Speaker 1: To us byres touch style by Waddle snucked into the
Speaker 1: end zone of Miami by tight froll type window. They
Speaker 1: had to get that touchdown on that play. They get it.
Speaker 1: What is up? Dolphins and welcome to the Drivetime Podcast,
Speaker 1: part of the Miami Dolphins podcast network, covering your team,
Speaker 1: your Miami Dolphins. How's it going everybody? I am your host,
Speaker 1: Travis Wingfield and on today's show, welcome back, Welcome Back,
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. Wednesday was the first day of camp, but
Speaker 1: today felt like the true first day of football with
Speaker 1: a packed house, a sold out crowd joining us for practice.
Speaker 1: Today we have a day for report, including coach McDaniel
Speaker 1: addressing the media, a full practice breakdown, some hype videos
Speaker 1: from Tyreek Hill and Blaze Andrew's and some player availability.
Speaker 1: We spoke to Emmanuel Ogba, Mike Kaski, Sony Michelle, Teddy Bridgewater,
Speaker 1: and Brandon Jones from the Baptist Health Studios inside the
Speaker 1: Baptist Health Training Complex. This is the Drive Time Podcast.
Speaker 1: I think there's no other way to start this podcast
Speaker 1: than to go with some pre practice activities. Let's go
Speaker 1: ahead and pick it up first here with Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: who did a backflip and then egged the crowd on
Speaker 1: for some encouragement and some excitement. Here's Cheetah. That was
Speaker 1: the backflips. What's your popcorn rating? And you think that's
Speaker 1: a pretty impossible act to follow, But you would think incorrectly,
Speaker 1: because up next we were blessed by Blaze, Andrew's undrafted
Speaker 1: rookie from Minnesota who's got a pretty nice profile as
Speaker 1: a player, but perhaps an even better one as a
Speaker 1: pure entertainer, as he went full on stone cold Steve Austin.
Speaker 1: I think there's an updated wrestling reference here that I'm
Speaker 1: not really familiar with. Either way, here's Blaze Andrew's getting
Speaker 1: the crowd hyped after Tyreek did his job. So that
Speaker 1: was me saying, oh my goodness and laughing, because how
Speaker 1: do you not when a guy takes a couple of
Speaker 1: Kansas Skittle flavored C four and smashes him on his
Speaker 1: head to open up and takes a swig and goes
Speaker 1: right back to the stretching line. How do you get
Speaker 1: more hyped up for a training camp practice than that?
Speaker 1: It was absolutely beautiful, And what you didn't get from
Speaker 1: that is the video aspect of of him smashing those
Speaker 1: cans and clapped them together. He cracked him first, though,
Speaker 1: so to give them the little bit of resistance in
Speaker 1: terms of the smashing. So a smart entertainer at that
Speaker 1: as well. Let's go back to the beginning of the day,
Speaker 1: and man, it sure felt like the start of football season.
Speaker 1: Because nothing, nothing beats the buzz and the sound you
Speaker 1: get from fans reacting. It's the best at hard Rock
Speaker 1: Stadium on Sundays. But I'll take the sold out crowd
Speaker 1: here at practice of the Baptist Health Training Complex any
Speaker 1: day of the week. Even the beat guys I was
Speaker 1: sitting with, we're feeling the energy and given some ooze
Speaker 1: and oz. It's infectious when you get out there. Let's
Speaker 1: hear from the head coach now, Mike McDaniel on how
Speaker 1: pumped he is to have fans back at practice. But first,
Speaker 1: just before that, coach on memberships being sold out and
Speaker 1: the waiting list for season tickets in three and how
Speaker 1: much that fan support means to coach. Mike McDaniel will
Speaker 1: do that first and then come right back after that
Speaker 1: with the quote from coach talking about fans back at practice.
Speaker 1: It's everything. It's uh, it's important enough, um that I
Speaker 1: I think it's important to communicated to the players. I
Speaker 1: think it's something that that you know, we're not entitled
Speaker 1: to UM, but it's a competitive advantage and it's kind
Speaker 1: of why you do think you do what you do,
Speaker 1: you know, so UM, it's it's really something cool that
Speaker 1: the players know about. It means a lot to UM
Speaker 1: and we're you know, it's just another reason for us
Speaker 1: to go about our daily process UM with a fine
Speaker 1: tooth comb to make sure UM that we we pay
Speaker 1: them back for their investment in us UM. And I
Speaker 1: think that's something that the players, coaches and the organization
Speaker 1: holds true to heart. That's for games and now coach
Speaker 1: on fans at practice here for training camp. I love
Speaker 1: having fans at practice. It's kind of true to my
Speaker 1: heart because that's literally full circle. That's where UM training
Speaker 1: camp practice in Greely, Colorado, UM for the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: where I got UM, where this whole thing for me started.
