Speaker 1: To on the move Going Deep speedwas Past Hell.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studio. This inside the Baptist Health
Speaker 2: Training Complex. This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: He's goy my havings in the playoffs. What is up,
Speaker 3: Dolph Fans? And welcome to the Draft Time Podcast. I
Speaker 3: am your host, Travis Wingfield. And on today's show, we
Speaker 3: are halfway through the month of August and on the
Speaker 3: back nine of training camp and the preseason. We have
Speaker 3: some great practice notes that I am very excited to
Speaker 3: share with you guys, and some even better commentary from
Speaker 3: two of the best football minds in this entire building
Speaker 3: and Mike McDaniel and alec Ingold from the Baptist Health
Speaker 3: Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is the Draft Time Podcast. Ye gaff First, one
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Speaker 3: Best things about being a emotional person is that sometimes
Speaker 3: on the podcast you get the high energy, caffeine induced,
Speaker 3: just pure adrenaline excitement editions of the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 3: And today is going to be one of those days.
Speaker 3: One because I felt we got some clarification on some
Speaker 3: things we've been opining about on the show here. And
Speaker 3: number two, I saw some things in the practice field
Speaker 3: that continue to affirm my belief in certain areas of
Speaker 3: growth on this football team.
Speaker 2: Sound good.
Speaker 3: Before we dive into all the notes and the rookie
Speaker 3: class and a ton more here, let's start with a
Speaker 3: few injury updates here. So we got word that Benito
Speaker 3: Jones and Jalen Ramsey are dealing with minor injuries, and
Speaker 3: for Ramsey's perspective, it's more proactive and they will be
Speaker 3: back here sooner rather than later. Doesn't sound the same
Speaker 3: for Isaiah Winn, who coach was a little bit noncommittal
Speaker 3: about with regards to his injury and return to the
Speaker 3: practice field compounding issues. Told us it was lower extremity
Speaker 3: related and that's all he was going to say about that,
Speaker 3: which is just different language than we're used to hearing
Speaker 3: coach talk about injuries with.
Speaker 2: So that's the news.
Speaker 3: I mean, we've got some guys up and down, but
Speaker 3: I don't think it's worth reporting on every single day
Speaker 3: because I think that if there was a game tomorrow,
Speaker 3: ninety percent of those guys we're talking about would be
Speaker 3: playing in the game. But we have been on this
Speaker 3: kick and I'm not you know, I have been not
Speaker 3: really sure why I go the Royal we route on this,
Speaker 3: but I have been on this kick about the nature
Speaker 3: of this training camp so far. To me, it's different
Speaker 3: than the last two years. It's more expansive in terms
Speaker 3: of finding those change up to the fastball right. The
Speaker 3: commentary I've been making on this the entire time about
Speaker 3: the bread and butter that produces all these explosive plays.
Speaker 3: A ton of the conversations on this podcast revolve around
Speaker 3: the third year and the expected growth that I think
Speaker 3: will get from this football team. And you go back
Speaker 3: to twenty twenty two, and that camp was fun as hell.
Speaker 3: To me, still the most fun camp I've done, because
Speaker 3: it was two to Tyreek for long touchdowns every day,
Speaker 3: but to see them install that drill that and perfect
Speaker 3: what we've come to know and love about this number
Speaker 3: one offense with the core principles in the middle of
Speaker 3: the field passing attack and the timing anticipation and the
Speaker 3: run after catch. All the things that we love about
Speaker 3: this offense were foundationally put in place back in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two. But you've heard coach talk about this at length.
Speaker 3: When you fast forward to twenty twenty four. The concept
Speaker 3: of taking advantage of overplay and what is created in
Speaker 3: the aggregate by the way of the defense having to
Speaker 3: move and adjust to take away those plays and those
Speaker 3: players and spoiler, it's Tyreek and Waddle right, the best
Speaker 3: receiver in the NFL and for me like number six
Speaker 3: or seven in the NFL. And today we got alec
Speaker 3: Ingold at a media availability, who is a critical piece
Speaker 3: of how versatile, versatile, versatile this offense can be. Right
Speaker 3: the comment about tight ends that included Alec from coach
Speaker 3: a while back, and how unique his role in this
Speaker 3: offense is and how it ties to your ability to
Speaker 3: be verse in the offense. It all ties together here.
Speaker 3: So Alec was asked about the expansion of the offense.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and roll that audio and let alec
Speaker 3: Ingold do the talking for me on this episode of
Speaker 3: Drive Time.
Speaker 4: It's been fun to see we're in the lab, and
Speaker 4: I think it's cool for everybody to kind of take
Speaker 4: that role like there's no comfort in the offense, Like
Speaker 4: it is like completely competition offense versus defense, but then
Speaker 4: offense within the offense. To be able to see who
Speaker 4: can do what, who can do it well, being able
Speaker 4: to blend all these formations, all these personnel groups and
Speaker 4: that's what we're developing. So it's been fun, it's been challenging.
Speaker 1: It's tough.
Speaker 4: You're only a couple weeks in. You feel like you've
Speaker 4: been playing for three months already. But it's a lot
Speaker 4: of fun.
Speaker 3: I mean, forgive me, but can I get a let's
Speaker 3: freaking go, let's go baby like one for vanity purposes,
Speaker 3: But yeah, I've been saying that, right, but beyond that
Speaker 3: and far more important, that has me so excited about
Speaker 3: what we can see, not just early in the season
Speaker 3: when we scored a hund dred and fifty points last September,
Speaker 3: but giving you, let's put it this way. Let's say
Speaker 3: you have everything from twenty twenty three already in place,
Speaker 3: which if that's the case, you're fine, but you added
Speaker 3: to that, and let's say, totally arbitrarily, you add thirty
Speaker 3: percent more. You could conceivably with that thirty percent and
Speaker 3: it might be twenty, it might be forty. You could
Speaker 3: conceivably one incorporate that from the jump, and teams have
Speaker 3: to contend with the top offense in the NFL with
Speaker 3: thirty percent extra in terms of what they can do
Speaker 3: and get to off of that number two off that
Speaker 3: you can develop the wrinkles and sequences off of that
Speaker 3: as the season goes along and continue to build and
Speaker 3: expand that playbook or number three, you could just straight
Speaker 3: up table some of that stuff for the stretch run.
