Speaker 1: To on remove Dallan Deep speedwas peace Peas. From the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. He's got my hands in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And
Speaker 1: on today's show, we have a football game to talk about.
Speaker 1: Dolphins win their preseason opener in twenty twenty four, twenty
Speaker 1: to thirteen over the Atlanta Falcons. We'll talk about the hits,
Speaker 1: We'll talk about some of the stuff to work on.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about Mike McDaniel and his postgame press conference
Speaker 1: and some news item updates on some injuries. All of
Speaker 1: that in a heck of a lot more from the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This
Speaker 1: is the Drive Time Podcast. When we get going, I
Speaker 1: think anything that is in this game cannot be more
Speaker 1: important than some injury updates that we got from McDaniel
Speaker 1: following this game, including an update on Aaron Brewer and
Speaker 1: it sounds like he will be week to week with
Speaker 1: the hand injury that he suffered back on Wednesday's practice.
Speaker 1: Great news. There a very critical part of the interior
Speaker 1: offensive line. Sounds like with the week one game a
Speaker 1: month away, we should be good to go there with Brewer. Also,
Speaker 1: Chop Robinson was down in this game, as many Dolphins were.
Speaker 1: He was missing the game because of a minor injury
Speaker 1: concerned that held him back from out of this game,
Speaker 1: so that's why he was not on the field. Mo
Speaker 1: Kamara obviously was out with an injury for the game.
Speaker 1: So those two rookies did not play in the game,
Speaker 1: but the other rookies had themselves quite a game. Before
Speaker 1: we get to that, though, I want to go ahead
Speaker 1: and run some audio here from the head coach who
Speaker 1: was asked in the postgame press conference about the value
Speaker 1: of preseason games versus practice tape. Here is Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing that really fires me up, specifically in
Speaker 2: preseason games where you're you're major focus is on the
Speaker 2: players and you're not as you're not as driven by
Speaker 2: the score, is seeing specific things that have been coached
Speaker 2: to you know, you end up knowing the story and
Speaker 2: going through the journey of all these all these players.
Speaker 2: There's a lot of things that we're coaching them on.
Speaker 2: And then when guys specifically in game situations, really harness
Speaker 2: stuff that we've focused on from a technical standpoint that
Speaker 2: it's really cool to see. You want to see that
Speaker 2: because that's what you're practicing for. You're practicing for these moments,
Speaker 2: and you're hopeful that in these moments that practice can
Speaker 2: pay dividends. So when you see that, it gets you
Speaker 2: pretty fired up.
Speaker 1: So the Dolphins win this one, twenty to thirteen. It
Speaker 1: was it felt like it was in the Dolphins control
Speaker 1: for much of the night, despite the fact that there
Speaker 1: were so many possessions, so many drives, and a lot
Speaker 1: of those drives were three plays or less, and times
Speaker 1: you kind of had the comical nature of the preseason,
Speaker 1: but it was Dolphins football and it was back and
Speaker 1: it was fun to be there and watch them get
Speaker 1: a couple of goal line stands late to win that
Speaker 1: football game. Very competitive. I think you saw the new
Speaker 1: mindset of the defense. I think you saw the same
Speaker 1: old things we know and love about the offense, and
Speaker 1: you got some individuals that really popped in this game
Speaker 1: that we'll get to here in just one second, But
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five yards for Miami, that's like
Speaker 1: half of what we're used to to two twenty six
Speaker 1: for the Falcons. Miami outrushed them one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four to eighty one yards. Both teams had two giveaways
Speaker 1: or two takeaways, depending how you look at it. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins were five for seventeen on third downs, the Falcons
Speaker 1: just two for seventeen. No sacks for the Falcons. Dolphins
Speaker 1: had one sack of their own, and Miami was penalized
Speaker 1: four times for twenty five yards. A pretty good figure.
Speaker 1: You're running in that many different players, that many substitutions,
Speaker 1: and they got out of the game without too many
Speaker 1: flags throwing them eight for the Falcons. By the way,
Speaker 1: A couple of things I like, just conceptually as we
Speaker 1: came out of this game, or watching the game from
Speaker 1: a schematic standpoint, from a play style and approach and aggressiveness.
Speaker 1: I just love the fact that you can kind of
Speaker 1: bank on this running game. There's always a prowess of that,
Speaker 1: and there's a stable of deep, deep backs you have here,
Speaker 1: and without your top two guys even playing in the game,
Speaker 1: you saw a lot from Jalen Wright more on him
Speaker 1: in a second, and Chris Brooks really powering through some
Speaker 1: of those runs, and just how they always run the
Speaker 1: ball well. In the exhibition games mentioned one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty four yards on the ground. I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: watching a lot of Dolphins August football my life where
Speaker 1: it was like twelve rushes for thirty one yards. So
Speaker 1: it's nice to be able to go to that and
Speaker 1: hopefully that's a theme for this football team, not just
Speaker 1: in the exhibition season, but all the way to New
Speaker 1: Orleans in February. I like, and this is every single
Speaker 1: week from this offense, the play sequencing and the design
Speaker 1: of the offen There was two jayalen Wright, not explosive runs.
