Speaker 1: Practice Rolphis Patricks Pard touchdown. What a win for this
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphin team. Wow? What is up? Dolphins? And welcome
Speaker 1: to the Drivetime Podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins official
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Speaker 1: How's it going everybody? It is Wednesday. I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield, and I am here to bring you your
Speaker 1: daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: we've got nine, count them, nine assistant coaches from the
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive side of the football doing media. We're
Speaker 1: gonna play the hits on this Wednesday, September the second
Speaker 1: edition of the Drivetime Podcast Dolphins and Will Percocole talk
Speaker 1: to the coaches here of the Miami Dolphins. Some roster
Speaker 1: news that came in on Tuesday afternoon. The Dolphins have
Speaker 1: released receiver Ricardo Lewis. He of course with the team
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen on the injured reserve. He was cut
Speaker 1: back in July, re signed in August, and now he's
Speaker 1: been released again by the Miami Dolphins. Also, we have
Speaker 1: waived cornerback Dietrich Nichols, safety Jeremiah Denson, and defensive and
Speaker 1: Avery Moss. Each of those guys recently brought into the
Speaker 1: building as well, Avery Moss on his second stint here
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins. So some roster changes coming before
Speaker 1: cut down Day on Saturday. We're gonna have you guys
Speaker 1: covered on cutdown Day with all the latest news and
Speaker 1: notes about your Miami Dolphins. But asked for today's podcast,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and dive into the coaches media availability.
Speaker 1: We had nine assistants on this particular day, plenty of questions,
Speaker 1: plenty of answers, plenty of stuff to divulge from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins assistants. Let's go ahead and jump right in with
Speaker 1: defensive line coach Mary and Hobby, who was asked to
Speaker 1: evaluate the play of fifth round rookie out of North
Speaker 1: Carolina Jason Strowbridge. Well, I think I think Strowbridge has
Speaker 1: done a really good job and he's had a really
Speaker 1: good camp. You know, he's a young player. He's done
Speaker 1: better than the last time we talked. You know, he
Speaker 1: keeps getting better and better every every day. I think
Speaker 1: he's got a role on his team. You know, in
Speaker 1: the long season, I think we're gonna need him, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe the first week, second week. We all know when
Speaker 1: his number is going to be called, but I think
Speaker 1: we're differently gonna need him. You hear coach talking about
Speaker 1: the depth of the defensive line. There's something you have
Speaker 1: to have deep in spades at all possessions up front
Speaker 1: because of the nature of the league, the rotation business
Speaker 1: that it is nowadays, plus COVID contingencies, all the things
Speaker 1: that go into that. Jason Strowbridge interesting guy because he
Speaker 1: played both inside outside at North Carolina. We've heard Brian
Speaker 1: Flores talk about that now getting some work across the
Speaker 1: Dolphins defensive line up. Next, coach was asked about the
Speaker 1: depth and rotation on the interior of the defensive line
Speaker 1: with guys like Wilkins, God Show and ray Kwon Davis. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, with all the double teams that those guys
Speaker 1: again and all the pressure that get on the inside
Speaker 1: of Ringing, you'd like to keep him as fresh as possible,
Speaker 1: you know, and trying to keep a good rotation on
Speaker 1: each one of them. Um, you know, just just different
Speaker 1: packages that some people might play a little bit more
Speaker 1: than others, but it is definitely a conscious ever and
Speaker 1: to keep them, keep them fresh. And so last year
Speaker 1: you have rookie Christian Wilkins playing seven hundred twenty nine
Speaker 1: snaps on defense. That was six of the Dolphins defensive reps.
Speaker 1: Devon god Shall kind of in that same boat every
Speaker 1: year of his career, seven hundred and seventeen snaps last
Speaker 1: year of the Dolphins reps. And then once you got
Speaker 1: beyond John Jenkins, who played four hundred and seventy nine snaps,
Speaker 1: you were pretty short on bodies. With guys like Gerald
Speaker 1: Willis or Robert Kim DJ came over for a couple
Speaker 1: of snaps last year. We did pick up Zach Seiler
Speaker 1: at the end of the season and he played well
Speaker 1: down the stretch. You'll hear more about him here in
Speaker 1: just one moment. But you talk about the overall depth
Speaker 1: and rotation ability, the ability to keep these guys fresh,
Speaker 1: whether it's playing guys series by series or having different
Speaker 1: packages than guys play until they stay fresh. That way,
Speaker 1: you heard coach Hobby talking about the multiple options they
Speaker 1: have to keep guys fresh. Up front. It's just a
Speaker 1: deep group you have. You love the options you can
Speaker 1: throw at the posing offense, whether you're in an even front,
Speaker 1: odd front, four man front, three man front, whatever it
Speaker 1: might be, You've got options. This year, and Coach Hobby,
Speaker 1: in a separate question, would talk about how you can
Speaker 1: confuse the opposing offense with multiple rush looks. They don't
Speaker 1: know if four guys are coming, five guys are coming,
Speaker 1: whatever the case may be, that multiplicity creates confusion for
Speaker 1: the offense. We finished up here with Coach Hobby to
Speaker 1: evaluate the play of rookie ray Kwon Davis. You got
Speaker 1: massive correct. You know, he's a he's a big man
Speaker 1: and uh he's a big athletic man, and he does
Speaker 1: a great job. You know, he's he's very conscientious of
Speaker 1: what of his play. You know, he wants to be coached.
