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Speaker 4: And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the
Speaker 4: Miami Dolphins podcast Network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 4: How's it going to everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 4: And on today's show, I have some additional thoughts upon
Speaker 4: reviewing the tape from Friday's game. A couple of times
Speaker 4: we'll talk about some performances that deserve some recognition and
Speaker 4: supplement them.
Speaker 2: With some data.
Speaker 4: Plus, there were thirty one players who did not play
Speaker 4: in the game on Friday, but most of them are
Speaker 4: back on the practice field.
Speaker 3: Sunday.
Speaker 4: We'll recap that as well as media from coach and
Speaker 4: some players from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist
Speaker 4: healths Training Complex. This is the Draft Time podcast Maggie Geff.
Speaker 4: Before anything else, some transaction news. Wide receiver Freddie Swain
Speaker 4: and cornerback Mark Gilbert were waved injured and two players
Speaker 4: added in their place, wide receiver Kiki Kuti and defensive
Speaker 4: back Jamal Perry. I know you all know Jamal Perry.
Speaker 4: He's been here with us in the past a couple
Speaker 4: of times, giving us some work both in the defensive
Speaker 4: backfield and on special teams and CUTI is a former
Speaker 4: Texas Tech Red Raider who can flat out go four
Speaker 4: four to three speed at his combine back in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4: Was a fourth round pick of the Houston Texans and
Speaker 4: waved just a couple of days ago. Didn't quite put
Speaker 4: it all together there, but he has some electrifying speed
Speaker 4: and a guy that can do some return game work
Speaker 4: as well. So there you go, all right. I had
Speaker 4: a chance to watch the tape. I watched the broadcast
Speaker 4: version and the All twenty two from Friday night, and
Speaker 4: I posted this to social but I think it bears
Speaker 4: repeating here once again, because yeah, the nineteen to three
Speaker 4: final gives you one idea of how the game went.
Speaker 4: And I've been guilty of this in the past before, like, oh,
Speaker 4: the Patriots lost twenty to six, they must have not
Speaker 4: played very well, but you should know better than that
Speaker 4: this time of year, more than anything else. But nearly
Speaker 4: six and a half yards per rush for the entire
Speaker 4: game and a first half performance that carried that average.
Speaker 4: That showcased to me a lot of really good offensive
Speaker 4: line performance is like not even just okay.
Speaker 2: Very very good.
Speaker 4: What happened was the offense failed on three critical plays
Speaker 4: or series down in the red zone, and they were
Speaker 4: merely a matter of inches away from cashing all of
Speaker 4: those in. And we broke that down on the Saturday podcast.
Speaker 4: Thought White was late on the interception. I thought the
Speaker 4: ball was behind Braxton on the one fourth down drag route. Also,
Speaker 4: I miscategorized that was not mesh.
Speaker 2: It was just a drag.
Speaker 4: Sometimes you can't see that when you're watching it live
Speaker 4: and you say things incorrectly. That's why you have the
Speaker 4: Omissions and Review podcast. But that was a ball that
Speaker 4: was if it's out in front of him, it's an
Speaker 4: easy touchdown. It was just behind and allowed the dB
Speaker 4: to get back into the play. And then the interior
Speaker 4: pressure on the right tackle, which I believe in this
Speaker 4: instance was Tonstall, and then also a cut block that
Speaker 4: a Chain could not quite execute off that edge led
Speaker 4: to a tip pass to an otherwise uncovered, wide open
Speaker 4: Tyler Croft for another fourth down in completion. But thirty
Speaker 4: one players not in the lineups we probably saw, give
Speaker 4: or take players.
Speaker 2: I don't know, thirty two through sixty or so in
Speaker 2: that first half.
Speaker 4: I mean, there's exceptions here and there, but you get
Speaker 4: the point. You're largely beyond starters and into your rotational
Speaker 4: contributors and guys that you hope are largely only in
Speaker 4: a backup capacity, like a Mike White, who hopefully we
Speaker 4: never see Mike White this year. And I say that
Speaker 4: loving Mike White as a person and as a backup quarterback,
Speaker 4: but you don't want to see him, right because you
Speaker 4: want to to take every single snap unless we're blowing
Speaker 4: somebody out, which I think will happen a few times
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 2: Maybe wants he Mike.
Speaker 4: White in those games, but I digress. But I think
Speaker 4: he showed you exactly what he's capable of getting the
Speaker 4: team into right looks against favorable box counts, you know,
Speaker 4: runs and protection slides, because in the second half that
Speaker 4: wasn't the case. We had tilted lines, tilted rushes, tilted blitzes.
Speaker 2: And we didn't slide.
Speaker 4: We didn't you know, account for different types of protections
Speaker 4: in Skylar. He copped to that in his press conference
Speaker 4: after the game, saying there was a few pressure looks
Speaker 4: that got me, and he's right they did. But in
Speaker 4: that first half you had drive lengths of fifty three,
Speaker 4: seventy two, seventy five, and forty four yards. That's really good.
Speaker 4: That's really good execution getting the ball down the field.
