Speaker 1: To on remove Dallan Deep Speedways past Hellas.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studio this inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: He's good, my avands in the playoffs? What is up Dolphins?
Speaker 2: And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am your host,
Speaker 2: Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, another day of Dolphins
Speaker 2: practice number thirteen is in the books. We'll have the
Speaker 2: news from a light practice. Plenty of news we heard
Speaker 2: from coach, some players including Jalen Phillips who is back
Speaker 2: if you have not heard that news already. And finally,
Speaker 2: some additional notes from the game after a film rewatch,
Speaker 2: and some thoughts from around the National Football League after
Speaker 2: the first game first week, I should say of exhibition
Speaker 2: games across the NFL. From the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 2: the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is It's a Drivetime podcast.
Speaker 2: So in lieu of a bunch of practice notes, we
Speaker 2: do have some We're gonna run a ton of audio
Speaker 2: today and it might be something of a clip show
Speaker 2: from what you've seen from sitcoms over the years, but
Speaker 2: I'm gonna have a ton of audio on the podcast
Speaker 2: and it's not stuff we've done in the past, so
Speaker 2: it's not really a clip show. I'm just gonna rely
Speaker 2: on different voices for a large portion of this podcast,
Speaker 2: and we'll do that to kick it off with some
Speaker 2: news and some great news at that that I already spoiled,
Speaker 2: and then you already know by now you listen to
Speaker 2: this podcast for news because we are late on the
Speaker 2: news because podcasts aren't live. But Jalen Phillips is back
Speaker 2: and by k E Style. I wanted to ask JP
Speaker 2: about reflecting on that day on the trainer's table, the
Speaker 2: day after the injury, the one they captured on Hard Knocks,
Speaker 2: where he was talking about this opportunity for himself, and
Speaker 2: I think the somber nature of that episode really reflected,
Speaker 2: or rather resonated with Dolphins fans everywhere, and so I
Speaker 2: wanted to check with him on that because he's such
Speaker 2: a thoughtful and just introspective guy about where he was
Speaker 2: that day and where he is today and where his
Speaker 2: mind goes when he thinks about those lonely days in
Speaker 2: the trainer's room versus being out there with his friends
Speaker 2: and his teammates. And as you'll hear from him here,
Speaker 2: he has in fact seen the episode of Hard Knocks
Speaker 2: a few times, several.
Speaker 1: Several times, a lot of times. Yeah, I mean when
Speaker 1: it happened, obviously, I was just so devastated that, you know,
Speaker 1: all the work that we put in together as a
Speaker 1: team and obviously individually throughout the whole offseason and everything
Speaker 1: culminating to that, and kind of just the way the
Speaker 1: season was going. Obviously I had some some adversity in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season injury wise, and so I
Speaker 1: felt like I was really hitting my stride and to
Speaker 1: you know, especially the way that game was going. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I was hooping, I was bawling out. Mike
Speaker 1: had told me before the game, like this is your
Speaker 1: opportunity to kind of be a household name. And so
Speaker 1: I was riding high, like probably the highest I've been
Speaker 1: in my in my NFL career, and then to be
Speaker 1: humbled just like that, it was. It was devastating. And
Speaker 1: but right when I happened, I remember going to the
Speaker 1: shower and I was crying, and I just told myself
Speaker 1: like like this is okay. Like this, I'm gonna attack this,
Speaker 1: like I'm gonna get over this, and it's gonna make
Speaker 1: me stronger at the end of the day. So I
Speaker 1: really thank god. I really said thank you, like thank
Speaker 1: you for giving me this opportunity because I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna make me a monster. And so yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: been a hell of a journey, just having to test
Speaker 1: my patience. Like I said, I couldn't walked for basically
Speaker 1: four months, and then getting back into it obviously, like
Speaker 1: I love running, I love speed, That's my whole thing,
Speaker 1: and so coming back into it, having to start on
Speaker 1: the treadmill and then when I'm out, you know, running
Speaker 1: on the ground. Like the first couple of times I
Speaker 1: was running, it felt good, but then afterwards I'm super,
Speaker 1: super sore and having to cut it down for a
Speaker 1: little bit. So it's just been an up and down process.
Speaker 1: Like most things in life in general aren't linear, but
Speaker 1: especially recovering from injuries and a major injury like that,
Speaker 1: it's not linear. It's been a lot of peaks, a
Speaker 1: lot of alleys. But I feel like I'm in a
Speaker 1: really strong part of my recovery right now and I'm
Speaker 1: making a lot of big strides. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: I don't have a lot of time to reflect on it,
Speaker 1: just because like I said, I'm so president. I'm so
Speaker 1: focused and really so eager to get back. But like
Speaker 1: when I watch those videos and stuff like that, sometimes
Speaker 1: I'll be having to remind myself, like who I am
Speaker 1: as a player, Right, I've been looking at old film,
Speaker 1: looking at the Hard Knocks episode and stuff, just to
Speaker 1: give me that confidence because I've been away from the
Speaker 1: gay This is the longest basically in my whole life
Speaker 1: that I've been away from football other than when I retired.
Speaker 1: But you know, it's kind of a different story. But
Speaker 1: I came back swinging when I retired, so hey, don't
Speaker 1: come back swinging now.
Speaker 2: And then to follow up here, just the process of
Speaker 2: how he was able to get on this track for
Speaker 2: the speedy recovery and if you guys don't follow Ghost
Speaker 2: of Adam Gays on Twitter, recommend it. He's got some
Speaker 2: really good insights for you on rehabilitation. He's been talking
Speaker 2: about the Aaron Rodgers achilles injury for a minute now
Speaker 2: and he's got some updates on the Gelen Phillips recovery
Speaker 2: and has some good information about the stability of that
Speaker 2: leg and how it looks like he is pretty day
Speaker 2: close to getting back to to full go. Today was
Speaker 2: a little bit of walkthrough reps for him as well
Speaker 2: as to Ron Armstead. But I wanted to play this
Speaker 2: audio for you all on Jalen Phillips and how he
Speaker 2: got himself into this position to where it looks like
Speaker 2: come week one, been saying it, I think he's gonna go.
Speaker 1: Oh man. Just trying to take it day by day,
Speaker 1: trying not to get to ahead of myself. Obviously, I'm
Speaker 1: a high achiever and I want to come back healthy
Speaker 1: as quick as possible, and so throughout this whole process,
Speaker 1: I've just been listening to my body, listening to my
Speaker 1: trainers obviously, and it's been great so far and definitely
Speaker 1: be great.
Speaker 2: I always love getting a second hand perspective on a
Speaker 2: guy that's not going to brag on himself, and coach
Speaker 2: McDaniel will do that for us and tell us how
Speaker 2: special Number fifteen is.
Speaker 4: What I got to learn about Jalen Phillips is that
Speaker 4: he's a He's a very capable, strong learner, because this
Speaker 4: is a this was a test of internal fortitude coming
Speaker 4: at you know, for Jalen his game, he's he's always
Speaker 4: been an impact player, but he was right when he
Speaker 4: got injured, he was kind of there was momentum swinging
Speaker 4: in a positive regard towards his conviction of how to
Speaker 4: play his position. He was feeling a different level of.
Speaker 5: Confidence.
