WEBVTT - Drive Time: Rookie Minicamp Report 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:05.440 You're listening to the Miami Dolphins Podcast Network. This is 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.639 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield. Back to throw to a 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:14.120 looking clips a dolt a wide Dolphin touchdown, ty Rick Caul. 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.000 Uncolievable, just blue. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:18.240 Byre for a second time. 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:20.840 Don knew where he was going right away. I want 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:21.880 to hit that man. 0:00:22.320 --> 0:00:24.200 I'm gonna help you. Someone will keep on your man 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.320 away Wattle, Wattle to a shotgun, back to throw, looking 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:28.760 at them. 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:33.560 Up Myers touchdown. It's Waddle his sixth touchdown. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:34.839 Pato, how's the King? 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:40.560 Drive Time with Travis Wingfield begins. Now, let me check 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:41.519 your pulse if you're not for. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:45.680 What is up? 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:46.440 Dolphins? 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.360 And welcome to the Drive Time podcast, part of the 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:54.480 Miami Dolphins podcast Network covering your team, your Miami Dolphins. 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:55.720 How's it going? Everybody? 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.120 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. On today's show, rookie 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:01.480 Minni Camp is in the books. We heard from the 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.880 guys and watched them on the practice field, albeit briefly. 0:01:05.120 --> 0:01:07.640 We'll cover all of that, plus a few more schedule 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.560 notes for your twenty twenty three slate for your Miami Dolphins. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:12.800 All of that in a heck of a lot more 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.240 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.319 This is the Drive Time podcast. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.520 May Before we get into football players on a football 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:28.000 field playing the game of football football, let's talk about 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.920 the entire NFL schedule. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.360 I had a chance to look over this thing. 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.440 I perused it, which some people think that means that 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:37.160 you glanced at it, but perusing means an in depth 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:40.120 study of something, and that's exactly what I did. So 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:41.399 I had a chance to take a look at that. 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:46.600 And here are my notes from that little Perusian perusing 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.280 perus if. There are no games for the Dolphins this 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:53.280 year facing a team coming off their bye week, and 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.600 I thought this was pretty rare when I tweeted about 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.360 it on Thursday night, but this is actually the case 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:00.200 for a lot of teams. There are two teams have 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:02.960 to play four teams coming off of bye week. Nobody 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:04.920 else has more than two. And then we have a 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.800 collection of teams that do not play anybody coming off 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.840 of a bye week. They are the Cardinals, the Ravens, 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.880 the Bears, the Browns, the Colts, the Jags, the Patriots, 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:17.000 the Jets, the Steelers, the Titans, and your Miami Dolphins. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.280 Now there are also some games where you have a 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.079 short week or less than usual rest type of games. 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.040 I always like looking at those, because, for instance, last year, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.480 a game on the road in Cincinnati and week number four, 0:02:29.840 --> 0:02:32.920 after just three days of rest after playing the Bills 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.359 at home here in Miami, that's what you are called, 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.840 you would call a scheduled loss. You're not supposed to 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.760 win that game after playing in the hot, hot heat 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.120 that SAPs you. Whether you're at hard Rock Stadium or 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.400 the Cassea Center down on Biscayne Boulevard, it's gonna be 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.760 hot down here, right, That's how it works in sports. 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.200 And so for the Dolphins playing eighty four snaps in 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:54.280 that Bills game on defense that fourth quarter against the 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:56.119 Bengals they couldn't get a stop, made a whole bunch 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:56.480 of sense. 0:02:56.520 --> 0:02:58.200 But anyway, let's go ahead and look at this. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:02.960 So here are the weeks that we have regular amount 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:08.440 of rest time the Chargers, Patriots, Broncos, Bills, Panthers, Eagles, Patriots, Chiefs, Jets, Titans, 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:11.280 and Cowboys. That's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:14.560 eleven of your games. We have six games where the 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.959 teams do not have the same amount of rest time. 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.200 It starts in week number five. The Giants coming off 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:22.080 a short week on Monday Night Football. They are at 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.280 home for that game, so it's a plus one advantage 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.000 for the Dolphins, and that means the Giants get to 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.160 go home at midnight, go sleep in their own beds, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:29.160 and the coaches can get up the. 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.320 Next morning and go to the office. Right. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.360 And I make that point because there's a game later 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.440 in the season where the team that we face coming 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.920 off of Monday Night Football is coming from a road game. 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.280 And I'll explain why that's important here in just one second. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.000 Week number eleven, coming off of a bye for US 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.760 gives us the plus seven advantage on the Las Vegas Raiders. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.960 Our first deficit is the Commander's game. They're coming off 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.520 a Thursday night or a Thursday, I should say afternoon 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:54.720 game the Thanksgiving game, so that'll give them a three 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.119 day advantage minus three for us. There's another deficit after 0:03:58.120 --> 0:03:59.960 the Monday Night Football game against the Titans, a sh 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.800 short week obviously minus one, and that's for the Jets. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:03.080 Boom. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:04.720 I don't like that we get the Jets on a 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:06.560 short week the first time shorty for them as well. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:08.040 On the road, and then they get us on a 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.680 short week again the second time, Come on, come on. 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:13.160 Then it's back to a plus one with the Ravens 0:04:13.200 --> 0:04:16.359 coming off Monday night football in San Francisco. And this 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.000 is what I'm talking about right here, having to fly 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.200 back in the early morning hour. So for the Ravens 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:23.520 on the East Coast schedule, the game wraps at you know, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.200 eleven thirty midnight, it takes you an hour and a 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.280 half to get on the plane one o'clock. You make 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.480 a six hour cross country fly. All of a sudden, 0:04:30.640 --> 0:04:33.320 you get home at seven am, nobody has slept well. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.880 You pretty much have to just cancel out the entire 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.280 review of that game and just begin your game playing 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.760 for the Dolphins, so they won't have a chance to 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.240 make the corrections like they would like to. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.080 It just puts you back quite a bit. 0:04:43.360 --> 0:04:46.360 It's akin to the Dolphins last year having to go 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.919 to Los Angeles on a Sunday night game, which that 0:04:49.080 --> 0:04:51.440 was flexed into primetime, and then they knew they had 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.440 the Dolphins and Bills on a short week in Buffalo. 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:56.400 Can we make decisions for the teams and not just 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:57.680 for the best interests and ratings? 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:58.760 And cash. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.920 No, but I get it, you pretty much wipe out 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:02.919 that next morning, right, So Tuesday morning for the Ravens 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.200 in this instance gets completely wiped out. 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:06.839 So there's a total advantage for the. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.599 Dolphins here of plus five days in terms of the 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.960 rest advantage, largely because we get the game off the buy. 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:15.040 And don't face anybody coming off of it. But there 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:16.520 are was it five games? 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:17.000 No? 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.719 Six games in total where the rest is not the same. 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.920 How about looking at potential trap or look ahead games 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:26.200 like I think for the Dolphins this doesn't exist this 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:27.800 year because they are one of the best teams in 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.160 the NFL, but it's still worth looking at. So Week one, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.880 the Chargers obviously don't play anybody before US, but they 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.839 play the Titans in Tennessee after US. For the Patriots, 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:38.960 the game against Miami in Week two is sandwiched by 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:40.960 the Eagles at home in Week one and at the 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.760 Jets in Week three. I mean, they're not going to 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.520 overlook the Dolphins, but those are two really intriguing games 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:48.920 with the Patriots, so they are sandwich between two high 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:52.520 leverage games. There for the Broncos, nothing two NFC games 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:54.760 the Commanders and at the Bears for the Bills in 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.279 Week four, they are at the Commanders and then they're 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.280 in London for Jacksonville and that's a big deal. And 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:03.279 you might say, why, Travis, they're playing that game after us, Well, 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.159 your preparation for the London trip begins long before the 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:08.960 week of the trip, and so you're trying to get 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.280 tickets sorted out, you're trying to get travel for your 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:13.640 family sorted out, you're trying to get your luggage packed 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:15.400 for a couple of games. And so for them to 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:18.200 go to London after our game, it's just something else 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:20.440 they would have in their minds as far as preparation 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.520 looking forward. I would be very surprised if the Bills 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.240 overlook the Dolphins. It's not going to happen, but it's 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.919 something worth talking about. I think week number five against 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.240 the Giants, we talked about the advantage there with them 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:33.520 on the short week against the Seahawks on Monday Night football. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.640 Then they go at the Bills after that, also a 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.520 primetime game, so it's like the Dolphins of the one 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.320 game they have there that's not primetime. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:40.680 That's a little bit interesting as well. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.640 Week six for the Panthers, they're at the Lions and 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.120 have a buye after our game. That's the case quite 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:47.520 a bit in here, which I think is a trade 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.680 off for not having teams coming off of buye. I mean, 0:06:50.839 --> 0:06:52.359 I guess you could make the point that they would 0:06:52.400 --> 0:06:54.880 like empty the tank, but this is the NFL. You 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:56.719 do that every single week, trying to win every single game, 0:06:56.760 --> 0:06:58.440 So I don't put a lot of stock into that. 