Speaker 1: To on the move going deep Speedlis Peace do Hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: He's got my hands in the playoffs. What is up
Speaker 3: Dolphins and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I am
Speaker 3: your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, if I
Speaker 3: sound a little bit excited, the great practice we just
Speaker 3: witnessed was part of that. The other big part of
Speaker 3: that is because it's a great day to be a
Speaker 3: Miami Dolphin, because you have a quarterback worthy of a
Speaker 3: top contract at the position in the NFL. What a
Speaker 3: practice it was, Big plays all over. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: Tua Tongue of i Loa's monster practice and monster deal.
Speaker 3: We'll hear from head coach Mike McDaniel, from Kendall Fuller,
Speaker 3: Anthony Walker, Aaron Brewer, all talking about the quarterback in
Speaker 3: the day of work on the field. We'll break down
Speaker 3: all those big plays, including long touchdowns to Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 3: Devon A Chan River, Craycraft times two, and so much more.
Speaker 2: Go Koog's.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about Patrick Paul chop Robinson, Grayson Murphy among
Speaker 3: the big playmakers, Busy day. Let's get into it from
Speaker 3: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time podcast.
Speaker 3: Maye before we get to practice. Per reports Miami, we
Speaker 3: got a deal. That's my Russell Wilson impression Adam Schefter
Speaker 3: rap sheet reporting that the Dolphins and Tua Tongava Loa
Speaker 3: are in agreement on a contract extension for the next
Speaker 3: four years. We'll deal with the financials on that later
Speaker 3: as it becomes official. And if what I saw on
Speaker 3: the practice field today was an indication of where Tua
Speaker 3: is from a mental standpoint, after obviously having some knowledge
Speaker 3: this was getting done right, he probably knew that was
Speaker 3: going to happen today as he stepped on the practice
Speaker 3: field and had his most full practice going back to
Speaker 3: early OTAs participating in team drills. Well, then, goodness gracious,
Speaker 3: I am so glad to have this thing wrapped up
Speaker 3: and to move forward getting ready for the season because
Speaker 3: he was. I mean, the whole summer and spring program
Speaker 3: so far has been aces for QB one, but he
Speaker 3: was at his best. I think it might have been
Speaker 3: the best practice he's had as a Miami Dolphin to
Speaker 3: date because there were throws in there that were just
Speaker 3: so dang good and how great is this? We'll come
Speaker 3: back to that in a second. The guy that I
Speaker 3: personally fell in love with a prospect back in twenty
Speaker 3: eighteen in that National Championship game, gets here, has a
Speaker 3: rough couple of first seasons, maybe isn't as believed in
Speaker 3: by his head coach as he should be.
Speaker 2: We get a new head coach that.
Speaker 3: Sees the skill set, develops him, restores some confidence in
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks game, and he becomes one of the top
Speaker 3: ten qbs in the NFL. And now we have the
Speaker 3: most important position in sports secured for the long term.
Speaker 3: A beautiful, beautiful date, mummy, Dolphins fan, you have the
Speaker 3: franchise's best quarterback since Stan Marino, and he ain't going
Speaker 3: anywhere for a long long time. I do have, as
Speaker 3: we pivot here for Mike McDaniel's soundbites to run today,
Speaker 3: and I want to begin with two of them as
Speaker 3: we gear up for the first practice with you, the
Speaker 3: fans coming out to Sunday's practice. If you get out
Speaker 3: here and one of your favorite players is in Jersey
Speaker 3: but not practicing, I just wanted to play this audio
Speaker 3: to help you understand the why behind the practice schedule
Speaker 3: and rotation and all the planning and scripting that is
Speaker 3: involved in orchestrating not just a single practice, but an
Speaker 3: entire camp six weeks worth.
Speaker 2: Right, I thought coach absolutely killed it.
Speaker 3: Excuse me with this explanation of something that fans myself
Speaker 3: really anybody who's not in those meetings can possibly know.
Speaker 3: And I think it also does a great job of
Speaker 3: explaining a small part of all that a coach has
Speaker 3: on his plate, as he meant, just the entire operation.
Speaker 2: Really cool stuff. Here's head coach Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 4: What you try to do is you have your your
Speaker 4: group of players that you're going to establish on the forefront,
Speaker 4: who do you want to manage before you get to
Speaker 4: managing and find more people to manage, And in that
Speaker 4: you're trying to disperse veterans so that no one position
Speaker 4: is put out of sorts or left vulnerable by lack
Speaker 4: of legs, thereby making their position group and players more
Speaker 4: vulnerable to injuries. So that's it's all very strategic. Trust me,
Speaker 4: It's not just me involved in those plannings. That takes
Speaker 4: a whole team that when they bring the best ideas
Speaker 4: and the good ideas, I co sign those and make
Speaker 4: them my own.
Speaker 3: And coach will be the first one to acknowledge our
Speaker 3: poor injury luck the last two seasons, right, I mean
Speaker 3: that happens across the league every single year, but I
Speaker 3: don't remember getting into the management of it this early
Speaker 3: and years past outside of injuries, and obviously, like toront
Speaker 3: Armstead is a different case and how he prepares for
Speaker 3: a season.
Speaker 2: But I look at this as a lesson.
Speaker 3: Learned or maybe seeing the results and saying, let's change
Speaker 3: and find a way to prevent this. What can we
Speaker 3: do to give ourselves the best chance to be a
Speaker 3: healthy football team and not just pound our heads into
Speaker 3: the wall and do the exact same thing year over year.
Speaker 3: And I think this is a proactive measure which you
Speaker 3: can't guarantee that it works because there's no guarantees in
Speaker 3: the sport, especially with injuries. But I love the evolving
Speaker 3: operation around the concept of searching for improvement and doing
Speaker 3: everything you can to put your best foot forward. I
Speaker 3: think it's smart in concept because you're never going to
Speaker 3: know what your numbers and health will look like down
Speaker 3: the road, so it will always be evolving. But my
Speaker 3: takeaway is that being proactive and preparing for the inevitable,
Speaker 3: which is that you will be forced to adapt on
Speaker 3: the fly at some point, whether it's July or December,
Speaker 3: is smart and just that proactive. The next one here
Speaker 3: from Coach is another great example of a question you
Speaker 3: might have as a fan when you come out here.
