Speaker 1: Two on the move, galling deep Speedlis Peace.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's god my avans
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. What is up Dolphins and welcome to
Speaker 2: the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: And on today's show, we are now fourteen practices into
Speaker 2: the new season. We're gonna address the dog days of
Speaker 2: camp as we discussed Tua's day with QB one himself,
Speaker 2: how to push through and the value of these tough
Speaker 2: raps against a competitive defense. Plus full practice notes including
Speaker 2: plenty of individual breakdowns and some additional audio from Nick
Speaker 2: Needham and Jordan Brooks. All of that and more from
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 2: The Drive Time Podcast. But I mentioned the dog days
Speaker 2: of summer partially for the purpose of this first SoundBite
Speaker 2: from Tua tonguea Biloa and that's where I want to start,
Speaker 2: as he discussed pushing through this portion of camp where
Speaker 2: the initial excitement has maybe at least for fans and
Speaker 2: media's perspective, dissipated a little bit, and the end is
Speaker 2: still kind of out of reach. As we get towards
Speaker 2: the end of the exhibition season, you're on a grind
Speaker 2: to get better, right, But for QB one, all of
Speaker 2: these practices add up to the culmination of improvement heading
Speaker 2: into the new season.
Speaker 4: You just I think you really just got to look
Speaker 4: at it like one day at a time, sort of
Speaker 4: have that mentality. You start to look into the future
Speaker 4: of things. Then you start to think of unnecessary things, Okay,
Speaker 4: like what am I going to do? How am I
Speaker 4: going to prepare for that? I mean, you still got
Speaker 4: to get through this practice, you still got to get
Speaker 4: through this rep, you still got to get through this play.
Speaker 1: And I think that's sort of how you take it.
Speaker 1: So now that.
Speaker 4: Practice is over, Okay, what's the next thing that I
Speaker 4: got to focus on? All right, it's my nutrition, all right,
Speaker 4: it's my it's my weight room training, it's my conditioning,
Speaker 4: whatever that entails for you. And so that's why, you know,
Speaker 4: I think guys are pretty you know, adamant about their
Speaker 4: routines and whatnot.
Speaker 2: And I love this question and answer here from Tua
Speaker 2: on a quick follow up about are you still experimenting
Speaker 2: with things you can find tune and tinker and get
Speaker 2: better at or are you trying to hone in on
Speaker 2: what this offense is going to be?
Speaker 4: Here's too well, I would say, just because of the
Speaker 4: guys that you know, we don't have out there, and
Speaker 4: you know, at certain positions, it really forces us to
Speaker 4: work on on some other things.
Speaker 1: And get really good.
Speaker 4: And so it's really just getting back to the basics
Speaker 4: and rehoning in on that what the footwork is, what
Speaker 4: that play asks of us to do, and you know,
Speaker 4: with with our job and from there we we just.
Speaker 1: We do it.
Speaker 2: And that I thought was very evident with how the
Speaker 2: offense looked today. I tweeted a little bit about it,
Speaker 2: and I'll get more into it here as we go
Speaker 2: long as most as we can here on the podcast
Speaker 2: without you know, going against the whole concept of reporting
Speaker 2: on training camp practices. But I thought that that was
Speaker 2: evident in terms of like, oh, yeah, this offense does
Speaker 2: scheme up wide open walk in touchdowns and does have
Speaker 2: a you know, sequential conceptual, sequential conceptual element to it
Speaker 2: that you just don't get in these training camp practices.
Speaker 2: And to kind of further these two points that Tua
Speaker 2: made here, I thought it was all very evident today
Speaker 2: with some of the reps, some repetitions of the same
Speaker 2: plays that we saw getting different looks and reactions from
Speaker 2: the defense on the same rep. Like your RPO rail
Speaker 2: concept rail flat concept. It plays into the commentary from
Speaker 2: coach on the concept of you are what you emphasize.
Speaker 2: And I say this all the time, but it's worth
Speaker 2: repeating here once again. I think that we know what
Speaker 2: this offense can count on at the end of the day. Right,
Speaker 2: You've seen the same concepts have success time and time
Speaker 2: again the last couple of years. It's the old you know,
Speaker 2: when you're tired in the fourth quarter, we run this
Speaker 2: play over and over again so that you have those
Speaker 2: banked reps in practice that you ran until you puked,
Speaker 2: so we could commit it to memory so when there
Speaker 2: it's the fourth quarter, it's second nature. I think that
Speaker 2: was Hoosier's Gene Hackman, right, I think so same concept
Speaker 2: we know or was it remember the Titans. I think
Speaker 2: it was Hoosiers. We know we can manipulate the middle
Speaker 2: of the field with our quarterbacks ball handling, his timing,
Speaker 2: his accuracy as anticipation on top of what the offense
Speaker 2: is designed to do to create that space and second,
Speaker 2: guessing for the defense eye candy all that we know,
Speaker 2: we have the ron fakes and the run action off
Speaker 2: of that. That's been put on tape hundreds of times
Speaker 2: these last two seasons, and it's been arguably the most
Speaker 2: successful bread and butter package, if you will, in the
Speaker 2: entire NFL. In fact, without looking it up, I would
Speaker 2: confidently assert or wager I suppose that it does average
Speaker 2: more yards per play than a any other team's bread
Speaker 2: and butter again, if you will, So, what's the evolution
Speaker 2: on offense? What's the tangible benefit of continuity between play caller,
Speaker 2: play designers, not singular player roal. Remember mc McDaniel has
Speaker 2: a team of quote unquote scientists conjuring up all this
Speaker 2: cool stuff that we see on Sunday's same quarterback skill
Speaker 2: players for the most part, and a good deal of
Speaker 2: continuity across the offensive line. I mean, in all honesty,
Speaker 2: the center is new, the right guard is new. You
Speaker 2: added a rookie back, a rookie wide receiver to the mix,
Speaker 2: and a tight end that I think is the starting
Speaker 2: tight end tight end one. But the basis of what
Speaker 2: you do and who does it, it's all here again,
Speaker 2: But that evolution that's where this offense, again number one
Speaker 2: in the NFL last year, can take yet another step.
