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Speaker 2: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
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Speaker 1: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 1: no practice, So we're gonna go back over the game
Speaker 1: film and cover some things we've missed. I want to
Speaker 1: really hone in on some detail, including the way coach
Speaker 1: Weaver has drawn up some really fun stuff in two
Speaker 1: preseason games of action, as well as the offense and
Speaker 1: the motion the pre snap shifting. Plus I watched a
Speaker 1: decent amount of football from this weekend. Some thoughts from
Speaker 1: around the league, and we'll hear from coach Kaleis Campbell,
Speaker 1: Jordan Poyer, Austin Jackson, and Durham Smyth from the Baptist
Speaker 1: Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This it
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. We kick off the pod
Speaker 1: with some updates in terms of news and injuries, well
Speaker 1: really just the injuries that are the news. But we
Speaker 1: heard that River Craycraft will miss some time into the
Speaker 1: regular season, not a season ending injury, but he did
Speaker 1: endure an upper body injury as you guys saw him
Speaker 1: leave the game on Saturday night. He will not be
Speaker 1: back anytime soon, at least in the coming weeks. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he'll be out for a while. Braylen Sanders
Speaker 1: is week to week with a lower body injury per coach,
Speaker 1: and Chris Brooks dodged the long term injury in terms of,
Speaker 1: you know, ligament or something that was more serious, but
Speaker 1: obviously concussion protocols where he lands. Not that that's any less serious,
Speaker 1: but you can return from that quicker than you can
Speaker 1: a broken bone or a ligament tear or something like that.
Speaker 1: So I guess in that regards some good news there
Speaker 1: for Chris Brooks. Cam Smith will miss some time as well.
Speaker 1: No timeline there. Coach praised the way he maximized his
Speaker 1: opportunity he got in last week, plus hopefully that com
Speaker 1: friends can kind of carry him through. Coach did say
Speaker 1: it was a different spot for the injury with the
Speaker 1: rap that we saw after the game being on the hamstring,
Speaker 1: but a different portion of the hamstring. It sounds like
Speaker 1: for cam Smith. Jordan Poyer is out of his cast
Speaker 1: that he was once in he told us that he
Speaker 1: fractured the bottom part of his thumb on the fifth
Speaker 1: or sixth day of practice and said he is good
Speaker 1: to go. And Odell Beckham Junior's presence, or I guess
Speaker 1: lack thereof, has been this kind of mysterious thing. And
Speaker 1: I think that Coach's answer here with regards to when
Speaker 1: they should expect to see him is telling about the timeline,
Speaker 1: or rather how they view his importance to the team
Speaker 1: as not being right away, but maybe down the stretch.
Speaker 1: I've said too much already. Let's go ahead and just
Speaker 1: let coach tell you what he sees it. As far
Speaker 1: as Odell Beckham's status.
Speaker 3: One thing I've note that I've learned about Odell is
Speaker 3: he is putting his best foot forward. I've been he's
Speaker 3: had some guys on this team that he has been
Speaker 3: teammates with on previous teams, whether in college or in
Speaker 3: the pros, and the way he's committed, they've they've really
Speaker 3: reassured me on how this is the best version of
Speaker 3: a rehab and meeting meeting room version of Odell, like
Speaker 3: he's really going after it. But I promise you he
Speaker 3: didn't he didn't sign up for that, so I know
Speaker 3: there will be progression. There will be progression. There's been
Speaker 3: progression every week, but you know, I just I just
Speaker 3: know what he signed up for. What what we signed
Speaker 3: up with him is for a development within within the
Speaker 3: offense during the course of the season to be at
Speaker 3: our best and have be at our best, and our
Speaker 3: best is required. So I'm I'm not rushing the process.
Speaker 3: I'm not worried about it because I know the intent
Speaker 3: is right on both sides, and the intention is to
Speaker 3: not have something holding him back once he gets on
Speaker 3: the field.
Speaker 1: All right, I want to go over some additional notes
Speaker 1: that did not cover in the Sunday Am or if
Speaker 1: you were still awake on Saturday night late night podcast
Speaker 1: recap show. So, for instance, I am not going to
Speaker 1: break down the Tua to crey Craft touchdown because we
Speaker 1: already did that in depth on the previous show. So
Speaker 1: if you don't hear something obvious and you didn't hear
Speaker 1: the recap show, I can't imagine how many fans skip
Speaker 1: in the game recap and coming to this one. But
Speaker 1: if you did do that, just know you can find
Speaker 1: it on the previous podcast. So as I'll do on
Speaker 1: Tuesdays throughout the course of the season. I will watch
Speaker 1: the tape, I will send tweets, I will talk about
Speaker 1: it on the podcast, and you'll get more analysis here
Speaker 1: on the podcast than you will on Twitter. Just an
Speaker 1: FYI for everybody out there. I see lots of comments
Speaker 1: about what I will and won't say. Come to the podcast.
Speaker 1: You'll get the most in depth, comprehensive, honest opinions on
Speaker 1: this team on this podcast as you will anywhere else.
Speaker 1: I'll give Kyle his foule out flowers. He's very good
Speaker 1: at this too, but you know og right here, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Speaking of the offense here, I always like
Speaker 1: to watch the broadcast and the tape, and that's what
Speaker 1: we have here. Yes, even for a preseason game. I
Speaker 1: will be the psychopath that does that. Like Kyle likes
Speaker 1: to do full on film grades, which I commend him
Speaker 1: for that, I'm not going to do that for the preseason.
Speaker 1: And the reason that I watch both of these broadcast
Speaker 1: and tape copies is that maybe some of you fans
Speaker 1: are out of town and saw the game on the
Speaker 1: Commander's broadcast crew and didn't get it here. The sweet
Speaker 1: musings of Kim Bokamper in the booth, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to share what Goldie Steve Goldstein said on the broadcast,
Speaker 1: mentioning that they asked to and Tyreek in their pre
Speaker 1: production meeting which player has kind of caught their eye
Speaker 1: the most is maybe a bit of a surprising up
Speaker 1: and comer, and they said, without hesitation, Malik Washington from
Speaker 1: both of those guys, and you might as well put
Speaker 1: it in here. I think that Malik has been the
Speaker 1: best return man all camp in preseason. I love what
Speaker 1: he's on as a blocker in the running game, and
Speaker 1: that showed up in the game on Saturday as well well.
Speaker 1: And think that you know, as as we've seen for
Speaker 1: two years in a row, I think that'll get you reps,
Speaker 1: particularly in the red zone where they love to give
Speaker 1: Hill and Wattle their blow after they give us a
Speaker 1: thirty five yard catch and run that puts us at
Speaker 1: the eighteen yard line. And man if I don't have
Speaker 1: those two on the field, and I still want a
Speaker 1: two receiver package down at you know, first and ten
Speaker 1: from the plus seventeen yard line in the high red zone,
Speaker 1: that will allow me to get two quality blockers on
Speaker 1: the edge and be where they're supposed to be and
Speaker 1: be sure handed. I think those two receivers are River
Speaker 1: Craycraft and Molik Washington. Now when does Craycraft become available?
