Speaker 1: To remove Dylan Deep Speedliss.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: He's got my avans in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins?
Speaker 2: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show.
Speaker 1: The preseason is over.
Speaker 2: I never thought I'd be one to celebrate the end
Speaker 2: of the exhibition season, but I am ready for regular
Speaker 2: season Miami Dolphins football. We'll go through the whole thing tonight,
Speaker 2: the loss in Tampa Bay, some general thoughts, some stats,
Speaker 2: some hits and misses, and audio from coach as we
Speaker 2: go across this final game of the exhibition season from
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 1: This is the Time podcast, Aye daffe.
Speaker 2: Our last time doing statistics on a preseason game until
Speaker 2: next August. The Dolphins fall twenty four to fourteen in
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay, and the final numbers, as they usually are
Speaker 2: this time of year, are not super pretty. Both teams
Speaker 2: had fifteen first downs, but Miami was three for twelve
Speaker 2: on third down and the Bucks were one for ten.
Speaker 2: The Bucks did go three for three on fourth downs
Speaker 2: compared to Miami's one for four. Miami out gains Tampa
Speaker 2: Bay across the board total yards three twenty to two ninety,
Speaker 2: passing two eighteen to one ninety five, and rushing one
Speaker 2: oh two to ninety five. The Dolphins turned it over once,
Speaker 2: they were sacked once, did not get a takeaway, and
Speaker 2: did not get a sack, and they had eight penalties for.
Speaker 1: Sixty yards on the night.
Speaker 2: Some general thoughts here about this game, and this podcast
Speaker 2: is going to be relatively quick. We will do the
Speaker 2: roster predictions, uh, the fifty three man roster prediction on Monday.
Speaker 2: I actually already wrote that out and probably have a
Speaker 2: couple of changes to make to that before it goes
Speaker 2: out to you good people, including potentially at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: And I hate to have one game kind of make
Speaker 2: the decision for me, but it kind of seems clear
Speaker 2: at this point where it's going to go. And I
Speaker 2: wrote this whole thing for the show on Monday, and
Speaker 2: I'm going to contemplate whether or not I do it
Speaker 2: or pull it back and change my approach because I
Speaker 2: thought Mike White was going to win this quarterback job
Speaker 2: and now I'm not so sure because it was tough
Speaker 2: for him out there, and he had more ones than
Speaker 2: Skyler had to work with, and he had some twos
Speaker 2: and Skyler had that in the second quarter when he
Speaker 2: came in with about seven minutes to go in that
Speaker 2: second quarter, and I kind of had the feeling that
Speaker 2: that was to give him a look with some players
Speaker 2: that you're going to see on Sundays this year opposed
Speaker 2: to practice squad and guys that will, you know, inevitably
Speaker 2: be cut in a couple of days here when we
Speaker 2: get the cut down day. And you know, Mike did
Speaker 2: go against some ones for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and
Speaker 2: speaking of those ones, blocking vita Vea was a point
Speaker 2: of conversation for the Dolphins heading into the week, and
Speaker 2: he made that look like he does for everybody else
Speaker 2: in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Thou shalt not pass.
Speaker 2: And I know of that from Jason Siegel from Forgetting
Speaker 2: Sarah Marshall when he's you know, wasting away his life
Speaker 2: in his apartment compared to his girlfriend Sarah Marshall on
Speaker 2: the show. Being a celebrity, an A list celebrity in
Speaker 2: the acting world.
Speaker 1: But that's what Vitavea is. He is.
Speaker 2: You do not get penetration. In fact, he takes you
Speaker 2: back where he's needed it all night long. And so
Speaker 2: I think it's worth mentioning that Antoine Winfield was out
Speaker 2: there for the Bucks. The entire group of ones for
Speaker 2: the Bucks was out there both ways, and the quarterback
Speaker 2: battle went very drastically tonight in the favor of Scalar Thompson.
