Speaker 1: Fail touchdown, Miami Run? What is up? Dolph Fans and
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's
Speaker 1: it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
Speaker 1: as always I am here to bring you your daily
Speaker 1: dose of Miami Dolphins football. And on today's show, it's
Speaker 1: day two of pads and day seven total of practice.
Speaker 1: Here in training camp one, we'll take a return to
Speaker 1: the deep passing game and here from to a Tongue
Speaker 1: by Loo Jachem Grant and Coach Flores on the vertical game.
Speaker 1: Plus two A talks timing, chemistry off season, and the
Speaker 1: offensive system catering to his skill set. As we do
Speaker 1: every day, we'll break down the individuals who shined, the
Speaker 1: top performer of the day, the matchup of the day,
Speaker 1: a couple of your questions, and we'll tell you about
Speaker 1: some of these sacks that occur as a product of
Speaker 1: good communication and coverage from the safety position from Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is
Speaker 1: the Drive Time Podcast. We normally start the show with
Speaker 1: the housekeeping, but we'll get to that here in just
Speaker 1: one minute, We're gonna go with the best thing I
Speaker 1: saw today or heard today, and it was Jachem Grant
Speaker 1: talking to me and some other reporters after practice. And
Speaker 1: you might recall a podcast I did with Jachem last
Speaker 1: offseason where he told me some cool stuff about dad life,
Speaker 1: but also showing no mercies to his kids when they
Speaker 1: play video games together. So I asked him, Jachim, how's
Speaker 1: the family doing. Here was his answer. I was doing great, man,
Speaker 1: and I love him. My son let me have you
Speaker 1: the other day he just asked me, you know, Dad,
Speaker 1: when you're coming home, and can you just come home
Speaker 1: and stay? I can't, you know? And with him in autisty,
Speaker 1: he never expressed his feeling name, how's the first time
Speaker 1: you ever expressed his filings in And it hit me hard.
Speaker 1: So um, but man, they're doing greats are doing good. Hey,
Speaker 1: They're just like, hey, Dad, you come home. I'm like
Speaker 1: one day, uh when if I got to get a break,
Speaker 1: and they're like, okay, whatever, that right? But my son
Speaker 1: he let me have it for like fifteen minutes yesterday.
Speaker 1: And it's tough to transition from that. But we'll hear
Speaker 1: more from Jachem later in the podcast. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and get to the housekeeping. No roster moves to mention,
Speaker 1: but as far as the health of some players goes.
Speaker 1: Will Fuller was out there today on the exercise bike
Speaker 1: and getting around some of the players and the receiver's
Speaker 1: group and otherwise. He was carrying a football with him
Speaker 1: all day and he would throw it up to himself
Speaker 1: in the air, spin it on the turf like you
Speaker 1: do after you catch a first down or a touchdown,
Speaker 1: and just find different ways to keep himself busy. Jalen
Speaker 1: Phillips was also on the bike congregating with some of
Speaker 1: his teammates throughout the course of the day. Savant Okbed
Speaker 1: was still in the red no contact jersey and Davonte
Speaker 1: Parker was back out there too. He had his first
Speaker 1: team period work, including a reception on a deep end
Speaker 1: hut from Tua Tongue Baloa. Looked like a curl possibly
Speaker 1: a dig I'm not sure, but he found some space
Speaker 1: and to have put up between the one and the
Speaker 1: one on his jersey. Good to see one to eleven
Speaker 1: once again. Alan Hearns was shaking up and practice, but
Speaker 1: he returned and made a few plays after coming back,
Speaker 1: so he looks good. Finally, coach addressed Andrew Van Ginkle
Speaker 1: and called the linebacker day today this morning and his
Speaker 1: press conference and that nine press or. He said Andrew
Speaker 1: was already in getting treatment and taking care of that thing.
Speaker 1: So after all the running, we got back to a
Speaker 1: lot more passing and tons of eleven and eleven in
Speaker 1: this particular practice, especially in the red zone. And yesterday
Speaker 1: I talked about the run game and how there wasn't
Speaker 1: any passing and most of those periods besides one or
Speaker 1: two sprinkled in here and there. I was curious to
Speaker 1: ask coach about how they balanced the evaluation of what
Speaker 1: guys are doing compared to what the results are. And
Speaker 1: remember I said Jamal Perry had jumped the gun on
Speaker 1: the same route in the same period three days in
Speaker 1: a row. Those two things made me kind of curious.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and go to coach here. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you guys cheat the drill. That happens, you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: But I think we just need to keep the drills moving.
Speaker 1: And there's always an element to a driller. You can
Speaker 1: do um to force the guy not to normally goes in.
Speaker 1: We go out, go out, go go deep. So um,
Speaker 1: there is an element of that. I think it's up
Speaker 1: to us as as a staff to try to eliminate
Speaker 1: that as much as possible. But I think, um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think we just need to continue to um work
Speaker 1: the techniques, work the fundamentals, and I think whether they
Speaker 1: cheat the drill, not cheat the drill. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: evaluating the fundamentals and techniques. Now. You know, they may
Speaker 1: look a little cleaner because they're anticipating it, but um
Speaker 1: and not truly reacting. Um, that's part of the evaluation. Also,
Speaker 1: you know, it's is that a true rep or we
Speaker 1: count that one? I mean, player may think so, but
Speaker 1: we we may not be counting that one. So. And
Speaker 1: another hot topic across the league after a brawl broke
Speaker 1: out a Giant's camp on Tuesday, was the training camp
Speaker 1: scuffles that inevitably happened every year almost across the league.
Speaker 1: And I thought Flora's response to a question about that
Speaker 1: was insightful as far as how he takes every opportunity
Speaker 1: to teach and it's still discipline in his ball club. Remember,
Speaker 1: Flora's took one of the league's most penalized teams in
Speaker 1: twenty nine rather and has been the top five each
Speaker 1: of the last two years in both total penalties and
Speaker 1: penalty yardage. Let's go ahead and go to coach. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, look, you put pads on things, get chippy.