Speaker 1: We'll find out more about that. I think it certainly
Speaker 1: shakes up how this receiving group is going to be,
Speaker 1: how it's going to look going into week one, And
Speaker 1: I will do a roster prediction for you guys next
Speaker 1: week on the show. But that shook it up for me.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's obviously Reek, Wattle and OBJ if OBJ
Speaker 1: doesn't go into the year on PUP. I think Craig
Speaker 1: Craft was comfortably the next guy. I think that Malik
Speaker 1: Washington was one of the comfortable on the rough guys,
Speaker 1: and I said for a long time now that I
Speaker 1: think that his emergence kind of makes Brax and Burrios
Speaker 1: relatively redundant on the roster. And the flashes we saw
Speaker 1: from Eric Azukama has really changed my perception of the
Speaker 1: receiver's room. We'll talk more about that today and later on.
Speaker 1: I do think that we have two running backs that
Speaker 1: are better suited as I changed topics here totally for
Speaker 1: power and downhill runs to kind of go off the
Speaker 1: idea of running the ball in the red zone because
Speaker 1: we failed to get push on those short yardge runs right,
Speaker 1: and I think that we have two running backs that
Speaker 1: weren't dressed. They're better suited for that role, and we
Speaker 1: didn't block it well. I don't think we ran it
Speaker 1: well either, And that's not a knock on Raheem Moster's physicality.
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the most physical backs in
Speaker 1: the entire league, but he's just more of a get
Speaker 1: on your track and get ahead of steam guy, whereas
Speaker 1: I think hefe Jeff Wilson and then definitely Jalen Wright,
Speaker 1: who I think has a big future here with this team,
Speaker 1: are both a little bit better at finding creases quickly
Speaker 1: and then finding that yard and where they can burrow
Speaker 1: in for that, you know, the one yard that you
Speaker 1: need on third and one or fourth and one, especially
Speaker 1: in a poorly blocked play, which we got a few
Speaker 1: of those in the game on Saturday night. More on
Speaker 1: that in a minute. I wanted to also mention the
Speaker 1: different motions that you see out there, and I actually
Speaker 1: had a chance to talk to Klays Campbell about this
Speaker 1: behind the scenes, about how tough this is and we're
Speaker 1: gonna run some audio from him that he talked about
Speaker 1: in a public setting, but he gave me a bit
Speaker 1: further to break down privately about how much this offense
Speaker 1: messes with your eyes, even these slight little shifts and emotions, like,
Speaker 1: for instance, the second snap of the game, John new
Speaker 1: Smith goes in motion at the snap and he's behind
Speaker 1: the left tackle or where he's behind the left tackle
Speaker 1: and allows him to hide from the the Will linebacker
Speaker 1: and he gets him outflanked at the snap and it
Speaker 1: turns into a layup for Tua on that little speed
Speaker 1: out that he threw him because he kind of ducks
Speaker 1: him behind Kendall Lamb and the Will linebacker doesn't react
Speaker 1: to him there because he's not cleared the lion of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: and I think the earlier snap kind of made him think, like,
Speaker 1: I've got time to get out there. No, you don't,
Speaker 1: because the snap is coming right now, and it creates
Speaker 1: this layup throw for Tua, which we know he doesn't
Speaker 1: miss those. So you're building in five and six yard plays,
Speaker 1: which whether it's first and ten to get you the
Speaker 1: drive started, or if it's second and ten to put
Speaker 1: you into third and manageable sort of valuable, valuable reps
Speaker 1: that you have to hit, and the Dolphins typically do
Speaker 1: and they can find ways to create those to put
Speaker 1: themselves in advantageous situations. On the very next snap of
Speaker 1: the game, another very subtle motion that had a big
Speaker 1: impact where Julian Hill's in his balanced why alignment? What
Speaker 1: does that mean? Why? Tight ends are guys that are
Speaker 1: attached next to the tackle. When you're balanced, they're on
Speaker 1: either side of the formation. When they're unbalanced, they're on
Speaker 1: the same side of the formation. Got it. So Julian
Speaker 1: Hill is off the left tackle as the why and
Speaker 1: he runs this short motion where it's like a chop
Speaker 1: step in that once again puts him in behind the tackle.
Speaker 1: And what does it do but create a better leverage
Speaker 1: for him off the force defender and Julian gets out
Speaker 1: there and completely erases him out of the play. It's
Speaker 1: so much to deal with as far as a defensive
Speaker 1: respective because it changes your rules in a short amount
Speaker 1: of time and you have to react on the fly.
Speaker 1: It's why these not good defenders that we see, you know,
Speaker 1: these these bad defenses that have young defenders who have
Speaker 1: bad eyes and bad discipline and bad reaction skills. That's
Speaker 1: why they get forty hung on them because it is
Speaker 1: too much for those guys to deal with. Just a
Speaker 1: few plays after that, John u Smith gets the carrier.
Speaker 1: I guess a pop pass, so it's a reception, but
Speaker 1: John who goes in motion before the snap, goes off.
Speaker 1: But they also bring Durham Smyth right behind him at
Speaker 1: the snap, so it looks like double split flow, which
Speaker 1: is actually kind of it's a counter tray look where
Speaker 1: you pull a couple of guys from the backside. But
Speaker 1: Durham's block doesn't do anything because he's behind the play.
Speaker 1: He can't lead block for John new Smith when he's
Speaker 1: behind him, so it creates this illusion of we want
Speaker 1: to maybe throw the ball in the flat, but there's
Speaker 1: also other guys to throw too, so I have to,
Speaker 1: you know, be responsible for my coverage area because Tua
Speaker 1: still has the ball. At least that's what these defenders
Speaker 1: are thinking as Durham Smyth flows into this pass protection position,
Speaker 1: which doesn't do anything because you don't have to pass
Speaker 1: protect for Tuoa because he didn't have the ball anymore.
Speaker 1: The ball's already outside that outside contained defender. It just
Speaker 1: gets more eyes caught inside and this illusion of a
Speaker 1: play action bootleg where he would need the blindside protector
Speaker 1: was valuable on that play because it caused hesitation with
Speaker 1: every single eyeball being stuck on the conflict of the
Speaker 1: mesh point between the quarterback and the running back and
Speaker 1: the ball's already out the backside gate. Like that's that's
Speaker 1: tough to deal with. And you would see it sequenced
Speaker 1: later on, and we saw action deviation on the Julian
Speaker 1: catch as well, where they bring Durham across the formation
Speaker 1: to sell that exact same split flow on play action,
Speaker 1: and Julian this time sells that blindside protector route then
Speaker 1: releases into the route. Gosh, Julian looks like a baller.
Speaker 1: I've been tweeting about it. I'm gonna talk about it
Speaker 1: a lot. Here he is to me, it's a there's
Speaker 1: a clear tight end one and two in this team,
Speaker 1: and it is john Us Smith and Julian Hill. And
Speaker 1: this kind of continued throughout the course of the night.