Speaker 1: You talk about a big, strong athlete that has the
Speaker 1: athletic ability of ray Kwon Davis and the desire to
Speaker 1: get better and to be coachable. That's a good combination
Speaker 1: there for that rookie out of Alabama. And on the
Speaker 1: topic of that length and size and ability to separate
Speaker 1: from the offensive line, coach had similar things to say
Speaker 1: about Zack Seeler his growth going in to next year
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins. After a good finish to the twenty
Speaker 1: nineteen season. Up next, we're gonna hear from coach Camp
Speaker 1: and only the linebackers coach here of the Miami Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and what I think was my favorite question and answer
Speaker 1: from the day on Wednesday, asking which Campanelli about how
Speaker 1: he maximizes his player's potential, kind of his approach to
Speaker 1: the coaching profession and his philosophy overall as a football coach.
Speaker 1: Here's coach Campanelli on the giving players information so they
Speaker 1: can process it and play faster. Really fascinating answer here
Speaker 1: from coach Campanelli. I believe a coach's job is the
Speaker 1: organized information so that the player can process it and
Speaker 1: play faster. Um. I think that's our job. So organizing
Speaker 1: the information so the guys are thinking a sound bites
Speaker 1: not sentences, um, and they can play fast. You know,
Speaker 1: I think good football players uh. And good football plays
Speaker 1: are made with anticipation. UM. So where's you're trying to
Speaker 1: take away all anxiety? Because you know anxiety obviously you're
Speaker 1: in fear, unsure of what's going to happen in the future,
Speaker 1: whether it be in the next few seconds or the
Speaker 1: next few weeks. UM. Anticipation is you have a pretty
Speaker 1: good idea. Hey, this is probably one or two or
Speaker 1: three things, not one of intend things. Um. And I
Speaker 1: think guys that have great anticipatory skills when they're playing.
Speaker 1: You can take a guy that and maybe he's a
Speaker 1: four seven, but he looks like he's playing at a
Speaker 1: four or four, and and vice a versa. You can
Speaker 1: have a guy that is a four or four running
Speaker 1: the wrong direction. So I think our job as coaches
Speaker 1: h is to get that progression down because your your eyes, feet,
Speaker 1: and hands. I think it usually goes to that progression
Speaker 1: each play. My eyes are going to tell my fee
Speaker 1: what to do in my hands by any time, you know,
Speaker 1: and a lot of information is sent from the eyes
Speaker 1: to the brain telling your feet what to do each play.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a big role in terms of
Speaker 1: the schematics are job as coaches. And here's a question
Speaker 1: we kind of have asked the different coaches on defense
Speaker 1: a couple of times now because there are so many
Speaker 1: players on this roster that can play in multiple positions
Speaker 1: that you do wonder how do the coaches balance which
Speaker 1: player goes into which room for which particular meeting. Here's
Speaker 1: coach Campanelli on the Dolphins defensive staff and the collaborative
Speaker 1: effort liately void of ego on that defensive staff you know.
Speaker 1: One of the great things about this organization, and UH
Speaker 1: coach Boryder, Coach Flores, I had already may mention this
Speaker 1: in the past. Everybody really gets an opportunity to coach
Speaker 1: all the guys. The way practice is set up and UM,
Speaker 1: there's no egos in our defensive room, so everybody really
Speaker 1: it's a collaborative effort UM and that's really a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. I think you get a great field for
Speaker 1: all the guys on the unit um and and you
Speaker 1: really you get to kind of spend time with players
Speaker 1: all over this you know, from from all different UH
Speaker 1: groupings on the field. So that's been awesome. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a great I think philosophically, it's something I've really
Speaker 1: enjoyed as well. And I've enjoyed getting the opportunity to
Speaker 1: be around all these different guys every day. They're They're awesome.
Speaker 1: It's a great group of guys. And up next, we
Speaker 1: had a question for coach about the green dot communication
Speaker 1: helmet the defense. Whereas one player on the field with
Speaker 1: the communication headset. Here's coach talking about the value of
Speaker 1: having so many guys that can communicate the defense and
Speaker 1: a good quote here about how it's not just their job,
Speaker 1: it's their passion. We're fortunate to have a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys would love football. Um, it's not their profession, it's
Speaker 1: not only their professions, their passion. So the more guys
Speaker 1: you have like that who kind of understand in our
Speaker 1: workings andy schematics, the front, the back end, how they're
Speaker 1: working together, what the offense is trying to do. UM,
Speaker 1: that gives you more or afford you more of an
Speaker 1: opportunity to find players who can step into that role
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And we've felt the guys throughout the course
Speaker 1: of the spring summer have done a very good job
Speaker 1: of that. Let's go ahead and stay on the linebackers
Speaker 1: with coach Austin Clark, who coaches the outside linebackers, and
Speaker 1: start with my question for coach Clark. Hey, coach, wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you about Tyshan Render and how you've just
Speaker 1: kind of noticed his progress so far through training camp.
Speaker 1: He won some awards in college about best effort, best
Speaker 1: hustle guy. Curious get your take on him and if
Speaker 1: you've seen that same effort here in camp so far,
Speaker 1: would say though those awards are accurate, Uh, he's a grinder.
Speaker 1: He's a tough guy. He plays really really hard, and
Speaker 1: I would say it's probably his best attribute. Um and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, yeah, I love the kid. I think he's
Speaker 1: getting better each day. Got got a lot of work
Speaker 1: to do, but I think he's on the right track.
Speaker 1: Joe Shadow of the Palm Beach Post and I are
Speaker 1: pretty good buddies, and we talk often about these questions
Speaker 1: we asked these press conferences, and he told me today
Speaker 1: that I was going to appreciate his questions because I'm
Speaker 1: always wanted to go towards the football side and the
Speaker 1: philosophical side and that type of thing. Joe had a
Speaker 1: great series of questions today for all the coaches about
Speaker 1: their philosophy and approach. Here's his question and answer for
Speaker 1: Austin Clark, I would say the first thing and and
Speaker 1: we're big on this here, and I personally believe technique
Speaker 1: and fundamentals are the most important thing that goes into
Speaker 1: any any front play, any defensive play, anything you do.
