Speaker 1: Fail touchdown, Miami drun? What is up? Dolph fans? And
Speaker 1: welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's
Speaker 1: it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield, and
Speaker 1: as always and each and every day, I am here
Speaker 1: to bring you your daily dose of Miami Dolphins football.
Speaker 1: And on today's show, we've got another busy one for
Speaker 1: you guys, another training camp practice to recap. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from Will Fuller to a Tongue by Loo Jerome Baker.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break it all down play by play, get
Speaker 1: you top performers. No matchup of the day today, but
Speaker 1: we have plenty to come for you on this training
Speaker 1: camp edition of the Drivetime Podcast from the Baptist Health
Speaker 1: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the
Speaker 1: Drive Time Podcast You've gotta love, August I, honestly, I
Speaker 1: feel like these shows are thirty plus minutes of drinking
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins information through a fire hose, and my pace
Speaker 1: certainly accentuates that point. But even after the Monday episode
Speaker 1: that those episodes get a lot of hours put into them,
Speaker 1: a lot of thought put into them as usually after
Speaker 1: I finished postgame work on a typical Sunday night. This
Speaker 1: time it was Saturday night after the preseason game. And
Speaker 1: when I clock out and I say a clock out
Speaker 1: with air quotes, I still go back into football mode.
Speaker 1: I'm looking up Pro Football Focus stats. I'm rewatching the
Speaker 1: game two or three times to get some note I
Speaker 1: didn't cover on the previous podcast. Just taking your passion
Speaker 1: what you love and turning it into a job has
Speaker 1: its benefits because even when you're not working, you're kind
Speaker 1: of always working. So with that, I find a way
Speaker 1: to during those thirty six hours or so between podcast episodes,
Speaker 1: come up with a bunch of content for the podcast.
Speaker 1: And the reason I'm saying this is because all the
Speaker 1: information that goes into that. Here we are barely twenty
Speaker 1: four hours later and we have a lot more to
Speaker 1: get to on another podcast, including a practice in front
Speaker 1: of a relatively small crowd at the Baptist Health Training Complex,
Speaker 1: and it was not interrupted by terrible weather, although it
Speaker 1: seemed for a moment it could have been interrupted because
Speaker 1: the weather was not great out there. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and start with the news from Tuesdays. The Dolphins trimmed
Speaker 1: the roster down to e d players. First offensive lineman
Speaker 1: Jermaine Illuminoire and wide receiver Isaiah Ford were released from
Speaker 1: the Dolphins roster and Robert Foster received a waived slash
Speaker 1: injury settlement after suffering an injury last week in practice.
Speaker 1: Lynn Bowden goes to the injured reserve. Lynn Bowden Jr.
Speaker 1: The draft pick of the Raiders last year trade to
Speaker 1: Miami in September. And just so you guys are clear
Speaker 1: on the rule here on injured reserve. If a player
Speaker 1: goes on i R before the fifty three man roster
Speaker 1: has been finalized and officially announced, then that player is
Speaker 1: out for the entire season. He is not eligible for
Speaker 1: the return back to the active roster. Now, anybody else
Speaker 1: who goes on i R post fifty three man announcement,
Speaker 1: those players can return back to the roster after a
Speaker 1: minimum of three weeks on the injured reserve. And there's
Speaker 1: also no in season pup this year either, So some
Speaker 1: changing rules. I feel like the rules were the same
Speaker 1: for decades of covering the NFL, and last year with COVID,
Speaker 1: we had some new rules come in and now the
Speaker 1: NFL is kind of finding its way to modify some
Speaker 1: of the rules they had, and I think for the
Speaker 1: better here, So good on the league for taking care
Speaker 1: of that stuff. But that's that's what it is. Lynn
Speaker 1: Boden goes to the injured reserve. We also had a
Speaker 1: walkthrough on Tuesday that doesn't bring you a podcast episode,
Speaker 1: but there are some leftover media availability notes that I
Speaker 1: definitely want to cover. And I know I typically build
Speaker 1: these into the story of the show somehow, and that's
Speaker 1: obviously my pres friends to give you a great podcast,
Speaker 1: but that's just not going to be the case today
Speaker 1: because the notes just don't quite coincide with the practice notes.
Speaker 1: And so I start here with Will Fuller and a
Speaker 1: couple of quotes he had in his first media availability
Speaker 1: of training camp, coming back and practice seeing for the
Speaker 1: first time since day one when he left with the
Speaker 1: leg injury. And that's exactly why I wanted to play
Speaker 1: his audio, because although he's not been on the field
Speaker 1: going through the reps with the team, he has been
Speaker 1: on the field taking those mental reps and soaking it
Speaker 1: all in. So here he is talking about the value
Speaker 1: of having those reps and hearing the calls from two up. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that that that's one of the most important things for me.
