Speaker 1: Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins.
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Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Winkfield. And on today's show, it is the sixth
Speaker 1: day of camp practice Tomorrow we have off to be
Speaker 1: back at it again on Thursday, and also the first
Speaker 1: day of games Browns and Jets. The Hall of Fame Game.
Speaker 1: Got a lot of good work in on this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: both in the indoor and outdoor practice fields as the
Speaker 1: weather pushed us inside at the very end, although it
Speaker 1: was also kind of nice to have that weather because
Speaker 1: it was cooler out and we had a good breeze
Speaker 1: all day. We also had a nineteen twenty seven Yankees
Speaker 1: lineup of heavy hairs for media to a tea Steed,
Speaker 1: Jalen Phillips, Emanuel Ogbad Deshaun Elliott. We'll break down a
Speaker 1: sharp day from the offense, visit Chris Career's serious radio interview,
Speaker 1: and much much more from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex this soon is the Drive
Speaker 1: Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: Maggie Geff.
Speaker 1: Lots and lots of first downs to be had at
Speaker 1: today's practice. But before we get started on that practice,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you guys had a chance to
Speaker 1: hear Chris Career on Serious XM NFL show the other day,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to league with this because, as you
Speaker 1: daily diehards of Drive Time know, of the three, four,
Speaker 1: maybe nine themes that I've been on about all summer long,
Speaker 1: one of my favorites is the type of roster they're
Speaker 1: building down here in terms of character, and obviously it's
Speaker 1: a loaded roster that feels like it can really make
Speaker 1: some noise this year. We hear from pretty much anybody
Speaker 1: and everybody who does, you know, summer projections and predictions
Speaker 1: of how each roster stacks up. They all feel as
Speaker 1: if as though this roster is going to make quite
Speaker 1: a run this year. But one element that you can
Speaker 1: never gauge on paper, and I think is probably the
Speaker 1: most overlooked aspect in any sport, you know, professionally or
Speaker 1: otherwise across the country, is the chemistry and how a
Speaker 1: team works together and how they can overcome adversity together
Speaker 1: and obviously that was a big part of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three or twenty twenty two season rather but in
Speaker 1: this interview, Greer talked about reaching out to Tyreek about
Speaker 1: the Eli Apple audition and how roster building is not
Speaker 1: you know, like Madden. That's my words, not his, and
Speaker 1: how the chemistry of the roster is considered with each
Speaker 1: move like with Eli Apple. And I'm talking to Kyle
Speaker 1: Krabs of Lockdown Dolphins up in the stands ahead of
Speaker 1: practice about this and how each position group has a
Speaker 1: buddy buddy type of relationship among it. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: it goes, you know, further than that, but just based
Speaker 1: off what we know, I mean, it sounds like Jerome
Speaker 1: Baker and David Long, based upon Monday's media, have hit
Speaker 1: it off right away. We know about Zach and Christian.
Speaker 1: We saw Ex and Javon at the Pro Bowl a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, Brandon and Deshaun Elliott back in
Speaker 1: that secondary having their Texas ties together. Raheem Moster and
Speaker 1: Jeff Wilson, our buddies, Tyreek Hill and Jaylen Waddell or
Speaker 1: you know, comes super close. Bradley Chubb and Jaylen Phillips
Speaker 1: work out before practice every single day to on alec Ingold,
Speaker 1: like pretty much every group you look at has that
Speaker 1: bond on this team. And the response of Tyreek, according
Speaker 1: to Chris Greer about the Eli Apple acquisition, said that's
Speaker 1: my dog. Let's go, yeah, go get him. So that's
Speaker 1: great to see. And obviously Tyreek is a smart guy
Speaker 1: when it comes to social and branding and all that,
Speaker 1: because you know, his playful tweet after the acquisition happened
Speaker 1: was let's go or can't wait for practice tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: Like he knows what he's doing. But it's all about
Speaker 1: keeping this brotherhood together inside this building, and we all
Speaker 1: want to see the same thing and those guys want
Speaker 1: to see the same thing as well. And with that,
Speaker 1: I really enjoyed this practice to day. Let's go position
Speaker 1: by a position and start with the group that I
Speaker 1: thought had the best day. It was either them or
Speaker 1: the edges, but the cubes, the quarterbacks. Let's start with
Speaker 1: this twa tongue Bai Looa touched on his off season training.
Speaker 1: I thought pretty in depth for the first time about
Speaker 1: how he got stronger and he looks a lot bigger
Speaker 1: this year. Guys two twenty seven on the roster here's
Speaker 1: QB one on his off season training.