Speaker 2: With Mike, you know, I thought it was tough to
Speaker 2: see what he's dealing with. And this is why I
Speaker 2: want to kind of take some time to go over
Speaker 2: the film before I make any final declarations here, because
Speaker 2: to me, it was just out of rhythm or he
Speaker 2: would hit the top of the drop, and there wasn't
Speaker 2: a lot of conviction as to where the ball was
Speaker 2: supposed to go on schedule. And we heard from Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel earlier this week talking about how he doesn't need
Speaker 2: to see these quarterbacks throwing to wide open receivers, which
Speaker 2: this offense has a way of generating that through its scheme,
Speaker 2: and I think that maybe they carried that over into
Speaker 2: the game action and then when you look at the
Speaker 2: receivers and one of my biggest complaints about the entire
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three operation was in critical games and critical moments,
Speaker 2: trying to get wins from Cedric Wilson and from Braxon Barrios,
Speaker 2: and from Durham Smyth, and from Robbie Chosen and from
Speaker 2: Chase Claypool. And that's why I thought it was so
Speaker 2: imperative to go out and get Johnny Smith and Odell
Speaker 2: Beckham Junior, and Malik Washington and Jalen Wright and get
Speaker 2: an expanded role from Devon A Chan because that five
Speaker 2: sounds a lot better than the other five I just
Speaker 2: gave you. And that was the case, I think again
Speaker 2: tonight for Mike White. But again I can't say that
Speaker 2: for certainly because I didn't have a chance to watch
Speaker 2: it on film. I hate broadcast angles. They show you
Speaker 2: five yards down the field, which takes away every you know,
Speaker 2: pretty much every route in the progression that's not a
Speaker 2: checkdown or a hookup, and so you couldn't see that,
Speaker 2: And I couldn't see if it was lack of separation
Speaker 2: or a shifting picture from good disguise from the defense
Speaker 2: in preseason.
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to assume the latter is not the case.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're going to roll out your entire
Speaker 2: defensive you know, schematics in a preseason game, but I
Speaker 2: cannot say that for sure.
Speaker 1: It just looked a lot tougher for.
Speaker 2: Him to get anything going than it did last week
Speaker 2: against the Commanders. Skyler, on the other hand, did a
Speaker 2: bunch of stuff in the opposite direction of.
Speaker 1: What I thought.
Speaker 2: He kind of was who he had become or who
Speaker 2: he was at this point of his career, and maybe
Speaker 2: he can grow, maybe he can get better. I had
Speaker 2: those thoughts early in camp. I kind of put him
Speaker 2: off to the side. I think I haven't played a
Speaker 2: sound drop saying was done with the evaluation there. But
Speaker 2: he played one of his best games, and not just
Speaker 2: from a statistics standpoint, which were good obviously in this game,
Speaker 2: but he had that little bit of creativity that I
Speaker 2: think endeared himself to the coaching staff and Mike McDaniel
Speaker 2: and to the fans certainly. But I was more impressed
Speaker 2: with the reps where he was playing on schedule, and
Speaker 2: that's what I'm referring to with you know, Mike White
Speaker 2: and the offense looking disjointed because Skyler hit the top
Speaker 2: of the drop, the ball came out. That first shot
Speaker 2: to Anthony Schwartz was a good example of that. The
Speaker 2: touchdown to Rouchie in the second quarter was a good
Speaker 2: example of that. I liked that throw to McGowan before
Speaker 2: the McGowan touchdown where he was I thought a tad
Speaker 2: bit late, but he mitigated that with reaching back from
Speaker 2: some extra mustard and finding that seventh inning ninety eight
Speaker 2: milllion hour fastball.
Speaker 1: You need to put down the New.
Speaker 2: York Yankee slugger with rons and scoring position, right like,
Speaker 2: that's the you're gonna find your best fastball tonight, and
Speaker 2: I thought Scylar Thompson found it on that throw, and
Speaker 2: of course the touchdown outside on the perimeter moving out
Speaker 2: of the pocket as well back to mcgallan. Really good
Speaker 2: stuff there from Scalar Thompson. Let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 2: from coach McDaniel, who addressed this quarterback battle after tonight's
Speaker 2: twenty four to fourteen loss by the Bay.
Speaker 3: You know, I think Scaler did a great job tonight.
Speaker 3: I think in terms of you know, the we have
Speaker 3: a lot of information to take in. I'm not in
Speaker 3: any position to name fifty three man rosters and or
Speaker 3: backup quarterbacks or anything. I just I thought that he
Speaker 3: was competitive and and it was made some plays, you know,
Speaker 3: and kind of got us going tonight.
Speaker 2: And I full transparency, I've been hard on the player
Speaker 2: because the tape tells me to be hard on the player.
Speaker 2: But there's nothing I want more than this team to
Speaker 2: develop a viable quarterback beyond tow a toungo by Low
Speaker 2: because it helps make preseason games more watchable, but more importantly,
Speaker 2: it gives you someone to come off the bench in
Speaker 2: a critical game that matters and make a difference if
Speaker 2: you need it. And beyond that, if Tua becomes an
Speaker 2: ironman of some sort, maybe you get some high draft
Speaker 2: capital in return. The only outcome of finding good quality
Speaker 2: quarterback play beyond your starter is positive outcomes, and so
Speaker 2: that's what I want. And if Skylar can become that guy,
Speaker 2: I'm all for it. I just don't think the tape
Speaker 2: has shown that so far. But here's what coach mcdanig
Speaker 2: had to say about Skyler and the growth that he's
Speaker 2: seen from him from year one to year three. And
Speaker 2: coach has the same thoughts that I do with regards
Speaker 2: to There's some creativity there, which is great, but the
Speaker 2: next part is traying the craft and learning how to
Speaker 2: play the position from the pocket and win from the
Speaker 2: spot where you have to win from in this league.