Speaker 1: Just hearing a play call from Tour in the huddle.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been sitting to meetings, I've been hearing
Speaker 1: it in the means, but it's different when you out
Speaker 1: there and you actually gotta go to your spot. So
Speaker 1: um like like like, like he asked me earlier, just
Speaker 1: not gonna rust off. We're hearing to play from him
Speaker 1: and just playing fast. You know, He's gonna be a
Speaker 1: fun year. And the relevance of that quote was relevant
Speaker 1: today as well because to a tongue of Bloa talked
Speaker 1: about getting guys back in the chemistry, but also how
Speaker 1: those guys were able to get reps when they weren't
Speaker 1: on the field practicing. It's good to have all our
Speaker 1: guys back out here, um, you know, to be able
Speaker 1: to work some timing and um, you know, get some
Speaker 1: work in with them. But I think the just them
Speaker 1: being able to get back into the huddle here calls
Speaker 1: get out and nowhere they're lining up at um, you know,
Speaker 1: and then executing with them. I think that's very important.
Speaker 1: And then I want to go back to Will Fuller here,
Speaker 1: who touched on the game Saturday night, when he was
Speaker 1: asked about what intrigues you most about the offense, and
Speaker 1: he obviously watched the game and saw what Mike go
Speaker 1: Sicky and Miles Gasking and the rest of the crew did.
Speaker 1: And here he is talking about the distribution of the
Speaker 1: football on the offense. Yeah, like we we get the
Speaker 1: ball around all the guys, you know, um, just watching
Speaker 1: the games. Miles had a day, Mike had his day. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, so many younger guys. We're catching touchdown, so
Speaker 1: we spread the ball out a lot. So it's one ball.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be fun playing with all these guys
Speaker 1: around here. And I want to play a couple more
Speaker 1: sound clips for you guys here because there was plenty
Speaker 1: of good media the last two days. And Jason mccordy
Speaker 1: is a guy that you know. He talks about his
Speaker 1: role in his leadership and the serving mentality he has
Speaker 1: in terms of his impact on younger guys on his
Speaker 1: team around the league, and what his role is with
Speaker 1: his football team and how you fully embrace whatever that
Speaker 1: role might be. I just love hearing him articulate thoughts
Speaker 1: so much. I want to go here to Jason McCarty.
Speaker 1: But first, he did touch on food allergies, and he
Speaker 1: actually stepped up to the podium and gave a statement
Speaker 1: to start off, talking about National Food Allergy Awareness Day
Speaker 1: and how the Dolphins and he have partnered with f
Speaker 1: A R and organization f A R E, I should say,
Speaker 1: an organization that does a ton of work for food allergies.
Speaker 1: His young daughter has severe food allergies, so he talked
Speaker 1: about a year in Cleveland when his daughter had butternut squash,
Speaker 1: but there was salmon on the plate, and he referenced
Speaker 1: Will Smith in the movie Hitch, if you're recalling that movie,
Speaker 1: when his face just blows up from the allergy that
Speaker 1: he has. He said, the same thing happened to his
Speaker 1: daughter's lips. So I can only imagine the fear on
Speaker 1: a father's on his face something, his reaction and everything
Speaker 1: that he does with a young daughter having going through that.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine dealing with anything happening to Caroline ever,
Speaker 1: so I can imagine the frustration and fear there for
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy. But back to the football side of things,
Speaker 1: he talked about the leadership role and taking a guy
Speaker 1: like Javon Holland under his wing, and I just thought
Speaker 1: it was a great answer. Let's go ahead and play
Speaker 1: the audio here from Jason mccordy on Tuesday. Nah, it's
Speaker 1: not hard, And I was saying no, because I can
Speaker 1: remember the specific guys my rookie year all that poured
Speaker 1: into me. You know, Cortland, Finnigan who was here, Chris
Speaker 1: hol Vinny Fuller. Uh, so many guys kind of took
Speaker 1: the time to pour into me. And they were all
Speaker 1: defensive backs as well, and we were all competing. So
Speaker 1: for me, I mean, I'm as I'm a it's a blessing.
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to just be able to be here my
Speaker 1: thirteenth year. Whether my role is prominent I'm playing every
Speaker 1: player the game, or whether my role is fifteen plays
Speaker 1: here or five plays there, whatever it is, I'm fortunate
Speaker 1: to be able to be out here. And I think
Speaker 1: as older player, you realize that no matter whether you
Speaker 1: want to help a guy or not, that's the natural progression.
Speaker 1: And a young player and that can play ball and
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing, he's gonna find his way on
Speaker 1: the field. So I think it what makes it easy
Speaker 1: is just the type of player and the type of person.
Speaker 1: Javan is Man he's very serious about his job. He's
Speaker 1: very serious about football. He puts in a ton of work,
Speaker 1: not only physically out here, but mentally making sure he's
Speaker 1: known what to do, knowing his checks. So it's been
Speaker 1: a ton of find kind of joking and getting to
Speaker 1: know him and help him along on the football field.
