WEBVTT - Drive Time: Minicamp 2024 Day 2 Recap 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:04.520 To on the move, going deep, speedless, peace, do hell. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.440 From the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:14.720 Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.440 Here's my ad hands in the playoffs. 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.440 What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:29.760 --> 0:00:32.560 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:36.360 it is our last day of on field recaps before 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.000 the season kicks off with training camp in late July. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.879 We're gonna break down all the action that happened on 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:46.599 Wednesday and speak to Kendall Fuller, to Ron Armstead and 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.519 head coach Mike McDaniels. We go through another day of 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.879 football here in Miami Gardens from the Baptist Health Studios 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.200 inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft 0:00:57.200 --> 0:01:02.080 Time Podcast. Hey Daffy, I am once again fighting the 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.120 urge to kick this thing off at the quarterback position 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.440 and we will get there. But what do you say? 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:09.960 We start in the trenches. And it began in the 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.119 morning with this comment from head coach Mike McDaniel when 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:15.880 he was asked about the evaluation of the O line 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.840 D line portion of the team in practices without pads. 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:25.960 There's a whole balancing act when you're trying to orchestrate 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:32.640 football without pads. However, this balancing act, if you prove 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:37.440 a dept at it is monumental. Over the course of 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:42.880 the season, you're talking about having to not have pads 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.800 on to get football work, and you know, you do 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.440 the math and how many allocated padded practices you have 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.320 during the season. Bottom line is, if you're a good 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.640 football team, you have to be able to play football 0:01:54.680 --> 0:02:00.560 without pads well. And that takes an orchestra ration of 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:05.800 understanding technique fundamentals, but also how to protect the team 0:02:06.000 --> 0:02:10.200 and a fine line. You're trying to achieve hat placement 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.680 and you're trying to you know, maintain your gap but 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.359 not trying to bury your teammate if you have a 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:25.160 vulnerable position. All of those things are work in progress. 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.880 I pretty much talk about it daily to the team 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.400 how how we can and and show clips on how 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:40.720 we can execute our fundamentals and technique while you know, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:44.120 protecting each other. And I think the it's a little 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:49.400 more complicated on the edges of the defense, particularly the 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:56.480 way that we you know, attack defenses offensively and we 0:02:56.480 --> 0:03:00.120 we attack offenses defensively. There's a. It's kind of a 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.240 similar mindset of who's going to set the edge. So 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:06.960 you have to do a lot of orchestration in terms 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:10.640 of teaching on how to get stuff out of it 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:16.200 and not develop bad habits but get better. And then internally, 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:25.760 the biggest thing is not having the competitive fires fuel 0:03:27.320 --> 0:03:30.240 things that don't help us play football. Well, what do 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:34.160 I mean by that? Holding when you get leveraged, or 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:40.600 shoving a shoving a guy that's you know, maybe at 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:44.160 an impass right right around the ball carrier, those types 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.040 of things. You have to really put the team first 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:52.560 while in a competitive individual situation. So it's really good 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:57.360 teaching because it the benefits of it you see throughout 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:58.560 the entire NFL. 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.000 Season, And as you guys know, I've sort of shied 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:04.440 away from these groups in these practices, especially when there's 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:07.880 an emphasis on seven on seven where there literally is 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:10.760 no line play on the field. But I'm glad to 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.080 have that baseline to work off of. Hey, if you're 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.040 gonna do this, try and look for some of the 0:04:16.040 --> 0:04:19.159 same things the coaches are looking for. And obviously with 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.320 a young player like Patrick Paul, that's the first and 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:24.840 only thing that you're really focused on right now right 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:27.560 the technique and at rookie mini camp, sure it was 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.440 about how does this guy move and get off the 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.440 football and how does his composition look next to his 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.440 peers alongside them. But now as we get more and 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.600 more reps, he's taken to some coaching, he's been around 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.039 a veteran like Thron Armstead, and I think there's more 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.719 value now than even a month ago to evaluate his work. 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.800 And speaking of Taharn Armstead, we didn't see him working 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.680 at all, and you would know that coming into the 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:55.719 season you weren't going to see him until probably late August. 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:59.000 But like all the vets who are not working, he's 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.040 out there in this unshine with the guys, coaching them 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.200 up and giving words of encouragement. And since we haven't 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.480 seen t Stead in the offseason program, I think it 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.680 can be easy to forget about guys like that up 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.200 until training camp. So like, yeah, you do have Tron 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:18.200 Armstead and Odell Beckham waiting beckoning Tyreek Hill to get 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.640 on the football field. On top of what you've already seen. 