Speaker 1: I think it was a nine yard run and then
Speaker 1: like a twelve yard run which isn't explosive for a
Speaker 1: running play, but two big runs that he had that
Speaker 1: went off the left side, and the very next play
Speaker 1: they play action boot this thing to the other side
Speaker 1: on the third play and it creates a wide open
Speaker 1: short throw for Jody Fortson coming across the formation and
Speaker 1: split flow action, which is exactly what McDaniel always talks about,
Speaker 1: and taking advantage of overplay where they're gonna probably sell
Speaker 1: out because they know they're going to have to run
Speaker 1: hard to the perimeter if they want to get Jalen
Speaker 1: Wright on the ground on another carry, and off of that,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and sneak our split flow blocker, which
Speaker 1: is essentially split flow just means you have a tight
Speaker 1: end that comes across the formation against the grain. So
Speaker 1: when you run outside zone left, the split flow action
Speaker 1: coming right is your tight end and he usually kicks
Speaker 1: out the backside pursue defender or in this case, on
Speaker 1: a play action, he sneaks out there in the flat
Speaker 1: four a route Fortson's wide open, has a room service
Speaker 1: catch and turns it up for a nice game. So
Speaker 1: I just love that there's always thought and there's always
Speaker 1: design that can move the football even when you have second, third, fourth,
Speaker 1: fifth stringers in the game. And then on defense, I
Speaker 1: think you saw the fingerprints of Anthony and Weaver all
Speaker 1: over this defense. I think what I liked most about
Speaker 1: it was that he seems to know his players and
Speaker 1: what they do best and put some impositions to excel
Speaker 1: at what they do best. And I think because of
Speaker 1: that and already showing you know, proof of that, I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna get big time buy in from the players,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna just love him. And it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a reciprocated relationship, much like the offense has
Speaker 1: with Mike McDaniel. More on that moment as well, the
Speaker 1: play where Connor Tanner Connor got opened deep. You know,
Speaker 1: three for seventy for Tanner Connor. He runs this little
Speaker 1: like half fade. I'm not really sure what you call
Speaker 1: the sproute, but like essentially it's a takeoff and you
Speaker 1: run straight up the sideline, but then you settle yourself
Speaker 1: into the little gap there between two men or cover
Speaker 1: two and the cloud corner that's supposed to you know,
Speaker 1: get depth on that route essentially gets den until he
Speaker 1: sees color flash in front of him. And so what
Speaker 1: does McDaniel Miami always have in their back pocket. We
Speaker 1: know what you want to do and how to get
Speaker 1: your eyes elsewhere. They run the shallow cross right in
Speaker 1: front of that defender and he sneaks up and then
Speaker 1: we have an explosive play over the top with Skylar
Speaker 1: Thompson hitting ten O'Connor in that gap and you know
Speaker 1: it's a perfectly thrown ball. The safety was late to rotate.
Speaker 1: And then because of that, because you get this big athlete,
Speaker 1: you get a big run after the catch. That's good
Speaker 1: play design and then a supreme athlete making the most
Speaker 1: out of that play. The playing time of some guys.
Speaker 1: I love the fact that we saw these guys for
Speaker 1: such a long period of time because I think when
Speaker 1: you get you know, into exhibition games where to of
Speaker 1: plays deep into the second quarter perhaps, or you know,
Speaker 1: you want to get Austin Jackson a bunch of reps
Speaker 1: or whoever it might be that is a starter for
Speaker 1: this team and plays, you know, significant time in the preseason.
Speaker 1: If you do that and you tune up those starters
Speaker 1: down the stretch of the preseason, then you are are
Speaker 1: minimizing reps of the backups. And so why not let
Speaker 1: those guys get some serious run. For instance Patrick Paul,
Speaker 1: who it almost seemed like he's gonna go wire to
Speaker 1: wire there until he got yanked towards the end of
Speaker 1: the game. But I just think it makes sense to
Speaker 1: work these guys in that were that, you know, when
Speaker 1: you have so many guys down tonight who are going
Speaker 1: to play next week in Week three, get these young
Speaker 1: guys plenty of snaps. And Patrick Paul got a lot
Speaker 1: of snaps in this game. Injuries is another big takeaway
Speaker 1: from the game, just speaking of guys that are down,
Speaker 1: I suppose you know you see why you gave so
Speaker 1: many guys the night off. I mean, Tanner Connor exited
Speaker 1: with an injury and we saw him kind of grab
Speaker 1: at his rib and an oblique section when he came
Speaker 1: off the field, he seemed angry, which is never a
Speaker 1: good sign. I always feel terrible for these guys that
Speaker 1: are trying to, you know, fight and make the roster.
Speaker 1: It always sucks to see anybody get hurt, But when
Speaker 1: you have guys that are battling to make the roster
Speaker 1: who now have an even steeper climb because of a
Speaker 1: possible injury, there's nothing I hate more in the game
Speaker 1: than that. Speaking of that UDFA, Grayson Murphy, who was
Speaker 1: having a great camp and played really well out of
Speaker 1: the game, went back in and then came out, went
Speaker 1: to the locker room. So we'll get an update on
Speaker 1: him at some point next week. I'm sure Keon Smith
Speaker 1: looks not great. Hopefully he's okay, But the injury that
Speaker 1: he had to limp off of and it just looked
Speaker 1: like his foot got stuck in the ground and some
Speaker 1: bodies landed on it on the knee, So you never know.
Speaker 1: What happened to that, but it didn't look great. Zeke
Speaker 1: Vandenberg also had an issue that made him exit the game.