Speaker 3: He got the opportunity to play early in his career,
Speaker 3: and you know, I thought, you know, as a as
Speaker 3: a rookie, he demonstrated some aggressiveness and ability to make
Speaker 3: plays in this league, and then it's been about, you know,
Speaker 3: since then, you know, training his craft, really owning the
Speaker 3: quarterback position within the offense. And I thought, he, uh,
Speaker 3: this preseason, preseason, he's exhibited growth in what that means.
Speaker 3: It means you are the leader of the unit that
Speaker 3: you have to orchestrate, uh, play calls, uh, decision making,
Speaker 3: all all of those things. And I thought, he's uh,
Speaker 3: he he took a good step forward tonight.
Speaker 2: Let's finish up the first segment here talking about another
Speaker 2: position group that we're gonna look at very closely over
Speaker 2: the coming days. And it's the entire battle on the
Speaker 2: offensive line, which coach talked about leam Miikenberg in that
Speaker 2: press conference, and it's that's your right guard.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's what it's gonna be going into
Speaker 1: the season.
Speaker 2: I had a bit of a conversation with Seth and
Speaker 2: Juice in the radio about how I don't see it
Speaker 2: that way. I just I don't understand it. I know
Speaker 2: that that's gonna be the react on Twitter as well.
Speaker 2: I do in this situation ultimately put my faith in
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel's coaching staff, because what other example do you
Speaker 2: have to not trust them and have faith in them
Speaker 2: with regards to said player. So that's what it sounds like,
Speaker 2: I thought for this offensive line without Leam Mikenberg, and
Speaker 2: for guys like Rob Jones and Lester Cotton, who are
Speaker 2: still I think in contention for starting jobs, especially the
Speaker 2: left guard position with Rob Jones, I don't think Lester
Speaker 2: Cotton's in the running after tonight's performance, or maybe wasn't
Speaker 2: at all in consideration when you factor in Aaron Brewer's
Speaker 2: imminent return with Eichenberg kicking back to the right guard position,
Speaker 2: and you know, again I've made Gandalf jokes all week
Speaker 2: about Vida Veya. That was the case tonight, and he
Speaker 2: had that tackle for Lost Rapper. He just took Jack
Speaker 2: Driscoll down to Sarasota, which is about forty five minutes
Speaker 2: south of Tampa, and got the tackle in the backfield
Speaker 2: a little bit closer to Fort Myers, which is another
Speaker 2: hour or so south of that, and he does that
Speaker 2: to Travis Frederick and his prime. He doesn't have to
Speaker 2: create Humphrey like he does it to everybody. There's no
Speaker 2: one in the link that can block that guy one
Speaker 2: on one. So it's not an accurate measuring stick to
Speaker 2: talk about Vida Veya as the guy you have to
Speaker 2: be because no one beats that guy. But for Jack
Speaker 2: Driscoll at center didn't work out for him there he
Speaker 2: played some right tackles. Well, I don't think that's his spot.
Speaker 2: I think Jack Driscoll is a right guard. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think he's the best right guard on the roster
Speaker 2: rate now. But tonight it was rough for him bouncing
Speaker 2: across the offensive line. But he was dressed and Liam
Speaker 2: was not, and that tells you something. I thought it
Speaker 2: was up and down for Rob Jones, but I love
Speaker 2: it when he pulls to the play side and runs power.
Speaker 2: And he's told me he feels more comfortable playing in
Speaker 2: this system. And the Dolphins did run some power in
Speaker 2: the game. I thought looked it looked pretty good. And
Speaker 2: that was his best block of the night was that
Speaker 2: pull and seal. And they also got good down blocks
Speaker 2: on that rep from Driscoll and Hayes, but Lester Cotton
Speaker 2: couldn't get connected to the second level and ran right
Speaker 2: through a linebacker that would have hooked up for a
Speaker 2: critical third down conversion and then some for Jeff Wilson,
Speaker 2: but he missed it, which was the case all year
Speaker 2: last year at that right guard possession when Robert Hunt
Speaker 2: was not available, which was for like half the season,
Speaker 2: So that was frustrating. I hope we don't get back
Speaker 2: to that point again. A couple injuries away from that
Speaker 2: probably be in the case. But it just kind of
Speaker 2: shows you how critical it is to hit all the
Speaker 2: blocks to make those plays happen. On those run plays
Speaker 2: where you can get five or six, but if you
Speaker 2: hit one more block, you can make it fifteen, twenty,
Speaker 2: maybe even sixty yards for a touchdown. I just don't
Speaker 2: see it with Lester, I really don't. I don't think
Speaker 2: drist Goal is anything but a guard. It was a
Speaker 2: rough night for Andrew Meyer early on. I thought Byron
Speaker 2: Matt Thows got on there for one snap when Hayes
Speaker 2: got hurt and got his butt kicked. Hayes kind of
Speaker 2: got his butt kicked too. I am glad Patrick Paul
Speaker 2: got almost three full games of reps, and though I
Speaker 2: thought his second and third game were up and down
Speaker 2: at best, at best, tonight it was up and down.
