Speaker 1: You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network.
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Speaker 2: is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 2: part of the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network covering your team,
Speaker 2: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, that's it. Training camp
Speaker 2: is over and we had the last day of notes
Speaker 2: for you guys. Here from a fun practice that concluded
Speaker 2: with some competitive one on ones after three straight touchdown
Speaker 2: passes from quarterback to a tongue bailoa. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: about each of those, all the breakdowns from the day,
Speaker 2: and here from head coach Mike McDaniel, cornerback Keon Crossing
Speaker 2: defensive tackle Raykwon Davis and linebacker Andrew van Ginkel from
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Drive Time Podcast Maye Geffy. Tomorrow on
Speaker 2: the show, I'm going to do my ten overall takeaways
Speaker 2: from camp and get you ready for the Jacksonville game
Speaker 2: with Juice OJ McDuffie. But today we have more camp
Speaker 2: to cover, including some roster news. AJ Johnson Alexander Johnson
Speaker 2: if you want to look him up and try to
Speaker 2: find his name, I've always known him as AJ Johnson.
Speaker 2: Couldn't find him by that name, but apparently it's Alexander
Speaker 2: Johnson as far as Google is concerned. But you know,
Speaker 2: it's kind of funny. Ben Solak from The Ringer is
Speaker 2: out at camp today and he asked me who they
Speaker 2: gonna go with at mike when they need some size
Speaker 2: in that position, because you know, both Jerome Baker and
Speaker 2: David Longer not the biggest linebackers, and same with Duke
Speaker 2: Riley and Channing Tendall. And he was just as he
Speaker 2: was asking that the Johnson news came across the wire
Speaker 2: and Johnson manned the mic position in Denver under vic
Speaker 2: Fangio previously, and we'll see what his role winds up
Speaker 2: being here as he works to get acclimated into this
Speaker 2: defense that he knows well. But he's been an accomplished
Speaker 2: player in the system, a true B gap to B
Speaker 2: gap thumper, which is a lot what Roberts did last year,
Speaker 2: six foot two, two hundred and forty five pounds, which
Speaker 2: for comparison's sake, e rob was six ' one two
Speaker 2: thirty eight a year ago. Johnson's done a fantastic job
Speaker 2: in his career against the run with his tackling from
Speaker 2: day one has been really sharp. He's been a positive
Speaker 2: graded tackler in terms of very few miss tackles in
Speaker 2: his career. His first year in twenty nineteen, after going
Speaker 2: undrafted in twenty eighteen and not getting any snaps that
Speaker 2: rookie season, if you want to call it that, he
Speaker 2: played seven hundred and thirty one snaps with two hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty four coming against the run, and he made
Speaker 2: thirty three run stops that year. Then he made a
Speaker 2: massive jump to fifty eight run stops, playing over one
Speaker 2: thousand snaps with four hundred and eleven of those coming
Speaker 2: against the run. So this is an experienced player. This
Speaker 2: is a player that you can get to defeat blocks
Speaker 2: in a variety of fashions. But when you go that
Speaker 2: light box that we know that coach Fangio loves to call,
Speaker 2: He's got the thump to take on blockers and not
Speaker 2: have any issues finding the backs when teams want to
Speaker 2: try to block him out with that big center or
Speaker 2: guard climbing up to that second level. In total, one
Speaker 2: hundred and twelve career run stops on seven hundred and
Speaker 2: ninety seven rundown snaps. That's very effective and very efficient.