Speaker 1: So the there there is a connection that I think
Speaker 1: UM you can have have with your with the fans
Speaker 1: in that you're and I tell the players, UM, a
Speaker 1: good amount is you know, how fortunate are you to
Speaker 1: be doing something that Yeah, there's a lot of um
Speaker 1: front end commitment. There's a lot of sacrifice. Um. Again,
Speaker 1: people don't realize that players only have one day off
Speaker 1: a week for like seven months straight. Um, but that
Speaker 1: it's also purposeful because not only are you trying to
Speaker 1: have success for your um, for yourself, for your team,
Speaker 1: but how cool is it that you, um, there's there's
Speaker 1: millions of people that you can make their day a
Speaker 1: little more positive, make Monday work day a little bit better. Um,
Speaker 1: just by doing what you do. You know, everybody wins.
Speaker 1: So uh that that's um, really true to my heart,
Speaker 1: close to my heart, and it's the guys are fired
Speaker 1: up and feel and feel pretty fortunate. Sorry, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll you never know when my statement's gonna stop. So
Speaker 1: it is a tough jump in. Uh, you don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. It was a pretty fun moment with some
Speaker 1: levity there at the press conferences. Someone tried to jump in,
Speaker 1: but coach wasn't done talking yet. Uh, and he just
Speaker 1: basically said, don't worry about him. As a lot big deal.
Speaker 1: But I just think that in this sport, in this league,
Speaker 1: it's so easy when you you know, reach a certain
Speaker 1: point to kind of lose sight of some things, and
Speaker 1: for coach McDaniel to recognize the importance of the fans
Speaker 1: and really the driving force. I mean, it's everything he
Speaker 1: said about what they do and just the acknowledgement of
Speaker 1: making a work day on Monday better for a football
Speaker 1: fan by by winning a game right or by just
Speaker 1: bringing a little bit more positivity of someone's life because
Speaker 1: the sport they love, the team they love is accomplishing
Speaker 1: things and doing things the right way and having fun
Speaker 1: doing it. It's just those little things to me speak
Speaker 1: to coach McDaniels entire, the entire product that he brings
Speaker 1: from a head coach perspective, a leader of the organization.
Speaker 1: And I'm excited to see where it goes because I
Speaker 1: think that he definitely has, you know, the right mindset
Speaker 1: with that stuff and and I think the fans will
Speaker 1: love to hear that too. And that's the kind of
Speaker 1: guy that you know, from a player's perspective, you want
Speaker 1: to go out there and really fight your butt off
Speaker 1: for so great stuff there from coach. I think my
Speaker 1: favorite quote the entire day was like hung in cheek
Speaker 1: follow up question that coach reciprocated. He was asked if
Speaker 1: there was some ten year old protege at the stands
Speaker 1: coming for his job, you know, during these practices, and
Speaker 1: Coach said, that's why I don't allow any ambitious children
Speaker 1: to practice. That was the one thing I cut out.
Speaker 1: Really good joke there from coach. Also like what he
Speaker 1: said about Raheem Moster, who earned the fastest time speed
Speaker 1: of anybody at Friday's practice. Something Coach says that he
Speaker 1: announces that every team meeting, and that Raheem got something
Speaker 1: of an unsolicited round of applause from the guys as
Speaker 1: they appreciated the work that he put in to get
Speaker 1: himself ready to go back onto the field after that
Speaker 1: injury in Javon Holland moving on to the defense, was
Speaker 1: in the Orange Jersey for the second time this season,
Speaker 1: the first two time winner of that distinction, and Coach
Speaker 1: was asked about his second year safety out of Oregon
Speaker 1: and the impressions he has of Javon Holland through the
Speaker 1: first few practices here. I like having him, especially on
Speaker 1: on the team that I'm on and not the team
Speaker 1: that I'm playing against. Um he's uh, it's been cool.
Speaker 1: I didn't know too much about him, um uh before
Speaker 1: I had studied uh our tape here and his play
Speaker 1: as a rookie was very impressive. UM. And there the
Speaker 1: way he's been diligent about approaching his craft. UM, he's
Speaker 1: serious about UM continuing to take his game to the
Speaker 1: next level. UH and and that as an impact player
Speaker 1: is something that the UM Dolphins team, all of us
Speaker 1: are depending. Only good stuff there from coach. I always
Speaker 1: thought the comment from coach on Mike Gasicki and the
Speaker 1: blocking game was excellent about how he wants to attack
Speaker 1: blocking with a different severity than he has ever before.
Speaker 1: And he's fortunate and we're fortunate that guess what his position,
Speaker 1: coach John Embry will settle for nothing less. So all
Speaker 1: those things or something I think he's definitely embracing and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see what it looks like when it's
Speaker 1: all said and done again, just sounds good. And then
Speaker 1: here with Chase Edmonds, he had himself a big day right.