Speaker 1: You know, and as a coach, identifying what we want
Speaker 1: them to do and how we want them to do it,
Speaker 1: and holding that standard each and every day so there
Speaker 1: may be a time where they make a great play
Speaker 1: doing it wrong. He said, Hey, that's that's a hell
Speaker 1: of a play right there. Here's how you know we
Speaker 1: want you to do it. And if you were going
Speaker 1: against an all pro here, that might not work, you know. Um,
Speaker 1: So I would say the biggest thing for me personally
Speaker 1: is technique and fundamentals and as far as you know,
Speaker 1: matchups and different things that you could use depending on
Speaker 1: an opponent's scheme or what they're showing or what they're doing.
Speaker 1: Um I think that goes into it as well. And
Speaker 1: I think with you know, film and background I think
Speaker 1: we have here with our head coach and defensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: especially in the division, their background with opponents and even players,
Speaker 1: you know, some of the players we have to have
Speaker 1: backgrounds with a lot of these teams we're playing. Is big.
Speaker 1: And now we move into the defensive secondary with coach
Speaker 1: Alexander who always gives wealth thought out, eloquent answers here
Speaker 1: on these press conferences. Up first, he was asked to
Speaker 1: evaluate the playoff rookies Noah egg Monogamy and Brandon Jones
Speaker 1: out of texts us the safety and of course the
Speaker 1: cornerback from Auburn first and third round draft picks of
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, of course, Noah. You know, you started
Speaker 1: to see it with the course of camp him get
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable in his role as a perimeter corner.
Speaker 1: Um out there competing. You know, you see kind of
Speaker 1: the competitiveness Studies has as a player, things that we
Speaker 1: thought that we saw as a college player. Um. He's
Speaker 1: still uh, pretty fresh to the position. You know, he
Speaker 1: hasn't been playing corner for that long and his in
Speaker 1: his career obviously being new to this level. Um, but
Speaker 1: you start to see a guy who is developing technically
Speaker 1: out there on the perimeter, and you know, look forward
Speaker 1: to kind of getting a chance to see what he
Speaker 1: can do throughout the course of this season. As far
Speaker 1: as Brandon, um, you know, I would feel you know,
Speaker 1: just like you know anybody in this in this building,
Speaker 1: and we just haven't had a chance to see it
Speaker 1: live yet. You know. Unfortunately, we haven't had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to see these guys playing games as young guys with
Speaker 1: the lack of the preseason. Based on what we have
Speaker 1: seen so far in practice, I mean, it's gonna be uh,
Speaker 1: you know, an opportunity for him to go out there
Speaker 1: and play in a real game that I would feel
Speaker 1: comfortable with UM and then get a chance to just
Speaker 1: learn from there. He's gonna be a guy that has
Speaker 1: to learn from experience out there on the field, whatever
Speaker 1: that role is, big or small, And I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing what both those kids can do in the
Speaker 1: real game. And with the first time we got a
Speaker 1: chance to talk to g A after Xaviing Howard returned
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins practice field. Here he is talking about
Speaker 1: Exaviing Howard putting in the time mentally, getting the mental
Speaker 1: reps in place of the physical while he was down.
Speaker 1: I think x has handled himself as a professional UM,
Speaker 1: you know, in the midst of obviously is uh coming
Speaker 1: back and being on the field with those guys. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the things that he's done, UM is to
Speaker 1: make sure that throughout the meetings and out there on
Speaker 1: the field, if he's not taking the physical rep um,
Speaker 1: he's taking the mental rap. He understanding the communication that's
Speaker 1: going on with those guys out there on the field.
Speaker 1: So when he does insert himself into that role in
Speaker 1: the field, there's some familiarity, you know, even though he
Speaker 1: has taken the physical rep um you as much as
Speaker 1: some of the other guys giving his uh, given a situation,
Speaker 1: I'm not too concerned about it. You know, I think
Speaker 1: that he understands the terminology and he understands the responsibility
Speaker 1: that comes with certain calls and in certain communication. Um.
Speaker 1: But it's just about getting getting that on the field
Speaker 1: experience and um, you know, practice, practicing it and obviously
Speaker 1: once we get in the game time being able to
Speaker 1: execute the things that we need to execute and the
Speaker 1: field and now we'll here coach kind of talk about
Speaker 1: the nickel position, the slot cornerback position and the value
Speaker 1: it has in today's NFL defense handling all the spread
Speaker 1: attack offenses in the NFL, and that that position is
Speaker 1: so valued. Now you know that that that nickel role,
Speaker 1: you know, with the with amount of you know, spread
Speaker 1: personnel formations that you see offensively, and you know, you've
Speaker 1: got to have a guy in there that can cover
Speaker 1: in space, that can tackle in the run game, UM,
Speaker 1: that can you know, maybe at perimitive pressure off the edge.
Speaker 1: I mean, those those guys are invaluable to today's league.
Speaker 1: But as far as you mall and guys like Tay
Speaker 1: Hayes and knowing getting some of those reps, I mean
Speaker 1: through the practice and through training, camp and those guys
Speaker 1: show flashes of making some some splash plays and um
Speaker 1: having tight coverage on the slot. And those guys have
Speaker 1: done a good job. And so I'm based on what
Speaker 1: we've seen so far, UM going into the season. You know,
Speaker 1: my my comfort level is you know, is is high
Speaker 1: on them, um them getting into the game. But you know,
Speaker 1: obviously there's gotta be some some improvement as we continue
Speaker 1: to develop in the secondary, and especially in that position
Speaker 1: because of sex value position. And here is the shad
Speaker 1: question for g A about how to get players to
Speaker 1: go from good to great, the approach that he takes
Speaker 1: his philosophy of coaching defensive backs good from great. I
Speaker 1: think it's really about routine and then understanding. You know
Speaker 1: what I always tell those guys, Understanding leads to control.
