Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: Is up Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: football Football, Baby, Football is back. We are back on
Speaker 2: the grass for day one of Dolphins Camp twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: A rain soaked abbreviated practice brought us a nice little
Speaker 2: chunk of notes. The run game got clicking. We heard
Speaker 2: from Austin Jackson on that. We saw Jalen Wright have
Speaker 2: a couple of big runs. I got some more offensive
Speaker 2: line notes for you guys. We saw more growth from
Speaker 2: quarterback to a tongue of bailoa. Make sure I tell
Speaker 2: you about that. Here from Tua, Here from coach McDaniel,
Speaker 2: Here from Austin Jackson, Jordan Brooks, and so much more
Speaker 2: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Ye, daff I gotta
Speaker 2: catch my breath, man, I am fired up. It was
Speaker 2: a shorter practice, partially indoors, partially outdoors. Uh, the South
Speaker 2: Florida weather does not always uh what's the word cooperate?
Speaker 2: Almost said participate. It definitely participates, but it does not
Speaker 2: always cooperate. I will say this. Today was the first
Speaker 2: Dolphins training camp practice where I didn't break a sweat
Speaker 2: because it was raining and it was windy and it
Speaker 2: wasn't that hot that the Dolphins got some valuable work in.
Speaker 2: I want to kick off the podcast though, with a
Speaker 2: few news items, because coach McDaniel wade in on a
Speaker 2: few you know, rostered things, certain situations with guys, and
Speaker 2: I think it's important to.
Speaker 3: Pick it up with some of the news. He lets
Speaker 3: go ahead and do that.
Speaker 2: Off the top, slow down, Travis got a long way
Speaker 2: to go here, Leam Eichenberger, the status of him. Off
Speaker 2: the top, here's coach McDaniel on the Dolphins offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: Uh Liam is weak. What is that regular season?
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna put a timeline on it, and I
Speaker 5: wouldn't bet against you know, arguably, it's tough of a player.
Speaker 5: As I've been around, he's he's played in football games
Speaker 5: that a majority of players that have coached wouldn't be
Speaker 5: able to. So I'm I'm feeling good about an unknown
Speaker 5: timeline because of the player, But I don't It's not
Speaker 5: like a season ender or anything like that.
Speaker 2: He fought to Mela Fan, who was also placed on
Speaker 2: a on a list, it's the non football injury list.
Speaker 2: Coach McDaniel weighed in on that.
Speaker 5: I would say, it's, uh, it's nothing that I'm worried about,
Speaker 5: and it's rooted in a good amount of preventative nature.
Speaker 2: And a third player was added to the I guess
Speaker 2: the one of the inactive lists, right, non football injury list,
Speaker 2: the pup Waller like Liam on Pup. Here's coach McDaniel
Speaker 2: on that decision.
Speaker 5: You know you're you're trying to be responsible. Literally, there's
Speaker 5: no gravity to it.
Speaker 4: It's just that.
Speaker 5: This is a very well conditioned athlete who's in great shape.
Speaker 5: There's a zero to sixty element in science in general
Speaker 5: that you try to avoid, and so being preventative and
Speaker 5: responsible as he gets his feet wet. That was our
Speaker 5: motivation and excited to not be mad at myself on
Speaker 5: day two when I was like what am I doing?
Speaker 2: And the final roster moves that were announced on Tuesday
Speaker 2: is that the Dolphins released quarterback Brett Gabert and signed
Speaker 2: an offensive lineman Daniel Bruntskill, who we talked about on
Speaker 2: the podcast as a really good potential fit here for
Speaker 2: a guy that could compete for swing work on the interior,
Speaker 2: can play some tackle in a pinch, has some center experience.
Speaker 2: Played four years in San Francisco with forty two starts there,
Speaker 2: had twenty four starts the last two years in Tennessee.
Speaker 2: But it's that familiarity with coach McDaniel. We're playing with
Speaker 2: him for four years or playing for him for four
Speaker 2: years on the offensive line. All of a sudden, now Miami,
Speaker 2: we're gonna talk plenty of o line today. And how
Speaker 2: impressed I was by the first five, But now, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, you've got guys that can play swing
Speaker 2: spots on the interior, on the outside, do a little
Speaker 2: bit of both. And Daniel Brunskill fits that mold big time.
Speaker 2: Starting an experience in two places, experience in the scheme,
Speaker 2: I asked coach McDaniel, West stands out about his game,
Speaker 2: but also how important is that relationship you had with
Speaker 2: him going back to San Francisco.
Speaker 5: It's cool to have relationships with players where you're fortunate
Speaker 5: enough to really see the whole journey, and you know,
Speaker 5: with with Brunskill in particular, you know, I remember watching
Speaker 5: man well, what was it, There was a there was
Speaker 5: a league that he was playing in that wasn't college,
Speaker 5: and it wasn't the NFL, and it.
