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Speaker 1: the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 1: He's got my hands in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: What is up Dolphins? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 2: I am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show,
Speaker 2: we made it through another three day session. That's three
Speaker 2: sessions down, nine practices in total. Day off tomorrow and
Speaker 2: then we're back for a game week. And this is
Speaker 2: the last weekend that you will experience in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: sans the bye week without a Miami Dolphins football game.
Speaker 2: Today we heard from Mike McDaniel, QB one to a
Speaker 2: tonguea by Loa, and Devon eight Chan. Another day of
Speaker 2: trading blows, the tight ends getting involved in a big way,
Speaker 2: a game winning drive with some tempo, a big day
Speaker 2: for the linebackers and the interior offensive line. All of
Speaker 2: that and a whole bunch of practice notes from the
Speaker 2: Baptist Hill Studios inside the Baptist Hell Trading Complex. This
Speaker 2: is the Drive Time Podcast. You know, I think the
Speaker 2: best part of doing this every single day is how
Speaker 2: in tuned. It makes you with the team and the
Speaker 2: content and the players and the overall operation because of
Speaker 2: the callback ability it gives you me and how it
Speaker 2: can reinforce things that you may be thought or at
Speaker 2: least pontificated on back in late winter early spring, the
Speaker 2: time of year where we speculate and try to formulate
Speaker 2: what things might look like from a scheme perspective, from
Speaker 2: a personnel usage perspective, just everything that goes in to
Speaker 2: what you wind up seeing on the field on Sundays
Speaker 2: in September and how it's constructed in the winter months.
Speaker 2: And one of the points that I kept making was
Speaker 2: when we signed John new Smith before free agency had
Speaker 2: kicked off, because he was a released player and free
Speaker 2: to sign with any team before the new league year
Speaker 2: window opened. We brought in Odell Beckham and Malik Washington,
Speaker 2: and we brought in Jalen Wright, which is a little
Speaker 2: bit different from this theme I'm perpetrating here, but ultimately
Speaker 2: this collection of skill players that was acquired seemed to
Speaker 2: be puzzle pieces to some of the elements. The offense
Speaker 2: was I don't want to say lacking, but where there
Speaker 2: was room for growth from a season to go because
Speaker 2: as you hear, you'll hear coach, You'll hear two of
Speaker 2: every player will say like, even in this league, Tylery
Speaker 2: excid if you can score or you can get up
Speaker 2: to two thousand yards or close to it, and that
Speaker 2: still doesn't mean you are perfect and you can still
Speaker 2: find ways to get better. I mean, you know how
Speaker 2: far have we come?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Because I remember the two thousand and two or twenty
Speaker 2: two offseason where it was like, the Dolphins haven't had
Speaker 2: a top ten offense in twenty five years. Can Tyreek
Speaker 2: Hill and Mike McDaniel finally change that? And now we've
Speaker 2: done it two years in a row, including being the
Speaker 2: number one offense in the NFL last season. And for
Speaker 2: a guy that used to get drafted highly and pick
Speaker 2: up football games for one the way I catch a football,
Speaker 2: but for number two, because I was the offensive coordinator
Speaker 2: in Sandlott Football and drew up cool plays which I
Speaker 2: know kind of goes against the s of Sam lat football,
Speaker 2: but all I wanted to do was call plays back then.
Speaker 2: I freaking love offense. And for a young kid to
Speaker 2: watch Chad Henny and John Beck and Khleil Lemon and
Speaker 2: Gus Farrott and Sage Rosenfels and Matt Moore and Tyler
Speaker 2: Thigpin and Dante Culpepper and it just was rough, right,
Speaker 2: But now you finally have one of the top offenses,
Speaker 2: and you still thirst for more as you compete for
Speaker 2: the ultimate prize. And what a treat it is, what
Speaker 2: a payoff it is, what an earned right it is
Speaker 2: to watch to Tyreek and Waddle in this entire operation
Speaker 2: go after twenty five years of rather futile offense of production.
Speaker 2: And so today we got two sound bites, actually let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and call it three, two from McDaniel, one
Speaker 2: from Tua Toungovailoa that I think really illustrates that point.
Speaker 2: And look, I'm far from the only one to speculate
Speaker 2: that this could be the thinking just based upon the
Speaker 2: tape and the opportunities the tape showed help. McDaniel has
Speaker 2: said as much at various points throughout the offseason. And
Speaker 2: before we get to those sound bites, I want to
Speaker 2: tell you why it was especially relevant on this Saturday,
Speaker 2: because the last period of practice was a situational drill
Speaker 2: end of Game one five on the game clock down
Speaker 2: by four points, two timeouts in your pocket, a ball
Speaker 2: on the minus thirty five yard line and Tua took
Speaker 2: the offense down the field for a touchdown, leaving eighteen
Speaker 2: seconds left for the Buffalo Bills. Let's call them U
Speaker 2: to try to win the game at the end, And
Speaker 2: that included a third down conversion and fourth down conversion
Speaker 2: with the game on the line. High pressure, high leverage situations.
