Speaker 1: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 2: What is up, dollphans, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today show
Speaker 2: we heard from coach McDaniel. Then we had a very
Speaker 2: rain soaked practice and then we spoke to Austin Jackson,
Speaker 2: Jalen Wattle, Patrick Paul Tyrell Dodson, and Jalen Wright who
Speaker 2: at a seventy yard home run today on the ground
Speaker 2: by the way, which we'll cover in the practice notes
Speaker 2: from the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is.
Speaker 1: The Draft Time Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Things got started on Tuesday, late morning, early afternoon with
Speaker 2: Chop Robinson in the Orange Jersey who's been having a
Speaker 2: hell of a spring so far. He was my top
Speaker 2: performer last week, comes out in the Orange Jersey today
Speaker 2: and just keeps things rolling with the way he performed
Speaker 2: on this Tuesday afternoon. But I want to go here
Speaker 2: and ronological order, and we'll go ahead and play some
Speaker 2: sound bites throughout this episode and kick it off here
Speaker 2: in the individual portions. And my first note that I
Speaker 2: wrote down for myself to convey to you all was
Speaker 2: that it was dumping rain out there, and I would
Speaker 2: say probably the most rain I've seen in a practice
Speaker 2: since the infamous twenty twenty COVID year Davy practice where
Speaker 2: it was a literal, oh, what's the word, not monsoon,
Speaker 2: a torrential downpour. I thought I didn't know what torrential
Speaker 2: meant until I moved to South Florida, and then I
Speaker 2: learned what it meant because we saw a torrential downpour
Speaker 2: and the ball was just bouncing all over the place,
Speaker 2: off receivers hands into defender's bed baskets, and it was
Speaker 2: a bad day offensively for that reason, and I felt
Speaker 2: like context kind of got lost in the shuffle on
Speaker 2: the way that practice was covered a little bit, and
Speaker 2: today it kind of reminded me of the same, but
Speaker 2: it was a much sharper football team, not in the
Speaker 2: sense of the offense went out and dominated, because the
Speaker 2: defense actually got the best of the day in my opinion,
Speaker 2: but the whole operation just looked a lot sharper, and
Speaker 2: I thought it was worth touching on because that was kind.
Speaker 1: Of like.
Speaker 2: The inaugural year of like the core of this football
Speaker 2: team that you saw come together the tu WA Draft. Obviously,
Speaker 2: Austin Jackson part of that draft as well, and so
Speaker 2: many key players that joined the team that year that
Speaker 2: are still around and to see them, you know, five
Speaker 2: years later after the fact, have a practice in similar conditions.
Speaker 2: I just thought it was worth noting and kind of bookending,
Speaker 2: you know, today with the you know, it wasn't even
Speaker 2: May back then because the whole calendar got tripped upside down.
Speaker 2: It's not Meg today, it's June. I keep forgetting that,
Speaker 2: so there you go. But I thought it was just
Speaker 2: interesting because that was a big factor in the practice.
Speaker 2: And also it's the first practice I can recall where
Speaker 2: I wore a sweatshirt to practice, and the first practice
Speaker 2: I can recall where I watched for you know, more
Speaker 2: than fifteen minutes where I didn't sweat. So that was
Speaker 2: really welcome here in the South Florida heat, a nice
Speaker 2: little break from the from the humidity. And he we've
Speaker 2: had the last couple of weeks and I just wrote
Speaker 2: a few notes to I talked about cater Co who's
Speaker 2: growth and professionalism and full transparency. The cornerbacks work out
Speaker 2: right in front of where the media sits, and so
Speaker 2: it's usually the best view you gets. Those guys as
Speaker 2: well as the edges and the defense, the whole defensive
Speaker 2: side of the footballs on that side of the field,
Speaker 2: offense on the far side of the field. So sometimes
Speaker 2: you might get fewer notes from certain positions from me
Speaker 2: because I try to watch what I can, so just
Speaker 2: full transparency. But cater coo who watching the cornerbacks go
Speaker 2: through the individual drills. I talked about Cam Smith last week,
Speaker 2: how his individual portions he just looks different than like
Speaker 2: other guys in the group, and the way he glides
Speaker 2: and moves around, and you know, I thought last week
Speaker 2: was a tougher practice for Cam. I thought he had
Speaker 2: a better bounce back day today, which it's tough for
Speaker 2: you know, a person that comes out once a week.
Speaker 2: I don't have the full not that I come out
Speaker 2: once a week, but I you know, it's open to
Speaker 2: the media once a week.
Speaker 1: It's it's you know, you.
Speaker 2: Say like, oh, we had a tough day last week
Speaker 2: and a good day today, Like what does that really mean?
Speaker 2: Because there's practices in between, and it's more about the
Speaker 2: overall body of work for these guys. I remember last
Speaker 2: asking coach McDaniel last year, like, at what point do
Speaker 2: you because he had made a comment about like this
Speaker 2: grand evaluation and how all the things are considered, and
Speaker 2: they want to put players in positions to trust the
Speaker 2: coaches and the technique they employ and utilize that and
Speaker 2: trust it and grow from there. And it's like, okay, well,
Speaker 2: you know, if you're learning a swing change in golf,
Speaker 2: which we're gonna have some golf references in the podcast today,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't judge the way you would score when you're
Speaker 2: going through a swing change. So why the hell would
Speaker 2: I judge what a football player is doing when he's
Speaker 2: working on maybe a new technique from his position. Maybe
Speaker 2: he's playing a different side of the football and he
Speaker 2: has to kind of relearn the other half of his
Speaker 2: body mechanics to incorporate the same thing you have from
Speaker 2: the other side of the ball. Like, there's so much
Speaker 2: that goes into it, and so when I talk about
Speaker 2: growth and progress, it's not the full comprehensive picture. But
Speaker 2: when I'm talking about cater Coohu and these drills, just
Speaker 2: the growth and professionalism and approach you've seen from him,
Speaker 2: not that he wasn't doing this before, but really getting
Speaker 2: my eyes on him and you go through a practice
Speaker 2: and you just watch him steal reps where he can,
Speaker 2: Like you know, he's often the side when they're doing
Speaker 2: individuals and it's not his turn, but he's going through
Speaker 2: the footwork ladder or you know, working on the technique
Speaker 2: that he's going to deploy when he gets in when
Speaker 2: it's his turn to run the drill. He coaches up
Speaker 2: the young guys or so many young guys in that
Speaker 2: room between Storm and Cam himself and you know the
Speaker 2: udfas and bj Adams and gosh, I'm Jason Marshall, the
Speaker 2: fifth round draft pick. I just think there's leadership qualities
Speaker 2: that have developed there. And I feel like in a
Speaker 2: year where you know, Ramsey's not been here obviously for
Speaker 2: these practices, we'll see what happens with him long term.