Speaker 1: Not gonna go over each motion, but it has me
Speaker 1: so excited to see what we can get come the
Speaker 1: regular season, especially with this tight end room that has
Speaker 1: three guys that I think really understand these fine details,
Speaker 1: these fine you know what one step inside can do
Speaker 1: from a leverage standpoint and an angle standpoint, and you
Speaker 1: know two of them are basically running backs and tight
Speaker 1: end bodies, which I think is massive for how this
Speaker 1: offense creates space and can give you checkdowns to guys
Speaker 1: that can actually make haste with it after the catch
Speaker 1: and not just get what's there. You know, this offense
Speaker 1: is all about playmakers that you know, we will get
Speaker 1: you to a certain point, but we want you to
Speaker 1: go make the play affter that and give us more yards.
Speaker 1: I think they finally have that the tight end position,
Speaker 1: where in the past they haven't had that. And the
Speaker 1: third guy, to me, Durham Smyth is probably the best
Speaker 1: in terms of all those details and the position flexibility.
Speaker 1: It's the deepest, best group of tight ends McDaniel has
Speaker 1: had since they got here. I think it allows the
Speaker 1: offense to evolve. And yet another way, I think it
Speaker 1: tracks with the famous quote that I use all the
Speaker 1: time here on the podcast, going back to the Christmas
Speaker 1: game against the Cowboys last year, when Great Goalson said, coach,
Speaker 1: love your offense, but where's the tight end? It's coming
Speaker 1: next year? Greg You're damn right it is. And we
Speaker 1: had the question that Kyle had asked coach back in
Speaker 1: training camp earlier when he was asked about the versatility
Speaker 1: and kind of the melting pot of skill sets in
Speaker 1: this tight end group, and Coach said, you can track
Speaker 1: your offensive versatility back to the tight end position. Like
Speaker 1: I think when you this is going to be a
Speaker 1: theme today and every podcast really going forward. I think
Speaker 1: if you go back and look at how they attacked
Speaker 1: the offseason, they told you what they thought the issues were,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't on the interior offensive line. And we'll
Speaker 1: get to this about how they can negate that, but
Speaker 1: the tight ends and how much more flexibility and how
Speaker 1: their positions and their ability to hurt you with the
Speaker 1: football on their hands, their ability to be lead blockers
Speaker 1: and go across the formation and the split flow and
Speaker 1: you know, be vertical threats and be hookup threats. All
Speaker 1: these things these tight ends can now do makes the
Speaker 1: stress of your offensive line and an offense that game
Speaker 1: plans their way around pass rushers. It makes it even
Speaker 1: more like itself. It exemplifies what this offense wants to be.
Speaker 1: Let's run two soundbites here, first from Durham Smith on
Speaker 1: how Julian Hill has gotten better.
Speaker 4: I think at all facets. He's a guy that I
Speaker 4: think I said a couple of weeks ago, it really
Speaker 4: sticks out how much this means to him and how
Speaker 4: this is priority one, far and away for him. Then
Speaker 4: he came in with you know, talents, his strong, kid, fast, whatever,
Speaker 4: physical but he's gotten so much better at really everything
Speaker 4: along this last year, whether it's you know, catching the football,
Speaker 4: timing in terms of the run game, things that kind
Speaker 4: of come with experience, and he got a good amount
Speaker 4: of that last year. And he's he's really improved in
Speaker 4: all facets, like I said, and I'm really excited to see,
Speaker 4: you know, what his ceiling is because I don't think
Speaker 4: we've seen it yet.
Speaker 1: And then Kalais Campbell gave us the defenses perspective on
Speaker 1: all the motions and how tough it is to get
Speaker 1: ready to face this Dolphins offense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's one of the toughest things you can do
Speaker 5: because you know, you usually want to look for pre
Speaker 5: step information, especially a guy like myself who has the
Speaker 5: experience to take advantage of information you know like this.
Speaker 5: You know, they don't really allow you to do that
Speaker 5: because they're doing so many things that you kind of
Speaker 5: kind of got to just, you know, just play your
Speaker 5: technique and you know, just reach your key and just
Speaker 5: kind of go forward. You know, you really can't see
Speaker 5: and get advantages that way, so kind of limits you
Speaker 5: to going back and just playing like kind of just
Speaker 5: regular day one ball. And for someone like me, that
Speaker 5: hurts because it's, like, yo, that's the best part my
Speaker 5: game has been able to see things before happens.
Speaker 1: Let's get more into the individual players here and talk
Speaker 1: about the quarterbacks to jump to kickstart things here, jump
Speaker 1: start whatever you want to say. So the footwork on
Speaker 1: the flat the two A had to Julian Hill and
Speaker 1: there was one drive, so you guys probably know what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Where he's able to kind of sense
Speaker 1: that closing rusher and put himself in position to both
Speaker 1: protect himself to make the throw and to do it quickly.
Speaker 1: It just looked different to me than what we've seen
Speaker 1: from him rolling right in the past. And you know,
Speaker 1: maybe not to me because I've seen it every day
Speaker 1: in practice and I tweet about it, and you know,
Speaker 1: I get the occasional credibility tweet back to me, but
Speaker 1: I love what my track record does in terms of
Speaker 1: calling these things out in camp and then you guys
Speaker 1: get you to see it in the preseason. Another example
Speaker 1: of that, I mention it just about every day on
Speaker 1: the show that he's making those types of plays on
Speaker 1: the rig. It's different. It's faster, it's quicker, it's more athletic.
Speaker 1: It's just everything is a beat faster for the fastest
Speaker 1: beating quarterback in the NFL. And like that's that in
Speaker 1: and of itself, is a massive evolution in this offense.
Speaker 1: And this is sort of a dead horse. But the
Speaker 1: ball handling, man, if you ever got to practice, which
Speaker 1: is now going to be a next training camp because
Speaker 1: it's over, just watch how much they drill ball handling
Speaker 1: for the quarterbacks and individuals. And if you ever wonder
Speaker 1: why it's so important, I believe it was John Gruden,
Speaker 1: Eat your heart out, John Gruden, who has a whole
Speaker 1: quarterback school series on YouTube, or maybe it was even
Speaker 1: one of his shows that he did for ESPN where
Speaker 1: he talks about this, and you can see the way
Speaker 1: the entire defense follows the fakes that he carries out.
Speaker 1: All five of the snaps were to a register to
Speaker 1: pass the defensive line was negated on all of them
Speaker 1: and never had a chance do in large part to
Speaker 1: those motions, to the keys being throwing your eyes off,
Speaker 1: to what Max Crosby said to coach McDaniel last year, saying,
Speaker 1: you're the toughest offense I had to prepare for my
Speaker 1: entire life. If pass rushers are telling you this like weird,
Speaker 1: isn't it. It's almost like that's how the offense is
Speaker 1: designed and why you don't spend a significant portion of
Speaker 1: your cap space on positions on the inside that get
Speaker 1: negated on like seventy five percent of your pass reps.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying, let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: hear from a guy that has seen this offense from
Speaker 1: the other side and now is here in training camp
Speaker 1: watching it from the same side, Jordan Poyer, what do
Speaker 1: you think about this offense?