Speaker 2: You're trying to simulate those practice, and the offense in
Speaker 2: those moments stepped up big. On a August the third
Speaker 2: here from the Baptist Hill Trading Complex. The first play
Speaker 2: of that drive was a twelve yard ripped to Sanders
Speaker 2: on a little glance route that we've seen to execute
Speaker 2: time and time again, and we saw him drill this
Speaker 2: in individuals and it showed up throughout the course of
Speaker 2: team drills as well, where his footwork to be able
Speaker 2: to execute a fake with his feet like to the
Speaker 2: right side of the offensive formation, which for Tua puts
Speaker 2: his back to the left side of the formation right,
Speaker 2: And for a left handed quarterback, that means if he
Speaker 2: wants to throw left, he's gonna have to flip the
Speaker 2: body one hundred and eighty degrees and get back over
Speaker 2: there and make that throw. And I haven't seen anybody ever.
Speaker 2: I've never seen a quarterback better at quickly putting himself
Speaker 2: from a non threatening throwing position into a position where
Speaker 2: he can rip the football and do it with high
Speaker 2: level ball placement and accuracy. He's the best I've ever
Speaker 2: seen at that. And why he was the best rpo
Speaker 2: quarterback in college football, and why you see some of
Speaker 2: the stuff we can do here from an offensive standpoint
Speaker 2: with his ball handling and footwork and how quick it
Speaker 2: all is. So he hits that to Brilin Sands for
Speaker 2: twelve yards to get the drive going, and then they
Speaker 2: got to the line. And here's what really got me
Speaker 2: fired up. And you guys might hear me on the
Speaker 2: press conferences asking players about tempo, and they didn't really
Speaker 2: talk about it, but I was impressed by how quick
Speaker 2: the tempo was. It was the fastest time from end
Speaker 2: of play to the next play snap I've seen in
Speaker 2: this iteration of Dolphins football. Because I know, like even
Speaker 2: the Baltimore game from two years ago, that slow, methodical drive,
Speaker 2: like call all time out, go faster, like they knew
Speaker 2: what they were doing. They milked the clock. But the
Speaker 2: ability to get to the lion of scrimmage, and we
Speaker 2: know this offense is verb heavy, right, it's syllable heavy
Speaker 2: in the play calls. I'm excited to see how that
Speaker 2: plays out as the year approaches, because I think if
Speaker 2: they can go more tempo and have a better quicker
Speaker 2: streamline calls in certain situations, it's going to reduce penalties,
Speaker 2: it's going to give you more plays. It has me excited.
Speaker 2: So they get to the line of scrimmage and they
Speaker 2: throw this little dump off to John new Smith after
Speaker 2: Tua kind of had some wiggle and move in the pocket,
Speaker 2: which was a theme again today, and he dumps it
Speaker 2: off to John neuw Smith, who didn't really have the angle,
Speaker 2: but he still won the corner and got out of
Speaker 2: bounds for six yards where it looked like it was
Speaker 2: gonna be like two yards, and tackled inbounds. And this
Speaker 2: prompted this, yeah, that you could hear from Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 2: like one hundred yards away. We could hear that up
Speaker 2: in the stands, and I think you're going to hear
Speaker 2: that on a micd up episode of Mike McDaniel here,
Speaker 2: dropping either today or sometime this weekend. He says it
Speaker 2: a lot, but I heard it on this one, and
Speaker 2: he loved the run from John U Smith. I think
Speaker 2: he loved it so much. On the second and four play,
Speaker 2: they throw him anow a now screen catch rock throw,
Speaker 2: get the ball out there, and this time the cornerback
Speaker 2: overplayed the outside and so John U jab steps outside
Speaker 2: and cuts back across his face and leaves him in
Speaker 2: the dust and runs into a safety for an eight
Speaker 2: yard completion and tackle for a first down, which that
Speaker 2: allows you to get into the timeouts. You've now chewed up,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty five yards of field position, and you've
Speaker 2: changed the dynamic of how this drive can play out
Speaker 2: as far as your ability to go tempo or not
Speaker 2: to run the ball, to throw the ball. Getting those
Speaker 2: quick yards and putting the ball in plus territory. That
Speaker 2: quickly put Miami in an advantageous situation where a first
Speaker 2: and ten from the forty yard line with fifty three
Speaker 2: seconds or no check that it was a minute in
Speaker 2: three seconds and a time out in pocket. So that
Speaker 2: was impressive. And then the defense kind of got into
Speaker 2: the bag with what we've seen all week long here
Speaker 2: with the pressures and stunts and different coverage principles and
Speaker 2: bluff blitzes and all that stuff. They run this three
Speaker 2: man stunt and Austin Jackson picks it up beautifully where
Speaker 2: he kind of sorted through the trash and stayed on
Speaker 2: his you know, tight to his guard and then you know,
Speaker 2: regained depth off the edge and they just all picked
Speaker 2: it up really well with Austin Liam and Aaron Brewer
Speaker 2: and Tua once again on this play. It's it wasn't
Speaker 2: pressure immediately, but the coverage was pretty good and so
Speaker 2: he wiggles around more pressure and gets this dump off
Speaker 2: to a Chan for seven yards, and then they go
Speaker 2: a second and four and he throws back to eight
Speaker 2: Chan and he drops this pass. There's a third and
Speaker 2: four and now we have a big time play we
Speaker 2: have to convert on even though we know we have
Speaker 2: fourth down because of this game situation. But this play
Speaker 2: was really impressive, and I'll tell you about it later
Speaker 2: because I want to get to the main point here
Speaker 2: where Tua ripped it to Malik Washington for twenty yards
Speaker 2: in a first down. I'll come back to that in
Speaker 2: a second. The first and ten play from the plus
Speaker 2: fourteen yard lines a three yard eight Chan reception. Timeout
Speaker 2: tempo has been so quick they now have like thirty
Speaker 2: nine seconds but no timeouts for a second and seven
Speaker 2: from the plus eleven, so that's a good spot to
Speaker 2: be in. And on the second and seven play, they
Speaker 2: pick up six yards on a dump off to eight
Speaker 2: Chan that creates a third and one at the plus
Speaker 2: five as a Chan got out of bounds on the play,
Speaker 2: and once again Tua had to escape to make this
Speaker 2: throw happen. In all these plays, I guarantee you there's
Speaker 2: going to be beat writers and reports that tell you
Speaker 2: that he was sacked on those I promise you it was.