Speaker 3: How come there's such a mix of what we've known
Speaker 3: traditionally to be the ones run with the ones they
Speaker 3: come off the field, and the twos go with the
Speaker 3: twos and so on. Now, if you've been out here before,
Speaker 3: you know that they've always done this, which Coach says here,
Speaker 3: But I thought it was just another awesome explanation from
Speaker 3: McDaniel on the why behind the things they do, because
Speaker 3: every single action, again as you'll hear, has research, thought
Speaker 3: and discussion behind it. Here is why you rotate Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 3: the best player in the NFL, possibly with your UDFA
Speaker 3: four string quarterback and Gavin Hardest.
Speaker 4: You feel comfortable doing that when you're trying to work
Speaker 4: on your entire game, and there's a lot of times
Speaker 4: that's happened since we've got here. It's kind of something
Speaker 4: that I've always believed in. If a receiver needs a
Speaker 4: manned man or needs to run a route versus man.
Speaker 4: Instead of forcing you know, the defense to cater to
Speaker 4: your needs, why not have wait for a rep that
Speaker 4: goes against man. Maybe that's in the second or third group.
Speaker 4: You know, that's kind of erroneous, and so our skill
Speaker 4: positions really rotate that way so they can get opportunities
Speaker 4: at point of attack stuff. Generally, I'm kind of hesitant
Speaker 4: because this might give our defense a competitive advantage advantage
Speaker 4: against our offense. But generally, if Tyreek's in with said quarterback,
Speaker 4: the balls probably going to them. So and you know,
Speaker 4: so there's a lot of things at play. You know,
Speaker 4: the quarterback receiver connection is important, but it's one of
Speaker 4: many things that are important, and there's a lot of
Speaker 4: work to be done in between.
Speaker 3: This might sound like something of a broken record, but
Speaker 3: I just cannot appreciate enough that thought process really behind
Speaker 3: everything this coaching staff does. Remember for a while back,
Speaker 3: you know, not everybody was using joint practices. I remember
Speaker 3: the Patriots were one of the few teams doing it
Speaker 3: at first, and it was like, hey, that seems like
Speaker 3: a really good idea.
Speaker 2: Why don't we do that?
Speaker 3: And now we see this trend of using those reps
Speaker 3: to replace some of the game reps for some guys,
Speaker 3: and in some cases all of the game reps. I
Speaker 3: don't think Jared Goff ever plays in the preseason, but
Speaker 3: I just look at expanding your joint practices to every
Speaker 3: single opponent. I look at the comments about managing workloads
Speaker 3: on the front end through this time of year, and
Speaker 3: I think about how they manufacture the time they have
Speaker 3: on the grass to get the most out of it.
Speaker 3: If we want to get a rep against man coverage,
Speaker 3: maybe we have to go back into this third part
Speaker 3: of eleven on eleven period. It all just makes a
Speaker 3: lot of sense to me. And you know what else
Speaker 3: makes a bunch of sense. Tua hitting multiple wow throws
Speaker 3: on the day that he gets his big contract extension.
Speaker 3: I've referenced this on the podcast before. A couple of
Speaker 3: years ago. Kyle Crabs from Lockdown Dolphins came down mid
Speaker 3: camp and Tua put on a really nice display and
Speaker 3: Kyle was like, pretty good by the quarterback.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, it's been like that for most of camp.
Speaker 3: And then there was today three years later, and Kyle's like,
Speaker 3: you know, I come down here for these practices and
Speaker 3: you tell me about the practice I'm not at, and
Speaker 3: we have these awesome Tua days where you know, the
Speaker 3: ball gets out quick, he's on time, he's in rhythm.
Speaker 2: You have maybe one or two wow throws, right.
Speaker 3: But today it's like every damn throw is just making
Speaker 3: you be like, oh my god, that's a professional quarterback
Speaker 3: right there. Let's go through the ones that I found
Speaker 3: most impressive. First off, let's go ahead and jump ahead
Speaker 3: and work backwards here, because we opened up eleven on eleven,
Speaker 3: the very first snap that Tua has taken in this
Speaker 3: portion of practice since I don't know what part of
Speaker 3: OTA's it was, but it was like early on because
Speaker 3: he stopped doing the eleven on eleven at some point.
Speaker 3: No Ta, I think it was a sixty eight yard touchdown.
Speaker 3: The ball was either on the thirty two or the
Speaker 3: thirty Some of the lines have not been repainted, so
Speaker 3: it's hard to see, especially from the far field, but
Speaker 3: we're splitting hairs.
Speaker 2: Who cares?
Speaker 3: Who cares if it was a sixty eight or a
Speaker 3: seventy yard touchdown? So Tua executes this play fake that
Speaker 3: forces Jalen Ramsey or gets him to bite hard on
Speaker 3: Tyreek on a short throw, and as you know, a
Speaker 3: fraction of a false step on Tyreek usually means curtains,
Speaker 3: game over, good night, and that's exactly what it was.
Speaker 3: Tua uncorks the ball from his own twenty five yard
Speaker 3: line and Tyreek catches it at the plus twenty and
Speaker 3: cruises in for six from there. For those counting at
Speaker 3: home who care about this, that's fifty five yards in
Speaker 3: the air, but a seventy yard or sixty eight yard
Speaker 3: touchdown pass, depending on where the hell that ball was located.
Speaker 3: My favorite part after that was watching Jalen Ramsey go
Speaker 3: over to Tua on the offensive side of the field
Speaker 3: and patting him on the helmet and like gestures the
Speaker 3: fake handoff, and then they both come off of that
Speaker 3: like laughing and dapping each other up, like obviously that.
Speaker 3: I can't hear the conversation from there, but I imagine
Speaker 3: it was something like, yo, that that ball fake got
Speaker 3: me there?