Speaker 4: Just a lot of heavier weights, a lot more reps
Speaker 4: with the heavier weights, things like that. But everything that
Speaker 4: I did this offseason entailed to what would keep me
Speaker 4: on the field for the entirety of a season. We
Speaker 4: understand that, you know, freaky things can happen. You know,
Speaker 4: it's football. It's a physical sport. Not everything that you
Speaker 4: prepare for is what you're going to get. So I
Speaker 4: did the best that I could that, you know, to
Speaker 4: get myself ready and prep for this season. As far
Speaker 4: as injuries go.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you can be anything but encouraged
Speaker 1: by that. It sounds like too was really kind of
Speaker 1: take an ownership of his professionalism and you know, his
Speaker 1: body and everything that goes into this performance. And I
Speaker 1: thought one of the things that stood out the most
Speaker 1: about his performance on Tuesday is something I've always been
Speaker 1: a fan of in his game. And I try to
Speaker 1: describe this the best way I can, because I don't
Speaker 1: think it's necessarily something you can describe unless you kind
Speaker 1: of know how to do it. In a way. It's
Speaker 1: the elasticity in his arm. I think it's the framework
Speaker 1: of what makes him the player that he is, because
Speaker 1: it's part of a lot of the key elements of
Speaker 1: his game, the accelerated release that just not many other
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have in their game. It's how he's able to
Speaker 1: throw accurately from all those different arm angles without the
Speaker 1: ability to step into a throw and still be able
Speaker 1: to put the ball in an accurate spot without losing
Speaker 1: you know, your ball placement, whatever it might be. He
Speaker 1: has this uncanny knack for putting the football right on
Speaker 1: the mark really from any position. And I thought I
Speaker 1: was interesting to hear him talk today about jiu jitsu
Speaker 1: training and how he's still working at it in terms
Speaker 1: of committing to muscle memory, because like Malcolm Gladwell right
Speaker 1: when ten thousand hours well, it got me thinking about
Speaker 1: Tua's life in football, and of course, you know on
Speaker 1: the podcast here we have to relate it back to
Speaker 1: baseball and in my own baseball experience, and I was
Speaker 1: telling Kyle once again, I think it makes so much
Speaker 1: sense for quarterbacks to play middle infield because of the
Speaker 1: different you know, arm angles you get from throwing the
Speaker 1: ball across the diamond, the different you know setups you
Speaker 1: have in your feet, whether it's going to the backhand
Speaker 1: and going to the forehand, and there's just different you know,
Speaker 1: working around the second base in terms of double plays,
Speaker 1: like you find you have to find different ways to
Speaker 1: put the ball in the same location, but it's coming
Speaker 1: out of your arm, or you're off your hand at
Speaker 1: a different arm go from a different you know, footwork position.
Speaker 1: It just kind of trains that muscle memory into a
Speaker 1: certain way. And when I was a kid, I spent
Speaker 1: every single day in my backyard and we had one
Speaker 1: of those nets where the upper net you throw it
Speaker 1: to the high part of net and it gives you
Speaker 1: a ground ball, and you throw at the bottom part
Speaker 1: of the net. It's elevated in a way that gives
Speaker 1: you back a fly ball. And I did that. You know,
Speaker 1: I didn't have We didn't have you know, we didn't
Speaker 1: have internet back in my day. You know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: on my cell phone the entire time. So I'd go
Speaker 1: play baseball in my backyard. And to this day, if
Speaker 1: you give me a baseball, I can whip that thing
Speaker 1: pretty damn good from any arm angle you want, pretty accurately.
Speaker 1: We have a little signed Jarvis Landry football that they
Speaker 1: brought over from the stadium that was, I guess, hanging
Speaker 1: around out there in the cubicles and we take a
Speaker 1: ten minute break sometimes me and a couple of guys
Speaker 1: from the production staff, and we throw the football around him.
Speaker 1: I can zing that thing, man, and it goes back
Speaker 1: to when I'm eight years old, basically. So the reason
Speaker 1: I'm telling you this is because, you know, to was
Speaker 1: documentary that came out during his rookie year, talked about
Speaker 1: those days on the beach throwing the football with his dad,
Speaker 1: and you commit that muscle memory by doing it every
Speaker 1: day over and over again from a young age. And
Speaker 1: I just thought it was kind of a cool full
Speaker 1: circle moment from that concept and that thought to today
Speaker 1: watching him because he threw a few passes and he's
Speaker 1: done this in camp in general, where his mechanics and stride,
Speaker 1: you know, can be down the middle and he's trying
Speaker 1: to shoot a deep crosser, a deep over or you know,
Speaker 1: comeback to the opposite side of the field or whatever
Speaker 1: it might be. He whips that thing out to the
Speaker 1: perimeter without being aligned to that throw right on the money,
Speaker 1: and it's like clockwork. He does it over and over
Speaker 1: and over again, and it also helps hold the defense,
Speaker 1: which I think can mitigate some of the velocity that
Speaker 1: you maybe don't have from some of the top of
Speaker 1: the line guys in terms of the arm strength, but
Speaker 1: you find ways to make up for that. I think
Speaker 1: he does it in this way. It's like clockwork. It's accurate,
Speaker 1: it's on time every single time. And I thought Tua
Speaker 1: probably had his best day on Tuesday, And really there
Speaker 1: was only one day that I didn't think it wasn't superb,
Speaker 1: and that was the day of many sacks, which you'll
Speaker 1: hear more about what that actually means here in a minute.
