WEBVTT - Drive Time: All 22 Rewatch, August 13 Training Camp Recap 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.720 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.600 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.560 Back to throw to a looking clips about. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:17.079 A wide Dolphin touchdown time, Riquel uncolievable, just blue fire 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:18.240 for a second time. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.320 Don't know where he was going right away. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:21.880 I want to hit that man. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:23.080 I'm wanna help you. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:24.279 Someone will keep on his man. 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.320 Away Wattle, Wadle to a shotgun, back to throw, looking 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:33.560 at them up Myers touchdown. It's Waddle his sixth touchdown, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:39.000 Parados the team. Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:41.519 Now let me check your pulse if you're not for. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:45.400 What is up? Dolphins? 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.199 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:48.280 --> 0:00:53.159 Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.120 How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.160 And on today's show, I have some additional thoughts upon 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.120 reviewing the tape from Friday's game. A couple of times 0:01:02.320 --> 0:01:05.000 we'll talk about some performances that deserve some recognition and 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:05.959 supplement them. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:06.520 With some data. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.720 Plus, there were thirty one players who did not play 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.479 in the game on Friday, but most of them are 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:12.479 back on the practice field. 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:12.920 Sunday. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.480 We'll recap that as well as media from coach and 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.800 some players from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:23.160 healths Training Complex. This is the Draft Time podcast Maggie Geff. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.880 Before anything else, some transaction news. Wide receiver Freddie Swain 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:32.840 and cornerback Mark Gilbert were waved injured and two players 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:36.440 added in their place, wide receiver Kiki Kuti and defensive 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.080 back Jamal Perry. I know you all know Jamal Perry. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:40.800 He's been here with us in the past a couple 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.360 of times, giving us some work both in the defensive 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.800 backfield and on special teams and CUTI is a former 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.320 Texas Tech Red Raider who can flat out go four 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.520 four to three speed at his combine back in twenty eighteen. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.080 Was a fourth round pick of the Houston Texans and 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.440 waved just a couple of days ago. Didn't quite put 0:01:57.440 --> 0:02:00.320 it all together there, but he has some electrifying speed 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.520 and a guy that can do some return game work 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.440 as well. So there you go, all right. I had 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:07.160 a chance to watch the tape. I watched the broadcast 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.239 version and the All twenty two from Friday night, and 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.840 I posted this to social but I think it bears 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:14.840 repeating here once again, because yeah, the nineteen to three 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.320 final gives you one idea of how the game went. 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:20.000 And I've been guilty of this in the past before, like, oh, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.120 the Patriots lost twenty to six, they must have not 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.120 played very well, but you should know better than that 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:27.359 this time of year, more than anything else. But nearly 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:29.280 six and a half yards per rush for the entire 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:32.680 game and a first half performance that carried that average. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.920 That showcased to me a lot of really good offensive 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:39.720 line performance is like not even just okay. 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:40.360 Very very good. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.840 What happened was the offense failed on three critical plays 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.120 or series down in the red zone, and they were 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.360 merely a matter of inches away from cashing all of 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.239 those in. And we broke that down on the Saturday podcast. 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.800 Thought White was late on the interception. I thought the 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.919 ball was behind Braxton on the one fourth down drag route. Also, 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.760 I miscategorized that was not mesh. 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:00.000 It was just a drag. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:02.280 Sometimes you can't see that when you're watching it live 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:04.160 and you say things incorrectly. That's why you have the 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.240 Omissions and Review podcast. But that was a ball that 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:08.920 was if it's out in front of him, it's an 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:10.960 easy touchdown. It was just behind and allowed the dB 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:12.960 to get back into the play. And then the interior 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.639 pressure on the right tackle, which I believe in this 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.799 instance was Tonstall, and then also a cut block that 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:22.600 a Chain could not quite execute off that edge led 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.400 to a tip pass to an otherwise uncovered, wide open 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.880 Tyler Croft for another fourth down in completion. But thirty 0:03:28.880 --> 0:03:31.280 one players not in the lineups we probably saw, give 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:32.400 or take players. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.440 I don't know, thirty two through sixty or so in 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:36.200 that first half. 