Speaker 4: Escapes me right now, but don't judge me.
Speaker 5: And he uh, I got to watch him, you know,
Speaker 5: be a new guy on the team and earn a
Speaker 5: roster spot and with nothing promised, and then to watch
Speaker 5: him develop his games so that he could start in
Speaker 5: the National Football League and have a real career at
Speaker 5: several positions. That's it's cool to add a guy that
Speaker 5: you get to be a part of the process.
Speaker 4: So what we're getting, uh is.
Speaker 5: And a guy that not only helps the offensive line,
Speaker 5: but helps the whole whole team.
Speaker 4: And and that the more.
Speaker 5: Guys you add that that are really focused on being
Speaker 5: a part of a winning football team and put prioritize
Speaker 5: that over everything else.
Speaker 4: That the the the strength of the masses is real.
Speaker 5: And you know, I know one thing from Dan Brunskill
Speaker 5: is the dude is gonna be over prepared competitive. He's
Speaker 5: assuming right now that you guys have nothing good to
Speaker 5: say about him, and he's in He's gonna work to
Speaker 5: prove you otherwise that how he operates. And that's a
Speaker 5: mentality I think is important in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And then one additional news item here to conclude practice.
Speaker 2: On the last play of practice, the Dolphins did lose
Speaker 2: a player, Byron Mattos went down and was put on
Speaker 2: a stretcher and air looked into a medical facility for
Speaker 2: further evaluation. He was in stable condition, so that was
Speaker 2: good to see. But that's how practice concluded today here
Speaker 2: in Miami Gardens. Speaking of practice, it was earlier than
Speaker 2: it has been in years past, and that was something
Speaker 2: the Dolphins were intentional about. And I've talked about this
Speaker 2: the entire offseason with the Dolphins approach to roster building
Speaker 2: and how they can attack certain things within the shortcomings
Speaker 2: they've experienced in the recent years. Talked about it on
Speaker 2: yesterday's podcast as recent as yesterday, and the practice time
Speaker 2: changes was part of that, and I think it's a
Speaker 2: good look at how amenable coach McDaniel and his staff
Speaker 2: are to trying to find different ways to curate what
Speaker 2: will make the most successful products in the football field.
Speaker 2: And changing the practice time, a lot of stuff went
Speaker 2: into that. I'll go ahead and let coach finish our
Speaker 2: news item dump here off the top of the podcast.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of reasons that are very specific to
Speaker 5: this particular team and this particular training camp.
Speaker 4: You know, with you know, you get used to a ramp.
Speaker 5: Up period in in reps and stuff, and and being
Speaker 5: able to do that and and really in the most
Speaker 5: vulnerable portion of camp, try to minimize some soft tissue
Speaker 5: a little bit, maybe avoid some.
Speaker 4: Uh you know, some days where you're.
Speaker 5: Having to stop practice in the middle of things and
Speaker 5: go from grass cleats onto turf, you know, weather stuff.
Speaker 5: And then you know, we also have some challenging things
Speaker 5: that I'm factoring in moving forward in the uh, you know,
Speaker 5: within the pre within the pre season where you have
Speaker 5: we're going on the road and spending some time away
Speaker 5: and have some joint practices and you know, several several
Speaker 5: competitive physical practices and games in a ten day period.
Speaker 4: So we need all hands on deck.
Speaker 5: And then you know that by that point where we've
Speaker 5: gone on the road and we come back to Florida,
Speaker 5: we'll we'll adjust to time, keep things fresh and and
Speaker 5: compete against the heat as we always do. So a
Speaker 5: lot of things at play. It was very very thought out.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, there's coach will come back
Speaker 2: to him for a couple more comments on some specific players,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to start with this because as the
Speaker 2: weather did not cooperate early on in practice, we were
Speaker 2: in the indoor facility. And I've communicated this with you
Speaker 2: guys in the past and the show. It just kind
Speaker 2: of changes the landscape for how I cover practice. And
Speaker 2: I don't have my laptop out, I can't fire off
Speaker 2: the notes as quickly. I just don't have the access
Speaker 2: to get all my thoughts down besides typing on my
Speaker 2: phone right away. But it does give me a different
Speaker 2: view of the practice field where we're kind of right
Speaker 2: on top of the offensive line during the individual drills,
Speaker 2: and I always appreciate that because that's usually the group
Speaker 2: it's furthest away from the advantage point we have on
Speaker 2: the field in the outdoor facility, and it gives you
Speaker 2: a chance to really hone in on those individual drills.
Speaker 2: And I got to tell you guys, the way I
Speaker 2: just took in Patrick Paul and James Daniels and jonahsavit Naya.
