Speaker 1: To on remove going deep speedways. Peace do hellas.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 4: He's got my advands in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up, Dolph fans? And welcome to the Drive
Speaker 2: Time Podcast. I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on
Speaker 2: today's show, practice number twelve, the second joint practice of
Speaker 2: the camp are in the books?
Speaker 3: Is in the books.
Speaker 2: We'll take you through a sloppy day and talk about
Speaker 2: process over results. Plus Malik Washington shines why River Craycraft
Speaker 2: is so valuable and another rant on what training camp
Speaker 2: and this team are and is from the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 5: This is.
Speaker 2: The Draft Time Podcast, all right. I had a segment
Speaker 2: that I wanted to open the show with here with
Speaker 2: regards to a deep ball that Tua threw to Tyreek
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and after having seen the clips of the
Speaker 2: play from the fans, which again shouldn't be taken videos,
Speaker 2: but in this instance, it was kind of nice to
Speaker 2: get a chance to break down a play film wise.
Speaker 2: And I have some thoughts that I think will excite
Speaker 2: Dolphins fans with regards to that throw and what exactly
Speaker 2: it means going forward. But first, I try not to
Speaker 2: let Twitter interactions impact the show and the course of
Speaker 2: the show rundown and what we talk about here, but
Speaker 2: it's a little bit tough to ignore today. So we're
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and open the show with that. And
Speaker 2: I was tagged in a tweet under Dougley doo Wrong's
Speaker 2: tweet about his concern over the offensive line is a
Speaker 2: Dolphins YouTuber and all around great dude and somebody who
Speaker 2: has carved out a substantial audience in this space for
Speaker 2: what he does on his channel. So he tweeted out
Speaker 2: that he was concerned about the offensive line and somebody
Speaker 2: tagged me in it, and I just said, well, it
Speaker 2: was the number one offense in the NFL last year,
Speaker 2: and that's when I unleashed a hell storm of replies
Speaker 2: in my direction. And I don't want to reply to
Speaker 2: those guys on Twitter because I think if you come
Speaker 2: at me in that way, then you probably don't listen
Speaker 2: to the podcast where I explain my thoughts far more
Speaker 2: thoroughly than I do on a social media platform that
Speaker 2: has been bought and has been purchased by a lunatic
Speaker 2: to you know what, let's not even go there. I
Speaker 2: just don't think it's valuable to put all of my
Speaker 2: information and thoughts and takes on Twitter, because this is
Speaker 2: the space where fans that really want to know and
Speaker 2: learn and grow and here for me will come to
Speaker 2: get this type of content. So we've talked about it
Speaker 2: all off season. Right in the NFL, you have finite
Speaker 2: amount of resources, and you have to pick and choose
Speaker 2: where you allocate those resources on your roster and in
Speaker 2: this system, with this team and the other branches of
Speaker 2: this offense, in this system, the San Francisco and Green
Speaker 2: Bay branches, the area that is often pulled from in
Speaker 2: order to pay your skill players, which are the ones
Speaker 2: that make the offense go, is the interior offensive line.
Speaker 2: And I keep seeing this concern over the offensive line,
Speaker 2: a lack of trust into what Chris were talked about
Speaker 2: last year with we are far less concerned about the
Speaker 2: offensive line than you guys are. And the reason for that,
Speaker 2: I say this so many times that I'm blue in
Speaker 2: the face, is this offensive system schemes around perceived deficiencies
Speaker 2: or perhaps the lack of resources poured into those position groups.
Speaker 2: And that's why I always say, like, hey, they were
Speaker 2: the number one offense in the NFL last year. That's
Speaker 2: pretty good. And then of course the replies are, well,
Speaker 2: what about the offensive line broke down late in the
Speaker 2: season and they couldn't be as successful. Well, if you
Speaker 2: go out and you sign Rob Hunt, who missed five
Speaker 2: games last year, if you go out and you acquire
Speaker 2: the best center and guard combination on the market for
Speaker 2: twenty and eighteen million dollars, you can wave goodbye a
Speaker 2: Jaalen Waddle. You can probably say goodbye to Jalen Phillips
Speaker 2: when his contract comes up, because you're putting the money
Speaker 2: in those positions, and those positions in this offense are
Speaker 2: I hate using this term, but I'm going to be
Speaker 2: totally frank with you. They're least important in the entire
Speaker 2: system because and I saw you guys, not you guys.
Speaker 2: I should stop saying that. The replies at me in
Speaker 2: that particular instance were, well, it would be nice. I
Speaker 2: know that Tua gets the ball out quicker than anybody else,
Speaker 2: but it would be nice to not have to rely
Speaker 2: on that stuff.
Speaker 3: That's why they can do it.
Speaker 2: That's why they can do it because of their quarterback
Speaker 2: and his superhuman skill at getting the football out of
Speaker 2: his hands quickly, and they scheme around it. They know
Speaker 2: they're mismatch in terms of how the pass rush gets
Speaker 2: after the offensive line every single week in the NFL,
Speaker 2: at every single position for ever single team, and so
Speaker 2: their answer is to get better skill players to help
Speaker 2: elevate what this offense can be with a quick passing
Speaker 2: attack and why Tua is so valuable to it. Do
Speaker 2: I agree that it would be nice to have a
Speaker 2: better semblance of pass protection in front of Tua at
Speaker 2: all times?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do, But I also understand you can't have the
Speaker 2: game's best receivers, the game's best cornerbacks, arguably the best
Speaker 2: edge group in the National Football League, and a highly
Speaker 2: paid quarterback was a top ten quarterback and the best
Speaker 2: stable of running backs. You can't have all of those
Speaker 2: and then also have the best defensive tackles and the
Speaker 2: best guards. Like you can't have the best of everything.
Speaker 2: This is not Manchester United, this is not the New
Speaker 2: York Yankees. You have to allocate your resources. So they
Speaker 2: told you how they felt about certain positions with their
Speaker 2: approach this offseason.
Speaker 3: Did they not do that? They did?
Speaker 2: They let go a very very good guard, and they
Speaker 2: let go of one of the game's best defensive tackles,
Speaker 2: and they went out and drafted an offensive tackle, they
Speaker 2: went out and drafted an edge rusher, and they've been
Speaker 2: drafting those spots and receivers and quarterbacks and corners and
Speaker 2: paying those positions accordingly. So when you watch this offense
Speaker 2: gain four hundred yards in a game, which, by the way,
Speaker 2: someone so cal Derek replied to that saying their number
Speaker 2: one offense because of the Denver game. Yeah, every team
Speaker 2: has their best game of the season. Remove everybody else's
Speaker 2: best game. I freaking hate that argument. We're gonna be
Speaker 2: ranting today, guys, but I just can't fathom this concept
Speaker 2: of the four hundred yards per game. The thirty points
Speaker 2: per game wasn't good enough. I don't understand what plan
Speaker 2: that exists on. And when you point to the injuries
Speaker 2: late in the season they had on the offensive line, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they achieved all that despite the fact that Rob Hunt,
Speaker 2: Connor Williams, and Isaiah Winn played a combined twelve hundred
Speaker 2: out of thirty three hundred possible snaps for those three
Speaker 2: interior offensive line positions. And so when I make a
Speaker 2: comment and I tell you, like, just relax, it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Just trust me. I'm saying that from a place of
Speaker 2: knowledge and work.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: I listen, I talk to people, I know things. So
Speaker 2: when you call me a whole umer for trying to
Speaker 2: convey that message, gosh, it gets under my skin.
