Speaker 1: What is up, Dolphins, and welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I am your host, Travis Wingfild. On today's episode, the
Speaker 1: rookies were on the field for the first time as
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins over the weekend. We took in the action,
Speaker 1: heard from some of the players. We'll get you caught
Speaker 1: up on all of that, plus we heard from Aaron
Speaker 1: Brewer and Zach Sealer as they gave us really good
Speaker 1: sound bites.
Speaker 2: I suppose to chew one.
Speaker 1: I want to break down some of those comments and
Speaker 1: talk about them further from the Baptist Health Studios inside
Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: Maye Daffy.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to the rookies here in just one second,
Speaker 1: but I want to kick it off with the veterans.
Speaker 2: Aaron Brewer and Zach.
Speaker 1: Seiler, two of the best players on the Miami Dolphins
Speaker 1: a year ago, had media availabilities earlier last week, and
Speaker 1: I want to touch on some of their comments here.
Speaker 1: And there's plenty of good stuff that kind of coincides
Speaker 1: with the thing that we have discussed here on the
Speaker 1: show about potential boons for the team, things that look
Speaker 1: forward to, things that could make the team better experience,
Speaker 1: just all kinds of different elements that is going to
Speaker 1: comprise what you see on the field in terms of
Speaker 1: the product in twenty twenty five and the entire inner
Speaker 1: workings of an organization from February up until that first
Speaker 1: game in September, and all the things you do to
Speaker 1: put in place the product that you want on the field.
Speaker 1: And I feel from the last three four months of
Speaker 1: doing this may now right February March April May. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I least track of time nowadays with two kids third
Speaker 1: on the way. But is this theme of you know,
Speaker 1: a singular vision and I just feel like all of
Speaker 1: that kind of tracks together and it has me excited.
Speaker 1: I want to first play this sound by here from
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer and the benefit that he finds from having
Speaker 1: a full off season here in the program, not having
Speaker 1: to learn a new offense and the stability of playing
Speaker 1: the same position back to back years. Plenty of good
Speaker 1: stuff here from Aaron brew were on where he is
Speaker 1: now compared to where he was a year ago within
Speaker 1: this offense and understand the system.
Speaker 4: So I didn't came a long way. And you know,
Speaker 4: you probably watch femin see for yourself. You know what
Speaker 4: I'm saying, but I'm just super excited to be back
Speaker 4: in this system. You Know, when I came in first
Speaker 4: day OTAs last year, like I felt that little bit
Speaker 4: BO was kind of frustrated because I was close to
Speaker 4: the technique we were looking for it here, but I
Speaker 4: was also far away from what we had wanted. And
Speaker 4: so just from going through a whole offseason, a whole
Speaker 4: season now and being they have come back into the
Speaker 4: same system, same position for like the first time in
Speaker 4: my cores since probably high school, Like, I just feel amazing.
Speaker 4: I'm excited to get back into it.
Speaker 1: One of the themes we're going to cover here in
Speaker 1: these soundbites is the Dolphins pursuit of intelligent football players,
Speaker 1: which began back in free agency. We talked about it
Speaker 1: with the players themselves on the interviews and also the
Speaker 1: testimonials from teammates and coaches that have been around these
Speaker 1: guys that tell us like, yeah, they are all ball,
Speaker 1: their good studiers, they're guys that know where to be,
Speaker 1: when to be there, all that stuff. And that's just
Speaker 1: a theme across this Dolphins offseason and with Aaron Brewer,
Speaker 1: a position within this system historically that featured you know,
Speaker 1: Alex Mack was a guy that went to Cleveland, Atlanta,
Speaker 1: and San Francisco with Kyle Shanahan, like a smart good center.
Speaker 1: Look at all the teams that run these offenses, they
Speaker 1: have them, and Brewer is that. And so the jump
Speaker 1: from understanding of his responsibility and roles in the offense
Speaker 1: from year one to year two, I feel like that
Speaker 1: could have a massive benefit on this offense. I was
Speaker 1: really excited to hear that and to bring it to
Speaker 1: you guys and put it on the podcast.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: Next, I want to hear from Brewer talking about some
Speaker 1: of the things that he picked up in his one
Speaker 1: year alongside to Ron Armstead, who of course has now retired.
Speaker 1: But here's Aaron Brewer talking about the leadership and things
Speaker 1: he learned from playing alongside to Ron Armstead.
Speaker 4: He's preparation for the game. So we always just had
Speaker 4: like when we study a player or something had he
Speaker 4: looked at studying players. His attitude was just dealing with
Speaker 4: like like every day problems with players. Like everybody see
Speaker 4: like just the football side of things, but we all
Speaker 4: have our everyday life, you know what I'm saying, And
Speaker 4: so if you not mentally right, come into the bend
Speaker 4: to come into a game, come into practice or whatever,
Speaker 4: you're not going to get the results you need. And
Speaker 4: so I say, like, that's the biggest thing I took
Speaker 4: from to run, just how learning how to deal with
Speaker 4: every day problems within myself and everyone that's around.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I mean smart players And we've heard that
Speaker 1: from you.
Speaker 2: Talk to Patrick Paul. You want to talk about a
Speaker 2: smart player.
Speaker 1: You guys have heard Austin Jackson on this podcast many
Speaker 1: times articulating the fine points of offensive line play and
Speaker 1: just how he sees the game from an intelligence standpoint.
Speaker 1: James Daniels, do I have to tell you anything about him?
Speaker 1: Like we had him on the podcast here and he
Speaker 1: was brilliant in his approach to the to the game
Speaker 1: and how he attacked it from mental standpoint, talking about
Speaker 1: sending clips of certain you know, techniques and fundamentals and
Speaker 1: plays to the rookies and the other guys on the
Speaker 1: offensive line and just being relentless and teaching those younger
Speaker 1: guys Like I feel like James a big part of
Speaker 1: why he's here is to step into a role of
Speaker 1: that nature where he can be a bit of a leader.