Speaker 1: And when you get a chance to understand your responsibility,
Speaker 1: not just yours as a player, but the entire big
Speaker 1: picture of what we're trying to get done as a secondary,
Speaker 1: what we're trying to get done as a defense. Even
Speaker 1: though you're one of an eleven piece puzzle, if you
Speaker 1: understand and understand what your responsibility is and how you're
Speaker 1: going to be attacked, UM, that can give you an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do great things. And you know that's control
Speaker 1: in the field. And then you know, personally, you know,
Speaker 1: what do you do to prepare yourself throughout the year,
Speaker 1: throughout the week, throughout the day to make sure that you're, um,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be able to perform at your highest level
Speaker 1: on any given day. And so it's you know, it's tough.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just like any any anybody else in
Speaker 1: any business who is dedicated to their craft. Um, it
Speaker 1: takes more than being ordinary. And you know, it takes
Speaker 1: doing destroying everythings all the time. And that's what I
Speaker 1: would say from a player. You know, that's that's why
Speaker 1: there's a few great players in this league. Were something
Speaker 1: about those guys, you know, not just the physical part
Speaker 1: has made them stand out in their career and and
Speaker 1: showing that their body of work. When it all said
Speaker 1: and downe we jumped out to the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball with running backs coach Eric Studisville, who first
Speaker 1: talked about the newest Dolphins running back Solve the Akhmed
Speaker 1: out of Washington, Well in the draft, you know, I
Speaker 1: thought that he had a nice he did a nice
Speaker 1: job after Washington. Um, I think It was a lot
Speaker 1: very similar to what Minos did when he was up
Speaker 1: in Washington. Ran the ball good. He uses speed on
Speaker 1: in space. Um made a lot of plays up there.
Speaker 1: He's just he's an exciting young player and broken record
Speaker 1: time on the whole Washington State University versus the University
Speaker 1: Washington watching as much solve on Akhmed as I did
Speaker 1: in college. This as a guy that, like coach mentioned,
Speaker 1: can use that speed out in space. He was so
Speaker 1: heavily involved in the passing game, catching swings and screens
Speaker 1: and flats and flares, all those routes down around the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. He can make guys miss in the
Speaker 1: open field. He definitely popped when you watch Washington on
Speaker 1: tape last year. Now we go forward to a question.
Speaker 1: I really appreciated the answer from coach on with regards
Speaker 1: to players carving out their role on the offense and
Speaker 1: having backs that don't necessarily get pigeonholed into one particular trait,
Speaker 1: one particular skill set, and how they want to expose
Speaker 1: these guys too as much as they can and allow
Speaker 1: the players to carve the rollout for themselves rather than
Speaker 1: being told by the coaches Initially, what you can and
Speaker 1: can't do well. I think they carve out the roles.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're going to determine what they can
Speaker 1: and can't do. I think the thing that I try
Speaker 1: to do with them is to expose them and show
Speaker 1: what they can do in all the different runs, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. Don't just isolate one guy to say, hey,
Speaker 1: he just all runs all the toss plays or all
Speaker 1: the outside plays with this and that they all have
Speaker 1: to be able to do it. And you expose them
Speaker 1: to the whole variety of our whole menu of plays,
Speaker 1: and then you they kind of determine, hey, I'm a
Speaker 1: little bit better at this one than the other ones,
Speaker 1: or this is what their strengths look like. And I
Speaker 1: think that's how we kind of develop and create those roles.
Speaker 1: But I think the main thing is that you can't
Speaker 1: It's easy to fall into a trap of just making
Speaker 1: them do one thing and saying, hey, he's good at
Speaker 1: this when they because you're you're a broken shoelace or
Speaker 1: a chine trap away from a guy that you've now
Speaker 1: pigeonholding and being able to do one thing to really
Speaker 1: handcuffing your offense to what you need to do. So,
Speaker 1: I tried exposal to everything. We're gonna emphasize what they
Speaker 1: do best. But at the end of the day, if
Speaker 1: we're calling something and it's working and and those kind
Speaker 1: of things, and they all gotta be able to do
Speaker 1: it up. Next we hear from coach or quarterback coach
Speaker 1: rather excuse me, Robbie Brown, who discussed his relationship with
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick, how he's known him for a few years
Speaker 1: now and if he's noticed anything different about the quarterback
Speaker 1: heading into with the Miami Dolphins and in year sixteen
Speaker 1: in his NFL career. Well, I don't think different. He's
Speaker 1: he's not changed as a person um in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form. He he loves to play the game,
Speaker 1: he likes the mental aspect of the game. But you know,
Speaker 1: I haven't noticed anything different. But we haven't been back together,
Speaker 1: but you know, really for a month here, But really
Speaker 1: and truthfully he sees it seems the exact same to me.
Speaker 1: He just he loves to play, loves the game, loves
Speaker 1: the mental part of the game, loves to compete. And
Speaker 1: now a perfect segue into a question about the quality
Speaker 1: of a backup quarterback or the value of the backup
Speaker 1: quarterback and which qualities they provide they give you the
Speaker 1: best option to win when that quarterback comes off the
Speaker 1: bench and into the game. And speaking of Ryan Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: a guy that has a bunch of experience coming off
Speaker 1: the bench, even just this last season, for instance, in
Speaker 1: that Washington game and kind of sparking the offense. And
Speaker 1: it goes back to a quote I remember hearing about
Speaker 1: my guy, Gardner Minshew go Coog's back at the Senior
Speaker 1: Bowl when they had I think it was Jim Naggy
Speaker 1: on the Move the Sticks podcast, and he talked about
Speaker 1: how Minshew got in that locker room and had everybody
Speaker 1: galvanized around him. And that's the type of mentality, the
Speaker 1: type of character you want in that backup quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and a guy that can really rally the troops and
Speaker 1: get guys to play for him in that spot in
Speaker 1: a pinch. We've seen Fitzpatrick do it over the course
Speaker 1: of several years in his career. We saw Matt Moore
Speaker 1: do it here for a while with the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Here's Coach Brown on the makeup of a backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: You're always looking for a guy that's competitive, that really
Speaker 1: loves to play the same things that Flow always talks about.