Speaker 3: We've seen some great teams in this league. The Patriots
Speaker 3: are the most notable, and the Do Your Job documentary
Speaker 3: back in like twenty fourteen when they covered the Ravens
Speaker 3: playoff game where they came back from fourteen points down
Speaker 3: because they essentially cheated. I'm not saying they actually, well,
Speaker 3: they kind of did. I mean, that's a team that
Speaker 3: has done that plenty of times in the past, right,
Speaker 3: but they kind of found a loophole in the rules
Speaker 3: with regards to eligibles and offensive linemen and how you
Speaker 3: could line those guys up. And they surprise the Ravens
Speaker 3: with this attack that they put in place back in
Speaker 3: their the first matchup back in like October and saved
Speaker 3: it for the playoffs so they could use it in
Speaker 3: that game, and that was what God got them that
Speaker 3: win in that game. So you could do that if
Speaker 3: you wanted to, And I think that shows conviction and
Speaker 3: your belief that you'll be in that position in the
Speaker 3: postseason to unveil that stuff.
Speaker 2: But this is why I'm so geeked up over all
Speaker 2: of this stuff.
Speaker 3: Entering the third year in a system, the world becomes
Speaker 3: your oyster because you have those banked reps. You're not like,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna make a golf analogy. I've been golfing like
Speaker 3: full time, not full time, but like I'm actually working
Speaker 3: on my game at the range like multiple times a week.
Speaker 3: Like I'm going into my third year next year, and
Speaker 3: I my scores got much better in year two. They're
Speaker 3: gonna get much better next year because you're adding shot
Speaker 3: shapes to your proverbial golf swing. You aren't going back
Speaker 3: to square one and breaking down where the hand placement is,
Speaker 3: when your hip should ge through the zone, when you
Speaker 3: should have the club face closed or open. You just
Speaker 3: have that banked up, like the Dolphins offense. And if
Speaker 3: you go over the history of the league, the teams
Speaker 3: that sustain success the best, that's a tough sentence to say.
Speaker 3: You know, success breed success, right, If you're good and
Speaker 3: you win games, you get to keep your job and
Speaker 3: you get to sustain continuity with your staff and your players,
Speaker 3: and it just makes you better for it. We have
Speaker 3: the coach, he has his staff, we have the quarterback signed,
Speaker 3: sealed and delivered. And for a Dolphins fan of a
Speaker 3: certain age myself aged thirty six, you haven't seen that
Speaker 3: since you were wearing Aquan orange starter jackets ripping across
Speaker 3: the monkey bars back in the third grade. Right. Gosh,
Speaker 3: as an ex's and o's junkie, it fires me the
Speaker 3: hell up. Let's go back to alec Ingold, who further
Speaker 3: discussed the benefits of said continuity.
Speaker 4: But no, I think a lot of the pre snap
Speaker 4: and post snap like being able to play fast, be
Speaker 4: able to align. Like we've our offensive line is running
Speaker 4: off the ball. They're moving people their combination. But it's
Speaker 4: been fun to watch, it's fun to be a part
Speaker 4: of in the backfield. So being able to really take
Speaker 4: that next step tie in a center's eyes to fullbacks
Speaker 4: eyes to running backs eyes, so we're all seeing the
Speaker 4: same thing in the run game, same thing with the pass.
Speaker 1: Games can be a lot of fun.
Speaker 3: And buddy, you see that the part about flying off
Speaker 3: the football and the combination blocks. In fact, let's go
Speaker 3: ahead and parlay that into the offensive line assessment from
Speaker 3: practice today, because to that point and to this next
Speaker 3: point we'll get too from Alec. I thought Monday went
Speaker 3: to the offense, and I thought Tuesday went to the defense,
Speaker 3: and I thought today went to the offense. But even
Speaker 3: within that, there's this back and forth pull on either side.
Speaker 3: Like the box score. The boxing scorecard is ten to
Speaker 3: nine every day, right they judge Browns, it's either ten
Speaker 3: to nine or ten to eight. You never get your
Speaker 3: ten to eight days here it's always ten to nine
Speaker 3: or rarely it's ten to eight. But with regards to
Speaker 3: the combos and flying off the football, I mean, Rob
Speaker 3: Jones and Leam Miikenberg had some really good inside gap
Speaker 3: clearing blocks today where they kind of create this wall
Speaker 3: and wall off the front side and give backs like
Speaker 3: Jalen Wright the option to hit that cutback lane and
Speaker 3: the running backs are seeing it more cleanly every single day.
Speaker 3: And to spoil or to tease a segment here, we're
Speaker 3: going to talk about Jalen Wright in a moment and
Speaker 3: how I'm ready to maybe make him RB one. That's
Speaker 3: going to be like the clip you pull off the podcast.
Speaker 3: But I'm telling you, guys, he's special and we got
Speaker 3: that with a Chan and Jalen today. Moster did not practice.