Speaker 2: He's played over one thousand coverage snaps. He's rushed the
Speaker 2: quarterback two hundred and eighty nine times with forty pressures
Speaker 2: in his career, So I think it's a role that
Speaker 2: he fits here. It gives you more depth and obviously
Speaker 2: some special teams as well. I previously liked Miami's depth
Speaker 2: here more than I've heard most with Channing Tendall, I
Speaker 2: think having a nice second camp and Duke Riley being
Speaker 2: a very accomplished, you know, depth and special teamer throughout
Speaker 2: the course of his career, and then obviously Andrew Van
Speaker 2: Geigle getting cross training. But this just makes it even
Speaker 2: more so, and some counting stats for housekeeping purposes, played
Speaker 2: thirty nine career games with thirty four starts, with four
Speaker 2: years of play in Denver twenty eighteen through twenty one
Speaker 2: and then the last year in Seattle twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: He's recorded two hundred and fifty two career tackles, four
Speaker 2: and a half sacks, one pick, eight passes defense, and
Speaker 2: he has four forced fumbles and two recoveries. The Dolphins also,
Speaker 2: in a coinciding move, waved linebacker Mike Rose, who had
Speaker 2: a couple of coffee here for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: and also waved injured safety Miles dorm So one open
Speaker 2: roster spot there. As we record this podcast late on
Speaker 2: a Thursday afternoon, let's go ahead and start the camp
Speaker 2: Report today with some sound from head coach Mike McDaniel
Speaker 2: as he talks about his quarterback and the offseason two
Speaker 2: I had in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: God, I was starting to get annoyed. I was hoping
Speaker 4: for the opportunity to talk about, if I understand your
Speaker 4: question correctly, how to his offseason's been. And you know
Speaker 4: what I can say that I can say hard facts
Speaker 4: that I've seen with my own eyes, and it's it's
Speaker 4: been as it's top five on the team in terms
Speaker 4: of you know, we've had a lot of guys really
Speaker 4: step their game up, and and you want to talk
Speaker 4: about somebody that's committed to doing what he's doing for
Speaker 4: the right reasons, you know, I I've he was already
Speaker 4: invested before this year, but then you know, taking a
Speaker 4: bunch of things that have happened, you know, he really
Speaker 4: put an onus on controlling what he could control. So
Speaker 4: you want to talk about every metric that that Dave
Speaker 4: Poloka and his strength staff really track, which is pretty
Speaker 4: much everything. I mean, to the to the degree of blinks,
Speaker 4: every metric of strength that that is measured. He's you know,
Speaker 4: he's he shattered his previous highs and some in in
Speaker 4: some instances he's he's almost twice as strong with with things.
Speaker 4: And that's been a daily commitment that he hasn't wavered
Speaker 4: from his He's taken his nutrition to to another level,
Speaker 4: he's taken his commitment to what he's trying to do
Speaker 4: and really, you know, thought outside the box and really
Speaker 4: really worked at it. So I couldn't be happier with
Speaker 4: the work that he's put in and that what I've
Speaker 4: actually viewed from my own eyes, it's it's every Basically,
Speaker 4: you're happy for guys as a coach when you can
Speaker 4: see in the present that down the road they're gonna
Speaker 4: have no regrets meaning the results or what the results are.
Speaker 4: But you know that without any shade of gray, that
Speaker 4: you've put your best foot forward. And he really he
Speaker 4: really has. I think his teammates would agree we are
Speaker 4: getting the absolute best version of two that's existed.
Speaker 2: Where have you heard that before? Might be this podcast
Speaker 2: pretty good stuff from coach. I want to save some
Speaker 2: stuff for the podcast tomorrow because one of my ten
Speaker 2: camp takeaways is about the physical improvements we've seen from
Speaker 2: Tua from a camp, from camp a year ago, or
Speaker 2: even two years ago or three years ago. But I
Speaker 2: thought it was worth starting the podcast by your leader
Speaker 2: on the coaching staff or in the organization, talking about
Speaker 2: the leader in the locker room amongst the players and
Speaker 2: the example that he sets by the way he approaches
Speaker 2: the profession and his career. I mentioned I thought Tua
Speaker 2: was sharp yesterday getting the ball to the backs quickly
Speaker 2: in the short passing game. I thought he was even
Speaker 2: better today. It was a lot of high red zone,
Speaker 2: lots of situational football, some drives that began on the
Speaker 2: periphery of the red zone with a short clock and
Speaker 2: minimal timeouts and kind of trying to get operation things
Speaker 2: squared away, getting the ball snap quickly, getting out of
Speaker 2: the huddle and getting too the line of scrimmage after
Speaker 2: completions and tackled him. But they finished the day with
Speaker 2: some mid red zone work and Tua was just painting
Speaker 2: the practice field with tuddies. The best throw of the day,
Speaker 2: I thought was a back shoulder ball to Tyreek Hill
Speaker 2: working against all Pro cornerback Xavi and Howard. This was
Speaker 2: after Tua had brought them down to the mid red
Speaker 2: zone on a drive with thirty five seconds to play
Speaker 2: from the plus thirty yard line with completions to Hill
Speaker 2: and Hill that's Tyreek and Julian. Tua took a snap
Speaker 2: and used the league fastest release to pinpoint one on
Speaker 2: the back shoulder. He had a couple of throws in
Speaker 2: that area of the field today where catch rock throw
Speaker 2: balls out and by the time the receiver finishes his
Speaker 2: route the ball meets him there. But Tyreek on this
Speaker 2: rep sold x upfield to the back pilon and then
Speaker 2: by the time he shut things down, the balls right
Speaker 2: there on that back shoulder just has to reach back
Speaker 2: and grab it and he secures it for a touchdown.