Speaker 4: And then for a guy that has ambitions as he does,
Speaker 4: he wants to be great in the worst way. It
Speaker 4: is a long vision challenge to attack this injury appropriately
Speaker 4: and not something that by nature is totally his speed.
Speaker 4: He wants to fix the issue and go play. So
Speaker 4: to watch him diligently go about the process, and I
Speaker 4: thought he was going to be a number one violator
Speaker 4: of of you know, secretly overdoing what he was supposed
Speaker 4: to do, to be patient and to have the vision
Speaker 4: for his teammates really and what you know, we're all
Speaker 4: relying upon him coming back and him being able to
Speaker 4: first find his footing from a health perspective and then
Speaker 4: be able to contribute to this team. I've been very
Speaker 4: proud of how he's how he's attacked that and while
Speaker 4: doing so, doing things that leaders do, which is you
Speaker 4: feel his presence as a teammate. You know, I think
Speaker 4: even when he's not playing, he definitely took note. Both
Speaker 4: him and Bradley did how Jalen Ramsey attacked his injury
Speaker 4: last year and as a result, he's he's already impacted
Speaker 4: twenty twenty four dolphins before he sat on the field,
Speaker 4: so excited for him to go to the next stage.
Speaker 4: And and we'll see how his body responds with that.
Speaker 2: And you know how special he is as an athlete,
Speaker 2: as a humanitarian in the community. And I just want
Speaker 2: to spill some additional behind the scenes t real quick.
Speaker 2: So we have this award that the media gives out
Speaker 2: every single year. It's called the Good Guy Award for
Speaker 2: players who are gracious and cooperative with us in the media.
Speaker 2: And I don't think you even need to hold that
Speaker 2: vote this year because to me, Number fifteen won it today.
Speaker 2: And this goes back to you know, I've voted for
Speaker 2: him the last couple of years here he was my
Speaker 2: I think he was my top choice last year, if
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 3: But he's just a unicorn man.
Speaker 2: He's like twenty four years old, and he conducts himself
Speaker 2: with the maturity of someone who's seen a full lifetime already.
Speaker 2: And you know a little peak behind the curtains here
Speaker 2: in media scrums, it is first come for sir, whoever
Speaker 2: gets the question first or in most cases, the loudest
Speaker 2: is the one who gets to speak, and somebody's question
Speaker 2: got stepped on today. But JP acknowledged the question that
Speaker 2: didn't get asked and said, I'll come back to you next.
Speaker 2: And then this is how it also works. More, Uh,
Speaker 2: what's the word I'm looking for here? More chatter out
Speaker 2: overshadowed the person trying to ask the follow up question,
Speaker 2: and JP pointed at him, said, no, we're going back
Speaker 2: to I think it was Chris Perkins. We're going back
Speaker 2: over here because I promised him that he could talk next.
Speaker 3: You know, he could ask the next question.
Speaker 2: Just that level of thoughtfulness, of self awareness, that level
Speaker 2: of compassion for people. I mean, gosh, I talk about
Speaker 2: us all the time in my personal life. This is
Speaker 2: something that has been jarring to me come into the
Speaker 2: East Coast, is how horrible customer service is. Like any place,
Speaker 2: but like even fast food restaurants, if they don't tell
Speaker 2: you please and thank you, they don't like you have
Speaker 2: to ask them for what you need. There's no like
Speaker 2: how are you doing today. It's a shock to me.
Speaker 2: I'm not used to that being from a smaller town
Speaker 2: and in today's age, in today's you know, instant gratification,
Speaker 2: Like I need entertainment now, I need to think about
Speaker 2: myself right now. Like for a twenty four year old
Speaker 2: to have that level of compassion, I just think it's
Speaker 2: so rare. And I don't know about y'all, but that's
Speaker 2: the kind of energy that I gravitate towards personally. Is
Speaker 2: people that look out for others more so than just themselves.
Speaker 2: More news, Grayson Murphy and Cam Brown both were added
Speaker 2: to the injury reserve or the reserve injury list, I
Speaker 2: should say, which when that happens before the season begins,
Speaker 2: you wind up missing the entire season, which is such
Speaker 2: a bummer because Grayson Murphy, man, he was off to
Speaker 2: a hot start in camp. He was a great fifth
Speaker 2: of this defense and how they run twists and stunts
Speaker 2: and games and different guys condensed different spots and can
Speaker 2: blitz or drop from different locations, and he made that
Speaker 2: first play in the game. On the preseason, in the
Speaker 2: preseason opener, and on the telecast, you heard Steve Goldstein
Speaker 2: talk about how McDaniel in their production meeting had said
Speaker 2: that Grayson Murphy was a guy that should have been
Speaker 2: drafted and he was surprised that he wasn't, so he's
Speaker 2: on IR. Cam Brown also goes to IR, a special
Speaker 2: teams ace that was signed from the Giants this offseason,
Speaker 2: and in their place Wyatt Ray and in last name
Speaker 2: that I don't know how to pronounce, but I'm gonna
Speaker 2: try it, David Ania, I think is how you say it,
Speaker 2: and An Nih. Those guys were added in place of
Speaker 2: Grayson Murphy and Cam Brown. And just to speak to
Speaker 2: the cutthroat business that is the NFL, they got their
Speaker 2: jersey numbers too. Wyatt ran forty seven, David Ania in
Speaker 2: number fifty nine. Odell Beckham Junior will not practice this
Speaker 2: week per McDaniel, but after that he'll be week to
Speaker 2: week so he is on track to return sooner than later.
Speaker 2: We did see Eric Azukama back at practice, not a
Speaker 2: lot of action in a very tame down edition of
Speaker 2: a training camp practice. And then Tanner Connor will also
Speaker 2: miss some time, probably the rest of this week most likely,
Speaker 2: and they will assess him going forward. No update on
Speaker 2: what that injury is. And I keep seeing the question
Speaker 2: on Twitter. I'm not ignoring it because I don't think
Speaker 2: you guys are worthy of responding back to I want
Speaker 2: to give you much information as I can, but when
Speaker 2: it comes to the nature of injuries, they're typically not
Speaker 2: discussed unless it comes out from a third source. So
Speaker 2: just know that I'm not hiding it from you, guys.
Speaker 2: I just don't know because I haven't heard that yet.
Speaker 2: And when someone just deems it the time right to
Speaker 2: talk about what body part is injured, you'll hear about
Speaker 2: it on this podcast as well as well as at
Speaker 2: the press conferences. Lots of guys came back. Jordan Poyer
Speaker 2: was back at practice. Jalen Waddell went through stretch but
Speaker 2: then missed the rest of practice. That was a little
Speaker 2: bit of a tease there, but it's good to see
Speaker 2: him coming back and getting work, you know, after missing
Speaker 2: a few days last week in practice. Chop Robinson, who
Speaker 2: didn't play the game on Friday because of some small
Speaker 2: Nickson bruises, was back at practice in full go. Jordan
Speaker 2: Brooks was back and Braxon Barrios was also back there
Speaker 2: as well. Tron Armstead got his first team drills of
Speaker 2: the season, albeit in a walk through fashion. We also
Speaker 2: had no Mo Kamara and no Neville Gallimore at practice,
Speaker 2: so plenty of news there. This is not a news podcast.
