Speaker 1: Practice. Are Alphis factors throwing touchdown? What a win for
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Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins official podcast network, covering your Miami Dolphins each and
Speaker 1: every day. How's it going everybody? It is Thursday. I
Speaker 1: am your host, Travis Wingfield, and I am here to
Speaker 1: bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, we are getting a break from the
Speaker 1: sunshine as we'll hear from each of the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: assistants as well as safety Eric Rowe. Plus I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what lessons I've learned from my first month here
Speaker 1: in South Florida. All of that and more on this Thursday,
Speaker 1: August twenty edition of the Drivetime Podcast. Dolphins. So no
Speaker 1: practice on Thursday, but we are going to hear from
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensive assistance chan Gaily, Robbie Brown, Eric Studisville,
Speaker 1: George Godzy, Steve Marshall, and Josh Grizzard. A little tidbit
Speaker 1: on Gailey's evolving offensive system, some research I did last night,
Speaker 1: and get to my exclusive interview with Dolphins safety Eric
Speaker 1: Row which you can also find on our debut episode
Speaker 1: of the Drivetime Training Camp Special, which is on the
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Speaker 1: Camp Special is a video show. Again. You can find
Speaker 1: it up on YouTube or on Dolphins social media. We
Speaker 1: originally plan to shoot the thing outside, but as we'll
Speaker 1: talk about here in the lessons I've learned in South
Speaker 1: Florida's segment, whether changes plans quickly down here, so we
Speaker 1: did it inside. Keep an eye out for that show.
Speaker 1: I'll be sure I tweeted out like crazy, and on
Speaker 1: that show, we had an exclusive interview with Dolphins safety
Speaker 1: Eric Row which we're gonna go ahead and roll right
Speaker 1: now on the Drivetime podcast. Alright, and joining me now
Speaker 1: is Dolphins safety Eric Row. Eric first, I want to
Speaker 1: ask you, man, how's camp going, how you're feeling, So,
Speaker 1: I mean Campbell was going good, though, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: get back out there put on the pads. I mean,
Speaker 1: we haven't played football since December, so I mean it
Speaker 1: was a long break, so it's always feel good to
Speaker 1: get back out there. Well, it's year two for you
Speaker 1: here in Miami. Do you get any sense of comfortability
Speaker 1: in the heat and humidity in the second year or
Speaker 1: is it just always hot? No, it's it's always high.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean because the last time legit do
Speaker 1: we practice, you know, and this heat probably like in
Speaker 1: probably last September. I mean, it cools off after a while,
Speaker 1: and you know, after you adjusted the heat the minute
Speaker 1: it's you know, maybe like eighty five and feel good outside.
Speaker 1: So uh so now it's back up there and it's hot.
Speaker 1: We're up in the shape up there on press row
Speaker 1: for the media, and I go stand by that fan
Speaker 1: and even then it's still really hot. So I even
Speaker 1: have that working for me. And I can't imagine you
Speaker 1: guys down there with all the gear on the in
Speaker 1: the Sunshine. It's it's brutal, but I do want to
Speaker 1: go back. I talked about the beginning of your time
Speaker 1: here in Miami. You come here as a cornerback. Now
Speaker 1: you're playing safety and playing on a second contract with
Speaker 1: the team. When they approached you about the change, what
Speaker 1: was that like for you? What was your initial reaction to, hey,
Speaker 1: we want you to play some safety. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: my insty action was. I mean, I understood at the time,
Speaker 1: we were you know, we were down. We're down, We're
Speaker 1: really low on debt with safeties. Uh, it wasn't a
Speaker 1: lot of depth going on, and we had some good
Speaker 1: depth that corner. So at the time I was like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, I was still playing corner at the same time,
Speaker 1: so I was kind of flip flopping back and forth,
Speaker 1: and I mean that that was kind of hard. But
Speaker 1: then when they're like, hey, you know, I guess I
Speaker 1: did a good job. We want to keep you at safety.
Speaker 1: I know because I know Rachard was her and shoot,
Speaker 1: we really have any safe after that, like strong, So
Speaker 1: you know, I understood. Then I guess a game by game,
Speaker 1: you know, I was getting a lot more comfortable with it,
Speaker 1: and you played some safety back in college at Utah, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was mainly free safety though, so that was that's
Speaker 1: the difference. Can you talk a little bit about the
Speaker 1: difference between that free safety and strong safety role and
Speaker 1: what you have to do to prepare for that position. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean back in college, I was mainly free so
Speaker 1: I really didn't have any like you know, run fit responsibility,
Speaker 1: you know, taking on some linemen. And now it's strong.
Speaker 1: I mean, you you know, to prepare for a game,
Speaker 1: and I only got to study routes, you know, route
Speaker 1: skiing whatever for the tight end. I mean I have
Speaker 1: to study some run game like I mean because that corner.
Speaker 1: I mean, honestly, like corner. I I didn't go through
Speaker 1: the rule. I mean I didn't go through the run clips,
Speaker 1: like if it came to me, it came to me.
Speaker 1: You know, I was on the island. Now it's strong,
Speaker 1: you know, I have to study the run game because
Speaker 1: you know, I have to watch if you know, how
Speaker 1: to tight end, but box or online pools. You know,
Speaker 1: I got different jabs at different schemes. So I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's a lot more you know, a little broader studying.
Speaker 1: And is it a bigger challenge for you when it
Speaker 1: comes like on the practice field, like out there today,
Speaker 1: for instance, you're going through different drills when it comes
Speaker 1: to playing safety and cornerback. I'd imagine, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got I think I have some like god, some
Speaker 1: run kiss drills I gotta do now, Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: learn how to come out blocks. Uh you know, other
Speaker 1: than corner was working on your man technique. Uh you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: just working on different stuff. So I mean there's different
Speaker 1: drills out there now for me. So I wanted to
Speaker 1: go back to this note. I put my notes here
Speaker 1: for you, Eric. I was gonna try to talk some
Speaker 1: crap to you here because I was curious to see
Speaker 1: how your Utah career went up against my Washington State Cougars.
Speaker 1: But you guys were two and two, So we'll go
Speaker 1: ahead and just shake hands on that one to call
Speaker 1: it even. I gotta get my Pack twelve action here
Speaker 1: whenever I can, because we don't have any of it
Speaker 1: out here with the Dolphins, so I had to bring
Speaker 1: it up. But we'll come back here to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Another Pack twelve guy. We had g a drill Alexander
Speaker 1: on this weekend for media availability, and he talked a
Speaker 1: lot about the importance of communication, especially at that safety position.