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.599 This impressed you so much here in the month of June. 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.760 So let's go ahead and start with this question that 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:28.320 I had for Tron Armstead about why come back. Was 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:32.000 there a Eureka moment, maybe a galvanizing moment where you 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:34.320 just realized I have to come back and play football 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:36.719 for at least one more year. I thought his answer 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.599 was great and really helps a tone for practice the rest. 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.720 Of the day, just that burning desired that burning, desired 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.000 to love for it, watching watching the film, watching the 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:50.360 things that I did to finish the season, had a 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:54.440 strong six seven weeks to finish the season until the playoffs, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.200 and just like man, it's a lot that we can 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.600 do as a team that we left on the table 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:02.200 and it was time that we got to clean the 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:02.760 plate this time. 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:04.800 I wanted to share that because it coincides with some 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:07.120 of the stuff that Tyreek was saying on Tuesday about 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:09.880 his desire to be here, to be a Dolphin for life, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:11.840 how important it is for him to help this team 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:13.960 get over the hump. And he didn't say it like 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:17.280 Taran did, but you get the sense this team does 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.920 feel like it has some unfinished business left to take 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.560 care of when it comes to the postseason and success 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.359 in the month of January. That with the jokes that 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:30.360 guys were throwing around Tyreek and Jalen both jabbing Tua 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.480 about being chubby in their press conferences, or Tyreek giving 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.120 it back to Waddle in a similar sense. You know, 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:38.159 I was talking to a friend about this. You only 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.839 have that kind of energy for your brothers, the people 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:43.240 you love, right. I don't know about you, but that's 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.800 been my entire experience with male camaraderie. It's when you 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.920 start being nice to each other that you worry about 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.560 your friendship with that person. But of course we have 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:54.800 to get back there, and there's lots of games to 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.560 determine if we do go back to the postseason or not. 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.800 Will we get there? I would say with a lot 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.880 of conviction, Yeah, we'll be back in the postseason. And 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.680 just for your information, we'll hear from assistant coaches on 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.559 the show tomorrow. Quick teaser on Butch Barry, he talked 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.200 about the value of adding depth not just in peer 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.400 volume numbers, but in the ability to cross train and 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.280 have guys not just see the field from multiple positions, 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.480 but the value that creates when the natural attrition of 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.320 a football season inevitably occurs. Right, And we've talked about 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.400 this in a previous podcast, The Chris Furster comments from 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.920 the San Francisco forty nine ers talking about there's a 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:35.880 certain line of production we have to get over with 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.200 every lineman that we roster, and if we are over 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.440 that line, then we can kind of coach them up 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:43.720 and get production from those guys where the skill positions 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:47.120 where we put our biggest investments into, because those natural abilities, 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:50.720 they are not scheme based, they can be beyond the 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.560 scheme in terms of how they produce and make your 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:55.239 offense more explosive and better. And so I was thinking 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:58.400 about that and it just all jives together, as Butch 0:07:58.480 --> 0:07:59.960 was kind of telling me, like, Yeah, that is kind 0:07:59.960 --> 0:08:01.920 of the thinking about getting deeper in the room and 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.200 trying to withstand the attrition this offensive line has, you know, 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:10.200 endured the last two seasons. And I pretty strongly believe 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.640 there are ten guys that are either at or above 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.920 that line. Maybe one or two of those guys is 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.480 flirting with that line, But to me, Armstead is well 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.800 above the line. Isaiah win is well above the line. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:28.400 Aaron Brewer, Jack Driscoll, Austin Jackson. I would also put 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.360 Patrick Paul when the finished product from the offseason arrives, 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.079 I would put him above the line. I put Kendall 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.360 Lamb above that line, put Rob Jones above that line. 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.839 I think I mentioned a couple of guys that might 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.200 be right on that line. I would say Liam Miichenberg 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:47.160 probably is right in that category as well as blanking 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:48.400 on the last one and go ahead and pull the 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.720 roster over here and do a live edit on the show. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:52.959 Who is the last one I'm thinking of here? I 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.280 think Keon Smith is around that line and in terms 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.120 of what he can offer you. So that's the ten guys? 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:03.120 Was that ten? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:07.040 eight nine ten. Yeah, exactly ten guys there you go 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:09.400 counting on the podcast. That's what you guys come here for. 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:11.880 So I just think it's very imp it's very possible. 