Speaker 1: It's a chippy game. It happens. I think. I think
Speaker 1: it's also a game where you gotta keep your poise. Um.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I you know, talked to
Speaker 1: the players about. And it's something um, you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about as as as a staff, we talked to
Speaker 1: talk to the players about, like we know, it's gonna
Speaker 1: get somebody's gonna be on the ground, somebody's gonna do
Speaker 1: a little too much. I mean, we had a little
Speaker 1: bit of yes today, um. And your natural reaction is
Speaker 1: to you know, react and you know, fight back. Um.
Speaker 1: But as we know, you know, it's normally the second
Speaker 1: guy who gets the penalty, and and in those instances,
Speaker 1: we've gotta keep our boys and we try we have
Speaker 1: to practice that so uh, you know, inevitably it's gonna
Speaker 1: be you know, some kind of fight out on the field,
Speaker 1: and I just gotta learn from it and get better.
Speaker 1: But we try to use it as a as a
Speaker 1: as a as a learning experience. You know, when it happens,
Speaker 1: because when it happens in the game, it could be costly,
Speaker 1: and you know, we we just try to use it
Speaker 1: as a learning learning too. Let's go ahead and pivot
Speaker 1: now into the position by position breakdown. And I veered
Speaker 1: from the format yesterday in a way that I liked,
Speaker 1: but I still think I think going top down from
Speaker 1: the roster like this is the best way. So we
Speaker 1: start with the quarterbacks, and the theme of the quarterback
Speaker 1: and passing game. Really all of camp has been the
Speaker 1: vertical passing game, and a lot of that has to
Speaker 1: do with location and man, that's been the name of
Speaker 1: the game through seven days of practice for two a
Speaker 1: tongue by lower. Before I start talking about my observations,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and go to coach Flores, who was
Speaker 1: asked about the vertical game at his morning press conference
Speaker 1: on Wednesday. I think he's it's something he's he's he's
Speaker 1: placing emphasis on We've placed an emphasis on pushing, not
Speaker 1: pushing the ball down field, but um, taking advantage of
Speaker 1: those opportunities if they're there. Um. But you know, like always,
Speaker 1: you wanna you know, have good fundamentals, good techniques, good mechanics.
Speaker 1: Go through his progression and if it's there and it's open,
Speaker 1: we can throw them open and take a shot. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna make him if we don't throw him.
Speaker 1: So I think he's taking more, taking more shots down field,
Speaker 1: and I think you know, as a as a you know,
Speaker 1: hopefully he's getting more confidence that we can make some
Speaker 1: of those throws. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: not every not every throw is gonna be a fifty
Speaker 1: yard or sixty yard or so. Um. You gotta make
Speaker 1: good decisions, check it down when we need to check
Speaker 1: it down and throw the intermediate route. We need to
Speaker 1: throw the intermediate route. Got to throw it away and
Speaker 1: take the incompletion. We need to do that. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, you just need reps. So we'll just trying
Speaker 1: to give more as many reps as possible. That's the
Speaker 1: same with all the quarterbacks for Kobe Reid, really all
Speaker 1: players at all position, but you know, specific to too
Speaker 1: and in the downfield throws. That's would be my take
Speaker 1: on it. And why don't we go ahead and hear
Speaker 1: from the man himself as far as the elevation of
Speaker 1: deep passing in this training camp so far and what
Speaker 1: two things has really contributed to the success with a
Speaker 1: deep game. I guess to that, I say, I've been
Speaker 1: playing football, you know, since I was little. Um, I've
Speaker 1: been playing quarterback position for as long as I can remember. Really,
Speaker 1: it's just coming out and working on your timing with
Speaker 1: the guys, you know, seeing the speed of um, you know, layers,
Speaker 1: you know, not everyone's really fast. UM. And I guess
Speaker 1: just coming out here and being able to practice and
Speaker 1: work on it, that's what's helped two of them feel
Speaker 1: to the question about his level of comfort in the offense,
Speaker 1: and he said, I do feel very comfortable in the offense,
Speaker 1: but also mentioned that it's about putting good days together
Speaker 1: and continuing building that success. I found this quote very
Speaker 1: interesting as a reporter asked to about something Jerome Baker
Speaker 1: said yesterday regarding to a going into the linebackers room
Speaker 1: and asking them questions about what they see with his
Speaker 1: game and how he can get better. He was asked,
Speaker 1: what can you gain from those conversations with the linebackers
Speaker 1: and the defenders. For me, it's it's being able to
Speaker 1: see their alignment and their positioning. Um, you know, why
Speaker 1: do they align this way? And you know, for me,
Speaker 1: it gives me an edge to know where to go
Speaker 1: with the ball lot quicker and it speeds up my process. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think it's always good to nitpick the other side. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we have like a veteran like J Mac
Speaker 1: being able to ask g Mac some questions, um, you know,
Speaker 1: and then also seeing how how they this guy things.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and you know, it's not just the deep ball.