Speaker 3: It's intentional.
Speaker 2: So when I you know, I just think that I
Speaker 2: really wish I could kind of open the kimono and
Speaker 2: show you guys the lack of concern that there is
Speaker 2: about things like that that Twitter and the fan base
Speaker 2: is all up in arms about over one joint practice,
Speaker 2: which shouldn't even be a measuring stick that you use
Speaker 2: as a barometer. Because I can go back to last
Speaker 2: year and I saw all the tweets at me again,
Speaker 2: I can pull up each one of those accounts and
Speaker 2: find the tweet last year about how the season was
Speaker 2: over when Tron arms I went down, or how the
Speaker 2: season was over when Rob Hunt went down, and.
Speaker 3: Was it No, it wasn't.
Speaker 2: They still piled up points and had a forty five
Speaker 2: point output against Washington in December with a banged up
Speaker 2: offensive line, a thirty six point output without Tron Armstead
Speaker 2: at left tackle in that season opener, So I just
Speaker 2: it drives me nuts. I just I guess I just
Speaker 2: am asking for trust on this stuff, like it's gonna
Speaker 2: be fine. Okay, it is going to be fine. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and pivot off of that. That didn't really,
Speaker 2: I guess I didn't scratch the it's the way I
Speaker 2: was hoping it would. But we'll go ahead and continue
Speaker 2: on here with what I wanted to open the show with,
Speaker 2: and what it was was the long ball from Tua
Speaker 2: to Tyreek to kick off Tuesday's practice, and having a
Speaker 2: chance to go back and watch that on a replay
Speaker 2: gave me the opportunity to dissect what defense it was,
Speaker 2: the route that it was, the concept, and all that
Speaker 2: fun stuff. And what I came back with was a
Speaker 2: very exciting development for Dolphins fans everywhere. And it plays
Speaker 2: into this whole concept of overplay and the concept of
Speaker 2: expand the offense and emphasizing things that maybe teams weren't
Speaker 2: worried about last year, or that they could take away
Speaker 2: from you by rolling certain coverages and looks. And what
Speaker 2: I'm getting at here is something I've covered on the
Speaker 2: podcast a million times. It's that Tua's best deep shots
Speaker 2: are the boundary side X takeoff, which is a shorter throw. Right,
Speaker 2: it's a condensed part of the field. It's the you know,
Speaker 2: you have the wide side of the field and the
Speaker 2: short side. He can throw that perimeter deep shot to
Speaker 2: the short side of the field very effectively. And when
Speaker 2: he throws the deep ball to the field typically in
Speaker 2: the past, go to the Jets game, go look at
Speaker 2: the Sauce Gardner catch that Waddle had.
Speaker 3: It's usually a slot fade, a slot takeoff.
Speaker 2: It's a shorter field, a shorter throw once again than
Speaker 2: it is if you throw to the one receiver to
Speaker 2: the field, which is the furthest split receiver to the
Speaker 2: wide side of the field.
Speaker 3: What does that mean.
Speaker 2: It's just a further throw. So if you go back
Speaker 2: and watch that play again, what are the falcons in?
Speaker 2: They roll man free coverage and they present a too
Speaker 2: high structure and the weak side safety, the boundary side
Speaker 2: safety rolls into a robber position to run with the
Speaker 2: two receiver from the field who's coming across the formation.
Speaker 3: Are you still with me?
Speaker 2: Essentially, they want to take away and double that post
Speaker 2: route inside because that's a tough ask for a nickel
Speaker 2: cornerback who has a two way go in that position,
Speaker 2: and what you have to sacrifice to get that double
Speaker 2: team is giving Tyreek Hill one on one without safety help.
Speaker 2: And so when Omar tells you there's no safety help here,
Speaker 2: I am telling you why they got that and why
Speaker 2: it's such a valuable thing to hit that pass because
Speaker 2: in the past, defenses didn't worry about that because TWA
Speaker 2: wasn't making that throw. But what I saw was a
Speaker 2: perfectly placed, perfectly launched, great trajectory deep ball that hit
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill and stride to the field to the perimeter
Speaker 2: fifty yards down the field, which is the strongest throw
Speaker 2: I've ever seen him make in his entire career. So
Speaker 2: go ahead and double the post to Waddle on that
Speaker 2: deep crosser. It wasn't Wattle in the play, but in
Speaker 2: the season it will be go ahead and leave Tyreek
Speaker 2: Hill one on one there. Because in the past you
Speaker 2: thought two was not making that throw, Well now he is. Okay,
Speaker 2: now he does that, and that's going to impact the
Speaker 2: way defenses have to play their shells, how they have
Speaker 2: to rotate their coverage. And that's what this entire offseason
Speaker 2: has been about, is finding those ways to tilt the
Speaker 2: coverage different from what teams adjusted last year. It's the
Speaker 2: exact same thing as the Chargers game in twenty twenty
Speaker 2: two when the Chargers played that two man coverage and
Speaker 2: we couldn't get off the initial press and couldn't find
Speaker 2: the gaps in between. And what do we do in
Speaker 2: the open last year but run up and down the
Speaker 2: field on that sorry defense with some time to adjust
Speaker 2: and prepare. You don't think McDaniel has the exact same
Speaker 2: thing cooked up in his like every September we come
Speaker 2: out the last two years and we rose teams offensively
Speaker 2: to kick off the season.
Speaker 3: Do you think it's by accident?
Speaker 2: Or is it because we have one of the most
Speaker 2: innovative play callers and play designers in the entire league
Speaker 2: and a coaching staff that supports him in the same way?
Speaker 2: Like what, it drives me nuts that we collectively and again,
Speaker 2: maybe the royal we of Twitter is the wrong way
Speaker 2: to approach this, but I'm doing it anyways. Why are
Speaker 2: we not more inclined to trust that than what you
Speaker 2: might have seen from three accounts that tweet about plays
Speaker 2: at practice on August the seventh?
Speaker 3: Why do we care about that? It drives me nuts?
