WEBVTT - Drive Time: June 3 OTA Practice Report 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:08.680 This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.320 What is up, dollphans, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.160 I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today show 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:20.800 we heard from coach McDaniel. Then we had a very 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:24.320 rain soaked practice and then we spoke to Austin Jackson, 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.720 Jalen Wattle, Patrick Paul Tyrell Dodson, and Jalen Wright who 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:29.920 at a seventy yard home run today on the ground 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:32.440 by the way, which we'll cover in the practice notes 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:36.000 from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:36.720 This is. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:39.360 The Draft Time Podcast. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:40.040 Jaffee. 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:46.279 Things got started on Tuesday, late morning, early afternoon with 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.239 Chop Robinson in the Orange Jersey who's been having a 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:50.960 hell of a spring so far. He was my top 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.920 performer last week, comes out in the Orange Jersey today 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.000 and just keeps things rolling with the way he performed 0:00:57.000 --> 0:00:59.760 on this Tuesday afternoon. But I want to go here 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:01.840 and ronological order, and we'll go ahead and play some 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.840 sound bites throughout this episode and kick it off here 0:01:04.880 --> 0:01:07.240 in the individual portions. And my first note that I 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:10.280 wrote down for myself to convey to you all was 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:13.240 that it was dumping rain out there, and I would 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:18.440 say probably the most rain I've seen in a practice 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:23.880 since the infamous twenty twenty COVID year Davy practice where 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.000 it was a literal, oh, what's the word, not monsoon, 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.800 a torrential downpour. I thought I didn't know what torrential 0:01:29.840 --> 0:01:31.520 meant until I moved to South Florida, and then I 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.759 learned what it meant because we saw a torrential downpour 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.920 and the ball was just bouncing all over the place, 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.640 off receivers hands into defender's bed baskets, and it was 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.280 a bad day offensively for that reason, and I felt 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.720 like context kind of got lost in the shuffle on 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:46.480 the way that practice was covered a little bit, and 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.640 today it kind of reminded me of the same, but 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:52.200 it was a much sharper football team, not in the 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.240 sense of the offense went out and dominated, because the 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.440 defense actually got the best of the day in my opinion, 0:01:56.920 --> 0:01:59.440 but the whole operation just looked a lot sharper, and 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:02.200 I thought it was worth touching on because that was kind. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:02.559 Of like. 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:07.880 The inaugural year of like the core of this football 0:02:07.920 --> 0:02:10.400 team that you saw come together the tu WA Draft. Obviously, 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.840 Austin Jackson part of that draft as well, and so 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:14.720 many key players that joined the team that year that 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.840 are still around and to see them, you know, five 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.799 years later after the fact, have a practice in similar conditions. 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:24.240 I just thought it was worth noting and kind of bookending, 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.519 you know, today with the you know, it wasn't even 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:31.160 May back then because the whole calendar got tripped upside down. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.560 It's not Meg today, it's June. I keep forgetting that, 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:35.960 so there you go. But I thought it was just 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.040 interesting because that was a big factor in the practice. 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.200 And also it's the first practice I can recall where 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:45.960 I wore a sweatshirt to practice, and the first practice 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.200 I can recall where I watched for you know, more 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:51.640 than fifteen minutes where I didn't sweat. So that was 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:54.560 really welcome here in the South Florida heat, a nice 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:56.639 little break from the from the humidity. And he we've 0:02:56.639 --> 0:02:59.320 had the last couple of weeks and I just wrote 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.280 a few notes to I talked about cater Co who's 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.960 growth and professionalism and full transparency. The cornerbacks work out 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.680 right in front of where the media sits, and so 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.520 it's usually the best view you gets. Those guys as 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:12.840 well as the edges and the defense, the whole defensive 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.400 side of the footballs on that side of the field, 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.760 offense on the far side of the field. So sometimes 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.200 you might get fewer notes from certain positions from me 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.640 because I try to watch what I can, so just 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.400 full transparency. But cater coo who watching the cornerbacks go 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.640 through the individual drills. I talked about Cam Smith last week, 0:03:28.680 --> 0:03:32.360 how his individual portions he just looks different than like 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.519 other guys in the group, and the way he glides 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.440 and moves around, and you know, I thought last week 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:40.160 was a tougher practice for Cam. I thought he had 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.160 a better bounce back day today, which it's tough for 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:43.920 you know, a person that comes out once a week. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.480 I don't have the full not that I come out 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:48.240 once a week, but I you know, it's open to 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.280 the media once a week. 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.280 It's it's you know, you. 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:52.720 Say like, oh, we had a tough day last week 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:54.600 and a good day today, Like what does that really mean? 