Speaker 2: But we got what was that ten minutes of news
Speaker 2: in the show right there. I want to now pivot
Speaker 2: though to a combination of practice today, press conferences today,
Speaker 2: and the game on Friday. So Jalen Wright showed us
Speaker 2: why the Dolphins dipped into their twenty twenty five draft
Speaker 2: treasure trove, and with the knowledge that they have two
Speaker 2: third round picks coming their way back through the compensatory formula,
Speaker 2: they used their organic third round draft pick to go
Speaker 2: get this guy. And you've seen it play out exactly
Speaker 2: how they imagined. Because this offense is going to get
Speaker 2: backs to the second level. They're going to get backs
Speaker 2: in space, and they're going to ask you then to
Speaker 2: make special plays like Devon ah Chen did, and like
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright does, and like where Hee Moster does. And
Speaker 2: I cannot stress enough how that game you saw on
Speaker 2: Friday was the culmination of his entire training camp and
Speaker 2: ota in roocky Many camp to date, the running style
Speaker 2: he showed us and the production that he produced in
Speaker 2: the game, and I have many thoughts about this. First though,
Speaker 2: let's go ahead and hear from Jalen Wright on his
Speaker 2: ability to be a complete back in this league.
Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like I'm a back that could
Speaker 6: do anything. I feel like I'm a very versatile back,
Speaker 6: you know, somebody that could, you know, go out in space,
Speaker 6: catch the ball, make something happen with the ball in
Speaker 6: his hands. So I'm just feeling I'm really confident in
Speaker 6: you know, my ability, you know, do anything, you know,
Speaker 6: whether that's running through the line of screamage, breaking tackles,
Speaker 6: you get seeing the scene, hitting it and not being
Speaker 6: caught as well, you know, catching a ball and you know,
Speaker 6: see it a scene and you know, not getting caught
Speaker 6: as wheel.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and at today's practice, it was all red zone.
Speaker 2: It was basically all the ones, with some rotation at
Speaker 2: a few spots, but mostly to a tongue of Bai
Speaker 2: Low at the quarterback position, some Jalen right and more
Speaker 2: impressive runs. But it was more of what a game
Speaker 2: script might look like. And that's why I always, you know,
Speaker 2: I question the motive behind, like, oh, it didn't look
Speaker 2: good today when you think about like them trying to
Speaker 2: work on third and eighths where the percentage of execution
Speaker 2: is low, not like it's because they're not game planning
Speaker 2: for how to beat their own defense. They're trying to
Speaker 2: establish certain looks to make things tough, to improve on
Speaker 2: those things, and then go back to their bread and
Speaker 2: butter whenever they damn well please. I've talked about this
Speaker 2: on podcasts countlessly, but lots of you know, backfield mystique
Speaker 2: and shifting and eye candy. There was a rep where
Speaker 2: alec ingold like goes in motion and then peels back
Speaker 2: and stays in pass pro for the six guy and
Speaker 2: pass protection. They slide to the left and make everybody else,
Speaker 2: you know, change their rush, land their gap, and it
Speaker 2: creates these big pockets for two to throw from which
Speaker 2: he did all day long.
Speaker 3: They move to a they scramble them, they boot him.
Speaker 2: I thought it was refreshing to see a version of
Speaker 2: what the offense will become the season that with the
Speaker 2: media and the fans in and attendance to kind of
Speaker 2: get a look at, you know, this is what it
Speaker 2: actually looks like. And then on top of that, their
Speaker 2: combination of a curveball or a change up rather to
Speaker 2: the fastball they have in the running game, which is
Speaker 2: obviously wide zone stretch zone concepts get the defense flowing
Speaker 2: as fast as you possibly can to the perimeter, and
Speaker 2: then it gives you the opportunity to pull the ball
Speaker 2: back out and create displacement in the passing game and
Speaker 2: in the gaps in the running game. But then you
Speaker 2: combine what we saw from that power football on the
Speaker 2: Jillen Right touchdown on Friday night. Power football is not
Speaker 2: just running the ball. It's an actual scheme. So power
Speaker 2: is typically when you get down blocks and a pulling
Speaker 2: guard from the backside, or sometimes a tackle if you
Speaker 2: want to go counter trade like you can pull multiple guys.
Speaker 2: But power is essentially man up block the man in
Speaker 2: front of you. We're going to go ahead and pull
Speaker 2: an extra backside player to give you an extra lead
Speaker 2: block in that gap. We saw in the Cowboys game
Speaker 2: Jeff Wilson behind some Rob Jones blocks in man gap
Speaker 2: power schemes, and in this practice we saw or in
Speaker 2: the game rather on Friday. That's how Jalen Wright scored
Speaker 2: behind the lead block of Sean Harlow, behind the crack
Speaker 2: back of Malik Washington, behind the down block of Hayden Ruccie.
Speaker 2: And we kept seeing that, and I just keep thinking
Speaker 2: about all the eye candy in the backfield, the mix
Speaker 2: of run action, the added tight end ability with both
Speaker 2: Julian Hill's growth in year two and what John new
Speaker 2: Smith offers. I think they just continue to add pieces
Speaker 2: and sheets in this playbook that's gonna make you ultimately
Speaker 2: even more difficult to defend. And we saw it all
Speaker 2: day on Monday, we saw on Friday. I am very
Speaker 2: intrigued by that. I'm intrigued by the fact that we
Speaker 2: saw today Jalen Wright score on a run to the
Speaker 2: perimeter where he got outside of the force defender, which
Speaker 2: is tough to do in his own right, turns it
Speaker 2: upfield and has the sliver of an angle that he
Speaker 2: found between the defender and the sideline. Like it was impressive. Man,
Speaker 2: He's so impressive. And the way that pairs with what
Speaker 2: he keeps showing us on those inside zone runs or
Speaker 2: power runs, gosh, it is awesome. And yet still Jalen
Speaker 2: Wright thinks he can add more to his game.
Speaker 6: Yeah, just being detailed, like you know my tracks, you know, pressing,
Speaker 6: you know, pressing the right tracks, you know, delivering the
Speaker 6: blocks to the linebackers on you know, uh with with thessignments.
Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying, Just this processing the play
Speaker 6: when I hear it, you know, so I could get
Speaker 6: to where I need to be in every certain formation
Speaker 6: so you know just the details and everything.
Speaker 2: And that's why I think he's having success early on
Speaker 2: what he just said right there. That mindset that will play,
Speaker 2: you know, that's going to play in this system where
Speaker 2: the ability to play fast and then have it be
Speaker 2: a second nature reaction to you, that's going to take
Speaker 2: you a long way. And I think Jay Dubbs well
Speaker 2: on that track. And there's a reason they spent next
Speaker 2: year's draft capital. This guy's going to contribute right away.
Speaker 3: They know that.
Speaker 2: You can see it as clear as day, and it's
Speaker 2: become an embarrassment of riches in that backfield.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 2: I saw Chris Brooks with some more impressive runs, Raheem Moster,
Speaker 2: Davon a Chien, Jeff Wilson's having an awesome camp so far.