Speaker 2: And so all I've seen all camp long is this
Speaker 2: building and evolving and development of an offense that already
Speaker 2: knows what they have in their bread and butter. What's
Speaker 2: the point of running the bread and butter stuff every
Speaker 2: single damn play to get production at practice?
Speaker 3: It does you no good.
Speaker 2: So we're using these practices to try to expand the
Speaker 2: things we didn't do well a year ago. That's the
Speaker 2: benefit of having continuity. And I know the Dolphins haven't
Speaker 2: had continuity, so you don't know what that's like. And
Speaker 2: I don't know what that's like either, But now I'm
Speaker 2: seeing what it's like. And the impact is trying to
Speaker 2: stretch things to its absolute maximum, to expand everything you're
Speaker 2: capable of in the offense. And our quarterback got better
Speaker 2: to do that. We went out and signed pieces at
Speaker 2: tight end and running back or drafted a running back
Speaker 2: to do that. We drafted a receiver who can expand
Speaker 2: our options to do that stuff as well.
Speaker 3: The vision is so clear to me.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I can say it drive me nuts,
Speaker 2: but that one play was a good example of how
Speaker 2: this team just has more options on this plate offensively,
Speaker 2: and the production you're getting in training camp shouldn't matter
Speaker 2: one iota because what they're trying to do is give
Speaker 2: themselves the biggest menu possible to make defensive coordinators say, oh,
Speaker 2: they can do that on top of what they did
Speaker 2: last year when they led the NFL in yardage. That's
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to convey to you, guys, like it
Speaker 2: is going to be fine come the regular season. Please
Speaker 2: trust me on that. One other thing I wanted to
Speaker 2: address here was somebody asked me on Twitter. I'm sorry
Speaker 2: I didn't catch your name, and I don't want to
Speaker 2: go back to my mentions a game because they're an
Speaker 2: S show today. But somebody asked me, you mentioned that,
Speaker 2: like the fifth most important trait for a quarterback? What
Speaker 2: do you view as the or the sixth most? What
Speaker 2: do you view as the five more important ones ahead
Speaker 2: of that number one? Can you understand and execute the
Speaker 2: offense by the way it's called. Can you get your
Speaker 2: shifts and motions and your cadence and get the ball
Speaker 2: to the right position. Can you make your line checks?
Speaker 2: Can you see the field and process pre snap the
Speaker 2: way a head coach or a play caller would That's
Speaker 2: number one. If you can't do that in the National
Speaker 2: Football League, you'll never play. That's why Josh Rosen was
Speaker 2: the worst quarterback we've probably ever seen in this league.
Speaker 2: He couldn't do that. He couldn't do any of it.
Speaker 2: Number two is your accuracy. If you can put the
Speaker 2: football where it needs to be and when it needs
Speaker 2: to be there, that is going to go way further
Speaker 2: than anything else you can possibly do. And number three
Speaker 2: that teams up with that is the ability to anticipate,
Speaker 2: and that's a collection of skills. It's processing post snap,
Speaker 2: it's anticipation or knowledge of coverage and how certain coverages
Speaker 2: roll against your passing concepts. All of this stuff is
Speaker 2: between the ears that pairs with your accuracy. For our
Speaker 2: first three segment of that, my fourth one is probably
Speaker 2: elusiveness and creation and playmaking off script because I think
Speaker 2: that that creates more broken plays and gives your playmakers
Speaker 2: more chances to expand upon, you know, outside of structure,
Speaker 2: which is the most important thing, I would say creating
Speaker 2: space and creating plays, and then after that would probably
Speaker 2: be arm strength. So I guess that's kind of a
Speaker 2: crash course on it. If I spent more time on
Speaker 2: it and kind of evolved or relayed to you, guys,
Speaker 2: I should say my thoughts on that. You might get
Speaker 2: a bit of a different answer, but those are the
Speaker 2: things that stand way more important and why I think
Speaker 2: two was a better quarterback than some of these quarterbacks
Speaker 2: that have these physical traits but don't have the quarterback
Speaker 2: ability to play the position the right way and execute
Speaker 2: an offense. Okay, go Lee, It's gonna be a long
Speaker 2: one today. I want to get to our first couple
Speaker 2: of news items here deep into the podcast. So the
Speaker 2: Dolphins signed Mike Harley Junior from the U and released
Speaker 2: Chase and Hines, who just never really clicked. He had
Speaker 2: a really rough day on Tuesday, and I'm sure that
Speaker 2: that wasn't the only reason why he was released, but
Speaker 2: he had a rough day of practice against the Falcons
Speaker 2: in Day one. McDaniel did give us some good news
Speaker 2: with regards to injuries. He touched on the absences of
Speaker 2: Jalen Waddle and Braxton Barrios and even expanded to Jordan
Speaker 2: Poyer a blanket answer on all these guys that includes
Speaker 2: Jordan Brooks and Anthony Walker that he said there are
Speaker 2: some minor things going on, but not long term concerns,
Speaker 2: which is obviously fantastic to hear. We also got confirmation
Speaker 2: from Poyer's wife that he's going to be fine, so
Speaker 2: that's also cool to hear.
Speaker 3: I love.
Speaker 2: Can we get some more wives that have injury intel
Speaker 2: for us online?
Speaker 3: That would be cool. I like that. Now.
Speaker 2: Aaron Brewer did exit practice with an apparent injury on Wednesday.
Speaker 2: I'll get you guys more on that as we have
Speaker 2: some clarity on it. Here's what I saw in terms
Speaker 2: of how it played out. He went back into the
Speaker 2: Baptist Health Hospital, which is right next door to our
Speaker 2: facility here, came back out and was watching practice for
Speaker 2: a moment. He had his helmet in his left hand
Speaker 2: and was looking at the right hand, so I assume
Speaker 2: that's where the injury occurred. And he was walking off
Speaker 2: with Kyle Johnston when ron Dell Moore went down at
Speaker 2: the end of practice and had the devastating leg injury
Speaker 2: that he suffered in this practice, and they were going
Speaker 2: to go back off, but they kind of waited, so
Speaker 2: I don't know. It didn't seem like it was crazy serious,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to speculate any further than that
Speaker 2: because all I had was my account from you know,
Speaker 2: fifteen rows up in the bleachers. Whatever it is, So okay,
Speaker 2: let's kind of continue my diatribe there of just ranting
Speaker 2: with the concept of process over results, which is obviously
Speaker 2: one of my favorite terms in the show. But McDaniel
Speaker 2: at his press conference on Wednesday use that term, but
Speaker 2: he also expanded upon it more. And I just think
Speaker 2: that this should be gospel with regards to what you
Speaker 2: take away from a single joint practice.
Speaker 3: I will say that's off the top.
Speaker 2: The results weren't good today, they weren't yesterday. They were
Speaker 2: today they were not, but there's no scoreboard in August,
Speaker 2: right again. Players take this time to tinker with their
Speaker 2: game to try to find out where they can get better.