Speaker 2: Oose, watch what y'all doing there now?
Speaker 3: Just kidding, And we know two a throw is one
Speaker 3: of the prettier early deep balls in football, right, He's
Speaker 3: got one of the best record of doing that from
Speaker 3: a completion standpoint, from an accuracy standpoint, from a yards
Speaker 3: and touchdown standpoint and just watch the dang thing.
Speaker 2: It looks pretty good.
Speaker 3: But what I really liked was a throw he had
Speaker 3: during one on ones where Kyrik McGowan was a guy
Speaker 3: that was added very late to the roster here before
Speaker 3: Camp caught the long touchdown. Now I should clarify first
Speaker 3: that Saran Neil pressed McGowan effectively that I think the
Speaker 3: play was over before it started, but in one on
Speaker 3: one you continue these things because why would you not,
Speaker 3: And then he got a step on Neil, and Neil,
Speaker 3: you know, good for him for doing this. He continued
Speaker 3: with the play himself even though it was probably over,
Speaker 3: and to threw a line drive deep shot. He put
Speaker 3: the ball on the rope where you have to like
Speaker 3: sneak it in under the safety because at this point
Speaker 3: of that given play that you're you know, simulating, you
Speaker 3: would have had a safety closing in on that because
Speaker 3: he had so much time to do it. So he
Speaker 3: puts this frozen rope out there because it wasn't a
Speaker 3: situation where he's even he's leaving, because this cornerback was
Speaker 3: kind of gaining ground on McGowan on this particular play.
Speaker 3: I have to get the ball to him as quick
Speaker 3: as I can, like, I see it now. I need
Speaker 3: the ball on him now, not thirty yards downfield in
Speaker 3: you know, two seconds. So he got it there, he
Speaker 3: rips it, McGowan makes the catch and scores a little
Speaker 3: bit of good on good there. As far as Neil
Speaker 3: and Tua earlier in seven v seven, Tua found alec
Speaker 3: Ingold and John news Smith on underneath throws and I
Speaker 3: want to play some sound here from McDaniel and from
Speaker 3: both coach and Anthony Walker here because I think it's instructive.
Speaker 3: Remember Tyreek's comments on Tuesday about sustained drives and putting
Speaker 3: together twelve play drives and then Wada was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess I don't know.
Speaker 2: I like to score personally on the first one.
Speaker 3: I thought that was just fantastic commentary by those two
Speaker 3: elite wide receivers and you know, a look into their mindset.
Speaker 3: But we got a follow up today from McDaniel, who
Speaker 3: I thought really thoroughly clearly explained the thinking there, because
Speaker 3: who doesn't want to score one play drives when you
Speaker 3: can get them? We all do, Tybreek does too. But
Speaker 3: the reality is that sometimes you're going to have to
Speaker 3: grind out a drive and coach tells you why right here.
Speaker 4: In his own way. What he's describing right there is,
Speaker 4: you know, our offensive or our players on offense here
Speaker 4: are immersed enough in the system to understand areas where
Speaker 4: if you improve, can make everything improve. So what he's
Speaker 4: saying we we he is confident in our ability to
Speaker 4: score explosively in short drives. Well, you know, we've lived
Speaker 4: the experience the last two years that defenses don't want
Speaker 4: you to do that, so they give you up space initially,
Speaker 4: you know, close to the line of scrimmage, to to
Speaker 4: make sure they can keep a roof over over the
Speaker 4: offense and they're eligible. So everything when it's all about
Speaker 4: taking advantage of overplay. So if you're overplaying deep, how
Speaker 4: can you get most efficient yardage through execution on shorter things?
Speaker 4: Run game? You have to when you as a leader
Speaker 4: and a football student, Tyreek understands that if you unless
Speaker 4: you want to see very deep coverage with everyone thirty
Speaker 4: yards down the field, you better make people pay otherwise
Speaker 4: they're going to keep doing it. So that's something I
Speaker 4: think our locker room does a great job of is
Speaker 4: as players identifying consistencies of what's happening to us, and
Speaker 4: then our coaches we try to come up with a
Speaker 4: plan on how to counter people's counter.
Speaker 2: And that's what had me so fired up.
Speaker 3: About the addition of John ou Smith back in what
Speaker 3: was it early March, About the addition of Odell Beckham,
Speaker 3: who also offers the vertical threat there too, About the
Speaker 3: second year of Devon hen who looks we'll talk about
Speaker 3: him in a second, but looks like a freaking weapon
Speaker 3: at receiver too. Right now, just about how this offense
Speaker 3: has added pieces and yet another year of experience within
Speaker 3: the system I think breeds progress for the incumbents of it.
Speaker 3: I just think you're going to see another step and
Speaker 3: even more well rounded attack in year three of Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 3: I think you're going to see a similar jump that
Speaker 3: you saw from year one to year two in year
Speaker 3: two to year three. So when when I see them
Speaker 3: clear space on a shallow cross by the fullback by
Speaker 3: running a wheel that displaces that coverage and then run
Speaker 3: the fullback in behind that displacement, or I see them
Speaker 3: throw a stick to my big physical tight end who
Speaker 3: will catch you and then not get knocked backwards like
Speaker 3: gosh I was watching the finale against Buffalo not that
Speaker 3: long ago, and we have this drive in that second
Speaker 3: half where we just couldn't get anything going. And it
Speaker 3: ends because Braxton catches a ball right at the sticks,
Speaker 3: retreats an inch, and then couldn't power his way through
Speaker 3: the wrap up tackle that forced him to be a
Speaker 3: half yard short, which we punched the ball because you
Speaker 3: can't turn over there, right. You think that'll happen to
Speaker 3: John wus Smith. Hell no, So I'm pumped up for that.
Speaker 3: And the defenders noticed that too. Man, We've been watching
Speaker 3: these linebackers just run the gauntlet in terms of their responsibilities.