Speaker 1: But I thought that he has solutions to the different
Speaker 1: looks that Vic and the defense gave him. I thought
Speaker 1: he replaced the blitz with the football time and time
Speaker 1: again in this practice. I thought he was just sharp
Speaker 1: processing things pre and post snap and at tracked because
Speaker 1: this defense will challenge you and have answers to get
Speaker 1: to them quickly versus a variety of looks. Right, let's
Speaker 1: let's actually go to and now and talk to him
Speaker 1: about practicing against this scheme and how coach Fangio's defense
Speaker 1: is helping him get better as a quarterback.
Speaker 4: Very tough, it's very tough. It's hard to distinguish what's
Speaker 4: gonna happen pre snap and post snap. I think Vic
Speaker 4: does a good job with his defense and aligning guys
Speaker 4: where they need to align and making everything look the
Speaker 4: same for both run action pass action. And I think
Speaker 4: what I see a lot more this time this year
Speaker 4: with the defense is there's a lot of communication. So
Speaker 4: I know everyone sees the camera that we have on
Speaker 4: our head when you watch, when we watch it, you know,
Speaker 4: we get to see when we're motioning guys. There's a
Speaker 4: lot of communication going on in the back end and
Speaker 4: up front. It's a lot more than what I've seen
Speaker 4: the past couple of years.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it rolling here with this from QB and
Speaker 1: I love, love, love, love this again because anytime I
Speaker 1: can verify what I'm saying on the podcast with coach
Speaker 1: or with TUA or you know somebody that confirms what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, well that's a good day for your boy.
Speaker 1: Validation's nice. Here's two on how they view practice, the
Speaker 1: process of growth and getting ready for the season. Because
Speaker 1: I know you're gonna read a lot of reports about
Speaker 1: the results of practice, that's not what it's about.
Speaker 4: I would say the way we look at it is
Speaker 4: not result based. It's it's basically letting everyone finish with
Speaker 4: whatever technique they got, so regardless of the phil as
Speaker 4: a sack, you know, our defense gives us the opportunity
Speaker 4: to continue to read it out to extend plays, and
Speaker 4: it also gives the guys in the back end an
Speaker 4: opportunity to continue to you know, play within a broken
Speaker 4: down play or if you know, quarterback escapes the pocket,
Speaker 4: you know they're going to have to move around and
Speaker 4: maneuver how they're going to cover guys. So I wouldn't
Speaker 4: say it's necessarily result based, although there are things that
Speaker 4: we have got corrected, you know, in every area, whether
Speaker 4: it's a blocking scheme, a route, how the guys are
Speaker 4: running the routes, how we're looking at reading certain routes,
Speaker 4: our progressions in the place, and where the checkdowns are
Speaker 4: all of that, And I think it's really good when
Speaker 4: we're able to look at it like that and not
Speaker 4: oh I got sacked, like next play.
Speaker 1: I think that can be very instructive for how you
Speaker 1: might come out here and view a practice if you
Speaker 1: do come out to the Baptist Health Training Complex. I've
Speaker 1: also talked about the response to the response that we
Speaker 1: saw late in the year last year for this offense
Speaker 1: pretty much doing whatever it wanted to the first ten
Speaker 1: or so weeks of the season and then that lull
Speaker 1: against the two teams out in California which was picked
Speaker 1: right back up right. The Buffalo game was highly proficient
Speaker 1: for the offense. The Green Bay game too until that
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Really, but we talk about, you know, options
Speaker 1: in the screen game. We talk about the short, quick
Speaker 1: stuff to the perimeter, to your speed guys, you know
Speaker 1: Jalen or Tyreek on a hitch or a speed out
Speaker 1: or really anybody. We talked about the wrinkle off of
Speaker 1: that with the wheels and pushing this you know, second
Speaker 1: level to fill that area with speedsters after lifting the
Speaker 1: top off the defense with the original speedsters. And I
Speaker 1: thought today was really the first time we saw the
Speaker 1: offense kind of go with solutions to the defense opposed
Speaker 1: to just rolling through a scripted series of plays that
Speaker 1: was not really cognizant of what the defense is doing,
Speaker 1: you know, almost not game planning, but having more of
Speaker 1: a feel for what you're looking at. And we saw
Speaker 1: it come together in a big way. Tua had a
Speaker 1: bunch of dimes down the field, and I love the
Speaker 1: way he throws the ball vertically from the short side
Speaker 1: of the field, you know, the boundary to the perimeter,
Speaker 1: and then when you're throwing field balls, you know the
Speaker 1: wide side of the field. Put those balls in the
Speaker 1: far hash on the numbers on that side, and we
Speaker 1: saw a good chunk of that today in some big
Speaker 1: completions to alec Ingold, to Jalen Waddle and the like
Speaker 1: the last thing here on Tua. I thought he threw
Speaker 1: the ball on the move, very very well. Thought he
Speaker 1: did a good job of feeling the pocket and just
Speaker 1: hitching up when he had to, you know, getting out
Speaker 1: either direction when he had to go left or right,
Speaker 1: or even just when he's taking steps or you know,
Speaker 1: footwork is part of his part of his work, and
Speaker 1: a play pass and the path he takes on play
Speaker 1: action and how he gets into a throwing motion off
Speaker 1: of that, really really good day from number one all around.
