Speaker 1: Hits the road where the Tampa Bay to the Bay Area.
Speaker 1: I think we do get dam Bill focused. I think
Speaker 1: so you know, I ran up a I ran up
Speaker 1: a seventy dollar lunch. But I'm just gonna feed that
Speaker 1: to Jeff Griffith. Let him to take care. Jeff's been
Speaker 1: walking around the bad day. I figured ran into you,
Speaker 1: and I figured dinner tonight. I figured dinner tonight for
Speaker 1: me alone is gonna run about a buck fifty. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be in. I'm gonna be in for two
Speaker 1: and a quarter by tomorrow one day. I don't give
Speaker 1: many days where I can put my meals on the
Speaker 1: Dolphins taff so, so I gotta take advantage of John
Speaker 1: k Jimmy Kim Vocambra. We are in Tampa where the
Speaker 1: Dolphins are going through two days of practices with the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Bucks before a Friday's uh second preseason game.
Speaker 1: I actually thought the game was Thursday all week, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden looked at me, We're gonna
Speaker 1: be there Friday extra day on here. So uh, but
Speaker 1: John says, you know, to me, it's it's certainly about
Speaker 1: the game. But but I think the real value to
Speaker 1: coming up there are the two prack. This says, you
Speaker 1: get a chance to you know, guys have been working
Speaker 1: against each other. Now they kind of Norman's tendencies and
Speaker 1: kind of know where they're setting up a route and
Speaker 1: this and that. Or if you're a defensive lineman, you
Speaker 1: know you kind of know where that talk was gonna set.
Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, you get to go get
Speaker 1: two days going against another team that you're you're not
Speaker 1: that familiar with, uh And I think it gives you
Speaker 1: a better picture, a little more intensity, a little bit
Speaker 1: of pushing and shoving. No nothing that nothing on day one,
Speaker 1: that that erupted. You know. I thought a couple of
Speaker 1: times maybe they were gonna kinda get going, but but nothing.
Speaker 1: And I think it was a pretty good days, pretty
Speaker 1: good days worth of work for the Dolphins. I thought
Speaker 1: so too, Bo. And like you said, it's invaluable to
Speaker 1: go against different body types, to go against different guys
Speaker 1: with different gears at wide receiver, running back or different
Speaker 1: pass sets, and and for the defensive linemen to go
Speaker 1: after different guys that you haven't seen before. I think
Speaker 1: it's it bodes well for both teams. And I thought
Speaker 1: the practice was very fluid. I thought it was very clean.
Speaker 1: I thought it was crisp. I think both teams are
Speaker 1: are gonna be benefiting from the workouts, you know, for
Speaker 1: the two days of prag is leading up to the
Speaker 1: preseason game, and it just it just I think it
Speaker 1: excites both teams because you know, there's not many chances
Speaker 1: you can go for dress rehearsal in a practice setting
Speaker 1: and then go into a game. And this is gonna
Speaker 1: be good practice work for both teams, you have no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. Uh, just to get again into the practice.
Speaker 1: Uh must have been first or second snap of the day.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake hobbles off the field. It looks like it's
Speaker 1: kind of a foot injury, maybe an ankle injury. Not sure.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the effective is it right now.
Speaker 1: Didn't see him back on the field. But the flip side,
Speaker 1: it's nice to Albert Wilson back there all through practice,
Speaker 1: doing more things out there. Means he's getting closer and
Speaker 1: closer to being a hundred percent as you wanted to be. Uh,
Speaker 1: come to Baltimore Ravens when they come to town September eight.
Speaker 1: But it's nice to see him out there running, getting loose,
Speaker 1: and doing some things, and that was certainly a really
Speaker 1: nice thing to see. Well, anytime you see fifteen out there,
Speaker 1: the only thing that could be better is if you
Speaker 1: see nineteen joined them pretty soon and Jachim Grant. But
Speaker 1: you know, Albert was in full pads running routes. It
Speaker 1: looked like guys on the outside kind of you know,
Speaker 1: the elite by example, and especially if you haven't been
Speaker 1: out there in a while, you want to be you
Speaker 1: want to be able to go and get your work
Speaker 1: in because I think it's important coming off of an
Speaker 1: injury for both of those guys. You can throw Jachim
Speaker 1: in there as well, to go back out on the
Speaker 1: practice field, do things and test yourself, test your limits,
Speaker 1: see where you're at physically, because once September hits, and
Speaker 1: it and it, you start counting him for real. You
Speaker 1: want to be as closer, if not at a hundred
Speaker 1: percent when you're going against the Baltimore Raven. So this
Speaker 1: was another test I think for for you know, Albert
Speaker 1: to go out there and see where he's at. And
Speaker 1: he looked pretty looked pretty good catching the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: then he turned it on down the sideline, just you know,
Speaker 1: mimicking a big player, an explosive play. So like what
Speaker 1: I saw, you know, it's it's tough when you're coming
Speaker 1: back from an injury like that. And I'm a kind
Speaker 1: of referenced Jachimila because you know, Jachim was out there
Speaker 1: early in the training camp, look like he was gonna
Speaker 1: go and then he had a little set back, maybe
Speaker 1: a little twins, a little this and that coming out
Speaker 1: that you know, that Achilles injury scared scare and I
Speaker 1: think it kind of I think it caught caught everyone
Speaker 1: by surprise and said, hey, let let's let's kind of
Speaker 1: set him back a little bit. Let's give him some
Speaker 1: time because we need him to be ready in September.
Speaker 1: We we don't need any of these you're early in
Speaker 1: training camp. And so I think that's a lesson learned.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure they're gonna keep a close eye on
Speaker 1: Albert Wilson going forward, so if there's any minor set back,
Speaker 1: but you know, minor setbacks all right, because I gets
Speaker 1: a little rest, kind of goes back into that rehab mode,
Speaker 1: gets himself stronger, and then comes back and had that
Speaker 1: all that extra time to heal up is important and
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be good for uh, for Jachim
Speaker 1: and Albert, I think is they're gonna keep a close
Speaker 1: eye on the event that you know, he kind of
Speaker 1: got it as a little, you know, a little hiccup
Speaker 1: and then hey, let's let's pull you back a little
Speaker 1: bit and then we'll accelerate a little further. But it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's one of the things that you
Speaker 1: have to go through both as a team and a
Speaker 1: player as you try to manage coming back to from
Speaker 1: injuries that that really cost you a big part of
Speaker 1: last season. Well, and I think that that bodes well
Speaker 1: too when you talked about the running back situation and
Speaker 1: Kenyan going out for a couple of plays, you know,
Speaker 1: only a couple of plays into practice he comes out,
Speaker 1: I think that shifts the workload now if you know,
Speaker 1: if it might not be serious, but it might be
Speaker 1: serious enough to keep him out of a couple of
Speaker 1: days of practice, which might not lend him to play
Speaker 1: on Friday night, which would allow Blage to get maybe
Speaker 1: the lion's share of the work. And now you get
Speaker 1: to see maybe a little bit more of Mark Walton,
Speaker 1: a little bit more of Miles Gascon, maybe some more
Speaker 1: you know, Kenneth Ferrell, you know, you get it opens
Speaker 1: the door up for these coaches to get to see
Speaker 1: guys maybe on a sudden change type of deal in
Speaker 1: the regular season. You want to test that naturally in
Speaker 1: the preseason, so you know that might you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: that Kenyan's injury or a tweak is just that, just
Speaker 1: a tweak, and maybe it's a day maybe he's right
Speaker 1: back out there, you know, in practice and doesn't miss
Speaker 1: a beat. But if it does happen, it lends you
Speaker 1: to see other guys. How much workload can we give
Speaker 1: them and how do they do with that work? The
Speaker 1: other the other thing always wonder in those situations, especially
Speaker 1: when you've got people that you know are important to
Speaker 1: your to your lineup, and you talk about Jachim, you
Speaker 1: talk about Albert, you talk about Kenyan. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, you put a guy out there and all
Speaker 1: of suddy tweaks and you go, hey, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's kind of put him on the shelf. We don't
Speaker 1: need to we know what he can do. You just
Speaker 1: get his work. Let's get him in there and and
Speaker 1: you know that, you know, I think Kenyan is in
Speaker 1: the battle and that running back spot with Kaylin Blage,
Speaker 1: and so I know Kenyan would like to get back
Speaker 1: out there again. We don't know the severity of that
Speaker 1: injury right now, but I'm sure if it's nothing really big,
Speaker 1: I'm sure Kenyan want to get back with the team.