Speaker 2: In fact, let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 2: right there and come back and continue this on the
Speaker 2: running back room and McDaniel will tell us how he
Speaker 2: wants to approach crafting the depth chart with a room
Speaker 2: this deep and running backs. That's all next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 2: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by automation.
Speaker 4: You have to let the players determine who gets the
Speaker 4: ball and how frequently and how much they're in the game,
Speaker 4: and that's very important. I think the cool thing when
Speaker 4: you have a position group that on the front end,
Speaker 4: you know, by NFL standards, is very, very talented, one
Speaker 4: of the most if not the most talented.
Speaker 5: Of you know that you can remember or you've been
Speaker 5: on teams with.
Speaker 4: You don't worry about how that is going to unfold.
Speaker 4: You let it unfold, and it's always very obvious. You
Speaker 4: can tell by how people execute their their blocks and
Speaker 4: their belief of the player carrying the ball, and you
Speaker 4: have to be able to be open minded to how
Speaker 4: it plays out. So I think, you know, the residuals
Speaker 4: of a deep room you can see on each individual player.
Speaker 4: I'm seeing, for instance, you know, some of Jeff Wilson's
Speaker 4: best ball.
Speaker 5: That he's that I've seen him play.
Speaker 4: I've you know, worked him out as an as a
Speaker 4: player in North Texas back in twenty eighteen, and some
Speaker 4: of his best stuff has been in this camp. And
Speaker 4: I can't help but attribute that to the to the overall.
Speaker 5: Talents of the entire room.
Speaker 4: So it's it's something that you're just you just keep coaching,
Speaker 4: you keep seeing how much guys games can develop. You
Speaker 4: don't you don't put a ceiling on that, because guys
Speaker 4: will continue to surprise you in a positive manner if
Speaker 4: you let them. And we just know that it's a
Speaker 4: strength of ours can be handing the ball off to
Speaker 4: some pretty good backs and we just go from there.
Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever opened a segment before with
Speaker 2: McDaniel audio to kick it off right there, but obviously
Speaker 2: great to hear, and that just has me thinking about
Speaker 2: the other rooms and the talent that we know about,
Speaker 2: but also the leadership and the mentality that permeates throughout
Speaker 2: each of these rooms.
Speaker 3: Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: Kay Adams will be on the podcast on Friday, and
Speaker 2: she talked about getting this impression from being here for
Speaker 2: half of a day and like Tua in the quarterback
Speaker 2: room and the aura that he currently possesses, like different
Speaker 2: dude right now right, Jialen Ramsey, Kendall Fuller at corner,
Speaker 2: Javon Hall, and Jordan Poyer at safety, the defensive backfield
Speaker 2: altogether with all the names and characters and you know,
Speaker 2: personalities they have back there. To Ron Armstead in the
Speaker 2: example he sets on the offensive line, what that can
Speaker 2: do for a player like Patrick Paul. How about John
Speaker 2: hus Smith and what he's about, which is just about
Speaker 2: business and football right or Dura or durham smythe knowledge
Speaker 2: and approach to the game. How about Tyreek in the
Speaker 2: example he sets, he makes you practice at a higher standard.
Speaker 2: Seiler and Campbell on the defensive line, Jordan Brooks, d
Speaker 2: long a Walk, Duken linebacker's room, JP and Chubb off
Speaker 2: the edge like every damn group. You can bet your
Speaker 2: bottom dollar it's not by accident. They were put here
Speaker 2: to be themselves, but also pull the boat along with them.
Speaker 2: Right as I was saying, pull the rope along with them,
Speaker 2: like they bring everybody with them, and it's by design.
Speaker 2: It's fun to watch, it's fun to see it develop.
Speaker 2: Just great stuff all around. I want to go ahead
Speaker 2: and pivot now into the offensive line performance that I
Speaker 2: thought was just nails on Friday Night. I loved how
Speaker 2: connected guys were on combo blocks and like again, we
Speaker 2: Kyle Krabs talked about this on the podcast or I
Speaker 2: guess he and I shared this in our podcast notes
Speaker 2: early on about the progression of camp and Butch the
Speaker 2: aiming point and then kind of devolving or not devolving
Speaker 2: but rather adjusting what you coach and how you teach
Speaker 2: it in certain ways of different guys. It's the progression
Speaker 2: has been there and you saw it in the game.
Speaker 2: I absolutely loved the get off and surge all night long.
Speaker 2: And if you didn't see that, like I don't know
Speaker 2: what you were watching, I tweeted about it several damn times.
Speaker 2: And it's it's time for Travis's favorite part of the podcast,
Speaker 2: right when Coach McDaniel affirms some of the tweets and
Speaker 2: thoughts with his words. Let's go ahead and just play
Speaker 2: the audio here from coach and what he saw on
Speaker 2: Friday night from the offensive line in the preseason opener.
Speaker 5: Overall, I think there there was several.
Speaker 4: Technique principles that we've really taken a look at how
Speaker 4: we articulate and coach them and emphasize them. And so
Speaker 4: one of those being, you know, the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 4: And while I was happy, happy with you know, times
Speaker 4: during the game, in particularly in the in the group
Speaker 4: that Patrick was playing with, saw the line of scrimmage
Speaker 4: be reset, uh and that and that is something that uh,
Speaker 4: we were diligently at. We've we've tried to kind of
Speaker 4: reframe how we articulated to to engender better results. And
Speaker 4: I think overall there's uh I you get to learn
Speaker 4: a lot about your overall team and where they're at
Speaker 4: by some of the twos and threes, and where their
Speaker 4: game's at, because it's almost like a baseline of what
Speaker 4: is your your your starting point, where your game's at,
Speaker 4: and what has clicked for for the group.
Speaker 5: And to see the.
Speaker 4: Line of scrimmage reset at times that was very encouraging.
Speaker 4: And then you know, I think there was some communication
Speaker 4: stuff that will always UH be working on so we
Speaker 4: can have conviction and unity when whenever we're executing whatever phase.
Speaker 4: But I saw the line of scrimmage was a big
Speaker 4: positive coming out of that game, with the younger guys
Speaker 4: in particular really gravitating towards their new technique and fundamentals,
Speaker 4: that being the first time that in a competitive situation,
Speaker 4: in game like situation, they were able to execute those fundamentals.
Speaker 2: And the guy that I didn't talk enough about on
Speaker 2: the podcast was Jack driscoll. He was excellent on Friday Night.
Speaker 2: Not only did he play connected to his guard or
Speaker 2: tackle combination next to him playing bull center and guard,
Speaker 2: but when you turn on tape on seventy five is
Speaker 2: consistently the first guy off the snap. His pad level
Speaker 2: was excellent, He had active feet through contact, and he
Speaker 2: just keeps those things churning, which gets more and more
Speaker 2: surge and displacement vertical and horizontal displacement.
Speaker 3: On the offensive line.
Speaker 2: I asked him today about the get off that connectivity,
Speaker 2: but also the chemistry of the running backs and how
Speaker 2: they established that going through an entire training camp for
Speaker 2: the first time. Here is a three question back and
Speaker 2: forth interview with myself and Jack driscol.
Speaker 3: You got off the ball really well.
Speaker 2: I know the system prioritizes getting off the football. I'm
Speaker 2: curious if you felt that way and just kind of
Speaker 2: how it's coming along for this system.