Speaker 1: I also thought it was the best day of camp
Speaker 1: so far for Mike White, especially when we moved to
Speaker 1: the endoor facility. There was a throw he made where
Speaker 1: I was making my way across the practice field up
Speaker 1: to the platform where we watch practice with the media,
Speaker 1: and he threw a ball over the middle of the
Speaker 1: field into a window. And when you're down there and
Speaker 1: you see how fast it all moves and how much
Speaker 1: color and trash is just flashing in your eyes. You know,
Speaker 1: from my advantage point much less the quarterback who's in
Speaker 1: the midst of all of it. Legit a new appreciation
Speaker 1: for just how damn hard the job is. Like I
Speaker 1: got it before, but now I think I get it
Speaker 1: even more because Mike White was so quick with processing
Speaker 1: and you have to just really kind of know what
Speaker 1: you're doing to put the ball in certain locations against
Speaker 1: all the speed and NFL defense has I thought he
Speaker 1: was super quick with the processor. I'd say things have
Speaker 1: kind of slowed down for him now in the second
Speaker 1: you know, three practice chunk here, you know practice four, five,
Speaker 1: and six compared to one, two and three, because he
Speaker 1: was in a groove putting the football in the right
Speaker 1: places at the right time. To me, there's a pretty
Speaker 1: clear gap between you know, one and two, yeah, but
Speaker 1: two and three for sure. How all the quarterbacks today
Speaker 1: put receivers in positions to make plays, you know, identify
Speaker 1: the blitz, get the ball to the hot and suddenly
Speaker 1: you've got Waddle or Tyreek or Azukam or whoever in
Speaker 1: a one on one opportunity with a cornerback and if
Speaker 1: they slipped that tackle, it goes from a six yard
Speaker 1: game to maybe twenty. And if it's Jalen Wattle, maybe
Speaker 1: eighty six yards out the gate. I think that's a
Speaker 1: good spot for our first break right there. But real quick,
Speaker 1: before that, let's just talk about some standouts and one
Speaker 1: on ones because yeah, I don't know, it's it's worth
Speaker 1: talking about, but not worth breaking down too much. I
Speaker 1: don't think. I thought. Cater continues to show you what
Speaker 1: he can do best. He's a sensational rep in this
Speaker 1: period against Chosen where he pinned him to the sideline
Speaker 1: on a takeoff route and just gave Mike White no
Speaker 1: window to work with. Tyreek got X where he stacked
Speaker 1: him and broke it right off to the inside, and
Speaker 1: two will put the ball right on the upfield shore
Speaker 1: for an easy catch and run for touchdown. By the way,
Speaker 1: X never gets in the notes in camp because he
Speaker 1: just never gets tested, Like they don't go after him.
Speaker 1: One on ones isn't really a fair fight. I was hoping,
Speaker 1: you know, Ramsey would force some more balls over to X,
Speaker 1: but he's just ever in the team notes. That's a
Speaker 1: good thing. Craik Craft had the best catch of the period,
Speaker 1: catch catch with a back shoulder adjustment from Skylar Thompson.