Speaker 1: More on that in just one moment, But here's Coach
Speaker 1: McDaniel talking about the evaluation of Chase Edmunds and the
Speaker 1: evolution of Chase Edmonds game. Going from you know, talking
Speaker 1: about a free agent or a new acquisition who has
Speaker 1: been in one scheme for so long coming to a
Speaker 1: new scheme and using multiple things. Here's Coach talking about
Speaker 1: Chase Edmunds the evaluation process and how far along he's
Speaker 1: come so far here as a Miami Dolphin. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a cool process because you are aware that UM,
Speaker 1: it is unique. You know, evaluating Chase in the off season,
Speaker 1: we knew that the stuff he was doing, UM wasn't
Speaker 1: the exact same is what we plan on doing. That
Speaker 1: being said, UM, you're evaluating how people approach space, how
Speaker 1: people play off blockers, how people make defenders miss UM.
Speaker 1: So again, that's why I don't get ahead of myself
Speaker 1: about all right, he's right here, it's going to be
Speaker 1: this way. Uh him. He's been a great example of
Speaker 1: watching someone for aggress He's UM really in the last
Speaker 1: couple of days put some tremendous things UM on tape.
Speaker 1: UM with that regard in that scheme. It's a process,
Speaker 1: but you just talk through it, UM and it's pretty
Speaker 1: you know, when it clicks for guys, it's very enjoyable
Speaker 1: and it helps them once it clicks once and the
Speaker 1: buying is real and they just continue UM. Approaching things
Speaker 1: the same way moving forward really helps them play faster
Speaker 1: on when it comes to real, live game bullets and
Speaker 1: people are actually trying to tackle them. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and finish up right here with one last question, A
Speaker 1: question about what coach has learned about this team through
Speaker 1: the first week and a half or so, I should
Speaker 1: say half week or so of training camp. I've learned
Speaker 1: that there's been some trust that's been earned on both sides.
Speaker 1: I think, UM, I think that uh, you know, really
Speaker 1: challenge them to you know, everybody wants to say that
Speaker 1: you want to do these um superfluous things and YadA YadA,
Speaker 1: but what about doing And what I've seen in three
Speaker 1: days is, UM is guys that are following the words
Speaker 1: with actions. They they they care about their teammates. UM.
Speaker 1: They have approached approach each and every day with ultimate professionalism. UM.
Speaker 1: And then there's been little pieces along those couple of
Speaker 1: days that you're like, hey, that's not what we want
Speaker 1: for what we're trying to get done. And UM, I
Speaker 1: think it's happened on a couple of times each and
Speaker 1: every day, and every time, UM, it's been corrected. So
Speaker 1: that that also tells you a lot as well. So
Speaker 1: UM couldn't be more excited to chop Wood and going
Speaker 1: to step four of this this training camp process um
Speaker 1: with every day just being one step. Let's go ahead
Speaker 1: and take our first break and come back on the
Speaker 1: other side and get to that's right. Notes from a fun,
Speaker 1: fun practice here at the Baptist Ellustrainian Complex. That's next
Speaker 1: on the Drivetime Podcast, your host Travis Wingfield. We are
Speaker 1: brought to you by Auto Nation and what a treat
Speaker 1: it was for the fans that came out on Saturday.
Speaker 1: We're back here on the Drivetime Podcast recapping that Saturday
Speaker 1: practice as once the team broke from individual work, the
Speaker 1: receivers and cornerbacks came over for one on ones right
Speaker 1: in front of the grand stands, and it was all
Speaker 1: about the shot plays, the deep vertical throws down the field,
Speaker 1: and this period I think was a pretty good indication
Speaker 1: of the kind of day we were going to see
Speaker 1: from quarterback to a tongue of Bloa as he dropped
Speaker 1: in multiple excellent passes, but three excellent balls right into
Speaker 1: the bucket during this period, almost a fourth, but it
Speaker 1: was a bit too far for Tyreek Hill overshot his
Speaker 1: guy there to overthrown Tyreek is something that it's a
Speaker 1: little bit noteworthy with xaviing Howard in coverage in great
Speaker 1: shape alongside Cheetah there. But the three hits number one
Speaker 1: to Cedric Wilson up the far sideline, and that play
Speaker 1: was a good indicator of Wilson's ability to get vertical
Speaker 1: and stack defensive backs. He did an all career long
Speaker 1: four years. It's not the right phrase there, his whole
Speaker 1: career in Dallas. He did that, getting vertical, getting deep
Speaker 1: on guys and using his size to get down the field.