Speaker 1: Jody Fortson got popped on a block and you know,
Speaker 1: he came out of the game after that. Sir ran Neil,
Speaker 1: big night for him. He too got hurt, and Jaquan
Speaker 1: Burton got hurt. So just tons of injuries. Man, you
Speaker 1: hate to see it part of the game, but that
Speaker 1: is what happened tonight. Let's go ahead and get to
Speaker 1: my guys who popped. We'll do the guys that I
Speaker 1: thought did not pop, and they'll get out of here
Speaker 1: and make it a quick podcast for y'all and come
Speaker 1: back and do practice reports on Monday. But in the game,
Speaker 1: Jalen Wright first guy that kind of comes to mind here. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm going in order of the positions
Speaker 1: I always talk about. You know, I always do the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: running backs, like all that stuff. So let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and start here with Jalen Right, the running back, I mean,
Speaker 1: the vision, the decisiveness, the creativity, I mean that big play,
Speaker 1: like when you reverse field like that and go backwards.
Speaker 1: Typically that works in high school, sometimes it works in college.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work in the NFL unless you're the
Speaker 1: fastest player on the field, and that's who Jalen Wright
Speaker 1: was tonight. And how impressive was that. I also just
Speaker 1: cannot get enough of how he continues to progress forward
Speaker 1: with that forward lean while he's making those jump cuts.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot of indecision to his game. And
Speaker 1: I'm glad that you guys got to see it tonight
Speaker 1: because I continue to or last night, i should say,
Speaker 1: because I talk about it every damn camp practice, and
Speaker 1: I kind of feel like I'm getting redundant saying, like
Speaker 1: Jaylen Wright another inside zone run for ten yards where
Speaker 1: he was decisive and hit the gap with conviction and
Speaker 1: leaned into the hit and fell forward and picked up
Speaker 1: ten yards and scored a touchdown, by the way, But
Speaker 1: you never really know with a running back, you know,
Speaker 1: until it's live, and tonight it was live, and he
Speaker 1: was live. With the live action, it made the whole
Speaker 1: stadium come to live. Ten for fifty five and a
Speaker 1: touchdown for Jalen Wright. Let's go ahead and close up
Speaker 1: the first segment of this podcast with Mike McDaniel what
Speaker 1: he saw from his rookie running back.
Speaker 2: But what I wanted to see is a confident runner
Speaker 2: that found confidence after something that he didn't like. Okay,
Speaker 2: because that's the big thing in this league is everything
Speaker 2: doesn't go well all the time. He had a couple
Speaker 2: of things he didn't necessarily love in terms of a cut,
Speaker 2: a slip, and I mean even mid play, I think
Speaker 2: he dribbled a screen pass and then still found some resilience.
Speaker 2: So I saw it was a good first outing for
Speaker 2: him because he got a little bit of everything and
Speaker 2: he finished strong.
Speaker 1: And I just look at this stable of backs man
Speaker 1: and between Raheem and a Chan, like you know what
Speaker 1: you have there, and with the emergence of Jalen Wright already,
Speaker 1: and this is why you trade up to get him,
Speaker 1: and you know he's going to be a big factor
Speaker 1: in the offense. You do that to help if you
Speaker 1: get injury, which has happened every year in this running
Speaker 1: back room, right. You do that when you have a
Speaker 1: full compliment to reduce the workload as far as like
Speaker 1: in the tackle run into the tackle runs for Devon
Speaker 1: ah Chan and you can now maximize his receiving skill
Speaker 1: set even more and get him back in that two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty touch range and average eight yards per touch.
Speaker 1: That would be you know, it's pretty good. That would
Speaker 1: be uh, what is that? That's that's two thousand yards
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. It's pretty good if he does that. And
Speaker 1: then obviously Jeff Wilson ran his butt off tonight. Chris
Speaker 1: Brooks ran his butt off like you have way too
Speaker 1: when you get running backs in this for him, I
Speaker 1: wonder if there's a draft pick you can get one
Speaker 1: of those guys down the line, because we have I
Speaker 1: think every back, all six backs on this roster to me,
Speaker 1: are worthy of the NFL rosters, and you can't keep six.
Speaker 1: I mean, Wilson, Wright, Achmed Eighth, chan Ingold, Raheem, and Brooks,
Speaker 1: all those guys belong on NFL rosters and you can't
Speaker 1: keep them all. So but Jalen Wright very impressive tonight
Speaker 1: in the game. And you heard the coach talk about
Speaker 1: a guy that you know, he loves his game what
Speaker 1: he offers. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 1: right there. Come back on the other side. Do the
Speaker 1: rest of the guys that pop for me? In the
Speaker 1: Dolphins preseason opening win over the Falcons twenty to thirteen
Speaker 1: here at hard Rock Stadium, that's all next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation
Speaker 1: Dolphins winners. In the preseason opener, we're talking about the
Speaker 1: guys who jumped off the screen tonight. We've already done
Speaker 1: one of those players, a rookie running back, and we
Speaker 1: move next to a rookie wide receiver and Malik Washington.
Speaker 1: You can see it pretty quickly. And I don't get
Speaker 1: this sentiment that he might not be ready to contribute
Speaker 1: right away. I do understand that there is some nuances.
Speaker 1: This offense requires for players to be able to do
Speaker 1: multiple things and play multiple positions, and that's not necessarily
Speaker 1: his skill set as far as a you know, flexed
Speaker 1: out receiver. But they didn't draft the guy to do
Speaker 1: what he's not comfortable doing. That's the entire theme of
Speaker 1: this you know, offense, defense, and entire football team is
Speaker 1: we're going to maximize what you do well. And Malik
Speaker 1: Washington is just kind of a gym rat who outworks
Speaker 1: people and out muscles them and out toughs them. And
Speaker 1: you see the run after ability catch in those punt returns.
