Speaker 1: To on the move, going deep, speedless, peace, do hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: Here's my ad hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up, Dolphans And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: it is our last day of on field recaps before
Speaker 2: the season kicks off with training camp in late July.
Speaker 2: We're gonna break down all the action that happened on
Speaker 2: Wednesday and speak to Kendall Fuller, to Ron Armstead and
Speaker 2: head coach Mike McDaniels. We go through another day of
Speaker 2: football here in Miami Gardens from the Baptist Health Studios
Speaker 2: inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Draft
Speaker 2: Time Podcast. Hey Daffy, I am once again fighting the
Speaker 2: urge to kick this thing off at the quarterback position
Speaker 2: and we will get there. But what do you say?
Speaker 2: We start in the trenches. And it began in the
Speaker 2: morning with this comment from head coach Mike McDaniel when
Speaker 2: he was asked about the evaluation of the O line
Speaker 2: D line portion of the team in practices without pads.
Speaker 3: There's a whole balancing act when you're trying to orchestrate
Speaker 3: football without pads. However, this balancing act, if you prove
Speaker 3: a dept at it is monumental. Over the course of
Speaker 3: the season, you're talking about having to not have pads
Speaker 3: on to get football work, and you know, you do
Speaker 3: the math and how many allocated padded practices you have
Speaker 3: during the season. Bottom line is, if you're a good
Speaker 3: football team, you have to be able to play football
Speaker 3: without pads well. And that takes an orchestra ration of
Speaker 3: understanding technique fundamentals, but also how to protect the team
Speaker 3: and a fine line. You're trying to achieve hat placement
Speaker 3: and you're trying to you know, maintain your gap but
Speaker 3: not trying to bury your teammate if you have a
Speaker 3: vulnerable position. All of those things are work in progress.
Speaker 3: I pretty much talk about it daily to the team
Speaker 3: how how we can and and show clips on how
Speaker 3: we can execute our fundamentals and technique while you know,
Speaker 3: protecting each other. And I think the it's a little
Speaker 3: more complicated on the edges of the defense, particularly the
Speaker 3: way that we you know, attack defenses offensively and we
Speaker 3: we attack offenses defensively. There's a. It's kind of a
Speaker 3: similar mindset of who's going to set the edge. So
Speaker 3: you have to do a lot of orchestration in terms
Speaker 3: of teaching on how to get stuff out of it
Speaker 3: and not develop bad habits but get better. And then internally,
Speaker 3: the biggest thing is not having the competitive fires fuel
Speaker 3: things that don't help us play football. Well, what do
Speaker 3: I mean by that? Holding when you get leveraged, or
Speaker 3: shoving a shoving a guy that's you know, maybe at
Speaker 3: an impass right right around the ball carrier, those types
Speaker 3: of things. You have to really put the team first
Speaker 3: while in a competitive individual situation. So it's really good
Speaker 3: teaching because it the benefits of it you see throughout
Speaker 3: the entire NFL.
Speaker 2: Season, And as you guys know, I've sort of shied
Speaker 2: away from these groups in these practices, especially when there's
Speaker 2: an emphasis on seven on seven where there literally is
Speaker 2: no line play on the field. But I'm glad to
Speaker 2: have that baseline to work off of. Hey, if you're
Speaker 2: gonna do this, try and look for some of the
Speaker 2: same things the coaches are looking for. And obviously with
Speaker 2: a young player like Patrick Paul, that's the first and
Speaker 2: only thing that you're really focused on right now right
Speaker 2: the technique and at rookie mini camp, sure it was
Speaker 2: about how does this guy move and get off the
Speaker 2: football and how does his composition look next to his
Speaker 2: peers alongside them. But now as we get more and
Speaker 2: more reps, he's taken to some coaching, he's been around
Speaker 2: a veteran like Thron Armstead, and I think there's more
Speaker 2: value now than even a month ago to evaluate his work.
Speaker 2: And speaking of Taharn Armstead, we didn't see him working
Speaker 2: at all, and you would know that coming into the
Speaker 2: season you weren't going to see him until probably late August.
Speaker 2: But like all the vets who are not working, he's
Speaker 2: out there in this unshine with the guys, coaching them
Speaker 2: up and giving words of encouragement. And since we haven't
Speaker 2: seen t Stead in the offseason program, I think it
Speaker 2: can be easy to forget about guys like that up
Speaker 2: until training camp. So like, yeah, you do have Tron
Speaker 2: Armstead and Odell Beckham waiting beckoning Tyreek Hill to get
Speaker 2: on the football field. On top of what you've already seen.
Speaker 2: This impressed you so much here in the month of June.
Speaker 2: So let's go ahead and start with this question that
Speaker 2: I had for Tron Armstead about why come back. Was
Speaker 2: there a Eureka moment, maybe a galvanizing moment where you
Speaker 2: just realized I have to come back and play football
Speaker 2: for at least one more year. I thought his answer
Speaker 2: was great and really helps a tone for practice the rest.
Speaker 1: Of the day, just that burning desired that burning, desired
Speaker 1: to love for it, watching watching the film, watching the
Speaker 1: things that I did to finish the season, had a
Speaker 1: strong six seven weeks to finish the season until the playoffs,
Speaker 1: and just like man, it's a lot that we can
Speaker 1: do as a team that we left on the table
Speaker 1: and it was time that we got to clean the
Speaker 1: plate this time.