Speaker 3: But you've seen it with him before. We've seen hefe
Speaker 3: do it, seen Chris Brooks do it, all the guys,
Speaker 3: Greg Dan, all the guys. I tweeted about this. You know,
Speaker 3: I think I think Jack Driscoll has seen things really
Speaker 3: slow down for him. And I can't say this with conviction,
Speaker 3: you know for sure from my vantage point, and I
Speaker 3: don't have tape, nor can I flag ninety players every
Speaker 3: single day, but from my lens, I think Driscoll has
Speaker 3: shown the most improvement or rather growth of anybody in
Speaker 3: all of training camp. And the game was sort of
Speaker 3: a wake up call, like, oh yeah, this guy was
Speaker 3: an athletic testing monster back at Auburn. He played some
Speaker 3: tackle in Philly, but his best tape was at guard,
Speaker 3: and he's talked about cross training at center last year
Speaker 3: for the Eagles, played both right guard and center in
Speaker 3: the game on Friday Night. He's playing so fast and
Speaker 3: so connected, and he's making his center or guard next
Speaker 3: to him look good in doing so, and doesn't matter
Speaker 3: which guy it is, like he is elevating their play
Speaker 3: because of his ability to stay connected on those blocks.
Speaker 3: Speaking of literally all those factors game growth practices, I
Speaker 3: love what I've seen from Andrew Meyer, the UDFA out
Speaker 3: of UTIP, the athletic ability, it's there. He's listed at
Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety five pounds. He plays in space,
Speaker 3: I mean ninety eight percent tile vertical in broads. That's
Speaker 3: an Aaron Brewer stat for you. Eighty fifth percent tile
Speaker 3: or better in the forty yard dash, twenty and ten
Speaker 3: yards splits. And I think he's probably the second best
Speaker 3: natural center on the roster. And you can say, well,
Speaker 3: that's an issue in and of itself, maybe, but I
Speaker 3: think if you keep him, you can just have him
Speaker 3: be your backup center, and then if Brewer goes down,
Speaker 3: you don't have to uproot your entire offensive line to
Speaker 3: shuffle guys around. I think there's value to that. We'll
Speaker 3: see how they view it and if he can get
Speaker 3: up to speed quickly enough. But I think there's something
Speaker 3: there for Andrew Meyer in terms of your backup center.
Speaker 3: He's a guy that I'm going to keep a very
Speaker 3: close eye on these next few weeks, and you should too,
Speaker 3: because it's an important part of this football team.
Speaker 2: We moved to the.
Speaker 3: Indoor facility and I was standing next to alf Artiego
Speaker 3: from three yards per carry. He is a I mean
Speaker 3: as long as I've been coming to training camp, he's
Speaker 3: been here for every day as well. And we get
Speaker 3: this awesome view from behind the play in the indoor facility,
Speaker 3: and I'm locking in on Sean Harlow and he had
Speaker 3: a one on one rep on Neville Gallimore, who, by
Speaker 3: the way, is a find like. He is slippery as hell,
Speaker 3: He's violent as all get out with his punch, and
Speaker 3: he has a tremendous arsenal of moves that he can
Speaker 3: bust out at a moment's notice, and he tried a
Speaker 3: few of them on this one rep where Harlow engaged
Speaker 3: his punch, played through his base, kept the feet shuffling,
Speaker 3: never clicked to the heels, just mechanically a clean operation
Speaker 3: and shuts the entire rep down. I think with Rob Jones,
Speaker 3: Andrew Meyer, Sean Harlow, we've seen some guys that have
Speaker 3: either not had a ton of starts. In Rob Jones,
Speaker 3: I've been a swing interior guy his entire career, a
Speaker 3: rookie who hasn't played a single down in the NFL,
Speaker 3: or a guy that was available into training camp in
Speaker 3: Sean Harlow. And to me, those guys have put their
Speaker 3: best foot forward and worked their way into the conversation
Speaker 3: for starting work with Rob Jones or making the team
Speaker 3: for Andrew Meyer and Sean Harlow, and I'm not so
Speaker 3: convinced Harlow's not a top seven or eight guy on
Speaker 3: the team right now in terms of the offensive line.
Speaker 3: The converse of that is, I watched some Lester Cotton
Speaker 3: work and there was a stunt inside where they pinched him,
Speaker 3: and then you had with Quentin Bell he pinched, and
Speaker 3: then Zach Seiler was a looper off the outside and
Speaker 3: he got toasted by it. I'm like, that's man, It's
Speaker 3: like things that you saw on tape last year still
Speaker 3: showing up. It's to me that's a concern. I also
Speaker 3: thought Kendall Lamb lost the edge in a lot of
Speaker 3: play today as well. So those are two of the
Speaker 3: guys that I thought didn't have their best days in
Speaker 3: contrast to the three guys that I liked a lot
Speaker 3: on today's practice. Let's finish this segment with one more
Speaker 3: SoundBite here from alec Ingold, and we still have three
Speaker 3: more to go to from him after this. I mentioned
Speaker 3: that pendulum swing earlier in the segment here, you know,
Speaker 3: offense and defense trading wins back and forth. And I
Speaker 3: asked Alec what this defense has done for the offense
Speaker 3: in terms of the looks they give when it comes
Speaker 3: to his pass protection rules, the various blitzes, the scheme
Speaker 3: traditionally has been known for and flashed in the game
Speaker 3: and then practices out here, and Alec gave us more
Speaker 3: than that and did the thing this podcast host loves
Speaker 3: more than anything else, confirming priors.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, our defense is playing so fast, so convicted.
Speaker 4: They're running all over the place. Every day we go
Speaker 4: back and we watch and practice. Those guys are sprinting
Speaker 4: sideline to sideline, they're tied in, they're talking, they're communicating.
Speaker 1: So it's a challenge for us.
Speaker 4: This is one of the most competitive camps I've ever
Speaker 4: been a part of, like nine times out of ten.
Speaker 4: It's normally at this time of the year it's either
Speaker 4: the offense being the defense, defense being the offense, and
Speaker 4: right now it's going back and forth. So I think
Speaker 4: that the blitz pick ups, the different looks you can get,
Speaker 4: the just playing fast, like it doesn't matter if we
Speaker 4: have pads on or not.