Speaker 1: Is there a big increase in your level of comfortability
Speaker 1: now that you're in your second year as a safety
Speaker 1: in this defense, Like, do you feel more comfortable communicating
Speaker 1: to the defense this year than you did last year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: There's uh, I mean there's there's there's a little bit
Speaker 1: different calls, but I mean I have a lot of
Speaker 1: better understanding of you know, kind of when to make
Speaker 1: that call and you know how to make that call
Speaker 1: other than I mean, I was comfortable last year, but
Speaker 1: last year I didn't have too many calls. I think
Speaker 1: the coach knew like, hey, you know, man up on
Speaker 1: the tight end and you'll fit in the run game
Speaker 1: kind of when you fit in. But now this year, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I have run you know, responsibilities fits. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd a cast to the line calls, the linebackers, calls
Speaker 1: to the corners, I mean, even to the other safety,
Speaker 1: to Bobby. You know, there's a lot of different calls.
Speaker 1: But I'm a lot more confident this year though, And
Speaker 1: so one of the things I think that kind of
Speaker 1: contributes to that is the ability to communicate with new
Speaker 1: teammates and we got you guys have brought in a
Speaker 1: few new defensive backs over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and I want to kind of tie that into last
Speaker 1: year again, because you played all sixteen games last year
Speaker 1: and you oversaw plenty of turnover in that secondary from
Speaker 1: week one to week seventeen. You mentioned the injuries being
Speaker 1: down so many guys. Did that experience kind of accelerate
Speaker 1: your ability to communicate and assist in helping the other
Speaker 1: new guys on the roster? Yeah, I mean it shoot
Speaker 1: started last year when we were getting new corners every
Speaker 1: probably like every other week, and we're doing right in
Speaker 1: the game, and you know, there's couple plays like hey,
Speaker 1: like you know what I got. I'm telling them, you know,
Speaker 1: con tell them like, hey, you know you have this.
Speaker 1: Make sure you don't stay outside leverage or you have this.
Speaker 1: So so now with this year, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: we got kind of got the guys like so I
Speaker 1: have to make kind of like tell them what to do.
Speaker 1: But you know, if they need me, like I know
Speaker 1: what they're doing, like, you know, especially if it's like
Speaker 1: a rookie, like hey, like make sure you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know you stay outside. You know, I got your
Speaker 1: helping here. Blah blah blah. But yeah, this year, I
Speaker 1: mean I I kind of did accelerated though. I watched
Speaker 1: some of the breakdowns on like Twitter. For instance, Darius
Speaker 1: Butler does a bunch of good stuff with that, and
Speaker 1: he talks about the communication you guys have to go through.
Speaker 1: It all happens so lightning fast. It blows my mind
Speaker 1: how quick you guys are able to read and react
Speaker 1: to that stuff. And speaking of the new guys, you
Speaker 1: mentioned the rookies. Wanted to get your take here. I've
Speaker 1: seen quotes on both Noah egit Agay and Brandon Jones,
Speaker 1: the two rookie defensive back draft picks for the Dolphins
Speaker 1: this year. I've seen quotes from their ex coaches and teammates.
Speaker 1: They cannot say enough about their competitiveness and dedication. Are
Speaker 1: you seeing the same thing here in Miami? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I see it on the field, you know, with
Speaker 1: the way they you know, both of them, they run
Speaker 1: to the ball. I mean I can see how hard
Speaker 1: you know, they want to. They want to get the
Speaker 1: defense down like you know, they want to get perfect
Speaker 1: with it right now. But even though it doesn't really
Speaker 1: happen like that, I mean, you know, you can see
Speaker 1: it in their eyes and their actions. You know, I
Speaker 1: see the way they take the field, So I mean
Speaker 1: they yeah, they're both really competitive. Eric. Want to finish
Speaker 1: up here with the question for you about last year
Speaker 1: and kind of where your career came to those cross
Speaker 1: roads here in Miami because you previously had missed a
Speaker 1: lot of time with some injuries. I was curious to
Speaker 1: get your take on how it felt for you to
Speaker 1: get that contract extension last year and to kind of
Speaker 1: have your football talent finally be able to show itself
Speaker 1: on the field. What was that moment like when you
Speaker 1: got approach with the Dolphins with a new contract. Oh man,
Speaker 1: so it's so great. I mean just one you know,
Speaker 1: you know I want to be here, you know, I
Speaker 1: want of you would flow and Josh, I mean this
Speaker 1: reason why I came here, uh, you know, to get
Speaker 1: that extension and then yeah, plus like the years passed,
Speaker 1: so just you know, injury after injury, you know, something
Speaker 1: that you can't control. Then you know them to you know,
Speaker 1: giving me, you know, final shot too, you know, kind
Speaker 1: of show my talent and you know kind of all
Speaker 1: the Harvard kind of like you know, pays off me.
Speaker 1: You know, sending my family up and you know, being
Speaker 1: a place that I want to be at. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so great. I have to imagine the only thing
Speaker 1: that felt better than that was the pick six last
Speaker 1: year in Foxborough. Right nice, Yeah, especially, I know I
Speaker 1: knew it all right there. He is Eric Roe, your
Speaker 1: Dolphins safety, leader of the secondary, leader of this defense. Eric.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your time today, man, I appreciate it. I
Speaker 1: always love talking to Eric Row because he always gives
Speaker 1: such a unique perspective and just such an honest, transparent
Speaker 1: perspective on football, on life, on his career so far.
Speaker 1: You heard him talk about the injury past he had,
Speaker 1: their the injury history, and how important and how special
Speaker 1: it was to him to get the contract extension here
Speaker 1: at the Miami Dolphins, and how he wanted to be
Speaker 1: here with Brian Flores and Josh Boyer and these guys
Speaker 1: down here in Miami. Looking at his his NFL Pro
Speaker 1: Football Reference game logs. Over the course of his career,
Speaker 1: he played all sixteen games as a rookie in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Then he was traded to phillip to New England, and
Speaker 1: he missed seven games that year. He missed eight games
Speaker 1: the following year and then twelve games and eighteen. So
Speaker 1: you hear him talk about things out of your control,
Speaker 1: injuries that just they just happened to guys sometimes, Like
Speaker 1: it's not a knock on how a guy works or prepares.
Speaker 1: He obviously works very hard at his craft. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just can't control the way injuries pop up. And for
Speaker 1: Eric Row, he's had bad luck with that in his past.
Speaker 1: But last year started sixteen games, or rather started fifteen games,
Speaker 1: played in all sixteen games, had the interception, had eight
Speaker 1: pass breakups, forced to fumble, eighty one tackles. He was
Speaker 1: a really valuable asset for this Dolphin secondary. Last year.
Speaker 1: He earns the new contract in Miami, and you can
Speaker 1: hear you can tell why by hearing him speak and
Speaker 1: the way he communicates and how he leads this defense
Speaker 1: on that back end. Very very happy for Eric Row,
Speaker 1: and I cannot wait to watch him on Sundays this year.
Speaker 1: And we'll go ahead and pivot here from the guys
Speaker 1: Eric Row was playing with on defense. So the guys
Speaker 1: the defense are trying to stop on the offensive side
Speaker 1: with the assistant coaches. The players are off, but the
Speaker 1: coaches are here and we're gonna hear from each of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins offensive assistance, and we're gonna play some sound
Speaker 1: from each of those coaches here in just one second.