Speaker 2: The last three touchdowns were two different players with different
Speaker 2: types of throws to one a back pilon touch pass
Speaker 2: to Chosen, and you know what, he probably didn't catch it,
Speaker 2: but it was a really gorgeous grab. Just didn't quite
Speaker 2: get the feet down and bounds. X point to the
Speaker 2: sideline saying he didn't make it in, but I don't
Speaker 2: really care. There was debate about it in the stands
Speaker 2: among the media. I really don't care if it's three
Speaker 2: inches out of bounds. You still get the rep on
Speaker 2: tape and see how good of a play it was.
Speaker 2: And this was that. And this was after Tua had
Speaker 2: hit Chosen on three straight passes on slants to basically
Speaker 2: march them from midfield down to the red zone. But
Speaker 2: then they started to repeat the plays from the red zone,
Speaker 2: so you get those multiple touchdowns stacks up stacked up there.
Speaker 2: The first was to bury us on a shot to
Speaker 2: the perimeter outside where he made a little move and
Speaker 2: found the front pielon with run after the catch. This
Speaker 2: dude has such a weird knack, not not weird, but
Speaker 2: a positive knack for finding the pylon or the sticks.
Speaker 2: He just his first step forward after the ball hits
Speaker 2: the jersey and he secures it for the catch. He
Speaker 2: just kind of like jitterbugs towards you know, the correct
Speaker 2: goal line, and it's impressive to watch, especially in an
Speaker 2: era where so many guys catch the ball and run backwards.
Speaker 2: But he caught touchdowns a lot today. He caught the
Speaker 2: one I just mentioned, and then earlier from both Tua
Speaker 2: and Mike White in that first red zone session, and
Speaker 2: the third touchdown from Tua late in practice was they
Speaker 2: shot between two defenders to Cedric Wilson and that was
Speaker 2: the final horn of training camp. So really sharp day
Speaker 2: from Tua. He had a throw to Eric Azukama that
Speaker 2: reminded me of the throw to savon Achmed Saturday in Houston,
Speaker 2: that upfield shoulder where you know it happens so fast,
Speaker 2: especially when you're running to the boundary the short side
Speaker 2: of the field. You only have what is that, I mean,
Speaker 2: the field's fifty three yards wide, so you have like
Speaker 2: twenty yards to work with. You better throw that ball
Speaker 2: quick if you don't want to put your receiver out
Speaker 2: of bounds or slow him down into a tackle. And
Speaker 2: I watched the JT. O. Sullivan the Quarterback School breakdown,
Speaker 2: and he really hammered home the point of how important
Speaker 2: it is for the location of that throw to lead
Speaker 2: the receiver into the run after the catch. And I
Speaker 2: think that we get a little numb to how sharp
Speaker 2: Tua is in that regard because he's so consistent with it,
Speaker 2: and it's so innocuous that maybe you don't, you know,
Speaker 2: shout out from the rooftops the way you know you
Speaker 2: do a Justin Herbert seventy five yard throw down the
Speaker 2: field or whatever it might be. But these plays are
Speaker 2: more frequent in an NFL game, in a football game,
Speaker 2: and Tua is so dialed on the layups like that,
Speaker 2: and I just really appreciate that about his game. So
Speaker 2: very sharp there. This particular one took Azukama into a
Speaker 2: big run after the catch, and that was pretty much
Speaker 2: to his day, just really on target, on point, and
Speaker 2: on time. I thought Mike White had some good throws
Speaker 2: as well on this practice. Skyler had a touchdown pass
Speaker 2: to River Craycraft that was really nice, a strong throw
Speaker 2: with good timing on the throw and route. So yeah,
Speaker 2: good day from the quarterbacks. Speaking of the quarterbacks, we
Speaker 2: have some housekeeping to finish up this first segment with
Speaker 2: before I do that with Coach McDaniel who addressed Zach
Speaker 2: Seeler leaving practice yesterday, Tyreek Hill not practicing yesterday, and
Speaker 2: then Mike White and the quarterback planned for Saturday. But first,
Speaker 2: it was so good to see Brandon Jones in a
Speaker 2: jersey that wasn't read today at practice. He was out
Speaker 2: there in the aqua colored jersey, got some reps during
Speaker 2: seven on seven, and when he came out onto the field,
Speaker 2: it was cool to see some of the guys dap
Speaker 2: him up, like, welcome back to the lineupster, it's been
Speaker 2: a long time and we missed you out here. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and go to Coach McDaniel, who talked about
Speaker 2: Tyreek Sealer and eventually Mike White and the plane for
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks on Saturday and really the entire team on Saturday.