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:13.800 And one of those guys is, of course the rookie 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.880 Patrick Paul. Obviously, the goal for him is to be 0:09:17.040 --> 0:09:19.640 a cornerstone for a long long time here. In fact, 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.400 we'll have him on the podcast this summer and he 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:24.520 told me that his goal is to be the franchise 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.120 left tackle for a decade plus and then go on 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:30.479 to be the president of Nigeria. Like he has big aspirations. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:34.120 But even though we have two awesome established tackles and 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.240 a good swinging Kendall Lamb who can also probably kick 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.079 inside and play guard. The numbers of the NFL tell 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.840 you that Patrick Paul will play at some point this season, 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.880 and damn it if this kid is not going to 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.680 maximize every single moment on the grass that he gets 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.200 or that he earns. I think Paul has shown demonstrable 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.040 growth from even the first practice I saw him at 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.920 to now, and you go back to his tape at Houston, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.480 Compared to now, he's kind of a different player. And 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.360 if we get that similar trajectory, and you guys watch 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.360 Blaze and the Monster Machines with your kids, there's an 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.559 episode they talk about trajectory, I think Patrick Paul's trajectory 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.640 right now is as good as anybody on the team. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.920 And granted he had more room to grow because of 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.160 the technique and what you saw on tape of college, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.920 but I just imagine that this daily process for him 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.960 is going to pay off, especially when you consider the 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.680 just overall collective knowledge that this group of coaches and 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.480 players can offer to a player like Patrick Paul. So 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.080 I wanted to ask to Ron Armstead, what are you 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.600 looking to pour into with Patrick Paul. 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.439 Any and everything, every tool that exists, so for him 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:45.520 to be successful and successful for a long time is 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:49.000 what I'm gonna give him and everybody else in that room. 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:51.800 I've had a short time with Patrick so far. I've 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:55.600 seen some great things on the field. Impressed, impressive for sure, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:57.920 got a lot to learn, a lot of areas to 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.880 improve in. But you see it for sure, you see 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:06.520 the potential, You see why why he's here. Smart, smart 0:11:06.559 --> 0:11:10.040 young man. But any any and everything that I can 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:14.760 possibly give show, say, see, is gonna be offered to him. 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.120 Four. We also spoke to coach Anthony Weaver today and 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.520 again catch that on tomorrow show, and he mentioned time 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:24.160 and energy as the way to create positive change. Invests 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.520 time with energy and you'll improve. And man, that is 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.920 Patrick Paul to a tee. But also in this process 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.960 and learning a new offensive line that I've you know, 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.720 kind of harped on for the last couple of years, 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:38.920 like the improvement comes from experience, And I've been saying 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:40.920 that for you know, I say this for months and 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.319 month Now did the dofin they're gonna do that? I've 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.000 been saying for another year that it's it's only gonna 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.840 make every single player a little bit better, but for 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:51.199 a rookie who is just so eager, you know, I 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.240 was curious to ask to Ron Arms said this, how 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:55.120 do you advise he go about that for lack of 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.800 a better term, you know, trusting the process and absorbing 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.840 playing a new style of offensive line without getting out 0:12:01.880 --> 0:12:04.200 over your skis and getting frustrated by maybe the slow 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:07.959 churning you know, wheel of the process. Here's to Ron 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:10.800 Arnsten and how he can help Patrick Paul learn a 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:13.319 brand new style of offensive line play as a rookie 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:13.880 in the NFL. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:16.480 Take your time, and that's that's really That's probably the 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.320 biggest thing I'm gonna have to emphasize to the young 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.160 man is we're not gonna try to learn the whole thing. 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:23.880 We're not gonna read the whole dictionary in one day, 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.840 so we're gonna take small wins. I gave him a 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:28.719 couple of things to focus on and focus on every 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:32.600 day as we start getting into hands and knocking hands down, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.640 hand placement, things to do with the hat and your 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.080 feed all that like that. That takes time as a progression. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.400 But I told him, like consistently want to see him 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.600 winning set every day, every play he controlled where he 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:47.520 get and then set with his basis foundation, he's ready 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:52.840 to go. So just small wins. He's eager to learn everything, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.920 so just kind of make sure it's a process. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:57.599 So yeah, I just wanted to start there with t 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:00.760 Staid in general, because I think that his you know, 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:03.560 sets the tone for the day and for the week, 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.240 really really for the offseason in this particular podcast. But 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:08.200 this is a team that loves the grind, that loves 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.480 each other, that is there for one another, and has 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:14.000 a tremendous balance of vet slash young player that can 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:18.120 foster this environment of learning and improving and maximizing each 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.760 of their own potentials. Some practice notes along the offensive line. 