Speaker 1: It's touch passes to the back pylon for twenty yards
Speaker 1: where you've got a receiver five yards deep in the
Speaker 1: end zone by the time the ball gets there, and
Speaker 1: a dB who's three yards deep trailing that route. You've
Speaker 1: got that five yard window and the ball has to
Speaker 1: have a certain hump to it, otherwise the trail defender
Speaker 1: gets underneath it and disrupts the line of sight of
Speaker 1: the receiver or causes the incompletion, or worse, he makes
Speaker 1: a play on it and catches it or tips it
Speaker 1: up in the air, and that's when things get really
Speaker 1: dangerous from there. And this is where you really see
Speaker 1: the talent of two. I think these types of throws
Speaker 1: and it extends to different areas of the field. And
Speaker 1: there was one particular play where the defense dialed up
Speaker 1: pressure and it was more rushers than blockers, and that
Speaker 1: becomes dependent on the receiver to uncover and for the
Speaker 1: quarterback to figure out which guy is gonna uncover. And
Speaker 1: on this particular play to a lays it out to
Speaker 1: an open space and Jalen Waddle is coming across on
Speaker 1: a drag route. A drag routs when you get off
Speaker 1: the line, you go to the middle of the formation
Speaker 1: and you basically run right in behind the D line
Speaker 1: under the linebackers, similar to the over route, but it's
Speaker 1: much closer to the line of scrimmage and the ball
Speaker 1: and the receiver intersect there and since the pressure came, well,
Speaker 1: there's no one there to tackle him, and he gone
Speaker 1: at that point because you just don't tackle Jerlan Waddle
Speaker 1: with pursuit from the backside or really with having only
Speaker 1: war and two guys out in front of him. He
Speaker 1: turned this thing up when and untouched for a touchdown
Speaker 1: for twenty yards. I mean, we saw him do this
Speaker 1: all the time in college. As far as two agoes
Speaker 1: putting the ball to a spot and catching that thing,
Speaker 1: we also saw some last year. So how do they
Speaker 1: find this chemistry to know the ball is going to
Speaker 1: a spot? And how we can go ahead and make
Speaker 1: that chemistry happen on game day. It has to do
Speaker 1: with some of the work they did in the off season.
Speaker 1: Two attributes a large portion of that credit to give
Speaker 1: them some groundwork here heading into training camp and now
Speaker 1: it's all about improving every single day. But here is
Speaker 1: too on the idea of the off season workouts and
Speaker 1: how it benefit of this offense. I think being able
Speaker 1: to get with the guys throughout the off season has
Speaker 1: helped tremendously. Um with the timing, But I think until
Speaker 1: you you're able to put the pads on, you know,
Speaker 1: come out and it really work against you know, a
Speaker 1: an opposing team or guys on the opposite side of you. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when I think those things really come up.
Speaker 1: In In Show two of them had they follow up
Speaker 1: question regarding the deep ball and whether or not he
Speaker 1: had to make certain decisions to throw the deep ball.
Speaker 1: Here's two on what goes through his process, his thought
Speaker 1: process rather when deciding to go deep, intermediate or short.
Speaker 1: The guy's open, I'm going to throw it to him.
Speaker 1: You know that. That's That's what I could say to that. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say it was it's very very much no
Speaker 1: different than you know, my time I had at Alabama,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing deep buzz and how many times have
Speaker 1: we said on this particular podcast that to UH set
Speaker 1: records for deep and vertical passing. There was articles on
Speaker 1: Saturday Down South Daniel Jeremiah talked about on the Move
Speaker 1: the Sticks podcast about the prolific downfield passing of Bama
Speaker 1: under two a tongue by Low and how when he
Speaker 1: got there, Bama transitioned from that defense and run heavy
Speaker 1: team they had been for decades and centuries really to
Speaker 1: being the most prolific downfield passing team really in the
Speaker 1: history of college football until Joe Burrow and l s
Speaker 1: U came along and kind of took some of those
Speaker 1: records away, But this point still stands. They were very
Speaker 1: prolific throwing the ball down the football field. So in
Speaker 1: this practice he hits some fades from twenty yards one
Speaker 1: to Jalen Waddle, one to Isaiah Afford. You saw the
Speaker 1: video of that on our Miami Dolphins Twitter page. He's
Speaker 1: attacking vertically, he's throwing with drive on certain balls where
Speaker 1: it's necessary. He had a rip up the seam to
Speaker 1: Waddle in two minute where you can see the linebacker
Speaker 1: get depth to his landmark off the snap, and so
Speaker 1: Waddle takes the free access he has because there's no
Speaker 1: reroute there into the second level and to it, catches
Speaker 1: the snap, plants that left foot, the drive foot into
Speaker 1: the ground, and drives this football from the far hash
Speaker 1: And because you've got to get it out of there
Speaker 1: before the safety can come down, he's he's just gonna
Speaker 1: drive that thing as hard as he can and it
Speaker 1: just is on the money, splits the one and the
Speaker 1: seven on his jersey. And we've seen that a lot
Speaker 1: so far. With two, he's layering passes two spots to
Speaker 1: give guys the ultimate yak opportunity of DS. And I
Speaker 1: had this in my notes planning for the podcast today,
Speaker 1: and then two I went ahead and talked about it
Speaker 1: on a question at his post practice presser. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and hear from two on throwing the football too spots,
Speaker 1: knowing where it's supposed to go and throwing a guy
Speaker 1: open um. I mean, I personally think you know that
Speaker 1: those those two kind of fall fall hand in hand. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, you know where the guy is supposed to be.
Speaker 1: He has a guy right on him, but you throw
Speaker 1: it to the spot, you know, and he has just
Speaker 1: that inch of separation from the guy and he makes
Speaker 1: that catch. You know. I think that's what it means.
Speaker 1: So really good stuff there, and some more good stuff
Speaker 1: from Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald, who tweeted the
Speaker 1: two had been six touchdowns to zero picks over the
Speaker 1: last two days in the eleven on eleven periods and
Speaker 1: hadn't thrown an interception since day one of practice last Wednesday,
Speaker 1: and he did have one today that was just slightly
Speaker 1: over the arch outstretched arm of Albert Wilson. I actually
Speaker 1: thought he'd get a hand on that ball, but he didn't.
Speaker 1: And Javon Holland more on him here in just a
Speaker 1: minute was able to corral the past. But the efficient
Speaker 1: you while pushing the ball down the field has been
Speaker 1: there big time, and I really thought this was to
Speaker 1: his best day so far. The location, whether he's coming
Speaker 1: off the top of his drop, attacking the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and working in either direction as he kind of
Speaker 1: pushes the line of scrimmage, throwing on the move off
Speaker 1: play pass off boot action, the ball was just getting
Speaker 1: right into the proverbial tire swing a lot today and
Speaker 1: there were three occasions. Three of them. I talked about
Speaker 1: it on Twitter where Kyle Crabs, the tremendous host of
Speaker 1: the Lockdown Dolphins podcast and close personal friend of mine,
Speaker 1: we both take our eyes off the field, look at
Speaker 1: each other, lock on and we do the Antonio ben
Speaker 1: Derris meme where he kind of leans back from the computer.