Speaker 2: They were doing these combination blocks, which is everyday thing,
Speaker 2: right the individual drills. It's not like something crazy new
Speaker 2: that you don't expect. It's the same type of stuff
Speaker 2: you wrapped the technique rep the drills, same as any
Speaker 2: other sport, and they were firing off the football, which
Speaker 2: you know is very important here. You know, it's a
Speaker 2: comment I've made about every single player on the offensive
Speaker 2: line who can get out of their stance out of
Speaker 2: the blocks faster than the guy across from them. And
Speaker 2: that's kind of the genesis of this offense and the
Speaker 2: basis of the outside zone game, which sets up the
Speaker 2: rest of the offense for how it wants to attack defenses.
Speaker 2: And I knew this about Jonah. We've talked about it
Speaker 2: on the podcast, We've broken down his film for you
Speaker 2: guys on HQ and every different avenue of content we do.
Speaker 2: But the way he was firing out of his stance
Speaker 2: and impacting the bag with good pad level and leverage
Speaker 2: and pop and you could hear it, and driving guys
Speaker 2: off the football even though it was, you know, an
Speaker 2: offensive line and holding a bag. I was like, dude,
Speaker 2: that just doesn't look like anything else I've seen. And
Speaker 2: then Kyle Krabs great lockdown. Dolphin's host is next to me,
Speaker 2: and I keep telling him, please watch seventy two over
Speaker 2: here and tell me what you think. And we both
Speaker 2: look up at the same time and he gets into
Speaker 2: a rep and just fires off the ball and does
Speaker 2: the best rep of the ones I'm just talking about.
Speaker 2: And sometimes I love having Kyle here because we'll see
Speaker 2: something and just be on the exact same wavelength and
Speaker 2: it's a nonverbal communication, like just eye contact, like oh,
Speaker 2: like I remember one time Tua made a throw and
Speaker 2: we were like, buddy, that'll play. That'll work to a
Speaker 2: And so I'm just very very excited about what that
Speaker 2: looks like. What it looked like for James Daniels in
Speaker 2: his first training camp practice the Miami Dolphins and then
Speaker 2: watching Patrick Paul settle into his pass sets and his punch.
Speaker 2: And this is a guy that he's talked about his
Speaker 2: time at Houston as a player that was doing more
Speaker 2: catching technique where you kind of throw the hands out
Speaker 2: wide and absorb the rush into your chest and rely
Speaker 2: upon elite physical traits to win the rep that way.
Speaker 2: And he won that way, but it wasn't what you
Speaker 2: want to teach him as far as like how to
Speaker 2: play in this offense. So he had to kind of
Speaker 2: relearn technique and how to place his hands and where
Speaker 2: to throw the punch and how to settle into reps
Speaker 2: or to pass sets. And I'm watching him go through
Speaker 2: this individual drill where he's just at a really nice
Speaker 2: stance right, like his crouch is good, the knee bend
Speaker 2: is good, He's not bending at the waste. He's into
Speaker 2: a good, solid stance where you can throw that punch
Speaker 2: and move laterally, which you have to do in this
Speaker 2: offense obviously. And then the way Patrick Paul put that
Speaker 2: together in team drills, I thought he was one of
Speaker 2: the best players, if not the best player on the
Speaker 2: field all day. A couple of two of his passes
Speaker 2: had plenty of time to throw, and it was because
Speaker 2: of a one on one block from Patrick Paul beating
Speaker 2: Bradley Chubb beating Chop Robinson getting movement in the running game,
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright had a big run off of his butt
Speaker 2: where Paul was able to seal the edge and really
Speaker 2: just kind of keep that force defender at bay. So
Speaker 2: Patrick Paul I looked like the product that I wanted
Speaker 2: to see here on day one.
Speaker 3: Albeit no pads.
Speaker 2: One day of practice, not gonna like put him in
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame, but I thought he was really
Speaker 2: really good out there at practice. I thought Jonah's work
Speaker 2: firing off the football really paid dividends in the team
Speaker 2: drills in terms of how you know the big runs
Speaker 2: to that they came from these cutback lanes where Jalen
Speaker 2: Wright or Devon h Cham would press a gap and
Speaker 2: then find a cutback lane. And the way Jonah could
Speaker 2: fold down that front side of the offensive line and
Speaker 2: then create that cutback lane for the running back. It
Speaker 2: was noticeable as tangible, and so I thought that was
Speaker 2: really impressive. James Daniels got some work in there. Key
Speaker 2: On Smith I think looks like just another year of
Speaker 2: development for him in terms of his body type and
Speaker 2: how good he looks and how fast he looks in
Speaker 2: his position, flexibility to play multiple spots. So I was
Speaker 2: pretty impressed by the offensive line. Those guys stood out
Speaker 2: the most. Austin Jackson got some surge as well. He
Speaker 2: had some really good one on one bounds with Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 2: Chubb got him once for I think you could call
Speaker 2: it a sackle, though I think it ended up being
Speaker 2: on the right guard, which I think was Jackson Carmen
Speaker 2: on that particular rep. They rotate guys a lot in
Speaker 2: this offense, but man, those those front five guys really
Speaker 2: really really impressive upfront so far on Day one and
Speaker 2: the way that the individual drills carried over to team drills.