Speaker 1: You know, but the team magday, let's you know, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's temper this a little bit, so you know,
Speaker 1: both sides. You really have to be smart at this
Speaker 1: time of the preseason. Look, they've been out there for
Speaker 1: two going in their third week. You guys get a
Speaker 1: little tired, you get a little spent, You kind of
Speaker 1: over exert a little bit. And so this is where
Speaker 1: it comes to trainers, team doctors and coaching staff to
Speaker 1: monitor these kind of players that have little nicks, a
Speaker 1: little injuries, and and you know, and pace them so
Speaker 1: you get them ready for the season. One guy's not
Speaker 1: pacing himself though, Josh Rosen. Josh came out again and
Speaker 1: did some good thing. You know, you know, Josh is
Speaker 1: It's funny because Josh the guy you can watch and
Speaker 1: and and maybe in the beginning of Jesus and I
Speaker 1: don't know, he doesn't look us and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he starts moving the ball down the field. We
Speaker 1: saw him at Davante Parker on a on a nice
Speaker 1: little takeoff right down route down there, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: and and do some other good things on the field,
Speaker 1: but there's still a couple of things, a couple of
Speaker 1: hiccups in there. And and coach you know, we talked
Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks ago, John, and and now
Speaker 1: Coach Flores is talking about it. He wants see his
Speaker 1: body language a little bit. And something that really struck
Speaker 1: me early on when I watched him play that you know,
Speaker 1: I'm used to seeing guys that, you know, quarterbacks, John,
Speaker 1: they walk into that huddle like they own that huddle,
Speaker 1: and you know, and it's anybody's talking, shut your ass up,
Speaker 1: I'm in charge here. And and you kind of tend
Speaker 1: to see him kind of slink into the hud a
Speaker 1: little bit more. And and and Coach Flows talking about
Speaker 1: it so well, something to keep an eye on with him.
Speaker 1: But but the one thing I think we do see
Speaker 1: is that the more he plays, and and he spent
Speaker 1: a good amount of time with the ones that want
Speaker 1: when when they went to the full team, you know,
Speaker 1: it was it was Fitzpatrick with the starters and Rosen
Speaker 1: with the backups. But through a lot of those individuals,
Speaker 1: stuff seven on sevens and stuff, John's got a lot
Speaker 1: of a lot of play with those, uh, those starters.
Speaker 1: So at least you can either they're starting to to
Speaker 1: to mix them and mix them both in and see
Speaker 1: what they can do with the first group. They're starting
Speaker 1: to put more on his plate to see how he
Speaker 1: handles it. In half of that battle is to see
Speaker 1: how he handles some of the things when they don't
Speaker 1: go well. And I think that was a couple of
Speaker 1: examples through you know, Tuesday's practice when things didn't go well.
Speaker 1: I think coach Flores wanted to nip that in the button.
Speaker 1: Say listen, good, bad, or and different. You still have
Speaker 1: to be the leader of the team. You still have
Speaker 1: to be the leader of this offense. You know, let
Speaker 1: flush those things out of the way. Get him out
Speaker 1: if if they're bad things that happen, move on to
Speaker 1: the next plane. I think he wants that to filter
Speaker 1: down to every position. If you wi as an offensive guard,
Speaker 1: if you drop a pass, if you're busted coverage, if
Speaker 1: you miss on a blitz, or you don't tackle and
Speaker 1: wrap up in the open field, get it past, you
Speaker 1: move on to the next plane. Don't let a beach twice.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the most important thing at quarterback
Speaker 1: for Josh Rosen is to start repeating those solid plays
Speaker 1: and flush the stuff, get it behind him. When when
Speaker 1: he does make sometimes done it pisses he was. I
Speaker 1: was always kind of a guy who was extremely critical
Speaker 1: of myself. And so when I made a mistake, you know,
Speaker 1: I beat myself up a little bit. And I think
Speaker 1: at times I kinda I kind of maybe stepped back
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know, and and and you know,
Speaker 1: and and kind of felt sorry for myself a little bit.
Speaker 1: And you know, I had you had to. I had
Speaker 1: to teach myself no, no, no, let's move on to that.
Speaker 1: And you know, and then you watch, you watch the
Speaker 1: other extremes. And two of the biggest examples of the
Speaker 1: other the other extremes both come in the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: To me, Danny Marino and Andrew Luck. You know, I
Speaker 1: remember watching Andrew Luck. He's last year with Stanford had
Speaker 1: no wide receivers. Every wall the receivers, the wide receivers
Speaker 1: they had got hurt. And he's playing with a bunch
Speaker 1: of tight ends, good tight ends. But he's basically playing
Speaker 1: an offensive with a running back, and and and and
Speaker 1: a couple of few tight ends moving the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. And and I and I saw him a
Speaker 1: couple of times force it throw a pick six, throwing
Speaker 1: interception at a critical part in the field, and instead
Speaker 1: of slinking off, he ran over to the field sideline's
Speaker 1: and he's gonna don't we We're gonna get the ball back,
Speaker 1: and we're sticking right down those throws. You know, there's
Speaker 1: that guy. That's the guy you want. And Danny was
Speaker 1: the I mean, Danny was the best. You know, he
Speaker 1: may throw a pick sick. You know, Danny wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: chase anywhere too far. He were going to give a
Speaker 1: minimum efforts just to make the effort. But but but
Speaker 1: then when you over the sideline and he was a
Speaker 1: little bit I would expect he was a little more
Speaker 1: colorful with his verbiage. But hey, we get the ball back,
Speaker 1: we're gonna stick it up there, and you know what,
Speaker 1: and taking up you know, and and and those are
Speaker 1: the guys that did really lift up a team. And
Speaker 1: I think they I think they see Josh making that
Speaker 1: move and you look, you've got a guy in Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: has been there, done that. He he's got, he's got
Speaker 1: to believe in himself. But I think with this young quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think and what he's been through in uh in
Speaker 1: Arizona is I think they're trying to get him to
Speaker 1: believe in himself more and put the mistakes behind him quickly,
Speaker 1: and and don't and don't carry it into the huddle
Speaker 1: where you've got ten other guys and there looking at you, going, hey,
Speaker 1: our leader not feeling very good. I'm not feeling very
Speaker 1: good if he's not feeling very good. And that's you know,
Speaker 1: you've been a cor've been a quarterback of your whole life.
Speaker 1: That that's you know, that's something that you've got to
Speaker 1: think about and something that has to be a part
Speaker 1: of your preparation. It has to be part of your
Speaker 1: d NA, make no mistake about it. You have to
Speaker 1: have that gene where you all eyes are on you
Speaker 1: at all times, and you have to have supreme confidence
Speaker 1: in what you're doing, no matter if things are going good.
Speaker 1: It's easy when things are going good, but when things
Speaker 1: are going poorly, you still have to be able to
Speaker 1: have that presence about you to have that calming effect.
Speaker 1: So other guys can feel like, hey, all we need
Speaker 1: to do is do our part because we know our
Speaker 1: guy has got us. And I think, you know, for
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, they have to know everything about Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen because this is not just a one week plan.
Speaker 1: This is a long This isn't this is this is
Speaker 1: looking into the future for the Miami Dolphins, because you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen years as an NFL quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick is not
Speaker 1: going to be your answer for four years or for
Speaker 1: three years down the road. They have a young guy
Speaker 1: at twenty two years old. They have to find out
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the guy or not. So as soon
Speaker 1: as you can find out bits and pieces, tweak what
Speaker 1: you don't like and build upon what you do like
Speaker 1: to get him a chance to be that guy. They
Speaker 1: this staff has to find out what makes him tick
Speaker 1: and how can we make him better. You know, you
Speaker 1: look at quarterbacks in this league, John, and you know
Speaker 1: they're they're still had a number that floats around. Oh
Speaker 1: you know, the average average career span in the NFL
Speaker 1: is three and a half years, whatever it is. I
Speaker 1: think that's skewed by a lot of a lot of things.
Speaker 1: But but when you look at the quarterback position and
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that become franchise quarterbacks. And I'll throw in, I'll
Speaker 1: throw in, uh, Ryan, Ryan Fitzpatrick, because you know, he's
Speaker 1: been in the league for fifteen years, been a journeyman,
Speaker 1: but good enough to be around for fifteen years. Then
Speaker 1: you go to the franchise guys. You know, Danny played
Speaker 1: seventeen years. Uh you'll look at look at yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: if you hear that guy, you're gonna be there for
Speaker 1: fifteen to seventeen years. So that office don't even not
Speaker 1: not only need to try to get Rosen prepared for
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Now, you know, if he turns
Speaker 1: out to be you know, and again there's a long
Speaker 1: way to go in this race, but if somehow he
Speaker 1: turns out to be that franchise guy, you're not talking
Speaker 1: about just getting him ready for this year. You're talking
Speaker 1: about getting ready for your ten and twelve four, you know,
Speaker 1: and taking this team and putting on his shoulders. And
Speaker 1: you can't put a guy in his shoulders if they're
Speaker 1: slopped down and got your sliding off his back. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's why this this staff is preparing every
Speaker 1: day to give him the ability to be that guy.
