll into that place exactly where everything is, 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.000 what my pin code is to get into the building, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.680 all that fun stuff like it makes a big difference. 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.719 And I think that I like the way coach referenced 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.560 his own experience as far as a position coach and 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:36.840 what he didn't know versus what he knows now, and 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.360 all those experiences add up for a a catalog and 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.240 kind of goes back to like what Brian Fitzpatrick would 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.160 say last year, like a catalog of plays that he 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:46.040 has in his mind that helped him get to the 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.520 position where he knows this means that and that means this, 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:50.719 and I can make this decision based upon what I'm 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.880 seeing right here. It's just gonna take some time for 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:54.160 these young guys to get ahold of that. And it 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.439 goes beyond the quarterback. It goes into the all these 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.440 second year players and all the rookies this year that 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.600 we have in this exciting rookie class. I just I 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:02.120 like the way he covered that. I like the way 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:04.920 he explained his own experiences there, and I just continue 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.360 to not have like any hang ups about the comments 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.040 or even what we're seeing on the field right now 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.120 at O T A S because it's a walk through 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:16.320 and Shorts, advisors and coach also touched on how rookies 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.120 focus right now. It's not about carving out a specific 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.679 role or there's a timetable where we have to have 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:23.800 this player in this position right now. Because Coach was 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.440 asked about Javon Holland, for instance, who you know you 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.600 put the two and two together, he's drafted, Bobby McCain 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:32.560 has released, Jason mccordy signs here. But the the the 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.640 I think two plus two math there is that Javon 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.280 Holland and coach talked about it, and Joe Alexander talked 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.480 about him playing some free safety, is that he may 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.120 be plugs into that spot, and coaches also mentioned how 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:46.160 the signal caller positions right, free safety, middle, linebacker, center, quarterback. 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.439 These guys are the ones that signal the defense of 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.400 the rest or the the play call to the rest 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.400 of the defense, or the offense or the rest of 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.880 the protection call for the offensive line, or the quarterback 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.080 for the routes and the running back YadA YadA ya. 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.200 And they were asking about Javon Holland's timeline as far 0:12:00.240 --> 0:12:02.040 as getting onto the field and having that role in 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.640 that responsibility and that kind of communication leadership aspect, And 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.600 I love the way coach talked about how right now 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.480 it's about building and gaining perspective and gaining confidence and 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.240 having answers to questions because you just cannot come into 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:17.560 this league right away and say when we're in too 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.400 high and they want to throw, you know, a mesh 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.800 concept underneath, and we're gonna have you know, the rat 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.720 and the hole is gonna drive on this particular route, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.480 I have to fade back and get over the top 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.680 to the X receiver. Like that's a lot that has 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.920 to kind of be experiential. You have to see the 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:32.880 reps on the field. And so I like the way 0:12:32.920 --> 0:12:36.280 coach focuses right now on these fundamentals, installing the playbook, 0:12:36.280 --> 0:12:38.600 installing these things so they can become second nature in 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:41.280 the future, so that when the the study and the 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:44.320 aptitude for the game matches the talent level, that's when 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:47.640 you hopefully ideally get the best version of these players. 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:50.280 And we've talked at length about this Dolphin's draft class 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.240 and what they've done in the past few years bringing 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.600 in athletes with high aptitude for the game. Those two 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.280 things together with a solid coaching staff that can develop 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:01.680 that's the ideal picture of how you get just consistently 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.280 good football players up and down the roster and guys 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.880 that can make the difference for you between wins and losses. 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:09.280 And I like the timetable comment the coach said there 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:11.680 as well, because that's something Chris Career mentioned a while back. 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:14.160 How they don't put a timetable on things. And that's 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.800 how you, again, I think you get yourself into trouble 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.559 in this business, in this league by saying, at this 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.520 pick and this draft and this particular spot of our 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.800 organizational operation, we have to select position X. When you 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.360 do that, you put yourself in a box. And that 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.920 is just not a productive way of achieving anything in 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:37.760 football or otherwise. Coach was also asked about the players 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.679 that haven't shown up to voluntary O t A s 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:42.600 right now, but he's talking about what he has gotten 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.880 out of it with the players that are there. Communication fundamentals, techniques, 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.880 learned the playbook, understanding the playbook, having an understanding of 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:52.720 concepts offensively, defensively in the kicking game, and building rapport 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:55.559 with teammates. Coach said he talked about working on individual 0:13:55.600 --> 0:14:00.040 techniques and fundamentals, but communication, cadence, shifts, motions, adjust in 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.080 two shifts and motions, and again this is why for 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.240 these younger players it's so important to get out there 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:06.920 and get those mental reps and have their eyes see 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.400 the colors flash and see the way things moving this league. 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:12.280 And Coach talked about that. I just I think I'm 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.040 covering it here, but also kind of trying to give 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.520 you my perspective that I couldn't agree more with the 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:18.400 idea of what you can achieve out of these O 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.400 T A s. And I'm not gonna worry about a 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:23.880 punt hitting the turf, or a guy dropping a football 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:25.960 or a throw that goes awry or whatever it might be. 