Speaker 2: Doesn't seem like he'll be here long term, But if
Speaker 2: that's the case, and a year after Xaving Howard, who
Speaker 2: was a leader in that room, Like what I'm getting
Speaker 2: at is that it elevates Cater's voice into one of
Speaker 2: the primary voices of the rooms of the room. And
Speaker 2: just seeing the way I think he like responds to
Speaker 2: that and the way he's approached his craft, I believe
Speaker 2: that's a sign of growth and a good thing for
Speaker 2: this tall cornerback room. But just in general, the way
Speaker 2: he and Cam Smith move in that drill is different
Speaker 2: than everybody else.
Speaker 1: I thought.
Speaker 2: They both look smooth, and Cater catches the football so
Speaker 2: well when the ball finds him, he does not drop
Speaker 2: the football. And then I wrote down, speaking of the edges,
Speaker 2: how explosive I thought Jalen Phillips looked man. They were
Speaker 2: doing this two man drill where you essentially retrace screens.
Speaker 2: And for those that are new to the podcast, are
Speaker 2: new to football in general, retracing is essentially it defines
Speaker 2: it in the word itself. You retrace your steps, so
Speaker 2: you'd lose your keys, retrace your steps right, go find
Speaker 2: out where you drop those keys at and on a
Speaker 2: screen pass, the offensive line is going to invite you
Speaker 2: through the line of scrimmage because they want you to
Speaker 2: play upfield. They want you to run towards the opposite
Speaker 2: end zone and screen the ball in behind you. So
Speaker 2: you have to retrace your steps and go get back
Speaker 2: out to the perimeter and find the football and tackle
Speaker 2: the wide receiver and set the drill up this way
Speaker 2: where there's no obvious offensive line, but it's bags it's
Speaker 2: like the weight bags, right, and so they.
Speaker 1: Would line up one by one or.
Speaker 2: Two by two I should say, with two of the
Speaker 2: rushers and the bag would you know, invite the rusher
Speaker 2: into the backfield and then they would have to get
Speaker 2: eyes on a coach, which you have to have your
Speaker 2: eyes up in everything in the sport, but especially for
Speaker 2: a screen pass. And then much like the combine drill
Speaker 2: where they point to a direction, you run that way,
Speaker 2: that's what they would do. They would point the football
Speaker 2: to the right, you sprint to the right. And Chop
Speaker 2: is the fastest one every time. He might be the
Speaker 2: fastest DAN player on the field. And I include that
Speaker 2: with Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle not reality, but Chop
Speaker 2: is different. He moves different, right. You knew that about
Speaker 2: his draft profile. You saw it last year in games.
Speaker 2: You've seen it this year in the spring ball. But
Speaker 2: damn it if Jalen Phillips was not matching him when
Speaker 2: they would go together and he had the ACL injury.
Speaker 2: I'm looking at my team calendar on September thirtieth last year,
Speaker 2: it's June third, so we'll call it May thirtieth, October, November, December, January,
Speaker 2: February March April May. Yeah, it's eight months removed. You
Speaker 2: wouldn't know that.
Speaker 1: He towards ACL late last September.
Speaker 2: Watching routes on air once again, I just grow an
Speaker 2: appreciation for the way Tua puts the.
Speaker 1: Ball on the money.
Speaker 2: And there was you know, some sporadicness early on in
Speaker 2: the drill with the rest of the quarterbacks, but like
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where, I mean, the footballs
Speaker 2: were all soaked, so who knows what the hell is
Speaker 2: happening on any given play. We're sitting there under a
Speaker 2: canopy that covers us the entire time, and it's dry
Speaker 2: for me sitting there in my hoodie with my I
Speaker 2: have a freaking, you know, warm cup of cappuccino, and
Speaker 2: I'm writing notes about football. They're out there and the
Speaker 2: elements taking the beating from the rain. So I just
Speaker 2: I think it's fair to outline that context talking about
Speaker 2: that stuff because you probably see it from somewhere else,
Speaker 2: and I want to make sure that this podcast provides
Speaker 2: ultimate context. And I also wrote down that I kept
Speaker 2: seeing number twenty three move seamlessly and find the football
Speaker 2: and then finish the interception. And again that's not an
Speaker 2: easy thing to do in this weather, because you see
Speaker 2: guys take their gloves off and try to catch wet
Speaker 2: football with their bare hands because the gloves be come
Speaker 2: more slippery, and you know how how sticky gloves are
Speaker 2: these days. But every time the ball hit twenty three,
Speaker 2: it stuck to him and he was moving around there,
Speaker 2: and I was certain going into this practice. I haven't
Speaker 2: gotten to this point yet, but I will buy training
Speaker 2: camp where I don't know all ninety numbers by heart yet.