Speaker 2: And why I think it's not just in the realm
Speaker 2: of possibilities. I flat out think it's a better offense
Speaker 2: and think they'll go out and prove it. And it
Speaker 2: would not surprise me one single iota if they scored
Speaker 2: more points and gain more yards in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: twenty three. And that's a long winded way of saying
Speaker 2: that's the challenge for coach and his staff. That's the
Speaker 2: benefit of the off season and the shape that it took,
Speaker 2: this conceptual thought that you can do more. Now you
Speaker 2: pair that with guys making their own individual strides to
Speaker 2: their own physical capacity on top of their own mental
Speaker 2: growth within the system. And that's where the growth can
Speaker 2: come internally, not just from the imports that you imported. Hey,
Speaker 2: get it the source, buddy, this off season.
Speaker 3: You with me on that?
Speaker 2: All right, good, let's go to TUA here on this
Speaker 2: theme because I want to circle back to the physical
Speaker 2: advancements and a video that you surely have seen by
Speaker 2: now from our socials. I think it's going to go out.
Speaker 2: I've tried my best to describe it in written form
Speaker 2: where Tua and you know, I so badly wanted to
Speaker 2: call this mahomesy in, but I thought better of it
Speaker 2: because I don't want to get everyone. You know, you're
Speaker 2: comparing tow it to mahomes like, nah, but you can
Speaker 2: look at a single play and be like mahomes In.
Speaker 2: But I thought better of it because that's just not
Speaker 2: who he is, and it's not really It's kind of
Speaker 2: an unfair comparison because nobody mahomes has redefined the way
Speaker 2: the position has been played. But when you see a
Speaker 2: quarterback create like that, that's who you always have come
Speaker 2: to your mind because of his transcendent nature in this league,
Speaker 2: maybe it was a little more prime Russell Wilson. That
Speaker 2: seems he's much more athletic than Tua is in his prime.
Speaker 2: I'll go with Matt Stafford, very Matt Stafford type of play.
Speaker 2: More on that in a moment. Let's go back first though,
Speaker 2: to Tua. When I asked him about this is maybe
Speaker 2: my best Q and A with QB one and five
Speaker 2: years of doing this with him, I asked him about
Speaker 2: the concept of making it harder on each other because
Speaker 2: I keep you know, I like to follow threads and
Speaker 2: themes and relay kind of how the team is thinking
Speaker 2: and my own perspective and my own analysis on what
Speaker 2: the team is thinking on top of the product we
Speaker 2: see on the practice field. And I think I think
Speaker 2: that makes this podcast the most informative with regards to
Speaker 2: giving you the actual what's happening on the practice field,
Speaker 2: not just results based only. Like I hear all the
Speaker 2: time that you know, the beat discussions up in the
Speaker 2: media section of the of training camp practices where this
Speaker 2: constant argument about whether or not he was sacked, Like
Speaker 2: who cares, dude, Like it doesn't matter. You don't need
Speaker 2: to be results based in this instance. You can give
Speaker 2: the sack to the player, but you can also acknowledge
Speaker 2: the extension of the play and get more valuable work
Speaker 2: out of it. In fact, if you go talk to
Speaker 2: Mike McDaniel, Rahee Morris last week, there are intentions in
Speaker 2: joint practices will let everything play out and let's get
Speaker 2: the full rep. That's how teams run this stuff. So
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask too it because I keep hearing
Speaker 2: this thread about you know, coaches and players are saying
Speaker 2: that they think that they've done a good job this
Speaker 2: camp of making it as hard as possible on each other.
Speaker 2: How their focus is to be what you emphasize and
Speaker 2: to make those hard looks the norm, so that when
Speaker 2: you come to game time and you have the easier
Speaker 2: stress free reps, these ones are easier to execute because
Speaker 2: you have ten, you know, stress free reps. And then
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, when it does get hard and
Speaker 2: you get a bad look and you have to run
Speaker 2: into a tough coverage, you are prepared for it. You're
Speaker 2: more than prepared for it. So I asked, too, what
Speaker 2: does that mean for your perspective to go out and
Speaker 2: make it harder on one another.
Speaker 4: I think you try to make it as hard as
Speaker 4: possible just because you know the defense that you're going against. Well,
Speaker 4: for us, we try not to focus on what our
Speaker 4: defense does. And so essentially it's with the mindset going out.