Speaker 1: You know, they're they're preparing him with the corrections, with
Speaker 1: with the pad on the back, with with every little
Speaker 1: thing you can be to be the best quarterback you
Speaker 1: can be, because you either have it at that position
Speaker 1: or you don't. And if you think the guy's got
Speaker 1: a chance to have it, you're trying to direct him
Speaker 1: any way possible. And I think that's what coach Flores
Speaker 1: was doing during the Tuesday portion of practice. Poem aside, Hey,
Speaker 1: this is what we're like, This is what can happen
Speaker 1: for you to be the guy. You gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: be better at this, this and this and this is
Speaker 1: what we want. This is what we want out of you.
Speaker 1: There's here's our expectations of being a leader, being a
Speaker 1: court the quarterback of the Miami Dolf, you know the
Speaker 1: other thing that goes along with that, and and and
Speaker 1: to me, it's you know, when when we started, John,
Speaker 1: I think I think we're both pretty pretty clear on it.
Speaker 1: And I I know it's pretty clear that to be
Speaker 1: priority one was find that quarterback. You know, get that
Speaker 1: guy is at him or is it not him? So
Speaker 1: you know what to do next year. But and and
Speaker 1: then everything else kind of fell behind it. Now I'm
Speaker 1: in a position where, you know what, the biggest concerning me,
Speaker 1: he's that offensive line and allowing those guys to go
Speaker 1: through what they need to do with at the quarterback
Speaker 1: spot to try to earn that job, because uh, it's
Speaker 1: it's not a pretty site, that offensive line. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: you've got two young guys in there. Uh Dieters. Looks
Speaker 1: like he's gonna be the guy that they're gonna're gonna
Speaker 1: They're gonna run him out there every day, They're gonna
Speaker 1: give as many snaps, they're gonna talk to him as
Speaker 1: much as they can, and and he's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of your starting guys unless he just completely falls apart. Now,
Speaker 1: he's had his struggles, but you know he's he's getting
Speaker 1: used to he's getting used to life in the NFL
Speaker 1: and different things. And he's kind of leans a little
Speaker 1: bit of times, you know, kind of bends at the
Speaker 1: waist a little times instead of bending the knees and
Speaker 1: and gets beat. But you know, I think he's a
Speaker 1: guy that's got enough pedigree that he'll catch up. On
Speaker 1: the other side, Shaq Calhoun was in for a while.
Speaker 1: Out he's been out. You're moving people around. Jesse Davis
Speaker 1: is kind of getting kicked out outside and maybe coming
Speaker 1: back inside that that that group. And and believe me,
Speaker 1: I'm watching every day and Google's out there and and
Speaker 1: and and he's he's spilling his guts out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's doing he's doing everything he can to get these
Speaker 1: guys tight. You know, I heard him from the field.
Speaker 1: I know I heard him from other field. Look, he
Speaker 1: puts he's sending guys in time out. You're not doing something.
Speaker 1: He put it, and go over there. Just go stand
Speaker 1: over there and I'll call you when we're ready. I'll
Speaker 1: put it in time out for a while. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's doing everything he can, but it's gonna take a while. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: we got another almost up two and a half weeks,
Speaker 1: almost three weeks before you know, it really gets to
Speaker 1: a critical point. But but every moment that he spends
Speaker 1: with that group is valuable to get them where they
Speaker 1: need to be because there's certainly nowhere close right now,
Speaker 1: well right now, you're glad that the games don't count
Speaker 1: for real, because these guys are on a on a
Speaker 1: huge learning cup. When you talk about Michael Dieter and
Speaker 1: Shot Calhoun, no no matter how much college football these
Speaker 1: guys have played, it's just different strength. It's different speed,
Speaker 1: it's different hand placement, it's different angles, it's different quickness
Speaker 1: off the ball. There's so many things that go into
Speaker 1: playing in the interior that let alone on the edge
Speaker 1: when Jesse Davis is kicking outside thinking he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the right guard for them for the two thousand nineteen season.
Speaker 1: So I think that whole offensive line is in flux.
Speaker 1: Now are they under control? Yeah, they're under control. They've
Speaker 1: got a plan. Now how well can they execute it?
Speaker 1: How well can they go from watching that Atlanta tape
Speaker 1: which was very poor in in the beginning of that game,
Speaker 1: first two and a quarter and a half, the two
Speaker 1: quarters were poor. They got better as it went along,
Speaker 1: But can they start by making those improvements by by
Speaker 1: correcting some of those mistakes that were made early in
Speaker 1: that game so you don't repeatedly make the same mistake
Speaker 1: In terms of getting just flat outbeat with you know,
Speaker 1: with you, you can't within the national football You're gonna
Speaker 1: get you know, your second team quarterback in there right away.
Speaker 1: So you have to be able to protect number one
Speaker 1: and you have to be able to move the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage a little bit better. I think in the
Speaker 1: run game. You know, a couple of those off schedule
Speaker 1: runs in the first quarter against the Falcons, that was
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake vision. You know, that was Blage getting to
Speaker 1: the outside right away down on the goal line. I
Speaker 1: thought we did a pretty good job. But I just
Speaker 1: think this group needs to play together for maybe two
Speaker 1: and a half quarters again this game. You know, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised if they played through halftime and going
Speaker 1: into the third quarter. You know, if you know, these
Speaker 1: guys are your guys, and you know that you've got
Speaker 1: that much time to make and and and you kind
Speaker 1: of do a disservice to the guys that are back
Speaker 1: there in the you know, in the in the Netherlands,
Speaker 1: and in that third group, that fourth group, those guys
Speaker 1: that are just hoping to catch on and making the
Speaker 1: fifty three man roster. You know, you may at some
Speaker 1: point and at some point maybe soon, where you just say,
Speaker 1: you know what, sorry, guys, we gotta go with these guys,
Speaker 1: and we gotta get these guys ready. And if that
Speaker 1: means playing the four quarters and every one of these
Speaker 1: preseason games, then damn it. That's that's what we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to do, and and and again it takes away
Speaker 1: from these other guys opportunity. But you know, if that's
Speaker 1: what you gotta do to get ready for the opener,
Speaker 1: that then then you've got to do that. So certainly
Speaker 1: that's a that's a priority. And I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: talking out of school. Everybody looks out and sees it.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody's seeing those the issues they've had, so
Speaker 1: it's nothing, nothing new to anybody else. Um. The other
Speaker 1: the other thing to look at. We've got a couple
Speaker 1: of things, and I want to kind of get back
Speaker 1: to Rose and John. When when you when when you
Speaker 1: look at him and now you've had a chance to
Speaker 1: watch your for going on three weeks now and you've
Speaker 1: seen the good and bad. What what is it that
Speaker 1: you like about him? Uh? And what do you think
Speaker 1: it is? Is there is the that X factor that
Speaker 1: he needs to find his way a little more beyond
Speaker 1: what we talked about earlier. Well, Number one, I love
Speaker 1: his arm strength. I love when the when he finally
Speaker 1: cuts it loose, that ball is humming. You know, today
Speaker 1: at practice, for instance, he threw a couple one on
Speaker 1: one routes that the ball just exploded out of his
Speaker 1: hand and he carried it over a little bit to
Speaker 1: seven on seven. Then he threw a deep ball to
Speaker 1: DeVante down the field. You know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: good things. I think his mobility is a lot better
Speaker 1: in game mobility, you know, within the pocket, escaping to
Speaker 1: be able to find guys down the field. That was
Speaker 1: a lot better than what I thought he could do.
Speaker 1: You know, I saw glimpses of that in Arizona. We're
Speaker 1: putting pieces together for an all twenty two pieces that
Speaker 1: we did on him. But I like I like those
Speaker 1: two things. I love the ball speed coming out of
Speaker 1: his hand when he finally cuts it loose. And I
Speaker 1: like his mobility. The thing I would like to see
Speaker 1: him his anticipation. I just think it has to be
Speaker 1: just a touch quicker that's gonna you know, maybe that's
Speaker 1: when he feels a little bit more solid in the
Speaker 1: pahn is an anticipation or hesitation, I don't, I don't
Speaker 1: know to find I'm not sure, you know, because I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, you know, learning the offense and being able
Speaker 1: to go through you know, sometimes when he cuts it,
Speaker 1: LU should go wow, there it is and then sometimes
Speaker 1: holding onto the ball. Now that's a two way street.