Speaker 2: I think there was a lot more encouraging than there
Speaker 2: was out and out losses because you kind of could
Speaker 2: piece together the physical marvel that he is. And they
Speaker 2: told you this when I drafted him. Even when it's
Speaker 2: not right, he still scores wins and it's not right
Speaker 2: all the time. Right now, it's getting better, and it
Speaker 2: will get better. I hope he can just kind of
Speaker 2: red shirt this season and maybe go play some extra
Speaker 2: offensive lineman reps and block some guys in the running game.
Speaker 2: But because he had another one of those where he
Speaker 2: got in space and put a huge block on the
Speaker 2: corner on a Jillen Right run. He had some really
Speaker 2: good reaction reps on all little delayed blitz where he
Speaker 2: squeezed inside and had the eyes to get back outside
Speaker 2: to see the looper and pick him up right there.
Speaker 2: I thought Chasing Hines and Matthew Jones had two of
Speaker 2: the better nights. I like seeing the way they reacted
Speaker 2: to blitzes and games and showed you how they could,
Speaker 2: you know, really pick up what was coming at them
Speaker 2: and that's good for young players obviously. So the offensive
Speaker 2: line still needs some sorting out. But I'm not going
Speaker 2: to argue again for the twelfth time this month that
Speaker 2: it's just not gonna matter all that much at the
Speaker 2: end of the day. But that's the evaluation on tonight.
Speaker 2: We'll see what the lineup looks like come week one.
Speaker 2: I think we have a preak good idea. It's probably
Speaker 2: gonna be Armstead, Jones, Brewer, Eikenberg and Jackson, is my guess,
Speaker 2: but we'll see.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and close the second.
Speaker 2: We're out here with coach McDaniel, who was asked about
Speaker 2: the interior line play on either side of the football.
Speaker 3: Is specifically with this this past joint practice and you know,
Speaker 3: kind of counterbalancing the work that we did a year
Speaker 3: ago against Atlanta versus what we did this this year.
Speaker 3: I've been very, very happy with their technical development. Really,
Speaker 3: both groups have had a ton of a ton of development.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: There's there's more depth than than uh I think people
Speaker 3: really appreciate, and there there's a lot of technical growth
Speaker 3: which is huge in both phases on or on both
Speaker 3: sides of the ball. For what we do, we we
Speaker 3: ask guys to be technicians and to commit to certain
Speaker 3: techniques that other players are depending on and trying to
Speaker 3: play off of. So I you know, I thought there
Speaker 3: was a It's been a really good training camp for
Speaker 3: both of those units, specifically interior.
Speaker 2: We will talk about the roster and the construction of
Speaker 2: it and on Monday's podcast, and one of the points
Speaker 2: I'm going to make is I think the depth on
Speaker 2: this year's football team is a lot better, which given
Speaker 2: the injury histories of the last two seasons and what
Speaker 2: we're seeing already in this month with a lot of
Speaker 2: backups being nicked up and hurt for a long period
Speaker 2: of time, I think that will prove beneficial to the
Speaker 2: Dolphins in the long run. But we'll do that more
Speaker 2: on the Monday edition of the Draft Time podcast. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and take our first break rate there. Come
Speaker 2: back on the other side. I have two more general thoughts.
Speaker 2: We have some more soundbites from coach McDaniel. We'll talk
Speaker 2: about the individuals that popped and the ones that missed.
Speaker 2: All that next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Auto Nation. My first two general
Speaker 2: takeaways were the quarterback shakedown and the offensive line look.
Speaker 2: And the other thing I wrote down here is that
Speaker 2: I thought the Bucks' first team offense looked like you'd
Speaker 2: expect a first team offense, and it seemed to me
Speaker 2: pretty clear they had a goal in mind to get
Speaker 2: out there and run something of a regular season type
Speaker 2: of script. And I a lot of the Dolphins for
Speaker 2: this as well, you know, saying that the two best
Speaker 2: elements of this team are things that we don't really
Speaker 2: see in camp, in the scheme, and we saw it
Speaker 2: last week when they had their running quarterback, and you know,
Speaker 2: the modern preseason, get the ball out quick, try to
Speaker 2: get them into a regular season rhythm, go score points,
Speaker 2: and get the heck out of there and move on
Speaker 2: to the next week of practice. And I thought their
Speaker 2: ability to run the football early with their ones got
Speaker 2: them really good displacement on our guys with lateral displacement
Speaker 2: in the running game, and then they score or they
Speaker 2: run screen boot play action game off of that, it
Speaker 2: kind of confused our guys. They kind of got after
Speaker 2: a couple of players like Chop Robinson early on, and
Speaker 2: they executed with their ones against largely Miami's twos to
Speaker 2: kick things off, and that was expected. I think you
Speaker 2: expect that for most teams across the National Football League.