Speaker 4: I think the most telling stat that you can chalk
Speaker 4: up to execution football was that White was one for
Speaker 4: four with six yards when he was blitzed. Now, you
Speaker 4: don't have your standard call sheet in preseason. You're not
Speaker 4: game planning good on the Falcons for a generating heat
Speaker 4: with their blitz package. But when Mike was on rhythm
Speaker 4: and instructure, I thought he was decisive and accurate, which
Speaker 4: again is exactly what you want in a backup quarterback
Speaker 4: and how you get you know, drive links to accumulate
Speaker 4: accounts for seven, seven and five first downs on those
Speaker 4: drive that's a great those are great drive links. Come
Speaker 4: out and execute the offense for your backup quarterback. That's
Speaker 4: the plan when your quarterback once not available. I thought
Speaker 4: Mike White did that except for those critical areas. But again,
Speaker 4: we get down on the red zone. Hopefully you've got
Speaker 4: Tyreek and Jalen and Raheem and everybody else that will
Speaker 4: be big time contributors. I mentioned Tyler Croft earlier to
Speaker 4: me that game swung. No position was swung more to
Speaker 4: me than Croft versus Sober and the tight end rotation.
Speaker 4: Then the game on Friday, it was not a good
Speaker 4: night for Eric saber beating pass pro whifted in a
Speaker 4: couple of run blocks and had some some pass routes
Speaker 4: that didn't really offer a whole lot either. But I
Speaker 4: thought that Tyler Croft was good and we have proof
Speaker 4: of concept of him in this offense previously right Ransom
Speaker 4: twelve personnel type of stuff in San Francisco as well
Speaker 4: to the Jets. I think that's what he's going to
Speaker 4: be here, is a twelve personnel tight end who's more
Speaker 4: than capable of collapsing the backside edge and split flow
Speaker 4: and leading up into some you know A and B
Speaker 4: gap runs when he pulls across and has some of
Speaker 4: those trap looks and some of those you know scam
Speaker 4: and find your second level linebacker and go make a
Speaker 4: down block on that guy. I thought we saw lots
Speaker 4: of that on Friday from Croft and from this offense
Speaker 4: as well, with some more man scheme, some more gap scheme,
Speaker 4: which add that variety of flavor to the running game,
Speaker 4: and all of a sudden you can do a little
Speaker 4: bit of everything. But back to the offensive line. Let's
Speaker 4: read some stats here, because these tell the story. I
Speaker 4: put them on Twitter, so you probably already saw them.
Speaker 4: But in the first half, the Dolphins ran the ball
Speaker 4: seventeen times for one hundred and twenty nine yards on
Speaker 4: the ground, Like that's phenomenal. That's an average of seven
Speaker 4: point five eight yards per rush on fifteen dropbacks.
Speaker 2: They allowed three pressures.
Speaker 4: That's a twenty percent pressure rate, only one hit in
Speaker 4: one sacks, So that's a one for fifteen.
Speaker 2: I don't know the math on that.
Speaker 4: Let's see, one for ten would be ten percent, one
Speaker 4: for twenty would be okay, I'm gonna stop. They were
Speaker 4: one for fifteen hits in sacks. I don't know the math,
Speaker 4: but that's a twenty percent pressure rate, and across the
Speaker 4: NFL it was thirty seven percent in Week one, not
Speaker 4: counting Sunday's games at that tape this podcast before the
Speaker 4: games on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Go so over three in the red zone.
Speaker 4: Obviously not good, but that was a case where a
Speaker 4: process should you know out results anytime a year, especially
Speaker 4: in the exhibition season, and as coach said, use the
Speaker 4: results as a teaching tool. Let's talk about the offensive
Speaker 4: line and break down the games a little bit here,
Speaker 4: because I was blown away by two players, and let's
Speaker 4: talk about the first running play of the game. When
Speaker 4: we had a guard combo of Isaiah Win and Rob Jones.
Speaker 4: You had Rob Jones wipe out the three technique and
Speaker 4: take him like two gaps over. You had Isaiah Win
Speaker 4: wall off and seal and find someone else. When constantly
Speaker 4: was getting to the second level and finding multiple players,
Speaker 4: I loved him searching for work and almost playing like
Speaker 4: he had something to prove right like former first round
Speaker 4: pick didn't quite work out in New England. Looked like
Speaker 4: he had something to prove to me. They both anchored
Speaker 4: well in pass pro PFF gave Robert Jones the second
Speaker 4: best run blocking grade of the entire weekend NFL wide.
Speaker 4: He also had twenty two pass blocking snaps without allowing
Speaker 4: a pressure when had fourteen pass blocking snaps and no pressure.
Speaker 4: We'll come back and talk about those guys here in
Speaker 4: a second. I can see why Austin Jackson can be
Speaker 4: hard for coaches to quit because of the physical talents
Speaker 4: and skill sets that he offers. Man, when he gets
Speaker 4: it right, it is, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: I think to this point of his.
Speaker 4: Career, establishing that consistency is gonna be the next step
Speaker 4: for him, and it's why I wish we could have
Speaker 4: seen a full year of him last year because I
Speaker 4: think that was going to improve for him.
Speaker 2: I think it could this year.
Speaker 4: Hopefully, if it does, maybe you have something and you
Speaker 4: can get him back, you know, on a second contract
Speaker 4: that's affordable.
Speaker 2: But that's down the road.
Speaker 4: But I think that there's something to work with and
Speaker 4: hopefully good offensive line coaching and a good offensive staff
Speaker 4: can kind of cultivate that out of Austin. There was
Speaker 4: one rep in pass pro where I thought he clicked
Speaker 4: his heels and got off balance, which can be a
Speaker 4: little bit of his bugaboo, but other than that, really
Speaker 4: good technique in a clean game with zero pressures allowed
Speaker 4: on nine pass blocking snaps. Leam Mikenberg had no pressures
Speaker 4: on nine snaps as well. Keon Smith too. I thought
Speaker 4: that was the best game of his preseason career. He
Speaker 4: had a really good block in space on the big
Speaker 4: Aszookama run and some edge denting runs in the run
Speaker 4: or blocks in the running game as well. I do
Speaker 4: really wonder if the best five could potentially be. This
Speaker 4: is going back to my Win in Jones argument. Could
Speaker 4: it be Armstead, Win, Williams, Jones and Hunt. Now we
Speaker 4: have some time to sort that out. And I do
Speaker 4: get wanting to keep Rob at right guard because I
Speaker 4: think he's a pro Bowl level right guard and maybe
Speaker 4: not so much at right tackle.