Speaker 1: Great stuff there from Jason mccordy. And another prominent leader
Speaker 1: on this football team is a player nearly a decade
Speaker 1: Jason Jr. And Jason had a funny comment and his
Speaker 1: presser as well about his birthday when we were up
Speaker 1: in Chicago and Jalen Waddle, the bright eyed rookie out
Speaker 1: here in Miami, wished him a happy birthday, and that's
Speaker 1: how old are you? J Mack and j Max says
Speaker 1: thirty four and Wattle response, Damn, I feel you on that,
Speaker 1: J Mack for someone turning thirty four in October, I
Speaker 1: feel you. But back to that young prominent leader I
Speaker 1: talked about, it's Jerome Baker, Dolphins linebacker. And I had
Speaker 1: a chance to as Jerome at the start of his
Speaker 1: press conference about the Haiti earthquake relief efforts that he
Speaker 1: has partnered with North Miami and taking care of some
Speaker 1: of that and he helped out last week. I asked
Speaker 1: him about that. Here's Jerome on the Haiti earthquake relief efforts.
Speaker 1: I meant everything, you know, tomals the last day to
Speaker 1: get donations in and uh, you know, any supplies as
Speaker 1: far as paper, towels, um, you know, women products, two paces,
Speaker 1: sup prushes, all the little things you know, we take
Speaker 1: for granted. They needed so uh tomals the last day,
Speaker 1: and it miss so much for me to partner up
Speaker 1: and just be a part of that. And man Jerome
Speaker 1: was such a gym man defending the homeland down here
Speaker 1: and not only South Florida, but surrounding and neighboring counties
Speaker 1: and cities and even countries in this instance. And he
Speaker 1: also does his part to lead a defense that's looking
Speaker 1: pretty damn good so far. There's training camp, especially today,
Speaker 1: and a reporter ash Jerome about the process of playing
Speaker 1: a single play at the linebacker position, and he talks
Speaker 1: about it. But the part I want to really focus
Speaker 1: on here is the anticipation and communication. Towards the end
Speaker 1: of his answer, I mean, it's a it's a lot
Speaker 1: that goes into it. First is the call, Then it's um,
Speaker 1: you know, you see what the offense is giving you. Uh,
Speaker 1: then you make your checks and you kind of just
Speaker 1: you want to communicate as much as possible because you
Speaker 1: never know if it's uh, you're minding somebody else what
Speaker 1: they got or you're, you know, reminding somebody that look
Speaker 1: out for this and it all. You know, you've got
Speaker 1: to have anticipation. That's how you make plays and just
Speaker 1: that communication. You know that that's the key to you know,
Speaker 1: a great defense. So we definitely put an emphasis on
Speaker 1: that communication leads to an anticipation, which leads to big place.
Speaker 1: I thought that was so smart and so well said
Speaker 1: there by Jerome who does his part to not only
Speaker 1: have the speed to get two spots on the football field,
Speaker 1: but also the mental capacity and preparation to put him
Speaker 1: in position to make play after play after play like
Speaker 1: he does. We also had Brian Flora's Dolphins head coach
Speaker 1: meet with the media on Tuesday, and the assistant coaches
Speaker 1: were available on Monday. You guys can find that content
Speaker 1: up on the team YouTube page. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: get some of the pract just notes here. The thing
Speaker 1: you all come for, these these training camp reports on
Speaker 1: the Drive Time podcast. Subscribe rate and review to the podcast.
Speaker 1: If you can for us really helps us out. We
Speaker 1: appreciate that. But the first note of practices at the
Speaker 1: weather it wasn't great today, So I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: too of because we're kind of watching this hazy, dusty
Speaker 1: practice throughout the day and I'm sure the eyes, the
Speaker 1: line of sight wasn't great. But just throwing the football
Speaker 1: into the wind, I wanted to ask too if there's
Speaker 1: a different change and approach you take with that. Here's
Speaker 1: QB one. Well, I think I think the wind plays
Speaker 1: a factor. Um, you know, when when you're throwing into
Speaker 1: the wind, you've got to be able to cut it.
Speaker 1: If not, you know, the wind's gonna take it. But
Speaker 1: I think it's good work to be able to throw
Speaker 1: with and against the wind. So so pretty short and
Speaker 1: sweet there from QB one. But the Dolphins have had
Speaker 1: their opportunities to work in the wind and the rain
Speaker 1: as well. The only thing we need done here in
Speaker 1: South Florida we haven't got yet is some snow. But
Speaker 1: I don't think I'll hold my breath on any of that.
Speaker 1: But the fun part of the wind was when Jason
Speaker 1: Sanders was kicking into it. He had a kick from
Speaker 1: forty eight yards that hit about three quarters the way
Speaker 1: up the kicking net, which is located ten yards beyond
Speaker 1: the goal post. And then he had a fifty three
Speaker 1: yard or dwink off the top of the upright like
Speaker 1: the very top up by the flags. It almost cleared
Speaker 1: that damn thing. So he was booting that. That football
Speaker 1: attendance at practice today was looking pretty good. Davante Parker
Speaker 1: back out there in the red non contact jersey. Will
Speaker 1: Fuller was out there although he did not go through
Speaker 1: any of the team period of practice. Brandon Jones was
Speaker 1: back out there as well. Great to see him after
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks down. No Javon Holland, no Albert Wilson,
Speaker 1: no Adam Panky, no Javarus Davis, and no Seethan Carter.