Speaker 1: I mean the way he that the way he just
Speaker 1: gets north and south and kind of attacks that way.
Speaker 1: I thought that was evident on the punt returns and
Speaker 1: also on the end around where now we have probably
Speaker 1: you know, five guys that if they had the ball
Speaker 1: on that play, probably score you know, sixty yard touchdowns
Speaker 1: on that play. But you see his vision, his north
Speaker 1: south mindset. He's got a nose for the change and
Speaker 1: the goal line on that play as well as the
Speaker 1: returns as well. I would have like to see him
Speaker 1: get some better looks in the passing game because I
Speaker 1: thought he was open a lot. But man, the mentality
Speaker 1: that he showcases in the blocking game as well, Like
Speaker 1: that's gonna really win over his teammates and his coaches,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna get him reps because he had an
Speaker 1: absolute cracker of a crackback block on the gillen Wright
Speaker 1: touchdown that sent a guy to the moon to Jupiter Florida.
Speaker 1: Not Jupiter the planet, but to Jupiter Florida a few
Speaker 1: miles up north. It was impressive debut there from Lake Washington.
Speaker 1: One for five as a receiver, one for twenty one
Speaker 1: is a ballcarrier. Four punt returns for twenty one yards
Speaker 1: total and two kick returns for forty six yards. Who
Speaker 1: else popped in the game, and I like the way
Speaker 1: he bounced back and is Tanner Connor because my first
Speaker 1: couple of notes in him where it's it's not going
Speaker 1: to be if you have him in line, it might
Speaker 1: cause issues because there was leaks where they guys were
Speaker 1: getting through his gap in the in the running game.
Speaker 1: But it's also so easy to see why he's someone
Speaker 1: that you can't quit because the athletic ability that the guy,
Speaker 1: the type of runaway speed at that position that he
Speaker 1: showed and we saw them, you know, sort of bust
Speaker 1: a coverage on that play in the first half, which
Speaker 1: was by our design that we talked about, but with
Speaker 1: that space, he made the safety miss. And that's that's
Speaker 1: what you want, Like, you want to create plays with
Speaker 1: your design that creates opportunities and then watch your premier
Speaker 1: athletes make those plays even better. That's Stevon ah Chan,
Speaker 1: that's Tyreek Hill, Gilen Waddle. Tonight, it was Tanner Connor
Speaker 1: who went for three for seventy before exiting with an injury.
Speaker 1: So really really good work from him. I thought the
Speaker 1: best player on the field tonight, and I gave him
Speaker 1: my game ball in the postgame show with Seth and
Speaker 1: juice was Patrick. And I've been telling you guys, been
Speaker 1: telling you all camp and despite you know, detractors saying otherwise,
Speaker 1: dude looks pretty good. He's remade his technique, he's more patient,
Speaker 1: he's more in control, he's got a good bend, his
Speaker 1: pad level is good, his tenacity is there. And I
Speaker 1: mean you might say, like this was all backups against
Speaker 1: him tonight, Travis, So I don't really care. No, it wasn't.
Speaker 1: He took Arnold Ibachette to school all night long on
Speaker 1: Friday night here at Hard Rocks, and he is EBIKINDI
Speaker 1: is a guy that's gonna play probably five hundred plus snaps,
Speaker 1: half the snaps on defense for the Atlanta Falcons. And
Speaker 1: I think if he falls asleep on the plane ride home,
Speaker 1: which is happening right now, he might wake up to
Speaker 1: Patrick Paul in his nightmares, like Freddy Krueger's style. Like
Speaker 1: that is a guy that was in his face all
Speaker 1: day long with the Bain face mask, just getting punishment
Speaker 1: and displacement with surge all night long on Ibucheta and
Speaker 1: everyone else that he went up against. He had excellent
Speaker 1: redirect and his feet to mirror the pass. Rushers moves.
Speaker 1: He was patient and didn't get out over his skis
Speaker 1: and my face. Part of his entire game was how
Speaker 1: well he processed things. Because go back to that Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson touchdown reception and they said an extra rusher and
Speaker 1: this is number one. Goodbye Skyler, goodbye this protection slide,
Speaker 1: good bye the play caller. Really good work by Patrick Paul.
Speaker 1: When you have a blitz, and when you have five
Speaker 1: guys in the protection scheme and the defense is bringing
Speaker 1: more than five rushers, your only your sole focus is
Speaker 1: inside out. You want to get the most immediate threat
Speaker 1: to the quarterback. Take the A gap, first B gap,
Speaker 1: second C gap is the last one you want. And
Speaker 1: on that play, the extra rusher came off the outside
Speaker 1: and Patrick Paul squeezed in tight to his guard and
Speaker 1: got the interior pressure taken care of. And that created
Speaker 1: a situation where Scalar Thompson's blitz the free runner was
Speaker 1: right in his face, right in front of his target
Speaker 1: we always talked about on the podcast, replaced the blitz
Speaker 1: with the football. It gave him a chance to do that.