Speaker 1: Javon Holland had a really good recovery on Brax and
Speaker 1: Burrios who got on top of him on a ball
Speaker 1: from two, but it was slightly underthrown. I peeked over
Speaker 1: at the running backs and tight ends versus linebackers in
Speaker 1: safeties for a moment and saw Elijah Campbell get two
Speaker 1: pass breakups. Bryce Thompson as well. He's quietly had a
Speaker 1: very nice camp. And then finally I watched a lot
Speaker 1: of the O line versus D line for the second
Speaker 1: straight day, and I thought Liam was very good once again,
Speaker 1: kind of putting together a good run here after a
Speaker 1: rough Friday practice. I thought Isaiah Winn and Kendall Lamb
Speaker 1: were very good, and I thought Lamb was exceptional as
Speaker 1: a whole today. More on that after the break as
Speaker 1: we continue the practice notes and hear from more of
Speaker 1: the guys. Next Draft Time podcast, your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: talk some O line and start with Tron Armstead, who's
Speaker 1: back out at practice getting some work in. No team
Speaker 1: drills yet, but he has a plan in place to
Speaker 1: get out there on the field and get ready for
Speaker 1: that week one game. Let's go ahead and talk to
Speaker 1: Toron Armstad here about the plan to get him back
Speaker 1: on the field.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got they got a plan for me, program
Speaker 2: for me. Just trying to stick with it and we're progressing,
Speaker 2: kind of going through a little bit of a slow
Speaker 2: progression in my opinion, but I'm not arguing or combatant.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: I'm here to play, so I'd love to get out
Speaker 2: there and compete. Also, a year eleven and I've been
Speaker 2: through ten training camps before, so it's a little bit
Speaker 2: of a balance.
Speaker 1: Let's go right back to Tea Steed here, who talked
Speaker 1: about getting to the stage in your career and how
Speaker 1: you're still adding to your tool belt. I wanted to
Speaker 1: ask him this question because he does so much to
Speaker 1: teach younger players and really take part and just you know,
Speaker 1: I suppose grooming the next generation of offensive linemen and
Speaker 1: getting guys to his level and the way he teaches,
Speaker 1: and we'll hear about that here. More from I think
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogbat who talks about the way he teaches other
Speaker 1: guys in the offensive line room. But here's to Ron
Speaker 1: Armston and how he takes the off season to learn
Speaker 1: even more about his own game.
Speaker 2: No, for sure, for sure, I think that's why I've
Speaker 2: been able to do it for a long time is
Speaker 2: continue to evolve and add tools to my toolbox.
Speaker 3: I learned.
Speaker 2: I learned things from first year, second year players just
Speaker 2: just just by watching, just by watching it. Think of
Speaker 2: the cool thing about old line plays, Like we've got
Speaker 2: all the answers on film, you know, so you can
Speaker 2: go back and see, all right, what did guys do
Speaker 2: to combat this move or combat this stunt or you
Speaker 2: know what I mean. So you've got the answers on film,
Speaker 2: so you go back and watch it and you try
Speaker 2: to go execute. So try to add more tools to
Speaker 2: the toolbox.
Speaker 1: I'll actually go ahead and use one more SoundBite here
Speaker 1: from Tea Stead to help us get a better feel
Speaker 1: for Butch Berry, new Dolphins offensive line coach, and the
Speaker 1: coaching points up front. And we've now, you know, we've
Speaker 1: known this going back to last year with Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: coming over from San Francisco, how they want to fire
Speaker 1: off the football and play fast that way. I think
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of that today. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and allow to Ron Armstead to explain for.
Speaker 2: Us speak velocity off the ball, controlling the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: We want to we want to dominate and dictate that
Speaker 2: that that line of scrimmage as much as much as possible,
Speaker 2: we do that. We knock people off the ball the
Speaker 2: yard or two. We got a great chance to win
Speaker 2: a lot of games.
Speaker 1: I thought the best run play of the day was
Speaker 1: a block well executed by Rob Jones and Jeron Christian
Speaker 1: and then a really good seal block from River Craikcraft
Speaker 1: to spring Chris Books on a ninety five yard touchdown run.
Speaker 1: The rookie weaved his way through the gap and then
Speaker 1: hit the gas and the offense. This was during a
Speaker 1: drill that was continuous for the first time in all
Speaker 1: of camp. Like they don't return the football back to
Speaker 1: the original spot. If you get twelve yards, the ball
Speaker 1: goes twelve yards down the field and you continue to
Speaker 1: drive from there. And so you get offense on one side,
Speaker 1: defense on the other. And the offense ran down the
Speaker 1: field with Chris Brooks as he's running to the end
Speaker 1: zone and who was leading the way besides QB one
Speaker 1: to a tongue of by Low, who said, yeah, he
Speaker 1: was running pretty fast. That was awesome to see. At
Speaker 1: the end of the press conference. So on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: Rob Hunt to me is good every single damn day.
Speaker 1: I thought Rob Jones had his best day. I thought
Speaker 1: Dan Feeney also had his best day, really getting after
Speaker 1: it with some of his best work in the entire camp,
Speaker 1: particularly in the run game, getting pushed consistently throughout practice.
Speaker 1: I mentioned Kendall Lamb. I'm pretty excited about what I've
Speaker 1: seen from him in his pass sets. I think that
Speaker 1: there's a chance that he could be a right tackle man.