Speaker 2: Number thirty three is who I thought Alardy Burns was,
Speaker 2: and I looked at my roster. Oh, twenty three is
Speaker 2: already Burns, and I was watching him do his thing,
Speaker 2: and I just thought he looked really good in that portion,
Speaker 2: and I wanted to watch him in team drills, which
Speaker 2: I made a point to do that. So we'll come
Speaker 2: back and touch on that here in just one second.
Speaker 2: Jonah Seville colley Man, Jonah Savity Naya, there it is Boom.
Speaker 1: I just thought he looked like.
Speaker 2: And this goes back to the Campsmith comment earlier, like,
Speaker 2: I don't have the knowledge to comprehensively cover every single
Speaker 2: practice for you guys here, but from what I saw
Speaker 2: last week from the opening drill to the end of
Speaker 2: practice to today, I just thought there was like a
Speaker 2: ton of growth that was tangible for the naked eye,
Speaker 2: and they were running these drills. You know, this defense
Speaker 2: loves to unveil their pass rush games, and they would
Speaker 2: do that and he would he would throw a punch
Speaker 2: and he would he wouldn't get leaned over his skis.
Speaker 2: He would stay in really good posture into a set
Speaker 2: and just naturally settle into that position. And then from
Speaker 2: there he can shuffle. And he's so big and dense
Speaker 2: and and just a thick dude that it's it looks
Speaker 2: easy for him to do that. So I think once
Speaker 2: he kind of finds that comfort level and he's not
Speaker 2: going to be there where he wants to be the
Speaker 2: finished product until you know, probably the end of camp.
Speaker 2: But I think that we are well on our way
Speaker 2: towards Jonah being what you thought he was there at Arizona,
Speaker 2: just based upon how he looks out here in spring football.
Speaker 2: And then Willie Gay's speed in person today was you know,
Speaker 2: the first day I had a chance to really hone
Speaker 2: in on him and watch him, and it was even
Speaker 2: better than what I saw on tape. With the way
Speaker 2: he times up his runs to the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 2: whether it's a pass blitz or you know run blitz,
Speaker 2: and gets downhill towards line of scrimmage, even in an
Speaker 2: install period where it's like, you know, there's no bodies,
Speaker 2: they're just running around, you know, five trash cans for
Speaker 2: offensive lines, which they pull out those big tubs and
Speaker 2: they act as the offensive line just to get the
Speaker 2: splits of the gaps for the guys to work off of.
Speaker 2: And like the way he explodes through that. It's like,
Speaker 2: I compare it to these these monster trucks my son has,
Speaker 2: which he is all about monster truck life these days.
Speaker 1: Is two years old.
Speaker 2: Too young to go to Monster Jam, because I feel
Speaker 2: like he would love Monster Jam, but I feel like
Speaker 2: he's also too young. But he has these trucks where
Speaker 2: you pull them back and like it it you know
Speaker 2: what's the term for that, It like locks in the
Speaker 2: wheels to like once you put it down, that takes off.
Speaker 2: That's what Willy Gay reminds me of with how his
Speaker 2: first step explosiveness is. So that was the individual portion.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and run some audio here. I am
Speaker 2: gonna sprinkle this in as we go throughout the episode.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and start here because there was a
Speaker 2: comment before practice that Coach McDaniel made when he was
Speaker 2: asked about something with OTAs, and it evolved into this
Speaker 2: conversation about attendance at practice. I want to just go
Speaker 2: ahead and run this audio from Coach McDaniel about the
Speaker 2: participation and focus of this year's OTAs.
Speaker 4: We've had unbelievable participation and focus. The focus in regard
Speaker 4: for the opportunity, you know, for for for our team
Speaker 4: in the offseason. It definitely, uh, there's been voluntary activities
Speaker 4: that haven't appeared voluntary by the nature of their.
Speaker 1: Approach. I'll say that it's you know, what I'd hoped
Speaker 1: in that way.
Speaker 2: If that was a little bit too coach speaky for you,
Speaker 2: and I don't think it was, but just to lay
Speaker 2: it out a little more clear, like what coach is
Speaker 2: getting out there is that guys have been here and
Speaker 2: they've been locked into their assignments. I mean, we see
Speaker 2: him running gasers after our practice, we see them doing
Speaker 2: extra work to get further install after practice, and and
Speaker 2: the way the defense flew around today, and the way
Speaker 2: they played connected and communicative and just you know, kind
Speaker 2: of on the same rope, I would say, as you'll
Speaker 2: hear from Jillen Wattle later on. In fact, let's go
Speaker 2: ahead run this audio from Jillen Wattle. I asked him
Speaker 2: today about a dominant defensive performance where I just thought
Speaker 2: everybody looked connected and in line with one one another.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and run this audio to close the
Speaker 2: first segment that Gilen Walla talked about from what he's
Speaker 2: seen compared to year's past. Remember, he was a guy
Speaker 2: that has been here for this is his what fifth year,
Speaker 2: So he's seen these defenses change year after year and
Speaker 2: have to install and kind of, you know, take the
Speaker 2: brunt of the offense's best most practice days, especially this
Speaker 2: time of year, because the offense is so finally tuned
Speaker 2: at this point, but now as defense has some continuity
Speaker 2: in their in their corner at this point. So I
Speaker 2: asked Waddle, from your perspective, what have you seen from
Speaker 2: this defense and how they're playing in terms of their
Speaker 2: connectivity and how well they're communicating on the backside.
Speaker 3: I mean, it seem like they all over the place. Man.
Speaker 3: They're saying, like they all connected, they playing together, they
Speaker 3: all playing on the rope. They're communicating good on the
Speaker 3: on the backside, man, and they just overall the good
Speaker 3: on all tharly level with man.