Speaker 2: But it's an interesting debate for sure.
Speaker 4: And speaking of run blocking, we talked about his work
Speaker 4: with the ball in his hands, how about Azukama in
Speaker 4: the running game like that Trent Sherfield role the absolute
Speaker 4: master class of forecasting what this wide receiver room could
Speaker 4: be last year and knowing you needed a guy like
Speaker 4: Sherfield and Craycraft that knew the offense to come in
Speaker 4: and kind of help communicate the challenges of this complex offense.
Speaker 4: But then to have the force, I had to say,
Speaker 4: I'll get Azukama in the system and get him taught
Speaker 4: and learned up on the system for year one and
Speaker 4: then come back and get a souped up version of
Speaker 4: Trent Sherfield, which is what I think you have right
Speaker 4: now in Azukama. Cam Smith can play. He can flat
Speaker 4: out play. That was evident over the last two weeks.
Speaker 4: I don't know what else to say there. We broke
Speaker 4: him down on the Saturday podcast, but it's worth re
Speaker 4: mentioning Kedrian Smith is going to make someone have a
Speaker 4: tough decision to make in the dB room, a very
Speaker 4: deep dB room. He looked good at both corner and safety. Hopefully,
Speaker 4: if he doesn't make the fifty three, you can find
Speaker 4: a way to get on the practice quads. I think
Speaker 4: there's something there with Kedrian Smith. Garrett Nelson's the type
Speaker 4: of player that I want, man. I think you could
Speaker 4: harness that effort he plays with for special teams work,
Speaker 4: and that's what I mean by that, just pure effort
Speaker 4: and willing his way into plays. And that's not to
Speaker 4: say he's not athletic he is, but he's just a
Speaker 4: good player who typically wants it more than the guy
Speaker 4: across from him. I think Channing Tendall's between the ears
Speaker 4: acumen's way closer to what he's capable of physically than
Speaker 4: what it was as a rookie. His key reading to
Speaker 4: get himself in the right gap was very good. He
Speaker 4: undercut one play and undershot it and missed the tackle
Speaker 4: and overran one play for a miss as well. But
Speaker 4: you could see how he was upset about that by
Speaker 4: how he reacted after the fact, and I think that
Speaker 4: he'll get that dialed and just get better, and having
Speaker 4: those plays on tape will help him get there. I'm
Speaker 4: very impressed so far with Channing Tindall man the four
Speaker 4: high draft picks the last two years, A Chan and
Speaker 4: Cam and then Ee and Tendall. Those if those guys
Speaker 4: all hit, you're talking about really balancing this roster with
Speaker 4: contributors on cheap rookie contracts with the top of the
Speaker 4: market guys ideal situation. If that happens. I thought it
Speaker 4: was a tough going for a few guys. Aubrey Miller,
Speaker 4: Alama Yu Lave the Center, Lester Cotton Randy Charlton Skyler obviously,
Speaker 4: and Eric Saubert will have a chance to bounce back
Speaker 4: this week. I thought the tape for them was not
Speaker 4: as kind as those other guys. Some additional PFF numbers.
Speaker 4: Ogba had two pressures on seven reps. He gave Caleb
Speaker 4: McGarry the business man, and that's at Landt starting right
Speaker 4: tackle right there.
Speaker 2: That's good to see.
Speaker 4: Jalen Twinman had three pressures read and Ogba had two apiece,
Speaker 4: and then a handful of guys had one. Josiah Bronson
Speaker 4: had three run stops a good day. Nelson Tindall, Peelee
Speaker 4: and Reid All had two run stops. Kedrin Smith eighteen
Speaker 4: coverage snaps, was targeted three times, just one catch for
Speaker 4: three yards.
Speaker 2: So that's some number. Some tape breakdown for you guys.
Speaker 4: I come away from this game impressed by what we
Speaker 4: saw with the guys that will be playing come Sundays
Speaker 4: in September. Beyond that not so good second half was
Speaker 4: not that good, but there you go. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and take our first break right there and come back
Speaker 4: and recap Sunday's practice here from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 2: Much much more.
Speaker 4: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 4: to you by Auto Nation. I think we would all
Speaker 4: agree the most important thing this time of year is
Speaker 4: health and keeping guys available for week number one. And
Speaker 4: with that, we got some really good news on the
Speaker 4: injury front from head coach Mike McDaniel. Let's go ahead
Speaker 4: and go to the headman for the Miami Dolphins and
Speaker 4: get updates on Camp Smith, Braxon Barrios, and Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 1: Well, first of all, I thought that, you know, he's
Speaker 1: got his feet wet a NFL game, and he showed
Speaker 1: his teammates a couple couple things and he made some
Speaker 1: good plays.
Speaker 3: As far as his injury, uh.
Speaker 1: It, you know, we're fortunate that I don't think it's
Speaker 1: long term at all. There's with regard to his treatment
Speaker 1: and his body. You know, the time line is a
Speaker 1: little gray, but it's not long term at all. I
Speaker 1: would you know, next couple of weeks could be sooner
Speaker 1: than later.