Speaker 6: I'd say like this, I'm glad I'm on this side
Speaker 6: because game planning against that offense is already hard seeing
Speaker 6: a few new wrinkles, few things that they've done in
Speaker 6: from OTA's in training camp obviously, with the players that
Speaker 6: they have. I'm glad I'm on the side and I
Speaker 6: got a game plan from no more so. It's a
Speaker 6: fun offense to watch. It's a really tough offense to
Speaker 6: go against. But their speed and their timing, the way
Speaker 6: they work, they're making us better and we're trying to
Speaker 6: do the same and make them better.
Speaker 1: Now, I must concede this because I'm not going to
Speaker 1: just sit here and tell you, guys, the offensive line
Speaker 1: are great and it's going to be fine. I do
Speaker 1: think it's going to be fine because that's how it's built.
Speaker 1: It's designed this way. It's not a gimmick or a
Speaker 1: faction of the offense. It's the pillar of the offense
Speaker 1: and how it's how they philosophically believe this thing runs.
Speaker 1: But I must concede that, Yeah, that makeup gives you
Speaker 1: deficiencies in a certain area. And where I think that
Speaker 1: gives you a deficiency is in the short yardage game.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure there's a solve there. You know. Again,
Speaker 1: I think there's better running backs for those and Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright and Jeff Wilson, maybe even alec Ingold. I like
Speaker 1: it out of the pistol better than like it out
Speaker 1: of under center. And then also in your true drop
Speaker 1: back game, if it's third and long, which in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two they were the best third long offense in
Speaker 1: the NFL. So you know, eat your heart out once again.
Speaker 1: But I do think that that aspect of it is
Speaker 1: fixable by the passing options that we added and having
Speaker 1: reak and waddle at full go and spread the ball
Speaker 1: around those guys. I think that's where the big change
Speaker 1: can occur. Let's go ahead and bookmark this. Take a
Speaker 1: break right there, come back on the other side, finch
Speaker 1: up the quarterbacks. I have some thoughts on the other quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and we'll do the entire team here in the film,
Speaker 1: and some other thoughts around the NFL, with some more soundbites.
Speaker 1: All of that. Next Drift Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by it Aunt Nation. Picking it back
Speaker 1: up here segment two on this Monday edition of the
Speaker 1: Draft Time Podcast. No practice to day or back on
Speaker 1: the grass tomorrow, and then in Tampa on Wednesday, and
Speaker 1: then the game on Friday, and then we're pretty much
Speaker 1: getting down to cut down day. We're gonna have some
Speaker 1: new scheduling. Here's the routine gets broken late in the
Speaker 1: training camp on the podcast, but I'll keep you guys
Speaker 1: up to date on that as we get there, Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and pick it back up here with some
Speaker 1: more of these thoughts about this tape and what we've
Speaker 1: learned from this team throughout training camp and in these games.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about Skylar Thompson here in
Speaker 1: just one second, but just to kind of put a
Speaker 1: bow on that previous point, like I'm hearing Kalays Campbell
Speaker 1: tell me about how tough it is to deal with
Speaker 1: the interior of the Dolphins offense because he can't get
Speaker 1: his keys and has to strip it down to being
Speaker 1: a day one college player where he has no knowledge
Speaker 1: of anything football, just like technique, key go, and that's
Speaker 1: all you can do because if you don't do that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get picked off in this offense. About Jordan
Speaker 1: Poyer and how tough it is to game plan for
Speaker 1: this offense, I don't hear anybody, and I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say that's in a press conference, but there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of well, our guard play is not good enough.
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you it's designed that way. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fine. You're gonna find out. That's that's my whole spiel.
Speaker 1: Let's get off of it. I feel like I've been
Speaker 1: beating this dead horse for weeks now, but it is prevalent,
Speaker 1: and maybe arguing to you guys is the wrong way
Speaker 1: to do it because the fans on this podcast, I
Speaker 1: don't think of the ones largely coming after me on
Speaker 1: social when I have these tweets. But maybe I'm having
Speaker 1: my argument in the wrong place here. I'm just not
Speaker 1: gonna do it on social because you know what's the point.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and talk about scholar Thompson. Ah Gee, Rick,
Speaker 1: first snap and they get wide open shot play with
Speaker 1: a max Pro and the quarterback has five plus seconds.
Speaker 1: Weird how that happens Right now, I'm just kidding, not
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing that. And look, I was encouraged and
Speaker 1: this is why I say that Tua I You know,
Speaker 1: I speak so highly of Tua and this offense, and
Speaker 1: that's because it's designed in a way that he maximizes
Speaker 1: and you see that drop off the other quarterbacks when
Speaker 1: they get out there. Because I was encouraged this training
Speaker 1: camp by what Skuylaer did in a few practices. But
Speaker 1: I think I got to get off this train. Like
Speaker 1: I'm pulling the rip cord. I don't think it'll ever
Speaker 1: happen at the current rate of development. The first play
Speaker 1: deep shot that was just an embodiment of everything that's
Speaker 1: wrong here. Malik Washington's all alone on a crosser on
Speaker 1: a two man route with max pro where he's the
Speaker 1: conflict defender is moving the wrong direction and he's going
Speaker 1: to clear him and get wide open for like twenty
Speaker 1: five and then some run after the catch, but also
Speaker 1: the deep hook in behind that or the deep like
Speaker 1: post I should say, was wide open too, and he
Speaker 1: just horribly threw it in the wrong part of the field.
Speaker 1: Like so the read, the accuracy, just these simple things
Speaker 1: that aren't being executed in year three. And there's one
Speaker 1: player that told me all I needed to see. It
Speaker 1: was the first it was I think it was a
Speaker 1: second quarter going south into the south end zone. So
Speaker 1: it's it's a simple read where the rail is alec ingold.
Speaker 1: I think it was Alec all alone up the sideline,
Speaker 1: and both defenders to that side to the boundary the
Speaker 1: short side of the field are inside the numbers, and
Speaker 1: you have the glance and the rail, which the rail
Speaker 1: is up the sideline a vertical route the sideline and
Speaker 1: the glance is like down the numbers. A little hookup route,
Speaker 1: like a little slant almost in the middle of the field,
Speaker 1: and you just threw the hole shot twice. Both defenders
Speaker 1: are inside those numbers. But instead of throwing to the
Speaker 1: rail that's wide open with two guys kind of getting
Speaker 1: conflicted in the middle part of the field, you throw
Speaker 1: the glance that's both well covered and capped, and the
Speaker 1: rail was the first read off of that. The second
Speaker 1: hole shot to Durham didn't work because he stared that
Speaker 1: thing down and the safety took his eyes. He followed
Speaker 1: Scholar's eyes over to the play and then didn't take
Speaker 1: advantage of the displacement that created on the backside. As
Speaker 1: Malik Washington again was wide open on the backside, dig
Speaker 1: between that and the pockets. He just bails on for
Speaker 1: no reason. I just gotta say, man, ah.