Speaker 1: And then from a young guy you know Jonah Savoy
Speaker 1: and ya you've seen the documentary on him talking about
Speaker 1: his journey to the NFL and how excited he is
Speaker 1: to protect Tua, and you know the idea of like
Speaker 1: he's always played for Polynesian quarterbacks and just how he
Speaker 1: sees the game. And shoot, there was so much stuff
Speaker 1: about him at Arizona, about how he was willing to
Speaker 1: change positions and be able to pick up things from
Speaker 1: different you know, landscapes or rather different perspectives, I should say,
Speaker 1: and from different landmarks like the game against USC a
Speaker 1: couple of years ago where he's playing tackle and kicks
Speaker 1: inside the guard because the interior rush was giving them
Speaker 1: more of an issue. Like the ability to change in
Speaker 1: game speaks to how a player can kind of process
Speaker 1: and see things from different spots, and I think Jonah
Speaker 1: certainly fits that. Let's go ahead and go back to
Speaker 1: Aaron Brewer here and hear him talk about James Daniels
Speaker 1: in that same breadth as Tron Armstead as a leader
Speaker 1: and a guy that sees the game a certain way.
Speaker 4: I look jar like, I like his mentality tool as Flooball.
Speaker 4: You know, he he a football junkie, like he he
Speaker 4: loved this, you know what I'm saying. So like Felm wise,
Speaker 4: like he owned it and he got a thousand questions.
Speaker 4: He's trying to just gain understanding everything, Like y'all can fight.
Speaker 4: You can talk football with dude all day, and so
Speaker 4: I love that, you know what I'm saying, Like he
Speaker 4: down then he wanted everything to be right and so
Speaker 4: like someone like that who like just fully balked into
Speaker 4: football and loved football, Like you can always work with
Speaker 4: guys like that. And I was like, he reapping right now.
Speaker 4: But I watched his film when he was in what
Speaker 4: his name, Pittsburgh, and like, but it a dog he
Speaker 4: can move like he got that, he got that motor
Speaker 4: in him, he got that finish. So yeah, I like James.
Speaker 1: Let's go back to Brewer talking about the rookie Jonah
Speaker 1: Savoy and night here talking about how special he looks
Speaker 1: on tape to Brewer, but.
Speaker 4: It's special like for him, like y'all saying, like he
Speaker 4: a big dude, but he a big dude can move,
Speaker 4: Like is that what you said? Like as soon as
Speaker 4: I seen really every posentho with drafted, I'm looking up
Speaker 4: highlights combine all that good stuff and so nah, I'm
Speaker 4: in safe, but you got ja. I reached that to Lenon.
Speaker 4: I'm decited to work with them, man, I'm just I'm
Speaker 4: just trying to give me like half with as soon
Speaker 4: as you get here. I'm just trying to get him
Speaker 4: the men tennency and get him to the standard ACEP,
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, because the fusion can be
Speaker 4: so bright for him.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way, Arian, I feel the same way.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the prioritization of smart players.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: You know, like what's been one of the bigger issues
Speaker 1: for the offense over the last couple of years. Like
Speaker 1: when two has been in there, We've been efficient, explosive,
Speaker 1: we scored points, led the league in points, all that stuff, right,
Speaker 1: But every team, no matter how good you are, has
Speaker 1: things they can be better at. For the Dolphins, when
Speaker 1: they're good or not going good, it's typically like avoiding mistakes, right,
Speaker 1: shooting themselves in the foot.
Speaker 2: McDaniel's talked about that before.
Speaker 1: We've seen it play out in some of the games,
Speaker 1: you know, the bigger games, and for that matter, and
Speaker 1: I always feel like other teams don't really stop our
Speaker 1: offense as much as it's our own, you know, getting
Speaker 1: in our own way, and you've seen that ratchet up
Speaker 1: in the quote unquote big games right Green Bay last
Speaker 1: year is a good example that first drive, like a
Speaker 1: couple of pre stat penalties after a muff punt, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're behind the sticks and behind
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard, and things kind of snowball from there.
Speaker 1: So if you prioritize guys that see the game a
Speaker 1: certain way, guys that can be really sharp with their
Speaker 1: mentals in the toughest conditions, then you can attack those
Speaker 1: weaknesses short it up, and now we can reduce the
Speaker 1: pre snap penalties or mental errors that lead to the
Speaker 1: mist assignments, and all those chunk passing plays and effective
Speaker 1: runs will hold up and produce points for you. Aside
Speaker 1: from those areas to clean up. Shortyards was parat of
Speaker 1: the other one. I think you can look at and
Speaker 1: Brewer talked about the mentality and short yardage and I
Speaker 1: really feel like between he and Jonah and James, and
Speaker 1: we had Lewis Riddick on the podcast a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago talking about the physical nature of Austin Jackson
Speaker 1: and how much he loves that part of his game.