Speaker 4: As long as you know what you got to do,
Speaker 4: and you play within the rules and what the play
Speaker 4: entails for you to do, you should be fine regardless
Speaker 4: of what they do.
Speaker 1: If you're hot, you know where your hot answer is.
Speaker 4: If you're not hot and you got to go through
Speaker 4: your progression too high, one high, you know where you
Speaker 4: should go with the ball. And it makes it hard
Speaker 4: that way, so that by the time when we do
Speaker 4: come to season, we understand what we're going against and
Speaker 4: sort of makes it a little easier. And so going
Speaker 4: against these guys, they've seen a lot of the plays,
Speaker 4: they've seen a lot of the tendencies that we have
Speaker 4: with motions, motion, snap points, and then where we're trying
Speaker 4: to beat them with the weakness of their coverages.
Speaker 1: So that's what makes it tough, man, it makes it
Speaker 1: good for for both of us.
Speaker 2: And then I follow up that answer because he was
Speaker 2: very in depth and gracious with how he responded to that.
Speaker 2: I was. I asked, so that that entels if you
Speaker 2: get a look you don't like to not check and
Speaker 2: try to run into that bad look so you can
Speaker 2: get the rep of it on tape. Is that what
Speaker 2: we're looking at here? Here's how Tua answered that question.
Speaker 4: That's not the idea, but essentially that's what you get to.
Speaker 4: If we don't have the right play we would want it.
Speaker 4: So all right, this is the play we got. That's
Speaker 4: not the look we want to want to throw this into.
Speaker 4: We're gonna live with it because if that's not open,
Speaker 4: you know, that's why you have the progression here to here,
Speaker 4: and so it's just working on the training with that.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm so excited to see this offense
Speaker 2: looks like come September eighth, because to me, even though
Speaker 2: it's a new year, it's a continuation of how this
Speaker 2: offense has performed for two years now, and in particular,
Speaker 2: you know last year, but remember going into Week one
Speaker 2: last year, every question was about, you know, what are
Speaker 2: the Dolphins going to do to overcome the and I
Speaker 2: remember mcdaniell, I'll never forget McDaniel's saying the Brandon Staley plan. Huh.
Speaker 2: He was asked, how are you going to overcome that
Speaker 2: Brandon Staley plan? From the December game in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two when LA was able to really disrupt the timing
Speaker 2: of the offense, play that two man coverage and just
Speaker 2: have the passing game out of rhythm all night long.
Speaker 2: And then what do they do but go rip off
Speaker 2: thirty six points behind a four hundred and sixty yard
Speaker 2: day from QB one and two hundred plus from Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 2: And in McDaniel's first year, you got eighty plus points
Speaker 2: in three September games. Very good rights was that that's
Speaker 2: over twenty five points per game in his first three
Speaker 2: games as the NFL coach. Last year, you got over
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty points in September, and sure, a
Speaker 2: little bit blowviated by a seventy point output. But I
Speaker 2: mean if you take away seventy that's still oh boy,
Speaker 2: live math. Eighty points and two that's still wait, my
Speaker 2: math sucks there, it's but it's pretty good. Trust me,
Speaker 2: it's good numbers. The numbers are good. The numbers are fine.
Speaker 2: The bottom line of this whole point is I can't
Speaker 2: do math, dude, like I suck at math. The bottom
Speaker 2: line this whole point is I think they are deliberate
Speaker 2: in the way they approach camp to put themselves in
Speaker 2: position to have that hot start and be kind of
Speaker 2: the cutting edge of offensive evolution in terms of, oh,
Speaker 2: the Dolphins are doing that, we better go study it
Speaker 2: because that's what happened last year and the year before,
Speaker 2: and evolve this offense in the sense that they can
Speaker 2: have the same core stuff that we can count on,
Speaker 2: but continue sharpening their entire toolkit and expand that toolkit
Speaker 2: to give you more. It's what I talk about every time.
Speaker 2: It's a pitcher who learned a splitter in the offseason,
Speaker 2: who learned a circle change up? You're adding more pitches
Speaker 2: in your bag and it makes you more diverse as
Speaker 2: an offense. Let's go ahead and continue this team here
Speaker 2: with Nick Needham, who I had a couple questions here
Speaker 2: for him, asking him the exact same question, what does
Speaker 2: it mean from your perspective on defense to make it
Speaker 2: tough on one another?
Speaker 5: Because when it's hot, you got to come out there
Speaker 5: with that fierce tenacity that you're going to use in
Speaker 5: the game.
Speaker 3: Like, I know we're going versus offense. You gotta be smart.
Speaker 5: But we can't be doing that brother in law stuff like,
Speaker 5: we got to come out here and get better so
Speaker 5: when we get in the game, it's not a shock, like,
Speaker 5: oh damn, dude, just hit me. Like now, we're doing
Speaker 5: this all day in camp, like so when you get
Speaker 5: to the game, it's just second nature.
Speaker 2: You can just.