Speaker 1: Guy might not be open, might not be ready to
Speaker 1: catch the football, has to hold it for account. Maybe
Speaker 1: his eyes have to get off quicker to check it down.
Speaker 1: And that's another thing when there's a negative play, don't
Speaker 1: make it disastrous in terms of, you know, take a
Speaker 1: sack or throw it away instead of maybe just throwing
Speaker 1: it up. So you know, those are things that are
Speaker 1: learning traits as you move along and as you get
Speaker 1: more accustomed in the offense and where you want to
Speaker 1: go with the football. But the couple of things I
Speaker 1: do really like about Josh strong arm velocity is there,
Speaker 1: and that the foot speed, the mobility within and escaping
Speaker 1: has been better. Yeah, and the only thing you talking
Speaker 1: about the negs and it it you talked about, and
Speaker 1: you know, I know you kind of look at that
Speaker 1: first passing through that first in the first quarter where
Speaker 1: he's almost down his knees to throw us just a
Speaker 1: just a duck sitting up there waiting to be picked off. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Preston Wilson makes the catch on it. Neverone goes oh,
Speaker 1: you complete the pass. And I mean it didn't take
Speaker 1: long after the game before he's going no, no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: no no. So I think there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: that still, a little bit of that panic in there,
Speaker 1: you know, where something's not there and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you're getting pressured and oh, you know, you pan
Speaker 1: make a panic, you want to make a play and
Speaker 1: and and you know that nine times out of ten
Speaker 1: going that turns in, that turns into a bad situation.
Speaker 1: But we're falling that. The one thing he doesn't have
Speaker 1: a problem with is you know, he's talking to Nail
Speaker 1: a little bit about throwing the receivers out and you
Speaker 1: talking about Deavante Parker read another good day. So Vante
Speaker 1: is kind of going through this training camp. DeVante has
Speaker 1: been a pleasant surprise throughout this training but it's been consistent,
Speaker 1: and you know, and he's been on the field every
Speaker 1: day fighting through things and this not so you know,
Speaker 1: we we hope that that this is and look, you
Speaker 1: can't tell me it doesn't help Davante when you've got
Speaker 1: number eighty two on the other side coming in and
Speaker 1: and and and showing now the other the other thought is, well,
Speaker 1: if you can get both of those guys, Preston Williams
Speaker 1: and DeVante Parker on the field at the same time. Well,
Speaker 1: you've got two big, physical receivers out there that can
Speaker 1: get open, and you're watching, you know, watching one on
Speaker 1: ones with Preston Williams. We'll talk about him a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Well, I'll tell you what you talk about
Speaker 1: a guy that's come out of college his first training camp.
Speaker 1: He is meticulous and route running and he does some
Speaker 1: you know, he made a nice inside relief release off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, made a little made a little
Speaker 1: hesitation move that just through the guy, made an outcut
Speaker 1: and was standing all alone and in the quarterback cyderging
Speaker 1: where to go? Where you go? I understanding next to
Speaker 1: that more during most of the practice and and that
Speaker 1: kind of you know how he kind of hit you
Speaker 1: on he said, that's the route runner. He's talking about
Speaker 1: how Paul Warfield used to tell him how to set up,
Speaker 1: you know, routes and stemming off the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: and getting guys moving laterally instead of just backpedaling. You know,
Speaker 1: Preston Williams did a really good job of that today,
Speaker 1: did a great job in the game with the four
Speaker 1: catches almost a hundred yards. And I thought Isaiah Ford
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job of that to today as well,
Speaker 1: you know, setting up wide, setting up defensive backs as
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. So there's a lot of good things
Speaker 1: going on with the wide receiver group. But I agree
Speaker 1: with you. The two guys at the top of the
Speaker 1: list right now are Leving and eight two on you.
Speaker 1: And you know you just watched Preston Williams and you
Speaker 1: know you're gonna talk to me here a little bit
Speaker 1: in the program, John, But well, here's a guy that
Speaker 1: you know, undrafted free agent, and we know he's had
Speaker 1: some misues in the past, and he's passing. You know,
Speaker 1: I've talked to him a now two or three times,
Speaker 1: and you know I I hear I. I talked to
Speaker 1: a sincere guy. I talked to a guy that wants
Speaker 1: to get better. I talked to a guy that that
Speaker 1: that knows what he has to do. I talked to
Speaker 1: guys that doesn't sit there and lament what his problems
Speaker 1: were that didn't get him drafted. He knows he's got
Speaker 1: an opportunity here and he's just going out to to
Speaker 1: get better. And you know, I don't You don't see
Speaker 1: too many rookies that come in that are is comfortable
Speaker 1: at their position. Uh and and ready to make an
Speaker 1: immediate impact, as he has since the day one he
Speaker 1: walked onto the facilitian Davy. You know what, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't look like the spotlights too bright for him, and
Speaker 1: he looks comfortable with what he's doing. Now. Has he
Speaker 1: made mistakes, I'm sure. Is it all perfect? No? But
Speaker 1: when you watch a guy that consistently comes out and
Speaker 1: catches the football, I haven't seen too many drops out
Speaker 1: of him as a rookie, and he consistently finds ways
Speaker 1: to get open, creates separation for the quarterbacks. No matter
Speaker 1: who's throwing to him. You know it could be Jake,
Speaker 1: you know with the twos and three's throwing the football
Speaker 1: down the field to him. This this is a guy
Speaker 1: that creates separation. He gives you place to throw the
Speaker 1: football and you feel confident no matter if it's closed,
Speaker 1: he's gonna come down with you. And that's been impressive.
Speaker 1: And it looks like he's got a smile on his
Speaker 1: face all the time. You know I would too if
Speaker 1: I played the way in practice the way he has.
Speaker 1: He has to have some sense of confidence. Now does
Speaker 1: he have to keep continuing to stack day after day
Speaker 1: after day. Yes, but he looks very confident at his
Speaker 1: ability and what he's putting on tape, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And uh, well you just you know, you keep you
Speaker 1: keep waiting to see a stumble there, you know, not
Speaker 1: not that that's what you want to see, but it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's in. He's gonna come out and just
Speaker 1: gonna go, Okay, well, you know there's a there's a
Speaker 1: there's a two step back right there. Now you gotta
Speaker 1: kind of climbing way back. We certainly haven't seen it
Speaker 1: with him, and you know, after watching him, watching the
Speaker 1: way about it goes, it goes about his business and
Speaker 1: and talking to him, I don't I don't know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen, he said. You know, he's you know, we
Speaker 1: talked about being confident in the quarterback position. If if
Speaker 1: you know, if quarterbacks are the most confident guys in
Speaker 1: the football team, those wide receivers are are very far
Speaker 1: from that. Some some of them may be self conclaimed
Speaker 1: and not not I deserve, but in their minds, you know,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna let you know about let you know
Speaker 1: about it if you if you don't think so, just
Speaker 1: looking just ask that's the Open Raiders right now. It
Speaker 1: was like having a D receiver on their team, because
Speaker 1: they certainly have one up there now. But it's good
Speaker 1: stuff to see and and and the one thing I
Speaker 1: like about about Preston, you know, having talked to him
Speaker 1: after the game on last Thursday night and talked to him, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, talk to him during the course of the week,
Speaker 1: is that you know, he always just talks about getting better,
Speaker 1: doing the right thing, being in the right place, listening
Speaker 1: to his coach, is doing all these types of things,
Speaker 1: all the things that that makes a guy not only
Speaker 1: a good player, but a guy that coaches lean on
Speaker 1: in respect. You know what. I just think the way
Speaker 1: he's playing it puts it puts a good pressure on
Speaker 1: the rest of the group because you've got a rookie
Speaker 1: that's elevating his game and it's hard to hide. You know,
Speaker 1: it's right out in front of you can see it
Speaker 1: every time the ball comes his way. And you want
Speaker 1: other guys to kind of emulate that to lift the
Speaker 1: rest of the group up. And I think that's helped
Speaker 1: guys like Herns. I think it's helped like DeVante on
Speaker 1: the outside. I think it's helped Kenny Stills because this
Speaker 1: guy is going out of his craft and he's making
Speaker 1: it look easy. But he's working at it too. And
Speaker 1: you know he's not lying. You don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of lineup issues where he's on one side of the
Speaker 1: uh the formation and he has to run back after
Speaker 1: breaking the huddle. You know you're not waiting on a rookie. Well,
Speaker 1: you know he's football like you. I mean you can
Speaker 1: set his football like you. When he when he goes
Speaker 1: about running his routes and and all the things he does,
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty clear to see. Right, we have a
Speaker 1: chance to pick up catch up with him. So let's
Speaker 1: hear what Let's hear what Preston had to say. Alright
Speaker 1: with Preston Williams and Preston uh little work up here
Speaker 1: in Tampa. How do you like working against another team
Speaker 1: after spending a couple of weeks down in Miami beating
Speaker 1: on each other for a few weeks, I man like
Speaker 1: it a lot. You know, it's different, you know, because
Speaker 1: you're going to get people you really really been against,
Speaker 1: and then you see different things, you learn different different's
Speaker 1: head needs and you know the good part. We're playing
Speaker 1: on Friday, so I can learn. I'm a little bit better.