Speaker 2: That was the most impressive part of the game of
Speaker 2: the day, I should say, And to get that vantage
Speaker 2: point in practice. It makes me excited to watch how
Speaker 2: these guys develop and how things go because we've heard
Speaker 2: Butch Berry talk in the past about how, like the
Speaker 2: results right now really aren't aren't what matters, Like who cares?
Speaker 2: I saw a Cowboys fan account today tweeting about Gealen
Speaker 2: Hurts going like seven for twenty one in practice. I'm like, Okay, well,
Speaker 2: what was the last time he was on a football
Speaker 2: field in the game?
Speaker 3: What did he do?
Speaker 2: Like he threw for three touchdowns in a Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: So I don't really care about that other stuff. And
Speaker 2: Butch Berry's talked about, you know, this baseline of installing
Speaker 2: certain things, you know, harping on these techniques and fundamentals,
Speaker 2: then you grow and expand His camp goes along to
Speaker 2: see them at that point here in day one, with
Speaker 2: the athletic traits that just jump off the field at
Speaker 2: you if you're watching for it. I'm really encouraged by that,
Speaker 2: really impressed by that, And that goes off the heels
Speaker 2: of adding a player like Daniel Brunskill, who I just
Speaker 2: thought was the perfect addition to the offensive line, especially
Speaker 2: in the potential absence of Leam Eikenberg. He's got that
Speaker 2: toughness that you know, kind of the doubted mentality that
Speaker 2: that coach me down and talked about earlier, can play
Speaker 2: multiple spots. I just I'm really bullish on where this
Speaker 2: offensive line can get to this year. And I'll conclude
Speaker 2: this idea the segment with a quote here from Austin Jackson,
Speaker 2: who has asked about his work in the Running game
Speaker 2: and how excited he is for what he thinks this
Speaker 2: Dolphins offense or what he knows because he's part of
Speaker 2: the team, what he knows is going to look like
Speaker 2: this year in terms of how the running game looks.
Speaker 3: Here's Austin Jackson.
Speaker 4: You're gonna see all types of line.
Speaker 6: I'm really excited for our run game this year as
Speaker 6: well as our past game, but most of our run game,
Speaker 6: just because that's kind of what we hang our head
Speaker 6: on in this system.
Speaker 4: We're very proud, We're very proud of the techniques.
Speaker 6: We used to block, and yeah, we're we're looking forward
Speaker 6: for everybody, every every concept we have now.
Speaker 3: I think that's instructive.
Speaker 2: And the reason I wanted to play that was because
Speaker 2: you've heard this from anybody that evaluates film for a living,
Speaker 2: or national reporters, or anybody that's you know, into these
Speaker 2: InVogue play callers of the last you know, five ten
Speaker 2: years off the Shanahan McVeigh tree, and they'll tell you
Speaker 2: the Dolphins have one of, if not the most expansive
Speaker 2: run game in the NFL. And the other team that
Speaker 2: you put up there is the forty nine ers in
Speaker 2: the Rams, right, two teams that came off that same
Speaker 2: coaching tree as far as McVeigh and Shanahan go. And
Speaker 2: I think about that, I think about what we've seen
Speaker 2: from the last few years of the Dolphins, and last year,
Speaker 2: I think the execution came up short, more so than
Speaker 2: the game plan itself, just in terms of how it
Speaker 2: was blocked. But to think about getting these pieces up
Speaker 2: front right, to get to Patrick Paul in place and
Speaker 2: get him humming hopefully, and to get Aaron Brewer in
Speaker 2: his second year, and to get Jonah and to get
Speaker 2: James and what their athletic profile and their overall football
Speaker 2: composition looks like. I think is potentially a big upgrade
Speaker 2: at that position with Austin Jackson's return, and then you
Speaker 2: add another layer to that with which is, you know,
Speaker 2: an added year of experience in the system within the
Speaker 2: offense with the quarterback, with the same running backs a
Speaker 2: Chan Jalen Wright coming back, and so much continuity there,
Speaker 2: same offensive line coach. It excites me about how they
Speaker 2: can expand the menu from that standpoint. If this run
Speaker 2: game can get to that point that can expand their
Speaker 2: run game menu. It just adds more layers of opportunity
Speaker 2: to find Reek and Waddle because, like to me, this
Speaker 2: offense when it runs the ball, you're hitting jabs and
Speaker 2: then you set the jabs up for the right hook,
Speaker 2: which is Waddle or Reek on a eighty yard touchdown.
