WEBVTT - Drive Time: Dolphins Falcons Preseason Week 1 Recap 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:06.040 To on remove Dallan Deep speedwas peace Peas. From the 0:00:06.080 --> 0:00:11.120 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:18.560 is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my hands in 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:27.360 the playoffs. What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:30.639 Drive Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:34.240 on today's show, we have a football game to talk about. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:37.760 Dolphins win their preseason opener in twenty twenty four, twenty 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.320 to thirteen over the Atlanta Falcons. We'll talk about the hits, 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:43.080 We'll talk about some of the stuff to work on. 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.440 We'll talk about Mike McDaniel and his postgame press conference 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.519 and some news item updates on some injuries. All of 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:50.879 that in a heck of a lot more from the 0:00:50.880 --> 0:00:54.320 Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This 0:00:54.640 --> 0:01:00.880 is the Drive Time Podcast. When we get going, I 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.920 think anything that is in this game cannot be more 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.720 important than some injury updates that we got from McDaniel 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:11.319 following this game, including an update on Aaron Brewer and 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:13.240 it sounds like he will be week to week with 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:16.600 the hand injury that he suffered back on Wednesday's practice. 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.640 Great news. There a very critical part of the interior 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:22.560 offensive line. Sounds like with the week one game a 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.920 month away, we should be good to go there with Brewer. Also, 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.559 Chop Robinson was down in this game, as many Dolphins were. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:33.480 He was missing the game because of a minor injury 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.040 concerned that held him back from out of this game, 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:37.880 so that's why he was not on the field. Mo 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.240 Kamara obviously was out with an injury for the game. 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.640 So those two rookies did not play in the game, 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.520 but the other rookies had themselves quite a game. Before 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:46.960 we get to that, though, I want to go ahead 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.280 and run some audio here from the head coach who 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.160 was asked in the postgame press conference about the value 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:56.400 of preseason games versus practice tape. Here is Mike McDaniel. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:03.040 Well, the thing that really fires me up, specifically in 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:10.480 preseason games where you're you're major focus is on the 0:02:10.520 --> 0:02:14.000 players and you're not as you're not as driven by 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:22.160 the score, is seeing specific things that have been coached 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.600 to you know, you end up knowing the story and 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.040 going through the journey of all these all these players. 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.480 There's a lot of things that we're coaching them on. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:37.520 And then when guys specifically in game situations, really harness 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:40.840 stuff that we've focused on from a technical standpoint that 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.960 it's really cool to see. You want to see that 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:48.040 because that's what you're practicing for. You're practicing for these moments, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.079 and you're hopeful that in these moments that practice can 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:56.280 pay dividends. So when you see that, it gets you 0:02:56.280 --> 0:02:57.000 pretty fired up. 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.200 So the Dolphins win this one, twenty to thirteen. It 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.880 was it felt like it was in the Dolphins control 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.760 for much of the night, despite the fact that there 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.079 were so many possessions, so many drives, and a lot 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.840 of those drives were three plays or less, and times 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:13.640 you kind of had the comical nature of the preseason, 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.200 but it was Dolphins football and it was back and 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.120 it was fun to be there and watch them get 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.080 a couple of goal line stands late to win that 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.239 football game. Very competitive. I think you saw the new 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:26.119 mindset of the defense. I think you saw the same 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.320 old things we know and love about the offense, and 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:30.560 you got some individuals that really popped in this game 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:32.920 that we'll get to here in just one second, But 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:36.080 two hundred and sixty five yards for Miami, that's like 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.760 half of what we're used to to two twenty six 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:41.760 for the Falcons. Miami outrushed them one hundred and forty 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.840 four to eighty one yards. Both teams had two giveaways 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:46.880 or two takeaways, depending how you look at it. The 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.680 Dolphins were five for seventeen on third downs, the Falcons 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.240 just two for seventeen. No sacks for the Falcons. Dolphins 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.920 had one sack of their own, and Miami was penalized 0:03:56.960 --> 0:04:00.000 four times for twenty five yards. A pretty good figure. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.680 You're running in that many different players, that many substitutions, 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.320 and they got out of the game without too many 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:07.400 flags throwing them eight for the Falcons. By the way, 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.000 A couple of things I like, just conceptually as we 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:11.960 came out of this game, or watching the game from 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.520 a schematic standpoint, from a play style and approach and aggressiveness. 