Speaker 1: To a remove Dahlan Deep Speedways past.
Speaker 2: From the Baptist Health Studios inside the Baptist Health Training Complex.
Speaker 2: This is Drivetime with Travis Wingfield.
Speaker 3: He's 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: it's sort of the last day of school here at
Speaker 2: Dolphins camp. We're gonna unload all the media availability soundbites
Speaker 2: that I found to be informative that we have not
Speaker 2: covered yet. This week on the show, we'll hear from
Speaker 2: head coach Mike McDaniel. We'll hear from Frank Smith, Anthony Weaver,
Speaker 2: Danny Crossman, Darryl Bevill, Wes Welker, John Embry, Ryan Crow,
Speaker 2: Matthew Rugo and one player Jalen Ramsey from the Baptist
Speaker 2: Hell Studios inside the Baptist Heal Training Complex.
Speaker 3: This is the Draft Time Podcast.
Speaker 4: That's another Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: This is going to be a little bit of a
Speaker 2: mixed mash of audio sound bites. I want to go
Speaker 2: back to something that I wanted to put on the
Speaker 2: Wednesday edition of the Draft Time Podcast, but it got
Speaker 2: a little bit too long, so I bumped it to today.
Speaker 2: McDaniel was asked earlier this week about two things that
Speaker 2: I found very interesting, the pre snap evolution since he
Speaker 2: entered the league back in two thousand and five versus
Speaker 2: what it is now. And then the second sound bite
Speaker 2: you'll hear after this is how defenses have combated that
Speaker 2: as teams do run more timing based pre snap motion,
Speaker 2: as the Dolphins do, as they are number one in
Speaker 2: the NFL last two years in pre snap motion. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and hear both those answers here from coach McDaniel.
Speaker 5: You know, it's really funny is the history in the
Speaker 5: twenty years since I entered the league, and how I
Speaker 5: can I can pull clips of my first full time
Speaker 5: job in Houston, US orchestrating a two minute drive under.
Speaker 1: Center, like and.
Speaker 3: Like the amount of motion.
Speaker 5: Something that I think we you know, we used to
Speaker 5: lead the league in in Houston at like forty percent maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 5: so it's grown a ton and and you know that's yeah,
Speaker 5: I think from you know, it's advantageous to have a
Speaker 5: receiver background a lot of times for motioning because you know,
Speaker 5: you're you're trying to gain leverages on the defense and
Speaker 5: dictate the terms in that regard. Doing that for twenty
Speaker 5: years and having reduced splits, you know, I think that
Speaker 5: there's been more and more people that have latched on.
Speaker 5: And then then you know those people that are maybe
Speaker 5: uh in fired or you know by the Houston's offense motioning,
Speaker 5: then they invent emotion or create a different motion that
Speaker 5: you know kind of gives gives roots.
Speaker 3: To ideas that we have. So it's it's.
Speaker 5: It's definitely completely evolved. I don't think we I don't
Speaker 5: think we installed timing at the snap motion until I
Speaker 5: want to say, maybe two thousand and seventeen or eighteen,
Speaker 5: and we we have almost half our plays that way.
Speaker 5: So that's it's been a cool process that's definitely become
Speaker 5: more of the norm. And and those cycles they will
Speaker 5: probably come back full cylinder in twenty years. Everybody will
Speaker 5: be stagnant.
Speaker 2: And here is that follow up.
Speaker 5: You've seen defenses kind of put into you know, buckets,
Speaker 5: whether they travel.
Speaker 3: Or or you know, keep the the alignment and bump
Speaker 3: stuff over. But you do.
Speaker 5: What it does do is it kind of uh, you know,
Speaker 5: because it's initial or because it's so sudden right before
Speaker 5: the snap, it kind of shows you the ins and
Speaker 5: outs of what defenses are doing. Because of that, you know,
Speaker 5: you're seeing more and more people have different sort of
Speaker 5: answers where they have auto triggers with pressures.
Speaker 1: You know, or they.
Speaker 5: You know, they they have more consistent rules. It's from
Speaker 5: team to team you can tell that there's live problem
Speaker 5: solving going on. It changes a little bit each and
Speaker 5: every each and every week from opponent to ponent. But
Speaker 5: the consistent thing you do see is that people are
Speaker 5: getting better and better at defending it. So you know
Speaker 5: that just keeping leverage on the defense, not making sure
Speaker 5: that that timed motion doesn't you know, get the beat
Speaker 5: up your flats, those types of things. You know, that's
Speaker 5: always the chess match in football. That's from a schematic standpoint,
Speaker 5: is pretty cool is you you can surprise people for
Speaker 5: a little bit, then they have an answer for it,
Speaker 5: so then they're overplaying one thing. What's the next move,
Speaker 5: what's the what's the next direction you go? Because if
Speaker 5: if you give, if you get give defensive coaches and
Speaker 5: defensive players infinite amount of time to try to stop
Speaker 5: one thing, they'll be able to stop that one thing.
Speaker 5: So you always have to evolve and and so goes
Speaker 5: the chess match.