Speaker 1: He did that, and Patrick Paul did a great job
Speaker 1: of helping squeeze that b gap to maintain the opportunity
Speaker 1: for the touchdown on that play. He also busted his
Speaker 1: big butt getting out in space on that beautiful jal
Speaker 1: and right play, and really the entire team, Jakwan Burton
Speaker 1: was out there in space and Kyrik McGowan was out
Speaker 1: in space on that play making some nice blocks. To
Speaker 1: just effort, strain, get out there and make a play
Speaker 1: for your teammates. Speaking of the left side of the
Speaker 1: offensive line, once Keon Smith went down and Sean Harlow
Speaker 1: came in, I thought things kind of changed for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offensive line. And Harlow is a guy that from
Speaker 1: his first day here at camp, I think it was
Speaker 1: actually Kyle Krabs his last day here at camp. I
Speaker 1: was like, can Harlow play a little bit? And he
Speaker 1: was like he might be bottom of the roster type
Speaker 1: of guy, your depth piece on the interior offensive line.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, he looks like it, because he
Speaker 1: came out here again tonight and played like he's played
Speaker 1: at practice since he got here. He had a really
Speaker 1: good pull backside where he let up into the playside
Speaker 1: B gap on that right touchdown where he just knocked
Speaker 1: somebody out of that gap completely to really create that
Speaker 1: touchdown run. I thought he got consistent surge all night.
Speaker 1: Thought he anchored well in the pass protection. In pass
Speaker 1: protection him and for a guy that just got here,
Speaker 1: seems to be playing really tight and aligned on double
Speaker 1: team's you know, shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, climbed
Speaker 1: to the second level, and also finding work when the
Speaker 1: one technique loops and leaves his rushing like he goes
Speaker 1: out and gets that position. So I was really impressed
Speaker 1: by Sean Harlowe. Could be a nice little in camp.
Speaker 1: Addition here for the Dolphins Neville Gallimore and shout out
Speaker 1: to Kyle Crabs who got on us for not giving
Speaker 1: a game ball to Neville Gallimore. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: right now, Kyle Gallimore was close. He was my fifth
Speaker 1: option for game balls based upon what we did. I
Speaker 1: was Patrick Paul, Juice was Jalen Wright, and Seth was
Speaker 1: Saran Neil. I thought Patrick mc morris was next. I
Speaker 1: think Gallimore would have been next for me on that
Speaker 1: list because he was possessed. Didn't have the stats that
Speaker 1: jumped off the page at you, but he was doing
Speaker 1: it for multiple positions and his best rep of the
Speaker 1: night was a third down pass rush where he hit
Speaker 1: the quarterback to get his one QB hit with a
Speaker 1: pure speed rush around the edge. And that's what he
Speaker 1: did at Oklahoma. But the Cowboys at three hundred pounds,
Speaker 1: thought let's kick him inside and make him a nose tackle.
Speaker 1: I never got that. But tonight we saw him play
Speaker 1: the five tech and the three tech and have that
Speaker 1: speed rush around the end. We saw him stack and
Speaker 1: shed some blocks inside and get upfield in multiple pass
Speaker 1: rush lanes. I'm just really impressed by what we saw
Speaker 1: from him. One tackle, three pressures at a quarterback hit. He's
Speaker 1: had a strong camp so far and continue that with
Speaker 1: a good preseason opener for the Miami Dolphins. Speaking of
Speaker 1: defensive tackles, Leonard Pain, My goodness, what a game for
Speaker 1: Leonard Pain. Now I knew about his quickness and get
Speaker 1: off and again, you know the guys that did in
Speaker 1: the first half, you know, Patrick Paul on Ebakette is
Speaker 1: a different story than some of these guys doing this
Speaker 1: late in the fourth quarter against you know, I hate
Speaker 1: the term, but like future you know, ups drivers or
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, Like, that was the situation.
Speaker 1: But what can you do besides dominate those guys, and
Speaker 1: that's what Leonard Paine did. I didn't know. I knew
Speaker 1: about the quickness, but I didn't know how he played
Speaker 1: with length and his lockout ability, like the way he
Speaker 1: rode the wave down the line of scrimmage and outside zone.
Speaker 1: It's good footwork, man, that's good balance, that's good I
Speaker 1: discipline and ability to get off those blocks as well.
Speaker 1: He flowed so well with those wide runs effectively, and
Speaker 1: then to be able to get out there in space
Speaker 1: like outside the numbers and shed the block and make
Speaker 1: the tackle. That's pretty impressive. And that's what he did
Speaker 1: all night long. Two tackles, one of those for a loss.
Speaker 1: Grayson Murphy also a guy that popped for me the
Speaker 1: UDFA from UCLA in an edge group. That is, my god,
Speaker 1: it's banged up. Murphy went down. We're already down. Phillips,
Speaker 1: we're already down. Chubb were down, Camaro, we're down. Chopped tonight.
Speaker 1: Shaq Barrett retired like Quentin Bell. You're the only one
Speaker 1: left here, dude. And Emmanuel Ogwall was inactive. He's available still,
Speaker 1: but that's pretty much it. The whole room is pretty
Speaker 1: much hurt right now. But he was he came out
Speaker 1: of the gates hot the first play of the night.
Speaker 1: Been seeing an all camp long like tonight was a
Speaker 1: good a good night for drive time, Like I gotta
Speaker 1: be roll with you guys. I'm gonna go ahead and
Speaker 1: and pat myself on the back because he comes out
Speaker 1: of the gate, long, arms the edge, keeps his frame clean,
Speaker 1: gets off the block, and makes the play just super impressive.
Speaker 1: That's his game. He's a good football player. One tackle tonight,
Speaker 1: one tackle tonight, and it was for a loss. So
Speaker 1: saran Neil got a game Ball in the post game show.