Speaker 2: Last thing here is I thought was really cool for
Speaker 2: John Embry to get the head coaching opportunity. It was
Speaker 2: cool to see him get the team going a little
Speaker 2: bit there in the second half in Jeck some energy
Speaker 2: into the team in the third quarter and get the
Speaker 2: doll back within three points. Saw him really getting after
Speaker 2: some guys Hayden Ruchie got an earfull at one point,
Speaker 2: and I love their bounce back after a tough start
Speaker 2: in that game. And Seth Levitt from the Fish Tank
Speaker 2: Podcast had a great bit on our radio show after
Speaker 2: the game where he was talking about this concept of
Speaker 2: allowing somebody else to step up and be a head coach,
Speaker 2: and he had heard some chatter about this is the
Speaker 2: same thing that Cam Cameron did, and he made a
Speaker 2: great point about how when Cam Cameron did it, he
Speaker 2: had zero games of his coaching to his resume. He
Speaker 2: had never coached an NFL game before, and the two
Speaker 2: guys he gave coaching opportunities too had a combine to
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty games as head coaches in Mike
Speaker 2: Malarkey and Dom Capers. What the hell are we doing,
Speaker 2: and I thought that was really cool. And here's McDaniel
Speaker 2: talking about the opportunity to get John Embrie, who has
Speaker 2: not had a chance to be a head coach in
Speaker 2: this league versus a coach that has now coached two
Speaker 2: full seasons and two playoff games. And Mike McDaniel, here's
Speaker 2: coach on the idea of getting Embrey some run with
Speaker 2: the headset in the second half of tonight's game, you.
Speaker 3: Know, to get better at things. And it's been this
Speaker 3: is my third year and we haven't ever gone through
Speaker 3: that exercise, and uh, you know, bottom line is, you
Speaker 3: know it's still too soon for for my memory from
Speaker 3: the COVID years, so you just you just don't want
Speaker 3: to you want to be responsible to the organization. And
Speaker 3: then as far as John Embry the coach, it was
Speaker 3: also really cool to give him that opportunity that I
Speaker 3: think he's overly deserving of. You know, this is a
Speaker 3: guy that our team really responds to. He had you know, applause,
Speaker 3: uh when when I notified the team and spoke spoke
Speaker 3: to the team in several instances since then, and you
Speaker 3: know it that their response to him is all the
Speaker 3: reason that uh, he was deserving of the opportunity some
Speaker 3: he he's a great leader of men and does very
Speaker 3: well in those positions, and he's had that experience before
Speaker 3: at the University of Colorado. So it was a good
Speaker 3: opportunity for our team to and a great opportunity for him.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go. Let's move on to the
Speaker 2: individual standouts. I've talked about the line a little bit
Speaker 2: in the quarterback play, so we'll skip over that.
Speaker 1: Jalen Wright.
Speaker 2: I mean, this guy's speed pops, doesn't it. We also
Speaker 2: heard Alec Ingold, which, by the way, Alec is fantastic
Speaker 2: in media. He's got himself one hell of a future
Speaker 2: after his playing career comes to an end. But he
Speaker 2: had that comment on right about taking the ball to
Speaker 2: the block where you set the defender up and then
Speaker 2: you get back outside to gain extra yards and you
Speaker 2: get out of bounds. Thought that was really crafty and
Speaker 2: just kind of showed you some of his quick decision
Speaker 2: making that pairs with his physical quickness on the field,
Speaker 2: and that's obviously a very dynamic combo of traits for
Speaker 2: a running back. My favorite play, though, was another play
Speaker 2: that shows just kind of the fluid movement skills of
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright, and it was a catch and run up
Speaker 2: the sideline in the third quarter where he ran a
Speaker 2: flair And if flare is where you put your back
Speaker 2: to the quarterback and you're back to the opposing goal
Speaker 2: or to your own goal line, I should say, and
Speaker 2: you run perpendicular to the line of scrimmage. And the
Speaker 2: way he had this ball take him on the upfield
Speaker 2: hip and flip those hips and get himself going into
Speaker 2: a running position towards the correct goal line off of
Speaker 2: a route that runs you the wrong direction while making
Speaker 2: the catch off of his back hip. It just all
Speaker 2: looked very smooth and transition.
Speaker 1: That tells me.