Speaker 3: React instead of, like I said, being shocked or anything
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 2: And then I want to play this sound bite too,
Speaker 2: because I'll talk about it later on in the podcast,
Speaker 2: about how there was a portion of practice reminding around
Speaker 2: the exact same play like four or five times in
Speaker 2: a row and that's when Jordan Brooks almost got to
Speaker 2: pick and so I asked Nick, like, what is it
Speaker 2: like in terms of how the conversations go. When do
Speaker 2: you guys know what plays are coming in certain periods
Speaker 2: or how does that work? So I asked Nick about
Speaker 2: that and he answered very graciously.
Speaker 3: Nah, that was I think that was the move the
Speaker 3: ball here.
Speaker 5: So it's unscripted, and I think they're obviously working something
Speaker 5: that they really are focused on today. And so I
Speaker 5: think it like every practice, we all bring something or
Speaker 5: the one side of the ball brings like one thing
Speaker 5: that they want to focus on.
Speaker 3: So that really looked like it.
Speaker 5: But we need that as well because it challenges our
Speaker 5: defensive rules in our zone scheme. So it's good to
Speaker 5: see on tape because we need to learn from neck
Speaker 5: because that's kind of how the game is leaning sores
Speaker 5: a little bit more with all these fast quarterbacks and
Speaker 5: RPO games.
Speaker 2: So within this practice, you know, the plays that I
Speaker 2: mentioned were repeated. Was you know some of these RPO
Speaker 2: pops that you've seen on tape a million times. So
Speaker 2: it's not really like breaking any any news or anything,
Speaker 2: but you see, you know, a wider spread emphasis in
Speaker 2: terms of how things are approached pre snap. I mean
Speaker 2: that the end around to John new Smith that he
Speaker 2: scored on. You got Durham Smyth and Liam Eichenberg out
Speaker 2: in space. You had this dummy return motion and inside
Speaker 2: fake to the running back reverse pivot from John new Smith,
Speaker 2: and it's like a schemed up walk in touchdown. That's
Speaker 2: the part of camp that I think kind of gets
Speaker 2: lost on you know, general fans, like they aren't scheming
Speaker 2: up touchdowns yet, they're not working on that because it's
Speaker 2: going to be there in their back like they have that,
Speaker 2: and that'll be for practices that are not open to
Speaker 2: the public. In fact, a great example of this is
Speaker 2: Patrick mc morris talking about why he was able to
Speaker 2: make so many plays against the Falcons. He basically said
Speaker 2: he was asked, was it coaches giving you tips on
Speaker 2: their offense or was it your own tape study what
Speaker 2: were led to the big night for you? And he said, no,
Speaker 2: it was the Falcons offense that was so you know
Speaker 2: pre season vanilla that I figured it out really quickly
Speaker 2: in the game and then just went and played fast
Speaker 2: from there. And Buddy, if there was ever a more
Speaker 2: air quote pre season football end air quote, comment than that,
Speaker 2: especially in today's game. I have not yet seen that,
Speaker 2: So I thought that the last couple days at practice,
Speaker 2: and that's probably why the question was posed to Tua
Speaker 2: about are you guys kind of honing in on what
Speaker 2: the offense might look like. It's looked more like the
Speaker 2: Dolphins offense in a game than what you would see
Speaker 2: at practice. If that tracks for you guys. I'm not
Speaker 2: going to go further detail on that because it's it's
Speaker 2: not allowed, but that's just know that, okay. So we've
Speaker 2: seen more of that this week. I think part of
Speaker 2: that plays into, you know, having to a play in
Speaker 2: the game on Saturday against Washington. All right, let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and take our first break right there. Come back
Speaker 2: on the other side and get to Tua's actual day
Speaker 2: of work and the entire clip of practice. Notes also
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Speaker 2: segment two on the second of the second week of August,
Speaker 2: and the first big play of the day from Tua's
Speaker 2: perspective was actually a big play for the defense where
Speaker 2: he tried to thread a tight one into Brilin Sanders,
Speaker 2: but it was tightly contested by siran Neil, who has
Speaker 2: had that sentence said about him a lot so far
Speaker 2: as a member of the Miami Dolphins. He bats it
Speaker 2: into the air and got the ball, was corralled by
Speaker 2: Marcus May for six in the other direction, but then
Speaker 2: it was right back to control for Tua. He was
Speaker 2: in control in the short intermedia game getting through his progressions.
Speaker 2: I noticed his ability and this is without knowledge of
Speaker 2: the progression itself, but just kind of seeing it play
Speaker 2: out where he's working like front side of his read
Speaker 2: in unison. As the stripe of the helmet kicks over
Speaker 2: to the backside, the throwing motion begins. And that's what
Speaker 2: I praised Michael Pennox for in the game on Friday,
Speaker 2: that based upon the front side snapshot and what you
Speaker 2: get from the defense, you can decide what you have
Speaker 2: on the backside without having to see it first. It's
Speaker 2: the theme of playing fast. That's how this game works.