Speaker 3: In practice, they did a fun drill today where the
Speaker 3: linebackers would play the run fit recognize the quarterback in
Speaker 3: this case it's a coach, but pull the ball back
Speaker 3: on play pass. Then they have to get vertical and
Speaker 3: locate one of those big exercise balls that they roll
Speaker 3: in behind the linebacker, like in that fifteen yard range
Speaker 3: that deep hook drop and typically opens up after a
Speaker 3: successful play action. Right, It's what it's called robot technique.
Speaker 3: You turn your head to the quarterback, you get your
Speaker 3: hand on, you locate the receiver of the tight end
Speaker 3: by putting it in the hip pocket of the crossing route,
Speaker 3: you get back in phase and you get eyes back
Speaker 3: to the football. And I've been really impressed with both
Speaker 3: Walker and Brooks doing these through three days. So I
Speaker 3: asked Anthony Walker Junior about how this offense and the
Speaker 3: way they create space challenges you as a defender.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I think I had to run for forty fifty
Speaker 1: yards yesterday to defend the play. But I told Mike, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, the middle of the field is closed down
Speaker 1: while I'm in there, so I'll take pride in that.
Speaker 1: And that's what you know, that's what he prides himself on.
Speaker 1: He broke that down us and OTAs you know, this
Speaker 1: is how Mike Linebacker plays. So the soul clips of
Speaker 1: Fred Warner just on in the middle, and I take
Speaker 1: pride in that. So yeah, that's that's my job. And
Speaker 1: as I says, linebackers, we take that challenge. Obviously, when
Speaker 1: you got the speedsters out there, you know, the dbs
Speaker 1: are already stressed enough, so we don't want them to have
Speaker 1: to worry about covering you know, the shallows as well.
Speaker 1: So as long as we can take take take away
Speaker 1: the middle of the field and let those guys stay
Speaker 1: on how we're doing our job.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's get back to the dope throws. Bro
Speaker 3: Let's go back to seven on seven when River Craidcraft
Speaker 3: had his first of two long touchdowns que the Washington
Speaker 3: State fight song. It was a coverage bust because two
Speaker 3: guys jumped up on Riv and he stuck in behind him. Look,
Speaker 3: there's a reason River Credycraft has never caught a long
Speaker 3: like you know, breakaway touchdown like that.
Speaker 2: It's just not his game.
Speaker 3: But because of a nice route and some good play
Speaker 3: fakes and ball handling from Tua, he hits him in
Speaker 3: stride for another long touchdown. This one goes sixty yards.
Speaker 3: I think it was from their own forty yard line.
Speaker 3: And I also thought Tua had Eric Azukama for a
Speaker 3: long touchdown with a perfect throw between the corner and
Speaker 3: safety window of cover two. But Azukama like just didn't
Speaker 3: have that extra gear to go make a play like
Speaker 3: Kyle Lean's over and says where was the where was
Speaker 3: the extra gear there?
Speaker 2: I'm like, I didn't see it, man.
Speaker 3: I think that's a play that our top guys would make,
Speaker 3: and maybe two of through that ball as if it
Speaker 3: were from the top two guys, and I really hope
Speaker 3: that Azukala becomes a guy that does make that play.
Speaker 3: But I will you know, I thought it was there
Speaker 3: for him to go get it. I will say Jordan
Speaker 3: Poyer got there quickly and would have had a big hit.
Speaker 3: And Poyer has been an absolute monster and his two
Speaker 3: practices so far.
Speaker 2: More on that in a second.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and loop Devon Hchen in here too
Speaker 3: to the two a portion, because this guy, man, holy moly,
Speaker 3: I don't think anyone's made more plays than Devon h
Speaker 3: chen has. He ran an intermediate route where he broke
Speaker 3: into a tight window between two defenders, like that second
Speaker 3: window slant or dig or you know, the deep hook,
Speaker 3: and Devon elevates like a receiver, catches it and comes
Speaker 3: down on balance and then races into the end zone.
Speaker 3: The way this ball split those defenders, the way Devon
Speaker 3: finished it. I always say this and like it seems obvious,
Speaker 3: but holy cow, man, like I have such an appreciation
Speaker 3: for professional football compared to other levels of football. You
Speaker 3: just don't see this level of execution outside of the NFL,
Speaker 3: like high high level stuff. There's a reason they pay
Speaker 3: you know, this quarterback fifty plus million dollars a year.
Speaker 3: Hn also had a wicked cutback run where he pressed playside,
Speaker 3: then wound his way back to the backside and hits
Speaker 3: this nice gap that was opened up by Patrick Paul
Speaker 3: More on him in a moment. And the way Devon
Speaker 3: runs away from people is again, it's not like what
Speaker 3: you see in professional football. It's like when Bama plays
Speaker 3: Kennesaw State, no shade kind of saw or you know
Speaker 3: Reggie Bush's high school tape. But just like you're not
Speaker 3: catching him, you just won't do it. He looks like
Speaker 3: a receiver, guys. I'm telling you, the way he catches
Speaker 3: the football, the way he controls his body, the way
Speaker 3: he stays on balance and runs after the catch. You know,
Speaker 3: Tyreek was a running back when he came out of
Speaker 3: Georgia State, and Devon is Georgia Southern.
Speaker 2: Can I say that right?
Speaker 3: Devon is He's gonna stay at running back, but he's
Speaker 3: got real, real wide receiver ability adjuster fantasy plans. Accordingly,
Speaker 3: a coach spoke about Devon chan this morning.
Speaker 4: Let's go to McDaniel, and he really impressed, guys about
Speaker 4: how the game. You hear this much the game's not
Speaker 4: too big for him, right, Well, that's cool for Devon
Speaker 4: if that's where his ceiling where he wants his ceiling.
Speaker 4: Thankfully for the Miami Dolphins, that's not.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 4: He's expanded, roles, expanded, you know, different ways that he
Speaker 4: can get the ball. But he's he's really uh, he's
Speaker 4: become a guy that pretty much every person on the
Speaker 4: offense counts on to note his responsibility because he's he
Speaker 4: and that helps everyone. So he's become a pro diet strength.
