WEBVTT - Drive Time: August 22 Training Camp Recap 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:04.720 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.600 This is Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:10.840 Back to throw to a looking clips about the wide 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:17.040 Dolphin touchdown turn Riquel unfelievable, just blue. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.400 Fire for a second time. Don't know where he was 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:20.320 going right away. 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:23.079 I want to hit that though. Man, I'm gonna help you. 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:27.120 Someone stup on his man away Wattle Wadle to a shotgun, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:30.480 back to throw, looking at them up Myers touchdown right, 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:36.560 it's Waddle his sixth touchdown paradoun the team. Drive Time 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:41.120 with Travis Wingfield begins. Now we check your pulse if 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:45.879 you're not for what is up? Dolphins? And welcome to 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.440 the Drive Time podcast, part of the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network, 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.880 covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.840 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, 0:00:56.920 --> 0:00:59.720 back to the practice Grind. We've got some notes from 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:02.760 the door session here in Miami Gardens, plus a ton 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.760 of perspective from the assistant coaches and the players. We'll 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.160 hear from Frank Smith, Vic Fangio, Anthony Campanelli, Austin Clark, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.399 Ronaldo Hill, Joe Casper, Deshaun Elliott Kendall Lamb, David Long 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.640 and so much more with the practice notes weaved in. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.040 They're from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:25.360 Training Complex. This is the Drive time podcast Miami Dolps. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.360 Bring us Home, Kenny Walker. Let's go ahead and start 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.880 with the news. It's very brief today Tanner Connor, Dolphin's 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.040 second year tight end, was activated off the pup and 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:38.320 was back out there at practice. Also got a look 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.640 at Miles Gaskin back in the fold, alec Ingold back 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.119 out there, saw Key on cross and getting some work 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.920 back in, and also saw Cam Smith back out there 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.400 part of eleven on eleven as well. So guys getting 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.440 healthier as the team continues to prep for the final 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.200 preseason game and eventually here just what nineteen days away 0:01:56.280 --> 0:02:03.040 now the season opener in Los Angeles versus the LA Chargers. Sometimes, 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:05.400 in this business, or in this job, or whatever the 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.280 heck we're gonna call it, things just go your way. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.520 And today was one of those days for me. I 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.840 had questions for the coaches, primarily about like a handful 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.000 of players, and then those guys after I got really 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.760 good quotes from coaches and from those guys afterwards in 0:02:19.800 --> 0:02:22.320 practice as well went on to have some of the 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.600 best days in all of practice, like Deshaun Elliott, who 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.160 picked off a pass in a way that I thought 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:29.680 was very indicative of how his game has kind of 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.600 come together in the last week plus or so within 0:02:32.639 --> 0:02:35.480 this system, Within this scheme as obviously a handful of 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.840 guys trying to learn the new system here in Miami. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:41.880 So I wanted to ask questions about Deshaun Elliott to 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:45.839 Ronaldo Hill, to Joe Casper, the Dolphins safety coach, as 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.919 well as DeShawn himself. Why don't we go ahead and 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.920 kick this episode off with my chat with Dolphin Safety 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.359 to Shawn Elliott. So, obviously, seeing you get the chance 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:54.880 to play a couple of preseason games, I thought you 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:56.640 looked fast as hell out there in the Houston game. 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:58.359 How do you kind of feel the system clicking for 0:02:58.480 --> 0:02:59.440 you now? A few weeks in. 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:01.920 I think that I'm finally starting, like feel comfortable and 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:03.920 feel confident in the system. Then when I first got here, 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:06.080 I was just kind of like on my place, especially 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:07.600 the beginning of training camp, Like didn't get a chance 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.839 to participating in tas, so like I kind of feel 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.720 like I got on my up saying excuse my language 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.160 and being in a training camp, and so I think 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:17.880 finally starting to hit my rule. But I think me 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.600 and Devan are starting to that's a lot better. I 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.960 think day of the day, week the week, we'll be ready. 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:24.000 For the season. I think we'll be fine. 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.600 What ways do you think the system benefits your positive 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:27.200 skill sets? 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.440 Big wants to say the us to be aggressive and 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:33.320 being aggressive with someone really good at I feel like 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.280 and I think with the Java being next to me, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.400 he can help me ovay my game mentally more, I 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.120 feel like I've always had aggressiveness. 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.360 I think that I can just be a little bit better. 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.880 When it comes to like reading routes and whatnot. I 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:47.080 think that would help me can get the ball in 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:47.520 my hands. 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:47.880 At bit more. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.560 That's something I like in my career. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.880 Maybe I know I've been hurt about like even when 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.120 I have played, I happened at the ball a lot, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:53.600 and I think. 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.160 I could get back to my ballhall waves like I 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:56.680 was in college. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.640 That was a pretty good hyeah on the head top 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:00.960 one down. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.040 Oh you mentioned Javon, I saw him wearing that helmet. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.000 Can today something you guys all used to kind of 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:05.400 go back through. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.440 That was our first time. We're used to it on defense, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.240 So Mike just wanted to see, I guess, just try 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:11.720 it out. But I think he only had it for 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.200 a couple of periods. But I think he wants to 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.760 don't have to get it back again. But Michael was like, nah, 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:16.640 you're good, I get it. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:19.120 But we'll see what the footage you're talking about. I 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:20.520 think it's pretty cool we looking at looking at it 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.880 from the quarterback respective, so seeing I can see that. 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.560 Yeah, because Mike always hangs out in the post of 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.760 practice right watching from that viewsic, wants to get that. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:28.720 I guess Jabon's view. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.920 You know you mentioned Javon, like I've talked to a 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.680 million people to just praise the way he sees the 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:34.640 game and obviously the physical talents too, Like what have 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:36.120 you taken from him in your short amount of time 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:36.960 with playing with Javon? 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:40.719 He's talking a couple things, especially like breathing because sometimes, 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.040 like my breathing can be a little bit off the 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.000 neck and kind of gave me ansty especially I already 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.880 a jittery you got sometimes, so my breathing helps a lot. 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:50.120 Him helped me how to breathe and kind of like 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.560 help me slow down a little bit, like read things 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:53.080 a bit sower. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:54.680 I mean, yeah, I think I'm a smart. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.240 Guy and I'm good at being a vocal leader on 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:57.560 on the field, but I feel like this that like 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.440 kind of like to help me get settled back in 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.080 my like not just like having everybody else lined up 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.000 and beginning me back to why I can make plays myself. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.000 I think that's helped me a lot. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:07.280 Yeah, so take care of take on routs and match 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:08.880 and rouse better when I breathed. 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:09.880 Like that, Yeah, I thought you playing down on the 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:11.760 red zone was pretty pretty good. The spreciation is that 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.080 that fourth that four down stop two players right where 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:15.320 you were, you were gonna get there. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.360 But the yeah rush, oh yeah that was gonna be 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:19.240 I was getting it pretty close. 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.800 Yeah, So just watching practice helped me as an amateur, 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.239 you know football sabond as I call myself, just trying 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.680 to kind of read things as they play out. It 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.960 seems like busts are few and far between. It seems 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.000 like the roof is always in the defense. And you guys, 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:33.520 like I noticed a lot of deep balls that go 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:34.960 and completely like you guys are kind of dapping each 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.479 other up, Like, yeah, that was good ship? Am I 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:37.200 seeing that right? 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:37.520 Like? 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.680 Are you guys connecting to the defense of what the 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:40.840 rules are here? Pretty quickly? 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:41.280 Of course? 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:43.760 I thought, especially now, I think that we are holding 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:45.440 each other accountable, because that's the thing like holding it 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.480 too much accountable, seekhold yourself accountable. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.279 And I think that fees a long way for us. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.040 And I think we know you you lose games the 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:53.680 big big is supposed to play, so we always talk 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.160 about nothing over twenty yards. So make sure you don't 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.600 give no, not for twenty yards, and just make sure 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.080 you're just kind of like it, don't break up of defense. 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:02.720 And I think once you've been and don't break it, 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:04.680 and the ton of overs happened, and the force of 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.520 offense to mess up once they messed up, you take 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:07.960 advantage of those situations. 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:12.280 Last one for you, McDaniel McDaniels, how he hasn't heard 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.200 that from several of you guys must talked about it, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.040 like the guys have talked about it, just kind of 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.679 talk about how how detailed VIC is and what separates 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.120 him from you know, he's he's HEROLD is this great 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:21.480 all time? 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:21.760 DC? 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.040 Why is he in that ranking. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.039 You think, I feel like because he expects perfection and 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:28.280 he's not gonna. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:29.240 Be su He's gonna tell you. 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.120 Exactly what it is, gonna be like, oh you did okay? 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:32.640 That he's gonna tell you. I don't like that. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:34.839 And I think he ain't played this better and tighter, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:38.000 and he's gonna be very on you about certain things, 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.080 and I think that's best for us. I don't think 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.400 sugarcoating is good for us. I think as long as 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:46.000 he's being himself, that's what's gonna get out get the 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:47.559 best out of us. He's gonna play the best players, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:49.080 don't matter who it is as well. If you're gonna 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:50.920 have there doing your job and making place, he's gonna 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.919 play you. He doesn't care about about status, gonna care 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.400 about contracts, and but now that he cares about ball, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.479 he's all ball and that's what I appreciate abot him. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.719 We know about Deshaun's ability to come down on the 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.560 lumber both in the running game, you know, from depth 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.280 at the safety position after the fact or after the catch. 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.320 I should say, but I think that the way that 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:10.880 he's kind of putting himself in position to make those 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.160 plays in camp has been evident throughout and it just 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.600 continues to get sharper and tighter. And you heard him 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.520 talk about it there, like getting all the mess ups 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:19.320 out of the way early as you kind of work 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:21.640 your way through OTAs in training camp to fine tune 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.600 your game and hone in on the things you want 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:26.880 specifically drill, you know, come the regular season. I think 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.280 you've seen that progression with the Sean elliott I think 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.120 you've seen it with a lot of the players on 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:34.040 this defense going back from OTAs all the way through 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:38.880 training camp. And you know it's not learning quickly. You 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.920 know in this job that training camp results are not 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:42.760 the end all be all. But going back to last 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.560 year and even comparing training camps feels like maybe a 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:48.520 little bit disingenuous, But like I said to him in 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.720 that interview, just the number of deep balls, the communication bust, 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.040 the things breaking down in the back end. And last 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:55.960 year we had all the injuries that certainly piled up, 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.520 and there's been even more depth added this year. But 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.080 it's been a very tangible difference this season, I think 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.760 against an offense that's pretty similar in terms of the 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:06.640 you know, the playmakers haven't had you know Gilen wadloat 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.680 here for a little bit now, and we've seen some 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:10.400 guys banged up in and out of the lineup, but 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:12.120 for the most part, I think you can kind of 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:14.840 track the defensive progress and the way they've taken to 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.880 the scheme with the production they've had in these practices 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.200 and now through two preseason games of the defense has 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.120 been really, really good. So you heard from Deshan Elliott there. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:25.200 I want to play some more sound and kind of 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:27.400 play this theme throughout the course of the podcast, because 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.280 I was really curious to get people's takes on Vic Fangio, 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.160 one of my favorite Twitter accounts out there at the 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.079 Honest NFL, and he touched on the idea of how 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:40.160 Vic Fangio has installed this defense so many times in 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.080 his career, or you know, variations or core principles of 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:46.000 the defense that that year one, you know, learning curve 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.160 isn't quite as steep for a coach like him, and 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.040 a lot of that is because of the detail and 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.600 the way he really emphasizes the rules and gives you 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.120 exactly what to expect or what he expects. So I 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.240 kind of used that and went about the coaching staff 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.280 and the players and asked those questions. Let's start here 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.400 with Dolphin safety coach Joe Casper. 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:04.400 Oh, well, Vick is the best in maybe in the 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.199 history of the game at details, fundamentals and technique. You know, 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.680 he's a world class coach that goes without being said. 0:09:11.720 --> 0:09:13.319 You don't need you know, you don't need. 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:17.360 Me to tell you that, but he's on top of 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:20.120 it in terms of details, fundamentals, techniques, and that's something 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.280 we try and do every single day. Harp On is, Okay, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.360 what's the fundamentals associated with the job? How do we 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.719 train those in indie, how do we train those in 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.680 the team periods, how do we comment on those, correct 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.960 those post practice in the film sessions. But the details 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:39.040 is so important to me is it's not just do 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.720 your job, it's do your job with savvy. And there's 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.880 freedom within our schematics to be able to accentuate guys' 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:48.720 abilities differently, and we want them to take advantage of 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:52.520 that freedom and that detailed understanding to not just do 0:09:52.520 --> 0:09:55.400 do check a box, but to take it to the 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.880 next level and do your job with savvy, do the 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.960 extra that's within yourself to be able to execute at 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.920 a high level and right now. We've got a group 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.600 that's done a great job with that through two preseason 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:06.319 games and. 