Speaker 2: That of course, Cam Smith, next Braxon Barrios.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he got some stitches and the really the only
Speaker 1: thing that's impeding him playing football is the stitches healing.
Speaker 1: It's just like right right where the helmet lining is,
Speaker 1: so instead of having that guy that every time he
Speaker 1: plays football bleeds all over his face, we have to
Speaker 1: wait a couple of days to let that heal.
Speaker 2: And then finally the penguin himself.
Speaker 3: Rarely misses time.
Speaker 1: He's so tough, so we're just trying to protect him
Speaker 1: against himself and being conservative with it as far as uh,
Speaker 1: you know, like I said before, I'm not concerned he's
Speaker 1: doing he's doing well, but in terms of the timetable
Speaker 1: of it, you know, he's already moving around and doing
Speaker 1: doing exactly where what he should be doing. So when
Speaker 1: it exactly it is, hey, I don't really know, but
Speaker 1: I'm very happy where he's at.
Speaker 4: So pretty good news all around there. Also want to
Speaker 4: go ahead and supplement some of the first segment breakdown
Speaker 4: with some more stuff here from head coach Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 4: And let's go ahead and start here with this takeaway
Speaker 4: from offensive lineman Austin Jackson and his performance on Friday night.
Speaker 3: It was what I'd hoped for in terms of.
Speaker 1: It's It's funny I saw in the hallway yesterday, Yester
Speaker 1: was that after the game yesterday, I can't remember, and
Speaker 1: the first thing I told him was like, dude, I
Speaker 1: was so fired up for that for an m A
Speaker 1: and I meant it. And the reason why is because
Speaker 1: you know, I try to we really collectively as a
Speaker 1: coaching staff, try to go along the journey with the player.
Speaker 3: And this dude has gone all in.
Speaker 1: And what happens when you go all in and you're
Speaker 1: putting your best foot forward, you tend to care a lot. So,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the functions of him playing, which
Speaker 1: were several, was that you get that feeling of competitive
Speaker 1: tackle football and what happens when something doesn't go right.
Speaker 1: And what was awesome is he kept his technique. He
Speaker 1: ended up responding immediately and had some really good it
Speaker 1: was on a run play and had some really good
Speaker 1: pass protection and then run blocks.
Speaker 3: That that's what.
Speaker 1: You're looking for to make purpose of you know, these
Speaker 1: these exhibition games, you're trying to figure out who's who
Speaker 1: gets what job, and then you're trying to have people
Speaker 1: develop within the preseason so they're the best selves in
Speaker 1: the regular season. And that was a hurdle that I
Speaker 1: knew was coming, and he didn't wait much time and
Speaker 1: then responded, you know it as good as one can
Speaker 1: in the game of football, which was my primary concern
Speaker 1: since he hadn't played in a minute.
Speaker 4: So, as you can tell, as we go along here
Speaker 4: on this podcast, not going to really intertwine the media
Speaker 4: availability from coach here with today's work because there just
Speaker 4: isn't a ton of crossover there with so many questions
Speaker 4: being day after game or rather I guess day after
Speaker 4: tape rewatch type of questions, which I like the most
Speaker 4: from coach. I like the instant reactions after the game,
Speaker 4: but I like when he has a chance to digest
Speaker 4: the tape and give us the breakdowns from there. But
Speaker 4: I found some stuff really interesting here. Let's do two
Speaker 4: of these back to back, and beginning here with him
Speaker 4: discussing the competition at left guard. I think that this
Speaker 4: obviously gives us some insight into that, but also really
Speaker 4: speaks to how McDaniel has his finger on the pulse
Speaker 4: of his football team.
Speaker 1: You know, good litmus test is the locker room, and
Speaker 1: I pay attention a lot to what peers feel think,
Speaker 1: maybe say, maybe don't say, their energy.
Speaker 3: And I feel like when.
Speaker 1: When the locker room, I'll feel it from the locker room,
Speaker 1: I'll feel it from his teammates. Whoever that guy is
Speaker 1: will show his face, and it's not really up to
Speaker 1: my timeline. I'd like it to be sooner than later.
Speaker 1: But like, that's why you have to give guys opportunities
Speaker 1: to win the job on the field. And it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily a negative that there's a a rotation.
Speaker 3: Listen, like.
Speaker 1: Liam's playing as good at football as he's played like
Speaker 1: he's he's had his bumps, Sin's got better from them
Speaker 1: in this camp.
Speaker 3: But there's other good players and so.
Speaker 1: Those things have to be settled on the field, I believe,
Speaker 1: and those opportunities will continue, and then I'll know, you know,
Speaker 1: when the team knows, and I'll be able to feel
Speaker 1: it by not just how that person plays, but how
Speaker 1: his teammates play around him. You know, it's a you
Speaker 1: know how it is. It's a collective group where you
Speaker 1: have to communicate and you have to players can make
Speaker 1: each other better, they can make each other worse, and
Speaker 1: we're looking for a guy that plays his best but
Speaker 1: makes other people better as well.
Speaker 4: And then I also think this answer about Kendall Lamb
Speaker 4: being down on Friday night with the list of players
Speaker 4: who did not suit up, I think this one speaks
Speaker 4: to Kendall's camp. So far and how he's performed, but
Speaker 4: also to how the thinking behind some of the workloads
Speaker 4: this time of year goes. You're going to hear this
Speaker 4: over and over again this year, like you did last
Speaker 4: year with coach McDaniel, case by case. He takes every
Speaker 4: situation individually and assesses it accordingly. Here he is talking
Speaker 4: about Kendall Lamb. I just really love this answer from
Speaker 4: coach about why Kendall lam did not play on Friday.