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.760 I mean, there's exceptions here and there, but you get 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.120 the point. You're largely beyond starters and into your rotational 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:45.720 contributors and guys that you hope are largely only in 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.680 a backup capacity, like a Mike White, who hopefully we 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.360 never see Mike White this year. And I say that 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.640 loving Mike White as a person and as a backup quarterback, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:55.520 but you don't want to see him, right because you 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.480 want to to take every single snap unless we're blowing 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.120 somebody out, which I think will happen a few times 0:03:59.120 --> 0:03:59.480 this year. 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:00.600 Maybe wants he Mike. 0:04:00.520 --> 0:04:02.800 White in those games, but I digress. But I think 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.960 he showed you exactly what he's capable of getting the 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:08.240 team into right looks against favorable box counts, you know, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.920 runs and protection slides, because in the second half that 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:16.240 wasn't the case. We had tilted lines, tilted rushes, tilted blitzes. 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.280 And we didn't slide. 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.760 We didn't you know, account for different types of protections 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.719 in Skylar. He copped to that in his press conference 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:24.520 after the game, saying there was a few pressure looks 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.599 that got me, and he's right they did. But in 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.800 that first half you had drive lengths of fifty three, 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:32.200 seventy two, seventy five, and forty four yards. That's really good. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.520 That's really good execution getting the ball down the field. 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:36.599 I think the most telling stat that you can chalk 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:40.360 up to execution football was that White was one for 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.640 four with six yards when he was blitzed. Now, you 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.000 don't have your standard call sheet in preseason. You're not 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:49.000 game planning good on the Falcons for a generating heat 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.440 with their blitz package. But when Mike was on rhythm 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:54.280 and instructure, I thought he was decisive and accurate, which 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.520 again is exactly what you want in a backup quarterback 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.600 and how you get you know, drive links to accumulate 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.560 accounts for seven, seven and five first downs on those 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.920 drive that's a great those are great drive links. Come 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.280 out and execute the offense for your backup quarterback. That's 0:05:09.279 --> 0:05:11.440 the plan when your quarterback once not available. I thought 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:13.920 Mike White did that except for those critical areas. But again, 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:15.680 we get down on the red zone. Hopefully you've got 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.640 Tyreek and Jalen and Raheem and everybody else that will 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.760 be big time contributors. I mentioned Tyler Croft earlier to 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.360 me that game swung. No position was swung more to 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:27.880 me than Croft versus Sober and the tight end rotation. 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.040 Then the game on Friday, it was not a good 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:33.120 night for Eric saber beating pass pro whifted in a 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.480 couple of run blocks and had some some pass routes 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:37.320 that didn't really offer a whole lot either. But I 0:05:37.320 --> 0:05:39.559 thought that Tyler Croft was good and we have proof 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.719 of concept of him in this offense previously right Ransom 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:45.960 twelve personnel type of stuff in San Francisco as well 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:47.280 to the Jets. I think that's what he's going to 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.440 be here, is a twelve personnel tight end who's more 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.279 than capable of collapsing the backside edge and split flow 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.359 and leading up into some you know A and B 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:56.640 gap runs when he pulls across and has some of 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.880 those trap looks and some of those you know scam 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.240 and find your second level linebacker and go make a 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.400 down block on that guy. I thought we saw lots 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.680 of that on Friday from Croft and from this offense 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:10.640 as well, with some more man scheme, some more gap scheme, 0:06:10.680 --> 0:06:13.080 which add that variety of flavor to the running game, 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:14.400 and all of a sudden you can do a little 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:16.760 bit of everything. But back to the offensive line. Let's 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.719 read some stats here, because these tell the story. I 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.600 put them on Twitter, so you probably already saw them. 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.440 But in the first half, the Dolphins ran the ball 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:26.400 seventeen times for one hundred and twenty nine yards on 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.880 the ground, Like that's phenomenal. That's an average of seven 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.760 point five eight yards per rush on fifteen dropbacks. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:33.920 They allowed three pressures. 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.320 That's a twenty percent pressure rate, only one hit in 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.159 one sacks, So that's a one for fifteen. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:39.520 I don't know the math on that. 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.760 Let's see, one for ten would be ten percent, one 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.440 for twenty would be okay, I'm gonna stop. They were 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.520 one for fifteen hits in sacks. I don't know the math, 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:48.880 but that's a twenty percent pressure rate, and across the 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.240 NFL it was thirty seven percent in Week one, not 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.880 counting Sunday's games at that tape this podcast before the 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:54.960 games on Sunday. 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.159 Go so over three in the red zone. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.159 Obviously not good, but that was a case where a 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:02.000 process should you know out results anytime a year, especially 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.520 in the exhibition season, and as coach said, use the 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.120 results as a teaching tool. Let's talk about the offensive 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:08.520 line and break down the games a little bit here, 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.680 because I was blown away by two players, and let's 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:13.640 talk about the first running play of the game. When 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.720 we had a guard combo of Isaiah Win and Rob Jones. 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.440 You had Rob Jones wipe out the three technique and 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.800 take him like two gaps over. You had Isaiah Win 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:25.320 wall off and seal and find someone else. When constantly 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.200 was getting to the second level and finding multiple players, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:33.360 I loved him searching for work and almost playing like 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.360 he had something to prove right like former first round 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.600 pick didn't quite work out in New England. Looked like 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.680 he had something to prove to me. They both anchored 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:42.480 well in pass pro PFF gave Robert Jones the second 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.400 best run blocking grade of the entire weekend NFL wide. 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.920 He also had twenty two pass blocking snaps without allowing 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.160 a pressure when had fourteen pass blocking snaps and no pressure. 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:53.400 We'll come back and talk about those guys here in 0:07:53.400 --> 0:07:55.440 a second. I can see why Austin Jackson can be 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.600 hard for coaches to quit because of the physical talents 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.720 and skill sets that he offers. Man, when he gets 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.240 it right, it is, it's beautiful. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:02.440 I think to this point of his. 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.120 Career, establishing that consistency is gonna be the next step 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.960 for him, and it's why I wish we could have 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.680 seen a full year of him last year because I 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.320 think that was going to improve for him. 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.080 I think it could this year. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.040 Hopefully, if it does, maybe you have something and you 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.560 can get him back, you know, on a second contract 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:17.160 that's affordable. 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:18.160 But that's down the road. 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.520 But I think that there's something to work with and 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.320 hopefully good offensive line coaching and a good offensive staff 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.240 can kind of cultivate that out of Austin. There was 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.200 one rep in pass pro where I thought he clicked 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.400 his heels and got off balance, which can be a 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:33.080 little bit of his bugaboo, but other than that, really 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.520 good technique in a clean game with zero pressures allowed 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.760 on nine pass blocking snaps. Leam Mikenberg had no pressures 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.800 on nine snaps as well. Keon Smith too. I thought 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.840 that was the best game of his preseason career. He 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:45.680 had a really good block in space on the big 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.640 Aszookama run and some edge denting runs in the run 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:50.640 or blocks in the running game as well. I do 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.120 really wonder if the best five could potentially be. This 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.640 is going back to my Win in Jones argument. Could 0:08:56.679 --> 0:09:00.400 it be Armstead, Win, Williams, Jones and Hunt. Now we 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.679 have some time to sort that out. And I do 0:09:02.760 --> 0:09:04.559 get wanting to keep Rob at right guard because I 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.839 think he's a pro Bowl level right guard and maybe 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:07.839 not so much at right tackle. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:09.280 But it's an interesting debate for sure. 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:12.040 And speaking of run blocking, we talked about his work 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.920 with the ball in his hands, how about Azukama in 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:18.960 the running game like that Trent Sherfield role the absolute 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:22.839 master class of forecasting what this wide receiver room could 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.560 be last year and knowing you needed a guy like 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.960 Sherfield and Craycraft that knew the offense to come in 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:30.439 and kind of help communicate the challenges of this complex offense. 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:32.440 But then to have the force, I had to say, 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.040 I'll get Azukama in the system and get him taught 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:37.480 and learned up on the system for year one and 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:39.880 then come back and get a souped up version of 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.280 Trent Sherfield, which is what I think you have right 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:46.240 now in Azukama. Cam Smith can play. He can flat 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.360 out play. That was evident over the last two weeks. 