Speaker 7: Attaching to you for sure, I mean, it's definitely something
Speaker 7: that they emphasize getting off the ball quick and being quick.
Speaker 7: And that's why of the reason I was excited to
Speaker 7: come out in here. I feel like, you know, I
Speaker 7: did a good job. Obviously, some things to clean up
Speaker 7: and you know, work on some aiming points and timing
Speaker 7: and all of that, but I think for everyone out
Speaker 7: there was a good starting point for you know, push
Speaker 7: and you know, all the coaches to coach us up
Speaker 7: and kind of help us get to that next level.
Speaker 7: And like you said, you gotta start somewhere. So it's
Speaker 7: good to get out there in real game, live bullets
Speaker 7: flying and you know, you know, see the technique coming
Speaker 7: to life. And again things to clean up. But and
Speaker 7: for everyone, I feel like it was a good, good
Speaker 7: opening day.
Speaker 2: You guys had like one hundred and fifty yards in
Speaker 2: the ground. To me, combination blocks are pretty good. Curious
Speaker 2: tout your perspective on how the whole group did in
Speaker 2: that area.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I feel like everyone had, you know, around their
Speaker 7: plays that you know, we really got movement. And that's like,
Speaker 7: again something you said earlier. They really prioritize here is
Speaker 7: coming off the ball and creating that surge and giving
Speaker 7: them back kind of a two way go again, like
Speaker 7: you said, there's obviously things we can clean up. There
Speaker 7: were good and some bad, but you know, I said,
Speaker 7: it's a good starting point and it's good, you know
Speaker 7: to see all that work that we put in with
Speaker 7: butch kind of show on a game field. You know,
Speaker 7: it's easy during practice, but when a game it's for
Speaker 7: working to see that.
Speaker 2: But one of the topics of the day today, is
Speaker 2: the depth of this running back room. What's the process
Speaker 2: like for an offensive lineman to gain that relationship with
Speaker 2: so many different backs to know their track and know
Speaker 2: when they're going to cut and just kind of building
Speaker 2: that chemistry with those guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's huge. I mean, all those guys
Speaker 7: are so talented and so fast. They all have the
Speaker 7: ability to make big plays and all that. So we're
Speaker 7: excited about whoever's back there.
Speaker 5: Blocking for us.
Speaker 7: And you know, it's kind of like you said, running
Speaker 7: back back committee, where we have so many different it's
Speaker 7: not just one guy who can you know, do it.
Speaker 7: But you know, we're confident all those guys whoever they
Speaker 7: put back there that we're gonna block in that they're
Speaker 7: gonna trust us and you know, read our blocks and
Speaker 7: do the best of their ability and do what their
Speaker 7: coach do.
Speaker 2: Two more guys that earned post omission notes from the
Speaker 2: game on Friday, and how dare I leave off River
Speaker 2: Craycraft because he was blocking once again, had an excellent
Speaker 2: block to create some space on an outside run, had
Speaker 2: the catch and run on the screen pass, had the
Speaker 2: out route that he ran so crisp where Tanner Connor
Speaker 2: made a long catch in behind him, and that's that's
Speaker 2: a for love of the game route. He's old the
Speaker 2: cloud corner to bite up on that route. That's his game.
Speaker 2: No detail forgotten. He showed you on Friday night. Speaking
Speaker 2: of details, Hayden Rouccie, WHOA, I did not see that coming.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's a blind spot in my own scouting evaluations.
Speaker 2: But blocking was on another level from Hayden Roucchie. He
Speaker 2: was burying guys that touchdown run by Jalen Wright consistently
Speaker 2: move guys in the running game and whacked him. Also,
Speaker 2: Curtis Bolton was a guy that I thought stood out
Speaker 2: for his just aggressiveness, for the way he kind of
Speaker 2: dictated the terms and in terms of how he played
Speaker 2: downhill that was fun to watch. He's made some plays
Speaker 2: out here at camp as well, had a good little
Speaker 2: run here since being a waver wire addition mid camp.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and put a pen in some of that,
Speaker 2: and go ahead and circle back around to the weekend
Speaker 2: and stay here with a chat that I had with
Speaker 2: another player that I thought acquitted himself quite well, who
Speaker 2: has not made a bunch of practice notes.
Speaker 3: But maybe that's on me. But the stat sheet the film.
Speaker 2: All of it added up for Patrick McMorris and his
Speaker 2: NFL debut on Monday or on Friday Day's Monday, Let's
Speaker 2: go back to McMorris on Monday, who I chatted with
Speaker 2: about all of this weird coach this morning. Talk a
Speaker 2: little bit about some of the techniques and things that
Speaker 2: he said that you saw you're working on through the
Speaker 2: course of camp and kind of a culmination that came
Speaker 2: out on the game on on Friday. I'm just curious
Speaker 2: if you could take us into that in terms of
Speaker 2: just the work and how far you feel you've come
Speaker 2: so far in camp.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 8: No, I feel like I've come a decent, decent ways.
Speaker 8: You know, it's just credit to just the veterans and
Speaker 8: the coaching staff. Coach Low coach, We've just, like you said,
Speaker 8: just working on techniques such as just coming out the post,
Speaker 8: good angles to the ball, able to make those tackles,
Speaker 8: communicating on the back back end. So I feel like
Speaker 8: I've kim kim along lose.
Speaker 2: He also said that one of the things that they
Speaker 2: thought they knew about you, but they couldn't tell until
Speaker 2: they got game date reps was the ability to tackle.
Speaker 2: Just curious your mindset in a game versus.
Speaker 3: Here when you had to tack off. How nice was
Speaker 3: it to go.
Speaker 5: Hit some guys?
Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely different speed. It wasn't sure how my body
Speaker 8: was could feel after. It feels good though, but yeah,
Speaker 8: it was definitely a different change, you know, from just
Speaker 8: studying our little tag offs to now really taking guys on.
Speaker 8: There's definitely different speed. But I enjoy it. That's kind
Speaker 8: of it's kind of what I like and uh so
Speaker 8: like I succeeded.
Speaker 2: And to follow up there, let's go ahead and hear
Speaker 2: from coach McDaniel, who was asked about Patrick McMorris in
Speaker 2: his Monday morning press conference.
Speaker 4: Pats, it's been cool to watch Pat develop in non
Speaker 4: padded situations because you got to see a player, uh
Speaker 4: directly take technique, training and drill work and apply it,
Speaker 4: you know, in.
Speaker 5: His game and evolve his game.
Speaker 4: From the first day we saw him talking about breaking uh,
Speaker 4: you know, being in a pedal and and breaking at
Speaker 4: a direct angle towards towards a eligible as opposed to
Speaker 4: rounding out of it. Those little things I've seen him
Speaker 4: develop and then I think the team got to see
Speaker 4: him uh tackle and that that's a what we we
Speaker 4: thought we'd be happy, happy with it, but you never
Speaker 4: know until you get to see someone with the pads
Speaker 4: on in a tackle situation, and that part of his
Speaker 4: game is is live and active. So it's been cool
Speaker 4: to watch him, uh, really take some extreme He's taken
Speaker 4: advantage of the opportunity. The opportunity is that he has
Speaker 4: a room headed by you know, Javon employer that have
Speaker 4: an immense amount of knowledge. You have, you have, you know,
Speaker 4: Elijah Campbell's really going after it. Nick Needham's getting in
Speaker 4: there sometimes. Marcus May has done a lot of stuff
Speaker 4: in this in this league, and all those factors he's
Speaker 4: taking advantage of.