Speaker 4: It's really cool to see he he had a taste
Speaker 4: of success, and fortunately for us, he's not satisfied with that.
Speaker 2: While he wasn't throwing, was his level of attention to
Speaker 2: practice where he wanted to be as far as mental
Speaker 2: reps communication with you, I think he was listening to
Speaker 2: play calls.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know he he and and you know what,
Speaker 4: like everybody involved has has been super professional because he's
Speaker 4: if he is not going to be taking a rep,
Speaker 4: he's not going to have that rep lost in him.
Speaker 4: And in year three of the offense, that's that's really
Speaker 4: it's a lot more impactful than if that would be
Speaker 4: the case in year one. You get you have the
Speaker 4: muscle memory, on a lot of things. So every rep
Speaker 4: can be whether whether you're doing or not, can be
Speaker 4: something that you can use to your advantage. Because that
Speaker 4: muscle memory, it's not what he really needs to train.
Speaker 4: It's the visual scene. This particular picture. Our defense presents
Speaker 4: so many unique pictures, and he's been basically all those
Speaker 4: simulated pressures. Keep your awareness and locked in focus.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and pause right there for a break
Speaker 3: and come back and do some more to an offense talk.
Speaker 3: That's next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought
Speaker 3: to you by automation. Getting back into the podcast here
Speaker 3: and back to QB one. The very next ball that
Speaker 3: he threw after the Hn catch and run was the
Speaker 3: exact same thing to Tyreek Hill on the very next play,
Speaker 3: and Saran Neil was right there in great shape to
Speaker 3: make a play on the football. But it goes back
Speaker 3: to the old Brian Dable keyhole ball, like to a
Speaker 3: put this thing, and it's got to frustrate defenders because
Speaker 3: he rips these things into these tight windows and it's
Speaker 3: almost like arrogant in terms of the confidence he has
Speaker 3: to fit them.
Speaker 2: But he does it like all the damn time.
Speaker 3: It could not have been placed better in photoshop if
Speaker 3: you froze the frame and went and edited it that way.
Speaker 3: Tyreek breaks through the crowd and once again has gone
Speaker 3: for a long touchdown. So it was sick throws, it
Speaker 3: was long throws. It was tight windows, it was to
Speaker 3: the perimeter, it was to the inside, it was check downs,
Speaker 3: stay on schedule throws, manage the situation.
Speaker 2: Take what's there. Just a blast of a.
Speaker 3: Day when your quarterback plays like that, and it makes
Speaker 3: everything else, everything just so much more fun. It reminds
Speaker 3: me of the Josh Rosen hear the converse of the
Speaker 3: Josh Rosen year. We can't play Josh Rosen because we
Speaker 3: cannot evaluate anybody else on the team because this guy's horrible. Well,
Speaker 3: when your quarterback is great, it makes everything else better
Speaker 3: around you too. Let's go ahead and hear from a
Speaker 3: couple of guys on QB one Kendall Fuller, Anthony Walker,
Speaker 3: back to back on watching to a practice to day.
Speaker 3: Remember how Mike White spoke about two yesterday.
Speaker 2: These are pretty good too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean he's impressive. I mean he's always looking
Speaker 6: impressive on Sundays. But it's different once you get to
Speaker 6: see somebody you know, on a day to day basis
Speaker 6: just their their mental how they how they process information,
Speaker 6: how he processes defenses. You know, you can just tell
Speaker 6: his his intent with every every snap that he takes.
Speaker 6: So it's been fun to see him and learn from
Speaker 6: him and watch him compete.
Speaker 1: Man, he made a throw today. I was like, like, dude, like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a play that the mic linebacker. So
Speaker 1: I'm just happy that I wasn't there, but the mic
Speaker 1: linebacker should be there. But he threw the ball before
Speaker 1: you know, I think THREEQ was even out his break,
Speaker 1: you know. So you know, you see what he brings
Speaker 1: to the table. You see what he means to this
Speaker 1: team with the off how he you know, just pumps
Speaker 1: up the offense. They know, you know, when he's out there,
Speaker 1: it's just a different different feeling.
Speaker 5: Man.
Speaker 1: You know, they love everybody, you love all the quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but it's a different feeling when one is in there.
Speaker 1: And I think the guys feel that.
Speaker 3: Okay, he've broken down a lot in the passing game,
Speaker 3: but I want to get back to some of the
Speaker 3: guys that made the plays, including River Craycraft's second long
Speaker 3: touchdown off the hand of Skyler Thompson, who finished practice
Speaker 3: very strong with some really good throws late in this session.
Speaker 3: I will say I think River made the play, was
Speaker 3: the guy that kind of made the play on the
Speaker 3: touchdown because it brought he and Saran Neil to a standstill.
Speaker 3: It was a little bit underthrown, but I think River
Speaker 3: saw the ball kind of pull him back a little bit,
Speaker 3: so he slowed down because Neil's playing him and initiates
Speaker 3: some contact and then hits the throttle when Saran slows
Speaker 3: down and runs right through it for the catch for
Speaker 3: the touchdown. And Saran came up off the ground saying
Speaker 3: like that was a push off offensive passing their fear rates.
Speaker 3: But from my vantage point, I disagree, and that's a
Speaker 3: bias Cougar, But I do think it was a legit
Speaker 3: touchdown from Craycraft, who was in the running for me
Speaker 3: for the Orange jersey. On Sunday, Let's get another sound
Speaker 3: bite here, this time from Kendall Fuller, who talked about
Speaker 3: how this offense and the weapons and the vertical stretch
Speaker 3: and the horizontal stretch can really challenge you as a defender.
Speaker 6: You got to cover them vertically horizontal, you got to
Speaker 6: be able to make one on one tackles and in
Speaker 6: the open field with a lot of athletic and fast guys.
Speaker 6: So I mean it's funny because playing Miami last year,
Speaker 6: I kind of know a little bit about the offense,
Speaker 6: but you know, being able to go against it every
Speaker 6: day and just see how much they attack you vertically,
Speaker 6: horizontally in space, so you got to be prepared at
Speaker 6: each level.