Speaker 1: You want them to be mentally ready. It's really the
Speaker 1: same thing you're looking for in the starter. You know,
Speaker 1: you're looking for a guy that wants to come in
Speaker 1: and and and compete, knows what to do, when to
Speaker 1: do it, knows how to lead. I mean, it's the
Speaker 1: National Football League. So really, if you what, there's sixty
Speaker 1: four of those guys if you count starter and backup,
Speaker 1: So you're looking for the same thing, and and the
Speaker 1: difference is usually very small, and you hope it's as
Speaker 1: small as possible. And we finish up with Coach Brown
Speaker 1: here for a question that has been asked to the
Speaker 1: other coaches about rookies and mainly Brian Flores, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear coach mentioned Flow talk about that with the rookies.
Speaker 1: Asked about getting a rookie quarterback ready for the National
Speaker 1: Football League and how quickly a young player who hasn't
Speaker 1: been around the block in this league before can acclimate
Speaker 1: to the NFL level. You don't, you know, Flow talked
Speaker 1: about the other day for all the rookies. You don't
Speaker 1: know until they go out there and and they see
Speaker 1: that that level of competition and that speed. We hadn't
Speaker 1: had the preseason games. We've tried to, I guess, simulate
Speaker 1: that the best that we can and go through all
Speaker 1: types of situations. There's a lot of situations that a
Speaker 1: quarterback has to be aware of, down in distance, time
Speaker 1: on the clock, UH, matchups, all those kind of things.
Speaker 1: And my goal has been to get him better each
Speaker 1: and every day, UH and be better at those situations
Speaker 1: today than he was yesterday, and then when it's time,
Speaker 1: when coach makes that decision, we'll go with it. And
Speaker 1: that's why this year's league should be just so interesting
Speaker 1: because we have I think the least amount of knowledge
Speaker 1: of the other teams across the league as we ever
Speaker 1: really have. I mean, as far as you know most
Speaker 1: teams go and most teams know, you don't really know
Speaker 1: who's gonna be playing out their significant snaps. You don't
Speaker 1: know who's even starting in some cases. So it gonna
Speaker 1: be a fascinating season in the NFL with the limited
Speaker 1: off season, the limited training camp, no pre season, just
Speaker 1: a different, different time in the league right now. Up next,
Speaker 1: we hear from Dolphins offensive line coach Steve Marshall, who
Speaker 1: first was asked about Michael Dieter and his evaluation so
Speaker 1: far in training camp number two for Dieter out of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that came in here last year, played
Speaker 1: left guard. He has center in his background. Uh, he's working,
Speaker 1: you know, basically every day. I've been very pleased with
Speaker 1: what he's done center. And you know, he's he's a
Speaker 1: he's multi position learning and uh, you know, he played
Speaker 1: center at the University of Wisconsin when he was a sophomore,
Speaker 1: so uh, it wasn't unfamiliar to him, you know. And
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's just like Ted and all our other centers,
Speaker 1: Keeton Sutherland that that you know, we're asking. We asked
Speaker 1: those guys a lot, and there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: and every day is a new adventure for him. And uh,
Speaker 1: but again, Mike has competed extremely hard, and uh, I've
Speaker 1: been very happy with his development. And that last word there,
Speaker 1: development is so key because so oftentimes in the NFL,
Speaker 1: players get in the fans perspective season, maybe a half
Speaker 1: a season, maybe even a month a game sometimes to
Speaker 1: get a true evaluation or I guess a fair shot
Speaker 1: in their opinion, and development is not linear, it's not
Speaker 1: equal for all players across the league. So I'm always
Speaker 1: curious to see how guys take a step in your
Speaker 1: number two or even your number three. Sometimes for some players,
Speaker 1: we've seen DeVante Parker, for instance, and your number five
Speaker 1: have his best season. So very intrigued by Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: regardless of which possession he plays on the offensive line
Speaker 1: up next, speaking of young offensive lineman, coach Marshall was
Speaker 1: asked about the young lineman and how the older guys
Speaker 1: which aren't very old, are teaching them and being mentors
Speaker 1: to these young players. Well, we are young, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, Jesse's one of the old great beards. I
Speaker 1: think he's nine or whatever he is. Uh, Eric has
Speaker 1: been in the league four years and he's still Ted Carris.
Speaker 1: So there's there's a sense of yeah, there's guys that
Speaker 1: the only way this league is so different, as we've before,
Speaker 1: this league is so different in college football, Uh as
Speaker 1: far as the speed of it and uh and and
Speaker 1: uh the mental aspect of the game, and some of
Speaker 1: that stuff only comes with playing and experience. And so uh,
Speaker 1: the guys, the young guys that we do have, you know,
Speaker 1: they've got to just we just got to get them
Speaker 1: in there and and and you know, see where they
Speaker 1: are and put on top of it, no preseason games
Speaker 1: where they could get a little taste of what the
Speaker 1: speed of the game is. We're we're going right into
Speaker 1: the first ballgame. Uh. It just happens to be the
Speaker 1: twelve and four football team. That's you know, Patriots, That's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a big task. So uh but again
Speaker 1: we're having you know, it's been a great camp. We've
Speaker 1: had a lot of competition. Uh, there's been a lot
Speaker 1: of good Uh there's been you know, like as I
Speaker 1: can say, I can say, there's some you know, we've
Speaker 1: we've had our hiccups, and but I tell you one thing,
Speaker 1: the guys have fought their tails off and are working
Speaker 1: art and uh, you know, like I said, we're an
Speaker 1: just to get this season rolling. And staying on that topic,
Speaker 1: coach was asked to just give a quick synopsis on
Speaker 1: Robert Hunt, Austin Jackson, and Solomon Kimbley, the dolphins three
Speaker 1: rookie draft picks. Here's coach on the youngsters. Well, Rob Hunt,
Speaker 1: you know, he's Lafayette kid, came out and came in
Speaker 1: here and uh, you know, has done extremely well. You know,
Speaker 1: We've asked a lot of him as we have uh
Speaker 1: A J. Austin and uh Solomon, you know their multi
Speaker 1: position learning. Uh. You know, so that on top of
Speaker 1: just learning a new league, uh, you know, going against
Speaker 1: the D line that we got has been has been
Speaker 1: a has been a big challenge for him. So uh,
Speaker 1: you know, every day, like I like I said before,
Speaker 1: every day with Rob Hunt and Solomon and uh a J.