Speaker 1: We start here with the individuals at the quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and it just wasn't their day. Let's just put it
Speaker 1: that way. It wasn't the offenses day in general. Two
Speaker 1: of made a nice a few nice throws, most notably
Speaker 1: across or of Kirk Merritt that he laid out to
Speaker 1: a spot and Merritt ran right underneath it for a
Speaker 1: big play. Something we've been talking about here a lot
Speaker 1: on this podcast and a tweet I sent on Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I think it was about two was ball placement and
Speaker 1: putting the ball out in front of guys so they
Speaker 1: can catch it and get up field and transition from
Speaker 1: route runners to ball carriers. And that produced a hundred
Speaker 1: and one yards after the catch per Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: in that game on Saturday night, and that's just off
Speaker 1: of two US throws, doesn't include pro sett or sent
Speaker 1: it same type of deal where the ball just does
Speaker 1: not slow the receiver down at all. On this particular
Speaker 1: throw to Kirk Merritt, he takes it up and maybe
Speaker 1: had a huge gain on that particular throw. I think
Speaker 1: the wind was most obvious besides the kicking game on
Speaker 1: two passes, and the first one was from tah trying
Speaker 1: to get the ball to Davante Parker who was behind
Speaker 1: Nick need Um for the underneath coverage, and then he
Speaker 1: was below the coverage up over the top from the
Speaker 1: safety and the ball sales right over Needham's reach and
Speaker 1: was on target, but Parker elevated it just a pair
Speaker 1: too early and couldn't hang up enough because the ball
Speaker 1: hung up that extra quarter of a second, and you
Speaker 1: can just tell it kind of changed up the timing
Speaker 1: and the timing of davantage jump in the timing of
Speaker 1: the ball from Tua, so it had an impact. Then
Speaker 1: later on a ball from Jacoby Brissette to Malcolm Perry
Speaker 1: that was actually completed. He chucked this thing downfield, but
Speaker 1: it came kind of back into his face and fell
Speaker 1: right into Malcolm Perry's arms, over the top of his shoulders.
Speaker 1: It was the best past of the day, the best
Speaker 1: offensive play of the day, but it was tough sledding otherwise.
Speaker 1: I actually saw Jacoby get visibly frustrated at one point
Speaker 1: of practice, kind of clapping the hands and and you know,
Speaker 1: just showing some frustration with the lack of offensive success.
Speaker 1: The running backs had a ton of success. Early in
Speaker 1: the first period. Myles Gascon had an awesome run where
Speaker 1: he pressed it outside, then hit the brakes and cut
Speaker 1: that thing right back inside and shot through the gap
Speaker 1: and came out the other side Andy du Frain style,
Speaker 1: and that would have been a big gainer. Plus he
Speaker 1: continues to catch like a billion balls every single day.
Speaker 1: He is so productive. I thought Malcolm Brown had a
Speaker 1: nice day in his own right. He had a couple
Speaker 1: of nice lanes open up where he took advantage, and
Speaker 1: Patrick Larry had a couple of good runs to later
Speaker 1: on in practice. But one of the early Gaskin runs
Speaker 1: saw a absolutely crushing block by Carl Tucker who crumbs
Speaker 1: across the formation squares up by block on Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: and digs him out of there to create space from
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown to get a big run or for excuse me,
Speaker 1: for Miles Gascon to get a big run, and the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the football erupt in a celebration after
Speaker 1: that plot, you could hear the pad's popping. Not a
Speaker 1: very big crowd today. I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: end of camp. We've seen a couple of preseason games now,
Speaker 1: maybe it's just a Wednesday afternoon at noon, but whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, not the largest crowd here at
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex. Up to the offensive line, actually,
Speaker 1: you know what, let's go ahead and get to the
Speaker 1: receivers and tight ends. Though that's not a long list either,
Speaker 1: because again, there just wasn't a whole lot going on
Speaker 1: for the offense. But Hunter Long had a nice seam
Speaker 1: buster from Jacoby Brissette during team drills. He continues to
Speaker 1: show crafty work to get open. I think it's one
Speaker 1: of the things that stands out the most about Hunter Long.
Speaker 1: And we'll do a podcast next week recapping camp in
Speaker 1: preseason where I talk about some of the traits. I
Speaker 1: think each of these guys possesses, both Hunter Long the
Speaker 1: little nuance in his game to create separation, knowing where
Speaker 1: to get the arms in the hands and how to
Speaker 1: how to lean into guys and not push off, but
Speaker 1: also kind of push off a little bit. And I
Speaker 1: think the attention of detail carries over into his work
Speaker 1: in the blocking game as well, because you so frequently
Speaker 1: see him, at least from my eyes, use the technical,
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound techniques that you need to excel in that area.