Speaker 2: So yeah, man, I think there's a lot to be
Speaker 2: excited about in that regard with the running backs, the
Speaker 2: offensive line, and how it can impact the rest of
Speaker 2: the team from a schematic standpoint in the offense and
Speaker 2: the quarterback and ultimately the passing game, which we talked
Speaker 2: about it if you can throw the ball as well
Speaker 2: as anybody else, you're going to win games in this league.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and take a break right there. Come
Speaker 2: back on the other side. I have one more quote
Speaker 2: here from Austin Jackson. I'll play on the other side,
Speaker 2: but I want to get back into the run game
Speaker 2: with Jalen Wright and talk about his big day on
Speaker 2: Day one. That's Next Draft Time podcast, brought to you
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Speaker 6: Oh, there's something that we as the players decided. You know,
Speaker 6: we have pre snat penalties. We're gonna punish ourselves for that.
Speaker 6: You know, things that are in our controllables is what
Speaker 6: we call that presnat penalties.
Speaker 4: We can control that.
Speaker 6: So if you make the mistake in practice, we're going
Speaker 6: to self correct ourselves with a little disciplinary action.
Speaker 2: My apologies for the balancing of the audio. That's as
Speaker 2: loud as I can get Austin's audio there. So the rain,
Speaker 2: the helicopter over the top was was making things challenging there.
Speaker 2: But I wanted to lead the segment of the show
Speaker 2: with that because we saw the team run gass in
Speaker 2: that practice. I think I counted three false starts in
Speaker 2: the day. It's not the cleanest of operation from the
Speaker 2: offensive line and the offense in terms of getting off
Speaker 2: the snap properly, but these are, you know, day one
Speaker 2: things But the bigger note to me here is the
Speaker 2: level of accountability being put forward. And we've heard, you know,
Speaker 2: all off season about the accountability of you know, being
Speaker 2: where you're supposed to be, being on time and things
Speaker 2: like this, and self policing and how you can you know,
Speaker 2: earn a certain level of rope based upon how you
Speaker 2: self polish yourself. And we're getting an example of it
Speaker 2: already here in date number one. Things weren't as crisp
Speaker 2: as they could have been. The offensive line, to Austin's point,
Speaker 2: punishes itself by running the gassers. And then I'll make
Speaker 2: it stick with you for you know, going forward. And
Speaker 2: and I wanted to play this additional sound clip here
Speaker 2: from Tua who was.
Speaker 3: Fourth right about Tyreek at the end of last year.
Speaker 2: Right, And I'm I'm ready to kind of turn the
Speaker 2: page on this, but I think because it was talked
Speaker 2: about today, we can kind of harp on it one
Speaker 2: more time about Tyreek's Week eighteen comments and actions which
Speaker 2: are inexcusable in a football field.
Speaker 3: And we've heard.
Speaker 2: You know, McDaniel talk about Tyreek's commitment, We've heard players
Speaker 2: talk about his commitment and showing what he's about the
Speaker 2: last three months and he's gonna have to continue that
Speaker 2: for the next six months, right, And I think that
Speaker 2: when you talk about accountability and holding each other accountable,
Speaker 2: Austin making that comment about the offensive line holding itself accountable, well,
Speaker 2: the best way to have ultimate accountability reminds me of
Speaker 2: stories you hear about Tom Brady, for instance, like the
Speaker 2: great Ted Karras story he told the other day on
Speaker 2: Julian Edelman's podcast about how Tom wants his center's backsides
Speaker 2: to be dry. You better, you better, like, you know,
Speaker 2: listen to Tom because it's Tom freaking Brady, and they're like,
Speaker 2: we're just happy he's talking to us at any point
Speaker 2: of practice. But to have your quarterback, the guy that
Speaker 2: is the you know, best player on the team, the
Speaker 2: leader of a team, all that stuff, to have him
Speaker 2: be the one that sets the standard, like that's like
Speaker 2: big bro, right, Like you wouldn't you might be more
Speaker 2: inclined to act up in front of a teacher versus
Speaker 2: compared to your big brother who's in the same class,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense. And so I wanted to play
Speaker 2: this sound from Tua talking about Tyreek and how he's
Speaker 2: not just going to come back in here and re
Speaker 2: earn that trust, like right away, it's a process. I
Speaker 2: think this is a really good step in accountability and
Speaker 2: leadership up in terms of two taking that next step
Speaker 2: and his role as the quarterback and ultimately the biggest
Speaker 2: leader on this football team.
Speaker 7: I would say we're still continuing to do that. But
Speaker 7: it's not just with me. It's it's with a lot
Speaker 7: of the guys. I'm not the only one that heard that.
Speaker 7: You guys aren't the only people that heard that. You
Speaker 7: know a lot of people that follow football, that follow
Speaker 7: the Miami Dolphins, that follow Tyreek, that are fans of his.