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.960 Because there's practices in between, and it's more about the 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.960 overall body of work for these guys. I remember last 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:03.880 asking coach McDaniel last year, like, at what point do 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:07.360 you because he had made a comment about like this 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.520 grand evaluation and how all the things are considered, and 0:04:10.520 --> 0:04:14.840 they want to put players in positions to trust the 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:19.159 coaches and the technique they employ and utilize that and 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.560 trust it and grow from there. And it's like, okay, well, 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:24.400 you know, if you're learning a swing change in golf, 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:27.200 which we're gonna have some golf references in the podcast today, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.040 you wouldn't judge the way you would score when you're 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:31.880 going through a swing change. So why the hell would 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.800 I judge what a football player is doing when he's 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:36.360 working on maybe a new technique from his position. Maybe 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:37.960 he's playing a different side of the football and he 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:39.640 has to kind of relearn the other half of his 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.280 body mechanics to incorporate the same thing you have from 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:43.920 the other side of the ball. Like, there's so much 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:45.720 that goes into it, and so when I talk about 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:49.680 growth and progress, it's not the full comprehensive picture. But 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.440 when I'm talking about cater Coohu and these drills, just 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.360 the growth and professionalism and approach you've seen from him, 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.520 not that he wasn't doing this before, but really getting 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.360 my eyes on him and you go through a practice 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:04.240 and you just watch him steal reps where he can, 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.320 Like you know, he's often the side when they're doing 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.480 individuals and it's not his turn, but he's going through 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.760 the footwork ladder or you know, working on the technique 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.000 that he's going to deploy when he gets in when 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.159 it's his turn to run the drill. He coaches up 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:17.640 the young guys or so many young guys in that 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:21.280 room between Storm and Cam himself and you know the 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:26.160 udfas and bj Adams and gosh, I'm Jason Marshall, the 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.120 fifth round draft pick. I just think there's leadership qualities 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.640 that have developed there. And I feel like in a 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.200 year where you know, Ramsey's not been here obviously for 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:38.240 these practices, we'll see what happens with him long term. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:40.760 Doesn't seem like he'll be here long term, But if 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:43.440 that's the case, and a year after Xaving Howard, who 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.839 was a leader in that room, Like what I'm getting 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.560 at is that it elevates Cater's voice into one of 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:51.320 the primary voices of the rooms of the room. And 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.960 just seeing the way I think he like responds to 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:57.599 that and the way he's approached his craft, I believe 0:05:57.960 --> 0:05:59.599 that's a sign of growth and a good thing for 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:02.360 this tall cornerback room. But just in general, the way 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:04.760 he and Cam Smith move in that drill is different 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:05.800 than everybody else. 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:06.240 I thought. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.000 They both look smooth, and Cater catches the football so 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:11.200 well when the ball finds him, he does not drop 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:14.640 the football. And then I wrote down, speaking of the edges, 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.479 how explosive I thought Jalen Phillips looked man. They were 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.400 doing this two man drill where you essentially retrace screens. 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:24.920 And for those that are new to the podcast, are 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:29.239 new to football in general, retracing is essentially it defines 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.560 it in the word itself. You retrace your steps, so 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.159 you'd lose your keys, retrace your steps right, go find 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.000 out where you drop those keys at and on a 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.000 screen pass, the offensive line is going to invite you 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:40.480 through the line of scrimmage because they want you to 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.280 play upfield. They want you to run towards the opposite 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.520 end zone and screen the ball in behind you. So 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:46.560 you have to retrace your steps and go get back 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.760 out to the perimeter and find the football and tackle 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:51.960 the wide receiver and set the drill up this way 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.800 where there's no obvious offensive line, but it's bags it's 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.200 like the weight bags, right, and so they. 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.520 Would line up one by one or. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.320 Two by two I should say, with two of the 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.120 rushers and the bag would you know, invite the rusher 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:06.880 into the backfield and then they would have to get 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:08.440 eyes on a coach, which you have to have your 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.640 eyes up in everything in the sport, but especially for 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.320 a screen pass. And then much like the combine drill 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.280 where they point to a direction, you run that way, 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:17.360 that's what they would do. They would point the football 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.320 to the right, you sprint to the right. And Chop 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.240 is the fastest one every time. He might be the 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.560 fastest DAN player on the field. And I include that 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:27.040 with Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle not reality, but Chop 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:31.240 is different. He moves different, right. You knew that about 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.560 his draft profile. You saw it last year in games. 