Speaker 3: Night, Especially when you have.
Speaker 1: When you're fortunate enough to have a good amount of
Speaker 1: NFL players on your on your team, more than a
Speaker 1: roster can keep you. You're assessing, Okay, what is this
Speaker 1: game going to do? And who else needs opportunities? And
Speaker 1: you know, I've loved the way Kendall has approached his
Speaker 1: job here.
Speaker 3: I feel very comfortable with what you know.
Speaker 1: Consistency allows people to forecast, you know what it would
Speaker 1: look like, and you know the guys need opportunities to
Speaker 1: try to win jobs, and so you try to spread
Speaker 1: those out over three games, and you know there's so
Speaker 1: there's multitude of reasons, but it's all in the interest
Speaker 1: of creating fair, balanced competition where football can be the
Speaker 1: deciding factor. No I think it's monumental. Is my favorite
Speaker 1: part of preseason. I enjoy the that whole aspect, and
Speaker 1: I thought I saw that with them both specifically and
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys.
Speaker 3: On both sides of the ball.
Speaker 1: That's where my excitement and from a game that you
Speaker 1: lose by sixteen points, it is because they're I'm looking
Speaker 1: not at maybe there's one or two players that are
Speaker 1: off which very much dictates the result, but what about
Speaker 1: the other nine on the field. And there was a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that were exhibiting just what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: really across across the on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: offense and defense, and then special teams. There was some
Speaker 1: guys that are are new to positions that did some
Speaker 1: really cool stuff too. So that's that's what I gained
Speaker 1: from preseason. The second that two thousand and eight happened,
Speaker 1: I cared a lot less about preseason games.
Speaker 3: What happened two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: Detroit lines at four and oh and then you go
Speaker 1: on and sucteen and you're like, Okay, well there's correlation.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't see the corel it, so uh
Speaker 1: and vice versa happens every year.
Speaker 3: And uh, so.
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing is is that guys continue
Speaker 1: to get better and learn to learn to worry about
Speaker 1: the right stuff.
Speaker 3: And those two have.
Speaker 4: And of course a little bit closer to home comparison,
Speaker 4: they're the seven Dolphins who went one in fifteen earned
Speaker 4: more victories in the preseason going too and two that year.
Speaker 4: And I recall funny story for you guys. I used
Speaker 4: to obviously DVR those games, and that was back before
Speaker 4: you got them live on like NFL Plus or before
Speaker 4: NFL Network, you know, aired pretty much every game live
Speaker 4: or close to it, and you would have to wait until,
Speaker 4: you know, four o'clock in the morning. The next day,
Speaker 4: you'd find your Dolphins and Falcons rerun, and there would
Speaker 4: be two or three times without the course the next
Speaker 4: week and you have to find it on there. And
Speaker 4: I would DVR those additions and come back and want them.
Speaker 4: And one time the game was going to air at
Speaker 4: like one o'clock in the morning, and being the cycle
Speaker 4: that I was, I was gonna stay up all night
Speaker 4: and watch it live when it reair, not live, but
Speaker 4: the reirs live version of it. And my buddy and
Speaker 4: I went to a breakfast spot that would go to
Speaker 4: on late nights, you know, after a night out on
Speaker 4: the town, and this server there was a Dolphins fan,
Speaker 4: and I was probably wearing Dolphins gear, not very uncommon
Speaker 4: for me in those days or these days, and he
Speaker 4: was talking about how excited he was they are undefeated
Speaker 4: in the preseason. And my one friend who lived to
Speaker 4: troll all of my loves like a best friend does,
Speaker 4: with the Dolphins being the primary one. In fact, he
Speaker 4: was the guy that was there and just reveled in
Speaker 4: the stunned look on my face when Brady Quinn's name
Speaker 4: was not called and instead Ted nit Gin's name was
Speaker 4: called on Draft Day that same year, ironically, but the
Speaker 4: server came out and said like, I'm so excited they're undefeated,
Speaker 4: and my buddy Josh just lit up. He was like,
Speaker 4: I'm so happy that you got the game spoiled for you.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy to see your misery. And I was like,
Speaker 4: I guarant to you that guy does not know what
Speaker 4: the score of tonight's game was.
Speaker 2: He's a casual. I promise you, Josh, I promise he
Speaker 2: does not know.
Speaker 4: Sure enough, the Dolphins lost that game that night, and
Speaker 4: so I was able to maintain the secret and watch
Speaker 4: that game without getting spoilers, which is funny to think
Speaker 4: about because that's what sixteen years ago.
Speaker 2: That doesn't happen these days. But that's my quick aside.
Speaker 4: And so let's go ahead and hear from Connor Williams
Speaker 4: here next we you know, we saw the run game
Speaker 4: get cooking in the game on Friday Night and really
Speaker 4: get their hooks into the defense of the Falcons. I
Speaker 4: want to go ahead and hear from Connor Williams here
Speaker 4: and how he assesses where the Dolphins run game is
Speaker 4: right now, especially in year two underhead coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I think it's just establishing identity. I mean,
Speaker 6: obviously every team's got a different run game, in a
Speaker 6: different style of running, and come in here my first year,
Speaker 6: I mean it was it's a completely different world of
Speaker 6: just run game, and so just being able to get
Speaker 6: in it and understanding where the ball is going to cut,
Speaker 6: understand what you want from a schematic standpoint, and just
Speaker 6: from I mean just from your stance and from your
Speaker 6: weight and from where how you want to run off
Speaker 6: the ball and everything. And so I think I think
Speaker 6: we're improving, and I'm excited about this year.