Speaker 2: Wellcome back to coach at the end of this episode
Speaker 2: and his Thursday media availability, But I want to go
Speaker 2: back now to Dolphin Special Teams coordinator Danny cross And
Speaker 2: who was asked about the new kickoff rule, which watching
Speaker 2: that in practice for the first time was strange. Just
Speaker 2: to be perfectly blunt and honest about it, watching a
Speaker 2: new football play as a thirty six year old, thirty
Speaker 2: year fan of this league and thirty year fan of
Speaker 2: this team to watch something that you haven't seen before
Speaker 2: is kind of strange. And so I wanted to play
Speaker 2: some audio here from Coach Crossman on that new kickoff
Speaker 2: rule and kind of how it maybe reinvigorates Special teams
Speaker 2: coaches because it's just another element they have to kind
Speaker 2: of learn and break down and an opportunity to make
Speaker 2: more plays for the third phase of the game, which
Speaker 2: is a critical part of the game and now with
Speaker 2: this new rule, stands to be even more critical for
Speaker 2: teams in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 6: To me, that the main part of this play is
Speaker 6: really two things. Number One, it is going to be
Speaker 6: a play that starts unlike any play has ever started.
Speaker 6: It starts with the ball either being caught or the
Speaker 6: ball hitting the ground as opposed to every other play
Speaker 6: it's either the snap or what we're all used to,
Speaker 6: the ball being kicked. That's a completely different animal. Secondly,
Speaker 6: this space aspect completely different. However, once all that stuff
Speaker 6: you take all that at, you're still doing the same thing.
Speaker 6: It's still blocking, getting off the blocks and tackling. However,
Speaker 6: that space differential may enable to use and maybe look
Speaker 6: at some different players.
Speaker 2: A couple of sound bites here from Dolphins offensive coordinator
Speaker 2: Frank Smith who talked about utilizing this time and the
Speaker 2: entire you know, multiple phase faction of OTAs whether early
Speaker 2: on there's no offense versus defense is just kind of just
Speaker 2: walk throughs and some individual stuff, and then you graduate
Speaker 2: towards you know, non padded practice against defense, and he
Speaker 2: talked a little bit about using that first phase to
Speaker 2: really hone in on fundamentals and details to really improve
Speaker 2: what you do within your own system before you have
Speaker 2: an actual opponent, and the value of that time of
Speaker 2: year we.
Speaker 7: Try and make sure that we understand how to play
Speaker 7: fundamentally sound within our position. So not as much the
Speaker 7: scheme con is going to come, but it's making sure
Speaker 7: that in we have this time where really you have
Speaker 7: two weeks a phase one where you're in the classroom,
Speaker 7: three weeks of phase two with you're not going against anyone.
Speaker 7: That's those three weeks the first time you really don't
Speaker 7: have an opponent or someone you're going against. So you
Speaker 7: know in OTAs you have an opponent the defense. So
Speaker 7: we really use that phase one phase two to really
Speaker 7: focus on, Okay, how can I get better, like as
Speaker 7: a player. So we make sure that we communicate areas
Speaker 7: that we think we have proven the growth and have
Speaker 7: the dialogue with them.
Speaker 1: So we use those three weeks.
Speaker 7: It's like, okay, you know, is it releases top of
Speaker 7: the route, separation techniques, you know, blocking or motion block
Speaker 7: like whatever it is. Specific. Then you build into the scheme.
Speaker 7: So we start with the person how we can improve,
Speaker 7: and then we have the scheme as we go, so
Speaker 7: it's kind of like reverse. A lot of people rush
Speaker 7: the scheme and then you're kind of learning what I
Speaker 7: need to do inside of it, as opposed to okay,
Speaker 7: we deconstruct and go right the individual right and build
Speaker 7: what we need to do as we like lightly later
Speaker 7: this scheme, and then we pushed the scheme as we
Speaker 7: get into really the group work in phase three.
Speaker 2: And OTAs also thought this answer was informative with regards
Speaker 2: to taking a look at what you did a season
Speaker 2: ago and evaluating that against what you want to be
Speaker 2: in the new season. Here's Frank Smith talking about using
Speaker 2: that time once again to get better at the things
Speaker 2: you saw on tape from twenty twenty three.
Speaker 7: We could block an opponent on cans and air, but
Speaker 7: as opposed to we can use the time to get
Speaker 7: better at maybe something that the season tape showed us
Speaker 7: that individually we could get better at, or you know,
Speaker 7: new guys are coming in, these are the things that
Speaker 7: we're going to require at the position, or new things
Speaker 7: we're looking at from our studying of ourselves, or you know,
Speaker 7: other offenses and defenses, and.
Speaker 1: Leak through all that approach.
Speaker 7: So that's kind of how we use the time a
Speaker 7: little different than you know, other places, but that's how
Speaker 7: we feel we can build a right for each player
Speaker 7: specifically because we use the time to what how we
Speaker 7: can best get better in it.
Speaker 2: Last one hear from coach Smith the benefit of a
Speaker 2: third year with mostly everybody back offensively from both a
Speaker 2: personnel and staff perspective, mostly for the latter with the
Speaker 2: staff here's coach Frank Smith.
Speaker 7: Once again, it helps just with communication anticipation, like when
Speaker 7: we're trying to get things done, just guys more quick
Speaker 7: to like you have got it, where you get more
Speaker 7: in tune with each other, just and especially in season,
Speaker 7: like that's where the real growth comes because you know,
Speaker 7: knowing of workflow or problem solving as we go into it,
Speaker 7: so it I just know this spring, we're able to
Speaker 7: anticipate certain things more or just knowing that, hey, on Wednesday,
Speaker 7: it's the structure of the day, so this is.
Speaker 1: Coming, so we can be in front of certain things.