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.280 That's just not really something I'm concerned about this time 0:14:29.320 --> 0:14:31.040 of the calendar. And so I think that when you 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.600 look at what the process of this is, all of 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.920 this is a positive net game compared to what last 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.880 year was when there was no O T A s. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.760 It was all mental and there was no opportunity to 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.880 go out onto the field and joke with guys and 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:43.640 have a good time. And you see coach out there 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.600 laughing with the guys, and they can go out and 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.920 apply the lessons they learned in the classroom on the field. 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:49.760 I think that would go a long way, especially for 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.880 a young Dolphins team like they have here and like 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.800 they've been able to generate some of these veteran presence 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:57.000 with guys they brought in like a Jason mccordy to 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.720 help accelerate that process. We'll talk more about Jason here 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.120 and just one second, we're gonna finish up. Coach flores 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.760 this with his comment about Jason mccordy, who said, from 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.880 a leadership standpoint, experience standpoint, he's also a good player. 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.600 To don't forget that aspect of this McCarty signing. The 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.720 guy can play football. He wouldn't be here if he couldn't. 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:15.240 Coach Floor's always makes a point to make that the 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.040 number one element of being a Miami Dolphin. You gotta 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:20.360 play football, man, I asked. I asked coach that question 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.920 last year about Brandon Jones, and I said, when he 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.520 you know, when you heard about Brandon Jones getting all 0:15:25.560 --> 0:15:29.400 these defensive playbooks and going through and watching four games 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.120 of each defense so he can have an idea of 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:33.480 what the defense does and their structure and their calls. 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.560 I asked him about that and how that elevated his 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.240 draft stock, and Coach said, look, you gotta be able 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:39.960 to play football first. That's what we care about here first. 0:15:40.080 --> 0:15:42.480 So Jason mccordy checked that box as well. But he 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:45.120 also talked about guys that fit the team well from 0:15:45.160 --> 0:15:47.680 that on field, but also the character and the makeup 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.800 aspect of this entire business as well. So coach ended 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:53.000 the presser there with some really good comments like I 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:55.160 recommend going back and checking this one out. He was 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:57.800 very forthright and very transparent, as he has been all 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.120 off season. He also talked a lot about his coach 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.520 staff that he's put together here and the energy those 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.640 guys have and the way he sees that energy kind 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:08.520 of produced passion on the field, and that's that reverberates man. 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:11.000 We talked about the players and the coaches and all 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.480 these guys that care about football so much, like you 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.040 can see it, and the way these guys speak to 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.480 the media. I love talking to g A coach Charles 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.560 Burkes is one of the guys he mentioned here as well, 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.000 Coach Lemil, John Pierre, coach Students Field coach Grizz Coach 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.840 god See, coach Clark. I'm probably leaving some guys out here, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.400 but you watch the way these guys coach on the 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.560 field and they are just so passionate and fired up. 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.600 And Coach Campanelli two is one of the ones that 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:34.720 is most fired up most of the time. It's so 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:36.840 much fun to watch when people love what they do. 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:39.560 And I had someone comment on the Colleen Wolf podcast 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.600 last week and say like, it's so much fun to 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.280 watch two people that love what they do do their job. 0:16:44.480 --> 0:16:46.640 And they mentioned that about myself and Colleen, and I said, yeah, 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.680 that's what a podcast I thought was so good because 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:52.160 we're both so passionate and high energy. Same story and football, man, 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.000 those guys were out there having a great time and 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.400 coaching guys up and it really shows on the field 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.920 and hopefully and the results too. We later heard from 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.040 Dolphins second year to fensive tackle ray Kwon Davis, who 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.600 was candid in his own assessment of his rookie season, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.359 saying he didn't think it was that good, thought it 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.280 could have been a lot better for himself. Before we 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.120 get to his comments about where he thinks he can 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.560 get better, he also talked about Jalen Waddle said he's 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.800 a fast guy who gets open, he gets loose, he 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:18.119 gets the ball and there's no catching him. He's explosive 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.280 and he can control the ball however he wants to. 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:21.879 So that was cool to hear him talk about his 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:25.320 former teammate at Alabama. He talked a little bit about 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:29.199 his offseason training regiment and his trainer named Sean, who 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.359 has this thing he calls monster making, where he makes monsters, 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.840 and ray Kwon Davis is an absolute monster. He talked 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:36.600 about the wings band, the size and the height and 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:39.800 the versatility. He definitely qualifies in that monster category. But 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:41.560 he talked about how much fun it is to get 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.720 those workouts in, how it gets him juiced up and 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.160 gets him prepared for the season. So he talked about 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:47.960 pass rushing and saying that that was an area of 0:17:48.040 --> 0:17:50.199 his game he felt he could be better in this season. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.400 And we know ray Kuan kind of came on the 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.679 second half of the season. He really began to have 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.679 that emergence as a productive player in that Rams victory 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:00.399 and then continued it through the rest of the season. 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:02.840