Speaker 2: Coaches are not going to game plan in a way
Speaker 2: that's designed to deceive you, which you'll hear from coach
Speaker 2: right here. I just really really want to reinforce that
Speaker 2: point and try my best to convey what you should
Speaker 2: make of these training camp practices. It's not like watching
Speaker 2: a game. It's not black and white. Let's go to
Speaker 2: coach who can hopefully help us tie together this first
Speaker 2: segment a little bit better, maybe even than I could.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: The you know, the the the mindset, is isn't totally
Speaker 5: to to be unpredictable. The mindset is to be able
Speaker 5: to with conviction, you know, make make a defense or
Speaker 5: an offense really as an offense defend the whole field
Speaker 5: and as a defense can press the field. And within
Speaker 5: that you're trying to assert something and then force the
Speaker 5: the the opponent to stop that. And the ways they
Speaker 5: stop that are you take advantage of that overplay literally
Speaker 5: on all phases. It's that but that's what we're doing.
Speaker 5: So from a from a joint practice perspective, you get
Speaker 5: different players utilizing different techniques within a different scheme. So
Speaker 5: you can apply your techniques and fundamentals and your scheme, however,
Speaker 5: your scheme is evolving to how how defensive or offenses
Speaker 5: are playing. You can It's a great opportunity you have to.
Speaker 5: You know, there is a competitive advantage when you're finding
Speaker 5: new tools, uh schematically that you don't want your your
Speaker 5: opponents to totally be able to dive into. And you
Speaker 5: know what those are and how how big of a
Speaker 5: piece they are. You know, it's up to you know
Speaker 5: that the scriptors and what you put on the on
Speaker 5: the paper. But uh, working with the Atlanta Falcons is
Speaker 5: a and and specifically you know Raheem Morris and my
Speaker 5: relationship with him. It's helpful in that we can we
Speaker 5: cannot worry about some of the nuances that that you
Speaker 5: might worry with an unknown coaching staff or people that
Speaker 5: you don't have as strong relationships with, So you can
Speaker 5: just really put your scheme and what individual players are
Speaker 5: working on and what you're working on as a group.
Speaker 5: You can just really apply it without hesitation in situations
Speaker 5: like that. And that's kind of really the way we
Speaker 5: we utilize this opportunity both you know, both teams. In
Speaker 5: talking to Raheem, it's it's a it's a really cool
Speaker 5: opportunity to solve problems that you can take out of
Speaker 5: of all your lists of problems that you have to
Speaker 5: solve during the season, whether that's different rules, whether that's
Speaker 5: success or failure. There's a really really good stuff to
Speaker 5: get out of these things, and yesterday was one of
Speaker 5: those days that we got some good stuff out of it.
Speaker 2: I want to run two more audio clips here before
Speaker 2: I get to my notes, But it felt like, you know,
Speaker 2: we had a twenty year doctor a PhD dissertation from
Speaker 2: the expert in the room. I think that when he talks,
Speaker 2: we should listen to that guy.
Speaker 3: But what do I know.
Speaker 2: Here's coach on what he saw day one and as
Speaker 2: looking for from the defense in general.
Speaker 5: You know, okay, so on on on defense, I saw
Speaker 5: a spirit that I was very very confident in. But
Speaker 5: you don't know until you actually face a different squad
Speaker 5: and that spirit, energy and standard of play, you know
Speaker 5: that it's something that was really cool and definitely ever,
Speaker 5: it was definitely present throughout the practice. You look at
Speaker 5: this the first place of the last and and there
Speaker 5: was some real cool, fun football being played in that way.
Speaker 5: And I thought, you know, I think the connectivity you know,
Speaker 5: from Anthony Weaver down on the coaching staff to the players,
Speaker 5: and that that immersed common one common goal with with
Speaker 5: complete connectivity. It was on display and I was pumped with.
Speaker 2: That and that spirit he talks about there, Man, it
Speaker 2: was on display and it's it's really really tough, I
Speaker 2: think to match that intensity on back to back days.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a reason the games are every six days, right, Like,
Speaker 2: it's not just the body that needs time to recover
Speaker 2: in this sport, it's the mind and the spirit as well.
Speaker 2: But I think the defense turned it up a little
Speaker 2: bit after a slower start to practice number two, which
Speaker 2: is a great way to kind of kickstart the spirit
Speaker 2: energy after a great day one. It's it's still there,
Speaker 2: we just had to find it a little bit later
Speaker 2: in and sometimes like the Panther game last year, we
Speaker 2: started off slow fourteen to nothing.
Speaker 3: What was the result of that game forty two to
Speaker 3: twenty one.
Speaker 2: I thought the defense kind of had a similar bounce
Speaker 2: back like that game on this practice now. Offensively, I
Speaker 2: thought the Dolphins gave the Falcons work on Day one
Speaker 2: and kind of kicked their butts, but today they are
Speaker 2: rather on Day one, the Dolphins were more physical, were
Speaker 2: more effective, played faster, and I think that today the Falcons,
Speaker 2: who are coached by one of the best defensive minds
Speaker 2: this game has ever seen the last two decades, right,
Speaker 2: I think they were probably challenged to raise their energy level,
Speaker 2: and I think they responded to their head coach. I
Speaker 2: also thought the Dolphins were a bit out of sync,
Speaker 2: which we'll discuss here in a little bit. But I
Speaker 2: want to go back to coach one more time before
Speaker 2: we take our first break on the show here, As
Speaker 2: he talked before practice number two about the offense, and
Speaker 2: just like his answer in the first answer, gosh, if
Speaker 2: you're looking for some answers to read the reports of
Speaker 2: a practice, you did not see this. There is more
Speaker 2: in this sound bite from coach than anywhere else tweets columns.
Speaker 2: I'll even include myself in there after my rank I
Speaker 2: just did. You won't learn more than from this. So
Speaker 2: here is co which on the first day of joint
Speaker 2: practices from the offensive perspective.
Speaker 5: Offensively as the play caller, you you know, understanding how
Speaker 5: unique an opportunity is. I'm looking very specifically for things
Speaker 5: within our game and out on the field. I really
Speaker 5: am not concerned with the result. And in that I
Speaker 5: on the field, I was I was looking at things
Speaker 5: very positive. And then you know, as I looked at
Speaker 5: the tape, you know, I was pumped about the things
Speaker 5: that I was really looking for that were tangible things
Speaker 5: that we've been working on.
Speaker 1: Since since April.
Speaker 5: And and but beyond that, you're also you have expectations
Speaker 5: on things that if you're going to emphasize one thing,
Speaker 5: you know other things are going to be right where
Speaker 5: they should be, which is in a process of development.
Speaker 1: And and so in that your your.
Speaker 5: Expectations are like, huh, I'm expecting me good at something.