Speaker 7: Don do what you want. Pull the plumb. I'll kill
Speaker 7: you little.
Speaker 1: I think you should leave there. And then you know,
Speaker 1: you see Mike White and he locates, you know, the
Speaker 1: conflict defender and makes a decision off of that and plays,
Speaker 1: you know, ahead of the rate of the play. It's
Speaker 1: just faster. It's more of what you see from a
Speaker 1: successful NFL quarterback. And I'm not saying he's gonna be
Speaker 1: that even in a pinch this year. But to me,
Speaker 1: it is so clear which one is better than the other,
Speaker 1: Like it's so obvious. And you know, I think coach
Speaker 1: will tell you here about how they're trying to cultivate,
Speaker 1: you know, the best version of the backup quarterbacks they
Speaker 1: can get. So here's Coach McDaniel on his comfort level
Speaker 1: to the backup quarterbacks after everything I just told you.
Speaker 3: It's it's quite literally handling difficult situations and saying, hey,
Speaker 3: you have to go do this. Uh, I'm gonna call
Speaker 3: this play, probably against a non premier coverage and uh,
Speaker 3: let's see what you do. I'm gonna you're gonna play
Speaker 3: a quarter with uh, with a receiver playing running back?
Speaker 3: How how do how do you respond? And so from
Speaker 3: from my advantage point, I I kind of I feel
Speaker 3: bad because all that information if I were whether I
Speaker 3: was a fan or I was sitting in your guys' seats,
Speaker 3: you know, it would I'm not sure if it totally
Speaker 3: reflects the entire process and all the information. So the
Speaker 3: the I'm looking for nuances resolve the conviction after a
Speaker 3: bad play happens. How the offenses coming to the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage, how you're leading them all sorts of different
Speaker 3: things on top of what what I've already learned about them,
Speaker 3: you know, So how that's manifested in preseason games, I've
Speaker 3: tried to do the opposite of what I generally do,
Speaker 3: which has put players in advantageous situations, because I think
Speaker 3: that's collectively as the staff, we kind of looked at
Speaker 3: it like we need to try something different to separate
Speaker 3: these guys because their games are are are when they're comfortable,
Speaker 3: their games are are going the same direction we need.
Speaker 3: We need to figure this out, and we see tho
Speaker 3: as our responsibility. So, uh, I've put them in a
Speaker 3: tough a bunch of tough situations, and I will continue
Speaker 3: to do that this week and through the through the
Speaker 3: next preseason game, so we can have all the information possible,
Speaker 3: uh to who who best is suited to be the
Speaker 3: guy behind to.
Speaker 1: All right, go ahead and get to the rest of
Speaker 1: these positions. Here the running back room demon chan Man,
Speaker 1: That's that's all I wrote down. I mean, we are
Speaker 1: getting almost nothing, and then he takes it around the
Speaker 1: edge and just beats everyone to the edge for eight yards.
Speaker 1: Then we screen it to him and he maneuvers his
Speaker 1: way through traffic for another big gain. And then that
Speaker 1: outside release as the one to the field, the furthest
Speaker 1: split out receiver and his ability to make that catch
Speaker 1: and run and accelerate through it. I'm telling you, guys,
Speaker 1: this guy has receiver skills. And you add that to
Speaker 1: an offense. Even if the ball doesn't go there, it's
Speaker 1: gonna tilt the field because oh there's a four to
Speaker 1: two guy that knows how to get a release and
Speaker 1: get vertical up the sideline. If we don't cover that,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the best deep ball throwers in
Speaker 1: the game's gonna hit it. He's gonna find him. And
Speaker 1: I thought last year, you know, chemistry just needs a
Speaker 1: little bit of seasoning and some tweaking, and I think
Speaker 1: they have that now based on what we've seen in
Speaker 1: practice and just Devaughn's overall comfort level in year two.
Speaker 1: You know, Tyreek had an amazing first year. This passing
Speaker 1: offense is awesome in the first year, but if you
Speaker 1: go to the ball location and the deep balls from
Speaker 1: year one to year two to Tyreek, they were different
Speaker 1: and much better in year two. Receivers and tight ends
Speaker 1: you know, I went on and on about John Who
Speaker 1: and Julian earlier. Those guys are so good and they're
Speaker 1: going to change this offense, I think. But it was
Speaker 1: once again Hayden Rouchie that had a two person deleting
Speaker 1: block on the long Cris Brooks run for fifteen on yours.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of what he does. And I just
Speaker 1: also want to reiterate in this position here that Aszukomma
Speaker 1: as a vertical threat, especially when he runs them from
Speaker 1: that slot alignment, and how that pairs with his ability
Speaker 1: to be a runner in the screen game, a blocker
Speaker 1: in the screen game, even a ball carrier on jet sweeps,
Speaker 1: and a guy that gets carries from the backfield on
Speaker 1: tosses like we saw last year, you know, and with
Speaker 1: the Craycraft news and you know, not that he was
Speaker 1: this guy, but to me, it really highlighted some of
Speaker 1: the issues I had last year. There was a rep
Speaker 1: where Braxton and Malik and Britlan Sanders were trips to
Speaker 1: the side of the the field side and no one
Speaker 1: did anything to get open. And then you had Malik
Speaker 1: run a slot take off on a third and two
Speaker 1: where there's just no separation and you're trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: make a very low percentage throw to stay on the field.
Speaker 1: You know, I love Malak, but you just that's not
Speaker 1: his game. And that's why I think you need Eric
Speaker 1: Azukama to become that dude at least while Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: Junior is trying to get back. I need one of
Speaker 1: those guys to be at their best for this offense
Speaker 1: to take that next step as far as having a
Speaker 1: secondary option beyond reecan Waddle at the receiving position. And
Speaker 1: even if I have John Who and Julian and Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright to expend a Chan's role, those are great and
Speaker 1: those are gonna make this offense better. But if I
Speaker 1: can get that other element, I really don't care about
Speaker 1: the the offensive line issues and the short yard issues
Speaker 1: and the true dropbacks because those are just ever gonna happen,
Speaker 1: like they will sometimes. But when you score forty two
Speaker 1: points in a game, you're not gonna be worried about
Speaker 1: the two drives that got killed by you know, an
Speaker 1: inability to convert a third and two or a you know,
Speaker 1: a third and twelve sack that happens. So that's the
Speaker 1: way I see it, And also just real quick on
Speaker 1: the receivers, Like is Willie sneed making business decisions out
Speaker 1: there that allows a missile to come free and hit
Speaker 1: Eric Azokama on that wineback run. Like you see your
Speaker 1: teammates training to the max and to make a play
Speaker 1: and that's what you do. It reminds me of the
Speaker 1: Dan Campbell on Michael Agnew and hard Knocks go plot
Speaker 1: for him freaking Agnew on the offensive line. Before we
Speaker 1: get into that, Austin Jackson talked about his perspective on
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins have evolved this offseason to get better
Speaker 1: as an offense. What have you seen in terms of
Speaker 1: how you want to work on things to get better
Speaker 1: or the point of emphasis you wanted to get better
Speaker 1: at that offseason A one to two punch here from
Speaker 1: Austin Jackson.