Speaker 7: So all just the stronger the relationship, the longer relationship,
Speaker 7: the better communication.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of some way hallmark around here is
Speaker 1: our ability to communicate with each other.
Speaker 2: I always find that one probably the most interesting in
Speaker 2: terms of the communication aspect, and I compare it to
Speaker 2: making friends. You know that awkward stage when you first
Speaker 2: meet someone. You're friendly and you're cordial and you kind
Speaker 2: of put off the version of what you want to
Speaker 2: be perceived as before the true you starts to really
Speaker 2: you know, reveal itself. And that's when I think real
Speaker 2: friendships are forged. It has to be similar with the
Speaker 2: coaching staff in terms of that more time you have,
Speaker 2: the better the communication, you know, becomes, and you can
Speaker 2: kind of get to the same level of thinking before
Speaker 2: you even have to, you know, unveil an idea verbally.
Speaker 2: So that's cool to hear. Let's go ahead and move
Speaker 2: to the new side, the DEFENSI side of the football with
Speaker 2: pretty much all new staff on that side, with coach
Speaker 2: Anthony Weaver, who his first answer here, I'm gonna go
Speaker 2: ahead and ploy a fore you guys, is about how
Speaker 2: these guys time or they pair rather time and energy
Speaker 2: to get the most out of their work, and how
Speaker 2: he's seen this group really exemplified that process and that
Speaker 2: idea of making sure you're lockdown with the time you
Speaker 2: have here to maximize it and ultimately improve individually and collectively.
Speaker 1: I tell guys like, time plus energy equals production. Right.
Speaker 1: If you're going to put in the time and without energy,
Speaker 1: you're just not going to be that productive. But when
Speaker 1: you combine the two, which you're gonna be here anyway,
Speaker 1: and you're bringing some juice, you're gonna get the most
Speaker 1: out of your day. And I think fortunately we have
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys on this team, particularly defensively, that
Speaker 1: have that naturally it's innate in them, and then the
Speaker 1: guys that sometimes lack that, they bring them along with them.
Speaker 1: So I just love being around the guys in general
Speaker 1: just because of their work ethic and their habits. So
Speaker 1: for me, like they think that maybe that comes from me. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I'm feeding off of them just as much as they're
Speaker 1: feeding off me. So it's been awesome just the synergy
Speaker 1: of it all.
Speaker 2: I've been so impressed by the off ball linebacker group
Speaker 2: here throughout training or OTAs rather that I wanted to
Speaker 2: ask Coach Weaver about the value of having David Long,
Speaker 2: Jordan Brooks, Anthony Walker, you know, Duke Riley, Chang Tendall,
Speaker 2: all these guys that can kind of play with the
Speaker 2: same level of speed and tenacity going forward and backwards,
Speaker 2: as well as silent the sideline, and the value of
Speaker 2: athleticism at that second level of defense. In twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: once again, here's Coach Weaver on his off ball linebacker room.
Speaker 1: First off, I love that room, right, you talk about
Speaker 1: a room that brings juice and attacks the day every
Speaker 1: single day. It's them, right, and it's led by Joe Berry,
Speaker 1: who does a tremendous job with them. In this league,
Speaker 1: with the way offenses are trying to attack you both
Speaker 1: vertically and horizontally and trying to space out the entire field,
Speaker 1: you better have linebackers can do that. It's not like
Speaker 1: back in the day when I was playing right and
Speaker 1: you're getting a lot of lead in io and you
Speaker 1: better have a guy that's gonna thumper and throw it
Speaker 1: up in there. The league has kind of transitioned away
Speaker 1: from that, so you still need physicality there, but at
Speaker 1: that position you better have athletes. Unfortunately, I think we
Speaker 1: have a bunch.
Speaker 2: In there kind of remade the last two years at
Speaker 2: linebacker group with David Long last year and then Jordan
Speaker 2: Brooks and Anthony Walker this year. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: hear from Coach Weaver on early impressions of Mike McDaniel,
Speaker 2: which I don't think everyone knew this, but they know
Speaker 2: each oller since two thousand and six, and so coach
Speaker 2: talked about that and what he likes most about Coach
Speaker 2: same guy from two thousand and six as he is
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: So I've actually known Mike since two thousand and six,
Speaker 1: And the thing I respect most about him is, like
Speaker 1: people think he's unique, right, he's a breath of fresh
Speaker 1: air to the profession. To me, he's who he's always been,
Speaker 1: and I think that's what I respect most about him.
Speaker 1: I've been around guys who have been put in that
Speaker 1: position where they now have some power and authority, and
Speaker 1: you've seen them kind of change like who they were
Speaker 1: from a personality standpoint, he is the exact same guy
Speaker 1: I've known for a long time. He's a better version
Speaker 1: of the guy he was in two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: Last part here, because we talked about it on the
Speaker 2: show yesterday. I just wanted to play the SoundBite from coach.
Speaker 2: We were talking about Kendall Fuller and what his football
Speaker 2: IQ and acumen does for the defense to make everybody
Speaker 2: around him a little bit better.
Speaker 1: So you talked about that guy that has tremendous football
Speaker 1: IQ that his skill set knows can take all the
Speaker 1: pre snap information that is given to him and then
Speaker 1: apply and then he's played in every coverage scheme known demand.
