WEBVTT - Drive Time: August 14 Dolphins Camp Report 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:04.160 To on the move Going Deep speedwas Past Hell. 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:09.440 From the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:14.680 Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:25.480 He's goy my havings in the playoffs. What is up, 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:29.160 Dolph Fans? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:31.600 am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we 0:00:31.680 --> 0:00:33.919 are halfway through the month of August and on the 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:36.879 back nine of training camp and the preseason. We have 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.760 some great practice notes that I am very excited to 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.839 share with you guys, and some even better commentary from 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:46.000 two of the best football minds in this entire building 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.360 and Mike McDaniel and alec Ingold from the Baptist Health 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:51.720 Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:56.920 This is the Draft Time Podcast. Ye gaff First, one 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:57.200 of the. 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:01.600 Best things about being a emotional person is that sometimes 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:06.880 on the podcast you get the high energy, caffeine induced, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.920 just pure adrenaline excitement editions of the Draft Time Podcast. 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.240 And today is going to be one of those days. 0:01:14.280 --> 0:01:17.360 One because I felt we got some clarification on some 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.679 things we've been opining about on the show here. And 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.880 number two, I saw some things in the practice field 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.360 that continue to affirm my belief in certain areas of 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:28.720 growth on this football team. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:29.240 Sound good. 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:31.760 Before we dive into all the notes and the rookie 0:01:31.760 --> 0:01:34.039 class and a ton more here, let's start with a 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:37.360 few injury updates here. So we got word that Benito 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.800 Jones and Jalen Ramsey are dealing with minor injuries, and 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.440 for Ramsey's perspective, it's more proactive and they will be 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:47.160 back here sooner rather than later. Doesn't sound the same 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.080 for Isaiah Winn, who coach was a little bit noncommittal 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:53.640 about with regards to his injury and return to the 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:57.280 practice field compounding issues. Told us it was lower extremity 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:59.840 related and that's all he was going to say about that, 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:03.360 which is just different language than we're used to hearing 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:04.760 coach talk about injuries with. 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:06.600 So that's the news. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:08.280 I mean, we've got some guys up and down, but 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.160 I don't think it's worth reporting on every single day 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.840 because I think that if there was a game tomorrow, 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.320 ninety percent of those guys we're talking about would be 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.920 playing in the game. But we have been on this 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:21.920 kick and I'm not you know, I have been not 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.000 really sure why I go the Royal we route on this, 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:28.040 but I have been on this kick about the nature 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.040 of this training camp so far. To me, it's different 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:33.960 than the last two years. It's more expansive in terms 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.720 of finding those change up to the fastball right. The 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.960 commentary I've been making on this the entire time about 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:42.120 the bread and butter that produces all these explosive plays. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.160 A ton of the conversations on this podcast revolve around 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.760 the third year and the expected growth that I think 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.000 will get from this football team. And you go back 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.000 to twenty twenty two, and that camp was fun as hell. 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.320 To me, still the most fun camp I've done, because 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.400 it was two to Tyreek for long touchdowns every day, 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:04.120 but to see them install that drill that and perfect 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.000 what we've come to know and love about this number 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:09.120 one offense with the core principles in the middle of 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.200 the field passing attack and the timing anticipation and the 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:12.919 run after catch. All the things that we love about 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.520 this offense were foundationally put in place back in twenty 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:19.600 twenty two. But you've heard coach talk about this at length. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.520 When you fast forward to twenty twenty four. The concept 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.440 of taking advantage of overplay and what is created in 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.560 the aggregate by the way of the defense having to 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.960 move and adjust to take away those plays and those 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.360 players and spoiler, it's Tyreek and Waddle right, the best 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.480 receiver in the NFL and for me like number six 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.360 or seven in the NFL. And today we got alec 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.280 Ingold at a media availability, who is a critical piece 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.640 of how versatile, versatile, versatile this offense can be. Right 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:53.000 the comment about tight ends that included Alec from coach 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.760 a while back, and how unique his role in this 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.640 offense is and how it ties to your ability to 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.200 be verse in the offense. It all ties together here. 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.880 So Alec was asked about the expansion of the offense. 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.600 Let's go ahead and roll that audio and let alec 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.520 Ingold do the talking for me on this episode of 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:12.040 Drive Time. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.240 It's been fun to see we're in the lab, and 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:17.320 I think it's cool for everybody to kind of take 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.599 that role like there's no comfort in the offense, Like 0:04:20.680 --> 0:04:24.640 it is like completely competition offense versus defense, but then 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:26.680 offense within the offense. To be able to see who 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.160 can do what, who can do it well, being able 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.839 to blend all these formations, all these personnel groups and 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:35.159 that's what we're developing. So it's been fun, it's been challenging. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:35.760 It's tough. 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:37.520 You're only a couple weeks in. You feel like you've 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.760 been playing for three months already. But it's a lot 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:40.120 of fun. 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.000 I mean, forgive me, but can I get a let's 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:49.240 freaking go, let's go baby like one for vanity purposes, 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:52.240 But yeah, I've been saying that, right, but beyond that 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.760 and far more important, that has me so excited about 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.120 what we can see, not just early in the season 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.640 when we scored a hund dred and fifty points last September, 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.200 but giving you, let's put it this way. Let's say 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:08.440 you have everything from twenty twenty three already in place, 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:11.280 which if that's the case, you're fine, but you added 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.839 to that, and let's say, totally arbitrarily, you add thirty 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:19.080 percent more. You could conceivably with that thirty percent and 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.880 it might be twenty, it might be forty. You could 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.640 conceivably one incorporate that from the jump, and teams have 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.960 to contend with the top offense in the NFL with 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.480 thirty percent extra in terms of what they can do 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.240 and get to off of that number two off that 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:38.440 you can develop the wrinkles and sequences off of that 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.240 as the season goes along and continue to build and 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:44.560 expand that playbook or number three, you could just straight 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.640 up table some of that stuff for the stretch run. 0:05:47.720 --> 0:05:50.640 We've seen some great teams in this league. The Patriots 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:53.200 are the most notable, and the Do Your Job documentary 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.599 back in like twenty fourteen when they covered the Ravens 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.960 playoff game where they came back from fourteen points down 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:05.320 because they essentially cheated. I'm not saying they actually, well, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:06.839 they kind of did. I mean, that's a team that 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:08.440 has done that plenty of times in the past, right, 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.200 but they kind of found a loophole in the rules 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:15.320 with regards to eligibles and offensive linemen and how you 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:17.360 could line those guys up. And they surprise the Ravens 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.040 with this attack that they put in place back in 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.400 their the first matchup back in like October and saved 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.440 it for the playoffs so they could use it in 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.159 that game, and that was what God got them that 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.840 win in that game. So you could do that if 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.160 you wanted to, And I think that shows conviction and 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.240 your belief that you'll be in that position in the 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:33.920 postseason to unveil that stuff. 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:37.120 But this is why I'm so geeked up over all 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:38.480 of this stuff. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.400 Entering the third year in a system, the world becomes 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:45.320 your oyster because you have those banked reps. You're not like, 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:49.080 I'm gonna make a golf analogy. I've been golfing like 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:51.640 full time, not full time, but like I'm actually working 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.680 on my game at the range like multiple times a week. 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.240 Like I'm going into my third year next year, and 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:59.120 I my scores got much better in year two. They're 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.960 gonna get much better next year because you're adding shot 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.040 shapes to your proverbial golf swing. You aren't going back 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.400 to square one and breaking down where the hand placement is, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.760 when your hip should ge through the zone, when you 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.000 should have the club face closed or open. You just 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.360 have that banked up, like the Dolphins offense. And if 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:15.560 you go over the history of the league, the teams 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.120 that sustain success the best, that's a tough sentence to say. 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.760 You know, success breed success, right, If you're good and 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.400 you win games, you get to keep your job and 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:28.280 you get to sustain continuity with your staff and your players, 0:07:28.440 --> 0:07:30.600 and it just makes you better for it. We have 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:34.600 the coach, he has his staff, we have the quarterback signed, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.480 sealed and delivered. And for a Dolphins fan of a 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.800 certain age myself aged thirty six, you haven't seen that 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.920 since you were wearing Aquan orange starter jackets ripping across 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:45.720 the monkey bars back in the third grade. Right. Gosh, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.880 as an ex's and o's junkie, it fires me the 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.360 hell up. Let's go back to alec Ingold, who further 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:52.720 discussed the benefits of said continuity. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:55.120 But no, I think a lot of the pre snap 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:58.200 and post snap like being able to play fast, be 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.239 able to align. Like we've our offensive line is running 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.600 off the ball. They're moving people their combination. But it's 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:05.520 been fun to watch, it's fun to be a part 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.800 of in the backfield. So being able to really take 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.520 that next step tie in a center's eyes to fullbacks 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.280 eyes to running backs eyes, so we're all seeing the 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.560 same thing in the run game, same thing with the pass. 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:16.160 Games can be a lot of fun. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.160 And buddy, you see that the part about flying off 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:21.640 the football and the combination blocks. In fact, let's go 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.200 ahead and parlay that into the offensive line assessment from 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:27.240 practice today, because to that point and to this next 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.840 point we'll get too from Alec. I thought Monday went 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.640 to the offense, and I thought Tuesday went to the defense, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:34.880 and I thought today went to the offense. But even 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.920 within that, there's this back and forth pull on either side. 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:43.800 Like the box score. The boxing scorecard is ten to 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.040 nine every day, right they judge Browns, it's either ten 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:48.040 to nine or ten to eight. You never get your 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.440 ten to eight days here it's always ten to nine 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.240 or rarely it's ten to eight. But with regards to 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:55.840 the combos and flying off the football, I mean, Rob 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.400 Jones and Leam Miikenberg had some really good inside gap 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.120 clearing blocks today where they kind of create this wall 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.400 and wall off the front side and give backs like 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.000 Jalen Wright the option to hit that cutback lane and 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:11.560 the running backs are seeing it more cleanly every single day. 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.760 And to spoil or to tease a segment here, we're 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:17.319 going to talk about Jalen Wright in a moment and 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.960 how I'm ready to maybe make him RB one. That's 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.120 going to be like the clip you pull off the podcast. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.240 But I'm telling you, guys, he's special and we got 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:28.960 that with a Chan and Jalen today. Moster did not practice. 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:30.839 But you've seen it with him before. We've seen hefe 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.400 do it, seen Chris Brooks do it, all the guys, 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:36.599 Greg Dan, all the guys. I tweeted about this. You know, 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:39.360 I think I think Jack Driscoll has seen things really 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:43.120 slow down for him. And I can't say this with conviction, 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:46.080 you know for sure from my vantage point, and I 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.560 don't have tape, nor can I flag ninety players every 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.280 single day, but from my lens, I think Driscoll has 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.319 shown the most improvement or rather growth of anybody in 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.360 all of training camp. And the game was sort of 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:58.800 a wake up call, like, oh yeah, this guy was 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.960 an athletic testing monster back at Auburn. He played some 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.319 tackle in Philly, but his best tape was at guard, 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.040 and he's talked about cross training at center last year 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:09.199 for the Eagles, played both right guard and center in 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.760 the game on Friday Night. He's playing so fast and 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.560 so connected, and he's making his center or guard next 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.480 to him look good in doing so, and doesn't matter 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.400 which guy it is, like he is elevating their play 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:21.920 because of his ability to stay connected on those blocks. 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:26.319 Speaking of literally all those factors game growth practices, I 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.960 love what I've seen from Andrew Meyer, the UDFA out 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.840 of UTIP, the athletic ability, it's there. He's listed at 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:33.840 two hundred and ninety five pounds. He plays in space, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.880 I mean ninety eight percent tile vertical in broads. That's 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.719 an Aaron Brewer stat for you. Eighty fifth percent tile 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:41.760 or better in the forty yard dash, twenty and ten 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.439 yards splits. And I think he's probably the second best 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.960 natural center on the roster. And you can say, well, 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:50.040 that's an issue in and of itself, maybe, but I 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.480 think if you keep him, you can just have him 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:54.920 be your backup center, and then if Brewer goes down, 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.040 you don't have to uproot your entire offensive line to 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.760 shuffle guys around. I think there's value to that. We'll 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.400 see how they view it and if he can get 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.760 up to speed quickly enough. But I think there's something 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.400 there for Andrew Meyer in terms of your backup center. 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:07.839 He's a guy that I'm going to keep a very 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:09.840 close eye on these next few weeks, and you should too, 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.600 because it's an important part of this football team. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:12.520 We moved to the. 