Speaker 1: The hands and the feet are hardwired together because as
Speaker 1: we all know on this podcast, if those two things
Speaker 1: are not in sync, you're gonna have a bad time.
Speaker 1: So that was a good look from Hunter Long at
Speaker 1: receiver Kirk Merrit, he continues to make his case for
Speaker 1: this football team. He caught a bunch of balls and
Speaker 1: did all over the field, deep, intermediate, short, whatever you want.
Speaker 1: And I think you can really see his positional versatility
Speaker 1: showing up here. And he's been able to slip tackles
Speaker 1: and gain yards after the catch, just like we saw
Speaker 1: on Saturday night that little jerk route catch the thing
Speaker 1: over the middle, take off for an extra fifteen yards
Speaker 1: after the reception. Jalen Waddle caught the ball well today.
Speaker 1: I thought Malcolm Perry had a really nice day, including
Speaker 1: the deep ball we talked about earlier, And honestly, that's
Speaker 1: all I've got for the notes on the past catchers.
Speaker 1: The reason I wanted to save the offensive line stuff
Speaker 1: was because I had some notes in the one on
Speaker 1: one drills that occurred during the seven on seven period,
Speaker 1: the good old pit drill. But first, I thought Austin
Speaker 1: Jackson had one of the best days up front. I
Speaker 1: got a good look at him and one on ones,
Speaker 1: and he's really showing growth in the balance and maintaining
Speaker 1: momentum that coincides with the defender, and that he's not
Speaker 1: getting overset and then drifting back away from the quarterback
Speaker 1: out of the play, and he's not getting out over
Speaker 1: the skis falling forward in front of your quarterback either.
Speaker 1: It allowed him to redirect and for a secondary pass
Speaker 1: rush move back on the inside from Jalen Phillips. I
Speaker 1: thought that was good work there from Austin Jackson. You
Speaker 1: might recall this offseason we had Brandon Thorne on the
Speaker 1: podcast an offensive Line film Guru, and he basically talked
Speaker 1: about what the offensive line defensive line needs to be,
Speaker 1: and you know, he said, the idea is to get
Speaker 1: the offensive lines momentum going one direct and then snap
Speaker 1: it off the other way and get them off balance.
Speaker 1: And so I thought it was impressive he was able
Speaker 1: to kind of show growth in that area in this
Speaker 1: practice and so far through training camp, he and Solomon
Speaker 1: Kindley opened a couple of those lanes on the nice
Speaker 1: runs we talked about early in practice, and Deeter had
Speaker 1: a hand in that as well. I thought Matt Skura
Speaker 1: got some nice push in the ground game, and I
Speaker 1: thought Liam Eichenberg had some good work out there as well.
Speaker 1: And here are my notes in those one on one
Speaker 1: pass rushtrials. Jackson wins with a sturdy anchor on a
Speaker 1: vand gegle rush, Emmanuel powers through, Davis pushed him right
Speaker 1: into the quarterback. And then the second note on that
Speaker 1: was he did the exact same thing again a second time.
Speaker 1: Zach Seeler had a wicked move on Robert Hunt. That
Speaker 1: left rob kind of like the Jacoby Brissett thing I
Speaker 1: talked about, giving himself a pep top clapp in the
Speaker 1: hands again, like come on, I got this, and he
Speaker 1: just swiped those hands away and left Robert at the
Speaker 1: line as he went to the backfield. And then ray
Speaker 1: Kwon Davis did a similar side step and swipe on
Speaker 1: Michael Dieter to get around him. And then Christian Wilkins
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about him in just a moment, but
Speaker 1: he took Solomon Kinley for a ride on the next
Speaker 1: It was like one after the other, these guys just
Speaker 1: showing their way through and those defensive linemen. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about that here in just one second. But then
Speaker 1: we get back to the outside and Jackson wins another
Speaker 1: rep where he locks down Jalen Phillips, who I mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier tried to counter inside but nothing doing on that one.
Speaker 1: And then Phillips comes back on a rep later and
Speaker 1: gets a nice pass rush around uh Laarnel Coleman for
Speaker 1: a win. And then Greg Little has a nice I
Speaker 1: put block out the Sun type of rep on Andrew
Speaker 1: Van Ginkle where he just kind of swallowed him up whole.
Speaker 1: He's a big guy with a big frame. Onto the defense.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Christian Wilkins. I sometimes think this front four,
Speaker 1: not front four, the four interior defensive lineman might kind
Speaker 1: of cannibalize itself a little bit in terms of the
Speaker 1: recognition they get from, whether it's fans, local media, national outlets.