Speaker 1: You've got through your first NFL training camp, you get
Speaker 1: to this where you come out and work against another team,
Speaker 1: do you feel the intensity ratchet up as soon as
Speaker 1: you walk on the field here in Tampa. Definitely? Definitely. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, just coming out here and competing against a
Speaker 1: whole another change, almost like a scrimmage if you think
Speaker 1: about it. So you know, I'll come out here and
Speaker 1: just try to, you know, fool myself. You've been proving
Speaker 1: yourself daily, which is a good thing, you know in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. And I know coach talks a
Speaker 1: little bit about you know, focusing in on that day
Speaker 1: and then forgetting about it and trying to stack another day.
Speaker 1: Is that something that you're concentrating on during training camp
Speaker 1: and now here in Tampa. Yeah, definitely, you know it
Speaker 1: cause I always telling us, you know, just when you
Speaker 1: start our computer, you know, you start to hold database.
Speaker 1: You know, if you had a good day yesterday, you
Speaker 1: know you gotta try to stack and be consistent. You've
Speaker 1: had a bad day, just snapping clear and just come
Speaker 1: our heir and is ready to work. Now. Speaking on
Speaker 1: that preseason game number one, you flashed and you've been
Speaker 1: flashing all camp. But it's been exciting for Dolphin fans,
Speaker 1: been exciting for all of us to watch you catch
Speaker 1: the football. What are some of the things you've been
Speaker 1: working on to keep improving on a daily basis, you know,
Speaker 1: just every day in a book, learning from the vet
Speaker 1: still you know what I'm saying, getting corrected on my routes,
Speaker 1: you know, just trying to be consistent once of all,
Speaker 1: you know what, and that's that's a big thing, you know,
Speaker 1: just being consistent steck in days. So personally you look like, uh,
Speaker 1: you've only been in the league for five six years.
Speaker 1: So the way you're going about your business, what's allowed
Speaker 1: you to have some freedom out there? And it seems
Speaker 1: like you've got no no nervous just going out and
Speaker 1: playing your game. And you know, we we've seen it
Speaker 1: from day one going forward. Uh, and I know in
Speaker 1: your mind you've just got a lot of room ball
Speaker 1: become improve well, you know, coach always tell us, you know,
Speaker 1: stop thinking so much and just go out there plate
Speaker 1: even if you make a mistake, you know, just making
Speaker 1: a hundred miles per hour. He's like, all that is
Speaker 1: really effort. You know, it takes no time to have effort.
Speaker 1: So I just come out her. You know, I'm not
Speaker 1: thinking about if I if I might make a mistake.
Speaker 1: It's more of you know, I'm trying to do my
Speaker 1: assignment and do my job. So what's the biggest change
Speaker 1: for you coming from college football? Now? You know in
Speaker 1: the NFL with technique? Is it? Is it players? Speed?
Speaker 1: Is it? Using your hands? Is a little bit of everything?
Speaker 1: What have you noticed that's the biggest difference for you
Speaker 1: taking that next step all around? You know, coming to
Speaker 1: the league, you know, it's just the game. You gotta
Speaker 1: be more patients. I think i FL patients is like
Speaker 1: really big because you know you moved too fast or
Speaker 1: you're trying to release too fast and it's basically just
Speaker 1: just running the edges all you or whatever. So you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta have patience. You know, it's more counter you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, hand and come back. It's it's
Speaker 1: a lot, you know, but like you know, the more
Speaker 1: you work in your crab, you know, the better you'll
Speaker 1: get at it. So Qus, and you're a guy with
Speaker 1: plenty of talent and it should have been drafted. You're
Speaker 1: coming as a free agent. Did you come in as
Speaker 1: a fragent with a little chip on your shoulder saying, hey, look,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people passed on me, but
Speaker 1: you know I'm gonna show some people that that they
Speaker 1: should have should have thought twice about what they were
Speaker 1: doing there. Definitely stuffing. You know, I came here with
Speaker 1: a chip. You know at the end that you know
Speaker 1: a lot a lot of the the reason I didn't go.
Speaker 1: I want to dreve you know I had a lot
Speaker 1: to do it. You know what I had not being
Speaker 1: a professional, you know, stuffing out the field. But you
Speaker 1: know I come here every day or ready to work.
Speaker 1: First round, I drest that I was taking color, ready
Speaker 1: to work with the ship. So you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about talent and and the other things that if you
Speaker 1: don't have the talent, where you certainly have the talent.
Speaker 1: We certainly saw it against the in the first preseason game.
Speaker 1: The one hand to catch and to me, for a
Speaker 1: rookie to come out and be able to make a
Speaker 1: catch falling out of bounds, have the wherewithal to keep
Speaker 1: your toes be in line. Coming from a league where
Speaker 1: you only had to keep one and went in the
Speaker 1: bound to get to both in it kind of showed
Speaker 1: me a lot about your maturity and your understanding of
Speaker 1: where are you on the are on the field and
Speaker 1: what you want to accomplish. And it says a lot
Speaker 1: for a young guy in this league. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I gotta you know, a great goop of guys around me.
Speaker 1: Even the coaches, you know, you know, they're they're big
Speaker 1: on details. So you know, I made it one and
Speaker 1: I made I made a kitch and practice I had
Speaker 1: one ft there. You know, they they telling me they
Speaker 1: ain't gonna work here. You know, we're gonna get two
Speaker 1: feet down. So we practice it every day. Be even
Speaker 1: practiced today, you know, just just sideline catches, getting the
Speaker 1: feet down, so you know, once you just practices. Con
Speaker 1: second nation, we're watching this offense and it's kind of
Speaker 1: a working progress. You're got an offensive line that shuffled
Speaker 1: around a little bit. You guys are rotating through, you
Speaker 1: got quarterbacks rotating in and out. Really the stable position
Speaker 1: seems to be the running back spot. Other than that,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of very Is it is that good
Speaker 1: for you? Or does that make it a little more
Speaker 1: different with guys coming and going, not sure when you're
Speaker 1: gonna get your snaps, and and just being ready when
Speaker 1: you have to be ready. I think it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody you know get to do different things
Speaker 1: where everybody getting put at different spots, senior versatility. You
Speaker 1: know when your numbers car you know, you just want
Speaker 1: to make the play. So I don't look at it
Speaker 1: like that. You know, if it's West nap the whole
Speaker 1: right is you know, making the most of it. If
Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty plays. I know it's only been one day,
Speaker 1: but this had to be exciting to get to a
Speaker 1: different city and going up against Tampa Bay. I know
Speaker 1: you played against Atlanta, but that was just that night
Speaker 1: you knew it was coming. Does this excite you guys?
Speaker 1: You guys have been building up to this day because
Speaker 1: you're going up against different techniques, different players. I mean,
Speaker 1: I like, I like this. It's it's really different, you know,
Speaker 1: coming to right As against another NFL. Say more of it.
Speaker 1: I got to watch Mike Evans, you know, a bit fan.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Just study people and just
Speaker 1: learn from like other teams. I think it's like real
Speaker 1: good for you know us, especially like the young guys,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Just to get this experience.
Speaker 1: So I'm just taking every day head. Yeah, you look
Speaker 1: at yourself make a play and you look over in
Speaker 1: the other field you see Mike Evans make a one
Speaker 1: handed catch or making a catch over the middle. It's
Speaker 1: gotta like be kind of like taking it all in right,
Speaker 1: It's kind of you know, it's a confidence. But so
Speaker 1: you know, just watching Mike Evans do it, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, you know, I'm watching some of
Speaker 1: the people have been looking up to for a long time.