Speaker 4: Steeler, Uh, I think if you were really locked in
Speaker 4: and noticing, which I know you were. He he was
Speaker 4: going back and forth through throughout team drills, is because
Speaker 4: he was dealing with something that was nagging him that
Speaker 4: it didn't hurt him to continue, but but that was painful,
Speaker 4: So it's not anything serious. However, for his individual experience,
Speaker 4: pain is not always awesome. So uh, he'll be uh
Speaker 4: day to day, but nothing, nothing to worry about. Tyreek
Speaker 4: was uh, you know one of those classic coach to
Speaker 4: player protection things that had to do with where we
Speaker 4: were in training camp. Really what he did the day before,
Speaker 4: he really took it upon himself to dictate the terms
Speaker 4: of the energy and he did that full going, full tilt.
Speaker 4: I think he had the highest sprint yardage and was
Speaker 4: the fastest player that day. And so I I really
Speaker 4: liked where he was at. Didn't want him to take
Speaker 4: a step back. Uh. So that that's you know, kind
Speaker 4: of my my role in that. So he'll uh you
Speaker 4: should see him today and if if I've seen enough
Speaker 4: of him today, then you'll see him stop playing football
Speaker 4: at some point, or he might play you know, the
Speaker 4: whole practice. I'm just connected with each individual for that
Speaker 4: very reason. Mike White is still in the protocol and uh,
Speaker 4: you know whether he uh you know, I'm no genie.
Speaker 4: I don't have a crystal ball, but you know, I
Speaker 4: feel like it would be promising for him to clear protocol,
Speaker 4: but regardless, you're not going to see him on Saturday.
Speaker 2: And I mentioned that we wanted to talk about how
Speaker 2: much the players are going to play. Coach did say
Speaker 2: the plan on Saturday was to get to some work
Speaker 2: and the starters more than a series, but less than
Speaker 2: a half. He's being very ambivalent there for us, which
Speaker 2: I can appreciate the gamesmanship, but he said it was
Speaker 2: dependent on today's practice and trying to get guys prepared
Speaker 2: for the regular season. He did say if all things
Speaker 2: were even, Tua would play on Saturday, but like he said,
Speaker 2: they're going to revisit that after practice today on Thursday.
Speaker 2: But Tua has been prepared all week as though he's
Speaker 2: going to play in the game against Jacksonville. All right,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and take a break right there and
Speaker 2: come back on the other side and get to some
Speaker 2: more practice notes. We'll also hear from Rak One, Davis Tanner,
Speaker 2: connor keyon crossing play to come your way here on
Speaker 2: the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by Auto Nation with training camp officially in the books,
Speaker 2: one more priests game and then cuts on Tuesday, and
Speaker 2: I just can't wait for it all to get here.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and start this segment though with Coach
Speaker 2: and the philosophy of rounding out the back part of
Speaker 2: the roster. He was asked, how do you value or
Speaker 2: what do you value I should say on players eight
Speaker 2: through thirteen towards the back end. If you keep forty
Speaker 2: or forty five that you feel good about, you know
Speaker 2: about what are the rest of the guys? What do
Speaker 2: they have to do to get your attention? Here's coach
Speaker 2: on roster building at the back end of the rum.