Speaker 2: If I saw that on a college football field, I'd
Speaker 2: be like, that's an NFL player. And we saw Jeff
Speaker 2: Wilson do that and it wasn't at all as smooth.
Speaker 2: In the same operation, he showed some of the running
Speaker 2: ability on a jump cut where he had to get
Speaker 2: off of one block in the backfield and he made
Speaker 2: some guys miss when they got penetration.
Speaker 1: He just pops out there. I think this dude is
Speaker 1: a future star.
Speaker 2: And a running back room that has a guy that
Speaker 2: scored twenty one touchdowns and then in my opinion arguably
Speaker 2: one of the next like Christian McCaffrey type of backs.
Speaker 1: Not that good.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of lofty praise. That's the kind of
Speaker 2: skills that the a chan has, and I think right
Speaker 2: is like in that conversation with those backs as well
Speaker 2: for how good he can be. Another guy that I
Speaker 2: thought was amazing in this game and tracks to a
Speaker 2: guy that I was stoked about the minute they drafted him,
Speaker 2: was Malik Washington. Those manufactured touches are where I think
Speaker 2: he can really shine right away, and stop me if
Speaker 2: you've heard this before. You can get him in some
Speaker 2: advantageous situations if he's on the field in packages that
Speaker 2: include ten and seventeen or both those guys with OBJ
Speaker 2: three and four wide packages. Right, and he shows you
Speaker 2: that punt return ability that he has to get north
Speaker 2: and south and to find lanes and to quickly chew
Speaker 2: up grass without going backwards and getting through arm tackles
Speaker 2: and forcing guys to take bad angles at his tackles.
Speaker 2: What a punctuation from him on a very solid camp
Speaker 2: in preseason, and even more impressive to take that stick
Speaker 2: that he took, come back and make those plays and
Speaker 2: show that aggressiveness and that temperament. And my favorite art
Speaker 2: was seeing Tron Armstead and Tyreek Hill checking on him
Speaker 2: in the blue medical tent.
Speaker 1: That to me tells you a lot.
Speaker 2: Let's go to coach McDaniel, who talked about the game
Speaker 2: from Maleak Washington on Friday night.
Speaker 3: Oh aggressiveness. He played as though the game was slow
Speaker 3: to him, it slowed down and was able to get
Speaker 3: in some space and he you know, I think we
Speaker 3: hadn't gotten the chance to see his something that we
Speaker 3: saw in college from him that he put on display tonight,
Speaker 3: which is his balance and his ability to break tackles
Speaker 3: and get edges of defenders. So it was cool for him.
Speaker 3: It was a definitely big spark for us. And I
Speaker 3: was happy to see him really own the moment. And
Speaker 3: he's a football player, and I could tell pregame he
Speaker 3: was he was ready to go bye by him saying
Speaker 3: it's time and it.
Speaker 1: Was Maleak time.
Speaker 2: And I think the fact that he was out there
Speaker 2: after Burrios probably tells you where they're thinking. They're with
Speaker 2: him and Burrios on the roster. I think Malik is
Speaker 2: higher on the death chart, but we'll see. I'll probably
Speaker 2: be proven wrong here when the roster cut down a curse.
Speaker 2: I also thought Hayden Ruccie was really good in this game.
Speaker 2: Got a little bit dinged up and goes out there
Speaker 2: and just make some plays. Made a tough catch in
Speaker 2: the touchdown and it survives some contact. Got some movement
Speaker 2: as the attached why in the running game, which is
Speaker 2: what he does every time he goes out there. He
Speaker 2: got Kyle with his hands outside and that holding call
Speaker 2: in the third quarter. But I continue to think that
Speaker 2: his arrow is up and a guy that could be
Speaker 2: a big contributor on this team down the road, probably
Speaker 2: a practice squad guy right away. But I like Rucchie's game.
Speaker 2: Isaiah Max's effort stands out like all the time to me.
Speaker 2: He had an awesome retrace on a screen that he
Speaker 2: got paid off because of the effort by Tyndall to
Speaker 2: get on the outside shoulder of the blocker and force
Speaker 2: the ball carrier back inside into the flow where he was.
Speaker 2: And that's why you hustle. If you follow the ball,
Speaker 2: good things will happen. He had a sack. I think
Speaker 2: it was a set on trask maybe a TfL because
Speaker 2: he tucked it and ran it and actually they were
Speaker 2: zero sacks in the game, so they didn't give him
Speaker 2: a sack four, but it should have been. But he
Speaker 2: chucked the left guard out of the club. It was
Speaker 2: an impressive rep there. I mentioned Tindall really really impressed
Speaker 2: by Channing Tendall Man. I think he's seeing it faster
Speaker 2: than he has ever. I think he's reading his keys,
Speaker 2: understanding blocking angles and his own angle to take on
Speaker 2: ball carriers and where he can fit inside, where he
Speaker 2: can jump outside and play a block to you know,
Speaker 2: force the ball carrier back into his help. He ran
Speaker 2: through the runners all night long, squared him up, had big, solid,
Speaker 2: you know hits, some big contact, and had a really
Speaker 2: nice rush where he took the guard upfield and over
Speaker 2: set them into the B gap and then cross face
Speaker 2: back into the A gap and buried the quarterback for
Speaker 2: a big third down stop.