Speaker 1: You guys know what that means. So fun, fun day
Speaker 1: of offense. I also really liked read set to day.
Speaker 1: You know, he can really reach back and throw the gas.
Speaker 1: He's developed a nice report so far with Kirk Merritt,
Speaker 1: and it reminds me of a couple of years back.
Speaker 1: And I honestly am drawing a blank on the names
Speaker 1: of these guys, Like I remember Demoras string Fellow was
Speaker 1: one of them, but remember when I think it was
Speaker 1: Brandon Dowdy at quarterback. Maybe it was after Pat Devlon
Speaker 1: for sure, but he kept having these big fourth quarters
Speaker 1: with the cast of receivers. And I'm eager to get
Speaker 1: a look at Sinet in those games because he can
Speaker 1: flat out slinging. I think his arms gonna give some
Speaker 1: teams some trouble. In the preseason, he also got free
Speaker 1: on a scramble for an eight yard or so touchdown
Speaker 1: run in the red zone period, so you can see
Speaker 1: the dual threat guy that he was back in college
Speaker 1: at San Diego. And then Jacoby percent hit a couple
Speaker 1: of deep balls. We'll talk more about that as the
Speaker 1: podcast goes along with That's always good to see from
Speaker 1: QB two out there. Speaking of the deep balls as
Speaker 1: we pivot towards the wide receivers. Jachem Grant has also
Speaker 1: been tremendous in the vertical game and pulling down catches
Speaker 1: this training camp so far, especially of the contested catch variety.
Speaker 1: And I asked, Jachim, what does this offense do to
Speaker 1: suit what you do best? And I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and play some audio here from you from Jachim
Speaker 1: who answered my question about the one thing he focused
Speaker 1: on worked on this offseason and how this offensive system
Speaker 1: kind of suits his skill set. Um, I think dy
Speaker 1: especially on the vertical balls deep balls, I think me too,
Speaker 1: and some of the Jacoby we have connected on a
Speaker 1: lot of deep balls. They've been doing a good job
Speaker 1: giving me that chance to use my sweet the album
Speaker 1: the guys and and that's exactly what they did, and
Speaker 1: we were connected on a lot of them at really
Speaker 1: focused on you wanted to get better at UH most
Speaker 1: definitely just UH, I'll say, consistently catching the deep ball.
Speaker 1: You know, as you see it in the past. UH,
Speaker 1: I dropped a couple of deep balls that I'm not
Speaker 1: proud of. And and as you can see out here
Speaker 1: at the camp I've been, you can tell that I've
Speaker 1: been working on because I haven't dropped one yet and
Speaker 1: he's been getting good at generating space out here. In practice,
Speaker 1: had a really nice comeback route on Byron Jones and
Speaker 1: the one on ones and by the way, very grateful
Speaker 1: to see one on one drills again, my favorite part
Speaker 1: of practice besides the team period. He had another really
Speaker 1: good route in that period where he got on top
Speaker 1: of the dB and stacked him. And what that means
Speaker 1: is you put the defensive back on your back so
Speaker 1: that when he has to go through you to get
Speaker 1: to the ball, he has to go through you and
Speaker 1: gets the flag if he does that. And we know
Speaker 1: that with Jachim at five A, even though he has
Speaker 1: gone up and made the high point play before, your
Speaker 1: best bet is going to be to get him and
Speaker 1: stride and let him run and two drops this one
Speaker 1: ass in beautifully over the defensive back and before the
Speaker 1: end line for another touchdown connection from those two and
Speaker 1: speaking of players having a good camp, Albert Wilson caught
Speaker 1: a few balls in the team period, including a nice
Speaker 1: adjustment where he was on the move with the defender
Speaker 1: out in front. Then he slams on the brakes and
Speaker 1: two of must have seen the exact same thing because
Speaker 1: he threw the ball to a spot where Wilson had
Speaker 1: become stationary. Just a real nice connection there, and that
Speaker 1: goes back to the sound clip we played for you
Speaker 1: on yesterday's podcast with alb Wilson talking about the offseason
Speaker 1: and throwing together. Wilson also caught a dig and a
Speaker 1: curl in the team period from two A not in
Speaker 1: red zone, just on the filth full field work and
Speaker 1: Kirk Merritt continues to look really really good out here.
Speaker 1: He's catching everything Senet throws. And he also got free
Speaker 1: on a couple of passes from Brissette and also hooked
Speaker 1: up with two A once in the one on ones.
Speaker 1: So he's been challenge for everybody who's come across him.
Speaker 1: Strong hands, strong up the stem to hold the line
Speaker 1: and the athletic ability to really create separation at the
Speaker 1: catch point. Isaiah Ford continues to have a strong, strong camp.
Speaker 1: He pulled an one of the long balls from Brissette
Speaker 1: with tight coverage from iguan Agny on his back going
Speaker 1: to the ground, hanging onto the football, and he later
Speaker 1: got into the honey hoole to cover two honeyhole. We
Speaker 1: heard Byron Jones talk about that a few weeks back
Speaker 1: over the cornerback under the safety and Brissette rocketed the
Speaker 1: ball in there and he hung on through more contacts.
Speaker 1: So strong hands that Isaiah has were on display, and
Speaker 1: igman Agny had some tight coverage and other reps on
Speaker 1: Isaiah four. These two were nearly the matchup of the day,
Speaker 1: but I decided to go in another direction. Alan Hearns
Speaker 1: went down early in practice as we mentioned, but he
Speaker 1: returned and man, he made some tough catches as he
Speaker 1: has through camp as he has as a pro, including
Speaker 1: one fantastic grab on a deep ball from Reid Senet.