Speaker 1: So just his vetsavvy, his presence, the professionalism he shows
Speaker 1: every day is going to have a tremendous influence on
Speaker 1: all these guys, and then when you combine him both
Speaker 1: with Jalen Ramsey and the influence he can have on
Speaker 1: some of the younger corners we have right the Campsmiths
Speaker 1: of the world, Ethan Bonners. I mean, I'm so grateful
Speaker 1: for him being here.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: He's just such a calming presence back there at the
Speaker 1: corner position.
Speaker 2: We are through coordinators and the head coach. We will
Speaker 2: hear more from the head coach in a second. Let's
Speaker 2: go ahead and pause for our first break. We have
Speaker 2: a lot more to come on this edition of the
Speaker 2: Drive Time Podcast with Positional Coaches and some fun soundbites
Speaker 2: from those guys. That's next on the DT podcast, your
Speaker 2: host Travis Wingfield, brought to you by Auto Nation. We
Speaker 2: pick it back up here segment number two for a Thursday, June,
Speaker 2: the sixth episode of the Drive Time Podcast with Positional Coaches.
Speaker 2: I have three sound bites here from quarterbacks coach Darryl Bevell.
Speaker 2: He was first asked about Tua working with his private
Speaker 2: quarterbacks coach and John Beck and the synergy of those
Speaker 2: guys working together to get the ultimate plan to make
Speaker 2: two of the best quarterback not just for Tua Tongua
Speaker 2: Bai Loa.
Speaker 4: But for the Miami Dolphins, well, we know it's really
Speaker 4: important that we stay connected to that. You know, it's
Speaker 4: not Tua didn't just go out and do it by himself,
Speaker 4: you know, we he did go get John, But then
Speaker 4: I know John obviously headman knows John as well, and
Speaker 4: it's important that we stay kind of connected, that we
Speaker 4: don't get too far away and we're just kind of
Speaker 4: making up stuff that we don't that won't translate to us.
Speaker 4: So you know, I've sat down with John, We've had
Speaker 4: you know, good communication and just kind of back and
Speaker 4: forth to make sure we're all doing and pull in
Speaker 4: the same direction.
Speaker 2: And we talked about this throughout the course of the week.
Speaker 2: And two was you know, compact tighter stroke that really
Speaker 2: has generated a little more pop and zip and velocity
Speaker 2: in the football. And that was something we've talked about
Speaker 2: in previous years where like the pop is plenty good enough,
Speaker 2: it's you know, there's certain maybe platforms and throws where
Speaker 2: it can decrease in certain senses. And that was kind
Speaker 2: of cool to hear this question for Dall Bevell about
Speaker 2: the benefits of the kind of change and the throwing
Speaker 2: motion and what that can do. Here's coach Bebbll on
Speaker 2: particular throws that it can generate more velocity on when
Speaker 2: you're not on platform.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean just just helps you be I mean
Speaker 4: two is already a really solid quarterback. He's very accurate,
Speaker 4: but there you know, there may be times in certain
Speaker 4: certain specific throws that it can help you get more
Speaker 4: velocity on those throws. You know, you're always talking about
Speaker 4: momentum and getting your body going in the same direction
Speaker 4: that you know you're trying to throw in, So all
Speaker 4: that stuff is positive. It can definitely help them.
Speaker 2: Last one here, just wanted to play this sound bite
Speaker 2: because he talks about all the riches that the Dolphins
Speaker 2: offense has in terms of playmakers we've talked about in
Speaker 2: the podcast. Right there's like, you know, twelve, thirteen, fourteen
Speaker 2: guys who have made big plays in this league on
Speaker 2: this Dolphins offense, and some rookies that you expect to
Speaker 2: do similar stuff as well. Here's Coach Bevel on the
Speaker 2: Dolphins loaded weaponry on offense.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, I'm excited about the Dolphins as a whole.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I think two of it, like
Speaker 4: right now is playing at a really high level. Then
Speaker 4: you you know you have a great core receivers. And
Speaker 4: we've added to that in the draft as well.
Speaker 1: We had it with Odell tight Ends.
Speaker 4: I think we've we've improved in that area. I mean,
Speaker 4: we got we got a stellar backfield as well with
Speaker 4: you know, with Raheem, with Jeff, with ah Chan, just
Speaker 4: a lot of guys at a lot of positions. I
Speaker 4: think it'd really be a challenge for defenses with the
Speaker 4: way that might uses everybody.
Speaker 2: From the quarterback to the wide receivers, the guys that
Speaker 2: catch those footballs. Is go to Wes Welker here, who
Speaker 2: was asked about the Dolphins offense last year. Was it
Speaker 2: too reliant on Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle and what
Speaker 2: does this offseason do to kind of expand that offense
Speaker 2: beyond just two targets that take up the line share
Speaker 2: of the workload. Here's coach Welker on a very well
Speaker 2: thought answer about coverages and dictations from the defense. As
Speaker 2: far as what the offense wants to do and how
Speaker 2: to attack those.
Speaker 8: Defenses, I think that's just depending on coverages and what
Speaker 8: we're seeing. And obviously we would love to spread the
Speaker 8: ball round and not just be focused on two guys
Speaker 8: all the time. But I think that's something that comes
Speaker 8: and I think we've added some pieces this year where
Speaker 8: they won't have to take on all those challenges and
Speaker 8: as far as the coverages and different things like that,
Speaker 8: where other people can can get the ball when those
Speaker 8: two are doubled or whatever is happening. So and then
Speaker 8: once those guys start making plays and everything, then they realize, Okay,
Speaker 8: we'll shoot. We can't double these guys. We have to
Speaker 8: do something else. And so I think with the pieces
Speaker 8: that we added, hopefully you know, they get a little
Speaker 8: more single coverage and you know, if that's the case,
Speaker 8: and then absolutely like we want to try and get
Speaker 8: those guys the ball as much as we can.