Speaker 2: And double check with Kyle Krabs and Al f Artiego
Speaker 2: from the three Yards per Carry Unlockdown Dolphins podcast, because
Speaker 2: I watched practice with those guys today only and we
Speaker 2: were all in agreeance. And those are two of the
Speaker 2: guys that I think you know taking these practices as
Speaker 2: well as anybody else. So I promise you they were
Speaker 2: not sacks. So now it's third and one at the
Speaker 2: plus five yard line, and this is where you're gonna
Speaker 2: get mad, and I kind of am with you on it.
Speaker 2: They throw a fade to Devon h Chan and it
Speaker 2: goes out of bounce. So now it's fourth and one
Speaker 2: from the plus five and they throw the exact same
Speaker 2: play to a Chan that they threw to Tyreek in
Speaker 2: the Dallas game on that critical third down conversion, and
Speaker 2: he winds up scoring a touchdown, not just a first down,
Speaker 2: but a touchdown, working behind blocks of Kendall Lamb and
Speaker 2: Rob Jones. So they go down convert eighteen seconds left
Speaker 2: from the clock. You just won the game. Very impressive
Speaker 2: of some tempo, some running back, some tight end playing
Speaker 2: off the overplay and on nine plays all passes. Five
Speaker 2: of those to eight Chan, two to John new Smith.
Speaker 2: Take what the defense gives you, right, And by the way,
Speaker 2: did you know this? Tyreek wasn't in that drive and
Speaker 2: nor was Jalen Waddle. So game winning drive without wreaking Wattle.
Speaker 2: That's why you can pay the guy fifty three million
Speaker 2: bucks a year. Not bad, But the reason I wanted
Speaker 2: to emphasize this drive is the aforementioned other options in
Speaker 2: the passing game, right the eligibles, but also a handful
Speaker 2: of these plays were coming from Tua, creating beyond his
Speaker 2: original hitch up in the pocket, which I continue to
Speaker 2: see as a massive improvement in his game from a
Speaker 2: year ago. He looks very comfortable climbing cutting, you know,
Speaker 2: making a decision to not step up if the middle
Speaker 2: of the pocket is closed, and trying to find avenues
Speaker 2: left or right, and then impressing the lion of scrimmage
Speaker 2: with urgency and sprinting speed, but also the knowledge for
Speaker 2: where I can pull up at the line and be
Speaker 2: way more dangerous with the throw than I can with
Speaker 2: the run. In fact, one of those completions to e
Speaker 2: Chan came as a result of him pressing the line
Speaker 2: of scrimmage and dumping it off to h Chan. Give
Speaker 2: it to him. Don't you don't run the ball if
Speaker 2: you have h Chan give it to him. And then
Speaker 2: comes the general concept here that I'm trying to communicate
Speaker 2: with y'all, this idea of overplay and where there are
Speaker 2: other options in the passing game. I refer to this
Speaker 2: all the time, especially you know, with Kyle Krabs here
Speaker 2: with me, because we watched that Titans tape together at
Speaker 2: one point last year and tried to figure out what
Speaker 2: the hell the issue was and what is the solve
Speaker 2: to it. And the issue was defenses would sort of
Speaker 2: discount a portion of the field on certain looks where
Speaker 2: they kind of gambled the Dolphins wouldn't throw and in
Speaker 2: that game, they just wouldn't go to the backside out
Speaker 2: route that was kind of there all night. So they
Speaker 2: defensively would neglect that and then use that corner back
Speaker 2: to that side and insert him as a quasi weak
Speaker 2: side linebacker to fit the run game and give another
Speaker 2: hat in the gaps in the running game and just gamble.
Speaker 2: You're not going to throw the ball to the backside
Speaker 2: out And that second throw to John new Smith is
Speaker 2: exactly what that was. We have him in this y
Speaker 2: isso which go back to the early Mike Kasiki days
Speaker 2: back with Ryan Tannehill and Adam Gaze or don't you
Speaker 2: probably don't want to do that either. And I see
Speaker 2: all this attention that's you know, given to the field
Speaker 2: upside of the formation, the you know, wider side of
Speaker 2: the field with where you would have the combination of
Speaker 2: wreak and waddle where you can stack those guys, And
Speaker 2: that's going to cause a lot more attention on that
Speaker 2: portion of the field than what you would get from
Speaker 2: John hu Smith on the backside. Why I soow, And
Speaker 2: so let's go ahead and force this backside corner from
Speaker 2: this look, who's peeking inside at the run game or
Speaker 2: possibly crossing routes from the front side make him tackle
Speaker 2: John hu Smith one on one in space. We didn't
Speaker 2: have that option last We didn't have a big, bruising
Speaker 2: guy that could run after the catch and make you
Speaker 2: miss an open space with also enough speed to execute
Speaker 2: a route down the field. They probably won't make that tackle,
Speaker 2: and they didn't. And John who got on the outside
Speaker 2: shoulder and got out of bounds than that second one
Speaker 2: the corner trying to protect the sidelines. So he turns
Speaker 2: it up and makes it an even bigger gain. Something
Speaker 2: that you can do when you have that tight end
Speaker 2: or that that timeout, I should say in your pocket.