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.559 Then back to coach caspron the similar idea of how 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.439 the install can happen quicker when you have an experienced 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:12.520 coach like Vic Fangio. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:15.680 Well, I'll say this, I think that anytime you come 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.840 in and you're working within a scheme like this, you're 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.000 definitely going to have some hiccups. We've gone through a 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.280 lot of those in spring. We had a really devoted 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.720 group in the spring, and we've come back now in 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:29.160 fall camp and these guys, it's on the players. The 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:31.920 players have done such a phenomenal job of taking to 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:35.640 the scheme, taking to the execution, owning the execution within that. 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.319 They've just done outstanding and that's why you don't see 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:40.480 those things right now. 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:41.319 Knock on wood. 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:44.160 Yeah, the players have owned that, and you know that's 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.600 a tribute to them. It's a tribute to Javon's leadership 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.200 in the room, even guys like Jalen Ramsey's. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.200 Leadership within the room, X's leadership within the room to 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.280 execute those details so that we can get into some 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.120 of that that savvy that I'm speaking on because we're 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.880 not dealing with day one one type corrections as much, 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:03.760 and that's that's that's to the players. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.840 Credit to the players credit again that theme of communication 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:09.000 on the back end and things just being really buttoned 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.800 up tightly. Wanted to go to passing game coordinator Ronaldo 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:13.559 Hill to get his take on how he's viewed the 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.760 communication in that back end and how things are coming together. Now, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:18.520 what are we three four weeks in the camp? 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.560 Yeah, I mean I really like the way that guys 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.920 have been progressing. We talk about, you know, having an 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.920 ownership and quarterback in the back end, and you know, 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:28.559 I think those guys have been doing a really good 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.559 job and they're finding their niche within it. And that's 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.640 what you want because we know when Sunday hits, you know, 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:37.280 to be live bullets and they got to be able 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.440 to go out there and solve problems, and they're doing 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:39.840 a good. 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:40.200 Job with it. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:42.840 I mentioned we did see camp Smith back on the 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:45.360 practice field today. He was involved in team drills and 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.160 found himself around the football once again. And that's been 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:49.839 a theme throughout the course of camp with really the 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:54.160 entire defensive backfield. Guys that know how to anticipate what 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.000 they're about to see and start driving and putting themselves 0:11:57.040 --> 0:11:59.240 in position to get their ahead of the football arriving 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:01.600 or the player making his break. And camp Smith, you know, 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.600 you go back to his college tape at South Carolina, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.000 and the great Brett Coleman over at the Bootleg Football 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.480 Podcast just continues to rave about how much he loved 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.560 his tape at South Carolina on the Dolphins preview episode 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:14.320 really kind of put his stamp on approval of the 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.800 camp Smith pick because of those instincts and how it 0:12:16.840 --> 0:12:19.959 really translates or is portable to the Vic Fangio defense. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.120 So I wanted to ask cam Smith, how does this 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.080 defense translate to a player that has instincts like you 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.120 showed in college. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:29.319 A lot of kind of you wouldn't You're not really 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:31.440 gonna call it help because you're not you really don't 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.960 think about having the help during the play. But a 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.880 lot of moving pieces to the defense, So it's a 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.679 lot of windows that are cut off and stuff like that. 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.480 So having that and then having a corner like me 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:42.400 just having the instincts to go in and go get it, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:44.439 you can just have a lot more pass breakers, a 0:12:44.480 --> 0:12:46.320 lot more picks with the defense. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.400 That we are running. So there was a very competitive 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.000 red zone period in that practice today where more of 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.560 the same, just everything was super tight. Every pass was contested, 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.880 the offense got some of theirs. I thought Tua did 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:58.880 a really good job of finding outlets and finding the 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.920 short game to the running back, the tight end and 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.160 putting them in positions to run after the catch. Had 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:05.959 a really good throat to Baxton Barrier, Braxton Barrios down 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.400 by the front pylon. And I watched the practice today 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.560 with Oj McDuffie, who loves him some Braxton Barrios go 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:14.440 figure right. OJ's skill set kind of translates to what 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.600 Braxon Barrios does so well from his playing days. And 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.200 there was a catch where Barrios caught it short of 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:24.040 the of the front pylon and of course by the sideline, 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.680 and just the way he was able to transition kind 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.480 of flip the hips and pivot upfield and fall forward 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:31.760 into the end zone. I was like, like, that seems 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:33.880 so innocuous, Juice, but not many guys like have that 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:36.320 ability to find that way forward. He said that was 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.080 my game too, was catch the ball near the sticks 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:40.000 and make sure you get it past the sticks or 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.600 in this case the goal line, and we just kind 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:45.920 of marveled at how these fine details keep showing up 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.559 within Braxton Barrios's game and how you can really appreciate that, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.000 and how fitting it is that his wide receivers coach 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:54.720 is Wes Welker, who that was his entire career, you know, 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:56.960 making plays where he was just smarter than the opposition, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:59.880 put himself in the right spot by his preparation, his 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:03.600 film study, and overall just football acumen. I think you're 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.559 seeing a lot of that with Braxton Barrios. But the defense, 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:08.920 like I said, was also very contestant on a lot 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.200 of these plays. We had hands on footballs. Javon Holland 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:14.040 had a pick that was a really nice playoff a 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.599 deflection from Xavier and Howard working around the top of 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:19.960 a route on Cedric Wilson with Skyler Thompson at quarterback. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.480 He pokes it into the air and Javon gets the 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.600 pick and brings it back for six. We saw the 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:27.200 really good Deshaun Elliott picked down the field that was 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.560 off of a pass from Tua where he got range 0:14:29.560 --> 0:14:31.680 and found his depth and found the landmark on a 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.840 deep attempt to Braxton Barrios again, and Elliott really skided 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.480 over the top of that and made the play in 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.600 a really impressive fashion where he kind of got up 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.840 there and you heard me talking about you know, I 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:43.600 think he said over the top of the dome on 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.160 that interview with him. It's because he skied over the 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:47.840 top of both he and the corner and pulled that 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:50.280 ball down, really kind of showing the playmaking skills that 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.280 he alluded to in that interview. So just it's funny 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:55.760 how I was really focused on safety today and both 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.080 Deshaun and Javon got picks, and really the entire secondary 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.320 just continues to pass things off and understand their rules 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.800 and really clamp down. And I think it really shows 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:06.880 itself both and how they limit the deep passing game, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.360 but also how they defend in the red zone where 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:12.280 things do get super tight. Now, Tua did have a 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.200 couple of absolute seeds Tyreek Hill. You saw the one 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.880 video on social media where he just took a takeoff route, 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.440 threw it up top and Ethan Bonnard was in really 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:23.920 good shape on that play, but the ball just went 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.160 right over the top right and stride. Tyreek catches it 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.480 takes off for six the play before that I thought 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.640 was even more impressive, and I want to play some 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.160 sound for you here in a moment with Frank Smith 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:35.920 where I asked him about, you know, how the Dolphins 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:39.720 found success throwing the ball outside in that preseason game, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.360 and how that can kind of counter what you were 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:43.600 successful with last year with all the middle of the 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.240 field passing, and how this offense now seems to really 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.800 have even more capabilities of stressing or stretching the entire 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.560 field and stressing every blade of glass, plate of grass 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.480 that forces the defense to defend every blade of grass 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.200 with all the speed they have. And the quarterback that 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:59.920 processes so well and plays the game from the head 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.720 up or the neck up so sharply, with how he 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.240 just kind of drills in these fine details and can 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.800 get the ball out fast and processes things so quickly. 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:10.520 And you know, to OJ's credit again or OJ's point, 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.160 he talked about how just watching two of these practices 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.880 compared to last year, looks everything looks sharper, it looks 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.600 like there's more zip on the ball. He looks faster 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:19.920 and more athletic, which obviously you'd love to hear that. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:22.120 So I do want to come back and play that 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.320 sound from Frank Smith. Let's go ahead and finish up 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:26.920 this segment here with back in the defensive backfield. 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