WEBVTT - Dolphins Minicamp Day 1 Recap 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:15.440 Looking down Miami quarter n What is up, Dolph fans, 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:19.160 and welcome to the Drive Time Podcast, part of the 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:24.840 Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.680 How's it going everybody? I am your host, Travis Wingfield. 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.120 I thought about playing our victory Monday song on the 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:34.920 podcast here because I'm just so damn jazzed up to 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.000 be talking about football again, but I will hold back 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:43.080 until September. We're covering day one of Dolphins mandatory Minicamp, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:47.400 a big day from this revamped Miami defense, the offense 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:50.559 hitting some nice chunk plays, and all the details from 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:54.880 the rain soaked, monsoon soaked field out in Davy. We're 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.520 gonna hear from Coach to a Tongue La Noah, Igbanogeny, 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:02.200 Solomon Killey as well on this very busy edition o 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:08.679 t A edition of the Drive Time Podcast up first 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:10.640 on the polit Since we last spoke to you guys, 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.720 we had a roster move. The Dolphins brought in former 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:17.520 Patriots and Ravens offensive lineman. He's a guard slash tackle, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:21.480 Jermaine Illuminoire who's played both spots as a pro so far. 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:24.399 Last year with the Patriots and two hundred and one 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.039 pass blocking snaps. He had zero sacks allowed, one hit allowed, 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.319 and three hurries for four total pressures as an offensive tackle. 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.279 That stack coming from Pro Football Focus. He's played twenty 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.559 two games over the last two years and started eight 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.560 of those games, again mostly a tackle for the Patriots 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.120 in his run there the last two seasons. We have 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.800 audio here from coach Flora's who was asked about the 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.520 signing of Jermaine illuminoire. Let's go ahead and hear from 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.520 coach on what the newcomer brings to the offensive line. No, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.000 we're excited to sound Jermaine and then the time we 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:01.400 can we can add someone who's uh you know, has experience, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:07.360 has uh history as a starter and multiple positions, gives 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:12.160 us obviously no flexibility and ah, we think it's a 0:02:12.160 --> 0:02:15.800 good player and you know, well add competition to the room. Um, 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:17.440 you know met him for the first time yesterday. It 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:22.440 was excited to meet him and talk to him. It 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.840 seems like the type of guy we're uh you know, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:30.720 just from a personality standpoint, hard working and loves to 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.720 play and uh chomping out the bit to get out 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:39.400 there and compete and create an opportunity for himself, so 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.200 excided to work with him, and in order to make 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.880 room for Illuminoire on the roster, Miami waved tackle to 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.359 mown Paris. All right, let's go ahead and get right 0:02:49.400 --> 0:02:52.200 into the practice notes. Before we go back to media, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.359 we'll mix in some of the audio from media on 0:02:54.520 --> 0:02:56.760 Tuesday for you guys as well. Let's go ahead and 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.040 start with this, and just to set the scene for 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.000 you out of towners who were not in South Florida 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:06.200 on Tuesday, which basically became the Atlantic Ocean for large 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.640 portions of the day, it was a picture esque morning 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.200 all the way up until about practice started, even into 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.160 stretching an individual drills, it was just perfect. And then 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:19.520 the skies opened up for about ten minutes and we 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.480 were all as a group hopeful that that was it. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:25.520 But it wasn't. An oh buddy, was it not. This 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:29.000 happened several more times throughout the two hour practice session, 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.400 and it ended with what I would describe as the 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:35.880 Atlantic Ocean being tipped upside down and emptying onto South Florida. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.480 If you've ever been to training camp practices here in Davy, 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.920 you know the bleachers are aligned right alongside the field there, 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:43.760 and now it's the end line because the fields have 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.600 been flipped in the other direction. And the media sits 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:50.160 right above those bleachers on Press Row, and there are 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.480 these large tents that protect us from protect us from 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:56.640 the rain and mostly the sunshine for these summer slash 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:00.160 rain drench practices. But today it was so bad at 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.600 the breeze that was out there, and the heavy rainfall 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.720 was pushing the water in the rain through the side 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:07.760 of the tents. So I had to close up my 0:04:07.840 --> 0:04:10.240 laptop and just basically find a way to protect my 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.280 laptop from getting ruined out in the rain. And by 0:04:13.280 --> 0:04:16.040 the end of practice, the rain water was flowing off 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.359 the top of those tents in a way that looked 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.480 like hundreds of people were standing on top of these 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.039 tents and just emptying these buckets that had a seemingly 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.200 endless supply of water. Now, I'm only sixteen months a 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:31.600 South Floridian, but I've never seen anything like that. And 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.919 remember my first day at the facility last year in 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.520 August on the podcast, I told you guys a story 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.960 about the puddles, how I got my shoes soaked, had 0:04:40.000 --> 0:04:42.720 to come home and change and record the podcast from home. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.840 So the campus is pretty large there at Nova Southeastern, 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.680 and the walk from the stands to the building isn't far. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.359 But the problem is that uneven ground and so many 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:57.080 spots collects these giant pools of water. We're talking three 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.559 four five inches of water after just a few minutes 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:02.839 a few hours of raining. So I'm up on the 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.640 platform and we're doing to a tongue of Bola's press 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.599 conference after a practice, his media availability, which if you 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.640 hear that audio, you might have a better understanding of 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.360 how this day went. It was very difficult to hear 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.120 some of the people asking questions because we were essentially 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.599 inside of a washing machine. And so after two us spoke, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.560 he was the first player to speak to the media. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.839 The Dolphins had us clear out because lightning was starting 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.440 to roll in and they had to get us off 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.480 those bleachers and at the bottom of the platform, and 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:32.840 I'm on this side with Joe Rose and Natt Moore 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.200 and and John Kenemis in the platform next to me, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.000 and the Beat guys are all the way on the 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:40.000 other side of the platform, and I'm the last one 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.160 remaining on my platform, like the last one to leave practice. 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.400 So when they call us in. My only choice to 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.400 get off those bleachers is to step down into those 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:52.960 three four five in puddles, so tennis shoes and socks 0:05:53.320 --> 0:05:56.240 fully submerged in the water, the leg hair about halfway 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.760 at my ankle soaking wet. The shirt that I'm wearing, 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.080 which is a team shirt from camp last year. It's 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.280 a very heavy Nike material. It's my favorite shirt that 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.520 I own. It's so nice and doesn't shrink in the 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.159 wash and all this fun stuff. It just instantly because 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:12.200 of the material, captures all of this water and becomes 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:15.440 this like ten pound vest on my body from all 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:17.839 that water. And on top of that, I have my 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:21.080 laptop tucked up under my shirt running back to the practice, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.560 to the facility so I don't ruin it. So with 0:06:23.600 --> 0:06:26.440 these short pockets that I have my dolphins gym shorts 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.720 that are holding my sunglasses, the mouse to my laptop, 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.560 my phone, my wallet, my keys, and my AirPods, these 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.520 pockets are good for like maybe one item each pocket. 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.799 I've got all this stuff in there, and I'm high 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:41.440 stepping through these puddles running back to the office where 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.239 I find shelter and toss on a hoodie in place 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:47.479 of the aforementioned soaked T shirt. So we said monsoon. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.000 We were not kidding. An insane amount of rain fell 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.000 on South Florida on Tuesday, and so that was kind 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:55.960 of the story of the day, at least until the 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.039 defense got on the field in the team periods. And 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.000 one of the coolest hearts about watching practice with Joe 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:05.479 Rose and with not more and these legendary Dolphins, well 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:07.479 some of the commentary from the X players and what 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.560 they could provide. Nat was talking about how valuable those 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.040 practices because it gives guys a look at how the 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.800 conditions can be here in September and in October, and 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.400 you know for a Dolphins game. Heck, it's really all 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.120 year round. Remember the Arizona game in when Tannehill tried 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.920 to throw that screen pass and it slipped out of 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.760 his hand and went backwards for one of the most 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.520 prominent blooper reels in the last few years in the NFL. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:31.360 That was in December game. So this kind of stuff 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:34.480 can happen really anytime on the calendar. So Nat and 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.720 Joe loved it because they said, this is just part 0:07:36.800 --> 0:07:39.040 of life as a Miami Dolphin. They were there before 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.520 the practice bubble. They were used to practicing in the stuff, 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.600 and Nat Moore talked about how it's like catching a 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.080 greased up pig out there trying to catch that wet 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:48.640 football without your gloves, and he said the receivers just 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.640 it's a good opportunity for those guys to learn what 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:53.640 it's like to try to catch a football in those conditions, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:56.080 and two would later say the exact same thing. More 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.880 on that here in just one moment about practicing in 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.160 the rain. So there were some drop balls. There was 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:04.840 one instance where Read Senet, the Dolphins UH quarterback with 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.520 with Jacoby Bricetton too a tongue of bloa. Read Senette, 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:09.800 the other quarterback went to throw the ball and it 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:11.760 just slipped out of his hand and fell with the turf. 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.120 I think there was one failed exchange in the entire practice, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:18.480 if that one or zero. So really from that standpoint, 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.720 I thought the team battled the elements as well as 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.560 they could have, because again it was like practicing in 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.800 a swimming pool, and attendance at practice was great. There 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.800 was one notable absence in quarterback Xavian Howard. More on 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.200 that here in just a moment, and Mike GASICKI was 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.599 in the red non contact jersey with the land and 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:37.280 Roberts and Preston Williams out on the field, but they 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.400 were not taking part in the practice, but Gasecki was. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:42.079 He was out the running routes and playing in seven 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.240 on seven as well as eleven on eleven, just in 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.800 the red non contact jersey, and Jermaine Illuminois was out 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.959 there getting extra conditioning and just like I've never seen 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:54.560 heavier rain, I've never seen anybody exert more energy on 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.160 a stationary bike than what he did. Post practice. He 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:00.199 was getting after it. You could tell he need to 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:01.959 get out there and get going, so he was really 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.320 getting the conditioning work in. I also saw him at 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:06.440 one point walking through the stretch routine with one of 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.120 the strength trainers on the staff, which I wrote down 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:11.600 because I thought it gives you an interesting perspective about 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:15.160 the acclamation period and all the stuff that you have 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.240 to learn when you get to a new city and 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:18.800 a new team. I just thought that was some good 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:22.479 perspective there for Germaine Illuminois signing with Miami on Monday 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.920 and I pads and in practice on Tuesday. Some of 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.679 my other pre practice notes that I just wrote down 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.920 for the hell of it. I wrote, my god, Jalen 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.560 Phillips is built like a house. What an impressive specimen 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.800 he is. And I wrote the same about Malcolm Brown, 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:39.720 new Dolphins running back, listed at five eleven two two pounds, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.640 but he really carries it well. He's well proportioned in 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.880 that it's not all like in the mid section or 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:46.440 in the bubble or in the legs or in the 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.920 arms or anything like that. He's just a brick house 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.720 through and through a two two pounds. Then we got 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.680 into some football, some individual drills, you know, throwing on 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.000 air basically, some walkthrough type of stuff. And again to note, 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.720 the reason I want to set the scene for you 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.559 all is that I was without the laptops. I was 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.400 taking notes and tweeting all from my phone. And with 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:07.920 that and a two hour practice, you're just not gonna 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.439 get guys on all our eyes rather on all guys. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.559 You can't do it. So I did my best for you, 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.439 and here are my practice notes. In the individual portion, 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.320 the quarterbacks began by throwing the football to the backs. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.200 They would later go to the receivers too, but with 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.080 the first part of the backs, there was a great 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.920 moment where both Jared Doakes and Jordan's scarlet, a pair 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.000 of first year Dolphins running backs, Dokes a rookie scarlet. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.640 You know, a couple of stops in the NFL before here, 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.439 we're in two U's line of running some routes, and 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.040 after running different routes and catching the football, they both 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.560 came back and too approached either one of them for 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.319 a little conversation. There was some hand gestures and you know, 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:44.960 looks like some communication and coaching up going there. So 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:46.760 I love to see that from the second year quarterback 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:48.880 kind of taking it upon himself to say, hey, you know, 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:50.560 you can do this. And I don't know what he said. 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:53.400 I couldn't hear, obviously, but just communicating with the guys. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.320 It's a good level of command to have on the 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.880 offense for your young quarterback. My other note from that 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.520 period was that guys were really driving the football to 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.720 a launched a deep out from the near hash so 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.400 it's not the far side hash throw, but the ball 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.240 had no hump on it whatsoever on the trajectory. Just 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.080 ripped that thing out there. Looks good at doing it. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.559 I thought Jacoby was ripping the football well and then 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.600 read Senet He's got himself a bit of a howitzer 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:19.280 out there, had some nice rips on his throws too. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.360 Then I got my eyes over to the defensive backs 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.640 on the other field to really watch. I wanted to 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.760 watch a few of the young guys closely, no monogamy, 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:29.520 Javon holland Brandon Jones, and I'll tell you this, this 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:32.000 group is so much fun to watch that We talked 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.280 about the Birds in the Hoods last year, the game 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.840 they had where they were tracking, you know, scooped up 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.560 balls or intercepted balls or batted balls, and it really 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.120 created this level of competition, which of course then bred 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.520 the number one takeaway defense in the National Football League. 