Speaker 1: But first, before we do that, I went ahead and
Speaker 1: did some research on offensive personnel groupings and production from
Speaker 1: previous Chan Gailey offenses, and the only one I can
Speaker 1: go back and find was with the Jets. And but
Speaker 1: I wanted to detail this interesting fact toy that I
Speaker 1: found on Changailes offense from those two years there with
Speaker 1: the Jets, and the difference in personnel packaging and how
Speaker 1: the numbers bear out a cliche we hear from coaches
Speaker 1: all the time, right, we're gonna adapt our personnel or
Speaker 1: our play calls rather to our personnel, and the numbers
Speaker 1: between these two seasons, Chan's last in the NFL as
Speaker 1: a play caller in twenty seen with the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: they proved the old adage to be true for Chan Gaily.
Speaker 1: For instance, in the Jets ran twelve personnel that's one
Speaker 1: running back to tight ends just two percent of their
Speaker 1: offensive play calls. In sixteen, that number jumped up to
Speaker 1: sixteen point four percent, for a fourteen and a half
Speaker 1: percent change in terms of twelve personnel usage, so we
Speaker 1: found more tight ends and called on them, called on
Speaker 1: the tight ends more often that season. The story was saying,
Speaker 1: with twenty one personnel, that's two backs, one tight end.
Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, the Jets went fourteen point eight percent
Speaker 1: time out of twenty one personnel and only point five
Speaker 1: percent a half percentage in twenty one personnel in sixteen,
Speaker 1: so another fourteen percent drop off there in usage. In
Speaker 1: the Jets ran ten personnel four hundred snaps. The next
Speaker 1: highest and up ball that year was one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty six snaps. Only two other teams had more than
Speaker 1: forty snaps from that package, so that's more of a
Speaker 1: spread out for wide type of offense. One back, no
Speaker 1: tight ends, four receivers. The Jets ran that four hundred
Speaker 1: times that year, and again the next highest was one
Speaker 1: d thirty six snaps. In they ran eleven personnel three
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty three times fewer than anybody else in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. So he is not really beholden
Speaker 1: to any one specific offensive scheme, and he's proven that
Speaker 1: with his play calls as personnel groupings in the past.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead now and get to audio from Chan Gailey,
Speaker 1: who talked to the South Florida media on Thursday afternoon
Speaker 1: and up first, he talked about the rotation of reps
Speaker 1: and practice between the quarterbacks and the rest of the
Speaker 1: players on offense and how they worked that rotation to
Speaker 1: make sure everybody is getting even reps with the right players.
Speaker 1: We try to get different guys. We have a quarterback rotation,
Speaker 1: and we try to put different people in with those quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Rather than saying, you know, first group, saying third group.
Speaker 1: We just have a quarterback rotation and we mix a
Speaker 1: lot of different people in with those with when those quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: when the quarterback rotation is so that we um know
Speaker 1: how many plays we're getting with everybody. And on the
Speaker 1: topic of quarterbacks, coach Gailey was asked about the knowledge
Speaker 1: between quarterbacks that play under multiple offensive coordinators in a
Speaker 1: short number of years, talking about Josh Rose and bouncing
Speaker 1: around from different play cars for the first couple of
Speaker 1: years of his career. But he also talked about two
Speaker 1: a tongue of VLOA at Alabama and playing with three
Speaker 1: different coordinators. They're really interesting answer here from Shan Gailey.
Speaker 1: There's really only x amount of plays in in football
Speaker 1: so what you're trying to do is teach him a
Speaker 1: new language. How quickly can he learn a new language
Speaker 1: and get to where he can speak it fluently rather
Speaker 1: than he's memorizing what something means. And so the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is to try to get him to put things
Speaker 1: in the past, terminology in the past, put it away,
Speaker 1: put it over to the side, and grasp the new terminology.
Speaker 1: It's okay in your brain to say, well, that used
Speaker 1: to be called this, but now it's called this and
Speaker 1: use that as a reference. That's a good thing, but
Speaker 1: not to get it where it's clogging up learning what
Speaker 1: new is going on. And that's that's true with I
Speaker 1: mean two has got the same issue. He had three
Speaker 1: coordinators is three years in college he's got the same issue.
Speaker 1: And Um. The great thing about um, you know Fits,
Speaker 1: is Fits has done put different offenses out of his
Speaker 1: mind so many times in his career that he's kind
Speaker 1: of used to it. It takes a while to learn
Speaker 1: to do that, put it all away and start something new. Man.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, I'm really enjoying the transparency of
Speaker 1: these Changuille Press conferences, especially his answer here talking about
Speaker 1: the value having size on the offensive line and how
Speaker 1: maybe that's not the most important thing. You have to
Speaker 1: be able to use it for it to matter. There
Speaker 1: are a bunch of four hundred pound people around out
Speaker 1: there that can't play football. Okay, so size is not
Speaker 1: the only factor. It's like people used to tell me, Hey,
Speaker 1: you got to you got some great speed at receiver. Well,
Speaker 1: if speed was the only factor, we go signed the
Speaker 1: Olympic team to come play football. So size is not
Speaker 1: the only factor in the offensive line. But the key
Speaker 1: is to get those guys using that strength in that way,
Speaker 1: going in the right direction, doing the right things. Uh,
Speaker 1: and that's the challenge for us. Bigger is better only
Speaker 1: if it's better. Bigger is better only if it's better.
Speaker 1: What a quote to end that question up. Next, Chance
Speaker 1: was asked about the progress of rookie Malcolm Perry and
Speaker 1: his offense so far and what he's seen from the
Speaker 1: former Navy star. Malcolm is is an interesting guy, having
Speaker 1: played quarterback in the option and um, he's got some
Speaker 1: good quickness. Uh, he's got a feel for the game.
Speaker 1: He's played tag growing up. You know he knows how
Speaker 1: to make people miss and make him get out of
Speaker 1: the way. You know, he he learned early on how
Speaker 1: to do that, how to look look at a guy
Speaker 1: and know when he's off balance, so he's got his
Speaker 1: foot in the wrong place and he can make a
Speaker 1: move the other way. So he's got a little unique
Speaker 1: talent there. And that's one thing that gives me hope
Speaker 1: that he can, you know, play receiver for us because
Speaker 1: he does have a feel for getting people off balance,
Speaker 1: finding holes. He understands the game pretty well. Probably playing
Speaker 1: quarterback helped him understand the game fairly well. So he's
Speaker 1: an interesting guy, uh to work with. And um, the
Speaker 1: other guys are working. You know, we hadn't had but
Speaker 1: what three or four at it. I don't even know.
Speaker 1: They run into each other now, three padded practices. We've
Speaker 1: got to We've got a lot of work to do
Speaker 1: in a short time to do it up. Next, coach
Speaker 1: evaluates another wide receiver on his roster, a player who's
Speaker 1: come out of the gates hot and training camp picking
Speaker 1: up where he left off last season. He's had excellent
Speaker 1: hand eye coordinations, got route running skills. He's got the
Speaker 1: speed and the size to make a difference on the
Speaker 1: football field, especially when he's one on one. He can
Speaker 1: be physical with guys. Um. I'm I'm really looking forward
Speaker 1: to working with him and see what he develops into
Speaker 1: UM and hopefully we can build on what he how
Speaker 1: he finished the year last year. Hopefully we can build
Speaker 1: on that. That of course about Davonte Parker, Dolphin's wide receiver.