Speaker 1: Guys are playing fast. They're setting edges.
Speaker 4: We're playing really good, high level football right now during
Speaker 4: training camp in August, which.
Speaker 1: Is really cool to see.
Speaker 3: I mean, I appallize for becoming something of a cliche
Speaker 3: machine on the show here, but damn it. I have
Speaker 3: been searching for storylines and through lines all through training camp,
Speaker 3: and I think we've really unearthed them. Going back to
Speaker 3: that great Butch Berry availability when he talked about the
Speaker 3: progression of training camp. But if you are what you emphasize,
Speaker 3: and if the issues the last two years has been
Speaker 3: finishing seasons when you began eight and three and nine
Speaker 3: and three probably gonna be like ten to two this year,
Speaker 3: I think everything we just talked about is the best
Speaker 3: way to ensure that you aren't just getting out of
Speaker 3: those hot starts, but really hitting your stride. When we
Speaker 3: go up to lambeau Field on Thanksgiving and then get
Speaker 3: the Jets twice and the Texans, the Niners, and the
Speaker 3: Browns to finish things out, there's a couple of playoff
Speaker 3: teams in there. I think the Niners and Texans will
Speaker 3: be playoff teams.
Speaker 2: The other two do. I do not.
Speaker 3: But if you get to that mark eight and three again,
Speaker 3: I tend to think it's gonna be more like nine
Speaker 3: to two, and you play better than five hundred football
Speaker 3: over that stretch. That's twelve wins and some big narrative
Speaker 3: shifting wins and probably a division title and probably some
Speaker 3: home games in the playoffs, and you're probably playing your
Speaker 3: best football. Look, this is way out in front of
Speaker 3: myself here, but it's a podcast. We're supposed to be
Speaker 3: having fun with it. But to end this first segment
Speaker 3: with one more golf analogy, all the pros and vision
Speaker 3: what each shot will look like. It's why the back
Speaker 3: they back off the ball, stand behind it on their
Speaker 3: line and measure their shot to the flag or wherever
Speaker 3: they want to shoot that draw or that fade, step
Speaker 3: up and they make their swing. You have to visualize
Speaker 3: what you want to do if you want to be great.
Speaker 3: It's why I have plans for the podcast all the
Speaker 3: way through the whole season. I'm trying to visualize what
Speaker 3: the best podcast can look like. It's the same thing
Speaker 3: for a football team, and I think that vision is
Speaker 3: crystal clear, and damn it, I am bought the hell
Speaker 3: in on what this team is selling. Let's take the break,
Speaker 3: come back, and I'll tell you why there was some
Speaker 3: awesome moments from Tuatungua Bai Looa on Wednesday's practice. Here
Speaker 3: more from alec Ingold and Mike McDaniel, a rep that
Speaker 3: told me that Jalen Phillips is byk E Bike, some
Speaker 3: draft class talk and a whole lot more. Or that's
Speaker 3: next Drivetime podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to you
Speaker 3: by Auto Nation. Tua Tongue of Iloa is the quarterback
Speaker 3: of your Miami Dolphins and he was on one today
Speaker 3: and stop me if you've heard this before. He had
Speaker 3: Brayln Sanders for a long touchdown early in practice, but
Speaker 3: Saran Neil made a smart play and interfere with Sanders
Speaker 3: to prevent the TD with a defensive pass interference that
Speaker 3: gave him about half the yardage. But there was a
Speaker 3: couple of moments after that that I think you guys
Speaker 3: will love to hear two of them to be in fact,
Speaker 3: to be exact. First, there was a play that was
Speaker 3: the last one of a period, or rather Tua's last
Speaker 3: snap before they went to Skyler and made the lineup
Speaker 3: changes to get the next unit in there and the
Speaker 3: snap count and got some guys as the ball wasn't snapped,
Speaker 3: but like half the line went, half the line didn't go,
Speaker 3: and they were going to change out the lineups right there,
Speaker 3: like a line change in hockey, right, but Tua waved
Speaker 3: it off. He's like, no, no, no, get We're gonna run
Speaker 3: it again. And Frank Smith was coming in waving his
Speaker 3: personnel on for the line change, and he sees his
Speaker 3: quarterback waving it off, and he turned around and said, no,
Speaker 3: go back, We're gonna do it again. And like the
Speaker 3: next play was I ripped from two to sneed for
Speaker 3: a chunk gain. I mean that's like Marino esque, right,
Speaker 3: like no, no, no, no, I'm running the show here. We're
Speaker 3: gonna do it my way. That's what Twua has as
Speaker 3: far as his command of this offense and this team
Speaker 3: right now. Thing number two. So from my vantage point,
Speaker 3: you get to better see two his eyes, you know,
Speaker 3: from that from the indoor facility behind the end zone.
Speaker 3: And this throw to Snead was like one of those
Speaker 3: throws that you can count on one hand the number
Speaker 3: of players that can make that throw. So first, it's
Speaker 3: it's mid red zone. There's tight quarters down there. We've
Speaker 3: got to be lightning with our processing as a quarterback right,
Speaker 3: there's eleven guys in a twenty yard you know, plot
Speaker 3: of grass, and you see to a work to his left.
Speaker 3: You see him work back to the middle and he
Speaker 3: goes right back to the right and it's it's like
Speaker 3: bang bang bang. This is happening within seconds of each other.