Speaker 4: Well, it's an ironic situation, to tell you the truth, because,
Speaker 4: like good problems to have are that much more complex
Speaker 4: and the better your competition and your roster depth is,
Speaker 4: you know, especially with the people that we've assembled and
Speaker 4: the coaching staff in the front office, like we don't
Speaker 4: take it lightly, and the competition is real, so you
Speaker 4: have to factor in a ton of things that really
Speaker 4: get challenging and the you know, from my experience just
Speaker 4: in the NFL, this is this is one of the
Speaker 4: most high intense, competitive across the board situations that that
Speaker 4: I can remember. So there in times like that when
Speaker 4: you know there there is a plethora of talent and
Speaker 4: you have minimal distinction between certain guys. Like what Vick's
Speaker 4: alluding to you, you really have to let the whole
Speaker 4: process play out. You have to fight your your urge
Speaker 4: to to try to in your mind figure out who
Speaker 4: those people are the competition from, you know, however you
Speaker 4: rank them from you know, really forty to ninety. It's
Speaker 4: it's a real cool representation of what what you want
Speaker 4: the competition to be like on your roster. However, it
Speaker 4: makes it that much more difficult. So you have to
Speaker 4: factor in a ton of things. And you know, one
Speaker 4: a positions gain is another position's loss, and that balancing
Speaker 4: act makes it incredibly difficult. And we have multiple position
Speaker 4: groups where you could go heavy at on this team.
Speaker 4: So which position groups are those? Which individuals are those?
Speaker 4: The only thing you can do is allow everyone to
Speaker 4: get their full opportunity communicate actively, but but let all
Speaker 4: the information lay out because in the game of football, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, who knows what can happen today, Which is
Speaker 4: why it's so exciting that you guys are going to
Speaker 4: be at practice. It's the last one and we're hoping
Speaker 4: for it to be a good one.
Speaker 2: There are going to be a lot of tough choices
Speaker 2: here for the staff in the front office personnel. Just
Speaker 2: trying to forecast it on my own, it gets pretty
Speaker 2: tough when I get to that part of the roster.
Speaker 2: Every time I drop my own mock fifty three man roster,
Speaker 2: I wind up with like fifty six or fifty seven.
Speaker 2: I really want to keep, and you can't do that.
Speaker 2: So it's tough choice for those guys as well. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and get back to the practice notes another day.
Speaker 2: Another couple of explosive runs in the running game. Savon
Speaker 2: Ahmed used his speed to win the corner on a
Speaker 2: fifteen yard touchdown run. I'm loving how this team is
Speaker 2: getting the edge sealed and allowing those guys to open
Speaker 2: it up. I think it pairs very well with the
Speaker 2: passing game, and also run away from the trash inside
Speaker 2: right like, don't run into three hundred pound guys. Use
Speaker 2: the speed to stretch those guys out, tire them mount
Speaker 2: through the course of the game, and force the opposing
Speaker 2: defense to run and chase and defend every blade of
Speaker 2: grass both on the run and pass game. They couldn't
Speaker 2: get to Savon Ahmed today. I don't think most teams
Speaker 2: could get to Raheem Moster and Devon ah Chain and
Speaker 2: Savon also caught a touch down on a very nice
Speaker 2: back shoulder throw from Tua, very similar to the one
Speaker 2: he threw the Tyreek hill early in practice where he
Speaker 2: most also had a winding run for a big game
Speaker 2: where he was into the third level of defense with
Speaker 2: a potential one on one situation in a live situation
Speaker 2: phrase touchdown against a safety. I think it was Javon Holland,
Speaker 2: and I don't usually pick against Javon in those situations,
Speaker 2: so we'll call it about an eighteen yard run. Speaking
Speaker 2: of the running backs, we heard coach talk about the
Speaker 2: value of the running backs in Miami. Here's coach on
Speaker 2: his running backs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the let's just go let's just go simple, simple math,
Speaker 4: and it's a very physical game. There's let's say, on
Speaker 4: an average season with seventeen games, now, let's say twelve hundred,
Speaker 4: you have like twelve hundred plays on each side of
Speaker 4: the ball, and you know how many of those plays
Speaker 4: are the running backs touching. It's it's a it's a
Speaker 4: valuable position that you have to have depth at, and
Speaker 4: you know, I think that's one of the reasons like
Speaker 4: it think of it this way. You've gone to practices
Speaker 4: and you've seen two games and pick a day, pick
Speaker 4: a game, and you've seen, you know, a running back
Speaker 4: make plays a running back, which means there's there are
Speaker 4: different ones every time, which speaks to the competition that
Speaker 4: we have in that room. And you know, that's that's
Speaker 4: why I've always value the position. It's a big portion
Speaker 4: of your of your touches. And you understand that in
Speaker 4: that process that that you have to have a you know,
Speaker 4: a good solid group for the really for the team
Speaker 4: and and for your offense for the whole year. So
Speaker 4: I think it's a you know, and I got my
Speaker 4: feet wet really in NFL game planning in the run game,
Speaker 4: so that it's and dear to my.