Speaker 1: But the nice part is, I don't think any of
Speaker 1: them we'll give a damn. I just I want to
Speaker 1: start with Christian here because I think he's had, for
Speaker 1: my money, one of the top five training camps of
Speaker 1: anybody out here. Or and again, we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: podcast where we go over the stuff here in the
Speaker 1: upcoming weeks. But the quickness off the ball looks like
Speaker 1: it did a Clemson to me. And I'm talking about
Speaker 1: showing out like you're playing against college players. But he's
Speaker 1: also been so very powerful and stacking and deconstructing blocks
Speaker 1: as he kind of analyzes the players with his eyes,
Speaker 1: then uses the physical prowess and the powerful lower half
Speaker 1: and the quick hands to disengage off those blocks. And
Speaker 1: his teammates and the way they perform will only help
Speaker 1: him do that. In my opinion, a teammate like Zach Seeler,
Speaker 1: who I just I don't see him surrender knock back
Speaker 1: ever in practices ever. And the best part about it,
Speaker 1: on top of his constant penetration, is that he can
Speaker 1: line up at the five technique and win with an
Speaker 1: outside rush and beat your left tackle or right tackle.
Speaker 1: Then he can condense inside to the three tech or
Speaker 1: even over the nose and stack up a double team
Speaker 1: and prevent the run inside from going anywhere. We've seen
Speaker 1: him do it in games plenty of times. He's a
Speaker 1: freaking beast. Zack Seelers a beast. So is ray Kwon Davis,
Speaker 1: who just rarely loses one on one chances. You have
Speaker 1: to double that guy most of the time. His length
Speaker 1: stands out every day. I think he's really learned how
Speaker 1: to control his wingspan in that frame and keep guys
Speaker 1: out of that frame in the running game and simultaneously
Speaker 1: using those long vines their arms to toss people around
Speaker 1: as a pass rusher. He's been so impressive too, and
Speaker 1: so has Adam Butler. Mr consistency, Mr do it all,
Speaker 1: Mr Leader of the room. I cannot say enough good
Speaker 1: things about Adam Butler, and today he was clogging up
Speaker 1: traffic once again. And he does so much for the
Speaker 1: different games and stuff the Dolphins run up front. I
Speaker 1: thought Benito Jones had a sturdy day holding the point
Speaker 1: saying with John Jenkins. And that's all to say that
Speaker 1: this group, I think is just as deep, if not deeper,
Speaker 1: than the receiver position on this football team. Outside. Tyshan
Speaker 1: Render had a fantastic rep on a rundown where he
Speaker 1: stacked the edge and worked his way back inside to
Speaker 1: make the stop on a tackle. I thought Jalen Phillips
Speaker 1: had some nice moments today. He got around the edge
Speaker 1: towards the end of the team period where he swiped
Speaker 1: Coleman's hands and flatten that thing into the quarterback man.
Speaker 1: He can really corner og bab Man. What a beast,
Speaker 1: That's the word of the day apparently, But he was
Speaker 1: a beast out there again today. He had one rep.
Speaker 1: It was the Xavian Howard interception where he was double
Speaker 1: teamed by the tackle and the guard and then here
Speaker 1: comes the back to chip him, but nothing would slow
Speaker 1: him down. He pushes the pocket through three guys. I
Speaker 1: think he probably had a sack, but if not, he
Speaker 1: forces a quick throw that was tipped and picked off
Speaker 1: and taken back to the house for six, so a
Speaker 1: big day for ag ball once again. I talked to
Speaker 1: Austin Clark on Monday, who said he thinks that Ogba
Speaker 1: has expanded his pass rush arsenal this year after his
Speaker 1: first year in Miami, which was a really damn good
Speaker 1: season with nine sacks and something like sixt QB pressures.
Speaker 1: But Agba continues to look the part. And speaking of Clark,
Speaker 1: I just really enjoy watching him coach guys up. He
Speaker 1: gets in there and really focuses on the technique and
Speaker 1: doing things the right way, the way that we teach it,
Speaker 1: and the whole staff does that. But the sleds they
Speaker 1: work on our right in front of us, so I
Speaker 1: had a chance to watch them more than anybody else.
Speaker 1: And you can hear him during the individual drills really
Speaker 1: liking what he's seeing, and I can't blame him based
Speaker 1: upon what we see during the team periods. At linebackers,
Speaker 1: Shakim Griffin told reporters after practice that he believes this
Speaker 1: has been the best camp of his career. And I
Speaker 1: didn't see him in Seattle, obviously, but he's had a
Speaker 1: very strong camp and he made some nice place today.
Speaker 1: I know that this guy has been back for a
Speaker 1: little while now, but the Land and Roberts really made
Speaker 1: his presence felt on Wednesday. He's such a tough dude
Speaker 1: and a tone center and just a bamp a badass MF.
Speaker 1: I mean, what else can you say about him? He
Speaker 1: had what was the biggest pop I've heard in all
Speaker 1: of training camp when he met Jordan's scarlett head up
Speaker 1: in a gap in the team period on a running
Speaker 1: play and wham. You could just hear that thing all
Speaker 1: the way up in the stands. And of course the
Speaker 1: play finishes at the point and he lands and was
Speaker 1: chirping and barking over the offensive side. I don't think
Speaker 1: you can quantify his value and what he brings to
Speaker 1: this defense. In fact, Jerome Baker talked about that and
Speaker 1: post practice media let's go, it was amazing. You know,
Speaker 1: he alligreeing the energy, so uh, he definitely bring that.