Speaker 1: Has been been a new adventure. They've got to learn.
Speaker 1: And one of the things that you know, they I
Speaker 1: think they've learned where they were the big dog uh
Speaker 1: at their college game. You know, in practice, it's highly competitive.
Speaker 1: Everything will snap. You know, you're going against lost and
Speaker 1: you're going against Ogba, you're going against uh Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: or or any of those guys on the D line.
Speaker 1: Is is a battle every day. And that's the thing
Speaker 1: that I think that young guys coming into this league
Speaker 1: UH and ours to no exception, that every game, every
Speaker 1: practice is a highly confierced competitive practice. And that's where
Speaker 1: what's where again that that they're learning every day a
Speaker 1: little bit better as far as to handle that kind
Speaker 1: of uh pressure, competitiveness, whatever you call it. And then
Speaker 1: obviously the chance that they're you know, they're they're they're
Speaker 1: being thrown in the mix or potentially thrown in the
Speaker 1: mix if they go. You know, that's that's kind of
Speaker 1: the whammy. But hey, they're they're they're talent, talented young guys,
Speaker 1: and you see how it all comes out. But uh,
Speaker 1: like I said there, they've learned that they've learned a
Speaker 1: lot in a in a very very very short period
Speaker 1: of time, and they've gotten better every day. And I
Speaker 1: can give you that right there. I was prepared to
Speaker 1: ask a question to Coach about those defensive lineman that
Speaker 1: can possibly give the offensive line of the Dolphins some
Speaker 1: issues and how it helps those guys grow up front,
Speaker 1: but Coach answered it for us that are talking about
Speaker 1: Ogba and Shack Lawson and Christian Wilkins and the issues
Speaker 1: they present for an offensive lineman across from them. Finally,
Speaker 1: Coach finishes up here by talking about the philosophy of
Speaker 1: not getting just a five guys ready for game day,
Speaker 1: but rather the entire room with eight or nine players
Speaker 1: who will keep on the roster. This year, I think
Speaker 1: we're really zeroing in on on really not the five,
Speaker 1: because you really can't zero on the five. You guys
Speaker 1: again think about you know, who the starters are, but
Speaker 1: we're really zeroing in on the eight or nine that
Speaker 1: are gonna be there because you've always got to take
Speaker 1: in the what if factors. Uh, you know, what if
Speaker 1: a guy gets hurt? What if you know, one of
Speaker 1: our guys goes down, Who who's the backup? Whose work?
Speaker 1: Who's got to play two positions? So uh, we're really
Speaker 1: I'm more focused on that, you know, as we get
Speaker 1: ready to to start into the season, you know, because
Speaker 1: again those guys have to play multi positions and you've
Speaker 1: got to You've got five starters, but you also got
Speaker 1: you know, if we if we travel with seven, if
Speaker 1: we have seven up on game day or eight up
Speaker 1: on game day, Okay, one guy goes down, who's the position?
Speaker 1: Now you lose two of them? Then you get into
Speaker 1: you know, do we need an extra tight end or
Speaker 1: what have you? Because it's it's really more of that's
Speaker 1: kind of my job, you know. I think as we
Speaker 1: get forward, we'll we'll have a pretty good plan on
Speaker 1: on on what we you know, going into it. Who
Speaker 1: is actually gonna get the starters quote reps and who
Speaker 1: gets the backup reps? So it's more from my standpoint
Speaker 1: because I'm a you know, right there every day getting
Speaker 1: eight guys ready to eight or nine depending on how
Speaker 1: many I get on game day. It could be. I
Speaker 1: think there's a rule now you can take eight guys
Speaker 1: to the game, And so that's my focus is getting
Speaker 1: not only the starters, but the other guys are ready
Speaker 1: to go to We'll go ahead and keep this thing
Speaker 1: rolling here with Dolphins receivers coach Josh Grizzard as he
Speaker 1: first talks about Malcolm Perry and the work he's put
Speaker 1: in a camp so far during this rookie season, but
Speaker 1: also the relationship that goes back to the East West
Speaker 1: Shrine game when you might recall Malcolm Perry had one
Speaker 1: touch one carry in that game, a fifty something you're
Speaker 1: a touchdown run to put his team ahead in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. That's what he did in college. He made plays. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's had a nice job and it's a testament to
Speaker 1: him that he just he works his ass off all
Speaker 1: the time. So for him to be able to come
Speaker 1: in here and make that transition um from playing quarterback
Speaker 1: has been it takes time to get a feel for
Speaker 1: routes and coverages and things like that. But what he
Speaker 1: does a good job of is not making the same
Speaker 1: mistake twice. So if you see something wrong on one play,
Speaker 1: hey man, you didn't do it quite how we wanted it.