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:47.840 But these guys, it's like it's like it's own little 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.199 community down there. They're so charged up, and I think 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.680 a lot of that stems from what g A brings, 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.559 who is just always on ten and coach Burke's also 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:58.439 who does so much on field teaching. We talked about 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:00.360 this with Byron Jones last year and how much he 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:03.920 spent time pre practice working on ball skills and tracking 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.160 and locating and how to go up with the right hand, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:08.200 how to jump off the right foot, all that fun 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.240 stuff that goes into playing the football in the air, 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.680 and how good of a job coach burksdayed with Byron Jones, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.760 which produced his career high and interceptions. Then we break 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.200 into seven on seven's and the very first note I 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.520 haven't here was a ball was deflected and picked off. 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:25.640 And two it was the quarterback. And I had a 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.280 great view of this right in the path of the 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:31.080 flight of the football, and there was this eighty bitty 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.280 the tiniest of windows you could imagine that he went for. 0:12:34.440 --> 0:12:36.959 He shot it in there and Sam egill Vaughan made 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.760 a hell of a play to lunge in front and 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:41.320 get a hand on the football, and it popped straight 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.440 up in the air. And when it does that, you 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.120 know what's gonna happen. It's picked off by Jamal Perry. 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:48.480 And this was a theme on the day for the 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.240 Dolphins practice. The ball just kind of slippery, falling through 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:53.360 hands and getting batted up in the air, and plenty 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.200 of interceptions to go along with that. Justin Coleman pulled 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:59.040 one down. He skied up high for his interception for 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:00.679 what was probably the best a of the day for 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.920 my money. He went up with one hand to pull 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.719 this thing down. Kind of Odell Beckham esk to pull 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.240 down a Jacoby Brissette through. I'm not sure who he 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.160 was going for there. I didn't see the receiver, but 0:13:10.200 --> 0:13:12.959 an absolute hell of a play inside from a Dolphins 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:16.520 cornerback there and Justin Coleman. Then Nick Needham got himself won, 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:18.839 and that was an impressive play from the third year 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:21.280 cornerback where he really ran the route for the receiver. 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.080 The receiver sets it down a little bit of a 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.240 hitch route, didn't really come back to the quarterback, but 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:27.319 Needham saw that and fired out of his back pedal. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:30.160 And even with that, with Needham going upfield and the 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.280 receiver kind of planted waiting for the ball to get there, 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:34.559 the ball was kind of in both of their hands 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.679 at the same time, and he just ran through it 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:40.040 and simultaneously pulled the football out and went racing towards 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.319 the end zone for a return pick six. And he 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:45.320 was absolutely fired up after that. Love seeing that from 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.440 the guys having a good time out there playing ball. 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:50.280 Trull Williams got himself a nice pick as well. Javon 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.680 Holland Corral went on an overthrow and speaking of Javon Holland. 0:13:53.880 --> 0:13:56.600 He and Noah n Agaeny were both out after practice 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.520 after everybody was off the field, and everybody did run gasters. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:02.880 The entire team ran gasters to close things up. But 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:05.000 they were the last two guys out there, and they 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.880 really seem to enjoy it. I mean, playing football in 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.400 the rain. That's like the ideal day for the seven 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:12.520 year old kid inside all of us, right, So we 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:13.959 got to see that with the two young guys out 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.720 there enjoying ball, enjoying the fun time. I thought it 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:18.760 was interesting that both those guys were the ones doing 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:22.240 it because, as we've detailed here on Drivetime, both know it. 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.640 Igman Agony and Javon Holland's parents were world class athletes. 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.600 Holland's father a CFL star and then Agnogony's parents, you know, 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.200 world class olympians, and they both had strict training regiments 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:37.200 as kids. And of course there they are out there 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:40.200 getting their extra laps and after practice. So built and 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.120 cut from the same cloth there with Holland and Iguanogeny, 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.520 and I do want to address the you know, I 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.960 got air quotes on this on my notes Overthrow aspect 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.880 of the prior note talking about the halland interception. So 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.760 in these practices you don't have sacks because well, doi 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.080 we don't hit the guys in the red shirts. So 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.240 when pressure arrives on the quarter back, the rusher has 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.600 to let up and the quarterback will extend the play 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:05.920 and look to make something happen off script. And that 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.360 was the case a handful of times in this practice, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.240 and a lot of these plays, receivers will break off 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.360 their route and they'll take off upfield, trying to strike 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.760 the big play on the kind of scramble player, the 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.840 broken player, you know, the extended play. So there were 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.080 a lot of instances where the receiver was behind the defense, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.480 but the defender was in the hit pocket with the 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.920 quarterback on the move, and you know, just kind of 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.760 a bunch of chaos everywhere. So you have this tiny 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:31.720 window over the top. You have to loop the ball 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.640 over the underneath corner and not overthrow it over the receiver. 