Speaker 2: I want to come back to that here in a
Speaker 2: little bit. Let's go ahead and take our first break
Speaker 2: and come back on the other side. Get to the
Speaker 2: practice notes. I have a ton more media sound bites
Speaker 2: for you guys. That's all next Draft Time podcast, brought
Speaker 2: to you by Auto Nation. This particular SoundBite doesn't really
Speaker 2: feed into practice. I want to just go ahead and
Speaker 2: run it here off the top. Coach was asked on
Speaker 2: Tuesday morning about John who Smith, and I just want
Speaker 2: to go ahead and run his audio talking about the
Speaker 2: Dolphins tight end.
Speaker 4: John is a very important player person to me and
Speaker 4: to the guys. You know, I think one thing that
Speaker 4: we can stand on as his professionalism and how he
Speaker 4: goes about his business. And you know, there's times that
Speaker 4: business can play a part for sure, and it's as
Speaker 4: it can make a team can make it as complicated
Speaker 4: as they would like. If they have a lot of
Speaker 4: time and to focus on what's going on with John Eu,
Speaker 4: I would, you know, encourage them to focus on their
Speaker 4: own game. Fortunately, I haven't had to have those conversations
Speaker 4: guys have been very focused on what they can do
Speaker 4: today to get better for the Miami Dolphins organization.
Speaker 2: And just to provide an update on that, Adam Schefter
Speaker 2: did tweet on Tuesday. This is per reports obviously that
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers will not be making a move for
Speaker 2: Jonas Smith. He talked about Gabe Davis being a guy
Speaker 2: they had in for workouts. The Steelers pretty clearly trying
Speaker 2: to add to their skill group, their arsenal weapons there
Speaker 2: for Skylar Thompson and Mason Rudolph their quarterbacks right now.
Speaker 1: So that's the last on Johnny Smith.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and get back to practice here and
Speaker 2: talk a little bit about what happened on that football field,
Speaker 2: and we kick it off with him seven on seven
Speaker 2: work where there was to me, when there's this much rain. Offensively,
Speaker 2: it really challenges you to be even more on point.
Speaker 2: Like the very first play of practice, Ta had this
Speaker 2: deep shot to Devon ah Chan where he got a
Speaker 2: step and I'll just say this, like, without getting into
Speaker 2: the nitty gritty of the scheme and whatnot, I'm excited
Speaker 2: about the next evolution of how this offense can take
Speaker 2: advantage of you know, the way team have attacked it
Speaker 2: in recent years. I thought the first play was a
Speaker 2: good example of that, but Tua was a little bit
Speaker 2: long on this deep shot to Devon h Chen who
Speaker 2: got a step on Ashton Davis in coverage. And again,
Speaker 2: just to you know, communicate this within the rules of
Speaker 2: camp reporting, I'll just say this about the defense and
Speaker 2: we're gonna jump right back into this conversation we had
Speaker 2: with Wattall on the other side. The amount of presentations
Speaker 2: I'm seeing and the post snap rotation and how just
Speaker 2: well constructed and communicated a kind of tough to digest
Speaker 2: scheme that looks like it has a pretty advanced stage
Speaker 2: already being implemented from this fast menu, and we've talked
Speaker 2: about on the podcast all off season. It's no secret.
Speaker 2: Coach McDonnel talked about it on the podcast. Back at
Speaker 2: the combine, Coach Weavers talked about it. I've pontificated and
Speaker 2: had confirmation from players and coaches about how beneficial it
Speaker 2: is to have that, you know, retention of staff and
Speaker 2: scheme and structure. I think you're seeing that play out
Speaker 2: and know the quarterbacks have had to be super precise.
Speaker 2: The very next play after this, Tua had a shot
Speaker 2: in the honey hole to Taj Washington. He couldn't quite
Speaker 2: hang on, but it was a really nice anticipation throw,
Speaker 2: and the defense is challenging the quarterbacks to do that.
Speaker 2: And we'll hear from Zach Wilson or talk about Zach
Speaker 2: Wilson's practice in that regard here in just one second,
Speaker 2: because I thought he had a big bounce back after
Speaker 2: a slow start in this practice. But I'm really really
Speaker 2: impressed by how this defense is moving and they're communicating
Speaker 2: and I can't even you know, I try my best,
Speaker 2: and even though it's not reportable to track all the
Speaker 2: different you know, schemes and looks that I see, it
Speaker 2: just looks like what you saw from you know, the
Speaker 2: coaches that Weaver has talked about as his influences and
Speaker 2: the guys he coached under who had three four years
Speaker 2: to put their system in place. It's getting you know,
Speaker 2: closer to that look. So that to me is exciting.
Speaker 2: And then let's go ahead and run some audio here
Speaker 2: because I heard I talked to Tyrel Dotson about that
Speaker 2: and some of the guys on offenses too. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and play some audio here from Tyrel Dotson, who
Speaker 2: I was. I asked him about the communication and how
Speaker 2: important it is for the back end on the defense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you can lose a game, you can win a
Speaker 5: game just off of the communication. Communication has to be
Speaker 5: at an all time high at all times. So if
Speaker 5: me and JB aren't on the same page, that's a
Speaker 5: bomb over our head. Yeah, and just with the run game,
Speaker 5: you know, this defense is built off the intile linebackers.
Speaker 5: So if you can't stop the run or you know,
Speaker 5: cover the past, you want to have a long day.
Speaker 2: And I thought that was really worth kind of examining
Speaker 2: further because in this practice and practices of the past,
Speaker 2: like Jordan Brooks finds a free run. In fact, one
Speaker 2: of the first notes I had on the team period
Speaker 2: was that he made a play that nobody in the
Speaker 2: world was going to block him on because he keyed
Speaker 2: it and read it. Zach Thomas, like, you know how
Speaker 2: you saw him do for ten years, twelve years down here,
Speaker 2: where he would just read it and anticipate it and
Speaker 2: go the way two it does offensively like Jordan Brooks
Speaker 2: is to me is like on that level of intelligence
Speaker 2: and anticipation and keying what the offensive tendencies are. We
Speaker 2: saw him do that. I saw a Tyrol dot to
Speaker 2: make a play the same way I saw Willie Gay
Speaker 2: bust through the exact same drill I saw in the
Speaker 2: install period carry over to the team drill, and he
Speaker 2: got a sack that way by running down the quarterback
Speaker 2: with that get off. So I asked, you know, Dotson
Speaker 2: to continue about that and touch on the urgency of
Speaker 2: this time of year and why you guys are so
Speaker 2: tuned in right now in early June.