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.000 You know, Paul's movement and size combination stands out every 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:28.000 single day just when you fix your eyes to the trenches, 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.000 and today they were on the far field. So I'm 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.760 watching a lot of practice through binoculars and trying to 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.640 just kind of focus on one area of the field, 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:37.160 and a lot of that was in the trenches. When 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.400 fifty two is out there, that's usually where your eye 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.720 draws to. He's just he's off the ball before anybody else. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:45.360 He's bigger than everybody else, and he just kind of 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.360 has a way to pull your eye over to his direction. Now, 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:50.960 Austin Jackson is I think this is going to sound 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:54.000 maybe crazy considering where he was a year ago, but 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.080 I think Austin Jackson in the absence of Tron Armstead 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.240 is the best player on the offensive line. He is 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.120 an incredible shit. He's moving very very well. He has 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.040 a full year off that injury that he kind of 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.480 you know, progressed from a season ago. He's strong and 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.320 the technique thing we talked about, he's got this ability 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:10.960 to kind of show the edge and be like, you 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:13.000 want that here, you go take it, and then just 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.480 snatch it up and take it away. His side produced 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.240 like no pressures on the quarterback when he was in there, 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.440 and you know, then the alternative when he wasn't in 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:26.120 there was it was pretty leaky. I thought Brewer looked really, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.880 really good today, getting off the football and creating some lanes. 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:31.240 He cleared the space for a long eight Chan run 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.800 at one point today, and my got Devonte A. Chan 0:14:33.960 --> 0:14:36.720 is going to have a monster year. More on that 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.520 in a moment. And then we also had some you know, 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:41.800 not so great notes I put for the second straight 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.720 day of the udfas Andrew Meyer and who's the other kid, 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:49.760 Matthew Jones. Sorry, they just they kind of remind me 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.680 of Brandon Peeley a year ago. They just kind of 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:55.400 need another year to get NFL ready to even have 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:57.560 a chance to contribute. There's a steep drop off when 0:14:57.600 --> 0:14:59.200 they get in there, and there was all kinds of 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:03.120 snap issues today with both those guys, with Scott or Thompson. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.600 Let's go back to the quarterback and get you up 0:15:05.640 --> 0:15:08.200 to date on that room. The best ball of the 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:12.040 day was probably Mike White finding Jalen Waddle deep for 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.840 a sixty yard touchdown. He layered a deep shot running 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:17.520 across the field. Waddle catches it and stride and out 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.200 ran everybody to score the touchdown. He was open, but 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.960 the ball was right there for him. Otherwise, though, I 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.520 thought the team drills or the team period of quarterback 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.280 play was a little bit shaky and just in terms 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:29.880 of getting balls completed, and there was lots of balls 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.480 in the ground. Win two was not in there, so 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:34.680 some up and down performances there in that quarterback room. 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:39.000 But man, Jalen Wattle, dude, this guy is something else. 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.960 He also caught a deep shot from Tua for a 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.960 big game, and it was probably the best ball from 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.480 two of the day. The old short side takeoff the 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.520 boundary takeoff Again, boundary is when you're on the near 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.480 hash run that route to the same side. It's the 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.440 short side of the field. It's kind of how it's 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:55.520 the exact same play that he beat the Dallas Cowboys 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.160 for that deep shot to open the game against Dallas 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.640 on Christmas Eve. Now, the difference here in the past, 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.760 Jalen usually elevates for these balls. Now he didn't do 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:06.520 that in the Dallas game. But typically he goes up 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.960 and catches the football and then where he comes down 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.320 is where the play is over, because that's how it 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:13.360 works in football. You get touched down to the ground, 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:14.960 you're down. But what I like the most about this 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.760 play was he plucked the ball and he caught the 0:16:16.760 --> 0:16:20.160 ball with his hands turned over, not underneath the football, 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:22.000 the hands on top of the ball. Pluck it and 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.840 catch it over your head and then you can keep 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.800 your feet on the ground and you can get more 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.560 yards after the catch. He's been doing that all week 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:31.560 long so far. He was dominant. He was unstoppable. Really. 