Speaker 1: If you've seen Patrick Paul play football. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a big part of his game. Like, I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I just look at where things came up short, not
Speaker 1: just last year, but in some of the previous years offensively,
Speaker 1: and I feel like there was a specific vision to
Speaker 1: attack those things specifically, and I'm very excited to see
Speaker 1: what that looks like as a result in terms of
Speaker 1: your Sunday product. So, you know, I wrote this out
Speaker 1: and I was thinking to myself, maybe I'll save it
Speaker 1: for a different podcasts, but I kind of felt like
Speaker 1: it plays on this pod because I think that people
Speaker 1: might be over fading the Dolphins just a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I hear podcast I hear all these discussions about how
Speaker 1: many games they're gonna win, and you can look at
Speaker 1: certain things and point to like, you know, disagreements in
Speaker 1: terms of how things are done in the building and
Speaker 1: culture and all that stuff, But when it comes to
Speaker 1: the on field product and the onfield talent, like, I
Speaker 1: feel like people are sleeping a little bit. My opening
Speaker 1: disclaimered all of this. You know, if to a play
Speaker 1: seventeen games, that's it, right, But that's true for most
Speaker 1: teams who haven't established good quarterback if Josh Allen misses
Speaker 1: six games, how many of those games does Buffalo actually win,
Speaker 1: like two at most, So they'd have to go nine
Speaker 1: and two with Josh in the lineup just to get
Speaker 1: to eleven and five. And he's capable of that. But
Speaker 1: you get what I'm saying. I don't know, man, You know,
Speaker 1: is everyone right or are they wrong? The are they
Speaker 1: right part is going inside the psyche and temperature of
Speaker 1: the culture and build because you can't tell me with
Speaker 1: the same passing battery of Riek and Waddle and Tua,
Speaker 1: with what you've added with John Husmith and Devon eight
Speaker 1: Chan in the passing game, and now you get me
Speaker 1: Nick Westbrook, A Kine and Pharaoh Brown. That's legit the
Speaker 1: solve to what I thought was the biggest flaw in
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four offense blocking off the edge from
Speaker 1: your eligible positions, and both Brown and Westbrook Akeene can
Speaker 1: be used in that way. Julian Hill can be used
Speaker 1: that way in a reduced, simplified way from tight end
Speaker 1: I last year tight end three and fewer snaps, provided
Speaker 1: he holds off Jalen Conyers. But that would be a
Speaker 1: personnel shift in offense. So it's a different style player.
Speaker 1: I digress. The arsenal of young wide receivers is the
Speaker 1: best it's been between Malik Washington, Taj Washington, and the
Speaker 1: four udfas one of those guys is going to hit
Speaker 1: maybe even two of them. And then there's the offensive line,
Speaker 1: but not just the O line in a vacuum. You've
Speaker 1: added thirty pounds of functional strength at guard while improving
Speaker 1: the athleticism at both spots. Frankly, I think the ability
Speaker 1: upgrade of James and Jonah over Robin Liam is the
Speaker 1: biggest upgrade in any team has made any position this season,
Speaker 1: outside of maybe one team that adds a quarterback or something.
Speaker 1: But your center should have been a pro bowler. And
Speaker 1: that was his first year in the system. He's playing
Speaker 1: the same position in back to back seasons, as you heard,
Speaker 1: for the first time in his career. And I can
Speaker 1: point to the run game falloff coinciding with the loss
Speaker 1: of eight of Austin Jackson last year. And I believe
Speaker 1: in Patrick Paul he's just too big, he's too smart,
Speaker 1: too physical and athletic and mature to not hit. So
Speaker 1: everything around TUA is better, but the personnel in a
Speaker 1: vacuum doesn't tell the comprehensive change these moves bring. You
Speaker 1: added two big backs to go behind these big guards
Speaker 1: and big eligibles at the edge point of attack. Past
Speaker 1: Shanahan's systems have had successful deployed similar multi scheme integration
Speaker 1: with an adaptable style of offense. If that's where the
Speaker 1: Fins are headed, this is going to be a top
Speaker 1: five offense in football if the quarterback stays healthy, no
Speaker 1: doubt about that in my mind.
Speaker 2: Can they do it? I think so.
Speaker 1: Let's move now to the defensive side of the football
Speaker 1: here in a similar question for Zach see I posed
Speaker 1: to him was second year of Anthony Weaver's defense. We
Speaker 1: heard Mike mcdalid talk to this offseason about the value
Speaker 1: of having that continuity and the big jump he saw
Speaker 1: from the defense around the midway point from last season.
Speaker 1: How do you think that kind of carries over or
Speaker 1: rather it gives you, guys, the benefit of familiarity in
Speaker 1: the second year of having coach Weaver here where you're
Speaker 1: not going through install from basic you know, day one,
Speaker 1: one on one stuff right away, but having that kind
Speaker 1: of platform a jump from from last year. Here's Zach
Speaker 1: Steeler on Anthony Weaver in your number two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just when you have that system over a
Speaker 5: couple of years like we do now with Weave and
Speaker 5: such a solid system, where like he has so much
Speaker 5: in his back pocket he wants to get to or
Speaker 5: can get to, it's just that much more exciting because
Speaker 5: we can get that much more in depth and that
Speaker 5: much more function from our defense to God to run
Speaker 5: how we want based on the teams we're playing. So
Speaker 5: it's really exciting. It's been awesome to see these guys grow,
Speaker 5: all of us together and Weave system with Jordan t Do,
Speaker 5: Willie and kJ behind us now and those guys learning
Speaker 5: the system and kind of rolling through. It's been really cool.
Speaker 1: Separate question was similar, So there was a bit of
Speaker 1: an add on to this, and I want to go
Speaker 1: ahead and just play this extra SoundBite that's akin to
Speaker 1: what you just heard from Zach Seeler.
Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, to me, it's just kind of what
Speaker 5: we had on earlier was just the optimization of Coach
Speaker 5: Weaver's defense to maximize the calls and the abilities of
Speaker 5: each player. Obviously, him being a player, I think he
Speaker 5: knows he is a very good eye for that kind
Speaker 5: of stuff. I'm so really excited to see what he
Speaker 5: does with it this year.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of where I come down.