Speaker 5: So he's in charge of how far that.
Speaker 4: Goes and and and what he's able to do on
Speaker 4: this team as a rookie. But what I do know
Speaker 4: is he's taking full of of his ops and his
Speaker 4: game continues to to.
Speaker 5: Grow in it. It has to as a rookie, you
Speaker 5: have to.
Speaker 4: It's very, very hard to contribute as a rookie in
Speaker 4: the National Football League and the rookie years not built
Speaker 4: for everyone to excel during, so it takes a special commitment.
Speaker 5: And so far, so good with him.
Speaker 4: We'll see what this week and this practice has in
Speaker 4: store for us from him.
Speaker 2: I just love this time of year. Man for things
Speaker 2: just like that. Yet another rookie who has shown his
Speaker 2: salt at one point or another this camp and in preseason.
Speaker 2: He forced an incompletion today on a Tua throw to
Speaker 2: Burrios on a corner route in the back of the
Speaker 2: end zone where he did exactly what the coach what
Speaker 2: coach talked about.
Speaker 3: Right there.
Speaker 2: He took a great angle to flash color underneath, and
Speaker 2: that will sometimes get in the quarterback's head, but it
Speaker 2: forced Tua to make a placement throw, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: he placed second in dan Orlowski's Traits ratings of ball
Speaker 2: placement behind Joe Burrow. I think he's for but it's
Speaker 2: one A, one B anyway. On this throw. It's you
Speaker 2: have to throw it high and away from the defender
Speaker 2: to get it into the spot. It makes it a
Speaker 2: tiny window, and when you stress those windows to make
Speaker 2: them tight, you can force incompletions. And that's exactly what
Speaker 2: McMorris did getting under that route and not playing on
Speaker 2: top of it. We've seen so much from this rookie class,
Speaker 2: I mean so many rookie classes in the past, like
Speaker 2: you see one or two guys that show anything at
Speaker 2: all throughout camp right early on. Now we've also seen
Speaker 2: some rookies show out and then disappear, so that happens too.
Speaker 2: But my goodness, find the miss in this draft class
Speaker 2: right now. It's impossible. You know it's gonna happen. It's
Speaker 2: not gonna all work out. It never does except for
Speaker 2: the very rare draft classes. It could be that that's
Speaker 2: a possibility as well, but it's pretty clear to see
Speaker 2: the role and the fit and the talent of Chop Robinson,
Speaker 2: of Patrick Paul, of Jalen Wright, of Mohammed Kamara, of
Speaker 2: Malik Washington, of Patrick McMorris. Grayson Murphy was on that list.
Speaker 2: Storm Duck has shown you that Jason Matria has showed
Speaker 2: like goodness, gracious, it's been rate so far. Let's do
Speaker 2: the rest of the practice notes and we'll finish up
Speaker 2: and segment through with some additional weekend thoughts and sound bites.
Speaker 2: We saw plenty of Tua today and I thought he
Speaker 2: played really well in the practice. The movement ability again
Speaker 2: was on display. There was a play where he tried
Speaker 2: to swing one out wide on that little escort swing.
Speaker 2: We keep seeing in games and in practices where there's
Speaker 2: a lead blocker and a receiver out to the flat
Speaker 2: to kind of stretch horizontally the defense and give you
Speaker 2: an option in the checkdown game. But Emmanuel Ogba put
Speaker 2: his massive frame in the passing lane. So two of
Speaker 2: pumps over there gets Ogba off the ground, and it
Speaker 2: reminded me of Tusca Loosa to a man like there
Speaker 2: was a game I think it was against like Old
Speaker 2: Miss where he I had a whole thread back when
Speaker 2: I was covering college football at the same rate I
Speaker 2: cover the Dolphins now because of that rough twenty nineteen
Speaker 2: season for lockdown Dolphins as a draft primer for the
Speaker 2: entire season, and this Old Miss game, I had these
Speaker 2: clips of two of just making plays in every imaginable
Speaker 2: fashion for a quarterback. And he would do that move
Speaker 2: where he would you separate the hands and pump fake
Speaker 2: and make a quick move back the other direction.
Speaker 3: I saw that today.
Speaker 2: I saw scrambling and shifty movement getting north and south.
Speaker 2: On this particular play, he had like five or six
Speaker 2: yards before the first defender converged. So Tua can get
Speaker 2: out of hits. I think he can give you positive
Speaker 2: yards on plays that in the pass were a sack.
Speaker 2: He also broke the pocket and completed two different passes,
Speaker 2: one for a touchdown. The Tyreek Hill off script. I
Speaker 2: think it's there. I think it's a real part of
Speaker 2: his game now. He also threw a touchdown to John
Speaker 2: hus Smith on a beautiful ball into the corner, had
Speaker 2: a gorgeous throw to Tyreek for a touchdown that reminded
Speaker 2: me of the Gasiki Throat in Baltimore back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two. On the end line, this is one where
Speaker 2: he rips it over the second level defender, and you
Speaker 2: have to have so many RPMs to get this type
Speaker 2: of movement on the football. It has a little hump
Speaker 2: over the second level of the defense. In this case,
Speaker 2: the defender was like three yards deep into the end
Speaker 2: zone and you have to get over that guy but
Speaker 2: under the goalpost so your receiver can make a catch
Speaker 2: on it, and you have to rip that thing with
Speaker 2: RPMs to make it.
Speaker 3: Kind of hump back over that level of the defender.
Speaker 2: It's the armed talent I talk about in the podcast
Speaker 2: that doesn't get mentioned enough into his game. It was
Speaker 2: on display again here on Monday's practice. So a really
Speaker 2: good day for him, really good day for the offense.
Speaker 2: Raheem Wright, h Hn Brooks all had touchdown runs. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and take our last break.
Speaker 3: Right there.
Speaker 2: I have some more notes about the quarterbacks, including Skylar
Speaker 2: and Mike White from the game on Friday, and a
Speaker 2: sound bye here from Coach McDaniel. That's all next Draft
Speaker 2: Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by
Speaker 2: Auto Nation. I have twice now broken up the podcast
Speaker 2: mid mid segment or mid portion of the show, but
Speaker 2: I think it flows nicely here and I wanted to
Speaker 2: dip back into this quarterback talk because we left off
Speaker 2: talking QB one. I want to pick it back up
Speaker 2: with QB two right here. So there, Coach was asked
Speaker 2: about the quarterbacks performance on Friday, and I think this
Speaker 2: is very instructive, and I think we should always listen
Speaker 2: to when Coach gets into questions like this, because he's
Speaker 2: transparent about the process and honestly cuts into a lot
Speaker 2: of the legwork for somebody like me covering practice because
Speaker 2: now I don't have to jump to conclusions because if
Speaker 2: you just listen, Coach will tell you exactly what he
Speaker 2: thinks about the process. This time of year, so here
Speaker 2: he is on the quarterbacks and what they're looking for
Speaker 2: in the game, beyond the stat sheet which was not good.