Speaker 1: He's got this innate ability to do that and then
Speaker 1: track the pass in a way that kind of keeps
Speaker 1: the defensive back out of harm's way. I thought we
Speaker 1: saw that on this rep and the ball just to
Speaker 1: send it right into the bread basket, just like it
Speaker 1: did on our second hit to Jalen Waddle up the
Speaker 1: near sideline. Waddle had a couple of steps, probably the
Speaker 1: easiest window of the four deep shots that two hit today,
Speaker 1: and he didn't miss pitching catch from about forty yards
Speaker 1: right on target. That was cool to see. And the
Speaker 1: number three Mohammed san News Sr. And this one wasn't
Speaker 1: a straight deep route but rather angled towards the pylon
Speaker 1: like a flag route kind of and he just lays
Speaker 1: it out over the top, kind of akin to the
Speaker 1: ball that he threw to Mike Gasicki and Buffalo last year,
Speaker 1: that fourth down dime where he just laid it out
Speaker 1: over the top, over the underneath defender, right into the
Speaker 1: bread basket. Again, three really good shots right there from
Speaker 1: Twah and the one on one period. Also in that period,
Speaker 1: Trull Williams had another one of those reps that gets
Speaker 1: him into the notes every day, really physical every juncture
Speaker 1: of the route, drives on the route, gets his hands
Speaker 1: on a pass for a PBu number six every day.
Speaker 1: Has done that so far. Skyler Thompson had a deep
Speaker 1: shot of his own to Preston Williams that was up
Speaker 1: there for Ball of the Day too because it was
Speaker 1: a really really good throw and Skylar Thompson can drive
Speaker 1: the football down the field. You see the raw traits
Speaker 1: for this kid coming together and watching him kind of
Speaker 1: get better every day in practice. He's a fun guy
Speaker 1: to watch play. Jalen Waddles snared a one handed grab
Speaker 1: with xaviing Howard all over him. It was probably like
Speaker 1: a two yard game but expressed and really won the rep.
Speaker 1: But Jalen still caught the football Xavian versus Tyreek and
Speaker 1: Jalen has been as you can imagine, appointment viewing. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to get Byron Jones back out here and
Speaker 1: watch the four of those guys go at it. Tyreek's
Speaker 1: best route today might have been a double move where
Speaker 1: he generated a pretty good bit of cushion. You know,
Speaker 1: he's going one direction, slams on the brakes and kind
Speaker 1: of ducks under the potential arm grab of the cornerback.
Speaker 1: And I think it was Noah ignogny on this one,
Speaker 1: and Tyreek kind of, you know, uses that savvy veteran
Speaker 1: arm to kind of help him create a little more separation.
Speaker 1: But the suddenness does that job too. And then again
Speaker 1: to Ah knows ty Reeks tricks at this point because
Speaker 1: the ball is it finds him right out of those
Speaker 1: breaks like bang bang, and it's it's what you want
Speaker 1: to see. That timing has been money so far. In Camp,
Speaker 1: Braylon Sanders the U d F a out of old
Speaker 1: miss had. I think the catch of Camp. It was
Speaker 1: an overhand, one handed palm style Odell Beckham style catch
Speaker 1: like I didn't even look real. I don't know how
Speaker 1: he snagged that thing. He just reminds you of how
Speaker 1: crazy talented each of these guys are out there. It's
Speaker 1: it's incredible to watch. And then Sanders, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: off to a very nice start. That's camp My recall
Speaker 1: on the U d f A Podcast with Emery Hunt
Speaker 1: from seas Sports HQ that he noted Sanders as one
Speaker 1: of his U d f A s that popped off
Speaker 1: the tape to him. Really good deep ball production there,
Speaker 1: old miss. I literally peek over to the old line
Speaker 1: d Lin pit drills for one matchup, and I'll get
Speaker 1: to more of those as we go along and practice.
Speaker 1: I promise, was just throwing deep balls right in front
Speaker 1: of me. I'm not gonna watch that, but I look
Speaker 1: over and there's number fifteen, Jalen Phillips showcasing his pass
Speaker 1: rush arsenal to the point that he got. He goes upfield,
Speaker 1: gets his man leading one direction and then redirects back
Speaker 1: inside and swipes that inside shoulder and it puts the
Speaker 1: guy you know back on his on his backside and
Speaker 1: flies by for a would be sack. If we count
Speaker 1: sacks in this one on one drill with no quarterback,
Speaker 1: I'll count it. Then we go to the team period,
Speaker 1: the first team period portion of practice, and it begins
Speaker 1: with Chase Edmonds hitting some explosives. Man, he looked really
Speaker 1: really good today in practice. Coach talked him up. You
Speaker 1: heard him talk a little bit about the proclivity for
Speaker 1: the studying aspect of the game that Edmonds displays, and
Speaker 1: I think today it kind of clicked for him a
Speaker 1: bit in the terms of the vision and decisiveness because
Speaker 1: he was hitting some small creases with ferocity. Man, he was.