Speaker 1: I think I kind of feel like Anthony Weaver earned
Speaker 1: the right to maybe shot for some of the groceries
Speaker 1: and maybe be you know, even more of a prominent voice.
Speaker 1: Not saying he wasn't last year that it's going to
Speaker 1: be some big difference this year, but I think that
Speaker 1: he's earned his stripes in terms of what he can
Speaker 1: be and his potential as the DC and the ability
Speaker 1: to get to more of the menu in his defensive playbook.
Speaker 1: And I think you look at the construction of this
Speaker 1: defense and how similar it is to other teams that
Speaker 1: run a similar system. You know, we talked about the
Speaker 1: centers and being you know, football smart for the Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan offense and the Mike Daniel offense. I feel like
Speaker 1: for Anthony Weaver, there's a pretty good blueprint of defenses
Speaker 1: that run similar concepts to what he brought to Miami,
Speaker 1: and you can kind of see this defense taking more
Speaker 1: of that shape in terms of the style of player
Speaker 1: and how they can fit in certain systems. And they've
Speaker 1: been aggressive going after cornerbacks that you can really press
Speaker 1: up and play man coverage in this front that's so
Speaker 1: pliable and universal, and how they can rush from different spots.
Speaker 1: I think there's again to the side of the ball,
Speaker 1: a certain vision, and I want to go ahead and
Speaker 1: play this last SoundBite here from Zach Seeler about the
Speaker 1: addition of Kenneth Grant, but also the entire makeup of
Speaker 1: the Dolphins front and how beneficial that can be for
Speaker 1: Zach Sealer and this defense as a whole. Man.
Speaker 5: I'm excited. It makes me really excited to obviously work
Speaker 5: with Chopp last year than chubn Jalen years prior. It's
Speaker 5: really excited to see how we can kind of all
Speaker 5: mess together with great guys across the board. And it's
Speaker 5: just been awesome to play with these guys the last
Speaker 5: couple of years, three years in some cases, and really
Speaker 5: to hopefully get everyone rolling the camp and in the
Speaker 5: season at max capacity and just really working our stuff
Speaker 5: and like really be on the goodest advances we can
Speaker 5: get together and rush to the unit.
Speaker 1: I had this conversation with a friend of mine about,
Speaker 1: you know, the resources kind of going into the front. Right.
Speaker 2: You saw three defensive tackles drafted.
Speaker 1: You saw Willie Gay and it was signed to a
Speaker 1: free agent contract.
Speaker 2: kJ Britt as well.
Speaker 1: Tyrel Dotson brought back after being a mid season acquisition
Speaker 1: last year. And you know, going after chopping the first round,
Speaker 1: getting JP and Bradley Chubb back and developing Mo Kamara
Speaker 1: and the guys in that edge room as well, the
Speaker 1: makeup of this team is kind of like the front
Speaker 1: seven has really been fortified and had depth and built
Speaker 1: up that way. And not to mention, we talked about
Speaker 1: Kenneth Grant and what he can provide at that size
Speaker 1: and that athletic ability. Is the modern game where you
Speaker 1: try to defend the run from these two high structures
Speaker 1: and your four to two five base defense and you
Speaker 1: have to have big defensive tackles with big, you know, fast,
Speaker 1: you know instinctive linebackers behind that. And we just saw
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion run the ball over six percent
Speaker 1: of the time. So this pendulum swinging back towards the
Speaker 1: run game more, maybe it does make more sense to
Speaker 1: really fortify your front and then play from there and
Speaker 1: kind of have a trickle down effect that way. Because
Speaker 1: this Dolphin's front seven is deep, It's got star potential.
Speaker 1: If you get the return of Bradley Chubb and JP
Speaker 1: to the level we know they can play at. If
Speaker 1: you get Chop development, you get second year of Jordan
Speaker 1: Brooks as kind of the traffic cop in the middle
Speaker 1: of the defense. You add Willy Gay to the mix, like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I'm pretty excited about that upfront
Speaker 1: on defense as well.
Speaker 2: So that's my spiel.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and take a break rate there, come
Speaker 1: back on the other side and get to rookie miniamp.
Speaker 2: We'll hear from the guys as well.
Speaker 1: All the draft picks spoke to the media before the practice,
Speaker 1: plenty to come your way here on the Draft Time
Speaker 1: podcast brought to you by Auto Nation. And then we
Speaker 1: had a football practice And it wasn't a training camp
Speaker 1: practice where I'm out there for an hour forty five
Speaker 1: minutes giving you guys constant play breakdowns and notes. But
Speaker 1: I got to watch football today on Friday, and I
Speaker 1: feel very fortunate to have done that, and it was
Speaker 1: a good glimpse of what OTU and training camp is
Speaker 1: gonna be like. And I gotta tell you, guys, I
Speaker 1: am I'm just about as fired up for this year's
Speaker 1: camp as I have ever been in this is my
Speaker 1: sixth year now with the team. I just think I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of stuff to help for the
Speaker 1: Dolphins to prove this season, and I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: how they go about doing that. So fired up man,
Speaker 1: fired to watch some football. I want to just go
Speaker 1: through some of the notes I wrote down here in
Speaker 1: my chicken scratch and see if I can communicate with
Speaker 1: you guys on the podcast. So I was trying to
Speaker 1: watch as much as I could. It's a short practice.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of players out there. There's all
Speaker 1: kinds of mixing and matching going on, try out players,
Speaker 1: the draft picks, the udfas, all that stuff. Here is
Speaker 1: what I wrote down, just my short form notes. So
Speaker 1: the first thing I noticed, So we're gonna talk to
Speaker 1: the players here on the third segment. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: put together, gonna roll this through the notes and then
Speaker 1: do the speaking or the media availabilities. After this, Jordan Phillips,
Speaker 1: I spoke to him and stood next to him and
Speaker 1: shook his hand. And the way his body composition is,
Speaker 1: you know, a three hundred and twenty pound player.