Speaker 2: I wanted to share that because it coincides with some
Speaker 2: of the stuff that Tyreek was saying on Tuesday about
Speaker 2: his desire to be here, to be a Dolphin for life,
Speaker 2: how important it is for him to help this team
Speaker 2: get over the hump. And he didn't say it like
Speaker 2: Taran did, but you get the sense this team does
Speaker 2: feel like it has some unfinished business left to take
Speaker 2: care of when it comes to the postseason and success
Speaker 2: in the month of January. That with the jokes that
Speaker 2: guys were throwing around Tyreek and Jalen both jabbing Tua
Speaker 2: about being chubby in their press conferences, or Tyreek giving
Speaker 2: it back to Waddle in a similar sense. You know,
Speaker 2: I was talking to a friend about this. You only
Speaker 2: have that kind of energy for your brothers, the people
Speaker 2: you love, right. I don't know about you, but that's
Speaker 2: been my entire experience with male camaraderie. It's when you
Speaker 2: start being nice to each other that you worry about
Speaker 2: your friendship with that person. But of course we have
Speaker 2: to get back there, and there's lots of games to
Speaker 2: determine if we do go back to the postseason or not.
Speaker 2: Will we get there? I would say with a lot
Speaker 2: of conviction, Yeah, we'll be back in the postseason. And
Speaker 2: just for your information, we'll hear from assistant coaches on
Speaker 2: the show tomorrow. Quick teaser on Butch Barry, he talked
Speaker 2: about the value of adding depth not just in peer
Speaker 2: volume numbers, but in the ability to cross train and
Speaker 2: have guys not just see the field from multiple positions,
Speaker 2: but the value that creates when the natural attrition of
Speaker 2: a football season inevitably occurs. Right, And we've talked about
Speaker 2: this in a previous podcast, The Chris Furster comments from
Speaker 2: the San Francisco forty nine ers talking about there's a
Speaker 2: certain line of production we have to get over with
Speaker 2: every lineman that we roster, and if we are over
Speaker 2: that line, then we can kind of coach them up
Speaker 2: and get production from those guys where the skill positions
Speaker 2: where we put our biggest investments into, because those natural abilities,
Speaker 2: they are not scheme based, they can be beyond the
Speaker 2: scheme in terms of how they produce and make your
Speaker 2: offense more explosive and better. And so I was thinking
Speaker 2: about that and it just all jives together, as Butch
Speaker 2: was kind of telling me, like, Yeah, that is kind
Speaker 2: of the thinking about getting deeper in the room and
Speaker 2: trying to withstand the attrition this offensive line has, you know,
Speaker 2: endured the last two seasons. And I pretty strongly believe
Speaker 2: there are ten guys that are either at or above
Speaker 2: that line. Maybe one or two of those guys is
Speaker 2: flirting with that line, But to me, Armstead is well
Speaker 2: above the line. Isaiah win is well above the line.
Speaker 2: Aaron Brewer, Jack Driscoll, Austin Jackson. I would also put
Speaker 2: Patrick Paul when the finished product from the offseason arrives,
Speaker 2: I would put him above the line. I put Kendall
Speaker 2: Lamb above that line, put Rob Jones above that line.
Speaker 2: I think I mentioned a couple of guys that might
Speaker 2: be right on that line. I would say Liam Miichenberg
Speaker 2: probably is right in that category as well as blanking
Speaker 2: on the last one and go ahead and pull the
Speaker 2: roster over here and do a live edit on the show.
Speaker 2: Who is the last one I'm thinking of here? I
Speaker 2: think Keon Smith is around that line and in terms
Speaker 2: of what he can offer you. So that's the ten guys?
Speaker 2: Was that ten? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven
Speaker 2: eight nine ten. Yeah, exactly ten guys there you go
Speaker 2: counting on the podcast. That's what you guys come here for.
Speaker 2: So I just think it's very imp it's very possible.
Speaker 2: And one of those guys is, of course the rookie
Speaker 2: Patrick Paul. Obviously, the goal for him is to be
Speaker 2: a cornerstone for a long long time here. In fact,
Speaker 2: we'll have him on the podcast this summer and he
Speaker 2: told me that his goal is to be the franchise
Speaker 2: left tackle for a decade plus and then go on
Speaker 2: to be the president of Nigeria. Like he has big aspirations.
Speaker 2: But even though we have two awesome established tackles and
Speaker 2: a good swinging Kendall Lamb who can also probably kick
Speaker 2: inside and play guard. The numbers of the NFL tell
Speaker 2: you that Patrick Paul will play at some point this season,
Speaker 2: and damn it if this kid is not going to
Speaker 2: maximize every single moment on the grass that he gets
Speaker 2: or that he earns. I think Paul has shown demonstrable
Speaker 2: growth from even the first practice I saw him at
Speaker 2: to now, and you go back to his tape at Houston,
Speaker 2: Compared to now, he's kind of a different player. And
Speaker 2: if we get that similar trajectory, and you guys watch
Speaker 2: Blaze and the Monster Machines with your kids, there's an
Speaker 2: episode they talk about trajectory, I think Patrick Paul's trajectory
Speaker 2: right now is as good as anybody on the team.
Speaker 2: And granted he had more room to grow because of
Speaker 2: the technique and what you saw on tape of college,
Speaker 2: but I just imagine that this daily process for him
Speaker 2: is going to pay off, especially when you consider the
Speaker 2: just overall collective knowledge that this group of coaches and
Speaker 2: players can offer to a player like Patrick Paul. So
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask to Ron Armstead, what are you
Speaker 2: looking to pour into with Patrick Paul.
Speaker 1: Any and everything, every tool that exists, so for him
Speaker 1: to be successful and successful for a long time is
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna give him and everybody else in that room.
Speaker 1: I've had a short time with Patrick so far. I've
Speaker 1: seen some great things on the field. Impressed, impressive for sure,
Speaker 1: got a lot to learn, a lot of areas to
Speaker 1: improve in. But you see it for sure, you see
Speaker 1: the potential, You see why why he's here. Smart, smart
Speaker 1: young man. But any any and everything that I can
Speaker 1: possibly give show, say, see, is gonna be offered to him.