Speaker 3: We talked about h and Tyreek Rakkraft. How about John
Speaker 3: hu smith Man watching him in practice, him and Ployer
Speaker 3: I think are just as valuable in their approach and
Speaker 3: their temperament there. You know the fact that they are
Speaker 3: kind of badasses, right, like certified bas Like Johnny was
Speaker 3: going up against another certified BA and Javon Holland in
Speaker 3: one on ones and they weren't battling physical battles, you know,
Speaker 3: intense battles. I loved how John Whu would initiate contact,
Speaker 3: like rather than letting the press come to him, he
Speaker 3: would run his five yard route and engage in the
Speaker 3: contact with Holland, and then that allows him to dictate
Speaker 3: when the disengage occur, which is basically what creating separation
Speaker 3: is in tight quarters. He's a professional route runner and gosh,
Speaker 3: I am enjoying watching him hit do his work. Let's
Speaker 3: hear from another veteran who knows John Hu very well
Speaker 3: on how he sees John Who's game here in Miami. Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, I've known Jonah for a very long time. I
Speaker 1: played against him twice a year for four years when
Speaker 1: I was in Indye. Very special talent, explosive with the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands, and that's any way you can
Speaker 1: get it to him. I saw him get a jet
Speaker 1: suit today. I was like, all right, we just install
Speaker 1: this stuff now we getting bored on day three. But no,
Speaker 1: he's just again like a very unique talent at that
Speaker 1: tight end position pretty much. You know kim run like
Speaker 1: a running back and catch like a receiver and then
Speaker 1: get down and block like old lineman. So very special talent.
Speaker 3: So that was Anthony Walker. And on that jet sweep
Speaker 3: that he mentioned there, Smith won the race to the
Speaker 3: corner against a cornerback. And you know Seth from the
Speaker 3: Fish Tank podcast, My boy here leans in and says,
Speaker 3: I didn't look like a tight end brother. I'm like,
Speaker 3: I know, he looks really impressive. So you know, Omar,
Speaker 3: if you're hearing this, I don't know where you're getting
Speaker 3: the idea that he's been replaced. I saw the tweet
Speaker 3: like we ain't watching the same thing. Dog, He's been
Speaker 3: far and away the best head end on the field.
Speaker 3: Love you, Oh, but what are we doing here? Baby?
Speaker 2: Come on now?
Speaker 3: These three days have only strengthened my belief that John
Speaker 3: Who was going to be a massive, massive addition for
Speaker 3: the Miami Dolphins. Let's move on to the offensive line,
Speaker 3: where it hasn't been as pretty. But there were a
Speaker 3: couple of guys that really popped for me today, and
Speaker 3: the first one was rookie Patrick Paul. He first caught
Speaker 3: my attention in one on ones when Cam Brown tried
Speaker 3: to I put in the tweet Mohammed Kamara. I was
Speaker 3: wrong about that one. He did a nice rep against
Speaker 3: Kmara later on, but this one was against Cam Brown.
Speaker 3: Cam Brown tried to shorten his set, which is basically
Speaker 3: getting him to slide too far inside to open up
Speaker 3: the outside like speed rush lane, and he crossed over
Speaker 3: to get to that arc and Patrick just patiently sets
Speaker 3: into his passe set, cuts off the corner, and then
Speaker 3: when Brown tried to spin back inside and redirect, he
Speaker 3: threw the punch and keeping that punch in the holster
Speaker 3: until the final commitment move, because a defensive end or
Speaker 3: edge rusher wants to draw that move out of with
Speaker 3: all the you know, pomp and circumstance, and if you
Speaker 3: don't draw it out of him, then by the time
Speaker 3: he's ready to throw that punch, you're gonna get on
Speaker 3: your butt.
Speaker 2: And that's what happened. He never took the cheese.
Speaker 3: He stayed patient and just hung out back in his
Speaker 3: set and then put Cam Brown on the ground with
Speaker 3: his punch. Then he carries it over the team period
Speaker 3: where Chop Robinson, who for my money was a top
Speaker 3: five option for Orange Jersey today from his Wednesday work
Speaker 3: or sorry, Thursday work. You know, Paul had like five
Speaker 3: consecutive wins against him in a row, and including one
Speaker 3: where Chop tried to go speed to power, but Paul
Speaker 3: just absorbed it in a way that looked absolutely effortless.
Speaker 3: And that's why, like here, let's let's continue this. I
Speaker 3: cough up with Aaron Brewer after practice who discussed his
Speaker 3: impressions so far of butcher Berry, and I think this
Speaker 3: is applicable.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and go to the Dolphin Center.
Speaker 5: He a great guy. You know what, I'm saying, we
Speaker 5: a like I want to say, he's like a he's
Speaker 5: a great coach, and you able to communicate with him,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So like, he ain't like
Speaker 5: just trying to make it just one way. He wanted
Speaker 5: to see had you visualized, he gonna say you he visualizing,
Speaker 5: y'all gonna meet in the middle with it.
Speaker 3: I just think that's a super beneficial way to approach
Speaker 3: teaching young men in twenty twenty four, right, Like, you
Speaker 3: don't have to scream and y'all at these guys and
Speaker 3: you know, break their spirit. You give them positive reinforcement,
Speaker 3: You make them feel as part of the collaboration. And
Speaker 3: you guys have heard Patrick Paul in this podcast, very cerebral,
Speaker 3: intelligent young man, and given Butch's track record, I love
Speaker 3: our chances of really developing this guy who has every
Speaker 3: physical trait you'd want to build in a lab from
Speaker 3: an offensive tackle. The other guy I liked was Ryan Hayes,
Speaker 3: who I've been impressed with him through three days so far.
Speaker 3: Similar patients with the punch, no heel clicking, just seems
Speaker 3: really clean from a technical standpoint, which I thought that
Speaker 3: was when one area he could get better at at Michigan,
Speaker 3: and he seems to be doing it so far.
Speaker 2: Now. I did believe there was not believe it. It
Speaker 2: just was this way.