Speaker 2: I always say, if the ball is in Tyreek Hill
Speaker 2: or Jillen Waddle's hands, you've done something right, because those
Speaker 2: are the guys I want to have in the football
Speaker 2: the most on my team personally. Number two. What stands
Speaker 2: out coach about Malik Washington. I love this answer. It
Speaker 2: kind of goes back to his scollary report from the
Speaker 2: experts we talked to, as well as what we talked
Speaker 2: about in the podcast with seeing him both at Northwestern
Speaker 2: Virginia and as well here in camp so far with
Speaker 2: the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think he's really good with the ball in
Speaker 8: his hands. I think he's a natural football player, understands
Speaker 8: the game and loves the game. So there's a lot
Speaker 8: of intangibles there that you really like about him. And
Speaker 8: and you know, he's he's a he's a sponge as
Speaker 8: far as you know, wanting to know more, when to
Speaker 8: learn football, when to meet, when to you know, and
Speaker 8: he's he's extremely locked in and and uh, you know,
Speaker 8: wanted to be successful even out there on the practice field,
Speaker 8: and and so you know, obviously that's where it all starts.
Speaker 8: So it's it's been very encouraging to see some of
Speaker 8: the things he's done out there.
Speaker 2: I would ever compare a player who hasn't played an
Speaker 2: NFL game to Wes Welker, one of the all time
Speaker 2: great slot receivers. But it almost kind of got the
Speaker 2: sense that he was talking about like his own skills
Speaker 2: and his own game and that answer there because you know,
Speaker 2: locked in love with the game, kind of a killer mindset.
Speaker 2: That's the stuff that I love about Malik Washington tape
Speaker 2: and that's what made Wes Welker, you know, Wes Welker.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead here from tight ends coach John Ambry,
Speaker 2: who was asked how the athletic ability of a John
Speaker 2: new Smith and Jody Fortson gives this offense another layer
Speaker 2: at the tight end position.
Speaker 9: Well, you know, it just gives us a whole other layer, uh,
Speaker 9: you know, to that room as far as being able
Speaker 9: to contribute in the past game and and do those
Speaker 9: kind of things. And you know, so we're absolutely happy
Speaker 9: to have.
Speaker 1: Both of them.
Speaker 9: And then obviously, you know Jillian Hill taken the next
Speaker 9: step and Durham having the year that he had last year,
Speaker 9: so and he could be capable as a pass catcher.
Speaker 9: And with teams doing all that they are to try
Speaker 9: to take away two guys on the outside, it's important
Speaker 9: to have guys on the inside. They can make teams
Speaker 9: play when they try to double the receivers on the outside.
Speaker 2: Moving back to the defense here and the positional coaches.
Speaker 2: A guy we have not heard from on the podcast
Speaker 2: yet in Ryan Crow Dolphins Outside Linebackers Coaches. Go ahead,
Speaker 2: and first hear from him about the mentality of set
Speaker 2: in the edge. We used to hear this from Kyle
Speaker 2: van Noy. You set the edge on Saturday. It happens
Speaker 2: before the game. First priority, Well, the applesn't fall far
Speaker 2: from the tree. Here with coach Ryan Crow.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the first thing is it's a mentality. It's the
Speaker 10: number one job. It's the first thing that they learned
Speaker 10: when they get here. And it's more than just talk.
Speaker 10: They got to go do it every single day and
Speaker 10: so you know, it's something that we never gloss over
Speaker 10: and we talk about it, we meet it and it's
Speaker 10: part of their DNA and they know that every single day.
Speaker 2: It's like a certain intensity in his voice that is
Speaker 2: just a little bit different, right, like I haven't. There's
Speaker 2: almost like a Mike Rabel persona to him when he speaks.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and finish up here with Coach Crow
Speaker 2: about Bradley Chubb and Jalen Phillips and how they've attacked
Speaker 2: their rehab, but also how difficult it is to play
Speaker 2: without those guys. Coach Crow talked about them being involved
Speaker 2: in everything, much like we heard about Jayleen Ramsey a
Speaker 2: year ago when he had his camp injury. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and go back to Coach Crow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, they were great.
Speaker 10: I mean, first and foremost, they attack their rehab just
Speaker 10: like they attack the football field, and that was awesome
Speaker 10: to see, and they continue to dominate it. But they've
Speaker 10: been around meetings, they've been around the players, they come
Speaker 10: out to practice, cheer the guys on, they're watching individual
Speaker 10: to see how we do things, and I have no
Speaker 10: doubt that when they're ready to go, it'll be ready
Speaker 10: to go.
Speaker 2: Last one here, as far as coaches go, is a
Speaker 2: conversation I had with new Dolphins cornerbacks coach Matthew Arugo,
Speaker 2: just talking about the balance of coaching superstar arga than Ramsey,
Speaker 2: who often wants to be in collaboration in terms of
Speaker 2: how the defense is called and ran and what he
Speaker 2: can do to make it better. And we'll hear from
Speaker 2: Ramsey here in just one second to kind of follow
Speaker 2: up on these questions I had for coach or Rujo,
Speaker 2: which happened before I spoke to coach, because I thought
Speaker 2: it was interesting to kind of balance what he said
Speaker 2: versus what coach says. Let's go ahead and play my
Speaker 2: chat here with Dolphins cornerbacks coach Matthew Rugo, you know,
Speaker 2: and kind of getting to know Jalen Ramsey last year.