Speaker 1: He gets into the guys who Popps category here he
Speaker 1: makes the first two tackles on kickoff coverage. And I
Speaker 1: talked to Danny Crossman about saran Neil. You fired about
Speaker 1: having this guy? He said, yeah, I am. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: pretty freaking fighted up for saran Neil, And you can
Speaker 1: see why from the jump. He also had a tackle
Speaker 1: on a wide run that sets up a second down
Speaker 1: on long play, and and that second down long play
Speaker 1: gets himself a rep in zone turn where he sees
Speaker 1: a route go vertical and passes it off and takes
Speaker 1: the short hookup throat and closes downhill on that and
Speaker 1: puts a big hit on the on the receiver who
Speaker 1: didn't see him coming, and then doesn't celebrate the force fumble,
Speaker 1: finds the football and lunges for it and jumps on
Speaker 1: it and recovers it. That tenacity is who he was
Speaker 1: on tape. It's who he's been in camp, and it's
Speaker 1: who we saw on Friday night. Three tackles, two more
Speaker 1: on special teams, forced fumble, forced fumble, recovery. What a
Speaker 1: night for saran Neil. Storm Duck had himself a good
Speaker 1: ballgame too. He had back to back plays on deep shots.
Speaker 1: He bumped, he mirrored, he got into phase, got that
Speaker 1: arm across the numbers, locates the football, separates the hands
Speaker 1: rapp when the ball arrives. That's like picture perfect teach
Speaker 1: tape for a cornerback. And the next rep was the
Speaker 1: exact same thing, but the throw was high and away,
Speaker 1: thinking like, oh, we can't put it there because Storm
Speaker 1: Duck can get it. And because of that, the ball
Speaker 1: was uncatchable. Mainly because Storm Duck pinned him. I thought.
Speaker 1: He also really inserted well off the edge of the
Speaker 1: running game too. Two tackles and a pass breakup for
Speaker 1: Storm Duck. Let's go ahead and take our last break
Speaker 1: right there, come back on the other side and do
Speaker 1: a couple more hits, and we'll talk about some of
Speaker 1: the downside of the game tonight. That's all Next Draft
Speaker 1: Time Podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 1: by I don't nation. It almost feels like we are
Speaker 1: just pulling up practice notes and going over all the
Speaker 1: same guys again, because those are kind of the guys
Speaker 1: that popped. And I also thought Jason Matrie showed you
Speaker 1: what he was made of in this game as well.
Speaker 1: The very first rep of the game, he knife into
Speaker 1: the backfield on the strong side sea gap and beats
Speaker 1: the block and lays out for a stop. I've seen
Speaker 1: him make plays all camp long, but I didn't know
Speaker 1: he had that in his bag. As far as the
Speaker 1: run support, because you don't see a lot of that
Speaker 1: from cornerbacks. You know, Storm Duck has done some of that,
Speaker 1: but it's just not something that these guys typically do
Speaker 1: because you're tagging off and so seeing him play with
Speaker 1: that Tanasi in the running game was like, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: another part of the game. I wasn't sure that he had,
Speaker 1: but he definitely does. And then the very next play,
Speaker 1: he comes in and makes the back bubble and that
Speaker 1: creates another negative run. Then he gets a rep in
Speaker 1: the slot, which you know we could always you can
Speaker 1: always use more nickel cornerbacks, and he mirrors this fade route,
Speaker 1: runs the route for the receiver and I praised. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of guys for their vertical you know,
Speaker 1: passing past defense prowess, and these guys are in phase.
Speaker 1: Jason Matrie ran the damn route for the guy like
Speaker 1: that's he stacked him. He got on top of him
Speaker 1: like a receiver supposed to do. Forces the incompletion. That's
Speaker 1: been all training camp for Jason Matrix had one tackle
Speaker 1: in the game, but that coverage rep who that was nice.
Speaker 1: Patrick McMorris. If Pat Paul was my offensive game ball,
Speaker 1: that rhymes Pat McMorris is my defensive game ball dog.
Speaker 1: Like they had to take him off the field because
Speaker 1: he was gonna you know, he's doing too much, like
Speaker 1: the way he was flying downhill and hitting guys super
Speaker 1: super impressive. But I think that my favorite rep of
Speaker 1: the game was him reading a two man route concept
Speaker 1: where he was the boundary half field safety, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, is so nice to be able to talk
Speaker 1: like actual X and O's here is excell and O's
Speaker 1: here on the podcast because you know, training camp has
Speaker 1: rules against that and all four, you know, protecting the
Speaker 1: team and what the designs and schemes are. But in
Speaker 1: a game everyone can see it, so we got to
Speaker 1: talk about it. But half field boundary, so the short
Speaker 1: side of the field too high safety. Look, he's playing
Speaker 1: that short side, and that position is an opportunity to
Speaker 1: kind of make plays where you can kind of read
Speaker 1: the front side crossing routes and your tight end hookup.
Speaker 1: You can go crash on a running back on a
Speaker 1: swing route. But in this particular instance, there was a
Speaker 1: two man route combination that essentially had an inbreaker that
Speaker 1: allowed him to say, okay, now I have one guy
Speaker 1: to concern within this portion of my coverage. And it
Speaker 1: was a corner route, which is a pretty typical stick
Speaker 1: constant like a hitch or an in breaker with a
Speaker 1: corner route and behind that and he read it before
Speaker 1: the quarterback threw it, jumped it before the ball came out,
Speaker 1: and got there for the pass breakup, and was also
Speaker 1: really good on special teams. Seven tackles in a pass breakup.