Speaker 5: I don't know what what we're not going to be
Speaker 5: good at, and you know, I think they That was
Speaker 5: why I felt supreme conviction, and yesterday was fully utilized
Speaker 5: to the things that there's always things. What you don't
Speaker 5: want to do is feel like you are at full
Speaker 5: strength in your first joint practice. I think each each
Speaker 5: year in this stage, you know, we we've we've been
Speaker 5: We've had some good production against opposing defenses, you know,
Speaker 5: relative to other years. I wasn't really looking at that.
Speaker 5: I was really focused on on how we like, for instance,
Speaker 5: how we block people, and then you know, you block
Speaker 5: people well, but then you have some uh, you know,
Speaker 5: issues from an offensive dropback standpoint where you either don't.
Speaker 1: Like your hot throw or.
Speaker 5: Or you're you're really anticipating blitz from one side and
Speaker 5: it comes from the other. Those things have to be
Speaker 5: ironed out. And that's I don't expect really any week
Speaker 5: one practice to really be anything other than that. So
Speaker 5: it was what I expected. But I was really pumped
Speaker 5: at the stuff that I was looking for. But I'm
Speaker 5: expecting improvement from mistakes yesterday, and you know, the same
Speaker 5: conviction and the same line of scrimmage that I saw
Speaker 5: yesterday's will be important.
Speaker 2: They just don't care about results, man. I think that
Speaker 2: bears repeating. And we've heard them talk about what they
Speaker 2: emphasize all the time, right, So I'll hear criticism if
Speaker 2: you can tell me what they're emphasizing, how that's going,
Speaker 2: the progress within that, and what they're running compared to
Speaker 2: the looks they're getting, because that's what you have to
Speaker 2: know to understand fully what you're seeing on this practice field.
Speaker 2: And that's why I tell you guys like I don't.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's things that I see structurally and schematically that
Speaker 2: I can point out, but for the most part, it's
Speaker 2: just trying to identify one on one skills and talents
Speaker 2: these guys have, and this is a team loaded with talent,
Speaker 2: so I'm not really that concerned about it. But because
Speaker 2: there are, you know, a few pressures in a portion
Speaker 2: of the calendar where there's install happening, I just can't
Speaker 2: take that seriously because look at the other field, and
Speaker 2: you know what, I saw plenty of free runs and pressures.
Speaker 2: Have we ever have we not seen a camp practice
Speaker 2: in the past, Like I know, I'm just on the soapbox.
Speaker 3: But this stuff really annoyed me today.
Speaker 2: Remember back in twenty fifteen when the Panthers had to
Speaker 2: pull Cameron Waken and Dominican Sue and the Dolphins pass
Speaker 2: rush to call the dogs off because they were getting
Speaker 2: so much pressure on Cam Newton the Panthers couldn't get
Speaker 2: their work in.
Speaker 3: Does anybody remember that? I definitely do.
Speaker 2: The Panthers went one or went fifteen and won that
Speaker 2: year and went to the Super Bowl that team. That
Speaker 2: Dolphins team was one in three and fired their head
Speaker 2: coach after four games and was dead in the water.
Speaker 2: Besides a couple of fun games from the Dan Campbell era,
Speaker 2: beyond that, a travesty train wreck of a season. I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm taking crazy pills here. I wish I
Speaker 2: could just show you the calm and the enjoyment I
Speaker 2: saw today from the players in the lunch room having
Speaker 2: their lunch at the cafeteria, enjoying each other's company. I
Speaker 2: saw a quarterback making his cava and swapping stories of
Speaker 2: the podcast are about how tough it is to parent
Speaker 2: a two year old boy. I promise you, guys, the
Speaker 2: only worrying happening right now is the tweets that you
Speaker 2: see that's it doesn't exist in here. We know we're
Speaker 2: a championship contender and this is part of the process.
Speaker 2: And if you refuse to accept that there's going to
Speaker 2: be a tinge of adversity along the way, then this
Speaker 2: ain't the sport for you. Doug go like you gotta
Speaker 2: watch Man United or the New York Yankees, these high
Speaker 2: pay roll teams that drop fifteen points in the season
Speaker 2: because there's no adversity. Football is all about adversity. This
Speaker 2: league is parody. You don't dominate very often. When you do,
Speaker 2: you should enjoy it. And there's a reason this league
Speaker 2: is so popular because games are close, and that's what
Speaker 2: the league is built on, is back and forth competitive
Speaker 2: games everyday. So put your big points, big boy pants on.
Speaker 2: Tough enough, and let's move on to Friday. We have
Speaker 2: a damn football game coming up here. Get excited about that.
Speaker 2: That's it Segment two coming next Drive Time Podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by AutoNation. Okay, was
Speaker 2: that instructive or was that just incessant bitching? You tell me,
Speaker 2: I think it was instructive. Let's go ahead and do
Speaker 2: you some notes here starting at the quarterback position. I
Speaker 2: thought it was another solid day for Mike White. It's
Speaker 2: nice to see him turn it on here this week,
Speaker 2: which I think he's had his best three days this
Speaker 2: week in practice of the entire camp. And that's the
Speaker 2: progression of camp that you should put stock into. You
Speaker 2: don't just you know, discard old reps and say that
Speaker 2: didn't count. But the culmination is improvement, and you are
Speaker 2: starting to play at a level that's consistently above what
Speaker 2: those old practices were, then I think it's easy and
Speaker 2: you should be able to put those older reps kind
Speaker 2: of off to the side and elevate the more current reps.
Speaker 2: And that's a great example of getting to a finish
Speaker 2: line and not bemoaning missed opportunities in the past, which
Speaker 2: we can do that when the calendar turns September. I
Speaker 2: still think about that Titans game all the time, right
Speaker 2: like that was a missed opportunity, But that ain't it
Speaker 2: for this time of year. Man. Mike White drilled some
Speaker 2: really tight window throws a day and looked good. And
Speaker 2: if I'm gonna sit here and tell you about all
Speaker 2: these you know, Tua had one of the best practices
Speaker 2: I've ever seen from him in his life. I thought
Speaker 2: today was one of the lesser showings in terms of
Speaker 2: the results from quarterback one. He just seemed out of
Speaker 2: rhythm today. He missed cray Craft, who came open on
Speaker 2: that bread and butter twenty yard throw between the hash
Speaker 2: marks we always see and like we never see that.
Speaker 2: It's so out of character. He also did run around
Speaker 2: and create a little bit. He got the ball to
Speaker 2: his checkdowns quickly, but just not the same precision and
Speaker 2: on time proficiency we're used to with Tua. He also
Speaker 2: missed River Craycraft on a deep shot double move. And
Speaker 2: that's the thing here, Like the Falcons, dbs were cheating
Speaker 2: all day. They just kept turning or jumping routes, And
Speaker 2: to me, that's part of the dichotomy of a two
Speaker 2: day session. They know what they're going to emphasize, what
Speaker 2: we do well and what we want to get reps on,
Speaker 2: and they're trying to put good tape out there for themselves.