Speaker 1: It looked stacked up, but number two was scored out
Speaker 1: the other side. And it's not like, you know, they're
Speaker 1: tagging off and letting him go, Like he's finding these
Speaker 1: creases and finding daylight and getting through him quickly before
Speaker 1: the defense can get off their blocks and make a play.
Speaker 1: I don't think I've seen a back hit that many
Speaker 1: chunk runs and one practice since I got here in
Speaker 1: and certainly not twenty nineteen, the year I was here
Speaker 1: with lockdown Dolphins. Uh, and that running game pretty pretty impressive.
Speaker 1: The first play he showed the speed by getting outside
Speaker 1: the defense and winning the edge before getting ushered out
Speaker 1: of bounds for about seven or eight yards or so,
Speaker 1: and Austin Jackson had a really really good seal block
Speaker 1: on that run. Good to see Jackson get some good
Speaker 1: work in there. Then he gets a gap inside that
Speaker 1: he plunged us through to a one on one situation
Speaker 1: with Brandon Jones, and man, I wish we could simulate
Speaker 1: these instances you know, every day in practice. But obviously
Speaker 1: keeping guys healthy is your number one priority. No friendly
Speaker 1: fire there. But there was a couple of instances where
Speaker 1: it's Edmunds one on one with the safety and I
Speaker 1: just want to see if we have a ten yard
Speaker 1: game or a sixty yard touchdown. That's all. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite quarterback plays of the day was an incomplete
Speaker 1: past to Edmunds from tah I can't tell you the
Speaker 1: caller or what you know the particular alert was, but
Speaker 1: it looked to me like Edmund's motioned out and no
Speaker 1: one picked him up. So to a calls for this
Speaker 1: quick snap and flicks the ball down the field with
Speaker 1: a ton of arc, like throw it to a space,
Speaker 1: go get a chase. And that's why I loved it.
Speaker 1: It's one, hey, if someone's uncovered, throw it to him, right.
Speaker 1: But also the better part of the whole thing was
Speaker 1: Javon Holland corrected the potential gaff of the defense because
Speaker 1: of his range and he contested Edmunds, who had to
Speaker 1: lay out for the past and it just goes incomplete
Speaker 1: out of his reach. But if if Holland didn't recognize it,
Speaker 1: I think it would have been a walk in touchdown.
Speaker 1: So some good on both sides there. Also in the backfield,
Speaker 1: John Lovett, the fullback, had a key pick up on
Speaker 1: a Jalen Phillips rush to allow to a time to
Speaker 1: find a short pass to Chase Edmunds. It was a
Speaker 1: really good pocket. Phillips comes in late and love It
Speaker 1: rotates over and picks up that block and too finds
Speaker 1: the short pass for a catch and run by Chase Edmonds.
Speaker 1: And then also in the backfield, Miles Gaskin I thought,
Speaker 1: had his best day so far with some very decisive
Speaker 1: runs of his own. One run in particular really impressed
Speaker 1: me where he presses up to the line and then
Speaker 1: kind of runs horizontally laterally to the offensive line to
Speaker 1: win the corner. It's just smart running back. Myles Gaskin
Speaker 1: back to the quarterback. No, it's a little bit scattered
Speaker 1: here today. But two I had a couple of these
Speaker 1: intermediate rips, including the first pass of the day, a
Speaker 1: twenty ish yard completion. The intermediate passing game has really
Speaker 1: been the biggest thing I've doned so far from practice,
Speaker 1: although Saturday was all about the long ball. But he
Speaker 1: had a nice rip to Tyreek Hill on that first period.
Speaker 1: But I think Christian Wilkins got in because he won
Speaker 1: that rep, and I'm pretty sure he would have had
Speaker 1: a sack on that play. So yes, some give and take.
Speaker 1: Another really good matchup that was a situation of good
Speaker 1: on good. Was Hunter Long getting a vertical route opportunity
Speaker 1: against Duke Riley up the sideline and Teddy bridge Water
Speaker 1: puts the ball in a great spot, but Riley was
Speaker 1: step for step with Hunter Long and broke the pass up.
Speaker 1: He's also had some nice work in the running game.
Speaker 1: A very good camp so far for Duke Riley. Speaking
Speaker 1: of linebackers, Channing Tindall, stop me if you've heard this before.
Speaker 1: Another play where he explodes through the line for a
Speaker 1: would be a collision in the backfield a tackle for loss.