Speaker 1: I was in high school watching myke Evans, you know.
Speaker 1: So you know I'm here now and I'm just watching it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's giving me motivation because I'm starting to
Speaker 1: get up there with them. So you talk about the patients,
Speaker 1: and I I canna assume by what you've gone through
Speaker 1: from training camp to now, Uh, you're you're being patient,
Speaker 1: But there's gotta be some anxiousness in man. I like,
Speaker 1: I like, a few more reps coming my way during
Speaker 1: practice wouldn't be bad. A few more rep coming we're
Speaker 1: during the game wouldn't be bad. And and there's gotta
Speaker 1: be a little bit of that for you said, come on,
Speaker 1: put put a little more, putting more workload on my
Speaker 1: plate a little bit. Definitely, definitely, you know, I trust
Speaker 1: the couches. You know, that's what they're doing, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, So more rails I find that still
Speaker 1: find with a little different than this training camp. I know,
Speaker 1: what's your first training camp. But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: when you've had an established coaching staff and you have there,
Speaker 1: they're kind of setting their ways. It's an entirely new
Speaker 1: coaching staff for the most part. I think there's two
Speaker 1: coaches back from from last year. And not only is
Speaker 1: that is that it's it's all new, but everyone's new
Speaker 1: to them, so you know, they don't have any preconceived
Speaker 1: notions about the guys that were here. They've known you
Speaker 1: as long as is he they've known the rest of
Speaker 1: those guys. Certainly has a level of playing field for
Speaker 1: everybody out here day in and day out, you know,
Speaker 1: because you said, you know, it's it's it's equal competition
Speaker 1: out here. You know, everybody everybody out here coming to work.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, it's competing at the end
Speaker 1: of the day. You know, so best man went the
Speaker 1: job in withing. Okay, you watch yourself on film, you
Speaker 1: critique yourself where you were you at right now as
Speaker 1: as an NFL wide receiver, what are the things you
Speaker 1: like and what are the things you're trying to keep
Speaker 1: improving on a daily basis. I'm not there yet, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Uh, it's a lot of stuff
Speaker 1: I can clean up. No, just you know, try to
Speaker 1: be perfect, you know, just from route running, from kissing
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, from this crazy space. So you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a long way. He's there, Freezeason, So we'll
Speaker 1: keep it going. Man, you're looking good. You've given a
Speaker 1: lot of excitement to fans already in in week one
Speaker 1: of the preseason. Keep stacking those days together than pressing
Speaker 1: effects for stopping by. I always a pleasures pleasure watching
Speaker 1: me play. So thank you. Keep rolling it man, thank you?
Speaker 1: All right? All right, John, good stuff from up from
Speaker 1: Preston and uh, but I mean he certainly is the
Speaker 1: talk of camp and you know you you can't You're
Speaker 1: going on and I just expect him to go on
Speaker 1: the same way we were talking before. We're talking about
Speaker 1: that that meeting room and you know, you think about
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of go in and you know guys,
Speaker 1: you know, you like guys like Herns and guys like
Speaker 1: that has been around for a while, and you know
Speaker 1: these different guys and they kind of sure, you're kind
Speaker 1: of going and you look at that room and okay,
Speaker 1: said they're gonna probably six wide receivers. I get that guy. Okay,
Speaker 1: that guy, Okay, I'm in that. I'm in there, I'm
Speaker 1: in there. I got a chance. And then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you got some free agent that you know, undrafted.
Speaker 1: Frasier comes in. Boom, he like moves up to he's
Speaker 1: moving up to the to the front ruin from pencil
Speaker 1: to pen and a little and so now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're going, oh, wait a minute, you know
Speaker 1: my my, uh my, smooth moving to a better pick
Speaker 1: up the pace because this young kids is you know,
Speaker 1: he's grabbing a spot. He's putting a strangle hold on
Speaker 1: the spot. And if he's putting a strangle on a spot,
Speaker 1: one of those guys four or five or six, you
Speaker 1: know they may be on the outside look at him.
Speaker 1: It makes you value every opportunity that you get in practice,
Speaker 1: in one on once an individual drill, you have to
Speaker 1: be so consistent. If you're a guy that you know
Speaker 1: you figured I got a I get a pretty solid
Speaker 1: chance of making this team. So now you you add
Speaker 1: a guy in there, you know, well, there's time to
Speaker 1: time to make or break, you know, for pressing. But
Speaker 1: right now he's he's leader of the pack. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: he's been productive. So if you're one of those guys
Speaker 1: like Isaiah Ford or your or your Herns, or you're
Speaker 1: somebody else on the roster that you're trying to just
Speaker 1: see where I fit in. If you're Bryce Butler, you know,
Speaker 1: how how do you you know? Reese Horn? You know
Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out where I fit in. You
Speaker 1: gotta start counting uh spots, and you better count your chances.
Speaker 1: Every time that you're toes lineup and you're on one
Speaker 1: on ones, you better win. You better do the right thing,
Speaker 1: use the right technique, find a way to get open,
Speaker 1: and when it's thrown your way, make sure you catch
Speaker 1: the football. Because there's other guys that are they're getting
Speaker 1: on tape and and they've been flawless. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about some of the good and bad. The
Speaker 1: the other thing I keep looking at this, you know
Speaker 1: that this this begin beginning to be a little bit concerning,
Speaker 1: is that tight end spot, John, we haven't really seen
Speaker 1: much out of the tight ends, whether it's past receiving. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, see a little blocking. On to the other
Speaker 1: thing about Preston, you don't mind not much. Thing is
Speaker 1: that all the receivers done a pretty good job down field. Um,
Speaker 1: but you're you're, you know, you're, you're just that that
Speaker 1: tight end position just seems to be, you know, a
Speaker 1: non factor. Again. We I'll go back and when we
Speaker 1: talked about it last week or to me right now,
Speaker 1: the nicol Learrys is the most consistent, best tight end
Speaker 1: they've got, I thought, I think think he had a
Speaker 1: good day today. I think Derham Smith has picked up
Speaker 1: a little bit, and and and Mike is Mike's had
Speaker 1: his his moments, but too few and too far between.
Speaker 1: I think for for for where he was projected, when
Speaker 1: he was projected to be, for what I think coaches
Speaker 1: expect him for what fans expected him and likely I
Speaker 1: think probably expected himself. I think. So I think you're right, Boie,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't have a good pulse that
Speaker 1: to have an idea who's gonna who's gonna emerge, you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's gonna be three guys doing one man's job,
Speaker 1: or it's gonna be four guys, or how many guys
Speaker 1: you're gonna keep at that position? How much can you
Speaker 1: give you? I think derham smythe has has an opportunity
Speaker 1: because of his blocking skills, because he gives you a
Speaker 1: lot on special teams. You know, Leary does as well,
Speaker 1: so you know, and then you've got veterans in there too,
Speaker 1: that it's very tough to gauge. When you throw in
Speaker 1: Mike Kisiki into the bunch. There's not one guy that
Speaker 1: you say, well, he's heading shoulders above the rest. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's Oleary at this point, but it's the tight end
Speaker 1: position has been so invisible that you're you're almost give
Speaker 1: me anybody right now because we're the ball is going
Speaker 1: somewhere else. And that's a bad thing because defenses are
Speaker 1: gonna think the same thing. You know. I know that
Speaker 1: their idea with Mike is to try to get him
Speaker 1: in situations where he's moving at snap, you know, to
Speaker 1: diget him off the line of scrimmage, to get him
Speaker 1: into his route, to get him moving up the field.
Speaker 1: And and there have been a couple of times where
Speaker 1: you know, you see him you see him flexed out,
Speaker 1: giving him some room, and it still has it still
Speaker 1: has trouble separating from a from a defensive back or
Speaker 1: even a linebacker that that's covering him out there. And
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's something he's gonna he's gonna figure out.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're putting him in, they're putting him
Speaker 1: in positions where he should be able to be more
Speaker 1: effective than he has been. And but that that's a
Speaker 1: light switch. It really you know what if it doesn't
Speaker 1: go off this week on on Friday Night, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you know you've gotta start turning your attention
Speaker 1: back to Clyde Walford, you know, to to Nicoleary, to
Speaker 1: Durham Smith, to those guys, Dwayne Allen with those guys,
Speaker 1: and say, look, if it's not gonna be him, you know,
Speaker 1: we we've got to get these guys ready. Now. I
Speaker 1: I don't think that I don't think that that that
Speaker 1: you know, well, I can't say that I was gonna say.