Speaker 2: And Riv hits this double move. The cornerback takes the cheese,
Speaker 2: he gets a step, and River's on a four to
Speaker 2: four guy right, So he's going to have to sell
Speaker 2: you that bill of goods on the end route before
Speaker 2: going back to the vertical to get that two step lead,
Speaker 2: and he did it. We missed the throw, which usually
Speaker 2: we don't miss that throw, and I don't recall seeing
Speaker 2: a lot of that throughout the course of the day.
Speaker 2: It's like Coach said, we aren't running those reps to
Speaker 2: try to beat the Falcons today. We're doing things to
Speaker 2: put ourselves in position to be the best version of
Speaker 2: ourselves come September eighth versus Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: But no picks.
Speaker 2: A couple of sacks, some improvising and some good throws
Speaker 2: on the move, a couple of touchdowns and red zone work,
Speaker 2: but on balance, just not the same performance we can
Speaker 2: typically set our watch to from QB one. I thought
Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson spun the ball pretty good today, but he
Speaker 2: didn't get a ton of help from a supporting cast.
Speaker 2: Durham Smyth dropped a touchdown pass from Mike White. Earlier,
Speaker 2: Jody forts In dropped it. I think Scallar's best throw
Speaker 2: of the day.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: To me, it was just one of those days that
Speaker 2: was uncharacteristic across the board, and my only takeaway is
Speaker 2: your opportunity to come out and do it better next time,
Speaker 2: whether that's Friday night or Monday the next practice. If
Speaker 2: it becomes a trend, then that's when concern creeps in.
Speaker 2: But you have one of these days every five or
Speaker 2: six days in training camp. It's just how it goes.
Speaker 2: It's just how it goes like that's such training camp.
Speaker 3: So I don't know.
Speaker 2: It drives me a little bit crazy, but that continues
Speaker 2: to be part of the die tribe. Let's pivot off
Speaker 2: quarterbacks and move on to receivers. But first, I have
Speaker 2: a lead in here for this segment, so we talk
Speaker 2: about River Craycraft for a little bit here. Orange Jersey
Speaker 2: donned today open all day again. I mean, I just
Speaker 2: I explained this to some people in the stands today.
Speaker 2: The value of Craycraft might not be tangible to the
Speaker 2: naked eye, but I can't tell you how imperative it
Speaker 2: is to have a guy that knows every play, every check,
Speaker 2: every shift, every motion, every mic point, and can do
Speaker 2: it from every single position on the field, not just
Speaker 2: in the sense of the depth that he provides in
Speaker 2: addition to special teams value like what I've just described
Speaker 2: is a perfect number four receiver, which if all goes
Speaker 2: according to plan with Reek Wado Obj that's kind of
Speaker 2: the next spot available right and we have, you know
Speaker 2: the depth chart that came out. We can stack these
Speaker 2: camps and have our opinions on who is where, but
Speaker 2: that's not a set order right now. But if you're
Speaker 2: going to stack them, to me, River would be comfortably
Speaker 2: the number four guy on the team right now. And
Speaker 2: my favorite part, he just continues to assert himself as
Speaker 2: a perimeter blocker, one of the best in the damn
Speaker 2: game at doing that. He escorted Jeff Wilson into the
Speaker 2: end zone today on an outside run where he drove
Speaker 2: the defensive back from the fit which is that red
Speaker 2: line you see on the field. He drove him from
Speaker 2: that position all the way outside the end line or
Speaker 2: the sideline, I should say, the white perimeter and ended
Speaker 2: up on top of the defensive back. You know. His
Speaker 2: French toast day today here for breakfast, but Herbert Craidcraft
Speaker 2: was serving a pancake, so I asked him, what's the
Speaker 2: mindset for the receivers in the blocking game?
Speaker 3: Here in Miami we.
Speaker 4: Take pride in it, you know, it's a big part
Speaker 4: of our offense and the way that our backs run,
Speaker 4: it's you know, it's one of those deals like if
Speaker 4: you have a Brax and Barrio set returner, you know,
Speaker 4: it's like he can. When you have a guy that
Speaker 4: can take it to the house every single play, that
Speaker 4: makes you want to play harder. So when we hear
Speaker 4: run plays called and we know who we have in
Speaker 4: the backfield, we want the plays to work. So if
Speaker 4: the play is gonna depend on our perimeter blocking, because
Speaker 4: we know the line's gonna handle their stuff, but if
Speaker 4: a play is gonna depend on us, whether it's a
Speaker 4: touchdown or not, then we want to make sure that
Speaker 4: we get it handled.
Speaker 2: You know who else was awesome today and spoiler, it's
Speaker 2: my orange jersey prediction for our next practice. Malik Washington,
Speaker 2: a guy that if you listen to this podcast, you
Speaker 2: know we really really like Malik Washington here on draft time.
Speaker 3: What a stud.
Speaker 2: He caught a takeoff from Skyler and man, you get
Speaker 2: so used to watching Reek and Waddle just glide under
Speaker 2: these deep shots. They make the quarterbacks landing zone. They
Speaker 2: expanded right, more margin for air. Now that's four to
Speaker 2: two speed. Malik was a four or five guy out
Speaker 2: of college and it makes me appreciate so much his
Speaker 2: ability to win those plays because it just highlights all
Speaker 2: the strength of his game. Toughness, concentration, strong hands, body control.
Speaker 2: Those are all things that made him an absolute monster
Speaker 2: in college. And he talked about that today after practice.
Speaker 6: Man, I think that's just a one on one matchup.
Speaker 6: You know, Skyler has some trust to me on that play.
Speaker 6: Let it all out there. We just we got to
Speaker 6: finish those places. Whenever we get those opportunities, we got
Speaker 6: to make sure we finish.
Speaker 1: So that's all that went placed there.
Speaker 2: Then he caught it past I think would have been
Speaker 2: a fifty yard touchdown given his rack prowess, but they
Speaker 2: ruled him down after about thirty Running across the field,
Speaker 2: he stacks the dB and keeps him there with a
Speaker 2: little acceleration once the ball was on him to create
Speaker 2: that separation for a catch and run.
Speaker 3: He also talked about that play.
Speaker 6: I kind of say the same thing. You know, a
Speaker 6: little bit of trust in that quarterback room. We've worked
Speaker 6: all summer, we worked at all offseason, just getting on
Speaker 6: the same page with each other, seeing the cover, seeing
Speaker 6: the shell, and making plays.