Speaker 1: What a night for Patrick McMorris and then Jason Sanders.
Speaker 1: I know he missed a fifty nine yard kick, but
Speaker 1: he made a fifty eight yarder and if I can
Speaker 1: go one for two from there, I mean, that's pretty
Speaker 1: good from a long distance that you're probably only gonna
Speaker 1: try at the end of half an end of game
Speaker 1: situations with a lot of room to spair. By the way,
Speaker 1: on that fifty eight yard field goal, like that thing
Speaker 1: drilled the net behind it for an extra ten yards.
Speaker 1: What a weapon that is to have in your back pocket.
Speaker 1: He was two for three, made the fifty eight and
Speaker 1: forty six yarder. The miss was fifty nine. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty good night for a kicker if you asked me.
Speaker 1: All right, So wasn't a great night for everyone? I
Speaker 1: think there's definitely some stuff we can talk about here
Speaker 1: from a can work on standpoint, and one of those
Speaker 1: to me was both of the quarterbacks, and we'll hear
Speaker 1: from Mike McDaniel on that.
Speaker 2: Each quarterback has a different set of circumstances. That's why
Speaker 2: you try to replicate in a competition. You try to
Speaker 2: replicate that at as close to possible as possible. In
Speaker 2: an inverse situation, at some point in the preseason, I thought, uh,
Speaker 2: both quarterbacks in their own scenarios, had some issues during
Speaker 2: the game, and then uh they they were able to
Speaker 2: bounce back and and do some things uh the the
Speaker 2: specifically in the second half. You know, I wanted to
Speaker 2: get Mike in a in a rhythm. Uh and uh
Speaker 2: you know there's some there's some stuff outside of his
Speaker 2: control uh that I wanted to see how he would
Speaker 2: respond to that. And I thought he did a good
Speaker 2: job responding.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: And even though we had a rough, rough set of circumstances.
Speaker 2: We were down to uh in the second half, we
Speaker 2: were down to one tight end and and one running
Speaker 2: back and uh uh we had a receiver that just
Speaker 2: we we just got on board two days ago. So
Speaker 2: it kind of really it was a tough situation for
Speaker 2: him to be in, and I thought he maintained his composure.
Speaker 2: But we still have a ton of work to do.
Speaker 1: I liked a lot of what Skyler did. I think
Speaker 1: there was some instances of him showing you the growth
Speaker 1: in the game. I mentioned the ability to find that
Speaker 1: blitz and replace the blitz with the football, But man,
Speaker 1: there was so many plays where he was able to
Speaker 1: create off script and off structure and then was just
Speaker 1: like missing those throws, Which that's something you can drill
Speaker 1: an individual because he is a good creator, and if
Speaker 1: he can get a little more consistent with the placement,
Speaker 1: that can turn into a weapon that you can really
Speaker 1: utilize as your backup quarterback in a situation where hey,
Speaker 1: if two was down for a game, let's get our
Speaker 1: running game going, Let's get Tyreek and Waddle involved on
Speaker 1: end of rounds and jet sweeps, and then Skyler just
Speaker 1: make a couple of plays for us and beyond schedule
Speaker 1: and protect a football. You can win games doing that.
Speaker 1: Maybe not every game, but one game here and there,
Speaker 1: you can win doing that. And so I would love
Speaker 1: to see him drill on the accuracy on those throws
Speaker 1: on the move because those create openings in the defense.
Speaker 1: He just seemed to miss a lot of those. And
Speaker 1: then the pick was like old bad Skyler that I
Speaker 1: didn't want to see. I thought there was a couple
Speaker 1: others like that where he was late, just got to
Speaker 1: be more on time, but I think more reps. I'm
Speaker 1: encouraged by what I think he can be in this offense.
Speaker 1: And then Mike White, you know you heard coach talk
Speaker 1: about that they're like it was the same way for
Speaker 1: Skyler in the second half of that opening game last year,
Speaker 1: and you know, won't you know you heard Mike say
Speaker 1: that for Mike White, there's lots to work on, and
Speaker 1: I agree with that. It wasn't a good stat line.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a good night for Mike White. But you
Speaker 1: have to recognize the situation there because I don't know
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks that could have succeeded with you know, one
Speaker 1: tight end available, which limits you know, Fortsune was down,
Speaker 1: and so was Connor, and so Julian Hill and John
Speaker 1: Smith and durham smythen' dress. So it was Hayden Rouccie,
Speaker 1: undrafted rookie was your one tight end that was up.
Speaker 1: You had like two running backs available when they pulled
Speaker 1: right out of the game, they had you know, they
Speaker 1: were just banged up, man, they had a receiver down,
Speaker 1: and so it's tough to operate from that situation. Wasn't
Speaker 1: a pretty knight for Mike, But I think you can
Speaker 1: kind of give some grace there with how that looked
Speaker 1: based upon what it was around him, just like we
Speaker 1: did last year with Skuyler in the second half of
Speaker 1: the opener. But by and large, not a great night
Speaker 1: for the quarterbacks. Very obvious to go ahead and say that,
Speaker 1: but let's always maintain context. Willie Snead had that one
Speaker 1: target where he slipped and then dropped it. I know
Speaker 1: he's made that play a million times, but I think
Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning because the one target he got would
Speaker 1: have been a first down conversion, but he dropped it.