Speaker 1: He's done that at least once each practice that we've
Speaker 1: been at out here, and Jerome Baker had a bunch
Speaker 1: of plays today to My favorite was a display of
Speaker 1: of just pure speed from double Nickels fifty five where
Speaker 1: he got around the edge and you'll hear this term
Speaker 1: from me a lot on the podcast, to scrape, and
Speaker 1: basically what that means is you want your your inside
Speaker 1: shoulder to scrape right off the outside shoulder of the
Speaker 1: furthest man outside. That's the best way to fill your
Speaker 1: gap and have that gap integrity. He comes from his
Speaker 1: middle of the field alignment and scrapes all the way
Speaker 1: around the outside edge to set that edge and meet
Speaker 1: the running back there or beat the running back to
Speaker 1: the spot and eventually get the tackle. He was all
Speaker 1: over the field on Saturday's practice, so was Andrew van
Speaker 1: Ginklho had a big day. Couple of sacks. One was
Speaker 1: an effort sack. He kind of continued to work as
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater surveyed against very good coverage and very good
Speaker 1: pass pro but he had to eat it. Andrew Van
Speaker 1: Giggle comes off the block and gets the sack. Then
Speaker 1: later he won immediately with a wicked double hand swipe.
Speaker 1: He took both the hands, swiped the punch of the
Speaker 1: offensive lineman and then dipped that inside shoulder flattened corner
Speaker 1: of the quarterback and he got in their frame very
Speaker 1: That was the quickest sack I think I've seen in
Speaker 1: camp was Vann Ginkles today. He also finished practice by
Speaker 1: falling into coverage and deflecting a pass from to a
Speaker 1: little hook zone drop. Nearly picked it, but it was
Speaker 1: coming in really hot from about five yards away, so
Speaker 1: that's a tough catch to make. Melvin Ingram and Emmanuel
Speaker 1: Ogball both won a pass rush on the same rep
Speaker 1: and would have met at the quarterback for a sack.
Speaker 1: Cameron Good had a very nice stack in shed and
Speaker 1: the run game. To get into the notes for the
Speaker 1: first time this camp shutting down at savon Akhmed run.
Speaker 1: So there was a few sacks, but man, I thought
Speaker 1: the pockets were very good for the majority of the day.
Speaker 1: I thought Liam Eikenberg Robert Hunt had a bunch of
Speaker 1: good blocks. I thought Kellyn Diach had some really good
Speaker 1: blocks as well, some good pass pro sets, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure there were others, but I just didn't have the
Speaker 1: notes to say so with confidence. So we'll come back
Speaker 1: to that when pads come on, which next practice will
Speaker 1: have the pads on. Let's see what else here upfront.
Speaker 1: Christian was Christian like Clock worked with that dude. He's
Speaker 1: just he's so so damn good. Zack Steeler had some
Speaker 1: really nice plays against the wrong Emmanuel Ogba had some
Speaker 1: pressures and a couple of names here, Ben Still from
Speaker 1: Nebraska and Benito Jones, a third year player. Both of
Speaker 1: those guys had a couple of plays together. Today. That's
Speaker 1: a deep room and that interior defensive line spot, but
Speaker 1: a lot of guys making their case to make the roster.
Speaker 1: What else here next team? Drill Tyreek had arguably the
Speaker 1: best route he's ran so far, and that's saying something
Speaker 1: where he goes one way, slams on the brake, cuts
Speaker 1: it back the other way, and does it through contact
Speaker 1: without losing balance or change in direction through his acceleration.
Speaker 1: He's gonna change the way this offense plays. Man, he is,
Speaker 1: he is something. Him and Jaylen Waddle every day, every
Speaker 1: day fun to watch. And that was the first pass
Speaker 1: of a pass in a series of twa throws that
Speaker 1: were very nice chunk gains. None of one to River
Speaker 1: Craycraft were to a does this cool pump to get
Speaker 1: the linebacker in coverage to take the cheese and kind
Speaker 1: of jump and wave the arms, which gives Craycraft a
Speaker 1: window to sit down in and he throws that thing
Speaker 1: in there for a nice pick up. About fifteen yards later,
Speaker 1: he fires one outside to Cedric Wilson that looked like,
Speaker 1: you know, an innocuous ten yard route to the perimeter,
Speaker 1: but the ball took Cedric away from the teeth of
Speaker 1: the defense and led him right into a nice little
Speaker 1: catch and run after the catch. And then Teddy comes
Speaker 1: in and does a fantastic job on a rip of
Speaker 1: evading a rush from the blitz off the edge, climbing up,
Speaker 1: resetting in the pocket, and ripping when the tyreek for
Speaker 1: about fifteen yards. Again, these receiver combinations with different quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and different looks, we're getting a lot of that, So
Speaker 1: lots of guys having chances to work with different players
Speaker 1: on offense. I think it's been effective so far. Lynn
Speaker 1: Boden Jr. Had a nice catch, but a stopped by
Speaker 1: key On Crossing, who was right there for that stop.