Speaker 2: Four. We also spoke to coach Anthony Weaver today and
Speaker 2: again catch that on tomorrow show, and he mentioned time
Speaker 2: and energy as the way to create positive change. Invests
Speaker 2: time with energy and you'll improve. And man, that is
Speaker 2: Patrick Paul to a tee. But also in this process
Speaker 2: and learning a new offensive line that I've you know,
Speaker 2: kind of harped on for the last couple of years,
Speaker 2: like the improvement comes from experience, And I've been saying
Speaker 2: that for you know, I say this for months and
Speaker 2: month Now did the dofin they're gonna do that? I've
Speaker 2: been saying for another year that it's it's only gonna
Speaker 2: make every single player a little bit better, but for
Speaker 2: a rookie who is just so eager, you know, I
Speaker 2: was curious to ask to Ron Arms said this, how
Speaker 2: do you advise he go about that for lack of
Speaker 2: a better term, you know, trusting the process and absorbing
Speaker 2: playing a new style of offensive line without getting out
Speaker 2: over your skis and getting frustrated by maybe the slow
Speaker 2: churning you know, wheel of the process. Here's to Ron
Speaker 2: Arnsten and how he can help Patrick Paul learn a
Speaker 2: brand new style of offensive line play as a rookie
Speaker 2: in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Take your time, and that's that's really That's probably the
Speaker 1: biggest thing I'm gonna have to emphasize to the young
Speaker 1: man is we're not gonna try to learn the whole thing.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna read the whole dictionary in one day,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna take small wins. I gave him a
Speaker 1: couple of things to focus on and focus on every
Speaker 1: day as we start getting into hands and knocking hands down,
Speaker 1: hand placement, things to do with the hat and your
Speaker 1: feed all that like that. That takes time as a progression.
Speaker 1: But I told him, like consistently want to see him
Speaker 1: winning set every day, every play he controlled where he
Speaker 1: get and then set with his basis foundation, he's ready
Speaker 1: to go. So just small wins. He's eager to learn everything,
Speaker 1: so just kind of make sure it's a process.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I just wanted to start there with t
Speaker 2: Staid in general, because I think that his you know,
Speaker 2: sets the tone for the day and for the week,
Speaker 2: really really for the offseason in this particular podcast. But
Speaker 2: this is a team that loves the grind, that loves
Speaker 2: each other, that is there for one another, and has
Speaker 2: a tremendous balance of vet slash young player that can
Speaker 2: foster this environment of learning and improving and maximizing each
Speaker 2: of their own potentials. Some practice notes along the offensive line.
Speaker 2: You know, Paul's movement and size combination stands out every
Speaker 2: single day just when you fix your eyes to the trenches,
Speaker 2: and today they were on the far field. So I'm
Speaker 2: watching a lot of practice through binoculars and trying to
Speaker 2: just kind of focus on one area of the field,
Speaker 2: and a lot of that was in the trenches. When
Speaker 2: fifty two is out there, that's usually where your eye
Speaker 2: draws to. He's just he's off the ball before anybody else.
Speaker 2: He's bigger than everybody else, and he just kind of
Speaker 2: has a way to pull your eye over to his direction. Now,
Speaker 2: Austin Jackson is I think this is going to sound
Speaker 2: maybe crazy considering where he was a year ago, but
Speaker 2: I think Austin Jackson in the absence of Tron Armstead
Speaker 2: is the best player on the offensive line. He is
Speaker 2: an incredible shit. He's moving very very well. He has
Speaker 2: a full year off that injury that he kind of
Speaker 2: you know, progressed from a season ago. He's strong and
Speaker 2: the technique thing we talked about, he's got this ability
Speaker 2: to kind of show the edge and be like, you
Speaker 2: want that here, you go take it, and then just
Speaker 2: snatch it up and take it away. His side produced
Speaker 2: like no pressures on the quarterback when he was in there,
Speaker 2: and you know, then the alternative when he wasn't in
Speaker 2: there was it was pretty leaky. I thought Brewer looked really,
Speaker 2: really good today, getting off the football and creating some lanes.
Speaker 2: He cleared the space for a long eight Chan run
Speaker 2: at one point today, and my got Devonte A. Chan
Speaker 2: is going to have a monster year. More on that
Speaker 2: in a moment. And then we also had some you know,
Speaker 2: not so great notes I put for the second straight
Speaker 2: day of the udfas Andrew Meyer and who's the other kid,
Speaker 2: Matthew Jones. Sorry, they just they kind of remind me
Speaker 2: of Brandon Peeley a year ago. They just kind of
Speaker 2: need another year to get NFL ready to even have
Speaker 2: a chance to contribute. There's a steep drop off when
Speaker 2: they get in there, and there was all kinds of
Speaker 2: snap issues today with both those guys, with Scott or Thompson.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the quarterback and get you up
Speaker 2: to date on that room. The best ball of the
Speaker 2: day was probably Mike White finding Jalen Waddle deep for
Speaker 2: a sixty yard touchdown. He layered a deep shot running
Speaker 2: across the field. Waddle catches it and stride and out
Speaker 2: ran everybody to score the touchdown. He was open, but
Speaker 2: the ball was right there for him. Otherwise, though, I
Speaker 2: thought the team drills or the team period of quarterback
Speaker 2: play was a little bit shaky and just in terms
Speaker 2: of getting balls completed, and there was lots of balls
Speaker 2: in the ground. Win two was not in there, so
Speaker 2: some up and down performances there in that quarterback room.
Speaker 2: But man, Jalen Wattle, dude, this guy is something else.