Speaker 4: Let's go ahead and get the assessment of a guy
Speaker 4: who did play in the game on Friday night, one
Speaker 4: of my favorite performances of the entire offensive line team
Speaker 4: in general, Rob Jones. Let's go ahead and first ask
Speaker 4: them about coming back into the same system. Similar question
Speaker 4: about how much more comfortable comfortable you feel and how
Speaker 4: the impacts of having that familiarity make for a tangible
Speaker 4: result come game day or really any time on the
Speaker 4: football field.
Speaker 7: Oh just made me help me be confident, you know,
Speaker 7: just really knowing what I'm doing, you know, going out
Speaker 7: there and not have to guess like what we're doing
Speaker 7: a certain plays and everything, and really just not having
Speaker 7: to hear center speak and just having confidence with myself
Speaker 7: and what I can do.
Speaker 4: I wanted to play that sound bite for you guys
Speaker 4: because I found it very interesting. One thing he said
Speaker 4: there about not having to hear the center speak, and
Speaker 4: to me, that second nature the understanding of how to
Speaker 4: you know, come off in certain call, certain looks, different
Speaker 4: protection slides, different running schemes, and not having depend upon
Speaker 4: hearing it, especially in road environments. For a team that
Speaker 4: struggl last year with operations so much, that seems like
Speaker 4: a big big uppportunity to get better in that regard
Speaker 4: this year. Let's go ahead and go back and hear
Speaker 4: from him on how Connor Williams helps this offensive line
Speaker 4: get aligned with all those calls in the middle of
Speaker 4: the middle of the offense.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you know, centators, I got to talk in generally,
Speaker 7: you know, everything we do comes out the center. And
Speaker 7: you know, when us going into our second year in
Speaker 7: his offense, a lot of all of us who were
Speaker 7: here last year, we know exactly what we're doing. So
Speaker 7: it's just that you know, confidence at all of us
Speaker 7: on the same page. And you know Connor's going to
Speaker 7: speak regardless because he sees it from a different you know.
Speaker 2: I And then real quick here on Rob.
Speaker 4: I've mentioned before that we get a close up look
Speaker 4: on the offensive line during the indoor portion of practices,
Speaker 4: and I was just watching the guys on the bag
Speaker 4: and Rob's technique and fundamentals really stand out to me,
Speaker 4: Like his his hands and feet work in unison, and
Speaker 4: he does a good job of getting his base under
Speaker 4: him before he punches, which creates a very strong punch
Speaker 4: and obviously helps you stay on balance and allows you
Speaker 4: to redirect if they swipe or put your hands down
Speaker 4: or your punch initially does not land at the right
Speaker 4: target point. I just think that he's really taken to
Speaker 4: the style of offensive line play they want to run here,
Speaker 4: which we've obviously heard a ton about firing off the
Speaker 4: football and playing fast and how guys kind of like
Speaker 4: it here. He's quickly near the top of my list
Speaker 4: on the much must watch list at this point the
Speaker 4: rest of the month, because I think he's a chance
Speaker 4: to carve out some playing time and carve out a
Speaker 4: big role on this offense. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 4: our last break right there and come back on the
Speaker 4: other side and do the practice notes and hear from
Speaker 4: Chang Tyndall and Eric Azuokama. That's Next Draft Time podcast,
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Speaker 4: And then we had a football practice, which again was
Speaker 4: in the indoor facility, always a fun chance to see
Speaker 4: the game from a little bit different perspective behind the goalpost,
Speaker 4: a post to the sidelines, and just helmets today not
Speaker 4: fully padded, and all of the work pretty much exclusively
Speaker 4: or it was all of Tua's reps as far as
Speaker 4: the quarterback position goes. We did see some alternate lineups though,
Speaker 4: and even seeing two of play behind like the offensive
Speaker 4: line number three, which is interesting because the pass protection
Speaker 4: in those instances, as you can imagine against Chubb and
Speaker 4: Phillips and Seiler and those guys not great. But we
Speaker 4: heard coach address the thing behind adding a practice to
Speaker 4: get those guys some work after a few day layoff
Speaker 4: without on field work and something I'm kind of tracking
Speaker 4: here as you know, a big tu a believer, and
Speaker 4: it's not out of like fam boying. I think, I
Speaker 4: just think he's a good football player. But something I've
Speaker 4: kind of noticed is like there's a trend of layoffs
Speaker 4: and downtime. You know, week ones have not been good
Speaker 4: for Tua off the bye weeks have not been the
Speaker 4: sharpest performances I think for Tua last year of the
Speaker 4: Pittsburgh game after the injury, not his best showing imaginable.
Speaker 4: So I'm wondering how they can kind of foster, you know,
Speaker 4: more game like situations to get rid of that rust,
Speaker 4: because he snaps out of it within a game or
Speaker 4: two most times.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: Obviously, game two back last year was Detroit. Game two
Speaker 4: after the start of the season was Baltimore, so you
Speaker 4: kind of get the sense there that it does click
Speaker 4: after a short amount of time, but how do we
Speaker 4: get that up even quicker and not have those two
Speaker 4: three or four quarters. That's kind of slow start to
Speaker 4: that way. But anyway, I was really enjoying the red
Speaker 4: zone portion, both on air and at seven on seven
Speaker 4: also in team period. It seems very intentional They worked
Speaker 4: on red zone after that was the big failure on Friday,
Speaker 4: and coach talked about, you know, using the results of
Speaker 4: the game to you know, teach teach moments or teaching
Speaker 4: moments within those moments, and I thought it was very crisp.