Speaker 3: Here's Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 4: Well, absolutely, those things are monumental. That's cool that Mike
Speaker 4: said that, because that's you know, what we're talking to
Speaker 4: each quarterback. You know, you're in a competition that is
Speaker 4: inherently within the game.
Speaker 5: You know a little different.
Speaker 4: You're working with different players, different portions of the game,
Speaker 4: like Mike alluded to, and so there you may not
Speaker 4: and just knowing that from a coach's perspective, you know
Speaker 4: very clear with the quarterbacks that there's various things that
Speaker 4: you're looking for when when someone is in those type
Speaker 4: of situations in a close competition but with different control variables,
Speaker 4: how you handle yourself, how you add value to players,
Speaker 4: how you uh You can tell by the coordination of
Speaker 4: an offense, the conviction and confidence of a quarterback simply
Speaker 4: by how players exit the huddle.
Speaker 5: It's the when I say we evaluate everything, it's.
Speaker 4: Literally that that deep of a dive, because you're you're
Speaker 4: responsible for conveying the initial conviction of every play with
Speaker 4: every play call, and then your assertiveness and your how
Speaker 4: you emphasize different words in a huddle call that can
Speaker 4: bring clarity and conviction to just how people approach the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage, and can you do that while also
Speaker 4: juggling a Hey, make sure you tell your tell the
Speaker 4: Z to run a high corner because he doesn't know
Speaker 4: what that is. You know, like things like that happens
Speaker 4: in preseason games and and and all of it is
Speaker 4: you take that into account so you can make sure
Speaker 4: that you present those types of challenges the equivalent challenges
Speaker 4: to you know, both quarterbacks. Skyler has the same opportunity
Speaker 4: in that way, and we can assess from there.
Speaker 2: And I subscribe to that fully, and I think that's
Speaker 2: all well and good. But I can also go back
Speaker 2: to the tape, and you know, I was talking about
Speaker 2: Skylar's progression in certain areas of his game and training camp.
Speaker 2: It was good to see game reps because to me,
Speaker 2: it was more of the same. There was a rep
Speaker 2: man and I don't know how you how you get
Speaker 2: over this, but there was a rep in the game
Speaker 2: where it was like a cover one robber and they
Speaker 2: ran like a combination Like I don't think it was smash,
Speaker 2: it was. It was something stick in the in the
Speaker 2: inside on the interior, and then an outbreaking route on
Speaker 2: the perimeter, and the cloud corner on the outside was
Speaker 2: inside the numbers and the robber was coming downhill on
Speaker 2: the hash and they were both converging on the stick
Speaker 2: and that's like the only throw you couldn't make in
Speaker 2: the play, and that's where the ball went. It just like,
Speaker 2: I want to see it process better for him in games,
Speaker 2: and I just haven't seen that yet, So that was
Speaker 2: a concern I had in the game. But you know,
Speaker 2: if he can improve upon that and show you progress
Speaker 2: in that regard, it'll be great to see. But three
Speaker 2: years in it, it's tough to know if that's gonna
Speaker 2: happen or the light's gonna come on there. So it's
Speaker 2: a concern, I think at this point. But we have
Speaker 2: time to to kind of get it hammered out here.
Speaker 2: But I just wanted to clarify that and you know,
Speaker 2: be as transparent with you guys as possible.
Speaker 3: A couple other thoughts I had.
Speaker 2: So you know, Keon Smith's injury is gonna cost him
Speaker 2: the rest of this season, which is such a bummer
Speaker 2: because you know, he was on a cool trajectory of
Speaker 2: his development and I thought it was you know, I
Speaker 2: thought he was a player that wouldn't have a chance
Speaker 2: to make the roster a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: all of a sudden he works himself into great shape
Speaker 2: and makes himself an asset for this team, and I
Speaker 2: think he was gonna make the roster this year. But
Speaker 2: he gets injured, and now all of that said, to me,
Speaker 2: he was O T five at this stage of camp.
Speaker 2: I thought armstead of Jackson obviously, Lamb obviously, and then
Speaker 2: I thought Patrick Paul was ahead of him. And that's
Speaker 2: why I think he was playing some guard because you
Speaker 2: probably wanted to get him some looks there to see
Speaker 2: how you can get him on the roster, because you
Speaker 2: value what he is. But to me, he was OT
Speaker 2: five and the guard thing was coming along, maybe not
Speaker 2: this year, but down down the road.
Speaker 3: Maybe.
Speaker 2: Do you guys know THET four last year played seventy
Speaker 2: snaps Like this sucks for Keyon, there's no doubt about that.
Speaker 2: I am sick for him, but it's not a needle
Speaker 2: mover in terms of the overall season, like seventy snaps
Speaker 2: from the guy that plays ahead of him. So the
Speaker 2: fifth tackle like maybe a snap at some point. I
Speaker 2: just don't see all the hand ringing over an injury
Speaker 2: like this because it just doesn't really move the needle
Speaker 2: that much when you think about it from a factual standpoint.
Speaker 2: I have, let's say, the last note I have here
Speaker 2: on a different player for the final segment, some final
Speaker 2: notes here on the day of work extra points style.
Speaker 2: I thought Kalais Campbell and Quinton Bell had really good days.
Speaker 2: They both got off blocks and had some some wins
Speaker 2: in the running in a running game that was having
Speaker 2: a lot of success today. They deconstructed blocks and got
Speaker 2: off for tag offs. In the practice. I thought Emmanuel
Speaker 2: Ogboss had some really good edges and on one particular
Speaker 2: run forced Raheem Moster to bang up inside on an
Speaker 2: outside running play. Rob Jones and Jack Driscoll had some
Speaker 2: really nice one on one blocks at the point of
Speaker 2: attack that I thought sprung some of the big runs.
Speaker 2: And that's all I've got for you guys who are
Speaker 2: in practice notes. We covered some of it there, some
Speaker 2: of the guys that had big games on Friday falling
Speaker 2: up on that. But it was I mean, it was
Speaker 2: like literally twenty five team reps today and it was
Speaker 2: half of it was you know walk through speed, so
Speaker 2: not a lot to go off of, but I do
Speaker 2: want to finish a couple of more notes here. I
Speaker 2: have two NFL notes, But first again just a insight
Speaker 2: into the mind of Mike McDaniel and how he approaches
Speaker 2: training camp and how you should listen to this and
Speaker 2: take reports, even my own with a grain of salt
Speaker 2: because process over results, baby.
Speaker 4: The ultimate focus for our team is is rudimentary as
Speaker 4: what do we want our football to look like, how
Speaker 4: do we want it to feel, how do we how
Speaker 4: do we want to approach our technique and fundamentals? And
Speaker 4: so built around that is how do we get players
Speaker 4: adept at the system, adept at the techniques while also
Speaker 4: with the long vision of the season. And so for me,
Speaker 4: it's really prioritizing how when we go we recreate game
Speaker 4: like enthusiasm, focus, attention to detail. That to me is
Speaker 4: how you create and build and maintain your standard within
Speaker 4: all of those moving parts.
Speaker 5: You have to develop a trust, uh.