Speaker 2: If you can't do that, you're not going to play
Speaker 2: very long in this league. The ball handling was also
Speaker 2: very very good. I look ingold had a big catch
Speaker 2: and run up the sideline, which has been more of
Speaker 2: theme the last couple of weeks here in practice, Durham
Speaker 2: Smyth had three catches of ten plus yards, all those
Speaker 2: quick hitters that he keeps on pulling in kind of
Speaker 2: like last year, like Durham Smyth was often the guy
Speaker 2: that kind of got turned free and coverage and tuas hey,
Speaker 2: if you're open, I'm gonna put it on you. Crave
Speaker 2: Craft had some catches on some quick pops as well,
Speaker 2: a lot of glances and darts and seams. Things in
Speaker 2: the middle of the football field. Seemed like a point
Speaker 2: of emphasis today. Now, there were three misses that I
Speaker 2: thought were uncharacteristic of Tua. He was high on a
Speaker 2: few throws. He missed Smith on a high throw over
Speaker 2: the middle. He had another high ball to Brilin Sanders,
Speaker 2: and had a near pick from Jordan Brooks where jb
Speaker 2: read his eyes right into that quick pass and nearly
Speaker 2: picked it off but dropped the pass. Kendall Fuller nearly
Speaker 2: had a diving interception on a late throw to the
Speaker 2: perimeter that was kind of like after the play after
Speaker 2: the sack, and he kind of flung it out there
Speaker 2: and Fuller almost made the play. So there was some
Speaker 2: back and forth from up and down, but as we'd
Speaker 2: point out some of the negatives there, I want to
Speaker 2: close with the play that I thought was most indicative
Speaker 2: of what has put Tua in position to take his
Speaker 2: game to yet another level in twenty twenty four was
Speaker 2: a scrambled touchdown throw to Eric Azukama, who was back
Speaker 2: practicing today. By the way, he and camp Smith both
Speaker 2: had pads on getting some live reps in practice for
Speaker 2: the first time in a while. Because I've just not
Speaker 2: yet seen this from two in the National Football League
Speaker 2: Soudid Alabama haven't seen it at this level. He gets
Speaker 2: pressure off of his right the pass rusher crosses face
Speaker 2: at the right tackle and he's kind of like waving
Speaker 2: his arm off of the block trying to get at Tua.
Speaker 2: And the best way I can describe this is think
Speaker 2: about any zombie movie when they're boarding up the windows
Speaker 2: of the house and like the rush is on and
Speaker 2: they're trying to keep these zombies out, and one zombie
Speaker 2: gets an arm through the boarded up window and is
Speaker 2: reaching through just trying to grab anything that he can
Speaker 2: infect or get his claws into or his teeth into.
Speaker 2: That's how the rusher looked on this rep like he's
Speaker 2: kind of glued to the block, kind of trying to
Speaker 2: get off of it. So he swipes low and tua
Speaker 2: with both hands in the football, lifts the ball up
Speaker 2: and kind of raises it over like eurostep style, like
Speaker 2: in a basketball game, and then has a quick release
Speaker 2: with the feet in terms of like getting himself out
Speaker 2: of there. And that's just been so consistent with how
Speaker 2: he stepped up around pressure. He does that every single day.
Speaker 2: Typically resets in that position and fires from there. But
Speaker 2: in this rep, he gets out into space. And when
Speaker 2: he does get into space, he's always attacking the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage with the intent to try to find a
Speaker 2: receiver and if he crosses it, he'll tuck it and run.
Speaker 2: But we've seen him do this time and time again,
Speaker 2: and today he extended and extended and extended and kind
Speaker 2: of held it back and didn't go into the you know,
Speaker 2: beyond the line scrimmage as a runner, and he held
Speaker 2: it and then with his back to the sideline, moving
Speaker 2: right for a left, you know, he's going towards the
Speaker 2: sideline with his back, he drops the arm angle and
Speaker 2: flicks the wrist for this touchdown pass to Eric Azukama.
Speaker 2: I thought it was a beautiful piece of quarterback play
Speaker 2: that if he has that in his bag this year,
Speaker 2: I mean, we hear about the ability to create all
Speaker 2: the time, and even in a year where he didn't
Speaker 2: do a ton of creating or any at all, really,
Speaker 2: he leads the NFL in passing yards and just about
Speaker 2: everything else. And I think among the people whose opinions
Speaker 2: you should listen to, is regarded as a top ten
Speaker 2: quarterback pretty unanimously in the NFL. And adding that might
Speaker 2: be a pretty big boon to a quarterback that among
Speaker 2: those top ten probably had the least amount of extended
Speaker 2: plays in the NFL. And if he can add that
Speaker 2: to his game, I don't think most quarterbacks have the
Speaker 2: ability who have that and not the other stuff to
Speaker 2: be able to add the mental capacity to their game.
Speaker 2: So good on you to a man. He keeps getting better.
Speaker 2: He's our quarterback here for a long time, and I
Speaker 2: think that he's taken ownership of that fact, and it
Speaker 2: makes me excited about not just this season, but where
Speaker 2: he can get better continuously as we go along here.
Speaker 2: Speaking of quarterbacks, Mike White had the play of the day,
Speaker 2: finding Tyreek Hill for what I'm calling a sixty yard
Speaker 2: touchdown pass. He dropped it in the bucket on a
Speaker 2: deep over in the corner to Tyreek Hill. Excuse me
Speaker 2: who got on top of the cornerback who was kind
Speaker 2: of fading off his own coverage on that side, and
Speaker 2: the safety up top was late to rotate over in
Speaker 2: middle of the field. Closed run the over route across
Speaker 2: that defender and throw the corner route, and then he
Speaker 2: cuts it back and I think he found pay dirt.