Speaker 3: There was some snap issues and some false start issues.
Speaker 3: The defense got their sacks mostly late, mostly against the twos,
Speaker 3: I thought, but we had some snap issues and false
Speaker 3: starts as a result of the snap going off, And
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what the deal was like the first
Speaker 3: two plays of team it was a false start where
Speaker 3: Brewer didn't snap the ball and everybody else moved, and
Speaker 3: then the second one he rolled a groundball to to
Speaker 3: and then the third play was the Tyreek Hill touchdown.
Speaker 3: But let's go ahead and hear from Aaron Brewer on
Speaker 3: the snap.
Speaker 2: Big.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had some slip ups, but you know that's
Speaker 5: just a part of winn practice right now. So that's
Speaker 5: where you want to slip up SAT nine the game.
Speaker 5: So you just learn in front of the mistakes and
Speaker 5: keep going.
Speaker 3: And that takes us right into our last break. We'll
Speaker 3: come back on the other side talk about the defense.
Speaker 3: We'll talk with Kendall Fuller here from Coach one more
Speaker 3: Time and do extra points Long one Today Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 3: your host Travis wingfield brought to you by automation. One
Speaker 3: of the players I was most excited about adding this
Speaker 3: offseason who is returning big time dividends a couple of
Speaker 3: days into campus, Kendall Fuller, who is just so smooth,
Speaker 3: both in the physical aspect of changing direction, but also
Speaker 3: how he sees it to make those quick movements, just
Speaker 3: transitioning out of breaks, playing one step ahead of the
Speaker 3: offense and how they react. And that was evident when
Speaker 3: he triggered and shut down by himself a tunnel screen
Speaker 3: to Jalen Waddle for a loss on the play. Let's
Speaker 3: hear a couple of soundbites here from Kendall who has
Speaker 3: been providing us with some great insight into this defense
Speaker 3: and what makes it so compelling. Here he is talking
Speaker 3: about Anthony Weaver and what he's brought to the table
Speaker 3: so far.
Speaker 2: It has been fun.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 6: We all move around, you know, Jalen is all over
Speaker 6: the field. Sometimes we're playing right, sometimes you're on the
Speaker 6: left side. Even just within the defense, corners can be
Speaker 6: asked to do different things that a nickel would do,
Speaker 6: that a linebacker would do. So I mean that's what
Speaker 6: makes the game fun, just being able to have a
Speaker 6: lot of different responsibilities, a lot of different techniques that
Speaker 6: you gotta do. It makes the game fun. So we've
Speaker 6: been enjoying it. Man, we's been good, energetic fun. So
Speaker 6: definitely a guy that a lot of guys enjoyed playing for.
Speaker 3: So we keep hearing this idea of being able to
Speaker 3: line up anywhere and do anything from anywhere, right, Kalayis
Speaker 3: Campbell talked about it on Wednesday. Well I asked Fuller
Speaker 3: about how that improves communication on the back end when
Speaker 3: all these offensive backs have so much flexibility, again, a
Speaker 3: big point on the drave Time podcast all off season.
Speaker 2: How does that help communication on the back end?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you just have a lot of guys
Speaker 6: that My biggest thing of no matter what position you play,
Speaker 6: is learning where everybody is, because you know once you
Speaker 6: know where, it's all about knowing where your help. It
Speaker 6: is knowing where your teammates are going to be, knowing
Speaker 6: their responsibility. You know they make a mistake, If you
Speaker 6: know what they're doing, you might be able to cover
Speaker 6: up for them. So it just it brings everybody together.
Speaker 6: Everybody is just working on being a better football player,
Speaker 6: understanding the game of football more, not just learn learning
Speaker 6: what you can do and that's it. So I think
Speaker 6: even from that, you're able to have all of us
Speaker 6: are always having constant communications and things like that because
Speaker 6: all of us have played all over the field.
Speaker 3: And from that we pivot to coach McDaniel's answer this
Speaker 3: morning when he was asked kind of funny because the
Speaker 3: initial question was Anthony Weaver has an impressive package, and
Speaker 3: I laughed. I laughed very very quietly loudly, if that
Speaker 3: makes any sense. And then the question was, you know,
Speaker 3: unfrilled from there is what about his pressure packages that
Speaker 3: that make you excited as a head coach on offense
Speaker 3: and a guy that calls the offense. Here here is
Speaker 3: Coach McDaniel on the pressure packages of Anthony Weaver.
Speaker 4: A pressure in it in it of itself, you know,
Speaker 4: everybody has that. It's about the how you are able
Speaker 4: to package that with like looks that can keep an
Speaker 4: offensive balance as well as have multiplicity where the pressure
Speaker 4: is gonna come from. I think, as as teachers, the
Speaker 4: our scheme here, you know, we even a staff, really
Speaker 4: do a great job of finding concepts that players can understand,
Speaker 4: and from from one player understanding all eleven so that
Speaker 4: you can put different pieces in different places so that
Speaker 4: that balance of keeping an opposing offensive balance while being
Speaker 4: sound and multiple. Yeah, everyone would like to do it.
Speaker 4: We're we're you know, confident that we're headed in the
Speaker 4: appropriate direction in that way because that we're trying to
Speaker 4: be as challenging that we can each and every Sunday.
Speaker 4: And I think it's a it's a playing that way,
Speaker 4: being able to do simulated pressures. Specifically, you can have
Speaker 4: blitzes and coverage that overlap. You can have technique that overlaps,
Speaker 4: which means you can be better at what you do
Speaker 4: while being more multiple. So I I think with that focus,
Speaker 4: the coaches have communicated the whole vision to the players
Speaker 4: very in a very good manner because I can see
Speaker 4: by how they execute their jobs that they understand it,
Speaker 4: and really how they strain shows me they believe in it.