Speaker 2: In talking to people that have covered him in Los
Speaker 2: Angeles previously, they would, you know, we talk a lot
Speaker 2: about his willingness to collaborate and be kind of part
Speaker 2: of game planning and stuff. What's your approach to a
Speaker 2: superstar telling that that can do pretty much everything and
Speaker 2: how to maximize what he does better.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I think our approach is teach him everything he can
Speaker 12: possibly take in, which is majority of the defense because
Speaker 12: he's a very smart football player, and then use his
Speaker 12: knowledge to be able to apply him in different ways,
Speaker 12: use different personnel groupings, whatever we need to, but to
Speaker 12: be able to make it where it's not too much
Speaker 12: of a stress, but you can use everything that he
Speaker 12: can do to his advantage and art advantage. I think
Speaker 12: that's where he is so versatile is he's very smart.
Speaker 3: So it's not just like he can do it athletically.
Speaker 12: He's very smart and that's really where you've seen in
Speaker 12: his career him be able to do different things because
Speaker 12: he understands the game so much.
Speaker 2: I'm sure this is something that you have as one
Speaker 2: on one like non negotiable in terms of coaching different
Speaker 2: guys differently, because I response differently. Has it been kind
Speaker 2: of like a wants like a new challenge, but just
Speaker 2: like because he's so unique and just his persona and
Speaker 2: how he is, have you kind of like had to
Speaker 2: take on some like a new approach.
Speaker 3: To coaching him.
Speaker 12: I wouldn't say a new approach. I mean it still
Speaker 12: all comes down to trust and relationships. So like through
Speaker 12: last year, we built a really good relationship and I
Speaker 12: think there's a lot of trust there and even through
Speaker 12: this process of me transitioning in the being the corners coach, he.
Speaker 3: Was the first guy I called and I talked to him,
Speaker 3: you know, and we had an hour.
Speaker 12: Long conversation of the things that we're trying to do
Speaker 12: and get the most out of next year. So my
Speaker 12: job is still to get him to have the best
Speaker 12: season he's ever had. That's my role, and I do
Speaker 12: that for me, that's for every player, and if we
Speaker 12: get him to be really good, that's going to make
Speaker 12: the defense really good. So I wouldn't say there's a
Speaker 12: specific approach. I'd say each player has that anyways. But
Speaker 12: the trust that we have with each other is with
Speaker 12: what's helping that relationship.
Speaker 2: And yeah, it makes perfect sense. And he's you know,
Speaker 2: been so adept at playing inside, So as Kendall in
Speaker 2: his career, what's the benefit of having really your top
Speaker 2: two corners, I guess going into your own paper have
Speaker 2: the ability to be just as good insight as they
Speaker 2: are else.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I think that's what's so cool about this defense.
Speaker 12: You know, as you've watched it evolve, and you know
Speaker 12: we've has his own take on how we're going to
Speaker 12: apply it. But from the history of what you've seen
Speaker 12: with it, you've seen guys be able to do different things,
Speaker 12: and we're built to be able to have that. So
Speaker 12: we'll wait and see how it all looks, but it
Speaker 12: definitely makes.
Speaker 1: It fun as a coach.
Speaker 2: Great stuff there from coach. Let's go ahead and come
Speaker 2: back on the other side and play those soundbites from
Speaker 2: Jalen Ramsey, who talked about traveling and knowing all the
Speaker 2: positions on defense, as well as his first impressions of
Speaker 2: coach or Rugo. That's next, plus additional sound byes from
Speaker 2: coach McDaniels. Thursday, June the sixth, media availability, the last
Speaker 2: time we'll hear from him before training camp. All that
Speaker 2: next Draft Time podcast your host Travis Wingfield, brought to
Speaker 2: you by Auto Nation left off the last segment talking
Speaker 2: about Jalen Ramsey his involvement in the defense and the
Speaker 2: scheme and what he can do to expand things and
Speaker 2: be positionless and just do so much as he has
Speaker 2: done to the first eight years of his NFL career.
Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and catch up with Ramsey here when
Speaker 2: he was asked about how you're taking the new defense
Speaker 2: and what you need to do to really hammer down
Speaker 2: what you need to do heading in the training camp.
Speaker 2: Here is Jalen.
Speaker 11: Ramsey just the basics, same old, same mo. I mean,
Speaker 11: it's your nine for me, like I know what it
Speaker 11: takes to be successful, and we got a new defense.
Speaker 11: Just focusing on making sure I know the new defense
Speaker 11: and the positions in the defense.
Speaker 2: I love the concept of knowing every position because when
Speaker 2: you do that, you know exactly where your help is,
Speaker 2: where you can take chances, where you can kind of
Speaker 2: lean on guys, just really helps everybody. Will you know
Speaker 2: every spot on the defense? Next one, here he was
Speaker 2: asked about traveling and the role of being a guy
Speaker 2: that moves across the formation, doesn't play just one stagnant role.
Speaker 2: Let's go back again to one of the game's best cornerbacks.
Speaker 3: Jalen Ramsey, I.