Speaker 2: I thought the route concepts were awesome.
Speaker 4: Not going to talk about that, but man, I really
Speaker 4: thought that it was just sharp in that portion of practice.
Speaker 4: And one thing I noticed more than a season ago
Speaker 4: is the times that Tua has to tuck the ball
Speaker 4: and live to fight another day and extend or just
Speaker 4: straight up eat the rock and move on to the
Speaker 4: next play. And that's really where my notes start today,
Speaker 4: because between you know, more eyes in the quarterback from
Speaker 4: the defense and those zone looks and you know, kind
Speaker 4: of just reading what the offense wants to do and
Speaker 4: reacting a post to playing straight up man coverage and
Speaker 4: between what I think is a much upgraded roster both
Speaker 4: in the front and back, which obviously helps coverage, you know,
Speaker 4: rush and coverage. You know, last year, there were a
Speaker 4: lot of explosives in practice, Like every day there was
Speaker 4: these one on one situations where someone had to cover
Speaker 4: Tyreek or Jalen or even Azukama or Sherfield or whoever
Speaker 4: it was. And Tua was attacking those vertical shots and
Speaker 4: cashing in on them repeatedly, which is good for the offense,
Speaker 4: but I think it's had a lot more about the
Speaker 4: defense last year. Right, We know the offense can do that,
Speaker 4: but the defense couldn't really stop it most of the year.
Speaker 4: But I really noticed today with that vantage point of
Speaker 4: behind the defense, how coordinated it is and really seems
Speaker 4: to be coming together and getting better as we go along.
Speaker 4: In camp, the entire red zone period was great work
Speaker 4: for the offense because it was either dead plays like
Speaker 4: the ones I mentioned, or it was touchdowns. There was
Speaker 4: like no in between, no like you know, I guess
Speaker 4: balls that were dropped or you know, balls that were
Speaker 4: blown coverages. It was either tightly contested or a touchdown.
Speaker 4: And the touchdowns were tightly contested as well. You probably
Speaker 4: saw the Tyreek Hill and Cedric Wilson touchdowns on Twitter
Speaker 4: from a team account already.
Speaker 2: That's what it was all day.
Speaker 4: Those very tight coverage, tight window throws it to a
Speaker 4: put on the money, and that's how they had to
Speaker 4: get it. They got one to Choseen working on a
Speaker 4: second move against tight coverage to a jam, went into
Speaker 4: River craycraft on like a double INDs like double slant
Speaker 4: from the backside where he was the secondary man, secondary window,
Speaker 4: and he jammed that thing in there between two defenders.
Speaker 4: Two was finding the backs and tight ends for tons
Speaker 4: of work there. I had Jeff Wilson, Savon Auchman and
Speaker 4: Devon a chain, all with touchdown catches again off the
Speaker 4: hand of two, but only to it today. A Chang's
Speaker 4: was another fun reminder of just how fast he is
Speaker 4: and how much faster he is than everybody.
Speaker 2: Else on the football field.
Speaker 4: And obviously he's going to you know, beat any defensive
Speaker 4: lineman slash edge. But he made Jalen Phillips look like slow.
Speaker 4: And I don't want to say slow, because he's not slow,
Speaker 4: we know that. But when he's chasing Devon a change
Speaker 4: there's a big difference there. He got he caught one
Speaker 4: out in the flat and just raced around the edge
Speaker 4: of the pylon for six right around fifteen, again no pad,
Speaker 4: so I was sticking mostly the routes and coverage and
Speaker 4: quarterback play today looks to me like Tyreek is in
Speaker 4: mid season form. I know some folks were like, for
Speaker 4: some reason worried about that a couple weeks ago. But
Speaker 4: he is open all the time. He's playing a lot,
Speaker 4: catching a lot of passes. And that extended into a
Speaker 4: situational period where two it had a bunch of completions
Speaker 4: to set them up in field goal range at the
Speaker 4: end of the game. In half they would reset it
Speaker 4: and bring it back to the starting point every time,
Speaker 4: and he got them into field goal range three consecutive times.
Speaker 4: Tyreek Wilson and Craykraft against that off coverage defense kind
Speaker 4: of protecting against the hell mary protecting against you know,
Speaker 4: field goal range, whatever you might call it. Probably my
Speaker 4: favorite part was the creativity in this practice of the
Speaker 4: screen game and the yard they got from that. Very
Speaker 4: impressive work in that area. Also, I think it was
Speaker 4: another day we talked about from early in camp where
Speaker 4: they were kind of working on the perimeter stuff to
Speaker 4: kind of react to how the Chargers played them a
Speaker 4: year ago, and you know, funnel things away from the
Speaker 4: inside part of the field and get the ball to
Speaker 4: the vacant seeds where the teams want to clamp with
Speaker 4: that inside leverage. I thought there was some good execution
Speaker 4: in that regard, but then the tide completely flipped. Twa
Speaker 4: missed a few throws that you just don't see him
Speaker 4: miss very often, and again the defense made their plays
Speaker 4: and they had a chance to make them as well.
Speaker 2: Like Noah Igbinoghni's pick was.
Speaker 4: A ball to the perimeter that was on the back
Speaker 4: shoulder and Igbo Drove made a great play, but it
Speaker 4: was mislocated. You know, easy pick six there, not easy
Speaker 4: pick six, but it was the quarterback made it a possibility.