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:15.680 Indoor facility and I was standing next to alf Artiego 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.400 from three yards per carry. He is a I mean 0:11:18.400 --> 0:11:19.920 as long as I've been coming to training camp, he's 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:21.760 been here for every day as well. And we get 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.960 this awesome view from behind the play in the indoor facility, 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:27.960 and I'm locking in on Sean Harlow and he had 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.520 a one on one rep on Neville Gallimore, who, by 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:33.040 the way, is a find like. He is slippery as hell, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.719 He's violent as all get out with his punch, and 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.600 he has a tremendous arsenal of moves that he can 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.960 bust out at a moment's notice, and he tried a 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.520 few of them on this one rep where Harlow engaged 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.160 his punch, played through his base, kept the feet shuffling, 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.320 never clicked to the heels, just mechanically a clean operation 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.079 and shuts the entire rep down. I think with Rob Jones, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.280 Andrew Meyer, Sean Harlow, we've seen some guys that have 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.840 either not had a ton of starts. In Rob Jones, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.080 I've been a swing interior guy his entire career, a 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.080 rookie who hasn't played a single down in the NFL, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.280 or a guy that was available into training camp in 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.600 Sean Harlow. And to me, those guys have put their 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:11.000 best foot forward and worked their way into the conversation 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:14.240 for starting work with Rob Jones or making the team 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.480 for Andrew Meyer and Sean Harlow, and I'm not so 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:18.400 convinced Harlow's not a top seven or eight guy on 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.200 the team right now in terms of the offensive line. 0:12:20.280 --> 0:12:23.280 The converse of that is, I watched some Lester Cotton 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:27.120 work and there was a stunt inside where they pinched him, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.079 and then you had with Quentin Bell he pinched, and 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.240 then Zach Seiler was a looper off the outside and 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.960 he got toasted by it. I'm like, that's man, It's 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.960 like things that you saw on tape last year still 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.160 showing up. It's to me that's a concern. I also 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:40.840 thought Kendall Lamb lost the edge in a lot of 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.240 play today as well. So those are two of the 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.680 guys that I thought didn't have their best days in 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.520 contrast to the three guys that I liked a lot 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.200 on today's practice. Let's finish this segment with one more 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.240 SoundBite here from alec Ingold, and we still have three 0:12:52.280 --> 0:12:54.400 more to go to from him after this. I mentioned 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.480 that pendulum swing earlier in the segment here, you know, 0:12:57.559 --> 0:13:00.320 offense and defense trading wins back and forth. And I 0:13:00.320 --> 0:13:02.880 asked Alec what this defense has done for the offense 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:04.720 in terms of the looks they give when it comes 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:08.120 to his pass protection rules, the various blitzes, the scheme 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.640 traditionally has been known for and flashed in the game 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:13.560 and then practices out here, and Alec gave us more 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.600 than that and did the thing this podcast host loves 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.160 more than anything else, confirming priors. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:23.600 Yeah, I mean, our defense is playing so fast, so convicted. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.600 They're running all over the place. Every day we go 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.920 back and we watch and practice. Those guys are sprinting 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:32.040 sideline to sideline, they're tied in, they're talking, they're communicating. 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:33.679 So it's a challenge for us. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.320 This is one of the most competitive camps I've ever 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.520 been a part of, like nine times out of ten. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.680 It's normally at this time of the year it's either 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:43.079 the offense being the defense, defense being the offense, and 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.040 right now it's going back and forth. So I think 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.080 that the blitz pick ups, the different looks you can get, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.560 the just playing fast, like it doesn't matter if we 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:51.280 have pads on or not. 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:53.520 Guys are playing fast. They're setting edges. 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.200 We're playing really good, high level football right now during 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:58.520 training camp in August, which. 0:13:58.320 --> 0:13:59.080 Is really cool to see. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.240 I mean, I appallize for becoming something of a cliche 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:04.360 machine on the show here, but damn it. I have 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:08.120 been searching for storylines and through lines all through training camp, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:11.040 and I think we've really unearthed them. Going back to 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:14.120 that great Butch Berry availability when he talked about the 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.559 progression of training camp. But if you are what you emphasize, 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.320 and if the issues the last two years has been 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.960 finishing seasons when you began eight and three and nine 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.800 and three probably gonna be like ten to two this year, 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:28.480 I think everything we just talked about is the best 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:30.520 way to ensure that you aren't just getting out of 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.600 those hot starts, but really hitting your stride. When we 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.960 go up to lambeau Field on Thanksgiving and then get 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.000 the Jets twice and the Texans, the Niners, and the 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.560 Browns to finish things out, there's a couple of playoff 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.320 teams in there. I think the Niners and Texans will 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:44.960 be playoff teams. 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:46.080 The other two do. I do not. 