Speaker 2: In fact, what's what's he on the roster? I want
Speaker 2: to make sure I get this right.
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips weighs three yeah six three three twenty like
Speaker 1: you could have told me he was three forty because
Speaker 1: of like the muscle composition, like you can you can
Speaker 1: see his chest like through like protruding. You know, he's
Speaker 1: got good pectoral muscles. I guess is what I'm trying
Speaker 1: to say. In the football sets and that that body
Speaker 1: building background, it's everything. Just you know how I say
Speaker 1: no wasted steps for a player, it seems like there's
Speaker 1: no wasted poundage on Jordan Phillips's body and the way
Speaker 1: he moves and the way he does different things and
Speaker 1: the different positions he can line up at. He was
Speaker 1: He was a guy that I was looking out out
Speaker 1: there saying like that, just that guy just looks the
Speaker 1: part he the movement, the size, the way he struck
Speaker 1: the bag. I was very, very impressed by Jordan Phillips
Speaker 1: in this practice. I wrote down number nineteen, which is
Speaker 1: Anthony Armstrong or sorry, Andrew Armstrong looks like a refrigerator.
Speaker 1: He was a big body guy and the best matchup
Speaker 1: of the entire day, of the entire portion we watched
Speaker 1: was him against bj Adams in press coverage and bj Adams.
Speaker 2: Let's just go ahead and jump into this.
Speaker 1: BJ Adams was the best player on the field that
Speaker 1: I saw, the UDFA cornerback from UCF. And think like Travis, Dude,
Speaker 1: you watched like ten reps of like seven on seven
Speaker 1: and some individual drills, so relax a little bit.
Speaker 2: But that's that's what I saw.
Speaker 1: And it was the way he the way he moved
Speaker 1: in individuals at that length at that size, and then
Speaker 1: the way I saw him bring the press cover skills
Speaker 1: and the physicality and the understanding of jam turn, get
Speaker 1: into phase, pin to the sideline, and use your length
Speaker 1: in physicality to direct the receiver to where you want
Speaker 1: to go. I was so impressed by everything he did,
Speaker 1: and I thought he was just very clearly the best,
Speaker 1: Like he stood out the most on the on the
Speaker 1: entire practice for me. BJ Adams from UCF, a six
Speaker 1: foot three, one hundred and ninety pound twenty one year
Speaker 1: old rookie out of Central Florida. He was very very impressive.
Speaker 1: Forty seven Jalen Conyers. I didn't know he was gonna
Speaker 1: wait two sixty five because this guy, like that first
Speaker 1: step off the line of scrimmage, whether it was routes
Speaker 1: on air, seven on seven individual whatever it was. It's fast,
Speaker 1: it's quick, and he he his urgency up the stem
Speaker 1: of the route is what I knew his game as.
Speaker 1: But I didn't realize he was that big. And maybe
Speaker 1: that's on me for a hole in my scouting. I
Speaker 1: didn't really you know, checking on his size back in college.
Speaker 1: Just watch the tape. But the way he moved at
Speaker 1: that size, I'm like, Okay, this guy. I didn't I
Speaker 1: thought he was more of a seam stretch only. But
Speaker 1: he's got the composition to be able to play inline
Speaker 1: and potentially be a difference maker, you know, as a blocker.
Speaker 1: Let's see, I wrote more about bj Adams here just
Speaker 1: he could scratch his knee standing up. I said, number
Speaker 1: ninety one is Zeke Bigger's no sorry, check that is
Speaker 1: a Trayvon Ribka from Kentucky, And I have no idea
Speaker 1: if I got that right. Rybka. He was a guy
Speaker 1: that I saw. Dante Colonelli the he does good stuff.
Speaker 1: He covers the Dolphins, does really great work talking about
Speaker 1: a guy that he thought jumped off the tape as
Speaker 1: a UDFA option and a player that wasn't on all
Speaker 1: those reported signings. We didn't talk about him on the
Speaker 1: Emery Hunt podcast and Dante was talking about his explosiveness,
Speaker 1: and I just thought that, Like I watched him go
Speaker 1: through some of the individual drills and I wrote down
Speaker 1: ninety one is very light on his feet. So another
Speaker 1: addition to this defensive tackle group. I thought Kenneth Grant
Speaker 1: was all over the place. They had unique run in
Speaker 1: all kinds of different fronts and options. I think that's
Speaker 1: the idea of this defensive front and the collection of
Speaker 1: guys they brought in, Because you've got KG can play
Speaker 1: the nose obviously, Benito Jones is an original nose tackle.
Speaker 1: Zeke Biggers is a stout run defending nose tackle. I
Speaker 1: think Jordan Phillips and the UDFA from Kentucky Trayvon can
Speaker 1: both do that as well. But Kenneth Grant might be
Speaker 1: a better three technique than he's a zero technique, same
Speaker 1: with Jordan Phillips. So the options and versatility they're gonna
Speaker 1: have there with the youth I think they're gonna have.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm pretty sure that defensive tackle group is going
Speaker 1: to be young, and I'm very excited about the potential
Speaker 1: of that group.
Speaker 2: As a whole.
Speaker 1: I wrote down forty six had great change of direction
Speaker 1: from a backpedal. That is Ethan Robinson, the rookie out
Speaker 1: of Minnesota. He's a very smooth mover, as you heard
Speaker 1: from Emory Hunt on the Friday podcast, and that showed
Speaker 1: up from me here.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: My last note is back to Bjay Adams, who had
Speaker 1: a one on one rep. So after that work on
Speaker 1: Andrew Armstrong, he had a rep where he pinned the
Speaker 1: oese to the sideline and did the exact same thing.