Speaker 5: When you come to work, you gotta be serious about
Speaker 5: work because you know everyone else around you or depending
Speaker 5: on you to make plays. And you know, this is
Speaker 5: how I eat. This is how I feed my family.
Speaker 5: You know, my mom and my you know, my girlfriend,
Speaker 5: my cula dog back home this hot this is how
Speaker 5: they eat. So you know, just assist an urgency as well.
Speaker 5: You know, we got to go. You know, there's no
Speaker 5: more waiting, there's no more waiting in line. You know,
Speaker 5: you gotta be the first man up and you gotta
Speaker 5: go make place when your name's called.
Speaker 2: That's fitting for a guy that had three picks last
Speaker 2: year being here for half the season leading the football
Speaker 2: team in that category. I just want to continue this
Speaker 2: because I feel like This is the first time I
Speaker 2: really had a chance to talk to Tyrell, you know,
Speaker 2: and this extensively and kind of pick his brain. Is
Speaker 2: a guy that we heard Jordan Brooks talk about him
Speaker 2: wearing the green dot you know, at his press conference
Speaker 2: last week, and how impressive that is for a guy
Speaker 2: that again got here in mid season last year and
Speaker 2: then jumps into you know, OTAs and is calling things,
Speaker 2: you know, for the defense and being a big part
Speaker 2: of the communication in the middle. So I asked him
Speaker 2: more about the defense of connectivity, like what can the
Speaker 2: inside linebackers do as you heard him talk about the
Speaker 2: importance of the inside linebackers and.
Speaker 1: What do you know?
Speaker 2: More confirmation for the ideas we had back in February
Speaker 2: about the Baltimore defense and how they took off when
Speaker 2: they got ro Qwan Smith next to Patrick Queen and
Speaker 2: the Seahawks emphasis on getting linebackers and Ernest Jones and
Speaker 2: Tyrrel Dotson and the Titans going after linebackers and the
Speaker 2: teams that run this system, how they've excelled in that arena.
Speaker 2: Here's Tyrel Dotson on the connectivity of the back end
Speaker 2: and how critical that is for a defense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, one word I just think as one, like we've
Speaker 5: just been moving as one. We don't care what people say.
Speaker 5: We don't care if we don't have who and who
Speaker 5: and who. We're here to work. And no matter if
Speaker 5: you're a third tring, first ring, you know, fifth string, undrafted,
Speaker 5: first round, if you're out there, I'm expecting, we expecting,
Speaker 5: Joe Be's expecting you to make plays. So no matter
Speaker 5: who you are, you just gotta be accountable and you
Speaker 5: gotta go. You gotta come ready to play. So and
Speaker 5: the guys, our energy is different this year, man, you know,
Speaker 5: coming in last year midseason is the energies is different.
Speaker 5: We're just moving as one.
Speaker 2: You know, I thought about that energy comment because again,
Speaker 2: you know last year, like as you were disappointed as fans, like,
Speaker 2: imagine how these guys feel. I mean, they live it
Speaker 2: every single day and that's their entire life and livelihood.
Speaker 2: And Tyrell got here, you know, mid season when things
Speaker 2: weren't going well and we were losing games and two
Speaker 2: it was hurt and there was you know, it was
Speaker 2: tough to deal with, Like it's tough to come to
Speaker 2: work when you're consistently you know, coming up short on
Speaker 2: the results end. And for him to kind of have
Speaker 2: that perspective to get here for that and then to
Speaker 2: come back this offseason and be so critical in the
Speaker 2: you know, the glue, the gelling of all these guys
Speaker 2: and being that glue part. I just think it's fascinating,
Speaker 2: especially alongside Jordan Brooks, who we've talked at length about
Speaker 2: his leadership and the impact he has and the quiet
Speaker 2: kind of confidence that he, you know, brings to the table.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to continue here with Tyrel Dotson and
Speaker 2: talk to him about that because we taught we have
Speaker 2: the Jordan Brooks thing last year talking about sitting down
Speaker 2: with guys and having lunch and just talking about who
Speaker 2: they are. Well, Tyrel Dotson sounds like he's not too
Speaker 2: far off from that type of personality as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's more of like just hanging out.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: It's just like a relationship. When a person doesn't hear
Speaker 5: your voice a lot and then you try to correct them,
Speaker 5: they're gonna naturally just.
Speaker 1: Disagree with you.
Speaker 5: But when you have that dialogue with each other, you know,
Speaker 5: each and every day, like a relationship like your wife
Speaker 5: or anything like that, you know, the tone and the
Speaker 5: voice is more familiar. Where you're willing to take criticism,
Speaker 5: you're willing to take more information. So that's what we've
Speaker 5: been building. We've been going to dinner and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: So just creating a dialogue.
Speaker 2: To reflect this back to my own personal life. We
Speaker 2: are really struggling right now with my daughter to like
Speaker 2: follow instructions and listen and clean up after herself. And
Speaker 2: my wife made a good point that, like we get
Speaker 2: so frustrated that we only nag her about that. We
Speaker 2: have to have positive reinforcement and talk to her more
Speaker 2: about it. So it's not like always could perceive as
Speaker 2: this negative thing. And I thought that connects to what
Speaker 2: Tyrrel Dowson said today at his media availability, So I
Speaker 2: wanted to go ahead and run that because I was
Speaker 2: a kind of a big chunk of the podcast I
Speaker 2: thought was worth diving into in depth. Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and pivot now to some Tua Tuk coach mcdanel. I
Speaker 2: talked about Tua and I'll run the audio here, but
Speaker 2: I asked, coach, you know, we saw Tua in the
Speaker 2: Orange Jersey on Monday. We all see like what it
Speaker 2: looks like when he throws the ball and it you know,
Speaker 2: it's the pass looks pretty and the production's there. But
Speaker 2: I wanted to hear from coach, like what goes into
Speaker 2: TUA or quarterback in general earning the orange jersey? Can
Speaker 2: you give us some more detail on how that happens.