Speaker 4: With from from my from my perspective, comes from wise,
Speaker 4: but you have to develop a trust with your with
Speaker 4: your locker room that they we won't ever short change
Speaker 4: the way we go about full speed stuff. But we
Speaker 4: have to dive into the science. We have to follow trends,
Speaker 4: and we have to adjust our rep counts accordingly so
Speaker 4: that we don't do either end of the spectrum, not
Speaker 4: prepare guys or over over work guys. So that whole
Speaker 4: thing to me, uh, if you have one uh one
Speaker 4: group of people moving in the right direction or in
Speaker 4: one direction, and you explain your whyse with diligence and
Speaker 4: and get the appropriate buy in from the locker room,
Speaker 4: you can go out and we can get infinite amount
Speaker 4: of game reps more than our opponents.
Speaker 5: That's kind of how how how I look at things.
Speaker 4: So it is a balancing act for sure, which is
Speaker 4: why I have a hard time absoluting stuff and how
Speaker 4: things kind of change to a certain degree each and
Speaker 4: every training camp because you have a different problem to solve.
Speaker 4: And then what happens if you have too many players
Speaker 4: that need management and then you overwork we can't do
Speaker 4: as many reps. You know, it's it's ever evolving. I think,
Speaker 4: you know, case in point the practice today, you know,
Speaker 4: with with various constraints at certain specific positions, we had
Speaker 4: to front load the front load with our full speed reps,
Speaker 4: and we kind of have to have an in between
Speaker 4: walk through and live practice jog through at the tail
Speaker 4: end of it. That's something that you guys aren't used
Speaker 4: to me totally seeing all the time, but that's an
Speaker 4: adjustment to protect the way we train our fundamentals and technique,
Speaker 4: which if you want to be a good football team
Speaker 4: or the best football team, or anything that fall falls
Speaker 4: in the in the bucket of where we're trying to go,
Speaker 4: you have to train those much like.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: I was talking to the team today about Steph Curry
Speaker 4: got a chance to talk to talk to him this offseason,
Speaker 4: and he talked about every time he shoots, his focus
Speaker 4: is the same on the front of the rim is
Speaker 4: in games, Well, then you can do some elite stuff,
Speaker 4: but it comes back to his practice in preparation for
Speaker 4: those moments or why he can do things that no
Speaker 4: one else can. So that approach which makes it impossible
Speaker 4: to kind of forecast exactly how things will play out
Speaker 4: because you always have to attend to all the I
Speaker 4: mean you want to talk about that there's a lot
Speaker 4: of variables.
Speaker 5: There are a ton of variables, but you just do your.
Speaker 4: Absolute best with all the controllables that you can control
Speaker 4: and then communicate that amongst your teams so everyone knows
Speaker 4: why you're doing everything you're doing.
Speaker 2: All right, I have two more notes and they are
Speaker 2: not Dolphins related. Did you guys watch the Buffalo game
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I don't care what the score, I don't
Speaker 2: care about any of that. But did you watch Keyon Coleman,
Speaker 2: This guy that I've seen nothing but praise because he's
Speaker 2: a goofy personality and good for him, but he looked
Speaker 2: like DeVante Parker, which is weird because I was his
Speaker 2: comp coming out of college. For me, if you can't
Speaker 2: separate in this league, if you can't separate in the ACC,
Speaker 2: it ain't gonna happen in the NFL. And I keep
Speaker 2: seeing all these tweets from Buffalo fans about how he
Speaker 2: is going to be the guy that makes a difference
Speaker 2: this year. You went from Stefan Diggs at Devonte Parker.
Speaker 2: Weird how that works. My other thoughts here, Rookie quarterbacks
Speaker 2: looked really impressive across the NFL this weekend and after
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty one class, which had kind of equal
Speaker 2: expectations to twenty twenty. And I even remember some Dolphins
Speaker 2: fans that were saying skip out on this class and
Speaker 2: come back in twenty twenty one for Justin Fields. Right,
Speaker 2: they've flopped except for one of those guys, and he's
Speaker 2: been a little bit underwhelming. I think Lawrence gets a
Speaker 2: bad rap. I think that he plays better than his
Speaker 2: stats would indicate. But he hasn't been the golden child
Speaker 2: for sure, But he's been the only hit in that
Speaker 2: entire draft class. After and after that, you get a
Speaker 2: nothing burger in twenty twenty two. Weird who could have
Speaker 2: called Kenny Pickett busting the last pick of the draft
Speaker 2: that year is pretty good though, brock Purty. It's funny
Speaker 2: how the NFL works that way. Then you get one
Speaker 2: massive hit, albeit a single season so far, in that
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three class with c J.
Speaker 3: Stroud.
Speaker 2: But the jury is still out on the rest of
Speaker 2: that class. But I don't have a lot of faith in.
Speaker 3: The rest of it.
Speaker 2: But the start of the twenty twenty four class looks
Speaker 2: like a nice replenishing here at a key position, Caleb Williams.
Speaker 2: I'm wondering how it's gonna work for him in terms
Speaker 2: of like the I'm not saying he doesn't have desire
Speaker 2: to do it. I just I haven't really seen that
Speaker 2: dog mentality in him just yet. I think it might
Speaker 2: be too much to say that he doesn't have it
Speaker 2: in him, but I have a question about it, I guess,
Speaker 2: but man, the physical traits are really good. He looked
Speaker 2: really good against Buffalo on Saturday. Jayden Daniels had a
Speaker 2: big debut. I watched enough of his Arizona State games
Speaker 2: to kind of like fall out a favor on him,
Speaker 2: even though he had the perfect year last year for LSU.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to feel about him right now
Speaker 2: going forward. I was kind of against him as a
Speaker 2: prospect going into the draft, but I can see the
Speaker 2: talent and where you might come out on that, but
Speaker 2: I'm just dubious on what he might become the next level.
Speaker 2: At this level, I should say Drake may got one series?
Speaker 3: What are we doing?
Speaker 2: Michael Pennox was outstanding and that was all weak, not
Speaker 2: just the game, the processing, the decision making. I know
Speaker 2: what I have backside because of how I process front side.
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna be an absolute baller. And then
Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy had the one ugly pick, but then through
Speaker 2: two touchdowns and played really well after that first drive.
Speaker 2: So it's always good for the league when you get
Speaker 2: an influx of young quarterbacks. And it's rare that you
Speaker 2: get a twenty twenty class where all five of those
Speaker 2: guys hit you know, one in the second round with
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. But I feel pretty confident we're gonna get
Speaker 2: multiple quarterbacks out of this class. Hopefully the one that
Speaker 2: misses is the guy that went to New England. Right,
Speaker 2: all right, Tomorrow, we'll be back with more practice notes,
Speaker 2: be more thorough on that. We'll do that through Thursday, well, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 2: Dolphins only, Thursday, Commanders, Friday off. But we're gonna have
Speaker 2: Kay Adams in the podcast and preview the game for
Speaker 2: Saturday night, and then we're gonna get closer and closer
Speaker 2: to the regular season. Now, just what are we twenty
Speaker 2: seven days away from the Dolphins opener?
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Speaker 3: Fin's up, Caroline Cameron Daddy, He's coming home
Speaker 4: Mhm