Speaker 1: To finish this up here with chan Gailey, he was
Speaker 1: asked about how he adapts the offensive personnel he has
Speaker 1: and how you want to emphasize the strengths of the
Speaker 1: players you have and put them in a position to
Speaker 1: really show those strengths on Sundays. As a coordinator, you
Speaker 1: get excited about what guys can do. You don't fret
Speaker 1: about what they can't do. Uh. So you take the
Speaker 1: guys and take their skill set and the things that
Speaker 1: you're excited about, and you try to put them in
Speaker 1: position to be successful. And I think we have an
Speaker 1: a set of guys on our football team. They give
Speaker 1: me some excitement about what we might be able to
Speaker 1: do with this crew. Up next, we got coach Studentsville,
Speaker 1: who of course coaches the running backs, and he started
Speaker 1: off with the question about evaluating both Jordan Howard and
Speaker 1: Matt Brita so far through the first week of training, camp. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you think you see them is that they're
Speaker 1: both competitive people, which is one of the things you
Speaker 1: know we really want is we're looking for guys who
Speaker 1: want to come in and compete and work. Those guys
Speaker 1: feel those those roles for us for sure. Um, you
Speaker 1: know you see Matt bursting speed. We've seen a couple
Speaker 1: of times in the open. You see, Um Jordan's got
Speaker 1: really good feed, in line, vision, in line, all the
Speaker 1: things you expect. I think they both you know, will
Speaker 1: be able to contribute as m pass protectors. We started
Speaker 1: to do some more drills with that in practice as
Speaker 1: far as rush drills, so we're seeing that. We got
Speaker 1: to continue to develop that. But we're just we're continuing
Speaker 1: to get them doing everything. I just don't have enough
Speaker 1: of a feel for them on a big volume to
Speaker 1: know what exactly their whole packages are right now. But
Speaker 1: you love everything about both of those guys on the
Speaker 1: field and the classroom. They're smart, they understand football, They're
Speaker 1: they're passionate about it. They want to be good, they
Speaker 1: want to work, and so we just gotta keep developing
Speaker 1: and building up. Next, coach talked about the benefit of
Speaker 1: size up front on the offensive line and how the
Speaker 1: offense can go through the running game to create play
Speaker 1: action opportunities, and how the entire balance of the offense
Speaker 1: depends on itself. Well, hopefully it's gonna help us overalls
Speaker 1: and offense. You know those big guys too, they gotta pass,
Speaker 1: protect and and those kind of things. So I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna factor into the run game as well as
Speaker 1: the pass game, and then hopefully we have some play
Speaker 1: actions in there too. So the better we run the ball,
Speaker 1: the more we'll be able to play action ass off
Speaker 1: of it, and we'll still be able to drop back,
Speaker 1: pass and do some things. So I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we've gotten better, I think in that, but again we
Speaker 1: don't know really how much better yet until we start
Speaker 1: doing some more things and pass. We've only had a
Speaker 1: few days in past, so we gotta keep building this.
Speaker 1: But um, I like the direction that goes. I think
Speaker 1: there's a good mix with what the offensive line and
Speaker 1: the backs are figuring out from each other right now.
Speaker 1: We just we still gotta keep working on And as
Speaker 1: I record this podcast, I'm drinking a diet pepsi out
Speaker 1: of my Washington State Cougars Cuzy. Here is coach talking
Speaker 1: about Washington Husky Miles Gaskin, and I'll go back to
Speaker 1: crying into my die PEPSI thinking about those four Apple
Speaker 1: cups he once ruined for Washington State Cougar fans and
Speaker 1: alumni everywhere. You know, Miles. Miles has done a great job.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, so far and what we've done, I
Speaker 1: think he's, you know, head and shoulders above where he
Speaker 1: was at this time last year. I think, you know,
Speaker 1: the work and the effort that he puts into the game,
Speaker 1: and the passion that he has to want to work
Speaker 1: and to want to be good at this and to
Speaker 1: get everything, I think has started to really show. And
Speaker 1: he invested in himself last year and is paying off
Speaker 1: for him now. He's playing more confident, he's playing faster,
Speaker 1: and I think we're seeing some of the skill set
Speaker 1: that that he's had in the past. We're starting to
Speaker 1: see now what really some of his potential is. And
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and finish this one up with a
Speaker 1: question from yours truly. Hey, coach, you want to go
Speaker 1: back to Jordan Howard here again. You touched on his
Speaker 1: vision a little bit there in the first question. Is
Speaker 1: that something that's just inherent in the back or can
Speaker 1: he kind of help impart some of that wisdom on
Speaker 1: the rest of the room and the way he reads
Speaker 1: blocks and sets things up. Well, a lot of it
Speaker 1: is is reactions and what they do. But certainly we
Speaker 1: have things that we're looking at as to what how
Speaker 1: a play is designed. I mean we talked about that
Speaker 1: a lot of times and meetings. Hey, where what are
Speaker 1: eyes doing? What are we thinking here? Um? You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that can know what the
Speaker 1: place you're doing, and there's a difference in the guys
Speaker 1: that can make the play do what it's supposed to do.
Speaker 1: And Jordan's has that ability to find holes to create
Speaker 1: for himself. He's got good feed in line. Um, he has.
Speaker 1: He has what we call vision and be able to
Speaker 1: find things up. Next, we have Coach Marshall the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And at yesterday's practice, I noticed Eric Flowers coming out
Speaker 1: of the building with this band and harness apparatus that
Speaker 1: he was carrying all by himself out there, and I
Speaker 1: didn't think much of it, But then late on Wednesday night,
Speaker 1: I saw a tweet from Omar Kelly of the South
Speaker 1: Florida Sun Sentinel where he talked about the Dolphins offensive
Speaker 1: line working every day after practice and Eric Flowers kind
Speaker 1: of being the ring leader, the leader of that group,
Speaker 1: getting those young guys the extra reps. And I went
Speaker 1: back and found this quote that I found from Bill Callahan,
Speaker 1: the interim head coach last year and former offensive line
Speaker 1: coach up in Washington with Eric Flowers. Here's what he
Speaker 1: had to say about Flowers quote. I love Flowers. I
Speaker 1: loved him coming out of the draft. I think the
Speaker 1: world of him. He's physical, He's been really good in
Speaker 1: past protection. He's a strong, square force in that respect.
Speaker 1: I just love the kid. I just like the way
Speaker 1: he works, how he goes about his business. Sometimes it's
Speaker 1: a breath of fresh air. I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: guys in my career, a couple of different places that
Speaker 1: sometimes a different exposure to new techniques, a different system,
Speaker 1: it kind of revives them. He'll hit the free agency
Speaker 1: market and I think he'll do well. It's just going
Speaker 1: back to the work ethic and the fact that he's
Speaker 1: all about business. We see on the practice field and
Speaker 1: the extra reps and him getting work with the younger guys.