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.040 But if you get to that mark eight and three again, 0:14:50.040 --> 0:14:51.400 I tend to think it's gonna be more like nine 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:53.840 to two, and you play better than five hundred football 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:57.400 over that stretch. That's twelve wins and some big narrative 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:01.400 shifting wins and probably a division title and probably some 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.560 home games in the playoffs, and you're probably playing your 0:15:04.560 --> 0:15:07.880 best football. Look, this is way out in front of 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:10.720 myself here, but it's a podcast. We're supposed to be 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.720 having fun with it. But to end this first segment 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:17.880 with one more golf analogy, all the pros and vision 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.160 what each shot will look like. It's why the back 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.000 they back off the ball, stand behind it on their 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:24.760 line and measure their shot to the flag or wherever 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.920 they want to shoot that draw or that fade, step 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.400 up and they make their swing. You have to visualize 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.480 what you want to do if you want to be great. 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.200 It's why I have plans for the podcast all the 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.240 way through the whole season. I'm trying to visualize what 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.600 the best podcast can look like. It's the same thing 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:39.960 for a football team, and I think that vision is 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:43.000 crystal clear, and damn it, I am bought the hell 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.160 in on what this team is selling. Let's take the break, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.040 come back, and I'll tell you why there was some 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.320 awesome moments from Tuatungua Bai Looa on Wednesday's practice. Here 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.080 more from alec Ingold and Mike McDaniel, a rep that 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:58.520 told me that Jalen Phillips is byk E Bike, some 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:00.320 draft class talk and a whole lot more. Or that's 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.440 next Drivetime podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:08.200 by Auto Nation. Tua Tongue of Iloa is the quarterback 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.160 of your Miami Dolphins and he was on one today 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:13.200 and stop me if you've heard this before. He had 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.520 Brayln Sanders for a long touchdown early in practice, but 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:19.840 Saran Neil made a smart play and interfere with Sanders 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.520 to prevent the TD with a defensive pass interference that 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:25.360 gave him about half the yardage. But there was a 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.000 couple of moments after that that I think you guys 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:31.480 will love to hear two of them to be in fact, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.720 to be exact. First, there was a play that was 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.080 the last one of a period, or rather Tua's last 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:40.880 snap before they went to Skyler and made the lineup 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.960 changes to get the next unit in there and the 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.800 snap count and got some guys as the ball wasn't snapped, 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.120 but like half the line went, half the line didn't go, 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.440 and they were going to change out the lineups right there, 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.120 like a line change in hockey, right, but Tua waved 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.000 it off. He's like, no, no, no, get We're gonna run 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.000 it again. And Frank Smith was coming in waving his 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.640 personnel on for the line change, and he sees his 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:02.520 quarterback waving it off, and he turned around and said, no, 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.280 go back, We're gonna do it again. And like the 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.119 next play was I ripped from two to sneed for 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.160 a chunk gain. I mean that's like Marino esque, right, 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:13.199 like no, no, no, no, I'm running the show here. We're 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:15.400 gonna do it my way. That's what Twua has as 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:17.680 far as his command of this offense and this team 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.119 right now. Thing number two. So from my vantage point, 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:24.160 you get to better see two his eyes, you know, 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:26.800 from that from the indoor facility behind the end zone. 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.280 And this throw to Snead was like one of those 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.600 throws that you can count on one hand the number 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.720 of players that can make that throw. So first, it's 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.800 it's mid red zone. There's tight quarters down there. We've 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.760 got to be lightning with our processing as a quarterback right, 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:43.240 there's eleven guys in a twenty yard you know, plot 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.960 of grass, and you see to a work to his left. 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:48.159 You see him work back to the middle and he 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.480 goes right back to the right and it's it's like 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.200 bang bang bang. This is happening within seconds of each other. 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.800 And you see him work to his back to the 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.800 right and he layers this ball. The damn near brought 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.040 the rain, damn near scraped the ceiling at the facility, 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.239 not really, but it was a lofty, floating football and 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:07.240 when he let it go, Willie Snead was under the 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:10.040 goalpost and when he caught this thing, I'm telling you guys, 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.840 it was near the back pilon on the corner. And 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.520 the reason he threw this like there was pressure but 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.040 the route wasn't open yet, but he knew where it 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:19.800 would be open, when it would be open. It's like 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.240 a great through ball in soccer, like you have to 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:25.120 anticipate the defensive back line biting up and you send 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:26.680