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:49.520 I don't know what else to say there. We broke 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.319 him down on the Saturday podcast, but it's worth re 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.560 mentioning Kedrian Smith is going to make someone have a 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.719 tough decision to make in the dB room, a very 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.760 deep dB room. He looked good at both corner and safety. Hopefully, 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.840 if he doesn't make the fifty three, you can find 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.200 a way to get on the practice quads. I think 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.640 there's something there with Kedrian Smith. Garrett Nelson's the type 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.520 of player that I want, man. I think you could 0:10:06.559 --> 0:10:09.559 harness that effort he plays with for special teams work, 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.600 and that's what I mean by that, just pure effort 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.040 and willing his way into plays. And that's not to 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:16.240 say he's not athletic he is, but he's just a 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.600 good player who typically wants it more than the guy 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.640 across from him. I think Channing Tendall's between the ears 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.520 acumen's way closer to what he's capable of physically than 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.760 what it was as a rookie. His key reading to 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.080 get himself in the right gap was very good. He 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:31.760 undercut one play and undershot it and missed the tackle 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:33.920 and overran one play for a miss as well. But 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:35.760 you could see how he was upset about that by 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.560 how he reacted after the fact, and I think that 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.319 he'll get that dialed and just get better, and having 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:42.040 those plays on tape will help him get there. I'm 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.440 very impressed so far with Channing Tindall man the four 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:47.360 high draft picks the last two years, A Chan and 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.040 Cam and then Ee and Tendall. Those if those guys 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.240 all hit, you're talking about really balancing this roster with 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.880 contributors on cheap rookie contracts with the top of the 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.520 market guys ideal situation. If that happens. I thought it 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.480 was a tough going for a few guys. Aubrey Miller, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:05.720 Alama Yu Lave the Center, Lester Cotton Randy Charlton Skyler obviously, 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.679 and Eric Saubert will have a chance to bounce back 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.040 this week. I thought the tape for them was not 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.160 as kind as those other guys. Some additional PFF numbers. 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.959 Ogba had two pressures on seven reps. He gave Caleb 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.480 McGarry the business man, and that's at Landt starting right 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:18.160 tackle right there. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:19.040 That's good to see. 0:11:19.200 --> 0:11:22.240 Jalen Twinman had three pressures read and Ogba had two apiece, 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:24.920 and then a handful of guys had one. Josiah Bronson 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.360 had three run stops a good day. Nelson Tindall, Peelee 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:33.160 and Reid All had two run stops. Kedrin Smith eighteen 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.840 coverage snaps, was targeted three times, just one catch for 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:36.400 three yards. 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.079 So that's some number. Some tape breakdown for you guys. 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:40.680 I come away from this game impressed by what we 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.960 saw with the guys that will be playing come Sundays 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.319 in September. Beyond that not so good second half was 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.160 not that good, but there you go. Let's go ahead 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:50.720 and take our first break right there and come back 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.280 and recap Sunday's practice here from coach McDaniel. 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:53.960 Much much more. 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.160 That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:02.560 to you by Auto Nation. I think we would all 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.520 agree the most important thing this time of year is 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.840 health and keeping guys available for week number one. And 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.800 with that, we got some really good news on the 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.600 injury front from head coach Mike McDaniel. Let's go ahead 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.280 and go to the headman for the Miami Dolphins and 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.920 get updates on Camp Smith, Braxon Barrios, and Jalen Waddle. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:22.200 Well, first of all, I thought that, you know, he's 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:26.760 got his feet wet a NFL game, and he showed 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.400 his teammates a couple couple things and he made some 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:30.120 good plays. 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.439 As far as his injury, uh. 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:37.520 It, you know, we're fortunate that I don't think it's 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:42.280 long term at all. There's with regard to his treatment 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:47.319 and his body. You know, the time line is a 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.960 little gray, but it's not long term at all. I 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:55.880 would you know, next couple of weeks could be sooner 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:56.320 than later. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.520 That of course, Cam Smith, next Braxon Barrios. 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:05.680 Yeah, he got some stitches and the really the only 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:12.199 thing that's impeding him playing football is the stitches healing. 0:13:13.440 --> 0:13:16.360 It's just like right right where the helmet lining is, 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:22.720 so instead of having that guy that every time he 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.920 plays football bleeds all over his face, we have to 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.880 wait a couple of days to let that heal. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.320 And then finally the penguin himself. 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:32.360 Rarely misses time. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.760 He's so tough, so we're just trying to protect him 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:42.240 against himself and being conservative with it as far as uh, 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:44.960 you know, like I said before, I'm not concerned he's 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.960 doing he's doing well, but in terms of the timetable 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:53.880 of it, you know, he's already moving around and doing 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:59.760 doing exactly where what he should be doing. So when 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:04.720 it exactly it is, hey, I don't really know, but 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.520 I'm very happy where he's at. 