Speaker 1: We also hear it here from coach Marshall talking about
Speaker 1: his new offensive lineman and Eric Flowers. Well, I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's huge, not only Eric and Ted and Jesse and
Speaker 1: some of the guys that have played in this league. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's really guys like that and help guys, you know,
Speaker 1: because those young guys, you know, they've had you know,
Speaker 1: three weeks work and it's a whole different ballgame. The
Speaker 1: speed is different, the obviously the size and the physical movement.
Speaker 1: Uh So yeah, every day, Uh, that not only helps them,
Speaker 1: they they give them a little uh tidbit and help
Speaker 1: him do with with fundamentals and technique and some of
Speaker 1: the things we're asking them to do. And then you know,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what that's what old line do. That
Speaker 1: that helps build camaraderie and all all the different aspects
Speaker 1: that that goes into playing offensive line in this league.
Speaker 1: Up next, coach talks about the evaluation so far of
Speaker 1: his three rookie draft picks along the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: Solomon Kinley, Robert Hunt and Austin Jackson. Uh, those three guys,
Speaker 1: if I have taken the role, you know, they're coming
Speaker 1: in and they're learning every day. Every every play is
Speaker 1: a new adventure for those guys. Uh, there were very
Speaker 1: good players at the last at college level, and uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're getting better every day. Uh their bright eyed,
Speaker 1: they learn and uh they're they're competing heart you know,
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're we've been pleased a gout. It's
Speaker 1: just starting three days of pads and the flow in
Speaker 1: the hot Florida sun is Uh. He's a little bit
Speaker 1: of an eye opener for some of those guys, but
Speaker 1: uh uh they're fighting through it. And you're gonna kind
Speaker 1: of notice a theme here on these press availabilities, as
Speaker 1: these guys will talk about football and break the game
Speaker 1: down for you in a way that's easy to understand.
Speaker 1: Coach Marshall was asked about how he evaluates offensive lineman
Speaker 1: because there's not really a way to quantify how they perform.
Speaker 1: Here's what coach had to say about how he evaluates
Speaker 1: his offensive lineman. Well, it goes the skill set, it
Speaker 1: goes to smarts, that goes to toughness. Uh uh is
Speaker 1: he a team guy? And you know Cam uh is
Speaker 1: it Cameron? Yeah? He? Uh, those guys usually our team
Speaker 1: guys because you know they obviously as you know, they
Speaker 1: don't there's no stats involved with offensive line. You know,
Speaker 1: they try to make them with all these different different things.
Speaker 1: But the end of the day, the the best five
Speaker 1: guys that can block them all right, you can do
Speaker 1: it intelligently and do it over a long period of
Speaker 1: time are the ones that are very successful in this
Speaker 1: le And uh, that's what kind of we're trying to
Speaker 1: build filled with these guys. And that's the best I
Speaker 1: can tell you. There's they got to have the skill set,
Speaker 1: you know that it's it's bigger, faster, stronger. But there's
Speaker 1: a lot more that goes into an old line is
Speaker 1: all about intelligent, being able to work on your feet,
Speaker 1: being able to change, you know, doing things quickly, uh,
Speaker 1: mentally and physically. And here's some further evaluation on Dolphins
Speaker 1: fourth round draft pick out of Georgia Solomon Kinley. Well,
Speaker 1: Solomon is a guy. You know, if you went back
Speaker 1: and looked at him at Georgia, you know, he's a
Speaker 1: big man, he's smart, he's you know, he's a smart guy.
Speaker 1: He loves to play the game. And that's the one
Speaker 1: thing I think that uh, you know, for a twenty
Speaker 1: one year old kid that's that left college early to
Speaker 1: come to the NFL, he's got to want to be
Speaker 1: a very good player. But obviously he has physical attributes
Speaker 1: and skill set that that you know, my grandmother can
Speaker 1: see that. He's, you know, a big man. But the
Speaker 1: thing about Solomon he comes to work every day so
Speaker 1: far he is not we put a lot on him.
Speaker 1: We want to see where he is, and he's not
Speaker 1: back down a bit, and uh, you know, every days
Speaker 1: an adventure for him. Joe, he's guy that you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, it's a whole new thing for him,
Speaker 1: a whole new Norman Clakes are a whole new thing.
Speaker 1: And and you know, uh, as rookies do, they have
Speaker 1: good plays, they have bad plays. And my job is
Speaker 1: to eliminate the bad ones and keep making the good
Speaker 1: ones better. And that's really where Solomon is, as is
Speaker 1: Rob and a j and some of the other young
Speaker 1: guys that are playing on the offensive play. And we'll
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up with my question for coach Marshall,
Speaker 1: who I happened to see. It seems like daily run
Speaker 1: the facility always give them what's up? And here's coach
Speaker 1: Sam what's up to me? And answering my question about
Speaker 1: how the Dolphins offensive line can benefit from seeing all
Speaker 1: the multiple looks up front. Of Brian Flores and Josh
Speaker 1: Bowyer's defense. Good morning, coach, how are you. What's up, Dravis.
Speaker 1: I We're doing I'm doing well. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you about the communication and protection calls up front and
Speaker 1: seeing a defense like the one that Flores and Boyer
Speaker 1: run with all those fronts and different rush packages, does
Speaker 1: that kind of help accelerate the growth of your young
Speaker 1: line up front. Oh, there's no doubt it starts. It starts,
Speaker 1: not just the young line, but you know, the whole group.