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.280 And really, again the first time throwing to a lot 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.720 of these guys in team periods, like a Will Fuller, 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:43.440 for instance, a Robert Foster, Jalen Waddle, these newcomers, and 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.960 in those conditions, those throws are about as likely to 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.000 hit as a half court shot, and not a half 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.760 court shot from Steph Curry or Dame or Jimmy Butler 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.840 throwing him in for the Miami Heat. But I'm talking 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:56.480 if like you or I were out there shooting a 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.960 half court shot, like, the probability of hitting those, it's 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:01.720 very very low. It's a tough throw with the conditions, 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.800 the chemistry still developing, and of course the scramble play there. 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.240 So when you call those overthrows, I take a bit 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.000 of exception with that. So the defense really got after 0:16:10.080 --> 0:16:13.240 it in both seven on seven as well as eleven 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:17.560 on eleven seven interceptions in total on the day. Williams 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:21.800 Holland Needham, Scarlet Perry, and Justin Coleman had the sixth, 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:24.240 and I did not see who had the seventh. I'm 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:25.720 sure one of the beat writers had that note and 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.400 thereby did not catch who it was on the seventh interception. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.920 My apologies for that. Also, two of the two of 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.240 tongue of Blows passes that were intercepted were those tight 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.480 window throws that just went skyward after getting tipped, and 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.000 a third went into the intended receiver's hands and fell 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.640 out into the lap of a defender parked right on 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:47.280 top of the receiver. So context matters in that sense, 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.720 and I love the way to a responded latent practice. 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.960 In the two minute drive, we talked about his EPA 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.240 and the fourth quarter is passer rating the fourth quarter 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.040 the winning time moments of games. I thought we saw 0:16:57.080 --> 0:16:59.160 that again in this practice or you know, two minute 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.360 period clock pier, whatever you want to call it. He 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.320 was really good in that era area. He floated a 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:06.800 beautiful deep shot down the sideline to Will Fuller, who 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.120 stacked the dB and hauled it in for a big, 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.640 big game, probably four year fifty yards. And there were 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.760 a few deep chances that to have put on the money, 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.680 but they just weren't quite completed. There was one where 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.640 DeVante Parker did a head whip. You ever played baseball? 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.320 Like the head whip is when you take the wrong 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.840 route initially in baseball and you're off to your left 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.440 and you have to wit back around to your right. 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:28.040 Parker did that because the ball went kind of a 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.800 sideways direction because it was one of those post play 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.400 scrambled drills where to have got out wide and threw 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.720 a ball up for Davante Parker and he's working for 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.359 the football, and I just kind of get the feeling 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.360 that maybe those balls are really tough to pull in 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:42.760 on a circus catch that he attempted to make, because 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:46.080 you're looking back up into the rain with the football 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.320 coming from the same trajectory really as the rain is 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.600 descending in that same way, falling right into your face. 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.520 So I have to imagine that's a tough way to 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.440 try to make haste down the field. He also find 0:17:56.560 --> 0:17:59.240 too a did found a really nice rhythm with who else, 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:02.840 former eMate and rookie of Alabama Jalen Waddle. I think 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.040 my favorite throw of the day was a crossing pattern 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:08.080 where to U saw Jalen coming from one side of 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.480 the formation and he hadn't yet cleared the middle of 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:13.080 the formation. With that mic linebacker typically plants himself for 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:14.919 the spot drop in the middle of the football field 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:18.119 and to throws it with anticipation to a spot and 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.560 Jay was It was real finesse and like kind of 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:22.960 softly laid out there so that the Jalen and the 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.240 ball kind of intersected at this point of the field 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.920 at the same time. And what that did was created 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.639 a really good run and catch opportunity right on the 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:33.320 other side of the middle of the field, right on 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:36.040 the other side of that middle defender in the middle 0:18:36.080 --> 0:18:38.359 of the field there, and now we aren't hitting our 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.080 guys here. But I think Jalen, based on what we've 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.840 seen in his college tape and you know everything else, 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.280 could have made something happen on that one to take 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:49.200 what was a twelve or fifteen yard game and possibly 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.199 turn it into a house call from you know, the 0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:53.320 wrong side of the fifty yard line, so a possible 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:56.199 long touchdown there. We can't forecast that because we don't know, 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.399 and we obviously want to tackle a guy, but just 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.480 the space that he had on that play and the 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.240