Speaker 3: And you see him work to his back to the
Speaker 3: right and he layers this ball. The damn near brought
Speaker 3: the rain, damn near scraped the ceiling at the facility,
Speaker 3: not really, but it was a lofty, floating football and
Speaker 3: when he let it go, Willie Snead was under the
Speaker 3: goalpost and when he caught this thing, I'm telling you guys,
Speaker 3: it was near the back pilon on the corner. And
Speaker 3: the reason he threw this like there was pressure but
Speaker 3: the route wasn't open yet, but he knew where it
Speaker 3: would be open, when it would be open. It's like
Speaker 3: a great through ball in soccer, like you have to
Speaker 3: anticipate the defensive back line biting up and you send
Speaker 3: that thing through to line all Messi and he goes
Speaker 3: and scores the goal. Like Tua has that vision and
Speaker 3: that anticipation and that foresight for how the defense can
Speaker 3: move after the fact. Once he let the football go
Speaker 3: and by the time the coverage had worked itself out
Speaker 3: for the two or three seconds, the balls floating in
Speaker 3: the air, boom, touchdown, and it was it was perfect,
Speaker 3: perfectly located. I gosh, it is just so so gorgeous.
Speaker 3: It makes me feel so fortunate to watch him practice
Speaker 3: every day because it is every day. It's high, high,
Speaker 3: high level stuff from an elite quarterback, one of the
Speaker 3: best ten quarterbacks on the planet. Man, I lie, there's
Speaker 3: actually a third thing. So I tweeted this. In individual drills,
Speaker 3: the quarterbacks were working on fleeing the pocket on their offhand,
Speaker 3: so for Tua going to his right, and I thought
Speaker 3: that the way he was flipping the hips and dropping
Speaker 3: the armslot and driving the football was unlike anything I've
Speaker 3: ever seen. It was a follow up from what we
Speaker 3: saw in the team period yesterday at practice. And sure enough,
Speaker 3: in team drills once again, he gets out on the
Speaker 3: move on a bootleg and he freezes this linebacker. It
Speaker 3: was Zeke Vandenberg where he pulls up on a dead
Speaker 3: sprint and flips his hip like he's gonna throw the hook.
Speaker 3: So like, Okay, I'm running to the flat, but I'm
Speaker 3: gonna throw this ball to the hook. I'll pull up
Speaker 3: an act like it. But whoops, that's not what I'm doing.
Speaker 3: As the linebacker pulls up, he flips it back to
Speaker 3: the flat for a no look completion, which that freezing
Speaker 3: of the linebacker allowed Durham to find the pileon for
Speaker 3: a touchdown.
Speaker 2: Hold on. There's a fourth thing, double the pleasure.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: We saw a ball placement clinic on an outbreaker, a
Speaker 3: speed out to Malik Washington, and Jordan Brooks is buzzing
Speaker 3: under this thing right on the trail hip. He's in phase.
Speaker 3: He's in great position. If that ball is in side
Speaker 3: at all, it's a pick and it sicks the other way.
Speaker 2: But it's not.
Speaker 3: In fact, because it was so tightly contested, and because
Speaker 3: the ball was so perfect, it actually took Jordan Brooks
Speaker 3: out of the play without the tackle and not only
Speaker 3: gave malikue Washington a five yard completion on third and five,
Speaker 3: it gave another ten yards of run after the catch
Speaker 3: before the safety found him. So what a day for
Speaker 3: quarterback one he might be in the Orange jersey predictions
Speaker 3: at the end of it. Speaking of manipulation of defender
Speaker 3: Skyler Thompson, had maybe my favorite rep I've ever seen
Speaker 3: him have in Dolphins practice. He has a dig fifteen
Speaker 3: yards to Jakwan Burton. But the way that he influenced
Speaker 3: the hookbacker and moved him to the flat, he like
Speaker 3: pumped and got him over there and then threw that
Speaker 3: thing back across his body for the completion. I want
Speaker 3: to see a lot more of that. I want to
Speaker 3: see a lot more playing on time. There's been remnants
Speaker 3: of it. I don't know how much more time we
Speaker 3: have to get there, but if it can get there,
Speaker 3: that's when you become confident in your backup quarterback. Saw
Speaker 3: a small sliver of that today. He also made a
Speaker 3: very strong throw on a stick to alec Ingold to
Speaker 3: the field the wide side of the field with a
Speaker 3: cornerback who was all over alec Ingold. You have to
Speaker 3: drill that thing with velocity, and he did so. So
Speaker 3: I thought we saw a little bit of the mental
Speaker 3: growth and the physical traits from Scotlar Thompson on Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Speaking of alec Ingold, let's go back to him and
Speaker 3: talk about this. I don't know, I guess random topic,
Speaker 3: but it helps us transition into our next topic here
Speaker 3: because he was asked as the fullback, what the hell
Speaker 3: was that? As the fullback? Do you sort of take
Speaker 3: it personally? The offense has had its struggles on short
Speaker 3: yarders in the last couple of years.
Speaker 4: Huh, extremely personal I think that's literally one of the
Speaker 4: job descriptions of playing f in this offense, whether you're
Speaker 4: a slot wide receiver, a fullback, second tight end like
Speaker 4: that f spot, being able to move the sticks is
Speaker 4: part of your job description. You're playing within those margins
Speaker 4: of the game. So the more that we've worked on
Speaker 4: it all the way throughout OTAs being able to put
Speaker 4: it out onto the field, I think it's going to
Speaker 4: be fun to see just being able to make that
Speaker 4: next first down and giving us three more opportunities for
Speaker 4: those sixty yard explosive plays that are going to happen,
Speaker 4: but then being able to stay on track a whole
Speaker 4: lot more efficiently. So yeah, I did take that personally.
Speaker 3: And that ties back a little bit to what we
Speaker 3: talked about in terms of how this offense number one
Speaker 3: last year can get even better. That's that's it right there,
Speaker 3: Like nothing to add, right But what I do want
Speaker 3: to add, however, is alex commentary on the tight ends
Speaker 3: and on Jalen Wright and you heard him talk about
Speaker 3: playing the F in this offense.