Speaker 2: Heart mentioned the receiver's catching touchdowns chosen had a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of catches today really this entire week, a nice
Speaker 2: little bounce back after I dropped from the game on
Speaker 2: say today, I mentioned the Barrios and Cedric contributions Tyreek two.
Speaker 2: That's a copy and paste every single day, and Tanner
Speaker 2: Connor had himself a few and intrigued by Tanner Connor
Speaker 2: because we've seen the tight end room not materialize maybe
Speaker 2: how you had hoped this training camp so far. But
Speaker 2: this is a guy that I know they were super
Speaker 2: high on a year ago, got a little bit of run,
Speaker 2: didn't really stick with the active roster, got injured, had
Speaker 2: the OTAs this offseason, came back for camp on pup.
Speaker 2: But now he's back out there and right away you
Speaker 2: see the long speed. He caught a short little pass
Speaker 2: on a little drag route and took it up the
Speaker 2: sideline for a big ganer. Today, let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: hear from Tanner Connor, who's a position convert right former
Speaker 2: wide receiver from Kent, Washington. I used to work a
Speaker 2: job in Kent, Washington, believe or not. But he talked
Speaker 2: a little bit today about the growth from you ye
Speaker 2: ones a year or two. I like hearing this guy talk.
Speaker 2: He sounds like he really really gets it.
Speaker 5: Just a lot about moving my feet in the run game.
Speaker 5: Sometimes he gets stuck. You know, I'm not the biggest
Speaker 5: guy as a tight end. I'm not the strongest, so
Speaker 5: it's gonna be a heavy technique thing for me to
Speaker 5: be able to from block properly. And so it was
Speaker 5: all about just you know, first second step, you know,
Speaker 5: driving my feet through contact, getting stronger in the offseason
Speaker 5: in terms of the route running game, just being patient,
Speaker 5: using my advantages against the defense, and you know, not
Speaker 5: sound for myself short, just being confident and who I
Speaker 5: am as a player.
Speaker 2: Remember one time I was tweeting about tight end technique
Speaker 2: and getting your feet set under you before blocking, and
Speaker 2: Joe Shadd asked me one time, how do you know
Speaker 2: about tight end blocking techniques? And I said, Joe, because
Speaker 2: I study, and I like my job and I want
Speaker 2: to know more about my job. So that's how I
Speaker 2: know about that. Let's go ahead and pivot to the
Speaker 2: defensive side of the football, and here start with the
Speaker 2: final orange jersey of the season. Rayquon Davis is the guy.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and hear from coach who talked about
Speaker 2: Rakon ahead of Thursday's practice.
Speaker 4: You know, I made a big point in the team
Speaker 4: meeting today and showed a showed a clip of individual
Speaker 4: from yesterday and then you know it, we were talking
Speaker 4: as coaches. That kind of triggered my mind. A rep
Speaker 4: of the same drill back in last OTAs, so twenty
Speaker 4: twenty two OTAs, and I mean it kind of represents,
Speaker 4: you know, one of the main focuses of and appreciations
Speaker 4: of being a coach in this great game, and something
Speaker 4: that you really hope to see everyone go through, which
Speaker 4: was a complete and utter transformation in mind and body.
Speaker 4: His attention to detail he's had. He's in the best
Speaker 4: shape of his life by far, and you can see
Speaker 4: it with his play, and there's a you know, he's
Speaker 4: he's adding different tools to his game, and you know,
Speaker 4: he's he's always been a highly I mean, he's always
Speaker 4: had a lot of love from the locker room. So
Speaker 4: you can feel that as a coach, and you can
Speaker 4: feel his teammates really appreciate where he's at, what he's
Speaker 4: done to control what he can control, and and uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the Miami Dolphins are better for it. So
Speaker 4: that's a that's a big and deserving jersey.