Speaker 2: He also caught a deep shot from Tua for a
Speaker 2: big game, and it was probably the best ball from
Speaker 2: two of the day. The old short side takeoff the
Speaker 2: boundary takeoff Again, boundary is when you're on the near
Speaker 2: hash run that route to the same side. It's the
Speaker 2: short side of the field. It's kind of how it's
Speaker 2: the exact same play that he beat the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 2: for that deep shot to open the game against Dallas
Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve. Now, the difference here in the past,
Speaker 2: Jalen usually elevates for these balls. Now he didn't do
Speaker 2: that in the Dallas game. But typically he goes up
Speaker 2: and catches the football and then where he comes down
Speaker 2: is where the play is over, because that's how it
Speaker 2: works in football. You get touched down to the ground,
Speaker 2: you're down. But what I like the most about this
Speaker 2: play was he plucked the ball and he caught the
Speaker 2: ball with his hands turned over, not underneath the football,
Speaker 2: the hands on top of the ball. Pluck it and
Speaker 2: catch it over your head and then you can keep
Speaker 2: your feet on the ground and you can get more
Speaker 2: yards after the catch. He's been doing that all week
Speaker 2: long so far. He was dominant. He was unstoppable. Really.
Speaker 2: Each of the last couple of days here, I did
Speaker 2: see one rep where he didn't get open or make
Speaker 2: the play, and the reason for that was because Kendall
Speaker 2: Fuller peeled back and located him and made the play
Speaker 2: on the ball. Now, Fuller had a handful of plays
Speaker 2: as they both in coverage but also shutting down a
Speaker 2: short pass wore running back. At one point, I asked
Speaker 2: Kendall about this particular theme of the day that I
Speaker 2: was kind of following because I spoke to coach McDaniel
Speaker 2: in the morning or at his press conference. I didn't
Speaker 2: talk to him. Mean, I'm not gonna say that, Oh exclusive,
Speaker 2: I'm talking to coach McDaniel. It was a press conference.
Speaker 2: I asked him a question, and I asked him, how do
Speaker 2: you and your coaching staff balance the act of getting
Speaker 2: better for an individual who wants to maybe make some
Speaker 2: tweaks or try some things out and maybe that causes
Speaker 2: him to get beat on a particular rep. How do
Speaker 2: you balance that versus the evaluation of who the best
Speaker 2: fifty three men on the roster are. And I just
Speaker 2: love this answer from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 3: That's a tricky, tricky thing that we try to break
Speaker 3: down here with our coach to player relationships. And what
Speaker 3: I mean by that is like conditioned players or players
Speaker 3: are conditioned to say to think, okay, well a correction
Speaker 3: or a caveat to your game means that that's bad. Okay.
Speaker 3: So you're trying to for us in this offseason is
Speaker 3: establish the healthy relationship boundaries of no. You want for
Speaker 3: you want a coach to have something to help you,
Speaker 3: and you want that that whatever, not criticism, more attention
Speaker 3: to your game and whether it comes in a negative
Speaker 3: or positive light. If you're constantly bringing up how people
Speaker 3: respond and paying attention to that, and they can feel
Speaker 3: that it's more about Like for me, I want to
Speaker 3: see the next target towards the receiver after he drops
Speaker 3: a pass. I'm much less concerned about that capacity dropped
Speaker 3: in the spring. I know he's trying to catch it.
Speaker 3: So but what I do find out that you can't
Speaker 3: really substitute is all right, well, when something bad happens,
Speaker 3: which will inevitably happen every single time he plays football,
Speaker 3: how is he going to respond? And players start to
Speaker 3: understand from each position that that's what we're focused on.
Speaker 3: You get the right type of energy. That's not short
Speaker 3: term result based. You know that's Oh there's a completion,
Speaker 3: you start cussing like the No, that's or if it's good, okay,
Speaker 3: I can take the pressures off. No, this is this
Speaker 3: is a big picture assignment. We're trying to attack things
Speaker 3: with a game like mentality more so than our opponents.
Speaker 3: And then and then work through those residual added game reps.
Speaker 3: Is the is the whole kind of mindset. And I
Speaker 3: think practice becomes real fun when you're when you're using it,
Speaker 3: not having it define you for the short term.
Speaker 2: And so I asked Kendall, how do you balance those
Speaker 2: two ideas in terms of trying things out? And Kendall,
Speaker 2: give me the players perspective. Here's fuller.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's that's part of football. You got to
Speaker 4: learn what you can do, different techniques that you may have,
Speaker 4: but how it fits in with the system, what you're
Speaker 4: being asked to do. So you learned that as you're
Speaker 4: out there and while you're while you're out there on
Speaker 4: the field. So that's what and that's what this is for.
Speaker 4: That's what you do in training, camp and practice. That's
Speaker 4: what practice for to see see what works and see
Speaker 4: what doesn't work.
Speaker 2: To put a bow on all of this and bring
Speaker 2: it all together. I also asked Kendall hey Man, first
Speaker 2: live reps against Wattle. You did see him last year
Speaker 2: in the Commander's Game, the Commander blowout, the Dolphins had
Speaker 2: go ahead and time to start thinking about maybe thinking
Speaker 2: about taking command. I asked him, first live reps against Wattle?
Speaker 2: What did you see from that guy?
Speaker 1: Here?
Speaker 4: You go speed, a lot of speed, but also just
Speaker 4: everything from his releases, just the pro until all his
Speaker 4: brothers making sure everything looks the same. So he's definitely
Speaker 4: what I've seen on take from the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, good place to go ahead
Speaker 2: and take our first break. We'll come back on the
Speaker 2: other side. And I did it. I made it through
Speaker 2: a full first segment without talking about the quarterback position. Well,
Speaker 2: we talked a little bit of Mike White, a little
Speaker 2: bit two of there, but we're going to come back
Speaker 2: and talk more Tua on the other side. That's next
Speaker 2: Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 2: by Auto Nation. All Right, we did it. We made
Speaker 2: it through the segment. No quarterback talk. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and talk tu Tua talk tie very well. First though,
Speaker 2: I thought Mike White had some moments and even outside
Speaker 2: the long touchdown passing this on this day also had
Speaker 2: a chance to talk to coach Bevell about him and
Speaker 2: Skylar's growth, because you know, bevill answers questions about Tua
Speaker 2: all day. Let's go ahead and throw the backup quarterback
Speaker 2: some love. But man again, Tua was absolutely surgical. The
Speaker 2: ball came out fast, it's jumping off the hand, his
Speaker 2: timing and rhythm, everything is just a tad bit quicker.