Speaker 2: That's like the move piece in the backfield in the offense.
Speaker 3: I should say tight ends can play the F two,
Speaker 3: but the responsibility that comes with that. And there was
Speaker 3: a lot of chatter about the tight end room today
Speaker 3: among the beat writers and I was like, Julian Hills,
Speaker 3: he's a top two tight end on this roster right now,
Speaker 3: and he was in the Orange Jersey and I told you, guys,
Speaker 3: you know, hear how much I believe he can contribute.
Speaker 3: And we continue to see that each day from Julian Hill,
Speaker 3: I mean from Campbell Campbell UDFA to Orange Jersey on
Speaker 3: a team full of stars. It's kind of crazy to
Speaker 3: think about. But it's not just Julian because that room
Speaker 3: all of a sudden seems to have some of the
Speaker 3: toughest decisions on the entire fifty three man roster. John
Speaker 3: Who is John Who? Julian's clearly got that role locked down.
Speaker 3: Durham Smyth is a guy that I think I could
Speaker 3: be tight end three, but I would be like the
Speaker 3: best tight end three in the National Football League if
Speaker 3: that's where you want to go with it. Then Tanner
Speaker 3: Connor has he's a flash player but that he can
Speaker 3: play right. Jody Fortson's body and reds and abilities are
Speaker 3: a unique fixture that nobody else has in this roster.
Speaker 3: And then Hayden Rouchie has the look of a true punishing,
Speaker 3: like blocking tight end. I think all six of these
Speaker 3: guys can play at this level, if not five of them,
Speaker 3: and that's a tough decision to make for the roster cutdowns.
Speaker 3: Let's go ahead and go to alec Ingold here on
Speaker 3: the makeup of that tight end group.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the tight end room, like Durham and Julian. We're
Speaker 4: giving those guys some crap for being like team No YAK.
Speaker 4: And you know John Who's gonna be one of those
Speaker 4: guys where you could get the ball in a million
Speaker 4: different ways with him.
Speaker 1: So I think the most exciting.
Speaker 4: Thing is the different creativity you're going to see out
Speaker 4: of the offense and getting nine to the ball in space,
Speaker 4: being able to run through I mean we've seen a
Speaker 4: number of times where he's running through contact. You know,
Speaker 4: we're thudding, but defense is flying around and he's still
Speaker 4: in playing fast and being able to do his thing.
Speaker 1: So he's been a great addition for sure.
Speaker 2: And what I like most about that is, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: yak room.
Speaker 3: Well you're kind of talking about Durham there, because Durham
Speaker 3: had what thirty five catches last year career high, or
Speaker 3: maybe it was forty, and on twenty eight of those
Speaker 3: he was just pretty much left alone because of all
Speaker 3: the attention to other guys get And it's great when
Speaker 3: he can catch it and get the twelve yards that
Speaker 3: are there for him. But now picture John hus Smith
Speaker 3: catching that pass and breaking that tackle and turns a
Speaker 3: twelve yard play into a twenty one yard play. Also
Speaker 3: the screen game emphasis how he can be a guy
Speaker 3: that catches it but also play the point so it
Speaker 3: doesn't give away you're doesn't give the tell away to
Speaker 3: the defense. The why ISO aspect where you can take
Speaker 3: him on the other side of the formation of wreak
Speaker 3: and waddle and get backside coverage from like you know,
Speaker 3: a safety or a linebacker and throw the now screen
Speaker 3: or throw a hitch or even throw vertical.
Speaker 2: If you want.
Speaker 3: I mean you heard it there from Alec Ingle. It
Speaker 3: changes the dynamic when that guy can be a playmaker.
Speaker 3: And now we have a playmaker there. This offense loves playmakers.
Speaker 3: John who is a playmaker? You know who else is
Speaker 3: a damn playmaker?
Speaker 6: The way uh uh Jalen was competitive in and around contact.
Speaker 6: What was something that I think is a trait that
Speaker 6: is shared in our running back room? I think that
Speaker 6: you know, for running backs in general form my experience,
Speaker 6: they do very very well with competition, like you really,
Speaker 6: you really, as long as you foster a culture within
Speaker 6: that running back room that Eric Studsville does, you know
Speaker 6: you have, it really brings the best out of people.
Speaker 5: And I think he we saw a competitor.
Speaker 6: That that would not be overwhelmed with a lot of
Speaker 6: talent around him, and so that I think that that
Speaker 6: sets up for a situation where a lot of guys
Speaker 6: can compete and you can take individuals that are already
Speaker 6: on your roster and and help them become the best
Speaker 6: versions of themselves that he hadn't seen prior. So I
Speaker 6: think all of that is a residual win for the
Speaker 6: Miami Dolphins. I think, you know, a lot of his
Speaker 6: teammates see that he has the potential to help us,
Speaker 6: and a lot of people are working together to make
Speaker 6: sure that whoever the players are on our team, that
Speaker 6: they're the best version of the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 3: As we could see, Dylan had what I would have
Speaker 3: called a thirty yard touchdown scampered today in practice, I
Speaker 3: think other guys would have called him down at like
Speaker 3: ten or fifteen. But the way he presses and hits
Speaker 3: that linear jump cut one step is just it's different, man,
Speaker 3: Like it shows every single day.
Speaker 2: It's not a fluke.
Speaker 3: It's who he is and how that pairs with the
Speaker 3: combo blocks and how we get off you know.
Speaker 2: The football.