Speaker 2: The defense would argue he was down, but I think
Speaker 2: that his cutback, you're not going to tackle that guy
Speaker 2: in open space. A nice day from Mike White, Tyreek.
Speaker 2: I don't feel like he gets in the notes that
Speaker 2: often because, like you know already, it's kind of like
Speaker 2: Tua in the one on ones. I always talk about
Speaker 2: you can set your watch to it, but like the
Speaker 2: number one player in the National Football League, when he practices,
Speaker 2: you feel it right, So I just I don't feel
Speaker 2: the need to go over to in depth. Maleague Washington
Speaker 2: had an awesome down block akin to the one he
Speaker 2: had on the touchdown run of the game that gave
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright a big corner for a big run after
Speaker 2: the catch, that he made River. Craycraft also had one
Speaker 2: on Ogba that was the difference in a running play
Speaker 2: of having the edge versus not cray Craft and Washington
Speaker 2: in the blocking game's I'm excited to watch those guys
Speaker 2: get after it. Willie Steen had another rough day. He
Speaker 2: had another rep where he got just kind of blanketed,
Speaker 2: not kind of, he did get blanketed by shoot who
Speaker 2: was the cornerback? Now I lost it. I think it
Speaker 2: was there, it is, it was, it was Isaiah Johnson
Speaker 2: got all over him and made a play and got
Speaker 2: the ball batted up into the air and nearly picked off.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: Let's get one more to a SoundBite here, because I
Speaker 2: think this is instructive and a good way to put
Speaker 2: a bow on this quarterback's portion or offensive skill player
Speaker 2: portion of the podcast. He was asked about developing chemistry
Speaker 2: with targets, and I just love getting these insights from
Speaker 2: literally one of the best quarterbacks in terms of you know,
Speaker 2: subtle nuances I've ever covered or watched as he takes
Speaker 2: us through, for lack of a better term, you know,
Speaker 2: Russell Crowe, the beautiful quarterback mind.
Speaker 4: I think in order for for me, at least as
Speaker 4: a quarterback to be able to create chemistry with someone,
Speaker 4: I got to see how they run routes. I got
Speaker 4: to see how they are on their breaks. Okay, this guy,
Speaker 4: I can't really really zip the ball. I gotta layer
Speaker 4: it a little because when he breaks out of his route,
Speaker 4: it's not as fast as it is with Tyreeks or
Speaker 4: Jalen on his out routes. Maybe you know it's not
Speaker 4: as fast that is as it is with Tyreeks. Maybe
Speaker 4: sometimes you have to layer and you just got to
Speaker 4: know the personnel in that aspect. And then with the
Speaker 4: footwork that we have for different inbreaking routes, the timing of.
Speaker 1: That as well for those.
Speaker 4: Guys, and you know they are they guys that like
Speaker 4: to turn their body to get in front of the
Speaker 4: ball or are they guys that love to run through
Speaker 4: the ball.
Speaker 1: And so that has has.
Speaker 4: A lot to do with the ball placement and and
Speaker 4: whatnot in building chemistry with those guys in this offense.
Speaker 2: I continue to be really, really really impressed with Jalen
Speaker 2: wright Man. We got moved inside for a little bit
Speaker 2: today as the weather came in and got a chance
Speaker 2: to watch him run the ball from the end zone
Speaker 2: angle behind practice and the way that he maximizes space
Speaker 2: and the way that he can see daylight and set
Speaker 2: up his cut in the way that the crease not
Speaker 2: only becomes larger or maybe he takes the most possible
Speaker 2: advantage of it that he can, it also creates tough
Speaker 2: angles on tacklers. It's it's kind of hard to explain,
Speaker 2: but it's just so smooth and how he does it.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure you all have heard that story about
Speaker 2: him staying in South Florida all off season, coming into
Speaker 2: the building, you know, studying lifting, doing everything here, being
Speaker 2: a first in, last guy out all off season and
Speaker 2: during training camp. It tracks because he plays faster than
Speaker 2: any rookie I've seen in quite some time. He had
Speaker 2: a rep on the on a swing screen escort that
Speaker 2: we throw these little swing routes where the there's a
Speaker 2: lead blocker out in front, and he was the guy
Speaker 2: out there and he made it like a really impressive
Speaker 2: block in space. So I'm just overall so blown away
Speaker 2: by what his game is and where it's going. Alec
Speaker 2: Ingold I thought was awesome again today the way coach
Speaker 2: has talked about the tight ends and how it can
Speaker 2: be tracked along with your offensive versatility. I feel like
Speaker 2: that's true about alec Ingold as well, all the things
Speaker 2: that he does. I won't go in the detail here
Speaker 2: because I'm not trying to give away the goods, but man,
Speaker 2: the way he opens up the offense, you just see
Speaker 2: it and you feel it every single day. Some offensive
Speaker 2: line talk before we go to the defense. In segment three,
Speaker 2: we saw tarn Armstead and walk through yesterday. We saw
Speaker 2: him in live action today. Always great to see. He
Speaker 2: thought he looked great. And Patrick Paul Man. So there's
Speaker 2: this thing with Patrick Paul and it's sort of an
Speaker 2: offshoot of what Chris Greer said about him on Raph Knight.