Speaker 2: So you spend you know, all week. What did wink
Speaker 2: Martin Dell say that year that he didn't sleep at
Speaker 2: all during the Giants and Dolphins game week because he
Speaker 2: was trying to figure out how to get ready for
Speaker 2: this offense with Tyreek and Wadall and Tua. So if
Speaker 2: you spend your whole week preparing for that, what do
Speaker 2: you do when we nickel and dine you down the
Speaker 2: field with our backs, our tight ends and our slot receivers.
Speaker 2: I mean they're productive if they are productive as their
Speaker 2: resumes in the past would suggest they could be. That's
Speaker 2: a lot to contend with man and so we'll go
Speaker 2: ahead and go to Tua here first, who talked about
Speaker 2: that drive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I love Devon.
Speaker 4: Last year he showed a lot of capabilities of what
Speaker 4: he could do for us offensively, from the backfield, going out,
Speaker 4: running routes, in the slot, all of that. So it
Speaker 4: wasn't new to me, you know, being able to see
Speaker 4: what he could do, but it was.
Speaker 3: It was really cool getting him involved.
Speaker 4: And that's that's sort of what the defense gave us
Speaker 4: with those throws to him today. So trust him and
Speaker 4: you know, asked him to make some place for.
Speaker 2: Us today, took what the the defense gave him. I
Speaker 2: think that's such a powerful quote there, a powerful approach
Speaker 2: when you have the best player in the National Football League.
Speaker 2: Congratulations Tyreek. More on that in a moment, and a
Speaker 2: guy that I think is like, I don't know, the
Speaker 2: sixth best receiver in the NFL. I think Waddle is
Speaker 2: like five six, seven to eight range. That's where I
Speaker 2: put him. When you have those two guys and you
Speaker 2: take what the defense gives you, which is probably not
Speaker 2: those two guys. And so we go back here to
Speaker 2: coach McDaniel from this morning, who talked about that tight
Speaker 2: end room and how it was viewed as coming into
Speaker 2: the offseason as an area of opportunity for this offense
Speaker 2: to get better.
Speaker 5: I think there was an opportunity to get more production
Speaker 5: from that room from an emphasis standpoint. What I mean
Speaker 5: by that is, you know, the types of plays were running,
Speaker 5: the types of things we're asking people to do. You know,
Speaker 5: you're always looking at getting better and improving, and I
Speaker 5: think one one way for us offense offensively is really
Speaker 5: to add an eligible in the past game that's extremely
Speaker 5: important in the run game, and that's the tight end position,
Speaker 5: so that you know, you don't just say that to
Speaker 5: do that, that takes an off season of emphasis of
Speaker 5: working the craft and techniques.
Speaker 3: And you know, if we're trying to.
Speaker 5: Expand anybody's role, that they they themselves have to expand
Speaker 5: what they're really good at. I think that the room's
Speaker 5: done a great job of that, and I think that
Speaker 5: that's exciting for us because there's a lot of attention
Speaker 5: paid to some other players on the field that anytime
Speaker 5: there's over attention, one way that leaves a little vulnerability
Speaker 5: in the defense and another.
Speaker 2: So John who made a bunch of plays today and
Speaker 2: it looks like the guy that was in Atlanta last
Speaker 2: year to me on tape, A plus starter and the
Speaker 2: ability to impact the game as a blocker, which you
Speaker 2: heard McDaniel touch on there. It's it kind of changes
Speaker 2: the equation when you have a guy that can factor
Speaker 2: into the pass blocking scheme and the run blocking scheme,
Speaker 2: but also be ineligible that can threaten down the field
Speaker 2: for you. And speaking of that, I think Julian Hill
Speaker 2: has taken perhaps the largest stride from a player year
Speaker 2: to year from last year. I liked his work as
Speaker 2: a primary blocker. Last year he was kind of limited
Speaker 2: in his capacity with that regard, But the receptions are
Speaker 2: starting to pile up and the blocking looks way better.
Speaker 2: It was already really good. I saw him crack a
Speaker 2: linebacker today. I saw him take out a defensive tackle
Speaker 2: on a wham block. I saw him bust some chops
Speaker 2: as a ball carrier on a screen throw. To me,
Speaker 2: I think he might be tied into right now the
Speaker 2: way I'd stack it. In fact, Travis Gowe ahead and
Speaker 2: stack him up. I would go like this right now,
Speaker 2: John new Smith, Julian Hill, Durham Smyth, and then tanner'
Speaker 2: connor drops a ball every day and I'm over it.
Speaker 2: And Jody Fortson has had a camp that I will
Speaker 2: and expecting in the wrong way. I thought he was
Speaker 2: going to be a lot more productive than he has been.
Speaker 2: So that's how I'd stacked that room. And then Rouchie
Speaker 2: would be the sixth tight end there. And that was
Speaker 2: a follow up the tight end answer there from McDaniel
Speaker 2: to a great question from the great Kyle Krabs who
Speaker 2: asked coach about the diversity of the playbook. You get
Speaker 2: from having such a melting pot of talent in that
Speaker 2: tight end room plus one of the game's most dynamic
Speaker 2: fullbacks in alec Ingold.