Speaker 1: We pivot over to the running backs and another good
Speaker 1: day from these guys, particularly Miles Gaskin, who, speaking of
Speaker 1: the deep ball, ran a wheel route in the team
Speaker 1: period seven on seven and had an absolute dime dropped
Speaker 1: to him from tah just over the top of the
Speaker 1: underneath coverage and in there before the safety could come
Speaker 1: over and close. You find that area of the field
Speaker 1: and you can get it in there before the safety
Speaker 1: gets over. That's when you really start to open up
Speaker 1: the offense. And Miles had a couple of nice gains,
Speaker 1: including one where he burst through the line off an
Speaker 1: arm tackle and took off. He also had a nice
Speaker 1: run in red zone where he pushed the pile for
Speaker 1: three or four yards on a second goal run to
Speaker 1: put the offense up inside the two yard line. Jared Oakes,
Speaker 1: I thought I had a good day and you can
Speaker 1: just feel his presence when the pads come on. He's
Speaker 1: not gonna go out of bounds and he's gonna lower
Speaker 1: that shoulder and he's gonna drop it on you and
Speaker 1: make sure you have you feel him when you tackle him.
Speaker 1: He was His big run was due in large part
Speaker 1: to his kind of bull and a China shop mentality,
Speaker 1: just trucking through arm tackle attempts. You can feel that
Speaker 1: power to when they hit the bags in the fundamentals
Speaker 1: and individual drills. He's a hammer. But I thought he
Speaker 1: also showed a good burst after contact and really does
Speaker 1: a good job of keeping his feet underneath him through
Speaker 1: that contact and then Carl Tucker scoring a little pot
Speaker 1: pass inside That was pretty cool to see from the
Speaker 1: big rookie out of Alabama onto the tight ends. I
Speaker 1: thought this was Durham Smite's best day so far. He
Speaker 1: had a great block on that long gask And run
Speaker 1: and another one on a Jareddokes run. He also caught
Speaker 1: a screen pass from tah and was patient behind his
Speaker 1: blocks to pick up fifteen yards from a plus twenty
Speaker 1: yard line to get him down to the five. There
Speaker 1: was a one on one rep against Eric Row where
Speaker 1: he just engaged the contact and got off the coverage
Speaker 1: right at the top of the route for a reception.
Speaker 1: And speaking of that, Hunter Long did that yesterday. He
Speaker 1: made some more place today to including a really nice
Speaker 1: contested catch going against Brandon Jones and one on ones
Speaker 1: from Tah. It was a deep out and Long showed
Speaker 1: the concentration to haul that thing in and work the
Speaker 1: sidelines to get the feet in. The ball was thrown
Speaker 1: just out of the reach of Jones where only Hunter
Speaker 1: could get it, and he did his best play and
Speaker 1: team was another shot from Tah an absolute frozen rope
Speaker 1: where he gets into that honey hoole again we referenced earlier,
Speaker 1: which requires a lot of velocity on those throws, and
Speaker 1: two of splits the eight and the four to find
Speaker 1: his rookie tight end and finally along the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Big fan of Austin Jackson's day today, he had a
Speaker 1: pass pro rep against Brennan Scarlett, who's been really good
Speaker 1: this training camp, where he stopped the upfield rush, then
Speaker 1: worked back inside to forth the counter move, and then
Speaker 1: later did the exact opposite Scarlett tries to go with
Speaker 1: a bullrush, he absorbs it and then works vertical to
Speaker 1: hold the edge and pass pro to give to a
Speaker 1: some time to throw. Both Gaskin and Dokes had big
Speaker 1: runs off his side too, and I could see Jackson's
Speaker 1: man kind of come detached once the ball went past
Speaker 1: them and chase the play from the back. That's always
Speaker 1: a good sign for an offensive lineman. Larnel Coleman gets
Speaker 1: in the notes today. He creates some space on one
Speaker 1: of gaskins rips and had some pass some good pass
Speaker 1: pro work against some of the team's more accomplished pass rushers,
Speaker 1: one in particular on Vince Beagle where he held his
Speaker 1: own good work there. From the seventh round, Rookie Solomon
Speaker 1: Kinley had a couple of reps. He has a couple
Speaker 1: of reps every practice, I should say, where he swallows
Speaker 1: someone up hole with a block out the sun type
Speaker 1: of block at the second level. More of that today
Speaker 1: from him. Robert Hunt has a lot of these blocks
Speaker 1: I mentioned with Austin where the defender has to turn
Speaker 1: around and chase back the other way because he's so imposing,
Speaker 1: and once he gets his paws on you, it's good
Speaker 1: night at that point. I had a note that Scurra
Speaker 1: dug out the one tech to open a lane inside,
Speaker 1: and I thought Dieter did well against some of these
Speaker 1: guy eyes. I mean, this defensive tackle group is so tough,
Speaker 1: so these centers, you know, they get wins. I really
Speaker 1: note that down and Scura and Dieter had a couple
Speaker 1: on the day. Onto the defense up front. Emmanuel Agba
Speaker 1: had some nice work in the run game. Again, that's
Speaker 1: an underrated part of his game that I think has
Speaker 1: shown up the last couple of days as well as
Speaker 1: it did last season. Adam Butler continues to work against
Speaker 1: both the run and the pass, and on one particular
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin run. He gets to the gap before Gaskin
Speaker 1: gets where he's aiming to go, and then he has
Speaker 1: to bend it back and hit the teeth of the
Speaker 1: defense where the help is and he gets no gain
Speaker 1: on that. Butler's get off and the penetration he gets
Speaker 1: every single day really stands out to me every day.