Speaker 2: And here's a great answer from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 4: It's a cool question because this one specifically, I thought,
Speaker 4: you know, to the previous practice to wearing the orange jersey,
Speaker 4: had most ownership of all all the players on each
Speaker 4: and every down, particularly in non passing downs. There was
Speaker 4: double motions where he was aligning people appropriately. He really
Speaker 4: had command and resolve within the practice of things that
Speaker 4: you know. Sometimes football for the court for a quarterback
Speaker 4: can be uniquely challenging because you have the ownership of
Speaker 4: the operation of the whole unit. You have one eleventh
Speaker 4: of the execution of it, and any anything that falls
Speaker 4: short can be frustrating. So sometimes your play can be
Speaker 4: exactly how you envisioned it going into whatever the performances,
Speaker 4: but then you're faced with frustrating things that.
Speaker 1: Are out of your control.
Speaker 4: What a great rep for the for a player of
Speaker 4: the quarterback position when you have practices like that. We
Speaker 4: had some things people weren't necessarily where they should be
Speaker 4: at the appropriate time and run and pass, and he
Speaker 4: handled his job and then performed executed and was very
Speaker 4: very competitive and didn't allow the ebbs and flows of
Speaker 4: practice to really keep him out of his rhythm. So
Speaker 4: that for me, there's a lot of layers. It's definitely
Speaker 4: not just like, hey, three throws. When you're a quarterback,
Speaker 4: you throw the ball professionally, so like I feel like
Speaker 4: you should have good throws, but playing the position and
Speaker 4: being what the other ten players on the team need
Speaker 4: you to be on that down, that's a whole another story.
Speaker 4: That's why I earned it.
Speaker 2: And I didn't think this practice was anything like crazy
Speaker 2: noteworthy from Tua in terms of big time throws. I
Speaker 2: did think that when the offense was struggling, he came
Speaker 2: in after a couple of like down reps and down
Speaker 2: periods and kind of helped stabilize things. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's one of those things where like a lot of
Speaker 2: times they run the same stuff. You know, Quinn you
Speaker 2: Weers's unit runs the same stuff as Tua runs, and
Speaker 2: so there's like anticipation and expectation there for the defense.
Speaker 2: But I thought two was kind of stabilizing force and
Speaker 2: the way he's what's the word, like whether the storm
Speaker 2: of the pass rush that was getting after him and
Speaker 2: this entire Dolphins offense and found quick checkdowns. Like I
Speaker 2: think it was good for him to get that stuff
Speaker 2: on tape for the younger guys or for a new
Speaker 2: guy like Zach Wilson, because it kind of gave them
Speaker 2: a visualization of like how to mitigate that pressure in
Speaker 2: those things that could go wrong when a pass rush
Speaker 2: is getting aftery like that. So not a crazy big
Speaker 2: day from Tuba, but I thought those soundbites were good.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and close this to a talk with
Speaker 2: Austin Jackson on the leadership of QB ONEO in You're six.
Speaker 7: He's definitely a lot more confident and decisive on and
Speaker 7: off the field. You know, he knows what people are
Speaker 7: supposed to be doing a certain in terms of training.
Speaker 7: He knows what we're doing on the field. He knows
Speaker 7: how to take care of his body, he knows how
Speaker 7: to unite guys, bring us together for you know, team
Speaker 7: camaraderie and stuff just to get together. He's, you know,
Speaker 7: he's a full blown leader, and I think he's showing
Speaker 7: that he wants to take control of his team, and
Speaker 7: he is.
Speaker 1: Spots for a quick break right there. Come back on
Speaker 1: the other side.
Speaker 2: I've got a lot more to get to here, So
Speaker 2: a long podcast today, Draft Time Podcast brought to you
Speaker 2: by Auto Nation. Some more practice notes here. I had
Speaker 2: Dwayne Eskridge. D Eskridge with some really good competitive catches
Speaker 2: in tight spaces, in particular from Zach Wilson at quarterback
Speaker 2: where I just thought he continued to pluck balls that were,
Speaker 2: you know, around defensive backs arms. There was a play
Speaker 2: where Ethan Bonner was in great shape to make a
Speaker 2: play on him, but he just snatched it out of
Speaker 2: the air. Speaking to Ethan, he had great coverage later
Speaker 2: on a ball to Jalen Conyers or no such check
Speaker 2: that to Tanner Connor that twa threw in the whole hole,
Speaker 2: shot down the sideline that he was in great shape for,
Speaker 2: but Conyor's made Connor made the catch rather man Conyers
Speaker 2: and Connor is gonna be. That's gonna be a lot
Speaker 2: for your boy at the tight end position. Speaking of Conyers,
Speaker 2: he did win a nice seam route down the middle
Speaker 2: with a little arm bar over and kind of got
Speaker 2: on top of the linebacker stacked and made a catch
Speaker 2: for a big gain. I had Eskridge for another big
Speaker 2: catch in tight coverage, and that was not exclusive to
Speaker 2: Ethan Bonner. I had already Burns consistently in tight coverage.