Speaker 5: That's what you're looking for in those positions because they're
Speaker 5: inherent in those roles are flexibility. You're part of the
Speaker 5: blocking core, you're part of the receiving route tree. When
Speaker 5: I tell you the most offensively, the most challenging position
Speaker 5: each and every week to learn the plan of attack
Speaker 5: is in that f position, which is both tight ends
Speaker 5: and fullbacks, and the versatility of that room.
Speaker 3: Turn the page.
Speaker 5: There's the versatility of your offense and I think that
Speaker 5: role is ever expanding based upon.
Speaker 3: You know, what the defense presents. I think.
Speaker 5: That room collectively has really attacked the offseason from both
Speaker 5: a run game and a pass game standpoint. And when
Speaker 5: you do that, you make everyone better because you add
Speaker 5: another eligible in the pass game and you add another
Speaker 5: offensive lineman in the run game all at the same time.
Speaker 2: Man, I just loved, love, love, love that quote about
Speaker 2: if you want to see how versa ale your offense is,
Speaker 2: look at how versatile your tight ends are. And look
Speaker 2: at this and think about that Greg Olsen comment from
Speaker 2: the Dallas game last year when he talked about the
Speaker 2: production meeting that he had with Mike McDaniel, and he
Speaker 2: was like, I love your offense, coach, but where's the
Speaker 2: tight end And he was like, Mike said, that's coming
Speaker 2: next year. We should listen to this guy little more often.
Speaker 2: I think as a general Cognizani, I mean think about that.
Speaker 2: Think about the improvements from year one to year two
Speaker 2: in this offense. The run game got a lot better,
Speaker 2: There was better connectivity in the deep passing game. Two
Speaker 2: was deep shots at Tyreek were more on the upfield
Speaker 2: shoulder opposed to the back side shoulder. Just overall efficiency.
Speaker 2: Why should we not expect another step? I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is one of the top guys, maybe the top
Speaker 2: guy in terms of cutting edge offensive architecture, and he
Speaker 2: knows this team better than anybody else in the world,
Speaker 2: and we're not gonna trust him. I'm not saying like
Speaker 2: all of you feel that way, but there's discrepancy out
Speaker 2: there on social media. I don't know. It seems less
Speaker 2: than smart to me to not trust this guy with
Speaker 2: how to best approach this offense going forward. I see
Speaker 2: it play out every single day.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and conclude here the first segment. We're
Speaker 2: gonna come back on the other side and get to
Speaker 2: Devon h Chan and more audio here from TUA on
Speaker 2: that drive all that next to Draft Time podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield brought to you by Auto Nation. All right,
Speaker 2: I want to go back to this Devon eighth Chan
Speaker 2: SoundBite here when he was asked because of all those
Speaker 2: damn catches he had, how natural do you feel as
Speaker 2: a wide receiver? I feel naturally because, like I said,
Speaker 2: it's not my first time. I'll see if I was new,
Speaker 2: like you know, Okay, this is like kind of new
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 5: Like me outside, but I feel like, you know, it's
Speaker 5: something I've been doing for years, so it comes pretty natural.
Speaker 2: Long and then one more SoundBite here from Tua on
Speaker 2: that drive. Just how happy with you with were you
Speaker 2: with the fact that that drive ended up on the
Speaker 2: end zone? Here's QB one.
Speaker 4: I was happy anytime we're able to finish in the
Speaker 4: N zone against our defense.
Speaker 3: We want to make it as competitive.
Speaker 4: As possible for those guys as much as they want
Speaker 4: to make it competitive for us. And you know, it
Speaker 4: was a good day overall. I think we were able
Speaker 4: to trade blows. It was a good back and forth day.
Speaker 4: So the only thing that matters is how you come
Speaker 4: the next day. So we'll see how how we all
Speaker 4: regroup as an offense, as a defense collectively, and as
Speaker 4: we come out, you know, we'll see who has the
Speaker 4: better day.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and put a bow on the day
Speaker 2: of QB one. But first begin that portion of the
Speaker 2: podcast with his reaction to Tyreek Hill being named the
Speaker 2: number one player in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: Man that that's my dog. That's my dog. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: I mean, he was excited. We all we all were
Speaker 3: in a group chat.
Speaker 4: We all texted him Jayalen Ramsey, Toront Armstead raheem mostered,
Speaker 4: uh Jaylen Wado, like we were just all congratulating him.
Speaker 4: There's some funny, uh funny things that we threw in
Speaker 4: there just to you know, give him, give him a
Speaker 4: hard time, but for the most part, sorry, I'll pay
Speaker 4: for it. But for the most part that I mean
Speaker 4: that that was that was unbelievable to have a teammate
Speaker 4: like that, I mean, voted just best in the league.
Speaker 4: That I mean, it doesn't get better than that.