Speaker 7: Everyone has seen that. So when you say something like that,
Speaker 7: it's you don't just come back from that with hey
Speaker 7: my bad. You know, you got you gotta work that
Speaker 7: that relationship up. You got to build everything up again.
Speaker 7: And yeah that it's still a work in progress, not
Speaker 7: just for me but for everybody. But like I said,
Speaker 7: he's he's working on himself. He's working on the things
Speaker 7: that he say. You know, he says he wants to
Speaker 7: get better with and do better on. So that's the
Speaker 7: first step to me, and so I commend him for
Speaker 7: doing that.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, the old shame on me, shame
Speaker 2: on you type of situation. But I feel like there
Speaker 2: are better measures in place to withstand the adversity to
Speaker 2: keep things in line this year. That's my initial read
Speaker 2: on it. It's early. We'll find out as we go along
Speaker 2: and put a pin in that note and come back
Speaker 2: and talk about some more football stuff here.
Speaker 3: So I told you I was.
Speaker 2: Pretty excited about what I saw from the Dolphins running
Speaker 2: backs on this day, and in particular Jalen Wright, who
Speaker 2: I've been vocal about my admiration with his game, I
Speaker 2: guess is a good way to put it, and I
Speaker 2: think that there's a lot of good vision and power
Speaker 2: and speed and we saw all that today on the
Speaker 2: practice field. There was a run where he got off
Speaker 2: the left side of the formation. I talked about Patrick
Speaker 2: Paul stealing that edge for him, and he really did
Speaker 2: a good job of pressing the gap between Pat and
Speaker 2: the left guard. And when you do that, you force
Speaker 2: a defender to adhere to that gap and slide over
Speaker 2: and then you can recreate a better angle for the
Speaker 2: blockers by doing that. And so Jalen is so good
Speaker 2: at pressing the gap that he did that and basically
Speaker 2: took a defender out of the hole, by his decision making,
Speaker 2: by his patience to allow the play to develop the
Speaker 2: way it had to develop, and he got out the
Speaker 2: gate for a big run after that, and it was
Speaker 2: his second big run of the day pretty early on
Speaker 2: where I just thought he was gashing, you know, back
Speaker 2: across the grain, finding lanes and hitting that second gear
Speaker 2: in open space. He looks good then number five Jersey.
Speaker 2: I think that he is well on his way for
Speaker 2: a big role and possibly a big season here for
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins if he keeps going the way he
Speaker 2: is because spring ball and day one was really impressive
Speaker 2: to watch. Long way to go here, but man, just
Speaker 2: the way he sets up his runs to exploit the
Speaker 2: defenders from where they have to move to. Very very
Speaker 2: impressed by what I saw from day one, and a
Speaker 2: continuation of the skills that I think make him, you know,
Speaker 2: give him a lot of potential to be effective in
Speaker 2: this league. Haven't talked about our quarterback at all? Have
Speaker 2: we two a tongue v I Lois So he had
Speaker 2: I mean a pretty too a day. There wasn't a
Speaker 2: lot of passing game, a lot of run game today,
Speaker 2: not a lot of team reps either, so not a
Speaker 2: ton to go off of. But a couple of completions
Speaker 2: over the middle of the field did Jelen Waddle. That's
Speaker 2: pretty standard these days. A couple of twenty yard shots,
Speaker 2: one between a tight window over storm. Duck threw the
Speaker 2: ball really well on time, got it out quickly, moved
Speaker 2: off off script a little bit. There was a play
Speaker 2: where I think it was Bradley Chubb got in for
Speaker 2: a sack, but he continued to play and sprinted towards
Speaker 2: the sideline left and threw a ball thirty yards down
Speaker 2: the field for Waddle for a completion and had some
Speaker 2: good velocity. He was spinning the ball in the individual portions.
Speaker 2: That was something that Kyle Krabs leaned over and said, like, man,
Speaker 2: ball shopping off one's hand to They looked pretty good
Speaker 2: and I was like, yeah, that's get used to that
Speaker 2: when you come out of these practices.
Speaker 3: Man, he's fun to watch.
Speaker 2: But he did a good job of holding off on
Speaker 2: some deep shot opportunities that weren't there to find the
Speaker 2: check down. He got alec Ingold out wide for like
Speaker 2: a twenty five yard catch and run out in space
Speaker 2: after you know, stepping up out of pressure, and that
Speaker 2: was pretty common for Tua today. Was stepping up off
Speaker 2: the back foot, driving up into the pocket, getting a
Speaker 2: wiggle step one way left or right the other, and
Speaker 2: finding extra time to buy time to get those completions
Speaker 2: in the short area of the field. So I thought
Speaker 2: he was pretty sharp. Not a lot to look at there.