Speaker 1: You know you've gotta be and as as we've all documented,
Speaker 1: part of offensive line play, you know, was more of
Speaker 1: the pre snap stuff than the post snap stuff. You
Speaker 1: come out of the huddle. Uh, they give you a
Speaker 1: specific look we have to make a specific call based
Speaker 1: on that can pass, especially in past protection, but also
Speaker 1: in the run game. So yes, there's a huge communication
Speaker 1: um uh factor that we go through, making sure it
Speaker 1: goes from the guard to the tackle, to the guard
Speaker 1: in the center of the guard to the tackle. UM
Speaker 1: and making sure when when we get different looks like
Speaker 1: our defense does, they're very multiple. They give you a
Speaker 1: lot of different uh problems and it's it's really part
Speaker 1: of the whole maturation process and learning process to get
Speaker 1: the line to come together, and a lot of it
Speaker 1: is just time on the job over and over again
Speaker 1: and seeing the different things that we've got to see
Speaker 1: and be able to handle and pass protection and and
Speaker 1: not andy obviously in the run game too, but past
Speaker 1: protection is really where that's the difference between pro ball
Speaker 1: and as opposed to kind of college ball. You know
Speaker 1: what these young guys have, but not only for that,
Speaker 1: but for the Ted Carresses and Eric Flowers and Jesse's
Speaker 1: and the guys that have had who are basically young
Speaker 1: veterans that you know every year. Again, the Norman clature
Speaker 1: and the different ways we say things and the different
Speaker 1: language that we use has got to be practiced in
Speaker 1: meetings and practiced in games to be able to handle
Speaker 1: all the different looks and pressures you get. And we
Speaker 1: go hot change here and bringing coach Robbie Brown, the
Speaker 1: coach of the quarterback room, and we start with the
Speaker 1: question once again from yours truly. You know, I find
Speaker 1: the personality dynamic in that quarterback room pretty intriguing. And
Speaker 1: my question here is sort of two pronged. One, how
Speaker 1: are those personalities meshing and do you find yourself not
Speaker 1: just teaching, but also kind of learning from the cerebral
Speaker 1: guys you have in that room there and Fits and
Speaker 1: Josh and too a well, the room does have a
Speaker 1: lot of personality, is fun to be in. And most
Speaker 1: quarterback rooms you go into, you gotta be on your
Speaker 1: toes because they're witty there. You know, you gotta know
Speaker 1: what you're saying, be ready for all kinds of comments
Speaker 1: and things like that. So it's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: being in there, being around them. It's fun watching them
Speaker 1: in her act together learn from each other. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you I mean, obviously you're gonna learn something from every
Speaker 1: single guy, how they see things, how they process things. Uh.
Speaker 1: So it has been a good time learning, seeing teaching
Speaker 1: all three of those guests. Up next, Coach was asked
Speaker 1: about a play that occurred on Wednesday where two US
Speaker 1: hungle Voloa escaped the pocket and slid down and gave
Speaker 1: up on the play quote unquote as Coach would talk
Speaker 1: about it. And here he is talking about that learning experience,
Speaker 1: not just for two but for Josh and Fits and
Speaker 1: all the quarterbacks in that room and how they can
Speaker 1: apply the knowledge of the offense and knowing the right
Speaker 1: time to execute certain plays or certain ideas like giving
Speaker 1: up on a play, throwing the ball away, sliding down
Speaker 1: to the turf, things like that. That's a learning situation
Speaker 1: for everybody. I obviously remember the play. If you're out there,
Speaker 1: you saw it. That's a learning situation for everybody. It's
Speaker 1: not just him. Obviously he's the one that did it.
Speaker 1: Had it been had it been Fits or Josh, we
Speaker 1: would have done the same thing. But you're always talking
Speaker 1: about pocket presence, knowing when to throw it away, when
Speaker 1: to give up, when to get down. And it's a
Speaker 1: fuel thing, you know. And you've got a guy that's
Speaker 1: how many of your year Vet Fits is you know.
Speaker 1: He talks through that, Uh, Josh talks through it to it,
Speaker 1: talks through what he sees. Chan talks through what he
Speaker 1: sees in the meeting. But that's always a process, and
Speaker 1: it's more about uh, when to give up, when to
Speaker 1: throw it away. But it's not just to Every quarterback
Speaker 1: lives through that. It doesn't matter who you are, where
Speaker 1: you are, Uh. In the process, that's always a decision
Speaker 1: and you're a competitor, so it's always a decision of
Speaker 1: what to do and when to do it. I told
Speaker 1: some of the people in the building here how much
Speaker 1: I love Coordinator Day on the podcast or on media
Speaker 1: availability because you get so many inside techniques or inside
Speaker 1: ideas about how coaches think and how they evaluate. Here's
Speaker 1: Coach Brown talking about the quarterback room, quarterback play in general,
Speaker 1: and how they think and how they're wired in that
Speaker 1: competitive mindset. You see some good, you see some throws
Speaker 1: that they wish they could do better. Um, And and
Speaker 1: that's the way practice is, and that's the way games are.
Speaker 1: Every NFL quarterback is extremely competitive. So if they're fifty
Speaker 1: nine and sixty, they're worried about that one. And it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's Josh or Fits or two or
Speaker 1: whoever it is. Uh. But I tell you, it's just
Speaker 1: been fun to get out there and be on the
Speaker 1: grass and see all three of them throws, to see,
Speaker 1: uh see a practice go. I'm sure it's been fun
Speaker 1: for you guys as well. But UM, you know, we
Speaker 1: just gotta try to get better each and every day,
Speaker 1: and all three of them in every aspect, whether it
Speaker 1: be calls and throws, footwork, everything, just trying to improve
Speaker 1: every single day. And we wrap up with Coach Brown
Speaker 1: here with an evaluation on Josh Rose and entering your
Speaker 1: number two here with the Miami Dolphins, he has come
Speaker 1: in mentally really trying to learn the offense, understand the offense. Uh.
Speaker 1: And just like the other two guys, he's made some
Speaker 1: good throws the past few days. He's made them not
Speaker 1: so great throws the past few days. But his effort
Speaker 1: to improve every day has been really good. Uh. Improve mentally, Uh,
Speaker 1: improve his throws, improve his footwork. He's always thinking through
Speaker 1: those kind of things. Um. And and I think really
Speaker 1: the mantra that that flow has put out, Hey, let's
Speaker 1: go out there and get better today, I think he
Speaker 1: is really trying to do that and live him by
Speaker 1: that rule and talking about the quarterbacks to the guys
Speaker 1: they throw to in the receivers and coach Josh Grizzard
Speaker 1: here is coach answering my question to start things off
Speaker 1: about Isaiah Ford. I wanted to ask you about Isaiah Ford.
Speaker 1: In a comment that Ryan Fitzpatrick made last December about
Speaker 1: his knowledge of the offense, went as far as to
Speaker 1: call him special on the way he prepares and studies.
Speaker 1: Can you tell us what you see from Isaiah Ford
Speaker 1: in terms of a preparation standpoint, and how he's able
Speaker 1: to really absorb the offense so comprehensively. Isaiah is a
Speaker 1: very very smart football player. He completely understands not only
Speaker 1: his job, but the guy beside him. He might even
Speaker 1: be able to tell you what the old line is doing.
Speaker 1: He might tell you what the protection is. So he
Speaker 1: knows that because he studies it. He loves the game.
Speaker 1: He and I can see this guy coaching one day
Speaker 1: down the line and he Um, he does have elite
Speaker 1: knowledge of what we're doing, what his role is, and
Speaker 1: he just enjoyed to be around because he understands it
Speaker 1: from our level. And next a question about coaches, focus
Speaker 1: on Devonte Parker and what he wants to work on
Speaker 1: and get better at this season to improve upon last
Speaker 1: year's breakout season. Yeah, the fact that he was healthy
Speaker 1: last year and had all that success. It's beautiful to
Speaker 1: see this year that he's now more vocal. Um. You
Speaker 1: can tell that's coming along. Um. The first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks of camp really the same thing. And and guys
Speaker 1: gravitated that. The young guys that are around, they see that,
Speaker 1: they see the way he works. Um, he now understands
Speaker 1: I think more than ever that not only is your
Speaker 1: job to get open to catch the ball, but if
Speaker 1: it's a concept that you need to go get doubled
Speaker 1: or you need to be in this spot to open
Speaker 1: it up for the next guy. He understands that side
Speaker 1: of it too. I think he understands defenses more than ever.