Speaker 2: He also talked about his mindset when there are a
Speaker 2: number of receivers down that we have right now, let's
Speaker 2: go back to Milak for the opportunity you have with
Speaker 2: Reek and Waddle and Burrios practicing a limited basis today.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you don't change anything. I think you
Speaker 6: have to approach every single day like it's a big
Speaker 6: time opportunity to come and prove yourself, to come and
Speaker 6: step up.
Speaker 1: And today was just happened to be.
Speaker 6: A day with those guys are out and we got
Speaker 6: a little bit more opportunity, so we got to capitalize
Speaker 6: on those. But it's like any other day, man, you
Speaker 6: got to come ready to work.
Speaker 1: You got to come ready to earn a job.
Speaker 2: I should have said Reek on limited basis, Wattle and
Speaker 2: Barrios were down, But in fact we're going to burn
Speaker 2: all of our soundbites here because well it was that
Speaker 2: kind of day for the rookie. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: go back to the head ball coach Mike McDaniel on
Speaker 2: Malik Washington.
Speaker 5: One of the more difficult things in the National Football
Speaker 5: League is that of a rookie NFL wide receiver. There
Speaker 5: the game is very different in terms of UH timings,
Speaker 5: particularly with us UH and and how and the the
Speaker 5: details with which you do your jobs. I mean huddling
Speaker 5: and and all the motioning. Uh. The what Malik has
Speaker 5: done really well is find how to be a professional
Speaker 5: very quickly. So he's operating as you know of vet
Speaker 5: would in terms of his how he's studying, his ownership
Speaker 5: of the playbook, and how reliable he is with assignments
Speaker 5: for his teammates. And then you know there's learning tools
Speaker 5: each and every practice. What I what I'm really happy
Speaker 5: about with with Malik is that he is getting better
Speaker 5: with those mistakes. And I'm expecting mistakes, but he improves mistakes,
Speaker 5: which is the key for rookies.
Speaker 2: And as we proverbally proverbally passed the orange jers like
Speaker 2: a baton from the former Koug to the former cavalier
Speaker 2: in a Wildcat, here is River Craykraft on his advice
Speaker 2: to Malik Washington and why he's a great fit in
Speaker 2: the receiver's room.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, he's gotten opportunities, which is awesome. A guy
Speaker 4: like Malik's he's very thoughtful, he's he's very methodical when
Speaker 4: it comes to his work ethic. He's a good person
Speaker 4: and I think that's important to have people like that
Speaker 4: in the room because those guys want to get better,
Speaker 4: and with these guys out, I have pulled Malik aside
Speaker 4: a few times, you know, when the time is right,
Speaker 4: just telling him to take advantage of this opportunity. I
Speaker 4: was telling him today we had to play called Up
Speaker 4: and I told him if they tossed it to him,
Speaker 4: I said, hey, man, you got to get these crowd going.
Speaker 4: I want you to go slap high fives across the
Speaker 4: whole fans that we ended up changing the play, but
Speaker 4: just things like that to make him comfortable, to put
Speaker 4: a smile on his face, to let him know he's
Speaker 4: doing a great job and to keep working. I think
Speaker 4: that's where I'll come in.
Speaker 2: Let's finish up with the pass catchers. Then we'll do
Speaker 2: some offensive line and defense in segment three. If you're
Speaker 2: noticing a discrepancy here, the defense was on the far
Speaker 2: field both days, and when they're operating at the same
Speaker 2: time as the offense, it is really tough to lock in.
Speaker 2: So my notes are limited, but I do have some
Speaker 2: some on the receivers and tight ends here. First off,
Speaker 2: credit to Mike Harley Junior. You know River Cradcraft said
Speaker 2: that he first met him on the practice field today.
Speaker 2: He was doing onboarding stuff during the morning meetings. So
Speaker 2: he's on the practice field with like what maximum five
Speaker 2: minutes of Wes Welker crash course on an offense that
Speaker 2: takes years to master. But I think that that's a
Speaker 2: credit to him ticket out there and get involved, because
Speaker 2: I also have to think that it's probably a big
Speaker 2: reason why the offense was so disjointed to a certain degree.
Speaker 2: We have like all these newcomers trying to run this
Speaker 2: offense that requires precision. With all these guys that we
Speaker 2: have down, we're already limited in what we can do.
Speaker 2: And then you put a guy in there that's essentially
Speaker 2: automatic run play because you can't ask him to run
Speaker 2: your timing passing offense because if it doesn't know it yet.
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you know this, but this
Speaker 2: offense is pretty particular on timing, you know. John Conjimi
Speaker 2: lan to me at one point and said, like, if
Speaker 2: number four is in the field, that's a pretty big
Speaker 2: til to run the ball because there's nobody's doing yet.
Speaker 3: Like it's tough.
Speaker 2: But man, the one area or the one I really
Speaker 2: liked I want to talk about here is John new
Speaker 2: Smith because we've been you know, on this kick the
Speaker 2: last week and a half or so about the tight
Speaker 2: end position and the versatility that it provides the offense,
Speaker 2: and I think that we've been seeing.
Speaker 3: More and more of them.
Speaker 2: Johnny was such a dangerous option for how he can
Speaker 2: help emphasize that overplay that coach mentioned earlier, like if
Speaker 2: you want to tilt attention to the trip side with
Speaker 2: Reek and waddle our speed, guys, we're gonna have Johnnu
Speaker 2: on that backside why iso position and you can get
Speaker 2: these screens to him that they run off of that,
Speaker 2: or motion to tilt the numbers away from Tyreek or
Speaker 2: run behind Tyreek, and you run these escort swing passes
Speaker 2: where you know, Johnny's a lead blocker for Devon h
Speaker 2: Channery catches a now screen where the cloud corner has
Speaker 2: been lifted because of the deep coverage, or they just
Speaker 2: have a one on one backside cornerback was giving up
Speaker 2: forty pounds, Like that's dangerous man. So he can hit
Speaker 2: his best blocks out in space. Out there, he can
Speaker 2: run over small corners who can't tackle him. It's to me,
Speaker 2: it's the perfect compliment to what this offense did so
Speaker 2: well the last few years to me. It's like if
Speaker 2: Reak and Waddle are are Paul Skemes, the starter for
Speaker 2: the National League All Stars this year, who throws like
Speaker 2: ninety nine one hundred every single fastball he throws. And
Speaker 2: then off of that, we have a Felix Hernandez Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame change up as our counter pitch that you
Speaker 2: can't differentiate what they are until one is ninety nine
Speaker 2: miles an hour and the other one is ninety one
Speaker 2: miles an hour and looks the exact same.
Speaker 3: That's what Johnna is.
Speaker 2: He's that change up to the fastball in the sense
Speaker 2: that once you think you're loaded up and you're ready
Speaker 2: for the fastball, you're gonna be out over your skis
Speaker 2: trying to change up, and you're going to be trying
Speaker 2: to tackle number nine in space one on one with
Speaker 2: a cornerback who weighs one hundred and eighty five pounds.