Speaker 1: He does a good job of walking through it on
Speaker 1: his own and coming back the next day and improving
Speaker 1: on that and then following it away for okay, this
Speaker 1: is how this needs to be to be done. The
Speaker 1: next time, I actually coached down in the East West
Speaker 1: Shrine game back in January and had a chance to
Speaker 1: work with him down there. I was working with the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: he was, of course planned receiver, and just to see
Speaker 1: his attention at detail and commitment and knowledge and smarts,
Speaker 1: and you could tell that it was a guy that
Speaker 1: had a passion for the game. So for a lot
Speaker 1: of the same reasons we were talking about earlier on
Speaker 1: not making the same mistakes again twice, you can just
Speaker 1: see that he's very serious about getting better from day
Speaker 1: to day. And guys that really enjoy the game, that's
Speaker 1: easy for him because they can come in here and
Speaker 1: work and he he kind of epitomizes that. Up next,
Speaker 1: coach was asked about the position flexibility of Jachem Grant,
Speaker 1: but it also gave him a chance to talk about
Speaker 1: the possessition flexibility as not many folks know. Like DeVante Parker,
Speaker 1: for instance, he had plenty of reps in the slot
Speaker 1: over the course of his career. A lot of these
Speaker 1: guys can play multiple spots. Here's coach talking about his
Speaker 1: receivers playing all possessions on the offense. Really, with Jachim
Speaker 1: in and the rest of our guys, they have the
Speaker 1: ability to play outside, they have the ability to play inside.
Speaker 1: It depends on a week to week thing. It depends
Speaker 1: on a matchup for who we're going against. But I
Speaker 1: see Jachim is a guy that that can do both.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all see the ability that he has.
Speaker 1: Does that mean playing on the outside and taking advantage
Speaker 1: of his skill set there or moving into the slot
Speaker 1: based on matchups? He can do that as well. So
Speaker 1: he really has the flexibility to do both. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and get a Ryan Fitzpatrick's story here from Josh Grazzard,
Speaker 1: Dolphins wide receivers coach. So, unfortunately, when I was at Yale,
Speaker 1: we did not beat Harvard one time. Uh so five
Speaker 1: years brutal um. Again, not not happy about that, But
Speaker 1: I can't remember who we were playing. I feel like
Speaker 1: it was the Jets or somebody, and Yale was playing Harvard,
Speaker 1: and I had the pleasure of watching it with him
Speaker 1: on his phone as a as Yale beat Harvard. So
Speaker 1: that was a highlight of time spent with him. For
Speaker 1: some reason, that story reminds me of the author us
Speaker 1: when Andy is trying to suck up to Michael and
Speaker 1: wants to go watch Cornell at the bar and then
Speaker 1: go back to his house and and tie a few
Speaker 1: on and then go back out on the town and
Speaker 1: pick up some single ladies. But Ryan Fitzpatrick and Josh
Speaker 1: Grizzard instead of Michael Scott and Andy Bernard the Nard Dog.
Speaker 1: Finally we end up here with tight ends coach George Gatzi,
Speaker 1: who first was asked on that same train of thought
Speaker 1: to talk about Ryan Fitzpatrick and the value he has
Speaker 1: to this Dolphins offense, to these Dolphins coaches, rooms, to
Speaker 1: the entire Dolphins operation and organization. Playing quarterback and Nolan
Speaker 1: Ryan really since two thousand four team when I specifically
Speaker 1: coached him in Houston. UM, the most important thing about
Speaker 1: that position is communication and gating to everybody on the
Speaker 1: on the team. Just for that when the balls in
Speaker 1: your hands as a quarterback, everybody see it through your
Speaker 1: eyes and how a defenders playing you. He may affect
Speaker 1: something that maybe another quarterback expected at the top of
Speaker 1: the route to a little different. So get on the
Speaker 1: same page. You know that that's hard to do when
Speaker 1: you're not and have already experienced it in O t A.
Speaker 1: So now d're in training camp. It's that much's final. Um,
Speaker 1: just personally, Ryan means so much. You know, he talks
Speaker 1: to us daily at all the positions, so uh, you know,
Speaker 1: our heart aches for him. Um, And I think that's
Speaker 1: IM speaking for everybody on the team. Really kind of
Speaker 1: enjoying these questions for the coaches about things outside of
Speaker 1: their umbrella, like the tight end position for instance, and
Speaker 1: hearing these stories about Ryan Fitzpatrick because there are so
Speaker 1: many good ones out there. Next, coach was asked about
Speaker 1: his relationship prior to coming to Miami with Brian Flores
Speaker 1: As coach talks about spending three years there with Flora's
Speaker 1: in New England from eleven. Yeah, you know, the three
Speaker 1: years in New England from eleven to thirteen. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we were both kind of making our ways as far
Speaker 1: as turning into position coaches, so we would use each
Speaker 1: other as sounding boards. UM. You know when when he
Speaker 1: had a certain area on defense and I had a
Speaker 1: certain area on offense. We would always spend extra time
Speaker 1: at the end of the week kind of reviewing on
Speaker 1: what we call your future talk, meaning how are we
Speaker 1: going to get ourselves better as coaches. UM. We stayed
Speaker 1: in touch since those days. Uh, he's a good mentor
Speaker 1: right now, A good good friend has always been UM.
Speaker 1: And you know, as coaches we improve every year. We
Speaker 1: don't have all the answers. UM. Sometimes unfortunately, UM, we
Speaker 1: learned from mistakes and sometimes you know, we're better. So UM,
Speaker 1: I'll say that his mind is always focused on what's
Speaker 1: best for the team. And so with that mindset, you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna be ahead of a lot of things. And
Speaker 1: that's where I see I see Brian a lot of
Speaker 1: times to step ahead of of of maybe a question
Speaker 1: that's about to arise, which that's encouraging not only from
Speaker 1: coaches stampon show. The players see that too. And one
Speaker 1: of the nice things about the tight end coach or
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks coach, I think are the two possessions that
Speaker 1: really you can do this with is they have such
Speaker 1: small rooms because you have three quarterbacks on the roster,
Speaker 1: you have five tight ends on the roster. Is that
Speaker 1: you can basically go down the roster and ask him
Speaker 1: for a person by person evaluation. First, we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: coach talk about Adam Shaheen, the newest Dolphins tight end. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just the first question with Adam. You know, daily there's
Speaker 1: some um, you know, very similar to what I was saying.