Speaker 2: Even when the technique is off, he's still caching wins
Speaker 2: because he's so physically imposing, and you can see that
Speaker 2: with the length. There was this rep in one on
Speaker 2: one pass rush first pass pro where I thought he
Speaker 2: was cooked around the corner. Initially I didn't see the rusher.
Speaker 2: It had to have been Chopp or Quentin Bill because
Speaker 2: it was just so freaking fast, shot out of a
Speaker 2: cannon and I'm like, this is gonna be a sick
Speaker 2: and Paul just calmly gets his depth throws the punch
Speaker 2: and takes the rusher around the ark and dose he
Speaker 2: does Man's little square dancing around the corner. He comes
Speaker 2: back and gets dapped up all around, and I'm like,
Speaker 2: I thought he was smoked, but he still won the rep.
Speaker 2: Like when he lines up as a rusher, you're already
Speaker 2: at a disadvantage, and gosh, what a benefit that is
Speaker 2: to him while he continues to learn the pro game.
Speaker 2: It reminds me of something to Move the Sticks podcast
Speaker 2: used to always talk about with athletic quarterbacks you can
Speaker 2: keep your head above water production wise while you learn
Speaker 2: to play the position with the athletics doing so with
Speaker 2: the athletic ability. It's the same thing here Patrick Paul,
Speaker 2: because of his length alone gives him an immediate advantage
Speaker 2: on every guy he goes up against. He also had
Speaker 2: some more edge denting blocks in the running game the
Speaker 2: team period. I couldn't be more impressed by I've seen
Speaker 2: from the rookie here in fourteen practices in one game.
Speaker 2: Speaking of rookies, I also thought Andrew Meyer had his
Speaker 2: best day, and it started with the one on ones
Speaker 2: where he still made it. A couple of rushers by himself,
Speaker 2: Isaiah Mack and Neville Gallimore on two of those reps,
Speaker 2: and Gallamore was getting the other guys, so I'm like, okay,
Speaker 2: the rookie had some salt today. And then we saw
Speaker 2: it translate in the team where there was a lot
Speaker 2: of lengthy pockets today for Skyler Thompson and Mike White,
Speaker 2: and there was the offenses were kind of run differently
Speaker 2: for two and the other two guys, Like it looked
Speaker 2: like Skyler and Mike were more in training camp mode
Speaker 2: where Two was more in in season mode as far
Speaker 2: as the offensive script went, but four and five second pockets,
Speaker 2: and I thought Andrew Meyer was a big part of
Speaker 2: that for the way he anchored inside. I thought Liam
Speaker 2: Meikenberg had a pretty good day today. He was getting
Speaker 2: out in space on some of those outside runs and
Speaker 2: sealing big lanes on cutback runs as well. Also had
Speaker 2: a good one on one period, So some good stuff
Speaker 2: there from the offense. The defense played really well today.
Speaker 2: We'll cover that here next including some sound from Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 2: All of that. Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Autoation Defense Defense Defense. So we
Speaker 2: did one on ones on the offensive line and the
Speaker 2: winners on the defense for me were the guys that
Speaker 2: won the day in team drills, Seiler and campbell Man
Speaker 2: and the way they can win in a phone booth.
Speaker 2: And that's where you're gonna have to get your one
Speaker 2: on ones here, I think, because when JP and Beach
Speaker 2: Hubb are back in full go, you know, and then
Speaker 2: you got the get off of Chop and Kamara and
Speaker 2: Q like. If you don't get help there with a
Speaker 2: tight end or a back on the edge, you're in trouble.
Speaker 2: But then that means you have one on one rushes
Speaker 2: on guards for two of the longest, strongest players in
Speaker 2: the National Football League who can deconstruct those blocks and
Speaker 2: tight quarters as well as anybody else in the entire NFL.
Speaker 2: So I just think it all tracks. Man. I thought
Speaker 2: Leonard Payne had a great one on one session and
Speaker 2: carry that over the team drill where you had some
Speaker 2: good pass rush work following up some really good rundown
Speaker 2: work on Friday and just a maya Kolpa here, guy,
Speaker 2: I have to take the l on tier Tart. He
Speaker 2: was released today. I thought he would be a big
Speaker 2: part of this rotation and I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I'm stupid, You're smart.
Speaker 3: I was wrong.
Speaker 1: You were right, you're the best. I'm the worst. You're
Speaker 1: very good looking.
Speaker 2: I'm not attract a little happy Gilmore there anybody. I
Speaker 2: thought it was pretty good, but I thought he was
Speaker 2: going to pair with his quickness so well with Zach
Speaker 2: and kalais inside. But the effort just it's just not there,
Speaker 2: man Like, it's something that you know, this defense is
Speaker 2: not going to stand for. And to me, to just
Speaker 2: get cut with no ensuing move is like, hey, that's this.
Speaker 2: This is a guy that brings the whole, you know,
Speaker 2: group down with his energy. So that tracks to me.
Speaker 2: I was wrong. You were right. You were very good looking.
Speaker 2: I'm not attractive. Emanuel Ogbaught had some strong edges and
Speaker 2: some one on one wins, another good day for him.