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:33.880 Each of the last couple of days here, I did 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:36.920 see one rep where he didn't get open or make 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:39.480 the play, and the reason for that was because Kendall 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.760 Fuller peeled back and located him and made the play 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.400 on the ball. Now, Fuller had a handful of plays 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.400 as they both in coverage but also shutting down a 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:49.560 short pass wore running back. At one point, I asked 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.680 Kendall about this particular theme of the day that I 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.680 was kind of following because I spoke to coach McDaniel 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:56.720 in the morning or at his press conference. I didn't 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.640 talk to him. Mean, I'm not gonna say that, Oh exclusive, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:00.760 I'm talking to coach McDaniel. It was a press conference. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.200 I asked him a question, and I asked him, how do 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.480 you and your coaching staff balance the act of getting 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:09.600 better for an individual who wants to maybe make some 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:11.920 tweaks or try some things out and maybe that causes 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:14.040 him to get beat on a particular rep. How do 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.760 you balance that versus the evaluation of who the best 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.560 fifty three men on the roster are. And I just 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:22.160 love this answer from coach McDaniel. 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.520 That's a tricky, tricky thing that we try to break 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.920 down here with our coach to player relationships. And what 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:39.320 I mean by that is like conditioned players or players 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:44.440 are conditioned to say to think, okay, well a correction 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:51.520 or a caveat to your game means that that's bad. Okay. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.959 So you're trying to for us in this offseason is 0:17:55.800 --> 0:18:04.399 establish the healthy relationship boundaries of no. You want for 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.399 you want a coach to have something to help you, 0:18:08.840 --> 0:18:18.200 and you want that that whatever, not criticism, more attention 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:23.920 to your game and whether it comes in a negative 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.879 or positive light. If you're constantly bringing up how people 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:33.080 respond and paying attention to that, and they can feel 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.240 that it's more about Like for me, I want to 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:43.720 see the next target towards the receiver after he drops 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:48.680 a pass. I'm much less concerned about that capacity dropped 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.159 in the spring. I know he's trying to catch it. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:58.399 So but what I do find out that you can't 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:04.560 really substitute is all right, well, when something bad happens, 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.640 which will inevitably happen every single time he plays football, 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.520 how is he going to respond? And players start to 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:16.200 understand from each position that that's what we're focused on. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:22.280 You get the right type of energy. That's not short 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.160 term result based. You know that's Oh there's a completion, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:33.720 you start cussing like the No, that's or if it's good, okay, 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.560 I can take the pressures off. No, this is this 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:42.520 is a big picture assignment. We're trying to attack things 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:48.359 with a game like mentality more so than our opponents. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:55.320 And then and then work through those residual added game reps. 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:59.040 Is the is the whole kind of mindset. And I 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:04.399 think practice becomes real fun when you're when you're using it, 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.560 not having it define you for the short term. 0:20:08.600 --> 0:20:11.000 And so I asked Kendall, how do you balance those 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.639 two ideas in terms of trying things out? And Kendall, 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.959 give me the players perspective. Here's fuller. 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.280 I mean, that's that's part of football. You got to 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:21.040 learn what you can do, different techniques that you may have, 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:23.200 but how it fits in with the system, what you're 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:26.239 being asked to do. So you learned that as you're 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:27.639 out there and while you're while you're out there on 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.320 the field. So that's what and that's what this is for. 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:32.280 That's what you do in training, camp and practice. That's 0:20:32.320 --> 0:20:34.440 what practice for to see see what works and see 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:35.159 what doesn't work. 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:36.880 To put a bow on all of this and bring 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:39.679 it all together. I also asked Kendall hey Man, first 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.200 live reps against Wattle. You did see him last year 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:45.640 in the Commander's Game, the Commander blowout, the Dolphins had 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:47.680 go ahead and time to start thinking about maybe thinking 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.119 about taking command. I asked him, first live reps against Wattle? 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:52.040 What did you see from that guy? 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:52.680 Here? 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.720 You go speed, a lot of speed, but also just 0:20:57.480 --> 0:21:00.879 everything from his releases, just the pro until all his 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:04.480 brothers making sure everything looks the same. So he's definitely 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.520 what I've seen on take from the last couple of years. 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:09.359 All right, there you go, good place to go ahead 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.320 and take our first break. We'll come back on the 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.640 other side. And I did it. I made it through 0:21:13.640 --> 0:21:17.000 a full first segment without talking about the quarterback position. Well, 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:18.200 we talked a little bit of Mike White, a little 0:21:18.200 --> 0:21:19.920 bit two of there, but we're going to come back 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.119 and talk more Tua on the other side. That's next 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:25.359 Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:21:25.440 --> 0:21:30.679 by Auto Nation. All Right, we did it. We made 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:32.760