Speaker 3: Let's goad and roll the defense and backs into the
Speaker 3: extra points. Because we are getting very long here on
Speaker 3: the episode. So the one on one portion of practice,
Speaker 3: we had our first one on ones today. Do more
Speaker 3: one on ones please, There's so much fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Jalen Wright absolutely shook Jordan Brooks on a Texas route
Speaker 3: sold the outside movement and then cut back across face
Speaker 3: and caught the ball and took off. But Brooks had
Speaker 3: the best rep of the day in coverage where he
Speaker 3: squatted and transitioned in phase off the outbreaking pattern of
Speaker 3: Devon h Chan and he like they completed the pass,
Speaker 3: but Brooks was right in his hip pocket and had
Speaker 3: the hand up in eight Chan's face and a chance
Speaker 3: catching everything because he's a freaking star receiver now apparently.
Speaker 3: But he was right there on this five yard out
Speaker 3: route and I've never seen it covered more tightly by
Speaker 3: a linebacker. This is a drill that is not favorable
Speaker 3: to the defense, and he was right there and Mike
Speaker 3: White put a great ball on Hchan for the catch.
Speaker 3: But I was so impressed by that one rep because like,
Speaker 3: that's Devon h Chan, that's four two eight speed that
Speaker 3: he just like had no problem against. Jordan Poyer won
Speaker 3: the one on ones, he was all over Julian Hill,
Speaker 3: Hayden Rouccie, and then who's the.
Speaker 2: Third tight I forget there was another title? Was it?
Speaker 3: I think it was Tanner Connor where they all tried
Speaker 3: to run like pivots or whips or China routes, like
Speaker 3: where you run inside, juke back to the outside of
Speaker 3: vice versa, and he stayed on top of all those
Speaker 3: and knocked him all down and then celebrated like this
Speaker 3: is not gonna happen against me.
Speaker 2: Boys.
Speaker 3: Zach Steeler was unblockable in the one on ones. That's
Speaker 3: probably not news to you. Onto the team stuff. Cam
Speaker 3: Smith two really nice plays in this practice, including a
Speaker 3: pass breakup where he covered Jalen Waddle that got my
Speaker 3: attention because Wattle's tough to cover. He stayed in phase,
Speaker 3: broke on the ball and made a play on it
Speaker 3: on the pass from Mike White. Chop Robinson had some
Speaker 3: more good work after that tough series against Patrick Paul.
Speaker 3: He blew up Jack driscoll and route to a run stop.
Speaker 3: He also completely blew up a bootleg where Skyler Thompson
Speaker 3: tried to boot off of the run action and he
Speaker 3: got the ball over Chop on the throw, but in
Speaker 3: live action Chop is running through him like Jack Parkman
Speaker 3: in Major League two running over Rube Baker behind the plate.
Speaker 3: DeShawn Hand had a massive run stuff, so did t
Speaker 3: r Tart. Both instances they got two or three yards
Speaker 3: of penetration. Malik Washington gets into the podcast with one
Speaker 3: of the best catches of camp so far, full extension,
Speaker 3: diving fingertip catch.
Speaker 2: That is what I saw from the rookie. He had
Speaker 2: a good day to day.
Speaker 3: Grayson Murphy had maybe the rep of the day on
Speaker 3: defense where he went up against Keon Smith and I
Speaker 3: love the rushman because and this is what Grayson Murphy
Speaker 3: did so well at UCLA. It led to one hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty two pressures over three years there and at
Speaker 3: North Texas, which was the most in college football the
Speaker 3: last three years combined by the way he understands like
Speaker 3: games and different paths as far as a rusher in
Speaker 3: your rush lanes, because he took this rush lane inside
Speaker 3: and condensed Keon Smith kind of like I talked about
Speaker 3: with Cam Brown trying it on Patrick Paul and the
Speaker 3: one on ones, and it worked. He got ke On
Speaker 3: to condense inside and then shortened that corner and disengaged
Speaker 3: with the outside or the inside arm rather ripping through
Speaker 3: and then flattens of the quarterback and he had a
Speaker 3: free run on a blind side quarterback.
Speaker 2: I think it was I think it was Mike White, might.
Speaker 3: Have been Skylar Thompson, but he was gonna destroy this
Speaker 3: quarterback because the red jersey, we're not doing that. I
Speaker 3: think it was a strip sack. Also saw Kalais Campbell
Speaker 3: unleash a wicked bull rush on Austin Jackson from a
Speaker 3: five technique for a pressure and probably a sack.
Speaker 2: And that was it.
Speaker 3: Man, that was a fun freaking day. And your quarterback
Speaker 3: is signed, sealed and delivered.
Speaker 2: Man, let's go. Let's freaking go, dude.
Speaker 3: I cannot wait for you guys to see to a
Speaker 3: firsthand because he's a different quarterback this year in the
Speaker 3: best way possible.
Speaker 2: He's better.
Speaker 3: He's a better player than he was last year, just
Speaker 3: like he's been every year so far in his career.
Speaker 3: And again, per reports out of Schefter, he and rapaport
Speaker 3: Tua signed, sealed and delivered. I haven't done my orange
Speaker 3: jersey predictions in the podcast, shame on me. Tell me
Speaker 3: if I forget that again next time.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 3: My prediction today was Elijah Campbell, so I was wrong.
Speaker 3: I am zero for to now, though Anthony Walker was
Speaker 3: on my short list. So I'm gonna do this because
Speaker 3: it's so hard.
Speaker 2: To predict this.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna give you three names every day that I
Speaker 3: think will wear the orange jersey for Sunday. I mean,
Speaker 3: doesn't it make sense to announce Tua and then put
Speaker 3: him in the orange jersey and just watch the entire
Speaker 3: practice facility explode when he comes out to the field.
Speaker 3: That's what I would do, But who knows, we'll see.
Speaker 3: I thought he was the best player in the field.
Speaker 3: My second options river Craycraft. My third option is to
Speaker 3: von Chan and h Chan probably has a bit of
Speaker 3: a cumulative you know.
Speaker 2: Hat in the ring.
Speaker 3: As far as I have been really good for three days,
Speaker 3: give it to me then, But I think today to
Speaker 3: a cray Craft eight Chan Sunday. We'll see you guys
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