Speaker 2: And I think this next point will really get your
Speaker 2: attention that I noticed because with Tua, you know, mechanically,
Speaker 2: to me, it was more of the same where it
Speaker 2: just it's sharp, it's condensed, it's it's compact. But one
Speaker 2: thing I've noticed is the ability to quickly reset and
Speaker 2: get back into full mechanical proficiency. Because in the past,
Speaker 2: when he's had to load up, if there's a hitch
Speaker 2: and the drop or the hitch up, then the velocity
Speaker 2: decreases and maybe that doesn't have enough sissle to get
Speaker 2: the ball where he wants it to go. But now
Speaker 2: it seems like he can stride and pump and kind
Speaker 2: of reset and then get back to where he wants
Speaker 2: to be mechanically to fire the football from maybe a
Speaker 2: more stagnant position. You know, the hitch up for the
Speaker 2: deep ball is typically how he gets those things off.
Speaker 2: But I think now there's some more easy action to
Speaker 2: get the ball down the field when his original you know,
Speaker 2: thought or read isn't exactly there. And so I want
Speaker 2: to play two more sound bites here from coach. He
Speaker 2: was asked how this version of TUA translates, and it
Speaker 2: had more to do with the mobility aspect of Tua
Speaker 2: dropping some weight and moving around a little bit. And
Speaker 2: you know, coach takes these answer these questions and he'll
Speaker 2: give you the answer to the question. But what I
Speaker 2: like about it the most is how he's able to
Speaker 2: expand upon how they view things. Like if the question
Speaker 2: isn't how they view it, Hey, that's a good question.
Speaker 2: I answering the question, but like, that's not how we
Speaker 2: look at it. Here's how we look at it, and
Speaker 2: here's the answer to how we look at it. So
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and hear first from how the athletic
Speaker 2: version of TUA translates to on field success comes Sundays.
Speaker 3: When you're when you're standard is that the same is worse,
Speaker 3: and you're trying to chase the best version of yourself.
Speaker 3: You find different things that you know, it wasn't like
Speaker 3: we you know, we were problem solving last offseason. He
Speaker 3: went full tilt into that that rendered some great results.
Speaker 3: There's also some residuals of uh, unintended consequences of you know,
Speaker 3: the strength, but and honestly, it's Tua just trying to
Speaker 3: find another level of his game and and another level
Speaker 3: of being a profession. You know, it happens to a
Speaker 3: lot of players where all of a sudden you become
Speaker 3: masters of you become dietitians, pseudo dietitians several years into
Speaker 3: your career, but definitely not at the start. And see
Speaker 3: in ways that he could maintain the strength but you know,
Speaker 3: create you know, some more flexibility and power or however
Speaker 3: you want to look at it. It's it's uh, he's uh,
Speaker 3: who's a dude that drives the ball in the on
Speaker 3: the tour so far? Dish Chambeau. Right, So he just
Speaker 3: channeled his quarterback version of that, I guess. And it
Speaker 3: wasn't like to correct something that that needed fixed. It
Speaker 3: was an opportunity to get better in his mind, I think,
Speaker 3: and and the you know, ultimately, you know, we'll see
Speaker 3: how he does at UH you know, read option and
Speaker 3: if he if he's trying to be an option quarterback.
Speaker 3: You know, house felt is felt. But you know, anything
Speaker 3: that helps you attack your job and solve problems, problems
Speaker 3: that he is more aware of now than he was
Speaker 3: last year or the year before, just in terms of
Speaker 3: you know, being a problem solver at your position, and
Speaker 3: you'd you'd learn different things, you find value in different things.
Speaker 3: I think it's just him maturing as a professional and
Speaker 3: really going after the the annual offseason, how do we
Speaker 3: get better?
Speaker 2: Not if and then just move on to the next UH,
Speaker 2: and we'll go ahead and comment on this as a whole.
Speaker 2: The next question here for coach and Tua was the
Speaker 2: evolution of Tua. How do you balance the idea of him,
Speaker 2: you know, staying healthy by getting bigger with dropping weight
Speaker 2: and adding more mobility this year? What's the balance there?
Speaker 3: You know, it was a very concrete thing we're trying
Speaker 3: to solve last year with regard to physical preparation. That
Speaker 3: was his ability to play, to be available and as
Speaker 3: much as he can. But more importantly for him to
Speaker 3: have the life that he wants and play the quarterback position,
Speaker 3: how to how to keep himself healthy, and identified the
Speaker 3: ground as the big the big opponent that we had
Speaker 3: to defeat and strength training those specific things while also
Speaker 3: drilling stuff for the first time. You know, we saw
Speaker 3: unbelievable results in terms of every situation that he was
Speaker 3: presented with. He was able to apply the technique and
Speaker 3: he had the strength.
Speaker 4: To do it.
Speaker 3: So you don't know what that is. It was uncharted
Speaker 3: territory to kind of like you know, uh, work on
Speaker 3: a training stunt, doubles or something, you know, like how
Speaker 3: to fall. That was uncharted territory. Will you establish the
Speaker 3: strength and how to protect yourself? Now you can go
Speaker 3: back to what are the what are the things that
Speaker 3: helped me do my job to maximum ability? Again not
Speaker 3: short changing any any sort of strength. You know, I
Speaker 3: think he is he's really taken his diet serious and
Speaker 3: he hasn't done things to lose weight. He's done things
Speaker 3: to be in shape, and you know he's I would
Speaker 3: I would be pumped about where he's at now. Maybe
Speaker 3: predisposed of a hair of body shaming from last year.