Speaker 3: Good luck.
Speaker 2: So I am jazzed about that and what I think
Speaker 2: he can be for the offense. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: move on to segment three. Here do the offensive line,
Speaker 2: the running backs, and to the defense and extra points
Speaker 2: form that next Draft Time podcast to your host, Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 2: brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 3: It was tough.
Speaker 2: Sledding in the run game today again, though, I thought
Speaker 2: Jalen Wright really impressed with his performance. He had a
Speaker 2: mid red zone run where he found the gap off
Speaker 2: of a jump cut, got downhill and popped the safety
Speaker 2: and powered his way into the end zone. And that
Speaker 2: was like I mean, we talked about counters throughout the
Speaker 2: course of this episode. You know, chase him and Raheem
Speaker 2: and Devon to the perimeter all day and then you
Speaker 2: have to deal with that in goal to go situations
Speaker 2: and you have to buckle your chin strap. I sure
Speaker 2: do like that option for the Dolphins offense to finish
Speaker 2: this group. Chris Brooks had some strong runs and eight
Speaker 2: Chan showed up yards in the short pass as a
Speaker 2: TUA that I mentioned earlier. All right, let's talk about
Speaker 2: the offensive line after a full segment of ranting about it.
Speaker 2: It wasn't a good day for them. I think the
Speaker 2: Falcons really got after us today. I don't think that
Speaker 2: you can point to an individual particularly and harp on
Speaker 2: too much. Like it was kind of constant leaks in
Speaker 2: different spots. You know, they were recent the line of
Speaker 2: scrimmage in a way that allowed penetration and forced a
Speaker 2: bubble from the back to change direction or flat out
Speaker 2: stop his run and have to reread the flow. And
Speaker 2: by then it was like rally and make a play
Speaker 2: from the defense.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: I did think that Rob Jones succeeded a lot of penetration.
Speaker 2: I thought Jack Driscoll his struggles continued. Some same from
Speaker 2: leam Meikenberg there. I did think that Sean Harlowe looked
Speaker 2: pretty good. He continues to have the most power I
Speaker 2: think from the options of some of those other centers
Speaker 2: we have in that position.
Speaker 3: I thought the same of Keon Smith.
Speaker 2: He got out wide on some blocks day that were
Speaker 2: really impressive, and so did Austin Jackson, who got good
Speaker 2: surge off of his especially with his double teams with
Speaker 2: tight ends, which continued to be a focal point of
Speaker 2: this offense. Yeah, just not their best day, but we
Speaker 2: talked about them at length already. Defensively, I saw more
Speaker 2: of the same with Ramsey continues to just be a
Speaker 2: bully with his physicality. They did get up on a
Speaker 2: deep shot where he got stacked and took the cheese
Speaker 2: and Darnell Moody has to come back for an underthrow.
Speaker 2: You know it winds up being a DPI. I thought
Speaker 2: Kendall Fuller was very good. They threw hookups into the
Speaker 2: short areas all day, and in fact, I thought Pennix
Speaker 2: looked really in control in that regard. I think he's
Speaker 2: a good looking quarterback. I also saw a Storm Duck
Speaker 2: with another pass breakup. I saw Jalen Matrie with a
Speaker 2: few reps on sticky coverage, which has been a theme
Speaker 2: all camp. And those are the two guys that Kendall
Speaker 2: Fuller actually mentioned first by name as guys that have
Speaker 2: stood out so far among the young guys in training camp.
Speaker 2: Cater Kohu was once one of those young guys. He
Speaker 2: still is, but he had another awesome day today. He's
Speaker 2: able to come on from like practice five or so
Speaker 2: after a tough first week. He's been feisty, tight in coverage.
Speaker 2: When he can play a man and just kind of
Speaker 2: focus on that and compete with the guy, he usually
Speaker 2: gets the best of them. That's where I think he's best,
Speaker 2: and he's been put in position to succeed doing just that.
Speaker 2: They went after Saran Neil again today. He gave up
Speaker 2: a few catches, but you know, it's, like I said,
Speaker 2: tough to see from that far field, but he was
Speaker 2: in coverage a lot on some of the deeper shots.
Speaker 3: I saw.
Speaker 2: Duke Riley had two TFLs where he came through untouched
Speaker 2: and Zeke Vandenberg. He plays so smart and tight to
Speaker 2: the blocks and the you know the collection of o
Speaker 2: versus d you know, engage in a block. He scrapes
Speaker 2: off of those so well and fills to greet the
Speaker 2: running back with good timing. He really reads how the
Speaker 2: offense flows. I think pretty damn well. I thought Jonathan
Speaker 2: Harris was excellent today. I think he's starting to really
Speaker 2: feel the defense naturally and it's allowing him to play faster.
Speaker 2: His length stands out to me. He's controlling some reps
Speaker 2: with that length and physicality, and he had a sack
Speaker 2: again in this practice. Isaiah Matt got some penetration a
Speaker 2: couple of times. I thought Benido Jones held the point
Speaker 2: of attack a couple of times when I'd get the
Speaker 2: binoculars on his big butt out there. Another thing that
Speaker 2: just kind of cover here for the Falcons a little bit.
Speaker 2: I'm pretty excited to watch them this year. Man Pitts
Speaker 2: and Bejon are two of my favorites on top of
Speaker 2: what they have with London and Mooney and ron Dell Moore,
Speaker 2: although he's going to be down for the year after
Speaker 2: that bummer of an injury.
Speaker 3: But Pitts and Beijon were tough today.
Speaker 2: Man Pitt's made a couple of plays and I saw
Speaker 2: a handful of runs where Bejeon was like bottled up
Speaker 2: in the backfield and managed to find daylight. Anyway, that's
Speaker 2: why you just at that position, you must be someone
Speaker 2: who's gonna do rare things. If you're going to be
Speaker 2: a top ten draft pick. There's like three or four
Speaker 2: backs in the lead that can consistently make haste with
Speaker 2: poor blocking, and I think that he's one of those guys.
Speaker 2: Not to say the Falcons are a bad blocking team,
Speaker 2: but he just made some wrong plays right for that
Speaker 2: offense today. Okay, I know, I'm sorry the defensive notes
Speaker 2: were so short. I wish I had more. I just
Speaker 2: I don't want to report on things I could barely see.
Speaker 2: Those are the things I did, so I did see
Speaker 2: you heard from them, So there you go.
Speaker 3: Well, have one more show tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do twelve training camp observations through twelve practices.
Speaker 2: We'll also preview the game with a sense of guys
Speaker 2: to look out for late into that fourth quarter to
Speaker 2: give you kind of a viewing guy for that, and
Speaker 2: we'll see how that all carries over some of these
Speaker 2: camp performances into the regulars or into the preseason games.
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