Speaker 1: So just seeing him take those stripes has been good.
Speaker 1: Kind of just going down the roster here we did
Speaker 1: Isaiah Ford, DeVante Parker and now coach will talk about
Speaker 1: both Matt Cole and Gary Jennings. Yeah, so Matt, Um,
Speaker 1: it's been good to actually get a chance to work
Speaker 1: with him and get to the point where putting the
Speaker 1: pads on and what you see from Matt is Matt
Speaker 1: is a strong player. Um, He's an explosive guy. He
Speaker 1: can get in and out of breaks quickly and and
Speaker 1: we've been able to see that over the last few
Speaker 1: practices on the field. So just seeing that in person,
Speaker 1: and really the same thing of going from talking about
Speaker 1: this thing on zoom to give him the field of
Speaker 1: doing it has been has been good. And then to Gary, Uh,
Speaker 1: Gary's a tough player, he's physical, Um, a lot of
Speaker 1: the same things where sometimes you rather run through a
Speaker 1: guy than around him. So it's good to see that
Speaker 1: aspect of the game as well. And we'll just go
Speaker 1: ahead and keep on rolling here with Preston Williams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that he's really just focused on the last
Speaker 1: few months of just getting back to where he was
Speaker 1: and and now that he's working towards that, it's how
Speaker 1: can I run this route slightly differently, or if I'm
Speaker 1: seeing this coverage the same thing. To the point I
Speaker 1: was making about DeVante and really the rest of the
Speaker 1: group on it's not always me, I gotta go beat
Speaker 1: this guy, but let me be in this spot so
Speaker 1: that this play is effective. So the Dolphins move the
Speaker 1: ball down the field, and I think he sees that more.
Speaker 1: He's seeing more defenses. He's just putting that in his
Speaker 1: mind on catalog and they're like, Okay, I can reach
Speaker 1: back to this at some point down the line. On
Speaker 1: I've had that experience, so um, he's done a good
Speaker 1: job with that and just getting that feel for it.
Speaker 1: Ums has been his main thing and one more coach
Speaker 1: to get here to the tight ends coach George Gods.
Speaker 1: He talked about Adam Shaheen to kick things off here,
Speaker 1: but just in general, the way coach breaks things down
Speaker 1: from a football perspective. Really good insight here from the
Speaker 1: Dolphins tight end coach. Here he is talking about new
Speaker 1: tight end Adam Shaheen. Well, yeah, you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: gradually grasping the offense. You know, Unfortunately for Adam, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't here in the springs to be
Speaker 1: able to digest that amount of time that we spent
Speaker 1: in these virtual meetings. He's put He's put a lot
Speaker 1: of effort and uh, you know, really commend him on
Speaker 1: on catching up honestly from a mental standpoint, and then
Speaker 1: you know physically, Uh, there's there's obviously some history of
Speaker 1: him not being out there on the field. He's been
Speaker 1: working hard in the training room and to get out there,
Speaker 1: continue to improve his reps and then continue to show
Speaker 1: some production from especially a blocking standpoint. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: it's hard in the preseason to get everybody the ball. Um.
Speaker 1: He has definitely some uh you know, touchdown background, let's
Speaker 1: call it in the NFL, so we know he can
Speaker 1: he can catch the ball. Um, But you know, when
Speaker 1: you're trying to evaluate, you know, uh, an extra group
Speaker 1: of running backs, some extra receivers, Uh, you know, all
Speaker 1: the different quarterbacks trying to rotate that. There's it's complex
Speaker 1: and getting you know, the ball distributed to everybody. So um,
Speaker 1: we're gonna take it, you know, one day at a time.
Speaker 1: But you know, you bring up some good points there
Speaker 1: as far as him improving data day, and we've got
Speaker 1: about two more weeks for that to to keep going
Speaker 1: before it's you know, season time. Last week, Coach joked
Speaker 1: with Cameron Wolf of ESPN about his backdrop in the
Speaker 1: balcony and how inviting it looked. Cam didn't have that
Speaker 1: backdrop this time, but Coach did joke with him about
Speaker 1: his traps and how they're looking better. A George don't
Speaker 1: have a balcony in the backdrop this week, but that's
Speaker 1: where I traps look. Rettle bigger though, Um, I want
Speaker 1: to ask you, I guess you got you got? It
Speaker 1: seems like you have guys that may not necessarily be
Speaker 1: in your room full time, but may play some some
Speaker 1: h back or some move tight end. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: like a mac Hollins or like a Chandler Cox. How
Speaker 1: do you work with those guys? Google? Like you said,
Speaker 1: like I said, may not be in your room full time,
Speaker 1: but maybe play some tight end roles. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: this is a very complicated thing with really every club.
Speaker 1: It's you know, the hybrid players, um, you know, and
Speaker 1: being able to um, let's say, adapt to another another role.
Speaker 1: So you know, potentially could Chandler cor to carry the football,
Speaker 1: so he's got to learn some running back stuff from
Speaker 1: a protection standpoint, from a running back landmark standpoint. Um.
Speaker 1: And then the tight end role. You know, obviously there's
Speaker 1: on the line, there's extended as a technically they are
Speaker 1: tight ends in the in the media guy, but they
Speaker 1: could be extended and play essentially a receiver or detached
Speaker 1: eligible position. So um. And then you know, as a
Speaker 1: tight end, as you get off the ball and get
Speaker 1: into a position to to block as a fullback, so um.
Speaker 1: You know, it takes obviously a lot of extra time.
Speaker 1: And you know, when we're talking about being physical, obviously
Speaker 1: the fullback and the tight end, those two positions have
Speaker 1: a lot of merging roles. So those two guys essentially
Speaker 1: or those two positions are are in this room, and
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, something that I say, I may
Speaker 1: be talking to Chandler, but I'm really speaking to the
Speaker 1: whole room. So that they hear the point because you know,
Speaker 1: and I always bring up as you may get up
Speaker 1: to bat and face you know, three A fastballs, but
Speaker 1: you know at some point you're going to face the curveball.