Speaker 3: If you wanted to retroactively like he was do it,
Speaker 3: you know, to be fair though like not many people
Speaker 3: were going about things that way, to be as proactive
Speaker 3: with something of that nature jiu jitsu, and I mean
Speaker 3: he was training jiu jitsu and calling it something else
Speaker 3: I think at one point judo, right like, but like
Speaker 3: he really went after it and then you find out
Speaker 3: new things, just like every year we are trying our
Speaker 3: best to do the best football plays, and we learn
Speaker 3: more about football plays and defenses and stuff, and we
Speaker 3: do new plays next next year. A little bit that maturation.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's an example of how
Speaker 3: he is as a professional understanding what his job is
Speaker 3: to the team and the franchise, and he's going after it,
Speaker 3: controlling all the things that he can.
Speaker 2: Control, and that all comes back to the same. I mean,
Speaker 2: these are concepts we've talked about in this podcast. Ad
Speaker 2: nauseum feels like, but I just think there's tons of
Speaker 2: value in that and C. K. Parrott, you know, from
Speaker 2: three Yards per Carry, Chris Kaufman does just really good
Speaker 2: work in every facet of where you can find his
Speaker 2: stuff on Twitter with the podcast and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: He did a long thread on Twitter about the improvements
Speaker 2: and noticeable growth that Tua has demonstrated every single year
Speaker 2: as a pro quarterback. And I thought it was so poignant,
Speaker 2: spot on, and just something our fans should should hear.
Speaker 2: And so here's the tweet, and it's in a response
Speaker 2: to the question that I asked Tua on Tuesday about
Speaker 2: the answer that was provided lending itself to confirming Chris's
Speaker 2: assumption that tool was utilizing the hips more into his
Speaker 2: throwing motion. So here is Chris's tweet. He took a
Speaker 2: couple of still frames of Tua throwing the ball last
Speaker 2: year versus this year, and said these still frames were
Speaker 2: taken one at the end of his wind up and
Speaker 2: two at the ball's release. And the old setup shows
Speaker 2: you how much hip rotation he's doing while the ball
Speaker 2: comes forward, and the newer setup shows you that he's
Speaker 2: mostly already gotten his hips around before he's even done
Speaker 2: his wind up, before the ball is moving forward. And
Speaker 2: that's again, it's so much like a golf swing man.
Speaker 2: But I'll hold off my own thoughts on that for
Speaker 2: a second. Back to Chris. One thing people tend to
Speaker 2: dismiss about too is how malleable and coachable he is
Speaker 2: last year. Many thought the jiu jitsu thing was a
Speaker 2: laughable gimmick. Then we saw an action and there were
Speaker 2: discrete changes in the way he played the game. He
Speaker 2: went from a guy who couldn't keep himself off the
Speaker 2: injury report to one of only a handful of quarterbacks
Speaker 2: who actually played all seventeen regular season games. This is
Speaker 2: a guy who had six different offensive coordinators in the
Speaker 2: six years before he met Mike McDaniel. Even in just
Speaker 2: an NFL career, he went from being an RPO guy
Speaker 2: under Flores to a West Coast play action guy under McDaniel,
Speaker 2: winning games regardless of approach, regardless of the quality of
Speaker 2: the skill players or offensive line. People tend to be
Speaker 2: impatient and unrealistic. They want a guy to one learn
Speaker 2: a brand new offense, to rehab a surgically repaired hip,
Speaker 2: three change your bodies makeup. Four learn how to handle
Speaker 2: NFL caliber hits in physicality, and five fine tune your
Speaker 2: throwing motion and do that all overnight. Oh and let's
Speaker 2: do that with a rookie as a rookie, without training
Speaker 2: camp or preseason during a global pandemic. You mean you
Speaker 2: haven't done all of that yet? What a bum fire
Speaker 2: him into the sun. Reality is very different, and we
Speaker 2: see that in pro athletes across the board. We see
Speaker 2: it in the NBA's players bam out of bio, for instance,
Speaker 2: add pieces to their game one offseason at a time.
Speaker 2: The point is, when Tua hasn't has to undertake these tasks,
Speaker 2: you discreetly see the progress every time. When he has
Speaker 2: to learn the new offense, he learns the new offense.
Speaker 2: When he has to get stronger, he gets stronger. When
Speaker 2: he has to slim down, he slims down. When he
Speaker 2: has to rehabit. Make you forget he just had a
Speaker 2: career threatening broken hip. He makes you forget about the
Speaker 2: career threatening broken hip. When he has to learn how
Speaker 2: to absorb NFL caliber hits without putting his head at risk,
Speaker 2: he becomes one of the best in the NFL at
Speaker 2: protecting himself. When he has to fine tune his throwing motion,
Speaker 2: he shows you new motion while maintaining his trademark accuracy.
Speaker 2: Don't underestimate how valuable that is and a professional player,
Speaker 2: because it's not as common as you think. Most players,
Speaker 2: by the time they get to a certain point, kind
Speaker 2: of just are who they are and their circumstances opportunities
Speaker 2: might change, which can lead to breakouts and such, but
Speaker 2: the player hasn't actually changed all that much. Players don't
Speaker 2: get paid retroactively in the NFL. They get paid on
Speaker 2: what a team thinks they will be in the future
Speaker 2: during the life of that contract. Miami feels pretty safe
Speaker 2: in the knowledge that two will be able to roll
Speaker 2: with the punches, relearn the things that advisory forces. Adversity
Speaker 2: forces him to relearn, and improve on the things he
Speaker 2: sets to improve because he has an established history of
Speaker 2: doing exactly that. I thought that was just so well
Speaker 2: said and fits in with the theme of the day
Speaker 2: about making progress, you know. Tron Armstead on progression. Mike
Speaker 2: McDaniel on tua's ownership of the craft. The whole point
Speaker 2: is we are lucky to have assembled a team full
Speaker 2: of guys just like this, and the one at the
Speaker 2: head of it all is the quarterback and the guy
Speaker 2: that's going to take us eventually to the promised Land.