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.479 I just love the fact that you can kind of 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.360 bank on this running game. There's always a prowess of that, 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:25.040 and there's a stable of deep, deep backs you have here, 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.640 and without your top two guys even playing in the game, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.920 you saw a lot from Jalen Wright more on him 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.640 in a second, and Chris Brooks really powering through some 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:35.240 of those runs, and just how they always run the 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.520 ball well. In the exhibition games mentioned one hundred and 0:04:37.600 --> 0:04:39.960 forty four yards on the ground. I mean, I remember 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:43.080 watching a lot of Dolphins August football my life where 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:45.640 it was like twelve rushes for thirty one yards. So 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.159 it's nice to be able to go to that and 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.320 hopefully that's a theme for this football team, not just 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:52.800 in the exhibition season, but all the way to New 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:56.360 Orleans in February. I like, and this is every single 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.360 week from this offense, the play sequencing and the design 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:03.320 of the offen There was two jayalen Wright, not explosive runs. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.640 I think it was a nine yard run and then 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.880 like a twelve yard run which isn't explosive for a 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.080 running play, but two big runs that he had that 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:12.320 went off the left side, and the very next play 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:14.359 they play action boot this thing to the other side 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.120 on the third play and it creates a wide open 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.360 short throw for Jody Fortson coming across the formation and 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.080 split flow action, which is exactly what McDaniel always talks about, 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:27.880 and taking advantage of overplay where they're gonna probably sell 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:29.640 out because they know they're going to have to run 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:33.040 hard to the perimeter if they want to get Jalen 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.560 Wright on the ground on another carry, and off of that, 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.159 let's go ahead and sneak our split flow blocker, which 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.719 is essentially split flow just means you have a tight 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:43.680 end that comes across the formation against the grain. So 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.560 when you run outside zone left, the split flow action 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.880 coming right is your tight end and he usually kicks 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:52.960 out the backside pursue defender or in this case, on 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:54.920 a play action, he sneaks out there in the flat 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:57.640 four a route Fortson's wide open, has a room service 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.600 catch and turns it up for a nice game. So 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.320 I just love that there's always thought and there's always 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:07.120 design that can move the football even when you have second, third, fourth, 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.280 fifth stringers in the game. And then on defense, I 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.480 think you saw the fingerprints of Anthony and Weaver all 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.760 over this defense. I think what I liked most about 0:06:15.800 --> 0:06:18.520 it was that he seems to know his players and 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:22.040 what they do best and put some impositions to excel 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.200 at what they do best. And I think because of 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.560 that and already showing you know, proof of that, I 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.920 think you're gonna get big time buy in from the players, 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:31.840 and I think they're gonna just love him. And it's 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.760 gonna be a reciprocated relationship, much like the offense has 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.320 with Mike McDaniel. More on that moment as well, the 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:42.719 play where Connor Tanner Connor got opened deep. You know, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.359 three for seventy for Tanner Connor. He runs this little 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.080 like half fade. I'm not really sure what you call 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.440 the sproute, but like essentially it's a takeoff and you 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.640 run straight up the sideline, but then you settle yourself 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.039 into the little gap there between two men or cover 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.039 two and the cloud corner that's supposed to you know, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.599 get depth on that route essentially gets den until he 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:03.400 sees color flash in front of him. And so what 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.360 does McDaniel Miami always have in their back pocket. We 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.480 know what you want to do and how to get 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.080 your eyes elsewhere. They run the shallow cross right in 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.640 front of that defender and he sneaks up and then 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.880 we have an explosive play over the top with Skylar 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.880 Thompson hitting ten O'Connor in that gap and you know 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.760 it's a perfectly thrown ball. The safety was late to rotate. 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.400 And then because of that, because you get this big athlete, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.440 you get a big run after the catch. That's good 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:32.320 play design and then a supreme athlete making the most 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.320 out of that play. The playing time of some guys. 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.000 I love the fact that we saw these guys for 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.480 such a long period of time because I think when 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.480 you get you know, into exhibition games where to of 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.360 plays deep into the second quarter perhaps, or you know, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:48.520 you want to get Austin Jackson a bunch of reps 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:50.920 or whoever it might be that is a starter for 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.120 this team and plays, you know, significant time in the preseason. 