Speaker 2: Just really cool to see. And as you've you know,
Speaker 2: seen the reports by now, Tyreek and the Dolphins have
Speaker 2: a new contract term agreement in place to increase his
Speaker 2: guarantee totals. And my favorite part is just how amicable
Speaker 2: the whole thing seems to have been. You know, how
Speaker 2: Tyreek has approached it with such positivity. How the Dolphins
Speaker 2: you know, are doing right by their guys. You know,
Speaker 2: he wanted more money and reflect his production. He got it,
Speaker 2: or more guarantee money, I should say. And what better
Speaker 2: way to have a happy cheetah than to have him
Speaker 2: get the number one player for the first time ever
Speaker 2: by a wide receiver. This new contract and all these
Speaker 2: good vibes. I mean, Wattle's done, Two was done, Riek
Speaker 2: is done, cap Opolypse is here.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Those contracts run at a minimum through the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: sixth season, with twoas going all the way through twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight. So the band is all here and accounted
Speaker 2: for for the foreseeable future. And I don't know about you,
Speaker 2: but I am not interested in going back to the
Speaker 2: days before having the most dangerous trio of passing game
Speaker 2: players in the damn game. Good times. All right, A
Speaker 2: final few two notes here, and I just want to
Speaker 2: reiterate the elusiveness really stands out to me. Also wanted
Speaker 2: to point how good he's seeing it right now, because
Speaker 2: going back to the Malik Washington throw that I've promised
Speaker 2: more commentary on, you could see him working the front
Speaker 2: side read on that play, and as he picked up
Speaker 2: information from the front side, I believe that it informed
Speaker 2: him on what he had backside because as you saw
Speaker 2: his helmet flip back to the backside, which is how
Speaker 2: you view where his eyes are going, he also began
Speaker 2: his throwing motion simultaneously, so you can glean from what
Speaker 2: you have from the front side defense to what the
Speaker 2: backside will give you, and then you have to trust
Speaker 2: your receiver, which his rookie receiver earned that trust on
Speaker 2: this throw, a cool full field progression rip to his
Speaker 2: rookie receiver for a conversion on third down on a
Speaker 2: game winning drive. It's big time stuff man. Back to
Speaker 2: eight Chan. We know what he offers, We've seen it
Speaker 2: play out in a full season, but he just continues
Speaker 2: to make plays in a wider range of ways, and
Speaker 2: off of that, like gosh, this entire backfield has been
Speaker 2: productive all camp long. Raheem has a couple of those
Speaker 2: vintage Raheem runs each day. Jeff Wilson's had an awesome
Speaker 2: camp so far, and quite frankly, I don't think Jalen
Speaker 2: Wright is out of the conversation for the most impressive
Speaker 2: back in all of training camp. Every damn day he
Speaker 2: hits those holes fast, with conviction and zero hesitation. He's
Speaker 2: not getting stuffed, he's pushing piles, he's finding the end zone.
Speaker 2: I think he has fantastic vision between the tackles that
Speaker 2: produces this lightning fast decision making on top of lightning
Speaker 2: fast track speed. And you know we were searching for
Speaker 2: an inside zone counter to the wide zone stretch stuff
Speaker 2: last year which I think didn't wasn't available to this offense.
Speaker 2: I think this is the guy for just that he's
Speaker 2: also a mid low red zone fixture. He's getting all
Speaker 2: kinds of carries down there, and a Chan is a
Speaker 2: guy that you probably don't want to load up three
Speaker 2: hundred touches on. So I think if you get more
Speaker 2: two hundred to fifty range from him, dog geez rick,
Speaker 2: do we think that maybe that's why we drafted Jalen
Speaker 2: Right to reduce the overall workload of Devon eight Chan
Speaker 2: and you know, supplement raheem Moster and then if you
Speaker 2: lose one guy, that solves the problem in itself, even
Speaker 2: though we already have two top tier backs. I think
Speaker 2: he's going to be a big factor this year. Very
Speaker 2: impressed so far with Jalen Wright. Last thing from the
Speaker 2: offensive perspective before extra points, Odell was busting his butt
Speaker 2: out there with conditioning.
Speaker 3: Today.
Speaker 2: He looks pretty good to me, and Tua was asked
Speaker 2: about what he needs or when he needs rather Odell
Speaker 2: to get back for them to formulate the required chemistry
Speaker 2: in order to be impactful.
Speaker 4: I've been able to talk with oh a lot off
Speaker 4: the field. You know, I think the main focus for
Speaker 4: me and I think for oh is we communicate about,
Speaker 4: you know, okay, how you got to study the playbook,
Speaker 4: how how I studied, how.
Speaker 3: It helped me and whatnot.
Speaker 4: But the most important thing is, like he has to
Speaker 4: take care of himself, like he has to do all
Speaker 4: the things necessary with Kyle, with with Boone, with Troy,
Speaker 4: with all those guys, to do everything he can to
Speaker 4: get back on the field to help us. And then
Speaker 4: from there then we can start, you know, getting into
Speaker 4: all right, the feel of how these plays are, you know,
Speaker 4: the feel of space within this offense, all of that.
Speaker 2: Also that Odell's one of the best people he's ever met.
Speaker 2: And not that my experience is anything close or comparable,
Speaker 2: but I can tell you when I met Odell that
Speaker 2: day we had him in here for the podcast, he
Speaker 2: made a great impression on the podcaster, on the video team,
Speaker 2: on the custodial staff, just pleasant, cordial, and respectful to
Speaker 2: every human being he met that day. And you know
Speaker 2: what they say, the true test of character is how
Speaker 2: you treat people that you don't have to give the
Speaker 2: time of day two, Like we don't control Odell's money
Speaker 2: or what he can and can't do at all, Like
Speaker 2: he can tell us to piss off if he wants to,
Speaker 2: but he didn't do that, and he seems to, you know,
Speaker 2: really be true to a guy that treats everybody with
Speaker 2: a similar level of respect and to a test to that.