Speaker 2: All right, last break, Then final practice notes including another
Speaker 2: monster day from Devon h Chan that features some pretty
Speaker 2: fun usage all of that. Next Draft Time podcast your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation Devon a
Speaker 2: chance here, He's there, He's everywhere. This guy is doing
Speaker 2: so much with his game. We talked about it on
Speaker 2: the podcast yesterday, his usage in the passing game, how
Speaker 2: he himself kind of circled that as something he can
Speaker 2: improve upon to get more of a piece of the
Speaker 2: pie of this dynamic offense that has oodles and oodles
Speaker 2: of skill players who can beat you and burn you
Speaker 2: and score on you. And I just think the eighth
Speaker 2: chan like, maybe he's receiver three because I'm watching this
Speaker 2: guy line up in the slot and run a slot
Speaker 2: fade and cook a cornerback where the ball gets overshot,
Speaker 2: but the pacing and the line up the stem, the
Speaker 2: explosive step to widen and then cut back inside immediately stack.
Speaker 2: He looks like a receiver when he's playing the position.
Speaker 2: He just looks like that. I mean, like this might
Speaker 2: be the next Christian McCaffrey in terms of overall versatility
Speaker 2: and general usage past game, run game. He's just a
Speaker 2: big play weighing to happen. It's totally wild and something
Speaker 2: I haven't seen before. I mean, Tyreek Hill kind of
Speaker 2: changed the way I view NFL practices. Devon a Channer
Speaker 2: as far as the running back goes has done the
Speaker 2: same thing. I think he can challenge every level of
Speaker 2: the field as a pass catcher and the timing and
Speaker 2: pacing explosion as a runner. He just keeps making play
Speaker 2: after play no matter how you get him the football.
Speaker 2: Run an actual route from the slot. Okay, run a
Speaker 2: route from the perimeter. I can do that. Run these
Speaker 2: little Texas routes off of bunch or trips formations where
Speaker 2: the receivers take the vertical thread off and displace the
Speaker 2: defense and you run this angle route over the middle,
Speaker 2: which then creates a gap to run through. Cool. Let's
Speaker 2: run a swing screen to him. We can do that. Also,
Speaker 2: Let's run inside zone. We can do that as well.
Speaker 2: This guy is gonna be a freaking superstar. I don't
Speaker 2: know what else to tell you, Like, come watch him
Speaker 2: in training camp when you get a chance to come
Speaker 2: out here, because he is one of the best players
Speaker 2: on the field of a team that I think is
Speaker 2: one of the best five teams in the national football
Speaker 2: Like Davon a Chan breakout superstar this year. You heard
Speaker 2: it here, Well, probably not first, but you heard it here.
Speaker 2: Some more random notes. I wanted to get a look
Speaker 2: at cam Brown, the linebacker signed this offseason from the Giants,
Speaker 2: because when you watch him an individu Jules, he kind
Speaker 2: of stands out. He's just lanky, leanky, lengthy length. He's
Speaker 2: got length, he features length, and the way he hits
Speaker 2: the pads and the bags, like it just looks different
Speaker 2: than everybody else. That's kind of what I focus on
Speaker 2: during these portions, right, I've been talking about Jody Fortson
Speaker 2: or Cam Smith or Erica Zuokama, how it just looks
Speaker 2: a little bit different than everybody else, and so I
Speaker 2: want to see how it translates into the live action.
Speaker 2: And even Kimbo Camper, who I watched practice alongside, said
Speaker 2: he was the most impressive guy that he watched during
Speaker 2: individual drills in that position group. So sure enough it
Speaker 2: did translate to team because they ran a little outside,
Speaker 2: a little end a round to eight chan and he's
Speaker 2: able to long arm the edge, get off the block
Speaker 2: and keep the corner and win the corner and not
Speaker 2: get beat with the speed of devon chan. That, my friends,
Speaker 2: is impressive. The safeties are working really really well together.
Speaker 2: So they were doing this drill before, you know, during
Speaker 2: individual drills where they would have these like four bags
Speaker 2: set up and it was kind of like the w
Speaker 2: drill they used to run at the combine. I think
Speaker 2: they might have gotten rid of that where they kind
Speaker 2: of track the football and that the coach he moves
Speaker 2: the ball back and forth and you have to flip
Speaker 2: the hips and kind of open the gate and show
Speaker 2: the show the scouts how you can move that way.
Speaker 2: And he was doing this drill and just moving so
Speaker 2: like fluidly, and they throw this ball into the back
Speaker 2: of the end zone. It's behind his head and he
Speaker 2: goes into a full sprint and the ball sales over
Speaker 2: his head full extension, one hand stab and corrals it.
Speaker 2: It was on air, but like wow, Like I talked
Speaker 2: about it on Twitter, like I think him and Jordan
Speaker 2: Poyer might have the best ball skills a dolphin safety duo,
Speaker 2: going back to Brock Mary and Brian Walker. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's how far back this might have to go. Rashad
Speaker 2: Jones and maybe Lewis Delmis or Issa abdul caduce like that.
Speaker 2: I don't think it measures up quite the same. Speaking
Speaker 2: of middle of the field defenders, dude, the linebackers, good
Speaker 2: like it was. I love My favorite part about doing
Speaker 2: this is watching how stuff translates, like watching individual drills.