Speaker 1: He has a chance to, you know, potentially crack the
Speaker 1: lineup if he keeps going the way he's going. He's
Speaker 1: really adept at getting a quick kickslide that puts him
Speaker 1: in position to you know, process the pass rush, allows
Speaker 1: him to keep getting depth around the arc or to
Speaker 1: redirect inside. I just kind of feel like your best
Speaker 1: option might be a sturting veteran to help you know,
Speaker 1: both Edges for two and Tron and Kendall Lamb's a
Speaker 1: lot of experience out there and guys that have almost
Speaker 1: what twenty years combine experience. He had a really good
Speaker 1: day of work today. I thought James Tunstall and Ryan
Speaker 1: Hayes had their best days. The seventh round draft pick
Speaker 1: and u DFA that I think both have the makeup
Speaker 1: to play in this league. At tight end, Julian Hill
Speaker 1: had some impressive work in the running game, and Durham
Speaker 1: Smyth I think caught the most passes I've seen today
Speaker 1: of any day, three or four by my account. For
Speaker 1: Durham Smyth, Waddle receiver was just the man. He caught
Speaker 1: a billion balls for two billion yards. Does that every
Speaker 1: single day, just the way he feels space on its
Speaker 1: zone and kind of knows when to accelerate and decelerate
Speaker 1: into certain spots of the field, the plan that he
Speaker 1: has when it's man coverage with his release pack. He
Speaker 1: ran one route against outside leverage which tries to wall
Speaker 1: off the outside part of the field and hes still
Speaker 1: won to that part of the field. That's like the
Speaker 1: thing to look for for receivers and route running. Can
Speaker 1: you get where they don't want you to go and
Speaker 1: win and get a catch with him? It's emphatically a yes.
Speaker 1: On one of the first plays of the day, Tyreek
Speaker 1: caught a quick hitter from Mike White like a little
Speaker 1: catch rock throw slamp, and I'm pretty sure it was
Speaker 1: an eighty six yard touchdown. With eighty of those yards
Speaker 1: coming after the catch. I don't think anyboy's gonna catch him,
Speaker 1: and he was kind of split in some of those
Speaker 1: soft zones they were throwing at him today. Daywood Davis
Speaker 1: made some plays in the one on ones. I think
Speaker 1: show you the build in burset combo that he offers
Speaker 1: and makes him an intriguing player. Looking at Chose, and
Speaker 1: Anderson just hasn't really been that involved in the team period.
Speaker 1: If I had to guess right now, I think your
Speaker 1: top options based on performance between or I should say
Speaker 1: beyond ten and sevent team would be Azukama, Barrios, Craycraft,
Speaker 1: and Wilson for me in that order. But what the
Speaker 1: hell do I know flipping over the defense here. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and kick this off with Jaaln Phillips, who
Speaker 1: delivered an important message to us at the start of
Speaker 1: his press conference.
Speaker 3: I know I sports a few guys yesterday, but real
Speaker 3: quick just wanted to make a little announcement, so dc
Speaker 3: C registration open today. It's gonna be I think it's
Speaker 3: the fourteenth annual. Fourteenth annual, so it's gonna be on
Speaker 3: February twenty fourth next year. Obviously, DCC is an amazing
Speaker 3: cause doing cancer research for Sylvester, and you know, all
Speaker 3: of us have either been affected directly or I've had
Speaker 3: a loved one somebody they know affected by cancer. So
Speaker 3: if you guys can spread the word for me, I'll
Speaker 3: be serving as a board member for the second consecutive
Speaker 3: year and obviously participating in the ride this year as well.
Speaker 3: So a lot of fun things happening, a lot of
Speaker 3: money going to a great cause. So if you guys
Speaker 3: could help share that information of a great.
Speaker 1: While you decided to join the board and why.
Speaker 3: It's so important to you, Yeah, so I mean me personally,
Speaker 3: I've had several family members both die and be affected
Speaker 3: by cancer, and so for me it was important to
Speaker 3: join the board. I think it's a great initiative and
Speaker 3: to be able to you know, represent my team and
Speaker 3: show what the Dolphins do as a community and you know,
Speaker 3: the efforts that we make. It was just important for
Speaker 3: me to do. So it's really the least I can do, honestly.
Speaker 1: Going back to a question that was posted to Jalen
Speaker 1: about something Mike McDaniel had mentioned, and I think that
Speaker 1: Phillips is maybe having the best camp of anybody at
Speaker 1: that position, and a group that might have the best
Speaker 1: overall position group so far through six practices. And you know,
Speaker 1: McDaniel mentioned that something about the edges and how tough
Speaker 1: they make things on the offense and how they're difficult
Speaker 1: to prepare for because they can do really anything they want.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk about Chubb and Phillips here in just
Speaker 1: a second, but JP also gave us a full circle
Speaker 1: commentary here. Let's go ahead and hear from JP on
Speaker 1: just that I mean, not whatever we want.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, There's there's limitations obviously, but
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, I think
Speaker 3: there's obviously a little bit of freedom within the constraints
Speaker 3: of our defense. And I think that's one really cool
Speaker 3: thing about you know, this year, being able to use
Speaker 3: our athleticism and really just attack them in different ways.