Speaker 2: Let's do a couple more themes here before getting to
Speaker 2: extra points and the rest of the notes. So Jalen
Speaker 2: Ramsey's kind of a dude, right, I think we've kind
Speaker 2: of established that by this point. Tua said as much.
Speaker 2: When I asked him, I said, can you describe the
Speaker 2: impact of having Ramsey out here when last year he
Speaker 2: only got one and a half practices in before that
Speaker 2: damn injury. Tua was succinct in his answer.
Speaker 4: Him, him, that's my dog.
Speaker 3: That's my dog. Like he him, that's that's Jaylen Ramsey. Him. Man,
Speaker 3: he'll let you know too. He'll let you know too.
Speaker 2: I mean enough said right. I do want to go
Speaker 2: to McDaniel, who spoiled the Orange Jersey for us today
Speaker 2: in his press conference, which, by the way, our first
Speaker 2: pick from the top guy in the Orange Jersey. So
Speaker 2: this is our third time on the podcast and nine
Speaker 2: days having the guy on the list, but the first
Speaker 2: time getting the pick right. So yes. McDaniel was asked
Speaker 2: about filling the void by Christian Wilkins with energy and leadership,
Speaker 2: and he gave us this lengthy answer about how the
Speaker 2: locker room and the guys that choose to dictate the
Speaker 2: terms are the ones that can you know, supplant that role.
Speaker 5: Well, I think you know, every team is unique to
Speaker 5: its own and that's a really special part of what's
Speaker 5: going on right now. You know that you can get
Speaker 5: lost in the idea of there's no opponent, but you
Speaker 5: are creating in training camp what the each opponent and
Speaker 5: it we'll see, you're creating your your team's identity and
Speaker 5: it's unique to a lot of varied individuals. And in
Speaker 5: this era, it's very rare to have over fifty percent
Speaker 5: of returning players on your on your ninety roster when
Speaker 5: when you're in training camp, so it's a it's a
Speaker 5: new team and your and your eyes are wide open
Speaker 5: to see what they want to be and how they're
Speaker 5: going to be it, you know, and you have different
Speaker 5: people step up that that decide that their voice is
Speaker 5: going to be a dictating factor, uh in the direction
Speaker 5: you're going. So for instance we have. Do you guys
Speaker 5: know who the orange jersey is today?
Speaker 3: Guys O Jalen Ramsey. Okay, Uh, he he's He's a
Speaker 3: He's a player that's.
Speaker 5: Decided that he wants to dictate the terms. There's uh,
Speaker 5: you know, we there's guys that have been on the
Speaker 5: roster that are developing, just as I talk about Tyreek developing,
Speaker 5: like Zach Seeler and Javon Holland are are are making
Speaker 5: huge you know, it's just they're in a different year
Speaker 5: that the the more confidence you get as leaders, the
Speaker 5: more you develop, the more that the the team takes
Speaker 5: its own identity on every day at practice. One of
Speaker 5: the reasons we're getting such good work is the players
Speaker 5: are are determining what they want their team to be like.
Speaker 5: And you know, I yesterday it was Jalen Ramsey that
Speaker 5: was dictating the terms. He has an orange jersey today.
Speaker 5: Quite honestly, Uh, with the competitive team that we have,
Speaker 5: I have no idea who's going to be that guy today.
Speaker 3: But you know, as I've.
Speaker 5: Learned in the last four or five practices, there's a
Speaker 5: lot of guys that want to be the reason that
Speaker 5: we that we succeed.
Speaker 2: And man, Jalien made an impact again from the onset
Speaker 2: and again doing it in the running game by an
Speaker 2: absolute cracker of a hit on alec Ingold before getting
Speaker 2: to Devon a chan along with David Long for a loss.
Speaker 2: And Long was all over the field today and he
Speaker 2: again comes off the play gesturing to the sideline pointing
Speaker 2: to the grounds. Have to say you better not try
Speaker 2: five side again. And speaking of David Long, what a
Speaker 2: day for the linebackers. Man, he was causing collisions like
Speaker 2: he has wont to do. Zeke Vandenberg played super quick
Speaker 2: and physical. I love the way he scrapes and stays
Speaker 2: tight to the block so that he can not get
Speaker 2: exposed and get himself caught on the block. I thought
Speaker 2: Duke Riley had his best day, flying around all over
Speaker 2: the place, the hair flowing beautifully frequently in the backfield.
Speaker 2: And I thought Channing Tendall had the best day I've
Speaker 2: seen him have so far. And it was funny because
Speaker 2: I told Kyle right before he made a playoff, I
Speaker 2: was like, I don't know if it's going to happen
Speaker 2: for Channing Man we were talking about linebacker depth chart.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I think I have to keep Zach and
Speaker 2: that might mean, you know, so long to channing. But
Speaker 2: then he went off and made like eight plays the
Speaker 2: rest of practice. He played on a downhill track all
Speaker 2: day and was there with the cavalry for a handful
Speaker 2: of stops at or around the line of scrimmage. And
Speaker 2: of course this happens because of plays on the defensive tackles.