Speaker 1: He had two more reps of the receiver didn't even
Speaker 1: get off the line of scrimmage because the press was
Speaker 1: so good. I just thought he was very, very impressive.
Speaker 1: So yeah, not a ton. Still fun to watch some football.
Speaker 1: But those are the notes I got down there so far.
Speaker 1: And we'll go ahead and come back and here from
Speaker 1: some of the rookies we talked to every draft picks
Speaker 1: before practice. We'll go ahead and play some of the
Speaker 1: best soundbites from those guys. Had some great conversations with
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips. Jonah, this is like, this has been the
Speaker 1: hardest one for me to get down. I thought I
Speaker 1: had it down previously, but he kind of corrected us today.
Speaker 1: So he basically gave us a trick saying, if you
Speaker 1: say Hawaii, but like say it like you're supposed to have,
Speaker 1: III take out the H for an s So Savii
Speaker 1: Savii Naya savit e Naya Jonah Saviti Naya. I had
Speaker 1: a great conversation with Jonah Savit Naya, Jordan Phillips, Dante
Speaker 1: Trader are plenty of those guys coming up here after
Speaker 1: the break Drive Time podcast brought to you by Auto Nation.
Speaker 1: So in doing the one place scouting for HQ for
Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips, I just couldn't get over that rep that
Speaker 1: I showed you guys on the YouTube channel right now
Speaker 1: if you want to go back and check it out
Speaker 1: where he uses a quarkscrew technique to split a double
Speaker 1: team against Oregon, clog things up and help his teammates
Speaker 1: make a tackle. Because we can all see the highlight
Speaker 1: reel plays that he makes, but the down in and
Speaker 1: down out consistency to be able to stay within the
Speaker 1: system and the scheme and do your job. That's obviously
Speaker 1: the most important thing in football, because if you get
Speaker 1: eleven guys doing their job, you're gonna be okay. And
Speaker 1: I just feel like Phillips has a really good feel
Speaker 1: for that, and I think that his ability to use
Speaker 1: his body in different and like the functional appliability and
Speaker 1: the grip strength and the leverage and the push pull
Speaker 1: ability of a wrestler.
Speaker 2: I just think it all tracks for him.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to ask him, in your opinion, how
Speaker 1: does your wrestling background, you know, come acrossover to playing
Speaker 1: defensive line.
Speaker 6: Well, in wrestling, you know, one point of emphasis that
Speaker 6: I was talking to me in high school is leverage,
Speaker 6: and so when you wrestle, you know, you quickly find
Speaker 6: out where to grab a man, you know, like the
Speaker 6: elbow controls the body, you know what I'm saying, and
Speaker 6: the tricept does also. So just all about leverage and
Speaker 6: you know, just understanding the human body. And that's what
Speaker 6: wrestling taught me.
Speaker 1: Like the technique is applicable from Baltimore. Next question to
Speaker 1: Jordan was about his work ethic and that Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: and Chris Career have alluded to that multiple times in
Speaker 1: press conferences. So they were asked about that, about where
Speaker 1: that work ethic comes from and how he applies it
Speaker 1: to his career and his craft.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I take a lot of pride in it. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 6: preparation is the key to success, and so I always
Speaker 6: make sure that I'm preparing the right way. And a
Speaker 6: part of preparing is working out, you know, taking care
Speaker 6: of your body and just doing those little things, and I,
Speaker 6: you know, do the best of my ability to do
Speaker 6: those things consistently.
Speaker 1: I was able to kind of stay with Jordan and
Speaker 1: ask them a couple of questions, just one on one
Speaker 1: there towards and I want to go ahead and run
Speaker 1: the entire thing for you right here, talking about his
Speaker 1: body building background as well.
Speaker 2: Irelift to right.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, powerlift is my thing too.
Speaker 2: How long you've been doing that?
Speaker 5: How long did you do that?
Speaker 6: Honestly, I did for two years, but I've been working
Speaker 6: out my whole life. But really, uh, the last two
Speaker 6: years of my high school experience is when I, you know,
Speaker 6: really just did a competitive powerlifting and then obviously it
Speaker 6: translated over to college.
Speaker 7: And you know how I play, Okay, So yeah, so
Speaker 7: we had a rep I do I do a YouTube
Speaker 7: show for the team here, and I had a rep
Speaker 7: view against Oregon where like the corkscrew technique and you
Speaker 7: got drop to the knee for a double team and
Speaker 7: I'm like, that's gonna be his rest.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, and you know it just comes along with watching
Speaker 6: film too and just you know, seeing what works best
Speaker 6: for you. Thank you, I appreciate you, sir.
Speaker 1: Let's move on to Jonahaya and you guys are gonna
Speaker 1: love this player. Man. You talk about like you know
Speaker 1: how sometimes fans like we care more than the players do.
Speaker 1: Like you know, in whatever league, whatever team, like, that's
Speaker 1: not gonna ever be a problem with Jonah Savayah Naya
Speaker 1: because this guy.
Speaker 2: Just just listen to this.
Speaker 1: I asked him about what was it like putting that
Speaker 1: jersey on for the first time today?
Speaker 3: Man, this is like a dream come true, you know,
Speaker 3: just being in a league, just knowing that you know,
Speaker 3: this is a job now for you. You know, it's
Speaker 3: not like a regular practice. You know, you're here to
Speaker 3: take someone's jobs. So just having that mindset of just
Speaker 3: being in this organization, being around great people. I'm just
Speaker 3: excited to get going. You know, we got practice coming up,
Speaker 3: so it's something I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop this one more time for myself and
Speaker 1: for you guys. Let's do it one more time and
Speaker 1: then there's just this like humble nature to him that
Speaker 1: really jumps out to you when you talk to him.