Speaker 3: I would also say the same thing for our offense too.
Speaker 3: I mean, not that they can do whatever they want,
Speaker 3: but they're very multiple and so you know, it gives
Speaker 3: us a lot of challenging looks and really trains our eyes.
Speaker 1: Just continue to be so impressed with both the person
Speaker 1: and the player here with getting phllips, but also how
Speaker 1: the edge in these practices have been so solidified so
Speaker 1: consistently in the running game, especially between fifteen and two,
Speaker 1: and the way they operate together. It looks so intentional
Speaker 1: in the system for how they've gotten things funneled back
Speaker 1: inside to a group of linebackers who are fast, instinctive,
Speaker 1: and explosive. You just kind of see eleven guys playing together.
Speaker 1: We heard two of talk about communication earlier. That kind
Speaker 1: of tracks that way. More on that on a big
Speaker 1: day from Changing Tendall later on. But perhaps my favorite
Speaker 1: development from camp so far has been Bradley Chubb working
Speaker 1: in space and playing backwards. We know what he can
Speaker 1: do from a rusher run defender standpoint, but with all
Speaker 1: these athletic quarterbacks, who can you know, mitigate immediate pass
Speaker 1: rush wins by side stepping and then going sand lot ball.
Speaker 1: I think the Dolphins have an answer for those quarterbacks
Speaker 1: trying to burn you in the way that Fields did
Speaker 1: last year or the way that Josh Allen tends to do.
Speaker 1: We have those classic VIC three down, you know, fronts
Speaker 1: with a true five man front with the outside linebackers
Speaker 1: coming up that we've seen over the years. You know,
Speaker 1: you just never know who's coming and who's dropping, and
Speaker 1: they can get a spy roll from one of those
Speaker 1: five because you bring four true pass rushers and drop
Speaker 1: onto a spy. And with Chubb and Phillips both working
Speaker 1: in coverage but also playing a spy, I think you
Speaker 1: kind of erased the athletic ability of the quarterback because
Speaker 1: both those guys can match the athletic ability of those quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Let so go ahead and finished up here with Phillips
Speaker 1: in the segment that I think says a lot about
Speaker 1: the kind of person and ultimately the player the JP is.
Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned my themes earlier in the podcast,
Speaker 1: and one of those was how close JP was to
Speaker 1: double digit sacks last year, and maybe even closer to
Speaker 1: the teams like fifteen than it was ten. Like the
Speaker 1: Week eighteen game, for instance, Joe Flacco had the lowest
Speaker 1: average time to throw in the league by a player
Speaker 1: all year in that one game, and our cornerback room
Speaker 1: was so banged up, and I think that contributed to
Speaker 1: Phillips having potential sacks, maybe even game changing strip sacks
Speaker 1: turn into quarterback hits, which are good, but they do
Speaker 1: not impact the game the way sacks do. But rather
Speaker 1: than just say, well, the coverage will probably be better.
Speaker 1: So it's all I had to do to get better
Speaker 1: this year, JP said, no, I can do things and
Speaker 1: make it better on my own. Right, here's Jalen Phillips.
Speaker 3: You know, I think I'm trying to keep improving, honestly,
Speaker 3: But one thing I've been working on this offseason is
Speaker 3: just you know, came on my hands, on my technique
Speaker 3: in general, on my bend, top of the rush, things
Speaker 3: like that. You know, this this game is really a
Speaker 3: game of interest, and I think a lot of my
Speaker 3: pressures last year, if I had just been a little
Speaker 3: bit better with my hips, with my hands, with my feet,
Speaker 3: that could have turned those into sacks. So that's something
Speaker 3: I'm you know, steady trying to improve on, and you know,
Speaker 3: try to be a technician really massive the art pass rushing.
Speaker 1: And there he goes, let's go ahead and finish up
Speaker 1: on the other side of the break, and hear from
Speaker 1: Emmanuel Ogba and Deshaun Elliott that's next Draft Time podcast,
Speaker 1: your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation,
Speaker 1: picking it back up for segment number three on a Tuesday,
Speaker 1: August the first. Let's go ahead and stay with that
Speaker 1: edge group and Emmanuel Ogba, who was asked about Durham
Speaker 1: Smith's comments earlier this week about how tough that edge
Speaker 1: group is to deal with on a daily basis, and
Speaker 1: the question was put to e man, just how good
Speaker 1: can you guys be.