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:00.800 For the Eagles in Week seven, they at the Jets 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.400 prior and at the Commander's afterwards, so a home game 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:05.919 stay much between two road games. For the Patriots, in 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.960 Week eight, they have two home games, they which around 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.000 the road game in Miami. They are home for the 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:13.560 Bills before and home for the Commanders after the Chiefs. 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:15.120 This is another interesting one. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.960 They are at the Broncos before the game against the 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.840 Dolphins in Germany. And I bring that up because, just 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.600 like I mentioned with our Week four Bengals game last year, 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.160 playing in Denver just it's a little bit different than 0:07:28.160 --> 0:07:32.440 anywhere else in the league in the sense that you 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.400 get a little bit more I hate to use this word, 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:37.520 but saffed of your energy, right like playing in the 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.119 Mile High City. It's a different type of environment, different 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.240 type of elevation, so you kind of have to prepare differently, 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.560 so to go from that to a then was a 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.280 twelve hour flight to Germany for the international game for them. 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:49.480 That's interesting to me. 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:53.400 It's like the worst possible case for them, you know, 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.800 speaking about being on the road before that trip and 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:57.560 then making the long trick over that's longer than the 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:58.680 trip is for US. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:07:59.480 Then they have the. 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.520 Bye week afterwards, obviously, but very interesting there. Week ten's 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:05.400 the bye Week eleven for the Raiders. They play the 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.040 Jets before the game against US on Sunday Night Football 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.600 and the Chiefs after, So that's like again sandwich between 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.840 two really big games, a primetime game and then the 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.680 Chiefs their big division rival for the Jets. In Week twelve, 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:18.760 they are at the Bills before our game and home 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.520 for the Falcons after our game on Black Friday. The 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:24.280 Week thirteen game against the Commanders, they're at the Cowboys 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.840 on Thanksgiving, then have the bye after our game, so 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.240 that's the ten day advantage for them there. Week fourteen 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:31.240 against the Titans, they play the Colts prior and the 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:34.480 Texans after both those games at home. In Week fifteen, 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.040 the Jets before our game or home for the Texans 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:39.880 after our game are home for the Commanders. The Commanders 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.640 are on this list a ton Week sixteen against the Cowboys. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:44.640 They are at the Bills prior to our game and 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.640 then have a short week after our game against the 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.080 Lions on a Saturday night game. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.280 In Week seventeen the Ravens again. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.560 They're at the forty nine Ers on Monday Night Football 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:54.760 prior to our game, and then finish up their year 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:57.800 against the division rivals Steelers, just like us against the 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:00.439 Bills and then the Bills in Week eighteen to our 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:04.120 game they are home for the Patriots. So really interesting 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.840 stuff there. I mentioned the Bills and the Chiefs. Travel 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.960 situation for international to me is a little bit intriguing. 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.320 You know, if it gives you one more play that 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.480 goes in your way that wouldn't have otherwise, that's an advantage. 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:16.920 That's so that's kind of what we're looking at there. 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:20.080 And then this is also interesting to me. DraftKings has 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:23.200 the Dolphins favored in eleven of their seventeen games this year. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:27.080 That's tied for the sixth most, behind only the Chiefs, Niners, Bengals, Eagles, 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:30.480 and Bills. It's tied with Dallas, the Jets, the Lions, 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:31.319 and the Chargers. 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:32.920 Of course, that's just for entertainment purposes. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.760 They're only and talking about projections and what you know, 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:39.560 certain folks think about this team's chances in certain games. 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.320 We also have a preseason schedule for y'all. No date 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.400 or time on the Week one and Week three game, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.400 but the week of August tenth through fourteenth, that is 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.400 Thursday through Monday for the potential landing spot of that. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:53.680 I don't think will be in primetime for these games 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.559 because typically what they do with the primetime preseason schedule 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:58.880 is they give the teams that don't have regular season 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.000 primetime games, they put him in these slots. 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.440 In Miami, we know has plenty of primetime games. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.120 But the first game home for the Falcons, that's probably 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.240 going to be a joint practice here against that Falcons team, 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.280 which that's a good roster in a fun or i 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.319 should say, a unique style of offense to look at 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:17.080 and approach and attack and defensively as well as dnps. 