Speaker 1: A couple of big hits that stood out in this game.
Speaker 2: I think he did as much as he could for
Speaker 2: himself this camp, and I think he made the football team.
Speaker 2: He's getting my linebacker five when I do Monday's episode.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from coach on the performance
Speaker 2: of Channing Tindall Man.
Speaker 3: What a cool game. For for Channing so much growth.
Speaker 3: You know, this is this is his third year and
Speaker 3: third defensive system, so you're always nervous about that when
Speaker 3: you sign up for it, and and he's really you know,
Speaker 3: I can't say enough about the job that you know,
Speaker 3: both Joe Berry have done in Anthony Weaver. Uh, just
Speaker 3: in general with the position, I feel like that's a
Speaker 3: position of strength and uh a case in point. You know,
Speaker 3: I think that Channing Tindall, I I don't know this
Speaker 3: to be facts, but I think that would be his
Speaker 3: hive preseason tackles.
Speaker 2: UH.
Speaker 3: And I think that Goat that's just another example of
Speaker 3: the good stuff that we got going on on the
Speaker 3: defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 2: And we did a segment on this on the post
Speaker 2: game show talking about Azukama and Tendall and what a
Speaker 2: bummer was that Azukama got hurt Wednesday's practice.
Speaker 1: But it sounds like he's gonna be okay. Coach.
Speaker 2: You have a bunch of updates today telling you about
Speaker 2: which guys would be back and whatnot. It sounds like
Speaker 2: day to day for Javon holland week to week for
Speaker 2: guys like Eric Azukama and Aaron Brewers.
Speaker 1: Should be back sooner than later.
Speaker 2: He was saying a bunch of good news on the
Speaker 2: injury front from Mike McDaniel after this one.
Speaker 1: So looking good there.
Speaker 2: But with Azukama and Tindall, those were two guys that,
Speaker 2: you know, Tindall had played like four hundred snaps in college.
Speaker 2: He gets drafted by Josh Boyer defense, which was blitz, blitz, blitz,
Speaker 2: mug up and blitz some more. And then you pivot
Speaker 2: to the Vic Fangio defense, and he wasn't ready to
Speaker 2: play as a rookie. And then Vic Fangio says, I
Speaker 2: can't use you at all because I you know, he
Speaker 2: wasn't gonna use him in a defense that doesn't blitz
Speaker 2: very often. I think that now he's got some time
Speaker 2: and some reps and a defense that maybe caters to
Speaker 2: his skill set a little bit more. And gosh, if
Speaker 2: you can get success from those two guys, if you
Speaker 2: can get production from Tyndall and Azukama in the third
Speaker 2: years of their career, you can bank on them in
Speaker 2: the fourth year of their career. Is cheap productive players
Speaker 2: and two positions on special teams on offense and defense,
Speaker 2: And that to me would just go a really long
Speaker 2: way to saving money because you don't have to go
Speaker 2: find those spots either in the draft next year or
Speaker 2: in free agency. It would just go a long way
Speaker 2: towards this team being sustained success or sustain their success,
Speaker 2: I should say, for a couple more years. Last break
Speaker 2: right here, come back on the other side. I have one, two, three, four, five,
Speaker 2: six more hits, and then we'll talk about the misses
Speaker 2: of the night. That's next Draft Time podcast, your host
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: No more sound bites. Let's go ahead and run through
Speaker 1: the final hits I had here.
Speaker 2: I was a fan of Jason Maytree once again that
Speaker 2: slot fade rep he began working more slot the last
Speaker 2: couple of weeks of training camp. I think he has
Speaker 2: a future there in this league in that role. The
Speaker 2: press re route, stay in phase, gets your head back
Speaker 2: to the football. And tip of the cap to coach
Speaker 2: Arujo Matthew Arugio, because that's been a bit of a
Speaker 2: theme for the cornerbacks this camp. I've noticed they all
Speaker 2: get their head turned around and find the football, which
Speaker 2: is not always the case.
Speaker 1: So I like that.
Speaker 2: Emphasis from the coaching staff speaking of cornerbacks Ethan Bonner
Speaker 2: got swiveled and got put on his butt on a
Speaker 2: play where he was chasing downhill in pursuit and got
Speaker 2: a crackback that he didn't see coming. Big time football man.