Speaker 1: He was asked about his goals at Rookie Minnie Camp
Speaker 1: this weekend, and you're gonna love these answers. Talk about
Speaker 1: remember how McDaniel talked to the owners meetings about setting
Speaker 1: your culture through the draft. Well, this is the kind
Speaker 1: of guy that you can do that with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So obviously, you know, we just got here. You know,
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything yet, So obviously I'm trying to
Speaker 3: like prove myself to the VET that they can count
Speaker 3: on me. You know, just earning their trust because you know,
Speaker 3: like they don't care if you're drafted or undrafted or
Speaker 3: you just got signed. They want to see you like like,
Speaker 3: you know, putting in that winning mentality year. You know,
Speaker 3: we want guys that want to win here. So just
Speaker 3: just being able to be a sponge and sobout informations
Speaker 3: from them, taking a look around, who are my vets,
Speaker 3: looking at what they're doing, and just taking from them,
Speaker 3: you know, that's what really important for me.
Speaker 1: I've told the story about how he kicked into guard
Speaker 1: playing us USC a couple of years ago, Like didn't
Speaker 1: bother him one iota. A lot of tackles won't do that.
Speaker 1: My one of my favorite stories on the Lockdown Dolphins
Speaker 1: podcast was a certain tackle that didn't want to play
Speaker 1: guard back in like twenty sixteen. But here's Jonah, I'm
Speaker 1: playing multiple positions back in college.
Speaker 3: I look at it as it, you know, just being
Speaker 3: a selfless teammate. You know, I told the guys in
Speaker 3: Arizona that even my quarterback know that wherever they want
Speaker 3: me to be at, you know, I'm gonna play there
Speaker 3: for him. Man, it was one game he told me
Speaker 3: I need your left tackle because our left t got hurt.
Speaker 3: So I was like, I'm there for left tackle, but
Speaker 3: it's good to show my versatility and just just you
Speaker 3: know that type of teammate. I am just being selfless
Speaker 3: at putting myself before a team.
Speaker 1: That was a slip of the tongue that you heard
Speaker 1: him say it myself before the team. He clearly meant
Speaker 1: the other way around, but I thought that was a
Speaker 1: great answer. And he also talked about the multiple positions
Speaker 1: and playing either side of the offensive line in college
Speaker 1: and how it taught him how to push off of
Speaker 1: both legs, which is a big key. And you heard
Speaker 1: coach McDonald talk about body mechanics and how that will
Speaker 1: determine who plays which guard position, not like veteran communication
Speaker 1: or anything like. It comes down to more about what
Speaker 1: players are comfortable with. And it sounds like Jonah and
Speaker 1: this is a paramount right in the NFL for offensive
Speaker 1: lot because you dress seven or eight guys in a game,
Speaker 1: so if you lose somebody like you have to be
Speaker 1: able to move guys around. So his ability to play
Speaker 1: multiple spots I think will be a big boon for
Speaker 1: this team or anybody that had a player like that.
Speaker 2: I want to finish with this one here.
Speaker 1: I asked him about his time at Arizona because he
Speaker 1: told or he said that when he got to Arizona
Speaker 1: he wanted to go there over bigger programs to help
Speaker 1: flip the program. And then he also didn't transfer when
Speaker 1: the head coach left after his second to last season.
Speaker 2: Here's why he decided to do all that.
Speaker 3: And that's just you know, how I got brought up,
Speaker 3: you know, just being loyal to my family. And when
Speaker 3: I got to Arizona, that group of guys that I
Speaker 3: came in with the class of twenty two, those are
Speaker 3: my brothers, you know. So when it came to my
Speaker 3: junior or when Coach Fish left. You know, I didn't
Speaker 3: want to leave what we've started doing. So that's just
Speaker 3: that played a big factor on why I wanted to
Speaker 3: say it was just to be with my brothers and
Speaker 3: the guy that started my career.
Speaker 1: Was speaking of culture setting, type of personalities and approaches
Speaker 1: to professionalism. Dante Trader Junior could listen to him talk
Speaker 1: all day long. I asked him a question here. I'll
Speaker 1: give you this up because he goes right into it.
Speaker 1: But I told him, you know, our colleague around here.
Speaker 1: Marcel Louis Jock from ESPN tweeted a text that he
Speaker 1: got from Mike Loxley saying that both you and Jordan
Speaker 1: Phillips were so pro ready in your approach to the
Speaker 1: game and how you guys approach professional aspect of it,
Speaker 1: and like, what does that look like for you? A
Speaker 1: week of preparation and he gave me this answer, which
Speaker 1: it just the maturity for these guys, Like I think
Speaker 1: about myself at like twenty two, twenty three years old,
Speaker 1: and you know the way I saw the world and
Speaker 1: thought about things. It kind of blows in mind how
Speaker 1: how mature some of these guys are.
Speaker 8: Like I would say the pursuit of being a pro.
Speaker 8: I'm just starting to be a pro. So you just
Speaker 8: embody and some of the things that his old pros
Speaker 8: have done. So just you know, taking care of your body.
Speaker 8: And there's only one person that ever came in to
Speaker 8: build them before me with Jordan Phillips. Like you already
Speaker 8: had a workout by five thirty. I'm walking in six
Speaker 8: thirty to the film room. I can hear the music blasting,
Speaker 8: but you know it really starts on Sundays, we both
Speaker 8: coming in there and watching. Well, we're all tape and
Speaker 8: then you know, Monday through Friday, we're always you know self, Scott,
Speaker 8: more than anything, I understand how we can get better.