Speaker 5: As good as good as we want to be. You know,
Speaker 5: we have definitely a bunch of talented rushers, you know,
Speaker 5: got outside inside. You know, Christian doing this thing, you know,
Speaker 5: Zach doing this thing, and Ray Kwan even rushing good too.
Speaker 5: You know, we all can rush at different positions.
Speaker 1: Speaking of those guys, Christian Wilkins had a Christian Wilkins day.
Speaker 1: He's been so consistent all camp long. So is Zach.
Speaker 1: Zach made some plays in the running game where I
Speaker 1: thought he was good back and forth in terms of
Speaker 1: the O and the defense winning in the interior running game.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the linebackers here and start with David Long,
Speaker 1: because Emmanuel Ogbach gave us some insight into how good
Speaker 1: David Long has been playing and what he's meant to
Speaker 1: the defense so far six days through camp.
Speaker 5: Oh, he's a good leader for he's fast, fast off
Speaker 5: the ball, he moves very well. I would like I'll say, well,
Speaker 5: yesterday he had a one play he just came down
Speaker 5: he dipped on Li and came downhill and smacked the
Speaker 5: running back. And we like that from our lineback especially
Speaker 5: the D line, you knowing the when of those guys
Speaker 5: come and get those double teams off of us.
Speaker 1: So Long leads the way. But there's a theme with
Speaker 1: these linebackers, man, like, gosh, they're good. I mentioned the
Speaker 1: strong edges we've been getting, you know from our guys,
Speaker 1: the strong edges of the running game we've been getting
Speaker 1: from the guys outside. He really puts a spotlight on
Speaker 1: the speed we have on the inside because Long has
Speaker 1: been doing it all through the first week, flowing to
Speaker 1: those wide runs, finding the right gap, shooting it clean
Speaker 1: and tagging off for a big play. But today Channing
Speaker 1: Tendall was one of the guys I thought kind of
Speaker 1: won the day. Like his speed is shining and we
Speaker 1: knew that he had that, but I think another year
Speaker 1: in the league has allowed him to really access that
Speaker 1: speed and get downhill without having to think so much
Speaker 1: compared to what you might have seen, you know, a
Speaker 1: year ago. He's not late to the party, he's not
Speaker 1: overrunning stuff. I just really like what I've seen from
Speaker 1: this group in terms of both the top end guys
Speaker 1: and the depth you might have this year. And also
Speaker 1: Aubrey Miller, the rookie, has made some plays as well.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and finish up on the back end
Speaker 1: of the podcast here with the Shawn Elliott, who I've
Speaker 1: been noticing right around the football at the catch point
Speaker 1: the last few days, including a play where two A
Speaker 1: fired one to Ingld downfield for about thirty or so
Speaker 1: yards and Elliott was right there for what could have
Speaker 1: been a big pop based upon what we saw from
Speaker 1: him in Detroit and Baltimore alike. Of course, we take
Speaker 1: care of our own guys here, so no hit there,
Speaker 1: but he's constantly put himself in position to impact the
Speaker 1: catch point and the football. Right away, we talked to
Speaker 1: Sean Elliot what he's noticed from the Dolphins defense.
Speaker 6: I would say it's very complex. If be're outworking, striving
Speaker 6: to be great, then you won't be able to play
Speaker 6: on his defense, and I'm still trying to get the
Speaker 6: kings out of it, but every day trying to get
Speaker 6: better at one percent, so we'll be okay. I think
Speaker 6: it's a safety way of defense, and you're gonna keep
Speaker 6: working on our butts off to be the best version
Speaker 6: of ourselves.
Speaker 3: As we can.
Speaker 1: Deshaun's a character, a very fun interview every single time
Speaker 1: he gets to the podium. So go check him out
Speaker 1: if you have not done so on the team YouTube
Speaker 1: channel already. See we had Javon Holland in the Orange Jersey.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: This dude is really really good. He worked with the
Speaker 1: corners in one on ones day, which I think speaks
Speaker 1: to his ability to be in coverage. He's making plays,
Speaker 1: you know, with regularity in that regard, but also coming
Speaker 1: down and fitting the run from depth. I think he's
Speaker 1: kind of a chess piece do you have in that backfield,
Speaker 1: you know, to kind of replace what Rams he could
Speaker 1: have been for you with all the things that he
Speaker 1: can do. And Deshaun Elliott told us he thinks that
Speaker 1: Javon Holland has a chance to be a breakout player
Speaker 1: of the Year this year, and move is winning the
Speaker 1: Top one hundred list. All that fun stuff. He also
Speaker 1: said that he's learned a lot from DeShawn his time here,
Speaker 1: even though he's a younger player, which is really cool
Speaker 1: to hear. And I think that's a great place to
Speaker 1: end it right there. So fun stuff from the entire roster.
Speaker 1: It's been a fun six days so far. Take Wednesday off,
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Speaker 6: Mhm