Speaker 7: I think the most encouraging thing is that we've been
Speaker 7: able to execute a lot of the things we wanted
Speaker 7: to get better at that we kind of stated in OTAs,
Speaker 7: and you know we address them in OTAs. Some of
Speaker 7: them carried over from last year, some mistakes wanted to
Speaker 7: get better at. I feel like coming into camp so
Speaker 7: far we've done a good job of excelling at the
Speaker 7: things we feel like we need to get better at
Speaker 7: as offense.
Speaker 3: Like like what would be at the top of that list.
Speaker 7: Do you think what a couple of things for offensive line?
Speaker 7: I would say some of those things is like our
Speaker 7: second level blocking, like blocking linebackers, being more consistent in
Speaker 7: our in our identifications because we have a lot of
Speaker 7: motions we're timing offense, we try to disrupt the defense.
Speaker 7: So with that, we need more knowledge of what's going
Speaker 7: on in the back end, you know, as offensive line,
Speaker 7: that's huge, and just some of our not some of
Speaker 7: our fits, but our fits on the defensive linemen after
Speaker 7: the way. So there's like a type of strain and
Speaker 7: a level of blocking in our offense where we have
Speaker 7: to be on angles to be identical with the running back.
Speaker 7: So we just got better at, you know, being on
Speaker 7: those angles longer.
Speaker 1: And the follow up was this question about this concept
Speaker 1: that alec Ingold told me last week about pushing the
Speaker 1: limits what this offense can do. Here is what Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson had to say about that.
Speaker 7: You know, we made adjustments on some of our plays
Speaker 7: that became a little bit i would say predictable, just
Speaker 7: because we had X. We had a lot of Wow
Speaker 7: we're just left. We had a lot of success with
Speaker 7: some plays in the season, and you know c NFL
Speaker 7: so coaches are smart, they adjust, and I feel like
Speaker 7: we did a great job on our end adjusting to
Speaker 7: their adjustments. So, you know, causing the issue, causing more
Speaker 7: adjustments is what we want as offense and as players,
Speaker 7: you know, we have to take in you know, that
Speaker 7: new instruction and execute it. So I think we've done
Speaker 7: a good job at that.
Speaker 1: I thought Kendall Lamb had some really nice work in
Speaker 1: this game. Had a good down block on every heem
Speaker 1: first down run, had a beautiful block on a second
Speaker 1: one conversion. On the opening drive. He took the four
Speaker 1: eye technique who which is the inside shoulder of the
Speaker 1: left tackle and wanted to slant across his face, and
Speaker 1: he just took him down there and buried him, which
Speaker 1: created this lane for Raheem to convert on leam Meichenberg
Speaker 1: was on the ground a lot. Again. I just I
Speaker 1: don't get it. It's constant losses. I talk about that
Speaker 1: line we have to play above, right, we have to
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of guys above this line. I
Speaker 1: think that he's so far removed from that line that
Speaker 1: it's not playable. That's how I see it. It just
Speaker 1: there's no catching and climbing, no second level attachment. He
Speaker 1: whiffs on the first level all the time. I just
Speaker 1: don't see it. And that's as far as I'll go
Speaker 1: on that. I don't think Lester Cotton's striking has gotten
Speaker 1: any better where he can kind of miss, you know.
Speaker 1: Chris Coffin from the three Yards per Carry podcast, also
Speaker 1: another good Dolphins podcast, has this point. He makes about
Speaker 1: batting average on the offensive line and how some guys
Speaker 1: are slugging percentage players, which I love the baseball offerences, Chris,
Speaker 1: but in an offensive line play, you want to have
Speaker 1: a high batting average, and I don't think that Cotton
Speaker 1: does that. I also don't think he slugs that high
Speaker 1: particularly high either. I thought Rob Jones outside of that
Speaker 1: one fourth and one seal had some rough blocks as well.
Speaker 1: So again I'm tracking all this and I'm acknowledging that
Speaker 1: there are some failed blocks. But in the grand scheme
Speaker 1: of things I talked about all those misses, what happened
Speaker 1: on that drive? They score a touchdown. So that's been
Speaker 1: my point since freaking twenty twenty two, when I was
Speaker 1: arguing with Mina Kimes about this on Twitter. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure Jack Driscoll is the best offensive lineman we've seen
Speaker 1: through two games. He's playing very fast out of the blocks.
Speaker 1: He's playing square and low to his man. He reached
Speaker 1: and sealed a three technique and put him on the
Speaker 1: ground in that first eight chan run for eight yards, fast, physical,
Speaker 1: elite technique. That seems to me like that's how he's
Speaker 1: playing in these tapes. I thought Andrew Meyer was very
Speaker 1: good once again until the very end of the game.
Speaker 1: He had some rough couple of drives at the end.
Speaker 1: I thought there was some communication issues across the line
Speaker 1: once Jack Harlow went down and they went to Hines,
Speaker 1: Jones and Meyer, and it was rough from that point forward.
Speaker 1: But I'm liking what I'm seeing here in two tapes
Speaker 1: here because I'm a big processor guy. You guys know that,
Speaker 1: and just watch him on games and delays. He has
Speaker 1: a great feel of where he can help, where he
Speaker 1: can kind of drop step slash like fluid hip movement
Speaker 1: to get that combination of actions to put your self
Speaker 1: in the right position getting depth from the pass rush.
Speaker 1: So like what I saw from him. I thought Patrick
Speaker 1: Paul overset a couple of times and had the worst
Speaker 1: consequences on one of those, a sackophone on your quarterback
Speaker 1: who gets hitt in his blind side. We can't have that.
Speaker 1: But he's still making some blocks in the running game
Speaker 1: and also getting his share of pass pro wins too.
Speaker 1: I want to make that perfectly clear that the run
Speaker 1: game stuff is rare, rare, rare positives where the pass
Speaker 1: protection shaky, but the run game stuff like you can
Speaker 1: see the thinking there, right. I thought Ryan Hayes had
Speaker 1: his best game as a dolphin caught a body on
Speaker 1: the long Chris Brooks run as well. So some up,
Speaker 1: some downs, not great across the line individually, but the
Speaker 1: results are the results, and that's cause a good process.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take our last break right there,
Speaker 1: come back into the defense on the other side and
Speaker 1: talk about this trend I not sing in the college
Speaker 1: level that will have an impact in the NFL level
Speaker 1: here coming up very shortly in this year, probably in
Speaker 1: years to come as well. That's all next Draft Time podcast,
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Speaker 1: the Top by He's the concept of how we see
Speaker 1: a little bit of scheme coming into play from Anthony Weaver.