Speaker 11: Mean those are things that I've done throughout my whole career.
Speaker 11: Besides last year, last year was the only time I
Speaker 11: you know, didn't follow, only stayed on one side of
Speaker 11: the field. So last year was kind of a different
Speaker 11: year for me. Rather than this being different, this is
Speaker 11: like back to, you know, back to what I do,
Speaker 11: back to where I thrive and you make impact and
Speaker 11: have a lot of fun playing the game.
Speaker 2: Lastly, here from Jalen his thoughts on coach or Rugio,
Speaker 2: new Dolphins cornerbacks coach.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he was here last year as as as an assistant,
Speaker 11: and we had a good relationship last year and it's
Speaker 11: just grown throughout the off season and now into this
Speaker 11: mini camp.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my guy.
Speaker 2: And we'll go ahead and pick up coach McDaniel's Thursday
Speaker 2: press conference when he was asked about something very similar
Speaker 2: Ramsey and his flexibility and versatility. Let's go ahead and
Speaker 2: hear from the headball coach on just what Ramsey unlocks
Speaker 2: them defensively with his versatile skill set.
Speaker 5: It's more about, like you know, Jalen had experience in
Speaker 5: his career playing a ton of different roles and you
Speaker 5: know he thrives.
Speaker 3: He thrives in.
Speaker 5: That and when the you have a full commitment from player,
Speaker 5: you have this the appropriate scheme and and and coaching
Speaker 5: where you want to emphasize that within within your whole scheme.
Speaker 3: Man does it.
Speaker 5: You know, anytime you can find a new way to
Speaker 5: take advantage of someone's skill set, it's hugely beneficial for
Speaker 5: the entire group. When people are maximized and you know
Speaker 5: that you have a unique skill set. There's not many
Speaker 5: comps to Jalen Ramsey, there's probably not any. And so
Speaker 5: in that thinking outside the box, finding different ways for
Speaker 5: him to thrive helps others thrive. And and I think
Speaker 5: that's that's something from a philosophical standpoint that is in
Speaker 5: line with my beliefs of football. You know, you're you're
Speaker 5: doing you know, one off season, you're finding new ways
Speaker 5: to get someone in the ball. It's the same thing
Speaker 5: as putting them at different places to be at the
Speaker 5: point of attack and utilize all all of god God
Speaker 5: Good given gifts. So it's it's a good marriage something
Speaker 5: that we have. One of the things that I thought
Speaker 5: was important for the overall orchestration of of the the
Speaker 5: scheme or the overall orchestration of playing football, whether it's offense,
Speaker 5: defense or special teams, having multiplicity, having the ability to.
Speaker 3: Dictate the terms.
Speaker 5: But you know, the biggest thing that has come from
Speaker 5: this whole offseason is the for me, is the intention
Speaker 5: to have the highest functioning player coach orchestration where where
Speaker 5: guys are, trusting, where guys are coming from, and really
Speaker 5: leaning into the coaching and seeing how far we can
Speaker 5: push push each individual athlete. I think the coaching staff
Speaker 5: really on the defensive side with led By Weave, but what.
Speaker 3: Matthew Rougo is doing.
Speaker 5: And and Brian Duker and the communication that's going over there.
Speaker 5: There's not one player in the back end, including Jalen
Speaker 5: that is has any questions on on why they're the
Speaker 5: motive of their coach and that I'm very proud of.
Speaker 3: This this offseason because those.
Speaker 5: It's hard in the NFL, uh too, There's so many
Speaker 5: different things going on with with individual players and and
Speaker 5: you know the there everyone has scars, so so to
Speaker 5: be able to actually have the right coaching points and
Speaker 5: then being able to reach the players is super important.
Speaker 5: And UH that facilitation is evident to me through through
Speaker 5: our practices and the Jalen's moving around because he's bought
Speaker 5: into it, and all the players around him are pumped
Speaker 5: about it because they're bought into what opportunities that presents
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 2: Let's finish the show here with a very great long
Speaker 2: answer from Coach about the idea of a playoff drought
Speaker 2: twenty four years and how the Dolphins have kind of
Speaker 2: made that their mantra to lead into the idea of
Speaker 2: snapping that drought to really, you know what would mean
Speaker 2: a lot to a lot of people in the South
Speaker 2: Florida market and Dolphins fans all.
Speaker 3: Over the world.
Speaker 2: I thought the entire breakdown of this and just the
Speaker 2: idea of really leaning into what's going to come in
Speaker 2: you know, the last couple of months of the calendar year.
Speaker 2: Here's Coach McDaniel on leaning into what is certainly going
Speaker 2: to happen when you put yourself in position to make
Speaker 2: a run of the playoffs, you're going to hear the
Speaker 2: same thing you heard the last two seasons.
Speaker 5: Well, I think it's important to understand, like we're talking
Speaker 5: about narratives to a degree, and to understand narratives aren't
Speaker 5: a bad thing.
Speaker 3: Narratives are based upon past.
Speaker 5: And hedging opinions moving forward, and so like to me,
Speaker 5: you have to I think it's important to get in
Speaker 5: front of that and know what's coming for players that
Speaker 5: are going to experience it directly and then leaning into that.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't.
Speaker 5: I think it's hilarious to say now that you have
Speaker 5: pressure on you in this business.
Speaker 3: For the reason of.
Speaker 5: Like are are you blindfolded with earplugs in? Like, dude,
Speaker 5: like it's a it's achieved now?