Speaker 3: Like I just mentioned, I just think about how linebackers
Speaker 3: have to process this, and if they can't and they
Speaker 3: don't slow him down, you've got no safeties, or you've
Speaker 3: got safety rather coming from depth, trying to make a
Speaker 3: play from a stationary position on a smooth glider who
Speaker 3: sees nothing but daylight when he runs. Like there's a
Speaker 3: reason this guy opened the Georgia game last year with
Speaker 3: a seventy five yard touchdown run a Georgia team who,
Speaker 3: by the way, allowed one hundred yards or fewer and
Speaker 3: more than half of their games. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: a defense who's second longest run allowed last year was
Speaker 3: forty two yards. I'm just saying, and I think about
Speaker 3: that run. I pair it with yet another ten yard
Speaker 3: touchdown run in mid red zone where he has this
Speaker 3: little crease and sees it and immediately gets to it,
Speaker 3: gets skinny at the point, and pushes his way through
Speaker 3: the end zone for a touchdown. Let's go back to
Speaker 3: alec Ingold one more time, who was asked what he's
Speaker 3: seen so far from the rookie in terms of his
Speaker 3: vision and decision making.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jay Wright.
Speaker 4: I mean he is crazy fast, and there's a lot
Speaker 4: of tendencies that you transition from college to NFL. It's
Speaker 4: a learning curve, and I think Devin has been a
Speaker 4: great resource for him, just going through that last year
Speaker 4: and being able to have that sounding board of like, Okay,
Speaker 4: this is where you can put your eyes. We both
Speaker 4: played then SCC last year. They can have those conversations.
Speaker 4: So being able to have those conversations, I think those
Speaker 4: two are really clicking. I think you see it when
Speaker 4: he's out there playing fast like it. You know, he
Speaker 4: obviously did a great job being able to run daylight.
Speaker 1: He had that.
Speaker 4: Whole like catch turn around cross the field like that
Speaker 4: normally doesn't happen in the NFL, but he has that
Speaker 4: speeding that talent, so it's been cool to see him.
Speaker 3: Develop really quick and make no mistake about it. Devon
Speaker 3: a Chan's making all kinds of plays as well, but
Speaker 3: we know about him. A rookie is an unknown until
Speaker 3: his first in season action. But every damn day, this
Speaker 3: guy's playing his way into the notes. And the best
Speaker 3: part is the tangible aspect of those quick decisions and
Speaker 3: tying into the work that he put in to learn
Speaker 3: the playbook by never leaving the building all off season.
Speaker 3: And it's why I just keep thinking, are we sure
Speaker 3: this dude doesn't become running back one before very long?
Speaker 3: Because we know how this offense creates conflict. They want
Speaker 3: lateral displacement in the wide zone running game, they want
Speaker 3: overplay from the backers to assist the passing game. But
Speaker 3: one thing they really haven't had is vertical displacement guys
Speaker 3: off the football and going inside the tackle box and
Speaker 3: making critical runs down the middle of the throat of
Speaker 3: the defense, where it's been kind of, you know, softened
Speaker 3: by the way you've ran the ball off the edge
Speaker 3: all game. But we saw power and successful power, you know,
Speaker 3: pull a guard down block and man gap scheme in
Speaker 3: the game on Friday I keep talking about all these
Speaker 3: inside runs and inside zone. So if you have this electric, smart,
Speaker 3: smooth back who can press his track to the perimeter
Speaker 3: and in a blink cut it back inside with all
Speaker 3: the outside zone, with all the inside zone that he's
Speaker 3: shown up proclivity for the power we just discussed. This
Speaker 3: is the run game equivalent of a three way go
Speaker 3: for a wide receiver, which is a slot inside who
Speaker 3: has man coverage. I can run vertical, I can run
Speaker 3: the out, I can run the ind Almost nobody can
Speaker 3: cover a good slot receiver on a three quay go.
Speaker 3: It's I viewed the exact same way for a Jalen Wright,
Speaker 3: and we already gave defenses enough issues and kept dcs
Speaker 3: up at night enough. I don't know, man, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'm getting out over my skis here. I'm
Speaker 3: just watching this guy, and I think the he online
Speaker 3: something else in this offense that nobody else does.
Speaker 2: And he's a rookie. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: What a fun player and yet another weapon to watch
Speaker 3: coach unleash this year. Let's take our last break right there,
Speaker 3: talk some defense. Here's some more from coach McDaniel all
Speaker 3: that next to Draft Time Podcast, Your host Travis Wingfield,
Speaker 3: brought to you by Auto Nation. So the first live
Speaker 3: rep I saw from Jalen Phillips today went like this.
Speaker 3: Julian Hill has you know, wiped out the edge like
Speaker 3: all camplong right. Well, in his first rep today, they
Speaker 3: run wide to this to JP side and Julian has
Speaker 3: to seal him to win the edge. And what JP
Speaker 3: does is not just prevent that seal. He walks Julian
Speaker 3: two yards into the backfield and widens him out to
Speaker 3: create this you know, blockage on the running backs track
Speaker 3: and a massive sea gap for Duke Riley to shoot through,
Speaker 3: which is exactly what he does. That displacement creates a
Speaker 3: free run. He comes flying in for the tag off
Speaker 3: and then JP also gets off the block to finish
Speaker 3: the play to join him for the stuff.
Speaker 2: The lionscre image he'd back.
Speaker 3: Baby mcdally talked about getting this monster back on the
Speaker 3: field before practice on Wednesday morning.
Speaker 5: I've noticed that he is who I thought he was.
Speaker 1: They are who we thought they were.
Speaker 6: You know, this is a guy that's on a mission
Speaker 6: that that is that is bigger than than just you know,
Speaker 6: being a player on an NFL football team. He's trying
Speaker 6: to position himself where he can feel that he's he's
Speaker 6: the top of this class at what he does, and
Speaker 6: that he doesn't take a day off from that. You know,
Speaker 6: I think I've seen some maturity from him and understanding
Speaker 6: the bigger picture and not being so not being too
Speaker 6: shortsighted with trying to be involved in football. You know,
Speaker 6: he's been very disciplined and and not overstepping the boundaries
Speaker 6: outlined for him that you know, we we've we've had
Speaker 6: numerous discussions on intern from our training staff and so
Speaker 6: I think that he is in a great place and
Speaker 6: he is take he's taken steps every day. It was
Speaker 6: great to see him on Monday, and I'll be excited
Speaker 6: to see him again today.