Speaker 1: I don't think that they just you know, dump him overboard.
Speaker 1: But you know, if if he doesn't prove you know,
Speaker 1: in a pretty good strap steps, you know, I think
Speaker 1: he's you know, I think he's counting numbers there. I
Speaker 1: think week one of the positive things that I saw
Speaker 1: last week. At least they set him out as a
Speaker 1: wide out. They krew him a slant, they got him involved.
Speaker 1: Let's let's look for that this week in Tampa. Let's
Speaker 1: let's look for the opportunities of maybe it's a pick
Speaker 1: and he's getting the ball in the flat. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: outside and he gets a fade route in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they dial up some opportunities for him,
Speaker 1: because that might tell you think if they can do
Speaker 1: that and and he can make some plays, maybe he
Speaker 1: starts believing himself a little more. Maybe he gets his
Speaker 1: body language changes a little bit. Maybe he goes shoulders,
Speaker 1: here we go, here we go. Yeah, I've got it,
Speaker 1: because you know, I just see a guy. I just
Speaker 1: kind of see a guy that looks looks lost out there,
Speaker 1: and and it looks a good kid. I don't doubt
Speaker 1: his work ethic. I mean, he comes to comes to
Speaker 1: work all the time and to drive. But well, it's
Speaker 1: just it's it's it's something that said it's out there now.
Speaker 1: Now you know that's a rookie from last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: The other kid. And it's it's funny. We weren't talking
Speaker 1: about Christian Christian Wilkins, you know, the Dolphins first pick.
Speaker 1: I mean, and here's a guy who's been there every day,
Speaker 1: done everything. And let me tell you what we're not.
Speaker 1: We're not we're not not talking about him, not because
Speaker 1: he's playing well, because I just watched I watched him
Speaker 1: about five plays in a row in the game last week,
Speaker 1: and well he is just picking guys up and moving
Speaker 1: him in the backfield. You know, and and and as
Speaker 1: a defensive tackle, you know, you wanted to give him
Speaker 1: a field and you know his his thing is, you
Speaker 1: don't get this level is now just to disengage a
Speaker 1: little bit and make some plays. But but he's he's, uh,
Speaker 1: he's a beast out there. There's funny because Michael Dieter,
Speaker 1: you know, Michael Dieter, when the first time you lying
Speaker 1: up begets sue. He said he jumped off sides. You're anxious,
Speaker 1: you know he kind of jumped jump off Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So if you gotta jump off side, don't jump off
Speaker 1: against that guy. You're gonna jump off five times a
Speaker 1: game anyway, you know, let him do it. But but
Speaker 1: It's funny because they talked to him after the game.
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, you know, I know this is the NFL,
Speaker 1: but he's like walking to the line of scrimmers on
Speaker 1: line up. I look off, he goes, there's a Dominican
Speaker 1: sue and he goes, I didn't expect that. Maybe I
Speaker 1: got a little bit more of that, but a little
Speaker 1: bit more. Yeah, but he in tounso both kind of
Speaker 1: kind of jumped offside first play, a little excitement everything,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but but but Christian Wilkins. Uh. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's like I said, we haven't talked about him much. Um,
Speaker 1: but he's a defensive tackle. He's not making those plays.
Speaker 1: It's easy to talk about Preston Williams because he's making
Speaker 1: everybody because you follow the ball. But if you start,
Speaker 1: if you start, you know, you want to take a
Speaker 1: look at something. This week when they played the Bucks
Speaker 1: on Friday, you know, watch him, Just watch him and
Speaker 1: just keep your eye on him and see just see
Speaker 1: where he goes her he moves, see what he does.
Speaker 1: You know. The worst thing for a running especially rough
Speaker 1: for a running game, is when you've got a guy
Speaker 1: that's getting two yards in your backfield, you're handing the
Speaker 1: ball off and all of a sudden that that that
Speaker 1: played this designed to kind of go off guard. Now
Speaker 1: it kind of becomes a little bit of a bubble
Speaker 1: belt to get outside of that, and then you're in
Speaker 1: Noma's land. You know. One of the things I noticed
Speaker 1: watching the tape back against the Atlanta Falcons was Wilkins
Speaker 1: his ability to kind of get in the backfield and
Speaker 1: win immediately, but then locate the football and run latterly
Speaker 1: to get involved in the tackle. You know that he
Speaker 1: maybe it's two or three yards down the field, maybe
Speaker 1: it's a yard down the field, but he's actually active.
Speaker 1: He's a willing participant to get around the football, and
Speaker 1: he's not trailing from behind. He's taking the angles, taking
Speaker 1: the angle to where he's gonna buys he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna bisect him at that point and be able to
Speaker 1: make a play shortest point at John And so you know,
Speaker 1: it makes you know, it seems to be common sense
Speaker 1: if you're a football player, But I've seen plenty of
Speaker 1: guys where you know, they hit a guy and then
Speaker 1: they jump behind him. You know what I like, like,
Speaker 1: are drafting behind him and you're not gonna make any
Speaker 1: plays there and now you're behind the player plays Eddie
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, but you know, here's another
Speaker 1: young guy that that that that's on this football team
Speaker 1: that certainly knows what he's doing. And uh, he was
Speaker 1: a starter I think from day one. And I don't
Speaker 1: think you know to I think they're gonna take dynite,
Speaker 1: take dynamite to get him out of that spot because
Speaker 1: I think he's locked in the other kind of that
Speaker 1: DEFENSEI up front who you know what. It's one of
Speaker 1: the things we talked about during the year, and we
Speaker 1: talked with you know, coach Florence about a little bit,
Speaker 1: is you know, where do you get your pass rush? Where? Where?
Speaker 1: Where's it? You don't have that traditional Defensevean, you don't
Speaker 1: have Jason Taylor, you don't you don't you don't have
Speaker 1: Cam Wait, he's gone. You don't have that kind of
Speaker 1: guy on this team. Where do you get him? And
Speaker 1: and and so it's it's been a concertain to be.
Speaker 1: One of the pleasant surprises that I've seen so far
Speaker 1: has been Tank Carty. You know, Tank is a a
Speaker 1: big guy you can align up with that defensive end position.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a speed burning pass rusher. He's
Speaker 1: a physical, strong guy that can make things happen. So
Speaker 1: you know when you when you start kind of going
Speaker 1: through the different he is front four, you know, linebackers, secondary, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of questions about that flo that front,
Speaker 1: and I think Tank has kind of been one of
Speaker 1: those guys that's you know, he's kind of floating up
Speaker 1: the He's done a nice He's done a really nice job.
Speaker 1: Nate Orchard. I thought he had a pretty good game
Speaker 1: last week against the Falcons. You know, later in the game,
Speaker 1: Dwayne hask Hendrix did a good job of finding the
Speaker 1: quarterback albeit you know, with the backups in the game,
Speaker 1: but you still gotta win. You still gotta put it
Speaker 1: on tape, and maybe you get an opportunity to play
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier in the Tampa Bay game. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good things that are happening. I
Speaker 1: just need to I just don't know if there's a
Speaker 1: guy on the edge without bringing secondary pressure that's going
Speaker 1: to threaten a tackle that you have to bring it,
Speaker 1: you know, bring a tight end to your side and
Speaker 1: widen you out or chip against you. You know that
Speaker 1: that gives offenses a lot of freedom when you can
Speaker 1: just go five on you know, five on five and
Speaker 1: kind of block big on big. I I just don't know,
Speaker 1: John that I think this maybe a year and let's
Speaker 1: say make some p snow moves or something changes that
Speaker 1: you just don't have that guy, you know, Charles Harris.
Speaker 1: They've been you know, giving him the opportunity and and
Speaker 1: he hasn't flashed. He hasn't given you you know that
Speaker 1: you're not seeing that jump that you're expecting out of him.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a tough guy, he's a strong guy. Um,
Speaker 1: but but he's he's got to figure out some way
Speaker 1: to to to get around the corner and get there. Uh.
Speaker 1: All that that being said, you know, I think this
Speaker 1: team right now, it's a scheme defense that that's that's
Speaker 1: gonna get him their pressure. Whether it's whether it's linebackers
Speaker 1: coming inside outside, whether it's Jerome Baker, whether it's Making Fitzpatrick,
Speaker 1: uh you know whoever it is, Geko Uh. But you know,
Speaker 1: and and you know the this may be a season
Speaker 1: where you get your your your sack leader comes from
Speaker 1: the inside instead of the outside. You instead of a
Speaker 1: defensive end you maybe got you know, maybe it's uh
Speaker 1: maybe it's one of the defensive tackles. Maybe it's Christian Wilkins,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know who, but you know, it could
Speaker 1: be one of your line could your linebackers could do
Speaker 1: you know even more, one year when one of my
Speaker 1: years first year in the league, the first couple of
Speaker 1: years of lead, A J came in and, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we're both playing lineback, a little linebacker, and we're both
Speaker 1: leading sackers on the team for that that year. But
Speaker 1: just it just so happened to be that's the case.