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.480 So pretty good news all around there. Also want to 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:13.040 go ahead and supplement some of the first segment breakdown 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.319 with some more stuff here from head coach Mike McDaniel, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.319 And let's go ahead and start here with this takeaway 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:21.080 from offensive lineman Austin Jackson and his performance on Friday night. 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:23.760 It was what I'd hoped for in terms of. 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:30.040 It's It's funny I saw in the hallway yesterday, Yester 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:35.240 was that after the game yesterday, I can't remember, and 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:36.920 the first thing I told him was like, dude, I 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:41.440 was so fired up for that for an m A 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.360 and I meant it. And the reason why is because 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:50.440 you know, I try to we really collectively as a 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:54.560 coaching staff, try to go along the journey with the player. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:57.880 And this dude has gone all in. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.160 And what happens when you go all in and you're 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:05.280 putting your best foot forward, you tend to care a lot. So, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.080 you know, one of the functions of him playing, which 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:15.600 were several, was that you get that feeling of competitive 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:21.680 tackle football and what happens when something doesn't go right. 0:15:22.160 --> 0:15:26.720 And what was awesome is he kept his technique. He 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.720 ended up responding immediately and had some really good it 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.640 was on a run play and had some really good 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:35.240 pass protection and then run blocks. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:37.800 That that's what. 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:44.320 You're looking for to make purpose of you know, these 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:48.000 these exhibition games, you're trying to figure out who's who 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.480 gets what job, and then you're trying to have people 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:55.400 develop within the preseason so they're the best selves in 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.840 the regular season. And that was a hurdle that I 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.680 knew was coming, and he didn't wait much time and 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:08.880 then responded, you know it as good as one can 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:11.400 in the game of football, which was my primary concern 0:16:11.720 --> 0:16:13.120 since he hadn't played in a minute. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:14.960 So, as you can tell, as we go along here 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.160 on this podcast, not going to really intertwine the media 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.640 availability from coach here with today's work because there just 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:22.280 isn't a ton of crossover there with so many questions 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.560 being day after game or rather I guess day after 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.040 tape rewatch type of questions, which I like the most 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:30.560 from coach. I like the instant reactions after the game, 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:31.880 but I like when he has a chance to digest 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.800 the tape and give us the breakdowns from there. But 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.640 I found some stuff really interesting here. Let's do two 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.560 of these back to back, and beginning here with him 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.600 discussing the competition at left guard. I think that this 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.400 obviously gives us some insight into that, but also really 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:48.440 speaks to how McDaniel has his finger on the pulse 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:49.320 of his football team. 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:52.240 You know, good litmus test is the locker room, and 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:59.880 I pay attention a lot to what peers feel think, 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:02.200 maybe say, maybe don't say, their energy. 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:05.080 And I feel like when. 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.800 When the locker room, I'll feel it from the locker room, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:14.600 I'll feel it from his teammates. Whoever that guy is 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.760 will show his face, and it's not really up to 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:21.040 my timeline. I'd like it to be sooner than later. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.560 But like, that's why you have to give guys opportunities 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.280 to win the job on the field. And it's not 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:33.200 necessarily a negative that there's a a rotation. 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:33.960 Listen, like. 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:39.320 Liam's playing as good at football as he's played like 0:17:39.480 --> 0:17:43.480 he's he's had his bumps, Sin's got better from them 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:44.399 in this camp. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.560 But there's other good players and so. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.840 Those things have to be settled on the field, I believe, 0:17:53.200 --> 0:18:00.320 and those opportunities will continue, and then I'll know, you know, 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.920 when the team knows, and I'll be able to feel 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:07.760 it by not just how that person plays, but how 0:18:08.200 --> 0:18:11.280 his teammates play around him. You know, it's a you 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:14.840 know how it is. It's a collective group where you 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:20.520 have to communicate and you have to players can make 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.119 each other better, they can make each other worse, and 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:26.520 we're looking for a guy that plays his best but 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.359 makes other people better as well. 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.800 And then I also think this answer about Kendall Lamb 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:33.199 being down on Friday night with the list of players 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.840 who did not suit up, I think this one speaks 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.520 to Kendall's camp. So far and how he's performed, but 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:41.360 also to how the thinking behind some of the workloads 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.360 this time of year goes. You're going to hear this 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.800