Speaker 1: I thought Jaquan Burton had a lot of chances for
Speaker 1: catches that he didn't make. Either would have loved to
Speaker 1: see that get you know, hauled in. It sinks that
Speaker 1: Keon Smith and Jody Fortson got hurt, but I thought
Speaker 1: they both were struggling before that. The two reps of
Speaker 1: Smith that where he got hurting on before that he
Speaker 1: got way out over his skis and Whift got walked
Speaker 1: back in pass pro. But I don't think he's a guard.
Speaker 1: I think he's more of a tackle. We saw him
Speaker 1: play guard tonight, so good on him for getting some
Speaker 1: flexibility and playing some different positions. But it wasn't a
Speaker 1: great night left guard for him. And then Jody Fortson,
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, had a couple had a catch
Speaker 1: you could have made in the flat that he didn't catch,
Speaker 1: and some blocking that was leaving plenty to be desired,
Speaker 1: and then the right side of the offensive line to
Speaker 1: kind of open game with Ryan Hayes and Lester Cotton.
Speaker 1: Hayes had a really rough night. I thought he struggled
Speaker 1: all night long. And Cotton there was some some leaks
Speaker 1: on that right side with the running game. That was
Speaker 1: Cotton and Lester or Cotton and Haynes back and forth.
Speaker 1: But man Haynes and passed pro too. It was it
Speaker 1: was constant pressure off that right side. I want to
Speaker 1: end here with the Ethan Bonner portion of the podcast
Speaker 1: because I think we're gonna see lots of mixed reviews
Speaker 1: on his game. I think that's not fair because cornerbacks
Speaker 1: are gonna get beat. He got beat on that play.
Speaker 1: He went to jam, he missed, and then the receiver
Speaker 1: through the arm bar over and stacked him in one
Speaker 1: one fell swoop and from there the route's pretty much over.
Speaker 1: You can't recover from that as a cornerback once you
Speaker 1: get stacked. But he bounced back. Man, he showed you
Speaker 1: his mental toughness, his mental fortitude. He came up and
Speaker 1: made some big plays in the running game. He was
Speaker 1: targeted plenty of times and allowed just three catches. It
Speaker 1: was basically that one play for like forty one yards
Speaker 1: and then two more for like six yards. You acknowledge
Speaker 1: giving him a big play, but the way he fought
Speaker 1: back and bounced back was what I think really will
Speaker 1: impress this coaching staff from his game. In fact, let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and hear from coach on Ethan Bond.
Speaker 2: It was a really good game for him because he
Speaker 2: got the trials and tribulations that one ball. Immediately, when
Speaker 2: something like that happens in a preseason to young player,
Speaker 2: I am locked in and laser focused on how they
Speaker 2: respond because that's how you learn who they who they are.
Speaker 2: It's all fun and games when you're in practice, but
Speaker 2: you're in a stadium and you get beat. And I
Speaker 2: thought he really responded well, you know, and he played
Speaker 2: with his technique fundamentals after that, which is is what
Speaker 2: you have your eye on. So I thought it was
Speaker 2: a day of growth for him.
Speaker 1: And it's kind of instructive there with Ethan as well,
Speaker 1: because you can look at this as like, oh he
Speaker 1: was he was in you know. I think it was
Speaker 1: a cover three rep to the boundary where the free
Speaker 1: safety rolled to the strong side of the field or
Speaker 1: played more of a you know, quarter to the strong
Speaker 1: side of the field. And so they put Ethan in
Speaker 1: these situations where he was constantly in one on one
Speaker 1: coverage and that's why he got so many targets. It
Speaker 1: wasn't because going after Ethan Bonner. It was the design
Speaker 1: of the Falcons offense, like, oh, that's where the one
Speaker 1: on one coverage, let's go after that guy. And I
Speaker 1: think that that's instructive of how they want to get
Speaker 1: a look at him and what he can do because
Speaker 1: of how they view his ability. That's kind of how
Speaker 1: I took that away. I think they did that for
Speaker 1: a lot of players in this game tonight to kind
Speaker 1: of give them the maximum, you know, look in terms
Speaker 1: of what they excel with and put guys in positions
Speaker 1: where they can get more information on them. So this
Speaker 1: whole thing man preseason training camp, it's all about getting better,
Speaker 1: finding out what you have and so like the result,
Speaker 1: that's why we don't care about it at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. It's all about the process and getting better.
Speaker 1: I think stuff like that really helps this team find
Speaker 1: out how to get better and be the best versions
Speaker 1: of themselves. All things told, I was pretty pleased. I
Speaker 1: love the ability to run the football, Love the way
Speaker 1: the team came out with energy on all levels and
Speaker 1: all teams, you know, special teams as well. They won
Speaker 1: the game, not to mention, looked in control for the
Speaker 1: most part. I thought the best quarterback on the field
Speaker 1: was clearly Michael Pennix. And so it's a testament to
Speaker 1: the entire team when you can win a game when
Speaker 1: you're outplayed at the quarterback position. And that's what happened
Speaker 1: here for the Miami Dolphin. So plenty to work on,
Speaker 1: plenty to critique, plenty of positives, and we'll do all
Speaker 1: that stuff as we go on here on the Practice
Speaker 1: Report podcast on Draft Time, which we have four of
Speaker 1: next week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, the Commanders are in town
Speaker 1: for Thursday, and we'll do this all again on Saturday
Speaker 1: night as the Commanders are in town for the game
Speaker 1: for another seven o'clock kickoff next Saturday. In the meantime,
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