WEBVTT - Drive Time: August 24 Training Camp Recap 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.720 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:08.399 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to 0:00:08.600 --> 0:00:15.920 a looking what's about the wide Dolphin touchdown trick? Call unclievable? 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.919 It's just blue fire for a second time. Don't know 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.120 where he was going right away. I want to hit 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:21.880 that man. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.520 I'm gonna help you. Someone up on your man wagon. 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:28.480 Wattle to a shot gut back to throw looking at 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:34.360 them up myers touchdo it's waddle his sixth touchdown, Pats 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:41.879 the King. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now what 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.520 is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time podcast, 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:48.760 part of the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network covering your team, 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:53.200 your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host, 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:57.120 Travis Wingfield, And on today's show, that's it. Training camp 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.480 is over and we had the last day of notes 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.200 for you guys. Here from a fun practice that concluded 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.400 with some competitive one on ones after three straight touchdown 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:08.360 passes from quarterback to a tongue bailoa. I'll tell you 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.760 about each of those, all the breakdowns from the day, 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:14.160 and here from head coach Mike McDaniel, cornerback Keon Crossing 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:18.199 defensive tackle Raykwon Davis and linebacker Andrew van Ginkel from 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:21.319 the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:27.840 This is the Drive Time Podcast Maye Geffy. Tomorrow on 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:30.480 the show, I'm going to do my ten overall takeaways 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:33.120 from camp and get you ready for the Jacksonville game 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.840 with Juice OJ McDuffie. But today we have more camp 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:41.559 to cover, including some roster news. AJ Johnson Alexander Johnson 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:42.959 if you want to look him up and try to 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.679 find his name, I've always known him as AJ Johnson. 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.760 Couldn't find him by that name, but apparently it's Alexander 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.000 Johnson as far as Google is concerned. But you know, 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:53.440 it's kind of funny. Ben Solak from The Ringer is 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.560 out at camp today and he asked me who they 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.360 gonna go with at mike when they need some size 0:01:57.360 --> 0:01:59.640 in that position, because you know, both Jerome Baker and 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.960 David Longer not the biggest linebackers, and same with Duke 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.160 Riley and Channing Tendall. And he was just as he 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.760 was asking that the Johnson news came across the wire 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:12.200 and Johnson manned the mic position in Denver under vic 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:15.040 Fangio previously, and we'll see what his role winds up 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.440 being here as he works to get acclimated into this 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.240 defense that he knows well. But he's been an accomplished 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:22.840 player in the system, a true B gap to B 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.720 gap thumper, which is a lot what Roberts did last year, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.040 six foot two, two hundred and forty five pounds, which 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.720 for comparison's sake, e rob was six ' one two 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.919 thirty eight a year ago. Johnson's done a fantastic job 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.320 in his career against the run with his tackling from 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:39.040 day one has been really sharp. He's been a positive 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:42.040 graded tackler in terms of very few miss tackles in 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:45.119 his career. His first year in twenty nineteen, after going 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.880 undrafted in twenty eighteen and not getting any snaps that 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:49.960 rookie season, if you want to call it that, he 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.480 played seven hundred and thirty one snaps with two hundred 0:02:52.520 --> 0:02:55.160 and fifty four coming against the run, and he made 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.560 thirty three run stops that year. Then he made a 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:00.160 massive jump to fifty eight run stops, playing over one 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.200 thousand snaps with four hundred and eleven of those coming 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.440 against the run. So this is an experienced player. This 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:07.560 is a player that you can get to defeat blocks 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.320 in a variety of fashions. But when you go that 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:13.000 light box that we know that coach Fangio loves to call, 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:15.760 He's got the thump to take on blockers and not 0:03:15.800 --> 0:03:18.520 have any issues finding the backs when teams want to 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.320 try to block him out with that big center or 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.280 guard climbing up to that second level. In total, one 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:25.639 hundred and twelve career run stops on seven hundred and 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.800 ninety seven rundown snaps. That's very effective and very efficient. 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.480 He's played over one thousand coverage snaps. He's rushed the 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:35.560 quarterback two hundred and eighty nine times with forty pressures 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.680 in his career, So I think it's a role that 0:03:37.720 --> 0:03:39.600 he fits here. It gives you more depth and obviously 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.880 some special teams as well. I previously liked Miami's depth 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:45.160 here more than I've heard most with Channing Tendall, I 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.760 think having a nice second camp and Duke Riley being 0:03:47.760 --> 0:03:51.640 a very accomplished, you know, depth and special teamer throughout 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.800 the course of his career, and then obviously Andrew Van 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.320 Geigle getting cross training. But this just makes it even 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:59.720 more so, and some counting stats for housekeeping purposes, played 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.920 thirty nine career games with thirty four starts, with four 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:06.520 years of play in Denver twenty eighteen through twenty one 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:09.800 and then the last year in Seattle twenty twenty two. 