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.800 There but no time on that for that game, obviously, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.800 since there's no day for it. The Week two game, however, 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.920 in Houston, has a time and a date Saturday, August 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.760 the nineteenth at the Texans at eight pm. That is 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.880 probably going to be joint practices there in Houston as well. 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.760 And then week number three is TBD between the weeks 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.760 or on the week of eight twenty four through August 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:41.319 twenty eighth, that's at Jacksonville and no time there obviously either. 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:43.240 Let's go ahead and finish up here real quick with 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.480 some Warre and Sharp schedule analysis. He says the Dolphins 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.400 have the fifth most difficult schedule based on projected win 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:52.480 totals for twenty twenty three. I always like that over 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.760 twenty twenty two record because teams changed so much every year. 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.720 The Patriots have the toughest, the Bills have the second toughest, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.119 and the Jets have the eighth toughest. Typically, tough schedules 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.040 go by division. That's just how it goes. If you 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.680 play the same teams and if you have a good division, 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.880 you have probably have a tough schedule. We were one 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.679 of two teams last year who had one of these 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.240 seven toughest schedules in the NFL and made the playoffs. 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.600 The Bengals were the other team, and Warren Sharp talks 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.240 about how rare it is to overachieve with a tough schedule, 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.000 So that's kind of interesting. We've got three straight home 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.280 games but do not have such a stretch on the road, 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:26.920 so that seems kind of fair to me. After that 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.360 gauntlet last year of going out West for two games 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.440 against the Niners and Chargers and then going on a 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.960 short week to Buffalo, that was a brutal stretch and 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.800 we damn near pulled off all three of those games. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:38.720 Of course, did not win any of them, and that 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.360 was a big change in the way that season played out. 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:42.280 So there you go. 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:44.400 We've got rookie Minie Caamp coming your way next, some 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.079 practice details and hearing from the players themselves. That's next 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.320 on the Draft Time Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield, brought. 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:51.000 To you by Auto Nation. 0:11:57.840 --> 0:12:01.240 And then a football practice broke out and rookie Mini 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.200 Caamp is officially a rap. And this is probably just 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.640 an example of how football starved I am, but damn it, 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:09.640 I enjoyed that a lot. 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.199 And I looked like such. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.240 A dork out there, binoculars around my neck, notepad and 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:18.720 roster in hand, frantically writing notes and here are those notes. 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.719 So there's a lot going on out there. Right, so 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.720 I had to make some choices. The offensive line and 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.600 defensive line and linebackers were on the opposite side of 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.640 the field, so I just tried to stay with what 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.280 was in front of me. I did make it a 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.280 point to watch Ryan Hayes a little bit and a 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:36.960 little bit of James Tunstall, the offensive tackle from Cincinnati, 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.920 but got almost nothing else from those position groups. But 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.400 here's what I did get as the lion's share of 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:45.160 my attention went to Camp Smith, Devon a Chain and 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:49.199 Elijah Higgins Smith. You've heard this from the tape reviews, 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:50.880 but it's nice to see it here in the Aqua 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:56.360 Orange number twenty four man. He is a smooth, smooth operator, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.000 smooth mover. You get a lot of drills that you'd 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:02.400 see in Indie at the combine in the well Indies. 0:13:02.440 --> 0:13:05.040 Here the individual drills we call him Indies. So there's 0:13:05.080 --> 0:13:10.000 lots of backpedal drive, backpedal drive, side shuffle drive, backpedal drive, 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.559 like it's movement side to side, back to front, and 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.880 it shows you how guys, how loose they are in 0:13:14.920 --> 0:13:17.000 the hips, how fluid they are as movement. So you 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.200 get a chance to look at those really in depth. 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:20.960 Out here on the practice field up close in person, 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:25.560 this dude just glides all over the field super sudden 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.920 out of that back pedal, and that tracks with what 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.559 we saw on the tape. Right eyes in the quarterback 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:34.480 diagnosed the route from his pregames, his pre game day study, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.400 you know, throughout the course of the week, and then 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.520 just trust those eyes and go make a play. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:39.880 He's super long. 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:43.120 Looked like the tallest longest member of the dB group 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.000 to me just by his stature alone. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:46.760 Kedrin Smith is six to two. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.960 He's a little bit taller, but comparatively the length pops 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:51.160 I think in number twenty four. 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:53.560 They also did some work on the bags that you. 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.960 Would see from the defensive line, and he really attacked 0:13:55.960 --> 0:13:56.760 it with a ferocity. 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:58.680 You love to see impact of the bag. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.199 You could hear the slap from the other out of 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.320 the football field, ripped back off the punch in a 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.360 way that displays what I think is one of the 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:05.959 best parts of his game in the run support, in 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.720 the aggressiveness with which he plays in that South Carolina 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:11.240 tape that he showed you. And look, it's non padded 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.520 rookie practices here in May, but he absolutely looks the 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.520 part I mean goes fifty first in the draft, that's 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.120 kind of obvious, but also he was always the first 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.480 one in each drill. And let's go ahead and go 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.880 to his media availability here and hear from him, because 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:25.880 he talked about leadership, how to work the right way, 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:28.160 and what he's trying to get accomplished out here at 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.960 Rookie Mini Camp. I'm a tiny bit bummed because I 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.479 don't have the audio of him saying this, but he discussed. 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.960 I asked him what would make the weekend a success 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.040 if you were you trying to accomplish out here at 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.680 two days of Rookie Mini Camp, and he said, I 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:42.160 don't want to have any loafs as in my effort level. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.600 I want to be on tape every single play given 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.000 by all and also no miss assignment. So that was 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:48.760 kind of cool to hear from him. Actually, I had 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.320 that question across the entire panel, as it were for 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:53.920 the guys, and they basically said, not the same mistake twice, 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:56.320 don't be loafing out here and be on my assignment. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:58.640 So you can tell they're coach in a certain way. 0:14:58.760 --> 0:14:59.960 And I want to go ahead and play this sound 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.760 bite for you here because it talks about the way 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:04.960 camp Smith works and what's important to him. And you know, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:06.560 he had a baby girl a couple of years ago, 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.960 so fellow girl dad. He talked about how that kind 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:10.920 of just gave him even more purpose to drill down 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.320 his work in his profession. And this answer right here 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.600 to me tells you about the way he's wired and 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.960 how he wants to work. Because he was asked, what 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.840 have you been doing since you got here, he said 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:20.600 he wanted to come down. 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:21.920 You know, let's go adad and play the audio. 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.560 Uh, I mean, the last week ain't really been hectig. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:26.720 I've been down here most of the time. I got 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:29.640 a little airbnb out here, like before Camp start and stuff, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:32.160 so I've just been staying there. I left like two 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.080 days after I got drafted, so I was like, I 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:35.840 was just ready to go. So I came down here 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.320 and started working out with gofee, making sure I stayed 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.880 in shape, making sure I stayed good with everything else. 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:42.720 And again I apologize. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.520 I had a great question and ask with Cam about 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.760 what he learned from the USC program South kind about 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:49.680 playing at the National Football League. He talks about the 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.120 way they work and the concepts they run and the 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.160 systems on defense and how it prepares them to have 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.440 guys like Darius Rush who got drafted this year as 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:58.360 well j C. Horn, who was the eighth pick in 0:15:58.360 --> 0:15:59.960 the draft. For just a couple of years ago. Stefund 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.480 more years ago that school tends to breed cornerback play. 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.840 Let's go next to Campsmith here, who talked discussed a 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.280 conversation that Chris Perkins here on the Sun Sentinel Beat 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.480 discussing Clayton White at South Carolina. We're talking about how 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.600 one thing he noticed about camp Smith is his smile 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:18.640 and how he loves to play football. Here he is 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.600 talking about how much he loves the game and competitiveness 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:23.440 and where all that comes from. 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.080 I feel like it's really the only time I really 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:27.560 do smile a lot when I'm talking about football, though, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:29.160 when I'm on a football field and stuff like that. 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:32.200 So just kind of being out there showing my personality, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:33.920 showing what I know and showing what I can do, 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:34.960 it just kind of beatd me. 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:38.520 So next, in order of draft picks, running back devon 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.120 a chain and there's not a lot you can ascertain 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.800 from the running back position and individual drills. Right, It's 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.240 mostly quarterback running back exchange, working on handoffs and aiming 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.360 points for the back in the offense, and they don't 0:16:49.360 --> 0:16:51.440 open it up. It's get the handoff and then kind 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:53.880 of run through your target point and then go back 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:56.640 to the huddle. However, he did later open things up, 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.880 and the speed it is very much there. The part 0:16:59.920 --> 0:17:01.680 I liked the most was when they went to the 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.880 passing drills during individuals and the running backs run these 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.520