Speaker 2: He had a nice route on Monterey Baldwin, the rookie
Speaker 2: from Baylor, where he re routed him and undercut him
Speaker 2: for a pass breakup, and just consistently challenged everything and
Speaker 2: played on that rope. On the back end, I thought
Speaker 2: Quinn Ewers had some really good growth in terms of
Speaker 2: how he saw the field from last week. There was
Speaker 2: a shot where he he it was like, so he
Speaker 2: guess what smashes right? Smashes one of the most basic
Speaker 2: concepts in football. The one receiver kind of tries to
Speaker 2: hold the cloud corner with a short route and then
Speaker 2: you run like either a takeoff or a corner route
Speaker 2: or a deep out or a comeback, you know, to
Speaker 2: basically put that cloud cornerback into bind. And I thought
Speaker 2: Quinn did a good job of kind of selling the
Speaker 2: throw short and then took the over the top throw
Speaker 2: and pulled that cornerback up, but he just missed it.
Speaker 2: So I think with a player like him and any
Speaker 2: player that's developing and that young like find those areas
Speaker 2: of growth. Maybe it's not going to be perfect right away,
Speaker 2: but to see him get better from last week, I
Speaker 2: think is a good step for a player like that.
Speaker 2: So got Ardie Burns here. I want to make a
Speaker 2: note about some of the past rushers. Man, I'm starting
Speaker 2: to think this group has a pretty good chance to
Speaker 2: be pretty good. I've talked about Chop. I mean, Chop
Speaker 2: has just been a monster. I had him for another
Speaker 2: sack today. Guys are having a hard time with his speed,
Speaker 2: which should be no surprise. But we here at Austin
Speaker 2: Jackson talk about Chop Robinson after practice and you know
Speaker 2: about the speed, but this is what I keep seeing too.
Speaker 2: I'll let Austin go ahead and explain it for me.
Speaker 7: Playing very well in his second spring, he's been a
Speaker 7: lot more active with his hands, playing more physical. It
Speaker 7: looks a lot more confident comfortable than his rookie year.
Speaker 2: So I had Chop Chubb Willie Gay with a sack,
Speaker 2: and I had Grayson Murphy with a sack one play
Speaker 2: after he overset the left tackle to eight and inside gap.
Speaker 2: And I actually talked to him after the practice, like Hey,
Speaker 2: did you have like two gap responsiblay this? Well, I
Speaker 2: guys at the edge first off and then if I
Speaker 2: can play back inside, I will. And that's what he
Speaker 2: did and got back under the block and tagged off
Speaker 2: at last Crementchi he is. He makes plays every single day.
Speaker 2: And I'm pretty confident that Grayson Murphy is gonna have
Speaker 2: his say on making this roster because he just looks
Speaker 2: the part. He looks the part all last offseason and
Speaker 2: you know, got injured in preseason, but I'm I'm very
Speaker 2: excited about the way he can play. He wins with
Speaker 2: you know, peer speed, with some physicality. He can really
Speaker 2: reset guys. I just think that he's he's got a
Speaker 2: pretty impressive resume so far this offseason and last offseason.
Speaker 2: And on one of the plays where he forced the
Speaker 2: quarterback off the spot, if emlafon Wu is in phase
Speaker 2: the entire way, gets under a route, turns his head
Speaker 2: back around, makes a pick. Might have been out of bounds,
Speaker 2: but he finished the place. That's all I care about.
Speaker 2: In practice, just it was like that all day, like
Speaker 2: good pressure, well connected coverage in the back end, and
Speaker 2: I was I was pretty impressed. The defensive backs coaches
Speaker 2: and the defensive coaches in general were going nuts, especially
Speaker 2: the dB coaches. They were loving what they were seeing,
Speaker 2: which tells me that they were executing a new install,
Speaker 2: a new like, hey, let's let's get more coverage out there,
Speaker 2: let's get more presentations. And these guys took it and
Speaker 2: ran with it. It's what it seemed like to me.
Speaker 2: And they were just fired up to see all of that.
Speaker 2: I had chanting tyndallal dial up a blitz at one
Speaker 2: point and tag off on Alexander Madison in the backfield. Already,
Speaker 2: Burns got himself in for a TfL after Jordan Phillips
Speaker 2: had initial disruption, and just they continued to do it.
Speaker 2: Jordan Brooks had that run through Chubb forced Tua off
Speaker 2: the spot, but two was able to navigate that and
Speaker 2: get a check down completion. They try to end around.
Speaker 2: At one point that storm Duck really shut down. So
Speaker 2: I just whatever they threw at them, it was like,
Speaker 2: we got you, We're ready for you, guys. Now, Ollie
Speaker 2: Gordon did find some of his some cutback lanes, and
Speaker 2: he has a real feel for, like, you know, finding
Speaker 2: those cut back lanes and getting to him quickly. I
Speaker 2: thought him and Jalen Wright really ran the ball well
Speaker 2: on this on this day, including a seventy yard touchdown
Speaker 2: run from Jalen Wright. He was kind of picking his
Speaker 2: way through the initial traffic in line of scrimmage and
Speaker 2: then he would he would take off in his second
Speaker 2: level speed. I tell you what, for a guy that tolds,
Speaker 2: he gained six pounds of muscle this offseason. And I
Speaker 2: saw McDaniel was like behind the play. He likes to
Speaker 2: watch the plays from behind the safety's perspective. I heard
Speaker 2: him and he was freaking out about how much he
Speaker 2: loved that run from jalen Wright.
Speaker 1: So I think that he is doing some good stuff.
Speaker 2: And speaking of Jayleen Wright, coach talked about his mindset
Speaker 2: and what he wanted to see from jalen Wright this
Speaker 2: season or this offseason, I should say, and so far,
Speaker 2: so good.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 4: I think jalen Wright benefited tremendously from coming into the
Speaker 4: league in a very competitive room. I think when that's
Speaker 4: the case, you learn how little room for air you
Speaker 4: have to execute your job responsibilities or to be complete,
Speaker 4: to have complete ownership of your assignments. Because if you're
Speaker 4: a hair off or a hair laid or a hair indecisive.