Speaker 1: Ray Kuan Davis had another big day. I thought he
Speaker 1: stacked up a couple of runs in the early portion,
Speaker 1: but I think what impressed me most was when they
Speaker 1: were running through fundies, the fundamental drills. He raps and
Speaker 1: lifts John Jenkins and it looked like me picking up
Speaker 1: my one year old twenty pound daughter, like a three
Speaker 1: pound man, just picking him up with no problem. Like
Speaker 1: crazy strength from ray Kuan Davis. And that plays every
Speaker 1: single day out here as well. Speaking of strength, Zack
Speaker 1: Seiler continues to prove to be really tough to move
Speaker 1: in the running game. He got some more pressure on
Speaker 1: the quarterback today too. He absolutely blew up a screenplay
Speaker 1: with John Jenkins at one point. Really the size, explosive
Speaker 1: combination of kind of the entire defensive line. It puts
Speaker 1: the offensive line, not just to Miami but every offensive
Speaker 1: line they'll face in such conflict the moment the ball
Speaker 1: is snapped, and I think we really see that when
Speaker 1: they get to play somebody else, we'll see how different
Speaker 1: offensive lines react to the depth and the waves and
Speaker 1: the strength of this d line. And Christian Wilkins is
Speaker 1: part of that too. He continues to make plays both
Speaker 1: inside and out, and as coach mentioned, he can play
Speaker 1: all over the line and he has also if you
Speaker 1: see this idea that he's on the second team like
Speaker 1: no like. Lineups are rotated all the time, especially the
Speaker 1: first week of training camp, for instance, and that group
Speaker 1: is so deep that someone has to roll with the
Speaker 1: twos like Butler, Seiler and and Davis have done it too.
Speaker 1: Wilkins has been a seven snap player each of his
Speaker 1: first two years in the league, and he looks better
Speaker 1: now than he ever has, So I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: hear any word of that. I asked Christian after practice
Speaker 1: about the relationship between the defensive line and the linebackers
Speaker 1: with regards to the running game, and I thought he
Speaker 1: gave me a very insightful answer. Let's go to Christians. Yeah, definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we were working and we work together you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And we gotta work in cohesions. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, if I do my job right, the backers
Speaker 1: make plays. If you know, if they're doing their job,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a play. So you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: definitely a team effort. We're all gonna work together and
Speaker 1: be coordinated. Um. And definitely when we you know, break
Speaker 1: down film watch them together, it's like, oh, like you
Speaker 1: really get to see the big picture. Sometimes when you're
Speaker 1: just out there practicing, you don't necessarily see it. But
Speaker 1: then it's nice when you go back and watch the
Speaker 1: tip and you're like, oh, I took this double team,
Speaker 1: so now this backer can run free and make this
Speaker 1: play and if he shoots the gap and I'm free
Speaker 1: or like whatever it is. Um, So you know, it's
Speaker 1: definitely good to to uh to see that. And we
Speaker 1: got to be on point together. So that was the
Speaker 1: inside back to the outside. I mentioned Scarlett having some
Speaker 1: battles with Austin Jackson, but he had some wins throughout
Speaker 1: the day, and not just with Jackson. I thought he
Speaker 1: had several pressures and I thought two I did a
Speaker 1: good job of mitigating some of those. Vince Bagel also
Speaker 1: had a good amount of pressure today on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: I've said this before, but man, he can really flatten
Speaker 1: that edge and corner around that tackle and and really
Speaker 1: get that the area from him in the quarterback really
Speaker 1: condensed that space, and it's good to see these guys
Speaker 1: pick it up off the edge without Van Ginkle and
Speaker 1: without Jalen Phillips out there. And Chad Griffin had another
Speaker 1: couple of nice speed reps as a pass rusher. Again,
Speaker 1: I'm sure reads to that is probably tired of seeing
Speaker 1: fifty three flash in his face. Also, Jason Strowbridge got
Speaker 1: him for a QB hit in one of the team
Speaker 1: periods as well, a would be QB hit. I should say,
Speaker 1: we do not hit the guys in the red jerseys.
Speaker 1: At linebacker, Sam Maguavin had himself a day. Man. He
Speaker 1: was coming clean up the middle of a pass rusher
Speaker 1: against the running game. He had a rep where he
Speaker 1: bulldozed the back and pass pro Pat Laird was in
Speaker 1: there and he was getting depth and width and coverage
Speaker 1: and handling those responsibilities and sticking his nose in there
Speaker 1: against the run. Really good day and a really strong
Speaker 1: camp so far from number forty nine. I think eg
Speaker 1: Van is a good example of something coach said before
Speaker 1: practice about the varied skill sets of the linebackers on
Speaker 1: this Dolphins roster. Let's go to coach. Yeah, we made
Speaker 1: a couple additions to the linebacker room, Duke Riley McKinney. Uh,
Speaker 1: and we we liked the group. They work hard, they're tough,
Speaker 1: they're smart, they're competitive. You know it's important to them. Um,
Speaker 1: you know that over you know it's it's early, so
Speaker 1: over the first few days of training camp and actually
Speaker 1: know I shouldn't say that going back to the springing
Speaker 1: O t A s Um, it's a group that works
Speaker 1: well together or they're trying to work well together. And um,
Speaker 1: they've all got a different skill set that we can
Speaker 1: potentially use, whether it's pass game, pass rush, run defense,
Speaker 1: kicking game. Ah. So again, very competitive room. You know
Speaker 1: the new guys plus Bake, plus Roberts, plus months and
Speaker 1: plus Hega Vaughan. Um, I mean I think it's a
Speaker 1: competitive group. And up we continue to just build and
Speaker 1: take it one day at a time and try to
Speaker 1: improve every day. Well, hopefully I have a solid group thumpers,
Speaker 1: coverage blitzers, special teamers. Like you mentioned, You've got so
Speaker 1: many guys that can do multiple things. And speaking of that,
Speaker 1: then we've got the secondary to go ahead and finish
Speaker 1: up here with as far as the positions before specialist
Speaker 1: and I want to cover this theme of sorts today
Speaker 1: where we've talked about some plays getting blown dead because
Speaker 1: the quarterbacks don't throw the football and why don't they
Speaker 1: throw it? Well, because there's good coverage down the field,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna put the ball in harm's way. I
Speaker 1: try to pay more attention to some of that downfield,
Speaker 1: and man, you can see the way these guys work
Speaker 1: together in tandem, and we talked about g A and
Speaker 1: the communication and the way they communicate with the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: and make sure they're carrying their man to a certain
Speaker 1: landmark to then get picked up by the coverage over
Speaker 1: the top. And Jason McCardy has been very strong in
Speaker 1: this regard in my opinion, so has Javon Holland. And
Speaker 1: we saw some of his range again today. More him
Speaker 1: in just a moment. Brandon Jones too, and man, I
Speaker 1: love watching him play downhill, but today he had some
Speaker 1: good coverage work as well, like the steam shot from
Speaker 1: two or to durham smythe A route that two has
Speaker 1: been hitting with regularity so far in training camp. But
Speaker 1: Jones was in good trail technique underneath got the hand
Speaker 1: up in Smith's face and so the ball sailed a
Speaker 1: little bit high because he was disrupted at the catch point.