Speaker 2: You know, Zach Stealler was an absolute minest today, took
Speaker 2: on blocks, got off a couple times for some plays
Speaker 2: that he made. He and tr Tart I thought played
Speaker 2: really nicely together on the interior inside helping those linebackers
Speaker 2: get those runs into the backfield. Okay, last break right there,
Speaker 2: Come back and do segment three and land this plane
Speaker 2: with a couple more soundbites I think I have, and
Speaker 2: then we'll also do extra points. That's next Draft Time
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Speaker 2: I heard Mike McDaniel allude to this, and I heard
Speaker 2: Twua talk about it three or four times in his
Speaker 2: press conference on Santayday about how hard they want to
Speaker 2: make it on each other from an offense and defense perspective,
Speaker 2: and this emphasis to make these days the hardest they'll
Speaker 2: see all year long how they want to simulate trash
Speaker 2: talk and urgency and this chirping and creating pressure with
Speaker 2: all of that to hopefully best simulate game like situations
Speaker 2: that gives you the sense of real in game pressure
Speaker 2: and how to come through that pressure and high leverage
Speaker 2: situations for your teammates to go win football games in
Speaker 2: critical moments. And as an observer, it just I keep
Speaker 2: thinking about this because McDaniel is so great at assessing
Speaker 2: what went wrong and emphasizing it in the next year,
Speaker 2: and also obviously honing in on the things that you
Speaker 2: do well. But I just feel like under this regime,
Speaker 2: we're never going to bang our head into a wall
Speaker 2: with like, oh, well that was bad, Well maybe it'll
Speaker 2: be better next year. Like they're always gonna find ways
Speaker 2: to attack it and address it head on. And I
Speaker 2: love that. And it seems like this this year, it's
Speaker 2: about like going one and six against playoff teams, right
Speaker 2: where that record was last year. Let's make it hard,
Speaker 2: let's make those moments seem like the norm for us.
Speaker 2: And it seems like one win, one unit wins, not
Speaker 2: just the day, but like every other play, it goes
Speaker 2: back and forth and so while you have all these
Speaker 2: interior defenders making plays, I had good interior surge and
Speaker 2: a handful of the plays that did work, particularly some
Speaker 2: of those red zone runs and conversions that were in
Speaker 2: full field drives. I thought Aaron Brewer was excellent today
Speaker 2: and really all week long. He ever since snap again
Speaker 2: or whatever I want to call it, like, he's been fantastic.
Speaker 2: His quickness shows up on wide runs obviously, but his
Speaker 2: ability to get off the snap and then wall off
Speaker 2: the a gap defender or the you know, the zero
Speaker 2: or the one technique and hold that gap, to me,
Speaker 2: that's been a big factor on some of those explosive,
Speaker 2: impressive Jalen Wright touchdown runs. I think that he's reading
Speaker 2: the butt of fifty five, you know, see butt cut.
Speaker 2: It's the old way of football teaching, and quickly making
Speaker 2: his decisions based upon you know, Brewer's ability to dig
Speaker 2: out that nose tackle or one technique. I thought Rob
Speaker 2: Jones was again very good today, and I thought Austin
Speaker 2: Jackson was awesome both in one on one situations as
Speaker 2: well as working through games and different things the defensive
Speaker 2: line through with these guys from a rush standpoint, his
Speaker 2: mental aptitude is such a benefit to this offense. It's
Speaker 2: like young Trn in some ways with how he sees
Speaker 2: the game. I thought Patrick Paul had a really good
Speaker 2: day today. I thought Kendall Lamb had one of his
Speaker 2: best days. I thought Emmanuel Ogba had another very solid day.
Speaker 2: The one time I saw Austin give ground, it was
Speaker 2: a nice swipe or cross face from Emmanuel Ogba. I
Speaker 2: thought Mike White had his best day. And at the
Speaker 2: same time, I thought Scaler Thompson kind of had a
Speaker 2: revert back to previous ways, So maybe some closer competition there,
Speaker 2: which by so far I think Scaler has been the
Speaker 2: second best quarterback in camp. Braylen Sanders has put together
Speaker 2: a good string of practices here, made a couple of
Speaker 2: plays today and then two more notes just on things
Speaker 2: that I'm not ready to draw final conclusions on because
Speaker 2: that's disingenuous to the process. But don't I don't think
Speaker 2: the Leam Eikenberg thing is happening, just on my take
Speaker 2: from today. And then Jack Driscoll at center also is
Speaker 2: not my favorite thing in the world. Maybe guard, definitely
Speaker 2: not tackle, but maybe at guard. But it just hasn't
Speaker 2: really clicked for those two guys. For me so far,
Speaker 2: my Orange Jersey predictions are Channing Tindall, number one, can
Speaker 2: you believe that? Number two Jalen Wright, and number three
Speaker 2: Aaron Brewer. I don't feel good about this one, but
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens on Monday. Speaking of that, tons
Speaker 2: of fun this week. Let's go ahead and take a
Speaker 2: day off. I spend the day with my kids. I
Speaker 2: haven't had a day off in like nine days now,
Speaker 2: so looking forward to that. We'll come back on Monday
Speaker 2: and do it again, and then it's a trip south
Speaker 2: for the Falcons. On Tuesday and Wednesday. We'll have a
Speaker 2: general takeaways from camp so far slash who to look for,
Speaker 2: what to look for in the Friday game on the
Speaker 2: podcast on Thursday, and then the game recap early Saturday morning,
Speaker 2: and then we'll do something similar next week for the Bucks.
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