Speaker 2: The offense as a whole, I thought had ups and downs.
Speaker 2: Mentioned the false starts. There was a lot of tackles
Speaker 2: for loss early on. In fact, the defense kind of
Speaker 2: came out humming early on. I saw a let's see
Speaker 2: a Jordan Brooks blitz behind Zach Seeler who bul rushed
Speaker 2: the guard to move to off the spot. And then
Speaker 2: two I had to step up and dump the ball
Speaker 2: off to Leak Washington who couldn't secure the pass in
Speaker 2: the rain. Let's see there was a Zach Steeler tackle
Speaker 2: for loss, Jordan Brooks tackle for loss. I had Bradley
Speaker 2: Chubb with a sack and a tackle for loss. There
Speaker 2: was a rep in practice where Jalen Wright you know, sorry,
Speaker 2: Davon A. Chan got out the gate. Chan had another
Speaker 2: nice day as well. By the way, he looks so
Speaker 2: quick and had some really nasty cutbacks to get himself
Speaker 2: into space. But there was a play where he got
Speaker 2: into space and Chubb and Phillips, like the running backs
Speaker 2: typically run the ball out like either to the end
Speaker 2: zone or like forty yards down the field because they
Speaker 2: come off the field and someone else checks in for him.
Speaker 2: They finished their run, get their conditioning in, and then
Speaker 2: go off to the sideline. And on this run, nobody
Speaker 2: like the play was over, but there was two guys
Speaker 2: that chased the ball, and it was Bradley Chubb and
Speaker 2: it was Jalen Phillips. We talked about that during spring ball,
Speaker 2: with McDaniel mentioning the tone setting actions of those guys
Speaker 2: and how excited they aread to be back on the
Speaker 2: field and how it can have this reverberating effect across
Speaker 2: the rest of the roster. I think we saw that
Speaker 2: today and I was very impressed by that, and I
Speaker 2: think it's instructive going forward about what those guys being
Speaker 2: back could do, not just for your skill set and
Speaker 2: your game in general, but what it could do for
Speaker 2: this team's mindset and how they approach the game following
Speaker 2: those guys as lead. I'm very impressed by what those
Speaker 2: guys have done. Some other notes here let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and do more of this before we get back into
Speaker 2: the press conference audio. I thought Tan O'Connor was involved
Speaker 2: and made some plays. There was a play where he
Speaker 2: got stripped at the end of the play, but I
Speaker 2: think it was more him like slowing down the play
Speaker 2: being over, the whistles had blown, somebody comes in, punches
Speaker 2: it out, they pick it up and run all the
Speaker 2: way back, and so it looked like a fumble, but
Speaker 2: I don't think it was.
Speaker 3: He was involved.
Speaker 2: He caught up several passes looked very quick to me,
Speaker 2: so he seems to be a guy that's trending in
Speaker 2: the right direction. Grayson Murphy had a wicked dip off
Speaker 2: the edge for a would be sack on Quinn Yewers,
Speaker 2: who did extend the play after Murphy tagged off and
Speaker 2: threw a really nice ball to Mono. Ray ball went
Speaker 2: up the sideline. But I thought that was pretty impressive
Speaker 2: work there from Grays and Murphy, who, again I talked
Speaker 2: about it yesterday, makes a play every single day in
Speaker 2: these camp practices.
Speaker 3: What else do I got? That's pretty much it.
Speaker 2: I thought Jordan Phillips had a really good run stuff
Speaker 2: where he was able to clog up a double team,
Speaker 2: get off the block and really look impressive in his work.
Speaker 2: A lot to get to here. We're pretty brief on
Speaker 2: notes today. It was again rain soaked indoor to outdoor,
Speaker 2: just not a lot of great opportunities for notes, but
Speaker 2: we'll be back at tomorrow for you guys. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and take our last break right there, come back
Speaker 2: on the other side and finish up with a few
Speaker 2: more notes or I should say audio soundbites from practice
Speaker 2: and from the day in general. That's Next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 2: brought to you by AutoNation. I mentioned on the other
Speaker 2: side of the break that I had audio from Jordan Brooks,
Speaker 2: and I mentioned cater Co who at one point two.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go ahead and bump those. You can find
Speaker 2: him on the team YouTube channel. We're just getting long here,
Speaker 2: and I have more comments from Tua and McDaniel I
Speaker 2: want to play for you guys, so you can go
Speaker 2: ahead and find those on the team YouTube channel. A
Speaker 2: couple last notes here from practice that I didn't get
Speaker 2: to on the other side either. I saw a rep
Speaker 2: where Minka Fitzpatrick kind of walled off a deep route
Speaker 2: attempt by Jillan Waddell, and it looked like he was
Speaker 2: really in tune to how that route concept developed, which
Speaker 2: is his entire game. Right you heard mcdonaley talk about him,
Speaker 2: or no, we're gonna have McDonald talk about him in
Speaker 2: one second. I saw it on the practice field, which also,
Speaker 2: by the way, Minca was like leading the DBS, like
Speaker 2: breaking the huddle and lead him onto the outdoor facility
Speaker 2: or the outdoor practice field. So he's already picking up,
Speaker 2: you know, kind of where he left off in Pittsburgh here,
Speaker 2: and it's been fun to watch him do that. So
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and play some sound here from coach
Speaker 2: McDaniel on the Menca Fitzpatrick acquisition a lot of good
Speaker 2: stuff here from coach on Minca, who they said they
Speaker 2: watched teach tape of Minca in practice or down here
Speaker 2: in Miami of his time in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 5: As you enter into negotiations of you know, any sort
Speaker 5: of trade, you try to identify first and foremost that
Speaker 5: the player receiving wants to play football for you. So
Speaker 5: whatever that means, uh yeah, I mean, uhh. We are excited.