Speaker 1: And then after practice we had McCarney meet with the
Speaker 1: media and he talked about the mentor ship and the
Speaker 1: hunger and the intelligence of those young safeties and Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones as well as Javon Holland, who we talked about here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, a ton of shries and I think, uh,
Speaker 1: my interactions with him early on when we first got here,
Speaker 1: you can see the intelligence. And I think that's the
Speaker 1: toughest thing as especially a rookie, of being able to
Speaker 1: learn the defense, because as of safety, uh, you're the
Speaker 1: key communicator. You're the guy who has to get checks out,
Speaker 1: who have to tell guys what to do, So you
Speaker 1: have to be able to master the defense. And early
Speaker 1: on when I first jumped on the zoom calls, you
Speaker 1: saw that from him. Whenever a question came his way,
Speaker 1: he knew the answer, he knew what to anticipate, and
Speaker 1: you can see it out here on the field as
Speaker 1: we wall and he's making more and more plays. He's
Speaker 1: a hell of an athlete and he's a fun guy
Speaker 1: to be around. Uh. I call him Canada. He's spent.
Speaker 1: That's where he was born, so we got referred on
Speaker 1: as Old Canada. But he's making a ton of strides
Speaker 1: and it's fun to watch him and a lot of
Speaker 1: the younger guys out here. I mean, you don't need
Speaker 1: my evaluation. That was perfect, calling Oh Canada the instinctual
Speaker 1: guy that he that he is, and and noticing it
Speaker 1: right away in those zoom calls. Very cool stuff there
Speaker 1: from mccordy talking about Javon Holland, who again we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about more in just one second. I want to
Speaker 1: play some audio for you guys about the challenge of
Speaker 1: going from playing receivers to playing tight ends as a safety.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how this sound goes, because well, why
Speaker 1: don't we go ahead and play the audio and I'll
Speaker 1: tell you the story afterwards. It's pretty funny. A lot
Speaker 1: of his body position, you know, the smaller guys, you're
Speaker 1: you're just the same size. You can boy them up
Speaker 1: the tight ends. You kind of gotta get out of
Speaker 1: it away and use your speed to your advantage soul.
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a technique thing, but figuring
Speaker 1: it out as we go. So the reason I wanted
Speaker 1: to play that for you guys was because one he
Speaker 1: gave you a great answer about playing tight ends and
Speaker 1: backs compared to receivers as a safety compared to a corner.
Speaker 1: But you might have heard that voice as my question
Speaker 1: was being asked by by me. That was also my
Speaker 1: voice on the loudspeaker who recorded a weather warning to
Speaker 1: leave the stands and to leave the practice field because
Speaker 1: lightning is in the area. And as I'm asking Jason
Speaker 1: the question, that thing came on and I said, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: that's me, and he looked at me and laughed, like,
Speaker 1: what the hell are you talking about? So a fun moment.
Speaker 1: They're finishing up in the secondary. Terrell Bonds got himself
Speaker 1: another I n T this time in the one on
Speaker 1: ones and that's hard to do. That's a very tough
Speaker 1: trial to get a pick in. He undercut a throw
Speaker 1: from Jacoby Brissette to grab this one, and then Javaris
Speaker 1: Davis had more plays on the football. He's had a
Speaker 1: very nice camp so far. He drove on a dig
Speaker 1: route to Robert Foster from Jacoby Brissette in the one
Speaker 1: on one portion of practice for a pass breakup, and
Speaker 1: then later on the play where Hearns got shaken up,
Speaker 1: he elevates and catch just the football, but Davis gets
Speaker 1: in there and separates his hands for the p BU.
Speaker 1: Trill Williams had a great recovery play on deep shot
Speaker 1: to Kirk Merritt where he got a step behind him,
Speaker 1: but Williams came up underneath and broke it up. Stay
Speaker 1: in the play and get yourself a hand on the football. Finally,
Speaker 1: Nick Needham is having a really strong camp so far.
Speaker 1: He stayed in the hip pocket of Jillen Waddle on
Speaker 1: an out route, something that has given every cornerback here
Speaker 1: at camp an issue, and he got the p BU
Speaker 1: on that play. He had a play on the football
Speaker 1: every day so far of training camp. And before we
Speaker 1: get to Javon Holland and the matchup of the day,
Speaker 1: the matchup of the specialist, Jason Sanders hit the upright
Speaker 1: today once his first miss of camp. That's my fault.
Speaker 1: I jinked him, but he was good on all the others.
Speaker 1: And then Michael Polarady put on an absolute show. Four
Speaker 1: straight punts that were perfect or nearly perfect. Three kicks
Speaker 1: that were down inside the three yard line. One hit
Speaker 1: the ten and bounced in to the one. The other
Speaker 1: two had backs been that checked up at the one
Speaker 1: or two yard line, and then they just basically stayed
Speaker 1: flat right there. And then the fourth one he hits
Speaker 1: inside the pie lam which just barely nicked inside of
Speaker 1: that thing for a touchback. He was a quarter inch
Speaker 1: Charlie Conway from down at the one yard line. Once again,
Speaker 1: He's been terrific so far, and now you're a prime
Speaker 1: time matchup of the day. Matchup of the day. To
Speaker 1: a tongue of Byalo versus Javan Holland, I talked about
Speaker 1: to a throwing two spots and beating the safety's really
Speaker 1: with anticipation because safety has gotta follow the quarterback's eyes
Speaker 1: to the football, and a lot of jockeying between both
Speaker 1: those two positions as both scored some wins on this day.