Speaker 1: Crossing has had a couple of plays like that, including
Speaker 1: a a quick screen to Jalen Waddle where he came
Speaker 1: up and took the towel off and let's say no sir, No, sir,
Speaker 1: he's he's been in good shape a lot, and if
Speaker 1: you've seen his tape, he's a really dang good tackler.
Speaker 1: So good news there for Keion Crossing. Kind of a
Speaker 1: random order today, I apologize about that. But Darius Hodge
Speaker 1: again made some plays the outside linebacker. He had a
Speaker 1: rush working one on one against the left tackle that
Speaker 1: it forced an errant throw with a good, good rush
Speaker 1: where he ripped down the hands and got around the
Speaker 1: inside of that arc and put a pressure on the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Been doing that a lot so far. And that's it.
Speaker 1: What a fun day, what a fun week. Let's take
Speaker 1: our last break here and then get two player media
Speaker 1: from the day here on Saturday. You can always check
Speaker 1: out the written piece up on Miami Dolphins dot com
Speaker 1: by yours truly. Let's come back on the other side
Speaker 1: and here from five veteran players here on your Miami
Speaker 1: Dolphins Next Drivetime podcast, your host Rawis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 1: you by Auto Nation. Another great media session after practice,
Speaker 1: as we heard from Emmanuel Ogba, Mike Gatsicki, Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: Brandon Jones, and Teddy Bridgewater here on the Drivetime Podcast.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and start with Mike ga Sicky and
Speaker 1: I don't know about you guys, but I am loving
Speaker 1: these fan engagement questions and answers. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: start there with Mike KASICKI about what did you think
Speaker 1: about the energy at practice today with the Miami Dolphins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's awesome. I mean, fans are awesome.
Speaker 1: It's great. Um. But you know, I said to Chris
Speaker 1: Career when I was walking down and I was like,
Speaker 1: I want him excited in January, you know, So it's
Speaker 1: cool to have out here in July. And I think
Speaker 1: everybody's fans are exciting in July. So we gotta keep
Speaker 1: working and keep you know, putting our head down and
Speaker 1: get to work. Because everybody's excited right now, everybody's optimistic.
Speaker 1: We gotta go out and you know, perform and keep
Speaker 1: keeping exciting and give him something to cheer about. And
Speaker 1: then this from Mike about attending tight End you the
Speaker 1: camp hosted by I think it's it's Travis Kelsey. I've
Speaker 1: been talking about George kill who of course played with Dolphins,
Speaker 1: current tight ends coach John Embry and San Francisco. Here's
Speaker 1: Mike talking about the blocking aspect of this offense and
Speaker 1: what he's learned about it so far. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: I was, I was talking with him just about the scheme,
Speaker 1: just about you know Embo and you know how he operates,
Speaker 1: and you know coach McDaniel and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: So you try to, you know, just you pick everybody's
Speaker 1: brain out there, and obviously you know him being in
Speaker 1: this system um and having success in it. Uh. But
Speaker 1: you know, obviously you know he is one of you know,
Speaker 1: honestly the best blocking tight end and the league. And
Speaker 1: then you see what he gets off of it in
Speaker 1: the past game because of it. So that's the that's
Speaker 1: the most important part, um, and I'm gonna keep working
Speaker 1: at it and keep doing Let's go next to Emmanuel Ogball,
Speaker 1: who said that he used to be able to do
Speaker 1: a backflip like the one Tyreek did before practice. I
Speaker 1: want to see a video of that because that is
Speaker 1: outrageously impressive for a guy that size. But a manual
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about working with coach Clark on
Speaker 1: technique and a coaching point of attack, react and footwork,
Speaker 1: which that's one of my favorite groups to watch out
Speaker 1: there because the way they go about their business and
Speaker 1: the production they get, the running game, the pass rush game,
Speaker 1: that batted passes, I mean, you know, the batted passes
Speaker 1: and pass rush. The sack numbers, the pressure numbers have
Speaker 1: been top of the league last couple of years, obviously
Speaker 1: with Ogbab being a big part of that. And another
Speaker 1: big part of that is Jalen Phillips, the second year
Speaker 1: outside linebackers. I wanted to ask Emmanual Ogbab what he's
Speaker 1: seen so far the second year backer and the biggest
Speaker 1: strides he's made so far. Here's a manual on Jalen Phillips. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's he's doing a phenomenal job for us. You know,
Speaker 1: he's getting better every practice. You know, he has that
Speaker 1: mindset to be great. So I just need to improvement
Speaker 1: every practice for me. That's same consistency he started doing
Speaker 1: the springs. Let's go now to the running backs room
Speaker 1: and the homecoming of Sony Michelle. He was asked about
Speaker 1: the camaraderie in that running backs room with the new
Speaker 1: additions and the incumbents. Here is Michelle talking about how
Speaker 1: much fun he's having that running backs room. Camardity been good.