Speaker 2: I thought it was Quentin Bell's best day since the
Speaker 2: Orange Jersey day he had. I think it was weekend
Speaker 2: before last. He was good in one on ones and
Speaker 2: he consistently resets the line of scrimmage with that long
Speaker 2: arm move that keeps him off the edge and allows
Speaker 2: him to dip back. It's how to make a play
Speaker 2: if he needs to. Just such a strong player off
Speaker 2: the edge, and you know what works really really really
Speaker 2: well off that work by Seiler and Campbell and what
Speaker 2: they do for you. An instinctive linebacker who plays with
Speaker 2: the ferocity on the field and studies with a focus
Speaker 2: that puts him in position to make play after play
Speaker 2: after play. The way he cut off that quick throw
Speaker 2: from Tua that I mentioned was just pure key reading,
Speaker 2: filling the flow, doing the bull dance, you know, all
Speaker 2: that stuff, knowing the offense's looks and what they do
Speaker 2: from said looks. Just didn't squeeze it for the pick.
Speaker 2: But man, you see this stuff from him every single day.
Speaker 2: He made a play early in practice where he got
Speaker 2: with stayed on the downhill track and read the blocks
Speaker 2: and there was an edge set from Emmanuel Ogbaugh and
Speaker 2: he reads that and shoots the shites the B gap.
Speaker 2: Don't do that, shoot the B gap for a big
Speaker 2: run stuff. And he just plays so aggressively, so smartly.
Speaker 2: I just can't say enough good things about Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 2: But I did ask him after practice, what is what
Speaker 2: is it that you do that allows you to play
Speaker 2: so fast? And we're gonna play that first and we'll
Speaker 2: come back with a secondary audio here on Jordan Brooks.
Speaker 6: Uh, just being instinctive and knowing what's going on, you know,
Speaker 6: just doing your pre snap reads, you know, playing ball
Speaker 6: and knowing with the offense like to do in a
Speaker 6: certain formation or just anticipating. I think they helped you
Speaker 6: play fast.
Speaker 2: The second one here is him talking about how he
Speaker 2: felt the defense picked up Anthony Weavers scheme in just
Speaker 2: the first game, as far as like backups and whatnot.
Speaker 2: Go let's go ahead and roll. This audio here from
Speaker 2: Jordan Brooks, O good.
Speaker 6: Man, any game. It was a long game. It's a
Speaker 6: lot of plays, so you can till you got a
Speaker 6: lot of players. It's gonna be some mental areas, some mistakes,
Speaker 6: but for the amount of young guys that we had
Speaker 6: out there, or even you know, Vince first year in
Speaker 6: the system, I thought that the mistakes was limited. And
Speaker 6: play great defense.
Speaker 2: I thought that was instructive, just because he kind of
Speaker 2: talked about like the mental aspect of and how the defense.
Speaker 2: To me, that's like a captain telling you, like, we're
Speaker 2: seeing it pretty well and it's clicking right now. Speaking
Speaker 2: of that, David Long just continues to make you know,
Speaker 2: quick processing plays. It's been fun to watch his chemistry
Speaker 2: developed there with Jordan Brooks inside and Duke Riley had
Speaker 2: an some camp so far. He had another one of
Speaker 2: those TFLs like three or four yards deep into the backfield.
Speaker 2: He seemed to do that every single day. Kendall Fuller
Speaker 2: was excellent today. He was in coverage on two deep
Speaker 2: routes by Tyreek that resulted in checkdowns, so that means
Speaker 2: they're well covered. I thought he was in good shape.
Speaker 2: He also had a near diving pick on that throw
Speaker 2: that I talked about in short red zone. All over
Speaker 2: the field. Cater Co who had some good work on
Speaker 2: Tyreek as well. I thought Sarran Neil was excellent once again.
Speaker 2: The way he challenges routes, there is no one that
Speaker 2: he's afraid of. He'll challenge anybody. And he had the
Speaker 2: deflection that led to the walk in pick sex for
Speaker 2: Marcus May. That's a play that goes in the box
Speaker 2: score for May, but Neil made the play. We could
Speaker 2: eat some clay. What do you say? This is a
Speaker 2: happy Gilmore podcast today. He's done just about everything every day.
Speaker 2: He's made life tough on the offense when he's out there.
Speaker 2: So was Patrick McMorris, who was all over the field
Speaker 2: once again. He had a stuff in the running game
Speaker 2: from depth, where he just showed you the same salt
Speaker 2: we saw on Friday night. He also sniffed out a
Speaker 2: short throat at Julian Hill where there was an escort
Speaker 2: of rather a lead blocker offensive lineman that got wide
Speaker 2: and he dipped under the outside shoulder of the block
Speaker 2: and made a play on Hill in the backfield and
Speaker 2: tagged it off. I was pretty impressed by that. So
Speaker 2: fun day Orange Jersey predictions. I forgot to make one yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'm taking the l for that reason, and I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have picked Rob Jones, but he might have been close
Speaker 2: to my top three because I thought the offensive line
Speaker 2: really got after it on Monday. But hey, horseshoes and
Speaker 2: hand graades, right, So for tomorrow, for Wednesday, I'm going
Speaker 2: number one, Jordan Brooks, number two, Tyreek Hill number three.
Speaker 2: I almost said will Fuller, Kendall Fuller. All right, let's
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