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.280 You've seen it this year in the spring ball. But 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:39.440 damn it if Jalen Phillips was not matching him when 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:43.480 they would go together and he had the ACL injury. 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.600 I'm looking at my team calendar on September thirtieth last year, 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:51.560 it's June third, so we'll call it May thirtieth, October, November, December, January, 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.760 February March April May. Yeah, it's eight months removed. You 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:56.480 wouldn't know that. 0:07:56.520 --> 0:07:59.320 He towards ACL late last September. 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.920 Watching routes on air once again, I just grow an 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.720 appreciation for the way Tua puts the. 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:06.600 Ball on the money. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:10.080 And there was you know, some sporadicness early on in 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:13.280 the drill with the rest of the quarterbacks, but like 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:17.560 it's one of those things where, I mean, the footballs 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.720 were all soaked, so who knows what the hell is 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.960 happening on any given play. We're sitting there under a 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:24.240 canopy that covers us the entire time, and it's dry 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:26.400 for me sitting there in my hoodie with my I 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:28.800 have a freaking, you know, warm cup of cappuccino, and 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.280 I'm writing notes about football. They're out there and the 0:08:31.280 --> 0:08:33.679 elements taking the beating from the rain. So I just 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.720 I think it's fair to outline that context talking about 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.320 that stuff because you probably see it from somewhere else, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:41.360 and I want to make sure that this podcast provides 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:45.640 ultimate context. And I also wrote down that I kept 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:51.960 seeing number twenty three move seamlessly and find the football 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.560 and then finish the interception. And again that's not an 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.040 easy thing to do in this weather, because you see 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:58.120 guys take their gloves off and try to catch wet 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.200 football with their bare hands because the gloves be come 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:03.000 more slippery, and you know how how sticky gloves are 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:06.960 these days. But every time the ball hit twenty three, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.080 it stuck to him and he was moving around there, 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:12.720 and I was certain going into this practice. I haven't 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:14.439 gotten to this point yet, but I will buy training 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.320 camp where I don't know all ninety numbers by heart yet. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.920 Number thirty three is who I thought Alardy Burns was, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.280 and I looked at my roster. Oh, twenty three is 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.760 already Burns, and I was watching him do his thing, 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.840 and I just thought he looked really good in that portion, 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.960 and I wanted to watch him in team drills, which 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.000 I made a point to do that. So we'll come 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.040 back and touch on that here in just one second. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:39.360 Jonah Seville colley Man, Jonah Savity Naya, there it is Boom. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:40.920 I just thought he looked like. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.360 And this goes back to the Campsmith comment earlier, like, 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.280 I don't have the knowledge to comprehensively cover every single 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.600 practice for you guys here, but from what I saw 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.760 last week from the opening drill to the end of 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.120 practice to today, I just thought there was like a 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:57.680 ton of growth that was tangible for the naked eye, 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.080 and they were running these drills. You know, this defense 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.080 loves to unveil their pass rush games, and they would 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.080 do that and he would he would throw a punch 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.600 and he would he wouldn't get leaned over his skis. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.560 He would stay in really good posture into a set 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.959 and just naturally settle into that position. And then from 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.079 there he can shuffle. And he's so big and dense 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.400 and and just a thick dude that it's it looks 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.400 easy for him to do that. So I think once 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:22.320 he kind of finds that comfort level and he's not 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:23.679 going to be there where he wants to be the 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:26.360 finished product until you know, probably the end of camp. 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.439 But I think that we are well on our way 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:31.439 towards Jonah being what you thought he was there at Arizona, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:34.040 just based upon how he looks out here in spring football. 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.480 And then Willie Gay's speed in person today was you know, 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:39.120 the first day I had a chance to really hone 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.120 in on him and watch him, and it was even 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.320 better than what I saw on tape. With the way 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:45.840 he times up his runs to the line of scrimmage, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.520 whether it's a pass blitz or you know run blitz, 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.520 and gets downhill towards line of scrimmage, even in an 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.079 install period where it's like, you know, there's no bodies, 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.079 they're just running around, you know, five trash cans for 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:59.160 offensive lines, which they pull out those big tubs and 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.800 they act as the offensive line just to get the 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:03.960 splits of the gaps for the guys to work off of. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.560 And like the way he explodes through that. It's like, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.440 I compare it to these these monster trucks my son has, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:13.040 which he is all about monster truck life these days. 0:11:13.200 --> 0:11:14.480 Is two years old. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.640 Too young to go to Monster Jam, because I feel 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.079 like he would love Monster Jam, but I feel like 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.079 he's also too young. But he has these trucks where 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.040 you pull them back and like it it you know 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:25.319 what's the term for that, It like locks in the 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:27.760 wheels to like once you put it down, that takes off. 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:29.920 That's what Willy Gay reminds me of with how his 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.760 first step explosiveness is. So that was the individual portion. 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.600 Let's go ahead and run some audio here. I am 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.400 gonna sprinkle this in as we go throughout the episode. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.760 Let's go ahead and start here because there was a 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:42.960 comment before practice that Coach McDaniel made when he was 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:47.079 asked about something with OTAs, and it evolved into this 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.800 conversation about attendance at practice. I want to just go 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.360 ahead and run this audio from Coach McDaniel about the 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.960 participation and focus of this year's OTAs. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:12:01.679 We've had unbelievable participation and focus. The focus in regard 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:08.079 for the opportunity, you know, for for for our team 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:14.200 in the offseason. It definitely, uh, there's been voluntary activities 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.640 that haven't appeared voluntary by the nature of their. 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:24.080 Approach. I'll say that it's you know, what I'd hoped 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:25.080 in that way. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.559 If that was a little bit too coach speaky for you, 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.760 and I don't think it was, but just to lay 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:32.400 it out a little more clear, like what coach is 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.640 getting out there is that guys have been here and 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.680 they've been locked into their assignments. I mean, we see 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:40.600 him running gasers after our practice, we see them doing 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.439 extra work to get further install after practice, and and 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.719 the way the defense flew around today, and the way 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.280 they played connected and communicative and just you know, kind 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.600 of on the same rope, I would say, as you'll 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:53.800 hear from Jillen Wattle later on. In fact, let's go 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.000 ahead run this audio from Jillen Wattle. I asked him 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:59.120 today about a dominant defensive performance where I just thought 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.640 everybody looked connected and in line with one one another. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:04.599 Let's go ahead and run this audio to close the 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.800 first segment that Gilen Walla talked about from what he's 0:13:06.840 --> 0:13:09.640 seen compared to year's past. Remember, he was a guy 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.600 that has been here for this is his what fifth year, 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:16.120 So he's seen these defenses change year after year and 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.000 have to install and kind of, you know, take the 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.160 brunt of the offense's best most practice days, especially this 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:24.240 time of year, because the offense is so finally tuned 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.680 at this point, but now as defense has some continuity 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:28.600 in their in their corner at this point. So I 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:30.839 asked Waddle, from your perspective, what have you seen from 0:13:30.840 --> 0:13:32.960 this defense and how they're playing in terms of their 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.480 connectivity and how well they're communicating on the backside. 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:37.440 I mean, it seem like they all over the place. Man. 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:41.040 They're saying, like they all connected, they playing together, they 0:13:41.080 --> 0:13:43.200 all playing on the rope. They're communicating good on the 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.200 on the backside, man, and they just overall the good 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:48.520 on all tharly level with man. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.000 I want to come back to that here in a 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.840 little bit. Let's go ahead and take our first break 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:53.920 and come back on the other side. Get to the 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.160 practice notes. I have a ton more media sound bites 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.320 for you guys. That's all next Draft Time podcast, brought 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:05.800 to you by Auto Nation. This particular SoundBite doesn't really 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.679 feed into practice. I want to just go ahead and 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.760 run it here off the top. Coach was asked on 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.400 Tuesday morning about John who Smith, and I just want 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.000 to go ahead and run his audio talking about the 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:14.839 Dolphins tight end. 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.880 John is a very important player person to me and 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.720 to the guys. You know, I think one thing that 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.840 we can stand on as his professionalism and how he 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.640 goes about his business. And you know, there's times that 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.800 business can play a part for sure, and it's as 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:41.680 it can make a team can make it as complicated 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.640 as they would like. If they have a lot of 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:50.080 time and to focus on what's going on with John Eu, 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.480 I would, you know, encourage them to focus on their 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:58.160 own game. Fortunately, I haven't had to have those conversations 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.720 guys have been very focused on what they can do 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.160 today to get better for the Miami Dolphins organization. 