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:13.080 He's recorded two hundred and fifty two career tackles, four 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.160 and a half sacks, one pick, eight passes defense, and 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.479 he has four forced fumbles and two recoveries. The Dolphins also, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.760 in a coinciding move, waved linebacker Mike Rose, who had 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.520 a couple of coffee here for a couple of weeks, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.360 and also waved injured safety Miles dorm So one open 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:31.320 roster spot there. As we record this podcast late on 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.880 a Thursday afternoon, let's go ahead and start the camp 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:37.240 Report today with some sound from head coach Mike McDaniel 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:40.520 as he talks about his quarterback and the offseason two 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:42.400 I had in twenty twenty three. 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.360 God, I was starting to get annoyed. I was hoping 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.320 for the opportunity to talk about, if I understand your 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:53.479 question correctly, how to his offseason's been. And you know 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:57.320 what I can say that I can say hard facts 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:03.120 that I've seen with my own eyes, and it's it's 0:05:03.120 --> 0:05:06.080 been as it's top five on the team in terms 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.279 of you know, we've had a lot of guys really 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:13.280 step their game up, and and you want to talk 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.839 about somebody that's committed to doing what he's doing for 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:21.320 the right reasons, you know, I I've he was already 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.600 invested before this year, but then you know, taking a 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:31.320 bunch of things that have happened, you know, he really 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.039 put an onus on controlling what he could control. So 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.400 you want to talk about every metric that that Dave 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:43.520 Poloka and his strength staff really track, which is pretty 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:47.400 much everything. I mean, to the to the degree of blinks, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:56.080 every metric of strength that that is measured. He's you know, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.160 he's he shattered his previous highs and some in in 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:05.040 some instances he's he's almost twice as strong with with things. 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:09.920 And that's been a daily commitment that he hasn't wavered 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:16.000 from his He's taken his nutrition to to another level, 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.360 he's taken his commitment to what he's trying to do 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.520 and really, you know, thought outside the box and really 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.479 really worked at it. So I couldn't be happier with 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.880 the work that he's put in and that what I've 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:36.279 actually viewed from my own eyes, it's it's every Basically, 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.160 you're happy for guys as a coach when you can 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:45.440 see in the present that down the road they're gonna 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:50.840 have no regrets meaning the results or what the results are. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:56.039 But you know that without any shade of gray, that 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.919 you've put your best foot forward. And he really he 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:04.040 really has. I think his teammates would agree we are 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:07.400 getting the absolute best version of two that's existed. 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.040 Where have you heard that before? Might be this podcast 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.160 pretty good stuff from coach. I want to save some 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:15.600 stuff for the podcast tomorrow because one of my ten 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.320 camp takeaways is about the physical improvements we've seen from 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.000 Tua from a camp, from camp a year ago, or 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.200 even two years ago or three years ago. But I 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.280 thought it was worth starting the podcast by your leader 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.960 on the coaching staff or in the organization, talking about 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.480 the leader in the locker room amongst the players and 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.400 the example that he sets by the way he approaches 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.840 the profession and his career. I mentioned I thought Tua 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.000 was sharp yesterday getting the ball to the backs quickly 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:41.960 in the short passing game. I thought he was even 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.640 better today. It was a lot of high red zone, 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.880 lots of situational football, some drives that began on the 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:50.120 periphery of the red zone with a short clock and 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:53.480 minimal timeouts and kind of trying to get operation things 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.400 squared away, getting the ball snap quickly, getting out of 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.520 the huddle and getting too the line of scrimmage after 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.560 completions and tackled him. But they finished the day with 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.800 some mid red zone work and Tua was just painting 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.800 the practice field with tuddies. The best throw of the day, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:09.200 I thought was a back shoulder ball to Tyreek Hill 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:12.440 working against all Pro cornerback Xavi and Howard. This was 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.760 after Tua had brought them down to the mid red 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.560 zone on a drive with thirty five seconds to play 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.800 from the plus thirty yard line with completions to Hill 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.120 and Hill that's Tyreek and Julian. Tua took a snap 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.760 and used the league fastest release to pinpoint one on 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.480 the back shoulder. He had a couple of throws in 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.880 that area of the field today where catch rock throw 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.200 balls out and by the time the receiver finishes his 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.040 route the ball meets him there. But Tyreek on this 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.800 rep sold x upfield to the back pilon and then 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.040 by the time he shut things down, the balls right 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.320 there on that back shoulder just has to reach back 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:47.000 and grab it and he secures it for a touchdown. 