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.200 If you do that and you tune up those starters 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:00.160 down the stretch of the preseason, then you are are 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:03.680 minimizing reps of the backups. And so why not let 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.640 those guys get some serious run. For instance Patrick Paul, 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:09.160 who it almost seemed like he's gonna go wire to 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:11.000 wire there until he got yanked towards the end of 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.080 the game. But I just think it makes sense to 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.440 work these guys in that were that, you know, when 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.080 you have so many guys down tonight who are going 0:08:17.160 --> 0:08:19.880 to play next week in Week three, get these young 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.040 guys plenty of snaps. And Patrick Paul got a lot 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.800 of snaps in this game. Injuries is another big takeaway 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.760 from the game, just speaking of guys that are down, 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.240 I suppose you know you see why you gave so 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.480 many guys the night off. I mean, Tanner Connor exited 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.199 with an injury and we saw him kind of grab 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.000 at his rib and an oblique section when he came 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.120 off the field, he seemed angry, which is never a 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.480 good sign. I always feel terrible for these guys that 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:44.240 are trying to, you know, fight and make the roster. 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.959 It always sucks to see anybody get hurt, But when 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:48.880 you have guys that are battling to make the roster 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:51.199 who now have an even steeper climb because of a 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.280 possible injury, there's nothing I hate more in the game 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:57.520 than that. Speaking of that UDFA, Grayson Murphy, who was 0:08:57.559 --> 0:09:00.360 having a great camp and played really well out of 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.320 the game, went back in and then came out, went 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:03.800 to the locker room. So we'll get an update on 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.120 him at some point next week. I'm sure Keon Smith 0:09:07.440 --> 0:09:09.959 looks not great. Hopefully he's okay, But the injury that 0:09:10.000 --> 0:09:11.840 he had to limp off of and it just looked 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.600 like his foot got stuck in the ground and some 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:15.720 bodies landed on it on the knee, So you never know. 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:17.760 What happened to that, but it didn't look great. Zeke 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.160 Vandenberg also had an issue that made him exit the game. 0:09:21.400 --> 0:09:24.520 Jody Fortson got popped on a block and you know, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.800 he came out of the game after that. Sir ran Neil, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.320 big night for him. He too got hurt, and Jaquan 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.240 Burton got hurt. So just tons of injuries. Man, you 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.600 hate to see it part of the game, but that 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.440 is what happened tonight. Let's go ahead and get to 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.800 my guys who popped. We'll do the guys that I 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:41.520 thought did not pop, and they'll get out of here 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:44.200 and make it a quick podcast for y'all and come 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.480 back and do practice reports on Monday. But in the game, 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.360 Jalen Wright first guy that kind of comes to mind here. Actually, 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.240 you know what I'm going in order of the positions 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.559 I always talk about. You know, I always do the quarterbacks, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:57.959 running backs, like all that stuff. So let's go ahead 0:09:57.960 --> 0:09:59.800 and start here with Jalen Right, the running back, I mean, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.240 the vision, the decisiveness, the creativity, I mean that big play, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.760 like when you reverse field like that and go backwards. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.320 Typically that works in high school, sometimes it works in college. 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.080 It just doesn't work in the NFL unless you're the 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.800 fastest player on the field, and that's who Jalen Wright 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.360 was tonight. And how impressive was that. I also just 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.000 cannot get enough of how he continues to progress forward 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.800 with that forward lean while he's making those jump cuts. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.840 There's not a lot of indecision to his game. And 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.839 I'm glad that you guys got to see it tonight 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:31.280 because I continue to or last night, i should say, 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.839 because I talk about it every damn camp practice, and 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.000 I kind of feel like I'm getting redundant saying, like 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.840 Jaylen Wright another inside zone run for ten yards where 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.280 he was decisive and hit the gap with conviction and 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.720 leaned into the hit and fell forward and picked up 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.080 ten yards and scored a touchdown, by the way, But 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.400 you never really know with a running back, you know, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.600 until it's live, and tonight it was live, and he 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.480 was live. With the live action, it made the whole 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.720 stadium come to live. Ten for fifty five and a 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.280 touchdown for Jalen Wright. Let's go ahead and close up 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.360 the first segment of this podcast with Mike McDaniel what 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:06.319 he saw from his rookie running back. 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:08.800 But what I wanted to see is a confident runner 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:15.520 that found confidence after something that he didn't like. Okay, 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.680 because that's the big thing in this league is everything 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.320 doesn't go well all the time. He had a couple 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:25.640 of things he didn't necessarily love in terms of a cut, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.600 a slip, and I mean even mid play, I think 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:33.480 he dribbled a screen pass and then still found some resilience. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.840 So I saw it was a good first outing for 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.520 him because he got a little bit of everything and 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:40.080 he finished strong. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.200 And I just look at this stable of backs man 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.920 and between Raheem and a Chan, like you know what 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.800 you have there, and with the emergence of Jalen Wright already, 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:51.640 and this is why you trade up to get him, 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.000 and you know he's going to be a big factor 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.240 in the offense. You do that to help if you 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.880 get injury, which has happened every year in this running 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.080 back room, right. You do that when you have a 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.840 full compliment to reduce the workload as far as like 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.199 in the tackle run into the tackle runs for Devon 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:08.920 ah Chan and you can now maximize his receiving skill 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:11.040 set even more and get him back in that two 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.960 hundred and fifty touch range and average eight yards per touch. 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.160 That would be you know, it's pretty good. That would 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:19.120 be uh, what is that? That's that's two thousand yards 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.680 of scrimmage. It's pretty good if he does that. And 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.400 then obviously Jeff Wilson ran his butt off tonight. Chris 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.520 Brooks ran his butt off like you have way too 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:27.880 when you get running backs in this for him, I 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:29.360 wonder if there's a draft pick you can get one 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.160 of those guys down the line, because we have I 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.280 think every back, all six backs on this roster to me, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.880 are worthy of the NFL rosters, and you can't keep six. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.600 I mean, Wilson, Wright, Achmed Eighth, chan Ingold, Raheem, and Brooks, 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.040 all those guys belong on NFL rosters and you can't 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.640 keep them all. So but Jalen Wright very impressive tonight 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.200 in the game. And you heard the coach talk about 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.480 a guy that you know, he loves his game what 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.760 he offers. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.880 right there. Come back on the other side. Do the 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:56.719 rest of the guys that pop for me? In the 0:12:56.760 --> 0:13:00.000 Dolphins preseason opening win over the Falcons twenty to thirteen 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:03.280 here at hard Rock Stadium, that's all next Draft Time podcast, 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:06.200 your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:12.320 Dolphins winners. In the preseason opener, we're talking about the 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.719 guys who jumped off the screen tonight. We've already done 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.000 one of those players, a rookie running back, and we 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.520 move next to a rookie wide receiver and Malik Washington. 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:25.000 You can see it pretty quickly. And I don't get 0:13:25.040 --> 0:13:27.760 this sentiment that he might not be ready to contribute 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.559 right away. I do understand that there is some nuances. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:33.800 This offense requires for players to be able to do 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.960 multiple things and play multiple positions, and that's not necessarily 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.360 his skill set as far as a you know, flexed 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:41.600 out receiver. But they didn't draft the guy to do 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:43.720 what he's not comfortable doing. That's the entire theme of 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:46.840 this you know, offense, defense, and entire football team is 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.319 we're going to maximize what you do well. And Malik 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:53.240 Washington is just kind of a gym rat who outworks 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:56.040 people and out muscles them and out toughs them. And 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.600 you see the run after ability catch in those punt returns. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.440 I mean the way he that the way he just 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.560 gets north and south and kind of attacks that way. 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.200 I thought that was evident on the punt returns and 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.720 also on the end around where now we have probably 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.120 you know, five guys that if they had the ball 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:16.080 on that play, probably score you know, sixty yard touchdowns 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.840 on that play. But you see his vision, his north 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.200 south mindset. He's got a nose for the change and 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.520 the goal line on that play as well as the 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.760 returns as well. I would have like to see him 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.480 get some better looks in the passing game because I 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.880 thought he was open a lot. But man, the mentality 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.040 that he showcases in the blocking game as well, Like 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.600 that's gonna really win over his teammates and his coaches, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:37.360 and it's gonna get him reps because he had an 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.200 absolute cracker of a crackback block on the gillen Wright 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.920 touchdown that sent a guy to the moon to Jupiter Florida. 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:46.840 Not Jupiter the planet, but to Jupiter Florida a few 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.960 miles up north. It was impressive debut there from Lake Washington. 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.680 One for five as a receiver, one for twenty one 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:55.680 is a ballcarrier. Four punt returns for twenty one yards 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.760 total and two kick returns for forty six yards. Who 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.120 else popped in the game, and I like the way 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.840 he bounced back and is Tanner Connor because my first 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.880 couple of notes in him where it's it's not going 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:08.200 to be if you have him in line, it might 0:15:08.240 --> 0:15:10.520 cause issues because there was leaks where they guys were 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.120 getting through his gap in the in the running game. 