Speaker 1: Maybe not necessarily all the you know, kitchen sync that
Speaker 1: you might see from him this year, but really just
Speaker 1: with regards to how he wants to coach this defense,
Speaker 1: how he wants to get his stops, how he wants
Speaker 1: to put guys in positions to trust what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: with the other ten guys in the field. I love
Speaker 1: the opening drive, third down play that got him off
Speaker 1: the field, where Daniels kind of just threw away the
Speaker 1: slot fade and you know, basically the same thing that
Speaker 1: Skylar did on that third and two to leak Washington, Like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna throw a five percent completion ball, which if
Speaker 1: you can get that, it's a defense you take it
Speaker 1: every single day. It's like putting a hand in a
Speaker 1: three point shooter's face, who's beyond the three point line.
Speaker 1: I just love how they overloaded the pressure to create
Speaker 1: a free run from Chop and a dB to that side,
Speaker 1: because if Chop has a free run, what's a one
Speaker 1: six ten split time gonna do. It's gonna get to
Speaker 1: the quarterback fast than anybody else on the freaking planet
Speaker 1: can do. And it makes me very excited about the
Speaker 1: possibilities we have when everybody is back with JP and
Speaker 1: Beachub and all these guys that can you know, allow
Speaker 1: Chop to get those situations, can allow Weave to dial
Speaker 1: up player Holland or Cater or Jalen Ramsey, whoever wants
Speaker 1: to come on the blitz. They have so many options. Now,
Speaker 1: we busted a coverage on that long Jeff Driscoll run.
Speaker 1: That's why he was able to gallop through there like that.
Speaker 1: Cam Smith chased a deep over from like ten yards
Speaker 1: behind it and what looked like cover three. So when
Speaker 1: he could have been guarding grass and been there for
Speaker 1: the run, he winds up chasing a player out of
Speaker 1: the play, which I don't understand that. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened there, but it wasn't good on film, and
Speaker 1: he just kind of got stuck there up in the
Speaker 1: front seven. I was underwhelmed by Hand and Harris, but
Speaker 1: nothing too crazy. I still don't see it with Peelee.
Speaker 1: He looks a little bit stronger to me, but the
Speaker 1: lack of mobility to me turns him into an immediate
Speaker 1: stalemate like immediately way too often. That sack was because
Speaker 1: the center tripped over his guard and just got tackled
Speaker 1: right into the quarterback, So I didn't really put a
Speaker 1: lot stock into that. I thought Nellell Gallimore had another
Speaker 1: one of his nights. He had played some double teams
Speaker 1: and rushed the best out of those rotation guys. We
Speaker 1: talked about hand Pee Lee Harris Putito's on out there,
Speaker 1: but he's a rush with them, Benito. You know, I
Speaker 1: think Chop might be ready to be an impact rusher
Speaker 1: like right now. His first rap of the day was
Speaker 1: speed to power. He got Andrew Wiley, who started for
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the Super Bowl a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: on skates and forced Daniels to speed up his throwing process,
Speaker 1: and he missed the out route that should have been
Speaker 1: a layup one that he hits in the very next play,
Speaker 1: by the way, when he has protected. I do think
Speaker 1: that he got caught in the washing a little bit
Speaker 1: in the running game, and that's where as a rookie,
Speaker 1: you'd expect him to have his losses. That was kind
Speaker 1: of his scouting report coming out. But he can grow
Speaker 1: and improve upon that. Now. Mohammed Kamara did some things
Speaker 1: that make me think that maybe he's the base down defender.
Speaker 1: Early while you wait for two and fifteen to get
Speaker 1: back or if two's not back right away, because he
Speaker 1: showed really well in both areas. The rush win was awesome,
Speaker 1: but playing the run like they pulled a backside guard
Speaker 1: and he went and whacked him and he got knocked back.
Speaker 1: That's a big due that he put on his butt,
Speaker 1: and I just wonder if maybe he's in line for
Speaker 1: some more base down work opposite Emmanuel Ogba while you
Speaker 1: wait for for Chubb and Phillips to be full go.
Speaker 1: I think Quentin Bell has really flat lined in the games,
Speaker 1: like after a really good camp. I just had an
Speaker 1: made a lot of plays in the games and we'll
Speaker 1: see if he can get one on Friday. But just
Speaker 1: worth noting, I thought it was a rough night for
Speaker 1: a couple of the depth backers and Zeke Vandenberg and
Speaker 1: Curtis Bolton. Speaking of linebackers Jordan Brooks and David Long,
Speaker 1: you know I mentioned the fast, physical elite technique signs
Speaker 1: throughout the building. That's kind of one of McDaniel's or
Speaker 1: is his staple. It's all I can think of when
Speaker 1: we watch these two guys play. The first play, the
Speaker 1: Commanders go with a counter tray, which is two pollers
Speaker 1: usually your garden tackle, you pull them, you down block,
Speaker 1: you try to pin guys, and it's like a pin
Speaker 1: and poll type of scheme. And Brooks fires the a
Speaker 1: gap and takes one of those pollers out of the
Speaker 1: equation and it creates this scrape and fit for David Long,
Speaker 1: where you you scrape off of the stack, you know,
Speaker 1: defensive tackle who's taking on a blocker and then you
Speaker 1: have this pulling guard on his butt because Jordan Brooks
Speaker 1: just went and put him there. And then it creates
Speaker 1: this run for David Long, who is so fast and
Speaker 1: physical that he hits it and makes the play. And
Speaker 1: you watch the way that the Ravens used Rokwan Smith
Speaker 1: and Patrick Queen and Baltimore. It looks similar to me
Speaker 1: in terms of usage and how they want to use
Speaker 1: their skill sets together and pair them together fast, aggressive,
Speaker 1: big hitters, great key readers, two of the most instinctive
Speaker 1: backers in the game. I am very, very excited about
Speaker 1: these two. But I will say there was a couple
Speaker 1: of snaps where David Long did get caught up in
Speaker 1: the wash a few times, but that's they'll get that
Speaker 1: ironed out. Without doubt. To me, I thought Channing Tyndall's
Speaker 1: traits are showing to translate in this defense as a
Speaker 1: sub rusher and special teams guy, which he's done those
Speaker 1: things well. In the preseason, he had a stunt rep
Speaker 1: where he squeezed and what that means is there was
Speaker 1: a gap for him to run through, and he could
Speaker 1: have bailed in the assignment and ran through that gap,
Speaker 1: and he would have found out that the reason we
Speaker 1: have this particular thing is because we can squeeze it
Speaker 1: and create more opportunity more space. It's like I talked
Speaker 1: about with Tyreek Hill in the way he runs his routes.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna cheat on the route. He's gonna finish
Speaker 1: the route to maximize the space. Like, yeah, there's space
Speaker 1: there and I can go get it now, but I
Speaker 1: can really finish the route and maximize it. And on
Speaker 1: the stunt he takes the center and squeezes him in
Speaker 1: close to the guard and it gets the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: to run this loop off of him. And when the
Speaker 1: center sees that loop, he ends up getting more with
Speaker 1: which creates a run for Chang Tyndall and he goes
Speaker 1: and hits the quarterback. It's really really nice growth to me.
Speaker 1: I think that's he's seeing it better and as allowing
Speaker 1: him to play faster in his third year here. Defensive
Speaker 1: backs Cater Kohu speaking of seeing it well, he's playing
Speaker 1: really fast and especially in coverage. He had a great
Speaker 1: read on this cover three play where he kind of
Speaker 1: came over and challenged the route even though it got caught.