Speaker 3: Chop also got into the action by beating an alec
Speaker 3: ingold block that forced upon eight Chan back into the flow.
Speaker 3: In fact, let's go ahead and go back for our
Speaker 3: last sound by here from coach on the rookie class.
Speaker 3: He was asked about, right, we played that sound already.
Speaker 3: He was asked about Chop Robinson, but here he's talking
Speaker 3: about the entire draft class. Let's just go ahead and
Speaker 3: roll this audio from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 6: Chris and I were pretty fired up working together and
Speaker 6: the collective departments for this draft class, just because it's
Speaker 6: our third year so we have a little bit more
Speaker 6: understanding of congruents and parallel of what the vision is.
Speaker 5: For the team moving forward.
Speaker 6: And this draft class, I think we felt like we
Speaker 6: had the opportunity to have several guys come in and contribute,
Speaker 6: and the particular individuals or cut from a cloth where
Speaker 6: you know, if you know, as long as they did
Speaker 6: the work, they might have the opportunity to come in
Speaker 6: and contribute early.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 6: It is very hard to be a rookie in the
Speaker 6: National Football League, and even more so to to be
Speaker 6: able to contribute from a varsity level in in regular
Speaker 6: season week and week out.
Speaker 5: I do think we have.
Speaker 6: The appropriate character in this draft class for for some
Speaker 6: guys to do that, and the team was counting on it.
Speaker 5: So I think that the.
Speaker 6: Opportunities that have presented themselves in the various position groups,
Speaker 6: I've seen multiple draft picks from you know, our first
Speaker 6: to our last take advantage of those opportunities, and uh,
Speaker 6: you know, I think it speaks to them and it
Speaker 6: speaks to the locker room on the clarity with which
Speaker 6: they've communicated what their expectations are for their teammates being
Speaker 6: new to the NFL and to this particular.
Speaker 5: Locker room, that they're.
Speaker 6: Working each and every day to earn the respect of
Speaker 6: all their peers in that so so far, so good.
Speaker 5: We'll see what today presents.
Speaker 3: That early contribution point is very interesting to me, one
Speaker 3: because it's shown. And two, I remember the fans sentiment
Speaker 3: that they need early contributors this year in the draft,
Speaker 3: and everyone was pissed off about Chop and Patrick Paul
Speaker 3: because they might not do that. But Chop share as
Speaker 3: hell has and Paul looks like a freaking stalwart left
Speaker 3: tackle at least so far, and it seems like the
Speaker 3: Dolphins agree with that sentiment. But also the benefit of
Speaker 3: this class if you hit on a handful of these guys,
Speaker 3: it's the flexibility that it affords you in terms of
Speaker 3: continuing to stay aggressive on the free agent market and
Speaker 3: extending your own guys. In this post two Areek and
Speaker 3: Waddle extension phase of this team cycle. Rookie contract production
Speaker 3: from Chop, Malik Paul, Mohammed Wilkerson who returned today by
Speaker 3: not Mohammed Wilkerson, Mohammed Kamara, who returned today. By the way,
Speaker 3: those are three of the four most expensive positions in
Speaker 3: the entire game in terms of what they cost. And
Speaker 3: then Jalen Wright at running back at some of these
Speaker 3: udfas like in that critical element of sustained success, you
Speaker 3: have to hit on these guys to do that. And
Speaker 3: speaking of the UDF phase in an expensive position, I
Speaker 3: think all three of the UDFA corners can play in
Speaker 3: this league. We've talked plenty about Duck and Matrie, but
Speaker 3: Isaiah Johnson, who was great in the game on Friday,
Speaker 3: had two pass breakups on fades today where he just
Speaker 3: washed out the receiver and his length really jumps out
Speaker 3: at you. His length and physicality I think can play
Speaker 3: in this system. Let's go ahead and finish up here,
Speaker 3: extra point style. Zach Steeler had the sack on the
Speaker 3: stunt that I mentioned. He continues to get after it.
Speaker 3: Curtis Bolton continues to show some salt. He's aggressive as hell.
Speaker 3: Had another big pop today where he just plays super fast.
Speaker 3: The new guy, David Ania had a pass breakup. Marcus
Speaker 3: May had a crazy impressive rep running down devon a
Speaker 3: chan on a throw out wide the escort in front
Speaker 3: of him. May cuts underneath him and makes the play
Speaker 3: and tags off with covering the entire field. It seemed
Speaker 3: like I thought cam Smith had some of his best
Speaker 3: work today as well. I also had Eric Azukama getting
Speaker 3: pressed into oblivion a few times, and just in general,
Speaker 3: the receivers with no reek, with.
Speaker 2: No waddle, with no obj.
Speaker 3: It's a little thin right now, and I think it's
Speaker 3: shown in a couple of practices. So my Orange Jersey
Speaker 3: predictions are to a tongueavai looa.
Speaker 2: He was aces.
Speaker 3: I thought Jack driscoll was awesome and we'll see if
Speaker 3: they go rookie. But Jalen Wright, I think is also
Speaker 3: in the conversation for the Orange Jersey. That's it for Wednesday. Tomorrow,
Speaker 3: the Commandos are in town. We'll break down the joint practices.
Speaker 3: We'll have a game on Saturday. On Friday, we have
Speaker 3: the Kay Adams interview on the podcast, plus a preview
Speaker 3: of the game against the Commandos on Saturday night. All
Speaker 3: of that coming away from the Draft Time Podcast Time.
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