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.880 The last three touchdowns were two different players with different 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.720 types of throws to one a back pilon touch pass 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.679 to Chosen, and you know what, he probably didn't catch it, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.319 but it was a really gorgeous grab. Just didn't quite 0:08:59.360 --> 0:09:01.520 get the feet down and bounds. X point to the 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.600 sideline saying he didn't make it in, but I don't 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.880 really care. There was debate about it in the stands 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:08.040 among the media. I really don't care if it's three 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:09.840 inches out of bounds. You still get the rep on 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:11.320 tape and see how good of a play it was. 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:13.920 And this was that. And this was after Tua had 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.040 hit Chosen on three straight passes on slants to basically 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.360 march them from midfield down to the red zone. But 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.480 then they started to repeat the plays from the red zone, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.199 so you get those multiple touchdowns stacks up stacked up there. 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.280 The first was to bury us on a shot to 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:28.559 the perimeter outside where he made a little move and 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:30.800 found the front pielon with run after the catch. This 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.720 dude has such a weird knack, not not weird, but 0:09:34.040 --> 0:09:37.199 a positive knack for finding the pylon or the sticks. 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:41.200 He just his first step forward after the ball hits 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.600 the jersey and he secures it for the catch. He 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.640 just kind of like jitterbugs towards you know, the correct 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:48.720 goal line, and it's impressive to watch, especially in an 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.480 era where so many guys catch the ball and run backwards. 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.120 But he caught touchdowns a lot today. He caught the 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.680 one I just mentioned, and then earlier from both Tua 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.520 and Mike White in that first red zone session, and 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:02.360 the third touchdown from Tua late in practice was they 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.360 shot between two defenders to Cedric Wilson and that was 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.920 the final horn of training camp. So really sharp day 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.360 from Tua. He had a throw to Eric Azukama that 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:13.760 reminded me of the throw to savon Achmed Saturday in Houston, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.280 that upfield shoulder where you know it happens so fast, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.480 especially when you're running to the boundary the short side 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.840 of the field. You only have what is that, I mean, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:25.400 the field's fifty three yards wide, so you have like 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.880 twenty yards to work with. You better throw that ball 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:29.480 quick if you don't want to put your receiver out 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:32.080 of bounds or slow him down into a tackle. And 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:35.680 I watched the JT. O. Sullivan the Quarterback School breakdown, 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.199 and he really hammered home the point of how important 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.720 it is for the location of that throw to lead 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.280 the receiver into the run after the catch. And I 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.560 think that we get a little numb to how sharp 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:49.080 Tua is in that regard because he's so consistent with it, 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:51.560 and it's so innocuous that maybe you don't, you know, 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:53.720 shout out from the rooftops the way you know you 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:56.280 do a Justin Herbert seventy five yard throw down the 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.559 field or whatever it might be. But these plays are 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:02.280 more frequent in an NFL game, in a football game, 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.880 and Tua is so dialed on the layups like that, 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.880 and I just really appreciate that about his game. So 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.120 very sharp there. This particular one took Azukama into a 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.679 big run after the catch, and that was pretty much 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.160 to his day, just really on target, on point, and 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.840 on time. I thought Mike White had some good throws 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.600 as well on this practice. Skyler had a touchdown pass 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.080 to River Craycraft that was really nice, a strong throw 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.760 with good timing on the throw and route. So yeah, 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.200 good day from the quarterbacks. Speaking of the quarterbacks, we 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.520 have some housekeeping to finish up this first segment with 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.559 before I do that with Coach McDaniel who addressed Zach 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:37.840 Seeler leaving practice yesterday, Tyreek Hill not practicing yesterday, and 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.920 then Mike White and the quarterback planned for Saturday. But first, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.120 it was so good to see Brandon Jones in a 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.920 jersey that wasn't read today at practice. He was out 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:48.480 there in the aqua colored jersey, got some reps during 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:50.520 seven on seven, and when he came out onto the field, 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:51.880 it was cool to see some of the guys dap 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:54.320 him up, like, welcome back to the lineupster, it's been 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.280 a long time and we missed you out here. Let's 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.160 go ahead and go to Coach McDaniel, who talked about 0:11:58.160 --> 0:12:01.040 Tyreek Sealer and eventually Mike White and the plane for 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:03.760 the quarterbacks on Saturday and really the entire team on Saturday. 