Speaker 1: I'm just happy to him to be back and be
Speaker 1: back healthy, so uh, you know, it's definitely great that back.
Speaker 1: So there he is talking about the Land and Roberts
Speaker 1: and Jerome had a day in his own right. You
Speaker 1: noticed him early and some of the seven on seven work,
Speaker 1: just getting depth passing off, communicating with his safeties and
Speaker 1: corners out there. Really sound job, being in good position
Speaker 1: and showing off the play speed both physically and through
Speaker 1: his anticipation that we talked about earlier in the podcast.
Speaker 1: I just wrote here Jerome was a real one man.
Speaker 1: He's he's one of those guys, those glue guys you
Speaker 1: need on your football team. So you probably heard about
Speaker 1: Trill Williams's interception today. Pretty cool moment. He kind of
Speaker 1: boxed out the receiver against the sideline on the Jacobe
Speaker 1: procepte passed and Malcolm Perry elevates and grabs it at
Speaker 1: its highest point, and his teammates mobbed him, and then
Speaker 1: the celebration was on from that point, both for the
Speaker 1: team on the field and the guys on the sideline
Speaker 1: on that Dolphins defensive sideline. But the coolest part of
Speaker 1: the story, I thought practice was at twelve oh five today.
Speaker 1: It was a twelve fifteen, so I was out there
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier than I wanted to be. And
Speaker 1: when I was out there, I saw one player working
Speaker 1: with Chuck with Coach Burke's and it was True Williams,
Speaker 1: and he was drilling technique, working on the jam stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and he also went through some ball skills
Speaker 1: during UH drills high point in the football trying to
Speaker 1: pull those things down, and I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of cool to see him out there putting in the
Speaker 1: extra work and then having it payoff for him in
Speaker 1: that team period of practice. That's obviously what you look for,
Speaker 1: and Williams a great example of that today and just
Speaker 1: a cool moment for me to see that kind of
Speaker 1: go from one moment to the next. Speaking of big days,
Speaker 1: Xavian Howard, who boy, what a day he had. He
Speaker 1: was everywhere, picked off two passes, was in tight coverage
Speaker 1: on Jalen Waddle a few times, which that just has
Speaker 1: not been the case all training camp long, and one
Speaker 1: of the picks went back for a touchdown. He then
Speaker 1: finger rolls that thing up over the goal post. I
Speaker 1: asked Gerald Alexander about getting those guys up and running
Speaker 1: him and Byron Jones with just a handful of preseason reps,
Speaker 1: and he said, the way they practice is what gets
Speaker 1: them ready. We definitely saw that today. There was a
Speaker 1: drill in the individual period of practice where it's we
Speaker 1: talked about this before, trail technique cornerback underneath you play
Speaker 1: on the court on the receiver's downfield shoulder back to
Speaker 1: the quarterback because you have help over the top. And
Speaker 1: we've seen X run that exact look and get so
Speaker 1: many picks on that play because he just runs the
Speaker 1: routes for the guys. We talked about Jerome baker anticipation
Speaker 1: playing under those crossers where he baits quarterbacks into thinking
Speaker 1: they might have a window. And it's a small gamble
Speaker 1: because a perfect throw will toast you if if the
Speaker 1: ball is perfectly located up over the top, you catch
Speaker 1: that thing, turn it up and it's a big play.
Speaker 1: But it's a very very hard play to make. And
Speaker 1: if you have let's call it a five percent throw,
Speaker 1: and that's just a random number I'm throwing out there,
Speaker 1: And there's also a five percent chance of an interception,
Speaker 1: or probably even more than that because the mistake that's
Speaker 1: either behind or low is gonna get picked. With xaving
Speaker 1: Howard's ball skills, man, you put yourself in a position
Speaker 1: to really mess up, as in passing games. So I
Speaker 1: thought we saw more of that in that drill. It's
Speaker 1: kind of cool to see that thing carry over and
Speaker 1: then just kind of watching Noah ignogeny in that drill.
Speaker 1: It's all the physical talent in the world, but I
Speaker 1: just noticed not really, he's reacting more than anticipating in
Speaker 1: that and I think he'll get there, but it's just
Speaker 1: gonna take some time for him to grow and develop
Speaker 1: into that role. And with Byron Jones, he also had
Speaker 1: himself one hell of a day. The coverage was tight
Speaker 1: all practice long, deep, working inside, outside, across the field,
Speaker 1: whatever you wanna call it. And I've been really fond
Speaker 1: of his work in the running game, a very underrated
Speaker 1: aspect of playing quarnback. We don't talk about very much,
Speaker 1: but he does such a good job staying on the
Speaker 1: outside shoulder on those outside runs of the receiver. And
Speaker 1: today he got around there, back into the backfield and
Speaker 1: punched it out of savon Akmed's grasp. He put his
Speaker 1: fist right on the NFL logo on the duke, perfectly done.