Speaker 1: And and maybe a situation this year where you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the end of the year and you're leading,
Speaker 1: you're leading sack guys. Maybe maybe coming from that interior
Speaker 1: of the of the of the of the front seven. Well,
Speaker 1: if if you don't find it and you don't create
Speaker 1: a little bit of havoc upfront, sure does put a
Speaker 1: lot of pressure on the back end of your defense.
Speaker 1: And and there was a lot of pressure there early
Speaker 1: in that game. Last week, I thought, you know, Nick
Speaker 1: Needham struggled as a rookie, and he struggled on the
Speaker 1: edge of the defense, played better as the game went along.
Speaker 1: But this week, I think we're gonna get to see
Speaker 1: a little bit more Eric Rowe playing the cornerback spot.
Speaker 1: Is he the answer? There's a big there's a lot
Speaker 1: of question marks on this football team, naturally because of
Speaker 1: the youth on this roster. But I think on the defense,
Speaker 1: you know, you hit on two spots, can you create
Speaker 1: pressure on the edge of this defense? And if you
Speaker 1: can't do it by committee and you don't get it done,
Speaker 1: who's gonna hold up the opposite X? Because we saw
Speaker 1: against Tampa Bay in one practice. You know, you go
Speaker 1: away from xaviing Howard and you start feeling pretty good,
Speaker 1: then you kind of go towards him and he comes
Speaker 1: up with a couple of interceptions. You know, So I
Speaker 1: thought that that was a telling, you know, trait of
Speaker 1: this football team early is that, well, you better find
Speaker 1: somebody that's gonna have some resistance opposite X because if
Speaker 1: not as a quarterback or as a play caller, as
Speaker 1: a coordinator, I know where I want to go with you,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. And you know you don't want
Speaker 1: to be that you want you don't want to be
Speaker 1: that that wanna be that wounded out and handle open
Speaker 1: the serengetti, you know, running around with all the lions
Speaker 1: chasing people people because they're gonna run out, They're gonna
Speaker 1: run x X ways, they're gonna they're gonna go the
Speaker 1: other way. I'm thinking about that. But yeah, that that
Speaker 1: you know, whoever that is. And you know, right now,
Speaker 1: I think Eric Rowe looks like the guy that that
Speaker 1: would be the best, uh best outside guy, most experience,
Speaker 1: the most experience out there. But what if he ends
Speaker 1: up whoever ends up, whoever that guy is, you know,
Speaker 1: you better put your big boy pants on, because, boy,
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of football's coming your way.
Speaker 1: You're gonna be tested in a lot of different ways,
Speaker 1: and not only a coverage because you're gonna run down
Speaker 1: the field and you're gonna have to come turn around
Speaker 1: and come back and make some make your plays, attackling,
Speaker 1: the attacking by the line of scrimmage. Uh, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have a lot of work to do. And that's gonna
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a that is gonna be that that
Speaker 1: maybe one of them besides quarterback, that maybe this year
Speaker 1: one of the more more difficult positions on this team.
Speaker 1: That corner opposite X, because boy, you are gonna be
Speaker 1: a busy, busy guy. Yeah, if you've got a two, three,
Speaker 1: or four on your jersey that precedes another number, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have a chance to win it. And you're gonna
Speaker 1: get a lot of opportunity. And I think that you know,
Speaker 1: there are guys, you know, Jamal Wilts is a guy
Speaker 1: who's been playing a little bit of that nickel or
Speaker 1: or or dime when they when they get into that
Speaker 1: type of coverage. You know, Jalen Davis has an opportunity.
Speaker 1: I think Cornell Armstrong has an opportunity to be involved
Speaker 1: and and and have a chance to do something. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys that are standing in line.
Speaker 1: You just need somebody to start making plays, like like
Speaker 1: you see Preston Williams on the offensive side. You need
Speaker 1: one of those young unsunned rookies to kind of make
Speaker 1: a couple plays in practice to get known and then
Speaker 1: when when the game lights come on, can you get
Speaker 1: a hand on a football? Can he tackle in space?
Speaker 1: Can he do the things necessary to keep them on
Speaker 1: the field. Yeah, no doubt about it. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a good test Friday night. We still
Speaker 1: had another practice coming up against these guys, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, the one thing The one thing about it,
Speaker 1: you would think with Bruce arians out there that they'd
Speaker 1: be a little bit a little bit of uh, a
Speaker 1: little bit of fireworks in that practice field, you know,
Speaker 1: because he's a little bit of he doesn't mind throwing
Speaker 1: guys under the bus, and got guys like Google's out
Speaker 1: there that are they're kind of, you know, making their noise.
Speaker 1: And you know our defensive line coach likes to talk
Speaker 1: a little bit, so um, you know, things may heat
Speaker 1: up tomorrow and practice, but this is a good This
Speaker 1: is gonna be a good But these practices in this
Speaker 1: game we can are gonna be a really really good,
Speaker 1: good work for this football team. And and it's nice
Speaker 1: to see guys taking that challenge of taking a step up.
Speaker 1: But as we expected with this team, they're gonna be
Speaker 1: some guys that just that that you know, you just
Speaker 1: can't quite keep up with that pack, and they're analyze
Speaker 1: the The rub on this team is to just how
Speaker 1: good they can be. Well, you're only be as good
Speaker 1: as your weakest Lincoln's It's an old cliche, but this
Speaker 1: may be as cliche of a team as you you
Speaker 1: want to as you can with with with that common
Speaker 1: with that common The good thing about about having that
Speaker 1: preseason game and then coming over and practicing two days
Speaker 1: against the Bucks before you play your second game. You
Speaker 1: kind of set the bar in that first game. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody gets to watch that tape, and if you've got
Speaker 1: thin skin, don't go into those meeting rooms because there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of corrections that need to be made.
Speaker 1: Now where do you go from there? I think that's
Speaker 1: with this team in this coaching stap most importantly has
Speaker 1: to kind of go out and work on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Thursday to get ready for that second preseason game on Friday.
Speaker 1: You set the bar wherever it is against Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Who can rise it? Who who can raise that level
Speaker 1: of play? Who who can elevate their game to where
Speaker 1: you're getting talked about a little bit more in a
Speaker 1: positive light and you're getting closer to maybe, you know,
Speaker 1: challenging for a starting spot at defensive end, at at corner,
Speaker 1: opposite X, at wide out, at guard, offensive guard, you know,
Speaker 1: at the rotation in that tackle spot. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that were set against the Falcons. Who's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to elevate, who's gonna be able to raise
Speaker 1: their game. So when you look at the tape, So
Speaker 1: when we look at the tape on Saturday, you kind
Speaker 1: of go, you know what, I didn't know that guy
Speaker 1: played that well, he played better than he did against Falcons.
Speaker 1: He you know, he's improving. Or you get to see
Speaker 1: who's gonna play a lot as they move along in
Speaker 1: the preseason. After game number two. Yeah, yeah, So it's
Speaker 1: a continuation good work though early on here in Tampa.
Speaker 1: Expecting to go through the tomorrow and ill through uh
Speaker 1: the game on on Friday, another big test from the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and so it's gonna be still got another another couple
Speaker 1: of good days here. So, uh, we'll be back next
Speaker 1: week and we'll have the aftermath of the game against
Speaker 1: the Bucks. We'll start looking forward for the third game
Speaker 1: of Jack with the egg Wars coming down, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know that they're that's you know, that's the that's
Speaker 1: the that's the that's the telltale game. Normally Game four
Speaker 1: might be a tell tale You're right, remember, maybe a
Speaker 1: lot of guys that normally wouldn't play on Game four
Speaker 1: playing a lot on Game four, especially that offensive line,
Speaker 1: some of the guys in the on the defensive line
Speaker 1: of this and that. So we'll see. But this is
Speaker 1: gonna be uh you know, you know, it gonna be
Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting. I think the first three games
Speaker 1: for this football team and share equal weight. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that third one you circle you might it
Speaker 1: might be, it might tell that way, It might play
Speaker 1: out that way after Tampa Bay. But these first three games,
Speaker 1: everybody's getting in and we've got to see what we're
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