Speaker 2: I asked Ray Kwan after practice. You know, it seems
Speaker 2: like you're a pretty regular participant in the backfield during
Speaker 2: the passing downs this training camp. What did you do
Speaker 2: this offseason to find tune your past rush arsenal.
Speaker 3: Just sticking with the move I know, I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: just you know, just a couple of like two, two
Speaker 3: or three moves, you know, just get him downpack. Just
Speaker 3: try to practice owner and just work them when I'm
Speaker 3: out there and team. You know, there was a did
Speaker 3: if you know the Yeah I did. I did a
Speaker 3: lot of past wrestling training off season, you know, just
Speaker 3: to get better because I know I'm gonna need it
Speaker 3: for this year. Just going into this new defensive scheme,
Speaker 3: I'm definitely gonna have to, you know, be able to
Speaker 3: pass us and keep a high motor.
Speaker 2: Also asked Ray Kwan about teaming up with former and
Speaker 2: now current teammate at Alabama with the Miami Dolphins, Deshaan Hand.
Speaker 2: Here's the big fella on the Big Fella Man.
Speaker 3: He's so funny, man. We talk about old stories all
Speaker 3: the time, man, because we got so many memories, you
Speaker 3: know at Bama. Funny guy, Bro, I mean, you've been
Speaker 3: doing great.
Speaker 2: I love him here though they had so many Alabama
Speaker 2: guys on this roster, it's crazy. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: take our last break right there and come back on
Speaker 2: the other side and finish up the training camp podcast.
Speaker 2: That's next Drive Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Auto Nation. So the end of practice
Speaker 2: I thought was a lot of fun because they finished
Speaker 2: the red zone work of three straight touchdowns and we
Speaker 2: thought it was over, but the entire team gathered up
Speaker 2: for what they called all eyes on Me. They gathered
Speaker 2: up to watch wide receiver dB one on ones in
Speaker 2: the first one was Eric Azukama on Cam Smith and
Speaker 2: Azukama got on top of really really good coverage like
Speaker 2: Cam was right there, but azu Kama got the space
Speaker 2: and James Blackman drops it right in the bucket and
Speaker 2: azu Kama caught it right in front of us in
Speaker 2: the media contingency and let out a pretty good battle
Speaker 2: cry as he was fired about catching that long ball
Speaker 2: down the field. There were a few more, but my
Speaker 2: favorite one was the last one when they had Cater
Speaker 2: Cooho go to wide receiver and run against Daywood Davis
Speaker 2: at cornerback. Cater got him and stacked him and was open,
Speaker 2: but the ball was just out of reach. Cater had
Speaker 2: a super nice release on that route, and that tracks
Speaker 2: because of how good his feet are. And I saw
Speaker 2: him downstairs after the fact, and you know, the Daywood
Speaker 2: Davis was given the incomplete signal pretty adamantly in the
Speaker 2: offense was dapping him up. But I saw Kate and
Speaker 2: I said, hey, I thought you stacked him, and he goes,
Speaker 2: thank you. I did thank you basically like, yeah, he
Speaker 2: knew what's up. Let's go ahead and hear from Andrew
Speaker 2: Van Ginkel and Keon Cross and who both talked about
Speaker 2: how much fun it was to get the all eyes
Speaker 2: on me portion of practice, and you'll hear key On
Speaker 2: Cross and discuss just how Mike McDaniel understands it and
Speaker 2: gets it for how to get his team fired up
Speaker 2: in a situation like that, just a.
Speaker 1: Little friendly competition. Just he calls it all eyes on me,
Speaker 1: so you know everybody's watching and when when to see
Speaker 1: guys compete and you know, show what they can do.
Speaker 6: Uh, just a little fun, man. It's a little fun
Speaker 6: for the team. Obviously, it's been a tough camp for
Speaker 6: the guys and uh, like I say, it's been pretty hot.
Speaker 6: Guy's been busting their tail and it's nothing like a
Speaker 6: little fun at the end. Just to get the rookies going.
Speaker 6: It's always good to, uh just see them kind of
Speaker 6: go at it, go at it and compete. And obviously
Speaker 6: Miami Dolphins waves, we compete and we we do what
Speaker 6: we need to do and go hard. Man. So that's
Speaker 6: what it's all about the stakes was pretty much, uh,
Speaker 6: you know rooky on rookie, first year player, and uh,
Speaker 6: you know, it's compete, man, It's just to see the
Speaker 6: guys compete. Obviously first time experience in the NFL. You
Speaker 6: don't want it to think of You don't want to
Speaker 6: guys to think about fifty three cuts and all that
Speaker 6: good stuff. The best thing to do is do what
Speaker 6: we do best and have them compete. So, uh it
Speaker 6: does a good job by Mike. He's obviously a brilliant
Speaker 6: Harvard guy.