Speaker 1: Nicknam got himself a couple of pass breakups. Kind of
Speaker 1: the story of camp for him. He continues to look
Speaker 1: sharp and shows growth and improvement. What to find Nick
Speaker 1: met him has been out of you tep justin Coleman too.
Speaker 1: He was involved a lot in that strong coverage that
Speaker 1: was forcing the quarterbacks to hold the ball and eventually
Speaker 1: just kind of eat it. Because there were more than
Speaker 1: a few instances where the pass pro was good, but
Speaker 1: the coverage was just too good to do anything with it.
Speaker 1: And I thought the safety play to kind of cap
Speaker 1: this all off. It's hard to quantify these guys when
Speaker 1: you don't have ball production because they're just running around
Speaker 1: out there and and stopping things from happening. But the
Speaker 1: ball didn't go towards them, because if the ball doesn't
Speaker 1: get thrown, then they did their job most of the time,
Speaker 1: you know, traditionally speaking. But I mean, the whole defense
Speaker 1: was really really good today in the safeties were two,
Speaker 1: and maybe part of that was knowing that you had
Speaker 1: a twelfth defender deep in that wind that was pushing
Speaker 1: everything back to the quarterback. And I mean, at one point,
Speaker 1: Michael Pollardi just kind of set the scene for you
Speaker 1: guys here once again, I was trying to cut the
Speaker 1: wind with his punts, and he was hitting footballs like
Speaker 1: he does, sky high and they would suspend up in
Speaker 1: the air and then by the time they hit the
Speaker 1: ground there and moving back towards Michael Pollardi. So going
Speaker 1: back in the direction from whence they came, and I
Speaker 1: tracked one punt that went less than twenty yards, so
Speaker 1: you get the idea here on the impact, Like that's
Speaker 1: more than half the hunt being wiped out. But still
Speaker 1: Jason mccordy and Eric Rowe, who had a sack of
Speaker 1: pass breakup and a fantastic rep on Mike get SICKI
Speaker 1: who tried to get on top of him, but Row
Speaker 1: just stayed step for step and prevented Mike from even
Speaker 1: having a chance of making a play on this pass
Speaker 1: from Tah but also Jamal Perry, Clayton Federalum, Nate Holly.
Speaker 1: Nothing got deep all day except for that one pass
Speaker 1: from Brissette to Perry, but that was kind of a
Speaker 1: whole shot to on a cornerback off to the side.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up with our top performers
Speaker 1: since there is no matchup of the day and that's
Speaker 1: gonna be the last of the matchups of the day.
Speaker 1: Guys that practices just don't call for anymore, So no
Speaker 1: more matchup. Matchup, matchup of the day as the last
Speaker 1: one you're gonna hear. Xavian Howard was fantastic today. Ball
Speaker 1: skills playing underneath the coverage. Just did it all once again.
Speaker 1: Miles Gaskin some big runs, caught the football plenty. Kirk
Speaker 1: Merrit continues to make plays with whichever quarterback he's working with.
Speaker 1: Carl Tucker had a nice couple of blocks in the
Speaker 1: running game. Ray Kwon Davis just a physical specimen that
Speaker 1: continues to get pressure. Eric Rowe good coverage, had would
Speaker 1: be sack at one point. Also in the running game,
Speaker 1: him Byron Jones punching things out. The good coverage in
Speaker 1: the back end. Really Miami's entire secondary. Christian Wilkins. I
Speaker 1: talked about him already, but just the burst that he's
Speaker 1: showing in the impact he's having. Can't wait to watch
Speaker 1: him on Sundays. Malcolm Perry caught a bunch of passes,
Speaker 1: including that deep one over his shoulder. He gets in there.
Speaker 1: Zach Seler, we talked about it. Just dominant every single day.
Speaker 1: It seems a land and Roberts, the physical presence, the
Speaker 1: tone setting that big hit. You have to get on
Speaker 1: the list with that, and then True Williams to the
Speaker 1: interception and the good coverage. Last note here on the
Speaker 1: podcast Hard Knocks, I thought episode three was a lot
Speaker 1: better than two because I appreciate them clearly taking my
Speaker 1: advice and going back to the guys who are bubble
Speaker 1: boys on the roster and the storylines of those guys.
Speaker 1: That's the most intriguing part about Hard Knocks for me
Speaker 1: every single year. I always appreciate that. And I thought,
Speaker 1: you know, even though I wasn't a huge fan of
Speaker 1: the card game with Zach or Zach, with Dac and
Speaker 1: Zeke and the equipment guy, I liked the fact that
Speaker 1: that fourth generation Cowboys employee was a part of the
Speaker 1: story because he that was just an awesome story. They
Speaker 1: called him Cowboys Royalty because his father's father's father worked
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys, and they continued that trend all
Speaker 1: the way down to him. And of course the drone
Speaker 1: sequence very very cool. If you have not seen it,
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's on social media by now, and if not,
Speaker 1: you can just watch the first five minutes of episode three.
Speaker 1: All right, that is gonna be my time, Caroline. Daddy
Speaker 1: is coming home. In the meantime, you all please be
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