Speaker 8: But also on top of that, you know, diving into
Speaker 8: ex and zones of our opponents.
Speaker 2: How is the communication from that aspect of your game?
Speaker 1: Then with the Dolphins and Brass, did you talk about
Speaker 1: that pre draft, when you talk with them at all
Speaker 1: or after you got drafted? Has there been conversation about
Speaker 1: that in terms of how you can apply that as appropriately?
Speaker 8: Same thing, So, like you know, every Combine visit you
Speaker 8: get to talk to the coaches. I bought talked to
Speaker 8: the special team coordinator and assistants and coach Low just
Speaker 8: having the ability to bounce some things off and what
Speaker 8: are the things I'm gonna be able to do and
Speaker 8: translate and just build a plan of you know what
Speaker 8: I can keep up. It's all about consistency. I can
Speaker 8: say I'm gonna wake up four am, but if I can't,
Speaker 8: you know, sustain that for having a minion years, I'm
Speaker 8: in the league and it's not gonna work and I'm
Speaker 8: not gonna pan out. So just really building a playing
Speaker 8: with coach.
Speaker 1: Low, Coach Slow being Ryan Slower, Dolphin's secondary coach. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead to hear from Zeke Biggers now, who I asked,
Speaker 1: what's your what you what kind of impression you're trying
Speaker 1: to make here during the weekend at Rookie minute camp
Speaker 1: from me?
Speaker 9: Just show them that I'm gonna run to the ball,
Speaker 9: I'm gonna give one hundred percent effort every play and
Speaker 9: then I'm not people back and make some players. So
Speaker 9: just just coming there and regular words, showing them that
Speaker 9: every day and being consistent with it on a daily basis.
Speaker 2: So effort and will are probably two things. He points to.
Speaker 1: Some of your calling cards. What about when it comes
Speaker 1: to like a technique or physical skill set, the utility,
Speaker 1: what's the best thing that you bring it?
Speaker 9: Alph though they are, I say, I feel like, as
Speaker 9: a bigger guy, I can play the the ryn really well.
Speaker 9: So I feel like just note back in on people
Speaker 9: on two dinner levels and just playing in the batfield
Speaker 9: that is something I'm definitely gonna have phrase day be
Speaker 9: able to help with. And then eventually the pass is
Speaker 9: working on that every day. So just working the edge
Speaker 9: and being able to help in the past game as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny, you know, you go pre draft and
Speaker 1: it's like no one really knows what the defensive tackle
Speaker 1: position is going to look like in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: and now we're post draft, and I'm like, I got
Speaker 1: three guys that can play the nose. I got three
Speaker 1: guys that can play the three technique as effectively, maybe
Speaker 1: even more than that. And I feel like the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are going to be able to have enough beef up
Speaker 1: front regardless of who's up or you know, if we
Speaker 1: lose someone for a game to an injury, Like they're
Speaker 1: gonna have depth at these positions now to be able
Speaker 1: to have a space eater inside an athletic three technique
Speaker 1: that can win with the pass rush and you know,
Speaker 1: deconstruct a block one on one different guys that can
Speaker 1: help keep those linebackers at that second level without committing
Speaker 1: an extra hat into the run fit, keep them clean
Speaker 1: and keep them flying to the football. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the vision here of how this defense could look.
Speaker 1: You can have multiple fronts. You can have you know,
Speaker 1: bear fronts where you have a zero technique and two
Speaker 1: techniques and they're all big dudes. You can run your
Speaker 1: even fronts out in space, things out. I just think
Speaker 1: that this front seven, as we talked about in the open,
Speaker 1: the versatility and the options they now have is really
Speaker 1: going to be the calling card of this defense. And
Speaker 1: I you know, Anthony Weavers time from Baltimore being a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman himself, and all the really good coaches they
Speaker 1: have in that front seven, with Ryan Crow and Austin
Speaker 1: Clark and Joe Berry everybody involved, it just seems like
Speaker 1: that can be a strength and a calling card of
Speaker 1: this defense and of this football team as you look
Speaker 1: at the way it's been constructed. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: close here with Ollie Gordon, who I asked him about
Speaker 1: you know, we've heard about and seen your pass protection
Speaker 1: real but you also were a dang good pass catcher
Speaker 1: in college. What is the I guess process or what
Speaker 1: does it look like for you to develop those skills
Speaker 1: in college where you know, the running game pass protection
Speaker 1: was also good, but to make yourself a true three
Speaker 1: down back, you have to be a receiver as well.
Speaker 2: How did you go about doing that?
Speaker 10: I would say, you know, just backing off on the state.
Speaker 10: You know, before practice we lived heavy on the jugs,
Speaker 10: you know, probably catch one hundred balls a day, and
Speaker 10: I felt like that was huge. So I feel like
Speaker 10: that's what really helped honestly, all right.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 1: We did hear from Kenneth Grant as well as Quinn
Speaker 1: Yours and Jason Marshall Junior, but I did not get
Speaker 1: soundbites from those guys. So we had Kenneth on the podcast.
Speaker 1: We talked plenty of about Quinn as well as Jason,
Speaker 1: so plenty of rookie coverage here for you guys. The
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks in the podcast, We're gonna go
Speaker 1: ahead and call it a show right here. On Wednesday,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite days of the off season calendar schedule,
Speaker 1: release day, the Dolphins twenty twenty five schedule will be out.
Speaker 1: We'll break it down with matchups and the h I guess,
Speaker 1: the quirks of the schedule, all the fun stuff we
Speaker 1: always do on that annual podcast.
Speaker 2: And that'll be the Wednesday show and then Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm not quite sure that looks like yet, but we'll
Speaker 1: have a planning for you guys once we get there.
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