Speaker 2: Kean gave me a wink there at the end when
Speaker 2: he said Harvard, and I said, isn't it Yelle And
Speaker 2: he said yeah, that's why I winked. I said, I
Speaker 2: want to put it on audio so that people know that,
Speaker 2: you know, he went to Yell, not Harvard. So Kean's
Speaker 2: one of the best dudes out here. Man, Love that guy.
Speaker 2: Back to the notes, RAYQ One had another really good practice.
Speaker 2: He's been a force all camp long. The pass rush
Speaker 2: more playmaking. Talked about it yesterday. Josiah Bronton had some
Speaker 2: more wins today. He's had a pretty good week and
Speaker 2: putting his final stamp on a training camp that he's
Speaker 2: trying to, you know, make the club on. David Long
Speaker 2: flew in for a couple more run stuffs at one point.
Speaker 2: Ben Solak, you know, I watched his practice with him
Speaker 2: again today just one point kind of laughed and said that, guys,
Speaker 2: it's he said that, dude, man like, it's pretty unreal
Speaker 2: the way he's coming here and made an impact. I
Speaker 2: mentioned earlier there was a three sacks succession when Skylar
Speaker 2: Thompson checked into the lineup. It was Malik read twice.
Speaker 2: Keep an eye on him Saturday. I think he's he's
Speaker 2: about ready to have a breakout game here. I know
Speaker 2: it's exhibition, but he's been really percolating and getting close
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks. I think he's in the on
Speaker 2: the periphery of a big game. The other was Andrew
Speaker 2: Van Ginkel on the three sacks. I asked Gink about
Speaker 2: the benefits of playing all over the front seven and
Speaker 2: how playing off ball has helped you at edge and
Speaker 2: conversely your experience at edge helps you at off ball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: Obviously, the more you can do, you know, you get
Speaker 1: a bigger picture of everything, So you know how you
Speaker 1: know being on the edge, I know how the defensive
Speaker 1: end's gonna fit or the outside linebacker is. So I'm
Speaker 1: just being able to play off that, and it just
Speaker 1: gives you a better anticipation for the game and allows
Speaker 1: you to play faster.
Speaker 2: I thought Jerome Baker was aces today. His speed was showing.
Speaker 2: He had some plays in coverage as well. Eli Apple
Speaker 2: had a couple of plays, including a measured up shot
Speaker 2: on Tyreek on a short thrill where he could have
Speaker 2: laid the lumber, but obviously we don't do that to
Speaker 2: our own guys. He's playing faster and faster every day.
Speaker 2: What else we got here, Deshaun Elliott had a very
Speaker 2: impressive breakup on a seam shot to Durham smythe off
Speaker 2: the hand of quarterback to a tongue Bai Loa, and
Speaker 2: then Javon had a good pass breakup as well on
Speaker 2: fellow tight end Julian Hill, who made a handful of
Speaker 2: catches today and looks like he's getting some pretty serious
Speaker 2: run and might have a chance to make this team.
Speaker 2: Javon was a guy that Solac could not stop raving.
Speaker 2: We pinpointed him on a few reps and just watched
Speaker 2: him together where he's constantly moving. A few steps sooner
Speaker 2: than you expect based upon the play, the coverage, the rules,
Speaker 2: you know, the four, six, and eight that we cover
Speaker 2: here in this Fangio defense. So he really seems to
Speaker 2: be getting it and getting his feet wet in the system.
Speaker 2: And that's the podcast that's training camp. So there you
Speaker 2: guys go. I hope you enjoyed the entire month of shows. Here. Tomorrow,
Speaker 2: OJ McDuffie and I will get you ready for the
Speaker 2: preseason finale in Jacksonville. I'll give you my ten camp
Speaker 2: takeaways and the next time you hear from me it'll
Speaker 2: be Sunday recap from the Jaguars game. We've got some
Speaker 2: guests lined up for next week as well, so the
Speaker 2: season is just getting started. In the meantime, that's gonna
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