Speaker 2: They were lining up like mugged up in the A
Speaker 2: gaps or maybe they're a green dogging or they're kind
Speaker 2: of playing playing off playing coy and then they come
Speaker 2: at the last second with the blitz and you just
Speaker 2: don't know what's when it's gonna come. And they were
Speaker 2: both timing up these blitzing drills and you know, showcasing
Speaker 2: the change of direction. Pair with the heavy hands to
Speaker 2: operate all these rush games. We think this defense is
Speaker 2: gonna run and probably will run, and there's just such
Speaker 2: an obvious translation to what they do well and what
Speaker 2: Baltimore has done well in the past. And sure enough,
Speaker 2: they go over there and they convert it into practice
Speaker 2: reps where they both get sacks in this day and
Speaker 2: they both win through the A gap by just getting
Speaker 2: immediate pressure through these defensive games. I felt like the
Speaker 2: defense kind of got had yesterday and they bounced back
Speaker 2: and kind of said, now we're gonna show you what
Speaker 2: we really can do today and adopt some pressure. And
Speaker 2: those two linebackers and Walker and Brooks without David Longro
Speaker 2: practicing this on this Wednesday, who's from my maybe even
Speaker 2: the best of the bunch. But gosh, dude, like the
Speaker 2: middle of the defense is going to be so much
Speaker 2: better because these linebackers and what they can do going forward,
Speaker 2: going backwards, and sideline to sideline. Speaking of linebackers, Quintin
Speaker 2: Bell had himself a hell of a spring man. I
Speaker 2: think he's gonna make this football team. He looks really good.
Speaker 2: Might be the end of you know, a certain draftick
Speaker 2: from a few years ago. If Quentin Bell keeps going
Speaker 2: this way that he's been going, and like, I know,
Speaker 2: you're gonna look at that as like, well, if they
Speaker 2: cut a former third round draft pick and they keep
Speaker 2: Quintin Bell, it's a bad sign, like it maybe, but
Speaker 2: also could just mean Quinton Bell is kind of you know,
Speaker 2: made a name for himself. Speaking of guys making a
Speaker 2: name for themselves, Grays and Murphy keep an eye on
Speaker 2: this dude from UCLA. I think he has a chance
Speaker 2: to make the football team. He broke through a would
Speaker 2: be or for a would be collision in the backfield
Speaker 2: and just came off the block like screaming. He was
Speaker 2: deconstructing blocks all week. He's got some good pass rush,
Speaker 2: some wiggle, some power, very smart, dude. He also joined
Speaker 2: me for the podcast for Media Day, so we'll hear
Speaker 2: from him again in the summer. Jordan Colbert, speaking of
Speaker 2: undrafted rookies, made some plays. Two plays in the football
Speaker 2: today for that matter. Shack Barrett had himself a chance
Speaker 2: to make a player on the football and he peels
Speaker 2: back into the hook zone. Has a room service. I
Speaker 2: ont And I don't think Scalar thought he was gonna
Speaker 2: be there because the ball went right through his hands.
Speaker 2: He dropped it. And also Zeke Vanderberg dropped a pick
Speaker 2: from Mike White too, So those backup quarterbacks a little
Speaker 2: bit shaking those late team periods. But defense was kind
Speaker 2: of had had the number there late practice. Last note here,
Speaker 2: John new Smith and I want to play some audio
Speaker 2: for you on John new on Tomorrow's podcast because he
Speaker 2: spoke to the media. I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 2: hear it, but I want to go back and listen
Speaker 2: to it and see what he said to us. But
Speaker 2: he caught this pass in traffic and turned up field
Speaker 2: and outran guys like we haven't seen a tight end
Speaker 2: do that here?
Speaker 1: Ever?
Speaker 2: Ever, like well not ever, I shouldn't say that, but
Speaker 2: for you know, last recent memory. He's a problem, dude.
Speaker 2: He is. He is the answer for the overplay that
Speaker 2: comes from taking away waddle in the hill. And I
Speaker 2: just think that I'm saying that. I'm thinking to myself,
Speaker 2: what about Odell? What about a Chan? What about Raheem?
Speaker 2: What about Jalen Wright? What about Eric Azukama? You know, like, dude, like,
Speaker 2: what are you gonna do to stop this offense? I
Speaker 2: just think johnas Smith is such a perfect freaking fit here,
Speaker 2: and he's been also in camp so far. And then
Speaker 2: some not so great notes. Bradlin Sarents had a couple
Speaker 2: drop passes, Ireland Brown the news the new interior offensive lineman.
Speaker 2: He and Scotlar Thompson had series snapishes throughout practice. I
Speaker 2: mentioned the UDFA lineman having some issues. Aszukama I had
Speaker 2: a couple of balls that he didn't secure and put away.
Speaker 1: What else?
Speaker 2: The quarterbacks I thought was a little bit rough day
Speaker 2: for those guys. I think it's a good place to
Speaker 2: stop right there. Oh. Patrick mc morris and Douke Riley
Speaker 2: both had a couple of tackles near the last scrimage.
Speaker 2: I thought we're worth putting in the notes here, So
Speaker 2: just want to be a comprehensive for you guys. But
Speaker 2: as for the podcast, that's gonna be my time a
Speaker 2: little bit all over the place there at the end.
Speaker 2: I hope that wasn't too rapid fire for y'all. I
Speaker 2: had a ton of notes and had to condense it down,
Speaker 2: so I hope that came through clearly. But that is
Speaker 2: a wrap. Tomorrow we'll do more audio from the assistant coaches,
Speaker 2: Coach McDaniel and some players as well, and then we're
Speaker 2: going into the summer break summer content, I should say
Speaker 2: next weekend. I think the Monday podcast, I chatted with
Speaker 2: the specialists, so Blake, Jake, and Jason joined me for
Speaker 2: a podcast. It went about fifteen minutes. I think we're
Speaker 2: gonna pair that with my David Long chat, so don't
Speaker 2: miss that on Monday, and then we're gonna get into
Speaker 2: divisional previews, taking a look at the entire National Football
Speaker 2: League before coming back together for a training camp in
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