Speaker 1: He had a really nice play getting Jayden Daniels to
Speaker 1: the ground on a read option play where he played
Speaker 1: the outside contained but also like converged and kind of
Speaker 1: shortened that angle. Just playing fast, That's what I look
Speaker 1: for in these games. I thought Marcus May and his
Speaker 1: ability to come from depth like twelve yards off on
Speaker 1: a two y two bubble screen and make the tackle
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. That's the type of heat
Speaker 1: seeking missiles I love to see in my safeties. And
Speaker 1: then Storm Ducks feisty as hell. Man. I bet receivers
Speaker 1: hate playing against this dude. He challenges you in everything
Speaker 1: you do. All Right, A couple of thoughts from around
Speaker 1: the league. And I'm gonna dunk on another guy that
Speaker 1: dunked on last week because I just see Bill's fans
Speaker 1: saying like, oh, I'm so glad we have a contested
Speaker 1: catch guy now over Stefan Diggs. Okay targets in the
Speaker 1: preseason two catches twenty yards oh for three on red
Speaker 1: zone targets, alligator armed a slant, which if you can't
Speaker 1: make that play, keyon Coleman, what play you're gonna make?
Speaker 1: I think the Bills are in for a root awakening
Speaker 1: and how they constructed this receiving corps this year. Speaking
Speaker 1: of receivers, I think Malik Neighbors is going to be really,
Speaker 1: really good. I think I'll go down as receiver one
Speaker 1: in this class. I was a realm of doonesay guy,
Speaker 1: but I've kind of changed my flavor on that. I
Speaker 1: think that it'll be you know, all three of those guys,
Speaker 1: Harrison two are going to be great. But I think
Speaker 1: the big takeaway here is what you doing San Diego
Speaker 1: or Los Angeles whatever. Joe Walt's going to be fine,
Speaker 1: no harm, no foul there. But like you passed on
Speaker 1: Elak Neighbors when you have a two hundred million dollars quarterback,
Speaker 1: Why would you do that? Why would you do that?
Speaker 1: I talked about this last week, but man, I think
Speaker 1: we are going to get a solid replenishment of young
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the league this year. I said in the podcast,
Speaker 1: I think the best quarterback on tape last college season
Speaker 1: was Michael Pennix from dub Go Koog's Wrong School, by
Speaker 1: the way, that we hate those keys, and nothing he
Speaker 1: did in the two practices down here or in the
Speaker 1: game did anything to change that opinion. In fact, this
Speaker 1: slidified it for me. I thought he was fast and
Speaker 1: on time, he hit deep shots in practice and in
Speaker 1: the game. The Falcons are so impressed by him they
Speaker 1: shut him down for the preseason game, saying we've seen
Speaker 1: enough from Michael Pennix, which I can never remember a
Speaker 1: backup who got that kind of treatment. He's only a
Speaker 1: backup because they have a top ten twelve quarterback in
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins. The top twelve thirteen, let's call it that.
Speaker 1: But I digress. I thought Jayden Daniels looked as comfortable
Speaker 1: as ever as a rookie can. That's crazy because I
Speaker 1: didn't think he was that at Arizona State, and he
Speaker 1: obviously got there at LSU. But pairing that big arm
Speaker 1: and creativity and the read option possibilities, I think I've
Speaker 1: kind of flipped my take on him, And my only
Speaker 1: concern now is he puts himself in harm's way way
Speaker 1: too much. We saw it for a skinny quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: much of the chagrin of Dan Quinn, the entire commander's
Speaker 1: sideline in the game. He almost got himself killed in
Speaker 1: the game. It's the preseason game. Caleb Williams me the
Speaker 1: highlight plays, but I thought the game was indicative of
Speaker 1: who he was in college. Lots of wow highlight plays
Speaker 1: that got Twitter all crazy. But did you guys watch
Speaker 1: the first three drives where there was no offstructure stuff,
Speaker 1: and he was like one for six and they went
Speaker 1: three and out three consecutive times. The difference of course
Speaker 1: here with you know, with Caleb compared to Daniels or Knicks,
Speaker 1: what do you think it is? Because Bo Nicks all
Speaker 1: beat against backups. You know, the two weeks he's played
Speaker 1: in the preseason looks very comfortable and he probably starts there.
Speaker 1: And he made sixty college starts. Pennis made forty five
Speaker 1: or give or take, and Caleb did have over thirty starts.
Speaker 1: But I think, you know, each extra start, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's like a full season for Penix. It's two plus
Speaker 1: seasons for bon Nicks. It kind of has been thinking
Speaker 1: about the same thing I talk about with the offensive
Speaker 1: line play where you know, us football diehards have always
Speaker 1: wondered what would a professional affiliate system look like for
Speaker 1: football like it does a baseball Well, they aren't affiliated,
Speaker 1: but that's basically what college has become now because you
Speaker 1: can get paid and develop your game the miners quote
Speaker 1: unquote without beginning the clock on your rookie contract. Why
Speaker 1: not do that? We see all these offensive linemen in
Speaker 1: their third or fourth year, sometimes on their second contract
Speaker 1: with the team, and that's where they find their footing. Well,
Speaker 1: if these quarterbacks can develop their game further in college,
Speaker 1: maybe that's the way to go. But the general point
Speaker 1: here is after the twenty twenty three class gave us,
Speaker 1: you know, one certified stud and C. J. Stroud, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens to Bryce Young. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen there, but we'll see. And then Will
Speaker 1: Levis also don't think it's gonna happen there, but I
Speaker 1: do think Anthony Richardson's gonna be an absolute stud. So
Speaker 1: if we get two from that class after basically a
Speaker 1: wash in twenty twenty two, outside of Rock Perdy, who
Speaker 1: by the way, was two for six was six yards
Speaker 1: when all the stars didn't play for him, which is
Speaker 1: a little bit different than five for five with fifty
Speaker 1: one yards and a touchdown. I'm just saying, Kenny Pickett
Speaker 1: and that twenty twenty two class is a backup now
Speaker 1: who's not gonna see the field anytime soon. Malik Willis
Speaker 1: is not even a two anymore. The twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: class basically gave us Trevor Lawrence and that was it.
Speaker 1: As Jones, Wilson and Fields are all backup quarterbacks or
Speaker 1: we'll see how long Field is on the bench, but
Speaker 1: it's not getting better for him there. I don't think
Speaker 1: Trey Lance going the wrong way. This league thrives when
Speaker 1: the quarterback plays adds best. And if we start to
Speaker 1: lose stalwarts that have been in the league for a
Speaker 1: long time like Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, Matt Stafford Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: as those guys retire, we'll have a nice crop here
Speaker 1: to play. Those guys here coming down the pike. I think,
Speaker 1: all right us tomorrow Wednesday in Tampa Bay, we'll have
Speaker 1: the preview pod Thursday and do a final camp notes
Speaker 1: portion in that one as well. But until all of that,
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