Speaker 1: But I like seeing Javon's range on some of the
Speaker 1: deep to intermediate stuff and his ability to come from
Speaker 1: depth and disrupt the passing game and come in under
Speaker 1: control for sound tackling in the run game. Both those
Speaker 1: things stick out, but as far as the results. Finally
Speaker 1: getting an I n T that I felt like was
Speaker 1: coming because he was getting over the top and to
Speaker 1: the football a lot. And to get that first I
Speaker 1: n T off to in a team period, the first
Speaker 1: one to get one since last Wednesday. I mean that
Speaker 1: spans over seven days and hundreds of throws. So great
Speaker 1: work from the two youngsters. Let's speed through top performers.
Speaker 1: Ris we're getting short on time to a tongue Byalo
Speaker 1: Reads Senet talked about the way they through the football
Speaker 1: all day long. Jared oakes the past. Come on, he
Speaker 1: looks very strong and powerful. Miles Gaskon had some more
Speaker 1: work in the past game shifty in the running game.
Speaker 1: Nick Needham continues to get plays on the football. Isaiah
Speaker 1: Ford went out and got a ton of catches today,
Speaker 1: going up top and making big plays down the field.
Speaker 1: Kirk Merritt shows up every single day. He's in there
Speaker 1: as well. Jachem Grant the one on one period, he
Speaker 1: was fantastic in Tworell Bonds and Javarro Stavius both had
Speaker 1: plays in the football. They make their way in here again.
Speaker 1: Sam Ego Van had a big day. Thought Adam Butler
Speaker 1: was in the backfield a lot today. Javon Holland just
Speaker 1: talked about him. Laarnel Coleman is in there for some
Speaker 1: good work he had in pass pro and in the
Speaker 1: running game. Austin Jackson and Michael Pollardi are your top
Speaker 1: performers of the day. Two questions here from Twitter. The
Speaker 1: first listener question comes in from Kevin Gerrard and he
Speaker 1: asks about Jason mccordy, who we covered already in the podcast.
Speaker 1: How has he looked at safety and also what's a
Speaker 1: percentage breakdown of Noah mun Agny playing inside and outside? Well,
Speaker 1: answer the first one second one first here, the coaches
Speaker 1: talked about him cross training, so he does do both,
Speaker 1: but he's been working a lot on the perimeter like
Speaker 1: he was in college with mccordy. I think the best
Speaker 1: way to answer that is to rehash some of the
Speaker 1: stuff we talked about with the walkthrough periods, or fighting
Speaker 1: over natural rubs and picks and those those types of
Speaker 1: bunch drills, or just seeing some of those coverage sacks
Speaker 1: we talked about it. I mean, these occur with a
Speaker 1: quarterback doesn't feel good about the receiver where he is
Speaker 1: at the moment or coming open, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of that has to do with McCarty, holland Jones
Speaker 1: and what they've done in the back end. I would
Speaker 1: add Eric Row there, but he's just all over the place,
Speaker 1: so it's hard to mention him in one specific spot.
Speaker 1: Our second question here comes from the Apple podcast reviews.
Speaker 1: Remember if you put a question on Apple Podcasts in there,
Speaker 1: we're gonna answer on the podcast. I'll put him on there,
Speaker 1: give us a five star rating. We'll go ahead and
Speaker 1: get the question answered here on Drive Time. And this
Speaker 1: one comes from the best name I've read on these
Speaker 1: mail bags yet, cool Kids table. Do you see this
Speaker 1: explosive offense working once the pressure on the quarterback starts?
Speaker 1: This week in practice, like Mike Tyson said, everyone has
Speaker 1: a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Well,
Speaker 1: with two padded days of practice in the books, I
Speaker 1: can say so far yes. And I realized these reviews
Speaker 1: don't always populate the same day that you put them
Speaker 1: on there, so hopefully this is still relevant when you
Speaker 1: hear the podcast. But I thought today especially the ball
Speaker 1: came out quickly. And you know, the part that I
Speaker 1: think makes it most feasible come the season is a
Speaker 1: quick twitch of your quarterback and today, it seems like
Speaker 1: there's a hundred pass rushers across the league that can
Speaker 1: really get the job done and put pressure on you.
Speaker 1: And so the big deal, the big way to get
Speaker 1: away from that heat is the quarterback consistently finding the
Speaker 1: ways to mitigate that pressure with their pocket mobility. And
Speaker 1: people confuse that for you know, the Lamar Jacksons and
Speaker 1: the Kyler Murray type of mobility that they've displayed in
Speaker 1: their careers, and those guys with two a rank near
Speaker 1: the top of the league enforced missed pressures last season.
Speaker 1: But I'm talking about that Brady or Marino mobility the
Speaker 1: traditional pocket passers, and not making comparisons there other than
Speaker 1: just to say the ability to see where the danger is,
Speaker 1: how to get to a spot too makes the rush irrelevant,
Speaker 1: and then have the ability to get the mechanics back
Speaker 1: to where they were before the pressure got there, to
Speaker 1: get set and to make the play from there. So
Speaker 1: as far as College vale euation goes to, it was
Speaker 1: one of the best I ever had studied in that arena,
Speaker 1: and then this week of practice I think really has
Speaker 1: shown me more of the same. Then on the other end,
Speaker 1: we've seen Waddle Grant Wilson, A bunch of guys that
Speaker 1: can make catches in the short intermediate area and then
Speaker 1: food they're off to the races. So I think, yes,
Speaker 1: cool kids, table. I do think it can and will
Speaker 1: carry over. All right, that's gonna be my time on
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