Speaker 4: I wanted to shoehorn the throw to Julian Hill down
Speaker 4: the scene that I saw in here real quick, because
Speaker 4: Tua had an absolute seed with really good anticipation where
Speaker 4: he moved the safety out to the corner to follow
Speaker 4: a corner route and then pumped it right back into
Speaker 4: the seam down the middle to Hill for a what
Speaker 4: would have been like a fifty yard touchdown if he
Speaker 4: broke one tackle at very at least thirty yards all
Speaker 4: in the air catch down the middle of the football field.
Speaker 2: Then a couple more.
Speaker 4: Iont the picked by Javon Hall and was really good
Speaker 4: anticipation by the snowman had a great angle behind it
Speaker 4: as he tried to layer a deep over route to
Speaker 4: Tyreek coming across the field, but halland broke on it
Speaker 4: before the balls even in the air and cut it
Speaker 4: off for the pick. And the third one was a
Speaker 4: ball that looked like there was some confusion with Cedric
Speaker 4: Wilson and Savon Achmed in what looked like a like
Speaker 4: seven you know, seven flat corner route flat route to
Speaker 4: the pylon, and they were both in the same area
Speaker 4: and it got deflected off Wilson's hand reaching back behind
Speaker 4: him right to Deshaun Elliott.
Speaker 2: So I think there was some miscommunication there.
Speaker 4: Truthfully, low that the play that I thought looked like
Speaker 4: the least like to was this off platform thrower. He
Speaker 4: just flat out missed the receiver. Those four throws will
Speaker 4: Shroud was otherwise a pretty crisp practice, but also, you know,
Speaker 4: four misses when three of them are picked, that's something
Speaker 4: to gloss over. But it's also like, hey, the defense
Speaker 4: looked pretty good as well. So it's always difficult in
Speaker 4: training camp. But I thought the two had a down day,
Speaker 4: but you're going to read about how bad it was, Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: those four players were bad, but there was a lot
Speaker 4: of good players in there as well. I think this
Speaker 4: defense might be pretty good.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: We'll find out come regular season. That's my takeaway from
Speaker 4: the last week plus is that we you know, we
Speaker 4: haven't seen anybody Dolphins or Falcons do much on this
Speaker 4: defense really since that scrimmage, and so it's been impressive
Speaker 4: to watch them some quick hitters. To finish up here,
Speaker 4: Channing Tendall had a really nice pass breakup where he
Speaker 4: maintained depth on a play and got his hand in
Speaker 4: the passing lane. We asked him after practice, how's this
Speaker 4: game slowing down for you now? And you're number two?
Speaker 4: Here's the Miami linebacker.
Speaker 8: Well, just from last year, we have a new defensive coordinator,
Speaker 8: so it's just kind of like it's completely different this year.
Speaker 8: But one thing I did take from the game is
Speaker 8: just like I'm getting a better I feel like I'm
Speaker 8: getting a full understanding of what exactly I'm supposed to
Speaker 8: do like on the field from a playbook standpoint. And
Speaker 8: then just a little anticipation is there as well, I
Speaker 8: just need to work more. There's a little bit of anticipation,
Speaker 8: but I know it can be faster. So those two
Speaker 8: things I took from the game.
Speaker 2: I like his game, man like the way he talks
Speaker 2: about his game too.
Speaker 4: And then Eric Azoo comment had another fantastic practice, caught
Speaker 4: a ton of balls and has just a little more
Speaker 4: burstless year out of his breaks. He talks about how
Speaker 4: he feels faster in that way. But I also wanted
Speaker 4: to ask him, how do you kind of look at
Speaker 4: the way this offense can create space with Wattle and
Speaker 4: Hill and do you get pretty excited thinking about the
Speaker 4: opportunities you might have in the offense?
Speaker 5: Definitely, I'm really excited to get on the field with
Speaker 5: Tyre and Jalen, knowing that most defenses are gonna try
Speaker 5: to stop them and probably not worried about me too much,
Speaker 5: and kind of just being under the radar, being underdog
Speaker 5: kind of gives me a little boost of confidence. Knowing
Speaker 5: that you know what my numbers called. I'll be able
Speaker 5: to showcase my ability, probably just one on one you know,
Speaker 5: knowing that I have to be one person with them
Speaker 5: trying the double team Tiger.
Speaker 4: Jalen, let's go ahead and close it out right here.
Speaker 4: Jalen Phillips was an absolute menace. He was in there
Speaker 4: frequently and beating around that right edge, which when they
Speaker 4: had Austin Jackson not in the lineup, it was a
Speaker 4: long day for that offensive line for the Stars in general,
Speaker 4: but Phillips in general really got everybody, but mostly the
Speaker 4: number twos and threes were pretty easy pickings. And then
Speaker 4: ray Kwon Davis was also back there a lot. He's
Speaker 4: had a very nice camp so far. That's all I
Speaker 4: got for you guys today. I know the practice notes
Speaker 4: were short, but lots of breakdowns on the game I
Speaker 4: thought I thought were good, and you guys can tell
Speaker 4: me if your thought so or not. I thought they were.
Speaker 4: That's all I got today. Let's go ahead and get
Speaker 4: out of here. Another show tomorrow covering practice on Monday.
Speaker 4: Then it's wheels up to Houston. So here's the programming
Speaker 4: for the week show Monday, No show on Tuesday, it's
Speaker 4: travel Day, joint practice coverage from Houston Wednesday and Thursday,
Speaker 4: and then Steve Goldstein will joined me for the Friday show,
Speaker 4: and then I believe the game recap pod'll be out
Speaker 4: early Saturday.
Speaker 2: No check that Sunday morning.
Speaker 4: After the Saturday four o'clock kickoff here local time three
Speaker 4: o'clock out in Houston. There's always the training camp notebooks
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