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:09.200 Steeler, Uh, I think if you were really locked in 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.160 and noticing, which I know you were. He he was 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:18.080 going back and forth through throughout team drills, is because 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.360 he was dealing with something that was nagging him that 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:26.920 it didn't hurt him to continue, but but that was painful, 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.800 So it's not anything serious. However, for his individual experience, 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.480 pain is not always awesome. So uh, he'll be uh 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.760 day to day, but nothing, nothing to worry about. Tyreek 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:45.839 was uh, you know one of those classic coach to 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:51.120 player protection things that had to do with where we 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.240 were in training camp. Really what he did the day before, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.760 he really took it upon himself to dictate the terms 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:04.600 of the energy and he did that full going, full tilt. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.240 I think he had the highest sprint yardage and was 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:13.839 the fastest player that day. And so I I really 0:13:13.880 --> 0:13:15.560 liked where he was at. Didn't want him to take 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:20.240 a step back. Uh. So that that's you know, kind 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.800 of my my role in that. So he'll uh you 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:29.040 should see him today and if if I've seen enough 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:35.400 of him today, then you'll see him stop playing football 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.880 at some point, or he might play you know, the 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:43.520 whole practice. I'm just connected with each individual for that 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:49.440 very reason. Mike White is still in the protocol and uh, 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:55.800 you know whether he uh you know, I'm no genie. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:59.599 I don't have a crystal ball, but you know, I 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:04.800 feel like it would be promising for him to clear protocol, 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:08.720 but regardless, you're not going to see him on Saturday. 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:11.680 And I mentioned that we wanted to talk about how 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.880 much the players are going to play. Coach did say 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.280 the plan on Saturday was to get to some work 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.480 and the starters more than a series, but less than 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.200 a half. He's being very ambivalent there for us, which 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:24.800 I can appreciate the gamesmanship, but he said it was 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:27.680 dependent on today's practice and trying to get guys prepared 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:29.800 for the regular season. He did say if all things 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.440 were even, Tua would play on Saturday, but like he said, 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:36.080 they're going to revisit that after practice today on Thursday. 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.160 But Tua has been prepared all week as though he's 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.000 going to play in the game against Jacksonville. All right, 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:42.560 let's go ahead and take a break right there and 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.280 come back on the other side and get to some 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.920 more practice notes. We'll also hear from Rak One, Davis Tanner, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.480 connor keyon crossing play to come your way here on 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.400 the Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:59.120 you by Auto Nation with training camp officially in the books, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.520 one more priests game and then cuts on Tuesday, and 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:04.280 I just can't wait for it all to get here. 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:06.800 Let's go ahead and start this segment though with Coach 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.200 and the philosophy of rounding out the back part of 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:11.840 the roster. He was asked, how do you value or 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:15.160 what do you value I should say on players eight 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.680 through thirteen towards the back end. If you keep forty 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.440 or forty five that you feel good about, you know 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:22.200 about what are the rest of the guys? What do 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.320 they have to do to get your attention? Here's coach 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:26.160 on roster building at the back end of the rum. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:30.920 Well, it's an ironic situation, to tell you the truth, because, 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:38.840 like good problems to have are that much more complex 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:44.000 and the better your competition and your roster depth is, 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.600 you know, especially with the people that we've assembled and 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.560 the coaching staff in the front office, like we don't 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.520 take it lightly, and the competition is real, so you 0:15:55.640 --> 0:16:00.240 have to factor in a ton of things that really 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:05.320 get challenging and the you know, from my experience just 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:08.520 in the NFL, this is this is one of the 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:16.440 most high intense, competitive across the board situations that that 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:21.720 I can remember. So there in times like that when 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:26.800 you know there there is a plethora of talent and 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:33.400 you have minimal distinction between certain guys. Like what Vick's 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:39.080 alluding to you, you really have to let the whole 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:43.360 process play out. You have to fight your your urge 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:48.120 to to try to in your mind figure out who 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:52.560 those people are the competition from, you know, however you 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:56.880 rank them from you know, really forty to ninety. It's 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.200 it's a real cool representation of what what you want 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.240 the competition to be like on your roster. However, it 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.159 makes it that much more difficult. So you have to 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:12.720 factor in a ton of things. And you know, one 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:19.399 a positions gain is another position's loss, and that balancing 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:25.560 act makes it incredibly difficult. And we have multiple position 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:31.040 groups where you could go heavy at on this team. 