Speaker 2: But that third and two takeoff to the boundary was
Speaker 2: what I liked about him the most because it shows
Speaker 2: you he's confident. He's not afraid to take his face
Speaker 2: in the fan. We know that against the run and press,
Speaker 2: but the way he presses with the confidence of his
Speaker 2: long speed, like if he gives up a half a step,
Speaker 2: he knows he can make it up, and he's physical
Speaker 2: as hell in those presses. That has me intrigued. I
Speaker 2: think he is either cornerback three or four right now
Speaker 2: on this team, and.
Speaker 1: He's gonna play a lot of football this year.
Speaker 2: Jordan Colbert big hits, played fast and coverage, made a
Speaker 2: play on special teams, and Mark Perry I thought, had
Speaker 2: a nice undercut on a play when Chop had that
Speaker 2: quarterback hit and played the ball nicely. Thought he and
Speaker 2: Colbert played pretty well together out there. I mentioned Chop.
Speaker 2: He's the last guy I want to talk about here
Speaker 2: because it started off rough. He got walled off on
Speaker 2: some plays. He got doubled out of some plays. He
Speaker 2: had some stalemate pass rushes that went nowhere, but then
Speaker 2: he picked it up. He had a wicked speed, the
Speaker 2: power that threw his man off of his feet. He
Speaker 2: had an effective cross chop. He made a big play
Speaker 2: against the run. Any rookie is going to have some
Speaker 2: teachable moments out there, and he had those. But he
Speaker 2: has shown out each time and showed us bounce back tonight.
Speaker 2: That is a good showing to me. I'm excited about
Speaker 2: his future here. Maybe off the top it's more, you know, situational,
Speaker 2: but as he develops and gets more time and seasoning,
Speaker 2: he'll be just fine. Some rough nights tonight, Jody Fordson
Speaker 2: continues to not you know, it looks like a number
Speaker 2: eighty eight that was here in the past. When it
Speaker 2: comes to the blocking game, had another critical drop, which
Speaker 2: had been the case all throughout camp. I just don't
Speaker 2: see a way for him. I thought most of the
Speaker 2: receivers besides Maleak was was rough. You know, Burrios. I
Speaker 2: didn't see him get open on a couple of routes
Speaker 2: that he ran. Schwartz had a couple of plays where
Speaker 2: he got open, but outside of that, it was. It
Speaker 2: was pretty tough, but you also had like guys that
Speaker 2: just got here around those routes, So I don't want
Speaker 2: to bag on him too much. Just thought it was
Speaker 2: tough for the quarterbacks a lot of the time. I
Speaker 2: thought Brandon Peeley kind of got pushed around a little
Speaker 2: bit when he was in that first string getting some
Speaker 2: reps in the first team offense of the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: But that's who you're gonna see it come the season.
Speaker 2: That's why I don't think he's quite ready to contribute
Speaker 2: in that role yet, but we shall see. Neville Gallimore
Speaker 2: didn't get a lot of rush with or didn't get
Speaker 2: a lot of ground with his rush and got washed
Speaker 2: in the run game a couple of times. Elijah Campbell
Speaker 2: on that first deep shot from Baker Mayfield, I thought
Speaker 2: I had to play on the football and it looked
Speaker 2: like he kind of ran out of the play with
Speaker 2: his angle.
Speaker 1: Just wanted to make that mention on there.
Speaker 2: Storm Duck got caught a couple of times that that
Speaker 2: deep over for the touchdown was. You know, he was
Speaker 2: on bad he was outside leveraging on deep over with Mesh.
Speaker 2: That's pretty hard to cover. I thought he had a
Speaker 2: rough special team to night as well. I thought Jeff
Speaker 2: Wilson looked slow and didn't make that one catch that
Speaker 2: he should have made. He kind of might get caught
Speaker 2: numbers game that running back I mentioned the offensive line.
Speaker 2: I thought Cotton was a rough night for him. Driscoll
Speaker 2: besides it, Guard it was rough for Driscoll. Meyer had
Speaker 2: a shaky start but got better. Hayes I thought got
Speaker 2: boiled a little bit, and Matt To's really got pushed
Speaker 2: around as well, and then Wyatt Ray and Curtis Bolton
Speaker 2: I had kind of getting washed in the run game
Speaker 2: as well. So it's I mean these are all you know,
Speaker 2: twos and threes and four, so it is what it is.
Speaker 2: Rough end of the preseason, got some good looks overall.
Speaker 2: We have a big schedule for you guys next week Monday,
Speaker 2: Roster predictions and some recaps from this game that I
Speaker 2: watched on film. On Tuesday, the actual roster will be announced.
Speaker 2: We'll have that with Chris Career sound on that podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do a NFL Predictions episode. I think I
Speaker 2: might do a Stats and Dolphins episode where I look
Speaker 2: at our opponents and talk about them from the matchup perspective,
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