Speaker 1: You know, you usually make sometimes as a player, you
Speaker 1: make some mistakes and then you learn from those. It's
Speaker 1: a lot easy to sit back there in the meeting
Speaker 1: room and coach them up, but um, a lot of
Speaker 1: times it's getting out there getting those reps. And uh,
Speaker 1: we've done a good job as far as everybody on
Speaker 1: the you know, cumulative wise from an offense of making
Speaker 1: sure that we're slowly at port to the plate um.
Speaker 1: And for Adam's uh sake, you know, it's not only
Speaker 1: just learning the offense a little bit more and spending
Speaker 1: more time on that, but also you can get them
Speaker 1: on the field for more reps. So, um, we put
Speaker 1: them in roll is where he's blocking. Um, I feel
Speaker 1: confident about that. He's got good range. Obviously, when you're
Speaker 1: a taller guy like he is, pad level is very important.
Speaker 1: So that's constantly something that we're working on a better
Speaker 1: part of that in the past with taller guys. So uh,
Speaker 1: we kind of have a good plan on that one.
Speaker 1: And again it's showing reps of of what he's doing
Speaker 1: in practice and how those individual driels can transfer over
Speaker 1: and then in the passing game. Not only is he
Speaker 1: a good protector just with his length, you know, he
Speaker 1: can match up with some of those defensive ends, but
Speaker 1: also the size matchup on a safety or a linebacker. Um,
Speaker 1: he's a he's a big athletic man and you know
Speaker 1: he's has some basketball background. Um, so he has some
Speaker 1: Uh he makes good decisions in space. Um, we can
Speaker 1: we can improve that and I think he knows that too. Um.
Speaker 1: But again, trying to keep adding adding to some reps.
Speaker 1: I got reps and scrimmage. So um, you know that's
Speaker 1: that's a sign of good, good improvement from from our standpoint.
Speaker 1: And next coach evaluates Durham Smith. Yeah, I really think Durham's,
Speaker 1: you know, a leader in that room. You know, Um,
Speaker 1: he does a good job of communicating when he's right,
Speaker 1: when he's wrong, but explaining exactly what he saw so
Speaker 1: that as a group we can get better. Um. You
Speaker 1: know he's he was putting a lot of blocking roles
Speaker 1: last year. Um and and and did did fairly well.
Speaker 1: Um you know, he improved tremendously from his first year.
Speaker 1: He put on a lot of weights. I think we
Speaker 1: found a good spot at him at his at his
Speaker 1: weight and UM, you know he's he's in shape. Um.
Speaker 1: He plays a lot of reps out there practice, so
Speaker 1: he's putting his hydrating, he's getting his nutrition back, so
Speaker 1: he's maintaining his weight. Um. And you know he's able
Speaker 1: to help in all three phases, whether it's you know, blocking,
Speaker 1: UM protection or running routes. So you know, I feel
Speaker 1: really confident about Durham and I really feel confident about
Speaker 1: putting him in any role in him known his assignment
Speaker 1: with that's the number one thing coach to player relationship
Speaker 1: is just we trust him. Um And like I said,
Speaker 1: his leadership in that room is invaluable. And we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and finish up with Mike Kasicki. But more specifically
Speaker 1: about finding balance between that tight end room and asking
Speaker 1: guys to do multiple things outside of just what they're
Speaker 1: good at like for instance, Derm Smith getting blocking and receiving,
Speaker 1: and the same true there for Mike KASICKI well, the
Speaker 1: way that we kind of work things from a script
Speaker 1: and standpoint, um, you know, I like to rotate them
Speaker 1: all and make sure that um, like right now, we're
Speaker 1: not specifically game plan and something for one particular player,
Speaker 1: so in case something happens there in training camp. There's
Speaker 1: always something that happens, whether it's a you know slow
Speaker 1: pool here or maybe you know, we need to sit
Speaker 1: out for a couple of reps because you took multiple
Speaker 1: reps so excuse me, Um, So we put those guys
Speaker 1: in that role. I know, we'd put Durham in a
Speaker 1: couple of two minutes situations where last year, you know
Speaker 1: we didn't necessarily put him in those situations, is um,
Speaker 1: you know I could have a better job with that,
Speaker 1: just preparing for maybe what ifs that occurred. Um. And
Speaker 1: the same thing with Michael, putting him in some situations
Speaker 1: where he does have to you know, cut out shack Lawson. Um.
Speaker 1: But I mean there's are some good players that they're
Speaker 1: facing on the defensive, and with Kyle, I mean there's
Speaker 1: the list goes on and on so Um, they're getting
Speaker 1: good work and they're kind of learning different roles and
Speaker 1: I appreciate them kind of leaning on each other. And
Speaker 1: that shows you the chemistry in that room. It sounds
Speaker 1: just those two guys. I know. Adam asked a lot
Speaker 1: of questions. Chris, Um, you know, we we we rely
Speaker 1: on Chandler two on some of his blocks because obviously
Speaker 1: the tight end is going to do some of those
Speaker 1: roles too. So it's a it's a good room as
Speaker 1: far as communicating back and forth. And uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the professional And so there you have at
Speaker 1: nine assistant coaches talking on this Wednesday, a player day off.
Speaker 1: Will come back tomorrow with Brian Flores some more player
Speaker 1: media availability and talk more about this football team at
Speaker 1: length on the field with regards to the season. But
Speaker 1: asked for today's podcast, that is going to be my time.
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