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:35.320 So which position groups are those? Which individuals are those? 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.560 The only thing you can do is allow everyone to 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:48.400 get their full opportunity communicate actively, but but let all 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.560 the information lay out because in the game of football, uh, 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:56.280 you know, who knows what can happen today, Which is 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.639 why it's so exciting that you guys are going to 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:04.000 be at practice. It's the last one and we're hoping 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:04.960 for it to be a good one. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:06.840 There are going to be a lot of tough choices 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.600 here for the staff in the front office personnel. Just 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:11.919 trying to forecast it on my own, it gets pretty 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.720 tough when I get to that part of the roster. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.480 Every time I drop my own mock fifty three man roster, 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:19.320 I wind up with like fifty six or fifty seven. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.320 I really want to keep, and you can't do that. 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:23.640 So it's tough choice for those guys as well. Let's 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.640 go ahead and get back to the practice notes another day. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:29.119 Another couple of explosive runs in the running game. Savon 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.560 Ahmed used his speed to win the corner on a 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.520 fifteen yard touchdown run. I'm loving how this team is 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:36.720 getting the edge sealed and allowing those guys to open 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.399 it up. I think it pairs very well with the 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:42.199 passing game, and also run away from the trash inside 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.600 right like, don't run into three hundred pound guys. Use 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:46.560 the speed to stretch those guys out, tire them mount 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:48.640 through the course of the game, and force the opposing 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:51.520 defense to run and chase and defend every blade of 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.840 grass both on the run and pass game. They couldn't 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.000 get to Savon Ahmed today. I don't think most teams 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:58.320 could get to Raheem Moster and Devon ah Chain and 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:00.880 Savon also caught a touch down on a very nice 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:03.639 back shoulder throw from Tua, very similar to the one 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.440 he threw the Tyreek hill early in practice where he 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.960 most also had a winding run for a big game 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.359 where he was into the third level of defense with 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:14.359 a potential one on one situation in a live situation 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.080 phrase touchdown against a safety. I think it was Javon Holland, 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.240 and I don't usually pick against Javon in those situations, 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.080 so we'll call it about an eighteen yard run. Speaking 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:24.720 of the running backs, we heard coach talk about the 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.120 value of the running backs in Miami. Here's coach on 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:29.000 his running backs. 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:34.600 Yeah, the let's just go let's just go simple, simple math, 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:42.480 and it's a very physical game. There's let's say, on 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:47.480 an average season with seventeen games, now, let's say twelve hundred, 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.639 you have like twelve hundred plays on each side of 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:56.600 the ball, and you know how many of those plays 0:19:56.680 --> 0:20:00.200 are the running backs touching. It's it's a it's a 0:20:00.280 --> 0:20:04.440 valuable position that you have to have depth at, and 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.040 you know, I think that's one of the reasons like 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.879 it think of it this way. You've gone to practices 0:20:11.920 --> 0:20:15.960 and you've seen two games and pick a day, pick 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.920 a game, and you've seen, you know, a running back 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:26.520 make plays a running back, which means there's there are 0:20:26.760 --> 0:20:31.879 different ones every time, which speaks to the competition that 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:35.400 we have in that room. And you know, that's that's 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:40.639 why I've always value the position. It's a big portion 0:20:40.800 --> 0:20:45.800 of your of your touches. And you understand that in 0:20:45.840 --> 0:20:50.800 that process that that you have to have a you know, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:55.800 a good solid group for the really for the team 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:57.720 and and for your offense for the whole year. So 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:02.080 I think it's a you know, and I got my 0:21:02.880 --> 0:21:06.720 feet wet really in NFL game planning in the run game, 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:08.240 so that it's and dear to my. 0:21:08.280 --> 0:21:12.160 Heart mentioned the receiver's catching touchdowns chosen had a whole 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.640 bunch of catches today really this entire week, a nice 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:16.520 little bounce back after I dropped from the game on 0:21:16.600 --> 0:21:20.640 say today, I mentioned the Barrios and Cedric contributions Tyreek two. 0:21:20.760 --> 0:21:23.680 That's a copy and paste every single day, and Tanner 0:21:23.760 --> 0:21:26.720 Connor had himself a few and intrigued by Tanner Connor 0:21:26.760 --> 0:21:30.200 because we've seen the tight end room not materialize maybe 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:32.520 how you had hoped this training camp so far. But 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.200 this is a guy that I know they were super 0:21:34.280 --> 0:21:36.120 high on a year ago, got a little bit of run, 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.320 didn't really stick with the active roster, got injured, had 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.159 the OTAs this offseason, came back for camp on pup. 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:44.440 But now he's back out there and right away you 0:21:44.480 --> 0:21:46.720 see the long speed. He caught a short little pass 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:48.119 on a little drag route and took it up the 0:21:48.160 --> 0:21:50.399 sideline for a big ganer. Today, let's go ahead and 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:53.040 hear from Tanner Connor, who's a position convert right former 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.680