Speaker 1: Guys love to compete, guys are out here working their
Speaker 1: tails off trying to earn spots, UM, and that's when
Speaker 1: it's all about because nothing is given, everything is earned,
Speaker 1: and you know, you get what you earned out here.
Speaker 1: Sony also talked a little bit the homecoming, his support system,
Speaker 1: how excited he is to be back home, and the
Speaker 1: energy of the fans in the building today. For all
Speaker 1: those availabilities, check out the team YouTube channel Miami Dolphins YouTube. Next,
Speaker 1: let's go to Brandon Jones who talked about kind of
Speaker 1: the camaraderie with that group. I mean a good little
Speaker 1: carry over there about these guys coming together and how
Speaker 1: hungry they are and how they work together. Here's Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones talking about the DBS and their camaraderie and just
Speaker 1: being able to have multiple years of experience together. It's huge. Um,
Speaker 1: We've been able to build a relationship kind of off
Speaker 1: the field, and that definitely shows the stuff on the field.
Speaker 1: So we we have we have fun, We're super tough
Speaker 1: on each other, We're very competitive, and I think that
Speaker 1: kind of fuels us every single day to try to
Speaker 1: be the best version of ourselves. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's been awesome. How about the team's reaction to Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill coming out and pumping up the crowd. Here's Brandon
Speaker 1: Jones on that. So we knew he was gonna pumping
Speaker 1: the crowd up. I don't know he's gonna hit a
Speaker 1: back flip. So I was like, that might be actually
Speaker 1: really good for a warm up, you know, to get
Speaker 1: the hips the hamstrings right. So I might have to
Speaker 1: add that in. I don't know how to do one
Speaker 1: we figured out maybe he figured out in the offs
Speaker 1: in Brandon, I don't know, just some advice there. Let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and finish up here with Teddy Bridgewater. This
Speaker 1: one was cool. Let's play the first couple of answers
Speaker 1: from Teddy here making an opening statement talking about being
Speaker 1: back home in South Florida and then his Christmas in
Speaker 1: July event and getting to stay here after that, a
Speaker 1: post of shipping off to camp in Denver, Carolina, New Orleans,
Speaker 1: the Jets, Washington, Minnesota, all the tops he's had in
Speaker 1: his career, staying here in South Florida. Here he is
Speaker 1: pumped up about this. You can see some of the
Speaker 1: rookies get the fans go on with the fan fun factory. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's a great competition out here, man gas
Speaker 1: competing at a high level. It's great to be a
Speaker 1: part of. How is the phil to be back home, Teddy?
Speaker 1: I feels great. Um, you know, I still feel surreal
Speaker 1: a little bit. You know. I wake up in the
Speaker 1: mart and I was like, man, I got to sleep
Speaker 1: in my own bit and I gotta come to work.
Speaker 1: So it's great. UM's great puns opportunity finish up here
Speaker 1: as Teddy had arguably the best Instagram post of two
Speaker 1: for my money when he talked about the influence of
Speaker 1: athletes setting an example for the youth, the right example.
Speaker 1: Here's Teddy talking about his South Florida upbringing and how
Speaker 1: much he wants to do his part to keep as
Speaker 1: many youths as he can on the right half. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's so easy to be influenced, you
Speaker 1: know nowadays, especially with what you're saying on social media,
Speaker 1: what you're saying on the television. Uh, it's so easy
Speaker 1: for the kids to be influenced by the wrong things.
Speaker 1: But it's also so easy for them to be influenced
Speaker 1: by the right thing. So just growing up down here,
Speaker 1: you know, I've seeing the good, the bad, ugly, the pretty.
Speaker 1: Um I'm happy that I'm in the position that I'm in.
Speaker 1: I'm happy that I'm able to, you know, drive through
Speaker 1: the communities, drive through the neighborhoods, and you know, give
Speaker 1: my story and remind them that I walked those same sidewalks,
Speaker 1: attended some of those same schools they're on, some of
Speaker 1: those same screetchs that they live on, and just give
Speaker 1: them hope. I think that's a great place to end
Speaker 1: on this edition of the Drive Time Podcast. A little
Speaker 1: over a half hour for you here on the pod.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and get out of here for the weekend.
Speaker 1: Um day off on Sunday. Back at it on Monday.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the beach tomorrow and catch up
Speaker 1: on some reading and some time with my girls. It's
Speaker 1: been a long week away from them. Uh. Go ahead
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