Speaker 5: I'm elated to have to add Minka to the team
Speaker 5: because it's an opportunity, UH to have a player that
Speaker 5: I was, that I've been coaching off of and plays
Speaker 5: the position the way that we here want to play
Speaker 5: the position. That he gets to actually play the position,
Speaker 5: it's a It's a real good fit based on his
Speaker 5: skill set both in and athletically, and and what he's
Speaker 5: able to do with his transitions in the open field,
Speaker 5: and then elite ball skills and then leadership. You know,
Speaker 5: it was something that you know, National Football League's hard,
Speaker 5: especially when you're a guy like Minka that puts everything
Speaker 5: into it, and so you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things that go on when you're all in with the
Speaker 5: team and then your team changes. That being said, you're
Speaker 5: a football first guy that wants to be around teammates
Speaker 5: that care about football, and you're driven to win and
Speaker 5: write your own story. It was very confident that this
Speaker 5: would be a place that he would fit right in.
Speaker 5: I know a lot of Bama guys know a lot
Speaker 5: of guys in the NFL, so had a lot of
Speaker 5: foresight into what the what he was coming back to.
Speaker 5: And shoot, he couldn't get in the twenty nine jersey
Speaker 5: fast enough.
Speaker 2: Let's hear from Minca's X and now current teammate to
Speaker 2: a tongue of Biloa on how excited he is to
Speaker 2: have another Bama guy back in the fold.
Speaker 7: I mean, I I don't know that I have so
Speaker 7: many good things to say about Minco because when I
Speaker 7: when I was there my freshman year, that was his
Speaker 7: last year, you know, before we ended up pardon ways
Speaker 7: when he entered the draft. But I have a lot
Speaker 7: of good things to say about him. The mentor in
Speaker 7: a way that he was for that locker room back
Speaker 7: in seventeen. That's seventeen year and eighteen.
Speaker 2: I mean, the.
Speaker 7: Leadership that he gives off sort of the standard. Like
Speaker 7: I was talking to Mike about it too. With Mink,
Speaker 7: you know, there's the standard and then there's like someone
Speaker 7: that you can look at and you can say that's
Speaker 7: a standard, and like I don't I can't put words
Speaker 7: to what that standard is, but I kind of want
Speaker 7: to gravitate towards that person. And I think that's what.
Speaker 4: Minka gives off.
Speaker 2: One guy I forgot to mention, and Zach Wilson threw
Speaker 2: a really good ball to him, and quinn Ewers had
Speaker 2: one as well. Eric Azukama had two big plays, one
Speaker 2: that I think might have been a seventy yard touchdown
Speaker 2: on a slant from Zach Wilson, who I thought you
Speaker 2: Weers and Wilson both played more on time today than
Speaker 2: they did any previous practice in spring ball, which that
Speaker 2: growth is exactly what you want to see, and it
Speaker 2: was on display with a Zach Wilson completion to Eric
Speaker 2: Azukama between two defenders where it was so bang bang
Speaker 2: that they tried to converge on the pass and the
Speaker 2: air and they miss because the ball hit as Akama
Speaker 2: on the numbers and he takes off for a long
Speaker 2: touchdown looking like you know, Eric Azukama of that first preseason.
Speaker 3: So I think that's good for day.
Speaker 2: One, about thirty one minutes into the show here or
Speaker 2: give or take. I think we're gonna go ahead and
Speaker 2: call it right there. So I'll have a training camp
Speaker 2: notebook up on Miami Dolphins dot com. We'll have social
Speaker 2: media content for you guys all week. I expect even
Speaker 2: more tomorrow at practice. So quick one today, but I
Speaker 2: hope you guys enjoyed it. I enjoyed being back out there,
Speaker 2: enjoyed having some cool South Florida weather. We'll see what
Speaker 2: it looks like for the rest of the week and
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