Speaker 4: There's decisive people who are talented that can contribute to
Speaker 4: the team. So you know, I really saw, you know,
Speaker 4: when we had exit meetings.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 4: You know, I was talking to Jalen right about you know,
Speaker 4: being able to UH nonverbally communicate to me his hunger
Speaker 4: for a increased role. I see better than not here.
Speaker 4: And you know for Ota s n that I can
Speaker 4: see him following through with that. A big thing for
Speaker 4: him and really our entire team this offseason is UH
Speaker 4: is each and every day being exclusively UH the exclusive
Speaker 4: evaluation time, and we UH awesome one day efforts. We're
Speaker 4: looking for UH consistency and continuity and and I think
Speaker 4: that's how we It's the only way that we're gonna
Speaker 4: be happy with the product come fall.
Speaker 2: I might have to run some of these sound bites
Speaker 2: on a Friday podcast because we're getting long here, and
Speaker 2: I've got so much more from Jalen Wright from.
Speaker 1: Who else I got.
Speaker 2: Wattle talked about juggling like three times in his press conference.
Speaker 2: He's very proud of the fact that he learned to
Speaker 2: juggle in two days, which I think is really funny.
Speaker 1: He cracks me up. Man.
Speaker 2: He's a good one. Let's see what else. Okay, I
Speaker 2: talked about Zach Wilson. Tanner Connor had a big day,
Speaker 2: a couple of catches, really good smooth transitions from catch
Speaker 2: from pass catcher to ballcarrier. And I mentioned Zach Wilson
Speaker 2: I thought struggled in the first period. I thought he
Speaker 2: really bounced back big and the rest of the practice
Speaker 2: and including two really tight window throws. One down the field,
Speaker 2: up the corner where he had a tight window and
Speaker 2: just jammed that fastball in there with real velocity and
Speaker 2: that was an impressive throw. And then later between two defenders,
Speaker 2: like in the hook riat middle of the field where
Speaker 2: he threads it between two defenders. I think that was
Speaker 2: one of the most impressive practices I've seen from a
Speaker 2: quarterback not named to at Dolphins camp. Like there's been,
Speaker 2: you know, some bad practices, some good ones too, but
Speaker 2: I thought Zach today in that after that first period
Speaker 2: was as good as I've seen from a quarterback that
Speaker 2: wasn't too at Dolphins practice. So all kinds of stuff here.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and finish up with a couple more soundbites.
Speaker 2: I'll make sure I'm not forget anything I did make
Speaker 2: this note on Twitter that Patrick McMorris the way he
Speaker 2: trust his eyes, and you see it on his tape
Speaker 2: as well, like he makes a decision and he goes.
Speaker 2: You don't see him second guess himself. And there was
Speaker 2: a play today where a ball wound up incomplete and
Speaker 2: he was running towards that side of the field and
Speaker 2: the ball goes incomplete away from him and he runs
Speaker 2: over and scoops the ball up like at full sprint.
Speaker 2: And I started watching him do this, and he does
Speaker 2: every single play, and I thought to myself, Yeah, that's
Speaker 2: muscle memory for how you teach yourself to do that.
Speaker 2: And now he'll know instinctively every time the ball's in
Speaker 2: the ground, he'll get there. And it might be irrelevant
Speaker 2: ninety nine times out of one hundred, but that one
Speaker 2: time could be the game ceiling pick against the Buffalo
Speaker 2: Bills that wins the division, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like, that's how you.
Speaker 2: Prepare in this sport to make plays. You prepare all
Speaker 2: the time and when that moment comes, you make that play.
Speaker 2: And I really thought that was impressive. As Zukomma had
Speaker 2: a big play. I mentioned Ollie Gordon a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think that's all I've got for you guys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Tanner Connor, Willie Gay, Dwayne s Gridge. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: we're good there. Okay, cool, Let's go ahead and do
Speaker 2: two more soundbites from Patrick Paul. I thought they were
Speaker 2: cool and worth playing on the podcast. We'll go ahead
Speaker 2: and close it up with this here from Pat Paul,
Speaker 2: who was asked about the pressure he might feel or
Speaker 2: does not feel, replacing Tron Armstea at left tackle.
Speaker 6: Ah. Not so, no, not really. You know, I'm built
Speaker 6: for this, always been ready for the moment, and that's
Speaker 6: why I play football, to compete at the highest level
Speaker 6: and to be the best at my job. So I'm ready.
Speaker 2: I love that built for this comment. He's obviously confident
Speaker 2: as well. Let's go ahead and close with this. I
Speaker 2: asked him about his development and how he kind of
Speaker 2: has enjoyed that experience and journey and if it ever
Speaker 2: clicked for him at one point and what that was
Speaker 2: like when it did click for him in terms of
Speaker 2: the scheme and get everything down to where he's ready
Speaker 2: to be a starter here at left tackle for your
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 7: Ah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's definitely. I think I just matured in my
Speaker 6: game and that just comes with time. I think offensive
Speaker 6: line is an art, and as you go day by day,
Speaker 6: you're just going to keep fine tuning your skills, and
Speaker 6: one day it's just gonna click. Everything that we do
Speaker 6: out here day by day is just gonna start getting easier.
Speaker 6: And I think I've reached that point where I know
Speaker 6: what it is and know what they expect from me,
Speaker 6: and I know how to do it daily.
Speaker 2: To the golf analogy there, Man, the more you can
Speaker 2: kind of rep it and make it muscle memory, don't
Speaker 2: have to think about it, that's going to become the
Speaker 2: best version of yourself as a golfer. Okay, long podcast there.
Speaker 2: I just can't get enough of these practices. So I
Speaker 2: do apologize for being long in the tooth, but we
Speaker 2: will go ahead, long tooth, long winded, Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and call it a show right there.
Speaker 1: Come back on Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what that podcast will look like just yet,
Speaker 2: but well, as we always do, we'll get you guys.
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