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.920 And just to provide an update on that, Adam Schefter 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:12.400 did tweet on Tuesday. This is per reports obviously that 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.400 the Pittsburgh Steelers will not be making a move for 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:17.920 Jonas Smith. He talked about Gabe Davis being a guy 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.520 they had in for workouts. The Steelers pretty clearly trying 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.440 to add to their skill group, their arsenal weapons there 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:27.080 for Skylar Thompson and Mason Rudolph their quarterbacks right now. 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:28.560 So that's the last on Johnny Smith. 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.280 Let's go ahead and get back to practice here and 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.760 talk a little bit about what happened on that football field, 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:34.800 and we kick it off with him seven on seven 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:41.800 work where there was to me, when there's this much rain. Offensively, 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.760 it really challenges you to be even more on point. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.280 Like the very first play of practice, Ta had this 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.120 deep shot to Devon ah Chan where he got a 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.840 step and I'll just say this, like, without getting into 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:55.120 the nitty gritty of the scheme and whatnot, I'm excited 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.120 about the next evolution of how this offense can take 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.840 advantage of you know, the way team have attacked it 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:03.200 in recent years. I thought the first play was a 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:05.320 good example of that, but Tua was a little bit 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.800 long on this deep shot to Devon h Chen who 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:11.800 got a step on Ashton Davis in coverage. And again, 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.240 just to you know, communicate this within the rules of 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.240 camp reporting, I'll just say this about the defense and 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.680 we're gonna jump right back into this conversation we had 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.240 with Wattall on the other side. The amount of presentations 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.680 I'm seeing and the post snap rotation and how just 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:34.120 well constructed and communicated a kind of tough to digest 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.760 scheme that looks like it has a pretty advanced stage 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.920 already being implemented from this fast menu, and we've talked 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.120 about on the podcast all off season. It's no secret. 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:45.160 Coach McDonnel talked about it on the podcast. Back at 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.400 the combine, Coach Weavers talked about it. I've pontificated and 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:52.200 had confirmation from players and coaches about how beneficial it 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:56.360 is to have that, you know, retention of staff and 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.320 scheme and structure. I think you're seeing that play out 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.880 and know the quarterbacks have had to be super precise. 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:04.400 The very next play after this, Tua had a shot 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.880 in the honey hole to Taj Washington. He couldn't quite 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.000 hang on, but it was a really nice anticipation throw, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.840 and the defense is challenging the quarterbacks to do that. 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.440 And we'll hear from Zach Wilson or talk about Zach 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.119 Wilson's practice in that regard here in just one second, 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:18.920 because I thought he had a big bounce back after 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:23.359 a slow start in this practice. But I'm really really 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:26.840 impressed by how this defense is moving and they're communicating 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.560 and I can't even you know, I try my best, 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:32.639 and even though it's not reportable to track all the 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.639 different you know, schemes and looks that I see, it 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.240 just looks like what you saw from you know, the 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.480 coaches that Weaver has talked about as his influences and 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.080 the guys he coached under who had three four years 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:47.639 to put their system in place. It's getting you know, 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:50.520 closer to that look. So that to me is exciting. 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.800 And then let's go ahead and run some audio here 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.040 because I heard I talked to Tyrel Dotson about that 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:56.960 and some of the guys on offenses too. Let's go 0:17:56.960 --> 0:18:00.280 ahead and play some audio here from Tyrel Dotson, who 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.360 I was. I asked him about the communication and how 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.040 important it is for the back end on the defense. 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:06.440 Yeah, you can lose a game, you can win a 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.879 game just off of the communication. Communication has to be 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.040 at an all time high at all times. So if 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:16.320 me and JB aren't on the same page, that's a 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.560 bomb over our head. Yeah, and just with the run game, 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.600 you know, this defense is built off the intile linebackers. 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.359 So if you can't stop the run or you know, 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:27.400 cover the past, you want to have a long day. 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:29.840 And I thought that was really worth kind of examining 0:18:29.880 --> 0:18:32.800 further because in this practice and practices of the past, 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:35.760 like Jordan Brooks finds a free run. In fact, one 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.320 of the first notes I had on the team period 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:39.560 was that he made a play that nobody in the 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.400 world was going to block him on because he keyed 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.920