Speaker 3: Or watch out?
Speaker 5: Well the same thing in regards that, Hey, things have happened,
Speaker 5: those those two things of the last two seasons.
Speaker 3: The seasons have ended.
Speaker 5: A certain way, and about thirty to forty percent of
Speaker 5: the team were part of it.
Speaker 3: The other part, the other portion of the team wasn't.
Speaker 3: But what what can we learn from all of this?
Speaker 5: And how do we adjust our our.
Speaker 3: How do we adjust what we.
Speaker 5: Do now to hedge our bet then? And little things
Speaker 5: you know, you take whether it's a game or we
Speaker 5: need to finish the season better so you get what
Speaker 5: you emphasize. Well, why not find ways to emphasize finishing
Speaker 5: in everything you do?
Speaker 3: Obsess about it? Why not.
Speaker 5: Have you know for half the off season you know
Speaker 5: you're trying to have staff meetings at different times during
Speaker 5: the day, and I had every staff meeting I put
Speaker 5: like at seven twenty four or three twenty four or
Speaker 5: five twenty four.
Speaker 3: Like the number twenty four. Okay, to you guys, it
Speaker 3: means nothing.
Speaker 5: That's how many years it's been since the organization's won
Speaker 5: a playoff game. We are going to hear about that
Speaker 5: come playoff time, you think, so to me, you do
Speaker 5: that to empower guys to know what's coming, to understand it,
Speaker 5: to not run from it. Because if you're going to
Speaker 5: achieve success where people are predicting failure, you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to go above and beyond. And that is what every
Speaker 5: single player has done in their life at one point
Speaker 5: in time. You've every player has flourished when people said
Speaker 5: they can't in some way, shape or form. And so
Speaker 5: it's it's the same thing, just you know, being intentional
Speaker 5: with it and understand understanding that it's not something are
Speaker 5: I'm I want this team to be very proud. This
Speaker 5: team is different than the years before. It's a different team,
Speaker 5: but I want these players on this team to make
Speaker 5: right of the journey of the last last two teams.
Speaker 5: And that's okay, Well, those failures led to this success,
Speaker 5: you know, and that and that's how you have to
Speaker 5: look at it because it's you know, you are talking
Speaker 5: to almost half the room that's like what we what
Speaker 5: you know like and and that's kind kind of like
Speaker 5: how you have to adjust to the modern day orchestration
Speaker 5: of the NFL, where there's.
Speaker 3: You're staring at.
Speaker 5: About forty sixty percent turnover almost every year.
Speaker 1: Like so.
Speaker 5: I think I think that's how you attack it. You know,
Speaker 5: what's going to be said to you by your friends
Speaker 5: or you know, maybe some media members come next December.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about it now, like whatever, like the yes,
Speaker 5: that's that's not what you want said about. You don't
Speaker 5: want your team to be said, Okay, you can't finish
Speaker 5: or you can't do that. You don't want to hear that.
Speaker 5: But whatever, what if you heard you could, does it
Speaker 5: change anything. Let's go attack it and let's go achieve
Speaker 5: something together. That's the reason why I bring it up,
Speaker 5: just because I know, no matter how much I tell
Speaker 5: people to not listen, possible not to hear the noise coming,
Speaker 5: and there's always gonna be noise whatever, just address it
Speaker 5: and let's do our jobs deliberately and with a mindfulness
Speaker 5: today that can be applied in the future.
Speaker 7: Do you feel that as well?
Speaker 8: Personally?
Speaker 7: What I mean, year three, you got to win a
Speaker 7: playoff game this year?
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 5: I When I got hired, I said it in like
Speaker 5: my first team meeting, it was twenty two years at
Speaker 5: the time, just because like, yeah, I mean that, you
Speaker 5: don't hire someone for moderate success or failure or anything.
Speaker 3: You hire them to win. And I know we have
Speaker 3: to we have to do that. So it's the same
Speaker 3: that nothing's really changed.
Speaker 5: I don't feel pressure that way, because I feel I
Speaker 5: feel pressure the way enough pressure having the job in general,
Speaker 5: Like I don't eat any like there's not anymore to
Speaker 5: like I And you're hired for a reason. You understand that,
Speaker 5: and you're trying to, you know, help be a part
Speaker 5: facilitate and be a part of a team that can
Speaker 5: that can succeed in the failures of the previous twenty
Speaker 5: two or twenty four seasons.
Speaker 1: So it's the I.
Speaker 3: Knew what I was signing up for with this job, and.
Speaker 5: For me to not think that we need to win
Speaker 5: would be what So I'm entitled to the job. You know,
Speaker 5: that doesn't make any sense to me, So No, it's
Speaker 5: going about business, trying to maximize guys day and day out,
Speaker 5: get the team as good as they can, and you know,
Speaker 5: lean into to your teammates to go try to achieve
Speaker 5: something that will mean a lot to a lot of people.
Speaker 2: All right, there we go, a longer podcast than you
Speaker 2: usual with those soundbites, but I mean, I'm not gonna
Speaker 2: not play Coach McDaniel and he gives us gold like that,
Speaker 2: So there you go. We'll come back on Monday. We
Speaker 2: are two times a week from now until training camp,
Speaker 2: so backing down one episode per week. We'll come back
Speaker 2: on Monday with my pod with David Long. I chatted
Speaker 2: with him individually, and then also my chat with the
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