Speaker 1: And if you're not listening to a correction that was
Speaker 1: made to another player, then you know we're not going
Speaker 1: to be ready for that pitch or that defense. So
Speaker 1: to say so, Um, it's definitely a burden for those
Speaker 1: guys when they're sitting there in the meeting room and
Speaker 1: you're really addressing a certain player. But for them to
Speaker 1: process that information and put them in that spot, um,
Speaker 1: you know, that's how that whole room improves from like
Speaker 1: you said, a toughness or physical standpoint, especially in the
Speaker 1: run game. And the next question for coach had to
Speaker 1: deal with Dolphins third year tight end Durham Smith and
Speaker 1: an overall evaluation of what he brings to the Miami
Speaker 1: tight end room. Yeah. I mean the whole room is
Speaker 1: essentially a young room, and so I see those guys improving,
Speaker 1: um in all phases, uh, every day. And you know
Speaker 1: there's a certain degree in the run game, uh, or
Speaker 1: if we're speaking to Derham specifically, that he's able to
Speaker 1: provide for us maybe a little bit differently than um, Michael,
Speaker 1: uh say. And then there's also some things that he
Speaker 1: can do, um that maybe Michael you can't do. So Um,
Speaker 1: he's concentrating on, you know, some of the weaknesses from
Speaker 1: last year and improving those. But professional and mental standpoint,
Speaker 1: this guy is as sharp as anybody in our offensive room. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he understands defenses, he understands techniques. Um. And
Speaker 1: again to Cameron's question, when you're blocking all those different angles,
Speaker 1: inserta and as a fullback on the point of attack
Speaker 1: as a tight end. You know, that's just that's not
Speaker 1: like a one stop shop like and and to process
Speaker 1: that and understand what exactly those players are doing. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I tip my hat to Durham because sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a thankless job because it doesn't show up in
Speaker 1: the staff book. Eight catches um uh you know for
Speaker 1: whatever yards. But he's a big part of us of
Speaker 1: being successful. Run play action and you know, when the
Speaker 1: ball is thrown him, he gets his opportunit unity, he's
Speaker 1: got to take advantage of it, which you know he's
Speaker 1: shown a little bit of that here in these first
Speaker 1: few days with paths up Next, a question from once
Speaker 1: again yours truly, Hey, coach, I want to kind of
Speaker 1: continue that theme about talking about the way Mike and
Speaker 1: Durham kind of balance each other because we saw the
Speaker 1: versatility last year with Mike playing a lot out wide
Speaker 1: in the slot in line, and I'm curious, when you're
Speaker 1: in twelve personnel there with two tight ends, how important
Speaker 1: is it to have some type of balance in both
Speaker 1: play style and body type and those two tight ends
Speaker 1: on the field. It's it's extremely important. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: you don't want to loaded boxes what we say when
Speaker 1: everybody just comes down there and plays and run, and
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're facing a defense that
Speaker 1: UM wants to respect your ability to threaten them vertically
Speaker 1: essentially in the passing game, then we need to have
Speaker 1: you know, enough hands on hands or hats on hats
Speaker 1: from a blocking standpoint to be able to allow us
Speaker 1: to run for some yards. So the tight end position,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's a threat initially because we're on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimge for the most part, Um, and
Speaker 1: we're able to get into the defense a little bit
Speaker 1: different from a full back position because we're now you know,
Speaker 1: at let's call level two, level three, in the backfield
Speaker 1: depending on exactly the position. Um So, the tight end
Speaker 1: position is a vital position to providing that pass and
Speaker 1: run threat. Um So, it's it's it's extremely important for
Speaker 1: both of those guys to excel at both run and pass.
Speaker 1: You know, albeit they're they're blocking different players at certain times,
Speaker 1: sometimes dvs, sometimes defensive alignment. And you know, that's our
Speaker 1: job to put those guys in positions where we feel
Speaker 1: like the most effective versus that defense. And now you
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Speaker 1: for you safely. This pandemic has reminded us that crisis
Speaker 1: doesn't build character, it reveals it. It's also taught us
Speaker 1: that our health is truly what matters most. We have
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Speaker 1: been about one month since I got here into South
Speaker 1: Florida for this job, moving my family across the country,
Speaker 1: and I've learned a few things about the difference between
Speaker 1: life in central Washington State and South Florida, and there
Speaker 1: are plenty of them. Let's go ahead and rip off
Speaker 1: the notes that I wrote down for this real quick
Speaker 1: signals and speed limits on the road are optional. You
Speaker 1: can go like seventy miles in forty five and no
Speaker 1: one's gonna care. You can jump four lanes without using
Speaker 1: a turn signal and nobody cares about that either. So
Speaker 1: it's the wild wild West out here. Wacky races in
Speaker 1: South Florida. You can host an Animal Planet show from
Speaker 1: the garage at the Nova Southeastern campus where we park
Speaker 1: for Dolphins Facility, Dolphins practice everything dolphins related. I found
Speaker 1: a raccoon in Iguana. There are stray cats out there,
Speaker 1: there's ducks walking around. I have seen pretty much every
Speaker 1: kind of animal you can imagine out in that garage.
Speaker 1: Might have to pull Steve Irwin Side episode here of
Speaker 1: the Drivetime podcast one of these days. Number three. Always
Speaker 1: be privy of the weather report, because I've been caught
Speaker 1: out in the rain on jogs, on my walk from
Speaker 1: the facility out here to the podcast studio, I get
Speaker 1: caught in the rain as much as anybody I feel like,
Speaker 1: and that's a South Florida lesson. Number one. Be aware
Speaker 1: of the weather report and probably always have an umbrella.
Speaker 1: Also enjoy the tame temperatures. Number four here because on
Speaker 1: Wednesday's practice the sun was a little bit of cloud
Speaker 1: coverage out there, there was a cool breeze, and my goodness,
Speaker 1: it was so much more enjoyable than sitting out in
Speaker 1: the hot, baking sun. And that just thick heat and humidity.
Speaker 1: So when you get those days, you really have to
Speaker 1: enjoy them. Number five. This is probably not South Florida,
Speaker 1: but more of just living in a gated complex. Do
Speaker 1: not order food delivery service. If you live in a
Speaker 1: gated complex, it never gets there. I'm oh for three,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna have to go start driving to places,
Speaker 1: which is kind of a bummer because I get home late.
Speaker 1: I don't want to go cook, I don't want to
Speaker 1: go out to a restaurant, so I need that delivery service,
Speaker 1: but it's just not working out for me. Number six,
Speaker 1: being a fan of a West Coast team is just
Speaker 1: not possible if you have an alarm clock to wake
Speaker 1: up to the next morning. Trying to watch my marriage games,
Speaker 1: I fall asleep in the fifth or sixth ending almost
Speaker 1: every single night. They started most of those games at
Speaker 1: nine forty Eastern time. I just can't make it because
Speaker 1: I'm in bed by eleven eleven at the latest. And
Speaker 1: this one from my wife. I was surprised by this comment.
Speaker 1: She said, people out here are nicer. Do you guys
Speaker 1: have that same experience? People in South Florida are nicer
Speaker 1: than other parts of the country. That's what she said.
Speaker 1: She said that, that is what she said. She said
Speaker 1: that was her experience at Target and place different stories
Speaker 1: she went to, like home Goods. She said, everybody was
Speaker 1: super nice and like greeted her and was very kind
Speaker 1: to her that way. So those are my South Florida
Speaker 1: lessons so far. Let me know what you think about
Speaker 1: those on Twitter. Let me know if you think they're wrong,
Speaker 1: if I should change those, if I should add more
Speaker 1: to them. I want to hear your takes on South
Speaker 1: Florida from the folks that live here. As for today's podcast,
Speaker 1: that is going to be my time you all, please
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