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.920 But it's also so easy to see why he's someone 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.880 that you can't quit because the athletic ability that the guy, 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.320 the type of runaway speed at that position that he 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.920 showed and we saw them, you know, sort of bust 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.840 a coverage on that play in the first half, which 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.520 was by our design that we talked about, but with 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.360 that space, he made the safety miss. And that's that's 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.680 what you want, Like, you want to create plays with 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:41.080 your design that creates opportunities and then watch your premier 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:43.880 athletes make those plays even better. That's Stevon ah Chan, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:47.480 that's Tyreek Hill, Gilen Waddle. Tonight, it was Tanner Connor 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.520 who went for three for seventy before exiting with an injury. 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:54.520 So really really good work from him. I thought the 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:56.760 best player on the field tonight, and I gave him 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:58.800 my game ball in the postgame show with Seth and 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:03.600 juice was Patrick. And I've been telling you guys, been 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.840 telling you all camp and despite you know, detractors saying otherwise, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.120 dude looks pretty good. He's remade his technique, he's more patient, 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.520 he's more in control, he's got a good bend, his 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:16.320 pad level is good, his tenacity is there. And I 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.640 mean you might say, like this was all backups against 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.920 him tonight, Travis, So I don't really care. No, it wasn't. 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.680 He took Arnold Ibachette to school all night long on 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.600 Friday night here at Hard Rocks, and he is EBIKINDI 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:30.920 is a guy that's gonna play probably five hundred plus snaps, 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.480 half the snaps on defense for the Atlanta Falcons. And 0:16:33.760 --> 0:16:35.920 I think if he falls asleep on the plane ride home, 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.840 which is happening right now, he might wake up to 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.760 Patrick Paul in his nightmares, like Freddy Krueger's style. Like 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:43.640 that is a guy that was in his face all 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.320 day long with the Bain face mask, just getting punishment 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:51.400 and displacement with surge all night long on Ibucheta and 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.600 everyone else that he went up against. He had excellent 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:56.960 redirect and his feet to mirror the pass. Rushers moves. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.240 He was patient and didn't get out over his skis 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.320 and my face. Part of his entire game was how 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:04.400 well he processed things. Because go back to that Jeff 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.679 Wilson touchdown reception and they said an extra rusher and 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.760 this is number one. Goodbye Skyler, goodbye this protection slide, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.040 good bye the play caller. Really good work by Patrick Paul. 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.040 When you have a blitz, and when you have five 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.480 guys in the protection scheme and the defense is bringing 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:25.480 more than five rushers, your only your sole focus is 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:28.240 inside out. You want to get the most immediate threat 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.880 to the quarterback. Take the A gap, first B gap, 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.280 second C gap is the last one you want. And 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.240 on that play, the extra rusher came off the outside 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.480 and Patrick Paul squeezed in tight to his guard and 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.520 got the interior pressure taken care of. And that created 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.800 a situation where Scalar Thompson's blitz the free runner was 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.479 right in his face, right in front of his target 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.199 we always talked about on the podcast, replaced the blitz 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:53.560 with the football. It gave him a chance to do that. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.160 He did that, and Patrick Paul did a great job 0:17:57.200 --> 0:18:00.000 of helping squeeze that b gap to maintain the opportunity 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.800 for the touchdown on that play. He also busted his 0:18:02.800 --> 0:18:05.040 big butt getting out in space on that beautiful jal 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:07.720 and right play, and really the entire team, Jakwan Burton 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.520 was out there in space and Kyrik McGowan was out 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:12.919 in space on that play making some nice blocks. To 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:15.160 just effort, strain, get out there and make a play 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.159 for your teammates. Speaking of the left side of the 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.080 offensive line, once Keon Smith went down and Sean Harlow 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.480 came in, I thought things kind of changed for the 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.480 Dolphins offensive line. And Harlow is a guy that from 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.600 his first day here at camp, I think it was 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.040 actually Kyle Krabs his last day here at camp. I 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.159 was like, can Harlow play a little bit? And he 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:34.000 was like he might be bottom of the roster type 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.200 of guy, your depth piece on the interior offensive line. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:39.080 And I'm like, yeah, he looks like it, because he 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.359 came out here again tonight and played like he's played 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:43.240 at practice since he got here. He had a really 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.160 good pull backside where he let up into the playside 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.439 B gap on that right touchdown where he just knocked 0:18:49.480 --> 0:18:52.000 somebody out of that gap completely to really create that 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.800 touchdown run. I thought he got consistent surge all night. 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.760 Thought he anchored well in the pass protection. In pass 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.680 protection him and for a guy that just got here, 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:02.680 seems to be playing really tight and aligned on double 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:06.080 team's you know, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, climbed 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:08.520 to the second level, and also finding work when the 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.960 one technique loops and leaves his rushing like he goes 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.560